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Like him or loath him, but in this he is right. From Croatian TV Channel 4, Vladimir Putin has addressed…
All aboard the hydrogen bus! Hydrogen Buses Off Road Because There Is No Hydrogen (26 Apr) Officials in Aberdeen launched…
Can’t post the video this picture is from, but you should see it, it’s delightful how people react and the…
Not at every suggestion. We had an earlier conversation that they could integrate NK troops in their own formations and…
Blair:
Repeat this to pollies, over and over again.
And to voters in marginal electorates
They need to be told, to know.
Would they even care?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/qartaba-directors-life-of-luxury-property-sprawl-revealed-as-victims-demand-answers/news-story/04af127f4af854c9e3421e52e8619c3f paywalled
Who would have thought
Little Aussie buggerer battler launches his own book prize for paper-thin books devoted to Queering the Kids.
Should be a good short-cut for a ban list against working with children in my opinion. The local library has a transparent decal on the glass sliding doors, all lit up with the colours of the rainbow and promising that “this is a safe space for people of all colours, beliefs, bodies and genders” or somesuch… which is a clue that immediately inside the door is a display of soft queer porn novellas for tweenagers.
Dutton in power needs to provide kudos and funds for tweenage and teenage novellas that provide a counter to this sort of thing.
How about a tale about kids with some friends who are detransitioning?
Maybe.
I’d rather governments stop believing that they can, and should, act as a Ministry Of Culture.
More importantly, parent need to realise that childcare, schools, libraries, sports clubs, church groups, are- and have always been- a potential access point for bad actors, and they should constantly check in with what their kids are doing, hearing, and reading. I fear that in a country like Aus, with high degrees of working parents and long hours, “childcare” is relied upon more than ever, and gets unwise levels of trust by a sort of benign disengagement.
Here in WA the sitting premier has just promised five day week kindergarten. Eeejit. It doesn’t help that the sector employs lots doughy sorts who are otherwise short on work skills, and high on entitlement.
I think I would prefer Dutton went all Musk on anything cultural the government does. It should not be a role for government. Including the HR divisions in government departments. Anything with the word “culture” in its title is immediately shut down.
I like the series about the the kids that had their gear mutilated banded together and hunted pown the people that did it, enabled it and took their parents to the cleaners for letting them, the dropped them in the outback in the middle of summer. A real good read.
Safe for people of all colours and beliefs? Not Jews or Christians, I expect.
Mike O’Connor in the Courier Mail:
I really don’t care Margaret.
Putrid work all round by our so called elites.
It’s amazing how people with supposedly atmospheric intellects cannot make a simple distinction. We need average people from outer suburbs to run our institutions, they seem to have superior comprehension capabilities.
Reference JD Vance quote
Interview with Margaret Brennan, CBS News. Published Breitbart News, 26 Jan 2025.
JD really excels at the around the kitchen table sort of talk.
Someone tell Albo and his cretinous bunch to stop the climate nonsense and reduce energy prices instead of monstering supermarkets.
@elonmusk
Among many other things, @DOGE today canceled a $17M project to provide tax policy advice to Liberia.
Why would anyone think that this is a good use of YOUR tax money?
It wasn’t, but the kickbacks to DemonRats and other leftards made it useful to them.
Tucker Carlson – Biden Wanted to Kill Donald Trump
Maybe Trump can get Canada to buy into AUKUS and also have and operate Nuclear Powered Submarines. After all, Canada already has a Nuclear Industry.
Then it could become AUKUSCAN do.
No thanks.
Apparently with NZ the weak links of 5 eyes.
Just as well France wasn’t included – think about it.
Switzerland Announces EMPHATIC Referendum Result
Sounds like Democracy to me – “We the People…………..”
Unfortunately they also overwhelmingly supported climate rubbish in 2023 and 2024. Hopefully though they might be coming to their senses.
It does make you wonder what would happen if Australians were given the opportunity to vote on whether they supported the Net Zero target or not. My guess is that at least 60% would be against it.
@Inevitablewest
BREAKING: Labour has backed down from ‘Online Safety Act’ after Trump’s team threatened tariffs and loss of secure U.S trade deal, reports claim
Trump is now dictating UK policy
Please do the same to us.
Its on the Cards.
Nice to see that Marc Morano went onto Outsiders.
Watch: Morano on Sky News Aussie TV: Trump has ‘driven a stake through the heart’ of the ‘climate scam’ (10 Feb)
I hope he’s right. Marc is indefatigable in fighting climate fraud.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has removed Kanye West’s X account, as the controversial rapper made one last hate-filled move before his account went dark.
Good.
Looks like he’s been off his meds again. Which fits with his disgusting behaviour at the Grammys.
Daily Telegraph running a vital charcoal chicken story plus this:
“Thorpe hits out at ‘year of betrayal‘;
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe has taken aim at the stalled progress in Australia’s Closing The Gap initiatives.”
Why are they bothering to cover and give oxygen this tedious troublemaker who is as pale as I am?
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe
I think that should read ‘part indigenous senator….’
newspapers use “alleged’ a lot. How about “Alleged Indigenous Senator”?
Or as are most of us just “mixed race”
What’s next…a pledge not to cut the ABC’s budget?
Littleproud is a softcock. Useless.
He can’t be a softcock because he doesn’t have a cock.
He’s got Little to be proud of.
Littleproud. Ineffectual, policy free zone who thinks a good program is shovelling out loot in accountability free terms that would make a Biden blush.
Gulf of America?
“America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then-revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. Columbus thought he found India, which is why we call the indigenous people American Indians.
To say Trump is being arrogant is questionable. The Gulf of America is probably more accurate since this is all of North America.
Calling it the Gulf of the USA or something like that would be arrogant.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/gulf-of-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Looks like the Norwegian bit of the Norwegian Refugee Council wasn’t really Norwegian.
How many Canberra public servants vote Liberal?
I’m guessing fewer than 5%.
In terms of voting intentions, the Australian public service is virtually identical to the Australian news media. It is a radical political party.
Possibly true now, certainly not around 50years ago.
I know a number of Canberra folk and visit there often.
Quite like Canberra, although it is getting a bit shabby under self govt.
Left wing groupthink is so pervasive there – proudly stating the usual Cat type views would definitely be career limiting for many.
Even mentioning admiration for JD Vance leads to your companions looking around in case anyone else noticed, and saying “ Shoosh, this is Canberra, remember.”
Diversity in all but opinion.
As for supporting President Trump –
I am certain that expressing an unhealthy interest in most sexual deviancies would be far better received.
Far better received? I thought it was a prerequisite to entry.
Just look at the MHRs and Senators from canbra.
And the one Labor MP who isn’t woke, David Smith, is facing a Teal challenge. He became a senator by accident when Gallagher lost her seat because of dual nationality, and they had to find a lower-house seat for him to save face. I assume that his crime in Teal eyes is being co-chair of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship. When he was selected for the second position in the Senate ticket after Gallagher (i.e. unwinnable), he went public complaining about the anti-Catholic sectarian snark he received in his own party.
None.
It would be interesting to compare the voting patterns of Canberra based APS and regionally based APS.
a good aspect of of working from home paradigm is the APS has started employing people that do not live in Canberra.
Former Cat has a ripper opening paragraph…
Green hydrogen has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue (Paywallian) by Judith Sloan
“Pining for fields of solar panels and wind turbines”? Snort!
Hah hah, Judith has picked up on the Monty Python Dead Parrot skit.
Indeed. Monty Python, National Lampoon, Mel Brooks, Yes MInister and Utopia have become instruction manuals for many governments these days.
and strangely enough, providing the relevant references often does not get past the moderators.
And Rabz’s dead parrot poem yesterday!
Not one cent charged to the family to get him back. Emotional stuff.
Big bucks to do this.
Respect!
HeavyDSparks:
Using My Blackhawk to Recover an Aircraft & Fallen Pilot No One Else Could Reach
Thanks Steve. Stories of people ‘stepping up’ are always appreciated.
Inspires others to do do the same.
The USA is the only country in North and South America that uses the title America in its name.
Littleproud is a softcock. Useless.
I remember a useless leader by the name of Barnaby Joyce who willingly signed up to Morrison’s catastrophic net zero back back in 2021, all for a little juicy pork barrelling. Joyce and the Nationals should have walked away but they didn’t. That’s what I call ‘softc*ckery’.
So yeah, whilst Littleproud might be a softc*ck, he’s just another one in a long line of of softc*cks from the right.
Car colours.
If you were trying to set up accidents nearly all the current colours, which verge on deliberate camouflage, would be your choice.
I want bright yellow so any bastard who runs into me doesn’t have an excuse.
Yes, my current car the choices were a sort of greyish white, or five shades of grey.
there was a media report many years ago, supposedly based on NZ insurance data, that grey cars have the least number of accidents, or at least insurance claims for accidents.
Funny this was front of mind when I parked at the local leisure centre tonight…side by side were a lime green Suzuki, an orange Subaru and a bright yellow Kia.
Citrus Central.
Someone in a tatty old Vauxhall ran into the back of our brand new yellow Volvo near Marble Arch! All my poor husband could say was ‘I’ve had it only 10 minutes!’
Australian politicians stick their fingers in their ears and cry “Not listening!”:
Your bacon – and everything else – is going to get even more expensive thanks to these idiots.
Keep digging! That hole is not deep enough.
They’re so far in that they are terrified of stopping and think their only choice is going harder and faster in the hope of out running the monster they have created.
Whyalla is discovering the cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels, with its steelworks looking in big trouble. Australia blessed with abundant fossil fuel resources but cursed with hoards of inner-city airheads.
Just over 5% of Australia’s GDP is generated by manufacturing.
That’s the lowest of any OECD country.
We’re sliding into the third world.
Hordes – hoards are hidden away deposits, which would be preferred in this case.
There is a Typo in the the Author’s name.
The “n”, is supposed to be after the “u”, and before the “t”.
The TRUTH ran with ‘Kangaroo rapes nun’ back in the 70s if I recall?
My favourite Truth headline – from the 70s- was “ Kylie Breast Fears”.
“Why I Stuck a Cracker Up My Clacker” NT News.
From The Oz…..
Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, who were freed on Saturday have told their families they were kept chained and gagged, burned with a “white hot” object and hung by their feet, in descriptions that have horrified Israel.
The mother of Eliya Cohen, who remains in captivity, has said her son was held with returning hostages who told her he was has been chained in a tunnel for the entire length of his captivity, gets little food or daylight, and suffers from an untreated bullet wound to the leg sustained during the October 7 2023 massacre.
Israel’s state broadcaster said Mr Sharabi, Mr Levy and Mr Ben Ami had been separately interrogated and tortured by their captors. Kan reported they were burned with a white-hot, unidentified object. At one point, the report said, one of the hostages collapsed, leading his fellow captives to think he had died.
Pure Nazism.
And when I read the above, please forgive me if I then need to distract myself with trivialities and fripperies.
Neutron bomb Gaza. The most disgusting garbage of earth. No loss.
Trump suggested they be moved to Somalia. That is much better.
I’ve been in tears whenever I’ve read about these poor men. Words can’t convey the horror at the cruelty displayed by the Hamas terrorists.
Sometimes you have to distract yourself with fripperies to survive and carry on. Don’t feel guilty about that need Cassie.
This on top of the many examples of judicial interference with Trump’s mandate:
Judge John J. McConnell Jr. says Donald Trump is still illegally freezing federal money – Washington Times
Trump through his AG, the impressive Pam Bondi, has to develop a response to these many judicial activists. My initial idea would be for him to ignore all these judicial orders and then wait for the demorats to take one or all the examples to SCOTUS. If he doesn’t have a plan he is going to go the same way he went in his first term: bogged down by demorat bullshit.
That’s Volvo thinking, Eyrie.
Tangentially, i’d love LED headlights to be banned outright, as damaging to eyesight, but more worser, ending the age old polite consideration of eye contact when travellers cross ways. Try it today- try to get a read of the driver in a newer car, 90% of which have wanky LED drivibg lights on constantly. It’s impossible.
I’d rather not get run in to.
Also ban tinted windows for the front ssats so you can see where the other guy is looking.
Daytime running lights have been mandatory in Europe since 2011 and are rewarded in the ANCAP rating here. If you are being blinded, it is by badly adjusted headlights or added driving lights (light bars etc.) not DRLs which have been shown by research to be better than using headlights during daylight hours.
