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Cloward-Piven and the Migrant Invasion
Resistance Democrats embrace combative, profanity-laced ‘dark woke’ rebrand to combat Trump
@PeteHegseth If this is true — we will find any way possible to stop it. Taxpayers should NEVER pay for…
Have to admit it, Monty. Today was one of your more spectacular “jump on a rake” episodes. What’s even more…
ehrmagerd!
FIRRRRSSST.
Silver!
This thread dedicated to the imminent ‘retirement’ of the fat Paki, aka Usman Khawaja (the Hun):
You won’t be missed.
Activate your activism somewhere else, under your own steam instead of using crikkit as a shield. See how far you get then.
Piss off.
No doubt another dickhead will take his place.
As per Mrs Scum…..
“I don’t like darkies!”
Who does!
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What does Dutton have to do with anything related to this?
Apart from a social marker?
That’s it! Hatred of Dutton is a key plank in both in Labor and Muslim political strategy.
You are too kind to him.
I hear being a former cricketer in Pakistan is a good way into politics there.
He’d probably take the safer option and join Payman.
Over there, he won’t be a protected minority.
Apology “off” Dawes?
What kind English is that from a journalist of all people?
Johannes Leak.
Very clever.
Perfect.
Sadly not true. EV sales are booming in Australia thanks to the FBT exemption, costing 540 million in reduced tax revenue (not that I care)
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
That is clever. 😉
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
Is Zelenskyy doing this as his own “get back at Trump” action, or is he being used by others. Not a good look either way. Russia will not return the territory it has taken and which has at least 50 percent Russophiles in the population.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/zelensky-demands-russia-return-all-territory-gained-since/
It’s possible Z has been told by the Azov folk that if he concedes a centimetre of territory, they’ll kill him. We don’t know enough about his political situation to be able to grasp his motives.
If I were him, I’d emigrate.
After all the fighting and deaths?
He must be dreaming or it’s a bad joke.
Sounds fair enough.
Dunny Brush last night:
That work last night at the MCG, if it could be dignified with such a term, was truly awful.
Sitting like some sort of sage with evening jacket on reading out the great moments of Bulldogs football history was worse than the welcome to country. I kid you not.
Remember this whenever Murphy graces your screen, he didn’t play in that 2016 flag. So has as many as Ablett Snr, Lockett, Buckley, Flower, Paul Kelly who are eminently better footballers.
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, reacts to the news that Greenpeace is to be sued for $650 million for their behavior and attacks against the oil pipeline in Dakota. ref Michael Smith News https://x.com/EcoSenseNow/status/1902812519661703649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1902812519661703649%7Ctwgr%5E7107a7447ec7368765aad6245e32f05b04a27816%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
Today in Too Many Bad Actors:
‘We Did Put 235 Progressive Judges – on the Bench and They Are Ruling Against Trump Time After Time After Time’https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/chuck-schumer-says-quiet-part-loud-we-did/
And,
Political violence on the rise across America as leftists swat conservatives in the media.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/political-violence-rise-across-america-as-left-swatts/
The Communist Democrats were never going to accede to the peoples wishes in the vote. Nor will they do so in the future – even if it means a Civil War 2.
How on earth does “rubbish” like this get as far as court..? bad enuf 2 plod turn up on the doorstep to start the ball rolling .. A standard 200x a day occurrence in “houso-land” yet here a disgruntled “daddy” is able to unleash the full force of the law over “nuttin” .. your taxes at work .. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/nsw-woman-hit-teenage-son-argument-technology-ban-wins-appeal/105083378
Today in We Are Governed by Idiots and Ideologues:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/food_security_requires_fossil_fuels.html
here come the judge(s) ……..LOL!
Golly, gosh ..! be still my beating heart ……..! Cos this OAP f/n (for me) started on the 21 March I got one day of the new, super duper $4.70 f/n rise .. 37cents .. this morning .. all mine, all mine ….. thank you Luigi, thank you ……….!
?Tugs forelock and backs out bowing ……….!
Alex gets snookered. Lol.
If she has already resigned her job, then it is not her choice to continue.
Listening to an economist/political commentator last night who suggested that when there is a bad government they lose the election. The opposition just has to keep a low profile and keep out of the way and keep the focus on the government. According to him Dutton is only matching the spending in the areas they will attack him on ,health for instance. Win the election and then bring in changes we are wanting such as Out of net zero we cannot afford it .
Won’t happen. We’re like the derro heading towards the gutter. Gotta really hit rock bottom first. Until the doctor’s wives turn away from teal, nothing will improve.
Until the doctor’s wives turn away from teal, nothing will improve.
Why would they do that? They are financially comfortable as are all their friends and they all bolster each other’s green snobbery.
Like to think that but experience tells me different.
Chrisifooli here in Queensland, Abbott apart from carbin tax and stopping boats. Just two disappointments. Won’t even start on other states.
I just don’t think Dutton will be much of a reformer.
Yes, just like all the Liberal leaders over the last twenty years.
“This time it will be different”, because we now have the man of steel at the helm.
If you vote Labor or LNP, expect more Green policies, to inflict even more damage on our economy.
Meme
The thought processes of an AWFL.
Tesla security guard
@C_3C_3
So….
Are we supposed to act like Justice Roberts didn’t install Judge Boasberg to oversee the FISA court that was part of the coup attempt to frame Donald Trump for treason in 2016?
Yep that all happened.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: President Donald Trump just fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security – NYT
These were personnel who provide “oversight” of his deportations.
They’re gone.
This is unbelievable.
@iAnonPatriot
Adam Kinzinger SLAMS MAGA for speaking out against Liberals vandalizing Tesla’s…
“MAGA isn’t very masculine and they always play the victim”
Trump on Tesla attacks
Trump says he’ll cover pay of astronauts who received no overtime after being stranded in space for 9 months: ‘Out of my own pocket’
@catturd2
?Was it the same 51 intelligence agents who said that Hunter’s laptop was the “hallmarks” of Russia.
@GuntherEagleman
You want to stop the corruption, put a guilty one in prison for life.
You want to stop rogue judges, remove one.
You want to stop Tesla terrorism, send one to an El Salvador prison.
START MAKING EXAMPLES OF THESE PEOPLE!
If you have been wondering why the ABC has been making such an issue of child care failings recently, here’s the answer: it’s all because of privatisation and capitalism.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-22/childcare-aged-care-abuse-neglect-privatisation-australia/105067714
In other words, only the economic system of the late, unlamented.Soviet Union is not immoral.
Predictably, they are also campaigning against Dutton this morning on AUKUS and public service cuts.
Almost.
The goal of the ABC is to give cover for the federal government to increase regulation & certification of child care providers.
Which is bad for private & smaller operators.
And is awesome for the biggest owners of child care centres in Australia…industry super.
Big business loves regulation.
Publicly they whinge about.
Privately they know that regulation is the biggest moat a large operator can hope for.
Hello the ABC.
Q. Where is the Soviet Union now?
A. In your Newsroom.
Already been here. ABC Learning anyone?
@catturd2
This was the suspension that made Elon buy Twitter.
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Trump has ordered RFK Jr. and HHS to take over all special needs and nutrition programs for schools.
It will serve our children much better than being in the DOE, where bureaucracy hinders every step!
LFG!!!
@MarioNawfal
FEDERAL JUDGE TAKES OVER USAID HIRING — BLOCKS TRUMP PICK
Judge Theodore D. Chuang has barred Jeremy Lewin, a former DOGE team member, from becoming Deputy Administrator of USAID.
Instead of letting the administration make its own staffing decisions, Judge Chuang decided Lewin’s loyalty to Trump disqualified him.
Government lawyers asked for clarity — the judge flat-out denied it and warned he could expand the ban if they try any workarounds.
In effect, one judge is now acting as the self-appointed HR department for the federal government…
Congress critters need to start doing their job. Start impeaching these guys or abolishing their courts.
SCOTUS apart from Alito seem to be paralysed.
FMD, that is incredible.
This is a Revolution from the judicary. Time to kill the judges first. The lawyers will have to wait their turn.
That Judge is bang out of order. Get Congress to sack him.
Loyalty to a president disqualifies someone?
Utterly ridiculous and insane.
Judge Chuang tried blocking DOGE from dismantling USAID.
On the same day, Trump/Rubio installs a hatchet man into a senior USAID position so that the recommended dismantling can continue from the inside without DOGE officially calling the shots. That happened so fast it may have been a move Trump was planning to do anyway rather than a reaction to the judge’s order. Anyhow it was a sneaky way to work around the judge’s first order. So I understand why the judge would be cranky and trying expand his order to also block Lewin.
In issuing his first order the judge cited the Appointments Clause and separation of powers. But I’m pretty sure he has no authority to block the hiring decisions of the executive branch for an “inferior officer” such as the Deputy and everyone below them. So Trump’s workaround should succeed.
Congress should at least start an impeachment process on this activist at least to fire a warning shot over all the others.
Went for coffee with a couple of “soft left” women both in their late 50’s from my neighbourhood yesterday. For want of avoiding political topics I talked about downloading recipes onto my computer. All was going well until I decided to tell one of the jokes I had read here, I think submitted by Johnny Rotten, which had amused me and was easy to remember. It was the one which went something like this: “You know, technically Moses was the first man to download from the Cloud onto his computer.” It went down like a lead balloon. One lady didn’t know who Moses was and the other didn’t know what the Cloud was. Oh dear. I didn’t have a follow-up joke either!
Not knowing of “the cloud” is one thing, having no idea who is Moses is at an entirely different level.
How did she manage to get that far in life & be totally unaware? Anybody in their late 50s would be certain to have encountered Moses during their schooling.
She obviously never saw any Hollywood movies.
I take it she knows about Mohammad.
Not only do they live amongst us, but they vote as well. And here we are.
LOL. Not too sure whether it was me although I’ll willingly take the credit if no one else gazumps me that is.
@VP
The people attacking Teslas are trying to send the message that if you support President Trump, they will commit acts of violence to try to intimidate you.
Our message to them? Terrorists in this country will be brought to justice.
And sent to El Salvador!
Or Gitmo.
@BreitbartNews
POLITICO: Democrat grassroots on the “verge of mutiny,” GOP approval soars
@elonmusk
Many all-star engineers are taking major pay cuts (sometimes to zero) and suffering from harassment, including death threats, to help the country with @DOGE, because they love America
Zelensky Demands Russia Return All Territory Gained Since 2014 – Continues to Push His Forever War with Russia
Z is a ‘Sirry Iriot’ with NFI.
Massive underground structures found beneath Giza Pyramids spark ancient energy grid conspiracy theories
Bullshit
It’s bullshit and clickbait. If it were real, they’d show the SARadar pictures instead of fancy AI renditions.
Synthetic Aperture Radar has been around for decades – it isn’t some new miracle technology as it seems to be touted.
Tunnels. Gets them every time.
Trump Effect: German Auto Giant Audi Looks to Move Production to U.S. to Avoid Tariffs
Chuck Schumer Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘We Did Put 235 Progressive Judges – on the Bench and They Are Ruling Against Trump Time After Time After Time’
One of the comments makes the point that this satisfies the definition of a RICO conspiracy.
Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
On a population basis, that would be like a new Mutton govt. cancelling 40,000 visas at a stroke.
ABC/Teal Party/Greens/immigration profiteers would also have a stroke, so won’t happen, alas.
A new Teal Party/Green/Labor govt. would be issuing an extra 40,000 visas routinely – and “ Nothing to see here” from the usual suspects.
KD at 12:26 :-
What a grub.
I’m surprised he didn’t manage to work “Jewish bankers” into his victimology narrative.
WTF has Dutton got to do with it?
Of course, it opens the door for their ABC to go the full Caro and speculate that Dutton might have interfered because of the Paktivist’s “bwave stand” on Gaza.
Interesting that the Gaza dancing shoes didn’t get a run this season.
Why?
Because the Indian dominated ICC told the ACB that, if he pulls that shit again, it’s an immediate career-ending ban.
So the Paktivist retired the Gaza dancing shoes.
How unusual. A Muslim lied.
How unusual. A SubContinental lied.
It must be something in the water.
Strange how the Pakis living here (Faruqi is another one) are so vocal about Gaza, compared with other Middle-Easterners.
