Susan Ley pointed out the Labor trick of removing money from an earlier budget (helps make that budget look better)…
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Turns pc on its head.
No more Swiss letterboxes. Swiss Burqa Ban Begins (7 Jan) Switzerland enacted a law at the start of the year…
Sure, the population of Greenland is about 56,000 people. But if commits or threatens force, how does he then argue…
https://www.academia.edu/38447014/The_Sexual_Exploitation_of_Young_Sikhs_in_the_UK_docx
If you’ve already eaten, best to skip this.
Christopher Pyne was elected under the old superannuation plan for politicians.
Meaning that turd gets a tax payer guaranteed, indexed, whopper of a pension.
Dover, you said you were going to link to the comment you’re responding to after 24 hours.
Let’s trudge through..
You’re saying there were no Ukrainians were capable of operating those nuclear weapons? That’s just nonsense. That’s just crazy talk as Ukraine had the largest nuke stash of any of the Soviet republics.
You’re being silly now and just arguing for argument sake. Ukraine didn’t secede. The Soviet Union disintegrated! It was no more. Ukraine had as much freaking right to those nukes as did Russia, which was also a republic and therefore Ukraine had as much right to the nukes – in fact more because they were on Ukraine land. So, no, your analogy doesn’t wash and obviously you’re argument is DOA.
NATO operates the way it does and doesn’t need advice from you or anyone else if it wants to move stuff around. If the member states don’t have an issue then it’s a non-issue. As I said before, any member has a right to leave the membership anytime it wants but they won’t because they like the comfort it affords
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Taiwan should offer the same deal to HK’ers and mainlanders, but it won’t because your guy, Xi would go nuts and try to kill them all. It’s not so brilliant when two can play the same game.
Rabbi defiant as police charge Sydney man over alleged threats outside synagogueSummer Liu and James Dowling
10 hours ago.
Updated 2 minutes ago
The senior rabbi of the Sydney synagogue allegedly targeted by a 20-year-old man making a threatening “gun gesture” has warned of the dangers an incremental increase in anti-Semitic behaviour but says the Jewish community will not bow to such attacks.
Rabbi Nochum Schapiro, who leads Chabad North Shore Synagogue, said such incidents emboldened his community to be “proud Jews, and display their Judaism in a stronger way, because we’re not going to cower, we’re not going to be intimidated”.
The alleged offender was arrested by police at his North Turramurra home in Sydney’s upper north shore on Monday night and charged with stalk or intimidate with an intent to cause fear of physical harm after the incident in St Ives on Saturday, January 4, along Link Road.
He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Hornsby Local Court on January 29.
Despite the community feeling “appalled” by the incident, Rabbi Schapiro said they would continue to “be proud of who we are” and will not “back down of our pride of who we are as Jews and being able to live in an open and free society as Australia”.
Rabbi Schapiro said the incident was already “disgusting” when viewed in a vacuum but “becomes disturbing” when considering “the context of everything else going on”, coming the day after the defacing of a car in Sydney’s east at Queens Park with anti-Semitic graffiti, and multiple spates of targeted vandalism in nearby Woollahra.
“Every day you put on the news, and you see another act of anti-Semitism, and some people start thinking … how did it all start in Germany?” Rabbi Schapiro said. “People are asking the question … at what point do we say … we don’t know where this is going?”
“It’s unsettling.”
Rabbi Schapiro said anti-Semitism “is becoming acceptable for many in broader society” as hateful sentiments are spreading through “college campuses … the streets … (and) nothing’s been done about it by the state government, federal government”.
“The NSW Premier has said the right words from October 7th, he’s always said the right thing, but I don’t think that enough has been done,” he said.
The most recent incident occurs as Hanukkah only recently ended, during which the community celebrated Jewish pride.
Do we know the bastard’s name yet? Two-tier justice indeed
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
The very limited campaigning focused on the four year proposition which was promoted as an efficiency measure.
The true meaning of fixed terms received hardly any coverage. People had no understanding that a deadbeat government was there for the duration and could not be challenged.
