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Clowns. China will rape them and Trump will laugh.
Bonus!
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…
Typically, the Dems accuse the GOP or Trump of doing what they have done themselves. American Thinker does some reviewing of how Obama sucked up to Putin during his tenure, and was truly more Putin’s puppet that Trump. It’s a convincing case.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/a_putin_s_puppet_president_obama_s_truly_shocking_record.html
You ‘suck up’ to Putin by engineering a colour revolution in Ukraine?
Was that Orange Revolution an Obama Initiative? I thought it was more indigenous. The article references various things, not just one thing, and Obama’s record on foreign relations was dodgy from way back.
Or are you just trolling your blog for fun?
So, it is being reported now that that the fears of Islamist involvement in the fire bombings of Jewish homes and places of worship are wrong. It is all due to underworld figures trying to get concessions. Que???
The so called “caravan hoax” is strangely portrayed as a stupid plot by an underworld figure to obtain material for concessions from the law! Really?…
Now, it is said that the head honcho employed junior figures to firebomb Jewish homes etc. These “kids” were just agents it seems to be implied.
What it seems to me is being completely ignored is the likely connection between the firebombing of tobacconists (that has been happening for ages) and firebombing of Jewish premises. The identity and background of the gangs involved in the tobacconist fires is known.
But it is very possible that connections are being obstinately ignored. Wonder why?
NSW Police and AFT are trying to convince us that this was not a “two birds with one stone” operation. Cause fear and chaos by attacking those they hate in order to keep the cops busy to bother with the crims’ activities.
Wonder no more Vicki. It had to be the gangs, coz otherwise it was the muzzies and we can’t say mean things about islam, lest we have fainting spells from burke and co.
There is crossover “in this space.”
Whatever the truth is, it will out
A Venn diagram would illustrate it nicely.
At the moment our betters would rather all the actors remain in their discrete bubbles.
“betters”? LOL!
Disinformation?
Are we then supposed to assume that the Muslim name of the Nomads heavy allegedly behind it is purely a coincidence?
Kev Rudd has managed to use his huge brain to force the Trump admin to categorically state that tariffs will apply to Aussie steel and aluminium.
Could a different ambassador have done better?
Probably. The fact that a categorical statement was made indicates that no dialog or horse trading is happening behind the scenes.
We need a new strategy, and a new ambassador. This dog don’t hunt.
Shout out to Turnbull for putting us on the radar with is megaphone.
Turnbull, Kevni, Elbow and many other Australian politicians have insulted and excoriated Trump in public, going back to the NSW Upper House calling him a dangerous lunatic during his first term.
It is the equivalent of local councils declaring nuclear-free zones. They have no jurisdiction whatsoever, but it is virtue-signalling that makes them and their supporters feel good.
Now they are simultaneously all hurty and desperately trying to pretend that nothing important happened.
I wonder how many of Kevni’s frantic calls and texts to the White House and relevant agencies are being returned?
Not many, IMO.
Upgrade Elbow has been on the phone to the Donald using the NBN. However, there was No Bloody Network. So he could not get through.
Do we know if any Tariffs are applied by Australia on US imports?
An obvious question and I’ve yet to hear it asked.
Part of the refusal to drop tariffs will be Krudd, Albanese and so on being smart arses dissing Trum and the Liars not spending enough on defence.
1d chess.
New foreign minister plus new non Labor green teal government who stand up for our Israeli friends
A change of government and a change of ambassador would fix any issues we are having with the current US admin.
But watching our mainly left leaning media continue to campaign against the coalition, it looks like an uphill battle.
There is no conservative TV coverage during the day, and only Sky After Dark.
And even then it’s only Paul Murray, James Macpherson and Rita Panahi.
And only MacPherson could be accurately labelled a conservative.
Simply being anti-Labor, as Murray & Panahi are, isn’t enough.
Nigel Farage’s huge ego and dictatorial management of Reform will destroy the party and movement. He did the same with UKIP, alienating and cutting off many loyal people. Farage doesn’t brook dissent. He’s now lost both Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe.
Farage does not need to ‘chase blue collar’ voters because he already has a lot of ‘blue collar voters’ (his constituency is largely white and blue collar). No, Farage is making the mistake of trying to appease and chase immigrant communities and middle class whites. He’s running scared because London’s smug woke upper middle class elites, the types employed by the BBC, Guardian and Observer, are smearing him and Reform as ‘far-right’, ‘Islamophobic’ and a party full of Tommy Robinson characters. If Farage was truly like Trump he’d embrace those smears and run with them but instead Farage runs a mile from the smears and tries to appease his enemies. You never appease your ideological enemies.
Yes.
I don’t know why he didn’t learn from UKIP, where he did the same thing.
It appears to be a character failing that he refuses to correct and that speaks of ego issues.
The problem with that is the voters back Farage, as per the poll I put up. They like a guy who fights.
Similar dynamics with Trump, who horrifies the snooty old money Republican class. Right now the need is for a rude and crass fighter not a conventional pollie.
Lowe and Habib should stop whining, get behind and push.
Lowe was attempting to push the party to the next step.
Farage subsequently undermined him.
Now it looks like Lowe might attract Musk’s backing for an alternative party.
The leftist controlled ICC is throwing its weight around.
Former Philippines President Duterte ‘Forcibly Taken’ On Plane Bound For The Hague (12 Mar)
Sounds like a new way that populist political opponents can be persecuted by the insiders and deep state.
Low hanging fruit, not support what they nabbed him for but this is one the Philippines should have sorted inhouse.
He was thrown under the bus by his own in this case. Philippino authorities arrested him and allowed deportation.
This is actually an interesting case as Thailand had the same policy under Thaksin Shinawatra. Thais are in a grey zone with respect to the Rome statute, they agreed to join but never ratified.
Also a test of the ICC’s jurisdiction as Philippines pulled out of the Rome statute. From what I’ve seen Durato has stated they don’t have grounds to hear the case.
Regardless of how one feels about the ICC, Duterte is no hero.
He shot drug dealers – that’s a point in his favour.
Without trial.
On the word of informants.
Turns out quite a few were corrupt cops getting rid of pesky complaints, crooks getting rid of competitors and good old fashioned score settling.
For someone who bitched about “government overreach” during Covid, you’re pretty trigger happy Nurse Betty.
And grudges payback for families.
Philippinos and Burmese are two of the hottest headed south east Asian nationalities I know of. Rest hot headed to a lesser degree, grudges are legendary in angst.
And you got your expert information from where?
The media?
Are you always this gullible?
Jimmy?
His brother, Wally.
Shaterrz, I replied to you post of around 4am re conscription being ‘snuck in’ with latest version of the Defence Act. In case you missed it …
The claim is misleading.
Yes, conscription powers ARE in the Defence Act sections 59 & 60 ( the next sections talk about who & exemptions, conscientious objections etc).
However, they have been there since 1903.
The last time either of those sections were amended was 1991(!). I remember the discussions when St Gough “ended” conscription. It was only done by proclamation & he cunningly left the legislation intact
Here’s another sez altered 21 Feb 2025 ……
https://youtu.be/lpo7AWaH2yU
Meet the newest expert in artificial intelligence.
Watch: Someone Thought It Was A Good Idea To Ask Kamala Harris To Speak At A Major AI Conference (12 Mar)
Vogon poetry. Apparently she’s now considering running for Governor of California. It would be pure karma if she won.
I’d vote for her just for the larfs.
Kamala is getting worse. My guess is that Democrats are letting her out there in order to completely destroy her image and finally be gone from public life.
The other option is that the Democrats are in such disarray that there is nobody there to keep her away from harming her image.
Ya think? She’s currently heading the polls Cal for the next Gov.
Take that. 🙂
Just as the San Andreas fault line opens up and the State slides into the Pacific.
Perfect.
We’ll see how many times he changes his mind before then. And this still needs Russia’s agreement.
Trump invites Zelensky back to White House after Ukraine agrees to ceasefire
EXPOSED: Ukrainian Group Molfar that Slandered J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and American Writers and Politicians Is Funded by USAID Dollars
Egg prices are down too. You’d think the previous administration was deliberately pushing them up.
@akafaceUS
BREAKING: Gas prices have hit lowest prices since 2021!
Standing firm.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Rep. Sarah McBride – a transgender – was just introduced as “Mr. McBride” and ALL H*LL BROKE LOOSE because he was “misgendered.”
The Democratic member literally started POUNDING HIS FIST and YELLING, and the hearing was then ADJOURNED.
REP. KEITH SELF (R): I will now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
REP. KEATING (D): Can you repeat your introduction please?
SELF: We’ve set the standard on the floor of the House…
KEATING: What is that standard? Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly-elected representative from the USA?! Please?
SELF: I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
KEATING: Mr. Chairman, have you no DECENCY? I’ve come to know you, but this is not DECENT.
SELF: We will continue this hearing-
KEATING: You will not continue it with ME unless you introduce a duly-elected representative the RIGHT WAY.
SELF: This hearing is adjourned.
This is one way to stop stupid laws being enacted and stupid policies inflicted on the population. As long as they are too busy squabbling about transgenders they are not doing other harm.
Well done that man for calling that man a man!
That’s a Man, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXLWPKDIwo
This should hardly need stating.
Why Jobs Don’t Justify Government Spending
Job Openings Rise as Labor Market Shows Strength and Stability
Biden Cronies Cash In: Vaccine Company Registered to a PO Box, Run by Ex-Biden Staffers, Received $28 MILLION in Admin’s Final Months
STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE: The Carney vote results cannot be trusted
That’s as dodgy as Hell.
JPMorgan Makes Major Changes to Stop Debanking Christian Conservatives
What else is it? He had a Tesla delivered to the White House.
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Trump announced any violence against Tesla dealerships would be labeled as domestic terrorism!
GOOD!
@jammles9
The email! This is a felony!!
How would they know that, since they’ve refused to deal with them for the past three years?
Rubio suggests Ukraine will have to give up territory — as Western diplomats warn Putin has no intention of compromising
@libsoftiktok
HOLY SHLIT
A senior USAID official instructed staffers to SHRED and BURN documents today
They want to sell more “vaccines”?
@drsimonegold
Interesting…
I’d say this is pretty conclusive.
@OversightPR
Autopen Update
We analyzed Biden’s Jan. 19, 2025 “pardons” for:
-Biden Family Members
-Anthony Fauci
-General Milley
-J6 Committee
-Gerald Lundergan
They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature
@DC_Draino
Just because you wear a black robe, doesn’t mean you’re ethical
Turns out the Federal judge who just ruled against DOGE was married by Merrick Garland
You can’t make this up
It’s time to start impeaching judges
@GuntherEagleman
Wow, look at the inflation.
It’s almost like Trump is doing what he said he would do.
Goolag is finding there are consequences for persecuting, shadowbanning and demonetizing righties.
Google Antirust Case: DOJ Seeks to Force ‘Internet Goliath’ to Sell Chrome Browser (11 Mar)
Good. They deserve everything they get.
Who would even buy Chrome?
Yes. I was just thinking yesterday that he was comparable to Tesla, except I believe Tesla was murdered.
@PhilMickelson
It’s incredibly kind and generous of Elon Musk to help America become fiscally responsible. We all owe him a huge debt of gratitude. Nicola Tesla was unappreciated while he was alive despite his numerous contributions to humanity. I hope Elon is shown the appreciation he deserves in his lifetime.
Another compromised judge.
@nataliegwinters
The Federal Judge who just went after @DOGE is married to the attorney representing Hampton Dellinger in his lawsuit against the Trump administration.
She was also Lisa Page’s personal attorney during a GOP inquiry into her efforts to smear President Trump with the Russia Collusion Hoax with Peter Strozk.
How is this not a conflict of interest!?
Well, fairly obviously it is.
The question remains:
“What is going to be done about it?”
He was shot.
@libsoftiktok
The InfoWars reporter who was murdered was on a Ukraine enemies list
His car was being broken in to, and he confronted the perps. Unfortunately they shot him dead and scarpered. I suspect hoods, it being in lefty Austin.
Memo to righties: do not live in sh*thole lefty cities like Austin.
@libsoftiktok
Trump on Ontario threatening to cut off electricity:
And the almost immediate response –
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Doug Ford has RESCINDED the 25% surcharge on electricity to Michigan.
“..it will be read in history books for many years to come.”
Trump just comes out with such classic lines.
“..it will be read about in history books for many years to come.”
Cant even copy paste properly myself
American Airlines Crash: Safety Board Gives Update on Investigation
Good to see X back and openable.
Someone thought I was being “entitled” when I had a whinge about the problem yesterday. It could be interpreted that way.
On the other hand, I have no desire to subscribe to the platform, and if Musk decides it will be view for pay (or even just registering), I can do without it. The first page of any thread is enough for me, especially when it’s linked here.
In addition, and going from remarks by some recently registered members, I really don’t need spam for penis enlargement or attractive asian masseuses. I get enough of those in my Inbox. 😀
?
We’ve always managed owe stirrings and disagreements without getting personal and with humour.
May it always be so.
Maybe it’s due to similar life changing event.
Could also be because we’re both natural @rseholes too. Although I say that with conviction about myself. I merely suspect it of you.
😀
To confirm that about myself…I’m already eating hot cross buns for morning tea.
I expect a lightning bolt to descend in due course.
If they are home-made buns, then you are forgiven. 😀
Scientifically speaking….you’re on the money. (Check out foetus development. Date is first cab off the rank.)
Are you trying to tell us something, call.
