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Let’s see what Putin does on the ground.
He got credit from those who matter.
Stay away from Kiwis holding tomato sauce bottles. 😀
I believe a copy of the weekend Australian provides toilet paper for many days.
Nice picture thanks Dover.
I preferred the dreamy quality of that Thomas Cole painting on Monday.
Has Alfred killed the internet or is it just lagg?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Not sure why Trump spent much time talking about the CHIPS act yesterday.
Only 1% of the funding has been appropriated since it was announced, so it’s a pretend piece of legislation.
Obviously the DEI requirements are good to poke fun at.
The memes have begun. 😀
Riley Gaines slays on TikTok.
Most parents in the US would look at her and think she’s pretty reasonable.
Keep pushing the chicks can have dicks in sports DNC.
If she keeps it up, she’ll be elected.
Normal people don’t want hairy blokes with penises in their daughters/nieces/friends whoevers’ changerooms and toilets, nor do they want them beating them, sometimes literally, in sport.
TikTok planning an employee share buy-back valuing the company at $US315bill.
Pre election, all parties should disclose how much they have & plan to spend on TikTok force feeding users their content despite users flagging it as “not interested”.
The Dee Madigan Labor data lab (based in Surry Hills Sydney) should be renamed the give TikTok money lab.
Just checked SpaceX – the next test launch of Elon’s enormous rocket has been delayed another day. The website says coverage is now due to start at 10am tomorrow AEDT.
SCOTUS ruled that 2bill of USAID money must be paid “for work or services already provided”.
5-4 ruling with Roberts and ACB the key votes.
ACB further increases the likelihood of being the next Chief Justice as she’s an 100% establishment justice.
The key logistical aspect of this is, contractors will now have to prove they provided the work or services they allegedly have.
I look forward to some of these contractors providing that evidence.
If people think that this outcome wasn’t already planned for by this administration, they are still thinking it’s March 2017, not March 2025.
Thanks for explaining this. I would never have got there on my own. To whom do they provide proof of expenditure/ purpose? To the Court or administration?
The Federalist ecosystem says there is a long standing process where people/organisations pursue the government via a claims court.
Nothing to do with SCOTUS (SCOTUS has zero enforcement capabilities).
Pay it back at $1 a day
Cyclone Alfred still looks a squib at the moment.
What’s it all about Alfie?
Albo must be wishing they’d actually gone with Anthony as the name. It hasn’t done much and is a let down (so far).
Any damage it does will be seen near the end of it’s term.
But then it’ll just disappear.
Yes, its been fun to watch the breathless ‘Sunrise’ crisis danger emergency reporter task force’ standing beachside trying to make a bit of blowing foam interesting for the last 2 days.
Added to this proviso:
Bern, I think that’s a very reasonable decision by the court. Another point is that they’d better not lie, because if they get caught out, they’re heading to the clink.
Imagine having to front up to some claims court with a bag of African kids cocks to prove you did the trans work there.
LOL
I’d rather that phrase about appendages from the Dark Continent wasn’t in my feed thank you.
Couldn’t you just put everything in a jar and count the bits from the bar table?
They would have to show disbursements to third parties prior to the EO.
I suspect vast swathes of it was parked in bank accounts as a war chest to fund campaigns and lawfare against Orange Hitler in the future.
That will be clawed back.
At some stage in the future, SCOTUS will have to rule on what a service is.
Ie, is funding a NGO (lol) with a bill of taxpayer money a service even if the NGO was only set up a month before and was yet to do anything.
When did the USAID litigation start?
That would be a good indicator of how long it takes to get to SCOTUS.
Wow Alfred still looking very ragged. Models are all over the shop, one of the best HAFS-A which a US hurricane model has it crossing round Cape Byron then wandering over land northwards before washing out NW of Brisbane. This morning CMISS run has her weakening even further on approach to coast. Looking at 40kn (75km/h) winds now. Haven’t even looked at the BOM yet. Yuk what a mess.
As for the 2 main holdbacks for the storm. Wind shear is a good as it will get and increasing again, sea temps should be broderline again but she don’t seem to be firing. Still what’s known as a hybrid system.
Seeing some pics of the Gold Coast big problem is flooding. Tides combined with the storm surge, reckon there would be a few in those low level estates with all the waterways or beachfronts with their freckles twitching atm.
GC will be particularly affected if BNE crossing is still on cards, the SW quadrants are where all the pressure gradients converge as it crosses land. This area is usually where the strongest of weather is for Queensland east coast cyclones. Good example of this affect is Cyclone Yasi, to the north Cairns at about 100km was largely unaffected by the crossing where as Townsville 200km to south was smashed by high end Cat 2 winds. Might be better if the Byron crossing comes off.
