I’m a doctor on the frontlines of America’s colon cancer crisis The graph showing the rise for 2001 onwards is…
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Week In Pictures.
You just can’t get the quality these days.
Superb.
Indolent February 15, 2025 7:45 pm Tucker interview. He’s speaking in English.Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration,…
‘The Justice Stick Is Coming’: John Kennedy Issues Warning To Those Opposed To Federal Audits
Bankstown being Bankstown.
‘I stand with them’: The shocking moment a man in Bankstown throws his support behind disgraced nurses who made antisemitic death threats (Sky News, 13 Feb)
I suspect his’s is a very popular view in that and adjacent suburbs.
That is so sad. I wonder who they will vote for in the “Genewal Ewection”?
BTW, I was using “Albo Speak” and his lisp. There was a bit of Benny Hill in there as well –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHV5iI9XoQ
Benny would do a better job as PM then Albo.
BTW, Benny was trying desperately hard to keep a straight face in that clip.
LOL.
I agree. Such a funny Man. Sadly missed.
Congratulations Mustafa!!!
You’re now on a Watch List!!!
Empty flex.
See “he was on our radar”
I’ll take “surveys that will never be done” for $200 thanks Alex.
A must see.
JUST IN: Matt Taibbi Takes Aim At John Kerry, USAID In Direct Warning Of Threats To Free Speech
Princess Peta Credlin is having another night off. It’s obviously so stressful having to produce 3 hours of TV a week plus the ad breaks. Tonight, Steve Price is the man left drinking Peta’s bathwater.
Do you know where she is and what she is investigating? I doubt she is having nights off.
Steve has a head for radio!
Didn’t he used to be in Thunderbirds are Go!
more like The Project should go!
I think she has come down with a cold. She had a rough voice the other night.
When the Daily Mail comes out against the riff raff, then you know the shit is hitting the fan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14391819/bankstown-hospital-nurses-antisemitism-Rashad-Nadir-Sarah-Abu-Lebdeh.html
If Hamas have any brains at all, they’d release Shiri, Ariel and Kfir alive on Saturday.
(It’s now circulating they are being held by a different terror group)
Apparently a few face saving caravans was enough for them to decide to return to the original ceasefire agreement.
Hamas wanted 60,000 RVs. Probably for themselves. It was amusing.
Send them Toyota EV’s
Send them goats.
How I pray that the mum and her little babies are still alive.
Newt Gingrich: Democrats are watching this ‘with terror’
Jesse Watters: Trump is a true humanitarian
WTAF????
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.
Department of Government Efficiency on X
Surely a pisstake?
Apparently not.
Happens in India. Wot’s the problem? LOL
Musk mentioned the process during the presser in the Oval Office.
I had visions of the Lost Ark.
Nope.
From what I’ve heard, the employees are mostly related and want to keep their unproductive jobs.
They’ve resisted automation and digitisation for decades.
It’s a bit like the ABC.
An angle I just thought up was to look at the paperwork of people working there and who had retired. How quickly was their paperwork put through?
Not a pisstake, and neither is this:
BREAKINGNSW30 minutes ago
Nurses in vile video banned from practising in AustraliaA nurse who vowed to “kill” Israeli patients and another who claimed he had already sent Israeli patients to the afterlife have now been banned from practising “anywhere in Australia, in any context”
Daily Tele.
The one that was given Citizenship should be booted out immediately. And it should be front page news and on every TV Station – ALL week.
No ‘moral arbiter’: Douglas Murray takes aim at South Africa’s ‘misgovernment’
Cyclone up north looks like she did a little loop-da-loop in the last 8 hours; very unpredictable methinks!
Tropical Cyclone Forecast Track Map Image – System 2
Next in the series…
Albanese & Co.: Holding a Pillow Over Australia’s Economy
Dr. John Campbell
Excess deaths in young adults
Time for a cute owl: from the future showing the eternal nature of the duties of the dutiful house/spaceship wife:
Is that Mrs Jetson?
If so, I’d like to be Mr. Jenson.
I mean Jetson. Too many “sherberts” tonight already.
Wot?
No robot window cleaners?
Robby the Robot was in for repairs.
hahahah, Cohenite, you’d end up with Rosie the Robot!
In the 2002 Feral Guv’ment Ewection, Lispy ‘Albo Sleazy’ promised a lot of things.
Well, the only one that he delivered on was ‘Transparency’.
You know why? Cos’ we can see right through him.
Whoops I mean 2022.
Sounds like qa good line for Peter Dutton to hammer again and again
Ex-USAID Chief Samantha Power’s Net Worth Spikes From $6.7M To $30M On A $180K Salary
sounds legit
She bought Bit Coin at $2 a coin. Legit. LOL.
Speaking of cute owls: Tulsi celebrating her new role:
Video | Facebook
A bit heavy in the biceps for my liking…
And why did she save her “warning shot” for last?
Victor Davis Hanson: Germany’s ‘Slow-Motion Suicide’
Maybe it is time for hospital staff to wear cameras like police officers so their actions can be monitored. I know there are issues of privacy but things have changed.
I wonder what this does to insurance rates for medical practitioners at this hospital.
Never have one staff member alone with a patient?
Yes.
From the item on Michael Smith, it sounds as the staff demography trends strongly toba specific group.
Who will always cover for each other.
Bankstown is a singular case.
My suggestion was a general one.
The first thing to do at Bankstown is to review all staff & their social media for anything that suggests views contra to their vocations as health carers and anything illegal. I’m assuming the authorities have ways of detecting deleted posts.
Or two mussies alone with the patient.
Point is moot though, when more than fifty percent of the staff are mussies.
Er, the two Jew Killers looked like they worked in cahoots.
See above re Bankstown being a singular situation.
Ready to pay for a doubling of staff?
Doubling up is already necessary for some tasks.
Adjust current work practices accordingly.
And centrally placed security cameras already exist.
Muzzies cover for each other.
Do I have to do all the thinking around here?
Sheesh!
Sorry guys, it just doesn’t work like that.
Patients won’t tolerate being filmed in private situations.
Is that true that filthy ol’ Frankie’s never been back to Argentina? He really is a nasty piece of work.
Bolta sick of BJ prevaricating about whether multiculturalism should be scrapped. FMD the lnp are gutless.
I argued from day one, many years ago, that Australia could be multi racial, but should never be multicultural, but did anyone listen? of course not.
100% agree ….. Race = skin colour, eye morphology, body shape etc etc (ie HARDWARE). Culture = the sum total of all the beliefs and habits and rules that make up how you act in life (= SOFTWARE, or more accurately, the operating system of the society).
And just like computers, if you try to run multiple sets of OS at the same time, you get conflicts and crashes.
Barnaby rattling away, clacking like a demented castanet. He’s incoherent. Why does Bolt have him on?
Long false equivalencies, rambling stories, zero cut through. He’s incapable of saying yes or no. Slurring words.
What’s going on?
His new missus is the brains of the family; and she has rooted the old goat brain dead.
He’s like a faulty robot, been around too long, the software won’t work on such an old model, re-boot won’t do just a boot and be done with it.
He’s drunk.
Banarnaby is well passed his use by date.
Presumably Bolt his him on because he’s contracted and/or nobody else from parliament is willing to appear on his show. Viewers ‘d be subject to a Bolta monologue instead. Riveting stuff, either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG7JAM6DQnM
much better looking robot!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-amends-cbs-60-minutes-225329125.html
CBS asked the beak to throw out the case.
He refused. This will be fun.
Prof. Keyu Jin: What Americans GOT WRONG About China’s Economy
FMD.
Apparently the National Sorry Day.
Old mate in Canberra, or whatever, walking out playing didgeridoo, in a nice casual suit.
On SBS after watching Jeopardy.
Again, FMD
Did the Romans ever do a Sorry Day for enslaving the Celts/Brits all those years ago? And if so, when is the next one and who pays?
This is Rogan’s second interview with Benz, and is almost three and a half hours long. He has an encyclopaediac knowledge of the deep state and how it operates.
Joe Rogan Experience #2272 – Mike Benz
This is most encouraging. The Pres of Slovinia has written to the WH asking for full details of all NGO’s in Slovina, or involved with Slovina, that were funded by USAID.
Hopefully, numbers of nations undermined by USAID will follow suit.
Do you have a link, bons?
Learnings (the Hun):
Bashed? Fine. Killed? Also fine. The extra step. Well….
This really does sound like a no-loss situation to Joe and Jane Taxpayer.
Oh. A guest.
Buy the ticket, ride the ride.
There’s some comedy value in this. Right now Mr Holland will be talking it up to his prison mates (for undoubtedly he is a piece of shit himself), lamenting:
‘Ohhhh yeah mate, I’d be out scot free if I hadn’t kept putting the gun barrel up his arse.’
Words to live by.
“Words to live by.”
Lol.
Good Lord.
Almost Darwinism in real time.
Somewhat reminiscent of the legendary Butch’s watch scene in Pulp Fiction.
KD, you’ll probably enjoy this tale of woe. I did! 😀
Court orders mental health assessment of sovereign citizen hit with slew of charges after traffic stop (13 Feb)
Orbán & Fico Reveal USAID’s Hidden Agenda— Hail Trump for Crushing Its Meddling Machine!
JC – let’s put it this way, I don’t think we’re going to see a dumbocrat administration in the US any time soon (i.e. not within the next twelve years, possibly longer).
Also the carmakers can look forward to significantly reduced energy costs, less ridiculous and restrictive regulation and (hopefully) increased demand for their product due to a booming economy. The last would be more likely if they also focussed on manufacturing and selling cars people actually want to buy.
So mothball the EV focused capital or repurpose it, carmakers and let a million vehicles inspired by such automotive classics as the Edsel and Pinto bloom (in more ways than one).
Don’t blame the mosque, he is the mosque.
https://x.com/JGademski/status/1889946777501180064?t=4wQwcAwuaU0x1OfEye64Bg&s=19
Vision emerges of anti-Semitic video nurse Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir leading mosque in martyrdom prayer (13 Feb)
?
The nurse who was reprimanded appears to be of a somewhat dusky complexion.
But is presumably of the wrong religious back ground.
For Cats with an interest in the Stock market – Wesfarmers shares are trading at a record high – I’ll forgive them their support for the “Voice”..
CBA also. And they’ve just declared a yummy dividend.
I bought them at the bottom of the GFC for $26 per share.
I nearly bankrupted myself, buying blue chips at the bottom of the GFC…
I bought Cochlear Shares for $2.50 in the Share Float in 1994. I also bought lots of Shares years ago. Now I am selling them and having fun.
*CBA also. And they’ve just declared a yummy dividend.
I bought them at the bottom of the GFC for $26 per share.*
Bought in the partial privatisation first tranche with employee discount. Topped up when the govt sold the second lot. Got a couple of $1000 lots as part of annual employee bonuses and have partially reinvested dividends over the years.
Actual cash spent by me, around $6k. Current value of holding around 270k. Plus pretty good dividend steam over the years.
Best investment ever!
Best investment ever!
I will see you your CBA and raise you the BTC i bought in 2015 for $800 (now 150k)
Bankstown hospital know very well they have a muslim problem. They allowed propals to post lots of stuff on their official social media (which they have now apparently scrubbed) and apparently made no objections to their staff wearing their scrubs identifying them as Bankstown employees to pally rallies.
(The nurse and midwife network encouraged staff to wear scrubs to rallies)
I’m guessing muslims have the numbers at western Sydney hospitals to call the shots.
Shazza – stop running interference for Dr Mutton, on our out of control immigration debacle.
He is not the solution, he is part of the problem.
https://x.com/taipan168/status/1889861449658540502#m
My goodness, what a useless hypocrite Dr Mutton is.
So we should vote Labor?
