The working relationship between the Democrats and Labor is a pretty close one these days.Those training days for Aussie volunteers…
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I am kinder than both of you. If I could press a button and have every gazan head explode as…
I checked her out on Linkedin. Why do all leftist chicks look the same? She a Kiwi import as well
Turkey is a conundrum. Say terrible things about Israel. Say terrible things domestically. Then does it’s best to neuter Iran…
Ruh roh. Reading a Paywallian story on Test wunderkind Konstas who gives his batting advisor (?) as Watto.
Good Evening from beautiful downtown Rockingham! Heh, heh!
Whacko!! 1st! After all these years!!
I missed a 2nd when it disappeared.
Gold star for Mamam
Thank you, Pete of Perth. Will be worn with delight.
It surely is another world over here in W.A. The sun shines brighter and the road construction is magnificent!
Thank you to all who give their time to contribute here – it is very, very much appreciated.
McGowan now on the election bandwagon. It’s as if covid never happened. I had to take the booster to get back home because of that arsehole.
#rsehole indeed.
Jeepers, intense and sustained lightning over Margaret River tonight.
John Spooner.
Experience counts. Spooner is my favourite cartoonist.
Brett Lethbridge.
Maybe a Voice T Shirt instead.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Nevermind
Gary Varvel.
Haha. Check out the second from left.
Love the feather.
And Hilary’s butt on the right!
Brilliant! I love the Pocahontas touch
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
If the fraud has hit the cartoons, the swamp has lost.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
Todays Thursday Tele:
WHYALLA GETS A $2BN BAILOUT TO SAVE STEELWORKS
PAUL STARICK AND BELINDA WILLIS
20 Feb 2025
More than $2 billion will be pumped into the crisis-ridden Whyalla steelworks and saving jobs in the South Australian steel city, after billionaire Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance was spectacularly ousted in a state government legal blitzkrieg.
The government funding package aimed at driving a green steel and iron revolution will be unveiled in Whyalla today by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and SA Premier Peter Malinauskas.
It is understood the state and federal funds will be pitched as supporting the steelworks, saving Whyalla jobs and supporting and encouraging green iron and steel production in SA and across the nation.
Mr Albanese said Whyalla steel was needed to build Australia’s future.
“Whyalla steel has forged some of our country’s biggest projects – rail lines, airports and stadiums. That’s why we will work with the Malinauskas government to save the Whyalla steelworks and back local jobs,” he said.
Mr Malinauskas said long-term government “investments necessary to secure the future of Whyalla and Australian steel making” could be made “now that the steelworks is no longer under the control of GFG”.
“I was never going to allow a taxpayer-funded bailout of GFG,” he said.
The SA government spectacularly ousted GFG, owned by Indian-born British businessman Gupta, in a move to take control and install administrator KordaMentha.
Extraordinary legislation was rushed through state parliament that meant the government could send GFG subsidiary OneSteel Manufacturing into administration and guarantee ongoing payment to workers and creditors.
Mr Malinauskas said the company was given “every opportunity” to pay creditors.
BlueScope, the only other steel manufacturer in Australia operating mainly from Port Kembla in NSW, will help the administrators.
ANDREW BOLT PAGE 13
Mainland Tasmania – where your taxes go to die.
So what are they going to use for fuel making this steel? Presumably the fossil fuels they are using at the moment. What is the ‘green’ aspect of this billion dollar package, and how can the Libs dump it when in power?
Green hydrogen, of course.
And unicorn farts.
Gupta said, 2y ago, that he was going to make steel without coal ….. obviously unaware of the ‘coking’ process
Bolta in todays Tele:
WHYALLA WIPEOUT WAS AN ALL TOO PREDICTABLE OUTCOME
The catastrophic collapse of Whyalla’s steelworks must tell every Australian that Labor’s climate schemes are ruining the country and must be scrapped. Instantly.
What a humiliation for South Australia’s Teflon Premier Peter Malinauskas and the almost lunatic federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen.
How much have these climate dupes now cost us by believing a huckster’s claim that a miracle gas, green hydrogen, would save the steelworks which prop up Whyalla?
Fourteen years ago Tony Abbott as the federal Opposition leader warned that Labor’s climate crusade would jack up the price of electricity and wipe out Whyalla. He was mocked by Labor and the warmist media, which in 2017 hailed British steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta as the city’s saviour for buying the steelworks out of administration, promising to make it one of the “biggest steelworks in the world” by powering it with green hydrogen, made by pumping massive amounts of wind and solar power through water.
Never mind that green hydrogen is ridiculously expensive and has not been proven to work at scale anywhere. It was green!
Bowen was thrilled. He handed over $63m for a low carbon electric arc furnace for the steelworks.
What’s more, he and Malinauskas were so sure green hydrogen would be needed around Whyalla that they also promised $100m to help build Australia’s first large-scale export terminal for hydrogen at nearby Port Bonython.
What a joke. What Australia’s smelters and heavy industry actually needed – and are now screaming for – was cheaper, 24/7 electricity, instead of the unreliable wind and solar that’s given South Australia some of the world’s highest electricity prices.
Meanwhile, Gupta – now renovating his $34m waterside mansion in Sydney – stopped paying his bills in Whyalla. As Gupta’s debts hurtled towards $300m, Malinauskas publicly warned the steelworks’ directors it was a crime to trade while insolvent.
On Wednesday the Premier belatedly ran out of patience and trust. He put the steelworks into administration and rushed through a law allowing the government to go through the books.
From Bowen there was just silence, but Malinauskas promised he’d come up with a package to keep the steelworks in business under different owners, and even claimed Gupta’s “vision” for the plant had been “the right one”.
Ha! Sounds like taxpayers will get belted again.
Port Bonython’s hydrogen dream also seems to have popped, and the money gone. How can this country be run like this, on wild green dreams?
If we don’t wake up, the Whyalla wipeout won’t be the last.
Going the way of the car industry.
At least the car industry was sane. Green steel is madness on stilts.
Thats it Bruce.
Build another coal fired power station or rebuild the one at Port Agutta.
It’s Portagutta, Beertruk.
I was being ‘posh.’ 🙂
We lived in Marree in the late 1960s then at Whyalla from 1970 to 1971. My Old Man was in the SA police force.
The Amanda Miller caught fire when it was being built and Dad was on duty at the time and got called out to it. He said oxy and acetylene bottles were exploding like roman candles.
Found a parliamentary report on the fire:
M. V. Amanda Miller REPORT ON FIRE ON BUILDING BERTH AT WHYALLA SHIPBUILDING AND ENGINEERING WORKS 18-19 APRIL, 1970
Did someone say “jenny agutter” ?
Going the way of the car industry.
Sure is: milk the taxpayer of hundreds of millions over decades, then fail anyway
Bolta (again) in todays Tele:
FAMILY FIGHT THREATENS TO SILENCE RIGHT VOICES
ANDREW BOLT
20 Feb 2025
James Murdoch has shown he’s a most ungrateful, entitled and treacherous hypocrite.
This second son of Rupert Murdoch, chairman emeritus of the Murdoch media empire, is getting hero headlines for abusing his father and brother and whingeing how he’s been hard done by.
He’s smearing his father as a “misogynist”, a bad dad, a man James’ children don’t want to see.
He’s leaking private family conversations.
He’s also bitching about his brother Lachlan, now steering this company – all in a long profile of James in the Left-wing Atlantic magazine, and gleefully retailed by Murdoch-hating papers.
I haven’t seen such treachery and jealousy since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did the same wahwah about Harry’s family, falsely painting the royals as racists and bastards.
The difference is that James could hurt you.
He’s now battling his father in court over the future of this company, which – I should remind him – was actually built by his dad, who also made him a multi-billionaire.
Any gratitude?
I should declare I did not warn Lachlan or his team I was writing this, and was not asked to.
Here’s what the war is about. Control of this Murdoch empire is held in large part by a family trust, which gives Rupert four votes, and his four eldest children, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence one each. Do the maths: Rupert and Lachlan, the two conservatives, rule.
But Rupert is 93.
What happens after his death?
Three of the children could then fire Lachlan overnight.
That’s a threat to the Murdoch empire, because James is a cookie-cutter New York Leftist who’s publicly dumped on what it publishes and broadcasts.
For instance, he’s attacked Fox News, a massive money earner, announcing: “There are views I really disagree with on Fox News”.
He even resigned from the board, “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions”.
He and wife Kathryn also attacked journalists on this paper and on Sky News for “ongoing denial” about global warming – which is actually our healthy scepticism about climate alarmism and the climate policies now devastating our electricity system.
That’s why Rupert and Lachlan, who has now run Fox Corp and News Corp for years, thought they should change this “irrevocable” trust so Lachlan could never be outvoted by his siblings.
This company had to stay healthy by staying conservative.
The reason is obvious: The key to Rupert’s success has been to give conservatives a platform – the Sun and The Times in Britain; Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall St Journal in the US; and Sky News and the Murdoch newspapers in Australia.
Imagine if the Murdoch media empire did not exist.
Who’d have fought the climate hysteria, the lockdown madness, the cancel culture and the race politics that nearly gave us Labor’s Voice?
Not the ABC, which has not one current affairs host who’s conservative. Not the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or Guardian Australia, which have zero on-staff conservative commentators.
No wonder Murdoch media outlets are so popular with the public. Finally, our readers and viewers see the world as it is and as they know it.
But soon you may not have to imagine a world without that choice. Not if James got control instead.
Round one of the legal battle was a courtroom loss for Rupert, who had to prove it was in the interests of each child that Lachlan stay in charge. Now come the appeals.
And now comes James going wah- wah-wah. His father has broken the family!
I’m disgusted that a grown man would shop his resentments like that, all to grab a media empire he has not created, or negotiate a bigger payout.
Still, in whining to the Atlantic, James and Kathryn just added to Rupert’s argument that the value of the Murdoch media would crash if James, backed by his sisters, dumped Lachlan and took over.
For instance, the Atlantic reports James’ wife opining that Fox News “doesn’t have a clear purpose in the ecosystem any more”.
What? Fox last month posted the highest ratings ever seen in American cable news history.
Imagine if James and Kathryn blanded Fox into another CNN, now haemorrhaging viewers. Or turned the booming Sky News into an ABC, God save us.
Turning Murdoch outlets into clones of the ABC or Guardian would destroy their point of difference, and destroy the business.
But for you it would be even worse. Culling conservatives would devastate debate.
Sorry to begin the day with such awful news, this is from The Oz…..
The Israeli Hostages and Missing Families Forum says it has received confirmation of the deaths of the two youngest hostages and their mother.
I think Sky Oz’s James Macpherson (one of the few in possession of moral clarity and a true treasure) summed it up best in his email sent yesterday…
The Children the World Forgot
James Macpherson
Want to know what’s wrong with the world?
Read the following sentence from the New York Times slowly, and see if you can spot the problem …
“For many Israelis, the story of the Bibas family has become a symbol of the brutality of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.”
For many Israelis?
Are you serious?
The kidnapping and slaughter of Shiri Bibas, along with her two beautiful children should be a symbol of the brutality of Hamas for the whole world!
But no. According to the New York Times, a former newspaper, it’s really only a matter of grief for Israelis.
More than 500 days after the Bibas family were captured and dragged back to Gaza as hostages to be held for ransom, the bodies of Shiri, Ariel, 4 and Kfir aged just 9-months, will be sent home.
I cannot imagine the grief of Yaren Bibas when he receives the bodies of his wife and sons back in Israel this Saturday.
Hamas has said they will return the bodies, but not for free. Israel must release Palestinian prisoners if Yarden is to be reunited with the corpses of his loved ones.
And the New York Times says this is distressing for Israelis.
It’s a bloody outrage that should be infuriating the entire world!
Shame on all those celebrities who have touted for Palestine while Ariel and Kfir were being held underground in Gaza by terrorists.
Shame on all those Western politicians, which includes our entire Australian Labor Government, who not once demanded the children’s release before any correspondence with Hamas was entered into.
Shame on all those charities and NGOs that claim to be about children but who never once took up these children’s case.
Shame on all those who gather here in Australia week after week to hate on Israel. Hamas stole babies on October 7. What would you like Israel to do? Nothing? Like the rest of the world has done?
I wish that the faces of Ariel and Kfir had become a symbol of the brutality of Hamas. But instead, they have become a symbol of a virtue signalling world absolutely devoid of any virtue.
While our Australian Government never took up the cause of these Jewish children, it did take up the cause of the Palestinians.
Think about that.
Seventy percent of the Palestinians who crossed into Israel on October 7 to rape, loot and murder Jewish residents were civilians.
The last sighting of Sheri was in Gaza, where she was filmed barefoot while trying to navigate the streets with her 9-month-old baby, Kfir, and her 4-year-old son, Ariel all while surrounded by Palestinian civilians.
Like I said, our government was mute on the fate of Shiri and her children while quickly signing up to take 3000 Palestinians.
Meanwhile, America’s ABC reported …
BREAKING: Hamas will release the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday and six living hostages on Saturday, Hamas and Israel confirmed. Four more dead hostages will be released next week, according to Israel.
Excuse me?
Deceased?
A Jewish mum and her two children just kind of … died?
“Deceased” is a hell of a way to spell murdered.
The family was murdered and will now be returned to their husband and father in a body bag.
Of course, they are just dead Jews to the ABC.
The person who wrote the news item was probably one of those same people tearing down posters of Jewish hostages a year ago.
Want to know why journalism is dying? Look no further than the way this is being reported.
The people paid to use precise words to record every event are suddenly at a loss to find the right word to describe Hamas murdering hostages.
“Deceased” was a deliberate choice.
“Deceased” is water-carrying for terrorists.
Luckily, our hope is not in the UN, or the Australian Government, or the mainstream media.
Psalm 37v12-13 declares …
“The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them; but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.”
Amen. Amen. And amen!
I also say……..amen.
Thank you, James.
Looking forward to the retribution inflicted upon the lowest of the low, their supporters and fellow travellers no matter where they are. This includes the entire Labor and Green Parties.
Absolute bastards.
Kill ’em all. God will know his own.
I’m wondering if this is in part why Liz Storer has been absent on The Late Debate. I don’t think James is too pleased with Storer’s antisemitic position.
Hard to have an antisemitism conference when one of your opinion contributors is regurgitating paliwood memes.
