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The UNiparty continues Australia’s population ponzi. An example of why all moslem immigration must cease and deportations started. Once moslems…
“This Is A Catastrophe!” | ‘More than 10,000 Millionaires Have Left Britain In The Past Year’
Didn’t the Brits learn anything, when Harold Wilson declared “The rich would be taxed until their eyes bled” – and they wondered why so much money moved off shore, to tax havens?
They don’t care.
Their plan is to bankrupt western nations so they are ripe for communist take over, and at the very least unable to oppose the global domination of the communist bloc, who have spent the last thirty years playing doggo.
But but but …. we neeeeeeed to make the greedy bastards pay their ‘fair share’ ….
The joint is falling apart. Masses is trying to get out of Britain. There are YT channels documenting the decline of once thriving cities and towns. Very sad. The millionaires are lucky, at least they have the means to escape.
Bet they won’t receive a welcoming reception at Australia House if they try to emigrate here.
Wrong colour in many cases, and wrong political complexion in all cases.
UK’s millionaire exodus equal to losing 530,000 average taxpayers, study says
So, around £4.25 billion pa fallen out of the UK tax net.
Not a problem, says a Top Man.
So, with at least £21.5 billion gone already, that account means someone, somewhere is getting squeezed for an additional £55.3 billion by Starmer.
Luckily it’s going to be transferred out of the productive economy and spent on public services and government stuff.
So that will drive growth.
Get a load of the fcking fraud that goes on with the NDIS.
Not surprising. This applies in other areas as well.
For example, UBER rates are different for personal and business rides.
No. They aren’t.
You can choose a “Business Comfort” option, which essentially puts some of the same old-school Uber standards back in play and has a slightly larger minimum size for a vehicle (but since every single damn car is a Camry, it hardly matters), but there’s nothing stopping you ordering the standard ride from a business account. Or guarantee yourself the Camry you were going to get anyway and order a “Business Comfort” from your personal account.
Watched 2 minutes of the eomrns semi.Dounds like a lesbian argy.Turned off.
WTF? huh?
Turned off spellcheck, I think.
I expect you mean the Aus Open women’s semi finals. It’s good to watch with the sound muted.
Had to have a nap this arvo.
The winning.
It’s too much.
If you just watched legacy media news services you’d know about 10% of what went on in Washington this week.
TwitterX has won on every front.
The reporting and the analysis.
Man, I nearly threw up my chicken parma watching Nein news tonight.
They did a hit piece on anchor babies.
They had footage which would topperer the best Pallywood can do.
A sad-faced Latino looking woman with her pregnant belly exposed being examined by a doctor/nurse/soundman with stethoscope out in the open air.
I think the messaging is that she can’t get time off from picking cotton/avocados/corn to go to the doctor.
They are totally missing the point.
Trump’s Secretary for Chucking Out Illegals has already said he doesn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about anchor babies.
If the parents are illegals, they’re out. If they choose to abandon their kid who was born in the US, that is on them.
Whilst we can feel sympathy for them in their plight, these women probably got themselves pregnant to cheat the system.
One or two we can deal with but a hundred thousand is too much to ask for.
If there was a way to allow them to stay – with absolutely no family reunion, these women and their children would be a boon to the nation they came into. But it won’t stop there. The next bleeding heart administration would drop all the safeguards and allow the entire village in.
So we have to say no.
Lots of message traffic in the US about the constitutional meaning of the 14th amendment, and whether anchor babies are eligible for automatic US citizenship anyway
May they long continue to be so. Even better if they ceased to exist.
The WEF is Afraid
If you’d like a synopsis of today’s Diagnosis Murder episode…
Dover has my email.
All good thanks.
I think I’ll pass.
No…it was a cracker!
Er…you do realise I’m joking?
My wife chides me that my humour is so dry only the dead get the punchline.
All in all it’s a lonely existence.
Insert appropriate emoticon here.
You’re lucky that your wife even knows when you are asserting your humour. My wife needs explanations from my daughter.
Leftist Dark Money Group Opposes RFK Jr. For HHS Secretary After Supporting Presidential Run
Government agency is caught deploying sneaky tactic to get around Trump’s anti-woke purge
This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
meh. They got what they voted for.
We need on the occasion of Trumps victory remember how many died due to the communists over the last 100 years.
That few today know of the battles and the global struggle to contain this mad ideology is because we are not doing enough to tell it.
Because we let the communists fill our schools and universities and media with their lackeys.
This is why we came so close to losing America.
Make no mistake, the communists had spent the last few decades renaming, dressing up their old ideas in new clothes and infiltrating everywhere they needed to be to put an end to a free world of independent democracies.
Their plan was to take over politically in all countries and fool the people into thinking their ideas were popular and necessary, across many countries simultaneously and in coordination.
We were close to losing.
Thank God for Trump.
@elonmusk
The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi
Without a doubt, back in July 2024, Donald Trump’s life was saved by God.
As my late mother said at the time, watching the footage, there were angels on the podium that day. It was a miracle.
One of Trump’s best executive orders is summed up by this little ditty:
You can’t wave a wand
To alter your gender.
Science won’t fit in
With Your diversity blender.
I said it once
And I’ll say it again:
Women are women
And men are men.
Everything went perfectly at his inauguration; even when the music didn’t play. Carrie Underwood waited for the accompanying music to sing the national anthem; she was told the player had broken down and she gave the most moving rendition without music. Watch it; its about 4 minutes. Amazing.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD sings ‘AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL’ A CAPPELLA after the soundtrack didn’t turn on
As for the church service and nitwit bishop bitch; she’s had her 5 minutes in the Sun. Good riddance. If any federal money goes to her DEI fuking parish I hope Trump stops it.
Carrie Underwood is an absolute star who handled the prolonged absence of music, and then was told just sing, magnificently.
“If you know the words, help me out” and proceeded to showcase her beautiful powerful voice with America the Beautiful. Finished off with a lovely gesture to the surrounding people. Full marks. The whole inauguration was wonderful in that breathtaking rotunda. Every day one can look forward to another “win” as Trump gets busy with chucking Biden’s crap, on the tip. It’s exciting.
We’re organising an age care package for some very reluctant parents in their late 80s. They can still vacum, wash clothes, clean benches etc but can’t bend over to scrub floors/ do the skirting boards etc. So we had a meeting with whoever organises this racket to say can you just get the cleaner to do the stuff they can’t (some of these cleaners are Toorak wives who turn up in luxury cars and are getting amazing hourly rates). Computer says no. OHS guides say they can’t bend over. But they can vacuum, wash clothes, clean benches etc.
Just pay some cleaners. I do that for my late eighties mum. Hundred bucks a week.
Agree with BoN. We went through all of this nonsense too. Ended up paying a cleaner who is a treasure.
Forget government programs.
We’ll end up doing that. The only reason we got involved in the racket was because it was rammed down their throat by some busybody after a minor fall and I had a brain fart moment and carried on about them paying usurious taxes all their lives and receiving very little back so why not claw a bit back now. As expected, it’s become a nightmare. Imagine spending that last years of your life being told by a nice lady with a clipboard how a generous government is going to carry you to the grave. At one point the nice lady was insisting on nutritious pre-made meals.
They told her to stick it. Their whole
routine is shopping, cooking and knocking of a good Shiraz. Governments disgust me.
DB,
what Bruce and Calli said.
Also, if you hire a non NDIS Cleaner, you can generally be sure they will do an excellent job.
Seligman will be turning in his grave. He was the asshole who did those terrible experiments on dogs and established the concept of learned helplessness. One of the worst things we can do with age is become idle. Housework is an excellent form of productive and meaningful exercise which is both aerobic and resistance training, enhancing balance by promoting co-ordination and muscle strength, which is vitally important because falls are a huge risk factor for older people that lead to broken bonesand brain damage which precipitates dementia, and then they’ll need much more than cleaners!
I mean Fme, who are the idiots designing these programs? Are they that effing stupid that they can’t think about second and third order consequences? Are they that incapable of thinking things through over months that I and many others can do during a social media rant?
I think Seligman is still with us.
US troops at border as Operation Deport beginsDonald Trump’s border security and immigration crackdown is being implemented, with 1500 troops sent to the southwest border and deportation operations commencing.
From the Oz. Take note, Albo, this is how it’s done!
From the Oz:-
Despite the pleas of Bishop Bleeding-Heart, a few Dimocrats have sniffed the wind.
Twenty pussent of Dimocrats crossed the floor and a few others abstained or were no-shows.
The winning.
I need another Bex and a good lay down.
No-one makes fun of Diagnosis Murder and gets away with it.
No-one.
I think people will tire of Executive Orders in a few days.
Orange Hitler might want to re-brand them.
How about “Royal Decree from the Court of Donald the Second”?
Too wordy?
What about “Fatwah”?
The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi
That’s how you deal with the left, you mop up the swill they throw your way and you chuck that swill right back in their faces.
As someone just texted me, citing Jewish Uncensored….
The same people that supported the real Nazis on October 7th are the ones now calling Elon Musk a Nazi. Let that sink in…
Abso-f**king-lutely.
Some idiot said that he’d prefer not to trust the space program to someone who does the Nazi salute.
The replies have not been kind. The most subtle are along the lines of, “Who wants to tell him?”
I can’t stop laughing!
Paging Werner Von Braun…..
Exactly!
DrBeauGan January 23, 2025 7:37 am
Their ABCess 7:30 just had Labor minister Ed Husic on who wanted to emphasise “In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”
That misguided fool is making the mistake of treating all religions the same, as though there are no significant differences. Newsflash, some religions are worse than others, but nobody on the news will dare actually say that.
Apparently islamophobic “attacks” (whatever that means) have been way up since Oct 7 2023. I think we can all agree that nobody* here is responsible for the actions taken half a world away in Gaza. That cuts both ways.
___
*= except for the 3000 Gazans given tourist visas.
“Islamophobic attacks” equals: Someone tugged my hijab on the train/bus.
Perhaps.
If they were more serious, the screeching would be audible beyond Mars.
At one stage Australia was considering the F104 Starfighter.
Ended up with the Dassault Mirage instead.
At Gulgong I remember watching them blasting through the sky.
AM Scherger flew a Mirage and lurrrrrved the experience.
The RAAF choice for the Canberra replacement was the A-5 Vigilante, a carrier borne nuclear strike aircraft which the then Defence Minister rejected. It was withdrawn from service in November 1979, the F-111 stayed in service for many years after that.
Story reached my ears that the R.A.A.F regarded the worst possible case as loosing eight F- 111’s in the first two years.
The Starfighter was dubbed the ‘widow maker’: Loss rates by country
But Aussie Mirage losses were scarcely better at 42/116 = 36%.
F18 Losses have been much lower, 4/75 of the original classics and ? 1/12 Growlers and 1/24 Superhornets (loss numbers a bit iffy for those 2 variants).
Was the loss rate due to the fact that the Starfighter- just about the most science fiction looking thing in the sky when new- was designed as a high speed, high altitude interceptor, but in service in Europe it mostly flew at lower altitudes and often in poor weather, as a strike aircraft?
“In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”
My dear old mum would have been pleased to hear that. She used to conduct human sacrifices by the light of the full moon. There were hardly any virgins left in the northern suburbs in her later days. Of course, there weren’t many before.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha January 23, 2025 4:29 pm
That’s running a nation, not a state existing below a federal government.
Exactly what I noticed – NZ has to run Foreign Affairs, “ Defence” etc. which Queensland does not have.
Does NZ have major Govt. activities carried out by contractors, or by local Govt?
If not, even allowing for geographic issues, QLD. must have at least twice the public service it needs – maybe 4 times, incredible though that seems, even for Australia.
