It’s fare question, Pogria. I can read understand and speak English well. The rest not so much.
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John H. The story says they stopped buying in the secondary market, which likely means they’re seriously worried about bond…
Hamas didn’t fear Biden, in part, no doubt, because Biden and his administration devoted more effort to restraining Israel than…
But if he can give me tips for my fantasy team maybe I’ll take Monty. I’ve been challenging my son…
hmmmm?
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Then and now.
How nice they found each other and the bike.
Lovely, Kevin. Where did it come from?
I think British during the war or soon after.
1967?
Different bike.
Has indicaters now, headlight, speedo AND tacho .. nice
Kempsey in 1967.
That was the main HWY then until the bypass.
Look at the cars, I may be mistaken but you could tell them apart by make and model, most cars look the same nowadays.
They are all designed by AI so of course grey would all look the same.
All designed to meet the same/similar headlight placement, windscreen size, pedestrian impact rules, plus aerodynamic imperative to meet fuel economy/co2 standards – so they end up looking pretty ( boringly) similar.
All from the same wind tunnel.
Yeah I got in the wrong car the other day, a grey SUV.Sat down looked through the window and there was my car.I very quickly removed myself from said other vehicle.Different make but same colour and same design it seemed to me.
Many, many years ago, I did the same thing. Same make, same colour, key worked, but it was not my car. Got out and left before anyone saw me.
A loving dog, whether you like them or not, they are a treasure for most of us.
When cricket was king.
Quadrupeds, I can’t decide which of the two pictures is more adorable.
Look at the babies smile!
I think you mean quadruplets.
Right you are guilty as charged, sorry. I can’t edit for some reason so whatever I have written stays after pressing post comment.
24 limbs?
Good pickup.
Wow!
Yeah whatever Tiley you goose. Hun:
So I guess you can take the Aboriginal flag down then Mr Tiley? No black fellas playing I wouldn’t have thought.
It’s all too stupid.
But… but …the logical result of this “rule”:
when all the Ozzies are out, you can’t fly an Ozzie flag.
Plus I will bet the Indigenous flag will be flying “officially”, despite there being no Indigenous “country”.
We are lawless. Rafferty’s rules.
A little old fashioned ethno racism over some centuries old dispute (or something a little more contemporary) is as traditional as complaining about January 26th as Australia Day.
Spooner, excellent!
The argument culminated, and ended, with the bloke smashing the woman’s head in with a rock.
Stone age people gunna stone age.
Must remember that next time my wife and I argue.
I am married to a genuine West Virginia Hillbilly and I am not brave enough to go down that road.
Make sure you chose a large one and cast the first stone.
Jaws would have been shut down about five times if they tried to make it today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWisXdtYfrU
BBC again takes the prize for misinformation.
“Trump has been critical of Californian administration but gave no details”.
Meanwhile, a report at Gateway Pundit lists some of the awful penalties being visited on Rudi Giuliani, seeking to not just bankrupt hime but to take all his possessions away.
America has been white-anted so badly by means of appointment of leftist judges and local law positions like DAs.
California is an extreme example of how you wreck the joint in order to remake it. The same process has been at work in a lot of aspects of USA life for years, and total collapse might be closer than we think.
Can Trump fix it? Maybe. Biden continues to throw spanners as his term runs dow, with a call for all flags to be half-mast on inauguration day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7cHTTy9LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7cHTTy9LA
I don’t think the US is really aware of the extent of Marxist/Muslim infiltration into its governing class, nor is it aware of the Peronist Helicopter Rides being its only way out of the social and governmental chaos looming on the horizon.
“When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of Communism; we will not take it under the label of Socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people, and have been speared too much. We will take the United States under labels we have made very lovable; we will take it under “Liberalism,” under “Progressivism,” under “Democracy.” But take it we will.”
~ Alexander Trachtenberg, at the National Convention of Communist Parties, Madison Square Garden, 1944
Half mast until Trump takes the path of office, then raised to full height to some music from Sousa would be appropriate.
A popular formula for j’ismists walking past row after row of suburban houses in a major urban centre with some of the highest rates of taxation in the country.
Isn’t the flag at half mast thing for Jimmy Carter, till 30 days after his death?
Still, seems a bit odd to treat a democratically elected president this way.
The Dem’s bitterness knows no bounds.
Democrats hate. It’s all they have.
denested
JC,
Who is this research by (i.e. the buyside firm)?
It’s interesting as hiring by finance and consulting firms has increased substantially. Students are going directly to PE firms, not the well-known ones obviously. This was unheard of a few years ago.
Banks should be candidates to benefit from the AI revolution (outsourcing of analysis to Bangalore; write code to figure out valuation so fewer analysts are needed etc) but they are still hiring.
HI vr
I thought it was a buy side fund, but it looks like it’s a private research firm.
I suspect the efficiency gains will be made at the admin level.
i’m not sure if you’re aware, the US banking system is monstrously inefficient. They still use cheques in a big way for instance. I can’t recall the last time I used a cheque in Australia other than government charges, and I only do so to piss them off..ATO, rates, land tax, ASIC.
It cost me 25 bucks to send a payment electronically until I learned how to use Zelle over there.
I know all about their inefficiency. I have a BOA account that I couldn’t close when I was in the US last year. I had to make an appointment to do it and boy was finding a branch that was staffed difficult So, I withdrew the cash and will close it when I go there next.
Thanks Tom.
Would be nice if these people could win a Darwin Award.
Just Stop Oil eco-zealots deface Westminster Abbey gravestone in horror attack (13 Jan)
Maybe give them each a spray can of orange paint and drop them into Mogadishu to see how they go. Natural selection and all that.
Two silly old ladies with nothing better to do.
There must be something useful these geriatric clowns can do…although small children would probably be unsafe with them. Animals likewise.
Perhaps picking up litter on account of their environmental concerns.
Perhaps we could get them to scrub down Karl Marx’s grave – after I’ve finished pissing on it.
Been there, done that.
Sound like typical Get Up tea ladies. I would say ex school teachers, although I do not wish to promulgate old stereotypes.
A Florida school district that banned student cell phone use this school year is reporting fewer problems and better grades.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/florida-school-district-banned-cell-phones-results-wild/
Heartening, but only this year?
File under “Things that make you go Hmmmm.”
Winston, it says “school year” which in the US is generally August or September through to the end of May or middle of June.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/suspect-arrested-stabbing-boy-death-street-due-dems/
In other words he was set free until he did the job for which he was imported – killing and frightening US citizens.
https://x.com/i/status/1878295914747756606
This girl is only 9 years old and she is pregnant.
Her only fault was that she was born a Muslim
Where are the Feminists?
Who is speaking up for this child? Her family?
If only it had been a Christian cleric who impregnated her.
Grandchildren visiting…extra supplies bought.
This morning, four avos, two mangoes and a box of CocoPops (because grandparents are allowed to spoil them)…$29.
I don’t know how families are coping right now.
Coles avos are just terrible at the moment.
That’ll teach you to shop at Coles.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/india-hindu-man-who-rescued-minor-girl-from-muslims-is-found-dead-body-beheaded-and-mutilated
How odd. There seems to be a connection here, but I. can’t. quite. put. my. finger. on. it.
Bigger fingers would help.
Having a wee bit of trouble trying to understand it meself.
At the 0:07 mark.
I wonder if Indian government will be as circumspect about the Muslim problem as are we and the Europeans. Quantum shift will have occurred when groups are expelled simply because they are too dangerous to the rest of the population. Individual deportations are insignificant and don’t lead to change in behaviour of those left in place.
Ah, no it won’t. There will end up being a nuclear war on the subcontinent.
And that, I am literally afraid to say, is looking more and more likely*. Two nuclear armed states with a long history of antagonism, one of them Muslim, you may as well start your air raid shelter now.
*about 20% a the moment, is my wild arsed guess – the problem for us is that there are substantial populations of both countries here.
The Indian government is quite aware of the propensity of the Muslim sector to create trouble. They remember the Partition and why it happened.
