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I was under the impression that to make authentic Indian or Pakistani food, hygiene had to be minimal.
These “scientists” are unashamed liars and frauds.
I am currently helping a newly approved applicant to negotiate the NDIS, where directing you to a long and complex…
Friendly relations, but no immigration?
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
David Pope.
Like most j’ismists, Pope is a raging Leftist. He does not fulfil the role of cartoonist as court jester but rather is just another pom pom waver. He has managed to captures Spud’s spuddiness.
A.F. Branco.
Genius!
Matt Margolis.
Oops. I meant that this one is genius.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Good Lord. Hun:
A quick glance at the lady doing the talking suggests she is white and very attractive.
However, that doesn’t mean she is intelligent. This just is not racism darling. To use your logic, being from a northern Australia ‘nation’ isn’t he on someone else’s land in Melbourne?
I am taking a stab in the dark, but I think you will find that black fellas do indeed celebrate this day in the same numbers as who rejected the referendum on Teh Voice. With an overwhelming majority.
Black fellas being told what to think about by white academics who offer no value to anything.
A quick glance at her Insta tells me all I need to know. Like all my indigenous friends, she’s as white as I am.
Attention Deficit Disorder.
Look at meeeeeee! I’m a victim! And being a victim of waaaaycism is right at the top of the victim totem pole. Give the girl an elephant stamp and a box of tissues.
Calli I don’t think the lady is Aboriginal.
She’s speaking on behalf of Rioli.
+1000 saw a few flags displayed round Aitkenvale/Vincent over the weekend with Aboriginal flag.
Those suburbs of Townsville has a darker hue.
Also ran into a son of a bloke I used to drink with 20yo yesterday, an Indig guy. The son now a proud soldier (I recognised the uniform nametag & asked).
A lot are just like us. Got mortgages to pay, jobs to do and want to get on with life.
Ermergerd, like, a common invader person made EYE CONTACT with mer and mer partner, ernd, SPOKE WERDS AND STUFF ABOUT BEING HAPPY IN AUSTRALIER!
It shouldn’t happen to mer, don’t they like know who I am???
she is the main character here…
Lee said the incident had deeply affected Rioli Jr, who has a proud Indigenous family and heritage.
So the previous ‘welcome to country’ was insincere then?
If I said “Happy Australia day” to an aboriginal bloke, I’d mean it. I’d want him to understand that I hope he’ll enjoy himself as much as me, on a day when all Australians should feel glad to live in this country.
Happy Australia day to you, BB. You’re a good bloke.
Happy Australia Day to you also Doc
White and attractive
She looks like a bogan tart. The eyes and the luber lips look like they’ve had work. There’s nothing happening between those ears. Maurice wants to enjoy it while he can because the attention span will change soon.
I find welcome to my own country vastly more offensive.
Many thanks, Lizzie. I’ve just caught up with the magnum opus you filed in the OT on India at 1.51pm yesterday — a ripping read and most informative.
Margaret Brennan Echoes the Elites’ Enduring Prejudice Against the South – PJ Media
I really wish the legacy meja would hurry up and die. Highly paid smug morons. Eloi.
I think almost everyone heard the town’s name, Innamincka, but how many know its current state?
One for Your Bucket List
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The name Innamincka comes from the Yandruwandha words ‘Yini’ and ‘mingka’ meaning ‘your waterhole’.
In 1845, explorer Charles Sturt was the first white man to visit the Cooper Creek and passed through the Innamincka area. Augustus Gregory followed in 1858 searching for fellow explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.
The area’s most famous link with Australian pioneering history is with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition.
After setting off from Melbourne in August 1860, Burke and Wills reached the Cooper in November and set up camp on the banks of the creek north of Innamincka.
After reaching the top end and returning in April 1861, both Burke and Wills perished along the Cooper Creek a few months later.
Soon after, white settlement in the area saw the establishment of the Innamincka Station in 1872. Ten years later, a police outpost was set up followed by a general store two years later and the pub a year after that.
The town was actually proclaimed as ‘Hopetoun’ in 1890 after the Governor of Victoria. However, it was officially changed to Innamincka in 1892 after intense opposition to the proclaimed name.
The town continued to flourish and at one time included a blacksmith, school, hotel, police station, saddler and a few small houses. Until Federation in 1901, Innamincka prospered as a customs depot where state taxes were collected from increasing numbers of drovers who moved cattle from Queensland into South Australia and down the Strzelecki.
An Inland Mission Hospital/Nursing Home and Flying Doctor Base was established in 1929, but eventually, all facilities closed, and the town was abandoned in 1952.
Today, Innamincka is still a tiny outpost of a town with around 12 permanent residents, but also services visitors with:
• Sealed airstrip with night lighting
• Trading post/general store
• Fuel
• Homestay accommodation
• Coin-operated hot showers for campers
• Department for Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)
Regional Headquarters
• AIM Museum and Visitor Interpretive Centre
Made a motza out of Innaminka when they hit it big in Brazil.
On a trip to the Outbreak many years ago our trusty Landcruiser developed a problem on our drive out to see the Dig Tree. We limped back into Innaminka where husband, in the broiling sun, attempted to diagnose the problem. I can recall holding a rug or something to try to protect him from the sun.
We had visions of having someone come from Broken Hill to tow it back for repairs, but genius husband detected a wiring problem – can’t recall the details but something had come awry on those horrific roads near Innaminka. Anyway, he fixed it but we didn’t go on to the Dig Tree. But we camped by the Cooper that night.
Years later we returned to Innaminka with a group of friends in a 4 WD expedition through that region and on to the Birdsville Track. By then the roads were much better, although I recall the road through Cordello Downs was still the stuff of night terrors.
That reminded me of MIL pub. A wonce thriving community dwindling down to just three.
Treasure those rare occasions.
Is there a place the Greeks haven’t migrated to?
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Captured nearly a century ago, this photograph depicts the Greeks of Pontus, a community with profound historical connections along the southern shores of the Black Sea.
The men, adorned in traditional Pontic garments and bearing arms, symbolize an era fraught with significant adversities, including conflict and displacement that the Pontic Greeks confronted.
I’d be wary about the bloke on the right, look at his eyes.
The bloke on the right looks like a Comedian from the early years of Cinema. Can’t remember his name. will try to find it later. Busy day today.
Ben Turpin?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeTnl697CqUrWud56SYffIHGRbUFEHkK5UwA&s
One of my absolute faves in the Calvin & Hobbes Chronicles.
Again, Watterson shows his genius – the entire story without a single word. BTW – well done, Dad!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVa8XLgvD9I
And when the shit hits the fan, these same people will be demanding protection from the monsters they supported by the people they abused.
Oldish Brisbane, 1969.
That hill looks to steep for trams, must be the way the photo was taken.
Must have been right on the limit of adhesion. If you look at the verandah on the right you can see how steep it is.
Trams typically could go up steeper grades than trains because of the lack of dragging weight. Here is a photo taken at Neutral Bay in Sydney
I love trams.
The council turned the old Wallsend-Glendale steam tram right of way into a shared path. It’s excellent, but the grade is pretty steep. Apparently if steam pressure was a bit low the passengers often had to get out and push.
It’s a fair old climb.
Sections of the old tram line still run along the top of the hill.
And that pic looks to have been taken only half-way up the hill.
Garrison’s ‘toon reminded me of this from long ago. 😀
YES!
Koala Family Problems.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zDuwEpx7QJI?feature=share
Well, I thought it was funny.
Wow, no one would dare say anything like that a few months ago.
DHS Secretary Hits New York to Get ‘Dirtbags Off the Streets’ (28 Jan)
Confirmed by the Senate on Saturday and by Tuesday morning she is going out with the guys to arrest criminals. Can we have someone like her to replace the Karen in charge of NSW police please?
The same thinking which had the Dimocrats scratching their heads on November 5th when demographics they “owned” swung heavily towards Trump – young black men, Latino – without Trump explicitly looking for policies which exclusively targeted them.
Clennell’s voice dripped with sarcasm when he addressed her by her full name and surname. My only thought was would he dare try that on any other media woman. Long ago there was a term for such a man – male chauvinist pig.
Don’t die on the toilet – Saturday night live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BjJkqybz8
LOL
Someone has to raise it, so it may as well be me.
News started last night and has only amplified this morning that the Israeli authorities believe the Bibas family is dead. They were numbered amongst the large cohort to be released shortly. Hamas informed Israel that eight of the hostages were dead.
Families of the slain have been notified, but asked to remain silent until the swap is complete.
sob…
no words
Yes there are – murderers.
I’ll say no more of this despicable mob of loser cultists.
I have words but they are not printable.
This came up said by Margaret Thatcher in 1988 – truth like a crystal bell rings clearly and unambiguously, ever thus:
Israeli authorities believe the Bibas family is dead
It was known last week. I think Israel has confirmation that Shiri, Kfir and Ariel are dead. As for Yarden (the father), last seen being held by the Nazis in a cage, his fate remains unknown.
We need their bodies back, to provide them with the dignity of a Jewish funeral and to finally finally let their souls find rest.
Last year the always erudite and articulate Douglas Murray, never one to mince words, said that the Gazan Nazis are worse than the World War II Nazis. Murray was right.
Don’t ever let the left get away with saying they don’t approve of killing other human beings or of rape. They most certainly do approve of murder and rape, particularly when the victims of murder and rape are Jews or, for that matter, white working class indigenous English girls.
The Nazi left, like their Muslim pals, are SCUM. By the way, where’s our cowardly Nazi? What sayeth him?
I’m still in shock at the Markson interview with the NSWaffen cockroach. Rarely do words fail me but I’m in shock at what I viewed last night.
Oh and lastly, yesterday I viewed footage and pictures of smiling and laughing Nazi Gazans returning to Northern Gaza, I was relieved to see how fat and well fed these Nazis were (sarcasm)…..coz…coz…….coz weren’t we told that there’s been a Jewish instigated famine in Gaza? Isn’t Gaza ‘Auschwitz’ take two?
Yes. Daniel Hagari announced it officially last night, couching it in soft, but definite terms.
It’s a crime that cries out to heaven.
Words fail me. That beautiful little family…murdered.
I still live in the hope that they are alive. Poor people.
I’m personally enraged at our collective governments not taking action – i.e. Napalming Gaza to Hell and back – for their useless and cowardly stand on these animals.
All anal will do is hold a press conference to announce an inquiry into Australia delaying assistance to the ‘starving Palestinians’.
The green dream delivers more black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRXIGjkVizM
Jeebus Cripes!
Um…it’s a local bushfire which came close to the minesite.
The minesite was not on fire.
I too noticed the starving genocided Gazans returning to the north.
We are owed an apology from the Fake News Networks for their hyperbolic reporting. I’m not holding my breath.
One Gazan woman was on the telly this morning looking well fed and well dressed. We have yet to see any of them say either that Hamas are wonderful, or Hamas have ruined our lives. It’s a cert for the “two red buttons” poster on Week In Pictures.
White House: Trump Will Continue Working at ‘Break-Neck Speed’
Another green wannabe goes out the back door.
Magnis gigafactory goes bankrupt (Paywallian)
From another version of the same story:
Well ASIC got this one right. The plant is going to produce exactly zero gigawatt hours of batteries per year, especially since all those yummy subsidies have just dried up, courtesy of a Mr Trump.
