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Today is 28th March. I look forward to my social media feeds being swamped overnight with Tom Brady/Patriots/greatest superbowl comeback…
Thus opening up immigration to anyone from anywhere.
Less than one percent today. I think it’s the general view that there might be a recession. Not sure of…
You reckon the secured lines used in COMSEC are less secure then Signal? Come on. Goldberg’s a neocon. He was…
First!
Twixt!
Heard today that the Feral Government collects $1.40 in tax from smokers … per cigarette! Rsoles.
It’s for your own good, peasant.
I am glad that I never ever took it up.
BEER on the other hand… 😉
This government refuses to add thiamine to beer even though several other countries do so. People who drink excessively suffer from alcoholic peripheral neuropathy as a result of poor nutrition.
This is the wowser element in full flight – they can ameliorate some of the debilitating effects of alcoholism, but refuse to do so because ‘bad for you’.
Albo frothing about how he’s frozen the automatic twice yearly excise uplift on beer for 2 years, from August, having accepted the Feb increase and knowing he’s going to lose an election in May.
Short late bookshop-bonehead anecdote time.
Local bootique bookshop, specializing in eco-catastrophe, coffee table glossy and misery memoir. Hip DINK behind the counter had the cliche red Guevara shirt on. I don’t know why- cos I’m usually unfailingly polite and honest- but I said, “You know, as a gay man, I find that Guevara shirt pretty hard to put up with.”
Slightly baffled metrosexual tw*t starts up with some pinko commie drivel about “Erm well acksherly Che Guevara is seen as a liberating hero for all indigenous peoples and against the greed and cruelty of the Catholic Church-”
I cut him off- with my eyes! I have what my (loving but otherwise too damn cheeky) kids call “Dad Voice Resting Face”- and just said
“You. Don’t know jack. About Ernesto Guevara.”
Held his gaze for a beat and a half, turned and left.
I don’t imagine he was in any way shamed into looking critically into Guevara. Given the shirt routine is junior-high shallow in the first place.
*I’m careful not to ape the “My mate Che” bullsh*t. See also terrorist bombing mastermind Nelson “Mandiba” Mandela and rabid racist Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi, more recently kleptocrat “Doctor” Mandarlwuy Yunupingu and junta shotcaller “Mamasan” Suu Kyi.
*I’m also not gay.
Lefties have some horrible people as heroes.
Arseholes tend to congregate together.
Get yourself one of these..
Went “back to school” as a mature age student, way back when. One of the younger generation thought it impossibly cool to wear a “Chairman Mao” cap in class. He was reminded that there were certain of the mature age students, in the class, who considered the red star ‘a fvcking good aiming mark.”
You went to the Wong Fook Hing bookshop
This piece from The Age would be at home in any centre-right newspaper.
He’s doing a lousy job of it.
I’m not going to subscribe to The Age just to read one article. Particularly one that tells me what Russia wants.
12ft wall still is able to get past their paywall.
That’s if you could be bothered.
It’s actually telling you what US wants.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison. Spot on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrtw3D1H_Vo
“Aux armes, citoyens!”
Great Britain has just broken the sound barrier as it plumets into the depths of Marxist Hell.
Look back a year. Could anyone have predicted this social catastrophe hanging over Britains head?
Thanks Tom.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-up-17000-slaughtered-syria-as-world/
Some fairly graphic pictures in the links.
Meanwhile the West continues to harbour the crocodile hoping it will get eaten last, but eaten it will be.
Thats hard to stomach, sick to watch. Like the slaughter of christians in Africa. Nuke the lot.
Utterly sickening.
Tony Abbott was rubbished by the mostly left media for saying that in the ME it tended to be bad guys versus more bad guys.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/yemeni-houthi-rebels-warns-any-israeli-vessel-is/
What’s the point of having trillions of dollars worth of ships aircraft and armies if we don’t use them against our enemies?
One MOAB.
Just like should have happened at Tora Bora.
But no, we are too civilised.
Now, bend over and make like a goat for Achmed.
One?
Drop one a day until the attacks stop.
No more Mr Nice Guy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/germany-debates-conscription-gender-equality-means-women-should-be-drafted-fight-die-their
I certainly don’t want them in the ranks, I’d prefer them in the factories. However there’s a nasty little voice in my head saying “This is the flip side of invading our men’s clubs and public bars.”
🙂
There aren’t enough women in prisons, either.
The insane proposition that males and females are indistinguishable isn’t really believed by anyone, it’s just convenient rhetoric for justifying encroachment by women on male turf. So taking it seriously by sending women off to war is what the feminist loons deserve.
The IDF has no problem with females in the Military.
Israeli women fight for their country and survival. Ours are too selfcentred
Different set up. They are mostly in a defensive role. Last time I heard they were in their own segregated units too.
That said once the enemy is inside the gates I’m certain all bets are off.
The Soviet Red Army method:
“If you don’t know how to fight, we’ll show you.
If you don’t want to fight, we’ll make you.”
A tank commander gal and her team took on the enemy on Oct 7. She did a very good job, had to travel a fair way to get there, but very effective once she arrived.
Almost none have direct combat roles.
That’s not to say it is risk free for them as they can still get stuck in bad situations but the odds of a female Israeli soldier being killed is a tiny fraction of a male soldier.
I like Tim Pool’s suggestion – if you are not willing to be drafted into a war, you don’t get to vote.
Note this is NOT the equivalent of National Service, just a willingness to be drafted if worst comes to worst.
Democrat polling shows their reputation and standing are in the gutter. Bill Maher laments that there may never be another Democrat President.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/democrats-internal-polling-shows-their-political-brand-gutter/
But right on cue, Stephen Sackur gives a soft interview to former French PM Dominique de Villepin, who says that the American people “will wake up” and realise that they must take back their democracy. Que?
That’s the often misnamed Hard Talk show on BBC. It’s hard on conservatives, soft on liberals.
They just did “take back their democracy”.
Yes, but De Villepin is hoping for a return to Democrats.
Obviously, but that is not necessary taking ” back their democracy”.
What he/she wants is perpetual DemonRat rule.
Yes true. Americans did wake up – and took their country back. The Frog is reading the wrong chapter.
I find it more than passingly amusing that for so long the left was complaining about “the machine” and “the g-man” – until the “long march” was completed, and they became the machine (and the man). Now they are losing 18-35 y.o.’s to the right – at least in the USA.
Aside from the total radical left, it’s much cooler to be an anti-establishment rightie now.
The more things change…
There was a good poster in The Week In Pictures not long ago that showed pictures of GWB, Clinton, Obama, and Hillary, all talking to Putin on separate occasions. No problem there. But if Trump does it, it’s bad. Another cartoon by Gary Varvel reflected that Clinton and Obama both at least claimed to be trying to curb wasteful expenditures, but when Trump does the same he gets called a horrible dictator.
John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance went down a treat with the chattering leftist classes, and others, but when Trump says it the usual suspects give it the thumbs down.
Incredible what a drop in energy prices can do for parts of the inflation stack immediately.
From the Spectator Australia –
“Wind droughts would have been the most important discovery in the 20th Century but the discovery came too late to avert the rush to wind and solar power.
Nobody who knew about wind droughts would have tried to replace cheap and reliable conventional power with intermittent inputs to the grid.
This suicidal detour from the main road of power generation has cost trillions of dollars globally and delivered more expensive and less reliable electricity with massive collateral damage to the planet.
This must be one of the worst public policy blunders in recorded history and quite likely the worst in peacetime.”
Unless it was deliberate……..
If you want to take down a country, here are your 4 key strategic bombing targets
The ‘Green’ agenda specifically targets ALL of them.
The destruction of the west is deliberate.
We’ve known about wind droughts from the 13th Century when windmills couldn’t grind the grain to make flour. They would last for weeks and cause localised famines until stock from unaffected areas could be brought in.
Sailors have known of wind droughts from antiquity but called them “being becalmed”.
We knew about them and the ‘experts’ ignored us, refused to acknowledge our existence, and treated us with contempt.
I hope their ‘Heads on Pikes’ moment comes with the first grid crash.
Here’s a trade.
Short DC & Northern Virginia:
1) prestige properties;
2) boutique whole foods stores;
3) artisanal coffee chops.
Long:
Ohio manufacturing;
Texas, North/South Dakota hydrocarbon services;
Law firms relocating corporates from Delaware to Nevada, Tennessee, Texas.
Sort of glib, but I was thinking about the domestic US effects of spending cuts yesterday.
1. Trans operas in Bolivia … zero.
2. Public service labour within the US … will impact DC and large cities in the North East the most. In fact, part of DOGE is decentralisation, which might even be a net gain in some regions. This also keeps a lot of Congress pork-barrel types quiet.
3. Imported goods and services consumed by government … some domestic replacement possible due tariffs.
4. Local goods and services consumed by gummint … no idea.
It depends what they do with the savings.
If at least part of it is returned to taxpayers, that should counter any recessionary impact.
Chinese ships off the coast a worry hurry-up for our lack of defence
By Top Ender (The Spectator)
A Chinese naval flotilla perambulating down the east coast of Australia sends two messages. One is “here we are and we’re here to stay.” The other is for Aussies to ponder – “why are we so slack about defence, and what are we going to do about it?”
Firstly though, we need to understand there is not a lot to be done about Chinese ships. They are doing nothing wrong by the convention they have signed and so has Australia – the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. That says that participant nations will abide by rules, but also allow certain freedoms, one of them being the right of innocent passage. When these Chinese ships chose to exercise their weapons they were still doing nothing wrong, as they were hundreds of kilometres offshore when they did so.
Having said that, we might accuse them of bad manners, particularly if their weapons radars “lit up” nearby ships and aircraft. But then again, sailing through the Taiwan Strait, only 90 kilometres off the China coast, is something Western nations have done, much to the annoyance of the Chinese. So in many ways this is military chestbeating.
Is it anything to worry about? Yes, because it is sending signals from all nations concerned that they want dominance in the Pacific and that they are now capable of projecting power in our region. The frigate Hengyang, the cruiser Zunyi and the replenishment vessel Weishanhu may also be accompanied by a nuclear powered submarine. So what are we going to do as Australians to pull our weight in our righteous cause?
One thing might be to crack on with real acquisition programs rather than pie-in-the-sky stuff. Our nuclear submarine program is too slow, and utterly unrealistic. We have said we want to acquire these boats, capable of immense underwater endurance, and therefore of deterring would-be aggressors. From the moment a submarine leaves port and submerges, the circle of probability as to where it could be gets wider and wider. Anywhere inside that circle the submarine could be lurking, and the enemy knows not where. That means its onboard cruise missiles, torpedoes and mines are all ready to be used.
The diesel-electric sub has to almost surface now and again to run its diesels to charge its batteries through a snort mast – the nuclear submarine does not. That gives it the edge. The nuclear submarine has reach. It can move great distances at speed. One could rapidly intercept the Chinese ships off our coast and shadow them for weeks. Such action would be a great deterrent against future Chinese military chestbeating.
Australia is plodding down the road of nuclear submarine acquisition. But with the first HMAS Something to be delivered in the 2030s that is not good enough. And with a plan to build more nuclear submarines here, this is adding complications we don’t need at this moment. This country doesn’t even build motorcars any more. We can’t engineer tunnel building in the Snowy Mountains properly. For decades we have foolishly been a shrinking violet in the world of nuclear power stations. The last submarine Oz built was the Swedish Kockums-class version which became the Collins – and we kocked it up to the extent the US Navy had to pull our chestnuts out of the fire.
Instead, just get a few Virginia-class submarines secondhand from the Americans. To be sure, they’d go to sea with a US-dominated crew, but over a year or two that balance could be altered. And then a new one or two.
We’re also in the market for new frigates. The best of them is the Japanese Mogami-class, but once again we are saying we want to complete most of the class of 11 here. The first three in the Sea 3000 program would be built in the chosen shipyard overseas – there are other nations competing for the bid – with the first delivered in 2029. The rest would follow from local construction.
Like the submarine program, it is too slow, and too ambitious. The emphasis now must be on weapons platforms quickly, not local job building. Go to the Japanese and say we can work with them to have the first Australian Mogami frigate by the end of 2025!
All of this is a warning from bygone days. In the early days of the 20th century a rampant German empire was causing ructions in Europe that eventually led to World War I in 1914. The general public of the British Empire were quite rightly focused on the dangers. One of the cries they raised was “we want eight, and we won’t wait!” They were referring to the new naval dreadnought, the fast, armoured, powerful battleships that eventually the Royal Navy began building at speed. The first was launched in 1906, 15 months after she had been begun. HMS Dreadnought made every other major warship in the world obsolete overnight. More followed. This was not so much about causing an arms race; it was about having enough weapons to cope if they were needed. And when an aggressive invading force erupted from the Kaiser’s Germany it was indeed.
For too long Australia has neglected its defence. We did not put fixed wing aircraft on our two capable helicopter carriers when we should have. We should have had nuclear submarines 30 years ago. We could have acquired a nuclear stand-off capability decades ago too – not because we want war but because we love peace, and a large armed presence is a guarantee of that.
We messed up defence before World War II and we’re doing it again. We had no Spitfires when enemy forces raided our northern coast for years. Enemy submarines and surface raiders harassed and sunk scores of ships off our coasts. That failure to arm ourselves cost thousands of lives. The largest loss of life for the Royal Australian Navy in WWII was just 290 kilometres south west of Carnarvon, where HMAS Sydney still lies today, the tomb of 645 men, sunk in the battle with the German raider Kormoran.