Gold Coast goes back to being a swamp?
Time will tell if how accurate this Axios piece is on the US negotiating directly with Hamas.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/us-hamas-talks-gaza-war-israel
Regardless, I love this Steve Witkoff chap.
Putting the brakes on an insane EPA that is part of climate madness will help to stem the tide of anti-CO2 agitprop that has all but destroyed manufacturing in western nations.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/trump_is_on_the_verge_of_ending_the_epa_s_tyranny.html
It does that by all but destroying our formerly affordable and reliable energy system. If the idiots won’t allow nuclear, just build new coal or refurbish the plants where they are, often with coal nearby.
I believe we have the big transmission plan under extreme pressure. We’ve blocked 150km of access for the VNI West through western Vic. They’re going to have to use courts and police to get access and they don’t have the ticker. Farmers tend to be a stroppy bunch.
You Ripper!
Also a big map will be released soon where farmers have said they won’t be part of any declared renewable energy zones.
All blocked out with the paddocks highlighted. It will put the skids under the big push by renewable parasites to claim farmers want their crap.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy when shit really has to get done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff
Steve “Winston Wolf” Witkoff:
“If I’m curt with you it’s because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please… with sugar on top. Release the fvcking hostages”.
Prince Charles allowed muslims to conduct ramadan in the hallowed halls of Windsor. Hearing them praying to allah there was excruciating. Appalling appeasement and bending the knee to muslims by this weak man. May as well hand the keys to the country to them now as he and Starmer lead the country to ruin.
Windsor Castle
‘Defender of the faith’ indeed
Twitter going ape over the Supreme usaid decision.
Release the invoices.
I have a terminally ill relative. If her doctors asked them every visit would they like to be killed I’d be furious.
It’s disgusting.
Perhaps every patient should be told every visit what a burden to society they are, every welfare recipient get the suggestion with every welfare check they receive.
https://x.com/kesleeman/status/1897004881002512817?t=awuys9CyJqp8lLTjhSMkMQ&s=19
Doctors love to play God. Now it’s law.
“If her doctors asked them every visit would they like to be killed I’d be furious”
Why? It’s a perfectly reasonable and sensible question.
Why? It’s simply the inverse of the question “Do you want to live?”
Many elderly people probably don’t.
That painting is amazing, it has the clarity of a photgraph
Back in the 1970s there was one observant young Catholic guy who turned up at my workplace on Ash Wednesday with the ash smear on his forehead. That was just one out of an office of fifty, so even back then it wasn’t common.
Today I see quite a few on Fox News with either ash or a little sticker on their foreheads. Haven’t checked the ABC, but I wouldn’t expect it there.
Cyclone Alfred – are you ready for labor comming out with we fight climate change.
Dutton lacks leadership on climate change – alanlaura tingle and the bushfires skewing Morrison
Ala not alan
It better not be.
For nearly a week, Bin Chicken One has been at Ready 5.
The washing machines at The Lodge have been running non-stop to give his brand new, special order, Bisley taped two toned Hi Vis wet weather gear a well worn patina of age.
And he’s been working so hard on his strong-but-compassionate Father Of The Nation look that he’s begun suffering painful face cramps.
Lol!
FATHER OF THE NATION.
bwahaha, coffee on keyboard
Someone better stop Orange Hitler before it’s too late.
He’s out of control.
https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/1897386627862847969
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Magnificent stuff – he really can be an ol’ softy when he wants to be.
#blacks4fattytrump
Meme
Democrats seem much more comfortable waving Ukraine’s flag than their own. The same goes for Labor and Greens and the Australian flag.
@C_3C_3
Want some truth?
The Dems are a small political party of social outcasts.
Mentally ill men, race baiters, communists, feminists and grifters.
They only seemed like a legitimate party because USAID propped up every aspect of their operation.
USAID is done and so are the Dems.
Ahem, there are no feminists in the Democratic Party — just chicks with dicks.
Roberts and Amy Commie Barrett.
BREAKING: Justice Alito ‘Stunned’ as Supreme Court Backs $2BN Foreign Aid Flow Without Explanation.
Alito shouldn’t be stunned, he works with them every day and should have twigged to it by now that Roberts and Commie Barrett are deep staters.
Even relatively sensible newspapers like the Oz are going nuts for the cyclone:
It wasn’t just the sporadic rainfall, violent then feathery then violent again, but the peculiar pearl light that illuminated the skies above the beaches from Brunswick Heads and Byron Bay to Lennox Head and Ballina, and the hinterland towns of Mullumbimby, Bangalow and Lismore.
