USAID and the Architecture of Perception
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Also wondering if due to as Sancho has noted regarding separation from partner that she’s looking at her lifestyle and…
The Western Elites’ War Against Democracy Is Now Out in the Open
Europe’s Latest Attacks On Free Speech And Free Elections Prove Vance’s Munich Warning Right
And it’s very real.Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State
https://www.westernjournal.com/hellhole-dc-girl-12-accused-killing-disabled-man-ends-shot-home/
It’s time to start up the OrganBanks, no age limit.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/ilhan-omar-makes-outrageous-comment-targeting-american-people/
The Left is frightened now that adults are in the Big Chair, and are in a position to investigate certain marital/citizenship fraud cases.
She’d be much better off keeping her big mouth shut and not drawing attention to herself. But no…
How did they get a Biden Presidency in the first place?
We should thank our lucky stars that Biden won the crooked election in 2020. Without that, we would not have the magnificent accountability actions being undertaken by Trump and his team right now…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFZk3jw4MU
From the comments…
The Fourth Reich, emergent?
Given how many of the previous lot burrowed their way into “polite society” after the last “round”, and how deeply they were integrated into the old “East Germany, this ought not be a surprise. A disappointment, yes, but not a surprise. The Corporate was real back in the 1930s & ’40’. The lure of absolute power is not just restricted to the resurgent Prussians; it is a perpetual goal for all manner of people.
Just remember from which side of “the wall” emerged “Mutti Merkel”.. Germany, as a society is simultaneously being “white-anted” by the eco-nazis and “one-worlders” but at the same time fomenting “action against the unbelievers”. What is happening in the beer halls of Munich? Keep an eye out for a “retro” line from Hugo Boss.
The BBC’s Hard Talk man Stephen Sackur gets stuck into the Indian Modi government for interfering in the freedom of the press! What a surprise!
I didn’t hear him for years and years say a single thing about the legacy media in the USA, which has been appalling for a long time, so bad that it has destroyed its own reputation and is no longer trusted by most people. Sackings continue due to low ratings.
And he didn’t say a word about the appalling lawfare employed to try and take Trump out of the 2024 race.
If he wanted to have a go at a government, how about the UK Starmer mob, who have an awful tendency to prosecute people for though crimes.
Of course, there’s no need for the government to interfere with the Beeb, as it obediently parrots government policy, while occasionally criticising it for not being hard line enough.
The “Beeb”, like our ABCESS has been at the forefront of “opinion-shaping” for a very long time. This, in both cases, extends beyond the obviously “coloured” news and current affairs programmes, but deep into the “entertainment” operations, as well. (“Doctor Who?… anybody?)
I find the spacing between words on this blogue to be racist. It’s an insult to my illiterate fourbears and I demand an apology!
Muddying the waters!
Was that foue bears or forebears.
Furbears.
This is Australia mate, dropbears
You have four illiterate bears?
Thankfully, they only eat vegetarians.
The German’s appear to be intent on avoiding any involvement with AfD, so they are probably going to make it a government in its own right next time.
It’s modern disinformation by the media and others to always refer to conservatives as “extreme right”.
AfD just doubled its vote, and might do that again next time.
Germany should have their government run by the British and Britain should have their industry run by Germans.
What role do you see for the French, FG?
The traditional answer is, looking after the catering.
Not any more they shouldn’t… to either proposition
Some important chunks are, already. Look at who owns Rolls Royce, British Aerospace, etc.
These three are the best example of why you shouldn’t marry your cousin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnnogqQ1X3E
‘British’ Muslim Men ATTACK British Women for ‘Breaking Sharia Law’
Hilarious.
The bogeyman is back.
A logical look at insanity.
We can have a gentleman’s agreement to limit the damage.
Meanwhile, ignore the men behind the curtain,err, beard.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/21/how-return-british-tactical-nuclear-weapons-save-europe/?WT.mc_id=e_DM521655&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Edi_New_Reg&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Edi_New_Reg20250224&utm_campaign=DM521655
This case looks like it may change things significantly for DEI.
My question is, would this mean that the homeless would get to sue those providing housing only to refugees?
A valid question, 2Dogs. To my way of thinking, the homeless have a very good case – and it’s strengthened by the use of public funding for Illegal Immigrants.
So you can ask Grok to do a roast on someone and you can make it go harder. So I was asking it to do this with Dutton and it kept coming up with green enviro stuff
So I asked it why this was and it turns out it has inherent bias ( Grok 2) in that it was an amalgam of posts that had been made on X. So it follows if more lefties have posted about a subject on X, what Grok spits out is biased in that direction. It admitted that. Grok 3 may be different.
I find it very useful in providing quick answers to verifiable facts, with out having to sift through pages of search engine. I plan to test it on sharpening up writing. I think it is a good thing, so far.
Thats what I don’t like about AI, Helen. Its an amalgam of whatever crap has percolated to the surface. Remembering just like a horse designed by a commitee is a camel.
See also:
“A mouse designed by a committee is an elephant”.
A white elephant.
AI is good for some things but it continually hallucinates on others
it can chew over vast amounts of information very quickly
but it’s chief problem is that it cannot possibly know the quality of the information it ingests
the other problem is that it has zero accountability for the gibber it can sometimes output
now that AI results pretty much appear at the top of the page after a google search I sometimes scan them to see what it is crapping on about
when I do very specific technical searches I have found AI making up responses that sound correct but nonetheless are factually wrong.
and that gives me information about ‘quality’
… it cant be trusted
so, pretty much the same as general ‘public opinion’ then?
it’s a better liar
Grok?
Yet another perversion of a term coined by Robert Heinlein in his novel; “Stranger in a Strange Land”..
First, they steal your language……
Thepostmillenial.com:
RTWT
Bruce back in the limelight, whatever happened in Tasmania we don’t fully know but from what I can glean from an obvious biased media is car was leant by son on grounds returned clean with full tank of juice, some media outlets say yes it was others say he was half a day late returning. Seems mum is a raging lefty (Look at the t-shirt she is brazen enough to wear trying to explain herself) and didn’t know.
I now certain this is a BS fit up charge. Tas cops don’t do themselves any favours by preferring it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14429047/Toyota-Prado-theft-Bruce-Lehrmann.html
If the son leant the car without her knowledge then the problem’s between her and the son.
What is happening to him is out and out persecution.
The blokes a loose cannon for sure but there are plenty of stupid people in this world.
What I don’t like is 2 women now have suddenly had complaints after finding out who he was. Both the chick in Toowoomba and now this bint in Tasmania have admitted as much.
They want their fifteen minutes of fame too.
I wake up to this….
NSW Minister Jodie Harrison apologises for Iran event in which Fatima Payman praised regime
MOHAMMAD ALFARES
NSW Minister for Women Jodie Harrison has apologised for taking part in an Iranian event featuring rogue senator Fatima Payman as a star guest, admitting her decision was “ill considered” after the WA senator used the platform to defend the hardline Islamist regime.
Ms Harrison delivered a recorded speech to the event in Sydney on Saturday, which was organised by the Benevolent Iranian Women Association to mark International Women’s Day and included supporters of the Iranian government.
In a news segment by Iranian state-owned network PressTV, Senator Payman described Iran as an “incredible” place for women and dismissed criticisms of the regime’s treatment of women as “propaganda”.
“The incredible place that Iran is, allowing for women to participate in the workforce to ensure that they have a voice, that their voices are heard, that their (voices) involved in a democratic process — realities that we’re not privy to living here and listening to the propaganda that we receive from very single-sided organisations with specific agenda,” Senator Payman told PressTV.
But late on Monday night, Ms Harrison sought to distance herself from the event, telling The Australian she did not share the views of the panellists and regretted her involvement.
The full clip of Ms Harrison’s recorded message was not provided, but it’s understood she spoke of women’s rights in Iran.
“I have heard the concerns raised and sincerely apologise for my participation in this event, for the message it sent which is incongruent with the view of myself and of the New South Wales government, and the distress I know it has caused for many,” Ms Harrison said. “Those of us who are privileged to hold public office have a responsibility to promote equality and to create a better New South Wales which does not minimise or undermine the experiences of others.
“I do not share the views expressed by the panellists at this event.
“The decision to provide a video message was ill-considered and I should not have provided a video message for the event.”
Iran’s record on women’s rights has been widely condemned, with hundreds of women arrested in recent years for defying strict dress codes and protesting against the regime’s oppressive laws.
Senator Payman, who quit the Labor Party in June last year over her support for Palestine, later defended her remarks, saying she wanted to “correct the record” on Iran.
“The organisation aimed to correct the narrative they felt was single-sided. To which I advised they should create spaces to educate and share their version of events with politicians and representatives. As a leader, it’s important for me to keep an open mind and listen to both sides,” she said.
Other speakers at the event included Sydney imam Abdul Qudoos Al-Azhari and Islamic Friendship Association founder Keysar Trad.
So, Harrison tells us that she does not ‘“share the views expressed by the panellists at this event‘. Really, so why did she speak at the event?
This again proves to me that my low opinion of Pretty Boy Minns has been right all along, he’s just the pretty face of a mediocre hard left government, a pretty face put to win them an election in 2023.
Harrison should resign for this. Conservatives have been forced to resign for much much less.
Payman isn’t too bright is she?
She may want to talk with some in her community and find out how much love is lost between “Persians” and Afghans.
Or, for that matter, between Persians and Arabs.
Keyser Trad is still alive? oof.
Top Hamas Official: If I Knew What Would Happen I Wouldn’t Have Supported Attacking Israel
So he liked the FA but now doesn’t like the FO bit.
Be glad you are in Qatar, son, since Mossad hasn’t been active there.
Yet
Yet.
Yet.
So far.
We just haven’t seen the results of their activity yet. They’ll be there.
@elonmusk
Now we know what they did last week
@DefiyantlyFree
James Comer tells Breitbart the DOJ, FBI, IRS and the SEC were all investigating Joe and Hunter Biden but they were told to stand down.
Jim Biden was being investigated by Medicare for fraud.
Six banks reported to the treasury department the Biden’s were committing financial crimes but everyone was told to stand down.
Can you imagine how co-opted the entire government was under Obama that every “independent” agency the media pretends Trump is trying to nefariously control were told to stand down and they did.
She’s a psycho, plain and simple. Zero empathy.
@EndWokeness
Kamala Harris is asked for her thoughts on the LA fires. Her response is even worse than you were expecting.
The journalist asking the question was about the same as Kamala in the intellect stakes.
@MarioNawfal
BIDEN’S TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION LET ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLY WITHOUT IDS
A FOIA lawsuit just exposed how Biden’s TSA fast-tracked illegal aliens through airport security while ignoring national security risks.
– TSA approved arrest warrants & deportation orders as “ID”
– Illegal aliens could show a screenshot on their phone to board flights
– TSA’s goal wasn’t security—just reducing wait times
– Facial biometrics were optional for non-citizens, despite the Patriot Act
Airports that allowed this: DFW, MIA, DEN, FLL, AUS, IAH & more
Biden’s TSA prioritized speed over safety—how many unvetted criminals were flown across the U.S.? Trump must track them down FAST.
TSA?
Thousands Standing Around.
Political bloatware.
And remember who was organising all this – the Church NGOs.
@america
NEW POLL: @DOGE is One of the Most Popular Parts of President Trump’s Agenda:
‘Undertaking a full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government expenditures’
-Support: 76%
-Oppose: 24%
“Incredible”. How so? Being “allowed” to do things that, in this country, are taken as basic rights for anyone, male or female?
You’ve just negated your Islamic-pumping argument, Fatima. But you’re too silly to see it.
In addition, I think she needs a good hard Thatchering.
What propaganda?
Which organisations?
What agenda?
You’ve said it’s “specific”. Name names, give examples and spell it out.
The entire LSM and government need to go and learn the TRUE meanings of a few terms:
Taqiyya.
Dissimulation about ones Muslim identity. It comes from the verse in the Quran that says, “Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful – he that does has nothing to hope for from Allah
Tawriya
Tawriya is defined as concealing, and it could be called “creative lying”. It is OK to break the intent of the oath, as long as you don’t break the letter of the oath.
Kitman
Kitman is characterized by someone telling only part of the truth. The most common example of this is when a Muslim says that jihad really refers to an internal, spiritual struggle.
Muruna
Muruna means using “flexibility” to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings. The justification for this kind of deception is a somewhat bizarre interpretation of Surah 2:106, which says, “If we abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We will replace it by a better one or similar.”
But they WILL NOT “learn” , because they are, in many cases, complicit; having submitted, whether “formally” or reflexively..
The entire culture of islam is built on conquest by deceit.
Payman needs to be reunited with her co-religionists in Iran. It’s only fair that she gets to experience their wonderful lifestyle.
It’s you that’s incredible, Fatima – in the strict, literal sense of the word.
@MAGAResource
Arizona Scandal Rocks Governor Hobbs: Corruption Probe Intensifies
Arizona’s Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs faces escalating scrutiny as a new investigation into bribery and racketeering allegations gains traction.
The probe, led by the Arizona Auditor General’s Office and Maricopa County, follows a 2024 probe by Attorney General Kris Mayes into Sunshine Residential Homes’ alleged “pay-to-play” scheme, which donated $400,000 to Hobbs and Democrats. Many see this as proof of long-standing Democratic corruption, especially amid reports of $339 million vanishing under Hobbs’ budget oversight.
Critics point to her aide’s resignation and deny her office’s claims of innocence, demanding federal FBI involvement.
Arizona Republicans, including Josh Barnett, are rallying for Hobbs’ impeachment, framing it as a victory for American values.
Under 50% of Fed Workers Have Come Back to the Office
Watching Wong get all hot and bothered in a senate grilling this morning…I’m speaking…I’m speaking…you’re trying to make a political point.
I’m reminded of that Musk/Trump office meme.
So what exactly is it you do here Penny?
same for me
last 12 months though, I’ve become rather obsessed
I’ve always been pretty average at it and my modest(?) goal is to reach 1500 across the board
doing rated puzzles is an awesome way to gain tactical vision
if only to re-ignite a spark in a bunch of bored old nannas that endlessly bicker about things political
I like to post puzzles here that are elegant and simple with a solution that is hiding in plain sight
Top Ender is very good … he kicked my arse a few weeks ago
MT, is there a site or software that you would recommend for a beginner relearning the Noble Game?
I like Chess.com
you can play for free but it is limited
when you pony-up for membership there are a vast amount of resources
endless lessons, puzzles, games, analyze your games. replay them with different strategies
practice end-games, openings, attacking, defending
have a go at king v king+pawn endings, that’ll do your head in for a while
play the bots at any level from 250 (Martin) to impossible (Goose)
Lichess.org is similar
Top Ender is over at Chessworld.net which is pretty good too
Anybody play bridge on BBO?
always wanted to play bridge
never got around to it
they say its rather complex
Rather play solo as someone always has to sit out the hand in bridge
He’s into war games and military manoeuvres. A strategic thinker.
