Misplaced satire there KD. The footage of the collapsing building is horrifying. See Dover’s link.
Open Thread Weekend 1 March 2025
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CBA div lobbed today. Yum. I don’t do Moet though.
Katherine maher the supercilious bitch and ceo of NPR is also the CEO of Signal which enabled the leftoid media…
More Burmese/Thai ‘earthquake’ news (the Tele): A powerful earthquake has rattled Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand, trapping dozens of workers in…
Re 1, COMSEC is nor prehistoric. Re 2, maybe, but dependent on this group chat channel. Re 3, I’m absolutely…
I have another confession to make, and it’s not even Yom Kippur!
The other day, walking into Town Hall station, I spied a fish and ship shop and I found myself walking in the direction of this shop. Standing in front of the shop, I eyed potato scallops, something I hadn’t eaten in….say…..over a decade, and I then greedily ordered four! I took one bite and then guzzled the other four scallops before I’d even talked into Town Hall Woollies
Fcking delicious!
I ask…who doesn’t like, who cannot like…..potato scallops?
lol
I don’t want to start an argument but…..
Potato CAKES
NO!
They’re not a cake. A cake is made by rising and cooking flour + additives.
A potato scallop is made from a scalloped potato slice + batter.
a good potato cake is getting hard to find
we’ve have a whole rating system for potato cakes going for nearly 20 years
local Chinese run fish and chips called Sharkeys hits an 8.5
try them with too much salt and French raspberry vinegar
the best!
Where is this place???
Mandurah?
Wait, there’s Sharkey’s all over the place!
(Hudson may-be right.)
2740.4 Km east-south-east of Mandurah
do the raspberry vinegar … it’s next level
Okay, I’m in. But post the address before you go to sleep.
nah
what you do is get on-line and find a good French provender who can supply raspberry vinegar, tarragon vinegar and green-peppercorn mustard
then you go to the local chippery with the A1 mix of thick-cut potato and crispy (not too crispy) batter on their potato cakes
order too many and dip them in the raspberry vinegar while saying frenchy things like … avec and Gâteau aux pommes
then you have a steak the next night with peppercorn mustard on the side and use the tarragon vinegar in the salad dressing
and drink pinot noir
and count your blessings
A cheeseburger with potato cakes instead of buns. Give that a crack.
Are you some kind of Lumberjack?
Lumberjack …
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory
On Wednesdays I go shopping
And have buttered scones for tea
Cass,
The Yeeros shop at Marrikville has great freshly done potato scallops as well as fresh potato chips. They are in my view, mouth watering. Old style Greek shop. Well worth the visit.
I salivated as soon as I saw the magic words – Potato scallops.
In our household, they and hash browns are called grease sponges.
People need to understand there is a venture capitalist attitude in this administration.
It’s move fast and if people aren’t on board either change the people or pull the pin on the idea.
It is that simple.
There are unlimited places & opportunities for this administration to deploy their energy.
If you want to play hard to get or squeeze them for more money or dick them around, you’ll be dropped and they’ll move onto the next opportunity.
Zelensky just found that out.
Great observation.
its also trust that’s why you have to move fast.
some of us don’t move that fast
Bern
100% right.
It’s a version of trader lingo. Cut your loss, move on and look for the next trade.
Didn’t get nearly enough coverage, Joe Gebbia, co founder of Airbnb has joined DOGE.
Worth a lazy 10bill USD, former democrat, Hillary & Biden donor, answered Elon’s call.
First stop, fixing the paper based retirement system for federal employees.
Hard to find an administration with so many people with operational & logistical experience at the pointy end.
the uke dwarf trying to scaremonger with all the credibility of a CNN journo.
Trump and JD were perfectly right to call it out for what is. utter BS
I think The Poot will take the opportunity to just move everything to the Ukraine Front and do a dash for the Dnieper, take everything East of it – leaving just a holdout pocket of Kiev and a means for resupply for it to feed the civies.
He’ll call victory and dare anyone to move him. Ideal defensive terrain – a largish river, the east side bank full of mud and swamp grasses.
And the winter river freeze is over for the next 8 months.
Hard to find an administration with so many people with operational & logistical experience at the pointy end.
Seriously and genuinely exciting. Just hope it rubs off on this side of the Pacific.
bwahahah
Sorry, just won’t happen.
All herbs reserved for maaates and Yartz/Law graduates only.
Cats with Netflix, cool movie from Alex Garland is just about to leave.
Annihilation.
Once you get past Natalie Portman playing Natalie Portman the same way she does in every movie, it’s a cool sci fi flick.
@amuse
UKRAINE: Secretary Bessent confirms this was the third time Zelensky has agreed to the terms of the mineral deal only to back out. This time it was staged for the media.
My reading too. And, I suspect, Trump’s and Vance’s.
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And a couple of squadrons of Thunderbolt II, and re equip the RFDS with Osprey aircraft to train up a squadron for SAS insertion roles in a future conflict on Australian and island conflict.
Cats, it’s time to pay homage to the M12 (again).
The definitive polo shirt.
UB40
Tender
I’ve only got 12 of them (and seven that I can still fit into) … 😕
On the oirish …
Blundering ‘ome last noight after catching up with some Cats at the Crown in Sydneystan, metro only going to Central – caught an airport line train to Mascot (suburban) got off and hailed an uber – surrounded by 10 oirish “blue collar” peoples (including some tastee coleens) and when their uber finally turned up, said to one of the nearest proximity walleees – “Oirish Peoples, I’m not having it!”
The look on his big stupid face was instantly transformed, err, from good to … not so good. 😕
Anyway, they would have thought I was an Englishman, due to the accent (faked) and the M12.
Bwaaaaahhh!
Lindsay Graham has come out to the media several times and wiped the floor with his erstwhile bosom buddy Zelenskiy. He was the leading US Congress hawk having visited Ukraine 9 times and the biggest voice for arms and hundreds of Billion$$$ to Ukraine. A complete 180 degree flip.
That meeting with what looked a coked up Z has just destroyed Ukraine’s whole strategy to prosecute the war. Ukraine’s only other source for money and arms is the euroweenies, who are all falling over themselves on X showing their fervent support for Z. Big bad orange man gets the wagging fingers and scowls. But they wont pony up in blood and only meagre arms.
After the world kissing his arse for so long, Z looked absolutely gobsmacked as he was put in his place. Even called JDV a son of a bitch in bastardised Uke/Russo lingo. Trump was right. Z isn’t ready for a peace deal. He’s still hooked on the grift and whole notoriety thing.
@laralogan
Ukraine war for dummies:
Trump: End the war – too many people are suffering & no one wants World War III.
Putin: Ok.
Zelensky: No, Give me more money & weapons.
Globalists: Trump is pro Putin.
Wethepeople: F*** off.
End the war. No more money/weapons.
to be credible as a real super-villain Z(with two Y’s) needs a turtle-neck skivvie
Trump’s Ukraine Gambit
Zelensky is the perfect useful idiot for the demorats who are using him to attack Trump and support the military industrial complex and fuk the US and the West:
Democrats, Never Trumpers Inflated Zelensky’s Arrogance Before Oval Office Disaster
How do you deal with these bastards. They are destroying the West and they are impervious to reason and common sense.
Sydney Mardi Gras 2025: ABC slammed over its ‘terrible’ coverage as Lidia Thorpe makes an appearance following her ‘protest’ last year which brought the parade to halt
Daily Mail. Does Lidia Thorpe know that, in traditional Aboriginal society, gay Indigenous people had their legs broken, and were left in the bush to die?
@robinmonotti
At least it’s finally clear that NATO is the aggressor that is occupying Europe to suck the life blood of the European people like a parasite. It is not the “America” represented by Trump & Vance, it is the globalist oligarchy represented by Macron, Starmer & the EU kommissars.
Wow something just went kaboom in the ‘ville.
Shook the whole house. Came from south too.
Earthquake in Mt Stewart Army Training area. 4.7 on scale.
LOL watch tin foil hatter go nuts with this…
They’re all singing from the same songbook.
@robinmonotti
It’s almost as if this was all set up in advance as a failed NATO psyop!
@JamesMelville
Question the Covid response?
“Covidiot”
Question Ukraine war?
“Putin apologist”
Question net zero?
“Climate change denier”
Question the Covid vaccine?
“Anti-vaxxer”
These lazy gaslighting tropes are designed to shut down, smear and undermine any questioning of the narrative.
narrative denier
That’s been obvious for yonks. All it takes to deal with it is an indifference to being called names.
I don’t care, Margaret.
‘Transphobe’, ‘Raaacist’, ‘Bigot’, ‘Islamophobe’ …
All are shutdown words, all should be ignored.
On the public stage, they must be publicly predicted PRIOR to making a statement.
i.e. ‘I expect my opponents – who seem to thrive on other people’s misery – will label me a colonising, racist bigot for stating this, but …’
It’s called an Accusation Audit (TM & apologies to the Black Swan Group). The idea is to take ‘the wind out of their sails’ before they have an opportunity to do so to you. They may still call you names, but the effect of the same will have been lessened.
Essentially, it’s about taking the initiative, rather than submissively reacting to someone else’s tactics.
Cats, remember when it was only collectivists ranting on about the MIC?
Since becoming a non-collectivist, I’ve found some of my treasured beliefs while an erstwhile collectivist, returning (again).
Such as, “Thou shalt not bankroll pointless foreign conflicts with other peoples’ money”
and yes, Gil Scott Heron is indeed revolving in his grave.
Remember, though, that it was not Pete Seeger but Dwight D Eisenhower, General and Republican president, who coined the term “military-industrial complex” and denounced it.
The take I referred to above:
Correct, the short clip makes it look like Zelensky was suddenly ambushed, the long clip puts it all in context.
Trump’s real goal should be to ‘end US support for the Ukraine war’, not ‘ end the Ukraine war’. Its an instantly achieveable goal.
Hairy proved right again. As I said upthread, his immediate response to my query re what was the Oz headline about was to say we can only answer that by watching the whole thing.
Which we did.
Later, I watched GB News in the UK take it to the pub for a comment. Pub owner felt sorry for Zelensky but basically said the pub feeling was everyone just wanted the war to stop and didn’t really care how Trump did that.
An Ozzie Rock ‘n’ Roll Classic … 🙂
Cracker
You can’t blame the effort but it won’t work. He’s not going to forgot those that stuck with Russia these last three years nor what was imposed on them by the West.
Let’s shoot the perfesser! 🙂
Do anything that you want me to …
We’ll hold your coat, Keir.
Have at him!
I’m sure you’ll be able to sort Vlad out by teatime.
There needs to be more “thanks champ” in the twitter replies when world leaders make these kinds of statements.
Handsome boy Albo has hopped aboard the ‘slava ukraini’ train too, and we are even further away from Europe than the US
I see you, baybee …
Shakin’ that bottomage … 😕
I haven’t declared victory yet for Putin, I was just wondering where people who previously intimated that Trump was going to curb stomp Putin thought this was going to go after he curb-stomped Zelensky. Not sure how a new leader makes the situation better for Ukraine. In what sense does the situation become more agreeable to the Administration? Does UKR become more amenable to negotiations with Putin? Does there military position improve for UKR? What exactly?
Very funny.
To be precise, “Fiery but mostly peaceful” meeting.
It’s that time of night …
The middle lady is mine!
I’m going home.
Wake up you lot!
Ever seen a girl give a microphone a head job?
Zelensky showed up with major loser talk victimhood stinky lines coming off him.
Nothing could be more designed to trigger Trump and Vance than that.
Go home, take a good hard look at yourself, come back giving off winner vibes.
Vance has gone down in my estimation also.
I think this effs up his chances for 2028.
If he allows himself to be Trump’s head kicker exclusively it will bite him on the arse.
Which is a major bummer, I was looking forward to President JD.
…and remember, I predicted VP JD before Trump choose him.
I am still looking forward to President JD. Even when being argumentative and forthright he maintains his mental acuity.
He will learn from this to temper public aggression with a more nuanced response. Don’t forget that there is a learning curve to becoming President and he has the VP role to explore what works and to move up that curve.
Trump didnt have to have TV cameras there, it should have been closed doors, then your estimation of JD wouldnt have been shattered. Or was this then a 5d move by Trump to nail Zelensky and JD….how do you handle transparency as it can bite you on the arse. Its changed your view of JD.
Yes, but it was the Ukes that pressed for the live presser apparently – obviously felt he had the showmanship to upstage Trump.
Vance has gone down in my estimation also. I think this effs up his chances for 2028.
Vance (and Trump) was working to a pre determined script here – the goal was to get Zelensky replaced as Ukrainian leader, paving the way for someone more negotiable.
Lets wait a bit and see what pans out.
Week In Pictures.
My favourite – and not because it’s not funny – but what would happen if we just ignored the bureaucratic state and made it double down to the point where it gaoled us for petty shit?
made it double down to the point where it gaoled us for petty shit?
What, like failing to wear a mask when alone in your car?
And did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?
Have a look at this! Impressive work.
Really Slow Motion – Aqua Dreams (EXTENDED Remix by Kiko10061980)
Gerry Rafferty – Night Owl (Official Video)
It is amazing how many songs Barry released.
Bonkers.
Bee Gees – Tragedy (Moreno J Remix)
I see its a Karen that has the job of chief Karen 😉
Trump’s gambit to get Europe to stop sponging off the US seems to be working.
