Seems like Witkoff is actual SoS and Rubio is just an Assistant.
Open Thread – Mon 17 March 2025
- ANZAC Day Thread
- Open Thread – Thurs 24 April 2025
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
- Open Thread – Monday of the Angel 2025
- Between a rock and a hard place on May 3
I pinkie promise you that I didn’t make it up. I read it years ago when I was looking for…
SOHRAB Ahmari piece. Food for thought. https://firstthings.com/pope-francis-trad-icon/
Duchess Sophie Joins London’s Dawn Anzac Day Service
Cloward-Piven and the Migrant Invasion
Irish boxer Conor McGregor in full flight in White House visit:
‘What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability. Our money is being spent on overseas issues that is nothing to do with the Irish people.
‘The illegal immigration racket is running ravage on the country.
‘There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop, so issues need to be addressed and the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this because if not there will be no place to come home and visit.’
Any chance he can enter Irish politics?
Daily Mail
Any chance they can dig up the thousands of weapons the IRA buried in the countryside and do something about it?
Or is the IRA on the wrong side?
The NIMBY noise complaints about late night venues in Sydney:
Snork.
Nobody laughs with him anymore.
Today’s ABC article on energy moves the debate towards gas as the best and cheapest option for relieving power prices whilst the big renewables transition occurs. To do this we should cut back on gas exports and build up reserves. Ian Verrender’s article unlike Kohler’s article yesterday (see my post at 9.15am yesterday) doesn’t mention the futility of pursuing net zero but moves into why gas is needed, coal is out of contention because plants are old and and they can’t fire up quick enough and have to compete with “cheap” renewables. Nuclear according to Verrender is also out of the equation because it’s too expensive and takes too long to construct and he tosses in the word “dangerou” for good measure. My guess is that this is now close to the position that Labor will take to the election. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/household-electricity-prices-gas-exports-nuclear-renewable-power/105060854
Yep, faced with the reality of disastrous ‘net zero’ policies, proponents are now weasel-wording and deflecting all over the place. The targets for blame vary, but they never admit what the actual cause of the problem is.
How long they get away with it remains to be seen, but the SFLs are certainly not helping to introduce rational discussion. In fact, they are just doing the same thing.
Still, it could signal the beginning of the end. Let’s hope so.
COP30 in Brazil should be the last such meeting as the world can no longer afford any more of renewables wastefulness. By the way, I wonder how much of the funding for this shindig came from the USAID billions since Brazil could afford a whole new highway through the jungle to the venue.
We are now at peace with Eurasian gas.
We have always been at peace with Eurasian gas.
Wont wash with the Greens. Will the Liars risk those preferences?
Bowen still very much in “Let them eat cake” mode.
Those proposing renewables firmed with gas are making the “backup fallacy”. A backup system should be designed to support 100% of the demand on the main system; demand on a system doesn’t simply decline merely because it has switched to backup.
And if a full renewables system needs a full gas system as a backup, it can’t be the cheaper option than gas alone.
The Salvadorians do have a quite firm approach, I must say:
Photos: First Look at Trump’s Deported Gang Members Arriving at El Salvador’s Mega-Prison (17 Mar)
It certainly seems to work.
Salvadorans have a Trump-like president who is doing what they want and not to please the elites and the criminals.
Not so frigging smug and tough now, are they?
what did joe know?
Quite witty writing style, and worth reading for that alone. “A few fries short of a happy meal”!
@baldwin_daniel_
The DOJ responds to Judge Boasberg:
Bondi highlights immediately “the Court lacks the jurisdiction” to interfere with Trump’s national security and foreign affairs authority.
They also say Trump’s role as Commander in Chief is “not subject to judicial review or intervention.”
This is rubbish. The quicker these lines if argument get put to SCOTUS the better. I don’t think they’ll overrule Marbury v Madison.
Seems that the Toodyay Land Corporation has got their milch cow established. Now no-one will touch a wet rock without paying simony to the Mob, lest they scare away the snuffaluffagus snake who also is the water.
Note, their ABC also aims a spit at Tony Maddox.
Dammit, link.
Toodyay Shire has their blackmail delayed, probably because being public serpents, they’re perpetually in and out of hand-patting workshops, and so can plead guilty and innocent simultaneously. No such luck for Maddox, even though he was *checks notes* doing exactly the same thing as the shire workers, ie repairing an existing structure.
There’s a long letter in the local paper, from the chairman of the local Aboriginal Corporation, complaining that Noongar people have unfairly taken the brunt of the issue, and continue to be targeted…
Masterclass indeed.
@EricLDaugh
STEPHEN MILLER GOES OFF ON ROGUE JUDGES: “If a district court judge can be involved in the conduct of foreign policy, under no definition do we have a democracy in this country.
“If we get into a place in this country where district court judges could interfere and direct specific targeting or non-targeting, and say who to control territory? Could direct which general on the battlefield is gonna be in charge of making which decisions? Could direct where we can send this military asset to this country, but not this country? Could direct what intelligence we could share with Israel versus with Saudi Arabia?”
“I mean, you know, not to get too philosophical, but the for a long time in this country, its power has been concentrated principally in, in two areas, the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary.”
“And power has been increasingly concentrated in these two areas. And in the case of, the hard left, the the judiciary takes steps to protect the bureaucracy, and that further shrinks the circle in which democracy is occurring.”
“This is really fundamentally about democracy. The American people said to get these terrorist gangs the H*LL out of our country, the president has plenary authority under the constitution, under the Alien Enemies Act, under core Article 2 powers to achieve that.”
“And no district court judge who presides over some small, like, little geography of the whole country could possibly presume to have the authority to direct the expulsion of terrorists from our soil, who, by the way, are also here illegally.”
Masterclass! @StephenM
A judiciary that overlooks the “illegally” part of the whole thing is not to be taken seriously as they have completely abandoned their duties.
@JDVance
There were violent criminals and rapists in our country. Democrats fought to keep them here.
President Trump deported them.
The people understand that but the media are not capable of it.
The media aren’t aware of it because they choose to be unaware of it.
So that tells us the murders, rapes and bashings have been happening to the wrong people, doesn’t it?
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: The FBI’s Joint Terror?sm Task Force is now getting involved with the swattings of conservatives, including the attack on my father
The FULL FORCE of the federal government is now investigating this as TERRORlSM!
Kash and Bongino’s FBI is taking this INCREDIBLY seriously, and I can’t express to you how thankful my family and I are.
This means Tulsi Gabbard’s Office of Director of National Intelligence assets will be deployed, as well as CIA and Department of Defense.
Trump’s FBI is NOT screwing around. You are evil pieces of crap fcked with the wrong people
Apologies for the length of this but it’s behind a paywall.
It exposes an issue in the UK which would certainly appeal to the rorters of our NDIS.
The Motability scheme was never designed to buy 50-grand Mercs for bedwetting boy racers in balaclavas with made-up mental illnesses. Scrap it now!
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
My local BMW dealer once told me the only thing keeping his business afloat was knocking out 1-series hatchbacks on the Motability scheme.
That was 14 years ago, in the wake of the financial crash. I wrote about it here. Even then I was astonished to learn that the government was leasing flash German cars for people on disability benefits.
Today, Motability is responsible for a staggering one in five of all new cars sold in Britain. Last year a record 815,000 people took advantage of the scheme, an increase of 170,000.
Since Covid, the number of people claiming to be disabled has gone through the roof and the definition of ‘disability’ has been stretched to breaking point.
Even the obese and those allegedly suffering from anxiety are eligible. I’ve heard of Money For Nothing And Your Chips For Free but this is ridiculous.
Feeling a bit grumpy? You can drive away in a brand new £50,000 Mercedes coupe, courtesy of the mug British taxpayer. That should cheer you up. Cue Janis Joplin.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?
No problem, madam. Sign here. In exchange for a modest down-payment and portion of your Personal Independence Payments (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance you’re good to go.
The Mail’s Glen Keogh and Sam Greenhill exposed the scale of abuse in a brilliant special report on Saturday, demonstrating how easy it has become to cheat the system.
A body-builder who claimed he was too weak to grip a knife and fork and couldn’t move more than a few yards without a wheelchair was caught lifting weights at a gym and pulling his car across the parking lot with a rope attached to the tow bar. He’d uploaded the video on Instagram.
A notorious ‘dine and dash’ couple, who fled restaurants without paying, were using their Motability motor as a getaway car. You couldn’t make it up.
Sadly, none of this surprised me. When I wrote about my conversation with the BMW dealer 14 years ago, I heard from dozens of readers with tales of how the scheme was being exploited.
I learned about ballroom dancers turning up in Motability cars; and an estate in South London where most people were unemployed yet managed to swan around in brand-new Nissan Qashqais. In Northern Ireland, apparently, Motability cars were being used as minicabs.
My favourite was the part-time Elvis impersonator who pretended to be disabled and lugged his gear from gig to gig in a subsidised Renault Kangoo.
It’s one for the money, two for the show, call Motability go, cat, go.
At the time, the new Conservative/Liberal Coalition government was said to be increasingly concerned at the ease with which people could qualify. But they did nothing.
Even 14 years ago, the parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were eligible. Why should someone whose kid can’t sit still in class get a free car?
Since then, it’s become even easier. Mental Elf Ishoos are impossible to prove one way or the other. Three million people claim they are too sick to work, many with anxiety. Presumably they all qualify for a gratis Beamer, too. And why should you get a free car simply because you’re fat?
In such cases, GPs and the Department for Work and Pensions appear to take the line of least resistance. Motability’s customer base grew almost 15 per cent last year ‘thanks to a growth in the eligible base of recipients’.
It’s not just ADHD, either. Thirty-five per cent of people who claimed Personal Independence Payments for ‘bedwetting’ were successful. Talk about taking the proverbial.
So were 66 per cent who claimed for agoraphobia, 51 per cent for depression, and 54 per cent said to be suffering from Munchausen syndrome – a psychological condition which involves pretending to be ill.
But you don’t have to be ‘disabled’ to benefit. Every vehicle comes with free road tax, breakdown cover and insurance for three named drivers. So friends and family of the claimant are entitled to drive the car, too.
There are TikTok videos on the internet boasting about how simple it is to game the system. One features a young man in a red balaclava – he looks like an Isis terrorist – boasting about how he managed to get a £30,000 Fiat sports car.
In another, the mother of an autistic four-year-old daughter shows off her shiny new Skoda Kodiaq so she can be ‘driven around in style’.
Motability is a private company, but receives the lion’s share of its income from the taxpayer. It also keeps the cash when the cars are sold at the end of a three-year lease.
Why do claimants need a new car every three years? I had my last car for 12 and only got rid of it because it was a diesel and I refused to pay Genghis Khan’s extortionate Ulez charge every time I took it out of the garage.
While the country is drowning in debt, Motability is sitting on a £4 billion cash pile. Its annual turnover is £7 billion. The chief executive is paid £750,000 a year. His predecessor got a mind-blowing £1.7 million. Nice work if you can get it.
Look, I’m not opposed to the genuinely disabled being given help to get around, even a free car. The scheme was introduced in 1977 to replace those ghastly three-wheeled invalid carriages to which the disabled had been consigned up until then. Think Del Boy’s van with a canvas roof.
My old neighbour Miss Davey, who was crippled by polio as a child, drove a modified Daf 33, with Variomatic transmission. No one could begrudge the essential mobility, dignity and independence it bestowed upon her.
But Motability was never designed to buy 50-grand Mercs for bedwetting boy racers in balaclavas with imaginary mental illnesses or be overseen by a boss on three-quarters of a million a year.
Nor was it ever envisaged that one in every five – repeat one in five – of all new cars bought in Britain would be paid for by the taxpayer.
It was revealed that more than 1 million foreign nationals are receiving benefits in Britain, costing us £7.5billion a year. Are we going to buy them all a new motor, too?
The Mail also reported that one-in-four Gen Z youngsters are considering giving up work for good and living on benefits because of, you guessed, Mental Elf Ishoos. How long before they’re all swanning round in a BMW 1-series?
Surkeir Starmer admits that the welfare system is out of control and the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is due to announce money-saving reforms, despite fervent opposition from the Labour Left. Let’s hope she keeps her nerve.
She should start by taking an axe to the scandalous abuse of the hideously expensive Motability scheme.
Parp, parp!
Wow. The noise is apparently well run by comparison.
NdIS
‘Ullo’ John, ‘gotta’ a new motor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc
“I keep tropical fish, in me underpants.”
@nypost
Trump vows to ‘look into’ Hunter Biden’s government-funded security detail after first son evaded deposition for South African luxury getaway
There’s talented, and then there’s completely ridiculously talented…
Trump Wins Golf Championship at Palm Beach Club, Says It Will Be His ‘Last’ (16 Mar)
He’s 78 and is winning his local club championship while holding down a 20 hour a day job.
I wish they’d publish his score, but they never seem to. It’s a tradition I think since Obama’s and Biden’s scores were never published either.
Biden fell off the stool at the 19th hole. Too many ‘sherbets’ for him.
I saw a short clip of Biden swinging a golf club while president. He looked awful.
Biden might have been an okay golfer in his day, but he wouldn’t have got near 100 in the last five years.
HB & Beerturk, mentioned he was going to call the accountant today. They sent his some electronic letter via the ATO portal that he hasn’t looked at in 5 months, he was considering blowing it off till tax time but that could cause more dramas.
Feel for him, got back and had to stay in accommodation an extra week because the tenants took their time moving out past lease end date, their dogs which he can’t refuse as a landlord ripped up the backyard and now despite a generous offer to settle for a third of the bond they are fighting it.
‘…their dogs which he can’t refuse as a landlord ripped up the backyard…’
Which was brought in by the Palacechook IIRC…’because tenants rights to have pets regardless’ to overrule the landlord’s say on anything regarding the property…
Something I hear about every day since when I wander the street with my morning coffee. I totally agree. Now the entitled nuffies are complaining when bonds erode to nothing.
Be interesting to see the figures before and after of escalations to mediation the QCAT from pet damage. I’m tipping the RTA and QCAT are dealing with increased cases.
You watch, next step in 4 years will be to change the guidelines in QCAT. The guy here has already said if he moves away again he’s leaving the house empty, he owns it so doesn’t need to service a mortgage.
Ditto, Rockdoctor.
Go for a week, stay for a year.
Watch: Astronauts Stranded by Boeing and Biden Express Gratitude to Elon Musk and President Trump (17 Mar)
Well said sir and lady. NASA has moved up the splashdown by a day to avoid bad weather in the target area off the Florida coastline. So the coverage of the undocking commences at 3:43 pm my time and can be seen here:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAGRDeoDwaxl
Takes 17 hours for them to get to splashdown, which will also be covered. That would make it about breakfast time tomorrow AEDT.
From The Oz….
Trump administration tells South African ambassador to leave by Friday
Excellent.
I wouldn’t have given him any more than 24 hours.
There are reports now of strikes on US ships in Red Sea.
Strikes at not strikes on. Pentagon says “nothing came close to hitting US warships, and any threat was intercepted”.
I’d go with that as USS Mason has been in the hot zone for a decade and despite numerous missiles fired at her has never has so much as a scratch on her paint. The USS Truman escort contingent has three of her class plus a missile cruiser and frigates.
Mind you there is an F-18 on the bottom of the Red Sea that should not be there.
If the USN can do that they can miss an incoming.
There is always the potential for ‘leakers’ in any missile attack
Well yes, except it was the USN which shot down the F/A-18…
Exactly. Which goes to incompetence or the fog of war. Sooner or later there will be a leaker.
More an overexuberance on the part of the CIC defense peoples I think. The own goal was during a wave attack by the Houthis – which was entirely shot down.