I had him going for a while
made a strategic blunder by sacrificing a knight for an attack that ultimately failed
Confounding news (the CM):
I cannot visualise a universe in which I would fork out some hard-earned, and then wait outside a building for two hours in order to hear a Canadian say ‘Yo’.
Roberta Flack has died. sob…
shopping somewhere on Sunday and “I feel love” was playing on the muzak
still awesome
oops … that’s Donna Summer !!
RIP.
Her First Take and Quiet Fire albums are FANTASTIC!! They are some of my favourites.
First Take won the Grammy.
Which makes Cowboy Carter look all the more ridiculous.
What a voice.
Up there with the greats IMO. She was extremely handy behind a piano as well.
The Biden regime did absolutely everything it could to sabotage Trump, right up to the last moment.
@julie_kelly2
These are the sort of gremlins J6ers had to fight in court.
Sara Levine: “The Justice Department is under attack.”
It’s simply stunning to see how they lie with ease. They were not fired for “doing their jobs.”
They were temporary prosecutors on Capitol Siege unit who were made permanent after Trump won. Trump DOJ busted the scheme and dismissed the temporary hires.
Also—note how the 100% conviction rate is supposed to demonstrate the strength of the evidence rather than a rigged, biased process that involved jurors in the most Democratic city in the country.
These two aren’t even employable at the local DMV.
@CollinRugg
President Trump’s nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, is the first commercial astronaut to walk in space.
Billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman, who set a world record for the fastest light-jet flight around the world, was tapped by Trump to kickstart the new American “Golden Age.”
Isaacman is known for commanding the first all-civilian spaceflight mission to orbit Earth in 2021 and plans to set ambitious new goals at NASA once he’s confirmed.
He also founded Draken International, where he built the world’s largest private fleet of fighter jets.
“You only get one crack at life. To the extent you have the means to do so, you have this obligation to live life to the fullest. You never know when it’s going to be your last day.”
The Bee. Again, not funny.
UK Version Of Apple Watch Will Warn When Your Heart Rate Reacts Inappropriately To A Racist Meme
Cyclone Alfred is about to get some attention. Over night model runs and JTWC runs have it curving back to the coast in about 3 days. Down near Rockhampton though at 21deg south.
Upper level ridge building over SEQ blocking it move further south. Wind shear horrible and increasing, sea surface temperatures enough to sustain a formed cyclone. Fair bit of dry air over Queensland though. Capricorn Coast could be in for a windy wet weekend as I doubt it will be at cyclone status if it reaches the coast.
Latest morning model runs have it coming close to the central Qld coast, but not a crossing, before heading off to the SE. Let’s see what they say tomorrow or even the next day b4 getting too excited. It is still about 5-6 days away.
GFS seems to be spot on with this one. I’ve been watching it for close to a week now. Once the initial crossing near Bundy was corrected it has been remarkably consistent even at longer ranges with the present track.
Wasn’t ‘Anthony’ the first cab off the rank for the name of a cyclone?
Asking for a friend.
Yes.
Yes BOM thought it was inappropriate so close to an election.
Are they implying Albanese is a wrecker?
The USAID Nightmare Continues
Tim Blair in Today’s Tele:
OUR ROLE IN TRUMP’S BRUTAL BID TO END A WAR
TIM BLAIR
25 Feb 2025
First things first: US President Donald Trump’s comments last week about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were wrong, terrible and cruel.
Contrary to Trump’s assertions, Zelensky did not start the war with Russia, he is not a dictator, and he enjoys an approval rating somewhat greater than 4 per cent.
In line with the general commentariat consensus, let me add that Zelensky is an angelic cross between Winston Churchill and a fluffy little bunny, and that Ukraine is a vice-free paradise utterly untouched by greed and corruption.
Lock that in. Beyond this point, matters become slightly more challenging. Even if you’re in the fluffy bunny camp, it is difficult to foresee any way in which Ukraine can ever completely subdue, much less repel, Russia’s invaders.
Russian might may not be right, but it is still might – at least in relative terms. Being unable to quickly win a border battle against Ukraine, you wouldn’t bet on Russia consuming the rest of Europe, as some apparently fear.
If we’re talking about an unwinnable conflict, then, it makes sense to contain losses rather than accrue them. This is Trump’s message, although surrounded by the abovementioned wild and distracting inaccuracies.
“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “His Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”
No inaccuracies there. Freddy Gray, editor of The Spectator’s excellent US edition, is no Trump fan – referring to that post’s “insensitivity”, “febrile exaggerations”, and immature “score-settling” – but he nevertheless identified an admirable and achievable Trump aim.
“Only offensive, odious Donald could end the war in Ukraine, which he is now doing. Europe has failed to bring peace.” Gray wrote last week.
“The West has invested a huge amount of capital – political, economic and strategic – in the fight against Russia, and it has failed. Trump knows that and so he’s ending the war: if that means insulting Volodymyr Zelensky, parroting Russian talking points and playing nice with Putin, so be it.”
It’s a morals and money question: does the US keep arming and enriching Ukraine, or does it seek a peace deal involving some Ukrainian sacrifice – therefore rewarding Russia and its tyrannical leader?
All of this may seem very removed from our own circumstances, but it is not. We in Australia are in fact ideally placed to consider this sort of ethical dilemma – for we all make Ukraine-style moral and ethical calculations every single day.
It is easy for Australian politicians and pundits to rail against Putin, for we risk very little in terms of trade. Even before invasion sanctions kicked in, out total exports to Russia only ran to $723m per year – not even enough to keep ABC salaries topped up beyond about mid-August.
So we’re safe calling Putin a criminal and a monster.
But our national tone dramatically shifts when it comes to communist China – a wicked dictatorship much larger and more aggressively expansionist than Russia, and armed with nuclear weapons that (unlike Russia’s rusty old Soviet-era stockpile) might actually work.
Imagine Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – or any senior Australian politician for that matter – taking anything like the same gentle tone with Putin and Russia as they do with his brother in bloodshed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Albanese last November described his trade talks with a nation that uses slave labour, imprisons dissidents and wants Taiwanese independence activists to face the death penalty.
“My job is to speak on behalf of Australia … and Australia has an interest in free and fair trade,” he said.
“China will speak on behalf of China. We’re a trading nation and Australia believes that there should be international norms of trade … that we should abide by them.”
Gotta love those international norms. As for human rights abuses – the sort of things that rightly distress Ukraine’s defenders – Albanese claimed to be a repeat raiser.
“I raised (with Xi) the issues of human rights. I raised Taiwan. I raised cyber,” Albanese said, presumably raising his voice. “I raised the supply of assets to Russia. I raised the ICBM missile test that I previously raised as well with the Chinese Premier. So, we raised issues that matter to us, to Australia.”
But Australia raises gigantic, economy-sustaining capital from our Chinese trade, so we’ll never deploy the equivalent of Russian sanctions.
We largely ignore human rights atrocities in favour of cashing in. We’ve made our deal.
Trump wants to cut US spending on Ukraine and end the war, admittedly at some serious sovereign cost. Yet, in a way, Trump’s deal may be easier to live with than ours.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14407815/North-Coast-Childrens-Home-Lismore-Anglican-Church-abuse.html
I was hoping this had been left behind/put to bed.
They’re tearing the scab off again.
Probe into funding for Islamic groups who defended Bankstown nurses blocked by Minns govt: parliament
The Minns Government has blocked moves to investigate the funding of Muslim groups behind a controversial communique supporting two Bankstown nurses who claimed to have killed Israeli patients.
The Minns Government has blocked moves to investigate the funding of Muslim groups behind a controversial communique supporting two Bankstown nurses who claimed to have killed Israeli patients.
Liberal MP Jacqui Munro called in parliament on treasurer Daniel Mookhey to examine the funding behind the groups who signed the communique, which she said included mainstream bodies and hard line group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The communique said reaction to nurses Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh vowing to kill Israeli patients was “manufactured” and “co-ordinated outrage” aimed at silencing Palestinian voices.
“This grouping of organisations and individuals, which includes organisations like Muslim Votes Matter and the Islamic fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, released a statement which calls the community outrage and the comments around the disgraced former nurses’ behaviour disproportionate,” Ms Munro told parliament.
In the late night motion Mr Mookhey said any suggestion that Health Minister Ryan Park had “engaged in selective outrage” over the incident and sought to politicise it was “a slur”.
Liberal MP Jacqui Munro. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift
Liberal MP Jacqui Munro. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift
Mr Mookhey said: “None of the signatories to that statement is in receipt of any funding from NSW Health.”
But he said he was “not in a position” to provide information on whether any of the groups had received government grants and could not say when he would be able to do so.
“People would appreciate that we spend $120 billion on the operating side of the budget,” he said, while rejecting the move to have the taxpayer funding investigated.
Ms Munro told parliament it was the treasurer’s job to know exactly who was receiving taxpayer funded grants.
“It is the Government’s fundamental responsibility to understand where the money is going,” she said.
“The Government cannot use the excuse that it does not currently know where the money is going and therefore should not investigate where the money is going.”
The signatories to the letter condemning “the hypocrisy over nurses controversy” included mainstream bodies including the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils and other groups including the Al Madina Dawah Centre and its founder Wissam Haddad.
Ms Munro said the signatories to the communique “fail to reflect the reality of Australia’s most cohesive multicultural society” and that any cash going to them should be investigated.
She acknowledged that the Government had rejected the statement by the more than 50 organisations and individuals but said that was not enough.
“If the statement is so roundly rejected by the Government, why should organisations that do not meet the expectations of the public’s values and our taxation dollars still be on the payroll?” she said.
Ms Munro vowed to pursue the funding details of the signatories during the upcoming Budget Estimates.
Daily Tele
Again when the rubber hits the road Mins is found wanting yet again…
Pretty obvious the ALP is all over him to go soft on their voteherd in advance of the election.
But in doing that they’re losing vast numbers of other voters, as the polls yesterday show.
My mum is starting to come around, I have been highlighting these examples and have another one. Minns is an empty suit and his character is questionable.
If he has no say in the matters but doesn’t agree with what the ALP is doing then resign or is the trappings of office too much to show courage of conviction?
And as I predicted.
😀
Well said!
My guess would be never. These Muslim groups own the Labor party and therefore the government. Any non-Labor voting Australians don’t mean a thing to Labor governments and are thus second class citizens when they are in power.
Well, there’s Minns and NSW Labor out in the open.
The price of gold, stockpiles held, the flows between countries, the price of energy, the ability to manufacture a wide range of products.
All this has a bearing on which countries are doing well and which ones aren’t.
Tucker Carlson’s latest is all about gold.
My husband had a lovely habit of bringing me gold little animal charms when he was away on business. All 18K. I have weighed them now out of curiosity. The fish is heaviest at 5oz, the turtle is just under 4oz. There are 8. I am a treasured wife.
And down in Melbourne:
Vandals attack Captain Cook statue in Fitzroy Gardens just weeks after it was reinstalled
Just weeks after it was reinstalled from a vandal attack, the Captain Cook statue in Fitzroy Gardens has been attacked again.
A little more than two weeks after it was reinstalled in Fitzroy Gardens, vandals have tried to behead a statue of Captain James Cook.
A security patrol alerted police to two offenders vandalising the statue at about 2am on Tuesday.
Police say the vandals tried to remove the head of the statue and sprayed anti-Cook comments on nearby Cook’s cottage
The attack comes just weeks after City of Melbourne repaired and reinstalled the statue following an attack 12 months earlier.
Activists sawed off the statue at the ankles in the early hours of February 26, 2024.
The City of Port Phillip also repaired and reinstated a Captain Cook statue in Catani Gardens in St Kilda on November 1 last year after it was cut from its stone base and vandalised in the lead up to last year’s Australia Day.
Detectives have secured CCTV in an attempt to identify the vandals but are calling on anyone with information or dashcam vision to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 of visit crimestoppers.com.au.
Herald-Sun
Melbourne’s Climate Doomsday Clock Vandalised (24 Feb)
I wonder who will win the Great Monument War of 2025?
I can’t be sad about a climate Doomsday clock meeting its doom.
Imagine going for a walk in that park to de-stress and coming upon the Doomsday Clock!
The Socialist Left’s KGB Keystones in the Victorian Police Farce will be down on the vandals at the Doomsday Clock like a ton of bricks.
The vandals at the Cook monuments, like church and synagogue arsonists, will, of course, have complete immunity from prosecution.
The joys of chess. I was taught to play chess by my mother, an avid chess player, when I was a little girl. And lately I’ve been playing a lot of chess. I started again when visiting Mum in hospital last year, I would go to the hospital cafe and play with an old Russian Jewish man, a friend’s father, who was also in hospital. Not once did I beat this old man however he gave me a good lecture and some hints, telling me I was too defensive and I needed to be more aggressive! He was right!
Meanwhile in the Territory, what a welcome to Oz:
An American woman has been robbed while in hospital in the Red Centre, but police say they’ve caught the woman alleged to have committed the theft.
Alice Springs police said the woman was robbed on Friday while she was in hospital in Alice Springs.
Her passport, bank cards, and purse were stolen, they allege.
An investigation into credit card transactions and CCTV led police to arrest a 30-year-old woman in relation to the theft.
The woman was found at a licensed premises on Barrett Drive in Alice Springs.
She has been charged with obtaining property by deception, theft, and unlawfully possessing property.
Police said the woman will front the judge in the Alice Springs Local Court on Tuesday.
NT News
Presumably she was there to experience the culture.
Well, she did experience “the culture”.
Albo’s rent a squeeze must have been appalled when he won the 2022 election. She thought the gig was only until he lost.
So what happens when the factory is all designed and built and the flow of products is turned on its head when a component suddenly gets priced at 4 times its original price or the price of electricity drops by 50%?
Can the product line adapt?
Or right after you get things up and running you get an end of life on a critical component? Been there, done that.
It is sometimes a mistake to optimise too much.
But that seems to be the drawcard that AI Factories are playing.
Today’s Tele:
BTW, where is ‘Blackout Bowen’? He is a ‘Ruin A Ball’ gift for the Opposition IMHO.
Tele Editorial:
BURKE BOOM BUILDS AN ELECTION BASE
25 Feb 2025
Labor voter gatherer Tony Burke, also known by his official parliamentary title of federal Home Affairs Minister, continues to come under fire.
And for good reason. The circumstances surrounding Burke’s oddly well-timed weekend citizenship blitz seem more contentious by the hour.
We now discover, via senate estimates revelations from Home Affairs Secretary Stephanie Foster, that Burke directed his department to schedule those citizenship ceremonies to fit his own timetable.
“He asked us to schedule post ceremonies, and obviously gave us a window of availability,” Foster told senate estimates.
And there was more to it besides Burke’s mere appearance.
Being on site at these deeply cynical citizenship ceremonies allowed Burke to personally present newly minted Australians with their welcome certificates.