Rachel Reeves sends billions in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine (1 Mar)
Hitherto green energy has been an untouchable sacred cow in the UK especially with this Labour government. It’s not the first such change either – last week they diverted foreign aid to defence too.
How does that stop the war between Ukraine and Russia and how does the USA get its $300 odd billion back? Am i not understanding things?
I think it harks back to his first term when he spent a lot of effort trying to get Europe to increase defence spending, and they dragged their heels. Now with a war going on, and the US showing signs of pulling out, they can’t get away with it anymore.
Bit late for this additional reply but this chart has been around lately (which I saw on Instapundit just now):
The key is the bottom axis: the US is more or less paying $750 billion per year to defend Europe (and, for that matter, us). All they have to do is halve that and Trump has saved US taxpayers more than the $300 billion.
Some interesting comments to the Daily Express Article –
“Who gave Rachael from accounts permission to give that money away.
The UK is financially broken due to her amateur accounting skills.”
“More money for Ukraine but nothing for the British people”
Zelensky Hugged by UK PM Starmer After Trump Dressing Down
Grotesque. Little thug with his pals on Airstrip1
Re the “fiery but peaceful meeting” in the Oval Office, one of my predicted outcomes is that sales of men’s suits will surge worldwide. You want respect, dress for the occasion was the message loud and clear.
If I have snow this winter, I may have to try building a different type of Snowman. 😀
Pogria, I’ll see your snowmen and raise you with Calvin snowmen 🙂 :
Beertruk, these are the Calvin snowmen I prefer. 😀
Vdh on Zelenskyy
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1895892571664343159?t=XYZJu_-o23eBTpATA4gsjQ&s=19
Top Stuff.
Just read it over at Powerline, excellent. I’ll link it because Steven Hayward also includes comments from David Goldman (aka Spengler) which are complementary to VDH’s.
Hanson & Goldman on the Oval Office Showdown | Power Line
Dont know why this major thesis on Zelensky. Hes not dumb hes always been cunning sewer rat , maybe this recent meeting with Trump and Vance opened a few eyes which was all it was good for.
So why isnt the art of the deal being called out for the fuk up it really was. Two guys trying to catch a sewer rat.
Apparently it was Zelensky who insisted on the Oval Office meeting and signing ceremony.
Top Zelensky adviser pushed for Oval Office mineral deal signing — against Trump envoy Kellogg’s advice (NY Post, 28 Feb, via Powerline)
Then Z stuffed it up. Worth reading for insight into the background negotiations, and the comments from various sources on both sides.
I know Trump is trying to get back something from a bad deal from the previous administration. But surely they would have been wise to Zelensky prior to broadcasting the meeting.
And this he didnt wear a suite shtick, Zelensky dress for solidarity just like Lech Walesa did, for the people.
Don’t know what Ukrainian for Bogan is but he is one.
I agree with most of what VDH is saying but:
Nobody knows what the casualty lists are, and until we find out, we don’t know the human cost of this stupid war.
Don’t forget too that Poms were over in the US last year trying to help the ‘rats. What a grotesque little country Britain has become.
Great to see the gazillion dollars getting funnelled from Australian taxpayers to the Big Men in PNG under the guise of an NRL team has paid off with them keeping us informed of Chinese military plans.
Oh.
Wait.
Seriously, the ink not even dry on the NRL team slush fund and PNG acts like China is the better bet.
Maybe we should send them more taxpayer money.
Surely that will get the result we want.
Surely !!
Nats forum yesterday at Bendigo with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Bridget McKenzie and local hopeful Andrew Lethlean.
-It wasn’t a forum as advertised as all questions were pulled from the on-line registration process.
-Lethlean failed to background himself and sell a vision for Bendigo. A very safe Labor seat.
-Jacinta spoke well and off the cuff but The Voice and Alice Springs aren’t current or topical for this election or the electorate.
-Bridget was amusing at times and did attack the sitting member. Still provided no compelling case for the Nats in Bendigo.
-Much talk about school curriculum and law & order, both state responsibilities.
-Immigration numbers had a run but still not a biggie locally.
-Mentioned Albo’s money drop in Melb with zero for the bush but failed to link that to the Labor member.
-The ‘rah rah give yourself a clap’ stuff is trite and pointless. The crowd made me feel young and there’s not much rah rah left in them.
-Lethlean has put out a big number of posters and is very visible, it’s yet to be seen if he can tear the public servants of Bendigo away from the drip feed. I doubt it.
-To win Bendigo they have to pull Lisa Chesters off her comfortable perch. She’s a puffed up parrot that could be exposed by a hard edged attack. Nothing about yesterday gave me impression the Nats know how to do this.
JD Vance was born into a poor Appalachian family. Vance is of Ulster Scots Irish descent, the blood that runs through his veins is the same blood as those rugged men from the 18th century who laid down the economic, social and political foundations of the country now known as America. He was raised by his maternal grandparents because his frequently drug-addled mother struggled for years with addiction. It is all laid out in Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy.
Like so many who share Vance’s dismal economic and social beginnings, be they ‘white trash’, ‘black trash’ or ‘Latino trash’, be they hillbillies like Vance or be they from the now barren wastelands that was once the American industrial powerhouse….aka ‘the rust belt’, the usual way to dig your way out of poverty has been through enlisting in the military. This same ‘trash’, white, black, Latino or whatever, are the lifeforce of the US military complex, a complex completely dependent on poor young men and women enlisting to improve their opportunities in life. It takes them away from their dysfunctional families, towns and cities and it gives them a job but enlisting is a quid pro quo deal, you join up to be deployed as human fodder but that same military can and will give you opportunities, such as through the G.I bill. That was an opportunity JD took up, after being deployed to Iraq, serving with distinction, Vance took up the educational opportunities offered through the G.I. Bill and won a place at Yale
This human fodder, these naive young men and women, just like Vance over 20 years ago, are sent to fight wars in countries I can guarantee you they’d never heard of prior to enlisting.
I think that after Afghanistan and Iraq many Americans are a little wary of sending their young men and women to fight in foreign wars, and of sending billions of dollars to arm a country with an ungrateful and rude clown as president, particularly when across the US there are barren and dysfunctional wastelands in urgent need of billions of dollars. That old saying is apt…..charity begins at home.
Both Vance and Trump want to save lives, neither are warmongers. And Vance, even more so than Trump, is the voice of the ‘white trash, the ‘black trash’ and the ‘Latino trash’, he speaks for those young men and women who enlist in the military, he speaks for middle America, he speaks for those barren economic wastelands.
I look forward to President Vance. Watching Vance, I was reminded of presidents of old, be they Johnson, Lincoln, Jackson and so on, men who spoke their minds and who didn’t give a shit what others thought.
Two final thoughts…firstly, Zelensky, despite his penchant for fancy dress, be it military or clown, has never seen active service. JD Vance has.
Secondly, the enemy is not Russia, the enemy is China. That’s not to say Vladimir Putin is a good man, he’s not, he’s a ruthless despotic tsar in the same vein as his heroes from Russian history…..Tsar Peter and Tsar Nicholas I, and anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Russian history knows that.
100% Cassie. I would only add that the external enemy is China and that Trump and Vance are simultaneously having to confront both external and internal enemies. It will be no mean feat and lord knows we desperately need them to prevail.
I’m with you on Vance, Cassie, ever since I read Hillbilly Elegy. It struck a chord with me, as it has done with many. I’ve had similar struggles in my own life and upbringing, for those who don’t know, just one of many millions in Western nations who chime in emotionally to JD’s world. I’ve also given Hillbilly Elegy to my grandson to read, to surely recognise in it the drugged world of his parents in Sydney’s public housing as he fights his way out of it.
Vance’s book is a tour de force about the American rust belts (they are mutliple). It is both personal and sociological in its approach and can extend its reach to many Western nations who have hollowed out their manufacturing in exchange for vote herds and wokeness. Sydney’s West when I lived there was a manufacturing powerhouse; my mum worked in a factory on the production line; my father swept floors in one after his own dreams evaporated. Now the West is housing estates of migrants and others on government ‘jobs’, the DSP or the dole.
I’ve lived in the north of England more recently, and it’s the same sad tale.
When JD berated Zelinsky for rudeness, for lack of thanks, it was his old grandma Mamaw speaking from hillbilly days and ways, and also his time in the military. Shape up, be grateful, show respect, don’t answer back rudely.
You are right that he speaks as he finds fit. Used well it is an asset. As I’ve said about it though, JD must temper it with caution and nuance in the big wide world of politics. Life outside the boondocks is a big learning curve. No need to tell me that. Good luck, JD. For as you explain in your book and I know only too well, JD, it takes spectacular luck, the coming together of a range of people and circumstances for the one individual, to make the leap you made.
Here’s wishing you all the luck in the world, JD, from me and those millions of others who see themselves somewhere in your early experiences and indeed from all of those who hope to see you as President one day.
Lindsey Graham is a weasel. I’ve seen him do about faces before. Here Tucker explains this one.
@TuckerCarlson
One of the most striking things about yesterday’s Zelensky press conference was Lindsey Graham’s reaction to it. The two are old friends, but Graham disavowed him within the hour. This was more than just transactional disloyalty. It was scapegoating. Lindsey Graham knows what’s coming. Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes. The Ukrainians sold huge quantities of American weapons on the international black market at twenty cents on the dollar. These weapons are now in the hands of armed groups around the world, including Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels and the forces now controlling Syria. God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country. Even US intel agencies aren’t sure. The Ukrainians have also murdered a number of people in various countries in political assassinations, and tried to murder others, including American journalists and a European head of state. This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point. Better to start blaming it on Zelensky now.
Also I think because Graham had just hosted the Zelensky entourage, with a bunch of Democrat senators and a handful of RINO’s promising ongoing support for Ukraine, before arriving at the White House.
Trump cannot afford to allow multiple ‘official’ contact points and mixed messaging with the Ukes. No doubt his people will be reading those idiot Senators the riot act, including Graham.
I saw Eddies McGuire’s kid on Fox being interviewed in Vegas ahead of the NRL season launch.
He sounds exactly like his father.
PS he’s getting paid something like $US100k per year to be the punter for Ohio State, current national champs.
@RandyRRQuaid
Gene Hackman and his wife are murder victims, some scum bags did it and staged it. Stop talking about the films he is in, this is how they get away with murdering famous people! Fake News starts generating film clips. How is it possible I know at least 6 people who have died like Carradine, Hackman, Ledger?
Randy Quaid might not be the most reliable source.
Unless he’s discussing Kingpin, one of the great comedies.
The death of the dog, one of three but a German Shepherd, might go some way towards supporting this. I think they’ve ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning.
If it had just been Gene 95, you probably wouldn’t bat21 an eyelid, but his wife was 30 years younger, and the dog? Definitely seems more to it.
@MarioNawfal
BREAKING: UK SIGNS NEW £2.6 BILLION DEFENSE LOAN FOR UKRAINE
The United Kingdom has agreed to provide £2.6 billion in loans to boost Ukraine’s defense capabilities.
And all that money will be tied to purchases of UK military equipment, it wont be a cash transfer. The real purpose of European support for the Ukraine war is support for European defence industry.
And all coming from the ‘National Wealth Fund’ apparently – seems like a great investment…
Which nation? The national poverty fund for UK nationals by the look of it.
@Eric_Schmitt
Zelenskyy could have signed the deal five days earlier but wanted to come to the White House.
He’d been difficult for two weeks. Yet he wanted the White House meeting. Trump was upbeat about it even just the day before publicly and privately the day of.
Although he could have reset the whole thing Zelenskyy was antagonistic and over the top.
There are no more cards to play. No more “it could be your sons next” or “one more year and we’ll have them on their knees.”
America has to move to our core interests now: Homeland and China.
All he had to do was smile for the cameras, sign the minerals deal and have lunch. That’s it. He couldn’t do it. He failed his country and the relatively standard practice for an Oval Office meeting like this.
There are now serious questions if we can even deal with him. He blew it.
He had a one foot putt but was more interested in litigating issues that should be discussed behind closed doors (and have been) in public.
It is in the national interest of the U.S. for there to be a peace deal. Now.
Trump ran on this. It’s not a surprise.
There will be no more money for war there. Not from us.
Now is the time for peace.
Outcomes from the Oval Office 2. As well as an increase in sales of suits, I also predict a major diversion of funds from the green energy scam to defense budgets. Net Zero is dead so great excuse/opportunity to swap out.
Apparently the UK loan funding to the Ukes would otherwise have gone to renewable energy projects, so there’s that!
Good. Let the European loudmouths put their money where their mouth is.
@officer_Lew
JUST IN: The White House has announced that there will be no more aid to Ukraine
Trump administration press secretary Caroline Leavitt stated that the U.S. will no longer provide military assistance to Ukraine because their priority is peace negotiations.
Think Trump was aggressive to Zelenskyy for no reason?
Watch the whole talk.
Timestamps below.
Zelenskyy was emotional.
Interrupted Trump.
Called Putin names.
Raised his eyebrows.
All before Trump checked him.
And he called Vance a bitch.
He wasn’t ready for peace.
https://x.com/thatsKAIZEN/status/1895619010982719659
This is what the traitors ignored while they were stuffing Zelinsky’s mouth with dollars.
