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The Tele is doing some great work.
Yep, which is why I subscribe. The Tele breaks news.
Trump’s DOE investigating five universities –including Columbia – over alleged antisemitic harassment as Biden’s ‘toothless’ efforts ripped
NY AG Letitia James tells hospitals to continue sex-change procedures for minors despite Trump’s executive order
The woman is so stupid that she thinks that somehow it is discrimination against gender benders because they won’t get treatment that normal people get. Um no you stupid botch. Normal people don’t need treatments to change their sex.
She is not that stupid – she is well aware that many of her voters are.
She is a fat evil kunt, worse than that mad black bitch from georgia and fat as a pig Bragg. She must be first port of call for Trump’s new AG.
Liz Storer now agrees with Usman Khawaja. She keeps digging and digging until she reaches Mecca. Just give her a burqa now, why wait.
Yep, Liz Storer is done, no longer belongs on Sky after dark or even in the daytime. She is no longer worthy of polishing even Laura Jayes’ shoes. Liz is now a bigger anti-Semite than Antoinette Lattouf.
Received a letter from the AEC today happily informing me that due to an electoral redistribution am no longer in Watson the seat held by Gaza quisling, Tony Burqa.
We are now in Grayndler under the rat-faced Albo-weasel. Another victory for the democratic process!
Congratulations you no longer have AIDS.
It’s now arse cancer.
Thanks, Moley. I thought I was trying to stay positive.
You’re positively rooted now!
I see CIA, sorry USAID, was sending 63M USD to Al Qaeda, sorry HTS, in Idlib for humanitarian purposes.
They now kill infidels humanely?
The quest for the rare earths. Can the RE magnets in windmills be processed back into their constituent products?
I’ve asked before, but no one seems to know.
If so, China has just shot itself in the foot by exporting it to us to use in our factories.
I’m sure if pulverise and reconstitute them in a different, required shape by adding binding agents, it would be possible.
Leave it to BoN to confirm, so far there was no need due to cost effectiveness.
Yes.
To date there has been limited commercial interest in REE recycling, but with the growing availability of large-scale scrap and increasing demand for EVs and windmills it looks like an industry is starting to form.
However this only recycles samarium and neodymium (the REEs chiefly used in permanent magnets) back into the supply chain – so not a replacement for Chinese supply of the other REEs used in electronics and the high tech sectors.
When you look around at the sheer amount of windmills that are going to be needing reclamation, that seems like an interesting field for at least those two elements.
There’s a mob on the ASX called MTM Critical Metals that have some thing called Flash Joule Heating Technology that claim to be able to take ewaste, coal fly ash from coal power stations, bauxite residue from alumina refineries and pull critical metals from them.
Thanks, Caveman. That’s an interesting technology.
https://www.mtmcriticalmetals.com.au/
Might even be worth a little punt on the market.
But – the perennial question now – does the process require reasonably priced power to be economic?
Smoke and mirrors?
I actually was suggesting this above, in relation to Panama at the very least.
Miracles happen. We’re on the same page. Any idea why Trump is focusing on these issues when the election campaign was about cost of living and housing?
Because it’s not JUST about cost of living and housing. The biggest issue facing America after the Biden years in the Crisis of Government.
People are desperate to see that an adult is in charge and that this will lead to the cost of living and housing issues being dealt with.
It’s good publicity to begin with.
I don’t think so. Canada and Mexico have had various plans in place that promise to do something for a long time, but have done nothing about them.
I’m not about to say that Trump isn’t going to engage in smoke and mirrors, but in this case it’s also quite reasonable to suppose that this is just giving an opportunity to operate in good faith.
I have never heard of this jumped-up parasite on the taxpayers’ teat, Barbara Pocock, before today.
Yet another over opinionated Green who thinks Australians care what she says.
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Why I bashed the evil Skaf gang rape ringleader in a jail yard showdown. It cost me more time behind bars, but I don’t regret itBy JONICA BRAY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Public Service Medal to that man.
With, possibly one exception , there’s nothing rare about rare earths. The stuff is plentiful. It’s the refining which is problematic because the process is environmentally poisonous. There’s nothing magical about the refining process: it’s just that no one wants to do it except China. 🙂
Population nirvana
There is nothing they can do about it. It isn’t just the fertility rate, the youth are gone from “lying flat” to “let it rot”, a form of passive protest against the 996 lifestyle. South Korea is at .78 and are so desperate to raise it that youth are giving money to socialize. Japan was the canary in the goldmine on this one. The three countries have one thing in common: extreme competition in schooling and work. That may not be relevant. I read a few studies on this. The strongest argument is counter-intuitive, the more urbanized(ie population density), the lower the fertility rate. There isn’t any one cause for this problem.
the more urbanized(ie population density), the lower the fertility rate. There isn’t any one cause for this problem.
Humans are like pandas, they dont breed well in captivity
The problem is feminism and hypergamy.
Under a true free market, women would earn way less than half of what men do. All the well paid jobs that women routinely do (healthcare, government, teaching, HR) only exist in their number because of taxpayer support and ridiculous IR laws.
If the average woman earnt her true market value (probably around one third the average man) then every woman would be vastly more attracted to these average men.
Combine that with fixing up our anti-male divorce laws, banning women from any education after Year 10 and you would see a massive baby boom.
Just to be sure I would make pre-marital sex a felony too.
excellent points
Take all CCP statistics with a kilo of salt.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Putting her in a BMW SUV is a nice touch. They do seem to attract entitled arrogant drivers with no respect for others.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Mark Knight #4.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Didn’t work unfortunately. Gives an error message.
Works fine for me, JR. Problem is at your end
Thanks Tom and I will investigate.
Stop whingeing Wodney.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, a polite reply is not whingeing. Back on the Hamster Wheel for you.
Rotters, you have to copy the link address for Garrison into the browser – this is the only way it will display for me. You’ll also need to do the same for Tina Norton’s ‘toons (Garrison’s woife).
Thanks Tom.
The bleating from the climate zealots continues. Even Michael (Hockey Stick) Mann has joined in the chorus. For a scientist he uses a lot of juvenile hyperbole. In the Guardian no less:
“We should plan for the worst,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. “The keys to the car have been given to the polluters and fossil fuel plutocrats and they intend to drive it off the climate cliff.” Sure Michael.
He’s been telling you for 30 years we only have 10 years to save the world.
Nothing has changed – we still have only 10 years!
Why won’t you listen to these ex-spurts?
Mann is an arrogant, malicious bastard.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/new-us-attorney-district-columbia-busts-unique-chinese/
One day, China will need friends, but no one will trust her because of her history with other nations.
Putting together REE and Chinese tariff? impositions, and the Ukraine/Russia conflict:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-demands-ukraine-give-rare-earth-minerals-u/
I was going to stop putting up stuff but this one caught my eye and it’s too good to let pass.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/here-we-go-georgia-republican-reintroducing-bill-make/
From the comments:
Dover, I keep getting this error message. Is anyone else getting it?
It started a couple of days ago. I don’t see any reason for it and I don’t remember it coming up on any other sites except when it was warranted.
Circumstances:
I keep two NewCat pages open. One to watch, the other is a duplicate that is open at the top for comments. I read the first, then make comment on the second and then refresh for it to enter it at the end of the first page.
Cumbersome but saves me a lot of scrolling.
Interestingly enough, it doesn’t happen with reply comments, just original ones.
Interesting – the error message doesn’t appear if I post in the original page.
I’ve had that message too when having two separate windows open and a comment half composed on one. Dover’s site seems to only like one of you at a time. Fair enough.
Clean sweep of the Top Right Comments box – all 5 are mine.
Are the rest of you asleep?
Nope. Been up since 4am..smashed my wrist last Sat. Can’t sleep much and typing is pain. It’s a cool morning down south so guess people are having a sleep in after the warm weather.
How did you manage that, mem?
Are you getting enough pain relief?
I’m still a little rocky in one foot after burst aneurism in brain and stupidly went to toss an empty crisp packet at “the cricket watcher” who had neglected everything else for hours, and fell heavily backwards onto kitchen tiles. There’s probably a moral in this but it has passed me by.
Oh mem,
blessings for a speedy recovery.
I can empathise.
I hope the cricket watcher helped you onto your feet immediately, and not during a commercial break.
Nasty, mem.
My sister – nearly 80, has tiles all through the lower floor of her house. Tiles are just so unforgiving. They really need to sell that monstrosity and get a single story fully cushioned and carpeted house.
Regular Paracetamol, mem. Don’t wait until you get pain because then you’re fighting an uphill battle.
Tumbles when older are no joke, Mem. Hope you do a lot of rest and recovery now. With Winstons’s script for pain relief.
I am in waiting room to see surgeon about my busted coccyx, twice injected and still troublesome. An own goal of course, fall on ice in the Arctic Circle and then dogsledding, now Indian rickshaws on bumpy alleyways and two Safaris and much plane travel have all added extra stressors to the original fracture. Organising surgery.
Hope all turns out well for you Lizzie.
Think hard and long, Lizzie, about surgery. Keep getting opinions. I have a dear friend whose life has been ruined by spinal surgery that nobody can now do anything about.
Have a quick look of Dr. Ian Harris’ book, “Hippocracy”. Harris is an orthopaedic specialist and also Prof. at UNSW. He is not too popular with much of his profession because he thinks much of orthopaedic surgery is ill advised.
Don’t think I am unsympathetic with coccyx pain. As I think I mentioned to you – some years ago, when I was still riding horses, I had a terrific fall directly on to my coccyx . I really know the aching discomfort, although you should be better after the length of time since the accident.
BTW I think Harris is still practicing. I would get an opinion.
I know you’ll think I’m crazy or haven’t suffered as you have, but in my experience, pain management is largely a psychological issue.
If you ignore the pain and focus on something else, the subjective amount of pain you feel diminishes significantly – this is why some people appear to have a “high pain threshold”. It’s not that it doesn’t hurt (and sometimes a lot), it’s just that it’s WAY worse if you pay attention to it.
As in the old story of the soldier who is shot in the shoulder but continues to fire his weapon and even drags his injured mate to safety, while demanding said mate is treated first, and does that with no complaint at all. But when the same guy has his foot trodden on in the shower, the howls are loud and long.
Or more prosaically, how you only notice how uncomfortable your seat is when the movie finishes.
The moral being don’t waste your energy just throwing an empty crisp packet.
Meat tenderisers are better.
Goodness, mem! Be so very careful. Says I – who regularly fall when trying to get over a fence because my right hip is buggered and won’t rotate.
Tom and I were posting just after 4.00 am. Tom at 4.10 am and Me at 4.20 am.
From the Epoch Times: Chinese Links to Alleged Undersea Cable Sabotage in Europe, Asiahttps://www.theepochtimes.com/article/chinese-links-to-alleged-undersea-cable-sabotage-in-europe-asia-5802356
Like the ship stuck in the Suez Canal – Chinese testing techniques for when war breaks out.
I hope our excellent security folk have left enough time free in their Grampian Nazi work to prepare to arrest and confine all enemy aliens the day war starts – especially the thousands of trained ones ready to hack/disable our infrastructure systems from air traffic control to sewerage pumping stations.
Oops! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/victoria-berrybank-wind-turbine-collapse/104895810
I’m no engineer but I would reckon that a few hot days might have slightly expanded the structure, then followed by a strong breeze would do the trick if there was cribbing on the joins.
The BBC continues to blame everything on climate change, the fires in LA, the flooding in Australia and elsewhere, and I half expected them to do the same for the school shooting, a rare event in Sweden. Perhaps they just need more time to come up with that link.
Please.
There are several Sporty Beemer drivers here, most of whom don’t fit that description.
Oho, look at Hairy if you must, an excellent but impatient driver who simply doesn’t suffer bad drivers gladly, not at me.
I go with the flow, or ahead of it if I can get there.
That toon didn’t even look like a proper Sporty Beamer to me anyway.
How deep is the rot?
Jo Nova lifts the lid on USAID, which is being shut down right away.
NPR and PBS next, while Kari Lake will take charge of VOA.
She would be perfect for it, she used to work in the media before going into politics.
BB, a link to the Jo Nova site about the USAID and the way it was designed to be a tool of the Deep State..
I hoped that everyone had Jo on their quick links by now.
I did, but some do not – and often other posters don’t include them.