If you’ve ever experienced that light before you remember it. It’s cyclone light. An almost beatific glow that comes before a monster, in this instance Cyclone Alfred. It was there in Brisbane in early 1974 (Wanda), if you’re old enough to remember. And it was back again on Wednesday, coddling southeast Queensland and the Northern Rivers. Many were oblivious to it as a portent of danger. Others knew exactly what it meant.
It’s the sort of rare and unusual light that gives you the sense that everything is holding its breath.
By midday Alfred was flexing its muscles….
Could have been better. Could have started: “It was a dark and stormy night…”
Top Ender, newspapers love the weather: it’s the front page go-to when there’s nothing else happening. However, the whole population has eyes and ears, which inhibits the media’s inclination to lie about it — hence all the flowery poesy.
What a rip-off.
I pootled down to Moffat’s Beach yesterday morning
and missed that pearlescent light.
Although there were eight drops of rain.
Sooner or later there’s going to be a “and then I woke up” moment.
Hallelujah brothers and sisters, I’ve seen the light.
@BreannaMorello
The Biden regime funneled nearly $20 billion dollars into newly founded environmental groups, according to the New York Post.
Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to a group called Climate United Fund.
The group does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.
The non-profit fund had only been incorporated five months before the check was handed over.
The cash for the charity came from a huge $370 billion climate slush fund of taxpayer money overseen by Clinton political consultant John Podesta.
300 Billion here, 300 Billion, there.
Pretty soon, we will be talking REAL money?
Is this where we really are>
Systematic looting of the public purse; with the general response being a shrug of the shoulders?
@DC_Draino
Oh boy
Look at how Justice Amy Coney Barrett looks at our duly elected President, the man who put her on the Supreme Court
She looks very bitter
No wonder why she keeps ruling with the liberals against him
What the heck ACB?!
Mole, if TC Albo turns into a nothing burger, can you write some disaster porn about it in the style we’ve become accustomed to?
Obviously if a dozen people die it might be in poor taste.
Or poorer taste.
@libsoftiktok
CBS News/YouGov Poll – After Trump’s Speech
– 77% support his plan to cut government waste and spending
– 77% back his immigration and border policies
– 76% approve of Trump’s speech
– 76% approve of removing congressmen who interrupted his speech
– 74% say his speech was presidential
– 73% support his stance on Russia and Ukraine
– 68% say it made them feel hopeful and proud
– 68% say he has a clear plan to tackle inflation
– 68% say he accurately described America’s crime crisis
– 63% say he focused on issues they care about
… and Dems are totally flummoxed so they instinctively back the losing side.
Keep this up and they’ll be lucky to be a registered political party in 10 years’ time.
I wonder who’s pulling his strings.
@WallStreetMav
BREAKING:
Zelensky has changed his mind again and announced that he would not negotiate with Russia.
Zelensky does not want to discuss anything with Russians and make any concessions. He wants to continue the war.
How can he continue with the war if Trump has withdrawn money, weapons and intelligence support? Even Starmer admitted that Europeans can support him but with American material backing. Zelensky has entered into the FAFO waters in a major way.
As Dover said last night there are two sides in this war. Z can (if he wants) try to negotiate for an armistice, but the signs are Russia won’t agree to anything short of unconditional surrender.
Medvedev: Russia Must Inflict ‘Maximum Defeat’ on Ukraine (5 Mar)
Correct, and wars only end when *both* sides agree to stop fighting.
Tom, your thoughts.
Perhaps I need wonder no more. They are absolutely determined to start WWIII.
@WallStreetMav
NEWS: According to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a potential minerals agreement between the United States and Ukraine is insufficient to serve as a security guarantee that would guarantee Russia abides by the conditions of any peace agreement in the conflict in Ukraine.
Anyone want to bet on some kind of pact between the US and Russia.
A Non Aggression Pact would be a poor choice of terms, but is it in the cards?
Albo’s visit to Qld going down like the Hindenburg:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in Brisbane. Gee, I feel so much better now, don’t you?
Never mind that Queensland has run out of sandbags, supermarket shelves are stripped bare, power banks are hotter than toilet paper, and our homes are bracing for damage.
Forget that our pets are distressed, our schools are set to close and we’re being warned to stay inside and off the roads from tomorrow.
Despite Tropical Cyclone Alfred barrelling towards us, Albo is here. Relax.
Politicians are known for grandstanding during natural disasters – former PM Scott Morrison being a famous exception when he holidayed in Hawaii during the 2019 bushfires – but Mr Albanese’s presence in Queensland right now is a hindrance.
Last night he met with Premier David Crisafulli and he is holding several meetings today – with the very people charged with keeping our state safe and doing everything they can to minimise the impacts of Alfred.