Volvo had DRLs long before they were mandatory, as they did with seat belts (1959, iirc, for the latter).
Our childen used to sing ‘We all live in a yellow 144’ when we had our yellow Volvo.
Bruce of Newcastle
February 11, 2025 9:43 am
Former Cat has a ripper opening paragraph…
Green hydrogen has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue (Paywallian) by Judith Sloan
Bruce, here you go:
Green hydrogen has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue
Judith Sloan
4 hours ago
As the Norwegian Blue parrot is to the pet shop owner in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, so green hydrogen is to Chris Bowen.
If you believe the Energy Minister, green hydrogen in Australia is not dead or deceased or bereft of life. It’s just resting, pining for fields of solar panels and wind turbines.
Sadly, for Bowen, green hydrogen made from renewable energy using the process of electrolysis has all the features of that dead parrot, as more and more projects are cancelled. The latest is the Gladstone hub, where the newly elected Crisafulli LNP government has pulled the pin.
The massively expensive green hydrogen project in South Australia, sponsored by the Malinauskas Labor government, is looking shaky as the future of the Whyalla Steel Works becomes more uncertain.
The trouble with green hydrogen is that it’s far too expensive; there is simply not the available renewable energy; the technical complications are unresolved; and there are no customers. It’s not just dead here; it is gently being interred in other parts of the world, including Europe. It was a pipedream when it was first floated under the previous Coalition government; it remains a pipedream.
The Coalition even went to the trouble of getting then chief scientist, Alan Finkel, to undertake a review of the prospects for hydrogen production in Australia.
The final report was reasonably upbeat, although it’s hard to see how it could ever make sense to use electricity to produce hydrogen to produce electricity.
It’s not necessary to fill out the spreadsheets to realise that the economics of this transformation are unlikely to stack up – the ratio of energy in to energy out is around 0.3.
The Albanese Labor government has demonstrated even more enthusiasm for green hydrogen than the Coalition’s preliminary steps. The Prime Minister has enthusiastically declared that Australia has “an enormous opportunity with green hydrogen and to bring things back here”.
In his opinion, “the reason why we’re doing hydrogen hubs around Australia is that the growth and potential of this industry isn’t a niche industry. This is something that will make an enormous difference to Australia’s economy.”
Similarly, the pet shop owner – OK, Chris Bowen – has stated that “reports of the death of the green hydrogen industry are greatly exaggerated”. By the end of the decade – in five years’ time – he foresees “a green hydrogen industry (that) will be up and running as well as electric planes in the skies”.
The Albanese government has had several attempts to kickstart a green hydrogen industry. There is the $2bn Hydrogen Headstart program, as well as green hydrogen production tax credits estimated to be worth nearly $7bn over a decade. These initiatives have been undertaken even though the barriers to the development of a green hydrogen industry are close to insurmountable.
There is now some acknowledgment that liquid hydrogen won’t be transported to overseas destinations – the costs and technical barriers are just too great.
But both Albanese and Bowen hold on to the remote possibility that green hydrogen can be used to transform bauxite and iron ore to make green alumina, green aluminium and green steel and that customers would be prepared to pay a price premium.
At this stage, you would have to say they’re dreamin’, to quote a classic Australian expression.
Let’s not forget here that during the last election campaign, Albanese pledged that the new gas plant at Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley would be partly fuelled by hydrogen. The fact was – and remains the case – there is no source of green hydrogen in the precinct. Ironically, the plant used diesel for several months before the gas became available.
Take the case of the proposed and now ditched Gladstone hub. To meet the aspiration of four million tonnes of green hydrogen per year, there would be a requirement for 110,000 megawatts of additional renewable energy, which is close to two times the existing capacity of the entire National Electricity Market.
In turn, this will involve some 10,000 wind turbines and 2500sq km of solar panels. This was never going to happen.
The electrolysis process also requires water – some 4500 megalitres per year.
What happens to the money committed to green hydrogen in the context of the swath of abandoned projects?
Hopefully, moneys committed but not yet spent can be recovered. There is also the upside that the forecast outlays on production tax credits will never materialise.
Having said this, there are some significant issues that remain outstanding. The first relates to the Integrated System Plan developed by the Australian Market Energy Operator.
AEMO is fully on board with green hydrogen, and it figures prominently in its forecasts of future demand for electricity. There are some extraordinarily naive commercial assumptions about expensive electrolysers being switched on and off depending on the availability of renewable energy.
Take this assertion. “Hydrogen load is expected to lift minimum demand and have minimal impact at times of peak demand. It is also expected to be technically capable of providing flexibility by turning off for whole days when weather conditions are unfavourable, depending on the commercial implications of doing so.”
According to the ISP, green hydrogen will lead to more investment in renewable energy, which will be available for the entire grid when it suits the market operator. Ask any engineer about operating a capital-intensive piece of equipment on this basis and they will also talk about dreamin’.
The broader point about the ISP, and one that is being made forcefully by Aidan Morrison of the Centre for Independent Studies, is that AEMO’s planning process is fundamentally flawed. Instead of following the underlying legislation and the need to fulfil the objectives of efficiency, lowest cost and emissions reduction, the ISP is really a case of the tail wagging the dog.
All the parameters of government policy are simply accepted – think here renewable energy penetration, emissions target, take-up of electric vehicles – and the features of the plan are devised around meeting these parameters. In effect, the objectives of efficiency and cost are deprioritised, to the detriment of households and businesses.
The second issue is Bowen’s decision to reject outright the option of blue hydrogen made from natural gas, in combination with carbon capture and storage. This is where much of the action is in the US, with government subsidies of $US85 available for every tonne of CO2 captured and stored.
Certain sectors of industry require hydrogen, in particular fertiliser manufacturing, and Australia is ill-advised to turn its back on blue hydrogen given the relative ease of extracting hydrogen from methane. We also have several obvious sites to store the captured CO2, particularly in the Cooper Basin.
But at this stage, Bowen is showing all the stubbornness of the pet-shop owner who expected the purchaser of the parrot to accept that it wasn’t dead. It was.
Blackout is a serious threat to Australia.
He’s also a serious threat to Labor’s re-election chances.
Polling reveals him to be even less popular than Albo.
And who can forget his contribution to the 2022 campaign? He despises middle Australia.
And how he single handedly sunk Peanut Head in 2019 against SloMo.
We had one in Glebe yesterday, in Tanya’s seat no less.
This is the latest Green Hydrogen project to be put on hold/soon to be cancelled –
Amanda Battersby
Asia Bureau ChiefSingapore
Published 4 February 2025, 17:49
UK energy giant BP has hit pause on a clean fuels project worth around a A$1 billion (US$619 million) at its under-construction Kwinana energy hub in Western Australia.
BP informed its employees in meetings on Thursday, followed by telling contractors on Friday, according to people involved who were not authorised to speak to the media, reported boilingcold.com.au. Some BP staff will be made redundant.
The company had plans to build a biofuels project – Kwinana Renewable Fuels (KRF) — that was to produce sustainable fuels from biomass and a green hydrogen plant dubbed H2Kwinana.
https://www.upstreamonline.com/hydrogen/bp-puts-the-brakes-on-multimillion-dollar-renewables-project-down-under/2-1-1774260
This is so going to work. Not.
South Australia begins 3D ‘dragon teeth’ trial in bid to increase road safety (Tele, 10 Feb, not paywalled)
You’ll have to go to the story to see the photo, as it isn’t postable. It’s terrifying!
My instinctive response to this horrifying sight would be to avoid it on the wrong side of the road. Thereby risking a head on. Or to stamp on the brakes, thereby causing someone to rear-end me. Which would be exactly opposite of the intent of this extremely ill-advised initiative.
Federally funded, I note.
but but but …. experts!
All the Experts carefully ignoring a major cause of increasing road accidents-
massive increase in population;
most of whom have very limited driving skills.
How can you obey road signs when you can’t read them?
Anyone heard any more of the
“ New Australian” mum who managed to stuff up an illegal low speed u-turn to the extent that she charged through the school fence and killed a kid on the oval?
The one who had her identity kept secret and had Police home delivery food?
FMD, that was a mighty incentive for some demographics to drive with due care, skill and attention.
I wish this lady, Lia Finocchiaro, was running the federal LNP; she is demolishing the 3rd nations grift industry in the NT:
NT CLP government ‘dismantles’ treaty plans, ending seven-year process
They’re getting some runs on the board, slowly but surely.
Blair:
Major Australian business groups, including some of the big miners, aren’t off the hook here. By failing to oppose local climate legislation, they have forfeited their right to complain about foreign tariffs.
There was a major mining executive who was very vocal in the 80s or 90s. He was asked to step down by his Board. Forget his name.
Hugh Morgan.
thanks Tom
Hmmmmmm. A US Tariff of 25% on Aluminum imports to the USA.
Luckily Australia exports Aluminium to the USA. LOL
Donald Trump’s NEW Tax Plan — Key Details & Analysis
The video discusses Donald Trump’s proposed new tax plan, which includes a 15% flat rate for corporate, individual income, and capital gains taxes, alongside a universal 15% tariff on foreign goods. The plan aims to promote economic growth and competitiveness by attracting capital and businesses to the U.S., similar to the benefits observed in states without income tax like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. Trump seeks to lower existing tax rates, make previous tax cuts permanent, and push for reforms like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime. The hosts highlight that such tax reforms would boost prosperity, lessen bureaucracy, and potentially increase federal revenue by spurring economic expansion. They also mention Trump’s urgency to implement these changes within a limited timeframe.
Fun facts to know and tell:
Manufacturing contributes just over 5% of Australia’s GDP (2023, World Bank).
That’s the lowest of any OECD country (inc. NZ).
The blowjob economy in all it’s glory.
Mowing lawns, making coffees and happy endings is most of the economy now. Oh and government. Which we now know thanks to DOGE is just a gigantic slush fund for left wing scumbag thieves.
Where is our DOGE? Where is our nationalist party promising to open the books?
No f*cking where.
Dutton looks to be setting rising star Jacinta Price (recently announced as shadow minister for government efficiency) up to fail on that front.
At best, any cost cutting she’s permitted to follow through with will be cosmetic (e.g. Welcomes to Country).
Dutton looks to be setting rising star Jacinta Price (recently announced as shadow minister for government efficiency) up to fail on that front.
If Dutton or his stooges read the Çat, they’ll know we’d like to see Jacinta as pm. So naturally he’ll want to chop her legs off.
Dont forget the ‘caring economy’ … you know, wiping bums and doing the vacuuming for the morbidly obese, then doing their shopping…
all good ‘value adding’ jobs!
Its all fun and games till its your turn in the barrel.
The fruit of the Lima Agreement back in the 1970s.
Even a lot of our surfboards are made in China now.
How embarrassing.
Sanch last night
My oncologist called earlier and says he doesn’t want to see me for six months.
“Am I cured?” I ask.
“No” he says. “You just shit me to tears and I don’t want to see you”.
That reminds me of the hypochondriac who received a phone message from his GP:-
Wife: “Your GP rang regarding your urine sample”
Husband: “Oh yes, what did he say?”
Wife: “He said he doesn’t want it. Can you take it back?”
A car full of Irish nuns is sitting at a traffic light in downtown Dublin, when a bunch of rowdy drunks pull up alongside of them.
“Hey, show us yer boobs, ya penguins!” shouts one of the drunks.
Quite shocked, Mother Superior turns to Sister Mary Immaculata and says,
“I don’t think they know who we are; show them your cross.”
Sister Mary Immaculata rolls down her window and shouts, “Piss off, ya f* *king little w**kers, before I come over there and rip yer balls off!”
Sister Mary Immaculata then rolls up her window, looks back at Mother Superior, quite innocently, and asks, “Did that sound cross enough”.
Anthony Albanese wearing a shit coloured tie announcing that he talked to Trump about rugby league and the Super Bowl.
We’re in good hands.
and will be however long KRudd stays in Washington….
No mention of the rat peering through the toilet brush?
Well he can’t wear a red tie, because he’d look like he was supporting Trump. Can’t wear a blue tie since he fights Tories. A white or purple tie would make him look gay. And a black tie would raise questions about who has died. So poo colour is all that’s left.
Green is out also
Heh yes, was going to edit my comment for that and beige too, but for some reason I wasn’t allowed to save the update even though it was only a few minutes since I posted the original.
Tie? Or dribble…
Rainbow tie for the Incas?
