SOHRAB Ahmari piece. Food for thought. https://firstthings.com/pope-francis-trad-icon/
Open Thread – Weekend 29 March 2025
- ANZAC Day Thread
- Open Thread – Thurs 24 April 2025
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
- Open Thread – Monday of the Angel 2025
- Between a rock and a hard place on May 3
Duchess Sophie Joins London’s Dawn Anzac Day Service
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…
BAM!
Wonder if anyone is really undecided about who to vote for?
Probably just those who haven’t made their mind up yet.
ABBA … Anybody but bloody Albo
Surely this is a joke. He can’t be serious .
Sounds a bit low energy.
Fake noos.
Donny is no friend of free markets.
Off to Bangkok from Singapore on Tuesday. Still going at this point.
You’ll be right. I know 2 people over there at the moment.
From what I’ve been told old swampy at Suvarnabhumi was completely unaffected and most of Bangkok escaped pretty unscathed. Around 170 buildings have cracking issues that are being inspected.
The rail and a lot of traffic lights are still out as the notorious birds nest of power cables is checked. Traffic may be a bit more congested than normal.
Some hotels are off line so I’d check.
Had day off work. Flicked on Kayo. Sheffield Shield final came up.
Queensland were 175 behind after first innings and 100/1. Now 270 target set for SA.
Some left hander Clayton played a dour innings for 100 and held it together.
No. 8 Wildermuth made 110 or so at a decent clip with some of the best drives you’d ever see. Has played a couple of T20s for Australia. I’d be putting him in future white ball squads.
I’m still in mourning for houso boy ‘cos he got shunted into a room where his mum was once crook after he failed the results of a car accident.
Those TV election tears don’t come easy ya know.
Johannes Leak.
Whenever I see Luigi, all I really see is Leak’s caricature.
I hear Danger Dan’s dubbed splutter.
I have made an excellent stand up desk by putting an invalid bed table, the sort with pull out tiny legs that give a stable surface for someine in bed, on top of my ordinary desk. It cost $25 in Target. Makes a wonderful stand up desk for any sort of computer.
Someone should tell Ablo about this money-saving innovation.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
That sonar image@10:12 was eye opening. He wanted out of that car. He failed unfortunately.
Anyhow, his family got him home. That’s all that matters.
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AWP:
Missing 24-year-old Jacob VanZant Found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrHE70g7h4c
Link fail fixed.
Nice picture, Dover.
What’s happening in Britain is astonishing -just jaw dropping wokeness on steroids. An entity called the Sentencing Council issues directives to judges regarding sentencing. First time I’ve ever heard of such an entity, but it does exist apparently. It has recently introduced a guideline stating that minorities, women, and white individuals under the age of 25 should receive lighter sentences. In essence, this formalizes differential sentencing that disproportionately punishes white men.
Although I’m skeptical of his claims, “Keith Stammer” says he’s disappointed by this directive and is “considering his response.”
The best response would be to disband the council.
And Blair’s Supreme Court.
Maybe even with some floggings to boot.
One of the last acts of Gordon Brown’s government.
The Tories did nothing about it for 15 years.
Was this Johannes Leak’s introduction of AllBalonee and the Y-fronts? https://www.moadoph.gov.au/explore/behind-the-lines/2024-no-guts-no-glory/level-playing-fields/rock-bottom
Today’s Saturday Tele:
OUR NATIONAL CREDIT CARD HAS BEEN MAXED OUT
Vikki Campion
29 Mar 2025
If Australia were a company, it would be under a microscope to avoid administration, the inevitable destination for any business that borrows what it cannot repay.
If our $1 trillion debt were divided equally among Australia’s 20.5 million tax file numbers, each taxpayer would need to pay back about $48,780 on their credit card.
And why are we drowning in this debt? Were we facing an existential crisis? Enemies at the gates, northern towns in flames, survival on the line? World War II justified borrowing to the hilt; the alternative was annihilation. What’s our excuse now? The weather?
The perversity comes in how this tax is taken from us and spent, where “funding” for all sorts of intermittent energy fallacies is now just Centrelink for billionaires.
As the ATO proudly hounds small businesses for late tax payments with ruthless efficiency, where’s that same scrutiny for how the Treasury allows our tax to be squandered?
What our country needs most won’t happen during an election year when politicians flog cash splashes like a Black Friday Sale, lining up and waiting for the doors to open even though there’s no foreseeable income to clear your card by the end of the decade with this spendthrift habit.
The latest ATO data says we have more than 4.7 million active small businesses, employing almost 7.3 million employees and paying more than $91bn in income tax and $21bn in GST. To put that in context, our interest repayment on our credit card is $28bn, nearly one-third of that revenue, and now one of our biggest national expenses.
