No, no, no, no, no.
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I suspect that many of these “foreign aid” programs are actually laundering money to Democrats and their mates.
It was while the Virgin crew were watching.
…during…
Europe’s Political Elite Are COMPLETELY Finished | Aaron Bastani meets Philip Pilkington
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
I’ll pay that one. 🙂
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Long-term study reveals extreme heart health risks in steroid users
No shite Sherlock. Bodybuilding is the most dangerous sport, dropping dead in their 40s and 50s. Unfortunately most who use steroids don’t have a clue and do serious damage. Even worse now is with gym culture being all the rage, and those gym YT channels replete with unrealistic body sizes for most men, promote steroid use at younger ages. So this problem will get worse.
Is it a problem or Darwinism?
You know what they say about, ahem, “shrinkage”.
250lb bomb with a one inch fuse.
That’s not true, heavy androgynous use makes it bigger. It does shrink your testicles.
This strikes a chord.
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This video is a special tribute to the the magical maestro “VANGELIS” the most inteligent music composer and producer of the electronic music world history ever.
This track is one of all time my favorites and i decide to make a special videoclip to that.
I’ve decide to cut and mix it together some of “Jesus of Nazareth” classic movie scenes and give it
a touch of synchronization with this marvilous song and a touch of old movie effects.
I hope you like it because i really made this with all of my heart and senses on it
If the master VANGELIS see this work please give me a word about it, please, is very important to me to know it, and a pleasure too.
From PORTUGAL with love to the world and music.
VANGELIS 12 o’clock 1975 (Best video ever seen) – “Luis Moreira (Setúbal – Portugal)”
Very well done, Steve.
Heartrending scenes.
magnifico!
The SAX!
Blade Runner – Love Theme – Vangelis
Tom ,you should ask for a Toon button to allow you to start a new page. Flippin back is pretty ancient.
Friday’s Tele:
EPSTEIN CLIENT NAMES TO BE RELEASED BY US OFFICIALS
VICTOR NAVA – NEW YORK POST
28 Feb 2025
‘Sickening’ documents relating to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, including passenger names fea tured on flight logs from the notorious sex predator’s private jet, were expected to be released by the US Justice Department overnight.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who revealed last week that the highly sought documents were sitting on her desk for review, told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the public should expect to see at least “some Epstein information” made public in the US today, when redactions related to the dead pedophile’s victims are completed.
“There are well over – this will make you sick – 200 victims … over 250, actually,” the attorney general told Watters, explaining the delay in releasing the documents. So, we have to make sure that their identity is protected and their personal information, but other than that, I think tomorrow – you know, the personal information of victims – other than that, I think tomorrow, Jesse, breaking news, right now, you’re going to see some Epstein information being released by my office.
” When pressed if the documents being released would include information about individuals who traveled aboard Epstein’s private jet and alleged surveillance footage from inside his residences, Bondi confirmed that flight logs would be disclosed.
“What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot, a lot of information,” the top DOJ official said. “But, it’s pretty sick what that man did … along with his codefendant.”
Speculation about Epstein’s associates have swirled since his 2019 suicide as he awaited sextrafficking charges.
Redacted versions of Epstein’s notorious “little black book” of rich and famous contacts and flight logs from his “Lolita Express” jet have previously leaked or have been unsealed in lawsuits, but complete versions of both, and footage from inside his homes, have not yet been made public.
Think there will be a few nervous rock spiders crapping themselves.
In brief:
Rabid lefty rag NYT doxes Doge employees.
FBI seeking to cover its tracks.
IRS to close 120 offices.
DOJ to start release of Epstein info.
And: we remember this –
On day one Joe Biden stopped the Keystone Pipeline and the border wall, with loss of 52,000 jobs as well as damaging the USA in many ways. Illegals were encouraged by Biden and Mayorkas, and were flown and bussed all over the country. It was treasonous sabotage.
Future Issue: there are a lot of bad actors in a lot of places, and “resistance” really means more sabotage; they really do not want Trump to succeed.
Links: Gateway Pundit and American Thinker as usual my first stops each morning.
Mine too, plus ZeroHedge and Michael Smith
Conservative Treehouse, Citizen Free Press, Gateway Pundit every morning and night.
Starmer meets Trump at White House and invites him to visit UK. There are so many nutters in the UK these days I’d expect another assassination attempt.
Trump owns a Scottish Golf Course and has Scottish ancestry. He will always visit.
Trump should have booted Starmer out in under 5 minutes.
Looking at the footage of the meeting, it is obvious Starmer did not want to be there.
Steve Inman:
Hangry People Getting Served Compilation
‘…and now smothered and covered in that hepatitis gravy floor.’
Hilarious commentary. 🙂
13%.
ffs.
From Tucker Carlson’s daily commentary:
Jake Tapper Just Exposed the Media’s Game
Need a good laugh? Watch this video.
It shows CNN host Jake Tapper shamelessly scoffing at the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden spent his presidency crippled by cognitive decline.
Whether or not the former president’s faculties were fried during his term does not need relitigation. Of course they were. His calling for a dead congresswoman, declaration that COVID happened during his vice presidency, and attempt at participating in last summer’s presidential debate made that painfully clear.
The point of revisiting America’s four-year humiliation exercise is not just to make fun of Biden. It’s to expose the media’s role in his scam. Rather than call out the obvious issue that the United States did not really have a president, establishment “journalists” like Jake Tapper lied on Biden’s behalf to support his desperate bid to hold onto power and protect the status quo.
Now that the confused politician is finally gone and there’s no point in pretending that his brain was anything other than pure mush, Tapper’s actions should disqualify him from ever posing as a credible news source again. It’s time for him and his fellow propagandists to quietly exit stage left. They’ve simply lied too much.
If you ever thought that would happen, then you don’t understand how the press works. There’s no accountability, and there’s certainly no shame. Has Tapper apologized to his viewers and vowed to be better? Has he reflected on his sins? Of course not. Instead, as you’ve probably seen, Tapper just announced the release of his new book, ironically titled Original Sin, on “President Biden’s decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again.”
See how this game is played? First, Tapper helped spread the Democrats’ big lie. If it somehow worked and Biden held onto power, he would have puffed his chest and said he was right all along. But since it didn’t, he immediately pivots and tries to profit off the problem he helped create. A similar thing happened with the Russia hoax, and this doubtlessly won’t be the last time.
There was a time when the media’s scheme would have worked and Biden would have been reelected. The fact it didn’t shows they are losing control. Tapper’s inevitable low book sales will do the same.
I’ll get a copy to keep under a broken chair leg that holds my still off the floor.
My comment disappeared again! How many links are allowed?
Oh, later, it’s back!
The other day Sharri had on the always articulate Claire Lehmann to discuss the smear campaign against Peter Dutton. Sharri asked Lehmann whether the smear campaign against Dutton would work and Lehmann responded by arguing that it might have an impact, particularly among young people. Why? Well, Lehmann went on to speak about the housing crisis in this country, and the absolute necessity for the Liberals to formulate some good housing policies, and one way is through slashing immigration. A no brainer but brains are sorely lacking in today’s Liberals.
Listening to Lehmann I was reminded of a comment by JC a few weeks back, after the Prahran by-election which saw the Liberals only narrowly snuff out the Greens (thanks to the ex-Labor independent directing preferences to the Liberals). If I recall correctly (and JC can critique me here) he wrote how one of the reasons why so many young people are voting Greens is because they are one party in this country that is offering up some housing policies and promises, unlike the Coalition. Housing affordability is a red hot issue in this country and it helps explain some of the burgeoning support for the Greens among the young. You don’t have to like Greens’ policies but like it or not they are giving young people something to latch onto. Most of us here are rightly disdainful of the Greens but we need to look at why they are popular among so many young people. A sensible right of centre party would be looking to lance the infected Greens boil by offering up good housing policies. The Liberals don’t have to look far, it’s all contained in their textbook, or what was once their textbook, that textbook called Menzies’ Forgotten People speech of 1942.
In his landmark Forgotten People speech of May 1942, Robert Menzies spoke of the importance of ‘homes material, homes human, and homes spiritual’. He went on to affirm that ‘the home is the foundation of sanity and sobriety; it is the indispensable condition of continuity; its health determines the health of society as a whole’.
The now lost at sea Liberals should look back at the founder of their party party and his housing policies. Housing affordability and access to housing was a basic tenet of Menzies’ philosophy and his ensuing electoral success.
As PM, Menzies’ Government boosted housing supply and devised policies to increase the outright ownership of homes for Australian families.
The Liberals have now walked away from much of what Robert Menzies spoke about in his speech in 1942, be it on housing, religious freedom, free speech, the family and so on. To be successful, the Liberals in 2025 need to excavate their Menzies ticker.
I end with this..
At one of Menzies’ public rallies, a heckler yelled out to him, shouting ‘What ya gonna do about ‘ousing Bob’. Menzies shot back remarking, put an ‘h’ in front of it!
If only we had someone in politics now with such wit!
More seriously, I don’t want to leave housing policies to the radical Jew hating Greens but the Liberal Party must understand that the forgotten people in 2025 are young people and like it or not many of these young people are voting Greens. The Liberals must neuter the Greens, they must take the ‘G’ out of Greens!
Simple way of arresting price rises for housing, turn the immigration tap to a trickle till the infrastructure catches up. Also much more scrutiny on working/student visas, end family reunions and slash the refugee intake.
There are other things they can do like regulatory changes both state & federal on non structural housing standards (Green tape) and land availability but that can come after. However the Cat has flogged that horse to ad nauseum.
I had this conversation with a 26yo the other day. Polite young woman but I don’t think she understood. However problem is not with them, they are being seduced by the messaging, after being taught the politics of envy in schools. The problem is with the 2 big parties, both are beholden to the “educashion” lobby and certain ethnic groups like Chinese for ALP & Indians for the LNP. There is no will and probably plenty of push the other way to keep prices high.
The Greens policies would make that worse IMO and probably push housing into the realms of wealthy slum lords.
A simple 30 second cartoon ad with two lines of people – one line obviously young Australians, the other line obviously Immigrants in traditional dress, carrying suitcases with money falling out of the corners.
The line up in front of a house for sale, the immigrants causing chaos at the head of the queue, pushing the young Australians aside, and fighting with each other.
At the head – a couple of Spiv Realtors surrounded by a pile of banknotes.
It would never be produced because “racist” and Young Australia is pushed further aside.
Spot on, Cassie. The Filth is the only party seriously pitching a housing policy to young people who are being forced to compete with the migrant flood for scarce housing rentals and can’t even dream about buying a place of their own because of the disastrous housing policies of the major parties — over decades.
