Open Thread – Mon 17 Feb 2025


Ploughing the Fields, Otto Strützel, early 1900s

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Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 9:39 am
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  Indolent

You’re not going to get it until you drag the scum from their leather seats and march them to the guillotines.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 9:44 am

An excellent interview with Tucker Carlson. In English.

Hungary PM Orban: The Left Imposed Their Ideology On The World With U.S. Taxpayer Money

Rabz
February 19, 2025 9:44 am

“Germany is becoming an unlivable tyranny.”

Again.

Gee, who’da thunk it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 9:52 am
Reply to  Rabz

Lucky I kept the half track.

MatrixTransform
February 19, 2025 12:46 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Hugo Boss is back baby!

Arky
February 19, 2025 9:45 am

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

 February 19, 2025 7:52 am

 Reply to  Bruce of Newcastle

Time for Elon Musk to become a media mogul, purchase a dying leftie network (MSNBC

An audience of a couple of million of over 80s.
It’s a dying irrelevance.
The only service these legacy networks perform is scaring old women and providing new media with clips to mock.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 9:57 am
Reply to  Arky

It’s not dead yet, Arky. So best to have a finger in that pie.

Winning in 2028 is not going to be easy, nor in the mid-terms coming up.

People everywhere resist change and there is a lot of it going on around them now in the US, with redundancies etc. There will be a backlash, because the good results will not be apparent in the short term.

Be prepared.

Arky
February 19, 2025 10:05 am

Rather than securing the votes of the dying, we’s be better off continuing to ensure the already dead stop voting.
The cultural shift has already occurred, the demographics are inexorable, a decade long move to the right is underway.

Arky
February 19, 2025 10:08 am
Reply to  Arky

Let the dead bury their own dead.
We’re moving on.

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Arky
February 19, 2025 10:14 am
Reply to  Arky

Leftist necromancy, it turns out, hasn’t just delayed their electoral demise by resurrecting voters, it has funded the ongoing media- wide conspiracy to make DEI seem relevant. No one wants what they’re serving up, and the only way it was made to seem justified or relevant was social security fraud, Medicare fraud and the networks of illicit money flowing to a small number of Marxist shitbags.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 10:10 am

There will be a backlash,

They created such a huge front-lash that very little they now do or say will be ineffective. Besides, where will they get the money for their backlash?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 10:43 am
Reply to  Arky

Better to buy Women’s Weekly or New Idea, sack the current staff, and hire conservative women at premium rates to teach leftard women reality.

Then Arky might find that giving women the vote wasn’t so bad after all.

Last edited 21 hours ago by Boambee John
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 10:54 am
Reply to  Boambee John

That’s an excellent idea, Boambee John. My experience is that women are being very poorly served by the cultural and media industries and a good dose of conservative salts would do a power of good.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 1:27 pm

Lizzie, Playboy and Penthouse don’t even exist anymore.
That’s poor servicing if you were to ask me.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 19, 2025 4:09 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

And Hustler

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 19, 2025 4:09 pm
Reply to  Barking Toad

And the Kings Cross Whisper

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 9:57 am

In today’s “I’ve become my parents”. I’ve changed the background to my IPad and have no idea how. The difference is could probably find out how to change it back but just can’t be bothered.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 10:12 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Please no Bear. I couldn’t handle it. Mother so bored she’d got the bathroom renovated, bath taken out coz she slipped in it, only to replace it wth a small bath under the shower, which she slipped in and got stuck. This involved moving a structural wall. Would invite the Mormans in for a lecture. Always wanted to do something different but was too afraid. Dad only died to get away from her.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 10:13 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Didn’t have to move the wall to get her out.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 10:56 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Glad to hear it. 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 10:19 am
Reply to  dover0beach

He probably wants to get the birth rate up. Powerline has a relevant post today:

We’re Going to Win | Power Line (18 Feb)

Even red states in the chart aren’t reaching replacement level, although they’re close.

There does need to be a step change though which incentivises families and having children in the twenties not the forties (hence IVF). Not an easy culture change to achieve.

Arky
February 19, 2025 10:30 am

It is easy, you could do it with one stroke: abolish female emancipation.
Get them back in the kitchen, doing what they are born to do: make babies.
They would be happier, men would have to step up and be more manly, sport would again be the ballet of violence of times past, pubs and workplaces would again be smoke filled arenas of competence and industry, universities would be places of diligent study and reasoned debate, homes would be oasis’s of love and domestication, instead of cat piss smelling hell holes, the shopping malls would again throng with happy women, spending their husbands wages, and Christmas would return for all the children.

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Arky
February 19, 2025 10:32 am
Reply to  Arky

Get them back in the kitchen, doing what they are born to do: make babies.

Yes, I know babies aren’t generally made in the kitchen.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 10:58 am
Reply to  Arky

But it can be done. 🙂

Kneel
Kneel
February 19, 2025 2:26 pm
Reply to  Arky

“barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen” eh?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 12:12 pm
Reply to  Arky

Wrong Arky. Keep women out of the kitchen. Okay for baking but otherwise boobs keep getting in the way which leads to other things and burnt food.

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 10:20 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Could be beneficial if it limits access to married hetero couples only.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 11:00 am
Reply to  Megan

Yes. I’d hate to be without two of my beautiful grandchildren who were IVF conceived, using the egg and sperm of both of their parents. No health issues for either of these children, btw.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 19, 2025 10:21 am
Reply to  dover0beach

It’s not that terrible.
On provisi that recipients are under 35, American citizens, and… you know… people with vaginas.

viking
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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 19, 2025 10:29 am
Reply to  Wally Dalí

..and married.

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 1:33 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Certainly not as terrible as turning over your vital services to Islamic inbreds because “Growth”.

2dogs
February 19, 2025 12:48 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

It doesn’t really make sense for a nation to be both paying for children in foster care and the costs of an IVF program.

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 1:31 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Why? Beats importing the Third World to breed.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 19, 2025 10:19 am

It looks like the French are up to their old games – siding with their enemies against their friends.

More like siding with their new friends against their old enemies.
After WWII, they saved the grand mufti, Haj Amin, from the noose and smuggled him into Lebanon, hoping he’d cause problems for the British.
A) Because Britain was the old enemy.
B) To curry favour with the Lebanese and Syrians.
C) Payback for the flogging Vichy copped in the Syria-Lebanon campaign.
?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 10:24 am
Reply to  lotocoti

Sounds about right. Still not too popular in N Zud.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 10:35 am
Reply to  H B Bear

You sink one boat …

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 12:16 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Always thought it funny the frog agents stayed at a motel owned by the NZ PM at the time.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 10:33 am
Reply to  lotocoti

It’s Macron being an irrelevant lame duck launching squirrels. In the last week he’s castigated Israel over Lebanon and Gaza and now he’s buying in to the hostages.

France stands alongside the Bibas family, Macron writes on X (18 Feb)

He’s an utter hypocrite like Albo and Bad Penny.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:03 pm

That would be the FIRST and ONLY time he has ever acknowledged the Bibas family.
Unutterably foul human.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:14 pm
Reply to  lotocoti

When the Turks were besieging Vienna, the French supported them to get back at their European rivals.

Arky
February 19, 2025 10:19 am

The time is near when the emerging new media stops harvesting the dumb old media for outrage clips.
I’ll be glad when this thing of using all the leftist media idiots as fodder for content dies.
The idiots? They need to die off so the debate can be between reasoned men with good ideas on both sides, and nearer the middle, where most people naturally reside.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 10:34 am
Reply to  Arky

There is a place for mocking.

I’d prefer an actual pillory, but film will suffice for now.

What astounds me is the proliferation of blue hair dye. Not seen in such abundance since the 60’s (saving Dame Edna, natch).

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 10:20 am

Further to Nazis and Nazism, I note how dirt bag weasel Jew hater Nasser Mashni, head of the so called Australia Palestine Nazi Advocacy Network, son of a terrorist and a man with a criminal past…

Whose father gained residency in Australia under false pretences.

If we were a serious nation the Mashni family would long ago have been repatriated to their “homeland”, as Mashni calls it.

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Arky
February 19, 2025 10:36 am
Reply to  Roger

Dirt bag weasels everywhere object to your comparison.

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 1:36 pm
Reply to  Roger

Or doxxed to Mossad.

Tom
Tom
February 19, 2025 10:26 am

My favourite fact on Trump’s America: California’s current population is 39 million. Canada’s current population is 41 milllion. By population, they’re roughly the same size. It’s no wonder Trump sees Canada as the USA’s 51st state.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 10:35 am
Reply to  Tom

Take Alberta and Saskatchewan and leave the rest, which are useless and lefty.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 10:50 am

Newfoundland and Nova Scotia have strategic value, cf Greenland.

Don’t touch Quebec, Ontario or British Columbia with a bargepole.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  Tom

Mmm…just imagine the US state of Canada with 50 odd electoral college votes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 10:51 am
Reply to  Roger

As repulsive, potentially, as California.

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 10:26 am

Continuing on with the Murdoch kiddies court win allowing them to destroy* a three generational legacy.

It’s a special kind of moronic dumbness to take something that is reasonably successful in its niche and promise to turn it into the same shallow lefty media cesspit that is failing to attract listeners/readers/watchers across the world. Especially now, when the tide seems to be turning in the opposite direction. Plus the Trumpenator.

There is no cure for stupid.

* the camels are on the horizon.

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Tom
Tom
February 19, 2025 10:33 am
Reply to  Megan

It never ceases to amaze me how the third generation of famous media families is hellbent on destroying the founder’s legacy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 10:37 am
Reply to  Tom

And how is young Warwick Fairfax?
That was the pinnacle of idiocy.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

James Packer is interviewed on Sharri’s program tonight. Might be interesting to watch.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 10:53 am
Reply to  calli

Coming round to James Packer. If ever wealth was a curse.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 10:55 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Rothwells at the peak of its power.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 10:59 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Young Warwick wasn’t the only family member to do a fortune on Fauxfacts. Possibly evaporated more wealth than any Australian company, although you suspect BHP would take the crown.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 11:15 am
Reply to  H B Bear

The concept, “Rivers of Gold”, springs to mind.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 10:33 am
Reply to  Megan

Third generation curse.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 10:37 am
Reply to  Megan

I left a comment to that effect on the last page.

Vanity and narcissism makes me mention it here. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 11:17 am
Reply to  calli

Sympathies, Calli. That’s the polite way of saying that no-one likes to be left behind being first on a page no longer read.

It inculcates that primary school feeling of – not fair!!!

Thems da perils of blogging on a fast moving, up to date, and superior blog of international reach and widespread acclaim like … umm .. this one. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 10:33 am

Indolent

 February 19, 2025 9:12 am

@kylenabecker

It Turns Out the USAID Worker Who Told ‘Heartbreaking’ Story to 60 Minutes is Samantha Powers Speechwriter

Bring back the fact checkers!
They are clearly living in 2014 where they could just pump out this shit and no-one would call it.
The best was Musk’s response to the sad-face “… and I can’t afford my chai latte or yoga sessions this week” by reminding people that they are all getting an eight-month payout.
What is really scaring a bunch of these DEI types is that SS Swampie is holed below the waterline, and Elon has cut all the lifeboats off the davits.
Previously, if their department closed or re-structured, they would just tap into the network and hop to the next lilypad.
None left.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 10:42 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Many…many upticks, especially for the illustration.

I long for the day when Leak can render our own, homegrown, version.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  calli

That face looks like the printout you get when someone spreads their bum cheeks, sans undies, on the photocopier.

Or, remember the South Park episode when Ben Affleck was portrayed as an arse face? Complete with Albo spittle and speech defect.
Great episode.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 11:26 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Well done, Elon. And welcome to the private sector for many of those who have no experience of how you have to actually work at your job and keep yourself ready to change jobs when change happens.

Hairy and I have both had experience of private sector work, as well as within the public sector trying to make changes towards efficiencies happen in universities.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 10:39 am

That women’s weekly puff piece on albansleazy and the stupid grasping bint he’s been passing off as his fiancé is utterly excruciating*.

Just watch – after he and labore are punted at the upcoming feral erection, she’ll be out of his pointless existence quicker than you can say “taxpayer funded parasitic nonentity”.

*See Mikey Smith News if you’re in a masochistic mood.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 10:53 am
Reply to  Rabz

Remember Julian’s handbag, last seen living in a caravan near Shepparton.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 11:00 am
Reply to  Boambee John

In between court appearances facing charges of groping strippers.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 12:12 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Juliar’s. Stupid auto correct.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:03 am
Reply to  Rabz

Quicker than Mr Julia Gillard off to the strip club.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:14 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Mr Julia Gillard. A lot of actors would have killed for that role.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Not so much for that roll (in the hay).

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:29 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

That was for true believers like The Legover Man and union thugs on the make.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:12 am
Reply to  Rabz

Juliar – still providing the LOLs.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 12:35 pm
Reply to  Rabz

My point above is proven. These things influence many female voters and it is time that women read better things than leftist puff pieces so why not purchase a few of these ‘women’s mags’ and get some conservative input?