Just think of it as my caring, sharing, good deed for the day.
I’m storing upthumbs for when I kark it, because God knows I’ll need them.
Yes. I do know.
I read her blog every morning – even before the Cats!
The UN should be shut down. It’s just a front for the socialist majority.
Carrying water for Labor, Their ABC helpfully explains how wonderful everything will be in the workers’ paradise, the sunlit uplands of free* full-time kindergarten.
I can’t be buggered doing the googling, but I’d love to see the correlation between spending early childhood being handled by strangers and incidences of ADD, ADHD, OCD, ODD, and LGBTQIAP.
That’s going to put an entire industry – the child minding – on the skids.
The old missus works at a kindergarten and also child care for the local shire. This is getting rolled out incrementally in Victoria soon. Maybe next year where she works.
She reckons its a terrible idea. Four year old kids aren’t up for that. 15 hours a week is plenty.
Wally Dali “correlation between spending early childhood being handled by strangers and incidences of ADD,ADHD, OCD, ODD, and LGBTQIAP.” and the challenge of quickly having to learn how to ‘read’ changing numbers of non family adults and how far you can trust them, how they have to be ‘played’/ ‘manipulated’ for your survival (too strong??) in out of home care?
I really cannot comprehend how tough it must be for kids under four.
Is it a little easier for kids who are cared for in their own homes, in their family home, their own ‘territory”?
What impact does day care have on forming the trust required for a long term relationship, and then the decline in the birthrate?
The former question I would instinctively answer as a definite possibility, the latter question as a definite “shmaybe”.
The amount of children who grow up in abusive parental/guardian relationships and who then go on to healthy married lives, may carry emotional scars but I can’t see it affecting birthrate.
Odd how Sky Oz let go of Erin Molan but chose to keep Foghorn Fool Liz Storer.
Yes, very strange.
Note how the never pair her with Shari on any forum.
Pair Storer with Rowan Dean and there will be real fireworks!
No thanks. Never watch Storer if I can help it.
The WSJ says much the same things about Trump’s tariff campaign as that never-Trumper on Sky yesterday. American Thinker takes the WSJ and shreds it.
The WSJ gets more pathetic every day as they try to pooh-pooh Trump’s trade war – American Thinker
Legacy meja. Part of the problem
…and a nice kitty kat video to get youse all off to a good start for the day…
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1567865343898305
Sorry. Not on Facebook.
Me neither but can still watch it via the link.
A bit of a slow news day today by the looks of things. Not so slow in these parts – youngest grandchild starts school today and photos have been flying around the ether. Those shiny shoes and well pressed shirt won’t last too long!
Another milestone passed for the family, and all my lovely babies have been left behind in the pages of photo albums. I’ll turn around once or twice and they’ll be sending me their graduation photos.
*dusts off hands*
So far all that hard work has paid off in spades.
Well done.
I sometimes wonder if the school yard game British Bulldog wasn’t invented by Big School Uniform Inc to pump up sales.
Osteopaths and surgeons seemed to do quite well out of it too.
Then when the Karens in charge of education banned that game, up popped “rip the pocket off the shirt” game.
As much as I hate losing them to school, I absolutely love the first day!
Many photos and happy or nervous little faces.
Always the odd screamer to liven up the morning. 😀
Beaut pic of our five year old basically non-verbal autistic grandson in his first day at school gear. He’s been having intensive intro-to-school therapy and calm-down meds. I hope he makes it but I do have doubts. In those big boy shorts his little legs look stick thin and his face is anxious. He’s one quarter Asian and a frail little soul, nearly toilet-trained. He is developing more normally now but it is still slow. We hope to see him more often soon now he is less speedy, to give the parents a break. He can show us his things from big school. He loved the photo from Scotland of grandpa with a big bird sitting on his head.
99% hard work, and a dash of luck sometimes, calli.
We’ve had our challenges, just like everyone else. Some of them horrible and life threatening.
My greatest luck is riding on the coattails of other parents who raised marvellous children for mine to marry!
Titus, beware – this will present you with an infuriating dilemma when casting your lower house vote in the feral erection, as I discovered in 2010.
If the final runoff count is between albansleazy and the greenfilth candidate (as it was in 2010) you will end up having voted for one of them if you cast a legitimate vote. Funnily enough, the final runoff last election was between albansleazy and the gliberal candidate – but good luck predicting who’ll be in the final runoff this time.
I’d suggest voting informal, regardless, unless you’re happy to have your vote potentially go to one of those two forkwits.
Such is the idiocy of compulsory preferential voting.
Yep. You can vote or you can Cock & Balls. You have no way of knowing who the final runoff will be between at the time of voting. Half the time Antony Green will not know during the election coverage.
The whole point of shifting some Watson voters (likely ALP) into Grayndler is to shore up Albanese from an inner city green insurgency, as those green voters are moved to another electorate.
And we think the AEC is fair and unbiased.
https://aec.gov.au/About_AEC/files/aec-org-chart-Feb25.pdf
Have a look at how big it is.
I just tried to get some information on their careers and gave up because I couldn’t find nuffin’.
Now there is candidate agency to replace a fair chunk of the staff with AI. Compiling numbers and stats for which there are formats and formula, producing lists, forms etc. Analyzing results. An Elon could probably reduce it to 20% of current levels and also improve efficiency.
If you vote informal your taxpayer subsidy will not go to someone who may need a donation for your primary vote.
A George Alexopoulos toon.
I really like his cartoons. Some of them can be very dark and worrying though. Probably what makes them so powerful.
That was scary!
Trump Signs Sweeping Executive Orders Pulling Out of Several UN Bodies
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Pick to Oversee US Spy Agencies, Clears Senate Committee
Let the good times roll.
Trump Preparing to Shut Down ‘Woke’ Department of Education as Math, Reading Scores Plummet, Show Stunning Lows
Bungonia Bee
February 5, 2025 7:22 am
How deep is the rot?
Jo Nova lifts the lid on USAID, which is being shut down right away.
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All aid agencies are also nests of spies, including our own (don’t ask me how I know this.) That includes all government and most non-government ones.
Where USAID overstepped the tacitly accepted mark is when they moved into ‘progressive’ social policy initiatives, and also activities which actively undermined official US foreign policy.
The aid industry is also notoriously bad at delivering assistance on the ground. Aid workers drive air conditioned SUVs and stay in expensive hotels while allegedly helping some of the poorest people on the planet.
The turning off of the tap will impact well-remunerated employees much more than the people they are supposed to be helping.
Very well stated and informative.
Mate of mine saw similar on a few ADF deployments. AusAid in East Timor didn’t do much apparently except hold raucous drunken parties & cruise around in said 4WD’s.
Same with UN there.
And, allegedly, Red Cross
Only Trump would have the chutzpah to do it. This is why he is such a saviour for not only USA, but for the western world.
He is convinced God saved him for this job – and this old narcissist may just be right!
@B7frankH
Now it makes sense why Ilhan Omar is so upset that Trump is pausing USAID funds.
The country she’s representing in Congress received over $2 billion from the U.S. since 2022.
Together with Qatar, USAID is number one source of terror in Middle East and Sub-Sahara.
Their recent shipment is arrived to Syria, Tartus harbor. They will convert and modify those Toyota Trucks for next planned war in Middle East with the help of USAID.
39% of their workforce was focussed on J6!
FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue
Here’s How Many FBI Employees Were Tasked With Taking Down Trump
Benjamin Netanyahu can’t stop smiling (and occasionally laughing) as he feeds the shouty, interrupty, mostly female media chooks with President Trump in front of the winter fireplace at the White House.
They’re both in their element. Trump sees Gaza as a real estate developer’s dream to do something new. Netanyahu says Israel won’t give up on the hostages — and the IDF’s war aims against Hamas.
The view from the other side. This is an excerpt from a paywalled Washington Post article. The self-delusion is off the chart.
Trump 2.0: The most damaging two weeks in history
No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly. As we enter Week 3 of President Donald Trump’s second term, the chaos and disruption of his first look quaint by comparison. The country survived Trump 1. Now, it faces a real threat that the harm he inflicts during his second term will be irreparable. The United States’ standing in the world, its ability to keep the country safe, the federal government’s fundamental capacity to operate effectively — all of these will take years to repair, if that can be achieved at all.
This column will concentrate on the third piece of that trifecta: efforts to undermine the basic functioning of government. A unifying theme of much of Trump’s activity since Jan. 20 has been his unrelenting and broadscale assault on the federal workforce. In his first term, Trump railed about what he termed the “deep state” and its seeming ability to frustrate his plans. In his second, he has unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on career employees — one designed to punish those who dared to counter him or his allies; to oust or neuter those with years of expertise; and to set the stage for a new spoils system, replacing seasoned, nonpartisan career workers with compliant Trump loyalists.
“[Trump] is destroying whatever gets in the way of what he wants to do,” Max Stier, the normally mild-mannered president of the Partnership for Public Service, told me. “That includes having loyalty be the primary screen for choosing his direct lieutenants and crushing the civil service and converting it into a tool for his private agenda, as opposed to a force for the public good and the rule of law.”
Contempt for civil servants — sneering at “unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.” — is not…
The Washington Post and its feral editorial staff are having trouble adjusting to the new world where no-one listens to them and they have no political power Their life’s work intercepting and reinterpreting every message from politicians to the hoi polloi was ultimately all for nothing.
PS: journalists are so dumb they couldn’t take the hint in opinion surveys that the public think they’re lower than a snake’s arsehole.
Wapo needs to have its licence to print revoked for a fortnight just to let them wake up to the fact they are a bunch of commos and that’s what happens to commos.
Relax, it’s just a “Fundamental Transformation”. WaPo used to be in favour of that.
Interesting the WP think that is a desirable trait. The very definition of an unelected bureaucrat. Imagine the WP view if a conservative bureaucrat did that against, say a Hillary Clinton Government.
And it happens here too. A remember a federal departmental secretary at a multi jurisdictional meeting he was chairing openly saying he was going to stymy his Minister’s plans about a particular issue.
I am not sure what is worse, that he was planning to undermine his minister, or that he was comfortable telling bureaucrats from entirely different jurisdictions (and political flavours) what he was going to do.
Such as the rain that won’t fall never filling our dams and rivers again*?
Has a single catastrophic prediction about gerbil worming made in the last thirty seven years by these preposterous infuriating charlatans ever even come close to occurring?
*A “prediction” which resulted in the erection of various desalination plants across this country, at massive cost to taxpayers, most of which are rarely if ever used.
Well, with a massively growing population and no new dams they eventually will. Of course, the corrosive nature of the input means the bloody things will be effectively rebuilt several times before they will actually be needed at the tail end of the next big drought.
for Brisbane this will be around 2030-2033.
Conflating Michael Mann of fake hockey stick (in)fame with Tim Flannery? Same stupid, different persona?
Lol! is figures serious?
Sure!.
And as our wymminfolk appear to have definite lapses in commonsense and allow some really dodgy bastards to father their children, perhaps we need to have some more arranged marriages.
🙂
How bout just not paying for their upbringing as a start … actions have consequences and all that?
That would be a more practical proposition.
natural justice
Heaven forfend we should have a rule that 99% of societies in history have had.
Obviously our society – which mathematically can’t exist in two more generations – is much more sophistomicated.
Exactly! The Bee.
Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government
That is hilarious! My favourite part;
““You know who else gave up power and was a fascist?” said Martyn Rogers, a Yale professor. “Hitler. Hitler was a fascist who gave up his power at the end of World War II. Be afraid of Trump. Be very afraid.”
I got a huge belly laugh out of several Democrats had also warned that Trump would soon start World War III by making peace with other nations.
Before Trump purge at USAID, memo warned agency it created ‘vulnerabilities’ doling out foreign aid
Report: Biden Admin Made Improper Payments Totaling $236 Billion in 2023
The Beast Lives On: DEI Is ALREADY Being Rebranded
Sen Dem: If USAID Doesn’t Keep Sending Money to Terrorists, Americans Will Be ‘Unsafe’
In other words, the Democrats have been paying our enemies to ‘sort of’ leave us alone, except they’re not.
Nukem Danno!
11 Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Paid For Thanks To USAID
@EndTribalism
You can’t make this up.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is throwing a tantrum over RFK Jr. passing the initial Senate Finance Committee vote, arguing that allowing vaccine manufacturers to be sued is dangerous.
