Moving into a new residence I have bought this long weekend. Bloke next door flying Aussie flag and seems to have pet magpies. Will buy some cat kibble to feed them. Crows and magpies love that shit.
There is a crow (Sooty) that raids the cat kibble at the old missus/daughters house out in the country. That kibble is for the outside mouser cats.
When the possums raid it, the mousers jack up and try to hiss and scratch the possums away (to no effect).
When Sooty is filling his beak they just sit back with glum faces and offer no protest. Crows have some evil gravitas. They are the Soros/WEF/Gates of the animal kingdom.
JP Morgan CEO explains the issues surrounding de-banking. Basically, US banks are fcked one way or another if they don’t follow directions.
Dimon: “We’re not allowed to tell you why we de-banked you. So, if we think there is a risk of fraud, we think there’s a risk of money laundering, if we don’t de-bank you, we’ll get in big trouble if there’s even a chance they might be stepping over the line. But you know what? If someone who’s innocent and then five years later they’re proven guilty, it can cost us a hundred millions of dollars. We have to comply with the law, but it’s ambiguous and we’re punished if we make any mistake in our judgment.”
Here’s an example. JPM didn’t debank Epstein.
In the last four months, JPMorgan has agreed to pay $365 million in settling lawsuits surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Only recently did JPMorgan notify the U.S. Department of Treasury that there had been over $1 billion in transactions at the bank related to Epstein’s human trafficking dating back 16 years. As former Congresswoman Jackie Speier sadly wrote, Epstein’s “15-year client relationship with JPMorgan ChaseJPM+1.2% exceeded the ages of some of his victims.” This is a bank that invests millions of dollars in sophisticated technological systems to price financial derivatives and to measure the value-at-risk of its multi-billion-dollar capital markets portfolios. Yet, we are to believe that it did not have the systems to spot irregularities in Epstein’s financial transactions for sixteen years.
Closer to home, I think it was either NAB or CBA that was spanked with a multi-million dollar fine for not picking up some Chinese laundering (pun intended) on time.
CBA was dinged.
It wasn’t AUSTRAC picking anything up.
It was the counter party HSBC dobbing them in.
AUSTRAC exists for financial market participants to dob in their competitors.
The MSM is woeful and could do with a huge cleanout. Get some young blood in there and hopefully some of those won’t follow traditional behaviors and strike out with new beginnings. If that doesn’t happen the MSM is dead.
Their only ‘value’ to justify those salaries was that they were (for a time) trusted and credible household names spruiking the propaganda. Those days are long gone.
JC
January 25, 2025 1:16 am
John H
I think the entire model is wrong. In fact, it’s completely fcked. The news business is very, very expensive: huge salaries for the top “talent”, advertising revenue in freefall, and viewership along with public approval in the death zone. The U.S. networks are basically dead in the water.
On the other hand, you have podcasters like Joe Rogan going from strength to strength because they’re seen as credible. They get things wrong at times, but they’re generally trusted.
I think the entire model is wrong. In fact, it’s completely fcked. The news business is very, very expensive: huge salaries for the top “talent”, advertising revenue in freefall, and viewership along with public approval in the death zone. The U.S. networks are basically dead in the water.
On the other hand, you have podcasters like Joe Rogan going from strength to strength because they’re seen as credible. They get things wrong at times, but they’re generally trusted.
JC I don’t watch Joe Rogan because I’m too impatient for rambling conversations. An important aspect of Rogan though is that he isn’t pushing agendas whereas the MSM clearly has agendas. Rogan is chatting to people as a form of entertainment rather than trying to win people over to his tribe or position. That might be an important difference.
I don’t read any particular outlets. Rather I wake up, coffee, scan the aggregate pages, and choose to read articles that interest me, which includes a wide range of material. I think younger generations are closer to my reading style rather than relying on preferred outlets. If that is true then no matter what the MSM does it is doomed. Good riddance.
KevinM
January 25, 2025 4:57 am
Mark Steyn is a good read again.
How the UK got to this state is a mystery.
KevinM:
Not a mystery, just get a closet marxist into a job, they then only hire fellow marxists, then after 40 years, they start dismantling the controls that hold a society together.
Fill the courts, parliament, military, police etc with fellow travellers and watch the peasants cower.
Yeah, that’ll do it. Olaf Scholz, direct from Klaus Schwab’s Spectre board meeting in the hollowed-out Alp at Davos, is also butching up:
I am sick of seeing such acts of violence occurring in our country.
KevinM
January 25, 2025 5:06 am
An unfortunate fellow.
Have to say, there were just too many of his kind of men to remember them all unless you are a scholar specialising in outback history.
I am not, just read about them when I get a tip.
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Unsung Hero 000209 at Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre
Thomas Gibson HAMILTON, b. 10th May 1844, d. 2nd April 1875
From the age of 10, following his father’s death in 1850 and his uncle’s in 1854, Thomas Hamilton worked on the properties in the Western District of Victoria that his mother owned and ran.
In 1872 Thomas, accompanied by five men, one boy (his nephew) and over 120 horses, travelled north to explore pastoral lands in Central Australia. Leaving in October 1872, the group passed through the Tatiara country into the 90-mile desert, along the Coorong and into Adelaide.
Supplies were purchased here, including an American covered wagon, six-pack saddles and six months’ food. On their journey, they met with the men who were constructing the Overland Telegraph line, and they travelled along its route as much as possible.
“The season was a dry one, and soon the heat, dust and flies became separate torments. Men, horses and dogs were equally afflicted. The dust and flies affected my eyes to such an extent that after one particularly severe dust storm I developed sandy blight, and for ten days was completely blind.
Daily I had to be led to and from my horse. At the Finke River … we had the misfortune to lose our wagon. For a long time it had been falling to pieces, but somehow still miraculously held together. Crossing one sandy bed of the river, however, it collapsed entirely, and had to be abandoned…
Summer in the desert was to prove almost unendurable; pitiless blue skies, blazing sun, barren country, water scarce, often non-existent, food gradually giving out, illness, and always heat, dust and flies. Slowly, however, we made our way further and further northwards.”
Eventually, the party arrived in Darwin, with its stock of over 120 horses diminished by less than twelve. They received the outstanding price of fifty pounds a head for the horses.
Their journey across the heart of Australia, from south to north, had taken just over twelve months.
Hamilton never fully recovered from his ordeal, succumbing to a severe attack of fever, which proved fatal less than a year after his return home. He was thirty years old.
Real men true blue Aussies.
A good looking fellow!
Not mentioned is he also had Karen to tell him what to do and how to do it. The only reason he got to Darwin was he was trying to get away from her.
KevinM
January 25, 2025 5:11 am
Life on the land was hard in every country before the advance of technology.
Still fraught with financial difficulties due to nature’s vagaries.
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German Culture
The early 1940s and winter in Obergailer Tal in Austria, and at times still in the early 60’s.
A mountain farmer’s life was hard.
And carrying a hay basket, she wears a hood and headscarf to protect herself against wind and weather.
Garments were almost always homemade. Sheep’s wool processed into socks, gloves and hats, jackets also almost exclusively homemade. Working on the farm took up the day, spinning and knitting wool in the Stube, living room, the evening.
A sight that was commonplace at the time, and tells of an everyday life that needed discipline, dedication and perseverance.
Photo credit: via Gailtaler Zeitbilder.
KevinM
January 25, 2025 5:16 am
A true love.
BTW he is still working at 91!
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A True Story
In 1971, a not-yet-legendary Michael Caine was lounging at home with a friend, their evening punctuated by the humdrum of TV ads.
Amid the usual commercial drivel, a Maxwell House Coffee ad flickered to life. Just as his friend reached for the remote, Michael’s gaze locked onto a striking girl in the background. In a heartbeat, he was on his knees, eyes glued to the screen, utterly captivated.
The actress wasn’t just another pretty face; she was a vision that left him spellbound.
Obsessed with finding this mystery woman, Michael embarked on a relentless quest. He bombarded the Maxwell House offices with calls, convinced she was in Brazil. He even bought plane tickets, ready to scour the country.
But fate had a twist in store. An acquaintance tipped him off: the enchanting model was actually living in London. Her name was Shakira, and she hailed from Guyana.
Fueled by infatuation, Michael tracked down her number and called incessantly until she agreed to meet. Their connection was instantaneous and profound.
Before long, Michael and Shakira were married, embarking on a lifelong journey of love and companionship. Now, after 51 years of marriage, they share a beautiful life and a daughter, Natasha.
Today, Michael Caine is 91, and his beloved Shakira is 77, their enduring love story a testament to the magic of fate and determination.
watching people take victory laps for positions you took years ago, when they were most unpopular and dissent most mattered, is annoying. but the positions are more important than your ego. grow the tent.
Yes – it’s annoying and infuriating.
But also very satisfying as you realise all the laughter and ridicule that was slung your way for your stance is now being recognised as wrong and the product of wishful thinking.
Norah O’Donnell was one of the two-bitch bitchfest in the VP debate between J D Vance and sockpuppet Tim Walz – the other was Maragret Brennan — indeed how the Irish have fallen (Victoria a case in point) — sympathy ZERO
Can’t wait for George Stephanopoulos, the horse-faced Rachel Madcow, the vile racist termagant Joy (ironic eh?) Reid and for all the harpies of The Spew to be seen off the screens of the US — one of the most amazing things is that the nastiest harpies of the view are named, Joy (Behar), Sunny (Hostin) and Whoopie (Goldberg aka Caryn Elaine Johnson)
You don’t step down from the top job in news to focus on special reporting.
feelthebern
January 25, 2025 7:02 am
My twitterX feed has a few christian types from different religions getting on their hind legs over Trumps enforcement of immigration law.