Before quitting my local branch, a number of us attempted to organise a campaign to oppose fixed terms. QLD LNP had just been captured by the Turnbull Moderates so there was no chance organising an effective opposition to the scam.
The ultimate outcome of the Moderates insurgency was the clown Crisafulli.
Dover
Just take a moment and think about what this has led you to. in your mind: the US and NATO—the most “evilest evil-doers” in history, right? Pure nonsense. Any member country can leave or demand the US pack up its bases. No problem. Now, try pulling that stunt in the People’s Republic of Pukin or with your other guys and see how fast you’re introduced to “disappearing.” Oh wait, we have examples.
If you’ve gone over the edge with this line of thinking, don’t worry—we’ll send someone with a rope to hoist you back up. Seriously, where are you dangling right now? Hold tight!
https://youtu.be/a1k_RlKGq0Q
A week is a very long time in politics.
I’ve noticed in my circle that the level of smugness, parroting of woke cant and group social intimidation by lefty leaning folk has fallen back by more than a notch or two. It’s not over yet, but geez it’s good to be able to talk to your long time friends in a civil manner.
There will come a time—though I can’t say when—when Australia faces its own version of the “rape gang” situation that has gained momentum in the UK.
It’s the same pattern: White populations/police, fearful of upsetting a hostile minority, try to placate them in the hopes that the problem will resolve itself. But it doesn’t. Instead, it worsens as governments refuse to address the issue head-on.
Meanwhile, Australian Jews are essentially being ignored, even as violence against them escalates. Sooner or later, something will trigger an eruption.
Power without principle.
@elonmusk
George Soros spent billions to create the fake asylum-seeker nightmare that is destroying America and Europe
Rabbi Schapiro is a good man.
err, yeah, no. You deliberately block a “major road” any time of the day or night for no acceptable reason, then you:
Go To Gaol
You do not pass go, you do not collect 200 pounds and you most certainly do not get a pat on the head from a bloated pompous tax hoovering public toilet frequenting waffling legal windbag.
You insufferable barking mad hippie deadshit.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha January 7, 2025 4:56 pm
You are correct.
More single malts needed.
Channel surfing.
Caroline Marcus must have binge watched a season of Dynasty today.
One of Dover’s key follows on Twitter is posting about this interview with some Frog clown, who Arnie Bertrand says is one of greatest minds in France.
The greatest living French intellectual ignores the uncomfortable fact that Europeans loudly express their opinions about America and American politics whenever they feel like it. The fact that Musk is the richest man in the world is irrelevant. It’s his opinions and how he conveys them that ultimately matter. He’s just one guy using social media to expose how disgusting the European ruling class has become. The fact that the UK mainstream media essentially ignored the rape fest is a scandal. The fact that the German media allowed the German government to pull the stunts they’ve pulled is deranged. That’s why Musk is hitting home runs.
The EU, including the UK, has a population of 525 million. There’s plenty of scope for Europe to rival the U.S. economically, but they refuse to because Net-Zero is far more important.
If I Were Satan, Here’s How I Would Run Things
I tells ya:
Your electrickericky bills are gonna go down by $275
The cash rate is, oh I don’t know, 2.75%*?
The unemployment rate, mate, is, oh I don’t know, 5.75*%?
We will deliver the gliberals’ stage three tax cuts
I commit to the ulurululoolo matement in full (which I haven’t read)
We will end the climate wars
We will become a (cue spookeee muzak…) roonable energy superpower!
We will fix the aged care crisis
We will fix with the cost of existence crisis
We will bring Ozzies together!
Yep, a stellar record any idiot politician would be proud to take into a feral erection.
*It wasn’t, in both cases
Bern, I like Caroline Marcus. She has mongrel.
I agree with the Lady she has on at the moment.
I am full of red wine. so haven’t caught her name, but, she reckons ANAL should go to Israel and suck dick. Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
calli
January 7, 2025 6:33 pm
we can’t have enough of comments on Elbow’s presser du jour.
He was wearing the Akubra too! Makes him look more authentic.
I’ve stopped wearing my old Akubra and can’t bear to look at it since Elbow debased the brand. I may have to donate it to an op shop….