They are not even remotely close to being neighbours.
I’m surprised he didn’t manage to work “Jewish bankers” into his victimology narrative.
Goldman Sachs doing the selections these days? Could be any worse than Cricket Australia.
That Anderson interview with Mike P put up yesterday. Sent to a couple of ex-defence types I know.
Fits with what I’ve been told already. Quick search on the Hanwa Redback one of the programs cut to near nothing tells me the part of the factory with assembly lines for the IFV are yet to be started.
Got some more details on this RD?
Appears in a couple of searches but this from horses mouth.
https://www.hanwha-defence.com.au/news/hanwha-armoured-vehicle-centre-of-excellence-opened-by-deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-for-defence
Paragraph near bottom:
“Stage 1 of the facility is now open and is geared towards the Huntsman vehicles with Stage2 of the facility, due to start construction in 2025, which will see the addition of a second production line to support the Redbacks along with additional elements including a firing tunnel and EMC/EMI chamber.”
Stage 1 is geared towards the SPG’s and their support vehicles not the Redback.
The Redback is meant to be delivered starting 2027. Knowing defence equipment delays/cost over runs I reckon add a couple of years on that.
Till them our boys will be under gunned and under protected in the ancient M113’s. Bushmaster PMV’s have been in combat against the Russians so whatever weaknesses they have will be well known by now.
If Taiwan and South China Sea goes kinetic it will be all over by the time we have the kit.
Thanks
Compare the mouthy, victim status seeking Usman Khawaja to another Muslim athlete, Payne Haas who simply doesn’t talk about it and no longer even answers questions what’s it like to observe Ramadan while playing in the NRL.
When you think of the shit going on in Payne’s family, his parents in serious trouble with the law, looking after all his siblings. Payne played a monster game last night. He’s never looked fitter and running like a 125kg half back. Big respect for Payne.
Thanks peoples for alerting me to the existence of blob furphy, erstwhile ALPFL flogdonkey and now braindead lamestream meeja grandee, zealously guarding the legacy of the Footescray footy club.
Yet another reason why I’m very happy to have dumped the ALPFL into the rubbish several seconds after apeman goodes’ appalling behaviour that night at the MCG.
Why anyone still follows the ALPFL remains an unfathomable mystery.
Haven’t watched any form of football or professional sport for many years. The infiltration of politics and woke culture was a turn off.
At the pub last night, I asked them to turn off the footy and play ‘Madagascar’.
The vote went 25:1
The 1 vote was the publican – we watched the footy.
Beyond me too Rabz- it’s like a religion down here
You’re a master, Rabz.
I couldn’t have come up with that collision of ideas in a month of trying.
We’ll have to resurrect the Catictionary.
Start watching the footy around late October these days.
@Cernovich
Trump is right. The Supreme Court won’t hear these appeals until 2-3 years, if ever. It’s a rigged game.
DEVELOPING: Obama Judge Pushes Back After Ruling Attacking DOGE is So “Weirdly Written” and “Overly Broad” That It Could Lead to IMMEDIATE Shutdown of Social Security Administration
The judge’s bizarre reasoning:
“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion. It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,” Judge Hollander wrote.
And why on earth can’t the President go on a fishing expedition for fraud? Imagine a CEO saying we suspect there’s fraud in the company accounts but we won’t audit the books because we don’t have concrete knowledge there’s fraud, it’s merely a suspicion.
But American taxpayers everywhere will be relieved the IRS can no longer undertake audits.
You’d Never Know From Corrupt Media That The ‘Student’ Facing Deportation Is A Hamas Chief’s Son-In-Law
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ 10-Part Strategy to Stopping Trump (At Any Cost)
Absolutely brilliant explanation by VDH of the Democratic Party’s strategy for resisting Trump — well worth eight minutes of your time.
Viktor Orban Blocks EU Plan for War Preparation
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MenZIAXs0Tg
Elon Musk Confirms Ugly Rumor of How USAID Spent Taxpayer Money
NYTimes awarded millions of dollars from the government to produce propaganda.
Israel Is Just the Beginning, I Fear This Is What’s Next | Josh Hammer
10 Trillion Citizens’ Savings to Militarize: EU’s New Tools to Fund the War Machine
I’ve seen this scenario before – make the insurance companies and banks buy war certificates out of their capital – which will be ‘guaranteed’ by the State.
Yes, it’s Adolf Hitlers Rearmament Plan Mk 2.
Can someone tell me how much of his superannuation and savings the man on the Berlin bus got back after the war?
One thinks Trump may be trying to goad Boasberg into doing something rash. I was thinking maybe they’d do something like the Democrats did under Biden, giving him a brief full of redactions but they seem to be doing similar and buying time (Via Sundance):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/21/deputy-ag-todd-blanche-responds-to-boasberg-order/#more-270321
Be interesting to see the brain explosion this afternoon.
I like the RICO Act aspect.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “Those attacking the Donald Trump think they’re attacking him, but they’re just charging his batteries.”
Excellent, some real action:
Showdown at Foggy Bottom: DOGE Uses Police to Evict Barricaded Bureaucrats (20 Mar, via Lucianne)
The Institute of Peace denizens actually vandalized to building in an attempt to keep out the doggies, and physically barricaded the doors. Quite amazing. And gloriously ironic. I hope this sort of robust action by the doggies will be used on other recalcitrant dens of public serpents.
The mongrels need to be arrested as well as being thrown out. God I hate bureaucrats and leftoids.
This is the DOGES we have you surrounded. Drop your pencils and come out with your hands up and you won’t get hurt!
Afuera!
Brilliant! Trump should gift him a golden chainsaw.
Smoot-Hawley raised it’s stupid head on talkback this morning. SH is NOT relevant today. Economies are much more technologically advanced and capable of being self sufficient.
The US/Australian free trade agreement also got a workout. But this agreement did not ban tariffs: it banned bans and gave access to government procurement.
Trump is putting on tariffs for 4 main reasons:
1 To force nations who are sending drugs and illegals to the US to stop
2 To force the eurotrash to step up their defence expenditure
3 To get rid of globalisation which was always a commie lie with nations like the chunks circumventing it by using slave labour and tactics like delaying unloadings in their ports
4 Because he is a patriot and puts the US first
As a matter of interest can anyone name 1 pollie who puts Australia first.
Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts.
Yep; and look at how the punters treat them.
There is a tantalising Tolkein element to this story involving long lost previous Ages.
Snopes has put up a sceptical response – surveying the technology used to detect the structures. Responses from credible archaeologists are pending.
Theories of underground structures have circulated before. But it will be interesting to see what follows.
There is. But I wouldn’t get yer hopes too far up.
Despite years of determined geophysical effort, under ideal conditions GPR struggles to achieve penetration/resolution at 100’ in rock and surface sediment. The novel technology involved in imaging subterranean features at thousands of feet would be far more of a breakthrough than the features themselves.
Some more on the fracas at the US Institute of Peace, by Miranda Devine:
https://x.com/mirandadevine/status/1902027944244977770
So they were actually fomenting violent antisemitic protests on campus and providing toolkits for them. Hmmm, I think I can see why they didn’t want the doggies come visit…there’s going to be a lot of interesting stuff in their computer systems I suspect.
I reckon you’d find similar in canbra- financed by us of course
Morning coffee on the verandah, and reading Andrew Fowler’s book “Nuked. The Submarine Fiasco that sank Australia’s Sovereignty.”
Fowler’s a bit of a fan-boi for Turnbull and the French submarines deal, and he doesn’t have much time for Scott Morrison, but he’s a mine of information on the convention/nuclear power plants debate, and he makes a valid point – if we need to buy submarines, we should buy conventional submarines for local defence, not a few nuclear subs designed to project American power thousands of miles away.
Disagree, our local defence needs to park itself within missile distance of Beijing and the Three Gorges Dams.
As I understand it nuclear can stay out roving as long as there is food. Diesel needs refueling every four to six weeks. We need boats that are not surfacing every little while. Silent, hidden and able to strike without needing to refuel.
Elon in stock price repair mode.
This bit stood out
It’s techno-utopianism. It kind of raises more economic questions than answers. When you’ve eliminated most jobs with automation and AI, how does anyone earn money any more? Wouldn’t a UBI be the only answer?
Expect during the next 4 years Elon will start to advocate for “Fully automated luxury communism”.It would be highly ironic if the world’s richest capitalist began leading the transition to the realisation of Karl Marx’ vision of communism.
By the power of robotics and AI, we shall “command that these stones be made bread”.
you really should try to stop putting your premise in the conclusion
mem
March 22, 2025 6:44 am
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, reacts to the news that Greenpeace is to be sued for $650 million for their behavior and attacks against the oil pipeline in Dakota. ref Michael Smith News
Reminded me of this I read this YEARS ago by Ezra Levant on Greenpeace. I had the link booked marked but it did not exist anymore when I clicked on it this morning.
Eventually after a lot of mucking around (Grrrr…) I finally found it in the ‘wayback innerweb archives.’ Hopefully the linky works.
Linky:
Prosecute Greenpeace
Thanks for the link. Seems someone took Ezra’s advice.
From OOT:
It also didn’t involve 30K killed. There’s a DIA report from May 1982 that estimates no more than 2K and a third of them MB insurgents.
Why is that an authority when others claimed the figure is anything between 10 and 30K.
Grok:
I would place more weight on a Defence Intelligence Agency report produced for internal consumption two months after the event than I would on these other estimates. All Grok is doing above is aggregating estimates without assessing them individually.
Of course you would place weight on that figure.
Grok deep seek would’ve discarded it because it’s way off the boundary of other estimates.
Just to get things right, whenever a US entity comes up with facts or numbers that agree with your bias, you tag along for the ride, when it doesn’t you dismiss it because… GAE.
You’ve dismissed everything anyone has posted about Wussia and its allies for the past 3 years coming from thems GAE’s and now you’re giving a DIA report coming from the GAE. And everyone is supposed to take you seriously?
Why would anyone disregard an intelligence estimate simply because its lower than the others, especially when those others are from Robert Fisk, HRW, and the like? What possible interest would DIA in the early 80s have in underplaying the number of deaths in internal documents? None at all.
Because right now the GAE is an interested party in the Russia-Ukraine War; Ukraine is its proxy. Whereas, in the early 80s, the GAE preferred Assad to the MB and here they were simply writing a straight-up assessment of what occurred. This is completely obvious.
Why assume they would be underplaying this number when in fact they could be wrong?
The DIA number isn’t just downplaying the number, it’s way out of the stack used by Grok and others.
Grok’s sources were wiki and Amnesty International.
And therefore you’ve given your own explanation why thems GAEs would downplay the number.
In 1982, no one really understood what Muslim extremism was about except for perhaps the Israelis and India. In fact the Assad Ba’athist regime was very closely aligned to the Soviet Union.
I’m not assuming anything. DIA produced a report two months after the event based on reports they would have received from their sources in situ, from reconnaissance reports, etc. They came up with a figure of about 2K (but a figure as high as 5K wouldn’t surprise me).
Who cares if its way out of the stack. Stacks are how you propagate misinformation. Are the higher estimates independent of the other high estimates or are they just similar high estimates because that is where everyone else is?
And where do you think Wiki gets its sources from? It’s Fisk, HRW, Amnesty, etc. So the above number, rather than being two independent sources are effectively the same source.
Your third paragraph makes no sense.
The idea that no one knew about Muslim extremism until the 80s outside of Israel and India is nonsense. The MB had been active in Egypt and elsewhere since the 50s. They killed Sadat in 1981, for heaven’s sake. The idea that CIA/DIA , etc. were blindsided by this is preposterous.
It’s your argument that’s preposterous. This in particular.
In the same paragraph, you make the ‘interested party’ argument, applying it to the DIA number but not the present . The GAE preferred Assad—so why wouldn’t that bias their reporting back then?
Interesting how you eagerly use Hamas and Hamas-aligned sources for the Gaza death count when it suits your argument. You latch onto anything that confirms your bias.
Check wiki, there were more sources going for the higher estimates.
Not at all.