Funny thing is, I can’t remember them saying anything about the Obama administration deportations (per year, they deported more than Trump did per year during his first administration)*.
They are total frauds.
*The Obama administration also let in a f-ton more in than Trump.
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feelthebern
January 25, 2025 7:12 am
The scare campaign about illegal migrants who are working and paying taxes all being deported is pretty silly despite it sending the exact message that Homan and Trump want to send.
There’s a group of people who have exhausted every process open to them to stay in the US.
They just haven’t been deported.
There’s another group of convicted felons who are back out in the community post serving their sentence who are in the same boat.
That number is approx. 1.5mill.
That’s going to keep ICE and various other agencies busy for the next two years.
By then they would have worked out a way to start on other cohorts of illegals.
calli
January 25, 2025 7:27 am
from Steyn’s article (thanks KevinM)
Whoa, that’s way too “sick of”. The trick is to object to stabbing in the Scholz/Starmer way: a bit of pro forma huffin’ an’ a-puffin’, and then round up anyone minded to point out that an awful lot of these supposedly “diverse” stabbers seem to be Muslims.
Sound familiar?
Too many North Face Jackets in this world. Worn by two faced politicians.
Scholz said that he was ‘sick of’ hearing about the stabbing of children and their protectors every other week, the way you or I would say we were sick of long queues at the supermarket checkout.
He’s not sick about the actual acts, which are appalling, just that being bothered by journalists and other politicians about them is really annoying.
That sums up the attitude of much of the political class.
Yep he’s the Chancellor, the buck stops with him. The disingenuity of his statement is on a par with Albo’s lettuce leaf treatment of the antisemites while decrying the antisemites. Who coulda thunk that a Prime Minister or a Chancellor could actually, like, take action?
I used to go to Melbourne once a year to shop for work clothes. Classic stuff suitable for the ‘corporate’ environment, plus winter ware and the odd party outfit. I’m retired now, but if I wasn’t I wouldn’t bother.
Thanks to Dan, all those little boutiques and thousands of other small businesses are gone.
The damage, both personal and economic, is incalculable.
I’m off to Melbourne in April for the Australasian Quilt Convention and Show. Staying in a hotel opposite PH, which is in easy walking distance to the Exhibition hall.
Or dodging distance depending on smelly, shouty rent a crowds.
I have wanted to go to it for years, but I fear I’m too late for the best both it and Melbourne have to offer.
Calli, My eldest sister is a mad quilter, so I emailed her to see if she knew of it.
I’ve posted your picture so she can keep an eye out for you, blue King Gees and all.
I missed this with the Trump-fest going on.
The New Yorker released a piece this week about their planned Kamala edition after the election if she won.
It’s paywalled but there’s enough commentary around it online if you want to laugh.
Instead of dying of shame they are parading it.
Bizarre.
@Cernovich The sham prosecution against a doctor who exposed unlawful experiments on “trans children” has been
– DISMISSED
Promises made, Promises kept!
Thank you President Trump!
Indolent
January 25, 2025 7:58 am
After the way they treated Maui and North Carolina, I’m surprised the sky didn’t fall on her.
@SpeakerPelosi
Urgently-needed assistance for families and communities ravaged by natural disasters should never be used as a pawn for political games.
We must work together to deliver relief aid for all Americans impacted by natural disasters across the country, including for Californians to rebuild and recover from the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
The “celebrated breakthrough” hostage release deal is looking like a cruel farce as the few abused victims are swapped for hordes of murderous scum.
The lethally naive in the west are now having the brutal reality of a negotiating with Hamas put in front of them and they don’t seem to be liking what they see.
Doesn’t seem to be any cheering or tears of joy from the Democrats anymore.
Rosie
January 25, 2025 7:59 am
A million ‘diversity professionals’
There was a complaining contractor who ‘trained’ people on climate equality or some such who had a government session cancelled with an hour’s notice video doing the twitter rounds yesterday.
Just think of all the contract fees and manhours saved.
Next, cut taxes https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1882554037935239247?t=_1gmvlqUDq1NC2Hcb2v5Pw&s=19
I was watching that early this morning. President Trump and his wife were amazing. He let about 6 group tell their story ( albeit the stories were a little ramblly) but his patience and empathy was on show, he let them uniterrupted have their say.
Then he gave it to the past Admin Trump style.
Know of a Pom worked over 20 years in Middle East has all his retirement money with them in one of the offshore tax havens.
He had a big dispute with them & a dodgy recommended investment while he was still working. He got some of his money back but not all. I believe HSBC is no longer domiciled in Hong Kong.
They’re lucky Trump is not suing them as was done to him.
feelthebern
January 25, 2025 8:20 am
The remaining members of the squad have been busy.
One of them in congress telling the world egg prices are outrageous and what’s Trump going to do about it (after saying this was a right wing conspiracy theory for the last two years).
Another one on Jon Stewart howling about insider trading in the congress.
Amazing how this becomes an issue for them now @sarc
BREAKING: President Trump has said he will send California federal relief on two conditions:
He wants VOTER ID for local/state elections so the people of CA have honest elections, and wants CA to fix the water problem to fight fires and help farmers.
We should celebrate Australia Day. By various definitions this has been one of the most successful nations in the world. During the past two centuries our nation has had far more successes than failures, though the failures can’t be overlooked: they offer lessons.
Most Australians have pride in the nation, present and past. Today, in contrast, the most vocal opponents of Australia Day offer a gloomy version of our history and many even believe Aboriginal people were, in a variety of ways, better off before 1788 than they are today. Especially in Victoria, they are officially rewriting history and adding a strong racial emphasis. A view is widespread – even though still a minority view – that Australia will lack legitimacy until it makes continuing reparations to Aboriginal people for the land and way of life taken away from them.
It is also argued that our nation will be redeemed only if Aboriginal people are permanently and undemocratically given more political power than other Australians. The nation has recorded a strong No to that argument in the 2023 voice referendum.
Many who dislike or resent Australia Day glamorise Australia’s first people. They see the hunter’s and gatherer’s life as a utopia: they think war was a rarity, that the male elders were praiseworthy without exception, that the old people belonged to a caring society and that most tribes or mini-nations continuously held their own land for 50,000 or more unbroken years. It is fair to suggest that these are all dubious claims.
Australia is one of the oldest continuing democracies. That is worth remembering. Admittedly, ancient Athens was a path-finding democracy, but few of its people had the right to participate in vital state decisions and even then they had to be present in person at the place of debate. Naturally, its slaves had no say. In modern history the US was a wonder, emerging as a brave new democracy before the First Fleet reached Sydney. Yet later it still possessed a minority of slave states when most Australian colonies were displaying democratic innovations.
In 1856 South Australia and Victoria were the first places in the world to use the secret ballot on election day. When seven years later Abraham Lincoln, on the battlefield at Gettysburg, made his eloquent affirmation that democracy was “government of the people, by the people, for the people”, he must have known a favourable version of government was already in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
In the world today, democracies are in a minority. The typical member nation of the UN is not a real democracy and shows no signs of becoming one. The Economist Intelligence Unit compiles a democracy index that lists 167 nations and assigns to each a definite place on a ladder of democracies. Only 8 per cent of the world’s population live in true democracies and Australians share that privilege. The public is not aware of that legitimate source of pride.
Melbourne is abandoning its street march this Australia Day. Here is a city, the nation’s first federal capital, spectacularly ignorant of its own history.
Do politicians know how important Australia is in the history of democracy? Our welcome to country was perhaps a useful experiment but can be challenged. Those authoritarian personages, the Indigenous elders who presided during tens of thousands of years, are paraded before us as being virtually free from faults. A ceremony so undemocratic should be rewritten or abandoned.
This could be the first Australia Day since 1917 – the wartime year of the tense conscription debate – when religion is an explosive topic. In recent months, more attacks – by graffiti or explosives or incendiary devices – have been made on Australia’s synagogues and other Jewish possessions than in any previous year. Yet in proportion to population, the Jews have contributed to Australian scholarship, politics, the law and big business more than has any other ethnic group or religion.
One lesson of our history, to be remembered on Australia Day, is that social cohesion should normally be prized.
Professor Walter Murdoch was a West Australian who in old age offered us many words of wisdom. On March 7, 1964, he wrote in the afternoon Melbourne Herald: “Quickly the night wind sweeps us away, and the traces of us. We serve the purposes of the day, and if we have served that purpose faithfully, we must be content to be forgotten tomorrow.”
Clearly he understood that a nation should remember those – the low and the high – who learned from its failures as well as those who brought it success. The creation of a nation and its generations of worthwhile people should not be forgotten. That is another major reason in favour of celebrating Australia Day.
Even old Geoffrey has fallen into the “democracy” trap.
The USA was NOT founded as a “democracy”.
It was founded, per the words of Benjamin Franklin, “A REPUBLIC, if you can keep it”.
Take a scan through the list of nations with the word “”Democratic” in their official title. “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, “Democratic Congo”, the late, mostly-unlamented “German Democratic Republic” / DDR / East Germany. Any hints, yet?
Winston Churchill had something to say on the matter:
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”.
Supplementary:
“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”
Special Report: Altech Batteries has stuck a big feather in its cap after its CERENERGY solid-state salt batteries were formally assessed as having the highest possible green rating category.
The “Dark Green” accreditation by the Independent Centre of International Climate and Environmental Research – owned by Oslo-based Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings – that ranks it as one of, if not the greenest battery technologies available today.
S&P had based its decision on the importance of battery storage in the transition of the power and industrial sectors, the contribution to the development of alternatives to lithium-ion and cobalt-free batteries as well as the relatively low expected emissions and fossil fuel-free direct production process for CERENERGY® batteries.