I’ve also said backthread that Dutton needs to up his PR performance to soften his image to women.
.
The election could swing on these female votes so it’s time to change them to a better and more informed perspective. This will take serious work and can’t just be dismissed by the cognoscenti on blogs as encouraging fripperies.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 1:41 pm

The “women problem” thing was overdone re Abbott (not true then either) and if women don’t want a stronger leader more fool them.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:19 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

And it was definitely overdone in 2019. Many women (so some of them tell me) were disgusted by Shorten’s callous abandonment of his first wife.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 8:34 pm

You guys below simply don’t talk to the range of women that I talk to. Failure to recognise that women are influenced by the soft treatment that humanises the Labor luvvies will lose votes.

It’s not a ‘woman problem’ exactly. It’s about feeling you know more and relate more to one candidate over the other. I see and hear this all the time.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 10:40 am
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Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:13 pm

I hope it’s privately funded.
Surprised it’s going ahead since Universal Taxpayer Funding has dried up.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 19, 2025 1:36 pm

Disappointing. They surely could have tried for “black queer disabled woman” to tick another box.

cohenite
February 19, 2025 10:40 am

From the Specie:

Where is Hamas’s top leadership based? Is It Gaza? Lebanon or Syria? No. It is based in the Gulf kingdom of Qatar. Awash in petrodollars and rising out of the desert, Qatar’s emir and leadership see themselves as a leading part of the pan-Arab cabal that denies Israel’s right to exist. Your flights on Qatar Airways, your investments in Qatar’s companies, your tourism dollars if you stop over in Doha, are aiding and abetting Hamas and other barbaric terrorists.

They have to be on Israel’s bomb list

So should this muzzie bastard:

UK Jails Man for Emails ‘Insulting and Offending’ Sadiq Khan, Jess Phillips.

Last edited 21 hours ago by cohenite
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 11:33 am
Reply to  cohenite

We went Qatar in 2023 before 7th Oct happened. Landed at Oman airport and were totally blown away by the size of the American operation at Qatar airport, which was being extended literally for miles. Also – the airport was one of the most busy and bustling ones we had seen in the middle east.

A lot of Muslim traffic – and money – flowing through that airport.

We won’t fly Qatar now in spite of their new planes and quality affordable business class. We’ve learned so much more about their support of Hamas and role against the good. Happier to fly Emirates these days than the doubts we had before though after visiting and appreciating the UAE in 2024.

Vicki
Vicki
February 19, 2025 1:20 pm

Excellent Lizzie. Have known about the Muslim Brotherhood in Qatar for many years and would never (and have never) flown with them. But I know of many “principled” people who know about Qatari connections and still fly with them because they offer cheaper airfares.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:34 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Have had to hold your nose flying Towelhead Air for years now. Dealing with Dubai too,to a lesser extent.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 11:54 am
Reply to  cohenite

The EO on interpretation of legislation is really just an extension of SCOTUS overturning the 1984 Chevron decision last year.
There was some well-founded scepticism here whether the Swamp would just try to get around it but, with Trump in the big chair, it looks like the days of bureaucrats making up legislation out of thin air through “innovative and agile” regulation are over.
Interesting that those complaining about Musk not being elected were totally cool with unelected bureaucrats just inventing law on a whim.
This was a perfect construct for the Dimocrats. Even when they were out of office, their faithful servants in the Swamp could be relied upon to continue their work.
Of course, it suited Congressmen and Senators as well. When confronted with voters complaining about regulations, they could simply shrug and say “totally support you, but there’s nothing we can do”.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 10:55 am

Hello…

Hizb ut-Tahrir activist Mohammed al-Wahwah linked to federally funded Muslim group

Alexi Demetriadi, The Australian, 18 February 2025

A leading Muslim organisation enlisted a prominent Hizb ut-Tahrir activist for five years hosting “youth-focused workshops” and prayer services while it received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal government funding. The Australian can reveal Stand 4 Palestine organiser and Hizb ut-Tahrir activist Mohammed al-Wahwah worked with prominent organisation United Muslims of Australia for a five-year period up to at least mid-2023.

In the five years Mr al-Wahwah worked with the UMA – which told The Australian he was “never employed” but did not clarify if his involvement was voluntary – the organisation received more than $150,000 in federal money across the three years inclusive from 2021.

Last year, it received $3.5m in funding from federal grants designed to promote social cohesion.

Words fail…

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 11:16 am
Reply to  Roger

Dutton’s talking about a DOGE, I think she going to need some help, a lotta lotta help…

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:22 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

You just know Spud’s heart wouldn’t be in it.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:28 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Jacinta Price would have the portfolio.
That gives me some hope.

Last edited 20 hours ago by Roger
Diogenes
Diogenes
February 19, 2025 11:59 am
Reply to  Roger

2 departments like USAID that can be cancelled first
1. Sports
2. Yartz.

Instead of giving clubs and organisations wads of money, give every resident a voucher that they can use, like the kids sports vouchers. Pileoshit did something like this at the end of covid and Qlders were given a 100 voucher to spend at a tourist attraction, accommodation, flights within Qld or rail travel within Qld, rather than funding the operators directly. No need to subsidize losers or luck winners.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Spending power to the people!

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 19, 2025 9:36 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Instead of giving clubs and organisations wads of money, give every resident a voucher that they can use, like the kids sports vouchers. their own money back to use as they see fit

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:20 pm
Reply to  Roger

If Jacinta is given that poison chalice, she will need a colossal amount of “trustworthy”, help and advice.
She needs to get Gina onboard.
The resulting kaleidoscope of exploding heads would Kingsman worthy.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 19, 2025 11:05 am

Just watch – after he and labore are punted at the upcoming feral erection, she’ll be out of his pointless existence quicker than you can say “taxpayer funded parasitic nonentity”

Yep.

Carrying Elbow’s $4,000,000+ coastal mansion under her arm.

Rohan
Rohan
February 19, 2025 11:23 am

And half his parliamentary pension?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 1:58 pm
Reply to  Rohan

I’d larf my guts out if that were to happen.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 11:29 am

If so, it will serve the bugger right.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 19, 2025 12:44 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Don’t stress. Albo’s Labor lawyers would have set up a watertight employment- not pre-nuptial – contract for Jodie and Toto.
She will vanish, like Tim, having been well paid but with no further claims.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

Who got poor Reuben?

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 1:45 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

When Anal goes to bed each night in his beach house, will he like Trumble and Rudd be burning with bitterness after been punted by the plebs?

I hope so. Couldn’t stand the thought of him being happy.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 19, 2025 9:16 pm

No question that purchase was a quid pro quo for her to stay in the game – the political optics were just too bad got it to have been otherwise.

Arky
February 19, 2025 11:07 am

Trump: “A large number of Koreans have been killed in Ukraine”.
Can we put that one to bed now?

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 19, 2025 11:32 am
Reply to  Arky

He’s being scammed by his Intel people. Time for a clean out.

Arky
February 19, 2025 11:13 am

Trump “Money wasted on the green new scam. It’s a scam, you know that”.
How much does it feel like a weight off one’s chest, to finally have a US President stating what we all knew all along, but had to endure this decades long conspiracy of lies.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 11:17 am
Reply to  Arky

Very good.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 19, 2025 11:42 am
Reply to  Arky

Correction:

Two and a half(2.5) decades.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:44 am
Reply to  Arky

Before you get too carried away, just remember that the LNP remains committed to net zero.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 11:15 am

Thier ABCcess this morning.

A full fundament clean and polish for Mr Pocock for getting sports chums to sign up for his new push to introduce some mong legislation that puts every energy proposal to a “for the chiiiiildren” test.

ABCcess dragged up a chum “gday Aids” who was involved, ex champion surfer who then waxed lyrical about travelling the world to compete and wanting his kids to do the same…

It was stunning for its lack of self awareness.
If all the athletes hes dragged in try the same script I propose they all be given absolute set-in-stone carbon rations for the rest of their lives.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:22 am

Spending your youth doing little else but perfecting your skills at a sport doesn’t ordinarily make for a rounded personality in adulthood.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:29 am
Reply to  Roger

Especially among surfers.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:34 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Chuckle.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:38 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

All the guys from the 80s (like me) are in their 50s and 60s now. Bit of a mixed bag.

Arky
February 19, 2025 11:18 am

No smart, competent, ambitious woman (they do exist) should be happy entering a university and finding it chock full of other women. Indeed, she should be taken aback, and if she understands the true natures of men and women, feel greatly disturbed.

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 11:35 am
Reply to  Arky

100 upticks, Arky.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 12:06 pm
Reply to  Arky

When I got my first full-time lectureship I was a just-separated wife with two small children. It was a joy and great relief to be back in the world of men in the staffroom once more. If it had just been women, Arky is right, I would have felt disappointed and cheated of the sort of debate and companionship I found in this new job.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:25 pm
Reply to  Arky

I have only recently, for the first time in my *#years of existence, joined an exclusively female organisation.

My local CWA. A great group of rural ladies who are too busy doing good things to bother pretending they are the smartest person in the room.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 1:36 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Good on you Pogs. Must do lunch again next time we are down your way.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 2:00 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Sounds good. 😀

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:01 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Never underestimate the reach of the CWA.
There was a move to put them in charge of Civil Defence during WW2.

Arky
February 19, 2025 2:04 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

I don’t know about the enemy, but they frighten the shit out of me.

Beertruk
February 19, 2025 10:26 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Bewdy Matey.
Some one on the inside… 😉
After good recipes for scones, jam drops and a moist boiled fruit cake.
I have tried to replicate my Grans old recipe (hand written) for fruit cake but sadly no. Wish I had payed attention and watched when she actually made it.

I do make a date roll in the cylindrical tins. We called it bunghole in the Army and it came in the 10Man rat packs in tins. Nice with butter concentrate and jam.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:20 am

New laws mean coastal landowners in Victoria are unable to build on their properties

Experts say Victorians need to adjust their ideas of future coastal living as governments move to ban building in some sea-side communities based on predictions of rising sea levels. And for those landowners who have already paid for coastal blocks, the new regulations are having an immediate financial impact. 

ABC News

Not only unable to build, but unable to sell.
Alas, ABC News’s website refuses to yield the full story.

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alwaysright
alwaysright
February 19, 2025 11:45 am
Reply to  Roger

I’m sure a FOL (fiend of labor) will offer a pittance to take the property off the hands of the effected.

Just before the gubmint decides to abolish the restrictions.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 11:50 am
Reply to  alwaysright

That did occur to me.

Does that make me a cynic or a realist?

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Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 12:08 pm
Reply to  Roger

Cynical realist?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 12:20 pm
Reply to  Roger

Err … no.
Just last week we had a report of a very, very lucky Indian chap (who ran a now de-registered educational institution) who was photographed hosting a dinner for Hunchback, Luigi and others.
He buys farmland north of Melbourne and, nek minnit we hear Amazon announcing plans for a yuuuuge warehouse right next door.
Ker-ching!
I’ll bet the farmers were told “nothing happening here for at least twenty years, mate”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:42 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Victoriastan cow paddocks have always been the way to riches for some.

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
February 19, 2025 11:41 am

CatFamily – on a different topic. I’ve listened to half of the Joe Rogan/Mike Benz podcast. Can anyone recommend blog/podcast/other feeds on Ukraine I should be accessing for a more accurate picture. (The implication of much of the Rogan/Benz podcast being; most of what you’re reading is USAID et al funded propaganda.)

Vicki
Vicki
February 19, 2025 1:16 pm
Reply to  PoliticoNT

Benz has had more experience “on the inside” than most. His revelations are generally explosive and in line with what the Musk analysis has shown.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 11:51 am

Go west young lefty!

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially opens ABC’s new Parramatta facilities in Western Sydney (Sky News, 19 Feb)

They’re not happy:

According to The Australian, insiders at the ABC claimed there was in-house “grumbling” over the move to Western Sydney.

The 25-minute drive from Sydney’s Central Station seemed to put some staff offside to commit to the commute.

“It’s been a disaster, quite frankly. Almost everyone is complaining about the commute (to Parramatta) and no one can really see the point of it all,” one ABC insider told The Australian.

Regardless of staff reaction, Mr Williams said the move would be “genuinely thrilling” in improving the connection with the audience in Western Sydney.

I’m not entirely sure the denizens of Western Sydney will be genuinely thrilled. ‘Meh’ is the more likely response.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 11:57 am

Should’ve moved them further West.

Like, Broken Hill.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 12:09 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Yes, they should be thankful. Parramatta is virtually inner-city.

Pace Albanese at the opening, the real heartland of Sydney population-wise is Liverpool.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 19, 2025 12:27 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Middle of the Nullarbor.

Frank
Frank
February 19, 2025 1:59 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Not enough malaria.

Arky
February 19, 2025 12:53 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Further…further…further…a little further. (Middle of the Indian Ocean).
There!

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 1:41 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Marble Bar

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 1:59 pm
Reply to  calli

And, no air-con. Bad for the environment. 😀

Enyaw
Enyaw
February 19, 2025 5:06 pm
Reply to  calli

CASTLE BAR

Beertruk
February 19, 2025 10:12 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Should have moved them to Wilcannia.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 11:57 am

25-minute drive

Poor babies.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 12:09 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

Take the train, meet the proles. An exciting new experience.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 12:21 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Indeed – why aren’t the arrogant hypocrites all falling over themselves to use the wondrous Sydney trains?