Fleeced Townsville City Council too. Jenny Hill previous mayor feted these guys even though some ratepayers were sounding warnings on their inflated claims. Jenny & councillors got trips to the US out of it.
Yet Chrisifooli & incompetent LG minister are not going near the corruption like this.
Hamas have not provided a list of which hostages are dead, just stated that eight are dead which coincides with Israeli’s previous assessments.
The Bibas family’s latest statement two days ago clearly indicates they have some hope Shiri, Ariel and Kfir are alive.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/some-hostages-families-say-idf-told-them-loved-ones-may-be-dead-as-per-hamas-list/
Bibas family mentioned here.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/some-hostages-families-say-idf-told-them-loved-ones-may-be-dead-as-per-hamas-list/
Legacy Media gets a kick in the nuts from Leavitt’s first White House press briefing. The MSM is no longer trusted. More podcasters and sundry lesser-sized organisations will be returned, ones who were cancelled by the Biden Regime.
Sky News Daytime unimpressed. Let’s see what the “after dark” commentators make of it.
Political Earthquake: Trump Fires Biden-Appointed Labor Board Leader Gwynne Wilcox in Latest Shakeup – She Plans to Challenge ‘Unprecedented and Illegal’ Move
Macron should have chatted to Rogan
‘A dwarf married to his teacher’
Bit unkind, macron is 1.78 m
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1884351680860324197?t=Fwz5Vic5-Rr2As-FTMGuLw&s=19
If China is so wonderful how come so many Chinese are illegally entering the US (and probably here) and not vice versa?
https://x.com/TheRubberDuck79/status/1884262769891110919?t=-5QIy1D-EtrYZGsF4qtqXw&s=19
Advance elements?
Time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted.
Daytime Sky happy to run Caroline Kennedy’s hit job on RFK jr for his “dangerous views on vaccines”.
Once again the MSM avoids the issue. The dangerous views on vaccines were theirs. The dangers of mRNA were never talked about even though we knew they were there from the get-go. They report deaths of young athletes and others without mentioning that mRNA could be, probably is, implicated in these premature deaths.
Anything is an improvement from “Rachael” Levine.
I noticed she also floated the idea that he’s a “predator” citing his love of raptors as evidence.
Piddle or get off the pot Mz Kennedy. Exactly what are you accusing him of? Shadowy, unsubstantiated accusations are just not going to cut it in the new administration. They’re all too experienced to fall for it.
She’s very lefty with an advanced case of TDS. She is upset that RFK jr is now working with Trump.
This from someone who is perfectly fine with human babies being dismembered in the womb.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1884319920592412719?t=2z1VUemseo9TRJr18Tlxbg&s=19
Check her glasses (goggles?).
MAGA Goes FAFO: Trump Purges USAID Leadership for Defying Executive Orders
Outstanding
Don’t be a rotten stinker,
Take me back to Innaminka!
John Vincent & Fahrenheit 451- Take Me Back To Innamincka
Labor of lurve.
‘Got it all wrong’: NSW ‘gender impact assessments’ slammed (Tele, paywalled)
So why does tranny politics impact on drought preparedness? Not enough tranny firefighters? Sheesh, soon in NSW you won’t be able to install a doghouse without a gender impact assessment.
From Florida To Texas, ‘Red State’ Republicans Are Subverting America First Priorities Across The Country
State Dept pulls millions in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending
A more accurate headline:
Trump Admin Pulls $50M in Terror Condoms for Gaza (Daniel Greenfield, 28 Jan)
Yep, Hamas was literally using condoms for terrorism, by filling them with helium and using them to float incendiaries into Israeli forests.
Meanwhile, in Airstrip One, Two Tiers’ penchant for recruiting from the bottom of the talent well continues.
The Tax Trough is always open:
Queensland’s long-suffering taxpayers appear to be giving some public servants a nice little holiday under the guise of reproductive leave.
Taxpayers are forking out millions of dollars each year for paid sick leave for IVF treatments, vasectomy recovery, breast screening and other reproductive conditions under a policy unveiled by the former Labor government last year.
Queensland became the first state to offer its 265,000 public servants up to two weeks reproductive health leave each year as a sweetener before the state election.
But your diarist hears the leave is being exploited by some public servants undergoing vasectomies, who are unnecessarily taking the entire fortnight off for what is less painful than a tooth filling. These days laser vasectomy treatments are completed in little over an hour in a medical clinic with a local anaesthetic that allows the patient to leave immediately after the procedure. There may be some localised pain but side effects or complications are rare.
One medical insider tells City Beat that it beggars belief that someone would need two weeks for such a simple procedure.
Some doctors are now refusing to sign off on medical certificates for the entire two week period claiming it’s unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer funds.
Courier-Mail
I don’t mind the payment for breast screening. I think in private employment if a woman asked for a paid day to get a screening few bosses would say no.
A breast screening does’t take a day.
Perks like these could be recinded in the budget. If he too gutless to go near public servant numbers then start eating their benefits.
So far I have seen nothing from his government except business as usual with a little window dressing.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Comes Out Swinging in Opening Statement in First Trump 2.0 Press Briefing
Jenna Howe: Daughter cut from will wins $250,000… now she’ll have a boob jobArthur Parashar
Daily Mail
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Jenna Howe, 37, was disinherited by her father Roger Howe three years before he passed away leaving $2.7m after he branded her a “lazy, useless, lying druggie”.
Instead his mother, sister and two nephews inherited his fortune when he died in 2020 aged 55 after falling from a second-floor window.
His only child took her case to court and a judge has now ruled she should receive $250,000 to help her turn her life around, including paying for replacement breast implants.
Judge Mark Raeside said: “Throughout her life, she has been self-conscious about her body and I am quite satisfied this should be paid for by the estate.”
Ms Howe’s claim for around $895,000 was rejected but the sum awarded will cover $149 a week for “maintenance” for the next ten years plus help to clear her debts.
The judge said her finances were “precarious” and the beautician should get a lump sum “in light of her mental condition” which has made it almost impossible for her to work.
He had been urged by Ms Howe’s barrister to award cash for the cosmetic surgery, saying a traumatic childhood left her with “body dysmorphia”.
Central London County Court heard that Mr Howe had a “toxic” relationship with his daughter and had consistently “belittled” her.
Mr Howe was a technical genius who, at just 16, was making rigs for London pirate radio stations before building up a business selling equipment all over the world.
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of a serial sexual predator, accuses her cousin RFK Jnr of being a predator.
Oh the irony!
Michael Shellenberger – The Biggest Issue With DEI Schemes
The smackdown delivered by JD Vance during his interview with her was a corker.
For those who haven’t seen it, she was trying to shame him over deportations, and the suspension of the Afghan refugee program.
She tried to trap him with “but if they have been vetted”, quoting Vance from August saying we should allow people who have been properly vetted to stay.
Emphasis on “properly”.
He cited the example of a refugee who had been vetted and got a visa but was planning a terrorist attack. She very smugly counters with “Yes, but we don’t know if was radicalised before he arrived, or afterwards”.
The response?
“I really don’t care, Margaret”.
It would have been better if he had gone with, “Frankly, Margaret, I don’t give a damn!”
But still pretty, pretty good.
He’s looking good to replace Trump.
Repulsive woman who has no idea how stupid and obnoxious she is. Vomits out Marxist talking points like an automaton.
Expel the Palestinians to Greenland!
Iran’s FM Aragchi: Expel Israelis to Greenland, leave Palestinians in Gaza (JPost, 28 Jan)
I don’t think he’s realized that by saying expelling Israelis is ok that expelling Palis must also be ok.
I made that point last night.
There were reports that the White House were going to take back control of press briefings which had been controlled by CNN/MSNBC/WaPo/NYT.
Jim Acosta is on the skids at CNN. I suspect that they have been told that, if they send Jimmy to the White House briefings, they won’t be getting a ticket.
No, it’s more about persistently reading that the Chinese will never close the technological gap between it and the US for this or that reason and yet seeing story after story that this is looking more and more likely. But it’s instructive that you associate the political centre with ‘the system’.
Second raters taken by surprise:
They’re waiting for the election. If the Libs win they would probably do it, but they know Labor are vindictive arseholes, so they dare do nothing while Albo and Bowen hold sway.
You wouldn’t trust them with your money, eh? because their customers’ interests aren’t among their priorities.
The banks are going to regret going down this path and their Labor mates won’t be there to save them.
Australian banks asleep in a comfy cartel? That’s a surprise.
Properly vetting immigrants, legal or illegal from some countries is never going to be possible, for obvious reasons like lack of resources and uncooperative, say, lying authorities in those places. We reject a lot of Europeans and other developed countries where we can be sure of their background, while letting in totally unknown individuals from the stinking ar..ehole places of the world.
Deny access, rule that they are never going to be given asylum if they can’t prove who they are, and swear allegiance to the King, punishable by death.
The idea you could ever establish anything from somewhere like Afghanistan was and has always been a complete nonsense. 30yo “teenage” refugees was just the beginning.
A long time ago (Howard government) I did a review of ‘refugee’ claims which were reviewed by the Refugee Review Tribunal and the AAT.
Even then, when the numbers were much lower, it was a shitfest. Tribunal members mostly (but by no means exclusively) appointed by Labor consistently favoured the narratives from ‘asylum seekers’ absent any evidence at all.
When in doubt, they were believed. In the sure and certain knowledge that none of these people would ever live anywhere near them.
How could Karoline Leavitt expect to be taken seriously when she failed to announce her gender, race, sexual preference and pronouns when opening her first WH PC.
The big tell for me that she and/or her parents are bogans is spelling her Christian name — the beautiful classic Caroline — with a ‘K’ lke some Walmart trollop.
So, she, like JD, has risen from origins that might be a bit infra dig, to a podium at the White House. Bravo. Don’t underestimate her, Tom.
p.s. i’d never say a word against her (also neonymous) predecessor, Kayliegh McEnananany. Whooo boy, was she ever the full package. Karolyn got a lot to live up to.
Janet Albrechtsen in the Oz…..
There is no evidentiary foundation to DEI. From the get-go, it was built on sand. But just watch the advocates in Australia hold on to a flawed policy.
Anyone able to post the full article?
No, it’s more about persistently reading that the Chinese will never close the technological gap between it and the US for this or that reason and yet seeing story after story that this is looking more and more likely. But it’s instructive that you associate the political centre with ‘the system’.
More like this resembles the view of the Japanese aeronautical prowess in 1940 that thought their pilots were cross eyed and their aircraft flimsy bamboo and rice paper contraptions.
The Type O Naval fighter was arguable the best in the world in 1940. If the Germans had had them they’d have shot the RAF out of the air. Turn inside Spitfires and Hurricanes and the long range to be persistent over the operational area such that the Hurricanes and Spitfires would have had to land for lack of fuel and find the Zeros waiting for them when they took off.
There is the story of the Buffalo fighter, climbing skyward during the Malaysian campaign, while a Zero literally flew rings around it..
And yet the Finns loved the Buffalo. Maybe lower temperatures had something to do with it letting the engine develop more power.
I saw recently the myth that the Russians used there P-39s for ground attack mainly is wrong. They used them for air to air. Probably very competitive below 12000 feet.
The UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA has failed in its mandate and will cease operations in Israel by Thursday, Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Yes.
Also, my idea, any that work for UNRWA and wish to defy this order, can stay in Gaza, unpaid, unhoused and with no readies for bribes.
