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Open Thread – Mon 3 March 2025
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- In Tandem with the Antichrist
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We had “decades of bipartisanship” with regard to Israel. Labor torched that. An Aboriginal activist talking about “truth telling”? Don’t…
Joe Rogan Experience #2294 – Dr. Suzanne Humphries Dr Humphries is a conventionally educated medical doctor who was a participant in conventional…
Isn’t that effectively what’s happening now in remote communities?
We got the tail end of Yasi here in the WA goldfields. 180 mms for feb which nearly reached our…
From the Oz.
The fringe Indigenous group that brought down the billion-dollar Blayney mine project has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal bid to declare the peak of Mount Panorama, overlooking Australia’s iconic motor racing circuit, a sacred site, after one of its former members’ ashes were scattered there.
The Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation, which launched a successful last-minute effort to scupper the goldmine last year, has sought to register the peak as a state heritage site, after it held a smoking ceremony and scattered the ashes of former member Uncle Brian Grant there in late 2022.
McPhillamy Park, located on the summit, serves as a viewpoint over the town and its internationally famous motor racing circuit.
In an extraordinary ongoing dispute, the Wiradyuri group wants the site deemed “significant”, while Grant’s family have made inquiries about a federal order that would place restrictions over public access to one of the mountain’s best viewpoints and prevent any new development on it.
This is an insurgency.
It’s a classic boots-strap argument. Akin to the practice in native title claims that adduce as evidence of prior occupation a recent painting that is said to show a dreaming track in the disputed area. The art work is a self-created title deed.
Oh, and Aunty Leanna Carr, a leading member of the group, is as white as Snow White’s bum.
Shirley the scattering of ashes is a disgraceful act of cultural appropriation and will be roundly condemned by the msm??
Most of our locals have had their ashes cast into our bay here . Does this mean the bay can be claimed by us whiteys as an area of cultural significance?
I think they might find its *already* a sacred site!
…and long observed as such by a very large tribe, indeed. One much, much bigger than Aunty Leanna’s green left little sewing circle.
Gina Rinehart is a great Australian. The same cannot be said about Peter Pan Garrett.
Peter Garrett is a 71-year-old teenager. Some people never grow up.
He’s also weird, can’t sing or dance and went to Barker.
Funnily enough they are the same age. Isn’t Peter worried that some other people may do even worse things than dance on his grave?
Garret should be constantly reminded that people literally died on his watch as minister for shitty insulation.
Good column JC.
Final paragraph.
But their shared illusion that there is a path to victory will inevitably lead to a more dangerous future for us all.
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69 X Minutes: Erin Molan DESTROYS Jane Fonda’s ‘Woke is Empathy’ Claim!
In the video titled “69 X Minutes: Erin Molan DESTROYS Jane Fonda’s ‘Woke is Empathy’ Claim!” from the channel Erin Molan, the host critiques Jane Fonda’s recent comments equating wokeness with empathy. Fonda, an actor, described empathy as not weak or woke but as a quality that shows caring for others. Molan argues against this viewpoint, asserting that being “woke” often involves superficial gestures that don’t lead to practical outcomes or solutions to problems. She notes that effective empathy involves taking tough actions, even when unpopular, to achieve greater good. Molan criticizes political leaders, specifically Biden, for failing to translate empathy into action, while she credits Trump with focusing on tangible solutions without heavily relying on emotive discourse. She suggests that the Democratic elites and Hollywood figures use empathy as a tool for virtue signaling rather than implementing real change. Molan concludes that people in dire situations would prefer practical actions over empathetic words, emphasizing that resolving issues is more crucial than merely expressing feelings.
Channel surfing now.
Jurassic Park is on.
That Spielberg chap could make a good movie.
I think this is Trumps strategy.
Its about 5 mins and fits the current climate
https://youtu.be/XamC7-Pt8N0?si=-2lltsPEAv0sa8u6
Looks like starship Flight 8 is still on for tomorrow morning at this time.
Winds look to be a little strong so wouldn’t be surprised if there is a postponement.
The astronaut .
The starman.
Military History – Bismarck Sea Snippet V.
Corporal Koido, Rihei, a member of the Headquarters 3rd Battalion of Moto 2807: the 14th Field Artillery Regiment, was captured off an unknown island in the Bismarck Sea area by Australian troops on the 13th or 14th of March, 1943.
He was twenty-seven years old, 5 foot 3 inches in height, and 110 lbs weight from Gumma Ken, Kita Kanra Gun, Nishimaki Mura, Azayokuma, though it is believed he was born in Nagano. A truck driver in pre-war life; employed by the Komoro Baggage Co. Koido was unmarried, and both his parents were dead; his next of kin was a brother – Kaichi – in Nagano.
Koido was first conscripted on the 13th of October, 1937 at Takasaki in the 15th Infantry Regiment. He served in China until discharged in September, 1940 and was called-up again on the 23rd of July, 1941, at Utsunomiya: posted to the 14th Fd Arty Bn, 3 Bn HQ.
Koido was aboard the Oigawa Maru in Operation 81. He and one other unidentified man drifted in the ocean without food or water for about 10 or 11 days “being immersed all this time up to the waist… they had lost the use of their legs and were more dead than alive.”
As a result of the annihilation of the convoy in Operation 81, Koido “saw men of high and low rank bravely suffer and die … He had seen men die calling out their son’s and daughter’s names and some to their Mothers.”
On the 5th of August, 1943, at Special Camp 12 D, Cowra, New South Wales, Koido died of a gunshot wound to the back.
Sorry, my sense of dates is so skee-whiff now: That was meant to have been the 5th of August, 1944. The Cowra Breakout.
But their shared illusion that there is a path to victory will inevitably lead to a more dangerous future for us all.
Quite so, and that’s exactly what Trump meant when he said to Zelensky in that now infamous meeting….
‘you’re gambling with World War Three’
I’m throwing caution to the wind!
On a beach in Nusa Dua about to drink my first Tequila Sunrise. And life is good.
I can see through the politispeak just like you. But not everyone can. That’s what makes the whole thing so bloody dangerous. I can almost hear the jingoism.
Just had a look at Windy. Nasty wind shears tomorrow at planned launch time. I reckon its a scrub.
Odd given Mandelson must know that Ukraine has already given up its mineral rights to the UK in return for a ‘loan’ and a 100 year partnership
Joe Rogan Experience #2281 – Elon Musk
In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience featuring Elon Musk, the discussion is wide-ranging and touches on several key topics: 1. **AI and Technology**: Elon Musk discusses the development of Grok AI, which aims to provide honest answers, unlike other AI systems that are perceived as restrictive or biased. There is concern over the implications of AI development, especially related to safety and ethical considerations, such as ensuring AI doesn’t advance results that are harmful or politically manipulated. 2. **Space Exploration**: Musk reiterates his commitment to making humanity a multi-planetary species through SpaceX, focusing on making trips to Mars viable and eventually establishing a self-sustaining civilization there. He also highlights the technological challenges, such as creating a reliable reusable rocket and solving the orbital heat shield dilemma. 3. **Government Efficiency and Corruption**: Musk expands on his ongoing efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to address corruption and inefficiencies within the U.S. government, drawing attention to waste and misuse of taxpayer money. He emphasizes the need for transparency and accountability, suggesting systemic changes to prevent fraud. 4. **Political Influence and Media**: Both Rogan and Musk criticize the media’s role in shaping public perception, arguing media narratives often target individuals unfairly, such as characterizing Musk or other political figures as extremists without basis. They discuss the potential for media bias to manipulate public opinion, particularly through misinformation. 5. **Security and Legal Concerns**: They touch on threats to Musk’s life due to his disruptive actions against established systems and vested interests. They speculate about previous assassination attempts on public figures and the mechanisms behind political smear campaigns. 6. **Social and Cultural Commentary**: The conversation veers into issues of societal division, the power of empathy as both a strength and vulnerability in Western civilizations, and the problems stemming from identity politics and ideological rigidities. Throughout the conversation, both Musk and Rogan weave humor with serious reflections, framing the topics in a way that’s engaging yet thought-provoking for listeners.
Link for Monty of malmo..
https://www.volunteeringukraine.com/en
Cats enraged by Britain uniting in solid support of invaded Allies, with lockstep by the Tories and Fleet Street.
If the Cat had been around for Charles Lindbergh, you lot would have supported his politics over that of Roosevelt.
I’m looking over the next couple of valleys to a hillside.
It’s actually a mound of skulls. Our young men dead for a worthless cause.
History informs me that this is how it starts.
The only supporter of Nazis and Nazism is you, you putrid Nazi grub. It is you and your NAZI LOT who daily screech genocide against Jews, who daily celebrate synagogues, Jewish businesses and Jews being torched and attacked on our streets, and who daily spruik violence against Jewish Australians.
I tell you what you are, you’re a sleazy coward who racks off when you’re found out and called out to be wrong…….which is about everything.
So, Nazi, where have you been these last four months? You racked off after Trump was victorious, couldn’t show your face, you motley coward.
Oh and by the way Nazi, you owe Moira Deeming an apology, you called her a Nazi, she is not and never has been a Nazi and a court in your state said she was not a Nazi. But hear this, I know who is a Nazi……and that’s you……Nazi boy.
He was having a dick transplant; but it failed.
Already ‘you lotting’ Monty?
Dearie me.
We actually love Britain and France and Germany actually doing their bit and not sponging off the US.
That’s Trump’s strategy, to make them do that.
Ukraine is Europe’s mess. Let them stand up and sort it out.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, nor the EU.
How is Ukraine Europe’s problem?
Was Ukraine allied to any EU nation prior to 2022?
The lunatic authoritarian, globalist elite, are continuing to risk WWIII, for the sake of a nation they had no relationship prior to 2022.
Do you think taunting the most powerfully armed nuclear nation on earth is a good idea? I don’t.
I think a better idea, is to summarily execute every representative that deliberately tries to lead the world into nuclear armageddon.
These psychotics may yet destroy all life on earth.
I’ll bet you were one of those who said Trump was a threat to world peace.
Disgusting, warmongering hypocrite
He’s a grub.
we shall fight on the beaches (of Port Phillip),
we shall fight on the landing grounds (Tullamarine),
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets (Werribee and Naarm),
we shall fight in the hills (Dandenong Ranges and the Otways);
we shall never surrender (for we never fought, we just talked endless amounts of posturing bull-shit).
don’t be like mUnty … mUnty’s an idiot
Monty’s become a hawk
progress at any cost
… he’s just another worthless commie
From JC’s link at 8:27.
Are we getting an understanding as to why the Yanks are somewhat miffed?
What is most amazing is that Trump is the only President this century to push this inequality.
I keep saying this.
The aggregate of what Trump is doing is going to create yuuuge strains on “vanity projects” around the world:-
Cash might become scarce for things like renewballs subsidies, endless migrant welfare and tunnel building in Gaza.
Has anyone here bothered to look at the sums? Perun is too verbose but at least he has done his homework.
Could Europe Defend Itself Without the US? – The US Split, Rearmament & Defence Independence
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 3, 2025 8:39 pm
From the Oz.
The fringe Indigenous group that brought down the billion-dollar Blayney mine project has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal bid to declare the peak of Mount Panorama, overlooking Australia’s iconic motor racing circuit, a sacred site, after one of its former members’ ashes were scattered there.
The Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation, which launched a successful last-minute effort to scupper the goldmine last year, has sought to register the peak as a state heritage site, after it held a smoking ceremony and scattered the ashes of former member Uncle Brian Grant there in late 2022.
McPhillamy Park, located on the summit, serves as a viewpoint over the town and its internationally famous motor racing circuit.
In an extraordinary ongoing dispute, the Wiradyuri group wants the site deemed “significant”, while Grant’s family have made inquiries about a federal order that would place restrictions over public access to one of the mountain’s best viewpoints and prevent any new development on it.
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These stone age dickwads could not even boil water.
Flick a few copper coins a tell them to f*ck off!
For shame, haven’t you read anything Bruce Pascoe has written?
They have already had pretty much a trillion dollars in current value dollars- plus State spending, plus royalties which are not payable to any other Australian.
The second part of your recommendation will suffice, Sir.
Mt Panorama is a sacred site – for motor racing fans.
Snap Dr Duk
m0nty
March 3, 2025 9:11 pm
Cats enraged by Britain uniting in solid support of invaded Allies, with lockstep by the Tories and Fleet Street.
If the Cat had been around for Charles Lindbergh, you lot would have supported his politics over that of Roosevelt.
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Go play with traffic on a busy road.
But what is the Westphalian solution here? The article doesn’t outline any.
No.
But it does point out the futility of fighting out an eternal stalemate Somme-style until you are waist deep in skulls.
Europe’s <strike>reckless</strike> feckless bid for victory
Oh and I see how our Nazi is citing Democrat Roosevelt.
Roosevelt, and particularly his party the Democrats, were isolationists and it took the attack on Pearl Harbour for Roosevelt and the US to enter the war.
And even then, Germany declared war on the US, not vice versa.
and tunnel building in Gaza.
Western aid built tunnels in Gaza and armed the Hamas Nazi rapists and murderers.
Easily explained. US was the global hegemon, European nations far from it. China spent 1.7% last year. Malaysia about 1%. US is the outlier because of what it is.
It doesn’t alter the fact that, if the Euros want to project a strong defensive stance to Pukin they will have to:-
1. Spend up on defence at the expense of discretionary vanity projects; and
2. Grow a spine.
They’re effectively neck and neck.
Why not also show at current exchange rates? It doesn’t work as well?
Worse for Russia. But how does that help the argument that EU is underspending? I steel manned Sancho’s argument and you’re complaining.
Don’t be so defensive. I’ve seen you trot out PPP when you’re trying to raise a third world country with nukes to first world status.
Extract the costs of military salaries, allowances and pensions from both sides, then “Compare the pair”.
1. No money, spent it on vanity projects of no value. 2. Incapable without someone doing it for them.
Has any Russian in authority stated that they want to invade Europe?
Let us assume that the EU nations can agree on some form of defensive system, (which by the way, is unlikely), do you honestly think they could stand against a very pissed off and agressive Russia?
All of this bluster is designed to produce two outcomes.
The debacle of 18 months ago, when the Czech President said he would get a million arty shells for Ukraine, shows the utter stupidity and ineptness of these clowns.
All that occurred was, the weapons traders massively increased the price of shells, they only got 300,000 AND the vast majority of those were defective.
Oh, well played sir!
Ukraine would be far better off now, if they had a leader who was Ukrainian and they had accepted the offers Russia made prior to Feb 2022.
In fact, they would be much better off if the accepted the deal from Turkey in the months after Feb 2022.
Unfortunately for the Ukraine, there is no coming back now, they are fu#@ed.
Ozzy. He should do a collab with Steve Inman.
He Better Get 5 Stars – Destination F’d (Vol. 39)
Steve Inman:
When Soy Boys Collide
Bring a knife to a gunfight…
I have a particular objection to Zelensky wearing his tracksuit to every event and occasion. He can wear it normally when interacting with those in his own government and army personnel. When he travels abroad for special occasions he should dignify them with proper attire such as a suit.
When he appeared in Norte Dame Cathedral for the re-opening in his tracksuit I thought that was a great insult to not just France but to Catholics everywhere. I consider it a greater insult than what he wore to the White House.
That’s just silly.
No it isn’t.
Dress for the respect you want.
My preference is brocade and tiara.
My normally considerable respect for you, based on your percipience not your appearance, has just gone down a notch. No number or splendour of tiaras will bring it back.
How about an egret feather in a headband?
That would at least make me an “honourable”. 😀
In addition, what’s a tiara or a bow tie between friends?
I have a particular objection to Zelensky wearing his tracksuit to every event and occasion.
I expect women to be shallow, superficial, and much concerned with clothes and appearance. It’s why they voted for Justin Trudeau in large numbers. I hope men will be more concerned with more significant matters.
The reason he wears a military style outfit is he is doing a performance and that is his costume.
He is fighting!
Perhaps we should cast our minds back to the Crimean war when Britain and France teamed up with Turks to stop Russia from breaking up the Ottoman Empire that slaved around the Black Sea. The Greeks unsurprisingly backed the Russians.
Starmer could bring the old team back together again. He’s stupid and vain enough.
I’d prefer it if you described European nations in terms of MAFS characters.