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:29 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

SNAP! BJ and Rabz. 😀

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:27 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

Shouldn’t they be using the train?
Green bonafides etc.
Typical hypocrites.

Kneel
Kneel
February 19, 2025 3:56 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

And nowhere to charge the electric car!

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Rococo Liberal
Rococo Liberal
February 19, 2025 6:03 pm

In what universe does it take only 25 minutes to get from Ultimo to Parramatta?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 11:54 am
alwaysright
alwaysright
February 19, 2025 12:01 pm

Did he mean a Trumpette party?

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 12:04 pm

Put a sock in it, Clive.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 12:24 pm
Reply to  Roger

Fat Cloive still hasn’t realised he’s now yesterday’s massive fatal coronary waiting to happen.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:44 pm
Reply to  Roger

Usual spoiler role activated.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 11:59 am

Popcorn time?

NASA has upgraded the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 3.1 per cent, or about a 1-in-32 chance, the highest odds yet of collision.

Asteroid 2024 YR4: Odds of collision with Earth in 2032 have reached new high | New Scientist

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 12:03 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Just in time for the Brisbane Olympics!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 12:05 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Elon has been working on Starship/Superheavy #8. Successful full test burns of both stages. If he can get the system flying reliably 2024 YR4 is toast.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 12:41 pm

Elon’s not only saving the US he’s busy working on how to save the planet. Living proof that we need high technology to keep advancing to solve the so-far unsolvables in this world.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 2:15 pm

Lizzie the only unsolvable in the world is why people keep voting left, and Elon is helping with that too. Showing where and how the left keep pocketing ill gotten gains.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:07 pm
Reply to  Lysander

What a wonderful 80th birthday present!
Snuffing it with SMOD!

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 19, 2025 9:39 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Because klimat change?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 12:17 pm

Bush telegraph says the Labor Party is not happy with the timing of the verdict in the matter of Maddox versus the Wagyl – they were hoping it wouldn’t be handed down until after the State election.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 19, 2025 12:36 pm

Obviously his onner got its instructions mixed up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 12:55 pm

His onner “identified as Aboriginal” quite early in the piece.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 19, 2025 1:14 pm

Shirley you are not suggesting its onner had a conflict of interest.
A proud ??>>))(( man and all.
Shocked I am

Rabz
February 19, 2025 12:19 pm

“It’s been a disaster, quite frankly. Almost everyone is complaining about the commute (to Parramatta) and no one can really see the point of it all,” one ALPBC insider told The Australian

Just as the vast majority of Australians can’t see the point of the ALPBC.

The most hilarious aspect of the move to Parramatta is that about 97% of the useless ALPBC idiots would never have been further west than Newtown.

It also speaks to the endemic snobbery so evident in the ALPBC’s “workplace culture”, if it could be dignified with such a term.

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
February 19, 2025 12:32 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Breakfast host on ABC Darwin (filling in for a couple of weeks) this morning was discussing the rate cut. I texted in, ‘Due only because of the aggressive whining of ALP backbenchers, and their useless Cabinet. None of whom are capable of carrying out the structural reforms we really need to reduce cost of living.’ She read it out in full, no criticism. When she’s been reviewing the front page of the papers – often references The Australian. ABC Darwin can be unusually reflective of the local community.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 12:57 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
There is no doubt there would have been endless consultation, staff surveys and briefings before the move.
But no-one would have dared say aloud that they didn’t want to move to the shit-hole that is Western Sydney.
Of course, some will look forward to immersing themselves in the rich and vibrant culture of the West.
Right up until they find out there are Lebanese phrases for “oat milk latte” and “FODMAP bread”.
Or someone dings their car and the response to a request for an exchange of details is met with “You shouldn’t of parked that piece of shit (Nissan Leaf) there ya stupid Skip” and a middle finger salute.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 2:52 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

They should applaud the safety from IPA bombings. Ungrateful swine.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 1:36 pm
Reply to  Rabz

The most hilarious aspect of the move to Parramatta is that about 97% of the useless ALPBC idiots would never have been further west than Newtown.

We are their flyover country. I’m directly under the flight path that Europe-bound jets take shortly after takeoff and rise over the Blue Mountains. There is usually a spate of planes leaving just before the curfew kicks in.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 3:00 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Got a metro now. Can’t be a real international city with a part time airport.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 12:35 pm

Nearly a thousand DoJ denizens just signed their own pink slips.

900+ Former and Current Main Justice Lawfare Operatives, Self-Identify (18 Feb)

Moments ago, 900+ career DOJ lawyers signed an open letter in support of ongoing Lawfare operations against President Trump and the American judicial system. Put another way, 900 career DOJ lawyers, who used Main Justice as their platform to participate in corrupting and weaponizing the American judicial system for their own financial benefit, have now publicly self-identified. These are the legal abusers within the system.

Making it easy for the doggies!

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 1:29 pm

Anyone signing an open letter is pretty much telegraphing their politics.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 12:37 pm

Via Blazing Catfur

Israel Property Seminar in New York. Jews not holding back when the usual pali rabble show up. Sounded like a good hit too, early in the footage on a pali supporter.

https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1892011918069469276

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Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 12:57 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

I loved seeing the bint in the red keffiyeh get clobbered in the face. 😀

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 4:24 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Good to see the biffing which is fully justified and pleasing to the eye and also to see a modicum of policing being applied to the Pallie incursion.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 12:42 pm

The contrast between the US electoral system and Australia’s is stark.

The Trump Administration has come crashing in on a wave of independent private research, planning and policy development that will have taken years and cost many, many millions in real dollars and donated time/resources.

It’s not just the Donald sitting behind the Resolute Desk having brainfarts – behind him there are hundreds of smart, well-informed people with a coordinated and legally briefed mission.

On the other hand, Australian political parties rely on Party Grandees, focus groups, insider political advisors, and (sometimes) a few thousand dollars’ worth of external consultancy advice to develop ‘saleable’ policy – with the expectation that, if elected, Top Men will evaluate, detail, cost, and implement something hopefully rather similar. Here, political brainfarts pass as policy with minimal review and criticism.

Good value as she is, Jacinta Price would never be in a position to DOGUE her way into Australian public sector waste, decay, and corruption – far less lay a platform to remake government in a conservative image.

Hopefully she doesn’t get tarnished by unrealistic expectations, because there aren’t many like her in Canbra.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 1:04 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Her role may be largely symbolic in dollar terms but it may still be good value.

Start with the grants system.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 2:58 pm
Reply to  Roger

Start with the grants system.

Indeed.
Fruit so low that it’s already in the basket.

Or on the ground rotting…

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Vicki
Vicki
February 19, 2025 1:11 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

I suspect that Jacinta will concentrate on the self interest and influence implicated in grants to Indigenous communities. Plenty to keep her busy there. It will save great amounts of public money and restrain the influence of influential clan members.

Rococo Liberal
Rococo Liberal
February 19, 2025 7:27 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Those differences are not systemic. Trump is copying Margaret Thatcher.

MatrixTransform
February 19, 2025 12:44 pm

Trevor Loudon’s Comrade Prime Minister – backed by 46 pages of references and direct communist and socialist sources – exposes the true Anthony Albanese.

Throughout his decades-long career, many of the Prime Minister’s closest comrades have worked in the interests of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and various “Third World” revolutionary movements and regimes.

a book recommendation …
Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 12:57 pm

Make’s interesting reading, particularly the chapter on the links between the land rights movement, and the Communist Party.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:31 pm

In the days when we had down-to-earth Labor leaders, NSW Premier Jack Renshaw told Faith Bandler in 1964 that he wouldn’t support the Freedom Ride because of its Communist inspiration.

His Attorney-General, by the way, was Abram Landa, who succeeded life member of the Knights of the Southern Cross Reggie Downing. Another world.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 1:30 pm

Once a trot, always a trot.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 3:03 pm
Reply to  Entropy

“I’m just the typist.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 12:58 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Some interesting events in Syria.

There was a drone attack on the Hmeimim airbase yesterday:

Russian Air Base In Syria Hit With Overnight Drone Attack: Reports (19 Feb)

No one knows whose drones they were, but there’s also this story:

Russian Military Convoy Denied Entry in Syria (11 Feb)

A Russian military convoy was reportedly denied entry to a base in the Syrian port city of Tartus by Syria’s transitional government’s Ministry of Defense.

According to Turkish outlet TRT, a convoy of 30 military vehicles carrying missile systems departed from Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia province early in the morning. However, upon reaching a checkpoint in Tartus, the convoy was halted and prevented from proceeding further.

After an eight-hour standoff, Russian forces were ultimately forced to turn back and return to Khmeimim Air Base by around 17:00 local time.

Turkey and Russia have been jockeying over Syria for some time, so read into these stories what you will. But it all smells of The Great Game to me.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 1:43 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

If that were to happen I can see Trump kicking Turkey out of NATO.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 1:48 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Unfortunately he can’t, since the alliance was ratified by Congress. There’s no way that Congress will unratify it.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 1:46 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Rebuild Hezbollah?
Will they be investing in hundreds of pairs of silicone testicle prosthetics?
Like the ones used for castrated dogs whose owners still want them to look like studs? 😀

Rabz
February 19, 2025 2:02 pm
Reply to  Pogria

AKA “neuticles”

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 19, 2025 9:41 pm
Reply to  Pogria
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:20 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

The nightmare belongs to Turkey if she wants to fully get on Israel’s bad side.

Vicki
Vicki
February 19, 2025 1:26 pm

Saw Jacinta speak at the Sydney Institute last night. It was basically a forum to flog her new book, but she spoke well about the problems for women in Aboriginal culture and took general questions later on.

I asked her if the LNP (which I habitually muddled) had a “roadmap” for liberating remote communities and mainstreaming them into normal life. She didn’t suggest a specific study – which I think the LNP SHOULD have.

A lovely lady, and super smart. But she will have to develop a positive plan to reintegrate the “remotes”.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 1:36 pm
Reply to  Vicki

The more people like yourself asking pertinent questions the better, Vicki.
Good luck.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 1:42 pm
Reply to  Vicki

In the NT, get rid of the land councils to start with.

I think Jacinta knows that but the vested interests she’d be going up against are considerable.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 2:28 pm
Reply to  Roger

Yes, Soviet model ownership structures dreamed up by comrades nugget Coombes and Whitlam. And as with all such models, concentrates power in the hands of those that control them.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 19, 2025 2:01 pm
Reply to  Vicki

She needs to develop and recruit allies.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:41 pm
Reply to  Vicki

The LNP won’t do a re-integration pilot study because as soon as they do, it will be leaked to the ABC and the Heavens will be opened with screams of ‘Cultural Genocide’.
Until an Aboriginal Leader that is acceptable to the Communist Left emerges, the settlements will remain the hell holes the Left wants them to be.
“Never let a crisis go to waste even if you have to create it yourself”

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 1:35 pm

“The most hilarious aspect of the move to Parramatta is that about 97% of the useless ALPBC idiots would never have been further west than Newtown.”
Thanks Rabz.
I am so sick of seeing the street theatre/TV theatre of ALP pollies dressed in pristine hard hats and hi-viz as if they were still the backers of ordinary Australian workers.
It is fraudulent, and disgusting.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 1:42 pm

I really hope someone wipes out the UK government, and soon.
They are going full “Person of Interest”, on Apple’s encryption.
UK is going for a cut-price “Decimus”, to spy on every single citizen.
The television series from some years back was extremely prescient in its depiction of Governmental control.

If Apple is forced to cave, the rest of the western world will go total 1984.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/19/yvette-coopers-war-on-online-privacy/

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 2:13 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Goolag has told the EU to go do unmentionable things to themselves. I suspect Apple and X will be emboldened as well. All the EU is achieving is to encourage the VPN industry.

Google Defies EU’s ‘Fact-Checking’ Requirements for Search and YouTube (19 Jan)

It’ll be fun when Apple and Google start to advertise their own in-house VPN services.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 2:33 pm

Threat is that Apple won’t be able to sell its hardware in the UK until it caves and allows government access to encryption through a back door that doesn’t exist -even for Apple- which means any actor can around the world, which will usually mean someone malevolent.

the unknown factor is what trump will do about it. Tim Apple isn’t a Trump supporter although he has had to eat crow lately, coughing up a stray $ million it be able to talk to him.

But at the end of the day, Trump will support American companies and the Vance speech was the initial warning shot across the bows before the broadside comes.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:44 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Accurate, Mr Entropy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 2:54 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Threat is that Apple won’t be able to sell its hardware in the UK until it caves

Haha. The locals will buy from OS. Also I suspect most pollies and bureaucrats use iPhones. It will be an entertaining and futile attempt at guacamole.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 2:10 pm

Interesting how Fatso Clive has jumped aboard the MAGA train and has set up a party called Trumpet of Patriots party, a party which supposedly offers Trump-like policies. A core policy of Trump and his MAGA movement is free speech.