Callie you have to register to read and navigate but there’s no cost. I have to admit I was quite agitated a couple of weeks ago when I somehow got on their bad side (I don’t even post) and lost my access to Catturd. Major withdrawals!
@catturd2
Yep – you can play make believe all you want – but we’re not going to be gaslit into playing make believe with you.
Invasion of the
bodysnatcherszombiesdrag queens:Watch: Drag Queens Surround the Kennedy Center in Protest of Trump’s Takeover (11 Mar)
Sounds like schlock B movie.
Oh the humanity!
Never heard of any of them. Except Hamilton has a black guy cast as one of the Founding Fathers. Stunning and bwave.
I can’t see a downside, maybe now the Kennedy Centre will be more accessible to the average Americans rather than just the snobby elites.
It’s a Faggottageddon!
“Tim ‘Sarah’ McBride is a biological man and always will be…”
“Tim ‘Sarah’ McBride is a
biologicalman and always will be…” (Edited to remove redundant word)Maladroit Blight Trumble, Esq. still blabbering on.
Always one to put his ego before national interest, I suspect he enjoys being feted by the media again.
The Point Piper Waffler waffling on again.
Hey Mal baby, how is Snowy 2.0 going?
my favourite Please Explain cartoon:
https://youtu.be/PrHEFPNf7fI?si=b1fBhebgEHARmfix
It’s funny but then again it isn’t. What a waste of money.
BREAKING: Sec. Rubio, Waltz Speak With Reporters After Ukraine Agrees To 30-Day Ceasefire Proposal
Still an abrasive little man. I’ll never forgive Howard for inflicting him on the country.
Tesla UK sales up over 20% despite Elon Musk backlash
TheirABC continues to run stories about suffering Israeli Muslims, hostages, not so much.
Here is the latest example: Won’t let me link, an increasing problem at TheirABC’s buggy website.
Another piece of ‘unbiased’ reporting from the taxpayer funded behemoth.
Why is the fact that it is ‘family run’ relevant? Are they saying that terrorists never have family connections?
As for ‘literary haven’ – I’d bet my house that there is not a single work of Shakespeare, Dostoesfsky, Tagore, Ibsen, bla bla bla. Let alone the Divine Agatha.
As a fan and patron of bookshops, this one would be as appealing as a dead wombat at the stage where the maggots are starting to appear.
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It’s what they get up to out the back that would be of interest to the Israelis.
As for the “evidence” – works of literature or how-to manuals?
It is apparently a famous bookstore.
Famous/Infamous?
Meanwhile, in Airstrip One, Durham University adds a second feather to its cap.
Durham has form. Maybe Durham University should put a few lightning rods on top of their buildings? Just saying.
A week before Jenkins was to be consecrated in York Minster as Bishop of Durham, the monster was struck by lightning.
Followed by a deep voice saying “Waddya mean it isn’t till next week!”
I’m sure it’s being done by white Anglo Saxons.
No doubt it also stocks many, many copies of a certain tome entitled “Me Stroogle”*, but obviously “under the counter” so to speak.
*Name changed to protect the ahistorical.
Ahhhh yes, along with current and rare editions of the Protocols.
And box sets of the Peter Fitzsimmons collection
Lowe and Habib should stop whining, get behind and push.
In the last few days Rupert Lowe has been reported to the London Met police, supposedly for making threats against Reform party chairman, Zia Yusuf. This complaint occurred after…
Mr Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, was suspended and also accused of bullying on Friday, the day after accusing party leader Nigel Farage of acting like a ‘messiah’.
How convenient.
Both Rupert Lowe or Ben Habib have a lot to ‘whine’ about and I can’t see either getting behind and pushing any time soon.
Their loss. Same as McConnell and the RINOs. Get on the Farage train or get left behind. It’s the voters pushing this, so listen to them.
You really have no idea.
77 million people voted for Trump because he was the American Farage.
The Republican Party, which undermined Trump in his first term, appears to now have realized that America is in an existential crisis. And are fully backing him in ways that are amazing.
The UK is in an existential crisis too, which Farage knows very well. And the voters are realizing it too, which is why his polling numbers now exceed both Labour and the Tories.
Isaac Asimov introduced the idea of psychohistory in his Foundation trilogy – an inevitability of outcome due to the sheer number of people acting in their own personal interests. I see a similar thing going on now as the ordinary people rebel against the besuited elites, who have captured both Labour and the Tories. And they want a champion who fights for them.
As I wrote, you have no idea, or you have your head stuck in a bucket, more likely the latter. Nigel Farage disses on and has contempt for much of the UK’s working class, such as Tommy Robinson followers.
You can’t compare Farage to Trump, they are apples and oranges.
Well yes, Trump is orange. If I was Nigel being called an apple I think I would take that. 😀
Er, Bruce…Farage is actually the “moderate” in the Reform context and Lowe is the “extreme right winger” who wants immigration reform among other conservative policies.
Yep.
Lowe has the charisma of a cane toad. Farage cuts through.
Charisma won’t reform government.
And Nigel is soft-pedalling on an issue which has attracted a lot of support to Reform. A poll overnights suggests a third of Reform members think another leader would be better. They won’t get that now, of course, which means they’ll be looking at what Lowe and Habib do next. And there go Reform’s numbers.
Charisma wins government. You have to win government before you can institute a correction.
And as I posted earlier the poll on the Reform-friendly Express website is that 70% of readers who took the time to vote support Farage. You cannot long go against the will of the voters.
And then you get a Tony Abbott.
I rarely downtick you, BoN, but this time I have.
I don’t know about you but the electorate is increasingly looking at policies -not charisma.
Every Charismatic politician in the West is a cover for a Lefty ring in in team.
77 Million Americans voted for Trump because he was Trump.
Don’t conflate the two – Farage will never be a Trump. Trump was never a Farage.
That hybrid won’t fly.
Farage doesn’t support Tommy Robinson & millions of Brits do, Farage has a Muslim in the top ranks & people don’t trust the Muslim influence in Reform.
Is it?
It looks like some of them are getting a little annoyed at Farage.
He should listen to them, but I suspect his ego has ruled that approach out.
Do shut up.
No, I won’t.
It’s obvious that Tommy Robinson is a wedge for Reform. Sadly. Reform is trying to pull in blue collar voters from Labour and also righties from the Conservatives. Unfortunately the latter do not much like what Tommy has been doing. Consequently Farage has been running dead on Tommy Robinson. It’s not a great position but it is practical politics.
If he gets to be PM he might be able to do something, as Trump did with the J6 pardons. But Trump didn’t champion the Proud Boys either.
And from the Spectator –
“Although timid in differentiating itself from Albanese government policies, the Liberals plan to follow the DOGE example, placing Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as the Elon Musk equivalent. So far, we have little information on what is to be targeted.
As with Musk, an Australian DOGE would be facing a hostile bureaucracy that will present a considerable barrier.
Over a century ago, US President Calvin Coolidge identified the issue saying, ‘Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that (people’s life) will be so much more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much more abundant.’”
lol “placing Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as the Elon Musk equivalent” but “So far, we have little information on what is to be targeted”
Sure. It’s not glaringly obvious what the first target will be.
The punters don’t want electric golf carts.
BMW Suspends Production Of Mini Models In Oxford…”Lower Than Expected Demand” (11 Mar)
Doesn’t matter what pollies want, the voters will buy what they want to buy. And if new petrol donks are banned they’ll just buy second hand donks. Including “second hand” Chinese ICE cars with 100 km on their clocks.
Quite, I celebrated the incoming NVES laws by buying a new DMax, while I still could.
Good man.
I bought a very late model suv last year while I could still get a very low mileage non hybrid model – and my older v8 s are not going anywhere.
Continuity of US foreign policy.
Anyone who thinks the rails were going to be greased for Pukin is kidding themselves.
The Intel ban was posturing to yank Zelensky’s chain but would have had no real effect, even for the few days it was imposed.
Apparently Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire.
Play nicely with the big kiddies and get a lolly. Realpolitik in action.
All according to Musk’s plan.
Er what? Is he trying to faceplant his own company’s shareprice now?
Ok yes, I suspect Elon thinks as Trump does, which is that America gave them great opportunities and blessings and now it is time to return the privilege by saving the country from the white ants of the Left.
Musk is doing.a fine job of deliberately tanking the economy so that the Laffer Curve brigade can rebuild it to suit billionaires like him.
Recessions represent tremendous buying opportunities, Bruce.
I am aware of that, and I have a large chunk of money waiting. On the other hand it is getting good interest right now.
The interesting thing with the jobs data is that companies are recruiting. I think it’s in advance of the boom that Trump will cause, like last time he was President. Cut taxes and wait, then kapow…boom. It’s amazing how that works.
Also seeing the markets aren’t too fussed by the tariff war stuff. I think that’s because they realize this is a negotiating tactic, not a philosophical position. Once Trump gets them to behave, like securing their borders against fentanyl and country shoppers, then he withdraws the tariffs.
Recession also get rid of ‘deadwood’ like you. I hope that this one is a ripper.
mUntynomics 101
Sez the Economics 1 failure.
The Economist BA (Failed) has never heard of the the term ‘creative destruction‘.
Not surprising.
Under the Munteds Economic Regime, we’d still be creating mountains of chariot wheels and buggy whip stockpiles.
He heard it as stepped onto the first tee.
I actually know a woman who is a part of the Lismore underwater house boondoggle.
As a disclaimer I need to state that my opinion is in no way influenced by the fact that she is a Flinders graduate lesbian hippy social worker Chair of the Northern Rivers faggot festival. Not at all.
The scam has been going on for decades. Every time she is flooded she engineers the insurance money (and charity money) to go to faked up faggot builders who hammer in a few nails and disappear the funds. They were never checked, infact the scammers are very agressive in publically attacking the insurance companies.
Her wreck was not bought by the Government in the buyout after the last floods. People are now looking into how that was the case.
It recently became obvious that reality was closing in on her so she had herself certified with PTSD as a consequence of the flood trauma and is now merrily ripping off Gillard’s NDIS.
She is apparently distressed that her house did not go under this time, leaving her with a liability that she is going to have to service herself. She is being sued by the Council for not making her property safe.
It has taken decades, but maybe, just maybe.
How do I know this? She is the daughter of a distant relative deadbeat couple who thirty years ago conned some money out of me to help their flooded-out daughter.
She is a common specimen about Lismore.
Meanwhile, in Cheesehead Land.
Interesting to learn you don’t have to be an elected member of the Cheesehead Parliament to be anointed Prime Minister.
I note Senator Payman, who styles her nascent political party “Australia’s Voice”, has apologised for her earnest statements (to Iranian backed media, btw) on the status of women in Iran.
My question is, has she learned anything in between making the statements and issuing an apology?
Perhaps Rita could invite her on to Sky so that the Australians she purports to speak for can find out…
It’s a month old, and a month is a long time in politics, but here’s my favourite Canadian Quick Dick McDick on the current state of the potential 51st State, and how they got there.
Entertaining, informative and lots of farm machinery in use.
The reality of Malcolm Turncoat:
Analysis: Malcolm Turnbull decides to rewrite history on Donald Trump relationship
The former Prime Minister claims he stood up to Donald Trump’s “bullying” and refused to “suck up” to the President. The public records tell a different tale, writes James Willis.
Malcolm Turnbull has a remarkable ability to reinvent history for his own validation and relevance.
He’s also developed an awful habit of stirring the pot during a political firestorm. A new example just this week, with confirmation Australia will be whacked with crippling steel and aluminium tariffs from the new Trump administration.
The former Prime Minister, in no fewer than four separate media appearances, described US President Donald Trump as a “bully”… who engaged in “chaotic”, “rude” and “abusive” behaviour.
“If you give into bullies… Trump is a bully. He seeks to achieve dominance. He gets dominance by intimidating people. That’s his method. So what we need to do, every nation needs to do is stand up to him” Mr Turnbull told the ABC.
Mr Turnbull separately claims to have succeeded against Mr Trump “in the face of fury”, when he convinced America to provide an exemption from similar tariffs when they were last proposed in 2018.
“At the time, I was told not to stand up to him (Trump). I was told to flatter him, suck up to him, offer him things. I didn’t do that, and I achieved very good outcomes for Australia” Mr Turnbull wrote in an editorial for another news organisation.
But public records don’t seem to support these claims. In fact, during his time as Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull heaped praise and admiration on Donald Trump.
When the President was first elected in 2016, Mr Turnbull described him as a “practical, experienced businessman, who has been successful” and will “do good things for America”.
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The same Malcolm would go on to offer up the following lines in support of Mr Trump:
•“We are all learning a lot from President Trump and he is a remarkable politician.”
•“President Trump is a deal-maker. He is a businessman who has brought a lifetime’s experience of doing deals, of getting to know people, of being able to persuade them to come to an agreement.”
•“He is a very warm leader, a very warm person, with a very personal approach. That’s been his business style, it’s something I understand very well.”
•“We got on so well. We have a lot of friends in common and we have similar backgrounds in business.”
If Malcolm Turnbull was somehow whacking Donald Trump with political punches and refusing to suck up to the US President, it didn’t happen in the public eye.
Even when prompted in an interview about North Korea, Malcolm refused to bite. Channel 9’s Tracy Grimshaw asked “the problem is we have two unpredictable, volatile leaders in North Korea and in the US who both have their hands on the nuclear button.” Mr Turnbull replied: “I think you’re being very unfair to President Trump.”
In an exhaustive list of transcripts, interviews and speeches during Malcolm’s time as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister, there is barely a syllable of criticism directed at Donald Trump.