This morning he visited the State Disaster Coordination Centre, accompanied by Federal Sports Minister Anika Wells.
We need the people who know what they’re doing to focus on doing it – and not be dragged away to entertain politicians.
As our state braces for the worst, Mr Albanese’s visit amounts to a shameless grab for votes ahead of the looming federal election Labor looks set to lose.
Courier-Mail
Queensssland storms are for Queenssslanders!
Crisafulli shouldn’t have hosted him at the presser yesterday.
It seems to me that there should be a constraint on transfer of huge chunks of money. Break all such payments up, such that there is time for objective scrutiny and a greater chance of discovery if the wrong thing is being done. No government department or NGO needs to send $ billions on one day to anyone at all. Drip feed the dollars to Aid agencies, make them show what has been done before the next payment tranche is released.
I’d prefer the OPM tap was turned off for good. If the US government has racked up trillions of dollars in debt it is no position to be disbursing funds to anyone or anything not directly involved in the delivering the central functions of government (all two or three of them).
Let the grifters seek OPM via begging bowls on the streets.
Your formula is exactly how Australia should manage our relationship with the UN.
Make us specific proposals and we will consider them.
@atensnut
Stacey Abrams not happy President Trump called her out by name for attempting to extort $2Billion dollars of your tax dollars!!
What do you have to say to this crook?
CIA Director says US halted intel sharing with Ukraine following aid pause
Pelosi seethed and the pundits were vile… but a savage Trump line really made the Democrats lose it! SCOTT JENNINGS reveals how Donald broke the resistance to his ‘revolution’
Good read. Scott Jennings has been giving curry to his CNN colleagues lately – quite deliciously.
This is rapidly becoming the most preposterous outburst of collective hysterical idiocy since bat flu.
Grate work, numbskulls.
Some of this resembles Mr Garrison’s “Valley of the Penises” work in South Park.
European rearmament is going to turn the world upside down
This is the EU. It ain’t gonna happen. But they will create more regs to attack the true enemy – the US.
This is criminal embezzlement of taxpayers’ money – there is no other way to describe it.
Gaol them all (or better still, gift them starring roles in HOP Time™).
WATCH: Joy Behar Did Not Expect This Answer from Stephen A. Smith About Trump’s Mandate
Tested the Chonda emergency generator yesterday. All OK.
Apologies if this is a dumb question.
Can this run on the same diesel that you put in the car?
Or are there different diesels?
There’s different additives from what I recall, but they’re basically the same.
It’s petrol. Runs on unleaded. I bought a $50 dual fuel carby which I’ll install so it can also run on the barby gas bottles.
Good plan! I put the same on my 3300 watt honda generator and its fine once started. It is, however, a bitch to start on gas unless you ‘throttle’ the gas bottle down to near zero to get it started initially.
I put the same fuel in my Patrol as I do in the genset.
Because it’s stored I put in an algicide bought OTC.
No difference.
LOL, I got an AEC 3800. Same knock off motor.
Has served me well through a number of blackouts, cyclones and floods.
what does that run on ?
I run it on 95 PULP.
Elon Musk: It Sounds Like Adam Schiff Committed Treason…
Quite an interesting article.
Worth your time.
NASA’s stranded astronauts finally snap as they appear to let slip who’s to blame for leaving them there
Elon is sending up a capsule next week to rescue them.
Too late, they already have.
Fury at ‘two-tier’ justice move that means ‘ethnic and faith minorities are less likely to go to prison’: Tories warn courts could become ‘anti-white and anti-Christian’
Next feral erection will be interesting in Groom.
We now have two pseudo independents aka Teals running.
Last election one of them got 8.something % first preferences and ended up with over 43% in second place. The other is clearly a grifter looking to get her bum on Parliamentary leather but mainly to attract first preference votes away from the LNP.
Last election was first time Groom ever went to preferences.
The incumbent BTW is an idiot. He’s boasting he got $4 million for the Hockey club here. FMD I want him to represent me on matters of national importance. That ain’t it.
Biggest concern is that fat f&$# Palmer sticking his head up again.
All he does is draw votes away from the LNP.
He got the $4m (and more) precisely because it went to preferences last time.
Might not help. Just proves he’s a fool.
It might not, but it’s the way the political strategists who dole out pork from the barrel think.
TV J’ismists love cyclones.
Instead of getting their face on the box with the normal ten second Piece to Camera, they get prolonged exposure with the Live Cross or better yet, the Walk and Talk.
There’s nothing like giving good Walkie to boost an ambitious J’ismist’s chances of getting an overseas Bureau or edging closer to that most cherished of gigs, the Monday to Friday Newsreader.