I fail to recall Fatso or his PUP senators in 2014 backing the Abbott government’s repeal of Section 18C.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 2:17 pm

He’s a disruptor and only ever seems to disrupt conservitives.

He’s caused irreparable damage to Townsville when he ran a candidate that had no chance of winning but pulled votes away from an LNP Mayor candidate resulting in the odious Jenny Hill going on to win and descend the city into the mess it is now.

He has run candidates in state elections too that have had no chance of winning as well just pulling votes from the LNP.

Wish he’d eff off.

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Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 2:40 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

that is the true purpose of such antics. Vengeance against the LNP because Newman and Seeney would not give Palmer’s businesses special legislation (that he had helpfully had written) to avoid standard approval processes that his competitors (eg Gina and Adani) would have to continue to comply with. Eg. for his Galilee coal train line.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 3:04 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Know all about it, he also wanted to dump tailings from Yabulu into Halifax Bay, yeah not even Newman was that stupid.

That dam was almost full when he bought the refinery off BHP. It was well known.

Funny thing is he ended up harvesting tailings to extract cobalt out of then sold the site to a Swiss mob doing same that he is rumoured to be a large shareholder of as well.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 2:13 pm

the global crime scene

the american conception of the state has gone badly wrong and the american state has rotted and festered beneath us into something more predatory than protective.

this machine within the machine has been carefully and with much calculation hidden.

the epithet “conspiracy theorist” was coined to discredit those who sought to pull at its edges to see what might unwind.

and for the first time since before many, perhaps any of us were born, there is real desire to drag it into the light and expunge it from our lives and unless i miss my guess, frames are going to shift in a manner few humans have ever experienced.

what most thought at worst a bumbling but well meaning friend will be revealed instead as a most manxome longtime foe.

what many thought to be a parent or protector will prove a monster.

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Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 2:21 pm

For Catholic Cats on the Jubilee year (2025 and 2033), I didn’t realise it went as far back as Leviticus! Celebrated every 50 years (following 7 times 7 years, with 7 representing eternity).

It’s a bit like a “Great Reset!!!:”

In a Hebrew Jubilee Year, land that had been sold was returned to its original owners, Israelite slaves were set free, debts were canceled, and the land itself was given rest from farming, ensuring that no family lost its inheritance permanently and that economic and social balances were restored

Any legitimately earned wealth or property could be retained but everything else was reset back 50 years. Due to the theology (later maintained in catholic circles from 1300 onward) that everything belongs to God and not you.

johnjjj
johnjjj
February 19, 2025 2:33 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Yep. Evidently this was done in other cultures (Persian?) as well. Otherwise debt will last through generations and destroy the society.

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Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 2:35 pm
Reply to  Lysander

One won’t see any of that theology in the judgments of the Roman Catholics who decided the Mabo case.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 2:43 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Israelis were always a bunch of commies until shown they weren’t sufficiently victims enough for the left.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 3:41 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Mad as a cut snake.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 5:01 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Someone should sit her down and tell her. New rules apply.

As an adult in the US, you can have as many culturally defined ‘genders’ as you like but for all civic and identity purposes you can apply them to only to one of two biological birth sexes – either male or female. That is the normal state of human biology. Also, you are required to recognise and maintain your birth sex in schools and public life until you are at least 18 years of age. You will receive counselling for a medical dysphoria if you cannot comply here. Gender fantasies only exist for you after you are adult. Even then, legally you cannot change your sex.

If you require surgery and/or medication to maintain your chosen body image as an adult you would also benefit from psychiatric counselling and are not fit for military service due to the psychological and medical needs created by your choice.

cohenite
February 19, 2025 7:53 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Put the mad bitch in a uniform and send her into GAZA.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 2:33 pm

In Whyalla Wipeout news;

Whyalla steelworks forced into administration by SA government, GFG no longer running site

“This is the right course of action to secure steelmaking in this country,” Premier Peter Malinauskas said at a media conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Back in Korda Mentha’s hands. A Green Steel Spiv unseated by a Green Dream Wood-duck Government, with a new-plan-this-time-it’ll-work.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

The Legover Man was right?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 3:29 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

A confusing concept.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 19, 2025 3:59 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

The legover man was crowing that several days had passed since the Labor carbon tax, and look – Whyalla steelworks still there!
Of course, a few years of Labor Carbon Crap, power costs, Chinese steel dumping and a subsidy farmer owner and guess what – Steelworks ( and Whyalla ) on death row.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Hard to see how it could have gone so horribly wrong.
Malignauskas will be getting angwy calls from Canbra colleagues who no doubt wanted him to keep tipping in Sozzie Dollars to give Luigi clear air until May.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 4:07 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Yes, the timing is unfortunate. Particularly given how long SloMo sat on things, not that it made any difference. You expect more from “professional politicians”.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 2:35 pm

In the U.K. you can’t criticise politicians any more. I’m sure our masters are just slavering to reach that point here too.

UK Jails Man for Emails ‘Insulting and Offending’ Sadiq Khan, Jess Phillips.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:38 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Remember Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’: ‘An old, mad, blind, despised and dying King’?

He’d be in the slammer these days under huperoffspring rights lawyer Sir Keir.

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Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 2:36 pm

@CollinRugg

JUST IN: Stephen Miller starts laughing at CNN’s Brianna Keilar while explaining to her how the government works as if she’s a child.

“I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis, a catastrophe for you and for CNN.”

“What the American people see is a government that is finally delivering a promise of accountability under President Trump.”

“You wanna have a conversation about transparency? Let me ask you a question: Do you have any idea where the $22,000,000,000 that the Department of Health and Human Services provided to illegal aliens under Joe Biden is right now?”

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 2:37 pm

Of course it is. I’ve reached the point where I automatically assume everything Starmer does is malevolent.

Russia claims Sir Keir Starmer’s plans for a peace-keeping force involving British troops in Ukraine as a ‘step towards escalation’

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Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 2:47 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Is he sending his son over there?

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 2:38 pm

Democrats and lefties are so stunned and discombobulated by Musk’s DOGE crew and their discoveries that they have not had time to notice that they are all guys. Musk obviously thinks nothing of DEI.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 2:42 pm

Fat Cloive is a charlatan.
His sole objective is to screw over old enemies in the LNP and be scratched on the ample tummy by their ABC (who only used him to get at Abbott).
From memory the f-cker voted down the $7 Medicare co-payment.
Seven dollars. That’s 1.36 cups of coffee.
I seem to recall Fat Cloive had a fan-boi here spouting about big boxes of Fat Cloive votes being stolen by AEC officials in the dead of night.
Had CCTV evidence.
Was going to court.
Quick as a flash … nothing happened.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 3:10 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

From memory the f-cker voted down the $7 Medicare co-payment.

Seven dollars. That’s 1.36 cups of coffee.

Or, as we like to put it, 2.73” of outline tattoo, or 0.4 flagons of McWilliams Royal Reserve Dry Sherry.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 3:15 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

More importantly, in the days before Luigi, it was two cups of coffee or, if it is later in the afternoon, 0.666 flagons on McWilliams finest.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 5:11 pm
Reply to  Indolent

This is absolutely sickening stuff.. this is like the old vivisection experiments on dogs in the 1940’s, now outlawed on animals as being scientifically useless and very cruel. There is no excuse for bluntly examining the effects of massive amounts of the sex hormones of the opposite sex on any human or animal.

and it shows the sort of evil and corrupted minds behind the desire to subject young pre-pubertal children to this sort of chemical maiming, and later to actual surgical maiming.

Lawyer up, you poor abused kids.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 5:13 pm

It really does smack of Nazi Mengalian experimentation.

Lee
Lee
February 19, 2025 3:14 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Democrats: “It’s only insurrection when our opponents (allegedly) do it!”

Who is that old fart?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 3:44 pm
Reply to  Lee

Sanders?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 5:16 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Yes. A call to insurrection. Dear me.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 19, 2025 6:23 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The geriatric Markey turd

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 2:51 pm

Horrifying new video shows Aeroflot jet bouncing along runway at the hands of pilots who ‘couldn’t land without autopilot’ after lightning strike disabled electronics – before bursting into fireball killing 41https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7035773/Horrifying-new-video-catastrophic-Russian-plane-crash-shows-jet-bouncing-runway.html?ito=video_player_click

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 3:45 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

It’s Trump’s fault.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 2:56 pm

It’s said that hard cases make bad law, and I worry that this truism might be reflected in the prosecution of the Bankstown nurses. A Pandora’s box is opened if they’re convicted on the basis that they used a Commonwealth carriage service to say something that caused offence. Who here hasn’t said something of that kind in a telephone conversation?
Of course, much will turn on the width of the relevant court’s interpretation, and the restrictive effect of the constitutional gaurantee of political speech must be taken into account. The High Court may have to pass on this issue.
If these two ratbags are convicted, even merely prosecuted, we might see a constant and long wave of lawyers directed against critics of the Muslims.
Generally, I don’t like the very notion of criminalising speech.

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calli
calli
February 19, 2025 3:18 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

Rafiki, I have never threatened anyone in a telephone conversation.

This is not a simple case of saying “mean things”. This was in the context of their WORK.

Imagine an airline pilot saying he would crash into an El Al flight if he saw one on the runway? Or a machinery operator telling others that they would crush the car of any Jew near their building site? Instant dismissal.

Even worse, we pay their wages.

I was not offended. I have now become seriously concerned about my family’s safety should they require hospital treatment.

In addition…they could have been charged under existing laws. There was no need to go to new ones. Making threats that could conceivably be carried out in the course of one’s work would already be covered by both employment and criminal codes.

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Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 4:02 pm
Reply to  calli

Yes, maybe, even probably. That’s the legal route to take that avoids criminalising speech that is merely offensive.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 4:08 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

Better put as “on the basis that it is merely offensive”. That should not be enough, and in a context where the speech is characterised as a political communication ( as this might be), the High Court might find that there cannot be an offence. There’s a precedent bang on point: Coleman.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 3:23 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

Are you joking? On camera the two nurses said that they not only wanted to kill Israelis, they already had killed Israelis.

They’re not two benign ‘ratbags’, they’re two dangerous Islamic radicals.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 19, 2025 3:43 pm

How can they be charged with anything less than a threat to kill.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 3:59 pm
Reply to  alwaysright

Good. They should be so charged. There’s no free speech issue here.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 4:03 pm

As is your wont Cassie, you just miss the point.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 4:17 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

As is your want Rafiki, you’re all over the shop.

Admitting to killing Jews and wanting to kill more Jews is not ‘offensive speech’, it’s incitement.

Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.

I am quite sure sure the two Nosferatu nurses breached the above.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 5:38 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

No, nor do I. I’ve mentioned this here before. One of my adult sons, suffering bipolar disorder, made vague threats of physical violence via email to some people he once worked with whom he thought unfairly caused him disgrace for fraud and a short prison sentence. Rightly, they took out and were granted an AVO. He was arrested and charged with making threats over a carriage medium.

He was refused bail and held in remand for two months before the case was seen as simply huffing and hubris on his part taking into account his medical disorder and it was dismissed.

But he was still pulled up by the months in remand with no bail.

As would these two nurses be pulled up and punished without bail while the various entities with interests fought it out and arrived at the idea of dismissing the case. Muzzies couldn’t really complain then, but popular Aussie outrage might be mollified a little. Or wonder of wonders, the case may be made to stick. What they said was far more threatening and obnoxious than anything my son said. Also, he was just a poor unemployed derro with drug issues, not anyone in a position of respect and authority as the nurses were.

The nurses should still be deregistered though. They could learn to code.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 7:41 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

A Pandora’s box is opened if they’re convicted on the basis that they used a Commonwealth carriage service to say something that caused offence. 

It was more than that, Raf.

Being charitable, I’m assuming you’ve had a bad day and or the post was written in haste.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 11:36 pm
Reply to  Roger

You miss the point too Roger; which is that they shouldn’t be charged with merely saying something offensive. That shouldn’t be criminal. instead, charge them on the basis that it was more than that, perhaps incitement to commit murder. i made my comment because I read that the police were considering a charge based merely on their statements being offensive.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 2:58 pm

This is from the U.S.

@JewsFightBack

PURE EVIL

Muslim hospital staff at Bankstown Hospital are SPITTING in Jewish patients’ food, neglecting their post-op care, and leaving them covered in their own waste.

How many Jewish patients left Bankstown worse than they arrived—or didn’t leave at all?

INVESTIGATE NOW.

johnjjj
johnjjj
February 19, 2025 3:27 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Investigations will find nothing. The legal ramifications are enormous for the hospital. The way for this to work is a family whose relation died there to follow up. Who treated them? Where is all the documentation? If they find our two nurses were involved in any way, follow up. Take it to court and then there will be discovery. It could involve criminal charges.

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 19, 2025 3:57 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

What is their cause of action?