Yeah, that works. 😀
This should lead to one of two things
1/ the end of UNRWA (unlikely, but we cap hope)
or
2/ Arab states are forced to directly facilitate UNRWA’s work, rather than Israel.
Reflecting on the Markson interview with the putrid low IQ Waffen cockroach masquerading as a ‘NSW police officer’, a cockroach who would have been quite at home working for the SS eighty years ago, I think both Jew and non-Jew should be very concerned at what the low IQ cockroach said to Markson.
One thing is clear, the NSWaffen Police command is not interested in policing or enforcing the law, in protecting Jews or non-Jews. The NSW Police now exist to placate certain ‘identity groups’, particularly a group that inhabits large swathes of western Sydney.
This should concern us greatly. We might ask, when did this politicisation of the police begin? I believe it began at Cronulla, now 20 years ago. We saw it in action during the Lindt Cafe siege when NSW Plod command was too interested in assuaging the concerns of the co-religionists of the person was holding the people hostage in the Lindt Cafe. I have not forgotten this.
I am now firmly of the belief that if the Skaff rapes happened now, they would not be investigated by the NSW police because it would breach the multicultural lie they’ve signed up to, and the police would be too interested in either ignoring or burying the story due to ‘cultural sensitivities’.
I ask this question again, a valid question Markson should have asked the low IQ cockroach last night, on that Monday night 9 October 2023 why did the NSW police provide a police escort to a rabid, frothing, screeching and screaming group of Jew haters to walk from Sydney Town Hall to the Sydney Opera House, knowing that the Opera House was going to be lit up in the Israeli flag? Surely clever policing, appraising the situation, would have and should have stopped them walking down to the Opera House? But no, they allowed it. This is telling. I tell you why they allowed it, because the police men and women on the ground that night, on the orders of scum like the low IQ cockroach, told them to stand down in the face of leftist and Muslim Nazism.
Last night’s interview confirmed my deep loathing of the NSW Police.
I have no faith the NSW Police will ever protect me, what’s worse is that I have no faith they ever want to protect me.
The whole Lindt Cafe situation was shameful. Two Commando had built a replica of tha Cafe,and were planning how to storm it, but N.S.W. coppers were more worried about votes in Western Sydney electorates..
Including the males (note: not men) who ran out, leaving the girls to their fate, I might add.
It all fell apart when the cops focused on ‘public safety’ instead of enforcing the law. When immediate public safety is the aim, then the malevolent will win. Brooding, secretive and distributive violence of izlam will rule. An excellent example of the female need of ‘nesting’, keeping the immediate peace in the nest by giving way to the most noisy.
Enforcing the law is the real long term ‘public safety’.
Arguably worse than that.
Having (correctly) identified a street suddenly full of shrieking men of a Muslim/activist persuasion as a ‘public safety issue’, the authorities have reversed the issue into the long grass of excuses and equivocation.
Soft terrorism has won out.
Plenty of males who did the same thing in the name of ‘social cohesion.’
They have learned nothing. Just like in Britain where “Social cohesion” means not rocking the boat.
One day the boat is going to get scuppered by an outraged public sick of the protected specimens and their enablers taking the piss.
One of my brothers-in-law, a former member of Victoria Police, says that Man Monis could have been taken out by a sniper with a rifle at the Lindt Cafe siege.
He says it is a nonsensical claim by the NSW police that the window could have deflected the bullet.
Mate of mine ex-ADF basically said he’s seen better entries by IET soldiers.
The same teams now parade round in the SF cam uniforms even in suburbia, something I am against. Your a cop, specialised maybe so dress like a cop not paramilitary.
I worked in retail at the time, with a tv facing the public, we were all GLUED to the live transmission. At one point I could SEE the sniper view into the Lindt Cafe and said out loud “take the shot; take a shot’ – It was between 11.00 and noon am if I recall. So dispiriting.
Re the Skaff rapes, Cassie, I believe Australia was lucky in the timing, to be relatively early in the M*sl*m immigration program, and to have had a prosecutor of the extraordinary character and skill of Margaret Cuneen. She nipped it in the bud, and Australia truly escaped what has befallen the UK.
Yes, teh admirable Margaret Cuneen. And we were lucky ot have Justice Finnane who, in spite of his former affiliation with the Labor left faction, was rock solid. Finnane, like Cuneen, got no further advancement while that piece of work Megan Latham, who reduced one of Finnane’s sentences, went on to run the ICAC.
Tropical low straddling coast north of Cairns.
Had a decent 2-3 days rain & cane toads are now out. Squashed all over the road.
Above low in very favourable conditions to intensify if it gets over open ocean, however it’s expected to drift south giving us round 2 of a drenching in a day or 2.
Another low trying to get organised out beyond New Caledonia is to be watched. That one is expected to drift west into our area.
Looks like Sam Abdulrahim is no more. For those interested, the tattoo across his chest (just above the 2022 bullet holes) loosely says that Ali is the one and his sword ( the spine splitter) is the best. Which indicates Sammy is Shia. But his wife, the S n G lawyer is or was a Maronite. Melbourne is such a multicultural success story. I note my Sunni mates are heating up about the Shia. Even Israel is minor compare to exterminating Iran and other Shia. Ahh the religion of peace.
“Which indicates Sammy is Shia”.
Was.
If only this would happen here:
BREAKING: Trump Bans ‘Chemical and Surgical Mutilation’ of Children.
And I hope Trump turns his attention to these boofheads:
Costco Doubles Down on DEI, But Republicans Aren’t Sitting Around for Once…
Good to see Trump’s signature stopping the removal of children where the parents wish to support the ‘healthy’ development of their children against transgenderism. Go to hell, all you vile social genderists imposing your will over that of parents and misleading a generation of children.
Some schools, Manly High so I was told today, have a ‘special room’ where ‘transgendering’ children can be ‘supported’ in their daily trials. This is a case of a school supporting children with mental delusions.
It should cease now.
Reinforced in their delusions, more accurately.
This episode will be recalled in the way we now look back upon the lobotomy craze.
munchausen by medical board
“you do not see this sort of sudden spike in gender issues with children absent provocation. it was not some nascent trend being suppressed for centuries and suddenly allowed to find expression.
this is being done to them and the machine that does it has become a captured thing that works in ways inimical to care or caring. it’s a monster of circular affirmation structures devoid of all safety or brakes and it’s doing untold, permanent damage to a lot of vulnerable children .”
Well said, that writer.
Happy to lend this writer some capital letters though, so that their sentences are less idiosyncratic. The standardisation of the written form of the English language and its punctuation that was kick-started by Tyndale’s bible is something to be proud of, not to fight against.
I say this too as someone who frequently eschews quotation marks for written speech, and more’s the pity. It is a bad habit. * Amor Towles sometimes does this too, and I find it irritates me.
*slaps self on wrist
List of all the media hoaxes/lies perpetrated by the fuking MSM about Trump:
Nolte: Far-left NY Mag Caught Cropping Black People Out of ‘All White’ Trump Party
The latest one is removing shots of black folk at Trump’s inauguration party so the media shits can claim white supremacy.
The host of the event is black.
They are just contemptible.
A Nation in Decline
Public serpents are going to be in a bind. Heroically resist Trump or take the money?
Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign (28 Jan)
I hope it’s more like 50%. They should think about it. Trump traditionally offers a deal with a juicy carrot and then, if rejected, a rather large stick.
The problem is that many of those who take the offer will be the ones who take their jobs seriously, while many of those who stay will do so only to gain opportunities for sabotage.
That is what happened when Howard offered 30k redundancies in 1996.
the ones you want to keep, took off to do things like a phd or start a business etc. or even young mothers keen to pay off the mortgage ($100k payout could easily do that in those days) and look after the kids until school.
The ones you wanted to get the flick complained to the tribunal people which ruled no forced redundancies.
similarly in Qld. The Beattie and Bligh Governments had a heap of voluntary redundancies. No political issue.
Newman did targeted redundancies. An opportunity to get rid of a lot of deadwood. This was portrayed as bad.
List of all the media hoaxes/lies perpetrated by the fuking MSM about Trump:
Nolte: Far-left NY Mag Caught Cropping Black People Out of ‘All White’ Trump Party
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The latest one is removing shots of black folk at Trump’s inauguration party so the media shits can claim white supremacy.
Rubber room time.
Leftists Are so Upset About Trump That Even the Shrinks Need Shrinks (28 Jan. via Lucianne)
I can’t actually say they’ve been driven mad, because they were already mental in the first place.
Accurate.
JC
This is your big chance. Set up a branch of your suicide hotline specifically for those involved in any form of counselling. Offer rapid service to them.
This is how you tie the knot and place correctly.
Sorry, I didn’t see this before I posted the same suggestion.
Whom the gods would destroy …
The Black Knight rises,
France considered deploying troops to Greenland to counter the US – French Foreign Minister.
?
Lets hope they have more luck than last time.
I raise you a tariff on champagne.
Over rated plonk for people with no taste or class.
Obviously you only tried sparkling plonk.
beer and whisky
So now it’s not infrastructure on a merit basis, it’s all about “gender impacts”.
The main gender impacts have been a mayor who wears spiky hair and a dog collar to match, and a bunch of Real Independants of Sydney (TV series to follow) who have tapped a vibe of some sort but it’s not the reality vibe.
Green shoots.
Queensland government halts hormone treatment for new trans patients under 18
As in 42 cases of “apparently unauthorised” services – with 17 children prescribed puberty blocking drugs thereby arresting development for later [ahem] ‘treatment’.
Naturally, the Forces of Darkness are outraged.
As usual, they are claiming (without any evidence) that it will lead to suicides that would otherwise never have happened.
Lowlifes.
In 2015 I was reading peer reviewed psychiatric reporting out of the US (collating statistics of 10,000 affected parties over the ten previous years), making it clear mental health outcomes for the medically transitioned were diabolical. This was industry/sector briefing, not opinion published in the US press. (Then again, and not to appear facetious – a very close friend of some 40 years got his start working backstage for Les Girls in the Cross in the mid to late 70s, before eventually moving to Darwin. While he always has preferred the company of gentlemen he’s been quite frank about the mental health of the members of the troupe who got the chop, ‘They all lost their marbles.’)
Be fair – the suicide rate has plummeted since gays can marry – er – hasn’t it?
But we were assured …
“apparently unauthorised”
Charges David? Or will you let Freckless give some more stern words and blabber about changing laws?
Not exactly a surprise.
And probably not a bad thing.
The global economic fallout of price manipulation via the seaborne trade and the futures market is vast.
Ok, to what purpose then?
Testing, training, and some private fun.
Turkey likely to move in. SDF in shambles. Iraq must be having a sniff too.
There is some moisture coming down north of Ingham.
Tropical low north of Cairns.
NTC is in the convergence zone atm.
Rain just stopped in the ‘ville. Damn sticky now.
T5f31o
Just look at all the renewables subsidies.
Govt is essentially indistinguishable from Organised Crime
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the stock market and the real economy.
The US jobs data is really robust. Very few people applying for unemployment benefits. I check out WSJ’s markets page every morning except weekends, and it carries the jobs data when it comes out (near the bottom). The markets don’t like that because it means no cuts to interest rates.
Sandgropers are killing the planet.