The pair held press conferences where they spoke about their mutual admiration. “Lucy and I want to thank you… for your very warm welcome… and friendship” Mr Turnbull said at one.
“We’ve been allies for 99 years… and never a bad time” Mr Trump remarked at another.
Indeed, Mr Turnbull managed to secure some major victories for Australia during his time in office. Away from the tariff exemption, he was also able to convince Mr Trump to honour a refugee swap deal that had been agreed to by Barack Obama.
A leaked transcript of the January 2017 phone call showed Mr Trump warning the “horrible” deal was an “embarrassment” for the United States, but the President would have “no choice but to honour my predecessor’s deal.”
During parts of the phone call – Mr Turnbull pointed out: “look, you and I have a lot of mutual friends.”
“You can count on me. I will be there again and again” Mr Turnbull told the President.
These glowing remarks should be kept top of mind as Malcolm Turnbull’s relentless attacks on Donald Trump continue, as they no doubt will.
It’s very easy to talk tough when you don’t have skin in the game.
And these days there is only one thing you can really “count” on from Malcolm Turnbull.
When Australia is in strife, he will be there to lay the boot in. Guaranteed.
Daily Tele
Turdballs makes narcissistic idiots look good
You can see how the world has tipped upside down by how Tesla cars are looked upon. They were manufactured ostensibly to save the planet though it was more so that rich greenies could buy them to feel virtuous and stick it to everyone else.
You would expect that when these cars are being vandalised it would be by the poor non-greenies who paid taxes that were used to subsidise the virtue signalling vehicles. Never would have imagined that green/socialist activists would be the vandals.
The current wave of vandalism proves definitively that it was never about saving the planet but about owning the bogans and petrol heads. If it was about saving the planet they would simply shrug and continue buying Teslas as it is more important than with whom Elon Musk associates.
People of means buy a car because of the image it projects to others rather than the vehicle’s merits?
Plus ca change…!
😀
So true, Roger.
What image do I project with my 2001 Ford wagon?
Down to earth Aussie Patriot?
Musk built Tesla to learn how to do vehicles for mars.
But yes, a lot of the purchase decision for an Ev is virtue signalling. Now ironically they will move to Chinese brand EVs built in an actual fascist state.
If they wanted to ‘save the Planet’ then they should have bought a push bike and lost weight at the same time.
Interesting:
Final proof Jesus WAS buried in the Shroud of Turin? New audit by top expert uncovers dossier of irrefutable evidence that will rock any non-believer
It’s behind the Daily Mail paywall but I can post the complete article if requested.
Requested! 🙂
Thanks, Monty. I laughed out loud.
We’re lucky you’re our troll. Your wrongology is untouchable.
Musk told us he would tank the economy last October, including lower wages.
Elon backs Hawthorn?
Hawks currently 1-0 and flag favourites, LOL.
Oh dear, you forgot to copy before the paste.
LOL. Lay off the drugs. You make more mistakes when you are stoned.
Johnny, how is that possible?
Good question. How can mUntard exceed infinity?
Oops lol, wrong screenshot!
Well I’ll be darned. m0nty came through with the receipts in the end.
I had no idea conscription was still a thing in Australia, but apparently so.
Further to Diogenes comment :
The first class of people to conscript for Ukraine should be everyone who stuck a Ukraine flag in their twitter or facebook bio.
Have mercy on the trainers at Kapooka!
They’ll love sorting that lot out.
There will be brawls in the boozer for positions on the training teams.
Reports from uniformed mates who have done stints in DFR over the past five years is, ‘probably not needed if we continue to tweak our Gap Year program.’ Gap Year has and continues to be very successful.
Main recruiting issue is not the number of young Australians wanting to join. It’s the yawning gap in administrative support between your first phone call to 131901, and actually starting recruit training. (If the number of daily calls received by DFR was translated into recruits the ADF would be on a sustainable footing.)
Back in my day it was about 15-18 months, and apparantly much the same now.
That’ my impression.
I suspect part of the reason for delay in applications being processed is that females have to be prioritised to meet targets established in 2011.
No great change, then.
Back in the early 1990s, elder son enquired about joining the RAAF as an air traffic controller, a category then in short supply. Going to the recruiting office lateish on a Friday afternoon might not have helped, but the office was open, and the staff showed no interest in helping him.
Bad decision, in Canberra you are never more than a couple of degrees of separation from someone working in the Defence Organisation. Not only did I work in Defence, I knew the Director of ADF Recruiting, an RAAF officer at the time, and worked in the se building.
I told him the story the next Monday, I suspect that the Canberra ADF recruiting office had a robust phone call (at the very least) before morning tea time.
I would call up 100,000 Muslim yoofs’ and all young people on bail. Only the Men though.
They would make excellent Pease Keepers especially those that follow the ‘Religion of Peace’.
Pease Keepers = Peace Keepers.
JR, call up the sheilas.
Make four Battalions, and let nature take its course. By the time the six month training period is over, each Battalion will have synchronised their cycle and you then put the current menstruating lot into the line.
Rotate them every ten days, and you’ll have as nasty a bunch of shrieking harridans ready to take on the entire Chinese Army.
News from the leftoids:
1 Activist judges:
REVEALED: Judge Blocking Pro-Hamas Student Deportation is Obama-Linked Son of Democrat Mega Donor.
2 It’s not only young white women who are trying to destroy the West. Look at this ugly, vile bitch, one of the squad, guess which one:
Lone, Far Left Democrat Votes Against Bill Aimed at Monitoring Drug Cartel Smuggling Tunnels Under U.S. Border.
3 This is hard to get around: Jews supporting hamas; worse than queers for palestine:
Leftist Jews Protest Deportation of Hamas Supporter Who Terrorized Columbia | Frontpage Mag
Tom
March 12, 2025 5:07 am
But that’s terrible news. Do you know how a democracy is supposed to work? The media are supposed to hold the government accountable; to speak truth to power, etc. If nobody in the WH press pool is asking any awkward questions then you have a room full of sycophants who don’t want to upset their capricious host and to maintain their access to the press pool.
Their journalism will become non-functional and their outpourings will be indistinguishable from State TV.
Are you sure that’s what you want?
We’ve seen that with Biden.
Of course it’s what Tom wants. He yearns for the sweet embrace of Pravda and TASS.
Mind you, they let a real journo from the AP in again today and he embarrassed Leavitt with some basic economic facts about tariffs.
Piss off, Nazi.
Great piss taking dickless. But leave Tom alone: he contributes to the site.
Burqa, the point isn’t “speaking troof to powah” and asking “awkward questions”.
Tom referred to “gotchas”, meaning a style of questioning which is designed not to glean information or understanding, but to make the subject look like a liar or stupid.
The standard “gotcha” often quoted is “when did you stop beating your wife?”.
For more examples see the “I really don’t care, Margaret” interview with Vance.
A press mob which are like baying dogs, shouting over answers, inserting their own warped narrative into “questions” and generally being obnoxious when there is a conservative at the lectern, but when government changes hands they morph into fawning “how can we help, Prime Minister?” sycophants.
And, if readership and ratings are the measure which earns a seat at White House press briefings, WaPo, NYT, CNN and MSNBC probably deserve one chair to be rotated between them.
A chair with a spike in it which goes up their khyber when they sit on it.
You would never get the occupant off such a chair, sir, given we are speaking of left wing journalists.
Bit hard on any stray gerbil (or vole) however.
Charisma wins government.
Bollocks. So how does that explain Starmer winning government, a man devoid of even an ounce of ‘charisma’?
What Starmer had was charwasn’tma. He wasn’t a tory.
That’s our problem. Dutton sadly comes across as a potato. Albanese, with his expensive dental work and hair-do has been maximizing the feelz factor. This election shouldn’t even be close but unfortunately a lot people vote with the vibe not with their brain.
Howard won in 1996 by making a virtue of being dull and ordinary – the man from the local Rotary club come to talk about the Tidy Towns project, as one sneering journo put it.
Bwuce re Farage.
So, you are actually making the case for Blob Johnson 2.0?
Boris was charismatic. But he failed to follow up with what the voters wanted. Brexit…sort of. Didn’t exit the ECHR though. And he and his sopping green lady went full Teal.
First you have to win. Second you have to deliver. Which Boris certainly didn’t.
Trump v2.0 looks to be delivering.
Charisma. Fraser 1975. John Howard 1996.
Weren’t they the antithesis of destructive “charisma”?
It’s as if the opposite wins government at the tail end of each disastrous Leftie cycle.
As requested – apologies for the length:
Final proof Jesus WAS buried in the Shroud of Turin? New audit by top expert uncovers dossier of irrefutable evidence that will rock any non-believer
By CHRISTOPHER STEVENS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
The forensic evidence was bloody and grim. Thick clotted blood scored the bruised face of the corpse, from a multitude of deep, needle-sharp wounds.
More dried blood could be seen on the arms, feet and ankles, blood that had oozed from brutal injuries that punched through the bones.
These details, pieced together by successive teams of experts in criminal pathology, are captured in the oldest piece of murder evidence in the world: the Shroud of Turin.
The dead man, powerfully built and naked, must have suffered intense agonies… but he did not bleed to death.
Neither was he killed by the deep stab wound in his left side, close to his heart.
There were other wounds too, savage but not fatal – signs of a beating that began at his shoulders and left welts across his back and thighs.
All of these injuries contributed to his death, but the murder weapon was more gruesome still… gravity itself.
The victim was killed by his own body weight. His name, of course, was Jesus of Nazareth.
His death, by crucifixion at a public execution in Jerusalem around 33AD, must have been slow and unspeakably painful.
Slumped forward and suspended by his arms, he suffocated on the blood and pleural fluid that accumulated around his lungs.
After his body was taken down from the cross, it was wrapped in a linen cloth.
His blood, still wet, stained the cloth and then, so the faithful believe, the likeness of Christ’s corpse was miraculously transferred onto the linen.
The earliest definite historical records show a cloth claiming to be the death shroud was given to the Church by a French knight called Geoffroi de Charny in 1354.
How the knight came to obtain it is unknown, though it may have been plunder looted from Jerusalem during the Crusades.
In 1578, it was taken for safekeeping to Turin in northern Italy, where it has been kept ever since.
But its status as a true relic appeared to be utterly discredited in the 1980s by carbon dating analysis.
New science, though hotly disputed, seemed to show the shroud was fake, a forgery – painted with red pigment.
But in 2022 further tests were carried out. And these overturned the previous results, reviving the possibility that the shroud really was Christ’s winding sheet.
Now Australian researcher William West – who spoke exclusively to the Daily Mail about his findings – has published a definitive account of all the controversies, the mistakes and the unexpected discoveries.
In his new book, The Shroud Rises, he reaches a provocative conclusion: that the Shroud does, beyond question, depict the face and body of Jesus Christ.
It is, West says, marked with his actual blood.
And, more than merely showing what Jesus’ body looked like in the garden tomb, it records an exact 3D image of his features – something that no human technology could do before the invention of computers. (The three-dimensional nature of the image was only discovered in 1976.)
West believes there to be multiple irrefutable proofs that the Shroud is not a fake (more of which later). And he reveals details about the crucifixion that would not be out of place in any ‘true crime’ TV drama.
Since the Shroud was first placed on public display in a tiny French village 670 years ago, it has been surrounded by fierce debate.
It is a strip of flax linen about 14ft 5 inches by 3ft 7 inches, and it bears the imprint of a man’s body, both front and back.
His eyes are closed, his hair is shoulder length, his face is bearded and his hands are folded below his hips.
The image, though faint, can be discerned with the naked eye.
His features are instantly recognizable, because for nearly 2,000 years, this is how Christians have depicted Jesus in art.
The single most important belief in Christianity is that the Son of God gave his life to absolve us all of our sins – and that three days later he rose from the dead.
For centuries the Shroud was accepted as the actual cloth in which Jesus’ body was wrapped after he was taken down from the cross.
How his likeness came to be emblazoned on it was beyond explanation. It had to be the result of some miraculous process.
But as science advanced at the end of the Victorian era, investigators began searching for more prosaic answers.
Could the Shroud be man-made? Was it simply a beautiful piece of religious art?
To unpick these questions, Italy’s last king, Umberto, gave permission in May 1898 for the Shroud to be photographed for the first time.
The job fell to an amateur named Secondo Pia.
Using an electric light (cutting-edge tech at the time) instead of a flashbulb, Pia took a picture and set about developing the photographic plate.
But when he held it up to the light, he almost dropped it in astonishment.
Cameras in the 19th century worked by capturing a ‘negative’ image. Dark areas appeared light, and vice versa.
But the picture on Pia’s plate did not look like a negative. The shadows were dark, the highlights were lightened.
Gradually, he grasped the reason. He was looking at the negative image… of a negative image!
In other words, the Shroud itself acted as a sort of photographic plate, many centuries before the invention of photography.
Pia, West claims, was the first person in nearly 2,000 years to see the actual face of Jesus, instead of a photo negative.
But this raised an alarming question. What if that’s all the Shroud was… a medieval photo?
No one knew how a 14th century ‘photographer’ might have invented a camera that projected indelible pictures onto cloth.
Some sceptics immediately suggested it was the sort of experiment Leonardo da Vinci might have done. They conveniently ignored the fact that Leonardo wasn’t born until a century after the Shroud first went on display.
But if there was any chance it was manmade, the Church wanted to distance itself.
The Catholic Encyclopedia warned in 1917 that the relic should be treated with ‘grave suspicion’ and added that most learned people were now ‘averse to the authenticity’ of the Shroud.
