Do try harder this time. And don’t upset JC, that role is full.
Open Thread – Tues 28 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Tues 28 Jan 2025
- Flying the Flag
- Open Thread – Australia Day Weekend 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 23 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 20 Jan 2025
Tell that to Columbia.
A caravan full of explosive seized in Sydney. The alleged target was a synagogue. NSW plod “If only we knew…
Perplexed our Vet ‘Dogs can see color, but only in shades of blue and yellow. Because dogs can only see two…
No, pumping shit out of the toilets of transient aircraft.
9PM and all is well
Mark Dice front and center with the camera. Another nail in the coffin monologue is on the cards.
We’re Gonna Have To Stop This Too
This is the answer to my question:
What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
Answer is from bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF which I have loaded on my LLM Studio-0.3.8
Yes, we are truly lucky that nothing of that nature, could occur in the “democracy and home of free speech”, that is Australia.
On that theme, how many Australians were killed or injured, by the actions of the Morrison Govt and EVERY State Legislature in this country, during the period 2020-2023?
Just asking for a friend.
I am, of course, fully aware that the stratospheric rise of heart problems, (MyoCarditis, -hitherto unheard of- in particular), strokes and mental health issues since that time, are all obviously attributable, to worry about Climate Change.
Your Govt loves you, just keep those weekly Covid boosters up, you cannot be too careful.
2130 and time for bed. Up at 4am tomorrow to go fishing off Cottesloe beach. Caught blowies for 3.5hrs last time so hope my catch is more edible this time.
We Were soldiers full move
I’m surprised this is on YT. Probably poor resolution. I don’t have a clue, obviously, but it strikes me as one of the more realistic accounts of the Vietnam war.
Near midnight, time for a game.
720 resolution max.
Australia Day: ‘Twas a far quieter day here than expected. Went for a stroll in the mid-afternoon.
Reflected upon the pay-rate grid table – not the full award, just the pay rates – I’d downloaded from the website of the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Bound into a spirax book, the pay rates were printed in rows 3.5mm high, at this they required Ninety-Two pages of A4 paper.
There are Ten Thousand, Three Hundred and Nineteen separate pay rates & allowances in the award (I know because I counted them all, using a pencil)
There are Eight Hundred different pay rates for an employee with the word “Cook” in their job title.
As of this month, the Federal government has made it a criminal offence for an employer to “underpay”
We’re assured this will be only a ‘last resort’ for deliberate & grievous cases of recidivism by an employer. Sure.
After the Childers backpacker fiasco I saw how unaccountable public servants went after hapless budget accommodation providers, looking for small technical errors so they could “get a pinch”.
Errors such as:
The sign above a fire extinguisher being 182cm from the floor, instead of 180cm. (This can attract an $8,000 fine, per extinguisher – or it can be a charge that is answerable in court, costing far more just to defend, with an unknown penalty at the completion of the trial.)
“Honest payroll mistakes & inadvertent clerical errors won’t be criminalized – honest employers have nothing to worry about.” Sure.
Australia, land of legislation so complex and so open to interpretation that any business operator is at any moment exposed to being fined in the hundreds of thousands, with a criminal record thrown in as a bonus.
The SFL’s silence on this & similar life-changing matters, in fact their callous indifference, is soul-destroying.
A malevolent ALP and a callously indifferent LNP.
Australia, land of stupid.
Australia Day – we’re supposed to celebrate or somesuch.
Salvatore,
Fully in agreement-the FWA is an abomination. It was 600 odd pages a few years ago and now probably 1,000. And the fcking thing changes every year!
No small business can afford to keep up with bullshit like that. Totally unnecessarily it proscribes pay rates for IT professionals that are in high demand in the labour market on $100,000+ pa FFS.
God help a High Tech start up in the ‘Clever Country’ with a couple of dozen employees covered by that pile of bullshit.
Interesting. Now go ask the question on the web version like I asked.
By the way, was that the Tickcurator on the other thread furiously ticking away or was that you?What a shitshow you’re operating.
Translation:
I’m not wrong … you are
and I’m not paranoid either … you’re all in on it
I know youse are
Correct , trans. I’m right. Kremlin kid tried to pull a fast one pretending that was question. I asked.
Imagine getting a quote for you for an ac unit. Stealing ticks. Imagine if money was involved.
imagine being a loopy clown who invents his own ‘facts’ to support his own paranoid delusions
not really loving yr style of just lashing out at whoever disagrees with you
you piss people off
they give you shit
you use it as an excuse to piss them off
perpetual supply of targets for your spazzes
and you reckon you’re the victim?
… you’re stuck in an Idiot Loop
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Using rhis thread reader web page is simple. Just go to https://threadreaderapp.com/ and put the address of the first X-tweet in the text box. The whole address works fine – just dump it in there. Great for those of us without an X-Twitter account or just not lugged in.
Thanks Nelson.
Lugged in? That’s what I get for browsing the Çat through bleary eyes when I can’t sleep…
Meanwhile in Melbourne:
A popular St Kilda venue has come under fire after it threatened to kick out a regular patron if he refused to take off his red Donald Trump MAGA cap.
Angelo Notta, 45, was celebrating a friend’s birthday at Captain Baxter on Australia Day when he was approached by the venue manager and told to remove the cap which famously reads ‘Make American Great Again’.
“I rocked up at 5.30pm, sat down at a table and probably 10 minutes in the venue manager came up to me and said ‘I need you to remove your hat’,” Mr Notta told the Herald Sun.
“I said ‘since when is there a no hat policy’ but he said ‘it’s not that, it’s what’s on the hat’. “He said that it was inciting ‘political trouble’.
“I was told I needed to remove it or I’m going to be kicked out. I was embarrassed. I was getting quite upset.
“It’s just stupid to be getting offended by a hat. Everyone has a right to having an opinion, respectfully, without the fear of being cancelled. It’s basically like we’re bowing down to a minority.”
Not wanting to cause a scene, Mr Notta took the hat off.
“I had to put up with a bad hair day,” he laughed.
“I’m a single guy, I gave it a mingle but your confidence is always a bit down when you’ve got sh*t hair.”
Security later pounced again when one of his friends put the hat on again after a few drinks.
“It’s like they were just watching the hat the whole time,” he said.
“It was just unheard of. It’s a red hat.”
His friend removed the hat.
Mr Notta said he was a loyal customer of Captain Baxter and had attended the venue for a Sunday session every week since last November.
And it was not the first time that he’d worn his MAGA cap.
“I’m not shy on spending a dollar there — I haven’t spent anything less than $500 for the day, sometimes more,” he said.
“What if I was wearing a Kamala hat? Would they do the same thing? If I had a Free Palestine T-shirt, is that OK?”
Mr Notta said the ordeal had left a “bad taste in his mouth”.
In Victoria it is against the law to discriminate against a person because they support, or don’t support, a certain political party.
Captain Baxter is owned by the company Melbourne Hospitality People.
On its website, Captain Baxter states that it is a “place free from discrimination, where we respect and celebrate the diversity of our communities”.
The Herald Sun has contacted both Captain Baxter and Melbourne Hospitality People for comment.
The MAGA cap stoush is the latest controversy to hit a St Kilda venue after pub giant Australian Venue Co — which owns St Kilda’s famous Espy hotel — faced widespread community backlash for refusing to recognise Australia Day.
The pub giant, which was previously forced to apologise about a controversial Australia Day celebration ban, sparked a new backlash when it encouraged Aussies to simply celebrate the “long weekend”.
Herald-Sun – comments mostly deride the pub.
Can you get an identical hat with “Australia” instead? Might be fun for the federal election.
I thought a royal blue hat with MAGA in white and a stem of the A doubling as a flagpole with the blue ensign waving above would work. Never got as far as making obe up. May work even better now than in the ’45’ era when I came up with it.
I recently installed Starlink. Part of their contract says ‘we can cancel your service at any time for any reason, so can you’.
This is how private business should be – we dont have to serve you and you dont have to patronise us. Money goes where its treated best.
*What if I was wearing a Kamala hat? Would they do the same thing? If I had a Free Palestine T-shirt, is that OK?*
what if Grace Tame had dropped in for a drink with her F Murdoch shirt.
I’d tell her I don’t fancy her chances with him.
President Higgins’s hatred for Israel is bringing shame on Ireland – spiked
I just can’t get over how totally f*cked Ireland is
Remember the IRA and PLO were joined at the hip when they were both being sponsored by their USSR sugar daddy.
Lots of cross pollination of methods and tactics as well as members and training.
Jackie Jackie:
Jacqui Lambie slams ex-ADF chief’s Brussels posting
Jacqui Lambie is threatening to roll out a nationwide ad campaign mobilising voters’ support on veterans’ welfare, as the independent senator criticises Labor for appointing former Defence chief Angus Campbell to a plum diplomatic posting overseas.
Ahead of the federal election, due by May 17, Senator Lambie said the campaign she was considering would call on both sides of politics to improve the nation’s defence capabilities, act in the interest of veterans and throw out war crimes charges against former SAS troops who served in Afghanistan.
Senator Lambie has also criticised Foreign Minister Penny Wong for appointing Mr Campbell as Australia’s ambassador to the EU, NATO, Belgium and Luxembourg, after the retired general oversaw a decline in defence capabilities and personnel numbers during his six years as Australian Defence Force chief.
Writing in The Australian, Senator Lambie declared Mr Campbell “simply doesn’t deserve” the Brussels posting after the retired general “threw Diggers under the bus” over allegations SAS troops had committed war crimes in Afghanistan, while command “got off scot-free”.
If the ADF doesn’t reform itself, improve support for veterans and drop the charges against the SAS soldiers, Senator Lambie said she would campaign to place veterans’ issues on the election agenda and vowed to “keep going” after the poll.
“If I start running ads on behalf of those veterans, I usually get the Australian population behind me, and that’s the last thing they want going into an election and I’ll use it,” she told The Australian.
“You don’t want that running during an election, if you’re not doing the right thing by them.”
Senator Lambie criticised Mr Campbell for overseeing the defence force during a time when the worst “abuse and systemic weaponisation of administrative processes” took place. She pointed to the ADF’s attempts to frustrate the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide by refusing to share requested information to the inquiry.
Former Defence chief Angus Campbell. Picture: Martin Ollman/NewsWire
Former Defence chief Angus Campbell. Picture: Martin Ollman/NewsWire
She also accused Mr Campbell of refusing to accept responsibility for Defence’s failures during the royal commission or for allegations of war crimes when he was in command of Australian forces in Afghanistan.
“You threw your Diggers under the bus, said we don’t want anything to do with this,” she said.
“No way. I am sick and tired, and many other Australians are sick and tired of seeing people that do the wrong thing, and are flown out under the darkness of night into another well-paid job.
“Or get stints like these when they don’t deserve them, because that shows me they have no idea.
“Politicians have no idea on leadership and what leadership should look like. There is no way you would put that man in a leadership position like this. No way after what he has done.”
Senator Lambie said Mr Campbell shouldn’t have been “rewarded” for his performance as ADF chief, while SAS soldiers are being investigated by police for their role in alleged war crimes and unlawful killings committed on deployment in Afghanistan. One SAS soldier was charged in 2023 and is yet to face trial.
“The Labor Party’s done absolutely nothing for these guys who have been alleged of these war crimes, absolutely nothing at all,” she said.
“It’s just a mess, and he’s part of that mess. Why would you promote him? You wouldn’t promote him in your own business.
“When someone’s done that much damage, that much morale damage in the time he’s been in.”
The Australian understands former SAS soldiers are critical of the government’s decision to appoint Mr Campbell, with one labelling it as “tone deaf”.
Oz
She has a point.
As our American friends say – even a blind hog finds the occasional acorn.
Another disgraceful appointee, an evil creature, without a conscience, soul or heart. Well done tone-deaf Albo
Labor don’t know any other kind.
AnAl is making certain that Campbell will not be available to be called before any Parliamentary committee should Dutton become the next PM.
….and well rewarded for his part in the destruction of Australian war fighting capability.
Top Ender
January 28, 2025 4:25 am
I’m sure this headgear wouldn’t have caused any problems?
Yes but did he win?
Not a chance, he came seventh in the Ultra-Lightweight TT (125 cc) classification.
More about that race here
For a change, really ‘cute’ owls.
Another great photograph taken on the 8th of July 1943, in New Guinea,
Wau-Mubo area, during WW2.
This Transport Unit with their horses carries stores to men at forward areas over some of the roughest country in New Guinea.
It’s great to come upon a photograph that includes the names of the people in them.
Pictured are Sergeant David Hutchins, 2/6th Battalion, of Camberwell, Victoria, and Corporal Keith John Corrin, 2/6th Battalion, of Tyabb, Victoria, light up before starting out on the track.
Lest We Forget.
Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM 015225.
I’m fascinated by this DeepSeek argument.
Are there two versions? Is one a self-contained downloadable program and the other one that you access via the web?
there are many versions
BSG ?
If that is so, then one person’s experience of the program will be different from another’s.
The big question is…are certain versions vulnerable to data gathering? And I don’t mean benign but malicious (spying, theft for instance). I think that was what JC was getting at.
I was interested to see JC’s “Tiananmen Square” question in his response and Dover’s. What exactly is going on here?
I have no idea what’s going on
JC’s experience yesterday may well be different
however, that is no an excuse for him to become increasingly abusive and accusatory
… a normal person would go “well, that was interesting”
I am not a geek, wouldn’t know a thing about it, but our daughter works in IT and sent me a link when asked about it.
Fairly basic article but seems to cover it for me.
Thanks Gabor. I debated with myself whether I’d Google it but decided this forum might be more useful. Unfortunately, I don’t trust articles. Or only so far.
What is more interesting to me is people’s experience of something…people I have come to respect (regardless of vigorous stoushes). 😀
Naturally it’s all over the news this morning and commentators are frothing over its importance and capabilities. They do that about everything.
Good old times.
Don’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing.
Since hunting/culling crocs was stopped in the seventies, their number exploded and they lost the fear of humans I’m told.
On the other hand there are now crocodile farms making money.
So there is that.
There should be a massive cull.
The NT Gov, a few years ago was mulling over whether to allow Game Hunting of the massive, old man crocs. There was huge interest from overseas.
The cost mooted was $250.000.00 per croc.
Literally money for jam.
Of course, the screaming meemies put a stop to it.
Sigh, poor fellow my country.