Report finds Western Australia’s raw material consumption is three times the global average (Phys.org, 28 Jan)
WA could significantly reduce that awful number by firing everyone from UWA and Curtin Uni, then bulldozing both sites into the Indian Ocean.
Don’t forget Enid Blyton university.
And Mudrock.
Dawkins Unis
Enid Blyton used to be Claremont Teacher’s College IIRC.
Mudrock should never have been started. It started out PC and woke in 1975. The “School of Social Enquiry”.
How about measuring per hectare rather than per person?
It’s all a load of shit anyway. Note the “minerals and ores” bit.
Expect a lot of that would be concrete going into State government projects. And jet skis for FIFOs.
“In 2021, WA consumed 42.9 tons of raw materials per person, including minerals and ores, fossil fuels, construction materials and biomass.”
OK, now remove all materials consumed in mining and primary production where the end user is NOT in WA. How’s it look now?
Bibas family statement
https://x.com/HamasAtrocities/status/1884338458954547368?t=0HqAbfKCSwh-wo0FloPmzQ&s=19
Poor little blighters. Many were hoping when the first “three” hostages to be returned that it would be the mum and her two babies.
Sadly, there are reports that they were killed in an earlier airstrike.
You mean a Hamas report.
Far more likely that keeping a baby and a four year old boy in captivity was far more difficult than the ‘innocent civilian’ hostage takers envisaged and they killed them.
Snap, Rosie.
They should never have been put in harm’s way.
This sounds deliberate.
Tiny babies too much trouble as hostages?
It takes a fair bit to get my eyebrows to move upwards these days.
But this did.
Make a list, darling.
Starting with your old man.
Marilyn Monroe was unavailable for comment. Angie Dickerson would comment but she’s over 90 and doesn’t kiss and tell. Not at her age, anyway.
“Oh Dad, you didn’t. “
Of course, if Dutton tries to direct banks to lend to the agricultural and mining sectors, he will be accused of “interference in the banks risk assessment processes”.
(“Climate risk” is the excuse they use for excluding uncool industries).
But what he can do is promise to issue additional banking licences to large international banks to set up in Australia if they commit to non-discriminatory lending.
And offer to move any existing government banking arrangements with the big four banks to the newcomers (yes, I know, core government stuff is mostly done via RBA, but there would be plenty of GBE’s with commercial banking arrangements).
“Of course, if Dutton tries to direct banks to lend to the agricultural and mining sectors, he will be accused of “interference in the banks risk assessment processes”.”
No need to do that – just point out all publicly traded companies, including banks, have a fiduciary duty to maximise returns to shareholders, and that ASIC may choose to investigate any laxness in this regard.
Which Kennedy was it who killed a starlet and then drove her body into a lake to hide the needle marks and/or strap bruises?
Ted.
Chapaquidick.
Not heard of this theory, but it’s plausible if there’s evidence to support it
i think it easier to believe he just crashed into the creek and ran back to daddy to get out of it rather than try to rescue the girl.
Gutless coward. And people still voted for him!
Wasn’t he the one they called The Conscience of the Senate”?
This is the first place I saw that claim. Source?
I think JC needs to re-open the suicide hot-line.
There is yuuuuge demand.
Maybe that’s why they all want to move to Canada.
To access the state-sponsored suicide scheme.
hahahahahahaha
Clennell has gone Australia wide over last night’s Peta Head-patting.
No crawling back from this. 😀
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14335735/Peta-Credlin-Andrew-Clennell.html
I don’t get this stuff. Clennell can be a touch “smarmy” and self-righteous, but Peta – as much as I like and admire her – is too sensitive about the “wimminsy” thing.
Personally, I have no time for the argument that policy appeal should be focussed on women in order to secure votes. In this I agree with Peta. But she gets too uptight about the issue. That can also be divisive.
Good assessment, Vicki.
I don’t know. She’s making a pretty important point on principal. If I think of my Mum, my sister, my partner, my daughter – all fearsome and intelligent. Why shouldn’t Peta call out the stupid? I did not rate her as Abbott’s COS, and her behaviour behind closed doors, particularly within NSCC was that of a person who has lost perspective on what a COS is supposed to do. But as a journalist Peta is a gift to the nation. Dealing with idiots is dealing with idiots. Gender don’t come into it.
Dogs are racist.
No they weren’t, it was the ducks. Understand pressure they went with their own kind.
Under
I had a beautiful boxer years ago who would softly warning growl at red-headed men. Had her since a puppy – totally inexplicable.
Entirely reasonable.
Perplexed our Vet
‘Dogs can see color, but only in shades of blue and yellow. Because dogs can only see two colors, they have dichromatic vision. They can also see shades of gray. Colors such as red, orange, and green are out of a dog’s color spectrum, so these colors are not visible to dogs. This is why hunters can wear orange to be visible to other hunters but not to animals. People have what’s called trichromatic vision, which means we can see a lot more colors than dogs.’
So are cows. Could give you lots of examples. See it every day with two breeds “co-existing”.
oops!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Beautiful. Yes yes yes yes. Do it. Do it.
Do it!
Trump wants to run the federal government off tariffs!
Which is exactly what I proposed a few years ago.
Some of you may remember a fair while back I summarised the history of tariff regimes under American administrations going back to the civil war.
And it was a fact that up until Reagan, all Republican administrations favoured tariffs and all Democrat administrations favoured increased taxes and reductions in tariffs.
Sometimes there were disputes among Republicans about tariffs. But Democrats have throughout history wanted lower tariffs and higher internal taxes and regulations.
Now, I have to thank Dot and JC for pushing back on me over this stuff, because without that I would never have done the work to find out, and I would not have the background historical information to understand the context of Trump’s current thoughts.
Originally when I was accused of being in favour of tariffs and a protectionist I accepted the premise that such was a bad thing. The arguments about protectionism sheltering bad practices and uncompetitive behaviour made sense.
But looking into the history of the thing, you do not see what you expect to see. You would assume that the conservative parties would want strong competition, therefore be against tariffs. You would expect the left who are and always have been economic wreckers to favour protectionism to damage industry.
That the opposite is the case brings us to Trump.
Trump sees regulation and the burden of taxation as the wrecker of economic and social progress.
”Free trade” is only something he favours where it is in alignment with his view of America’s geopolitical interests.
Furthermore when you read the literature that begat these free trade ideas that have to some extent been fetishised by academics, you see that Adam Smith never expected his ideas to be implemented in they way they have with respect to, for example China. He discounted the possibility that politicians and industrialists would neglect the national interest to pursue these purest, ideological policies.
I’m on board. From someone who argued that Australia should re-industrialise, why not? The ruddy western world has been imploding, why not try something out of left field?
using GAS and Electrick stuff.
Sure.
‘Free Palestine’ tampering with food in Australian supermarkets.
Food with a perceived Jewish or Israeli connection is targeted.
What a shocking thought. – Michael Smith News
Are we allowed to do that with halal food now?
Just asking.
So, open and shut case of bio terrorism, with video evidence.
Arrest, deport, liquidate assets, donate funds to rebuilding templesand daycares.
All over before you can say “botulism tik tok challenge”.
Right?
….right?
Sharri’s Waffenburgher from last night will be onto it directly. bwahahahaha.
I don’t get this stuff. Clennell can be a touch “smarmy” and self-righteous, but Peta – as much as I like and admire her – is too sensitive about the “wimminsy” thing.
Personally, I have no time for the argument that policy appeal should be focussed on women in order to secure votes. In this I agree with Peta. But she gets too uptight about the issue. That can also be divisive.
Agree Vicki. Oh and Credlin is a fan of Nina Funnell. Enough said.
The acid test is whether policies to attract women voters work. What does the evidence suggest?
nah.
Women vote on the economy, just like everyone else.
Jobs, prices, opportunities and to punish failures.
And not just for women in those aspects. Most women have families, husbands, children, parents and siblings of both genders. They vote for family life and welfare and aren’t swayed by ‘women issues’.
Bare assertions are not evidence of the facts asserted.
Plain common sense and the evidence of one’s own eyes and observations can sometimes be helpful to introduce daylight.
Psephologists could no doubt cite voting patterns that suggest many women vote against a ‘feminist’ agenda in policy. There’s more to life etc…
Given that by-and-large women are really poor judges of men (look who they marry) it is not surprising that Dutto appears to have more of a women problem than Albo. Pandering to them is not generally successful.
I married a good man. Many other women have done so too.
There are awful women. It works both ways so don’t make generalisations.
BTW, I like Peter Dutton although I am annoyed that he didn’t immediately follow in President Trump’s wake and leave the Paris nonsense.
German energy intensive industrial output is down 20% since 2022 thanks to the impact of their government’s net zero policies on energy prices.
Source: Destatis
Meanwhile, companies such as VW, BASF, BMW & Bosch have cut thousands of jobs in Germany and are investing billions in new plants in China.
Source: Asia Times
A cynic might suggest that all is going according to plan, then.
Albow is gonna get a “sugar hit” cut in rates right before the election.
Inflation data coming in looking good for him.
I’ve got a baseball bat called Sugar.
Given what he’s polling that’s going to have to be some hit!
Mind you, with wages and employment data due later in February after their meeting, the RBA might just decide to hold off for another month or two.
A drowning houso clutching at straws.
He’ll be fine…he’ll wash up on the beach at Copacabana.
Go ahead.
Spoil my day.
Employment has been robust. On the surface. But all jobs are Public Service. Outside they are part time or casual.The government is baking in more inflation by offerring high wage rises in the PS on a multi year basis. More Govt spending. Its hard to see that the RBA can cut much.
One thing we do know from the Orange Hitler election is that treating particular demographics as homogeneous voting blocs is not smart.
“You ain’t black if you don’t vote Democrat!”
Young black men moved heavily towards Trump, whilst older black women remained relatively harder to shift.
And lumping all “Hispanics” together?
That would include second generation business owners in Florida whose parents fled Castro, to far-left Mexicans in California who think Kamal-toe was going to allow open slather family reunion immigration from Mexico. “Hispanics” includes Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Occasional Car-Sex.
Thanks Sancho, but my question concerns women voters in Australia. I’ll refine it a bit: would some kinds of policies shift woman voting in the Teal electorates? Perhaps they’re not deep thinkers and could be swayed.
A more general point is that Credlin needs to focus on the main game.
Teals aren’t independent. They’re not economically sane. Funding comes from a person you might describe as ‘hateful’ who appears to make a lot of money from subsidy harvesting. So what drives the vote? Well….it’s the vibe. You’re a professional woman living in a nice suburb, life is easy. Not all of the Teals are (completely) vacuous, they’re not entirely substance free, but there’s not a lot going on. Which is kind of a one-for-one reflection of their voter base. In a lot of ways they’re an actual manifestation of what the pejorative, ‘low information voter‘ is supposed to represent. They read The Age & The SMH. Watch the ABC. Attend writers festivals, think welcome to country is about respect, rather than a blunt political statement. They also possess an aggressive instinct to force people to live their lives according to the Teals agenda. An army of Porsche SUV driving brown-shirts enjoying a prosecco at sun-down.
They love this stuff in the US and it is becoming more popular here. Might work if you’re selling soap powder. I agree, massively overblown when it comes to elections.
It could be quite the “sugar hit” Roger, and others:
Australia news LIVE: Inflation falls to lowest level in more than three years
Australia news LIVE: Australia inflation falls; Peter Dutton foreign investment plan backed by voters; Caroline Kennedy warns over RFK
I expect the RBA won’t be quite as excited as the j’ismists.