Couple of after dinner single malts, and reading Jeffrey Cox’s monumental account of the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War Two – the futile attempts by the American, British, Dutch and Australian navies to halt the rapid Japanese advance of 1942.
Suffering a total defeat, his flagship, the De Ruyter a glowing blast furnace, the Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman ensured that the last lifeboat was filled with wounded sailors, and saw it pushed away from the ship. He then retired to his cabin and shot himself.
I’ve seen his memorial in Rotterdam – rather moving.
Doing up a book Australia’s Coastal War, about ALL of the actions around the continent in WWII.
Came across a Dutch civilian ship I’d never heard of the other day being sunk by Japanese surface units off NW Australia in early 1942. It was trying to make it to Oz, like so many others. It was such a big war.
I’d look forward to reading that, Top Ender.
Me too.
I was surprised to learn, maybe 15 years ago, of the U-boat activity off Victoria and NZ.
President Trump has reinstated Houthis as a Terrorist Organisation.
Winning!
insane “anti-racist” conference at the Queensland University of Technology
these people are mental
As I have said before, “anti-racists” are often themselves racists of the worst kind.
They are great fun to debate because they are so easily maneuvered into stupid statements that reveal their hypocrisy.
Mate in 1 … white to play
Well you’ve got me snookered.
D8 -D5 should wrap it up
D8- D4
Q-D4 mate
Parking queen bang up against king with a net around her is a great victory. Not as good as when you slay king with no queen and wide net though. Rare games
dunny … yr a player?
and TE … righto, I’ll scale it up
On Chessworld,net as Aussietom if you want a game.
Tom, a year ago I bought my nephew a chess set
then I got on chess.com and rapidly found out exactly how bad a player I was.
started doing puzzles because I had no tactical vision
excellent at puzzles (95th percentile)
utterly average in a rapid 10minute game and I do much better with more time
busy lately learning defensive openings for black (Alekhine, Benko, Kings Indian etc)
haven’t been to chessworld.com … will sign up and find you when I get time
WQ- d4
Checkmate
got it now. Thanks.
Alex Soros Says Billionaire Dad ‘Very Upset’ With ‘Amount of Bureaucracy’ at Family’s Liberal Nonprofit
What didn’t they manipulate?
Biden Justice Department ‘manipulated’ crime data to fit Democrats’ narrative: retired police officer
Regarding the Java Sea Campaign, earlier in the campaign, the British cruiser H.M.S. Exeter, suffered a hit by an 8 inch shell, from a Japanese cruiser.
Dock yard workers, repairing the damage, discovered the base plate to the shell – and discovered it was stamped “Made in Britain.”
Damn Mr. Jung and his synchronicity! Before a FB prompt alerted me to some doofus I was watching below. Yeah, Drachinifel is back!
(44) Who had the best torpedoes of WW2? – YouTube
I often watch Drach on YouTube.
The Japanese “Long Lance”, surely?
Snap, I watched that last night!
Prank calls, really stupid but had to laugh
Garbled abuse and hang up.
——
Garbled abuse and hang up.
An old Dago, who was a regular at the local pub where I lived 20 years ago, used to get me to score chicken livers for him. I was working at Steggles.
Fry-a dem up-a with-a de On-ion. Reckoned it was choice tucker. Nostalgic food from his peasant upbringing in Calabria etc I imagine.
Yuck!
Beef liver cooked just right (medium) in olive oil and a splash of vinegar served with a side of chips, with the oil/ vinegar mixture from the pan drizzled over the top is delicious.
Liver?
Late FiL made lambs liver and onions worthy of Michelin star restaurants. Only thing he could cook. Wife liked his lobster mornay but he never used Gruyere so the sauce didn’t have the right taste.
Fegatini di Pollo was the Old Man’s favourite
I just spent half an hour on Facebook and now I need a hot shower to decontaminate. What a vile place it has become.
(44) Burn (10th Anniversary Tour Version) ft. Sara Niemietz, Kyndle Wylde, Tatum Langley – YouTube
removing the defender
white to play
whoops … black to play
RxQ
correct
white is in big trouble and will be checkmated in 1 or 2 moves
How did white get into that position in the first place.
probably castled queen-side
It’s a wonder chess hasn’t been called out as racist.
Wonder no more.
From 2020:
https://theconversation.com/why-does-white-always-go-first-in-chess-141962
In true ‘never apologise’ … just agree with them: of ‘course whites go first’
lol
Liver is an excellent source of a neglected nutrient: choline. Egg yolk also which is why I bought an egg cooker because it keeps the heat down to prevent nutrient destruction.
Choline is a necessary substrate for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Ach falls through the floor in Alz. Ach plays a vital role in modulating brain inflammation, memory consolidation, and alertness. Studies suggest most people do not receive enough choline.
I checked …
Choline: The essential but forgotten nutrient | UNC NRI
BTW anyone who promotes paleo\carnivore but doesn’t promote organ meats is way off base.
Animals already know this. Thats why the internal organs are eaten first.
Factcheck: true
Johannes Leak.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
A better account of the Afghani stabber in Germany:
In other words, the authorities knew of his behaviour, knew he wasn’t allowed to be in Germany, and refused to deport him.
Instead they waited until he completed the task he left in Germany for – murdering and terrorising the citizenry.
This is no longer excusable by the authorities. It is the deliberate foisting of a dangerous criminal onto a defenceless public for ideological ends.
Fegato alla Veneziana is delicious and is a family favourite – we mostly ate calf’s liver from our own hand-raised vealers — until I left home we ate only white meat, chicken, fish, veal and pork — it is very difficult to get good veal these days the butchers try to sell yearling as veal– nuh, if it bleeds red it ain’t veal
Tinta,
I love liver and kidneys and heart.
I particularly love liver cooked Spanish style.
Slice the the liver thin, rub it with a paste made from fresh garlic, parsley, salt and pepper. Lemon zest is also wonderful.
Then, dip the slices into breadcrumbs, egg, then breadcrumbs again.
Pan fry quickly in olive oil.
Liver Schnitzel, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
And yes, that is correct, NOT flour, egg, crumbs.
Crumbs, egg, crumbs. The initial layer of crumbs prevents the gooiness that can sometimes happen with flour. If you want to go flash, crumbs, egg, then Panko crumbs. mmmmmmmmmmm
Wow sounds sensational will certainly give it a go – the Sunbather needs to have some of that good stuff. We had our own chickens and Mum would include in her ragu the liver, heart and kidneys (tiny though they were – it added a certain sappore – I miss my mamma even after a quarter of a century that she’s gone. Her sister, my Zia Ida in Italy died last Saturday, the last of my parents’ generation, it makes me very nostalgic and sad.
Ladies it is so nice to engage in food discussion. The young women I come across have very little interest in food. One DiL is the finest pastry chef yet has no interest in other cooking. Other DiL can’t cook at all. Was brought up on takeaways. Son is slowly introducing her to a wide variety.
Is there a cuisine around the Mediterranean thats not fantastic. Saw Rick Stein in Turkey. His Turkish guide and interpreter suggested they are really just variations ofthe same things ,such is the mixing of cultures over millennia.
Wish I’d been brought up on wog food. Nana had a restaurant, mum never got the cooking genes. Managed to make everything taste the same. My Italian aunt never got the genes either. Ate the plainest food. Had a magnificent garden but I don’t recall it coming across the table. I lived with them for a while and guess my memory is failing. I miss them more than my parents, thats not hard as I don’t miss them in the slightest.
That’s sad GreyRanga but sometimes the old adage you can pick your friends but not your relatives is true for some. My daughter-in-law a case in point – but takes all kinds to make a world. I miss my Dad too — he was a violent alcoholic with no education and I guess he dragged his father’s brutti vizi into his life. But he was a very staunch loather of Cough-up Whitlam and the Labor spivs
Nice work promoting the Democratic vote around the country:
The Trump administration has started rounding up violent undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities all over the country, including the alleged leader of a Haitian gang and murder and rape suspects in Boston.
The agitated Haitian migrant, who wasn’t named but who has 17 recent convictions, said he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ as he was placed in a police car.
‘Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!’ the migrant added.
ICE officers in Boston said they also arrested multiple MS-13 gang members in the Boston raids.
Try 2:
Nice work promoting the Democratic vote around the country:
The Trump administration has started rounding up violent undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities all over the country, including the alleged leader of a Haitian gang and murder and rape suspects in Boston.
The agitated Haitian migrant, who wasn’t named but who has 17 recent convictions, said he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ as he was placed in a police car.
‘Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!’ the migrant added.
ICE officers in Boston said they also arrested multiple MS-13 gang members in the Boston raids.
Daily Mail
More Trumpening!
Hundreds of transgender federal prisoners are living in fear after a ’round-up’ that will send them packing to men’s lock-ups following a day one executive order from new president Donald Trump.
Now lawyers are desperately trying to find a way to fight the order saying the prisoners will have ‘a target on their backs’ as they move in with hardened male inmates.
‘It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,’ one lawyer told DailyMail.com.
I thought they’d like hardened male inmates, or were they just saying they’re trannies to get access to women in prison.
I thought they’d like hardened male inmates…
Wording!
Why can’t they just put trans in their own prisons? Seems to more of them in the system than women. Actually, don’t bother. It’s known why.
BHP sacking labour hire companies because of no-show jobs really should be getting more coverage.
What does a union official do when they call time?
Get a job in the union super ecosystem (we really need to stop calling it industry super).
Or set up a labour hire company that gets sweet deals from larger labour hire companies.
Winston Smith – 23/1 @ 06:06
Spot on. Think back to Hardrian in Judea which caused the first Jewish Disporea.
A lagre cutler of people of a similar race in a foreign country sticking to their rules, customs, langauge, trading on with eachother and marrying each other and then asking the homelanders to change for them.
this causes resentment, hatred, impatience and then violence.
The filthy USSR did this on steriods.
Hawke and Evans, that so called giant intellectual, agree now that opening Australia to Chinese immigration was a mistake.
these people are immature post pubescent adolescence.They are Rick/Spotty/Silent P from the young ones.
Albo/ Wong etc do not understand what they are doing.
All they are “are wonna be Eastern Suburbs English Protestants”.
The afternoon of tennis in Perth with Albo and Weatherall – Far out.
We can take solace people have been this dumb for over 150 years – maybe we are not as useless as we think.
Or a $50 per hour bag carrier with NDIS. Or get an abo mate to set up an indigenous company with him to plug into the abo industry pigs trough. Many options for union parasites.
So, the Journal has an article about a new restaurant (Butterworth’s) in DC where all the Trump connected and MAGA people hangout. It has a photo of Rita Panahi taking a selfie with one of the investors.
Defund the UN.
Shocking: Freed Israeli Hostages Say Hamas Used U.N. Facilities to Hide Them (22 Jan)
What is shocking is that there is no comment from any governments, none are even surprised. Doesn’t this mean that the UN is at war with Israel?
It could be that, apart from the claim made on Israeli 13, it hasn’t been substantiated just yet.
The UN.
Not antisemitic at all.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-un-member-states-not-recognized-by-other-members/
I recognise they are all muzzie-commie shiiteholes.
I see Dutton has again displayed his total lack of a spine by doubling down on his commitment to the global warming hoax and keeping us in the ruinous Paris accords. His WEF credentials remain intact, a good UNiparty apparatchik. I’m sure he reckons the SFL’s will win on a Bradbury just by standing in front of the one Aussie flag, removing yet more freedoms and getting digital ID up. Wow, so much winning!