“France is being a total Jason (personal trainer – NSW) over this” or “The UK is exhibiting typical Chanelle (beauty therapist – WA) characteristics here”.
Well that bit of knowledge sharing reveals far too much about you, Sancho.
On a cold dark night by the fire, sit back and think how different the 20th C may have looked with Constaintinople falling and the Ottoman Empire out of Europe.
Gina Rinehart spent millions of dollars on a block of units, in Perth, to provide housing for homeless veterans.
Anybody know if Peter Garret has spent a cracker, on such a cause? I’ll see myself out.
I want to know if he has ‘given back’ his mansion in the Blue Mountains.
I note he has dropped the camo t-shirt for a plain black one.
I saw someone on the Soshuls saying he does it to show solidarity with the troops.
Bullshit.
He does it to project an image to the world that he is part of the military.
As I said to someone the other day, “Of the three people in that White House meeting, one has been in the military, another has actually been shot and the third was called Vlodimir”.
It is simply incredible the amount of musical scores his brain has produced.
Hot diiggedy damn.
Hans Zimmer – Time (Inception – Live in Prague)
When the person who told you Trump would win in 2016, told you that Trump would probably lose in 2020 (while you all wagered on what the victory margin would be) and told you definitely that Trump would win in a landslide in 2024, the same person who said “It has to be JD” while we waited for the VP choice, the same person who told you that Biden would do anything to complete his term and attempt to contest 2024, while you all, and I mean all, were trying to predict the date he gave it up, when he also predicts that an assassination attempt was on the cards months beforehand, when that person says he is getting an inkling that the mid terms might go the bad way, despite the fact that he is currently being a self important arse and speaking of himself in the third person, you might pause the torrent of downticks and show an interest in why.
You are resting on your laurels…I would too.
Too many balls in the air right now.
I’d like to see those conspirators Logan Acted and see what happens.
Calli, none of the many things I list above make me a prophet.
But the thing I have been predicting for the last twenty years is more important: that deindustrialisation would eventually put us at an existential threat.
That the Chinese could cut our sea lanes.
That our inability to manufacture would have an accelerating effect as the loss of capabilities magnified through retirements, lack of training and loss of expertise. So much is now gone that can’t be easily got back.
Ten years ago it was still reversible. Now?
Only with an immediate, deliberate and concerted effort that has to include much pain and austerity.
It gives me great and intense pain to be proven right as China sends it’s navy to engage in the type of gun boat diplomacy the USA used to crack open Japan in the century before last.
Being right isn’t nice, or pleasant or a reason for pride when that thing you are right about is the destruction of all that you love and your attempts to tell of what you foresee so clearly is ignored, not just ignored, but apparently unable to be comprehended past a small group of individuals.
How much more would I wish to have been wrong and ridiculed than to have so soon been right.
No longer do I say war is coming.
War is here.
And we only have ourselves to blame. Our frivolity, fecklessness, greed and stupidity. Our lack of foresight, planning. Our cheapness and superficiality.
Much pain, anger and death to come because the left is insane, the centre has collapsed and the right is obsessed with obscure economic principles.
You don’t have to have the most technologically advanced piece of kit. You have to have adequate kit, in plentiful quantities and the personnel with the training and the cohesion, discipline, spirit and work ethic to maximise that kit.
See the kiwi survey ship interaction with a reef for a concrete example. Now multiply that issue throughout our armed forces, industries, schools and political class.
We’re in big trouble.
I’m not even sure we will soon have the people with the capacity to identify how badly in the shit we are if we don’t reverse course immediately.
And the Dunning – Kruger award goes (jointly) to Albo and Bowen.
Cash might become scarce for things like renewballs subsidies, endless migrant welfare and tunnel building in Gaza.
Europe is broke.
If they want to scale up militarily quickly it needs to via what US defence tech firms sell.
Because Europe has tired itself up with so much regulatory red tape it couldn’t innovate its way out of a paper bag.
Replacing centuries of energy infrastructure which ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ built, with rainbow unicorn farts hasn’t helped either.
China just launched the 7th nuclear sub in 2 years, has one 5th gen fighter in production and another about to go into production, keeps expanding its navy at a remarkable rate, has just flown a 6th gen fighter, is currently testing a jet engine for hypersonic flight, and keeps building missiles. I’m doubtful about the 1.7%.
Officially, the number is 1.2%; 1.7% is an estimate by SIPRI.
Why bring up China before I did? I thought of China then I thought of Malaysia as a middle power in Asia. Indonesia’s military spending is 0.7%. Brazil, 1.1%. Japan, 1.2%. Egypt, 0.9%. Definite pattern emerges when you look at the numbers. Outside of various contingencies faced by individual countries, its usually sub-2% across the board.
Officially means shit when it’s about the CCP.
As for estimates from Spiro. There are other estimates of up to 4%.
That’s why I went with SIPRI figure. Still, the point stands that the military spending of the NATO countries outside of the US is average or above the average.
Perun broadly argues the same and also that the EU already has more hardware and personnel than Russia. The EU has the advantage of not losing material in a current war, has access to many more weapons systems than Russia, and is modernizing whereas Russia is spending so much on the war it can’t invest in R&D.
Europe however has the dis-advantage of a populace broken by obesity, wokeism, trans mania and divisive immigration. Add that to them ‘suiciding’ their energy infrastructure and I cant see them having much appetite or stamina in a real war.
Nup, there isn’t much obesity in Europe. There is a lot of obesity in the US and Oz.
Perhaps in the past, not now…
59% across the Eurozone as a whole….
Europeans have given away to Ukraine a shit tonne of material. The Russians would clean their clocks. Their armed forces have been engaged in actual warfare for three years.
Extract the costs of salaries, allowances and pensions from both sets of data, then “Compare the pair”.
This was wild. Enjoy the show.
Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Orchestra Suite
The word we’re looking for re Zelenskyyy’s box fresh action loungewear is “LARPing”.
Zippster,
Thanks for the interesting link posted at 10:23 am on Valentina Zharkova’s talk on the Grand Solar Minimum and predictions for the future.
I think there is some dispute over whether she is correct re the varying earth-sun distance.
I for one couldn’t follow her reasoning in this aspect.
Interesting nonetheless.
Mark Dice:
R@cist Jokes Are Great Again! haha!
So many stunners. Her@3:21.
Goodness gracious!
Thomas Bergersen – Empire Of Angels ( EXTENDED Version by Kiko10061980 )
Johannes Leak.
Hit it for six — Dutton de-commission the useless, partisan grifting Human Rights Commission and all the proliferated commissions thereunder — just one Commissioner and ancillary staff — the law is the law — the silence of the Commission on the anti-semitism, the targeting of Jews and Jewish businesses is an indictment of the Commission — grifters galore
Weak as P*SS the LNP are gutless and beholding to the public service and all their destructive bullsh*t they serve up to woke politicians.
green triangle earrings are a subtle touch.
If you want to read the shit the AHRC is trying to stir up, hold your nose and go here.
The fact sheets and school packs are particularly alarming.
Cop this: Black is white, up is down.
.. Australia renamed IDERD ‘Harmony Day’ in 1999. Overnight, this change turned the focus of the day from a protest against racial discrimination into a celebration.
Can’t have that, can we?
If we had universal harmony, the AHRC would have no reason to exist. Ergo.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Bad case of TDS there.
David Rowe.
Back with his grotesqueries — it’s clear now — the left loves death, destruction and warmongering
Even mUntard is now hot for war.
Rowe is a sick fuk.
A.F. Branco.
Nailed it.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Tina Norton.
hahaha
Tim Blair:
Excellent work Mr Blair.
excellent behaviour Mr Blair
Money can only end starvation, poverty and pain if third world corruption and first world bureaucracy don’t consume it first.
Exactly.
The best answer to the grifters that infest the entrances to shopping centres.
Roosevelt, and particularly his party the Democrats, were isolationists and it took the attack on Pearl Harbour for Roosevelt and the US to enter the war.
You may want to do a little more reading.The communist Roosevelt was itching to get into a war in Europe. The US was supplying Britain and the US Navy was in combat against the Kreigsmarine in the Atlantic before Pearl Harbor.
There’s plenty of evidence that Roosevelt knew of the Japanese attack before it happened and let it happen. He got the Japs to do a false flag for him.
Monty mentioned Charles Lindberg. It was Lindberg and those he associated with who were the isolationists.
And obviously the majority of Americans were isolationist too, constraining Roosevelt.
as for pearl harbour, the venality of that accusation really takes the biscuit.
They knew the Japanese fleet had left, and were looking for it. But did not know where it was, or any real idea what it intended.
The end of the Vietnam war was force fed to US households on TV in 1975.
It wasn’t until 90-91 when they had the stomach to go to war in a meaningful way again.
The US will go to war again but there needs to be more time for lessons learnt to fade.
Outside of the effete, professional managerial class circles in the US, so many families know someone who either died or was severely fvcked up by the Afghan or Iraq wars.
Trump knows this so there is zero chance he’s going to put the US anywhere near Ukraine.
Exactly. The people that voted for a trump provide the military its children for troops. The establishment does not.
The coalition of the willing insanity has been backed by the chickenhawks with zero skin in the game.
Maybe Bolta wouldn’t be all in on this pending stupid forever war if his son was snatched off the street in Ukraine and forcibly conscripted instead of being a nepo kid with a cushy job on Skynews.
Coalition of the willing elites. Just wait until they start talking seriously about conscription again and we’ll see how long their populations remain willing.
Another car ramming attack in Germany this time in Mannheim. With multiple fatalities. How long until the backlash turns from political into mass civil unrest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEY91gTzjbM unrest?
Local nutter, Winston.
BBC reputation shredded. Doco on Gaza shown to be Hamas propaganda.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/fact-checkers-extraordinaire.php
Written up in the Media section of yesterday’s Oz. Great reference to the DEI here who approved it…described as a typical “muddle-manager.”
BBC reputation
shreddedconfirmed.Trip down memory lane.
During the 2016 campaign I watched that PBS news hour on SBS a few times a week, mainly to get a different take on what was going on.
They interviewed a guy who cycled through Iraq & Afghanistan eight times.
The gist was that the US military was treating veterans so well that they could live normal lives even after serving.
Here’s the thing, the guy looked just so screwed up.
Literally thought he was going to strangle the guy interviewing him at any second.
It’s stuck with me.
It also made me think what war Hillary had planned should she have won as it was expected considering PBS was just another platform for her.
PBS : war under Bush/Cheney was bad, but war under Hillary will be just peachy.
Ya gotta be nearly as old as me to remember this bloke the TDS devotees have dug up (I thought he was dead but, apparently, not quite .. LOL) .. They (TDS) have found LECH WALESA and he’s signed a letter comdemning the God Emperor’s treatment of Zeli in the White House ……. How desperate can you get? …..
When it’s against the “Don” .. verrrrrrrrrry .! .. apparently .. LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/lech-wa%C5%82%C4%99sa-expresses-horror-and-distaste-at-trump-s-treatment-of-zelenskyy/ar-AA1A9Rrt?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d55802edf4cc4489ab0cd40877312d8f&ei=43
Election to be April 12, with Mediscare the main plank.
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/pm-anthony-albanese-set-to-call-election-for-this-april-date/news-story/e178c660ecfdfc369d5bfae375f87c18
I dont know if PBS news hour is still on SBS anymore.
Something they started doing the Bush years was every time a US serviceman was killed in Afghanistan or Iraq they’d show their photo in silence at the end of the show.
They stopped doing that sometime during the Obama years even though people were still getting killed.
Similar to the CNN COVID count during Trump which disappeared during the glorious Biden years.
Just watching Fox now, Trump announcing TSMC to invest $100 billion in US to make semicinductor chips in Arizona. Menwhile Albo is standing by Ukraine and Dutton the peanut is going to lobby Trump about his bullyness to the Z man, if he becomes PM.
We are truely being left out in the wilderness, so much investment pumping into the USA.
As I have said before elsewhere, the ‘Future Made in Australia’ steam train is on the wrong track.
1 Billion South Pacific Pesos for a Solar Panel Factory is nuts. Chins makes this shite a lot cheaper than OZ can.
Australia should already be building Semi Conductor/Computer Chip Plants and other High Tech businesses. We have the Rare Earths and other minerals needed for these.
However, all we can do right now is cook Fish and Chips.
Not Chins but China. An early morning typo.
Duzzenmatta.
We worked it out.
Don’t forget the Barista’s, we have many Barista’s.
.. except we’ve crippled our power system, overvalued our wages, destroyed our education system, crippled industry with green and indigenous tape, and generally turned ourselves into hippy surfer dudes who don’t care.
Too true, duncanm
Someone else will save us. All we have to do is sit back and be patient.
People only criticise you for doing SOMETHING, so the safest option is to do NOTHING.
It’d be awful to chip a nail.
Bungonia Bee
March 3, 2025 5:22 pm
West Irian (west PNG) was never part of Indonesia. East Timor scored independence, but Indonesia took by force and held onto west PNG. International affairs aren’t always fair and reasonable.
West Irian (west PNG) was part of the Dutch East Indies and after WW2 was handed over in 1962 by the Dutch, (reluctantly) to the Indons. Who threatened military action.
Mediation, of course, was handled by the UN.
PS:
And as you say, ‘International affairs aren’t always fair and reasonable.’
Ah, the results of that famous ‘diplomacy’ that the erudite elite say Trump and JD lack.
It’s a pity Chamberlain didn’t give the general public a warts n’ all account of his Nazi negotiating partner. That wouldn’t have been nice.
Examples of huge success from discreet diplomacy are few and far between.
Arky
Said the Soviet Admiral Gorskov many years ago.
Gorshkov summarised it as “Comrade, the best is the enemy of good enough.”
Later stolen by Rumsfeld as ‘perfect is the enemy of good’
Who knew this blog had its own Nostradamus?
Caught Dutton on TV briefly last night.
I get the impression he’s as thick as two short planks.
We are so screwed.
Dudzy .. when the height of your ambition(s) in politics is to be Luigi 2 ………..!
Typical low energy ex-pig.
Maybe Bolta wouldn’t be all in on this pending stupid forever war if his son was snatched off the street in Ukraine and forcibly conscripted instead of being a nepo kid with a cushy job on Skynews.
And not even a half decent nepo kid. I cringe and switch off when Bolt Jnr appears.
Stinks of nepotism. Another reason why legacy meja deserve to die.
Only seen him a few times a great disappointment – Bolt the Dolt in my view
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/german-military-report-finds-that-chinese-wind-turbines-are-a-blackmail-and-security-risk/
No shit, Einstein!
I get the impression he’s as thick as two short planks.
Perhaps, but he’s the less of two evils.
Still evil, though.
Nup, Dutton’s not evil.
He’s a peanut
In the 1980s and ’90s, there was a live comedy act in Australia called Scared, Weird Little Guys. Mr Potato Head reminds me of them.
Not convinced he isn’t a shaved down Turdbull.
The Rasmussen polls showing Trump has an approval rating of 60% with 18-39 year olds.
MAGA twitter sharing non-stop.
Two thoughts.
1) This group consumes less legacy media than any other generation.
2) Might be a long bow, but this cohort doesn’t want any more stupid wars that they will have to pick up the tab for (financially or body bag-wise).
Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports
@honestpollster
Trump Approval might be a boring 50% right now, but the age Demos are WILD!
65+ – 45%
40-64 – 46%
18-39 – 60% <==
Maybe America has a future again.
https://x.com/honestpollster/status/1896395565094817908
Trump can say/do as much stupid shit as he likes.
But as long as he keeps to this zero war approach, he’s going to poll well.
What stupid shit?
@TheBabylonBee
Trump Institutes Military Draft For Everyone With Ukraine Flag In Their Facebook Profile
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1896613640121246063
Haw!
LOL.
Bern at 10:30 last night:-
I am visualising that meeting.
“Ve haf to innovate our vay out off ze paper bag”.
“Ze paper bag? Is it sustainably sourced?”
‘Jawohl’. The wood pulp to make the paper bag comes from softwood trees and those trees can grow back fairly quickly. Especially softwood from those European trees.
‘Zat is de Anzer’.
In the words of sir Humphrey they would need at lest two years of productive and meaningful inter department meetings to move forward to a stage where a possible first stage approximation of a said project could be envisaged.