It’s under 24 hours.
No, I said: Those weapons were never under the strategic command of Ukraine. We don’t determine whether a car is someone’s because they can operate it but because it’s registered in their name, and the like.
It did in fact secede from the Soviet Union. They literaly had a vote and declared their independence.
It’s only a non-issue in fantasy land. In the real world, when you make moves that are gravely detrimental to another power, you better prepare for a response.
Prince Andrew reported to the POLICE after ‘using fake name’ amid saga around private investments company
Despite that, according to Treasury, income tax as a share of government revenue will rise to 52% in 24/25.
And given it’s Treasury they’re likely underestimating it.
Yet neither Labor nor the Gliberals are interested in tax reform.
We’ve been gifted with a timid political class whom we cannot afford.
Soft men make for hard times.
2024: The year the EV bubble BURST | MGUY EV News 7 January 2025
Thanks for reminding me. Haven’t seen him on my timeline much lately.
This needs some examples made.
When Plod catch a pair at it in an alleyway, or better yet, in a car down “Lover’s Lane” (with at least one participant from an affluent or important family) ..
.. Plod should prosecute both participants if they’re not able to produce, on the spot, written consent obtained from the other prior to rooting.
Prosecute to the full extent of the law, with no allowance for any mitigation, & demand the maximum criminal penalty.
A few such cases, as soon as possible, are badly needed.
You couldn’t make this up.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/houston-muslims-say-new-orleans-jihad-massacre-has-no-place-in-islam-worry-about-islamophobia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-muslims-say-new-orleans-jihad-massacre-has-no-place-in-islam-worry-about-islamophobia
Islamics concerned over ‘Islamophobic’ backlash after tomorrows terrorist attack.
I finished a novel on my Kindle last night, and this morning got an email asking me if I would like to purchase the next novel in the series.
This is creepy.
Dover, in your silly analogy you can’t register the car because central registry has disappeared. It no longer existed. The Soviet union expired and Ukraine was a republic, just like Russia.
The Soviet union stopped breathing, vote or no vote ; there was nothing to secede from. LOL
At one of the peak times of the Cold War, France left and no one gave a rats and they were welcomed back sometime in the first decade of this C,.
Greece withdrew over Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, and so did Turkey. They both left the command structure.
You’re being overly dramatic.
And compared to Soviet plays after WW2? You have to be kidding. The Soviet Union was only kept whole up to when it expired in ER through thuggery and intimidation. They were hated.
Starmer and Albo look alike: nervous little men who can’t fill a suit.
How can you not watch this a dozen times and get tired of it seeing the tension on her face, including the nervous giggle. Heaven.
You simply do not understand analogy. Setting aside that, authority re those weapons not only in Ukraine but also in Belorussia and anywhere else it’s strategic missile forces were located reverted to Russia just as all Soviet debt reverted to Russia.
And yet they still had a vote and declared independence. They must be terrible stupid people, those Ukrainians.
Doesn’t respond to what is quoted.
From the Worst Australian. With the cop minister and the head cop having conniptions about evil bang bangs in every ones hands, one could be excused for thinking this fella should have been locked up for life. Must be something else mitigating the case but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. /sarc off
What I don’t understand is how on earth you came up with that one.
So what? If those others chose to gift them to Russia, it doesn’t say a thing about what Ukraine had to do.
The vote was mute anyway as the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It died.
Sure it does.
There is an L.A. plastic surgeon who is basking in the glory of Demi Moore’s GG win.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s went too far a long time ago… but with the unfakeable joy of winning a statuette, you have to admit she looks simply smashing right now.
Emma Garlett: I am sick of the date debate tooEmma GarlettThe West Australian
Tue, 7 January 2025 2:00AM
My contribution included “Keep picking at the scabs, the wounds will never heal.”
Soon after the site stopped accepting comments.
The Strategic Missile Forces were under the control of the Soviet Union. They were never the property or under the authority of the various SSRs. When it ceased to exist they came under the authority of the Russian Federation. There was no gift or sale.