Supercarrier defense groups are designed to take out nuclear ballistic and cruise missile assaults. The Houthis are a Mickey Mouse operation compared to Soviet bloc capabilities.
No, I don’t think that is a spelling mistake.
Maybe against Iranian weapon transfers to hizbollox over Iraqi territory. On that matter, how does the houti tooties get all their weapons from Iran. Ship or plane. Surely the spy satelites track these things. Let them deliver to the port the a cruise missile into the ship or airport. Can’t be that hard.
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
?https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
The only thing about the forced posture adopted is that it puts a lot of strain on the guards backs.
Better to put a light chain around the prisoners necks and attach it to a willy ring.
That will solve the potential lower back problems for the guards.
nose rings are both functional and fashionable atm
breaking
JFK files: Trump to release 80,000 pages with no redaction on Tuesday, says content is ‘very interesting’
There was no grand conspiracy – Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone…
And managed to fire shots from both in front of and behind Kennedy …. quite an achievement for one person 😉
No shots came from in front.
The medical evidence agrees with you.
ah ok …. dont bother with the doc release then
So many people are so sure that they’ve figured out what really happened to JFK that they don’t think they’ll be surprised at whatever is released tomorrow. e.g.:
@GrayConnolly 3h
From Truth Social:
And now nuclear is suddenly OK – to power them ‘data centres’ to watch over your every move.
These activist judges need to be dealt with. The normal method of appealing is not working and they are not a bulwark against government tyranny but are part of it, on the demorat side:
Trump goes all-in on deportation fight, claims national security powers – Washington Times
In a hearing Monday, Judge Boasberg grilled the government’s lawyers over their actions last weekend, demanding to know why they ignored his oral instructions to turn around planes headed for El Salvador.
Two planes appear to have already been in the air when he held his hearing on Saturday, while another seems to have departed the U.S. airport after the judge’s hearing. It’s not clear whether it left before the judge issued a written order.
Judge Boasberg demanded to know if any of the people he was trying to block from being deported were on that third flight, and he said he wanted the information fast.
He’s the latest judge to sharply question the veracity of Trump administration claims amid a flurry of lawsuits challenging the president’s executive actions.
Just preemptively pardon anyone who ignores the activist judges orders and sign it with an autopen. EZ.
You’re a judge, the President tells me what to do not you. Take it up with him. If you want a second opinion, you’re a scum sucking arsehole who deserves a bullet, but that’s just me being me. You can have that one for nothing.
I saw an interview on Fox between Trey Gowdy and some judge who was very ticked off that judges may be impeached by Congress. Her answer is that if you were unhappy with a judgement you can always appeal. I thought what a crock, to get some justice you have to shell out more and more money and drag out the process into infinity while there are no consequences for ratbag judges. She didn’t do her cause any favours, at least not with me.
I noticed the hue & cry because Rubio didn’t turn round aircraft in international airspace. Meh.
Heh, gotta love the Bee.
via Tony Heller.
I really like this one
Federal Judge Appoints Himself President
https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-appoints-himself-president
Love the last line
Even better would have been “unseated by All Aspen Teen Talent Spectacular Judge Gwen McKinley (D-COL, Dip. Dance Coreography)”
Careful what you wish for
Climate 200 was one of the parties that funded the Greenwich case against Latham.
Was that known before today?
I think I heard something about this last year but it was buried.
Greenwich hearing adjoined to a future date.
because Greenwich didn’t provide all his funders details UNTIL YESTERDAY.
Greenwich has to wear all costs associated with todays micro hearing.
Greenwich is a slimy sinister snake. I regard him as evil.
Not to my knowledge, FTB.
I don’t see the relevant connection between Latham and the Climate.
Because Climate 200 is not about climate, it’s about getting naive environmentalists to vote for whoever is hiding behind that facade and give them political power.
Just found out our so called Independent in Monash is partially funded by climate 200 but not as much as the city based teals. Nice pic with a few teals in her election material ,so much for independent
Be interesting (slightly) to see what types of activities have been written up to be funded under climate200.
Well well well. We are beyond past where more than a cursory look at Climate 200 is needed by whatever regulatory body oversees the elections. If the AEC won’t touch it then maybe it is up to the liberal party through the Federal Court.
My guess would be Chinese dosh.
And more than we’d care to think.
I don’t believe in targeted assassination but if it’s good enough for the demorats to take pot shots at Trump:
Soros-Linked Network Attempting to Stop Trump from Deporting Gang Members
Birds of a feather, flocking together.
They live in a vibrant fantasyland.
Sure, but the Houthis have managed to shut down navigation in the Red sea, massively impacting Suez traffic. Thats a *strategic* victory irrespective of whether they actually hit any Western naval assets. They are also likely well ahead on the economic scoreboard, causing Western naval forces to expend large amounts of expensive air defence missiles to counter their attacks.
The logical next step is the US will interdict all sea traffic to Yemen, and all air traffic.
That would cramp the style of the Houthis quite a lot, and wouldn’t take all that much effort.
Is that what the complaint is against Yemen?
Semper fi. Amazing how history repeats.
The next logical step is to activate the battleships and send them up and down the Yemeni coast, blowing shit up.
Precisely.
Also, keeping a CSG under fire counts as suppression. If the CSG has to take a more defensive posture, that impinges on its ability to attack the Yemenis.
Doesn’t seem to be suppressing them all that much. It appears the US pasted Sanaa last night for the third night in a row.
Truman was 700km from Yemen yesterday, its now 1300km away.
Probably needs to go get more bombs.
It should be getting more from underway replenishment vessels.
The damage may have required a port to fix, or she’s being rotated off site. Is there another carrier arriving?
Doesn’t seem to be any damage, seeing that when she was sideswiped by that Egyptian cargo vessel in February she had to go to Greece for repairs.
Pulling back a bit would be reasonable precaution though. With refueling the air groups are still well in range of Yemen.
and achieved what? …. pasting gaza hasnt destroyed hamas
Yet.
Patience Grasshopper, the second act hasn’t started.
Er, yes it has, we are well past the second act. Israel has been fighting Hamas in Gaza for years… ever since the 1st Intifada (1987), then 2008, 2012, 2014, and now 2023.
Perhaps this time it will be different tho?
More Trump good stuff:
Trump strips Hunter and Ashley Biden of Secret Service protection ‘effective immediately’
Not sure that is a good idea.
always, always before doing something think about how the other mob will use this precedent when they get in again, as they eventually will.
See Australian examples of the EPBC Act, Corporations Act etc.
Children over 15 years of age & relatives of former president’s are not on the compulsory protection list …….
It’s a great idea. What makes Trump so important is he is not incapacitated by the cowardice of usual conservatives who prevaricate and pretend there are rules which leftoids will abide with. Think little johnnie and tone from Australia. There is only one way to deal with the left and that is to destroy them. Because guess what: no matter if you act politely towards them when they get back into power they’ll still stick it to you.
No offence but to do or think otherwise is really naive.
Nothing like having your head almost shot off to concentrate the mind.
It was the singularly most stupid thing his enemies did. He knows it’s life or death now, not some silly political game.
Great news for KD, he wont be deprived of his precious David Warner after krikkett after all.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/18/australia-news-live-trade-tariffs-budget-jim-chalmers-economy-inflation-cost-of-living-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb
David Warner teases potential move to politicsFormer Australian one-day and T20 cricket captain David Warner is seemingly testing the waters for move to politics.
After retiring from international cricket last year, Warner posted on X last night:
Responding to one user, he suggested he wanted to lower income tax but raise the GST:
A perfect fit for oz politics…a cheat; a self absorbed narcissist; a moron, and a ranga.
He was pretty handy with the bat. But we always thought suited to the short game – and the Big Bash stuff.
And thinking about politics? Just part of his limitless self belief. There are some intellectually challenged MPs..but…….
About as much appeal as Adam Goodes political aspirations .. LOL!
Something to amuse at morning tea time.
The Wombat Whisperer
Worth almost ten minutes. But not near your keyboard, mind.
Thanks, Calli — video of the day, now in transit to like-minded friends!
Apparently the new PM of Canada has had his child surgically/chemically mutilated.
As was the fashion of the time.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1901740316669206929
Oh Tranada
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/daughter-of-canadian-pm-mark-carney-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns/
What is it with all these perverts who want to tell the rest of us how to live?
Comes with the territory. Would have made a good academic.
LOL. Pass the maple syrup.
“fashion of the time”
Exactly.
?
What do we do with the onion?
One for naval Cats.
Study reveals the illusion of ‘dazzle’ paint on World War I battleships (Phys.org, 17 Mar)
Which suggests the dazzle paint actually worked, although the authors don’t seem to think that. I, on the other hand, thinks the dazzle paint was pretty.
I knew a bloke who was a Mirage pilot back when we were flying them not long before they were phased out. ARDU had test aircraft painted red and white but it was sent to a squadron. Mate was a bit late getting to the flightline for an air to air air combat session and got stuck with the red and white Mirage that nobody wanted to fly. Surprisingly it turned out to be more difficult to see than the camo ones at altitude.
I’d meant to say that radar has made all this stuff pretty irrelevant, but the naval history is very interesting.
For some reason, the iconic ‘Ferry Across the Mersey’ is painted in dazzle. The first I have ever seen. Stands out !
At one stage navies experimented with blue paint – fairly recently too.
Chewing gum is killing the planet.
Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem (Phys.org, 17 Mar)
I was hoping this guy would turn out to be an Aussie academic, but sadly no, he’s a pom.
Another loser academic doing loser academic studies because he’s too shit at his job to do something worthwhile – like where do all the left socks go to when they’re washed.
Does his chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
Another institution for Rabzing.
Re the US district court judge meddling in foreign policy and justice administration – didn’t the UK’s former foreign secretary Jack Straw get involved in this space? From memory a regional magistrate in Spain attempted to have Pinochet extradited from the UK while he (Pinochet) was in London for surgery.
From memory Straw’s comment was, ‘The UK does not allow magistrates from regional Spain to conduct UK foreign policy.’
Famous Fords continued.
(Note, this is Famous Fords, not necessarily good Fords)
Harry Potter 1966 105E Ford Anglia.
Never watched the movies, read the books or liked the car, in fact the only thing I like about the Anglia is the backwards slanted rear window, that looks cool on other Fords of the era.
I remember I bloke I worked with used the almost fluorescent orange paint we painted the centrifugal pumps made there to paint his Anglia, and it wasn’t an improvement.
Ford Anglia 105E: 997 cc OHV “Kent” engine.
Maybe the best thing about the Anglia was the engine, which in the Anglia produced a shit 39 HP, but after the Anglia and a redesign with a cross flow head would go on to power Escorts and Cortinas, and be the basis of Cosworth racing and rally engines.
Contrast to the Model A Ford from thirty years previously which had slightly more horsepower and more than twice the torque of those pre cross flow Kent mills.
The Ford Consul had similar styling, but better proportions and a bigger engine.
My yr 9 art teacher used to drive me around in her orange Anglia, chain smoking.
It might have been grooming… hard to say. I think if she were seriously predatory she’s have had a wagon, at least.
I would have thought that if young Wally was groomed, he would remember it!
Late home from school, dishevelled, wobbly legs – “ Gee Mum, footy practice was full on this arvo”.
I’m not very attentive to techno stuff. I’ve just noticed that Foxtel is now carrying Britain’s GB News on Foxtel channel 658 — a welcome alternative to the increasing contempt that Sky News has for its audience. So instead of Princess Peta Credlin’s regular no-shows at 6pm and the Trump-deranged Blot’s ravings at 7pm, I can now watch the GB News brekky show. Thank you, Foxtel!
Thanks for the tip, will definitely watch it.
What is the point of clicking on a link when, afterwards, you end up back at the start page & have to scroll back to wherever you were .. duuuuuuh!
Right-click and open in new tab works occasionally for me.
Now 83 ….!
Ford Mustang in Bullit.
Saw that movie at the Crows Nest fleapit when it first came out.
From your words to Wolfman’s ears!
After Gene Hackman in French Connection you have to say Bullitt is a worthy topic.
Could well be the topic for a post next month.
Can’t resist. Bullit car chase.
That poor little VeeDub was being stalked by those lunatics!
And they show the little green bub twice: once going down and once looking up. I guess the film was so good they had to double up.
And your copy of the chase is the truncated one: here is the full 10 minutes:
Bullitt Chase Scene
I’m not a fan of car chases, but the Bullit one is amazing, and able to be watched again and again.
I intend my next (retirement reward) car to be the rumoured mustang raptor.
Sure it’s not canon, but I am sure it will get me to lawn hill with a few Jerry cans of fuel on top of the boot
The judge who tried to stop Trump from deporting the gangbangers is a real POS. Trump has to nail some of these bastards before he leaves office.
The Deep State Strikes Back | Frontpage Mag
This is the very same problem that Pinochet was confronted with in Chile when he started throwing people (3,000) of them out of helicopters and into graves without trials.
The Left in the US should thank their lucky stars that – despite their claims – President Trump is NOT Pinochet.
Nobody posting on the airstrikes in Gaza right now?
Some high-level DumaSS families taken out.
Israel Resumes Military Operations Against Hamas in Gaza – LIVE Breaking News Coverage
I can still hear Israeli military jets in the background sound of the live coverage.
Shelling from IAF at Eastern and Southern areas of Rafah as I type.
Pete davis, a media eunuch on 2sm is weeping about the poor pallis and the huge fatalities amongst the innocents, quoting hamas fatality sources. You might as well believe in the testicular cancer fairy as believe in hamas figures, But he does.
There’s a testicular cancer fairy?
What do you have to do to get a visit from her?
Of course the Soros/Dem ACLU lawfare thugs are behind the communist judges usurping Trumps authority.
Their games could lead to a positive outcome if they lead to DOGE and DOJ investigations. Ordinary Americans have lived long enough under the theat of ACLU employing their unlimited funding to impose their racist/communist ideology.
Equally positive is Trump ignoring the judges. Make them face the cost and effort of escalation.
Israel conducts ‘extensive strikes’ on the Gaza StripAFP
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Israel’s military has announced it is carrying out “extensive strikes” on the Gaza Strip, in the largest attack since the ceasefire with Hamas began on January 19.
In a post on Telegram, the Israeli army said it was currently “conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation in the Gaza Strip.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in ongoing talks to extend the ceasefire. It was not immediately clear if the operation was a one-time pressure tactic or if the 17-month-old war was being resumed altogether.
“This comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all offers it received from the US presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, and from the mediators,” Mr Netanyahu’s office said.
The statement added: “The IDF is, at this time, attacking targets of the Hamas terrorist organisation throughout the Gaza Strip in order to achieve the objectives of the war as they have been determined by the political echelon including the release of all of our hostages, the living and the deceased.
“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength.The operational plan was presented by the IDF over the weekend and approved by the political leadership”.
I think the response is: Good.
The question is: Is this escalating now (I mean beyond airstrikes to “hell raining down?”)
I have house guests at the moment which is nice. I enjoy hosting.
A slight niggle is the guests plonking themselves in front of ABC and SBS news which drives me to shelter in the more obscure reaches of the great estate.
I emerged last night to check the roast and was confronted by a literally insane rant by the ABC over reform of Voice of America. Not only spittle flecked invective, but dishonest.
I painfully bit my tongue and returned to the shadows.
Your house, your remote control.
Grow a pair and put Starship Troopers on.
Then crank up the Ted Nugent.
Throw in Rambo, First Blood, A Clockwork Orange, Top Gun, Full Metal Jacket, Death Wish and Dirty Harry.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t have a TV. No one who visits can watch the ABC.