Because a proxy is different to a mere preference. Were the US sending Assad military equipment, funding, etc. as opposed to thinking the status quo preferable to MB operating in Syria? The question answers itself. And even when you set that aside, its an internal document. It’s the DIA talking to the rest of the US security apparatus and saying: It’s an attempted uprising initiated by the MB and supported through Turkey and Iraq. Assad responded with full force in order to contain it in Hama. About 2K casualties. A third of which were MB insurgents. It has shocked Syrian society, but they preferred the status quo to MB.
Yes, the higher sources were all decades later by interested parties in the Civil War.
Huh.
No it isn’t. It’s just a higher preference.
Why would they need to? However, the Soviet Union was, which at the time was the US’s mortal enemy.
Hallucination alert.
Assad responded with full force in order to contain it in Hama. About 2K casualties. A third of which were MB insurgents. It has shocked Syrian society, but they preferred the status quo to MB.
Yes, the higher sources were all decades later by interested parties in the Civil War.
Grok deep search;
To determine whether the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report on the Hama massacre was accurate, we need to evaluate its key claims against other available evidence. The Hama massacre occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian government, under Hafez al-Assad, launched a military operation to suppress a Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama. The DIA report, declassified in 2012, provides an assessment of this event, but its accuracy has been debated due to discrepancies with other sources.
The DIA Report’s Claims
The DIA report, written in April 1982, estimates the total casualties of the Hama massacre at approximately 2,000, including 300-400 members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s elite Secret Apparatus. This implies that the remaining 1,600-1,700 casualties were civilians or other combatants. The report focuses on the strategic context, noting the Assad regime’s decisive response to prevent a broader rebellion and the Muslim Brotherhood’s significant losses (about a third of their Secret Apparatus strength in Syria). It also acknowledges that the government’s actions “appalled and sickened” much of Syrian society, suggesting some recognition of the operation’s brutality.
Other estimates of the Hama massacre’s casualties vary widely and are generally much higher than the DIA’s figure:
Evaluating the Discrepancies
The DIA’s estimate of 2,000 casualties is notably lower than most other sources:
Assessing the DIA’s Accuracy
Conclusion
The DIA report on the Hama massacre was not entirely accurate, particularly in its casualty estimate. While it may have captured some strategic truths, such as the regime’s decisive suppression of the Muslim Brotherhood, its figure of 2,000 deaths significantly understates the likely toll, which credible sources place between 10,000 and 40,000, with even conservative estimates (e.g., the military attaché’s “few thousand to 10,000”) exceeding it. The discrepancy, combined with evidence from eyewitnesses and human rights data, indicates that the report failed to reflect the full scale of the massacre. Estimating casualties in such a secretive and chaotic event is challenging, but the DIA’s low figure appears inconsistent with the broader evidence, rendering it inaccurate in a critical aspect.
Thus, no, the DIA report on the Hama massacre was not accurate, especially regarding the number of casualties, which it likely underestimated by a significant margin.
No, a proxy is different to a preference. I’ve explained how. Just saying its a ‘higher preference’ is arm-waving.
You’ve just given a reason why the US would have a motive to high-ball the estimate rather than low-ball it and yet it does the latter. Dear oh dear.
Grok deep search aggregation is simply reproducing the narrative in Wiki. Nothing new. But its interesting that all the initial Diplomatic Reports estimated approx. 1K casualties and the U.S. Military Attaché (1982) estimating a few thousand, say 3K and upper limit of 10K. None of which support the inflated figures that have been peddled since.
Really? You need to think this through a little more.
Why would the US highball instead of lowball if they preferred the ba’athists? This is some confronting logic you’re now applying.
It’s going to several sources instead of one , You obviously used one from the GAE because it suits you. Who did you use for your estimate?
Just like nearly all reports that get refined after doing the rough initial estimates.
Re 1, no, I don’t think I do and you’ve given me no reason to do so.
Re 2, you just argued that Assad was a Soviet proxy. Why would the US in 1982 want to low ball the number in internal comms. I mean, really.
Re 3, it’s aggregating effectively the same sources referenced in the Wki article. I looked at the Wiki source after seeing the DIA report referenced in my Twitter feed.
Re 4, so we have something with a lower band of 1K and a upper bound of 10K from the diplomatic and intelligence services of several Western countries in the months after the event. And two estimates, by DIA of 2K and a US military attache of 3K. Not 20 or 30 or 40K. It’s significant also that in 1982 Hama had a pop. of 200K roughly. Hard to miss, even initially, losses in the order or 10 or 20% of the population.
Please, not the re’s.
Of course!
“You’re the one lowballing and highballing. I made the observation that the number (yours) was way out of line, and because Syria was a Soviet client, it’s more than likely that the lack of US interest in what was going on led to a simple error.
You know, making these sneering comments like ‘Oh really’ and phrases like ‘not at all’ doesn’t persuade anyone, as they’re well past their expiration date now.
It referenced a lot more than wiki.
As I said, the later numbers are more significant as time wore on as people had time to finesse them.
Try and answer the occasional question too.
If you’re trying to somehow downplay the brutality of the Ba’athist regime, don’t even bother, as there’s more than enough information to prove it was a brutal regime totally focused on supporting its own tribes and subjugating everyone else. In the past, you’ve actually tried to peddle propaganda that the US was supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda, when this was completely untrue. As you’re well aware, the situation in Syria was complex, with alliances shifting by the day and even the hour at times. What the US began to support wasn’t the same groups or allies throughout the course of the war. The civil war started because of the sheer brutality of the Assad regime. You’ve also been anti-Sunni while, surprisingly, very supportive of the Shi’ites, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, so forgive me if I take your views on Middle East issues as not being informative.
Re 2, sure, US is unconcerned about events in Syria in 1982. Sneering? You said I was hallucinating above.
Re 3, no, it isn’t.
Re 4, finessing the numbers sounds an awful lot like just making it up.
We know the US was supporting the moderate rebels that have now taken over Syria; it was called Operation Timber Sycamore. It was nice of them to freeze the conflict around Idlib.
Yeah Dover, sounds like it was a precise, surgical operation meant to just kill off the fighters. Not.
Even Assad’s relative boasted of killing 38,000 people. Read on, they surrounded the city, allowing no one out, and shelled the shit out of it for 27 days with mo remorse.
Hey, but only 1,000 to 2,000 dead. It was a miracle.
Is this Grok again? Could you at the very least reference where these quotes are from?
BTW, that first sentence is amusing given your earlier remark.
Why not use Grok? Should I upgrade my computer with a stronger chip and install a Chinese version?
Have you referenced anything I asked you?
if we need to buy submarines, we should buy conventional submarines for local defence, not a few nuclear subs designed to project American power thousands of miles away
Definitely not.
Submarines should preferably be capable of immense range and endurance.
That way the circle of uncertainty where they might possibly be is huge.
Therefore the enemy is loath to put his assets anywhere in that circle.
It’s the same as the “continental” versus “expeditionary” arguments about how to defend your country.
If you sit at home in the former, building walls etc, you give the enemy time and space to develop his capabilities.
Then when he comes to you he will come in force.
Far better to go and clobber him before he gets going.
We are never going to be in the business of clobbering China
No, but but we should have the capability to make their eyes water.
It may be spiteful but if they are going to invade us, I’d like them to know most of us aren’t happy about it.
Give us nuke subs, plenty of water and a willing foe…
Absolutely, Top Ender.
Mate, some of us are depending on your regular assessment as we get into (sorry about the pun)….murky waters!!!!
F-47, hey?
May take a while since Boeing is the bunch building it.
Boeing is the least of their problems.
And at least it isn’t NASA.
I wonder how good Elon’s SpaceX guys are at designing performance jet aircraft…?
Reckon they could do it all. Just reading an account of Elon’s career – but especially the set-up and functioning of SpaceX. Just amazing what they accomplished despite all the derision. Boeing and others, meanwhile, have gone “to the dogs”.
Before they employed the dancing fat women Boeing was capable of building great aircrafts and fast.
Their last effort was the X-32 which lost to the Lockmart F-35.
Take a look at the X-32 and you will understand why it didn’t win. Probably wouldn’t be able to find pilots to fly something that ugly.
A great article by Janet A. Nice to see the clowns in the council named:
Degrees now depend on woke ideology
Janet Albrechtsen
A couple of weeks back, in response to a column about politics infusing law schools, a reader named Anthony said: “You’re undoubtedly a redneck, Janet, but on this one I agree with you completely. Congratulations.”
Thanks, Anthony. Twenty-five years a redneck then – if that’s the new term for being a classical liberal. It may be unfashionable, even bogan, in many academic, political and social circles today to have classical liberal values.
Nonetheless, that has been my foundation over more than 25 years of writing.
There are many challenges to classical liberal principles today. That’s probably why I’m still writing. Free speech, for example, is not so free any more. Intellectual diversity is non-existent in the very places it should thrive.
We learned this week that Macquarie Law School is compelling law students to mouth a form of political speech, being assessed on it and told they will fail that component of their course if it’s not delivered with enough fervour.
If someone had asserted this, with no evidence, I would have said it’s absurd, far-fetched, dismissed it as too wicked, even for the nutty professors at some of our universities.
Except it is true.
Macquarie Law School’s marking rubrics show that if students in one of its legal courses – Age and the Law – don’t deliver an acknowledgment of country in the right way, they will fail that component of the subject.
Inquirer has been contacted by many students at Macquarie Law School. Each student was fearful of repercussions for speaking out. So, we’re not using their real names.
“Jordan” is a fifth-year honours student who was compelled to deliver an acknowledgment of country last year as part of an oral presentation unit that forms part of this student’s honours course.
This is politics. Compelled politics. The worst kind where no debate was invited or allowed about the value or meaning of an acknowledgment of country.
Punishing someone for not mouthing, with fervour, a set of words decreed by a higher power is the antithesis of living in a free country. This is a line that no free society should cross. It’s behaviour common in North Korea, Iran, the old Soviet Union or Putin’s Russia today.
Jordon’s thesis was in an area of the law that had zero to do with an acknowledgment of country. Jordan was told to find a connection, nonetheless.
It was, says Jordan, “bound to be entirely tenuous and superficial given my area of concern. The ridiculousness of this cannot be overstated.”
The honours student says they felt punished for not choosing a honours area that covered Indigenous issues.
“Many students (perhaps with a greater degree of prescience than myself) wrote a thesis on Indigenous rights and the like. You can imagine how that choice was reflected in their final mark.”
The convener of this thesis unit was Dr Holly Doel-Mackaway.
“The honours program is generally considered one of, if not the most important part of undergraduate legal studies,” Jordan told Inquirer this week.
“The proper function of such a program is to encourage students to think critically about an area of law of interest to them, and to draft an extended paper proffering a unique interpretation to some issue or concern within that area.”
When another mystified student asked Doel-Mackaway about the relevance of an acknowledgment of country to an honours thesis, the lecturer said: “Good question … it’s all about acknowledging your positionality as a student of law on this unceded land.”
The question is good. The answer is bonkers. It’s got the whiff of a preacher taking confession from a parishioner, which is curious for a secular institution.
Positionality and unceded are not legal terms. They are political.
If you want to be a positionality change agent – a concept beloved by critical race activists – the appropriate path is to put your hand up for a seat in parliament, or set up a lobby group, or find any other avenue that does not involve forcing students to utter words with which they may not agree in an assessment. As to unceded, an apparent shorthand reference to Indigenous sovereignty being unceded – this is legally fatuous.
The Macquarie law professor might want to re-read Coe v Commonwealth, where chief justice Anthony Mason made clear that the Mabo decision “is entirely at odds with the notion that sovereignty adverse to the Crown resides in the Aboriginal people of Australia”.
The law can be a serious pest for the politically minded.
Doel-Mackaway is also the current course convener of Age and the Law, another subject where an acknowledgment of country is mandated and assessed, with threat of a fail mark if not done in the approved manner.
Another Macquarie honours student, “Damien”, told The Australian: “Law students are inherently vulnerable in this circumstance because their future careers are highly dependent on their success in assessments; they’re unlikely to express an opinion that effectively risks reduction in marks or even failure.
“Macquarie University is exploiting this vulnerability.”
Tragically, while this political activism has no impact on those academics who dispense it, it does severely harm to the job prospects of its students.