From OOT:
Oh, sure, with US intelligence and materiel support cut, Putin is really caught in a vice now.
Standard Trump negotiation tactic. That’s the stick. Here’s the carrot:
NSA Waltz: Once Russia Talks Set, Ukraine Aid to Resume (Newsmax mainpage headline, 5 Mar)
He’s developed a fine diplomatic tactic – which is to scare the socks off his victim, then offer an out that they can live with.
As I said a bit upthread I don’t think Russia will agree to any peace deal, since Putin sent Medvedev out yesterday to effectively say that. But Trump wants peace talks to happen, and he is getting both sides around a table to at least talk. Very unlikely a peace deal can be worked out but Trump will have done to his best ability what he promised.
You get to use a tactic once. Everyone now knows this one. It’s no longer effective.
Trump has used this tactic effectively so far on Panama, Ukraine, Canada, Mexico, France, Denmark and is currently working on Greenland. Fun to watch them fold like cheap seats.
The Panama thing was pretty amazing, he got the Chinese out of the place with alacrity.
Former Transport Minister Jo Haylen only reimbursed taxpayers for 10 hours’ worth of a private car and driver she used for a boozy lunch in the Hunter Valley – despite her driver logging an almost 13-hour shift.
Premier Chris Minns’ department has now been accused of giving Ms Haylen a “heavily discounted bill” to cover the ill-fated trip which ran her ministerial career off the road.
The Daily Telegraph can now reveal fresh details about Ms Haylen’s use of a ministerial car and driver on the Australia Day long weekend, contained in documents obtained under freedom of information laws.
Premier’s Department emails reveal an official asked for Ms Haylen to be invoiced a total of $750 for the 13-hour, 446km driving shift.
That is despite the Saturday cost of a car and driver being calculated at $75 per hour.
The email was sent at 8.22am on February 3, the day after The Sunday Telegraph revealed the trip, and the day after Ms Haylen declared she’d repay the cost “in full”.
“The Premier’s Department has informed me that the cost is $750, and as soon as I receive an invoice from the Premier’s Department I will pay that in full,” Ms Haylen said on February 2.
The documents reveal that drivers are paid $34.94 per hour, while vehicle expenses are charged at $20 per hour.
Drivers receive time-and-a-half on Saturdays, and double time on Sundays and public holidays.
On Saturdays, a car and driver costs $75 per hour, and on Sundays it costs $95 per hour.
Ms Haylen’s chauffeur drove from Rockdale to take her and her friends to Brokenwood winery in the Hunter Valley on January 25, with the group picked up from Ms Haylen’s Caves Beach holiday house.
Cabinet minister Rose Jackson was also in the car; the outing was organised as a surprise to celebrate Ms Jackson’s 40th birthday.
Driver logs obtained by The Sunday Telegraph revealed the driver started work at 8am and finished at 8.50pm.
Despite the log book entry, a Premier’s Department spokesman has previously told The Daily Telegraph that the hours the driver worked “did not exceed 12 hours.” No documents have yet been released showing how the $750 cost was calculated.
The Premier’s Department previously said that Ms Haylen’s driver took “mandatory breaks” during the 13-hour shift.
On Tuesday, a spokesman said drivers were required to take breaks “after every five hours of continuous work”. They are also eligible for unpaid meal breaks.
Asked about the calculations, Liberal Treasury spokesman Damien Tudehope accused the government of maintaining a shroud of secrecy over the trip.
“So much of the Haylen winery trip is still a mystery, including how the former minister came to pay back $750,” he said.
“The Premier needs to explain why his department issued a heavily discounted bill to the former Minister for Transport to cover her birthday surprise for minister Jackson,” he said.
Daily Tele
This shouldn’t have turned into a money issue but an “entitlement” issue .. She over-stepped (drove .?) the “ministers-do-as-you-like” line and should be sacked .. but, as usual, Ho Chi Minns went with the “fence splinter” option .. No wonder Bankstown Hospital runz its, special, “splinter removal” unit 24/7..
Wrong place reply .. duuuh!
“It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up.” should be tattooed on every Politicians fat and pointy head.
FFS, is this stupid woman deliberately trying to sink her own career?
It looks like she’s let loose a volley of those circling torpedos, and is about to cop them back, right up her arse.
@amuse
UKRAINE: Zelensky is taking advice from Danish PM Mette Frederiksen who says, “Peace in Ukraine is more dangerous than the ongoing war.”
Wow ..! That comes across better (&shorter) than a Kameltoe word salad ..!
So we are getting pretty close to ‘war is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ etc now?