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
February 19, 2025 4:26 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

Subpoena the documents. Depending on the outcome could be a legal claim Medical Negligence, could lead to criminal charges. Any more, I’ll have to charge at billable 6 minutes. 🙂

Rococo Liberal
Rococo Liberal
February 19, 2025 7:37 pm
Reply to  Indolent

How many Jews would attend that hospital. The Jews live in the better parts of the city, not in the West.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 7:57 pm
Reply to  Rococo Liberal

Depends where their specialist operates, Rococo. Or where they have their car accident.

The point is…

IT DOESN’T MATTER

Sorry to shout, but you know what I mean.

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johnjjj
johnjjj
February 19, 2025 9:15 pm
Reply to  Rococo Liberal

Maybe they want to off more than the Juzs. He is Shia and probably kick out of Afghanistan by Sunni. This hasn’t played out in Australia yet….. but it will. They can hate each other far more than the Juz.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 19, 2025 2:58 pm

Seems Chrisifooli has done little to pare back the ALP legacy. Complaints about housing will get worse if landlords stop renting…

One of the people in the street. Just moved back from a stint interstate. Tenants in the house left late despite 3mnth notice and the place was a mess outside from dogs. He couldn’t say no to the dogs (ALP laws) but after 2 previous s-heads letting dogs do what they want he wrote a list of caveats, mainly along lines clean up, holes filled, damage fixed.

So again nothing fixed. Given an extra 2 days to rectify which they superficially touched up inside issues but not a finger raised outside, even the dog excrement all over the pathway. He’s wild says the new Government should be unloading some of the stupider laws like dog ownership. This is the 3rd time he’s been stung by pets. The bond won’t cover it and each time he’s out of pocket and ends up at mediation b’cause my right to have pets.

He’s already said the next time he leaves he’s not renting it, unless the pendulum swings back the landlords way. He’ll lock it up allow the neighbour who owns his house as well to park in the drive and pay to have the place checked every once in a while.

We are truly run by imbeciles.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 3:01 pm

@AllumBokhari

We discovered a $2.6m grant from FEMA to censor “disinformation” online.

It was given to a private contractor that employed former CIA agents.

The spider’s web also leads to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the nonprofit that wants to “kill Musk’s Twitter”

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 3:03 pm

@OffThePress1

NEW: Dozens of NGOs that lost their USAID funding are now turning to the European Union for financial assistance, raising concerns among conservatives in Europe.

The NGOs are asking the EU to provide “emergency funding to mitigate the financial shortfalls created by the U.S. aid freeze.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is vowing not to write checks to the “globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network.”

“The USAID-files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network. We will not take the bait again!” Orbán said.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 3:11 pm

GLOBAL COOLING: Temperatures Expected to Fall to Record 50 Degrees Below Average — Brace For ‘Deadly’ Winter Stormshttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/global-cooling-temperatures-expected-fall-record-50-degrees/
Record-low temperatures are set to hit the United States over the next few days.
Thirty-five states have issued weather advisories due to the bitterly cold weather, with risks of deadly winter storms and deadly conditions.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 3:41 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Oh dear; how sad; never mind.

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 7:34 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Tough. Global warming will be here soon.

Well, soonish. Try not to freeze to death while you wait.

bons
bons
February 19, 2025 3:19 pm

I lunched elegantly at an upmarket seaside cafe, one of a number colocated.

A significant proportion of the clientel were elderly ladies in linen and dripping gold.

But they were outnumbered by tables of twenty something beauties displaying their perfect tans, porche priced sunglasses and resort wear.

And they kept coming. Lots of air kisses, forced laughter and rivers of wine.

Who could they be wondered my companion and I? A holiday group, mothers club, professional convention?

At this point the elegant lady at the table next to us leaned over and pronounced in non-dulcet tones: “they are whores, they come with the holiday bookings”. “I know that you don’t believe me, but it is true”. Her companions all nodded.

I didn’t know where to look.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 3:57 pm
Reply to  bons

You don’t get whores if you book my holiday house unless you byo.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:35 pm
Reply to  bons

elderly ladies in linen and dripping gold.

Goodness. Wonder if I was there.

Was this last Wednesday? I don’t remember the whores though. 🙂

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 19, 2025 7:12 pm
Reply to  bons

Just as long as they’re into the Margaret River 80-bucks-a-bottle plonk, then i’m all for it.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:44 pm
Reply to  bons

Hold your stomach as you repeat the woke left mantra: ‘Sex work is real work.’ Any dissidents will be sent to a reeducation camp run by Fiona Patten and Roz Ward.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 3:26 pm

Dr Hot Karl believes no lie is too big for the cause!

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Dr Karl
@DoctorKarl

Yes. In Australia, some 60 million doses of COIVD vaccines were administered. They saved some 250,000 lives (COVID has a 1% death rate). Some 14 deaths have been linked to the COVID vaccines.
The benefit to Public Health was much much greater than the harm.

Lee
Lee
February 19, 2025 3:32 pm

What a fraud.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 3:50 pm

I had an appointment with a medical specialist this morning which I had to bump from two weeks ago due to having Kung Flu.
He asked how it was.
I told him I have had it twice now and it isn’t as long or as bad as the common cold.
He asked if I had been vaccinated.
I told I had two initial vaxes early on but no more.
He says, “Look, you are not immuno-compromised and are young enough not to be considered high risk” (I am older than the minimum age being touted on vax adverts as “at risk”).
He then says, “I have just had a patient with a severe reaction to the vaccine”.
As close as you will get to a medico telling you not to bother, without saying it outright.

Vicki
Vicki
February 19, 2025 4:05 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Covid19 and the promotion of the mRNA vaccine solution was a fascinating, though terrifying lesson in the power of persuasion and the decline in critical thinking in modern life.

We have discussed it many times on this blog. Most people just dont want to think about it anymore. This is a mistake, because the “pandemic” and all that it entailed in its origin, and the nature of the global response, was an important warning about the nature of power and the danger of not questioning “experts”. Indeed, it told us a lot about the fallibility of “experts”.

Arky
February 19, 2025 4:28 pm

Some 14 deaths have been linked to the COVID vaccines.

Even if it was this low a number, which it isn’t, (I was monitoring the US and Australian data at the time very closely and reporting on it here multiple times), but even if the number was as low as 14, when you are mandating that vaccine for people for whom there was zero risk from the virus, that is a terrible result.
When you add in the toll from the lockdowns, I cannot express in words the contempt I feel for the clowns still downplaying the authoritarian shit show that was the covid response.
I took my kid out of school for term one of 2020, while the authorities were still telling us it was racist to prevent incoming flights from China. By the time they were locking us down I had figured out it was not a risk to my family. I was right, they were wrong. Given their expertise and my lack of, the question is: WTF.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 3:26 pm

Cancel Elon? The Royal Society only cares about The Money, not the Science

https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/cancel-elon-the-royal-society-only-cares-about-the-money-not-the-science/

The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and hasn’t chucked anyone out for 150 years, so you’d think his crime must be a serious failing in science. Supposedly, the mob say, he breached their code of conduct, was mean to other members and spread “conspiracy theories” and “misinformation”. But the real truth, as even Nature explains in their subheader, is that he committed the unforgivable sin of cutting off the grant money.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 3:40 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

The left never sleeps and has no morals.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 3:35 pm

Indolent

 February 19, 2025 3:03 pm

@OffThePress1

NEW: Dozens of NGOs that lost their USAID funding are now turning to the European Union for financial assistance, raising concerns among conservatives in Europe.

That was my point the other day about rebuilding Gaza.
Where is the money going to come from?
There will be enormous financial pressure on European countries to fund:-
1. Defence of/rebuilding of Ukraine;
2. Lifting their defence spending required by NATO but previously paid for by the US;
3. Shortfalls in WHO funding and some UN activities after the US pulls out;
4. Climate scams and other grifts bankrolled by USAID;
5. Rebuilding Gaza.
They won’t be able to fund it all and, as the rise of AfD shows, left-leaning governments focussing on anything ahead of the needs of their own citizens will be suicide.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 3:39 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

NGOs who were depending on USA funding are not NGOs.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 3:37 pm

One “source” inside the Vatican (who knows!!?) says Vatican broadcaster has been briefed for an “extraordinary event*”

*could just be an update and not as “extraordinary” as we think…?

Who knows what is true!!!? I am aware that Francis called the Catholic parish in Gaza every day since October 9. He didn’t make the call on Monday night (not sure about last night but we’ll hear soon enough).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 4:06 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Ha, ha.
Maybe Suckerberg does have a sense of humour after all.
I was scrolling through Facebook the other day and saw a video of Tom Homan giving Pope Fonzi a serve after he had a sook about deportations … “stay in your lane … that’s pretty rich coming from a guy living behind 20 foot walls and protected by his own army …”
Next post … “Pope Fonzi goes to hospital”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 4:29 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Francis aged 88 currently has double pneumonia.
And is in hospital. He may recover or he may not.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 19, 2025 4:53 pm

He won’t. All communists die eventually.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 7:36 pm
Reply to  Barking Toad

Preferably by execution.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 19, 2025 3:53 pm

I seem to recall Fat Cloive had a fan-boi here spouting about big boxes of Fat Cloive votes being stolen by AEC officials in the dead of night.

Had CCTV evidence.

Was going to court.

Quick as a flash … nothing happened

Glory days of blogging, the likes of which we may never see again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 4:08 pm

I think you mean “glory-hole of blogging” don’t you?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 4:12 pm

Sneerer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 4:16 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

… and scoffer.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 19, 2025 3:54 pm

Tanveer Ahmed @drtahmed

Have column about challenge of anti-semitism in Muslim communities esp with culture of denial. Newish current has strong overlaps with Islamist ideas.

https://x.com/drtahmed/status/1891999020375056517/photo/1
That’s a link to a scan of the Op Ed article.

He reckons “the roots of modern anti-Semitism are not scriptural”.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 4:07 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 4:15 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I found that truly gob-smacking.
I felt sure the strategists would tell him that under no circumstances should he engage in vaginal knitting or any other lightweight puffery when:-
(a) people are doing it tough; and
(b) he already has an image of squibbing tough issues (the RSPCA reportedly wants to prosecute him for over-working the distraction squirrel and the look-over-there unicorn).
As the article says, there is no “new news”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 4:15 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Nobody should put Albanese and intimate in the same sentence. Where are the subbies?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 4:18 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Not a phrase one wants to hear around mealtimes, at least.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 4:25 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Ugh. Worse than parent sex.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 4:29 pm

Nurse, again:

HATE IN HEALTHCARE: Pro-Hamas Brooklyn Nurse Rohaan Gill Caught Assaulting Jewish Protesters – The Yeshiva World

A shocking revelation has surfaced in the wake of the violent pro-Hamas protest in Boro Park on Tuesday night. Among the agitators seen assaulting Jewish counter-protesters was Rohaan Gill, a 28-year-old registered nurse from Brooklyn with a long history of anti-Semitic extremism and pro-Hamas activism.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 5:34 pm
Reply to  Pogria

That’s a bit cruel. Even for someone like that.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 5:53 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Not cruel enough Ent.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:23 pm
Reply to  Entropy

No, it’s not at all cruel. The guy being roasted is now going to be a bartender. A useful job. Noone would seriously laugh at that, it’s his last job they’re dissing. Bartending is a step up and in the right direction and uses the people skills he has from years spent kowtowing to Democrats. Maybe he’ll own a bar soon. This is how people start, thrown in the deep end but surviving. He’ll do well. He’s not sitting around on welfare.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 4:40 pm

He shouldn’t feel supported by the US. He needs to hold an election to see if his own citizens back him.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 4:42 pm

I caught up with a bird today who I’ve known for years.
She prefers the company of women (seriously, who wouldn’t).
At the cafe we were at they just happened to be putting up the colours for Mardi Gras.
However, these just weren’t just rainbow flags, these had the trans flag bit on the side.
Oh the profanity…would have made a stevedore blush.

Seriously, anyone who thinks the gay & lesbian community even tolerates the trans community doesn’t know what they are talking about.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 4:57 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Bern, that is true.
The Gay community are very pissed off that the trannies are receiving an easy ride due to the decades of activism and work done by the Gays.
Must add, if the Gays are so peeved, why not make yourselves heard. You never had a problem letting us know what you wanted in the “old days”.

Tom
Tom
February 19, 2025 5:07 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

The trans movement is the creation of the political poofters who considered it essential to see off the power grab inside the left by the feminist movement.

In other words, as a result of the trans movement. the left is now run with an iron fist by male homosexuals pretending to be women, seeing off the feminists who are now little more than a ladies auxiliary inside the left.

Note: “political poofters” excludes all the old Sydney queens who are the male half of the traditional “gay and lesbian community”.

Last edited 15 hours ago by Tom
Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 5:36 pm
Reply to  Tom

This. And a lot of bull lesbians are pissed at trans men taking the ladies.

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 5:36 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Isn’t ru Paul a sort of trans though?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:40 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Big difference between trans (man dresses up like Priscilla) and trans (chop your tits or dick off).