“Vaccine manufacturers often operate on very slim profit margins.
If they get sued repeatedly and successfully, they simply move out of the vaccine space.
We’ve already seen this happen with vaccines in the past.”
To be clear, she’s arguing that Big Pharma should be shielded from lawsuits—even when their vaccines cause harm.
Some of these people are truly insane.
The old slag is on their payroll. Dirty old woman.
Given the amount she has recieved from Big Pharma over the years, we now know why their profit margins are so low.
She has received at least $1.2 million from Big Pharma, Bernie Sanders $1.9 million.
Indolent – two things. One, you’re in gift to humanity mode this morning (or at least to the Cat Family) – thank you – these posts are illuminating. Two, my youngest brother has lived in Boston for 20 years. Married to a Harvard science graduate who works as a science teacher in the public system (was always her goal, and she got the marks so why not). He has retained his sanity, accent, involvement in cricket etc etc. Boston is great to visit. But politically they’re insane. Warren is the norm, not the exception. My sister in law regularly engages my dad in engineering/science/maths discussions (he’s a civil engineer in his 90s, still engineering), and is a dedicated teacher. But politically off the scale. I joke about left wing policy being centred around, ‘boasting rights at the stupid table.’ When I visit Boston I’m always surrounded by scientist of the highest order, the majority working in biotech. And when they talk biotech they’re fine. Anything else – they should be in an asylum.
Let me guess “I heard on NPR/ read in the Grey lady”…
What could possibly be worse than our society no longer injecting poisons into our babies?
Ultimately it goes beyond club stupid. It simply gets down to a desire to control others, and a desire to enrichen oneself. Biotech chick at my brother’s wedding earlier this year (guest of the bride) was without a doubt the highest IQ individual (in her technical sphere) I’ve ever been in the company of. But her politics skew her grip on reality. The vaccine development work she is doing is ground-breaking, and her justification of all of the covidiocy controls at the other end of the spectrum. Boston MA in a nutshell.
Trump administration pulls funding for endangered California fish at heart of water wars
FBI Stops #Resisting Trump’s Order and Turns Over List of Agents Assigned to Political Persecution of J6ers—AceFBI officials were threatening to resign or simply refuse to comply.
No wonder they wanted to keep the information secret.
The FBI under the Criminal Wray and Merrick Garland devoted one seventh of its entire workforce to tracking down the J6ers and putting grandmothers in jail for years.
One seventh.
If one seventh of the organization can be detailed to political persecution, seems like the FBI could afford to lose one seventh of its staff.
In his latest newsletter, economist Jim Rickards has outlined why all the naysayers re Trump’s tariff program are wrong. An excerpt:
The case against tariffs as a successful economic model is rooted in two sources. The first is mainstream economists’ obsession with aggregate demand and the view that any barriers to free trade (including tariffs) dampen aggregate demand and therefore reduce wealth creation. This view is often summarised in the claim that tariffs are a ‘sales tax’ on good produced overseas and simply reduce consumption by imposing dead-weight costs.
The second source is the imposition of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs by the United States in 1930, which are said to have restricted world trade and caused the Great Depression to be deeper and longer than would otherwise have been the case.
This one-two combination of weaker demand and historical failure has caused all but a few economists to reject tariff increases reflexively. In this edition of Strategic Intelligence Australia, we explain why tariffs are paid by producers, not consumers, and why high tariffs will create more investment and high-paying jobs in the US. We also explain why the conditions that may have caused Smoot-Hawley tariffs to fail do not apply today and that today’s initial conditions are highly favourable for tariffs.
Over to you, Arky.
This is nonsense. If the govt imposes a tariff on, say, cars, consumers pay more for cars and the govt collects and spends the loot on the usual things govt do with money (think extravagance and waste). Does it encourage local manufacturers? Yes, if they can produce and sell at prices below the imported plus tariff prices. This means that local labour and capital are subsidised by consumers. Tariff walls and ADRs and other impediments did nothing to create and efficient local car industry in Aust. This is a simple case. It gets complicated for some other products. Some 75% of inputs to Australian manufacturing are imported and unlikely to have alternative local sources. Tariff then become a straight tax that reduces demand and investment, and wealth and prosperity. For the USA, and also the PRC, with their vast resources and highly productive culture, tariffs are largely meaningless. They hurt importers more than the locals.
A tariff is just a tax (though not in a strict legal sense). My understanding has always been that when you tax something you increase its price and lower its demand. Not sure there is wide dispute around that.
It depends in who has the power in any supply chain. The producer would like to always pass on costs, including a tariff to the buyer. But if the buyer is the one with market power, then it is the supplier that ends up bearing the cost.
From the Times. Playtime is over, Mo.
If Iran assassinates me, they get obliterated’
President Trump left instructions to “obliterate” Iran in the event that he was assassinated by the Islamic republic, he said in the Oval Office today.
Trump signed an order to impose maximum pressure to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. He said he was reluctant to further punish the pariah state and hoped to see relations between the two countries improve.
Asked about Iranian threats to his life, and to other US officials, Trump said: “I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left, and they shouldn’t be able to do it,” he said. “And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don’t know why. Lack of intelligence, perhaps.”
Last September Trump said he had been notified by US intelligence of “big threats” from Iran. The US also determined that Tehran tried to “sabotage” Trump’s presidential campaign.
Gosh, he is good at Realpolitik. Such a move would not even occur to most politicians.
“Go on Iran….make my day… do it & my people will wipe you off the face of the earth….”
Nice idea, but can a sitting president give orders after his death?
JD would do it.
It would be an act of war if Iran did, so it would be an appropriate response.
And Pete Hegseth.
“in the event of…”
The last one. Whathisname did.
She’s over the line.
The committee voted 9-8 along party lines to tick it off.
Susan Collins, who has been one of the flies in the ointment for Trump’s nominees on the floor, is on the committee and voted for it.
She can hardly now vote against it in a full Senate vote.
Even if Cocaine Mitch and Daddy’s Girl from Alaska vote against, that leaves it at 51-49. The Dimocrats need two votes to defeat it.
Thank God! Or Trump.
A minute’s silence please.
I’ve never seen a picture so pathetic. (Even if it’s AI generated.)
I’m so old I can remember when furrin interference in elections was a bad thing.
Very, very bad.
The worst.
And here was I thinking it was the CIA that did things like turf out saint Gough.
mind you, quite possibly quite a few USAID staff are CIA. And SAVAK, once KGB etc etc.
Who did you think runs USAID?
“Steve Milloy @JunkScience
In case you feel sorry for any EPA employees that may be axed, don’t bother. Recall that these are same arrogant and evil creeps who killed 50,000 high-paying coal industry jobs during the Obama years. Each killed coal job supported anywhere from 4-10 other community and related-industry jobs. The loss of these jobs irreparably devastated coal communities, where there is typically little else do but mine coal or support those that do. All of this was for absolutely no reason. Just left-wing politics. I was there. I saw it. I only wish I could be at EPA to hand out the pink slips and turn the lights off. @LeeZeldin @realDonaldTrump @JDVance”
Milloy is a hero of mine.
He’s not easy to get along with, but almost always right.
The kerfuffle about PFAS which is currently plaguing the Federal government – read, taxpayers about to pay out big time – is junk science according to Milloy.
A recurring theme is where a scare campaign is raised in the MSM about some evil ‘chemical’, and the ambulance chasers are all over it like flies on shit. Facts disappear in a shimmer of what ifs and maybes and precautionary ‘principles.’
Milloy has been debunking this crap for decades.
Also, never fell for the climate hoax for a second. He was the first critical thinker about it that I encountered.
Go, Steve! 🙂
Yes.
Accompanied by the very smug and dismissive “learn to code”.
A phrase I have been throwing at sooks on Soshul Meeja bleating about DC public Serpents losing their jerbs.
I suggested to my accountant yesterday that they should learn to pick and bale.
Chortles all round.
FIRE THE LOT!!!!
Meanwhile, in Airstrip One, they’re sounding a bit desperate about Our Strength in West Yorkshire, despite the best efforts of the West Yorkshire Polis.
Ours is 1.5 and over a quarter of our population over 60. China also has bump incoming as alphas move into childbearing age.
Perhaps the answer is executing everyone over 65 years of age. That should fix the ‘problem’ of an aging population.
‘No man, no problem’.
Trump is giving Iran every excuse to obtain nukes.
They’ve been doing that for years before Trump came along.
Yes, previous administrations have also given Iran every excuse.
Seriously, do they need an excuse? Wanting to obliterate the Great Satan is excuse enough, and to their warped minds will earn them Tash Brownie Points.
I don’t think they can obliterate ‘the Great Satan’ with nukes. They won’t have enough and they don’t have a missile that can reach the US. People need to be realistic here.
DB, they don’t care that they don’t have the capability to destroy the US. But they want the capability to hurt it, and perhaps to start WW3.
Iran’s leaders believe the 12th Imam won’t appear until the world is destroyed. They keep repeating that is what they want.
These are not reasonable people.
These are not sane people.
You cannot negotiate with them or appease them.
They intend to destroy all other religions and their followers.
Their threats will obviously be directed against Israel and the Gulf oil fields. I’m surprised you omitted this.
I was responding to Calli’s claim about the Great Satan. And they don’t need nukes for the Gulf oil fields.
Why wouldn’t they need nukes to permanently destroy the the oil fields? You left out Israel.
They don’t need to permanently destroy the oil fields. Putting them out of business for a few years is sufficient deterrent, particularly for the Saudis. They already counter-value weapons for Israel. Nukes are just an upgrade there.
Is this babble for the sake of it?
They would of they can.
Hitting Israel with a nuke would be the same to the Mullahs as hitting continental US.
Upthread, you were telling us that Trump is doing everything to speed up Iran building a nuke.
Now, you’re basically telling us that they don’t require nukes for Gulf oil fields or Israel. So, why would Iran speed up building nukes: to hit and destroy Tehran or perhaps hit Tonga or Fiji? Follow a little continuity occasionally.
No, it’s just being reasonable. but ‘they would if they could’ is certainly nonsense. No, what I said is that threats such as these make obtaining nukes more likely than the opposite. And, no, hitting Israel is not the same as hitting the continental US, not remotely the same.
Yes, that’s right, they don’t need nukes to harm Israel or Saudi Arabia, but if that is insufficient deterrent for Israel/ US (its sufficient for the Saudis), as Trump indicates, then a nuclear capacity, directed at Israel (because now the Israelis would need to recalibrate the risk scenario), or at the US also, if they can also develop an intercontinental delivery system, may just do that.
Trump Asked Point Blank Why Musk Was Given Access To Payment Systems At Treasury
Trump withdraws from the U.N. Human Rights Council: ‘It’s not being well run’
Trump Shares His Reaction To China’s Retaliatory Tariffs
LOL.
NSW Premier says embattled minister too busy to face questions about chauffeur scandal (Sky News mainpage headline, 5 Feb)
That’s lame. You’d think with all those young communication staffers they could’ve come up with something a little less silly.
I bet the driver will end up being unpersoned. Even if they had nothing to do with leaking this egregious behaviour of the ALP superprivileged.
There will be multiple drivers if the abuse of the vehicles is as long as it appears.
One or two drivers can be dismissed/transferred etc without problems – a dozen cannot be.
There will be leakers to the media.
The lunching ladies of Labor can’t speak when their mouths are full and their arses planted on your savings.
Too busy? Was she out for a drive?
Trump Issues Extreme Warning To Iran They’ll Be ‘Obliterated’ If They Attempt To Kill Him
That is outstanding; that is a leader.
I love the bit:
“I don’t know why Biden didn’t do it. Maybe a lack of intelligence…”
Interior ministers of the EU are reviewing the UN Refugee Convention with a view to trimming their legal obligations to it as they contemplate deporting masses of illegal migrants who have failed asylum tests along with those linked to criminal activities.
It is suggested that they hope to obtain Trump’s support for a review of the 70+ year old document, which is regarded is no longer fit for purpose and subversive of sovereign borders.
The Times (via a leaked document) [paywalled]
Over to you, Mr. Dutton.
Now that doesn’t pass the pub test.
Whatever the factional pressures are behind the scenes, it comes across as Minns treating voters with contempt.