Altech Batteries (ASX:ATC) says the production of CERENERGY® batteries, which use common table salt (sodium-chloride) and ceramic solid-state technology whilst not requiring critical minerals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, is expected to generate one third of the emissions (or 14kg of CO2 per kilowatt hour) required to produce lithium-ion batteries.
With advantages including being completely fire and explosion proof as well as being able to operate in all but the most extreme of climate conditions, the batteries could be used in industrial micro grids, or support systems in data centres, logistics centres and hospitals.
Grid storage is also expected to be a major user of CERENERGY® batteries to support grid reliability and stability.
That is interesting. I had some involvement with a Swiss guy in the 70’s who had designed a salt battery. My involvement was in the safety equipment for machinery and was only aware of his battery which he had high hopes for.
Unusually low humidity atm. SST’s at 31-32 deg C. Plenty of energy in CS atm.
acronym (n.)
word formed from the first letters of a series of words, 1943, American English coinage from acro- + -onym “name” (abstracted from homonym; ultimately from PIE root *no-men- “name”). With the exception of cabalistic esoterica and acrostic poetry, this way of forming words was exceedingly uncommon before 20c.
JC at 12:49.
Dimon’s explanation about de-banking is a bit disingenuous and something of a diversion.
Saying that they are restricted in explaining the reasons is not an excuse for frivolous, vexatious or vindictive de-banking.
The fact that a bank got done for “missing” the 4,000 red flags on Epstein even after he was convicted simply tells me that Epstein had photos of a bank exec rooting a 15 year old – no more, no less.
And several banks “missed” red flags on Madoff as well.
But copping big fines for missing red flags (and not de-banking as a result) for obvious repeated breaches is not the issue here.
It seems people have been de-banked for Twitter posts or paying $9.95 to MAGA Caps Inc, and the banks have hidden behind privacy provisions in doing it.
And they are now rightfully copping it.
The fact that a bank got done for “missing” the 4,000 red flags on Epstein even after he was convicted simply tells me that Epstein had photos of a bank exec rooting a 15 year old – no more, no less.
Epstein was protected by powerful people and the bank did as it was told. The same would have happened when conservatives were debanked, the bank did as it was told. To clear himself Dimon can always tell who leaned on him in all those cases.
To clear himself Dimon can always tell who leaned on him in all those cases.
Well, not quite. If a bank CEO breached the law by following an improper direction from a politician or bureaucrat, they are both in trouble. The Nuremberg Defence doesn’t cut it here.
Further to the UK and the fallout from the cover up of the Southport massacre, a massacre I hate to remind readers where a little girl’s head was decapitated by the Islamist Welsh choir boy, overnight on Dan Wootton’s excellent YouTube programme, William Clouston (the leader of the SDP in the UK (old Labour) said in reference to the now open connivance and alliance of the mainstream media with Herr Sturmer’s Islamist government that it all has a strongly ‘Soviet whiff‘ about it. Indeed, the UK MSM are now Izvestia and Pravda combined, they are media whores doing the bidding of their leftist Islamist pimps, and they’re not even trying to hide their partisanship.
I don’t see how the UK will survive this, certainly not without violence on the streets.
I’ve just read Mark Steyn’s wrap, linked above. As always, Steyn nails it.
Sancho Panzer
January 25, 2025 9:42 am
Farmer Gez
January 25, 2025 7:27 am
My wife says we’re going to Melbourne for a week. This is apparently classed as “having a break and enjoying yourself”.
How I love shopping.
I feel your pain, bro.
There are two moments of dread on our trips to the Big Smoke.
The first comes about half-way through the inbound journey … “Oh, we have to go to [far away outer suburb] to pick up the [X] I bought on line.”
Now, the Sporty Beemer is reasonably spacious but it is not the Tardis. My response, which sounds fairly reasonable, goes along the lines of “How are we going to fit a three-seater Chesterfield in the car?” is met with accusations of being “negative and obstructive”.
The second comes as we set off on the journey home.
“Can we just pop in to [shop X] for a quick look on our way?”
Let me define the terms here:-
1. Although framed as a question, this is a direction.
2. “Pop in for a quick look” = 2 hours.
3. “On our way” = 30 minutes across town in the diametrically opposite direction.
“Ok, but while you are doing X, I will pop into (insert name) Hobby shop or you can Y all day, but I am going to go to (insert name) train attraction.”
I usually don’t get to do either, as Mrs D changes her plans.
Your wife is a biggermist*, (* the huge haze that descends when shopping is involved). I’m pretty sure this is the same woman that takes me shopping for nothing but comes home with a car full.
While on the topic, tangentially…
Is this common? We sit in companionable silence for the 10 minutes it takes us to get to the Bruce Highway, it is a quietish road. Just before we merge onto the Bruce Highway,with cars merging from the left while trying to merge onto the right to get onto the highway ( 2 lanes merge into 1 to merge onto the highway) , the good wife decides to tell me something she has told me at least twice before about something I have no interest in. Same thing happens when lanes go every which way when they are doing roadworks.
I found out today that there are 40 groups around Australia who are trying to raise awareness of adverse vaccine effects by mounting displays of victims at popular outdoor places.
Today’s Northern Beaches group planted a huge bunch of (say 100) A4 laminated pages into the sands of Collaroy, standing like a forest of condemnation. Each page profiled an individual and their death/injury.
Sombre reading.
Roger
January 25, 2025 9:52 am
An overnight brief from our man in Germany, eugyppius:
The cordon sanitaire against Alternative für Deutschland is showing signs of serious rupture. The centre-right CDU are suddenly – without warning – reconsidering their long-standing taboo against cooperating with the “extreme right” opposition. It is this singular taboo that has kept the traditional German party system frozen in amber despite a massive rightward political shift across the West. Should the cordon sanitaire crack even a little, its days are numbered. The simple arithmetic of parliamentary majorities would sooner or later make the most noxious political fixtures of current-year Germany, like the Green Party, broadly irrelevant at the federal level. The German left would be deprived at once of almost all their power.
This development arises directly from the pressure of mass migration, and specifically from the four recent deadly migrant attacks I have covered in the past year…
It’s possible that there’s been an outcry about this, since the Left has caused Germany to fall into a terrible malaise and a long recession. Add in all the stabby men and you could see why social pressure might force the backflip.
feelthebern
January 25, 2025 9:52 am
Is this US pause in Ukraine funding real or twitterX horseshit ?
If so that is one of the fastest ever backflips on record.
Politicians are involved!
But I expect we’ll hear more about this as the popular pressure isn’t dissipating.
In the face of it the CDU has promised (yes, I know) to crack down on immigration, but they now realise they’ll need AfD votes to pass the required legislation.
Immigration is only a secondary problem. What ails Germany is galloping greenery. Not sure CDU would overturn all that climate rubbish but if they don’t it’s going to be the fall of Germany as a European power.
Germans have always been in the thrall of Gaia. Hitler was some sort pagan green loon at heart. It’s one of the reason he could kill without being bothered by his conscience.
Sounds like how royalty operated before the Magna Carta. And they call Trump a wannabe king.
Black Ball
January 25, 2025 10:28 am
When I take the kids somewhere, it’s usually to things I never did as a kid. Previous years it’s to go to Phillip Island, to Albion Park where I have a friend we stay with, Great Ocean Road etc. Puffing Billy is something I would like to do, without the preachings of some idiot. Hun:
Opposition Leader Brad Battin has called on the Allan government to force Puffing Billy to reverse its anti-Australia Day stance.
It comes after Puffing Billy Railway weighed into the Australia Day debate, revealing it won’t celebrate the national public holiday.
In a weekly notice, published on Friday, Puffing Billy chief executive officer Stefanie Straub said the organisation’s “commitment to reconciliation guides how we engage with significant moments in our national calendar”.
“As part of the ongoing work of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group, Puffing Billy Railway acknowledges that Australia Day holds a different meaning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” she said in the note.
“For many, this date is a painful reminder of colonisation and its lasting impacts. With respect for the enduring history of First Nations Peoples, Puffing Billy Railway does not celebrate Australia Day.
Ms Straub said the nation should spend Australia Day reflecting on “the values of inclusivity, understanding, and unity that are central to a multicultural Australia”.
“This day is an opportunity to learn, listen, and commit to building a future that embraces the rich diversity of our nation while honouring its First Peoples.”
A Victorian government spokesman said it’s a matter for Puffing Billy Railway, which he said was an independent organisation that operates under its Board.
“The Victorian Government supports Australia Day and we fund a range of free events for families,” he said.
“We know the day means different things to different people and that’s something we can all be respectful about.”
But on Friday afternoon, Mr Battin said it was “offensive” for the historic tourist attraction to refuse to commemorate the national day.
“Australia Day is a day to celebrate, be with family, and support local businesses and tourist hotspots,” he said.
“It is offensive that Labor’s hand-picked board at Puffing Billy want to scrap celebrations. “Let’s get our message right, we are one, we should celebrate who we are, and commit to building a better future.
“Jacinta Allan and Labor can reverse this decision with one phone call, I doubt they will have the courage to.”
A News Corp online survey of more than 21,000 people found at least 87 per cent support Australia Day remaining on January 26, with only 12 per cent backing calls to change the date and 1 per cent advocating no celebration.
Cardinia Shire Council mayor Jack Kowarzik said Australia Day meant “different things to different people in our community”.
“That includes the people of Puffing Billy and the many other organisations within our Shire,” he said.
“Cardinia Shire Council conducts a citizenship ceremony, supports local community events, and acknowledges our amazing volunteers through an awards night, which was last night.”
Failure to read the room.
Mzzz Straub has form being quite silly which I will report on in subsequent posts.
And they won’t see any of my money with this poxy mindset.