Makka – I have had considerable success saying ‘no’ to digital identity. It is written into law as ‘voluntary.’ ANAO did an audit of Finance (who ran the DI Interim Oversight Authority) and pinned them on the question of non-DI alternatives. Which Finance have been acting on now. The Departments and Agencies are fighting it (via a devious ‘failing to disclose’ basis) but the law also articulates, ‘federal agencies and departments do not get an exemption’ from the law. Always refuse, no matter what. Always flag the law and that no agency/department get an exemption. Always demand the non-DI alternative.
True?
Better get ready for the couch then.
I had it even worse than that, used to wrap up an ice pack in a towel and put under my feet.
Hot flushes were quite embarrassing, I had one while talking to a client who became concerned and asked if I was OK. I had to sheepishly explain the cause.
Friend of ours used to claim she didn’t have “hot flushes”; she had “power surges”.
The Far Side by Gary Larson
I’ll still take the worst accordion polka over the best rap tune any day.
Or;
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
A gentleman is a man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.
I have the complete set of Gary Larson.
I have been a fan for decades.
Dutton is differentiating around the edges that we do not care about. He won’t touch hyper-immigration or the net zero scam, or preserve freedom of speech or bodily autonomy.
I read a claim that he was going to go all Trumpish on us but pointed out that it isn’t possible because Dutton has the charisma of a fence post.
But “I” pointed out…
It is debatable whether the Australian political system could ever deliver a Trump should one emerge on the political stage. Certainly Dutton is not it, although his lack of charisma is neither here nor there for mine. On the Voice he got there in the end but it hardly inspired confidence. The fate of Kennett, Newman, even Abbott suggests there is no hidden appetite for hard decisions, rapid change or tough love in the broader electorate. At best you get some amelioration after the damage is done. That would seem to be where Qld is and Victoriastan hasn’t even made it that far.
Yes- if it wasn’t for Jacinta, all Dutton would manage is a few squeals while hiding behind the bushes. No spine, no conviction.
It doesn’t help that most of Victoria has moved to Queensland.
Public service refugees from Kennett’s VIC changed the political landscape of SE QLD noticeably.
It is hoped the current crop have a different mindset.
Well you should’ve thought about that before illegally issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.
ICC fears Trump sanctions will destroy organization (23 Jan)
Good. Rabz the lot of them.
and this is a negative.
I expect you meant to put a question mark there.
Rugged Beauty
At first glance you might think these Bison must be cold, after all the temperature was below zero the morning I came across this scene. There is, however, a way to know that they are not.
Wildlife of all sorts grow protective Winter coats and layers of fat that keep them warm. If they are well fed, healthy and not overly stressed, their coats will not allow much body heat to escape.
If these Bison had been unwell, the snow would be melted by escaping body heat.
It is a gritty life in Yellowstone but they do this grand place justice with their own rugged beauty.
Kevin,
SBS had an excellent documentary series on the American Bison.
It is probably available to view on SBS on Demand.
Well worth the time.
We can play “Count the Bison”.
You’d think if they were cold, they would clump together, but they’re not even doing that.
This is the worry for Trump:
Two Republicans voted against advancing Mr. Hegseth’s nomination: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Pete Hegseth narrowly clears Senate test vote, poised for final confirmation on Friday – Washington Times
Just like here, conservatism is always betrayed by faux conservatives. Duttie has come out and said he’s staying with little johnnie’s Paris suck up, ruinables and trannies are great.
Such is the growing loathing for Albo and Labor, Dutton figures that all he has to do to get the big job is show up. We are hopelessly fkd.
He may be right. Australia has been here before. I would say Abbott and Albo fell into the same boat.
He is. That’s why I said we are hopelessly fkd.
“Would you like the sh*t sandwich? Or the sh*t sandwich with jam?”
Collins is up for re-election in the mid terms but Murkowski 2028. Hope Trump disendorses Collins.
Even if the election goes to a Democrat how different would that be from how Collins votes in Senate?
Chicks.
Every. Single. Time.
Wake up wymmyn! You are on a losing strategy. The noodle armed will not protect you.
It doesn’t help but the Senate sits (nominally) at 53-47.
So this won’t defeat the nomination.
I can’t figure out how a dead-set conservative state like Alaska keeps returning that RINO, Murkyowski.
I suspect both Collins and Murkyowski know their cards are marked, so are just digging in.
Alasks instigated Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in 2020. Their system of our preferential voting system.
Wonder of Wonders, Moocowskid, was behind after the first round and then the left wing loonies BIRM second votes started its ascension to victory.
Perhaps there is a need for Alaskans to call for a recall election and send this creature to the ignominious defeat it deserves.
Sheep farmers have always some tasks coming up.
You’d be surprised by the number of sheep there, what do they eat?
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January is crutching time on our merino sheep husbandry timetable.
That’s removing the wool from around their eyes (so they’re not ‘wool blind’), their bum (so the poo doesn’t cling, attracting blow flies) and for the guys, their pizzle (aka their old fella, also to stop blowfly strike).
The crutching team work their way through our sheep once the fellas get them to the yards, and we take over again post haircut.
The weather has been pleasantly cool thus far, a far cry from
summer! (2021)
Trilby Station
@GuntherEagleman
HOLY SHIT HE DID IT!
Trump signed the Executive Order to unseal the RFK, JFK, and MLK Jr. files.
This is HUGE!!!
My only concern is they have had 60 years to ‘misplace’ whatever they want to
There will be nothing there worth the effort.
It isn’t. Let’s just wait and see what’s released and then what is redacted.
@EricLDaugh
HOLY SHLIT. Trump called him out!
TRUMP: Speaking of you [Bank of America CEO] – I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives. People are complaining the banks aren’t allowing them to do business. Bank of America – they don’t take conservatives.
And the usual, supposedly R, suspects are already saying they’ll vote no on Hegseth.
@SenRickScott
By day three, the Obama Admin had 12 nominees confirmed, but it’s now four days into Pres. Trump’s term, & Democrats have only allowed one cabinet nominee to get a vote.
Democrats clearly want to undermine the American people & Trump’s agenda by stalling his nominees. We can’t let it happen!
If it’s a simple majority, Republicans have it therefore it’s the recalcitrant Republicans who are holding them up.
He can give them his last cent, but that still won’t make America take any notice of their rubbish.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg offers to step in after Trump withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Aren’t I such a hero, saving the planet from nothing.
Tax write-off.
@catturd2
Tells you everything you need to know.
Haha.
Trump to the WEF Davos scum. – GFYourselves!
And I’ll state this now, Dutton and the Stupid Fcking Liberals and Nats will NOT be getting my vote until they completely can the “green power” scam.
Almost everything else is secondary.
The volume of money set to flow OUT of the country if it gets up and running as planned will completely bankrupt us virtually overnight, as if things aren’t bad enough now.
@DefiyantlyFree
Listen to this father speak out about what was done to his son who was a J6 prisoner.
In Airstrip One, a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party.
Another Least Said Soonest Mended would’ve worked if it wasn’t for that meddling Musk moment.
My colleague here isn’t prone to hyperbole so what she said was quite alarming.
The bloke who murdered the Quambatook woman threatened my colleague because there was no food in the bain marie. This was because the shop was just opened.
Cops said that she was lucky because they know his background.
And it isn’t his first rodeo. Already done time for murder.
So of course once out they can’t be in affluent areas like Teals seats. It’s disgraceful
What age was the lady from Quambatook ? We think we might know of her daughter
The Beer whisperer
January 24, 2025 8:14 am
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He should look at this option.
Maybe Dutton ought to ask Russia for a quote to get our nuke power plant on-line quicker.
Just delivered the billionth kWh of power, plus heating in winter.
Not bad for a floating barge, that could be placed practically anywhere.
Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station.
The ship was named after academician Mikhail Lomonosov. It is docked in the Pevek harbour, providing heat to the town and supplying electricity to the regional Chaun-Bilibino power system
NOt a bad idea… could potentially be towed out to see and sunk if there was a Chernobyl event
And towed to any town along the coast at a few hours notice, practically quicker than fixing downed power lines.
I didn’t look at the specs but I’m sure there is a provision for that.
BTW Chernobyl tech was like a stone age club against an AK 47, not to mention humans mishandling the situation, but enough said about that already.
Yep – move it out to the Marianas Trench if possible.
It could also be towed to any city suffering a weather related crisis – Darwin for example.
Just a few comments on Dutton and the fed libs. His statement that he is sticking to net zero because of trade repercussions is crape. The real reason Morrison agreed was the aukus deal and nuclear subs. Trade doesn’t matter. We export various stuff to the EU and UK but they export more finished goods to us. They need the stuff we send to them to make stuff. We can get by without a new Mercedes or champagne. The trade argument is a con I first heard from Matt kean. None of our other trade partners really give a fig for net zero. China?
I will point out that half the libs are moderates / wets who are really LINOs. He has to deal with them too.
This is why grassroots participation is important. The wets got Gisele Kapterian up in Bradfield because they curate small branches with a few dedicated people they trust and exclude everyone else. They then play the politics of patronage, go along with the herd and reap the personal benefits.
Excuse moi?
Hush yo mouth, boy!
Quite true Jock
4% of our exports go to Europe and 84% of our exports go to Asian countries who don’t give a cr&p about climate change cr@p.
The Australian economy is mired in regulatory ropes. Ant of them that are removed are replace by others so that there’s no net benefit.
The ONLY way out is mass deregulation and no party has the guts to do so.
We are ruled by intellectual pygmies with no intention of ever being brave.
We need this guy to pay us a visit
Senate confirms John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, giving Trump his second Cabinet member
https://nitter.poast.org/MargoMartin47/status/1882528183981146394#m
It’S HaPpEnINg, It’S HaPpEnINg!
GOP Sen Who Backed Biden Nominees Becomes First Republican To Oppose Pete Hegseth
On 29 July 2024, a little indigenous white girl by the name of Elsie Dot Stancombe (a northern name if there ever was one) was virtually decapitated by the Welsh choir boy at a Taylor Swift holiday dance party.
Ahhhh but don’t you dare forget you ghastly, racist, far-right white working class scum, diversity is our strength, even when they’re slashing your throats and decapitating your children. Herr Sturmer and the UK establishment have told you! And yesterday, like the good progressive far-left Nazi Der Sturmer goons they are, the UK MSM are still continuing to gaslight and spruik lies about the Welsh choir boy. I suppose it’s understandable, they have to protect their man in Downing Street, the sinister adulterer and Stalinist, Herr Sturmer. Poor old Blob Johnson lost his job because of a Covid party cover up but Herr Sturmer remains safe in his job despite far worse cover ups.
So, do we laugh or do we cry? I will not laugh because doing that disrespects little Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King. Personally, I think we need to cry.
As for the Welsh choir boy, he should be executed.
Paywalled so I can’t read it, but seems like the ‘renewables’ transition and our wonderful green future is going great in SA:
This is after they got some new batteries online that were meant to shut down some of the peaking plants.
SA interconnectors are behind schedule to support the beggar thy neighbour renewable dream.
*Two* diesel generators, two?. Problem sorted then!
Did they fail to mention any open cycle gas turbines? About the least “green” power you can have, quietly installed after that posturing ninny, Weatherall, blew up a coal fired power station to the acclamations of the greens and arts biased elite.
Might pull this down from nested comment to see what others think. Too easily lost otherwise.
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 8:35 am
Reply to The Beer whisperer
It is debatable whether the Australian political system could ever deliver a Trump should one emerge on the political stage. Certainly Dutton is not it, although his lack of charisma is neither here nor there for mine. On the Voice he got there in the end but it hardly inspired confidence. The fate of Kennett, Newman, even Abbott suggests there is no hidden appetite for hard decisions, rapid change or tough love in the broader electorate. At best you get some amelioration after the damage is done. That would seem to be where Qld is and Victoriastan hasn’t even made it that far.