Infrastructure takes on a new meaning
in the collectivist lefty ladies state of Melbourne.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/infrastructure-victoria-plan-public-transport-social-housing/105004250
Australia, the largest importer of Russian Oil –
Apparently, the oil is purchased from Indian and Turkish Oil Refineries. And under World Trade rules this is allowed even though Russian Oil exports are under Sanctions. The ‘logic’ being that the oil has changed from Crude Oil to Refined Oil (petrol). So that makes it different stuff.
LOL, Great ‘logic’.
So, India and especially Turkey can buy Russian Oil. And I thought that Turkey was in NATO and would follow US and European Sanctions on Russia.
Silly me.
We should have taken the opportunity to fill any and all oil storages with cheap Russian crude.
Instead we “stand with Ukraine”. FMD.
This same con is used by Australia to purchase slave made solar panels. You just use a few middle men and it by passes our modern slavery act.
Just reading WUWT piece on NOAA. Evidently doge has already reduced employees by 7%. But then the article said it had 12 thousand employees! I nearly fell off my couch. I then looked up our unbeloved BOM. It has 1500 employees and does the same basic tasks. I would have thought the BOM was overmanned but the NOAA seems to be slab full of climate activists!
Perhaps Trump should ask more of and watts to downsize to an appropriate staffing level. Everyone of these that’s costs 100k (a guess) plus oncosts.
Muslims have popularised vehicular terrorism.
Mannheim.
40 year old German native, no motive yet established
https://x.com/F_Desouche/status/1896620974692344200?t=cYmS-u3G7MWKs8GErX1vdA&s=19
Once again Labor ladies making decisions for the bush (live sheep trade) and keeping the icky Musk away from delivering more of what works.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/nbn-co-set-to-choose-amazon-over-musk-s-starlink-for-satellite-service-20250303-p5lghc
Looks like someone’s dusted off a renewable energy presser and subbed in Defence spending.
I suspect any smaller businesses profiting from this new largess will be stationary merchants in Slough, not machine shops in Portsmouth.
What was the Rowe cartoon on about, with Starmer calling Trump “the sting”?
FMD.
Living in dreamland.
Under Biden the US was tipping billions into Ukraine.
Trump has always wanted Europe to spend more on their own defence.
Trump puts the mineral deal on the table as a means of recovering the US “investment”.
Zelensky says yes-no-maybe-no.
This gives Trump an easy out and leaves the Euros holding the bag.
I don’t quite see that as Trump being played.
Anyone that thinks Trump is being played is a fool and boyo boy do we have plenty of those.
My first thought after seeing the summit of clowns in London after the WH meeting was an image of Trump going ” don’t throw me in the briar patch”
@SarahisCensored
Tap Tap! *Cracks Knuckles*
I started investigating Jason Moxley, a North Carolina resident who has gone viral for crying in a video because he was upset that Zelenskyy was asked if he owned a suit. He has quite an interesting past. His TikTok is full of emotionally charged videos, mostly featuring him crying about Trump.
In one of his many TikTok videos from 2024, he claimed that Biden was taking care of hurricane victims in North Carolina and that FEMA was on the ground “in every county.” This is a lie.
He recently scrubbed his Instagram account, where he had claimed to be a veteran. He has multiple TikTok accounts. I immediately reached out to ask him what branch he served in, but he has not responded. We are currently searching for his military background and will provide an update when more information is available.
He also deleted his X account (or it was possibly suspended). His username was @ CoachMox. Below is a photo of his deleted post where he stated, “I don’t care what happens to him,” referring to Trump.
Most interesting is his criminal past. So far, eleven of his criminal cases have been dismissed. (How?!) He has been found guilty of two charges; one was an as?äuIt on a female.
I will provide updates as we find more. A huge thank you to the Stolen Valor account and my partner in investigations, Southern. (I will tag them in the thread.)
Sadly, the simple truth.
@TheBabylonBee
Americans Who Cowered Under Government Oppression For 2 Years Urge Ukrainians To Die For Freedom
insane in the ukraine
Very Good. Hope that it does end and end soon.
A good read. Gives some background perspective. What is missing is the perspective of those who have resisted and fought and had their loved ones die in this unwinnable conflict. Their views have to be brought to the fore, and especially regarding children stolen. Putin making all efforts to return stolen children should be part of ‘the deal’. Prisoners too. I think Trump would be wise to emphasise more than was done in the Oval Office recently the sorts of sacrifices that have been made, be more sympathetic to them, and if he returns, be more kindly to Zelensky, horrid kleptocrat he may be, but he also is some sort of patriot; a bit of praise for his patriotism wouldn’t be too hard to provide. It may sound rather Polyanna to point this out, but diplomacy works on emotions and feelings as well as trade-offs.
Also not mentioned as of historical concern was the Holodomor, which I capitalise (irritating lack of proper punctuation in Catturd). Ukraine has bad memories of Russia for that.
Another category error. The Soviet Union and communism which are not modern Russia.
Putin is the link between the old USSR and the current Russia. Once he is gone then you can say there is modern Russia.
Once he is gone, the real Hard-Liners will take over IMHO.
Thank you Crossie. That is indeed the case. Good to see you at least recognise it. Perhaps women have more imagination and sensitivity than some men when power is theirs.
You totally misread what I was saying, Eyrie. People who suffered under the Holodomor were in the grandparental generation in the Ukraine, i.e. within living memory. Whether it came from communism in Russia is immaterial to the memory of the suffering which was known to come from Russia. Many things build up the national consensus about other places.
Use a little imagination.
No upticks for me saying that is necessary for a satisfactory resolution to this conflict. But it is the truth of it.
And what is ‘the other’ category error you identify?
@DefiyantlyFree
In Russia last year about 400 people were arrested for their social media posts. Guess how many were arrested in the UK? 3,000.
@bennyjohnson
President Trump calls out paid “troublemakers” attending Republican Town Hall Meetings:
“It’s not going to work for them!”
New Science people! This book is the answer to all your child’s questions about where they came from. 😀
Was this book written by mutley?
For him, not by him.
I cant see that explanation working for sheep.
…and seals and dolphins are completely out of luck.
Kangaroos are laughing, however.
@KanekoaTheGreat
In 2014, Senator Chris Murphy bragged about the United States successfully overthrowing Ukraine’s government:
“I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part, Yanukovych from office.”
“We have not sat on the sidelines. We have been very much involved. Members of the Senate have been there. Members of the State Department have been on the Square.”
“The Obama administration passed sanctions. The Senate was prepared to pass its own set of sanctions, and as I’ve said, I think that the clear position of the United States has, in part, been what has helped lead to this change in regime.”
“If, ultimately, this is a peaceful transition to a new government in Ukraine, it will be the U.S. on the streets of Ukraine who will be seen as a great friend in helping make that transition happen.”
“There is a U.S. interest here. We are in the middle of negotiating a new trade agreement with Europe. To my state, it’s enormously important. We do 40% of our trade in Connecticut with Europe.”
“If Ukraine is part of the EU and thus is part of this new trade agreement with the United States, that could result in billions of dollars in new economic opportunities for the U.S.”
“So, we do have an economic interest in Ukraine being a part of the EU, and we shouldn’t be shy about making that interest clear.”
So how’s that working out for you, Senator? Still crowing?
@johnkrausphotos
Starship: Humans for scale. Flight 8 today.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING – ‘SHOCK POLL’: Trump “more popular than ever” at +8 approval rating, which ticked up in recent weeks, now at 54%-46%
J.L. Partners
‘Left’s dark money network…’: Tyler O’Neil exposes USAID’s ‘long history’ with George Soros
Should just go back to 1894 borders and be done with it.
Start again.
That means no Australia – Just a bunch of Colonies/Dis-United States.
As to Europe, a lot of Countries would say NO way.
Thanks Bazza, I didn’t know about the area marked Anaza. This is why I look at the Cat site. Ahh now I get it,They are also called Unizah. They had tribal gathering in Saudi of up to a million people only a 15 years ago. The Saudis tried to stop it,
@catturd2
BAM !!!
Trump’s had enough of Sniffy the Clown.
@GrrrGraphics
Time to remove the parasites…
NATO is a obsolete WW2 relic that has out lived it purpose..
Zelensky is….well, you already know what Zelensky is.
Throwback Tina Toon
Nostradrama queen: Someone prone to flamboyant prediction.
Morn all.
Good explanation from the Oz Cyclone Chasers on what TC Alfred has become:
https://weatheriq.com.au/blog/read/The%20Evolution%20of%20a%20Hybrid%20Cyclone%3A%20From%20Tropical%20Beginnings%20to%20a%20Baroclinic%20Twist%20-%20Cyclone%20Alfred/cf5b6e23-2331-4920-82da-463eef4ac99b
They think it could transition back to tropical status near the coast, crossing at Cat 2.
JTWC & CIMSS continue the weakening trend crossing at a bare Cat 1.
It wasn’t that long ago Cat 1 & 2 weren’t classiffied as cyclones but storms. There’s no “Armageddon” in storms.
.. just to shut down the impending climate doom mongers with their upcoming ‘unprecedented’ bullshit, check out the February daily rain records at Crohamhurst for 1893
30k west of Caloundra.
Almost 2m of rain in just four days, 3m for the month.
No, I correctly predicted there was no way on this earth he would be the dumbocrat presidential candidate in 2024, despite his mush brained syphilitic geriatric delusions, aligning as they did with the first half of your sentence above.
The cackling kamel would no doubt be only too happy to explain to you how that worked out, given she probably isn’t up to much else at the moment.
I know of only two people who correctly predicted Trump’s return to the Oval Office in November 2024.
One was Rowan Dean and the other was Lizzie’s Hairy.
Yep. My hero. A man with imagination and perpicacity.
Rowan Dean is ok too.
I thought he would get more raw votes, but the ‘corrected’ data would elect Harris ….. a bit like BOM data
I think what Cass refers to is that Hairy was totally unwavering in his belief that Trump would push through and win, and that he held this belief for all of the years following the 2020 steal, when many others (Cass and me included) were, albeit briefly and sadly, turning an eye away from Trump and allowing thoughts to stray towards people like De Santis. Hairy and Rowan held firm regardless, believing in Trump’s agenda and charismatic talents, and firm too that the people would eventually rise up into a ‘too big to rig’ wave of Trumpism that would spite all of the ongoing leftist attempts to fortify against that wave and outright steal the election by tampering with the vote.
Correctamundo!
I was certain he would win. To the extent, I put money on it. And collected. I posted here at the time, too
They knew the Japanese fleet had left, and were looking for it. But did not know where it was, or any real idea what it intended.
Attacks on Pearl and the Panama Canal had been war gamed by the USN for years. They had to figure Pearl was a possible target. So where were the patrol planes, submarine pickets etc and why was the place in a relaxed state of unreadiness instead of on high alert?
Kimmel and Short both claimed not to have the resources to carry those out
Because of several previous false alarms, Short only took the army off the alert they had been on for months, a week or two previously.
The fact that the Navy was not on alert was criminal, and whoever dismissed the report of the USS Ward should have been hung.
Then there was the ‘curious case of the dog that didnt bark’ aka the radar station which detected the incoming raid, and was told to shut down and shut up.
They saw what they were expecting to see, nothing more nothing less.
The whole thing was very new, and nobody gave any thoughts to how it integrated into the defense plan, it was literally a case of “here’s your radar, bye”. The colonel who had had it placed under his command, only took it over on the Friday Dec 5(!). The fight with national parks and instructions to go to gas station down the road to call in a report as depicted in Tora Tora Tora is accurate, and reflects how little thought was given to how useful it would be.
There was at least one instance in 1942, where US admirals did not trust radar, and refused to use it( iirc one of the naval battles of Guadalcanal), and consequently had their arses handed to them.
Sounds like Savo Island.
After the shambles he made of the defense of the Philippine Islands, General Douglas MacArthur would have looked well on an adjacent gallows.
Sutherland should have been on the gallows first. MacA’s air commander (name escapes me atm) tried to get in to see MacA to get permission to disperse/move aircraft and send up patrols. Blocked at every turn by Sutherland.
MacA’s deciding to change the whole defense plan at the last moment.
Would not have made much difference to final result, but would have made it a whoile lot tougher for the Japanese.
MacA’s air commander was Lewis H Bereton- went on to make a pigs breakfast of the air plan for Operation Market Garden, and was successful in shifting the blame for the failure of that operation elsewhere.
They knew the Japanese fleet had left, and were looking for it. American thinking was that the Japanese would strike at the Netherlands East Indies, Malaya, the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, but that they did not have the capacity to strike at all those targets simultaneously. When they couldn’t find the japanese fleet, the thinking was that it was headed South.
taps the book…
Dont make me tell you to read it again…
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0306810352?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au
Its difficult without a ‘úuuuge post to go into just how shit both commanders were, and just how insane the intelligence “sharing arrangement” beween army & navy were.
eg: IF they had waited for the final section of the 12 part message declaring war to have arrived the Peral would have had at least 6 hours early warning.
Instead they translated 11 then knocked off despite multiple messages from the actual government asking/ cajoling and seeking reassurances that the place was prepared and ready for the possibility of a sneak attack.
Navy had a translating device for the Jap cyphers, but didnt make one available at Peral despite that being much more likely to pick up Jap comms.
Oh – and they didnt let the army use it.
Nor were the joint intelligence chaps cleared for each others stuff.
Plus they worked a month on/month off roster for intelligence – army one month, navy the next.
Short claimed he was fully prepared less than a week before the attack – yet didnt even have ammunition out for the guns.
Kimmel was little better with no ships ready for action – but at least they were able to fire back.
Plus both commanders changed their war plans ( what they were supposed to do at different levels of readiness) without actually changing them back with high command.
So when told they were on “level 3” back in Washington it bore almost no relation to what they thought was occurring.
The witer makes on redeeming point for many of the lesser people responsible – most of them acquitted themselves well later on in the fight.
It was a cavalcade of incompetency.
Im not one to praise in any way Roosevelts mob – but they did seek assurances (but not check) and were told “yup we are fully prepared” multiple times, including one which basically told them “The japs have broken off all negotiations and will seek other methods to secure its aims”” Which is as blunt as you can get.
taps the book… dont make me tell you to read it again…
Dammit, I have this in my ‘to read’ stack but haven’t opened it yet …can we resume this in a month?
this
calli – thanks for your observations last night about those Sky imbeciles (Blot and Shazza in particular) getting into some desperate screechy hysterics about the tewwible tweatment dished out to their favourite l’il warmongering corruptocrat by Prez Fatty Trump and the Vance.
Shazza’s squawking about JD was intolerable and brought to an end presumably before she was joined in a big harpy chorus of denunciations by other excruciating idiots such as joe hildebeast or that evil cancerous ol’ twat richo.
It was an absolute disgrace and is likely to result in the mudtel subscription (finally) being unceremoniously dumped.
Would anyone else find it helpful if those seeking political office had to sit for IQ & personality tests?
The simplest test I could think of is that anyone seeking political office should be forcefully prevented from doing so.
That’s what my lefty son believes too and given the dross that ovcupies the red and green seats there’s something in that view
Sortition, perhaps.
My thinking on the testing is that it would prevent some of the worst qualified from even considering standing.
Sortition would certainly help, Roger. Maybe paying them the average wage as well. Take the sugar off the table.
Rabz, I think the positives of Sky News far outweigh the negatives.
Only just, Cassie.
IMO, Sky After Dark has only one real journalist who breaks stories, Sharri Markson.
However, last night Sharri jumped the shark because she sees the world through lefty beer goggles and has declared her loyalty to the lefty tribe’s current favourite victim, EU bumboy Volodymyr Zelensky.
It’s only the persecution of her fellow Jews by her comrades in the left that keeps Shazza’s head in the real world, but she showed last night she’s incapable of resisting the tribe’s demand for ideological compliance to retain any semblance of objectivity and neutrality about the real world.
She’s such a disappointment.
So do I. James MacPherson and Rita Panahi are the only Conservatives and I don’t mean right wing. The others are mixed in what they stand for. They might think they’re centrists but the centre has moved so far left the old Labor Party now looks right wing.
Rita is good value but – if we must categorise people – she’s an anti-left social progressive not a conservative. She’s been canvassed by moderate Liberal powerbrokers to run as a candidate.
I read James MacPherson’s newsletters. He’s very solid and also funny. Why don’t they promote him up the line at Sky?