@SecDuffy
Today, Interstate 40 reopens in North Carolina and Tennessee after a five month closure from Hurricane Helene. @POTUS made rebuilding these states a priority. @USDOT is committed to making that happen as fast and efficiently as possible.
There’s still a lot of work to do, but the reopening of I-40 today is a big step in the right direction.
There’s a reconstruction lesson there for both Ukraine and Gaza.
video in Russian(?) and English sub-titles
@mymomcare
Paging @DOGE @elonmusk
Birds of a feather.
Zelensky Hugged by UK PM Starmer, Who Vows to Stand With Ukraine ‘As Long As It May Take’
Got another 20 years Starmer for the same outcomes as now?
I don’t think Joe and Josephine Blow in the UK who are struggling to pay their bills will be very impressed.
Especially if they are elderly and shivering because they can’t afford the power bills.
Exclusive — Mike Waltz: Trump Smackdown of Zelensky a ‘Moment in History’
WH: Support Rolls in for Trump After Standoff With Zelenskyy
An interesting read with your morning coffee.
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/zelenskyys-meltdown-and-a-history?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=txwbk&triedRedirect=true
An interesting analysis. I knew 75% of this but the other analysis by George brings the parts together cogently. I’m not well read enough to know whetherhis take on MI6 etc are correct. But some of it fits. He ignores that donbass arced up early and that kyiv responded to Russian builup of forces in donbass. The Malay jet was brought down by a Russian air defence unit in donbass. There are more layers to this than he infers.
Whilst I accept the official position on the Malaysian shoot down as the most likely, I still will not be surprised if it ultimately turns out to have been a false flag.
The official position is contrived bullshit.
My mate who at the time of the shoot down was doing a course at school of infantry reckons it was likely rebels manning the Buk with Spetsnaz handlers. The Buk has 2 settings one for illiterate peasants to shoot down radar blips and the other for trained operators that would have identified that it was an airliner.
My 2c worth at the time was why were airliners going anywhere near a low level conflict if it was known these platforms were kicking around? Malaysia was on an unlucky run of luck at that stage.
As for the war, it needs to come to an end as it is a distraction from the real build up going on in the Pacific. Should be a wake up call to how unprepared we are.
In light of what has happened since the correct question re MH 17 is “who benefits”. Clearly the Ukes putting shit on the Russians.
False flag.
Very well put.
Pleased to see someone has put together the political machinations that have created this stupid, stupid, war.
And it points the finger directly at those who encouraged it.
NATO is – ultimately – the bad man in this collection of bad men.
Crossie
March 1, 2025 1:09 pm:
From Yesterday – every time I see that Vindman creep, I feel like I’m seeing something really slimy and corrupt – which is unusual, as the other three just leave me cold.
Vindman strikes me as someone who has a hidden computer at home with lots of .jpg files on it that is protected by an an EMP wiper.
Morn, well our earthquake attracted some attention.
Default depth when instruments can’t get good fix at 10km. Right next the dam wall on the Army Training area.
Lasted all of about 10 sec, rumble then boom and rumble after.
Sounds like some form of energy weapon testing.
What you need to know about: Labor’s Victorian cash splash…
Labor at risk of losing eight seats to Coalition in Victoria
What you do when the Farcup Fairies move in.
…and they’ll get replaced by the Liberal Labour Lite Party.
Jesus bloody Christ.
When are we going to get some grownups in charge?
Slightly after we get grownup voters.
I’m old enough to remember when Victoria was a traditionally safe liberal state, indeed the crown jewel of the Liberal Party.
Think Henry Bolte, Rupert Hamer, and, of course, Bob Menzies.
Modern j’ismists know nothing that happened before they went to university.
Susan Rice Goes on MSNBC to Make it Clear Where Her Allegiances Lie, and It is Not with America
The Russia Hoax That Cost Lives: How the Deep State’s Lies Led to Ukraine’s Downfall
rong post.
It Isn’t A ‘Crisis’ For Trump To Fire Flag Officers, It’s A Crisis To Think He Can’t
Count the commanders of the Army of the Potomac fired by Lincoln before Meade arrived, with Grant supervising him.
@VDHanson
Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up
1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign.
2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone’s sake.
3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises—given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.
4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed.
5. What are Zelenskyy’s alternatives without much U.S. help—wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again?
6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went?
7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage—none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House.
8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards he seems to think are a winning hand?
9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well—until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader.
10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025.
Quo vadis, Volodymyr?
VDH nails it.
Good analysis. But as I posted below the msm is just wallowing in TDS and Trump is rude.
The msm whose news services are going broke as their audiences dwindle?
Huge programming dilemma for SBS this weekend.
How best to insult their audience – faggot festival, or ramadan?
Looks like they’ve gone with Mardi Gras.
A no brainer really…ethnics don’t watch our $1.8bn a year ethnic broadcasting service, least of all Muslims I suspect.
Which raises the obvious question….Why does it exist?
Arguable case pre internet. Post internet – zero case for a single tax dollar.
Listening to bultitude, a hack on 2sm, this morning. Bultitude has pronounced TDS and is chortling about how zelensky is getting great support from starmer, the krauts and the demorats in the US. I rang him yesterday to defend Trump on the basis Trump wants to end the war while the little bastard zelensky wants to continue it with the US footing the bill. Bultitude could not grasp this basic point and like all the other TDS arseholes focused on Trump’s rudeness and nothing substantial. So now the little grifter is a hero and Trump once again is Hitler/Jack the Ripper/the rudest man in history for wanting to stop the Ukraine bloodshed.
Christensen has published a good analysis of Zelensky and what Trump wants to do:
Zelenskyy’s Meltdown & a History Lesson
Next time promote the idea of a draft to support Ukraine.
Bultitude’s daughter can be first.
See if that changes his chickenhawkishness.
Nah, he’s braindead; he can’t get past Trump is rude; the issue of ending the war is beyond the arrogant POS.
so many are in denial that the only path to kicking Russia out of Donbas and Crimea is just like Vietnam. A slow ratchet upwards of involvement until refrigerated containers of full body bags start coming home.
Good stuff by Christensen.
I wake up to see Der Sturmer hugging Zelensky. I also read that Zelensky will ‘catch up’ with Ramadan date packing King Chuck, a descendant of both Tsar Peter and Tsar Nicholas (who’d both be turning in their graves at their descendant).
Just to remind some here that Der Sturmer’s government has locked up indigenous English men and women for tweets, at the same time releasing Islamists, r*pists and peterfiles. Islamists, r*pists and peterfiles have a lot in common. We really do live in an odd world.
Not odd, Cassie.
Sick.
Our Ruling Classes have an illness that in the past was cured by the mob and the hangman’s noose or the guillotine.
In their arrogance and hubris, they are not listening to the doctors diagnosis or the rumblings from the streets.
Related to Tsar Peter and Tsar Nicholas, but not descendant. Otherwise, I agree with every word.
All the Euro chest beating after the fiery but mostly peaceful meeting has been tremendously entertaining.
I’m looking forward to one carefully moisturised and coiffed tub-thumper showing all the cowards how it’s done.
snork!
The same UK government which is so broke it is cutting disability benefits and leaving potholes in roads outside of metropolitan areas unrepaired.
Z turning up to a crucial meeting with POTUS in leisurewear, and behaving like a spoilt teenager, is out there for everyone to see.
Trump and Vance have shown ‘look what we have to deal with’ while the Euroweenies have to put their money where there mouths are.
Perfect.
As mentioned before, this is the kind of thing that gives ‘seasoned diplomats’ nervous breakdowns.
The Deep State isn’t just operating in the domestic sphere.
Today in History.
Eighty-one years ago today, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy began to sustain one of the most significant brief-period losses of their South West Pacific Campaign.
Known to the Japanese as Operation 81, and to the Allies as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, over a period of roughly three days from the 2nd of March, 1943, a convoy of sixteen Japanese ships transporting a regimental group of the 51st Division from Rabaul to Lae, New Guinea, was annihilated.
Initial public announcements from General MacArthur’s GHQ (in Brisbane) stated that 22 ships and 15,000 men had been sent to the bottom of the sea, primarily in the Huon Gulf, to the east and southeast of Lae and Salamaua.
While the exact number of personnel lost will never be known, a minimum of 4,000 men were drowned or killed on the surface, while twelve of the sixteen vessels that comprised the convoy were sunk: All eight merchant ships, and four of the eight destroyers. MacArthur stuck to his original statement (which was understandable due to the confusion of the initial actions) for many years afterward.
The convoy was destroyed due solely to Allied air power – no Allied naval vessels took part. A number of books have been written about these events, one of the earliest and best being by an Australian whose name escapes me at the moment (Top Ender knows him, I believe).
The losses the Japanese incurred were not only the 12 ships and 4,000+ men (including a regimental commander, two infantry battalion commanders, and one field artillery battalion commander; a substantial amount of food, equipment, and weapons went down with the ships and men. These included landing craft, artillery pieces, fuel, and motor vehicles.
If there’s any interest in the topic, I’ll post some snippets over the next day or two.
One interesting thought to mull over is that prior to Operation 81, the Japanese were planning to situate their 18th Army Headquarters in the vicinity of Hopoi, to the near-east of Lae. After the destruction of the convoy, General Adachi’s HQ were located much further north, at Amron, near Madang. There were both benefits and problems with this distance, which is another (lengthy) post for another day.
It was 82 years ago, not 81.
Thanks. Mafs was never my 4tay. (I keep forgetting it’s 2025).
You’re excused. 😀
Lex McAuley wrote the first substantial post-Official Histories book about the Bismarck Sea. I believe it has since been re-released? I think one or two others have also written on the subject, but I know nothing about those volumes.
It’s a fascinating story about air power, and was taken note of by Allied partners abroad.
VDH is in a fantasyland if he thinks Russia is going to buy into a Korean style DMZ, etc.
If the DMZ is entirely in Ukraine territory why wouldn’t they?
Because the Korean DMZ also involves US troops in Korea. Russia is not going to fall into that trap. They don’t want a frozen conflict, they are going to want the issue resolved now either through negotiations or the war proceeding to its conclusion.
We visited the DMZ in South Korea. It works well. Offers a great sense of security in spite of North Korea’s tunneling activites.
Wonderful to hear that the South Koreans broadcast KPop over loud speakers if the Norths get too annoying in the local perimeter.
Dutton committing to more expensive military hardware is misguided.
Taxpayers are already on the hook for this stuff for generations to come.
He should be talking more about pursuing newer solutions.
Like become a partner with Anduril so Australia can be towards the front of the line for their stuff.
Take a portfolio approach and allocate taxpayer capital accordingly.
Need more modern platforms for the troops, air forces or naval assets are no good unless a grunt is sitting on that ground. At the moment they cant even get them to that ground in a timely manner without being compromised IS&R.
We are too heavily leveraged on the USA coming to the rescue. Plenty of ways we can become like a porcupine and they involve mobile missile platforms and RSFU type militias. My mate is big on the Rhodesian scouts model. Delaying defence by attrition and scorched earth policy.
The mobile missile platforms were allocated to the Army under the Defence Strategic Review. I’m not seeing great enthusiasm among the generals for the task.
Tennis Elbow’s $600m rugby league diplomacy already proving its value:
The Chinese kindly gave PNG’s foreign minister a heads up about their recent naval operations in the region but he didn’t think to/couldn’t be bothered to/was told not to (which was it?) pass the information on to Canberra.
Yesterday in History.
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Just got a call from my kid. This is how classy homeless WASPs are on the Upper Eastside. She was walking her pooch and was stopped by “Paul” sitting on the street. He asked her if she would be good enough to go get him a heated roll with Swiss cheese and tea – English Breakfast. She did and took it back to him. He thanked her with a Thank you so much.
I trust she grabbed some paper napkins for him also?
Brilliant.
Now she’s in a relationship with a manipulative dependant.
Sad.
A real aussie sheila would have kicked him in the nuts, taken his loose change and told him to “get a f**king job ya bludgin’ bastard”.
nice rant
this is what we voted for right here
USS Virginia reportedly the first.
USS Virginia is a nuclear powered submarine so doesn’t need marine fuel.
I’m more interested in what will happen to the US bases and troops in Norway.
IIRC, Norway has 4? US prepositioned Equipment Bases in Norway
holding about a divisions worth of kit.
I can see the Trump Administration bringing the whole lot back home, and telling NATO to stick it up their rapidly puckering arses.
I think there are also auxiliary diesels on board.
It’s Caterpillar model 3512B V-12 auxiliary generator does.
I doubt it gets used much since Virginia class boats famously can stay submerged for a very very long time. You need oxygen as well as diesel to run it.
Very minor inconvenience if even that.
I get it. Nicely put.
Starter’s gun about to be fired…
Finger on the election trigger: ALP staff called to HQ (Tele, paywalled)
Stay tuned for more obscene and unaffordable cash splashes.
Like a reverse slave auction?
*Throws money at bewildered peasant, whose children’s children will be working to pay off the debt.*
Related to Tsar Peter and Tsar Nicholas, but not descendant. Otherwise, I agree with every word.
No, King Chuck is a descendant of both. Tsar Nicholas I is the tsar I refer to above and he is Chuck’s great-great-grandfather, and Peter the Great was Nicholas I’s great-great-grandfather.
Nicholas II did not leave any living descendants, his children were murdered alongside him in a cellar in Ekaterinburg.