In 1988, carbon dating was done on a small portion of the linen. This process measures the radioactive decay of one element, carbon-14, to calculate the age of organic matter.
The lab results were damning. They showed the Shroud was woven between 1290 and 1360, more than a millennium after the death of Christ.
Professor Edward Hall, then director of Oxford University’s Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, where the carbon dating facility was based, told a press conference: ‘There was a multi-million-pound business in making forgeries in the 14th century. Someone just got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it.’
The professor dismissed anyone who questioned the accuracy of his findings as ‘flat earthers’.
But those findings were conclusively demolished in April 2022 when a team of five scientists from Italy’s National Research Council, led by Dr Liberato De Caro, carried out a series of X-ray tests specifically designed to prove the age of ancient linen.
Their findings were corroborated by more tests done at the University of Padua by Professor Giulio Fanti.
Both showed that the Shroud did not date from the Middle Ages. It was in fact around 2,000 years old.
And though science could not say definitively that what we can see is the image of Christ, it did prove that all the sceptics who said the Shroud was a medieval artefact were completely wrong.
In fact, carbon dating is frequently inaccurate, sometimes wildly so.
William West cites some disturbing examples: ‘A freshly killed seal that was dated as being 1,300 years old, the shells of living snails that appeared to be 26,000 years old, and a medieval Viking horn dated to the year 2006.’
A few simple theories explain how the scientists got it so wrong in 1988.
The tiny sample of cloth they tested probably came from a portion of the Shroud that was repaired in the 13th century – a piece of medieval darning.
On top of that, the cloth might easily have been contaminated, by being handled countless times by worshippers and pilgrims over the centuries.
There is also the depressing possibility that Professor Hall and his team got it wrong because they were actively looking for evidence that discredited the authenticity of the Shroud.
Science has an aversion to miracles.
But it is the things that science cannot explain which make the Shroud such a source of discussion. If we knew the process by which the image was transferred to the cloth, it would no longer seem miraculous.
Whatever the process was, no one has ever succeeded in copying it. Many have tried, using all the techniques known to photography in the past 200 years, but all have failed.
That makes the Shroud unique among ancient artefacts. We have numerous theories for how the pyramids were built, and Stonehenge. We know where Troy was, and Babylonia.
But no scientist has come close to creating a similar image on linen. ‘That’s the mystery of it,’ says West, 69, who lives in the Blue Mountains overlooking Sydney, Australia. ‘A lot of people have tried to replicate it and haven’t come close, even with modern technology.
‘One of the foremost experts on the Shroud is the British television director David Rolfe. He is so confident that the image cannot be replicated on linen using methods available in the Middle Ages that he has put up a million-dollar prize for anyone who proves him wrong. So far, there have been no takers.’
The image on the Shroud is made from tiny discolored fibers in the threads of the cloth. They have yellowed, the way paper does when exposed to sunlight.
But not all the threads are discolored – only the ones that combine to create a picture when viewed from a distance.
It’s the same technique used by modern TV screens, making images from pixels, or old-fashioned newspaper photos, made up of dots.
The coloring affects only the outside layer of the fibers. It does not penetrate the cloth, as a dye would.
In fact, the image is lying on the very surface of the shroud. It could be scraped off with a few strokes of a razor blade.
Contrary to what you might imagine, there is no paint involved. Religious pictures in medieval churches were done with pigments, sometimes mixed with oil or gelatin. None of that can be found on the Shroud.
Neither is there any sign of the silvers or nitrates used in Victorian photography.
Yet it seems designed to be viewed via photography. The negative image on the Shroud comes vividly to life in photos.
In reality, it is quite difficult to see. The faint outline of the face seems to dissolve if you get too close or stand too far away.
The ideal viewing distance is about three to six feet.
Like so much about the Shroud, this is inexplicable to anyone who suspects forgery. Why would a medieval artist use a method that is all but invisible, if the intention was to fool people?
And if the image was created by a man-made technique, why was the method lost? How come no similar cloths exist? Why has no one been able to reinvent and replicate that technique?
Equally baffling: how would a medieval forger have known a trick to map a face in three dimensions? No artist in Renaissance history did such a thing.
Even if we accept that some unknown genius could do it, why would they? Why create a picture that could not be fully appreciated until the invention of computers many centuries later?
It was questions like these that first intrigued West decades ago, as a young journalist working for a Sydney newspaper. His interest was reignited when he saw a replica of the Shroud in a Catholic bookshop four years ago – though at first he was convinced science must have a straightforward explanation.
‘I even joined the US Committee for Skeptical Inquiry,’ he explains, ‘and read everything debunking the idea it was a true relic. But the more I read, the clearer it became that no one has any plausible theory to explain the image. Even if you don’t accept it as miraculous, you have to concede it’s completely mysterious.’
There’s so much that cannot be dismissed, he says, listing the following:
• Blood chemicals showing the man had been tortured.
• Perfect blood flows and clots no artist had ever managed to mimic.
• Microscopic traces of dirt matching the chemical fingerprint of Jerusalem soil.
• Jerusalem pollens that only flower in Spring, when Jesus was crucified.
• Things only an eye-witness could know, like the nails through the wrists rather than the palms, which couldn’t have held the weight of a body.
• Scourge marks matching three Roman whips that a medieval forger wouldn’t have known about, but that modern archaeologists have confirmed.
• Images on first-millennium icons and coins matching the face on the Shroud.
• The impossible photographic image of the face – an image confined to the microscopic surface of the cloth, indicating that no fluid or gas could have made the image. It could only, it seems, have come from a burst of radiant energy.
‘Two or three of these things are impressive,’ West says. ‘Together, I found them overwhelming. And it’s also evidence of a truly brutal crime, the barbaric public execution of a man by his political and religious enemies.’
Which brings us back to the forensic science. We now know that the blood on the shroud is real. The way it has dried is chillingly accurate – unlike fake blood in gory television dramas, which trickles and drips unrealistically, the blood on the Shroud has clotted and dried.
All the injuries and bodily fluids are consistent with the wounds Jesus is recorded as having suffered on the day of his execution. Laboratory tests show this dried blood and fluid on the Shroud to be unmistakably human.
Where Jesus was forced to carry the cross on his shoulder as he dragged it up the hill, the image on the Shroud shows bruises.
We can also see the marks across his back from where he was beaten with scourges, whips with iron beads threaded onto three leather thongs.
On his forehead and all around his scalp are the unmistakable signs of puncture wounds from his crown of thorns.
And, of course, there are the traumatic injuries to his wrists and feet, where he was nailed to the cross, as well as the wound in his side, where a Roman centurion stabbed his body with a spear to check he was dead.
Dried blood marks the cloth where it touched the body’s forearms and wrists, ankles and feet, back and side, as well as the head and face.
If the Shroud is, as the sceptics claim, a forgery, then some other victim must have been murdered to create these stains.
Because here is the clinching piece of evidence, the most gruesome of all: the blood came first, before the rest of the image.
If an artist had, by some extraordinary lost technique, imprinted that picture of Christ onto the shroud, he would surely have drawn the body first, and then added the blood.
But that isn’t what happened.
X-ray examination shows that, wherever there is blood on the linen, there is no image underneath it.
In other words, whatever process caused the discoloration of those microscopic linen fibers, it was blocked by the presence of blood.
Therefore, the blood was there first.
And that means the cloth must have been wound around a bloodied corpse, before the image appeared.
Philosophers and theologists can argue endlessly about the meaning of miracles.
But there’s no arguing with forensic evidence.
Thanks for posting TE… I’ll check it out later when I’m done with meetings!!!
Fascinating.
Thanks, TE.
Topender – I have followed this amazing development in the articles that have appeared recently, particularly on the internet. Whatever explains the existential nature of the Shroud, that modern science has floundered in explaining it, is truly moving.
Sometimes, one feels that we are on the verge of some transformational occurrence. I hope so. The world – and partially the Judaeo-Christian world – needs an epiphany!
This cloth was brought back as a relic and for years shown off every year Back Their knowledge of conservation nil So how did it not disintegrate?
It got dry rough treatment .
Fascinating.
And the revelations (small ‘r’) come at a time when the World and the Church are in disarray, and under existential threat from within and without.
Hmmm.
I smell hoax.
Yuuuge numbers have been laid off with no access to the workplace.
Are we suggesting that Musk hasn’t secured the facilities properly, or documents are stored elsewhere?
I posted a link to the instruction email above.
Shaterzzzz, In the case of videos, obviously someone has gone “OMG OMG OMG The Defence Act changed – OMG OMG and it has conscription in it OMG OMG” without doing any further reading.
Amendment history of the 2 main sections dealing with conscription, sections 59 & 60) – sorry about the formatting it is laid much nicer in the act (from the Endnotes)
So there is nothing new here.
The summary of changes for 2025 are below and only deal with changes pertaining to Veterans
Don’t believe me , here is the Act in full
Federal Register of Legislation – Defence Act 1903
Just do a simple text search for 2025 (Ctrl+F will do a text search on the page) . That will give the summaries of changes (1st quotes) . If you want to see the actual clauses changed keeping searching for 2025 and look at the sections they deal with.
Thanx .. my only interest was in them (vids) turning up after Luigi’s Ukraine gung-ho . I thought the Uni-party had slipped something thru so he could put on one of his “voice” performances ….. LOL!
Bwuce, missing the point I think:-
The trouble is that strategy results in a myopic obsession with the minutiae of polling, with constant tweaking of policy and pandering to special interest groups, right up until you have tweaked and pandered yourself into a vanilla flavoured everyman.
And the very reason he can deliver is because he didn’t compromise before the election.
Don’t you think there is something slightly dishonest about diluting policy statements to get elected then going into full attack mode afterwards?
I mean, publishing a policy which says, for example, “we will limit migrant intake, but seek to integrate those already here” then going into full deportation mode once elected?
Trump can do it precisely because he clearly said he was going to.
Trump tried to deliver in his first term, but the GOP elites opposed him in every direction. That was not his fault.
It isn’t about myopic polling, it is about carrying out the will and hopes of your voters. Which right now are in diametric opposition to the hoi polloi.
The difference is the Republican Party now understands the new and very serious landscape. The Tories do not, although the members voted for the lady who most does – Ms Badenoch. Unfortunately she doesn’t have the cut through that Farage does. And the Tory grandees, including Boris, are still unreformed.
US news.
US House passes bill to avert government shutdown (12 Mar)
Breathing space.
Nearly half of US Education Dept workforce expected to be cut, Semafor reports (12 Mar)
Now do the other half too.
Bombshell High court decision opens door to ‘vast amount’ of native title compensation claims
Daily Mail.
Not more money?
For some reason, the Daily Mail has closed off comments on that article…..
Keep pushing, Aboriginal Industry.
The backlash will be that ALL the Special People will be told “You’re Australian – no more special treatment for you.”
They will lose their Lands and their money scams.
No more banning people from areas because of the colour of their skin or their claimed and unproven cultural or religious heritage.
Just keep demanding, you stupid, stupid people.
Simon Holmes A’Court at the National Press Club. Starts by praising Tony Windsor and moves on to climate alarmism.
My sock drawer needs sorting.
I hit the off button as soon as I heard who was to crap on at the National Press Club.
When are Centre Right Speakers ever given a go at this Left Wing joint?
Because it’s no longer our country.
Simon Holmes A’Court and Tony Windsor; what a pair.
LOL.
Cupla ol Lesbians.
Thats not really a surprise. Must have missed the bit where Wndsor sold the farm to coal miners.
And in more ‘fabricated anti-Semitism’ news, Toorak shule was graffitied with Jew hatred overnight.
Of course, I wait to be informed by ‘authorities’ that it’s all ‘fabricated’, there’s actually nothing to see here. Maybe those hate clerics in western Sydney’s are now advising our state and federal police forces that those truly responsible are actually ‘rabid Zionists‘.
What sayeth our rabid Nazi?
Question:
Australian super funds have 4 trillion dollars under management.
A third of the asx is held in super funds.
What portion of Australians are just sitting and watching as a significant portion of their superannuation disappears, vs what portion are actively managing their super?
I think the current population is more likely to switch stuff than sit it out compared to twenty years ago, because most super funds have multiple ways for customers to choose.
…and because people today are much more used to online trading etc.
The missus has a couple of colleagues who have been actively switching their super options all in to the asx and all out over the last year or so.
I suspect this might be much more common than previously.
A public servant friend of mine cashed in his defined benefit superannuation at the very beginning of the COVID madness and put it straight intro Stockmarket after it had cratered. Within six months he had @added 50% to its value. That wouldn’t have happened in his old superfund.
You never hear about the time it took six years to come out from underwater after 2008 or whenever. Good luck timing markets.
I concur.
If he’d bought gold, it would have been <90%
Pen and paper wins the day. 0-G some people have called it. Avast update signed me out of everything. That’s ok, my little paper note pad saved the day.
Now all is restored.
Tip. Write down every phone contact and password in ink.
Societal decay continues.
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SC Reviews:
Australian Crime Spree Goes FULL GTA Mode – AUSTRALIA IS COOKED
Had to stop watching it. My blood pressure was going way up.
Did Cook discover Australia or was it Willem de Vlamingh? *
*I reckon ancient people before both, did.
Spending 100K on history degree from a UNI. F*ck that.
SpaceX double feature. First up is the launch of two space telescopes. Coverage starts in a couple minutes time.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxRDjaXwyGl
Then in another hour and a half Elon is launching more Starlink satellites.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvjmRRZQxB
Two launches within the time for a long lunch. It’s like scifi.