J’ismist been trying to talk rates down for months now with pet economists.
I’m not personally seeing much relief. Price rises have slowed in some places but others are now catching up.
AUD weakness won’t help input prices or capex. Media are just water carriers for Albo and the Liars (well the Greens actually). Labour costs still tight with the Liars doing nothing to help. Productivity a lost cause.
Interesting: wallopers in victoristan try to catch some muzzies on trail bikes; the neighbourhood muzzies show the wallopers who’s boss:
Australian Gun Rights | Facebook
LOL what a farce.
Bet you zero of them get midnight knocks.
Golly.
30 upticks on my comment at 2:14.
Five more and I am officially an influenza.
Just when you were becoming a bearable read again, you go back to your old habits.
Good grief – I saw 94 upticks back there, Sancho. You are on a roll – or do you have a lot of relos?
I have just upticked you and it’s up to 113.
I seem to recall something happening in March ’22. Hmm, what was that?
I reckon the federal election will be 12 April
Jolly good. We leave Australia on the 11th.
Economists who oppose tax cuts because “of the budget ramifications” are akin to a doctor opposing putting an obese f*ck on a diet because “she has to eat”.
NOW – Drones flying over New Jersey were authorized by the Biden FAA: “This was not the enemy.”
So why didn’t the authorities say so when the media bs started?
Because they were an incompetent, malicious rabble of activists and careerist stooges.
They Don’t Know What to Do
Can’t Touch This: Trump and Vance’s UNPRECEDENTED First Seven Days in Office
Wow!
63 ticks on my comment at 2:14.
Maybe I should open an Only Fans account?
I don’t know. 12 inches is enough for anyone.
Don’t tell cohenite.
NYT Uses Anonymous Terrorist Sources For Latest Deep State Hit On Tulsi Gabbard
Bill Gates Confident the Public Will Exonerate Him of Genocide Charges
This bold statement rather depends on what’s in your ‘basket of goods’ – and how the RBA treats the electricity bribe.
The ABS reports that the main drivers of the fall in CPI inflation are due to lower electricity prices (ie handouts), fuel prices, and lower costs of new build housing.
Other sectors are still running hotter than required: rent, health, education, ‘services’ (chiefly insurance, by the look of things) – all way over 3% yoy (as in 5% and 6% yoy) and quarterly.
Cigs and grog up 6.2% (2% in the December Quarter alone) – which will be a big hit in pack-a-day households where mum and dad consume $700 worth of smokes each week.
The ABS ‘trimmed inflation’ is 3.2% – which discounts the one-off effects, such as the electricity bribes.
If we see a rate cut, the RBA has surrendered.
Thanks DrF.
I somehow completely forgot about the dampening effect of energy rebates on inflation so will still be interesting to see headline figures minus the rebates….
You won’t as the RBA are smarter than that.
Rotten!!!!
Agree, jismists and pet economists been trying to talk rates down for months now. Agree with HB all to save wallet wizzard & Albo.
I have been wondering for a while if we’ll see a reverse of the 2007 election where Henry gave Rudd a gift.
Suppose I’ll have my answer soon.
Maybe inflation is down because demand is down.
Dim Chalmers maybe jumping the gun praising his good work.
I’m linking here because I can’t open sites on X. It’s driving me out of my mind. They are driving me out of my mind. Privileged people who can visit X can open the link to it under the heading.
Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don’t support RFK Jr’s confirmation, calls them out by name
What a fool.
To ignore the other side of the equation.
Of course you can replace income taxes with tariffs, IF you gut government.
Trump will likely lose entire departments such as Education.
He will curb waste.
But eventually he will have to cut entitlements and shift much of Defence spending onto the currently delinquent allies.
Increasing thrift will result in good investments, which will make more products available. greater economic activity meaning both less reliance on government and a virtuous cycle of a bigger private sector and smaller government.
658B in interest payments
707B in Medicaid and Obamacare
832B in Medicare
893B other manditory payment
1,326B in social security
1,719B in discretionary spending
You’re going to get around 1700Bish from payroll tax, 450Bish from corporate tax, and 250Bish from other federal taxes.
You only really get to minimize discretionary spending, how are you going to make up around 4 trillion dollars with tariffs and not widen the deficit. Even if you halved discretionary spending you are still going to be endure 1T$ budget deficits. And those ‘delinquent allies’ facing very high barriers to entry into the American market, expropriation of Allies territories, and the like may just have their fill and go elsewhere.
Tariffs don’t work.
Read some history.
Not only did they work, they were better.
Tell that to Columbia.
I am in India at the moment and can confirm this observation.
On the way over we stayed at an airport close to SYD airport. The room was tired looking and cost us a pile of money for the night.
The hotel we are staying in South India has Toto toilets, lights/curtains/air-conditioning controlled by a handheld device, the service generous and exceptional. Walk out of the hotel and it is like what Lizzie has described. Traffic is insane; lane markers are only a suggestion.
The airports in Bangalore are efficient — immigration and customs was about 30 minutes. The domestic was slightly more bureaucratic but bags still arrived faster than they do at our domestic airports.
Bangalore is a high-tech centre and so the impetus in airports there is strong to remove the dead hand of bureaucracy and culture. Less so elsewhere.
Case in point: for a 45 minute flight between Jaipur and Delhi our tour had booked everyone in economy, baggage max of 20kg, which was annoying for a ‘luxury’ tour. This raised the issue of most of us having luggage suited to business class, baggage max between 23KG and 30KG. The tour guide had suggested we put any ‘excess’ over 20kg into our cabin bags ‘as they don’t check the weight of those’. Hairy had a 19kg suitcase, I had a 26kg one. We put 1kg of my stuff into his, and distributed the extra 5kg into already overloaded pull-along cabin bags or into the small leather backpak I wore on my back as my ‘handbag’, which was already weighty with my jewellery. So we were ok for weight. A couple of others had decided they’d just ‘pay the US$10 per kilo for their extra’ but as we’d suspected this came unstuck at the check-in, where a long three page three copies piece of paper had to be signed by four different supervisors and the money collected elsewhere even if you were only 1kg over. We’d never have made the flight given that ruling. Our tour guide thus decided to weigh all baggage of our group as a job lot, which saved us, as the two young teens and their family were travelling light, with just simple backpaks. Plenty of excess there to mop up the overweight of all others. This group weigh-in took a lot of time and bother, but was quicker overall than separate form-filling and paying for individuals would have been.
All that was left then was for our group to get through security. This was also a challenge. There was no place to put your stuff as there usually is to run a rack into the x-ray machine! Instead, you had to go to another different counter, pick up a small compartmented tray, unpack all liquids and gels and phones and computers into these compartments (for most people using two trays) while others were trying to do the same in very limited space, then carry (I kid you not) your trays and your pull-alongs over to the x-ray machine and wait your turn there with all of this stuff to put it on the small run into the x-ray machines. At my turn I flung my jewellery backpak and my jacket on top of one rack of liquids, and walked quickly towards the personal metal detector apparatus, only to be stopped immediately. As a female, I had to go to another detector and security-run three x-ray machines down. I had no choice but hurry over there to join the queue without being able to retrieve my stuff which had proceeded to the x-ray. All women had to walk through the metal detector and then enter a small curtained cubicle where a woman ran an detector of some sort over one’s clothing. Lift arms, separate legs, and take off your snow boots (1.5kg of weight put onto my feet to reduce my luggage weight) and join the long female x-ray machine queue at the back. I refused, shoved my snowboots straight into the machine and grabbed them once they were cleared. I then looked for Hairy, who had preceded me in the ‘male’ x-ray line (there was no indication whatsoever that males and females were to separate; you were just supposed to ‘know’). He meanwhile was looking frantically for me everywhere, knowing I was behind him, not realising that my stuff was waiting in the male line, and I was desperately turning up barefooted saying to him ‘did you get my stuff?’, i.e. $70K worth of jewellery. Thankfully it was still there, it easily may not have been….
I should add that to add insult to injury the men all sped through security with no need to take off their belts and shoes and a very cursory inspection was made of their person.
Lizzie. We too were caught out by the weight restrictions — we were over by 4kgs and got hit by Rp1,800 charge. In Bangalore we weren’t bogged down by the level of bureaucracy you experienced. However, we were stumped by their request to see the credit card that was used to pay for the fare. That made no sense to me as they have been paid in full.
A friend who knows India well says that the IT sector has done so well there because it evolves too fast for the permit raj to keep up.
Nothing to see here.
I hope these blokes are given fine food, morning noon and night.
They deserve it, along with the border patrol.
U.S. Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, reinforce the southern border protective barrier near San Ysidro, Calif., Jan. 25, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security with the emplacement of temporary physical barriers to add additional security that will curtail illegal border crossings.
Behind the Scenes with U.S. Marines deployed to the Southern Border
The UKR will never win anything.
And there’s his 100!
The crowd goes wild!
[Raises bat. Gives the middle finger to the press box who said it couldn’t be done].
And Mrs Stencho Piece of something has to cheer about someone else doing well. How funny Mrs Stencho. What are you doing lately?
See the 286 processor is still giving it a whirl on Jo Nova site.
You could read them as downticks too, Sanchez.
Could be legit, or maybe Trans is flipped over in a headstand, mistakenly ticking up instead of down. Bet you haven’t thought of that angle, have you?
It doesn’t matter.
In Soshul Meeja world, all that counts is eyeballs and clicks.
Pretty cool January apart from the odd hot day. I expect the MSM will be proclaiming this on high rotation by Saturday.
/sarc.
J’ismist been trying to talk rates down for months now with pet economists.
Yep. They can’t get enough of the disaster that Labor have been so far, so they are cheerleading for the rate reduction that they hope will get Labor/Greens/Teals over the line as a dahling coalition.
Re Chappaquiddick.
Applying Ockham’s Razor is often perfect in these situations.
Why was Epstein’s client list never released?
-because it has all the right names on it.
Why was Thomas Crook’s body cremated?
-because it was full of MK Ultra mickeys.
Why did Slugs&Grubs turn up acting in Meuleman’s behalf?
-because the ALP gestapo sent them in.
And, why did Ted Kennedy and poor Mary-Jo leave a party, which was in full swing, to drive across a state line and perilously close to a death trap deep dam?
I’m back.
Do try harder this time. And don’t upset JC, that role is full.
I will try harder but with a soft far arsed target it is way too easy.
Wodney! I swear to the Good Lord, we thought you’d been cremated.
‘Jer Cough’. How is Sictoria treating you with the Marxist State Guv;ment that you have there?. Enjoying the high State taxes? LOL
Wodney, don’t spook me. Are you in this world or somewhere else? Be honest for once.
It’s a Chinee bot, Ima tellin’ ya.
Be mighty careful, boy.
I am in Sydney you tosser. And please lose weight and stop smoking otherwise you will kill yourself. And this Blog would not like that. But I may well do. LOL
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/just-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-immediately-revoking-disgraced/
Call him back up, bust him down to PFC, and send him to Thule AB doing runway inspections.
No, pumping shit out of the toilets of transient aircraft.
C’mon already Court Marshal the POS
A glimpse of a Trumpian future.
With income taxes at or near zero, not only do citizens surge back into workforce participation, making the migrant workforce no longer required, but companies have a native market with real wealth to spend on products.