Via Prince Philip. His DNA was used to identify remains of family members.
That was the Hessian DNA. The last Czarina was Philip’s mother’s mother’s sister.
Not sure and stand corrected by more knowledgeable Cats – mitochondrial DNA through the female line?
Now a museum, incidentally.
Access is via the apartments entry on Edward St. if anyone is in Brisbane’s CBD and thinking of visiting.
Bookings preferred but not essential.
Much was made at the time of MacArthur heading north and having to ‘drag’ Gen. Blamey northwards after him. Though this had to happen at some point, the fact was that the southern capitals had both the civilian and military infrastructure, whereas Brisbane was still something of a country town. (Townsville would have been a more suitable headquarters base had it possessed the necessary facilities).
The AMP building, being a steel frame encased in concrete, was likely one of the most structurally advanced buildings in Australia at the time & was chosen as HQ for that reason. Just in case…
I did not know that. Huh.
That was MacArthur’s office, where the big talk was done.
The HQ (as opposed to MacA’s GHQ) was where all the legwork was done.
That was Somerville House (a girl’s boarding school) on the south side of the river.
I know that Blamey’s HQ (Land HQ) was at the Uni Of Qld’s St. Lucia Campus.
Was Somerville House the A.I.B. Headquarters?
I once had a book with all of this, but no more.
MH17 has had so much detailed sophisticated analysis blaming all sides.
And so much detailed sophisticated analysis de-bunking almost every piece of analysis.
I’ve gone from “arrest Putin” to “it was the Ukes” to “it was a splinter group” and possibly a few more positions.
Hard to have any view that you could bet the house on.
As a gambling man, I’d be comfortable betting on a 25% chance it was a genuine screw up by a crew of hillbilly Russians or Ukes who didn’t know what they were targeting.
And who would want to admit to any part of that.
When in doubt just ask “who benefits?” Not the Russians. Could have been a screw up but nobody flies around in a war zone at 30,000 feet with military intent nowadays unless in a good stealth aircraft which a Boeing 777 isn’t.
Ukes had every incentive to provoke international outrage against the Russians.
My money is on a hillbilly mistake — they thought what they were aiming at was something else.
The real villian is Europe’s air traffic control agency Eurocontrol, which should never have let a civilian airliner fly anywhere near an active war zone.
Civilian traffic was cleared above FL320. A Boeing 777 won’t maintain that if an engine fails although the descent will be slow.
Think it was FL230.
Mmm…shot down over Russian controlled territory & initially reported in official Russian media as the “victorious” work of separatists targeting a UKR military transport plane. I know who my money would be on if I were a betting man.
Downticked…somebody wants to have their own facts.
Chuckle.
Incidentally, the commander likely responsible is presently in a Russian prison on a non-related matter.
It seems most likely.
Last sentence is what my mate says.
He may or may not have heard similar through SF boys who some of may or may not have later been sightseeing later.
March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later.
“heroic saving of Kiev” my arse. The Russians thought they had a peace deal which was blown up by that idiot BloJo.
Go, Lia!
I’m liking this girl, who does not need cojones to tackle bad policies head-on (piss off, Arky). The usual suspects are saying the predictable things, but she doesn’t care.
Mind you, the digging into every aspect of her past in the hope of finding something embarrassing is no doubt well underway. Let’s hope she survives it.
The GayBC/Australian Bolshevik Collective is, needless to say, leading the charge against her.
a 2.6 billion pound loan for Ukraine ?
makes perfect sense
… I s’pose Zelensky’s credit score cant be all that bad ??
That’ll buy the little bastard some prime Swiss real estate for his bolthole.
The money will never leave the UK.
It’ll be disbursed via contracts with UK defence firms.
He already has one in Florida and an Apartment in London.
Piers Akerman:
Jason Clare. A true prick.
Stiff completion though- ‘Burkie’, Anal, the foul O’Neil from Toorak, the two old scotch boys, the old Geelong Grammar boy.
Instead of “support officer” read taxpayer funded Islamic teacher.
Where are the progressives loudly decrying this misuse of public funds for religious purposes?
Crickets.
[My emphasis].
Huh. Not ‘Controversial’ then, just ‘Outspoken.’
The next step will be ‘Misunderstood’ followed by ‘Impeccably groomed’ (Sarc.).
I ‘spose they’re only words…
Tweet of note.
FMD
Screw you Albo, you idiot. Next time try to pick a winner or stay out of things that have nothing to do with us. We have enough regional problems.
We need a military that can defend the continent, its trade routes and generally look after the South West Pacific.
Oh yeah, forgot, F**k Ukraine.
Disagree with that Eyrie.
I feel sorry for 95% of Ukrainians who are getting screwed.
Don’t care, Margaret.
This.
Might not be the most diplomatic tweet of all time from a guy who wants American nuclear subs. Especially with a Chinese navy detachment sailing around the coast and mooning us.
Double FMS
our Albo is the castrato in the international choir of the corrupt
To be a Castrato, you need to have been born with balls.
This is a dilemma. 😀
The only people in public life with balls in this country seem to be ladies- Fia, Jacinta, Gina and Pauline.
All women who have had real life experience.
The dwarf tried to play a full house when he had air
Funny as f*ck.
SC Reviews:
INSANE WOKE MELTDOWNS ARE ESCALATING LIKE YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE Part 2
I absolutely LOVE the bloke in the Amazon purchased ICE jacket.
I need to do this here. Lol.
I noticed that zombie rag aka the Sunday Aged was having a tizzy this morning.
There has been a lot of talk about the optics of that WH meeting and the wearing of suits.
I worked for one of the richest people in OZ for a few years. He never wore a tie, hated them. One day I asked him why not? His answer – I wear my tie for two people…the Rabbi and the bank manager.
My takeaway – dress for the deal you want.
Rabbi, maybe. Bank manager, never. He wants my money, he wears the tie.
Even bank managers don’t wear ties these days.
Are there Bank Managers these days? There don’t seem to be many Bank Branches especially in the Bush.
What are these bank things you talk about? We haven’t had one for decades
See above. I was raised in a different era.
Sheesh guys! I’m talking forty five years ago, when the BM was someone important and respectable. And could recommend/approve a multimillion line of credit to run a development project.
The WH meeting in microcosm. 🙂
We’re not “guys”…we’re grumpy old men!
😀
GOMs then?
It’s lucky we’re not Grumpy Old Blokes.
I love ties. The males’ only permissable personal statement.
Open neck – MBA compliant submissive.
When multimillionaire banker Peter Schiff asked billionaire crypto OG Max Keiser why he didnt wear a suit, he said ‘suits are for millionaires, not for billionaires..’
Factcheck: True
Instead of “support officer” read taxpayer funded Islamic teacher.
Where are the progressives loudly decrying this misuse of public funds for religious purposes?
Crickets.
I loved Dancing With The Tsars.
Catherine and Nicholas were great… Ivan was terrible.
Boom boom!
ha ha that’s actually quite good
How was Peter?
Ah dammit yep that’s the killer set-up, you’re right
The Russians thought they had a peace deal which was blown up by that idiot BloJo.
That’s so despicable that I can hardly believe it. I’ve loathed blowjob for a long time though.
Looks like Team USA is exactly where they want to be.
Out of Ukraine, with Europe and UK now supplying all the sweet, sweet moolah.
CNN is positively exultant! Trump humiliated but still a bully. Or something.
Not exactly, calli.
Trump wants the rare earth minerals as a ROI.
US firms have also purchased significant amounts of Ukrainian agricultural land since it was opened to foreign investment in 2020.
US banks have financed the UKR government during the war expecting to reap rewards during reconstruction.
And the presence of so many Americans on the ground during that reconstruction will be tantamount to a security guarantee for UKR.
If Zelensky won’t be welcomed back to the WH someone else will be in his place.
and the whole world will now immediately reveal themselves for the lying, war-mongering hypocrites that they are
Breaking news.
All Canberra Raiders fans in Vegas have been arrested.
Their viking clap was deemed to be a double nazi salute.
Under the new Elon laws, they are on the next plane home.
But the Raiders won and won big. The Don missed a good game
Where is the best place to bequest a couple of RAAF logbooks?
If you are in Qld, I’m sure the Queensland Air Museum @ Caloundra will take them.
Thank you.
Been sent an instagram reel of two border collies separating a flock of black and white ducks into two groups by colour.
Amazing to watch.
They really are smart dogs.
Sounds a bit racist.
I’ll be contacting the media about this, pronto-Tonto.
We saw them in action at a display of sheep dog trials in Scotland at Hogmany. They were tremendously smart and also, interestingly, all with definite personalities and capacities.
How many of the dogs at the sheep dog trials were found guilty?
I’ve seen that. The dogs are brilliant.
Instead of attempting meditation, a pursuit my ADHD resists mightily, I spend 15 minutes watching Kate, Storm and Echo, herding sheep with their FB/Insta Dad – Sean the Sheep man.
The Scottish countryside is an added bonus. I quickly attain maximum Zen.
Who had Turkey and Israel working together for an autonomous Druze zone (read buffer) in Syria on their 2025 bingo card?
This was on the cards in December. This is also likely a move against the Turks. The ‘buffer’ isn’t against HTS but Turkey.
Well now I’m really confused.
Exaggerated and largely in areas under Russian control.
In Western Ukraine.
Good luck with that.
Oh come on. If it amounted to a security guarantee why didn’t Trump just grant one? They’ve already indicated there would not be a security guarantee.
Likely exaggerated for effect – nobody really knows what’s there – but 80% of known deposits are in UKR controlled territory.
Money talks, even in this administration.
Not wanting to derail his Russian ambitions.
So “out of Ukraine” in regard to funding the war and a major headache but not “out of Ukraine” completely.
See, I can fisk too!
😀
Re 1, the other way around. About 70% in south east and under Russian control.
Re 2, like the banks you’re counting your chickens before they’ve hatched. I hope the banks tank covering the losses.
Re 3, another reason why Russia will not take the bait.
Good observations from David Strom:
The Most Important Thing That the Zelenskyy Meeting Showed to Me (1 Mar)
Make sure you read right to the end as the last three paras are zingers!
Definitely the case the euroweenies regard the USA (and us of course) as uppity colonials that do not know our place.
and further, continue to want to extract the wealth and cannon fodder of the colonies as if their empires still existed.
Hasn’t been true for a century.
Very well said.
the missus is calling this multi-national shit-fight, Covid 2.0
the commies are making their play again
Your missus’ intuition is close to the mark.
Albo, naturally, has taken the loser route.
I like to razz her up a bit but, she can see the future
… she probably knows what I’m typing right now
Every time I see the word “Ukraine” I think “10% for the Big Guy”.
All this didn’t end on Jan 20.
Any way of getting Elon’s DOGE have a look at the money trail?
@ericmmatheny
Zelenskyy is a psychopath hellbent on world war.
He doesn’t want peace. He wants an endless stream of American money.
Not another dime.
I think he wants a reset to the way things were four years ago. He just isn’t bright enough to realise that isn’t an option for Ukraine anymore. He also realises that there is no future for him if reality is accepted.
@MyLordBebo
LMAO: TRUMP DID NOT PAY ZELENSKY’S HOTEL!
Ukraine had to pay for the arrival and stay of the delegation in the USA.
The Trump administration refused to cover the expenses of a foreign delegation for the first time, WSJ reports.
Not only were they not fed and humiliated, but they also paid for it all at their own expense.
The UKR money to pay for the expenses was most probably gifted to them by Sleepy Joe anyway.
Charles hosting Zelenski!
The old pretender is exceeding even the worst concerns about him.
Oversighting the destruction of the Anglican church, supporter of Communist tyrant Starmer, exercising political influence over matters that well exceed his understanding.
He has capped a lifetime of irrelevance by blocking his much more rational (a relative statement) son from the throne for no reason other than a towering but baseless ego.
If only there had been a quick shove at Timbertop.
very relative
I used to think he was a harmless eccentric, a bit of a joke. More of a sick joke it turns out.
Or if sensible Princess Anne had been an only child. She would have made a capable follow on from Good Queen Elizabeth II.
Charles is going far beyond his Royal remit politically.
His meeting with Zelensky is the pits.
But that would have left Andrew as next in line…
Vance Family Moved to ‘Undisclosed Location’ as Protesters Disrupt Ski Trip
A Vermonters such cockheads or is this astroturf?
It’s real. Vance is a prime target for assassination at any time now that he is the backstop for Trump, who could have an elderly person’s demise any day.
I was so relieved when both were inaugurated. The assassins going after Trump would be foiled by the fact that they would get Vance in exchange.
Both of them and their immediate families need full security against bullets and other attacks; how horrible to think of Vance being shot and his young family left fatherless as well as the nation being bereft.
Lizzie,
the people that want to kill Vance would be ecstatic if they could take out the whole family.
They really are that Evil.
Pull out of NATO, pull all US troops out of Europe. Let the Euroweenies fend for themselves. Then they may have to face reality or the consequences thereof.
The European elites are delusional, see net zero and muslim immigration. Trump and his team are realists.
Realists always win.
If the US doesn’t care about Ukraine it isn’t an insurance policy payment for Australia to support Ukraine.
Well that was a great diplomatic meeting.
no opaqueness , direct.
thing with Trumpie it’s all I , but on reflection that what the lefties say all the time.