The SFLs need to put housing affordability for the young at the top of their policy list or no-one under 30 will ever vote for them — justifiably.
Property has always been too easy for government of every persuasion to tax. It is not government nor me to provide a roof over someones head. The welfare state is mostly to blame. Construction in the US is more expensive than in Australia but when taxes and charges are added the total cost is far greater in Australia. When it takes years to get approval for construction the interest accrues. My neighbour on the coast has spent over $100k on trying to get approval for a deck that overlooks the water. Three years ago we signed as having no objection. All variety of reports have been written. Not a concrete footing poured nor nail driven yet.
As I recall from a comment a while back by Harlequin Divine, he’s spent a similar amount simply trying to get an elevator installed in his duplex townhouse which for some strange reason has to be treated to the same standards as a high rise building installation.
Rita Panahi:
A revolting set of circumstances.
Repeat after me Wong Chap, there will be no two state solution because the Palestinians don’t want it.
You ridiculous moron.
Isn’t it time we put a name to that ideology? Marxism surely.
Luigi Albanese should be asked where in the world has Marxism worked. Surely he can name one. Maybe half worked or a quarter. I can tell where its never worked. EVERYWHERE, but Luigi Albanese is too dumb to know or understand that.
I’ve been calling it out for years, mem.
Getting nowhere.
Today’s Tele:
WHY IS CHINA SENDING SHIPS OUR WAY? JUST ASK TAIWAN
DAVID – CHENG-WEI WU
28 Feb 2025
The surprise visit of three Chinese warships just 150 nautical miles east of Sydney serves as a wake-up call, bringing up distant memories of World War II when Australia, a country “girt by sea”, was exposed to threat of an authoritarian power’s navy suddenly appearing in the nation’s waters.
Yet for some time Australian opinion leaders have debated the nature of the China threat.
But the simple fact is, last week Chinese warships conducted live-fire drills in Australia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for the very first time, and from afar. And at least 49 commercial flights flying over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand were forced to change course, after receiving a short-notice verbal warning broadcast from the Chinese warships.
Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles stated that China did not follow the best practice of giving 12 to 24 hours’ prior notice and the Australian government has expressed concern to the Chinese government.
There has plenty of analysis in the past few days on the purpose to rationalise China’s flagrant military moves. It is worth noting that a comment published by Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the Global Times, stated that: “The People’s Liberation Army is expected to host more such far seas voyages … Some countries may have not yet adapted to seeing the PLA Navy’s normal voyages”.
Coming from Taiwan, a neighbouring country which faces China’s military harassment and economic coercion on a regular basis, I want to share observations that China is trying to create its “new normal” now in Australia’s front yard with the grey zone tactics, just as they have done in the Taiwan Strait.
We have seen an uptick of frequency of PLA aircraft’s incursions into our ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone) from 960 sorties in 2021 to 3074 sorties in 2024.
China does this to protest the world’s engagement with Taiwan and to cast a shadow over our elections.
On this score, it is sure that China knows about Australia’s upcoming federal election and calculated it was “worthwhile” sending a fleet to make an impression.
China would also like to test the determination of our democratic allies in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly as Donald Trump recalibrates US foreign policy.
The development of international relations may have its own course. Nevertheless, there are still some rules in world politics which have been verified throughout the pain and history.
“Like-minded countries must band together”, should be the one to help stand up against aggression and authoritarian expansionism.
When Australia faces the Chinese military bully and intimidation, do not forget the rules we learned, and all democracies would be united by your side, including Taiwan.
David Cheng-Wei Wu is Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney
Australia’s response to the chicoms…woefull .
Thought I would add this:
Ska Noos 8:30 mikes:
‘Who do we rely on?’: Barnaby Joyce slams Sarah Sea Patrol’s push to ditch US
She is fricken hopeless.
Out of her depth with NFI. 🙂
The Chinese naval task force was their response to our exercising ‘freedom of navigation’ in the South China Sea with naval and aerial assets in recent times. Our actions took place in China’s back yard and were deliberately provocative. FAFO.
That maybe Duk but the RAN were not there ‘conducting a live fire ex.’
Government Defence:
On Tuesday 14 November 2023, HMAS Toowoomba was in international waters inside of Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone enroute to commence a scheduled port visit.
HMAS Toowoomba had been in the region conducting operations in support of United Nations sanctions enforcement. It had stopped to conduct diving operations in order to clear fishing nets that had become entangled around its propellers.
No, but the South China sea is certainly in Chinas backyard and is a *very* sensitive area to them. We were flying a P8 through it, a plane with significant intell collection facilities. This was *very* provocative to them, as the hype surrounding the PLAN task group off our coast demonstrated.
Is it wise to antagonise our largest trading partner ?
It would be far wiser to use the goods we trade with them and develop our own Aluminium/Steel industries.
Except our Unions and governments have made that impossible.
Curious wouldn’t you say?
Duk:
Ps: This whole debacle has shown how shite we are at the moment.
Politicly and militarily.
My time in Iraq and Afghanistan showed me how effective home defence can be with just ‘concerned local citizens’ with personal and improvised weapons (ie ‘insurgents’).
I get the old ‘protect the trade routes’ argument, but Australia is one of the few countries in the world with pretty much every natural resource needed. We would do relatively well within our own borders, if it came to that.
I reckon the US would have known the chinee boats were here and never said a word as we spend so little on defence. This is what happens when you don’t come to the party.
Er…Richard Marles was just in Washington handing over $1bn to Hegseth.
Peanuts.
Sure but our defence spending is under 2% of GDP, getting on for 1/2 of the US per-capita spend.
Im not saying we should spend more, Im saying I dont trust the US to bail us out in a major war *unless* its in the own interests and within their own capacity anyway. (Singapore anyone?)
I would prefer to see ‘home defence’ prioritised instead of purchasing a relatively small number of high end expeditionary assets to cozy up to our ‘allies’
$1Bn wouldn’t be enough to fitout one RAAF squadron, one Regular Army Mechanised Brigade, or one Destroyer.
We don’t even have enough money to upgrade our tanks or buy enough to make an Armoured Division.
We’re like the kid who has emptied the piggy bank and walked into David Jones to buy a bottle of Chanel #5 for mum for mothers day.
Our poverty isn’t as embarrassing as the excuses we make for it.
NFInisnt entirely correct. She has managed an entire career from a callow youth to now on a senator’s salary.
she managed that income trick a lot better than most people.
Trump: ‘The European Union was formed to screw the United States’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/26/watch-trump-says-european-union-created-to-screw-the-united-states/
Awesome trolling.
This is the kind of stuff that sends conventionally trained diplomats into hysterics. It runs against everything they have been trained to expect and deal with. They just don’t know what to do!
I’d love to read the memos being written all over Europe in response to this. It would be hilarious. 🙂
That was obvious when they first proposed setting up the euro as the unified currency. I remember some crowing how it was going to displace the US dollar.
I thought the idea was to replicate the US federal structure??
It has always been the case. This should not be news, just that a President has been prepared to bring it out in the open.
even in my area of interest, the euroweenies have always played to their self interest while pretending virtue.
the Kyoto protocol, the first global agreement to do something about the AGW predictions (AGW was what it was called back then) was rigged by the EU for its economic advantage.
the EU could operate as an “umbrella of countries” that no other was allowed to do (eg, the USA, and Canada, Australia and NZ etc). This created an advantage as it spread the measurement of nuclear France and Germany (at the time) to the rest of the EU, and allowed it to include deindustrialising former Iron Curtain countries.
The reference year 1990 was the year before all those dirty, filthy former Iron Curtain now EU countries’ industry was shut down. This made their reductions effortless, in fact gave it room to grow.
and as usual, the EU GDP was quite stagnant in comparison with the dynamic USA, with all the implications that has for increased emissions.
as for Australia, it was allowed to increase its emissions 15%, with little debate from the EU. We were not its target and it wanted another western country signed up to demand the USA did too. Australia was a useful idiot in other words.
the whole thing was really about the Great Game between the EU and The USA.and it is so to this day, except now the Great Game is mainly between the USA and China, the sclerotic EU becoming the Great Dragon’s useful idiots
Now this is truly good news. I’m reading labels left and right trying to avoid seed oils and it’s not easy. Once the word is out it won’t be long before they’ll have to take notice that that fake sludge is unacceptable.
@RobertKennedyJr
Congratulations @SteaknShake for being the first national fast-food chain to begin the transition away from seed oils. Thanks for leadership in the crusade to Make America Healthy Again.
If you read the labels, you will find that even olives fer chrissake are often packed in ‘vegetable’ (aka ‘seed’) oils. Go for the ‘packed in brine’ variety to avoid this.
I never thought of that – just assumed that the oil would be olive.
Nonsense.
Steve Milloy has been refuting the dodgy data on ‘seed oils’ for decades.
The good thing about Milloy is that he doesn’t proffer his personal opinions about the issue, just about the data.
I’d back him against panic mongers of all stripes every day of the week.
WordJunk won’t let me link the latest segment on seed oils, but it is on page 2 of his home page, December 13.
Wow, it won’t even link his homepage. The leftists there really don’t like him.
It’s https://junkscience.com.
Sadly, I have concluded we cant trust ‘the science’ on much anymore, so I go by first principles:
I didnt fall for the ‘margarine is healthier than butter’ scam of the 70s and 80s but have noticed remarkable health improvements over the last 5 years since largely eliminating carbs and seed oils from my diet.
PS…. 5h to go before I end my seasonal 5 day fast 😉
Agree, Duk. We use olive oil extensively and good old butter on bread and toast, and for some cooking ingredients.
butter and olive oil – wonderful fats — there is some magic that happens when tomatoes are cooked in olive oil. I also used macadamia and avocado oil for baking cakes and muffins. Seed oils are banished once I read how the oils are extracted, didn’t sound good at all.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but macadamias and avocado kernels are seeds.
Like most things…moderate use. Also…what are you using it for and is the smoking temperature important. You don’t want to denature your lovely expensive oil if it’s in/out and properly drained.
Olive oil cake….mmmm. One of my favourites!
In Airstrip One news, the constituent bashing Labour MP has already had his ten weeks in stir suspended.
The original Beak side-eyed the CPS’s decision to play a dead bat.
Soros, Soros, Soros. It’s always Soros.