“Zelenskee is a war hero”
Adding to the chaos:
?265 NSW schools closed amid cyclone danger
The NSW government has confirmed more than 265 schools and 16 TAFE campuses have been closed in Northern NSW as millions brace for impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
I think we need to be very careful with rhetoric coming from out of Northern Europe , particularly the Scandinavians. There’s a lot of bad history between them and Russia.
Not to mention Indolent’s sources.
Open question for Cats, particularly those hinting darkly about Zelenskyy tempting WWIII:
What is your expected scenario for WWIII to actually start? Who does what, where does it happen, what are the reasons? Show your work.
Get back in the dunce’s corner, monty.
Tell you after the tsunami arrives. Ok I won’t since I will be dead.
Normally I get paid for this sort of analysis Monts. $2000 will get you 2000 words, footnoted etc. Please email me for bank account details.
No.
The premise is not that Z (with 2 Y’s) is starting WW3
that is another one of your famously ridiculous understatements
what will start WW3 is same idiotic animus that drives your stupid mouth mUnty
NATO needs an enemy or it’s existence is pointless … so they’re busy creating one while pretending there’s an existential crisis because the Red Army is coming
it is becoming very obvious that the US presence in Europe is the only thing that kept in check the same retards that gave us WW1 and 2
truth is that these European clowns are starting to look like an existential threat to Russia
Macron for instance, wouldn’t be the first stupid European who decided to march to Moscow.
not even the second one come think of it
So you think Europe will invade Russia, with the US going all non-aggression?
WW111 will start when you grow a dick.
Great painting. Obviously the poor farmer couldn’t get permission from the greenies on council to cut down those bloody trees.
Jolly news of the day:
China: If U.S. Wants War, ‘We’re Ready to Fight Till the End’
The Nazi appears.
I so hate Nazis.
Where’s ICAC NSW?
Oh that’s right, it goes to sleep when there’s a Labor state government.
Show your work.
Here’s some of the Nazi’s recent work….
Biden can govern
and
Kamala Harris will win Iowa
They walked in .. make ’em walk out .. !
Not going to link it but another Fed chimes in looking for a spot of the limelight.
Wallet Wizard is urging Brisbane residents to fill bath tub.
And drink their own bathwater?
Re:
The Ukraine/Russia stoush.
I raise my conjecture that Russia does a huge push, using the majority of its Western Front troops and pushes to the easily defendable Dnieper River, now that the US has cancelled intel sharing with the Ukraine.
It gives Putin a formidable defensive line behind which his communications with the Crimea are safe.
Up from 10% to 15%
Straight out of the Silly McMenace physics handbook.
I’ve been watching the BOM predicting winds of 60 kh/h + with gusts up to 90 since yesterday. Yet their own readings are about 6-9 kmh.
Checking on Windy.com/ Accuweather and Weatherzone gives a far more benign (and so far) accurate picture of what is happening in Brisbane. Their predictions for early Friday morning as Alf hits Brisbane when the BOM has predictions of 100+ winds is for around 50 kmh.
Have the BOM’s assumptions been massaged or are the commercial weather sites far too low?
It reminds me of covid…offices, schools and uni’s shut but shops, deliveries and people that need to earn money are still open.
Had a look at Windy this morning myself. Their projection is Anthony oops Alfred will arrive at Brissie on Saturday then expire. Bigly rainfall though.
Plenty of rain to come but I’m more windy after a curry.
Yesterday someone noticed, I think RokDok, that it was moving north. Looking on BoM it showed it moving north, yet they still had it going back through Brisbane. Lots of could, might and maybe to go round. Plenty of panic but little truth. Never let a potential disaster go to waste.
Weatherzone has been more sensationalist than the BOM.
Their coverage then gets a run in the msm.
It’s meandered more than they thought off the coast. Done loop de loops actually. Looked at the upper level steering this morning.
Ridging to the south we know about tying to push it to the coast but an upper high has stood up to the north of it in Coral Sea trying to push it east.
Whichever wins will seal the direction it takes. Longer it is in cool waters too more it will degrade too.
Coastal GC isn’t out of the woods yet. I suspect Brisbane itself will be protected largely from it by Morton and Stradbroke Is and probably wonder what all the fuss was about.
I’m not sure about ”peculiar pearl light”, but here in Brisbane it’s presently pleasant and intermittently cloudless with a light breeze.
Which is a DisasterPorn disaster for disgusting political tourists like Albanese and ‘Save the Furniture’ Chalmers: no hi-viz opportunities with shaken State and local hoc politicians in the background, no sound grabs of ‘thank’ee, sir, and Gor’ bless’ grateful voters being aided, no signs of destruction that ‘we will always be here to help you with’. The odious bastards will have to far cough and come back next week for their election photo-ops.