Don’t be a dork, mate.
Oh f*ck off, you sanctimonious dickhead.
BTW, Canterbury hospital in Sydney would be every bit as toxic as Bankstown hospital, if not worse.
Yep.
Bangkok might be a better option.
Aziza is one kick arse Jet of a cook.
Enjoy the show. People that watch Masterchef on the sheep box ….. f*ck off!
Country Life Vlog:
Baking Chicken Legs in a Dough Bags
Yeah in good hands. Daily Telegraph:
How many times does the khunt in the Lodge get to say this? How many more firebombs, how many more anti Semitic marches, how many more school harrassment before Australia says enough?
Marles earlier saying this government has done more to protect Jews like the recent speech laws, how there’s more police presence.
Give me a phucking spell. You have actively fomented this behaviour. Get out.
There should be no place in Australia for these people and their supporters. Perhaps Canberra hospital could employ them
Rushed to a Pilates class after work and ran into a work colleague (who’s also Jewish). She said her brother-in-law, a doctor, had worked at Bankstown Hospital and that the place was and is a cesspit of Jew hatred.
Sharri Markson is throwing hand grenades tonight…….good!
She’s brilliant.
Also alerting us to some Muslim artiste who used the September 11 attacks for some art shit. Won the prize, Tony Burke distances himself from the judging.
Both deregistered. Surprisingly quick.
I guess the Council didn’t get the joke.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/bankstown-hospital-nurses-charged-after-antisemitic-rant-caught-on-camera/news-story/69efaacf38add2d8819af31eb6bc310f
Aha. I win a hundred dollar bet with Hairy. He said the union would hold up deregistration and that the muzzies would play the Tribunal card re their dismissal. I said this is too big and too nasty and all Australia hates it for that to fly; the union will capitulate fast as the Health Minister more or less implied by saying yesterday he had been immediately in touch with the union and in my view had put up bomb up them for swift action.
Lizzie,
Hairy may yet keep his money.
According to the official statement from Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, they scum have only been suspended.
Watch this space.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860f9790f200d-pi
Yep. Here we are at eleven o’ the clock watching Sky After Dark, and Hairy is saying he’s not handing over the casho yet, as he desultorily peruses the internet while watching with one, eye only, as is his wont.
He’s fired too many people and reshaped too many organisations to be impressed with immediate action; he knows how wily you have to be to get around the various roadblocks the left have put in any reformer’s way – which is why, I guess, until he called it a day, the headhunters were always after his services. He has the tenacity of a bulldog.
Sharon Stoliar, appearing on Sharri, is confirming what I’ve thought and said over many many years, including here on these pages. That Bankstown Hospital, the various health unions , the health department and so on have all been corrupted by far-left ideology, and that we are witnessing is inevitable result of years of radical politicisation of government departments and services.
The very ugly and fat Islamist Sarah Abu Lebdeh, who proudly desires to kill Jews, now banned from practising nursing (hopefully for life), resides with her putrid family in a lower middle class suburb called Condell Park, now an Islamist shithole.
You see, I know why the police are yet to visit her house in Condell Park to talk to her or charge her because they’re shit scared that if they do there will be a riot in the suburb. The NSWaffen don’t want confrontation, they’re scaredy-cats. It is very clear NSWaffen have ceded our city streets and suburbs to Islamist and leftist scum.
I’ll just reiterate this, I have been right about the NSWaffen since Monday night, 9 October 2023. But this problem goes back to Cronulla in 2005.
100%. as if they wouldn’t be at you door mob handed arresting you on suspicion of having committed a hate crime if the shoe were on the other foot. Gutless.
A friend used to be a NSW copper and he said when the Lebo young men played up, they would go to where their fathers were hanging out and smash up the place and tell them to pull their sons into line or they would.
They’d tell them, “We’re the biggest gang around here.”
Looks like a few muslim hangouts need a visit from old-time cops.
I never knew Australia had its own pollie called Buttplug. He certainly lives up to his name. I found this clip at Breitbart. Good stuff from John Ruddick and Mark Latham. Then Buttplug invokes the F**king Whitlam/Grassby concept of multiculturalism.
Who the f**k is this creep?
https://x.com/JohnRuddick2/status/1889591787020251149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889591787020251149%7Ctwgr%5E6ec1f2d049dd328b0c8db14f84c9d244f96f5d3b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feurope%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Faustralian-nurses-suspended-after-boasting-they-would-kill-israeli-patients%2F
Just because we are importing hatred is not a reason to stop the current migration practice. That nong just damned himself and his whole party.
Does this guy know who he’s screwing with?
That’s half the CIA gone right there.
Jason Bourne has just been given a new target!
Whatever happened to the good old days where the USA was thought of as the good guy and probably should be spreading its influence through the world via USAID and yes even the CIA.
If Musk DOGEifies the CIA then Uncle Sam may have to be satisfied with leading by example from afar. The masters of the universe toppled by a penny-pincher.
Oh I got downvoted for that? Allow me to double down.
https://x.com/taipan168/status/1889783847400710316#m :
All hail the Deep State!
LOL
oh … so you’ve got even more logical fallacies ?
I think the idea might be to rebuild some of this soft influence capacity but make it closer to the heart’s desire. Destroy first. Then see how much of it you might need, how it might be useful.
Regarding Elon and the Dogies….
There’s a man going around taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won’t be treated all the same …
The man comes around
Joe Hildebrand beclowning himself. Again.
Denouncing the upper middle class Left for allowing Muslims to preach this hatred, of which he part of, yet bizarrely saying that all immigrants are to blame by association by being new Australians.
“We must crack down!”
Farketh me sideways.
He has to do it, says so in his contract.
From a Facebook post: Peter Dutton: “If you don’t share our values, if you’re here, and you’re enjoying the welfare system, and you’re enjoying free health and free education, then at the same time you hate our country, well, I don’t think you’ve got a place here.”
Well Peter, that’s the whole problem. They HAVE got a place here.
Wouldn’t be a problem if they weren’t here in the first place. What part of everywhere they are turns into a shiitehole. EVERYWHERE!
Till he has the Senate & HOR in a significant majority it’s all hollow posturing.
He needs to overcome the soft left faction of his party then pass laws to effect this.
I’d even say hold a referendum ammending the immigration clause in s51 to cancel judges.
Yeah know it’s a pipe dream though…
I would guess that all non-Muslim recently arrived and naturalised people would vote in favour. Everyone has had a gutful of their hatred for Jews at present but eventually for the rest of us.
@JimFergusonUK
THEY LIED: COVID NOW OFFICIALLY LESS DEADLY THAN THE FLU—JUST LIKE “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” SAID ALL ALONG!
It was never about public health—it was about control.
The CDC’s latest data confirms it: COVID-19 now has a LOWER mortality rate than seasonal flu. Yet, for years, governments locked us down, destroyed businesses, and forced experimental vaccines on millions.
Why? To panic the population. To push an agenda. To coerce as many people as possible into taking their shots.
WAS IT JUST ABOUT MONEY? OR WAS IT SOMETHING MUCH DARKER?
?
QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED:
Why did governments and Big Pharma manipulate the data and silence anyone who questioned the narrative?
How many lives were destroyed because of their lies?
If COVID was never the apocalypse they claimed, then what was the REAL reason they needed you vaccinated?
The truth is finally coming out. The conspiracy theorists were RIGHT. The question is: Will the people who pushed this global hysteria ever be held accountable?
The currently observed case fatality rate includes the effect of two important phenomena: 1) the virus mutated over time and became less deadly than the original strain, and 2) the population gained immunity to it through a combination of vaccination and natural infection.
To treat the current CFR as though the virus always had that CFR is ignorant.
Why don’t you have a think about how idiotic your comment is?
If one virus particle of the trillions of virus particles mutates, what happens to the other virus particles?
They’re still there presumably. So, if the virus exists, it can only ever get worse and no organism could live.
Therefore, no virus exists.
QED.
They’re still there presumably. So, if the virus exists, it can only ever get worse and no organism could live.
Faulty logic based upon a failure to understand ‘what victory looks like’ for a virus – viruses (like all life*) exist to reproduce and the most successful reproduce the most. Darwinian forces reward the virus that evolves to invisibly infect everyone, not the virus that evolves to kill its host.
*Without wishing to enter into a discussion about 1) whether viruses exist 2) whether viruses are alive
When I said “can only get worse” I mean overall. The virus that mutates might be more harmless and, more “successful”, but it can’t lead to *less* harm overall because there are still the old viruses around and in no less a number.
The whole thing is so ridiculous though I don’t even know why it’s controversial.
The moment scientists found out that germs were ubiquitous the entire germ theory should have been scrapped. Imagine if nobody knew how much nitrogen was in the atmosphere and someone said that nitrogen was highly toxic – then people discovered it was ubiquitous. The nitrogen toxin theory would immediately
immediately be falsified.
it can’t lead to *less* harm overall because there are still the old viruses around and in no less a number.
Incorrect, each new variant that gets a foothold rapidly replaces the previous …. Omicron vs delta in the Covid example
Rubbish. I never got the Jabs/Boosters and never got the Virus. The last time I had Flu was in 1972. I know my body and Immune System.
I’m mystified by the pharma records being sealed for 60 years. Why particularly when such a thing has never been given to manufacturers of any other drugs?
Chuck Schumer Behind Lawfare Against Trump: Tied To His Brothers Law Firm
Dems exhaust the last of their credibility with a false Trump ‘constitutional crisis’
Trump Calls for Department of Education to Be ‘Closed Immediately’
Oh look! A Unicorn!
Here come the distractions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14392705/Police-investigate-shocking-photo-Australian-football-fans-image-condemned-deliberate-salute-pure-evil.html
@amuse
DOGE: EPA head @LeeZeldin has exposed a scheme orchestrated by the Biden regime to funnel $20B to Democrat NGOs after leaving office. Biden’s EPA collaborated with Citibank to launder Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund money through the bank, enabling it to distribute it to the NGOs.
Hamas says it will release hostages as planned, apparently resolving cease-fire dispute
DOGE website goes live, providing detailed information about the organization’s work
Andrew Lawrence
Why Britain loves Trump…
The ABC worker soviet will be furious that this
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/victoria-ombudsman-child-sexual-abuse-report/104930932
got through the vetting process. The Stalinist comrades from the public-sector teachers’ unions could never do such things! Just ask Commissioner McClellan.
‘Not normal’: eSafety Commissioner accused of ‘misusing’ powers
Two interesting points about Nurse Nadir, one is that yes he’s Afghani but he isn’t a Pashtun, he belongs to the ethnic Hazeri group (persecuted by the Taliban) and he’s a follower of Shia Islam (usually a little more moderate than the Taliban supporting Pashtuns). Second, Nadir refers in the video to Israeli Max Veifer’s beautiful eyes. I reckon Nadir is a homosexual, maybe a closeted one, maybe not.
Many have commented similar, regards his likely predilection.
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Indigenous-owned firms to get bigger slice of the contracts piePaige Taylor
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Companies controlled and majority owned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be awarded more commonwealth contracts in an expanded Indigenous procurement policy.
Do that actually have to meet the contractual standards, or are those optional?
Unlimited dosh for the Space Program.
Paging Mr Pascoe. Mr Bruce Pascoe.
@amuse
DOGE: The Democrat’s ‘permanent bureaucracy’ was so confident that it couldn’t be stopped it didn’t bother hiding its wrongdoing. For example, Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the government for “large scale social deception” – it was even written on the invoice.
What a coincidence.
@TRHLofficial
Right after Tulsi Gabbard endorsed President Trump, she was placed on a terrorist watchlist.
She now outranks the people who put her there.
Oh the schadenfreude.
The Garden at Fontenay, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1874
I had to do a double take on that. It looks like a old photo.