@paulsperry_
NEW: Meet couple running Indivisible’s anti-DOGE agitation op targeting GOP townhalls & flooding Hill phonelines: Leah Greenberg+Ezra Levin who have $11.7m war chest thx to $7.26m from Soros. Greenberg’s parents worked for Obama. 501(c)4 Indivisible pays a “DEI director” $155,163.
Trump, Vance Bring Much-Needed Disruption to Europe | Opinion
The ABC and BOM have really outdone themselves with their latest climate hyperventilation. They are now talking about summer and spring weather statistics “collectively” to push the climate change narrative. What statistical nonsense. Read either of the two classic little books, Use And Abuse of Statistics (Pelican S.) by Reichmann, W.J. or How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff, and you will be able to pull this dodgy presentation of statistics into pieces in no time at all. The ABC article is here https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-28/nsw-end-of-summer-weather-spring-warmest/104990526
No surprise as the latest excuse by BoM for their appallingly inaccurate seasonal forecasts is climate change.
Homework – dog.
Use and Abuse of Statistics is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in accidental or deliberate misinformation. Not sure if it’s in print, it wasn’t a few years ago.
And thats before even considering how they fudge the input data by ‘homogenising’ (shifting upwards) the numbers, or outright lying about them.
Makes up .1% of my home library. Well thumbed copy dating back to my glorious triple failure of Stats101 in first year at UniMelb.
Stats was something I stuffed into the short term memory the night before the exam
@BreannaMorello
BOMBSHELL CLAIMS
The FBI is hiding Epstein documents from AG Pam Bondi.
These allegations are being made in a letter Bondi has sent FBI Director Kash Patel today.
The letter says that prior to Patel being sworn in, the FBI handed her 200-pages of Epstein documents.
Bondi claims she asked for ALL the Epstein documents.
Bondi adds that she questioned the documents that were sent to her office, but was assured by the FBI she received all the documents.
Bondi says that yesterday she learned from a source that the FBI field office in NY had more documents.
“The FBI never disclosed the existence of these files,” Bondi writes.
The AG adds that all the documents will be delivered to her office tomorrow at 8am ET.
Bondi is asking Patel to launch an investigation into why her order was not followed.
She’s giving Patel 14-days to deliver his findings.
Partial release.
@JoshSukoff
A group of people, including @DC_Draino, exit the West Wing smiling and waving binders reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1”
Trump: 25% Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and Additional 10% on China Starting March 4
Trump’s Statement
The EU and NATO Collective Face Indefatigable Will of Godzilla Trump
Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found mummified at mansion with pills strewn in bathroom
JUST IN: DOGE Bombshell Reveals Biden Aide Earned Millions Through Shady Contract
The aide didn’t “earn” that money, he/she/it was paid the money.
Interesting that Frankie was involved in this hoax. An evil old Marxist posing as a theologian.
Frankie has never worked out that his superior is spelled G.O.D. Not M.A.R.X.
Scandalous and heartless exploitation of ethnic tensions, enabled by non-ethnic do-gooders plus those with more cynical motives.
Sound familiar?
This kind of cultural warfare is really, really evil, and can lead to catastrophic consequences. Members of the ethnic group are put through a lot of unjustified pain, hotheads retaliate, and the social contract is damaged yet again.
Governments and citizens need to demand proof before such allegations get out of hand. And that includes recently discovered rainbow snake spirits, birthing trees and all the rest of the claptrap unquestioningly accepted by people who should know better.
A better question for the government of Canada is: Who paid to perpetrate this hoax? And who will be brought to book for it?
EU Betrayed Europe! Hungary Exposes Brussels’ ‘Cowardice’ in Face of Trump’s Trade Moves! | TN World
The Liberals don’t speak that language anymore.
Similar to Margaret Thatchers “there are no community, only individuals and families”
“There is no such thing as society…”
It was a rhetorical point but valid in light of its target.
Which is what I wrote above….
The Liberals have now walked away from much of what Robert Menzies spoke about in his speech in 1942, be it on housing, religious freedom, free speech, the family and so on.
And I was suggesting, in light of that, that there was little to no hope for a revival of Menzies’s philosophy in the Liberal Party, the occasional rhetorical flourish from a leader notwithstanding.
Case in point, someone like Gerard Rennick, who actually believes in those ideals, has been dropped from the QLD senate ticket in favour of someone with fewer political convictions.
Same as in Germany.
Austria Reveals SHOCKING Result – Voters IGNORED
Hollywood great Gene Hackman, wife deaths now ‘suspicious’Ellen Gamerman and Alyssa Lukpat
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Detectives believe the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife are suspicious enough to warrant further investigation, pointing to prescription pills scattered on a bathroom floor and the puzzling death of one of his three dogs.
The Hollywood actor, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 64, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, just after midnight on Thursday, according to Adan Mendoza, the Santa Fe county sheriff. The circumstances of the deaths, including that of Hackman’s dog, are “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation”, an affidavit released by the New Mexico authorities said.
It lists the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths, including the front of the home being “unsecured and opened”. After that sheriff deputies observed a “healthy dog running loose on the property, another healthy dog near the deceased female, a deceased dog laying 10-15ft from the deceased female in a closet of the bathroom”.
The couple was found at an address on a road where Arakawa owns a home, according to property records. Hackman was found dead near the kitchen and Arakawa was found dead in a bathroom near an open pill bottle, according to court records. Authorities said it appeared both of them may have fallen abruptly.
There were no immediate signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, a gas leak or blunt-force trauma, a detective wrote in a search-warrant affidavit, adding that the front door was open. Authorities discovered a dead German shepherd not far from Arakawa’s body and two dogs that were healthy. A maintenance worker had contacted authorities and said he was last in touch with the couple about two weeks earlier.
According to an affidavit obtained by TMZ, Hackman’s wife was found mummified and bloated when the pair were discovered.
How can someone be mummified and bloated?
Extremities mummified due to air temperature in the house; inflation of the abdomen due to a build-up of various gases produced by bacteria inside the body.
(just my search results, not an informed statement)
Poison and one dog had a nibble on the owner.
cats would have chowed down on the liver
FFS indeed.
Good Lord. So much surgery and he still looks like a man, and what’s more, he sounds just like a man.
bigot! hater! ‘phobe!
Yes please.
Trump Teases Enormous Staff Cuts At Environmental Protection Agency (26 Feb)
A very deserving bunch of climate nutters.
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Hundreds of new citizens in Perth have been sworn in, schooled about electoral boundaries and funnelled past an enrol-to-vote booth, as Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke takes his audacious push to certify thousands of new Australians to the state that could decide the election.
Might backfire on Muzzies man.
Not everybody is onboard with a big Aussiestan.
Like to think that but it was given scant media coverage and now being mostly ignored.
However the “wall punch” vibe of the Dutton’s property holdings nudge nudge wink wink, seems to be getting bulk coverage.
A digressive response to Mem’s 8:30 a.m. post:
It would be interesting to know how many of Australia’s Klimate Khange O & Os (Orcs (h/t John Constantine) and Organisations) received funding from foreign sources, and how much.
Given the Big Oil label, it would be worth trying to focus the ‘debate’ on foreign-funded influence operations and how they, via Australians ‘fronts’ are trying to manipulate the opinion and perception of ordinary Australian taxpayers.
As I’ve repeatedly dribbled here – I can point out the stains on the carpet – putting facts up against emotions is NOT working, and hasn’t EVER worked. That’s not to say that an evidence-based argument should be discarded completely, but that it is first necessary to break through the emotion-based wall that surrounds the Klimate Khange redoubt. Once the foundations of that wall are sufficiently undermined – the ‘moral high ground’ and perceived reputational purity of the KKers – THEN the facts can be introduced to support our claim that these manipulators are insincere and have taken advantage of our good natures and natural concern for the environment and planet we live on.
Let me give an example: Yesterday morning I clicked on a YouTube title apparently about ‘efficiency.’ A short while into the video, there an image of P.M. Netanyahu popped up and the narrator claimed him to be the king of genociders (or similar words). Ooookay then. I stopped the presentation and quickly scrolled through the comments section to find the usual Marxist-Delusionist anti-capitalist rubbish lauding the now-paused vid. It turns out this was intended to reframe the concept of efficiency as an extremist far-far-far-right conspiracy to rip off the wukkas and spread misery throughout the population.
Here’s my point: Prior to clicking on the thumbnail and beginning to watch the presentation, I had no idea who the presenter was and what his/her/it’s motivation was. Once I realised what his opinion on the Israel-subhuman conflict was, I immediately decided that NOTHING he had yet to say was going to coincide with my worldview. Discovering who the MESSENGER was ceased my open-mindedness to his MESSAGE. Maybe he did have a decent point or two to make about efficiency (this being inspired by DOGE in the U.S. of course), but because I decided that the messenger was a potential threat to myself and my ‘kind,’ the message itself became irrelevant.
The VERY SAME perception of intent/trust/integrity works against conservatives and realists, because we have long allowed ourselves – without opposition – to be positioned as having negative intentions. It’s the emotional argument: Our opponents tell the population (over time, and in several ways): ‘These people are dangerous. Dangerous to the planet, dangerous to you and your future.’
Against that emotion-based argument, we offer facts. Facts that are important, but are ignored, because the receivers of our message already believe that ‘These people are NOT to be trusted.’ Conversely, our very clever opponents are pedestalled as Purity and Light; Protectors and Defenders. The fact they EXIST and have devoted their time and efforts to SAVE the planet/whales/trans-sexual gum leaves, etc. is proof enough of their GOODNESS.
Given that no-one is still reading this, I’ll wrap it up. The point, however, is that we need to discard the tactics that are not working, and investigate what our return on investment has been. MAGA is an aberration, and conservatives cannot claim MAGA as their win.
I must be no-one, I read it all the way to the end.
Add Henry Ergas to the list of bowtie conservatives who don’t get Donald Trump because a) Trump thinks out loud while he is formulating deals b) like Tony Abbott, Ergas takes everything Trump says literally.
In the Paywallian, Ergas writes that “disregard for good sense is hardly the only disturbing aspect of Trump’s policy towards Ukraine. Rather, the striking feature of that policy, whose broader geopolitical implications have been acutely analysed on these pages by (Never Trumper) Paul Kelly, is that it marks a fundamental break from principles that have long been at the heart of America’s international relations.”
I fear Ergas is going to have egg on his face when he finally has to accept Trump’s future Ukraine deal will be good for Ukraine and puts a long-term brake on Putin’s territorial ambitions, while securing European oversight of Europe instead of Europe bludging off the US via NATO.
Neo con Bush globalist sludge.
As I have said before about his columns, he should stick to economics.
I fear Ergas is going to have egg on his face.