Yes, no reason has been offered for Storer’s absence.
She did in recent times have a few online attacks on James McPherson re Israel which were probably not appreciated. He is a particularly easy-going man with an incisive intellect but he may have decided not to put up with certain aggressive and propagandizing behaviours. It is a pity she has taken this path, because initially her skeptical approach and direct speaking to camera were a refreshing change from the blandness of some other female presenters on TV. It helped make The Late Debate a fun forum with a serious side, rating high numbers for a late show.
She’s a loud-mouthed bint, who shouts her opinions, never took to her really because of her volume.
Last night on The Great Debate Lucy Zelic was aghast that any mother could side with Palestinians after this. She is a worthy stand-in for Liz Storer whose absence was appreciated last night.
Spot on Cassie.
I also subscribe to James MacPherson’s Substack blog – superb writer who gets to the point with moral clarity.
“OK, give us back ‘deceased’ hostages, you get back the prisoners with forced gender re-assignment surgery. Hey. think yourself lucky they’re still alive.”
Just their balls in a bottle would be fine.
A few months back it was google, today it’s Microsoft with quantum computing news.
https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1892242895094313420?s=43
Wonder if Ed Husic knows about either.
PsiQuantum will be a zero.
The half a bill federal taxpayers pumped in will be torched.
Hope the Queenslanders have clawed back some of the half a bill they committed to.
Good morning all.
We’re awake.
You don’t get better than that.
Indeed.
I’m wondering if this is in part why Liz Storer has been absent on The Late Debate. I don’t think James is too pleased with Storer’s antisemitic position.
It isn’t just James, it’s also viewers such as myself who aren’t ‘too pleased’. I will no longer watch her and have not for months and months. I’ve never warmed to her, she screeches and her voice is like a foghorn hence her name…..Foghorn Liz. I like James and Caleb and would watch the programme more if Foghorn was gone
As I’ve said before, I sat in a synagogue here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs back in November 2023 and heard Storer loudly proclaim that she had our (Jews) back. Perhaps she still does have our back whilst she holds a knife
She’s clearly been travelling down some unsavoury and very fetid rabbit holes, like Tucker and others on the right and now her head has become scrambled.
I bet Storer won’t be attending today’s Sky forum on Jew hatred.
The “yes, but”, syndrome.
How easily people succumb to it.
Butwhatabout’s twin.
Triplets Calli.
“You have to understand”.
Cassie, I know I don’t post here much, but I’m with you.
I noticed something during and after COVID that may explain the likes of Storer. The government overreach and draconian measures woke a lot of people up to our authoritarian power hungry governments. But many of these people started to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole on other issues, like Chemitrails and now Israel/antisemitism.
I’m not excusing Storer’s antisemitism, as I find it disgusting, distasteful and unacceptable.
But I think she’s one that fell into the rabbit hole, without question the claims made. The fact that she has a masters degree, of which she tells everyone at every opportunity, means she thinks she’s the brightest person in the room, so can’t be wrong. Duning-Krueger effect poster girl.
Storer is gullible idiot who’s burning her bridges, with an arsonists zeal.
I think you’ve nailed it Rowan, and it explains the likes of Tucker, Delingpole, Foghorn and others. What I like about people like Mark Steyn and others is that they have never fallen down that ugly trapdoor
Great comment, Rohan. Storer’s Masters degree was in human rights. Obviously some Hamas-supporting luvvies have found a way to her via that background, which is full of emotional holes that would put a chink in her armor. I am wondering if some new Significant Other in her life has entered her circle of influence.
Her business not mine, but she has to accept personal responsibility for her turn to anti-Semitism. It is not something to take lightly.
Speaking of Sky ladies, whatever happened to Daisy Cousens?
She’s probably pregnant.
But many of these people started to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole on other issues, like Chemitrails and now Israel/antisemitism.
1) Conspiracies are real (or we wouldn’t have a word for them). A conspiracy is simply a group of people acting together in secret to cause something to happen – our ‘National Cabinet’ during COVID fits that definition.
2) The CIA popularised* the term ‘conspiracy theory’ as a ‘shut down phrase’ when the public started to question the official account of the JFK assassination. We should not fall for this trick – any more than we should fall any of the other shutdown phrases: ‘racist’, ‘islamophobe’, ‘antivaxxer’ etc
3) If the last 5 years showed us anything, its that governments lie, all the time, about everything: in the light of that, *all* rabbit holes should be open for inspection – the moon landing, JFK, chemtrails, Fort Knox, ALL OF THEM.
*there is some question as to whether it was actually coined earlier
Duk, the trick is to be able to identify which is a legitamate rabbit hole and which is not. Normally it’s very easy. It’s usually prafaced with a truck load of overly emotional language. Like the politically motivated Climate Change. “Oh my god, won’t someone think of the children!?” And so on.
The fact that the government stated that the mRNA Covid vax was of 100% efficacy and 100% safe and effective was an obvious conspiracy. I watched the data from the NIH and NHS and came to the conclusion very earlyon, not to touch it with a 20′ barge pole. I was then forced into a 6 month prohabition from working at the office, until Novavax was available. I became a non-citizen for that. Nearly lost my job in the process too.
I’m not antivax, but now extreamely weary of big pharma.
Scratch the surface of any conspiracy theory that lacks substance and you’ll find out quick enough. Chemitrails is the most obvious consipiracy theory that fits the mould. It’s almost entirely water condensation from wingtip vortex shedding and H2O combustion product emitted from the engines.
Yet those that the COVID overreach broke, now dive headlong down many such rabbit holes.
Wotz a chemtrail ? I ask on soshul media and no-one has answered me back yet…………
Nikola Corporation files for bankruptcy. Another EV wet dream bites the dust.
Selling battery-powered 18 wheelers at a loss of $2million per unit will do that.
Climate denier!
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/northern-ireland-muslim-migrant-charged-with-raping-15-year-old-boy-claims-the-boy-initiated-the-encounter?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=northern-ireland-muslim-migrant-charged-with-raping-15-year-old-boy-claims-the-boy-initiated-the-encounter
Its the old I’m not a homo but all the the blokes I bummed were.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/ny-palestinian-muslims-storm-citys-largest-jewish-neighborhood-attack-beat-and-attempt-to-stab-jews
I hope the Jews do a Rodney King Koreans on the germs.
Hehe, someone is getting a bit too close to someone else’s cookie jar (h/t Gary Varvel – thanks Tom!)
Establishment GOP Senators Say Trump Is Saving Taxpayer Money ‘Too Fast,’ Demand He Slow Down (19 Feb)
Collins and Murkowski eh. Why am I not surprised? Perhaps Elon could spare a doggie to look into their finances.
You’d think they’d have enough sense to keep their heads below the parapet, but noooo.
I dropped in at the news site to see what the loonies have to say:
Let me guess:
“They’re on our radar.”
2 frigates and an oiler. The PLN have exercised to our north in past years between WA & Indo. Given the spy ships they park off the NQ coast every time we have a big exercise about the only unusual thing is that it’s warships that far south this time.
They stopped over in East Timor so we’ve known they were coming.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a sub following, unless of course the admiralty have been caught flat footed or nothing is operational.
Outrageous! Its not as if we would every deploy military assets in their home waters!
Hope they don’t run into Cunard’s Queen Anne, which is busily chuffing towards Sydney from Tonga on her round-the-world maiden voyage.
One of the two WW II era Queen’s rammed and sank a British light cruiser while transporting around 15,000 US troops to the UK.
Couldn’t risk stopping, so the survivors were left to be rescued by others.
Keep out of the way, CCP sailors!
Given their relative manoeuvrability, I suspect HMS Curacoa bears much of the blame for the collision.
Some local will whizz out there in a tinnie and tell they ‘can’t park there’!
I think they have my container load of designer Lewie Vulton handbags Ive been waiting on for my shit market stall.
Along with the incorrectly spelled fcuk tee-shirts.
Chrisifooli moves on some of the CMFEU & ETU rorts.
OK credit where credit is due, well done but paused?
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/fight-back-fired-up-tradies-swarm-qld-parliament-house-to-protest-changes-to-working-conditions/news-story/8f741f453559350e82a6457a6580655f
There is a sort of comedy playing out on X.
The left realise that they do not own the Executive branch, and cannot control Congress. So they have lower Federal Court judges sprinkling injunctions like confetti all over Trump.
Now, as usual, the left has a vague memory of something they heard in Civics class that they do not understand so they have used the label to describe some new dynamic customised to benefit them.
Checks and balances!
In their version the Judiciary is there to act as a check on the Executive. And its power is absolute. There are no limits to Judicial authority. So you can have some judge in a District Court telling the President that the Secretary for the Treasury may not have access to Treasury data, or that DEI pages cannot be taken down from the websites run by Executive agencies.
Having invested so much into this myth, in minds where there is no epistemological border between ‘want to be true’ ‘is true’, when the SCOTUS finally weighs in and overturns these injunctions, the left will start screeching that SCOTUS is compromised, ignoring the constitution, and in the pocket of Trump, Musk, and Putin.
They will build an entire castle of fiction to protect a single grain of a cherished error.
Looks like they are going to make an example of 2 judges:
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/02/18/the-gop-moves-to-impeach-judges-trying-to-stop-trump-agenda-n4937083
Unfortunately it won’t happen since that needs two thirds support in the Senate. But getting impeached in the House is a black mark that will hang over their heads for the rest of their miserable lives.
That maybe why Tanya Chutkan let the doggies continue in Treasury.
Not sure which case it was, one of the federalist guys I follow on twitter was almost laughing as one of the judges had to coach the DNC lawyer into showing why they had standing.
Pretty much the opposite of how judges behaved during any of the 2020 election cases.
Mother Lode
The Juduciary is there to check the exercise of executive power, whether by the President or by the lowest level decision-maker. Unless challenge is by a statute created appeal which permits substitution of the decision, the court’s function is to see that the executive stayed within the legal limits of its power as that power was defined by the Constitution or a statute.
The USA problem arises from the fact that many judges are blatantly political appointees, and do not stay within the limits of their function. We have a similar problem here, to a lesser extent.
I suspect that some of Trump’s decisions are unlawful. Any Executive Order he makes must be within the limits of his powers as granted by the Constitution or an Act of Congress. When the former states that executive power is vested in the President, that is not a grant of power to do whatever he likes. It may confer power in some specific respects, but these are very limited.
All the above applies in our Federal and State systems.
I haven’t seen any that look illegal. Article II of the Constitution is pretty clear. Even the anchor baby EO looks fine to me based on an originalist reading of the specific clause.
Article II is not a grant of power (except perhaps in very narrow circumstances. It’s a power of put into effect (execute) powers and duties created by Acts of Congress. It’s not like article (39 or 49, I haven’t checked) of the Weimar Constitution, by which the Chancellor Hitler made law by decree.
Article II essentially is like when He-Man calls on the power of grey skull & yells “I HAVE THE POWER”.
Biden’s EO’s would be similarly affected if that is the case.
It is not likely and would certain have ramifications for the Dems if it was upheld.
What’s not likely, and why?
see my reply to this above . Should have made it reply to you.
It is unlikely that politicized judges will be able to swing acceptance of their ‘balance of powers’ version of the US Constitution, which would look like a judicial coup.
Firstly, because it does not seem that Trump and Musk have gone beyond the acceptable and so-far accepted ambit of Article 11.
Secondly, because it would immediately call into question all of Biden’s Executive Orders made under the same ambit interpretation as that used by Trump now.
That was the point of the Supreme Court’s Chevron decision, which ruled that Biden’s executive orders on a set of environmental issues exceeded his constitutional powers and trespassed on the prerogatives of Congress.
Which ones do you suspect are unlawful?
And on what basis?
Two possibilities: preventing the spending of monies appropriated by Act of Congress, and acting contrary to protections and duties created by other Acts.
Congress allocates the funds and specifies in acts what such funds can be spent on. The executive spends UP TO that amount in order to fulfill the requirements of the statute. If the executive performs acts as required under the statute, but doesn’t need the full appropriation of funds to do it, it can return the excess to congress.
If the executive decides to prioritise certain acts over others, then unless the statute itself defines a timeline, the executive can delay spending as long as they desire.
Congress is in a pickle because they have typically allocated funds to departments rather than specific line items, so the executive can “re-arrange” the spending as they please.While the left held the executive, they were quite happy with this arrangement. Now they no longer have the executive, they are screeching “Not fair!”.
As Honest Abe showed, the court can rule all it likes, if the executive ignores them they are powerless – and they know it. What can they do? Arrest powers are held within the executive branch, as are indictments. Congress can impeach (house) and convict(senate) and only then can an elected executive official be charged, and only then if the executive branch (DoJ) WANTS to – the judicial branch cannot direct the actions of the executive branch in such matters, any more than the executive can direct the actions of the judiciary.
Yep. Separation of powers.
I think you’ll find that there was nothing in the appropriation of funds from Congress specifying how funds should be spent.
So, for example, Trump could appoint a new director of USAID who might decide that the funds should be spent on a new golf course at Mar-a-Lago, or anything really.
lol
… welcome to the post-modern
Castles of fiction protecting cherished errors. Beautiful, thanks Mother Load.
Excellent metaphors for the post-modern mindset.
Separation of Powers. It’s all we have. Didn’t do too well during Covid.
A second amendment might have mitigates some of the excesses.
We do have a Second Amendment protection, in the implied guarantee of political speech. It’s qualified, but the Secind Amendment is too.
love the way the “judiciary” are here in the forum effectively arguing that they “got this”
all separation of power and checks and balances and all that
truth is, the executive/judiciary joint-venture has already screwed everything up utterly
try not to screw things up even more while you sit on your hands and argue about principles
… as is your wont
I thought that was a Babylon Bee headline upon first reading.
Sod that, it has been nowhere near “awful” enough. A series of lengthy public floggings or being locked indefinitely in a dungeon with one of Mole’s bodice rippers or Vogon inspired poetry blasting out at 200 decibels*, for example, might begin to approach the concept of “somewhat awful”.
*A punishment not too dissimilar to those administered to many of the “Jan 6 Insurrectionists”.
Not sure why Zelensky doesn’t want to have an election.
Assuming its ex the 8 million that live in the areas that Russia stole/annexed/control, meaning he’ll romp it in.
Wont he?
