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Clowns. China will rape them and Trump will laugh.
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Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff3hHere is a recap of the day. The dollar had one of its worst days ever. It lost over…
Where are they going to get all that extra electricity? I thought they didn’t have enough to heat their old…
Does anyone know how Dutton’s Australian DOGE plans will work?
Trump just repurposed the existing USDS and so didn’t need legislation.
Australia’s auditor general has only recently been appointed by Albo, so her term won’t expire until 2034.
I don’t see a way to introduce Aussie DOGE without either the ANAO being given teeth or by legislating.
Dutton could perhaps do something by amending the Australian Auditing Standards, but such changes would affect all companies government or not.
Please…we’re still waiting for the nuclear power details.
You already have them. The Report was published late 2024. I think.
That was the “The LNP Nuclear Plan for Dummies” edition.
It was actually put together by a very reputable Economic Organisation. And not the LNP.
Window dressing.
They will announce job cuts of x thousand.
This will be in the form of voluntary redundancy.
The take up will be those who can get a job in the private sector, or were going to leave anyway (e.g. within a couple of months of retirement age), or the “cuts” will be establishment positions which exist on the org chart but which have never been filled.
The take up will be about x thousand/2.
The redundancy cost will be roughly the original number to get rid of half the headcount planned.
The public service will then drag their feet on anything Mr Potato wants to do, pleading staff shortages.
X thousand contractors will be sourced via the big consulting firms at roughly 50% overs on cost.
That and natural attrition.
Liberal leaders talk big and then underdeliver, exactly the opposite of what is required.
Howard and Costello went through the Canbrrrrr Public Circus in 1996 and reduced the head count. They didn’t need any new legislation to do it.
Do the same again and get rid of a few Departments,
Dept. of Education for one. The States do it. No need for duplication.
Loads of other places to get the Razor Gang going again.
Early voting is Un Australian.
Local early polling station pretty busy today.
Yep. Drove past one inOsborne Park. Complete circus.
Why?
Cos it’s there.
No democracy sausage?
Media: we are getting sick of your preoccupation with Albo The Unready.
And Alfred The Unready for that matter. There’s only so much juice you can squeeze out of either of them for now.
Endangered Aboriginal Languages! That’s because nobody speaks them.
Not that many Latin speakers around either, but it has a lot of written history behind it. Sanskrit: not commonly spoken but again a bit of written history.
The push for innocent kids to be indoctrinated about dying aboriginal languages in the classroom is bankrupt. It’s another political plank that they are trying to insert into the same platform that has “First Nations” and other frauds as part of its program to disrupt this nation. Get a life and get over the first fleet.
Reparations by another name.
The increasing acknowledgement of ‘nations’ within nation states is designed to foster social and cultural instability.
And how many Aboriginal Languages are there? Hundreds. Makes a farce of First Nations People when there was never one unifying language.
So which one to learn?
The English worked it out hundreds of years ago and it was English for them.
And let the Aborigines learn their own languages if they are so keen on it. Just like the Native Americans. USA and Canada.
There are 600+ tribal languages spoken in PNG, but just about everyone, including English-speakers, uses Tok Pidgin.
If they can do it in PNG with many tribes coming to first contact in the 1920s-30s, surely Australian indigenous tribes could have done so over 250yrs.
I know there is a form of pidgin spoken between Top End peoples, and in the central and western deserts, but really, do we have to pretend that every local band has a living spoken language outside these parts of the country?
albo fella him be somethin nothin.
If this sharklone doesn’t hurry up, I will have finished reading Fiddy Shadez of Elbow – The Graphic Novel, written entirely in the form of gangsta rap, and have nothing left to do with my eyebrows.
Looks like Alf is about to come ashore.
Brisbane city wind speed 9km/h…
Coolangatta 52km/h at the airport near Kirra.
One for Arky. This is the first time the maggie kids have seen a camera. He’s on my knee and his sister is a couple stairs down. I only got the single photo before they went waahhh and fled…
That’s a magpie gaze of power, Bruce. Just look at the legs too: magpie spreading if ever I saw it.
Black steel… can’t turn left but
Getting ready for GWS!
I got Flash to sit on my arm for the first time a few days ago, tried it again the next day and he bit me really hard, glared at me like I was a molester, and stalked off with body language that said “who does this guy think he is”.
So loveable.
On the cusp.
Ahahaha! Someone’s going to be VERY happy about cyclone Albo.
The stand of Norfolk Island pines along the beachfront at Byron is being removed because “risk”.
Instant ocean views.
I wonder if an enterprising journo is going to investigate exactly who owns the properties on the other side of the road.