The majority of Aussies really don’t consider political issues past the next Budget. If they think at all about their Govt, it’s policies, their competence etc. The country is sinking fast into a 3rd world status before their eyes but far too many haven’t a fkg clue.
There does seem to have developed a “no one worse off” culture around political decision making. Politics is in essence making decisions about who benefits and who doesn’t. Turnbull’s 70c GST floor for WA has cost the Cth (ie us) billions.
The NVES (new vehicle emissions standards) might change that – they effectively outlaw Twin Cab utes and SUVs within 5 years. These make up 8 of the top 10 new car sales.
“Mate, not me Ranger.”
I just ordered a DMax, too much message traffic about the ‘wet belt’ in the Ranger BiTurbo motor, and the reliability issues resulting from cramming 10 speeds into the box using only the space previously allotted to 6.
WTF does a torque rich diesel need 10 speeds btw??
Its to keep it in the optimum rev range for fuel consumption figures. Being a non cvt gearbox the extra gears in the same space are probably better quality steel and the stress isn’t as great as the spread between gears is much closer. This time last year when in NZ I had a ride in a Raptor with V6 turbo with upgrades. Nearly 400Kw on tap.
Same reason we get 4cyl Prados now – bullshit Euro CO2 emissions regulations.
Donald Horne’s observations on the lucky country are as true today as when they were made.
If only we had unimaginative second rate leaders.
What we have is wreckers driven by ideology.
Lack of money, overseas travel severely limited by exchange rate, utes banned, blackouts, excise creates a virtual prohibition, welfare reductions for starters. Then the peasants might get restless.
Don’t cry for me Austrantina.
Nothing like a trip to the FX dealer to tell you you are going backwards. Ask a Japanese.
It works both ways …my BTC and PMs go up when the AUD goes down
Almost everything else is secondary.
No, not for me, my safety is primary. I and other Jews no longer feel safe under the Jew hating Slug from Grayndler.
That’s why I said “almost”.
A very close second if not equal top is who’s coming in and dealing properly with the problem already in the door.
J6 judges behaving badly: a chronicle…
Transgender inmates panic as Donald Trump’s executive order sends them packing to men’s prisons
Jeez.
That’s tough.
Someone treating them like the men they are.
FAFO.
Rumor: DC jail guards panicking over their abuse of J6 political prisoners…
Good. Arrest, detention, trials and jail terms for them all.
Including Bowser, who runs the whole disgusting DC sh*t show.
Really stupid people who never imagined that there could be a change in government.
Not quite.
They thought Trump and the MAGA movement were done, and any incoming RINO administration would applaud what they had done anyway.
@RealRyanNichols
I’m resharing this because I don’t think you fully grasp the highlighted words..
This is a Federal Judge in Washington DC admitting he believes I was tortured, and should be released, but refused to let me go anyways.
Imagine the green light this put on our heads when a corrupt DC Judge basically tells the world that, “Yes you were mistreated and abused, I should let you go, but I refuse to free you because of who you voted for.”
By making this statement, it gave the DC Jail the permission they needed to go even HARDER on us.
When you find out everything they did to J6ers on American soil, you’ll be sick to your stomach.
WAR WITH TRUMP: Soros DA Scheming to Re-Prosecute Pardoned January 6 Defendants
@JamesOKeefeIII
‘THE DEEP STATE IS REAL:’ White House Advisor Reveals How Bureaucracy Protects “Its Own Interests,” Predicts Bureaucracy Will ‘Crush’ RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary; “If I Was Given an Order… I Would Either Try to Block It or Resign”
“RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him.”
“Can you give me an example of how you think they’ll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?”
Describes a ‘fake commission’ to “Make him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it’s not…”
A bunch of betas who don’t believe in their own agenda. If RFK is so horribly wrong, letting him fail miserably would be the quickest and most lasting way of discrediting his agenda. Instead, they play a bunch of silly games to stop anyone knowing what is real and what is not. It’s pretty much everything they do and pollymuppets that think they can just ride that bollocks are part of the problem.
Big Pharma and Big Food mega $$$$’s are all lined up against RFKjnr. He has a monumental task. May God bless him.
Also the health bureaucracy is entirely captured by the Left. CDC employees donated 99.95% to the Democrats.
Since the Democrats regard RFKjr as a traitor they will go all out to destroy him. Therefore he should gut the CDC and HHS utterly, since it’s the only way to remove the infection.
Don’t use a scalpel, RFK.
You need to use an axe.
FIRE THE LOT
hopefully RFKJ can help Musk see the light and promote a lowcarb/no seed oil message. Unfortunately I believe Musk went the Ozempic route. Perhaps he will suffer an eye opening side effect, like he did with the COVID vaxxes, and his kid did with the trans insanity
You’ll enjoy this.
Trump addresses World Economic Forum in Davos
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‘Locking up babies’: Senator Lidia Thorpe slams Qld’s new lawsSenator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Queensland’s “adult time, adult crime” laws and claims Australia Day is for the “racists.”
Daily Tele.
I’ve never seen a baby steal a car.
Senator Price lives in the Northern Territory. As far as I am aware, Senator Thorpe does not. So who do you believe?
Relevance Deprivation Syndrome?
“Like A TSUNAMI Washing Over The Country!” | Donald Trump’s “Dramatic Revitalisation’ Of America
The second revolution.
1776 – 2025
We the people
Trump is working up a storm, signing executive orders, giving interviews, making announcements. I think the near death experience during the assassination attempt last July really clarified for him that he better use all the time he has to achieve what he needs to do. Journalists don’t need to lie that they can’t keep up with him like they did for Biden.
Tulsi Gabbard Is An American Hero Being Tarred As A Terrorist
52 years of taxpayer expense for the UK’s worst coward in history.
One .22 bullet would be more sensible.
Personally I would prefer a kitchen knife to the throat. Punishment fit the crime and all that sort of stuff.
One can hope that he receives the true justice he deserves from a fellow inmate who is as revolted by him as the rest of us.
The pipes are grand, particularly when they drown out shitstains.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A
A few Caber tossers are needed to settle the ranker parts of the crowd.
Headless statues in bottomless pesthole.
‘Senseless’: Statues of ex-PMs decapitated while Captain Cook statue splashed with red paint days out from Australia Day (24 Jan)
Send the perps to Saudi Arabia, who likes to behead more than just statues.
Busts of former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd were decapitated
Presumably the perps have taken them home for the mantelpiece.
Its hardly toppling Lenin but its a start.
Good Lord. The prospect of having a bust of Rudd on the mantlepiece is, put mildly, disturbing.
I’d have a bust of Rudd in my hayshed – frighten the rats away!
Wasn’t he accusing others of being ratf’ers rather than personally … oh never mind, as long as the rats disappear.
Hmm. One organised MABO and one said SORRY.
The left likes to eat its own as much as attacking the right.
Just replace the heads with pile of manure. No one will tell the difference.
Sky News’ Caleb Bond has an article at News.com.au:
‘People just don’t want battery electric cars’: 25yo exposes brutal EV truth (23 Jan)
Nothing that Cats don’t already know, other than this will be a shock to the system for the lefty denizens of News.com.au. I thought I’d put it up though because they’ve included a webpoll:
Not much love for Gaian golf carts from News.com.au readers…
I have no objections to EVs as a whole, except I don’t buy the excuses people put up for getting them.
Specially the acceleration, WTF does it matter, sure getting speed up matters to a certain degree, but it’s not all that important.
By that I mean you don’t want to hold up traffic by pushing your car either.
They have a use and if you like them so what?
If you can afford it, go and get it, presumably you can also afford the electrickery to charge it.
They have a use and if you like them so what?
The ‘so what’ is the increasingly intrusive nudges being used to force people who don’t want them, to buy them …. soon (In Scott Morrison’s words) they will be ‘as mandatory as we can possibly make them…’ and we know how that worked out last time.
Trump impersonating comedians have four years of work ahead for them.
Indolent
January 24, 2025 9:01 am
I am quite sure there is enough dirt on Soros for Trump’s lawyers to initiate an arrest and charge him.
See how he likes that?
Doesn’t have to come to anything, just to teach them a lesson that two can play the same game.
Won’t happen of course but I have a mean streak in me and can dream.
BREAKING NEWS Trump orders the release of the final classified JFK assassination documents
Daily Mail. The howler monkeys are out in force…
You wonder why there are objections 60 years later. But we will soon see.
There isn’t even the appetite for hard decisions in the Liberal Party.
If Dutton did have solid political instincts, he’d find himself checked in the party room by the moderates.
There isn’t even the appetite for hard decisions in the Liberal Party.
Indeed.
The two are intimately linked – the wholly unsurprising result that happens when you provide luxury conditions to self-absorbed careerists and their retinues.
Crisafuli has merely been playing catch up with public opinion.
Yes, and even that has LNP apparatchiks sweating.
The worst case of dropping the ball of public opinion was Abbott. He talked a tough conservative game, was elected with a thumping mandate, and instantly turned to water once into the Lodge.
There I was speechless, speechless, when he and the fat fraud Hockey commissioned the Shepherd National Audit to provide political cover for what he had already promised.
Abbott owns everything that happened to him after that.
Appointing Hockey Treasurer was his first big mistake.
Sure was.
Kennett was done in partially by his own hooobris, playing a small target strategy as Premier (instructing his Cabinet to do virtually no media) and adopting a “they don’t matter” approach to the bush.
End result … three “conservative” rural independents elected who promptly sided with the Liars.
A scenario which repeated itself Federally a mere eleven years later.
Rural independents tend to follow the Katter model – agrarian socialists rather than the ‘leave us the hell alone’ model
Very much the Nationals model.
Certainly there was an element of this. Jeff has no greater admirer than himself. Might be that advertising background.
There are no moderates – just communists and thieves.
Who’s in the driver’s seat?
Gee I’ve never seen a USA presidential motorcade proceeding at a leisurely pace.
What can President Trump do? Where’s his leverage? Russia is already the most sanctioned country in the world and produces 3x the weapons that USA and Europe produce in the same timeframe.
The driver.
Vlad, take a left here.
Chuckle.
Lol.
But on a serious note, the only passenger here is Zelensky. Putin and Trump will decide themselves on their respective destination.
Can someone point to where Dutton said he was sticking with the Paris accord and net zero. I seem to have missed it?
I believe it was on 2GB yesterday, mem.
I can’t find anything concrete . Only second hand speculation and mostly from lefty sources.
“We produce more than we can consume, and farmers and manufacturers rely on markets in Asia, Europe, in America, to export our products,” [Dutton] told Sydney-based 2GB.
“We’ve signed up to an international agreement, which I think will have continuing relevance for countries in Europe.
“The future dynamics can change, but we have to act in our country’s best interest.
“To have European countries, for example, but not exclusively, applying tariffs to our exports would mean a loss of economic activity here, a loss of jobs.
“So we have to have a sensible balance.”
Meanwhile, Senator Canavan is arguing that the broader cost to the economy of limiting emissions is greater than the threat of European tariffs on our exports.
It would be interesting to see some economists crunch the numbers.
Economists not invested in renewables, that is.
Stop calling them “moderates”. The Liberal Party’s “moderates” are radicals more at home in the Greens.
Yeah…nah.
They’re not Marxists.
Traditionally they have been the Wets, which seems vaguely appropriate.
A lot of people don’t know what a woman is, so I can understand how they might not know what an elephant is either.
Colorado Supreme Court Rules Elephants Are Not Human and Must Stay in a Zoo (22 Jan)
I think it’s fun though that it took a whole en banc Supreme Court to rule that elephants aren’t human.