As Jordan pointed out, employers in major law firms “would look at this stuff and think, ‘That’s crazy. I don’t want to hire a kid who’s been taught by people like this because what’s his or her understanding of the law going be?’ ”
Another student, “Chloe”, told Inquirer: “For a long time now it has felt like going to university is simply ticking a very expensive box to be allowed to one day practice. We are forced to sit and listen to the same political opinions of the unit conveners without being allowed to question or challenge their point of view.”
It raises the question: Who’s really in charge at Macquarie University? Who’s actually accountable for the quality and integrity of university courses?
The national regulatory body, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, is responsible for promulgating the higher education standards framework that prescribe the overarching standards universities should meet. But it’s a small outfit and hardly a policeman on the academic beat.
The big universities in Australia are self-accrediting, meaning they set their own courses and degrees. So we must look to vice-chancellor Bruce Dowton, chancellor Martin Parkinson and a council stuffed to the gunwales with apparently accomplished people, including deputy chancellor Louise Mason, Professor Jacqueline Phillips, Michael Book, Associate Professor Nikola Balnave, Lyn Cobley, Professor Catherine Dean, Deborah Hadwen, Mikaela Jade, Jingmin Qian, Jongho Roh, Dr Stuart Upton and Frank Zipfinger.
Ladies and gentlemen, what on earth have you been doing? Do you approve of this kind of politicisation of your institution? Do any of you care that students are being compelled to mimic the politics of their lecturer? That the law school’s reputation is getting worse? What have you done about it?
Dowton earns more than $1m a year to run Macquarie University.
The university told Inquirer this week that an acknowledgment of country has been removed from the honours thesis marking rubric. But they’re sticking to their guns about imposing compelled political speech in Age and the Law.
Even in a half-serious classroom, the university’s answers would be marked as a fail for lack of logic. An acknowledgment of country takes only 30 seconds, a spokesperson said.
So does a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. Or singing the first verse of the national anthem. Or chanting over and over again: “We love you, President Putin.”
These same “intellectuals” would be howling if political speech they disagreed with were mandated in any class at university – and students were marked down, potentially failed, for not doing it with just the right tone of cultural respect. The university said it’s just an elective course. So, no big deal. Law students don’t have to take it.
Except that once students pick this subject, they have no choice about being required to deliver a form of compelled speech. The marking rubric for this is not available until a student has chosen the subject.
Why not put this compelled political speech assessment online so all students understand what’s involved before they choose this elective? If you can’t throw some hospital-grade bleach on this dirty practice, why not at least some sunlight? Macquarie didn’t respond.
Transparency would allow taxpayers to know how our money is being used, and by whom. It would help the chancellor and vice-chancellor understand what’s happening under their noses, because I’d put money on them having no clue about the level of political suffocation that students endure under their watch.
As one of our readers put it, Macquarie says it can’t take disciplinary action against an academic for anti-Semitic remarks but it’s OK with a lecturer failing a student for not doing an approved acknowledgment to country.
So how did things get so bad?
In a nutshell, as Professor Simon Haines wrote earlier this year, all the focus is on money and research.
Haines, the founding chief executive of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, told Inquirer this week that once university management focused on research, it was inevitable that academics would follow.
“Some academics say the only thing they ever get asked is, how many research grants have you got? How much are they worth? Not what are they about,” Haines says.
This obsession with chasing grants has led to teaching as a profession being devalued, he says.
Another problem with this research obsession is that lecturers end up teaching their research to students – regardless of its quality.
“That’s where the Macquarie example is relevant,” says Haines. In a research-driven world where some academics also become more and more activist, “their ‘research’ into identity politics or other activist subjects channels directly into their teaching”.
“Instead of an analytical, truly critical absorption of an academic discipline, students are getting a kind of exhortation to go out into the world and do something about fixing injustice or whatever.”
We’re all familiar with “the long march through the institutions” – Rudi Dutschke’s strategy to enact revolution from within.
Judging from large swathes of the legal profession in this country, that march is already turning our legal system into a playground for activists.
Not a day goes by without a barrister or law firm telling us that Australia is stained by original sin and must repent. Judges are among the most active dispensers of acknowledgments of country. They give licence to the politicisation of law schools.
What will become of the quality of our legal system when the next generations of comprehensively indoctrinated lawyers graduate and begin practice? When lawyers, for example, stop believing that everyone is entitled to a defence? When fundamental legal principles are replaced with the politics of the day? When citizens are subjected to the rule of politics, not the rule of the law?
Oz link
Great essay. I had forgotten about Coe; how the recent case Yunupingu got past Coe I don’t know.
If you have to ask this question it has already happened. We are no longer free.
Thanks for posting that TE.
Disgusting as it is.
I love it when Janet gets her dander up – she always nails it.
Splendid article. That dying breed, traditional liberal educators, didn’t mind if their students disagreed with them, as long as they knew their stuff. They preferred to see students thinking for themselves.
Who ate the previous pygmy people? And the Megafauna?
Inquiring minds need to know.
Clever work from Danger.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
HOW TO FIX AUSTRALIA – WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST
You lot are far too comfortable and complacent. Consider this:
If Australia should become involved in a conflict, our strategy would be directed by ABALONE!
Interallied and multilateral strategy would be directed by WONG (in close cooperation with the UN and EU).
Industrial mobilisation would be directed by BOWEN, the ACTU, and the BCA.
Manpower mobilisation would be directed by BURKE and the NATIONAL CABINET in conjunction with multicultural community leaders.
Resources mobilisation would be controlled by the GREENS and TEALS.
Critical counterintelligence action would be directed by MIKE BURGESS.
Human rights aspects of mobilisation would be managed by AHRC and the DEFENCE PEOPLE GROUP.
Mobilisation reserves allocation would not be handled by anyone. There are none.
Fuel reserves are located in Singapore. Good luck with that. Perhaps a little BOWEN would fix it.
Begging forgiveness from China could be achieved through the CCP agencies located on any of our Campuses.
All is well. Get back to the barbie and don’t concern yourself with matters that are beyond your understanding or influence.
We are sleepwalking towards disaster.
Under Dutton we would do the same just a little bit slower.
However I’m at a loss for a Federal Government alternative to the UniParty.
I disagree with this disappointment with Dutton before he is even given a chance. We don’t have a choice, all others are far worse as enumerated above. Dutton at least is persuadable.
Computer says NO.
That’s my view too.
Australia’s Strategic (and don’t laugh) Oil Reserve is in the USA – 3 months reserve only at the very most. Very strategic indeed.
Maybe it would be better if the Indians and Chinese took over. I’m sure that they could run the place a whole lot better than the current Clowns and in any case, we don’t have free speech right now anyway.
It’s not so much the amount of Reserve – it’s whether we can rely on delivery should the the shipping lanes be closed by a certain CCP presence.
I think it’s the equivalent of two weeks actually in Australia.
Major Disaster Abalone has been very busy governing.
LOL. Gawd’ elp’ us ALL.
I think he’s more of a Sub-tropical low.
Bons:
I want you to consider this scenario:
China goes to war over Taiwan.
China says to Abalone – “If you don’t surrender your country to us and let us form the next government, we will nuke Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.”
…and Abalone decides to surrender.
The Armed Forces must obey his orders and not resist the invading fleets.
Crazy?
Yes.
But what if it did happen and Abalone surrendered to ‘save lives’, what would/could we do?
This is why Australia needs Nukes. And everything else.
Petrol/Air works pretty well too.
Some years ago, a film version of the novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, depicting an invasion of Australia, was made. The invaders had obvious Asian features, leading to the usual suspects to screech “Waysissm”!
Doesn’t look so silly now, does it?
As long as they include Caberra in the nuking I’d say it sounds like a good deal.
Can’t/won’t nuke Canberra – the government must be alive to surrender.
Abalone! Reminds me of a rather smelly character in the old TV series Callan: Lonely.
From the Daily Telegraph…
Emad Saad charged with multiple anti-Semitic graffiti offences across Sydney’s east
A 41-year-old man has been charged in relation to multiple alleged anti-Semitic graffiti incidents across Sydney’s east in January.
A man allegedly linked to multiple anti-Semitic graffiti incidents including vile words being sprayed onto a home and neighbouring school in Sydney’s east will remain behind bars on remand.
Emad Saad, 41, did not front the Downing Centre on Friday after he was charged with destroying or damaging property, intending criminal activity of group, destroy or damage property in company less than or equal to $2000, take and drive conveyance without the consent of owner, and drive motor vehicle during disqualification period.
But don’t worry folks, whilst this man with the name ‘Emad Saad‘ has been charged in relation to anti-Semitic graffiti and damaging property, don’t think for one moment it’s anti-Semitism, it’s all just a hoax!
By the way, the name ‘Emad’ is an Arabic name, common in Muslim countries.
Truncated version of He’s moha mad. Barking mad, the lot of them.
Looking at western politicians, far too many of them remind me of young Warwick Fairfax, when he took over the family company.
Just as Warwick F seemed to take a malicious delight in destroying everything that his family had built up over decades, most modern western politicians seem to take a malicious delight in destroying everything built by those who preceded them.
The psychology behind this is incomprehensible to me.
All depends on education, they are simply behaving as they have been taught.
It’s looting, then moving on to the next country to enjoy the fruits of ones treason.
Far too many of them are overgrown school debaters and SRC hacks.
A man was sitting peacefully, reading his newspaper, when his wife suddenly walked up behind him and smacked him on the head with a magazine.
**”What was that for?!”** he asked, rubbing his head.
**”I found a piece of paper in your trouser pocket with the name ‘Laura Lou’ on it!”** she snapped.
**”Oh, that? Honey, that was the name of a horse I bet on at the races two weeks ago!”** he explained.
She paused, then sighed. **”Oh… I’m sorry. I should have known there was a logical explanation.”**
All was forgiven—until three days later.
While he was watching the Golf on TV, she walked up and knocked him out cold with a cast iron skillet.
When he finally came to, he groaned, **”What the hell was that for?!”**
She crossed her arms and said, **”Your horse just called.”**
George Foreman brown bread.
Roger Moore reportedly okay.
Is he going to be buried or grilled?
Good news about Roger.
I don’t understand the connection with the late Roger Moore.
Sir Roger Moore is often reported as down for the count, but he remains upright.
He played James Bond.
Lee,
it’s a long running “in”, joke at the Cat.
Just run with it, it’s fun. 😀
Pog’s, it is no yoke.
I can’t wear that. 😀
Thanks, Pogria.
I have seen it here from time to time, but nowhere else.
There’s a Rumble in the Jungle going on. Hello Ali.
Great painting. There’s a shore break working close by:
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers?out of unorthodoxy.
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George Orwell
He was a time traveler. And ignored.
Meanwhile in South Australia – of course:
A man with “narcissistic tendencies” who posed as a nurse at Adelaide’s biggest hospital has a need for adoration and values status – but wants to pursue a career in the psychology field, a court has heard.
Advertiser
I would steer well clear of him.
They had Des Houghton on Sky before I ducked out.
Pushing the developers preferred location of the inner city olympic park. I’ve said it before the olympics will lose seats in 2028 for Chrisifooli in the regions.
Now to the interesting one. With all the talk of defence, Des says apparently Gallipoli Barracks is falling apart. I have heard the barracks is full, there’s no spare land to build on and they are actually building up now. Rumour and I heave heard it from more than one ex-defence source is that the HQ functions may remain and training elements like LWC but the line units may move for easier access for their motorised assets that are constrained by the narrow streets at the moment. Defence has apparently been kicking the can down the road for years. Toowoomba and Rockhampton are a couple of locations floated but the guys I know have all asserted Greenbank is likely. Apparently precious pets don’t want to leave Brisbane and Greenbank is the obvious compromise.
Could be why the lines are being neglected. Problem is building new facilities won’t be cheap.
Must have been crap builders. It really wasn’t that long ago that Gallipoli Barracks was redeveloped.
We joked at the time that they were fixing it up so they could kick out the army and use it to house all the illegal immigrants pouring in during RGR.
I recall hearing some of the facilities at singleton were used to house refugees. Until it was decided that was inhumane conditions.
Still fine to house soldiers though.