They won’t put up with Pakistani activism and despite having nuclear weapons and the western media on their side, the Pakistanis would do well to remember that.
First sitting day today after Christmas recess for confirmation hearings.
House Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow Trump to enter into negotiations with Denmark to acquire Greenland.
Trump’s dream of buying Greenland becomes a House Republican bill
Looks like this Greenland thing might be a distraction or a quid pro quo from the snake pit. We’ll see…
Another govt land grab incoming
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/gavin-newsom-admits-he-is-teaming-up-hawaiis/
The argument culminated, and ended, with the bloke smashing the woman’s head in with a rock.
Been happening for last <60,000 years> (insert the latest number of years according to academics/activists oldest stone age culture here) with or without alcohol (before Cook and after Cook) and no end in sight.
Sadly.
Rotherham Labour MP breaks rank on national inquiry:
One of the slimiest of the Democrat slimes in the Senate just said Hegseth’s background is deeply troubling, to put it politely. The slimes’ (plural) present and immediate past is what I find deeply troubling.
Funny that people are saying that Greenland and Panama Canal is a “distraction”.
The greatest mistake (at least top 5) made by America in history was when it sold out Britain and France during the Suez crisis.
If Britain/France had been able to arrest and execute Nasser as he deserved, future tinpot dictators would be far more circumspect about nationalising infrastructure/mining projects paid for by foreigners.
If that happened, the term “sovereign risk” would be an obscurity and Africans and South Americans would be vastly richer than they are today.
Think of what just happened with Resolute Mining in Mali. Would the Malinese government dare do that to an American company under Trump? I sincerely doubt it now. But to an Australian company they know there will be no repercussions.
Trump is engaging in a low-key method of removing sovereign risk from the world. I would be happy if he went full rather than half measures but it could be one of the greatest strokes of genius of all time.
It’s about the timing Mate. This flag doesn’t need to go up the flagpole yet. There have been no talks/negotiations with Greenland or Denmark yet.
Why put the Bill up now when they should be focussing on getting President Trump’s nominees confirmed?
There’s some slimy RINO strategy in play but we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
‘Dresden in L.A.’: Victor Davis Hanson Slams California Leadership for Failures as Wildfires Rage
That is a rather unfortunate equivalence.
Human Rights Expert: ‘Francesca Albanese is the 21st-century Joseph Goebbels’
That name again…Albanese.
Which slimey slime was it Bugonia B? I read the markey Massachusetts filth had a melt down. How can people vote for filth like markey and Warren?
First name Chuck.
Jimmy Carter may have been a good man, but Imagine is a terrible song
The song, which was played at the former president’s funeral, allows us to feel morally superior while doing absolutely nothing. Nobody sensible believes any of it.
DR MICHAEL JENSEN
I admire former President Jimmy Carter as a man who exemplified what it is to be a follower of Jesus.
He gave himself in humble service. He taught Sunday school until well into his 90s.
But I have to say I was completely flummoxed by the choice of John Lennon’s Imagine as one of the “hymns” for his funeral service in Washington’s National Cathedral. According to some reports, it was Carter’s own choice.
It’s a weird choice for the overt believer Carter was.
Imagine is a song of yearning for a world without religion and an afterlife. It is not quite an atheist fantasy, but it is close.
It’s sadly become a staple of secular seasonal singalongs for when we’ve run out of songs about reindeer and obese guys dressed in red.
But that’s not what gets up my nose about Imagine.
Imagine is not just sentimental waffle. It is dangerous sentimental waffle.
It asks nothing from us. The song allows us to feel morally superior while doing absolutely nothing.
Nobody sensible believes any of it. We get to imagine a world of harmony with others where we don’t have to change.
We get to imagine a world of no consequences.
Certainly, you don’t see people singing the song and then giving up the idea of national borders or giving away all their possessions.
John Lennon himself didn’t believe it. He was a man who mocked disabled people, mistreated his wives, neglected his son, and had an airconditioning system for his fur coats in his vast apartment in New York. Imagine no possessions? Yeah, right. Easy if you try.
Living life in peace? He couldn’t even keep four guys from Liverpool together.
Taken literally, Imagine is the kind of insipid vision for world peace that leads to totalitarian mass murder.
At the time Lennon was writing this hymn to an empty sky, the authoritarian atheistic regimes of the left in the USSR, Eastern Europe, and China held millions of people under the jackboot in the name of ‘the brotherhood of man’. It was obvious even in 1970 that Communism was the kind of guff only a Western intellectual would think was a good idea.
That’s not to say that military dictatorships, rampant unchecked capitalism, colonialism and theocracies don’t also have blood on their hands.
But the real flaw in Imagine is that it confuses a political problem with a spiritual one. It is ludicrous to suppose that if we just change political structures, we’ll live in peace and harmony.
What we need to imagine is a world in which we ourselves are changed. We don’t do this by imagining God into non-existence, but by turning to him – as Jimmy Carter himself would no doubt have agreed.
Dr Michael Jensen is the rector at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Darling Point and is the author of My God, My God: Is it Possible to Believe Anymore?
Daily Tele
Song written by a bloke who apparently leased an apartment just for his fur coats.
“rampant, unchecked capitalism”
And there it is: a garbage, made-up term, incorporated into a meaningless phrase, anduttered by imbeciles.
I am in a quandary, my philosophy is coming head on with reality and I don’t know what to do. As a one off my little business venture will benefit me as an end user, even if it goes no further. It is a high end product. The limited canvassing of end users have all unanimously agreed they would want one whether they could afford one or not. I still have lots of design problems to work out which are in hand and not too difficult. My wife is quite happy for a one off but not a business yet wants to keep working for at least another two years. She says we already have plenty of money with lots more from her mothers estate. Not that she’s gone yet, but health is failing her. I don’t actually want to control the business. Its for my children. Son is now manager of three facilities being owned by a small PE company looking to expand and its in a related field to what I’m doing. I want to vest the IP in my grandchildrens name. It’s not a mass production product and requires very little in the way of equipment. I would prefer to finance it myself except the real market is in the US and EU. I am probably getting ahead of myself but don’t want to miss the boat. If I only do it locally it won’t be long before it’s being made overseas. I really don’t know why it hasn’t been done before. I’m having a meeting on Friday to see if I can entice my mate out of retirement to run a manufacturing shop. What to do?
Go for it Ranga! Don’t die wondering!
This is one of the best tests of a good idea.
What Calli said x 1.000
It was actually a Cat that made me start thinking about it.
The issue is that as soon as it hits the market, the Chinese will copy it and blow your product out of the water. Our laws won’t stop it.*
Apart from that, I have no solid answer for you.
Look, have a go. At least you won’t die wondering, and maybe you’ll hit the jackpot!
*Theft of trademark and Patent with it’s attendant crushing of new ideas is one major result of the refusal to confront China about its predatory businesses.
This is why I am considering going the PE direction to set up a plant in the US. A product in the US sells for $40k. People don’t like using it and it looks funny. Making it look good it the hardest part and I’ve solved the problem of it being difficult to use.
Fires and natural disasters are like magnets to looters:
‘Giving’, I think this is called.
But apparently not appreciated by the ungrateful bastards who used to live in Pasadena:
It is clear however that Her Royal Markle has a new cooking and lifestyle show to promote.
How does one source a doughnut?
With difficulty.
Mysterious Shortage Of Doughnuts Across Dunkin’ Stores In US Leaves Customers Puzzled (13 Jan)
Maybe Monty is in the US right now.
Send them back to London. Doesn’t hazza filth have a bit of a druggie past?
Despite calling himself “born again” in the 1970s and being mistaken for a Bible thumper by a religiously illiterate press, Carter was a liberal Chirstian who left the Southern Baptists when they took a theologically conservative turn (making them one of only two major US denominations who’ve successfully resisted a take-over by liberals (aka “moderates”). He had no scruples about female clergy & same sex marriage, for example. In that context, maybe choosing Imagine to be sung at his funeral isn’t so weird after all?
He was an awful man and a terrible Christian.