I didn’t realise,Roger. If she’s being canvased by the moderate liberals she must be wringing wet at least, which she doesn’t seem to be.
Not a wringing wet…but, for example, she was pro-SSM (someone correct me if I’m wrong).
Michael Kroger has been courting her as a prospective candidate.
I suspect Rita would find party politics too restrictive, though.
He does have a show with Danika, he leads The Late Debate, and he is seen increasingly on other ‘after dark’ lead shows standing in or invited in to comment. His star is rising.
Watching a lot of European commentary.
“It’s all Trump’s fault. Trump is a moron, Trump is a reality show actor. What does Putin have on Trump”?
It’s the mirror to the opprobrium being heaped upon Zelensky from the other side, and it’s all delusional.
The delusion continues on our side: “Trump wants to pivot to Asia, defend the Pacific, our alliance”.
Look, it’s very simple.
It isn’t Trumps fault.
It isn’t Zelensky’s fault.
The cupboard is finally bare. We’re all, all of us in the shit.
It’s been almost fifty years of decline, of increasing public spending, of diminishing ability to produce. Of delusion about the world, our place in it and what was required to maintain it.
It’s only going to move in the right direction once most of these idiots are swept aside.
Much pain to come.
If we survive it, or that which can survive it, is looking at a new golden era.
The USA will respond to the crisis as it always does: draw inwards and a formal policy of isolation. Its voters at this stage of the crisis will accept nothing else. Trump is a populist, he can do no other than reflect that strand of American thought.
Europe is really in the shit. They will have to jettison huge chunks of things they previously held dear: the net zero idiocy. Unfettered refugee intake. These welfare states cannot continue to expand.
Their leadership is hopeless, and has to go: go now. The longer you stay, the longer you try to fit what has to be done into the framework of your tired old beliefs, the closer to the abyss your countries come.
Australia cannot square the circle of China as a major customer and simultaneously a major adversary, once the USA withdraws into herself this position is not viable.
You either join fully with the USA as an integrated part of that system, or you are subject to the power of Beijing.
This has been obvious for over a decade, yet just like the Europeans no work has been done to make the move.
The idea that a Trump who will not or cannot backstop a Ukrainian settlement, will backstop the UK backstopping an agreement is ridiculous.
The final backstop is the backstop. And he can’t do it.
The Euroweenie bandwagon of support for Ukeland is a sideshow from the real problem of the welfare state supporting muzzies leaving one shiitehole to turn wherever they go to another shiitehole and following every crazy leftist idea, which was never an idea in the first place. Distraction squirrels for poor governance. Where are the Euros getting the money from? China or the Arabs? The cupboard is bare.
AUKUS integrates us into the US system both in terms of hardware and naval strategy. For good or ill…
Cooperation at army level has also been increasing in recent years.
We’ve never been as integrated with them since WWII, arguably more so now.
I was speaking the economy Roger.
Well why didn’t you say so!
😀
Maybe we should petition to be annexed?
Yes, we should.
Maybe as a US territory like Puerto Rica.
Losing to an invasion generally works well …. just ask our ‘first peeples’
Which will mean nothing if China becomes the enemy in a shooting war, and all the US forces are directed at the South China sea region …
Incidentally, SBS broke the story about Australia importing refined Russian oil via Turkey & India nine months ago.
Our virtue signalling politicians probably knew about the loopholes prior to that and they’ve done nothing about them since.
So why did fuel prices jump to $2/litre “because war in Ukraine”?
Good question!
Why should they do anything?
They should stop virtue signalling at least.
Dear BoM spox doing the cyclone warning thingy on the wireless, if you mean Fraser Island, say Fraser Island.
Whatever’gari will mean nothing to anyone using Admiralty Sailing Directions, Australian Pilot Vol. 3.
Swoon.
The BOM is no longer in the business of informing but in muddying the waters.
Muddy will not be pleased being in the same sentece as BOM.
Tom Switzer has written a very good piece in today’s Oz. Worth reading…..
Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral senseTOM SWITZER
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office.
Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in diplomatic history more akin to reality TV than serious statesmanship. But while US President Donald Trump is widely considered to have blundered in his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it is imperative for Washington to improve relations with Moscow and to end the Ukraine war.
Many people find it unconscionable to negotiate with President Vladimir Putin and give up on Ukraine’s efforts to roll back Russia’s gains and restore its pre-war borders. But this is the cold, hard reality: Russia controls about 20 per cent of Ukraine, which is outmanned and outgunned on the battlefield, and threatens to take even more Ukrainian territory.
Moscow will not tolerate a Western bulwark on its borders, which means Ukraine joining NATO is impossible, and Washington won’t give Kyiv a security guarantee. US support for the Ukraine mission has plummeted with the coming of the Trump administration.
Understanding this brutal fact of life eludes Zelensky and European leaders, who have virtually no leverage with Washington.
Trump’s proposal to end a war that Ukraine and the West cannot win is far from ideal: it would mean Russian annexation of at least four oblasts plus Crimea and no NATO membership for Ukraine.
But it’s in Kyiv’s best interests because it’s the least-bad solution to a problem of catastrophic proportions. The alternative is to prolong the war, which would cause only more deaths and destruction, and lead to Ukraine losing even more territory to Russia.
According to the hawks, from left to right, Canberra to Canada and London to Lithuania, Trump’s bilateral overtures to Putin amount to another Munich, the purported 1938 peace agreement that fuelled Nazi expansionism and led to World War II.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with US President Donald Trump at the White House in a bilateral meeting, discussing the mineral deal and potential peace talks with Russia.
Never mind that Republican presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan sought accommodation with a powerful Soviet Union a few years after it invaded Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979, respectively. Were these hard-nosed Cold Warriors appeasers?
Never mind, too, that today’s Russia lacks the economic and military capacity to conquer countries to its west and draw a new iron curtain across Europe.
Not so long ago, Western hawks declared that Moscow was losing the war and was on the verge of disintegration. Putin’s fall was only a matter of time. Yet the same people now warn of the Russian army galloping across Eastern and Central Europe. Both positions can’t be correct.
But one thing is clear: Russia, like any great power, will protect its near abroad and will mightily resist any encroachment on its borders that it sees as an existential threat. Of course, this is why Moscow is determined to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
There is another reason for Washington to settle this deadly conflict: the war, and the policy of NATO expansion that precipitated the West’s deteriorating relations with Moscow, has helped create a close strategic relationship between Russia and its old rival China, while making it difficult for the US to pivot fully to Asia to contain China, its principal geopolitical rival. Neither of these developments serve US or, for that matter, Australian interests.
Russia will play hardball to protect its vital interests on its borders, but it’s not the Soviet Union. China, on the other hand, is much more powerful and dangerous. It is bent on challenging US military power in the Asia-Pacific and dominating that region if it can. As a result, China will continue to intimidate and harass long-time US allies, such as Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines and Australia.
Western hawks still talk as if we live in the unipolar moment that existed after the Cold War, where the US could have a large military footprint in every region of the world. But the coming of multipolarity has changed all that and Washington must prioritise its commitments.
Many politicians and pundits don’t seem to understand that the global balance of power has changed profoundly in recent years and Washington must carefully relate ends and means in this new world.
After all, America is overstretched and there are limits to even US power, especially when Washington spends more servicing its debt than on defence.
The Pax Americana is gone, not only because of the re-emergence of old-style power politics in multipolarity but also because of the many foolish policies that the hawks themselves advocated during unipolarity. Think of the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, which violated the so-called rules-based international order, cost the US dearly in credibility, blood and treasure, and helped fuel Trump’s America First movement.
Today’s Republican Party is no longer the party of George W. Bush and the neo-con hawks but it is populated with China hawks who believe it’s imperative for the US to reorder its strategic priorities away from Europe and focus on containing the only great power capable of overturning the order in a geopolitically significant region. Remaining deeply engaged in the Ukraine war, even if US troops are not directly involved, only hinders US efforts to deter China.
All this is a reminder that the US and its allies should have supported the peace talks in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine in March-April 2022. They stood a significant chance of succeeding, which would have ended the war quickly and prevented the US from getting bogged down in Ukraine.
But Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Brussels undermined those negotiations, encouraging Kyiv to keep fighting because the West would support Ukraine “as long as it takes”. The West, as political scientist John Mearsheimer warned at the time, has led Ukraine down the primrose path.
Whether Washington is successful in reaching a meaningful peace deal in Ukraine remains to be seen. But Trump’s goal to end the war and stop the slaughter on the battlefield makes strategic and moral sense.
Tom Switzer is executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney.
Thanks for posting that Cassie. Dutton needs to read it and understand it.
Switzer talks a lot of sense.
Why so many want to escalate or prolong the conflict is beyond my level of comprehension.
I’ve been trying to find the name of this bastard who declaimed at a pro pallie rally in melbournistan:
“Melbourne is ours. Australia is ours. The world is ours”
Can these bastards make their intentions any clearer. Yet our swine pollies still spew out the usual tropes: most muzzies are good, it’s just a few bad ones; racism, bigotry etc.
Simply put the pollies who bring in and defend islam are traitors. Trump is going great in the US but the treasonous resistance is solidifying:
As of today, over 70 lawsuits have been filed against Trump’s administration, targeting his executive actions on birthright citizenship, federal funding freezes, transgender rights, and federal workforce reforms.
Judges in liberal districts—appointees of Biden, Obama and Clinton—are issuing nationwide injunctions, defying the Constitution and the will of 77 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Just last week, a federal appeals court rejected Trump’s bid to reinstate a funding freeze, calling it an “intolerable judicial overreach”
This is a particularly egregious example:
The Real Problem with Hampton Dellinger
Several weeks before the 2020 election, a former Democratic candidate for statewide office in North Carolina and ex-colleague of Hunter Biden publicly doubted America’s safety under the leadership of then President Donald Trump:
“Has there ever been an American who posed a greater national security risk to America than Donald Trump?” the Biden family friend posted on Twitter in September 2020.
The author of that tweet is Hampton Dellinger, the current head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) under the new Trump administration. The president fired Dellinger, who was appointed by Joe Biden to a five-year term in 2023, on February 7; a few days later, Dellinger filed a lawsuit in Washington to keep his job as the handler of federal workforce complaints including whistleblowers and Hatch Act violations.
And thanks to Obama-appointed DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson and the Supreme Court, which refused to end the farce last month, Dellinger remains in the office for the foreseeable future.
If this is what is happening to Trump in this dump we have no chance.
Nasser Mashni.
President of APAN
Fuk me.
To quote Christopher Martenson:
“when a person tells you what they are – believe them the first time…’
As predicted, both Trump and Zelensky are saying the minerals deal is still on the table.
What does starmer say?
“Not a sufficient security backstop.”
Zelensky should ignore his advice.
Credit where credit is due.
He released a lot of bangers.
Wings – Silly Love Songs (Official Music Video)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Live And Let Die – 1976 – Remaster – By RetrominD
Band on the Run was the only album I liked his music from.
But while US President Donald Trump is widely considered to have blundered in his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it is imperative for Washington to improve relations with Moscow and to end the Ukraine war.
Really Mr Switzer?
The Rasmussen poll saying the 18-39 age group is more than fine with the “blunder”.
I suspect he’s referring to the commentariat.
That was my takeaway.
Translation: activist who hate Donald Trump’s guts think he blundered and that will make the normies hate him too.
Alas, the activists also loathe the normies who voted for Trump whose numbers are increasing as Rasmussen reports.
The fact that such activists still control the mainstream media tells us why the MSM is dying — it speaks for no-one except the lunatic fringe.
The Donald should organise an “Activist Brigade” to be sent. Solves two problems.
Good thinking!
Since I’ve had my heart op the ideas are coming thick and fast. Funny how pain slows you down.
Offshore windfarm news Victoria
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/seadragon-offshore-wind-farm-application-rejected/104909234
Jock @ 08.01am re the BOM.
The ANAO did an audit of the BOM maybe 5-6 years ago. Some interesting findings. Primary one was kit wise – they spend 100s of millions a year on nice new shiny toys but the budget line for sustainment is close to nothing.
So, a 2025 Ferrari day-to-day, but lift the bonnet and it’s 1961 Lancia that’s been left in a shed for twenty years.
More like a Lada
Over to you, France and UK.
Trump was right when he said to Zelensky that he was gambling with World War Three, and now this from the grub from Grayndler….
After Sir Keir Starmer called for boots on the ground in a ‘coalition of the willing’, Anthony Albanese said if a request was made for Australian forces ‘we would give consideration to it’.
Unbelievable.
Dr Mutton will also no doubt “consider it”.
Evil incompetent deadshits.
plus ∞
the infinity symbol don’t work
You might consider how this precedent might be used by the Democrats in a future administration given they have a substantial and increasing anti- Israeli constituency.
At least the Ukrainians can flee Westwards.
What will happen in Israel when the international communists gets its wish and does what it did in South Africa, is too horrendous to consider.
But Israel remains the next cab off the rank for destruction.
It remains their number one target.
You can bet this strand of isolationism and “not our business” will be co-opted by the shits.
Indeed, they already make the same argument about Israel as is being made about Ukraine.
Ukraine’s dismemberment and destruction will be a blue print of how to proceed with Israel, the Balkans and whatever comes after, as far as the international communist bloc is concerned.
The method of propagandising parts of the electorate, leveraging the natural American isolationist tendencies and blackening the name of leaders who stand up for their nations, economic arguments and the weaponisation of refugee movements will increase as their success in Ukraine once again proves the worth of these tactics.
Draft Albo’s son first.
From the Chairman’s lounge to the front line.
A glorious opportunity for Albo’s son.
Expect lots of resistance.
Absolute vote winner! Folks, this is how to read the room
I hope that any PM who sends a single Australian soldier to Ukraine is thrashed at the next election.
I don’t care what party he is in.
Dutton should resist the temptation to play the “strong leader” & double down on his “no deployment” stance.
‘Upgrade Albo’ still doesn’t realise that for Australia, CHINA is the problem.
Focus you Little Man otherwise CHINA will ‘fook us’ good and proper……..
You’ve never seen how far Alanese can bend over. Sideways pineapple? No worries mate.
Well let’s put all the murderous imports in uniform along with all unionists and the radical left voters and Sleasy and his mob can lead from the front in Ukraine.
Yeah, along with the fact that a shithole, piled up with Russian speakers, now annexed by Putin. It’s not exactly a top-tier American security interest. Z man didn’t realise how unimportant he is to the US.
Head prefect will you get some of your heavy lifter mates onto the case of AAR and get it’s SP moving.
Can you put that in long form English please.
I want AAR sp to increase so get your institutional mates to buy it.
Astral Resources?
Get Blackrock ESG to buy a load? 🙂
Exactly; get on it.
Europe banned puberty blockers 2 years ago. Obesity is a US problem. Europe has much more aggressive policies against immigrants, with many countries trying to deport them. Russia has aged military infrastructure, inept leadership, and still can’t field new tanks, aircraft, and artillery; it’s “win by numbers” strategy isn’t working. It still can’t take Ukraine so how can it be a threat to Europe? Have a look at what Poland and Germany have done since the war.
The have Lukansk, most of Donetsk and a rather wide land bridge to Crimea.
As for can’t takc – Mariupol.
Still a failure. A “special military operation” lasting 2 years is an egregious failure. The Kremlin took a gamble and lost. So desperate that at the start of the war those jury rigged cages were supposed to stop modern anti-tank missiles. 3,000+ destroyed tanks later … . After all this time the VKS won’t penetrate air space protected by SAMs. That’s pathetic. In the Gulf and Iraq wars air dominance was achieved in a week.
They won. Get over it.
No one won militarily.
The only winners were the grifters, financially.
Come now. Learn your Clausewitz. Which of the two right now looks like they’re going to walk away with their strategic interests markedly improved?
That’s like saying you got a bargain paying 1 million dollars for a 1979 used Corolla. That’s the point Bern is making. The brainwashing is extraordinary.
If by ‘1979 Corolla’ you mean, so far, the land bridge to Crimea, NATO reduced to a dead letter, and the like, sure, this really is starting to look like a strategic failure by Russia. You are coping harder than monty when his bag of donuts falls apart.
Don’t go wandering around to the time your guys first lopped off Crimea. As you well know, we’re referring the “special military operation” that the Russian government controlled media was telling everyone the surgical strike was only going to last a few days tops. You know the one, it’s been going on for just a smidgen over 3 years.