No chance. He’ll just find another analogy from history.
Well, Bolt had egg on his face last nite when talking about a likely Ukraine settlement that would suit Ukraine well. I spoke too soon the other day when I went off about Trump selling out Ukraine, he told us, his audience. I have to recognise that Trump has a slightly unusual way of getting his results, he added, words to that effect.
Yes Andrew, don’t fly off at Trump as in your prior TDS, because you’ve had it pretty well under control since the election, until then.
Who was it said ‘Trump should be taken seriously but not literally’?
No surprise as the latest excuse by BoM for their appallingly inaccurate seasonal forecasts is climate change.
The real reason is that there is no validated methodology.
You can run the ECMWF model ahead three months, average the weather on the days for rainfall, temperature etc and say that’s the seasonal forecast. As you said, it is very bad. Which brings up the point that that is how they forecast doom by 2100 unless we wreck the most successful civilisation in history.
If you can’t even get the averages right for 3 months how do you say they will be right 50 to 75 years ahead?
The other method is to try to use the weak to middling correlations with ENSO, IOD, AMSO etc, look what happened historically and predict the coming season that way. As you say, not very good.
More honesty is required that there is no good way to do a seasonal forecast.
About 30 years ago a guy I was at met school with and then at Melbourne Uni said on TV there was no way to really do a seasonal forecast. Most honest thing a former BoM guy has said in a long time.
I’m not interested in anything supposedly in the Epstein files if they won’t release the names of the clients. Ghislane Maxwell went to jail for trafficking underaged girls for sex. To whom? That’s all. Those details could destroy a huge swathe of the western public figures and that’s why we will never find out anything. Prince Andrew was a sacrificial idiot and Bill Clinton simply brazened it out.
Likewise, Crossie, I’ll leave it to others to make sense of the files as I fear raw flight logs from the Lolita Express — after dedactions to protect victims — will be meaningless.
The door is opening.
The flight logs are giving that opening door a bit more momentum.
If you think that this is going to come out in great big story, then you’re wrong.
The door has to open fully before the elephant can get out of the room.
Another tired old turd like Kelly and Sheridan.
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: Personnel within the FBI have been obstructing investigation into the actions and potential “accomplices” of Thomas Crooks, the would-be Trump assassin in Butler, PA – NYP
The cone of silence over that assasination attempt is very worrying.
What are they hiding?
I want those details released rather than the Kennedy assassination files.
All I see at Junkscience.com is Milloy debunking seed oils cause colon cancer.
That isn’t the whole story by a long shot.
You read one post about one bullshit story.
If you’d been reading Milloy for more than 20 years, as I have, you’d know that he has been debunking bullshit science about ‘evil’ seed oils for a long time, along with trans fats, radiation exposure, climate change – oh, and TheirABC’s latest favourite ‘forever chemicals’ – and while he has been banned, he’s not been refuted.
Being a conservative doesn’t mean that you are correct about everything. As for RFK, there are plenty of obvious targets without getting into nonsense like ‘evil’ seed oils.
If he starts on Bob Carr’s ‘trans fats are poison’ thing, I know that he needs to be leashed and muzzled.
Re seed oils: There is also the problem of what is created when they are heated during cooking.
What ‘problem’ is that, and how many people has it killed?
Look around at the obese blobs and the ever increasing burden on the health system. Note also on labels manufacturers are at pains to point out low levels of trans fats.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org has much more.
Proof?
My mother came from a family it would seem had fat genes she was obese all her life. She developed a hernia at a time when she was a heavy smoker and had a hacking cough that more than likely caused the hernia. At age 81 the hernia became extreme and the hospital doctors said it required surgery but they would not operate due to her still smoking. This was the first time she had been to hospital since birthing 4 children
She gave up smoking and at 83 this obese person had a bunch of scans and tests showing no other ailments , no new knees no new hips required so they finally operated on the football size hernia with great success. She died at age 95 from a growth in her productive gear. So much for your obese blobs comment and their drain on hospitals. Have a look how many skinny runts have new hips , knees and heart surgery.
The reason stuff gets cooked in seed oils and its derivatives is that it is CHEAPER.
What’s wrong with that?
I converted to olive oil many years ago. I figure the prolific use in the Mediterranean diet is signiificant.
How is it significant? Olive trees grow well there, they produce oil.
What else?
Olives are fruits not seeds. Olive oil is not a seed oil. Plants defend their seeds, but not their fruits. Fruits are a seed dispersal system, plants want you to eat them.
Jo, “significant” in the amount of oil used in the Mediterranean diet.
I don’t know anything about seed oils to be for or against, but I’d give cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil a miss, simply because we don’t eat the plant they come from. I use rice bran oil for frying. Lard also.
Do you eat olive trees?
Sheesh.
Olive leaves are used extensively in cooking, preserving, and for medicinal purposes.
Extensively? I don’t think so. Prove it. Are you telling us that the millions of old, leathery olive trees around the globe are a food source? Their fruits are the food source,
Stop making stuff up to support your ‘argument.’
That is precisely the crap that Milloy specialises in debunking.
Same here. Olive oil, rice bran oil. Walnut and Hazelnut oil for salads.
Beef Dripping, Lard, Lamb fat, Duck fat, Goose fat, and good old Shmaltz when I can find a fat enough chicken.
I have stopped using ‘seed’ oils, as like Tinta and others I am concerned about their manuacture. Easier and tastier to use olive oil for most things, coconut oil for hot frying.
That said, I suspect the obesity epidemic in the US is due more to food availability and the nature of the food – tasty and addictive, especially with sugar – see soft drinks for that – and to its hot and cooked availability. That’s the first thing’ to note. Second thing is the amounts being eaten. Americans can easily eat double and triple the calories they need for normal activities. Meals servings are huge, and carbohydrate heavy.
Rule 1: Never eat fried food. I can’t, because a liver problem from childhood means it won’t digest them. Olive oil and butter are OK in their natural cold state. Orders from my gastroenterologist, but also good for keeping weight down for myself and family.
Car executives are really thick.
$9.1bn slide: Car giant hits the wall (Tele, 27 Feb, not paywalled)
UK carmakers suffer worst January in two years as demand for electric slows (27 Feb, via Paul Homewood)
It’s clear as crystal that no one wants to buy an EV except for a few religious Greens. Yet these guys just don’t seem to comprehend this.
That’s an easy fix. The grubber mint will make them compulsory by outlawing new ICE vehicles.
If that is the ongoing action, then the current wrecking yards are sitting on a goldmine as their inventory is resurrected
Yes, but – keeping the older stuff going is getting much harder – the write off laws send many very repairable cars to wrecking yards but they often cannot be legally re-registered.
Many are exported where they are quite easily fixed in places where the focus is on cheap transport, a forgotten thing in Australian Govt. circles.
NVES anyone?
The game is to destroy industries – not save the planet.
China can afford to subsidise the home industries with government subsidies.
China wages war across every facet of human endeavor, not just the obvious, and it has no sense of morals apart from survival of the Chinese Communist Party.
I wish people would understand this.
Communists are not nice people.
Remember when Nixon went to China and we thought of the deodorant market for 2 Billion armpits?
So what happened there?
Stellantis, like other Western car makers, is caught in a vice – intense Govt. pressure to sell more EVs on one hand and declining public demand, which is also moving to the cheap Chinese stuff on the other hand.
FBI
@SaveUSAKitty
Glenn Beck @glennbeck : “If I were Donald Trump, and no matter what I’d had planned…if I had an Agency in REBELLION, I would get on my plane, and I would fly to NY and I would PERSONALLY FIRE EVERY SINGLE PERSON and I’d put a PADLOCK on that door in Southern District of New York…”
Isn’t that technically an insurrection? Funny how it’s OK when they do it.
The return of the American Caesar Trump finally cancelled the Watergate show
Didn’t you once work in the Public Service in Canbra?
Very good. 🙂
Pay that. 🙂
bwahahahahaha!
caveman
Titanium is fairly common in Australia, as well. We used to mine the beaches up on the north coast of NSW. I went through a plant when I was about 9. Fascinating place. Yuuuge electro magnets.
The industry went tits up because the Greens didn’t like heir beaches being mined even though remediation was pretty good.
Yet another nail in the Australian coffin by people who hate it and want us back into cheerful squalor.
Remediation for Rutile extraction would have been pretty easy, excavate sand, extract the mineral, replace sand, add some grasses.
As for the Greens, when we are all reduced to hunting rabbits in order to eat, they’ll find a reason to stop it.
There is more meat on a Green, and usually it is low fat.
Yep, I remember that titanium was mined north of Crowdy Head (NSW) and remediated when I was a kid.
Much ado about nothing.
Remediation was so good that the Slime once tried to have a former sand mining site protected as “pristine ‘vironmemt”. They weren’t even slightly embarrassed when the truth was exposed.
Yup can second that. Army’s Shoalwater Bay Training are is apparently a huge deposit of rutile & ilmenite. Defence was looking at selling out to the miners before Peter Garrett got his teeth into it.
Few more places on Qld coast where it is common too.
I know titanium is common but it depends on the iron content as to quality and economics of extraction for Rutile and ilmenite, thats where the big money is.
Famous Fords, continued.
Bonnie and Clyde death car:
1934 Ford Model 40 B Fordor Deluxe, flathead V8
Not real bulletproof but!
Now if they’d just had a Cybertruck …
Not faster than a speeding bullet.
Someone mentioned the video of the Afghani woman handing her baby over to a group of Marines on the Kandahar Airport fortifications – so I chased it up.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/08/heres-truth-about-iconic-photo-of-marines-pulling-afghan-baby-safety.html
Speaking of such things John Nolte today has a nice tribute to Gene Hackman, who was a lead actor in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie.
There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Gene Hackman Movie (27 Feb)
And yes, there’s a car…
Gene Hackman never tried to look handsome (please use my left profile) or bump up his roles.
The MSM profiles never mention The Conversation – one of the best fillums I’ve ever seen.
He was the real thing in an industry full of fakes.
He was very, very attractive.
People say I look just like him, Christine.
You frigging desperate, BB.
No such thing as a bad Hackman movie. x 1,000.
As I said upthread when we first heard about his death, I would watch any film with Gene Hackman in it.
The only other Actor I view the same way is Denzel Washington. Any film he is in.
Postcards From The Edge is a favourite of mine.
Watch them both in Crimson Tide, Pogs. Both superb.
Bat 21.
Behind Enemy Lines.
Nathan Cleary has called criticism of the Matildas ‘unnecessary.’
