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Isn’t there an effect of reducing m2 within the US?
But domestic violence wasn’t part of traditional culture – the evil whitefella brought it with him.
Not after you deport them.
They used our money to give themselves a rails run post public office. They all do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.