The question was whether they were legal persons.
I believe NZ has a lake and now an extinct volcano that are legal persons with human guardians appointed to oversee their interests.
Some might even say the law is an ass.
But what if they self-identify as human? (Sarc.)
Off to see Marketing bloke then a long time friend Corporate lawyer. Planning, more planning and still not a lot done as I still can’t walk much.
If I may ask, what sort of heart surgery did you have and other than the obvious that you are still with us, how did it improve your life?
I am asking because my father is in a situation where surgery is recommended at age 83 (heart valve replacement) and no guarantee given naturally. His arteries are fine.
He is a keen golfer, but he’d be happy to give up golf and stay alive even in a wheel chair.
Post S.
They want to remove all his existing teeth as well prior to the operation, seems the risks of infections are great.
We just don’t know what to do, nobody wants to die but 83 is a good inning. 90 or more would be far better.
I had a double CABG, coronary artery bypass graft. Arteries blocked too much for stents. Vein taken out of my leg. Needed another bypass but that bit wasn’t viable so was backfed instead. Heart made its own passages in straight lines to feed heart muscle on the left side. Valves ok. Had a stroke on the table and three seizures afterwards and in a coma for three days. I felt better after surgery and have improved all the time. The worst part was the hallucinations caused by calcium coming from the heart going into the brain. My mental acuity has improved significantly. Concentration is still impaired but improving. The reason I’m having trouble walking is I knocked the joint on my small toe and it swelled up and turned purple. After so many years of karate you’d think my feet would be hard enough. Many broken toes never hurt like this. Getting old. Your fathers teeth and gums can’t be in good condition. I was lucky I went to hospital.
Fine motor skills on my left hand a bit shaky.
I didn’t have a choice, I’d be dead but yes I’m far better.
Join the club. Knife and fork work like a 3yo.
More on that woke “bishop”:
‘Yeah, it was a set up’: Information starts to surface over who was behind ‘nasty woke’ bishop at Trump service (23 Jan, via Lucianne)
Another ambush by the Dems. Amazing where and how they can find these people.
They would be lining up to have a crack. A more interesting question is who gave her the podium?
As I said before. Light is the best disinfectant.
Quote of the day:
President Trump has spent the past few days dismantling decades of progress.
— Senator Chuck Schumer (D).
Decadent “progress”.
Progressive progress. As seen in the French Revolution.
Most guys would have a break after the Inauguration. Not Orange Man Bad – he’s going flat out.
Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers Persecuted by Biden’s DOJ (23 Jan, via Lucianne)
These people were literally thrown in jail for years just for peacefully praying. I suppose it shows the power of prayer since the Left obviously hates it like ebola.
Blimey…
One in twelve Londoners is an illegal “immigrant”!
The Telegraph
Rachel Reeves just needs to work out how to tax them and she’ll be right, mate.
One in twelve Londoners is an illegal “immigrant”!
thats nothing, 6 in 10 are foreign born in toto
Somebody commented here not that long ago that London is no longer England but a foreign entity.
That is very much the US problem. Introduce secondary offence of employing them, deny tax deductibility for any wages paid. Couple of high profile audits and prosecutions and watch the problem disappear. In the US certainly, all done with a nod and a wink from Big Business with an eye on labour rates.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/great-new-documentary-on-australias-special-air-service-regiment-who-dares-wins-lest-we-forget.html
“Some generals were there to look after their troops, others were there to look after themselves….”
Paging Gen Scary eyes Campbell, AO ‘DSC’
Who has just been appointed Ambassador to Belgium btw …. presumably thats a joke?
On the tractor and forced myself to listen to ABC 774 radio for a couple of hours.
It’s like the last few Dodos standing about squawking as reality walks up behind them with a club.
Have you thought of going to FM Classic or Classic2? The latter eliminates the pompous bimbos.
Unfortunately they are full on ‘mostest best, longest surviving culture’ on the planet and we need to bow down before their magnificence.
Slammed the off button hard when they started with this nonsense before today’s lunchtime concert.
This poisonous ideology spreads faster than the Black Plague and is about as welcomed.
Gez’s Dodo analogy is spot on.
It’s safer to listen to podcasts of your choice.
I consume these 12h a day
That can also leave you in an informational silo.
Spotify has got to be the greatest use of the internet. Routinely run out of audiobook hours. Or possibly Google Maps/Streetview.
That’s a lot of comic books.
Senate DOGE caucus takes aim at $1.8B government fund for candy, comic books: ‘Purely propaganda’ (23 Jan)
Well I suppose public serpents working from home doing nothing all day would need fidget spinners and colouring-in books.
From Kalgoorlie yesterday. No doubt another of the troubled teens that have not been given the attention they need according to the “experts”.
Kalgoorlie detectives are hunting a man who stole two cars with young children inside in broad daylight.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with almost a dozen offences, including kidnapping, over a terrifying rampage where he allegedly stole two cars from the streets of Kalgoorlie with young children inside.
The horrifying incident played out about 3.50pm on Wednesday when the teen stole a white Kia Sorento station sedan from the driveway of a property Great Eastern Highway in West Kalgoorlie.
Two toddlers were inside the car but were soon dumped on the side of the road in blistering 43C heat.
Police say the children — a one-year-old and 10-month-old — were dumped “a few streets away” and found safe by a member of the public just minutes later.
Footage released by police shows the shirtless teen running towards the Sportage, which had its drivers side door open, while being chased by a group of bystanders.
The boy’s mother can then be seen desperately attempting to pull the thief out of the car before it accelerates away, dragging her along the gravel.
Det. Insp. Adrian Vuleta said the mother had sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries during her attempts to rescue her child.
A short police chase was abandoned after the driver fled into bushland.
Police said they found the nine-year-old in that bushland and Det. Insp. Vuleta confirmed that the boy had “bravely” jumped from the moving car, which had been travelling at a slow speed.
The woman tries to pull the man out of the car before he drives off. Credit: WA Police/WA Police
“The child was visibly upset, had some minor injuries, but he’s doing well,” he said.
“For a child that age to think and have the foresight to get out of the vehicle when it was moving — it was, admittedly, going at slow speed at the time — but to think forward and do that is that there’s incredibly brave act by that child.”
The teen was arrested with the help of the rapid apprehension squad, which flew to Kalgoorlie.
“He’s a local member of Kalgoorlie and through the public’s support we were able to get a lot of intelligence to do with this person and apprehending (him) very quickly,” Det. Insp. Vuleta said.
“A full investigation is going to be done, there’s a lot of information to gather, and we’re also calling for further witnesses that may have seen anything that can help us with their investigation.”
The teen has been charged with 11 charges including two counts of deprivation of liberty in circumstances of aggravation, aggravated robbery, stealing a motor vehicle and unlawful damage.
He is due to face Kalgoorlie Children’s Court on Friday.
“I’m so pleased that those children have now been delivered back to their families and are safe,” he said.
“But a very scary incident and, obviously, police are right onto it and I’m hoping they’ll apprehend someone as soon as possible.”
The footage clearly shows he’s an aspiring rapper…
I thought it was more of the space cadet mould
sans spacesuit
Oh snap, I was about to post that!
You forgot the bit about him ‘turning his life around’ after a troubled upbringing…
The problem with that analogy is the Dodo was a fairly benign/harmless bird.
?
They are more like dying snakes lashing out at everything.
Bad Penny gets some pushback.
‘Evident lack of sensitivity’: Growing push to stop Penny Wong from representing Australia at Auschwitz memorial event due to her stance on Israel (Sky News, 24 Jan)
Since Dreyfus and Segal are going I see no reason why Albo couldn’t make one of them head of delegation…seeing that Wong would represent a total FU to Israel.
You think Albo’s going to stand up to Wong?
We’ll see…but she’s critical to his support in caucus.
Not the smallest chance.
A trip to Auschwitz, where she can sit scowling on the sidelines, plays nicely to the domestic politics:
Horrid people.
kd wears the pants in that relationship.
And the strap on.
A lot of heat generated overnight when rumours circulated that Witkoff had been given the Iran brief.
Oyster sex.
More acidic oceans may affect the sex of oysters (Phys.org, 23 Jan)
Lonely lives of scientists! I find these studies fun because ocean pH has nothing to do with non-existent climate change – since the driver is the CO2 partial pressure in the atmosphere. Also they never seem to take into account the well known principle of chemical buffering, which means it doesn’t really matter how much CO2 is in the atmosphere since the pH of the ocean won’t actually change much.
So was Alex ‘turning the frogs gay’ Jones right or not?
More acidic oceans
For the oceans to become more acidic they would have to be acidic in the first place which they are not. If CO2 was to have an effect on pH of the oceans (which it won’t due to the aforementioned buffering effect) then it would be to make it less basic.
(Pedantic ex-chemistry teacher here)
Apology if already posted.
Don’t change the date of Australia Day, change history instead!
Steve Waterson. The Oz
The January tedium of the tennis and its swarm of absurdly wealthy, self-obsessed, automaton participants is always dispelled by the gaiety (if that word still means what it used to) of Australia Day, with beer and burnt cutlets, beer and blackened sausages, all lubricated with beer.
The 2025 celebration will feel extra-special to me, though, as it marks 30 years since my brand-new citizenship authorised me to perform advanced barbecue manoeuvres while soaking up the beer with more beer in the back yard’s men-only standing section.
Every year I reflect on the modest but happy ceremony, held in a council chamber in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, where I was proud to receive a certificate and a small potted wattle, surrounded by excited family and friends.
None of them were mine, sadly, as barely two years into married life I had already established my endearing habit of failing to check Sally’s availability – or on that famous occasion her presence in NSW – before confirming an important appointment.
It’s the same dull-wittedness that will see me stumbling, hands outstretched, down the Pacific Highway from Chatswood after cataract surgery next month, with no one available to pick me up: Tiresias in everything but foresight.
Having spent my formative years in a mean-spirited kingdom that doesn’t give its subjects time off for an England Day, I treasure the public holiday, although situated as I am on the more sensitive end of the sociopath spectrum I also understand not everyone shares my enthusiasm for jollity on this particular date.
Greater minds than mine (plus a number of senior politicians) have tangled with the problem, but it appears intractable. For those who see January 26 as a hurtful salute to an invasion of the land by British soldiers and their miserable prisoners, no amount of post-facto rationalisation, no lauding of the young nation’s proud achievements, will ease their distress.
Moving the anniversary to Anzac Day might be better, except the Great War was hardly a project of particular relevance to Indigenous people (although research indicates more than 500 of them volunteered and fought at Gallipoli). Federation Day, perhaps? It has the calendrical neatness of January 1, and marks the unification of the continent’s disparate political entities, but again, it pays little mind to the original inhabitants.
The English solution therefore suggested itself – get rid of Australia Day altogether – but we no longer blindly follow the Mother Country, and besides, many of us relish a dedicated day for sausages. And (almost forgot) beer.
My own calculus of offence suggests that if significantly more people are upset by a proposed change than desire it, we should leave things as they are. So I’d concluded a number of our population must resign themselves to an annual day of mournful reflection, until last week in this very newspaper I read of a magical body that might deliver a solution.
It’s called the ACB (no, not the ABC; they’re completely useless) and it boasts the awesome ability to amend the past. Until recently the Australian Classification Board was an assembly of learned elders who protected us simpletons from books and films that might imperil our souls, but after guiding the modern world to perfection they’ve now declared themselves ready to fix their predecessors’ errors.
There’s plenty to purge: Guy Gibson’s dog in The Dambusters, Lolita, Huckleberry Finn’s travelling companion, Shakespeare and various religious texts – and pop a fig leaf on that David nudist in Florence, please, while you’re at it.