Even Grok doesn’t pretend the Russians claimed the SMO would be over in 3 days. Moreover, they look like they are walking away with more than they could have dared to dream of in Feb ’22. And still you pretend otherwise.
You’re right. The Kremlin was expecting the war to last 3 plus years and counting.
Grok:
No one knows how long a war will last because there are several contingencies that can’t be accounted for. That’s just the nature of the beast. Nevertheless, the point stands, the situation now is far beyond what may have been anticipated in ’22, and its not even close.
Bern is correct and so was Trump when he said, this has been a disaster for Russia.
Russia come out of this stronger. Disaster talk is narrative building.
Yeah, military keynesian economics is a great way to improve the living standards of the Russian people. Always works.
Stronger. flexible, better off and those 28% interest rates are character building.
All short term problems that will clear especially now that there strategic situation is far better compared to what it was previously.
Thanks for the insight there. But here’s the problem with that 20/20 vision. Russia isn’t the most flexible economy in the world, and hoping or demonstrating the ‘will to power’ shtick isn’t going to change things. Russia’s economic performance rests on oil and gas exports, which in turn are price-dependent. Add in factors like demobilization, etc., and the combined problems become slightly awkward.
Having said that, I accept that I’m wrong and you have much better insight into these matters than mere mortals.
schwerpunkt anyone ? Bueller, BUELLER!!!
I am pretty close to agreeing with you on this one!
That’s pathetic. In the Gulf and Iraq wars air dominance was achieved in a week.
Against an adversary that was 2 generations behind in tech, not one that was supplied peer level equipment from the arsenals of Europe and the US.
Still a failure. A “special military operation” lasting 2 years is an egregious failure.
Now rate our results from 8 years of major operations in Iraq and 13 in Afghanistan.
Sure Duk
There were two parts to these wars. Removing Saddam was actually an astonishing success.
Defeating the Taliban was also incredibly successful in the first phase.
Nation-building, not so much.
The logistics that went into the first phase of both wars were miraculous, as there would be no other country on Earth that could’ve even pretended to perform such a feat.
Now compare the first phase that the Americans performed in Afghanistan with the abortion by the Soviets, where they had the living shit kicked out of them and had to take off like yelping poodles. The Americans had to get logistics through to a landlocked country, whereas the Soviets went across land to get there, which was much easier to do.
So, which phase are you wanting to discuss, Champ?
So, which phase are you wanting to discuss, Champ?
Rebuilding *both* countries as functional democracies was a key goal of *both* campaigns – this is what the great bulk of time spent in both theatres was about, and where the majority of casualties were incurred. Military occupation was achieved within weeks to months – but both campaigns went for years, each longer than WW2. Establishing democracy was never going to be possible in either country because functional democracies require an average national IQ of at least 95. Iraq = 89 and Afghanistan = 82)….. I spent 3 months in Baghdad and 6 in Kandahar watching it all first hand.
But go ahead, give me your take on how the democracy part went …champ….
There were two parts to these wars. Nation building came later, which ended up being a disaster. I don’t know why you’d want to discuss this part because I guess you’d agree.
You also appear to agree with this: it was the first part of the wars that I described as an astonishing success, and that was defeating both the Taliban and Saddam.
Combining both the hard-nosed military action to cause their defeat and the subsequent nation building is devoid of any meaningful coherence.
Read Taleb’s postings on IQ and why it’s mostly bullshit science.
As for spending time over there, thanks for the service, however it doesn’t give you any more insight into the discussion we’re having.
Europe banned puberty blockers 2 years ago.
And this has reduced the incidence and rate of rise of transgenderism by how much?
Obesity is a US problem.
Europe’s 59% isn’t a problem? … what do the military recruiters say? Now repeat for drug addicts, mentally ill, low IQ and criminals and tell me what % of their manpower pool is fit for military service? Hell, tell me what % are fit for any sort of productive endeavour?
Europe has much more aggressive policies against immigrants, with many countries trying to deport them.
How much effect has this had in the no go areas of Malmo, Paris, London, Antwerp, Berlin etc etc etc?
More than 40% of Londoners are now foreign born. How willing are they to lay down their lives for England? The percentages are comparable in most Western European Capitals.
Russia has aged military infrastructure, inept leadership, and still can’t field new tanks, aircraft, and artillery; it’s “win by numbers” strategy isn’t working.
Russia has *always* had a quantity beats quality strategy and it worked pretty well in their last big stoush, the Great Patriotic War.
?It still can’t take Ukraine so how can it be a threat to Europe?
Russia doesn’t want to ‘take’ all of Ukraine, far less Europe. Russia’s goal here is to remove the nazi elements* from the Eastern part, and to keep Ukraine out of NATO. So far so good.
*yes, there really is a Nazi sentiment in the Ukraine – a colleague of mine served in Donetsk and brought back photos of their swastika emblazoned vehices.
The ‘Z Clown’ after Trump told him that the War is going to END –
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How far does one have to go back to a time when the US was involved (either directly with troops on ground or financially, overtly as I don’t mean CIA type ops) in a war that would determine entirely new borders?
The Gulf War? Indo-Pakistani War or Korean War.
With regard to UKR Vs RUS, could it be that there’s been generations of people born that have never had to actually deal with the loss of sovereign borders? And that’s just a reality of war? I’m not “rooting” for either side as both “Vloadmeres” are baddies imho.
Just putting it out there…
In a number of interviews with European commentators, a common verbal tick is making itself revealed.
When talking about the relationship between Trump, Putin and Zelensky they say Putin instead of Trump, when they mean Trump.
It is as if they can’t keep more than one name associated with “ogre” in their minds at once.
I suggest the following style guide for Euro political commentators.
When referring to Putin say “The ogre Putin”.
When referring to Trump say “The Trump ogre”.
This will alleviate any name confusion you are experiencing.
Maybe the Associated Press can include this in it’s guidelines.
Can we take Dr Mutton at his word?
Heard him on the midday nooze stating he didn’t see any need for direct Australian military involvement in the wussia/ukraine imbroglio contretemps. This was after albansleazy had suggested it was under serious consideration.
In answer to the question above, probably not (see also, just about everything), but it really would be a “Yes Minister” style “courageous decision” to send Australian troops there.
I can’t find good independent polling on Australian support for Ukraine that is recent enough to count, but I suspect that initial support would be there, especially among Labour voters, but that would reverse a bit if they got wiped out or had to just stand there while Russia rolled through.
The troop numbers aren’t there without immediate changes in defence policies across the West.
I’m not convinced the materiel is all that flash, either. Still it would be amusing to see a few crack rainbow brigades get red misted by the wussians.
Correct. I live in a garrison town, what I’ve heard, which could be exaggerated as well.
M113AS4’s are full of cracks, horribly obsolete/outgunned, in such poor repair they struggle to get through a 2 week training exercise.
The Bushmaster PMV’s though much younger have similar reliability issues.
Manpower, ARA battalions here are hollow. Of that, up to a third of diggers are on some sort of restriction. Can’t deploy or go field.
The Bushmaster PMV’s though much younger have similar reliability issues
The Bushmasters are great as mine resistant and small arms resistant taxis, but they are NOT fighting vehicles. The can be defeated by anything from a heavy machine gun up, and pretty much every Russian AFV is equipped with a 14.5mm HMG or better.
PS – I travelled in them in Afghanistan.
Is this the same ADF that uses Virgin 737s as front line surveillance assets?
Trump announces the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, plus an extra 10% on China to take their tariff to 20%, will go into effect tomorrow.
Atlanta Fed now predicting -2.8% annualised growth in Q1.
Piss off, Nazi.
Atlanta Fed now predicting -2.8% annualised growth in Q1.
understandable, once you factor in the reduction in USAID spending on transgender clinics in palestine – remember government spending counts as ‘economic activity’ in the GDP calculations.
The drop in non-government GDP will be even worse.
Stick to international geopolitics mUnty. It’s like Econs 101 all over again.
Atlanta fed: you dickless fool, they’re a pack of dickless demorats.
I didn’t think it was possible but you have become dumber since your layoff.
Business confidence in the US is the highest it has been in six years.
US small business confidence jumps to more than six-year high | Reuters
Lysander, PMI is heading in the wrong direction.
The index is trending downward. A value of 50 is considered the no-growth threshold, and it’s barely above that. Anything below 50 indicates contraction.
I tend to think it’s just a temporary blip and there’s nothing significant to it, even if we record negative GDP growth in the first quarter.
Two things I watch closely are large U.S. bank stocks and the shape of the yield curve. Both are showing signs of a slowdown. If there’s any substance to this, it could reflect negative expectations about the impact of upcoming tariffs.
Business confidence was up when they thought all Trump was going to do was give them juicy tax cuts, like last time.
Now that the reality of the stupid tariff regime is about to hit, confidence is dropping like a stone.
Piss off, Nazi.
Perhaps monty could explain how that will cause a fall in non government GDP?
It’s a decent tool, Cronkers. Demonrats or not, it’s a widely used rough estimate of where we will be. The PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) also showed weakness in Q1. It has nothing to do with Trump, though, because he sailed into office on January 20th.
Fatboy has no idea, which is why he failed first year economics at Deakin.
My humble advice is that the Orange oaf needs to stop backhanding pint sized dwarfs visiting the Oval=, even though it’s fun, and get to work fixing the regulatory environment.
All the demorats can drivel about is the price of eggs; ignoring that the corpse killed 90% of the US chicken population due to alleged bird flu.
In the great majority of cases, ‘Bird Flu’, if it exists at all, causes nil to minor symptoms in your chicken shed. The real cause of most of the ‘avian flu’ deaths is the biohazard suited death squads that descend with their gassing machines within hours of a (questionable) positive PCR test.
I think the Nazi should say he got it wrong about Moira Deeming, Kellie-Jay Keen and Ange Jones when he smeared them as Nazis and he should apologise.
But is our Nazi man enough?
lol….we know the answer to that!
The Gimp still hasn’t apologised for calling Cardinal Pell a rockspider.
It’s easy to play top dog in the playpen when you hide behind anonymity.
He needs a real life kicking.
The court did not find that she is not a Nazi. It found that Pesutto defamed her because it could not be proven that she knowingly associated with Nazis.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence, Cranky.
Lol; you dickless BS artist. Successfully proving being defamed is NOT based on a failure of the defamer to establish the truth of their defamatory comments. You fuking moron. Piss off you are spreading agnotology.
Don’t need a court to find you’re a fat freak with no redeeming features.
Piss off, Nazi. The only Nazi is YOU. Go punch yourself, you putrid disgrace.
We have plenty of proof you’re a Nazi.
I think you mean ‘failure to prove guilty’ = not guilty.
Just like the High Court didn’t find Pell innocent eh? My God you are stupid.
Firstly, Israel will never be destroyed. Will not happen. Israel has never asked for US or European or Oz troops on the ground.
Secondly, those who want Oz troops on the ground in Ukraine should go there and fight themselves.
“Israel has never asked for US or European or Oz troops on the ground”.
Oct 5 2024.
Approximately 100 US troops are deploying to Israel to operate the THAAD battery,
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-troops-middle-east-mapping-military-presence
That is not troops.
Approximately 100 US troops are deploying to Israel to operate the THAAD battery,
So? It’s still not troops on the ground fighting. There is zero comparison between what’s going on in Ukraine to what is going on in Israel.
Anyway, Putin helped release a Russian Jewish hostage held in Gaza. The Chinese refused to help release Noa Argamani when she was held in Gaza.
So your response to being wrong about active troops in Israel is to shift the posts to “troops fighting”?
What do you think the air defence troops will do when there is incoming rockets?
They will shoot them down.
This is called “fighting”.
Now you have also mistaken what I am stating. I’m not stating that I think those troops should be withdrawn. I’m stating the fact that withdrawal of US support for Ukraine will in the minds of anti- Israel Democrats set the precedent for withdrawal of US support for Israel.
Which is the largest contribution the US makes anywhere in the world, depending on how you count it.
It is already a win for Iran.
After this precedent, the anti – Israel Democrats and the lobby backing them will for sure get around to cutting support to Israel.
I guess it largely depends on the flow of money and kickbacks in the US system, but the market is there via Russia and China to get the results they want in the Middle East, And the political precedent is set.
Russia and China and Iran very, very happy right now. Ecstatic even.
I love your belief and confidence in Israel, and pray you are right.
I do not fall into the trap of hoping my predictions come true, because there is nothing in it to being right, only something to gain from adjusting one’s view when proven wrong. Which is why I make so many predictions and commit them to writing here.
I am also biased towards pessimism, which I try to stay aware of.
People are either genetically programmed towards plenty or hardship.
I have the hardship gene.
Same with the lefties in the U.S. upset because Trump and Vance didn’t lick Zelensky’s arse
Hasn’t Ukraine set up a foreign Legion that enthusiastic volunteers can join? This is mUntard’s big chance, the milko can look after the kids.
I have to admit to an error.
I thought Trump would be tougher on Putin, and keep the strong arming of Zelensky behind closed doors.
I was wrong.
No, given he’s now the sole biggest obstacle to ending the war, he needed to be subjected to a very public humiliation, which he was gifted in spades on the weekend by Prez Fatty Trump and the Vance.
It’s also made the euroweenies look utterly ridiculous to boot (which admittedly is not difficult to do).
Also wouldn’t be surprised if Prez Fatty Trump has delivered a “behind doors” message to the pute, similar to one delivered in his first term, that mentioned various colourful onion domes being incinerated in a nookular conflagration.
You could be right, but I think it’s the other way around.
Putin wasn’t moving in the talks, so Trump realised no deal was to be made and needed a scapegoat.
I’m only about 70:30 sure of that, so the final outcome will tell.
If a deal is made and holds past the mid terms, I’m wrong.
I will hold myself to that prediction and post on being wrong if I am.
Link for Monty in case he missed it the first time…
Im tempted to go for the paramedic option myself, but lack the savings for a decent stint.
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0306810352?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au
Correct. Trump has just announced suspension of Ukraine support.
This is completely consistent with Trump’s both “I want to dying to stop” and “Come back when you are ready for peace” bits. If US $ and arms no longer flow to Z, he’s screwed and will of necessity sue for peace. That will be a worse outcome for him than had he agreed to The Donald’s deal.
No, given he’s now the sole biggest obstacle to ending the war, he needed to be subjected to a very public humiliation, which he was gifted in spades on the weekend by Prez Fatty Trump and the Vance.
Correct, just like Biden in the debates – Zelenskii had to be destroyed publicly to set in motion the process of replacement. The Uke parliament reportedly started talking impeachment almost immediately afterwards. My guess is he steps down ‘for the good of the country’ fairly soon.
Doesn’t matter if you love or hate either Zelensky or Trump.
This is funny.
https://x.com/bandofbrothersq/status/1896749781441270200?s=43
This is what the internet was meant for.
This and dog videos.
Art not just imitating, but reflecting reality – awesome, thanks Bern.
If you are right, then the entire WH meeting was a sham.
The forty minute discussion prior to the arms across the chest “no” and subsequent dismay and anger from both Trump and Vance. The setting up of the meeting to be filmed, with all the props and witnesses, including the Ukraine ambassador. The documents prepared and ready to sign. Even down to the lunch afterwards.
The entire thing was a lie.
But…why? Who benefits? It would have been a huge, stupid gamble, when there were dozens of other ways to do it.
I’m not buying it.
I watched the entire thing from start to finish.
Here is what is influencing my view:
Zelensky was heckled from someone as he entered the Whitehouse.
The comment about his dress from a Trump allied journo was designed to set him back on his heels, and came from nowhere about halfway through.
JD’s reaction to that question was absolute delight.
JD then did his swipe, again with a delighted look on his face.
Then Trump delivered the coup de grace.
Suggest you watch it again from start to finish with careful monitoring of JD and Rubio expressions.
I could be wrong, but the outcome will tell.
There is either a viable agreement in the offing from Putin, or there isn’t.
I say there probably isn’t.
And finally, afterwards, the Republican politicians and commentators responses came as quickly and as regimented and coordinated as we were used to from the bloody Democrats with their stupid shit.
Which tells me Trump’s crew has obtained what they didn’t have the first time around: control and discipline over their colleagues.
In summary, Z said no because he was heckled. And they were mean about his clothes.
