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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 8:28 am

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.

Last edited 23 hours ago by Rockdoctor
H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 9:11 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Never disappoints.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 8:28 am

4-5pm US eastern time (8-9am AEDT) has become Trump Hour, where the US president holds his daily press conference from the White House. Today is the Black History Month show starring Tiger Woods (executive producer: D. Trump). The Swamp media can’t compete — it’s the best show in town!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 8:31 am

Elderly hostage Oded Lifshitz ‘murdered more than a year ago’AFP
1 hours ago

AFP
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Peace activist Oded Lifshitz, whose body was handed over by Hamas in a grotesque ceremony on Thursday night (AEDT), was murdered in captivity more than a year ago, Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine has confirmed.
Mr Lifshitz, 83, was captured by Hamas on October 7, 2023, but ended up in the hands of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who killed him, according to Chen Kugel, the centre’s director.
Hostages who returned to Israel during the first ceasefire deal in November 2023 reported being held captive with Mr Lifshitz, a founding member of Kibbutz Nir Oz, during their first month in Gaza.
While Mr Kugel did not mention by name the three additional hostages that were still in the process of being identified, Hamas said it had returned the remains of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, also taken hostage from their home in Nir Oz.
The four bodies were handed over under the first phase of a ceasefire that took effect on January 19. As well as parading the hostages’ caskets on stage in front of a picture of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed as Dracula, it has emerged the terror group inserted propaganda material inside the coffins.

The Gaza strip radioactive waste from end to end , the Palestinian survivors driven , howling, into the Sinai Desert…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 8:42 am

No survivors please.

Muddy
Muddy
February 21, 2025 5:52 pm

I hold the vile, reeking carcass of the extremist media at least partly responsible for prolonging this outrageous anti-human butchery. As disturbed as it sounds when you express it in words, I am convinced that many of these media vermin experience something akin to sexual pleasure when they cover and contribute to these stories. This is a devolution of the human species. Ironically, we allow these trauma-ejaculators to point the finger at us, and label us as freaks.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 8:33 am

Haha. Fox’s Will Cain tells me the audience at today’s Trump Show were chanting: “Four more years!” LOL

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 8:34 am

 Undercover Video: Department of Education Operating Rogue ‘Sanctuary Program’ For Illegal Aliens, Hiding Secrets from DOGE on Encrypted App

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-undercover-video-department-education-operating-rogue-sanctuary/

“The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So, we don’t ask them when they enroll what their status is,” Combs told the PV reporter.

“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar…” Travis Combs told the undercover PV journalist.

So they go to an encrypted app that Musk broke the code on 33 seconds after it hit the shops.
Don’t these people have any sense at all?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 21, 2025 8:39 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

None whatsoever, just massive (unearned) intellectual arrogance.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 9:55 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Shirley they’ll lose their jobs, entitlements and hopefully their houses.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 21, 2025 8:41 am

Netanyahu portrayed as Dracula
More evidence tha Palestine is a rootless trash society, invented yesterday.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 8:42 am

One thing I note that seems to join the far left and far right with Jew Derangement Syndrome.

Yes, it was always the way, except it isn’t just ‘far-left, it’s the ‘left’. And I present to you Hairy Festeringpenis, Fatso Faruqi, Hideous Thorpe, Adam Bumdt, ISIS Husic, Penny Pong, Tony Burqa and all the rest of the Jew hating NAZI filth.

Further to ‘leftist’ Nazis, where’s our Nazi? Has he gone all Scarlet Pimpernel? I’ll henceforth call him our very own elusive ‘Nazi Pimpernel’. Boy oh boy, didn’t he do a runner after November 5 2024. I expect our Nazi will surface on Oz election night to piously pontificate, as is his wont.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 9:41 am

the “Left” leaning will always side with their ideological friends and give succour to your enemies

“progress” by any means necessary

they are broken people overly charmed by Hegel’s clap-trap which was weaponized by Marx

unfortunately, there are many of them

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 8:43 am

Palestinians Line the Streets to Cheer as the Bodies of Dead Babies Are Paraded Through Streets

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/palestinians-line-streets-cheer-as-bodies-dead-babies/

The body of Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage taken at just nine months old, was paraded through the streets to celebratory music along with the bodies of his brother, Ariel, only four when he was kidnapped, and their mother, Shiri, 33.

There will be a reckoning.

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Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 8:59 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Palestinians Line the Streets to Cheer as the Bodies of Dead Babies Are Paraded Through Streets

Gazans are now so far gone that they don’t care how hideous they appear to the world. They will soon find out that all that money they had pouring in will dry up.

zimlurog
zimlurog
February 21, 2025 12:26 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

The previous antics at the returning of the live hostages were bad enough but this was honestly one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. Such disrespect by these animals. There can never be any redemption or reconciliation with them. Gaza needs to be glass.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 1:48 pm
Reply to  zimlurog

I watched with disgust, just wishing for an A10 to appear and hose the crowd.

bons
bons
February 21, 2025 8:44 am

It is going to be fascinating to see who the communist cardinals trot out to replace Frank.

Hopefully the true catholic bishops are aware of the conspiricy and will oppose another marxist apostate.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 8:47 am

Netanyahu portrayed as Dracula

It shows Palli Muslim low IQ ignorance, unsurprising given the levels of inbreeding among them. The real ‘Dracula’ aka Vlad the Impaler would have known what to do with the Muslim Nazi Gazan filth. He dealt very effectively with Muslim filth back in medieval Wallachia. Bibi and the Israelis could and should take a leaf from Vlad’s book.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 8:47 am

Bullock aint copping no grilling from the opposition, even they aren’t stupid enough to give Albo a free kick:

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/rba-governor-michele-bullock-senior-staff-to-face-parliament-grilling-after-first-rate-cut/news-story/a569fc73f2658b063b560f593a8d54e4

LOL here’s the committee here, 7 out of 10 are ALP or a Climate 360 bint:

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Economics/Committee_Membership

I predict she will be treated very well.

chook
chook
February 21, 2025 6:51 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Next Gov General.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 8:49 am

Libby Mettam: Tony Maddox cultural heritage ruling alarm bell for landholdersLibby MettamThe West Australian
Fri, 21 February 2025 2:00AM

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The Cook Government’s interpretation and application of Aboriginal cultural heritage should concern all WA landowners.
The successful prosecution of farmer Tony Maddox this week, for among other things, digging a hole on his property, could be replicated across any of the thousands of Aboriginal heritage sites that blanket WA.
How many residents of Freeman Rd in Ferndale, for example, or their neighbours on the four blocks on either side of Freeman Rd, are aware their property falls within the boundary of ACH Registered Place 22009?

Registered Place 22009 is, according to the ACH online Inquiry system, the site of a “Mythological Camp Site” and is significant because of its “Camp; Creation/Dreaming Narrative; Landscape/Seascape Feature”.
Similarly, parts of Mr Maddox’s farm fell within ACH Registered Place 15979, which is significant because of its “Camp; Creation/Dreaming Narrative; Landscape/Seascape Feature; Other and Water Source”.
Mr Maddox’s decision to repair his existing driveway, which had been in place across a seasonal creek for half a century, led to him being prosecuted under the prevailing WA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 and cost him $100,000 in legal fees, $5000 in court costs and $2000 in fines.
One of his crimes was digging a hole.
Registered Place 15979 covers the Avon River, its banks and tributaries — even those that may not have run with water for centuries — and stretches from the river’s inception in the Shire of Corrigin, north to Toodyay and then down to its intersection with the Swan River in the Swan Valley.
A traditional custodian gave evidence at Mr Maddoox’s trial that the culvert Mr Maddox had installed to allow a creek to flow under his driveway could disturb the Wagyl, also known as the Rainbow Serpent, which could curse his people, leading to sickness and even death.

“Traditional custodian”, my hairy aunt. They don’t even live in the district. The local elders say the Wagyl never formed part of their culture.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 8:54 am

Worse if what he said was true about a neighbour shopped around Government Dept with complaints till they found one biting.

One hopes they’ve been frozen out of the community there.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 9:09 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

I read somewhere that the judge should have recused itself on cultural grounds. Is that true?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 9:21 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

The judge “identified as Aboriginal’: yes.

Bruce
Bruce
February 21, 2025 10:30 am

There are several reasons why many on the “less-left coast” refer to that place as “Worst Australia”.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 9:21 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Yes in the link below and this needs appealing but that’s Mr Maddox’s bag. I would throw some money at a crowd funding campaign to make it happen:

https://lawsocietywa.asn.au/articles/new-judicial-appointments-to-the-magistrates-court/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 9:29 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Exactly what has happened.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 9:48 am

Linky please

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 10:12 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Local knowledge.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 9:11 am

Stop paying rates. Stop paying Taxes and Royalties for one month.
Bring these bastards to their knees and make them beg.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 9:18 am

Unbelievable. This 3rd nations bullshit has to end.

Beertruk
February 21, 2025 9:41 am

Did the Furst Nashuns appropriate something from a different culture?

I thought Wagyl was a cattle breed not a reptile.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 5:14 pm
Reply to  Beertruk

Love a nicely marbled Wagyl steak…

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 12:10 pm

This is the 21st century not 4000 B.C.

Superstitious BS that should never have made to court in the first place.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 21, 2025 3:40 pm

I hope he is going to appeal this judgement.

May need a go fund me page.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 8:52 am

Somebody should ask all our keffiyehs-wearing protesters if they would be happy to receive the remains of their parents and siblings the way Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli hostages. Make them answer why hostages were killed. Make them answer why babies were taken. Make them answer why babies were not returned first. Make them answer why women and children first was OK for the Titanic but not Gaza.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 8:59 am

Not a government but a giant money laundering racket

https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/not-a-government-but-a-giant-money-laundering-racket/

“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities’ latest tax filings. “That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 9:06 am

Our Clueless Media, Chapter 12,186

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/our-clueless-media-chapter-12186.php

“Experts” again. The media will never figure out that every time they celebrate “experts,” another MAGA hat is born, and a DOGE angel gets its wings.

johanna
johanna
February 21, 2025 9:48 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

The Babylon Bee must be spewing that their headline was stolen!

Bruce
Bruce
February 22, 2025 7:12 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

“Clueless”?

Or Complicit”?

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 9:06 am

I note the display in Khan Younis was too much even for the UN.

Will any of our local Palestinian activists condemn Hamas?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 9:14 am
Reply to  Roger

Will there be post mortems done on the murdered? I understand that Jewish culture buries as soon as possible, and PM only done if necessary, but the world needs to know how these innocents perished.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:07 am

Leak’s rendering of that corrupt little toad zelensky is hilarious. The t-shirt matching the colour of the bin is a clever touch.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 9:09 am

So, the Oz is reporting that Slug has sat down and done a podcast with Jew hating, Hamas Greens fangirl and all round skank, Abbie Vomitfield. This is the same Vomitfield who proudly said she would never platform a Zionist.

So, let’s get this clear…..very clear. Slug has now outed himself as someone opposed to Zionism and the existence of the state of Israel.

Thank you Slug for outing yourself.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 9:17 am

Scabbie Shitfield, the pus catcher.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 10:50 am
Reply to  Pogria

You have such a way with words, Pogs.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:13 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Why, thank you Ranga the Grey.
I have always thought of it as one of my greatest talents.

I have to change one word in the above though.
I should have written pus “bucket”, not catcher.
😀

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:02 pm

Yet he wasn’t at yesterday’s conference.

Hard core Pali activist who is like Dracula and crucifixes when it comes to Jews.

How appropriate.

Slag meets big prick.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:11 am

This is in response to a post by Niall Ferguson. Vance is full value and more.

@JDVance

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn’t have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.

And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored. What is Niall’s actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base?

Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That’s another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.

President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts. And here are some facts:

Number one, while our Western European allies’ security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance.

Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages. Again, the aid is *currently* flowing.

Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict.

Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it.

Number five, the conflict has placed–and continues to place–stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States.

Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as “appeasement” every acknowledgment that America’s interest must account for the realities of the conflict.

That interest–not moralisms or historical illiteracy–will guide President Trump’s policy in the weeks to come.

And thank God for that.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 21, 2025 3:48 pm
Reply to  Indolent

JD is a very clear-eyed analyst. And he’s right.

Getting too tied up in largely irrelevant history is no way to solve this conflict.

Getting the parties to recognise the realities and come to terms is the only answer.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 5:20 pm
Reply to  Indolent

They get do hung up on not ‘rewarding’ the invader, but conveniently disregard the actions and circumstances that triggered it in the first place.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:14 am
Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 9:14 am

The goat shaggers are not giving up.
They seriously need to be nuked.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14418951/israel-terror-attack-bus-explosion-bat-yam.html

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:15 am
Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:16 am

@libsoftiktok

BREAKING: Three separate bus explosions rocked Tel Aviv, Israel in what authorities suspect was a coordinated terror attack.

– Two more devices were discovered on another bus and possibly the light rail.
– No injuries reported

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:09 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Time to take off the gloves and make sure nobody ever dare wear Hamas fatigues ever again,at any time or anywhere.

The Nazis got Dresden, the Japanese Hiroshima.

By God, the Palis need similar to burn out their diseased existence.

Last edited 17 hours ago by Aaron
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 21, 2025 9:17 am

Team Albanese has fearlessly stepped into a technical morass at Whyalla. Somehow there is apparently a roadmap that takes the place from a struggling primary iron, steel, and long products mill to a Green Steel Happy Place.

Whatever the route, it involves Green Hydrogen – as do most of the Albanese Made in Australia Brainfarts.

Problematic, with Green Hydrogen rent-seekers running the other way.

Still, it’s only a few billion.

Bruce
Bruce
February 21, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

It was ONLY, EVER, about the “spillage”An actual. functional operation was NEVER on the planning horizon.

There’s a LOT of it about.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 10:54 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

A billion here, a billion there, soon it willl be real money.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 9:17 am

Anything today on the blatant electorate stacking by Burke. Have to be very close to the line on legal grounds. This should be a huge story like a reverse Tampa monument.

Also were any of those citizenship applications fast tracked?

What checks were foregone as a result?

Have any regulatory steps been bypassed?

Prying minds and all that.

Skah have tried to get this going and Dutton made some forays yesterday but media are ignoring it.

Another case of Mark Riley’s Hi PM how can we help?

Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:25 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

See Warren Brown’s cartoon on this disgrace above, which sums it up well.

As for burqa, he’s now rocketed up my list with a figurative bullet.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:12 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Always been top of mine.

Absolute germ of a human being.

Bruce
Bruce
February 21, 2025 10:42 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

“What checks were foregone?…”

Checks?

Cheques?

Remember; the ALDI bag rules.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:17 am

@Rightanglenews

BREAKING – President Trump has just halted all U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine – including those intended for purchase – which are now on hold as well.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 9:19 am
Last edited 22 hours ago by cohenite
Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:09 am
Reply to  cohenite

Awesome news. Hopefully he is all fired up with righteous revenge for the leftards who put him through that ordeal.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:15 am
Reply to  Makka

I wouldn’t call it revenge.
Simply obeying Laws and fixing problems.
Graft, corruption, Treason etc…

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 21, 2025 9:21 am

This is an old Palestinian Passport with British Passport printed on every page, issued to Micheal Walgiel who was fortunate he was travelling on a British Passport when he entered Germany in 1938.
Paleosimian supporters don’t do minor details.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 9:30 am
Reply to  lotocoti

No pic come up on the link but below is from a jihadwatch article back a bit.

The present Gazan Arab flag was stolen from a Arabian peninsula Kingdom before the Kingdom of Saud as well.

Palestine-flag-1939-screen-shot
Last edited 22 hours ago by Rockdoctor
Bruce
Bruce
February 21, 2025 10:49 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

See also, some “light” reading” –

 And now, a few words from “interested parties”:
Zuheir Mohsen, – top PLO member responsible for Damur massacre:

 “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”This fact was admitted by Professor Philip Hitti, an Arab historian who declared, “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” This fact is further confirmed by the Saudi Arabia Representative at the United Nations. “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.”
  
How about Fathi Hammad, who said live on TV:
 “…half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.”

 Or Hafez Assad, Father of the Syrian “incumbent”, who said to the PLO:
:
 “You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria.”

 Then there’s Zuhair Muhsin, Executive Council, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO:

 “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity… yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

 And finally, this kicker from retired terrorist, Walid Shoebat:

 “Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian? We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag. When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out”.

(As not tolerated on their ABCess)

Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:21 am

Random thoughts on Sky’s “Antisemitism Summit”, having caught some scenes from it on Shazza’s show last night.

Why the fork are the “Jewish Community” lauding that despicable infuriating incompetent imbecile minnimax? He should have been heckled mercilessly for his blatant enabling of unrelenting Antisemitic idiocy in Sydneystan since the appalling scenes outside the oprah house on October 9.

That idiotic smugorant waffling windbag kapo greypuss certainly got what he deserved, although like minnimax, he ideally should have been bashed senseless and left writhing in a pool of his stinking bodily fluids on the floor.

As for that unlamented imbecile joshi frydchickenburger, the less said about his appalling analogies, the better.

Verdict: A farce that will achieve diddly squat.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 9:27 am
Reply to  Rabz

When Kenny was reporting on it last night, he actually made an error.
He said the meeting was being held at The Great Mosque.
I know because I went “WTF!!!???!!!”

A few minutes later he corrected it and said The Great Synagogue.
Seriously, what the hell kind of error is that?

Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:30 am
Reply to  Pogria

Just like kroges repeatedly referring to the reserve bank’s “interest rate rise” when he was on Shazza’s show Tuesday evening.

Absolutely bloody hopeless.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 9:36 am
Reply to  Pogria

A linguistic slip.

Not being a Freudian, I wouldn’t read too much into it.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 21, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Never look for malice when incompetence will suffice.

Bruce
Bruce
February 22, 2025 7:20 am
Reply to  Pogria

The sort of “error” that churnalists / opinion-shapers make on a daily basis.

johanna
johanna
February 21, 2025 9:24 am

Even the UN has been forced to issue a wet lettuce leaf condemnation of the unspeakable way the remains of Israeli victims were treated.

It is the most disgusting and degrading public ceremony I have witnessed in my life. And, what about the Red Cross, whose reputation has slithered into the mud in recent decades, facilitating the whole thing?

A decent government would immediately condemn the whole thing. Completely, utterly, totally.

Hello? Is this thing on?

The Left’s proclivity to treat murderous terrorists as if they were naughty toddlers who are not quite toilet trained results in appalling bloodshed for which they never take responsibility. It’s just an accidental poo left on the floor to them.

The families of those who were ‘delivered’ under those circumstances need to know that they are not alone.

I hope that Mossad, the IDF and Trump have plans for them.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 9:59 am
Reply to  johanna

Israel has nothing to lose; and I suspect most of the neighbouring muzzie nations would support Israel and Trump turning the pallies into dust.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 9:24 am
Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:32 am
Reply to  cohenite

“controversial comments”

Let me guess, something along the lines of “women don’t have penises” perhaps?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 10:58 am
Reply to  Rabz

Being accurate is now a hanging offence.

Bruce
Bruce
February 22, 2025 7:23 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

That bit of 70’s cosmic “wisdom” is right up there with “Arbeit Macht Frei”.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 9:46 am
Reply to  cohenite

LOL will use that Welcome to the country quip in Townsville now.

As for Darren Spackman, should have held your ground. Not as if you had a chance anyway, Kimberly has been a safe ALP/ALP independent electorate since 1980.

WTF is going on with all these wet behind the ears mediocre women getting into key positions. Libby Mettam has done a lot of flip flopping and the default flop has been to the left till public sentiment “changed” her mind. How could you trust her?

cohenite
February 21, 2025 10:04 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Some of the lnp ladies do have balls: Lia Finocchiaro, Marie-Clare Boothby, Jacinta, Moira Deeming.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  cohenite

More than that clown Dutton (and Abbott) that’s fr sure.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:25 am

@elonmusk

Legacy media are mostly just puppets, with massive influence by the state.

The amount of money that @DOGE is discovering going from government to fake “independent” media is shocking.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:26 am

@Shawn_Farash

The Zelenskyy Regime is now blocking select social media platforms.

You cannot access Truth Social in Ukraine.

What do we normally call this behavior…

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  Indolent

Does Zelensky want anything at all from the peace talks? Is he trying to undermine his side? When will he realise that he is in not in a position to issue tit for tat. Some conciliatory language might be called for.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:45 am
Reply to  Crossie

Zelenskiy is a front office, a conduit. His job is to keep the war going at any cost (in blood) in order to maintain the torrent of $$$ being funneled into Ukraine. That laundered money finds ts way into the his handlers – the corrupt pockets of politicians and Euro scumbags.

Z and the Euro scum are panicking, because they think they and their scam is going to be exposed and their easy money is being cancelled.

It will be interesting to see where Patel goes with this.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 10:59 am
Reply to  Crossie

Well it is difficult.
If we were Ukrainian we would want everything to go back to pre invasion borders. So are to regard anyone not promising that as not a friend. Especially those that have lost relatives and friends.

have to be realistic, it is what it is.

this of course separate to the kind of person Zelensky might be.

mizaris
mizaris
February 21, 2025 2:48 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten that Zelensky is a clown puppet installed by Biden.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:27 am

@ggreenwald

In February 2021 — more than a year before Russian troops entered Ukraine en masse — the inspiring democrat, President Zelensky, banned 3 popular opposition TV networks by accusing them of spreading Russian disinformation.

It’d be as if Biden banned Fox or Trump banned CNN:

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 9:28 am

The final paragraphs from Henry Ergas in The Australian today:

As Harvard’s Serhii Plohky put it, “Like any war, any peace is never a one-act play: it has its beginning and its end, its ups and downs, its heroes and villains. It also has its price”.

It was the abject refusal of the European Union – and notably of France and Germany – to pay that price by enforcing the agreement it had reached with Vladimir Putin ending Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia that encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine.

And it was the paltry response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, along with France and Germany’s failure to give any teeth to the Minsk Agreements on the Donbas, that laid the ground for today’s disastrous war.

Whether a deeply divided EU now has a greater willingness and ability to bear the costs of securing a credible peace is highly doubtful. Moreover, the Trump administration has made it clear that it has no intention of doing so. Truman’s abiding sense of “the shadow cast by power” – the burdens the United States and its allies must bear to preserve freedom’s chances – seems to have vanished from this Earth.

We are, as a result, at the point where compromise risks veering into capitulation. That is not Yalta; it is Munich. If the West can do no better, our future is a world of pain.

I’m not as pessimistic, chiefly because what is happening with the US & Europe has to be seen in the global context, including our security in the longer term. And we’re still watching the first act unfold.

Last edited 22 hours ago by Roger
Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 9:46 am
Reply to  Roger

I agree, Roger. Trump holds all the aces and the EU, having trashed its own economies for ideological reasons, will have to go along with whatever Trump negotiates.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:27 am
Reply to  dover0beach

No aces? Only Europe’s umbrella for defence. Only mass subsidy of Europe’s security. Not to mention the megaphonic global messaging now tearing down the corrupt authoritarian Euro regimes and exposing their betrayal of their own citizens.

Sure, no aces here.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:41 am
Reply to  dover0beach

The US provides enormous high value intel to Europe. Europe doesn’t have the economy to spare the kind of money you are indicating, just token $. The Euro manufacturing ability to build arms is gutted.

Morally, Europe is destitute. They are so devoid of any courage they welcome the destruction of their own cultures (with very few exceptions). Europe welcomes the tearing down of it’s own Christian values.

I don’t know where you are getting these fantasies from.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 5:19 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

IF the Euros had a 180 degree magical change of heart TODAY and went really hard at it , it would be 5-10 years to reach the kind of effectiveness you are implying. By that time Trump would have ended the war and the US will be booming so much that Euroland will be even less significant than it is now.

You aren’t factoring in any kind of realistic timeline for your hypothesis. It’s all just wishful thinking. Meanwhile the US is getting revved up, right now.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 11:14 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

There is no ‘loss’ to Russia for Trump’s America, only for the soon to be former State Dept and CIA globalist shitbags, their European handmaidens and corrupt politicians everywhere. If the Euros didn’t see the change coming or have an off ramp, more fool them and they deserve everything that’s coming to them.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  Tom

Trump doesn’t want to fight a war on two fronts, whether that war is cold or hot.

What I’m interested in is what he extracts from Putin.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 12:33 pm
Reply to  Roger

Since I’m not a betting man I’d say Russia would prefer to be friends with the US than China. Sharing a border that the Chinese has always had excursions over is one such reason. It was hiden biden that forced Russia to get into bed with the chinese.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 11:19 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

America was only declining because that was the intention of the powers that be at the time ie: Obama. Trump’s America will change the trajectory significantly. I would still back American exceptionalism against all comers.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 11:15 pm
Reply to  Roger

He will be aiming to wedge China.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 10:14 am
Reply to  Tom

Relying on Russian gas to keep Germany warm was not a good move either.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 1:00 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Not at all. It was a sensible move because Russian gas was cheap and delivery reliable…

Delivery reliable…until it wasn’t.

Putting all your eggs in one Russian basket is never advisable.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 10:18 am
Reply to  dover0beach

You can leave it here but Ukraine is not worth that much to anyone least of all to other eastern European countries that are NATO members. And let’s not forget Sweden and Finland who joined last.

Last edited 21 hours ago by Crossie
Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:30 am

They have absolutely no idea, of course. Perhaps it’s alcohol. As if women never drank before.
‘Alarming’ rise in breast cancer under 40 across the US — why NY, NJ and Conn. have some of the highest rates

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:31 am

@amuse

?UKRAINE: Claims that Zelensky has an approval rate of 57% are from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology which received USAID funding for its polling. It is run by a VERY patriotic Ukrainian named Anton Hrushetskyi. It is unlikely the polling is credible. The US intel community estimates support at around 4% which is the number Trump has been citing. Don’t bet against Trump.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:32 am

@teameffujoe

Things are always better with a little historical context right @EdKrassen ??

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:34 am

@MarioNawfal

FACT CHECK: ZELENSKY DID ACTUALLY BAN OPPOSITION PARTIES AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Some claim Zelensky hasn’t banned opposition parties or independent media—only pro-Russian ones. But let’s look at the facts:

– Political Parties: In 2022, Zelensky officially banned 11 opposition parties, including the second-largest party in Ukraine, Opposition Platform—For Life, which had millions of supporters. The move was justified on national security grounds, but it effectively eliminated the main political opposition.

– Media Control: Ukraine’s government consolidated all national TV channels into one state-controlled broadcast and suspended pro-Russian outlets. The justification? Preventing Russian propaganda. The reality? No independent national media remains outside government oversight.

– Historical Comparison: The WWII analogy is flawed—the UK and US took extreme wartime measures, but they still held elections. Ukraine has postponed elections indefinitely, with Zelensky ruling by decree and showing no plan for a democratic vote.

So, is it correct that Zelensky “only” banned certain opposition parties and media? Yes.

But does that mean Ukraine still has a functioning political opposition and free press? Absolutely not.

Dictatorship or democracy? The choice is clear—and Zelensky isn’t making it.

Source: TOL, Al Arabiya, The Times, NPR

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:35 am

@GuntherEagleman

Stephen Miller: “If you are here illegally, you will not get in; you will go to jail, you will go home. You WILL NOT SUCCEED.”

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 9:36 am

@_johnnymaga

Omg.

Stephen Miller just gave every reporter in the White House briefing room a civics lesson over the narrative that Elon Musk is the “unelected President.”

This is so good.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 21, 2025 3:38 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Stephen Miller is sooo goood! He was an adviser to the three young blokes from Duke University who for 10 years fought fake charges of rape — who can forget Stephen Miller’s in President Trump’s first term and his schooling of the bouffant buffoon Jim ‘aren’t I gorgeous’ Acosts from CNN fake news – enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJVa35qoSE

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 9:41 am

Dutton is a total dud. He will not be anything like a conservative PM.

Dutton;

Promotes and backs censorship and the shutting up of Australians.

Wants to support the corrupt leftard Euro regimes in continuing war and sending Australian troops to Europe (fkg madness!). Supports the money launderer Zelenskiy.

Opposes US peace negotiations in Ukraine.

Opposes the Trump/Vance/Musk anti corruption and free speech doctrine in Europe.

Will keep that fkwit Rudd squandering our money on his trannie LGBTQI freaks in DC.

Continues to support the climate change scam (which is ruining this country)

Will continue with the Paris Accords.

Will continue our participating in WHO- the epicentre of Big Pharma corruption and global oppression.

Has not made any significant commitments on huge immigration reductions.

I’m not going to vote for this grifter Dutton. He’s an owned UNiparty lemming. A fkg ex-cop coward.

Last edited 22 hours ago by Makka
Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 9:58 am
Reply to  Makka

Also, Dutton admires Starmer! Thinks he is providing great leadership.

This is the UK PM who is actively destroying his country with bringing in moslem hordes by the thousands, dispossessing his countrymen, locking up praying old women, jailing meme posters, supports Sharia Law.

That describes alone how far Dutton is removed from conservative values.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 10:22 am
Reply to  Makka

Dutton is in a bind, he doesn’t want to scare the wets in his party but he also needs the rest of us who don’t like what the wets like.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 21, 2025 11:24 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Yes, but still far to many unforced errors to vote for.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 10:22 am
Reply to  Makka

He’s an owned UNiparty lemming

?well said

you could be arrested today for stating the truth that way in Germany

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 11:25 am
Reply to  Makka

He is still vulnerable to the wets in his party, and they do need to be appeased at this point of the electoral cycle.

this will be a bigger problem if a lot of the Teal seats are won back.

That said, the wets aren’t as organised this time and do not have a Turnbull figure to coalesce around, particularly after the departure of Birmingham. Still got Bragg I suppose, but fortunately a Senator.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 9:41 am

JC

 February 21, 2025 7:25 am

 Reply to  johanna

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.

Probably something in the water.
How long did you say you spent in NYC again?
Are you spending time in soft furnishings stores?
What do you think of Judy Garland?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 11:05 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Somewhere over the Rainbow is JC’s favourite song. Then agsin, I like it too. I might be gay but not ghay.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:19 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Only when sung by Billy Thorpe.

Bruce
Bruce
February 22, 2025 7:37 am
Reply to  Pogria

Or Eva Cassidy?

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 11:07 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I suspect an element of fashion. A surprising number of Little miss entropy’s circle of good friends (3) claimed to be lesbian while at school. I highly doubt there was any action, and more a reason why they weren’t chasing or being chased by boys.
it is all out the window now once those girls finished school and picked up boyfriends.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 21, 2025 8:03 pm
Reply to  Entropy

They were LUGS at uni. Lesbians Until Graduation.

And many of them didn’t go in for anything more than huggie kissing. No genital stuff.

Bill P
Bill P
February 21, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

If you weigh a whale at a whaleway station, where do you weigh a pie?
Somewhere over the rainbow.

132andBush
132andBush
February 21, 2025 1:54 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Well he has bought an EV.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 21, 2025 9:48 am

And in news from the Socialist State:

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson exits, told contract won’t be extended
?
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson has been told his contract will not be renewed by the Allan government, less than a week after former top cop Shane Patton was forced out.

and

Victorian Labor will likely keep bleeding support and suffer a devastating defeat in the 2026 state election, shocking analysis of the Werribee by-election has revealed.

Both in the Herald-Sun

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 11:08 am
Reply to  Top Ender

In trouble no doubt, but by elections aren’t necessarily reflective of a general election.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 9:53 am

Words just aren’t enough to describe the Hamas celebrations of the return of the brutally murdered babies and mom, the latest macabre horror shitshow. The grief of the father is unimaginable.

These things simply are not human. And deserve zero sympathy. Anyone supporting this barbarism deserves immediate incarceration if only for community safety. You cannot support this evil and be allowed free. It’s just patently madness to reward that kind of boundless hatred.

I’m convinced that the IDF is the hammer of God ridding us of this satanic presence.

Last edited 22 hours ago by Makka
alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 10:37 am
Reply to  Makka

Correction: Their behaviour is inhuman.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:47 am
Reply to  alwaysright

Nope. What I said.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 21, 2025 10:53 am
Reply to  Makka

Every IDF artillery tube should’ve been dialled in for a Time on Target.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 21, 2025 8:05 pm
Reply to  Makka

News just in says the body of the mother is actually that of some unknown woman. So more grief for the family.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 21, 2025 9:58 am

And in Once was a Royal Gossip:

“The biggest sorrow for Harry living in the States is not seeing his old Eton and army pals – much of this is down to the fact that they really dislike woke tree huggers and, rightly or wrongly, that’s what they feel Harry has become.”

Make stupid choices – get stupid results.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 10:00 am

10 years since TC Marcia ripped through Rocky, a classic micro-cyclone with the destructive core around 10km wide and lots of argument over the intensity. Anything above Cat 3 in a town like Rocky will be pretty horrific on buildings. My take on seeing the wind observations probably closer to a high end Cat 3 than Cat 5 but I wasn’t there.

As for our weather, distinct change over the last 2 days and last night the first night time chill I have felt for months. MJO (Biggest driver of cyclones and the monsoon) won’t be back for the foreseeable future and will be weak in the western pacific when it does. Mid Feb and it feels the transition to the dry is beginning despite what some are saying online.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 11:17 am
Reply to  Rockdoctor

The met stations around Rockhampton never got above 110kmh. Cat 1 gust speeds or if stretching cat 2 territory, and be called a tropical storm elsewhere in the world. That said, it still had a raggedy eye. And as it tracked south there were very strong downdrafts around the Kroompit Tops with fallen trees, flooding etc.
There was no way it was cat 3 at rocky with most damage fallen power lines and the like, given the standards of many houses there.

I’m sceptical it was even cat 5 at crossing the coast. Definitely a small, tight STC, but it was no Larry, Yasi or even Debbie.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 10:15 am

Dutton is a total dud. 

He can never be forgiven for the hate speech amendments and his general performance indicates that he’s poll driven rather than agenda focused (even his stance on the indigenous flags will have been polled and focus grouped before he announced it).

That being said, there are a couple of bright spots in his shadow cabinet, but will they be allowed to shine in a LNP minority government?

Last edited 21 hours ago by Roger
Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:21 am
Reply to  Roger

The real problem with Dutton, the danger to us exposed by his own words, is his admiration for that evil bastard Starmer. People need to fully understand what that means and who Starmer is and what he is doing to the UK and native Brits. Complete destruction of the Brit way of life is what Starmer is working on.

THAT is our future potentially.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 10:40 am
Reply to  Makka

I haven’t seen what he said re Starmer & can’t find anything.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:51 am
Reply to  Roger

Of all the people to admire and support. A money laundering scam and a PM traitor to his own nation. Great attributes has Dutton;

Peter Dutton

@PeterDutton_MP

Australia stands proudly with President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people.

The UK has provided stoic leadership, along with others, since the moment of Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine.

https://x.com/PeterDutton_MP/status/1891676560618393872

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 10:57 am
Reply to  Makka

If I were Dutton I wouldn’t be providing close commentary on the peace negotiations. It’s not in our interests “going forward.”

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:19 am
Reply to  Roger

Your post from Creighton says it all. We are in deep shyte and the prospects under Dutton are not good, to say the least. Dutton is just a puppet, doing as he is told. That’s clear from his recent commentary.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 21, 2025 10:28 am

Breaking…

IDF confirms return of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, states Shiri Bibas not returned (21 Feb)

The IDF confirmed on Friday morning that the hostage remains released on Thursday belonged to Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

However, the third body “was not that of Shiri Bibs, and no match was found for any other abductee. It is an anonymous body without identification,” the military stated.

No wonder they locked the coffins and refused to provide a key.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:33 am

Rotten evil bastards.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 21, 2025 11:02 am
Reply to  Makka

Even that evil chap Wong has been quiet lately.
Senses even she can’t defend Islam/Palestinians/Hamas.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:20 am

She’s working on it. Don’t be fooled. Wong is evil incarnate.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 11:27 am

Wong will say that Israel should show restraint.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 21, 2025 11:03 am
Reply to  cohenite

My opinion too, and I also think he has seen all of the raw footage from the October 7 massacre.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:34 pm

“Hell to pay”, he said.

Time is up after this show of barbarity.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 10:40 am

Jacinta on Chris Smith. She is the primary reason for voting lnp.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 11:13 am
Reply to  cohenite

Jacinta for PM

bons
bons
February 21, 2025 10:53 am

Kash has not jailed anyone yet.

Come on lad!

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 10:53 am

JD Vance’s warning to European leaders on free speech applies equally to Australia

Adam Creighton, The Australian, 21 February 2025

JD Vance’s controversial speech at the Munich Security Conference should be a wake-up call for Australia’s as much as for Europe’s governing elite. The new Vice-President, who’s quickly becoming the intellectual spear carrier of the Trump administration, mocked the growing obsession with censorship – including attempts to criminalise “hateful conduct” – among European governments.

Unless the continent changed, the US would seek a more distant relationship, he explained, rattling off some recent prosecutions, which I hope would still shock most Australians. German police recently raided the homes of citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist content online. British police arrested a man for praying outside an abortion clinic.

Vance could have delivered a similar speech about Australia, where federal and state politicians have taken advantage of a despicable spate of anti-Semitic graffiti and arson committed by a handful of idiots to ram through new laws that will fundamentally abridge Australians’ ability to speak freely without incarceration.

“Under Donald Trump’s leadership we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree,” Vance said, in a nod to Voltaire’s famous dictum. “We shouldn’t be afraid of our people, even when they express views that disagree with their leadership.”

These principles are becoming as alien in Australia as they are in Europe, as Australia seems to be adopting a similar model of governance. We’re moving in a direction in stark contrast to our most important ally and ultimate defender, the US.

With little debate last month, federal parliament rushed through new laws that criminalise the display of “hate symbols”. It also removed the intent requirement to successfully prosecute someone for hatefully urging crime against a targeted group.

Now, speech that is merely “reckless” as determined by a “reasonable” person, can land someone with a mandatory sentence of years in prison.

Had Elon Musk performed his (admittedly somewhat) bizarre thankyou gesture to a crowd of Trump supporters in Australia, rather than the US, he could have found himself in jail.

Parliaments in Victoria and NSW are falling over themselves to introduce laws that are even worse. Victoria is planning to criminalise being “hateful or seriously contemptuous of, or reviling or severely ridiculing” a so-called targeted group, as determined by a hypothetical member of that group! Cartoonists and comedians will be out of work soon.

Sweden’s free speech laws, as Vance explained, do not grant “a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief”. Australia is moving in that direction.

Free speech is entirely about protections for undesirable speech; no one would bother passing laws to protect desirable or even banal speech because no one would be offended.

The contrast with the freedoms that Americans enjoy and our own is increasingly stark. In 1969 the US Supreme Court, in what became the benchmark case, overturned an earlier conviction of one Clarence Brandenburg over his racist rantings about forcibly expelling black Americans.

Only speech that was “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and, crucially, “was likely to produce such action”, could be penalised, the judges found.

It’s an extremely high threshold and one that’s now sadly unimaginable in Australia. Personally, I struggle with the whole concept of a “hate crime”: how is physical assault, say, worse if the perpetrator in question also hated the victim? Isn’t hate an element of all crime to some degree? How can hate even be measured?

Vance could also have made similar observations about immigration. European governments clearly have ignored their citizens’ increasingly overwhelming desire to slow rates of immigration amid high inflation, growing social discord and straining public infrastructure.

According to a Scanlon Foundation poll last year, 49 per cent of Australians believe immigration levels are too high, up from 33 per cent a year earlier. Yet both major parties over the past decade have overseen record inward immigration, which will ultimately prompt a backlash.

Australia’s reputation in the US has suffered hugely since Covid, where the government’s totalitarian response shocked many Americans who associated Australians with Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin.

“For a place that is so tough, where everything on land and in the water can kill you, you have the biggest pussies in the media I’ve ever seen in my life,” said visiting UFC supremo Dana White, among Donald Trump’s best friends, on a recent trip here.

In his speech Vance pointed to the outrageous censorship of individuals who suspected SARS-CoV-2 might have emerged from the China’s Wuhan Institute.

Australia’s government went much further during that time, even demanding social media remove a tweet that accused Daniel Andrews of being a “dick” alongside a picture of the then premier wearing a mask bearing the words “This Mask is as Useless as Me”.

“It would be insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn’t going to be one that is pro-free speech,” Vance said in September.

European elites were angry with Vance for humiliating them. Our elites should instead be worried: we rely on the US a lot more than Europe does.

Personally, I’d welcome a JD Vance intervention in Australian politics.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:59 am
Reply to  Roger

Hear Hear! Very well said, Adam Creighton. Thanks Roger.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 1:52 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger, were I JDV, I’d be telling Australia to deal with its problems itself.
It’s time Australia grew up, demanded good governance and if we don’t get it, then either take it or suffer the consequences.

Last edited 18 hours ago by Winston Smith
Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 11:01 am

Shiri’s body was not returned. I am speechless.

Somebody texted me that Javier Milei has officially declared a national day of mourning for Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

Javier Milei is a mensch and a righteous gentile.

Meanwhile here in Oz we have a complete Jew hating slug as PM. I note this slug has said nothing about the putrid Hamas display of yesterday, I note he didn’t turn up at the anti-Semitism summit but instead was happy turning up on a podcast hosted by a putrid female who proudly said she’d never host a Zionist.

This country is fcked, completely fcked.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 11:14 am

Cassie, we have to remember the only reason we have what’s now a very unpopular Labor government is that the Turnbull-Morrison regime sold out its base.

Dutton isn’t very good but I think enough Australians will hold their noses to elect him PM in a majority LNP government this year because the Albanese circus is totally out of touch with middle Australia.

Nowadays, the SFLs are the government you have because they promise to steal less of your money than the communists.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 11:37 am
Reply to  Tom

on polling day wear a garlic necklace

Rafiki
Rafiki
February 21, 2025 11:44 am
Reply to  Tom

This time Tom, the critical actor may be the voting of the Indian and Chinese voting herds. The LNP looks more white that the Labor/Greens alliance. OTIH, maybe the white working class will wake up.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 11:17 am

yep

Annie
Annie
February 21, 2025 11:21 am

I’m speechless too and in tears. Where is Shiri, that poor woman. That photo of her in absolute terror has haunted me ever since Oct the 7th.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:28 am

The country is not fkd. What truly IS fkd are the voting , media and donor cohort who put and keep these horrible nasty people in power. The ones who hate Australia and Australians.

There are a good many people, hopefully a majority, who see our Govts for the rapacious evil supporting grubs that they are.

Meanwhile, it is a betrayal of Australia and it’s citizens to demand yet more censorship and cancelling of free speech here . If anything, it will be that freedom which turns things around for all us sensible normies who want to get on with our lives without the Govt running every part of it.

johanna
johanna
February 21, 2025 12:03 pm

No, it isn’t.

While I 100% agree about the awfulness of what is happenng to Jews, that is not the only prism to see the world through.

As I’ve said before, it is tiresome for people living in one of the richest, most beautiful and most peaceful countries in the world, in history, to be whining because it’s not their version of perfect.

If this country is what you say it is, how do you rate Afghanistan? Pakistan? Sudan? Better than here? OK, off you go and live there.

You sound like those upper middle class US college kids claiming that the US is the ultimate evil.

That goes for the many self indulgent, ahistorical wankers here who espouse similar sentiments.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:38 pm
Reply to  johanna

They are whining because they can see it being ruined.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 6:40 pm
Reply to  johanna

Piss off.

Arky
February 21, 2025 11:05 am

The small number of people who listen may remember, a year or two before QE2 kicked it I stated that conservatives better wrap their head around the fact that she would die one day and then the Monarchy would be unpopular, a republic would occur and they had to begin planning for it and pushing their preferred model.
Only now is it slowly occurring to them that the British royal family and their friends consists of fruitcakes, progressive loons and nonces.
All this has been long predictable. Charles was known to be a green loon from his youngest days. Back then, it was a fringe movement and the press laughed at him talking to trees and the incongruity of the hippy content of his speech with that ridiculous toffee accent.
The king is the establishment pillar for Islam, immigration and green progressive lunacy.
Put aside the fond memories of what you thought they were, do the work, and send these Germans away.

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Rafiki
Rafiki
February 21, 2025 11:36 am
Reply to  Arky

The Prince of Wales is half Spencer aristocracy of course. A N Wilson noted the danger Diana presented was that she would sponsor an English court that would put the Hanoverian Windsors in the shade. Maybe this task will fall to William and Kate. With the German Duke of Edinburgh now gone too, the English roots are no longer significant and they’re dying out.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 21, 2025 11:59 am
Reply to  Rafiki

The Duke of Edinburgh was Greek, not German.

Morsie
Morsie
February 21, 2025 12:12 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Hardly, Greek Royal family but not Greek

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 11:42 am
Reply to  Arky

The republican movement map for success – by mole.

25 years ago instead of running a campaign against a popular or at least respected old biddy do this.

Announce at the end of HRHs reign Australia will become a republic.
Lots of toadying up, “great help, best friends, mother of the nation” stuff.
Get a full “Hong Kong back to the mainland” ceremony set up.

President basic a carbon copy of the GG role, directly elected, first past the post.

Congratulations, you have mollified the monarchists, made the eternal whining republicans happy and have a largely unchanged role for the head of government.

All hail Queen/president Kylie Minogue, first of their line

Instead they got the bandanna headed scrote and bunch of other reptiles to cook up a convoluted cack handed Calcutta commode of a system.

Mongs.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 12:42 pm

Not sure the Hong Kong reference is helpful there.

and the public would not wear the GG template for a president. They would want to elect them.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 11:44 am
Reply to  Arky

The heir had a 75% approval rating in the UK as of August, 2024 [YouGov].

Predictions of the royal family’s demise may be premature.

(This is an observation based on a datum, not an expression of personal approval.)

Arky
February 21, 2025 11:53 am
Reply to  Roger

They’re all loathsome.
However you may be right that a coronation may give them a brief bump.
But they are what they are, and without QE2s discipline and media intelligence, they will always, always be a scandal ridden, elitist, anti- populism, reflection of their class and type. Arrogant and stupid.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 12:05 pm
Reply to  Arky

They’re all loathsome.

75% of Brits seem to disagree re William.

He’s much more popular than his father, particularly in London, the UK’s most foreign city, which might be expected to be the seat of any nascent republicanism.

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Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:45 pm
Reply to  Arky

You reckon President Anal, Rudd or Trumble would be better?

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Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:42 pm
Reply to  Arky

The way it’s going, it will be replaced by a Caliphate.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 11:12 am

Just when you think those loathsome vermin couldn’t plumb any more subterranean depths, inbred pallyweirdo goat pleasurers are now claiming Ariel, Kfir and Shiri Bibas were killed in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023.

That entire inexcusable terrorist enclave needs to be obliterated along with every monstrous verminous pallyweirdo sh*thead existing there.

Those photos of the handover of the bodies (one of which was not Shiri Bibas) are reminiscent of many depictions of Hades and should be enough to make any normal person’s blood boil.

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Morsie
Morsie
February 21, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  Rabz

It gets worse.Apparently the remains are not the mother nor any hostage.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Rabz

They even had Gazan children on stage cheering the deaths. UN and Red Cross seem to be OK with inducting children into the Hamas evil.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 11:13 am

Mother Lode

 February 21, 2025 9:03 am

Things seem to move pretty quick at the White House these days.

At 4:30pm, Leland Dudek’s boss put him on leave for helping DOGE find fraud. “They want to fire me,” he wrote. “I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA.”

Within hours, it was his boss who was fired, and the longtime SSA waste-watcher was elevated to lead the whole agency.

Even lab rats learn to see the patterns in their environment eventually.
Shirley swampies are starting to learn something from seeing colleagues stick their heads up out of the trench and take a round to the forehead.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 11:20 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Some of the swampies appear to think it’s Feb 2017, not Feb 2025.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 21, 2025 11:20 am

Maybe they’d play better if they stopped marrying each other.

Matildas beaten 4-0 by Japan in embarrassing performance (21 Feb)

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
February 21, 2025 2:34 pm

I bet Sam Kerr was spewing about the loss.

Bruce in WA
February 21, 2025 3:04 pm

ISWYDT

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:50 pm

At least no celebration induced vomiting.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 11:25 am

I was today years old when i found out /confirmed that spiraling house prices must be a great economic indicator because they add to GDP.

In effect the population ponzi MUST be awesome, as it spikes house values and rents.

Rococo Liberal
Rococo Liberal
February 21, 2025 1:47 pm

The problem is that you cannot ever let house prices fall, because they represent a great part of most people’s wealth. Imagine, you spend $1m to buy a small place in Sydney and 6 months later you could only get $500K for it because the government actually succeeded in lowering house prices. You would be very pissed off, especially if your mortgage was now worth more than your house. John Major’s government was slaughtered at the ballot box when that happened in the UK.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 11:25 am

“It would be insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn’t going to be one that is pro-free speech,” Vance said in September.

Yes I bolded it. It’s important.

How long would it take Ostraya and it’s states to unwind all their free speech laws?

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 11:26 am
Reply to  alwaysright

Anti free speech.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 12:29 pm
Reply to  alwaysright

This is an important point to make.
It isn’t surprising that the diplomatic Mafia (Hi, Kev … Hi, Alexander) detest Trump.
He and Vance have blown up all the confected Foreign Affairies mantras about the “complexities” of foreign aid and military alliances being a delicate house of cards that only the Kevni’s of this world can navigate.
Hitler and the Hillbilly are clearly saying that military and civilian aid comes with strings, and they are not afraid to pull them.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 21, 2025 11:26 am

U.S.-Russia talks include discussions on withdrawing U.S. troops from NATO countries that joined after 1990, security sources say — BILD

This is where “America First” conflicts with “Make America Great Again”.
America can’t withdraw from Europe without it looking like a betrayal. You know how it is. When you’ve been receiving special treatment for a long time, equal treatment feels like an injustice.

reports emerge that Washington is refusing to co-sponsor a draft UN resolution demanding Russia withdraw its troops.

As for Ukraine in particular, it is still upsetting that Russia could invade a neighbour and totally get away with it. On the one hand the Ukies were sitting ducks as they had no larger security pact they could call upon for help. On the other hand it’s also because there is no sheriff in town any more. EU and USA aid was mainly in weapons, intel, and money. Nobody was willing to use their own force to repel Russia.

Trump seems to have abdicated America’s role as World Police. We’re seeing the results already. Good bye, International Rules Based Order, it was nice knowin’ ya.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 11:45 am

all arse-backward as usual, Berka

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 21, 2025 12:20 pm

No counter-argument, just bullying?

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 12:52 pm

listen Berka, there is no counter-argument to the fallacies you generate

empty, over emotional, florid language whose premise is to deceive or conjure

while you mouth what you reckon sounds like a petition for peace, it reads a bit like a charter for personal vengeance

your brand of gibberish is at least on par with mUnty’s

what are you saying, that the conflict should end when you’re satisfied?

 “America First” conflicts with “Make America Great Again”

… is empty of logic … put some flesh on those bones if you want an argument

upsetting that Russia could invade a neighbour and totally get away with it”

… is evocative but, firstly you have the premise wrong and secondly, nobody got away with anything yet. Your war-mongering puff is exactly what causes more dead on both sides.

“Good bye, International Rules Based Order”

hello neo-con … first-up … there’s new rules … better get used to it

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 1:18 pm

No counter-argument, just bullying?

How come Europeans didn’t gang up on Biden for allowing Putin to set out on his “minor incursion”? That was OK with them? But Trump implying they and Biden should have nipped it in the bud is a betrayal?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 21, 2025 12:46 pm

Unsurprisingly, JD Vance disagrees with me:

It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as “appeasement” every acknowledgment that America’s interest must account for the realities of the conflict. That interest–not moralisms or historical illiteracy–will guide President Trump’s policy in the weeks to come.

I can’t help but think he’s making a reification error here. He treats a choice as though it is some sort of inevitable reality. If he’d just come out in the open and say “America has a numerical advantage over Russia, but we’ve decided not to use it” we’d be almost on the same page.
And it is just disingenuous to imply that Orange Man is not being guided by moralisms; he must be, they’re just different moralisms.

To Orange Man’s credit, he only promised he’d achieve peace. He never said this would be a just outcome with no cost to Ukraine.

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 5:56 pm

you’re doing it again Berka.

a lot of moral posturing but nothing of substance

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 12:47 pm

By international rules based order, it means UN elites deciding backed by US might and its children.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:08 pm

The betrayal happened when these nations, capable of defending their own borders, decided to keep the US crutch and bludge off them.
These countries won’t defend themselves?
That’s their problem and the US is better off not getting entangled with them.
The Middle of Europe excluding Germany and Austria could set up their own defence and economic organisation to their great benefit, but refuse to do so while the US supports them.
God knows they’ve copped it historically from both sides, and you’d think that they could organise themselves.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 11:27 am

We really are in deep doo doo.

Arky
February 21, 2025 11:29 am

Makka

 February 21, 2025 9:53 am

Words just aren’t enough to describe the Hamas celebrations of the return of the brutally murdered babies and mom, the latest macabre horror shitshow. The grief of the father is unimaginable.

These things simply are not human.

They are human.
This is what fallen humanity is and always has been.
A horror show.
Nature is red in tooth and claw. Propelled by the new paganism, we are even worse than humans in their natural state. Every year 70 million women abort their babies. In laboratories around the world the brightest humans work to enhance the worst pathogens for the purposes of indiscriminate murder. 150 years after the Christian West ended slavery in their homelands, the new pagan West found a variety of work arounds: the shattering of the nuclear family, offshoring and human trafficking, and has entrenched these for the last three decades.
No, humanity isn’t your family and friends and the remnants of their values which is all we are left today. It is the trafficker, the pusher, the killer and the terrorist.
And the only thing we have contra that natural state and it’s frightening outcrop, the pagan transhuman future, is our belief and faith in God.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:41 am
Reply to  Arky

A few lines from an article at Ace, about the dreadful handover of the murdered.

“Someone on X observed that even in Nazi Germany, there were some Germans who rescued/sheltered Jews and moved them to safety.
Not a single Gazan helped a Jewish hostage. Not even the babies.
“I keep thinking about this,” the X-er said.
Me too.
Some implications and conclusions flow from these facts.”

Another foul example of the filth that are Palestinians;

The caskets bore smiling pictures of those killed alongside messages listing their “date of arrest” as Oct. 7, 2023.”

Hey Slug, hey Pong, are you both on board with arresting Babies?
Of course you are.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 11:29 am

Just think, we have people who support Hamas working in our public hospitals.

We need to stay healthy and have private health insurance (until that’s destroyed by Labor/Greens).

chook
chook
February 21, 2025 11:48 am

Stay healthy and be happy – the very best revenge !!!

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 11:34 am

Also, Dutton admires Starmer! 

Where and when did Dutton say he ‘admires Starmer’?

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:46 am

Read above.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 11:35 am

Just think, we have people who support Hamas working in our public hospitals.

we have people who support Hamas imported into this country.
Who allowed that?

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:57 am
Reply to  alwaysright

Maybe ASIO says their anti-semitism and pro-terrorism is just “rhetorical.” Like those nurses.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 11:36 am

MSN:

The next tropical cyclone to develop in Australian waters won’t be known as “Anthony” as originally planned.

The Bureau of Meteorology this week shuffled the name to avoid any confusion with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The next cyclone will be titled “Alfred”.

Presumably, that’s because BoM thinks Albo can’t be mistaken for Alfred E. Newman — a risky supposition.

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Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 11:50 am
Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 11:54 am
Reply to  Makka

Outstanding!

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 12:00 pm
Reply to  Makka

Extra outstanding!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 11:54 am

Apropos of nothing-
I just opened a box of tissues.
‘Sorbent – Australian since 1952 – 100% recyclable!’
Made in China.

And we’re bringing in millions of no skill labourers to make the books look good, and disguise the fact we are in a recession.
Unbelievable.

Arky
February 21, 2025 12:05 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Shut up, peasant.
Give thanks that your betters allow you the freedom to wipe your miserable backside at all.
As for your new neighbours, rest assured that you will only be charged a reasonable rate above the real cost their enhancement brings your neighbourhood.
You are welcome.
Get back to work.
And be thankful we don’t charge you for your hatespeech.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:14 pm
Reply to  Arky

>sob<
Please don’t beat me Masser.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 12:11 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

millions of no skill labourers

More incoming and not the kind we need, or want. You can guess the demographic Burka is focused on;

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that Mr Burke’s department will hold three days of citizenship ceremonies in Sydney Olympic Park this weekend, conferring citizenship on as many as 6,000 new Australians in electorates Labor is desperate to hold.

The blitz is part of a deliberate bid from the Home Affairs department to give new Australians citizenship on the eve of the election.

It can be revealed that Mr Burke’s department will host 25 pre-election ceremonies, giving citizenship to 12,500 people before March 4.”

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 1:03 pm
Reply to  Makka

This needs more scrutiny by LNP lawyers and an injunction if needed.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 2:59 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

I’d prefer a sniper.

Burke is a Lord Haw Haw level germ.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 1:26 pm
Reply to  Makka

The numbers are getting worse and worse. There couldn’t possibly be that many people eligible for citizenship in his electorate. Besides, such a huge influx of voters should surely trigger a re-distribution.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 21, 2025 8:48 pm
Reply to  Makka

Also they seem to be reminding them that they can now vote and handing out info on how to enrol.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 21, 2025 9:41 pm

The working relationship between the Democrats and Labor is a pretty close one these days.Those training days for Aussie volunteers in the US are paying off.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 12:58 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

which UAF ?

MatrixTransform
February 21, 2025 5:59 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

University of Agriculture Faisalabad

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 12:07 pm

I just opened a box of tissues.
‘Sorbent – Australian since 1952 – 100% recyclable!’
Made in China.

Has anyone noticed how hard it is to tear open the paper around a bandaid? A while ago this annoyed me so much I looked at the manufacturer’s name to write and complain. Forget that – Johnson & Johnson, but manufactured in Shanghai. I did write – but received no reply.

The difficulty with bandaids particularly annoyed me because they are usually used with cut fingers – when you need a source to stem bleeding promptly.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 12:10 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Yes!

Designed by idiots you’d have to conclude

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 12:13 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Yes, but the ones I use I found they have a little tab at the top to pull down and open easily.

Arky
February 21, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  Vicki

There is an easy solution to this problem.
You need Asian fingers to open those.
But thankfully, because all manufacturing is now done in China, they have a wealth of spare parts, you can go there and get an Asian hand transplanted onto your arm of choice.
No more frustrated wrestling with packaging!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 12:59 pm
Reply to  Arky

As a added bonus if you go for really dainty hands it makes your cock look massive!

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 3:01 pm

Even if you identify as a female.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 12:26 pm
Reply to  Vicki

For a couple of years now I’ve been going to a paper towel with pressure applied to stem the bleeding, followed by the application of the band aid.

The band aid is no longer first port of call in a kitchen emergency.

First world problems!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:17 pm
Reply to  Vicki

I find turning on the stove top and cauterising usually stops those annoying bleeders.
🙂

mizaris
mizaris
February 21, 2025 3:19 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Difficult with an induction top…oh for those halcyon days of gas cooking!!!

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 21, 2025 2:42 pm
Reply to  Vicki

An ice cube is the first choice on a cut. Stops bleeding quickly. Alternative is a bag of frozen peas which also works fast.

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Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 12:11 pm

Just when you think those loathsome vermin couldn’t plumb any more subterranean depths, inbred pallyweirdo goat pleasurers are now claiming Ariel, Kfir and Shiri Bibas were killed in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023.

Mate, it gets worse. Within the hour Israel has reported that forensic examination has shown that the remains attributed to the mum, Shiri, are not hers.

The grief is indescribable.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 12:13 pm

Israel has demanded that Hamas return the body of Shiri Bibas, accusing the Palestinian militant group of having handed over the body of an unknown person rather than that of the hostage.
The Abu Kabir Forensic Institute have confirmed the identities of the two youngest hostages – Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were aged nine months and four years old when they were taken by Hamas on October 7 2023. 
The military said forensic evidence and intelligence allowed them to assess that the two young boys were ‘ “brutally murdered” by Hamas in November 2023.
But the Israeli Defence Forces said in a statement the third body was “not that of their mother, Shiri, nor that of any other Israeli hostage.” 
A military spokesman said: “We demand Hamas return Shiri Bibas along with all the abductees.
“We share the deep sorrow of the Bibas family at this difficult time and will continue to make every effort to return Shiri and all the hostages home as soon as possible,” the military added.

from The Australian

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 1:00 pm
Reply to  Vicki

You savages have twenty four hours to return the body of Shiri Bibas, or Gaza City becomes Ground Zero. Love and kisses from Jeruselum.

Kneel
Kneel
February 21, 2025 1:02 pm
Reply to  Vicki

I am well sick of the Mohammedite victimhood – you had peace, you used it to build up arms and attack and kill unarmed civilians in Israel. Then took hostages. Then demanded a peace deal when you ran out of weapons.
You got an unbelievably good “deal” on hostage exchange. You didn’t live up to your side of the bargain – yet again.
You cannot be trusted to live up to any agreements Israel may be so silly as to agree to.

F*ck ’em – Israel, use your new supply of 2,000 lb bombs and flatten the place.
followed by incendiaries.
No need for warnings, they never gave you one.
Sweep the smoking remains into the sea – don’t bother searching for survivors first. Unless you think there might be the odd dog or snake lying about – certainly they would be more moral and honest creatures than the bipeds that populate what remains of the buildings in Gaza now.
Take full control of the area.
Ban non Israeli citizens from residency in Gaza – permanently.
Warn those on the West Bank and southern Lebanon that if they play the same stupid games, they’ll win the same stupid prizes. “F*ck with us, we’ll hit you so hard, even google won’t be able to find you.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 21, 2025 12:15 pm

Maybe a journalist could ask Albo and Bowen about this report?

Indonesia industrial coal power plans undercut emissions pledge: report (20 Feb)

Indonesia’s new national electricity master plan announced in November projects growth in renewables but also a sharp rise in coal generation beyond 2030, according to a report by London-based energy think tank Ember.

…the new plan includes 26.8 gigawatts of new coal capacity over the next seven years, Ember said, with more than 20 GW of that coming from so-called captive coal expansion, which supplies energy to industry rather than the grid.

Indonesia currently operates 49.7 GW of coal-fired power plants, according to Ember, and the government says 253 coal-fired power plants were operational as of December.

But dozens more coal-fired plants remain under construction, including captive coal plants.

Maybe ask Marles as well, since he’s Defence Minister. They are building roughly as much power generation we have here in Australia and they’re doing it in only 7 years. Indonesia may pay lip service to the Paris stuff for strategic reasons but they don’t believe in climate fairies.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 1:29 pm

They also don’t have idiot politicians like the backward Bowen.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 12:28 pm

A few news reports last week that Indonesia is considering exiting Paris.

Under the uniparty we’ll be left like a shag on a rock.

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Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 12:55 pm
Reply to  Roger

We can always stay in but do what we damn well please of course.

That seems to be what every other country is already doing. And what are the euros (and it is them) going to do: send us a strongly worded letter, or maybe threaten to stop importing our products they have already quotaed and tariffed out of any significance anyway?

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 1:04 pm
Reply to  Entropy

We can always stay in but do what we damn well please of course.

No sign of that from either wing of the uniparty.

And I’m not convinced Dutton’s nuclear boondoggle, should it ever come to fruition, won’t continue to drive prices up.

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Jock
Jock
February 21, 2025 1:39 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger nothing in this country can be built cheaply. Material is expensive. We keep on pricing ourselves higher. We have ridiculous levels of regulation. Too many students doing Mickey Mouse degrees rather than engineering or stem. And I say that as an old finance type. You can expect to wait 5-10 years for approvals. Then there is native title.
why would you pick Australia to manufacture or build something. If you do, my advice is to triple the desktop estimate cost .

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 1:42 pm
Reply to  Roger

Nuclear will definitely increase prices compared with coal power.

But we won’t be able to do build new coal power stations. Only an idiot would invest in coal if all it takes is a change of government to stuff your business and do your dough.

the thing about nukes, apart from the high, consistent power output, is they do not need a massive overbuild and will be frankly cheaper than the infrastructure overbuild and duplicative backup required for renewable power. And keeping them Government owned with massive upfront sunk cost then a change of government will be less likely to shut it down. Particularly if the senate overturns the EPBC Act ban.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 12:36 pm

JD Vance’s message to young men;

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1892614164562010284

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 1:02 pm
Reply to  Makka

Awesome manspreading there too!

he is such a clear threat and so much more eloquent that Trump I hope the Secret Service is really on point.

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Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
February 21, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Makka

I watched the entire interview last night. JD Vance is very impressive. He makes most of our pollies look like thumb sucking cretins. I would say Jacinta Price has the potential to be our version of Vance.

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Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 1:44 pm
Reply to  Makka

The host, Mercedes someone or other, is a bit too partisan for my taste. I would prefer then to be a bit more less of a cheerleader.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 12:54 pm

Commentor, in the Oz, on the Tony Maddox legal dogfight, pointing out that the Barnett Government paid 1.3 billion quid to settle all native title claims, present and future – how come this sort of schmozzle is going on?

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 1:02 pm

Awesome manspreading there too! Oops wrong spot.

Last edited 19 hours ago by Entropy
Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 1:06 pm

From what I understand it came under a different piece of legislation.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:29 pm

Any negotiations with the Aboriginal lobby end up, not in an agreement, but in a starting point for the next round of demands.

What’s needed is a blanket binary policy. You are Australian or you are not.
No special deals for hyphenated citizenry, no two passports, no government departments for ‘special’ people, no pamphlets in 18 different languages, no TV Channels for different cultures.
Integrate or piss off.

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 1:00 pm

In the “bad old days” before gerbil worming hysteria hit we were able to pay relatively high wages (compared to other similar countries) because our wholesale power prices were incredibly cheap.

Since enacting internal tariffs against our own competitive advantage we have been in the shit.

Its not rocket surgery!

Arky
February 21, 2025 1:10 pm

Any confirmation yet that the pilot who parked the plane upside down and on fire in Toronto was a chick?

Arky
February 21, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Arky

The media has gone suspiciously quiet on it.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 1:19 pm
Reply to  Arky

Isn’t it an All GURL airline?

Arky
February 21, 2025 1:27 pm
Reply to  Makka

Interesting.

Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 2:04 pm
Reply to  Arky

It was definitely a male voice speaking to ATC. Could have been a trannie, of course.

bons
bons
February 21, 2025 2:38 pm
Reply to  Arky

She was a qualified First Officer (Restricted ATP in North American parlance).

She had about 1,000 plus hours and was flying with a check captain.

Like all rear engines airliners the CRJ-900 can be a handful when flaring in gusty conditions (727 and DC-9 being examples).

The conditions were gusty and the crosswind was about thirty degrees.

It would appear that she simply became overloaded by the conditions. She dropped a wing into the crosswind but didn’t t appear to flare at all, hence she had a high sinkrate and a high threshold speed.

The Captain didn’t take over or demand a goround.

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 1:13 pm

I see the psychopaths that so many Australian numbskulls support and sympathise with (including our foul federal government) are toying with the Israelis over Shirri Bibas’ remains.

If anyone was fence sitting, making excuses, conjuring up labyrinthine reasons to side with Gazans….this is the last chance to hop off. Stay where you are and you will no longer be considered immature, easily led, foolish. You are now, by your own admission, wicked. You side with overt, unapologetic wickedness.

I can think of several reasons why this mother’s body was not returned to her family, all of them horrible.

That they thought any old body would do also speaks volumes. Not a known hostage, so more than likely a dead Gazan. Like the dozens of live carcasses traded for a single Israeli or indeed Thai hostage, they do not value the lives of their own compatriots highly either.

If you want a snapshot of fallen humanity, look no further than Gaza.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 1:30 pm
Reply to  calli

Yep.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 1:37 pm
Reply to  calli

It doesn’t do Islam any favours either.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:35 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Islam doesn’t give a rats arse, Crossie – according to them we are vermin and not worth the consideration they’d give a nematode.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:34 pm
Reply to  calli

That they thought any old body would do also speaks volumes.
It’s a statement of how much contempt they hold us in that they would not even care when they were found out.
It’s just more torture for the family – hope now crushed. They know damn well what they’re doing – it’s deliberate.
Evil bastards.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
February 21, 2025 2:51 pm
Reply to  calli

Four options:
1/. Hamas believed it was her body & are as surprised as the rest of us.

2/. Hamas have lost track of her, have no idea where her body is, & threw in the handiest one believing nobody would know the difference.

3/. Same as No. 2, except they expected Israel to detect the subterfuge, but didn’t care. Exchanging an unknown corpse for several dozen experienced violent killers is a very good deal – “..if the Zionist dogs want to make such a crazy deal, who are we to stand in their way?

4/. The evil bastards deliberately sent a stray body for the purpose of inflicting a macabre psychological blow to Israelis.

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Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 4:30 pm
Reply to  calli

If you want a snapshot of fallen humanity, look no further than Gaza.

Pace calli…

If you want a snapshot of fallen humanity, look within.

Most of us keep the evil within in check either due to a fear of punishment (temporal or eternal) or out of respect for what is good (relative or absolute) and a desire to be rewarded for pursuing it (again, either temporally or eternally) or at least in order to outwardly conform to recognised moral standards.

In short, most of us, even unbelievers, aren’t as bad as we could be, thank God (literally).

What’s happening in Gaza is on another level from the ‘ordinary evil’ we all know. It is, in my view at least, worse than that exhibited by the Nazis (hitherto the benchmark, although Stalin et al should get a mention), who at least tried to keep their evil deeds (the Holocaust) secret. It is an example of what psychology calls ‘extraordinary evil’ (the last of 22 identified levels of evil) that is being exhibited not by an individual or even a discrete group within a larger society but by the whole society, or very nearly all Gazans if the surveys conducted since 7th October 2023 are accurate.

And the world should have seen this coming – we’ve known for years about the dehumanisation of Jews inculcated among Gazans by Hamas, fermenting historical grievances into a horrific brew of bloodlust.

Little wonder Arab countries who’ve been rolling back extremism for a decade or more don’t want these people in their midst.

Last edited 15 hours ago by Roger
calli
calli
February 21, 2025 4:49 pm
Reply to  Roger

If you want a snapshot of fallen humanity, look within.

I have a pretty good idea of what’s in my heart, Roger.

I’ve auditioned all sorts of biblical punishments for Gazans. Fortunately for me I don’t get to judge.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 5:47 pm
Reply to  calli

I have a pretty good idea of what’s in my heart, Roger.

None of us do in toto.

Thankfully it’s all covered by the blood of Christ.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 21, 2025 7:04 pm
Reply to  Roger

It’s starting to require rather a lot of Trust in the Lord.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 1:15 pm

I’m sceptical it was even cat 5 at crossing the coast. Definitely a small, tight STC, but it was no Larry, Yasi or even Debbie.

Middle Percy Is off St Lawrence Marci was definitely at a Cat 3 as I remember was close to if not in the eyewall. 200km/h plus gusts and sustained over 150km/h. Some of the Shoalwater Training Area weather stations had similar.

I did hear the valleys around Rocky may have contributed to channelling winds thus some areas wiped out and others unscathed. Anyway that and Cyclone Lam another over categorised storm started the end for BOM’s objectiveness in my eyes.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 1:46 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Quite so.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 1:18 pm

On the matter of USAID sponsoring Trannie plays and comic-books, isn’t this just fourth wave colonialism?
A world power trying to impose it’s prevailing culture on poorer, more vulnerable nations.
How does that differ from 19th-20th century evangelism in Africa and Asia?
I feel like tearing down a statue.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 1:26 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

The only evangelism in the past 100 years devoted to destroying the family is Marxism — the same blueprint being used by USAID.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 1:26 pm

These things simply are not human.

Correct. Whilst the Nazis in Gaza might have human form, they lack a human soul or even an animal soul. Christians and other believers will understand this but what defines us as ‘human’ is actually not our physical form, rather it is our soul or as we say in Hebrew, our ‘neshama’.

It’s the soul that matters. The best way to describe the Jewish neshama/soul is…

The neshamah in Jewish thought is the self, it is the “I” that inhabits the body and acts through it. It is what defines as human. Whilst ultimately our physical body is irrelevant, we are commanded to look after it.

The Pallie Muslim Gazan Nazi filth, both young and old, who lined up yesterday to crow and laugh over the bodies of dead Jewish children ARE NOT IN POSSESSION OF A HUMAN SOUL.

This was only uploaded a few hours ago, on the marvellous American Jewish magazine ‘Tablet’. I would urge everyone to read it…

Their time is up

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/bibas-children-israel-gaza

Finally, hear this, I have no doubt Hamas knew Shiri was not one of the bodies and have done this deliberately.

I repeat, the scum in Gaza are NOT human, I refuse to compare them to animals (who also have a lower soul). Animals do not behave this way.

Arky
February 21, 2025 2:00 pm

This is simply what pre- Judeo Christian humans look like,
As a lad I used to run around a four mile course that took me down a dirt lane around the beach and behind the old Maori pa.
A feeling of dread hit me along that road, every time.
Later, reading the history of the place, it was the site of a massacre.
Te Rapraha brought his north island tribe down and after a series of double dealings on both sides the pa was laid siege.
They burnt them out and killed most of them, taking others slave and capturing a rival chief.
Cannibal feasts ensued. The farmers still dig up burnt bones with their plows.
The rival chief, his wife and daughter were taken back to the north, and after a ceremony, tied to a pole, his eyes were gouged out and eaten before he was killed by the man he offended.

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Arky
February 21, 2025 2:08 pm
Reply to  Arky

Te Rauparaha took advantage of the chaos and his men invaded the p?. The settlement was completely destroyed, with the occupants that had not managed to flee being killed and eaten or taken as slaves.

The monument at the Kaiapoi pa site:

IMG_1552
Arky
February 21, 2025 2:13 pm
Reply to  Arky

That is the monument as it was when I used to run past it every day,
Today it is without the figure on top, the Christchurch earthquake has removed the top third of the column.

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 2:08 pm

I am far, far crueller than you Cassie.

They have souls. He has put eternity into their hearts and eternity they shall have. The guilty don’t escape.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 21, 2025 9:38 pm
Reply to  calli

I am kinder than both of you. If I could press a button and have every gazan head explode as in Kingsman, I’d do it immediately. Including those in Australia.
I don’t believe in souls. I tried to sell mine to Arky, but he welshed on the deal.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 1:29 pm

At what price will WDS shareholders sack there woke leadership?

-23% in 1 year, -41% from the high in ’22.

No sign yet the market sees FV.

Looking like quite a carcass.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  Makka

Just looked at the last three years’ results – absolutely appalling. More woke wankers destroying the value of everything they touch. Thanks goodness I didn’t pay anything for mine.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 4:01 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Who or what is WDS?

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 4:27 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Woodside.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 1:29 pm

Without attributing anything to one of the two remaining genders …
I think it unwise to put someone who can’t parallel park in control of a vehicle which operates in three dimensions.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 1:40 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I can parallel park, reverse park, also do both with a trailer or horse float.
nyah!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 1:51 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Show off.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 1:57 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Next thing you’ll be telling us you can read a map. Ha!

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 1:59 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

nods, then smirks. 😀

Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 2:07 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I’m also capable of all the above courtesy of a truck driver dad and attaining a military licence.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 2:29 pm
Reply to  Megan

Megan, I bow to your superior experience. 😀
Until a saddo like Arky mentions women not being able to do “manly stuff”, I don’t even give driving, parking, towing etc, a second thought when doing it.

chuckle, snort, guffaw! 😀

Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 3:06 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Arky is a classic stirrer. He knows there are women who are exceptions to his rules. I simply assume I am said exception when he’s on a rant spree.

Arky
February 21, 2025 4:31 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Rude.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:37 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Over achiever.

Arky
February 21, 2025 2:17 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Sure but I still ain’t flying on the plane you are piloting.

Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 3:02 pm
Reply to  Arky

I wouldn’t fly in a plane I was piloting either.

Kneel
Kneel
February 21, 2025 2:35 pm
Reply to  Pogria

You know what freaks most people out?
When you reverse park on the wrong side of the road on a one-way street, and do it in one smooth go, perfectly.

Beertruk
February 21, 2025 5:56 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I can parallel park, reverse park, also do both with a trailer or horse float.
nyah!

I think I have found the explanation Pogria 🙂

Sorry…couldn’t help meself Matey. 😉

Last edited 14 hours ago by Beertruk
Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 2:24 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Sancho, courtesy of the advice of old racing car driver (Graham Hill, as I recall) in a magazine, I park perfectly. Drive parallel to car in front of parking space, then back your vehicle at right angle, mid way into space between the front and rear vehicles, & straighten up. Presto, perfect park.

My motoring mad husband was sceptical and derisory for years about this technique. But it works – and he knows it.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 2:26 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Incidentally, I left foot break on automatics – also courtesy of Graham Hill (as I recall) because he argued, “If you have a left foot, why not use it???”

Drove husband crazy for years. He now lives with it.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 2:39 pm
Reply to  Vicki

We must be related, so do I.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 2:39 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

We could be, my cousins name is Vicki.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 2:38 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Thats how I park.

Kneel
Kneel
February 21, 2025 2:40 pm
Reply to  Vicki

“Can you teach him to reverse park? We’ve all tried and no-one can get him to do it”.
4 hours, first 2 just honing the “feel” of reversing and judging the back of the car, last 2 using the same thing you describe – next to car “in front” of spot, while moving, go to full left lock, when car hits 45 deg., full right lock.
Did his test, got asked “Who taught you to reverse park?” “Family member” “never seen it done like that – works though!”

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
February 21, 2025 3:40 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Flying a plane didn’t end well for Graham Hill either.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 1:49 pm

Breaking news. Mitch McConnell set to resign.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

On Breitbart

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 1:53 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Not seeking re-election in 2026 mid-terms.
At the age of 84 with some sort of neurological condition.

Kneel
Kneel
February 21, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

When you freeze up for no reason at a press conference, when you trip up stairs and need a trip to the hospital, when you fall over and need to be in a wheelchair for a couple of weeks, and when all but three of your senate party colleges vote differently to you on multiple issues, it’s seriously time to wonder whether you are truly representing your constituents and whether doing a job that affects 100’s of millions of people is the right place for you to be.

Or so it seems to me.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 1:54 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I’d prefer his resignation was “death induced” and effective immediately.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:00 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

It is bizarre that he still holds the position of Senate Leader whilst consistently voting in a minority of 1 to 3 (McConnell, Muckowski and Collins) against the other 50-odd GOP senators.
And all in vain it appears.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 2:13 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

But he’ll still be drawing social security benefits (and voting dumbocrat) until he’s 151 (at least).

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 2:55 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I thought he resigned some months ago, probably doesn’t remember.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 1:49 pm

Someone upthread talking about moves to get the US out of the UN.
That would be a yuuuge mistake.
There are five permanent members holding a veto – Chinah, Wussia, France, UK and USA.
Imagine some of the shit which would roll through if the other four remained?
The best strategy is to stay in but put a kink in the funding hose.
The US provides somewhere between 30-35% of UN funding. That is a pretty decent hole if they pull even half of that number.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 2:39 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

The four remainder are all Socialist countries.
There’s food for thought.

Kneel
Kneel
February 21, 2025 4:18 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I wonder how much the rent on the UN building is worth?
Quite a pretty penny, I would have expected.
And also USSS protection for all those dictators can’t be cheap either.
At least subtract the estimate of that from the annual “donation”.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 21, 2025 7:14 pm
Reply to  Kneel

Wouldn’t it be sensational if Trump bought the land.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 1:54 pm

After seeing the latest evil celebration by the ghouls in Gaza, it really puts these moslem nurses here into full and stark context.

No one can be left in any doubt as to their true beliefs. Any defence of them is an admission of terrorist support.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 2:01 pm
Reply to  Makka

Agree.

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 2:02 pm
Reply to  Makka

The Gazan crowd echoes the one outside the Opera House.

The Gazans had their murdered foe to crow over, the Sydney lot were looking for theirs.

I’m under no illusion that if they had found their prey they would have destroyed it.

We had a pleasant, respectable country once.

Last edited 18 hours ago by calli
Angmo
Angmo
February 21, 2025 2:44 pm
Reply to  calli

So did the Brits, now look at it.
We are heading in the same direction.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 2:58 pm
Reply to  calli

We had a pleasant, respectable country once.

That was a long time ago, in the 70s, when our biggest worry was Gough Whitlam and his Khemlani scandal.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:01 pm

With Patel’s confirmation going through, are there any pending confirmations left?

Arky
February 21, 2025 2:16 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

All the deputy heads,

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:29 pm
Reply to  Arky

Shouldn’t be a problem.
It’s pretty clear the best that Brain-Freeze and his two sidekicks can hope for is a 50:50 tie.
At which point they call up “I-Really-Don’t-Care-Margaret” to come down and deliver the casting vote.
The steam has gone out of it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 2:02 pm

Matildas well on their way to becoming the Shockeroos.No coach, soon no captain, no clue.

Last edited 18 hours ago by H B Bear
Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 2:09 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

The inevitable result of believing your own PR.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 2:15 pm
Reply to  Megan

Probably not a good time for the equal pay spiel.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:12 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

One of them called the Japanese goalkeeper “slanty-eyed and stupid”.
But the context has been checked and it’s all good.
I think we might have to melt down that statue and make frypans for the ladies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 2:16 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Did not mean to offend.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:24 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Look.
If anyone was offended … and you would have to be a total thin-skinned Nancy boy to be offended … but if you were offended for some unfathomable reason, then I am sorry.

Known as an NRL/Rudd apology.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 2:41 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

All depends on your height on the victim totem pole.

Figures
Figures
February 21, 2025 2:35 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

After the witch hunt against the Spanish coach, why would any man want to go near a women’s team?

Let the lezzos learn from each other. Of course, they’d probably get lost on the way to the game.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 4:11 pm
Reply to  Figures

Mmmph, “Tastes like carpet”.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 3:01 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Ha, ha, you guys are so funny.

Last edited 17 hours ago by Crossie
Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 2:09 pm

This is a monumentally great Administration. Full of smart unafraid people. The MSM is getting publicly shredded, humiliated and then trampled over for all to see;

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller

gives the Fake News a Civics lesson

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1892651121790832859

Contrast this with our hopeless lot.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:31 pm
Reply to  Makka

Bwah ha ha ha.
I love it.
Going the full School Ma’am on the pompous gits in the press room.
I really want the shot from the reverse angle to see the squirming.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 2:46 pm
Reply to  Makka

How simple was his explanation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 4:15 pm
Reply to  Makka

Just beautiful. Chapter and verse to j’ismists.

Figures
Figures
February 21, 2025 2:09 pm

What on earth is wrong with Israel?

How can they just sit back and allow themselves to be treated this way by these vermin?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened for far less.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:13 pm
Reply to  Figures

There is an old saying about revenge being a dish best served cold.

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 2:22 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Israel believes there are still hostages alive in Gaza. Around thirty.

They value their people.

They will exchange them for many…many walking carcasses. I expect the hammer will fall soon after that.

Figures
Figures
February 21, 2025 2:29 pm
Reply to  calli

That just means Hamas will slow walk the hostage situation as much as possible.

Eisenhower ruined Africa and South America by being a pussy over the Suez.

At some point you have to stop being nice.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 3:03 pm
Reply to  calli

That’s why I think the last hostages will never be handed over.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 4:13 pm
Reply to  calli

Hamas will just grab another dozen or so hostages.
Israel needs to enact an “A hostage is dead.” policy.
Tough on the hostages, but Hamas will just keep doing it if they don’t.

Angmo
Angmo
February 21, 2025 2:49 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I don’t care if Israel turns Gaza into a glass carpark.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 2:13 pm

It seems that “never again” had a time limit.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 2:21 pm

@DineshDSouza

These are creatures from another planet.

In high school they were simply known as weirdos.

Yet today they somehow fancy themselves exemplars of intellectual refinement and cultural sophistication.

Delusional freaks!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 2:22 pm

The Federalist highlighted this today with reference to Kash purging FBI agents.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/27/fbi-office-investigating-hunter-biden-sent-twitter-numerous-censorship-requests-right-before-2020-election/

So the same office that was looking into Hunter was wearing their fingers out demanding social media ban anyone posting abut Hunter.

Ripping out these agents will be a good start.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 2:24 pm

Two Federal court cases streaming today.
One is some green activism.
One is some indigenous activism.
Great use of the Federal courts time.

Lysander
Lysander
February 21, 2025 2:30 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

The Indigenous one (Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation & State of Western Australia & Ors) is a $1.1Bn suit!!!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 2:38 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Speaking of Fed Court thought Reynolds v Higgins was supposed to be judged by now.

Or are they holding off for the election now? I wouldn’t put it past this Government putting pressure to make that happen.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 4:19 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

*cough* I’m sure that wouldn’t happen. WA courts did Cook no favours with the Wagyl case, although the legislative overreach had already been scrapped.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 4:23 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Expect one or two Liar Ministers can’t survive if Reynolds is successful and they’re still around. Cth anti corruption guys supposedly looking at the Blob too.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 21, 2025 2:28 pm

Compare and contrast:

Israel managed to get into supply chains of hundreds, if not thousands of pagers and two-way radios destined for Hezbollah.

Not only that, but they were also able to insert explosives into all of the said devices, sure in the knowledge they were going to end up in the hands of baddies. Which they did.

Then they waited years until the best possible moment to de-finger, de-kidney and de-testiclise an entire generation of swarthies when the pagers went kaboom.

And after that, when said swarthies resorted to the two-way radios, the Israelis hit the button on those as well. Kablammo.

And then after that, their intel was so good that when the remaining swarthies decided meeting in person was the only safe method left, the Israelis knew were they were meeting and sent airstrikes in. Whomp kaTHUD.

As opposed to this (Newscorpse):

Three bombs have exploded while two were defused at separate locations involving buses in central Israel.

Empty buses, parked up at the depot.

Channel 12 reported that one of the undetonated devices was found by a passenger who notified the driver about a suspicious bag.

The ordinary Joe Public of Israel can foil these people.

According to local media the bombs were intended to detonate tomorrow when the buses were in service.

They’re not sending their best. Then again, they never have.

The swarthies may be equated to a boxer pup who chews your couch to the shithouse when you’re not looking, but who also walks headfirst into walls and races off into the distance when you pretend to throw a tennis ball.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 2:36 pm

Apparently they got confused between a.m. and p.m. on the timer, or couldn’t work a 24 hour timer, hence they were out by 12 hours.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 2:40 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Hillbillies gunna hillbilly.

PS, apologies to any hillbillies for comparing them to the Hamas excrement.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 21, 2025 2:54 pm

Wrath of the IDF is about descend upon them.

IDF to carry out ‘powerful operation’ against ‘terrorist hotspots’ in West Bank (21 Feb)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday the IDF would carry out a “powerful operation” against “terrorist hotspots” in the West Bank.

The announcement was made after Netanyahu concluded the security assessment meeting early on Friday morning following the bus bombings on Thursday.

As part of this, an additional three IDF battalions will be deployed to the West Bank, the IDF stated on Friday morning.

From another report I saw the buses had a claim for responsibility from the Hamas Tulkarm battalion, which is based in the PA administered “refugee camp” of the same name.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 2:59 pm

More power to their (IDF) arm.

Figures
Figures
February 21, 2025 5:06 pm

I don’t really care about Israel’s ability to make surgical strikes. 100% of Gazans want 100% of Jews dead. That’s the only relevant consideration.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 2:30 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 2:34 pm

Another scam the Federalist highlighted the other day was one that Miranda Devine originally put together.

A whistleblower would come forward about Hunter.
They’d engage with the FBI/DOJ.
The FBI would drag their feet until key crimes Hunter was accused of were past the statute of limitations.
The FBI would then charge the whistleblower with as much as they could.

Then whistleblowers would go to various GOP senators with the same Hunter news.
Then the FBI would have the line ready, look they have been charged with crimes etc you can’t believe a word they say.

This didnt apply to the gun charges because there is no statute of limitations on that but this was the FBI MO in at least two cases that are known about.

JC
JC
February 21, 2025 2:36 pm

I was thinking about the story of the 3 year old toddler whose mother was talking about putting him on puberty blockers, which would invariably lead to genital mutilation and, therefore, permanent physical and mental damage.
As I see it, the crime committed by both the parent and the doctors is no different from depraved acts of pedophilia. They should be treated the same way.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 21, 2025 2:52 pm
Reply to  JC

True and I reckon in the future the poor kids that had tis done to them are going to take their parents to the cleaners or worse. In my opinion they deserve it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 4:35 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

GR, if you’ve read The Attack by Kurt Schlichter, you will find the logical outcome of the whole gender dysphoria movement.
The kids who were so shamelessly abused and mutilated by them will organise and take vengeance on the people – the doctors, nurses, psychiatrists and social workers. The now adults KNOW who did this to them and why.
It will not be very pleasant.
Paedophiles never seem to realise that their victims will one day grow up and want justice.

Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 4:02 pm
Reply to  JC

The question is why any sane doctor on Earth would sanction it.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
February 21, 2025 2:45 pm

Middle Percy Is off St Lawrence

Heaven when Andy was there, could buy, goat meat, honey, veggies, bread and ghastly mead.

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bons
bons
February 21, 2025 2:48 pm

Given the confluence of horrifying events in Gaza and Burke secretly importing and giving citizenship to thousands of Muzzies, Dutton has the opportunity to DESTROY Labor.

FFS, get on with it, Australians see right through the Islamsphobia BS and deeply resent their arrogance and fear their behaviour. Just like with the Voice, go with the people Dutton.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 3:04 pm
Reply to  bons

Agreed but only news outlet covering is Skah.

DT had something up not paywalled this morning under the following headline “aec officials work crowd at controversial citizenship ceremony” that is damning but now safely paywalled out of the road.

Media even News.com have nailed their colours to the mast IMO, get ready for a slew of Dutton, Dutton, Dutton and nothing negative about Sleazy, Burke or Bowen.

Nifty
Nifty
February 21, 2025 2:50 pm

With our current Prim Munster swanning around embarasing everything Australia, I’m reminded of a.poster I saw in a Mad magazine in the 1960’s.
”Wot, me worry!” With picture of Alfred E. Newman.
Remember Elbow, there’s nothing lower than number one.
Another “MAD” poster just came to mind :- “SEX APPEAL – please give generously.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 4:54 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The filth did not send the wrong body.
They sent the body they intended sending.
It was no mistake, Shirri was to be used for further bargaining, but mostly for mental torture of the Israeli people.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 2:56 pm

This really is big. Huge even. I suggest you read the whole thread. It’ll put a smile on your face.

@cremieuxrecueil

The biggest news today should probably be about one of the Executive Orders from yesterday evening.

Trust me, it’s big.

The President just authorized DOGE to start cutting regulations

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 2:59 pm

@CollinRugg

JUST IN: Adam Schiff, who deceived the public for 8 years by weaponizing his position against his political enemies, says Kash Patel is a political hack who will weaponize his position against his political enemies.

The irony.

In 2023, Schiff was called out to his face on CNN for intentionally lying to the American people.

Instead of coming clean, he doubled down.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 4:21 pm
Reply to  Indolent

In 2023, Schiff was called out to his face on CNN for intentionally lying to the American people.

No doubt Schiff is in real trouble. And it’s about a lot more than lying;

https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1892677688634057121

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 4:56 pm
Reply to  Makka

oops!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 21, 2025 3:00 pm

It is understood in some circles – apparently – that this would be a condition of Rick Nugent’s ascension to the big VicPlod chair (the Hun):

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson was told on Thursday his contract would not be renewed. It was due to be renewed later this year.

The Herald Sun can reveal that Mr Carbines made the call not to renew his deal after more than 35 years in the force. But the news was broken to Mr Paterson by Acting Chief Commissioner Rick Nugent.

It is said in some circles that Rick Nugent did not make friends with quite a few people in his plod career, due to his operating methods which evidently offended the rapid woke-ism overtaking some of his colleagues. Such was his overt disgust that he was offered a gig in emergency services, which he took.

Clearly someone had an eye on him and conversations had been held, because five minutes after Patton got the lemon and sars, it was announced Nugent was in – albeit temporarily.

Also in the piece:

Mr Paterson thanked his husband and their children for their support.

Ahhhhhh.

On the upside:

One current officer said he wouldn’t be surprised if more contracts were terminated.

He said he believed Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius’ job may be impacted.

He leads the force’s human resources department.

“I heard Cornelius (is) on the chopping block,” he said.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 3:10 pm

Cornelius, that fat fk. If it was literally on the chopping block I’d pay good money to be a spectator.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 3:21 pm

That would be a chopping block you could see from the International Space Station.

Phil
Phil
February 21, 2025 3:26 pm

Fantastic

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 3:34 pm

Mr Paterson thanked his husband and their children for their support.

Shirley, you can’t be serious?

Zippster
Zippster
February 21, 2025 3:09 pm
Reply to  Zippster

The video features Elon Musk discussing a range of topics during a public appearance, alongside an interaction with President Javier Malay of Argentina, who presents Musk with a symbolic “Chainsaw for bureaucracy.” Musk speaks on the cultural shift in America following recent political changes, emphasizing the importance of freedom of speech and humor. Musk addresses his political stance, explaining his move from neutrality to supporting the Republican side due to disillusionment with the left and its cancel culture. He comments on the need to restore fundamental American principles like freedom and opportunity, and criticizes the misuse of government funds for activities he views as anti-American. A significant portion of the conversation revolves around financial mismanagement in government, highlighting fraud and waste exceeding $500 billion annually in entitlements. Musk defends his actions, such as cutting government waste and creating efficiencies, which he asserts could save billions. Musk also touches on immigration, suggesting that government funds are being used to encourage illegal immigration for potential voter base expansion. He further criticizes the misuse of federal funds intending to shift political power dynamics through immigration. On the topic of the war in Ukraine, Musk argues for ending the conflict to save lives and reduce graft and corruption. He emphasizes empathy for those affected by the conflict and the importance of pragmatism in international relations. Finally, Musk reflects on his influences, mentioning how American culture shaped his moral compass, and reiterates his commitment to doing what’s right, inspired by American ideals of being the “good guys.”

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 3:28 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Some of his turns of phrases are a bit unfortunate:
saying cutting jobs is fun. Necessary, but hardly fun considering what is doing to individual people.
talijng about how easy it is to target waste. It’s like entering a room and firing a bullet, but will hit something.

this will be used against him.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 3:46 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Entropy

 February 21, 2025 3:28 pm

 Reply to  Zippster

Some of his turns of phrases are a bit unfortunate:

saying cutting jobs is fun.

Nup.
A yuuuge number of these c-nts sat in offices in DC delivering taxpayer largesse to their buddies and/or targeting people for their political beliefs.
Remember the “no hurricane relief to houses with Trump signs”?
And don’t tell me these were “lone wolves”.
DC voted 90% for Harris in November and a good proportion of that 90% have a pathological hatred of the rest of America.
So, yeah … fun.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 4:59 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

This.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
February 21, 2025 5:15 pm
Reply to  Pogria

What Pogs said

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 5:01 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Let’s imagine a physician saying excising cancers is fun. And satisfying.

Or administering a purge that removes a debilitating tape worm.

That would be fun also.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 3:05 pm

Apparently Epstein files are first off the block for Patel…

I wonder if any Australian polliemaggotts are mentioned.
(Apart from the French clock fancier)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 3:59 pm

Is the “l” silent in “clock fancier”?
Interesting outfall from this.
Of course, there is the direct effect of the embarrassment (and possibly criminal or civil action) for those on the list.
But, beyond that, once the names are out, any leverage anyone had to keep them out of the public eye is gone.
I always believed that Epstein’s “brilliant financial career” was bullshit, and he was nothing more than a high level blackmailer. I mean, Les Wexner just handing over control of big chunks of his business and private assets to Epstein with no strings?
Come on, man.
Jewish rag-trade guys are known for many things, but just randomly giving stuff away isn’t one of them.
The real question isn’t so much who is on the list, but who had control of the list and (ahem) “supporting material” after Epstein was locked up?

Greyranga
Greyranga
February 21, 2025 3:05 pm
Greyranga
Greyranga
February 21, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Greyranga

A song to lift your spirits.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 5:01 pm
Reply to  Greyranga

Great song.
Always liked Chris Rhea.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 3:06 pm

Not long now for the Epstein List publication. Bondi has just confirmed Trump has given her the directive.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Makka

Snap mole!

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 3:26 pm

(Apart from the French clock fancier)

Well, the French clock fancier’s daughter. Remember how the MSM here quickly buried that story? Now, imagine if that had been a daughter of John Howard, Tony Abbott or Scott Morrison spotted cosying up to Epstein?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 4:29 pm

Wait for the miniseries. It may be some time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 3:28 pm

On the musical chairs in the C-Suite at VikPol:-

Clearly someone had an eye on him and conversations had been held, because five minutes after Patton got the lemon and sars, it was announced Nugent was in – albeit temporarily.

And, five minutes after that, Nugent was making noises about how shithouse our bail laws are.
A subject which, up until now, Mr Patton had dutifully described as “a matter for the encumbent gummint and the legal system”.
Which is why he ended up with a reverse Putin vote … 87% against.
I see a big bus in Patton’s future, going straight over him like an Opposition Leader’s Ford Territory over a kid’s bike.
“We are disappointed that the previous Commish did not bring this to our attention”.

132andBush
132andBush
February 21, 2025 3:42 pm

bons

February 21, 2025 2:48 pm

Given the confluence of horrifying events in Gaza and Burke secretly importing and giving citizenship to thousands of Muzzies, Dutton has the opportunity to DESTROY Labor.

FFS, get on with it, Australians see right through the Islamsphobia BS and deeply resent their arrogance and fear their behaviour. Just like with the Voice, go with the people Dutton.

I’ve been thinking the same.

As the presumptive PM Dutton can make this a daylight v dark issue that a vast majority will agree on. Those that won’t are not voting for you anyway, Pete.

Get on with it!

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JC
JC
February 21, 2025 3:45 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 3:49 pm
Reply to  JC

Tasty too, if not overcooked.

JC
JC
February 21, 2025 3:50 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

LOL, you’ve eaten horse? Dude!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 4:02 pm
Reply to  JC

No.
Not knowingly anyway.
But I have seen it on menus in Japan and, I think, Hungary.
Hence the expression “I’m so Hungary I could eat a horse!”
Or summink.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 5:06 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

The French and French Canadians are very fond of horse meat.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 4:04 pm
Reply to  JC

Dad did one better.

Pork and horse snaggers for the pony club gymkhana!

Megan
Megan
February 21, 2025 5:33 pm
Reply to  JC

Eaten it in Italy. Not from choice- our host was a horse butcher, and my parents had trained me it was bad manners to refuse food when you are a guest in someone’s home

Was not awful.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 21, 2025 5:56 pm
Reply to  JC

A tucked up short stepping pony.

JC
JC
February 21, 2025 3:49 pm

Anyone heard about this?

Seventy Christians were found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were reportedly hostages of the Islamist group ADF— an ISIS affiliate Why isn’t the MSM covering this story?

The victims were discovered in a Protestant church in Kasanga, a village in the eastern part of the DRC. Local authorities reported that the bodies were found bound, indicating they had been captives. The ADF, known for its brutal tactics, has intensified attacks in the regio

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 4:23 pm
Reply to  JC

My granddaughter reproached me about my silence about the atrocities regularly committed in parts of Africa. She is right, of course. But then, we rarely hear of them.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 21, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  Vicki

On BBC World Service news quite regularly.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 3:55 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 4:05 pm
Reply to  Tom

Shit, it’s going to be yuuuge if Orange Hitler cuts DOGE savings cheques to taxpayers just before the mid-terms.
Of course, the Dimocrats will scream about it being … wait for it … “a reckless misuse of taxpayers money”.

JC
JC
February 21, 2025 3:57 pm

I bet they’ll be nothing in the Epstein files that we don’t already know. The video would’ve been destroyed and anything implicating anyone would be gone too.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 4:21 pm
Reply to  JC

If not, someone in the FBI and/or DOJ is going to have to explain – under oath – what happened to the mountains of evidence they used to lock poor Jeffrey up.
A glib “dog are my homework” won’t cut it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 5:12 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

There will be copies.
People who work in those sorts of organisations ALWAYS have insurance.

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 4:49 pm
Reply to  JC

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Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 3:59 pm

@Adam_Creighton

Whyalla steelworks gets $2.4b government bailout

Australia won’t be “able to make stuff” as the PM wants if it keeps jacking up energy prices.

At least the state’s $600m green hydrogen fantasy has been shelved.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 5:13 pm
Reply to  Makka

If we don’t make snot tissues, why does he think we’ll be able to make steel?

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 4:06 pm

My favourite Sky host is James Macpherson. I subscribe to his Substack and receive his daily emails. In a time where so few possess and espouse any moral clarity, James Macpherson has moral clarity in spades and he doesn’t hesitate in calling out evil and depravity. I have just read this in my inbox, send this afternoon…..

Shiri Bibas is missing. So is Anthony Albanese

Little Ariel and Kfir were kidnapped, along with their mum, 503 days ago. Yesterday the children’s lifeless bodies were returned to Israel – alone.
The corpse sent with them was not their mother. Right up until the last, Hamas torment their prey.

So where is Shiri Bibas?

What have Hamas done with her?

Is she alive?

Is she dead?

Where is she being kept? And why, even in death, is she being separated from her sons?

The Israeli mother is not the only one missing.

Has anyone seen or heard from our Prime Minister?

Anyone?

Anthony Albanese would have seen the macabre pantomime put on by Hamas terrorists as they paraded the bodies of little Ariel and tiny Kfir like trophies of war for all he world to see.

Hamas leaders were asked to kindly return the boys’ bodies so their father could lay them to rest.

And therein lay the problem.

The request was made as if Hamas had a shred of humanity; as if they had even a rudimentary understanding of what it means to be humane.

But monsters are devoid of humanity. Demons do not suffer the pangs of conscience.

So the children’s bodies were returned, but only after a sickening and grotesque public display.

Music played.

A massive crowd strained to catch a glimpse of the tiny coffins as they were paraded past vile antisemitic posters.

As the dead Jewish boys were carried away by Hamas fighters who have suddenly found their military uniforms, a mob of Palestinian children took to the stage to chant “Thank you to the Hamas brigades”.

A crowd of what looks like thousands lined the streets of Gaza to cheer and to celebrate as the tiny coffins passed by.

The children were held hostage 503 days. The only time the Red Cross visited was to collect their dead bodies. Henry Dunant would be aghast.
I have to say that the Nazis, for all their wickedness, were at least ashamed of their crimes and tried to hide them.

The Palestinians show no such compunction.

The parade their evil, and they glory in their depravity.

But even as the boys’ coffins were delivered in Red Cross vehicles to grieving family across the border, Hamas was not done.

It was reported by Kan news channel that Hamas had locked the coffins shut but not provided keys.

Israeli military engineers had to check the caskets to make sure they were not booby-trapped before forcing them open.

Once opened, it was discovered that the Palestinians had placed propaganda material inside the coffins.

Yes, they used the children’s dead bodies as mailmen, to further torment Israelis.

But the devil never tires of his tricks. A final twist was still to come.

Once in Israel, DNA tests confirmed the small corpses were in fact Ariel and Kfir, but the body Hamas returned as their mother was not their mother at all.

The DNA of the woman dispatched with the boys doesn’t match any of the known hostages. No-one yet knows who the random corpse belongs to.

Our PM and his foreign minister Penny Wong, like you and I, have watched all this unfold like a horror movie.

And have said nothing about it.

Not a word.

The pair, who never misses an opportunity to berate Israel for supposedly lacking proportionality in its response to Hamas, is mute today.

Not even a tweet.

I suppose it’s a little hard to trot out their well worn lines calling for Israel to “exercise restraint”.

Exercise restraint. Would you? Well, would you?!?!

Perhaps Albo and Wong are too busy to comment on the events in Gaza for making preparations for 3000 Gazans to arrive here.

Do you think they will live next-door to Anthony? Or to Penny?

And why not?

Do you want them living next-door to you?

I’ve watched the footage of Shiri and her boys being kidnapped from their home at gunpoint on October 7. There is not a Hamas solider to be seen.
The ugly truth, not allowed to be said, is that the family was abducted not by terrorists but by Palestinian civilians. Albanese and Wong claim they can tell the difference.

If you watch the the ceremony of the coffins being paraded, you will see that those carrying the coffins belong to different terrorist groups, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.

It was all presented as an “act of Palestinian unity.”

That is why, no matter who replaces Hamas in Gaza, nothing will change.
Things will change when Gaza is no more.

The grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia spoke out against the Hamas horror show last night.

He said….

“What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah”.

Sigh. He should have said that on October 8th, 2023!

But still, our Prime Minister has not said a word.

Neither have the Greens.

Neither has Senator Fatima Payman.

And neither have Australian Islamic organisations.

The silence is deafening. The silence is appalling. The silence is wicked.

God bless Israel.

And God help those of us in Australia subjected to live under leaders either too weak or too compromised to raise even their voice against evil.

Thank you James Macpherson, for your moral clarity, decency and integrity.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 4:20 pm

Yes, Cassie. What a moving response from James. And the Greens, Payman, Womg and others…….where is their shame, where is their humanity????

WolfmanOz
February 21, 2025 4:26 pm

Ditto Cassie re James MacPherson.

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 4:57 pm

Thank you James Macpherson, for your moral clarity, decency and integrity.

Something very badly lacking in the left-wing “leadership” in this country.

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 5:02 pm

And God help those of us in Australia subjected to live under leaders either too weak or too compromised to raise even their voice against evil.

They are too busy trying to rush through the citizenship of many who support this evil just so they vote for Labor in the forthcoming election.

mareeS
mareeS
February 21, 2025 8:09 pm

Cassie, We were having lunch in Newcastle today, not far from the Newcastle Synagogue. One of our good mates who we have known since our teenage years, and with whom we have done business during our long working careers, stopped by for a chat.

To be clear, I was raised Catholic, my husband Presbyterian, our friend is a Jew, Our families and friends have known each other forever, as we live in a close beachside area of Newcastle.

We had a lovely half-hour catchup, free of all the shit that seems to be happening in Sydney. We seem to be able to keep that at bay here, for the time being.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 21, 2025 4:33 pm

Phew! The Sky News weather girl has just come back with a skirt above the knee. For the past week I’ve been mourning and thinking that the bosses had told her to lengthen the hems, which she did for a while, uncharacteristically.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 21, 2025 4:41 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Why stop there. Nude weather girls now!

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 21, 2025 8:29 pm
Reply to  alwaysright

Naked News was my favourite

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 21, 2025 5:48 pm
Reply to  Lee

Load of rubbish, Can’t see a thing. Sharon Stone where are you?

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 6:39 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

She’s another TDS sufferer.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 4:40 pm

Well the below explains the C30 tanker lifting off from Garbutt this morning with no transponder visibility. Sounded heavy, engines sounded at full power even as it climbed away from the airfield over Townsville’s suburbs.

Probably refuelling the aircraft keeping an eye on these buggers if they are now in the Coral Sea.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/commercial-pilots-warned-after-chinese-warships-spotted-off-sydney/news-story/3cc8a78356c6d09e2017573b9ae27d82

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 5:19 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Three Australian warships are lurking off Australia’s east coast. Picture: NewsWire / Australian Defence Force

Caption underneath one of the Chinese ships.
?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 21, 2025 5:51 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Australian Warships? Why would Australian ships be lurking? Get along to Specsavers.

Arky
February 21, 2025 4:52 pm

If I am reading the numbers correctly, approximately 1.5 billion women worldwide are in their fertile years, give or take.
70 million abortions per year according to WHO.
70,000,000 / 1500,000,000
Around 5% of fertile women across the globe abort their children per year.
Give them around 20 years of fertility, and that’s just about all of ‘em (not taking into account the ones stupid enough to have to do it multiple times).
And you want them to vote.

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Arky
February 21, 2025 5:10 pm
Reply to  Arky

not taking into account the ones stupid enough to have to do it multiple times

If there is anything more evil and stupid than killing your own kid, it has to be killing your own kid, and then being stupid and evil enough to go out and put yourself in the same circumstance that you have to do it again.
So you may say. “Not me Arky, not me”. Fine, but understand that for everyone one of you in the category woman not aborting her children, there is one doing it lots, more than making up for you.

Arky
February 21, 2025 5:13 pm
Reply to  Arky

There is nothing else in history that even comes close to what women are doing to their children with these abortion numbers.
Imagine if every man on average murdered a kid once in his lifetime.
Can you begin to imagine the opprobrium that would be heaped upon every single man in existence? Whether he participated or not?
And rightly so, because such a circumstance would indicate a complete moral breakdown in men.

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Arky
February 21, 2025 5:20 pm
Reply to  Arky

Now you might argue “But Arky, men are involved in making these pregnancies too”.
Fair enough, and we know a fair portion of those men pressure the chicks to abort.
However, we also know women are increasingly hypergamous, meaning a much smaller number of Chad men are servicing the women. Or in other words, on average, these chicks are all getting pregnant to the same handful of scumbags, thus putting the onus back on chicks in general: lift your flaming game.

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Aaron
Aaron
February 21, 2025 10:46 pm
Reply to  Arky

I would make an exception.

If only Mo’s mother had one. Just one.

JC
JC
February 21, 2025 4:54 pm

I really don’t get this. They’re using that newfangled European strategy you see now with luxury brands—where you have to practically beg them to sell you their overpriced junk and then wait a couple of years to actually get it.
I have no idea how companies get away with this nonsense, yet people are still lining up, desperate for the privilege of handing over their money. It’s like some kind of Stockholm syndrome. But here you go Ferrari has the highest market capitalization in Europe of the car markers. Personally, I can’t stand their cars.

With a list price of $3.7 million, Ferrari’s new “hypercar” was revealed to the public in October with a twist: It wasn’t available for sale.

All 799 units of the low-slung, high-haunched F80 model—the most expensive production vehicle in Ferrari’s history—had been promised to top customers like Luc Poirier.

The Montreal real estate entrepreneur already owns 42 Ferraris. He said he felt “lucky” to be allowed to buy yet another.

“To be chosen by Ferrari for one of their hypercars is a true milestone for any collector,” he said.

Money isn’t enough to buy a top-of-the-range Ferrari. You need to be in a long-term relationship with the company.

By leveraging the rabid fandom of its customers through a business model based on uber-scarcity, the storied Italian company is enjoying a new golden age. Following an almost tenfold increase in the stock since its initial public offering almost a decade ago, Ferrari is now worth $90 billion, making it the most valuable car company in Europe—despite delivering just 13,752 vehicles last year. 

Volkswagen, which sold more than 9 million cars last year, has a market capitalization that is roughly $40 billion lower. Most of Europe’s auto industry is plagued by a weak domestic market, a costly transition to electric vehicles and new competition from China.

Mercedes market cap is €60 billion.

WSJ

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 5:10 pm
Reply to  JC

OK.
Let’s do some numbers here.
90 Bill market cap.
They sell roughly 14,000 units a year.
It’s a mature company, and it’s very prestige is a limiting factor on growth.
If they want to sell, say, 100,000 units of a mid-high range sports car worldwide, pitched at $150-$200k price point, some of the wank value comes off the brand.
So.
I’m an investor in Ferrari looking for a very modest return given the risks involved. Let’s say 8%.
So the company needs to return 8% x 90 billion = 7.2 billion.
If I am selling 14,000 units that is a target of $500,000 return to shareholders per vehicle.
Forget the 800 units at $3.7 mill.
Most of them sell for $250k to $600k.
Something doesn’t add up.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 5:38 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Licensing on cheap Chinese made caps and Tshirts. And wog deodorant.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 7:20 pm
Reply to  JC

Nope that doesn’t happen to next year’s 5.2L AWD Ford Mustang Raptor.

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 5:08 pm

Danika on Chatfield.

Albo did a really difficult interview with her today. Perhaps he got some sex tips.

Chatfield, the Jezebel, regrets she didn’t “correct” him for not calling Gaza a genocide. Abbie, the dogs will struggle to consume the palms of your hands too.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 5:12 pm
Reply to  calli

As I wrote upthread.
Scabbie Shitfield is a putrid pus bucket.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 5:09 pm

Godd analysis by Bongino of why Trump is right to kick zelennsky up the clacker:

What Did Zelensky Know? When Did He Know It? (Ep. 2426) – 02/19/2025

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 5:10 pm

Australias leading unter-sub-apprentice-mongtard rears if festering piehole to laugh off bulk vote herding in its electorates.

https://x.com/i/status/1892775471718551959

The invertebrate tries to cloak its shamelessness in “patriotism”.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 5:25 pm

Well. is it starting, as the late Jim Molan predicted? Just reported that the three Chinese warships sailing down in international waters off the coast of eastern Australia have warned that they are commencing live fire – practice, of course!

All over the TV.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 5:28 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Dutton: <crickets>

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 5:26 pm

Topender, Zulu Alpha….where are you????

Beertruk
February 21, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Vikki, I think Zulu was in hospital for a op today.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 7:25 pm
Reply to  Beertruk

Oh – hope he will be OK.

Vicki
Vicki
February 21, 2025 5:27 pm

Commercial flights are being diverted from their flight plans due to the live fire from the Chinese vessels. Testing, of course.

Arky
February 21, 2025 5:30 pm
Reply to  Vicki

If only we had the industrial base to make Australia a real regional power.
But we traded all that for student visas, real estate bubbles and bags of cash.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 21, 2025 5:34 pm
Reply to  Arky

And the finest hand crafted artisanal power supplies on earth.

You just cant put a price on power that silky as smooth.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 21, 2025 5:41 pm
Reply to  Arky

As it is the Year of the Snake, I would be dropping loads of brown snakes on the three ships. And leaflets saying ‘Welcome to Australia’.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 5:29 pm

Does the AEC normally attend citizenship ceremonies?
I attended one about 20 years ago when someone I knew was becoming an Aussie and it was a quick little thing at an RSL club.

The bulk ones today with Tony Burke had QR codes and AEC staff on hand to get new citizens registered to vote (according to the Australian).

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 5:39 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Both my mother and I talking the same today.

Also covered think the media would leave a story like this only behind paywalls if Dutton or the Liberals.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 5:43 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

I fell foul at Teh Paywallian calling him Tony Burqa. May be defensible as implied political speech. Alas will not be given the opportunity.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 21, 2025 6:05 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

He is a right Burke. Cop that you shyster.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

For such a bulk ceremony why is a minister doing it?
Shouldn’t it be the G-G?

Rabz
February 21, 2025 10:11 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Because he’s their now local “member”.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 5:32 pm

@Sassafrass_84

Ivermectin was demonized and pulled off shelves. Doctors and pharmacists told not to prescribe it or lose their license.

Ivermectin is safer than Tylenol.

It was m*rder. Genøcide.

This has to be addressed.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 5:35 pm

@LoisMcLatch

Unbelievable – just days after Vance warns Europe about censorship

The Scottish police arrest a woman for offering a conversation near an abortion facility

bons
bons
February 21, 2025 5:36 pm

This is odd.

I trundled off this afternoon to have a skin cancer cut out of my ear. The doc had said that he would be cutting into cartlidge which will hurt like crazy. He sent me off to procure strong pain killers with instructions to start taking them a day before the op.

Bravely arriving today he announced that, upon review, he did not believe the biopsy results and had no intention of operating. Come back in December.

My Gene Kelly impersonation was pretty classy.

What does one do with two boxes of supercharged pain killers?

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 5:39 pm
Reply to  bons

I’ll take them off your hands, please. 😀

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 5:45 pm
Reply to  bons

The Bankstown nurses know.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 10:16 pm
Reply to  bons

Put them in the bathroom cabinet for when you might need them.
*** not medical advice ***

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 5:37 pm

Danica is now discussing Elbow’s gossip session with Scabbie Shitfield, the putrid pus bucket.
He spent ninety minutes with it.
That is an hour longer than he spent in Alice Springs last year.

Muddy
Muddy
February 21, 2025 5:43 pm
Reply to  Pogria

You can’t bend an Elbow in Alice?

calli
calli
February 21, 2025 5:47 pm

I don’t think Danika quite understands what Trump is doing with Ukraine.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 5:53 pm
Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  Indolent

There’s a surprise. An unelected person influencing Govt public policy?

This guy and Soros should be behind bars and all assets stripped from them. Kash, build your illustrious career on these 2 also.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 6:04 pm
Muddy
Muddy
February 21, 2025 6:04 pm

I’ve only done a super-quick (squick) scroll, so my apologies if the following is repetitious, but I’m incensed beyond language … Via Powerline, apparently the adult body is not that of Shiri Bibas? Is this just a wild rumour?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 21, 2025 6:11 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Widely reported.

Also the Israeli coroner confirmed the kids were who they were, which means they also had DNA to match up with their mum. Except that person wasn’t their mum. No one knows who she was though.

Muddy
Muddy
February 21, 2025 6:33 pm

Thanks, Bruce.

I continue to wonder which planet I’m squatting on now.

Bluey
Bluey
February 21, 2025 6:11 pm

I just got off the phone with a close mate. He’s telling me there’s rumors spreading though the union side of things that anything the government is paying for in Victoria, it’s a good idea to find something else, as the check will bounce.
Could be fear mongering, but given the state of Vic, could also be very true. Even the rumor is probably a gift to the Liberals, if they had the guts to actually fight.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  Bluey

I wouldn’t be surprised, my recent trips saw roads full of pot holes, every road sign was perished and covered in outbreaks of Lichen’s. Government seems to hold most commercial property leases outside Melbourne and a general sense of rusting.

Know of someone who moved back north who has been in a 4 week fight to get his bond released by the Tenancy Authority. Twice now paperwork been rejected with goal posts on why changed each time and now they want him to mail it in.

Ombudsman was zero help so he’s going for a third attempt by snail mail now. He say if they eff him around again he’ll fly down there make a pain of himself in the DOJ foyer till someone listens.

As an aside, Real Estate sent release forms 4 weeks ago so have no issues releasing.

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 6:45 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

I wouldn’t be surprised, my recent trips saw roads full of pot holes,

Never seen them anywhere near as bad as the last 3-4 years.

I don’t know what Melbourne is like these days as I haven’t been in the city more than twice since Dictator Dan went absolutely power-mad and not at all since 2022.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 6:28 pm
Reply to  Bluey

Things are grim in Victoriastan but not quite this grim I suspect.

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 6:36 pm
Reply to  Bluey

The Australia Institute (LOL) claims that neither Victoria’s budget nor its economy is in bad shape.
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

Muddy
Muddy
February 21, 2025 6:29 pm

My apologies to Cassie for not noticing she had already posted about the missing body of Shiri Bibas.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 6:34 pm
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 21, 2025 6:38 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

“Hate Crimes” is still a dodgy frame. If we tolerate this, then it will surely be used against free speech which the Lizard People don’t want to have heard.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 6:46 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

In Victoria during covid, we found out that our Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. This is Dutton again making out as a big man of the people with meaningless but great sounding proposals and gestures. To suck in the unawares.

When he proposes an inviolable Bill of Rights for Australians that the Supreme Court is obligated to uphold without deviation , then he gets my attention. Rights that enshrine our free speech (among many other things) regardless of what Parliament desires.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 7:26 pm
Reply to  Makka

A Bill of Rights would be subject to enormous barrels of interpretation by activist beaks. Don’t assume they will always be black letter judges.

an absolute disaster.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 21, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Any Judges put onto the bench by Labor will be activist Communists who interpret the rules as to whatever they want, and any that the Liberals put on will be weak as piss.

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 10:22 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Because what we have now is so good.

Bruce in WA
February 21, 2025 10:50 pm
Reply to  Entropy

As much as it saddens me, I have to agree with you 110%. A Bill of Rights would be subject to endless adjudication and I can guarantee it would never be in our favour!

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 6:52 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

It’s a “no brainer.”

The polling will be favourable too, which is why Dutton is pursuing it.

The Europeans are already well down the path.

However, after the “hate speech” amendments, I don’t trust Dutton with the details, or on much else really, given he’s demonstrated he’ll depart radically from his party’s platform with nary a second thought.

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Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 6:34 pm

Geez, all that kowtowing to the Chinese communists by Pong and Handsome Boy has really paid off…..hasn’t it? We now have the Chinese firing live ammunition in the Tasman Sea, with flights diverted.

Will I wake up to find Sydney’s eastern suburbs on fire from a stray Chinese missile? Oh wait, Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been on fire for months now so it’ll be nothing new!

Perhaps the war games are an early present in honour of Handsome Boy’s forthcoming nuptials?

I really dunno!

Lee
Lee
February 21, 2025 6:51 pm

I don’t know which would be worse: Australia invaded by China or taken over by Tony Burqa’s mates.

Probably the latter.

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Bruce in WA
February 21, 2025 10:55 pm

I dunno either. I think the Chinese are deliberately provoking us to get our panties in a bundle, which we have proven in the past to be so adept at doing. They must be giggling up their sleeves at our responses. (Diverting aircraft flights FFS!) Stray Chinese missile? From a frigate? 600 km to sea? Unless they are carrying land attack cruise missiles (normally only on destroyers, not frigates), they are well out of range.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 6:39 pm

Just shows the criminal absurdity of making ourselves dependent on a hostile power. The last 20 years has been a slow motion car crash as one thing after another was no longer made here but offshored to China.

Lysander
Lysander
February 21, 2025 6:43 pm

Flightradar24: Live Flight Tracker – Real-Time Flight Tracker Map

Check out the diversion of flight: QFA123 (still en route to NZ now). Was not the only flight diverted.

I wonder how much these cost in fuel?

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 6:49 pm

Burke is the very model of a NSW ALP pollimuppett- all that matters is his parliamentary salary. ‘Burkie’ as his pubic serpent acolytes call him in canbra- so cozy. As one in leaching off productive people.

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calli
calli
February 21, 2025 6:58 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Every time I see this grinning, oleaginous creature, I think of O’Brien.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.

He doesn’t care that he looks like a despicable seller of citizenship. Joe Hildebrand, another man without a chest, thinks he’s clever.

They have made Australia worthless.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 7:04 pm
Reply to  calli

Yes O’Brien was a mysterious, sinister character.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 7:06 pm
Reply to  calli

Hildebrand is another reason why legacy meja deserves to die.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 6:59 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

The only consolation is that a Cth Liar he has relatively little opportunity to draw a Ministerial salary or do remotely meaningful work.

Last edited 13 hours ago by H B Bear
Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 7:23 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

What the rush to enroll these potential voters tells you is that Labor is scared, even in its “heartland.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 7:33 pm
Reply to  Roger

You can smell the fear.

Entropy
Entropy
February 21, 2025 7:29 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

The only reason he isn’t our country’s worst ag minister is he was followed by Joe Ludwig.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 7:32 pm
Reply to  Entropy

The Liar’s Idiot Son.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 11:06 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Joe Ludwig knew about as much about agriculture, as a pig knows about diving for pearls.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 7:01 pm

The sooner the Donald gets Ukraine sorted and turns his full attention to China the better.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 7:30 pm

It was good the libs came close to taking Werribee- formerly rusted on if ever there was. Makes you wonder why they took so long to count it. At least there is an opposition down here now. The Allen abomination is loathsome.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 21, 2025 7:32 pm

Finally, something good coming out of the ‘Rat (the Hun):

A major regional council has terminated a $285,000 grant to an environmental group after a senior board member shared online posts blaming Jews for the rise in antisemitism and calling Israel a “stain” on the planet.

Victoria’s antisemitism crisis appears to have crept into the regions, with Ballarat City Council pulling a major grant from the Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions Incorporated (BREAZE) following “offensive and discriminatory” online comments by its past president.

Former university lecturer

Strike 1…

and climate campaigner

Strike 2…

Dr Mary Debrett had shared the antisemitic posts on X, formerly Twitter, over several months last year, amid the war in Gaza.

Among them was a claim that antisemitism was a “reaction to harmful Jewish behaviour” and a “rejection of Jewish supremacy”.

In another, she wrote that Israel was a “stain on the planet” and a “colonial invader”.

Yes, righto. Also:

Responding to a news article about Labor increasing scrutiny on candidates who “put religion above loyalty to the party” – referring to senator Fatima Payman’s defection from the party – Dr Debrett asked: “Will this apply to Jews?”

It is understood that the Council had pulled the funding after BREAZE refused to drop Dr Debrett from the board.

Refused to sanction this thing (which, according to a pic accompanying the piece, makes a swamp donkey look like Jessica Alba), yet still demands funding.

University-educated. Climate change. Anti-semitic. Skank.

I sense a trend here somewhere.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 7:47 pm

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 8:07 pm

Intersectionality!

Cumborah Kid
Cumborah Kid
February 21, 2025 9:23 pm

I checked her out on Linkedin. Why do all leftist chicks look the same? She a Kiwi import as well

Makka
Makka
February 21, 2025 7:34 pm

Everything is in the timing.

Is China gifting Handsome Boy an opportunity to show off his Defence credentials to a disgruntled electorate?

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 7:36 pm
Reply to  Makka

More likely this is payback for running freedom of navigation ops in the South China Sea, I would think. We’re not going to respond other than monitoring.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 21, 2025 7:46 pm
Reply to  Roger

Yep.

bons
bons
February 21, 2025 7:42 pm
Reply to  Makka

Albolutely.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 7:39 pm

University-educated. Climate change. Anti-semitic. Skank.

There was a time when I thought a University ejuchasan was something to admire. That was a long time ago. I despise and have the greatest contempt for dons.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 21, 2025 7:46 pm

As is custom, we should ask R U ok with monty? Very quiet.
Nah phuck orf. I will see myself out.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 21, 2025 7:48 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

No. Please stay.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 8:26 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Don’t worry, he’s lurking here.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 7:53 pm

Nazi jokes backfire for Sydney comedy group YeahMadMohammad Alfares
33 minutes ago

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Jewish leaders have condemned an Australian comedy group for making “ugly and deranged” jokes about Hitler being the “greatest” and making light of the numbers Jewish inmates were branded with before being led into the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
YeahMad’s YouTube show, launched in 2023, involves a comedy contest between cast members. In an episode released last week, which has attracted more than 470,000 clicks, Sydney comedian and influencer Peyton Cole faced off against Pat “Dobby” Doherty.
Cole joked: “A cute Jewish guy asked (for) my number the other day and I was like, yeah, that’s so sweet, but we use names now.”
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Cast members erupted in laughter, with Doherty saying: “That was good. That was really good. Really good.”
Cole hesitated before saying: “I don’t know if that should be in it … My housemate is going to kill me.”
Another cast member said: “Do another one, Peyton, I love this.”
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich labelled the group “bottom-feeding scavengers” and “empty, soulless clowns”.
Dr Abramovich said the horrors of the Holocaust should never be used for laughs.
“A group of so-called comedians – empty, soulless clowns masquerading as entertainers – have chosen to stomp on the memory of six million Jews to feed their desperate hunger for clicks,” he said.
“A talent contest? A joke about Hitler being the greatest? The architect of genocide, the mastermind of mass murder – this is who they choose to celebrate in their punch lines.
“What’s next? A comedy skit about babies being thrown into pits of fire?
“And then, as if one grotesque display of moral rot wasn’t enough, they doubled down – mocking the tattooed numbers that Jewish inmates were branded with before being led, naked and starving, into the gas chambers.”
Dr Abramovich argued that any attempt to turn the memory of the Holocaust into a joke was not only offensive but an assault to the victims.

YeahMad cast member Timmy Dennis said there was no Germany’s Got Talent competition because ‘no one will ever be greater than Hitler’. Picture: Instagram
In an episode in November, cast member Timmy Dennis, a plumber and influencer, asked Cole: “Why is there no Germany’s Got Talent? Because no one will ever be greater than Hitler.”
The Australian approached Dennis, Cole and YeahMad for comment.
YeahMad brands itself as “the content that makes you laugh, cry and think” on its TikTok platform, which has more than 2.2 million followers. It has a further 1.9 million subscribers on its Instagram channel and another 247,000 on YouTube.
Dr Abramovich called the act a “stomach-churning” exploitation of history’s greatest crime at the expense of nothing more than a “fleeting chuckle”.
“These so-called comedians – these bottom-feeding scavengers – have decided that this, too, is fair game for their depraved little act,” he said.
“This was not just an ugly display of tastelessness – it was a deranged assault on truth, on memory, on the very sanctity of human suffering.
“This is a disgraceful attempt to wring applause from the ashes of Auschwitz.”

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 8:50 pm

“A group of so-called comedians – empty, soulless clowns masquerading as entertainers – have chosen to stomp on the memory of six million Jews to feed their desperate hunger for clicks,” he said.

The doctor may have been speaking metaphorically, I’ll grant.

But no human being is without a soul.

Otherwise, they could not be subject to divine judgement.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
February 21, 2025 11:21 pm

So a veteran and military historian displays a NAZI flag and goes to jail……

Two Tiers?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 21, 2025 7:58 pm

cast member Timmy Dennis, a plumber and influencer

Bullshit.

There is no chance any plumber, anywhere in this wide brown land would be called Timmy. Tim – yes. Timmy – kidding himself.

Timmy the influencer – probably.
Timmy the plumber – yeah yeah nah yeah. Nah.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 8:08 pm

Timmy the Q & A audience member

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 8:12 pm

Timmy – the reserve for Thursday’s mixed netty

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 8:00 pm

Friday. Don’t forget the Dog. Woof woof.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 8:09 pm

Caught part of Rowan Dean earlier.
I wonder if he wanted to smash that filthy Green slag as much as I wanted to.
Scabigail something. Looks like the manure party has decided they need a Minn-some of their own.

It didn’t work. She could not hold back her “Israel, Zionist and, what the hell, ALL Jews are to blame. Poor little Gazans.

Soooo f**king angry right now.

Cassie of Sydney
February 21, 2025 8:16 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I switched off, Pogs. I will no longer watch any Greens. As I switched off I thought to myself that perhaps I should listen to her but thankfully I decided against listening to her Jew hating filth.

And filth they are. Scabigal is a Nazi, the Greens are a Nazi party and any person who votes for this Nazi party supports Nazism, no different to Germans who voted for the Nazis in 1933.

Pogria
Pogria
February 21, 2025 9:04 pm

Cassie,
I watched as the Gentleman who stated that most of the anti-semitism came from the left, was interesting.
When Scabigail was questioned, I was side-tracked for a few moments by the way she kept her voice soft and non-confrontational which is normal for the manure party cultists. Yet they couldn’t hide her excuses for the Palestinians and her vile proclamations against Israel.
All stated in a soothing monotone so the actual words would not scare the plebs.

The manure party is spending our taxes on voice and speech coaching.
Wasted money.
They can all speak with the voice of James Earl Jones but, it will never take the focus away from their Evil utterances.

Tom
Tom
February 21, 2025 8:14 pm

Rowan Dean was trying something new tonight — interviewing a Greenfilth chick and a Labor PR hack to argue their respective positions aren’t racist (we aren’t anti-semitic when we are; we need muslim immigration even though we don’t).

It doesn’t work. The Filth and the Liars have brought their own facts to the argument which defy reality. the Filth are the main proponents of Jew hatred in Australian politics; the Liars need muslim voters in southwestern Sydney to save their doomed government.

Nice try, Rowan. Have another go next week without the severely educated simpletons

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 8:30 pm
Reply to  Tom

It doesn’t work. 

Not unless you’re Douglas Murray or a similar combination of intellect and communication skills.

That’s not to slight Rowan, who has done sterling work otherwise.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 8:32 pm
Reply to  Tom

Giving Greens politicians media time is a waste of everyone’s time. Roughly 90% of the audience simply has their views confirmed. The remaining roughly 10% (who aren’t likely to be watching anyway) will carry on as usual.

Roger
Roger
February 21, 2025 8:40 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Giving Greens politicians media time is a waste of everyone’s time. 

Unless it’s to subject them to facts and ridicule.

Not many Aussie journos seem capable of that.

After all, they vote Green themselves.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  Roger

Not even sure that achieves anything. Like kicking a dog.

Crossie
Crossie
February 21, 2025 10:08 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Two Against One segment of Rowan’s show is a miss, not worth watching. He should scrap it and try something else.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 22, 2025 8:12 am
Reply to  Crossie

We couldn’t stand watching it last night. Scrolled over.

Why give these stupid lefties a platform? You have to have time to dissect the whole of their epistemology, which isn’t possible in this time frame. Allowing them to witter on for a few minutes each is a waste of TV space that could be better used with more conservative information.

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Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 21, 2025 8:33 pm

Life update- i’ve resolved to go wholly medieval on Islam in general, and Hamas is particular.
F#ck any present or future “hate speech” laws. Islam is a global genocidal creed, and Mohammed was a paedophile. Hamas are not Nazis- they are different, they are being enabled by idiots in our midst, and they are a clear and present danger.
Hijabs are misogyny, and rape apology.
I’ve burnt off half of everyone I know because I will brook no bullsh*t about the glorious British Empire, the psyop China Virus and internationalist stalking horse Climate Change. I reckon i can further thin out the ranks. I don’t need any dhimmis in my life, and i’m sick of sugar-coating and hand-patting for the moral weaklings which surround us.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 10:47 pm
Reply to  Wally Dali

Welcome to the club, Walter.

We have reached a point where shouting into their ears at space audible volumes will longer suffice, nor will nuanced argumentation.

As the actions above no longer produce the desired supplication, the visitation of much monstrous violence upon their filthy hides is the only “option” remaining.

Enough. If we ignore this evil, it will consume us.

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Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 21, 2025 8:40 pm

Note on synechdote-
“Palestine” is Hamas, in the same way that America is Trump, Ukraine is Zelenskyiy and Australia is Penny Wong.
Not Palestinians- even though they are a bullshit made-up ethnicity, “Palestinians” encompasses innocent kiddies etc- Hamas is the Palestinian ruling authority, so that’s that.

Rosie
Rosie
February 21, 2025 9:12 pm

Looks like Israel have had ‘serious intelligence’ on the fate of the two little Bibas boys since November 2023.
Separated from their mother, starved, then brutally murdered.
It beggars belief that Shiri might even now still be alive, she might not be in Gaza, she might never be found.
Very very hard to have any sympathy for Gazans.
I don’t want any of them in Australia.
Ever.
Meanwhile thanks to the stupidity of islamic terrorists a major attack in Tel Aviv had gone awry, mainly because the bombs” timers were set for 9 at night instead of 9 in the morning.
Israel was once again allowing in workers from the ‘West Bank’
Border had been resealed.
Islam is a death cult.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 21, 2025 9:13 pm

Ruh roh. Reading a Paywallian story on Test wunderkind Konstas who gives his batting advisor (?) as Watto.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 21, 2025 10:30 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

I heard that whilst we were having hors d’oeuvres at the club.
Embarrassing.
I laughed so hard I coughed a Spanish anchovy on to the Persian rug.

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 22, 2025 5:45 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Those white ones from the Cantabrian coast are good. A bit expensive but hey, if the cat eats goldfish.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 21, 2025 9:21 pm

Turkey is a conundrum.
Say terrible things about Israel.
Say terrible things domestically.
Then does it’s best to neuter Iran and help Israel (so far) by helping themselves.
And now reading via their surrogates they want to partner with the US with their Ukraine/Russian solution, whatever that is.

It’s just a different scorpion but might be useful in the short to medium term.

cohenite
February 21, 2025 10:41 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

It used to be a good scorpion when Ataturk showed the only way to deal with Islam was to keep a hobnailed boot firmly on its neck. All his good work and infrastructure lost when that rancid lump Erdo?an took over and reinstated the eschatological sewer.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 11:21 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Ataturk was visited by a deputation of Muslim clerics, who demanded that Turkish women be compelled to wear the veil. Ataturk replied that Turkish women were free to dress as they pleased, but the only women compelled to wear the veil would be those registered, with the police, as streetwalkers. For some reason, there wasn’t a veil to be seen on the streets of Turkey for some time.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but it did used to be an offense, earning you time up the creek, to “defame the memory of Ataturk.”

Rabz
February 21, 2025 9:51 pm

he believed Assistant Kommisar Planet Cornelius’ jerb may be impacted

Hopefully with a MOAB visible (and audible) in space … 🙂

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 10:18 pm

@RWMaloneMD

Self replicating c19 vaccines were just approved by the European Union

This sourced from an italian colleague

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 10:19 pm

@robinmonotti

‘Revealed: 17,000 Brits claim they were injured or a relative was killed by Covid jabs – amid discovery of mysterious vaccine-related condition’

“More than 17,000 Brits now claim they have been injured or have had loved ones killed by a Covid jab, according to the latest Government data.
Despite ministers’ promises of compensation for those harmed by the vaccines, only 194 have received damages from the official Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
It comes as US scientists from Yale University identified an alarming syndrome linked to mRNA jabs, those made by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna and which have become the most common type of Covid vaccine used in Britain.
Called ‘post-vaccination syndrome’, the condition appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance, the researchers reported.
Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot.
The condition is also said to increase the risk of reawakening a dormant virus called Epstein-Barr, which can cause flu-like symptoms, swollen lymph nodes and nerve issues.”

The Daily Mail article

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Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 10:23 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 22, 2025 8:02 am
Reply to  Indolent

A positive-sounding thumbnail prognosis from American Thinker.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 10:24 pm

Disasterstan’s Antisemitism Crisis appears to have crept into the regions

Oh, it’s so not just Sydneystan that’s being blessed with an “Antisemitism Crisis”.

How very comforting.

Indolent
Indolent
February 21, 2025 10:26 pm

There isn’t the slightest doubt that Russia was deliberately provoked.

@MyLordBebo

4 days before the Russian invasion (February 20, 2022) Macron told Putin that the Minsk agreements had no legal force and is worthless!

Macron smashed the last hopes Putin had for a diplomatic settlement, Emanuel wanted war.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 21, 2025 10:27 pm

Ghee whiz. I am asking myself when was the last time I have listened to the original? …. 10-15 years back, maybe. This remix is a corker and the stunning visuals synch perfectly with it.

Great on the big screen.

—-

Toto Africa Moreno J Remix

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 10:47 pm

Any, “Sliante” to all you mob. I have submitted my miserable carcass to various indignities in the name of medical science, and I’m having a couple of Tobermories before retiring to the non – marital couch for the night.

Bruce in WA
February 21, 2025 11:21 pm

Good to hear you’re OK!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 21, 2025 11:28 pm
Reply to  Bruce in WA

Thanks , mate.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 11:06 pm

Türkiye is a conundrum

The hottest chick I was ever intimate with was Türkiyish.

Pale skin, immaculate figure and jet black hair in ringlets almost down to her waist.

Alas, she was also as mad as a hatter. A very competent pool player, nonetheless.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 11:13 pm

Unsure if been posted.

Canadian air crash analysis, Blancoliriro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOYiQG43v64

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 21, 2025 11:43 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

I think the live fire shenanigans are a result of our Navy going meh. Bit of a Kath & Kim moment, look at moi… Newscorp kiddies like Siedel are swallowing the bait again.

Guaranteed the P8’s would be keeping tabs on them, KC30 that flew out of Garbutt this morning wasn’t sparing the horses, I was at Stockland Aitkenvale as it climbed out of the airport and wouldn’t have looked up except the racket it was making. P8’s are air to air refuellable and I have seen one around recently.

That’s if we already don’t have a sub shadowing them.

We’ve had plenty of warning they’ve been coming. On this one I think Australia is showing a more mature relaxed approach than the Chicoms have been in the South China sea.

JC
JC
February 22, 2025 2:39 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Interesting. You were telling us sailing through the Sth China Sea was provocative against your guys – the CCP. Also, it’s no biggie that the CCP wants full disclosure of the cargo carried on board freight ships. Also, you agree with your guys the CCP has full rights to claim 90% of that international waterway.

Bruce in WA
February 21, 2025 11:43 pm

Way past time we were allowed to be armed for self-defence!

This sickens me.

A woman has been raped at knifepoint after three teenagers allegedly broke into her Cairns home while she was sleeping.

 

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has described the incident as “sickening and harrowing.”

Cairns police were called following reports three teenagers had allegedly entered a Manunda home and threatened the occupants with a knife, demanding property about 3.30am on Friday.

The incident, including the alleged sexual assault, lasted about 10 to 15 minutes. 

Detective Inspector Kev Goan said it was “one of the most abhorrent acts committed during a break and enter” that he had been experienced in his 38-year career as a detective. 

“Whilst one male offender has held or detained the male occupant in the house, the two others have escorted the female occupant at knifepoint to an outside area where she has been sexually assaulted,” Inspector Goan said.

“The victims and the offenders were not known to each other.”

Two teenagers who were arrested on Friday morning are assisting police with their inquiries. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

“The victims as I say will live with this experience for the rest of their lives and our hearts do go out to them for what they have had to live through,” Insp Goan said.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were arrested in relation to the incident on McCormack St at about 4.30am and are both known to police.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 22, 2025 5:51 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

Introduce them to the local crocodile population.

Rabz
February 21, 2025 11:44 pm

three chinamen junks* sailing down in international waters off the coast of eastern Venoztraylia 

*a type of chinamen ship characterized by a fatbottomed design 😕

Bruce in WA
February 22, 2025 12:19 am
Reply to  Rabz

Now I know why when I was younger the girls used to say “Get your hands off my junk!”

Bruce in WA
February 22, 2025 12:22 am
Reply to  Bruce in WA

But I also knew some achingly beautiful girls when I was young. Some shared themselves with me for just a short while; some turned me down.

But I got lucky, and married the most beautiful, body and soul, and she still puts up with me today.

Arky
February 22, 2025 12:46 am

DrBeauGan

 February 21, 2025 9:38 pm

I don’t believe in souls. I tried to sell mine to Arky, but he welshed on the deal.

I don’t want it, or the responsibility for it.
Suggest you steam clean it, fit new plugs and filters, and see if it starts.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 22, 2025 1:18 am
Reply to  Arky

Truth is, I’m glad you didn’t send me any money for it. I’d have had to admit to it being a scam. I’ve never been clear on how those who claim to have a soul can recognise it or detect it, best hope seems to be that it’s what’s left after you die, which I’m putting off for as long as possible.
From the above correspondence I rather suspect it’s one of those metaphors, with no existence outside the notion that you have a dual existence, a material body and an immaterial mind, with an immaterial soul thrown in for extra seriousness. You can change your mind, but your soul you are stuck with. Or stuck without, in my case.
It all looks very silly to me. I’m a practical person, and if there’s no way of detecting it, there’s no point talking about it.

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