I was at President Obama’s speech on the Darwin Esplanade back in November 2011. He concluded with the words: “We are a Pacific nation – and we are here to stay.” So are we, and we need to step up and keep what we have.
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Top Ender is a military historian, whose latest book is The Secret Submarine, out in March from Big Sky. In December his publication Cyclone Warriors, the Armed Forces in Cyclone Tracy, was released by Avonmore.
Excellent TE.
As recently as 14 years ago a Democrat president sounded so muscular yet last year a Chinese spy balloon flew over the entire continental US and Biden’s people refused to even acknowledge it let alone shoot it down. Albo is our Biden, knows nothing and only cares about staying in power, the Chinese are welcome to chest beat and sneer.
So it wasn’t an American weather balloon then?
TE – I’m continually baffled how we can make world-beating ships in Tassie (INCAT), while our yards in SA are such a shit-show.
Not sure if its because of lack of competitive impetus (defense funding), the defence procurement process (keep changing projects/mind/requirements/cost/etc), or something else.
Sabotage by ignorance and career building in DoD and Defence Support.
Rabz the bastards.
A very minor point, HMAS Sydney is the tomb of 644 men, the other one drifted ashore and is buried on land.
FFS, WW1 was a total cockup. All sides were to blame. Jingoistic bullshit.
As for Spitfires, dumb idea. High performance fighter that took far too long to build. P-40s were adequate.
You may like to ask SqnLdr John Jackson how good P-40’s were as fighters.
Oh, you can’t because he sacrificed himself showing how inadequate they were, in that role.
Two things TE:
This view would come naturally to Obama.
I’m not sure JD Vance would share it, however.
The genocide of Alawites and Christians in Syria continues as the mainstream media continues to downplay the thousands of dead. Death toll estimates range between 7,000 and 17,000.
What are the chances of me walking into a Sydney bookshop or cafe and being served by a young inner-west specimen, with blue hair, tatts and a nose ring, who’s proudly wearing a badge condemning the genocide against Alawites and Christians?
Yeah, I know, wouldn’t happen.. No Jews, no news.
By the way, why hasn’t our rabid Nazi come on here to condemn the atrocities in Syria, I mean he has a lot to say about those ‘rabid Zionists’.
Just further to yesterday, I think it is high time we all stood up and said ENOUGH. Next time you walk into a bookstore or cafe or shop and some fckwit wearing a political badge approaches you to assist you, you clear your throat and you say loudly, NO, I WILL NOT BE SERVED BY YOU.
As I wrote yesterday, the West needs to be de-politicised, because over the last decade and a bit the left have deliberately politicised everything. We need to start fighting back, and that fightback starts with the basics.
Hilarious! Spavined wombat Albo can’t get in to see Trump. But yesterday the PM of Ireland, yes bloody Ireland was given the full treatment by Trump and Vance. We must be bad when a euro toady Arab terrorist loving lowlife gets an audience but we don’t. Don’t get me wrong. Trumps assessment of Rudd and albo is very accurate. They are dead sh#ts. Boy does the relationship need a reset.
Where is that Reset button Hillary offered the Russian ambassador? Might order one from China.
Irish leadership will alwayz get a”priority” listing regardless of woke-ism .. Good politics in the USA to glad-hand their large & influencial Irish related populace …….!
Different set up. They are mostly in a defensive role. Last time I heard they were in their own segregated units too.
Nope, I have a friend whose daughter is serving in a tank in the IDF and that unit has seen battle on the frontline.
However, am I comfortable with this? No, I am not.
I worked with a woman who’s 20 years old daughter was a sniper in the 1973 conflict
Following the rape and murder of a number of captured Israeli woman soldiers, by the Syrian Army, in the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, the Israeli’s adopted a policy of withdrawal of female soldiers from any position where they were in danger of capture.
After the discovery of that particular atrocity, the Syrians bawled, loud and long that the Israelis were not too interested in taking prisoners….
Today’s Paywallion:
Immigrants welcome to join us, but not change us
Peta Credlin
2 hours ago
How do societies dedicated to tolerance deal with the intolerant? Until quite recently, this was not an issue in countries such as ours, with almost no history of political violence.
It’s only become a problem since immigration has imported into Australia the instinct, centuries ago shunned by all faiths other than Islam, of “death to the infidels”.
In recent times, religious intolerance in Australia has spawned numerous marches demanding the expulsion of Jews and intimidatory encampments at universities; escalating more recently to anti-Jewish vandalism, and the firebombing of synagogues. But across parts of the Middle East, the ethnic cleansing of Christians and other minorities is widespread.
There’s any amount of media coverage of the killing of Muslims in Gaza, and fair enough too, even though – it should be said – that’s part of a war against a terrorist group that’s pledged to the destruction of Israel and that uses civilians as human shields.
But what about the slaughter of innocent people simply on the basis of religion that’s now happening in Syria – where the Christian population has dropped from 1.5 million to under 300,000 in scarcely a decade, and is facing renewed persecution, even genocide, under the post-Assad regime?
So, let’s be clear here: Jews aren’t killing anyone simply on the basis of their religion; Christians aren’t killing anyone simply on the basis of their religion; but extreme, radical Muslims – some of them at least – are killing people simply on the basis of their religion, even including other Muslims who happen to be the “wrong brand” of Islam.
This is what happens when a religion, or at least too many of its adherents, believes quite literally that unbelievers deserve death. Yet despite all our efforts to be inclusive – such as Iftar dinners hosted by prime ministers and even monarchs – has anyone ever heard a local Muslim leader unequivocally condemning anti-Semitism, for instance, rather than just complaining about near non-existent Islamophobia? Or standing up against the hate preachers and demanding they be jailed or deported? Or Muslim organisations here, who loudly proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace, speaking out against these renewed massacres of Christians in Syria?
One of the reasons so many voters are disillusioned with politics, and even becoming sceptical about democracy itself, is that some things never change, regardless of who gets voted in. Immigration and multiculturalism is the most taboo of all the issues that deeply concern ordinary voters but which mainstream politicians almost never discuss.
Both sides know there’s a problem but neither really wants a debate; partly because no one wants to license a tiny xenophobic minority, partly because no one wants to upset migrant voters who might feel unfairly targeted, but mostly because too many politicians are frightened of the “racist” tag that’s almost immediately deployed to silence any discussion questioning the right of admission into our country at all times of everyone from anywhere.
The Albanese government has said it wants to get immigration well down from the half million a year since the pandemic. The opposition has committed to cutting the permanent intake by some 25 per cent for at least two years, but the permanent intake is actually only about a third of the total arrivals coming for 12 months or more (that comprise net overseas migration), most of whom are students or “short-term” workers here for up to four years, all of whom – nevertheless – still need a roof over their heads, some means of support, and ways to get around.
The issue with immigration is not just quantity, although at present record levels it’s driving wages down, housing costs up, and clogging infrastructure; critically, it’s also quality, the values and attitudes that at least some of our recent migrants are bringing with them, including overseas hatreds we used to think had no place in our country.
This is where Peter Dutton’s recent statement that he would stand in front of one flag only, not three, is an encouraging sign of his understanding that voters – migrant voters too – want to hear less from our leaders about our diversity and more about our unity.
Multiculturalism – the notion all cultures are equal and that a culturally diverse immigration intake would liven up a supposedly dull Anglo-Celtic monoculture – seemed harmless enough when all it meant was more foreign food and a wider selection of TV viewing via SBS.
The migrants from eastern and southern Europe who poured in after World War II were far too grateful for the better life Australia offered to stay too long in any ethnic ghetto. Likewise, the Vietnamese, Chinese and Indians who’ve come in vast numbers since the 1970s have come to join us, not change us, and have largely integrated into the wider Australian community.
The problem that official Australia has been tiptoeing around for years – which has become totally obvious since October 7, and the subsequent routine anti-Semitic protests and worse – has been the growth of substantial Muslim communities, mostly concentrated in parts of Sydney and Melbourne, which seem to identify more with their fellow Muslims in Gaza than with their fellow Australians.
These are the Muslims – by no means all of the Muslims in Australia, it should be stressed, or even necessarily a majority – who bellowed their approval when one of their sheiks declared just after October 7, this is a “day of pride … a day of victory”.
These are the Muslims now being appealed to by organisations such as The Muslim Vote, and Muslim Votes Matter, almost exclusively focused on the rights and wrongs of Gaza, that are now running candidates with the specific aim of forcing the Albanese government to adopt an even harsher stand against Israel at the UN and elsewhere.
Unlike the politicians inclined to blather about the wonders of “diversity”, voters grasp that the pledge all migrants make when becoming citizens “to Australia and its people whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey” should be taken seriously.
A recent survey, conducted for the Australian Population Research Institute, showed 80 per cent of voters wanted lower immigrant numbers; 80 per cent of voters agreed that Australia is “my special home too … just as it is for Indigenous people”; 67 per cent thought “we should deal with worker shortages by raising wages and improving skills training for locals” rather than “bringing in migrant workers”; 66 per cent agreed “we have enough diversity” and “need to encourage national unity and a shared Australian identity”, and; 59 per cent believed migrant “selection policy should include taking into account a migrant’s ability to fit into the Australian community”.
Plainly, there is a gap in the political market for a policy position that ditches multiculturalism in favour of an immigration policy that discriminates not on the basis of race or religion, but on the basis of values. Sooner or later, the electorate will turn to someone brave enough to say so.
As the world becomes more perilous, it’s more important than ever to discard everything that makes us weaker. That includes a multiculturalism that excuses people who reject the values of the country they live in.
Peta Credlin
Columnist
Peta Credlin AO is a weekly columnist with The Australian, and also with News Corp Australia’s Sunday mastheads, including The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. Since 2017, she has hosted her successful prime-time program Credlin on Sky News Australia, Monday to Thursday at 6.00pm. She’s won a Kennedy Award for her investigative journalism (2021), two News Awards (2021, 2024) and is a joint Walkley Award winner (2016) for her coverage of federal politics. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to Howard government ministers in the portfolios of defence, communications, immigration, and foreign affairs. Between 2009 and 2015, she was chief of staff to Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition and later as Prime Minister. Peta is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, with legal qualifications from the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.
Too many good points to highlight.
As reported recently by Keith Van onselen, “international student” numbers are now over 1 million. So much for pulling it back. This is what pisses people off. Lies. We have too many universities and too many international students. The ponzi scheme needs to stop.
Leith
With the ponzi scheme needing to stop, the cancelling of courses and the expelling of any Pro Palestinian protestors (or any other pet leftard protest) from university intimidating other students on campus needs to happen as well.
I often “visit” Salvos store in Seven Hills, Sydney next door is a massive 3 storey complex, probably 400mts long that is fully occupied by 6 different privately run OS student ‘education” centres, going off the billboard(s) outside ….
Multiculturalism – the notion all cultures are equal and that a culturally diverse immigration intake would liven up a supposedly dull Anglo-Celtic monoculture – seemed harmless enough when all it meant was more foreign food and a wider selection of TV viewing via SBS.
Culture is your country’s ‘operating system’, its all the shared laws, rules, customs and beliefs that govern how people interact with each other.
Trying to run more than one OS in a society results in the same outcomes as trying to run more than one OS on your computer or more than one set of traffic laws – you get collisions and accidents, chaos and damage.
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Multiculturalism is failed idea and should never have been tried.
About the SBS viewing, I happened to check it out recently and it was crammed with as many “trans” scarecrows as the ABC. Migrants simply access programs and news from their former homeland via the internet just as we do the American culture. There is no longer any need for SBS, soccer can go to the highest bidder like every other sport.
Paramount streamer covers a lot more soccer than SBS ever has .. add Optus to that & you’ve got most Oz, Euro “fitba” covered …….
Dismantling the administrative state and training them to pick and prune fruit would be a lot cheaper.
@jsmith4966
Funny how that works
Corrupt Utah Judge Freed Fire Chief Charged with Child Exploitation — Now Both Arrested in Shocking Child Exploitation and Illicit Relationship Scandal
I’ll warrant they are kept well apart from the general population.
@IanJaeger29
NEWS: Pfizer named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.
What an absolute joke.
@CynicalPublius
Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it’s time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.
I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably claims “Derrrrr… you don’t even know what fascism is!” So let’s explore fascism a little, shall we?
Listed below are attributes and practices that all 20th Century fascists have in common with the Democrat Party of 2025:
1. Laws promoting the seizure of guns from law-abiding citizens and/or the denial of gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens.
2. Censorship of free speech by pretending such censorship protects the citizenry from faulty information (i.e., so-called “disinformation”).
3. Government control of industry.
4. Government control of the mass media.
5. Control of the entertainment industry as a means of propaganda. (See: Leni Riefenstahl; Walt Disney Corporation.)
6. Children belong to the State and not their parents.
7. Political dissidents and opposing political leadership are to be persecuted for fabricated “crimes” under the color of law through the courts.
8. Political dissidents are locked up for months/years without a trial.
9. Leading political opponents who are a threat to the fascist order are to be assassinated.
10. Extreme nationalism (Democrats hate the United States of America, but are extreme nationalistic zealots for the Woke States of America).
11. Purposeful division of the population along racial and ethnic lines as a means to power.
12. Leadership of the ruling fascist party is chosen by party leaders without any input from rank-and-file party members, but an illusion of democracy is perpetuated. (See: Kamala as nominee with zero votes.)
13. Certain party criminals are turned into martyrs upon their demise. (See: Horst Wessel; Saint George Floyd.)
14. Destruction of statues, symbols and art of the pre-fascist order.
15. Accuse dissidents of the very crimes you yourself commit.
16. Justify all of it for the “common good.”
The Democrat Party of 2025 is a fascist party. Spread the word.