May as well have slipped in a few how-to-vote cards while he was at it. If you’re going to be a bear, after all, be a grizzly.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson yesterday accused the Albanese government of “using the migration system for perceived political advantage”.
He is being way too polite.
His name is Burke. A Left Wing Burke.
Berk is more like it.
2 choices: what the bastard has done is illegal so charge him. If not all the libs, again, can do and are doing is be outraged and jealous they didn’t think of doing the same thing first. Credit where credit is due, the liars always run political rings around the duds on the conservative side.
And I thought Albo is sleazy.
But always accurate, I love watching him make foster and watt squirm.
On-country juvenile rehabilitation centre plan for the Goldfields included in WA Liberals’ youth crime planTegan GuthrieKalgoorlie Miner
Tue, 25 February 2025 2:00AM
An on-country juvenile rehabilitation centre will be considered for the Goldfields as part of the WA Liberals’ plan to crack down on youth crime if elected to government at next month’s State election.
The plan, which will be announced in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Tuesday by leader Libby Mettam, shadow minister for police Peter Collier, and candidate for Kalgoorlie Rowena Olsen, includes $2 million to plan on-country centres for regional WA, “preferably in the Goldfields and Kimberley regions”.
Ms Olsen welcomed the announcement, stating youth crime was “out of control” in the Goldfields and regional WA.
“If we can break the cycle before kids turn into serious, repeat offenders, it will make all our communities a much safer place,” she said.
“Having an on-country facility right here in the Goldfields recognises how bad things have become locally, and will immediately help make the most difference to local kids.”
Mr Collier said data showed a “significant number” of regional juveniles in the justice system were Aboriginal.
“Putting facilities on-country will help shift the approach towards a rehabilitative focus and will increase the overall effectiveness of our youth justice facilities,” he said.
Ms Mettam said only the WA Liberals had a comprehensive plan to prevent crime throughout the “entire offending journey”, from early intervention with children to more police on the beat and tougher sentencing and parole conditions.
“The WA Liberals are committed to cracking down on crime and making our communities safer, starting with 300 additional police on the beat through overtime, from day one, with 500 additional officers over five years,” she said.
“But we also need to act before young people are known to WA Police to ensure they aren’t caught up in the criminal justice system and are diverted before they start offending.
“That’s why we’ve already committed to two behaviour centres, our school policing program, and are today committing to planning two regional juvenile rehabilitation centres.”
Mr Collier said intervention for disengaged youth before they entered the youth justice system was a focus for the party.
“There are an increasing number of disengaged students in our schools, many of whom will transition into the juvenile justice system and ultimately a life of crime,” he said.
“The WA Liberals will engage 20 retiring police officers to work three days a week directly with these students throughout Western Australia.
“On Country juvenile rehabilitation centers” is polly speak for “you won’t have to drive to Perth to visit your little darlings in the jug.”
‘Welcome to Country’.
Pay that one.
Perhaps these misunderstood young warriors would have benefited from this brainfart.(or not)
The business involved has blacklisted the families of the offenders which is a start. Spreading the love type of thing!
Several were arrested and then the rest were identified and also locked up.
They took some clear panels off the wall, took grinders etc out of one of the utes and proceeded to spend a couple of hours in the office destroying the safe as they cut into it. Owner woke up at 5AM to prepare for the day and saw it on his phone alerts. Raced down to the premises along with several employees and associates. Naughty boys ran away but some were cornered by an employee and the cops. Game over, straight to handcuff hotel, do not pass go and do not collect $100.
Nicole Shanahan begins her pre-campaign campaign.
The next governor of California.
And clearly CCP associated.
Well done Newsom & co.
Your policies have done this.
Imagine the reception that the woman who Trump has appointed as director of programing is going to receive when she joins PBS.
It would be like Jacinta being appointed to the ABC.
Come to think of it …………
Eye watering sum Ten to pay former star Lisa Wilkinson over Lehrmann lawsuitA judge has ordered that Ten pay a seven figure sum to cover Lisa Wilkinson’s legal costs associated with Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation lawsuit.
Daily Tele.
Ten seems to be a tax dodge or something similar. Most of the programming is repeats of repeats of repeats of boring and ancient shows like Diagnosis Murder, Jake and the Fatman plus many, many infomercials.
It’s not surprising that the local management are not exactly the best and the brightest.
I expect that Ms Smithies, the Channel 10 in-house lawyer who cleared, Wilkinson’s Logies speech, has been digging up her references from her school holiday job at Maccas.
$1.15 million. Noice………….
For the lawyers.
Remember.
That isn’t the full tab.
Lisa still has to foot part of the bill.
Oh dear…trouble at the mill for ambulance chasers Slugs and Grubs.
Paywallion:
Slater + Gordon law firm staff outrage over email leak of salaries and rankings
Ellie Dudley and Stephen Rice
13 hours ago. Updated 3 hours ago
Legal giant Slater + Gordon has been forced to set up a formal process to deal with angry staff who have been able to compare their pay and performance ratings with those of their colleagues, thanks to a “malicious” email the firm suspects was sent by a disgruntled current or former employee.
The top-ranking class action firm has called in police and forensic experts to investigate the origins of the email, purportedly sent by interim chief people officer Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen.
However, Ms Ruiz-Matthyssen on Monday maintained she did not send it and claimed “a cursory examination of the email and its attachment gave a clear indication as to the likely identity of the sender”.
The email, sent on Friday morning and blind-copied to all Slater + Gordon staff, made scathing criticisms of senior staff and revealed the salaries of the firm’s 906 employees.
Slater + Gordon said the email was not sent by Ms Ruiz-Matthyssen and denounced it as a hoax, but has so far been unable to track down the culprit.
On Monday evening Ms Ruiz-Matthyssen released a statement through her lawyers saying she had been wrongfully accused of sending the email “and publicly vilified since that time”.
“The manner in which this matter has been handled over the past four days has caused immeasurable damage and distress to me personally and professionally, as well as to my family.
“I did not send the email. A cursory examination of the email and its attachment gave a clear indication as to the likely identity of the sender. I have engaged lawyers and I am in the process of taking legal action.”
Ms Ruiz-Matthyssen’s lawyers would not give further information about “the likely identity of the sender”.
The Australian understands the most likely scenario emerging from the investigation points to a current or former employee, with the detailed knowledge of the firm and its staff making a hostile external actor highly unlikely.
The author of the email appeared to have inside information about private dinners at the home of chief executive Dina Tutungi, illnesses suffered by staff, rivalries between named individuals, investigations into cases of inappropriate conduct, planned redundancies and even gossip about which board member “they will ditch this year”.
The Australian understands some employees also believe the person who sent the email must have been in attendance at the firm’s launch of its new values last Wednesday.
The email was sent from a gmail account in Ms Ruiz-Matthyssen’s name, but also contained links to her Slater + Gordon email address. Investigators are working to determine if those links were fraudulently added to make it appear she sent information between the two accounts.
A spokesperson told The Australian: “The contents of the email include a range of disparaging remarks about individuals – what is presented as internal information in the email is incorrect and in many ways a work of fiction.”
The company in coming weeks will set up a process by which concerned staff can raise concerns about pay parity, after hundreds of employees opened a spreadsheet attached to the email listing the salaries of everyone in the firm.
Those salaries ranged from Ms Tutungi’s purported $690,000 to a Melbourne legal assistant on $22,916. Almost a third of the staff also discovered their performance ratings – and those of others in their departments – on a scale from a top of five to a low of two.
Only 19 of the 290 whose rankings were revealed scored a five, with most achieving either a four or three. Twenty-eight staff received the lowest score of two.
One former Slaters employee told The Australian: “There’s several people on the same level, but earning considerably less than colleagues, so the leaking of salary information is going to have serious consequences come pay negotiation and bonus time.
“Slater and Gordon has become more about making money from injured clients than getting the best outcomes for injured clients, which is all private equity cares about. But who is going to want to buy the business now, given this mess?”
The biggest concern for the already troubled firm is convincing clients their confidential information is safe. No client data has been compromised in the email scandal.
On its website Slater + Gordon claims cyber security expertise with experience running group proceedings over data privacy breaches, declaring: “Protecting your data is the responsibility of the company that has been entrusted with it.”
In 2023 Slater + Gordon filed a class action in the Federal Court against Optus on behalf of customers who allege their personal information was compromised in the Optus data breach revealed in September 2022.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute director of Cyber, Technology and Security Programs James Corera told The Australian the breach was alarming but could have happened to many major Australian companies.
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Disappointing.
Here is a comment. Couldn’t happen to a better Group of money grabbing shysters. Pure comedy,
This is hilarious. The kind of people who choose to work at Slugs and Grubs are easily offended, have a high opinion of themselves, and are likely to consider litigation as a weapon against personal affronts.
Definitely worth laying in some popping corn for.
I guess some ambulance chasers can run faster than others.
That’s actually much lower salaries than I would have assumed.
A cynic might aver that the big money is in the APS these days.
Plus security of employment regardless of performance.
A good innings.
Aussie icon Ian Chappell announces retirement from writing after more than five decades (24 Feb)
Superb batsman and 50 years of excellent commentary.
But okay one little underarm…
That was Greg and Trevor.
I always found he was so biased you could be forgiven he was watching a different game.
And that nasally upward inflection always pissed me off
I note Senator Payman appears to be a devotee of “Islam is the world’s most feminist religion.”
And a booster for the Iranian regime.
Thanks, ALP.
You tend to lose hope for humanity when stupid muzzie bints living in a free society which gives them all their rights still support fuking islam which would have them living in a hessian bag and doing nothing but spitting out sprogs. The kunt is either terminally stupid or a fanatic for the cause.
hessian bag, no a Hussain bag….. in Muz joke 🙂
But she isn’t living in an Islamic country.
Hmm.
I wonder how many guys in the ADF have ties to Islam?
Jewish Australian officer branded security risk over ties to Israel, ‘divided loyalty’ (24 Feb)
We need a Hegseth to go through the ADF and fire all the shinybums.
For all its many faults, the Grauniad produces striking analytical graphics.
This electoral map (scroll down) illustrates starkly the depth of Germany’s extraordinary political disfunction.
In simple terms, aside from Berlin, the former East Germany is AfD to the core. The rest of Germany is Merz’s nominally conservative CDU/CSU, with a sprinkling of socialists and Leftist lunatics based on industrial cities – which coincidentally also enjoy Islamic enrichment.
I’m not sure how another term of chaotic, fundamentally failed coalition central government is going to work from a social cohesion perspective.
Far more importantly, nobody else does either.
They may have to rebuild the wall.
Based on my soshuls that is an emerging theme.
More good news from the U.S. where Stuart Scheller, the marine colonel who was court martialed for his criticism of senior staff over the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, has been appointed as a senior adviser in the DoD. Great to see that men of integrity and honour are not forgotten and are actually making a comeback under Trump’s administration.
“Not that I’m thinking the SFL’s are much better, coz their not.”
To paraphrase Dan Bongino: “The Liberal Party may not be the solution to all your problems, but the Labor Party is definitely the cause of them.”
Well, actually…
nuclear ban
pop ponzi
RET
ban on tree clearing
expropriation of private property by govt fiat
several unnecessary wars yet leaving veterans in the lurch
All gifted to us by the Liberal Party.
I’m sure others have their list of grievances.
Always, always consider unintended consequences, or how introducing something can be used and extended by political enemies. The SFL seem incapable of working this out
a bit unfair on the nuclear ban though. That was the price for getting the support of the democrats to get around the ALP in the senate for the replacement reactor at Lucas heights..
and of course, coal at the time was giving us amongst the cheapest power in the western world. So nuclear wasn’t on the table.
but the key thing here, is the ALP opposed life saving medicines manufactured by a new Lucas Heights reactor.
Yep. When the strange alliance of Scherger and Hewitt wanted a reactor at Jervis Bay in the 60s, the Treasury under Sir Frederick Wheeler (those dreadful economic rationalists of leftist mythology) laughed it out of Cabinet on cost-benefit grounds. Why? Because coal generation was so much cheaper.
A little over five hours until the “five dot point” deadline.
Tick, tock.
Interesting vibes. Several alphabet agencies have instructed their peons not to reply to the email.
Trump has said that anyone who doesn’t reply should be fired.
Decisions, decisions…
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/peter-dutton-has-labor-panicking.html
Peter Dutton has the Labor Party pizzing in their pink frillies…
Possibly more accurate to say Anthony Albanese has the Labour Party soiling itself. His passionfingers are very highly regarded in Labor rank and file circles.
‘Audacious raid’: Trial over golden toilet stolen from Winston Churchill’s homeHelen WilliamAAP
February 25, 2025 4:36AM
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TopicsCrime
An “audacious raid” was carried out to steal a gold toilet from worth almost $6 million from Blenheim Palace, a UK court has been told.
It is believed that the distinctive fully functioning toilet, entitled America, which had been installed as an artwork at the Oxfordshire country house where Sir Winston Churchill was born, has now been split up and disposed of, Oxford Crown Court was told on Monday.
The toilet, which was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a star attraction in an exhibition when it was stolen by sledgehammer-wielding thieves who smashed their way into the palace.
Within days of the raid, two men were using “car” as a codeword for the stolen gold and contact was made with a Hatton Garden jeweller, the prosecution said.
Prosecutor Julian Christopher KC said the raid took just five minutes, adding: “This case concerns the theft of a work of art from Blenheim Palace in September 2019.
Well, actually…
nuclear ban
pop ponzi
RET
ban on tree clearing
expropriation of private property by govt fiat
several unnecessary wars yet leaving veterans in the lurch
All gifted to us by the Liberal Party.
I’m sure others have their list of grievances.
You forgot the Frydchickenburger inflation.
I didn’t want to hog the list.
The most IMPORTANT talk on the demographic crisis you will ever hear | Stephen Shaw
In this talk, Stephen Shaw discusses the global demographic crisis centered around declining birth rates and increasing childlessness. He highlights societal shifts in the average age of parenthood and the growing “birth gap,” where fewer young individuals are available to replace the retiring workforce. Shaw emphasizes how industrialized nations, such as Japan, Italy, and South Korea, face significant demographic challenges due to these decreases in fertility rates. He argues that the reasons behind this trend include societal pressures, delayed parenthood, and economic uncertainties, which have led to higher levels of childlessness. Shaw calls for societal and policy changes to encourage younger generations to have children earlier, citing successful policies in Hungary as a potential model. He expresses optimism that with the right frameworks, societies can address and possibly reverse these trends to prevent future economic and social issues linked to population decline.
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the elephant in the room: the more we educate our women the less babies they have
My son’s wife and her friends all have PHD’s and are busy churning out babies at a pretty good rate.
Learning and churning!
What kind of PHDs?
Caught up with a friend of mine at the Weekend who I was with at the old CCAE (now Canberra University) in the late 1970s. He and Wife have 7 Adult Children and 14 Grand Children.
He and Wife are now full time Baby Sitters,
They have certainly done their bit for Australia.