It may also be why I don’t get visitors.
Win/Win!!!
If you have a “smart DNS” geoip-unblocker (a la getflix.com.au, about $70 p.a.), as well as getting US netflix, you can get access to pluto.tv.
More than 200 channels of (old) TV and movies for free.
Movie channels include (not limited to): action, comedy, drama, sci-fi, 70’s movies, 80’s movies, ’90’s movies etc
TV channels include (not limited to): Mythbusters, Adams Family, Star Trek, Jamie Oliver channel, 90210, food channel, BBC food channel, pickers & pawn, CSI:Miami, several music channels etc etc.
These all can be streamed as per FTA/pay TV, or gotten on demand.
I have it hooked up to my 5 hardware tuner/10 logical tuner PVR, so can watch it all (FTA and pluto) anywhere I can get local network access (wired or Wi-Fi), or I can access remotely and download anything I have recorded and/or schedule to record shows remotely (inc from my phone) from a program guide (guide includes Pluto.tv guide as well). Plus the PVR does pause-and-rewind live TV of course.I have a couple of “mini-PCs” with remote controls that run directly as the “front-end” for TVs in the home, which also lets me stream youtube and rumble, and browse the web. The front-end also includes a “channel manager” app I wrote to limit the PVRs list of pluto.tv channels to those I might actually watch (so, eg, 90210 channel is NOT on my PVR at this time nor ever likely to be)
Between all that, I rarely watch any live TV, almost all recorded or VoD from youtube/rumble. The most ads I see is youtube/rumble until I can skip them, or recorded ones I skip past.
We just put on Foxtel and say we like Sky After Dark.
Our visitors get to see where we stand when we’re sitting down. 🙂
We leave copies of Quadrant the The Spectator lying around to further inform our guests. Our place, our reading matter and TV.
Get into the parental control part of the TeeVee/remote and block their ABC and SBS.
You should have got your 410 out and blown up the tv. Then suggested a game of 500.
old school
Reading “One Day In September” by Simon Reeve – the full story of the 1972 massacre of the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics, the complete pigs breakfast the German police made of the attempted rescue, and the years they covered up the whole shambles.
Seems that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was one of those that urged the Palis to leave their homes in 1948, and they could return when the “Jews had been driven into the sea.”
The Israelis offered the services of their elite counter terrorism force – the Sayeret Matkal – the Germans refused – they didn’t have a counter- terrorism force, but their security forces would handle the problem….
Pallywood is back in full production.
Just popped over to Dash Cat for the first time in a long time. Looks like the shutters are down, the drawbridge up and not a peep for a week or so.
What about the Furniture shop calli. It’ll be developing a limp with ANZAC Day next month.
I still frequented there till it started getting a tad out there and lurked a lot longer till it went off the rails. Haven’t looked in there in months but last time I did there was stuff about chemtrails and only about a few commenters.
Note C.L.’s blog is limping along no sign of the man still.
Furniture store requires full haz mat and a good shower afterwards.
NFA is swamping the troll at CL’s blog with links to non-leftard stories.
Gosh, didn’t think I’d get into someone’s bad books by simply visiting there. Get a grip.
C.L.’s is ticking over with a few commenters keeping the lights on. I have a bad feeling about that dear man.
Does anyone know The Currency Lads real name?
It may be worthwhile checking the Births, Deaths, and Marriages site.
He may have gotten married and is still on his honeymoon…
Man with empty suit and forked tongue accuses opposition of having no spine. Both frankly are as bad as each other:
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/rearguard-attack-nsw-parliament-erupts-over-fake-terrorcaravan-probe/news-story/e53b1a62c08333607099974cbf9d4a61
How, lame. Minn-some and Speak-sum-more. Handbags at 100 paces.
Friends of Hamas dutifully reporting the score:
Gaza rescuers say death toll from Israeli strikes rises to 121
Odd how that seems to happen.
And also odd that the 121 were reported death within about 17 mins of the strikes. (No joke)
Who had 121 in death toll bingo? The winner is the postbox on the left next to the other postboxes.
Wow, they’re now saying 200 health officials killed in Hamas.
Extremely “accurate” and very quick timing from Hamas Media Outfit.
Here are some that we prepared earlier…
He, he.
They were supposed to trade 11 living hostages plus some deceased.
I have a suspicion that those 11 were also dead and that they have run out of living hostages, hence the shilly shallying around.
Time to bring in the demolition team forward of Gaza-lago.
I think you may be right, Call.
“Would you believe 121 women and children were killed in the Israeli airstrike.”
“I find that hard to believe.”
“Would you believe 61 hijabied grandmothers?”
“I don’t think so.”
“How about one surly bearded man with a bazooka?”
Missed it by “that” much.
“How about one surly bearded man with a bazooka?”
…and a goat.
DumbASS have put out a statement saying resumption of hostilities is a death sentence on hostages.
Military History: Salamaua – Not a sideshow for those who were there, Part IV of VI.
Flight Lieutenant William ‘Bill’ Ellis Newton was transported back to Salamaua where he was murdered by the Commander of the unit which had captured him, Lieutenant Komai, Uichi. After Salamaua was recaptured in September the same year, a translated Japanese diary revealed some of the circumstances of Newton’s death.
On the 5th of October, General MacArthur’s General Headquarters, South West Pacific Area published an extracted version of the lengthy diary entry as a Press Release. What follows is a highly edited version, by an eyewitness, a member of a Japanese naval meteorological unit based on the Salamaua Peninsula:
“29th March [1943]. We all assembled in front of Headquarters at 1500 hours. One of the two members of the crew of the Douglas … had been returned to Salamaua Guard Tai. The Tai Commander told us personally that it had been decided to execute him. He was to be accorded a Samarai’s death, so the Commanding Officer of the Komai Tai was to decapitate him with his favourite sword… His hair is cut close. I feel that he suspects what is afoot; but he is more composed than I thought he would be… [once he reaches the execution site; some poetic license here] … The prisoner of war is made to sit on the bank of a bomb crater, which is full of water… the prisoner remains unshaken to the last. … The Tai Commander draws his favourite sword, the famous Osamune. The sight of the glittering blade sends shivers down the spine… The prisoner closes his eyes for a second, and at once the sword sweeps down. …Sh… It sounds at first like the noise of cutting, but it is actually made by blood spurting from the arteries. The body falls forward.”
The author then describes how a Superior Seaman from the Imutai, or medical unit, “received the sword from the surgeon” and hacked at the corpse, laying open the abdomen, and making a derogatory racial comment, before kicking the corpse. The author claims the Superior Seaman buried the corpse, but this was not the case, as the remains were found in the water-filled crater seven months later, unburied.
The author makes no comment about what happened to Newton’s head which was never found. Indeed, Newton’s remains when they are found, appear lying on his stomach with arms outstretched, so it is likely the corpse was moved around or hacked at more than the author expresses. Indeed, the discoverer noted his left pelvis having been ‘almost severed.’ Because there was no formal examination of his remains, it is unknown what other wounds he may have suffered, if any.
It was reckless for Gen. MacArthur to publish such a document, as it risked the perceived objectivity of any post-war war crimes trials; investigations into allegations in other campaigns had already begun. The Press Release was issued at a time when the Finschhafen campaign was in the news; an almost entirely Australian fight, at least on the ground. Not only this, but at least one major newspaper published a photograph of a kneeling, blindfolded Australian about to be beheaded in front of a large crowd, which lead to a great deal of public outcry and confusion because the image itself had no connection with Newton, Lyon, or Eastwood.
The international publicity that resulted, however, including that the victim of the execution luridly described by the diarist was an American airman – the press release misleadingly described him as ‘Allied’ rather than Australian – gained MacArthur a great amount of attention. Bill Newton’s corpse was found a week or two after the press release, though due to the missing head (and teeth required for identification), he was initially buried in the Salamaua War Cemetery as an ‘Unidentified Australian Airman.’
(To be continued…).
Hamas are going to do a few very obvious things:
Have I missed anything?
(And from latest reports it sounds like tanks and helis are now involved)….
Have I missed anything?
HEAR HEAR!!!
I suspect that a DOGE investigation into the expenses and lifestyles of Federal judges would be fruitful.
They live on public money, and nobody has ever scrutinised what is going on.
It’s a no-brainer that there will be bribes and hookers and all the rest of the usual playbook of the corruptocracy just waiting to be revealed.
Bribes and hookers? It’s not the NSW Liars.
@GuntherEagleman
Americans OVERWHELMINGLY support Trump’s policy decisions!
Military History: Salamaua – Not a sideshow for those who were there, Part V of VI.
It is considered that the day following Newton’s death at Salamaua, Sergeant John Lyon was murdered at Lae. Due to his lowly rank, Lyon was not accorded a death by a famous sword, but rather bayoneted at least three times and possibly buried while still alive. His remains were not found for a full five years: it was July, 1948 before he was accidentally discovered near the Lae seafront, identified by his two identification tags and later, dental records.
Three days before Bill Newton’s murder at Kela Point, Salamaua, two American airmen baled out from their damaged bomber over the sea between Salamaua and Lae. Their pilot in fact managed to keep the aircraft in the air until he reached a safe airfield, but Staff Sergeant Joseph Fox and Private William Ramsay must have escaped the aircraft as its fate seemed doomed. After an exhausting swim, Fox reached the shore near the village of Asini, a handful of miles north along the coast from Salamaua, but Ramsay was not seen again. If he did not drown, he was possibly taken by a shark which were well known to be active in those waters. After locals found Fox asleep on one of their beached watercraft, they sent for the nearest Japanese, members of the 41st Infantry Regiment recuperating at nearby Malolo after their battering further south in the Gona-Sanananda-Buna battles.
Fox was captured the next day after a brief struggle and taken to the Japanese Army’s Okabe Force HQ at Salamaua, where he was interrogated before being transported to Lae to divisional headquarters. On an unknown date, but likely within days of his initial capture, Fox was also murdered, probably in a similar manner to John Lyon, and likely buried in roughly the same location: near the waterfront, about 300 yards north of the eastern end of the Lae airfield. Fox’s remains were never found. It is likely they were destroyed by the heavy bombing Lae received between his murder and the middle of September when it was reoccupied.
(To be continued…).
Waiting, riveted, for the next installment, Muddy.
Seattle BLM leader arrested for dealing fentanyl after Jay Inslee granted him clemency
Conor McGregor proving he’s not just a very pretty face:
Conor McGregor Raises Ireland Being ‘Overrun’ by Illegals at White House.
Time to rewatch Road House:
Dalton Vs Knox – Final Fight Scene | ROAD HOUSE (2024) Conor McGregor, Movie CLIP HD
One of the previous administration’s “color revolutions”.
@MikeBenzCyber
Pakistan is now a digital prison. After PM Imran Khan was couped out of power and locked away in jail, the new President has signed a sweeping law criminalizing any speech the government says is “false”
@BrentScher
The wife of the judge who tried to block Trump from deporting gang members to El Salvador has donated thousands of dollars to political opponents of Trump, and founded a DC-area abortion clinic.
An abortion clinic in DC is likely to be a money printing organisation.
What you talkin’ bout?
DC ain’t no ghetto, dawg
But it has many, many, “career” wymmins who can’t be bothered by looking after kids. They might miss a promotion.
Dunno if flying seems the safest option anymore:
Honduras Plane Crash: 6 Killed After Aircraft Crashes into Sea Shortly After Takeoff | Republic World
And he’s still running his mouth.
Judge goes ballistic as Trump lawyer reveals why administration ignored order to turn around deportation flight
He looks like Lurch.
Trump has to pick one and nail them. This bastard is ex FISA and has major demorat contacts. He’ll do although fanny from georgia is a great prospect.
He also accepted into evidence an altered e-mail during Wussia, Wussia, Wussia.
That he accepted a tampered document casts doubt on his ethics as a judge.
“But Boasberg ruled the Alien Enemies Act ‘does not provide basis for the president’s proclamation’ to deport suspected gang members ‘given that the terms invasion, predatory incursion really relate to hostile acts perpetrated by any nation and commensurate to war.’”
Doesn’t matter you knob-end – if they are illegally in the country they can be deported, period. If they are NOT citizens, then can have their visa (inc permanent resident status) revoked by Sec-State at any time he “reasonably believes” they are a “threat” to US national security, which you would have to assume Trump’s directive implies. With no visa, they can be deported. As far as I know, these are NOT judicially reviewable actions (You Might, maybe, have =chance at getting judicial review if you claimed citizenship, I suppose…)
They can really read the room, can’t they.
Stephen Miller Calls Andrew Weissman a ‘Moron’ and a ‘Degenerate’
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Only 49 employees have been showing up to work full-time at Fannie Mae’s headquarters where more than 2,900 employees are supposed to work, according to Bill Pulte, Trump’s new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Aren’t they the two banks at the heart of the GFC?
Why are they still operating? Is the payroll some sort of money laundering scam?
Like everything else run by DemonRats, money laundering, combined with economic sabotage, is the name of the game.
“Oh, it’s not a scam. What is do is give them all your credit card numbers, and if one of them is lucky, you win a prize!” – Grandpa Simpson.
Technically, I suppose.
Both are federally funded “lenders of last resort” – where people got mortgages who wouldn’t otherwise qualify for one in commercial banking reality.
These then got packaged up with other mortgages and sold to unsuspecting banks, and when they inevitably defaulted (once the honeymoon rate went away), it caused the GFC.
CEASEFIRE OVER—Israel Pounding Hamas Targets After Hostage Negotiations Fail
Time for some chuckles:
While watching “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in bed, I turned to my wife and asked, “Want to have sex?”
Without even glancing my way, she replied, “No.”
“Is that your final answer?” I asked.
“Yes,” she said firmly.
“Alright,” I said, “then I’d like to phone a friend.”
And that’s when the fight began.
We went out to a restaurant, and the waiter took my order first.
“I’ll have the rump steak, rare,” I said.
He raised an eyebrow and asked, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”
“Nah,” I replied, “she can order for herself.”
And that’s when the fight began.
At her high school reunion, my wife couldn’t stop staring at a drunken man at a nearby table.
“Do you know him?” I asked.
“Yes,” she sighed. “He’s my old boyfriend. I hear he started drinking right after we broke up and hasn’t been sober since.”
I said, “Wow! Who knew someone could celebrate that long?”
And that’s when the fight began.
When the lawn mower broke, my wife kept hinting I should fix it, but I always had other priorities.
One day, I came home to find her in the yard, cutting the grass with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.
I watched for a moment, then silently went into the house. When I returned, I handed her a toothbrush and said, “When you’re done, you might as well sweep the driveway too.”
The doctors say I’ll recover, but I’ll always walk with a limp.
My wife sat next to me as I was flipping through channels.
“What’s on TV?” she asked.
“Dust,” I replied.
And that’s when the fight began.
One Saturday, I got up early to go fishing, but heavy rain and wind forced me to cancel.
I quietly undressed and slipped back into bed, cuddling up to my wife. “Terrible weather out there,” I whispered.
Without turning around, she replied, “Can you believe my idiot husband went out fishing in this?”
And that’s when the fight began.
For our anniversary, my wife hinted she wanted something shiny that could go from 0 to 150 in seconds.
I bought her a bathroom scale.
And that’s when the fight began.
When I went to apply for Social Security, I realized I’d forgotten my ID.
The clerk asked me to unbutton my shirt, and when she saw my silver chest hair, she said, “That’s proof enough,” and processed my application.
Excitedly, I told my wife the story when I got home.
She said, “You should’ve dropped your pants; they might’ve given you disability too.”
And that’s when the fight began.
One morning, my wife stood in front of the mirror, unhappy with her reflection.