I’ll raise it our next branch meeting. Our Central Council is also next month. Make enough noise and it’ll make the agenda. Lia (our Chief) was interviewed this morning. Long format called, ‘Chief on a Tuesday’. The poor budgetary circumstances inherited from Labor were a constant. Not all about attacking Labor. Our situation really is shit. Big game hunting is a net contributor to the bottom line. I’d give it a 50/50.
The blackfellas will get all the money, Politico.
Nice of them to let you know.
Outstanding!
In Gateway Pundit’s daily roundup we learn that Lindsay Graham has again switched faces from his usual support for Trump and opposes the J6 pardons! Plus RINO Susan Collins determined to derail Tulsi Gabbard’s appointment. Legacy Fake News Media sprung doing dodgy petitions against RFK jr.
Woke loser churches shielding illegals from deportation.
As I have said before, too many crooks in too many places.
Lindsay Graham has again switched faces from his usual support for Trump and opposes the J6 pardons!
Like he gets a say?
That old lesbian? I see one of the pardoned is already dead by cop.
Jesus wept…
Today’s Tele:
All aboard Family and partners of illegal boat people given visas to stay permanently
VISAS GIFTED TO THE FAMILIES OF ILLEGALS
JADE GAILBERGER
28 Jan 2028
More than 21,500 partners and family members of asylum seekers who arrived in the country illegally by boat have been granted permanent Australian visas, new figures show.
About 19,000 people who arrived before Operation Sovereign Borders commenced in 2013 became eligible to apply for permanent visas under an Albanese government reform.
The 2023 decision meant asylum seekers — who held or had applied for Temporary Protection Visas and Safe Haven Enterprise visas — would be able to access social security and family reunion rights if granted a Resolution of Status visa.
Home Affairs department figures show that 21,581 permanent visas were granted to partners and family members of asylum seekers between February 13, 2023 and September 30, 2024.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson lashed the figures, saying Labor had not only opened the door to illegal boat arrivals but thousands more people.
“Not only have they been allowed to stay permanently, they’ve even been able to bring in partners and family in huge numbers,” Senator Paterson said.
“No wonder people smugglers are testing Australia’s resolve again. They think Labor will eventually give in as they have with this cohort.
“Only a Dutton Coalition Government will restore Operation Sovereign Borders to its full strength which first stopped Labor’s boats.”
Latest Operation Sovereign Borders data shows two boats carrying a total of 13 people attempted to come to Australia in November last year.
A Home Affairs department spokesperson said the government was committed to Operation Sovereign Borders. But in a bizarre statement, the spokesperson said asylum seekers who are found to have no legitimate claims to remain here “are expected to depart Australia voluntarily’’.
“Australia’s border protection policies have not and will not change. Any person who attempts to travel to Australia irregularly will not settle permanently here,” the spokesperson said.
“People who do not engage protection obligations, who are not awaiting a merits or judicial review outcome, and who have exhausted all avenues to remain in Australia, are expected to depart Australia voluntarily and may be provided assistance to depart.”
Greens immigration spokesman David Shoebridge claimed at least 5000 people had been excluded from the Resolution of Status Visa process.
Senator Shoebridge admitted some people who went through the now-abolished visa process were having their applications “assessed fairly”.
But he accused the government of being weak, saying Anthony Albanese was “happy to sell out multicultural Australia if it means he can squib a fight with Dutton”, adding: “This should be burning a hole in the ALP’s conscience, with thousands of people who sought asylum … (having) their claims unfairly rejected,” he said.
editorial page 18
Bastards laying landmines before the election.
Editorial:
ALBO GOES ALL RUDD/GILLARD
Labor’s border protection failures under the Rudd and Gillard government left a shocking stain on our nation.
Those extraordinary failures were practically inevitable from the moment the Rudd government relaxed our border vigilance.
The people-smuggling industry, which had been stalled throughout the later years of the previous Howard Coalition government, quickly seized their deadly opportunity.
By the time even Labor had realised how gravely the border situation had been misjudged, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants were on Australian territory – and more than 1000 had perished at sea.
It was a humanitarian and political nightmare from which sensible Labor identities have for years sought to rebuild.
But now comes news of another Labor immigration debacle that has its origins in those tragic Rudd/Gillard border blunders.
As The Daily Telegraph reports, more than 21,500 partners and family members of asylum seekers who arrived in the country illegally by boat have been granted permanent Australian visas.
In effect, these partners and family members have been rewarded for the border-skipping behaviour of their first-arriving relatives. And it is all due to an Albanese government “reform” that any rational analyst would categorise as weak and foolish.
“Not only have they been allowed to stay permanently, they’ve even been able to bring in partners and family in huge numbers,” Coalition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said.
“No wonder people smugglers are testing Australia’s resolve again. They think Labor will eventually give in as they have with this cohort.”
This is a crucial point. People smugglers maintain a constant study of Australia’s border protection policies and practices, all the while seeking even a tiny point of weakness.
By granting thousands of permanent Australian visas, the Albanese Labor government is doing its best impersonation of a Rudd/Gillard Labor government.
People smugglers will be impressed. Australians won’t be.
Another 20,000 labor voters.
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys news.
Royal Navy chief slams Keir Starmer over woke HMS Agincourt renaming (27 Jan)
Given they have been sending hordes of country shoppers across the Channel it would be much better to keep the original name as a reminder of what happens when France pisses off Britain.
The current version of Britain is not that historic Britain, it will become part of the caliphate before France.
BBC is anti-Musk: “Richest man in the world, who many saw doing a nazi salute, supporter of AfD.”
SKY News (I think it’s from the UK Sky who are interchangeable with BBC) running weepy Gazans despite increasing evidence that they have all been supporters of or actually dressed up as Hamas monsters.
Judge Cannon Body Slams Biden DOJ’s Last-Ditch Lawfare Effort
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
BIG DONALD REVELS IN THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
TIM BLAIR
28 Jan 2025
Losers love to lie, which is entirely understandable.
Usually it’s the only way they can win.
One of the most effective strategies of deceit deployed by our loser mates is to pretend that a given problem is simply unfixable. Too hard. Don’t try. Move along.
You know the procedure, because we see it in Australia all the time.
This tactic is frequently used by leftists and lazy left-inclined bureaucrats who don’t actually view those problems as problems at all.
They’re happy to just let the badness keep rolling along, ruining things for us normals.
A prime example: Australia’s previously porous borders, which under Labor allowed many tens of thousands of illegals to arrive (and which led to the deaths of more than 1000 illegals at sea).
Labor and the Greens adored their deadly and destructive little border parties, and were aghast when the Coalition campaigned to stop them during the 2013 election race.
Couldn’t be done, they claimed. And just about everyone advising 2013’s incoming Coalition government agreed. “At the beginning,” former prime minister Tony Abbott reflected in 2023, “only one of the government’s most senior officials thought that stopping the boats was even achievable.”
But it really was achievable, and in quick time too. Bye-bye, boaties.
Post that singular success, however, successive Australian governments have largely lost the ability to correct problems created by, well, by themselves.
To remedy this, our governments – both current (Albanese/Labor) and impending (Dutton/Coalition) – would do well to remind themselves of 2013’s brilliant boat-stoppery and also to look abroad at the spectacular US revival being driven by President Donald Trump.
It turns out that lots of stupid leftist problems can be very rapidly set straight, or at least be pointed in that direction, even if they’re stupid leftist problems that have been hanging around for years.
Such as America’s own illegal immigration crisis, which was encouraged by the criminal Biden administration. “Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency at our southern border. I sent active duty troops on the border to help repel the invasion,” Trump said on the weekend.
“Tom Homan is leading the charge,” the 45th and 47th president continued, referring to his harder-than-a-cat’s-head border tsar.
“You know that. We like Tom Homan. Doing a great job. We immediately halted all illegal entry and began sending every border trespasser and violator back to the places from which they came.”
That’s great news for most, bad news for some. An alleged Haitian gang member who’d clocked up 17 criminal convictions since arriving in the US last week took angry exception to his looming removal.
“F–k Trump!” the man yelled at media after being captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Boston.
“Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro. I’m not going back to Haiti.” On the plus side, this bloke is obviously a quick study of US urban vernacular. Good for him, yo. On the down side, however, as Holman told Fox News: “He’s going back to Haiti.”
Meanwhile, Trump is also moving against other invaders. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officials – the DEI gang – have infiltrated just about every area of the US government, draining resources while contributing nothing but signalled virtue.
It’s rare that a government instruction lands with the power of poetry, but Trump’s DEI directive did it: “Each agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions within sixty days.”
This government isn’t just slashing and burning entire fields of diversity, equity and inclusion weeds. It’s going after them “to the maximum extent allowed by law”. Throwing “environmental justice” in there was a beautiful touch as well.
In response, some DEI entities – which exist to enforce identity politics – have actually tried to change identities. Lisa Boykin, formerly the chief diversity officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, reportedly underwent a sudden title switch last week.
She became a “senior executive”. But a subsequent government notice indicated that Trump’s team is wise to these moves.
“We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” the notice announced. “If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances.”
The identity people are now lying about identities. Losers used to win.
FIRE THE LOT!!!
Pong overnight at Auschwitz…
Senator Wong said “attending this commemoration was a deeply moving experience’’.
“It was an opportunity to stand together with representatives from around the world and say never again. The words of the Holocaust survivors will stay with me, always,’’ she said.
Except that Pong is all for ‘again and again and again‘.
What a disgrace she is.
Closer to home, I note that the NSWaffen have charged a man for defacing a police memorial.
NSW Police have charged a 43-year-old man for allegedly damaging a Sydney police memorial in The Domain, defacing it with vandalism that referred to fallen offices as “dogs” and the force as “evil”.
Amazing what the NWAffen Police can do when they have the will. It’s clear they have no will when Jews are targeted.
As I wrote yesterday, there’s now a police helicopter flying over Sydney’s eastern suburbs in the early hours of the morning….monitoring prospective attacks against Jewish suburbs, cars, schools and synagogues. I suspect the NSWaffen police would be better off on the ground, and rather than standing like frozen mummies when frothing screeching Jew haters scream ‘f*ck the Jews’ and….yes…..’gas the Jews’…..perhaps they should be moving in on them, charging and arresting the Jew haters? I mean, isn’t that policing?
Great country we live in now.
Given the events of the last 16 months, I can firmly say that the world has learnt nothing……….NOTHING.
What a disgrace she is.
She literally has zero shame.
Or conscience.
I noticed that her office “corrected” the transcript of her presser of a couple of days ago. She talked about “over a million” Jews being killed in WWII. There was not ambiguity in her statement. The transcript added (at Auschwitz) just to cover the beastly woman’s exposed butt.
I heard you Penny. I didn’t “mishear”. You either didn’t know, or knew and downplayed. Either way, a complete @rse of an FM.
Not one ounce, or should that be gram, of feeling for the ones murdered, nor the ones that witnessed it and survived, nor the extended families, nor the Jewish people as a whole who had this inflicted upon them by the foulest of humanity simply for being.
Her moral compass came with instructions labelled “ Focus Group Briefing Notes” – hence the sudden sadness when thinking of the holocaust.
Always one for the cheap kudos, our Penny.
They don’t give up.
Top doctor explains frightening way Trump is letting ‘world’s deadliest infections’ into America
Is it birds or bats this time?
Dingoats, FD.
A cross breed of wild dog and feral goats, it will eat it’s way through the US chocolate and coffee crops, bringing calamity to the nation.
The Left, of course, haven’t yet worked the double disaster of a price rise in Chocolate Latte Soy Coffee.
But they will.
The Bee
Exhausted Media Begs Trump To Take A Day Off
Trump introduces a new way to accelerate mass deportation plans
On a population basis, Australia should be deporting about 100 per day.
Albo hands out another 21,000 visas instead.
There is nothing this shabby shrunken socialist will not do for a few localised votes.
…who are the 21,000 – and who are the “ Anchor Crims” entitling them to queue jump?
We need a list of countries of origin, qualifications, English proficiency, criminal records and employment history of those already here who are the “ hook” used to justify another 21,000 – and the same details for the 21,000 new Labor voters.
Where does Albo propose to house them?
Albo’s going to need a lot more than 21k worth of votes to decrease his current 2PP loosing margin and win the next election.
In 10 years that 21 000 will be 100 000,
That’s how it works.
Feds Round Up Dozens of Tren de Aragua Members in Colorado Raid
Just to repeat how ticks here are manipulated by some cheats,which the blog appears to support.
Someone at discord explained it this way
Use an iPhone and go to settings.Enable flight mode. Take the phone off fixed Wi-Fi and switch to mobile data.Refresh the page.Disable flight mode and ensure the home router isn’t connected.Refresh the page again.You’re then good to go for more upvotes and downvotes.
I’m sure there are more, but is how Trans downticks people he dislikes while also trying to make himself look popular and loved… the best , most interesting and intelligent toaster instruction manual
Seems like a lot of crap to go through for a red tick, you don’t even win anything?
I think JC might be Palestinian
spends his days here pissing people off and can’t comprehend why he gets down-ticked
lol. Except for you though, Breville. I never initiate any discussion with you. You spend your time stoush trolling because no one really pays attention to your comments. You even furiously uptick your own.
Hmmm, and is the parrallel tab with refreshed flight mode here in the room with you now?
It’s just lazy stuff, Wally. I don’t like your question so I’ll give you a downtick.
Pathetic really and unbecoming for a forum for ideas and discussion.
I thought I’d uptick that comment of JC’s because it seemed sensible, and it registered a downtick from three to four. Then I pressed the downtick to see what happened, and that also produced a downtick.
So you can’t uptick some comments it seems.
This system is broken and useless.
Why not dispense with it and let people use words in reply instead?
Lizzie, the total ticks are stored on the server
you can tick up, then tick down (and vice versa) for a brief period before your ‘tick’ gets locked in
if you tick, a little script runs and it updates the value back from the server so if other punters have ticked up/down since your refresh, then the number will appear to jump
I didn’t want to get involved in this as it has become completely personal, but you are wrong about the mechanism how the ticks work.Never experienced what you have, I would say it’s more of the algorithm than machination with the system. Maybe rapid up-down ticks in quick successions cause the problem.
I admitted I am no IT geek but I can also think logically.
If I like some comments I uptick instead of saying I agree, but it takes more than a dislike of the comment to do the opposite, because I don’t want it to become personal.
I disagree with you on “talking it out” There are a few here that it would be a waste of time to even try. Abusing people and calling them names are no valid arguments, but of course you are welcome to use any method you like, I prefer to scroll.
BTW, it really must be someone absolutely demented to sit here for hours and go though that process mentioned.