But these are trivial targets. Let’s see real ambition from the ACB and have them extinguish true wickedness with the fairy dust of hindsight and judicious editing. Don’t waste your time sanitising Gone with the Wind; far more effective to delete all record of the horrors of slavery. And sorry, History Channel, time to erase those Nazis from our collective memory.
As for Australia Day, no problem: if the Board would kindly cancel the disagreeable chapters of our national story, we can keep it on January 26, to be celebrated ever after as the day nothing happened.
If we also made it a free beer day, no one would complain or dare to complain.
So
Jan 26 is now free beer and Astraya day.
Don’t change the date of Australia Day, change history instead!
I took time out of my medical degrees to do an honours degree as well. I worked in the University Crash Lab. Their main focus was investigating fatal crashes. As ‘the doc’ in a lab mainly filled with engineers, one of my jobs was to attend all the autopsies and take detailed notes and photographs. It was the mid 1980s, things were different. The pathologists smoked and drank coffee over the bodies, cut the rib cages up with garden shears, cracked jokes constantly and, at the end, piled all the rubbish, ciggy butts, used gloves etc etc etc back inside before sewing it all up.
It was what was done at the time … they were smashed up bodies ffs….
Lesson learned … today that would seem disrespectful and macabre … it wasnt … it was how it was. You cant go back and rejudge history according to current standards.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/lawless-kingdom-one-12-people-living-london-is/
Bank of America getting torched on all platforms for their “we don’t debank conservatives”.
Suck it up boys.
Learn from that snake Altman, bend the knee, pay the vig, and you might buy yourselves some time.
She’s not happy.
Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement—here’s why that’s not such a bad thing (Phys.org, 23 Jan)
Who’s going to explain it to her that China burns more coal than every other country on Earth put together. Here’s who she is:
That’s a very Adelaidian name you have there lady. So many drones.
Deserves a good towelling flick on the backside. (NADT).
With a low carbon towel, of course.
I award Trump with only a five for his speech and question time at the Davos smugery.
Both the speech and questions were competently handled but lacking was the critically important projection of contempt for the organisation.
The fascists were permitted to believe that they were in some way significant to the Trump agenda.
Come on Master Don, they are just a bunch of Acostas. Skewer them.
Yeah, right, you’d do such a better job.
Many of us would do a far better job. However there is the consideration known as “diplomacy” and one known as “not burning too many bridges”
That notwithstanding, I fully endorse the sentiment, of going full throttle contemptuousness at them.
Perhaps the more pertinent question is how much Chinese funding does the University of Melbourne receive?
I can help…last calendar year it was at least $75 million, courtesy a direct deal they have with the Chinese government via its Education Ministry.
Who’s going to rock that boat?
For their own PhD candidates.
Which money goes to Uni of Mel in fees and tuition.
That’s the deal.
There are deals like this all over the place. Funding from DoD, NIH, EU, and so on.
Deals like this all over.
Which fund University activities in one way or another, so it isn’t a stretch to imagine that savvy students and staff would sniff the wind and decide push Chinah’s agenda.
The most tenuous and minor links to military firms which might once have sold wheelbarrow wheels to the IDF manages to get them wound like a top, so it is perfectly legitimate to question whether $75 meg in Chinese money might carry some weight.
Are you Sam Dastyari?
That may be true, but I never got any of it.
The trade argument is a con I first heard from Matt kean. None of our other trade partners really give a fig for net zero. China?
Got that shit from my local idiot, Garth Hamilton too. Like who gives a rat’s?
We certainly don’t need French cars or Mercs or Beamers. I wouldn’t ban them but each car would have to be individually inspected for compliance with ADRs. The inspection station would be in Alice Springs. Don’t need Airbus aircraft or their crappy military helos either.
Have any cats looked at Roland Fryer’s work?
I haven’t and am seeing if it’s a good new rabbit hole to go down.
What a nest of vipers Melbourne uni is.
Premier Roger Cook makes $1.8 million election pledge for Holocaust educationJessica Page and Jake DietschThe West Australian
Fri, 24 January 2025 8:35AM
A $1.8 million Holocaust museum will be opened in Perth in a bid to educate the community and combat the rising anti-Semitism plaguing the country.
Premier Roger Cook is due to announce on Friday that he will promise to build the new museum if Labor is re-elected, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp on Monday.
It also comes as police commissioners from across the country — including WA — agreed to establish a dedicated anti-Semitism coordination group.
Mr Cook said the project was about ensuring “our local community organisations continue to have fit-for-purpose facilities” while “protecting cultural diversity and supporting secure and harmonious communities”.
“WA Labor has had a strong relationship with the Jewish community for decades and under a re-elected Government I lead, WA Labor will continue to do what’s right for our local communities,” he said.
A major redevelopment of Maccabi WA’s JHub Jewish Community Centre in Yokine opened last year, with the State and Federal Governments contributing $6 million each.
Plans for a Holocaust education centre, cafe, function space and gardens are now underway.
Jewish Community Council of WA President Geoff Midalia welcomed the extra funding, to go towards the internal fit-out of exhibition space in Yokine, including painting, lighting and art installations.
Might assist in getting a decent bagel in Perth.
This is one thing the left hates with a passion. They see the trajectory of politics as moving inexorably leftward-ho, aided and abetted by the ratchet effect of cowardly RINOs refusing to roll back “progress” for fear of copping various “phobia and isms” labels.
They totally lose their minds when someone like Trump comes along and sweeps it all away with the stroke of a Sharpie pen.
Uranus corporation must soon run out of their stocks of Brown 25.
Shirley.
Arky suggestion:
Watch the Trump- Davos interviews with the sound off and revel in the sad little faces of the poor widdle Davosonians. Awwwwwww.
So cute.
I have seldom seen body language and facial expressions in opposition to words so stark.
Suck it, evil globalist death cult critters.
Trump rode them hard and put them away wet.
There was a moment when after the female B- wanker asked Trump about deregulation and he gave one of his wonderful meandering replies that landed on Ukraine and ended with a poignant description of the brutal realities of the war, he finished, the camera panned back to the bird and she was rolling her eyes at the B-wanker next to her.
A millisecond of one camera shot said an entire story.
”I’m asking him how deregulation will affect my already ginormous wealth and he is telling me about dead young men. How gauche. Can you believe how unsophisticated he is”?
Or should that be moist?
“Drowsy and leaking” is the British term.
In the words of Corporal Jones, “they don’t like it up em, sir”.
At what point does cultural diversity militate against secure and harmonious communities?
At about the same point where ‘road rules diversity’ increases societal uncertainty, distrust and accidents … ie immediately
Our exports to the UK & EU may be negligible in the bigger scheme of things but the trade matters to the agricultural sector & the Coalition needs to keep that sector squared away and on side. That’s wholesale politics.
Have you looked at the data Roger?
Yes.
Oil seeds (canola I imagine), wine, fruits, nuts and beef.
Around 10-15% of output but a growing market, esp. after Brexit, so not insignificant to the sector.
But it’s pretty equal. They bung on tariffs on our goods which they really need and we bung tariffs on their goods which we don’t really need. This is the reality.
I’m making an observation about Dutton’s comments. I’m not saying it’s the correct decision in the national interest.
I suspect Canavan is right – the impost on the economy from net zero is far greater than any damage from punitive tariffs now that the US is no longer a threat in that area. But his fellow Nationals, beholden to the ag sector, don’t share his view.
It’s not only Labour that puts its electoral interests ahead of the nation’s interests.
Questions last night as to whether chess was racist or not.
Well it’s certainly Christian-centric (bishops), war-mongering (knights and castles), panders to the monarchy (kings and queens) with the little people (pawns) suffering in greatest numbers.
This popped up on my Soshul Meeja today …
“If Netflix made a series about chess”
Chess was the inspiration for a hit single.
One Night in Bangkok (1984)
And, indeed, a whole Tim Rice musical. Called, slightly remarkably, Chess.
Not quite as boring as playing chess. But close.
Two types of people.
Chess players and those who have a life.
South Africa determined to achieve economic ruin. Rhodesia tried this and had to capitulate when the stolen farms were run into the ground by the new black owners:
South Africa Passes Law to Seize Land From White Farmers Without Compensation.
Most of us here have mentioned over the years that Oz should be giving sanctuary to SA Farmers.
They would be a huge boost to our Ag industry.
Unfortunately, both sides of Government don’t give a Rat’s Arse about our Farmers.
The Greens are actively working to destroy them.
There is actually a sizable contingent of expat South Africans here, in the Wild West. They are prepared to live in regional Western Australia, where Australians don’t want to live, and they are prepared to work on the land, where Australians don’t want to work.
Ditto in these parts. Ex-Rhodesians too.
Very happy to know that.
The same for Roger’s info. 😀
When we “had the farm”, there were three expats having a hate session on the boss, over the two way radio.”The wages were slavery, the machinery was rubbish, the boss was a c###, cheer up boys, we’ll be out of this sh!thole, and back home in time for Christmas.”
Speaking Afrikaans did not provide communications security – Mme Zulu has a working knowledge of Dutch…
Years ago son and his cousin were working for a painting company. Blokes doing other work were having a bitch session about their boss being a wanker and dickhead. Boss arrives on site. Talking to cousin. Blokes go, do you know him. Yeah, I call him dad.
I’ve mentioned here before that the Zimbabwean chap’s farm used to have a clinic and a school for his workers’ children. All gone. I don’t think he’d go back after putting down roots here.
My extended family in South Africa have 5 farms and two game reserves. I left in 1994 at a time when it was looked down upon to desert the rainbow nation. We were followed by three siblings and their kids shortly afterwards. None of them farmers. The family farmers have a good life in SA despite the danger. The farms are in Natal and the Cape and are spectacular. My niece’s farm in Stellenbosch is incredible. The drop in living standards to move here is just too great for them. There have been many conversations over the years but despite all of them being nervous about losing their farms they stick it out. And for the record Zulu ek’s tweetalig!
Standard of living Vs living.
Gratuitous Cafe kooka photo. The front one is one of this season’s kids, who has become quite friendly, and the back one is mum. They were too close on my arm so I had to sort of flank them with the camera with my other hand to get them both in the frame.
Perhaps I’m mistaken but it seems now birds are much less fearful of humans. They do not fly off even as I walk quite close, for some reason they seem to have taken a liking to my air conditioner, and approach the house in search of food. I don’t recall that from decades ago. It might be cultural learning, as more people feed them and less people threaten them, birds regard humans as a harmless and possible helpful species.
Lot less kids about with air guns..
Not just birds but this sun fish missed the human visitors
Tokyo: Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts
They are not afraid of cars either. I had a few instances this week where I am driving up but the bird on the road takes its time to move. I even had to come to a stop for one before it took any notice.
Should get an award for that photo
If you click on the photo you’ll see it’s actually pretty grotty. My ancient camera isn’t great at autofocus, and it was a guess and click shot pointed sideways. Mum flew off immediately after, so I couldn’t try for a better one. But that’s the fun of it: you get what you get. I’ll never be a photographer.
Think I was as awestruck by the backstory as the visual!
Ha. The Rebel News folks ambushing bouffant Kerry at Davos. Lovely.
Normally I oppose press ambushes, but in the case of supercreep, they are doing God’s work.
I loved him expressing fear that Trump will disrupt business opportunities. Not to worry John boy. Our Chris will continue buying your renewable scam trash.
https://youtu.be/Go1_ur2dedY?si=x_SBRNV4cPZGVvqG
Daily Mail. Seems the lad has a lengthy criminal record..