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 5:59 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Both sit down to wee. That’s about it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:39 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

A hollywood transvestite might not be the best person to ask.
To this day, Chappelle described the relationship best.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Not talking about the same thing.
Gay and lesbians don’t much care about trannies/drag queens.
A lot of gays and lesbians do have issues with the people who want to (attempt) to change their physical sex.
Two very different groups.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Think Sgt Schultz and the Gestapo on Hogans Heros, both technically Nazis but …

Leon L.
Leon L.
February 19, 2025 10:19 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

There is a huge difference between the trans movement now and last century.
in the 1960+ years, trans were almost exclusively male adults wanting to be women.
Full sex change optional and uncommon.
Now the trans movement is 90% females wanting to be males with most at an age less than 16 (below the age of consent).
There are children less than 10 years old getting caught up in this evil.
There is no possibility of the child understanding at this age.
There is no way to normalise what has happened in the past 5-10 years with trans treatments of children.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 5:52 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

It has happened.
There’s a piece I read yesterday where an LGBT group dropped the T without fanfare. Of course, the freaks found out and started screaming. Lol.

Arky
February 19, 2025 6:16 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Y’all know a bit too much about the “gay” culture.
Also: no one is gay, lesbians don’t exist and all this trans stuff is social contagion.
If you don’t believe me, do a thought experiment.
Imagine locking any two random young healthy people, one male one female in a shipping container for a year with adequate food and hygiene.
How many people would emerge at the end of that year?
Do you think this outcome would alter no matter what nonsense they thought about their “gender” or “sexuality”, or whatever silly political allegiances they held?
Hint: three human beings would emerge.

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 4:43 pm

Did somebody say “take a bad romance novel and add a moist Albo to it for peoples emetic pleasure”?
https://mashable.com/article/bad-sex-in-fiction-awards

Albo closed his eyes and heard himself make a gurgling sound. And as his trousers slipped down his legs all the burdens of his life to date seemed to fall away from him; he tipped back his head and faced up into the darkness beneath the ceiling, and for one blessed moment he felt as if he could understand the things of this world in all their immeasurable beauty. How strange they are, Albo thought, life and all of these things. Then Albo felt Jodie slide down before him to the floor, felt her hands grab his naked buttocks and draw him to her. “Come, Albo boy!” he heard her whisper, and with a smile he let go.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 4:45 pm

Ya sick mole.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 6:04 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

Exactly. There are other Internet pages for this kind of thing.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 4:45 pm

Dover, please ban mole for using moist & Albo in the same sentence.

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 4:49 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

100%!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 4:47 pm

JFC, first time I check in here all day and I see this.
FMD.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 4:52 pm

I think thats my first downtick.
I just scroll that which I dont agree with.
But this was a Cat mortal sin.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 19, 2025 5:16 pm

Glorious.

‘Kish me Jodie…’

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 6:06 pm

The spray flew softly from his lips.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 5:18 pm

Stop plagiarising Lizzie’s novel-in-progress!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:06 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

lol.

After watching “Mad About the Boy” I am concentrating on far more fruitful fields than Albo for political lady-porn. Why should Bridget have all the fun with a young JF Vance lookalike? Count me in.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:07 pm

JD< JD< JD. Surely on can dream?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:08 pm

one, one, one. What is wrong with this keyboard????????????

Entropy
Entropy
February 19, 2025 5:37 pm

No. Just no.

local oaf
February 19, 2025 6:11 pm

Yikes

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 19, 2025 6:12 pm

Mole, was this written by AI?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 6:23 pm

Nope, its from the link above with the “worst romance’ bits from novels.
I just swapped a name or 2 about.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 7:13 pm

You read waaaay too many “bodice rippers” mole!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 7:21 pm
Reply to  calli

Calli wants to rip Luigis bodice!
Saucy!

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:01 pm

Eeeeeek! Manboobs?

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
February 19, 2025 8:47 pm

I wish we had a Mary Whitehouse personage on the Cat. Pure filth!

132andBush
132andBush
February 19, 2025 9:00 pm

Hoping this wasn’t going to be one of those 60% of times when he got “No” for an answer…Albo closed his eyes and heard himself make a gurgling sound

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 19, 2025 9:39 pm
Reply to  132andBush

…. as he began his speech to the House on his new taxpayer funded renewable green hydrogen hot rocks carbon neutral steel plan for Whyalla.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 4:53 pm

I got a downtick?

What a bunch of literary philistines.

I shant invite you to the plays opening night then.
I just shant!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:03 pm

I down ticked you mole.
But I now see it back to even.
Meaning someone unticked THAT.
What kind of sick freak would uptick that.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 7:00 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Me!

Lysander
Lysander
February 19, 2025 4:58 pm

Question: Perth has 7 days over 40 degrees this summer. Global warming eh?

Last year we had 17. Shouldn’t it be getting hotter each year regardless?

The year before we had 1 day over 40.

Surely if you ask an alarmist why we only got one day over 40 degrees in the summer of 2023, they’ll say something like “natural forces” and “variations” etc… so why don’t they take those natural forces and variations into consideration when entering data?

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 4:59 pm

Lol!

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Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 6:24 pm
Reply to  Pogria

My parents escaped Slovenia in 1955.
Lucky me. 😀

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 5:02 pm

Reading Jacinta Price’s memoirs – when she was at the press conference, with Peter Dutton, after the results of the Voice Referendum were announced, she asked that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags be removed – she wanted to stand under the one flag that represented us all.

Memo to Linda Burney, Marcia Langton and Lidia Thorpe – that’s how it’s done!

Beertruk
February 19, 2025 9:42 pm

I hope that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag removal extends to the military bases as well.

Last edited 10 hours ago by Beertruk
billie
billie
February 19, 2025 5:13 pm

I wonder when the aboriginal industry will realise they are in direct competition now with the islamist/pali groups for ascendency as the major attention grabbing mob in Australia, and losing.

The Voice was a chance to get some kind of result and they stuffed it up, thankfully.

They won’t get any sympathy from the pali mob, unless it suits their cause and why would it? (no sympathy from all the other migrant mobs either, none of them are the tolerent and generous types I suspect)

When the moolah starts to get thin out and they are confronted with reality, then assimilation might be seen as a viable option.

The moocha moocha bureacracy mob won’t be happy, but they never are.

Bring on the audits I say, like the USA is doing, and let it become a worldwide movement .. started in Argentina and is now gaining momentum.

Damon
Damon
February 19, 2025 5:23 pm
Reply to  billie

It is obvious the ‘gap’ will never be closed until aboriginals become part of the broader Australian society.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 5:38 pm
Reply to  Damon

Which was the aim of Government policy, before that pair of clowns, Whitlam and Coombes, arrived with their fantasy of “the noble savage, living on his tribal lands, in harmony with his culture.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 6:02 pm

Those currently doing so are too often ignoble wife beaters and paedos, who pollute their”tribal lands” with litter and are largely alienated from their “culture”.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 19, 2025 7:00 pm
Reply to  Damon

Which the great majority are.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 5:19 pm

Questions, over at the Oz, about the Albanese wedding.

It’s taking place on un ceded Aboriginal land? Will there be a “Welcome to Country?”

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 6:02 pm

Careful with your spelling please.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 19, 2025 9:43 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Won’t be any of that!
Specifically set out in the employment contract…oh, you mean the Aboriginal stuff? Yeah no worries, might as well have that and Women’s Weekly is paying so why not?

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 5:26 pm

A moving monologue from Kenny about the youngest hostages. He could articulate what I have been trying to process today.

I want those one tonne bombs inscribed with those little ones’ names.

As the Teacher says, a time to sow and a time to reap.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:35 pm
Reply to  calli

Took them a little while post Munich to clear most of that board.
I suspect (hope) most of the ‘hosts” will be dispatched.
In time.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  calli

I also want those bombs to carry a few kilos of lard in the nose section.
I really want to smell those filthy pigs fry.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 19, 2025 7:35 pm
Reply to  calli

Yes, might take a bit more time, but revenge will be taken, hot or cold.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 5:48 pm

Mongs monging mongingly…

Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union welcomes Whyalla administration
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union has welcomed the South Australian government’s move to place the Whyalla steelworks into administration.
Its national secretary, Steve Murphy, said the decision echoed the sentiments largely felt by the workforce.

We can’t leave this in the hands of private capital. We need to ensure Australia remains a leader in steel manufacturing, which includes a plan to transition to green steel.

The Whyalla steelworks remains critical to Australia’s iron and steel industry, our local manufacturing capability, the decarbonisation of our economy, and the ambition of Future Made in Australia.

Where Whyalla steel goes will determine whether we will see the full realisation of Future Made in Australia and the re-industrialisation of our regions.

FFS, to the barricades comrades!!! squeals Napoleon the pig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1pEt7bgY2U

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 5:52 pm

How often will Skynews play the Craig Emerson ditty this evening?

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 5:54 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Too often.

Excellent for weight loss.

Tom
Tom
February 19, 2025 6:21 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Only once so far. I’m tipping at least half a dozen before the night is out.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:25 pm
Reply to  Tom

Where’s our dear friend Carpe? We need a Wipeout Lotto!

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 6:27 pm
Reply to  Tom

Tom, I have been in and out of the house doing jobs, and I have seen it five times already.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 19, 2025 5:55 pm

Fat Cloive is a charlatan.

His sole objective is to screw over old enemies in the LNP and be scratched on the ample tummy by their ABC…

Before jumping to hasty conclusions, we first need to look at the policies outline on the Trumpet of Patriots website.

OK. Not much there, apart from:

The world is changing. In the USA, government waste and corruption is finally being exposed. For too long, Australians have suffered from a Labor and Liberal duopoly of power supported by the Greens and now the Teals. The simple reason your cost of living is so high is because Australians are being ripped off by the political system, unelected bureaucrats and the lobbyists who support them. Enough is enough! We will drain the swamp!

Fat Bastard told us today that this is going to be accomplished by clamps on immigration and cross-gendered sport, supporting free speech – and by recalling Kevin Rudd.

Apparently he’s going to spend “whatever it takes” to install Trumpeters in all seats.

A horrid cynic might think that Cloive is planning to go full populist to take advantage of his 5% UAP/PUP donkey vote and the current ‘fark youse major parties’ political zeitgeist and try to pick up a couple of Kingmaker lower house seats. It’s quite possible his main game is to play into electing and sustaining a minority Coalition government – quite a bit of fun for a $100m drop.

Cynical or not, you’d have to say that the Trumpet of Patriots motto “Honour above all” sounds just a tiny bit charlatanish.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:04 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

He’s a Golden Teal.

Bugger off Clive.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 6:10 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Stick a harpoon in him.
He’s done.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:17 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

At least he’s self funded. I’ll give him that. Muchos blubber to spear through.

In the end, he’s a vote harvesting distraction whale.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 6:29 pm
Reply to  calli

Reminds me of a piece on the death of Robert the Bruce.
Paraphrasing, “we had to cut through three stones of fat to get to his heart”.

Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 5:56 pm
calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:00 pm

On Sky. Justin Smith on Kristi Noem and illegal immigration…

Let’s not be racist! then… Why does Trump’s team look AI generated?

His brain is broken.

Brislurker
Brislurker
February 19, 2025 6:15 pm
Reply to  calli

My jaw dropped, I couldn’t believe he actually said it!

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:23 pm
Reply to  Brislurker

He said it twice! He must have thought it tewwibly clever! 🙂

Last edited 13 hours ago by calli
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 6:14 pm

Have to hand it to Gupta.
He saw some bunnies and took them for everything.
Unfortunately taxpayers will be picking up the tab.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 19, 2025 9:14 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

In exchange for gaining…(drum roll)…
…SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 19, 2025 6:16 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 6:17 pm

In the future, if you see Bowen associated with anything, just avoid it at all costs.
In a casino, Bowen would be known as The Cooler.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 19, 2025 6:35 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Bowen is the Gimp.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 6:52 pm

Now you have me mourning Leak Snr. All over again.

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
February 19, 2025 7:06 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Bern – as the Cat with actual time running a casino behind me – we’d almost certainly move to get rid of him. Looks like a pervert and would upset the regulars.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 6:23 pm

Nice to see the old neighbourhood hasn’t changed. I am surprised though, that both of them were aussies.
The red brick building on the left in the clip used to be my GP’S building until he retired.
And No, that is not me. Lol!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14411187/Sydney-woman-loses-window-washer-wild-road-rage-brawl.html

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 6:31 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Everybody secretly wants to be that woman.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 7:34 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Bear, I have been that woman. Good times! hahah
Not in the street though. One does have standards. 😀

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 19, 2025 6:37 pm
Reply to  Pogria

3 or 4 of you?

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 6:29 pm

Just watching Kenny (streaming). Kenny is holding back tears talking about the Shiri, Bibas, Ariel Bibas and Kfir Bibas, now dead, and the barbarity of Hamas and its supporters.

Never forget that supporters of those Gazan Nazis, who murdered Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, walk and work among us, and some even work at Bankstown Hospital and other hospitals. This is the kind of human refuse various governments have allowed into this country.

I can’t speak for others but this Jew no longer feels safe in this country anymore. I’d also suggest to non-Jews that they tread carefully because once they’re finished with us they will come for you.