Cool.
All the filth in this country….
—
Avi:
The FULL TRUTH about the chilling nurse video story
E/A-18G Growler involved.
There is an article in tonight’s OZ re the NDIS.
To quote the article – “Of six million Australians with a disability, 680,000 are on the NDIS.”
Australia’s total population is 26.6 million, so over 22% of the total population have a disability i.e. more than one in five!
If you use the current NDIS number of 680,000 then nearly 3% of the total population is on the NDIS.
This is simply not sustainable – it is sheer bloody lunacy!
And the people with real disabilities do without, because they are over 65 years old, so are not elligible.
Ndis is ostensibly to help people with disabilities enter the workforce, as well as have better quality of life and ‘more time with family and friends’.
It needs a razor gang not an extension to people who should have access to other sorts of support.
My aged care is a very poor relation compared to the NDIS scam oops scheme
It is like ASD, another example of diagnostic inflation ….
ABS stat:
In both cases there is a vicious and expensive circle. Therapists benefit from more patients because that involves more government funding and higher incomes. The NDIS has made it worse with much more funding and much more motivation to report depression and anxiety.
The vast majority of depression\anxiety diagnoses today are of the mild-moderate category, not the can’t get out of bed can’t get no satisfaction major depressive disorder.
I am beginning to think that the NDIS should be reformed to remove all psychiatric disabilities from the scheme if they are the primary presenting condition. Only severely and permanently disabling developmental conditions would be eligible. This would only include autism only at the highest level of the condition, where physical presentations may also exist. The NDIS would then be retained for serious permanent physical and developmental disabilities, which was the original intention. A pretense that these people can become fully productive workers making the NDIS pay for itself should be dropped from the aims of the scheme. It is not an insurance scheme but a scheme to relieve carers of some of the burden of care and to improve the lives of the severely disabled.
The States used to deal with psychiatric disorders via the psychiatric hospital system, which should be reinstated as a primary out-patient facility but include significant therapeutic hospital care as well. The Community Health System should offer services to children and their carers for milder childhood developmental disorders. There could also be a time-limited voucher system giving those registered for community health assistance access private providers via Medicare (as currently exists for psychological and some other services via GP’s).
NDIS payments should be means tested and needs-assessed. Funds should be distributed directly to the disabled or their nominees via Centrelink to use as they desire for nominated services only. Fund managers would mostly not be required. Eligibility for NDIS assistance should be immediately apparent on some highly-defined indices of self-management and capability. Assessments should be by special independent socio-medical teams within hospitals not by private ‘providers’ (occupational therapists, psychologists, GP’s, NDIS personnel) with a financial interest in maintaining their own place in the existing system.
Obviously, the above means a thorough dismantling of the current system of assessments and allocations and the shift of aobut 80% of the NDIS current load to State providers within existing institutions, some of which, like psychiatric hospitals/wards, would need to be significantly expanded.
Centrelink and Medicare would also be used, which would save costs and allow the dismantling of all of the current NDIS bureaucracy.
… and its hangers on.
This could be done slowly, because $40 billion reduced to circa $10 billion would cause quite a disruption to the many ‘businesses’ built around the current NDIS goldmine.
calli
February 13, 2025 7:18 pm
Barnaby rattling away, clacking like a demented castanet. He’s incoherent. Why does Bolt have him on?
Long false equivalencies, rambling stories, zero cut through. He’s incapable of saying yes or no. Slurring words.
What’s going on?
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He’s probably p*ssed.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia 18U is Cat 5.
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24 year old Afghani does the muslim thing in Munich.
https://m.bild.de/regional/muenchen/muenchen-auto-faehrt-in-menschengruppe-mehrere-verletzte-67adbe661371a020a1013b96?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F
An “asylum seeker known to the police.”
It’s going to be harder for the German leftist parties to keep the AfD out of government now, even though many Germans have a death wish and insist on more immigration.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you mob.
Reading “Snowy Rowles and the Murders on the Rabbit Proof Fence.”
My grandfather was one of the pioneers in that part of the world.
“Snowy Rowles? Knew him well. Great young bloke, do anything for you.”
Tele reports:
Two nurses at the centre of the hate speech video filmed inside Bankstown Hospital have refused to be voluntarily interviewed by police.
Amid nationwide disgust over the video, paediatric nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh remained holed up inside their homes in Bankstown and Greenacre on Thursday, a day after they boasted about killing Israeli patients to a social media influencer in a video that went viral.
Looks like “negotiations” with NSWaffen have broken down.
That disgusting pair are paediatric nurses.
That means they boasted about killing children with plans to do more of the same.
And yet still NSWaffen haven’t moved.
We shouldn’t consider ourselves superior to the UK of child rape gangs infamy.
I noticed that and was horrified that those caring for children could utter such horrendous threats. Or should that be “caring”?
If it were just funning they’d be eager for an interview.
Anyhow we already know muslims have no respect for western law, they only use it to achieve their own ends.
Bankstown Bingo entry:
The old “Islamophobia” and we are the victims cards.
We were provoked and taken out of context excuses are fairly novel ones.
Nonetheless, the ‘taken out of context’ card has already been played.
Wonder had they said they were going to kill Labor politicians the rhetoric might be different.
Pivot to East Asia proceeding apace.
Australia on notice.
When the man comes around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTjZgNJOc0
Marianne Faithfull – The Ballade of Lucy Jordan (1980)
45 years.
Broken English
Love you all.
Sleep well.
John Spooner.
This is quite clever. I like it.
Brett Lethbridge.
Lethbridge has nailed it.
Who is it supposed to be?
Sam Kerr
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
Rita Panahi:
Hope the search of records is not limited to just Israelis.
Perception? It’s a fact and greatly promoted by the leftists nursing staff who took part in the anti-Israel protests. Various Sky programs last night showed those nurses even wore their nursing uniforms at the protests. The Bankstown Hospital admin and the nursing unions knew about it all along it’s just now that’s it’s blown up in their faces that they are trying to distance themselves from what they promoted.
Today’s Daily Tele:
PRESSURE BUILDS ON FRAGILE CEASEFIRE
GAZA CITY:
Israel has threatened to launch a “new” war on Hamas and implement US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the ravaged Gaza Strip if the militants do not release hostages this weekend.
The remarks by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz came shortly after Hamas said it would not bow down to US and Israeli “threats” over the release of hostages under a fragile truce deal.
Mediators from Qatar and Egypt were pushing to salvage the ceasefire agreement that came into effect last month, sources familiar with the talks told AFP, while Hamas said its top negotiator was in Cairo.
The truce has largely halted more than 15 months of fighting and seen Israeli captives released in small groups in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli custody.
But the deal, currently in its 42-day first phase, has come under increasing strain.
The warring sides, which have yet to agree on the next phases of the truce, have traded accusations of ceasefire violations, spurring concerns that the violence could resume.
Mr Katz said Israel would resume its war if Hamas failed to free captives on Saturday, when a sixth hostage-prisoner exchange was scheduled under the terms of the agreement.
Hamas previously said it would postpone the hostage release, citing Israeli violations of the ceasefire deal. Hours later, Mr Trump warned that he would “let hell break out” if the Palestinian militants failed to release “all” Israeli hostages by Saturday.
If fighting resumes, Mr Katz said: “The new Gaza war … will not end without the defeat of Hamas and the release of all the hostages.
“It will also allow the realisation of US President Trump’s vision for Gaza.”
Israel has repeatedly vowed to defeat Hamas and release all hostages since the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war.
Analyst Mairav Zonszein of the International Crisis Group told AFP that despite their public disputes, the warring sides were still interested in maintaining the truce and have not “given up on anything yet”.
“They’re just playing power games,” she said.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem warned that hostages would not be released without Israeli compliance with the ceasefire deal.
“Our position is clear and we will not accept the language of American and Israeli threats,” said Mr Qassem.
Last week’s hostage release sparked anger in Israel and beyond after Hamas paraded three emaciated hostages before a crowd and forced them to speak, while Hamas has accused Israel of failing to meet its aid commitments under the ceasefire agreement.
Egypt’s state-linked Al-Qahera News, citing an Egyptian official, said that mediators in Cairo and Doha were “intensifying their diplomatic efforts in an attempt to save the Gaza ceasefire agreement”.
UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged Hamas to proceed with the planned hostage release and “avoid at all costs resumption of hostilities”.
A no brainer.
A rocket was launched from Gaza a few hours ago, fell short, killed a 14 year old boy.
Oh well, said Hamas, it’s a war you’ve got to expect some collateral damage.
Nurses and midwives for Palestine are going to march this weekend though, it’s still an example of Israeli genocide.
If Israel didn’t exist, Hams wouldn’t have to fire rockets.
Whats the bet a certain 2 nurses attend as honoured guests … they wont be working after all.
Are these the Australian ones? If so, there is your breeding ground for the Bankstown nurses attitudes. It’s not just their home environment.
Mr Qassem is probably in line for a visit from Mossad. They talk tough when they are safely away from the battleground.
It’s always intrigued me why the Hamas supremos, known to be tucked away in neighbouring friendly hidey-holes counting their money haven’t been more actively targetted by US/Mossad. If not personally attacked – physically – why not monetarily? Shirley there are some IT nerds in one of the Agencies capable of hacking their finances? A bit of personal hardship for the powerbrokers wouldn’t go astray in these negotiations.
Don’t learn to code.
Wonder how big the impact in Finance will be. Most valuations can be mechanized if it already isn’t. A lot of it was already outsourced to India. Investment bankers who can generate ideas and present well are the only ones likely to be in demand.
At the same time, The Economist recently reported on the trend od students at prestigious schools wanting to enter consulting and finance. We are seeing this as well.
See we’re on the same page, vr, as I scroll down.
Lots of Indians have already learned to code and can work from home. They’re eating the lunch of expensive coders in the West.
I mention in my travelogue (www.medium.com/@lizzie.beare) that we met a very charming ‘hacker for sale’ in the airport lounge in Jaipur.
Vinegar Tits and Pretty-boy are stymied.
The Nosferatu Nurses refuse to be interviewed by NSWaffen.
What can we do now?
Do we have any Islamophobic Pensioners we can use as a distraction?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14393389/Family-nurse-centre-anti-Semitic-video-firestorm-say-ready-reprisal-attacks-pair-refuse-interviewed-police.html
The hate speech laws are working well.
Good job it’s nothing serious, perhaps not wearing a mask while less than five metres from a sandwich.
Inbred, desert hillbillies taking the piss. I see real trouble in the West’s future.
The real trouble is already here.
The expression is “dune coons” from the movie Three Kings.
Their only recourse now is to arrest them.
And I would also like to see them on a watch list at the border. Cancelled passports would be a start.
Over to you Minns.
She’s probably already gone.
Let them leave first, then cancel the passports. And welfare. Then revoke any citizenship. Seize any assets and distribute the proceeds to rebuilding the synagogues damaged.
Are we surprised NSW donut munchers are slow here. Try giving a Roman salute or even taking out a Nazi flag in a pub, that guy was arrested within 2 blocks of leaving the establishment.
These two will skate IMO.
Hey Dover, did you see this? The New England Journal of Medicine just identified a brand-new illness:
Is that like SGDS?
That where a Muslim dirtbag refugee drives a vehicle through a crowd of infidels.
Happens all the time.
Good question, Aaron.
Thank you.
Slowly slowly these timid gerbils are starting to speak up…
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry calls for ‘realistic’ renewables targets amid soaring power costs (Sky News, 14 Feb)
C’mon guys show some spine. The food industry did last week when they called on the government to dump net zero and build coal plants. You can do it too if you try.
“Build coal plants”.. (which they wont) .I was thinking the government are a bunch of sociopaths.