BBC is almost Islamic in their pogrom against alcohol now. They had someone saying that it would provoke cancer from lips to anus, so don’t, don’t, don’t.
I’ve been drinking since age 18, which is about 50 years. I’ve had a good life, and wine has certainly been part of that good life.
If it ends my run prematurely I’ll still say it’s been a good life – unless I meet a 40 year old lady who can’t resist me and wants sex several times a week for the next decade.
That might cause a re-assessment, but it’s about as likely as a big lotto win.
A big Lotto win may help!
I’v got about 5 years of drinking on you, and 2 exes. I still enjoy the wine, but no more women.
40! Selling yourself short.
Keep an eye on you anus.
Or her lips.
She may not be able to resist you and only requires sex several times a week, just not with you.
Yes, I’d have to watch that.
Being born a wog, alcohol was part of my life since only a few weeks of age.
I drink far more moderately these days but, I will NEVER give up the glorious Demon. 😀
Canoodling.
Prized bronze canoe ‘mistakenly’ targeted by copper thieves (Tele, paywalled)
It’s obviously a sculpture of FNS Bruce Pascoe, an amazingly powerful naval ship of 50,000 BC. Odd that thieves thought it was worth more as scrap metal.
I should add that it was installed on the Fernleigh Track on the other side of Lake Mac from the Cafe. It’s a nice place to walk or ride, but leaving large lumps of valuable metal there for anyone to come along and steal seems fairly silly.
More here, which is where the graphic comes from:
Bronze artwork stolen from Lake Macquarie shared track (14 Jan)
Should be reopened as a suburban railway line, as should the Raspberry Gully Line and West Wallsend railway.
It was the Redhead train line, but the colliery closed in 1991. Reopening it would be spectacularly uneconomic, Ncl is a land of donk. They will have to prise our CO2 spewing chariots out of our cold dead hands.
For fun I once rode my mountain bike up the railway RoW from south to north before the shared path was built. Riding along kilometres of half buried railway sleepers was pretty rad. My spine survived though.
Now it is an excellent shared-path!
Ran into the grounds of what is now Belmont TAFE, add on the proposed extension to Swansea, through Catherine Hill Bay, then on to Wyong via Doyleson, and the new suburbs on the northern side of the highway and you have great resource. Interchange with (snigger) Central Coast VFT* (snigger) and you would have something very useful.
*Was visiting the Tuggerah Westfield on way to Afdanistan and saw booth for VFT Authority, remarked loudly to Mrs D , oh look a Utopia booth, must be an election due. According the ARHS Digest they are spending a cool 100mill on route testing,THEN they will create the business case.
hahahahahahaha
Reflects poorly on the teaching on basic chemistry. Stick to cooking meth and hydroponics.
If the scrappies realized they had bronze not copper they’d be very happy people. Tin is US$30,000 per tonne and copper US$9,000 per tonne. A self-respecting scrappie would certainly have a hand-held XRF analyser, which a feral with a half-tonne stolen canoe probably wouldn’t.
80% copper, 20% tin, the reason copper and bronze are being stolen everywhere, even from veterans’ graves.
Link by TE at 9:02
Similarly, I shakes me head when I hear Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” played at a funeral.
Have they read and understood the lyrics?
I have heard a version sung by a young lass with a great voice. The whole thing had been rewritten as a homage to Christ.
I like Jon and Vangelis, “I’ll find my way Home”, for a funeral song.
Step 1 :- Locate m0nty.
That’s it.
Fancy that: the ugly, useless, nasty Mayor of LA was rooted by castro; maybe she’s trudeau’s sister!
Bass’s Ashes | Frontpage Mag
Eeewwww!
I’d wager she wasn’t face-up at the time.
And after the theft of a prized public piece of artwork, there are theories that wannabe copper thieves thought the bronzed canoe could be sold as scrap.
Coming soon to this collection of cultural icons?
And why is this bearded muzzie sack of shit still here:
‘Burn in the pits of hellfire’: Principal condemned for anti-Semitic rantsMinister for Education and Early Learning Prue Car has denounced the actions of the newly appointed principal of New Madinah College as “divisive”
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“Denounced”
Wow! That’ll teach him!
No messing with Mzzzzz Car.
Albanese government is one of the worst in foreign policy
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The Albanese government has emerged as an unmitigated failure, if not outright disaster, in foreign affairs, defence and national security. It’s one of the worst governments we’ve had.
The Australian military is weaker and feebler than when Labor took office. Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles talk big about the future but deliver nothing. Australia’s regional standing has declined sharply. Once we were seen as a powerful country getting stronger; now we’re seen as weak, confused, living off past riches.
Australia has little influence in the Middle East. But the Albanese government, led by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, has failed to identify principles or national interest, so policy is incoherent and ineffective. It has alienated our oldest regional friend, Israel, and joined the opposition to the US at the UN.
The government provides no rationale or narrative for its disconnected actions. Everything is spin, frequently designed to appease Greens voters and the Labor Left. As a result of the government’s moral confusion and lack of political leadership, Australia is gripped by an anti-Semitism crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen before. The government is not remotely anti-Semitic. Its failure in leadership has allowed anti-Semitism to flourish.
For the first time since the Vietnam War, foreign policy is bitterly dividing the community, this time along sectarian, religious and ethnic lines.
Eminently predictable as a consequence of the multicultural fetish.
Ha ha. I just saw a commentary regarding 1990’s era climate insanity.
My favoutite, which I had forgoten about, was the queue of ‘scientists’ attempting to explain the failure of temperatures to rise by intoning that “the heat must be hiding in the deep ocean”.
The concept was so utterly stupid that it was generally ignored. But not by their ABC. I recall a number of scholarly programs assuring us that the dastardly heat was indeed living in the depths.
There was never an explanation of “so what”, nor how the heat would emerge like tyrannosaurus and destroy our evil culture.
They treat us as idiots, because we are.
And warming makes it colder.
Climate change (formerly Global Warming) is like God. Once you start looking you can find it everywhere.
Not all of us are idiots, bons. Some of us are very aware of the scam, and are getting crankier by the day.
Pressure in a pressure cooker isn’t exerted by the water not yet boiling, but by that which is already steam.
And that pressure is rising with every weight that gets put on the pressure relief valve.
Correction…the division already existed, the operation in Gaza only revealed its existence to the naive and gullible who imagine Islam to be an exotic form of unitarianism that bids peace & love to all humankind.
One half of Teh Paywallian’s Statler and Waldorf sinks the boot into Albo today with foreign policy featuring heavily.
You’d think an anti-corruption minister would have to be like Caesar’s wife.
Not in Sturmer’s Airstrip One, apparently.
Bloomberg has a report that twitterX are in talks to buy TikTok.
Heads are exploding on twitterX right now.
Unlikely but funny.
Funny to recall my convo with Bruce of N when reading this. These fibre optic FPVs are being used en masse now by Russia forces.
Yes I was wrong. The key being the inability of the Ukies to jam those fibre optic drones. To be fair to myself those new fibre drones were only just starting to be used at the time of our discussion.
The Ukies’ new tactic is to use counter drones equipped with shotguns firing buckshot.
Moment Ukrainian shotgun obliterates three Russian drones before killing soldier (13 Jan)
Pretty good bit of on-the-fly innovation. But the fibre-drones are a pretty big deal. I was wondering if an EMP beam weapon might work on them, but I expect it’ll eventually be a laser system that works best.
On the other hand the two videos you originally put up are still obviously fake, since they had a TOW launcher releasing cable. You don’t fire drones out of launch tubes. And as I said at the time there was no kaboom in either video.
No, those videos weren’t fake. The TOWs, there Almas ATMs, employed fibre optics, and here, the FPV drones use fibre optics. There was no ‘kaboom’ at the end because the footage is being taken by the projectile itself and it cuts out just before impact for the obvious reason. That is the case with the Almas and its the case with the FPVs drones.
An aggressive broadband rollout.
Outstanding. A new species of things that will kill you (the Tele):
Giant funnelwebs.
‘John-boy! Mary-Lou! Harlan Junior! Y’all git in the house – it’s the Rapture!’