“I feel old, fat, and ugly,” she said. “I need a compliment.”
I replied, “Your eyesight is perfect.”
And that’s when the fight began.
This morning, I rear-ended another car. The driver got out and turned out to be a dwarf.
He glared at me and said, “I am NOT happy!”
So I asked, “Well, which one ARE you then?”
And that’s when the fight began.
One Christmas, I bought my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a gift.
The next year, I didn’t get her anything.
When she asked why, I said, “Well, you haven’t used last year’s gift yet!”
And that’s when the fight began.
Bridge in Dublin Features Palestinian Flags for St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
The Perth Mint selected as gold and silver referee at the world’s biggest over-the-counter trading market
The Mickleberg brothers were unavailable for comment.
Must’ve sorted out their compliance issues. Wonder if the Minister knows.
Can a Cat, more well informed that I, tell me if this Australian Government (“Smart-Traveller) page has always been called this:
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories Travel Advice & Safety | Smartraveller
Israel left Gaza to some Arabs in 2005, and the same Arabs have had their own limited government and, some level of self-determination (which I disagree with), in Judea and Samaria (well, they did until Oct 7 anyway).
The page is “funny,” cos it says you can be killed for heretical acts, homo acts and even drinking alcohol. Hmmmm…..
The only thing it says about Israelis is that they frown upon illicit drug use. And who doesn’t…
I looked the webpage’s history up on the Wayback Machine:
Back in July 2023 and before that it was just “Israel and the Palestinian Territories”, then on the capture taken on 26th October 2023 it has suddenly become “Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories”. They didn’t waste any time updating the name…
For real Anders?
So, after the worst attack on Israeli lives since the Holocaust, Elbow’s government rewarded Hamas?
I can’t believe this is Australia 2025.
Yep, it’s sickening.
Peter Hitchens: Lockdowns, 5 years on
Famous Fords bonus TV credits round:
The Sweeney: Ford Consul/ Granada. V4 or V6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVzTvWrbmXI
John Thaw.
I taught I thaw him before!
What did he hurt?
Surprised that Cats aren’t attuned to The Sweeney, which was a seriously good show back then. With Dennis Waterman as well as John Thaw.
John Thaw not Shaw.
I actually rewatched the entire 5 series a few months ago, still a great cop show and very much of it’s time.
The first 3 series are the best.
Heh, I realized and edited my mistake, but you caught me before I did! 😀
Do you know the name of the episode where Regan goes around to a girlfriend’s place and finds it has been trashed…and warily climbs the stairs to her bedroom and finds out find she staged it for him?
As someone quipped at the time. If Shakespeare were alive today he’d be writing cop shows for TV.
Small steps:
BREAKING: Article III Project, War Room and Rep. Brandon Gill Move to Impeach Obama Judge Boasberg Who Ordered Trump to Transport 100’s of Thousands of Violent Gang Bangers Back into US – HERE’S HOW YOU CAN JOIN IN | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
I went to the bank to deposit a U.S.-denominated cheques. The major banks no longer accept foreign currency cheques to be cashed. I hadn’t been in a branch since before COVID. There aren’t the old benches anymore. I don’t know what they do in traditional banking businesses anymore.
Military History: Salamaua – Not a sideshow for those who were there, Part VI of VI.
Newton V.C., Lyon, and Fox were not the only men to be murdered by the Japanese at Lae-Salamaua. It is known that within the first two months of the occupation of Lae by the Miyata Butai of the Japanese Navy in March, 1942, at least nine Papua New Guineans were executed. The Japanese admitted this in their own documents. The preferred method of killing was by bayonet.
In April, 1942, a Sergeant Brown of the RAAF crash landed at Kela Point, Salamaua, was captured by the Japanese and later flown from Lae to Rabaul. Brown’s partial remains were found after the war in a mass grave in the vicinity of Matupi, Rabaul, New Britain.
On the first day of the following month, two Australian soldiers – Mayne and McBarron – were captured not far from Nadzab to the west of Lae in the Markham Valley. They had come from the Kanga Force base in the Bulolo Valley (southwest of Salamaua). Post-war interrogation of Japanese who had been present in Lae at the time revealed the two had been taken prisoner and murdered within perhaps four weeks. Their remains were never found.
Also during May, 1942, an Allied aircraft crashed into the sea just south of Salamaua, and four of the surviving crew were taken captive by the Salamaua naval garrison. Three were Americans, and one Australian. After the war, the remains of the American captain of the aircraft – a man named Keel – were found in a mass grave in the vicinity of Rabaul, New Britain. It is likely the other three surviving crew members were also executed, and their remains either disturbed by Allied bombing, or exhumed and intentionally destroyed as the Australians closed in, in early 1945.
In June, 1943, two native policemen of the RPC (Royal Papuan Constabulary) were captured by Japanese-allied villages in the Hote-Cissembob area not far to the west of Salamaua, taken to Salamaua itself, and handed over to the Japanese, who almost immediately murdered them. It is not known if their remains were ever found.
On the 4th of September, 1943, three soldiers – Betson, Hellens, and DeLacey – from the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion went missing in the vicinity of Markham Point (close to Lae, but associated more with Salamaua; it’s a long story). There is evidence that three Australians were captured at the same time, and evidence – albeit tentative – that three Australians were executed just across the Markham River from where these three 24th Bn men went missing.
After Salamaua was re-entered in early September, 1943, General Blamey’s ‘Salamaua Magnet’ strategy was given much publicity. Put simply, it involved dragging the Japanese from Lae to the more complex terrain approaching Salamaua, thus consuming Japanese reserves and weakening Lae. In practice, the strategy largely worked, for Lae was very poorly defended when the Australian 9th Division first landed on the coast to the north-east of the town on the 4th of September. Much might be argued about Blamey’s strategy, but as a result of it being publicly revealed, Salamaua was deemed a ‘sideshow’ – a diversion.
Popular military history has repeated that claim – that the Salamaua Offensive (and the 15 months which preceded it) was a non-event, an unimportant means-to-an-end – without analysis, and the 20,000+ men who served directly on-the-ground at Salamaua, have been largely ‘written off’ – defined as historical ghosts.
Put it this way, during Operation Doublet – the Salamaua Offensive between late June 1943 to mid September the same year – Australia committed 8 infantry battalions, the U.S. committed 3 infantry battalions, and Japanese forces consisted of 11 infantry battalions. When you add artillery, engineer, medical, signals, ordnance, and light infantry such as the Australian independent companies and the Japanese special naval landing parties, you begin to imagine just how many men trudged, waited, killed and were killed on those ridges and in those valleys.
This was NOT a sideshow – an amusement – for those men. Nor was it a sideshow for Newton, Lyon, Eastwood, Brown, Mayne, McBarron, Keel and crew, the two RPC whose names I’m embarrassed I cannot recall, Betson, Hellens, and DeLacey.
Lt. Komai who decapitated Flight Lieutenant Bill Newton V.C., was killed in action near Manila, the Philippines, in 1945. The Japanese civilian weatherman who wrote of Newton’s murder was drowned in the mid Pacific in 1944. General Adachi, whose 18th Army included those at Lae and Salamaua, hanged himself post-war while on trial for war crimes. The naval commander at Lae who made the decision to murder Newton and Lyon, also hanged himself post-war.
History is not simply ‘what happened’ but ‘what is remembered?’ Without a record, and without someone acknowledging that record, history ceases to exist; it becomes an indefinable background noise, a vague buzzing sound.
Many years ago, I unsuccessfully tried to interview a veteran who had served at Salamaua. His only response to me was to state that he often wondered about the silence atop those ridges now, and how many spirits or ghosts there were amongst the trees listening to that same silence.
Sic itur.
“History is not simply ‘what happened’ but ‘what is remembered?’ Without a record, and without someone acknowledging that record, history ceases to exist; it becomes an indefinable background noise, a vague buzzing sound.”
Thanks Muddy, for all your work.
I read the campaign history, it was small groups of men fighting desperately on both sides.
Recall one bit where they mentioned a Jap soldier whod run out of weaponry/ammunition standing on a rubbish heap and throwing bottles at the troopers before they shot him.
Awful stuff.
Thank you, Muddy, for a heart-rending and meticulous account of the battle, the survivors and their tragic ends.
You (and TE) are exceptional military historians.
Please continue to keep us informed with your exceptional chronicles.
Looks like another bit of theatre from Hamas.
The footage I just saw on the TV had several “casualties” being carted around on stretchers – they looked in very good condition! Maybe just playing dead.
The criminal, along with his sibling, was getting Secret Service protection. Thirty-one agents were on duty to protect them, costing the taxpayer 13 + 18 = 31 x $200,000 = $6,200,000 per year in salaries. Add in travel expenses, and I’d bet there’s not much change from $10 million p.a.
@realDonaldTrump
The Oz is reporting that Israel’s strikes on Gaza comes with approval from Washington.
Good, about time.
I suppose our very own mediocrities, Pong and Slug, will urge Israel to show ‘restraint’. They both love to censure the sole Jewish nation on the planet. Not once have either of these two despicable grubs ever urged Hamas to show ‘restraint’.
It has been 17 months since the pogrom of October 7 2023, when Hamas Gazan Nazis swept into Israel and murdered, raped and kidnapped. Over 1200 dead and over 200 transported to Gaza. They took both living and dead Jews back into Gaza to hold as ransom. For 17 months these Nazis have held those kidnapped Jews in conditions so dire that one struggles to accept or believe we share a planet with such evil. Hamas has, for over 17 months, starved, tortured, raped and assaulted those hostages. Few now remain alive. And then we saw the macabre spectacle last month when Hamas handed over some of the living Israelis, most looked as though they’d just walked out of Auschwitz. The Red Cross, an utterly despicable organisation, the equally despicable UN, the far-left in general, and this hideous Australian federal government ALL encouraged that gruesome celebration by Hamas, a celebration of the death of Jews. It wasn’t just homicidal Hamas celebrating, it was also homicidal ‘ordinary’ Gazans who came out to celebrate dead Jews. Palestinian culture is sociopathic, it’s sick. Imagine if Ivan Milat or Ted Bundy had organised a similar display of their victims? Gaza is full of men and women like Milat and Bundy.
The Torah states that……
Justice, justice shall you pursue.
Today’s strikes are the beginning of justice for Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.
Cassie, how do you think Israelis will feel about the potential loss of hostages? I know, and respect the value they place on these lives, but I think I’d prefer to be dead than a hostage in a hellhole.
I strongly doubt there’d be any hostages left alive.
I too am of that opinion.
The alternative is that their condition is so poor it will not pass muster for their evil, theatrical exchanges.
Poor souls. May Almighty God give them comfort, for however long they remain alive.
I have said it before & will say it again, Trump should move the UN to Gaza.
Here is a link to a facebok reel from our local page.
You don’t have to be in The Alice to have these things going on. Three places in the one night. Boltcutters on padlocks and the barbed wire around the caravan park and camp.
They stole a little hatchback at the park and then crashed it through gates at the Oval. It belongs to a trucking company as a shuttle to get drivers out to their trucks and therefore has a gps tracker on it.
All are known to the cops, most are <17.
A sarcastic comment on another video at a different place that night, suggests that if the outdoor movie theatre was built these little rsoles would have been better behaved.
Perhaps we could invite abalone to come out here and offer its infinite wisdom and throw some more of our tax money on the ab bonfire?
suggests that if the outdoor movie theatre was built these little rsoles would have been better behaved.
If an El Salvador style detention centre was built, the little rsoles would behave better also.
Interesting.
69,000 people applied to join the ADF in a year?
A Swiss recruitment company?
‘Wholly deficient’: Scathing letter reveals distrust at heart of critical contract
By Connor Pearce
March 18 2025
The company in charge of turning around Australia’s moribund Defence recruitment rates was told by the responsible minister its performance was “not satisfactory” and targeted recruitment rates were “wholly deficient”, less than a year from taking on the $1.4 billion contract.
The Canberra Times has obtained correspondence between Defence Personnel Minister Matt Keogh and Swiss recruitment giant Adecco, exposing the depths to which the relationship had sunk.
“As we approach the completion of a full year of recruiting operations in support of the ADF, I am deeply disappointed with Adecco’s performance,” Minister for Defence Personnel Matt Keogh wrote in a letter dated May 30, 2024.
The letter details the deep misgivings Mr Keogh had about Adecco’s performance, with the company failing to meet targets, requiring uniformed ADF personnel to support its operations and feedback from candidates about poor communication by Adecco.
Mr Keogh closes the letter with a withering assessment of Addecco’s underperformance so far.
“In contracting with Adecco, Defence sought a partnership with an entity who could transform Defence’s recruiting process to deliver a modern and scalable recruiting solution,’ Mr Keogh writes.
“Adecco’s current performance and actions to remediate deficiencies do not convince me that Adecco understands the seriousness of a failure to deliver against ADF need.
“I require assurance from the highest level that Adecco are taking all practical measures to rapidly improve recruiting results.”
Within days from Adecco taking on the mammoth task of raising Australia’s sub-par recruitment figures, there were already signs that recruitment figures were not going to meet targets.
On July 13, 2023 Adecco was issued its first performance notice, requesting it improve psychological assessment rates.
A month later, Adecco submitted a plan to recruit more psychologists, but this had to be revised after initial actions to improve the pace of psychological screenings had little impact.
A second performance notice in November 2023 required improvements in medical screening rates.
In Adecco’s remediation plan, the company proposed using military doctors for medical screenings.
The correspondence reveals how these issues were resolved.
Explanations for poor performance ‘not acceptable’
On April 3, 2024, a letter from a senior Adecco executive in Zurich, Switzerland, was sent to Mr Keogh’s office.
In the letter, the author, whose name is redacted, attempts to assure Mr Keogh that Adecco was taking significant action to rectify the slow rate of recruitment.
“I want to assure you that we understand the national significance of what we are delivering for Australia and the urgency with which we must act,” the executive wrote.
The Adecco executive goes on to outline that Adecco Group CEO Denis Machuel was taking a direct interest in the performance of the contract, including travelling to Australia on a “regular basis”.
“We believe we have come a long way in the nine months since we assumed responsibility on 1 July 2023, however we acknowledge we have much more to do and we need to do it faster,” the author writes.
“Our CEO [redacted] will be in Australia in during [sic] the week of 15 July and would appreciate a meeting with you, if you have availability.”
Mr Keogh wrote back on May 30.
“The understandings and explanations set out in your letter are not acceptable to me and I remain unconvinced that Adecco comprehends the gravity of its current circumstance. Indeed, assurances in your letter have already not been delivered,” Mr Keogh wrote back.
Mr Keogh writes that the forecast result against the recruitment target for the 2023-24 year is “wholly deficient” and Adecco’s performance to date “has not been satisfactory”.
“The government has directed the ADF to grow significant by 2040 and current ADF recruiting performance, underpinned by Adecco’s efforts, will not achieve this critical national security outcome.”
Public statements and private concerns
A few days after Mr Keogh sent the scathing letter back to Adecco headquarters, Defence officials appeared at Senate estimates and were quizzed on current recruitment rates.
Secretary Greg Moriarty said the department was having issues with recruitment and retention.
“We are in a very challenging environment, and we are working hard to grow the numbers.”
Officials listed COVID, low unemployment rates and increased numbers of people leaving the Defence force as reasons for missing its recruitment targets, but did not mention Adecco by name.
“We don’t seek to hide the challenges, and we’ve talked about them here frequently,” Senator Jenny McAllister said.
Hints at Adecco’s poor performance and Defence’s frustration with the contractor would only come out in a separate committee hearing in March 2024, when Lieutenant General Natasha Fox told the committee Adecco was on notice.