I look forward to the day we see two at once.
A screenshot of the evil carbon polluting beautiful thing.
Update: our antennas survive 8 (eight) Falcon 9 launches, all others dead after a single launch! Aus made.
What’s that thing on the right?
Are they brain dead?
If he has to negotiate, OF COURSE Putin wants to have control of more land – that way he can “negotiate” back to where he really wants the “line”. Duh!
Classic repeats.
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Steve Inman:
Animal Compilation
From the Oz.
The clan leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has proved posthumously that Aboriginal people are owed compensation for government activities that extinguished their native title rights in the Northern Territory, a decision that exposes the commonwealth to enormous compensation across the top end.
The High Court of Australia made a landmark ruling on Wednesday in favour of the late Dr Yunupingu and the Gumatj people of northeast Arnhem land over the Commonwealth’s decision to allow Swiss company Nobalco onto their lands to mine bauxite in 1968.
Dan Murphy’s and Toyota dealers will reap a windfall.
I don’t understand any of this .. How do 251s that get a share of these rip-offs never seem to pay tax or lose CentreLink entitlements ..? $39 billion a year goes to folk who’s, primary, occupation is dole bludging yet no one is ever held accountable …..
Elon …… come on down ……… FFS!
Was it a full bench, I don’t have access to the Oz. If so how many dissents?
FFS he is not a Doctor, honorary doctorates are not PhD’s
The guy was known to be a thug, involved in impropriety in managing royalties and a domestic abuser. A grub.
Time to stomp on this sort of claim, legislate it out of existence if need be.
Wasn’t he the bloke with a helicopter on call, to visit which ever of his wives was to enjoy conjugal favours?
Unsure but I had to include criminal charges in the google search to get a unabridged history of him, warts and all.
Same with the doctorate being honorary.
Seem to remember that KD had quite a good description of him last year at the time the Alice was in the news.
Funny how you have to go to a lot of trouble to find the unsanitised history of many left-wingers on Google.
Unanimous.
Ta Monty
Mark Steyn, is he right?
Some quotes about Farage,
“Farage has canceled more right-wing careers than Labour,”
Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib, Howard Cox, Catherine Blaiklock, Alex Stevenson and 11 other councillors, Andrew England Kerr, Louis Stedman-Bryce, Michelle Ballantyne, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Suzanne Evans, Patrick O’Flynn, Alan Sked, Neil Hamilton, Gerard Batten…
“Every one of those Nigel has had cancelled is to his right”.
“No one who knows Nigel likes him.“
No one liked Grant.
No one liked Patton.
No one liked Trump.
Except for the voters.
Fewer like Farage..go feed the birds.
Abo’s doing ‘tradiional hunting’ with aluminium boats combined with outboard motors and carbon fibre fishing rods …. piss off!
All these channels on Utube not highlighting the obvious just p*sses me off. “We respect the traditional owners” …. they were useless. Torres Straight people agree.
A good politician could have a field day with this crap. Another barb would be, where did you get the petrol from to fuel your boat? Was it from the sap of a gum tree?
Arnhem Land should be abolished. That place should be open to everyone in this country, not just the stone age tax hoovers.
As said before, many a black fella would agree with me.
“Traditional hunting” with Landcruisers and (unlicensed) rifles….
But Mr. Plod will do F all about it. Meanwhile we will soon need a cop to sign a permit to buy ammo. FMD
Wyvenhoe:
I had to wait for the M size order to be delivered.
I’d originally mucked up the order and had to wait while they corrected it.
I’ve chucked in a couple of others you might like.
ok, Thank you, Winston, look forward to them arriving.
Sent this afternoon.
Should be at your place next week ?Wednesday.
Macquarie University backflips on ‘woke’ mandatory module that labelled non-Indigenous students ‘settlers’
By PADRAIG COLLINS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Australia’s ‘wokest’ university will scrap its divisive and mandatory ‘Manawari’ course that labelled non-Indigenous students ‘visitors’ and ‘settlers’.
The controversial module at Sydney’s Macquarie University made headlines last week when a student revealed she was required to take the class which called her a guest in Australia – despite being born and raised here.
‘The tutor made us all raise our hands and she asked overseas students to put their hands down, then students who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to put their hands down,’ student Ava told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
‘The rest of us with our hands still remaining, she basically called us all guests and that we don’t belong here in Australia.
‘Considering I was born here 20 years ago and grown up here my entire life, I just was a bit taken back by it and it didn’t sit with me very well.’
But after being reported on radio and by Daily Mail Australia, and questions asked by Liberal MPs in the state parliament, the university has axed the module.
More at the Daily Mail
Universities. They used to be a place of/for learning.
Call it out wherever you see it.
The good times are with us at last. They have to respond.
Shatterzz
Just looked at the conscription vids.
The short one references a mob called “MyPlace”, just for your info but “MyPlace” is a bunch of tin foil nutters and their force is strong among the fringes up here in NQ.
The simple things that bring joy – even relief – into your life.
We have had a cow down for two weeks. Appears to be either injured hoof or hip or leg sprain. It is very difficult to diagnose with beef cattle, unless they have been handled since a calf. Otherwise, you need to get them into the “crush” for examination, particularly by a vet. This is very, very difficult if you have a “downer” in a paddock remote from the yards.
This cow, a particularly good black Angus, is both a little daft (but nice!) and very nervous around people. Her great joy in life is eating, and she is quite happy to drift off away from the herd as long as she is in good pasture. When we returned more than a week ago from Sydney we found her camped under a tree where she had made a loose, dirt “bed”. She was obviously set up for a long convalescence. She certainly was not keen to graze and was mostly laying down. She was very thirsty and obviously had had very little water. Not good.
While she had to fend for herself for a few days when we had to return to Sydney, she was obviously not keen to walk. All old cow handlers will tell you that you have to be cruel to be kind, and you need to completely leave such an animal otherwise they will depend on you bringing food and water. I have heard it all, and, while I know that there is truth in what they say, I have also had cattle that simply could not walk to water. So, for many days now we have deed and watered her twice a day.
But today I came to the realisation that there was no future in this course of action. Where she was “bedridden” is in an area where huge feral pigs often visit. While she is a big cow, being disabled and alone would leave her vulnerable. She had to be somehow moved down to the yards – which required a difficult walk over a stony track. We decided to give it a go and with husband in Gator behind and me walking with lucerne hay in hand before her we began to herd her out of her “nest”.
To our great delight, she was very cooperative. The lure of the hay, and some realisation in her daft little brain that this HAD to happen, caused her to move in the right direction. Admittedly, she fell going down the hill, but she got up and continued. Lucerne hay was waiting under a big shade tree by the yards and the water trough was within a few steps.
As an older cow, she has a particularly long “claw” (one of the two digit nails on a cow’s hoof) on the hoof of one back leg. This may have caused an imbalance and made her injure her leg. WE will now be able to get the vet to remove part of the claw. These are sometimes the small wins that relieve the other hard decisions that have to be made on the land. The last “downer” steer we had, needed to be eventually shot.
A horrific fate, to be left for the pigs.
It’s one of the reasons I shoot pigs and wild dogs.
Good work, Vicki.
Cows, their habits, and vets. Takes me back so far to my own olden times, Vicki. Glad you got this old girl on her feet and realising she is not dead yet.
Or she may well have become so.
This place (Globus ) is stocked to the hilt.
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Different Russia:
What Can $150 Get You in Russian Supermarket? Go Shopping Late at Night
Lmao.
You need to get out more, Dover.
It’s pretty funny. I’ve been hearing lots of wishcasting about Trump’s ability to end the war and in the end the last two or more weeks appear to have been nothing more than moves to establish a new media narrative.
BTW, vale that argument Roger and others were making that the US was trying to pry Russia away from China. I did say that was very unlikely and this last move establishes it beyond doubt.
That’s better. I gave you an uptick for effort.
Last night I watched a W. Spaniel video wherein he completely dismissed the idea that the US could drive a wedge between Russia and China.
Patience, grasshopper.
Oh…and it wasn’t an argument but an observation.
I wasn’t arguing that’s what Trump should do, I was observing that it is one of his goals.
You weren’t observing it, Roger, you were arguing it from this or that observation.
Patience of Davy Jones?
Chuckle.
Just had an experience that has left my gast flabbered.
Been going to the same nut, bolt and fastener shop for last ten years.
Fairly regular customer what with various projects.
Went in today with a short list of nuts and bolts. Should take around 2 minutes to put the order together and get me out of the shop.
”Can you come back in a few hours as we are trying to get these orders out”.
What!?
A short discussion ensued wherein I didn’t feel like driving back again and wondered why a repeat customer standing in the shop with a purchase to make was of lesser importance to whatever orders were, and he said it was orders to manufacturers and I was welcome to go to Bunnings.
What!
Now, if the response was “Sorry, we don’t usually do this but we are really under the pump”. Ok.
Is this some new retail strategy whereby small retailers encourage their customers to piss off to their biggest competition?
Around the corner, is another nut, bolt and fastener shop.
I went there. “Do you have any association with (tother shop)”? “No we don’t. Why do you ask”?
I told the story. “Yeah, we hear that a bit about them”.
”If I come in here for a handful of various nuts and bolts to buy, will you ever tell me to come back in a few hours because you have orders to get out”? “Never. We don’t care if you come in for only one bolt”.
New nut and bolt shop acquired.
Those other guys can stick the order they are waiting for me to come back and get, right up their arses.
Now the thing about nut and bolt shops is, each retail order is small, and a bit work intensive, but if your customers like you and feel welcomed, eventually they buy some of those bigger ticket items you have stocked in there, even though you mark them up over what they are in the big box stores.
I have bought tools, air compressors, tap and die sets heaps of stuff, in precisely this manner.
Strange new retail strategy you got there feller.
Sounds like they’ve taken on the business model of the underpants gnomes.
Had convo with husband about this earlier today. Drove past a tyre store closed down and so got to talking about other small businesses. Hubby mentioned one where he entered store to find owner having his lunch hamburger behind the counter, owner looked up and said to hubby “ I’ll be with you in about four minutes mate.” Hubby left the store never to return. You just can’t do that in a smallish town.
Faaaaaark.
Don’t get me started on tire shops.
Relax old boy.
You should try waiting a part to be airfreighted from Sydney during harvest.
How Is that comparable?
I was standing right there in the freaking store.
Go Arky. At this very moment husband is talking to a manager (yes, it’s after hours) of a tractor store who really “stuck it us up” for a tractor service – charging not only travelling time for the serviceman, but – wait for it – petrol and charge for the ute that he travelled in!!!! Sounds like the area manager is apologetic and will reduce the bill – which came to over a thousand dollars.
The Tories do not, although the members voted for the lady who most does – Ms Badenoch.
Wrong again. The person who most understands the issues did not win, his name is Robert Jenrick.
Kemi Badenoch is no Iron Lady.
No she isn’t, it appears, sadly. The members though thought Jenrick wasn’t who they wanted. I think he comes over as too close to the big beast class.
There’s no hope for the Tories, they’re done for.
Rarely a word said in the media.
Why is it when it’s a choice between Communism and Freedom, our media always chooses the ugliness of Communism?
https://open.substack.com/pub/harryr/p/shen-yun-beauty-contrasts-with-the?r=1easrn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Maui Police Chief John Pelletier, who is accused of being involved in a cover-up of a gang rape when working as Vegas police captain, has been named as a co-conspirator in the Diddy case
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The Trump administration pauses ALL federal funding to Maine Universities for REFUSING to ban men from women’s sports.
He did warn them.
Re conscription, the references to conscription are old business, but in 1964/65, an amendment to the Labour and National Service Act was needed to set up the administrative arrangements to implement that particular scheme.
A new scheme will need similar legislation.
NT police says potentially ‘armed, violent and mentally ill’ on-run offender Kevin Gurruwiwi ‘does not’ pose risk to public
From the Oz.
No risk eh! Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Suuure he doesn’t!
I recall one from Hey Hey It’s Saturday – body found with no arms, no legs and no head. Police say “no suspicious circumstances”.
Like that lovely young woman a few years back in the US who was stabbed multiple times in the back. Verdict, Suicide.
Oh well, that’s all right, then.
I’ll invite him in for a beer, OK?
Arky
March 12, 2025 3:26 pm
Faaaaaark.
Don’t get me started on tire shops.
You got me started…
Here in the Democratic People’s Republic of Victoriastan the tire shops are doing a roaring trade as a result of the severely potholed roads in our socialist worker’s paradise. My local one is run by a very polite affable fellow who provides excellent service and is quite forthcoming about the stimulus to his business from the neglect of local road maintenance. By mid morning the place is always full. He has a clean toilet and nice airconditioned waiting room with free wifi and espresso coffee which helps ease the pain of having to use his services more often than ever in the last 30 years I’ve lived here. I (and many others) have spent thousands of dollars to replace shredded tires and damaged wheels in the last 12 months and short of buying a mining truck, repurposed tank or earthmoving machine with caterpillar treads, can’t see that changing in the forseeable future.
It’s tYre in Aus.
You place TYRES on vehicles.
If you work too hard you TIRE yourself.
Please.
,,,,
Yes.
You are very tiring.
oooooh, ouch! LOL!
…..
Snap, Crackle, Pop! 😀
Not grammar Bespoke, SPELLING.
Go hard back at the Grammar Nazis!
GN: “Can you do this for me?”
ME: “Can I? Yes, yes I can. Would you like me to?”
You shouldn’t have much of a problem with the Hanomag.