Sounds like something Dame Edna would have said. 🙂
Because we all *know* they are shit.
Mainly because the criticism is obvious. It doesn’t need to be shouted out – that’s just the icing on the cake.
@MAGAVoice
BREAKING FBI Director Kash Patel responded on ? to the possible coverup of the Epstein List
“If there are gaps in the Epstein investigation, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything to the DOJ”
MIC DROP
This is what’s going on.
@DefiyantlyFree
Maurene Comey, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), has been with the office since 2015. She is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.
What a shocker that she was put into SDNY right before Trump came into office.
She has been involved in:
Jeffrey Epstein Case: She was one of the lead prosecutors in the 2019 case against financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Ghislaine Maxwell Trial: In 2021, Maurene served as a lead prosecutor in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate. Maxwell was convicted on multiple counts, including sex trafficking of minors, and received a 20-year prison sentence.
Robert Hadden Prosecution: She was involved in prosecuting Robert Hadden, a former gynecologist accused of sexually abusing numerous patients. Hadden’s trial has been scheduled for 2022.
Natalie Edwards Case: Maurene participated in the case against Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a former Treasury Department official who pleaded guilty in 2020 to leaking confidential documents related to the Russia investigation and other matters.
Between October 2017 and October 2018, Edwards disclosed numerous SARs and other sensitive government information to a reporter from BuzzFeed News, identified in court documents as Jason Leopold. The leaked information pertained to high-profile individuals and entities, including Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, the Russian Embassy, Maria Butina, and Prevezon Alexander. These disclosures formed the basis for a series of investigative articles highlighting suspicious financial activities. She served 6 months in prison only.
In December 2024, Maurene joined the prosecution team in the case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, who faces multiple charges, including sexual misconduct. The trial is scheduled for May 2025.
She has gotten every single deep state case magically assigned to her?
NOT BUYING IT.
Maurene. What a bloody awful way to spell that name.
Looks like the name on a can of Fly Spray.
Murene eye drops?
@JDunlap1974
Zelensky: “If the US stops giving us money, we will demand at least $250 billion from Europe”
The Beggar strikes again!
Not my king.
‘Trust in Allah’ Signs Blanket London as King Charles Hands Out Ramadan Treats.
I seem to recall other monarchs who attempted placating growing mobs during times of social change.
Vague memories of slightly less than optimal outcomes for said monarchs and their families.
As I recall, the one attribute that such monarchs share was that they saw themselves as benevolent reformers who imagined themselves well loved.
The come to reality moments must have been quite shocking.
Good luck Charlie boy.
My advice to native Britons and those inhabitants of the UK who have become accustomed to the remnant part of the traditions of the original Christian home of parliamentary democracy: GTFO and leave Charles and his family to negotiate the future of his substantial holding in the UK with the representatives of the faith he admires so much.
Especially pommy monarchs called Charles.
You’d think the poms would’ve realized by now that naming royal scions with that name is bad juju.
Can I now assume the Oath of Allegiance I took in 1990 is now null and void?
What a crumb
BREAKING
Hate speech laws to be amended to include criticism of the Matildas.
Be fair, they are part of a downtrodden and vilified minority:
Soccer players.
Most widely played sport in Australia, I’m given to believe.
Which might explain why Albo has been more critical of the radio host than he’s been of the Chinese navy.
The problem for the Soccerlezzos is that Australians sports fans love winners and hate losers. The instant the lezzos start drinking their own bathwater and behaving like celebrities, they forget that Australian sports fans hate losers — which they have become because they took their eye off the ball.
Look, I really don’t care one way or the other, Tom, but yes…they would have had a lot of residual support simply by virtue of the popularity of soccer among youngsters, but their profile in the press became larger than was warranted by their performances.
A cautionary tale for coaches and managers of young professional sports people (I can think of a young cricketer atm) even without the sexual deviancy being thrown in the mix.
Not that simple.
We love grounded, humble winners- like Nina Kennedy
We hate arrogant, entitled winners- like Adam Goodes
We love grounded, humble losers- like Carlton
We hate arrogant, entitled losers- like Raygun
Caaarrton – humble losers? Ha!
Two decades of losing and they’re still not there yet.
Rita Panahi: Why are bureaucrats spared from Richmond drug injecting rooms, but nearby kids are not?
Jacinta Allan must explain to Victorians why she believes bureaucrats should be spared the dangers posed by aggressive drug-addled clients of the Richmond drug injecting facility but not small, vulnerable children at a primary school next door.
The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission is ditching its Richmond office for one in the CBD after a series of physical and verbal attacks by users of the taxpayer funded drug facility.
VGCCC chief executive Annette Kimmitt has explained that staff feel unsafe walking alone even in daylight hours with many not going out during their breaks.
“Those that do venture out travel in groups and report a higher level of anxiety and fear in anticipation of what they may confront outside our office doors,” she said.
One does not begrudge workers for wanting to shift their office to somewhere where they’re less likely to be accosted or assaulted by aggro junkies. Every worker deserves to feel safe.
But sadly the children at Richmond West Primary School do not have that luxury. Over the years they have witnessed horrific violence, overdoses and even had a dead body just metres from their school’s front gates. Late last year footage emerged of a schoolgirl being assaulted in an unprovoked attack by a woman outside the injecting rooms. Is the state government waiting for a serious injury to a child before they move their pet project somewhere more suitable.
Herald-Sun
The current site is entirely suitable.
For scaring the Normies witless, and making them submissive.
For those lucky enough to live elsewhere: Victoria Street near this “safe” shoot-up room used to a vibrant strip of mostly Vietnamese restaurants. It’s now dead with two thirds of the shops boarded up and scrawled with graffiti. I get that the Vietnamese’s kids have no interest in running their parents’ restaurants, but the injecting room hasn’t helped. My wife copped a vile lurgy in the face from a junkie there about 10 years ago. We rarely go back. Used to go there weekly.
Ukraine is going to be the biggest loser whatever happens. There were no territorial ambitions. If the Europeans look after themselves the US loses its leverage over Europe and its periphery; what people view as ‘bludging off’ was effectively ‘submitting to’ the US.
Ukraine is already the biggest loser. Sad, but the Europeans have been murdering each other forever.
If the Europeans look after themselves? Really? Considering their demographics, they are already done. Their “Elite” WEF bots consider themselves smarter than Trump, and are going their own way. This is the reality recognised by Trump. This realignment cant happen quick enough to wake everyone up.
Without Russia, Europe’s pop. is around 600M. That isn’t going to disappear overnight. As for what Trump has recognized, that isn’t really clear yet. There have been contradictory statements for a month now.
This release of Epstein material was a shitshow.
Harsh, but fair.
DC_Draino’s opinion is perhaps a bit biased by the fact he was invited to be in the room and his support for Trump & Co.
It’s been a sort of disclosure Rorschach Test where the binder is half full or the binder is half empty depending on who you ask.
We’re expected to believe “Phase 1” will be followed by a Phase 2.
So check again on Saturday morning.
I have a radical proposal as an alternative to my modest, sensible dissolution of the universities plan.
We put academics on a coal plan.
Before any grant is given we ask “will this “study” produce as much value as the smae quantity of coal does for Australia?
eg – this vile slug
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/28/arc-suspends-870000-grant-to-pro-palestine-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-senators-told
ARC suspends $870,000 grant to pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, senators told
now a ton of coal exported is worth
As of February 2025, the average price of Australian coal was $118.60 per metric ton.
We merely dicvide her “grant” by the price of coal and ask a simple question.
Will her eventual output be more valuable than 7,335 tons of coal?
At about 100t per train carriage shes hoovering up 73.3 coal cars of output to produce…. grievance.
Im not sure that is in any way value adding for Australia.
I’m disappointed.
I thought you were going to propose rounding them all up to work in coal mining.
Lift your game.
Given 9/10ths of them cant produce anything like value of a ton of coal they will be broke, hungry, cold, and shivering in the dark, reduced to giving handjobs to hobos for their sustenance.
I thought that was a pragmatic first step.
And I given the hobo-Australian community something to look forward too.
so the gross price is $118.60, but what is the value added marginal contribution per tonne? A lot less, like 5%?
What Labor’s revolving door on bail in the NT achieved:
A teenager has been sentenced to five years in prison after raping a 13-year-old girl while on bail for sexually assaulting another 12-year-old girl in a remote Northern Territory community.
Been in the jug since May 2023, so:
He was sentenced to five years in prison with a non-parole period of three years.With time already served he will be eligible for parole in May next year.
Sky News
Of course I will love you in the morning!
The cheque is in the mail.
I am from Central Office and I am here to help.
The statistics show…
A study has shown….
An investigation has revealed…..
In that case the default position would be to be sceptical of both positions.
‘experts say…..’
Johns Hopkins?
Now where have I heard that place mentioned since about oh say February 2020?
Johns Hopkins is a world class university.
My only news here is CNN and ABC.
Nearly lost my will to live watching two CNN wymmyns agreeing with each other about Trump being a bully. And that he can’t sack federal workers because “rule of law”. Ask Sean Spicer, ladies.
This Hackman thing is very odd. Not on the dreaded list?
I suspect the killer of the Hackmans is a deranged member of the family. Who the f*** would kill the family dog?
Someone who was interrupted by the dog defending the owners.
The two fat daughters were buying a massive breakfast at Denny’s this morning. And laughing and smiling.
Poor dog had been in the closet for up to 2 weeks.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/entertainment/gene-hackman-and-wifes-death-investigated-as-suspicious-after-door-was-found-open-pills-found/
Now we know where the bar is…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/28/sheikh-wesam-charkawi-reinstated-granville-boys-high-school-western-sydney-ntwnfb
Apparently you can praise people who claim to have murdered others or denied them medical treatment and have access to kids.
Ok, if thats where the bar is.
“How about that Brevik/Tarrant chap – a little overenthusiastic, but his heart was in the right place”…
/ Christian school chaplain.
Minn-some will be along shortly to welcome him back to school and tug his forelock.
Sky has been running this all morning: Trump appears to forget AUKUS deal.
Do they all have TDS at Daytime Sky?
Are they all Jake Tapper fans?
Yesterday’s Man ‘Richo’ was on SKY News just now and reckons that the UK’s Starmer is a good PM and that ‘Albo’ will get a small majority in the next ‘ Feweral Ewection’.
Methinks his Crystal Balls have clouded over.
Told you that his colostomy bag isn’t as full of it as he is.
Hmmm, re the Hackman deaths.
One dog dead in the closet, shut in there by someone and the poor thing died of thirst.