“The performance notice has been issued in relation to that and the remediation plans are in place.”
Greens Senator David Shoebridge said Defence was not giving the public a full picture of the challenges in recruitment.
“The minister’s letter is refreshingly, even if uncharacteristically, honest for Defence but it is in stark contrast to the public communications on recruitment. It turns out that Defence has been trying to paint roses on a binfire,” Senator Shoebridge told this masthead.
“One obvious concern is that the minister wrote this caustic letter in May 2024, just nine months into the contract’s operation, and now we are almost another year down the road with none of the targets being met.”
In a statement to this masthead, Mr Keogh said figures since mid-2024 had improved.
“I’m pleased to say we have seen an increase in the number of people applying to join the Australian Defence Force and project that by the end of this financial year we are projected to enlist or appoint the highest number of full-time personnel in the past 15 years,” Mr Keogh said.
What now?
Last month, chief of the ADF Admiral David Johnston told senators that 69,000 people applied to join the ADF in the past 12 month, an 18 per cent increase on the previous year.
Senator Shoebridge asked Lieutenant General Fox directly whether Adecco was meeting its targets.
“In terms of getting people in, they’ve blown out their targets on speed by more than a hundred per cent and they’ve missed the numbers by 28 per cent,” Senator Shoebridge summarised.
Mr Keogh said the range of initiatives undertaken by Adecco was leading to more candidates making their way through the process, but if there continued to be slippage, there could be further actions.
“These initiatives indicate an anticipated uplift in the performance and achievement of Adecco in the next financial year,” he said.
“I am taking an active interest in Adecco’s performance of their contract and all options remain on the table if Adecco does not meet their obligations in future.”
Senator Shoebridge said he remained pessimistic about whether Australia’s recruitment targets would be met.
“This isn’t just about another failure by Defence to meet its targets, it’s a case study in the deeply ingrained culture of secrecy and cover-up inside Defence,” he said.
“Until these issues are addressed, we can throw endless buckets of money at Defence and outsource projects across the portfolio, but the results will not change.”
From the RiotAct, a Canberra news daily.
18%, no doubt all blunts.
That contract needs to be Musked.
$1.4 Billion given in pay rises would have solved the problem overnight.
Are you sure it wasn’t $1.4 Million?
Part of my afternoon – Australia 2025.
Perhaps, at times everyone has a reason to be sounding gruff.
You can add it online. My qld registered car has an etag. I drove a family members car which doesn’t have a etag on a tollway in Melbourne. Just logged into my account and paid for the Melb trip using the account. The charge that I had received was nullified.
vr I did register online after I was reminded by the first invoice. I’d forgotten for about a month. I called the first time and the person said they’d gather the charges for the other entity and put them through my account . Didn’t happen of course.
Mr. Abalone in hi-viz and hard hat again!
It’s so fake.
Jodie likes it.
Reminds her of David Hodo.
Jill Abalone
Spruiking Green Hydrogen in Gladstone QLD where the multi Billion Dollar Green Hydrogen ‘Project’ has already been dumped.
So Genewal Disaster Abalone, where in Australia is Green Hydrogen going ahead? Anywhere?
Only in your wet dreams Albo, in your wet dreams.
A Future Made in Australia? What Future?
Looking more and more like a Nightmare. Venezuela comes to mind along with Sarf’ Efrica.
Ugh pulease… green hydrogen hasn’t worked anywhere… not even with Twiggys gazillions!!! FFS!!!
Interestingly, today’s Australian reports that Labor’s Powering Australia Plan has died of shame:
Luckily, the electric interweb is forever and the tattered rubbish remains for those who haven’t already saved it in their shit file.
LOL. No wonder the full analysis has been shredded/filed away – Cop this from the Executive Summary –
Policy is projected to set Australia on a net-zero pathway by 2030, reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement.
Total investment of $75.8 billion is calculated by 2030, equivalent to 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2030, with the Plan leveraging $2.13 in private investment for every public dollar spent.
$75.8 billion by 2030? They have already spent more than that since being erected nearly 3 years ago and it’s now 2025 with 5 more years to go.
And what private investment and who by?
Definitely ‘rubbery figures’…………….Oh dear.
It’s a stinker.
A review by a player in the renewables market endorses an unachievable green fantasy.
The only surprise is that nobody in the media, industry or the Opposition has pulled its wings off.
Mr Abalone, Mr Bob Abalone…
You can’t unhear it.
So how does the Albotross’ big green power stack up against the hydrogen on demand units?
Interesting little bit of “compliance” coming up.
One of the major contractors the trucking company subbies for is “suggesting” we fit Hydrogen on Demand Systems to reduce emissions.
Quite apart from the hydrogen risks this does seem like 2 things.
1: A good way to reduce the amount of “boom” they carry – small on demand amounts only via catalytic converter and low voltage from the trucks systems.
2: It kills “green hydrogen” as a fuel stone dead – quite clever really.
https://www.aamgrp.com.au/hydi-hydrogen-direct-input
Uses distilled water apparently.
Apparently 10% or so reduced fuel useage.
Costs nearly $40,000 a kit.
Distilled water? Mostly you can only get de-ionised.
Wonder how the energy balance goes? Truck generator needs to generate more electricity which takes more diesel. Wonder what they do with the oxygen.
Might reduce emissions in town. Outside cities, emissions are a complete non problem.
I’d want to verify the fuel economy with careful testing.
At $40,000 a pop, nice work if you can get it.
Might replace the act blue additive for trucks, apparently it gets rid of most of the Nox and particulate as well.
Its the sort of thing you want to see working on someone elses gear for a while before you jump in.
Or wait until the Albotross does hellicopter money to Toll to fit out all theirs. For the children.
Hydrogen burns to water as does diesel fuel (along with CO2). NOx is caused by temperature of combustion which causes oxygen and nitrogen to combine in various ratios. Can’t see hydrogen helping.
As I understand the process, the added hydrogen increases the combustion temperature – which increases the combustion of free carbon and reduces CO and NOx. I think the idea is that reduced fuel consumption comes from more efficient burning of diesel rather than magical thinking. So, not sure that fuel economy is a given for all diesel engines under all conditions.
I know it’s been trialled in underground mobile mining machinery – where reduced CO/NOx/particulates in ventilation air is a big bonus.
I also understand there are lag issues in hydrogen delivery keeping up with demand under acceleration. So may be a problem for road transport.
I understand that oxy/hydrogen flames are bloody hot.
Hot enough to burn holes in pistons?!
Ford Mustang – Engine, 900HP 302 Windsor peaking at 9000RPM.
S1CKO blown Mustang at Summernats 34 BURNOUT MASTERS final.
BREAKING NEWS: Sky News Australia tells its audience to get stuffed as boring Adelaide nerd Caleb Bond replaces the lazy Princess Peta Credlin in the 6pm slot for the rest of the week – inviting Sky’s Australian audience to piss off and join GB News on Foxtel channel 658.
Sky News Australia CEO Paul “Boris” Whittaker is a clueless amateur about audience loyalty. He thinks he can serve up any old s**t and his audience will watch it.
I definitely got the vibe of there, there little man from Clennell to Bond during the interaction over nuclear.
The bugger needed to be Thatchered.
Why is it a risk? For starters.
GB News has also pissed off a number of previously respected reporters in the last 6 months, so I read on some UK blogs.
Clennell painting the LNP proposal for nuclear as “risk”.
What a deadsh*t.
Andrew, while you have been living the life of Riley as a j-list, most of Australia has travelled. We’ve seen the nuclear plants cheek by jowl with villages in France, and in what remains of the wilds of the UK.
Stop treating us as rubes.
calli as usual you are too too kind. That thin-lipped pinhead is another that puts me off watching Sky
Every time I hear the voice of that spineless spiv Anthony AllBaloney I have a visceral reaction whereby, unbidden, a torrent of foul language issues forth — the Sunbather is right, I need to close the french doors lest the builders next door blush.
Multiple upticks, Tinta.
+ many for the LOL.
FMD. Credlin’s 6pm slot has been taken over by GB News talking about local problems in the UK — with no local Australia replacement host or content.
It looks like a major cost-cutting exercise by Sky News Australia’s new foreign owner.
Woops. I accidentally changed the channel. Adelaide nerd Caleb Bond is running the Peta Credlin hour on Sky. Back to the library for alternatives.
Just watching ‘Get Smart Again’, free on You Choob.
Better than TV.
IF THERE’S ONE THING THAT PISSES ME RIGHT OFF, IT’S SENDING A $100 DONATION TO A POLITICAL PARTY, AND GETTING BACK A BEGGING LETTER FOR MORE FUNDS.
I’m really – as you can see – annoyed and they’re not getting another cent off me, or a Godddamned vote either.
I got caught outside Dan Murphy’s agreeing to donate to Veterans Housing and then asked for my Credit Card rather than cash – feeling weak I agreed to the minimum $25 donation and gave my details. Followed up by begging newsletter, to which I promptly unsubscribed.
Then hubby hesitated beside the card table this week, I think the fundraiser was for ParaOlympics, I hurried him on and said “they won’t take cash, they want a bank card donation”.
I would be happy to part with a fiver or tenner, but that is all.
As far as the legitimacy of both organisations mentioned above, I have my deep deep suspicions.
My opinion is that they are a skimming operation with million dollar directors fees.
Same same Hz. I was bailed up at the entrance to the local colesworth shopping centre on some fund raiser. Can’t remember what it was for but for a moment I thought it must have been something that I felt I should probably donate a bit of cash to the cause. I offered 10 Aussie pesos cash but they said no…it had to be on a card. ‘Sorry…cash or nothing.’ I walked on with the cash still in me pocket and the card unused.
This is now my go to answer:
Money can only end starvation, poverty and pain if third world corruption and first world bureaucracy don’t consume it first.
H/T Tim Blair
One paralympics “volunteer fundraiser”- ie lanyarded paid huckster- was giving me static in Manjimup one day, so i asked it to name two paralympians, past or present. He was pretty sh*tty.
I don’t grudge the special olympics anything, but i resent the idea that they expect to be able to harvest three-figure guilt gifts just by planting a backpacker with a push-point sheet on the high street.
I support by buying the odd housing raffle ticket.
I’m a sucker for the meat tray and the footy tipping at the pub. But I’ve never actually checked to see if I won any thing.
A surprise to me.
Its only worth is for rubbery meat (which I have eaten, Japanese style – meh) and its shell which is rather lovely, like a rainbow.
Either way, the creature has to be deceased.
NADT
If you can get any fresh- and I’m assuming the rest of oz is like WA, ie license holder only- then fillet to 4mm, bash once, fry hot and quick. They’ll be melt in the mouth soft like squid, but super rich sweet to the point where they benefit from salt and lemon.
Abalone= delicious treasures from exciting spots, ie wave-lashed reefs on the open ocean.
I actually don’t care if they get a bum rap- more for me, and more beautiful solitude hunting with the derg and kids.
Oh my golly gosh! Who’d of thunk it!
Five Victorian solar farms shut down over bushfire risk
The Oz.
Victoria’s energy safety regulator has ordered five solar farms to be switched off due to concerns over bushfire risks caused by uncontrolled vegetation.
Operators of the five solar farms owned by subsidiaries of Chinese-owned Sungrow Power Australia have been ordered to cease generating electricity from sites at Raywood and Goornong, near Bendigo, Stawell and Ledcourt in western Victoria, and Moolort, west of Castlemaine, after a blitz by Energy Safe Victoria in February.
A spokesperson said the inspections coincided with a fire at the Raywood solar farm, 28km north of Bendigo, which started in electrical equipment and spread to vegetation on the site.
“When Energy Safe officers attended the scene, they observed a lack of adequate vegetation management including insufficient fire breaks and vegetation that had grown too high,’’ the regulator said.
The fire, which started in an inverter, sent black toxic smoke drifting over the small town of Raywood, causing authorities to issue warnings to residents and causing difficulty for crews trying to access the fire site.
Cant graze under them, prohibited by LPA declaration – not fit fir human consumption because they might have chewed/ingested some stuff.
so that means chemical control ( weedicide – might not go well with solar components – corrosion) or a bloke an a whipper snipper ?
I’m trying to get my head around this Battin stuff. He went on a cruise. The cyclone was in Queensland.*
What the hell is going on here, apart from reeeee-ing?
*Queensland cyclones are for Queenslanders
The cruise was in Queensland?
Who’s going on about that? The Allan abomination?
Is anyone else tipping May 17th for the Federal election?
It’s the last date available to the Abalone regime so, yes. it’s the only one available before he has to break the law. Albo’s only alternatve is to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law.
I don’t think Albo is that desperate because he never expected to be PM.
If martial law is declared I’m running the half track down St George’s Tce.
He’s trying to get the Caliph’s horse to sing and it isn’t cooperating.
Almost through. I must be one of the few people in the world to have thrown out a complete set of Furtwangler’s Ring cycle.
Puerile attempt at joke deleted.
Damo I hope you’ve given your records to a collector, or at least an old school 2H shop?
Believe me, I tried. Classical vinyl is worthless. 250 records to ‘charity’ read trash. Pity.
SQT: Muhammed Khalil
Just looking at the photos of the Venezuelans in their new apartment complex in El Salvador.
The haircuts.
Looks like the job I did on dad’s goat after it had gone bush for 18 months.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there is the odd ear on the floor.
You expect that was part of the plan they signed up for.
Err, wasn’t
Ok, will try again.
If those two Astro’s land safely, Musk and staff need to go out for a massive feed.
Hungary & Slovakia REBEL Against EU’s ‘War Madness’—Call Ukraine Funding a ‘Total Scam’ | TN World
Trump is getting around the activists judges by invoking a 200 year old law about alien invasions so he can export gang members. Tom Holman was asked by an activist media POS why they had to resort to a 200 year old law. Holman said that’s nothing we also rely on the 250 year old constitution.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Man, Orange Hitler has picked some Top Men (and Womens).
No backward steps.
I did a compare and contrast with the Vicco Libs tonight.
The ALP dirt unit drops that Opposition Leader Brad Battin took a four day cruise in Queensland in the middle of the bail revolving door fiasco and the shock discovery that crooks in the CFMEU are robbing the taxpayer blind.
Instead of going on the attack and calling it for the distraction squirrel that it is, he goes the full mea culpa.
Distraction Wombat, I think it is in Australia.
Oh FFS- just tell them to piss off
Labor’s new regional portfolios slammed as ‘tokenistic’, after Government hit by big swings in bushDylan CapornThe West Australian
Tue, 18 March 2025 1:52PM
Regional WA will be represented by nine separate ministers around the Cabinet table, as Roger Cook restored a Carpenter-era measure in the wake of strong swings against Labor in the bush.
Each region across the State will now have a seat at Cabinet, with Ministers shouldering the responsibility to fight for their assigned patch and provide a focus on government services.
Stephen Dawson, who also takes up the watered down role as Regional Development Minister, will also take on the responsibility of Minister for the Kimberley.
Incoming Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson will have the Pilbara as a focus, while Wanneroo MP and Education Minister Sabine Winton will fight for the Wheatbelt.
Don Punch, Mr Dawson’s predecessor and Bunbury MP, would take on responsibility for the South West, with Mr Cook saying the roles were needed to provide focus from the Cabinet for each area.
“With just a single minister for regional development, you get good coordination, but you don’t get focus,” he said.
“That’s why I’ve always been keen to bring the regional ministers back on so we can have someone is taking that cross government vision or perspective in relation to how we get a particular region working better in terms of government services, but also in terms of economic development.”
It follows Labor’s loss of four regional seats across WA amid a big swing against the Government, as well as the decision in the last term to abolish country representation in the Upper House.