Not when his approval rating is in single digits.
It’s not.
It’s in the high 50s & his party leads polling at c. 25%.
Don’t believe everything the Donald says.
So why not hold an election then?
Probably wanted to wait for the peace deal as that will likely require a referendum.
I think he should go now.
And he was expecting a better deal than what might now be in the offing, although it’s still early days.
Yup.
A blend of a steady flow of probably over-optimistic reports of Ukrainian success with reports of Russian brutality via people you know who witnessed it, and Zelenskyy with one breast uncovered and banner aloft would make him a saviour figure.
I would contrast this with after the war when the butcher’s bill is delivered.
The US gave Ukraine the money to fight like a country with more resources – but not the additional people. Without Biden’s Billions they would have been compelled to come to a deal long before now.
He has a 4 percent approval rating
Garrison
@GrrrGraphics
President Trump just called Zelensky a ‘Dictator”
Is he right?
@elonmusk
Zelensky cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections!
Trump on Ukraine
@catturd2
Germany will arrest you over a meme. We don’t care what these commies have to say.
Funny how the East Germans are less commie than the Western ones.
Lived experience.
Not funny at all. They understand what it really means having recently lived through it.
@JDunlap1974
DOGE has discovered a foreign fraud ring that was using (FAKE) Social Security numbers to steal benefits,
There’s no way to know how much until DOGE gets full access.
Stephen Miller says it could be as much as $ 1 TRILLION DOLLARS
Meme
Starmer compares Zelensky to CHURCHILL as he defends Ukrainian leader from Trump’s ‘dictator’ jibes: UK PM says ‘perfectly reasonable’ to suspend elections during war – like Britain did in WWII – but urges ‘everyone to work together for peace’
Starmer of course has suspended UK council elections this year because Farage is leading the polls.
That was done in agreement with the opposition who were in the government and the king. Churchill did not unilaterally stop elections.
Excellent!
New York Times: ‘NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears’ – Cuts ‘aimed at demolishing federal government programs that address climate change’ (19 Feb)
Doggies have been visiting NOAA so I suspect the NOAA critters won’t be able to hide climate rubbish from the cuts, since the doggies will have captured the database entries. And next will be zeroing out every single climate fraud grant and expenditure. At least I hope so.
And has been for quite a while.
@elonmusk
Reality is indistinguishable from parody
Therein lies the problem.
This is all under the guise of “cancer research”.
Most sensible people would imagine that “cancer research” would involve:-
1. Identifying underlying causal links of various cancers;
2. Recommending preventative measures related to those causes;
3. Testing and developing better and earlier detection techniques;
4. Postulating improved treatment regimes and testing / developing those treatments;
5. Measuring the performance of preventative measures and treatments;
6. Assessing the value of allied ancillary treatments like diet, exercise, etc
If you look at this another way, funds have been diverted from “white coat” research to “pussy hat” research.
If someone rolls up to their first round of chemo or radiation or immunotherapy or whatever and their biggest issue is whether there are enough gender boxes on the admission form, they are too stupid to survive.
How about visiting us?
EXC: VP Vance *WILL* Raise Free Speech Issues with UK Govt During Official Visit Next Week.
I would have thought that sucking up to the US president was a politically smart move, regardless of the nominal political differences.
However, the Eurotrash, Britain and New Holland are antagonistic.
We could start fixing things by sending Kev to a key post on Heard Island.
Perfect. He would be indistinguishable from the other lumps of blubber lying on the beach. Big momma could be the first female beachmaster.
If you look closely at the top right of the photo you will find a post for Kev.
Fence post?
Further to the bankruptcy of Nikola that Tommbell mentioned earlier:
Ford CEO Admits No One Wants EV Trucks & Vans: ‘For larger retail, electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable’ (19 Feb)
Seeing that Ford has been losing $5 billion per year on their quixotic EV escapade I think the economics are also unresolvable for any sort of EV. Except for prestige marques, but those are rich people’s toys.
…virtue-signalling shopping carts for the severely educated.
Meh. Next you will be telling me that electric aeroplanes are on hold.
The power grid has been tilted by windmills.
Don Quixote had the right idea. Charge at them with a lance.
Wesfarmers dividend declared at 95 cents per share.
This will be fun…
Secret logbooks to be busted open after chauffeur scandal (Tele, paywalled)
I’m surprised they voted for it unanimously as I suspect it will be a glorious Pandora’s Box full of salacious and tacky conduct.
I think all sides will be found wanting here…
Good.
(Apologies in advance if this is upsetting for some.)
More than 500 days after the Bibas family were captured and dragged back to Gaza as hostages to be held for ransom, the bodies of Shiri, Ariel, 4 and Kfir aged just 9-months, will be sent home.
After so much time, how is it that they have bodies to return? Have they been storing them somehow and moving them from place to place like the live hostages? Or were they murdered fairly recently?
I’m not sure which idea I find more sickening.
Helen, my heart tells me that they were gone within the first few months and their remains, being negotiable “currency” have been stored in an “innocent” hospital morgue.
Whichever way it was, this is another enormity to add to the psychopathic activities of Gazans.
Note I don’t use “Hamas” as a descriptor – the civilian population is well and truly behind these creeps.
A reliable poll taken in June last year indicated two out of three Gazans continued to support the 7th October attack.
What about the 3000 Gazans Albanese imported?
Did our security authorities ask them that question?
Did we have them wired up to a polygraph?
Of course not.
Better to have them wired to Snowy Hydro.
They will be the ones with the most romanticised and idealised (if such words can be used to describe thoughts born of such barbarous tradition) of the conflict.
A way to share in the glorious adventure while stuck with the fact that they don’t share the risk.
Robert Graves in his autobiography wrote of how, during some convalescent leave back in England during WW1, how shocked he was by the tenor of the press and passion of ordinary people. How a report he heard in France that the Germans had compelled the priests in a Belgian town to ring the bells when they took it became, in England, a story of how the Germans had strung the priests upside down inside the bell and rung them with the priests as living clappers.
He wrote of how the minister at his parents’ church was frothing about the inhuman savagery of the Germans and the righteous justice they British were bound by the dictates of God Almighty to deliver upon them.
He marvelled that no British Tommy in the trenches would have recognised the war as it was conceived in Britain.
2/3 means 2000 of the 3000
Children’s remains as negotiable currency.
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower…
Trump has really dumped on Zelensky. I don’t recall Zelensky in 2008 inviting Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, nor Zelensky in 2013/14 inciting a coup of Yanukovych, and so on.
I’d suggest Trump really wants to rehabilitate Russia and detach it from China.
Ukraine is a pawn in that game.
One can see the rationale but it’s a risky move.
More accurate to say Trump is attempting to rehabilitating the US’s previous policy. As to whether it can ‘detach’ Russia from China, I think not. The best it can hope for is for Russia to act as a mediator between it and China. Why would Russia turn on China given the service the latter has rendered to it? Especially given the possibility of this new policy being reversed. Also, China is a great power on it border; no upside in antagonising that great power for a more distant great power especially when the former one is ascendant.
China is next on Trump’s agenda once Europe is more or less sorted.
He’ll make Putin aware of that.
It’s the reverse Kissinger.
Pretty clear that’s been the America first strategy for a while.
But it’s hard to see China letting that sweet sweet Russian energy slip through its fingers without a fight.
Time will tell.
It’s to the benefit of neither China or Russia so it won’t likely happen.
You’re too kind. Here’s the tweet
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1892242622623699357#m
I don’t see any nicer interpretation; Orange Man is trying to gaslight people into thinking Zelenskyy started the war.
Zelensky’s handlers started the war, they just happen to share the same nationality as Trump.
I think you have to differentiate between the US Deep State / Obama’s Amerika and Trump’s America. Zelensky has been the puppet of the former so there is no hypocrisy in Trump dumping on Zelensky in parallel with draining the swamp / globalists.
Put it out of its misery.
’Woke’: Iconic BBC series Doctor Who facing the axe (20 Feb)
Turning the Doctor into a gay black man, who at one stage had a tranny offsider, is pretty much the reason why Dr Who has died. GWGB.
I’m a a Scot. He is not a Scot. And I don’t care what people think of that.
Just as those two moozley psychopaths employed* by Bankistan Hospital are not Australians.
*Still haven’t been jobsacked.
I’d go far as to say there’s possibly a majority of people here who are not Australians.
You see Australia in times like ANZAC day dawn services. That Australia is usually buried otherwise.
One hesitates to think what they would do the Daleks. I hope Bluey will be OK.
Bring back Tom Baker and his gorgeous Assistant. I do believe that he married her. Nice. And the Daleks, bring them back.
We could demand a happy ending where the daleks destroy the wokists and weirdos.
I haven’t watched Doctor Who since Christopher Eccleston quit.
He was my favourite.
I liked the original old guy (William Hartnell) and had a hard time accepting all the follow-ons. Some were ok. Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee.
Not all the early scripts were good. The writers had a tendency to dress up alien cultures as if they were Romans in the time of Christ.
One of the very best (in my faulty memory) was entirely shot in a bare studio.
Hartnell’s Doctor was the first to know where the Dalek off switch was. He had authority.
No wonder this place is going down the tube. I’ve been pricing a component CNC machined for my little venture. $120au, in NZ $90nz, Vietnam $48au. Including material. To do bulk supply, pressure cast is less than $10au in Vietnam. The raw material in NZ is 20% cheaper for the same thing as in Australia.
Good.
Trump administration cuts all funding for Palestinian security forces – report (19 Feb)
Give them nothing. They are still doing pay-for-slay payments to terrorists.
Gupta had a rocket rise till 2010 on his own back. Seems brilliant from what you are allowed to see online.
However from then he started buying up steelworks in administration in the UK, I can’t find anything about what subsidies or tax breaks are paid to keep these steel mills open but looking at 2 of them I can’t see them being viable without.
He’s got into “green” industries in a big way. One could take the view he is into subsidy farming now.
Apparently he’s structured the Whyalla business so that GFG not liable for any losses and one of his other companies is a major secured creditor!
Seems he owes money to the failed Greensill Capital and currently being prosecuted for not registering UK companies.
Wonder what else he has been involved in?
Otherwise known as the way Gupta does all his deals around the world.
And all legal, I’m sure.
But he’s now basically a parasite feeding off the system rather than a creator of wealth.
You know who Gupta is never in arrears to?
His lawyers.
Joe Aston has been all over Gupta since he started filleting Australians.
When Gupta & Greensill started to have adult relations, Aston was giddy as a school girl.
In fact, Joe Aston’s first column in his new newsletter “The Rampant” is on Gupta.
Released today.
I get the notifications but do not subscribe.
I might have to juggle all my sub stacks and other subscriptions to see if Mr Aston makes the cut.
I have it on reliable authority that Gupta is a regular at the Hay truck stop.
He is no longer welcome there.
No misinformation there. Direct mail from a member of the No Trouser Club.
Everyone thinks his new mine is for raw materials. It’s actually a major disposal hole for human waste.
But, luckily, the rescue is in the hands of Top Men, reimagining Australian steel:
I expect that Pig Iron Luigi will be explaining where the steel scrap and reduced iron feed for the new EAF will come from.
And what will happen to Tahmoor and the Middleback iron ore projects that currently feed the old and decrepit blast furnace.
$500m for the new furnace and $2bn for the total rescue package.
I have a lot of sympathy for the 22 000 residents of Whyalla, who are at the end of the day victims of government policy. But by my rough calculations that’s almost $100k per person, per vote, with no guarantee that we won’t be revisiting the issue at some point down the track.
Tell me the last time a furnace of any kind was installed on time and on budget.
This will be Snowy 2.0, 2.0.
Under a rescue proposal brokered by Industry Minister Ed Husic and to be announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday, the state and federal governments will help fund an upgrade, by replacing the old and decrepit coal-fired blast furnace with an electric arc furnace, if a new owner is found for the Whyalla steelworks.
Ah, yes.
The key word … “if”.
A cynic might suggest that the search for a buyer will have one of three outcomes:-
1. Gupta 2.0 steps forward and signs up to another Treasury emptying deal (which, of course, will be “Commercial-in-Confidence”);
2. The Liars win the election and, on the following Wednesday announce that unfortunately a buyer couldn’t be found;
3. The LNP win the election and are then berated for not keeping Luigi’s promise.
Plenty of Iron Ore at Iron Knob in SA. And of course, Ruin A Ball energy is the cheapest on the Planet.
What could possibly go wrong? /sarc.
What’s wrong with a new coal-fired blast furnace?
Liar maaate and Brittany confidante Leon Zwier makes a cameo. Small world.
Amazing Leon managed to free himself up from Britnah and Andrews…
Full interview with Bob Amsterdam at the link, with time stamps.
@TuckerCarlson
Donald Trump just called Zelensky a dictator. Human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam has worked in Ukraine for the past couple of years and confirms that if anything, that’s an understatement.
Nice painting.
Look at these skanks:
Australian women who lived under Islamic State speak from Syria for first time since the fall of the Assad regime
The comments are against the bitches who won’t answer any questions about why they were fuking ISIS mongrel dogs and slewing out their sprogs.
Another local council woke rooting™ the punters gets some feedback:
Melbourne councillors are escorted out of meeting by police after resident backlash | Daily Mail Online
And Trump opens another front against the msm, the enemy of the West:
Associated Press vs. Trump in ultimate showdown for media supremacy – Washington Times
Emma Garlett: Pick your racial stereotype: dole bludger or money grabber?Emma GarlettThe West Australian
Wed, 19 February 2025 2:00AM
Lazy, dole bludgers, drug addicts, criminals.
These are just some of the negative stereotypes First Nations peoples face, online and in everyday life. And I am sick and tired of it.
And then when First Nations people succeed in their careers, negative comments and statements are made to drag them down or attribute their success to “hand-outs”, when in fact it is not the case.
It is damaging, is wrong and causes division between people based on race. It has horrible behavioural and flow-on effects, causing Aboriginal people to be profiled in shopping centres, and unconscious bias against Aboriginal people, hindering reconciliation efforts and the ability of Aboriginal people to make a living.
The danger of these negative stereotypes lies in their potential to become accepted and normalised.
When you constantly hear negative comments about a person or group, eventually you start to believe it.