Mussolini himself defined fascism as a ‘marriage between the corporation and the state’. I now understand, however, that its the corporation that is the senior partner.
In the modern version more so, but look on it as a happy little triumph-erate between Big Government, Big Business, and Big Union. They work together, play together, and marry each other, and raise their children to be just like themselves too.
and have little to do with the proletariat they rule.
Since he was a politician he was describing what he wanted of corporations for his ‘state’.
He had no intention of letting the private sector – even corporations – to have a ruling hand in any aspect.
Certainly that was how it was to be with Hitler.
Musso had labor union thugs to intimidate the public.
The corporations have the MSM, and curated social media thugs to do the same.
Fascism is just another left wing, collective authoritarianism that has minor differences with its cousin communism. The diff being the Fascist State is satisfied with control of the means of production, not own the means of production.
in both systems the collective state has more rights than the individual, and oppresses any potentially competing grouping, be it opposition parties or even religions.
Years ago Jonah Goldberg wrote a book “Liberal Fascism” . It was a best seller. It described how the Wilson and Roosevelt regimes had fascist elements. Until ww2 FDR was a big fan of Il Duce and vice versa. The new deal was copied by hitler. And the blue eagle movement was definitely a national socialist idea.
Government shutdown likely after Schumer says Senate Dems will block GOP funding bill
Don’t they need at least a simple majority to do that? Last I heard Republicans have 53 senators out of 100. Even if one or two vote against it still passes.
They need 60, apparently.
So when Repubs wanted to block a CR, it was Repubs that caused “government shutdown” by such blocking, regardless of reason.
But when Dems block a CR, the Repubs caused the government shutdown because they refused to negotiate.
Right.
Got it.
Dems good.
Repubs bad.
Always.
He’s not wrong.
Lavrov describes developments in US as ‘return to normalcy’ free of unchristian ideas
Ireland is a dictatorial basket case.
@Mick_O_Keeffe
President Trump is meeting the leader of Ireland today.
A man who :
– Tried to impose hate speech laws.
– Made Irish people second class citizens under law by introducing hate crime laws.
– Flooded Ireland with immigrants
– Admitted breaking the economy in 2008.
– Doesn’t believe in Irish sovereignty.
– Imposed the longest lockdown in the EU.
– Activated nationwide digital surveillance of the entire population, which remains ongoing.
I don’t expect the Americans to attack him in front of cameras but this tyrant needs to be pulled up on what he’s doing to Ireland.
Had the hate speech bill passed, police would have been able to barge into X HQ in Dublin and seize devices from staff and management.
That needs to be addressed.
The fact that Ireland established a Media Commission to police the Internet needs to be addressed.
And they accused the Catholic Church of oppression?
And he got in to see trump but Albo is still out in the cold.
I’m a bit surprised that X hasn’t just installed a satellite relay that enables a “No equipment in hostile countries” policy. Surely latency wouldn’t be that big an issue. Bandwidth would be dealt with by the old Russian method – lot’s of satellites, and send stuff to England – or even a Pirate Radio Ship.
Trump Vows to Reclaim ‘Stolen Wealth’ With Steel Tariffs
CNN Poll Shows Surge in Presidential Approval on Economy Under Trump
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: A federal judge has BLOCKED President Trump from revoking the security clearance of Perkins Coie, the law firm which helped develop the Russia Hoax
WTF?
These activist judges HAVE TO GO. How can a judge FORCE the President to give someone a security clearance?!
Do you have a citation for the decision Indolent?
Excellent news.
Michael Mann Sanctioned for False Testimony, Bad Faith | Power Line (12 Mar)
Costs awarded to Steyn and Simberg. Given the wretched trial has been going on now for 13 years those costs are going to be substantial. I wonder if Mann and his sugar daddy, who has been funding his ridiculous case, will cough up?
Where does that leave Mann and his ‘hockey stick’ now? 🙂
Continuing in his role as the Jerry Sandusky of “climate science”.
In the meantime (i.e. thirteen effing years) Steyn has been physically (and presumably financially) destroyed by all the lawfare he’s been subjected to*.
*See also his “ofcommunist” troubles in Airstrip One.
Rand Simberg’s blog here: http://www.transterrestrial.com
Lots of current or former rocket/aerospace people comment.
Mann lost a case in Canada, had costs awarded against him, and simply didn’t pay.
@julie_kelly2
NEW: A court doc filed today by Citibank, where Biden EPA sheltered $20 billion for “climate” projects just days before the 2024 election, confirms:
> Trump Adm informed Citibank that the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” program was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.
> The FBI recommended placing a 30-day administrative freeze on eight slush fund recipients in light of “credible information” of possible criminal violations.
> EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for the financial agreement with Citibank be terminated and the grant funds immediately returned.
> The EPA Inspector General has opened an investigation.
Further, as Zeldin reported last night on X, he has terminated all agreements with the grant recipients–so-called climate “nonprofits” including one started by Stacey Abrams last year.
The edukashin system just ain’t what it used to be .. LOL!
I reckon the teenagers would have spotted it before any adult.
The “our student” part looks quite sinister as well, given all the brainwashing that goes on in these institutions of idiocy.
@WallStreetMav
BREAKING NEWS! We just hit $190 billion in DOGE SAVINGS!
@EricLDaugh
LMAOOOO
TRUMP: “[Chuck] Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish – he’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”
James Willis has done a bit of analysis and has interesting findings.
In Miserable Ghost news:
Turnbull isn’t as bright as he thinks he is.
Trumbull is a narcissist with a load of baggage. abandonment by your mother is one of the most damaging psychologically I have counselled many and research shows this. They have to get approval all the time as all mothers love their children goes their thinking therefore I am unloveable because she left me.
Narcissists do not have unconditional self acceptance
I hope I have explained the problem clearly.
Does the same apply for being rejected or abandoned by a father at an early age? Just curious.
I assume you are speaking in general terms, min.
Turdballs makes narcissists look good.
This is a polite way of saying he is an inveterate liar.
“It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Lack of critical self-examination is a trait of narcissists.
He’s the playground coward egging on a fight from the sidelines. If he’s in any way threatened, he will toady to the winner.
Kevni is the same but worse. We pay him to do a job which he refuses to do. Recall the useless article.
Not sure that he refuses to do it (for all his faults he’s not lazy), but that he’s just ineffectual, partly for the same reasons he was a bad PM and also because he’s persona non grata in DC.
If Trump refused to take Albanese’s call on tariffs, as reported, there’s no way Rudd could have made any difference.
That being said, recalling Rudd is a no brainer. He would throw a mighty tanty though, so Elbow won’t consider it until after the election, assuming he retains power.
The correspondents over at the Spencer Street Stürmer are creaming their collective jeans over Trumble. That’s confirmation, as if anyone really needed it, that he’s a complete human zero and mercifully has no say in what passes for Australian government policy these days.
I must also apologise for claiming last night all four Presidents who have been murdered have been Republican. JFK of course.
But my point remains. Democrats must be destroyed.
JFK would have no place in today’s dumbocrats, BB.
And yes, they must be absolutely obliterated – a party of shameless corruptocrat criminals and perverts.
See also Labor here and Labour in the UK.
No need to apologise BB. JFK could easily be mistaken for a Republican in today’s climate. Trump and most of his cabinet are ex Democrats.
Webley, library. No more needs to be said. Malt. I lied.
JFK would now be a republican
A policy Albanese took to the 2022 election.
Before he brought in one million plus migrants.
The Liberals aren’t much better.
Liberals are beholden to the same education/ethnic group lobby’s. They are not going near it.
My observation having been working since I started a paperboy in my early teens and worked many jobs in the time since, employers have lost the art of training new staff. They want them ready to go with little input. The bigger the enterprise the worse they are from what I have seen.
That doesn’t surprise me.
Big business wants a big Australia for several reasons, all of them self-serving.
Big Australia made sense years ago but not nowadays with AI and automation.
This loss has been driven by the increase in difficulty of petting anyone go. A big part of training is getting the boot if not performing.
Dutton was invited to publicly reiterate the Libs 160,000 immigrant policy late last year. He declined to do so. They want the high immigration for sure.
Think of the benefits of Muslim immigration for the Liberals.
Their women will have heaps of kids, whether they want to or not!
No outcry from feminists. No accusation leveled at LIb pollies of “lecturing women”, or having a “woman problem”.
Keep the GDP appearing to tick over nicely, everyone’s happy. At least everyone who matters.
I wonder what ISW is saying about the situation in Kursk?
I checked in this morning.
Pretty close to the Russian mouthpiece Southfronts maps and Put’s visited the Kursk HQ overnight in cams.
I’d say Ruskies have used the IS&R blackout to their advantage here.
Their latest report is dragging its heels re Sudzha and Ukrainian retreats.
I think it was very obvious from the moment Trump was re-elected back in November 2024 that there would be huge problems with the US/OZ relationship and that problem is Kevin Rudd.
Rudd should have been recalled immediately but Slug and Pong, both juvenile far-left student activists, thought they’d rub Trump’s nose in it. Nope, it’s Trump who does the rubbing, not adolescent and very mediocre far-left morons like Pong and Slug.
I recoiled yesterday at Pong’s chutzpah when she said that the Trump administration’s tariff decision is ‘not the way to treat a a friend and partner‘, such pious and sanctimonious drivel from someone who’s avidly dumped on Israel over the last few years and particularly since October 7.
And believe me, Trump and co would be very aware of Pong and Slug’s attitude towards Israel.
Sadly, the WHOLE World is aware Of Pong and Slug’s attitude toward Israel.
The decline and fall of Reform.
Dumping Rupert Lowe confirmed Nigel’s Junior Uniparty aspirations.
The problem with Farage is his ego.
And now he is circulating in more rarified circles, the influence is pulling him Leftward.
And there goes reform.
Nobody with above average capacities is going to offer themselves to be a Reform candidate if disagreeing with Nigel is going to get you booted or worse.
Did Trump Jnr ever get the Australian visa he had applied for, either last year or the year before?
Could be awkward if he succeeds his father in 2028.
Doubt that he will be a candidate.
Three years is a long time in politics…:D
Speaking of such things, Daily Telegraph:
She actually said these things.
Everything these dickheads have done has been to the detriment of Australia and Joe Public.
It includes their cronies at state level as well.
Wong Chap sez ‘political opportunity’, which is exactly what Mzzz Allan did with the toughest bail laws evah!
FMD just clueless to anything outside their bubble.
How embarrassing. This gives the liars an opportunity to try self sufficiency for the nation. Rotflmao
I am so looking forward to the Ersatz Products.
Isn’t that a very racist name?
LOL.
Did Trump Jnr ever get the Australian visa he had applied for, either last year or the year before?
No, and remember that visa was deliberately stalled back in 2023 and when it became public the bimbo minister at the time, whose name is Clare O’Neill, mocked Trump Jnr online.
Our pollies and bureaucrats should not let their political biases be a reason for these decisions. Only security concers should be paramount.
If we applied that rubric to all areas of policy we’d basically have to start again from scratch…starting with energy (inc. oil refining & reserves), migration (numbers and countries of origin), food security and transport links and so on.
We are governed by idiots.
Realpolitik would be welcome for a change.
I’d settle for competency, vr.
But yes, properly defining and serving the national interest would be a most welcome change.
A couple of reps in the parliamentary Liberal party get it but the “moderates” rule the roost.
Re. competency, I agree a 100%.
We are
governedruled by idiots.We are
governedruled by malignant idiots.And one day they will need to be taught a dreadful lesson in humility.
Clueless Clare O’Neill…now failing spectacularly as housing minister.
Seems to think that nice speeches in which she says all the right things build dwellings.
No, no, it’s making cute recordings for TikTok of waving your arms wildly.
Oooops!
That one has come back to bite us.
What a bunch of arrogant incompetent amateur hour forkwits. They insult and abuse Prez Fatty Trump incessantly over a period of many years and then act all surprised and indignant when he rightly tells them to fork off.
Dr Mutton and his replacement for the toilet brush peering rat (and it had better not be an equally big a dickhead such as goose morristeen) will have to engage in much serious grovelling to Prez Fatty Trump.
Enjoy the humiliation, you unfunny clowns.
I find it difficult to believe the childishness of leaving an incompetent Ambassador in place just for the ability for the Triad in Canberra to poke their tongues out at the person who would provide the bulk of our defensive kit.
Ramon Subercaseaux in a gondola
Lazy buggar; why didn’t he swim?
What a surprise:
Migrants Over 70% More Likely to Commit Sex Crimes Than Native Britons.
Speaking of the Brits:
Trump’s ‘Radical Pro-Hamas’ Student Deportee Has UK Govt Security Clearance: REPORT.
Life 101 …..
Great news:
Left Punished in Greenland Election, New Trump-Friendly Govt Looms
I’ll be moving there when it becomes the 51st state.
I might even cruise there.
Have done that and loved every second of it. Wonderful place.
I think they have mining there, I might join you.
I’ll wait for plate tectonics to move it a little closer to the equator, thanks.
Grate – just received an email stating my health extortion premium is about to increase by 9.2%.
But yeah, “inflationary expectations” according to albanasleazey, dim chambers and guv karen bollocks, are down – down, baby, down!
Grate – just received an email stating my health extortion premium is about to increase by 9.2%.