It wasn’t mute. You’ve simply walked into an inconvenient fact.
No, it doesn’t. I’m talking about moves between rival powers and you’re talk about jockeying within a bloc.
As an aside, Turkey never left NATO over Cyprus and the US operates multiple key bases therein.
I and many others said it before, guns and any other weapons are mere scrapmetal if you are not prepared to use it.
Waste of money for most, in fact 93.7%.
Which on Boxing Day, 1991, it expired. No more. Gonsky.
How convenient. Incidentally, the vote you mentioned in Ukraine occurred 25 days prior to the expiry carried by 90% of the vote, including Crimea.
Oh please, you suggested that if any member tried to leave NATO, they would be in for it. I merely gave you three instances. Turkey, like Greece left the command structure.
If any of the republics had tried the same thing in the Soviet Union’s heyday, they would’ve killed off by starvation. Every last capitalist running dog.
Yes, with command of the strategic missiles forces passing to its successor, the Russian Federation.
You can ‘oh please’ all you like but this is the series of comments that precedes the above (my comments in italics):
Nothing in the above is talking about whether countries are leaving NATO and what the US would do. It’s focused on how each responds to moves by the other that effect them geopolitically.
And, again, Turkey never removed itself from NATO nor left the command structure.
Russia, like Ukraine was republic in the Soviet Union. It had no more right to the nukes than Ukraine and nothing you can say can change that. In fact, it wasn’t Russian pressure to hand over the nukes, it was actually western countries.
It wasn’t just a good response, it was a perfect response and as usual you attempt to confuse readers with pedantic sideshows.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Alex Ryvchin in the Daily Telegraph:
I suppose it’s good that Dreyfus is heading over, but what will be actually achieved is anyone’s guess.
Take Albo with him.
UK: Labour mulls reviving ‘Islamophobia’ definition that would criminalize telling the truth about Muslim rape gangs
?https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/uk-labour-mulls-reviving-islamophobia-definition-that-would-criminalize-telling-the-truth-about-muslim-rape-gangs
Well, that will solve the Muslim Rape Gangs issue, won’t it Mister Starmer?
A couple of interesting factoids in the replies…
https://x.com/HookArron1/status/1876548079584751996
When, rulers honored and rewarded their veterans instead of prosecuting them for doing their job.
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The Emperor Augustus set aside some land in western Spain to house the victorious veterans of his legions, particularly Legio V and Legio X.
The new town was given the name of Emerita Augusta (today’s Mérida, Spain). The city grew and prospered, eventually becoming the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania.
Roman roads connected Emerita Augusta to all parts of Hispania. During the imperatorship of Trajan, the Romans built a sturdy bridge across the Río Guadiana which still carries pedestrian traffic.
The Puente Romano is 792 meters (2598 feet) long, making it the longest Roman bridge still in existence. http://www.chi-rhogroup.com
Can’t be Collingwood, too many teeth.
Where is a need, humans respond, well the clever ones anyway.
Before the chuck wagon there must have been hard for the men on the trail.
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In the late 1800s, as cowboys embarked on long cattle drives across the American West, the chuck wagon became a lifeline.
Serving as a mobile kitchen, it was essential for ensuring the crew was well-fed after grueling days of herding cattle.
Invented in 1866 by Charles Goodnight, a Texas rancher, the chuck wagon revolutionized life on the trail.
With its clever design, it provided not only meals but also a sense of stability and routine in the harsh and often unpredictable conditions of the frontier..
Meals prepared at the chuck wagon were simple yet hearty, featuring staples like beans, salted meat, biscuits, and coffee—foods chosen for their ability to endure long journeys and sustain the cowboys’ energy.
The “cookie,” the chuck wagon cook, was far more than just a chef; they were a central figure in camp life, maintaining supplies, setting the mood with their leadership, and often serving as a trusted confidant.
Another old Adelaide photo.