As for the glib nonsense parroted that the nurses shouldn’t be prosecuted because of ‘free speech‘……what they said was not free speech, it was incitement to murder and an admission of actual murder. The two human cockroaches proudly and willingly claimed on camera, the whole time wearing scrubs, that not only do they want kill Jews, they have already killed Jews. Perhaps I am mistaken but I thought declaring intent to murder was a crime and admitting you’d already murdered someone was also a crime. Perhaps a lawyer here can tell me otherwise or do I now find myself in an Australia where it’s okay to proudly state that you want to murder and have murdered Jews?

I am comforted by the fact that Shiri, Ariel and Kfir will soon be home, their bodies treated with love and dignity and they will be given a Jewish funeral so their anguished souls will find peace.

But hear this, their deaths will be avenged.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 7:12 pm

One hopes Dutton means it when he says we need a discussion on citizenship.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 8:50 pm

I’d also suggest to non-Jews that they tread carefully because once they’re finished with us they will come for you.

I am well aware that it’s only a matter of time. I am disgusted that our political class are unable, or refuse, to think ahead and have a strategy for dealing with the current and future situations.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 6:31 pm

His brain is broken.

His brain has always been broken.

Tom
Tom
February 19, 2025 6:47 pm

Justin Smith is an Australian traitor.

The only place that will pay him nowadays (apart from Sky News, which employs traitors to “balance” political arguments) is the ABC, which specialises in pro-Hamas traitors.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 19, 2025 8:00 pm
Reply to  Tom

Missus asked who the fcuk is he? Answer – He sometimes pens a piece in the Sun and sometimes is on Fox.

Well he’s a cnut anyway.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 19, 2025 6:41 pm

Never heard of him until now. Also, what happened to UAP?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 6:43 pm

The Muslims on Credlin just need to spit it out.
Pali’s are bad for business.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

I assume they have the education department’s permission otherwise they would have prevented it.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 7:07 pm

For sure it’s frustrating but Rafiki wasn’t being glib. Just trying to navigate this mess like me without accepting the loss of freedom.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 7:21 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

I know, Bespoke.

I do think the “uncharted territory“ line is mostly nonsense. The laws already existed to prosecute these buggers.

They would have been used against Joe Blow before you could’ve said “knife”.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 7:25 pm
Reply to  calli

They were Calli.
On an 82 year old.
Gutless coppers, even more gutless pollies.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

 Just trying to navigate this mess like me without accepting the loss of freedom.

Contact your local member to begin with.

They do take note of people who take the trouble to do so, believe it nor not.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 7:48 pm
Reply to  Roger

No they don’t Roger. My local member is Merryl Swanson.

She declined to respond to the Beloved’s question about antisemitism.

She harvested his email instead and sent him spam.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 8:00 pm
Reply to  calli

Then you are very poorly served.

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 7:23 pm

I hope someone has a paper report from the Whyalla fiasco.

I hope they roll it up.

I hope they stuff it so far up Emerson that his contacts pop out.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 7:29 pm
Reply to  Aaron

The Legover Man’s judgement has always been questionable.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 19, 2025 8:20 pm
Reply to  Aaron

Those were Juliar’s contacts that he swallowed.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 19, 2025 7:28 pm

‘Dr’ Emerson rates very highly in the repulsive waste of space stakes. Last I heard he was hanging around the ANU.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 7:35 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

With a bag of boiled lollies.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 7:37 pm

I know Tanveer Ahmed, he’s a nice guy, intelligent, urbane and a conservative.

Tanveer has written a piece for today’s Tele which is half right and half wrong, it’s called………..
Nurses scandal reveals ugly face of Muslim anti-Semitism
Whilst bravely acknowledging the entrenched Muslim Jew hatred endemic in Muslim communities here in Oz and across the world, he also argues that historically Jews and Muslims coexisted in peace and harmony together and everything was hunky-dory. This is simply not true, coexistence for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians in the Arab world with Muslims meant paying the ‘dhimmi’ or ‘jizha’ tax, and being classified as second class citizens. Jews and Christians were forbidden to travel on horseback, they were allowed to travel on donkeys.

Pogroms, persecutions, expulsions and forced conversions were common during the centuries of Muslim rule across the Middle East, North Africa, Spain and the Balkans, and whilst they never reached the genocidal levels of Nazi Germany, both Jews and Christians were always at the whim of benign or despotic Muslim rulers. One of the last pogroms in the Arab world was in 1929, in Hebron, a pogrom urged on by a hero of “Palestine’ named Haj Amin Al-Husseini. But that pogrom wasn’t the only pogrom in Hebron’s history, The history of Jews in Hebron, Jerusalem and Safed and across the Muslim world is littered with regular pogroms against Jews going back centuries. Al-Husseini was also an intimate instigator in the Farhud pogrom in Iraq in 1941 when mobs of Muslims murdered Jews. I knew a woman here in Sydney who lived through that pogrom, she never forgot the butchered corpse of her grandfather, a rabbi, who had tried to reason with the Muslim mob, only to be hacked to death in front of his family.

The history of Islam is one of violence against religious minorities. A history not of ‘coexistence’ but of domination and intimidation.

Aaron
Aaron
February 19, 2025 10:21 pm

The hatred of Jews comes from the book.

Always has, always will.

Muslims always bend the truth to protect Islam.

Even civilised ones like Tanveer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 7:54 pm

By popular request, here it is:-
https://youtu.be/L1pEt7bgY2U?si=0xZd9SqSibcAQd1A

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:05 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Pure evil.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 8:06 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I am still horrified at the decision making process that resulted in this.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
February 19, 2025 10:09 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Emerson, an unlamented tosser. I assume collecting the pre 2004 parliamentary indexed pension.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 8:03 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-FBP8ey0gQ

Guilty of upsetting a (mythical) Aboriginal snake.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 9:16 pm

Insane and rage producing.

Rabz
February 19, 2025 8:05 pm

A quick bit of literary license visited on the excerpts of mole’s torrid tome above:

It was a dark and stormy night, as Albansleazy closed his eyes and heard himself make a gurgling sound. And as his stained y-fronts slipped down his legs all the burdens of his life to date seemed to fall away from him;

The terrible internal opinion polling

Dim Chambers refusing to return his calls

The looming sexual and racial harassment claims by hydia thorpe

Toto’s unfortunate constant voiding of his bowels all throughout the lodge

Blackout bowen’s latest brainfart – a hydrogen battery powered desalination plant in the Snowy Mountains

None of it mattered anymore – he and the bum bandit were about to consummate their long hidden relationship …

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 8:13 pm
Reply to  Rabz

You’re sick. But I blame mole.

Roger
Roger
February 19, 2025 8:05 pm

I’m going to post this in its entirety here, though its available on Quadrant’s website, and seek dover’s indulgence after the fact.

Why Haters Love Hate Speech Laws

Augusto Zimmermann and Gabriël A. Moens AM

Quadrant, 19 February 2025

Over the last years, Australian politicians have displayed a disturbing lack of regard for fundamental human rights, including one of the most fundamental rights of every truly democratic society: freedom of speech. And now, the Albanese Labor government, supported by its Labor-light Liberal counterparts,[1] has been responsible for the enactment of draconian legislation that criminalises so-called “hate speech”.

The new legislative delivers the toughest laws Australia has ever had against “hate crimes”. The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Act 2025 creates new criminal offences and makes clear that advocating “hateful ideas” is ‘unacceptable and will be subject to serious criminal penalties.’[2] Mark Dreyfus, the federal Attorney-General, when promoting the legislation, crowed that it ‘delivers the toughest laws Australia has ever had against hate crimes.’[3] The new legislation follows the introduction of other statutes that already criminalise the display of Nazi symbols and the Nazi salute, as part of an alleged crackdown on recent racial hatred and anti-Semitism. This is in addition to the ruthless attacks on free speech by the eSafety Commission, and the weaponising of the infamous section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, among others.

Our politicians do not seem to really understand that hate speech laws, in eliminating or severely restricting free speech, strengthen the determination of those whose speech is targeted by the legislation. History offers instructive examples of the validity of this point. For example, the pre-Nazi German Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s had several laws against “insulting religious communities” and these laws were fully applied to prosecute hundreds of Nazi agitators, including Joseph Goebbels. The editors of the Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, were prosecuted on thirty-six occasions. The more charges the Nazi rabble faced for their anti-Semitic speech, the greater became the admiration of their supporters. Thus, far from arresting National Socialist ideology, the Weimar anti-speech laws helped the Nazis achieve broader public support and recognition that assisted the dissemination of racist ideas. As Brendan O’Neill explains:

The Nazis turned their prosecutions for hate speech to their advantage, presenting themselves as political victims and whipping up public support among aggrieved sections of German society, their future social base. Far from halting Nazism, hate speech legislation assisted it.[4]

The realisation that hate-speech laws could be used effectively against the “enemies of the people” was not lost on the former Soviet Union. During the drafting of international human-rights declarations, the Soviet Union advocated that, when it comes to protecting free speech, there should be an exception for “incitement of violent act” or, more broadly, an exception for “incitement to hatred”. As Chris Berg points out, the drafting history of the protection of the freedom of expression in these declarations,

… does not leave any doubt that the dominant force behind the attempt to adopt an obligation to resist freedom of speech under human rights law was the Soviet Union … When it came to draft the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, this was not the ascendant view. The Soviet Union proposed extending those restraints to ‘incitement to hatred’ … Suddenly, States were responsible for the elimination of intolerance and discrimination’.[5]

The ruling Labor Party and its Coalition acolytes are not aware that their new hate speech legislation, because of its generality, can easily be used as a convenient tool by any section of the society to effectively remove free speech from the public forum.

Ominously, it might be used by extremist religionists to claim that the impugned speech recklessly criticises their religion and that the speaker should be eligible for a seven-year jail sentence. Hence, one of the great ironies of not acknowledging this obvious possibility is that the chief beneficiaries of this hate-crime legislation may eventually be a small but vocal group of religious extremists, although it is not entirely clear why these individuals should merit any protection of the law from severe criticism.

Specifically, and subject to the validity of this point, our politicians are cowardly in obscuring the fact anti-Semitism is primarily a problem associated with a particular group of our “multicultural” society – namely, the Palestine-friendly community, which consists of radical leftists and extreme Muslim activists. The discovery on February 12 of a video of two NSW Health nurses speaking about their refusal to treat Israelis and suggesting they would kill them if they turned up to their hospital, is a sobering reminder of the unsettled and dangerous world in which we live.[6]

Throughout the Muslim world, accusations of blasphemy or insulting Islam are used systematically to send people to jail or to bring about intimidation through threats, beatings and killings.[7] It is applied against Muslims who are deemed apostates and against non-Muslims when they lose the “protection” afforded under the dhimma pact, or covenant protection.[8] If performed by a Muslim, these “offences” are evidence of apostasy, which the Koran decrees as a capital offense.[9] Conversely, if the transgression is attributed to a non-Muslim, the death penalty is also applied.[10] The offending dhimmi must be subject to harsh treatment and deemed “an object of war,” which undrer Sharia basically results in ‘confiscation of property, enslavement (of wife and children), and death.’[11]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian-born conservative thinker, has described Islam as a totalitarian religion.[12] Whether this is true or not, writes Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the fact is that there is unanimity among Muslim lawyers that ‘anyone who blasphemes against Muhammad is to be put to death, although how the execution is to be carried out varies from one person to another’.[13] Hence, in all the Muslim-majority countries across the globe, ‘religious persecution is reported in 100 per cent of cases’.[14] In Islamic countries presently subject to Sharia Law, writes Charles Moore,

Believers who reject or insult Islam have no rights. Apostasy is punishable by death. In Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, death is the penalty for those who convert from Islam to Christianity. In Pakistan, the blasphemy law prescribes death for anyone who, even accidentally, defiles the name of Mohammed. In a religion which, unlike Christianity, has no idea of a god who himself suffers humiliation, all insult must be avenged if the honour of god is to be upheld. Under Islam, Christians and Jews, born into their religion, have slightly more rights than apostates. They are dhimmis, second-class citizens who must pay the jiyza, a sort of poll tax, because of their beliefs. Their life is hard. In Saudi Arabia, they cannot worship in public at all, or be ministered to by clergy even in private. In Egypt, no Christian university is permitted. In Iran, Christians cannot say their liturgy in the national language. In almost all Muslim countries, they are there on sufferance and, increasingly, because of radical Islamism, not even on that.[15]

Naturally, radical Muslims living in Australia must discover different mechanisms to punish those who “offend” their totalitarian religion. Ironically, we may expect that, in Australia, we can easily expect that one of their primary mechanisms to silence the criticism of religion will be via hate-crime legislation. They will find in these ill-conceived laws a suitable mechanism to strike fear on the “enemies” of their faith. This inconvenient truth is compounded by the great irony that, as noted by Steve Edwards,

some religious ‘holy texts’ themselves partake in some of the vilest hate speech towards nonbelievers, without providing a single morally defensible reason for their incitement. For instance, Sura 22:19-22 of the Koran claims, without providing any evidence, that non-Muslims will have ‘boiling water’ poured over their heads, melting their skin and innards, while being ‘punished’ and terrorised with ‘hooked rods of iron’. This horrific fate is not intended to be temporary: ‘Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said to them): Taste the doom of burning’. Sura 4:56 warns that ‘those who disbelieve our revelations’ shall suffer being ‘roasted’ alive. The punishment does not end there, for ‘as often as their skins are consumed, we shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment’. The passage concludes: ‘Allah is ever Mighty, Wise’.[16]

Because of these hate crime laws, we may comfortably predict that many Australians will now be unprepared to make critical comments or give warnings about radical Islam, however well-based those comments or warnings might be. In a world where Muslim antiSemitism is an obvious reality, and where threats are made by radical Muslims against Western democracies, and where some Muslim leaders in Australia, preaching from their pulpits, openly express sympathy with terrorists, the ability of Australians to defend themselves and their interests is seriously diminished by the prohibition of strong criticism of religion.[17]

Accordingly, Minny Jackson, writing in The Spectator Australia, speculates that the legislation facilitates lawfare because it might encourage an LGBTQI+ activist to claim that a conservative ‘harmed them’ through their speech, or a Muslim might suggest that “a person is ‘racist’ for wanting stricter border policies.”[18]

And yet, there is no good reason any particular group should be accorded special protection from spoken hostility. We should have every right in a democratic society to strongly criticise anyone, and even to consider any religion as mendacious, retrograde and mindless. Otherwise, one might say, we are basically enacting the sort of hate-crime legislation demanded by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 2006, when it introduced at the United Nations a motion that would prohibit defaming religion and imposing strict limits on freedom of expression in the domain of religion.