Using the price of gold as a comparitor (gone from $572 to $4600 over the last 20y), the real inflation rate has been a compound 10% per year for the last 20y). Thus a rise of 9% is inline with true inflation. The real issue is that incomes have not risen at anywhere near the rate that our wise rulers strip value from the dollar.
Oz today says nearly ten percent up coming now for NSW electricity.
Can’t be right, according to Luigi’as mob inflation is down to 0.037% (0.37% of $1144 = $4.60 OAP “inflation’ rise) ..
Reality in a nut shell ..! Well said “Cassie”
Yeah, I know, wouldn’t happen.. No Jews, no news.
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History: Zeldin Rolls Out 31 Groundbreaking Actions to Save Americans TRILLIONS, Slash Costs and Supercharge Job Growth
@WorldHallOfFun
There will be protests in Washington for 3 days in a row starting today, and protesters are being paid $40 per hour.
Ask yourself, who is willing to spend over $32,000 in a few days and who is benefiting from these left-wing protests?
They’ve just moved from the public service to the rent a crowd. Man’s gotta eat.
SOROS! Act Blue!
EXCLUSIVE Listen to leaked audio of DEI activist SHARING air traffic controller exam answers with minority candidates
Needs to be charged, tried, and if guilty gaoled for manslaughter.
GOOD!
@RossMcKitrick
BREAKING: A Washington DC court has just ruled on Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg’s motion for sanctions against Michael Mann and his attorneys for misleading the jury at trial. Decision: Mann and his attorneys are SANCTIONED for bad faith misconduct and will be assessed costs
Why has this sham of a case dragged on for thirteen years?
Anyone might think “the process is the punishment”.
They should pay 10 times the costs in punitive damages as well – “bad faith misconduct” is inexcusable and should be punished severely.
If the White House and Bondi have a strategy to take down the corrupt lefty federal judges, they had better get on with it.
The judges are emboldened both in subject and scope. They are now creating policy. They are making Trump look like a deer in the headlights.
Bondi increasingly presents as a Trump first term ineffective or disloyal appointee.
Congressional Republicans need to agressively join the fight. They have nothing to lose by creating a war over this issue. Nobody is listening to the Dems except the equally ignored MSM.
Trump’s problem is that he is but one man and has to rely on others for recommendations.
(well he has character flaws as well influencing his decisions)
He made quite a few mistakes selecting personnel in his first term, looks like he is making fewer but equally fatal ones just the same in this one.
The system that allows any tinpot judge to stop a presidential or congressional order is not a democratic one and can’t be good for the country.
Why doesn’t Trump ignore the judges and proceed with what he wants to do*. What are the judges going to do? That will also force the issues up to the Supreme Court who will then have to resolve them one way or the other.
*Wasn’t there another American president who ignored even the Supreme Court? He was practically saying “make me”.
FDR threatened the Supreme court by stating that he would appoint extra judges.They backed down.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino will make plenty of noise if anyone tries to quash prosecutions they feel have a reasonable chance of success. Questions will be (publicly) asked, and answers demanded.
If Pam Bondi really is a deep state worm, she won’t have anywhere to hide if the FBI is investigating anything.
Me, I don’t think she is – at this time, it seems like she is like Trump in his first term, assuming politics has nothing to do with it after the decision is made, and underlings will always do as they are told. We’ll see.
Trump administration says it intends to deport Mahmoud Khalil, alleging ‘serious’ foreign policy consequences
I see there’s a bunch of self haters supporting this grub.
Sec State (Rubio) has statute powers to remove the green card and visa of anyone he deems is causing foreign policy issues etc. His actions will be, errr interesting to see.
Brendan Nelson’s diagnosis of Turnbull being a psychopathic narcissiist rings true once again.
A tinpot nobody from Sydney making national interest damaging pronouncements about the world’s most significant leader demonstrates again that our political system prevents decent people from gaining leadership positions and throws up lunatics like Turnbull, Rudd and Gillard.
St John Paul II hailed as model for Catholics to fight rising scourge of antisemitism
St John Paul II’s example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, especially in the wake of the 7 October, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people, according to a theologian and papal biographer George Weigel.
Weigel noted that St John Paul, throughout his more than 26 years as pope, “saw himself, and he conducted himself, as an heir of the Second Vatican Council, and its teachings on the filial debt that Christianity owes its parent, Judaism.”
He was indeed a decent Pope.
Good to see you back, P.
Good to hear from you, P.
Putin visiting Kursk HQ in fatigues is a symbolic reply to yesterday’s US/ Ukraine ceasefire proposal.
Did he keep his shirt on?
Did he inspect any broken down Ferdinands and Panthers?
He must be figuring if Zelensky can wear a tracksuit so can he.
I’d agree. Despite forewarnings by some that he was a lightweight, he is proving a formidable presence in the Trump front line.
Being old folk & a luvva of westerns I came across this gem .. went 5 seasons so figured it might be worth a look .. Halfway thru season 2 and it’s very good .. well worth hunting down .. 12/10 .. HELL ON WHEELS …..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699748/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_hell%2520on%2520wheels
Binged ‘Godless’ over the last few days. Not as good as Yellowstone, but well worth a view too.
Yep, saw that when it 1st came out .. excellent ..!
I’m surprised I’d missed HoWs .. I usually, catch all the westerns as they come out ………
So.
We’ve had a conga line of Ministers on both sides pissing on Trump’s shoes.
We’ve got an Ambassador on Washington who was openly hostile to Orange Hitler and didn’t bother to remove the offensive online material until the day after Trump was elected.
Then there’s our former Foreign Minister (Dolly Downer) who happily peddled confected gossip against Trump in 2016 to push along the Wussia hoax.
And there was the visa shenanigans with Trump Minor (which I had forgotten, but I’ll bet they haven’t).
And you have the gall to ask for special treatment because “long standing ally”?
Don’t make me larf.
Good summary. Will Dutton if willing and able repair this mess?
He’ll consult with the moderates and get back to you on that.
Oh God no, not the circling back.
Didnt they vote in parliament that Trump was a slug?
And there was the visa shenanigans with Trump Minor (which I had forgotten, but I’ll bet they haven’t).
Forgot about that.
Surely Trump wouldn’t be sore about someone screwing with his family?
Oh…that’s right.
I think President Trump works on the basis that a government is representative of the people.
If you want better representation, vote them out.
If you don’t vote them out, and they shit talk an ally, then they are in fact a representation of the Australian peoples will.
You don’t build houses, Roger.
You announce them.
Repulsive hateful people that have no idea as to what work is. Ancien regime.
“Dregs of the middle class.”
She’s announcing imaginary dwellings then.
We need some legal mechanism whereby politicians are held to account for their words and deeds or lack thereof…other than periodic elections.
This was supposed to be one of the functions of the senate.
Fed Housing .. houses built last 3 years .. NIL ..
admin expenditure (3 years) into $double digit millions ………
Electricity prices are going up again and there is no sign this will stop. The ABC typically tries to confuse the public with a raft of excuses none of which acknowledge the real culprit, the burden on the system of trying to convert to unreliable renewables that need a duplicate system to back them up. Power bills to rise yet again from mid-year as federal election looms. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-13/power-bills-rise-as-aer-lifts-benchmark-price/105040808
Gas will be going up too.
How do we explain this absurdity in an energy resource rich nation for which cheap and reliable power is our chief competitive advantage over competitors?
Politicians!
At a higher rate than electrickery.
Welll it’s gotten Chris Bowen out from whatever rock he’s been hiding beneath lately. The internal polls about him must be really dire for him to’ve been hiding like this.
Electricity bills to jump as much as 9pc in cost-of-living blow (Paywallian)
That, Mr Bowen, is what is known as a lie. And a real stinker too. Coal fired power is much cheaper than any other source, especially brown coal.
He should walk the walk. Close all “dirty” coal stations immediately, and rely on “clean, green” ruinables.
He would be dragged out of his nice office in under a week.
There’s a towel-head running against him this time around tho might not be much change .. Two lotz of arabs .. the shopping precinct & surrounds is mainly Leb but the outer suburbs are Assyrian (christian) so will, probably, cancel each other out .. leaving Black-out safe .. Libs make no effort, just a name on the ballot ..
Dai Le will hold Fowler, easily, cos Viet Cong vote will come thru again …….
With all the “hand-outs” & OAP rebates on my electrics .. the gas bill (cooking/hot water) has topped my electricity bill .. Sad news (for me) I have gas heating so the, coming, winter bill will be a motza ……….
Shut It Down
Fire Them All
Blatant lies and fabrications – their stock in trade.
Oh Noes!!!
Leonardo is cranky with us. Whatever will we do?!?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14492813/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Western-Australia-mine.html
So, Leo is not worried about bush habitat being cleared for windmills and solar, just for mines? Idiot.
‘Actors are generally stupid people.’
Anthony Hopkins
Not smart laughing at a competitor.
I’ve been in a few BYD Ubers and a mate bought one last year that seems pretty cool the handful of times I’ve been in it.
Not sure where Uncle Warren is on BYD.
I thought he made his money and sold (or at least most of it).
China’s policy of moving pollution out of the cities is driving this. BYD won’t be selling into other markets for much longer since the climate scam is collapsing. Already there’re massive parking lots of BYD EVs all over Europe.
Most Government EV Buys Halted Under Trump (12 Mar)
Charlie Munger was an admirer of BYD’s CEO.
On the other hand BYD are pretty innovative. This science story was interesting.
Engineers take apart batteries from Tesla and China’s leading EV manufacturer to see what’s inside (6 Mar)
Hey how’s progress going on the BRICS plan to replace the greenback as the main reserve currency that you were giddy about last year?
Now this one is funny.
https://x.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1899913543832789348/photo/1
aaah, now we know Arky’s real life identity. 😀
Adam Carolla was on Micheal Malice.
3mins from the 40min mark, Carolla describes Newsom in the most graphic way possible.
Many many lols.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhJOwHbyAA
China’s policy of moving pollution out of the cities is driving this. BYD won’t be selling into other markets for much longer since the climate scam is collapsing.
Correct. Electric cars, going back to the 1960s, were never originally about CO2 but about CO,NOx, unburned hydrocarbons etc in exhausts in city and suburban areas.
Computer controlled fuel injection and catalytic converters solved the problem.
Greenwich and Latham back on the Federal Court docket.
I thought that was all done.
Next hearing on the 18th of March.
Latho appealed.
Good.
The Buffet investment was nothing more than a flutter in terms of Berkshire balance sheet. $232 million.
Engineers take apart batteries from Tesla and China’s leading EV manufacturer to see what’s inside (6 Mar)
The article doesn’t mention that BYD uses LiFePO4 chemistry which is a lot safer than the Li Mn Co chemistry in Tesla batteries. I have heard Tesla uses LiFePO4 in at least some Teslas manufactured in China.
From the thread above:
Maybe you shouldn’t’ve been persecuting grannies, or people taking their kids to the beach or parks. Or for that matter making police get the mRNA shot.
Cops in ‘dire straits’ as 3000 officer shortfall looms (Tele, paywalled)
Two tiered policing is very noticeable too, and that has lost a lot of trust from people who used to respect the service.
Maybe you shouldn’t’ve been persecuting grannies, or people taking their kids to the beach or parks.
Having the SA Attorney General send the police around to tell me to stop criticising the government, then having the AFP frame me and perjure themselves trying to get me a 10y sentence burned through quite a bit of any residual goodwill I might have had,
I know a police officer who says they are constantly pressured to do overtime due to staff shortages.
For years they’ve trained the new vicpol wallopers in traffic management at a junction in the city. There’s been a noticeable increase in the number of weirdoes they’re putting on since Covid. Presumably they’ve “reset” hiring guidelines. All of them have tatts.
Also the stupid BLM demos around Oz. Cops on the ground were not impressed.
Never Forget:
Pulling some figures out of the AER hat, we can guesstimate that the wholesale price of electrickery in Ostraya is somewhere between 10 and 22 cents per kwh.
The trip from wholesale to retail sees the numbers rise 2 to 2.5 times.
This wholesale price is completely insane. I know businesses in the US who pay less than our cheapest wholesale price.
Retail margins are tight so where is the money going? Or gone.
Not sure what headline wholesale rates area across the US.
But I have been reading a range of companies have been happy with a significant drop in contracted prices over a 3 & 6 month time horizon.
Into subsidies.
Cassie @7:40
I made this observation the other day. It’s the truth.
Dover was very quick to contradict.
Hello, Dover!?
Yes, no change here.
I’ve never understood why this product never took off and the company may not survive.
I bought one of these for wifey’s birthday years ago and I doubt its ever been used. Why would people rather use a hand vac than an auto one?
Why would you buy one when you have a multi purpose tool that feeds itself?
Does an excellent job at my house. Cleans better than me.
We had a roomba years ago.
It was always breaking down and I got tired of repairing it after the warranty expired.
Yep, that’s much better Peter. Of course most of the MSM won’t support your call, but it is the right attitude. Get in their faces with their lies.
‘It’s time for Chris Bowen to be sacked’: Dutton (Sky News mainpage headline, 13 Mar)
The Mocker in form at the Oz on the Fatty Paki and her mate:
Just imagine this: Greens senator Faruqi and her academic guest Abdel-Fattah praise Australia
The Mocker
1 hours ago.Updated 32 minutes ago
The Mocker surreptitiously attended an International Women’s Day event hosted by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney last week, featuring keynote speaker and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah. (The following is satire and opinion based on the political positions adopted by the two ‘speakers’.)
Faruqi: Welcome, everyone. Here we are, looking out at the most beautiful harbour in the world. As a migrant who did not always live in beautiful and secure surroundings, I feel so grateful and privileged to be here.