US factories produce at new levels of efficiency as regulations are slashed and AI identifies new and better processes.
US allies are forced to pay their way for collective defence and spend into US manufactured arms.
They are also forced to drop their own tariffs and take American goods.
The world adopts a general tariff between 3 to 5% meaning manufacturing sprouts up across the globe.
The cynical green order and climate lie is overthrown and without the motivation and excuses to destroy other country’s manufacturing bases, all around the world local environmental standards improve at the same time as new manufacturing capacity is built out.
IA drives efficiencies in automation which means the requirement to build all new AI optimised factories, and supply chains, making the current crop of Chinese mega factories old generation and out of date.
The US has very progressive income taxes. Unlike Europe there’s no nation wide VAT or sales tax. In fact US, progressivity is steeper than Europe’s.
Best to impose a national sales tax on both domestic and imported goods to remove income taxes. How about corp taxes?
It would never get through though
Not sure what’s proven by that Sancho, apart from someone performing the same cheat 100 times.
and the speed sancho detected it … incredible!
and JR’s post answered by JC in a minute … amazing!
they really are the blog monitors saving the forum from deceitful, lying, and conniving bad-actors
everybody should be thankful
A caravan full of explosive seized in Sydney.
The alleged target was a synagogue.
NSW plod “If only we knew what was behind this”.
Found in Sydney’s northwest. Unfortunately paywalled at the Tele. Great.
Dural.
Plod seem to think it may be a “set up” designed to stoke existing fears as it was left on a public road with a list of possible targets…waiting to be discovered, as it were.
Found in Sydney’s northwest. They’ll probably blame an Opus Dei cell at Redfield College.
Or Hillsong.
Sharri is in the nets warming up.
She’ll be dialled in come 8pm.
nah, she wasted her moment last night.
huffing and puffing only works when it’s directional.
Twitter says the ruling Colombian coalition has just lost one of its parties.
Haven’t seen it on WSJ or Bloomberg yet.
As long as it’s done on the QT, you’re fine with it?
I bet the take-up is less than 10%.
If you don’t take you go to Gitmo.
Now where is my Martin Armstrong stuff? Just around the corner to wind up “Jer Cough” the fat Sicktorian.
I note the rent a crowd at the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. Among the rent a crowd were King Chuck and the monarchs of Belgian, Denmark and Spain.
Why was the King of Spain there? Spain remained neutral during World War II. I should also add that Spain is one of the most overtly hostile countries towards Israel on the planet.
I find such attention seeking obscene. So, was Vladimir Putin invited? I did not see him there but I saw plenty of other shallow attention seekers, such as our own verminous Penny Pong.
I tell you a country that was not neutral during World War II (after June 1941) and that country was the Soviet Union (now Russia). The Soviet Union incurred the highest military and civilian losses of any country during World War II, approximately 8.7 million military deaths and 19 million civilian deaths…yes you read that right…19 million civilian deaths.
It is worth remembering the Russian POWs murdered in Nazi death camps. They were almost always gassed on arrival, those who weren’t were used as slave labour under they dropped.
It was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, it was not the Danish, not the Spanish, not the British and not the Americans…..
Russians.
There is nothing I can do about it without disallowing guests who also use a VPN from doing it. Much as I can’t stop sockpuppets if they’re prepared to use multiple emails and VPNs.
Again, not sure what this has proved.
Maybe proved that some people have way too much time on their hands.
Nothing to worry about. I only ever give thumbs down by accident. I don’t scroll coz I might miss something.
…continued.
With a resurgence in the local American workforce, with money in pocket, and a host of new skills to deploy, American companies take back from the state the training of their workers.
Accelerated by the abolition of the Federal Education Department, government indoctrination of children ceases.
US Seeks to Boost Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing
The chip shortage has been at the top of mind over the last week after the launch of DeepSeek, a novel AI service intended to compete with ChatGPT. Semiconductor manufacturers have left the US and previous plans to attract domestic production have failed. President Donald Trump has proposed a new idea to force production back to the states through tariffs.
The CHIPS and Science Act launched under the Biden Administration injected $52 billion into American chip manufacturing. Intel was awarded $7.9 billion in 2024 to boost factories in Ohio, Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. Still, these incentives have not been sufficient to attract new chip manufacturers to the US, with the bulk residing in Taiwan.
Trump believes that throwing cash at companies is not enough to boost domestic production. “They’re gonna build their factory with their own money. We don’t have to give them money,” Trump added, later claiming: “They’re giving the money, they don’t even know what they’re going to do with it.” Instead, he is proposing tariffs between 25% to 100%, believing companies will come to the US to avoid these impossible taxes.
More at =
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/us-seeks-to-boost-semiconductor-chip-manufacturing/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
A caravan full of explosive seized in Sydney.
The alleged target was a synagogue.
NSW plod “If only we knew what was behind this”.
Words fail me.
Inspector Clouseau knows what’s behind it.
A buemb?
False flag operation organised by Bibi.
Designed to stoke Islamaphobia.
Sam the Punisher was unavailable for comment.
It proves what you considered to be an important add-on doesn’t work the way you intended.
The ABC was nowhere to be seen at the recent Auschwitz 80th Anniversary in Poland.
So much for being a National Broadcaster. Sky News and other Australian Commercial TV Stations were there covering everything.
Disgraceful stuff.
Here tis bern:
So over a week since this discovery. FMD
Hells bells! I know that area very well, and thought I recognised the property in the photo.
I wasn’t worried about someone adding an extra uptick or downtick here and there. WPDiscuz was added for other reasons.
You mean legitimately adding an extra tick here and there , or just cheating? Ironically, you didn’t appear worried about 70 to 100 ticks added at 3 am, but at 4pm it’s a problem?
LOL. And you so sensitive people are still worried about up thumbs and down thumbs. LOL. What pussies you are.
How much you’ve forgotten in the afterlife, Wodney. You were one of the worst complainers here prior to expiry.
You were always going on about ticks. LOL. I talked about the thumbs as you needed to go to SpeckSavers. They were thumbs and not ticks.
You don’t even remember living in this life. You fat arsed Sicktorian
On Kenny – Littleproud asked about the Coalition and Paris.
Yap yap yap.
Do these clowns understand that the more words, the more circular arguments and gratuitous “facts” they introduce into answers, the more stupid and dishonest they sound?
Put a cork in it David. I don’t believe you.
Put the coal back in coalition, I say!
I’ve never understood this “tradition” in the US of people keeping a security clearance for life, long after they’ve retired.
I think that grub Brennan still has one.
I had a level of clearance many years ago, and fully understood I was bound by it for life, covering anything I had access to whilst I was on that assignment (none of which is of any import now in any case).
But the minute the job finished, the clearance for access to updated information was removed.
As it should be.
No, Trump revoked Brennan’s Security Clearance within hours.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, how are you?
Clearance has to be renewed.
I think that the idea of having no formal “sign off” recognised that the memories of the data did not disappear on leaving a job.
Staying on the list enabled easier prosecution of someone who babbled too much. As Sancho noted, after a period of time, the information becomes irrelevant.
The CPI is not inflation. It is the Corrupted Price Index. FFS, Wake up the Media and get stuck into Dim Chalmers.
The media is awake and an active supporter of the liars and the filth; the problem is the sheeple are asleep.
Dr Wielicki lists some commonplace CO2 concentrations. For instance in a car with 4 passengers and the windows closed up to 8000ppm; we’re all gonna die!
Facebook
The vegan warrior captured by the russkies, is apparently still sentient.
When the dopey turd was captured, the bloke Wong “threatened Russia that it would face an ‘unequivocal’ response if Mr Jenkins was harmed”.
ooooohhhh, so scared!
Yet, when, as we all know, innocents were butchered on Oct 7, the bloke Wong demanded Israel practice “restraint”.
F**king Wong needs to be restrained, with prejudice.
dover0beach
January 29, 2025 4:49 pm
A cheat which we were told yesterday couldn’t be done.
Until BoN did it and confirmed it.
Then you changed the settings to prevent it, but all that did was turn off ticks altogether.
The other possibility is that I have 100 fans …
You have no fans and they are not even waving fans.
Upticking and downticking isn’t a race. No prizes are given at the end. If people abuse it nothing can be done about it without removing the capacity from guests. On the second, are you referring to a morning 2 or so years ago? I didn’t say it was a problem now, I said nothing was proved over and above what was acknowledged yesterday, that there is no way around it.
They are thumbs you dumb dumbs
Well, and I thought that this was a Blog where people had gone to SpecSavers……….lol
Mark Milley Is Getting Hit Hard by Pete Hegseth From Three Different Angles
Until he is put against a wall the bastard is getting off light.
Exactly. Court martial and then execution. Although I’d prefer he was hanged.
Hey, it’s your blog. If you want to bullshit to continue then be my guest. It just confounds me why you would want something that’s abused to continue when it not only distorts views, but is downright dishonest.
You really are a Pussy
Just watching the Sky Tv right now. If this problem was found a week or do ago wasn’t this told to the Public and the Jewish Community? FFS
I mean so ago and this wasn’t told.? Plod are not very good at this stuff at all.
NSW Police investigate after explosives found in caravan in Dural in Sydney’s north-west
All sounds incredibly strange.
Apparently Minns is having a presser on this at 5:45 with Deputy Plod.
The DDTV kiddies Bern refers to report that the local Dural police stress to the Jewish community that “there is no ongoing risk”.
Obviously.
I’m forever finding explosives with my name on them. Never amounted to anything.
Psy Op , I call BS, to make waffen NSW look like they doin something
My first thought also.
I don’t know….that’s crediting plod with a lot of imagination.
They’ll also have to swiftly nick someone who could plausibly be responsible and convince a beak of that, else they’ll look like they’re doing nothing.
We have the full force of the Law. Yeah, right. The finest Police Force in the World? Give me a break.
Bang right. Nothing to see here so please move along. FFS
Lot of chatter about this ticking conundrum; to test its efficacy I will post an astounding cute owl which will prove how corrupted the tick system is, given that in an unbiased set of circumstances this glorious creature would receive literally thousands of ticks; if she receives none or a negative amount the system is buggered: here we go:
cyborg for sure
I will give her an up thumb with my Big Thumb……..LOL
Or your cuties do not have the ideal female body shape, that people prefer.
She at least lacks the washboard midriff.
Cute owl
AI.
Well, it’s settled; the site is hopelessly corrupted vis-à-vis ticks.
No, you’re wrong on that last detail. You could still up or downtick but not as a guest. My first claim rested on me using VPN while logged in, or logging out and not using a VPN. In effect, the only way to get around it is by changing your IP before clicking everytime which is what I deduced once Bruce established he could do it.
But, again, this was acknowledged by myself yesterday and I concluded that making it only available to those logged in was too heavy handed a measure so I reversed the change.
So, again, what has this proved?
BoN is a scientist and a genius; the fact he discovered this clever trick is odd; if he offers to protect your network for a fee be very suspicious.
As I mentioned before, doesn’t matter how you do it, you still have to be a demented moron to sit there doing it.