And under this term of Labor government, 29,000 of these small businesses that pay the interest went insolvent. Our elected governments subsidised EVs, gifted land for water and transmission lines, subsidised wind and solar factories, and underwrites returns on subsidised investment for foreign companies while our small businesses pay a price for energy that’s sending them broke.
Both major parties have shown us this week they’re committed to more spending and more borrowing and God help us if we end up giving the tealie-green types the steering wheel.
Like giving a five-year-old your credit card, they will borrow wildly for more things we don’t need, like university courses they never finished, leaving the little kids in childcare today paying for their own nap time with interest when they grow up, on top of student loans for courses they were never taught, and power bill subsidies because the government wouldn’t let us use our own coal, gas or uranium.
And the advertising “gurus” working for the government deceptively call these things free.
The budget reveals Labor priorities: a pittance for regional infrastructure, nothing beyond the Bruce Highway, a measly new infrastructure spend, with no droughtproofing dams, no sealed roads, no freight rail, all kept in the shadows of public wealth pumped into the climate grift.
Instead, a fortune poured into intermittent power, $2bn for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to fund wind and solar factories and $3bn for “green aluminium and iron”, complete with the staggering interest bill this obsession demands.
Personal income tax paid has increased 24 per cent under this government while our budget is red into the foreseeable future, our national debt will increase to $1.22?trillion over the next three years.
And the budget papers show millions more squandered on the climate bureaucracy with dalliances like the new Net Zero Economy Authority operating in the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio on top of the massive climate bureaucracy such as the $7.1bn ARENA.
Alternate prime minister Peter Dutton gave some relief in his budget reply, offering common sense on ending Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen’s environmentally destructive $25bn Rewiring the Nation waste and green hydrogen fantasy, as well as a promise to peel back layers of red and green tape. It’s almost like he’s suggesting we stop flushing our money down the toilet.
We would not need his east coast gas reservation policy if we did not have a bewildering east coast electricity policy which pushes up the cost of living, most clearly in grocery bills.
People feel poorer because they are. There was no fundamental change offered to this problem by either side in budget week. Temporary Band-Aids and subsidies cover problems but don’t fix them.
LIFTER
Senator Linda Reynolds doing it with class, exposing the abuse of parliamentary privilege she was subjected to by Labor MPs who wanted to believe she covered up a rape – with no evidence she did such a thing to be uncovered in any of its myriad of court cases.
LEANER
The Australian Climate Foundation refilling their diesel generator with a jerry can to keep their inflatable toy waste barrels full of air in their protest against carbon-free nuclear energy on the lawns of parliament this week.
Net zero, centrelink for billionaires!
Dave brevity the soul of wit, thank you
Can we swap her for her husband?
Yes she writes very well.
We are soooo screwed. As Campion points out, our wise rulers have saddled us with unpayable national debt (in addition to our own personal debts) and for what? NOT for nation saving or nation building endeavours like the snowy scheme or WW2, but for endless welfare in all its forms: free money for the ‘disabled’, for the ‘unworking’, for ‘health care’ for those who have destroyed their health with personal choices about food, drugs, alcohol and ciggies, and for the corporations – like big wind and big solar.
And the debt already run up is ruinous, but only 10% of the story… we have used that debt to buy a dependent and non productive population, and have made future promises which are an order of magnitude greater than the dollars already spent.
We got out of the WW2 debt because the sunk costs (spent in building munitions factories) were then turned to productive manufacturing. This time we wont be so lucky – the sunk costs can only be used to manufacture more dependency.
Did i mention we are sooooo screwed??
Vikki in the Saturday Tele cont’d :
IS TECH TURNING TEAL? CULTURE CLASH LOOMING IN TECHNOLOGY LAND
The super-smart nerds at the Australian Tech Council, advocating for our third biggest industry employing more than one million people, have been steadfastly bipartisan forever, which makes their latest teal steal, captaining their team with Climate 200’s biggest donor all the more perplexing.
The ATC’s membership includes the likes of Google, Telstra, META, Thales and the ASX, who have all been playing the political donation game like they’re allergic to drama.
According to AEC data, in 2023-24, Google handed out $22,000 to Labor and $22,000 to the Liberals, even-steven. Telstra? $33,000 to Labor, $27,500 to the Liberals. Close enough. And the ASX balance the books at $60,000 a piece.
So, how will tech’s corporate members go under the leadership of the biggest donor to Climate 200, Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar, who personally donated the teal movement $1.5m, followed by his buddy Mike Cannon-Brookes’ who threw in $1.18m from his private jet and F1 team piggy bank?
And how does Climate 200’s agenda, which includes discussing aggressive climate policies like shutting down baseload power and subsidising electric vehicles while sipping champagne in luxury theatres, align with priorities of ATC members? Especially those such as weapons, ammo and drones manufacturer, Thales.
What will come for the ATC under Mr Farquhar’s teal-tinted reign, especially with polls hinting at a minority government?