Thanks Tom
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/19-year-olds-breasts-balloon-b-cup-triple/
Some may snigger, but that poor girl…
The latest Lamb ad has been released. Interesting. Sam has a new set of false teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BAUXZyWw0&t=195s
bons January 7, 2025 7:27 pm
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
Bons,
Pretty much. I voted NO!!! on that four year term piece of crap when it came up in the election. Most of my mates who voted ‘yes’ said words to the effect ‘I would rather have to vote every four years than have to go and vote after three years.’ My answer was and still is ‘because you could not be bothered to take ONE DAY out of your life to vote ONCE in every three years, you now have voted and made it so that if what was voted in turns out to be an incompetent government, we are now stuck with it for four years…instead of only three.’
Even back then the state LNP were an opposition in ‘name only.’
Useless twats.
From this story:
We’re Saved! Michigan clearing over 400 acres of a forest to create rows of Chinese-made solar panels – Despite study finding ‘loss of CO2 gobbling forests for solar installations results in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions’ (3 Jan)
Funny how the Greens went all rip-rip-woodchip when it was logging, but say nothing about clear felling for solar panels and windfarms.
I have walked across the Puente Romano in Merida.
The entire city is full of Roman wonders, and a Moorish fort built from plundered Roman and Visigoth architecture with a bit of Roman road inside.
Well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area.
Was the capital of Lusitania iirc.
The world’s pre-eminent Italian-Iranian comedian on grooming gangs.
Fluffy is back, and today notes that Trump has been busy even before his inauguration. She notes that he has been doing lengthy news conferences and taking questions, and – get this – he has done “almost as much as Joe did this year”!
Never mind the relative qualities.
Love the new lamb ad…definitely struck a chord after last night’s little contretemps in the “comments section”.
To make me feel even more humble, had a look at last year’s compilation of images from the Webb telescope.
That should keep me from getting too big for my boots (and Akubra).
Lauren Boebert fires a shot over the bow of DOGE.
Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF (8 Jan)
The ATF has a long history of persecuting righties, and high handed actions. They should be abolished along with the FBI and other deep state alphabet agencies.
Just wow. He’s sucking up to Trump like a crazed idiot.
Dana White, owner of UFC and Trump’s pal has been invited on the Meta board.
Gateway Pundit’s resident “babe” Cara Castronuova does a reveal all podcast about January 6th.
Watch TGP Reporter Cara Castronuova’s J6 Podcast Special on the Night of January 6th! WHO REALLY BENEFITED FROM THE “BREACH” ON JANUARY 6TH? Why Are They Still Covering Up the Alleged Murder of Peaceful Protester Rosanne Boyland FOUR YEARS LATER?! MUST WATCH! | The Gateway Pundit | by Cara Castronuova
Tommy Robinson listened to the Sikh community.
https://x.com/AndrewGold_ok/status/1874813008368865586?t=Dk1wl8BLhfePhDgCJRVLjg&s=19
The Demonrats seem to have mostly complete ratbags in their ranks. It’s hard to decide who is the slimiest of them all. Strong contenders this week are Merrick Garland, who told big, big lies about January 6th, or Chuck Schumer who objected to Trump’s plan to pardon the people that Garland went after with prejudice. Chuck had no issues with Biden pardoning assorted murderers and terrorists, or at least taking them off the capital punishment list. That’s the same Chuck who made personal threats against SCOTUS judges.
https://www.academia.edu/38447014/The_Sexual_Exploitation_of_Young_Sikhs_in_the_UK_docx
Sure, the population of Greenland is about 56,000 people. But if commits or threatens force, how does he then argue against China taking over Taiwan?
No more Swiss letterboxes.
Swiss Burqa Ban Begins (7 Jan)
The Swiss direct referenda sometimes can throw up bad stuff, but it’s a tell when the government drags its heels for four years to implement a particular referendum. It means the people were right over the target: the WEF elites.
Susan Ley pointed out the Labor trick of removing money from an earlier budget (helps make that budget look better) only to put it back in pre-election posing, pretending it’s new and generous.
The question arises why so-called journalists aren’t telling us these things.
Albo tries this morning to pretend he’s not a commentator when it comes to what Trump is doing. He’s certainly a commentator when it comes to making Peter Dutton and the coalition responsible for everything that goes pear shaped while Labor is in government.