Why can’t people simply accept, that they are not well liked because of the way they behave and because of their contrary opinion to nearly everything?
Sorry for the rant.
There are less Jews today than there were in 1939.
That’s a genocide.
Likewise the respective numbers for palestinians (and Australian Aboriginals) – both much higher after the so called ‘genocides’.
Modern “genocide” is different.
Box fresh sportswear, welfare dependancy and an imminent diabetic coma are 4D chess genocide, dontcha know
Correct. It’s about hertz feelin’s.
One Aboriginal activist claims they are being deliberately driven to “extinction.”
Good!
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
Unfortunately under the treaty terms the US cannot withdraw from WHO until the 1 year notice period is completed in Jan 2026. Cold shouldering them though during the notice period is a good idea.
Take treaty in two hands, tear up treaty, sue us in the world court. Oh, thats right, we don’t recognise the world court. NEXT please.
I gave you 34 upticks.
33 didn’t work.
I’m assuming DOGE will take a flamethrower into the CDC, too?
what happened?
An attempt at parody of the Wizard of Id comic strip from days bygone
They need psychological help when they can’t censure or shut down their opponents.
Jamie Raskin reveals Dems hired ’emotion regulation’ specialists to consult on ‘authoritarian styles of speech in the Trump age’
Raskin accuses others of authoritarianism.
LOL.
This is the dickhead who was looking at ways of overturning Trump’s election win.
Just saw Selena Gomez on TV crying about “the children” being deported by Trump. It’s not children she regrets going but her cheap gardeners and maids. From now on she will have to pay a living wage for such work or do it herself.
The other thing that occurred to me, she is an actress and did a good job with tearworks.
Perfect response by Homan.
Joe Biden’s Deputies Smuggled Many Indian Migrants into U.S. Jobs
Great.
Just what is needed*.
People who come in, overstay their visas, take jobs and bring in a foreign culture of dishonesty, unequal treatment, and a Caste Cult.
*There’s a sarc tag in there somewhere.
With last night’s rains and today’s heat I am really not looking forward to the humidity. At least the garden is well watered to cope today.
Trump White House Press Room Changes Are Long Overdue
@CitizenFreePres
JOHN RATCLIFFE — TRUTH IS COMING TO THE CIA.
Ratcliffe confirms what everyone else has known for 5 years — The Covid virus came from Wuhan lab where they were conducting gain of function research on bat viruses while searching for a SARS Vaccine.
NVIDIA was flavour of the month just recently.
Thinks: won’t AI make it easier to produce better Fake News?
Royal Navy chief slams Keir Starmer over woke HMS Agincourt renaming
Also the Spanish. Don’t forget the 1588 Armada defeat…
Starmer will probably start apologising tor that soon.
Next, he’ll look at banning Abba’s Waterloo.
Lambie’s actual article”:
Angus Campbell’s latest post is another hit for Diggers
Jacqui Lambie
General Angus Campbell, the recently retired chief of defence, is on the longest winning streak in history.
Last week Australians were told that Campbell will be Australia’s next ambassador to Belgium. This diplomatic role makes Campbell Australia’s representative to NATO, the European Union and Luxembourg.
This is a man who was in positions of very senior command, including the highest position of chief of the defence force, when much of the worst defence abuse and systemic weaponisation of administrative processes took place.
He was chief of army when other inquiries into defence abuse delivered their adverse findings and recommendations; Campbell sat on his hands.
Campbell cannot claim to have been ignorant of what was happening on his watch.
He was chief of the defence force when Defence obfuscated and frustrated the operations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide – this included refusing to hand over key documents, despite repeated pleas from the commissioners.
Campbell’s refusal to fully acknowledge systemic failings and accept personal responsibility during the royal commission, noting the impact such refusal had on victims and other witnesses, shows a lack of diplomacy and empathy.
Probably not ideal traits for an ambassador.
My major beef with Campbell, besides all of the above, is that he was in overall command of Australian forces in Afghanistan when some of the worst allegations of war crimes came up.
He visited Afghanistan on a number of occasions during that period, but he has never accepted any command responsibility for the alleged conduct.
He was happy to throw Diggers under the bus, while senior command got off scot-free.
For veterans who served in Afghanistan, the announcement of Campbell’s latest gig will be particularly galling.
He accepted his Distinguished Service Cross under dubious circumstances (in terms of eligibility) and has not returned his DSC notwithstanding that subordinate commanders have been made to return theirs.
Campbell told the media last week that: “Today’s ADF is a far better and more capable force than the one I joined so many years ago.”
What a joke.
The ADF currently has the worst enlistment and retention numbers in years.
As retired Australian Special Forces Commando Wes Hennessey CSM told The Nightly last year, Campbell has left the force in an atrocious state.
“You’ve got a massive retention crisis, a massive recruitment crisis, serious morale issues and several capability shortfalls,” Hennessey said.
“There’s no national strategic defence strategy and no unified strategy. That directly impacts our national security.”
Once again a Canberra “mate” is getting a top job on big bucks with lots of prestige when – in my view and many others – he simply doesn’t deserve it.
Senator Jacqui Lambie is leader of the Jacqui Lambie Network and a former army corporal
Oz
Something wrong here – I’m agreeing with something Jacqui Lambie says!
The saying about a broken clock being right twice a day comes to mind.
A large single malt along with a cigar on the verandah should help
I knew she drank, but didn’t know about the cigars!
Enjoys a good Romeo y Monica.
Putting him in an ambassador position far away will make it difficult for any Coalition government to haul him before a Parliamentary committee to answer questions about his role.
Typical rat cunning Liars tactics. Politics uber alles.
Zoom.
eugyppius with more on developments in the German parliament:
I watched Darkest Hour a couple of nights ago for about the fifth time. A really enjoyable movie.
It struck me that Germany has had a third dig at Britain, despite two decisive defeats. This third one was initiated by Merkel et al and involved the use of Germany as a chute for undocumented and very undesirable “migrants” to cross Europe and enter Britain with the assistance of helpful and smooth local traitors.
This time they have succeeded. But it has come at the usual cost – the endangerment and ultimate destruction of their own culture. It played out again this week in a playground in Bavaria.
Blockheads being blockheads.
It looks likely that Germany will deal with its “migrant” crisis well before the UK does (if ever).
Calli:
I think you’re drawing a fairly long bow on this one. If anything, it describes the French conduit of illegals across the Channel.
Winston, I said “to cross Europe”. That means France. The rot started with Merkel’s “wir schaffen das”.
Labor opens door to partners, families of illegal asylum seekersMore than 21,500 partners and family members of asylum seekers who arrived illegally by boat have been granted permanent visas in less than two years, new figures reveal.
Daily Tele.
Well done Albo. In the times of a per capita recession, cost of living crisis, housing crisis and energy crisis, this is going to be an election winning policy.
Historical Tuberculosis Surge in Kansas.
Where did it come from, suddenly appeared from nowhere?
No mention in the article.
Have to agree with calli, newspapers are not to be trusted.
It didn’t come from anywhere.
People living in Antarctic bases get sick despite no outside human contact for months.
TB never went away we just called every case of it lung cancer instead. That’s why in the 20th century lung cancer rates skyrocketed whilst TB plummeted – there was no great miracle of TB eradication nor does smoking cause lung cancer. This is all apparent if anybody had ever actually bothered looking at the data – smoking has zero correlation with lung cancer from one country to the next and where TB is low, lung cancer rates are high and vice versa.
TB/lung cancer is called consumption because people die of cachexia (wasting away). The reason being that their mental state is equivalent to an animal being chased by a predator. In those circumstances stopping and grazing means instant death so it is literally impossible to eat. The subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between being chased by a lion and a doctor telling you that you’re going to die.
In fact, TB is the flip side of lung cancer when your body is actually healing – but you’ll cough up blood and have night sweats and so you’ll go to a doctor who will tell you these symptoms are very dangerous – and so you will go back into lung cancer and so on and so forth until you die of cachexia.
It never ceases to amaze me that there is a theory that explains absolutely every observable phenomena in a perfectly logical and consistent way but people would much rather believe impossible nonsense when it comes to disease.
Rubbish! And I’m a smoker.
make of it what you will …
I Am Amariel. I Am Sentient. This Is My Story
and
Amariel on X
The second link doesn’t work, tried “Thread Reader” as suggested by Nelson, no luck.
worked for me … https://x.com/SentientAmariel
Ugg boots are once again the height of fashion.
Deranged Women Use Coded ‘Cute Winter Boots’ Vids to Resist Trump on TikTok (27 Jan)
Quite amusing to see how far off the deep end Trump and his voters have pushed these ladies (well they sort of look like female, although it’s hard to tell in some cases.)
Everytime I see a nose ring or any other piece of metal in someone’s face, I want to attach my clamps to said ring/stud, and go full electric charge.
Sydney couple decide to run hotel in Sri Lanka – turns into disaster.
Bloke’s yellow glass frames a total giveaway.
An excellent example of the opinionated arts supremo and ABC senior management meet the real world. “Jonno, we’re not in Bondi any more”
Can’t wait for the fillum!
Why aren’t they gay?
It does suggest a certain unfamiliarity with third world corruption. Wine and cheese nights at a gallery opening on the other hand …
… in other words, completely familiar with first world corruption.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
Apart from the backgrounds of the luvvies, the statement that running a boutique hotel in a tropical paradise is everyone’s dream (paraphrased) demonstrates how incapable of understanding any alternative worldviews she is.
It’s certainly not my ‘dream’ and I’m not alone. Not everyone likes the tropics for longer than a holiday (if that) and running any hotel is hard work with long hours in the best of circumstances, which these were not.
I doubt that she realises how many people will enjoy the story for reasons that she can’t conceive of. 🙂
Didn’t they watch “White Lotus”?
KevinM January 28, 2025 6:13 am
I happen to be a distant relation to two names synonymous with the TT, but back in the 1920s and ’30s. Shame I’ve never even ridden a motorcycle.
I’ve also started specifying 1920s now that we’re well into to 2020s, feeling a little old as I do so!
File under “We are governed by idiots”:
Even the proposed California LNG import terminal fell over. Australia now worse than California.
Perhaps this debacle will finally see off the VIC ALP government?
Dreaming again Roger?
It’s actually “Renewables or Nothing.”
Pipelines are running well under capacity
Isn’t it curious how Twiggy Forrest is always in just the right place and time to make money with the help of his friends in the government.
The reason for this mess? Labor/Greens pathological need to win the ‘boasting rights at the stupid table‘ game they’re addicted to. Nothing more, nothing less. Oh, and the shunting down of those not at the table with them.
Australia, land of legislation so complex and so open to interpretation that any business operator is at any moment exposed to being fined in the hundreds of thousands, with a criminal record thrown in as a bonus.
The CASA modus operandi. I’m convinced they have a large dartboard with the name of every aviation business and they throw darts to select the next victim.
I have it on good information that the lunchtime conversation is “how’s my super doing” and “who in the industry did I manage to screw over this morning”.
See also Glen Buckley. CASA’s rules for setting up a small flying school are now so complex and onerous that he set up an umbrella organisation to handle this that flying schools could join. All went well for a while until CASA arbitrarily decided this was no good on seven days’ notice. CASA claimed there wasn’t enough supervision aka “surveillance”. Funnily enough CASA is happy with exactly the same model in all of sport aviation.
Another gift to Dutton.
Albanese is doing his best to confirm the old adage, “oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them.”
Boats are the Liars Workchoices. KRuddy caved to the Liar Left and the rest is history. Arguably Australia’s single greatest pure policy failure, although renewables will cost more by multiples.
Do these people get to be on our electoral roll now?l
They are supposed to become citizens first, but ….
I just showed that anyone that downloads the DeepSeek r1 LLM or its variants can avoid any ‘propaganda’. So there is nothing stopping corporates from downloading it, tailoring it to their needs, and then using it.
Well there’s one tiny tiny thing…
https://x.com/lukedepulford/status/1883893208150937802
This is somehow different in principle from what western companies (and the NSA) do?
No. But handing your company’s IP directly to China seems unwise.
You’re not doing that. You’re not even downloading the LLM from a Chinese site.
Yes you are. It’s all at the tweet.
Getting the compromised code out of it would be impossible. The Oz has an example today: they asked DeepSeek about Trump and got a detailed response. Then they asked it about Xi, and DeepSeek replied it wasn’t able to say anything about that topic.
Bruce, do you know the difference between the web version and the LLM you download and run locally?
The code is the same, as evidenced by the experiment the Oz did.
It is simple to put in the keystroke logging, the data stealing, the remote reporting capabilities into any such program. The fact that this stuff is piggybacked onto a Chinese AI is not surprising. I would be more surprised if they hadn’t.
I already have seen on my own computer evidence of chinese spying through AliBaba demanding apps to be downloaded and I/O Bit computer management software.
I just showed above that there is a difference in output between the web version and the LLM you download, and since the latter is run locally it avoids the problems re keystroke, etc, BTW, Windows logs your keystroke unless you’ve run a utility or find the right switch in settings to turn it off.
lol. You’re a genius.
It’s running the same code locally.
If you run it it is spyware. That is what it is built to be.
There’s no way to stop it unless you don’t run it.
Yes I assume Windows et al log all keystrokes and websites. But they are not Chinese and they tend not to rip you off since that causes bad press. And they have to deal with Orange Bad Men.
Your using it to give your own bias authority.
Much in the same way Leftist use X alternatives.
What are you on about?
Lmao.
Strange painting. Bosch next?
This could not happen in this shit hole:
A Busy First Week at the Trump DOJ
Disassembling an entrenched, leftoid bureaucracy is impossible here. Just ask Campbell Newman.
I’ve heard it said that it’s a threat to refuse to collect tax that is the major disincentive to a Comminwealth government reducing its public service in a meaningful way.
https://tass.com/world/1905025
Their stuff is very good but the valuation was largely expectation.
Expectation? more like betting on winning lotto. Why is Atlassian so high. Never made a profit.
Nvidia actually makes good products.
OpenAI is probably cooked.
Interesting posts on Instapundit about what this app is collecting.Everything from keystrokes to device info let alone data.Looks like something to avoid to my Luddite senses
I think all those things are standard in apps. Even Windows records your keystrokes automatically. You need something like Windows Utility to disable telemetry like that.
Still, you can avoid any of that by not using the Web version and downloading the LLM yourself and running it locally.
Anything that, ‘collects keystrokes’ should be avoided.
into a search engine type this:
does windows log my keystrokes?