Labor doesn’t seem to have savvy political operators at the top these days.
Conventional PR wisdom would have been to tear the band-aid off, have a press conference and try to move on.
What Minns is really saying is “She is as dumb as a box of rocks. She’ll fall in a heap at the first question”.
Even so, prepare a scripted statement, workshop a few obvious answers to follow up questions and have Minns ready to step in.
Just watched Bibi Trump presser.
Gazans will be resettled in Jordan and Egypt. Gaza will be bulldozed and owned by USA and rebuilt into a world metropolis – the Riviera of the Middle East.
It is probably too hot for a Trump branded golf course for much of the year. Looks like it gets too cold too?
It has a belter climate than Melbourne. But then again, where doesn’t?
My BiL was a keen golfer.
One of my brothers was a golfer.
They play in any weather.
There’s probably one in Hell.
I know there’s one in Wilcannia.
Dudes going to build a wave pool.
That might work – make it a bit like Beirut was 60 + years ago?
1.5/1.09
Thats 37% difference.
And China hasn’t even begun to cater for the aged. People’s life savings have been blown up by the real estate crash. Lucky to get 10 cents in the dollar .
Wait and see on this one.
If this is the ambit claim what does the compromise position look like?
How do you “de-Hamasify” Gazans?
Because nobody can accept anything less.
You hand the de-Hamasifying over to the Egyptians and Jordanians.
Not our problem any more. It’s back where it should be, among their Arab brethren.
The Jordanians won’t tolerate an ounce of the bullshit, neither will the Egyptians.
Jordanian Army shelled Pali refugee camps with Willie Peter back in the 1970’s.
That’s assuming there’ll be functioning Jordanian or Egyptian regimes following a mass Gazan influx. It would be quite a political and social challenge, enough to destabilise them.
And the Saudis have already come out and contradicted an earlier statement by Trump re normalization made the the presser with Netanyahu:
The reactions and any forthcoming details over the coming days are going to be instructive.
Just like the Emeratis. They will crush the radical Imans and their hothead young men and train the women and children to love Islamic peace and persuade everyone to tend gardens. There is so much irrigation intensive agriculture and horticulture going on in those desert lands. We saw it in India too. There is no place for radical Islamists in the newly developing Middle East under Sheiks and Sultans. If Trump really takes Gaza they will make him an honorary Sheik, just like Lawrence. They adore a strong man.
yeh – I smell 4D chess
A key re Iran and nukes is Russia. Russia will not want Iran to obtain nukes because it gains nothing from proliferation. If Iran gets one, SA will judge it needs to get them, also Turkey, and so on. So Russia will lean on Iran to not get them and will provide it support in mitigating the need via measures like its recent comprehensive strategic partnership agreement.
Pam Bondi confirmed ! Makes my day !
And for those who wish to wail at the “injustice” being visited upon the precious pallimuppets, there is a precedent..
Anyone heard from Prussia lately?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8SKTz1lflw
Or the Greeks of Turkey?
etc, etc.
The Greeks of Turkey situation offer a scenario you may not like, Mole.
My Greek archaeologist friend’s grandparents fled massacres in Turkey in that partition. They did well in Greece.
Cyprus, another partition.
Trump’s suggestion is not without precedent.
Or even the Turks of Greece?
Sometimes a partition is the only way. It can be hideously violent, as in India and parts of Africa but it doesn’t have to be so if it is tolerably well-managed.
The Gaza plan has many hurdles. Who is going to remove them? Trump talks about them as if they’re not already in Gaza. Who is going to accept them? Egypt and Jordan will likely enter into a political crisis if they are forced to accept them. How is this going to be worked out at the international level? How is this going to play out regionally?
We are going to accept them. Guaranteed to happen before the next election too. OK, almost guaranteed.
Big Australia. Big Mo worship. Big voteherd. Bigger GDP. We could stick them in Toowoomba and make a theme park with a Big Immigrant thingy out the front to they can join towns like Coffs and their Big Banana.
It’ll be a vote winner.
No. The West is not going to do that. They stay in Middle Eastern or other Islamic nations. That’s the deal. The Jews had a forced Mediterranean shake-out. Time now for a forced Middle-Eastern shake out of ‘Palestineans’, especially back to Jordan and elsewhere to join other third generation ‘Palestinran refugees’. Pakistan, Indonesia, the Islamic world is a big place.
I was being sarcastic.
big /sarc tag.
Frankly, DB, who frigging cares?
It’s an Arab problem and we’re sick of it.
They are grown ups and they can solve their own problems.
Their Circus, Their Monkeys.
It’s your problem if you want them to go and the others to accept and neither agree.
Every Muslim country should be pressured to take some of them. That would make it easier than once again lumping them together in one area. Palestinians will lose the advantage of numbers but will gain the benefit of starting normal lives at last. Enough with the multi-generational refugee status. An added bonus would be the loss of influence for Hamas as the host countries would keep them out.
Not going to happen.
Exactly. Just added my similar thoughts, reading downthread.
Egypt and Jordan, with the backing of other Arab states have been quite clear: No, shit no, not here, not ever:
Arab nations reject Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan
Unfortunately for Gazans and Palestinians generally, they’ve been bred and trained to be 100% pariahs – even amongst their co-religionists.
If Kevni Al-Rude is smart about it, he might get into Trumps good books by persuading the Pavement Turd of Grayndler to promise to take a few hundred thousand.
nothing a good kick in the nuts won’t fix
Is even AnAl that dumb?
Don’t answer that!
Resettlement of Palestinians in non-Muslim countries should be barred as once there they will get up to their old tricks. They need their co-religionists to keep them in line.
Agree. We saw it working well in the UAE and Oman. Great places to visit and admire.
Kieran Gilbert and Chris Uhlmann are wetting themselves and thinking up all the tragic outcomes.
One reporter asked at the presser how Trump could take over a “sovereign” territory! It’s anything but sovereign.
Kieran is worried about the fate of the “two state solution”. That was dead and buried by what happened in Gaza after Sharon said all Israelis had to vacate the place and leave it to the people under Fatah and Hamas.
Hamas throttled and evicted Fatah, then turned Gaza into a running sore of an armed anti-Israel encampment. Things might have muddled along but for the constant stream of rockets coming over the fence, at first pretty ordinary but progressively more of them and better.
Chris is slavering at the thought of American casualties and giving instructions to the likely terrorists.
Gaza is Israel’s sovereign territory and from what I understand Trump has their agreement.
Exactly!
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Love to hear it!
Wind farm with 105 turbines planned for pine plantations in south-west Victoria
Just read on ABC that:
You would think that in the scheme of things that:
1.The plantation was a net carbon sink as well as a productive contributor to the economy
2.There would be plenty of other places
3.Better to grow our own pine than import it.
Won’t somebody think of the inconvenienced legless lizards?
“We have to destroy the environment to save it.”
Meanwhile, studies in the UK have found that little birds mistake solar panel arrays for water and crash into them while local insect populations are being depleted as their habitat is destroyed.
why would birds crash into water?
One of the private schools nearby has a light blue running track. It permanently stuns the odd duck and other waterbirds.
Pines burns regularly from lightning strikes. Why not add turbines and double the fun.
A timely reminder of Peter Thiel’s quote.
You do not have to take everything Trump says seriously.
But you do have to take Trump very seriously.
Im not saying its a nice solution, but it is one with a proven track record of success.
Mass population expulsions have occurred before where one group (Prussians) were seen as just a perennial problem.
Pallis have been a perennial problem for 70 odd years.
My only major, major concern is Trump getting stuck in a middle east tar baby/war, hes supposed to be the no wars Prez.
The first thing that will happen if US troops go in is that Iran will stir the pot in a big way.
Changes of territory boundaries have been going on forever. Indonesia took half of PNG – why? Because that half had been a Dutch protectorate while the other half had been German until after WW1 when it became under Australian administration.
Indonesia had no other right to take West Irian (as they call it), they just did.
There are many examples, but the most immediately relevant one is that Jordan took the West Bank, which was part of the new state of Israel, and Israel took it back in 1967, together with the Gaza strip which had been administered by Egypt, but whoops! Egypt has several times tried to invade Israel, so nobody should feel sorry for them.
The Golan Heights has historically been used to overlook and to shell Israeli farms, but Israel took it over and deservedly has it as a buffer between them and Syria.
There are too many instances to cover, but all the chest beating and pearl clutching is just left media tantrums. Anyone talking about a two-state solution is an effing idiot or worse. The Kurds have a much better claim to have a state of their own, but Turkey regards them as insurrectionists and terrorists.
The Nazis lost the war and the territory of East Prussia was split afterwards between Russia and Poland and the German natives booted out – Konigsberg, the original capital of Prussia is now Kaliningrad. Very relevant as Hamas are today’s Nazis.
Anyone talking about a two-state solution is an effing idiot or worse
That’s no way to speak about that Wong chap!
Anyone talking about a two-state solution is an effing idiot or worse.
The problem isnt ‘2 states’, its ‘2 cultures’, one of which wants the other dead and periodically acts on that desire.
They don’t need them. Labor needed savvy political operators like Graham Richardson when the party’s right faction ruled the roost.
Noawadays, the ALP’s socialist left faction runs the politics using social media deception and propaganda.
Chris Minns was elected as the ALP right’s populist face of a radical left-wing government. Minns has no power. In NSW, the ALP’s pants are worn by the party’s (usually female) radical left.
The upsurge in Jew hatred is the crowning achievement of the radical left.
Minns keeps promising a crackdown by NSW Plod, but he has no power so there won’t be one.
The deception of having a right-wing populist like Minns in charge works only as long as the government keeps delivering policies that are popular with the NSW electorate.
That ended long ago. Instead, the public is being forced-fed pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist police inaction that makes Sydney streets more dangerous with fire-bombings and other attacks against Jews.
It never occurred to power-drunk lefties that, if they were s**t at politics, it was inevitable their power would eventually end.
Facing the prospect of being a one-term government federally suggests otherwise.
Albanese’s tactics have been woeful, right down to the parliamentary walkout last night.
Sky persists in using loudmouth Michael Ware, who does have a lot of experience in the Middle East, but who is so ardently leftist and anti-Trump that he matches the likes of Kieran and Fluffy in slamming anything that Trump tries to do.
I met him at the screening of his documentary Only the Dead at the Nova in Carlton in 2015. In person was decent and intelligent, happy to discuss details. Big ego but more part of the theatre of how he approached the job than being an unaware pain in the arse. Had zero time for the anti-war crowd. Pro the removal of Saddam. Pro US forces.
I had an incredible/ incredibly stupid idea for lowering the amount of bushfires in Oz, and national parks in particular.
Bear with me, this is either genius or deeply retarded.
How would erecting a large lightening rod (train rail or similar) every 10km2 go?
Does lightening “prefer” these to strike rather than trees of patches of dirt?
If it worked would it cost all that much? Once they are in they are there for 40 years.
And impale moles on them.
Get a load of Vlad the Molepaler here.
Freud would have a field day.
They do put them around rocket launch pads but I don’t think the idea will work over kilometers. They are pretty close to the rockets.
Isn’t that what all the wires carrying ‘renewable’ energy are for?
Our native bush is adapted to, and dependent on, periodic burning via lightning strikes. The real problem is 1) a suppression strategy when fires happen, meaning we stamp out all the small cool fires and buy ourselves a bigger, hotter fire eventually. 2) Our predilection for building ‘assets’ like Halls Gap in and around that bush.
The problem is the electrical field strength is proportional to 1 divided by r squared. In other words, double the distance between the rod and the lightening and the field strength is a quarter that at the original distance.
Which is why buildings often have more than one lightening rod.
ABC’s global affairs editor John Lyons says.
Um, no John (despite the practicalities or impracticalities) what is “extraordinary” is how “Palestinians” gave up their 2005 Right to govern and grow on October 7, 2023.
It’s a pretty stupid statement from an “expert.”
It’s like saying: “I don’t change my mind when the facts change.”
Australia had bipartisan support for Indonesia occupying Timor for nearly 30 years, the facts changed and so bipartisanism fell apart with Labor coming to the table late on Timor’s side. I’m sure there’s 1000s of more examples internationally.
I’ll just add I love the theory but I’m not sure how it’d be done.