How could you not see the need for cheap reliable base load power.?
Then I came across the word “schadenfreude-enjoyer”
Realistic target is zero renewables.
Bunch of communists
For all the right reasons this bag of crap is suddenly experiencing what it’s like for Jewish people.
Hopefully, Lebanon.
And it looks as if in future if anyone wants to avoid being interviewed by police they can simply refuse. If only we had known that sooner!
You don’t have to say a word to police or if you do, say you don’t recall.
Fears from whom, exactly?
The Taliban because she broke every rule in the muslim playbook?
Except that no one especially a Jew would have any intention of harming the disgusting drama queen.
True
Why has she not been arrested?
Basically no phone reception here for a week. Both Telstra & Optus putting up 5G towers and we were told it was from today till the 20th. It started at least two days ago and very few have faith they’ll get it done by the finish date because of the heat and wind. It’d be national news in a city.
And, let me guess, the hundred-year-old copper lines are still in the ground, but not connected?
Bizzaro world has arrived. I remember when the left were all anti-war. Things have changed. Trump is anti-war, so the left have to be pro-war.
This was starkly illustrated last night when the BBC has several Ukrainian women on to say that they felt betrayed by Trump talking to Putin in an attempt to stop the war. There appears to be no hope that Russian forces will walk away from their territorial gains, so the American position is now that hostilities should cease, the killing and destruction should stop.
But that’s not good enough for our newly minted warmongers at the BBC.
And then there’s this from Tucker Carlson’s morning roundup:
The Ukrainians also appear to support the plan. “No one wants peace more than Ukraine,” Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted after speaking with Trump. “Together with the U.S., we are charting our next steps to stop Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace. As President Trump said, let’s get it done.”
Even a Ukrainian I know just wants people to stop dying.
This oh so precious land is already soaked with blood.
They’re a bit tetchy atm because their USAID cheque bounced.
Dumping net zero and the climate scam has done nothing bad for the Reform Party. And crass and uncouth pint-drinking chain-smoking Nigel Farage isn’t doing anything bad for them either. Quite the opposite.
Reform beat Labour by six points in new poll blow to Keir Starmer (13 Feb)
There you go Libs. If you develop some cojones and ditch the green/teal stuff and oppose immigration the voters might actually support you.
You need to use scare quotes on the “crass and uncouth”, BoN. I think he likes to project an Everyman image…an Everyman with a plummy voice.
Disagree. Farage has a rich voice, but it’s not affected like Johnson’s caviar loghorrhea of Starmer’s nursery whine.
The Farage’s accent is perfectly tolerable, although every time I have the misfortune to hear (or see) that fat mop headed imbecile and der Stürmer, I have this instant overwhelming urge to take to the pair of them with a baseball bat.
Evil infuriating idiots.
Shirley a cricket bat would be more culturally appropriate?
I’m not risking any damage to my Limited Edition Slazenger Bradman, thanks.
Big problem with first past the post voting. Compulsory preferential voting? Not so much.
Disgusting article in The Australian saying that it’s OK for women to break the law whenever they feel a bit scared – which is all the time.
Women refuse accountability but demand the vote – how can that make sense?
I don’t get it anyway. Sam Kerr is a strong and independent woman who don’t need no man. What is she afraid of?
Talk about Schroedinger’s feminist – women are both strong and independent but also a perpetual victim and they choose whichever position suits them at any given moment.
I never understood the whole Sam Curr worship and now I actively detest the pea-brained loud mouth.
I noticed her ‘I’ve been racially vilified” testimony included the gem…’even at school I was identified as a troublemaker’. Because of skin colour.
No kidding! Those teachers were ahead of the curve, you nasty little skank.
I hope that reputational consultant she’s hired is paid up front. Tough job at this point.
Schroedinger’s feminist, I love it!
Umm, whilst Nigel Farage likes a pint and a puff I most certainly wouldn’t describe him as ‘crass and uncouth’. Quite the opposite, Farage is very much a product of the UK upper middle class which is why he has a sneering contempt of Tommy Robinson and his followers, many of whom are probably ‘crass and uncouth‘.
Reform UK’s lead in the polls is because traditional Tory voters have rightly abandoned the Conservative party, a party that did nothing in fourteen years of power (much like our Coalition in power). Whilst I like Nigel, the really impressive Reform MP is Rupert Lowe.
Yes Rupert Lowe is my pick.
He’s in.
Senate Confirms RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary 52-48 (13 Feb)
It’ll be interesting to see what he does. The Dems have been furious with his “betrayal”, so I don’t see anything to hold him back other than the usual lawfare. As for McConnell he must be feeling pretty irrelevant right now.
McConnell is only feeling the pureed food he is being spoon fed and the rash cream when his Depends are being changed.
Patel is the big one. Popcorn time.
I thin, he will end up being a problem.
Looks like they’ve covered every caricature.
Some of them gave me the shudders.
The final vote should be tomorrow.
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Kash Patel has been voted out of the Committee for FBI Director!
Next step – Full floor confirmation vote!
Let’s get it done, @SenateGOP; America is watching!
@ElectionWiz
BREAKING — Officials in Munich reported that at least 28 individuals, including children, were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd in what is being treated as a “suspected attack.”
Asylum seeker = nutter.
Thanks Merkel and others.
Yesterday, Tinta posted a comment that accurately highlighted the NSWaffen’s two tier policing and double standards in relation to Alan Jones v the two murderous Jew hating nurses. Not only did dozens of NSWaffen police arrive to charge and arrest the octogenarian Jones, Hogarthian Gin Slag and her comrades had tipped off the MSM who were parked downstairs. The residents in Jones’ CBD apartment building were shit scared, thinking there was a major terrorist raid underway.
Meanwhile in Condell Park and Bankstown two homicidal Jew haters who both proudly stated on camera that not only do they want to kill Jews, they have already killed Jews, are yet to be interviewed by NSWaffen Plod. Now I read this morning that both Jew haters are refusing to be interviewed and have lawyered up. There’s a stand off going on.
Are we alarmed yet? If not we should be. I struggle for words to convey how I feel. I cannot even begin to accurately convey the contempt I have for the NSWaffen Police, and now now I have absolute contempt for our public health system. As Claire Lehmann said on Sharri last night, the revelation of these two homicidal nurses has destroyed/crushed/obliterated trust.
Further to the two horror nurses, even Stephen King couldn’t imagine such evil. If I were ever in a public hospital I’d rather have King’s character Chucky treat me than either of these two homicidal Jew haters or their co-religionists.
A ‘stand-off’ occurs between opponents. In this case it’s likely that government, authorities and the Nurseferatu would all like this to go away as quickly and quietly as possible. Just for different reasons.
With Toad Albanese about to call an election, the implied offer to avoid lighting up Western Sydney following a 3am door knock is as compelling as it gets.
Yep.
Or nurse ratchet
Quite fitting.
We live in a world of ratchets: elfinsafety, thoughtcrime, criminalised (or at least penalised) hurt feelings, impro Dreamtime, government policies ignoring reality, dropping millions on empty political causes – the list goes on.
Each click sets up the next pull, regardless of necessity, cost, and requirement.
Facilitating/enabling/permitting a minority of ‘special people’ to control the well-being and wishes of the majority is one more click in the wall.
Actually Annie Wilks from King’s Misery would be a good comparison.
@epaleezeldin
I just cancelled a $50 MILLION Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance, which believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine”.
This lady looks promising.
Senate Confirms Brooke Rollins to Lead USDA 72-28 (13 Feb)
Pretty clear she doesn’t believe in climate fairies, but she is tippytoeing around the powerful ethanol lobby. If at least she can get rid of the stupid climate regulations that Biden dumped onto the agricultural industry then that alone would be awesome.
A concise and accurate statement.
I’d rather the grains went to ethanol, humans should be eating proper meat.
I want to know the energy balance of growing corn for ethanol.
Me, me, ask me.
Early modelling c.2004: 0.7 to 2.0.
Post Obummer US corn ethanol policy implementation ‘official modelling’: 1.5 to 2.5.
Both pitifully risky and subjective. Without climate scare pressure, you would not do this to ‘create’ energy.
Now never spoken about – recent efficiency measures focus on the much more favourable and malleable CO2 balance instead.
PJ O’Rourke reckoned the D of A should be taken behind the barn and put out of its misery. An excellent idea.
@TrumpsHurricane
BREAKING – President Trump has just fired all 93 federal prosecutors appointed by Biden.
It is quite clear the Trump camp spent the 4 years since the stolen election not only preparing to win, but also working on an extensive strategic plan to slash government expenditure and destroy the deep state.
@libsoftiktok
USAID paid $3 million to a rapper in Gaza to produce anti-semitic songs.
You can’t make this up
Precisely why such revelations are beyond parody.
Zali Steggall doesn’t realise that whinging about more transparency in political donations isn’t a good look. But Teals lie about being independent too.
The world Champions in donations just below the $10,000 disclosure line.
@akafaceUS
BREAKING: FEMA is being accused of illegally destroying records and deleting group chats.
Granted in December 2023 look how they were planning to spend that money.
On administration, fat salaries and lots of lovely travel.
The EPA had actually announced $600 million in grants for ‘Environmental Justice’.
Not a single bug or bunny would have benefited.
There will gnashing and rending going on though.
https://climatejusticealliance.org/cja-receives-50-million-thriving-communities/#:~:text=Climate%20Justice%20Alliance%20(CJA)%20was,EPA%20Regions%208%2D10).
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: New video shows the Afghan terrorist screaming “Allah” after the Munich car ramming attack that left 28 wounded.
He also shared Islamist propaganda online before the attack
Police and other Authorities still mystified about the accident. The car has been impounded pending a check of its brakes.
<sarc>
So, ‘not a terrorist attack’ , ‘acted alone*’ and ‘motives unclear’ then?
*apart from the community of 2 billion co-religionists and their operating manual (their holy book).
Sure, but what was his REAL motivation?
I’m sure he was just looking for the Aloha Snack Bar (sarc).
@markkayeshow
FOX News cut away from President Trump when he started talking about Mitch McConnell being mentally incapacitated.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: TRUMP lays the HAMMER on MITCH MCCONNELL
TRUMP: I feel sorry for Mitch. He’s not equipped to be leader, mentally. He never was. Under him, the Republican Party was going to H*ll. McConnell never really had it. He had votes because he gave money to senators. I was the one that got McConnell to drop out of the leadership position. He’s not voting against Bobby [Kennedy], he’s voting against me. He’s a very bitter guy. But we have a very strong party, and he’s lost his power. It’s affected his vote.
I think Fox were afraid that Trump was going to also unload on Fox director Paul Ryan who as Speaker did everything he could to block Trump’s agenda during the first Trump admin.
WA Labore have started the saturation ads on You Tube. There’s one which says “the Liberals are inexperienced- none have been ministers, none have been in cabinet [which is a hilarious flex- there’s only, like, five of them at the mo] so Don’T Trust WA’s Future To The Libs”
And another with prem Roger Cook- in the now ubiquitous politician’s uniform of white shirt, no tie, much like JR’s “Alex” cartoon- but here’s the thing, he speaks like Keir Starmer, a weird, halting, yappy, embarrassed drone. I would have thought there’s be some svengali somewhere who would say, Rog, loosen up a bit, you’re scaring the single mothers.
Perhaps the mug punters will see a lack of experience at being politicians as a plus?
this election will start the libs reconstruction, but Cook will walk it in. Albanese of course will try to ride Cook’s coattails.
“Mediators are working to expedite the release of six living hostages slated to be released in Phase One.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel’s request follows the return of emaciated hostages who described horrific conditions in captivity, including being chained in tunnels and given almost no food.
Israel has also urged mediators to expand the Phase One deal beyond the 33 hostages already slated for release.”