That goes for the subject of the stereotype as well. If you grow up constantly hearing that you’re less worthy or somehow defective, eventually you internalise it. It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The only way we can change this is to call it out and demand change. Challenge these lazy, racist stereotypes when you encounter them. We can’t watch this behaviour pass us by and stay silent.
When people do succeed, we need to uplift them, not drag them down or find ways to exclude them or minimise their accomplishments.
The “West” doesn’t allow comment on Emma Garlett’s columns any more.
This is a problem with DEI isn’t it?
Nobody knows who got a hand up and who made it on their own merit (and good on them!)
Exactly. The number of Adjunct Professors wandering around with a PhD in hunting and gathering doesn’t help.
For a damn good reason!
Emma, if that’s what you’re hearing from your social grouping, then perhaps you should just change them to ordinary Australians who aren’t like that?
Sounds like you’re in with a bad mob.
And when people don’t succeed, we must be able to point out cultural failings without being labelled “racist”.
Some glorious snark:
Meghan Markle Rebrands Herself. Again. And It’s Already Not Going Well. (18 Feb)
Maybe they should hook up with raygun Rachael Gunn since they are also trying to monetize notoriety. On the other hand Raygun hasn’t tried to sell branded strawberry jam yet.
A Raygun range of green and gold “leisurewear”?
I would buy that.
Oh dear.
Chris Smith had Candice owens on and discussed her being banned with her case going to the HC. Owens is a rabid antisemite and spews absolute garbage about Netty; such as he knew the Oct 7 attack was coming and let it happen because it would enable him to enact his plan to get rid of all the pallies. Apart from that I’ve never heard the slattenly bitch – she believes in God and is a good Christian she says – say a bad word about the hamas monsters who were out and open about wanting their own people killed for propaganda reasons.
In other news rub and tug is going green steel through green hydrogen. I told Smith that green hydrogen has a negative EROEI because water, H2O, the source of green H has a higher polarity than methane, CH4, the current economic source of non-green H, and therefore the energy required to release the H from H2O is GREATER than the energy return when the green H is burnt as fuel. Smith was amazed. Personally I think we should burn greenies as an energy source, but I didn’t say that to Smith.
Well, ya bloody well should have.
It looks very reasonable compared to Snowy 2.0.
Yes, the Greens are Deadwood and should burn quite nicely in a Blast Furnace. Carbon for the steel as well. No need for the fantasy of Green Hydrogen. Just have burnt Greens.
I find it incredible that people struggle to realise it takes more energy to create hydrogen than it generates when used. They then get around this problem by saying
“but it can be done whenever there is excess renewable power”
blissfully ignorant about how destructive that idea is to ROI. A great big black hole. Sorry, slimy green hole.
and that is long before you get to the economics of transportation.
I love that this is posted by a person called ‘Entropy’.
He knows exactly what he is talking about. Reversing entropy consumes more energy than it releases afterward.
Fauci is out and about right now telling people to get the flu vaccine.
@TaraBull808
BREAKING: Yale scientists link Covid vaccines to alarming new syndrome, causing ‘distinct biological changes’ to body.
FAUCI FOR PRISON
DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group
No matter how many times the boil is lanced, there’s always more pus.
This is part of the $US20bill Biden shoved out the door as part on an EPA deal.
Luckily Zeldin is all over the scam.
If this 20bill wasn’t called back, it would have funded the DNC for many many election cycles.
“Unresolvable”.
That is quite a definitive term.
It makes one wonder how much cash could have been saved if this chap had bothered to assemble a bunch of ginger-beers and ask them up front if there was a “resolution” to this problem. And, when the Climate Grifters in the room start (ahem) “sneering and scoffing”, with accusations of negativity and that mortal sin in the Corporate World … “not thinking outside the box”, he might turn to them and say, “OK, put together a paper outlining the economics of three EVs. A long range B-Double, a medium sized refrigerated delivery truck, and a port to warehouse container transport. By Friday. Show your workings and state all your assumptions.”
But, but … I’m an Arts/History Major.
Except Farley is a marketing guy. He would have been the one accusing others of not thinking outside the box.
Farley was caught in the same trap as Morrison with net zero – knew, or strongly suspected it is bullshit, but the biggest players could make things Very Difficult if he did not “ Go along to get along”.
NewsAustraliaFederal PoliticsTAS News
Greens pitch $7.2bn boost to JobSeeker, Youth Allowance
Joseph Olbrycht-PalmerNewsWire
Thu, 20 February 2025 6:02AM
The Greens are pitching a $7.2bn plan to massively expand and boost JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance.
The plan, set to be formally unveiled on Thursday, would widen the eligibility criteria, opening up the social security payments to an estimated 200,000 more young Australians.
It would drop the JobSeeker eligibility age from 22 to 18 and abolish the parental income test for Youth Allowance recipients living away from home.
Greens social services spokeswoman Senator Penny Allman-Payne said young Australians were being set up to fail.
“Many people act like the soaring cost of living is an aberration, but for millions of young Australians financial stress has been a fact of life for years,” she said in a statement.
“We increasingly expect young people to undertake tertiary studies, but then we set them up to fail by putting roadblocks in their way: low-paying jobs, low-quality housing and rising rents, and unpaid placements.”
Some of us funded tertiary studies by a part time job?
I literally worked in the mines or the Army in my uni “holidays”.
Heartily recommend it for any aspiring uni students, it learns you more that lectures do.
I did waitressing work during term time weekends and often took on full-time temporary secretarial work during the vacation periods, especially when I had my first two babies who were minded by my mother-in-law. My ex was too head-in-the-clouds to think of simple matters like how to supplement our p/grad stipends. These p/t jobs were a humbling come-down from being a full-time copywriter in an ad agency, which I was before doing the day matric and uni, but I enjoyed the friendships made and the lack of job pressure.
I also did some freelance copywriting here and there.
(They didn’t much go for my anti-Vietnam war badges though in corporate land in the 60’s although they still liked and paid for my copy and ideas. How times change. Woke permeates corporates now and i wouldn’t be seen dead wearing leftist political badges now.)
How about having the Age Pension being the same as the minimum wage. Anyone listening? Laybore, LNP, Greens, Teals, anyone?
$24.10. Per fortnight. I’m all for that!
Per hour please.
So where are those jobs going to come from for all these young jobseekers. Businesses are going bust at a rate of knots especially in the hospitality and other small business areas. It’s the electricity and wages costs plus household disposable income is down meaning less to spend that on goods and services. Labor and the Greens have really stuffed up big time.
”Sex work is real work”.
I worked full-time and studied part-time.
Wow! – err- so sorry, apologies, thought that was in reply to Arky.
Just some of the many wondrous joys of socialism for da yoof.
Sounds like ever student ever. Housing is too expensive to even enjoy the joys of a share house.
More work around now than ever. We would look at a little notice board trying to scrounge anything.
I remember those boards. Easier for women back in the day – we could always get jobs typing and filing, or waitressing, or cleaning and child-care.
My 21 year old uni student grandson is in a shared house in Newtown (of course). His rent is proportionately more of his income than mine was in a student house in Glebe nearly sixty years ago. He also humps heavy boxes as a part-time warehouse laborers. He proudly shows me his biceps muscles.
Cheap gym, I say. Keep at it.
Another hyphenated Green whose only solution to a problem is more government intervention and more OPM being thrown at it, which guarantees more financial stress (i.e. lower living standards) for everyone.
The hyphen crew certainly doesn’t help the message.
Prosperity is the aberration. The default of nature is privation. That is the natural law. Any assay of history or geography shows that. From wretched African tribes scratching an existence from the dirt to the most pervasively governed of societies with access to industry.
There are an infinite number of ways to get it wrong, but to date only one to get it right.
But Greens act like prosperity is the default, and no matter how they tinker with it wealth will just flood in and fill the gaps.
Has there ever been a more intensely ignorant specimen than a greenie?
Is that a rhetorical question, or can I add The Arab?
I do not trust the techbros, incl. Musk, not for a second, and Palantir and Karp, even less.
Dude, it’s still up over 50x since there was oodles of stock washing around pre-listing.
Musk is like the curate’s egg…parts of him are excellent.
One must always be wary of anyone with a god complex.
However, I am a lot more comfortable with the Peter Thiel ecosystem than ones that are balls deep in the Gates/Hoffman ecosystem.
Dear Prime Minister. Does the Whyalla Steel Woks make money? If not, I don’t want my taxes being pissed up against the wall. Thanking you in anticipation.
Steel Works I mean. And with more borrowed money.
Did you also mean “steal works”
Steel wok?
Is that like the CCP “ iron rice bowl”, the nationalised industry job for life regardless of productivity?
Good analogy for the Glorious 20th February Workers Steel Works at Bowengrad.
I’ve just found Victor Davis Hanson on the Daily Signal.
Here’s six minutes of clear, no waffle, straight to the point talk on what he calls Trump’s Counter Revolution.
Maybe Count Dankula has hacked his page.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/vni-transmission-licence-angers-farmers/104955494
There is no point in adhering to the Paris Agreement since the USA has pulled out of it and major counties such as China and India continue to build coal powered power stations apace. All this destruction of agricultural land and native bushland, flora and fauna is senseless. Australia is damaging itself, imposing higher power costs and and driving industries bust. Shear lunacy except if you are a renewables company or investor gaining from subsidies and gouging the system. Or China of course, that is making hay out of supplying the infrastructure.
So you have a mad internet rando abusing/ threatening you online.
Do you
a: Block?
B; Engage in a lengthy back and forth and claim its traumatised you enough to flee the country?
The bloke doing this is a deadset nut, but this is just weird behavior from the “victims”…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/19/david-william-wonnocott-death-threats-against-brittany-higgins-prison-sentence-ntwnfb
Man who made death threats against Brittany Higgins sentenced to at least 16 months in prison
Higgins and partner David Sharaz were ‘terrified to leave the house alone’ because of online threats and abuse from David William Wonnocott
In a lengthy back and forth with Sharaz over Instagram, Wonnocott threatened to kill him and Higgins and chop their dog into “little pieces”.
Had they been Jewish he wouldn’t have been charged.
Why doesn’t Whyalla save everyone a lot of money and get on the blower to Bruce Pascoe?
Shirley there would be some indigenous tech kicking around that would make modern furnaces look positively ancient.
There was, but evil whitey has destroyed it, and suppressed all knowledge.
Pascoe still has the blue prints.
Hard to fault the argument here:
Dover goes full Trump derangement as predicted.
The pro-Euro pike and twist is just a bonus.
Is anyone working on a TDS vaccine? Or something to ease the symptoms.
May contain traces of programmatic specificity.
US soldiers who spilt blood in defence of a free Europe – twice – might beg to differ.
Of course, it is no surprise that the cosy diplomatic club sees the Under New Management sign in DC as a threat.
The US weren’t doing the Europeans a favour. They did considerably well out of both WW1 and WW2 and shaped world affairs to their own benefit.
What do you think thay should thay have done? Dover.
And if the US hadn’t done “considerably well” out of the two world wars, would Europe have been better off?
Oh, my aching sides. The Brussels crowd organising defence and fellating Russia and China.
These are the people that cry when lectured by Vance.
Look on the brightside, the commies might help with the Islamic hordes in Eurostan.
Unless the commies are asleep at the wheel, they will facilitate the inflow of hordes of all sorts into Europe – especially Islamic and Lo/No skilled ones – to keep the pressure firmly on decaying the ‘West’ and western values.
Wow, Burgess does a whole presser and manages to avoid using the “M” word:
ASIO threat assessment: Mike Burgess issues dire warning to Australia
ASIO boss Mike Burgess has revealed that five major terror plots were foiled over the past year, as he issued a grim warning that Australia has never confronted so many serious national security threats at once.
5 major plots ?
Sure.
Spelt sure wrong. Sssuurreee. I fixes it for you.
Major bases are in Halls Gap and Horsham, storm troops dug in at Beaufort and in the Great Western cellars – oh, and the command bunker in Spring St.
I don’t take Burgess seriously anymore.
Surprised he didn’t throw garage nastis in.
He would if he could find them.
He is talking State sponsors which means he can skate around the perpetual irritant.
Which he always does anyway.
My memory may be faulty, but I don’t remember Dennis Richardson giving regular press conferences.
I guess times have changed, but it is necessary in regard to terror plots that have been foiled for any reason…other than to boost ASIO’s budget?
Any criminal charges resulting these plots will be reported in any case.
I believe “on message” is the expression.
Hairy Festeringpenis’ awyer on suicide watch again…
Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
Germany was never deNazified. The CIA saw to that. Long after their deaths the Dulles brothers’ poison continues its work.
Australian must stop trying to emulate Germany.
Early links between Zionists and Nazis are well documented. It should surprise us not they are a united front, but it is terrifying.
She makes my flesh crawl. She is off the planet with her Jew hatred.
What the hell!!
Man charged over arson attack on former home of Jewish leader Alex RyvchinStephen Rice
4 hours ago.
Updated 32 minutes ago
Police have charged a 37-year-old man with the arson attack that destroyed two cars last month outside the former home of prominent Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin in Dover Heights, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
On Wednesday detectives from Strike Force Pearl arrested Leon Sofilas, who was already in a correctional facility after being charged with the attempted arson of a Newtown synagogue on 11 January.
Mr Sofilas has now been charged over the 17 January Dover Heights attack with being an accessory before the fact to damaging property by means of fire or explosion.
Cars were graffitied with anti-Semitic slurs, two vehicles were set alight, and Mr Ryvchin’s former family house was doused with red paint.
Apologies as I hate to “entertain” the thought, but are DUMBASS going to hand over the bodies today in a ceremony?
This isnt aging well.
Peter FitzSimons
@Peter_Fitz
Oh, the irony.
Tony Abbott, 2011: “Whyalla will be wiped off the map by Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, Whyalla risks becoming a ghost town, an economic wasteland if this carbon tax goes ahead.”
2018, Whyalla prospering as never before, including steel mills, on RENEWABLES.
On Life Support.
Leaving aside the idiocy of equating a carbon tax with an energy source of course. Which turned out too expensive, just not quite as bad as a carbon tax would have been.
Meanwhile in the Territory:
A teenage boy charged over a horrific attack in Alice Springs which ended with a baby’s skull being fractured is on the run, one day after he was granted bail to attend a funeral.
The 16-year-old had been flown to Lajamanu in the Top End to attend his grandfather’s funeral before he breached his bail on Wednesday, police say.