And to add,,,one of the bridges at Tweed is just below the gunnels. Paul Murray mustn’t be familiar with the place. That bridge is well known to go under during floods.
Gee they’re beefing up the panic.
What do you mean beefing? Been in overdrive for days now.
I have avoided TV news for days now. This morning in my cardiologists surgery for my biannual check up the TV was on Ch9, it was wall to wall coverage of the same. I know News.com has been at the forefront of hyperbole so am glad the TV was muted.
I’ve done so for years!
And I’ve never been so well informed about current affairs.
😀
How you going Roger?
Big bad wolf huffed and puffed and blown you away yet?
No wind & just 10mm rain, RD.
Mind you, we’re just west of the Great Divide so nothing is really expected until late tomorrow.
Feels just like an east coast low setting in.
Damn straight!
The problem is the rain is expected to continue for several days. Lismore is already in serious trouble and many other regions will be flooding. It would have been better as a cyclone that came and went. Now it is a huge amount of water that will do serious damage.
Quite so.
I have a bad feeling that Lismore will cop it again. The other one will be at Terranora on the flats.
I expect my family at Kingscliff will look out their front door to water views – the creek will flood.
The town of Lismore should have been moved to a higher location many yonks ago. It will always flood there. It’s the Geography.
The other one that will go under is Tumbulgum.
Lots of new houses on mounds. Not high enough. There’s a reason why the old ones are up on stilts.
Many happy memories of lunches at the pub there.
Husk Farm Distillery is worth a visit for a meal.
Bwah ha ha ha.
There is one of those in York St, South Melbourne.
The road was basically dug out under the railway line and it flooded every time it rained.
I swear, the newsroom boss at Channel 7 up in Dorcas St would send a junior cameraman down there when it rained to sit and wait for the first idiot to drive through.
The flood markers there now are in foot high bold print, but are still invisible to some.
Trap for new (Port Melbourne) players.
Can we have one of those in Vaucluse please?
A good cyclonic green haircut would do our views the world of good.
Two reasons I voted early. 1. Queues are a pain. 2. No party spruikers handing out HTV cards. I voted at ECU Mt Lawley. All the HTV cards were stacked on a table near where you get your name ticked off. Not one had picked any up when I was there.
I postal vote for all elections now.
The reason being, one year about 10-15 years ago, a greens how to vote card clown hold out a card. I said “no thank you”, so he poked it in my chest and held it there. The bloke in front got very uncomfortable as he caught the exchange, thinking I was going to erupt. Everyone behind went dead quiet. I proclaimed loudly so everyone in earshot could hear, “I’m trying to reduce my carbon footprint.” The f*ckwitt went bright red with rage, then huffed off back of the line followed by a few chuckles.
I don’t know if I would be that level headed these days.
Jay Bhattacharya’s Senate hearing proves he won the COVID debate
Exposing Trudeau’s Actual Legacy To The Country – Jordan Peterson
Why don’t they have any original ideas?
Don’t encourage them, vr.
Heaven knows what they’d come up with.
What they actually should do is go back to Liberal basics.
Turnbull didn’t subscribe to even one letter of the text of the so-called “Liberal Basics”. Yet he was the leader and Liberal PM. How can anyone have any respect for this party of hypocrites.
It didn’t start with Trumble.
Who instituted middle class welfare?
Howard was always Liberal with the pork.
Simple answer – no. Long form interview with Eric Metaxas.
Konstantin Kisin: Can Western Civilization Survive Without Free Speech?
NO.
In Teals whore news:
I like the cut of Jo’s jib. Stick it up those slags.
Suuuuure there is, Allegra. And of course the volunteer is Jewish. And who exactly provides “photo stamped” evidence of putting up a flippin’ poster? And Yay for the stat dec.
Sounds like b/s on stilts to me.
Batt your eyelids some more you schoolgirl liar. I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could kick you.
Tis how you make a hormone
Category 2 Dad Joke.
And like most, fizzle out around 9.30 after a few watching footy
In the picture of the time stamp there is a button named ‘ adjust’
I wonder what it does?
How Long Wavelength Light from Leaves Enhances Mitochondrial Function
This is a very interesting idea. In a previous life we looked at the issue of infra-red enhancing energy production. Our analyses focused more on near infra-red as providing the most benefit. It won’t penetrate too far beyond the skin and our interest was on the thymus. It may be the case that is also elevated by plants. This finding is consistent with research demonstrating a surprising range of benefits from exposure to natural environments.
However they can’t patent radiation so the research stalls … .