The other two are healthy and wandering around the house and grounds for what is reported to be two weeks.
Front door open.
Someone has been feeding them or they’ve been chowing down on the bodies and that little snippet has been glossed over by the authorities.
Maybe they have.
“Lex, my mother lives in Hackensack!”
I was a kid when I saw this nearly 50 years ago, but this scene still cracks me up. RIP Gene Hackman, one of the greatest actors ever.
Don’t forget the aussie link.
“I have an affinity for beach front property”, AUSTRALIA!!!
“Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia!”
Nobody ever played a cold hearted bastard as well as Hackman.
Absolute Power.
I gave my vote to James Cagney in White Heat, he was psyco evil one of the best.
Sorry, I’ve been busy and it’s taken me a little time to respond Pogria.
That the Chinese alphabet (Found in the Oracle Bone Script in late 1800s), written 4500 years old, long before Genesis was written, contains echoes of the biblical creation story of night and day “being divided.”
Words like create mysteriously depict man formed from dust with the breath of life, the fall of man, and the great flood. Temptation encodes the devil, two trees and a woman. Blessing portrays God, one man, and a garden. Boat inexplicably references a vessel with eight people—Noah’s Ark had eight people. There’s plenty more!
How could a civilization entirely disconnected from Mesopotamia have written its history in a way that so accurately mirrors the Genesis story.
There are three possibilities for this:
1) The genesis story is real, or part real and was transmitted to China;
2) The genesis story is a myth but was somehow transmitted to China; or
3) It’s all a coincidence.
I think it’s important because every civilisation has an “origin story,” and there are many such stories “local” to Mesopotamia which wouldn’t be such a stretch of the imagination (given trade routes even back then). Some Aboriginals believe in a flood as did the Aztecs and others, but none bared such striking similarity.
So, “so what?” I find this stuff interesting, I thought Cats might also find it interesting; tis not the sort of thing they teach in History at school or university!!!
I have a talk I do on the Great Flood and the Mediterranean. Seems most civilisations – all around the world – have some sort of flood story.
Agree TE.
There are even accounts in the Americas of such a thing and, possibly (?) a people arriving in boats to show them how to construct things.
But I guess my point was none seem to mirror the Genesis event/myth as closely as the Chinese alphabet. 🙂
Which connects to Hapgoods shifting crust theory
Well, you have to wonder. Especially when our “experts” have never seen anything like this:
How much sooner?
Good place to drop the Pallies.
A good thread to look up would be to sniff down the path of retreating glacial lakes from the last Ice Age.
I know some geologists have actually done some study on these events, also the flooding of the Black Sea which was more a geological event.
Could explain why great flood stories are common among ancient stories.
Melting ice cap in North America is an interesting one too. Look up Lake Missoula.
If I’m ever back in the States I want to visit the Snake River and scablands.
ah Montana….gods own country
Okay, I get it. Appreciate your research and explanation. 😀
All good thanks Pogria… 🙂
Also appreciated the post, Lysander. Raises interesting questions.
Then you weren’t paying attention at school or history.
Meanwhile, to maintain consistency with your “echoes of the biblical creation story”, I shall warn you about the propensity of thunder to curdle milk.
*university
I think Elbow needs a new Media Manager:
WTAF??? Still lying about what he said on Friday that “he received notification?” Ugh!
And who doesn’t support the ADF you moron? Or an implicit attack on Hastie/Dutton?
As dozens of Chinese warships circle Australia, we can expect a summary along the lines of “they are racing, may the best boat win”.
Maybe the muzzles don’t?
You can offer hear Murphyroo’s dead hand in Albo’s dim utterances.
US department of justice website.
Link to Epstein docs.
https://www.justice.gov/ag/select-publications
Load of crap already seen as leaks.
This is a bloke who apparently ran a sex ring to incriminate the rich and powerful. Where is the real evidence?
A pathetic cover up continues.
Being so ordinary I never get invited to join a “sex ring”.
Such is life.
There always the hay truckstop caravan park – keep an eve out for the caravan with the upside down pineapple.
I have, but I had to bring my own barrel.
Hey Peons!
Feel free to attend a meet and greet with me! I love youse all!
Michael Smith also posted a pic of the “True”, Elbow. The turd cannot hide his contempt for we ordinary aussies.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk02pn-aoAAFxDP?format=png&name=small
The look of yesterdays man
Which one is you Rabz?
Neither – that’s labore’s “communications minister”.
Wow, a whole $5 must’ve been put into the production of that flyer!!!
Courtesy of Michael Smith.
An excellent, 2 minute speech by Senator Ted Cruz.
I am devastated that not ONE of our grifting politicians has the decency and courage, to state similar.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/ted-cruz-on-the-usas-enemy-palestinian-savages-us-too-ted.html#comments
“We’ve made it clear that criticising the schlockerettes is unnecessary.”
“We’ve made it clear that moozleyphobia is the gratest threat to soshul cohesion.”
“We’ve made it clear that Andrew Charlton won’t be appearing on the ALPBC any time soon.”
“We’ve made it clear that anyone who votes labore in the upcoming feral erection is as big an idiot as I am.”
What a shriveled and pathetic empty vessel he is.
Sour and Po faced when asked probing questions lately. Can’t handle the Truth.
Can’t handle 50% of the scrutiny and hostility accepted as routine by LNP leaders.
Shrinking before the electorate day by phony campaign day. Wonder what the Liars are hoping for?
He certainly made that clear.
Hackman had three adult children.
What, you don’t visit, you never call?
Your Dad has to be found in a state of decomposition after weeks by maintenance men?
Well, Gee, Arky, let me think a moment…I have three adult children, five adult grandchildren, and several underage grandchildren, and I have not heard from any of them in the last three years, so yes, it happens.
That’s vile, wivenhoe. Grandchildren I can understand for months on end one hears nothing, but three years. And for children with an elderly parent, the lack of contact is unforgiveable.
I don’t care how many arguments you used to have, you are still their dad and deserve some attention and respect.
My dad was terrible in the past, though time has melded my views a little,, but at least between the three of us siblings we took the kids to see him a couple of times a year and kept in touch re his ailments in the nursing home where he had an ensuite room.
We are your online family now, wivenhoe. Call in anytime.
in todays Oz
Chinese warships have faced ‘highest ever level of surveillance’
Was that before or after the Virgin crew spotted them?
We had people on tippytoes. That’s how high the level was.
…during…
It was while the Virgin crew were watching.
mole, earlier:
We’ve been down the ‘Breivik was on the money’ road before, right here on the Cat.
How did that go?
I think that mole was being sarcastic, comparing the soft treatment of the Muesli with the harsher treatment of any non-Muesli, or, indeed, non-leftard.
Yep – 100% sarcasm on mole’s part. Got it.
It did remind me, though, of that unfortunate interlude some time ago.
Gene Hackman, his misso and his dog.
I think people are tiptoeing around the real issue here.
Nobody – not one single soul – has brought up the cause of death most likely by far.
Direct Energy Weapons, people.
Oh, and Tony Abbott as well.
Not Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
Oops duplicate.
Jewish Death Rays?
You got a bite. Well done.
What a nothing burger that was. Pam Bondi made a arse clown of herself as Dice explains.
—
Mark Dice:
Conservative Influencers Duped into Helping Cover-Up For Him – Bogus “Release” of Files Embarrassing
We don’t want to overwork the poor maintainers of our ships and aircraft, so we left them tied up at the pier/sitting on the runway, Handsome Boy added.
Victor Davis Hanon: The Left’s DOGE Tantrum
Anyone that disputes Direct Energy Weapons = Retard.
Kaitlin is on a mission from GOD.
The Gospel of Woke Jesus
Many years ago I began to write about one of the three legs of our degradation: the trade with China.
No one listened, because I am no one, and the times were way too early for anyone to think anything wrong. It would be more than a decade and a half until our politicians would stand slack jawed and unconvincing while the Chinese conducted live fire exercises off our coast.
Now I will raise the next issue that no one wants to see, which it is way too early for anyone to care too much about.
Which is the sex “industry”. Which like the trade with China, we all see aspects of, and which presents itself as a harmless good. And just like the China trade, hides behind the decent principles of liberty which most of us hold dear.
Why would the RNC do this?
Because few people in power take sex trafficking, including of minors, in the least bit seriously.
Because of the disintegration of the family over the last 50 years, ever since no fault divorce left so many of my generation in the care of a rotating roster of adults who’s primary mission in life was to get theirs.
The truth is there is an army of pimps in all the nations whose job it is to pick up runaways and delinquents and like the coachman in Pinocchio, transport them to where they can be monetised.
From the red light streets of towns and cities, to the movie and music industries, to the hotels around major international events.
Just as everyone wanted cheap products from China, without thinking through too hard the consequences, everyone wants to be titillated without thinking too hard about where all these people to feed the beast come from.
So most law enforcement are jaded, most people in power are compromised and most ordinary people want to reserve the right to outrage over sex offenders but not to have to examine their own habits and beliefs. It’s all good, consensual fun, right?
Hollywood pumps out a tidal wave of content that intends to glamourise the sex industry and demonise the nuclear family.
This Epstein saga could be the pry bar to finally crack open the black box of sex trafficking in the minds of the civilian population.
Or like Tiananmen Square, it could be an inflection point wherein the establishment bears down once more on the narrative, puts the populace back to sleep and succeeds in continuing the game for another decade or two, to the detriment of so many.
We see clearly the attitude of the police forces dealing with the grooming gangs in Northern England. It’s a shrug, “Teenage girls get themselves in trouble, so what”? These people literally can’t understand what the fuss is about, because it’s been this way as long as they remember. “It must be racism”, they think to themselves.
Back to Epstein.
The news wasn’t that minors were trafficked. It was that the rich and powerful might be compromised.
Still to this day, while many make all the right noises about “the victims”, the pattern of convictions lets us know that the authorities consider those who may have been subject to extortion were considered the main victims, as none of them have ever seen a court.
And the girls? At best an accessory to the main crime. At worst? You know what they think of them at worst, they let you know through their complete negligence, every day.
Just another part of the parasitic autonomous complex.
“Dozens of terrorist organisations have received indirect assistance for US foreign aid.”
Jesse Watters Primetime 2/27/25 FULL END SHOW HD | BREAKING FOX NEWS February 27, 2025
The FBI Swamp Is Deep and Wide, and Flows Through NYC
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: President Trump suspended all security clearances and contracts with Covington and Burling
Guess who else works there now:
@MikeBenzCyber
The Epstein intrigues, and the budding civil war between Main Justice and its rogue zombie crooked SDNY branch. Today w/ @mattgaetz
It’s a long article but worth a read. A classic takedown in the Oz of the corruption at the heart of DEI and Jerbs for fellow travelling Liars :
Is pointing out Rae Cooper’s Labor links sexism – or scrutiny?