If that is so, then he’s worse than I thought.
Why go to the WH at all? Did he hope to go to the brink and humiliate his hosts? On camera.
Zelensky said “No” to what?
I understood he was there to sign a minerals deal to ensure continued US support.
He didn’t.
Now he says the mineral deal is back on.
It’s like writing in water.
They threw him out before the talks or the signing.
This is like the invasion itself.
It’s a strange logic.
Apparently Ukraine invited Russia to invade, and their president asked to be thrown out of the White House.
Strange people, these Ukrainians.
Come on, you’re a woman, you know how that way of throwing someone off is used.
The comment was directed in full knowledge that he wears a non- uniform, but military style garb in solidarity with the soldiers, which he states throughout to be why.
Again, you have to watch it in the entirety.
Do so and let me know what you pick up on.
He does this because to wear actual military uniform or parts thereof when you aren’t actively in the military is disrespectful, and can be considered stolen valour.
But to wear a military style clothing while saying “I won’t take this off until the men in the front can return to civilian clothing”, is a constant reminder to himself and those around him of what those at the front are going through.
The jibe was designed and delivered with a sneer to undermine him on that front. It was meant to be taken as an insult. It was followed up by getting all the journos to say “Yeah, why doesn’t he wear a suit”? As if journalists are unable to research why.
But to wear a military style clothing while saying “I won’t take this off until the men in the front can return to civilian clothing”, is a constant reminder to himself and those around him of what those at the front are going through.
Maybe that is what Z claims. But I see the garb as a somewhat pretentious claim to be ‘everyman’, as contradictory as this sounds. The guy is an actor who has captured the greatest gig of all.
Really, Z represents the crazy, deeply contradictory nature of the whole Ukrainian debacle.
And zelensky is NOT a woman. He is a vain, spoilt, stupid little man who is propped up by some nasty people. He was indulged by the corpse and all the other useless bastards running the Eurotrash nations. I listened to fuking kenny interview some ukrainian pollie the other night about the Trump zelensky stoush and is was pure ME historical grievance going back to when Adam was a boy. There is NO solution to a motivation which wants revenge for the past and that is zelensky and his backers plus vested interest for the vast mineral and agricultural wealth of ukraine. Trump is not only right he is fuking right.
You sound very upset and overly invested in Mr Zelezney.
It’s curious.
The dress comment was out of left field, I thought pretty strange.
To resist the daily two minute hate sessions is getting wearisome.
I wish someone would present some facts and arguments, rather than this tiresome and boring regurgitation of the same three or four opinions.
”Zelensky is a grifter” no evidence ever given.
”He should wear a suit”. Silly, school yard stuff.
”He disrespected the White House”. Ditto.
”Ukraine can’t win” Well, they couldn’t when they dribbled out support in a way seemingly designed to engineer a war of attrition.
The only one of those I mentioned was the suit.
Because I’m old fashioned and adult.
The grifting….I don’t know and probably never will. Apart from the general state of corruption in Ukraine.
Disrespect – what was the meeting with Trump’s enemies all about then? At least one meeting look place, one that he was willing to attend.
Ukraine can’t win if it’s on its own. Conceded. I have a fifteen year old grandson. I want the war ended fast, not a decades long protracted mincing machine sucking in conscripts from all over.
Do democracies consist of friends and enemies, or do we have governments and oppositions, consisting of elected representatives?
Put aside the insanity of the last ten years, would meeting any elected US member be unusual for a foreign leader?
Stop for a minute and consider the framing you are accepting here.
Rubbish, Arky. Vance was accusing Z of a meeting in Penn prior to the election. You are too smart not to recognise what THAT was about.
What was that about?
Generally, I was able to find things out.
When it came to the covid there were figures on deaths for age groups. I was able to determine, by looking at data, that my daughter and wife were not at risk. So too when media on both sides refer to the transcript of the Trump- Zelensky phone call at the centre of impeachment, I could read the transcript for myself, and determine that both sides were distorting and framing that call for their own political ends.
If you wanted to find the levels of corruption in Ukraine, and the USA, and Australia, and Russia, you could do so, and then when your heard someone say “he’s a grifter” you would be able to determine the level of framing you were be subjected to.
That is all I have for today.
You can do the work, you are very smart and still an honourary man.
Generally, the propagandists rely on the fact that 99.99% of people won’t do the work, but will agree with their clique.
Towards the middle of covid hysteria they began hiding the deaths by age group or reworking groups.
Sometimes absence of data or how data is presented is information too.
Bio on zelensky:
Facebook
Plus there is no doubt zlensky and the demorats are in each other’s arse:
Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal
Which probably explains this:
Direct Links Emerge Between Ukraine and Trump’s Second Assassination Attempt – Geller Report
None of which changes the fact puttie is a POS who Trump has dealt with before – Trump blew up puttie’s Shayrat military base – and will deal with again.
If we learn anything of value from covid, it was how susceptible most people are to propaganda.
And how it is possible, nay easy, to convince people to go against their own interests via fear and demonisation.
Most people would rather suffer physical pain and harm than be subject to social ostracism.
Not me pal. I’m antisocial.
I couldn’t give two shits for “society”, or other’s opinion of me.
Or what I wear.
You are the penguin which washes up “Somewhere it shouldn’t be”.
People treat this as a mistake without thinking that its in the species best interest to have outliers who dont conform to the norm.
certainly woulda helped in my former caring profession
I think you look good in the summer frock, Arky.
But please – shave those legs, eh? You look like an old Lesbian.
About what you wear. I’ve never recovered from the too much bum crack from the Model A restoration.
You know what they say.
Too much plumbers crack is never enough.
I wonder when the ELINT/ IMINT/SIGINT plus STARLINK gets cut?
Israel should never have taken their boot of the Hamas throat .. ceasefires are for losers not winnaz .. They dealt with “hadbollocks” quite quickly cos no hostages were in play . FFS!
I realise the hostage situation playz big in the Gaza conflict but there will come a time when Israel needz to finish the job ..The longer the delay the more Israeli casualties .. Losing 50 soldiers at a time to save 3 or 4 hostages ain’t great mathematics .. regardless of the sentiment ..!
Nuke ’em, glass ’em, salt it .. FFS!
The very definition of cope. A term wholly abused by someone when losing an argument.
Variety Magazine
The crazy quotient was stratospheric this year.
If they think that crazy will recover their tattered weary brand, they are – well – fantasists.
So the Albotross will spend a few lazy bill’ just to “stick it” to Musk?
Adulting is hard for vermin whove never produced more than a wet fart worth of value in their lives.
Has this had the legendary “Back of a paper napkin” policy development that underpins the National Brontosaurus (NBN) network or not?
What a mong.
‘Sovereign risk’: Australia to snub Elon Musk’s Starlink as Labor set to award Amazon multimillion dollar NBN satellite service deal for operation in rural Australia.
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Are you saying Luigi Albanese and mutley are the same person. I always thought mutley and Blowen were at least twins. It’ so hard to tell with the left, they all look and sound the same.
Ugly.
With squeaky voices.
I cancelled my NBN and replaced it with Starlink a few month back . NBN was utter shite with so many dropouts I could not podcast. No issues at all with Starlink
For the digestion of felines of both sexes.
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/zelenskyy-nato-and-the-wests-war?utm_source=substack&publication_id=454182&post_id=158282117&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=txwbk&triedRedirect=true
by felines
‘Sovereign risk’: Australia to snub Elon Musk’s Starlink as Labor set to award Amazon multimillion dollar NBN satellite service deal for operation in rural Australia.
That’s really funny. Kuiper has only a couple of test satellites launched. Bezos’s rocket is way behind schedule and has had only one launch where the first stage failed to recover and there are questions about its performance anyway. There’s a deadline from the FCC to deploy at scale or the licence is lost.
Meanwhile anyone who wants high speed internet has already bought or is buying a Starlink terminal and a subscription and Starlink has nearly 5000 active satellites on orbit.
The investors in Kuiper may well cut their losses before it ever gets deployed at scale.
Albo and co. sure know how to pick losers
This is deliberate.
Snowy Hydro is probably the only win any Australian government has picked and that was because there was no other choice. Imagine if we didn’t have Top Men to make the choices. The shiite we’d be in.
Musk was ready to roll out Starlink in rural USA a while back. There was a billion dollars from US gov to subsidise it but Biden and co decided that nobody was in a position to provide so it has not happened.
Sounds like our ALP dicks are doing the same thing. It will be years before Kuiper is up and running, if ever.
So astronautical.
Copacabana will get the best service EVA !
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/well-done-that-man-lest-we-forget.html
Bedouin Muslim soldier in the I.D.F .murdered by the Palis.
Zulu, I read that. well done that man.
The Bedouins seem to be far more trustworthy than many Israeli Arabs.
I have read that Bedouin have a very low option of “Palestinians” ie Levantine Arabs.
Maybe part of the reason that heroic professional soldier would not surrender to a bunch of civilian terrorists?
Those pesky public servants!
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/victorian-deputy-premier-ben-carroll-axes-plan-to-put-highrisk-teen-criminals-in-public-schools-while-blaming-state-bureaucrats/news-story/32548f85b6bf6e3c575f9c523563f37c
What a stupid idea in the first place. What next? Ex-Cons as Teachers? I can just see the Curriculum now………….
Car Theft 101, How to crack a safe, Drug Dealing for Dummies, etc, etc, etc…..Maybe, how to be a ‘Pollie’ and stiff the system.
But the thing I have been predicting for the last twenty years is more important: that deindustrialisation would eventually put us at an existential threat.
That the Chinese could cut our sea lanes.
That our inability to manufacture would have an accelerating effect as the loss of capabilities magnified through retirements, lack of training and loss of expertise. So much is now gone that can’t be easily got back.
Ten years ago it was still reversible. Now?
Only with an immediate, deliberate and concerted effort that has to include much pain and austerity.
It gives me great and intense pain to be proven right as China sends it’s navy to engage in the type of gun boat diplomacy the USA used to crack open Japan in the century before last.
Just read your tour de force from last night, Arky. You are, sadly, right on the money. Just as the late Jim Molan was, in his book “Danger on our doorstep”.
It is all deeply, deeply, disturbing.
This year is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.
Here’s a short and very interesting read about a little known battle which was the actual start of the war. Fascinating.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-year-is-the-250th-anniversary-of-the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution-but-it-ended-in-a-standoff/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ontarios-premier-threatens-cut-electricity-u-s-says/
What has never been talked about in the media is the tariffs/taxes imposed by Canadians on US goods. This is just levelling the playing field.
Arky wants facts, nothing but the facts mam, about zelensky so I’ll post this again the regular stream:
Bio on zelensky:
Facebook
Plus there is no doubt zlensky and the demorats are in each other’s arse:
Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal
Which probably explains this:
Direct Links Emerge Between Ukraine and Trump’s Second Assassination Attempt – Geller Report
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None of which changes the fact puttie is a POS who Trump has dealt with before – Trump blew up puttie’s Shayrat military base – and will deal with again.
Thanks cohenite. Not sure about that biography…I’d like to see something from a less Russia-influenced source.
But it’s the second link I was referring to with Arky.
That is how I read it also. I think it was an exploding cigar for Z. He was gee-ed up by Trump’s enemies (opposition, opponents, detractors if you like).
And Arky.
The third link – the title appears to be refuted by the body of the story.
Yep; I just put it in to stir up Arky.
Pardon? All I got was an assertion on X and something from “Grok” suggesting it was not true.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/new-york-fbi-field-office-head-forced-days/
Proving he has the intelligence of a slug.
Vance is simply outstanding.
Vice President JD Vance reveals the moment the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting ‘went off the rails’
Generally, the propagandists rely on the fact that 99.99% of people won’t do the work, but will agree with their clique.
And that is precisely the problem with the Ukrainian problem. Virtually no one in the community seems to bother to read the history of the region.
Go on. I’m listening (reading actually).
Just caught up with the Oscars. So many films I chose not to watch. Only saw three of the films with nominations. Dune 2 is visually spectacular but about half an hour too long, Anora has two great scenes but is otherwise a yawn fest, the one I really liked is the one Keiran Culkin won the best supporting actor for, and his speech was the best, A Real Pain, while occasionally kitschy, is a very good movie. The scene where they visited the Majdenek death camp brought me to tears.
The Oscars are on their last legs.
Continually pumping out shit that the average punter gives no phucks about, transgender bloke nominated as Best Actress.
Give it the bullet so well deserved.
Loved Dune 1 and 2. I thought Anora was vile. A Real Pain was very good. Ditto your comment on Majdenek…those scenes made the whole movie so, so moving.
Dune 1 was a work of art. Captured the fear and tension of the book perfectly. Dune 2 was total shiite. Inane bollocks from beginning to end.
Haven’t watched the Oscars in 40 years.
And I won’t watch them for the next 40.
When I watched “A Real Pain” i really disliked the Benji Kaplan character – which is what the script called for! A thought provoking movie well worth watching.
J D Vance: ‘Here’s the problem with the Europeans…’
Some more lines from Vance’s interview on Fox News – this time on his stance on Europe.
The vice president tells host Sean Hannity that while Trump has a great relationship with many European allies, they say different things in public and private about the Russia-Ukraine war.
He says: “Here’s the problem with the Europeans … they need to be realistic and the craziest part about this, Sean, is sometimes you have European heads of state who in public will puff up their chest and say, ‘We’re in this with President Zelensky for the next 10 years.’
“And in private they’ll pick up the phone and say, ‘This can’t go on forever, he has to come to the negotiating table.’
“I honestly don’t care what the Europeans say in public, what I care is what they say in private.
“And what they need to be saying to President Zelensky is this can’t go on forever, the bloodshed, the killing, the economic devastation, it’s making everyone worse off.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c981p3dxnent
WA’s Labor stooge Cook disrespects JD Vance.
Cooks own goose.
WA Premier Roger Cook calls US Vice President JD Vance a ‘knob’ | 7NEWS
Calling JD a “knob” isn’t going to win Wodger any votes.
Why be a moron.
Prediction : Rog won’t be around for the next one.
Yes, he’s shitting into the office drawer on his way out.
Weak as piss.
The mutleys of this world are going to vote for him anyway. He’d know all about knobs. He’s been wringing his.
Cos that is what Wodger is
And JD’s response would be “I really don’t care, Roger.”
I thought someone was taking my name in vain.
Carry on…
(And what a goose!)
And neither do we.
Cook probably was inspired by garret’s recent eat the rich gig
Cook, a bell end that has been on the taxpayer teet since leaving highschool.
Really? Projection, clearly.
You’ve never met the man, who by virtue of his military service is worth ten of you anyway
But go right ahead, schoolyard namecaller from a hugely safe distance away. So bwwwaaave.
Big mistake. Like a kid trying to show off to mum and dad. There are consequences, fool.
I voted today. Guess what, Woger … you lost!
With only a few days until AFL starts shouldn’t Monty be focusing on his fantasy website. Seems a strange time for him to reappear here
Looks like Mr Potato has poured cold water on the “stand with Two-tier Kier in the Ukraine”.
Let’s see if that survives an ABC onslaught that he is abandoning Chicken Kiev.
Now that made me laugh. The plumage says one thing, it’s the ooze in the centre that’s telling.
Sitting at a beach bar, the waves softly breaking on the shore. Unfortunately the choice of music here is dire. Some sort of noughties pop…repetitive, high pitched, predictable.
The people are so tattooed they look like they’re wearing toile.
I thought you misspelled ‘toilet’ and I was trying to figure it out.
Try Mr Google.
https://infamousswim.com.au/collections/toile-de-jouy
OK.
It’s a girl playing chess.
Nope, lost me.
Tulle?
Good opportunity for a little Lieboral product differentiation.
The last “Coalition of the Willing” didn’t go so well.
Mmmyes.
As branding goes, “Coalition of the Willing” rates about on par with “New Coke”.
Mmm…maybe he’s listening to me after all.
What’s the rationale for pausing aid to Ukraine?
Officially, “to pause and review to ensure it is contributing to a solution.”
Or, to persuade Zelensky & the Ukrainian parliament to accept the deal on offer and take the next step to ending the war.
are javelin missiles aid now?