President Trump’s hardline Border Czar Tom Homan savagely responded to a viral rant by a Haitian migrant who screamed ‘I’m not going back to Haiti’ while being detained.
‘Well, he’s wrong,’ Homan shot back in an appearance on Fox News. ‘He’s going back to Haiti.’
The jig is up, John.
The “marketplace” may not be “going forward” as fast as he supposes.
I was also struck by the uselessness of his minder.
He’s not trying to win hearts and minds any more the surly old shitweasel. They all end up looking the same…precursory dust.
@JimFergusonUK
BREAKING: ALL Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) BANNED in America!
Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent, during a fiery Senate hearing, declared:
“I see no reason for the U.S. to have a central bank digital currency.”
This is a monumental win for freedom and privacy. The era of government-controlled digital money is OVER.
President Trump picked the RIGHT man to defend America’s sovereignty and financial independence. The globalists are fuming, and the people are celebrating.
The future is bright for freedom-loving Americans!
On radio listening habits, I’d normally tune into ABC Classic FM as it seemed (other than regional ABC radio) to be the last sane area left at TheirABC.
Beautiful arias, tunes and songs, mostly religiously based (as that is typically the original or inspiration of the Classics). The presenter would often translate the latin or give a “Christian-ish” interpretation.
But since the inVoice was announced as an issue they immediately switched (and remain so) to orchestral music accompanied by an indigenous singer or didgeridoo playing along or some sticks clapping. The presenter explaining this song was about “disenfranchising” or “loss of land and spirit” etc…
I couldn’t listen anymore as the hypocrisy of a full orchestra (i.e. a beautiful “Western construction”) has nothing to do with indigenous history and, according to their world view, should be colonial…
Anyway, I’ve switched back to 6PR (which isn’t great for my blood pressure)
Lysander – ABC Jazz can be quite good. I listen to ABC Darwin Breakfast, Mon-Fri. Not perfect but quite sane compared to ABC Breakfast in any other capital city. Cricket and AFL is pretty good, especially if Charlie King is calling the footy. Otherwise RN and News Radio are a constant clown car.
Having spent A LOT of time in regional WA, I always found regional ABC journos to be pretty sensible, even leaning Right.
Unlike Ultimo and capital cities…
4MBS works
WHy listen to the ABC when you can listen for free to Radio 3 via the BBC app.
The beeb’s news might be terrible, but it beats every country in the world in classical music and radio drama.
Or if you are in any major city you can get the World Service 24/7 on SBS radio 3. They have at least some programs that are not so political.
I don’t think Dutton gives a rats about gerbil warming and he’s probably Plimer-aligned. Sadly, it’s his party that is the problem.
If he did give a rats you’d hear him talking about it up front, not in response to a question off the back of the DJT election.
Let’s not forget it was Tony Abbott who signed us up to Paris.
After saying “climate change is crap” while in opposition.
Vested interests wield a lot of power in the halls of Canberra.
He had so much potential.
He didn’t get it signed but he did start the groundwork for it. He started criticising it again after Maocon got into power. Obviously, the same “pressures” Dutts faces.
Then he jumped back on board after Maladroit was ousted.
Wasn’t it Krudd who endorsed it?
KRudd had been gone two years by then.
It was little johnnie.
South Africa going the full Zimbo…
https://x.com/twatterbaas/status/1882500892504764417
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https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/203c.svgToday, President Ramaphosa of South Africa signed the controversial ‘Expropriation With Nil Compensation’ Bill into law.
This comes with ongoing pressure from the black masses and radical left that insists white farmers ‘stole’ the land in South Africa, which is absurd.
Now the state can take any land/property without paying the owner for it..
Bookmark this post. We didn’t start it.
Nelson Mandela made a speech, in Capetown, before Black Majority rule, promising the audience that they would all be driving a B.M.W. after Black Majority rule.
“It won’t be a year, it may take five years, but, I promise you, you’ll be driving a B.M.W….
“Stargate” presentation with Trump.
You gots to love these characters.
Of course they kick off with the Medical possibilities.
Cancer, blah, blah blah.
But we all know that, just like the internet, the real user case is to make wanking more realistic and addictive.
Sad gits around the world rejoice.
Other than that, it’s about learning as much as possible about you such that the pigs can sell you more useless shite.
You know damn well the technology has been there for twenty years or more to diagnose, treat and cure you online, but you still today find your arse in a doctors office waiting room with half a dozen plague carriers and then queueing up at the chemist for even the most routine of ailments.
”Possibilities around cancer”. Give me a break. It’s about enhanced wanking and more sales opportunities, no more, no less.
A Republican lawmaker has introduced a resolution to the House of Representatives to amend the US Constitution in order to allow President Donald Trump to be elected to a third term in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump third term: Congressman Ogles seeks Constitutional amendment to allow president four more years | The Nightly
Interesting and never considered this:
DJT could be elected as VP in 2028 and get the POTUS to resign to make him POTUS again!
#Winning!!!!!
That is rather silly. Trump is realistic about his life and I’m sure would be happy to hand over to JD Vance in 2028 while he can still play golf.
I think he is also generous enough to hand over his work to his VP while at the same time influencing who the next VP will be.
Benny goes to bend the knee.
Her real reason for going to the USA.
Senator Penny Wong
@SenatorWong
UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres
and I discussed today the need to maintain the protections that are inherent in the UN Charter and codified in the Geneva Conventions.
I reiterated Australia’s support for UN reform, so the system better serves us all.
God, she’s a kunt.
Should’ve gotten the chair:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/sadistic-killer-of-young-girls-sentenced-to-at-least-52-years-in-prison-in-uk-20250124-p5l6v8.html
One of my favourite scenes in that movie.
The Chair (2005)
Bruce, I love Constantine. One of my favourite Keanu Reeves movies. However, this is my favourite Electric Chair scene from a movie. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NvWqkWmhTc
@MikeBenzCyber
Trump’s JFK Files Executive Order puts declassification in the hands of a DEI-crusading Biden appointee, I told @SchmittNYC on NewsMax. The EO should be amended to put an independent review board in charge, until we know there’s a positive outcome in Tulsi’s Senate confirmation.
After Bank of America denied penalising conservatives.
@realErikDPrince
F U @BankofAmerica !
This is a complete lie. You de-banked me, my children, step children and hell you even de-banked my ex wife and her new husband because their account received child support payments from me. Fix your self and clear out your illegal discriminatory banking practices.
Its time to break up the over consolidated banking industry and make them actually compete instead of behaving like cartels.
Successful meetings, don’t know why I said lawyer when I meant accountant. Marketing guy was very interesting. Value-based marketing as the target purchaser is less likely to be concerned by price. Accountant thinks my estimation of numbers are off by at least 2-300%. The numbers being talked about are ridiculous. The advice was go to the US, take advantage of Trump’s invitation. Costs are too high in Australia. Wife won’t go. We’ll see.
AOC Disturbed That Cultural Figures No Longer ‘Scared’ Of ‘Being Associated With’ Trump
It’s like a script from a movie.
The Mean Girls shun the outsider. The outsider not only makes good and survives a life threatening event, but wins over all the nerds and jocks and cool band kinds who hoist him onto their shoulders and march through the school to much fanfare and applause.
The Mean Girls smoulder in the corner. One breaks away to join the fun throng telling the others to bugger off.
The scene closes with the Mean Girls (future). It’s The View.
@CollinRugg
The CIA purposely kept intelligence from President Trump during his first administration, according to a senior CIA officer who was caught on a hidden camera.
This is called treason.
In a new film by @OKeefeMedia, a CIA officer bragged about hiding information from Trump.
“We kept information from [Trump]. He’s an idiot.”
The man later realized he was being filmed and demanded he see the camera.
“You hear conspiracies, allegations… but this guy was actually talking about how they withheld intelligence from the president…” O’Keefe said.
Which is why Trump yesterday stripped Pompeo of his security clearance.
Oops, it was his security detail not his clearance, my mistake. As you were.
Dr. Rand Paul Honors 2025 March for Life, Reintroduces Defund Planned Parenthood Act
Absolutely everything was on the taxpayer dollar.
DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts
Rubio is a lightweight but he’ll be a useful lightweight.
unseen1
@unseen1_unseen
Sec of state Rubio will also visit El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic after Panama.
So this trip is more than just about the canal.
It will be about illegal immigration, return of deportees, and trade.
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The US needs to stomp on this Chinese influence in South & Latin America.
Little Mike is now Big Mike (or is that term reserved for someone else?)
Can’t be worse than Blink’nyou’llmisshim.
This was mentioned before but here is the confirmation. This is really big deal.
@robinmonotti
TRUMP BANS CBDCs IN USA
President Trump has signed an executive order banning a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the USA.
I don’t understand what this is all about.
Is there some sort of primer that can help out.?
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They want to remove all his existing teeth as well prior to the operation, seems the risks of infections are great.
We just don’t know what to do, nobody wants to die but 83 is a good inning. 90 or more would be far better.
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My Dad turned 98 yesterday, and still has his marbles, although a bit blurrier than before.
He spends his time nowadays following international politics.
Yet, he’s a lifelong hypochondriac, has had numerous serious illnesses and several surgeries, and rattles when he walks because of all the pills he takes. Loves doctors.
He’s a Korea vet, went back for a reunion 25 years ago and couldn’t believe that it was the same place. When he left in the early 1950s, he says they were among the poorest people on Earth. Africa, take note.
He taught me to fish and how to use tools (he always had a workshop) as well as enrolling me in the local Labor Party branch when I was 15.
The branch had as a member the Secretary of the Seamen’s Union, a charismatic fella called John Benson. As a wide-eyed teenager, I once asked him what happened to those who didn’t want to join the union.
‘How far can you swim?’
Anyway, Dad introduced me to a whole world of political figures via the ALP. It was a much more interesting party than it is now.
Oh, and he and my grandparents almost starved to death in Holland during the Occupation.
No wonder that when I visit, some of the food is less than fresh. Wasting food is impossible.
You are so very fortunate, Joh. He sounds like the best of fathers. Treasure every moment you have with him.
He spends his time nowadays following international politics.
Joh, I hope your wonderful Dad had a fascinating week, and enjoys the follow-on in the US in particular, and isn’t too downcast about the state of Europe. Its an amazing time to be interested in politics, and he has such a background to base it on.
Get Ready: It Turns Out There’s Another January 6 Committee
@OzraeliAvi
John Kerry AMBUSHED by entire Rebel News team in Davos
The former secretary of state and professional climate alarmist FORCED to admit he’s sponsored by coal
You can’t make this stuff up
Apropos of nothing in particular:
Haw! 😀
You mean haws.
Ho ho ho!
In California, we’ve vaccinated more elderly people with the COVID vaccine than there are elderly people in the state
It truly does show the character of the man.
After signing the EO to release all the info on JFK, RFK and MLK, he hands the pen he signed it with to his adviser and says “give that to RFK.”
A very nice gesture!
And the MSM here rolled out some nobody grandson to denounce it …. a certain ‘Jack Schlossberg’ who was born 30y *after* the assassination. I,m guessing JFKs nephew, RFKJ, who believes the deep state did it, wasnt asked for comnent.
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Instant Trump USA Withdrawals SHAKE The World
Interesting balloon floated by Trump re nuclear arms reductions talks.
Bargaining chips. I like Russia’s offer better – we’ll look after Fauci for you.
I think that is fake news.
These dishonest, dirty, reptilian persons who claim that Trump trade policies are protectionist, that his tariffs go against “free trade” these people who try to pull a three card Monte.
They never address the other side of the equation.
So USA is expected to be a libertarian free trader while the other side use every trick and high tariffs to pull in all the industries they want.