Great drama , J D Vance , war veteran and stateman
Chris
Crispy poato cakes with apple puree
Potato Fritters with a chilli dip.
Chay Bowes in X
He is part of the Clown Show.
If the US doesn’t care about Ukraine it isn’t an insurance policy payment for Australia to support Ukraine.
Anal might be looking to a non job in Europe as his next ‘career step’. More an insurance policy for the canbra foreign affairies establishment.
Like Evans and the ‘international crisis group’
Straws in a wind.
Yes, paper straws suck. Rather than bring back plastic ones, let’s avoid single-use items (Phys.org, 1 Mar)
Plastic straws cause greenie brains to disintegrate and become soggy. Here’s who they are:
I love that a bunch of drones from RMIT are schooling Trump about plastic straws. Can there be anything as futile and inane? Fire them all.
indeed
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/australian-muslim-vote-leader-allegedly-attends-hamas-rally-in-jordan.html
Anal, Pong and Minn-some will greet it personally at the Airport when it arrives home to Aus.
Poor Fellow, my Country.
And another one.
Is Trump’s war on climate science pushing us into a dystopian future? (Phys.org, 1 Mar)
The only fevered dystopian future is inside your brain son. Here’s who he is:
Wow, for a denizen of an obscure university he has a really impressive job title. Does it mean he is lacking in other areas?
Curious about the Excellence part of the job title. Is that the part where laying it on thickly is required.
Node Leader? Show me your Node and I’ll show you mine.
Ridiculous abuse of the English language
Testing, Testing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14451015/F-16s-scrambled-three-planes-caught-circling-near-Trumps-Palm-Beach-mansion.html
Not sure and stand corrected by more knowledgeable Cats – mitochondrial DNA through the female line?
Correct. Two sets of mitochondrial DNA were used to identify the bones unearthed from the forest outside Ekaterinburg. Mitochondrial DNA from Tsarina Alexandra’s family (Prince Philip’s) and mitochondrial DNA from descendants through the female line of a sister of Nicholas II.
After murdering the imperial family in July 1918, the Bolsheviks clumsily tried to burn all the butchered Romanov corpses (and three retainers) however burning many corpses takes time so after burning two, they then hastily buried the remaining corpses in an abandoned mine shaft and poured acid down the shaft to hinder identification in case anyone stumbled upon the scene. A few weeks after the murders the White Army liberated Ekaterinburg and several White officers made their way to the forest where they narrowly missed the mine shaft. Instead they focused their search on an area near the mine shaft, where they found empty acid cans, teeth, a finger, clothing, jewellery, amulets, a dead dog, all of which they were able to identify (the finger and some of the teeth belonged to Alexandra) but they were unable to find the corpses.
And so a mystery was created and this mystery gave rise to a conga line of Romanov imposters, the most famous being Anna Anderson.
Close relatives of the imperial family, such as the Tsarina’s sisters (one of whom was Prince Philip’s grandmother (she was also the late Earl Mountbatten’s mother), the Tsar’s sisters and other close retainers always knew Anna Anderson was a fraud.
Meanwhile, the Ural city of Ekaterinburg was later named ‘Sverdlovsk’ in honour of Lenin’s great buddy, Jacob Sverdlovsk. The city grew into an industrial metropolis and powerhouse, its chief products being armaments and medical supplies (an odd combo). Everyone living in the city knew of the Romanov connections, the Ipatiev house where the family were imprisoned and murdered later became a museum under the Soviets, and many knew where they were buried but due to Soviet censorship and the risk of imprisonment, people were very fearful about discussing the family. However, in the late 1970s two curious Ekaterinburg residents, both with an interest in history, decided to try and find the site where the Romanovs were buried. With the support of their wives they pretended to picnic in the forest every weekend so as to not alert the Soviet authorities. It did not take them long to long to find the shaft and the skeletons. They took some bones, including the skull of Nicholas II, home and the discovery remained a closely guarded secret for another decade. It took until the collapse of the Soviet Union for them to reveal their find and it was then that the bones could be tested and finally, in 1998, Nicholas, his wife, three of their five children and their retainers who stayed with them until the grisly end were buried in a St Petersburg cathedral. But two children were missing, the heir Alexis and Anastasia. So what happened to them? Charred bones have since been found that match the two children. Before the Bolshevik butchers threw the corpses down the shaft they burnt two, one being Alexis and the other being Anastasia.
A sad story, anyway, there you go, a history lesson.
A church has been built on the site of the Ipatiev house (Church on the Blood). A sombre place. The city of Ekaterinburg is nice. I would like to visit again someday, via the Trans Siberian railway.
It’s one of the ironies of history – Nicholas II has the reputation of being a bloody tyrant, yet, compared to the Bolsheviks, he was as gentle as a lamb.
If any Cats ever travel to Alaska, this would be an awesome place to while away a few hours.
https://www.hammermuseum.org/
Are you suggesting we get hammered or nailed?
Decisions, decisions!
lol. The Hammer Museum.
That really must be the place where everything else looks like a nail.
There must be a sickle museum nearby.
I believe it’s on the corner of Starvation and Emaciation Streets. Opposite Beria’s Bulk Buys and Pol’s Plumbing.
Military history – Bismarck Sea – Snippets, Part I.
USAAF Second Lieutenant E.T. Solomon, pilot of a B-25 C1 – two of the four-man crew were from the RAAF – attacked a light cruiser of about 3,000 tons at 1500L on the 3rd [March ‘43], ‘East and a little South of Salamaua.’
The cruiser was at least file miles from other vessels in the convoy and rescuing men from the water, heading westerly or north-westerly (towards Lae) at a slow speed, when the formation Solomon was a part of attacked it. Like others of his aircraft type, Solomon’s first run was from bow to stern, but such was the number of Allied aircraft in the area, both bombing and strafing, that he pulled out to avoid the flight path of another B-25.
On his second run, this time from stern to bow, Solomon scored a direct hit on the rear gun of the cruiser with a 500lb 5-second delay bomb. Solomon then attacked an already-crippled transport on a broadside run and scored a direct hit with another 500lb bomb. At no time on his bombing runs did his aircraft rise about 50 feet from the water level. Twice he was attacked by defending Japanese ‘Zero’ type fighters which he gauged were helmed by experienced pilots, Solomon escaping via “violent turns on the water.”
USAAF Captain R.D. Chatt of the 90th Bombardment Sqn, 3rd Bombardment Group: 1000L/3 [Mar ‘43], ‘East and a little South of Salamaua’ first targeting a blue-grey destroyer of 1500 tons which ‘turned his bow toward me.’ At 10 feet above the waterline “I came in low enough that he could not depress his heavy guns down to me.”
Chatt dropped two of his bombs which ‘skipped once and went into the bow of the boat below the water line and explode[d].” Chatt commented in his after-action report that the timing of the multi-level attack on the convoy was ‘perfect.’
In the days leading up to the executions, Yurovsky, who was the family’s gaoler and who led the executions in the cellar, found it difficult to find any ethnic Russian guards willing to participate in the executions. Many had formed attachments to the grand duchesses, many pitied the young Alexis (by then a cripple), and many were just appalled at the idea of murdering children. So Yurovsky, a tough and embittered Ural Bolshevik, enlisted non-Russian POWs for the murders, one of whom was likely the Hungarian communist Imre Nagy.
From what I heard, there is nothing likely about it, he was there alright.
He got his just deserve in the end.
Seems most of the execution party got what they deserved in the end be it cancer or killed in the civil war. Only a couple died of old age morbidities.
Military history – Bismarck Sea – Snippets, Part II.
Fujita, Denzo, was a member of No. 12 (Captain Takahashi, Yasuichi) Tai, of the 115th Regiment, embarked on the Teiyo Maru. He later wrote in his diary: “A fire was also started on the bow of our ship so at 0825 hrs, we lowered ourselves into the water by ropes; some jumped overboard. After being in the water for about an hour we were rescued by the destroyer Uranami … [which]… took us back to Rabaul …
Fujita was lucky to have been rescued so quickly, but due to illness and the exigencies of the dire transport arrangements between New Britain and New Guinea, he was not destined to serve with his regiment in the grinder that was Salamaua.
He did have a brother, however, Kosaku, whom he recorded having safely arrived at Lae by Navy speed boat on the 26th of August, 1943. As with the fate of almost all of the authors of these lost personal diaries, the fate of the Fujita brothers is unknown.
On the 5th of March, an intercepted and translated message from an unknown sender to an unknown addressee stated that the Japanese in the Lae-Salamaua area had only six days of ordinary food rations remaining, in addition to 10 days of emergency rations. With initially about 1,000 survivors of the convoy disaster reaching Lae, and the supplies the convoy had been carrying all lost, this was a dire situation for the Japanese. The immediate answer was to utilise their submarines as tranports…
We have booked a family trip to Canada. No cruises, just trains planes and automobiles. The trip was sparked by daughter’s obsession with ice hockey. I don’t understand it, I can’t even see the pucking
I made contact with a cousin who I haven’t seen for 46 years and lives by the shores of Lake Huron and said she would be delighted to see us.
Also hoping to catch up with 3 Backpackers from Vancouver who stayed with us a few years ago. They stayed and stayed and stayed.And worked a bit
Their local pub had a running bet as to which of them would be home first.
I want to go to that pub
Spent some time cleaning out my favorites and came across this link to the Potentially New Cat from 31 July, 2021. Quite a few of us still here. Worth reading some of the comments and what was on the agenda and who said what. Link https://catallaxy-files.com/potentially-the-new-cat-first-open-thread-31-july-2021/comment-page-11/#comment-1176
How full of bonhomie and anticipation we were.
Then Adam’s Cat descended into a stinking, suppurating, hateful miasma of Jew hate.
Indeed. Think I’ll wipe the link.
Yes. An improperly managed site quickly becomes a sewer.
Sad to see CL’s sparkling old site in that current condition.
CL deserves better than that, far better.
some of us try to clean the crap out
Roger, @ 10.16, in nested comments:
This ties in with observations recorded by a West Oz Cat (to my shame I forget which one) who shared a rail journey with a couple of Ukrainian expats-turned-refugees, & reported they said in Ukraine foreign speculators owned the place, the indigenous came last & thus were unwilling to fight for the place.
Er… that’s 11.16 in Brokeback Mountain time (as used in Catallaxy’s timestamp)
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is also a big investor in Ukrainian ag land.
The Donbas
How soon we forget Tibet.
It’s only gerbil fanciers who keep the dream alive and kicking.
What, by any definition, is a midden? Crudely, it’s a pile of sh*t- in effect, it’s a site of dumping and leaving anything which has no value, which of course will then be sited in a place which has no value.*
But, in our cringing country where grifters are empowered by saying sh*t like “Out there is my country. That is my home. It’s about time people started recognising that it is Wolithiga country.”, a midden is… you guessed it… an irreplaceable cultural treasure, wrecked by whitey and coveted by Uncle.
*I’ll take this chance to point out that, in timeless European riparian tradition, you just don’t dump food waste on the bank of a waterway.
Sorry, after the incident of the Wagyl – the mythical rainbow serpent – I just don’t take this malarkey seriously.
Huh? You took it seriously until then?
Nobody should. Tell the grifters to eff off. It was their fault for not developing a civilisation capable of repelling invasion.
No other race mounted such an ineffectual resistance, or was conquered so utterly…
And yet we have gone on to develop a ‘modern’ society now where weakness, and dependency are weapons ??
These weapons work because the defenders refuse to raise their shields.
Haven’t heard much about Germany for a few days- is Mertz going to betray the people as expected?
Only one more election cycle to go before AfD forms government in Germany and Nigel Farage’s Reform Party runs the UK.
Meanwhile, Merz and Starmer rule Germany and the UK with fascist jackboots while they figure out how to trick Trump into believing that Europe is still democratic. Unfortunately for them, Donald Trump and JD Vance have eyes and ears.
An a bran each.
Whoops – should be – ‘and a brain each’.
Unfortunate though that those 2 countries have to go through electoral cycles before any change can occur. That vile pair can do immense damage over the lives of their respective governments.
In a statement issued by Haltbakk Bunkers, the company explained that it would “no longer supply American military ships in Norway or those docking in Norwegian ports,” adding that the U.S. was “excluded based on their behaviour towards” Ukraine, according to the Daily Mail.
Mike Lee Calls for U.S. Exit from NATO: ‘Europe Doesn’t Love Us’
spiteful morons- eff off eurotrash
As if the Yanks couldn’t just whistle up a fleet replenisher for the transports removing the 4 Marine Brigades prepositioned kit.
The Jeffrey Epstein List: But Who’s Redacted? Erin Molan Reveals
The Jeffrey Epstein list highlighted by Erin Molanas she dive’s into the latest developments surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files as of February 28, 2025. Attorney General Pam Bondi is making headlines with her frustration over the FBI’s New York field office, which she accuses of withholding thousands of crucial documents related to Epstein’s investigation. Despite her earlier promises of transparency and the release of initial files, Bondi claims she was misled by the FBI, who assured her she had the full set—only for a source to reveal that the NY office is sitting on a trove of unreleased material. With pressure mounting and a deadline of 8:00 a.m. today already passed, questions swirl: What’s being hidden, and who’s redacted from the list? Erin Molan steps in to disclose the latest twists in this unfolding saga. Stay tuned for the full story and what it means for the Epstein case!