Mr Cook said it had always been his intention to return the regions to the Cabinet, as per the previous Labor Government under Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter.
“I remember as a young bloke, a young minister by the name of Mark McGowan, who was the Minister for the South West, and I watched him before I came into parliament, and saw how having a minister for a dedicated area means you actually have a cross government approach to a lot of these things,” the Premier said.
Nationals leader Shane Love said the new roles were an attempt to recover from Labor’s disastrous regional election result.
“This is simply an attempt by WA Labor to course correct after an election which saw regional voters turn their back on the Cook Labor Government after eight years of neglect.
“While I welcome any increased decentralisation, it must also come with an increase in resources for the regional development commissions, and a true restoration of Royalties for Regions, otherwise it is simply tokenistic.
“Carving up regional development to Perth-based Ministers with limited ties to the communities their tasked to represent will not address the complex challenges regional communities face.”
WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington also agreed that the move was tokinistic, adding that the agricultural advocacy group would be watching the developments closely.
“Labor is not genuinely interested in the regions,” he said.
Good luck finding the responsible Minister after Health broken up. It was bad enough before.
I’d hardly call Carpenter’s failed 18 month lame-duck span an “era”.
It’s a stretch. Another failed j’ismist. Joins Bourkey. Not a good omen for Baz.
Labors answer to a top heavy administrative behemoth that is incapable of doing its job?
Appoint 9 more of them.
900HP Sprinters.
Highlights from the wild finale for the Barbagallo Mr. Sprintcar Nationals from the Perth Motorplex!
Sprintcars | Australian Mr Sprintcar Nationals – Perth – 8th Feb 2025 | Clay-Per-View
Cassie posted last night that her Elf Insurance had gone up heaps.
My notice just arrived.
I was expecting the worst.
But only up by 3.6% from April 1st.
I am with Defence Health and I think I am in a plan closed to new entrants which might be why.
I have been in it since the dishonourable discharge from the SAS in the 90’s.
How do health funds manage a, gummint approved, 3.6% rise when OAPs were assessed at only 0.037% to cover “inflation” ……?
https://www.youtube.com/@douglasmurray
Heartbreaking.
Addit:
On reflection, the ‘humane’ policies are working. But they’re only working for the providers of services who can now feel good about how ‘humane’ they are toward these wretched people. I think many believe they are approaching Sainthood as they display how much they care.
What would they do if the people they tend to were all to suddenly become unaddicted tomorrow?
Yes – I’m a cynic.
It’s a soul sickness. Christians tend not to do drugs. Lefties do tend to do drugs. I was reading this morning of one who died recently of a ketamine overdose. Sad. But indicative of the problem. They have a spiritual hole they want filled.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Star James Lee Williams, ‘The Vivienne’ Cause of Death Revealed (17 Mar)
Age only 32. Obviously the tranny op didn’t fix his spiritual emptiness.
It looks like we might get a bit of rain in a while – but even more likely that the raincloud will go around Barcy.
We live in hope.
According to windy.com you just might get a little rain.
Oh thank God (mole, earlier at 10.57):
Yes I have some thoughts.
My initial thought is that it won’t really be the midget ranga cack-handed cheat running for the leather seats, but Candace ‘I’ll polish anyone in a men’s dunny’ Warner doing it with the ranga as a figurehead while she furthers her influencing career, such as it is.
Is your body ready for PM Midget houso ranga cheat Warner?
I have never eaten abalone. I don’t eat shellfish. I have read that abalone diving is dangerous and that some divers have even been eaten by great whites whilst diving.
A day or two ago there was some discussion about fried fish and chips. Fried fish is a Jewish dish, eaten by Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews over centuries. I think the merger of fried fish with fried potatoes happened in England in the 1800s when poor Jews lived adjacent to poor Irish. Whatever, it doesn’t matter, what matters is that fish and chips is a great dish!
My mother used to always say that the best fish is cold water fish, particularly flathead and snapper. I agree with her. Barramundi is a hideous and very mediocre fish that swims alongside crocodiles………..YUKKKKKKKKK!
Fresh flathead fried in a little oil is absolutely delicious. My old dad knows spots to catch them, and lunch thereafter was awesome. Sadly he’s now on his last run down, but after 88 good years.
Try NZ cod. It’s great.
I thought you would only eat lobster.
With lashings of caviar.
How wrong one can be.
So you now have a PhD in seafood, do you?
Not an expert.
But I know what I like.
Robster velly good.
I’m appalled, someone who claims a PhD is seafood only talks about Lobster.
Robster King of Sea.
lol
NZ Blue cod. Supreme.
I love cod.
When I Was there last week I had 3 meals of Blue Cod. The B & B I stayed at, the lady cooked it in rice bran oil. Thick fillets of delight in my mouth. Had another from a takeaway caravan and another at a fish restaurant. Home made was the best by far.
But the crocs lurrrve eating barramundi, so they are happy.
I like barra I buy the snap frozen Humpty Doo barra from woolies not uniform pieces so a bit cheaper. Cook in butter with garlic – delish.
From the Spectator.
Flat White
Did multiculturalism cost Australia free speech?
NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns has said something appalling.
Whether or not it is true, remains to be seen.
Essentially, Minns has alleged that free speech must be sacrificed to keep the peace in multicultural Australia.
It is implied that we cannot ‘get along’ unless our words are constrained by the government.
Even without context (which I will give in a moment), it is a terrible thing to admit.
Australia has been multi-ethnic since the beginning, and it has never required restrictive speech laws to stop racism or to quell violence.
It was only a few decades ago that ‘having a dig’ at each other was considered part of the tough-love Aussie culture that the rest of the world admired. Politically incorrect speech is what helped people bond.
If you migrated to Australia, you got paid out. That’s how it worked, and it worked very well.
Our singular (not multi) culture of ‘Australia’ – built on mateship and the shared experience of living in this harsh country – was always enough.
This peaceful ecosystem was disrupted by the political class who chose, without consent, to import millions of people from conflicting cultures in a short space of time. Often, they brought in people from opposing sides of an active war. These migrants sometimes carried with them foreign conflicts, ancient religious hatred, unacceptable customs (particularly in relation to women), and radicalised beliefs incompatible with the law.
Instead of being told to quickly assimilate into the wider Australian culture, activists and politicians did everything possible to encourage cultural enclaves.
These hatreds which the NSW Premier cites as an excuse to silence speech are not Australian-grown and Australians should not put up with being blamed or punished for the consequences of migration policies.
If Australians had been told that a multicultural Australia would require the sacrifice of free speech, they would have rejected it.
This matters, because citizens are entitled to their fundamental, God-given human rights and if those rights are threatened by policy then that policy is at fault.
Taking the Premier at his word, that multiculturalism cannot survive without the strong-arm of government oppressing speech, it is fair to argue instead that those individuals who cannot live peacefully do not deserve to seek shelter in Australia.
What was it that former Prime Minister John Howard said? ‘We will decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come.’
The context which brought about this shocking admission from the Labor Premier is in relation to the hate speech laws which were rushed through Parliament. The crisis used to justify the already controversial measures has been revealed as a hoax allegedly perpetrated by criminals to negotiate reduced sentences. This was, apparently, known from early on.
Various politicians in NSW are agitating for these laws to be rescinded.
MLC John Ruddick said of these repeals, ‘Parliament was misinformed by the Minns government about the urgency of the bills referred to in one A, B, and C … this House calls on the Minns government to repeal the bills … and apologise for both misleading this Parliament, preventing a Parliamentary Inquiry, and further curbing free speech principles by these reactionary bills.’
Here is the beginning of Minns’ comment:
‘There have been some that have been agitating in the Parliament to nullify the laws to remove them off the statute books, think about what kind of toxic message that would send to the NSW community.
‘And I think the advocates for those changes need to explain what do they want people to have the right to say?
‘What kind of racist abuse do they want to see, or to be able to lawfully see, on the streets of Sydney?’
The basic point, which must stand, is that laws based on a fabricated circumstance cannot continue to exist. Nothing else that Minns says is relevant.
Even if we ignore this, Minns asks us what we want allowed on the streets of Sydney.
Well, I would prefer not to see the streets taken over by thugs shouting about foreign wars and religious conflicts that have nothing to do with Australia. Their selfishness harms business and disrupts the peace Australia is meant to bring to those fleeing conflict.
The speech laws Minns wants to keep will not stop Australian cities being the canvas of hateful activism.
These laws won’t stop students destroying statues of Captain Cook or shouting racist slogans like ‘pay the rent’, ‘stolen land’, ‘death to Australia’, or ‘watch out whites’.
There is no chance that Minns has the courage to reprimand Indigenous activists for threats against other citizens even though they often walk arm-in-arm with antisemitic slogans at rallies where the Aboriginal flag touches the Palestinian flag and the slogan of a terror-led government merges with a separatist slogan steeped in racism. ‘From the river to the sea, always was always will be…’ What is this other than a declaration of erasing Australians from their land based on race? Does this meet the Premier’s definition of ‘hate’?
Hate speech is politicised.
These laws are political.
If Australia cannot champion free speech because other cultures either will not tolerate criticism or themselves perpetrate acts of violence against other groups, then that is a matter for the police.
Free speech, and the ability for a society to tolerate it, is the mark of civilisation.
Peace through censorship is the language of a dictatorship.
That is a tacit admission by Minns that multiculturalism has failed.
That, or it is being used as an excuse by the government to curtail freedom of speech.
But I doubt whether a single left-of-centre pollie in this country will come out and openly declare it has failed, although some have overseas.
You can’t censor your way to peace and harmony.
Yet prettyboy Minns is free to say anything he wishes within the safetynet of parliament. Eff you, you POS.
The “houso” estate I live in is predominanty SE Asian from the lot, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China ect but “houso” never gave any thought to the reality that these folks, if not hate, intensely dislike each other so there has never, in 30 years, been any ‘community” just separate groupings of ethnics
glaring at each other in passing …….!
Some thoughts
Does Minns not realise that USA is multiethnic? Does the doofus think USA is white?
Australians have never been asked to vote in multiculti – let alone free speech. There needs to be a referendum question on immigration.
Minns is just yet another grub that has crawled out of our hiya ejucashun system with a useless ‘degree’ from Princeton to top it off. Who was the last NSW labor leader with a trade? Pat Hills?
This peaceful ecosystem was disrupted by the political class who chose, without consent, to import millions of people from conflicting cultures in a short space of time.
From Flat White in the Spectator
How about just naming that one conflicting culture? It’s called islam. Not once could I locate the word islam or muslim, in an otherwise good article.
Miller is just great. Best spokesman for the administration.
As I said earlier in relation to Homan … none of them take a backward step.
Forget the legal shenanigans.
Yeah, sure, that will play out, but this is more important in the political sphere.
The Dimocrats can’t help themselves. Their TDS dictates that they have to jump on everything Trump proposes, even 80:20 issues like trannies in women’s sports and exporting illegal aliens running criminal gangs.
In fact, the longer activist judges can spin this out, the better it is for Trump.
TDS is so bad among Democrats and their supporters many have condoned or supported things they never would have if Trump wasn’t president.
Andrew Weissmann is probably a bit old to be one of George Soro’s notorious attorneys, but he fits the pattern of those who are very hard on everyone except the more violent criminals and “minorities.”
Australians were never asked if they wanted multiculturalism; it was just forced on us from on high.
Same with mass immigration, particularly Mueslis.
Albosleazy is importing 26,000 Afghanis to Australia, arguably the least sociable and assimilable people in the world and the most misogynistic.
You can bet your bottom dollar on the vast majority of them still being on welfare in 5, 10, 20 years.
Don’t forget Bacha Bazi but importing people who attack and kill Australians is a canbra specialty.
Jizya – not welfare.
I had coffee with an old school chum yesterday.
We got talking about trannies.
Him : “What do they do with the bits?”
Me : “Bits?”
Him : “The bits they lop off. Tits and cocks and balls.”
Me : “Dunno. Chuck in the incinerator I suppose.”
Him : “Seems like a waste …”
I decided to change the subject at that point.
Then I get home and flick on the “News” to find a woman had been arrested for selling a dead man’s toes.
Did she find a buyer?
Well, that wasn’t clear.
But it was a little worrying that there might be a market for them.
I won’t be wearing thongs or sandals anymore.
You see, I have great toes.
Excellent toes.
The best.
They’d be highly prized, let me tell you.
Miller is just great. Best spokesman for the administration.
Love it. Pithy and punchy. I’m still gob smacked that Battin did a mea culpa- who the buggery is advising him?
Exactly.
It was classic Prosciutto.
Call out the shitty question and then attack the questioner for even asking it.
Tell them they are running interference for a lotta shitty stuff on the other side and ask them why they are doing that.
This Jew has concerns about the hate speech laws rushed through the NSW parliament back last month.
We already had adequate hate speech laws however we what we had was a politicised NSW Plod, headed by two hideous Hogarthian gin slags, one named Karin Webb and the other named Yasmin Catley, that has refused to apply existing laws against Muslim and leftist Nazis.
A week ago, attending a communal function, I spoke with a prominent member of the Jewish community. I asked this person about the two gin slags and this person replied that ‘both are utterly underwhelming’.
We are not in the best of hands.
And I assure all of you that these new ‘hate speech’ laws will never ever be applied to Muslim and leftist Nazis. They will continue to have free rein to do whatever they want to do, particularly to intimidate and threaten Jews.
I don’t know whether it was Webb, but I remember a senior NSW policewoman being asked by a reporter after the Lindt Cafe siege why Man Monis wasn’t taken out by a sniper.
Appalling, she blathered something about even terrorists having “rights.”
I don’t have the reference handy, but apparently that was a question raised at the inquest, which elicited the same answer.
Terror Sponsor Qatar Shaping Anti-Israeli Curricula for 8,000 American Schools in All 50 States
Macron/Starmer war trap; Bring UK back into EU and crush Trump
Indolent 15/03/25 @ 11:00am
bang on – slave labour , terrible working conditions and wages artificially kept low while being provided housing and a basic standard of living.
the people doing this work have no choice. This is their life.
is there standard of living improving?
For defence of your own country you need power, metal fos ship building, weaponary, agriculture for food, water for survival, clothing, housing.
all of it has been hollowed out.
we are desperate for meaning of work.
doing familial tasks like the ndis is not what I consider work.
childcare is the worst things, ridiculed by Kevin Rudd for making sandwiches yet work in childcare and you are looking after australia most important asset.
Rudd said this – the most socially useless individual. His misses social contribution is questionable. Psycologist.
now It’s the push to sport. The afl teams do not have the players, women doing men’s sport are bodies taken out of the workforce, soccer, cricket etc.
we are exhausted.of ideas for work.
mining on mars – what a waste, green our interior instead.
then there are the drug addiction jobs and other substance abuses which need case officers.
We need manufacturing, the skills level.
our income levels would adjust ,our income jump up vertically due to govt shocks,eg Keating tax changes, the intro of gst, Covid.
One of Australia’s biggest coal power stations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is set to stay open for four more years amid fears of devastating electricity shortages, in an extraordinary U-turn for the state Labor government’s renewable energy-only blueprint.
A decision to keep coal in the power system for longer underscores Australia’s volatile transition from fossil fuels to green power, even as federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen insisted a move to double the amount of renewable energy by the end of the decade remained on track.
The Australian can reveal owners EnergyAustralia, along with the Victorian government and the power grid operator, have held talks about delaying the mid-2028 closure of Yallourn. Instead, it could remain running into the next decade to dodge a power shortfall, although no decision on the length of an extension has yet been made.
Jim Chalmers on Tuesday refused to make an election promise that power prices would be “stable” under a second term of the Albanese government. The potential to prolong the use of coal may test the will of the Albanese government as it moves to fast-track the shift to renewables and clean energy.