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1890061743667233132?t=NhmdKNR1P28ev3TZFiLerw&s=19
It should be, release all hostages or start flattening the rest of Gaza.
Four minute clip with Tucker Carlson. Jaw dropping.
Ken Paxton: George Soros Controls 70% of Texas Through Elected DAs
USAID Hearing Airs All the Jaw-Dropping Receipts
Obama and his pen and phone really did transform America.
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: HHS spent $22.6 BILLION on migrants—covering cars, home loans, and even startup businesses.
Biden’s Office of Refugee Resettlement funneled $10B in 2023 alone to nonprofits, incentivizing more illegal crossings – NYP
LAWFARE: Web of Leftist Groups Working in Tandem to Tie Up Trump Agenda in Court
“The Man with a Plan” – Who is the Israeli professor who sent Trump the study on the redevelopment of Gaza?
Ric Grenell Reveals Kennedy Center’s Financial Crisis – No Cash, No Reserves, Just Debt as Institution Dives into Financial Turmoil
Regarding the president’s power to manage the government, the Supreme Court has spoken
@CitizenFreePres
BREAKING — KAROLINE LEAVITT JUST CONFIRMED THAT 75,000 FEDERAL WORKERS HAVE ACCEPTED THE TRUMP BUYOUT.
Hope Dutton offers redundancies here. A lot of them.
All the ‘crazy’ USAID programs on blast by Republicans… including a bizarre $25K drag queen show in Ecuador
The Bankstown Hospital has made Instapundit, and not in a good way.
Are we looking at a Hospital Star Chamber
But, but but, what will they think of us overseas?
This:
Funny how our betters are no longer concerned with our international image.
How much power does Elon Musk have?
” An Afghan migrant whose asylum was rejected but remained in Germany, drove a Mini Cooper into a Munich protest, injuring 28 people, including children – Bild”
Germany should be placing rejected asylum seekers in immigration detention as soon as their cases are finalised, pending deportation or they will be having lots more of these bargain basement terror attacks.
If Afghanistan won’t play ball Germany should cut aid funding.
(Afghani refugees don’t seem to have trouble going home for holidays though).
At least it was a Mini and not something bigger.
US imposes sanctions on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
LOL !!!!
I went to a meeting yesterday put on by our energy provider – we are an embedded network and under Qld law they cannot make any money off us. It was held because we were concerned about a rather large jump in our bills.
A few take aways
And we wonder why prices are so expensive.
Everything on this list is directly caused by the technical problems of accomodating variable supply on a grid scale. This floating and expanding logjam of conflicts between rules, commercial interests, engineering, physics, and nature is gradually jamming up Australia’s power supply.
What Diogenes is experiencing is not an end point. It’s a way point on the road to system collapse in a paroxysm of unresolvable complexity. Predicted for 20 years (with terrible accuracy) now entering the experiential learning phase – and accelerating.
but the meter is free right ? … thats what ‘too cheap to meter’ meant isnt it?
At least the new QLD State Guv’ment is going to keep ALL of the Coal Fired Power Stations. Not one will be shut down. NSW and VIC are you watching? Blackout Bowen, are you listening?
Leftists Flip Out As DOGE Enters IRS Headquarters to Begin Investigating Corrupt Agency
Another week’s delay.
@ChadPergram
Senate out for business until Tuesday. On Tuesday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Wicker will carry out the Senate custom of reading Washington’s Farewell Address. Thune to likely file cloture Tuesday to break filibuster on Kash Patel nomination to be FBI Director
Cassie of Sydney
February 14, 2025 7:43 am
Now I read this morning that both Jew haters are refusing to be interviewed and have lawyered up. There’s a stand off going on.
They are thumbing their collective noses at the justice system. They could have just attended for interview with their lawyers and thus generated very little publicity. Once the interview started they could just say “no comment” to everything which as what most criminal lawyers advise their clients to do.
But no, by refusing to attend they are demonstrating their contempt for the police and saying in effect “if you want us, come and get us”. They know full well that would require charges to be laid with arrest warrants and would have to be done in a setting of rioting and probable violence. All that egged on by leftist demonstrators who would be there with claims of i*****phobia, racism and police brutality as well as anything else the organisers could think of.
I doubt the NSW plod have the guts to do it. I know the Vicplod would never do it and are thanking their lucky stars that they are not (yet) in that position..
In due course, the courts “should” take into account the willingness to show up, add another fine or extra time just for this alone. Might deter more refusals in future. Oh, sorry, silly me, the judges wouldn’t do that.
Not going to happen, our courts have been taken over as well.
I second that.
‘Don’t Allow Them In!’ | Munich Attack Sparks Questions About Muslim Asylum Seekers To UK
Things that make you go hmmm.
Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman Involved in a Collision at Sea (13 Feb)
Disabling a US carrier using a dinky old merchant ship would be a very cheap option. Right now with Egypt hostile to Trump’s proposal for Gaza that carrier would be essential to any actions the US might take once the ceasefire collapses.
Could be just the usual USN incompetence.
Although my retired sea captain mate says marine accidents, when you suddenly realise what you have done, gives you several minutes to start mentally framing your accident report before the collision.
Who owns the merchant ship?
Gold has just hit the 50% increase in value – over one year – in Australian Dollars.
From just shy of A$3,100/oz 12 months ago, gold is now A$4637/oz.
People getting out of fiat currency?
Chinese government hoarding gold?
Excess money creation in A$?
Nervous Money Markets?
Fuknose.
And Plibbers won’t give a pass to a bloody good gold mine……
Catching up with the true inflation rate from the past 15 years. M2 money supply has increased by an average of 11% p.a. compounded over that time. 2% productivity + 2% population increase taken off leaves 7% p.a. raw naked inflation year after year after year. Dollar’s dropped a bit, too.
We’re still not feeling it because the Chlnks keep finding more slaves to exploit – MG compact cars are back at $21,000 driveaway.
And physical just feels so good in my hands.
Agree with lots here. Cheap Chinese shit has kept inflation on the back burner for a decade or so. Not any more.
Gold in hand is a special feeling
Apparently all that paper gold isn’t backed by enough physical metal.
This is what the recent kerfuffle in the Bundestag and on the streets of Berlin (courtesy antifa) was about.
The required legislation failed by a whisker thanks to some Christian Democrats abstaining.
It was, however, a watershed moment as the CDU accepted AfD votes in the attempt to pass the legislation.
UNCUT: Piers Morgan on How the World Views America, and Trump’s War With the Media
Piers Morgan is a Tosser.
…midwife and nurse, Sharon Stoliar, has claimed she warned hospital bosses about medical staff using hate speech about Jewish people in 2023.
She says she filed complaints about her co-workers after the October 7 Hamas attack…
Ms Stoliar claims that she ended up being targeted by officials after sounding the warning and had to hire lawyers to fight for her to keep her job.
Daily Mail
Link here.
Where was the ALP aligned union in her time of need?
Roger, the Nurses Unions and their respective Departments of Health play musical chairs in their careers. You would be lucky to find a Nurses Union who wasn’t angling for a government job in their Resume. And vice versa.
The Unions and the Government are the same organisation, just different job titles – and full of gays.
I’m aware of that, Winston.
The question was rhetorical.
Fair enough, I allowed my frustration get the better of me.
For those interesting in American politics, a handy bookmark on DOGE’s historic audit of US government spending,
I am delighted that the magnificant Kennedy Center has been the first institution to undertake the countermarch from the institutions.
Government funded arts have always been a cesspit of wealthy non-accountable arrogance. We undermine ourselves by funding these hobbyists.
Make them hang out their own shingle like all other ‘professions’. I like ballet, but I have no claim to demand that my neighbour subsidise my interest.
We scream against subsidising farming but never question subsidies to people prancing around in codpieces and fairy skirts who, despite the subdidies, charge entry prices that are unafordable to most people.
The subsidised arts are the ultimate demonstration ruling class power.
Strangely enough, Australia’s hugely successful and tax generating rock bands don’t appear to attract subsidies or massive performance palaces.
“Oh but the arts need subsidies to survive darling”. Umm, does that tell you something anout your business model Tiffiny?
Their ABC’s Chairman Timmy from the Opera House cocktail bar is the Australian arts fascists ultimate achievement.
And yes. I do hold the same views regarding profesional level sport.
I was itching to mention that as I was reading.
😀
Not looking good.
Ric Grenell Cleans House at ‘Broke’ Kennedy Center, Removing Several ‘Highly Paid Executives’ and Saving Taxpayers Millions (13 Feb)
Sounds like the Left was using it as their personal honeypot.
Like lots of other institutions enslaved to the leftards.
Sport is largely around “free” infrastructure. Perth’s $1bn stadium and the combined AO facilities are stand outs.
Ballet companies and symphony orchestras also get to use public structures like opera houses and theatres.
There is nothing more cringe-worthy and embarrassing than listening to a sports j’ism talk about the economic benefits which a guzzillion dollar sports stadium will bring.
I helped set up a world class orchestra. It was an intteresting exercise. The box office paid about 60% of expenses, including the payments to the musicians. Most of the rest was made up of funds donated by corporates and wealthy donors. We did get a government grant, from the LNP government and the NSW government. Both were made on the basis that the orchestra provided some kind of economic benefit to the State and the country.
Of course we were a charity, so we got tax breaks on top of the subsidies.
I stopped giving my free assistance to the Orchestra a few years after it started, because the music they played wasn’t reallt to my taste and I didn’t agree with approaching the government for money.
Sounds like they put you on a demand tariff without providing the information required to understand the way it works.
Like the tariff, that’s not very consumer friendly.
I’d be seeking to revisit the contract on those grounds.
The Bankstown Hospital revelations have justified those who call Islam the Paralysis Tick that will kill us.
Sometimes when I’m feeling “less than gruntled”, I watch that video (or look up the Bok cartoon) and end up in stitches every time. That video will never get old – unlike the stupid geriatric corruptocrat bastard starring in it.
An incredibly brave and principled woman. What she has been subjected to is utterly obscene.
If that fatuous fraudulent labore dickhead park (of the preposterous performative outrage) had any intention of dealing with the disgraceful toxic culture now endemic in “NSW Health”, there is no better place to start than attempting to get to investigate the treatment of Sharon Stoliar.
Anyway, let’s have a look at the moozley psychopath nurse scorecard as of today:
Still haven’t been jobsacked (merely “stood down”)
Still haven’t been deregistered as nurses (merely suspended)
Still haven’t been arrested or interviewed by the pigs
Grate work all round, you irredeemable utterly useless labore, unionist and keystone pig nazi enabling sh*theads.
Wot Rabz said.
Rabz kicking goals.
Are you sure?
See Black Ball’s comment from Daily Tele above:
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/02/13/open-thread-thurs-13-feb-2025/comment-page-2/#comment-858990
I checked with the APHRA to see Registrations – which I normally can find quite easily.
Can’t find the list of registered nurses.
If someone else can, I’d be grateful.
Here’s gaylord butler’s statement via Smith’s blog – note there is no mention of “deregistration”, merely “suspension”.
FMD. Like a dose of herpes The Green-Left Weekly Radio Hour formerly known as AM scrapes Tony Windsor off the bottom of the barrel to talk about the possibility of minority government. Gutless coward full of praise for Albo.
Indeed, bear, because we all have such fond memories of that utterly dysfunctional, ridiculous and seemingly interminable goat rodeo, which was just so “beautiful in its ugliness”.
Even the Liars decided Gillard was beyond the pale and had to go. As old Scrotum Face observed, needed “clean air”. Albo in very similar circumstances. Spending more time on the back foot than an Australian opener when Joel Garner was at his peak.
And the Speaker. Was his name Slipper? Wot’ a Larf’.