That was during the Balkans war in 1990s. They refused to get of the buses. Locals were not impressed at the ingratitude.
I wonder whether the government has raised the issue of canning the games? There seems to be a lot of huffing and puffing and veiled threats from the IOC and other grifters.
The government would lose seats in Brisvegas too. I personally think the games (of all types) are vanity projects that can only be entertained when the place is humming economically and socially. QLD, the other states and Australia as a whole are sputtering.
Just cancel and then pass legislation that says that neither the IOC nor anyone else can sue the Queensland Government over the cancellation. We have the Western Australian example with fat Clive.
I bet the IOC is hip to that possibility. The IOC probably has a clause that states that all disagreements will be decided in a jurisdiction outside Australia.
Who will enforce them?
I wonder too. Townsville City Council is insolvent, they missed the rubbish collection yesterday again, no warning 2nd time in a month. Got round to it today though.
Money seems short in the regions already, without the olympic black hole giving more Beattie like stadiums to SEQ.
No wonder they are talking about the tennis to Melbourne. Wonder what else is slated to be hived off.
As for Gallipoli Bks, I believe it is 6RAR’s lines that roofs are falling in and leaking. My mate says Long Tan Lines has barely changed since he was a digger in Long Hai lines up the hill in 8/9RAR over 30 years ago.
Just re-auction the rights to the private sector – highest bidder. That way, we’ll really know how much the games are worth. Include free use of any existing infrastructure for 14 days. Split the events up for individual bids or by sport or sex or the whole package.
Unfortunately there would be no bids, apart from perhaps swimming and women’s beach volleyball.
Just do it on the cheap. Forget the promises.
Interesting situation. The Defence budget has always been a cover for supporting the construction industry. At CMFEU rates of course.
Just as Warwick F seemed to take a malicious delight in destroying everything that his family had built up over decades, most modern western politicians seem to take a malicious delight in destroying everything built by those who preceded them
To be fair to the young Warwick Fairfax Jnr, he was under the iron thumb of his dominating mother who pushed him into destroying everything the family had built up over the decades.
So I heard at the time. A joke from those days: ‘How do you become the owner of a small business? But a big one and put Warwick Fairfax in charge.’
To place any weight on anything from DIA would be most unwise.
An Australian man was having a coffee and croissants with butter and jam in a cafe when an American tourist, chewing gum, sat down next to him.
The Australian politely ignored the American, who nevertheless started up a conversation.
The American snapped his gum and said, ‘You Australian folk eat the whole bread?’
The Australian frowned, annoyed with being bothered during his breakfast, and replied, ‘Of course.’
The American blew a huge bubble. ‘We don’t. In the States, we only eat what’s inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle them, transform them into croissants and sell them to Australia.’
The American had a smirk on his face. The Australian listened in silence.
The American persisted, ‘D’ya eat jam with your bread?’
Sighing, the Australian replied, ‘Of course.’
Cracking his gum between his teeth, the American said, ‘We don’t. In the States, we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds and the leftovers in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam and sell it to Australia.’
The Australian then asked, ‘Do you have sex in the States?’
The American smiled and said ‘Why of course we do.’
The Australian leaned closer to him and asked, ‘And what do you do with the condoms once you’ve used them?’
‘We throw them away, of course!’
Now it was the Australian’s turn to smile.
‘We don’t. In Australia , we put them in a container, recycle them, melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to the United States. Why do you think it’s called Wrigley’s?’
classic JR
Thanks for the Danger Dan Reviews.
Forwarded them on to the Beloved who will now spread far and wide among his golf buddies.
One thing…at the end of the “John Wick” phone call, I honestly thought he said “turducken”. Why? Then I realised the slusher was saying “Peter Dutton”. 😀
Now every time I see Dutton, I think “turducken”.
More Mak Siccar wisdom.
True, that. I am expert in reducing travel wardrobes by half. The only garments to escape the scythe are undies.
The Beloved is a notorious “just in case” packer. My response…sh*t, are we going to somewhere with no shops?
Size 13 feet dont cut it in Asia. There are no special deals there.
LOL I used to go to Asia with near empty suitcases.
Clothing was cheap (Even with westerner tax), plentiful and often of better quality. I’d always come home with more than I left.
That’s a huge point of travel.
The Seven Network’s suckholing of Racing NSW CEO Peter V’landys and his pissant sprint the Golden Slipper is sickening.
I hope one of the Victorian trainers rains on V’Landys’s parade and all his fake funny money pop-up races, which are designed for Sydney’s ADHD fake sports theatregoers.
Golden Slipper is the most ridiculous race on the Australian racing calendar.
Correct. Most two-year-old thoroughbreds never race as three-year-olds and most two-year-old winners are sent to stud to breed.
Thoroughbred breeding is one of the get-rich-quick schemes that Australia specialises in — hence the $5 million Golden Slipper Stakes, which exists as a get-rich-quick scheme for breeders, who don’t have the bottle for other Australian get-rich-quick schemes like gold and opal mining.
‘Never Seen Anything Like This’: Crucial Voter Groups Fleeing Democrats, Says Stunned Fmr Clinton Pollster
When I first read your post, I thought it said Clinton “Polisher”.
Not wrong, really. 😀
Then he would be a turd polisher
Trump admin ‘bringing the future’ into the American golden age, says Stephen Miller
Elon’s DOGE Exposes Huge “Scam” of Federal Employees Stealing Millions of Taxpayer Dollars for Luxury Cars, Jewelry, and Vacations While Top Staff Faked 6-Year Business Trip
USAID Coordinated With Censorship Agency, Documents Show
The Bee
Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government
I love the Bee. They are a gift to a raddled, utilitarian, sycophantic world. They are the little boy who calls out truth – The King has no clothes!
Fancy Christians having a sense of humour and applying it like a blowtorch.
Walk, Run, Crawl, RL Fun | Boston Dynamics | Atlas
working link … https://youtu.be/I44_zbEwz_w
Without Lust – Islam is DUST
The video “Without Lust – Islam is DUST” from the channel Artefactum critiques Islam, arguing that it is built on lust rather than faith or morality. The video claims that Islam incentivizes men through promises of sexual rewards, both in this life and the afterlife, such as the concept of virgins in paradise and temporary marriages. It accuses Islam of legalizing sexual exploitation and notes practices like mutah (temporary marriage) and described instances of captured women being used by their captors. The video also criticizes the role of women in Islam as being subservient to men’s desires, pointing out how women’s rights are suppressed to prevent men from being tempted. The creator of the video argues that when these alleged sexual incentives are removed, Islam loses its foundation, leading to its collapse. The video calls for viewers to share this perspective and challenges the portrayal of Islam in the light of these criticisms.
Sounds about right. Islam is the most brutal of all the religions in the way it treats its women and its children.
No woman should support that evil cult.
A pimp God and a ped@phile Prophet.
Hawley Previews Legislation To Crack Down On Liberal Judges’ Nationwide Injunctions
The radical judges problem is the result of Congress’s laziness.
The federal judiciary being used by Trump’s ideological enemies doesn’t exist in the US Constitution.
That’s because America’s founders forsaw the potential for judges to hamstring the executive if they don’t support the president.
Federal courts should be abolished as they’re an unconstitutional invitation for troublemakers to hamstring the executive.
Hopefully Josh Hawley and the congressional GOP understand what needs to be done to fix the problem.
eat more chikens
That looked like a lot of fun!
And what precisely is the JURDGE’S legal concern?
The first question is whether the executive branch has a right to conduct due diligence oversight on the spending of government agencies whether they suspect fraud or not. The answer is clearly that they not only have a right to do so, but they have an obligation.
The second question is one of efficiency and effectiveness of investigations. Should the executive go on “fishing expeditions” looking for fraud without a credible allegation? Again, that belongs firmly in the political sphere and it is gross over-reach for any JURDGE to stick their beak in.
There is simply no question that the first time a JURDGE should get involved in such matters is when and if charges of fraud are brought before the court.
The JURDGE is effectively saying that, if a government agency goes rogue, and runs an intimidation racket to the point where no-one will blow the whistle, the elected representatives of the people have no right to investigate.
A wanker.
But is he going to be a gaoled wanker?
Of course not.
President Trump has made some very high claims to get to the Presidency, but we’re seeing no perp walks.
I’d be getting a bit damn impatient, if I were sending tax money into Washington.
https://nitter.poast.org/factpostnews/status/1903113203959111921#m
I do wonder about our F-35s. Are they the same as the US ones?
It would be in the software. Easy to bury a backdoor in all the millions of lines of code.
That’s actually encouraging, since it means the physical aspects like low radar cross-section would be innate, and we certainly have no desire to piss off the US. We need them to defend us.
The F22 was not for sale to anyone outside the US.
After the Japanese submarine debacle where the bureaucrats invited a high ranking Chinese military official to a demonstration which the Japanese had specifically forbid, we should count our lucky stars the US will even consider selling us the Virginia class subs.
I don’t know what happened in the Japanese sub case, but I’d bet no one in the bureaucracy lost their job.
I suspect that Turdballs was behind that. Abbott favoured the Japanese subs, therefore Turdballs had to kill it.
That is my view too, B J
Turnbull deposed Abbott with one of his first priorities to end the imminent deal for (excellent, conventional) Japanese submarines.
Next thing, we order bizarre engine swapped concept French boats that were decades away.
Who benefitted?
Not Australia.
Not the Japanese.
Only the French and significantly the Chinese, who were given a look at state of the art Japanese hardware, and who degraded Australian Naval ability for a long time at little cost.
This whole episode deserves a Royal Commission.
Who benefitted?
Trumble. Those Cayman Island bank accounts must be chock full of electrons.
The entire band went crazy. Bill Ward was ballistic on those drumbs.
Fitting song title for today’s events …you’ll make that connection very quicky.
The ending could have beeen refined a little bit, but, that is ok.
—
Black Sabbath performing “War Pigs” live at the Olympia Theater in Paris, France on December 20, 1970
BLACK SABBATH – “War Pigs” (Live Video)
Female Noongar elders call for Uniting Church to ‘return’ Sister Kate’s land in Queens Park to themCaitlin VinciPerthNow
Thu, 20 March 2025 2:00AM
Female Noongar elders who continue to occupy the former Sister Kate’s site are demanding the land be transferred to them rather than remain under the Uniting Church and its subsidiary organisations.
A group of female Stolen Generations survivors and their families have continued to live at the Queens Park location since the church ceased operations of the First Nations-led Beananging Kwuurt Institute in December.
Last week the BKI revealed a new partnership involving the Uniting Church’s Indigenous arm and the WA Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation to press ahead with plans for a healing centre on the site.
But the group of occupiers said they felt “disrespected” by the formation of the new group, called Yokai, and instead want the church to transfer the land to them.
“The Church struck a deal behind closed doors to divide and conquer Noongar people over this land,” a spokesperson said.
“This is not how you right past wrongs. The disrespect the Uniting Church and Congress have shown by signing this agreement without speaking to us is shameful.
“This is sacred women’s land, and this is women’s business. We as women are asking them to speak to us. We are the descendants and family of the children of the Stolen Generation that were brought here. We are going nowhere.”
Female Noongar elders? Since when?
Frigging burn it down, then give it back.
I’m so sick of this bullshit.
The biggest hit would be to withhold any and all of the funding from those annual $40 billions.
Lock Down Danny Boy
Outstanding!
he shut my fecking favorite restaurant down
Love it.
Double Outstanding!
>snork!<
‘Uber eats…thats your only friend…’ 🙂
Gold in A $ 4855. The A$ largely unchanged against the US$ for the last couple of months.
Over the last month or so, the rate of increase in the price of gold had dropped 50% to 40%, but has now increased to 45%
I wonder if the Democrat Judicial War is starting to affect the price? Is the market starting to think the Democrats will be successful in instigating street violence in the major cities?
Some young womanages, shaking their li’l bottomages … 🙂
Being a Saturday night, Cats, it’s time to Jump Aroond! 🙂
More young womanages!
En Vogue – Free Your Mind (1992)
After reaching the heights sometimes they fall to the depths. One of the En Vogue ladies has been living out of her car for the last several years. It’s sad.