BTW, they live on a Property just outside a Regional NSW City.
“a Regional NSW City”
Not Canberra, by any chance?
LOL. No. But not too far away.
My doctrinaire lefty Carlton monkey grip parents – I forgive them and avoid politics – have seven adult children and 22 grandchildren
The major issue in my view is the taxation levels that are required to pay for the replacement people.
Perhaps taking the sugar off the table will allow women to focus on their natural instincts as they have the funds necessary to do so.
So what came first:
The desire to tax heavily so the birth rate collapsed, or
The desire to replace the population?
Four ideas for policies to encourage more children, without having heroin addicts spill out more sprogs:
combine income for tax purposes for adults with children if they want
progressively raise the tax free threshold (say, $1000 indexed) for each kid until high school.
remove the first home buyers grant, but subsidise home loans down to the RBA rate plus admin (say 0.8%) for five years for those purchasing their first home after having at least one kid. Maybe at least up the duff.
child endowment
There used to be the Family Allowance/Child Endowment both here and the UK.
I’m one of 8 siblings, we have a set of 48 first cousins from all the aunts and uncles, plus all the 2nds. Big Catholic family. We actually know our connections, and there has never been a case of cousin marriage in our extended family, quite the opposite, as my husband is Scots PresbyterianxCofE, and one of my sisters has a Jewish husband. Various others in the fold.
The youngsters are not reproducing at quite the level of our parents, but still our mother has 23 grandchildren and 15 greats.
when you look at that, it is a population in decline.
With the enthusiastic support of Albo’s circus in Canberra, the Pretty Boy Minns government in NSW has sold its soul to Australia’s muslim invaders.
The muzzies might as well be running Labor’s federal re-election campaign, which they’re pursuing with all the finesse of an exploding pager.
Shocking moment boy, 16, squeals and collapses in court after being told he’ll be tried for murder as an adult
This is in North Carolina. Do they still have the death penalty? If so, do they use the electric chair, or the gas chamber?
Firing squad?
South Carolina death row inmate chooses firing squad as execution method (22 Feb)
Yes they do but most likely won’t use it. Mores the pity.
Good.
I have just emailed this link to my Federal pollie.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/politics/labor-lite-isnt-the-way-mr-dutton/
Excellent Stuff. However, not likely to happen unfortunately IMHO.
Tried that but no reply . Asked their candidate for Monash whose spiel was basically that of Labor/green/teal being warming and no carbon bullshit, an “independent” has sent around flyers that are the same policies as Labor/greens/teals so I will only be able to exercise my vote in a positive way in the Senate . I am really struggling to vote libs as they offer nothing but more of the same but liars etc will be well down in the Senate vote. There are a few great Senators so I hope I can support them in Victoria.
Dutton is too much of a lefty to take that advice.
That is “trust” as in “does he do what he says he will do?”.
The phrase which has been missing from media commentary in the last month had been “broken promises”.
No-one is accusing him of not doing what he said he would.
I watched the exchange with the Maine Governor over blokes playing women’s sports and perving in change rooms, and it is a master-class in “rope-a-dope”. She couldn’t help herself being drawn into the flame.
On that issue and polling, I saw a CNN poll showing that 79% supported Trump’s stand on trannies in women’s sports … Seventy Nine Pussent.
That is yuuuge!
You could ask pretty much any question … “President Trump wants to give free kittens to little girls. Do you agree?” … and you will get 15-20% against.
With that policy you know what they would call him.
The German establishment has been the longest serving non-royal or church ‘uniparty’ in history – since 1865.
Sure, they had to change the colour of their shirts a few times and things looked a little dodgy for them after WWII. But Adenauer fixed that with his denazification scam. Fringe Nazis went to jail, oligarchs and SS officers went into Government.
CDU/SPD or SPD/CDU is irrelevant. They have two imperatives:
Preserve the authority of the establishment. This may involve booting out a few token muzzies in conjunction with complete destruction of free speech, and of cause lawfare to paralyse the AfD.
Most importantly, preservation of the German establishment’s key weapon, the EU. There is no limitation on the establishment’s agressive actions intended to preserve this Fourth Reich.
Anyone who believes that populist movements will be permitted to survive needs to expand their reading.
The US once again provides the convenient distraction target for the German fascists. They may need to think a little more carefully this time however.
Let’s face it the krauts started 2 world wars, don’t play rugby union or league, or cricket and are porn specialists. Dreadful people; although their beer is alright and some of their sheilas look ok.
Then there’s the whole obsession with excrement.
If a little hairy.
Let’s put some of their buxom sheilas together with large jugs of frothy beer….oh wait…
Sounds just like Australian public serpents presenting at the Senate and giving lip service to elected Senators. We need to drain the swamp and put the unelected public serpents out to pasture just like Trump. All been there too long and want to control the population.
There is always a lot of discussion of the antipathy or hatred for Jews by the Muslims. What isn’t mentioned is that there’s no reason why we Christians are any more acceptable to the crazy Islamic death cult. They will come after everyone in due course.
Christians are already targets – e.g. Pakistan.
It’s on the long list of Things We Are Not Allowed To Talk About because multiculturalism.
Don’t forget this:
ISIS-linked militants butcher 70 Christians in Congo—Global leaders urged to act | Today News
But it’s not all Muslims. Most are peaceful, good Citi…
Ouch.
Just dropped some boilerplate on my toes.
A few weeks ago around 70 people, men, women and children were slaughtered by IS aligned muslims in Democratic Republic of Congo. Christians.
Their bodies, some beheaded, were found in the Protestant church.
Should have refreshed, cohenite.
We import this cult
There is an Islamic saying: First Saturday, then
Sunday. Meaning, first the Jews who worship on Saturday, the Sabbath, then the Christians who worship on Sunday.
They are very clear about it.
Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2025 10:16 pm
Meanwhile, Jew haters run amok and incur zero consequences..
No penalty for Melbourne obstetrician Miranda Robinson in ‘racist’ rowLIAM MENDES
Always put up a photo:
Dr Miranda Robinson | Obstetrician & Gynaecologist | St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Fitzroy
They are too busy persecuting doctors who deviate from the Marxist queer line on sexuality and gender.
Which presumably explains the allegations made by that fat obnoxious imbecile muzza watt that Dr Mutton engaged in corrupt bank share trading back when the gliberals were last in government.
Anyone else heard about this?
Saw a report at News (Clickbait Central) confirming that they are so panicky, with reason, that they think they can torpedo Dutton and get away with another slim win.
He just bought at the bottom of the GFC, like I did.
And many, many others. Maybe he was listening to Warren Buffet and not the KRudd.
Anyone with any sense was buying.
Just like I did at the bottom of the mining cycle in the 90s when tech was all the go. I made a lot of money
for us out of good instincts and a counter-cyclical mind. Husband never bets against me.
Low Wattage is the new KK.
He likes to r(amp) it up a bit. Tosser.
Watt is another grub. The big fat double chin from freebies and the mincing, effete voice.
Absolute dullard who spits the party line no matter how ludicrous.
“As a leader, it’s important for me to keep an open mind and listen to both sides,” she said.
The AEC Tally Room tells me Payman received 1681 direct votes in ’22.
She should know all that voted for her by name.
Even the ones who voted twice. Or not at all.
Most are cousins.
Senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Indigenous Australians to ‘decolonise’ by planting Aboriginal flags and charging white people rent
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Turncoat Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged Indigenous Australians to plant the Aboriginal flag on land and make white people pay to visit, to “assert sovereignty’’ over Australia.
The former Greens senator, who defected to sit as an Independent, spoke of her ambition to run Blak Sovereign candidates in every state and territory, and outlined her provocative plans to “f*ck the colony” in a closed-door address to an anti-racism symposium organised by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.
“We have to organise and strategise and take over our land like they did,’’ the Victorian senator said to applause from the audience.
“We need to start putting our own flags into our own land and f*ck the colony.
Any Aboriginal flag I see will be pulled up and thrown away, with the rest of the rubbish.
QUT – where non-Aboriginal students were punished for using traditional Aboriginal computers.
I will happily pay to put Lydia and her ilk back to the way that the First Fleet first found the joint well away from Australian Civilisation of course. They obviously don’t like the trappings on offer. /sarc.
The Outback looks to be very appropriate for these peoples.
And ‘Welcome to Country’…………………
Forty billion dollars a year of taxpayers’ money not enough, you parasite?
Tried commenting at the oz that perhaps Thorpe could pay proportionally based on her non indigenous ancestry.
not approved.
15/16th non indigenous ancestry, 1/16th indigenous.
What was it in the US? One drop was sufficient.
Her and her ilk have been pampered by the colonists with food health education and more. 200 years and all these mixed race still bleating. What a load of crap
I would like to ask Hydia how she feels about her people being nearingly outnumbered now by Islamic colonists? They are each about 3% of our population now.
Mr ihearthitler pandering to antisemites again.
He’s a grifter with a capital G.
What does that make Tucker?
A further comment from Sohrab
“If you’re too naive to detect the ideological animus, including the theological neo-Marcionism, I can’t help you”
https://x.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1894186856931012766?t=KNlAcLe4R1l1HP2in8sAhg&s=19
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/beware-the-neo-marcionites
The Clean Investment Monitor for Q4 has been published tracking clean investment in the USA. The monitor tells you how much has been invested. It doesn’t tell you the source of the funding i.e. gov or private. Nor does it tell you whether this has resulted in increased production or consumption overall of “clean” power. Capacity may have been increased but production of power may not have done so (i.e. idle windfarms, unused solar excess etc.). Investment on its own is pretty meaningless without this being tracked to electricity production, consumption and efficiency per unit produced. Think of Snowy 2. A lot of money spent but no electricity and in Snowy 2 case the water will have to be pumped up using electricity so the efficiency rating will be much less than what was written on the back of the original paper napkin. Note that the body running this monitor includes climate change/renewable advocates. At first glance it looks impressive. https://www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/clean-investment-monitor-q4-2024-update
I will post a link to actual electricity production (by source) and consumption trends in the USA for the past 20 years to give context in a few minutes.
Here’s the link to actual production/ consumption by source. Scroll down to this section The mix of U.S. energy consumption and production has changed over time and the graph. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
The mix of U.S. energy consumption and production has changed over time and the graph.
Given it goes back to 1950, the renewables must include hydro.
Yes. But notice that when coal production eased off it was replaced primarily by natural gas. It will be interesting to see the trend over the next year or two.
A European phenomenon.
The closer the proximity to Communism in the recent past, the more likely you are to hold Western conservative views.
It’s almost as if the exposure to Communism wasn’t an “optimised experience”.
It does rather seem that way.
And the ‘traditional west’ is currently enjoying the fruits of 50 years of progressive socialism and reimagined Marxism.
No surprise Eastern Europe is the flag bearer for freedom.
But of course it will be next time, when the WEF finally gets it right.
Wow. My favourite media lesbian, Tammy Bruce, who did her apprenticeship at Fox News, is the new spokeswoman for the US State Department!
The breath of fresh air blowing through official Washington is like The Sound of Music Julie Andrews-style from half a century ago.
Tammy is good value.
Damned right; I’d have a beer with her and later, after I made a move on her, and she sat me on my arse be grateful for the experience.
It’s a packed field.
If someone is elected by virtue of their party (such as being on the Senate ticket), shouldn’t they resign rather than steal that position away to another party or to being “independant”?
There are several loudmouth women who are high on this list.
They don’t seem to have a problem with cheating.
FRACGP head pouring cold water on the uniparty’s bulk billing rescue plan.
Says extra funding is welcome but Australians shouldn’t assume their GP will be on board as for many it would mean a cut in income.
Spoken like a true unionist.
It won’t happen anyway. It’s only an election gambit. Who is gullible to fall for it.
I tip my hat to Janet Albrechtsen on the AMA: wharfies with stethoscopes.
Successful shearing world record with a distinctly female focus set in WABy Tamara Hooper
Updated February 24 2025 – 5:05pm, first published 2:27pm
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Dedication, commitment and determination are all words embodied by Alexia ‘Lexie’ Phillips – the official new Women’s Eight Hour Merino Ewe Shearing World Record holder.
Only the second woman ever to attempt the feat, Ms Phillips securely stamped her mark on the pages of history, on Saturday at Spring Valley Farm, Darkan.
Shearing 367 sheep, averaging around 80 seconds per ewe, she surpassed the previous record of 358 set nine months ago.
Ms Phillips set the new benchmark of 367 in four consecutive runs tallying 91, 92, 92 and 92, illustrating her discipline and training that led to a very consistent outcome in both quality and time.
They used to say the best shearers could get through 180 sheep per day. For a chick to shear double that is absolutely awesome.
Strikes me that the lady would make a damnfine Kitteh!
Outstanding.
I’d like to see her shear Foghorn Lizhorn.
I bet that she had a rather sore back after that feat.
Hoggets?
Institutional Resistance To Trump Proves The Left’s Disdain For Democracy
WSJ: Hezbollah Throwing in the Towel in Southern Lebanon? UPDATE: Hamas Too, Maybe?
Obama Judge Who Blocked Trump’s ICE Raids is Married to Far-Left Open Borders Activist Funded By George Soros
@elonmusk
They are covering immense fraud
So Musk is now firing dead people?
Is there no end to this man’s cruelty?
A bit like the wharfies in past.Hopefully.
@MattWalshBlog
I already had a low opinion of many federal workers but now that I’ve seen them all meltdown and cry because they’re expected to provide the faintest evidence that they’re actually accomplishing anything with the taxpayer funded job we’ve given them, I realize that my opinion of them was still somehow too high
This after Crenshaw is caught on a hot mike threatening to kill Tucker if he ever met him.
@catturd2
Tucker responds to Crenshaw’s threats.
All Over But the Shouting
Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize after being in office for five minutes.
And for what?
Is that a trick question of you’re really asking. 🙂
He received a Nobel prize for being black
Of course, but we are not supposed to say or notice that.
And Kamala only got to be VP for the same reason as Biden admitted.
Latte!
Germany’s Next Leader Had Some Tough Words For Trump and America – Here’s What That Means, with VDH
I’ll give the kraut retard a week before he’s forced to retract by Trump doing something, or threatening to do something.
Germany needs the U.S. far more than the alternative.
No wonder the lnp got rid of Rennick; some of his questions and issues raised in parliament:
Over the last six years I have developed a reputation as being extremely effective in exposing government corruption. Some examples of this include:
Senator Gerard Rennick – Working for all Australians
Dover, leaving aside the fact that you somehow managed to mangle the meaning of total factor productivity with the term you used, “peak efficiency,” let’s clarify something. Total factor productivity is measured periodically and doesn’t have a “peak” in the way you described it. There’s also a crucial point here that needs to be considered.
China is heavily invested in legacy factories. There’s always reluctance to scrap the old and spend big on the new. It’s sticky. But here’s another consideration: if factories move in the direction outlined above—and it seems increasingly likely—the bulk of their running costs will shift toward depreciation and systems maintenance. In other words, labor costs, compared to those in legacy factories, will be significantly reduced. This is where China currently holds a cost advantage, as labor costs there are comparatively lower.