Slipper the musselman.
Q as F as well.
Hopping straight into bed with the Greens didn’t help. Of course, you know that’s exactly what they will do again.
I’m somewhat taken aback that you doubt Albo’s integrity, Bear.
Windsor. I am not sure who on the Sinc Cat named him “the old Lezzo”, but it was inspired.
AKA Windbag.
I hope Trump is exaggerating
I suspect that he is understating the problem.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/who-could-have-seen-this-coming.html
Muslims are the real victims, trapped by the anti Muslim media…words fail me, they honestly do.
They don’t fail me – “Islam is the Paralysis Tick” that will kill Australia.
It must be removed for the health of the nation.
Oops, locals not happy.
Anthony Albanese booed, heckled over wind farms while visiting Wollongong on NSW’s South Coast (14 Feb)
Getting heckled in Labor heartland is fun. Maybe the wukkas are getting fed up with how the ALP has been treating them lately?
He was in the ‘ville recently & didn’t go near the public.
LOL probably thought he was on safe ground in the ‘gong.
This what happens when you don’t listen to the Voters and try and dictate stuff.
Albo, you Tosser. It is not your Feral Guv’ment. It’s the Australian Federal Government. It’s the People’s Government.
We don’t want you here. LOL.
Port headland better batten down. Zelia looks like she’s making a run at the coast…
They predict Cat 5 crossing but eye on the radar looking a little ragged. Beautiful spiral structure of the showers and storms surrounding though.
Yes, Solar, Wind Farms and Batteries can control the Weather. LOL.
BoM cat 5.
I find it difficult to understand why the ABC, a supposedly ‘liberal’ organisation, continues to ‘pay its respects’ to a primitive, misoginistic culture that practiced infanticide and child marriage (rape). It’s way past time for a reevaluation of our funding priorities.
Rather, they should pay their respects to the taxpayers who fund them.
As long as it’s not Anglo or European. That’s all that matters to the ABC
Anyone But Christians
the teutonic tragedy
thanks Roger
Prediction for a 5 April election:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/this-is-it-sky-news-political-editor-andrew-clennell-reveals-key-sign-federal-election-is-about-to-be-called/news-story/69a3e41350ebe60511490e3c9e890b80
Lot of scuttlebutt about the APS it will be called in next three days. Doubt it myself, I reckon after the WA election.9-16 March for a 12 April election.
Both avoid a budget or return to parliament.
These are the sort of people they were routinely releasing back into communities all over America under Biden. “Evil” doesn’t cover it.
@BillMelugin_
Buckle up for this one.
NEW: ICE Boston has arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien charged w/ multiple counts of aggravated & forcible child rape in MA after ICE says their detainer request was ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy & he was released into the community on bail.
ICE found and arrested him in Framingham, MA, and he remains in federal custody.
ICE statement:
“Jose Fernando-Perez has been charged with some horrific crimes against a minor in our commonwealth,” said ICE Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “He is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with our ‘worst first’ policy. He posed a significant danger to the children of Massachusetts, and we will not tolerate such a threat to our community. ICE Boston will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing egregious alien offenders from our New England communities.”
Why haven’t I seen these before?
The ultimate socks…
https://www.squattingslavs.org/collections/accesories/products/presidential-socks-3d-hair
We have hung a pair in the bar – brought back from CA for us last July !
My late husband bought a pair of Trump socks in Kennebunkport of all places when we were there in 2018.
RFK Jr. may be off the planet on some issues, but he’s deadly serious about this one.
@VigilantFox
EYE-WATERING MOMENT: RFK Jr. delivers an emotional tribute to President Trump after being sworn in as HHS Secretary.
“For 20 years, I’ve gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23rd of last year, God sent me President Trump.
“He’s now given me—he’s kept every promise that he’s made to me. He’s kept his word on every account and gone way beyond it. I’m so grateful to you, Mr. President. A lot of people told me that I couldn’t trust President Trump—that I better get it in writing.
“And we did a handshake, and everything that he told me he was going to do, he has done. And I’m so grateful to him. And I’ve told you before, I genuinely believe that you are a pivotal historical figure, and you are going to transform this country.”
Time for Australia to declare war on the US.
Hollywood, Media Silent as ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Gets Censored (8 Feb, via Instapundit)
One of the most memed lines in Hollywood history has now been cut from Crocodile Dundee because of woke snowflakes being offended? Sheesh!
Wowsers !!!!!
Ch 92 (GEM) often shows the film “Dam Busters”. Guy Gibson’s black pet dog is called “Nigger”. That has never been cut out.
So, the Slave Trade never happened?
Dickheads.
If a woke cinema was going to screen it – then they suddenly wouldn’t….
The infantilization of society by woke babies.
Hogan is onboard. Apparently even he has gone “woke”.
Seriously?
The man who used to wear blackface and refer to “poofters” on his TV show?
So the nsw police are declining to use their enhanced powers which were bestowed upon them only last week?
Im shocked!
Sarc/
Or even their long dated existing powers for that matter…
Just further to something posted yesterday…
Kate Emerson https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f1f5-1f1f8.svg https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f53b.svg
@KateEmerson88
I’m not buying these Muslim medics and their comments. The man who ‘interviewed’ them is the Zionist Israeli Max Veifer. None of this makes the slightest sense to me and i smell the Australian Jewish Association behind this. Pity Labor are all Zionists too.
Interesting comment from ‘Ms Emerson‘ who no doubt is a far-left radical progressive Greens voting moron. After reading her X feed you need a stiff drink. Emerson doesn’t like ‘Zionists’…translation….she doesn’t like Jews. I wonder where Ms Emerson works? Probably in a government department or government school or public hospital or university. But I digress. Just further to Emerson’s disparaging comment about the ‘Australian Jewish Association”, I note that the unlamented Nazi here (who, in the aftermath of Trump’s victory, has oddly and weirdly vanished from commenting but no doubt is lurking) also made a few derogatory comments about the ‘Australian Jewish Association’ (AJA) over the years, trying to smear the organisation as some far-right organisation. Perhaps the Nazi/pervert apologist follows Ms Emerson on X? I wonder? Never forget that old adage…..’birds of a feather flock together‘!
Let me clarify a few things…..firstly, the Australian Jewish Association is not some weird fringe ‘far-right’ organisation. The AJA IS a conservative organisation set up in 2017 in the wake of the SSM debate. The AJA describes itself as a conservative organisation that advocates for conservative and right of centre Jews, particularly religious Jews. The Australian Jewish community, like the UK Jewish community, has been badly let down by its various communal organisations over the last 10- to 15 years. Like so many other organisations, Jewish organisations have also been captured by leftists and far-leftists. The brief of Jewish communal organisations should be to advocate for the needs of Australian Jews on such important issues as security, education, health and so on AND to advocate for Israel. But over the last decade and a half, our communal organisations have been captured by radicals, and we saw many of these communal organisations branch out into advocating for indigenous crapola, Section 18C, open borders, SSM, da voice and inter-faith rubbish, particularly trying to engage in conversations with Islamic organisations….. an exercise which October 7 2023 ripped the scab off.
I am a member and supporter of the AJA. As outlined above, the AJA was set up on the heels of the SSM plebiscite which various communal organisations, without any consultation, chose to advocate and support. That is not and never should be ‘their shtick’. This advocacy for SSM rightly outraged many observant Jews and so David Adler and a few others created the new organisation which has experienced rapid grown in numbers and support. As Adler and co argued, communal organisations should stick to their knitting, not branch out into supporting fashionable progressive causes, some of which are completely antithetical to Judaism and religious Jews. To make matters worse, as AJA support increased mainstream Jewish organisations, captured by activists, jealous of the AJA’s outreach, tried unsuccessfully to both shut down and silence the AJA. Thankfully this attempted silencing and censorship failed dismally and the AJA has grown in repute and membership over the last seven years.
One thing the AJA has always done very successfully is to call out leftist and Muslim Jew hatred. Prior to October 7, many mainstream Jewish organisations could not or would not call out Muslim Jew hatred yet they had no qualms about calling out ‘far-right’ Jew hatred. Both need to be called out. These organisations preferred timidity and silence instead of calling out threats to Jews from the left, far-left and Muslim communities. Again, the fall out from October 7 has thankfully shredded that silence and timidity but the tragedy is that it has taken an explosion of Jew hatred in this country for some organisations to find a voice.
If you want to know how bad the progressive rot has been in many Jewish organisations and institutions, I present to you Limmud Oz. Limmud Oz is a communal Jewish festival which aims to promote Jewish culture. I used to attend many events at Limmud Oz but stopped over a decade ago because it morphed into a festival of utterly puerile leftist and far-leftist radicalism. It became tedious. But the ‘nadir’ (pardon the pun given the events of the last few days) of progressive contamination running through Jewish organisations and institutions like Limmud Oz was the invitation extended to Lidia Thorpe to speak at Limmud Oz back in 2022.
Hasn’t Thorpe revealed herself to be a rabid anti-Semite?
Yep.
Nicely put Cassie and goes a long way to explain why Jewish voters often vote for the rabid left. One would hope after all we have seen in sleasys 3 years that the bulk of Jewish voters will vote centre right.
I’d settle for obtaining an arrest warrant atm.
There’s a Federal election coming in a couple months…
Failure to act on this expeditiously won’t help the federal ALP.
Albanese is already seen as weak in this area, and that includes Labor voters, especially among a few ethno-religious groups whose members take a dim view of Muslim exceptionalism.
Holding those Western Sydney marginals might come at a heavy cost elsewhere.
The western Sydney marginals aren’t exactly ethno-religiously homogenous either.
You have large numbers of ME Christians, just for starters.
Acting expeditiously won’t help the federal ALP either. I wonder if Tony Burqa will lose his seat?
Now that would be poetic justice.
Zero chance. The gliberals will in all likelihood run a moozley anyway.
Allah be praised.
Skinsuit cavorts and gambols while calling for more taxes…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/14/australia-news-severe-tropical-cyclone-zelia-weather-sydney-trains-industrial-action-immigration-khaled-sabsabi-cost-of-living-electionntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67ae74708f085b5f5c28befb#block-67ae74708f085b5f5c28befb
Anglicare Australia has launched a report showing that Australia’s tax system is fuelling wealth inequality.
As we flagged earlier, “Paying it Forward” profiles ten OECD countries, France, Belgium, Finland, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the United States and Canada. It found that:
The executive director, Kasy Chambers, said Australia is “becoming more unfair and more unequal”.
A quick google search…
Is Anglicare government funded?
As mentioned in the introduction to our submission, ANGLICARE Sydney is a large organisation serving the needs of a wide diversity of people. Much of our work is funded by Government grants and investment funds, but a significant part of our revenue comes by way of donations.
And the cherry on top.
Does Anglicare pay taxes?
Anglicare Australia is currently endorsed as an income tax exempt charity.
Burn them down, 110% tax on everything they have ever done and bankrupt their executives.
For the children…
Snap, TFM.
I fail to understand how wealthy families avoid funding their own retirement, any clues?
Is jealousy a sin?
In other words, Anglicare is in favour of government theft of your money.
Sounds like socialism to me.
You just know God would be a Labor man. Was Joseph a union chippie?
Gosh, being prudent with your money and hoping to leave something to your children when you die is now a crime against society.
Apparently so, Crossie. Make everyone poor in the name of ‘equality’.
Contact Anglicare to comment. Perhaps ask how much Kasey Chambers earns and suggest Anglicare goes first in paying tax. It’s only fair.
https://www.anglicare.asn.au/about/contact/?
All charities should only be allowed to pay their CEO and all staff average weekly earnings.
We donate to Anglicare on a weekly basis.
Perhaps it’s time for a rethink!