Although, the realist in me reminds me that “we naive ones*” think all of the world’s borders are set forever and will never change and there’ll never mass (and I mean MASS) movements of peoples ever again.
*specifically, me.
He’s not an expert, he’s a journalist in the employ of the ABC, with all that entails.
Monumental ignorance, arrogance, sanctimony and staggering stupidity, for starters.
J’ismist. Not even close.
Wasn’t it Lyons of the Israelis blew up a Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon with a missile fame?
The ambulance was being used to ferry a Hezbollah leader, I believe. The driver was part of it.
That makes them fair game.
An Apache Longbow hovered in the valley and popped up and gave him and early taste of ‘Hellfire’.
Actually I think it was completely fake. The ambulance was quite intact except for having been shot up (for pallywood purposes), and the hole in the roof as where the dome emergency light was located. No one paused to consider if the ambulance had been hit by a missile it wasn’t vaporised.
The Dems are simply beside themselves over Musk being in charge of expenditure. So far, all Musk has done is STOP expenditure, he hasn’t spent penny of US taxpayers money that I am aware of.
Musk didn’t stop any spending, his team simply revealed where spending went, Trump is stopping the waste. That’s what Dems are mad about. How dare the little people, ie taxpayers, want to know and object to what happens to their money?
I heard a great suggestion about how to work out where black money goes….cut off *all* agency funding and require them to apply for it to be re-instated. That way the really dodgy shit wont be continued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16OcMBpy3qA
Germany has a major problem with the African invasion.
From the comments:
My friend (who lives in Germany) was fighting for all this inclusion and diversity.
Now She can’t leave her parents home anymore without protection. She thought I was crazy for defending trump back in 2017 crazy how life works.
Before you feel sorry for them, remember they voted for this a few times in a row, while calling you a far right bigot.
In real life blacks are nothing like all their tv commercials are they??
That video made me nauseaus and scared.
I hate being scared.
No. Ideologues assume everyone is just like them, and are astonished when they are not.
I have just transferred funds to a travel agent in Cape Town to cover travel and accommodation in Cape Town. I received a message from the forex dealer to say that they can’t transfer any further amounts to this company as they are … ‘safeguarding me from unregulated and illegal activity, including but not limited to financial crime and money laundering.’
I followed this up and the reason is that this travel agent also facilitates travel to Zimbabwe. I investigated this and Australia does have ‘Australian Autonomous Sanctions on Zimbabwe.’ This covers government officials. Whilst on the DFAT website it was curious that DFAT runs a program ‘Australia Awards Scholarships in Africa.’
Eligible Countries include … Zimbabwe.
It goes on … priority areas of study include Climate change, Gender, disability and social inclusion.
Where are you staying in Cape Town?
Upper Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town.
That’s your first problem right there! 😛
?
That’s a comment I usually get from Capetonians about having emigrated to Australia!
Capetown was far more of a shithole in December just past than it was on my last visit there during Princess Diana’s death. (We took Earl Spencer to the funeral on our BA flight to the UK then.) We stayed in pleasant tourist accomodation up near the big famous park, which is now full of itinerants. Wouldn’t stay anywhere but a major hotel with tight security these days. The economy is cactus and crime is everywhere.
Gosh that’s about 28 years ago, that is a long time. Mandela only spent 27 years in prison.Things would be vastly different, I’m sure quite a difference. We were last in Cape Town in 2017 but we’re quite comfortable with the disorder as we travel to Johannesburg regularly.
I’m trying to think what the big famous park is … Kirstenbosch perhaps?
Furthermore, it’s surprising to see how quickly perspectives shift. In the past, Australia took a strong moral stance against apartheid in South Africa, yet now it seems content to dismiss the country in harsh terms.
At the same time, frustrating those supporting Zimbabwean tourism, the emphasis of my original post, this appears contradictory—especially when opn investigation Australia through their DEFAT program is actively involved in educational programs aimed at shaping future African leaders.
If genuine concern for the region’s progress ever existed, then a fair and constructive approach ought to be taken—one that respects Zimbabwe’s right to economic development and recognises the interconnected history and economic realities of Southern Africa. Instead of punitive untargeted and ambiguious measures that Australia and its AML/CTF reigime hindering tourism, perhaps fostering engagement and responsible partnerships would be more in line with Australian longstanding values…before we all became woke.
Airheads news.
AOC mocked after calling Elon Musk ‘one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met’ (4 Feb)
It’s not rocket science, lady. Meanwhile our local version is taking on nuclear energy:
Lidia Thorpe crashes pro-nuclear press conference fronted by ex Miss America winner Grace Stanke (5 Feb)
I suspect she learned everything she knows about nuclear energy from watching The Simpsons.
LOL.
Some years ago, AOC touted a madcap scheme to raze virtually all buildings in the U.S. and build new eco-friendly buildings.
When a canny reporter asked where the several trillion dollars to carry out the project was coming from AOC replied “Congress”!
Musk was smart enough to get AOC to buy a Tesla.
Senator Lidia Thorpe defends controversial QUT symposium in anti-Semitism rowDuncan EvansNewsWire
Wed, 5 February 2025 9:59AM
Firebrand independent senator Lidia Thorpe has defended a controversial Queensland University of Technology conference that featured a “Dutton’s Jew” cartoon and left a Jewish academic in tears.
Senator Thorpe, appearing at an inquiry into anti-Semitism at Australian universities, said she attended the National Symposium on Unifying Anti-Racist Research and Action, organised by QUT’s Carumba Institute last month, and “everyone was excited”.
“I went to the symposium, it was amazing,” she said.
“Everyone was excited … we were connecting.”
The event is now subject to an internal QUT investigation, launched by vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil, following complaints of allegedly anti-Semitic conduct from speakers and attendees.
Jewish academic Yoni Nazarathy attended the event at the Brisbane Convention Centre and claimed he was subjected to “co-ordinated humiliation” from the other attendees.
On the night before the symposium, a slide titled Dutton’s Jew was presented at a satirical “Greatest Race Debate”.
The slide, from left-wing Jewish Council of Australia executive director Sarah Schwartz, suggests conservative-minded Jews who support Opposition Leader Peter Dutton hate “Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims” and think of “anti-Semitism as the only form of racism”.
Remember when progressives insisted that institutions shouldn’t investigate themselves?
Lidia, if I remember correctly Nazi Youth were also excited at their symposia also known as rallies.
Politically, Thorpe’s relevance will only last until the writs are issued. Then it’s all over.
The only loons to vote for her would be Greens but no Green is going to direct their preference away from Greens so she might get a few disaffected ones and a few Socialist Alliances ones but that’s about it.
Given her carry on of late, I’m also not sure we’ll be seeing much of Thorpe in the land of the living (not a threat, but she’s got some serious mental and/or substance issues going on).
She’s there till 2028.
Oh dang!!! You’re right ugh…
Sorry.
GAZAMAGA
Trump give him proper strong one.
MGGA ?
Ask the wife, I ‘ve had the bonner from hell for the last 2 weeks
Poor Nevile, hell wasnt bad enough he has to put up with Zippster and his wife as well.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gi_A-hGWYAA4l7D?format=png&name=small
I really hope you meant ‘boner’.
Agreed – not often we would all prefer Zippster stuck to the topic of his boner.
Don’t mind seeing Trump paint the world in his MAGA colours but I’d prefer never to see a John Everett Millais effort ever again.
Just a hint.
Just watched the latest from Juan Browne on the Blackhawk prang.
Link here:-
https://youtu.be/n9mAUks0krI?si=9sW8iXhsORwIbdL7
Not a lot of new information but he hones in on something I raised the other day. That is, that the response by the Blackhawk to both the traffic advisories from ATC was waaay to quick.
He describes the return call of “traffic in sight, request visual separation” as almost automatic and then delivers a beautiful descriptor … “a normalisation of deviance”.
He also questions the first of these calls which he estimates was made at a range of six miles. If they were wearing Night Vision Goggles (NVG) he questions if they could reliably positively identify a target at six miles (Juan is a fairly measured guy, so I think this is his understated way of saying “I call bullshit”).
He also addresses other issues, as follows:-
Airspace violation. Now confirmed that the helo was at 325′ (+/- 25′). Lane ceiling is 200′, so it was at least 100′ high.
Split frequencies/tower manning. Normally there is one person handling VHF comms (civilian) and one handling UHF (military). At the time of the accident there was one controller handling both. Prima facie this sounds bad – and maybe it is in indirect sense – but I can’t see anything in the ATC actions and directions which caused the prang. The indirect impacts might have been, for example, workload causing the controllers to get behind the curve, resulting in the CRJ being re-routed onto Rwy 33 over the helo track.
Aural traffic warning to CRJ crew. The CRJ got an automated TCAS aural traffic warning 18 seconds prior to the collision. Below 1000′ TCAS will not give a recommended resolution, and we were told won’t give a warning below 500′. I think we can clarify that as “can’t be relied upon to give warnings below 500 feet”.
I estimate that the CRJ was between 400-450 feet when it got the warning.
So why didn’t the CRJ do something, I hear you ask?
Well, firstly, they were in a left turn onto final approach and even the guy in the right hand seat would probably have had to unbuckle his harness and half stand to see the helo approaching from the right and below. (The aural warning won’t tell you where or what – it simply calls “Traffic! Traffic!”.
Secondly, there is the matter of TCAS range parameters. There isn’t any published data for TCAS ranges below 1000′ that I could find, but the FAA guidance notes on TCAS for 1000′ to 2350′ gives an altitude limit of 300′.
So this means that the CRJ at 450′ could get a TCAS traffic warning for helos legitimately at their 200′ ceiling.
Browne says the helo lane has to go.
I agree.
@TheRightMelissa
Africans are making videos in support of Trump’s dismantling of USAID. They are saying the money never reaches regular people.
@MikeBenzCyber
By going after USAID the very first week, the White House has done what they say to do in prison: find the biggest, baddest meanest guy on your cell block, and sock him square in the jaw on Day 1.
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The CIA is now offering a FULL buyout option to every employee.
In other words pay everyone to leave before they are summarily sacked by the new boss.
@shellenberger
This group attacking @elonmusk claims to be independent but it’s not. USAID funds it & requires approval of its senior hires. @OCCRP admits it contributed to “regime change” in 5-6 nations, proof that USAID turned foreign counter-insurgency tactics against the American people.
@MikeBenzCyber
DOGE went from being ‘so powerless it’s a joke’ to so powerful they’re calling for street riots to stop it
Ruh, roh! The Carnie Folk are getting restless!
@jenniferzeng97
You must spread this like mad.
First-ever explosive admission from #ShaoChao (?? ) #WIV (#WuhanInstituteofVirology) researcher, vice director of #Wuhan #P4Lab: I Was Given 4 Strains of #Coronavirus to Select the Most Infectious one in Feb 2019. They were artificial, engineered in the lab, and #bioweapons …
This is an overview and introduction of the exclusive interview I did. The links to the transcript and video of the full interview are in the comment area below.
Suddenly, all bets seem to be off and everyone is spilling their guts on the origin of Covid.
While this admission by a senior executive of the Wuhan lab is revealing, similar evidence has already been revealed in Jim Haslan’s definitive book, “Covid -19 Origin. Mystery solved” which has just been published.
Clearly, the reason why the facts are being leaked (like the virus!) is the evidence that the US company Eco Alliance financed the virus gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab is irrefutable. Many, many operatives in the US Dept of Defence and throughout the Biden administration, all knew about the relationships and the implications. It is one of the reasons why Fauci and a number of other senior officials were granted immunity from prosecution after Trump was elected.
This is sickening. They’re poisoning our food.
@robinmonotti
If you see a product warning for “shellfish allergens” in a non shellfish food in the EU: it’s ZE BUGS!
quite …. shellfish and insect outer cladding contains chitin, a known allergen – we were warned about it 20 years ago in Iraq, when they rolled out chitin imprgnated trauma dressings.
Well, it saves on cockroach control in the kitchen.
@robinmonotti
NATURE JOURNAL: “Chitin induces accumulation in tissue of innate immune cells associated with allergy”
“Occupations predicted to have high environmental chitin levels, such as shellfish processors [OR EATING INSECTS], are marked by high incidence of asthma, suggesting that this pathway may play a role in human allergic disease “
Just an IT administrator for a local middle school in North Salt Lake Utah.