Here are the names:
Ghislaine Maxwell
Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre [Epstein victim]
Prince Andrew of England
James Michael Austrich
Philip Barden
REDACTED
Cate Blanchett
David Boies
Laura Boothe
Evelyn Boulet
Rebecca Boylan
Joshua Bunner
Naomi Campbell
Carolyn Casey
Paul Cassell
Sharon Churcher
Bill Clinton
David Copperfield
Alexandra Cousteau
Cameron Diaz
Leonardo DiCaprio
Alan Dershowitz
Dr. Mona Devanesan
REDACTED
Bradley Edwards
Amanda Ellison
Cimberly Espinosa
Jeffrey Epstein
Annie Farmer
Marie Farmer
Alexandra Fekkai
Crystal Figueroa
Anthony Figueroa
Louis Freeh
Eric Gany
Meg Garvin
Sheridan Gibson-Butte
Robert Giuffre
Al Gore
Ross Gow
Fred Graff
Philip Guderyon
REDACTED
Shannon Harrison
Stephen Hawking
Victoria Hazel
Brittany Henderson
Brett Jaffe
Michael Jackson
Carol Roberts Kess
Dr. Karen Kutikoff
Peter Listerman
George Lucas
Tony Lyons
Bob Meister
Jamie A. Melanson
Lynn Miller
Marvin Minsky
REDACTED
David Mullen
Joe Pagano
Mary Paluga
J. Stanley Pottinger
Joseph Recarey
Michael Reiter
Jason Richards
Bill Richardson
Sky Roberts
Scott Rothstein
Forest Sawyer
Doug Schoetlle
Kevin Spacey
Cecilia Stein
Mark Tafoya
Brent Tindall
Kevin Thompson
Donald Trump
Ed Tuttle
Emma Vaghan
Kimberly Vaughan-Edwards
Cresenda Valdes
Anthony Valladares
Maritza Vazquez
Vicky Ward
Jarred Weisfeld
Courtney Wild
Bruce Willis
Daniel Wilson
Kathy Alexander
Miles Alexander
So lucky that they Redacted my name………………………….
I’ve forgotten what being on “the List” means any more.
Pointless without access to manifests documenting origin/destination. The redactions in alphabetical order are amusing. What sensitive public name might fall between “Ba” and “Bl”, for instance? And why redact at all?
So far it’s all smoke and mirrors. They imagine having Trump on the list protects them. Think again.
I read somewhere that this Trump mention was only for a lift between US airports in the private plane. No big deal.
This may be the case with others. We’ll never know for sure until the full details of logs are looked at. Could be for travel, parties, events etc. maybe even some legit ones on Lolita Island – though anyone going there would be very suss imho.
Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough
In this podcast episode, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, discusses several technological advancements and strategic directions. Key points include: 1. **Quantum Computing Breakthrough**: Microsoft has achieved a physics and fabrication breakthrough with the Majorana zero modes, which could lead to the development of a utility-scale quantum computer with a million physical qubits. This is compared to a “transistor moment” for quantum computing, marking a pivotal step towards scalable quantum solutions. 2. **Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and AI Strategy**: Nadella emphasized the importance of AI in driving future growth, stating compute power as a critical resource. He highlighted the need to balance technological advances with the development of trust and alignment frameworks, and dismissed the notion of a winner-takes-all scenario in AI, predicting a diverse ecosystem instead. 3. **Applications in Gaming and AI Use**: Microsoft is also developing sophisticated AI models for generating games, leveraging real-time gameplay data. This could revolutionize how games are constructed and interacted with, aligning with Microsoft’s broader strategy of integrating AI across platforms, including gaming, to enhance user experiences. 4. **Enterprise and SaaS Evolution**: Nadella foresees a shift in knowledge work, with AI playing a significant role in transforming workflows across enterprises. He sees potential in automating current work processes while creating new domains of cognitive labor, suggesting an evolution in how productivity tools like Microsoft’s Office suite will be used. 5. **Strategic Long-Term Focus and Company’s Future**: Nadella reflects on Microsoft’s historical focus on long-term research and adaptive strategies that keep the company relevant. He emphasizes the importance of a culture that allows for continuous innovation and re-evaluation of core business assumptions to stay competitive. 6. **Vision for Economic Growth and Societal Impact**: Nadella advocates for the potential of AI and quantum computing to accelerate economic growth and provide broad societal benefits, particularly in areas like healthcare and education. However, he stresses that realizing this potential requires aligning technological capabilities with legal and societal frameworks. Overall, the conversation highlights Microsoft’s commitment to advancing cutting-edge technologies while ensuring their responsible integration and broader economic and societal implications.
Microsoft are world leaders in making and marketing products that don’t work.
Delta Flight that CRASHED at Toronto Airport allegedly had ALL FEMALE CREW
Nope!
Endeavor Flight 4819
Thursday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m. ET
Information about Endeavor Air 4819 flight crew
Endeavor Air and Delta are correcting disinformation in social media containing false and misleading assertions about the flight crew of Endeavor Air 4819.
Captain: Mesaba Airlines, a progenitor company of Endeavor Air, hired the captain in October 2007. He has served both as an active duty Captain and in pilot training and flight safety capacities. Assertions that he failed training events are false. Assertions that he failed to flow into a pilot position at Delta Air Lines due to training failures are also false.
First Officer: Hired in January 2024 by Endeavor Air and completed training in April. She has been flying for Endeavor since that time. Her flight experience exceeded the minimum requirements set by U.S. Federal regulations. Assertions that she failed training events are false.
Both crew members are qualified and FAA certified for their positions.
https://news.delta.com/notice/endeavor-flight-4819
Thanks, Diogenes. I await the preliminary accident report in the next month for accurate information — not the spin from the airline.
Blancolirio does a good blog on these incidents. He had a couple of good informative vids up, including one recently addressing the internet rumours. He hasn’t written off pilot error but I see his thrust as DIE accusations ATM are unhelpful.
His site below for your perusal:
https://www.youtube.com/@blancolirio/videos
Never forget that the mainstream media’s first instinct was to censor that information — which it did — because the MSM knows Delta hired incompetent pilots as a result of its DEI policy — which the media defends out of blind tribal loyalty. Stuff public safety — the media is happy to kill you for the sake of mad politcal ideology.
The Mesozoic Media is happiest when it can strip flesh from bone – any bone – without competition. It cares not of the identity of the victim – it exists only to feed itself. They will feed on their own if the opportunity arises.
UN censors speech on Palestinian murders of Bibas children & UN role – Michael Smith News
Someone should dig up Reagan and tell him a Republican president just lost the Cold War.
Milko must be over visiting.
mUnty!
So who dug you up?
Monty! So good to see you back! (Pulls out pin, shouts “Grenade..)
That’s it! After almost a year, that’s all you have.
And you have been labelling everyone else as “low energy”.
Hey Cassie, Florence the Boring Machine, MarkII is back.
Watch where you put your feet, there’s a huge slime trail coming from the broken window. Where did I put the Snail Bait?
O wit, thy name is…not monty.
You get that from Zelensky’s self-induced humiliation?
LOL.
You’re a fan of the MIC now?
Did somebody forget to tell Monty all the Marxist’s are in Western Europe now.
We have the Home groan ones here – Upgrade Albo, Blackout Bowen, Dim Chalmers, Wenny Pong, Amp it Up TWatt, the rest of the ALP, ABC, Sydney Moaning Herald and more and more………..
And of course, Monty Pox Virus.
Trump’s doing very well for America and peace in Europe. Trying hard to stop the killing in Ukraine. Reagan would be proud.
What the heck are you doing here anyway? Yesterday’s troll.
You are in the way. We are still celebrating huge amounts of WINNING.
He’s woken up for the footie.
bwahahahahahahahahahahah
Piss off, Nazi.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/unthinkable-instilling-such-hatred-in-these-children.html
The Israeli influencer, who exposed the Bankstown Jihadi nurses, has released more footage..
welcome to islam
George Dubya Montypox is back spruiking for the Washington War Machine. Sad.
With leftards, it’s always the side.
Left is anti -war, leftards cheer.
Left is pro-war, leftards cheer.
The left used to say that a vote for Trump was a vote for war including the biggie – WWIII.
Now they’re upset because he’s trying to stop the Ukraine war as he promised.
I was sent an X link about the upcoming Starship launch.
I knew the thing was enormous but didn’t realise how big,
The people in this picture show the true scale of the beast.
I am looking forward to watching the launch.
Meanwhile the private moon lander that was launched a couple of weeks ago is going to attempt to land in an hour or so.
Wow!
Thanks for the link to the coverage Bill, it’s just gone live! Two nice ladies, one each from NASA and Firefly.
One of the fun things about SpaceX is their shows have been so mesmerizingly good that NASA has upped their game to match them. The coverages have markedly improved in the last year.
They’re on the Moon and it looks pretty good. Very good show!
Firefly reminds me of SpaceX – they are lean and mean.
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is also a big ag land owner.
Yes I imagine the Ukraine would have been a huge contributor to the Soviet wheat harvest.
Not in the early 1930s.
true
This is what Trump avoided.
Team Zelenskyy Has a “Security Guarantee” Plan to Recapture all Lost Ukraine Territory
It’s called a ‘False Flag’ incident. Standard practice from the ‘Death Merchants’.
WOFTAM (Waste Of Fking Time And Money) news (the CM):
And:
I have no idea why this would occur – spending tens of thousands, at least, to go and rescue a dude deliberately rowing into a cyclone in open waters.
Let him be, and let Lloyds of London carry the slack.
He left San Diego loong before the cyclone. But sentiment, it’s cyclone season in the Pacific, still holds
International law obliges us.
Navy can spare a vessel for someone who got themselves in their own trouble but not much for the Chinese armada. Go figure.
To be honest, I’m surprised we have a seaworthy vessel to spare.
(That’s aimed at the Big Wigs, not Jack (or Jackie) Tar btw.)
In the tradition of professional rescuee Tony Bullimore.
Is anyone surprised? She about as viscous and nasty as you can get.
Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid went on antisemitic ‘rant’ about COVID, former staffer claims
Ugly on the inside and outside.
She was reasonably presentable in her early career.
As she became more and more unhinged, she became monstrous in looks and nature.
I totally disagree with Sean Davis on this. They knew exactly what they were doing.
@seanmdav
As Obama’s national security advisor, Rice was a key architect of the West’s of the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, which was the foundation for everything that has happened in Ukraine since then. All the needless death and destruction was built upon the Maidan madness that Rice and her friends deliberately designed.
If you’re wondering why she’s so angry and defensive—simultaneously claiming to have in-depth personal knowledge of the dynamics driving the negotiation while confessing she hasn’t talked to a single person involved in any of it—it’s because everything happening in Ukraine today was deliberately set in motion by her utter incompetence as Obama’s top foreign policy adviser.
Deep down she knows this, and she hates herself for it. But she can’t admit any of it publicly, even if it’s obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last decade.
Trump gives Zelensky bum’s rush and flushes the European ploy to escalate war against Russia
Cassie at 8:02 this morning on JD.
Another little factoid that a well researched visitor to the White House (which Zelensky is not) would know is that Vance is related to the Hatfields of “Hatfield vs McCoy fued” fame.
If DNA means anything, he is most unlikely to take a backward step in a stoush.
and Donald Trump is a direct descendant of Wyatt Earp.
Frome ChatGPT::
Just read about on Wiki, noted the Vance family name in the mix as well. Interesting, ta for the motivation to look this subject up. I knew about it by name but not in any depth.
Is being hot-blooded a desirable trait in a prospective POTUS?
It’s not the same as being resolute, which is definitely a trait you want.
Will the downticker please provide their argument to the contrary?
Thanks in advance!
😀
Sheesh Roger! Like the unresponsive drones in the US, that would mean proof of life!
Going to be hilarious when the “resistance” has its paycheck cancelled.
Oh, and I think you can be both hot blooded and resolute.
Some enormities need a rapid response. 😀
Hot-blooded is not what you want when billions of lives might be at stake, calli.
You want someone who is calm, objective and resolute.
Eisenhower & Reagan, for example, in the post-war era.
and Wyatt Earp’s descendant.
Kash Patel is a 3rd cousin of Doc Halliday.
Planning something should leave you in a position to have a yes/no immediate response.
For example, a launch by an enemy of 100 MIRV ICBMs doesn’t require calm, resolute and objective thought.
It just requires a full nuclear response.
Should take less than the amount of time it takes to enter the codes into the Football.
The Wyatt Earp Response.
@MikeBenzCyber
Spoiler: Here’s why Norway dissed the US Navy today after the Zelensky affair. Norway is one of the biggest windfall profit winners of the war with Russia, making at least $60 billion in just Year 1 of the war off Norway’s oil & gas replacing Russia’s oil & gas supply to Europe
Anyone who seriously thinks this brain fart from a private company will change the strategic situation has been overindulging in the akvavit.
Of course it won’t.
But what is the government doing about it? Is it supporting or defending the company’s decision?
Or is it sitting on the fence, hoping its balls don’t get caught in the razor wire?
@MikeBenzCyber
I still find it incredible the Biden government told @pmarca not to bother creating AI start-ups because the gov’t was just going to create a cartel, and the top cartel centerpiece OpenAI inked its very first government customer deal with: USAID.
@MikeBenzCyber
The magic of “What did you get done this week?” is that it cuts through all the bullshit.
Kaitlin.