The Yallourn station supplies 22 per cent of Victoria’s electricity and 8 per cent of the national market, and employs 500 workers.
Industry sources said the Australian Energy Market Operator had advised the Victorian government that Yallourn might need to be extended beyond 2028 over fears the electricity grid would be unstable if the giant coal plant exited.
Oz
Reality keeps on winning.
This takes me back to Carnarvon,1982. All the blokes would do the snake on the roller skating rink. The one on the end of the pack would get slammed into the wall when they went 360.
Not many injuries from memory. This song made people go crazy.
Split Enz – I See Red (Official Video)
MAFS was gorgeous tonight.
Couple Jackie and Ryan go to see Ryan’s home. She’s an abrasive attitude-patrolling career Karen, he’s a basic bimbo, proud of his self-made security, but harmless enough.
He’s got a nice dog.
And his house… is full of boy tatt. Impeccably clean, but bottles of euro spirits as souvenirs, replica swords from the Edo era, star wars ephemera, and autographed plastic mini cricket bat (that I have one of somewhere!)…
Jackie is devastated. Crumbles in to tears, fumbles words… “I can just tell he’s been living on his own for so long…” when we all know what she’s thinking is “crap o crap, what I wanted was an oestrogen-soaked stay at home nu-dad, but he’s a self-satisfied boy in a bubble”.
Pan to his “visualizer” whiteboard…. where he’s written up “schedule” on one side and “goals” on the other, with slots handily pre-asterisked in different coloured markers…
…aaaaand there’s no goals or dreams written in.
Me and the firstborn were pissing ourselves laughing, made waiting through the ten-minute ad breaks worth it for this sort of entertainment.
I’ve never watched MAFS, but that is hilarious.. photos here.
https://9now.nine.com.au/married-at-first-sight/mafs-2025-homestays-inside-brides-grooms-homes-in-pictures/0af4152c-cb94-444a-b16e-b2ed68435bbb#15
Doggo knows the gig is up – a woman in the house.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/the-last-of-the-few-lest-we-forget.html
Wonder what he would make of today’s England?
The BBC’s full article on John “Paddy” Hemmingway –
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o
An Arky public service announcement:
Jim Breuer on Jesse Lee Peterson.
Shame Jim didn’t go to the studio, and has a shit web cam, but this should be goooood.
Pouring a drink and preparing for something special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR5cGZfZ4A
Comedians are often pretty dark when they’re being straight and honest.
Screen shot.
So a certain lovely lady of a fine vintage was recently seen in several lovely outfits at one occasion or another, and had curls put in her hair that stayed up and looked gorgeous. Those she cared about told her so.
One privileged admirer even repeated how much he liked her dress – when she wasn’t wearing one.
Her eyes twinkled. Her smile broadened. Her eyebrows rose. Her strawberry lips parted…
‘What, this old thing??!‘
“For Israelis, the tragedy was a horrific reminder of the past. Once again, Jews had walked stoically to their doom under the watchful eyes of armed Germans. And yet again, Germans and the world had stood by, and failed to save them.”
“One Day In September: The Full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre” Simon Reeve, Pages 151-152.
I remember reading this book. It was like the German authorities planned to fail.
MACH LOOP!
THE digusting
First time I’ve heard of this, is it true?
By Adam Piggott, don’t usually read a lot of his musings, he is way out there for me.
If true then not a lot of places are remaining for us white folk to visit.
Maybe the casinos?
The wildlife that enjoy Lake Eyre say that hopefully the ban doesn’t apply to them.
Sailing on the lake ( which virtually disappears in dry times and is yuge in wet years) was banned years ago as it offended the local third tribes.
Everything is now banned.
South Australian government bans all recreational access to Lake Eyre (SBS, 21 Feb)
Getting to the point that we Australian citizens can’t visit our own country.
So much for the welcome then 🙁
Ayers Rock
Lake Eyre
Mount Warning
Arapiles
..
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Brett Lethbridge.
Warren Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
251mm overnight.
Looks like mother natures done for now, 2 months 10 days into the new year and we are already well above annual average.
While we here in the south have hardly had any rain. Just not fair.
Constitutional crisis? More like judicial over-reach with a dollop of far left dressing. The ability of bad actors in the USA to bring cases before a sympathetic judge and get a TRO that countermands the President is looming large at the moment.
Justice Roberts is well known for leaning left as well, and he has in effect sided with Boasberg, an Obama appointee.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/chief-justice-roberts-defends-rogue-judiciary-slams-trumps/
Seems the majority of the SCOTUS is going to side with their own. Given Roberts past behaviour not surprising.
Was listening to a possible solution to these lower courts yesterday, apparently the Judiciary Committees can question actual judges. The solution was call this and all the other judges in and question them on their reasonings. The assertion was they would have to justify the unjustifiable and would come off looking as partisan as they seem.
Another more drastic step was having congress defund or abolish the lower courts causing the problems.
Laura Loomer is looming large in this judicial fracas too.
Her expose of Boasberg’s extreme left daughter helps to place the whole thing in its correct context.
Impeachment is the only solution open to get rid of dodgy federal court judges. Roberts can whinge all he likes, but the appointment of lefty judges with ability to give out nationwide injuctions has to be dealt with.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/boom-laura-loomer-uncovers-enormous-taxpayer-funded-conflict/
From TE @11:46
Should read “delay the inevitable power shortfall”.
Remember everyone, there is no fat left in the grid. If one of these coal plants goes out unexpectedly from now, on it’s lights out for most.
Unless more baseload energy is developed to replace Yallourn the can’t risk closing it.
Just another day in Victoriastan. Hun on a rather extraordinary development:
Heard on the local news this morning the cost of construction in the ACT, and I presume most other states, is 30% for compliance. 30% and no responsibility if something is wrong.
Just another day in Victoriastan. Hun on a rather extraordinary development:
Huge story which will have Mzzz Allan stating “gentlemen, start your shredders!”
There will be quite a few murmurings along the lines of no comment or I can’t recall etc but this situation should be front and centre of any press briefing by Mzzz Allan held until the next election.
That’s if she survives that long. Just useless amoebae at the highest levels of government.
Just another case of Baddies vs Baddies.
So tough when good love goes bad. Shed a tear for VicPlod.
Any real corruption commission should also have the power to terminate the employment of people who answer “I do not recall” on matters of high importance on the basis that they are incompetent or not able to perform in their current role due to their poor memory.
For Cats who like such things the live coverage of the return to Earth and splashdown of the rescued astronauts and two other returning ISS crewmembers is due to start in about 30 minutes.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vOGwXWLdPLJB
Watched an interesting movie on Netflix last night – Official Secrets.
The story of Katharine Gun, who leaked a memo which drew aside the curtain of secrecy and influence peddling between Blair and Bush just prior to the second Gulf War and toppling of Saddam Hussein. The memo was the most concrete document suggesting that the war was indeed illegal.
A character popped up in the movie, I wasn’t sure so checked it out this morning. Yvonne Ridley. Here she is a month ago praising Hamas. Looks like she’s been involved in some stinky stuff for a long time now.
Recommended. Knightly believable and very strong supporting cast. Script nice and tight, no blathering off with the fairies.
Based upon the book – The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War – By Marcia Mitchell & Thomas Mitchell.
A very good book and read.
The Irish ain’t my favourite folk but I’ll make an exception for this bloke ..
Vale “Paddy” ..
Hopefully, St. Peter had a cold Guinness, or three, at the “gate” to greet you with ……. !
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/uknews/john-paddy-hemingway-dies-aged-105-prince-william-leads-tributes-to-last-surviving-battle-of-britain-pilot/ar-AA1B7oKs?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=410abfe17734464298fb0d4ee1237460&ei=39
Minimal training and something like a 20 minute life expectancy in the air. Would they do it again seeing todays mess being wrecked upon what they saved. Probably as they stood for something beyond themselves. Wife’s Uncle Bob, flying out of Biggen Hill, lived, how? They never gave up, no matter the odds.
The BBC’s full article on John “Paddy” Hemmingway –
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o
Yvonne Ridley
My memory of this ghastly female was that she was held in Afghanistan by the Taliban and whilst imprisoned in Kabul or wherever she converted to the homicidal death cult.
A complete opposite to the likes of Yarden Bibas and other Jews who were held hostage in Gaza. They have since spoken of how they were asked to convert to Islam by the Gazan Nazis and if they did then their conditions would improve.
They refused.
Am Yisrael Chai.
This is Eire, one in five people living in the country was born abroad, & soon to be Oz at the rate the gummint is going … FFS ……!
“hadbollocks” trying to grow a new pair .. LOL! https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/03/18/syrias-jihadi-rulers-strike-back-after-alleged-hezbollah-attack/
Fiddling the NDIS payz better than applying for an NDIS “package .. FFS! 21 months gaol for ripping off $1.4 million from the, taxpayer funded, NDIS https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/support-provider-paul-tilbury-jailed-for-ndis-fraud/105066780
Less than 2 years for fraudulently stealing $1.4 million?
Has the Judicial system totally forgotten the ‘deterrence’ aspect of gaoling miscreants?
Following on: there’s been an interesting discussion about the tick cheating that’s going on. Someone on Discord who goes by the name of DOGE2 has been teasing out some of the cheaters. He gives an example of March 17th in a series of posts by Winston Smith, beginning with the first at 5:54 a.m. and ending with the last at 6:24 a.m., comprising a total of 6 posts batched close together. These posts had an average of 6 to 7 upticks by 9 a.m., and the discourse had gone way past by 9 a.m. DOGE2 used the cheat function and took the count for each to zero. Thirty minutes later, each post then went back to approximately the previous tick count. Throughout the day, DOGE2 says he repeated the cheat function, and each time the tick count went back up. This was repeated about a dozen times. The tick count is now positive again. DOGE2 estimates that at least 45 ticks went up for each of the 6 posts.
He was testing several other potential cheats and said he’d give an account for each in the next few days.
Love the name , DOGE2. No idea who it is.
Needs to sashay in here and comment. Sounds like a smart person.
I suppose it’s a matter of writing a bit of code that has your device doing a simple routine multiple times. That would rule out pretty much all us old geezers! 🙂
A lot of it is to annoy – ‘dillo, that loveable but naughty rodent, confessed to doing it (not on an industrial scale, just enough to put people in their place). I’m unimpressed, but whatever floats your boat.
I think where it starts to get serious is when someone is becoming a bit agitated. You just never know what’s happening in their lives. That’s when they need to get off social media and reboot. I’ve done it and recommend it strongly.
Are you accusing me of being a fraudulent poster, JC.
Well, according to DOGE2, someone was manipulating those ticks like crazy person off their medication. Was it you Betty?
I just downticked you, JC because you appear to have an obsession with the function – and on blaming it on me.
There’s certainly an unhealthy obsession there with ticking, bordering on unhinged.
LOL. Unsurprisingly, the Driller shows up. What a sad couple.
Betty, answer the question. Don’t let your husband have to answer for you.
Go!
One for air force Cats. The ladies doing the coverage of the splashdown (in about 10 minutes) mentioned that NASA has two Canberra bombers in the air over the splashdown site.
NASA’s flock of three Canberra bombers look to be the last operational B-57s. Not bad for seventy year old birdies.
If you look at the pix of them they are only sorta Canberras. WB57. New much larger wing, new engines and ability to have two smaller turbojets under the wings also.
The only thing wrong with the Canberra bomber was that it didn’t.
If it’s photographed from a Canberra, it has to be true.
before the historic return to Earth Wilmore has touched the hearts of millions with a viral clip where he proclaimed the Gospel from the heavens ahead of the 17-hour flight home.
Stranded Astronaut in Space Proclaims Gospel Before Historic Rescue Back to Earth| National Catholic Register
They were both cute, but Kate Tice from SpaceX was the cutest.
Called it.
This has all the hallmarks of Topendertown hijinks.
‘Shane Patton has my full confidence’ – immediately followed by:
‘Shane Patton’s contract will not be renewed.’
The very next sentence was that Rick Nugent – who, by the way, had jumped ship from VicPlod some years earlier to take up an emergency services gig – would be in the big chair.
There is no chance – none – that Nugent wasn’t approached some time beforehand, and that his condition of acceptance was that Paterson goes.
Have a look at NSWPlod. When Nanna Webb got the gig, no less than three of her closest competitors had their heads lopped by government.
It’s the way of the world, apparently. Paterson’s clearly after significant go away money as well, rather than his job back.
Perhaps he should appeal his case to the court of public opinion – lets stack the jury with peppersprayed grandmothers and pregnant women in their PJs
When more than enuf is never enuf .. don’t look for a new “jerb” .. sue your “employer” LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/novak-djokovic-tennis-group-sues-governing-bodies/105069284
The Bee. This is about where we are. They’re now saying that dismantling USAID, arguably the biggest scam in U.S. history, was unconstitutional.
Federal Judge Orders Price Of Eggs To Go Back Up
EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say
Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional, orders Musk to restore access for employees
A quick glance at his bio – on the Board of Harvard, Obama appointee.
Nuff said.
Everything Trump does seems to be unconstitutional. He should pardon someone preemptively and sign it with an autopen – suddenly that will be found to be unconstitutional too.
I LIKE your thinking! Go on orangemanbad, do it!
Good to see Ross Eastgate hammer the Campus Clown over his attempt to send our children to the Ukraine cesspit in order to snuggle up to his only friend – Starmer.
When you are variously known as AnAl or Albansleazy or AllBaloney, it’s not surprising that you only friend is known variously as Two Tier Kier or Der Sturmer.
Well done, Elon! Just watched the splashdown of the stranded space station astronauts in the glassy coastal waters off Tallahassee, Florida.
It’s hard to believe the science behind such exploration of the earth’s upper atmosphere — including the return to earth — is now routine and exploding space shuttles are a distant memory.
And to think that it arrived, splashed down, on the dot. More accurate than half the world airlines.
AHA!
But where was their luggage?
@GuntherEagleman
Thank you @willcain for bringing light to the swatting of conservatives!
It has to be stopped! It’s attempted murder!
@DefiyantlyFree
The judge who ruled that disbanding USAID was unconstitutional wrote in the order that USAID was created by Congress. It was not. It was created by executive order by JFK.
That’s what I thought.
So a JFK Executive Order from 1961 overrules a Trump Executive Order from 2025?
Hmmm.
Once more, a judge that prefers feelz over the law.
And they wonder why the general population no longer has any respect for them. This is not just a problem in the US, the same is happening throughout the Anglosphere. It could be that it’s all over the world though I have not heard or read about it.
Clearly a scholar to be admired!
Do I need to add //sarc//?
I wouldn’t know what sarcasm is.
@EricLDaugh
THIS. ALL OF IT.
Fort Myers, Florida Councilwoman breaks down crying as she rejects allowing local police to help Trump deport criminal aliens. His response is masterful.
LESLIE: “I would love to hear how many tears miss Darla Bonk cried when Laken Riley was m*rdered by an illegal alien that should have not been here.”
“I wanna see the emotions when our citizens are being m*rdered, r*ped, and and victimized by these people that should not be in this nation.”
“‘My seat is not to be bought…’ Again, she’s just being a manipulative narcissist trying to pull on your emotion strings to make you feel a certain way and justify her terrible wrong vote.”
“That’s all that was. It was ridiculous. It was a charade, and she is truly the by definition, what a ‘RINO’ is, and the Republicans in Fort Myers really need to take a hard look at her seat next election.”
Meme
Cassie, for you in particular, but also for all of us who truly care. Bob Hawke was indeed correct.