They never mention the tariffs on the other side.
They never mention all the other tricks.
They are not honest.
Can we at last understand that free trade requires more than a unilateral dropping of tariffs?
Can we understand that disarmament isn’t disarmament if only one side is disarmed? It is surrender.
Send this to the Australian Government
Fluent Palestinian in just 30 seconds.
https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1882508054929031370?t=Cn2x0LsopOOTfJ3kXDUUbA&s=19
That should be sent to the bloke Wong’s inbox until the computer explodes.
Just had Red Cross calling. Not the Red Cross I said. Didn’t go into detail. Have a nice day!
Rosie,
you should have gone into minute detail, then finished it with a massive blast of a whistle.
Nah, just a student doing vacation work.
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@NiohBerg
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1882504295607898536
As a Catholic I pray he moves closer to God.
Thanks Makka.
Just looked up details of the meeting.
As id giving recognition to the Iranian regime wasn’t bad enough, the pope blames Netanyahu for the destabilisation of the ME.
He’s not my Pope.
Booted
Note the dates
Subsequently
oh noessss
Nelson Mandela made a speech, in Capetown, before Black Majority rule, promising the audience that they would all be driving a B.M.W. after Black Majority rule.
The Saffers should have hanged him when they had the chance. The thing about martyrs is they are dead. The blecks would have forgotten about him.
I think BMW makes push bikes.Could be wrong.
The Kenyan may be dumping his husband, Michael, for Jennifer Aniston.
Wow, so it mean the Kenyan goes both ways.
The Myths of Indigenous History | Dr. Nigel Biggar and Dr. Stephen Chavura
Always love a bit of John Anderson!
Thanks Lysander. I have tried to point out that contrary to what many believe the British didn’t come here to destroy and typically demanded the natives be treated well. IIRC the problem was with settlers not the British govt representatives. Anderson and Co. are spot on about the corruption of the universities.
Discussions like these need a far wider audience. If only the MSM had the courage … .
AI prescribing drugs.
No thanks I want a human doctor.
All Information (Except Text) for H.R.238 – To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the State involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/238/all-info
No thanks I want a human doctor.
You do realise the human ones get ‘programmed’ by the same machine learning model right?
Some of them can even learn in situ once they’re out in the real world.
I was going to say…
Wasn’t the original reason for the Butlerian Jihad, that A.I. controlled all medical procedures? I don’t count the Dune prequels.
Booted (suspected)
Which Dept. of Education would that be?
The Nazification of the Postmodernist Left
Mz. Wong appears not to know how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Why is this moron (and I’m being kind here) going to Poland to represent us?
My own view is that she knows exactly what the toll of the Holocaust was. She is rubbing our noses in it.
To paraphrase the Bard, I would not strike her lest I infect my hands. But I would just love to give her a good kick.
Calli,
I watched that also.
I am glad you posted it, you beat me to it, although it deserved to be posted one hundred times.
Even more heinous, the stupid jismst did NOT pick him up on it.
Filthy f**king MSM.
WTF
It’s true Bern.
I know that’s a rhetorical question but representing us abroad is one of the perks of being foreign minister.
As discussed earlier, if Albanese had any balls he’d replace her with Dreyfus.
Rubio sent out the memo, some organisations are trying to rebrand their DEI but twitter sleuths are all over them, and dibber dobbing.
Someone at an Airforce base shared an email with the new name and some putrid exercise staff should do. .
Elon is letting people know that government staff that try to hide their dei will also get the sack.
Good.
NASA has sent out a warning memo.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1882464105153601659?t=IoeYaoeGwI8PK2B-P8tE6A&s=19
Great stuff. Adverse consequences Sir Humphrey, adverse consequences.
Trump Has Overwhelmed the Uniparty in 72 Hours
In this video, Styxhexenhammer666 discusses the first 72 hours of Donald Trump’s presidency and expresses surprise at how transformative and productive it has been. The speaker highlights several key actions Trump has taken, including pardoning figures like Rob Al and the Silk Road founder, addressing the border wall, tackling crime, and engaging in discussions with other nations on tax relief. Trump’s efforts to eliminate affirmative action and his signing of executive orders on immigration are also noted. The narrator believes Trump is dismantling Joe Biden’s legacy and argues that Trump’s second term could be more impactful than his first. The video’s tone is optimistic about Trump’s presidency, suggesting that his recent actions exceeded expectations and speculating that his second term might earn higher praise than past presidents, while acknowledging potential future critiques as expectations rise.
It is becoming evident that even without the Deep State’s interference in his first term Trump would not have been able to accomplish even as much as he has done in the last few days. Americans had to live through the Biden mal-administration to be fed-up enough to vote him in again and give him the go-ahead.
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of scrotes of women, here is Cathy Wilcox’s take on the restoration of those three poor girls to their families.
This despicable bint needs to be deposited in the place where her lovely, kindly Palis rejoiced over the sad, broken body of Shani Louk.
Along with the same Pali crowd.
They would tear her limb from limb.
Three letters will be published tomorrow praising her outstanding work.
Please Lord, let this be true;
Next best thing to not getting knocked off your bike on the Mornington Peninsula.
Good, but there’s still a lot of Labor preferences in ‘Other’ and a lots of wet moderates in the Liberals.
Be that as it may, Battin is on the front foot. Biggly.
It’s ‘incredibly dangerous’ for men pretending to be women to be in men’s prisons but not ‘incredibly dangerous’ to share prison cells with men pretending to be women
Apparently
https://x.com/HJoyceGender/status/1882536910423531620?t=waQBQuTPW0T–31rFdZn_Q&s=19
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Davos Hates Trump—And Democracy
Those 3 little children stabbed to death in the UK; horrible vicious slaughter- one was stabbed 122 times.
122!
The animal responsible must receive full and appropriate vengeance.
UK govt has laid blame & is taking action against the perp. i.e. that would be Amazon, for selling him a knife. It’s about to become so difficult to buy a knife online (in UK) that few will bother.
Whilst Amazon, in the minds of the sane, is blameless, not so the organisation which did facilitate the commission of the crime, & without whose input the murders likely would not have happened: The Fire Brigade.
There will be no action, no culpability, & their role will never be mentioned.
Might be more productive to find out who sold him the hatred.
+ 100%
what was the role of the fire brigade?
What does Davos fear most about Trump?
Israel bringing you ‘Fire Dome’.
https://x.com/persianjewess/status/1882466005190050096?t=g4QjzXH-RwdQvr9wDTLB6A&s=19
Me Too Lysander in fact while in Italy in June 2023 Bignose had surgery for some complications with hernia adhesions, I was praying hard then too that he become closer to God
This despicable bint needs to be deposited in the place where her lovely, kindly Palis rejoiced over the sad, broken body of Shani Louk.
What is it about posh north shore schools and hard-core lefties?
Only the rich can afford to be leftards.
The Bettie Archdale effect?
Pay for your own limo.
Incidentally loved JD’s little thank you to the American people for the use of the vice presidential residence.
A first, I think.
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1882596448904290515?t=dGfPX86MhoVleFtR49GSxQ&s=19
There is a lot of talk about the expanding costs of NDIS however, I have noticed something interesting. There are a lot more oldies in shopping centres toddling along with their walking frames, far more than in the past, always with other people. I don’t know whether the companions are family or paid NDIS workers. The other thing is that we are simply living a lot longer and willing to use helping equipment to get around. The thing is that with any luck we will all be in that same boat.
NDIS helpers on the Gravy Train.
If or when, something goes wrong, the family start screaming “why did this happen?”
Would this be available through an aged care package? Luckily I was spared dealing with navigating the aged care system in respect of both parents.
I suspect the rubric is that being aged doesn’t necessarily constitute a disability.
Jump through some more hoops, lifetime taxpayer!
Yes. My late eighties mum gets help for shopping via myAgedCare, not NDIS.
To be on NDIS you must be disabled before turning 65.You say on it after turning 65 however.If you become disabled for whatever reason after turning 65 you are stuck with Aged Care Packages which are luck all and take forever.
NDIS helper get paid up to $70 ph. No experience required.
I am possibly being conspiricy theorist but I find myself being disturbed by Pong’s sudden extraction from the shadows and presenting as the public face of Australia.
What are the Liars doing with her? The meeting between Pong and the grubby litte Portugese commie at the UN can only herald bad things. No doubt coordinated anti-Trump, pro-green scam, anti-Israel action is on the way.
Sending the jew hater to the holocaust commemoration is such an extreme declaration of contempt by Labor that we need to be fearful of what outrage Australia will next support in the UN.
What a creature. The US gets a glimpse of democracy and we see our democracy being trampled on by this obsenity.
Please Mr Dutton go after her.
This is the Filth going hard after the Greens vote. Their instinct is to fish leftwards for votes. Nothing there for Labor to the right.
Wong is FM; she’s first in line by protocol to represent us at government level overseas. Alas.
And, of course, it doesn’t hurt her UN job application.
I would NOT be upset if any Jews at the memorial tore it a new one or gave it a flogging within an inch of its miserable life.
She and Albo have dragged Australia down into the gutter with the filth of anti-semitism.
Until we have a change of government and the new leader very publicly recants of the depravity these two have visited on Australia, our leaders should be treated as the pariahs they now are.
I hope she gets a job with the UN and if Dutton becomes PM, he withdraws Australia from it and leaves her hung out to dry.
She will one day meet the God of the Old and New Testaments and her smugness will disappear in an instant.
If they want to dress, behave, and be treated as women they should be in a male prison.
It is so good to see the US Capitol Police are still so good at their job. NOT.
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/01/23/man-arrested-for-gun-in-capitol-n2184734
Has anyone seen an objective summary of Albo at the NPC? Teh Paywallian just has some pom pom waving from Simon Benson.
A perfect Sydney afternoon spent eating and quaffing with various Sydney Cats. Whilst we all celebrated Donald, we all reminded ourselves of this………………
The battle has only begun.
The farcical INEPTITUDE of WIND power | MGUY Australia
Got the feve in my slice of galette des rois. Only the French would put a choke sized ceramic animal in a foodstuff with the most cursory warning.
Will be interesting to see to watch the fate of this Myer/Premier Investment thing. Doesn’t seem to make much sense to me but Solly is a billionaire and I’m not. We’ll see.
Pro-Hamas supporters in Melbourne & Sydney will continue with their weekly protests despite the cease fire until “their demands are met.”
I believe this is what is termed a “teachable moment”, in this insatnce in regard to indulging antisemitic radicals.
If only Albanese, Minns & Allan were teachable.
The only lessons they are capable of understanding are instilled with a baseball bat.
Life on Prenti Downs Station in Western Australia. The culling you see here has to be done and he is legally obliged to do so.
The cost of ammo comes from his back pocket.
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Jack Out The Back:
What started as a regular hot and windy day quickly turned into an unexpected challenge. Within just 10 minutes of leaving home, I encountered wild horses that needed to be culled. Afterward, I headed out to Rock and Roll to replace a battery and ensure full camera operation.
On my way to Camel Bore, where I planned to upgrade from a NanoBeam to a PowerBeam, I stumbled upon a mob of eight camels. What I thought were just three turned into a much larger group. One of them made me really work for it, but I got them all in the end. I even harvested some beautiful meat from one of the younger cows.
To wrap up the day, I fixed up the WiFi and shared some insights about the equipment I’m using. Then, I called it a day and headed home earlier than usual.
If you’re curious about the day-to-day challenges of life on the station, from managing ferals to ensuring reliable communications, this is the video for you. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more!
Hot and Windy Day Turns Wild: Horses, Camels, and WiFi Fixes