Sandwich filling spilled?
Hamas has until midday Saturday:
Trump issues Gaza ceasefire ultimatum to Hamas as he warns ‘all hell is going to break out’ if hostages not returned | World News | Sky News
Not in dribs and drabs, all of them by twelve o’clock Saturday.
I’m glad to hear it.
I know it’s difficult but Israel needs to end all aid and turn off the water and electricity.
Gazans better be filling every pot and pan with water and be ready.
Enough.
I think the condition of those previous three hostages was the proverbial last straw.
When Trump gets angry, he means it.
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order
An excuse to hold up the release of files perhaps?
just discovered? … down the back of the couch ?
In Joe’s garage.
Next to a classic car in an unnamed Delaware garage.
Usually the title of a Bill/cause means the complete opposite. Try “Inflation Reduction Act” or “Affordable Care Act” or “Patriot Act”
I clicked Post Comment too fast as I meant to add a local Bill:
Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024
Australia’s oldest commercial wind farm to close as cost of repowering is too high | RenewEconomy
So, who pays for dismantling of these and where does all the waste go?
diesel incinerator?
I suspect it will just sit there and rot.
Just over 25 years. Presumably on the best wind resource and will not be rebuilt. Welcome to the future.
Whomever is stipulated to do so in the contract.
If they’re still in business.
Dump in front of the nearest State/Feral Guv’ment Building.
Repowering?
That’s a pithy way to say “deconstruct the inevitably kaput stuff and put up new stuff. For another short lifespan”.
As always, beware neologisms.
Wonder if the ABC took any funds from USAID.
It’s interesting that RMIT’s notorious “fact checking” unit has just shut down…
Wow, they did that quietly!!!
RMIT University permanently closes fact-checking operation and pledges to focus on ‘core activities’ of education and research (Sky News, 9 Feb)
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Oz MSM didn’t report this.
No overt funding found
https://datarepublican.com/award_search/?keywords=australian+broadcasting
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/thanks-media-hysteria-19-year-old-elon-musk/
One would think that the security guard outside the DC Dept of Ed building would have a substantive case against Waters for intimidation.
It is fascinating that the Democrats have no understanding that the world has changed completely for them.
Oh, they understand alright.
They know that the graft infrastructure carefully created over more than 30 years, and structured and staffed so that it would do it’s master’s bidding with minimal overt direction, is goneski.
That is why they are fighting tooth and nail.
Politicom getting stuck into duttie:
Dutton blind to Australia’s fury
Not much love for Dutton there.
If he gets elected it’s because he’s not Anthony Albanese.
And so it goes on…
Just like the only reason Albo was elected (with 30% of the primary vote) was that he’s not Scott Morrison.
Hamas, playing hardball with Israel by releasing three tortured and starved hostages then cancelling further releases, runs into an unfamiliar obstacle:
Trump in his own words*.
He’s just taken on a terrible responsibility for the remaining hostages – and he obviously knows that.
But, if he’s done nothing else in the past 3 weeks, the Orange Man has shown that he is not a blow hard, does not give a single fark about flabby ‘progressive’ opinion from anywhere, and does exactly what he says he’s going to do while leaving the minimum possible time between FA and FO.
This situation may not change in the next four days.
* Apologies; to watch the Resolute Desk video you have to endure 15 seconds of Grauniad advertising.
Elon Musk claims FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels for illegal migrants
monopoly money
I know where ICE should be doing their next raid…
This whole Kerr situation is lose-lose.
As the judge remarked the other day, nobody disputes what Kerr actually said, the trick is in the interpretation of intent as to whether the threshold for criminal behaviour is met. Her defense said:
Really what would the average person interpret Kerr’s words to mean? It was obviously an insult. We say words because we believe they will have the effect we intend. Surely the jury will decide she intended to insult the officer.
But even so this case is a lose-lose situation.
If Kerr is not prosecuted for obviously disobeying the relevant law, it further erodes what little respect the public have for the justice system by seemingly letting someone off the hook out of unspecified ad-hoc sympathies.
If Kerr is prosecuted for racially insulting someone, it only continues the already terrible state of formerly free speech in the UK, criminalises words that might only be said in the heat of the moment, and ridiculously suggests the typical London bobby is not expected to put up with some nasty words during the course of their job.
You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
The law she’s being prosecuted under should never have been made, but the time for resolving that was back in Parliament and now we may expect the Court to apply it as written.
She did, however, cover the back of a taxi in vomit and declined to pay the cleaning charge, let alone offer to recompense the driver for lost earnings for the night.
Whatever the outcome of the trial, one could be forgiven for forming the view that she’s an entitled prat.
Neat analysis.
The entire circus is enabled by stupid social engineering.
No winners or victims visible here.
In Lincoln’s words:
Correct. But the evidence is plain: Kerr is an entitled bitch.
For my lunchtime viewing I’m off to watch Elon launch yet another rocket. Live coverage starts in about 5 minutes.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-11-10
Only a Starlink mission, but being able to see it as it happens is always a buzz. And the launcher is on its 23rd mission, which is mindblowing. It’s from his Vandenberg launchpad, which is a barebones operation compared to anything anyone else does. A few huts and not much else.
Bruce, I thought (?) I saw there’s another SpaceX staged moon rocket going up in the next fortnight or so???
Two were launched on 17 Jan, on the same Falcon 9.
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot (17 Jan)
You are right, the next one is due in a couple weeks:
SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe ‘Lunar Trailblazer’ on Feb. 26 (5 Feb)
The interesting thing is none of these are from the big players. That is the way it will go: Elon makes it cheap to launch and a whole horde of intrepid space explorers take advantage of the service.
Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y75CY9NKzB8?feature=share
Spike Milligan and how he joined the army.
LOL and “Hitler and my part in his Downfall”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqL5_-PL6g&list=PL3zFTB1Z4JkDjSjHxe2S1qwclvlEYWdF9
Steel Tarriffs – \the biggest effect on Aussie steel are power and labour contracts.Check out how many days you are able to have off and the wage rates whcih are bumped up to keep up with govt wage rates.
Also this flying in and out of employees I think is umbered. If hte Indonesion Steel foundry can produce the unit of steel for $7k and in Aus its $20k – this will be shut down.
Its time we all re calibrated our labour rates, term and conditions.
Hysterical lunacy from Daily Mail: Big call on interest rates everyone with a mortgage needs to read as Donald Trump tariffs stir inflation fears
Australian “workers” in general are paid too much
Same goes for those on part government handouts
Indonesia has already eaten Australia’s lithium lunch.
Nickel, too.
FIFO workforces in mining are a result of FBT & unionism.
The NGO’s trying to whiteant this country are exempt from FBT. Something even veterans don’t get courtesy of with the DOHAS loan.
Another two hits for four each from the NT government:
The Finocchiaro Government is bringing the axe down on taxpayer funding to the Environment Centre NT and the Arid Lands Environment Centre.
It is understood the two organisations, which were each receiving $100,000 a year, were told of the decision late Monday.
The organisations have met the same fate as the NT Environmental Defenders Office which was advised late last year it would lose its $100,000 a year funding.
Lands, Planning and Environment Minister, Joshua Burgoyne said the $200,000 in funding would be redirected to key environmental initiatives that focused on action, not activism.
NT News
She’s the only conservative leader in Australia.
My Kent based daughter attended the farmer protests on the weekend.
She said that it was a great relief because there was a feeling that the spirit had gone out of the movement. Harassment by County officials and police as well as what she termed as infiltration of the organisation appeared to be succeeding. Not so it would appear.
Good luck to any young Bobby attempting to harass her on her JD, she scares the hell out of me when she has the angry pants on.
One of her neighbours was wacked with an ‘exemplary’ fine for having his two kids in the tractor when driving to the farm gate. Cops everywhere apparently.
The authorities, both there and here, are going to come to regret politicising the police.
The cops will also regret allowing themselves to become political tools
Yes, their commanders had a responsibility to refuse to comply with political directives that compromised their impartiality. Once public trust – essential to policing – is lost it is very difficult to recover. They’ll find recruiting more difficult, for starters.
They should have learned that lesson after the Thatcher years and Hillsborough scandal.
Listening to Eric Weinstien in a 3 hr podacast with I think David Williamson – English Gent – Eric was continually saying he was a leftie – nice guy – one thing some one who had done busienss with Trump said to him was you dont do business with Trump a second time. Kind of ratteld me.
Dont know how to take this but at the moment he is doing a great job and matching schredness with all the lefties.
sort of reminders me of working in a government corporation years ago; widespread hate for a major contractor, because they “stiffed us” (it was via perfectly legitimate legal means in a contract dispute). My assessment was that the contractor was just significantly better in doing business than the haters, who were hopeless (albeit capable engineers).
so I think Eric is telling us more about himself than about Trump
Note the difference in moral leadership, President Trump is visibly shocked and angered by the state of the three Jews freed over the weekend by the Gazan Nazis, the men looked no different to those men and women liberated from the German Nazi death camps.
Meanwhile, Slug, Pong, Islamist Husic and all the rest say nothing about the state of the men.
We have a disgraceful government.
I’d wager the three Stooges have not even looked at pictures of the hostages.
They don’t want to upset a certain voting bloc in Western Sydney?
This lady has a very arguable point:
Dear Israelis, you have it completely the wrong way round (10 Feb)
The other horrors they were afflicted with, like burning and being hung upsidedown, are slowly coming out.
Points out the tactics being wrong, but not the correct one.
“Psychological war”. But how?
Which has sold its soul down the river for a few votes in Sydney and Melbourne.
And trashed our relationship with Israel, which may take many years to restore and trust return.
@DOGE
Today, the Department of Agriculture terminated 18 contracts for a total of ~$9mm, including contracts for “Central American gender assessment consultant services”, “Brazil forest and gender consultant services”, and the “women in forest carbon initiative mentorship program.”
BREAKING: Trump demands Hamas release all hostages by Saturday or ‘all hell will break out’
ok Donald, show them hell.
While American hurricane victims were shivering in tents in freezing temperatures.
@BuzzPatterson
This is the hotel that FEMA dumped millions into for illegal aliens. As a Delta pilot, I stayed at the Roosevelt hundreds of times on layovers. Your money went to housing illegals for this now Pakistani-owned property. Thank you @DOGE for the heads up.
I just wonder if there could be a link between the Hotel owners, the new hotel inhabitants and the govt. folk facilitating and subsidising the entire process?
Good business practice – vertical integration is the correct term, I think?
I6yb?8
That’s beautiful!
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING – The FBI has just found over 2,000 secret JFK assassination records, never provided to the Warren Commission.
A question I’m asking today –
Are Australian gold brokers being stretched by the gold delivery delays?
How solvent are they?
I’ll let you all know over the next few days…
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Been a lot of that going on.
London’s Gold Shortage: A Symptom Of Global Economic Anxiety (11 Feb)
Previously I’ve mentioned that traders have been trying to convert their paper into physical gold and have had the mints drag their heels for months on delivering it.
Bruce, I remember you saying so, but there’s a further dimension to it.
I was going to convert my physical gold into a pooled gold option, but decide the cost wasn’t worth it. (About $140/oz)
Now if the bullion company has a pool of physical gold and it isn’t enough to cover the pooled gold option, then they have to buy gold at the latest price – $4669/oz, then they’re having the equivalent of a bank run on cash.
They have quite a liquidity problem. Will they have to call on the government for gold or cash to cover? And will the government come to the party?
It looks like we’re about to find out.
I was going to convert my physical gold into a pooled gold option, but decide the cost wasn’t worth it. (About $140/oz)
Dafuk would you do that???
In the early 80’s I had a lot of spare cash which I turned into bullion. Perth Mint even then were rather reluctant to actually let you have it. They’d charge you all the fees but I doubted a single Oz. ever was ascribed to me except on paper. Refused to let me have over $ 50k without having it delivered by security truck. I’ll take it in two lots then. Which was just as well coz it was heavy enough split in two.
If the UN can suspend aid programs in Yemen because UN workers have been taken hostage surely Israel can suspend aid to Gaza because Hamas refuses to release hostages.
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1889078939252900089?t=g6zmSrgI5030kp0VNeD6DQ&s=19
“That’s different!”
Stamps foot.