Their wheels are built for Victorian road – the tracks even more so.
Damn good at managing encounters with non-gangs of youths of no notable ethnicity carrying machetes, while on their 20th- 40th – 60th bail release, too.
Well, an interesting lunch…during my lunchbreak I walked to Dymocks on George Street to buy a book, a book by Mary Renault. I once had all Renault’s books but they seem to have all gone missing.
Anyway, after selecting the book I stood in line to buy it, and a young woman beckoned me to the counter. I then went to the counter and noticed that her top was covered with about four or five political badges, among them a badge of the Palestinian flag with the words ‘Free Palestine’. As soon as I saw the badge I said that under no circumstances would I be served by her. She was not Middle Eastern, rather she was clearly a ‘hip’ young Anglo inner-city type, no doubt she lives in Albo land aka Newtown/Marrickville. Anyway, after saying I would not be served by her, she looked shocked and bewildered and I then moved to the young (Asian) woman serving next to her, the young Asian lass was sweet and gracious and she wasn’t wearing any contentious political/ideological badges.
I then told the Asian lass that I needed speak to a manager and the young ‘Asian’ woman called her. I paid for my book, and the young Asian girl was clearly worried I was going to complain about her and I said absolutely not but I will be complaining about someone else.
I then spoke to the manager. I informed her that I was Jewish and that this Jew will never foot in this Dymocks ever again whilst they allow staff to serve customers wearing ‘political and ideological badges’, particularly a badge of an ideology that endorses mass rape, mass murder and mass hostage taking of Jews. I asked the manager if this was Dymocks policy now, to support mass rape and mass murder? She was taken aback at the question and said no. I told her that staff who serve the public should never be permitted to wear any kind of political/ideological badges/branding. I told her that I felt triggered and threatened and that I will, henceforth, be buying all my books at Abbeys and online. I said that Dymocks is not a safe space for Jews.
The end result of this is the Bankstown scenario. It reinforces something I have long thought, that everything has been politicised. I should be able to walk into a Dymocks shop, by a fcking book and be served by a young person who’s not broadcasting her political and ideological fetishes.
You go girl !
No offence, Cassie but that sounds awfully ‘progressive’.
Yes it does! I like it.
Bewilder and bamboozle them with their own jazz hands!
I agree. Throw it back at them, Cassie.
This is not just a political statement, it is also a terrorist-supporting statement.
Using their own languge against them is exactly the way to go.
Alinsky them right back
Cassie has cracked the code.
Brava!
Well done indeed!
Awesome…
I’d have just pointed out that she could save on buying all those badges. She needed only one reading “I am a gullible ignorant phukwit”.
Cass, the same thing happened to me a month ago in Dymocks. Free Palestine badge etc, only the girl was wearing a hijab. I wasn’t as brave as you, sadly. I hope I will next time.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 12, 2025 12:34 pm
Bombshell High court decision opens door to ‘vast amount’ of native title compensation claims
Daily Mail.
The court has decided the claim can proceed not that it has been settled. S.51 obligates the federal government to make just compensation not states and maybe territories. There is also the issue of retrospectivity which Mabu did not establish. One thing you can be certain of is this grift will not be tolerated by the NT government.
This bullshit has to end. 3rd nation activists hate this nation.
I see the High Court deciding in their favour and contributing mightily to social disharmony. Once again, hard working Australians will be asked to shell out to racist layabouts. That’s not how you promote national unity.
I have just had a very nice call from Dymocks’ management who have informed me they’ve dealt with the situation and they have now told their staff that the wearing and displaying of any political badges/insignia will not be tolerated.
Amen.
You see, it pays to speak up.
An excellent result, although the staff member should have been jobsacked.
I wonder if she had blue hair and tatts.
No. The alleged Manager should have been sacked !!!!
Perhaps a warning would have sufficed. Once the warning has been given, and if the behaviour continues, then a sacking is justified.
She was obviously young and needed some boundaries set – not a firing squad.
How do we feel about some young ladies who wear a small gold cross on chain around their necks?
We feel that that are young ladies of good character who follow the 10 Commandments, including not murdering people.
IIRC in Melbourne last year there was an Officeworks staffer (might even have been the manager), wearing a Palestine badge, who refused to serve a customer when she discovered he was a Jew.
They actually got rid of her, Lee.
A few days later I went into the store, and in all seriousness obsequiously asked a dude working there if I could shop in the store as I read Jews weren’t allowed. He was speechless. He subsequently told me the bint who started it had been removed from the store. Hard to believe, because it was their Elsternwick store, which is like Jewish central.
Good to hear.
I must admit, I have boycotted Officeworks since that incident.
I think businesses are starting to realise that ANY foray into politics by staff has the potential to piss off 50% of their customers, and enough will be so annoyed they will be lost.
In the space of 20-30 years we’ve gone from “the customer is always right” to creating sheltered workshops for staff to run riot.
Sure, I don’t agree with the absolutist “customer is ALWAYS right” mantra because some customers will abuse staff and try to shake down discounts and freebies by creating a drama.
But a customer just wanting to transact normal business shouldn’t have to accomodate staff wanting to push a political barrow.
Same Sancho, I unsubscribed to their email advertising and let them know till she was removed I’d be taking the tiny amount of business I do with them elsewhere.
If like JC has said they let her go I may reconsider.
I was thinking about this recently when I went into a shop, and I saw a sign telling customers to respect the staff and treat them with courtesy otherwise you’ll literally be kicked out.
I don’t think I ever saw signs patronisingly talking down to customers like that a generation ago.
If you don’t speak up you are by default condoning the bullshit.
Well done.
THIS!
It sure does, Cassie. It just takes courage and commitment. Well done.
Cassie
Good for you. But I have to say, also good for the store management too for not tolerating this sort of crap from their staff. The response is really good and they showed they care for your view.
Absolutely, JC. I am so impressed.
Ditto.
I’d hate to be on the wrong side of Cassie.
The question I have, though, is why all these badges and slogans were being worn by a person on a retail desk and no-one in management noticed.
It would be interesting to do another reccy over the next couple of days to see if they have really been removed.
Quite, and I will be checking next week!
Don’t tell Dymocks – they’d sh!t themselves.
excellent behaviour !
Lol. Here’s the layout of a new estate in Logan, Queensland. It reminds me of something. Can’t quite remember what it is. It’ll come to me soon. 😀
LOL indeed.
Looks like a ‘balls up’ to me……………
On second thoughts – It’s a ‘cock up’.
That “Conservation Area” looks like a real tart.
Alternatively, it illustrates suburbia making inroads into the natural landscape by way of bushland interface blocks.
You know why it’s a conservation area?
To protect endangered birds.
Swallows.
Haw!
Foreshore but no foreskin.
It’s Logan, aka Bogan.
I assume the dark Green Conservation area is bush/forest?
And it will have firebreaks and everything through it?
From the Spectator Australia –
“A good way of interacting with Trump is to propose business deals. Australia should have been proactive in offering investment opportunities, military collaborations, and partnerships. Talk strength. Offer creative options. Make promises on his favourite topics – like free speech – which are doubly beneficial to the Australian people.
Too many politicians see Trump as a ‘threat’ to their economies instead of a wild-card opportunity to elevate Australia’s fortunes. The man likes investment. He likes trade. That is why our largest mining companies are over there, prospecting.
What do we pay our politicians for? To sit around moping and crying with the European Union, who have done nothing but disadvantage us and play petty politics all day? To roleplay at being SES workers, carrying sandbags and nodding at the swell?
I would say, ‘Hop on a plane and be productive!’ but it’s doubtful Labor can boast a single minister from the private sector who knows how to speak the language of prosperity.
Someone who says we are ‘continuing to engage constructively’ with America, or ‘it’s in Australia’s interest, but it’s also in the economic interests of the United States for Australia to be exempted’ hasn’t got a clue how to handle America.”
Top Stuff IMHO.
Thanks Marty
Thank ‘Upgrade Albo’ and the KRudd for being piss weak with no Business sense whatsoever.
@JohnMcCloy
PERFECT CRASH COURSE ON TARRIFS w/ @JackPosobiec & @MikeBenzCyber
There is a reason people who barely speak like, Warren Buffett are out on TV saying it’s “dangerous” & it’s because they have the most to lose not Americans. USAID also acts as a force of soft power to further expand the globalist search for more profits at our expense.
They have been outsourcing our manufacturing base to Mexico/China & we no longer make things. They did the same with India as they served as our tech. We are outsourcing slave wages overseas so that our nation becomes solely reliant on consumption and services.
President Trump is trying to course correct our American ship and return manufacturing here so that we increase jobs and have less reliability on other nations. This is also crucial to our military stability if all that we require as a citizenry is right here at home.
The only people upset by this will be Multi-National corporations and that’s why Wall Street is reacting because it will impact their bottom line long term and the vast tax exploitation they utilize via loopholes like the “Double Dutch”
Ignore the noise. This is how we restore the Golden Era and shift away from Crony Capitalism.
Hope for Cat Commenters.
Lyft to launch feature for elderly passengers later this year
CBDC Shock in Europe: Will the Digital Euro already be introduced in October 2025?
@robinmonotti
URSULA: “We’ll turn private savings into much needed investment.”
YOU HAVE NO PERMISSION FROM SAVERS TO DO THIS.
It sounds ominously like the program of forcing the banks, superannuation and insurance companies to buy rearmament bonds in the early 30’s.
And wannabe Hitlers like this German bitch talk about “democracy” while overturning election results in Europe that don’t suit them.
Every time I see her face I want to throw up.
I have a theory why neither side of the political spectrum will never release the Epstein files.
Blackmail. Blackmail and protecting their side of the fence.
No doubt.
Epstein’s core business was always entrapment and blackmail.
The question I have is, once Epstein was jailed and “suicided”, who got their hands on the blackmail tapes/photos?
I have no doubt the material has been “cleansed” but selected items retained.
If it shows anything, it shows both sides of the uniparty are touched by the corruption.
I also had a thought. Ex Presidents security details- if they see corruption/ kiddie fiddling do they owe allegiance to justice or the protected person?
I strongly suspect the latter.
There’s been too much setup and hoop-la by Orange Man for nothing to be released. Bondi will release something. But what is released will be redacted out the wazoo for “national security”.
Securing their nation’s politicians more like it.
Someone will leak it.
Then they’ll all be in the shit.
The next PM of Canada, Mark Carney was a close associate of Epstein and visited his island.
And the Liberals don’t appear to speak the language of free speech.
Biden spent four years spending billions of taxpayers’ dollars on promoting EVs. Now the democrats are firebombing them.
Democrats are mad that Trump is promoting EVs: Watters
Perhaps a stray dog? She doesn’t have a collar.
She’s been coming around the backyard and I’ve given her a feed on a few occasions.
When she turned up today, I gave her a feed in one of Elsie’s bowls.
Very unimpressed was the Elsie.
Anyone care to guess at breed?
I’m thing an older greyhound cross. But what she’s crossed with is beyond me.
The poor thing looks as if she has had puppies at some time.
Any chance you can get her to a Vet and see if she is micro-chipped?
I don’t have high hopes for micro-chipping as stray dogs are normally dumped. People who dump dogs don’t usually bother with chipping.
Worth a try. She certainly looks like she’s missed a few feeds.
Kelpie? Poor baby. She doesn’t look happy.
Give her a pat from me.
As for being a stray, if she’s chipped, the local vet can scan her.
Owe last dog was a Kelpie/Fox Terrier. Looks very similar.
Could be a Fox Terrier but she’s a bit tall.
She’s had lots of pups. They can go crazy. Be careful.
Reckon there’s staffy in it. Lots of bitsa as well.
Had pups too. Even though she looks small, pigging dog breedstock?
That’s my impression.
Maybe unpopular opinion- “piggers” are horrible human beings.
I’m still at the point of seducing her with a good feed.
Haven’t been able to get near her yet for a pat.
I’ll do my usual trick that seems to work – tossing dog bikkies to her and see if I can get her confidence..
For the moment I’ll add her to the morning feeding routine – Elsie, the cockies, the parrots and now her. Associate the place with food.
I hate seeing pets left like that. I shoot them when they’re feral, but it’s a sad time.
RIP Winston.
It is my duty to inform you all that just 2 minutes ago Winston was eaten by a stray hound that appears to be the original Zuul dog beast minion off Ghostbusters.
It’s a sad day for us all.
Yeah, in my life I’ve seen lots of female dogs like this. Once they get on heat they are sounded by aggressive male dogs. After loads of pups they go crazy. Very dangerous. Watch their tail, it constantly covers their rear end. It is nature.
Squat down so it is impossible for you kick without moving first.
Have your forearms resting on the inside of your knees/thighs, so it is impossible for you to take a big swipe at them without moving first.
Speak nicely in a quiet voice.
If they get close, scratch the chest.
Friends in no time.
Cancel Culture is being kicked up the arse in the Science Fiction Authors realm. Well done and about time people started fighting back. The article is a good read and I’m not into Scifi.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cancelations-are-canceled-science-fiction-competition-tries-to-cancel-author-sees-backlash
So many bookshop’s SF&F sections are filled with woke romance novels. I don’t buy books online so I go to Galaxy. Of course, they have at two shelves of actual romance novels. I suppose that counts as fantasy.
Epstein had to be working for someone. You don’t get to run a Kompromat operation for so long involving high status figures unless you have significant back-end support.
The DemonRat Party, but it was supposed to be for internal use only, no outsiders, and no leaks or arrests.
The alternate theory is that he trapped enough chaps in high places that they were working for him.