If this crucial factor is substantially diminished, China’s comparative advantage disappears. It won’t matter whether a factory is set up in Ohio, or behind a dog meat abattoir just outside Shanghai—there’s no cost advantage left for China.
Taking into consideration key factors—such as China being a totalitarian state, which carries significant political risk, along with transport limitations and the advantage of management being closer to the action—this move becomes a no-brainer
Look, look you recently said, referring to the potential opportunities of China exporting to South Asian markets. When the cost advantages are eliminated, this market disappears for China too, as manufacturing can take place there, or competitors take some of these markets. I’m a little surprised you hadn’t thought about this when you were giddily announcing that China would account for up to 50% of the world’s manufacturing in the not too distant future.
Just overnight, Apple announced a re-shoring plan that will see the firm invest $500 billion in U.S. plant and equipment. This is a big story and signals where things are heading. It also suggests that the top-down industrial policy approach Xi has been pushing from his office over the past few weeks is starting to look more and more like the old Soviet five-year plans—grand ideas that ended up as nonsense.
What a surprise: not, that the idiots who run the West have not heard of Taqiyya and Kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic Terrorism. This after the latest abomination by hamarse:
After Hamas paraded the coffins of 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel to the cheers and jeers of its supporters, before turning over the coffins, locked with keys that did not fit to Israel, people looked for something to restore their faith in the goodness of mankind in the Muslim world.
Millions thought they found it in fake quotes from the grand muftis of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
“What we say today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah,” Saudi Grand Mufti Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh (pictured above) reportedly claimed in one viral social media post.
“Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before,” Grand Mufti of Dubai Ahmed al-Haddad allegedly proclaimed.
Photos of the two Islamic religious leaders illustrated with these quotes racked up millions of views on social media. Some even found their way into news stories sourced from social media.
The problem was that the quotes were fake and never existed outside social media. The Saudi quote was soon disavowed while an Emirati journalist stated that the local media had “never heard of them” and that they were “mere rumors”.
Searching for Condemnations in the Muslim World | Frontpage Mag
Where is BlackRock Spending their Money?
her provocative plans to “f*ck the colony”
Well it was good enough for her ancestors 1/16th Abbo…
?
Wide open market for genetic characterisation of blood donors. Go into hospital as white and come out as abo.
Cronkers
Any cute owls we can turn up our noses to?
https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=OIP.a07iOUgcJs548p0ztfSa6AHaEw&pid=Api&w=148&h=148&c=7&dpr=2&rs=1
Twit to Hoo/You……………..
Katja Hoyer: How the AfD changed German politics
EU Exposed: The dirty truth behind Brussels’ plot to destabilise democracies
Trump has torn down ‘the greatest lie ever told to the American people’: GOP rep
Vanished post..
/x files theme intensifies..
I see the usual suspects are screaming that DEI isn’t depriving anyone of anything, just ensuring everyone has an opportunity “to shine” as they might put it.
Uh-huh.
The thing is, once you set quotas, and those quotas are out of whack with the population of available candidates, you are putting your thumb on the scale.
And it isn’t as simple as looking at overall population statistics either. Setting a target of 50% of senior brain surgeons being women sounds uncontroversial. But if the pool of available candidates is 80:20 male female, you have to take lower standard women to meet your target.
This becomes even more worser if, as is often the case, you set tight time deadlines to achieve the quota.
Simple example.
Assume you employ 1,000 people in a particular discipline and the employment profile is completely in line with the available population of candidates, at 60:40 male:female, and you have a turnover of 10% per annum (spread proportionately across the remaining two genders).
You are set a goal of 50:50 by end 2026.
So, 100 people leave over the next year (40 women, 60 men). You are left with 360 women and 540 men. All 100 vacancies for 2025 are filled by women. You are now at 460 women and 540 men.
Another 100 leave in 2026, again proportionately (46 women and 54 men), leaving you with 414 women and 486 men before recruitment. You recruit 14 men and 86 women and achieve you 50:50 target.
Over the space of two years you have recruited 186 women (93%) and 14 men against a 40:60 general workforce composition.
And that is what a Chief Peoples and Kulture Officer would call “a modest target”.
It’s not only whites who lose out in the US. Immigrants from the Confucian societies of East Asia, who outperform white Americans in school and academic aptitude tests, are also passed over.
A friend who once taught in a Canadian university said she once had a deputation of white Canadian students of the flower power generation complain about East Asian students getting higher marks than they did. Her reply? ‘You work as hard as they do and you’ll get better marks too!’
LOL. Just saw a banner Headline/Lowline for ‘UpGrade Albo’ on the Sky News Now TV screen – ‘Australia is not involved in the USA/Russia Ukraine talks’ says Albo…………
What a nonsensical thing to even think of commenting on, What a Pompous Windbag this piece of shite is.
Just fcking wow! Get a load of this threat.
@shellenberger
Let them, track them, arrest and try for treason. Hang them. Simple.
FFS they are carrying on like petulant school children. Anyone would think job for life was written in the contract.
Dry your eyes princesses.
US would have an official secrets so they better be careful, Trump & his team is not in a mood to forgive transgressions.
Islamist Pact With Starmer’s Labour to Destroy the UK – Dave Rubin
Very simple.
These people are very fond of hanging on to their security clearances after they leave office (not for any contribution to national security but simply so they can pursue a media career and … just because).
Anyway, with or without ongoing clearances they are bound for life by those secrecy provisions.
I had a clearance for a few years way back when and it was drummed into you that it was a “to the grave” obligation. You should see the form they make you sign when you leave.
The Mother of all NDAs.
So.
What to do?
Federal Death Penalty would be the first thing on the table I would think.
I’m surprised the lot weren’t escorted out and locked out until any investigation was complete. They’ve had plenty of time to cover their tracks.
Unless, of course, every keystroke has been captured and replicated…elsewhere.
As for security clearances, getting the highest ones these days is a product of having your entire family in the swamp – the checks they do are so intrusive normal people wouldn’t want their families subjected to it.
Isn’t it about time we renamed the T.V. Logie Awards to finally acknowledge the indigenous Australian contribution to the development of broadcast television? (Don’t get me started on a certain network which ripped off lyrics from the revered indig. footy chant ‘There’s a Bear in There’).
Muddy, you’ve been in top form lately.
Awww, thanks Delta. Right back atcha!
I don’t think this has been posted. Ben Shapiro at CPAC. Only 10 minutes and pretty good.
Ben Shapiro: This ‘Is Why President Trump Wins So Often’
Medicare fraud too?
And Comer never mentioned it?
By popular demand and given Elon is a space nerd, cute owls with a rocket theme:
Cute owl.
That’s incredibly cute!
Further cute owl with space theme, retro:
Cute owl hiding.
Final cute owl with space theme, punk:
Cute owl kissie kissie.
There’s one with less clothing and various tentacles.
Donald Trump was in an SNL skit some years back. It’s quite funny.
https://x.com/InternetH0F/status/1893903773023539591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1893903773023539591%7Ctwgr%5E0ce9bca7f3fdfe186d48f415e5bb6b0a1d5778a9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Epstein list, tick, Kennedy Assassination, Tick.
How about that dodgy computer-generated birth certificate of Obamas?
That’s one that’s on my big list.
Senator Thorpe, who earns a base salary of $233,660, told the symposium how much she hates going to work in Parliament House.
“It is a very violent workplace that I have to go to, every parliament sitting,’’ she said.
“I hate going there, I hate dealing with the people I’ve got to deal with, but I have to do it for my people and for all our ancestors that are watching down on us.’’
Don’t let the door hit you, where nature split you, on the way out.
She is so fake.
As much as politicans need no sympathy, imagine having to look upon hidious all day during sitting.
You would earn every cracker of that 200,000 quid.
She is so noble and self-sacrificing.
She should try living in outback communities.
They have nothing but the greatest of respect for women. (/sarc off)
Dear God.
Did she piss her laughing afterwards?
Beyond parody.
Hmm site seems to hate the sky news twatter link..
this is from them.
Albo has skipped knitting the kangaroo and is instead going to breakdance the marsupial.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lined up alongside controversial Olympic breakdancer Raygun for an annual charity cricket match, as horror polling predicts an election nightmare for the government.
When a turd meets a turd, flushing though the rye.
I don’t reckon the Liars will get to repeat that fateful Trumble line “Thirty Newspolls in a row. Thirty!”
Of course, when he racked up a similar number, we pivoted to “There’s only one poll that matters.”
Not controversial at all. It was unmitagated crap. Goes to show the complete unawareness Luigi has, to been seen with such a disaster.
Both have similar rankings in their fields.
So what’s the outlook in this situation? Does manufacturing simply return to national entities?
Can anyone point me to proper analysis that leads to a reasonable conclusion that we will have a Liars minority government?
I mean, I know their ABC and the likes of Clennell are salivating over the prospect of the Greens dictating terms.
But apart from wishful thinking, what logic is there behind the assertion?
I mean, it looks like the 2PP is somewhere between 52:48 and 55:45.
Anywhere in that territory is a disaster for Luigi.
The likes of everyone on Daytime Sky are at least Labor supporters, which means they are easily nudged into approval of a coalition/arrangement with Greens. Gillard did it, and we heard no screams from their media co-travellers.
There is no logic in politics.
It looks like European peacekeeping troops will be installed in Ukraine in the early does of restoring peace. Putin is in agreement. And why could this not have happened a long time ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbNWoKa9dfs
Sky News just spelt Vegas as Vagas!
They are vague as …
Corrected on the run!
The good news is Marina’s hemlines are back to normal.
Ask Grok what a term of art is. Now, I understand why you want to avoid the fact that China outproduces the US in certain key areas but there is no way getting around these facts by reference to efficiency. It’s just a diversion.
This is hilarious. Amazing how you just stopped all this shipping. If only it was this easy curtailing Russia’s oil exports. Also amazing that it must be carried in lorries in individual 5-litre cans and not via pipelines or rail. Nothing worse when you get to the servo and the delivery of fuel into the storage tanks is being dispensed by individual 5-litre cans. Oh the humanity.
No, telling you you mistook the argument of the article with your first response is not ‘defending the article’, it is criticizing your reading.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lined up alongside controversial Olympic breakdancer Raygun
Zero judgement – the gift that keeps on giving. What a loser -a few of his biggies. TheVoice, 3000 Gazans, $275 power bill reduction lie.
Now Raygun. What do they say “birds of a feather flock together”.
However the daddy of them all ‘ loser’ , coming up by May!
This turd has absolutely no instinct on how to behave. I am beginning to believe he is in the early stages of the “Biden Brain Breaker”.
“Let’s go Brandon”
That’s it.
I know I’m sometimes a bit confused by social cues etc, but I’m a frigging social genius compared to the Albanese.
Chalk up another one. Via DM & ABC:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14431901/Anthony-Albanese-claims-immigration-not-real-cause-Australias-housing-crisis-reveals-theory.html
Keep digging Albo, keep digging…
The word you’re looking for is Tories, but you’ve never found one. Probably disguised as Grampian Nasties.
Makes perfect sense!
LOL.
You forgot the St Valentine’s Day massacre.
Whole suburbs projectile vomited as the sweethearts gazed into… Bluuurch.
hahahahah, love it!!!
Perhaps she’s attempting to appear as some ambivalent centrist but this just comes off as being a sh!t-stirrer. Especially as she so far has not explained any further.
Is it an analogy? They’re both bloodthirsty implacable monomaniacs?
That the West is better served by Ukraine & Israel?
Or perhaps the comment is best dismissed as a brainfart.
Yeah, I’d just wait and see on that.
It might suit Putler to have a scarecrow of EU troops there to prevent payback or tit for tat ongoing warfare?
Why not UN Troops. They were excellent in Southern Lebanon……………lol.
Meg O’Neill of Woodside demonstrates understatement.
“Russian gas virtually disappeared overnight.”
Tonight, “Australia’s Submarine Gamble” at 7.30 on Sky.
Not “gambit”?
Looks a lot better to me than the 1980s Kockup version where we bought a Swedish design and built it here, and later called it the Collins Class.
Today’s Oz:
Virgin pilot relayed warning on Chinese live fire drill after it started
Ben Packham
1 hours ago. Updated 32 minutes ago
Australian officials only learned of a live weapons drill by Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea after a Virgin Airlines pilot relayed a radio warning he’d received 30 minutes after the exercise began.
Aviation officials told a Senate estimates hearing on Monday night that almost 50 planes were forced to change their flight plans as a result of the exercise on Friday.
Airservices Australia chief executive Rob Sharp said the air traffic authority became aware of the danger to aircraft at 9.58am Friday (AEDT) after the Virgin pilot passed on the warning he had received while in the air.
“It was in fact a Virgin Australia aircraft that advised one of our air traffic controllers that a foreign warship was broadcasting that they were conducting live firing 300 nautical miles east off our coast,” Mr Sharp said.
“At 10am our air traffic control commenced what we call a ‘hazard alert’ which basically alerts all flights in the area that there’s a hazard, so that was done within two minutes.”
The revelation flies in the face of Beijing’s claims that the ships issued repeated safety warnings ahead of the drill, 640km off Australia’s east coast.
The agency’s deputy chief executive, Peter Curran, told the hearing that the Virgin pilot monitored radio transmissions directly from one of the Chinese warships on a frequency that was not monitored by air traffic controllers.
“We can’t hear what was said, so the pilot of the Virgin aircraft heard what was said from the Chinese vessel, relayed that back to air traffic control (who) then passed that through our system and started giving hazard alerting to all aircraft on the frequency,” Mr Curran said.
He said Airservices Australia contacted Defence’s Joint Operations Command just after 10am to advise of the situation, without knowing “whether it was a potential hoax or real”.
Mr Curran said 49 flights were diverted on Friday as a result of the exercise. It’s not known how many flights had to change course on Saturday as the warships conducted a second day of live-fire drills.
Anthony Albanese sidestepped a question on Tuesday on whether he was concerned Defence learned about the drills from a commercial airline pilot.
“The Australian Defence was certainly aware, and I’ve spoken with the Chief of the Defence Force about what has occurred. Australia has had frigates both monitoring by sea and by air of the presence in the region of these Chinese vessels,” the Prime Minister said.
The Albanese government lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing over the drills, complaining at the lack of advance notice provided by the ships.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said the Australian Defence Force would typically give 12 to 24 hours’ notice ahead of such drills, while Defence sources said they often gave 48 hours’ notice.
A New Zealand frigate was shadowing the Chinese ships on Friday when it observed one of the ships deploy a floating target and the ships move into a firing-drill formation. The target was recovered a short time later, and it was unclear whether any live rounds were fired.
Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Sunday that the People’s Liberation Army had issued repeated safety alerts ahead of the drills and that his country was “strongly dissatisfied” with Australia’s response.