@MikeBenzCyber
The Blob wants to keep its Fast & Furious drug cartel asset network safe from Trump’s plan to nuke it. Same thing the Pentagon did with hiding its ISIS assets in Syria from Trump during his first term
@MikeBenzCyber
“We were always playing shell games” to stop Trump from knowing the number of troops and assets and what they were doing in Syria
@Eric_Schmitt
The USAID scandal has rocked the Wilsonian Foreign Policy Establishment to its core
They know if people see what they prioritize and spend OUR taxpayer dollars on the house of cards comes down.
That’s why they are freaking out. Keep it going @elonmusk and @DOGE
Early this morning I read this in the Oz…
Health Minister Mark Butler accused the Coalition of “playing politics” with trans people after most of its senators voted for a One Nation motion on Monday to refer to a Senate committee the “human cost of experimental child gender treatments”.
Mr Butler noted the government had already requested a review from the National Health Medical Research Council about treatment guidelines for “trans and gender-diverse children and adolescents”.
“Anyone who doesn’t accept the role of the NHMRC to do this work – and I thought Peter Dutton and the shadow health minister, Anne Ruston, did – anyone who doesn’t just let them get along and do their job, frankly, is playing politics on this issue,” he told ABC TV.
That One Nation motion failed on Monday, after it was opposed by Labor, the Greens, and other crossbenchers. Coalition senators Andrew Bragg, Maria Kovacic, and Richard Colbeck also voted against the motion.
Please note that both Bragg and Kovacic are part of the Liberal senate ticket here in NSW, they are respectively second (Bragg) and third (Kovacic) on the ticket (Sharma is first). Kovavic, a moderate, took the late Jim Molan’s place on the senate ticket after he passed away. Molan, a conservative, had fought hard for that spot, remember in 2019 he ran against the NSW Liberal machine.
Whilst I will vote Liberal in the lower house, I will not vote Liberal in the senate. I intend to vote for the Libertarian ticket followed by PHON and then Sharma but I will not preference either Bragg or Kovacic high up in my preference senate flow. I suggest others do the same. Bragg is an close factional ally of Photios, Keen, the harpooned Harwin and other NSW Liberal grubs.
I am thinking of not voting. Nobody deserves it.
Good info Cassie.
Kovacic is a hag. She voted for full term abortion without turning a hair.
Evil bitch.
Larry Kudlow: Elon Musk is here to stay
Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry Liberals. DOGE is 100% Legal. Here’s Why
Yesterday I stated that the democrats were trying to bring about a constitutional crisis.
Today “constitutional crisis” has rocketed as a Google search, and Democrat talking points have embraced the notion.
Seldom have I been so right so quickly!
They have a lot of “hawiian judges” they can burn to slow things down.
Some of the judges will be very, very disappointed with their severance package if the fraud gets gutted though.
Their foot soldiers are just more insanely fanatical than our foot soldiers.
The use of the phrase “constitutional crisis” quadrupled overnight.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=Constitutional%20crisis&hl=en-US
@libsoftiktok
LEAKED: SECRET BLUE STATE RESISTANCE AGREEMENT
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@oversightpr obtained a copy of a secret pact between 22 blue states, DC, and San Francisco which was signed just 3 days after Trump’s landslide victory, to resist his plan to end birthright citizenship.
Instead of fixing gas prices, groceries, or public safety, Democrats’ top priority was ensuring that children of illegal aliens from the Biden Border Crisis could become future voters.
70 million voters seem to disagree.
What was the headline?
“Jolly Sound English Chap Miffed at Not Being Able to Take Crass American to The Cleaners.”
Sounds like the Yes Prime Minister episode with Luke the foreign Office liaison in Number 10.
That was a cracker of an episode. The guy who played Luke was brilliant.
The creature from the black lagoon calls Elon a thief and a gangsta; sue the black bitch time:
“Elon Musk, Where Are You? Bring Your Ass Over Here! …He’s a Thief! He’s a Gangsta!” – Mad Maxine Goes After Elon Musk in Slander-Filled Rant (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
“He’s stolen my stolen taxpayer funds”?
@Real_RobN
CONSPIRACY THEORY NO MORE,
Two reasons why fraudulent SSN’s were provided to illegals by Democrats.
A: 10,000 illegals using the same exact Social Security number voted in Arizona 2020 presidential elections.
B: The reason the radical Democrats don’t want an audit of social security fraud is because they’re scamming off a 1.7 trillion dollar slut fund. It’s BEYOND MASSIVE.
He warned us long time ago…
I would quite like a slut fund.
Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system
@RealJamesWoods
Pocahontas big mad wampum machine closed down by Chief Big Balls!
“Complete Mess” | State Of British Politics Analysed
Elon Musk Wants Ron Paul To AUDIT THE FED For DOGE!-Robby Soave
They are just so well organised.
Alina Habba said that they predicted the Democrat dirty tricks, including the options for lawfare and even those bent judges and state prosecutors who will try it on. They devised counter strategies.
It does seem that they are fully prepared for their Supreme Court challenge to the Dems, including seeking SCOTUS definition of the limits of district judges’ jurisdiction.
Not that that will matter – the scum simply ignore Court rulings. Could be a risky option however given the new non-permissive Government, and Ttump’s team of killer amazons.
Are you shitting me?
The secret service ran a recruitment ad during the superbowl which featured Ronald Reagan, JFK and Trump?
That’s their hook? All the guys who got shot on their watch?
Government ‘vampires’ are bleeding us dry: Watters
I feel that the world of Hamas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, halfwits in a half shell, is about to be seriously rocked.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gjan2WPWgAAlbMZ?format=jpg&name=900×900
Technical tip. With Xwitter images you can get them to post on the Cat if you edit the url.
Remove everything from and including the question mark and replace it with .jpg
And you get this:
The first Israeli atomic bomb, produced at Dimona, is supposed to have had “Never Again” welded into the casing.
Thanks for that BoN.
An oldie but true, never say never again, never is a long time as it’s proven time and again.
We can but wish.
Blonde Ashley on Daytime Sky interviews Colin Barnett, who pokes a bit of fun at Albo always saying when he visits WA how many times he has visited.
Ashley doesn’t seem to appreciate that she’s talking to a very competent WA premier 2008-2017, or is too partisan lefty to care. Why do I say that?
She says at the next opportunity that Albo has visited 30 times!
Talk about drinking the Albo Kool Aid.
We deserve better than this crap. But where do you get it?
Emperor Barney shouldn’t really be throwing stones after the state he left the WA Lieborals in. Should just FOAD. Still not even competitive over a decade later.
As opposed to the state the Labor/Greens/Teals usually leave states in?
The worser election came in 2021.
The 2017 election, with a woeful GST share and rock bottom ore prices, a Worst Australian and 7 Network all railing against Colin didn’t help.
In (limited) defense of Barney.
The Federal SFL left him out to dry on the GST issue, then let the rivers of gold flow to WA AFTER the slithering turd McGowan got in.
Election could be over before WA polls even close. As usual.
I’m **feeling** Abo has failed in his talks with DJT:
Trump tariffs: Australia aluminium export limit commitment broken, proclamation says
DJT has signed the EO with no carve outs for Australia nor any other country.
The “sticking point:”
It seems such said “undertakings” have not been undertaken this time. That, and I’m sure DJT would love to deliver the news to Krudd.
Surely all this market interventionism/protectionism is p!ssing off Libertarians and endearing the Left?
Laughs out loud!
I suspect that Trump will remove the Australian tariffs but it’s what he’ll want in return that’s going to be the interesting bit. Stand-by Kevin and prepare to eat something most untasty.
Trump has to deliver on his threat this time.
RE the hostages.
IIRC Trump was going to be shown the full debauchery and slaughter video from the Hamas surprise attack on Israeli civilians.
Perhaps he has seen it and its contents are fuelling his rage.
#Winning
White House Release: President Donald J. Trump Ends the Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws – The White House
As a regular straw user I approve this message. My paper straw failed this morning, a not infrequent occurrence.
How do you drink single malt with a straw? Is there no end to depravity.
Love that, Ranga.
I have posted on many occasions I don’t normally wish I’ll on anyone, but if anyone needs to die a slow painful death from arse cancer the inventor of the paper straws and the inventor of bamboo cutlery will be high on the list.
Took the four kids to a movie during holidays; bought them all extra large frozen cokes (about $13 each). Paper straws…
By the time we sat down (!!!) the paper straws were soggy cardboard and totally useless.
Offer plastic straws or clean stainless-steel ones.
Testimony for the amazing solvent properties of Coke.
Many years ago I had a wisdom tooth out and decided to use it to see if coke really dissolved teeth. I soaked it in coke, admittedly at room temperature, for a couple of weeks after which it looked intact but had turned brown (and I’m not even a Pom). My chemistry lecturer taught us about pH measurement using coke which at the time registered 3 on the meter which is quite acidic.
Corn starch cutlery is worse.
Stick a fork in it, we’re done (2011)
I have to say I quite liked the stainless steel straws.
Seriously awesome weapons in a John Wick sort of way.
Stainless steel can be unsanitary. Mrs D had a milkshake that came with a stainless straw. She looked inside the straw and their was so much crap in it she returned the milkshake and made enough of a fuss for other patrons to hear. Several had ss straws looked in them and promptly returned their drinks as well.
She has imported plastic straws from AliExpress that she carries in a toothbrush holder her hand bag.
Yep, would not be surprised by that at all. Most places would just use the dishwasher that is all but useless. I always send SS straws back.
Keep them well away from young children. Easy for a fall sucking on one of those weapons to mean a serious facial injury.
Donald says:
I’m betting Trump the Magnificent will do as he says.
Yes he means it this time. And the Israelis are ready.
Meaningful that Israel has, given the opportunity, said nothing to override this threat.
says Breitbart.
The indictment is that the number is not 100%.
It will be after five years of living in tents.
When Albo has lost the “Socialist News” you know he’s in trouble:
Australian homelessness services report surge in demand for assistance – Social News XYZ
Among the organisations that were surveyed, 98 per cent reported increased workloads last year and said they expect demand to continue rising in 2025.
Two-thirds of organisations said they have been unable to provide long-term housing solutions for clients, 71.7 per cent reported increased waitlists and half said they have fewer resources per client than a year ago.
?
Used to work in the sector. Nothing like putting on pressure pre-election to ensure continued or beefed up funding. On the other hand sooner or later they are talking for real but is difficult to tell the difference between beat-up and reality. You have to know who to talk to and which stats to rely on. I would start with the Salvos who are more likely to give you accurate figures.
@BasedMikeLee
A “street fight” to stop cuts to wasteful spending?
Those are fighting words
And they’re not honorable words
Hong Kong will file complaint to WTO on US tariffs, official says
Hostages have been released in exchange for many Palestinian prisoners. Gaza is reduced to rubble. Hamas continues. What has been achieved? What hell can break out now?
Complete the demolition?
Nothing only left to demolish. That’s more money thrown at a problem that will entail billions to rebuild. Computer says no.
There are still Hamas grubs to hunt down.
Hamas is left to demolish.
The population can either change or go down with Hamas.
Wondering if the Yanks have a line on leaders of hamarse.
If they did they would have already done the dirty deed done dirt cheap.
Haven’t they moved to Turkey? Too much trouble if Mossad do it. The Turks accommodating the CIA? Maybe.
Plausible denials all the way.
Ask Iran.
Nonsense.
It will be Israel that does the deed. The Americans will just tell the ratbags like Who, the UN, the EU etc to FAFO.
Fifty B52s dropping full loads of mix HE and Napalm.
You have a problem with that?
I sure as shit don’t.
ye of little imagination
Leave em to live in the rubble.
Act like barbarians, live like barbarians.
Fortunately, Albo will continue to pledge tax payers money to the re-construction costs……..
Another annoying aspect of Sky New is the Trivago ads.
Yeah, I know, don’t watch it, you say. But what instead?
Anyway, those ads should be referred to the ACCC to see if they hold water.
I suspect not.
Trivago did well to do all those ads with Coffs Harbour girl Gabrielle Miller.
Shows that advertising works if you do it right.
Her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant is a former chairman of the Charleston Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and, apparently, the police threatened her with arrest.
Nancy Mace Delivers Emotional Speech on House Floor Accusing Ex-Fiancé, 3 Others of Rape, Sex Trafficking
@DerrickEvans4WV
Fraternal Order of Police endorses Kash Patel:
“On behalf of the more than 377,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police, Kash Patel, has our full support and confidence to be the next Director of the FBI.”
Is Australia still giving money to the Clinton Foundation?