How the Fate of the West is Tied to the Fate of the Jewish Nation
Whatever Bob’s faults were. He said nothing truer and was correct.
Circling the wagons.
@DC_Draino
Chief Justice Roberts has put out a statement saying he opposes the impeachment of Federal judges that rule in favor of MS-13 cartel thugs
Someone should remind him that the Constitution allows for it and he should stay the hell out of the political process
Dolphins welcome the astronauts back to earth.
What a day.
That was the best thing about the awesome telecast, dolphins circling around the SpaceX capsule floating in the ocean. Absolutely surreal.
Watching the whole thing was better than a movie.
Didn’t take long.
This is in response to the Cernovich below it which is absolutely right.
@seanmdav
Roberts does not appreciate how close to the ledge he is dancing right now.
Once a president is forced by judicial insurrectionists to ignore their diktats and finally realizes the only power they ever had was a common belief they were legitimate, it’s over. And let me tell you: the fuel gauge needle on that legitimacy tank is starting to point at E due to the ongoing insanity of unelected tyrants in robes. Once that tank is dry, it’s over, because no president or Congress would ever again have any reason to defer to the whims of a cabal viewed as lawless and illegitimate by the people of this country.
John Roberts can do the right thing and end this nonsense forthwith, or he can continue to indulge his inner coward and go down in history as the man who killed off the American experiment in democratic rule of law on the eve of its 250th birthday.
He’s behaving like someone with something to hide that has been unhidden by his enemy.
Parody today, tomorrow, who knows.
Sargon has had enough.
What a surprise that the JFK files are delayed.
Released finally. Let’s see now.
Before I exercise my lack of rights to speak.
Are we allowed to comment on this?
@DefiyantlyFree
Injunction issued by District Courts:
1. Bush 6-12
2. Obama 12-20
3. Biden 14
4. Trump 1st term 55-64
5. Trump 2nd term 14 (2 months in)
We have a serious problem with judicial tyranny.
@teslaownersSV
Elon Musk on stranded astronauts
“The Biden White House did not want to have someone who was pro Trump rescuing astronauts from space right before the election”
Meme
His daughter works for an NGO which advocates for illegal aliens and is majority taxpayer funded.
BOOM: Laura Loomer Uncovers an Enormous Taxpayer-Funded Conflict of Interest Involving Obama Judge Who Ordered Trump Admin to Stop Deporting Criminal Aliens Mid-Flight and HIS OWN DAUGHTER
The simple fact is that all of them have conflict of interest. All of them have children and spouses who work in either the government or taxpayer-funded NGOs. None of them are gainfully employed in private enterprise.
From the Oz.
Bankstown Hospital nurses to face court over ‘kill Israelis’ rant
Where they will receive a “there, there, pat on the hand”, and be allowed to go their merry, jew-hating way.
And a trenchant reminder from the Bench of the evils of islamophobia.
We just may be approaching a watershed moment in Australian/Islamic relations.
I read their manifesto over 2 decades ago (whilst in Baghdad no less 😉 ), so my watershed came a while back.
Splashdown
@DC_Draino
President Trump and Elon Musk have officially rescued the stranded astronauts from the International Space Station
Democrats abandoned them
MAGA saved them
God bless America
Great video, it’s real since I was watching it live. Magnificent!
This story has a familiar refrain to it.
The only difference is, our own grifters NEVER resign.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/18/biden-rural-broadband-guru-who-accomplished-nothing-quits-because-trump-might-make-progress-n2186819
After rescuing the astronauts Elon will be treated like CJ was by the demorats at Trump’s speech.
Judicial activism is a disease:
Roberts Rebukes Trump’s Call for Impeaching Judge who Ruled Against his Deportation Plans – Breitbart
Federal Judge Orders Halt to DOGE Shutdown of USAID
I bet amy kunty is stroking robert’s groin where his dick would be.
Roberts supported Boasbergs appointment to FISA.
Sundance is on it:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/18/president-trump-goes-scorched-earth-on-judge-boasberg-chief-justice-john-roberts-defends-boasberg/#more-270208
Impeachment article being tabled by a Texan congressman as well:
https://x.com/RepBrandonGill/status/1902028278849786279
Early morning coffee , and reading “One Day In September.”
On April 10, 1973, heavily disguised Israeli Commando’s – some in drag- raided Black September homes in Beirut. After three Lebanese police vehicles had been engaged, with the crews being killed or wounded, a Mossad official telephoned a senior Lebanese police official. Posing as another local official, he told him that Palestinian guerillas were fighting among themselves near the Rue Verdun. Anxious that his men should not be injured in a gunfight between heavily armed Palestinians, the police chief apparently called off other police reinforcements, who were on their way to the area. (Page 182.)
Also from “One Day In September” – seems that excerpts from a film, made during the bungled West German attempt to rescue the hostages, taken at the 1972 Munich Olympics, are shown to German anti terrorist GSG-9 soldiers, during their training, as an example of how NOT to rescue hostages..(Page 237.)
Praise Mossad, IDF and Israel.
God and nature are on Trump’s side:
Stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams safely return to Earth
From the story, the dolphins.
Those dolphins are just hoping there are dead or injured humans to rape.
Filthy animals.
The first intelligent life aliens will encounter on splashing down on Earths oceans is fat, rapey dolphins.
No wonder they have embargoed the planet.
Didn’t you know? Dolphins are gibbering, sadistic sex fuelled maniacs.
Only demorat dolphins are.
Dolphins are all hardline communists.
Thanks for all the fish!
I have never forgiven dolphins for stealing my ball while I was playing in the water when I was a kid.
So you still have your other ball?
I was impressed by the commentary of two chicks, both smart, young and charming. There is hope yet.
Kate Tice is actually a fairly senior engineer at SpaceX
Let’s see what penalties these racists receive if they’re convicted (Paywallian):
Link
Under Commonwealth law, using a carriage service (like phone, internet, etc.) to threaten violence to a group, threaten to kill, or menace/harass/offend carries varying penalties, with the maximum being 10 years imprisonment for a threat to kill and 5 years for using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence.
However, almost all Australian judges and magistrates belong to the No-one Elected Us Party, which routinely sides with criminals and thumbs its nose at the public interest. So I’m tipping they’ll get a bond with zero jail time as an up-yours to the rule of law.
They’ll play the game to end .. Most folk aren’t aware of how the system works, but as someone who lived next door to a 251 drug dealer, a quick explanation .. Your entitled to 3 “mentions” before the actual court case ..Sooo a decent lawyer takes this offer up and uses the time between for their real “jerb” .. The shop around various courts to get a favourable judge, one who has a track record of going easy on your specific type of “offence”, the, off-the-record, plea bargaining to get the lowest possible charge for the “crime” and 3rdly, most important, drag it all out as long as possible so that when you, eventually, front the “beak” .. media has gone cold (3 day cycle over) & the punters have short memories .. End result a para or two three quarters down the “mail online” & a fine, good behavior bond, lettuce leaf slap ect ….. very rarely a gaol sentence if the lawyer does their job (paid for by the taxpayer so no expense worry) & off you go to start all over again ……. Plus, these dayz, an extra bonus might be a “victimization” rant across the media, especially, if your media profile is classified “special” ……
And ‘education’ (for both sides of course) about how diversity unites us….
It’s a safe bet da judge will say that losing their job was enough penalty, plus “the glare of public disapproval” or something similar.
the precedent has already been set – summing up after finding me not guilty after my Canberra arrest, the judge labelled the obvious lying under oath of the AFP as ‘curious’ – I cant imagine a harsher rebuke than that !
The USA is heading towards going bust.
The USA ensures the world order via her ability to project power anywhere on the globe: secure sea lanes, underpin global trade via secure payments backed by assets the world wants to own, prevent piracy, etc etc etc.
Without the USAs active involvement, much of the globe that is currently safe, secure, and relatively prosperous falls rather quickly into Zimbabwe status or lower, into civil war, tribalism and genocide.
Wither Australia under these set of facts?
Optimists would expect her to be able to do well, secure her own trade, defend herself and make her own way in the world as a middle power. Pessimists would expect her to quickly fall further into the grasp of emerging new powers in the region.
Trump doing everything he can possibly be expected to do to reverse this course and in doing so, preserve American primacy.
The onus is on the USAs allies, partners and friends to drop the suicidal trade, social and energy policies, and pay up.
Pay up for your defence.
Pay up for more expensive local industries.
Pay up for made in the USA products that contribute to an American industrial capacity required to continue to project power across the globe.
Pay up to fill in the gaps meanwhile as Trump rebuilds at home that which is required.
Drop the bullshit and pay up.
Switzerland does pretty well with an ‘armed neutrality’ stance and survived WW2 despite being the only unoccupied power in most of continental Europe – and that despite being geographically smaller and less endowed with resources than Australia.
I would prefer us to concentrate more on ‘home defence’ and self sufficiency than on expeditionary missions which are really not essential to us.
An optimist.
As opposed to spending billions on French (or US for that matter) subs??
Switzerland was permitted to remain neutral and untouched as all sides had a lot of assets in their banks.
Switzerland had a ‘rifle behind every bush’ and excellent mountainous defensive terrain which neutered Hitlers main strengths: airpower and panzer power. Hitler could never afford the 10 or 12 infantry divisions it would have required to take it and hold it.
Helps when you are looking after much of the world’s black money.
Switzerland has a formidable defensive terrain, and is filled with easily fortifiable passes which haven’t been used in donkeys years.
Only a lunatic would try to invade her.
Australia has similar advantages – General Summer and General Flood.
Australia has similar advantages – General Summer and General Flood.
And the tyranny of distance – both internally and externally. Its a long way to get here and a long way to anything once you are here. Your supply lines are punishingly long.
General Distance?
A lot of that sounds like exploiting the periphery in order to hold up the centre.
Re Bowen in the Oz today ranting about the coalition climate policy is based on climate deniers, for the life of me a can’t work out why my comment was rejected:
He’s fun. This is the day that the far-left Victorian regime has worked out that they have to maintain Latrobe for the next decade so the place isn’t blacked out.
Only took them 35 years.
of course, its age and the deliberate rundown of its machinery will lead to breakdowns which will be blamed on ‘not going renewball fast enough’.
“Unreliable coal-fired generation”.
WA will have the same issue with Muja in 2030, now just 5 years away.
I heard the story on radio this morning that Yallourn would be kept open longer. Searching for this brings up very little and now, apparently, the Vic govt is saying they have no such plan. Possibly the story was leaked to one newspaper to put the idea out there and test the wind.
‘tactics wins battles, strategy wins wars’
we will never win the ‘kleen energy’ war by pursuing losing tactics.
DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help
Liberty Doll explaining why armed citizens stop more mass shootings then the wallopers:
(74) Gun Owners Stop More Shootings Than Cops – YouTube
And speaking of armed citizens:
Report: US Forces Sink Iran’s Most Sophisticated Spy Ship And Pounds Iran-Backed Houthi Terrorists For Third Straight Day of Attacks – Geller Report
I was waiting for the top to be popped open, as the expert told us would happen despite my lying eyes seeing a side door.
What a lovely sight, particularly in these dark times, to see the astronauts welcomed by a pod of dolphins.
And you know what Cassie? Some idiot will complain about the parachutes being a danger to them – suffocating and strangling them in the lines.
Bankstown Hospital nurses face court over ‘kill Israelis’ rant
Liam Mendes
44 minutes ago.
Updated 2 minutes ago
Dramatic scenes have unfolded outside a Sydney court as two former nurses charged over an anti-Semitic video appeared, with the lawyer of one of the accused saying they will be arguing to have the video at the heart of the case excluded from proceedings.
Sarah Abu Lebdeh and her colleague Ahmad Rashad Nadir, former Bankstown Hospital nurses, faced court for the first time since they went global for their alleged anti-Semitic diatribe filmed during a night shift in the break room of their ward.
They appeared at Downing Centre Local Court briefly on Wednesday morning over the rant that saw both immediately stood down from their positions after the footage was released by Israeli social media influencer Max Veifer.
As Ms Abu Lebdeh arrived, a group of hooded and bearded men dressed in black shielded her from the media scrum on all sides as she walked into the courthouse.
Ms Abu Lebdeh is facing three commonwealth charges after claiming she would “kill” Israeli patients.
The 26-year-old was charged with threaten violence to group, use carriage service to threaten to kill and use carriage service to menace/harass/offend.
She was charged earlier this month with threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace/harass/offend.
Mr Nadir, 27, has been charged with the commonwealth offence of use carriage service to menace/harass/offend and a state charge of possess prohibited drug, after his locker was allegedly found with a vial of morphine.
Mr Nadir’s lawyer Mohamad Sakr told reporters outside court they “intend to argue for the video to be excluded from court”, citing “legal and technical grounds”.
Mr Sakr alleges the video was captured “without the consent and knowledge” of his client.
with the lawyer of one of the accused saying they will be arguing to have the video at the heart of the case excluded from proceedings.
aka their defence strategy will consist of having all the incriminating evidence thrown out…..
claiming she would “kill” Israeli patients.
Why does The Australian put quotes around the word kill?
Surely what’s at issue is whether she made the threat, not the degree of intensity of the killing she promised.
The article seems to imply that it’s possible she might have only killed them a little bit!
Arky’s dolphin commentary upthread worth the price of admission. Chortle.
Well done
The feminists will be all over this:
(17) RadioGenoa on X: “Islamic scholar Mohamed Qazwini, an imam from Michigan, America, says that a wife has no right to deny her husband intimacy. He then tells us how to hit her as punishment. This is Islam. https://t.co/MQjrx2dCh5” / X
I don’t want to worry anyone, but there was something clinging to the side of that space capsule when it landed. Did anyone else spot it?
He was rigging the lifting lines. It was interesting to watch.
Get Jonesy onto it.
Maybe ( I smell a coverup) it sure looked like this guy
Presumably, if the video is excluded, the entire case (except for the vial of morphine) goes out the window?
Of course they have.
Mr Sakr alleges the video was captured “without the consent and knowledge” of his client…..
My understanding is that a conversation between 2 people can be recorded provided
1) At least one of the participants is aware of it
2) The purpose of the recording is to make contemporaneous notes..
I tell that to anyone who says ‘you cant record me…’
I’m no lawyer, but the idea you can sit in your hospital’s break room and go on a video chat roulette site that connects you with totally random people in random locations across the world and not expect to have your conversation recorded or overheard is absurd. That doesn’t seem like a private conversation to me.
Qwerties get excitable.
Hungary in chaos as furious protesters set off flares in middle of Parliament (18 Mar)
This would be fun in Canberra. We really don’t have the drama that European countries have.
Daily Wire going bankrupt? Employees credit cards freezed?
Um, guys, this isn’t a good look. Just saying.
Dramatic scenes as Sydney nurses charged over allegedly threatening Israeli patients in video face court for the first time (Sky News, 19 Mar)
Going to win lots of friends by having ten heavies in hoodies escorting an self-professed antisemite to court.
Some seemed more interested in protecting their identity than assisting Ms. Lebdeh. I have always suspected that her family is well known to police.
Standard MO. Telephone the cousins.
Probably from the barber shop. Given the time of ramadramadingdong, they’d all be in the best of moods.
Re defence, raised above, a few initial thoughts.
Revert to the 1911 model, but with a Regular Army and Air Force added.
The regular forces, Navy, Army and Air Force, are available for service anywhere.
Then build a volunteer home defence force, available only to serve in Australian territory, including the external territories, and territorial waters (coast guard).
Designate specific home defence units to protect the chain of forward airfields from Cocos to Townsville, and construct relevant fortifications for them to operate from.
Have local home defence units to develop a “porcupine” defence system for populated areas.