Disclaimer; Not accusing anyone, all ticks may be genuine.
the IP change has been obvious for years and like BoN, I tested it myself and it works …. a total waste of fecking time … but it works
if you really wanted hack the tick system you’d resort to some sort of code injection or trying to find a way with code to trick the server
that way you could give somebody 1000 ticks at a keystroke which would have the effect of rendering the long way of achieving the same thing as redundant
to feck your forum up, I reckon it would take max, three colluding retards who reckon that putting words in people’s mouths and raising spectres isn’t childish idiotic behaviour
they might wank on about wussia and wodney and at the same time feed the host money so that the poor bugger is over a barrel so-to-speak
they might prop up avatars while alleging that those avatars are really somebody else’s and not at all their own
I especially love the way they need a boogey-man for their cause while pretending to be all so serious
infantile clowns
So it’s not me?
The accusation that I’m the Phantom Upticker are wrong?
Looks like I got away with it!
🙂
You didn’t mention the “war”.
Saw a great joke on my FB feed from Philomena Cunk. Made me smile after the great AI debate
Now THAT, is funny!
Very good!
Groan…
A jismst just asked Hudson if the caravan could be right-wing extremism.
It’s just a reflect no brain needed.
Wodney proves that very point – even in the afterlife.
Its a thumb you dumb dumb. Get along to SpecSavers with your loaded fat arse. LOL
I like Jer Cough with his/her reference to the afterlife. I hope that he/she never gets there. Maybe straight downstairs.
Caravanning NAZIs.
”I hate caravanning NAZIs”
Does it have a VIC numberplate?
LOL!!!
Agreed – this does have a whiff of Sonderkommando Grampian about it.
I’m trying to imagine Castle Hill plod getting the call from the guy in Dural.
It definitely isn’t Blacktown or the Riff. The most explosive events they would have experienced is the odd lab “roof fire” at an abandoned property.
If it were explosives like TNT, you’d be lucky it didn’t sweat and go boom after the heat of the last few weeks.
Surprise surprise.
This Man is stupid. And he is now in trouble. This shite is a d#ckhead and why go there. I would like my taxes to help people here and not someone like that.
It is not his War and nor is it mine.
I never thought I would say this, but I think I have had enough deep fried Taiwanese pork and chicken for one week.
Another chicken butt, sir?
Yes sir Mr Creosote- just a teeny butt more?
To that journo’s extremely limited credit, it might be.
Not a false flag by the Juice to attract sympathy or provoke a response, but local garage Nazis with access to PowerGel (reasonably common) and notes in plain sight saying ‘Fk the Jews’ and addresses of places Jewish people frequent.
All left in a caravan. On a public road, where it was almost certain to be discovered. As it happened, a farmer concerned about the risk to traffic towed it home before he looked inside. Because the caravan wasn’t locked. In other words, it was potentially designed to be found.
The serious Muslerians have demonstrated time and again they are better at planning than this.
There will be third player in this somewhere – one with a common enemy.
As it happened, a farmer concerned about the risk to traffic towed it home
The local cops weren’t concerned about the traffic hazard however.
A group of us were having a birthday drink pour moi today at the Queens Wharf Hotel on Newcastle Harbour, when a chap walked past wearing a t-shirt bearing “I support Israel.”
We all stood up, raised our glasses and cheered, then so did many other patrons.
It was nice to see.
Many Happy Returns for the Day Marree. 😀 😀 😀
Thank you, Pogria.
I see the 86 year old Pommy derro from his one-bedder in Penrith is back on the air.
Huzzah! Comedy value awaits!
Only 72 but onwards and upwards.
The drone over your place told me that you are in trouble. LOL
Wodney , in all seriousness, how’s you mother traveling. You once told us she was in her 90s.
Doing very well at age 93. Nice of you to ask. And I have her good genes. Thanks Mum.
To be honest, I never thought that I would make it to 70 years old. LOL
I can’t help but wonder what Martin Armstrong’s role was in all this.
He likes the Jews so just go and ask him. He even employs them. Do you?
Melbourne zoo is crap.
A shady garden without animals and $53 for a walk.
you could walk down Brunswick St, Fitzroy for free and have a similar wildlife experience
But with more colour and ferality.
The smell would be better at the zoo though.
Junkies shooting up. That was yesterdays fun.
Hello Matrix. How about we give ‘Jer Cough’ a few belts to wake him up?
I was meant to be on-site at a building literally 500m from the zoo today
didn’t go for various reasons
some days you can hear the Saimang gibbons from the roof
… a bit like The Cat
Arky
January 29, 2025 6:03 pm
I never thought I would say this, but I think I have had enough deep fried Taiwanese pork and chicken for one week.
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Have a huge bowl of salad and a sh*t load of fruit.
In all seriousness:
Most if not all of this anti-Semitism on display could have been stamped out with extreme prejudice within a week of that ‘Gas the Juice’ fiasco at the Opera House.
All it would have taken was a bit of leadership from Nanna Webb, saying ‘I want them found, I want them upended, I want them all inside police stations crying. Complaints will be dismissed out of hand.’
I am confident the rank and file plod would have leapt into this enthusiastically, as I hear they are sick and tired of having arrogant Muslerians in their faces all day, and being swamped with carloads of ‘cousins’ every time one is spoken to in the street. A bit of shoe-on-the-other-foot stuff would, I imagine, have been heartening.
But no. Hesitance and complacency won the day, and here we are.
I have to agree with you.
And along with the fat complacency of our local plod, never forget the active hostility of our federal government.
”Warnings” to Israel before the bodies of the slain were cold, votes in the UN, moral equivalence on Antisemitism and Islamophobia.
I am still of the opinion that the NSW government took the Fed’s lead until it became impossible to sit on the fence.
The NSW police belong to Minns and his appointees after all.
Minns must be “concerned”, for real now. His Botox has worn off.
Has Nanna Webb ever made an arrest in her career?
They (The Fuzz and the Pollies) still allow a Mob Walk every Sunday afternoon disrupting Sydney shoppers and everyone else going about their daily business. So I strongly disagree with you. The Jews don’t do that and nor does anyone else.
KD,
we Cats have given Nana a new moniker.
Vinegar Tits. 😀
There were reports some of the attacks were paid for from overseas sources. I’d be checking the books of local mosques.
Hey, what about us!
Ex-WHO Director BACKS Trump – UK Must LEAVE the WHO!
‘TREASON!’ UK now Western CAPITAL of SHARIA courts and HALF of Arabs DON’T WORK as taxes SURGE
Stupidly, I am currently watching “Live at the Apollo”, a leftist comedy wet dream. Originally aired in 2018.
The jokes over the last 5 minutes are all praising Islam, all Muslims, and anti-West.
OK, I expect that but the astoundingly positive cheers and roars of approval from the large audience is beyond stupid.
Albo Sleazy and Upgrade Albo is as weak as pi#ss but who Cares. ? They will be booted out by May 2025. Next, will be the Sicktorian Mob. Onwards and Upwards.
Someone with a depraved sense of humour have a lend.
Caravan full of explosives with notes as to the targets. Ha ha yeah.
Did you buy Musk a cup of coffee?
Probably isn’t a member of X?
I’m home and watching Kenny. Kenny is scathing of the low IQ Waffen cockroach Sharri interviewed last night.
Credlin showing the impact of blackout’s green bullshit on victoristan’s farmers. The famers have woken up this boondoogle: the overseas’ companies, the intermittency, the cost of the packing up the 300 meter tall things after 10-15 years, all borne by the farmers, the destruction of the farmland, some of the best in Australia. The farmers are ignored and intimidation occurs. It looks like 303 territory.
But credlin then spoils all her good work by referring to the minimalist view: that is global boiling is real but Australia is such a small player the cost is disproportionate. FFS, global bullshit is not real, ruinables don’t work. That’s it, that’s all you need.
AEMO’s agents were chased out of our district again today as they try to do survey work for the VNI West transmission line.
No welcome to country for these tax sucking leeches.
Great!
Keep up the good work, Peta Credlin covered the issue pretty comprehensively tonight, hope the city is listening.
I must admit, it does look a bit like an over-egged pudding.
Matt Taibbi: All the Top Secret Information Trump Is Releasing & What He Should Declassify Next
When they were removed for a time people complained so they came back. It’s only abused on the margins. Most of the time it reflects the judgement of the room.
Is that ‘Jer Cough’ moaning again about not getting enough up thumbs? Tell him to bend over the table and present his fat arse and he will get a big thumb up his bumb bumb,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,From a load of people that don’t like him in Sicktoria,
You are right, if you look at the % and or number of posters who are getting multiple up or downticks, it’s minuscule. We notice it because it’s the outlier.
Mostly, the reaction reflects the likes or dislikes of the post.
Then there is calli with her ‘admirer’ who acts like a first grader, pulling her hair because he likes her and can’t express it in any other way.
The Hun:
Oh dear, and after all that posturing too.
As an aside, that Aussie Cossack flog (so beloved by some here a year or two back) would be priming himself for yet another ‘prisoner exchange’ attempt.
Sat on it for 10 days.
https://x.com/MenachemV/status/1884497844998136074?t=dUEruCFT56pddxieXx3VZg&s=19
Most Britons want to bring death penalty back, poll findsPublic support for capital punishment has surged to 55 per cent, fuelled by the sentencing of the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana
Matt Dathan
, Home Affairs Editor
Wednesday January 29 2025, 12.01am GMT, The Times
A majority of the public think that the UK should bring back the death penalty, with the strongest support among millennials, a poll has found.
Three in five millennials (58 per cent) said that capital punishment should be reintroduced, with just over a quarter (27 per cent) opposed. Millennials, born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, make up the biggest population in Britain.
The survey, carried out by the public opinion think tank More in Common, found a considerable increase in support for the death penalty since its last poll on the subject in autumn 2023.
The overall proportion of the public who think it should be brought back for certain crimes has increased from 50 to 55 per cent, while opposition has dropped from 37 to 32 per cent.
The shift has been most pronounced among Generation X, who are aged 44-59, whose net support for the death penalty has increased by 16 points.
The polling was carried out after the debate about the death penalty resurfaced following the sentencing of the Southport attacker last week.
Axel Rudakubana avoided a whole-life order, the toughest punishment available in the UK, because he was under the age of 18 at the time he carried out his murderous stabbing spree in July last year.
He was instead sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in jail, the longest sentence given to a teenage murderer in the UK.
In his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Goose said that had Rudakubana been 18, he would have imposed life imprisonment without a minimum term, meaning he would never be released. The teenager was just nine days short of his 18th birthday when he carried out the attack on July 29.
Six in ten (59 per cent) of Britons thought that the sentence was too soft, according to the poll, while a third said it was “about right. Only 2 per cent thought the sentence was too tough.
Generation Z, who are aged between 18 and 26, are the most conflicted over the return of the death penalty, with 45 per cent in favour, 42 per cent against and 14 per cent unsure.
Life following Art? In the first episode of In the Thick of It, Ollie Reader, when asked for a policy that would be popular and inexpensive, nominated capital punishment.
So the explosives are from Bunnings, or a mine site?
I would like to go yo Bunnings on Saturday morning and get a sausage sandwich with onions and a load of stuff to travel to Canberra. I know a Big Building there that needs to be de assembled………..lol
My mate before I knew him, I knew of him. At thirteen he opened a box at the local quarry to find sticks of gelignite. Next day he took one to school to show off. I heard on the news a school had been closed down after explosives had been found. He’s always had a facination qith blowing things up.
‘She’s a brilliant woman’: Expert weighs in on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination
THEY HAD BETTER CONFIRM RFK Jr. & TULSI GABBARD! Viva & Barnes Clip
I haven’t posted the whole article – the lady flew 129 rescue missions in what used to be French Indochina – now Vietnam – was the first female general in the French Army, and passed away aged over 100 years old.