PM Julia Gillard gave over A$190M, I believe, of our money, that might have been in just one year.
FM Julie Bishop gave $90M while she was FM, in just one year also.
How does one go about checking how much Australia has donated to the Clinton Foundation?
Probs the UK was chipping in and NZ, they must be rolling in it!
They used our money to give themselves a rails run post public office.
They all do it.
Meanwhile in the Territory, nothing changes:
54 court appearances in decade: Alice Springs mother latest victim allegedly killed by partner with significant DV history
?A mother of four is the second woman in Alice Springs this year to be allegedly killed at the hands of her partner, who has an extensive criminal history in yet another case where a man accused of murder has a string of prior violent offences.
The 39-year-old was arrested by Territory police on Sunday morning at a town camp in the north of Alice Springs after allegedly killing his 41-year-old partner.
The Australian can reveal the man, who has not yet been charged, has multiple criminal convictions for breaching domestic violence orders, aggravated assault, breaching court orders, and fighting in a public place.
Most recently in March last year he was sentenced to a two-month jail sentence for breaching a domestic violence order, and in April 2021 a three-year domestic violence order was made by a Territory judge protecting the victim, which has since elapsed.
In the past decade he has faced court on at least 54 different occasions for offences including breach DVO offences, aggravated assault, breach of order, fighting in a public place, going armed in public.
A charge of choking, strangling or suffocating was withdrawn in 2021.
It is yet another example of a man before the courts in the Northern Territory who has been accused of killing a woman, while also having a significant violent criminal history resulting in jail time.
More at the Australian
But domestic violence wasn’t part of traditional culture – the evil whitefella brought it with him.
The skulls of the women killed before we got here tell a different story.
You know that, and I know that, but one of the Dodson brothers says differently.
My guess is that globally remittances from Western countries to people across the third world is in the order of a trillion US dollars, and much of that burden is on the us economy.
Question: what would happen to Western economies if companies trained and hired locally and therefore migrants stopped sending a trillion dollars out of our economies?
We are talking a figure of around 3% of US GDP.
The migrants would still be working and sending remittances.
They would be hired as underpaid (slave) workers by DemonRats and other leftards, off the books.
Not after you deport them.
what would happen to Western economies if companies trained and hired locally and therefore migrants stopped sending a trillion dollars out of our economies
Universities would be incapable of supplying demand as they have become a uni to Pubic serpent pipeline for genderqueer cat people.
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And in today’s episode of “You Couldn’t Make This Shit Up,” a friend who works in a WA Govt Dept tells me he’d been working on a major flyer for his project and his blue background got changed to green before going to the printers.
“Why?” I hear you ask.
WA is in caretaker mode and blue represents a partisan colour.
The “geniuses” at this department have changed it to (non-partisan?) green background.
Green (and teal) is much more partisan than blue.
Tell him to use warm grey or maybe a light lemon.
He should ask for it to be Puce, to match his outrage.
In a floating exchange rate regime, there is no loss of wealth because every private seller of the currency has a corresponding private buyer. The primary impact is a downwards tending effect on the exchange rate, but this does not translate to a loss of wealth for citizens.
If the exchange rate was managed, that would be another story as it then impacts the money supply. I’m not prepared to go into this aspect, because it doesn’t pertain to Australia as we have a free float, and I’m also too tired to think it out.
Isn’t there an effect of reducing m2 within the US?
No, because the US dollar floats, which means only private buyers and sellers impact the exchange rate.
The best way to think of reductions or additions to the money supply is money leaving the Fed, or money going to the Fed.
Is it my imagination, or does Andrew Clennell seem lost? No cut through, rambling bleedin’ obvious statements.
Maybe Credlin’s pushback last week knackered him.
Seeing him on Sunday he certainly looked lost. A look of resignation. I may have been wishful thinking but probably not.
Clennell doesn’t even pretend to be impartial.
Like Joe Hildebrand, he is one of Sky News’s barrackers for a Labor victory in the 2025 federal election.
Sky News is happy to treat its viewers like idiots where The Australian editor-at-large Paul Kelly is News Corp’s senior Labor cheer leader.
The only Sky host who doesn’t play along with the company line is Sharri Markson, who has been granted special exemption to defy the company policy because she’s a Jew and Peta Credlin, who in my opinion is Sky’s only credible political commentator.
Probably an ALP victory would be the most likely outcome, despite what the betting says. So News is playing along with likely outcome. It’s just bidness.
He looked hungover tonight.
‘School For Bureaucrats’ Axed By Trump Executive Order
Trump calling Albo “a very fine man”.
I reckon that’s a throw back to an Rudd slur regarding Charlottesville.
I hope Australia does get the exemptions.
I think Albo & co doesn’t fully realise how Trump views Krudd.
Trump wants something (Krudd gone).
And now Albo wants something at the same time he won’t recall/replace Krudd.
Perhaps he could send Rudd as the bookend on one of the shelves at the National Aboriginal Library.
Good get.
A very unusual turn of phrase.
Trump has a blind spot about this remittance thing. He thinks the country is losing wealth, but it’s not.
A individual wants to sell his US dollars for Mex peso to send home. Someone else buys those dollars to invest in US stocks. There’s no impact wealth terms.
Interesting.
I gotta go think about that.
I wonder if he is talking about the multiplier effect of money being expatriated rather than spent domestically?
I suspect that may be the case.
Look, he’s got it in his fat orange head that it’s a loss of wealth, but it isn’t. It’s also likely he knows it’s nonsense, but it’s a good way to rile up the punters. Why? Because it’s an easy sell to claim it’s a loss of wealth when people don’t understand it.
The only way to impact velocity is through the central bank, either by increasing or decreasing its balance sheet.
When the central bank increases the money supply, it buys bonds through the open market, releasing currency into the system. This always originates from the central bank.
You and I can exchange dollars for pesos, but that has no bearing on the money supply. Moreover, those dollars don’t leave the system—they simply end up with the dollar buyer.
This.
He wants migrants (legal or illegal) spending the money domestically.
But, but, surely ol’ mate turns up and does them cos friendly?
Welcome to Country and smoking ceremonies have re-emerged in the crosshairs of the Coalition, after new documents revealed more than $100,000 has been spent on the events by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Albanese Government.
Costings obtained via Freedom of Information requests reveal the department spent the cash on 97 ceremonies over the two years to July 2024, with the figures coming on top of the $450,000 spent by other government agencies in the same time period.
Daily Tele
These dudes just don’t stop. They’re moving at the speed of the Concorde and it’s never ending.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/no-one-is-chanting-allahu-akbar-iranians-chant-death-to-islamic-republic-on-revolution-anniversary?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-one-is-chanting-allahu-akbar-iranians-chant-death-to-islamic-republic-on-revolution-anniversary
Dare we hope?
Or just tell them too late, Sunshine.
Fred Pawle is spot on. I’ve seen the Islamists chanting their ghastly anti-Jew rants – and nothing is done. – Michael Smith News
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/09/chelsea-handler-compares-melania-trump-to-a-prostitute-at-critics-choice-awards/
Melania should sue this dirty piece of filth. I recall she sued the Daily Mail for a similar slur.
I would like everyone here to know that the Jewish world has collectively snapped after seeing those three skeletal Jews paraded by Gazan Nazis two days ago. The images evoked the death camps. Those three men were and are barely alive, starved and tortured for 16 months. Seeing the three skeletal human beings surrounded by fat evil Nazis has sent most Jews into a collective meltdown.
The meme posted above by BoN tells it how it is.
Just as Eisenhower refused to accept any German deal in 1945 insisting it was to be unconditional surrender or obliteration, it is time for Gaza to be razed to the ground. The hostages? Most are dead, including Shir, Kfir and Ariel Bibas.
Credit is to Johnny Rotten, I just added a bit of Cat fu to get it to display.
I think Hamas didn’t realize how bad this would play, and I suspect that’s why they’ve now pulled back from the cease fire. The remaining hostages, if any are alive, aren’t going to be in good shape, which will just further damage their image.
I hope the IDF exterminates all the Hamasniks.
Especially after seeing all those well-fed Gazans and Hamas fighters and the terrible plight of the Israeli hostages I think the IDF need to ignore international support and sympathy for the terrorist state and go in much harder.
Perhaps carpet bombing.
Not just the Jewish world.
It’s gone on too long with these Islamic devils.
Time to finish it. Let God sort the Palis out.
He’ll know his own.
The twins are confirmed alive as is Alon and Sasha, Hamas is claiming Sasha too unwell to be released.
I think there are probably others still living.
They are the only cards Hamas has left to play.
Hoping Hamas change their minds about the ceasefire before 12 o’clock Saturday.
Not all of Gaza has been reduced to rubble. There are still parts that remain intact.
Shame!
Set your alarms for 4am Sunday (Sydney time).
I know it’s so evil and vicious that you can hardly believe it.
Did you see one of Elon’s chaps set up a substack account with $US1000/month access.
So a pack of media companies subscribed to it hoping to scroll his posts and dig up dirt.
But once they gained access they saw he has never published a note.
Ever.
It was a trap.
So a bunch of media companies just put $US1000 into his skyrocket.
Hopefully many of them forget to unsubscribe.
There are good scams and there are bad scams.
That one was delightfully good.
I hope he spends the money on hookers and nose powder for the team.
The reality is as someone pointed out, this is a breach of Substacks terms of service, to not produce content.
So he’ll probably have to pump out some content at some stage.
A thank you note would be nice.
I’m glad you said that Cassie, because it’s been on my mind since the beginning of this swap deal but I’ve kept it to myself out of respect for the Israelis involved, hostages & families.
One thing, though…Eisenhower was dealing with people who were still amenable to reason, at least in regard to what obliteration meant. Hamas would willingly sacrifice civilians along with themselves. (Granted, many of those civilians are themselves implicated, directly or indirectly, in Hamas’s crimes and may have forfeited civilian status by their actions. But I would prefer to see them tried in Israeli courts.)
I notice the hootie tooties have been exceedingly well behaved since 20th Jan. I wonder what could have brought that on?
Could it be the demise of Diaper Joe and his kid gloves?
Very difficult to figure out, Sanchez. LOL
They’ve been quiet since the ceasefire deal.
Let’s say an illegal Canadian refugee working in the USA under the table remits US $10,000 to his lumberjack boyfriend back in Canadia.
Is this the corresponding series of events:
The bank in Vancouver gives Justin the US $10,000, which he adds to the huge US$ reserves he already has from the trade surplus.
Justin gives the lumberjack’s bank a credit, in it’s books for CAN$14,300.
The lumberjack then spends that $CAN into his local area on maple syrup flavoured lube and paying off his account at the village Marxist bookshop.
I take it all of this is done via entries in ledgers at banks.
$10,000 has disappeared from the US bank account ledger of the refugee and a corresponding US $10,000 appeared on the ledger of the Canadian central bank in a big box marked “foreign reserves”.
An additional CAN $14300 has appeared out of nowhere to be spent on maple syrup and shit.
Is it the change in Canadian held $US dollars in reserves that moves the exchange rate?
You know waaaaay too much about Canadians Arky.
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK.
What bar do hang around in. What colour dress tonight.
I think it has more to do with your knowledge that lube comes in Maple Syrup Flavour.
I extrapolated that fact from my knowledge of Canadians gleamed from that 1970’s TV series beachcombers.
Which I heavily associate with fish and chips because it aired on fish and chip night back in NZ in them days.
Sean Spicer is having a rib tickling time over
Handsome BoyFine Man and his Trump phone call.Funny as.
Pretty sure Albo didnt pronounce Jordan Mailata’s name correctly at the press conference.
Time will tell if there’s a twitterX, TikTok outrage for being so stupid and white towards someone of Samoan heritage.
Unlikely Albo even knows what NFL is.
The gay lumberjack sends his boyfriend $10,000 yes, in US dollars. The Canadian boyfriend can either hold those US dollars in a USD denominated bank account or convert them into CAD.
Let’s say he decides to keep the US dollars and doesn’t convert them. Those dollars are held in his name through the account. The Canadian bank either has a correspondent relationship with a US bank or operates its own branch in the US.
Here’s the thing: all that’s happened is the gay lumberjack’s account was debited, and the boyfriend’s account was credited. The dollars never actually left the US. It’s just a movement from one bank to another, counted as a deposit. The net impact is Zero in terms of money supply etc.