Your MoneyInsurance & Estate PlanningPersonal FinancePersonal Finance
Call to bring back inheritance tax to tackle wealth gap
Jacob ShteymanAAP
Fri, 14 February 2025 12:39AM
It is said that nothing in this world is certain, except death, taxes and scare campaigns about death taxes.
Inheritance taxes were abolished in Australia in the late ‘90s, even though they are proven to reduce inequality and are more efficient than other existing taxes.
Despite the media uproar that inevitably accompanies discussions around making the tax system more equitable, the government should seriously look into reinstating inheritance taxes, Anglicare Australia argues in a report released on Friday.
“Australia is becoming more unfair and more unequal,” said Anglicare executive director Kasy Chambers.
“Our research shows that we are one of the only countries in the OECD that doesn’t tax big inheritances.
“This has turbocharged inequality, concentrating wealth among a smaller and smaller group of people.”
Anglicare is calling for a tax on high-value inheritances above $2 million, not including the family home, which would avoid placing additional burden on low- and middle-class households.
Capital Gains Tax took over.
Victoria’s liars party has increased the fees for probate on a sliding scale. Sliding upwards that is the more you leave the more you pay. Sneaky bastards
So the nsw police are declining to use their enhanced powers which were bestowed upon them only last week?
Rules for thee (non muslims)
But not for me (muslims)
Stinks to high heaven. Where is our Donald Trump/Pam Bondi?
Yes, Cassie. It p—-s me off. About a year ago as I understand a law was enacted that gave the police the right to commence a prosecution against certain of the Pallie protesters – as opposed to the DPP which, I suspect, was refusing to take action. But still no action in respect to plenty of possible actions against the protesters.
Now, they have very specific new laws with which to prosecute these deadly nurses. WTF?????
I think most voters, particularly those in western Sydney will remember that at the coming election.
The suggestion has been made that these two Muzzos from Bankstown have their citizenship cancelled, and they be deported….
To Tel Aviv…
Why only a suggestion?
What utter horseshit.
Inheritance taxes are both morally and economically indefensible, you stupid communist bastards (BIRM).
Don’t hold back, Rabz! But I absolutely agree with you.
“I say, let’s divert more private money to government to address the social inequalities they’ve created through their policies.”
“What a brilliant idea! What do we stand to get, do you think?”
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Perhaps a 40% reduction in all public servant salaries and perks above $125000 might make living a bit more affordable. Ban CFMEU extortion forever. Rid us of renewable crap and reduce power bills by 80% to lower the cost of food
Anglicare – Inheritance Tax
No. Giving the Govt more money aint a good idea as Elon Musk & Doge have proven.
Kerry Packer also summed up taxation years ago
“a government I can tell you is not spending it that well that we should be donating extra’
The old lefty equity proposition, of equal outcomes, despite how hard you work, your spending priorities, your saving mentality etc.
sounds like communism.
Trump has talked about nuclear arms reduction and defense spending reduction (up to 50%) involving China and Russia, and Russia back in G8. Hard to see, apart from the first, how these are goers.
Would be excellent to see Russia in the G8. I recall that Putin seemed very keen to enter the European circle in his talk with Tucker. NATO would be a no go, at least in the foreseeable future, but the G8 is a step in the right direction.
NATO is likely in a death spiral. Re G8, Russia has to choose between BRICS and G8, can’t have both.
WeatherWatchTV:
Australia: Severe Tropical Cyclone ZELIA to make landfall today in Pilbara
Heard windbag Winsor briefly on their ABCcess this morning.
Still on ABC speed dial.
Of more interest was the bit on the muzzie madness attack in Boxheadland – the report was full of lamenting from wimmins (the ghastly regiment) about how it might affect the election in 10 days as people might vote for self preservation.
How DARE the Germans vote to protect their families and themselves! How DARE they!
Perish the thought!
Many German women (particularly younger ones) are terrified of walking the streets and yet they are more concerned at a right-wing party being elected.
Dead men tell no tales.
New radiocarbon dates establish 6,000-year time span for human remains pulled from River Thames (Phys.org, 13 Feb)
Darkly amusing that Poms have been dumping bodies into the Thames for six thousand years. There must be a few detective story ideas amongst that lot.
Yes, that’s where all the Midsomer Murder bodies went. The Romans helped out as well along with William the Conqueror. And Henry the Eighth.
The continuous temporal span extended from approximately 4000 BC to 1800 AD
So, not a patch on our own idigenes 40,000 y then
Re the discussion on the possibility of inheritance taxes:
Our property portfolio was deliberately amassed during our early working life to fund our retirement. We have never – directly- enjoyed any money curtesy of the public purse.
That income producing property (which is taxed) will pass to our grandchildren to enable them to buy their own homes, without government assistance.
During our working life our businesses contributed a lot to the economy and to the Treasury through taxation. We still do.
Obviously, we will not welcome retrospective inheritance tax on property which we have provided to finance their own homes.
Death Taxes are theft. So is Income Tax. A Consumption Tax less so.
Death Taxes are the politics of envy, writ large.
How dare you work and save to pass on something to whom YOU choose?
Timely. There will be billions upon billions of dollars of Boomer wealth sloshing about over the next few decades as they drop off the twig.
Intergenerational equity getting a bit of (belated) airplay. Always an issue with the level of public debt floating around.
Everyone can rest easy as according to Michael Waites, sec of Nurses and Midwives Association “The vast majority of our members stand against racism and bigotry“. Good one Mikey. Now here is a little fact for you: offing patients doesn’t take a vast majority, it only takes one.
You are way out of your league Mike.
Little factoid: the male muz is shia, but the bint?
Shocked! Shocked they are.
‘We don’t hold this view’: Prominent Muslim doctor blasts Sydney nurses’ ‘abhorrent’ remarks (Sky News mainpage headline, 13 Feb)
The taqiyya is strong with this one.
How do you know that BoN? There’s as much, or as little, reason to think as you do as there is to think that most Australian Muslims decry the nurses’ behaviour, yet are afraid to say so.
I’ve seen the poll numbers. And mentioned them on the Cat many times.
In short when you ask these people what they really think you get terrifying answers. Which of course is in keeping with what the Quran says.
And when you ask a Muslim what they think about their faithfully obeying the law of Australia, what do the polls reveal?
If it’s a question of whether sharia (as Muslim Allah-ordained customary law) should apply Australia-wide, you might get most saying ‘yes’, but how many would feel compelled to say so, lest, at best, they would be ostracised by their friends and in their community.
My point, in the end, is that it is wrong to assume a Muslim medico is lying.
How interesting. “they would be ostracised by their friends and in their community.” Isn’t this the powerful driver in Islam for actions as well, especially for eldest son of the family. Isn’t the Sunna exactly that, the community of muslims. Hence to say “yes” to the Sharia is to mean yes, ostracised or not.
The test will be his next Jewish patient.
No, it isn’t.
Could go either way but how would you know.
Bedpan economics: Anglicare hoovers 27-28% of an aged care package in management fees.
We remain a nation of convicts.
Anglicare now provides NO SERVICES WHATSOEVER to severely disabled people NONE — so much for Luke 14:12-14 and there’s no access via the roof either.
One freak after another.
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SC Reviews:
WOKE CLOWN WORLD……..WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS?
The Oz on the Met Police’s treatment of Sam Kerr:
even though inheritance taxes are proven to reduce inequality and are more efficient than other existing taxes
I ran it through the decoder ring: “To stop people having an “unfair” advantage bt using the bank of mum & dad we will instead make all housing unaffordable to every Australian”.
Blackrock and Chinese can build infinity dogboxes instead.
?
Please please please (the Hun):
Let there have been Jewish ambos, and let there be Jewish nurses and Jewish doctors.
You could safely bet that the hospital will ensure that there aren’t.
At least if he is batting for the other side it may be more prudent to trust the Jewish medical staff. I hope he is on the ground floor
Taken to Bankstown hospital where the Muslim protection ring can surround him, and prevent any accidental interviews from NSWaffen?
A gentle reminder dear reader, these were paediatric nurses, so their boasts and claims were all about killing CHILDREN.
Yes – that aspect is not getting media traction.
I don’t wonder why.
I see it is the male in distress. More evidence to me that females are tougher, bitchier and more evil than men.
More evidence of careful legal advice.
And hospital visits by a Rabbi.
One of the nurses at the centre of the hate speech video filmed inside Bankstown Hospital has been hospitalised over mental health concerns.
Preparing the battlefield for a mental health defence?
How Brittany.
US Typhoon and UK Met services are showing Zelia as a strong Cat 4.
BoM is sticking with Cat 5.
The Oz has uploaded this piece by Gemma Tognini. It is superb, she nails it….
As nurses declare they’d kill Israelis, are you ready to pick a side yet?GEMMA TOGNINI
Very few things happen in isolation. Divorce, for example (speaking from experience). Gaining or losing weight (again, a subject expert). The success or otherwise of a commercial venture. All of these things are typically the result of more than one factor. Even when certain things happen that may come as a shock to most people, it’s rare that there weren’t signs in the lead-up and several factors at play.
When two nurses employed at Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital were caught online this week, dressed in their NSW Health scrubs, declaring not only that they would kill Israeli patients rather than treat them but also bragging they’d already done so; when a caravan of explosives was found last month, destined for a Sydney synagogue; when a string of attacks in recent months have targeted Jewish homes, schools and businesses across the nation; when more and more details about the depraved cruelty of Hamas have emerged this week, one simple question has spoken loudly in my mind, demanded my attention.
Are you ready to pick a side yet? My question is directed to many: for those who have obfuscated; who have hidden behind words such as context and nuance; who have tried to have a buck each way because standing on the wall at times like this comes at a cost.
My question is definitely for the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Are either of you ready yet?
My question is for everyone who has shrugged their shoulders and said it’s Australia, not the Weimar Republic. It’s not that big of a deal, not that pervasive a problem.
To the people I know who have rolled their eyes at the idea that Australia has a dark problem with Jew hatred, that foreign conflicts playing out on Australian streets are a clear, menacing and gathering storm, to you I’d ask this: What is it going to take? And how long until you find courage?
You’d have to be a fool to believe we got here by accident. Australia’s awful, shameful underbelly of Jew hatred has been growing in the dark like black mould for years. I know I started writing about it years before October 7, 2023. That day was the green light for it all to spill out in the open.
We didn’t get here, to the events of this week, where two nurses felt emboldened to brag about murdering Israelis in their workplace, because of a casual series of disconnected happenings.
It started on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2023. It started at that very moment it became clear to those who sought to bring foreign conflicts to Australia’s streets that they could without consequence; without so much as a parking fine. That nobody would stop them.
It started with weak leadership then and ran with impunity because of inaction. The escalating violent behaviour has been enabled at every step by the same moral weakness that has become the hallmark of this federal government. Here in Australia, and to our great shame, internationally.
We made news that night, the landmark of the Sydney Opera House captured in an image of hate. We’ve also made news this week. Australia, where medical staff brag about killing Israelis rather than treating them.
What happened at the Bankstown Hospital was met with horror. Of course it was. It is utterly horrific. In all my days I never imagined this in Australia. But this is no behavioural outlier. Broadly, there were numerous off-ramps, at which point nothing was done. Time and time again.
Want proof? Got plenty.
Burn the Israeli flag on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. No consequences. Drive across suburban Melbourne to terrorise Jews at their synagogue on a Friday night. No consequences. Shut down university campuses with violent, ugly encampments, harass Jewish students. No consequences. Clog CBD streets in Sydney and Melbourne weekend after weekend for more than a year, spewing hatred, sowing fear. No consequences. Week after week, hate preachers call from their pulpits for the annihilation of the Jews. Never any consequences.