En Vogue star update as she’s offered a job by familiar face after revealing homelessness (14 Mar)
Cats, the latest in my inbox from the (cue spookee muzak …) IPA:
Dear Rabz,
The failure of the political class to get serious about Australia’s rising debt and structural budget deficits violates the most basic expectation Australians have about how their money is managed by those in power.
New IPA research released today into the attitudes of Australians towards public finances ahead of the feral fudge-it next week found:
So Cats, wear your love like Heaven … 🙂
Speaking of hot hippychicks.
Soho – Hippychick (1990)
Excellent use of the How Soon Is Now guitar theme!
Most Australians want smaller government and fiscal restraint
Bullshit. Most Australians want the grubbimint to look after them. They have no idea about freedom and liberty and find the idea of taking responsibility for their circumstances, abhorrent.
Bullshit
Look at how they vote.
From the IPA:
Here’s some of me own, Cats:
Because there will no pictures of porcine personages shooting down brothers on the instant replay during bat flu hysteria …
$800m to sweeten Labor’s deal for first-home buyersBy James MassolaMarch 21, 2025 — 10.30pm
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Australians hoping to buy their first property in one of the most expensive housing markets in the world will get $800 million more in assistance as the Albanese government relaxes the criteria for qualifying for its much-delayed help-to-buy scheme.
Under the scheme, the federal government provides first home buyers a helping hand by contributing 30 per cent of the purchase price for an existing property, or 40 per cent for a new property.
The first-home buyer only has to contribute a 2 per cent deposit, which dramatically reduces the amount of money needed up front, and in time the homeowner can either buy out the government’s stake or repay it when they sell.
Under the planned expansion of the scheme, both the income eligibility cap and the property price cap will be increased and the overall Commonwealth investment required will rise by $800 million to $6.3 billion.
A single person will now be able to earn up to $100,000, up from $90,000 and still qualify while a couple can earn up to $160,000, up from $120,000 and still apply for the scheme.
The rise in the property price cap will mean that a home in Sydney worth up to $1.3 million, up from $950,000, could be purchased with the government, while in Melbourne homes worth up to $950,000, up from $850,000, would be eligible.
The changes would mean that most first-home buyers are now eligible to use the program and about 5.2 million homes across the country – about 65 per cent of properties – could be purchased under the scheme.
Federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil said that even before the changes, she had been confident the program would be popular but the decision to expand eligibility was designed to help as many young people as possible.
“We have a generation of young people who are growing up in our country who feel that home ownership is never going to happen for them. One of our goals is to give them the hand up they deserve, and this expansion means the majority of first home buyers can buy a majority of homes across the country,” she said.
“We are moving as fast we can and the scheme will come online in 2025, I would have liked to it to come online a year ago, but the anti-housing Greens and Liberals stood in the way.”
The Help to Buy Program was the centrepiece policy announcement at Labor’s 2022 federal election campaign launch, but it only became law last November, once the Greens dropped their opposition after a year of voting against it in the Senate.
Hey ‘Laybore’. Don’t you get it? There are not enough homes to buy.
Build more homes you Dopes.
Did thery forget to mention .. 1st 10 000 applicants only ………..
And it doesn’t help service the debt either.
Definitive … 🙂
Thanks! Saved me the effort of going to find it…
Oh ho ho ho ho ho.
Since never.
The fullbloods will never, ever allow a ladeeee to be a proper elder.
‘Aunties’ for the purpose of WTCs don’t count.
It’s essentially re-inventing Aboriginal to fit marxist-feminist sensibilities. More muck out of our ‘universities’
and what’s this bullshit about Stolen Generations?
Stories my Nanna told me.
Oh right. Why is that?
Just fed the Cafe possum personage a carrot. If I’d had a peach I’m sure she would’ve liked it.
The Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches (1996)
Waiting to enfold you …
One for Cats.
Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1979)
BoN – that was a commercial hit and an outlier – they had so many other great songs – my trip through the states in ’93 was defined by their juke box worthy hits – such as:
Tempted
Black coffee in bed
The Joolz, of course, being a legendary rock curator … 🙂
Have listened to the first a few times but not the second. Cool!
My favourite ” Up the Junction ” black but cheeky humor and a sad but true story about relationships.
Can you picture all the heads exploding as in “The Kingsmen”?
“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information: Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissman, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family,” Trump said. “Therefore, I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information. I also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities from these individuals.”
US system seems weird. From what I’ve been told here as soon as the sponsorship of your security classification is suspended or discontinued then so is your access. Mate for example had a NV2 level, if he picks up a job within 10 years he’ll get that activated pretty simply again with a sponsorship from whatever Government agency employs him. Till then it is inactive and he cannot access sensitive information.
Why some of the above names need access to sensitive info is beyond me.
Bribes and commercialisation of state secrets.
Or as in Mars Attacks.
Miss Ellie – Song to the Siren, featuring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley
English as she is spoke, cats! 🙂
The Man may have lost his “shit” so to speak, but way back not so recently, he was The Man …
Flashing Lights
Winston, you want some rain?
You are about to get lots.
Big band west of Longreach stretching north to around Georgetown. This will propagate east over the next few days.
Didn’t move since last night.
One of those dry clouds.
This alleged factlet is not good, Cats – although it seems to have been purveyed by the likes of the ALPBC and the Garudain.
So it’s time for some pure Pop. 🙂
It is xining … 😕
How Gen Z is phasing out ‘aggressive’ capital letters
From the Oz. Seriously?
The French Film Festival is on, and friends told my wife we should go see the movie Stolen Painting. Apparently, it’s based on a true story about a modern art masterpiece that makes its way through 20th-century wars, a Jewish family, the Nazis, and ends up on the wall of a working-class family in a down and out French town.
Highly recommended, even though the subtitles move a little too quick at times.
More young womanages
The Beloved – Sweet Harmony
Sacré Bleu!
Wow, nice rant. Vis Michael Smith News:
https://x.com/real_eire/status/1903031581448552713
Rocky IV with all the old Soviet paraphernalia is about to starts, see ya.
Oh FFS sport over run, We don’t care wind it up!
The WTC ceremony musta bin of longer duration than anticipated.
Needs subtitles. Couldn’t understand much.
Cats, I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert … 🙂
It’s never gonna give me what I want … 😕
So let’s shoot the perfesser! 🙂
Reading an account, of how a group of American jocks had gone to an outfitter in Edinburgh, to get their ensemble for a friends Highland wedding. While they were waiting for the assistant, they browsed the kilts, making stupid jokes about men in skirts, and other pejorative comments.
The assistant noted this, and when it was their turn to be served, asked whether the Yanks wanted regular kilts, or the longer “warriors” kilts for this wedding. Seizing on the opportunity to reinforce their clearly fragile masculinity, they asked for the “Warrior” kilts.
When they arrived at the wedding, they were perplexed to find all the other guests were laughing ar them.
The sales assistant had, knowingly, sold them midi length, lasses, kilts, and was having the last laugh.
Don’t mess with the kilt ladies. The one who fitted Hairy was a treasure, but not a word against Scotland or ‘men in skirts’ would she have tolerated. Come on, she beckoned to me, it’s a wife’s duty to know how this kit all fits together. The buckles and belts and tabs and sporran and bits of tags on the top of the sox. And then I had to learn how to ‘correctly’ lace up his tongueless brogues.
She reminded me of Janet in Dr. Findlay’s casebook.
Although I’m only a spring chicken I recall that show very fondly, and can play the music on the piano, from memory, since I read music so laboriously. Dr. Finlay’s Casebook Theme (March from a Little Suite) * The New Concert Orchestra
It may feel bad …
a victim of my pride … 😕
Well, the music is coming to an end … 😕
I don’t seek your foolish kiss …
Never in a million years would I complain about the noise if I lived down there in the valley. The grazing sheep certainly don’t give a f*ck.
—–
Dafydd Phillips.
U.S. JETS TAKE CONTROL IN THE MACH LOOP – 4K
I need to get a print of that still image @7:31. ( Mach Loop )
You can bet it figures prominately on the wall at his parents house.
Hi MUM! ( Aussie spelling )
I think it might be “ her mum” looking at the crew name and nickname stencilled under the cockpit.
It’s definitely “HI MOM” and the backseater has a girl nickname “Skirt”.
https://youtu.be/4Nqx3Ho58rA?t=452
Are you lot looking at this on a phone or something?
Ouch. It hurts to sit down at my computer now I’m home, so I will return to occasional peeks at the Cat on my phone while reclining on sofa or bed.
Good to be out of hospital. Coccyx amputated. Watched Rogue Heroes tonight with Hairy, the brutalities of the 1944 Italian campaign. Made me feel right at home with my pains.
In hospital they gave me opiod tablets, where dispensing to me and any other patient had to be witnessed by two nurses. Then they let me take home twenty of these tablets, no problem, from the dispensary.
Clearly they are more worried about the staff grabbing some spares from non-compos patients than they are about you having a whole stash to play with at home, comments Hairy.
So how did the Bankstown anti-Semitic nurse get a hold of a vial of morphine? Are there different procedures depending on the hospital?
Old Joke: “Julius Caesar has been stabbed!”
“Where?”
“In the Rotunda”
“That’s a painful spot – I had a splinter there once. Those marble splinters, you know …”
Zelensky is doing every possible to keep the war going. It’s perfectly obvious the last thing he wants is peace.
@amuse
UKRAINE: Zelensky is demanding to join NATO explaining that if Ukraine is not admitted Europe will be forced to keep paying Ukraine indefinitely.
@nataliegwinters
The federal Judge who blocked President Trump from firing bureaucrats and stripping Perkins Coie’s security clearances is on tape going on a crazy tirade against Trump.
She melts down about the rise of “authoritarianism” and the “big lie.”
@jammles9
RIP George Foreman
@SaraCarterDC
SECURITY CLEARANCES REVOKED
Best part of Trump’s memo below “any other member of Joseph R. Biden’s Family”
“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information: Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family..”
The Chief justice is wrong — Obstruction is the plan
New York Takes A Stab At A Green New Deal Demonstration Project: The Case Of Ithaca
Politicizing Science
Box office figures reveal extent of Disney’s humiliation over ‘woke’ Snow White car crash
Box office figures reveal extent of Disney’s humiliation over ‘woke’ Snow White car crash
Starmer Humiliated As EU Allies Drift Away, EU States No To Troops In Ukraine; Trump Downgrades NATO
“The DOGE findings didn’t scare me until Now.. | Jordan Peterson”
What’s with the flickering and black splodges on the screen? It makes the post unwatchable.
Famous Fords continued…
The O.J. Simpson Bronco.
Some form of Ford V8, various bloodstains, Knife, missing: a pair of gloves.
TV series Fords Bonus.
Hawaii 50.
Jack Lord’s 1968 Mercury Park Lane Brougham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8fVAvdcIw
430 cu inch Ford V8.
I still recall how that baby bounced on its squishy suspension when it braked to a sudden stop.
390 or 428engine, though – 430 was Lincoln only and replaced by 1968 I think?
It comes with an oil well installed in the gigantic boot.
@StephenM
Crazy judge orders halt to all Social Security employees “working on the DOGE agenda”. The “DOGE agenda” is the presidential directive to prevent fraud and improper payments. So, in other words, a judge has just ordered SSA to continue allowing all fraudulent payments and theft.
Maybe the judge is still picking up Great Grandma’s pension payments?
I thought the way judicial system worked is that you sue somebody and eventually the case gets heard. How are these cases adjudicated instantly? Who is doing the suing and why is the case heard immediately?
Most of the sueing is initiated by Soros funded ACLU or other Soros funded affiliates. They are all part of the lawfare network that includes district judges. It is Obama’s most enduring ‘legacy’.
I think they are injunctions.
@catturd2
DOGE is very popular with voters. All the negative press is BS hype from Democrats and fake news propagandists.
Why do the English / UK people like Indian food so much? The stupid shitters couldn’t cook a RIB EYE Steak or T-BONE, Sirloin Steak or Porterhouse Steak without f*cking it up with their stupid amounts of spices …..oh, I remember. It was lack of refigeration. The meat started go off, and they needed to mask the mange covery it up with cover up flavours.
I know it is my opinion, but it is sh*t food. Wiping your bum in the shower the next day is common with a Vindaloo poo.