Bloodthirsty Redditor calls for assassination of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Patriot Front in series of deranged posts
I bet he has pronouns. I bet he doesn’t have a girl-friend. I bet he voted demorat. I hope he goes to jail and get’s taken care of by the black inmates.
Gee, really? Who’da thunk it?
Sounds very similar to the Aboriginal industry here
Africa is the definitive black hole (ptp) for western taxpayers’ money. Goodness knows how many trillions of dollars have ended up in the pockets of various genocidal despots and tyrannical lunatics since 1945.
Incalculable, you’d think.
# bill for Zimbabwe…
The US embassy there was so proud they made this for their homepage.
I think the entire Zimbabwean budget is $5-$6 billion.
I mean, it’s a big number in anyone’s language, but that is yuuuge in relative terms.
Stephen Miller Suggests USAID ‘Funnelled Money to Organizations that Traffic Children’
This is another big one in the fight against waste.
Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration
Five female soldiers freed from Hamxs captivity in a hostage deal have requested to return to military service, N12 News reports. The IDF says it’s too soon to decide
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1886881506192449845#m
Michael Smith News. Gutsy ladies!
Looking for a bit of payback. You go girls.
I think if the media called it by it’s proper name, US Agency for International Development and not USAID which makes the punters think it’s an aid organisation, which it aint, the penny might drop with a few people.
It’s a front, plain and simple.
What rang my alarm bell was learning USAID was created by President John. F Kennedy in an executive order in 1961. So it’s comical for lefties to squeal that President Trump has no right to shut it down.
And it just confirms the adage that any organisation that isn’t explicitly lefty will eventually be infiltrated and subverted by lefties.
As long as the money that’s appropriated during the current budget is spent, there’s nothing wrong.
The next thing Trump & co needs to do is get rid of the Impoundment Act but that is unlikely.
Or continuing resolution if there’s a budget impasse.
“Vaccine manufacturers often operate on very slim profit margins.
Keep in mind, Elizabeth Warren wanted the DOJ to pursue corner stores for “price gouging” on food.
Big pharma margins, need to be protected.
Your local bodega’s margins, need to be scorched.
They may operate on very slim profits but somehow they seem to have a lot of money to spread around. Sen. Warren amusingly being one of the largest recipients in Congress.
Warren has received more than $1.2 million from Big Pharma.
“Vaccine manufacturers often operate on very slim profit margins.
So removing liability protection could make their products more expensive or even unavailable?
Oh noes!!
Volume sales make it good, and making it compulsory for every poor bastard to take the jab had to be very profitable.
H B Bear
February 5, 2025 11:44 am
Reply to Helen
And the sand traps!
Sheesh.
With all the tunnels it would be more like mini-golf
What a foul old phony the Warren slag is.
Kamala donors paid Obama 100k “for travel expenses”.
Zero shame.
FMD, what a grift.
Not a patch on USAID but up there.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/harris-campaign-paid-100k-to-obama-for-travel-and-58k-to-rapper-cardi-b-who-claimed-she-didnt-get-a-dollar-from-campaign/
Correctomundo. Antony Green’s analysis of the new and old boundaries and subsequent margin for labore is instructive – the Balmain peninsula (the birthplace of the labore pardee and now greenfilth central in Sydneystan) has been moved holus bolus into blabbersack’s electorate, while Grayndler has gained some “traditional” working and non-working class suburbs to its west and south-west.
Which is good news for the greenfilth and albansleazy, not so good news for blabbersack.
Albo and Plibbers probably the last Liars to hold either seat for the foreseeable future.
What did the Lutherans do to get the spotlight on them and their people trafficking business.
Multiple churches have received in excess of a bill USD for “migration services”.
That he/she chirpy pastor in DC had pocketed $US50mill alone from the tax payer.
Drag them all the to curb, not just the Lutherans.
Trump feeding the chooks.
Simply a master class.
Whatever will he do tomorrow.
And using his magic laser pointer to get them to chase after it and run up walls. The Panama and Gaza things are driving them nuts! Meanwhile he’s doing serious stuff while they’re distracted.
I think 5,000 deserving FBI guys are about to get pink slips, plus another 1,100 from the EPA. That’s a good start.
I was a young kid in that era of Queensland but had a feel of Sir Joe about it.
LOL.
Original trilogy, Rogue One…daylight.
There. I’ve said it.
I haven’t seen it or many of the others.
Grandchildren. You get to watch it all. And then do the Lego.
I prefer Footrot Flats and Roger Rabbit. 😀
Chuck Schumer is wailing about USAID.
He says what is Trump going to get rid of next: “the IRS?”
I think the vast majority of Americans would applaud him if he did that!
Chucky, Chucky, Chucky.
Give him ideas!
Now that you mention it!!!! kill the IRS
Airheads news.
AOC mocked after calling Elon Musk ‘one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met’ (4 Feb)
She’s mad at Elon because he won’t date her.
hahahahahaha!!! good one.
The Lattouf case exposing some high level ALPBC sausage making. Best to look away. Always a few LOLs when the summer B Team kidz take over the buttons.
Trump said everyone thought this was a great idea.
Chuckle.
He didn’t mean literally everyone.
He meant everyone he discussed it with.
I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t think he can pull it off because of Arab opposition.
Which leaves the question I raised earlier – how can the Gazans be de-Hamasified? Because if they aren’t, we’re going to be back at square one in a decade or so.
He didn’t discuss this with Graham? Graham’s been an ardent supporter of events in Gaza so far, and of an attack on Iran. If you have him umming and ahhing here it’s indicative of substantial reluctance to put US troops in Gaza, etc.
Obviously not!
😀
He opposed the J6 pardons.
Ignore him, he’s a deep stater.
I glanced at your comment and thought you had written deep taker.
Chris Kenny calling it “American expansionism”. Tee hee.
Chooks indeed.
Yep, I’ve got no idea what Trump is up to here but sending the troops into Gaza isn’t gonna happen. A huge distraction squirrel which too many people are taking seriously. Kenny really should know better. It doesn’t pass the pub test Chris.
Lindsay is a very sweet gay guy.
Confirmed bachelor is the euphemism you’re looking for.
I can hear the swampies now, using their favourite catch-cry … “Dangerous!”
“Losing all that experience! Exposes Americans to danger, danger, danger. It’s … dangerous!”
On the face of it, that might contain a grain of truth, but there are a few things which knock that on the head:-
1. Not all will take up the buyout. It is more likely to be older staff nearing retirement, so their “vast experience” will be soon lost anyway. Others who might not find life comfortable between two microscope slides might try to protect their pension to avoid being fired for cause.
2. If there is one thing these agencies love, it is keeping meticulous records. Which they have to do to operate effectively and ensure continuity.
All on compuda.
It might be a good thing to have a team of hot-shot data analysts (like Elon might have) to run the ruler over the databases. Like all things in life, a second set of eyes often turns up interesting stuff.
What if they have hidden stuff or destroyed records?
Really, really hard to do in that environment. And guess what? If they have hidden stuff, it will remain hid under the current bureaucratic regime, so you are no worse off.
It would be simplistic to think that all CIA employees are Dimocrat flunkies. I am sure there will be some who have been keeping their heads down and quietly seething at what has been going on. And it is high stakes. Anyone who leaks anything of shenanigans within the CIA faces not only the loss of their job, but also serious jail time for “security breaches”.
Now we have a new Secretary with, how do I put this … a different perspective … there is an avenue for these people to speak up, with zero risk of retribution.
IMHO the CiA has less GOP/DNC splits, it’s more an establishment organisation and the US must win no matter what the cost type mentality.
Which is very different to the DOJ/FBI which is 100% captured by the Stasi mentality.
I think the CIA/NSA community is quietly very happy with Trump aiming both barrels at the DOJ/FBI.
How totally rooted is the Victorian government, and boy, are they ravenous for money.
In November 2024, I paid a rental bill—land tax so outrageous I refer to it as rent.
I just received the 2025 “rental” bill, payable in May 2025. They’re so desperate for cash, they demand the ‘rent’ just six months after the 2024 bill.
The mafia were more polite when demanding the vig.
There will be a heavy price to pay for remaining in Victoriastan over the next 10 years. Is it worth it?
@EndWokeness
Trump: If it is legal, we will be sending our worst criminaIs to the rough prisons in El Salvador
From the comments:
Quelle surprise
Check it out: Longstanding ties between George Soros and USAID
I think it was Benz. About 4 hours ago there was a tweet saying a very serious government payment scandal is being made public in 48 hours time.
There are so many scandals made public since 20 January, this must be big if it gets its own announcement.
A bit of rain in Qld- it’s a wet week. Sunny days – it’s climate change
Daniel Penny lands job at powerhouse venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz less than 2 months after acquittal in Jordan Neely’s death: ‘Acted with courage’
That is wonderful. He deserves it.
Mar-a-Gaza
It’s a good offer/plan/deal from Trump, an offer/plan//deal that I suspect is aimed not at the Nazi Pallies but rather at Saudi, Egypt and the gulf states. Saudi Arabia in particular is fed up with Nazi Pallie intransigence.
But the Nazi Pallies will say NO of course, just like they’ve said NO to every other offer going back nearly 80 years. The bitter and very unpalatable truth is that the ‘Palestinians’ (or as they should be more accurately called…..Levant Arabs) are simply not interested in creating and building up a functional Palestinian state with borders, the rule of law and so on. No, no, no, they’re far too interested in hating Jews and wishing, hoping and planning for the destruction of the one Jewish country on the planet. Their choice is very clear…….they are imbued with hysterical Jew hatred, they prefer to live in squalor on a tract of land governed and dominated by a bunch of crazed Islamic Ivan Milats, a land riddled with tunnels designed to hide weapons and Jewish hostages (who they can rape at liberty) and where nothing functions. Gaza is an insane cesspit of squalor, filth and Islamism. That’s their preference. Go ask any Levant Arab living in Gaza or Ramallah or Jenin and they will say that the Jewish state must and will be destroyed and then they will reclaim their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, West Jerusalem etc, they will take back every inch of land ‘stolen’ by Zionists’ in 1948.
The bitter truth is, of course, that even those mythical sob stories of how their great-grandfather’s beautiful orange grove was stolen by mean German or Polish Zionists is more often than not a lie, a fabrication…..most fairy-tales contain more truth in them than the whole ‘Nakba’ bulldust.
Golda Meir once said that…..
‘We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”
It still rings true, and her statement will ring true until the day comes when those Levant Arabs who now call themselves ‘Palestinians’ decide that Israel has a right to exist, that’s Israel existence is not negotiable and the Palestinians cease murdering, raping and kidnapping Jews.
But sadly, as we’ve seen since October 7, these Levant Arabs and their hideous cause has been emboldened by leftist scum across the West.
The Nazis have just lost a war, one they started – they’re not in a position to say ‘no’.
The Arab states, let alone the Palestinians themselves, will notagree.
Then Bad Orange Man can then say “I offered and got knocked back. The USA is now under absolutely no obligation to help, and we won’t”.
Cassie, over on Michael Smith’s blog, some idiot called “Mungrel truth” is citing some guy called Max Blumenthal (who I’ve never heard of) as to how evil Israel is towards the poor old Gazans:
Correct. – Michael Smith News
Any thoughts?
I suspect it might be ‘Numbers’.
Possibly, although Numbers (under his old service number) was spouting his usual anti-U.S., anti-Israel, pro-Palestine/Muesli, pro-Labor diatribes up until December, when I suspect Michael Smith banned him again, as he had previously.
Of course, I wouldn’t put it past Bob Whitaker to have more than one account.
Max Blumenthal is one of those ‘speaking as a Jew’ types.
Ignore.
He’s a full-on lefty.
All good fun if you like fantasy.
In other words, a Jewish Quisling.
I heard some guy on the ALPBC last night when I was flicking channels say something about when he lived in Israel 60 years ago that Israelis were talking of genocide of the pali’s. Coming from the ALPBC I considered it horsepoo so didn’t pay attention.
Self Awareness of a retarded mollusk.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1887008708963565880/photo/1
Chuck forgets, if he was ever aware, that Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Trump is the elected President, he is, as is his right, taking control of the Executive Branch.
USAID conduit for regime change: Trump
They are also involved in the foster care industry in Australia.
Involved in a good way, Bespoke?