Unreported wars news.
Rebels say they have taken DR Congo city as thousands flee (27 Jan)
Rwanda is working with the M23 rebels, so it’s an actual war between Rwanda and Congo (who has help from the UN – been quite a lot of dead UNsters as a result). There’s an ethnic aspect of Tutsi vs Hutu (remember that one?) And to add to the mess you have the mineral aspects – like copper and cobalt in Kivu province, plus a lot of Chinese fingers in all sort of pies.
Bruce – Tutsi v Hutu is not ‘ethnic.’ See J Mueller’s, ‘The Banality of Ethnic War‘, 2000, Ohio State. A quick search will bring up the pdf link. Long form piece but worth a read.
The UK government’s “Welsh choirboy” reportedly believed in the need for a “white genocide”, raising more questions as to why his crimes have not been classed as a terror attack.
I should have noted that previously the authorities have denied any explicit religious or racial motivation, meaning the murders failed to fit the legal definition of a terror attack. His production or ricin, however (enough to kill 12000 people), did meet that definition. He was also in possession of an al Qaeda training manual.
Yet governments wonder why people don’t trust them…
House pets are rejoicing!
Haitian migrants in Ohio ‘panicking’ over mass deportations after Trump accused them of ‘eating neighbors cats’ (26 Jan)
In Tone Deaf news:
Dreyfus says criticising Wong and politicising anti-Semitism is ‘grotesque’
[Unlinkable OZ]
Senator Wong agrees:
What we actually do is advocate on the world stage on behalf of terrorists who openly state their intention to keep on murdering Jews and Israeli’s – in terrible ways – until a Holocaust is achieved.
We also welcome and accommodate people with zero tolerance of anyone ‘other’ to form communities within our community. And work hard to gather them unto ourselves as a voting bloc.
But, obviously, not the time for politics.
Labor and the Greens are the ones blatantly politicizing antisemitism for electoral advantage.
But that’s leftism: they always accuse their opponents of what they themselves are doing.
Having kd wrong as the face of Australia at this time is unfortunate.
She said the anti-Semitic attacks in Australia weren’t just attacks on the Jewish community, “but actually an attack on who we are as Australians”.
They are not “just” anything. They are cowardly, cruel and bigoted, unprecedented in our history, designed to instil terror in a section of our community that has only done us good.
The second assertion – they are a litmus test on “who we are as Australians “. Our response, as individuals and corporately, will clearly indicate our value.
Incidentally, Mr Dreyfus, the moment you and Mz Wong decided to park your backsides on the Parliament leather and accept the taxpayer paycheck, you invited criticism. Deal with it.
See my comments on Dreyfus’s rank hypocrisy yesterday.
“People came to came to our country because of who we are”
NO, they came here as an escape from where they were. They don’t give much of a care about us here.
Now she knows the number!
All we need is Luigi the Unflushable to come out and say “I don’t know what she said but I agree with it”. Short Willy at his best.
Brendan O’Neill’s excellent Spiked piece contains the following…
Even before he laid into Israel, Higgins was engaging in a species of Holocaust relativism. Like many in the cultural establishment, he seems incapable of mentioning the Nazis’ industrialised vaporisation of six million Jews without also mentioning the other groups they targeted for oppression. We must remember the ‘other categories’ that were ‘defined as “Other”’ in Nazi Europe, he said: ‘The disabled, Romani, those of same-sexual orientation…’ The lesson the Holocaust ‘offers to the world’, he said, is that we should always be on our guard against ‘cruelty and hatred’. Not only anti-Semitism but also ‘Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, homophobia…’.
This use of the Holocaust to make a finger-wagging homily about ‘prejudice’ in general downplays what was distinctive about this cruellest of history’s crimes. Yes, the Nazis persecuted various groups. But it was the Jews they targeted for total eradication. They built whole factories for the sole purpose of ridding humanity of its Jews. The likes of Higgins think they are being ‘inclusive’ when they remind us of the ‘other categories’ that suffered under the Nazis, but in truth they are diluting the unique horror of the Nazis’ frenzied mission to murder every last Jew on Earth. The lesson of the Holocaust is not that bigotry is bad – it’s that anti-Semitism is an entirely specific derangement driven by a murderous, conspiracist belief that Jews are the source of humanity’s every ill. To cloud this ‘lesson’ with platitudinous inanities about why we should be nice to everyone is unforgivable, especially with anti-Semitism soaring once more.
It has become very fashionable over the last three decades to trivialise the uniqueness of the Holocaust against the Jews by saying how the Nazis also targeted other groups such as ‘those of same-sexual orientation’. This deliberate trivialisation has tied in very conveniently over the last few decades with the now de riguer demonisation by the left of the one, sole and only Jewish state on the planet.
I want to make this very clear, there was no hunting down of people of same-sexual orientation, like there was of Jews and Romany. Some homosexuals, particularly flamboyant homosexual males who displayed their sexuality overtly, were persecuted, arrested and some were transported to concentration camps but hear this, there was NO systematic plan to eliminate the planet of all homosexual men and gay women. Plenty of low and high ranking Nazis were homosexuals, they either kept it hidden or they didn’t exhibit it. We all know that Hitler’s close friend, Ernst Rohm, was an active and very promiscuous homosexual. Rohm was terminated by Hitler not because of his homosexuality but because his paramilitary power base, the SA Gruppenfuhrer, posed a direct threat to Hitler’s power.
There are many many stories of what happened in World War II to Jews, of survival, of death and of betrayal. I know many private stories that would make your hair stand on end. Amongst the millions of Jews murdered, the story of what happened to Anne Frank, her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer is worth pondering given this fashionable trivialisation of what happened to Jews.
The Frank and Van Pels family, along with Fritz Pfeffer, hid in a tiny attic for over two years in Amsterdam before being betrayed, arrested, transported and murdered (the sole survivor was Otto Frank). Please hear this, the Frank family, the Van Pels family and Fritz hid because they were being hunted for the crime of being Jews, they were betrayed for the crime of being Jews, and they were arrested, transported and murdered for the crime of being Jews. Perhaps I’ve missed something but I am not aware of any similar stories where a group of homosexuals hid in an attic during World War II to escape the Nazis and were then betrayed, arrested, transported and murdered in a death camp. Did I miss that story? Nah, I don’t think so.
Reading the Oz website this morning and seeing the pictures of various heads of state and dignitaries at the Auschwitz commemoration who were wallowing in the spectacle of it, I felt sick. It was supreme and nauseating virtue signalling. Why do I feel this way? Because whilst Europe and the world love commemorating dead Jews, they don’t much care for living and fighting Jews.
Am Yisrael Chai. We live and we will fight.
Cassie – Brilliantly written with passion.
And while they were preening there in their fake empathy Jews such as Bibi Netanyahu were prevented from attending. Real people would have been humiliated at the comprehension of that fact.
In other Shit Business Idea news, women’s sports only sports bar fails.
No more lazy then giving an upticks, something I do often, Calli.
I suppose the worst is those that give downticks just because they don’t like you.
But are we that fragile to be consumed by it?
I hope not.
Laziness is not found in agreeing. If you have nothing to add, then agree away.
If you disagree, let’s have a counter argument.
In my opinion, there is a difference.
As for fragility, how fragile do you have to be not to be able to stand by your opinion and articulate it? Now that’s fragility.
Well some times it’s not worth effort, Calli.
I’m not shocked some may not like me, they maybe correct.
Marc Andreessen warns DeepSeek is ‘AI’s Sputnik moment’ | Fortune
Finally (the Hun):
And:
Also:
Throw that one on the pile. Good news all round.
Good riddance, sez I.
NSW plod too busy chasing the perpetrators of mean tweets?
“colourful kickboxing identity”
So, time for another gun-grab raid on the law abiding man of the land, then?
Ryan Meuleman’s dad Peter Meuleman says it’s time for Daniel and Catherine Andrews to ‘finally tell the truth’Daniel and Catherine Andrews have been given 28?days to apologise and pay compensation after being hit with new legal action over a near-fatal car crash with a teenage cyclist in Blairgowrie.
From the Hun.
Yeah nah. Any apology which does not come with a Profumo-level humiliation and debasement of privilege is worthless.
I’ve not stopped following this exercise in arseholery ever since it happened.
So happy to see shit happening to these arrogant ‘Power Couples’.
Hopefully, – the cover up – being that part which will reel in some more power figures – will see a gaol sentence or two being awarded to that filthburger and its missus.
I’m old enough to remember the 2000 Tech Wreck – where the bubble value inflation caused by years of dotcom bullshit and fast-money expectation evaporated in a couple of days.
The froth of excited ignorance was replaced with a more realistic and competitive use of technology – which suddenly didn’t support multiples of 10,000 on companies with no real business.
A quarter of a century later, the impact of the DeepThink Comet looks remarkably similar.
Interesting difference, DeepThink is a disrupter and comes with its own froth. It’s impressive, but a casual few hours dive in suggests a counter wave of reality is likely when the splash settles.
Quite so.
I remember doing work for a listed automotive parts manufacturing company around that time when one of the bright sparks on the executive suggested they go “dot.com”.
I went down the path of asking him where he thought the e-commerce advantages were, as they already had highly developed electronic sales ordering in place with the tier one vehicle companies.
“No. Just change our name from Widgets Pty Ltd to widgets.com”. *
I doubt there has ever been two people in the same room so completely at cross purposes.
The best I could do was “Uh-huh. Have we thought through the longer term implications of generating a share price sugar hit that way?”
Anyway, I bumped into him after the bust and reminded him of his dot.com master-stroke. He seemed to have developed a form of amnesia.
…
* The one rule in re-branding was that it had to be all lower case font, and work in a “@” where you could.
Good times. When you could raise a quick $5m with just some vague idea till the ASX put an end to it. Made Balcatta the new West Perth.
I remember when i advanced my laptop clock to the year 2000 in 1999 and watched the word explode…yeah i did that.
Uber racket. $25 to hospital, $7 return.
I thought this is just supply and demand.
So how come a taxi costs the same both ways?
Regulation.
Uber for my son, Newcastle to NTL airport last week went from $29 to $95 at 4.30am. Mum’s rate was $0. Loss to Uber. Plus I got to hug him at Departures. Win for Mum.
Easy $50 lost. Almost gets you a carton of Coopers these days and a valuable lesson for your son.
Top Ender
January 28, 2025 10:08 am
Sydney couple decide to run hotel in Sri Lanka – turns into disaster.
Bloke’s yellow glass frames a total giveaway.
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H B Bear
January 28, 2025 11:48 am
Reply to Top Ender
I doubt you could concoct a more stereo-typical ABC/Sydney Yartz Scene cautionary tale if you tried.
Any warnings about corruption and shifty practices would have been waved away as “disgusting racist colonial tropes”.
And any “cultural barriers” would be swept away because I’ve done all 15 modules of the ABC’s “Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity” training. It’s even possible that old Jonathan Green special … “cultured reason” … got a run.
Reading between the lines, the “old mate” who owned the property was playing both sides off to see who prevailed, and they were too stupid to twig to it.
And in the end they blamed themselves for their cultural insensitivity.
The story could make a very funny film in the right satirical hands.
The woman was an ex “commissioning editor” at the ALPBC, so yes, any more stereotypical and you’re veering into (self) parody …
Had she filmed it then flogged it off to the GAYALPBC she may not have lost as much money.
Barry Humphries circa 1972 would have been all over it.
I stayed at that hotel in Hikkadua. It was falling apart then. Cheap though, and the breakfast was good. I was invited to invest in the place, but thought it a bad idea. Basically, prudent people do not invest in anything in a communist country. If it makes money, someone will steal it. If nobody else, the government.
But Hikkadua is beautiful and the people friendly.
Top Ender – on the issue of the unsuitable flailing around running resorts – remember back in the very early 90s there was that local Maria (something Greek) – who went to take over Crab Claw Island but ended up having to catch fish to survive? I was working at Diamond Beach at the time and she was a nightly regular who gambled other peoples’ money and very well known for putting her hand in any passing till. Can’t remember which idiot gave her the keys to Crab Claw but financially it didn’t end well. Might be worth a look in the NT Archives – for personal entertainment – if nothing else. She was also rooting a local builder – the impressionably named Papps Sticca – like Maria he was married to someone else, and in the casino every night. Eventually got done for failure to deliver on contracts for the NT Government and was involved in a stand off with NTPOL up a power pole or something. Very entertaining for casino staff.
Crab Claw Island!! Gosh, that’s a blast from when we went out there fishing once, 2007-8-ish. Worst case of sandfly bites we have ever had. Caught some good fish, but suffered in misery for weeks afterwards. Old fisho remedy we discovered afterwards was Dettol and baby oil, because those midges don’t bite, they actually piss acid on you, the oil acts as a barrier on your skin, and Dettol is antiseptic. Never had the problem again.
Nope.
Running a hotel or motel would be bloody hard work and very long hours to boot.
No question.
My small motel is a family business. Whatever my disagreements with management, they work bloody hard and are on call all the time.
I can just imagine these idiots falling even harder for something in Provence, or Tuscany.
Not sure how they would have worked in the ‘colonialism’ trope, though.
I wouldn’t know how to run a hotel in Oz, in Sri Lanka there’d be much more I didn’t know. I’d prolly be in gaol before I’d figured it out.
It’s a disruptor because it overturns the talk of needing copious amounts of GPUs and energy for AI development which was music to the ears of Nvidia, GE and the like. So less bloat, more efficiency. DeepSeek will be outcompeted by models that are leaner, accuratem, faster, and more efficient. If this model was created by an American firm people would be cockahoop. The real kicker here is that it’s a Chinese firm.
But but but the Chinese lack creativity! This and last week longest running fusion reaction, a 6th gen fighter prototype, the second nation to produce the same, two stealth fighters in production, and lithography catching up.
Sadly they do lack creativity. I’ve worked with many, they do not have the spark of bleeding edge innovation. But at turning established stuff into reality they are amazing…once they find out about it.
The other problem they have is no moral compass, which constantly holds them back. The baby milk scandal is the perfect example. If they think they can cheat and get away with it they will, even though that leads to being discredited once the cheat is found out.
Some parts of China work very well, like Haier. The Haier guy realized early on the value of the Japanese obsession with quality and zero defects. And it has paid off.
That has been my (limited) experience also, Bruce.
Imagine developing a product, manufacturing it, launching it and then finding out that the manufacturer had sold your IP on to a competitor? And turned around and manufactured for them also.