Stupid lezzo’s complete with a beta boy dumb arse towards the end.
Why would a lezzo care about abortion? No decent man would slip one up the middle with that thing.
Democrat Makes Things Up To Get Mad At
If that’s the mental, emotional, reality based level of the LGBTQ&P society, they’re too damn dumb to survive.
DefenceConflict and War
Striking new HMAS Perth memorial in East Fremantle officially opened by Governor Chris Dawson
Rebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Sat, 1 March 2025 8:45PM
The HMAS Perth memorial in East Fremantle was officially opened by the Governor of WA Chris Dawson on Saturday. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper/The Sunday Times
When 681 men boarded HMAS Perth at Fremantle in 1941 to join the fight in WWII, they could not know it would be the last time more than two-thirds of them would see home soil.
Those brave souls have now been properly honoured with a striking memorial officially opened on East Fremantle’s waterfront on Saturday by dignitaries including Governor Chris Dawson and Veterans Issues Minister Paul Papalia.
Designed by the team behind Geraldton’s celebrated HMAS Sydney II memorial, the new monument next to the Swan Yacht Club is shaped like a ship’s bow, features images of the sailors and is illuminated at night.
Alongside is a wall of remembrance listing all of those who were on board.
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Captain Ken Burleigh, commanding officer of HMAS Stirling, told the crowd that it was by “numerically superior Japanese forces” that HMAS Perth was sunk on March 1, 1942, in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait.
And Dylan White, commanding officer of HMAS Perth III, told the crowd that three torpedoes hit the warship almost simultaneously.
The USS Houston, a Northampton-class cruiser that was also part of the allied fleet, was sunk about 20 minutes later.
“Severely outnumbered by a very professional opposition, the two ships fought to the end, firing star shells and practice shells as their ammunition ran short,” Cdr White said.
Only 218 from HMAS Perth returned home, with 353 killed in action and four dying after reaching shore. Of the 324 survivors who became prisoners of war in horrendous Japanese camps, 109 perished in captivity.
It proved to be one of Australia’s worst wartime losses and the USS Houston crew suffered a similar fate.
Robert Waller, grandson of HMAS Perth Captain Hec Waller, who went down with his ship, led messages of reflection.
“The grandfather I never met . . . colloquially known as ‘Hard Over Hec”, derived the nickname from his ability to avoid bombs when his ship was under air attack,” Dr Waller said.
Israel has halted all aid to Gaza.
Don’t know if that includes private imports.
Actually it does, borders are closed to all goods and supplies.
Those lavish iftar dinners might be not so lavish now.
Hamas refused the ceasefire deal proposer by Witkoff and accepted by Israel.
There’s a new sheriff in town.
That’s odd.
France 24 tells me “Israel agrees to truce during Ramadan”.
They did.
Hamas didn’t.
Sorry…I was too slow to edit.
Aaaaaand now they’re talking about the closed border. Plus a bit of Paliwood with feasts amongst the ruins.
Military history – Bismarck Sea – Snippets, Part III.
Intelligence coup.
One of the most significant long-term beneficial outcomes for the U.S. and Australia as a result of the devastation of Operation 81/the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (Huon Gulf) was the finding on either Goodenough or Fergusson Island [I’m writing this from memory, so apologies for the lack of detail] – both in the vicinity of the south-eastern tail of Papua – of a large cache of water-soaked Japanese documents.
For those Japanese lucky enough to successfully abandon their ship before it went down, and find a ship’s boat or raft (some were destroyed in the attacks and some could not be lowered from their davits), the current swept them roughly south or southeast, towards the two islands mentioned above. Some also landed farther afield, in the Trobriands, for example. Many were killed on the water in straffing attacks by Allied aircraft.
There were numerous small skirmishes – very much one-way – between the shipwrecked Japanese and small Australian or sometimes local native, forces. As a result of one of these hunts, the cache of documents was found and transported to mainland Australia where the enormous task of saving and examining them began immediately.
The efforts expended were worth it, for what the Allies now had in their hands was an almost-complete list of officers of the Imperial Japanese Army; not just in the South West Pacific Area, but the ENTIRETY of the IJA. So important was the find and painstaking restoration and translation efforts, that the U.S War Department called a conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss the trove.
The resulting volume (two additional, more concise volumes were later published) was an almost unsurpassed reference work for the Order of Battle (OOB) Sections of the various intelligence levels within the Allied Command. An OOB Section (or single officer if it was at a lower level) was responsible for identifying which enemy formations and units were present in a particular battle area, and their internal organisation.
The Japanese frequently identified their units by the name of that unit’s commander. For example: Maruoka Tai, Takamura Tai, Hashimoto Tai could be read as the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 12th Company. Let’s say a fragment of a document was found at a certain location, and when translated revealed any two of the three above-mentioned names. By referring to the translated Japanese Officer List, we could narrow the identification of the unit/s. Page 278 of the J.O. List features only seven ‘Maruoka’ [luckily it’s not ‘Suzuki’ which runs for many pages!], and tells us their rank and unit at the time of original publication. The most senior is a Maruoka, Yasuhei, a Colonel commanding the 102nd Inf Regt. Cross-checking with other area intelligence sources might be enough to confirm that the 102nd Infantry Regiment is present in our area of operations.
You get the picture.
My point with this post is to state that, unknown to the public at the time (for obvious reasons), this Officer List became a frequently referred-to source for the important but far-from-glamorous OOB work within Allied intelligence (world-wide), as a result of a senior officer (thought to be the captain of one of the merchant vessels) not having disposed of the highly secret documents when he had the opportunity to do so. This find was likely to have been the most significant outcome to the broader Allied cause of Operation 81/the Bismarck Convoy.
During the advance from Finschafen to Madang in late 1943/early 1944, some soldiers crossing a creek tripped over a tin trunk submerged in the creek.
It was handed over to military intelligence, and found to contain current cyphers, another stroke of good fortune.
Yes. I thought it was somewhere in the vicinity of Sio, but I’m not certain.
Thanks, Muddy, for these excellent snippets. Very interesting.
Nicely done with these Muddy!
President Trump freezes 4.6 million credit cards for 30 days
WA election 2025: Labor MP boasts over drain that cost almost 10 times $1.5 million promise ahead of electionMatt McKenzieThe West Australian
Sun, 2 March 2025 3:43PM
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A drainage ditch in Perth’s northern suburbs a Labor member boasted over as part of his election campaign has cost taxpayers almost 10 times the promised amount.
The West Australian can reveal the Albert Street urban stream sucked in almost $14 million of cash — despite an original $1.5 million pledge.
The project, which saw the ditch “transformed” to a “vibrant” living stream was signed off by then water minister Dave Kelly.
The kilometre-long drain — nestled between Honeymyrtle Turn and Grindleford Drive and emptying into Roselea Lake — was completed last year, with Water Corporation expecting to continue pumping funds into it until at least 2027, according to budget documents.
The drain is in the electorate of Balcatta, with local Labor member David Michael using the blown out works as part of the State election campaign.
Mr Michael — who is also Mining Minster — has posted to his social media accounts, listing the drain as his 15th greatest achievement since coming to office.
“The Cook Labor Government has invested in building this urban stream, which will improve water quality and create a habitat for wildlife,” he wrote on the post.
I’ll raise him my storm water drain out the front
Drain’s been there 30 years .. they installed the sign 3 years ago .. 2 trucks, 3 “wukkas”, 2 hours ..LOL!
Shatterzzz, welcome back. We were worried about you.
You okay?
Glad to read your comment. How have you been? Have you been on holiday somewhere?
Gazans posting vids lots of well stocked shops and bustling restaurants atm.
https://x.com/imshin/status/1896102923878441200?t=hV75ILSHredvuWCEb7rB4Q&s=19
The Israelis really suck at genocide.
[sarc]
A commentator on France 24 warning that the border closure will mean that the hostages will be even more poorly treated.
It’s hard to get your head around the desperately degenerate mind that could come up with that. Considering half are already dead.
One issue is how many more young Israeli men should die to rescue the remaining 24 or so living hostages.
It’s a terrible decision to have to make but Hamas cannot be allowed to survive to repeat 7 October.
Hamas will keep some alive as long as they can be used as bargaining chips.
I prefer the old days when the Israelis didn’t negotiate with terrorists but hunted them down relentlessly after the fact.
I suspect we wouldn’t be here if that policy had been maintained.
Seven years to hunt down the perpetrators of the massacre of the Israeli Olympic team at Munich.
There’s a movie called “Starvin Gazans”.
Make sure you do not now, nor ever have done, own a Volkswagen.
Hitler!
You are right, that’s the logic used by Tesla owners who now want to sell them as they are no longer an acceptable status symbol.
They’ve got enough stuff for 4 to 6 months.
They will be ticked about no longer having access to fresh meat and produce though.
Eating out of tins is starvation in Gaza.
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1896094626596913566?t=Z92_4etvRD2W9gRe2T5UCw&s=19
From the comments:
Caleb Johnson
@CalebJohnson50 3h
Stop talking & tweeting Bibi. Drop the f*cking bombs tonight
Cats, here are (some of) the names:
Andrew Saxe Coburg Gotha
REDACTED
Cate Blanchett
Naomi Campbell
Bill Clinton
David Copperfield
Alexandra Cousteau
Cameron Diaz
Leonardo DiCaprio
Alan Dershowitz
Dreg Sheridan House Sized-Butte
Robert Giuffre
Fat Al Bore
Stephen Hawking
Michael Jackson
George Lucas
Kevin Spacey
Billy Lee Tuttle
Courtney Wild
Crate Blandchick, come on down, you utterly foul slag!
Well, at least we finally have some o’ them exposed. 😡
Thanks, AG Pam.
It doesn’t signify any possible wrongdoing without the flight manifests (just to start with).
Let’s see what Kash can turn up.
err, Rog – stop harshing the vibe, thanks, Squire.
I distrust vibes, Rabz…and for good reason.
None of those names are relevant to society, it’s the ones hiding behind the REDACTED label that could rock the kasbah.
Claire Lehmann has popped up in my feed a few times this weekend. She’s pretty retarded if her opinions on geopolitics are anything to go by.
But you’d go her, nonetheless, eh Squire?
Care to give an example?
For starters.
Cyclone Alfred is done bar the fat lady singing. Only convection of any substance in the southwest quadrant. Dry air has killed it but increasing windshear helped.
All models have a turn to the coats and crossing in 3 days just south of Fraser Is. Looking like a bare Cat 1 if that.
Models are in poor agreement though.
Um. Not here it aint.
Yup taking you are in SEQ somewhere.
The system is still 250 odd nautical miles direct east of about Gladstone. Turn to the coast won’t start till tomorrow night and it will be further away at that stage.
The sprinklers at Longreach Airport are working flat out, otherwise nuthin.
WTF – this is the braindead lamestream meeja’s latest talking point?
They really do have no idea.
The US electorate to Fatty Trump – I want you!
Liberals BEAT Puppet For Asking About Gov’t Waste
Ask America With Edgar
Didn’t watch all of it but a couple of points…
People seemed much more at ease and friendly talking to a puppet. Some odd psychological thing going on there.
No corflutes, all homemade signs (I liked the toilet one for craftsmanship, not the sentiment). The agitation money has really run out. As in disappeared. This is very telling.
Well that was disappointing. Just watched the Firefly Moon lander stream and no video from the spacecraft before or after landing.
Waiting for an image. They’re calibrating their coms. (The live coverage is still going, and has been very good.)
And the first image has come through!
Looks like Blue Ghost landed successfully and is upright. Well done team!
I have floated this concept at Casa Panzer.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
You’ll need a bucket, for your entrails…
If braindead lamestream meeja headlines bore any resemblance to the truth:
I would be very happy not to have to call another ambulance this year.
Seem to be staggering from one minor disaster to the next.
At least we have some little rays of sunshine to cheer us up.
If you see any US troops anywhere near Ukraine between now and 2028, they are lost.
FMD.
Can’t you just see it?
You just know that the first US casualty will be followed five minutes later by CNN/MSNBC solemnly reporting the “sources within the Pentagon believe the Trump White House leaked troop movements to Pukin”.
I expect nothing but duplicity from those duplicitous bastards in the media.
Okay, so I get that America First is ultimately about opposing China. So why would Trump let Musk kill off USAID, source of so much soft power, which is a gift-wrapped present for China to swan in with its Belt & Road largesse?
So far there has been no populism at all, just billionaires making selfish decisions for their own interests. Just like the first Trump administration, at a faster pace.
The recession caused by stupid tariffs and cratering business and consumer confidence is going to be deep and lasting. Already projected at a 1.5% annualised drop in Q1.
And here’s dickless.
This from a failed Econ 102 after 2 weeks and now is a Jismist.
Piss off, Nazi. You’re a putrid disgrace.
That’s very amusing Monty.
What I am seeing is the US business community gearing up in advance of Trump’s opportunities. So jobs data is coming in hot despite the public serpent layoffs. Consumer and business confidence have been above forecast. The vibe, Monty, it’s the vibe.
(I check WSJ Markets page every morning, they have this info if you scroll down.)
USAID was so corrupt that it handed millions to Soros to use campaigning to install leftard DAs in the US. How is that “International” Development? It also funded “independent” media in the US..
I guess that to leftards, leftard propaganda is “soft power”. Softer than using their own money.