Once it works out how to get across the Nullarbor I’ll start worrying.
Venomous spiders are usually found in Canberra not Newcastle.
One wonders how many of those are of the rock variety?
Makes my skin crawl just thinking about them!
Does super size go with the turf in Newcastle? Anyone who has encountered a Hexham Gray mosquito will know what I mean.
We live at the beach in Newcastle. Occasional window spiders, orb spinners, redbacks, too sandy for funnel webs. They can’t burrow here. Sharks are our problem.
You have burrowing sharks?
Australia – The Land of the Lethal.
From the Sheridan Oz piece, ZK2A above:
To the casual, hi-viz observer it seems slightly different.
Nothing ‘failed’, or neglected, or inadvertent here. Everything advised, calculated, and road-tested.
The swine have actively and consciously thrown the Australian Jewish community under the bus. Collateral damage to defang the electoral consequences of the Green Nasties and Labor-Left unabashed anti-Semitism and US hate.
Bollocks.
Exactly. Adopted as Left faction policy by kd and Albo at National Conference.
Wow, TIKs latest … Rudolf Jung The Karl Marx of Nationalist Socialism?
I thought I knew something of the origins of NS, but he shows it, and the term predate the turn of the 19th century and how it grew. The toothbrush moustached one’s party was but one of many, and they even had a congress in Vienna before he became the head of his party.
https://youtu.be/r7XS0Q3SNdk?feature=shared
That Sheridan is a twee twot. I can’t stand him.
Apart from Bess Prrice, where are the Aboriginal organisationls and individuals calling this shit out?
There will be one more lady in the Price mould heading to the cesspit of Canbraaaargh soon.
Taking over from Linda Reynolds who was genuinely broken by the Hoggins bullcrap
https://www.waliberal.org.au/senate-candidate/trish-botha/
She knows where a LOT of bodies are buried in the grifter/Abo complex.
The thing i noticed when i first met her was Garry Johns ‘”the burden of culture” sitting on her desk.
Nice lady as well, intends to do only 2 terms at most.
Sounds good
She is 100% screwed in the head.
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Kaitlin Bennet grills a retard.
BLM Supporter Justifies 2020 RI0TS!
A little surprised no one here is talking about any of this. Israeli right is in the midst of a meltdown.
Why are they doing this?
Deserting the hostages?
Why?
There had better be promise of brutal retaliation by Israel next time it happens – because it will.
I find this very hard to believe (particularly points 1 and 2) but if I take a quote from Braveheart:
“An oath to a liar is no oath at all.”
Rubbish. Israel has categorically stated over and over they will not vacate the Philadelphia Corridor.
I smell propaganda from lefties, who want to bring Netanyahu down.
A search of who Shaiel Ben-Ephraim is, which I have just done, is amusing.
He votes demorat.
Here is Smotrich on the proposed deal:
This is bad in what way?
It’s posted as evidence of the proposed deal. He wouldn’t be complaining if it was a figment of the lefty imagination.
It’s a figment of the lefty imagination, ie. him.
The Left has been trying to wedge the Netanyahu coalition for about forever. As I say downthread: read the reporting on the negotiations on Arutz Sheva. They’re straight. I believe nothing from other sources, not Ch 14 and not even JPost.
Probably because there are so many moving parts still in motion. The X link terms don’t seem to be a definitive final position.
We’ll talk about it in a week’s time.
Bring back the death penalty.
Stop importing manufactured goods from places with abysmal labour practices and totalitarian politics.
Stop indoctrinating the youth to hate themselves and the country.
End state education.
Return housing to a basic necessity.
Provide market based economic conditions that encourage investment in productive activities.
Destroy the instruments of the established elite and the regulations they use to carve out whole areas of the economy for themselves.
Institute five years of austerity to reset the economic cycle.
Prosecute the climate liars for the economic damage done.
Eliminate entire levels of government.
Gut the legal profession and return them to the time when they were not allowed to advertise.
Write into the constitution and criminal law protection from the type of authoritarianism we saw during the lockdowns and strict penalties for those who violate them.
Streamline the courts and require them to fulfil their workloads in a timely manner.
Institute mandatory referendums on core issues before governments can take action: on immigration levels, treaties, taxation, laws and regulation changes that affect the national vehicle fleet, and for serious law and order issues.
Destroy the instruments of the established elite and the regulations they use to carve out whole areas of the economy for themselves.
Government to consult with individuals, not umbrella organizations.
These can still exist, but not one cent of funding and government is free to ignore their advice.
No more (very) pedestrian council/ Association of concerned wombat molesting lycra clad spastics on bikes to have any input at all into road design or usage.
AOCWMLCOB, very good, I might suggest they probably ride a unicycle with a hipster beard and a twirly moustachio
The trust fellow pilots place in each other.
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Dafydd Phillips:
America’s Thunderbirds Pacific Airshow Huntington Beach with sneak passes 2023 – 4K
Lots of birds.
Get Bruce down there with a few kilos of Coles mince. Keep ’em too full to fly.
I’m too grumpy to do that today. My friendly young magpie of the leg hair plucking was run over late yesterday. Found her this morning on the main drag about 50m from the Cafe. Ah well.
Sh*te. That’s sad to hear.
Sob…
I always now only feed maggies from up on feed platform on top of pole after special feathered mate got taken by feline invader at back door. Not much you could do though if they come down close cars.
Sorry Bruce,
Grumpy is OK.
There’s something about us humans that want to connect with animals even if they’d be first to the feast if we karked it in the desert.
Yes, ah well.
But very sad. Our Island house was on the (one and only) main road and we lost many beloved Maggies. They really suck you in.
Hamas has another Sinwar. And he’s rebuilding
Summer Said, Anat Peled and Rory Jones
5 hours ago.
Updated 32 minutes ago
Dow Jones
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Hamas suffered a severe blow last fall when Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader and strategist behind the Oct. 7 attacks.
But now the US-designated terrorist group has another Sinwar in charge, Yahya’s younger brother Mohammed, and he is working to build the militant group back up.
Israel’s 15-month campaign has reduced Hamas’s Gaza Strip redoubt to rubble, killed thousands of its fighters and much of its leadership, and cut off the border crossings it might use to rearm. The well-trained and well-armed cadres who surged into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, are badly weakened.
But the violence has also created a new generation of willing recruits and littered Gaza with unexploded ordnance that Hamas fighters can refashion into improvised bombs. The militant group is using those tools to continue to inflict pain. The Israeli military in the past week has reported 10 deaths among soldiers in the area of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. Hamas also has fired some 20 rockets at Israel in the past two weeks.
The recruitment drive and persistent fighting under Sinwar pose a fresh challenge for Israel. Its military has battered the group in Gaza, but for months has had to return to areas it previously cleared of militants to take them on again in new fighting. That cycle points to the difficulty of ending a war that has exhausted Israel’s troops and continues to imperil hostages still held in Gaza.
“We are in a situation where the pace at which Hamas is rebuilding itself is higher than the pace that the IDF is eradicating them,” said Amir Avivi, a retired Israeli brigadier general, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. ” Mohammed Sinwar is managing everything.” Spokespeople for Hamas declined to comment.
Mohammed Sinwar is at the center of Hamas’s revival effort. When Israeli soldiers killed his brother in October, the movement’s officials, based in the Qatari capital, Doha, decided to form a collective leadership council rather than appoint a new chief.
But Hamas militants in Gaza didn’t go along and now operate autonomously under the younger Sinwar, according to Arab mediators involved in cease-fire talks with Israel.
Mohammed Sinwar is believed to be about 50 and has long been considered close to his older brother, who was more than 10 years his senior. Like Yahya Sinwar, he joined Hamas at an early age and was considered close to the head of the movement’s armed wing, Mohammed Deif.
Unlike his brother, who spent more than two decades in an Israeli prison, Mohammed hasn’t spent a significant amount of time in Israeli jail and is less understood by Israel’s security establishment. He has operated largely behind the scenes, according to Arab officials, earning him the nickname “Shadow.” “We are working hard to find him,” said a senior Israeli official from the Southern Command, which runs the battle in Gaza.