But TC Albert hasn’t somehow disappeared. The Gold Coast has been smashed with rain and strong winds for the past couple of days and the storm – whether as a TC or a rain depression – is most likely going to produce widespread damage in SEQ on Friday/Saturday.
Out in the real world it’s been a mixture of responses. The prudent getting their homes and businesses ready, helping neighbours, and where possible planning for the cleanup. For me it’s been a strangely uplifting experience.
Not a particular fan of Chrisafulli, but he and the local authorities seem to be doing a decent job of preparation (sandbag shortages notwithstanding) and good communication with small business and community groups.
On the other end of the spectrum, impending inconvenience brings out the worst of shite behaviours in uncomfortably many people. Not normally vindictive, I hope that the stupid, stupid people pushing trolleys filled with bread and milk last Monday will shortly own 12 bags of mould and 18 litres of ad hoc yoghurt. As for the low-trusters walking away with commercial quantities of toilet paper, batteries etc…
It has occurred to me over the past few days that, on average, we have become a soft and helpless people in a harsh world. Goodness knows how Australia will face rolling blackouts and the inconvenience that will go with that.
Rant over.
Great rant!
I thought that too.
Measured, calm and clear communication remarkably free of hysteria.
And no Sou’wester and waders cosplay either.
Early days.
Krisafooli was careful to say that a cyclone of this nature was “not unprecedented”, which is correct. He didn’t need to use the “unprecedented” word. Subconsciously, the innately fearful will only read that word.
He could just have said “It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again. Let’s get prepared.”
But the nature of even the politicians of the right is to carefully use words to terrify people, notwithstanding being used literally in the negative.
Do Faustus:
And not one of the items they hoard will have been on special.
I remember the lines of date roll thieves getting into fights over the stuff.
We had a small bus of Asians with an enclosed dual wheel trailer during that time here in Barcy. They will have driven 1000Km from Brisbane (at a guess) with about eight people in the bus, and were hitting every supermarket with each person getting their limit.
Such a pity they were seen outside of town on the Matilda H’way with two flat tyres later on in the day.
Cunning Asians? Looking at the economics of the drive – and even Munted should be able to do this – they would have to be getting at least $20 for each date roll.
“we have become a soft and helpless people in a harsh world”
Quite so. You risk being arrested if you are anything above soft and helpless, such as a pregnant woman who posted something on Facebook.
Daughter lives in Dutton Park. Her + Hubby have been prepping. Some sensible stuff like storing their outdoor potplants indoors and securing some of their windows that don’t close properly ( they live in an 100+ yr old house). Rang her yesterday and by the sounds of it they are tired from the re arrangement.
I believe a copy of the weekend Australian provides toilet paper for many days.
Forget about the perculiar light, this is all about a cyclone thats lost its way.
This is a rare event – to have a tropical cyclone in an area that is not classified as part of the tropics, here in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW),” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Brisbane on Wednesday.
Thank you, Caveman — an excellent headline our disaster porn media will never use:
A headline from The Grauniad pops up on my newsfeed:
“Is climate change supercharging tropical cyclone Alfred?”
Golly, I wonder how they answer that.
Betteridge’s law of headlines ought to apply … but it is Te Grauniad.
Off to NZ tomorrow, almost booked to go through Brisbane. Had to stay overnight so not suitable. That was lucky.
Stay away from Kiwis holding tomato sauce bottles. 😀
Hopefully by venting their anger at politicians.
And the BoM, CSIRO, MSM, and all the other prophets of doom who looted billions based on lies.
Apparently it is not true that additional ‘signers’ have been flown into Brisbane to service the queue of pollies determined to appear on camera to tell people to stay out of the rain.
5D chess, cont’d.
France to Hit Trump’s 5% GDP Defense Spending Target (5 Mar)
Fun that Trump now has Euroweenies hopping about like meth addicted frogs. He couldn’t get them to defend themselves during his first term, but that’s sure changed now.
Yes, but how much of that will end up as new Urban Warfare kit and and an extra ten infantry divisions?
Quelling the Jihadi Japesters will take every man in uniform they have.
Chris Uhlmann on Sky yesterday pointed out to Kieran Gilbert that we have a lower incidence of cyclones, not more. Kieran changed the subject instantly.
We used to get maybe 5 per Wet Season across the Top End; nowadays that’s about 3.
“Don’t undermine my narrative with your facts.”
@igorsushko
BREAKING: French President Macron addressed all Europeans to prepare for war with Russia.
This was broadcast live across the continent.
Europe will not accept capitulation of Ukraine to Russia under the guise of “peace negotiations.”
Americans must decide whose side we are on.