Any country that doesn’t eat a COW ….pfffft.
Sh*t in the Ganges, wipe you arse in the Ganges, pollute the Ganges with rubbish. Cleaning yourself in the Ganges, copius amounts of rubbish that ends up in the ocean from the Ganges ….failed state 100%.
Modi will do f8ck all about it.
Food for thought.
You realise you’re not allowed to criticise the Indians or their culture? Not here anyway.
They are the most honest hardworking and benevolent people on the planet.
We need another 20 million of them to run our servos and IGA’s. We’ll get 50 million – just to keep the house prices up.
India is certainly a country with a huge rubbish problem.
Holding it back.
Sounds like you have a weak stomach, Steven.
With Fentanyl placing out on the street, This song has its place,
Phil Collins – Another Day In Paradise (Official Music Video)
Sweep well lovely people.
Trump is playing cards with the Surpreme Court. Roberts Will be looking at the ceilng. That corrupt bitch Amey is a dipshit.
Kids will play.
Horrfied at mum.
Week In Pictures.
Favourite:
Wrong country to push to women around, Muhammed.
Bloody thing won’t load.
Fukket.
Thanks Tom. 🙂
No bacon jokes?
China Explores Limiting Its Own Exports to Mollify Trump
In the WSJ.
China Explores Limiting Its Own Exports to Mollify Trump
China never honours trade agreements it makes. They’re like Arabs and Sub Continentals.
To enter into agreements with any of these countries is folly.
While they’re signing deals, they are already circumventing them.
WIP .. the take on “Carrie” very subtle .. LOL!
Yes, I liked that one. Clever.
Very subtle, I’ve no idea which meme it may be.
Who or what is “Carrie”?
SBS is not happy.
“Tens of Thousands of [Foreign Climate Change] jobs” gone Because of President Trump (22 Mar)
Tens of thousands of grifters will lose their yummy grift more like. I love the yowling, it means DOGE is right over the target.
My crocodile tears are streaming.
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/heathrow-airport-swapped-diesel-gens-for-net-zero-wood-fired-backup-generator/
You’d have to be a hard hearted bastard to not laugh at the goat rodeo that England is becoming.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/single-point-of-failure.php
“Either the airport is in the aviation business, or it’s in the business of saving the planet. The two missions are not compatible.”. Powerline quote.
Should have read “or it’s in the fake virtue signalling business of leftie govt propaganda of demonising CO2 and fossil fuels to “save the planet”. Fixed it.
I only hope Oz isn’t going the same way. But I wouldn’t bank on it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9fR2DEx3MsM?feature=share
FFS. – the backup couldn’t do the job it was supposed to do when they got rid of the diesel gensets.
In other words, it was designed to fail at its core function.
But they sort of got Nut Zero with hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded and not flying, so there’s that in their favour.
Daytime Sky continue to bash Trump in regard to tariffs. The Chinese ones probably did more harm to more people here but I don’t recall the same degree of pile on then.
Next up – shock, horror, the coalition might sack a lot of public serpents!
If only they had the courage.
The shocking DOGE findings are possible clues to what would be found here in a real efficiency audit of Govt. operations.
Turn it off, cancel your sub if you’re paying for it. Remember Fox and WSJ are assisting ‘rats with ‘communication’
WSJ yes. But Sky is free to air in the regions. The shame is that during the day there’s nothing else except Fox News – if you have it. The Five should ditch waste of time and money nasty Jessica, and slippery Harold. The Big Weekend Show is so much better for not having any Dem apologists.
fair enough- I just find the legacy media odious in the extreme. Lucky for me I have people on this blog to keep me up to speed!
Wall Street Journal Advised House Democrat Staffers During All-Expenses-Paid NYC Junket
just WSJ apparently
Rift Might Be Brewing Between Trump, Fox News (21 Mar)
Wake up and smell the barista coffee, or something.
AOC Positions Herself as Party Leader (22 Mar)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says We Need a ‘Democratic Party That Farts’ Harder (22 Mar)
We had Biden, who was an airhead. Then Kamala, who is an airhead. And now they’re turning to Occasional-Cortex.
I was under the impression that farting (methane, etc.) would upset ‘Net Zany’, I mean ‘Net Zero’.
And isn’t the animal emblem for the ‘Demorats’ a donkey (or in their case, an ASS)?
So, Donkey’s farting seems like a great way to go (away, that is).
A face like a braying donkey and not as intelligent.
Today’s M Steyn column may only be of mild interest to Wolfman or other movie buffs.
I haven’t been to the movies since drive ins and even then my interests lay somewhere else.
Rockdoctor
The word for today is “fooktards”.
Fooktards.
@LauraLoomer
Meet Alice Hu, one of the main organizers of the Tesla Takedown protests.
She is an NY “organizer”, long time climate change activist, and the current executive director for Planet over Profit @pop4climate. She was one of the speakers on the Tesla Takedown organizers call this Wednesday.
Hu bragged about her involvement in the violent Manhattan Tesla rallies this month, where members of POP and @sunrisemvmt were arrested for VANDALISM of Tesla Showrooms. Hu is calling for a demonstration at all 277 @Tesla showrooms in the United States.
During the call, she called @ElonMusk and President Trump “wannabe authoritarians”. She also encouraged everyone on the call who wanted to get involved to protest at Tesla showrooms, or Tesla charging stations.
Alice Hu is Chinese.
If I were Alice I would not go on any trips outside the US, she may find she could not come back. I remember John Lennon refusing to leave as he feared never being allowed back.
I would think she might want to leave. If the charges are serious enough, she might find herself in a prison for a very long time.
@SarahisCensored
It appears that Harry Sisson royally screwed up in the statement he released yesterday. (Or did his attorney screw up?)
Harry stated that he reported Camil to the FBI and filed a police report in March, 2023.
However, text messages show that Harry was still in contact with Camil in November 2023, and was his emergency contact.
Note – In the text from Camil to Harry, Camil states “If we are blown the cease and desist needs to go out immediately”.
Swiss Think-Tank: US Intel Investigating Anthony Blinken For Potential Involvement in Romania’s Globalist Coup
I watched a great Youtube conversation yesterday between the always erudite David Starkey and Youtuber Andrew Gold. It’s worth watching in full, Starkey nails everything wrong with the UK and the West in general but I found his words on Ukraine and the rah-rah in the West, particularly among our political class, the elites and the left in general, both pertinent and sobering.
I’ll just preface this by saying that Starkey is NO Putin apologist, in fact Starkey has always been the first to call Putin out for being a grubby and nasty little despot who’s desperately trying to emulate the likes of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas I (note NOT Nicholas II).
But as Starkey says in his conversation with Gold, the Ukraine situation is complex and what bothers him and should bother the rest of us is that many of the people who are rah-rahing for massive western intervention in Ukraine were the same people who led us into the abysmal failures of Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, scum such as Alistair Campbell etc. Further, these same ‘Ukraine interventionists’, be it Campbell etc, along with a truly ghastly political establishment headed by scum like Sturmer, Abalone or Turdeau are curiously obsessed with standing up for Ukrainian borders, and having the Ukrainian flag strewn over their social media accounts yet these same rah-rahers for war are overseeing the collapse of their own country’s borders and show complete disrespect for their own flags.
Ukraine borders and flag = Good, Noble and Virtuous
UK borders and flag = bad, racist and far-right
And I should not forget to include our very own war-mongering spruikers like Blot! Here’s an idea, methinks Blot and his gormless heir can create an ‘International Brigade’ and go fight in Ukraine.
Agree, Cassie. I don’t believe many people actually research the history of the Ukrainian conflict.
I remember Bolt throwing his full support enthusiastically behind the wars you named, Cassie.
I’m just catching up with yesterday’s comment so here goes:
We seem to have arrived at the point in Olympic Games history where nations are no longer competing to hold the them, it’s more like who is the last one standing. I think it’s time the Olympics were once again permanently located in Greece. It’s not like Greece has any other industry except tourism.
The advantage is that facilities can be built once and reused and only updated when required. It would be a plus for athletes who will know the conditions and climate and adapt to them.
You could do the same with soccer World Cup or any other international event.
Not only tourism, the Greeks are also good at Shipping.
The bit he left out is that they’re more than prepared to use force and violence to achieve their ends. Hardly what you would call actual democrats.
@catturd2
The Democrat party has no interest in helping a single American. They just want power so they can continue their money laundering scheme to steal billions of your tax dollars to get themselves, their friends, donors, lobbyists, Big Pharma, and the Military industrial complex filthy rich.
FMD. On Sky News, treasurer Jim Chalmers is signalling that one of the scare campaigns Labor will use in the run-up to the federal election is that the SFLs if elected will sack thousands of public servants to reduce APS employment to its 2022 levels.
Of course, Chalmers knows he has the public service in his pocket and the number of public servants intending to vote for the SFLs is zero:
By far the biggest contributor to the COL of every taxpayer, isn’t rent, electricity or Woolies. It’s the corrupt parasitic Fed and state Govts that extort us to fund their ridiculously high extravagant costs. That’s not enough through. On our behalf they rack up billions in (our) debt to keep them in a manner they are accustomed to.
Howard and Costello did it in 1996 and it worked.
So it can work again. And what is Trump/Musk/Vance now doing?
Dim Chalmers to the Loony Bin asap.
Clennell ran it with Jane Hume earlier as well; he’s also in the pocket.
We’d be much better off were the public service reduced to 1962 levels.
I was a federal public servant back in the 1980s but never even considered voting Labor.
Despite the fact that Labor under Hawke were far saner and level-headed than the Albosleazy mob.
Lining up with Harris’ husband.
@RaheemKassam
OH LOOK.
That’s Judge Boasberg, alongside Judge Patricia Giles, who ruled on Thursday to block the deportation of a Georgetown student accused of spreading Hamas propaganda.
Can you spot who else is in the picture, @DouglasEmhoff?
@PeteHegseth
Since “Judge” Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids…after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.
Why should America be paying for our research?
Prime Minister urged to call ’emergency meeting’ after Trump administration cuts funding to seven Australian universities
Horror at the thought ..! but, maybe, our unis could use some of their own profits to pay for their research .
After all, paying the VC a $1million a year they can’t be too poor .. FFS!
I’ve said it here before, but an academic I knew who started his career in the 70s said it was about 70/30 academic staff to administration. Now it’s about 40/60.
From the Jo Nova link re Heathrow.
Lets hope hospitals don’t have the same fooktards in charge of their backup infrastructure.
Hopefully, the Houses of Parliament in London have voted with their feet and have installed a Biomass Generator as a backup system.
But I bet not.
The problem with the firewood power is that it takes hours to start delivering sparks. Diesel in almost instantaneous.
Geez ..! Luigi being very convincing in the election run-up .. Promising another $150 electric rebate & still blaming the previous gummint for the mess we are in after 3 years of Labor ……..
The howling about USAID cuts is really quite fun. Not only do we have seven Australian universities screeching today but now also the UN…
DOGE USAID budget cuts hit UN in ‘worst liquidity crisis since its establishment’ (22 Mar)
Extra-budgetary eh? I wonder how much other off-the-books grift they’ve been taking in?
Just catching up.
Lizzie,
Good to hear the op went well and you’re ok.
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In fact it was The Bee that can be credited with the beginning of the end for the woke and not just because of their killer satire. The old Twitter banned The Bee because they* didn’t like a particular joke.
Elon Musk was an admirer and that act of censorship spurred him to buy Twitter. This led to the war against Musk that eventually pushed him right and into the Trump camp. The moral of the story: humour can change the world.
*It’s hard to determine at this stage whether the banning was initiated by one of the army of Twitter censors or the order came from the Deep State.
Does anyone have a copy of the original joke that pushed Twitter over the edge?
It needs to be hanging in the Smithsonian.
TheirABC has started to campaign against sacking public servants.
The most egregious example was a story recently where the bossette of the Productivity (?) Commission, who was appointed by Labor, announced that it was not worth doing because it wouldn’t save much money.
Bizarre. Increasing productivity includes making small savings, a point that she apparently has not grasped. Saving taxpayers’ money is apparently only important if it involves large amounts, an astonishing justification for waste, but according to her – meh.