Abdel-Fattah: And as the daughter of migrants who came here seeking a safe place for their family to prosper and thrive, I echo your sentiments. Australia has been so good to us.
Faruqi: Indeed. Thanks to the generosity and sacrifices of Australians before us, I have realised ambitions and a lifestyle that my native Pakistan would not have afforded me. Thank goodness I live in a Westminster democracy.
Abdel-Fattah: I know, right? Imagine spending your entire life under the rule of fundamentalists and barbaric enablers who hold that women are mere chattels. I feel sick at the thought of raising my children in such a society.
Faruqi: Me too. I have nothing but disdain for the immigrants who want to import these practices. And that also goes for the ones who have profited from living in Australia but disparage the country at every opportunity.
Abdel-Fattah: It does my head in! These anti-Western ideologues are so obsessed they make the most ridiculous claims to perpetuate their disinformation. On that note did you hear what that Afghan-born senator recently claimed at the so-called Benevolent Iranian Women Association event?
Faruqi: Oh yes, Fatima Payman! She insisted Iran was an “incredible” place for women and said that criticisms of the regime’s treatment of women amounted to “propaganda”.
Abdel-Fattah: Unbelievable. Her family flees from the Taliban, her father comes to Australia as an asylum-seeker, he sponsors her migration here, she becomes a senator – and not only does she do the dirty on the ALP and WA voters, but she also becomes a mouthpiece for a criminally misogynist regime.
Faruqi: Next thing you know she will claim Pakistan is a feminist utopia. It currently ranks at 145 out of 146 countries on the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, above only Sudan.
Abdel-Fattah: Again, I am so lucky to be born here. My mother hails from Egypt, which rated 135 in the same report. And a 2013 survey by the UN revealed 99.3 per cent of Egyptian women had suffered sexual harassment. But you would think from the carry-on of certain Middle Eastern-Australian women here that this is the world’s most dangerous country for them.
Faruqi: (Laughs) And what about their favourite term of disparagement, ‘White Australia’? I am a brown Muslim woman who is also an Australian senator. I ask them: what do you think are the chances of a Christian woman, let alone a white one, holding similar office in an Islamic country?
Abdel-Fattah: Exactly! Self-awareness isn’t exactly a strong trait in the activist Muslim sisterhood, is it?
Faruqi: Sadly, no. Always shooting their mouths off but oblivious to their hypocrisy. Imagine, for example, me – having amassed a lucrative investment portfolio of multiple properties – sanctimoniously banging on about Australians “living on stolen land”?
Abdel-Fattah: Yes, you never see these self-righteous blowhards handing over their numerous title deeds to mob, do you?
Faruqi: No. And you would have to be a real misery guts to not only demand the abolition of Harmony Day on the basis it “whitewashes this historic and ongoing racism in Australia” but also insist people stop using words such as inclusivity, harmony and social cohesion.
Abdel-Fattah: Yes, nothing upsets these types more than the thought of a multiracial society of loyal Australians. They want to perpetuate and entrench grievance because it is the only drum they can beat. Pathetic, really.
Faruqi: You must see a lot of them in academia.
Abdel-Fattah: All the time. My employer is Macquarie University, and one of the academic fellows there claims the organisation is “named after a genocidal coloniser”. She has vowed she will make sure whatever she does there will be “an act of resistance against that blood-soaked tribute’’.
Faruqi: Do her acts of resistance include liberating herself from the public payroll?
Abdel-Fattah: No, because that would mean having to get a real job. She has a fierce hatred of Israel. And she has labelled her fellow academics as “protectors and sustainers of white supremacy’’.
Faruqi: How so?
Abdel-Fattah: She is in a huff because they will not dance to her tune. Consequently, she refuses to cite their academic work, no matter how authoritative, if they are, in her words, “silent over Gaza”.
Faruqi: Dear oh dear. Is this the one who is also a children’s book author?
Abdel-Fattah: That’s her.
Faruqi: Figures.
Abdel-Fattah: Do you want to hear something funny? Guess what she included in her university profile under the category of ‘Research interests’?
Faruqi: What?
Abdel-Fattah: The ‘Sociology of everyday life’.
Faruqi: That’s priceless!
Abdel-Fattah: And get this – she has received around $1.28 million in taxpayer-funded research grants. Yet this year she bragged that she had refused an Australian Research Council requirement to hold a conference as a condition of her $870,000 taxpayer grant, saying “I look for ways to bend rules and refuse and subvert them”.
Faruqi: And she calls herself a fellow? Surely no-one would defend her on the basis it is a conspiracy against an Arab woman by the white male establishment. On second thoughts a race-baiting politician would have no hestitation about doing just that.
Abdel-Fattah: But isn’t it funny, Mehreen, that Muslim activists can dish it out –
Faruqi: Dish it out with spite, abuse, and contempt.
Abdel-Fattah: All that and then some. But if a non-Muslim calls out their BS –
Faruqi: I know what you are going to say.
Abdel-Fattah: As sure as night follows day.
Faruqi: It must be a case of –
Abdel-Fattah: They immediately start screeching –
(In unison): ISLAMOPHOBIA!
The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.
Magnificent. Talk about skewering the hypocrisy of those repulsive ingrates.
Be lucky to dodge a fatwah for that one.
Further to Dutton and Bowen.
Amazon, Google and Meta sign pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050 as they expand power-hungry data centres for AI (Sky News, 13 Mar)
Peter – make sure you and your energy shadow minister say this at every possible opportunity. Amazon, Google and Facebook/Meta are household names in Australia, so it’s going to be harder for Bowen to lie successfully about nuclear power when these guys are pushing it so hard.
Looking into this Mahmoud Khalil case a bit more.
Khalil is described as a lead negotiator between a pro-Pally encampment and Columbia uni administration in April 2024.
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/article144347.html
The pro-Pallys then occupied Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves in it until the NYPD buzzsawed through their barricade. The protestors have their own video of the ‘protest’ :
https://nitter.poast.org/MarinaMedvin/status/1899964670200734201#m
This activity probably went beyond what is protected by the 1A otherwise it would not have been legal for the police to break it up.
It seems to be widely assumed that Khalil organized that action but don’t know if that’s proven.
I have bit less sympathy for Khalil now than on Tuesday.
There is still a case that has to be answered. Did Khalil really personally foment unrest activity in a way not protected by the 1A, and is that a sufficient reason to deport a green card holder.
The double standards in the case are already obvious. A small army of 19 attorneys showed up to represent Khalil at his hearing this morning. It’s been pointed out the January 6ers did less than these Columbia protestors and yet received far less legal support.
More opinion https://nitter.poast.org/JudgeJeanine/status/1899910252755378422#m
He can be deported under s237 of the Immigration and Naturalisation Act, and the government could give as reason that he has been organising on behalf of Hamas, and this could be done without needing to prove anything in court. I find it incredible that they wouldn’t have to prove a link to Hamas.
Here’s Rubio laying out the Trump policy on this case
https://nitter.poast.org/UHN_Plus/status/1899882876746760659#m
This still sounds like wishful thinking, because the moment Khalil set foot in the USA he gained first amendment rights. The only possible crime that Rubio mentions is organizing vandalism. This might be enough to justify canceling Khalil’s green card, but I expect that to be contested.
Deport him on the quiet, then let him sue from whatever shithole he’s been parked.
The turd has form in the UK also. He was the talking head for the Syrian Embassy. Held a high security Government clearance in the UK. Very smart move by the imbecilic pom gov.
From what I understand a non-citizen or a non-permanent resident can be deported for any reason or no reason at all. I have no sympathy for him at all. If his American wife does not want to be separated from him she can go with him.
If she doesn’t want to go, and claims being deprived of his conjugal ‘lations, he can always leave his dick and adornments behind as a goodwill gesture.
Here’s a smidgen of insults hurled by various Australian politicians at Donald Trump…..
In 2015 Josh Frydenberg, on national television, described Donald Trump as a drop kick.
In 2016 Billy Boy Shorten said ‘I think Donald Trump’s views are just barking mad on some issues’.
In October 2016 the NSW Parliament passed a Greens motion calling Donald Trump a ‘revolting slug‘ – there were no objections to this motion, which means Labor, Liberals and Nationals supported the Greens motion
In a 2020 tweet from this personal Twitter account, Kevin Rudd labelled Donald Trump “as the most destructive president in history” and that he “drags America and democracy through the mud“.
In 2021 Kevin Rudd described Donald Trump as a ‘village idiot’ and ‘not a leading intellectual force‘.
On November 7 2024, Kevin Rudd deleted these posts and other nasty commentary about the president-elect to “avoid them being misconstrued“……………………..LOL.
And the above is just a small sample of the insults Trump has been subjected to at the hands of Australian politicians, ALL of whom should have known better.
Oh and let’s not forget how his son, Don Jnr, a man who’s never committed any crime or offence, had his visa back in 2023 deliberately delayed by a vindictive and very mediocre minister by the name is Clare O’Neill. At the time, revelling in the fact they’d delayed his visa, she sent out an X post where she called Don Jnr a…..’big baby‘. She later deleted the X but not before Trump Jnr and Trump Snr were made aware of the X post.
Here’s a thought, all of the above could apologise to Donald Trump and Don Trump Jnr. I suspect both would graciously accept the apologies, with big smiles of course!
Our politicians on both sides are the most tactless nongs that have ever trudged through our halls of parliament. As a consequence we will all pay a price.
I wouldn’t accept them – and I’d make it public that the comments were, and remain, unacceptable.
But I’m a hard bastard like that.
Don’t forget what the little Howard creep has written as well.
Oh and to be fair, because I like being fair….this is what little Johnny Howard said of Trump back in September 2024…
On Trump, Howard was scathing, saying his behaviour had not been “compatible with democracy“.
John Howard should also apologise.
It was all too compatible based on the November election. Howard is getting older and sillier.
As opposed to the 2020 US election results, which simply screamed, “compatible with democracy“.
Yesterday Simon Holmes A’Courtin-Votes (whose sheilas vote left-green) was given a nice reception at the National Press Club. That’s despite him being – or is it because of him being – a full-bore climate alarmist and welcome to country fan boy.
Today, Clive Palmer (who I don’t support) came to the same venue with his more Trumpian list of points, only to be given a harder time.
That tells you all you need to know about journalism in this country.
I bet no journo pointed out the Teals are merely the political wing of his investment portfolio.
A craven opportunist like his old man.
Old man Holmes a Court escaped a lot of scrutiny by being dead.
Gamesmanship that won’t get much traction outside the political bubble.
The Liberals can’t offer much else while they also pursue net zero.
Their first nuclear plant would be ten to fifteen years away and that’s only if they can get Howard’s ban overturned in the senate and get the states on board…two quite big “ifs” given the current political landscape.
Bring back new/refurbished coal until nuclear has been accepted.
They’d still have to get that past the states. Even QLD has said no new coal plants (and no nuclear either).
It’s going to take rolling blackouts and public anger to make our dim politicians see the light.
Our leaders are nothing of the sort, they look around first and then they might follow if they like the loudest group.
The first extended blackout (more than around four or five days) affecting a major urban centre and all bets are off, certainly concerning coal, and nuclear if the blackout extends beyond a week.
Palmer was asked by new NPC Prezshizzle Tom Connell if he could “square” his support for Tucker Carlson with that man’s having interviewed Putin! Not very journalistic, Tom-boy. More like the sort of cheap gotcha that appeals to very poor, very ignorant and very partisan hacks.
I’m more concerned about Tucker’s support of Fat Cloive, the latter of whom needs to fork off out of public life toot sweet.
I reckon Cloive is just using that Tucker grab in his ads.I doubt Tucker would know Cloive from a bar of soap.
Anybody know how Chromecast’s work ..? Mine (an original) has overnight auto changed ID numbers and the TV only wants to recognize the original & sez the “newie” isn’t there ..
I haven’t dun anything to it since last used so no idea how it re-configured itself .. no, apparent, method to change the ID number on the app …..!
Tried to enter 2nd number as a new device but app sez “not there” ..
Meanwhile Toyota and Samsung could be the first out with the 1,000 range target.
I think the 1,000 k range objective will tilt sales somewhat towards EVs. It won’t of course be 100% or even 90%. But 40% of cars sales could end up being EVs if the 1000K range hits target.
A reliable 1,000 km range would get us to Melbourne and back with 250-300 in the bank, so no range anxiety as it suddenly drops 100 km from home.
I would consider that, providing the price is right.
Not so sure its the range but the charging time thats the problem. There’s not going to be the infrastructure to do it. Suppose we could get our Top Man onto it. Calling Blown in the wind. You’re needed.
But what if, after the Trump Bump rattles out the dags, Dodge Challengers drop to $50k and petrol to 99c/L?
Which is why Trump’s policy of removing EV subsidies etc is a good thing. The market will eventually sort it out and you could end up with a market divided according to utility and ease of operation.
JC re the Roomba.
Buying a labour saving housekeeping appliance for the bride is an exercise fraught with peril.
It can so easily be misconstrued as a criticism of the existing standard of performance.
We have one which has laid dormant for some months, but has just been let loose on the new shag pile.
It leaves very satisfying geometric patterns as the wheels track across the carpet.
Although it does have a penchant for phone charger cables and is the perfect height to wedge itself under the hydronic heating panels.
From what I recall, there was tension in the air a few days after.
Is the new shag, purple?
I don’t have a new shag, Pogs. It the same one for decades and there’s no purple dye.
In the early eighties, friends of mine rented a house and it had wall to wall purple shag carpet.