“China’s actions are in full compliance with international law and international practices, and will not affect aviation flight safety,” Mr Wu said.
“Australia, knowing this well, made unreasonable accusations against China and deliberately hyped it up. We are deeply surprised and strongly dissatisfied with this.”
*******
Anthony Albanese sidestepped a question on Tuesday on whether he was concerned Defence learned about the drills from a commercial airline pilot.
Of course he did.
Obviously P8’s weren’t on station as they are chock a block full of electronic gear, so who was watching the Chinese ships then?
One for the opposition to pursue.
The NZ Frigate HMNZ Te Kaha didn’t sound the alarm? Why? Another stuff up the Kiwi Navy?
My thoughts too, RD.
Something doesn’t sound right.
If we were monitoring the ships we would have been listening to their comms.
Likely encrypted.
They have a frigate? I’m surprised.
Check Wikipedia for current status of NZ navy, one frigate available everything else laid up or under maintenance,
Or sunk
Later seen with Aldi bag full up with this weeks specials.
RD and Roger, this pic is part of the article as well and if true, more questions:
Kudos to the Virgin pilot who had the channel open to pick up the Chinese warning. Be interesting to know how the Chinks broadcast it or if they somehow determined what freq the Virgin plane had open.
Apparently there is a air navigation hazard channel which is always monitored, the zone warning was first picked up on that.
Then a Singapore air flight got a direct “this is a live fire area” transmission not long after.
According to their ABCcess the air warning/ navigation side of things ran extremely smoothly with various alerts and warnings sent out within 10 minutes and defense told of the issue within about the same timeframe.
121.5 aka “Guard”
Rockdoctor
February 25, 2025 5:12 pm
Reply to Beertruk
Obviously P8’s weren’t on station
Because RAAFies are only available Mondays and Fridays between 08:00 -16:00 only. Sometimes only to 13:30 some Fridays due to early knockoff. Service not available weekends and public holidays. 😉
Chuckle, dad always said something like that. Civi’s in uniform was another one I heard too.
Had some fighters visit Garbutt this morning, think it was the Super Hornets as the made an almighty racket on their take off roll and did a north turn flaying close to the coast near where I am 15km north of the airport.
You’re forgetting sports days and parades.
Rarely Airborne After Four.
“The Australian Defence was certainly aware, and I’ve spoken with the Chief of the Defence Force about what has occurred. Australia has had frigates both monitoring by sea and by air of the presence in the region of these Chinese vessels,” the Prime Minister said.
Hmmmmmmm, I never knew that an Australian Frigate could monitor by air.
How high were they flying?
They were Flying High.
Shirley not. Don’t call me Shirley.
Oh, joy!
Kenny having a go at the NT Chief Minister for not doing a WTC.
Special people being bombed and need to be mentioned for being special.
Hot tip to Mr. Kenny – we are all equal in death.
He hasn’t quite got over da Voice going down like a … [Snip. Please. Can we keep the crudity out of it. Dover]
Sancho got in trouble! Sancho got in trouble! 😀
Why was my comment the other day disappeared?
Seven other speakers did a welcome to country – the Larrikia people are getting butt hurt because one speaker chose to acknowledge the veterans.
I understand the Japanese never seriously planned an invasion of Australia, but how would the Larrikia have fared, if the Nipponese had decided on an invasion?
Rarakia-zoku no dento-tekina tochi e yokoso
Please translate. You have broken google.
calli, it’s a WTC in Nihongo.
Ahhhhh….sooooo.
The ABC was gushing a few weeks ago about this ‘ancient’ ceremony – ancient as in invented by Ernie Dingo in the 70s.
I like Ernie, by the way. He’s quite open about it.
Bungonia Bee
February 25, 2025 5:00 pm
Tonight, “Australia’s Submarine Gamble” at 7.30 on Sky.
Not “gambit”?
Looks a lot better to me than the 1980s Kockup version where we bought a Swedish design and built it here, and later called it the Collins Class.
If you throw enough money at something, eventually you can make somethings work:
Australian Sub defeats US Navy in exercise
Reflecting on that, the more I think it was probably contrived to try and generate at least a perception of capability – the yanks had been helping fix the problems with Collins for a while by that stage.
Whole suburbs projectile vomited as the sweethearts gazed into
Did someone just ask for more Albotross romance novelisation??
https://literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award
“Albo moaned as a bulge formed beneath the material of his kimono, a bulge that Jodie seized, kneaded, massaged, squashed and crushed. With the fondling, Albos penis and testicles became one single mound that rolled around beneath the grip of her hand. Jodie felt as though she was manipulating a small monkey that was curling up its paws.”
…
“Jodie was burning hot and the heat was in him. Albo looked down on her perfect black slenderness. Jodies eyes were ravenous. Like Albos own they were fire and desire. More than torries, more than tropical: they two were riding the Equator. They embraced as if with violent holding they could weld the two of them one.
The things I do to satisfy you people…
You are horrid!
Dover, please ban Mole. Naughty Corner immediately!
Dover, it’s unanimous!
Pogria declaring ‘Unanimous’ 😉 :
https://tenor.com/view/and-i-am-unanimous-in-that-are-you-being-served-mrs-slocombe-british-comedy-1970s-british-comedy-gif-23872518
Dover, mole’s comment was worse than anything Sancho would have written.
Ban him, PLEASE! Lol.
Seriously mole, anymore of that, and I will become anorexic. yeeuuurggh
I am a river to my people…
Sweet dreams of monkey bits everyone…
I understand the Japanese never seriously planned an invasion of Australia, but how would the Larrikia have fared, if the Nipponese had decided on an invasion?
If the Japs had won, us whites would be slaves and Japanese tourists would be coming here for aboriginal hunting safaris.
Several years ago, a far-left Aboriginal activist (whose name eludes me) bemoaned that Japan didn’t successfully invade Australia during WWII, as Aborigines would have supposedly benefited.
Especially given how the Japanese treated fellow Asians I think he was talking utter moonshine.
They would have been pressganged into a slave labour force and treated as badly as the P O Ws on the Burma Railway – or worse – is my prediction.
Looks a lot better to me than the 1980s Kockup version where we bought a Swedish design and built it here, and later called it the Collins Class.
We bought the Swedish design because the ALP liked their industrial relations better instead of the U-boats from the Germans with a record of millions of tonnes of shipping sunk.
The Israelis buy U boats…
That’s because they’re not stupid.
Performance is the only thing that matters.
I understand the Japanese never seriously planned an invasion of Australia, but how would the Larrikia have fared, if the Nipponese had decided on an invasion?
I really like The Five where Watters and Gutfeld and the conservative ladies tear the resident demorat, tarlov, to little slimy bits. Tonight the topic was Wisconsin’s brain dead governor, a white bloke, introducing new woke language to accommodate the trannies; so mum now becomes an inseminated person. Boy, they had fun with that.
Bit rude.
But all Dads therefore become “The Inseminators”. Great name for a boys all band.
‘…so mum now becomes an inseminated person.’
Demeaning and insulting.
And very misogynistic.
The Five should admit that Jessica and Harold have no credibility, having defended the Biden Puppetocracy for four years. The show would be much better without them.
Another ex teacha like Waltz
I think that’s Walz, pronounced “Bols”.
you are right- I just like to misspell the old creep’s name
Further to the WTC, a friend was at Central Synagogue last week for the anti-Semitism summit. She told me the only guest speaker who mouthed the shit that is WTC was the creepy kapo Mark Dreyfus.
He clearly doesn’t know Psalm 24:1.
Maybe he needs to go back to Saturday School (as my Jewish schoolmates used to describe it). 🙂
What is WTC?
Welcome To Country.
welcome to country.
Oh, thanks, OSC, Pogria.
Slaps head.
Lee,
it threw me for a moment.
I immediately think World Trade Centre. 😀
I googled it and the first thing that came up was World Trade Centre!
I knew it couldn’t be that.
I love Tim Blair.
ditto.
Have to agree, I count him as a friend.
Same same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1pPI2VLtQ
Seven speakers acknowledged the Larrikia people…one didn’t, and they get all butt hurt and whiny!
Tom, I believe somebody at Fox commented that they are losing too many of their contributors to Trump’s admin.
“Oh, please excuse me!” said the bunny. “I didn’t mean to trip over you, but I’m blind and couldn’t see you there.”
“That’s perfectly all right,” replied the snake. “It was MY fault. I didn’t mean to trip you, but I’m blind too, and I didn’t see you coming. By the way, what kind of animal are you?”
“Well, I really don’t know,” said the bunny. “Since I’m blind, I’ve never seen myself. Perhaps you could examine me and then we’ll both know?”
So the snake felt the bunny all over and said, “Well, you’re soft and cuddly; you have long silky ears, a fluffy little tail, and a twitchy little nose… you must be a bunny rabbit!”
The little blind bunny was so pleased with this that he danced with joy.
The bunny said, “I can’t thank you enough. What kind of animal are you, sir?”
The snake said he didn’t know, for the same reason.
The bunny agreed to examine him, and when he finished the snake asked, “So, what kind of animal am I?”
The bunny said, “You’re hard, you’re cold, you’re slimy, and you haven’t got any balls. You must be a lawyer.”
Latham shows a little moving graph showing how people spent their time as changed from 1930 to 2024; no surprises:
(5) Facebook
Does not surprise me.
Mrs Beertruk, our two boys and I had family games nights.
Family game nights are the best.
WATCH: Starmer’s ‘STASI’ intimidate GRANNY in her own HOME for tweet criticising Labour: ‘SINISTER!’
There’s no excuse for this. It is deliberate intimidation of a citizen by a Fascist Government.
If anyone on the left excused this, I would ask him one simple question, “How would you feel if Trump did this?”
Earlier, and apropos of the American ladeeee robbed of her passport, wallet etc in Alice Springs:
That ‘licensed premises’ would be Lasseter’s Casino.
Did the American lady get a Welcome to Country?
Sort of.
And a taste of the local culture.
I understand the Japanese never seriously planned an invasion of Australia, but how would the Larrikia have fared, if the Nipponese had decided on an invasion?
Odd really.
A lot of the aboriginals on the mainland that could be found were evacuated south to areas around Katherine etc before the Japanese arrived.
One exception was the Tiwi islanders, who refused. One of them actually captured the first Japanese POW taken on the Oz mainland in the war, a Zero pilot shot down on 19 February 1942.
Not sure therefore why it’s the Larrakia tribe who get mentioned so much.
Incidentally a lot of the Tiwi stepped forward to be evacuated once they found they were in a direct line of flight under the frequent air raids that came in over the next two years.
Did they eat him, TE?
Only at first…
Re the Thorpe-child’s demands:
We ALREADY pay rent AND reparations via our taxes that fund numerous programs (subsidised and free) that provide one very small sector of the population with additional privileges that are denied to others, based SOLELY on real or perceived ancestry.
Indigenous people (or at least their so-called ‘leaders’) ALSO receive rent and reparations from commercial activities on ‘their’ land, such as mining. NONE of the technology or added value to the unimproved land has been created by indigenous Australians.
We PAY and PAY and Pay (at numerous levels, not only financially, but via the institutionalised psychological and cultural abuse of non-indigs who, through no choice of their own, were born from filthy, violent, monstrous ‘others’.
The hideous beasts whose ancestors lay the groundwork for everything the indigenous now use, abuse and milk, are regarded as pets on chains, to kicked and spat at.
What effing planet am I existing on now, and how the firetruck did I get here?
Don’t stress, Muddy one.
It is all a performance by the 1/16 Senator for dna based public policy aimed at the small group of people who may vote for her, or who may gift her a dna based job once she is out of the Senate. Her noise and ridiculous posturing – policy it is not – is of no relevance to and has no persuasive value for the other 90% of the population.
Watching Blot, my concern is not Fatso Payman attending the pro-Iranian women’s conference, it’s the fact that one of Pretty Boy Minns’ ministers gave a talk at that same event, something she’s now furiously trying to distance herself from.
NSW Minister for Women Jodie Harrison commended the event as important in combating “stereotypes”, before admitting her involvement was “ill considered”.
In a recorded message played at the event, Ms Harrison said raising awareness on any stereotypes that might exist in Australia was “vital”, adding that the event was important in challenging perceptions about how women in Iran were treated.
“This event, that aims to challenge and reshape the stereotypes and perceptions about Iranian women, to create space for more authentic, diverse, and under-represented perspectives from these women, is commendable,” Ms Harrison said.
“Any stereotype, gender, based on a country someone is from, or other
qualities – is unhelpful and indeed damaging to our pursuit of equality.
“Raising awareness of this is vital to counter stereotypes that might exist.”
But late on Monday night, Ms Harrison sought to distance herself from the event, telling The Australian she did not share the views of the panellists and regretted her involvement.
“I have heard the concerns raised and sincerely apologise for my participation in this event, for the message it sent which is incongruent with the view of myself and of the NSW government, and the distress I know it has caused for many,” Ms Harrison said.
“I do not share the views expressed by the panellists at this event.
“The decision to provide a video message was ill-considered and I should not have provided a video message for the event.”
So, why did Joke Harrison agree to speak at the event?
She is either a dumb, fuking bitch or a muzzie plant.
Can’t rule out being set up by her own people “here Jodie, this would be a great opportunity to lift the parties profile with our friends in western Sydney, you should record a video or something…”
The Germans are endlessly entertaining.
Mers with his minor margin and impossibly unstable coalition is going to mobilise Europe against the US.
Yep. That will do it. A couple of hundred million Europeans are sure to happily destroy their most important financial and cultural relationship because an out of touch Merkelesque Kraut is feeling all bossy.
He must be being advised by the Democrats.
But keep going mate. It all helps to destroy the EU.
Another effete eurotrash twot.
He’d miss the money the Yanks pour into Rammstein if they pulled out.
a Flog for sure, but I reckon they also hate the fact Starmer is attempting to take a ‘leadership’ role from outside the EU machine.
I’ve noted many times previously my interest in genuine indigenous history and remnant culture, and I have an empathy for those in remote areas who feel stuck and abused by all, including their own.
However, these malign effigies that pose as ‘leaders’ are simply squatting on the spirits of who I can only guess were (historically) ordinary people doing the best they could with what they had.
I imagine – perhaps naively – that if one of their claimed ancestors from, say, 500 years ago, could briefly return and see what their lineage has become, the squatting defilers would be stoned to unconsciousness at the very least.
But then narcissists are incapable of feeling shame or guilt, so they wouldn’t care.
What a disgrace.
Several gazillion upticks, Muddy.
… and from me.
The so called “ leaders “ would probably have been speared by their 1/16 forebears had they met 200 plus years back.
The modern “ leaders” are often women, not a thing in the contemplation of most tribes.
Very few of the male “ leaders” know the lore and the law, and have not been scarred and initiated.
Most modern “ leaders “can’t speak the language of their forbears.
It would not end well – the new “ leaders” would not get through a welcome to country before their 1/16 forebears would be eating their kidney fat.