Just how did Puffing Billy come into existence? It’s high time there was some gratitude shown by whingeing minorities for the good life they can lead in Australia.
“They don’t know they’re born”.
Great painting. The greatness of this nation is two-fold: the inheritance of the British legal and political system which is the best the world and humanity has invented, and which saved the primitive and otherwise doomed aboriginal peoples; secondly the vast resources this nation has, minerals, energy and agriculture.
Both these twin aspects of greatness have always been under attack by the left, the alp and it’s off springs, the teals and the commies. A typically aggressively and partisan media has seen these twin features of greatness eroded. We now live in a pale shadow of the potential this nation had. The left has been the driver but the weakness of conservatism, the vicious bias of the msm and the lazy indifference of the punters have all contributed.
I’m seriously thinking of moving to the US; possibly Florida or Texas. I’ll be buying one of these:
This is how the Liars roll.
They provide a relatively small amount of funding (in this case probably inclusion in the Tourism Victoria advertising) but the quid pro quo is the insertion of the “right” CEO or board.
These people go to the meetings. Conservatives don’t.
Roger
January 25, 2025 10:37 am
“As part of the ongoing work of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group, Puffing Billy Railway acknowledges that Australia Day holds a different meaning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” she said in the note.
I always find it remarkable that these woke whiteys presume to speak for all A/TSI people, as though there aren’t different views among indigenous folk.
Btw, it was Woolworths RAP working group that got it into trouble over Australia Day last year, causing significant loss of reputation.
As with DEI, I expect Australian corporations will continue down this path regardless, because the people who lead them aren’t bright enough to consult outside the bubble.
I recall some lefty recently spouting off a list of wonderful Aboriginal festivals around the country and included the Coming of the Light festival in Torres Strait. It was
clear she had not a clue what that festival celebrates, and thought it was some sort solstice worship or something. A fair chunk of Aboriginal Australia, in the bush at least, are socially conservative.
it is interesting that anthropologists hate the stories of Ion Idreiss about the history of these peoples, but the TIs love them and believe they do reflect their history.
Miltonf
January 25, 2025 10:38 am
No different one I think- looks like your typical Vic ALP femocrat.
Sancho Panzer
January 25, 2025 10:38 am
Roger
January 25, 2025 10:17 am
If so that is one of the fastest ever backflips on record.
…
Politicians are involved!
Quite so.
As Paul Keating once said, “In the great race of life, always back Self Interest. At least you know it’s trying”.
The rot started when banking became an arm of the state. It was always a very bad decision to force banks to police their customers as they shouldn’t have been put in that position in the first place.
And because the banking system is so highly regulated, if state operators tell banks to debank someone they will because at any point in time they would be contravening some clause of the 30,000 pages of regulations they are forced to follow and potentially incurring millions of dollars in fines.
And now they might cop millions in penalties for de-banking people without legitimate cause.
It is very convenient to plead the Nuremberg (without naming the politician or bureaucrat issuing ze orders).
Sure, the big high-profile ones were probably done at the behest of the Hidens, but I strongly suspect that a big chunk of the de-banking was done by the bank without official direction by some purple-haired DEI.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 25, 2025 10:44 am
Yeah, I saw this yesterday I think. Daniel Greenfield now takes it up:
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday signed the Expropriation Bill into law.
In a statement, the Presidency said the Bill allows for local, provincial and national authorities “to expropriate land in the public interest for varied reasons that seek, among others, to promote inclusivity and access to natural resources”.
The ANC in 2017 proposed constitutional changes to make it easier for the government to take land without paying for it and address racially skewed land ownership patterns dating back to colonial and white-minority rule.
The key difference between the repealed pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975 and the newly signed Expropriation Bill is that the court is given the right to award nil compensation in cases of expropriation of land.
So they’re just going to steal it. I wonder how long until the 3rd Boer War starts?
Nelson Mandela was, at one stage, on the Central Committee of the SA Communist Party, a position he later went to great lengths to deny ever having held.
No one saw this coming ?
Trump told many audiences (a couple of crypto conferences, a couple of libertarian conferences) he was going to pardon Ulbricht.
Ulbricht is not a nice guy.
Commercially he screwed over many people.
But the FBI still framed him with the murder for hire scam.
If the FBI wanted to go after him legitimately there were more than enough commerce related issues to do so.
The FBI wanted to use him as an example.
Thanks for posting that. I like Andreessen’s last question…..
Who do you go to to get your bank account back?
It’s a very good question and for the ordinary Joe and Jo Blow in the street they have had virtually no recourse for where they can go to get their bank accounts back. And this has been the case in the UK, where for the last few years ordinary Britons have been debanked a plenty, such as a vicar in Yorkshire, his crime being that he objected to Pride Flags emblazoned all across his local credit union branch, for his ideological thought crime his bank account was shut down. It’s a fact that for years Tommy Robinson, Kellie-Jay Keen, Katie Hopkins and others have been ‘debanked’ en masse.
It took Nigel Farage’s debanking back in 2023 to shine a light on the woke progressive scum running banks and financial institutions and engaging in the debanking of those whom they deem to be ideologically ‘unclean’.
Black Ball
January 25, 2025 11:03 am
Perhaps Mzzz Straub can take the reins here. Shameless. Hun again:
Melbourne Airport Rail would be put back on a fast track under a federal government plan to pour more than $10bn into the stalled project.
The bombshell move is set to put pressure on the Allan government’s priority project – it’s signature (chortle) $34.5bn Suburban Rail Loop. Under the plan, the Albanese government would put billions on the table to resurrect the airport rail – which has been effectively paused for four years by Victoria – providing the Allan government comes on board.
This could require prioritisation of works, likely prompting the SRL to be put on the backburner.
So a new shiny rail link that has no real value to Victoria or the nation to be resurrected like Lazarus. FMD
And of course it’s deeper than that.
The longer the loop takes to build, the more Melbourne grows and by the time it’s done in 2178, it becomes obselete.
We are governed by clueless far quits.
Flown in/out of Melbourne a bunch of times this year. Bus network is probably the best pick in Oz to get you to your train network or even rural destination.
Also where they want to put the station is ridiculous. Would be a traffic nightmare in an area already bad for the duration of the build.
If the State and Federal Libs had any brass they would commit to funding the airport rail link based on the direct route originally proposed by the airport and IFM back in the day, including an underground station at the airport. Wedge industry super by offering IFM the same JV investment and commit funding to some more worthy project in the west of the city instead of forcing airport rail via Sunshine for political reasons.
Wally Dalí
January 25, 2025 11:04 am
Subject: Based Threadware
Politico NT, thanks for the “Finish The Coffee” tip- but I can’t (or, I suspect, Google says I can’t) draw a bead on what it actually means?
Dover, please give my email to PoliticoNT, and anyone else who wants it, really
To clarify, I don’t want to be offensive or smartalec, I’m searching for the Israeli version of my favourite 1776 Mark Dice number. Simple statement of support on my chest to check the tide of weeds in pro-palli-r*pe-gang insignia.
Cassie, any thoughts? I wouldn’t mind some Hebraic script, blue on white. This might sound hoity toity, but I don’t wear black.
Wally – from memory I got the idea from an Israeli comedian who was initially joking about what to do after his wife rings him with some task. It won’t make any difference to his wife’s mood or approach so better to stay and finish the coffee. He realised (I think after a visit to the UK) that Israel can finish the job in Gaza, or not. Won’t make a damn difference to the opinion of those who hate them. So they might as well ‘finish the coffee.’ It was eloquently put.
Top Ender
January 25, 2025 11:05 am
Petition:
Prevent Senator Penny Wong from Representing Australia at the 80th Auschwitz Commemoration
What you might ask is how many ‘local people’ are running the boat.
Miltonf
January 25, 2025 11:17 am
I certainly don’t bank with CommBank but I use their ATMS for free withdrawals. I see all their odious anti-white man, marxist agitprop. If they really feel that way, why don’t they just go out of business and hand over all their real estate to ‘traditional owners’.
Miltonf
January 25, 2025 11:20 am
The big four banks here are truly foul and anti Australian. Is that old Ken Henry deadshit still with the NAB?
Great – tried to buy, but their stupid site won’t recognise my phone number, tried 4 times – and why the hell do they need my phone number when they have my email address.
Stupid site.
Following concerns, Sgt Lorna Clarke from the neighbourhood policing team confirmed the force had received “several calls” from people “concerned about males hanging around the primary school at drop-off and pick-up”.
Sgt Clarke said that after speaking to people directly and having her officers “attend the hotel”, they had not identified a risk to anyone and “there is no evidence to support that any offences had taken place”.
Being Airstrip One, the concerned parents will be referred to PREVENT, who will find they were motivated by extreme right wing ideology and recommend their children be taken into state care.
Wally Dali
January 25, 2025 11:38 am
I’ve done some shirts via Red Bubble- terrible quality tho.
But my rub is not how to do them, but to do what.
If there is an extant Israel-a-go-go tradition, then let me have at it.
If there isn’t, i might have to forge my own, which might turn out to be even mpre ill-considered than “Zion Ho!”
You can select different quality, and price, garments/shirts on red bubble
Tom
January 25, 2025 12:00 pm
Apart from his daily cartoon, Johannes Leak has an excellent portrait of Donald Trump in today’s Paywallian.
I read the Greg Sheridan piece that went with it – so you didn’t have. Sheridan is a weather vane who, like the Stupid Frigging Liberals, believes in nothing and his piece today on Trump is full of passive aggressive sniping about the Democratic Party’s talking points on J6 and tariffs.
Invaders!
Moving into a new residence I have bought this long weekend. Bloke next door flying Aussie flag and seems to have pet magpies. Will buy some cat kibble to feed them. Crows and magpies love that shit.