He remains on the run as at Thursday.
The flight to get him to the funeral along with the two ‘Handlers’ cost around 7,000 South Pacific pesos.
They let him go back to a house to collect some personal items. And where were the ‘Handlers’ at the time? Were they with him at all times?
Having a coffee and a smoke while he was legging it I guess.
Who paid for the flight?
The long suffering Taxpayer.
Who has paid for every single thing used by this piece of crap for 16 years and will continue to do so on into the distant future.
It’s not TDS to recognize the position the Europeans are in and how they may extricate themselves from it. I don’t blame Trump for seeking a way out, nor would I blame the Europeans for seeking this way out. Sometimes it’s just the way it is.
As I said last year. You’d be forced to choose between Trump and Russia.
TDS was the inevitable result.
Lol. It’s still early days yet but at the minute Putin has the whip hand and Trump recognizes this which is why he’s indicating to the Ukrainians and the Europeans that the situation is grim and he’s going to Iook after his own house.
The first part of recovery is admitting you have a problem.
That problem is the unelected shitbags in Brussels.
What if the US leaves NATO and forms a pact with Russia and China? Where does that leave Europe?
You are not going to see a alliance or pact between those three. What you may see in time is an agreement regarding their respective spheres of influence which will at some point also involve Europe.
The Australian Population Research Institute, 19 February 2025:
Full report here.
As I’ve stated many times since late 2023, this is why Labor’s pandering to Muslim exceptionalism (and indigenous exceptionalism for that matter) is a drag on their electoral prospects “going forward”, particularly in their so-called “heartlands.”
The rest of the electorate – anglo or ethnic – rejects division and wants everyone to just get along.
(Just don’t tell Labor’s strategists, OK?)
“Orthodoxy of austerity”. What bullshit is this? Common sense when you are deeply in debt and living beyond your income is to stop spending. Nothing “orthodox” or “neoliberal” about that. It’s what normal people do.
of course, people also don’t like it when mum and dad stop the remittance, and put the lid on the cookie jar.
and then the article jumps to immigration and somehow drawing a long bow to something called “neoliberal”. People keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Plenty of tells there. Could have come straight from The Ponds Institute.
‘Neoliberal’ has replaced ‘economic rationalist’ as the boo word for the woke left on economics. As one of my poltical heroes, Peter Walsh, used to say: ‘What do they want? Economic irrationalsim?’
Yishai Fleisher is getting pissed off with Netanyahu (and he makes some good points):
Is Netanyahu Finished?
No.
If I have to watch that ad where the bird replaces her husband for Jason Donovan because he “took too long to find insurance” again, I’m going to go on a spree.
The worst side effect of woke has been to replace humour with awkward, creepy weirdness that makes no sense.
Before woke, humour could be whimsical.
Humour could be satirical.
Humour could be blue.
Humour could be profane.
Humour could be surreal or even nonsense.
Humour might even involve a non sequitur.
But humour wasn’t this thing they’re doing now, which doesn’t even have a description that I can think of. It’s deliberately unfunny humour. Things structured like a joke, but there’s nothing there.
Has anyone encountered a woke drone of late who wasn’t excruciatingly unfunny*?
Trigger warning: Excruciatingly unfunny woke drone
*Unless unintentionally/accidentally or coincidentally.
I think it’s an indication of dropping IQs.
Ethnic jokes, anyone…?
The one about the Irishman who could never understand why his Sister had three Brothers but he only had two.
The one about the Irishman who murdered both his parents, then asked the Court for mercy, because he was an orphan?
More than half the ads my wife looks at me and asks, what was that about.
This video sketch sums it up.
All hail Hale and Pace
Another ad which is off the rails is the new Trivago ad.
Instead of the gorgeous Trivago girl, we now see two blokes competing to see who can be the biggest tosser in 30 seconds.
One is a snivelling beta male, the other is a supercilious wanker.
No Trivago for this viewer.
Two Irish junkies are sitting in the gutter. One is shooting up, but the other realises that he has lost his syringe. His mate says ‘don’t worry, use mine’. ‘But I might get AIDS!’ ‘Ah to be sure, it’s alright: I’m wearin’ a condom.’
How do you know when an Irishman has been using a word processor? Tippex in the screen.
Before the Huperoffspring Rights Commission comes after me, my ancestry is at least half Irish, so I can’t be a racist against myself!
Decent rack on the insurance girl though. So there is that.
So benevolent of them – the Fair Work Kommissariat has suspended all “Protected Industrial Action” by rail unions on the Sydneystan train network until 1 July 2025.
Why do I have a feeling this won’t prevent ongoing “go slows” and “work to rule” actions by these evil ungrateful parasitic and already massively overpaid union deadshits?
They have been doing this for years, it’s simply become more blatant and obnoxious since the advent of the minnimax goat rodeo.
BTW, taxpayers – no prizes for guessing which party folds first.
Given that the Fair Work Com is a union run outfit, my view is that they all go their hesads together to bring industrial action to a halt just before a Federal election is called. How lucky is Albo??
That excruciating talentless hasbeen is now blighting another infuriating ad – WTF?
The one with the chinese bimbo and the typically gormless noodle armed soyboy pondering a switch to shloptus mobile wasn’t creepy, idiotic and unfunny enough?
Trump in full blown real estate mogul mode on Ukraine.
He’s got to make a deal. He promised everyone a deal, and a deal he must deliver.
Problem is, neither side is there yet.
He is schmoozing Putin, (the buyer). and managing the expectations of Zelensky (the seller).
He just pulled that real estate move that agents do where they go to the seller, rubbing their chin and looking concerned “The market is telling us it just isn’t worth what you’re asking”.
But, in this analogy, Trump as the mogul has inherited a development in which his company (the US) has invested billions itself and is now preparing to abandon its partners because the investment was always a dud.
The sunk cost fallacy.
No. The company has a new owner. Biden and co invested billions.
It’s the same company. It was the company’s investment. There is no way to sugar coat this just because Trump is at the helm. If he won he was always going to have to carry the can for what followed.
I don’t think Trump will be so worried if a deal isn’t reached. He really, really wants it now, however he has a good backstop.
He’ll take the W if it occurs, but if it doesn’t he will now be in a position to make the Europeans take on the burden, and just sit back while Russia bleeds and the Europeans come to reality over the green shit vs their security ambitions.
Trump can’t lose either way. It’s all upside.
On one hand a diplomatic coup + securing resources from the Ukraine and concessions from Putin, on the other the USA has disentangled itself from a bleeding mess and will rise comparatively to everyone else, and pivots to Asia.
Im sort of the opinion that Trumps tactic is to take things which “cant change” for various reasons, and just upend the status quo which then forces others to engage.
The Palestinian “we will take it over” morphed rapidly into talks about finding their own solution from various interested parties, instead of settling back into the status quo.
I think the Ukraine is another example, the EU was happy to use Ukie lives to bleed the bear while they pretend everything is peachy with their own populaces. Trumps disruption has them suddenly scrambling – AFTER 2 + years of what they were pretending was a huge crisis – to raise their defense budgets to a level close to their NATO commitments.
Either trump is lucky in having some of the dumbest opponents or hes a frikkin genius.
At the moment it looks like it could be either.
This is just more of the insane cope I’ve heard for three years. There is no diplomatic coup if Trump gets a peace right now at the expense of NATO/ completely shot relations with Europe/ etc. I’m sure they will try and present it as a ‘win’ but it will simply be the best they could manage in the circumstances, and there will be no securing of resources, most of which is in the east and likely exaggerated in size. And what concessions from Putin? Can you specify any right now?
TDS.
Not sure how the above counts as TDS.
I don’t think Trump especially wants a deal, but what he does want is to get Europe off of the US teat. Ukraine is one avenue to do that. And it seems to be working:
Trump Effect: Denmark Announces ‘Massive’ Rearmament (19 Feb)
The Greenland thing probably has helped Denmark to get their head in gear, but in the end the Ukraine War is Europe’s business and not America’s. So they have to decide what they’re going to do about it, and Trump is forcing them make that decision.
No, this was America’s War all along. No one in Europe wanted Ukraine in NATO in 2008, least of all the French or Germans, but they caved under US pressure. And at every turn its been the US that has moved this conflict to its current end.
But what you neglect to mention is that their attitudes shifted after 2014 when your guy, Pukin, annexed Crimea. You forget this, weren’t aware of it, or just omitted it for obvious reasons?
No, I didn’t neglect to mention Crimea. That was an inevitable outcome of the game played by the US from 2008 onwards.
LOl. Yeah.
Something happened just before Crimea involving Nuland, et al.
And those and those German and French dummies fell for it. No doubt.
The French and the Germans just fell in line with the US.
Mosab, “Son of Hamas” calls on Israel to pivot, now.
“The Game-Changing Move to Defeat Hamas” – Mosab Yousef
Asks Israel to start executing Hamas leaders held in jails. Calls for “no exceptions” until hostages and bodies are released, “including my father.”
Israel to ask Qatar to kick Hamas leaders out; or special forces are coming in.
Go back into Gaza and finish off the job.
One imagines that even the Hamas neanderthals understand that the moment that the last hostage is released or proven dead they are for the chop. Even hiding in Turkey.
If history is witness, the clandestine pursuit of these pigs and their enablers will be relentless.
Mossad needs to open a ‘go fund me’ page.
We remember Munich, but most are unaware of the follow up!
I have one word for these evil doers.
Eichmann.
But don’t expect a trial.
This is getting better every day. Interpretive dance to protest Trump. Please keep it up.
Not a cult. Definitely not a cult…
Perfect! Mental illness (or, alternatively, chronic constipation) on full display.
These women really need something useful to do.
Hilarious.
How funny would it be if everyone in the line ran and hid and left the one at the front walking along doing the Ministry of Silly Walks routine.
Shades of the old Fast Forward show.
Still, it’s better than burning the place down, as happened continually during Trump’s last term.
FMD.
If you want to give your car the off road experience without actually going off road, try the Murray Valley Highway from Cohuna to Echuca. Absolutely horrendous.
On the way back to Queensland we avoided the GV & MV Hwy’s north of Shepparton to Tocumwal for that reason.
Road through Katamatite wasn’t awesome but much better in comparison.
Lismore roads are still stuffed after the big flood. The council tips a wheelbarrow’s worth of fine bitumen in one of the many pothole along a certain country road I frequent, only for it to be back a couple of days later, with added gravel. Very hard to navigate in a GT mustang I get the use of.
At least Rio have paid out a decent final dividend. Can’t see the Woodshed one being particularly flash, though.
WA farmers unveil a new strategy to save the live sheep industry.
The Labor Party is worried that too many of their supporters will be shipped overseas.
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Steel wool?
Vote in stupid governments, get stupid prizes.
Lotsa Victorian people’s houses now worth nothing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14414773/victoria-government-climate-change.html
So, no land tax???
This one’s for West Australian Cats.
It’s disastrous’: 100% public housing block wreaking havoc in Inglewood
A public housing block of 24 apartments in Inglewood has come under the spotlight after neighbouring businesses began complaining about the anti-social behaviour in the area, including violence, drugs, and people having sex on balconies in the middle of the day in full view of nearby restaurant patrons.
Business owner Maria was among a group of residents who raised the issue at a recent City of Stirling council meeting.
“We’re terrified, and have been terrorised by the public housing residents and their visitors for the past several months, and we need your help,” she said.
“I believe this whole situation would have been avoided by making the complex of mixed tenure, which is a combination of private, affordable and social housing. It’s 100 per cent state housing and the disastrous effects on the community are glaringly obvious.”
Inglewood has never really got my juices flowing like that. There was an excellent Italian place out along Beaufort St years ago.
Salubrious
[Come on, its not hard to hide a link]
Do I need to? Or does it just look prettier?
Liebore shoring up its vote:
Indexation boost coming for millions of Aussies receiving Centrelink payments | The Nightly
Happens automatically every six (?) months. Roughly 70% of government spending is baked in I believe.
There goes all those Cooking Shows then. Mind yer’ fingers Jamie.
Albo’s mob fast-tracking citizenship ahead of election!
Sign of desperation?
3000 palli votes! Unless this mob get them:
Muslim Votes Matter
Very good insight into the muzzie mind(sic)set:
Imtiaz Mahmood: “Let me tell you why a Muslim would drive his car into a crowd of innocent people. I was raised Muslim, and I know exactly why this happens. It’s not poverty. It’s not oppression. It’s not even radicalization. It’s the logical outcome of Islamic doctrine itself.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Muslim or not; we, as human beings, carry guilt deep inside us. We know we are not good enough and spend our lives trying to redeem ourselves through good deeds, thinking it will make the guilt disappear.
Christianity, for example, offers a way out of guilt, a solution not based on your works but on Christ’s. Salvation isn’t earned; it’s given. You accept that you can’t redeem yourself because Christ did everything on your behalf. That means you’re free. Free to live, free to build, free to serve, free to love.
When Christians feel lost, broken, and needing forgiveness, they can go to church, talk to a pastor or priest, and leave knowing they have been forgiven.
Islam, on the other hand, doesn’t offer redemption; it weaponizes guilt. Instead of providing salvation, Allah exposes you, holds your sins over your head, and threatens you with hellfire and torture in the grave.
The Quran isn’t a book of peace; it’s a book of threats. It bullies Muslims into obedience through fear, humiliation, and punishment.
So, what happens when a Muslim seeks redemption? They try to be better Muslims. They pray, fast, give to charity, go on Hajj, and do everything Allah commands. But it never works. I know. I did it.
And no matter how much you pray, no matter how much you try, the guilt never goes away. Because deep down, every Muslim knows it’s not enough. Allah always demands more.
Allah loves those who die fighting against the infidels. That’s not an opinion, it’s in the Quran, Hadith, and every lesson taught to children.
This is why Muslims, even the so-called “moderates,” always hesitate to condemn terrorism. Because they know Allah requires jihad. They might not be willing to commit it themselves, but they cannot say it’s wrong.
So when a Muslim fails to reach peace through religious rituals, they have two choices:
Give up, stop being devout, and learn to live with the guilt, or commit to jihad because that’s the only way to be true to yourself.
The Quran spells it out clearly: “Kill those who do not worship Allah or obey the Prophet” (9:29).