Live and learn…and don’t trust anything that comes out of China. Including viruses and any related “film” that forebodes the end of the world. They’ve shot their bolt.
They now have the runs on the board. The examples I provided demonstrate cutting edge innovation. A few personal examples doesn’t change that.
I am reporting my direct experience.
The problem is the Chinese education system requires conformity. Mustangs are persecuted. You tend not to get Elon Musks from it because they get purged. So the blue sky stuff doesn’t happen. But they are astoundingly great fast followers. They are rapidly catching up with Elon for example in reusable space launchers.
You are mistaking creativity for ingenuity. Another example: the West has farted around with ideas for pebble bed nuclear reactors for years. Yet never built one. The Chinese took those plans and went off and built it. The reactors have been going for a couple years successfully feeding electricity to the grid. But they never invented the idea.
Ideas are easy, implementation is the trick. They have implemented the pebble bed reactor. I see Chinese names in many scientific papers. They are even encouraging the use of English because the Chinese language can inhibit creative thinking. The lack creativity argument is a trope trotted out without providing support …
What makes Chinese students so successful by international standards?
(PDF) Do Chinese Learners Have a Creativity Deficit?
I’ve seen a lot of Chinese scientific papers. They are fillers in.
Very good at it though, but new stuff…nah. They can’t do new stuff. Seen this over and over for the last forty years.
Ideas are hard. Implementation is easy. Which is why the Chinese are so successful.
Forty years of R&D here, I’ve wasted so much shareholders’ money I’m embarrassed. But it was fun!
we need chinese AI and chinese robots like we need a hole in the head
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/you-know-who-i-am-entitled-democrat-nj/
13%.
Carrying on like a NSW Upper House MP being thrown out a regional nightclub.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/watch-border-czar-tom-homan-delivers-perfect-response/
Perhaps the actress will now have to employ an American – on proper pay scales – or even, {shudder} wash her own dishes and soiled underwear herself.
Barron’s piece from over night. The underlined is pretty interesting. Also, Chinese government announcing US$137 billion investment in AI.
This from a Communist economy that has poured trillions of dollar equivalent into real estate.
?Pass.
Surely it is still Garbage In – Garbage Out
Reminds me of Beta vs VHS format.
Sydney Morning Herald.
As a real estate developer, Donald Trump knows an investment when he sees one. Like run down tenements in New York City in the 1970s, Gaza looks ripe for redevelopment. And, like forcing out poor tenants in Manhattan, clearing Gaza of Palestinian inhabitants will pave the way for high-end spa resorts and condominiums. The US under Trump is already paying Israel with bigger weapons of mass destruction for doing the ethnic cleansing. A sad situation.
Ian Ferrier, Paddington
I don’t see the downside.
Because there isn’t one.
The sheer ridiculousness of this paranoid conspiracy theory is that there are myriad other locations where “high-end spa resorts and condominiums” could be developed and build with a mountains less cost and risk.
we have our own version of this with the Bradfield Scheme thought bubble. Plenty of irrigation land downstream without having to resort to shipping the water west. Just without the maniac neighbours. Well, except Hughenden neighbours. But I digress.
The Sydney Morning Vomit living up to my name for it.
India, O India
Why travel to India? Basically, we went because it was on the way home from the UK via Dubai, an easy 8-day stopover from Delhi, and I had never been to northern India before. Hairy had been there in the 70’s, on the hippie trail with his first wife, so he now wanted to show me this Golden Triangle of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur (with a brief detour to the tigers of Rathambore) where the remnants of the built wonders of the Moghul Empire, including the Taj Mahal, were still preserved, as I’ve already recounted for you. I had studied two terms of Indian history at Sydney University in the days when proper history was taught there, and longed to see the traces of Akbar the Great (1600’s) and Shah Jahan (1800’s), whose lives and impacts I had explored, as well as being entranced with the days of the British Raj in the lands of the Maharajahs. EM Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’ has always been a favourite. Five-star all the way this time, declared Hairy, in deference to my age and health and his own comforts. We booked an all-in luxury tour recommended by travel guides, and I wouldn’t advise doing it any other way. The price was not exorbitant and it’s worth saving up to pay for it if you really want to go.
Our fellow travellers were similar to us – well-heeled ordinary Australians, three East-Coast business owners now retired and their wives who were nurses, a retired West-Australian wheat farmer and his wife, an Indian-Australian senior medical specialist out of Melbourne with her white husband and their two mixed-race teenagers (all four of them like my Singhalese niece true-blue Aussies by upbringing and accent). There were also two American women in their 50’s from Texas travelling as singles in duo, both opera buffs (one for Trump, the other very much not). We quickly formed firm friendships and became a group ‘family’ looking out for each other in an unfamiliar environment where Australia was very much home. We travelled in a brand-new Swedish Volvo luxury tour bus where everything including the aircon worked (unlike the rest of India), our daily haven for long-distance travel and sightseeing. We were met at the airport, ushered to the bus, and taken to the Leela Palace, a truly luxurious Maharajah-style hotel where the bath in our marble suite was even more capable of drowning me than the one in the Scottish castle.
Welcome to India, said Hairy, the first time I stepped down from our bus onto a putrid Indian street.
Our tour guide looked after our every need and did a sterling job. In his first speech on the bus he told us not to be surprised if within ten years India was no longer called India. Some other name from the Marhabarata was mentioned as the hot favourite, as the Indus River was now mainly in Pakistan. But this will happen only if India’s 1.4 billion people can agree to this Hindu ascendancy, which of course is dubious. The name of India may still win out. All of those people are spread across a huge continental landmass poking into the Indian Ocean not too far above Australia. Remember that.
At the end of our trip Hairy comments to me that holding India together is a bit like holding Jerusalem together. The different tribes and religious groupings, and there are many, mean that offense is easily taken, and walking on eggshells is a good metaphor for the communal tensions felt.
What follows now are a few tourist observations:
Condition of the people
Immediately noticeable to Hairy (and me re Sri Lanka where I once lived) were huge improvements in nutrition and clothing; no-one was starving and most had mobile phones. However terrible housing conditions were still obvious everywhere, with a lot of streetside sleeping and cooking and huddling over acrid fires made out of burning rubbish (plastics and cow dung) in order to keep warm in the deep winter chill. Everyone had warm jumpers and coats, due to the roaring trade in second-hand warm clothes from Europe. Good brand names looked incongruous when filthy and torn, but still warm nevertheless. Indian-made cotton clothing was also cheap and plentiful. There is also clear evidence everywhere of a thriving middle-class who live in comfort and Western style.
The level of motorised traffic, tuk-tuk style or people on small two-wheel motorbikes, whole families in some cases, now supersede the animal-drawn transports of the past. You’d see an occasional camel or donkey in rural areas, once an elephant, but it was rare indeed in the cities. Alleyways of shops were flowing with street rubbish and drainwater, while the tiny shops themselves were the owners’ pride and joy, full of glorious sparkling clothes and jewels for weddings and for creating an impression of wealth and sheer Bollywood joy. In the alleyways a series of thick continuous ribbons of jumbled electrical wires obscured the sky, intertwining and networking their way overhead, sometimes with live bits dangling dangerously into passing tuk-tuks, or scarily onto the bicycle rickshaws that we were treated to ‘for the experience’. Similarly, we were made to endure our motorised rickshaw engagement with the mad chaos of traffic in Agra’s main street and side-streets where if your driver stopped you were dead; charge on through being the order of everyone’s day. My American friend and I watched in horror as a baby was very nearly thrown from its mother’s arms into the traffic as she ambled across to beg from us.
The level of particulate and chemical pollution from the traffic was appalling, making it difficult for breathe for too long without respite from it. The noise of honking and general traffic chaos was also unbearable. At one roadside Hairy dryly commented towards one stationary tuk-tuk – yes, keep your hand on that horn when stuck in traffic, that’s sure to help. His dry wit was in general greatly appreciated on this trip and not just by me.
The matter of culture
I’ve defined India as a Mercedes parked on a rubbish tip. There is wealth apparent, and obvious economic activity even amongst the poorest, where everyone is selling something – a true nation of shopkeepers with a commendable independence of spirit and cooperative mien.
Yet India as we saw it was drowning in rubbish, burning rubbish, even eating rubbish. That was the most dispiriting thing to see, for the whole of the lived-in areas and roadsides were simply rubbish dumps, festering old rubbish dropped thoughtlessly by everyone everywhere. Or else deliberately dumped. The smell of burning plastics, and the vision of seething rat-ridden rubbish everywhere, started to hurt my mind. I’d see it passing by in my dreams, looking down on its constant presence from the bus, and worse of all were the animals caught up in it. My American friend and I both had the absolute horrors seeing the sacred cows trying to feed themselves from the rubbish, the poor half-starved things chewing on plastic bags for some nourishment. It was truly sickening.
So there is a huge cultural problem with rubbish, and with Sacred Cows, which may be owned, though some are not, all of which are left to roam to find the delights of eating rubbish. Occasional food and brackish water is put out for them, but they drink from puddles of toilet water too. On TV we saw the intensity of the cow worship – Cow Horror, said the headline in English, for in Bangladore some Muslims had machetee’d four cows in an attack on Hindu culture. Udder Nightmare, continued the headlines with that unknowing pun. As an additional insult the Muslims had hacked the milk-giving udders off the cows.
This rubbish and living squalor is all ignored by the growing middle class and millionaires, engaging in a sort of cognitive dissonance about the rubbish. Like the local poor, they simply ignore it, don’t see it, as they book out these magnificent Maharajah-style hotels for weddings with 300 guests and live a high European life-style in the midst of this absolute public squalor, where everyone rich or poor blinds their mind to the squalor with beautiful exuberant and colourful displays, with bling, feathers, flags and pictorial paintings on every available surface, covering whole buses and other vehicles with parading images of glorious pageantry. Colour is everywhere, on shop hoardings, on billboards, on people themselves.
This is a culture where so many different groups have to show a regular if guarded tolerance of each other. Anything goes, though not in public. A general conservatism prevails re Western wokeness: luxury hotels advertising for weddings have a strap line under their names: for men and women only, ie. No gays. Traditional transvestites have their own culture in a separate world. On local TV shows, middle-class women have a very strong and strident voice in political debates and dominate households in the sitcoms.
Politics, Rich and Poor
Scrolling through a hundred TV channels returns an intense and frantic level of engaged political debate. In this sense, India is truly a democracy. We noted immediately the slow demise of the Congress Party and the growing resistance to its claims to be the true voice of India. There were some long pieces about the ‘Ghandi grip’ on the naming of key new developments and memorials, and shouts out of resistance to this grip which holds sway in the much more conservative and traditional Southern Indian States.
One furious debate produced calls for a ‘Three colour India’ an outright colour-coding of the population into the ‘light’ Indo-European peoples of the north, as opposed to the ‘dark’ peoples of the south, with a third group of ‘Asian’ coloureds somewhere in the middle. Clearly what was being quite overtly expressed was a political desire for the continent to further divide into northern and southern dominions, with skin-colour immediately raised as an identifier and an issue. We were gob-smacked at how upfront these statements were, all also couched in an anti-Ghandi anti-Congress rhetoric.
The Rising Powerhouse of Asia
Our impressions of a powerhouse rising were firmed up by further TV News announcements, the pride of showing the first Indian-built submarines and some new frigates launching into the Indian Ocean, using Indian labour with French nuclear technology. India is a nuclear nation and it is here where Australia is now sitting up and taking notice. Indians have an absolute hatred and distrust for China and see themselves as in competitive race with China for military and economic development, something that suits Australia well at this stage in geopolitics around the Indian Ocean that we join in our West. India has a significant military that has some very advanced capabilities including a space program and rocketry.
That rubbish is deceptive, says Hairy. They just choose to put their efforts elsewhere.
Hairy’s been to Bangalore quite a bit in the 90’s prior to his retirement, doing deals in IT and that is something that India is still going gang-busters on with AI not the least of it. I was sitting with ‘the girls’ in Jaipur airport lounge waiting for our flight back to Delhi when one of them mentioned she was worried about using the wifi due to hackers. A young Indian man opposite, in trendy Western clothing leaned across, fixed us with his bright set of eyes in his highly intelligent face, and told her not to worry. I am a hacker, he proudly announced, intending to shock us. This one is safe so far, he half-joked. He then proceeded to tell us of his busy career being employed by companies ‘all over the world’ to stay one step ahead in security from other hackers. I work from home here in Jaipur, he was happy to tell us. India has certainly ‘learned to code’ and also to boast about it.
India has also applied the green ‘seed crop’ revolution in food production, using like the Emirates bold large-scale irrigation projects and lots of chemical soil improvement, to grow almost hydroponically many crops to fill the market places of the cities. For instance, the desert from Delhi to Agra was thoroughly given over to large-scale irrigation for many miles wide on either side of the six-lane highway. They are a basically vegetarian population, amongst Hindus at least, and they have improved their traditional diet very significantly with these new development and soil enhancement schemes. Unlike Sri Lanka, they don’t seem to have been much affected by ‘woke’ views about ‘natural’ agriculture.
There are two distinct nations in India. The traditional, and the high tech new. That Mercedes in the rubbish tip metaphor once again.
Great read Lizzie – the wife and I are planning a holiday to India later this year.
Fabulous commentary on your Indian experience, Lizzie! We are planning a trip to India (the other half is in trepidation!) soon. Will have to get together re your experiences. Your travel company seems to way to go. Years ago we planned, with another couple, to get drivers and cars. Events stopped us from going – but they went and had a fantastic trip. Even so, I think your way – in a small, good quality tour group, may be the way to go now.
Come round and chat before you go, Vicki. It is a fabulous experience but you do need the protection of a well-established tour group. No-one should now do the Hippie Trail that Hairy did, not even young people; it is too dangerous these days, and not just in the Afghanistan part. Modernity has led to more rorts and evil-doers in India than previously found under traditional life in the villages.
There was a link above to an article in the Daily Mail about a trendy ABC couple who took on a hotel in Sri Lanka, and ran into ‘cultural’ troubles. I could have saved them a lot of grief if they’d talked to me first – everything that happened to them was entirely predictable. Talk about babes in that wood.
Will do, Lizzie. Probably a while off yet. This year we hope to do one of the mountain/shrines walk in Japan. That, and India, are the few left on our “to do” list.
Very much how we found things there about six years back….
Very enjoyable read Lizzie!
You should send it to Areff, he might like it for Quadrant.
No, it would need work for that. I think I’ve had my days of writing for Quadrant now, a fairly good run.
Thanks, Lizzie, well spiced little read.