I’m watching a YouTube channel about archaeology and ancient history in the U.K. – longbarrows and the like.
Genuine question: Are there any examples of similar significant (in size) man-made changes in the landscape here in pre-European in Australia?
I imagine they would have had similar tools to the neolithic bods in the U.K., but perhaps a much smaller and more spread-out population here rendered such creations impractical?
What rendered such creations impossible was cultural isolation but there might be other factors. Hunter gatherers generally lacked innovation even though various tribes were exposed to other cultures. New Zealand is an interesting exception, the indigenous quickly appropriated British technology. The big difference there is that the clever buggers had managed navigate all that way so there might have been an innate capacity to innovate and explore. Jared Diamond isn’t the whole story. Nicholas Wade was ridiculed for his suggestions about innate capacity for innovation varying among different human groups. Even my aged brain is floating up different ideas and findings pointing to those differences.
The whore of Wentworth is getting nasty, methinks she’s worried although I suspect she’ll retain Wentworth because of the electoral redistribution.
By the way, the whore is now trying desperately to backtrack her signing of that infamous letter urging the federal government to reinstate funding for rapists, murderers and kidnappers of Jews. The whore has given an interview to some Jewish outlet and the whore said this…..
Despite her extensive effort, Spender has faced criticism over her signing of a letter by the Teal MPs last year regarding humanitarian aid to Gaza via UNWRA. “There has been a lot of misinformation about that letter,” she said. “What it actually said was that Australia should find any way possible to provide aid that isn’t through UNRWA. But if there was no alternative, then, as a last resort, it could be considered under strict conditions.”
Suuuuure whore..
In this same outlet, the whore also said this……
Spender has expressed a strong desire to visit Israel but has not yet been able to make the trip. She had planned to go last year; however, in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the ongoing conflict, her family requested that she postpone her visit due to safety concerns. She also stated that she hopes to visit Israel in the near future, should circumstances allow.
Goodness, I can’t stop laughing at the whore’s slimy lies.
And in news just in, Victorian police have charged Burgertory owner Hash Tayeh with using insulting words in public. The burger chain owner allegedly chanted “all Zionists are terrorists” four times at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne last year.
Should Hash Tash Brown be charged for offensive words? No, I don’t but it’s good to see a rabid Jew hater like Hash Tash Brown be charged for the vomit he’s spewed since 7 October. If they can charge an elderly woman for ringing a mosque and saying ‘go back to where you came from‘ they can fcking well charge a known Jew hater and race baiter for saying that ‘all Zionists are terrorists‘.
I want the country I grew up in back….but I fear it’s gone.
Ha! Intending to visit Israel is akin to Zalli intending to get rid of her 4WD.
Given the electoral walloping the WA Liberals (all self inflicted) received in 2021 under Zac Cockup, which left the WA Liberals with only two or three seats, I can’t see them winning tomorrow however it would be good if they could modestly improve their seat tally.
What sayeth WA Cats?
That’s what I’m seeing as the most likely outcome.
It will come to pass. The few labour ads I have seen on the box that I remember are the run of the mill negative type of don’t vote for the inexperienced libs. Constrast our mediocre mob with Trump’s positive optomistic message to congress despite the hard times ahead.
I’m not a Sandgroper, but I think Albo will use Labor’s walkover in tomorrow’s WA state election on Monday to call an April federal election, avoiding a March federal budget.
Cyclone Alfred is an innocent bystander that will have no say in the matter, especially since it’s a fizzer.
Albo has no other bullets left in his popgun.
Bungo-
The push for innocent kids to be indoctrinated about dying aboriginal languages in the classroom is bankrupt. It’s another political plank that they are trying to insert into the same platform that has “First Nations” and other frauds as part of its program to disrupt this nation. Get a life and get over the first fleet.
Revanchism.
Frenchy po-mo brain balm for surrender monkeys.
And like all things French, has no place in Australia, because we’re British.
And like all things French, has no place in Australia, because we’re British.
The food’s ok. And some of the plonk.
Shiskin’s picture is brilliant, but the detail reminds you of the incredible labour involved in harvesting that lage field by hand.
The header was a sickle and an aching back. Tough people.
Never knew Shishkin existed before Dover. Totally besmitten. His images are superb, and all of pretty ordinary rural scenes, makes you look much more closely at your surroundings.
Bocklin’s another revelation.
In a more allegory-y way, but fantastic use of plein air composition and atmosphere.
Disgraced Ex-FBI Chief CONFRONTED To His Face!
WA Cats, election tomorrow.