Dollars can’t ever leave the US unless we’re talking about straight-up physical cash, which is a different story. Cash leaving the US is basically deflationary to the US. In fact anyone holding cash and not spending it has a deflationary impact because that cash is basically frozen out of circulation. The impact of this cash is minor though except if there’s a banking crisis and people want to hold physical cash like in the GFC.
Now, back to the transaction: the bank holding the new deposit lends out the surplus dollars and someone uses them.
People shouldn’t be focused on who is holding those those. Dollars can’t leave the system unless it’s straight out cash like what I said above.
Economics is far more interesting when it’s put in terms of lumberjacks.
That sort of make sense ina way. But the value of those remitted $ aren’t available for spending in the USA anymore? We aren’t talking about supply, but what is available to spend?
Maybe I misheard but I thought Albo said: Ma-lah-ta
Where I’ve always known it to pronounced : Ma-uh-lah-ta.
Normally it’s no big deal.
In this case it just shows Albo to be just so farkin fake.
And PS, he was a Tigers junior before he was a Souths junior.
If I had a daughter, and I don’t, I would be getting her into Brazilian jiu jitsu or krav maga.
With the amount of third world hillbillies being let into this country, they need the tools to defend themselves.
The younger members of the clan all received training in the art of self defence.
This arvo Hairy and I went to Bondi Junction to see the new movie about Bobby Dylan, called ‘A Complete Unknown’, and if you don’t know why it’s called that then you won’t enjoy the movie, because you have to be a Dylan fan (we are hugely so) and if you aren’t you don’t know popular culture and likely have no musical soul and certainly weren’t at many good parties in the 1960’s and 70’s.
The story looks at the early career of folk singer Dylan, who was inspired by Woody Guthrie, but hit town on the wave of the youth demographic the early 1960’s, with all the politics of that time. It ends with Dylan’s conversion, as a generational spokesman, to electronic backing and away from ‘folk’ by the mid 1960’s. I was nineteen in 1961 when the movie story starts, around Bobby’s age actually. Although schooled n 50’s rock I was heading into education by 1963 and had arrived at Syd Uni in1964. I’d dyed my long straight blonde hair black like Joan Baez, so I’d clearly picked up the babyboomers as my age reference group. My younger boyfriend at uni in1965 was closely involved with the Sydney Folk Attic at Kings Cross and it was there that I watched the beatnik folkies who’d fascinated me at Lorenzini’s cafe in the early 60’s fade away as the music changed. The Folk Attic simply fell apart as Dylan changed tack.
From putting my age up for years working, I now emotionally put it down. At first I wanted to be the girl with Dylan on the Freewheeling album cover and then by 1965’s end I wanted to be a political angry anti-war girlfriend soaking up the dark mystique of Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. I travelled musically with Dylan through to Blonde on Blonde in ’66 to Desire in ’76, by which time divorce and two children had brought about the end of the sort of reclaimed innocence that saw me party from ’63 to ’76. Great to relive it all a bit today with Hairy by my side, he who knew about the 60’s – with Dylan, The Beatles and The Stones – but had to wait till he was a Freshman in 1970 at Cambridge to make it truly his own lived generational experience.
Two other points about this arvo. The theatre stank of dirty damp velvet in uncleaned sagging seats, and Allegra Spender forced us to endure on the big screen her hideous paeon to herself as an ‘independent’ champion of Wentworth, which was too much for me. Get lost, I yelled out. You are not Independent. You’re a Teal, a Stepford Wife to Robert Holmes a Court. There weren’t many people there and no-one responded. Hairy said nothing but I don’t think he minded .. some of my old habits die hard. That ad must have cost a fortune, and Spender’s backer must be worried about losing.
Robert Holmes a Court has been dead for some years – don’t you mean his son, Simon?
Zulu, I think I may have simply said Holmes a Court, but of course I do mean Simon the King of Renewable Investments with his dad’s money.
Hard to be sure what name I used in the flush of the moment ..
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He was a mover and shaker in London’s theatrical milieu. Interesting!
Well done Lizzie!
I think I may have felt impelled by seeing a Jewish man, wearing a kippah hat on his head, and his wife, both seated a few rows in front of us, and feeling outraged that he had to hear this stuff and pay his money for it too. However, for all I know he might be one of the few who vote for Spender. Still outrage is outrage, just as we both felt when we yelled Long Live Israel on Christmas Eve at the Pallie protesters waving their flags outside Kings College in Cambridge as we went into the Nine Lessons and Carols at Kings’ Chapel to celebrate the birth of Christ, a Jew, in ancient Israel.
That sounds like a fine theatre! As a kid we once did a school tour in year 8, which included a night session in an outdoor cinema in Gulgong. The seats were canvas and I can’t recall what the movie was. But watching it under the starry sky was memorable.
Canvas slings like those in my home town I expect.
Seeing it next week
The actor playing Dylan (Timothee Chalamet) makes it all work, which is something of an achievement and the 60’s settings are a delight to relive again. Keep an eye on the cars and the tailfin styles. Enjoy.
For purists, WatchMojo has a ten point quick trip through the movie to show which parts actually happened and which were creative story-telling. In essence the movie was fairly true to its subject.
A lot of young girls go to see it not because they give a stuff about Dylan, it is because of Timothée Chalamet.
one of life’s mysteries is why such a scrawny young chap is of such interest to the fairer sex, and most annoying that was not the case when I was a scrawny young chap.
You dyed your blonde
hair black?
what’s wrong with you .
Did it one night in a fit of let’s see, and liked it, it became very shiny and made me look rather blue-eyed Irish with pale skin. My eyebrows and eyelashes have always been dark, so they matched.
Changed it back to blonde only in my early fifties for a softer look.
Had it red once, but not for long. Didn’t suit me at all.
Women are lucky like that, we can experiment with hair colour.
Men can too these days I guess, Or they can go baldie. Women only go baldie due to chemo treatment, and wear turbans.
Trump’s issue with the remitances is not to do with the payments per se, it is to do with the fact that the illegals have the headroom to generate free cash because they are receiving welfare.
So Bob and Rose’s potential savings for their kids schooling are going to Chico’s mum and dad via US taxes.
Trump is indeed correct.
And more specificaly, he is saying that there s no grounds for Mexico’s welfare obligation to be transferred to US taxpayers.
Just ban it Trumpo.
Get lost, I yelled out.
Ha ha I shout back at those obnoxious ads at the cinema too. Our local pretty boy apparatchik MHR had such an add.
Actually, a blow in – comes from canbra originally so need I say more?
Bons,
The loss of wealth isn’t felt through remittances transactions. In terms of your point it’s felt through the welfare payment itself going to illegals.
Eligibility of Central Land Council chair Warren Williams’ questioned as DV history raisedLiam Mendes
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The newly appointed CEO of the Central Land Council, Warren Williams, has a criminal record for domestic violence, including assault, being armed with an offensive weapon and multiple instances of contravening DVO, according to documents supplied to Jacinta Price in answers to Senate questions on notice.
Mr Williams’ criminal history has been slammed by Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who said it was “unacceptable” that he was participating in the closing the gap framework while having spent time in prison for breaching domestic violence orders, and called on the Albanese government to act.
Mr Williams was elected chair of the CLC – which represents 24,000 remote Indigenous people – in September last year despite the string of convictions which occurred between 2008 and 2015.
Mr Williams, a former assistant principal from Yuendemu, defending his position as chair, telling The Australian his predecessors also had criminal convictions.
It comes as Alice Springs traditional owner Benedict Stevens was forced to step down last month as chair of a community organisation tasked with stamping out domestic and youth violence in the crime-ravaged outback city after he beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault last year.
Senator Price called upon the Albanese government to intervene “immediately” and have Mr Williams removed as chair, and branded the saga as “yet another example of the racism of low expectations we apply when it comes to Indigenous organisations and leaders”.
“The (Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy) minister saw fit to intervene in the Anindilyakwa Land Council when she became aware that there were issues with the board, and she needs to immediately intervene in this case as well,” Senator Price said on Tuesday.
“We simply wouldn’t stand for this in any other organisation, but for some reason we have a different standard that is applied in cases like these.
“How absurd does the situation have to become before we say enough is enough?” Senator Price said. “The Central Land Council is an organisation that is heavily involved in the lives of some of the most marginalised and vulnerable Australians in our country, and yet it is being run by someone with a serious criminal history.”
Yet another bunch of thugs and crooks, aided and supported by the government who know very well what’s going on but it fits their creation of tribes who fight each other and leave the government alone.
Unfortunately the Western World is waking up.
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I don’t think he’d want to do that. People buy or invest in dollars because they believe there’s a 99% chance their property rights won’t be infringed upon or confiscated. Locking up remittances would cause people to question that stability. That isn’t where the problem lies, though. If illegals are receiving welfare, then stop that. Or, if it’s the states providing the welfare, reduce federal transfers to those states by the estimated amount. That seems to be the administration’s thinking.
We aretalking at two levels here. Chico has no understanding of what you are saying.
The Sydney council rate fiasco is yet another abysmal legacy of Mike Ban Greyhound Racing Baird.
Dylan fan also, as is Mrs Eyrie (47th wedding anniversary today) but will wait to see the movie.
That said “time is a jet plane it goes too fast” doesn’t hold a candle to “Time is the bridge that burns behind us” by the late, great SF author Poul Anderson.
Now I have to reread “The Boat of a Million Years”. Had to go find it, it was in the 4th bookcase I looked. Time flies.
Congratulations!
No – “ we wonna a put his ass in stud” , “ if your black you better not show your face unless you draw the heat” – hit it gypsy
Hurricane – Bob going out of control – hit it gypsy
The DOGE lads:
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Illegals getting federal welfare?
I’d be surprised if they can access any cash benefits unless it’s with false documentation.
They certainly do and in very large numbers. The thousands of fake SSN is just the start. California takes funds from hundreds of programs to divert the funds to illegals.
Trump’s definition of the fraud is spot on.
OK, but that’s at a state level.
Just stop the transfer of federal funds to states that maladminister them.
Which the DOGE team seem to have uncovered, with Federal Treasury payments to many thousands with no SSN or other identifier.
And some 20,000 users of the same SSN in Arizona, a hotbed of DemonRat election fixing.
I would assume that the Canadian refugee is spending less into his American environs, and now his lumberjack buddy is spending more into his Canadian environs.
While now Canada has $US 10,000 more in foreign reserves, I get the point that that will likely be used to buy US goods, I still can’t get past the fact that the Canadian lumberjack is most likely to spend his 14000 CAN locally, while the Refugee no longer has $10,000 to spend in America, on American local businesses.
Isn’t that US $10,000 in extra foreign reserves held in Canada more likely to go into the US government bond market, making it that the US is now paying interest to Canadia, and increasing the ability of the US federal government to pay useless USAID employees?
If the Canadian refugee stayed in Canadia, and a US resident did his work, local businesses, say the makers of peanut butter flavoured lube for example (none of that foreign maple syrup flavoured muck for our boy), would receive the $10,000. Meanwhile, Canadia would have US$10,000 less in foreign reserves, would purchase less US government bonds, the Federal government would be forced to pull it’s socks up and sack 1/15th of a federal employee.
Or pay a higher interest rate.
It wouldn’t be federal, Roger. It would be state.
As for medical, illegals can roll up to any public hospital in the US and can’t be turned away from ER.
That’s a form of welfare, I guess.
In which case, stop the transfer of federal funds to states that maladminister them until they mend their ways.
That’s simpler than messing with the remittances system.
I think that’s where Trump is heading.
Excellent!
Canada doesn’t have $10,000 in foreign reserves. Reserves are a different thing. Foreign currency reverses are foreign currency holdings held by the central bank, It’s not the same thing. The central bank has zero rights to the US$10,000. The deposit belongs to the gay boyfriend.
No it isn’t. The US isn’t paying a thing to Canada. That deposit belongs to the gay dude and the interest is paid by the bank who’s lent out the money to a borrower It has nothing to do with the two governments.
whoops reserves.
Jeez, I’ve been turned away from the ER in Australia, and I’m a citizen.
All they would say is, “The notes on file from your oncologist say you’re a c-nt … his words, not mine”.
I tell you, along with the Magistrate’s Court on a Monday, late night in ER can be a very special smorgasbord of humanity.
Adding in three chattering Mex families probably wouldn’t help.
Tell me about it.