There is a crow (Sooty) that raids the cat kibble at the old missus/daughters house out in the country. That kibble is for the outside mouser cats.
When the possums raid it, the mousers jack up and try to hiss and scratch the possums away (to no effect).
When Sooty is filling his beak they just sit back with glum faces and offer no protest. Crows have some evil gravitas. They are the Soros/WEF/Gates of the animal kingdom.
Sounds like a good neighbourhood to me!
JP Morgan CEO explains the issues surrounding de-banking. Basically, US banks are fcked one way or another if they don’t follow directions.
Here’s an example. JPM didn’t debank Epstein.
Closer to home, I think it was either NAB or CBA that was spanked with a multi-million dollar fine for not picking up some Chinese laundering (pun intended) on time.
CBA was dinged.
It wasn’t AUSTRAC picking anything up.
It was the counter party HSBC dobbing them in.
AUSTRAC exists for financial market participants to dob in their competitors.
Booted
Norah was quite the cute owl back in the 90s.
I can’t wait to see that Greek dwarf George Stephanopoulos getting the boot some time in the future.
I reckon the days of annual multi-million dollar pay deals at the MSN for desk jockeys is over.
The MSM is woeful and could do with a huge cleanout. Get some young blood in there and hopefully some of those won’t follow traditional behaviors and strike out with new beginnings. If that doesn’t happen the MSM is dead.
Their only ‘value’ to justify those salaries was that they were (for a time) trusted and credible household names spruiking the propaganda. Those days are long gone.
John H
I think the entire model is wrong. In fact, it’s completely fcked. The news business is very, very expensive: huge salaries for the top “talent”, advertising revenue in freefall, and viewership along with public approval in the death zone. The U.S. networks are basically dead in the water.
On the other hand, you have podcasters like Joe Rogan going from strength to strength because they’re seen as credible. They get things wrong at times, but they’re generally trusted.
Ha! Made the team!
Fairly shit team at the moment. Me, JC and John H. LOL
Gropers still on old thread I suppose.
Morning all – Happy Australia Day weekend.
Good morning, great country.
So- question for cutting edge Cats, and Cassie in particular-
where do I get a pro-Israel shirt, and what should it say or display?
’Finish the Coffee’ – I’ve drawn a design and was going to print one for myself. If you can get in contact (is Dover in charge?), I’ll send you one.
Will you put a piccie of it up, please?
Wally, “I Stand With Israel” Tshirts. Simple and to the point.
I haven’t had a nasty look yet.
Which is a pity.
Johannes Leak.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Love Varvel’s donkeys.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
JC I don’t watch Joe Rogan because I’m too impatient for rambling conversations. An important aspect of Rogan though is that he isn’t pushing agendas whereas the MSM clearly has agendas. Rogan is chatting to people as a form of entertainment rather than trying to win people over to his tribe or position. That might be an important difference.
I don’t read any particular outlets. Rather I wake up, coffee, scan the aggregate pages, and choose to read articles that interest me, which includes a wide range of material. I think younger generations are closer to my reading style rather than relying on preferred outlets. If that is true then no matter what the MSM does it is doomed. Good riddance.
Mark Steyn is a good read again.
How the UK got to this state is a mystery.
thanks- very good article
KevinM:
Not a mystery, just get a closet marxist into a job, they then only hire fellow marxists, then after 40 years, they start dismantling the controls that hold a society together.
Fill the courts, parliament, military, police etc with fellow travellers and watch the peasants cower.
I loved this comment from Steyn:
An unfortunate fellow.
Have to say, there were just too many of his kind of men to remember them all unless you are a scholar specialising in outback history.
I am not, just read about them when I get a tip.
—————-
Unsung Hero 000209 at Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre
Thomas Gibson HAMILTON, b. 10th May 1844, d. 2nd April 1875
From the age of 10, following his father’s death in 1850 and his uncle’s in 1854, Thomas Hamilton worked on the properties in the Western District of Victoria that his mother owned and ran.
In 1872 Thomas, accompanied by five men, one boy (his nephew) and over 120 horses, travelled north to explore pastoral lands in Central Australia. Leaving in October 1872, the group passed through the Tatiara country into the 90-mile desert, along the Coorong and into Adelaide.
Supplies were purchased here, including an American covered wagon, six-pack saddles and six months’ food. On their journey, they met with the men who were constructing the Overland Telegraph line, and they travelled along its route as much as possible.
“The season was a dry one, and soon the heat, dust and flies became separate torments. Men, horses and dogs were equally afflicted. The dust and flies affected my eyes to such an extent that after one particularly severe dust storm I developed sandy blight, and for ten days was completely blind.
Daily I had to be led to and from my horse. At the Finke River … we had the misfortune to lose our wagon. For a long time it had been falling to pieces, but somehow still miraculously held together. Crossing one sandy bed of the river, however, it collapsed entirely, and had to be abandoned…
Summer in the desert was to prove almost unendurable; pitiless blue skies, blazing sun, barren country, water scarce, often non-existent, food gradually giving out, illness, and always heat, dust and flies. Slowly, however, we made our way further and further northwards.”
Eventually, the party arrived in Darwin, with its stock of over 120 horses diminished by less than twelve. They received the outstanding price of fifty pounds a head for the horses.
Their journey across the heart of Australia, from south to north, had taken just over twelve months.
Hamilton never fully recovered from his ordeal, succumbing to a severe attack of fever, which proved fatal less than a year after his return home. He was thirty years old.
Real men true blue Aussies.
A good looking fellow!
Not mentioned is he also had Karen to tell him what to do and how to do it. The only reason he got to Darwin was he was trying to get away from her.
Life on the land was hard in every country before the advance of technology.
Still fraught with financial difficulties due to nature’s vagaries.
———-
German Culture
The early 1940s and winter in Obergailer Tal in Austria, and at times still in the early 60’s.
A mountain farmer’s life was hard.
And carrying a hay basket, she wears a hood and headscarf to protect herself against wind and weather.
Garments were almost always homemade. Sheep’s wool processed into socks, gloves and hats, jackets also almost exclusively homemade. Working on the farm took up the day, spinning and knitting wool in the Stube, living room, the evening.
A sight that was commonplace at the time, and tells of an everyday life that needed discipline, dedication and perseverance.
Photo credit: via Gailtaler Zeitbilder.
A true love.
BTW he is still working at 91!
——————
A True Story
In 1971, a not-yet-legendary Michael Caine was lounging at home with a friend, their evening punctuated by the humdrum of TV ads.
Amid the usual commercial drivel, a Maxwell House Coffee ad flickered to life. Just as his friend reached for the remote, Michael’s gaze locked onto a striking girl in the background. In a heartbeat, he was on his knees, eyes glued to the screen, utterly captivated.
The actress wasn’t just another pretty face; she was a vision that left him spellbound.
Obsessed with finding this mystery woman, Michael embarked on a relentless quest. He bombarded the Maxwell House offices with calls, convinced she was in Brazil. He even bought plane tickets, ready to scour the country.
But fate had a twist in store. An acquaintance tipped him off: the enchanting model was actually living in London. Her name was Shakira, and she hailed from Guyana.
Fueled by infatuation, Michael tracked down her number and called incessantly until she agreed to meet. Their connection was instantaneous and profound.
Before long, Michael and Shakira were married, embarking on a lifelong journey of love and companionship. Now, after 51 years of marriage, they share a beautiful life and a daughter, Natasha.
Today, Michael Caine is 91, and his beloved Shakira is 77, their enduring love story a testament to the magic of fate and determination.
She was the bride in ‘The Man Who Would Be King”.
Great book.
Great movie.
Kipling was good. Probably derided nowadays as a jingoistic racist.
Well he was an imperial wizard level mason.
No he wasn’t then and isn’t now. He recognised the danger muzzies are and not to be trusted. His words were prophetic.
Bloody good looking young woman.
He chose well – as did she.
He is Christian, she is Moslem.
A good news story when so many “ celebrity” marriages are so brief.
Today, he would be charged with stalking.
Ain’t it the fact?
Interesting that the creator of that notice saw fit to place it on the Telegraph rather than the SMH.
Mike Solana
@micsolana
watching people take victory laps for positions you took years ago, when they were most unpopular and dissent most mattered, is annoying. but the positions are more important than your ego. grow the tent.
1:42 AM · Jan 24, 2025
Peter Thiel disciple spreads a key tenet of the Peter Thiel philosophy.
Yes – it’s annoying and infuriating.
But also very satisfying as you realise all the laughter and ridicule that was slung your way for your stance is now being recognised as wrong and the product of wishful thinking.
Norah O’Donnell was one of the two-bitch bitchfest in the VP debate between J D Vance and sockpuppet Tim Walz – the other was Maragret Brennan — indeed how the Irish have fallen (Victoria a case in point) — sympathy ZERO
Can’t wait for George Stephanopoulos, the horse-faced Rachel Madcow, the vile racist termagant Joy (ironic eh?) Reid and for all the harpies of The Spew to be seen off the screens of the US — one of the most amazing things is that the nastiest harpies of the view are named, Joy (Behar), Sunny (Hostin) and Whoopie (Goldberg aka Caryn Elaine Johnson)
I thought she stepped down as anchor.
You don’t step down from the top job in news to focus on special reporting.
You don’t step down from the top job in news to focus on special reporting.
My twitterX feed has a few christian types from different religions getting on their hind legs over Trumps enforcement of immigration law.
Funny thing is, I can’t remember them saying anything about the Obama administration deportations (per year, they deported more than Trump did per year during his first administration)*.
They are total frauds.
*The Obama administration also let in a f-ton more in than Trump.