Strikes me she would have made a damn fine Kitteh.
OBITUARY
General Valérie André obituary: pioneering French military leaderHelicopter pilot and neurosurgeon who flew under fire into the jungle in Indochina to tend to the wounded and later became the first female general
The Times
Tuesday January 28 2025, 5.00pm GMT, The Times
In 1976, more than five centuries after Joan of Arc commanded the armies of Charles VII against the English, France appointed its first female general. Small, of dark complexion and with fine chestnut hair, Valérie André was a helicopter pilot, brain surgeon and veteran of the country’s military adventures in French Indochina (which includes modern-day Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam) in the 1950s and Algeria in the 1960s.
A keen flyer since her teens, André completed her medical training in Paris in 1948 before entering the army medical service and volunteering to serve in Indochina with paratrooper units. She was assigned to the My Tho hospital before transferring to Saigon to work as an assistant neurosurgeon at the Coste Military Hospital, where she sometimes performed more than 100 procedures a month.
She also made dozens of parachute jumps, reaching injured troops in the most isolated jungle. But she grew frustrated at not being able to attend more quickly to casualties, many of whom had to be moved by truck across miles of almost nonexistent roads to reach an airstrip and a fixed-wing aircraft, a journey often at risk of ambush. At times the ground transport was more than a casualty could bear, and many died en route.
Early in 1950, André observed a demonstration of a Hiller Model 360 helicopter that had been configured as an air ambulance, with two externally rigged stretchers. Realising that she could perform her job better by piloting a helicopter into the jungle, she “besieged my superior” to be allowed to return to France to train as a military helicopter pilot. “I had medical training to stabilise the wounded. And I weighed less than 45kg [99lb], which meant we could even carry an extra wounded man if necessary,” she said.
She returned to Indochina in October that year before flying her first rescue mission on January 22, 1951. Ground crews, she said, were astounded by “a girl, of all things, falling out of the sky”. Months later, she was called upon to treat besieged casualties at Tu Vu on the Black River, but the only helicopter available was near Saigon. It was partially dismantled, transported aboard a Bristol Freighter aircraft to Hanoi and quickly reassembled. She then flew through ground fog and heavy anti-aircraft fire into Tu Vu. Once on the ground, she performed emergency surgery on the most pressing cases before flying the most seriously wounded, two at a time, to Hanoi. “She was a one-woman M*A*S*H unit,” one comrade said, referring to the American TV show.
Danger and unbearably intense heat were constant companions. Some remote French outposts were more than an hour’s flight away. En route she often had to be escorted by fighter aircraft that strafed and napalmed the surrounding areas to disperse the Viet Minh forces, enabling her to land the unarmed helicopter safely. She usually had only minutes to bring a wounded soldier on board, or face the risk that insurgents would regroup and target her aircraft, despite the red crosses painted prominently on its slender, insect-like fuselage.
The helicopter itself could be temperamental. Evacuations were carried out quickly to avoid cutting power to the engines because, she said, there was no guarantee that they would restart after a complete shutdown. However, she knew how to coax the aircraft with finesse, occasionally throwing in a few stern words. On one occasion her Hiller overheated, leaving her stranded in no-man’s land, though a French mobile group managed to reach her before the Viet Minh. Another time, her wounded patient, a Vietnamese prisoner, regained consciousness mid-flight and tried to seize control of the helicopter, though he fell back into a coma and she was able to avoid a crash. Her exploits became legendary and to local people she was known as “the woman who came from the sky”.
Despite being plagued by the tropical diseases common to westerners in the Far East, André flew on. Long hours and longer missions, sometimes as many as seven a day, were the norm. She described how once her work was done she would sometimes slide to the ground, pull a Camel cigarette and lighter from her pocket and stare blankly ahead, reflecting on yet another punishing shift.
In August 1952, newspapers around the world carried a picture of her in front of her helicopter with an Associated Press report describing how, when the call came in, she hopped into her aircraft and took off. “She has often been fired on by the Viet Minh in landing her helicopter on jungle airstrips or near rice fields and limestone hills. But she has always succeeded in picking up and flying back the wounded,” it said.
The following year André’s exploits were featured in Reader’s Digest magazine and she was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Merit, a military award given by the US armed forces. By the time she returned to France, she had piloted 129 helicopter missions, rescued 165 soldiers and twice completed parachute jumps to treat wounded soldiers in need of immediate surgery. France finally withdrew from Indochina in 1954.
They bred some tough ladies in the French Army in those days – cite you Genevieve de Galard, who cared for the wounded, and dying, all the way through the battle of Dien Bien Phu, and went to God last year, aged 99.
Now there’s a story.
I don’t dispute the courage involved, but let us not forget that we’re talking the dirty French here.
Courage and devotion to duty and beyond is worth celebrating where ever it occurs.
Even if it’s a ginger?
Otoh, they make Gen. Campbell look like…Gen. Campbell.
The poor Belgians will be wondering what they’ve done to offend us.
There are two memorials to “foreign” soldiers left in Vietnam today – one to the French Foreign Legion paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu, the other to the Australians at Long Tan. Anything the Americans left behind was bulldozed after 1975.
Gee I don’t know Zulu. I recall ( quite a few years ago now) visiting a war museum in Vietnam where they displayed the horrific mechanisms designed as traps for French troops. No love there.
That is a really unfair comment IMHO. They love their Country. As we all love our Countries.
Try dating one for three years like I did and get back to me.
But seriously, I was sort of fond of her old man.
“You mist try this wine, it’s cheap bit very very goud”.
Say the quote above like you’re trying to clear your throat to get the accent right.
Now take a look at the helicopter she used! Amazing woman.
She owned a small hotel at Long Hai that my husband and I stayed at in 1999, when he went back to SVN for the first time after his service there in 1966/7. He was involved in operations around the minefield, the Long Hai hills and Long Green during that time. IThe hotel, an auberge, really, was a lovely little place on the beach, lots of photos of her during the 1950s, and with her helicopter.
Don’t know if it’s still there now.
https://catholicherald.co.uk/father-of-the-jews-the-incredible-courage-and-faith-of-french-friar-father-marie-benoit-holocaust-rescuer/
Communist.
How’s this for a little bit of symbolism. Just a tiny bit.
Trump invites Bibi – the first foreign leader to visit the White House.
Well Albo Sleasy or Upgrade Albo could have been the first. But he was hiding in a rat hole. He knew about this terrible stuff in Sydney and Shut the Fark Up. Wot a wanker.
And the Biden Blobs were sending condoms to Gaza, LOL Where did out Australian Taxpayer money go? To the Farkers?
Trump. Master troll with Oakleaf and Bars.
That sure is some firm signature The Donald has there.
He signs his name like he really means it. 🙂
For those who can stomach pure self serving lies and industrial strength victim good BBC had the new Hamarse leader on for a chat.
What a dead dog c##t.
Pretty well ” everything we do is moral and correct and we are blameless in every way”
It is worth a listen just to hear how hollow everything he says is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dfvq9
er, no !
I’m sick to fecking death of being petitioned by some vacant khunt that I’ll be a better person for just hearing them out
…correct
The BBC chappette doesn’t give him the easy ride he was hoping for.
Plus it shows how corrosive the endless UN propaganda against Israel feeds this mob.
RE last few posts: some people have amazing lives.
I see it was Mark Morri, the Daily Telegraph’s excellent crime reporter, who has broken this story. Morri is also an old style dogged journalist, a vanishing breed.
He’s a great guy to listen too. He looks like you imagine from movies of old
General Valérie André obituary: pioneering French military leader Helicopter pilot and neurosurgeon who flew under fire into the jungle in Indochina to tend to the wounded and later became the first female general
Read an alternate history SF short story recently where a female character in Indo China is clearly modelled on this lady.
The buck stops at the feet of the Slug from Grayndler.
Some people wanted it. In reality you wanted it warts and all. And if it’s open to cheating you can’t say it’s marginal as you don’t know. That’s just making shit up.
How would would you even begin to pretend you know that? And it’s not just downticking either. Take a look at KevinM’s dawn upticking sprees, It’s like he’s trying to outpace Usain Bolt. This is an individual who sounded like he was in tears when he scored three downticks on one of his silly pics. It wasn’t me either. 🙂 Recall?
Lastly, if there’s cheating potential you can’t say it reflects anything much less room judgement. But, as I said, it’s your blog so do what you like.
translation:
I’m not paranoid … really … I’m not paranoid
Toaster manual alert.
stfu you infantile paranoid feck-wit
Calm down toaster.
duel?
You’ve last every single one, toaster. That’s why it’s tick tick tick in the middle of the night, you vindictive piece of trash.
while I’m asleep?
or while I’m playing chess?
you need to define “middle of the night” too
is that 22:45 …or … 0400 ?
I love the way you dig your hole with your own mouth too
keep inventing facts to fit your theory … you sound so clever
You don’t appear to sleep as you’re drunk most nights and it makes you into an angry, depressed drunk.
Yes, Boris. You play with yourself quite a lot.
You already know as it’s been pointed out. From about 10pm, you’re rolling drunk and aggressively looking for some attention. Then you troll.
But there’s nothing to invent as it’s all true. Seriously, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, Interacting with you is truly fcking depressing. Your depression is like 5 times more infectious than COVID.
Thought it was an utterly disgraceful performance by the copper; full of weasel words, semantics and pathetic excuses.
If it was a bunch of neo-Nazis or right-wing protesters NSW police would never have let them get from the town hall to the Opera House.
One of the more ballsy chaps at dien was the leader of the tanks.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199454650/yves-hervouet
Both arms broken/ wounded he stayed to command his unit when he could have got out.
Unfortunately died in captivity.
Died from dysentery in a Viet Minh P.O.W. camp.
The survivors of those hellholes recorded that, when they were repatriated at the conclusion of their captivity, they were escorted by Viet Minh nurses, in Red Cross uniforms -the first any of them had ever seen, while in captivity.
I wear all your stupid down ticks as a badge of honour.
I just imagine you’re all a load of ginger frenchies.
Oui oui m’sieur.
How about upticks? Ironically, Sanchez scored over a 100 upticks, yet both you and the blog owner complained. Doesn’t that reflect room judgement?
like in the cartoons, Snidely Whiplash and Muttley never quite understand what went wrong with their idiot scheme
Toaster, all you have are fraudulent ticks despite the sad attempts at rhetorical flourishes. You can’t run an argument because it’s beyond you. Desperately wanting attention you spend your time trolling.
The gale that swept Sydney last night prevented me from catching a ferry to hear Richard Marles deliver a defence of the government re anti-Semitism at the Sydney Institute. In retrospect I think maybe it was fitting to leave the Jewish contingent to hold him to account. However, today I listened to the podcast.
He waffled on, as you would expect. But I was surprised to learn from the later exchanges in question time that he is probably the most highly regarded ( or at least the least hated) MP in the government. It seems he had consistently been “a friend” in the past, though he was nonetheless held to account for the events of the last year, along with his government and the state governments.
The event can be heard on podcast.
That is setting an extremely low bar.
Scott Morrison was lynched politically and personally for taking his wife and two girls to Hawaii for a holiday.
This evening we learn that the Slug from Grayndler has known about this terror plot against Jews for over a week and said nothing.