It’s the border that’s the problem. Look, hospitals are just doing their job, which in the ER is to take care of sick people and also abide by the law—sick folks can’t be turned away from the ER. Also, they shouldn’t be.
-Centre for strategic international studies.
It measures to 4.5% of Mexico’s GDP. It’s not any part of GDP as far as remittances go, per se.
Sharri: how do we get get rid of anti-semitism?
Give me a break!
We didn’t have a problem until a certain toxic culture was allowed to come here under that marvellous wonderful feelgood policy called non-discriminatory immigration.
Dumb or malevolent bastards implement dumb and damaging policies.
Giving free care to anybody who rocked up resulted in some hospitals closing the ER. Problem solved!
Albo is shmoozing the Teals.
And the Teals are loving it. I have that on good authority.
They are looking forward to doing an Oakshott and Windsor with Albo.
My daughter texted me on my birthday…
You’re a great Dad . I wouldn’t be the street smart bitch I am today without your influence.
I was very chuffed
Well done, kudos.
Two dedicated pillow fluffers at the National Pillow Fluffing Association (NPFA) were fired by DOGE
Fluff with purpose. Lol. Pure comedy.
Vatican Cardinal: Immigrants ‘Terrorized’ by Trump Crackdown
Too bad about people terrorized by violent illegal immigrants. I don’t like the Roman Catholic church much anymore. Funny how precious they are about their own borders. No wonder people don’t go to church anymore.
Good.
Hopefully it’ll put off more coming.
Attendance at Catholic churches in the US have now returned to pre covid levels.
My parish is growing, young families with lots of children.
I love it.
People should not abandon God because the church is full of sinners.
It has always been that way.
That’s why have no need.
My parish has more people at mass now than before Covid. Hardly any middle aged still. Plenty
of young families.
Yep – it’s the laity who will save it – not the priests.
Workers’ remittances have been a key pillar of Sri Lanka’s foreign currency earnings providing a substantial cushion against the widening trade deficit and thereby enhancing the external sector resilience of the country. Being a major source of foreign exchange earnings, workers’ remittances have covered around 80 per cent of the annual trade deficit, on average, over the past two decades. Workers’ remittances are non-debt creating forex inflows to the country and unlike many merchandise export categories, there is no import content involved in this source of foreign exchange earnings.
Moreover, unlike many merchandise export categories, there is no import content involved in this source of foreign exchange earnings. Therefore, strengthening remittance inflows to the country brings several macroeconomic and socioeconomic benefits, mainly narrowing of the current account deficit of Balance of Payments (BOP), support economic growth, improve forex liquidity in the banking system, alleviation of poverty, income disparities and regional disparities, and, reducing the fiscal burden on social security payments.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) established the Foreign Remittance Facilitation Department (FRFD) on 03.11.2021 to facilitate and streamline workers’ remittances flows to the country. FRFD plays a key role in enhancing workers’ remittances into the country and to uplift the migrant workers’ welfare by liaising with other relevant authorities engaged in worker migration and remittances.
-Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka has a controlled currency – not a free float so it’s different.
Remittances are part of the current account. If Sri Lanka is running a trade deficit it has to
be running a surplus on the capital/ current account .
That’s the bit of the puzzle I have been missing, because the articles I have been reading are saying that it goes into the countries central bank foreign currency reserves, but you were saying that it doesn’t, but I just read one where it points out what you just said above, if the currency is floated it can completely nix the effect on central bank foreign currency held.
What about in the cases of countries that use the US dollar?
In the video featuring Ben Crocker, a University Dean at the University of Austin, he discusses the breakdown of democracy through the lens of Alexis de Tocqueville’s insights on modernity and democratic society. Crocker emphasizes Tocqueville’s understanding of democracy as more than just a governmental system but as shaping the “quality of soul” or character of the people. He encourages reading Tocqueville’s writings in full to grasp the complexities of democracy’s influence. Crocker discusses the challenges of modern democracy, suggesting it can dull individual greatness and create a widespread passive reliance on government. Through Tocqueville’s view, he explores how democratic equality could lead to societal and personal degradation, distancing people from communal life and shared values. He raises concerns about the modern administrative state, which Tocqueville predicted would slowly encroach on individual freedoms under the guise of benevolent oversight. Crocker also reflects on the implications for young Australians, urging them to invigorate a love of self-rule and actively participate in political life to counteract the growing reach of government. He concludes that fostering personal responsibility and civic engagement is crucial for resisting the potential oppressive nature of modern democratic states, as forewarned by Tocqueville.
Here is a genuine Cute Owl. 😀
https://x.com/Yoda4ever/status/1888968670489301315
For the record sitting on my porch today I had one young magpie on my shoulder and a second one on my knee. I was feeding them small bits of mince. They were happy, and so was I.
Owls are lovely birds. We’ve seen them a lot in Falconry exhibitions and the Arctic Zoo near Rovaniemie in Finland has an amazing collection of different Arctic owls, well displayed in huge aviaries where ‘spot the owl’ is a fascinating visual hunt. Hairy has such keen eyesight, like Finan in The Last Kingdom. He won our owl spotting contest without me spotting even one of them.
Lucky you. I’m envious. 😀
I also love Owls.
They are stone killers.
In that case there’s no central bank. Transactions are between private parties. The part of the economy transacting in cash has a deflationary impact on the US if circulation doesn’t make its way back. However it’s likely to be small, although globally it’s significant. Eg Drug and arms trade
A United America Is Democrats’ Undoing
The same holds true in Australia – Anal loves his victim classes, and that’s how, under the Uniparty, no problems are solved.
Border czar Tom Homan accuses FBI of ‘putting lives at risk’ by leaking ICE details about where next raids are
@DefiyantlyFree
Jamie Raskin’s wife previously served at the top levels of the treasury and the federal reserve during the Obama administration.
Raskin took eight months to disclose his wife’s sale of 195,936 shares of Reserve Trust, where she sat on the advisory board. This sale resulted in $1.5 million in profit for Raskin’s wife.
This was a violation of the Stock Act.
But that’s not the real story, the real stories is that in 2018, when she sat on the advisory board, the Fed granted Reserve Trust unusual access to its master account — an enviable get that allows the fintech company to move money for customers without relying on banks.
This was the only state chartered trust company in the country to get one.
And that’s why she got 1.5 million dollars in exchange.
You see why @RepRaskin is terrified of @elonmusk and DOGE auditing the treasury.
@elonmusk
At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR.
It’s not even close.
And Australia has the NDIS and whatever else. Oh yes, the $42 Billion pa to the Aboriginal Industry for one.
@MarioNawfal
PATRYK JAKI: I FACE THREE YEARS IN PRISON FOR JUST LIKING A POST
Leader of the European Conservatives in the European Parliament and Vice-president of the PiS party, Patryk Jaki:
“Lots of us are facing prosecution because we are talking for instance about immigration.
I faced three years in prison, now in a special trial in Poland because I simply pushed a like on X platform in the movie which described the real scenes of violence of migrants.
So now I have trial.
They are talking about the freedom and about the human rights but the fact they hate us, they hate this.
So our task is to explain the European citizens that you can say whatever you want but you should look into politicians acts, real acts.”
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE:
Judge John McConnell, the federal judge from Rhode Island who ordered the Trump admin and DOGE to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants has a daughter who currently works for the US Department of Education as a senior policy advisor and was appointed by @JoeBiden on Feb 14, 2022, which is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST since Trump and DOGE are planning to defund the Department of Education.
John J. McConnell Jr., Chief judge of the U.S. district court in Rhode Island, ordered the Trump administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” and accused the Trump admin today of failing to comply with his prior order to unfreeze funding.
The reason why Judge McConnell, a Democrat donor and activist wants Trump to restore funding is because his daughter, Catherine McConnell, is currently employed by the same Department of Education that President Trump and @elonmusk want to audit and DEFUND. She was appointed by Joe Biden and now her Dad is abusing his power to protect her paycheck.
This is a conflict of interest that Judge McConnell should have recused himself over, but he chose not to. He ruled against President Trump and abused his judicial power to protect his daughter’s livelihood at the bloated US Department of Education.
Why do all of these Judges who hate President Trump have conflicts of interests with their Democrat daughters?
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This is horrible.
@TheChiefNerd
BOEBERT: “Implant aborted baby parts into lab animals? Have you heard of that sort of research?”
GOODMAN: “Yeah. We did an analysis a few years ago showing that over 90% of experiments using human fetal tissue and putting them in animals were funded by Fauci’s NIAID.”
I think President Trump needs to restart the Nuremburg Trials.
Rita Panahi
‘Scandal’: USAID pushes ‘insane’ far-left agenda
@elonmusk
Bingo
@catturd2
Is that how Ozempic works?
It makes you blind so you can’t see how fat you are?
Ozempic used for weight-loss has some hideous side effects, claimed to be ‘rare’, but with widespread use there are quite a few people affected.
Destroying the optic nerve is one of them; so is a complete shutdown of the stomach (gastric pariesis) or general gut loss of peristalsis, which doesn’t always fix itself once Ozempic is stopped. Then there is pancreatitis, gall bladder problems, kidney failure, and a few other nasties. Ozempic is a systemic disrupter. I wouldn’t touch it for weight loss, take advice for various forms of diabetes.
Joe Rogan blasts ‘crazy’ USAID waste of taxpayer money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFZ0shtfTE
Here’s Dylan in 1976, Desire album. Black Diamond Bay. A favorite of mine, because islands and volcanos and existential threats and strange scenarios stir something in me, as do old passport photos and many iterations of the self. Santorini’s rocky cliffs have been shaking again recently too. Planes flying out.
Reminds me too of Myotte on our recent Indian Ocean cruise, the cruise ship pelting at double speed to avoid the cyclone that took that island out just after we left, tore apart some of the old colonial buildings that we saw, and swamped the market we visited, killing over a thousand people; and most people yawned when it made the news, cyclone on small island, some loss of life,
Bit of a Dylan Youtube fest going on here tonite between me and Hairy. I hear a sad eyed lady being serenaded in retrospect from the lowlands down the hallway.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 11, 2025 11:43 pm
Here’s Dylan in 1976, Desire album. Black Diamond Bay. A favorite of mine, because islands and volcanos and existential threats and strange scenarios stir something in me, as do old passport photos and many iterations of the self. Santorini’s rocky cliffs have been shaking again recently too. Planes flying out.
Reminds me too of Myotte on our recent Indian Ocean cruise, the cruise ship pelting at double speed to avoid the cyclone that took that island out just after we left, tore apart some of the old colonial buildings that we saw, and swamped the market we visited, killing over a thousand people; and most people yawned when it made the news, cyclone on small island, some loss of life,
Bit of a Dylan Youtube fest going on here tonite between me and Hairy. I hear a sad eyed lady being serenaded in retrospect from the lowlands down the hallway.
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I’ve been paying close attention to Santorini ….all the evacs etc. If it blows, all the islands in Aegean Sea are in trouble.
So is Crete, 60km or a bit more downstream, and liable to cop a huge tsunami.
It’s happened before.
Hope the tremors settle down and it’s nothing.
Mark Dice:
FEMA BUSTED – And More GREAT News! Haha!
The change of weather in Perth has been a blessing.
Sleep it is.
Yeah well if it rains on my charrdonnnnay I’ll be ropeable…
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Who. The f*ck. Upticked this.
Thanks Tom. I’d forgotten about this guy. Something is broken in his brain.
Arrrrghhh! I had forgotten how bad Rowe is.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Australian soccer star Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially harassing a British police officer.
Ms Kerr called Metropolitan Police Constable Stephen Lovell “stupid and white” amid a dispute over a taxi ride in January, 2023.
She remained expressionless and looked down as the not guilty verdict was read aloud to the Kingston-on-Thames Crown Court in London.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sam-kerr-found-not-guilty-of-racially-harassing-london-policeman-after-calling-him-stupid-and-white/ar-AA1yP2Lb?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=e6ff7b14d3924dadf1dc32429768f658&ei=12
I hope she has good advise to keep her trap shut.
Doubt if she will.
nope!
Just couldn’t help herself.
Yeah. Well. She only called him a stupid white a dozen times…. lex non curat triflum etc
De minimis lex non curat.
I think the verdict was sensible. A cop who is devastated by name-calling is pathetic.
Yes. The cop’s belated claim that he was intimidated looked like a recent invention designed to bolster the case against Kerr. In any event, her reputation, and that of her “wife”, are badly damaged.