Of course, there will always be racists and anti-Semites making hateful statements. This is the price of living in a democracy. Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who was put under death sentence because he had insulted Muslim sensibilities, made this point compellingly. He commented:

The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted is absurd. So too is the notion that people should have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted. A fundamental decision needs to be made: Do we want to live in a free society or not? Democracy is not a tea party where people sit around making polite conversation. In democracies people get extremely upset with each other. They argue vehemently against each other’s positions. [19]

Rushdie goes on to conclude:

People have the fundamental right to take an argument to the point where somebody is offended by what they say. It is no trick to support the free speech of somebody you agree with or to whose opinion you are indifferent. The defense of free speech begins at the point where people say something you can’t stand. If you can’t defend their right to say it, then you don’t believe in free speech. You only believe in free speech as long as it doesn’t get up your nose.[20]

Racism, including antiSemitism, must be confronted and defeated not by taking legal action but by reasoned and open debate. Legislated silence will not change the hearts and minds of racist individuals. Our argument is that hate speech legislation is the worst tool to fight racial and religious hatred. Conversation and education are far more effective tools for the establishment of a tolerant society than trying to ban racist speech. As once noted by the late U.S. Justice, Louis Brandeis, ‘the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence’.[21]

Hate-speech legislation will never be successful in eliminating racism and anti-Semitism. Conversely, when ideas are forcibly repressed, they cease being exposed and challenged. Naturally, we are not denying here the potential harm of hate speech, but the gains from hate-speech legislation are tenuous. Under democratic theory, open discourse is better conductive of the truth than is government selection of what the public hears. In a real democracy, of course, citizens must have the right to choose the words that best reflect their feelings, and strong words may better convey to listeners the intensity of feelings than more conventional language.

Furthermore, it is simply wrong to consider, as does the recently enacted law does, that verbal insults should be punished as the same as actual illegal violent action. While the idea of inciting violence links the expression of thoughts to actions, the idea of hate speech links the expression of thoughts to no more than simply thoughts. This is why the hate-crime legislation is so misconceived and even entirely counter-productive, as this might be hijacked by religious extremists and leftist zealots. The legislation, therefore, ‘is a Trojan horse manoeuvre likely to further imperil Australia’s dwindling rights to political communication and free speech.’[22]

I’d recommend following up the footnotes at Quadrant.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 9:08 pm
Reply to  Roger

Zimmerman was very good during the Covid madness.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:18 pm

Commentators are talking about the murders of those little ones and their mother in Gaza.

Can I just say that we have a population of…Martin Bryants to deal with? Both abroad and at home.

Risdon prison is too small to contain them.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 19, 2025 8:18 pm

calli
February 19, 2025 6:25 pm

Reply to  Tom
Where’s our dear friend Carpe? We need a Wipeout Lotto!

You Rang

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  Carpe Jugulum

Konichiwa!

I’m in Kobe next year! Blossom time in fact. 🙂

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 19, 2025 8:31 pm
Reply to  calli

Konbanwa Calli Sama

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 19, 2025 8:31 pm
Reply to  calli

Come up to Arima

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:46 pm
Reply to  Carpe Jugulum

I might just take you up on that Carpe! 😀

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 9:24 pm
Reply to  Carpe Jugulum

Our very own Japanese Lurch.

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 8:22 pm

Watching Sharri and Michael Kroger, trying not to choke back tears, perfectly sums up the Nazis in Gaza aka Hamas (which is most of the population)……..

‘this is Hamas’

‘these people are just human filth’

‘these people are human scum’

‘these people are inhuman’

‘these people are Idi Amin, they are Adolf Hitler, they are the worst most atrocious humans living in the world today’

‘the thought they have supporters in our country fills me with horror, people who receive government grants, people who support Sinwar. I think Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray are right in what they are saying, that western nations have serious problems given the level of support that organisations like Hamas have in western countries, it’s an absolute and utter disgrace’

Thank you, Michael.

And guess what folks, we’ve let in 3000 of this filth.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 19, 2025 9:20 pm

We haven’t Cassie. Our treasonous bastard leaders have imposed them on us.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 19, 2025 8:24 pm

Good Evening Troops

I have been visiting Aust since January and it has been something of an eye opener from my experience since we arrived.

I will give a more expansive take later this week.

But my greatest Joy was coming through customs with a Japanese passport looking like Bali Bogan and seeing the WTF look on their faces.

Happy times

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 8:37 pm
Reply to  Carpe Jugulum

Well done. I’m jealous!

Megan
Megan
February 19, 2025 9:23 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Glad you’re here. Nothing like experiencing the reality of current day Oz like standing in it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 8:39 pm

What’s the status of these two Jew hating nurses.
Google tells me they have been stood done/suspended.
But the minister and heath department big wig said they have been sacked and will not work in health services again.
Which is correct.

And still no charges laid.
What’s all that about.

calli
calli
February 19, 2025 8:43 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Deception. In plain sight. The politicians’ speciality.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 8:45 pm
Reply to  calli

The absolute worst sleight of hand I have ever been witness to.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 9:07 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

They are hoping it will fade out of the media or be pushed out by something else, some other disaster. Then they could sweep it all under the carpet.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 8:41 pm
mem
mem
February 19, 2025 9:42 pm

Can’t bring myself to look.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 19, 2025 10:48 pm
Reply to  mem

Yeah “black lesbian” i’d give a peek, but the Jesus thing is a bit icky

Cassie of Sydney
February 19, 2025 8:47 pm

Nice to see James Packer on Sharri, speaking up for Jews and Donald Trump.

I see earlier there was talk of Warwick Fairfax the wonder child who failed miserably (pushed by his mother). Both Warwick and James were damaged by respective parents. Whereas Warwick was spoilt and mollycoddled by his mother Mary Fairfax, James was bullied by his father Kerry Packer.

Both men attended Cranbrook, which probably exacerbated their problems.

Also, late last year when the pile on of Alan Jones happened after Jones was charged, James Packer spoke up for Alan. I don’t think James cares about what cretons think.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 19, 2025 8:48 pm

And if the psychiatrist who was on Sharri was anything to go by, don’t expect AHPRA to do anything.
AHPRA is trained in 50 forms of transphobia but antisemitism…we dont even have a definition of that now do we.

Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 8:52 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

AHPRA have mastered the Art of “yes, but”.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 9:39 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

It seems as if every institution is trying to see how quickly they can lose the population’s respect.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 19, 2025 8:52 pm

The Marxist pervert culture war moves on to the University of Notre Dame:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-19/university-of-notre-dame-cyber-attack/104955012

johnjjj
johnjjj
February 19, 2025 9:22 pm
Reply to  Old Lefty

These ‘cyber attacks’ happen a lot to Unis from what I can gather. They keep them secret and pay it off, except when it is obvious – e.g. student enrollments.
I.T. as the great cost reduction at Unis, is a big scam. Their I.T departments are not up to it. If you are a cyber genius you don’t get a low paid IT job at a Uni.
So, just wait until A.I. is used to attack their systems. I’ll give it two years.

Crossie
Crossie
February 19, 2025 9:41 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

How much of this incompetence is also due to DEI hiring practices?

Lee
Lee
February 19, 2025 8:54 pm

If the government won’t use existing laws against incitement and threats to kill, then sermonising by politicians and police against “hate speech” is very hollow and extremely hypocritical.

Or is one group and one only a protected species?

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Pogria
Pogria
February 19, 2025 8:57 pm
Reply to  Lee

Yes, and Yes.

Muddy
Muddy
February 19, 2025 9:18 pm

Whoa.
Nobodies.

Oliver Anthony delivers rallying cry to world leaders.
It’s a misleading title, but at just 8 minutes (YouTube), worth your time, even if only to witness the passion of one individual.

His statement that we are the last generation to remember the pre-digital age is something to mull over.

It it is the term ‘Nobodies’ that appeals to me, however. (Actually, it screams). I call them (and myself) The Silent Ones. Same-same.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 19, 2025 10:47 pm
Reply to  Muddy

…but but but Beyonce got the Grammy for Country music

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 9:33 pm

Carpe Jugulum

 February 19, 2025 8:24 pm

Good Evening Troops

I have been visiting Aust since January and it has been something of an eye opener from my experience since we arrived.

You’re not in a miniature submarine by any chance are you?

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 9:36 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Chuckle

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 9:45 pm
Reply to  Bespoke

Don’t chuckle me, pal!

Beertruk
February 20, 2025 5:02 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Or taking aerial photos of…I dunno…Darwin?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 9:48 pm

Carpe …

I have been visiting Aust since January and it has been something of an eye opener from my experience since we arrived.

Having travelled in the other direction a bit over a year ago I can see why you would find it an eye-opener coming here.
Especially Melbourne.
Having a “hold my beer” competition with San Francisco at the moment.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 19, 2025 9:52 pm

So all’s forgiven for the little literary excursion earlier then?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 9:58 pm

No.
I doubt I will ever forgive you for the mental image of Luigi’s trousers at half mast.

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 19, 2025 9:58 pm

No but I no longer want you impaled.

You should be doused in red wine and locked in a room with Kamala.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
February 19, 2025 10:15 pm

I will be toddling off to sleep with the mental image of Albo in his y-fronts with a dreamy expression on his sorry face.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 19, 2025 9:56 pm

From the Oz:-

A Chinese naval task group was sailing just 150 nautical miles off Sydney on Wednesday in an unprecedented demonstration by Beijing of its ability to project power down Australia’s east coast.

Two Australian navy ships were trailing the Chinese vessels, which had been operating in Australia’s exclusive economic zone for a week. It is believed to be the furthest down Australia’s east coast that Chinese ships have sailed without being on an official port visit.

One might well ask … what are they doing here?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 19, 2025 10:07 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Come to wish “handsome boy” all the best on his forthcoming nuptials?

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 19, 2025 10:26 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

It’s not actually illegal to sail that far off a country’s coast, even if they have both signed up to UNCLOS – which both have.

Muddy
Muddy
February 19, 2025 10:01 pm

David Brooks quoting Walter Lippmann:

If what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels, then we are outside the bounds of civilization.

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks
[YouTube, 15 mins].

Welcome to the P.C. (Post Civilisation) World.

And yes, the impotence of conservatives (not conservatism, but conservatives) helped to make this happen.
You’re welcome.

Ooookay. So I posted this before he started a Trump-is-tha-devil rant.
Just ignore Muddy.

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Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 10:04 pm
Indolent
Indolent
February 19, 2025 10:07 pm

@bennyjohnson

Wow. President Trump goes off for FOUR uninterrupted minutes listing off woke insane projects that your money has funded…

Here’s a little glimpse:

$10 million towards circumcisions in Mozambique.

$25 million for biodiversity in Colombia.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 19, 2025 10:45 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Circumcisions eh?
Dr Duk will go crook…

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 19, 2025 11:46 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Cut the cuts?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 20, 2025 4:44 am
Reply to  Indolent

The 10 mill goes towards sewing the leftover bits into a suit and putting it in parliament.

Michael
Michael
February 19, 2025 11:23 pm

So, sitting in the waiting room for my appointment with my urologist this afternoon, with other very worried looking older men and women, facing the curse my wife and I faced 11 years ago. Then on comes Channel 9 News, claiming that Donald Trump had ‘blamed’ Ukraine for starting the war – ‘they started it’.

Once home, I checked online videos, including the BBC, and could find no source.

I love Karen Leavitt’s relentless characterisation of ‘the fake news legacy media’.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 20, 2025 12:12 am

Queensland is the new Victoriastan.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 20, 2025 12:14 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Over to you Mr Premier.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 20, 2025 12:55 am

Wot, no new thred?

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