Monty is a supporter of Democrat institutionalised money laundering and fraudulent misuse of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars.
January PMI showed a slight contraction in the US economy. How is Trump to blame?
He is POTUS. Economic confidence is on him.
Piss off, Nazi
The GloboHomo elite go all-in for Endless War- AnAl puts his chips down for an election. I bet he can hardly contain his relief.
You spelt erection wrong.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
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‘Boys not Indigenous under the law’: judge hands down ruling in adoption sagaJoanna Panagopoulos
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Likely barriers to adoption for two boys by their long-term non-Aboriginal carers have been cleared after a NSW judge determined they were not considered Aboriginal children under the law, following their mother’s discovery of her great-grandmother’s Indigenous heritage.
Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal finished on March 1. Hamas wanted to proceed to Phase 2. Israel wanted to delay phase 2 and adopt the Witkoff framework. Phase 2 involved return of the rest of the hostages and permanent ceasefire. Witkoff framework involves return of all the hostages on the last day of the temporary ceasefire. I can understand why Hamas wants the former and Israel the latter. I’m not sure however you can say that Hamas is breaking the deal.
Al Jazeera said phase 2 was vague, Witkoff gave some clarity, hamas didn’t like it.
Hostages are their only chips.
“The terms of the second phase of the agreement were kept intentionally vague, anticipating that many of the details would be hammered out in future negotiations. Among the terms to be agreed upon were details of a lasting ceasefire to end Israel’s war on Gaza – which has killed more than 61,700 Palestinians – the complete withdrawal of Israel’s forces from the enclave and the release of all remaining captives held by Hamas in exchange for an undetermined number of Palestinian prisoners”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/27/how-is-israel-violating-the-gaza-ceasefire-deal?_gl=1*3jnnpo*_ga*d2dMQ1dzXzFDVkhXTWQ1TnRKZGJtVU4yVzlvR2h3clQ1ZVV1OEFVUDFpMjdyWkRSV1pLa0dJdnBlMnV1ejliRQ..*_ga_XN9JB9Q0M1*MTc0MDkwOTE1MC4xMS4xLjE3NDA5MDkxNTEuMC4wLjA.
I don’t think this has anything to do with ambiguous terms.
I think it has to do with Hamas being evil.
Wasn’t the deal broken by hamarse right near the beginning.
Hamas rejects Israel’s proposal to extend first stage of deal (1 Mar)
Phase 2 is not going to happen for very obvious reasons. And Hamas has just given Israel an excuse.
I thought the deal automatically extends past Phase 1 with or without Witkoff framework as long as negotiations re Phase 2 continue.
Premier Roger Cook slams singer Peter Garrett for sowing ‘seeds of hatred’ with Gina Rinehart rantBethany Hiatt & Jessica PageThe West Australian
Sun, 2 March 2025 5:13PM
Roger Cook has lashed rock musician Peter Garrett for sowing “seeds of hatred” with a “completely inappropriate” taunt aimed at WA mining magnate Gina Rinehart during his Perth concert.
The Premier labelled the singer, activist and former Federal politician “disrespectful” for urging his audience to “pretend they’re dancing on Gina Rinehart’s grave” during the Perth Festival show at East Perth Power Station on Friday night.
As well as sledging Australia’s richest person, the 71-year-old Midnight Oil frontman who was performing with his other band, The Alter Egos, also criticised gas giant Woodside and US President Donald Trump between songs.
Perth Festival has defended Garrett’s right to personal artistic expression.
Garret still hanging around like a dirty stink. Fuk off north shore Barker boy lawyer prick.
You would think a lawyer would know better then to insult the richest woman in Australia?
Garrett really is a poisonous PoS
Perth Festival has defended Garrett’s right to personal artistic expression.
Quite right too. The younger people who’ve not encountered Garrett have a right to know what a total dickhead he is.
Has he given back his mansion in the Blue Mountains? Or was that just a ploy to get everyone else to do so?
Years ago – after the Mabo judgement – a farmers meeting in the Eastern Wheatbelt, concerning that judgement, was gatecrashed by a prominent activist, who stated “Well, you’ll just have to sit down with the traditional owners, and renegotiate the terms under which you occupy that land.”
A voice came from the gathering
“So, will you be sitting down with the traditional owners, and renegotiating the terms under which you occupy the house you live in?”
“Don’t be stupid – I took out a mortgage, and brought that house.”
And I defend my right to call him a rich prick pretending he’s for the wukkas and boongs.
Two words, Chrome-dome: Pink Batts. What about the graves of the tradies who got killed installing them? You’ve been dancing around that for years, you flog.
Oh look, the Nazi is back defecating here.
I think there’s possibly a Zelenskyy bromance brewing.
Just a reminder of the Nazi’s unforgettable words from last year…..
Biden can govern
Kamala Harris will win Iowa
I don’t think the Nazi has any credibility.
Hey Cassie,
ignore the Gimp, one of our good, lost ones is back.
Shatterzzz has commented upthread.
Good to see him back.
@PhilHollowayEsq
Oh … the democrats sabotaged it
I’m shocked. Shocked!
“Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn)”
Isn’t this what the Logan Act was enacted to combat?
Yes it was.
The ones who have broken this law can get 3 years in the pen.
Zulu, I have been saving this for you. 😀
Regards to Mrs Zulu also.
@MarioNawfal
KEIR STARMER TO HOST UKRAINE SUMMIT TODAY AS TRUMP PUTS ZELENSKY IN TIME-OUT
Keir Starmer is gathering European leaders and Zelensky in London after Trump’s Oval Office showdown left Zelensky kicked to the curb.
France’s Macron, Italy’s Meloni, and others are scrambling to reinforce NATO as Trump demands a public apology from Zelensky before even considering more support.
Starmer, fresh from his charm offensive at the White House, is pitching himself as a bridge between Trump and Europe while telling allies to pay up on defense before Trump cancels their subscription.
Zelensky will also meet King Charles as he works to repair ties with the U.S.
So that the measles epidemic they’re carrying on about.
A reminder that the NATO countries have paid for their alliance with the USA in lives not only money.
https://x.com/gepardtatze/status/1895928807410065845#m
How much does Trump value these past contributions? Apparently not a helluva lot.
Perhaps an obvious rejoinder to this emotional argument from the Europeans would be: oh, so why wouldn’t you risk the same losses for a country much closer to home?
Maybe in Afghanistan against poorly trained jihadis the odds looked a lot better than any conceivable war against Russia. And you can’t eliminate the nuclear dimension from the equation.
you’re doing it again, Berka
is logical fallacy your first language ?
Any counter argument, or just bullying again?
you really want somebody to agonise against your idiotic constructions?
and if somebody wont then you’ll just reach into your bag of pejoratives
“bully”? … gawd yr full of shit
You can’t defend your own opinion and yet you hate anyone who disagrees with you. There’s a word for that.
nice try dick-head
Wear an adult diaper when interacting with the God oracle .
black to play
make a queen
Make a queen? The irony.
Doesn’t that indicate who NATO serves?
unfortunately, NATO pushed well past their remit
petty nation states gagging for US cashflow and a corrupt US regime perverted what was once a noble and necessary cause
this time … the west is the baddies
though, it seems the rules may have changed lately
If there’s a point you want to make could you just say it in plain English instead of encoding it in cryptic rhetorical questions?
pretty sure I stated it plainly enough.
is the there a question mark in anything I wrote above?
That reply was to dover beach’s question.
Nothing cryptic there.
exactly who does NATO serve is a very pertinent question
Good to see you back, Shatterzzz.
Anthony Albanese drops major detail on wedding to Jodie HaydonPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed a key detail on his upcoming wedding to Jodie Haydon, as he launches a bid for a second term in the top job.
Daily Tele. Who gives a rat’s rectum? Seriously?
I look forward to a journalist curious enough to go and ask Carmel Tebbut why she got a divorce.
You won’t find one.
Now Hewitt’s ex-wife just before an election, that was different.
for urging his audience to “pretend they’re dancing on Gina Rinehart’s grave
Now just imagine the furore and outrage if some right-wing entertainer said something similar about a women of the left.
I could never understand the utterly irrational hatred of the left towards Gina Rinehart.
Envy?
Correct. And she doesn’t give a sh*t. Kerry Packer in female form.
I like her.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/illegal-alien-haiti-flown-us-bidens-parole-program/
Delta A. Suit up and choose your ride lovely lady.
Australia FLEXES on the USA with their INSANE Burnout Cars! (1000hp Blown V8’s)
The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert A critique by Donna Laframboise
Reviewed by Rafe Champion
Let me explain it to you f-ckwit.
When a proper President is elected, he understands that the US can project actual power without spending a dime.
Example.
Panama is playing footsies with Chinah under the table.
There are two options.
1. The Biden/Obumbi option of throwing more cash into the wind (whilst simultaneously hinting that victory is not possible); or
2. The Trump FAFO option, telling Panama that if they keep it up the sky might fall in.
Aaaaaand … Panama rolled over.
And another thing you obese donut inhaler.
USAID had nothing to do with “projecting soft power”. It was an exercise in third wave colonialism, forcing the fetishes of the Far-Left US elites on poorer nations, and with destabilising impacts on the security of the US by fomenting dissent against traditional Western values.
Surely you would applaud the disassembling of USAID, being a key tool of US hegemony?
Surely you would applaud the disassembling of USAID, being a key tool of US hegemony?
Uh, no; he suspects some of his comrades are going to have the tap turned off.
The problem with all this is that the more Trump withdraws US involvement in world affairs, the less his threats matter. You can see that with Zelenskyy: why would he give in to US demands when it is quite clear that Ukraine’s future lies with Europe?
Bullying Panama is easy. That tactic only works on nearby minnows. Belt & Road is all over Africa, and USAID did a lot of good work there on stuff like AIDS and Ebola. But I guess the Chinese can take over all that stuff now, Trump and his mates need those tax cuts.
Anyway, “Slainte” to you mob, and to Hell with Peter Garret and his lousy band.
Reading “Clarissa – Muse to Power” by Hugo Vickers. The lady was Winston Churchill’s niece, and married to Anthony Eden, one time prime Minister. Most remarkable lady.
“Finally to have a chocolate souffle, and a glass of champagne on a Sunday night, at the age of 101, then not wake up next morning is surely an enviable way to go.” Page 295.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TJ8dER0bgtI?feature=share
Mayorkas of DHS impeached.
It wasn’t only demorats who primed zelensky:
Bipartisan Group of RINOs and Democrat Senators Met with Zelensky and Blew Smoke Up His A$$ Before He Met with Trump – Zelensky Releases Video where You Can See Clearly Who Participated | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
So what is President Trump going to do about them?
He cannot work with these people continually undermining his efforts to sort out the European mess.
Have they done something illegal? If so, throw the book at them.
Logan Act?
This does help to explain some of Zelensky’s intransigence at the Oval Office meeting. He was thoroughly geared up by this initial meeting with the ‘bipartisan’ crew who clearly urged him to still fight on vs Trump/Vance.
Zelensky’s best hope, in my view, is to seek a private interview with Trump/Vance saying he seeks JD’s ‘diplomacy’, and claim that he received encouragement to further pursue his grievances in the public forum at the Oval Office. He could claim he was thus ill-advised, and that he also had some difficulties in speaking in a foreign language without his usual interpreters. We noticed that in a recent meeting in Europe after the showdown with Trump he was using interpreters again.
Either that, or Zelensky resigns and someone else takes over, someone who will play ball.
As for the disruptors at home, do whatever it takes to kneecap them.
I see the gutless wonder has returned to grace the blog with his poisonous flatulence.
Predictable as sunrise, but nowhere near as welcome.
I’ve broken out a couple of spray cans of Glen 20. Sprayed them liberally.
Elsie is distinctively unhappy.
.
Z (with two Y’s) was ambushed?
… maybe he was even bullied by Vance and Trump?
… LoL
back-fired is more like it
Don’t Lol me boy.
And check your vision.
You’re reply to punctuation.
Down ticked because you’re being an arse.
I think the Zelensky White House thing was an ambush, and I think the intended receiver of that was not Zelensky, but the Europeans and Russians.
HOWEVER, there could have been a contributing factor: that Americans, especially in front of cameras, spend a considerably amount of time and effort in mutual masturbation with what seems to regular humans to be a lot of over the top praise.
Z was being matter of fact, which didn’t encompass the levels of mutual j*rking off customary to Americans.
Still think it was a set up and what happened was the intended outcome.
Don’t agree. Trump and Vance started out with a genuine hope that Z would sign up, because it looked to be his best option. Then they realised he was trying to play them. Neither T nor V are the sort to put-up with that. They’re both ‘Don’t take shit from anyone’ types. Especially from a creep like Z. So they didn’t.
You’re a mind reader.
I’m not.
I honestly don’t know what was in the heads of any of them.
Both parties had an agenda. Trump wants to close down the war on accommodating terms to both sides and Z man doesn’t. It doesn’t help that Trump distrusts and dislikes him for shit he pulled causing an impeachment attempt and campaigning with the Demonrats. Z has to resign I think. There’s no place for him in the new environment.
I don’t think it was a set-up- however I do think the barney was an inevitability.
Zelenskyy is a lightweight, a performer accustomed to flattery and scritped instruction.
Trump is instinctive, thinks on his feet, and does not put up with any bullsh*t.
The Cathedral v America First.