We had no end of fun at dinner parties. They would put a bowl on the table and ask all the guests to place their car keys in the bowl. The looks and gasps were hilarious.
I have heard horrid tales of Roombas and those little gifts pets leave behind when you are out and they are anxious.
Let’s just say “smearage”. All around the room.
Noice!
Frydchickenberger saddled this country with an estimated additional $250 billion in government debt during the bat flu insanity
This from an accused rapist, serial sleazebag and staggeringly incompetent imbecile who did nothing to rein in the now out of control budget slaying NDIS
The NSW greenfilth being of course, quite possibly the most obnoxious evil misanthropic antisemitic morons in this country
ruff was deposed barely two years into his term as PM by his own labore pardee colleagues who labelled him in terms far, far worse than the ones above and who made no secret of the fact that he was a narcissistic bullying windbag who was utterly impossible to work with.
All of the above reflects very, very poorly on the lacklustre self aggrandising pissants that voters in this country insist on electing to public office, again and again.
Not good enough.
Tee hee bat flu. Remember that executive from one of the professional services firms who got sacked for dressing up as a bat or something during Covid year one. Racist apparently. What a pathetic country we’ve devolved into.
Some Mak Siccar wisdom for those of us in old age, and those hoping to reach old age.
The three (Never) rules of old age:
I’ll show myself out.
“Never trust a fart”
One of the ouens served thirty years in the Navy. He said the best advice he was given was “Never run the risk of farting, wearing whites..”
Mzzz Allan had this apology in the Hun:
For real? After reading this codswallop, it is difficult to come to any other conclusion that she is lying through her teeth.
She only did this to act tough on crime after being pressured by the wider community. Just disgusting.
I suspect they have a bit of a giggle when bourgeois home owners have their private sanctuaries violated. Didn’t Marx say property is theft.
Nah, Marx was into communism.
The phrase came from an anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Gotcha
Apparently it was a white out during Pong and Andrews toadying up to the Chinese block for votes.
Forbidden entry based on race.
https://x.com/BecFreedom/status/1899777493533700366
Police in attendance why?
Wong has also suddenly discovered a liking for wombats.
Great, another wombat whisperer.
That was on talkback today, with pete davis, a stooge for the liars, mumblebumbling when callers got stuck into mr wong.
Mike Huckabee’s Biblical Vision for Israel
As a Christian Zionist, Huckabee’s theology poses no physical or spiritual threat to the Jewish people, nor does it contain any trace of anti-Semitism. “You can be a Jew and have nothing to do with Christianity,” Huckabee said in Jerusalem in 2017, “But you cannot be a Christian without having everything to do with all of Judaism.”
Asked if the excise on cigarettes was simply too high to effectively curb illegality, Mr Butler said the 70 per cent tax on legal cigarettes was the “best practice ratio” recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Drop the tax to 10% and the illegal trade will disappear. And no there won’t be a huge increase in smokers. Since when did the WHO get anything right.
Same with pot.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Marijuana Riches… (12 Mar)
I was dropping by the mechanic today to book for rego and saw yet another tobacconist has newly set up in the shopping strip. I hope no one burns it down.
Curb illegality? All it’s done is encourage it. A huge black market (which simply didn’t exist pre kevni ruff’s extortionate excise increases), supplemented by the odd fire bombing or twenty of legal tobacco vendors.
Yet another public health policy triumph.
The smokers at work pay less than 10% of the cost of a legal packet for their durries.
I’ve only seen it once. The Chinese kids at Broadway sell chop chop and the girls flog knockoff cosmetics.
Shocked my innocence.
Chop chop is the go. A big bag of it under the counter in the shops.
Abbot also introduced a Tobacco excise of 12 1/2 percent a year for four years.
At this risk of blowing smoke, Snic was right.
Fabulous performance from all involved.
Opinions will vary.
Late in 2016, we had the honour of singing with Colin Hay, the incredible talent behind Australian 80s band Men At Work. Hundreds came out to learn our backups to his smash hit “Overkill” at Brooklyn’s The Hall At MP. We rehearsed the parts and then Colin came out to sing lead. And then he gave a private concert for everyone in the room (with Colin’s approval we’ll get those vids up too) If you love this one as much as we do, share it widely!
Choir! Choir! Choir! / Colin Hay – Men At Work “Overkill”
Winston Smith.
Any updates on the abandoned dog?
Yes, she came around first thing this morning. I’d put out Elsie and the parrots feeds, and a bowl of water and bikkies for nameless.
She was standing at the bottom of the steps, wagging her tail so I got her another bowl of bikkies.
She’s still very leery, while snaffling the bikkies she kept an eye on me, and her tail between her legs. I was watching from the verandah while sitting on a chair. When I stood up she backed away despite there being bikkies left, but came back when I went inside.
I went shopping looking for the suggested Tuna and prawn sauce cat food that was suggested but I think it’s not available out here.
Early days, and she’s still scrawny as hell, but we’ll see what happens.
Seafood Cocktail in prawn jelly, Winston. 😀
Every Supermarket has its own home brand version.
OK, I get some tomorrow – now that I’ve written it down and remembered it.
You are a good man, Winston.
We’ve basically had a political class that has equated Donald Trump to Jack the Ripper, Ivan Milat, Ted Bundy and Son of Sam.
No wonder Trump is ‘pissed off’. I would be too.
Shirley, there’s some, still alive, post WW2 paperwork that bans conscription in Germany ..? .. LOL!
As Germany Debates Conscription, ‘Gender Equality’ Means Women Should Be Drafted To Fight (& Die) For Their Country
Probably not as they used it extensively during the Cold War. All the medically fit blokes went unless you decided to live in Berlin or do some other service in lieu.
I can also see German troops in Ukraine going down super well with the Russians for obvious reasons.
They’ve already had local Nazis there!
If there’s anything that will send the Russians into a rage, its a tank with the Balkenkreuz on the turret, on their western border.
They are not rational on this matter and understandably so.
Seen Isla, She-Wolf of the SS?
….very dedicated and effective fighter for ze wermacht, that one.
“Hey Doc, if I give up cigarettes, wine, women and song, will I live longer?”
“No, but it will feel like it.”
Peter Sellers
Muppet Songs: Peter Sellers – Cigarettes & Whiskey
Poncy arrogant fat ex-sportsman waaahn connoisseur news (the Tele):
Whoopsie.
Glorious. Just glorious.
We here at the Cat called this when his first BS claims of kidnapping became public.
Seemed a little too Sydney.
a street-level drug dealer
…so, a plant?
Rex Patrick shows the lengths Albo & co are going to keep the AUKUS nuclear waste sites secret.
https://michaelwest.com.au/radioactive-secrets-fight-to-hide-aukus-nuclear-waste-sites-gets-absurd/
The sneakiest government in Australian history.
Know your place, citizen.
Your role is to fund their operation, not to question it.
Bury it under Ayers Rock – the Wagyl will object if it doesn’t like the stuff.
If it doesn’t object, it will be OK.
There was some serious consideration being given to a burial site near here.
Large granite blob aka Raeside batholith to the west was looked at for lower grade radioactive waste, the it all went quiet even though there was more investigations etc going on.
FFS – chuck it into the subduction zone above NZ. It will get into the submantle zone and decay away safely.
Mmmmmm tasty:
Bureau of Meteorology – Western Australia Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Perth Area
Simon Holmes a Court is also an election denier, stating he doesn’t believe the results in Freo and that it needs to be contested in court!
Seriously… LOL!!!!
I’ve been having much popcornesque fun with the progress of two high profile shows. One is the semi live action woke reboot of Snow White, which is shaping up to be a complete disaster when it is released in a week or so. And the other is Sparkle’s cooking show. Although perhaps “cooking” is a bit of a stretch description.
I Watched Meghan Markle’s Bizarre New Show So You Don’t Have To (10 Mar)
The author is a food blogger, so she knows about such things. With a dry, very dry, and straight-faced sense of humour that had me in stitches. I especially liked the bit about the bees.
I’m amused by the fact she’s been cooking with bacon and also eggs in frittatas and such.
For years she’d been telling anyone who’d listen that she was a committed Vegan. She was also so proud of the fact that she’d turned Harry to being a Vegan. hahahahaha
Do you call someone a vegan when you keep their nuts in your purse.
“Megan prances around …” lol
It’s beautifully written dry humor, thanks Bruce.
*One is the semi live action woke reboot of Snow White*
I’m torn between not wanting to support the Zegler woke-fest, and curiosity to see for myself how bad it actually is.
Lysander
March 13, 2025 3:42 pm
Mmmmmm tasty:
Bureau of Meteorology – Western Australia Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Perth Area
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Cheers for the heads up. As I type, a supercell is crossing above Yanchep.
BOM forecasting 0-6mm here today. Reckon we’ve hit that already and Oz Cyclone Chasers reckon there’s more coming tonight. A lot more.
Looking at it on the radar + page on Windy.
We got a good load of rain and there’s more coming.
Heaps of lightning but no hail as predicted…
Wow keep digging Burke, free goals again for the opposition, that’s if they choose to run with it.
Burka and Pong going after a Yank who picked up a baby wombat. Muslim hate clerics, like one Michael Smith highlighted this morning not so much.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/tony-burke-says-american-influencer-sam-jones-visa-under-review-after-wombat-video/news-story/68fb905dc07afa4cedc228cdd2825f46
The same people who are apoplectic about this incident are usually fine with surrogacy.
usually fine with abortion.
Yup the animal might have been distressed when it happened but I’d say it wouldn’t even remember it now. Not like she was feeding crocs woolworths chooks, don’t think that chick got much at all.
I’m finding that analogy a bit difficult to follow.
Are you suggesting the mummy wombat could have given permission in exchange for money? 😀
Was it a Trans wombat?
I’m with Gemma Tognini on this one. There’s a pathology around animal cruelty.
The chick and her dopey satellite have had enough thrown at them. Now that the political opportunists have become involved, my sympathy for Mum wombat and bub is no less, but it is also tempered by disgust at the choir of grotesques wanting to throw the book at them.
Burke will, of course, remain silent about poor doomed creatures jammed in car boots and dispatched in suburban backyards in the upcoming eid.
There wasn’t much outrage at the footage of Abo kids using a Python for a skipping rope.
Oh wait, it’s their Kulcha. lol.
I remember when Fatso the wombat was a fixture on A Country Practice for years and years, and no one was outraged.
I met a couple of the cast members, who said they were terrified of him.
Wombats are not cute and cuddly – they can be quite aggressive and are very strong with sharp claws.
I saw a story earlier today where an outraged pollimuppet (I think it was Elbow) described wombats as ‘gentle.’ Typical inner city ignoramus, romanticising that which he knows nothing about, the natural world.
He does identify as a Wombat.
@john_macgowan 39m
Thanks for the list of insults, brief as it is. It’s a selection of personal, abusive statements and even parliamentary motions from Australia’s political class.
No wonder he won’t take calls from these creeps.
Yet we have Mr Bolt, on Sky, fulminating against Trump and telling us that that isn’t how you treat friends.
Indeed. I wouldn’t give them the muck off my shoes.
So-called “friends” like Trump’s in Australia can’t insult and mock the U.S. president and then expect no repercussions.
I honestly don’t know how anyone can get ahead these days. Every freaking bill I paid today were government imposts.
totals or residuals
land Tax
Rates
Bass/GST.
Water rates.
I had some commercial rents that came in, and the bank balance is less to where it was before the credits. All gonesky.
This is unreal.
They are scum bags the way they charge on the aggregate value, biggest rort.
Rolled everything into SMSF years ago after spouse was made TPI with DVA, no more paperwork for me, our people sorted all that. Otherwise I would be doing the same as you.
Should have bought Gold or Silver or good Company shares.
Remember when an off-duty Aboriginal police officer in SA was filmed stoning a wombat to death?
I do.
I don’t condone what the stupid Yank ‘influencer’ (what the fck is that?) did but I find the outrage and sanctimony over the Yank’s idiocy a tad hypocritical.
I get no respect at all. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlxcVT0u4c&t=404s
Hokay Progria…Im thinking Rodney Dangerfield before even looking on your link. 😉
Yuppers…
6:30
– Nicky Pompanis?
6:32
– He’s my lawyer, ya know,
6:33
very good lawyer.
6:34
– Yeah?
6:35
– He had a rape charge reduced to tailgating.
Love Back to School and Caddyshack. 🙂
Happy you enjoyed it.
We need more Rodney Dangerfield’s.
Burke will, of course, remain silent about poor doomed creatures jammed in car boots and dispatched in suburban backyards in the upcoming eid.
Indeed, and I also note how the once reputable, now politicised, RSPCA says little about such things yet has a lot to say about wanting to ban ‘kosher slaughter’.
What is the practical difference, if any, between halal and kosher slaughter?
Apart, of course, from who is doing it.
BJ, I don’t know of a single Jew who would bundle a distressed animal into their car boot, transport it to their home and dispatch it in their yard.
I have met Jews who are certified kosher butchers and observers who visit abattoirs and either do the deed or ensure it is done in the correct way. At all times the animal is respected, and I can’t imagine them doing anything cruel. The animal is killed with a slice to the throat and the blood is drained away.
If you don’t like the thought of animals being killed for meat, don’t eat meat.
Once dead, the usual portioning of the carcass takes place, with only certain parts considered kosher. The rest is put aside for general consumption.
Cassie is more than welcome to correct me on this. My conversation with one of these guys happened some years ago.
Halal is ‘special’ ritualistic slaughtering done by ‘special’ people who get violent when they are told ‘no’.