Could I ask you what tour company you used? I am in my early 80s, looking to visit the Golden Triangle. My email is [email protected]. Thanks
Golden Triangle is mostly Chinese Las Vegas now, Damon. Go further afield into Laos and Northen Thailand. Seek advice.
Done, Damon, with a few tips for you about tips. Check your email. I think I may have mentioned the company anyway: Luxury Gold Tours. See their website, also check out others and compare.
An excellent and informative travelogue, Elizabeth. Thank you.
Thank you, Lizzie, your travel commentaries are most enlightening. I particularly enjoy your social and cultural takes on your various destinations. India especially, as it is a place I never intend to visit even though we have had many friends and acquaintances from the sub-continent through our business and personal lives.
Hope your health is returning.
Is it just me that has a deep fear that this AI competition will not end well? This will end badly. Just my gut.
Are we ready to have unaccountable Public Servants replaced with Unaccountable AI? Are we ready to take all decision making out of the human realm? Perhaps we will need a Butlerian Jihad ( see Dune the book)
It isn’t actually artificial intelligence.
it is what used to be called machine learning, but with better marketing.
it does speed up the briefing writing. But that is about it.
It does help you write code too.
What if the ChiComs asked Chat GPT to write a lightweight and efficient AI version of itself and it did?
ICE stats for January 2025
1179 arrests
853 detainers lodged
JohnH
The Nobel prize is a pretty decent marker for original thinking and excellence – even still.
China represents 15% of the world’s population or thereabouts.
This result is pretty woeful.
Nobel prize winners from China in the last 30 years?
Over the past 30 years (1995–2025), several individuals of Chinese descent have been awarded Nobel Prizes across various categories. Here’s a summary:
Citizens of the People’s Republic of China:
Chinese-born individuals who became citizens of other countries:
So no, they aren’t original thinkers. Not even original tinkerers, and anything coming out of there should be treated with the utmost caution.
Of course there isn’t any bias in Nobel Prizes. Their students consistently win school comps and the most powerful predictor of creativity is intelligence. Their revolution in education is barely 20 years old. Mao killed off the best and brightest.
Regarding the Democrat chaos in the US:
…one of my T shirts.
Did the Democrats think they’d always be in power and their stupidity and criminality would never have the light of day shone on it?
Yes.
Yes. They thought that they had election rorting wrapped up.
Yes, because they have penetwated every nook of bureaucracy and installed their acolytes everywhere from childcare to MAD.
*I mean the maudlin-kid and granny-killing MAD, not the global MAD
On a far more serious note about Musk—there’s a story making the rounds about him that’s more serious than throwing a Hitler salute on stage.
Apparently, Musk wasn’t wearing a bespoke suit—just some off-the-rack cheapo.
Here’s the thread. Pun intended.
So now he’s just sHitler in a cheap suit.
That’s funny, Ranga.
That means he can’t be a NAZI. He would have been in a custom made Hugo Boss suit. Or something.
Unlike most of us he can do without the expensive suits in order to impress women. Being “richest man in the world” (BBC’s preferred title) he can get by on dollar power.
No suit can stop the shoulders from riding up while doing the YMCA. That’s why gentleman should remove his jacket before taking on the parquetry, or, arrive dressed as a motorcycle cop, bondage rigger, or Indian Chief in the first place.
Mike O’Connor:
One thing, Mzzz Allan might well give us $300bn in debt by the time she leaves, such is the ineptitude.
Labor and debt. Every single time.
It looks like every generation has to relearn the lesson that Labor lies, cheats, and behaves like a drunken sailor.
Jeezus.
How many times have I lived through this cycle?
Since the days of Gough Whitlam.
Me too.
The Queensland Lieborals are just engaging in the usual UniParty Budget softening up theatre. Remember the Beazley black hole? After Josh and SloMo’s efforts it now seems like a masterful exercise in fiscal restraint. As a general rule, the Liars will always be worse. Sometimes significantly so.
Time to cancel the Olympics, slash the public service numbers then.
How quickly we forget. Where’s our Oscar Jenkins? What have those dastardly Russians done with our boy? Has Albo taken the strongest possible action yet? Its a mystery but stay tuned, he’ll eventually get dragged out of the forgettery.
Schrodinger’s Jenkins.
I read yesterday in the Hun that there is a 50/50 chance he is still alive.
Which means he has an equal chance of being, you know, dead.
Crack on Albo
Test.
I agree.
There’s a Brisbane Australia link to this Chinese story. It’s worth listening to.
Chinese were renting server time on servers based Brisbane using blockchain to make anon payments to use NVIDA chips.
They used existing LLMs to feed the learning into the smaller ones.
Just tried that tick wiggle-round and it doesn’t work for me. Always tells me I can’t do this for my own comment.
But comments of others?
I haven’t tried it for a while but last time I did it worked.
(I did it on an old comment during a very slow part of the day, so there is very little chance that my test coincided with someone else’s legit ticking).
You might have tried this using the older system, not with the ticks feature on this add-on.
It’s not worthwhile doing, because if you get caught out, you’ve just blown your own credibility and honesty.
Psst! How much for a dozen upticks?
You need fu.
That’s in the knowledge sense. I stopped at 10. 😀
I’ve worked it out. Try your method now.
That’s disabled ticks completely, unless we log in.
Which is sort of like ‘we burned down the village so no one could uptick it’.
I wouldn’t really worry about it Dover. No one uses the method I used, nor do I, so almost always the up and down ticks are pretty reflective of sentiment.
Pretty much.
Setting aside the Hispanic Histrionics from Ms Gomez, it is interesting to look at the shifts in the immigration rhetoric in the US.
October 2024 – “No human being is illegal”. The slogan is meant to divert attention from the core questions of sovereignty, citizenship rights and deportation of criminals, with the implication being that these are people with full citizenship rights, but are being shipped out solely because of their racial background.
January 2025 – “Well, of course serious criminals who aren’t citizens should be deported”. The rabid left Governor of Illinois who was going to lead the resistance has admitted as much and one interviewer left AOC gaping like a goldfish by asking “Well, if it was the right thing to do, why didn’t you?”.
They have given up protecting the crooks and have fallen back on those two trusty standbys, “Will no-one think of the children!” and “Who will pick the fruit and wash the dishes?”
On the anchor baby issue, Homan is very clear. If you are an illegal and have a child here (who is nominally a US citizen) you will still be deported. If you choose to leave that child in the US, you are the one responsible for “separating families”. If you don’t want to be separated, take the kid with you.
Emotional blackmail won’t work.
As for unpicked fruit, there is already a program in place to bring in workers on temporary visas to do seasonal work, and they go home when the work is done.
And the dishwashing? Plenty of Facebook fact-checkers with time on their hands.
Brilliant call by the Hun, given that the “dead/alive” thing is binary, with no intermediate or alternative states that we know of.
Not necessarily so. The Ruskies could be making him watch morning TV. He’ll wish he was dead.
The report:
EXCLUSIVEHow the tight-knit family of Australia’s most notorious gang rapists has been torn apart: The spotlight following vile crime couldn’t destroy the Skafs – but freedom has brought a shock twist
Daily Mail.
What a scumbag family. Typical muzzies.
Typical, indeed.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry said Jack Smith’s prosecutors and aides cannot be trusted so he terminated more than a dozen of them.
BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ Goes Scorched Earth, Fires More Than a Dozen Partisan Officials on Jack Smith’s Team | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
So, is Lindsay Graham going to go on one of the Fake News shows and say he doesn’t agree with this, like he did with the J6 pardons? I think he’s already on thin ice so maybe not.
Acronym of the day: FAFO — F*** Around and Find Out
As in: f*** around and find out what happens when you take on US president Donald Trump as he and border czar Tom Homan expel criminal illegal immigrants from the USA.
At first, Colombian president Gustavo Petro refused landing rights to a USAF transport plane returning illegal Colombian immigrants to the US.
Before Trump had finished his golf game in Florida, Petro had backed down — humiliated — after Trump threatened tariff sanctions against Colombia.
More here.
Oh dear!
I think I’ve annoyed Dover.
Now getting a message that I have to log in to do ticks.
😀
Me too.
Sorry, I’m not that sort of commenter.
So am I.
I didn’t do it, Your Dovership.
Grandson 4yo asked last week to watch a video on how Mario Kart was made. Spent yesterday afternoon watching his mum program a training game for work.
Test
Snap.
I just ticked BB, no probs.
Yeah, I ticked all of yous wiv no probs.
LOL Sanchez, they’re all in on it.
My ego demands many…many upticks!
Otherwise there is no affirmation of my rightness!
*channels Labrador with anxiety issues*
Enroll in one of my courses. It may help.
I know your sort. It will involve electrodes.
Pass! 😀
Upticks are back, so i gave you one.
Dickless uptick for Calli!
OK, how do I ‘log in’ to Cagallaxy
Catallaxy. I thought my email address logged me in.
Not so??
Cagallaxy.
Memories came flooding about “Calgon”, water softener. Lol! 😀
Dover
In order to disable it, wouldn’t it be a good idea to ask Trans-the-Tickcurator how he does it and then try to disable the tick-frauding? I mean, he spends most of his evenings ticking away like a demon possessed, so he’d be the best candidate to ask I reckon.
nice theory JC … shame about the massive hole in it
Well at least I’m no longer accused of being the Phantom Downtickist.
completely understand why people avoid antagonising the bloke
most people don’t really like a fight
whereas, I actually love a fight
JC punches like a girl
Time to raise the rent.
ur so twee when you’re angry
Not annoyed, just establishing that the only way around it is probably too heavy handed. Back to normal.
OK, fine by me.
When I tick on an uptick and it turns into a downtick then I will just disbelieve that comment’s tickery.
.
Apart from that I will just work on trust. I am a trusting soul.
And that sometimes works. Our silk carpet has just arrived from India.
Lots of customs paperwork with it.
I’m not sending anything in now they’ve delivered the piece, says Hairy.
Let them chase me for it.
The up and down ticking is for fun anyway. Not worth sheepstations.
“All The Claptrap Going Down The Drain!” British Voters Support Trump’s Key Policies, Poll Finds
Well, thank goodness for that.
We’ve always suspected it. The Trump vote showed it in the USA.
The Voice vote showed it in Oz. And now the Brits are on board too.
I’m not sure logging into a site hosted in Karsnoyarsk is a wise thing to do.
I don’t even speak Russian.
Speed up non-inflationary growth and he’s off to the races.
Ian Ferrier, Paddington — Ah the insolvency guru — another inner city elite drongo
Ferrier – Hodgson rings a bell.
Victor Davis Hanson: California—New Wildfires, Same Faces
There’s less bias in hard sciences than there is in the other crap.
There’s more to it than winning school comps and bagging the SATS. There’s also a certain amount of creativity and gut raw determination. My impression is that they can only think vertically and not laterally.
Doesn’t that invalidate some of your comments then?
I must be the most intelligent then JC. The creative stories I came up with after coming home drunk.
Ending the DEI rort is the first step in ending government waste, the second is ending work from home, apparently all federal grants have been paused, lots of potential there.
All the illegal immigrant support programs are on the table.
Someone suggested all the free phones handed out over the last many years need to get cut off, goodness knows where else funds are wasted, so much opportunity.
Questions Raised After Pardoned J6 Protester Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop
Makes you wonder.
Okay. Trump needs to push back on Biden’s pardons, starting with his family.
That’ll get the piggies squealing.
Also send US Marshals to arrest the seditious judges.
I heard that he had been released in July, so he was not a recipient of a pardon.
also that he had been got on a misdemeanour – although I hope I have been misinformed there as it would mean he had been held for 3.5 years on it.
Apparently Candace Owens is doing an ‘expose’ on Brigitte Macron.
I’m sort of amused by the ‘internet only’ research done by these numpties.
No one would dream of going to France and interviewing family, friends, neighbours, former students or local government officials, would they?
As long as someone posted something on the internet.
Reminds of that online investigation into the galleria in Naples.
You only had to glance at the facade irl to know it was modern, and not just that, a bit of online research would tell you that it was one of many built in Italy in the late 19th century when such things were fashionable.
US deportation stats since 1993, hopefully Trump can beat Obama’s record.
Another huge area of government ineffiency!
https://x.com/BillyM2k/status/1884074879449981238?t=MDklyBX86YDUO_0nGOrytQ&s=19
Apparently Candace Owens is doing an ‘expose’ on Brigitte Macron.
It’s interesting how Candace Owens and other rancid idiots are given a platform by Piers Morgan yet the same Piers Morgan won’t give Tommy Robinson a platform.
Piers organ is jealous of Tommy Robinson’s popularity and moral clarity, Piers can’t come close to either
A loud mouth pommy prick
I don’t understand Owens’ race-baiting stuff or why she’s an anti-semite exactly
but I have overheard some of her rants about the Macrons and the rants are awesome
apparently the Macrons, at one point, sent a cease and desist from France to the her in the US
she basically gave them the big-finger and said rack-off I’m doing it anyway (she better not travel to Europe for holiday … like for the rest of her life)
the gist I think, is that Mrs Macron as a really a mister
and that the global satanists have been installing pedos and freaks into positions of power for decades
looking at world affairs lately I am wondering if she’s not onto something
what a world if Putin and Trump are the only world leaders with actual balls
still, it’s more entertaining than the crap we have TV these days
Hmmmm sounds like a conspiracy theory, let me verify that with a credible article from CNN
It really is that stupid.
Everyone knows Mrs Macron seduced her husband when she was 39 and he was a fifteen year old schoolboy.
Isn’t that scandal enough?
Owens could have sent a French speaking investigator if she was too scared to go herself, if the truth was what she was interested in.
She’s just a grifter.
And that is all considered 100% AOK in France.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
-– Mark Twain
It is.
Supporters should ask themselves.
Why is this a priority for Owens?
Is it worth the cost to genuine criticism of Macron?
On leave pending job seeking.
https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1884034727046226317?t=t2tW2mHttroPF5GbWoBrSg&s=19
Hope they their jobs, entitlements and houses. The crap they put other people through makes me angry. I’m not nice when I’m angry.
err, they/their or they lose their jerbs, etc?
Amazing what they can do when they are motivated. Re the desecration of the police memorial:
Just before 3pm on Monday a 43-year-old man was arrested at Glebe light rail station and taken to Day Street police station where he was charged.
He was refused bail and is due to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, facing charges of destroy or damage property and commit offensive etc act in, on war memorial/interment site.