According to Tom Switzer
“President Donald Trump is widely considered to have blundered in his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,”
Really? I watched the whole meeting and it was Zelenskyy who hadn’t read the room, constantly interrupting, disrespectful and biting the hand that fed him. Trump was restrained. The blunder was from Zelensky as he was escorted out of the White House. It was the usual culprits who criticised Trump – democrats and their CNN, MSNBC mouth pieces, conservatives saw what I saw.
As scott Adams of Dilbert fame often opines, it’s as if we are watching 2 different movies
A centrist/moderate mob of Democrats want to virtually red pill their party to save it. Tough job, given how many loopy left crazies are in the ranks.Powerline has obtained a list of the things they want to do to right the ship.
Can a Leopard Change Its Spots? | Power Line
Saw that earlier in another forum.
If they succeed it shows how much Trump and his voters have changed the political landscape.
The ALP might want to pay attention.
Tell someone who cares.
There’s no-one left in the Democratic Party who isn’t a communist or a communist sympathiser.
I read this earlier, and the very first cab off the rank was ..
What a bizarre thing to say.
Like they are updating a party logo, or changing the shade of blue on their advertising material.
Patriotism.
You either got it or you don’t.
What they are really saying is they need to purge the party of left-wing nut-jobs.
Electing that moron David Hogg as Vice-Chair of the DNC doesn’t bode well for a clean out.
Yesterdays was the 83rd anniversary of the air raid on Broome. In terms of lives lost it was the second deadliest on the Australian mainland, with 86 lives lost.
The raid was carried out by nine Zero fighters in a long sea crossing from Timor. The attack was mainly concentrated on the flying boats massed on the harbour, which unfortunately were packed with refugees fleeing from the Dutch East Indies.
Two of the Zeroes were brought down, with neither having been located, but the main site of the attack is still marked today by aircraft wrecks which can be seen at low tide.
The only book written about the raid, Zero Hour in Broome, by Top Ender and Peter Ingman, is now out of print, but can be found in libraries and on secondhand sites.
I shouldn’t tell you baby boomers but you can get any book on annas archive, including this one. I’ve lost a fortune in royalties, but it is the way of the world until A.I. destroys the digital world.
I have a copy of that book somewhere still. I think. I can certainly recommend it.
Oscars Hit 18.1 Million Viewers, Down 7% From Last Year
All you can do is shake your head. Someone tell me what decent film has come of late from that pox arse ridden joint?
Starting to look like the Australian film industry. Not a good sign.
Yet we have some excellent actors. Even if most of them are dickheads doesn’t matter. Its the movie that counts. Their opinions are just that, opinions. We have good writers too. Must be whomever controls the purse strings.
There was that Reagan movie. I heard it was very realistic, the actress playing Nancy was given a lot of head to act out Nancy’s favourite pastime.
That’s Kameltoe’s favourite career ladder.
And your favourite pastime is being a knob head. Please keep it up.
Dunno HB… as you know better than our Eastern Cats, Liebor have 53 of the 59 lower house seats. Libs might pick up 20 in total if they’re lucky*. Meaning Liebor will still hold a rough 39-ish to 20-ish seats majority. That’s not knifing territory.
Are we doing a Catslotto on WAVotes?
*WA suffers Victoria’s ailment at present.
Probably best not to punt money you can’t afford to lose on that one. Cook wasnt da bruvvas first choice. 8 years a long way off. We still don’t know who leant on Sneakers to exit stage Left.
Hard to get a feel for Saturday. Governing pretty easy in WA at the moment. Health still a mess and lotsa project cost blowouts. Doesn’t really feel like there is much pressure for change.
One local poll has Liebor on 59-41 so the Libs picking up 20 in total might still be unrealistic.
Feels a bit high.
Analysis: Donald Trump pauses all US military aid to Ukraine
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Every Democrat Senator just voted against keeping men out of women’s sports.
Democrats hate women.
I don’t mind them sitting in a warm bath and opening an artery, but that is political suicide.
The polling shows something between 70-80% support for chucking trannie perverts out of women’s sport.
It looks like the money men will be instigating a right royal Purge of the Democrat fa fa fa Lefties.
Women shouldn’t be playing sport anyway.
Especially ones where third rate men have an incentive to pretend to be girls to be able to compete,
Stick to riding horses side saddle, croquet and bringing a plate ladies and spare your bodies for the arduous task of child birth.
@RealAmVoice
DOGE IS A TOTAL GAME-CHANGER, THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATION THAT MEANS BUSINESS ON EVERY FRONT. @MikeBenzCyber joins @AmandaHead and @jsolomonReports to discuss what it will take to rid the government of resistant employees to this administration.
@CollinRugg
BREAKING: Head of FBI field office in New York *resigns* after the Department of Justice accused his office of hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
James Dennehy says he was forced to resign in an email to staff.
“Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision,” Dennehy said.
Dennehy had previously told his office to “dig in” after Trump was elected.
The resignation comes after AG Pam Bondi instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to launch an investigation into claims that the New York field office was hiding thousands of documents.
Bondi said a source came forward claiming the field office had thousands of pages of docs.
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi said.
“Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”
“Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.”
Head on a stick. Good.
NEW: Trump ‘More Popular Than Ever Before’ After Two Months, Poll Reveals
Two dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim as suspect arrested
I like how they are saying its a German man. Probably not called Rudi or Stefan but as not mentioned, most likely onl a naturalised German called Mo.
Recall now some mention of being born there. 40yo. Turks have lived there for a long time.
2nd generation often worse. cf UK
German radio news is saying his name is Alexander S. and he is 40 years old and from Ludwigshafen (which is as much as they can say under German privacy laws).
I did grade 6 in Ludwigshafen 1971/2. Lots and lots and lots of Turks. Big areas I was warned not to go near.
I saw a picture of him on X and mentioned his full name here this morning.
He’s a mentally ill copy cat.
“The suspect was later identified as Alexander Scheuermann, a 40-year-old German citizen from Ludwigshafen, two sources close to the investigation told ABC News. He is being investigated for double murder and multiple attempted murders, according to officials, who believe he acted alone”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/police-operation-german-city-mannheim/story?id=119198884
Zelenskyy Caught Red-Handed Misleading the United States
Thanks Captain Obvious! Reuters Admits Pursuit of ‘Net Zero’ Emissions ‘Resounding Failure’
If a preexisting U.K. deal is true, it was far more than stupidity, it was outright fraud.
Ukraine may pay a heavy price for Zelenskyy’s ‘stupidity’
US Epidemiologists: Wuhan Lab is Still Doing Risky Research with Coronaviruses
Bondi Reveals FBI Delivered ‘Truckload’ of Jeffrey Epstein Files, Meanwhile Top Bureau Official Resigns
Some old Pommy git in the Oz (Max Hastings) banging on about “Twump’s tweachewy”.
He then goes on to say that the Brits (and the rest of Europe) can’t run a peace-keeping force in Ukraine without “US air support”.
He doesn’t actually elaborate on what he means by this – I assume he means heavy lift transport.
But here’s two key points:-
1. The threat from Wussia waxed and waned since 1990, but should certainly been on the radar of strategic planners in Western Europe (and probably #1) since 2014;
2. Trump first raised the issue of lack of preparedness and defence resourcing in Western Europe in 2016. The possibility of Trump or someone like him being in the White House and pulling the plug should also have been on the whiteboards of the strategic planners. Or the US being otherwise engaged in the Western Pacific with the Inscrutables.
So.
Europe has known about a heightened Wussian threat for ten years, and seen a US President elected eight years ago who was clearly pissed off at the amount of sponging being done by European NATO members.
And did precisely diddly-squat.
Directing spending into net-zero vanity projects, crippling immigration welfare and other bread and circuses shit in the hope that the US would arrive on the white charger (again) if shits were trumps (so to speak).
If we want to talk treachery, that should be directed at successive asleep-at-the-wheel governments in Westminster, Paris and Berlin.
The ‘heightened’ Wussia Wussia threat you speak of was the USA & NATO moving closer to their border after promising they wouldn’t move 1 inch toward the Wussia border.
Hmmm.
I have seen that “one inch closer” line bandied around lately.
That wasn’t an unconditional promise.
The corollary of that undertaking was that Wussia would also stay in it’s lane.
Which it hasn’t.
Moreso than NATO/EU though…
You need to educate yourself regarding the fall of the Soviet Union & promises made to the new Russian Federation.
But as noted on this blog you know everything.
An inversion of the facts.
He wrote a book called “The Secret War”.
JD Vance: These ideas will destroy western civilization
Zelensky’s Big Mistake: Why He Made It And How He Can Fix It – Konstantin Kisin
Jeepers!
AXED: Jeep Grand Cherokee leaving Australia after fall in sales
Selling shit cars and then extending the middle finger to disgruntled buyers will do that.
Surprised it took so long. They were a POS.
Liberal Wakes Up From a Coma in 2025
I see the hawks here again all day pressing for Putin’s chiding
marched into Crimea is a deliberate understatement
the same way unprovoked invasion is an over simplification
who owned what and when is an absurd reduction and is as empty as coalition of the willing
all the demanding that non-hawks come up with concrete reasoning when the hawks wont do it themselves sounds childish
NATO needs an enemy
NATO needs the USA
and the USA is saying no
lemme put a question to the hawks
what would be the best way to handle this situation of you were Mr President?
you want WW3 or a happy life?
The anniversary of HMAS Yarra, a brave fighting ship
HMAS Yarra was a sloop of the Royal Australian Navy’s World War II fleet. The ship went down in action in 1942 north of Australia.
Under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert Rankin, the Yarra had seen a hard war, fighting in the Mediterranean and in south-east Asia as Japanese forces swept south.
On her last mission, she was in command of a small convoy which was faced by superior enemy forces on 4 March 1942. Three Japanese cruisers and two destroyers of the Japanese Navy’s Second Fleet had chased the convoy successfully overnight and brought action after dawn. Lieutenant Commander Rankin, in his first-ever command of a warship, turned and faced the enemy.
Yarra’s three four-inch guns were no match for the many eight-inch guns opposing her. Rankin was killed in command on the bridge and the “Abandon Ship” order was given, but one of the seamen, Ron “Buck” Taylor, refused to leave his post at his gun and was killed in the last salvoes to hit the ship. 138 men went down with the ship, and many more with the other vessels of the convoy.
In March 2014 a Unit Citation for Gallantry was bestowed on the ship, recognizing the brave actions of the ship’s company. A modern submarine was named HMAS Rankin in honour of her commander’s brave actions, although many, including this writer, think both her captain and Ron Taylor should have been awarded the Victoria Cross.
(Rankin’s biography is part of The Submarine Six, by Top Ender, describing the lives of the six naval heroes whose names were given to the Collins-class submarines)
Pic is of Ron Taylor
Good to hear of this history, TE.
I also have a copy of this one somewhere. The book, that is. This Top Ender fellow seems to know what he’s doing.
My late father-in-law was on Yarra. He was transferred out just a couple of weeks before she was sunk. He lost his shipmates. Thing is, if he hadn’t been transferred, I probably wouldn’t have my wife or daughters …
Have I got this right?
1. Trump floats the mineral deal as a quid pro quo for aid to Chicken Kiev;
2. Two Tier Kier jumps in and cuts Trumps lunch by doing a 100 year deal for the minerals;
3. Chicken Kiev gets his arse handed to him by Trump and JD, then flies to London for some hand-patting from Two Tier and King Tampon;
4. Two Tier then announces unwavering support fo’ Chicken Kiev fo’ evah … but, well, Donald is going to have to back us up.
What planet is this deadshit on?
Which deadshit? So many of them. King Tampon certainly doesn’t do Liz any credit.
That’s why she tried to outlive him.
Besides the free falling polls and public backlash in Southport I reckon two tier Kier thinks he’s killing it.
Same one as ‘Upgrade Albo’.
Uranus.
Was the European summit already planned?
If not, how was it thrown together so quickly after the DC disaster (disaster for the people of Ukraine).
Has the Chicken Kiev not been recently downgraded to a Nugget?
False flag?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14458487/Sydney-mosque-threat.html
Put money on it, pip squeak in his north face gear and keystone cops will be all over it if it isn’t.
I lived in that area 25 years ago. So damn glad I’m out of there.
The walking garbage bags were just starting to be noticed. It was a rural area. Mostly small acreages, 10 and under.
The Edmondson name comes from one of our Victoria Cross winners.
The poor bloke must be crying in Heaven.
John Hurst Edmondson?
His V.C. was posthumous.
That’s quite an edifice they have there.
The bottom line is that Zelensky behaved like a petulant teenager in his meeting with Trump and Vance.
By the way, why did Zelensky visit that munitions plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania (a swing state) back in October 2024? And why did Zelensky, prior to the November 2024 election, describe JD Vance as “too radical” in an interview with The New Yorker magazine?
I love the way you’ve dropped the extra “y” and made it “why?”.
So many of them.
calli, I’m not sure what you mean?
Oh, sorry.
The sycophantic slobberers have now started with Zelensky with an extra “y”. That is, Zelenskyy.
A bit like Kiev but not so tasteful.
I think three “ys” in a name are more than sufficient. Anything more is pure greed.
LOL, thanks, I was somewhat perplexed!
The creep is simply an agent of the Washington War Machine and the Demoratic Party. Calling him a pay to play pollimuppett is being polite.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/feces-and-refugees-trigger-dysentery-outbreak-leftist-run-portland
In the last day, the so called ‘defender of the faith’ aka King Chuck aka King Tampon hosted an ‘iftar dinner’ at Windsor Castle.
Why?
I am now done with the Windsors….all of them. You wanna preach about appeasement, then forget about Russia because the true enemy of Europe, of Europeans, of Christians, of Jews, of anyone sane and sensible, IS the death cult called Islam.
The UK really is now the IK, aka the Islamist Kingdom.
I clearly remember Charles stating that when he became king, he would be “Defender of Faith”.
Note well.
He told the truth. Unfortunately a barrel of malmsey wine was not forthcoming.
I suspect Charles is a subscriber to Traditionalism, aka as Perennialism (cf. Aldous Huxley), which holds to the (non-sensical due to the inherent contradictions) view that all religions are but historical iterations of an ancient metaphysic and all are valid paths to lead to salvation, however defined.
Needless to say, calli, it’s a long way from the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.
And he’s too dim to realise that with Islam he’s playing with fire.
I remember at the time of coronation Charles swore to be the “Defender of Faiths” plural. There was some stink at the time knowing full well his attraction to Islam.
yes indeed, which faith is he defending?
The irony is when the UK is no longer the UK but an Islamic caliphate and his neck is on the chopping block he’ll be pondering: “What was I thinking?”
Nah, the fop’s inbred brain will be only capable of gibbering in terror. Too frozen to process enough to even scream.
It was a cold morning when Charles I was executed, so he asked for an extra chemise, “Lest I shiver, and they think me afraid”.
Will the current Charles be as calm?
The scary part is when (not if) the religion of peace turns the Unhinged Kingdom into an Islamic state it will be Nuclear Armed.
For many, many years I have thinking that something is not quite right in the head with Charles.
To be fair Anne is very good. She works hard and is a full-on rightie.
Which goes to show the problem is the male Windsors, since the ladies have been excellent. There’s something on the Y chromosome that sends them nutty as squirrels.
Phil the grik mother was nuts too. The line back from QE 11 is full of nutjobs.
I know it’s been posted:
Sydney mosque targeted with ‘Christchurch 2.0’ threat | PerthNow
I don’t particularly like the Religion of Pieces but pretty abhorrent behaviour.
It’s bullshit; the muzzies have been lying through their hijabs about threats forever. The last one about 2 muzzie skanks being bashed by a woman in victoristan turned out to be by a mentally disturbed Turkish/muzzie sheila. Funny how that disappeared quick.
False flag?
Yep.
islam is the home of false flag operations that help its cover of ‘victim’.
EVERY time you find yourself thinking that “No, this is real – they really are the victims here” remember that 99.9% of the time it’s one of their victims striking back.
what a load of BS
Ha ha.
I thought that last night.
It was like watching a kid being tackled by his parents … “We hear you’ve been shoplifting from the corner shop. And smoking behind the bus shelter at school. And knocking off Nana’s grocery money”.
This is followed by adamant denials tinged with a bit of “how dare you!”
Then comes the moment …
“Just empty your school bag out on the table, son.”
Quite.
With the additional frisson of meeting up with the gang beforehand.