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Hamas has another Sinwar. And he’s rebuilding
Summer Said, Anat Peled and Rory Jones
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Updated 32 minutes ago
Dow Jones
Really?
Are you sure about this guy?
Staunch Democratic party supporter, interesting comments on Trump apparently stabbing Bibi and Israel right in the back.
He sounds like a lefty activist to me, and his opinions wishful thinking.
Mmmyes.
The florid imaginings of a fevered mind.
Also accusations of “minor attraction”.
So this post no different from the insane reposter’s normal efforts then?
HB, or any other Cats got any polling numbers for the WA Election?
The current state of play is pretty woeful. 5 “conservative” seats out of the lower house’s 59 seats. And only Carine, Churchlands, Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands are within a 5% swing.
Surely the Libs (re)pick up Bateman, Scabs, South Perth, Riverton, Hillarys, Mt Lawley, Kingsley, Jandakot but after that you’re getting into the 20% swing range!!!
Sheesh!!!
Even if they win those seats and lets throw in, say three of four more, that’ll give them a total of 21 seats (including Nats seats in the mix above).
Even if you factor in a 20% covid swing from 2021, they still only end up with 25 seats, maximum!
Yeah the maths says it will be another 2 terms before the Lieborals are even competitive. Sneakers and Kirkup was a near death experience.
Labor will be comfortable in WA, because everyone else here is. Minerals money. They’ll feel a swing, but romp it in.
Punters might take out frustrations on the federal filth.
Davies is smart to look at a federal seat… she might even make it.
True but Nats, historically in WA, have had a hard time picking up a Federal seat….
Matt Moran is the Liberal candidate – he’s fairly impressive.
You should probably ask Smotrich (who I quote above), and everyone else talking about the proposed deal. It’s also interesting who some are pointing the finger at:
‘Nuther one. A quick search is all it takes.
She’s a full-on lefty and hates Netanyahu. It’s obvious.
This is dumb. It’s not her in the segment that is speaking.
It’s her tweet. She would only be posting it if she was hoping to promote its message. And since she’s clearly a full on lefty we know that message will be anti Netanyahu.
I do not believe a single word coming from such a journo’s mouth or keyboard. Go find a better source.
Yes, Bruce of N, she’s got a Netanyahu surrogate on to Channel 14 so he could complain about the deal. How did he fall for this.
A far lefty on a supposedly “conservative” Israeli TV channel?
I think that is all you need to know.
Go check out the stories on the negotiations on Arutz Sheva, they’re pretty straight.
Erel Segal is a far lefty and a woman? Did you even watch the video?
I searched out who Noga Tarnopolsky is.
That is all I needed to know.
The chance that someone like Ms Tarnopolsky is putting up something which isn’t furthering her far-left anti-Israel cause is nil, zip, zero.
I like checking out these people via a quick search, it’s fun. I find out all sorts of interesting and entertaining things.
Apparently FAIR is backstopped by all the insurance companies on a prorata basis (which is their respective market share in California).
So the people who had FAIR insurance should get a payout…eventually.
I think the maximum insurable on those policies was only 3 million though, so a lot of people will be substantially out of pocket.
(I can go find the article I read earlier today, but it probably isn’t that important.)
One and a half minute to clearly explain how “democracy” has been suborned.
@MikeBenzCyber
Important point to keep in your head as we watch the web of “Democracy Promotion” orgs & NGOs begin to structure their “resistance” movement to Trump 2.0:
Mn69ft
I love this guy.
The most annoying thing is how late I was hearing about Sowell.
Watching Body of Lies. Brilliant. DiCapaprio, Mark Strong, Rusty. Ridley Scott second best movie. Wasn’t popular, probably too realistic.
DiCaprio can be found in Mexico presently. He’s vamoosed.
Leonardo DiCaprio escapes LA fires on private jet despite being ‘climate warrior’ (13 Jan)
Ms Ceretti is getting a bit long in the tooth: he usually swaps them out for another at about age 25.
It started strongly but very quickly fell apart into a ramshackle mix of narrative bits and pieces – some in tune, much not. William Monahan was the writer. So true to form. Spy games pretendo land by those content with their own half-arsery. (The chase in the desert was very good.)
@realchrisrufo
Future generations will study this scene as the historical culmination of DEI. Everything encapsulated in a single image. A perfectly composed snapshot of our time. The banal grift at the end of equality. Black girl magic. Allies doing the work. Cash App in bio.
Very few people pay attention to history thinking it only applies to others, not themselves. The human condition.
Sadly true.
Blaming ‘Climate Change’ For L.A. Fires Only Makes Newsom Look Criminally Incompetent
FBI’s Chris Wray Reveals Right Before Resigning That China Has Penetrated U.S.’s Critical Infrastructure
And what did he do about it? Put the cheque into a Swiss bank?
“Painting Hydrants In Rainbow Colours!” LA Fire Department Under Scrutiny Over Diversity Policies
Watters: Here’s the latest on what caused the fire
Victor Davis Hanson: How DEI Caused a Multifaceted ‘Systems Breakdown’ in Los Angeles
Timely advice.
You cat are weird.
Cat AND Dog Lady!
Does that make you bipetsual?
Lol!
When bus drivers see each other…
* Israel has waived its demand for a list of live hostages.
I doubt that very much.
Surely no proof of life would equal Hamarse just killing them all and handing over bodies?
Israel should announce the 1000 to be released, with the same % turning up dead.
Yep.
I’m really hoping that Mossad has shoved a transponder up all their bottoms.
Then, once released into Gaza, fair game.
I’ll just clear a few things up here…….
Firstly, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim is a leftist hack who has zero and I mean zero credibility.
Secondly, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim is a Jew hating Jew and there ain’t nothing worse.
Cassie,
most of us here know that, that’s why no one bothered answering Dover’s query for ages.
Marina Medvin is onto the filth.
“Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin
Hearing murmurs that a hostage deal is imminent. If true, the hostages won’t be released right away; they will still have to wait a week after this deal is signed.
Why do the Palestinians need a week? Based on the last release, probably to drug and hydrate the hostages so they can wave and look semi-okay for the propaganda videos HMS will be shooting of the release that they will claim in these videos as magnanimous.”
Never heard of him, but after googling his résumé I am not the least bit surprised he is an anti-Israel lefty.
I hope so, because watching the bastard Hamas arsehole get away with murder because of the Communist Media and Administration is making me very depressed.
?
Good on them. Same as what made the British Empire.
Don’t f*** up.
China Suddenly Building Fleet Of Special Barges Suitable For Taiwan Landings (13 Jan)
China: War in Two Years or Less 13 (Jan)
Unfortunately it looks like they’re going to f*** it up. Stupid.
All I know is that I am pretty damn sure that Jan Brady would be disgusted with what California has become.
(Mike might be licking his lips at the upcoming work but.)
Mike Brady would be trans by now and wearing Marcia’s undies.
Hear this, because I am sick and tired of the weasel moral equivalence, I am sick and tired of the weasel excuses for mass rape, torture and murder, I am sick and tired of the weasel Bibi bashing, and I am sick and tired of the weasel ‘blame Israel’ narrative.
On October 7 2023 Hamas Nazi Palestinians invaded Israel and committed mass rape and murder across the south. Hamas Nazi terrorists even got as far as just south of Tel Aviv. I will just remind some here here that those borders Hamas Nazis crossed over on 7 October are not 1967 borders, they are 1948 borders and that is because Hamas, just like the so called more ‘moderate’ Palestinian Authority under the leadership of Abu Mazen (former terrorist and Holocaust denier), and most ordinary Palestinians refuse to recognise that the Jewish state of Israel has any right to exist.
I doubt if any of the hostages remain alive but I hope I am wrong. Since being taken hostage into Gaza on 7 October 2023, these men, women and children have been raped, starved, tortured and murdered. That template of rape, starvation, torture and murder is the template mot Palestinians and most Muslims have in store for ALL Jews, in Israel and outside Israel
Those who make weasel excuses for Hamas clearly support barbarianism and evil. Hamas are worse than Nazis. Anyone who makes excuses for Hamas supports rape and murder.