Anyone with a three year old knows the routine – and the consequences.
I want to see a ‘journalist’ with the balls to get a drone and do a photo sweep over particular suburbs and present them to the RSPCA and the relevant government Departments of Health.
Dover:
I saw a quick vid of Generalismo Puking in camo combat fatigues earlier today. WTF is going on: is he leading the charge now?
Hey, at least he wasn’t bare chested, which is a small gift to humanity. He looked really snappy – all 5’5″ of him even with insole boosters.
He looked the part. Visiting the HQ that just sent the Ukes scurrying away from Kursk.
I read that he had to send the trousers to his personal tailor in Rome (Brioni) to have the hems raised by 6 inches because the Russian military doesn’t issue anything that short
Dad joke.
Got me fair square on that one!
One small correction. You don’t own a second home in Victoria because with land tax, you’re basically renting the house from the state government.
The question is how long it will before other states jump on this band wagon
Not long.
There was discussion upthread about Roombas. I have always wanted a Roomba.
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1899942057461911930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1899942057461911930%7Ctwgr%5Edd151e655da5b842710fb740dbeb88b9e79f8e44%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Gee, I wonder why the average Canadian loathes this creep?
No words for this one. Not for the faint-hearted:
RAPE JIHAD: Horrific Rape, Mutilation, Torture of Alawite, Christian, Non-Muslim Girls in Syria – Geller Report
As with October 7, one must see these photos. I hate to do it, because I know they will stay in my memory. But you must – to comprehend the savagery that is unleashed by unhinged fanatics. In doing so, this knowledge should forever inform all positions you form in respect to the Middle East and Islamic fanaticism.
Know this, and never forget it. Thank you cohenite.
The same as Oct 7. These people are beyond beasts, they are lower than the earliest hominids scraping around the desert floor.
Sheer brutality on display. Isis-style terror.
Awful to see it happening all over again.
Good.
Peter Dutton commits to implement all proposals from Sky News Antisemitism Summit if Coalition wins election (Sky News, 13 Mar)
And another excellent way to distinguish the Coalition from the antisemitic ALP and Greens. Hammer them with their foul 1930’s ideology.
More proof that white liberal women are nuts;
Captain Kirk Meets Ashley Judd – F*#%-ing Hilarious!
What a nasty, incoherent rant.
Reform UK is splintering apart as we watch – and the hopes of the centre right splinter with it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8uIdnKygg
Splintering on a single issue of the groomers doesn’t sound like good politics to me. Reform needs to remain a unified Party, where there is some room for dissent, as in all Parties, but with a policy program alternative to the Tories. Labor is going to be turfed, so Reform should rise as the better alternative with a Trumpian approach. The challenger sounds like a sheer opportunist without much going for him.
Dumping Farage would be the end of Reform as a popular movement. It would produce only splinter groups who would fade away.
Farage would do better to include addressing this issue in his platform and making peace with Tommy in prison, bringing him into the fold.
He won’t lose supporters by doing that.
Too late, I fear Lizzie.
Farage does not tolerate dissent. It seems to be a personality issue…and if the criminal complaint against Lowe turns out to be vexatious, nobody of any worth is going to risk casting their lot with Reform as a candidate.
Reform is drifting leftwards as Farage moves to the Uniparty and his social circle.
He will never stand up for the abused children, or Tommy Robinson. They are not his people.
I suspect class is indeed a factor, Winston.
Thanks for the doggie update above, Winston.
That’s cool – she came back this evening for another feed. And got it.
Schumer takes the bait.
Schumer Shutdown: Senate Refuses To Pass Continuing Resolution After Democrats Melt Down (13 Mar)
The problem for the Democrats is the MAGA Republicans want a government shutdown. Thye’re trying to cut half of the bloated government and are being stymied by activist lefty judges. Well if the whole government has to shut down that overrides those donkeys in black robes rather neatly.
I like the recess announcement. That means the Dems either have to fold or watch all their public serpents go unpaid for the next two weeks. And get blamed for it.
You Know That Hamas-Supporting Student Trump Is Deporting? He Has British Security Clearance
And what does that tell you of Muslim infiltration into the British Aristocracy/Bureaucracy?
WATCH: EPA Chief Announces Biggest Regulation Wipeout in US History
If This Is the Reaction to the Senate Dems’ First Move on the Spending Bill, They Better Rethink It
Why are there no topless Teslas around?
-added complications would blow out the price too much?
-loss of aerodynamicism would cut the range too much?
-brand doesn’t want display of perceived wealth?
-brand wants to look like a like-for-like replacement to the family sedan?
After Elon’s Roadster- which was even a Targa top, not an outright convertible- I haven’t really seen any. Not even two-door coupe’s.
Exclusive–Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards
I asked Grok
what was the US Federal deficit in 2016?
I then asked
What was the % of GDP?
So, it was 3.1% of GDP; concerning but not down the cliff to the abyss.
So I asked, what caused it to be get so big now – 6% plus GDP deficit.
In short, it’s a freaking mess Hiden left behind.
It’s a pity you didn’t ask if, and by how much, fraud contributed to the financial disaster.
The Inflation Reduction Act was the biggest single fraud in US history.
Stroke of a pen.
Boom, money sprayed out like never before.
Iraq, Afghanistan, COVID, GFC were all made up of many modular style frauds.
Although Clinton was a Demorat, he did manage to balance the US Federal Budget,
It has been an ongoing Train wreck since then.
No AI is needed for that.
Some accurate information about the Clinton presidency.
Actually, it was the Republicans responsible for the surplus. The Republican Congress kept pushing Clinton toward fiscal discipline. Later, Clinton shut down the government because the Republicans demanded spending restraint, which he refused to accept. They eventually backed down—caving to spending increases—and the rest is history.
The excellence of that Congress at the time most likely contributed to Clinton winning the 1996 election. Clinton saying, “The era of big government is over” came from the pressure he was under from the GOP congress.
Another factor was the peace dividend from the Soviet Union collapsing into a ditch.
Plus, the dot-com boom created a massive revenue inflow to the government, which he couldn’t fully spend due to the discipline imposed by the Republicans.
The Republican Congress under Gingrich was the best we’ve seen in our lifetime.
Bull Shite comment as usual.
Another factor was the peace dividend from the Soviet Union collapsing into a ditch.
Get real here ‘Jer Cough.’ There was never a so called ‘Peace Dividend’. It was all BS. Did US Military Spending ever drop? NO.
Plus, the dot-com boom created a massive revenue inflow to the government, which he couldn’t fully spend due to the discipline imposed by the Republicans.
Nice, so why couldn’t the Republican Wimps use that discipline from 2001 from when ‘Dumbo Bush’ took over all the way to now.
Cos’ it is all a load of Bollocks. And this is why the US Federal Debt is now around $33 Trillion US.
Trump and his Team are now on the case. Thank goodness. The Republicans are just as inept as the Demoncrats.
Same as Laybore and the Libs/Nats here.
Go Trump, Elon and the Team. Kick ARSE.
Wonderful.
President Trump Signs EO That He Will IGNORE All Lower Court Rulings Until SCOTUS Rules on the Constitutionality of Activist Judges
I wonder if a mass sacking of Judges who overstep their authority is in the future?
What would be really nice is if the US Government shuts down for two weeks that teams of Doggies can come in all the alphabet agency buildings and take away the computers. Every single one.
Public serpents are wired into their PCs, so without them they’d be able to do less harm. And if done quickly they could get in and get out with them before some Biden judge puts in an injunction.
I like your thinking.
“I feel a great disturbance in the bureaucracy , as if millions of feet were suddenly shot“
On the worldwide censorship industrial complex paid for by the US taxpayer.
@elonmusk
Interesting thread
From the Oz.
Native title ruling not the success it’s claimed to be
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Much of the concern about potential compensation claims that will flow from this week’s native title ruling in the High Court is overblown.
Yes, the judges have opened the way for claims to be lodged against the federal government in relation to past actions that extinguished native title without payment of compensation.
And if all potential claims succeed, it’s logical to expect that tens of millions of dollars would be transferred from federal taxpayers to Indigenous claimants.
But here’s the harsh reality that seems to have been lost on those who are either celebrating this ruling as another Mabo or are now terrified about the cost to the federal budget.
One of the most lucrative categories of potential claims – those concerning mineral rights in the Northern Territory – seem set to fail at the first hurdle.
One of the High Court judges has identified the vulnerability of such claims.
In order to succeed, claimants in the Territory would need to prove they actually had native title rights to minerals which the federal government had arranged for others to mine.
That could be impossible because native title rights to minerals in the NT appear to have been legally extinguished before the federal government took control of the territory from South Australia.
Much of the media’s attention this week has centred on the High Court’s leading judgment which was written jointly by Chief Justice Stephen Gageler and Justices Jacqueline Gleeson, Jayne Jagot and Robert Beech-Jones.
Had more attention been given to the separate judgment of Justice Simon Steward, it would have been clear that compensation claims concerning the extinguishment of native title over mineral deposits in the territory could be fatally flawed.
The case before the High Court arose from a claim by the Gumatj clan in Arnhem Land who want compensation because the Commonwealth in 1968 allowed bauxite mining on land they said was covered by their non-exclusive native title.
Those rights, according to the Gumatj clan, included rights to the minerals under the ground.
But Steward’s judgment says native title rights to those minerals had already been extinguished before the Territory was carved off from SA in 1911 and surrendered to the Commonwealth, which ran it until self-government in 1978.
Correct. As I noted yesterday. Stewart J’s judgment gave me hope some sanity is still present in the Judiciary.
I contend that any financial compensation for land should be based on the estimated value of that land when ownership was acquired, plus what value might have been derived from that land by the original owners in the interim.
Fixing a financial value to hunting grounds would surely be a challenge, however I cannot understand why the compensation should be based on the present assessed value of the land where value has been added by other than the original owners.
Jesse Watters Primetime 3/12/25 FULL END SHOW HD | BREAKING FOX NEWS March 12, 2025
So, It Was A Cover Up Then
Cassie is more than welcome to correct me on this. My conversation with one of these guys happened some years ago.
You are 100% correct.
You will enjoy this.
JUST IN: Rubio Puts ‘Antisemitic’ Foreign Students On Notice After Mahmoud Khalil Detainment By ICE
Famous Fords continued.
The American Graffiti coupe driven by Ford Harrison.
1932 Ford Model B coupe, puke yellow, Chevy small block.
BJ, I don’t know of a single Jew who would bundle a distressed animal into their car boot, transport it to their home and dispatch it in their yard.
Animals are accorded great respect in Judaism. There is a Midrash story about how when we Jews left Egypt the canines remained silent whilst we packed and ran. In other words, the canines didn’t alert their Egyptian masters.
The consumption of meat is not a right, it’s a gift and one we must honour. Hence the slaughter of any animal for human consumption is done with great skill.
Having said that we are allowed to kill vermin. I remember my grandmother had a particular aversion to flies and she would delight in spraying her home in the Shire with copious amounts of either Mortein or Pea Beu (her favourite), in the process poisoning her husband, children, grandchildren and the family kelpies who would all flee the house desperate to breath some non-chemical air!
Correct. Eating meat is the reason we aren’t puny human weaklings like the Chinese and Japanese.
I like the Buddhist idea that we should pray for and thank the animals we devour. Carnivorism gives us the physical prowess to win wars. It is a fine tradition.
In the Bible, man was vegetarian up until the flood, after which God granted Noah permission to eat animal meat (without blood). It seems that in the post-flood world humans would need more nourishment than plants alone could provide, likely on account of the changed conditions (i.e. increased disorder compared with the ante-diluvian world) prevailing upon the earth.
(This interpretation is applicable whether one takes the text literally or as literature.)
Didn’t the Stone Age Humans hunt Mammoths for meat before God was invented.
And aren’t there cave paintings of humans hunting animals before God was invented.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I don’t think that Stone Age Humans were vegetarians or any others that came later for that matter unless it was a conscious decision.
U.K., Canada and Australia
3 Nations – Same Collapse. The truth is worse than you think!
Military history – odd snippet.
[Interrogation Report No. 54 – Naval Paymaster Lt. Inagaki, Riichi].
Might this imply that ‘invasion money’ was produced by the Imperial Japanese Army only?
Beetrooter blind drunk on Blot.
Again.
It’s the wrong way round.
His missus is the one who should be bladdered every time she goes to bed with it.
It’s past time when Barnaby should have quit politics to spend more time with his family. And I do mean spending time with his new, young family.
An embarrassment.
It’s not the message, but the messenger who counts.
An approved messenger could publicly state that strapping a live goat to the bonnet of your car would absorb the CO2 your car produces, thus via The Goat Method (TM) making your vehicle ‘carbon neutral’, and the yapparati would either (a). Seriously advocate for The Goat Method (TM) using goatphobic tactics, or (b) if it were judged too absurd, completely ignore it and ridicule those who revealed it as whackos and conspiracy theorists.
If the message has the imprimatur of The Tribe, it will be energetically promulgated, regardless of its content.
The point, of course, is that to counter such tactics, the first target must be the messenger/s, NOT the message (that comes later).
Carl Higbie: Trump proves liberals wrong about the economy, again
Newt Gingrich: The Democrats went nuts
From The Oz……
Sydney gym owner Sayit Erhan Akca, who fled Australia by boat while on bail over drug charges is reportedly the man police allege was responsible the ‘terror caravan’ plot and other anti-Semitic attacks.
Sayit Erhan Akca.….another pesky Presbyterian?