Like all blackmailers, the key is to protect yourself by convincing the victim that, should something happen to you, the incriminating material would be in the public domain toot sweet.
In the good old days, a chap could make half a dozen phone calls to the chaps on Fleet Street and other chaps on the board of the Beeby Sea, and the embarrassing material would be buried forever.
This became somewhat less assured with the rise of the innernet and organisations like Wikileaks.
Bugger. My spinal surgery has been put back from next Monday to next Wednesday. I was all geared up for Monday and it is quite nervous making to have to gee self up for a few more days.
I suppose someone with bigger and more urgent problems needed my spot.
Hope it wasn’t just the surgeon’s golf cup day.
Im sure they leave Wednesday afternoon free, particularly coming into autumn.
Must be a nongolfer. That isn’t a good sign.
mmm, my GP told me Wednesday was Golf Day right across the profession. He was never open on Wednesdays.
I assume you can see all the Wednesday arvo yachts on the Harbour from your place.
Your surgeon won’t want to be caught cancelling again only to be seen on the high seas!
Bomber Beazley on ALPBC Local radio Perth.
*click*
Huzzah! Credlin fingers Caz Heise as a TEAL!
Lying liar who lies. And speaking of liars, Holmes a Court lying at the Press Club – why, oh why wasn’t he struck by lightning?
Perhaps he’s being saved for a worse fate.
Joining the old man?
I have heard that “caz” has spent $400k so far in her campaign. Don’t know if this is accurate. But if it is , then it appears that “health leaders” are paid very handsomely.
News.com with another pro Albo puff piece interviewing one of Rudd’s ex staffers.
So far we’ve been told Dutton isn’t ready, Dutton abandoned Brisbane during stormageddon, Dutton donor could be shady nudge nudge wink wink Button profited off misinformation with the mother of all caravan bombs and Dutton profited off insider info with his property investment.
Get that probably being drip fed by ALP HQ but editors can choose not to report it.
Repeat a lie enough and it becomes the truth. We are seeing the attempt in action by a thousand cuts. Low info voters being a large chunk of the electorate won’t try to discern BS from the truth.
This will be the Liberals problem once the starters gun goes.
Just keep banging on about the economy – ‘It’s the Economy Stupid’.
Cost of Living, Power Prices, Mortgage Interest Rates, Rents, Inflation and not the Corrupted Price Index (CPI) but real Inflation, etc, etc, etc.
FFS. Are the Libs/Nats that farking useless? Maybe they are.
“Remember when a slab of beer was $25?”
Cartons of nu-lager- Hahn Ice, Carlton Cold- were under $20 when i was in boarding school.
Yr 11, 1993.
I have some fond memories.
Well under $20. We could get a carton, a pizza and a cab ride (2 miles each way) to town for $20.
I remember buying a six pack of Lone Stare at the Piggly Wiggly in San Antonio for 99 cents. 1973 of course.
Snoozer Kelly did the same in Teh Paywallian. “How can we help you Prime Minister?”
Perhaps using the word “Dutton” so often will direct voters’ minds towards Dutton et al on the ballot paper!
Cancel Culture is being kicked up the arse in the Science Fiction Authors realm.
Devon Eriksen didn’t even enter the competition. His wife entered thinking it would be a nice surprise if he won. Only question is “which wife?” as he has two.
“Theft of Fire” is a cracking read. Can’t wait for next book in the Solar series.
Exactly! So how, could he have agreed to the hastily put together conditions?
Very pleasing to read that so many authors withdrew from the comp in solidarity.
It’s Official! Trump Just FIXED Biden’s Inflation in 6 WEEKS!!!
This is stupid.
Tyre is a town in Lebanon.
The word was “tire”, in Britain and everwhere else, until Dunlop came along and he couldn’t spell.
Tire is short for “attire” because that’s what you’re doing, attiring a wheel with rubber made by a Scotsman who couldn’t spell.
Just because Americans are fat, smug, brash and annoying, doesn’t mean they’re wrong about everything.
Ingenious but unconvincing.
”Weary” Dunlop was both.
Weary (not the tyre maker!), was my grandmother’s personal MD.
My father’s CO in the early part of the War.
Afraid not, old bean.
Tyre was British usage but here, there and elsewhere where English is spoken the American spelling has made inroads since the 1980s (in roads…get it?).
Afraid so.
Americans often are a reflection of older, original British usages.
This is the case with “tire”, pre the apparently sub literate Mr. Dunlop.
Sometimes, not often, esp, after Daniel Webster.
But in this case the word doesn’t have much of a pre-history prior to the advent of the motor car. From which point tyre was the predominant usage in Britain.
The websites devoted to compiling usage stats in printed works from both sides of the pond attest to the fact.
Now, trains v/ trucks…your thoughts?
😀
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.15684/page/654/mode/2up
I refer you to page 655 of Fowles Modern Useage, (1926).
I’m right, you are wrong.
Fowler, not Fowles.
Arky is going to hold his breath if you don’t agree with him Roger.
😀
When the rubber hits the road, you want to have your facts straight, Pogria.
You.
You’re the individual who started this stupid sidetrack in the first place.
Woman, don’t test me.
And stop hiding behind Roger’s voluminous pantaloons.
My pants are not voluminous, I assure you.
And I mostly get about in shorts.
Which reminds me of a great Australian poem…
The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever
To go home and wear shorts forever
in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate,
adding a sweater when winter soaks the grass,
to camp out along the river bends
for good, wearing shorts, with a pocketknife,
a fishing line and matches,
or there where the hills are all down, below the plain,
to sit around in shorts at evening
on the plank verandah –
If the cardinal points of costume
are Robes, Tat, Rig and Scunge,
where are shorts in this compass?
They are never Robes
as other bareleg outfits have been:
the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava
the Mahatma’s cotton dhoti;
archbishops and field marshals
at their ceremonies never wear shorts.
The very word
means underpants in North America.
Shorts can be Tat,
Land-Rovering bush-environmental tat,
socio-political ripped-and-metal-stapled tat,
solidarity-with-the-Third World tat tvam asi,
likewise track-and-field shorts worn to parties
and the further humid, modelling negligee
of the Kingdom of Flaunt,
that unchallenged aristocracy.
More plainly climatic, shorts
are farmers’ rig, leathery with salt and bonemeal;
are sailors’ and branch bankers’ rig,
the crisp golfing style
of our youngest male National Costume.
Most loosely, they are Scunge,
ancient Bengal bloomers or moth-eaten hot pants
worn with a former shirt,
feet, beach sand, hair
and a paucity of signals.
Scunge, which is real negligee
housework in a swimsuit, pyjamas worn all day,
is holiday, is freedom from ambition.
Scunge makes you invisible
to the world and yourself.
The entropy of costume,
scunge can get you conquered by more vigorous cultures
and help you notice it less.
To be or to become
is a serious question posed by a work-shorts counter
with its pressed stack, bulk khaki and blue,
reading Yakka or King Gee, crisp with steely warehouse odour.
Satisfied ambition, defeat, true unconcern,
the wish and the knack of self-forgetfulness
all fall within the scunge ambit
wearing board shorts of similar;
it is a kind of weightlessness.
Unlike public nakedness, which in Westerners
is deeply circumstantial, relaxed as exam time,
artless and equal as the corsetry of a hussar regiment,
shorts and their plain like
are an angelic nudity,
spirituality with pockets!
A double updraft as you drop from branch to pool!
Ideal for getting served last
in shops of the temperate zone
they are also ideal for going home, into space,
into time, to farm the mind’s Sabine acres
for product and subsistence.
Now that everyone who yearned to wear long pants
has essentially achieved them,
long pants, which have themselves been underwear
repeatedly, and underground more than once,
it is time perhaps to cherish the culture of shorts,
to moderate grim vigour
with the knobble of bare knees,
to cool bareknuckle feet in inland water,
slapping flies with a book on solar wind
or a patient bare hand, beneath the cadjiput trees,
to be walking meditatively
among green timber, through the grassy forest
towards a calm sea
and looking across to more of that great island
and the further tropics.
Les Murray (not the soccer commentator)
Apology accepted.
Maybe some might have noticed that there were “Tyres / tires” on wheels long before the vulcanized rubber sort.
Chariot and cart wheels have had wrought iron tyres for a VERY long time. Check with your local blacksmith for details.
Many railway “vehicles” also have “Tyres” on their wheels.
This practice was initially required because the “wheels” were made from “cast iron”; hard but brittle. OK at walking pace, but a bit “fragile any faster. Then, someone had the bright idea of truing the cast “wheel” to a precise (ish) diameter, and machining a STEEL, flanged “tyre” that was heated, just as you do when building or repairing a “cart” wheel, the heat-expanded “Tyre” is then dropped over the iron “core / wheels, and as it cools it shrinks to tightly grip the “wheel”. The other aspect is that, when the tyres wear down, as they do, rolling on steel rails, they can be removed and new ones of the correct dimensions fitted to the “wheels”.
The joys of growing up surrounded by practical people; farriers, machinists, blacksmiths, steam fitters,, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, shipwrights, etc.’
This is a very tiring subject to bang on about. Next.
Do you think the air has gone out of it?
Fell flat hours ago!
Winston Smith
March 12, 2025 5:39 pm
Perhaps a stray dog? She doesn’t have a collar.
She’s been coming around the backyard and I’ve given her a feed on a few occasions.
When she turned up today, I gave her a feed in one of Elsie’s bowls.
Very unimpressed was the Elsie.
Anyone care to guess at breed?
I’m thing an older greyhound cross. But what she’s crossed with is beyond me.
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Easy for me to say. Find a home for the doggie, bloke.
I’m trying to get her to accept me as the owner, but I think she’s been abused along the way. So it’s taking a bit.
An interesting conjecture from Rockdoctor – perhaps a breeder who got too old?
As soon as I can get her to accept this place as home, I’ll get her into the vets for a check up and registration with the local council.
I’ll let the council know what I’m doing so they don’t round her up.
Winston, if you want her to really love you, feed her cans of cat food. Not the expensive stuff, the home brand fish in prawn jelly.
I have never met a dog who can resist it.
The smell alone will bring the all the neighbourhood dogs to your place.
Works great for foxes also when I lace it with bait.
Don’t bait the dog though.
Pogria:
Advice accepted.
Winston Smith
March 12, 2025 6:44 pm
Reply to Winston Smith
I’m still at the point of seducing her with a good feed.
Haven’t been able to get near her yet for a pat.
I’ll do my usual trick that seems to work – tossing dog bikkies to her and see if I can get her confidence..
For the moment I’ll add her to the morning feeding routine – Elsie, the cockies, the parrots and now her. Associate the place with food.
I hate seeing pets left like that. I shoot them when they’re feral, but it’s a sad time.
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Top stuff, bloke.
Danger Dan Reviews:
A complete and utter failure. Anthony Albanese
Some thoughts for the evening. Firstly, I am home and I have just seen my wonderful rabbi speak on Sky News, as always he spoke eloquently, he really is a very impressive man, he’s no hothead (unlike some of his congregation including yours truly), he’s deeply intellectual and very measured. He’s not one for hyperbole but I did like how he said they’re trying to gaslight the Jewish community.
Secondly, some further thoughts on my actions today with Dymocks. I am very glad I spoke up, for far too long, going back over a decade, far too many of us have not spoken up, and such muteness has lead to this dire time we find ourselves in, where everything is now political and where everything is now politicised. The West doesn’t need de-radicalising, it needs de-politicising. Nobody, be they working in shops, stores, corporations and organisations, teaching in schools, nursing and administering care in hospitals, working in media, lecturing in universities, should be using their worktime and work platforms to broadcast their radical political sympathies and/or affiliations, either vocally or by wearing contentious political and ideological badges, lanyards and other assorted insignia.
Enough.
I remember the first time I came across a young person in a store here in Sydney sporting a far-left political badge, it was in 2008 or 2009 and I went to JB Hi-Fi to buy something (it was a relatively new store then) and I was quite taken aback with the young woman who served me because she was wearing an Obama badge with the words ‘Change we can believe in‘ and it had a picture of Obama. This person was not American, I was quite astonished and very uncomfortable. 2008/2009 is now like ancient times but this infestation of radical politics has only gotten worse and here we are in 2025, in a post October 7, Trumpian world.
Thirdly, as for using the words ‘trigger and threaten’, these are words used every day by the left to intimidate, to silence and to censor. It’s time we used them too and actually, truth be told, I was triggered by seeing the young woman with the Palestine badge. I don’t want to be served by such a person. No thank you.
Finally, do I want her sacked? I dunno, but I hope she’s learned a hard lesson, and if she wants to continue working at Dymocks she’s needs to put away her political badges and insignia and keep them for later, outside work, when she is at liberty to attend one of favourite Jew hating pro-Palestine protests. One thing’s for sure, she was completely shocked by my visceral reaction to her and I could see the colour fading from her face when not only did I tell her that I did not want her serving me, I moved to the woman next to her (the Asian lady) to be served and I then spoke to the floor manager in full view of her. She knew something was terribly wrong. I’m sorry but after 16 months of endless Jew hatred on out streets my pity and compassion has been evaporated and I do not and will not accept any feeble excuse of ‘oh, she’s young and idealistic, she didn’t know’……to that I say….WANK, WANK, WANK, because here’s the fundamental truth, she’s old enough to know.
The Manager that you spoke to should have been reprimanded/maybe sacked for allowing one of the staff to wear a badge like that at work.
What do these alleged Managers do all day? A lot of them are certainly not ‘managing’.