PERIOD.
When I think of the hostages, I am reminded of the two little boys, Kfir and Ariel Bibas. I hope and pray they are alive although I have my doubts. I suspect their parents are long dead, speaking of which, Yarden Bibas, a big man, was last seen being kept in a cage.
THAT’S WHAT ISRAEL HAS TO DEAL WITH. HAMAS KEEP JEWS IN A CAGE.
Yet after all those atrocities, I remember the sickening moral outrage from the hypocritical left towards Israel early on in the war, just because a large group of Hamas prisoners were temporarily stripped down to their underwear (presumably for security reasons).
Prisoners of War are routinely stripped to their underwear to be searched…
I said the same many months ago, and was wrong.
Keep the faith.
Our leaders have become the Labrador that shows the thieves where the fridge, the bedrooms and the car keys are.
Bingo!
Good comment, Winnie.
Cassie, I doubt if most people can get their head around the nature of what occurred Oct7. That is part of the problem of the response in some parts of the population in the West.
It was barbarism beyond even historic barbarism. I can’t ever forget what I read and saw (in “Silence after the Screams”). Most people that I speak to – good people – just won’t subject themselves to viewing and reading the material. It diminishes you forever.
But I wish people would understand that it is NECESSARY for everyone to have a proper perspective on the question of post Oct7 Gaza.
CNN, for once, appears to have a more accurate story on hostage deal:
Israeli officials say Hamas expected to release 33 hostages in emerging Gaza ceasefire deal | CNN
I still like the idea of dividing the 41kms of Gaza strip into 7 “sections” divided latitudinally, with a 1km wide sealed road between each section with look-out towers/posts controlled by Israel. They can then cleanse (in the proper use of the term) the northernmost portion of Gaza for Jews to return to their homes and then continue down the additional six “sections.”
Either that, or it glows in the dark?
At last count there’s only about 20 still alive.
US Believes Only 20 Hostages Still Alive in Gaza (Newsmax, 7 Jan)
So Hamas is still lying.
Effin’ barbarians.
Even 20 is a miracle. But what a state they will be in for the rest of their lives.
I think the whole Gaza “deal” is complete BS. Its a ploy to make the demented vegetable in his last week in the White House look like he’s actually done something. Why would Israel agree to a suboptimal deal in the knowledge that in another week they will hopefully be free to act without restraint. Israel should not make any sort of concession or release any prisoners until ALL the hostages are returned and hamarse is destroyed. No face saving for those hate filled genocidal barbarians should be tolerated as anything short of complete defeat will only encourage them to claim a victory and do it all again.
That’s as I see it also.
This is why I am considering going the PE direction to set up a plant in the US. A product in the US sells for $40k. People don’t like using it and it looks funny. Making it look good it the hardest part and I’ve solved the problem of it being difficult to use.
Interesting situation Ranga.
Please don’t disclose your margins (can’t let that cat out of the bag).
This sounds like something Hadrian in the US might either be interested in themselves or someone in their ecosystem.
They position themselves as defence tech but from my reading they love a lot of stuff where an older vintage founder in the manufacturing space is looking to pass on/sell IP.
Hadrian is part of the Peter Thiel/Marc Andreessen universe and is run by an Aussie.
Ie they are the good guys.
..
In normal circumstances I suppose the coppers know who the local shitbags are who like to light fires and play with themselves in the reflected glow.
(I know, I know, these days that is probably some sort of “gender” and I just committed a hate crime).
And are thus able to keep such under some limited form of surveillance on high risk fire days.
But when you let an unknown number of “gender: lighter fluids” from parts unknown, it’s on like donkey Kong when the forests are tinder dry and the wind is blowing towards where the homes are.
The leftist religion really has regular society well and truly snookered.
On behalf of the pyrosexual community you will be hearing from my lawyer etc etc, yours in bad faith, wanky McLighterfluid.
I always suspected.
For heaven’s sake, I was asking why people here weren’t talking about the proposed deal, not about what the person quoted said about it.
Um, something is happening on 20 Jan.
Anything before it is kabuki.
Sure!
In case you missed it. I checked my timeline and saw the tweet in a quote tweet, and then scanned the OT for the first time today and saw not a peep about any of it. As I said, a little surprised.
Dover,
it wasn’t personal. It was directed at the story itself.
Chortle, snork.
FANTASTIC: Trump’s Campaign Garbage Truck Will be Included in His Inauguration Day Parade
He’s going to need a large fleet of garbage trucks to clean up the drained swamp.
Heh! I’m imagining a flotilla of garbage trucks, skips, lads and lassies pulling Gernis, citizens with brooms, blowers and squeegees.
All in MAGA labelled hazmat on account of the putridity of what they’ll find.
Leave no stone unturned and then hose the lot out.
Awesome!
Possibly because they have had no restraint with the old boss and they are unsure if that will continue with the new boss. It may also or alternatively be the case that any action on Iran is contingent on a settlement in Gaza. Who knows at the moment.
What do you mean by “no restraint”, Dover?
Free hand.
Chuckle
Thank you. I thought you meant something else.
New boss says, what was it again…?
Trump says ‘all hell will break out’ in the Middle East if Hamas doesn’t release hostages (8 Jan)
I think he means it.
He did say that but he also posted a Sachs video on Truth Social critical, to say the least, of Netanyahu.
So he’s very critically going to lay waste to Gaza?
Sounds excellent.
Make the rubble bounce.
Gaza should be bombed flat, and turned into a car park for the nearest franchise of MacDonald’s.
Dover, the corresponding side is that China also had to record a deficit on the capital account of US $1 trillion. This suggests that the marginal return on capital is lower domestically than it is offshore. It also suggests very weak domestic demand, which is very ungood.
A trade surplus very likely reflects weakness in the domestic economy, and we see evidence of this in their financial markets. The stock market has a permanent bed reserved in ER, essentially flat-lining since 2008. The 10-year bond rate is yielding just 1.6%, while the 30-year yield stands at 1.9%. In other words, these indicators suggest the economy is in dire straits and there’s a strong sentiment of deflation.
China is grappling with a serious balance sheet problem, which the CCP seems to believe can be resolved through income generation via exports. However, this appears untenable given that the banking system’s debt-to-GDP ratio is around 350%, with 60% currently being criticized.
However as you subscribe to the “will to power” philosophy, you might believe that sheer determination and optimism can help China overcome its problems. Your guys could be in luck and keep wishing as the Simulation may be listening to you. 🙂
Doesn’t suit the leftist narrative:
Eyal Yakoby on X: “11,000 black Palestinians were forced to live in a ghetto in Gaza called ‘al abeed’, which means ‘slaves’ in Arabic. Yet, Palestinians tell black Americans that they should unconditionally support a “Free Palestine.” https://t.co/xnpnPECDnQ” / X
From the Comments:
But imports were up slight too so domestic demand seems to be ok. So, as its stands, they seem to be making more and more things but they don’t look good on the financialization angle.
Yes, I’m always quoting Nietzsche.
If their exports are increasing it’s likely going to that. Domestic demand is really shitty
No, it just means the internal side of the economy is in the shitter. You’re always thinking too hard.
I maybe overthinking this but an economy making and selling more things in such numbers doesn’t appear to me to be doing badly.
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And the Japanese had “Tokyo Rose”.
Your point is…?
Avi:
Police FORCED to protect Aussie Jews from violent Palestinian mob
Yes! At last!
(Mind you I only watched until that dickwad in the floppy hat tried to make out it was colonialism. My blood pressure went up. A lot.)
This shit hole is fuked.
Greens fan flames of Sydney’s escalating anti-Semitism ‘tinderbox’Alexi Demetriadi
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Updated 2 minutes ago
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Sydney’s inner west – encompassing part of Anthony Albanese’s electorate – has become a “tinderbox” after a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, with the Labor mayor saying the Greens “at every level” had failed to combat the hatred and “inflamed” tensions.
Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne said if bipartisan action was not taken, the situation would spiral, slamming elected Greens representatives for “sowing seeds of division” and for being “too careless about anti-Semitism”.
“Despite Jewish leaders having warned elected representatives for months that the temperature needed to be turned down, some politicians have been fanning the flames of anti-Semitism, and that needs to stop,” he said at Sydney’s Lewis Herman Reserve, named in honour of a former Jewish mayor.
“There’s one political party that has not been taking enough care to combat anti-Semitism at multiple levels, and that’s the Greens party.”
Mr Byrne said in the inner west – Sydney’s progressive heartland – anti-Semitism had become the area’s “biggest problem”.
“And it’s growing by the day, and that’s why we need the whole community to unite to stamp this out, including our political leaders,” he said.
The mayor’s intervention comes after three incidents in the local government area in as many days: Nazi symbols tagged on a Newtown synagogue in an unsuccessful firebombing attempt, “gas the Jews” graffitied near Sydenham train station, and a 54-year-old man arrested for performing a Nazi salute.
The Prime Minister’s Grayndler division takes in Newtown and Sydenham, and Mr Albanese condemned the “abhorrent” incidents, backing police to investigate and prosecute.
Mr Byrne referenced “unacceptable” 2023 comments from Newtown NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong as to how the party had fanned the flames. “When Ms Leong said the Jewish community were using their ‘tentacles’ to get into other ethnic communities, that’s one of the oldest Nazi tropes,” he said, criticising “radio silence” from Greens elected members.
Please explode! Please! Let all of Australia see who you really are!
Many Aussie lefties, including Greens, would feel quite at home in Nazi Germany.
So China has a one trillion export market while having poor local demand?
OK.
That means to me that she has an industrial base to produce those exports that can be diverted to war production while denying those civilian products to her former customers.
Can’t be true, surely.
5-D chess?
I’d bet President Trump is waiting for the slug to make a fool of himself by:
Yes – letting the enemy make mistakes is his specialty.
Imagine being in the impossibly horrific situation of the hostages and having Blinken negotiating on your behalf.
His only motivation is to lay landmines for Israel and Trump.
Any agreement that is reached is made under duress and should be ignored by Trump. There is cataclysmic vengence required in Gaza. These animals have traded on the lives of these innocents for fifteen months. There must be no forgiveness, no truce.
Armed with their muzzie arrogance, they no doubt think that Trump is just another weak western stooge.
May they be proven terribly wrong.
The tickcurator is busy a work.
You could say they are furiously guess-tick-ulating for attention.
Dumb people update: Greenfilth idiot Sarah Hanson-Young says the Los Angeles bushfires are “climate fires”.
Nothing to do with incompetent forest management and a fire department run by lesbians chosen for leadership roles because they have vaginas.
PS: largely because of the LA fires, the woke era in the Western world is finished because even liberal zombies have had enough of the personal cost of political correctness on property values.
Yeah, climate fires.
I wonder if she can read a graph?
Read?
I don’t think you can under estimate the egoism and stupidity of the left. I don’t think this will change many votes.
You appear to be over thinking.
Exports constitute about 20% of China’s GDP. While significant, this figure pales in comparison to domestic consumption, which accounts for around 60% of GDP—a segment currently facing real serious problems.
It’s also important to keep in mind that exports represent revenue, not income—in other words, they’re not profit.
The only ways to address the nation’s balance sheet losses are either to offset them with sufficient income or to absorb the losses outright (i.e., write them down). These losses are estimated at approximately US$18 trillion, spread across the banking system, local governments, state-owned enterprises, real estate developers and consumer with real estate losses of around 30% to 50% on their holdings. By comparison, the U.S. entered the GFC with about US$6.5 trillion in estimated balance sheet losses.
China should be weakening the Yuan—but it isn’t. It should also be recognizing and absorbing its losses—but it’s not. This situation mirrors Japan’s experience, where economic stagnation went on for three decades. Notably, Japan also maintained a significant trade surplus during much of its lost decades.
The U.S. is far from perfect and has experienced multiple recessions since World War II. However, what sets the U.S. apart is its ability to swiftly recognize losses in the banking and corporate sectors and take decisive action. This strategy often allows faster recovery.
Well put
Police FORCED to protect Aussie Jews from violent Palestinian mob
I wish I could have been there. If I lived in Melbourne I would have been there. I’m not scared of the leftist Muslim Nazis.
Oh, perhaps our Nazi was there, carrying a Pallie Nazi flag?
Avi is a hero. I see Yaacov Travitz is wearing a t-shirt with the words ‘lion of Zion’ emblazoned on it. Good on him. Hear this, I am a not a kitten, I am a ‘lioness of Zion’.
Apparently local councils (not all of them) are demanding compensation from the Feds for holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day.
These @rseholes need to be booted to the kerb.
There was once a time when receiving citizenship on Australia Day was a privilege for both the receiver and those tasked with conferring it. No more. These time servers see no joy, no privilege in their jobs. Beastly types, men and women without chests.
Correct. The only reason they get elected to council positions is public apathy.
Electing them just makes them more determined to impose their anti-democratic fascism on ratepayers.
The only way to stop them imposing their agenda on you is to stop electing them.
As you have chosen not to observe Australia Day you will have confirmed your marvelous heartfelt generosity and empathy, so we will billet 100 illegal immigrants oops poor blighted and misunderstood asylum seekers in your council chambers. For six months.
There must be some way the federal government can withhold federal money from councils as a penalty.
Karma for Starmer
Haw!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/13/pete-hegseths-fbi-file-comes-back-unremarkable-dashing-democrats-hopes-scandal/
Just watching fillum of those two elderly baggages desecrating Charles Darwin’s tomb in Westminster Abbey.
They presented ample bottomage for a good, hard kick.
As I have already been hauled off a plane at Heathrow by Plod, I would feel no reluctance to do my duty and boot one of them into next week. Guilty as charged.
They look exactly as you imagine.Rlderly lesbians with a sanctimonious expression.
I don’t get why he is buried there anyway unless it was some protocol for noted figures or something.
Getting control of councils is a green strategy and when they try to make you vote for say 15 candidates most of whom you know nothing about, you can see how it happens.
Hahaha, Bill Shorten does a Sir Robin.
Amanda Rishworth to be handed NDIS portfolio (Sky News, 14 Jan)
It’s only January, so if the Hero of Beaconsfield is resigning at the end of the year Ms Rishworth better look up what the phrase “hospital pass” means.
In the Liar tradition…
Based on my own experience with the NDIS there has been some window dressing undertaken in the weeds.
I feel like saying “Go already”. If he is leaving at the end of the year that means he is still running at the next election. I feel that he will miraculously change his mind when Albo loses the election. Peanut will want to be the leader of the opposition yet again. In the meantime he doesn’t want any responsibility at all. Typical.
Having now watched Avi’s video of what ensued in Melbourne on the weekend, it affirms and confirms my total and absolute contempt for the police force.
I’m not sure VicPlod should be mistaken for a police force.
Hardly a surprise that Vic plod are useless at policing. They are too busy operating their own “grooming gangs”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14281213/Disturbing-number-cops-investigated-sex-crimes-abhorrent-acts-Victoria.html
How much did state and federal Labour governments given to Islamic groups in Sydney’s west in 2024 above what they usually receive?
What is the rationale for such taxpayer largesse?
What strings – if any – are attached to its expenditure?
Have any of the recipient groups spoken out against antisemitism?
Are any of the recipient groups linked to antisemitism?
Channel 7 reporting that Oscar Jenkins, the Australian captured by the Russians while fighting for Ukraine has been executed. I can believe that he might be dead but I’d be very surprised if the Russians have done it; more likely self harm.
FAFO
Mercenaries are not subject to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
To the contrary, the Geneva Conventions apply in the Russo-Ukraine [i.e. recognised state v/ recognised state] conflict, including to foreign soldiers of either side.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule108
Foreign combatants in this war are not classed as mercenaries as it is a state on state conflict. In international law they are regarded as combatants of the particular nation under whose flag they fight.