Yoni Bashan
19 hours ago.
Updated 18 hours ago
The Australian Business Network
Moral outrage crash-landed into our inboxes here at The Australian on Thursday over a column item we ran earlier this week, a devilish morsel we thought was pretty funny and incisive. Turns out it was severely sexist – or so went the charge in a searing Letter to the Editor we received.
“The outdated and sexist column item, ‘Labor minister’s partner snags funding victory,’ undermines the significant contributions of Professor Rae Cooper AO, FASSA, to workplace gender equality and employment relations policy.”
Penned by University of Sydney Professor Leisa Sargent and former Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the letter fumed at our analysis of a $5m grant that was announced on Tuesday and bestowed upon Cooper and her workplace gender equality centre, housed at the University of Sydney.
Snark is the name of the game around here, so of course we pointed to the bleeding obvious at the time of the announcement – that Cooper is a pro-union, pro-Labor academic with impeccable ties across government reaching right into the office of Assistant Minister for Trade Tim Ayres. He’s her husband.
“While it is true that she is the partner of a Labor assistant minister – a fact transparently stated in the grant submission – the implication of favouritism unfairly diminishes the achievements of a highly distinguished academic and researcher,” wrote Sargent and Lloyd-Hurwitz.
Former Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz. Picture: Richard Walker
Cooper is undoubtedly a Labor favourite. Here’s a tiny example: her pro-government opinions are quick to be found inside an “independent” review released last month examining the Albanese government’s contentious IR reforms. Cooper is cited eight times across the document and three of her publications are listed in the bibliography. She’s an eminent scholar so perhaps that’s to be expected. But was it necessary for the report’s authors to call her “Professor Rae” on page 106?
That kind of familiarity could be a typo, or maybe it’s a result of Cooper co-writing at least two books with one of the review’s authors, Emeritus Professor Mark Bray. So yes, all very independent.
But back to the letter …
Sargent is the Dean of USyd’s Business School. Lloyd-Hurwitz chairs the advisory board for the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, which Cooper runs. The centre’s grand opening was held at USyd in August and was attended by three federal Labor ministers, among them Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, who praised Cooper as a shaper of government policy and then announced $5m in funding for the centre this week.
We thought this was all sounding a bit cosy, and so did our readers. But in the minds of Sargent and Lloyd-Hurwitz, any magnification of these curiosities isn’t at all indicative of a robust and free press doing its job scrutinising taxpayer expenditure – it’s just more sexist garbage from a couple of pub-room boors.
“As an internationally respected scholar, Professor Cooper has built a reputation as a trusted adviser to governments of all political persuasions at both state and federal levels, as well as to industry and business,” Sargent and Lloyd-Hurwitz wrote.
Well, yes, that’s one way of putting it.
Cooper is clearly an academic of exceptional accomplishment – a point we made in the original item. But it’s facile to pretend she hasn’t been a beneficiary of substantial Labor government patronage at the state and federal level, and not least of all from Anthony Albanese.
Last year, the Albanese government appointed Cooper to the ministerial advisory board serving Jobs and Skills Australia. She was separately appointed to a Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce just months after Labor was elected in 2022.
Cooper and the PM actually go way back. Their friendly bants are still recoverable from deep behind the seat cushions of the ancient internet.
“I suspect @ayrestim will be pleased – @Raecooper1 not as much,” Albo tweeted in 2015 when he was shadow transport minister. At the time he was quoting a deleted post, so we don’t know to what he was referring, but he added a little beer jug emoji to the message.
“Yes,” Cooper replied. “I am way too ladylike to drink beer.” What? Beer too masculine now? And here we were, sexist pigs, thinking beer was the most gender-equal beverage of them all.
Trawl back further and you’ll find the Gillard government appointed Cooper chair of Hearing Australia in 2011. The Rudd government named her to its productivity agenda panel for the 2020 Summit (appalling boondoggle that turned out to be). Kristina Keneally’s Labor government in NSW made Cooper deputy chair of an advisory council on women, then appointed her to the board of the NSW TAFE Commission. And Bob Carr selected Cooper in 2005 for the board of the Rural Assistance Authority.
We wouldn’t be so foolish to suggest Cooper’s husband had a bearing on the $5m grant decision. Of course he didn’t. She’s clearly more powerful and connected. Still, Sargent and Lloyd-Hurwitz didn’t waste an opportunity to staggeringly miss the point.
“Professor Cooper’s leadership and decades of collaboration with colleagues across institutions secured this grant – not her marital status. Her work has shaped public policy and industry practice in many meaningful ways.
“To imply otherwise is unfair, sexist, and dismissive of her substantial achievements.”
And likewise to sweep aside Cooper’s blaring affiliations to the Labor Party and the union movement is droolingly stupid, as is calling these observations sexist, which is actually worse than stupid; it’s boring – as boring as Mehreen Faruqi looking for racism in a bowl of white rice. And it’s humourless, which is a capital offence to us. Be anything, but don’t be humourless.
But that’s what you get from Lloyd-Hurwitz, president of Chief Executive Women, the greatest self-love club in the history of self-love clubs. But what did Maslow say? When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
Oooh, nice barbs! Nice nice barbs! Well done to Mr Bashan!
Wow! An unusually frank and revealing article from the Oz. Just beggin’ for a misogyny squawk. Funny, too: “…as boring as Mehreen Faruqi looking for racism in a bowl of white rice.” Top shelf.
Thanks, Vagabond.
Oz also has one on Julia Bishop and ANU awarding a contract to her staffers. she is more in the modern ALP mould anyway I suppose. Although too much of a showpony even for them.
FMD Richo propping up the useless one…handsome boy
Former Labor senator Graham Richardson has commended Anthony Albanese, calling the prime minister a “pretty classy act” ahead of the highly anticipated federal election.
As a Cat commented earlier – “they put the wrong parts in the bucket”
Who to believe? Richo, or your own lying eyes.
Maybe “The wrong parts” were having Richo removed.
Former Labor senator Graham Richardson has commended Anthony Albanese, calling the prime minister a “pretty classy act” ahead of the highly anticipated federal election.
In one sense, Richo is right.
Low classy, especially towards Jews and Israel.
The lowest.
See also September 11 2001, which resulted in more frequent and destructive terrorists attacks globally and more moozleys than ever flooding into western nations, without the consent (or in many cases knowledge) of those nations’ populations.
I’m reminded of a j’ismist fabricated kerfuffle in the latter years of the little johnny hoWARd regime where the former worked themselves up into an orgiastic frenzy about the gliberals’ supposed “massive reductions” in immigration levels and the (obviously imaginary) detrimental consequences of this.
If it had actually happened, that is.
Turned out that the gliberals had been turbocharging mass immigration, allowing in more migrants than ever, especially arab moozleys.
This was borne out in an interview that should go down in infamy where a j’ismist asked that foul little rodent if he was aware that more moozley arabs were entering this country annually in the early 2000s than ever before. “Gee really, I didn’t know that”, was his gobsmacking response, with the j’ismist noting that hoWARd obviously appeared to be proud of this “achievement”.
He really was an evil irredeemable little deadshit.
One of my favourite writers.
As world mourns murder of Israel’s kidnapped Bibas babies, our government remains silent
Gemma Tognini
There was a notable silence in the Australian body politic across the past week.
This silence speaks to many things. Best-case scenario, it spoke of an inability to find words, but in saying this I think I’m being overly generous. I think it spoke to shame. To indifference. To a desire to divert attention to other things.
What I’m referring to is the silence from Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese; from the Greens. From unions for Palestine (the list is exhaustive, I’m sure you follow me) after the confirmation of how kidnapped Jewish babies Kfir and Ariel Bibas were murdered. Forensic examination by some of the world’s most advanced in their field confirmed that Kfir, who was just nine months old, and his toddler big brother, Ariel, were killed by hand. They were strangled, then their little bodies pummelled with what was most likely rocks and bricks to make it look as if they died in an airstrike.
What kind of evil exists for a person, with their bare hands, to choke the life out of an infant? To strangle a toddler, a baby still but old enough to understand what is happening to him? Old enough to understand terror, to scream for his mother until there is no breath left in his tiny body?
The world was aghast, consumed with horror. Countries from Argentina to Germany, from France to the US, responded in solidarity. The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, the Brandenburg Gate, all lit up in orange as a tribute to the two slain red-headed babies and their murdered mother, kidnapped from their homes and murdered by monsters. Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, is talking about changing the name of Palestine St to Bibas St.
Here in Australia? Silence. Not a word in response from the Prime Minister and Wong to this heinous act. Not so much as a sail on the Sydney Opera House lit up in orange to honour those murdered little boys.
For my sins, and to confirm this, I trawled through the official websites of the prime minister and foreign minister. You can see for yourself if you like. The websites contain not only official media releases but also every transcript of interviews and doorstops conducted: Search term: Bibas. Response? “No results found. Please try another term.”
So easy to tell Israel to exercise caution as mother Shiri Bibas and her sons Kfir and Ariel were being dragged away to their unspeakable death by Gazans. So easy to lecture and chide and talk about Israeli aggression. So silent when it counts. So complicit in that silence.
A child killed in the crossfire of a war zone is a tragedy. Two babies taken from their parents and murdered in cold blood, using bare hands, that is a manifestation of hell itself. Murders committed in the name of pursuing “sovereignty” – the same Palestinian sovereignty that Wong has all but fallen over herself to cheer for.
Respectfully, you’ve been very quiet this past week, Senator Wong. As have you, Prime Minister. Perhaps you’re hoping that voters forget that the ones cheering “From the river to the sea”, calling this war justifiable resistance, who also have been complicit in their silence, are your people. They are your constituents. Your unionists. Your voters. They are your luvvies in the arts sector and in tertiary education.
Perhaps naively I had expected more. Some kind of gesture or acknowledgment because this wasn’t just a crime in a war zone far from Australia, this was evil so blatant, unapologetic and so defiant it demands a response from those who still purport to believe in Judeo-Christan values and the rule of law.
What have we become? In the maddening silence, these words traversed my heart over and over. More a cry in the wilderness than a question. What have we become?
The lack of response gives a terrifying insight into the value of the Albanese government.
Labor is known for its slogan: Whatever it takes. Now we’re all seeing what this looks like in action. These are not Australian values.