2 polls today apparently have 57/43 to the ALP. Newspoll probably the more reliable of the two, the other mob I’ve never heard of and they aren’t too open about themselves so I can’t check their credibility.
57/43 is 2 points of gain from the last election… That sound right? Sounds pretty pathetic and will deliver next to nothing in seats.
Two percentage points of gain by the WA SFLs tomorrow will be a complete loser that should result in WA SFL leader Libby Mettam losing her job.
The SFLs in Victoria are recording a gain of 9-10% against the Liars.
I suspect Mettam is a closet Green and the WA SFLs still haven’t cleaned house.
Yep Mettam is a nag, with no core beliefs.
I do believe that she thought that all she had to do was wait it out and ride the backlash into power- but she’s intellectually lazy. Maybe having a lack of fingers on the ladder rungs below a leader is the worst environment t for making fighters.
The Lieborals will get back a handful of seats, most the Liars have not held in living memory or ever. In truth, if the unions and public service is kept under control there is not much to separate the UniParty at State level. BHP and Rio have better access to the Premier than the usual bruvvas and the unions couldn’t get their choice of Premier up. The best the Lieborals could do is get in a position to be competitive in 2029 and there must be some doubt they will even do that.
Seems the shearer who took down the young bloke with the shotgun, on Avalon Airlines has been given free air travel for life.
Hey JC
The asx has fallen under 8,000.
I know a few retirees who has gone backward by 15% over the past 2 yrs.
The union super funds have been claiming plus 20% in rack of the past two yrs.
since Sept last year I recall the no of businesses in the distressed state were 80 plus a day.
Last Dec there were regular days of over 100 business in the hands of the insolvency industry.
Feb and March, most days have over 100 small business have been put in to administration or insolvency.
The problem for business ,in particular small business are wage rises, we can’t keep up with govt depts, power 10 yr ago I knew a cafe owner in a shopping centre that installed solar , their power price almost doubled in that yr.
the biggest price increases from suppliers are from govt. ASIC feess are aggressive, ato penalties are up to $330 per 28 days, rates taxes land taxes.
Govt attracting people due to higher wages, more emp entitlements, finishing at 5:00 pm on the clock, having annual leave, maternity leave, compassionate leave, sick leave, and of course lsl.
PS employees have accrued 3 to 6 months leave and go holiday, come back for a day and resign.
As a small business owner that would kill my business as I would need to hire a new employee – do you know how hard that is.
Redundancies will bankrupt all businesses and red tape.
You need compliance/ audit, occ health , hr, etc
Dont give me the tariff bulshit. Europe has tariffs, eg you can’t call Champaign Champaign, if there are too many chemicals there is a surcharge etc.
So True
Louis, what did I do to deserves this rant?
Not a rant JC
this is what I am seeing at the micro level.
you see things at the top, the big picture.
I could not see this blue sky where I am at and I could not under valuations.
iterestingly, I saw a graph recently of the drop in business sale multiples dropping from approx 4.5 to 3.2.
South Africa’s Collapse Finally Exposed | Rob Hersov
In the Rubin Report episode featuring Rob Hersov, the discussion centers around South Africa’s decline under the African National Congress (ANC). Hersov, a fifth-generation South African and business entrepreneur, criticizes the ANC for its governance over the past 30 years, highlighting regression in key areas like health, education, and employment, alongside the bankruptcy of state-owned enterprises such as South African Airways and Eskom, which has led to frequent load shedding. Hersov describes the government as kleptocratic and racist, with numerous race-based laws that disadvantage white citizens, including recent legislation for expropriation without compensation. Hersov argues that South Africa’s internal mechanisms cannot reverse these issues, suggesting external intervention, particularly from the U.S., is necessary. He appreciates Donald Trump bringing attention to South Africa’s struggles and urges for U.S. sanctions and international pressure on the South African government. Despite the grim outlook, Hersov praises South African entrepreneurs and expresses gratitude for international support.
I’m surprised by how long it’s taken them to wreck the place. That they were going to was obvious.
I figured it would only take them a couple of years. Maybe they are so incompetent they can’t even wreck something properly and promptly.
‘There’s a lot of ruin in a nation’ …. Adam Smith
Why are we so afraid to say it. The problem is black African culture.
This is the Sydney Swans that I very much like. Rudderless, read their own press, no forward structure. I have them not making finals. An insult to Paul Kelly.
I’ll be happy if they don’t stuff up another GF for the rest of us.
Hey bb
were the happy club at hawthorn were the mighty fighting hawks.
We won’t be seeing you in September
Not confined to Haylen. But you knew that. Daily Telegraph:
Your money in fluid motion kind reader, it is not a pretty sight. Good Lord.