Source please Roger
They probably fed him some meat. 😀
Yet again, with the Sydney Festival (the Tele):
And:
As noted the other day, the Sydney Festival is taxpayer-funded. Their spokes-sniveller:
The Sydney Festival is funded by the taxpayers – i.e., the people who turn up to their ‘events’. Therefore, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that festival organisers a) actually be aware of the content these muppets want to distribute, and b) if that content is shit, shut it down before it starts.
Simple. Or should be.
They can’t help themselves. Knowing it will be completely without repercussions helps.
dover0beach
January 14, 2025 4:39 pm
WTF?
After the “new boss” is on record as saying that if the hostages aren’t released by January 20th, “all hell will break loose”.
Doesn’t sound like a threat to Israel to me.
This is just the death throes of the Biden regime trying to belatedly create a legacy.
Biden is desperate (more likely DNC surrogates & the legacy media…oh I repeat myself) for them to be able to say that Biden brought peace to the Middle East.
Yep. Would be being stage managed by the same people who’ve brought you the corpse for the last four years.
Yes.
Even if the ink isn’t on a deal by Monday night, they will say Trump is taking credit for Demensha Joe’s groundwork.
That is possible but there is some bad blood between Trump and Netanyahu. The Trump Social post mentioned earlier is curious. It may be as ftb suggests an attempt for a last hurrah by Biden team but in that case Netanyahu would only have to stall. But if your on the Israeli team, you have to consider Trump’s past backpeddling.
There is also the possibility of a quid pro quo mentioned earlier: you don’t get movement on Iran or anywhere else without a resolution in Gaza.
I’m not all over the flag situation at the tennis.
Are they saying that only flags from competitors countries are allowed to be displayed?
If so, are they fair dinkum with enforcing it?
ie they aren’t letting Hamas boosters in while stopping any Star of David flags?
It’s not the Davis Cup.
The players represent themselves, not their nation.
It seems to me tennis authorities could save themselves a lot of trouble by not permitting national flags in such open competitions at all.
The Speech That Went VIRAL: Matt Goodwin at Reform’s North West Conference
For no real reason at all…
Actually, sarcastosaurus would have survived.
Geraldton pool report.
I am sanguine, neither dangling cat meat from the bathers nor cottage cheese…
One piece suits abide.
Take it out of the savings on Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremonies.
You’re welcome.
Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2025 6:26 pm
Police FORCED to protect Aussie Jews from violent Palestinian mob
I wish I could have been there. If I lived in Melbourne I would have been there. I’m not scared of the leftist Muslim Nazis.
Oh, perhaps our Nazi was there, carrying a Pallie Nazi flag?
Avi is a hero. I see Yaacov Travitz is wearing a t-shirt with the words ‘lion of Zion’ emblazoned on it. Good on him. Hear this, I am a not a kitten, I am a ‘lioness of Zion’.
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Make sure you have some burly blokes to protect you if you choose to do so. I’m serious.
Steve,
they don’t need to be burly, they only need to be determined.
Charles Veitch:
NEO UK: Billy Fights with Pro Hamas, Crackheads Scream at Me (LOTS More)
Jeremy Clarkson wades into grooming gangs row as he fumes ‘we must remove shackles of political correctness’
He is right. An inquiry is a waste of time.
I’m certain a lot of Labour councillors and compromised police who’ve never been investigated as to their role in facilitating the abuse will back him.
Nothing to see here…move along.
The victoms no the names of the enablers, Roger. It is time to charge the enablers with obstruction, dereliction or conspiracy.
It has to be know before public interest faids.
Bespoke,
are you truly as illiterate as you appear?
I am not illiterate.
hmmmm?
It’s fare question, Pogria.
I can read understand and speak English well. The rest not so much.
If true, Clarkson has been added to the list.
Roger, you’re completely correct. I was musing to myself, say this time next year when the God Emperor has wrapped up the Ukraine entente, will Sabalenka and Medvedev be allowed to have their national abbreviations on the screen, and the trophy, even in retrospect? When Trump has razed the ragheads in Israel (complete with Nuremburg-trial-style publication of the horrors visited upon the Israelis), will the heat go out of displaying the simple and centuries old Magen D?
…tennis was the one game I could get excited about seeing on the telly, but the era of white flag ethnic erasure, Welcomes To Country, gagging Margaret Court, aping the French with lens tagging, and letting the ars*hole Melbourne crowd sledge Medvedev et al, I feel that the AO just presents the worst of modern Australia.
( : Bonkers!
Planet Perfecto – Bullet In The Gun
Heard a nice story today. My kid’s friend in the US has a relative in law who won a bucket of money in some US lottery. It was hundreds of millions at face value. By face value, in the US you receive lottery winnings over 20 years and it’s taxable. Alternatively you can receive a discounted amount to the face value after tax. She received 25 mill from the rel in law. Quitting the job and moving to Florida as retiree in her 30s with the hubby and the kid.
Florida was an excellent choice.
I don’t want to appear forward but I have a spare ticket for the Hawthorn/Essendon match on March 14. Would any cat Hawks or Bombers fans like to join me on that day.
Wasn’t there a bald Essendon tragic here at one stage?
I do think Sinc was an Essendon tragic.
mOnty?
What say you?
Anyone but Monty.
But if he can give me tips for my fantasy team maybe I’ll take Monty. I’ve been challenging my son in fantasy for 12 years now and if Monty can give me any tips to maybe beat him for a change I may take them.
From Shakespeare to Marvel: What WA students could study in year 12
Marvel comics and the television sitcom Modern Family might not be considered synonymous with essay writing, but they are on the list of suggested texts for year 11 and 12 students studying English in Western Australia.
Examples provided for students studying general English include Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Help – both book and film.
Alongside the more up-to-date examples are the classics like Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Those studying ATAR English are recommended George Orwell’s 1984 and Orson Welles’ 1941 film Citizen Kane alongside television shows like Mad Men.
It’s over. We have lost.
I’m actively telling my kids they will have to make a very good case for my support if they think they want to go to “university”- now, I’m seriously thinking of withdrawing my support for even doing ATAR in this stoopid, stoopid, shallow country.
It must be considered a 50:50 prospect at best after factoring in 3 years lost income plus HECS against a decent trade income. We had specialist trades on contract and most took the winter off and went north with their caravans knowing there was plenty of work when they got back.
The next generation of the clan were made an offer. “You want to go to University, and study medicine, commerce, law, agriculture or engineering, the clan will pay your fees. You want to study lesbian poetry, or underwater basket weaving, you are on your own.
Master entropy had just watched Conan the Barbarian (Arnie version) prior to his grade nine NAPLAN. So he wrote a review of Conan to the horror of Mrs Entropy once she found out.
Anyway, he topped his class, the only time he topped anything. I can’t remember the arty farty approach to the review he took, but he was laughing about it for some time..
CHINA Suspends Bonds
JC, thoughts?
John H.
The story says they stopped buying in the secondary market, which likely means they’re seriously worried about bond yields dropping further. Lower bond yields signal to the markets that they’re stuck in a deflationary spiral—and that’s the last thing they want to spook investors with.
Seriously, if their 30-year bond yield is trading around 1.9%—the 30 year for crying out loud—those guys are in deep trouble. There’s no way they’re growing at 5%. That’s just dishonest propaganda. One poor guy let the cat out of the bag recently, saying at a conference that China’s economy was growing at perhaps 2% GDP tops—or possibly even in recession. The CCP gave him a very serious “talking-to.” Another guy said something similar and ended up fired from his job.
Facing US$18 trillion in credit losses would be an absolute nightmare for Xi and the CCP.
Stopping bond purchases because bond yields are “too low” is fcking madness as it’s a way of providing liquidity in an economy suffering deflation. They don’t know what they’re doing, which doesn’t surprise. The yuan needs to weaken and they need to provide ample liquidity to get out of the deflationary spiral.
I’m just guessing that if they allow a substantial weakening of the Yuan,they’re worried the boss in Washington will threaten them with even higher tariffs. But first things first should be taking care of the internal economy and let Trump do what he wants.