Horrible, but that is how it was.
That fat mop headed imbecile and mincing marles on Sky blathering on about awkus and no doubt other subjects they know absolutely nothing about (which would be just about everything except being professional parasites).
Yeah, no. TV off.
I’ve turned it off too, I will not watch Blob Johnson, he’s an effing disgrace. Squandered a huge majority and did sweet fck all!
Oh blowjob? How ghastly.
Thank you.
Recorded it just in case but will now not waste my time.
In the meantime, they’re going after grandmas over facebook posts.
@robinmonotti
We may not be able to make Starmer stand down before 2029, but he has already lost at a cultural level. Everything he is doing has already failed. Everybody knows it but him and his incompetent cabinet. He is a Soros dinosaur in a post Soros world. Extinction beckons.
Of course, NADT.
Just a prediction, natch.
Votes.
What they haven’t yet cottoned on to, being quite thick, is that the closer they align themselves to the Muslim vote the more they alienate the non-Muslim ethnic vote in their “heartland.”
Labor have probably lost more votes with their pandering to the anti-Semite/pro-Paly mob than they would have gained.
Tony Burka’s unprecedented voter recruiting stunt the other day would also have pissed off many voters Labor can ill afford to lose.
I’m still disgusted at that Evatt/Jackson chauffeur driven piss up. What did the chauffeur do when the ‘ladies’ partook?
But remember she made public transport in NSW ‘exciting’. They live in another world. Socialist left too but some socialists are more equal than others.
Some years ago a feral offed a homeless guy on the Ncl-Syd train. Plod then spent several months patrolling said train, during which I got inspected at 7am one time. I passed.
I do not regard NSW public transport as exciting, although in another sense I probably should.
Yes homeless use those interurbans as accommodation – shocking really. Not the Newcastle Flyer anymore with refreshments at your seat.
‘Always was, always will be …’ is not at all the same as ‘Go back to where you came from’ is it?
It’s so NSW ALP. Inside the tart shop.
Just checked Harrison’s bio.
It doesn’t mention any employment outside the ALP/Union movement bubble.
A product of the Labor sausage machine who can’t think for herself and thus deals out pablum like this, “Any stereotype, gender, based on a country someone is from, or other qualities – is unhelpful and indeed damaging to our pursuit of equality. “Raising awareness of this is vital to counter stereotypes that might exist” as though it were the bread of life.
Sounds like one of my high skool teachas in the 70s.
Speaking of the 70s- The History Man is on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__PD7Fa_EKs
The History Man Ep 1 of 4 – starring Antony Sher – Malcolm Bradbury novel – BBC2, 1981.
Hairy and I attended the funeral yesterday of an old friend of ours who had a sudden heart attack whilest driving and passed away. She was a Chinese lady married to an Australian pilot. They have been friends of ours for over twenty years, and we’ve seen them through many trials with teenage children, and they for us too.
Nothing matters all that much, and if you can, be generous and if not, then at least be kind. This friend loved her family as a true homebody mum, and cooked Chinese food for her very Australian children. Christmas wouldn’t have been Christmas without a bowl of fried rice on the table, said her son through his tears.
New chancellor Friedrich Merz is their perfect pick.
??Ex Chairman of Blackrock Germany
??Dedicated to deeper EU integration
??member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees
?? regular atendee WEF in Davos
??attended Bilderberg Group meetings… pic.twitter.com/kkG3hPwTfw
— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) February 24, 2025
Jisus! Wansee conference.
I heard someone refer to his party as “conservative” today.
Sorry, anyone affiliated with the unelected, unaccountable, undemocratic WEF or EU is no conservative IMO.
That is your gold standard Atlanticist.
lawyer too
Just how outrageously cool are the Israelies
Punching jets over the UN’s funeral for the four decade murdering terrorist.
The IDF should have sonic boomed it.
That would have been epic.
Cluster bombs would have been even more epic.
I don’t go to funerals anymore.
The undertaker’s staff keep giving me business cards.
I had to give a speech at one once.
I was so overwhelmed with grief all I could do was utter the word “bargain”.
I felt terrible but the family told me it meant a great deal.
Just got a message from a +91 phone number saying I had unpaid tolls.
In India?
I don’t think so.
I used to get text messages telling me I had unpaid tolls.
The only problem is I have never driven on a tollway in my life and avoid them like the plague.
I think they eventually gave up on trying to con me.
I blocked and reported the number without clicking on the message.
Scammers really annoy me.
Not as much as islamic terrorists though.
I’ve been getting emails telling me they’ve kidnapped my joy for life and demanding a ransom for its return. I replied and told them to bugger off as there’s no way I’m paying $2.50 plus GST for something I haven’t used in ten years.
Bollocks.
Have a bad day JH?
BOLLOCKS!!!!
Be a Buddhist, then you can come back as a frog or something similar.
“He has an aspiration towards loving kindness, with which no honoured position can compare.”
Dogen recomendation letter.
Do you know anything about Buddhism?
Who is this person to dictate to others how they should choose to live their life? Who made him the Great Wise One who knows how everyone should live? If you endorse comments like that you are just another jumped up moralist who thinks everyone should submit to the same imperative.
How do you know he isn’t?
The principle should be obvious to classical liberals. There is no universal imperative. Each of us must find our own way and those who seek to dictate to us, like self help nuts, gurus, religions, philosophers, psychologists, and influencers, are imposing a freedom restriction on the life choices available to us.
… he said while moralising
M.T falisfies I.D.
Dude created the largest private airforce in the world, I think he knows what ‘living the dream’ is frankly…
Good essay by Moran on ruinables and other aspects of global boiling. His chart showing how much we subsidise these shit things is outstanding and really annoying:
Econocide: green subsidies are hastening our energy demise
I don’t understand how this keeps coming up. If the japs did not “seriously plan” an invasion, why print so much invasion currency? In such quantities that we kids traded it in the playground after our Dads brought it back from the War? Sounds like part of a serious plan to me, although I believe that the Japanese High Command had divisions on this: the Army said they did not have the manpower to hold any significant portion of the continent, and the Navy wanted the magnificent Port Jackson harbor.
If they weren’t going to invade it kind of makes you wonder what the excursion into New Guinea was all about.
The Japanese wanted the airfield at Port Moresby to secure the southern limit of their advance, and an attempt to seize Port Moresby by sea had been defeated at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
In short, they took Rabaul because it was both a naval and air base (if we had had the units available! The Americans didn’t want it pre-war) within striking distance of Truk Atoll, a significant staging anchorage in the Pacific.
The Japanese occupied Tulagi in the southern Solomons because the Australian RAAF staged Catalina flying boats there. They then saw the potential of Guadalcanal.
Lae and Salamaua in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea were occupied to prevent the Allies from using their airfields, which were within striking distance of Rabaul.
Moresby would have been a decent harbour from which to patrol the Solomon Sea and the Torres Strait (thus providing early warning for Rabaul).
Etc. etc.
(Yes, they had tentatively planned to occupy New Caledonia and several other locations, to cut the sea lanes between the U.S. and Australia (making it more difficult for the U.S. to use northern Australia as a base to push north and recapture the Philippines, etc. Japan would not have had the naval or air resources to maintain this semi-blockade however).
Indeed Sancho.
My father is still there somewhere. “Missing presumed dead”.
2/14th Battalion AIF
“why print so much invasion currency”
The Japanese printed vast amounts of invasion currency – it was almost worthless – for each of the countries they invaded during World War Two – I’ve seen samples of the currency printed for use in Malaya, and the guilders printed for use in what is now Indonesia.They printed pound and ten shilling notes for use in New Guinea, and the British island colonies in the Pacific they had occupied.
The Japanese Army had calculated they would need between nine and twelve divisions – about a quarter of their whole order of battle, which would have to be withdrawn from the war in China – to occupy Australia, and about 3/4 of a million tonnes of merchant shipping, to transport and supply such a force. This would have to be redeployed from it’s primary mission of transporting raw materials from the newly conquered territories to Japan – bearing in mind this was Japan’s primary war aim, in the first place.
‘Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics’
I understand that sometimes the ‘invasion money’ was used to pay for indig labour or goods (food items) in Papua and New Guinea, and the NEI.
The logistic difficulties alone would have killed them. They struggled to maintain even relatively small forces in New Guinea and Guadalcanal. They were a LONG way from home and the seas were increasingly full of US submarines.
Scammers really annoy me.
Agree.
Not as much as islamic terrorists though.
Scammers want to take our money, Islamic terrorists want to take our heads!
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.
Be careful.
This is the same premise used by the left to attack the Second Amendment. That is, that it had a specific intent when the defence of the nation depended upon a citizens militia and small arms. They argue that it has outlived it’s original intent.
If they weren’t going to invade it kind of makes you wonder what the excursion into New Guinea was all about.
The Japanese main aim in NG was to separate the USA from Australia. America needed to use Oz as a base.- it’s about 40% less of the distance to the Home Islands.
If the Japanese can run their submarines and aircraft out of NG then they stand a good chance of making it so expensive for the Americans to get to Australia that a) the US gets discouraged and falls back, and b) the Aussies realise they are doomed and sue for peace.
If that happens then Japan can walk in and take all those resources and enslave the Australians.
Thanks for the essplanation.
Although you’d think that could have been achieved by just maintaining a defendable foothold on the NG north coast.
Terrible terrain and harbours, no airstrips.
As explained above, Rabaul was the key to all the islands in the SW Pacific area. It was so important to the Nips, that had 100k troops stationed there. As part of their doctrine, they needed to take Pt Moresby and Wewak to protect it.
Diogenes explains it further below, and I’ll add in Truk to that too. But holding Moresby gets you a lot closer to the target environment of the Australian east coast.
Certainly Australians living around Sydney Harbour felt the Japanese ambitions quite strongly. Subs entered and fired on ferries, and there was a rush to move to the Blue Mountains. Real estate values in Vaucluse and Point Piper plummeted.
That’s the story about panic anyway, I haven’t checked it up.
Live sheep export: Coalition grill Labor over failed $2.3 million social media campaignCaitlyn RintoulThe West Australian
Tue, 25 February 2025 5:00PM
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Caitlyn Rintoul
A Coalition senator has labelled a failed $2.3 million social media campaign for the Labor Government’s decision to phase out live sheep exports from WA as a “shocking waste of tax payer money”.
Adverts which were supposed to be targeted at sheep producing regions of WA mostly appeared in social media feeds in Victoria and New South Wales.
The Nationals senator Matthew Canavan slammed agriculture department officials in Senate Estimates on Tuesday, who seemingly didn’t realise the advert’s audience demographic data was publicly available.
“Clearly Minister, someone has dropped the ball. There’s not even any analysis done. This is clearly not in the best interest of Australian taxpayers,” Mr Canavan said.
“This money is being spent in parts of the country where the assistance packages are not going to be of any worth — I mean, we may as well be advertising in Tuvalu.”
Almost half of views for the phase out Facebook ad — which had over one million impressions — were in New South Wales, 19 per cent in Victoria and just 16 per cent in WA.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud accused Labor of using the ads in Melbourne and Sydney seats to “appease the animal activists” and prove that it was fulfilling its election commitment to phase out live sheep exports
Ek roll ap die vloor..
Someone should drag that gob Murray Watt in to explain. Wasn’t he the minister at the time?
He seems to be very vocal at the moment for an absolute mediocrity.
Empty vessel.
$2.30 per “impression”.
Per Facebook impression.
Ferking spendthrift inner-city trot wankers.
BTW, Keep The Sheep would have to go down in history as one of the most successful grass-roots campaigns ever fomented here… if the pricks get tossed out.
Depends on the actual target audience. I doubt a social media campaign would influence one WA sheep exporter.
but it would might persuade Tiffany in Melbourne or Sydney concerned about fluffy shawn the sheep to vote the right way.
Exactly the plan – the usual Liars approach, taxpayer funded “ information” which is actually party political advertising.
Trying to figure out how private police forces and courts might work.
We live in a time that just assumes that schools, courts and police forces should be a thing.
However, they are all relatively recent inventions.
Before there were schools, young ‘uns got taught what they needed to, and before Robert Peel, people looked after themselves, and the people who needed to be killed, generally got killed.
On the court side of things, independent courts could exist and offer themselves as arbiters of private contracts, taking care of the civil side of things, that being written into contracts.
As to criminal courts, if we weren’t imprisoning people for things that would better be financial penalties with local jails as a backstop, we would hardly need criminal courts at all. Sheriffs could be paid at a local level and be able to jail miscreants for short periods or until fines are paid or worked off, without expensive court cases. Anyone wanting to dispute could avail themselves of a local judge, but at their own cost.
Judges could be reserved mainly for capital cases.
Prisons therefore not required at all. As well as the death penalty sanctions could include exile, castration (for perverts) or outlaw status, where a person is no longer under the protection of the law.
Add in right to bear arms, strong self defence provisions, private security and busy local sheriffs jailing miscreants immediately, no bail laws and move along laws for bums, degenerates and youths, and everything would be quicker, cheaper for the average person, and better.
Locales that didn’t give a shit about law and order could be slack, and those that did could lock up pricks for littering or wearing pants without a belt.
In a society where the courts and politicians no longer consider it important to lock up offenders, returning the policing and penal functions to as close to the local level and as privatised as possible seems like a good bet.
A principle being that the law function should be as immediate as possible, and flow forth from the people, through direct election of sheriffs, rather than a function of the state.
Offenders are victims too!
Seriously.
The ‘justice’ in the Justice System is the RIGHT of those who have been FORCED into transgressing the rules of a deeply unequal society to receive another throw of the dice. And then another, and then …
The initial victims cease to exist once the offender/s has/have been identified. The victim label now applies to the initial offender.
The ‘Justice System’ is a make-work scheme, little more.
It’s one of the more interesting,but little known aspects of that whole campaign, that the head panjorum, General Douglas MacArthur, was sent to Australia with the mission purely of driving North – the “Official History of the Unites States Army” makes it plain that his mission was NOT the defense of Australia from invasion, and, if any part of the country had been occupied, he was not to devote troops and resources to recapturing any occupied territories.
That makes sense though. You have to go and attack the enemy’s centre of gravity – Berlin, or in this case Tokyo – and knock out the high command.
The irony being – and many will disagree with me on this – is that Australia SAVED MacArthur’s career.
I don’t want to simplify a debate that is more complex than is often acknowledged, and people tend to emotion rather than fact, but Australia contributed a lot more to the first 18 months of Gen. MacArthur’s tenure as SWPA supremo than is now acknowledged.
Could Australia have done it without the U.S. Air Force? No.
Could the U.S. have achieved what was achieved between March ’42 and Oct ’43 (in the SWPA) without Australia? No. (I include in the reasoning the vast amount of foodstuffs, munitions, and other equipment we provided via Reverse Lend Lease).
In my humble opinion, in this, the first 18 months of the South West Pacific Area, Gen. MacArthur did an adequate job. No more.