Perhaps she’s old enough for the chance to correct her appearance?
Hear, hear!
The prog-left has been allowed to politicise everything. Enough!
As for the young lady being sacked, I believe everyone deserves a chance to correct themselves. I hope this was a “learning” moment for her.
Cass – it’s now been over 17 months. 18 Months on 9 April.
“….they’re trying to gaslight the Jewish community.”
Getting the Jewish community to tie itself in knots over the meaning of “exterminate”?
Death Plumbers? First the “gaslighting”, then the “special showers”
Weather warning:
Forget “Cyclone Alfred”, watch out for Zyklon B.
DD clip. Call me slow. Why the F*uck! is the abo flag ( a joke to begin with ) in the middle and not the Australian flag?
Ridiculous and infuriating!
The senior flag goes to the right of the line, when facing towards the audience.
The Australian National Flag is the senior flag. At best, the aboriginal flag is equal to a state flag, though I suspect that, if displayed together, the state flag would then be on the right, moving the aboriginal flag down the pecking order.
Just has another look at the Yunupingu judgment. This country is fuked.
HC hasn’t been particularly good on this stuff over the years. I wouldn’t expect the current Court to be any better. Their aboriginal stuff in Love v Cth was all over the shop.
Telling people you think Mabo was wrongly decided doesn’t make you many friends (when applied to mainland Australia).
It was well discussed in legal circles that the Commonwealth was exposed due to s122 in the Territories and any places they compulsorily resumed (think WW2). This they knew all along.
NT compensation is usually very small – it is certainly not in the billions across the States, where most extinguishment occurred before the RDA took hold.
I think mucho exageration exists here.
On the High Court decision, yes.. Not so much on the ensuing legislation and practice that has taken what rights the court acknowledged in very strict circumstances and extended them ridiculously.
Well, the High Court decision was wrong on International law. It should have recognised NT from colonisation, and held comepnsationw as required by that time onwards, as occurred in other countries where soveriegnty changed but not land ownership. Brennan J squibbed this as a bridge too far and came up with a BS mechanism to bring it forward.
A great tragedy in NT is the requirement to prove your society continued post colonisation to present days. Yeah hold my iphone while I dig up a grub. Just nonsense requirement.
Then further changes Howard era voided most of any real benefits.
NT cannot change land ownership. Aboriginal people cannot force anyone off their lands. Crown lands with no public works and unallocated lands have stronger potential for NT rights but even then government can do things to extinguish it.
Yes Minister now on CH 92 – The Devil You Know –
I have just stumbled, via the Bongino Report, onto a website titled The Daily Economy. The pros here will find no interest in it, but for economic pencil-stubs like myself, two of the most recent articles stimulated my cognitive machinery:
The Committee to Destroy the World (Economy)
The Never-Ending Myth of the “Rich Getting Richer”
That’s an interesting site, Muddy.
I’ll put it on the list.
SBS has a piece about Labor voters doing it tough due to the cost of living turning away from Albo. The phrase “out of touch” features.
My name is ‘Albo Tross’ and I have been busy governing……………….LOL
And acquiring a multi-million dollar property portfolio on a taxpayer funded salary.
The optics aren’t good, as any Labor backbencher could tell you.
I reckon he could have done it on his Parliamentary salary.
Since 1996 he would have received a salary (base salary today is about $215,000 pa), together with electorate allowance, reimbursement of residential phone and internet costs, and a private plated vehicle.
The big earner is Travel Allowance – approx $200 per night.
Pool 3 parliamentarians together, buy a house in Canberra, and let the taxpayer pay it off.
Hey presto, the beginnings of a multi-million dollar property portfolio.
But not while in the car.
It’s starting. Just was robopolled. I hung up.
My electorate has been Labor for the last 115 years. If they are polling us it implies interesting things.
I live in Tanya Plebersuck’s electorate. if I get phoned/polled with an unknown phone number, I just delete it after not answering it.
Never going to vote for her anyway.
Plibeserk, please!
BoN – expect you’re right. Some of Albo’s appearances reek of sandbag.
A Chaney corflute appeared here in downtown Curtin. On the ground this morning. Might get ugly (relatively). Cavoodles at 10 paces.
Somebody might be crass enough to ask Simon Holmes A Court hoe his inheritance was created?
Currently reading “Road to Surrender” by Evan Thomas – an account of the last few days of Wobbly Wobbly Two – based on access to the diaries of Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of State of War, General Carl “Tooey” Spatz, and his qualms about destroying cities, and the Japanese Foreign Minister, who believed, even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender.
Seems the Japanese believed, from their own atomic programme that a bomb required so much time and resources to produce, that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was the only one in existence, the Yanks were working on production of seven bombs by December 1945,and, as each was completed, it would be dropped on Japan, and by September 1945, the Air Force was putting together a list of sixty six Russian cities that were targeted for the atomic bomb if World War Three broke out.
Interesting reading – check it out.
I remember some leftards complaining several years ago that it was “racist” to only use atom bombs against the Japanese, not Europeans.
The big problem with that is that the Germans surrendered two months before the first successful test of an atomic bomb.
What do we want? Equal atomic annihilation! When do we want it? Now!
Economist genius Bolt has just announced that Trump’s tarrifs will not make Americans richer.
Did he just get a call from Malcolm.
I am just loving watching the nobody insects Turnbull and Albanese poking out their weedy chests to confront the Emperor.
Funny that the ABC who eviscerated Abbott for standing up against the murderer Putin are saying nothing about these two pansies sucker punching our greatest friend.
Just saw John Lee of the Hudson institute putting trumps policies into context. Worth seeing.
On Sharon of course. Too deep for blot.
Yes, John Lee is very good value.
Ok, more reading of Yunupingu: some hope. Steward J’s Judgment:
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392 As it happens, and for the reasons given below, the Crown had already asserted its sovereign rights over minerals in the Northern Territory before that territory was surrendered to the Commonwealth. That assertion by the Crown was inconsistent with any enduring native title rights to minerals.
412 I agree with Gordon J that the reservation in favour of minerals in Pastoral Lease No 2229 did not of itself constitute an assertion of absolute beneficial ownership of all minerals in the claim area. But, for the reasons set out above, that reservation is nonetheless consistent with the complete dominion over minerals by the Crown which, at the latest, existed from when the NT Mining Act came into law. Whilst the appellant did not rely upon the operation of that Act in order to contend for the extinguishment of the claimed right to minerals, that proposition was raised in argument, and is too important to be cast aside. For the reasons set out below, the operation of the NT Mining Act did extinguish any native title right to take and use minerals in the claim area.
This case is referred back to the Fed Court for nuts and bolts compensation to the 3rd nation grifters. The other majority judgments waffle on about NT without looking at the history of C’wealth eradication of NT and specific legislation which has done that at both the Fed and state level so as to affect this claim. That should mean the status quo: ie the greasy bastards have NT but it has been eradicated. If it doesn’t then private land is clearly in the sights of the 3rd nations grifters.
Demonrat party needs to be destroyed
What are the customers supposed to do with these labels?
Colorado, one of only two (the other is New Mexico) mid-west whack job Democrat states.
I hope the mid terms go well, JC.
Hunchback’s protege was live on Nein News announcing “the toughest bail laws in Straya”.
I know they are the “toughest bail laws in Straya” because she said “toughest bail laws in Straya” six times.
A potted history:-
Hunchback and Jacinda have staunchly defended their “catch and release” system for ten years.
They did a review two years ago and the result was to further relax the bail laws … a massive middle finger.
Despite hundreds of ag-burgs, armed car-jackings and three murders, they ploughed on with their “jail doesn’t fix young offenders” mantra.
VikPlod made a point of subtly blaming the victims … “don’t interfere, leave the car keys near the door, etc, etc”.
We are told that former Commish proposed a “three strikes, no bail” system a few weeks before he was rissoled. This was rejected.
Last weekend we were told a bail review would be done in 2-3 weeks.
Now, four days later, Jacinda announces the “toughest bail laws in Straya”.
What happened?
Well, I think the polling coming out of outer suburbs must be putrid.
The pardee polling wonks will be wailing “But it’s a state issue. Why is the Federal polling copping it?”.
The message is that people might be confused, but I think what is frightening the horses most is that the focus groups are saying “Federal? State? I really don’t care, Margaret. I am taking a baseball bat to the next Liars candidate I see”.
Jacinda has had her horoscope read to her by the Feds.
Ditto with Liars and Live Sheep in regional WA.
They are sharpening the pitchforks in this part of the Wild West – the feeling is that the live sheep trade was sacrificed to please the Inner City Greens – who have made it plain that their next objective is the live cattle trade. Said Inner City Greens honestly believe that their food appears on the supermarket shelves by magic..
What if you handed out the warning, with a recommendation to the nearest Tesla dealership?
Scheduled for Friday.
China would have a little poo if Iran became openly nuclear under its watch. It could expect that Japan and possibly Korea would lift their own bombs out of the basement.
Better to reach an ‘historic agreement’ with the goat stranglers, to impress and energise the opposition to the West.
Yes, I think this is what China and Russia would prefer re non-proliferation, as well as the diplomatic boon for both, but where will this leave US/ Israel re Iran?
Now, trains v/ trucks…your thoughts?
How about –
Trucks v Lorries – Semi Trailers v Articulated Lorries.
Give it up.
The winner will always be graders.
Graders are pretty cool. The old man bought a “little” one for the station but I never got a drive.
First graders or Second graders?
Yo, yo, backhoes, bro.
Silence!
My thoughtful observations on Snoozer Kelly and his fellow travellers, whom I did not even refer to as j’ismists, rejected at Teh Paywallian.
Have previously had a j’ismist comment get through. Still no luck with “Mavis”.
Demonrat party needs to be destroyed
No need. Just stand back and watch it self implode.
Nope.
They need to be reduced to a smouldering heap of ashes and never return.
200 years of trying to make America in their own image. Which is not pretty.
Any wonder why all four US Presidents that have been assassinated have been Republican? They hate freedom.
Play the long game as the Chinese do. It works.
JFK
So, got that wrong Black Balls.
Mark Steyn used to say that the Democrat Party is the only party of the slaves still in existence in the world.
Rogue Heroes now on the SBS.
Good entertainment, but not the more soberly assessed and meticulously researched “Authorised Wartime History” by Ben Macintyre – which I have and have read – that they say it is based on. But well worth watching.
Ben’s books are all in the must read category.
Of course it is good entertainment. That is what it is supposed to be.
James Holland’s The Savage Storm lays this military disaster bare. I’m afraid it is not good news for Paddy and the boys at Termoli in the next episode.
A first time for everything. I’ve never heard this before.
Deeply moving, to say the least. Opinions will vary.
Ennio Morricone – On Earth as it is in Heaven (In Concerto – Venezia 10.11.07)
One of my favourites as so often played by the late, great Eoin Cameron on the ABC.
The entire soundtrack for “The Mission” is impressive
Morricone warmed up writing a zillion soundtracks for “Spaghetti Westerns”, so he knew a thing or two about the power of music.
Cop this little number from “The Mission”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJhax7Jmxs
See also his compatriot, Nino Rota, another “score” composer; “Il Gatopardo” (The Leopard), for starters.
I think this is an appropriate way to end the day:
Brian Cox Warns: Quantum Computers Just Unlocked the Tachyonic Godwave Generator
Still just under 2 hours to go. I’ll keep on not ending the day.
Less disturbing then your cute owls.
And Brian Cox is into the Climate Alarmism crap. So not for me.
An ALPBC fave. Never a good sign.
What a pile of drivel.
This should rattle a few cages.
@libsoftiktok
The House just passed the ‘Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act’ which extends the statute of limitations for prosecuting people who committed fraud with Covid relief funds.
It’s estimated there’s over $100 billion in fraudulent payments!
THE HAMMER OF JUSTICE IS COMING
@TimRunsHisMouth
Just imagine if this drunk nonsense were in the White House…
America wisely dodged a bullet.
What’s up with her hand? Geebus!
I don’t believe for a moment that there were any “best intentions” involved.
Europe’s Best Intentions Are Backfiring | Lord Daniel Hannan
Never forget about the paving on the road to Hell.
Ha ha haaaa. They got away with it. The last time Stevo took Cash into a shopping centre / mall*, security escorted them out ….but not today.
The best thing about such a clip is watching people clap eyes on him for the first time. Pure FMD! and WTF! is that moments.
If you own a dog like this, it is your duty you share him with others. I imagine people will disagree with that comment.
Stevo had to sign a very strict contract with the breeder when he adopted Cash at 3.5 years old …diet etc. He’s 9 now. Old for a Dane but in fine shape.
*I haven’t been in such a place for close to 20 years. No need.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane inside the Glendale Galleria Shopping Mall
I know steel and aluminium exports to the US aren’t a big deal, but it’s hard to argue an exemption when you just tipped $2.4 bill into a steel plant.
Sounds like the smartest ambassador evah couldn’t get Orange Hitler to pick up the phone.
Exactly, this is what Trump says is a tariff by another name. Just as Bowen putting a tax on petrol cars is a tariff.
How is it that supposedly intelligent beings like Bolt don’t see this?
He’s a lefty at heart.
Emote first, think later (occasionally).
“Dearest friends,
So many of you have reached out asking for news, and we’re deeply touched by your concern. The massacres unfolding on Syria’s northwest coast, in the Alawite region where the former president’s family comes from, defy words.”
https://x.com/carmelitequotes/status/1899764407233593681?t=eSvmsvIgr4Ez2lP1gv6Vzg&s=19