So when a Muslim embraces this identity fully, killing infidels isn’t just justified; it’s joyful. It’s an act of:
Saving yourself
Obeying Allah
Securing your eternity
Finally escaping the crushing weight of guilt
This is why a Muslim can drive his car into a crowd of innocent people and feel nothing but satisfaction.
Because for the first time in his life, he finally believes he has done something worthy of redemption.”
– Dan Burmawi
@DanBurmawy
The Koran does say:
It provides justification for not “dobbing on” your brothers…
Just … wow!
Terrifying.
Good.
Labor’s Mark Dreyfus heckled while speaking on government’s work to tackle antisemitism | Sky News Australia
Albo: the former government told the car industry to “bugger off”.
Is that the way it was?
Nothing to do with Paul Keating’s “microeconomic reform” – and high wages aka featherbedding of unions?
Wadayumean high wages! A highly skilled cleaner was on $80k at GMH.
Also from Victoria:
City of Yarra installs Climate Change countdown clock in Edinburgh Gardens
The City of Yarra has spent $18,000 installing a Climate Change countdown clock predicting when the world will end in Edinburgh Gardens.
The world will end in 2030 according to a Doomsday Clock artwork now at the centre of Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy.
The art structure, solar-powered of course, is mounted on a plinth that once housed a statue of Queen Victoria. (The plinth had previously been the location for a 1.5m golden worm but that’s a whole other Yarra story.)
The project called Dead Zone was funded by $18,000 from the City of Yarra and created by Melbourne artist Yandell Watson.
The clock is counting down to 2030 because that’s when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that emissions need to be reduced enough to cap global warming at 1.5C.
Herald-Sun
?
Coincidentally 2030 is probably the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion…
Isn’t that also when the asteroid is supposed to hit us?
2032.
So we needn’t worry about the asteroid.
Chuckle.
So Whyalla, a town of 20,000 people is getting $2,400,000,000 for “green steel.”
That’s the equivalent of $120K for each person in the town.
Elections are costly. And South Australian marginals are especially costly.
Yes. We had to build six submarines there many years ago.
Offer them the cash and see what they say.
Just paint it green would be cheaper.
It would be interesting if the Hamas male prisoners were forced to have gender reassignment surgery.
I’d prefer they were just chucked on a big bonfire. Especially if the wind is blowing toward Gaza.
Following on from his video last week about the RN, more Admirals than ships, Mark Felton’s More horses than tanks
https://youtu.be/e4TmtkjcY9A?feature=shared
This isn’t new. As far back as the 1960s, David Divine wrote a couple of books on the subject.
Track down The Blunted Sword and The Broken Wing.
COVID vaccine injury study published on preprint server because the mainstream medical journals refused to publish it
About time.
BREAKING: Trump to Sign Executive Order to Ban ALL Federal Taxpayer Benefits to Illegal Aliens
Don’t hold back.
@krisiannc
Lindsey Graham is a thieving, lying, backstabbing, spineless, bootlicking, two-faced, warmongering, flip-flopping, whiny, groveling, sniveling, self-serving, double-talking, swamp-dwelling, attention-seeking, weak-kneed, gaslighting, backpedaling, insufferable, pandering, drama-stirring, faux-conservative, opportunistic, disingenuous, closet-dwelling, power-hungry, RINO clown.
A good summary.
They forgot arsehole.
Yes, but what does she really think of him?
I’m very sick of stories in the media patting themselves and their greenie friends about things like “releasing Quolls back into the wild”.
We should be allowed to keep Quolls, Bilbys and Phascogales (to name a few) as pets. That would guarantee their survival and multiplication, whereas releasing them back into “the wild” merely makes them food for foxes and feral cats.
Their actions prove that conservation isn’t the goal.
The Wild Rivers policy in Queensland in its original form was one of the greatest acts of environmental terrorism this country has ever seen.
Compare the highly sophisticated, tracked, scientific release of wolves back into Wyoming versus the retards in Colorado just dumping them back into the wild.
Hmmm quolls and phascogales would be terrible pets, because they’re nocturnal, arboreal and carnivorous.
Bilbies, yep. Quokkas, obviously.
What are they like on the barbie?
Dogs know where food comes from. Quokkas don’t.
@RandPaul
A few people may have noticed that I resisted an enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump during the election.
But now, I’m amazed by the Trump cabinet (many of whom I would have picked).
I love his message to the Ukrainian warmongers, and along with his DOGE initiative shows I was wrong to withhold my endorsement.
So today, admittedly a little tardy, I give Donald Trump my enthusiastic endorsement!
(Too little too late some will say, but, you know, it is sincere, there is that.)
Don’t expect this endorsement to be fawning.
I still think tariffs are a terrible idea, but Dios Mio, what courage, what tenacity.
Go @realDonaldTrump
Go!
Joining the train when it is powering ahead, after doing everything he could to stop it in its tracks.
Piss off.
Better late then never Jo.
Trump roadies are embarrassing.
Too many words.
The End.
LIVE: View from Gaza as bodies of four dead Israeli hostages are expected to be returned
And…typically, DUMBASS are “putting on a show”
Doesn’t the Israeli Air Force have napalm?
They do and I hope they use it after the last hostage is returned.
Bottom left of this video seems like they are signing up new recruits…
To look at it flippantly you could say there’s a big turnout at future Trump Towers site.
(Sod turning to be conducted by MOAB).
@CilComLFC
Slovakia PM Robert Fico goes NUCLEAR on Zelensky:
“I’m not here to walk hand in hand with President Zelensky. I’m fed up with him. He is constantly begging and extorting others for money. This has to STOP.”
Finally, a European leader with the courage to speak the truth!
I’m Zelensky
… with two ‘y’s
… now give me money or I’ll pout on the world stage
‘Political stunt’: Tony Burke slammed for pre-election western Sydney citizenship blitzHome Affairs Minister Tony Burke will churn through three days of citizenship ceremonies from Friday, giving thousands of new citizens the right to vote in crucial Western Sydney seats which could decide the outcome of the impending election.
Daily Tele. Whatever it takes, eh, Albo?
Is that where the 3000 Gazans went?
ChatGPT tells me this:
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Um could this be reported the AEC for anything?
The ALP is walking a very fine line here.
Don’t even bother with the National Anti-Conservative Commission.
Just realised something.
I don’t despise this government enough.
Must try harder.
I despise this Government in the same way I despised the Whitlam Government.
Shameless.
The myth of Western Sydney continues. Victoriastan, rural Queensland and WA just look on.
In related news, this would be a comical British court ruling if not so terrible:
The ‘human rights’ regime has flipped democracy on its head – spiked
British judges are insane
Not much better here.
Not insane.
Communists.
And you’re getting it whether you like it or not.
Best start digging up those arms caches buried in the forests for the Stay-Behind SAS lads and ladies during WW2.*
You’re gonna need ’em.
“you can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.”
*The explosives will be a bit dodgy, but.
I see the NT chief justice is having a sook about being forced to do their job.
We about to see the NT silks do what the Qld ones did to Newman? I do hope Finocchiaro is made of sterner stuff.
RD – up until some recent appointments – there were 17 listed judges, 16 active, 1 offline. Of the 16, 14 had been appointed by previous Labor administrations. The last CLP appointed judge was in 2013.
There’s an awful lot of indulged whining and left-of-centre-shinybum carry on in NT legal circles. Currently though a little reality has been injected into local affairs. And the public don’t mind one bit.
The replacement in Victoria for Anne Ferguson of Pell infamy is a former Andrews government solicitor-general who has appeared in environmental and huperoffspring rights cases. Quelle surprise.
Watching Kenny. Showing clip of Dreyfus being rightly heckled and abused, then treated to walkouts by people at the stupid Summit.
Minn-some with his hair carefully coiffed under his borrowed Kippah. What a lying turd. He must have had some advice that he should take some blame for his lack of action on 9th Oct. 23. Don’t believe him for a split second.
The Easybeats drummer Gordon ‘Snowy’ Fleet diesSimon CollinsThe Nightly
Thu, 20 February 2025 1:50PM
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Liverpool-born drummer Gordon “Snowy” Fleet, the man who put the beat in The Easybeats, has died in Perth on February 18 at age 79.
Fleet played on the Australian rock legends’ hits during their incredible run of success spanning 1964 to 67, including Sorry, She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring and the working-class anthem Friday On My Mind.
The affable musician even came up with the name, suggesting The Easybeats — a reference to fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles — was a better name than guitarist Harry Vanda’s The Starfighters.
Zulu,
my family lived at Villawood Migrant Hostel in the early sixties. My older brothers and sisters, and many others living there also, would watch the Easybeats practise in the hall that was there.
History being made. We didn’t know of course. 😀
Ha ha.
I watched a doco the other night on Colin Hay (Men at Work).
They went back to the old Town Hall Hotel in South Melbourne and were saying how tight it was with the crowd on top of the band.
He wasn’t kidding.
I went there one night way back when before they were famous and I swear to God the band was wedged in under a stairway.
It wasn’t the full line-up, possibly 3 or 4 from memory.
You’re old.
She sure is.
Dinosaurs roamed the earth, etc.
Haw! 😀
Sock it to ’em, Poges.
Age is simply a number.
I remember living in a migrant hostel near St. Mary’s in Sydney’s outer west in the late forties. By 1951 we were in a housing commission house with a tin bath and an outside dunny, still in St. Mary’s.
In my early teens, living in the boondocks of outer Mt. Druitt in 1956, and then in a garage with my sister from 1957, I remember great times going to dances at the Emu Plains Hall. Era of Bodgies and Widgies. We used to drive around in old cars – Morgans, Fords with Dicky Seats, Buicks, Studebakers – from the wrecking yard where my pregnent sister went to live with her part-aboriginal boyfriend and where i would also stay, in a derlict old place within the yard down by the station.
I went to school with Ron Strykert. His Dutch father used to sing “Goodnight Irene” in Commercial class to my cousin Irene, she hated it. There was a younger sister who was very beautiful. I hope he got good royalties.
Saw David Bowie in Melbourne in 1980 IIRR. Also The Ferrets, who were a one-hit wonder.
As a kid I remember playing with a mate at the local “rec” (park). We met three “new kids” there who it turned out were just visiting rellies. The oldest one had a watch and suddenly said (words to the effect): “We gotta go. We have to rehearse.”
“Rehearse? What?”
“Singing. Dad makes us practise every day.”
“Who are you?”
“Call ourselves the BeeGees. See you later.”
Never did see them later.
Great name, but.
Waaay back when, the band used to play covers of Sorry & Wedding Ring.
The band I’m in still play a medley of Sorry & She’s So Fine. Cracking songs that still get the dance floor rocking 60years later. RIP Snowy.
A fake and a liar. The people of Whyalla have heard it all before, not to mention the absurd assertion about the relative importance of the steel industry:
This kind of dishonest rhetoric might have worked in the past, but I’m pretty sure that it is wearing very thin among the punters. As for any kind of sensible evaluation from our ‘economics experts’ in the MSM – fugeddaboudit.
Upgrade Albo, Blackout Bowen, the ABC, SBS and other MSM don’t even realise that Steel needs Carbon.
Government Inc. at work with your Tax Dollars and more borrowed money.
Watch Sean Spicer Hilariously Explain to Glenn Beck Why Trump Can Fire Anyone He Wants to Because of Joe Biden
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The NT Chief Justice has blamed increased policing in the Territory for skyrocketing incarceration figures, saying officers are taking a “zero-tolerance” approach to crime under the new Country Liberal government, following a spate of violent crime in the nation’s Top End.
In an extraordinary intervention, Chief Justice Michael Grant declared judges were ill-equipped to expeditiously address the growing strain on the prison system, asserting there was “nothing” the courts could do to alleviate the situation.
The zero-tolerance stance was a marked shift away from careful discretion to “apprehend, caution and release” alleged offenders in the past, he said, due to the new political imperatives of the recently elected Finocchiaro government.
“This is the new political and operational environment, and there is nothing the courts or the legal profession can do under present conditions to ameliorate the consequences of that environment in terms of workload or remand numbers,” Justice Grant said.
The Chief Justice’s opening of the legal term address, obtained exclusively by The Australian, comes amid “challenging times” for the Territory’s justice system, in which there are four times more people on remand in the Local Court than there were four years ago.
It also follows a serious escalation in the crime crisis that has long gripped the area, with South Australian police deployed to the region to reduce offending primarily in Alice Springs.
In recent months, police charged a man with breaking into a woman’s home and raping her while she slept, despite the man being on a good behaviour bond at the time.
In another incident, police arrested two teenage boys for aggravated robbery after they allegedly demanded alcohol from a 57-year-old man at his home, threatening him with a baseball bat and a tomahawk.
Separately, two boys were arrested after breaking into an Alice Springs home and striking a woman with a detachable metal freezer handle so hard it rebounded, hitting a two-month-old baby and causing a brain bleed and fractured skull.
Earlier this week, one of the boys was granted bail to attend an “on country” funeral on an approximately $7000 taxpayer-funded aircraft, only to flee custody.
Comments should make interesting reading.
Fire the bewigged clown.
Note he doesn’t say what alternatives he might suggest. Then again there never are any, apart from “more funding” and a nice talking to for the perps.
Meanwhile the victims can pay their own costs of losing their stuff and having their houses damaged, not to say putting up with the physical and mental injuries.
One alternative would be a chain gang and stuff their human rights.
Some low hanging fruit for Jacinta should the LNP get in.
@elonmusk
There ARE good people in the government who want to eliminate fraud & waste.
Amazingly, Leland was fired by Social Security Administration upper management for helping @DOGE find taxpayer savings. Can you believe that??
Thanks to President Trump, Leland was brought back right away and now HE is upper management.
Promote good players, exit bad players. That’s the right thing to do.
Poetic justice is very satisfying, particularly when it is that swift.
DOJ Prosecutor Resigns Rather than Stop $20 Billion to Left-wing Climate Groups
So will the money be pulled back?
Battling bishops sue the Trump administration for ‘their’ migrant millions
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington
Wrong link.
Alexandre Pesey explains the new French Revolution (and its beautiful)
I have faith in the new generation and believe they will succeed in changing the world, even saving it from present dangers.
Almost all the young people I know are not woke and seem to have plenty of common sense. It surprised me that they survived unscathed the immense woke indoctrination they had to endure in schools. It could be that I just know a lot of strong minded youngsters.