Will they pivot to lobbying Liberals for electric Bushmasters that beep instead of boom? Stampede the Nats calling for carbon-neutral explosions?
Or will they run to Labor Defence Minister Richard Marles with a call to replace our gas-powered grenade-launching Abrams battle tanks with pedal-powered artillery? What happened?
Was the head of the ACTU not around?
Cannon-brookes and farquar are serious threats to Australia.
Jesus’ becomes more boisterous if the stock price goes up and hides in the cupboard when it low.
No need to concern oneself about whom to vote for in the upcoming election. They are all pretty much the same. That is, socialist pricks who will steal our money to enrich themselves and sustain a bloated bureaucracy which exists for the sole purpose of stifling the ambitions of us proles.
We should not, however, forget the almighty Medicare card, which allows us to see a government subsidised drug dealer, in order to obtain whichever substances serve to make our meaningless lives more tolerable.
The Medicare return on my coxxygectomy is just over $300 dollars on the surgeon’s $2500, plus all of the on-costs most of which are not rebatable – the anesthetistc ($95 back), assistant surgeon (maybe a few dollars on his $900), and all of the hospital costs of four days (these plus theatre costs are covered by private insurance). Lots of other expenses keep rolling in.
But for anyone with this problem, especially if caused by a fall and a definite fracture, there is no substitute for losing a bit of your spine to an excellent surgeon.
I have recovered very well so far, 9 days out now, and stitches out in 5 more days.
We have the Queensland family down staying with us; the parents are attending a wedding and Hairy and I have our three delightful grandchildren aged 10, 8 and 5 to chat to and pick up things I can’t reach down to.
What a joy it is, they are so lively and chatty.
The Dow is down 700 points, ending another bad week for US stocks. The reasons given are that the PCE, the inflation indicator the Fed watches closely, came in hot (above consensus). The other reason is tariffs, specifically the announcement of 25% tariffs on vehicle imports to the US. Apparently, in a group conversation with auto CEOs, Trump cautioned them not to raise prices despite the fact that costs are likely going to rise in this sector, with estimates of $5,000 to $10,000 per vehicle.
With the economy looking like it’s slowing down and inflation possibly rising, it appears that a decent bout of stagflation could be on its way.
Trump campaigned about affordability and loss of purchasing power during Dementia’s term, and it’s one of the reasons why he won.
The potential saving grace is that Trump has promised massive deregulation and tax cuts—tax cuts now only for the middle class and below. If these policies don’t materialize soon, this administration won’t succeed because punters won’t like a continuation of loss of purchasing power combined with a sluggish economy. He’d better move on them ASAP
True, but the stackers will be happy:
Stackers? Explain.
I think hes referring to precious metals.
Correct.
Hugh,
Take your starting point in 2016 as US$1,150 and $3,085 as today’s closing price. That’s 11.5% compound rate return.
For the same period, the Dow began 2016 at 16,456 and closed today at 41,583. Add in average dividend of (call it 2.5%) plus add the effect of stock buybacks and you end up with a combined estimated yield of 5%. The compound rate of return for the Dow is about 10.8%. They’re close together.
True, but what is your point?
More to the point, what’s yours?
I was simply pointing to the facts.
Huh. How’s that relevant to what I raised…. Stocks?
Markets.
Gold in AUD is up 10% compound annually over the last 20y, but that doesnt mean its gone up in value, it means the AUD has lost value at that rate.
Entirely correct, Duk.
I shall uptick your comment good sir!
Incidentally, my ‘pine lime splice’ indicator (17c in 1975 to $3.50 now) indicates a 95% loss of value of the AUD over the last 50y of my life.
Australian Pesos
Automaker costs likely to rise?
Er, why? And how?
…i’m calling fake noos on that “phonecall with automakers present”
Why would US car makers have a cost rise?
Unless they were importing most of the parts – in which case, they can buy from US parts manufacturers* themselves – which seems to be what the President is aiming at.
*No manufacturers? Then build the factories and employ the US autoworkers who have been laid off over the last decade.
Dunno how accurate this is,
Ranked: Which AI Chatbots Collect the Most Data About You?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-which-ai-chatbots-collect-the-most-data-about-you/
This week I realised that I mostly use Grok to either read or get the summary of paywalled articles.
A federal judge doing something positive ?
https://x.com/nicholasgerda/status/1905384469391180058?s=43
https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/judge-blasts-la-homeless-spending-as-a-train-wreck-and-threatens-to-seize-control
feelthebern
March 29, 2025 7:44 am
This week I realised that I mostly use Grok to either read or get the summary of paywalled articles.
Interesting how things will work out. Google is free because of massive advertising.
The operating costs to runs these AIs is quite high but don’t carry ads. Will people pay for them or will they be satisfied with an AI created paragraph at the top of the google page? Ads revenue in the last quarter was higher for Google although YouTube lost some. