Thanks again Tom.
Open Thread – Mon 24 Feb 2025
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Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 – A decorated World War Two code breaker who spent her youth…
Ben Garrison.
Henry Payne.
Tom Stiglich.
Ms Abu Lebdeh on Tuesday night turned up to Sutherland Police Station
I have no words.
I do. Alan Jones had the whole might of the NSW Police in all the cars they had at their disposal turn up to arrest him. But before the raid the media were informed so they can be there to record the even for maximum effect. See, the cops are making the state safe from Alan Jones.
In contrast, this nurse was permitted to take her own time and show up at a police station when she felt like it. No media on hand to alert the population of NSW. See, the cops are making the would-be killers safe from the state.
Meanwhile Wilkinson is 600k short in cost stoush with Ten.
Paywallion:
Lisa Wilkinson will be forced to cover at least $600,000 of her own legal costs in defending Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation suit, after Network Ten agreed to pay just $1.15m of the estimated $1.8m she has already spent.
However, the agreement on costs, revealed in orders made on Monday in the Federal Court, does not let Ten off the hook for a further round of costs Wilkinson says she is owed.
What happens in the small chance Bruce’s appeal is upheld.
Back to the drawing board?
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/germany-new-conservative-government-wont-close-borders-will-fly-in-thousands-of-afghan-muslims?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=germany-new-conservative-government-wont-close-borders-will-fly-in-thousands-of-afghan-muslims
From the comments:
The only reason the Pakis don’t want Afghani child rapers is because they are afraid the Afghanis will start on the white girls so beloved of Paki rapists.
Effin stupid, still carrying the guilt of WW 2. The Germans were the last country/race t odo this so this fresh in everyones memory.
I notice no one is taught about turks in Europe.
There own stupid fault.
Women will be the first to cop it with no protections eg rape, bashing etc.
Cant wait for hte coutnry to crash with Solar and Wind.
How long have we been saying that the inmates are running of the asylum?
@realchrisrufo
LEAKED: NSA and CIA officials express their desire to have hermaphrodite babies in order to advance trans ideology. “An intersex birth would be a great opportunity to raise a kid as non-binary and let them choose later.”
The people who run the surveillance state are insane.
And evil if they support this.
@gatewaypundit
Enrique Tarrio: “You know when I found that out, that I was a pawn? When they decided to stick me in a room and push a paper in front of me, a narrative, not even asking for the truth, a narrative that the person who instructed me to try to overthrow the government that day was Donald J. Trump.”
@disclosetv
JUST IN – Apple says it is “addressing the issue” as iPhone’s voice-to-text feature periodically shows “Trump” when user says “racist” — Fox
Apple uses Google search engine so my guess would be this is a Google feature.
@bennyjohnson
BOMBSHELL: FBI Whistleblower Reveals The FBI is Actively DESTROYING Evidence after Kash, Bongino Takeover:
“The FBI is working day and night to destroy files on these servers. Can’t be restored. I’m sure there’s info about Epstein and subversion against Americans.”
I would be utterly gobsmacked if, after over a month, everything has not been duplicated and removed. For every bad actor, there must be others who are disgusted with what their workplace has become.
It would have been an issue of the highest priority once the election results were confirmed.
It is, however, a very neat way to find out who is willing to destroy government property.
Elon should unleash his IT kids on those computers/servers to see what the FBI are trying to hide.
Interesting that they feel the need to camouflage the words “vaccine” and “death”.
@SarahisCensored
Developing Story – 17-year-old Sean Hartman passed away 33 days after his first Pfizer v@ccine.
Ontario, Canada resident Dan Hartman has initiated a wrongful de@th lawsuit against Pfizer after his son Sean passed away from the COVlD-19 jab. If won, it will be the first successful lawsuit in North America against Pfizer for wrongful de@th.
“On the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, 33 days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 v@ccination, Sean Hartman was found deceased in his bedroom by his mother,” said Sheikh Law lawyers Umar Sheikh and Angela Wood in a court filing.
Sean was forced to take a COVID-19 v@ccine to be allowed to play hockey. Dan said Sean’s mother took him to the emergency room four days after his first dose because he had brown circles around his eyes, a rash on his face, and pain in his right shoulder.
American pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole determined in July that Sean dièd from the COVID-19 v@ccine via tissue samples sent by the father to America. A large amount of spike protein was found in his adrenal glands.
We must put a spotlight on this! I am currently in contact with the father and will provide updates as this progresses. Winning this case would change everything for parents all over the globe! Pfizer has hired some of the most expensive law firms in Canada to fight against Dan Hartman and we must not allow them to bury yet another parent.
The family also has a separate lawsuit against the Canadian government for wrongful de@th. Please pray for justice for this family. And please make this go viral. We must place a spotlight on his story!
Sean was forced to take a COVID-19 v@ccine to be allowed to play hockey.
Sean was pressured into taking the jab, but ‘do it or you cant play hockey’ isn’t an existential threat.
Corruption is still a sin, no matter how insignificant it may seem at the inception.
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Five members of the Democratic Party in Bridgeport, Conn., and Philadelphia have been criminally charged with numerous counts of voter fraud at both the state and federal levels regarding mail-in ballots.
Unbelievable! I would have given the two thought police a bloody good ear full.
Vance Vindicated: British Police Doorstep Grandma After Criticising Leftist Lawmakers on Social Media
Bit like the Sgt from Mt Barker who advised me to ‘tone your comments down’ or things might happen which you do not want, when I criticised my MP (Liberal, Josh Teague) during the COVID era.
Was your response, Eff off C. Coz that would have been mine.
my response was to film it and upload it…. it got worldwide views
Even better, I do now recall your response.
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: Democrat Andrew Yang runs poll about the Trump administration – it horribly BACKFIRED.
“How are you feeling about the Trump admin thus far?”
Wow.
Just saw that 247000 people had voted.
@TimRunsHisMouth
Between Keystone and good people who lost their jobs because they wouldn’t take the jab…. This is a very good point
Too good not to post… 🙂
Today’s Tele:
Chris Kenny’s show last night had some good parts but he once again had his TDS showing. Kristin Tate did what she could to counter his shallow appreciation of the Ukraine/Russia situation, pointing out that calling Putin a dictator at this time would be counter-productive.
Saying that Zelensky was an elected president skated right over the fact that there haven’t been presidential elections since 2019.
Trump is being realistic and wants the destruction to end, even at the cost of Ukraine losing some territory. He’s not alone in that, plenty of Ukrainians would like the deaths of their young men to cease too.
@ElectionWiz
BREAKING—Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is facing accusations of ethics violations for backing legislation that helped his wife’s environmental nonprofit, Ocean Conservancy, rake in millions.
Labor doesn’t like Dai Lee – she killed Bambi.
So sad, too bad. Can you imagine the eulogy.
I am still amazed at the incorrigible, head in the sand stupidity that they displayed when the kept trotting out Bambi as a candidate. She is electorally toxic because event the resident parrot in the local pet shop (H/T to Paul Keating) knows that she rose to office as a stooge of Obeid and Tripodi.
I suspect Chris Hayes, the previous Labor member for Fowler, also despised her because (unlike Hayes who is the real thing, one of the embattled few remaining in the ALP) she is a woke fake Catholic.
Don’t ever forget Nathan Rees’s character reference for Kenneally: ‘If I am no longer premier of NSW at eight o’clock tonight, then whoever is will be a creature of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi.’ Remember who succeeded Rees as premier that day?
Is there no place that the Wokeness cancer won’t crawl into? No doubt the same already applies here in Oz. Many areas of science have fallen into disrepute because of the ‘sensitivity’.
Woke archaeologists are burying humanity’s past
Lysenkoism 2.
And it will have the same result – heaps of dead bodies and mounds of skulls – the only thing that Socialism regularly produces an excess of.
Hal Colebatch on Pol Pot: ‘bone-meal manufacturer and Socialist statesperson, Thai-Kampuchea border.
Not digging up anything now is actually a good thing, it leaves relics undisturbed until this era of insanity passes and real archeologists can look at them in the future.
True – but reburying / destroying priceless relics is an enormous crime.
Why were the Mungo skeletons given to some aboriginals to bury in an undisclosed location?
Both me and the aboriginals are far, far more closely related to Julius Caesar than to the Mungo people.
The real issue – current aboriginal people are nothing to do with the Mungo people and the conclusion must be that current aboriginals – to the extent they are not european- are descended from a later wave of aboriginal settlement of which there have been several.
Inconveniently, all the earlier people have disappeared, like the large native animals.
Yes that research was quickly put into the forgettery and the evidence removed.
@amuse
GLOBAL WARMING: It’s making it colder…
If it doesn’t, nothing will change.
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: FBI is investigating James Comey for running an off-the-books honeypot operation to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign with undercover agents!
ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING
Now that they hate Putin they will have nowhere to escape. Somehow I don’t think China wants to antagonise Trump any further.
@DineshDSouza
The Democrats are returning to their roots.
It’s 1860 all over again.
Pramila Jaypal on why we must have illegal aliens:
“Look at the food on your table. Think about who picked it!”
Plus looking after the elderly and children.
I’m amazed she didn’t include “think about who’s cleaning your bathrooms and cooking your meals”.
Do some real work lady.
Some talking head on television during the Biden creche actually asked, “who will clean your toilets?”.
You have to clean toilets?
What’s a toilet?
Indeed.
The one we have seems to be self cleaning, as far as I can tell.
How about pay good wages and people will take those jobs. There isn’t a shortage of workers, the move is to undercut the existing workforce.
Cleaners turn up every fortnight to clean my house (and toilet). Why? They get paid.
“Strike Force Pearl detectives must be commended for acting swiftly…:”
Is this the same “strike force” that turned up en masse to arrest 83 year old Alan Jones?
Also, an 82 year old lady at Five Dock.
@elonmusk
MAJOR housecleaning is needed
Meme
I wonder if this also applies to our medical profession here in Oz?
Note how they fell into line during covid.
Katie Hopkins: Viewed from overseas, the degradation of the U.K. is stark. Decent families want out
We used to have an immigration policy that welcomed decent families.
Now they allow any ratbags to come here.
One presumes the morons standing screaming outside the opera house were all dinky-die Aussies?
Hoi, I represent that.
@libsoftiktok
GOP Lawmakers to Be Briefed on FCC’s Soros Investigation!
Republicans will receive a briefing on the FCC probe into George Soros’ takeover of 200 radio stations.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is set to address how Biden’s FCC fast-tracked the deal.
Snork.
Outstanding.
I desperately want one, or six.
They forgot to put some on the ankles. Can’t have the old lady running away from the cops.
Bam!
The fact it’s pissed off the cops? Perfection.
The police have confiscated them.
Now we need to get them made OS and make the coppers chase their tails examining all the parcels coming in.
Just how thin skinned are they?
Streisand Effect in action
Keir Starmer’s Rule Will BREAK Britain! | David Starkey’s Stark Warning
Crushed Britain Discovers BRUTAL Truth
Britain is going the way of Venezuela – not producing gas even though they have vast reserves.
Dr. John Campbell
Spike after 700 days
Indolent
February 26, 2025 8:20 am
@amuse
GLOBAL WARMING: It’s making it colder…
Ok, I’ll bite. As Elon might request, demolish his argument in less than 5 easy dot points.
I don’t need anymore dot points.
The Queensland government has ruled out making any national parks off-limits to the public after revelations of a 2022 proposal to shut down the famous Mount Beerwah summit trail on the Sunshine Coast.
Courier-Mail
Crisafulli courageously following the opinion polls!
Less than two years ago he was in favour of treaty (which would have included such bans) and truth telling (stories my nanna told me).
Already seeing shades of the ALP in the Cairns rape story. 3 “yoof” arrested but no word on priors or if they were out on bail. Prying minds want to know Deb Freckless, you’re the AG.
Meanwhile we are getting Government advertising on adult crime/adult time. Regardless of stripes I despise this misuse of taxpayers money.
And Deb is new enough to the job to be able to blame the last lot.
That’s another example of Albanese’s tin ear. He still tries to blame Abbot and Morrison for everything.
Maybe my email to the Qld Environment Minister has paid off in which I linked to an article in Quadrant about what has and is happening in NSW.
I found the email. Maybe ‘activism’ sometimes works!
You only have to say “My aunty is from Queensland, mate, it’s all good.”
They can’t ask for a race ID card yet.
The EU is actively trying to undermine negotiations to end the war.
Hungary Blocks EU’s War Machine! Orban Destroys Ukraine’s NATO & EU Dreams in One Blow | TN World
USAID In Egypt Had Me Detained For Walking In And Asking If It’s Following Trump’s Orders
This is a brilliant story. How many instances are there of USAID fully integrating with totalitarian governments to achieve objectives that are not in the interests of the American people.
In this case – supporting Hamas. Other writers claim that there is so much stashed money that the traitors can continue for years unless physically restrained.
CDC continuing to deal with WHO suggests that contempt for the Trump administration’s rulings extends across the various Departments.
Arrest may be the only solution. The saved billions can go towards new jails.
Chilling.
He’s pretty brave, tangling with the Egyptian police and security agency. They could have dragged him off and thrown him into a filthy cell, out of contact with anyone.
But the scariest thing of all is that clearly USAID sicced the goons onto him, and they complied. The military style compound and secrecy are also disturbing for what is supposed to be a benovolent distributor of overseas aid.
Draining the swamp is going to take a lot of doing, if this is any guide.
Very interesting article.
Wow! All of the above.
Poll: Bulk of Trump’s Policies Receive ‘Strong Majority Support’
He’s going after the “Russia collusion” conspiracy.
Dan Bongino Sets Sights on ‘Treasonous’ Adam Schiff: ‘I’m Not Letting This Go’
Coral sea this morning. Impressive sight, two of the 3 cyclones currently in the western Pacific region.
Probably why the Chinese armada is hanging round down near Hobart, not much room to get through the Coral Sea at the moment.
As Jo Nova points out, China is building another 95 gigawatts of coal fired power plants.
China can manufacture anything and everything, large, small, simple or complex, right up to space tech.
China has cheap power, China has a huge population and is working on having huge military capabilities including nuclear.
But we are knobbling our country to reduce emissions.
We are governed by idiots and ideologues.
Take no notice of the gibberish they use to justify what they’re doing to us.
Judge them on the consequences of their actions.
People who can bring back soil samples from lunar farside and have a rover on Mars are not incompetent and they can make whatever quality they desire.
Our country is run by small minded fools or traitors.
A “ developing country” with a Mars Rover?
I’ll go with both options, Eyrie.
Plenty of foreign currency involved with some, they are the Traitors.
Others, the Fools, are doing it for free.
India also has developing country status yet they are building submarines and frigates for the Indian Ocean (they hate China) and they also have a space program.
Terrible rubbish still everywhere though.
Need to take firm control of that and improve air quality.
China was shamed into doing it. Get to work on India now.
We are governed by Communists who are in league with our enemies..
After 110 years, the Whitehouse Correspondants’ Association’s monopoly control over journalist access to Potus briefings been destroyed. Fantastic move Maga.
Natalie Winters can leave her bra at home again.
Cheese brained Cheesehead probably thought making the four year old Saskatoonian added verisimilitude.
Her maple syrup has fermented.
That always happens when you jam the bottle up your date.
You know that because you read it in a book of course.
The logistics of organizing the transport of gigantic wind blades through country towns and rural areas was always going to be a problem.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/investigation-into-wind-turbine-blade-debacle-ararat/104954888
I recall Airbus measuring the routes through France, components were to be delivered through villages to within 20 mm.
Coincidentally, the turbine was being delivered to a wind farm operated by French company Neoen, which claims to have obtained all the necessary permits from the state transport department.
Perhaps the specifications got lost in translation.
Not sure how Forest Wind plan to get their 85m blades into the middle of nowhere.
Know of a few wide load operators and their pilots banned from various mine sites in the Bowen Basin. Basically an attitude they are above the rules.
There are newer corporations getting in on the game who are professional but a lot of cowboys still are still around.
Victoria doesn’t strike me as a state needing too much oversize movement. Maybe some of the cowboys as I’m looking at the pics thinking WTF was he/she thinking. Hope the driver and pilots have good indemnity insurance
Yacht I built was being moved to a boat yard for launching. Truck took off breaking any phone lines in the way. Came to a roundabout with brick raised beds of flowers. Truck drove straight through without slowing. Garden all over the place.
They are stacking these massive things at the old BHP site in Newcastle, but can’t yet move them up the New England Hwy because the road system is impossible at certain choke points.
WATCH: ‘Gutless’ Greens CANCEL event after Jews take a stand
Have there been increased number of floods in Australia? I don’t think so.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/insurance-cost-calls-for-30b-flood-fund-as-election-looms/104978284
@profstonge
One of the most exciting aspects of DOGE is it suggests the entire world-conquering Radical Left is fake.
Tax-funded astroturf.
Meaning for any country all you have to do is get a populist in one time, DOGE that sucker, and the entire left simply vanishes
WATCH: German Far-Left Chant Antifa Slogans as They Enter Parliament
All germany needs is a disgruntled painter and it’d be on like mutley on a box of Krispy Kremes. Germany never should have been rebuilt. Nothing has changed.
On the contrary…
The Communists are now in the West and the freedom lovers are in the East.
😀
Like everywhere else in The West,
the commies and other far left are all in the inner cities and heavy industrial areas t have been full of immigrants for a couple of decades.
And yes, the turncoat conservatives allied with the commies are in West Germany outside those areas, and the old east Germans don’t want to get back to communism.
The left is working on them as well. Poland’s last election went to lefties despite the population being conservative.
Germany never should have been
rebuiltreunified.FIFY
I disagree, the reunification may be their salvation as the eastern populations are now the resistance.
Yep we do the things that everyone else says is too hard
Early morning coffee, and the “Diaries of Chips Channon.”
Entry for 6th November, 1942. Page 894.
“Somebody told me a story about old Bowles, Mrs Greville’s pompous, efficient, but slightly alcoholic butler. There was a grand weekend party at Polesden, attended by the King and Queen. Royalty was too much for him, and towards the end of dinner, Mrs Greville scribbled on the back of a menu card “You are drunk – go to bed at once, M.G” and slipped it to Bowles, who very politely put it on a salver, bowed, and presented it to Lady (Austen) Chamberlain who flushed with rage. Nobody knew what to do!”
Zulu,
I have been saving this meme for your evening whiskey and read, but now is also appropriate. 😀
My compliments, Pogria, and thank you.
Lovely darts Pogs
Wielicki on why global boiling is bullshit; in his words:
For decades, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and leading climate scientists have treated certain assumptions about Earth’s climate system as indisputable facts. One of the core tenets of modern climate science has been that as temperatures rise, the atmosphere’s ability to hold moisture increases, leading to more extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, stronger storms, and prolonged droughts in other areas. This belief is baked into nearly every climate model and policy recommendation.
But what happens when one of these foundational assumptions turns out to be wrong? A new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters (2024), suggests that even basic understandings of how warming interacts with atmospheric moisture may need serious revision.
The IPCC’s Moisture Miscalculation
That would actually be disappointing for a country like Australia. Northern Australia in particular is projected to increase its average rainfall.
La Nina and a +ve PDO
ENSO influences seasonal conditions, not long term and I doubt climate models show a statistically significant difference in its behaviour (not that that reality stops activists), particularly for northern Australia.
While the PDO is a longer longer term factor regardless and has been not very definitive lately, it might be entering a more favourable negative phase for Oz.
in context of climate models, they have built in assumptions that higher moisture content will result from rising GHG. This paper suggests this is not as much the case, so the predicted higher rainfall in northern Australia as a result of rising GHG may not happen on top of current (high) variability.
Personally I think a lot of long term projections are an artifact of the assumptions.
NT News, Poorly cooked smallgood sales plummet. Hotdog stand operator goes on bender. I can see it now.
Hi, Knuckle Dragger!
From Pam Geller:
One of Biden’s Final Appointments, First Federal Muslim Judge Judge Amir Ali Rules Trump Administration Has to Pay Millions in Jihad Aid
Terrorist activists on our bench.
Facebook
Biden and the shits who controlled him have to be hunted down like the treasonous geckos they are.
Please let it be so!
Bye, Bye?! Greenpeace risks bankruptcy at US pipeline trial – ‘Greenpeace says it could be forced into bankruptcy if it is ordered to pay the approximate $300m in claimed damages’ (24 Feb)
Poor dears. Funny how they never seem to complain when corrupt lefty judges in NY and DC persecute righties.
It would be delicious if they copped a backbreaking legal tab just as the Biden Laundry puts out it’s “Closing Down Sale” sign.
I always thought they should be called Redpiss.
Aside from the carriage service charges, I believe they have used one of the new laws to charge the nurse – for threatening violence against groups. Maximum 5 years.
If she’d done a Nazi salute she’d be looking at a mandatory 12 months. If she doesn’t receive jail time it would be absurd to receive more punishment for doing a hand gesture than actually threatening to kill Jews.
If she had done a Nasti salute she’d be on remand till her trial.
There goes the last reason for watching ABC election coverage.
‘Not as sharp’: ABC election mainstay to step down (Paywallian)
Thanks Mr Green for lots of excellent work. A showman as well as a scholar.
Pobably the only ALPBC employee to be rational.
Well, Pip Courtney
The reason Antony Green stood out is that he’s not a radical lunatic like most of the ABC’s staff.
Perhaps the only ABC employee who projects an air of disinterest.
“Just the numbers, ma’am”.
Like the polls/stats guy on CNN the other day getting all excited over Trump’s trannie EO scoring 79% approval.
He was just pumped because something approaching 80% either way in a poll is like seeing Halley’s Comet go past.
The partisan host put on the best cat’s bum face I have seen in a long time.
Steve Austin (radio) not too bad. He at least makes some sort of effort to present the non-ABC side and every-so-often *gasp* asks questions that expose politicians from the right (not “of” the right).
Of course, he’s been moved to less high-profile times over the years and, dollars to donuts, will end up in private enterprise sooner rather than later.
Although in true ABC style, while “stepping down”, he’ll continue on the ABC’s payroll as some sort of adviser.
Worked there so long probably also defined benefit.
In addition to Mr Green, my fondest ABC electoral coverage was 2001, 2004 (Red Kezza), and 2019.
Red Kezza: “And that’s another victory for the ABC, oops, I mean the ALPBC, oops I mean the ALP!”
Ratcheting costs now impacting margins in the big supermarkets
Woolworths earnings for the supermarket chain’s Australian Food segment fell 12.8% to A$1.39 billion ($881.54 million) for the six months, mainly due to gross margin impact from higher meat input costs and a customer shift towards more discounted specials. (from Reuters but won’t accept link)
The ratchet effect of higher power prices is now rippling through the economy. It can only get worse because it impacts every step in the supply chain, from grower to wholesaler to retailer. Most fresh produce has to be cool-chained to meet food safety standards meaning dependence on refrigeration throughout the whole system.
coincidentally, the AUD price of gold is near record territory, at $4600. Its almost like things aren’t getting more expensive, but rather that our safe secure government managed money is losing value …. almost…
Wait until they find that Fort Knox is full of Nubrik and Glen Iris brand gold.
Precisely what I’ve been stating for the last year.
Gold is $US70 from $3k. It will be interesting to see which way it goes.
Please help me with this one. Gold going up and down dresses heading for Tina Turner. (5)
Last Tuesday, I wrote the following to my federal ( Liberal) member:
The emphasis on discernment in his response suggests to me that, once in power, they might do a whole lot more than what has been eluded to pre-election. One can only hope.
Pity he’s an anti free speech fascist.
If he had mentioned cutting black tape it would also help!
At least he replied, three months afetr my letter to Dutton and still zip.
To be fair, Dutton probably gets a thousand letters a week and doesn’t have Government Departments to write replies for him.
My response was as follows:
Yes! Excellent.
A very good response.
Yes, polite but deadly.
And yet he took 6 months to decide on what position to take. Despite the fact that 5 months previously, the Nationals stated their position. I get the distinct impression that Dutton is just a political weathervane. He’s definitely not a man of conviction.
Reporting for “medical treatment” = “Get out of Jail” card?
A former nurse who threatened to kill Jewish patients in footage that shocked Australia hasn’t been charged because he is receiving ‘ongoing medical treatment’, police have confirmed.
Ahmad Rashad Nadir appeared in a video alongside fellow nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh earlier this month when they boasted of withholding treatment from Israeli patients and even killing them.
Daily Mail
What a crock. The police have charged plenty of people in a hospital bed over the years.
Oh for sure it’s rotten. But here’s betting the house that her “medical condition” is stress, anxiety, depression, Racist Death Threats On Social Media, and associated suicidal ideation, so she couldn’t possibly face a policeman.
That’s “his” medical condition, Wally. He’s been in Bankistan hospital with mental ‘elf related conditions for well over a week, if I recall correctly.
Australia, the sucker country….
Waahhh! Our propaganda is not working!
Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences (Phys.org, 25 Feb)
Yep Cats astroturfing is their recommendation. Sure to work. Here’s who they are:
Yet more drones. Fire them all.
Rabz the universities!
What has this sort of moronic propaganda got to do with Phys.Org?
Holdout groups in Australia can include people associated with political conservatism, the business sector, farming, the resource sector, some religious groups and some sports fans.
Also people who have looked at the numbers instead of forming their opinions by reading other people’s bumper stickers.
The propagandists probably have a subscription that costs $100k.
I must admit I didn’t think of that payout dodge.
Four frightbats plus the obligatory spy from the Chinese Communist Party checking on the destruction of the Australian industrial economy and its relocation to China because of “climate change”.
Defund the social sciences.
The 60% figure may be as fake as the (97%) of scientists figure that emanated from a QLD university a decade or so ago. It is most likely push-polling, so to speak, and is part of their propaganda push to salvage the deck chairs on the net zero leaky boat. That there are five senior staff involved seems totally over the top. Did they get an ARC grant by any chance?
wA University
Wasn’t he called Stephen Lewandowski .Maybe I’m confusing him with someone else.
Cook in Qld
His strength of leadership was shown during the Voice campaign where, despite the first polls showing 70% of Australians were in favour, he stood the ground and changed the narrative.
Oh really? He was initially supportive of The Voice and when he saw the way the wind was blowing he came out lukewarm against it.
I asked ChatGPT to compare Dutton to Maocon, Scummo and Abbott:
ChatGPT been trained?
Generous to Turnbull, otherwise it is pretty right?
Dr Mutton is not a conservative.
He’s outed himself repeatedly as a “big stupid government” proponent (3rd world immigration, year zero, the surveillance state and free speech abolition), a weathervane leading from behind on various other issues (e.g. da screeech), not to mention a proponent of entirely ridiculous unnecessary policies such as the nookular reactor sleight of hand.
In other words he’s an unfunny joke and yet another unipardee stooge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-sales-fall-45-across-europe-buyers-respond-musks-move-politics
Looks like nearly half the buyers did so not because they were great cars but for the virtue signalling cachet of the brand.
Lefties are vandalizing Teslas.
Why do Tesla owners change their badges? (Tele, 25 Feb, not paywalled)
Aren’t Lefties such charming well-behaved people? Just think of when Biden entered office claiming decency was back.
They should be able to swap them for the Chinese Trabants.
Oh I know what this is. This is what Amy Klobuchar was talking about during the inauguration.
It’s called: THE PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER.
LOL
At root, the challenges will invoke the great principle of English law enunciated in Entick v Carrington in 1765 ( and enthusiasticallyp accepted in USA law) that an organ of the Executive cannot lawfully do something out of “necessity”. Rather, any action must be authorised by statute, the common law (including whatever prerogatives of the Crown survive), and, in the US and in Australia, the Constitution.
In the USA (although not in Australian federal law) the President, nor any other body, lacks p power to do anything characterised as “legislative”. ( There some complexities here, which I won’t pursue). And of course their Constitution sets limits to the exercise of “executive” power.)
Challenges to Trump’s executive orders illustrate the rule of law in action. They are based on Entick v Carrington, and in respect of a constitutional challenge the great principle of judicial review stated by SCOTUS in Marbury v Madison (1803 I think).
Apparently Spender is killing it in Wentworth. Her approval rating is over 70%.
According to Climate200 polling.
Like the Alco Selzer poll predicting “Trump is going to lose Iowa 47:44”.
Actual result?
43:55 the other way.
Climate200 survey, so grain of salt, and isn’t it interesting that a central organisation is conducting these surveys? But not a Party.
also, Wentworth under a redistribution is getting a bunch of lefty voters that used to be in Plebersek’s . So helps her out too.
Ah ok, I didn’t realise it was their own polling!!!
I didn’t know it snows in Wentworth.
A harbinger of the forthcoming election announcement: the wholly unnecessary Select Committee Interim report for the inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia has been published.
A quick glance shows it to be 97.3% political, with freak show characteristics.
A full analysis would clog the Cat arteries and choke a brown dog with tedium. But in summary:
Australia is not a serious country.
Holmes a Court is cited 25 times!!!
Australia’s cumulative inflation since the artificial covid stimulus really kicked things off is 19% according to one respected independent economist.
Those price rises will never be wound back and the full impact of net zero on the agricultural & pastoral sectors is yet to be applied.
In reality at least 30%.
What the electricity price increases do is increase costs and eat away at your profit margins. It’s been happening for 12 months with big retailers absorbing it or pushing it across lines as they have tried to keep consumer prices down knowing that customers also have less to spend.
Correct, mem.
Households have been insulated by subsidies but not businesses.
I often wonder how many keep the lights on…literally.
With 2.5 days still left, WA has just recorded its worst ever ambulance ramping month; at nearly 5,000 hours.
On a short month and all
Let me guess not even in the 10 ten of the state election issues talking points by the media?
6PR is the only one covering it.
Not even flu season.
Explain his support for the hate speech amendments then.
I still want to see 18C repealed.
Only in the Northern Territory department – unfortunately it’s not though
Rosalie Lalara says she will fight for Groote’s future, has ‘learned from mistakes’ of $500k theft
Rosalie Lalara says she wants to serve the community and has learned from past mistakes that led to a stint in prison for stealing almost $500k in Aboriginal royalties.
One of the candidates gunning for a spot in a remote Northern Territory council has defended her stint in prison for stealing almost $500k in Aboriginal royalties, saying she has learned from past mistakes.
Rosalie Lalara is one of five candidates vying for three councillor positions in next month’s Groote Archipelago Regional Council election.
She says she wants to help shape a better future for the local community
In 2016 Ms Lalara was sentenced to 18 months behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing $492,138 intended for the benefit of traditional clans on the archipelago off the East Arnhem coast.
The money was taken from the Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Trust (GEAT) between 2011 and 2012 while Ms Lalara was employed as the trust’s public officer, and was largely spent on cars, boats and bikes for one of her friends living in Queensland.
During sentencing, NT Supreme Court Justice Graham Hiley said Ms Lalara “fell for the charms” of her friend, and “naively believed that he could assist you and your community if you bestowed these various gifts upon him and his family”.
Speaking to this masthead this week Ms Lalara said she “learned lessons” from that time.
“I’m not going down that track again,” she said.
“My message to people is be careful, because you can be taken for a ride – that’s how I was taken … I’m still asking myself ‘Where did I go wrong?’
“My focus is to rebuild the community again; (with) better housing, hygiene, health and education.”
Other candidates running against Ms Lalara in the council election supported her efforts to serve the community.
Gregson Lalara – Ms Lalara’s cousin-brother – said she had stepped up and was working with local people.
“She’s learned from the mistake, it’s time to move forward and help the community,” he said.
Leonard Amagula said conflicts of interest were common on the island, and the community was practised at managing them.
“The Lalaras would do a good job, always do a good job representing people,” Mr Amagula said.
Gordon Walsh said the misappropriation of funds on the island was an issue that went beyond Ms Lalara’s case.
While many of Groote’s 1600 Indigenous residents live in poverty, the island is one of Australia’s wealthiest areas per capita thanks to royalties from manganese mining.
“I believe there’s a lot of money missing – $500,000 is only part of many millions. There must be a lot of other people out there they should be concerned about,” Mr Walsh said.
“Rosalie certainly has a community consciousness, and she’s paid her price.
“Good on her that she’s got that civic consciousness or civic duty, you need to have people doing it (running in elections), it’s only a small community.”
Ms Lalara’s crimes were revealed amid an investigation into $34m that disappeared from the GEAT coffers between 2010 and 2012.
It was not suggested that Ms Lalara was responsible for all of the missing money, however she was the only individual ever charged.
In a separate case, the Auditor-General found $24m, or half of the Anindilyakwa Land Council 2021-22 royalties, was invested into entities supporting Winchelsea Mining – an enterprise jointly established and directed by then chief executive Mark Hewitt and late council chair T Wurramarrba.
Ms Lalara – in a longstanding feud with ALC management – gathered hundreds of signatures off the back of the auditor’s report demanding the federal government investigate “potential gross misconduct” regarding Indigenous royalty distribution.
Leaked documents later revealed Mr Hewitt, who has always denied any wrongdoing, had sought a personal stake of up to 10 per cent in Winchelsea Mining.
Federal investigations were ultimately launched into the ALC, and have led to Mr Hewitt being sacked, the ALC board and management “put on notice”, funding frozen, and raids on the ALC office by the anti-corruption watchdog.
Mr Hewitt and Mr Wurramarrba have not been charged with any offences.
NT News – no comments allowed of course!
Big men and Women gotta get paid!
One for Calli.
Best town of the year in 2025 revealed (26 Feb)
Oh do shut up! It’s meant to be a secret! 🙂
Currently in the very quiet AMEX lounge at SYD. Got a good deal on Luxury Escapes to Bali. Will veg out at a resort there at Nusa Dua.
Dunno why – the Beloved thought it was a good idea.
I totally support this decision. Gorgeous spot.
Polling in WA seats points to crucial Liberal Party gains
The Liberals are on track to claim three key Federal seats in Western Australia amid growing voter concern about the risk of a hung parliament, new polling commissioned by the oil and gas sector shows.
The survey of more than 800 voters in each of the key WA seats of Bullwinkel, Curtin and Tangney show the opposition in prime position to claim all three, in what would be a major blow to the Albanese Government.
Liberal candidate Tom White holds a commanding 65-35 two-party preferred lead over teal independent Kate Chaney in the seat of Curtin, a former Liberal stronghold that fell at the 2022 election.
The new seat of Bullwinkel is down to a race between the Liberals and Nationals, with Labor attracting a primary vote of just 15 per cent in a seat that takes in the rural areas on Perth’s eastern fringe. Liberal candidate Matt Moran comfortably leads former Nationals WA leader Mia Davies 41 to 22 on primaries.
Albo will it want to interfere with state election so no campaign while state election is going on.
but he want to take advantage of an ALP win in state election and honeymoon period to strengthen the ALP position in those seats. A reason to call it straight after
How the Lieborals ever lost Curtin and Tangney is a complete disgrace. Like getting ALP material from your local member in Nedlands.
To apologize for yesterdays poorly received mental image of an Albotross bodice ripper I present a peace offering.
I belive its customary to apologize with a cute… avian?
here
3rd times a charm.
Even WordPress resisted your alluring image.
Your Albo-porn offending was so terrible that the electric internet itself turns its back on you.
There is now a veritable flood of details coming out of DOGE findings how Democrats have been defrauding the country and benefitting their families and friends to the tune of not just millions but billions. It gives a new meaning to the 19th century label of robber barons.
Matt Kean has fired back at suggestion he could be dumped as the Climate Change Authority chair due to his criticism of nuclear if the Coalition wins the next election.
Kean, a former NSW treasurer and deputy, was appointed by Labor to the authority last year.
Liberal senator Jane Humetold ABC’s Afternoon Briefing on Monday the opposition couldn’t imagine “that we possibly maintain a Climate Change Authority that has been so poorly, so badly politicised”.
In a post to X, Kean said he “would not be bullied”.
“Nor can the science be changed by political pressure,” he wrote. “I will continue to be an advocate for the environment and protecting it for future generations.
“Science has provided a roadmap to do that and I will continue to advocate for it.”
He wouldn’t know what science was if he was hit over the head with it. Nothing much is happening son, except in the fevered brains of climate activists like you.
He’s not an advocate for the environment, he’s a renewable energy grifter.
Real Science has provided a Road Map since the Age of Enlightenment, however, for the past 20 to 30 years the ‘Climate Alarmists’ have been reading the Map all wrong and have been going the wrong way up a One Way Street.
Fortunately, Trump is now leading the way back to reality.
Bye, bye Kean and Good Riddance.
I’m sure he will not be bullied, he will just be dismissed when the ridiculously named Climate Change Authority is abolished.
I’m hoping Dutton is getting ideas from Trump and DOGE.
He’d better be getting ideas from President Trump.
But he’s still not getting my vote, and nor is One Nation after they refused the vote of the Hate Speech Travesty.
It doesn’t leave much, does it?
Like a popgun at a howitzer.
Go away piddling grifter.
He won’t be dumped. His whole office will just cease to exist. He can turn up all he likes but the chair and table will be just gone.
Kean would be an excellent first spearing on the Monday. As should have happened to Matthew Parkinson.
Do you mean Martin
Bald headed flog who somehow managed to con his way into the Liberal Party.
It will be interesting to see how this might change if the Coalition wins and requests that GenCost make more reasonable assumptions.
What?
Let me tell you, there is nothing – and I mean nothing – worse than coping with a dry kransky.
Dark times ahead.
I love kranskys. I grew up eating them.
The Slovenian way was to boil them first. Then slice in half lengthways, then pan fry until very crispy edges. ooaarrrrggghhh mmmmm
Of course, you had to have a most excellent Continental Butcher. 😀
I’d eat them daily but sometimes a gouty pain in the big toe tells me to ease off on deli meats generally, bacon, salami, you name it.
haha!
Anything over 24 hours in the bain marie is pushing it.
Mortgage holders hoping for back-to-back rate cuts have taken a hit.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ January inflation print shows that trimmed mean inflation, which the Reserve Bank uses to measure Australia’s inflation rate, came in at 2.8 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent in December.
Australia’s monthly inflation ticks up in January | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Utter horseshit number.
The CPI is the Corrupted Price Index.
The Rino herd blinked…
BREAKING: House Passes Trump-GOP Budget (25 Feb)
So far the Republican herd of cats is holding together reasonably well.
They can’t find the key to the file cabinet yet. haw!
Good!
BP (NYSE:BP) is making a hard pivot back to fossil fuels, ditching its ambitious renewable energy targets in a bid to regain investor confidence. At its investor day in London, CEO Murray Auchincloss is expected to scrap BP’s plan to boost renewable capacity 20-fold by 2030, shifting focus toward oil and gas. The company is also set to abandon its $49 billion EBITDA target for 2024
BP Just Ditched Its Green Pledge–Why This Energy Giant Is Betting Big on Oil Again
BP was attempting to be ‘Beyond Petroleum’, however, the ‘Ruin-A-Balls’ Strategy has been a disaster and BP became ‘Broken Profits’ since the year 2020.
Now, BP has decided to get back to what it really should stand for and ‘Drill, Baby, Drill and Refine the Black Gold’.
Serial posting this AM!!! 😛
So, this is how it started:
How Chile is becoming a leader in renewable energy | World Economic Forum
And this is how it ended:
Chile declares state of emergency after massive power outage
If only there was a leader familiar with how the prosecution service worked who could fix this *
Theres uncontestable footage at the link.
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1894300496283738211
BRITAIN HAS FALLEN.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped charges against Muslim men who drove through London with Palestinian flags, blaring from a megaphone that Jewish women and girls should be raped “for Palestine.”
Let’s spell it out: Britain’s legal system now protects jihadist filth calling for the mass rape of Jewish women. Meanwhile, if you dare to post something critical of Islam online, you’ll have the police breaking down your door.
*The new “If only Stalin knew”
After the NSW plods effort recently we’re not much better.
Sarah was just allowed to attend a cop shop at her own will and timing, was handed a summons and sent on her way. No 5am knock with CERT, no arrest, no time in cells and certainly no remand/bail hearing.
Problem is 2 tier Minns doesn’t have the same ring.
And no almighty brawl in the street between a horde of military age and demeanour Muzzie men and armed bunch of large police- officers. Followed by wailing of women in black letter-boxes and claims of Islam phobia.
Dunno all I see is appeasement of bad behaviour or threat of bad behaviour.
Which is why we are at where we are at.
How about Muslamist Minns?
Or, Mohammed Minns?
Or, Mosque Minns?
or perhaps Minns the arsehole?
Mini Minns.
The Poms know how they can fix the whole thing and that is by voting for an anti-immigration party and I expect they will when they have had enough. It’s obvious that they have not had enough yet, at least not in significant numbers.
What?
Jewish ADF officer stripped of security clearance over espionage risk, still in reserve after tribunal | The Nightly
“Espionage” my backside!!!
The Grauniad article was pretty damning…
I read about it on another news network.
Didn’t tell the ADF he was working with foreign interests when overseas. Arrogant or evasive? We don’t know but all ex Defence types I know say the ADF is quite strict on travel notifications especially to unstable regions. The debrief asks questions about approaches from foreign agents etc apparently.
On this one can’t blame them.
“I got to thinking about Trump’s move to overturn birthright citizenship, arguing that the historical intent was around children of slaves, and it isn’t relevant today.”
That was indeed the intent, not that literally anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen. This is clear in both the wording of the amendment and also in the contemporary writings of the time, including those of the man who proposed that amendment.
“… under the jurisdiction of..” and “..the state in which they reside…” was meant to exclude embassy staff of foreign nations etc, as well as illegal aliens, tourists and so on. There was discussion of this at the time in The Federalist as noted above even by the man who proposed it and before it was voted upon. Seems quite clear what they meant.
Given the current justices in SCOTUS are majority of the “originalist” persuasion, it seems likely DJT will win any fight they bring against him on this.
I hope so.
But Roberts is a wild card, as well as Barrett. A couple of her decisions have – IMHO – been a bit dodgy.
The point I was making wasn’t about the 14th Amendment per se.
What I was pointing out is that the delving into historical intent and modern day relevance (or irrelevance) is precisely the argument lefties use in trying to overturn the 2nd Amendment.
If the 14th is reinterpreted on those grounds, I can see a future SCOTUS reinterpreting the 2nd Amendment using that precedent.
The sophistry orbits around words that have had meanings, or even primary meanings, shift over time.
“Subject to the Jurisdiction of…” was about allegiance. Much like we used to be British Subjects, even if we did not want to.
So diplomats are out because they are ‘subjects’ of their own country. Same with invading forces. All the illegals are subjects of the country they left.
It is a bit like the Second Amendment which refers to ‘a well regulated militia’. At the time it was written that meant the men were well ordered and the equipment well maintained. Progressives pretend it means one subject to government regulation.
Yeah, the Americans had just won their way out from under a government they viewed as treating them unjustly, and they did so from their own resources. Sure, they are going to make an amendment that expands the control of the government to prevent them standing up to it.
We still refer to people having regular habits. It means orderly and healthy. It does not mean eating junk food at precisely the same times and diligently observing a regime of 12 hours a day watching TV. And it certainly does not mean following the governments rules for personal habits.
“$2.30 per “impression”.
Per Facebook impression.”
You’re having a lend, right?
$0.0023 per impression sounds more like it.
$0.23 per click-through sounds generous.
$2.30 is just…
Only GovCo would NOT laugh in your face (book) for that price.
Google ain’t much better. it has its AIs working overtime to maximise google’s profits.
Ebay isn’t far behind, a recent listing got zero views with ebay telling me I would have to pay to get more views. Not bad enough they take 10% of the final sale but now you have to pay to get views
Apart from the headlines, I can’t see any details.
However, for the last month, lefty public servants have been screaming “it’s properly appropriated funding and we can … nay, must … spend it and spend it in it’s entirety!”.
Assuming there is zero funding for USAID in this budget or, at least, very specific funding allocations to identifiable projects, one would expect these sticklers for the budgetary process would cease spending on unapproved projects or activities the minute it passes the Senate.
No?
His name isn’t Alfred Dreyfus by any chance?
Are we in a time warp and now going backwards since we have passed the 1930s and hitting 1890s?
@matt_vanswol
I don’t know which federal employees need to hear this…
But in the real world, if you badmouth your boss on live TV instead of telling him what you did for work last week…
You no longer have a job.
Trump – not Zelensky – is Ukraine’s only hope
House GOP adopts Trump budget after topsy-turvy night
Washington is Babylon?
Washington Pastor & Chaplain Sentenced to 30 Years for Child Sexual Abuse, Creating CSAM
Excellent news – I hope they spend a lot of money keeping him healthy so he can stay in the General Population in prison.
@SputnikInt
BIDEN’S ACCUSER WANTS TO EXPOSE DEEP STATE IN COURT
(1/4) Tara Reade, a former US congressional aide who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, has filed a new $100 million lawsuit against the FBI and the US Department of Justice.
You go girrrrrl!
@DineshDSouza
Speaker Mike Johnson claims that he now has the votes to pass the budget resolution to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security benefits. This is huge!
He dropped by to say hello.
Trump makes surprise appearance on first White House tour of new administration: ‘First lady worked very hard in making it perfect’
Those young people, particularly the guys, adore him. Thanks for posting, Indolent.
More than 1 million federal workers respond to Musk’s DOGE email demanding to know what they did last week
Grok will sort through that in less than an hour.
Grok:
Bullshit.
Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit
damn. the HTML code didn’t work.
Satire at its finest.
E-Karen will probably ring Gulag demanding the clips removal.
Danger Dan Reviews:
Albo’s QandA disaster. Anthony Albanese
Well Done Danger Dan.
Brillo. If only!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/iranian-women-stick-it-to-the-lying-muslim-misogyny-apologist-senator-for-islam-fatima-payman.html
Labor tries the same tactics they used on Abbott back around 2010-2013 on Dutton, with media happy to help. Didn’t work in 2013, and Abbott only lost in 2010 because of two deadheads who cruelled their own electoral futures by backing Gillard, who promptly got into a close relationship with Greens.
It only shows that they are scared, not that they are in any way superior.
At them moment I’m certain they are trying to goad Murray Watt into repeating the claims outside the chamber.
He even as a lawyer doesn’t strike me as particularly sharp so we’ll see if he cracks it.
Liars in the gutter early. Low Wattage on the front line.
He likes to r(amp) it up. If all LayBore can do is spend money like a Drunken Sailor and throw dirt at Dutton, then they are in Big Trouble.
Why don’t they promote their success stories? /sarc
Murray Watt is the male version of the Wong chap.
He is truly vile.
Assisted by stoneface bad girl Katy.
Watt is a fool at best, katy a POS.
Pure Liar machine man. Utterly unemployable, will say anything.
the bend over bf
It’s a monumentally stupid take to say that Trump is taking Russia’s side because he slapped Zelensky down.
Just as stupid a take as those who say he wants to destroy NATO because he told the other members 8 years ago to PAY UP.
Or that he hates Canada or Mexico because he told them to stop letting drugs and people to pass into the USA, or to allow themselves to be used to bypass strategic tariffs on China.
If you have friends and family who have been taking advantage of you, you must tell them to stop, in order to save the friendship.
In the case of international relations, in a time when one side of politics has been infected by a corrosive ideology, and that side will attempt to make political mileage over being told to straighten up, firmness is even more important.
And if you lose allies over that, then they never were real allies.
This year can only get more interesting as it all proceeds.
Arky – I’m the oldest of three siblings. We are very close between us, and as a family. That said…..all three suffer various degrees of TDS. Thirty plus years of doing my best to engage – but now, all I can be bothered with is, ‘I really don’t care Margaret.’ I love them but there’s only so much bollocks to be put up with from family.
Oldest of four! (Jesus, thank god none of the little shiites have the sense to read Catallaxy.)
He never disappoints.
BREAKING NEWS: John Kennedy Shares Blunt Message For Keir Starmer Hours Before His Visit To The U.S.
For Catholic Cats (or culturally interested Cats), I’ve been doing a bit of surfing on the possible 138 Papal candidates over these last few days. And I think this guy would be my “dream pope:”
Cardinal Péter Eijk (from Hungary)
Eijk is known for being methodical, intellectual, and deeply rooted in Church law. He played a major role in guiding European bishops as President of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) from 2006 to 2016. During his leadership, he worked on strengthening Catholic identity in secular Europe and defending traditional family values.He has consistently supported traditional Catholic teachings on marriage, sexuality, and life issues.He has been critical of liberal interpretations of Catholic teachings, aligning him with conservative voices in the Church but he is a liturgical moderate meaning he could be a compromise pick.
IMHO, these other three would be a good pick also:
Cardinal Cordez (Germany, and whom I’ve met!).Schönborn (Austria)Llovera (Spain)
The worst conservative picks would be:
Burke (USA)Muller (Germany)Piacenza (Italy).
The worst progressive picks (those who hate Trump, love the DEI/XYZ crowd, would probably embrace the CoE philosophy etc…) would be:
Zuppi (Italy)McElroy (USA)Hollerich (Luxembourg)Cupich (USA)Tobin (USA).
“Bookmark” this post for the day when we’re waiting for white smoke!!!
The Cat don’t like the formatting of my post so hopefully it makes sense!!!
My impression is that Francis has been stacking the College of Cardinals with the St. Gallen Mafia. Therefore whoever gets the gong will be a far-lefty like him.
Not necessarily Brucy. 🙂
The CoC often surprises people. The great JPII would’ve been 10,000 to 1 on odds.
And he and Ratzinger also stacked the CoC and we still got Francis!!
Some very unforeseen Popes would’ve included John XXIII (too old !), Pope Pius IX (a liberal turned conservative), JPII (too young and not Italian!), JPI (not a frontrunner at all), even Francis himself as he was not European.
And, for extra fun: Benedict IX! (Elected Pope at 20 years old… although, he didn’t last long!)
I think the St. Gallenites play for keeps. They don’t seem to’ve been discredited enough yet for a different outcome.
The Vatican is a little slower than national politics, so the rebellion we’re seeing against the Left will take longer to percolate into it. I hope whoever ascends to Peter’s seat will not do too much damage, but given what Francis has been doing I am not rosy about that.
Great post and subsequent conversation. Thanks, boys.
Sounds like we need to run a CatLotto sweepstake book-
Muddy, wherefore are ya?
…Sarah for the smart money.
Apparently Spender is killing it in Wentworth. Her approval rating is over 70%.
BOLLOCKS!
Teal vote this time around will be interesting. Fool me once …
Sky has habitual TDS sufferer Cameron Stewart on to say Trump’s tactics are damaging him, making him look too soft on Putin.
Cameron who?
Exactly. Cameron from a Different Universe (we used to call him at Russell Hill).
He was hopeless when Teh Paywallian sent him to the US. As bad as Zoe.
Seems like these deadshits don’t want the war to end at all
Mac Siccar @12:08
Indeed.
I do have a nagging feeling that what we are going to get is an LNP that talks right and governs left(ish).
The stubborn adherence to the net zero fantasy being the primary red flag.
Just out in the Oz:
Dozens of schoolchildren joined in chants of “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest) outside a public school in Granville in southwest Sydney on Wednesday as tensions rose in the aftermath of police charging nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh over an anti-Semitic video.
Ms Lebdeh and her colleague Ahmad Rashad Nadir, who has not been charged, allegedly threatened to kill Israeli patients and refuse to treat them.
On Wednesday morning protesters at Granville Boys High School demanded the return to school of support officer Sheik Wesam Charkawi, who was ordered by the NSW Education Department to work from home after defending the two nurses in an Instagram post.
Palestinian and Lebanese flags were waved during the protest as older men led the chants through loud hailers. Some students in uniform appeared to join the chants, while others gathered behind the school fence also joined in.
The protest was organised by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine NSW, which celebrated the “spirited turnout of students, teachers, community for Sheik Wesam”.
In his Instagram video, Sheik Charkawi said the nurses’ comments were “never meant to be literal or intended to be a threat to patient care” and criticised the “hypocrisy” of Anthony Albanese and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park for remaining silent “when confronted with the most egregious acts of violence committed by Israel”.
The Muslim Vote convener was ordered to take down the posts and work from home for allegedly breaching the department’s social media policy and code of ethics.
An Australian National Imams Council member, Sheik Charkawi came to public prominence after establishing The Muslim Vote campaign to take on Labor at the federal election.
On Wednesday the ANIC declared it is “deeply concerned and disappointed by the targeting of Muslim and Pro-Palestinian professionals and staff and most recently one of its own member Imams”.
“Such actions set a dangerous precedent that threatens the principles of fairness, freedom of speech and democracy in Australia.”
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies vice-president David Ossip said: “These are incredibly troubling scenes. It is outrageous, scandalous and sad that children at a taxpayer-funded school were exploited as props at a divisive political rally.
“Serious questions need to be asked about how this was allowed to proceed. How were radicals allowed to stand outside the school gates and whip students into a fervour? How could any student or staff member who doesn’t share the views of the demonstrators feel safe in that environment?”
NSW Education Minister Prue Car has been asked for comment.
Strike Force Pearl detectives arrested Ms Abu Lebdeh after she attended Sutherland police station on Tuesday evening.
The former Bankstown Hospital nurse was captured on video earlier this month telling Israeli social media influencer Max Veifer: “One day, your time will come, and you will die the most horrible death.”
She and Mr Nadir, who also allegedly made threatening statements, were immediately sacked and banned from practising as nurses.
She was charged with three commonwealth offences – threaten violence to group, use carriage service to threaten to kill and use carriage service to menace/harass/offend.
Ms Abu Lebdeh is on strict bail conditions prohibiting her from going to a point of departure from Australia and banned from using social media.
Mr Nadir was admitted to hospital two weeks ago over concerns for his mental health and has not been charged.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the charges were a major development in what had been a very thorough and exhaustive investigation by detectives attached to Strike Force Pearl.
“Strike Force Pearl detectives must be commended for acting swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation,” Commissioner Webb said.
“These charges have been laid following a lot of hard work and legal advice received yesterday from the commonwealth DPP.
“Detectives have overcome obstacles and jurisdictional challenges to get where we are today.
“This is the 14th arrest under Strike Force Pearl, with a total of 76 charges laid, which demonstrates the commitment of strike force detectives investigating these offences.”
Ms Abu Lebdeh’s family had previously said the nurse was “sorry” and had suffered an “extreme panic attack”.
In the now-viral video, Ms Abu Lebdeh allegedly told the influencer: “It (Israel) is Palestine’s country, not your country, you piece of shit.
“One day your time will come. One day you’ll die the most …”
She went on to say “when your time comes, I want you to remember my face so you can understand that you will die the most disgusting death”.
Asked what would happen if an Israeli patient came into the hospital, Ms Abu Lebdeh said: “I won’t treat them, I will kill them.”
Mr Nadir allegedly said that while Mr Veifer had “beautiful eyes”, he was going to “get killed” and go to “hell”. “Those pretty eyes should stay in this world for longer,” Mr Nadir said, who described himself in the footage as a “doctor”, which, given he was a nurse, may also constitute an offence.
Mr Veifer is a Hebrew-speaking English teacher who regularly posts videos to social media in which he has conversations on that site, particularly when he is matched with people that share anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views.
Ms Abu Lebdeh was granted conditional bail to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, March 19.
More to come.
Australia has fallen.
No…but the Labor Party may have.
What I mean is in the public’s mind they own this issue.
Western Sydney has fallen, maybe, Where we live, hijabs and men in frocks are a rarity.
Our governments have imported and continue to import a shitload of trouble.
Like my comments above.
We’ve allowed this behaviour to manifest itself. Not just the lebs but take a trip to regional Queensland and insert aboriginal delinquents into the same mix.
We’ve been too soft on violence or threat of violence and now are reaping the rewards.
Now how to put that genie back in the bottle…
Applying the law without fear or favour would be a good start.
overheard the missus watching the video and saw a little too
pretty disturbing
Finally! Sheesh.
Australia’s spy chief: Antisemitism now agency’s ‘top priority’ (25 Feb)
All those years of chasing people posting mean tweets seems to’ve slowed his mental processes.
Wasn’t he also keen on those faux neo nazis goose stepping around the countryside a little while ago. How things have changed
why he cant he say islamic fundamentalism????
@DOGECommittee
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Mike Benz lays out again the same template seems to have become our chief intelligence export abroad which is “Election Management” and the goal of stamping out foreign populism and an adjacent attack to prevent “Trumpism” in other nations such as Brazil.
This is why there is full blown panic over USAID. The American citizens had been paying to TRAIN judges & prosecutors in conjunction with groups such as the Wilson Center on how to censor KEYWORDS akin to what was done here in the 2020 election & in Brazil’s case to stamp out “Bolsonaroism” use law enforcement as a deterrent.
And in their own words “Prevented the useful INNOCENT PEOPLE from spreading FAKE NEWS & EVEN SCARED AMATEUR & PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL MILITIAS”
Notice how the key goal is a censorship in conjunction with lawfare. Mike has shown us it’s the same playbook we saw in Europe in Poland & Australia. I recommend you watch the entire clip.
@OffThePress1
WOW: @DOGE just canceled $32 million in payments to Internews for initiatives including “media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova” and promoting “sustainable media outlets.”
Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault went viral earlier this year for saying the global advertising industry needs to cut off money to “disinformation” and “bad content.”
A US nuclear powered sub has arrived at Garden Island, WA.
I wait for Andrew Leigh to start tweeting three-eyed fish…
Will Perth be invaded by giant mutant quokkas from Rotto?
I wonder if Albo knows yet………..
Did they engage in a live fire drill? Why not?
And I would think there would be a nuclear sub somewhere in the Pacific taking pics and listening to the Chinese Navy ships
Some further thoughts on the Wentworth ‘rogue’ poll and whether Spender will win or lose….
Firstly, I don’t know if Spender will win or lose the seat, there has been a slight electoral redistribution so now the electorate takes in some slivers of areas that were once part of Plibersek’s electorate of Sydney, suburbs such as Potts Point and Woolloomooloo. This might favour Spender after preferences.
Secondly, Wentworth is filled with many effluent and entitled idiots where the economic and social issues currently impacting ordinary Australians in middle and working Australia simply don’t resonate in Wentworth. That’s not to say everyone in Wentworth is rich, they’re not.
I can say with 100% certainty that Allegra Spender does not have a 70% approval rating in Wentworth, and I can also say with some certainty that she has completely lost the Jewish vote.
Looking wider, the Liberals will take back Curtin (there’s a new poll in today’s Oz which is say Chaney is gonski).
Liberal candidate Tom White holds a commanding 65-35 two-party preferred lead over teal independent Kate Chaney in the seat of Curtin, a former Liberal stronghold that fell at the 2022 election.
I also think the Liberals will take back Mackellar and Goldstein. Not sure about Wentworth, Warringah and Kooyong.
Anyway, the above are my thoughts, interested to hear the thoughts of fellow Wentworthians. I would love to see Spender gone, I would love to see ALL the Teals confined to the dustbin of history!
There’s obviously a downticker amongst us!
(How many days is the Cat Munty-free?)
Don’t think it is Munty,
Munted will be sitting back making notes from selected contributors, while drooling over the Hate Law Legislation.
It will be quite a feather in his cap among his tard friends if he can take down the Newcat.
I despise the Teal “independents” for many reasons, but their stabbing in the back of Israel and support of UNRWA – a terrorist and money laundering front – is absolutely unforgivable.
Chaney’s recent thoughts on the Woodside extension won’t have helped. Given the choice between fully franked dividends and Net Zero I think I know which way the Curtin voters will split. The Lieborals will get my 4th preference as usual, which should count towards the 2PP.
Some locals in Vaucluse have already put out posters for Ro Knox outside their properties. I have’t seen one yet on a property for Allegra. Keeping an eye on a few locals whom I know last time put up posters on their properties for Allegra, it may be they are waiting for the election to be called. The Libs are being pro-active, a big unmissable sign for Ro Knox is now up at the busy intersection above Edgecliff station, to catch traffic as it spins down the hill towards Double Bay. I wasn’t shouted down when I called out ‘Get lost’ to the Allegra ‘the independent choice’ movie ad recently. There is a certain anti-Allegra mood. The Wentworth Courier had a big and (very unusually for them) not negative spread on Ro Knox on Wednesday last, stressing that she was very much a local girl who brought up her children in Wentworth even though she originated and went to school in Melbourne.
“What Is Going On In The UK?” – Jordan Peterson
Yeah, isn’t it amazing where Yellen turned up after leaving the Fed? And isn’t it amazing what the doggies have been finding in her database?
“It seems plausible if the predictions hold true. As I mentioned, it then comes down to the cost of the build—which is capitalized anyway—followed by depreciation and the running costs of the shop floor with significantly reduced human labor. In this scenario, firms might actually prefer to locate their plants closer to their home base.”
This only holds true for “traditional” manufacturing.
What happens when AI (or humans, for that matter) manage to create “molecular manufacturing”? As Drexler proposed in the ’70’s (“The coming Era of Nanotechnology”), and someone else in the ’50’s (Feinman? “There’s plenty of room at the bottom” lecture) this is “a place for every atom, and every atom in it’s place”. Trillions of sub-human-cell sizes robots cooperating to create structures from the atom up – electronics, diamond fiber weave one tenth the weight of the same strength of aluminium, etc etc, all done in a machine the size of, say, a microwave oven that can make whatever you want as long as it fits inside the place it’s made. Bigger ones for bigger things. “Seeds” that scavenge energy and materials from the environment to “grow” a car, a house, whatever. Computer memory so small, the contents of the entire existing internet can be held in your hand (with plenty of room to spare!) “Active” materials that repair themselves when they begin to crack. Cellular surgery that baring accidents could make you immortal, even un-do aging.
It all sounds impossible, but as Drexler shows, it’s not – not really. He left several orders of magnitude as “margin” and it still could be done. We don’t know if we can do it, but as far as we can tell, it’s not against the laws of physics or biology as we know them.
Very, very scary, but like so much tech, also very, very useful, at lest potentially. And probably available in the next 10 years max.
Host Shocked as Rubio Explains How Ukraine Double Crossed the U.S.
In the Rubin Report video, host Dave Rubin discusses a revelation from Marco Rubio regarding Ukraine’s dealings with the United States. Rubio expresses his dissatisfaction with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, specifically mentioning a disagreement over a proposed joint venture involving Ukraine’s mineral rights. The deal was meant to provide the U.S. with a vested interest in Ukraine’s security, utilizing its mineral wealth to repay U.S. taxpayers for aid given, approximating $200 billion. Rubio claims Zelensky initially agreed to the proposal, pending legislative approval, but later publicly denied the agreement. This inconsistency frustrated Rubio and President Trump, who felt misled. Despite the geopolitical distance, the issue holds global significance for U.S. alliances, emphasizing the need for gratitude and truthfulness from Ukraine. Rubin praises Rubio’s straightforward communication style and expresses hope for a positive resolution.
I agree with Marty Sheargold. I would rather drive a nail into my penis head than watch the women’s football Asian Cup.
There are arguments on both sides.
We really should just ban women’s teams sports altogether.
Other than ensuring lots of teenage girls get ACL injuries and become lezzos, what on earth is the point?
It probably has something to do with the fact that people have less kids so many fathers have no sons and try and get their poor daughters to emulate their would be sons. Daughters – always looking to please those in authority – pretend to actually enjoy it.
It takes resources away from boys sport – aka proper sport – and everybody has to spend every waking moment lying about how the women are actually good. Just like how we had to all lie about men getting pregnant.
Call me a simp if you like but I would be willing to permit girls do athletics and racquet sports.
Agreed.
If we really have to have female team sports, we should get men to do it.
Wait, what?
There’s a place for girls in some racquet sports.
yes as desktop wallpaper only
Ouch !!!
Dozens of schoolchildren joined in chants of “Allahu Akbar” (God is the greatest) outside a public school in Granville in southwest Sydney on Wednesday as tensions rose in the aftermath of police charging nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh over an anti-Semitic video.
This is, of course, the inevitable result of decades of left-wing and far-left politicisation and radicalisation permeating unopposed through our bureaucracies, organisations and institutions. Meanwhile the right have been asleep at the wheel the whole time.
In the video, Ron Paul discusses the issue of currency debasement and the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox. He explains how debasing currency is linked to dishonesty by the government, which started soon after the Federal Reserve was established. He highlights the detachment of the dollar from the gold standard in 1971, marking a significant economic shift that affirmed predictions by free-market and Austrian economists about future currency instability. Paul raises concerns over whether the U.S. holds all the gold it claims and advocates for transparency by auditing gold reserves. He suggests that if the government is confident in its gold holdings, they should prove it publicly, as trust in money requires transparency and honesty. Paul notes that the current lack of confidence in the U.S. dollar is causing other countries to consider creating new competing currencies, indicating the fragile state of the dollar internationally.
How so? Consider a scenario where, due to advancements in technology, manufacturing largely returns to the home country.
China currently maintains a significant trade surplus. In this scenario, that surplus would shrink, and the U.S. trade deficit would decrease. As a result, China’s manufacturing base would face considerable pressure.
Because, if manufacturing in this scenario largely meets local demand, all things being equal, China still has a significantly larger population than the US. This would also be good news for Europe, India, or any large economy that has good transport networks that can meet regional needs.
This is going to give the doggies’ AI a lot of yummy doggie food to chomp through.
1 Million Federal Workers Responded To Musk’s Mass Email Asking To List Accomplishments (26 Feb)
Although that leaves a couple million others to be chased down and fired. Which would be a good start.
The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships
The video “The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships” by Mark Felton Productions explores the disproportionate number of admirals in the Royal Navy compared to its current fleet size. The Royal Navy has shrunk significantly since the Cold War, currently having only 62 commissioned ships, with just 25 being true warships. Despite this reduction, the number of admirals remains high, with 40 admirals for a personnel strength of 32,225, leading to a ratio of one admiral per 805 personnel. In contrast, in 1939, the Royal Navy had 1,400 ships and 200,000 personnel with only 53 admirals. The video questions the necessity of so many high-ranking officials given the Navy’s reduced capacity. It also highlights the financial implications of these positions on the defense budget and criticizes the taxpayer burden due to royal entitlements linked to naval assets. The discussion is presented as “food for thought” regarding the Navy’s current fitness for purpose.
There’s been an argument around for a long time that this is merely a way of giving people big salaries to match the outside world – else they’d leave.
Don’t buy it myself.
There used to be a Navy toast:
“A bloody war, a sickly season, rapid promotion!”
No longer necessary.
Lol Marty Sheargold gets it. And promptly banhammered. Hun:
So what was said?
Outstanding. But didn’t go down well.
It’s acceptable because it’s entirely true darling.
And Football Australia or whoever, I have never seen a young boy running around trying to emulate the feats of any of the Matildas so stop the shit.
Again, excellent work by Mr Sheargold.
Fair to say Australia’s love affair with the Tillies looks like it’s over. Always a problem when you start drinking your own bathwater.
Marty Sheargold someone had to say it. Lets not make out womens soccer/League /Afl is good its boring and boring. If they werent on the same card to a major mens event hardly anyone would turn up.
The only Women’s sport I watch is Equestrian.
The only truly equal sport for both sexes.
Also, there are no Gay or Tranny horses.
Only eunuchs. 😀
The gals should get into MotoGP.
Hockey is ok to watch.
China currently has a trade surplus. By definition, this means China produces more than it consumes in order to export. If other countries produce more than they are currently consuming (displacing imports), then China’s production will need to decrease to match the reduced demand from overseas.
Yes, I get that, but they still have a population over a billion. Three times that of the US. Are we supposed to believe this circumstance entails a manufacturing industry of equal size in each country?
No it doesn’t. Theoretically, Chinese manufacturing would be smaller than it is now though, but sure, bigger than elsewhere due to its size.
You go girl.
Payman should not be in Parliament and in fact ought to be sent to Gitmo.
AG Pam Bondi has officially scheduled the release of the Epstein client files for 12 PM ET on February 29, 2025.
lets see who bites…
Very funny.
Ha ha ha!
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Starmer ‘doing what he’s TOLD’ Trump brings Labour to HEEL as foreign aid FINALLY SLASHED
The Saints parents of diabetic girl Elizabeth Struhs sentenced to 14 years’ jailMackenzie Scott
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The parents of eight-year-old diabetic Elizabeth Struhs, who died after her lifesaving medication was stopped, have been sentenced to 14 years in jail after they were found guilty of the child’s manslaughter alongside a dozen other members of their fringe Christian group.
Brisbane Supreme Court judge Martin Burns said the 14 members of the Toowoomba-based religious group The Saints – which included Elizabeth’s parents, Jason and Kerry Struhs – had allowed their faith to blind them to the pain and suffering the girl faced in the lead-up to her protracted and painful death in 2022 from ketoacidosis.
All were found guilty of manslaughter following a nine-week judge-only trial.
“Elizabeth’s death was and remains profoundly disturbing,” Justice Burns said.
“It was so entirely and easily preventable. Each of you engaged in some sort of spiritual gamble with the life of a child, a child who professed love. The arrogance of your belief in that regard was and remains bewildering.
“Not one of you seems to have found it within yourselves to even consider the possibility your leader’s interpretation of the Bible might be wrong … what you did was gamble with the life of a child based on your peculiar interpretation of disparate passages from the Bible and nothing more.”
Elizabeth, a type-1 diabetic, was found dead on the morning of January 7, 2022, four days after her essential insulin was withheld due to the congregation’s rejection of modern medicine and faith that God would save her. The group prayed and sang over her body for more than 36 hours before calling triple-0, expecting she would rise from the dead.
Mr Struhs, 53, was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison.
Ms Struhs, 49, was ordered to serve 14 years’ imprisonment for her role in Elizabeth’s death. However, as she was on parole at the time for failing to provide the child the necessities of life in 2019, for which she served five months, Justice Burns ordered she must serve the remaining 373 days of that sentence, bringing the total sentence to over 15 years.
Both have already served 1142 days in custody, which will be considered time served, and must serve at least 80 per cent of the period.
Mr Struhs and the religious leader Brendan Stevens, 63, were initially charged with murder by reckless indifference, with the trial considered a test case of the new charge in Queensland. However, Justice Burns found them guilty of manslaughter as they did not fully realise Elizabeth could die.
Justice Burns labelled Mr Stevens as “dangerous” and “manipulative”. He said the 63-year-old led a “campaign” within the church to persuade Elizabeth’s father to embrace The Saints’ beliefs, and sentenced the leader to 13 years behind bars.
“I think it is quite likely that had he not encouraged Jason Struhs on that Tuesday afternoon to keep believing in your brand of faith, he would have taken Elizabeth to hospital,” Justice Burns said.
“If that occurred, she would be with us today.”
All other 11 members of the group were also convicted of manslaughter. These include Elizabeth’s brother Zachary Struhs, 22, Mr Steven’s wife, Loretta Stevens, 67, and their children Camellia Stevens, 29, Andrea Stevens, 35, Alexander Stevens, 26, Acacia Stevens, 32, Sebastian Stevens, 24, and additional members Samantha Schoenfisch, 26, Lachlan Schoenfisch, 34, and Keita Martin, 24.
Crazy Parents and other Crazy People.
What REALLY happened in the Germany election
‘This Is Where Ms. Stacey Abrams Come In…’: John Kennedy Slams Green Org Georgia Dem Worked For
Sounds a bit transphobic-y
Check your cis- privilege, ladies, I mean, inseminated individuals.
Yeah, so much for free speech.
There needs to be a match between inseminated indviduals vs the impregnators like the old days of Tennis with King, Connors and Riggs ( thats Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon)
Cassie of Sydney:
And while the arrest of the Muslim Nurse should have gone ahead, it would have been a very good time to make an example to the Muslim Community that they are not untouchable, in the end what did the standoff achieve?
That they were untouchable.
Frigging dimwits and cowards, the entire NSW Police hierarchy.
They’ve reinforced the ‘special laws for the special people’, and made their own job much harder and the streets so much more dangerous for the Saturday and Sunday people.
They’re pussyfooting like guys walking on caltrops with the other one.
Top cop reveals why male nurse yet to be charged over alleged antisemitic video (Sky News mainpage headline, 26 Feb)
This is a complete farce. The guy claimed he’s actually killed Israelis and he’s being handled with kid gloves. Rude words!
Sounds like the police commissioner wants the case to go away.
The only “complexity” is for Webb to get her head out of her own arse.
“Complex case” in Police speak is like a social worker saying a drop kick of a “client” has “complex issues” – translation – “ Too hard, don’t want to act, don’t expect any result, but pay us anyway”.
Lone wolf mental syndrome
Marty Sheargold unceremoniously dumped by MMM for pointing out the obvious that The Matildas are shit.
Tell the truth and lose your job. I can’t stand Curr and the leztildas.
But but she “made someone” preggas!!!
Turkeybasters to the fore.
Remember when the feminists tried to make “play like a girl” a rallying cry?
Now you say a team played like girls and it results in a teary, fury filled rage from ladies across the land.
F*ck, we aren’t even married to ‘em, yet they feel entitled to pull this psycho drama bullshit on the entire nation.
The chick on radio this arvo was melting down, full blown “How dare you”. Some simpering git rang up and said the bloke should be “sacked and forced to apologise”. Errrrr… why the heck would I apologise if you are going to sack me anyway?
Someone should find a way to trigger them like this on demand.
I pray the bloke doubles down, but it’s Australia, so he won’t. Get the memo blokes, they’ll get you anyway, might as well stick to your guns and preserve your dignity.
Don’t grovel to women, it makes them hate you even more.
Liesel Jones was crying like an orphanage had just been set on fire. Women’s soccer is nowhere near the level of women’s swimming, but Liesel acted almost as badly as Sam Kerr did, as embarrassing, at least.
Which is it?
You like “play like a girl” or it’s a slur?
This is like the n word now?
There was a similar ad campaign in America recently which was roundly mocked.
Homer Simpson:
Oh Marge, I am so sorry. I should have listened to whatever it was you were saying.
Marge Simpson:
It’s partly my fault. I’ve been nagging you so much on this trip; you couldn’t know which nags to focus on!
Trans is so funny and witty. He’s a keeper.
black to move
looking for checkmate
Boris the intel exual. Fastest lip, wittiest mind on a building site.
In one move? I don’t think so.
correct
Rook takes pawn check.
If the king goes diagonal down right on to the white space then rook across checkmate.
If the king goes up then check with the bishop. King has to go to the corner or next square. On the corner rook advances checkmate. On the white square knight checks, king goes to corner and rook checkmates.
Sorry I can’t do the nomenclature thing stuff.
Forty years since I played.
Oops, slight mistake. In the knight check the white rook can take out the knight. Instead the rook just advances checkmate, since it is protected by the bishop. Ah well, I’m rusty.
trying an animated gif
Noice!
correct
The real test is when tickets go on sale. Everything else is just noise.
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Way back in my sporty days, a friend coached a local female soccer team, we were in our 20s then.
Her team won the championship, they had the presentation night, she told me the girls all went down in a major way.
Soccer, as it goes, Samantha.
Er… i don’t follow… is that a double entendre?
A very, very good point made on twatter…
Pollies are importing people who are 100% on board with removing inherited or multigenerational wealth.
As it currently stands.
It gives cover for slime oozing slugs to slither out and emit their ordure as “fairness’.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/tax/inheritances-are-destroying-the-fair-go-it-s-time-we-tax-them-20250225-p5lew8.html
Inheritances are destroying the ‘fair go’. It’s time to tax themThomas WalkerMoney contributor
Have you ever noticed that your friends suddenly have a house deposit? Or they pursue their passions, yet always manage to pay the rent? What about those jokes you make about not being able to afford a house until your parents pass away? Are you a parent worried about how to help your adult children financially?
You’re not alone. What’s happening is the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever – largely from Boomers to Millennials. Combined with the housing and cost-of-living crises, this is leading to some rather awkward, dark humour. More concerningly, it’s starting to tear at our nation’s social fabric.
People like this should turduckened with a frozen mallard.
I also note at no stage does this unter-mongs “fair go” prescription involve stopping turbomigration.
Its all so tiresome.
Waiting lists at hospital emergency departments have recently clocked in at 30 hours, all because it’s free.
I think the States need to think out of the box on this one.
There’s an awful lot of people that turn up to hospitals because they can’t get a GP (is late at night, a Sunday or GP is fully booked) and then also with minor concerns (broken arms, legs etc.. through to colds and flus).
A hospital should always be for last resort causes.
It’s almost like they need to come up with a “Mezzanine hospital…”
(Yes, that’ll add a coupla billion to health budgets but as one Under Treasurer once said to me: “If you did a review into how to fix the State Health portfolio (was $8bn p.a. back then), it’ll cost a billion to do the review and the review will recommend another $8bn.”)
There are triage centres in Victoria.My old dad 98 has been a few times.
That of course would be state owned hospitals. Private would be about a couple of hours, and depending on severity 1 hour to see a doc. But, I was told it’s about 500 buckos.
I was on about this a year or so ago – Millennials whinging about the cost of housing when they were going to inherit the biggest transfer of wealth in human history.
Trillions of frigging dollars in wealth and housing that they would never have to pay for.
And they’re still complaining!
I’m happy to pass on our $4+M house and $2+M super and $500k+ art collection to our kids, as we made it from scratch. We owe nothing to nobody.
To Shiri, to Ariel, to Kfir
Hatikvah
Kol ode balevav p’nimah
Nefesh Yehudi homiyah
Ulfa’atey mizrach kadimah
Ayin l’tzion tzofiyah
Ode lo avdah tikvatenu Hatikvah
bat shnot alpayim
L’hiyot chofshi b’artzenu
Eretz Tzion v’Yerushalayim
Translation….
The Hope
As long as within our hearts
The Jewish soul sings
As long as forward to the East
To Zion, looks the eye
Our hope is not yet lost
It is two thousand years old
To be a free people in our land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem
The Jewish people will prevail.
Am Yisrael Chai
We will remember them.
Payman should not be in Parliament
Yep, gifted to us by Labor.
Just like Thorpe was gifted to us by the green slime
The Sydney Morning Vomit living up to its name. Cut immigration and allow housing to become affordable again.
The male nurse at the centre of a viral antisemitic video allegedly threatening to harm Israeli patients has not been charged as he is receiving medical treatment, police say.
So you commit a serious crime, but make sure you’re in a medical place when the time comes for you to be charged – and stay un-arrested.
Dhimmiwits.
Think Forward
who funds them I wonder? I notice they have stuff from Suspender Belt which is interesting.
We want to offer a very special thank you to Mannifera and the
Foundation for Young Australia’s for their support this year. We
also want to acknowledge the additional organisations and
individuals we have collaborated with and learned from this year,
including the Centre for Policy Development, the Grattan Institute,
Australia reMADE, NUS, Run for It, YACvic, Foundations for
Tomorrow, Orygen, EveryGen, SOIF and MPs Kate Chaney,
Allegra Spender and Anika Wells.
CEO is very cagey about his background. His bio sends you straight to a private Linkedin profile that can’t be seen by the public users.
Also note they are a registered charity. Charity? For what? Dodging tax…
Reeks of astroturf
Most of those “NGOs” would have USAID all over them. All of them are suspect now.
It’s a mystery, to be sure.
However, NSW has outlawed conversion therapy, so it’s not that…
Insult of the week
FMD. A Virgin Australia B737 pilot informed the ADF that the Chinese Navy was conducting live fire exercises in the Tasman Sea.
The ADF is not only incompetent, but pointless.
Unless Mr Potato Head shafts the lazy fat-arsed military bureaucrracy at Russell Hill, he might as well hand the government to the Filth and the Rich Bitches Party.
Dutton increasingly looks to me like a useful idiot for the Chinese Communist Party
Many decent, patriotic and competent people in the ADF.
Don’t judge them all by the standard of the top brass, who are political appointments.
The American left perfected the methodology for neutering the military defence of freedom: a top-down counter-revolution by the generals.
Russell Hill is such a top-down counter-revolution by the corrupt Australian military leadership, which is knee-deep in directorships for military contractors.
These buffoons know nothing about defending Australia because they have never been soldiers.
No time for sympathy Roger. The ADF as a whole is an ineffective very expensive piece of kit. A PS plaything not fit for purpose. We are woefully defended. Despite the good will and earnestness of some ADF personnel.
You’ve missed the point.
The ADF’s woes are entirely politically generated.
And in regard to being “a very expensive piece of kit”, they’ve actually been underfunded by c. 3% of GDP for decades.
And there is Albo telling the Media that Australian Frigates are monitoring the situation (from the sea and the air – lol). When in fact is was a NZ Frigate monitoring the Chinese. There being NO Australian Frigates in the area.
I’ll bet the US knew all about the Chinese Naval exercises.
I’m not so sure they trusted Australia with the information. Handsome Boy is not to be trusted with information about China.
I hear this is a NSW thing, which doesn’t necessarily happen in other states – where apparently in some, if badness occurs you are most very definitely arrested, and then remanded in custody and guarded until such time as you front the court.
I know some states have secure prison/remand wings – some of them in actual hospitals – for the purpose. This also discourages people from playing the ‘Hey, I’m mental!’ card straight off the bat.
Just sayin’.
Women are also good at beach volleyball.
(Just sayin’)
‘Good at’ or ‘Looking good’?……………..
The purpose of beach volleyball is to provide visual stimulus which is at best tangentially related to the match outcome.
Somebody really has to stop this monster.
@DefiantLs
Bill Gates: “6% of global emissions are cows… You can either fix the cows to stop them doing that, or you can make beef without the cow.”
Or you can shove a cow up Bill’s @ss
@DefiantLs
“I voted for Democrats my whole life. They never did anything they promised… I vote for a Republican once in my life, and this dude done everything he promised.”
Noice.
Factoid: Women’s sports are heavily backed by Big Pharma.
As evidence, I draw the astute reader’s attention to the skyrocketing sales of hand cream whenever Anna Kournikova was on a tennis court.
They have overused these insults so much that the words don’t even have any meaning anymore.
”Far right” now just means you are an ordinary bloke who wishes chicks would exit the job market, stop voting and bring a plate.
And iron your shirt and get you a beer.
Don’t forget the sandwich.
You two are mind readers.
This article is from 2022. They don’t seem to have learnt much.
Delta Air Lines settles with pilot who raised safety concerns
Don’t fly Delta.
Missing a comma, Eyrie.
You seem to be responsible for a lot, Delta. More than you realis.
🙂
Was this the guy who declared only a few short months ago that the feral rag-head mob were “just letting off steam”?
Safe hands.
Rhetorical support isn’t an indication of potential terrorism. And right wing extremism is our biggest security threat.
Like our ADF forward surveillance, a clown show.
This MAFS is hilarious – Paul with the perfect hair having an emotional melt.
South Australia’s ‘MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN’ to sue police for unlawful Covid imprisonment
Avi Yemini
Trouble, from Lindsey Buckingham’s album, Law and Order.
Extended version.
Lindsey Buckingham ~ Trouble 1981 Disco Purrfection Version
After recording “Tusk” with Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey went on a voyage of self discovery and prepared to release his first solo album while the rest of the band was taking a sabbatical after their lengthy 1980 world tour. Nicks went to work on “Bella Donna” which cemented her stature as one of rocks greatest female voices.
Lindsey had already produced and written hit songs for Walter Egan (Magnet And Steel) then John Stewart (Gold), refining his pop style along the way and provided backing vocals with Stevie. His first solo effort was titled “Law And Order” and he played almost all the instruments and had guest appearances from Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood.
The single went to #9 in the US and spent three weeks at #1 in Australia, two weeks at #1 in South Africa and peaking at #31 in the UK. “Trouble” was written with and inspired by Richard Dashut, a producer who was Fleetwood Mac’s frequent collaborator.
Mick Fleetwood played live drums for “Trouble” but Lindsey took a four second drum loop and that is what he used for the entire song. He ripped a page right out the Bee Gees production book by doing that since they had picked out a four second loop from “Stayin’ Alive” and used it for Night Fever and a few other songs.
Buckingham overdubbed a few crashes and added percussion bringing in bassist George Hawkins to make the tune groove. Lindsay is particularly proud of the way the Spanish guitar sounds here, and his distinctive finger plucking style lends an energy that beautifully completes the musical phrasing. This production style lent itself well to the Fleetwood Mac “Mirage” LP that had the same mint fresh pop sound as “Trouble”.
The promotional video features an all male band with six drummers including Fleetwood and Andy Ward, four guitarists including Buckingham, Bob Welch, Bob Weston and Walter Egan and two bassists.
I think it was Bill P. last night who mentioned that the fate of his father, who served in the 2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion in WWII, was never known, after being declared missing in PNG.
It’s a topic that only ultra-nerds (not the smart type) like me find of interest, but there was a great deal of effort invested during the handful of years following the end of the war, into investigating the whereabouts of both servicemen and civilians who went missing from our north during the period of occupation by the Japanese.
The National Archives of Australia’s Record Search database features a decent number of (accessible online) files covering these searches, often in conjunction with war crime investigations. By the by, the 17th of next month will mark 80 years since the massacre of 30-odd civilians (Australians and German missionaries) at Kavieng, New Ireland (North nor-east of Rabaul). They were individually strangled with ropes at the Kavieng wharf by members of the Japanese Navy’s 83rd Keibitai, their bodies weighted with concrete blocks, and disposed off in the ocean.
None of the above helps Bill P. of course, but I think it important to know that despite our modern pre-occupation with an extremely narrow commemorative focus, the war didn’t end for numerous service people in the searcher and war crimes teams, and nor, of course, did it end for the families of those many hundreds who still remain missing.
Postscript: Having been very familiar with the history of one of the units on the doomed merchant vessel the Montevideo Maru, I was so pleased when it was found not so long ago. That three generations later, at least some individuals have not forgotten those missing men, almost renews my faith in humanity.
Very thoughtful words Muddy.
Thanks, Pogs. I appreciate it.
Well said Muddy.
You’ve been posting riveting stuff on that theatre of the conflict, for some time. It is read & appreciated by many.
Cheers, Sal. Military history happens to be one of the very few things in which I’m not utterly shite, so it’s good for the ego to be able to share a passion.
Charmers. Doesn’t this make Starlink more valuable by the day?
It is telling that Public Serpents are asking questions like, “who is going to go through all this stuff?”
It tells me they are used to doing everything manually, and have no idea of data analysis techniques.
The DOGEys are going to do a number of things:-
1. Firstly, the non responses. Simples.
2. Next they will filter looking for words which might indicate the author has been up to activities discontinued by EOs … notably “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion”.
3. They will throw key words from standard CVs up against the emails looking for mismatches.
Apart from non-responses, the other filters might lead to secondary questions. For example, if you job title is “Call Centre Co-ordinator” and there is nothing in your dot points indicating that you have been doing that, why not?
I loved the limestone mine!
It’s not so much drinking the bathwater.
It’s when you regurgitate it in the taxi-cab.
Sydney Cats, I just had a flying visit to your fair city to attend a wedding. Saturday afternoon and evening in the lovely Botanic Gardens.
Wow. What a city, what people. The bride is from DC, and about 8 of her family came out and the groom’s brothers came from London and Tokyo so us Perth people were just locals.
And we danced! We love to dance!
The next day we went to the Art Gallery of NSW. Never been before! Spent some time in the modern, and we were rather impressed. More impressed in the old part though!
The best part was just the city. The old character suburbs, the bridges and Harbour, the beach and surf club, the tunnels and surprisingly easy movement outside rush hour. So much compacted into so small an area!
Sydney is great when you know you are leaving it. Coming to a complete stop in non peak hour traffic every day gets tired quickly and onstreet parking for the plebs.
Ocean baths are great. Ditto sailing on the harbour. Not so – finding parking at the beach (or anywhere really).
Bear.
No one lives in Perth. There’s no one there.
Thanks for this little paeon to Sydney, it is nice to have our city recognised for its beauty and history. I cleaned out a cupboard this morning and discovered an old print of very early Sydney looking over Sydney Cove, which I am going to get framed at last. Running out of wall space to hang it, but I will sleep on it now and some wall space will turn up.
I love this city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-hDTMKBgyQ
I have only watched a couple of episodes.
It is really f*cking hilarious to watch a bunch of “15 minutes of fame” types trying to manufacture conflict to maximise screen time and enhance their “influenza career”.
I suspect the influenza career has a half-life of about three weeks after the show airs.
Of course, it all ceases to be funny when the shitty behaviour sends someone off The Gap after being humiliated on national TeeVee.
I have only watched a couple of episodes.
Not moralising here, but similar to ‘I have only woken up alone in a strange motel with a hangover, no wallet, and a sore bum a couple of times’.
How dare you!
(It’s like roadkill. You don’t want to look at it but, at the same time, it is strangely fascinating).
Chuckle
Can we please stop using the term “military” when referring to our military?
Any military who can’t keep track of a potential enemy skirting our borders for the purpose of bothering us is not worthy of the name.
It’s really interesting.
Whenever I have a crack at Tealy types on the Soshuls about Climate200 being bankrolled by Big Wind, I get variations on the same boilerplate response …
“Look up X’s website. It’s all there. Just ordinary people coming together to make whatever contribution they can to give Independent’s a voice”.
It’s almost like it is scripted.
The party you have when you say you’re not a party.
Epic fail again by canbra- despicable abomination of a place
The Kashmeister isn’t wasting any time.
Zippster’s 8:13 p.m. link is worth a quick look at. A woman allegedly breaching a covidiocy order (everyone’s an effing ‘spurt now, aren’t they?), jailed for 12 days prior to a hearing, and paroled with an ankle monitor.
And there are people who STILL want to, yes WANT to, vote for the same firetrucking fascist blackshirts who not only permitted all of that, but took great pleasure in the maliciousness of their denunciations of those who chose to THINK first?
You’re going to vote for the same people and party who built detention centres in at least two states for sole purpose of socially and economically isolating their religious (this WAS a KULT) opponents?
Yeah nah yeah feck that.
I think I’m becoming a rant addict.
Could be worse, I guess.
Oi! Take a ticket and stand in line.
yep
Australian Defence Force chief torpedoes Anthony Albanese’s version of events in Chinese live-fire drillBen Packham
51 minutes ago.
Updated 10 minutes ago.
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Defence officials have revealed an “unprecedented” joint surveillance operation tracking three Chinese warships off Australia’s coast only reported their live weapons drill an hour and a half after it started, contradicting Anthony Albanese’s version of events.
The Chief of the Defence Force, David Johnston, told Senate estimates on Wednesday that a warning from a New Zealand warship that Australia was relying on to track the flotilla was received in Canberra about 11am last Friday – 90 minutes after the exercise began and about an hour after a similar warning was relayed by a commercial pilot.
But the Prime Minister insisted later on Wednesday that the New Zealand warning came through “at around the same time” as the Virgin pilot’s notification to Airservices Australia, which had been passed to Defence 50 minutes earlier.
The comment, and his claims last week that China had provided notice of the drill “in accordance with practice”, prompted Coalition allegations he was misleading the public.
The charge comes ahead of a looming federal election campaign in which the Prime Minister’s leadership and grasp of complex detail will come under intense scrutiny.
Amid growing political furore over the warships’ activities off Australia’s coast, Admiral Johnston also said there was a real prospect that a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine was lurking underneath the task group.
The truly scary thing is that any Australian military or diplomatic response to China’s casual monstering would come through Grapeshot Albanese’s passionate fingers.
Stand by for war with China in the next three months, if Grapeshot Albanese has anything to do with the response.
Handsome Boy cannot help himself being economical with the truth.
Given the choice between …
(a) hauling the Chunk Ambassador in for a dose of “WTF?!?”; or
(b) lying that it had all been handled in accordance with the plotocols for a plactice invasion and no ploblem.
… his reflex response was (b)
Had a lifetime to perfect it, yet still hopeless.
To understand who are the protected species ask yourself who you cannot criticise.
Possums.
Eucalypts.
F*cking rosellas.
Pandas.
Fat, dirty whales.
Rapist dolphins.
Women.
Boomers.
The French.
If you ever see a 70 year old female panda sunning itself under a gum tree off the coast of France with it’s rosella mates, keep your mouth shut.
Peace be upon you brother.
Thought you may insult the prophet.
A few sprinkles of rain in Perth and all the frogs are out. Noisy critters.
I remember stories from years back saying all the frogs are going to die from contaminants.
Ha!
In brisbane in the eighties we were told that with increasing clearing and urbanisation the bush turkey was facing extinction.
These days the bloody things are only slightly less prevalent than bin chickens.
Comment, from the Oz.
Sam
17 minutes ago
I hear the Chinese warship off Tasmania was spotted by a diligent cray boat operator , they sent a carrier pigeon to Hobart who then faxed the DOD to notify them of a big grey boat with a red flag was somewhere South of Hobart.
@LeahRain77
Gutfeld : “no average American is going to show up to protest against the reduction of fraud.”
Manufactured protests !!
Didn’t we used to laugh at how the Yanks got caught, flat footed, before Pearl Harbor?
Suuuure they did.
@MarioNawfal
BREAKING: ROMANIAN POLICE ARREST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE C?LIN GEORGESCU
Despite @JDVance’s warnings to Romania not to interfere in elections, Georgescu was arrested on the day he was going to file to run for president.
The elections are scheduled for May after the Constitutional Court annulled the previous results that put Georgescu in first place.
He was arrested outside a doctor’s office after he was being checked up following knee surgery that he had last week.
Earlier, police raided over 50 homes connected to Georgescu the day after 3 opposition parties filed a motion of no-confidence in the government.
As Romania’s political crisis deepens, democracy is under threat.
The Mihail Ko?alniceanu Military Base in Romania, built during the communist era on the Black Sea opposite Crimea, has undergone a transformation to strengthen NATO’s capabilities in the east of the continent.
In Romania, NATO is building one of its largest airbases in Europe
If the polls continue to disappoint for the Liars Party, I wonder if they’d try to do a swap—remove the Albanian from the PM position and replace him with someone else. There would be lots of apologies and promises to change tack. Beetie’s entire success, in Queensland, in winning was apologizing for mistakes made. I know it’s difficult to get rid of a Liars Party leader.
As far as I understand it, it’s hard to remove a Liars Party PM since Grudd changed the rules. However, it’s not impossible. My understanding is that 75% of the caucus would need to vote in favor of opening the ballot, which then requires 50% plus one to win.
The other consideration would be if the Albanian resigned. This is a low probability, but I don’t think it’s zero if the polls show him losing.
Because he’s been in Parliament since 1996, Albanese would leave with a fairly substantial lifetime pension. He’s grandfathered into the older, more generous pension scheme, which essentially guarantees him around $400,000 annually, indexed to inflation.
He would have to take the jew hating pig with him if they are to have any chance of surviving.
Unless he voluntarily resigns to spend more time with his masseuse, it isn’t going to happen.
They can only hope a stray Chinese shell hits the holiday house.
Too late. No Bob Hawke in the party room. If there was, it would have been done by now.
He is probably the most palatable of the disgusting bunch.
Australia’s Quiet Collapse (YouTube – 20 minutes).
Any thoughts from the sharper pencils here?
Watched that a few days ago. Sheep’s back and all that. The issue of economic complexity is very concerning because we are way down on the list. Australia has never sufficiently invested in its intellectual, technological, and entrepreneurial capital, the net result being the best and brightest too often went overseas to fulfil their projects and dreams. Australia is a striking example of what happens when a country takes comparative advantage as an absolutist stance. It will take decades to recover from this.
One good thing about the chunks taking over is they know how to deal with the muzzies.
We can assume their attitude to whitey will be similar to the Japanese’s during the building of the co prosperity sphere: that is, you don’t belong anywhere in this region.
Slave labour at factories in the middle of the Simpson Desert?
Sanchez
They almost lost Werribee, which has been in Liar’s party hands since before the white man arrived. And then, there’s a loss of authority with the military brass contradicting him.
It’s really quite weird the number of times they try to re-heat leftovers.
Our local faux-Teal is reviving some long forgotten promise from Tony Abbott about road funding, neatly sidestepping the fact that the road in question is the responsibility of a ten year old State Labour Gummint who wouldn’t chip in their share, and Luigi has been in the Big Chair for three years and done nothing.
That tells you all you need to know about the Teals.
“Pass me a sandbag.”
Wonder what the internal polling looks like?
The graph is heading South East.
Haven’t seen anything since the photo-op with RayGun.
I am not convinced that will help arrest the slide.
RayGun.
FMD!
You would hope whoever came up with that one got torn a new one this morning.
Oh, what’s that?
It was Luigi’s idea?
Riiight…
Probably shows they lost Werribee but for some last minute creative counting.
Trump and the Art of Political Warfare
Big day tomorrow.
I am going to find out if magpies like Vegemite.
Is the green new shit over yet?
Can they finally wake up and admit it wasn’t anything other than an attempt to hobble industry and defence of nation states?
Why?
Because the internationalists, the communists, the globalists, despise the nation state as the biggest block to their ideal: the exercise of unaccountable power.
The unaccountable exercise of power, and as we now know, here in 2025, the systematic movement of wealth and savings from the citizens and institutions of the nation state to shadowy and corrupt parasitical networks.
DOGE – Madonna VOGUE Parody Song 🙂
Marty Sheargold sacking- can’t believe the radio station came out we have standards. I was driving home from work at 7:00 or so with Sheargold talking how he likes a good blow job, having his dick sucked .
this is acceptable but what he said about the soccer team was hilarious.
Libby Tricket lovely girl but you are hilarious , I felt sick , – drama Libby , you sound like the i wonna be a boy girls soccer team.
Well done james Paterson in questioning Defence in the Senate & calling Albanese out for lying re the “notification” of the Chinese live fire exercise. BTW after watching the TV analysis of our submarine exercises and capability, it doesn’t put our coastal surveillance in a very good light.
I despair. The late Jim Molan predicted virtually all of this in his prescient book “Danger on our Doorstep”. I read it when it was released during the Covid years. Husband was in hospital and I stayed up all virtually all night reading it. It was an astonishing and terrifying prediction. No one that I know has bothered to read it. We are a stupid, self satisfied nation, and we will pay the price.
Incidentally, around about the same time Clive Hamilton published his book “Hidden Hand” and Peter Hartcher also published “Red Zone”. Both are very committed Lefties, but can clearly see the long term aims of China , and have detailed (detailed) evidence of the Chinese methodology and their infiltration of all levels of western society.
Who damn listens? Neither The Left nor the Right…..nor educated Australians. Lotus eaters …all of us.
I think a lot of people have become increasingly worried about China, Vicki, even though they may not have read up on it. There has been enough general chatter and some good analysis in the Spectator, Quadrant, The Australian, The Telegraph and of course on Sky After Dark for people who are not lefties, and anyone with eyes to see, to sniff the terrible winds coming our way. This latest display by China hasn’t gone by unnoticed by voters. Nor has Albanese’s weakness in the face of it, and also in the face of Muslim anti-semitic behaviours and attitudes.
If we vote Labor back in your observations will have been correct, but I and lots of others will be out there on election day working to avert that disaster. Trump has hired Erin Molan, so perhaps he too has a weather eye out over our waters. China in them will not suit his purpose.
Husband and I went to hear James Paterson at the Sydney Institute a week or so ago. He is very impressive. I asked him why our security and intelligent agencies are not forthcoming publicly on the anti-Semitic dangers. It is good to see that they have been forthcoming in the last week – albeit Pezullo, who is no longer in a position of authority in Home Affairs, and Burgess who I suspect is hamstring in ASIO. But it is something at last.
Sydney Institute also doing good work, so is Advance Australia.
We need more, of course.
IPA also.
Will anyone notice the Choykneez Navy when they enter Port Phillip Bay?
I am trying to keep hopeful politically, but family takes precedence. Yesterday was a bad day for my 15 year old grandson. His mother is having fairly dire chemo for Ca Breast, and the GP had diagnosed this boy with ‘scoliosis’, seemingly mild. But this diagnosis was wrong.. The specialists at the kids hospital where I had to take him yesterday in place of his mother diagnosed it as ‘severe’ and say it will get very much worse unless operated on very soon (six months waiting list as it is). It looks bad enough already on the hospital’s new x-rays taken yesterday as we waited, a totally out of alignment spine with two huge bends in it. 52 degrees out. Operation has to be on his lower back to releive and reduce further upper back torsion. The trade off is that it will reduce some flexibility. Without it he will become what was once called ‘a hunchback’ as he grows into adulthood. I believe Richard the Third was similar, I say later to Hairy, which explains how he was still made king, before it was too obvious.
My admirable grandson is super bright but has autism, which makes it harder for him to cope. He was so brave, with silent tears occasionally, asking intelligent questions in the face of a devastating prognosis. He also has a heart murmur which is of some concern. That’s so much for any already tall and lanky teenager to have to handle. He’s worried enough already about his mother and what will happen to him if he’s left with only his father, my oldest son who lives elsewhere, to care for him, as his father is also rather scatty with late-diagnosed autism himself. However, his father was there with me too yesterday and did act creditably. He’s on a health kick that would please Robert Kennedy Jr. and it does seem to be helping with his autistic tendencies. We’re old, but Hairy (who drove us around yesterday) and I will be there for this brave teen whenever he needs us and tell him so.
We bought him his heart’s desire with a great big load of KFC on the way home after five hours in the hospital, crowded these days by immigrants with sick and disabled kids as well as a sprinkling of locals. You see some sad cases there. I had some KFC myself. Tasty and welcome at day’s end as a snack when we discussed the prognosis with the boy’s mother and assured her of our on going presence and help.
Like parenthood, grandparenthood never ends.
Nana can sit down here, says the doc as we enter. It’s grandma for me, but it would have been churlish to correct him on that.
So very sorry to hear that, Lizzie. It makes our own family problems so very minor.
I’m staying hopeful, Vicki. We have to persuade him to have the op though maybe pay privately for a second opinion before a final decision is made. I also have a lot of online searching to do re this prognosis.
Meanwhile we’re paying for some invisiline orthodontics. On top of his other problems, this teen doesn’t need two crossed front teeth to handle while going through teenage angsts about girls etc.
The two specialist docs were very nice, bluntly honest, but also saying to him that so far even though they detect the spinal shift (it is so very obvious when he bends over) and his ‘pigeon chest’, and his slight lop-sidedness in his shoulders, it isn’t obvious to anyone else yet. Your gait is good, they tell him encouragingly, and if we can stop the torsion then you won’t be noticably different to others.
They are firm that it is far too late to consider any sort of spinal brace. A blessing really, as he would hate that due to his autistic sensory problems.
Oh gosh. Not easy. Keep strong for him and wish you/him the best possible treatment and outcome.
Excellent news…… BOOOOONIE!!!!!
Tasmanian Boon, whose 7422 runs in 107 Tests included 21 centuries, will join the CA board on March 28 to fill the vacancy left by Paul Green.
After a six-year stint as Cricket Tasmania’s representative on the CA board, Green has stepped down.
CA chairman Mike Baird said Boon, who also scored 5964 runs in 181 one-day internationals, would bring “vast experience as a player and cricket administrator” to the board.