The scare campaign about illegal migrants who are working and paying taxes all being deported is pretty silly despite it sending the exact message that Homan and Trump want to send.
There’s a group of people who have exhausted every process open to them to stay in the US.
They just haven’t been deported.
There’s another group of convicted felons who are back out in the community post serving their sentence who are in the same boat.
That number is approx. 1.5mill.
That’s going to keep ICE and various other agencies busy for the next two years.
By then they would have worked out a way to start on other cohorts of illegals.
from Steyn’s article (thanks KevinM)
Sound familiar?
Too many North Face Jackets in this world. Worn by two faced politicians.
Yes.
Scholz said that he was ‘sick of’ hearing about the stabbing of children and their protectors every other week, the way you or I would say we were sick of long queues at the supermarket checkout.
He’s not sick about the actual acts, which are appalling, just that being bothered by journalists and other politicians about them is really annoying.
That sums up the attitude of much of the political class.
Breitbart Europe mainpage headline:
‘I am Tired of Seeing Acts of Violence’ Says Scholz, Apparently Forgetting He’s the Chancellor and Could do Something About it (23 Jan)
Yep he’s the Chancellor, the buck stops with him. The disingenuity of his statement is on a par with Albo’s lettuce leaf treatment of the antisemites while decrying the antisemites. Who coulda thunk that a Prime Minister or a Chancellor could actually, like, take action?
North Face jackets are the closest they’d ever get to the real thing when in fact they’d never reach base camp.
My wife says we’re going to Melbourne for a week. This is apparently classed as “having a break and enjoying yourself”.
How I love shopping.
I used to go to Melbourne once a year to shop for work clothes. Classic stuff suitable for the ‘corporate’ environment, plus winter ware and the odd party outfit. I’m retired now, but if I wasn’t I wouldn’t bother.
Thanks to Dan, all those little boutiques and thousands of other small businesses are gone.
The damage, both personal and economic, is incalculable.
I’m off to Melbourne in April for the Australasian Quilt Convention and Show. Staying in a hotel opposite PH, which is in easy walking distance to the Exhibition hall.
Or dodging distance depending on smelly, shouty rent a crowds.
I have wanted to go to it for years, but I fear I’m too late for the best both it and Melbourne have to offer.
Sure you’re not renting a basement in Hawthorn through AirBnB.
Chortle. It’s the Windsor, but probably their basement. I will give a review based on rat and roach sightings.
Calli, My eldest sister is a mad quilter, so I emailed her to see if she knew of it.
I’ve posted your picture so she can keep an eye out for you, blue King Gees and all.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-provides-list-of-4-hostages-to-be-freed-saturday-that-violates-ceasefire-deal/
I missed this with the Trump-fest going on.
The New Yorker released a piece this week about their planned Kamala edition after the election if she won.
It’s paywalled but there’s enough commentary around it online if you want to laugh.
Instead of dying of shame they are parading it.
Bizarre.
Lol, Bern. I was just reading that piece!
They are truly diabolical.
@Cernovich
The sham prosecution against a doctor who exposed unlawful experiments on “trans children” has been
– DISMISSED
Promises made, Promises kept!
Thank you President Trump!
After the way they treated Maui and North Carolina, I’m surprised the sky didn’t fall on her.
@SpeakerPelosi
Urgently-needed assistance for families and communities ravaged by natural disasters should never be used as a pawn for political games.
We must work together to deliver relief aid for all Americans impacted by natural disasters across the country, including for Californians to rebuild and recover from the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.
go away you dirty old woman
Her hypocrisy is staggering but not surprising.
Evil old witch.
The “celebrated breakthrough” hostage release deal is looking like a cruel farce as the few abused victims are swapped for hordes of murderous scum.
The lethally naive in the west are now having the brutal reality of a negotiating with Hamas put in front of them and they don’t seem to be liking what they see.
Doesn’t seem to be any cheering or tears of joy from the Democrats anymore.
A million ‘diversity professionals’
There was a complaining contractor who ‘trained’ people on climate equality or some such who had a government session cancelled with an hour’s notice video doing the twitter rounds yesterday.
Just think of all the contract fees and manhours saved.
Next, cut taxes
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1882554037935239247?t=_1gmvlqUDq1NC2Hcb2v5Pw&s=19
@JillianMichaels
How crazy is this… The supposed letter signed by “over 17000” doctors denouncing @RobertKennedyJr is actually fake. Take a look.
I like her. She knows how to use an iron and a hairbrush. And ChatGPT.
But she didn’t know about “astroturfing”. She does now!
Unwra out of Israel by the 30th January
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1882894000727941347?t=TrOGF-b6_1itvtBdoweVWA&s=19
Soooo goood !!!
Poor little petals.
@libsoftiktok
Senator Eric Schmitt says Democrats in DC have now brought in mental health professionals to help them deal with Trump being in office
Do you have any clips of lefty heads exploding. I’ve seen some that come close but not the real thing.
Hmmm, maybe …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD24VY0YWdQ
That should work. Since most (leftist no doubt) mental health professionals would be crazy themselves.
They’ll all be crying together.
Snap, sort of!
Many (most?) mental health professionals seem to be leftards, so much hand patting, but little of practical value, will ensue.
Good. I hope they are in agony.
As long as they do it on their own dime.
I’m glad he went there first. These people have been through hell with the government doing its best to aggravate it.
@TrumpWarRoom
President Trump allows Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina to tell their heartbreaking stories in front of the nation.
The forgotten men and women of this country are forgotten no more.
I was watching that early this morning. President Trump and his wife were amazing. He let about 6 group tell their story ( albeit the stories were a little ramblly) but his patience and empathy was on show, he let them uniterrupted have their say.
Then he gave it to the past Admin Trump style.
Also interesting was the pastor. Compare and contrast.
”Your son sounds like a leader”. I suspect he might just be offered a brand new job.
@GingerLGaetz
Oh Florida…
Outstanding!
Honorary Aussies.
HSBC have problems of their own.
Relative by marriage had over 400k stolen. HSBC facilitated the fraud.
They repaid a chunk of but not all of the defrauded funds.
My opinion, victim was targeted using inside information.
Apparently now exiting Australian retail market
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/asic-sue-hsbc-court-finance-banking-scam-customer-protection/104690472
Know of a Pom worked over 20 years in Middle East has all his retirement money with them in one of the offshore tax havens.
He had a big dispute with them & a dodgy recommended investment while he was still working. He got some of his money back but not all. I believe HSBC is no longer domiciled in Hong Kong.
Banks are the lowest of the low.
Story this week on (I think) A Current Affair about a young couple who had a loan taken out in their name due to identity theft.
The bank insists that they keep making the payments, and says they have to go to court to get the loan documentation.
They are out of control.
Why the hell should Dr. Death have a taxpayer funded security detail?
@RealAlexJones
Breaking! Trump Says He Will Not Feel Responsible If Anything Happens To Dr. Fauci or John Bolton After He Removed Their Security Details
Says They All Made Plenty Of Money and Offers To Recommend Security Companies
They’re lucky Trump is not suing them as was done to him.
The remaining members of the squad have been busy.
One of them in congress telling the world egg prices are outrageous and what’s Trump going to do about it (after saying this was a right wing conspiracy theory for the last two years).
Another one on Jon Stewart howling about insider trading in the congress.
Amazing how this becomes an issue for them now @sarc
Take them seriously. Lay charges against Pelosi and a few other prominent DemonRats.
And a few RINOs.
@DC_Draino
Lisa Murkowski was appointed by her governor daddy to the Senate
She voted with Obama 72.3% of the time in 2013
She opposed Brett Kavanaugh for SCOTUS but supported Kentanji Brown
She voted to convict Trump in his 2nd impeachment
She’s lost 2 GOP primaries and been censured by the Alaska Republican Party
She confirmed Lloyd Austin but not Pete Hegseth
Lisa Murkowski is a Democrat
RINO.
@AnthonyCabassa_
BREAKING: President Trump has said he will send California federal relief on two conditions:
He wants VOTER ID for local/state elections so the people of CA have honest elections, and wants CA to fix the water problem to fight fires and help farmers.
Why not? Wasn’t it Democrats who loved saying never let a crisis go to waste?
Mandatory fluorescent purple fingers and ID, no mail in votes.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Trump announces executive order to “fundamentally reform” or “get rid of” FEMA.
@BasedMikeLee
Who else has been canceled by @BankofAmerica?
Quite a lot of conservatives:
“Total Bullsh*t”: Bank Of America Torched After Claiming They Don’t Discriminate Against Conservatives (25 Jan)
Coral Sea to become interesting in next couple of weeks.
Unusually low humidity atm. SST’s at 31-32 deg C. Plenty of energy in CS atm.
Disinformation Experts Hate Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order
Your read with morning coffee. Too long to post it all. Selected excerpts follow.
A very Happy and Proud Australia Day one and all!
Australia wasn’t utopia before British arrival, but it has gone close since
Geoffrey Blainey
Even old Geoffrey has fallen into the “democracy” trap.
The USA was NOT founded as a “democracy”.
It was founded, per the words of Benjamin Franklin, “A REPUBLIC, if you can keep it”.
Take a scan through the list of nations with the word “”Democratic” in their official title. “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, “Democratic Congo”, the late, mostly-unlamented “German Democratic Republic” / DDR / East Germany. Any hints, yet?
Winston Churchill had something to say on the matter:
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”.
Supplementary:
“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”
Can you imagine if she had won? What a nightmare.
Kamala Harris stewing in California over monumental defeat — but still won’t take responsibility for her loss
Everyone knows this.
Putin: Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided Under Trump
“If They Weren’t the Crime Family, Why Do They Need Pardons?” – Speaker Johnson to Investigate Biden Family Pardons
A sponsored article in The Oz but nevertheless interesting. Selected paragraphs follow. The big miners may get burnt following the lithium lode.