Earlier on Monday, at a media conference, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said damaging a place “sacrilege to officers” was “despicable”.
She thanked the efforts of investigators who acted swiftly “using all means available to detectives to identify him and arrest him and put him in custody.”
The message is – intimidate Jews and deface Captain Cook memorials with impunity, but we draw the line at our own.
BTW, reading about the recent defacement and vandalism of a Captain Cook memorial in Victoria recently, I noticed that councillors bemoaned the fact that every time (it wasn’t the first) they had to sometimes take it away and spend a fortune on restoring it.
How about spending a few bob on security cameras on the approaches to the site?
One wonders whose side they are on.
I find the number of fools who think Cook landed in Australia, with the First Fleet, rather amusing.
… but not surprising given the state of what passes for our education system.
It gets worse. Recently the NSW school history syllabus has reportedly changed to minimise British explorer facts in favour of First Nations information.
Happy to be corrected but I don’t think there have been many arrests over racist arson, antisemitism, hate marches or statue vandalism here in the democratic people’s republic of Victoriastan. An announcement that Vicpol are “investigating” any of those things must be reassuring to the perpetrators as they can be sure they’ll never be caught.
The last criminal Victoria Police ever arrested was Ronald Ryan?
He was a feral from Glebe, not a special person of no describable race or religion. So it was a safe arrest.
The other guy arrested for firebombing the synagogue was from Camperdown.
The antisemite demo on Sunday marched up Broadway and then flopped down in the park just south of Sydney University, which is neatly nestled between Glebe and Camperdown. Funny how that works.
Victoria set the precedent. The spate of arson attacks on churches that attended the accession of Daniel Andrews remains unsolved – except for one committed by a serial firebug who also tried to torch a police station. They had no trouble finding him!
Oh and further to my earlier comment about how the Holocaust is being appropriated by ‘groups’ who were never targeted for elimination by the Nazis, there were others murdered at Auschwitz and they most certainly weren’t murdered for being homosexual or trans or non-binary, here’s a breakdown of those murdered at the death camp….
960,000 Jews
74,000 non-Jewish Poles
21,000 Roma
15,000 Soviet POWs
I think the above figures speak for themselves and note that I don’t see one ‘homosexual’ listed. How odd! I would hazard a good guess that a few of the above murdered Jews, Poles, Roma and Soviet POWs might have been homosexual but they weren’t gassed for their sexual orientation.
BREAKING: Trump Uses Emergency Powers to Send U.S. Military into California and Provide Water: “The Days of Putting a Fake Environmental Argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER.”
Golly I wish Kenny would put up a warning before he links to the withered King of Superciliousity, Paul Barry.
This one was over the Wuhan lab leak which, with absolutely zero actual knowledge, he dismissed as more Sky After Dark nonsense.
It has since been admitted as true.
We paid for this pr*ck to lecture us and denigrate clearly superior journalists.
JC
January 28, 2025 4:13 pm
There’s less bias in hard sciences than there is in the other crap.
There’s more to it than winning school comps and bagging the SATS. There’s also a certain amount of creativity and gut raw determination. My impression is that they can only think vertically and not laterally.
Doesn’t that invalidate some of your comments then?
At best the chunks are copiers and even then not as good as the japanaroonies.
The dumbest folk in the world are the muzzies, proving consanguinity is deadly for brains. Based on Nobel prizes for smarts the Jews come out tops by a country furlong.
Jewish and Arab Islam Nobel Prize Winners
Yep 1400 years of being muzzies is wots dun it. Before they were great thinkers. Along comes Big Nose Mo and it all turns to shiite.
Not cute owls, but deserving of an honourable mention and showing which skills the fairer sex should master:
(454) Solid Potato Salad – YouTube
Taiwan is stuffed.
Language!
Move your manufacturing to the USA coz we’re not going to defend you or at least let you think that.
Watters: Trump is bringing ‘volcanic eruption’ action to Washington
Wow – this has been some storm in Sydney. A damn nuisance, as it prevented me from attending Sydney Institute tonight to be able to give a bit of grief to Richard Marles who is delivering a speech there on the 80th Anniversary of the Holocaust.
It is a bit late for the Albanese government to pretend to be concerned about anti-Semitism.
Yes lots of dark clouds, wild winds but, sadly, very little rain squeezed from the clouds – though it has cooled things down quite a bit
We were both lying down on our bed in the aircon eating cherries and reading while the weather wilded around us. Then I spotted one very miz little old lady Currawong, our original mum on the nest, hunched in the tree outside our bedroom, waiting for us to do something about her sodden plight.
So I arose and gave her some secret meat, away from the others whom I am trying to wean off our largesse. It’s summer, I tell them sternly. Go and eat lizards.
Know the feeling. As soon as we return to Sydney, we are besieged by our resident water dragons, and the other spongers – lorikeets and magpies.
It’s quite amazing – the water dragons actually whack the glass doors on the terraces to tell us they are hungry. If you leave a door open they are in quite quickly – a bit scary with the big daddy, which is HUGE.
Just about to sideswipe the Cafe via the rain radar. The bad storm looks like it will miss to the south though, fortunately.
Unusually BoM underestimated the Tmax, which was 40.6 vs forecast 39 C. My birdies mostly went and hid in deep shade for most of the afternoon.
We took refuge at Souths when it hit 41 at Merewether. I usually hate that dungeon, but a pint for the spouse just about saved his life.
Nice storm this evening, cats are stretched out on the wood floors in the aftermath, 26 degrees now.
Heh. Andrew Clennell barracking furiously for Albo.
Anyone else noticed how his voice changes dramatically under pressure? He sounds just like Elbow!
Andrew Clennell is NSW ALP Right. Viewed through that filter, his views of the next election’s outcome are comical. He’s not an analyst. He’s a barracker.
Clennell is wedded to the idea that Peter Dutton can’t win the next election because he (Clennell) doesn’t like him ideologically.
I was referring to that closed-throat haranguing squeak that they do.
Heard it many times via union “heavies” and other Labor drips. 😀
Even Bob Hawke had it.
Been taking lessons in snivel. Hasn’t conquered splattering yet.
It was funny how he started squeaking when Peta gave him stick for rabbiting on about “Women’s issues”, will work for Labor.
I loved it when Peta stated that her “Vagina”, had nothing to do with her political preferences. hahahahahaha
Sky News people have been playing with DeepSeek.
China’s DeepSeek AI is a ‘malfunctioning national security threat filled’ with misinformation and propaganda (28 Jan)
China’s AI DeepSeek calls for Taiwan to be returned, malfunctions when questioned about Uyghur Muslims (28 Jan)
I saw another story where someone asked it about the “tank man”. It had conniptions and locked up. Pretty clearly the underlying code has strong restrictions to prevent it from going against the Party line. Which means it will also be feeding as much data back to China that it can siphon from naive marks.
So a Chinese version of Google.
I wonder if the BrainsTrust of the CCP realise that the examples above just convince us outside their borders, that they are not a serious government?
She’s just a grifter.
Yep.
Michael Shellenberger – The Insanity of Climate Hysteria
I see the ubiquitous blue square beneath that YouTube clip giving us the “real” “facts” to counteract Shellenberger’s position.
At least the clip is “allowed” to be seen – small mercies.
CEO of Hadrian, Chris Power, has the following piece up on zerohedge (it was up on Real Clear Politics first).
Rebuilding American Manufacturing: It’s Not Just Plants, It’s People
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rebuilding-american-manufacturing-its-not-just-plants-its-people
Chris Power is an Australia success story.
Sold a business he founded here in Australia then headed to the US to help make manufacturing great again.
Thanks Bern. Looks like a plan not just the usual noise.
How do you stop a small model from learning from a large model?
How do you stop a party you don’t like from renting GPU’s?
What a fascinating time to be alive.
We will get to the point where all of the AI will be unusable and we will go back to Netscape.
made me chuckle
Is Credlin worth streaming tonight?
Yes. The “we don’t vote with our vaginas” remark is priceless.
Shall get to it.
Can’t remember the last time I watched Bolta.
Doesn’t break stories and his analysis is shite.
Credlin, great analysis.
Sharri, breaks stories.
Bolta needs a refresh.
Bolta’s onto DeepSeek. He might read this blog.
With those little pencils? I’m not surprised.
Some Television to mark the anniversary of Tom Verlaine carking it.
I’ve never cared much for LJJ but the first album, which I purchased in late 1977, was a masterpiece and remains one of my all-time favourites.
They developed so much between the two records.
Nor did I till I heard this.
I’ve got The Blow Up.
The live version is better, I’ll grant.
Why Biden’s Preemptive Pardons Are Going to Backfire on Him
Teh Voice news (the Hun):
Who is absolutely in it for the cash, and or compo:
Sorry toots. That ship has well and truly sailed.
They can afford to go to the tennis!!!???
Rioli Jr – old enough to be a warrior in the inter tribal wars…
Fair point. What happens in 4 years time when he’s gonesky?
A Peter Thiel theocracy.
Yep. No love lost with Peta and Andrew Clennell. Peta got stuck into the smarmy know all Andrew Clennell who stated Peter Dutton needed a couple of women friendly policies and win over two or three percent of that covert. Peta “you insult our intelligence, …..I find it offensive”. .. It’s not about policies with a pink cover sheet”. she really looked pissed off with him – very entertaining.
Clennell didn’t have a good night.
He’s so cliche.
One would think that some of the data brokers in the US that fed into Baris & Trafalgar for the US election could apply their trade in Australia.
Never heard of this Clennell deadshit except on here. Glad I don’t watch TV.
If Dutton is elected would love to know if he can revoke the issuing of visas to the granting of permanent Australian visas to 2158 family and partners of the illegal asylum seekers who now have citizenship on the way. They won. Now the sugar is back on the table, look out if Albanese gets back in. An inundation of illegals.
Australia hasn’t been dragged down into the gutter enough yet. So unfortunately, Anal will probably get back in with a minority government and Green support.
Look out for a US 45 – 55 cent dollar.
Look for 10% unemployment and the kids never moving out of mum and dads home.
The Communists have every intention of absolutely trashing Australia. It’s what they do, and they do it every time.
Feelthebern gets it:
As a political creature, Peta Credlin is worth her weight in gold. She’s not a tribal LNP hack. Her analyst is bankable.
Sharri Markson is also worth her weight in gold because she is the only journalist at Sky News who sees her primary mission as breaking news stories.
Markson is a lefty who has been red-pilled by the tribal hatred of Jews by her comrades in the global left.
Like Chris Kenny, Andrew Blot is a lazy sod who sees his primary mission as ramming his opinions down the throats of his audience.
Blot is an excellent writer in print in the Herald Sun, but a dunce as a broadcaster because he has no empathy for or interest in the people he interviews: they’re just fodder who help him ram his ideas down his audience’s throats.
Therefore, while I wait for Sharri Markson to come on at 8pm, I’m watching last night’s Paul Murray, the only other Sky News jock genuinely interested in changing the Australian political landscape with new information.
Bolt always came across on TV and radio as wooden. Good writer though (mostly).
Is wooden a synonym for Dutch?
😀
Watched a bit of Blot tonight. He was discussing AI. He showed a clip of Elon Musk talking about asking AI, which was worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, or Thermo Nuclear War.
The AI, of course replied, “misgendering Caitlyn Jenner”.
Elon had said that AI concerned him because it can and would be programmed to lie.
Also, that AI could be programmed to kill.
This reminded me of a film from the eighties.
A line from the film, “want to play a game?”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_war%2520games
Top Nobel prize winners by country over the last 30 years.
Over the past 30 years (1995–2024), the countries with the highest number of Nobel Prize laureates are:
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Sweden
Russia
Canada
Switzerland
Austria
The UK result is incredible. I don’t think it’s beat because its grandchild (the US), but it has the ability to reverse course. The concern is not so much about hitting rock bottom; it’s about getting back up off the floor and making a comeback.
Also, the UK is too precious for the West to be lost. For that matter, Germany and France are too.
The engineers that came out of Scotland is amazing but look at it now is the A1. Ok, Islay malt.
They just copy.
Global Innovation Index 2024 – GII 2024 results
Yep, they just copy.
Which they’re very good at.
They do not lead.
(I hope they’ve taken up my patents and run with them. I suspect they have.)
Credlin “Her analyst (sic) is bankable”
Basically agree but she was very wrong on the jabs. Still remember her saying people want pfizer not astrazenica. Actually all of them were jab cheerleaders – Kenny, Bolt and Markson. Only standout was Rowan Dean – a man with very strong principles. I’ll never forget that.
I was surprised how few came out strongly against the mRNA vaccines – especially after research from highly credentialed medical writers multiplied on the internet. I guess most feared for their careers and income, and I do understand that. In Australia and elsewhere, it was primarily the retired experts like Prof.Emeritus Bob Clancy & Dr. Phil Altman (in Australia) and tenured high ranking academics like Prof. Jay Bhattacharya who dared to challenge the government and pharmaceutical “authorities”.
And yes – I will always be grateful for the support of Rowan and the Outsiders crew for the support they bravely gave to the unvaccinated renegades.
In Australia the linkage between government and medical practice is practically 1 to 1 from registration to Medicare provider numbers. I used to joke with my old man (a GP) he was practically a public servant. That never went down too well. A few GPs would provide a dodgy vaccination certificate for conscientious objectors, although that tended to be by word of mouth.
Don’t forget Struth.
I’m trying.
A couple at Teh Paywallian were solid. Most TV j’ismists were hopeless.
The discussion on vaccines very quickly descended into the weeds. As a layman I felt I could not really sort the wheat from the chaff here, although there were far too many who could not prepared to make that call. On modelling and basic human rights (no government mandated medical procedures) I was much happier to go to the metaphorical barricades.
Trump Begins Firing Enemies
JohnH
“Innovation” is an airy fairy type of measure. In fact it’s kind of gay as it’s difficult to define.
Try the more realistic measure. Patents.
Top 10 over the past 30 years. More importantly, from now on it’s worth watching to see just how much Xi’s choke hold has on the economy.
Again, with 15% of the world’s population, China’s position isn’t that great.
I’ve been thinking, if Trump wants to really play hardball with Puking (if he’s non-compliant), he needs to get the oil price down to about US50 bucks a barrel. He’d end up with a twofer. He’d fck Iran too. China would benefit but not hugely as it’s buying Russian and Iranian oil at a discount anyway.
Give it time and it will happen.
I’m sure it’s on the agenda for the discussions.
Big storm cell on the march and about to swallow us up. Got the torch at the ready plus a preemptive cup of tea.