For what it’s worth, when the Prime Minister was elected, I was on record as saying that if he were able to lead well, with strength and conviction, then Australia would prosper. These were sincere words.
Who would not want that, I asked. Not as someone who seeks a political career. There are few things I desire less. No, I said it as someone like you. Someone who has had a job since the age of 14. Pays (arguably, too much) tax. Has run a company in the real economy for 22 years. Has a mortgage. Bypasses certain things at the supermarket frequently these days because who can afford $7 for a punnet of raspberries? Don’t get me started on eggs …
We will vote soon. April, the word on the street is. Whatever the date, it’s not expected that parliament will sit again, which of course means Jim Chalmers won’t have to open the books for us before Albanese Labor asks for the keys to the farm for another three years.
I have a deep conviction that this will be a sliding-doors election.
Remember that 1998 movie where a young Gwyneth Paltrow, with an appalling British accent, alternates between two storylines on the two different paths her life may have taken depending on whether she catches her train?
This is us, Australia. Elections have real consequences. This one will be a moment of truth the likes of which we haven’t faced for many years.
Broader issues of national security, cost of living, a housing and immigration crisis – others can talk about those.
I want to talk about the attack on Australian values and identity being fuelled by people who hate both but oddly like living here. By people who have sought and in many cases have succeeded in bringing foreign conflicts to Australian streets while Albanese, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the rest of the “whatever it takes” gang look the other way.
The Prime Minister wants us to believe that things have been tough but are going to get better. He’s talking about the tangibles.
I don’t believe him, but what I want to talk about are the intangibles. The values that make us who we are. It’s not just that the Albanese government has abandoned our values but it has allowed others to trash them freely and without consequence.
It now has been revealed that Wong, Albanese’s closest confidante, spent her last visit to the UN dancing with the demons who seek to destroy Western democracies including our own.
Wong broke bread with governments that are among the world’s worst for human rights abuse. She preferred the company of Iranian officials, a country that prohibits women from showing their hair, singing or dancing. From having jobs without the permission of their husbands.
She didn’t meet any Israeli officials. Heaven forbid she might be exposed to information that might force a policy rethink.
Wong spent her time at the UN pressing for a timeline for Palestinian statehood. Statehood for people who would choke two babies to death to get it.
You become the company you keep. When this government shows us where its values lie, we’d better believe it.
Damn well said. Gemma has been a star on the issue.
Outstanding,, Gemma!
No self respecting Israeli official would be seen dead with Pong anyway. It would give the wrong impression (for both sides).
A sure sign that Labor is scrounging for cash to fund the lunatic spending heading into the election…..
Small business owners in Australiawill soon face significant changes in how they report their Business Activity Statements (BAS).
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has quietly announced that businesses with a history of late payments, incorrect reporting, or failure to lodge BAS on time will be required to submit their reports every month instead of quarterly.
Small business under the pump already, cops it again. And when a government department doesn’t pay on time, business is fckued.
Oh great. I don’t suppose they’ve realized yet that their email alert system doesn’t work. I’ve missed bas a few times because the alerts stopped working after a website change. When I tried to fix it I found I couldn’t, it wouldn’t let me. So now I have to remember when bas is due then login to myGov to do it.
I’m just going to so love it if they put me on the monthly cycle, especially since I’m retired and don’t do any business anyway.
I think originally the plan was monthly BAS anyway, until someone in the libs with a career before politics pointed out the oncerous nature of doing so.
Lizzie,
Quite right re my struggles for building approval. No objections from anyone, council approval- the usual nonsense -but granted after several months. Everything was within the existing building envelope.
Followed by a protracted deranged 18 month process employing a dozen consultants for a construction certificate.
In the process I didn’t get much change from $100,000 and took close to 2 years before work finally started .
The lift itself (apart from the building works) only costs $60,000.
The process is the punishment.
SC blocks muzzie judge from ordering Trump to resume USAID payments to overseas terrorists. This will have a flow on effect for all Trump’s EOs:
Supreme Court CRUSHES Activist Judges as IRS Begins SHUTTING DOWN! – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
Speaking of USAID:
Remember Reportedly USAID paid Hollywood stars to travel to Ukraine to get pictures with Zelensky – Van Dam – $1,500,000 Ben Stiller – $4,000,000 Sean Penn – $5,000,000 Orlando Bloom – $8,000,000 Angelina Jolie – $20,000,000 Should this be paid back? – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
Just imagine what rub and tug is surreptitiously spending in this shit hole.
Whenever I hear of these sort of largesses to the filthy rich for no real purpose, I am reminded of Kevin Rudd’s 2020 summit.
Costs a lot for butchers paper.
meme
what took so long to reach this conclusion, should have done it straight away
A bit of good news:
Suspended? Ah yes. To be quietly restored when they think we are not looking any more.
I don’t think that’ll be any time soon.
Have the media been yapping about the “holy” season of Ramadan yet?
And will they reciprocate next week with the “holy” season of Lent?
Don’t bother answering. We know who it is they serve.
DO we really care what the media says anymore? The only really influential media is right wing (the Tele and the Daily Mail). We have seen in the US that the whole edifice of the left-wing legacy media couldn’t, even with the help of the deep state stop trump from beling elected.
The best thing any conservative can do is to stop watching or reading any MSM and ignore them. They will soon fade away. In the near future fewer and fewer bright young people will be drawn to a career in the legacy media, which is becoming less prestigious and lucrative by the minute.
And for the Liberal party when they get control of the treasury to stop giving them handouts/advertising revenue as we know the ALP wont.
I can find in one search $150mil in savings via google, if I dug further bet I’d find more…
DO we really care what the media says anymore?
I do, because it’s the insidious, subliminal effect these omissions and commissions have on our society. In this instance, “holy” is now an unremarked descriptor. Yet try getting anyone to say that about a Christian festival.
It needs to be called out every single time.
re, your question above, Nein is on the job!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/all-smiles-for-channel-9-at-ramadan-festival.html
Shopping at Kuta this morning – the tailor’s. The Beloved has ordered a linen jacket and several shirts, all bespoke and lovely, high end fabrics. Mmmmm.
He’s going to look very snazzy, and hopefully not like a James Bond villain! We probably paid too much, but too bad.
I’m busy watching an industrious squirrel making a nest at the top of a coconut palm. Every so often it zips up the trunk with a mouthful of soft material. Watched a guy luring them down with food this morning. They are first rate moochers.
Another women’s clothing chain declared insolvent:
‘Ally’ with 185 shops in 5 states and c. 1000 staff.
You know economic circumstances are tough when women stop buying clothes.
If I were Albanese I’d be very worried.
Mrs Eyrie prefers to do BAS every month and uses the paper forms which are still an option.
Sorry if anyone posted this but I didn’t see this attack in Israel reported in local news:
Teen in critical condition after terror suspect plows car into bus stop, injuring 13 | The Times of Israel
It hasn’t been but I can read all about some soccer bint running to the arms of her footy boyfriend, stacks on Marty Shergold, bunch of stories recycled from UK/US and the only one that really interested me was something about a bloke with what looked like a Kukri running amok in a Canberra shopping centre. News.com for you but DM isn’t much better.
Chagos Judges Exposed as ANTI-BRITISH Activists. Lammy is Working AGAINST Britain’s Interest
@robinmonotti
Keir Starmer joined secretive CIA-linked group while serving in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet:
‘Declassified discovers Starmer joined the Trilateral Commission between 2017-18 while he was Corbyn’s shadow Brexit secretary
He is one of only two serving British MPs to have been a member, according to available records
Starmer spoke at group’s London event in 2017 alongside former heads of MI5 and GCHQ
Former CIA director said in 2019 “we will do our level best” to stop Corbyn getting elected
Corbyn’s former spokesman tells Declassified that Starmer’s membership “was plainly incompatible with Labour’s then-stated policies”
@robinmonotti
GEORGESCU RELEASED!
The Romanian people were going to enact a revolution so the NATO puppets had no choice!
Well done Romanians: YOU have the power not NATO!
Maple syrup and bacon ice cream:
No, no, no, no, no.
I would not be at all surprised if the Australian Gov was doing the same.
Poor fellow my country.
I suspect that many of these “foreign aid” programs are actually laundering money to Democrats and their mates.
Your government working hard for you – not:
NZYQ fiasco: 219 former detainees, criminals receive ‘special benefits payments’ courtesy of taxpayer
Australian taxpayers are paying more than 200 former immigration detainees – including murderers, rapists and pedophiles – a fortnightly cash payment of up to $1000.
Australian taxpayers are paying more than 200 former immigration detainees – including murderers, rapists and pedophiles – a fortnightly cash payment of up to $1000.
And the number in the cohort receiving the “special benefits payment” has increased from 186 to 219 since September last year.
This masthead can further reveal there are now 291 of the group – referred to as NZYQ after a High Court decision to release them two years ago – in the community, which is double the amount from April last year.
About 70 have to wear an electronic monitoring device and 42 are subject to a curfew.
Shadow government services minister Claire Chandler said the Albanese government was effectively now paying criminals.
“The NZYQ cohort are criminals including murderers, rapists and child sex offenders, yet now we find out that 219 of them are getting cash “special benefits payments” from the government,” said Senator Chandler.
“Not only has the Albanese Government failed to protect Australians from these criminals, they’ve been paying them in cash to be out in the community.”
The cash transfer from Services Australia ranges from $778 a fortnight for a single person with no children to $1007.50 for a single principal carer.
The so-called NZYQ cohort were convicted of serious criminal offences but released into the community after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unlawful in 2023.
The landmark ruling released hundreds of detainees into the community after the court ruled in favour of a stateless man who had raped a 10-year-old in Australia.
In February, the Albanese government struck a deal with the Nauru government to resettle three NZYQ cohort members, including a convicted murderer, for an undisclosed sum. The deal was the first use of new laws passed in November that allow Australia to pay other countries to accept unlawful non-citizens.
At the time of the Nauru deal, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said people who had had their visas cancelled for appallingcharacter should leave Australia.
A Home Affairs department spokesperson said the government was working to identify removal options for each member of the NZYQ cohort.
“BVR holders are eligible for Special Benefit and matters regarding Special Benefit are a matter for Services Australia,” said the spokesperson.
Courier-Mail
I dare you not to giggle! 😀
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A public servant will have signed off on this payment in each case as it is discretionary.
There are also allowances & supplementary payments (covering everything from rent assistance to telephone costs and pharmaceuticals) attached that boost the payment above the base rates mentioned.
Dutton should be all over this.
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