It was this 18 months, however, that allowed U.S forces in the SWPA to mature and begin the push further up the northern coast of New Guinea (incl. the western coast of New Britain), to Western New Guinea, the Halmaheras, etc.
I don’t know enough about the man’s career prior to 1942 and after 1943 to comment on those periods, but he owed a lot more to his reputation rebirth to Australia in 42-43 than he ever acknowledged at the time.
UK comedian/satirist Andrew Lawrence has just uploaded this, only in the last hour, on Blowjob Johnson…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzEv2jXQzHQ
Mr Lawrence nails Blob!
I’m shocked the bloke hasn’t been been thrown into a half-sunken, rat-infested hulk on the Thames yet.
Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYIojG707w
Basically about campaign donation limits and spending cap rules being rigged to favour the two-party system to exclusion of the minor parties and independents. All supported by the SFLs of course.
That’s been done by communists.
They may have a point but I wouldn’t trust anything they say.
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.
Also, if Musk is correct that the Singularity is nearing its event horizon and we cross into it, we could start measuring economic growth daily. The scale of that growth could be absolutely massive.
I don’t have much concrete evidence, but I’ve recently started to suspect that the Singularity might be approaching, given the US price-earnings ratio hitting a record 27 times earnings. This feels solid. Perhaps it’s an indicator.
Instead of seeing GDP growth reports every month etc, we could end with daily reports of “GDP up 3% yesterday”.
There’s some amazing stuff happening. Toyota is talking about producing batteries for EVs with perhaps up to 3 times the current range. As you know, I despise China, but BYD is talking about producing a car model costing 10 K. These are incredible leaps.
All this stuff is possible if we have peace. Trump is actually talking about making a proposal to China and Russia that they three reduce military spending by 50%. If he manages to pull this off, big if, the world could actually be entering the golden age. Hope.
Went to see Dylan this evening. Loved the movie.
Yeah, saw it the other day. Never knew that much about him, but interesting and an undeniable talent portrayed very well.
The gal who plays Joan Baez is really hot.
I’ve been overdosing on Dylan CDs in my car since I saw the movie three weeks ago.
Always been a favourite and that movie took me straight back to my teenage years.
PS. Old school, I know but the CD player is far more reliable than plugging my phone into the not so sporty Beemer and searching for a play list on Spotify.
My kids appropriated all my vinyl albums and only left about a dozen Dylan CDs. Never thought I’d dust them off again, but I’ve loved replacing ABCFM on various indigi countries with Dylan magic.
Our Sporty B doesn’t even have a CD player, you are supposed to be high tech young yuppies and fergedaboutit.
I purchased a small portable CD player for use in the car.
My sons all find it laughable but I don’t care.
I’ve only heard good reports. Might go and see it on the weekend.
Do Cass. It’s really good. Looking back, he’s incredibly gifted. I also really like the dude. A few years ago I watched an interview where the interviewer was trying to goad him into politics. Dylan wouldn’t have a bar of it and told the prick he was there to discuss music and not politics.
Also, he didn’t go to pick up his Nobel. I guess it clashed with other things he was busy doing.
He’s very reticent with his public speaking. He prefers singing or songwriting. Super smart man of mystery.
Did not treat his many women all that well, but hey, nobody’s perfect!
An excellent recreation of the period and its musical transition from folk to electric backing which swept up and enlarged Dylan’s unique talent. Go for the visual as well as the music, people really did look like that in the early 60’s and the cars too.
On cars, I was walking near our place and in a side street I noticed a … 1950’s Thunderbird. An original, a black one with tail fins and a soft top. It had been parked for a while, as there was leaf back up around it, and the chrome at the front was rusting, which was a crime, imho.
left hand drive, of couse.
John H.
Reply to Johnny Rotten
“He has an aspiration towards loving kindness, with which no honoured position can compare.”
Dogen recomendation letter.
Do you know anything about Buddhism?
Buddhism = Nihilism.
That’s why it’s so popular with Hollywood and cat-collecting spinsters.
The effect of this would be that manufacturing would be proportionate to the size of the population. That still holds well for China.
This constitutes another signal that the he knows and/ or is being told that US is a diminishing power and that its best to get in earlier to make a deal while they still have a good hand. If he is going for such a move it would very likely involve an agreement re Taiwan, about the Indian and Western Pacific esp. South China Sea, about US bases in Western Pacific near China, and so on, for the Chinese to consider it.
This would be the best move.
If you think Trump believes that the USA is now a diminishing power, then you have no understanding of him at all.
Hard to make sense of the proposal then.
He wants to spend the money more sensibly than on the military.
That still leaves you with a diminishing power. You don’t ask someone to spend less on their military when 20 years earlier you weren’t worried about their and your military spending because your economy was booming and you knew you could manage it and have sufficient money for other endeavors. It’s indicative of a fear that they may outspend you and that this will have consequences, geopolitically.
I love him so much but in a heterosexual way. He’s adorable.
No, manufacturing would be proportionate to the capital available to invest.
This is why it’s called capitalism.
Otherwise it would be called “whoever amasses the greatest number of slaves- ism”.
And if that were true, the South would have won the civil war, Ford wouldn’t have built the River Rouge plant, the American century would not have happened, and you and I would be conversing in Chinese or Russian in some piss smelling bar instead of using the internet.
So you can never overcapitalize?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
oooooh that’s brutal
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Todays Tele:
WHY IS OUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE A VIRGIN PILOT?
EXCLUSIVE
MATTHEW BENNS AND LACHLAN LEEMING
26 Feb 2025
A flotilla of three Chinese warships remains 296km east of Hobart as defence officials and federal government ministers scramble to explain how a Virgin Australia pilot was the first to warn they were live firing in the Tasman Sea.
Emergency Management Minister Jenny McAllister and defence officials will be grilled in Senate Estimates today and asked to explain why a Virgin pilot relaying a warning message from the three Chinese ships – 30 minutes after the exercise began – was the first anyone knew of it.
Coalition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie blasted Anthony Albanese over what he said was the Prime Minister’s “silence” on China.
“Now the Chinese warships have entered our exclusive economic zone off Tasmania,” Mr Hastie said.
“The message is direct and clear from the Chinese government and our Prime Minister is silent. Weakness is provocative – give an inch and they take a mile. This has been a test for the Prime Minister and he has failed to stand up for our national interest and insist on mutual respect.”
Defence experts yesterday warned the “blatant bullying” of Australia by China was also a test to see how the US, under new President Donald Trump, would respond to Beijing pushing around one of America’s strategic allies.
“The worrying thing is that we have not heard a peep from Washington DC,” Strategic Analysis Australia director Peter Jennings said.
He called on Mr Albanese to “get on the phone” to Mr Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping and stop being “a spectator” to events. “He is probably the one person who can make those calls,” Mr Jennings said.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison last night said China was seeking “absolute control” of the region.
He also said a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, set to patrol the Pacific under the AUKUS security pact, “can’t come fast enough”.
“AUKUS, from its outset, has been perceived as such a threat to China,” Mr Morrison told Sky News. “Nothing has rattled the Chinese government more in the last, I’d say, 20 years, or arguably longer.”
Mr Albanese appeared to contradict Defence Minister Richard Marles yesterday who had said the Chinese had given no warning of the live-fire exercises through official channels.
“The Australian Defence was certainly aware and I’ve spoken with the chief of the Defence Force about what has occurred,” Mr Albanese said.
But in Senate Estimates earlier, Airservices Australia’s chief executive Rob Sharp said the first warning came from a Virgin pilot just 250 nautical miles from the Chinese flotilla, who relayed the warning message 30 minutes after the live-fire exercise began.
“It was, in fact, Virgin Australia advising that a foreign warship was broadcasting that they were conducting live firing 300 nautical miles east of our coast,” Mr Sharp said.
“That was how we first found out about the issue.”
As a result, 49 aircraft, including several already in the air, were instructed to change their flight paths and the ADF was then informed.
Shadow transport spokeswoman Bridget McKenzie said it seemed the PM was unaware the Chinese had not followed the usual protocol giving 24 to 48 hours advance warning of a live-fire exercise.
“That a Virgin pilot is our first line of defence against Chinese gunboat diplomacy is concerning to say the least,” she said. “The swift response by an air traffic controller at Airservices Australia was also remarkable in informing our ADF. However, questions remain as to how this live-fire exercise could have commenced without any apparent knowledge of … the ADF.”
A Defence Force spokeswoman said it was aware Task Group 107 had advised of the live-firing activity by radio broadcast on Friday morning.
“The Australian government has raised its concern with the lack of notice on the live-fire activity from the Chinese government, including through appropriate channels,” she said.
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FUBAR.
Outsourcing defence to Virgin Airlines.
Too much stuff to highlight.
Another epic fail by the pullulating sore on this fair land known as canbra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIGndC1Mj8
Today’s Tele editorial:
ECHOES OF WAR OFF OUR COAST
History has a curious way of repeating itself.
These repetitions can sometimes come to be seen as warnings.
Or perhaps omens.
In one such example, we have the case of Cornelia Fort, who in 1941 was a flight instructor based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
On the morning of December 7, Fort and a student pilot were in the skies above Hawaii when the 22-year-old spotted an unusual aircraft coming towards them.
That aircraft happened to be a Japanese attack plane – part of a fleet of more than 350 fighters and bombers bound for Pearl Harbor, and the cataclysm that would cause the US to enter World War II.
Fast-forward 84 years and an Australian civilian aircraft has had its own alarming encounter with unfriendly forces.
It emerged yesterday that at least some Australian officials only learnt of a live weapons drill by Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea after an alert Virgin Airlines pilot relayed a radio warning he’d received from the Chinese military.
“It was in fact a Virgin Australia aircraft that advised one of our air traffic controllers that a foreign warship was broadcasting that they were conducting live firing 300 nautical miles east off our coast,” Airservices Australia CEO Rob Sharp told senate estimates.
Chinese military officials had earlier claimed that multiple warnings had been broadcast. But Chinese military officials claim a great many things. Believe them at your peril.
Back in 1941, of course, radar technology wasn’t anywhere near as advanced as it is today. It was quite understandable that a private aircraft could be among the first to properly identify approaching enemy aircraft.
But how is it that in 2025, with so much satellite and radar surveillance technology available to us, that our officials first learnt about China’s drills from a commercial airline pilot?
“The Australian Defence was certainly aware, and I’ve spoken with the Chief of the Defence Force about what has occurred,” lame-sounding PM Anthony Albanese said yesterday.
It’s great that civilians are stepping up – yet we certainly shouldn’t be relying on them.
Thought I would add the other bits as well:
SO EASY WHEN IT’S SOMEONE ELSE’S CASH
Back in 1983, the ABC changed its name from the Australian Broadcasting Commission to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Another change is now required.
Given the frequency with which the ABC throws our money away in legal battles and the extraordinary amounts involved – the role of the ABC should be updated from national broadcaster to something more fitting.
We suggest Sydney Lawyer Enrichment Project – with small TV and radio hobbies on the side.
PLEASE PUT POLICIES BEFORE PLAYTIME
It was all for a good cause, so on that level we can all applaud Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s charity cricket game yesterday at Kirribilli House.
The celebrity-studded event, which also featured Raygun, raised $20,000 for mental health charities Lifeline and Batyr.
As we observed, all for a good cause. So there’s that.
But there’s also the looming prospect of further sport-related political antics on display as this election year continues.
It may indeed be the case that purely policy-based political strategies are a little on the dull side. No colour. No movement.
Surely, however, the Australian electorate deserve something better than the usual election-year stunts and shenanigans.
If that something happens to be policy after policy after policy, we kind of think Australians might actually go for it.
And so might our politicians, who cannot possibly enjoy being shown up as athletically inept.
Speaking of which, we’ve all heard about Albo growing up with a single parent in council housing. It’s a core part of his story.
But now we also know that he obviously grew up without a cricket coach. His grip on power may be a little shaky, yet Albo’s batting grip is even worse.
And yet China has four militarised bases in the Antarctic on Australian soil (or ice) without a single protest.
Anal refuses to stand up to the Chinese Communists because he wants them to win any confrontation in the future.
Raygun?
Seriously, you can only play that ace once.
Not so much an Ace, more that odd extra card, with Cribbage rules printed on it, that nobody reads before chucking it away.
The Virgin pilot is probably going to be sacked for making Anal look even more useless.
Albosleazy sure can pick winners.
Raygun?
LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-RpegmSnAk
Absolutely criminal. Britain has gas reserves for hundreds of years but the government is sabotaging efforts to use them.
This is what a Socialist Government is doing – destroying the nation to enact their lunatic policies.
Hang on – I’ve got that arse about – they’re enacting lunatic policies so they can destroy Britain.
After all, they’re Communists and what else did the Brits expect when they voted them in?
France’s conservative media C8 shut down, accusations of censorship of a zelenskyish sort!
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/02/censorship-in-france/
About fcking time……..
Former Bankstown nurse charged by NSW Police over ‘kill Israelis’ video
Sydney nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh has been charged over an anti-Semitic video in which she and a male colleague allegedly threatened to kill Israeli patients and refuse them treatment.
My wife rarely swears. This morning, after hearing that scum nurse was charged, came “what about those effing imams preaching hate”. She was livid. I think she hadn’t realised she’d swore.
Terror nurse gets charged.
Bankstown nurse Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, charged over antisemitic video allegedly threatening harm or to ‘kill’ Israeli patients (Sky News, 26 Feb)
The guy hasn’t been arrested yet though.
“Strike Force Pearl detectives must be commended for acting swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation,”
The confessed murderer turned up at the station.
No, the jacks must not be this or that or anything, they are cowards and quislings.
But not hate speech with mandatory jail time, hmmm…
What were these laws for again?
As for the gin quaffer, no your detectives didn’t work swiftly, in fact I’ve seen quicker moving road/council workers.
What utter crap. Strike Force Pearl did nothing for over a week, refused to arrest the woman, and have yet to arrest the man, and only acted yesterday because the efforts to sweep the affair under the carpet have failed with tempers in the community reaching levels not seen before.
And we’ve got an election coming up.
Commissioner Karen needs to be sacked for her refusal to treat this pair with the same vigour that an Australian would have been.
Agreed as far as we know the woman’s house has not, still been raided. So the supposed might of the NSW Pol is nothing compared to a family of lebs.
Also, no custody or remand till a judge can determine whether she’s a danger to society or not to be bailed.
Now we have censorship laws not being used here but wait till someone like Thomas Sewell utters some extremist rubbish. Bet it doesn’t take weeks to raid and arrest him.
A very large raghead family lives in that mansion.
There will be NO raid as we all know.
Lots of square plastic bags, lots of rectangular boxes the size of a ciggie carton, lots of “hardware”.
No, there will be no raid, and the coppers and the ragheads know it.
Allegedly?….what bullshit.
Sydney nurse charged over alleged antisemitic video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerwEfhoK1k
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