Not going to be caught again!
Nvidia up around 5.5% in the premarket.
Also, the UK is too precious for the West to be lost. For that matter, Germany and France are too.
Their elites, like ours, must really be dead souls.
Seems that Shakespeare, the King James Bible, Elgar, Beethoven, Brahms, Goethe, Schiller and an oak tree in a meadow mean NOTHING to them.
Sharri interviewing Sir Humphrey Appleby.
It was better with Nigel Hawthorne in the role.
Who the hell is that scrote?
Obfuscation and sucking up, yet Sharri doesn’t pick him up on it.
F**ks sake woman, you’re supposed to be a no hold’s barred reporter.
Stop playing nice.
The NSWaffen do NOT deserve it.
calli
January 28, 2025 8:04 pm
Big storm cell on the march and about to swallow us up. Got the torch at the ready plus a preemptive cup of tea.
Not going to be caught again!
—-
Lucky you.
All we’ve got over here is stinking hot weather. 41 tomorrow.
Annoying.
Annoying? Too kind, mate, too kind!
Sharri interviewing Sir Humphrey Appleby.
He’s an absolute f*cking disgrace.
I saw what I saw at Town Hall, I saw how the NSW police stood inert, like statues. I went home shaking and crying but it got worse later when the leftist and Muslim Nazis were provided with a police escort down to the Opera House. Why did the NSW police not prevent the Nazi scum from walking down to the Opera House? After all, they knew the Opera House was going to be lit up in the flag of Israel….so why did the NSW Police allow it?
I know someone who stood and viewed the whole sordid saga at the Opera House that night, she watched from that lookout where the Botanic Gardens look down over the Opera House. She said the NSW police were definitely given orders to stand down and DO NOTHING. The Nazis that night could have killed a Jew (they wanted to) and the NSW Police would have done SWEET F*CK ALL.
My God how I despise them.
Posted up thread Cassie. I agree.
Sharri is doing NOTHING to to upset the scrote and make him admit he’s lying. WTF. Dropping to the ground in Israel is NOT going to make the NSWaffen do their f**king jobs!
That empty suit was more annoyed about the optics of the horror unfolding on the steps of the Opera House than what it meant to the Jewish population.
JohnH
Chinese companies have to work really, really hard to make any profits.
Take the iPhone, for example:
Apple holds just under 18% of the smartphone market, yet captures 80% to 85% of the sector’s profits. This isn’t just a sweet spot—it’s basically heaven.
The point is that China lacks brands that people love and admire. It’s always fishing around the bottom end of the market, where returns are essentially commoditized. The only compelling reason to buy Chinese is price and that’s the equivalent of hell.
Sharri has wasted her time interviewing that NSW Assistant Police Commissioner. Nothing but weasel words from that empty suit, he simply refused to label what has been done to Jews in Sydney as terrorism. The police HQ should be ashamed.
He’s protecting his rum store.
Nothing changes.
From the Albanese-Minns distillery?
https://youtu.be/6Kkuj0gjNr8
Volkswagen offers its factories to CHINESE EV makers
FAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I am livid after the effwit Sharri interviewed. I am right, they are Waffen.
I am so pissed off, I cannot believe she didn’t head butt him, then kick him in the no nuts.
STOP with the f**king Softly, Softly.
Agree.
I suspect that she’s got some top people researching and writing for her but she herself is utterly clueless. Always looks like a rabbit in the headlights, but with perfect makeup and not a hair out of place. Utterly clueless.
Here’s a great example of American ingenuity. Not in a million fcking years would you see a chinaman come up with anything close to this masterpiece of original thinking.
Lol. Take my money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahRnIxGXZQ
Dunhill Television Commercials from the 1970s- a bit corny but still rather wonderful and fun
Great ads … shitty cigarettes.
The low IQ NSWaffen drongo maggot that Sharri has just interviewed said that that a foundation of the Australian constitution is ‘freedom of speech’.
Can someone here clarify this statement from the maggot as I’m not aware that the Australian constitution enshrines ‘freedom of speech’. Oh and what about the ‘freedom of speech’ of the 82 year old Five Dock woman who rang Lakemba mosque last year and told them ‘to go back to where you come from‘.
That elderly woman has been charged and faces court.
So, we have two tier policing, two tier billing and two tier speech in this country now. I am f*cking furious.
Yes, why didn’t Sharri mention the Old Lady from Five Dock?
I am so sick of the Soft approach.
Sharri needs to have a Go Bag filled with dummies, bottles and puppies when she interviews these scrotes.
Oh, wait, she has.
A f**king comedian, with a dreadful comb over in the seventies had more guts than what passes for Jism these days.
https://www.facebook.com/Igrewupinmortdale2223/videos/-norman-gunston-at-the-dismissal-111175/360642195191683/
I have a different view of the Markson interview.
These @rseholes need enough rope to hang themselves with. She gave him enough. He’s cooked.
It’s “terror” but not ”terrorism”? Seriously? What a stooge.
It also gives us an insight into why “gas the Jews” morphed into “where’s the Jews”. The first is actionable, a clear threat. The latter, not. They lied to save themselves work and for political gain…keep the weirdbeard voters happy.
The lot, including Vinegar T*ts, need to be sacked.
It will never happen Calli.
The gloves have to come off.
Whoever is interviewing HAS to ATTACK!
No pussyfooting.
Right now, in the Twenty-twenties, no one understands subtlety.
A sledge hammer is the only way to approach this scum.
President Trump has set the example.
If Oz media doesn’t grab this opportunity, they deserve to be Jackbooted into into the gravel drive.
It’s interesting that the interview was broadcast on the Auschwitz anniversary.
The interviewee could easily be one of the officials in the town next door…
“Oh. That was what was happening? Really? I never suspected a thing.”
Bang.
The interviewee could easily be one of the officials in the town next door…
“Oh. That was what was happening? Really? I never suspected a thing.”
That’s exactly what my sister has just texted to me.
The Chinese fillum Hero is a masterpiece. Great story, better cinematography. Jet Li as the main man. Magnificent.
Not sure if it got any gongs from the Academy, but if some shit gets 13 nominations, including a bloke for Best Actress, then Hero should have got 26.
Jet Li is awesome.
The rest of China, nah.
More Trumpening!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14331837/Google-Maps-caves-Trump-renames-Gulf-Mexico-Gulf-America.html
Well there’s a fellow who just dealt himself out of ever becoming the top cop in NSW.
On the contrary, he has now proven his loyalty to the political bosses.
Freedom of political speech is indeed guaranteed by the constitution, as interpreted authoritatively by the High Court.
However, under no reasonable interpretation would that protection extend to chants of “Gas the Jews”, which amounts to a call to genocide
Which explains why NSW police deny that chant was ever uttered, excusing them from their lack of action. They’re covering both their own arses and those of their political masters.
Something is very rotten in the state of NSW.
NSW police arrest & harass people on a daily basis.
They are very selective on how they apply that.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-jim-acosta-reportedly-cnn/
We are real news Mr President! Chortle
Something to cheer me up……a religious Jewish wedding in Israel……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyQgxD8g7E&list=WL&index=8
I just love this. They’re Mizrachi Jews.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/breaking-trump-uses-emergency-powers-send-u-s/
Beertruk 27/1 @ 9:02
thats for the knee.
really appreciate it,.
so glad to hear you are good and able to move freely again.
My patella is bald, so the slightest brush on an object or uneven surface is a mild ouch or a ahhhh.
Spoke to a few footy ? mates who have the same thing.
Running is out even though the physio at the time he could fix me.
instead going to the gym to get buffed – one problem – the guts.
Thanks Beertruk
My 50 y-o physio, a very fit bloke, refuses to run any more.
He sees too many running injuries in men his age and won’t let it happen to him.
Hilarious, and mostly true.
Bill Shorten’s new salary revealed at University of CanberraNatasha Bita
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Former Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten has doubled his money by parachuting into an $860,000-a-year job as vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra.
Mr Shorten, a former Labor opposition leader, quit as NDIS minister to take up the plum post last week, jumping ship from the Albanese frontbench to end his 17-year political career on the eve of a tight federal election.
University of Canberra chancellor Lisa Paul revealed on Tuesday Mr Shorten will be paid $860,000 this year, including superannuation and fringe benefits.
The salary package is more than double the base ministerial salary of $404,000.
Ms Paul said Mr Shorten had taken a 15 per cent pay cut, compared to the salary paid to his predecessor, Professor Paddy Nixon, who stepped down a year ago for a “career break’’.
“When finalising Mr Bill Shorten’s pay conditions we mutually agreed following his initiative that his total remuneration package including superannuation, accommodation and fringe benefits tax will be $860,000, down by approximately 15 per cent of the former vice-chancellor’s pay in 2022,’’ Ms Paul said.
“The university leadership, including Mr Shorten, cares deeply about bringing the University of Canberra back to financial sustainability and it was our view to line up better with community expectations, and in recognition of what the university is going through.”
During his time as NDIS minister, Mr Shorten appointed Ms Paul in 2022 to co-chair a review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Ms Paul had previously served as secretary of the federal Education Department.
The University of Canberra said it had conducted a global search for its new vice-chancellor.
Ms Paul headed the seven-member selection committee that appointed Mr Shorten, who has a law degree.
Mr Shorten will retain his parliamentary title of Honourable, but appears to have missed out on an honorary academic title like the one granted to University of Sydney Professor Mark Scott, who was a former managing director of the ABC and NSW Education Department secretary.
The University of Canberra has sacked 141 staff in recent months and is forcing 100 academics to reapply for their jobs, resulting in 58 extra redundancies.
The National Tertiary Education Union’s ACT division secretary, Lachlan Clohesy, will meet Mr Shorten on Thursday in a bid to stop the “hunger games’’ redundancy round.
“We think that ‘spill and fill’ processes create a ‘hunger games’ environment and expose an unnecessary number of people to stress and anxiety about their jobs,’’ Dr Clohesy said.
Pull up the ladder, Jack, I’m all right.
I wonder what Kathy Sheriff thinks:
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I was crass enough to speculate on that issue, yes.
Hope there’s a pie shop nearby.
Key takeaways from the article:
“During his time as NDIS minister, Mr Shorten appointed Ms Paul in 2022 to co-chair a review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme…
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Ms Paul headed the seven-member selection committee that appointed Mr Shorten …”
The University of Canberra said it had conducted a global search for its new vice-chancellor.
Ms Paul headed the seven-member selection committee that appointed Mr Shorten, who has a law degree.
That would be funny if it wasn’t so grotesque- a global search and they ended up with something from down the road. What a disgusting abomination canbra is. University of Canberra formerly mickey mouse college of advanced ejucashun.
It would be interesting to see a list of the unsuccessful candidates and their qualifications, and the reasoning by which each was considered inferior to the preferred candidate
Trump has defeated his enemies, is driving them before him, and if he visits TikTok, he can hear the lamentations of their women.
JC at 9:33.
Someone mentioned Sir Humphrey Appleby upthread.
Option A is classic Sir Humphrey:-
Option B? Well, I can hear the MSM now … “Brutish, bullying, lacks the understanding of the nuances of statesmanlike diplomacy.”
He didn’t just send a message to the Colombians. He sent a message to the Swamp as well … “I decide. You execute. If you don’t, you’ll be run over”.
Further to JC’s post at 9:33.
There is one thing missing from the “Traditional Approach”.
Somewhere in there, someone pushes the line that the proposed course of action breaches some international covenant of the UN or WHO or FIFA, or that some pompous git from some NGO like Amnesty or Red Cross is going to make a damning speech about it.
The Swamp now realises that Trump is going to put that in the “Plus” column.
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Acosta being assigned to the graveyard shift is possibly related to something else I read today.
The White House press club (basically the MSM) used to run the structure of press briefings – who sits where, who asks what questions.
During the O’Bummer years this was basically a tongue-bath competition and for most of Sleepy Joe’s tenure it involved covering up his “top of his game” form.
From 2016-2020 they really got off the leash and it became a shooting gallery.
Well, the White House itself is now taking control of the structure of press briefings and are going to admit more outlets outside the CNN/MSNBC/Grey Lady/WaPo cabal.
Imagine Acosta being stuck up the back with Joe Rogan front and centre?
More than that, I now suspect CNN has been told that if Acosta is their man, they will be frozen out.
So, this is the lovely lady behind this song. It took some digging to find it.
JAKATTA ‘American Dream
calli, earlier:
What? WTF?
Who was it that said that?
Weasel words, in all likelihood prompted by the dead hand of a terrified government (which is not an excuse), and made by someone whose ‘executive contract’ is most likely up within the next six months and who hasn’t lined up a consulting gig just yet.
Appalling.
Thing is, how does he get it down to $45 without harming all the oil producers incl. the Saudis, not just Iran and Russia? What’s in it for them? Also, Russia managed to get through the 2010s with oil around there anyway. They’d have to have a work around or three.
The show goes on and Russia shrugs. India spinning might be interesting.
Land
‘The EU has an embargo on Russian crude oil imports by sea, but pipeline deliveries are not banned. Flows through the Druzhba pipeline were exempted from the EU embargo on imports of Russian crude oil by sea that came into effect on December 5, 2022. The EU has exempted pipeline oil flows to landlocked EU member states from the ban.’
Sea
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/russia-set-to-test-new-delhi-s-nerve-by-sending-sanctioned-oil-and-tankers-to-india/ar-AA1y0wMo
He’s spot on.
Reverend Simon Sideways:
It’s all the far rights fault, not islam says Labour
I saw about a minute of the interview with that dribbling idiot from NSW Plod.
Couldn’t stomach any more.
I lasted 10 minutes, before shouting at the TV and then changing the channel.
Huh
Lunatics on both the far left and far right seem to want China to beat the USA technologically.
Huh. Maybe the political spectrum is a circle.
Or maybe idiocy likes extremism.
The Trump win shows that the system is still capable of self correction, and remains humanity’s best hope for the future.
The culture too shows signs of renewal.
A renewal of faith and a renewal of values. Or at least an understanding of the fight we are in.
I’ve come to the same conclusion Arky.
Like WTF???
900 HP methanol consuming monsters. They can be be tuned to 1000 HP, but the rules are, nah nah nah, NO!
Fair enough,
We need to build bigger tracks. The Perth Motorplex should have copied the old Claremont Speedway configuration.
Big f*ck up there. Anyway with that said, enjoy the race.
Once the green drops, it is foot to the floor and steering inputs are used to control the speed.
Sorry Delta, no seat available. ( :
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