Trump team makes radical U-turn on Covid vaccine
So low on the radar is covid, no-one will notice.
HOWEVER, I went to a trade expo today, and as I arrived, a couple of people left wearing masks………………………………
We have a big outbreak of covid in the village. Funnily all those with multiple boosters seem to be most affected. Mrs D and I still covid free and doing what we normally do.
Multiple boosters are known to be useless.
Pure blood. Never had covid either.
Bankstown MP’s hypocrisy: ‘Fighting hate’ only when it pays off!
Called it.
When I first read about that attack, I wrote that I would reserve judgement until more information came through.
Has the fact the attacker was Turkish been reported widely?
Your link was the first piece I’ve seen.
The fact that the woman’s religion isn’t mentioned – even though it must be available – tells me that she’s Muslim as well.
BBC accused of using Hamas official’s son in documentary about ‘ordinary Palestinians’
NotTheSonOfGod
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So the court system is not coping with tougher policing? Perhaps stricter policing supported by the Courts in the past would have stopped crime escalating and given some solace to the ever-suffering law abiding members of the NT?
ZK – as noted above, we the public are supportive of the new government’s approach to law and order. (Although most underlying problems caused by the stupidity (ALP/Greens) and cowardice (Coalition) of the CMWLTH over many decades.
Thay will slow walk cases to create a crisis.
Glenn Greenwald – US Diplomacy With Russia Is a Huge Relief
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How can a Judge quibble about a zero tolerance to crime? Unbelievable!!!! The Government of the day is the body that needs to deal with providing for Courts, prisons and correctional programmes. If there is crime, then the criminals need to be punished! So simple.
Steve Blaxland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7cNnsmgTk
Why did Keir Starmer have a single religion meeting with Muslim business leaders yesterday?!
Because he’s being Blackmailed pure and simple.. It would explain EVERYTHING he’s done since taking the big seat.
It is the postal votes. The Mos control the postal votes in the Mo enclaves.
Don’t know if the Joy Behar scandal has surfaced yet on the Cat.
The $50 million lawsuit that Karoline Levitt is talking against this top leftie personality and journalist on The View (shudder) might bankrupt Behar. Levitt rightly objects to Behar’s statement that Levitt was only hired by Trump because she was in Trump’s words ‘a ten’. Levitt is currently aceing the job of Press Secretary and is a clear merit hire.
Behar has been apprehended at the airport attempting to flee with a one-way ticket to Italy, her ancestral homeland.
I guess the left have made other people watch their words so much that they can’t believe it when defamation actions by the other side come out to haunt them. Trump is also making financial hay with such actions.
Defamation. A limit on free speech, like calling fire in a crowded theatre.
Top legal view is that Behar should settle before any trial.
Here’s the Behar issue link.
Does Italy want her? She’s as bad as the mob coming over the Med.
Oh God, that is so great!
I don’t know if it’s been posted but tony burqa shows what the liars are: traitorous scum:
Facebook
Found out the other day that even before Israel retaliated after Oct. 7 he fully backed public displays of the Palestinian flag.
What a POS as well as being what you wrote, cohenite.
But not the Live ex court case which is still to be settled despite the government being found to be guilty of malfeasance.
They offer a piddling amount to settle, but the amount in those days value with out interest will be close to 1.5 B now. The judge who was overseeing it has retired (Mordy) and now there is a new judge. Makes me sick every time I see things like this, that he has got 2.4B to throw away to an Indian deal maker.
Mordy has retired? Rejoice! Hallelujah! No man has caused as much damage to Australia than he has done.
He’s like an Obama appointment.
Well…until the next bailout, anyway.
A bailout which wouldn’t have been necessary but for the Uniparty’s insane energy policies.
Rinse & repeat.
Looks like Australia has a stark choice: the muzzies or the chunks.
The chunks have much tastier food
Dammit I thought that I had a reference for the Ukrainian regime’s UN-defying bombing of Donetsk pre Russian mercy mission, but I can’t seem to lay my hands on it.
Something (obvious) just occurred to me as I was virtually driving through Israel in google maps.
Do you notice how all the road signs are in Hebrew, English and Arabic?
Well, there’s never been an apartheid State that has had road signs in the language of the oppressed people. Ever.
Blot melting down in an hysterical panty bunching outburst about Prez Fatty Trump and the Tucker, while desperately attempting to defend that corrupt fraud zelensky.
Not a case study in quality j’ism.
The Blot on the Landscape has it all wrong. Z is a crook. Get the DOGE to see where all the money and stuff went. LOL. Maybe he already knows.
God, bolta is a fukwit: he is frothing at the mouth at Trump giving zelenskyy a serve. General Jack Keane brings the hysterical fool a reality check about Trump’s negotiation with puttie and zelenskyy. Bolta wheeled out the trope that Trump is puttie’s puppet and forgets what he did to wussia during his first term
I smiled when he showed a chart with the ABC stamp. It must be true, it supported his argument.
Bolt is a pathetic twot- who’s on next dribbler Sheridan? I like the Zelinsky accusing Trump of ‘dis-info’- they have their puppet well trained.
Gen Buck Keane (Retd) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy, who finally spoke some sense as per Cohenite’s report above.
OMG. Leftism is criminal insanity. This woman – wouldn’t call her a mother- should be in jail for life, along with the doctors.
I think it can be said with absolute certainty that the Gazan Nazis, who comprise 95% of the population, are worse than the Nazis in Germany prior to and during World War II.
And anyone who supports and makes excuses for the Gazan Nazi filth are also Nazis and are filth themselves.
I have just seen images of the handover of the Bibas family. I am sickened and revolted to know I share a planet with such depraved filth.
They will be dealt with as soon as the last hostage is handed over, dead or alive.
I dearly hope so. Salt the earth afterwards and hope some normal humans can one day return.
Perhaps it’s time we had a referendum on immigration – both legal and illegal.
But it will never happen because it’s not our country anymore.
Our ‘leaders’ have given it away for an extension of their time at the trough.
And we are letting in 3000 of them – virtually no background checks.
Thanks heaps, Albosleazy and Tony Burqa.
Let’s not forget the “vote for us” ceremonies (a.k.a. naturalisation ceremonies) Burqa is rushing through for 6,000 immigrants, between now and the election. I’ll bet those 3000 Hamas-supporting Gaza’s are in that number.
A ray of hope is that there may be quite a few Indians in that lot of new citizens. Have no fear that Indians won’t vote for Muzzieland via Labor in their new country – they are Hindus and they have had quite enough of Islam in India.
Interesting to see Credlin interview two senior Arabs from the UAE at the Responsibility Conference in London.
Australia should never accept in Muslims unless they do the most stringent background checks, they opined. These guys know what they are talking about. The UAE keeps a very tight rein on Muzzie misbehaviour, they control what the Imans say and do in their country and they have no time for Iran and all Iranian associates.
Fat for genocide victims. Brave when there is a ceasefire.
Palestine is a failed non state where the people support for the most part, a terrorist organisation.
Disgusting viewing and I have no sympathy. Total war now and Hamas and the ideology must be destroyed.
Absolute living devils.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Credlin:
Multiculturalism has failed. We need to espouse things that unite us not what divides us.
Most migrants agree.
See upthread.
Australia should be a multi-ethnic country with a mono culture based on the Australian adaptation of old-school British traditions: Judaeo-Christian values should be pre eminent.
In the tumultuous German election campaign, which has been rocked by jaw-dropping US interference, a spate of violent attacks and rare fears for the country’s political stability, all eyes have been locked on the party most likely to finish second.
You couldn’t make it up. After decades of carrying water for the international Election Fortification Syndicate, Teh Gnaudiar has gone all pearl-clutchy over… er… a JD Vance speech, and some Trump truth bombs.
And, they’re noticing explodey-acid throwey-knifey Cars Of No Appearance which plough into crowds of shoppers while shouting “God Is Great In Arabic”, after all.
Don’t give up the day job.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1892139420490617169
‘Germans are furious’ | Katja Hoyer on the fall of the elites and the rise of the AfD
Oh wait, I now share a country with such depraved filth and some work in our hospitals.
Keep yourselves out of hospitals at all costs.
Evening meal two (or three) kinds of meat, one veg or a scoop of salad ( fatty lamb chop, beef rissoles, sausages)
Breakfast if needed, eggs and if necessary bacon. No toast or cereal.
Cut sugar out entirely, reduce carbs severely.
Eat as above and you will feel satisfied, your tastebuds will change and you will have more energy
Try it for 30 days.
Wot no lunch!
Or little breakfast.
Two meals a day. Late breakfast/brunch and evening meal as above.
Yep. Low carb/no sugar definitely works.
I’m trying hard with success BUT I can’t break my chocolate addiction.
Don’t bother.
Moderation is meant for Monks.
Even Moderation can be carried to excess.
I see the woman accused of islamophobia has some form when it comes to assault.
Very Aussie name too, Susan Gonulalan.
Apparently a common surname in Turkey.
Hamas are scum.
No, we are.
“Britain and Germany are the patsies of Net Zero” | Paul Marshall
Michael Kroger yesterday: the support that Hamas get in western nations these days is so bad.
It has only happened because we have “non-discriminatory immigration”.
Asian immigration no problem for my part. But really, can’t we have some judgement re the scumbags from other places?
Trad and Fentiman are so revolting that not even a fawning Australian Bolshevik Collective puff piece can disguise it:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/jackie-trad-crime-corruption-commission-report-queensland/104959396
According to Joe Hildebrand most of us here are ultra, ultra, ultra, ultra, ultra* right, as he sputtered to Sharri. Funny that he never brands anybody on the other side as ultra left, not even one ultra.
*He said it at least five times, but might have been more.
Long as I’m not close to him I’ll be happy. Mental midget.
Is ultra more than far,far?
And is it even worserer than being extremist? Even far, far worserer?
I’d like to be worserer but can only manage worse. I’m a failure.
Lol!
Have just seen the footage of the handover of the bodies in Gaza. The hideous backdrop and the politicisation of the grief of these dead loved ones by Hamas and the wretched Red Cross.
I would usually like to invoke Biblical judgement, but as I saw the scene I was reminded of Lord of the Rings and the vengeance of Eomer of Rohan when his king dies and his sister is (seemingly) mortally wounded by the Nazgul. Vengeance should be as swift as this:-
“Éowyn, Éowyn!’ he cried at last. ‘Éowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!’
Then without taking counsel or waiting for the approach of the men of the City, he spurred headlong back to the front of the great host, and blew a horn, and cried aloud for the onset. Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!’
And with that the host began to move. But the Rohirrim sang no more. ‘Death!’ they cried with one voice loud and terrible, and gathering speed like a great tide their battle swept about their fallen king and passed, roaring away southwards.”
You’re a romantic, Titus. You want something fierce and dramatic and epic…the wrath of God to fall like lightning on these buggers.
Or something Gideon-like, massed Israelites charging over the hills and into the camp, terrifying them so much they start to slay each other.
It won’t happen that way. It will be slow, deliberate, inexorable. Unlike the foolish posters of Bibi as dracula, the response will be adult, mature and thorough. What we saw today was a crowd of dead people playing charades with the precious remains of beloved, valued people.
They just don’t know it yet.
It sounded nice when I re-read Eomer’s speech, Calli. Of course you’re right, it won’t happen like that. And any that escape Israel’s justice will not escape ultimate justice. Luke 18 and the persistent widow come to mind.
I’m going into hospital tomorrow, for a procedure involving a general anesthetic.
Should I demand a written guarantee that there are no Mooslimes on the staff?
I made sure I went to a Private Catholic Hospital for recent major butchery.
Might have to be a bit more subtle, Zulu…
…ask of the “prayer room” is busy on a Friday
Hope it all goes well for you Matey.
No mater who you have, hope it all works out fine. Get better!
Aconcagua isn’t the big deal Sharri makes it out as (a day or so ago) but it’s not a walk up like Kilimanjaro. My daughter went up to the summit while a couple of fellow travelers had to be escorted back down without summiting. She also did Elbrus in southern Russia when some big strong guys had trouble.
The highest I have been is to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado, with a car. Even so it was hard to breathe at 14,110 feet.
You’re supposed to ride in the car not carry it.
Yes, we did 12000ft on Pikes Peak by car before the road was closed by snow landslides. After getting altitude sickness in the Italian Alps recently, I won’t be going to high places any more. There comes a time when you pack up your climbing boots.
Here’s the tweet
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1892242622623699357#m
Z went into war because Putes had just invaded and understandably Z could not be seen to be sitting down and doing nothing about it.
I don’t see any nicer interpretation; Orange Man is trying to gaslight people into thinking Zelenskyy started the war.
Surely all this does is amuse Putin and completely alienate everybody else.
How on earth could Orange Man think this was a useful thing to say?
Because he has to bullshit Putin into signing on to pulling out of at least Zaporizhzhia.
And leaving some face saving ambiguity over the other bits for both sides.
And he doesn’t need Zelensky screwing things up while he sets it up.
And Zelensky’s best interests are served by understanding he needs to sit this part out.
You don’t hire the best negotiator in the world and then start blundering in on the negotiations yourself.
Zelensky isn’t the best person to conduct negotiations with Putin. He did good repulsing the invasion and getting the stuff they needed.
Yes there was corruption. But we see from DOGE that corruption, as I have always said, is a permanent feature of this world. It’s everywhere.
In fact, given the damage done, and the propaganda effort, you would be hard pressed to find anyone dispassionate on either side.
It’s vital that Trump establish trust on both sides.
As to what he is publicly saying about Zelensky, who knows what the private conversation is like.
yeah, against his own people (well, specifically the Russian speaking ones)
and with a corrupt US regime bankrolling it
he was warned many times of his folly
it’s the truth … suck it up
and forget the speculation about what Trump wants
the message is clear … Z (with two y’s) … and for that matter, the rest of the world … you aren’t dealing with the same USA anymore
best you get used to it
Zelensky was always Obummers puppet. Just what you want in a leader, a comedian who can play a piano with his dick. I’m off the opinion the programming of the voting machines were the test run for the US elections. Conspiracy theorist, maybe, but as we’ve seen the last 10 years or so, the conspiracy theorists are winning hands down.
Who remembers the Morgenthau Plan.
Bugger all.