Altech – CERENERGY battery project “Dark Green” accreditation boosts environmental credential
That is interesting. I had some involvement with a Swiss guy in the 70’s who had designed a salt battery. My involvement was in the safety equipment for machinery and was only aware of his battery which he had high hopes for.
Great. Deep Green. But how effective are they as working batteries?
Trump’s ICE raids turn up pedophiles, gangbangers, and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested: ‘Heinous crimes’
The bottom line for Target.
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1882864183974494282?t=8hyoRlnlXArqMKC4bDEHbw&s=19
Japan Sounds Alarm as Heart Failure Surges 4900% Among Covid-Vaxxed
acronym (n.)
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‘TLAs’ 😉
Meanwhile, in Airstrip One, there’s no risk to prosecution when the Grauniad does it.
JC at 12:49.
Dimon’s explanation about de-banking is a bit disingenuous and something of a diversion.
Saying that they are restricted in explaining the reasons is not an excuse for frivolous, vexatious or vindictive de-banking.
The fact that a bank got done for “missing” the 4,000 red flags on Epstein even after he was convicted simply tells me that Epstein had photos of a bank exec rooting a 15 year old – no more, no less.
And several banks “missed” red flags on Madoff as well.
But copping big fines for missing red flags (and not de-banking as a result) for obvious repeated breaches is not the issue here.
It seems people have been de-banked for Twitter posts or paying $9.95 to MAGA Caps Inc, and the banks have hidden behind privacy provisions in doing it.
And they are now rightfully copping it.
Given they need government licences/permissions, being neutral to political expression should be a requirement for keeping them.
Epstein was protected by powerful people and the bank did as it was told. The same would have happened when conservatives were debanked, the bank did as it was told. To clear himself Dimon can always tell who leaned on him in all those cases.
Well, not quite.
If a bank CEO breached the law by following an improper direction from a politician or bureaucrat, they are both in trouble.
The Nuremberg Defence doesn’t cut it here.
Further to the UK and the fallout from the cover up of the Southport massacre, a massacre I hate to remind readers where a little girl’s head was decapitated by the Islamist Welsh choir boy, overnight on Dan Wootton’s excellent YouTube programme, William Clouston (the leader of the SDP in the UK (old Labour) said in reference to the now open connivance and alliance of the mainstream media with Herr Sturmer’s Islamist government that it all has a strongly ‘Soviet whiff‘ about it. Indeed, the UK MSM are now Izvestia and Pravda combined, they are media whores doing the bidding of their leftist Islamist pimps, and they’re not even trying to hide their partisanship.
I don’t see how the UK will survive this, certainly not without violence on the streets.
Yes, is a Peterloo Massacre on the cards?
Cassie there is already violence on the streets, brought to everyone by muzzies. Until we see their blood running will it stop.
Don’t be silly.
All sorted. Just pass a law banning knives.
Apparently Albo is thinking of banning unlicensed driving.
That’ll stop kids stealing cars.
I’ve just read Mark Steyn’s wrap, linked above. As always, Steyn nails it.
I feel your pain, bro.
There are two moments of dread on our trips to the Big Smoke.
The first comes about half-way through the inbound journey … “Oh, we have to go to [far away outer suburb] to pick up the [X] I bought on line.”
Now, the Sporty Beemer is reasonably spacious but it is not the Tardis. My response, which sounds fairly reasonable, goes along the lines of “How are we going to fit a three-seater Chesterfield in the car?” is met with accusations of being “negative and obstructive”.
The second comes as we set off on the journey home.
“Can we just pop in to [shop X] for a quick look on our way?”
Let me define the terms here:-
1. Although framed as a question, this is a direction.
2. “Pop in for a quick look” = 2 hours.
3. “On our way” = 30 minutes across town in the diametrically opposite direction.
“Ok, but while you are doing X, I will pop into (insert name) Hobby shop or you can Y all day, but I am going to go to (insert name) train attraction.”
I usually don’t get to do either, as Mrs D changes her plans.
Once upon a time a trip to Melbournibad ( or even Sydney) was something to look forward to. Can’t say that about either for some time.
Your wife is a biggermist*, (* the huge haze that descends when shopping is involved). I’m pretty sure this is the same woman that takes me shopping for nothing but comes home with a car full.
This is real.
We nearly missed a flight out of LAX once because she was looking for duty free perfume and “lost track of the time”.
Mine was going overseas out of Brisbane, of course you don’t need a passport to fly to Brisbane. Just as well there was time to go home to get it.
While on the topic, tangentially…
Is this common? We sit in companionable silence for the 10 minutes it takes us to get to the Bruce Highway, it is a quietish road. Just before we merge onto the Bruce Highway,with cars merging from the left while trying to merge onto the right to get onto the highway ( 2 lanes merge into 1 to merge onto the highway) , the good wife decides to tell me something she has told me at least twice before about something I have no interest in. Same thing happens when lanes go every which way when they are doing roadworks.
I feel your pain brother.
New peer-reviewed study again confirms childhood vaccines are likely responsible for nearly 80% of the autism cases in US
I found out today that there are 40 groups around Australia who are trying to raise awareness of adverse vaccine effects by mounting displays of victims at popular outdoor places.
Today’s Northern Beaches group planted a huge bunch of (say 100) A4 laminated pages into the sands of Collaroy, standing like a forest of condemnation. Each page profiled an individual and their death/injury.
Sombre reading.
An overnight brief from our man in Germany, eugyppius:
If so that is one of the fastest ever backflips on record.
German ‘Conservative’ Leader Rules Out Coalition with Populist AfD, Preferring Partnership with Leftists Instead (24 Jan)
It’s possible that there’s been an outcry about this, since the Left has caused Germany to fall into a terrible malaise and a long recession. Add in all the stabby men and you could see why social pressure might force the backflip.
Is this US pause in Ukraine funding real or twitterX horseshit ?
GOP Senators Who Confirmed AWOL Austin Have No Real Reasons To Oppose Hegseth
Probably noted elsewhere, but the 50-50 spilt vote went in favour of Hegseth on Vance’s casting vote.
@RodDMartin
BREAKING: Inside the MASSIVE Trump DOJ shake-up you need to know about. A thread that will blow your mind…
Can’t open.
Politicians are involved!
But I expect we’ll hear more about this as the popular pressure isn’t dissipating.
In the face of it the CDU has promised (yes, I know) to crack down on immigration, but they now realise they’ll need AfD votes to pass the required legislation.
Immigration is only a secondary problem. What ails Germany is galloping greenery. Not sure CDU would overturn all that climate rubbish but if they don’t it’s going to be the fall of Germany as a European power.
Politically, it’s the primary problem atm.
Germans have always been in the thrall of Gaia. Hitler was some sort pagan green loon at heart. It’s one of the reason he could kill without being bothered by his conscience.
Marc Andreessen Explains Debanking
Sounds like how royalty operated before the Magna Carta. And they call Trump a wannabe king.
When I take the kids somewhere, it’s usually to things I never did as a kid. Previous years it’s to go to Phillip Island, to Albion Park where I have a friend we stay with, Great Ocean Road etc. Puffing Billy is something I would like to do, without the preachings of some idiot. Hun:
Failure to read the room.
Mzzz Straub has form being quite silly which I will report on in subsequent posts.
And they won’t see any of my money with this poxy mindset.
Yet another activist chick.
Screams university chick
Whacky glasses are a warning sign.
Also the tilty head.
Fair bit of ironing going on.
Puffing Billy boils water to make steam.
There were no water boiling facilities available until 26th January 1788.
Just how did Puffing Billy come into existence? It’s high time there was some gratitude shown by whingeing minorities for the good life they can lead in Australia.
“They don’t know they’re born”.
Great painting. The greatness of this nation is two-fold: the inheritance of the British legal and political system which is the best the world and humanity has invented, and which saved the primitive and otherwise doomed aboriginal peoples; secondly the vast resources this nation has, minerals, energy and agriculture.
Both these twin aspects of greatness have always been under attack by the left, the alp and it’s off springs, the teals and the commies. A typically aggressively and partisan media has seen these twin features of greatness eroded. We now live in a pale shadow of the potential this nation had. The left has been the driver but the weakness of conservatism, the vicious bias of the msm and the lazy indifference of the punters have all contributed.
I’m seriously thinking of moving to the US; possibly Florida or Texas. I’ll be buying one of these:
B&T TP9 Optimized With A3 Tactical | RECOIL
the inheritance of the British legal and political system which is the best the world and humanity has invented,
Least worst.
That’s like saying Trump is the least worst POTUS instead of the best. I guess.
After Biden, I guess that’s a fair comment.
Zactly.
Like what Churchill said about democracy.
That’s the squirrels dealt with. Are you getting anything for personal defence?
Well, it is a 9mm; but a heavy load and a hollow point makes the difference with a bigger calibre moot.
The article does say something about a ‘maxim’
Not that sort of ‘Maxim’, Flyinduk – the verbal ‘maxim’.
But you knew that.
If only we had the opportunity here – looks like a handy possum-buster and bat- splatter to me.
Those are the places I’m considering.
I’d go for a Beretta 1912fs.
Just like Trump has his crazy relatives who sided with the demorat and media grubs, so to has Elon:
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter responds to ‘Nazi salute’ accusations with scathing post
And a good article on the bug eyed lesso bishop who bad mouthed Trump at the church service:
Foolish Lady Bishop Vs. Trump | Frontpage Mag
IIRC that is the tranny “daughter”.
Elon said that he will never forgive the woke who cost him a son.
Yes, his son Xavier. Who went full on woke mind virus, and woke Elon up to this evil attacking our children.