Also noteworthy was that she used percentages, not dollars, in describing the effects of cutting numbers.
IMHO, her methodology was also dishonest, because it only mentioned salaries, not overheads or oncosts. Plus, it ignored the possibility of cutting wasteful programs and contracts attached to those positions.
The ‘Productivity’ Commission is now wearing a skinsuit.
The PC is a shadow of its former self. But this isn’t a new problem. The rot started about two decades ago. Since then it has as commissioners political appointees following the orders of the government of the day, and staff barely out of nappies, but in a complete reversal of their supply side ancestors are schooled in the principles of a central role for government and the wisdom of Keynes.
it was the PC review looking at the problem of aging or dying parents that could no longer look after their children who are unable to look after themselves (health or mental) that ended up gifting us the monster that is NDIS.
Ironically that particular part of the population now struggles to get access to the NDIS as opposed to obese/depressed/disabled but able to participate in society.
This risk should have been obvious to the drafters of the review if they had been around for long enough to see how Government really works. the modern PC is naivety central.
Further to Tom’s insight into the public servants and Wallet Wizard’s scary words, this article at the Daily Telegraph dovetails quite nicely into that. Read and weep:
Looks like an election pledge. Work from home you useless parasites.
Expect more targeted messaging on how it affects women which of course the media amplifies by saying the Coalition have a problem with that demographic, except for the fact that Albo says smash em and complaints from Marles’ office about sexual impropriety abound.
Stick a fork in, this country is done.
Has the Minister for Women been able to define a woman, yet?
AMP comes under fire from Finance Sector Union for ‘draconian’ contract allowing surveillance of employees at home (Sky News, 21 Mar)
Watching to see if they are goofing off and defrauding the company? How dare they! I’d love to see this applied to public serpents “working” from home.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Imagine, they have have mind reamed us so much we are actually endorsing Big Brother.
As Mencken said. Good and hard.
How does 19 hours a week of work = 2 days?
And it’s clearly only talking about office workers. I don’t begrudge the professionals I know working from home a couple of days a week, but having the government rub it in for “public service” is a bit rich when many of the traditional Labor voters cannot work from home.
An upside of being able to work from home is that people that do not live in Canberra can be employed.
How does anybody who does not live in Canberra get a Canberra based job? The ACT is busy building lots of dog-boxes for its future serfs.
Well, yet to hear of a APS office job being offered in Cloncurry, but I know of heaps in Cairns and even one half way between rocky and emerald. They spend most of the day in MS teams.
It seems that these favoured public servants (unlike those at the coalface) got a 5 grand a year payrise by not having to actually go to work.
Surely they should have this factored in to their next round of pay negotiations?
If the SFLs had an ounce of political sense, they should be telling teachers, nurses etc that they are being punished at the expense of seatwarmers wearing their tracksuits while saving on child care expenses.
Not holding my breath.
Yes indeed.
Include also anyone working in a service delivery capacity: retail, trades, transport, utilities – add in the ambos, fireies , and constabulary. Or the productive sectors: manufacturing, or agriculture, or mining.
This in-the-bubble response should be a massive own-goal for Team Mollusc.
But it probably won’t be exploited by Team Roadkill.
Yes I was getting more and more puzzled by that discrepancy.
Perhaps the WFH mob can get a downward salary adjustment?
I can see the savings for the workers and have no problem with working from home, -in principle-, however, I would like to see it in practice for all workers, how they do it.
Are they putting in the same hours and efforts as they would do in the office?
It might turn out that they are more productive? I don’t know, but I surely loved to find out before giving the all clear.
What happens is that, assuming the people actually had work to do before working from home and are now doing the work, almost all of these work from home people are ignoring the work they used to do to support others working.
Of course it seems like they get through all their work quickly. They no longer have “interruptions” from other people looking for information or input to do other jobs. Productivity down the toilet.
And the crossflow of information transfer has gone down the dunny again. Likewise the mentoring aspect.
Never read and weep- get angry. A cold rational directed anger at the garbage canbra. When did the canbra parasites last elect Liberal MHR I wonder?
Yes, the libs need to remember to encourage people who are prepared to think about voting for them to actually vote for them, and ignore those that won’t, and never will.
exactly
A Freudian slip there…
Should be a vote winner with tradies.
Although bit hard to build those houses we need while dressed in pyjamas “Working” from home.
That’s what you get with a class of parasites who left uni to work for political parties.
It’s five years since the first Covid lockdowns began. It seems like a different world. And never forget this, the Covid insanity and hysteria was overseen and paid for by a Coalition government.
I still shake my head at what ensued.
And never forget this, those brave souls who dared speak out about the folly of lockdowns, who dared question just how ‘deadly’ the virus might be, who dared to speak up about possible treatments and so on on were crucified and silenced.
I remember one of those few who dared question the Covid insanity, his name being Craig Kelly. Beginning in March 2020 he was targeted for silencing by the Covid hysterics and in early 2021, Scumbag the Tosser, always one willing to stab his own in the back, attempted to silence Kelly, and so Kelly left the Liberal Party and sat as an independent.
Craig Kelly, who’d run a small business, who’d made a marginal electorate safe for the Liberal Party, was long targeted by the MSM and left for his stances on climate, ruinables and Covid. But once upon a time the party of Menzies, Fraser, even Howard tolerated individuals like Kelly and used them very effectively to throw mud at Labor. But Turdballs and Scumbag the Tosser eradicated the party and now it’s just a diluted vanilla milkshake party that mimics Labor in most things.
Kelly is now running for the Libertarian Party and is the lead Libertarian senate candidate for NSW in the upcoming election. Craig Kelly will get my vote in the senate.
You go Craig.
Was so happy to vote for John Ruddick into NSW Legislative Council, will be very happy to vote for Craig Kelly.
@StephenM
Crazy judge orders halt to all Social Security employees “working on the DOGE agenda”. The “DOGE agenda” is the presidential directive to prevent fraud and improper payments. So, in other words, a judge has just ordered SSA to continue allowing all fraudulent payments and theft.
Arrest the bastard, put him on a plane to El Salvador. This prick is a traitor.
@akafaceUS
Meet Kevin Pham
Kevin is responsible for recruiting and managing influencers like Harry Sisson to advance a left-wing agenda through a company called Palette Media.
Palette Media is a small New York-based company with very few employees, entirely funded—100%—by the DNC.
Describing itself as a “talent management company,” Palette Media pays influencers to promote left-wing messaging to their followers.
Kevin serves as the middleman between the DNC and the “left-wing influencers.”
Here’s how it works:
– Kevin receives a call from someone like Pete Buttigieg, who might say, “Elon is bad; we need a bigger focus on this.”
= Kevin contacts every influencer that’s on the payroll, instructing them to push the “Elon is bad” message.
– Influencers spread the “Elon is bad” message to hundreds of millions of people.
Palette Media is just one of many DNC-funded companies.
Solid WIP: probably best in a tight field:
I liked the last one best. Firefly!
A pretty decent Adam Bandt caricature.
Brave lady, leading the charge against live birth abortion:
Dr Joanna Howe | Last night’s rally was INCREDIBLE ? It was way beyond our wildest expectations that close to 5000 would turn up on a week night with less… | Instagram
If only she’d picked this cause from the beginning, instead of spending all those years campaigning against employers.
Foxbody
March 23, 2025 6:33 am
Reply to Steve trickler
I think it might be “ her mum” looking at the crew name and nickname stencilled under the cockpit.
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Great observation. I think you are spot on.
Repeat:
It’s definitely “HI MOM” and the backseater has a girl nickname “Skirt”.
https://youtu.be/4Nqx3Ho58rA?t=452
Are you lot looking at this on a phone or something?
Yes, that is how I view this august journal of record.
The shocking state of affairs our country is in. And the SFL’s are struggling to get ahead in the polls.;
So far no one has released details as to the purpose of all these US grants that have been stopped and which other bodies were involved. Transgender mice studies, climate change impacts on the rainbow serpent, interpretative dance developments in LGBTQ communities? Maybe, maybe not. Surely the public needs to know? Come on journalists or is it going to be up to the intrepid Senator Malcolm Roberts to follow this through? The silence is telling.
I know from the glossy my old chemistry department sends out that most of them seem to be working on climate change guff these days. So I can guess.
Islam is aided and abetted by the left: the latest muslim hellhole:
Bangladesh’s Reign of Terror: Toward the Next Islamist Hub of South Asia? :: Gatestone Institute
Fun fact; the Bengalis have always been extreme. They founded the Deobandi – an Sunni jihadi group, in 1870s or so – that spread across north India. Eventually setting up headquarters called Al Qaeda in North Pakistan/Afghanistan area. And that boys and girls is where the young Bin Laden lad got the name.
Another fun fact: When India was partitioned Bengal was called East Pakistan. The Pakis flooded in and rape was the name of the game. When they got kicked out (1971) plenty of women were pregnant (and ashamed) and crossed into India. Some of these became very wealthy in India ( Bengal was a hole) and returned to Bengal to claim their family land and homes. There is a name for them in Bengali (but I forgot) as it is still happening. A fine example of the Dar As Salam – the land of peace – the time when everyone accepts Mo as the last prophet.
Yep.
The sides for the three adversaries are firming up for WW3.
And when you add the Communists together – it looks like Eurasia, vs Eastasia vs Oceania.
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I could have sworn that most of the Bangladesh’s lived in England now?
And the Bangladeshis from Tower Hamlets destroyed London.
Last time I was at Greenwich I took copies of some of the magnificant ld landscapes painted from the top of the hill. The views towards the city encompassed the classic buildings including St Paul’s.
The view now us dominated by Tower Hamlets. I hate the term metaphor, but Tower Hamlets is a metaphor for national suicide.
Snow White – It’s Even Worse Than I Expected
The Critical Drinker
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johanna
March 23, 2025 10:20 am
Reply to Black Ball
It seems that these favoured public servants (unlike those at the coalface) got a 5 grand a year payrise by not having to actually go to work.
Surely they should have this factored in to their next round of pay negotiations?
If the SFLs had an ounce of political sense, they should be telling teachers, nurses etc that they are being punished at the expense of seatwarmers wearing their tracksuits while saving on child care expenses.
Not holding my breath.
Simply put a $100 per day reduction in superannuable salary on all who choose to work from home, as compensation to their department for loss of continuity.
Makka
March 23, 2025 10:28 am
The shocking state of affairs our country is in. And the SFL’s are struggling to get ahead in the polls.;
From The Spectator Australia –
Rocco Loiacono
22nd of Marxh, 2025
“It has been 94 years since a first-term federal government has been removed from office in this country, and if any government deserves to get the boot, it is the current one. But it is becoming increasingly clear, if current polling trends are to be believed, that the upcoming election will deliver minority government.
Both last weekend’s Newspoll and this week’s Freshwater poll put the Coalition ahead of Labor 51-to-49 on a two-party preferred basis.
If these numbers were replicated at a general election, the most likely outcome is a Labor minority government dependent on the Greens plus any remaining Teals (the latest Redbridge poll sees at least four in danger of losing their seats).”
“Until the Coalition pulls out of the Paris Agreement and abandons net zero, it will be constrained in its ability to counter Labor and appeal to the voters it needs – namely Australian businesses and families – who simply cannot afford this senseless ideological crusade.”
“To win the 2025 election, the Coalition needs to break a near-100-year hoodoo.
To do that, the Coalition will need to achieve a primary vote of at least 42 per cent if it is to have any chance of governing. Both Newspoll and Freshwater have it at 39 per cent.
Fortune favours the brave. It is no coincidence that the Coalition, under Mr Dutton, appeared more appealing to the electorate after the Voice referendum, when it was fighting for a fundamental principle in the face of the prevailing ‘vibe’ at the time which was firmly in favour of the Yes campaign.
If the Coalition continues with the ‘play it safe’ strategy, another three years grazing in the opposition pastureland awaits.”
Pull out of the Paris Agreement as it is now a meaningless gesture even for alarmists. And at a minimum he should phase out the renewable subsidies and let them compete on their own. The money saved can be used to bolster the grid with extra gas and coal whilst the framework for nuclear is established and a mixed grid approach adopted. This will also put downward pressure on the power prices.