Why?
The US went with the Marshall Plan instead.
In 10 years no one will care about all this Russian/US/Ukraine shit.
As long as there is a passable peace no one cares about how it was achieved.
no
this thing you trivialize might kill us all
and you should care very much about “how peace is achieved”
I remember it, and I’ve mentioned it several times as well as the propaganda victory it handed to Goebbels.
What’s with the Trump ‘reparations’? Is this fair enough, to recoup American investment, or is it to recoup American donations that have disappeared?
History tells us it is not a good look to demand severe penalties from the defeated side. Ukraine has to recover economically from war and be well-off enough to attract back its population that fled.
Trump has given Putin the Golden Bridge.
Just farkin take it.
Zelenski fncked over Trump in his first term w.r.t. Biden’s carpetbagging son when Z refused to assist Trump with requested investigations into Biden and Hunter’s corrupt conduct in Ukraine.
Payback time.
Trump’s got bigger fish to fry.
Domestically the DOJ/FBI and internationally China.
Once Ukraine is done, I don’t think he’ll give a shit about Zelensky.
Watching snippets of the anti-Semitism summit at Central today.
Good to see slime bag, dirt bag and all round weasel Dreyfus booed and heckled.
I note how Dreyfus got all hot and bothered, and pontificated about how ‘anti-Semitism’ is being weaponised. This from a weasel who was intimately involved in weaponising not just one rape allegation but two rape allegations. Dreyfus is a liar who would sell his own mother.
Memo to Dreyfus….YOU AND YOUR LABOR GREEN COMRADES CAN FCK OFF.
And Minns? I’ve called him out from day one, he’s a pretty boy and that’s all and now he has a pretty boy hair style, perhaps he’s getting ready for Mardi Gras.
Further to gays, I ran into Heston Russell on Oxford Street today, I called out his name and introduced myself. We shook hands, he’s a very handsome fellow with a gorgeous smile, he’s gay but he’s also very very masculine. We discussed the ABC and interestingly he told me he’d just come from a meeting with a Coalition backbencher (he told me the name of the person but I won’t reveal it) to discuss what to do about the out of control ABC. I said to Heston that whilst the ABC doesn’t like our soldiers, it also doesn’t like people like me…..JEWS. He nodded. I told him that the ABC should be shut down and he agreed but I said few have any cojones in parliament except for Pauline and one or two others……and Heston agreed. He said that he holds Pauline and Malcolm in high regard.
Just further to Heston being gay and masculine, I know two Israeli gay couples at my synagogue and both couples are very masculine, all four men fought in the IDF, they’re not pretty mincing boys, they are MEN. Being gay doesn’t preclude being masculine and proudly male. I’d rather have Heston as PM of this country than Slug.
We have precedent on masculine gay men, a formidable fighting force — the Sacred Band of Thebes
I’m starting to get Horror Head Allen’s Facechook propaganda again in my feed. Reading the comments is highly amusing, as they’re extremely hostile and often hilarious. On one post about supporting midwife training in hospitals, someone said this:
Sky News:
Social media users have slammed airline Endeavor Air, responsible for operating the crashed Delta flight, for promoting DEI policies.
Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, operated Flight 4819 when it crash-landed at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday.
The cause of the crash, which killed none of its 80 passengers but did injure 18, is not yet known.
Social media users, however, have been slamming Endeavor Air for their emphasis on having an “all-female unmanned” crew.
X user ‘End Wokeness’ reposted several of Endeavor Air’s TikTok posts where the airliner proudly advertises its DEI policies.
“The plane that crashed in Toronto was a Delta flight operated by Endeavor Air, a small airline obsessed with all-female “unmanned” flights,” wrote one user.
It was pretty bloody obvious what caused the crash. The flight crew flew down the glideslope and didn’t flare (just like the Navy lands on carriers).Failed the right landing gear and wing.
Cheers Eyrie.
Works great if you’ve got the arrestor cable.
Aviation Herald comments are interesting on this subject. A lot of chatter about automation. Two top videos show a nasty hard landing
Apparently unions have a large say on what is released in a Canadian Air Accident so apparently don’t expect CVR or data recordings for over a year to be publicly released.
Yeah it was Crikey but at times like this I miss the insights Ben Sandilands Plane Talking blog used to give in the comments.
Mentour Pilots take…
https://youtu.be/DzTomOIX6ZQ?feature=shared
Probably a combination of really shitty gusty crosswinds and the design of the aircraft. As you try to straighten to flare and put the wheels on the ground, a gust catches you, low wing design because engines at the back = short landing gear therefore tiny margin of error, wing clips ground.
Props to the female cabin crew did a fantastic job evacuating the aircraft.
Still looks like they came in far too hot. The right engine exploded immediately on touchdown probably after the landing gear collapsed. The plane was driven into the runway.
Elon Musk: We’re Watching the ‘Thrashing’ of the Bureaucracy
Yes, it’s the knife’s fault. Ratbag.
@Keir_Starmer
Ronan Kanda’s brutal murder, a result of knives bought illegally online, should never have happened.
Working with his family, my government promised the toughest crackdown yet on knife sales online – and that’s exactly what we will deliver.
Racism. What about forks?
Almost Fired For Working With DOGE, Social Security Fraud Expert Now Leads The Agency
@TONYxTWO
“Any man out here that can sit down with me and tell me where the f*ck my money is going, and he can show me that my money is not going in the right places is not my f*cking enemy bro!”
“It’s not a race thing! It’s them motherf*ckers against all of us!”
SPOT ON
@AndrewZywiecMD
When you die from chemo, the doctor blames the cancer. When you commit suicide from the SSRI, the doctor blames the depression. When you get dementia from the statin, the doctor blames the heart disease. When you die from the vaccine, the doctor doesn’t know what to blame, but it damn sure isn’t the shot.
As Media Freaks Over 1 DOGE Employee Getting IRS Access, We Learn Biden Gave 919 People Access
Trump’s Treasury secretary serves reality check to Dems worried that DOGE will expose fraud
Guardians of Liberty: Trump and the Constitution
Trump lays out plan to work with Republicans in Congress to ‘dramatically’ cut taxes
Okey, my project for tonight is to audit the weekend oz’s album reviews.
From least stars to most.
1- The Weekend- Hurry Up Tomorrow
Lachlan Murdoch sez- rich, sprawling journey of sound, ***.
Wally sez- homogenous, sprawling dark dinner party music. Sings in the same key, same pace… sounds like he’s in a bit of a laptop mid-intensity comfort spot. Songs blended in to each other, tho it does have some very flavoursome 20 second angular techo-disco stab interludes. *** is probably fair, some apartment dweller adores it already.
Dave Allen on Australians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJgf2QMhtwg
I watched it yesterday.
Johannes Leak.
Not sure what to make of this one, Zelensky certainly belongs in the trash, but I would argue Trump is attempting to enforce his version of Pax Americana, not discarding it (economic leverage in preference to military).
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Good on y, Tom.
I don’t think we’re in Kanas anymore, Gertrude.
Where is this being felt.
Leftists are sick puppies especially leftwing females.
It’s a while since Gallup’s polls had much credibility.
Quite a while.
Anecdotally, a surprising number of friends and acquaintances in NYC have told us their kid or their close friends kids are gay or dive both ways. I reckon that number is pretty accurate on the American left.
That’s because they are living in that degenerate place.
If the kids grew up in Kansas it would be different.
The surrounding culture and social associates matter to kids. What else have they got to go on?
Not a problem if the crazy chicks stay at home and don’t scare the horses.
If you put them in charge of fire departments and water authorities that’s another matter entirely.
Yeah, but really when was the last time you saw a leftwing shiela on Twitter who wasn’t acting like a crazed nutball. It’s been years and the score would be very close to 100%.
Back before it became fashionable, the estimate was always that around 2% of the adult population was homosexual.
A figure of 9.3% suggests around 7% of the new number is just the gullibles trying to be fashionable. I bet most of them also drive EVs — but have sold their Teslas because they’re no longer politically fashionable as the company founder has changed tribes.
Headless king on beefless BBQ.
Royal statue targeted by sick vandals as decapitated head of king set on fire (20 Feb)
If they don’t like Australia Day we should help them out by deporting them to another country.
I believe that Iraq and Iran are republics. Offer them a choice.
Add North Korea to the list of choices.
Actually North Korea would suit them best, all authoritarianism, no mess or fuss with any religions.
The Congo is supposedly a Republic.
We should help them by depositing them in prison.
Even TheirABC is forced to admit that hurling billions of taxpayer dollars at the Whyalla debacle to prop up green mythology is fraught with risk:
The whole article is full of alarming material. Apart from the huge amounts of public money involved, it is suggested that the government will become at least a part owner of this moneypit. (See also: suggestions that the government should own moneypit Rex Airlines.)
In a way, it’s good, because the public can see just how irresponsible and frankly stupid this government is, not to mention the SA government’s latest version of the Multi-Function Polis.
But the people of Whyalla, the businesses whose bills are unpaid by the plant’s owner, SA taxpayers ditto – a lot of innocent parties have been screwed yet again by the Green Blob and the cynical politicians who went along with what they hoped would get them votes, even if it was all based on lies.
Notice the fed. gov. slight of hand proposal to pour zillions into it with a new ‘green iron investment fund’ and other off-the-book schemes.
The cognitive dissonance of ‘risky unproven green scheme’ on one hand and ‘essential industry’ on the other is mind blowing.
They’d be better putting money into Port Kembla with traditional processes.
Traditional processes have served us well so far.
Minor improvements in these would be ok, but trying to rejig the whole of these heavy industry systems if stark raving crazy.
Good!
Kash Patel Confirmed to Lead FBI (20 Feb)
Interesting coincidence that Collins and Murkowski were wailing yesterday about Trump moving “too fast”, and here they pop up again opposing Kash Patel for the FBI. Hmmm.
I hope he lives up to my characterisation as the leopard seal. He’s got a hell of a job to do but he looks as though he’s ready and really going to enjoy it.
Those two chicks are up to their eyeballs in cookie crumbs. Sooner or later they’ll be pinged.
Those two are on the wrong side of the aisle, have been for years.
IIRC, they were both squishy on a range of other issues where Democrats used smear tactics, including Brett Kavanagh’s Supreme Court nomination.
Time for them to be primaried.
Tony Burke is a traitor to this country.
Danby was right about him.
Just Tony Burke? Every Labor, Green and Teal member is in that camp.
Elon’s SpaceX continues to leave the competition in the dust:
Poor old NASA, preoccupied with DEI and encrusted with bureaucrats, is looking increasingly irrelevant.
Meanwhile, Elon seems to have an absolutely uncanny ability to build an organisation that hires the best and the brightest, and to steer them to doing great things.
I love it. Who said Elon Musk doesn’t have a sense of humour?
Had a bit of a rummage around Grok3 to see what all the fuss is about.
While its spaceships in the style of Chris Foss look nothing like spaceships in the style of Chris Foss, Albo looked very happy riding a goat.
Inquiring minds would like to know if the goat was gifted by muzzies and was it centre of attention at the after party. If you know what I mean.
Goat Rodeo?
calli
February 21, 2025 7:38 am
Tony Burke is a traitor to this country.
Danby was right about him.
Was going to post Warren Brown’s cartoon but I thought I would add it to Calli’s post as well.
Today’s Tele:
Go, Warren!
Good cartoon but Warren missed an opportunity there: Sylvester’s form should have been headed “Thitizenship”. OK, I know I’m mean but I just can’t stand the two-faced flog.
The Trump administration has three tier one goals and about hundred tier two goals.
The tier one goals:
1) Address the budget deficit and reset the nations finances.
2) Clean out the DOJ/FBI and reset their objectives.
3) The “Grand Plan” with China which in turn will reset the entire US foreign & military policy.
If the pace over the past month is maintained, they’ve got a chance to make real headway on all three.
Hopefully it will nuke ‘the Klaus Schwab WEF reset’ version.
Grok3 makes me feel so obsolete.
Like an old laptop waiting to be wiped and recycled.
And I cant use it like the people on twitter are using it to make video games and stuff.
If Musk gets the twitterX cap raise away at a $44bill val, how many in the financial media will eat humble pie for calling the death of it only about a million times.
Busy day today, started it off with a 3/10 in the Oz quiz.
Gunna be a great day.
The United Nations human rights chief has condemned Hamas’s handover of dead hostages in southern Gaza, accusing the group of disrespecting the remains of the foreign Israelis and their families.
[Their ABC: no link, due to comments that may be offensive.]
OK, it’s a start; now backtrack to the dignified way they became selected to become deceased in Gaza.
Contract killer to keep Aussie visa
Rhiannon Down
A double murderer convicted over a contract killing has been spared deportation under Labor’s revised ministerial direction, after a tribunal found his ties to Australia and level of rehabilitation outweighed community expectations that he should never be granted a visa.
In a major test for ousted immigration minister Andrew Giles’s rewritten Direction 110, the Administrative Review Tribunal found that US citizen Robert Michael Main – who had been jailed for 33 years after emigrating as a 12-year-old – had “strong ties to Australia” and should be allowed to stay.
ART deputy president Damien O’Donovan ruled that Main should have his visa returned because he had significant relationships in Australia, posed a low risk of committing future crimes and it would be difficult to access medical treatment in his birth country.
Mr O’Donovan said Main’s criminal history – including convictions for two murders and an armed robbery – were so serious that Australians would expect he “should not continue to hold a visa”, but the evidence and consideration of Direction 110 tipped the balance in favour of allowing him to remain.
Surely not. Didn’t Elon’s DOGE uncover that over $50B was spent on illegal immigrants’ health care?
Labor protecting murderers, whether convicted, self confessed, or threatening to kill is now so passe. Full on anti-semetism the same. If they didn’t have these disgusting values then they’d have none at all. I hope they all gett arse cancer.
“There is something in the air ……..do do do”.
It is the aroma of Gough.
Whoa, with breakfast coffee in hand just perusing the webs. Swung by Shane Dowling’s Kangaroo Court to see which Justice is on the take this week.
Yup trigger warning, he’s gone the full on anti-Semite:
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/02/19/lawyers-mark-leibler-and-jeremy-leibler-go-after-palestine-supporters-on-social-media/
One thing I note that seems to join the far left and far right with Jew Derangement Syndrome.
Never disappoints.