Is this the trans one?
This situation is one of the key reasons Elon became more politically active.
Not the corporate council from Mars? You must by kidding. What the buggery is she doing in Puffing Billy?
This is how the Liars roll.
They provide a relatively small amount of funding (in this case probably inclusion in the Tourism Victoria advertising) but the quid pro quo is the insertion of the “right” CEO or board.
And compliance with diversity quotas and reconciliation plans.
These people go to the meetings. Conservatives don’t.
I always find it remarkable that these woke whiteys presume to speak for all A/TSI people, as though there aren’t different views among indigenous folk.
Btw, it was Woolworths RAP working group that got it into trouble over Australia Day last year, causing significant loss of reputation.
As with DEI, I expect Australian corporations will continue down this path regardless, because the people who lead them aren’t bright enough to consult outside the bubble.
Woolworths angled to gaslighting now so still digging.
We’ll stock merchandise this year, then in fineprint ‘only can be bought online’.
To be fair they aren’t the only culprits, notice Coles isn’t either.
My Coles has A Day items on the shelves.
I recall some lefty recently spouting off a list of wonderful Aboriginal festivals around the country and included the Coming of the Light festival in Torres Strait. It was
clear she had not a clue what that festival celebrates, and thought it was some sort solstice worship or something. A fair chunk of Aboriginal Australia, in the bush at least, are socially conservative.
And in the case of TIs, very religious.
it is interesting that anthropologists hate the stories of Ion Idreiss about the history of these peoples, but the TIs love them and believe they do reflect their history.
No different one I think- looks like your typical Vic ALP femocrat.
Quite so.
As Paul Keating once said, “In the great race of life, always back Self Interest. At least you know it’s trying”.
Channelling Jack Lang I believe.
Sanchez
The problem comes down to this.
The rot started when banking became an arm of the state. It was always a very bad decision to force banks to police their customers as they shouldn’t have been put in that position in the first place.
And because the banking system is so highly regulated, if state operators tell banks to debank someone they will because at any point in time they would be contravening some clause of the 30,000 pages of regulations they are forced to follow and potentially incurring millions of dollars in fines.
And now they might cop millions in penalties for de-banking people without legitimate cause.
It is very convenient to plead the Nuremberg (without naming the politician or bureaucrat issuing ze orders).
Sure, the big high-profile ones were probably done at the behest of the Hidens, but I strongly suspect that a big chunk of the de-banking was done by the bank without official direction by some purple-haired DEI.
Yeah, I saw this yesterday I think. Daniel Greenfield now takes it up:
South Africa Legalizes Mass Land Seizures from White Farmers (25 Jan)
So they’re just going to steal it. I wonder how long until the 3rd Boer War starts?
The ANC has always been in bed with the SA Communist Party.
Nelson Mandela was, at one stage, on the Central Committee of the SA Communist Party, a position he later went to great lengths to deny ever having held.
hopefully they salted away some Mausers from that era
I wonder how long before food shortages start?
Sooner than the Third Boer War.
BRITAIN NEEDS A TRUMP!
NO ONE Saw THIS Coming…Trump’s BOLDEST Move Yet?!
No one saw this coming ?
Trump told many audiences (a couple of crypto conferences, a couple of libertarian conferences) he was going to pardon Ulbricht.
Ulbricht is not a nice guy.
Commercially he screwed over many people.
But the FBI still framed him with the murder for hire scam.
If the FBI wanted to go after him legitimately there were more than enough commerce related issues to do so.
The FBI wanted to use him as an example.
The FBI along with many other US gov branches are criminal organisations.
Trump’s speech to the WEF has already been posted but I don’t think Milei’s has. As usual, he’s outstanding.
Milei & Trump Leave WEF Speechless
Marc Andreessen Explains Debanking
Thanks for posting that. I like Andreessen’s last question…..
Who do you go to to get your bank account back?
It’s a very good question and for the ordinary Joe and Jo Blow in the street they have had virtually no recourse for where they can go to get their bank accounts back. And this has been the case in the UK, where for the last few years ordinary Britons have been debanked a plenty, such as a vicar in Yorkshire, his crime being that he objected to Pride Flags emblazoned all across his local credit union branch, for his ideological thought crime his bank account was shut down. It’s a fact that for years Tommy Robinson, Kellie-Jay Keen, Katie Hopkins and others have been ‘debanked’ en masse.
It took Nigel Farage’s debanking back in 2023 to shine a light on the woke progressive scum running banks and financial institutions and engaging in the debanking of those whom they deem to be ideologically ‘unclean’.
Perhaps Mzzz Straub can take the reins here. Shameless. Hun again:
So a new shiny rail link that has no real value to Victoria or the nation to be resurrected like Lazarus. FMD
And of course it’s deeper than that.
The longer the loop takes to build, the more Melbourne grows and by the time it’s done in 2178, it becomes obselete.
We are governed by clueless far quits.
We won’t need the airport. Air travel will be banned by then because greenhouse gases.
Zactly.
Flown in/out of Melbourne a bunch of times this year. Bus network is probably the best pick in Oz to get you to your train network or even rural destination.
Also where they want to put the station is ridiculous. Would be a traffic nightmare in an area already bad for the duration of the build.
CMFEU wagging the dog again?
If the State and Federal Libs had any brass they would commit to funding the airport rail link based on the direct route originally proposed by the airport and IFM back in the day, including an underground station at the airport. Wedge industry super by offering IFM the same JV investment and commit funding to some more worthy project in the west of the city instead of forcing airport rail via Sunshine for political reasons.
Subject: Based Threadware
Politico NT, thanks for the “Finish The Coffee” tip- but I can’t (or, I suspect, Google says I can’t) draw a bead on what it actually means?
Dover, please give my email to PoliticoNT, and anyone else who wants it, really
To clarify, I don’t want to be offensive or smartalec, I’m searching for the Israeli version of my favourite 1776 Mark Dice number. Simple statement of support on my chest to check the tide of weeds in pro-palli-r*pe-gang insignia.
Cassie, any thoughts? I wouldn’t mind some Hebraic script, blue on white. This might sound hoity toity, but I don’t wear black.
i made a custom t-shirt before xmas … try screenlab.com.au
highly recommend
easy to use online design tool
excellent turn-around, first-rate communication, excellent quality t-shirt too
Had a look and looks great.
Thanks for that.
Wally – from memory I got the idea from an Israeli comedian who was initially joking about what to do after his wife rings him with some task. It won’t make any difference to his wife’s mood or approach so better to stay and finish the coffee. He realised (I think after a visit to the UK) that Israel can finish the job in Gaza, or not. Won’t make a damn difference to the opinion of those who hate them. So they might as well ‘finish the coffee.’ It was eloquently put.
Petition:
Prevent Senator Penny Wong from Representing Australia at the 80th Auschwitz Commemoration
Link
Done, and contributed.
Puffing Billy Railway acknowledges that Australia Day holds a different meaning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
In Sydney at the moment and took a ferry ride with Captain Cook cruises.
They had a video message about acknowledging the local peoples etc, and several signs around the boat.
I have emailed them my reworded complaint I use with any airlines that does the standard welcome stuff on landing.
Have also added a question as to why they have poliical statements on their bulkheads.
Might be just the catalyst for any organisation to reverse something doubtless foisted on the entire organisation by some woke HR numpty.
I sent a pithy message to Puffing Billy last night.
Do you always lisp?
We acknowledge that the local peoples exterminated the mega fauna and burned the place to the ground.
Agree. But given their now ‘controversial’ trading name, they are potentially just trying to preemptively avoid trouble from the usual ratbags.
I personally don’t give a damn about their reasons to not celebrate Australia Day – I only care about the fact that they have decided to do it.
What you might ask is how many ‘local people’ are running the boat.
I certainly don’t bank with CommBank but I use their ATMS for free withdrawals. I see all their odious anti-white man, marxist agitprop. If they really feel that way, why don’t they just go out of business and hand over all their real estate to ‘traditional owners’.
The big four banks here are truly foul and anti Australian. Is that old Ken Henry deadshit still with the NAB?
A don (a ‘Doctor’ no less) turned pubic serpent.
Pogria January 24, 2025 10:10 pm
The jump – flawless.
But the Fluffy Cat didn’t correctly follow through – Elsie would have buried her face in the biscuit bowl.
Cassie, any thoughts?
You should wear a hostage tag and an Israel/Australia pin. They’re available on line, through the AJA website……..
https://jewishassociation.org.au/shop/
Great – tried to buy, but their stupid site won’t recognise my phone number, tried 4 times – and why the hell do they need my phone number when they have my email address.
Stupid site.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Being Airstrip One, the concerned parents will be referred to PREVENT, who will find they were motivated by extreme right wing ideology and recommend their children be taken into state care.
I’ve done some shirts via Red Bubble- terrible quality tho.
But my rub is not how to do them, but to do what.
If there is an extant Israel-a-go-go tradition, then let me have at it.
If there isn’t, i might have to forge my own, which might turn out to be even mpre ill-considered than “Zion Ho!”
I’ve bought heaps of t shirts via red bubble.
Hit and miss on the quality of the fabricate.
But a 25 buck t shirt…can’t really complain.
Try Vistaprint.
I’ve bought about fifty self designed shirts and all good quality with excellent printing.
You can select different quality, and price, garments/shirts on red bubble
Apart from his daily cartoon, Johannes Leak has an excellent portrait of Donald Trump in today’s Paywallian.
I read the Greg Sheridan piece that went with it – so you didn’t have. Sheridan is a weather vane who, like the Stupid Frigging Liberals, believes in nothing and his piece today on Trump is full of passive aggressive sniping about the Democratic Party’s talking points on J6 and tariffs.