The big question: how long before Trumpitus affects some Australian pollies. Answer: probably never. Why not. Palmer is looking for people to run under his banner. He just doesn’t get it: Australians are not like yanks: Australians, politically, especially the left, are sheep. Even 3 main parties is a stretch for most of them. If he was politically savvy, he would stick his ego back in his arse and buy a major media outlet, maybe nein, and then back the LNP; after all turdball almost bought them out for a pittance. As for Geena, she needs to deal with her brats and then do the same.
Palmer hates the LNP because Campbell Newman would not agree to special legislation for his mine and train line to avoid the usual approval processes.
It is the entire reason for his political party. To take votes from the LNP.
Yep; he has a gigantic ego. People say Trump has too; but Trump’s ego is entirely directed outwards. Palmer has his ego up his arse. I saw Geena at Trump’s inauguration. With twiggy in the green sewer and fraternising with the Chunks Geena is our only hope.
Short but happy lives.
Donald Trump’s ‘DEI Firestorm’ | Victor Davis Hanson
Husband just watching an old movie recounting the story of the women who delivered Spitfires in the last war. It ended with the memories of a 100 year old lady who piloted a Spitfire. All this history is often lost in today’s world. Good that it was captured in this movie.
Ridley Scott is doing a new Battle of Britain movie.
I couldn’t think of anyone better for that.
New British World War II movie announced by Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott (31 Oct)
Starmer will be horrified at any expression of British historical glory.
Around 40 years ago my widowed grandma, who never learned to drive and thus didn’t own a car, had a garage full of parts for a Spitfire.
She’d never learned to fly either.
Long story…:D
I think (without researching) that there is one “Emil” flying – but either way, much much CGI a given.
Will Russell Crowe be in it?
I read one account of a lady pilot, delivering a Spitfire, who opted to make a forced landing, rather then “bailing out” of a Spitfire which was about to crash. She was flying in her uniform skirt, the parachute harness was between her legs, and she was concerned that, if she did bail out, her knickers would be on show….
Sounds like either an urban myth or self deprecating humour from the pilot concerned.
Here’s something interesting on CaravanGate.
Oh dear. An untrustworthy PM leaking like a sieve. Shades of the Ruddbot.
In an instance of he said/she said, I would not accept the word of Albosleazy.
Every. Single. Time.
Speaking of screeching Dimocrats.
This USAID thing.
The swamp doesn’t like Elon … or anyone really … hoisting the skirts at USAID.
Why is that?
It all revolves around, firstly, how the USAID budget was framed and, secondly, who controlled the disbursement of that budget.
Scenario 1 : Their budget was specifically allocated line-by-line by Congress, and they spent it precisely as assigned. Nothing to see. Move on.
Scenario 2 : They were assigned a line-by-line budget, but misdirected the funds. Now that might be a reason why they would put a heavy chair under the door handle when Elon came a-calling.
Scenario 3 : They were assigned a very vague budget by Congress which was spent at the sole discretion of USAID bureaucrats. And these people claim to be concerned about Musk not being elected but having a say in government. Who voted in USAID directors?
Scenario 4 : A very vague, high-level budget was framed by Congress and it was spent under the direction of politicians via back-channels. Again … Uh-oh.
In relation to anything apart from Scenario 1, I can remember how outrageously outraged Dimocrats were over the Iran-Contra thingy, with all that subterfuge of secretly misdirecting funds without Congressional approval
Also there has been a lot of noise about “security” and “your (US citizens) details being in the hands of Elon Musk”.
Now some may have accidentally (or deliberately) conflated the DOGE visit to Treasury with the friendly drop-in to USAID.
But some have quite deliberately pushed this “privacy and security” line specifically in relation to USAID.
Well, riddle me this.
What possible reason would there be for the US Agency for International Development to have details of US citizens (apart from those employed by, or with direct relationships with USAID)?
I know its time consuming but lets keep the fire in the belly bubbling – don’t use USAID at all, keep reminding readers that it doesn’t distribute aid; its the The United States Agency for International Development.
Just got a call from a Lib dude promoting Katie Allen for my electorate of Chisholm in Victoria, which has stretched towards Malvern with the redistribution.
I think he was a newbie with the cold calling and perhaps dumbfounded that I answered and hung on for a short chat.
My two concerns that he noted was being left in the dust by a Trump-empowered US and lack of support for the Jewish community. Had he asked for one more I’d likely have voiced a similar concern about Javier Millei in Argentina as we become the new Argentina.
They are certainly trying hard to win the seat from Labor (won in it’s older Waverley-Vermont guise by Carina Garland) and likely need to stave off an anticipated Teal challenge with the addition of more-salubrious suburbs. I’ve already had at least two pamphlets in the letterbox so far.
I guess Garland shall be recontesting. She seems to like the trough if the evolution of her looks over the current term are anything to go by. Or perhaps the extra Chins are a passing nod to the fact she defeated Gladys Liu last time around.
Katie Allen has an amazingcv.She wouldbebetter off returning to medicine rather than trying to be a wet Lib
I’ve done cold calling at election time, it’s always unsettling when somebody wants to talk.
Netanyahu: Trump the ‘greatest friend’ Israel has ‘ever had’ in the White House
Apologies, B John. It wasn’t Benz. It was Alex Jones, so it doesn’t amount to much.
MASSIVE BREAKING DOGE INVESTIGATION NEWS: Elon Musk Auditors Are Set To Release “The Big One” In The Next 48 Hours, Says Top NGO Fraud Investigator ?
I have to say, I’m enjoying all the jowl wobbling on Sky re Gaz-a-Lago.
Hook, line and sinker.
Meanwhile, watch the magician’s hands.
It’s nice to see a POTUS taking some action whether you like or not.
Better than not seeing a POTUS for a few weeks on end (every month).
ChatGPT sums it up nicely?
Note how ChatGPT says Trump took 26% on “personal trips” but Biden was just “away from the White House.”
Also note how ChatGPT leaves out Obama’s 40% of time in the Whitehouse while Joe was away.
Greg Sheridan has smacked my gob. He’s said something sensible about Gaza and echoes my own thoughts when I heard Trump’s speech.
It’s a possible future for Gaza that means peace and wealth.
That’s the deal.
The Paywallian’s Never Trumpers, led by “editor at large” Paul Kelly, are writing the paper’s Wednesday headlines:
You idiots. Trump’s proposal is basically to redevelop Gaza as a luxury coastal strip on the Mediterranean minus the local Arabs (a.k.a “Palestinians”), for whom it has proved source of misery under the thumb of terrorist warlords.
PS: same with Sky News’s Never Trumper Chris Uhlmann, who tells Peta Credlin Trump is a warmonger trying to buy into the Middle East’s Jews versus Arabs endless war.
PPS: I spoke too soon. For reasons I cannot fathom, Peta Credlin still offers a weekly soapbox to the Paywallian’s NeverTrump buffoon Greg Sheridan, who, as usual. is having a bob each way.
Good on Trump, he’s saying out loud what many have said privately. Trump knows Gaza is a monumental shithole and he knows it needs to be bulldozed completely and rebuilt. That’s the only hope for the shithole and its inhabitants but most Levant Arabs are simply not interested in a prosperous future, they prefer to continue their never ending Jew hate.
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light globe?
None, it’s easier to sit in the dark, and blame the Jews.
Return the Gazans to their homeland in Jordan. Rebuild the Gaza Strip and return it to Israel as it is part of her land. Israel has paid enough for it.
I’ll defer to Sir Humphrey on this one …
“Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.”
Asha Lilly Glaskin could face jail for glassing ‘love rival’ Taiya Sampson in face at The Landing, AlkimosEmily MoultonThe West Australian
Wed, 5 February 2025 3:21PM
A former childcare worker who glassed a love rival at an Alkimos bar during a heated argument could end up behind bars as a court was told the argument between the pair erupted over a boy.
That is what Joondalup Magistrates Court was told at the latest appearance of Asha Glaskin who unlawfully wounded Taiya Sampson at The Landing in August last year.
The 20-year-old was due to be sentenced on Wednesday, but her matter was adjourned to allow Magistrate Raelene Johnston to review CCTV of the incident, which was also played to the court.
During the hearing, the court was told Glaskin was sitting at an outdoor table with her friends when an argument erupted between her and Ms Sampson.
A police prosecutor told the court Glaskin threw the contents of her wine glass over Ms Sampson, prompting her to stand up with the argument continuing.
She said a bystander then tried to intervene but Glaskin rached past her and began pointing in Ms Sampson’s face.
The pair continue to argue then Ms Sampson pushed the bystander away before striking Glaskin who then retaliated by striking Ms Sampson in the face with her wine glass before the bystander intervenes again.
The court was told Ms Sampson needed plastic surgery to her face after sustaining a 5cm cut.
But they are the gentler, more caring, compassionate sex….
Meow!
During my time as a bouncer at a pub, the sheilas were worse than the blokes.
No comment, ZK2A.
Playing 7 shades of separation..
Would it surprise you to find a direct link between USAID, the Rockefeller foundation and getups startup??
Ben Brandzel is the link.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/ben-brandzel/3223388
Ben BrandzelInternational strategist on political mobilisation using new media technologies
Former advocacy director of MoveOn, which pioneered grassroots e-campaigning in America
Former adviser to the Howard Dean and John Edwards presidential campaigns in the US
Ben Branzel is in Australia this week to advise GetUp! on its strategies.
…
Which is also tied into this mob
https://www.the-open.net/what-makes-open-unique
Which appears to run with no funding at all – cue x files theme…
https://www.huffpost.com/author/ben-brandzel
Big pharma owning politicians
They Want THIS Video DELETED NOW! | Neil Oliver
Beachside Condo anyone?
-Love the smell of fresh air?
-Love Lego?
-Panoramic views?
-Invisitech roofing (almost looks like its not there!!!!);
-Customisable “walls;”
-Spacious doors!
Don’t forget the capacious labyrinthine basement!
Oh dear,
Sky is doing a puff piece on AUKUS.
I would have thought a 250bill plus deal could have done their own marketing.
What would have been a better use of taxpayer funds would to have participated in the latest Anduril cap raise.
A couple hundred mill would have bought a nice slice.
It’s far better to be the lord of the manor than be the serf working the fields.
Bern, I’ll hold off judgement until I see the Sky News doco later this month. I don’t see it as an advert for AUKUS. Sky investigative reporter Jonathan Lee is competent and doesn’t have an ideological axe to grind.
I look forward to seeing it.
So they’ve delivered a couple of Virginia Class subs, yes?
Ok, no names no pack drill, but any media person who says this Gaza redevelopment thing has come out of nowhere hasn’t been paying attention. Trump has been dropping clues about it for at least a week.
Making a lasting tourist haven (like Lebanon used to be) is a big ask, but getting rid of the Gazans would be a good start. Lebanon’s downfall I’ll leave to others more clued up than me to explain, but civil strife dates back a fair way, and sectarianism was just the start.
Lebanon’s downfall was the arrival of Palestinians from Gaza and Westbank during the 70s and 80s. Trump might as well put the rest of them there and move out the few remaining Christians.
Actually feasible.
The IDF right now controls everything south of the Litani River.
So move the Gazans to that chunk of territory. Then the IDF withdraws and the Gazans are Lebanon’s problem.
Bit hard on the Christians but all that territory was Hezbie anyway. They can look after them.
That’s a bit unfair.
If they are anyone’s responsibility it’s the Egyptians.
The Egyptians currently have a very large army on the Gaza/Israel border. Technically it is in breach of the treaty, but you can’t really blame them.
Move the Christians to Gaza?
I thought the Palestinians that the Jordanian Army booted out in the early 1970’s, who bolted to Lebanon, played their share in Lebanon’s downfall?
So much winning!
But the question needs to be asked – how come the media didn’t discover all this criminality?
(That’s a rhetorical question,)
Any clues on the “Swedish” shooter’s ID?
The humble brag that let slip that the education complex provided swedish language lessons to adults might be a “tell”…
Even the cute owl journo Rebecca Mistereggen doesn’t know and says we should know. She also said the downgrading of life in Scandinavia dates back to “immigration and open borders”.
We knew that.
Nice rack, strange face.
By not saying anything about identity you gotta say he’s a muzzie or african, or both. Soon as they said definitely not terrorism I thought yes it is. Southport anyone.