Amazing how NSWplod keep getting played by one section of the community.
It’s almost as like the plod is on a go slow with them.
Who would have thunk it.
Now that would be convenient. So after all the beat up the alleged perp’s now gone missing O/S. Has all the attributes of an ill conceived and executed spook operation implemented to gain media attention.
Oh well, I certainly won’t be buying any more Bianca Spender clothes!
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See below, Pogs.
Thanks Cassie.
Carla must be turning in her grave.
Everyone knows US Presidents are not allowed to drive on public roads from the second they take office until the day they die.
Apparently this is a surprise to the legacy media.
Journalism just aint what it used to be.
Is someone saying they should be allowed to?
Rockdoctor
March 13, 2025 4:06 pm
Just caught up with all this.
These morons need to shut their stupid fat gobs now and stop embarrassing this country even further.
*Pretty sure I saw a badger in shot as well. Right at the start of the clip.
Peter Sellers
Muppet Songs: Peter Sellers – Cigarettes & Whiskey
Thanks ‘P’
Peter Sellers was one of the greatest mimics ever. And a funny Man as well.
I like this one as well to –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUZCXaStvnc
Chemist Warehouse have updated their ads.
Previously they mentioned cost of living and cost of fruit & veg.
They’ve updated their ad to mention power bills.
Just saw it on Fox during the NRL.
Albo & co will be grinding their teeth over that ad during every game leading up to the election.
Meanwhile China
Total China is 58%.
The US figure is high because of the impact of very high medical costs in a relative sense.
Wow, Chemist Warehouse follow up ad “during these tough economic times” and then dropped in their discount to pensioners.
This is the kind of thing that results in Labor governments saying things like “we’ll have to have a look at that”.
Peter Sellers was one of the greatest mimics ever. And a funny Man as well.
As well as a rotten husband and father. He was a particularly nasty individual.
And you have that on good authority?
Did not the bio movie featuring Geoffrey Rush as Sellers make that clear? His treatment of his mother was also unkind.
Is that good authority? He was still a funny Man and a great mimic.
I do
Correct on both . . . as an actor he often touched on being a genius but as a person he was a revolting father and husband.
His last wife was the much maligned and tragic Lynne Frederick. She is much hated by just about everyone and died young. But my goodness she was one of the prettiest English women I’ve ever seen.
Sharri Markson revealed this tonight and the Oz has it up now…
Fashion designer Bianca Spender cancelled a live, in-person discussion at one of her stores in Sydney on Thursday after it emerged an artist she was hosting in conversation had posted a slew of bizarre anti-Israel content to Instagram in recent months.
Monica Rani Rudhar was scheduled to appear with Spender at the sold-out talk in Double Bay, but Spender called it off a few hours before the 6.30pm start time once images from Rudhar’s social media accounts came to her attention.
The worst of the posts were mostly crank theories that Rudhar reposted from other people’s accounts, including one that pushed a debunked claim that Israel was harvesting organs from dead Palestinians.
The claim was first published in a 2009 Guardian newspaper headline that the paper retracted the following day, and which Rudhar seemingly didn’t pressure-test with a Google search. “This shit is REAL!!” she wrote.
In a separate post, Rudhar re-upped the content of a Kuwaiti journalist that depicted an Israeli hostage kissing the forehead of his armed Hamas captor, a gesture carried out under duress and instruction from a Hamas cameraman on the day of the hostage’s release from Gaza.
“A single kiss shattered decades of propaganda,” read the accompanying caption, Rudhar quite tragically failing to grasp that the content itself was a screaming piece of Hamas propaganda.
The rest of the caption said: “They tell us these people had been plucked from the depths of hell … yet, here the hostages are kissing the very people we are taught to fear.”
A spokeswoman for Spender confirmed that Rudhar’s artworks had been removed from display in Spender’s store, which makes sense because Spender is apparently a supporter of the Jewish state, but she’s also the sister of teal MP Allegra Spender, whose seat of Wentworth has the highest concentration of Jewish voters in the country, and who really doesn’t need kertwangs of this kind ahead of an election.
And maybe it’s because an election is about to be called, but just last week Allegra abruptly decided to opt publicly for a defunding of Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, a full eight months after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and others had called for the same, that’s after they learned that its staff participated in the October 7 massacres and, in the case of at least one employee, held an Israeli hostage in their home.
“This event has nothing to do with Allegra Spender. We understand it is not even happening,” a spokesman for the political Spender told us.
Well, it certainly was happening until we – and others – asked questions about Rudhar’s involvement.
And it was scheduled to take place in the heart of Allegra’s seat, which is a heartland for support of Israel. And it was being hosted by her sister.
Noice, Days of Thunder on…
Yerk, Nicole Kidman.
And the midget in hi-heels.
Paul Murray is good on Sky News tonight belting into ‘Upgrade Albo’ and his spending, spending lunacy.
With borrowed money and taxing the shite out of us.
It’s quite comforting to know that Slug and Pong care more about baby wombats than Jews.
80,000 people sucked in to going to the AFL. Scrap another reason to remain in Melbbournibad.
P
March 13, 2025 3:05 pm
Peter Sellers
Muppet Songs: Peter Sellers – Cigarettes & Whiskey
Someone here doesn’t like Peter Sellers.
Interesting stuff tonight.
Apparently, Steve McQueen was a Wife Beater but I loved his films.
Apparently, John Lennon was a Wife Beater, but I loved his music and singing.
Apparently, Peter Sellers was a bad person, but I loved his humour and the way that he could mimic.
Anyone else that I have left out who is not perfect?
There must be loads more.
Chortle
Carlton. Get the phuck out of here.
Bwahahahahaaaa. Pretenders.
An oldie but a goodie.
Proof That People Have Always Known What Democrats Really Are
Great! I was hoping it would be that clip. 😀
Chinese ambassador says live fire exercise off Australian coast was ‘gesture of friendliness’
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Beijing’s man in Canberra ambassador Xiao Qian says the recent visit by Chinese warships wasn’t an act of aggression, but rather a “gesture of friendliness”.
Chinese warships stalked Australia’s coast for about three weeks, ending last week when they skirted Perth from a distance of about 314km before moving north towards Indonesia on Friday.
But Chinese ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian insisted the unannounced live fire drills were nothing to worry about.
“It is a gesture of friendliness that we are doing something here and please don’t worry about this,” Mr Xiao told 7 News.
Despite the precarious optics of China flexing its military muscle so close to Australian waters, the Chinese diplomat said the live-firing exercise on February 21 and 22 was conducted within international law.
Mr Xiao also pushed back at claims it put commercial aircraft at risk, insisting the exercise on the Tasman Sea was confined to machine gun fire towards a floating target.
“It has nothing to do with air. It does not affect air traffic,” he said.
“The Chinese side did make advance notice.”
The ambassador did claim, however, that freedom of navigation exercises involving the Australian navy and air force in the South China Sea do breach international law, warning “it might pose risk to an unexpected or unpredicted . . . dangerous skirmishes between the two sides”.
As the United States slaps tariffs on countries including China and Australia, Mr Xiao warned President Donald Trump’s 20 per cent tariff on China will not help the American economy or its people.
December 8th, 1941. Japanese Ambassador in Washington says yesterday’s bombing of Pearl Harbor was ” a gesture of friendliness.”
“The Chinese side did make advance notice.”
It was sent by carrier pigeon 7 days before but Australian Wedge Tail Eagle caught the pigeon and ate it. Whoops !!
He’s top drawer.
Sen. John Kennedy: Mr. Khalil ‘hates America’
Winston, if you are still awake.
I checked the cans I have, as well as Seafood Cocktail, look for Ocean Fish Platter. Different brands, different names, same contents. Cheers.
Thanks Pogria.
As you can see I’m having a little difficulty sleeping myself.
I’m about to read Kevin Rudds Memoirs – that should render me unconscious within 20 minutes…
Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise?
The corruption just keeps rolling along.
When are we going to see some arrests?
@DefiyantlyFree
Democrats went from mandating electric vehicle to lighting them on fire in six weeks. The party of idiocracy.
From the Spectator.
In a classic episode of Yes, Prime Minister, PM Jim Hacker is shocked to learn that the Royal Navy has more admirals than ships. Never want for reality to be outdone by comedy. The Royal Australian Navy has approximately 51 commission vessels and 78 admirals (one-star officers or higher).
This administocracy is not limited to the Royal Australian Navy. The Australian Army has 91 starred officers and the Royal Australian Air Force 69. In toto, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has 238 starred officers for 57,000 active-duty personnel. This equates to approximately 1 starred officer per 240 ADF members.
Lord Nelson would roll over in his grave.
Well there’s an area that a Musk Clone would love to get his teeth into.
Pick your favourite.
@OliLondonTV
Oregon mental health advisory board includes member who identifies as TURTLE.
A member advising Oregon’s Health Authority (OHA) on best practices and policies in mental health identifies as a terrapin species.
JD Holt who goes by the name JD Terrapin uses turtle pronouns.
“Hello everybody, it’s JD. I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns.”
She is part of a panel of ‘experts’ advising the state on mental health.
Spruce: NY Post
Hey TURTLE, can you lay turtle eggs? Because the lovely turtles that swim ashore on the lovely North Queensland beaches in Australia can.
Mother Nature rules and you don’t.
Fark off you idiot.
Dr. John Campbell
Serious DNA contamination
Brains Trust
has anyone gone to the Wentworth report and read the article by Ron Unz on the start of ww 2.
The British historian AP Taylor concluded in the 60s that 95% of Danzigs population wanted to join Germany.
The Polish dictatorship began the mistreat the German population within its borders.
I head something similar from Germans but the over riding opinion was Hitlers invasion of Poland to march into Russia.
The article mentions with Germanys invasion the Russians invaded the eastern border of Poland but no one did anything about this.Further Russia had a land grab from Finland, invaded the Baltic states and modern Moravia.
But no one did anything.
Sounds similar to the Ukraine war , anti Trump and why did the EU push the Ukraine.
I still remember the poisoning of the Russian father and daughter in Salisbury, England.
The Gaurdian wrote it was not Russia as there was a factory down the road which manufactured the same powder.
What changed and why.
With that line up, Carlton should not have lost that game.
The Dutch milk maiden, Makay, Weatering, Cripps – what is going on.
Spurs to win in the Europa Cup Friday morning Sydney time. COYS.
It’s as if Big John is still in charge.
Anyway, Sliante to all you mob.
Punishing the single malt and reading “Debunking Franklin Delano Roosevelt – the Man and the Myths.” Seems Roosevelt’s grandfather, Delano, was one of a number of Americans who made their fortunes trading opium, in China, in the mid 1800’s…
If we could all look into where these people made their money we would most likely be shocked.
And how many Democrats were involved in the Slave Trade?
About 100 percent?
If only natural persons can vote, surely only natural persons should be permitted to donate to a campaign?
@JohnLeFevre
I spent 2 hours with Dan Crenshaw.
To keep it simple: He HATES Donald Trump. Hates him. To the core. He said it, point blank.
If you support Trump, MAGA, MAHA, America First, or the Republican Party, know this:
Dan Crenshaw is your enemy, and you should never vote for him again.
The fact that he’s also a charlatan huckster, bully, blowhard, pseudo policy intellectual, and sanctimonious cocksucker is coincidental.
Who the fark is he? And who cares?
he’s the bloke who wears an eye patch and climbed over the bodies of his mates to get where he is.
None of them can tolerate him, and he refuses to acknowledge several.
He’s another Tim Walz.
JC
March 13, 2025 9:27 pm
Reply to JC
Bull Shite comment as usual.
Another factor was the peace dividend from the Soviet Union collapsing into a ditch.
Get real here ‘Jer Cough.’ There was never a so called ‘Peace Dividend’. It was all BS. Did US Military Spending ever drop? NO.
Plus, the dot-com boom created a massive revenue inflow to the government, which he couldn’t fully spend due to the discipline imposed by the Republicans.
Nice, so why couldn’t the Republican Wimps use that discipline from 2001 from when ‘Dumbo Bush’ took over all the way to now.
Cos’ it is all a load of Bollocks. And this is why the US Federal Debt is now around $33 Trillion US.
Trump and his Team are now on the case. Thank goodness. The Republicans are just as inept as the Demoncrats.
Same as Laybore and the Libs/Nats here.
Go Trump, Elon and the Team. Kick ARSE.
Bing Crosby — wife beater
Roman Polanski — pedo
Charlie Chaplin — pedo
Walter Brennan — vile racist
Bill Cosby — predator
Roald Dahl- antisemite
FDR- crossdresser
Kevin Rudd- ratf*cker
Taylor Swift- lipsyncher
Benny Wong- actually born a woman
…i think that’s about it
There are Ukrainian reports that Russian soldiers are eating cats and dogs. Maybe, just maybe, the NK soldiers claim has some legs. Hmm.
‘Not perfect’ is continually not taking the bins out.
Systematically giving the missus the rounds of the kitchen is not ‘not perfect’. That is more accurately described as ‘being a coward and a flog’.
Didn’t mind Peter Sellers’ work – but he is an actor, and not necessarily a great bloke
Also, Mick Jagger greatly enjoyed the feel of testicles against his chin.
Artists who succeed are strong characters, which is something different from saying they are saintly.
And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade, Malcolm Cowley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jx7ytnhv8
It wasn’t just 3 children that had to pay for his actions, 8 more physically injured, many more psychologically injured, a whole community devastated, law abiding citizens criminalised, and nation angry and bewildered .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0xBSpNtWFqI?feature=share
On two tier sentencing from GBNews.