It’s not complicated and it’s not hidden. Sickening false equivalences driven by sections of the media who swallowed whole and without question Hamas’s lies and gave credibility to the same people who burnt families alive and kidnapped babies.
For 15 months the language of this federal government towards Israel has been punitive. It has been scolding. It has looked and felt like a principal chiding the one student in class who has had the guts to stand up to the worst bully in the school.
As the progressive left loves to remind us, language matters, and this too started on that awful day, when the worst atrocities since the Holocaust were unleashed like hell itself on Israel and its people.
Show restraint, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said as footage of Shani Louk’s naked, broken-limbed body being paraded on the back of a truck in front of cheering Gazans was being broadcast around the world. Show restraint, she said from the safety of Canberra as Naama Levy was dragged through dusty Gazan streets, bound, barefoot and in bloodied pyjama pants, shoved into a car, driven away and held captive.
When this government’s narrative is consistently critical of Israel, consistently weak in relation to the hostages and to Israel’s right to defend itself, it validated, enabled and emboldened Jew hatred in this country. Like I said, language matters. This fact seems to be lost on the government.
Even after the Adass Israel synagogue was firebombed, with people still inside, our Prime Minister’s priority was tennis and beers in sunny old Perth.
Actions will always betray what a person may seek to disguise with words. Appeasement is the road to hell. History is littered with irrefutable evidence. Perhaps our government felt as if we were far enough away from the conflict that it could have a buck each way. Appease voters it’s afraid of losing, toss sugar in another direction.
The Albanese government is finding out that the road to hell, this road paved with words of appeasement, is leading straight to the front door of everyday Australians and the values we hold dear. In every scorched car, in every torched building, in every piece of anti-Semitic graffiti on homes, schools and businesses across this country. In every armed guard at the gate of a Jewish school. In a caravan packed full of explosives and containing a list of targets; in every act of intimidation on university campuses and now at a hospital in western Sydney. That road is leading straight home.
I watched last week’s hostage release as if in a trance. These are horrors straight from the pages of history. And the testimony from these men, shadows of themselves, speaks of the worst for those who are still being kept hostages. Alon Ohel, for example. Hostages report he is being kept in chains underground and still has shrapnel in his eye and his arm from October 7 when he was abducted.
We talk so much about generational trauma in this country, and that is justified. Imagine being Jewish and seeing those images this week. Imagine watching those nurses bragging about killing Israelis. Imagine seeing Kristallnacht play out in 2025 in Australian suburbs, hitting Australian businesses and families.
Never again, we told them. We failed. Our leaders failed them, and our leaders have failed us.
This is not about picking a side based on race, religion, faith or background. It is simply about one thing….Australian values. Australians know our values transcend these things. We share them and we cherish them.
This week, the NSW Health Minister delivered the strongest response yet to any of this. I don’t want you in our hospitals or in our communities, he said.
Who could disagree?
I would also add…
I don’t want you in my country.
If I could give you 1,000,000 thumbs up, I would.
I definitely don’t want these thugs in my country – at all.
Their entire outlook on life is antithetical to traditional Australian culture.
For the Trekkies – time to go Borg on them:
“You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.”
I’m writing to my Senator (Jacinta) noting all immigration from Muslim countries needs to permanently halt. Will now include the bolded element above. Tone of the letter is polite and respectful, but clear. We all need to write to our Senators/MPs. Corresponding with a member of APH is normally a pointless activity. Not so now. They need to hear it from us. Polite, decent Australians saying, ‘no more.’
Problem is you cannot descriminate based on religion.
Plus the second generation ratbags born here.
Why not? Muslims do.
They are not governing us. Yet.
You have to remember that they are far left student activists.
Albo is and always was a Pali supporter and as for the likes of Wong, Burke and the self loathing Jew personified in Dreyfuss, don’t expect leopards to change their spots.
Gemma is such a warrior – an incredibly eloquent warrior – for Israel and for all Jews across this country and abroad. She does not pull back or mince words. She says it like it IS. I imagine that the feeble public figures who pretend to defend our way of life in public positions, wince when they read her words.
But she, and others, need to say them again and again – until they are fixed in the heads of our politicians and they must then ACT to be free of them.
Go Gemma.
Healthcare Profits: A Closer Look at the Numbers
the study found that 95% of healthcare companies’ net income went to shareholders rather than being reinvested in improving healthcare services or affordability.
Is that after bloated salaries plus superannuation plus lots of other perks. What is 95% of very little left
I guess it only applies in in America
Australia not so much!
There is another offshore windfarm proposed just off Coastal Town in Wannon (Dan Tehan’s electorate).
Dan says No.
Greens/Liars say Yes.
The (cough) “independent” candidate (funded by Climate200) is running on a platform of “Wait and see. Will consult the voters after the election.”
Sure.
I think he will miraculously discover a rent-a-crowd groundswell of windfarm support after the election if he wins.
Tehan holds the seat reasonably comfortably so he needs to pull the full-on Teal con to have any chance.
“Wait and see. Will consult the voters after the election.”
What ARE you running on then? Has this person actually any sort of platform to run on other than “I’m not the uni-party”?
Pretty much that’s his line.
“I’m an independent. Time for a change”.
(A change to what, exactly? He seems coy about that).
I expect a lot more voters will be Teal skeptical this time around. Curtin will provide a box seat.
Before I go…
When is the NSW Health minister going to announce an inquiry into Bankstown hospital?
Management appear to have been tolerating a – shall we say “non-inclusive”? – environment there for over a year, rendering the public facility an “unsafe space” for many in the community.
I wonder if we can find an LGBTQ+ Jewish person?
Only half joking…
I wonder how many families of non-Muslim patients who have died in Bankstown Hospital will now wonder was it inevitable or helped by certain staff.
Besides, who would believe this government would hold a true inquiry?
Some light is better than none.
The people the hospital is intended to serve might welcome some pressure from outside sources.
Rog – several decades, more like.
I take your point, Rabz.
It’s a long time since I was in that part of Sydney.
Bald!
In the Rift Valley in Tanzania live a tribe whose way of life is unchanged in 50,000 years. They are called the Hadzabi and they still live in the same way most of mankind did in the stone age, by hunting and gathering on the African plains. Along with my friend ?@TimmyKarter? I set off in search of the tribe to learn about their way of life. Join me on an adventure to the dawn of man…
Bald And Bankrupt:
Hunting Baboons With Africa’s Last Stone Age Tribe
I bet they don’t need 42 Billion South Pacific Pesos a year either.
Sydney’s Northern Beaches have been Lala-Land for a long time, and I can only hope that the local HadZali tribe will have been red pilled by the time of the next federal election.
A very, very, old living culture. Quite unlike another culture that claims to be the “oldest living culture”, but does not follow their own culture in any way?
Hi. As a Jewish woman, I am so fearful. I have been to hospital a lot since my mum passed away. I trusted.
Giving the lie to all those Australian tourist promotions boasting the “world’s oldest living culture”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gjo2LzJXEAAU8Rw?format=jpg&name=900×900
Labor wins Victorian byelection by a few hundred votesBy Chip Le GrandThe Labor Party has declared victory in the state seat of Werribee after a voter backlash that has sent a shudder through the Allan and Albanese governments.
The ALP claimed the seat at 12.15pm today after further counting of a small number of postal votes failed to bridge the gap between school teacher John Lister and the Liberal Party’s candidate Steve Murphy.
Primary swing of more then 16%
Time doe a recount methinks.
Whoops. Time to do a recount I mean.
Think recounts are automatic under a certain threshold. Others might confirm?
Butter ! it would have been SO GOOD if the Libs won.
Trump offering F-35As to India. I think the rapprochement between Russia and US may not be imminent.
Oh, I dunno.
If DJT can pull Russia and India out of BRICS, that would be a Big Deal.
He’s only here for one term and what guarantee does Russia have that the US doesn’t turn against them again? And having burned the Chinese, etc. what remaining option do they have? Also, I don’t think the G7 looks as good now as it did in the 90s. Re India, they have nothing to gain from leaving BRICS. They’re in G20, as is Russia, and they’re both original members. Same interests that prompted BRICS then are present now.
India pulled out of the Felon development program, disappointed with the results. It might be interested in a genuine stealth fighter as a counter to China.
Death Taxes are theft. So is Income Tax. A Consumption Tax less so.
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They are all outright theft. Consumption taxes are a bloke with a gun standing between two people trying to do a deal and he’s demanding a cut.
At least a consumption tax is applied the same way to all while death taxes hit only the hard working and successful.
Yep, the same bloke with the gun taking a cut of every transaction in the country.
It would be far better for the economy, if the tax rate decreased for higer incomes. You could then be sure that people would work their butts off to reach a higher tax bracket. That would ensure the econmy went gangbusters.
and the dead 😉
Dead typically do not get a vote.
Nothing wrong with consumption taxes per se. Typically you get both in the name of tax “reform”.
Well the bloke is establishing the rules for making that deal, providing the currency and enforcement arrangements, among a plethora of other things the deal makers benefit from not related to the transaction. Shouldn’t that deserve a cut?
True enough.
However…
Therefore, the tax system should be an equal opportunity thief – every entity or transaction should be taxed equally, no exceptions, no rebates. Individuals on income, companies on gross profit minus anything they spend and have an invoice for, from an entity that pays tax in this country (wages, building rent, and yes, even lunches etc)
Since 20% is about the limit before people start looking for ways to minimise their tax, and since we want a “progressive” tax, a high tax free threshold (say, 75% of average weekly earnings) seems appropriate – average earner pays 5%, 2 x average about 12%, 11 times average close enough to 20%.
If you are a wage earner, you will know exactly the absolute maximum tax you will need to pay on overtime or from a pay rise will be 20%. If you are a business, everything you spend that pushes money into the local economy (thus creating demand, jobs etc) is deductible. No need for a specialist tax accountant or lawyer. Transparently obvious that everyone pays the same, and that the system is simple and easy to understand.
Of course, we’d never have anything like that, alas…
Sounds like the Labor party and unions
The reels that are on Facebook on a daily basis are quite fun, and quite varied, but there’s a recurring type which is ladies saying stupid stuff like “My husband left me because I’m forty and not good looking. Do you think I’m still attractive?”
Of course they are, so it has to be a ploy for gathering names and emails.
having spent the evening at the Railway Hotel, and watching the chaps and chapettes come in for a refreshing ale, i can guarantee you that if you think appearances are what keep you together, then you’re barking up the wrong tree.
What keeps couples together is love and mutual respect. And family.
Alan Dershowitz’s new book “The ten Big Anti- Israel Lies, and How To Refute them with Truth” makes damnfine reading.
“Israel Denied Statehood to the Palestinian People.”
“Israel offered Palestinian statehood in 1937 – 1938, 1947-1948,1967, 1993, 2000 2001 and 2007, and each time the Palestinian leadership refused. (Page 8)
Chapter 1 shows the settler colonialism claim to be absurd. No imperial power in Europe sent the Jews to colonise Palestine on their behalf.
LOL, yeah he’s not president for life.
Just saw Greg Gutfeld comment that the richest man in the world has a sense of humour of a twelve year old. It seems that since the left has outlawed comedy and humour only Elon Musk and Greg Gutfeld are brave enough to be funny and usually at the elites’ expense therefore the elites only have themselves to blame.
There used to be a time in the long distant past, in the 1970s, when comedy and humour was all around us, they even had numerous comedy shows on TV and made funny movies. We need a comedy renaissance.
Attempts at humour, pathetic as they are, come mainly from the Left nowadays but the Left doesn’t have a sense of humour so it all fails.
Want to really pop their heads off?
Run a series of concerts featuring Icons of American Music … all Country and Western.
Yeah. Both types of music.
“ I think those lights are off on purpose.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RdR6MN2jKYs