Swedish journalist said tonight that all information is being kept within the “authorities” wall of secrecy.
Some rumours floating around it was a swede shooting up a centre for illegal immigrants.
One of the early stories reported it was at a language centre for recent immigrants and quoted a witness with a middle eastern name.
Meme
Sharri telling us Luigi is introducing mandatory minimum sentences for “anti semitism”.
Let me see the fine print.
What federal criminal law is he talking about? And even if they pass federal laws, is there a wink-nudge that feral ragheads will be charged under softer state laws.
How will the “hate crime” be defined?
Will it contain that reflexive ALP pairing “and also ‘Slamophobia”.
Exactly.
Pardon my French, but Albanese is a merde.
Another starring role at the Hay Truck stop.
You mean piece of shit. Come on, speak plainly, you’re among friends.
Any legislation IMO will be riddled with holes that give the wigged ones an out.
Unless you are caucasian of course. You are doomed…
@johnkonrad
I opened my NYTimes app today. They’re trying, but they can’t keep up. News that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.
THIS IS CRUCIAL
The entire liberal deep state command and control system is broken. Let me explain
Some here have been interested in my travelogues from South America in March/April 2004 (Amazon cruise, Brazil and Argentina; and also recently from Dec 2015/January 2025 for a cruise from Capetown to Dubai, Christmas in England, Hogmanay in Scotland and home via the Maharajah lands of India.
I have published them for easy access on a writing site, each trip has items labelled 1-4 in chronological order. Thus read from 1 to 4. Link above is to the URL below. Anyone writing can publish for free on this site, so others with travel and other pieces might be interested to explore joining it.
https://medium.com/@lizzie.beare
Its a bit average Lizzie.
Did you not get my joke?
I thought it was so-so
No. Can’t see any joke.
The site is simply a useful one on which to consolidate anything you write into any easy-access free URL.
Lizzie’s a hornbag though. Are there any decent pics?
Politico, I’m not too bad looking, even these days.
But what has this got to do with my travelogue site?
This commentary is all a mystery to me.
Some of Bowen’s colleagues should point out to him that he’s giving arrogant superciliousness a bad name.
Diggers from Downunder are confronted by the Xenomorphs from Alien in WW1.
A clever short film in my book. Opinions will vary.
—–
No Man’s Land: “Battlefield 1 meets Aliens” An outfit of Imperial soldiers fighting brutal trench warfare in a desolate WW1 Battlefield. Find themselves up against an enemy not from this world.
No Man’s Land – Alien Fan Film (2024)
Wazz up. Trump calls Haiti a shithole and all the lefties go bonkers.
Then says he will turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East and all the lefties go bonkers. You gotta luv it.
Trump/Musk Attack CIA Fronts USAID & NED: With Mike Benz
If you want a case study in how well politicians understand Big Pharma, take a look at the story of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos
The board included former Secretary of State George Schultz. There were a number of other luminaries on the board but George is special because his own grandson was working for Theranos and told grandpa that the whole show was a scam.
George’s response?
Threw the grandson out of the house and didn’t speak to him until he was on his deathbed and four years after the whole shit-show collapsed in a steaming pile.
And this wasn’t complex drug therapies.
It was a “better, faster, cheaper” blood pathology testing business.
Upthread, and apropos of wet lettuce leaves:
Apparently and allegedly, doing Heil Hitler salutes and displaying swastikas (and Hezbollah flags) is already an offence under Commonwealth legislation. Dunno what the sentences are.
However, it is entirely likely that – as suggested – dickheads painting those symbols on synagogues and childcare centres will be feather-dusted with state-based ‘criminal damage’ offences, if that.
Agreed with caveats.
Any dusky type from Banktown will recieve said dusting with lettuce leaf.
Whitey even with meth addiction will be mercilessly be dealt with and smeared with garage nasti connections however tenuous.
Pong, Sleazey and the whole plod aparatus has done somersaults to link this to right wing agitators including shadowy overseas groups while avoiding the 10 tonne Bankstown gorilla in the room leaves me to be convinced otherwise.
FMD. Based on JC’s land tax problems just did a comparison of Victoriastan and WA – $750k property, absentee landlord, metro area
Victoriastan $33,150
WA $1,755
No wonder investors are selling up in Danistan.
Andrews and now Allan are trying to tax Victoria’s way out of enormous debt.
Which the former must take most of the blame for.
Unbelievable.
$750 k is not a lavish suburban house.
The owner would have to more than double the rent just to cover the Labor housing supertax.
Next-
Rent controls;
Death duties;
Much bigger tax on Super.
No wonder the Andrews/Allen jackelpack is pointing at the Grampians and shouting” Look, Nazis”
what tax on super are they pushing?
Tax on your super, same as if it was a salary, but 15% was what I read.
Super has always been taxed at 15% going in. 15% on earnings. Tax free coming out. More or less. Currently the argument is a higher rate over $3m including unrealised gains.
Did anyone have “Zero State Solution for the Middle East” on their 2025 bingo card?
The mad bastard.
Surely he is guilty of a simplistic materialist analysis of the Gazans, as though improving building quality and employment opportunities will cause the Gazans to abandon their terrorist incubating ways. Trump would be building expensive new targets for the IDF to inevitably bomb. You can take the Gazan out of Palestine but you can’t take Palestine out of the Gazan.
Reaching for a positive on this one.
On the plus side, during reconstruction a whole generation of Gazans would attend Egyptian and Jordanian schools where the curriculum does not include quite so many splodey instructions. It might help break the cycle.
Not that Egypt and Jordan want a bar of this crazy idea.
What is it with Victorians?
Why hasn’t there been mass noncompliance with this new Pay The Rent gouge?
The Greens are very quiet about this.
Their view is landlords should provide housing for free. In fact ideally government owns and controls rental properties.
Driving across Melbourne this morning ( thanks again for cancelling East West link Dan) there was a bunch of bicyclists near Hoddle St on a pedestrian overpass with a bedsheet banner hanging over side demanding
No oil no gas no coal no logging.
Not a single honk from motorists for these clowns.
What do these morons think the country, industry and business is going to run on?
Renewables (LOL) and unicorn farts?
No oil no gas no coal no logging.
EQUALS NO JOBS
Lambie hit with unfair dismissal case from staff member reprimanded over nail paintingBy Olivia IrelandFebruary 5, 2025 — 8.22pm
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Senator Jacqui Lambie’s office has lost a wrongful dismissal case brought by a member of her staff that started with a series of performance complaints, including that the employee was painting their nails on work time.
Lambie revealed the matter under parliamentary privilege in the Senate on Wednesday night in a speech arguing small businesses were being stymied by red tape and vexatious legal claims.
In her speech, Lambie said the staff member initially worked hard but began turning up late, had performance issues and painted their nails at their desk. “We took them off probation and what do you know, that person begins showing up late for work, 22 times in a matter of weeks,” Lambie said.
After Senate president Sue Lines cautioned Lambie about whether it was proper to discuss an individual staffer in the Senate, Lambie said she had taken legal advice and continued. She said the employee had been warned and her office manager had a meeting with the staff member in which the manager asked the employee about the issues. The employee allegedly responded by saying they had finished their allocated tasks and was doing their nails in “downtime”.
Lambie’s office manager consulted with parliament’s human resources watchdog on how to handle the situation, the senator said, and followed the agency’s advice.
But, Lambie said, “the staff member resigned, sent us all a nice email and then three weeks later put in an unfair dismissal claim.”
“And then we found out that PWSS had handed the case to Sparke Helmore lawyers … I am shocked that the PWSS (Parliamentary Workplace Support Service) is even using this law firm with the reputation behind them – my office’s case is pretty cut and dried because I am a senator – these costs won’t be covered by me.”
A source close to Lambie confirmed that the Commonwealth, which handles workplace matters for members of parliament, had lost the case and paid an unknown sum to the dismissed employee.
“Small businesses are being smothered by red tape – and unfair dismissal laws are one of the worst offenders,” Lambie said. Small businesses in Australia do not have to comply with the same strict unfair dismissal rules as larger employers but do have to comply with a code when they fire employees.
Article on how Israel is replacing health and education services previously provided by UNWRA in East Jerusalem.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/03/the-day-after-unrwa-israels-16-2m-jerusalem-program/
Mel Gibson just came out as an anti-vaxer.
In 4 years time everybody will be saying they saw through the whole vaccine scam all along.
Of course, the true prize is germ theory.
Kate Fantinel Freedom Rally Speech.4 1/2 minutes (YouTube).
A young, pro-firearms (and other issues) woman standing for a senate seat in W.A.
Worth a watch for W.A.ers.
(While I don’t know too much about her, I admire her for standing up for what she believes in).
Would it be worth anyone contacting her to write a guest post for DoverCat? (I don’t do the social media thing, so I’m unable to).
Apologies. I’ve jumped the gun regarding Kate’s political ambitions, however some here might find her advocacy of interest, and I remain impressed by her courage (though I don’t consider myself a libertarian).
I’ve had a drink with her…. good instincts.
Kills 10, wounds many, and kills himself.
Not a terrorist.
Uphappy with recent grade then.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgp43j4l92o
More detail, unemployed man aged 35, with hunting license.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-police-say-erroneous-narratives-are-spreading-online-after-mass-school-2025-02-05/
I’m not big on books.
When does the movie come out?
GreyRanga has been circulating a pirate trailer.
Starring Sophia Loren as Lizzie B?
Or what is Lizzie B as Sophia Loren? Are you with me?
*Or was it….
Then some ten minute reads should suit you well.
Sky should spare their viewers and can Liz Storer as she has lost the plot and gone completely pro-Palestine. Cut her loose, I’ve had enough of her honking.
We are not watching The Late Debate lately. Not enjoying the Storer downfall. I don’t like to see a once-sensible and refreshingly sparky woman brought low by ‘human rights’ influencers about Israel’s war and becoming increasingly raucous. She isn’t reading her audience well either.
Sick of politics by this time of night anyway; we tend to turn over to something on Netflix.
I agree with Cassie, Sharri Markson and others here.
Trump’s Gaza thing is a feint:-
“Don’t make me come over there and sort this out!”
I have collected the suitcases of two little travellers for a forthcoming trip.
I’m resigned to doing a red eye collection if required.
Better than someone being caught in traffic when her last labour was 55 minutes.
Not with twins.
We want everyone to have a safe journey.
Wishing her all the best. Incredibly hard work and she will need all the help she can get.
Hint – don’t let on which one came out first…keep them guessing about who is the “oldest”. 😀
That’s damn fine advice. Keep the birth records hidden.
The last two weeks have been somewhat entertaining.
It’s like the local teenage brats have turned up to the shopping centre to find Mall Cop has been retrenched and Dirty Harry is his replacement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN8VT53Ebs
The IMMORTAL John Fogerty, one time of Credence Clearwater Revival. “Long As I Can See The Light.”
And we were part of it.
@MikeBenzCyber
The censors are now the ones getting demonetized. Oh the irony.
Lurking in there is news that Australia’s own DFAT was funding the Centre for Information Resilience.
JD Vance will attend AI summit in Paris and Munich security conference in first overseas trip as VP
IDF troops mall cops? Looking at US accounts on Twitter that have been very pro-Israel like OSINTDefence view a 100K US troops in Gaza very negatively.
I think your focus is a little myopic.
In my parable the characters are:-
Starring Donald Trump as “Dirty Harry”.
The role of “Mall Cop” is played by Joe Biden.
The supporting “Teenage Brats Ensemble” is the Washington press corpse and the squealing Dimocrats on Capitol Hill.
Oh, I thought this had something to do with Gaza.
@NZFreeSpeech Feb 3
JD Vance is going to Europe?
I hope he’s got his phrase-book ready.
je m’en fiche vraiment, Margaret
Es ist mir wirklich egal, Margaret
Aye dinna much care, Maggie.
What great sport it is watching Elizabeth Warren take the terminal swan dive off the cliff of sanity.
There must be some serious criminality being hidden in Poka’s closet.
Please don’t arrest her. We want to watch her implosion.
If I offered nice Mr Musk a small donation I wonder if he could be prepared to turn his geniuses loose on tracking our money given to the Clinton Crime Foundation by Obama’s Only Fans girl the Rt Hon Slapper.
Seconded – those transactions have crossed my mind a few times and Occams Razor features every time.