Artful Dodger he ain’t. And this isn’t pickpocketing.
Rita Panahi: Feminists go missing after Peter Garrett’s ugly attack against Gina Rinehart
The sisterhood who see misogyny everywhere, including when Tony Abbott looks at his watch, have failed to call out global warming hysteric Peter Garrett’s hateful attack on Gina Rinehart.
Sanctimonious global warming hysteric Peter Garrett launched an ugly attack against Australia’s most successful businessperson during the Perth Festival on Friday night.
The 71-year-old former Midnight Oil frontman delivered a pitiful diatribe about climate change, Donald Trump and urged the audience to “pretend they’re dancing on Gina Rinehart’s grave”. What a pathetic performance from a has-been against a woman whose contribution to this country dwarfs his relatively meagre output. To think that this prancing clown was elevated by Kevin Rudd to the position of Environment Minister.
Wishing death on a woman who employs thousands, pays more tax than any other Australian and is a generous supporter of numerous charitable causes is hateful and I would argue misogynistic.
Garrett did not ask people to imagine they were dancing on Twiggy Forrest’s grave or other billionaire mining figures. He saved his bile for the woman who took a struggling business, beset by all sorts of serious financial issues, and transformed it into a goliath that exports record amounts of iron ore and is one of the country’s biggest corporate taxpayers, last financial year contributing around $3.88bn in federal and state taxes.
And, where is the sisterhood who see misogyny everywhere, including when Tony Abbott looks at his watch, but not when Garrett wishes death upon a prominent woman. The loudest feminists are silent but West Australia’s Labor Premier Roger Cook was quick to slam Garrett noting his comments were “disrespectful and sowing the seeds of hatred”.
The truth is Gina Rinehart would be a hero amongst feminists, along with the media and activist class, if she were a garden variety Leftie, but because she speaks common sense, because she advocates for policies that would benefit ordinary Australians rather than the Point Piper/Toorak set, she is attacked and maligned.
She receives little credit for the many causes she supports, often without fanfare, from backing athletes to the astonishing work Mrs Rinehart’s foundation does in rescuing impoverished girls in Cambodia, providing them with a safe home, an education and the means to break the cycle of extreme poverty. Let me make it clear that I do not want to ban Garrett from uttering such hateful rhetoric. Indeed, I will defend his right to do so. He’s free to make appalling comments, and I’m free to condemn him for it. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant.
Herald-Sun
IIRC, years ago one female sporting body or team rejected Gina’s money for some reason and demanded funding from the government instead!
Netty Straya.
Some big lug (Firsh Nashuns) didn’t want to take her money because Lang Hancock allegedly said horrid things.
Hunchback Dan jumped in a stumped up $15 meg.
Netball Australia players chose not to wear Hancock Prospecting logo, after an “indigenous” player claimed Lang Hancock had said nasty things about the indigenous. Gina withdrew a 15 million quid sponsorship deal, as a result.
FAFO?
The latest finger (not wave, but index finger) of so-called ‘feminism’ has ALWAYS been about only a select elite of first-world, western females of a certain political and social ideology. It has been about erecting a glass floor beneath their stilettos to keep secure the privileges they have always enjoyed compared to those they deem ‘beneath’ them. They snipe from within a cocoon of protective layers at only low-risk targets (‘I’m not breaking a nail for that little darkie child bride!’), and have appropriated the title of ‘feminism’ for the historical cache such brings.
None of this is a surprise, but unfortunately they have not been called out for their exclusionist elitism enough. These Mean (Racist) Girls are wholely and solely concerned for their own status.
Why dilute the quality of the PradaSistas by allowing entry to all sorts of shades and textures!? Purity and Light, Keep it (largely) … well, you know.
I turned off Blithering Blot. He should send his son to fight for Zelensky in Ukraine.
A Skynews ban in my home tonight.
Bolt has been a neocon hawk as long as I have known of him (at least the turn of the century, if not earlier).
His son won’t be in the front line, however.
Snort, cackle …
Obviously satire possibly from an Englishman/woman.
A two minute video on SpaceX, Starlink.
This is Chinese scale manufacturing in the US.
Demonstrates it can be done.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1896705814485942587
Elon did this all while US government agencies were trying to maliciously regulate him to a standstill.
Now do that with rifles or tanks.
Something for JD Vance fans who’d like to know more about what JD did since he left Yale and headed into corporate law. His pre-politics time working in capital markets and investments and building his own portfolio is covered in this video.
Kittehs might enjoy seeing the various houses JD has lived in and purchased on his career trajectory. His first big home, in Cincinnati with Usha, is so lovely. Purchased on 2.5 acres, this grand heritage mansion, bought for only $1.45 million, shows what sort of real estate you can buy in the mid-West for so little.
Good spectacle on blot: blot oozes the elite leftoid talking points for 5 minutes: Trump arrogant, ungrateful to ukrainian sacrifice and how brave the petulant dwarf is and that Trump must want wussia, wussia to kill everyone.
Sean Spicer comes and eviscerates the dolt. Very slowly he says the mineral agreement is not predatory towards ukraine but is a bulwark against wussia wussia. With US companies on the ground in ukraine that is a non combatative, non threatening barrier to further wussia wussia aggression. It’s fuking brilliant but blot can’t or want see this and blathers on. Spicer leaves rolling his eyes.
Bollocks.
I remember back in 2022, Trump was virtually the only world leader (even if not president at the time) calling for peace in Ukraine.
For that he was condemned by all and sundry and accused of being a Putin-lover.
Is Bolt in early stage dementia?
‘Is Bolt in early stage dementia’
Have to wonder. He’s really gone off the reservation accusing JD Vance of basically wrecking the minerals deal and jealousy of Musk. Where did that come from?
Great to see Sean Spicer setting Bolt straight on the reality of the Ukraine mess.
dover couldn’t see the security aspect of the deal when I raised it either.
Hang on. I think it was more that that aspect has been overplayed. The US already had interests in Ukraine before ’22, incl. US personnel, but that never stopped the Russians then so no reason to think it would later. Further, the Russians are not go to accede to a deal that involves trip wires at all.
Trump still making phony creeps reveal themselves.
Sharri has a similar blind spot about JD Vance and Miranda Divine tried to set her straight.
Sean Spicer was very good. I felt like turning off Bolt but then saw Spicer so watched that.
Blot called JD ‘an idiot’. Should be replayed in years to come.
Never have I endured so many down ticks since the great tick war of 2022.
It’s giving me PTSD, youse bastards.
All I need is someone to start chanting “Bing bong”.
Or was it 2021?
Ahhhhh, damn flashbacks.
The price you pay for making people think.
It’s hurties.
I’m so out of touch with movies.
Never heard of Anora.
Wins big at the Oscars.
Then I read about it and it’s being called soft porn.
Are the Hollywood weirdos so hard up for some titillation they have to get a porno nominated ?
That’s what SBS is for. Tits,soccer and Hitler.
The History Channel also used to be called The Hitler Channel.
Tried Gladiator II, didn’t finish watching it.
Shapiro analyses past Oscar winning movies and found very low repeat viewing rates. Doesn’t surprise me. I lasted less than 20 mins for The Brutalist. I’ll watch Mr. Inbetween again, one the best crime series and from Aus. South Korea and Japan produce great crime movies.
The Oscars is the last place I’ll look for a recommendation. There are many excellent movies from Asia, Europe, and Russia. The Great Battle from SK is wonderful.
Mr Inbetween was awesome.
How about his dipshit mate who he helps out too much.
Watching that White House shit-show I really wanted to yell out,
“Bing Bong!
You’re playing with fire you stupid f-cking midget!
Bing Bong!”
But I didn’t.
It was you.
Scrolled through the entire Oscar nominations.
I’d seen three.
Dune 2.
Wicked.
Gladiator II.
I haven’t seen the most recent Alien movie but had heard of it.
And only knew about the tranny cartel movie because the Critical Drinker has been ripping on it.
I remember when I’d at least heard of most of the movies the Academy Awards.
I feel so old.
There’s an new Alien movie?
Is it any good?
Is Ripley played by a bloke in a dress?
No but the Alien is a tranny.
Only one green snake in my bag of Snakes Alive. Thanks Allen’s.
Hmmm.
My latest bag of Natural Confectionary Company dinosaurs had far too many white ones.
OK.
There are six flavours (loosely using the term “flavour” in a couple of cases), and a total of about 26-27 pieces per bag, which means on average there should be 4-5 of each flavour per bag.
When you get seven white ones and one red one in a bag, what are the odds?
I mean, I think Big Lolly has questions to answer.
Now that’s a rip off.
The green ones are my favourite too.
See how many black cats you get — if any — in a Party Mix bag.
Bastards!
Update:
Magpies hate Vegemite.
They will carefully scrub it off anything you give them.
Probably ring ins from PNG or Indonesia.
Get out the shottie and demand loyalty tests.
And if they fail, Maggie mince.
Pretty unaustralian if you ask me.
I was hoping for the perfect combination of two Australian icons.
Didn’t happen.
I don’t think they like salty stuff. Did this at my old dad’s place last year, since he had* a bunch of magpies who would come to the back door. Got a small bit of salty smoked corned beef, that being all that was immediately to hand. Sure enough one accepted it from my hand. Yuck! She dropped it, picked it up again and played with it before finally gritting her beak and eating it.
*(He’s a keen fisherman so feeds the maggies with fish innards, which they love. He had 18 of them then, but is now down to only two. I suspect those two won the territory war.)
It’s all been downhill since they introduced talkies…trust me.
Re Zulu’s extract last night about Mount Panorama, I’m going to drive against the flow of traffic here and state how shameful I think it is we have not yet acknowledged the indigenous contribution to the development of the internal combustion engine.
I remember the stories told to me how my people used rocks and arranged them to spell the word Mount Panorama.
*Snork!*
Amen to Miranda Devine. She’s speaking truth on Sharri.
How did Sharri take it ?
Sharri has TDS at least as bad as blot.
Well, her mouth pursed up bigtime and her expresson and body language said she was Not Happy. Miranda was excellent, clear and decisive.
But oh dear, when are women on TV, lead by America, going to stop it with the long lock draped over their shoulders on each side in some sort of demented cult. Often the locks are obvious hair extensions, and thesy are more suited to Goldilocks than serious commenting. Aussie in the US do it not long after arrival – first Annelese Niesen did it, and now Miranda’s gone full lockcult too.
Good to see Sean Spicer and Miranda Devine pushing back against Bolta and Sharri on the Ukraine issue.
Bang on. You can’t fault that statement.
“It’s inappropriate to give dessert to a child who has had no meal”
On the gnome and the titan — I listened to Andrew Klavan’s view on the contretemps and his view was that Trump really wants to unhook Russia from China (I understand they’ve recently done a deal of some sort)
Trump was not going to badmouth Putin while he’s trying to bring him to the table that’s why the US hasn’t supported a recent resolution in the UN to condemn Russia for invading the Ukraine.
Trump sees China as the real threat Trump knows that China wants to diminish the US and he’s not having it. I also saw a snippet from a very pissed-off Jeffrey Sachs about the history of NATO and the deliberate breach of the agreement for NATO not to move an inch east — we can all see how that’s gone and voila — war in the Ukraine.
The US helped Europe twice I don’t see Trump stepping into a bloody quagmire of their own making this time.
I think I’ll start a rumour that Anal is going to introduce conscription to send a couple of Brigades over to The Ukraine.
That should sort out the next election.
Might flip the Woomba.
Europe is like the red headed step child jumping up and down demanding attention.
11 minutes of Jesse Watters analysing the zelensky debacle and why zelensky and the demorats sabotaged the world:
Watters: Dems don’t have a peace plan
Dickheads blaming Trump should watch although if you have TDS it won’t matter.
QE II rightly engendered respect, and for Brits, love.
But her blind spot was her first born.
She cossetted him, never placing demands on him and never exposing him to demanding accountable responsibility.
Who knows why she never abdicated his favour. Did she recognise the raging narcissiam that dominated this weak man’s psyche?
Allowing this inadequate and resentful man to marry a child was an act for which she should never be forgiven.
We are enduring the consequences of her apalling parenting. This weak, rightly ignored son has allocated himself a role in world affairs that focuses on revenge (look at me now mother, I am important).
A Victorian novel with real world consequences. Marie Antoinette.
A ruthless monarch would’ve arranged Charles to have an accident before he bred, since that would have put Anne on the throne. But Elizabeth was a genuine Christian, it looks like, and that sort of thing is not on for Christians.
I think she then resolved to live as long as possible, if she could, to keep him out.
His stint in the Navy demonstrated that you can’t turn someone so ungifted into an effective leader. No amount of parenting would fix the ultimate problem, which is that he’s an ignoramus with an impenetrable ego.
(My proofs of this are especially his ignorant greenery and his embrace of Islam.)
A hunting accident in the New Forest? 😀
Bern
In reality, Europe has always been a hotbed of instability. About the only time it was stable was for roughly 20 years after World War II, and even then, it was only because they had literally beaten the hell out of each other. There’s always been an elite caste in Europe, and it’s something that would be very difficult to dismantle. If it ever does break, you could very well end up with a modern-day Hitler or Mussolini. You could argue that those two characters were the anti-establishment of their time. Sure, Stalin too.
Take a look at their insanity. They enact policies to essentially shut down their energy sources (Germany, the UK, etc.), energy prices skyrocket, and then they stand there wondering why they’re losing their manufacturing base.
They’re an indigenous population and the elite has allowed massive numbers of hostile foreigners in, and now they’re wandering around trying to stop the native population being openly critical while attempting to figure out why these newcomers are committing vehicular jihad.
The origins of the EU as a free trade zone were well-intentioned, but it has since morphed into a politburo.
The big difference between the US and Europe is that both make huge mistakes. But by and large the US has the ability to see the error and reverse course. Reversing course in Europe ( and I include Russia in this because they are basically European, save for the Asian empire :-)) has meant Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco and the rest of the sordid gang.
@WCdispatch_
BREAKING: Newly Confirmed Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, within minutes of being confirmed launches “Final Mission” of the Department of Education.
“Send it back to The States.”
In her letter, obtained by Fox, she will be informing all Department of Education Employees that she will be leading this final mission:
“Our job is to respect the will of the American people and the President they elected, who has tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of bureaucratic bloat here at the Department of Education—a momentous final mission—quickly and responsibly.”
Tear it down.
This is what I voted for.
Monty said:
The court did not find that she is not a Nazi. It found that Pesutto defamed her because it could not be proven that she knowingly associated with Nazis.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence, Cranky.?
By that logic, you are a murderer because you can’t prove that you aren’t.
What an idiot!!
No. By that logic, you can’t call me a murderer without defaming me, because it has not been proven that I murdered anyone.
You are a fool. That is not defamation, as it is an obvious fact.
@Bubblebathgirl
Ukraine Parliament releases a statement saying they desire peace:
“The contribution of the United States of America as Ukraine’s strategic partner has been of decisive importance among international allies in supporting our nation during the most challenging times in its history.
On behalf of the Ukrainian people, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine expresses its profound gratitude to President Donald Trump, the United States Congress, and the American people for their firm and consistent support of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, as well as for the security assistance packages provided to Ukraine, which have helped stabilize the situation on the frontline.
Ukraine deeply respects the aspirations of the great American people toward the comprehensive restoration of the United States’ global leadership. At the same time, we firmly believe that the leadership of the United States on the international stage is inseparably linked to the defense of the ideals of freedom and democracy, adherence to international agreements, and reliability in relations with allies and friends.
We are convinced that the security and stable development of our nation are ensured by the unwavering support of the United States and reflect the values that have been the foundation of America’s historic success, inspiring millions of Ukrainians.
At present, this support is more crucial than ever for the Ukrainian people and the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine, as well as for ensuring security and stability across the entire European continent.
The Ukrainian people desire peace more than anyone else in the world and believe that the personal role of President Donald Trump and his peacekeeping efforts will be decisive in the swift cessation of hostilities and the achievement of peace for Ukraine, Europe, and the entire world.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine welcomes President Donald Trump’s initiatives to launch a negotiation process aimed at securing peace.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine underscores the necessity of further developing the strategic partnership with the United States, particularly in the exploration of critical minerals.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reaffirms that Ukraine must remain an independent and sovereign state, and the Ukrainian people—free and unconquered.
Together, we are stronger!”