Probably the correct decision at law. Now we move into the court of public opinion aka “the pub test”. Prediction: Kerr will not be Socceroos captain within 12 months of resuming playing. The criminal law is a fairly blunt instrument for regulating human behaviour. We saw it with Gillard’s defence of Craig Thomson – both were gone at the earliest opportunity.
There was a young man called Rex
Who had diminutive organs of sex
On a charge of exposure
He said with composure
De minimus non curat lex
It’s a real thing in the world of litigation.
Only if you’re black being racist; if you’re white being racist it’s the end of the fuking world.
Somehow always knew the two teir result would eventuate.
They just had to have the show to put a veneer a legitimacy over it.
There’d be some in jail atm sentenced for saying the same thing only that was to a black or subcontinental.
I expected this and (leaving aside the shadenfreude we felt when a brown person was finally charged with racial abuse of a white) its a good thing for the following reasons
1) ‘White’ is not an insult, and even if it was, do we really want to set the standard where insulting someone is a criminal offence?
2) Much rested on whether the PC truly felt offended intimidated etc … this a dangerous standard as it cements in place the ‘hecklers veto’ – your conduct becomes criminal if I say I was offended. That’s a dangerous precedent also.
That precedent has already been set.
Have to wonder what the jury was thinking.
Hopefully it’s because they refused to prosecute anyone under this bad law.
But the possibility of a rascist jury who were taken in by tall tales of power and privilege can’t be entirely discounted.
Good read.
Oldest aboriginal culture?
Laurens van der Post (1906–1996) was a South African writer, explorer, and conservationist renowned for his work on the indigenous San people, also known as Bushmen, of the Kalahari Desert. In 1955, commissioned by the BBC, he led an expedition into the Kalahari to document the lives of the San, resulting in the acclaimed six-part documentary series “Lost World of the Kalahari” (1956).
Mark Steyn, read it.
Horrifying in its normality.
850 knifings per WEEK!
Way to go, impeach crooked judges!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-rep-eli-crane-drafts-articles-impeachment-against/
Macron calls everyone anti nuclear power a retard.
Watch the ABC & smh/age fall over themselves to report this today @sarc
Tsarathustra
@tsarnick
Emmanuel Macron says France’s nuclear energy capacity gives them a great advantage to run AI data centers because there is no need to drill but only “plug, baby, plug”
https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1889064192654942578
Today’s Tele:
GIRL, 15, ‘RAPED IN CARPARK’
AYMON BERTAH AND WILLIAM TYSON
12 Feb 2025
A man accused of pulling a knife on a teenage girl, stealing her phone and raping her in a carpark in broad daylight has a history of using weapons and approaching women at train stations, a court has heard.
Police allege Abdullah Allywa, 37, approached the 15-year-old girl at Lidcombe Railway Station, in Sydney’s west, on Sunday morning before the pair went to a nearby carpark.
There, Allywa allegedly pulled out a blade and stole the girl’s iPhone 11.
“Police will allege the man then sexually assaulted and sexually touched the girl before she ran from the carpark,” NSW Police said in a statement.
Officers were called to the area about 10am Sunday and established a crime scene.
On Monday, they arrested Allywa at a home on Alice St at Newtown.
Allywa was remanded in custody before he faced Newtown Local Court yesterday, charged with the aggravated sexual assault of a victim under 16 and robbery armed with an offensive weapon. He was yet to enter pleas yesterday.
In documents tendered to the court, police allege Allywa knew the girl had not consented to sexual activity.
Allywa’s lawyer Sharmila Jordan-Mee told the court her client had instructed her he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had an intellectual disability, which would make him “particularly vulnerable” if he remained in custody rather than in the community, where he would continue to see a psychiatrist fortnightly. She added Allywa needed to care for multiple family members, including a father and sister with cancer.
Ms Jordan-Mee said her client was willing not to go back to Lidcombe and abide by strict bail conditions.
She said there was “no reason (Allywa) would encounter” the alleged victim because they did not know each other.
However, the police prosecutor said Allywa’s previous convictions included offences relating to victims who were “unknown” to him and his potential release would be a risk to the “community in general”.
The prosecutor submitted that Allywa had a history of using weapons and seemed to have “little regard for public safety”.
She added that Allywa was a “dangerous offender to have in the community”, having previously approached a woman at a train station with scissors.
The prosecutor said Allywa had also previously approached a man with a knife and asked him to “suck his c..k” in an encounter that had a “sexual overtone”.
She also said Allywa was likely to be sentenced to a lengthy period in custody if convicted.
Magistrate Alexander Mijovich ultimately denied Allywa bail, noting his “lengthy criminal history” and describing the prosecution case as strong.
“The protection of the community of course (is) paramount,” he said.
The matter is due to return to court in April.
More ‘cultural enrichment.’
See Gabors post above of France February 12, 2025 5:13 am
The bastards always have an excuse for their barbaric behaviour and why they shouldn’t be punished.
But how can the lawyer make such a promise when the accused is a schizophrenic? It appears that the lawyers are a greater danger to the law abiding than the criminals. They seem not to have any concern for anyone else’s safety but the criminal’s. The final word was the magistrate’s and I’m glad that bail was refused.
It appears that the lawyers are a greater danger to the law abiding than the criminals.
A variation of ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’?
If we deport the whole family – I wonder if any have ever worked? – then the stabby pervert can continue to care for family members. Everyone happy.
This is an amusing exchange where some numpty in the UK tries to tell a reporter that Hamas has shown kindness to their captives.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1889332259897139663
It’s amusing on one level, but not on another. The mad woman is a journalist (from the subtext I gather she was at one time a Taliban captive).
This is classic Stockholm Syndrome, and also something more insidious. Belief in “socials” and all the garbage therein. There is another one on Sky who has the same problem, without enduring actual captivity. Her “socials” have informed her way beyond any semblance of reality. Multiply that by tens of thousands who gaze at their devices, believing all they see.
And then even dismissive homo-erotic cartoons like Pope’s above make sense.
Calli,
I remember Yvonne Ridley well.
She is from the same family of “jismsts” as Fisk.
Yes, she was captured by the Taliban but, she was well on the way to anti-West and anti-Israel long before she became the Taliban’s favourite house guest.
Look up her history, if you have the stomach for it.
One more thing to add, she was a good friend of Cherie Blair.
Most likely still is.
For a horrible moment there, I thought I’d fallen for a clever bit of satire. But no…it’s real.
The whole thing.
Thanks, Calli, for the full story. I got half way through and couldn’t put up any more with this strange earnest woman mouthing Hamas lies. The interviewer was fierce, and that was good and quite a change from the usual Hamas lite journos that we see.
Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Gender Ideology Websites
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-federal-judge-orders-trump-admin-restore-gender/
US District Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a George W. Bush appointee, ordered Trump to restore the pages by midnight tonight.
Last month, President Trump scrubbed public health websites of all things related to “gender ideology.”
A group dubbed Doctors For America sued the Office of Personal Management and numerous government agencies, claiming the removal could prevent doctors from helping patients.
I would urge everyone to read this. On 6 February 2025 J.K. Rowling posted this on X……….
This ‘why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?’ line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.
Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women’s and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. It’s also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.
Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who’ve dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.
When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren’t likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6’4″ rapist who’s decided his name’s now Dolores. They don’t need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don’t want penises swinging around the girls’ showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.
Those who’ve benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren’t theirs.
The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who’ve resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you’d be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you’ll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.
I think Ms Rowling has said it best.
Memo to those Liberal senate ‘moderates’ (Jane Hume, Andrew Bragg, Maria what’s her name and others) who crossed the floor to vote with Labor and the Nazi Greens against Pauline Hanson’s motion to protect minors against this transperversion bullshit, hear this…..
You will NOT be getting my vote, not this year, not ever.
Rowling cuts right through to the chase. Excellent. Especially the bit now about the enablers getting rid of the evidence. Hume, Bragg and their ilk however have been far too public to do that, so let’s go get ’em.
Maybe AI learned this from journalists.
BBC: ‘Significant Inaccuracies’ in AI Generated News Reporting (11 Feb)
It’s been a long running issue that AI often makes stuff up, like imaginary citations in law or science. No surprise then that it does so for news too.
AI is like a journalist then?
Very good.
Maybe DOGE should look into who has been programming AI which did not decide on anything by itself. It is simply a very complex program but a program nonetheless.
And yet people feel it would be AOK to trust AI with their medical diagnoses and treatments?
I want to pick my doctor’s brains in person, thanks.
I got a SMS from a polling company. Questions asked were gender and stance on nuclear energy. Obviously my answer was PRO on the latter.
In culture war news:
A NOTAM is back to being a Notice to Airmen after the Trump administration issued an order today to reverse a Biden-era gender-neutrality move. In December of 2021, the FAA changed the term to Notice to Air Missions as part of what it termed a modernization of the NOTAM system and specifically making the flight hazard and airspace notifications “inclusive of all aviators and missions.
I can’t see what was wrong with making the term non-gendered.
This new move just seems spiteful.
Especially if you consider that autonomous UAVs have to be capable of understanding digital NOTAMs. No human onboard at all, just a “mission”.
Could someone please tell me how Australia can make aluminium with wind solar and batteries? Green hydrogen that is lots old electricity to turn water into hydrogen to make electricity is in trouble
It can’t. aluminium production needs megagobs of cheap, reliable power supply.
Things Australia used to have and why we have an aluminium industry.
Take one unicorn fart, mix gently with rainbow beams, apply one neuron from Bowen…… ah I see the problem.
Today’s Tele Editorial:
HATE STALKING UNI YOUNGSTERS
This would have been an unimaginable situation even a few short years ago. Not here. Not in our peaceful, beautiful city.
But as The Daily Telegraph reports, a high-security “safe room” has been set up for Jewish students at Sydney’s Macquarie University – to help those students survive the growing anti-Jewish threat here and worldwide.
Unimaginable a few years ago. But desperately needed now, after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on innocent Israelis in 2023 unleashed a bloodthirsty loathing against terrorism’s victims and targets.
It is appalling that October 7 should have been the catalyst for further anti-Jewish hatred. In any proper circumstance, all support and emotion should have been behind the global community imperilled by demented Palestinian extremism.
Instead, as we saw in Sydney almost instantly following October 7, deadly malice was directed at Jews and Israel.
That same malice quickly found a home at Sydney’s universities, which is why Jewish students now require protection.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin makes a further point. While a safe area is now established at Macquarie University, what about the wider campus? What about areas of the university that used to be and should be safe at all hours for all students?
“Universities have a legal obligation to ensure that Jewish students can study and engage in all aspects of campus life in peace and security,” Ryvchin said.
“When students feel they need a sanctuary to escape their tormentors,” Ryvchin added, “that should shock us all.”
This is true, and it raises a vital question. If Macquarie University is sufficiently alert to anti-Jewish tormentors on its campus that it provides a safe room, why does it not deal directly with those tormentors?
If the risk of assault and violence is so real – and it is – the university needs to expel dangerous students or urgently call in the police to have them charged or removed from the university’s grounds.
Make the whole university safe.
This has been my opinion since day fricken one:
“…the university needs to expel dangerous students AND urgently call in the police to have them charged AND removed from the university’s grounds.”
All universities.
Nothing bloody hard about it.
Salty salty tears…
Mental Health Experts See Massive Increase In “Despair And Burn Out” Among Democrats (12 Feb)
Well at least you aren’t being debanked, thrown into jail without trial, banned from social media and demonetized, or losing your job. Oh wait not that last one, you are losing your worthless government sinecure paid for by righties’ taxes. Learn to code.
Today in History.
By Nick Pearson
February 12, 2025 – 5:15AM
The government of China issued a directive on February 12, 1958, leading to the extinction of sparrows in the country.
As part of leader Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, China’s Central Committee announced the Four Pests campaign, aimed at wiping out rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows.
Sparrows were blamed for eating nearly 2kg a grain per bird every year, and killing them was seen as a way to boost agricultural productivity.
The birds were poisoned, killed with slingshots, or tormented with loud noises so they avoided landing for long they died of exhaustion.
The war on sparrows was a huge success, wiping out the birds across China.
But the ramifications were huge. Sparrows were the primary predator of locusts, which ate grain far more voraciously.
The famine which began during the Great Leap Forward is estimated to have killed as many as 30 million people.
Blackout Bowen says “hold my non alcohol Beer”.