There you go Montster.
What Macron actually said…
“The initiatives for peace are going in the right direction, and I welcome them, and we need to continue to help Ukrainians resist until they can negotiate with Russia a solid and lasting peace for themselves and for all of us. The path to peace cannot be achieved by abandoning Ukraine…Our forces will be there if necessary to guarantee peace, not before a peace agreement is signed.”
Always check the source and make your own judgment rather than relying on second-hand reports crafted to advance an agenda.
That doesn’t sound like an order to fix bayonets and go over the top to me.
He won’t get any credit, but the photo is awesome.
Freed hostages thank Trump: You were our hope (5 Mar)
The guys are still looking a little gaunt. Need to be fed up with good Israeli food.
He got credit from those who matter.
Not after the speeches they’ve both just made. It couldn’t be clearer. They are determined to bully the U.S. into giving guarantees which would commit them to war against Russia after a false flag attack. Let them fight their own wars if they don’t want peace.
Starmer and Macron consider accompanying Zelensky to White House
Michael Shoebridge on Credlin last night said it’s not good to withdraw military equipment support for Ukraine while they were still in a fight. He is usually quite good, but that one made me think. It rather depends on who’s fighting who, and whether you want to cool things down. What do furry friends think?
Let’s see what Putin does on the ground.
For those who follow the frivolities of the travelling circus that is the AFL.
From the Oz:-
OK. That was done last year, but I am intrigued to know why it dropped now.
In unrelated news, the Next Big Thing in AFL world has displayed erratic behaviours of late, not inconsistent with having consumed a tip-truck full of drugs in the off-season.
Behaviours allegedly extending to the waving around of a firearm whilst in the midst of a bender.
One suspects that the AFL has belatedly arrived at the conclusion that their “three strikes” (i.e. “cover it up at all costs”) drug policy is going to end in tears.
@LizMacDonaldFOX
This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it’s a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called “Self-Help” (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former “special assistant” in Obama’s OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B after submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.
Still a great painting but at the very least I would have cut down that dead tree for firewood.
In other news tony burqa is allowing terrorist preacher Hussain Makke in while still keeping Candice out. Makke was at Nasrallah’s funeral after the bearded bastard was sent to his 72 virgin goats by the Israelis.
Rumour has it that tone has converted to islam and will sprout a beard after the morons in his seat of Watson vote him back in.
How can he grow a wierd beard when he can’t grow a spine?
@TrumpsHurricane
Trump just Torched the Democrats
Remember when the anointed one was heckled in his SOU by a repub?
The faux outraged. Somehow this time is ok?
In other news tony burqa is allowing terrorist preacher Hussain Makke in while still keeping Candice out. Makke was at Nasrallah’s funeral after the bearded bastard was sent to his 72 virgin goats by the Israelis.
Interesting, don’t much care for Candace but Kellie-Jay Keen was denied a visa as was an Israeli minister.
I am a nationalist. I have always been so, even when I was a bit left of centre.
If there was a party that called itself Nationalist, and had as its core philosophy that the nation state is the fundamental bloc of geopolitics, and sensible, centrist economic and social ideas, I would vote for that party.
I am not a globalist. I am not a ideologue or a believer that one system of political thought should rule the entire world. I am not a communist, and I despise those who are so ignorant of the history of socialism as to make excuses for it.
I thought the Trump phenomenon would advance this nationalist cause across those countries of the Anglosphere and Western Europe.
Which seems to be occurring.
But there is within the Trumpist movement an ultra-nationalist strand.
The ultra-nationalist sees nations as in some Darwinian competition, and his or her own country or some country he can adopt for the purpose, as a vehicle to dominate others, achieve broader geopolitical ends through playing one bloc off against another or through war, be it military or economic or information.
The tools of the ultra nationalist are propaganda, humiliation of opposition, appeal to female modes of thought, threats, bluster, demogoguery and thuggery.
They are gangsters.
I don’t think Trump has so far strayed into ultra nationalism, and I still think the ultimate result of his presidency will be a rebalancing of international trade away from ultra nationalist states like China and Russia, and the reduction of the idiocy on the left that allowed the current state of affairs to establish itself.
But be all too aware, just as there are shitbag ideologues on the left who want to dominate the world with their own sick agenda, globalists if you will, there is an ultra-nationalist strand attempting to use the Trumpist movement for it’s own ends.
This must fail.
For it to fail, the ordinary citizen must speak up and define the bounds between nationalism and ultra-nationalism.
Between free speech and propaganda.
Between balanced international trade and weaponised mercantilism.
Between an intolerance of stupidity and an intolerance of dissent.
I am confident we are in roughly the right direction.