Gawd Alfred’s taking his time, looks like he’s going over south of BNE between Beenleigh & Southport. LLCC straight over North Stradbroke Is IMO, not too bad with accuracy as Caboolture was predicted.
Weather station at The Spit copped a 95km/h gust in a squall which fits. Coastal GC getting dusted up.
We get 90km in wind bursts in spring changes.
Kaitlin:
J6 Prisoner Shares UNTOLD Story
The hypocrisy of the Left on display:
What they once would have cheered for they now whinge about.
That’s aside from the question of whether it’s even true. Arguably it is not true because Trump is showing leadership in the global order by being the only one to try to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine. War isn’t the only way to show leadership.
did mUnty write this bollocks?
Rapist told to reflect on ‘how life might be different if he didn’t bash women’ before allegedly killed by girlfriend
From the Oz. No great loss…
I don’t know what the problem is, but I can’t post the article.
allegedly killed?
It’s the cold blooded murder of a perfectly healthy language which is most disturbing.
Won’t be April 12…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14472413/Prime-Minister-Anthony-Albanese-election-date-Cyclone-Alfred.html
I think Alfreds been bunging it on.
#HypecloneAlfred
Two hours ago I received a flood warning. The street outside my house is slowly being swamped. Forecasts predict another week of rain.
WA election 2025: Labor hit with election eve embarrassment as locally made C-series trains taken off linesDylan CapornThe West Australian
Labor has been left red faced on the eve of the election, with the Public Transport Authority pulling the State’s locally manufactured trains from service just hours after they were praised by the Government.
Six trains, built in Bellevue’s new manufacturing facility, were stopped and returned to the depot for checks on Friday after the discovery of a technical issue on one of them.
“A software update will be implemented to address the issue. The C-series trains are expected to re-enter service early next week,” a PTA spokeswoman said.
But the problems with the new trains — which have faced a range of service issues since being rolled out last year — came just hours after the Government spruiked the local manufacture of the cars in its final press conference of the election campaign.
Speaking at steel fabricator Unique Metals Laser in Wangara, Premier Roger Cook and Transport Minister Rita Saffioti both boasted about Labor’s commitment to local train car manufacturing.
“It’s a success story of the State that we should be proud of, the fact that we’ve got our rail cars here. I know the community is very proud,” Ms Saffioti said.
According to the ABC, Alfred has turned Albo’s plans for for an April 12 election into disarray. Or maybe not, as this is just “reported” and not confirmed. The ABC then proffers an early May election after the budget. Next thing we know Albo will want us to put it off until after his nuptials. Geez, am I the only one that wants to get this over and dusted.
Exclusive: Terrifying moment ANOTHER Mercedes EV spontaneously EXPLODES | MGUY Australia
I’ll have to leave this Until tomorrow.
Sobriety awaits me.
Sliante!
The Second Wave of China’s Destroyer Fleet Expansion is Shockingly Massive
…and our political class is not interested in catching up.
Why?
Perhaps the fact they are Communists as well may have some bearing on it.
So, I’m punishing the single malt, and watching the 1968 production of “The Charge of the Light Brigade.’
“There my Lord, is your enemy. There are your guns.”
It’s probably a good job Lewis Nolan didn’t survive the Charge – he would have been court martialled and dismissed the service in disgrace after that shambles.
I went and saw the original handwritten order to the Brigade in the British Army Museum years ago – it survived the battle.
I hate to admit this but Monty’s fantasy football site is one of the better ones this year. Also Go Hawks.
Go and bang your head on the floor, until you are forgiven. It will take six weeks or so.
@DC_Draino
This scumbag violated a direct order from the President & HID THE EPSTEIN FILES, so his colleagues gave him a parade after he was fired?!
We got a lot of cleaning out to do
Fire everyone involved in this parade
Fire everyone that helped hide the Epstein files
Enough is enough
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: Kash Patel has just ARRESTED 2 active and one former U.S. Army soldiers for theft of government property and bribery
“These individuals have been charged with stealing America’s defense intelligence capabilities and empowering adversaries like China in betrayal of our country. They will now face American justice.”
Charge them with TREASON! Let’s make that a thing again.
@libsoftiktok
Tulsi Gabbard reveals that the Biden admin KNOWINGLY let HUNDREDS of illegals with ties to terrorist organizations like ISIS, onto the streets in our country.
TREASON
@PapiTrumpo
BOOOOOOOM!!!
I wonder if Trump’s “audit Fort Knox” riff might be to remind everyone that the USA has pretty much all the gold, even if others are trying to catch up.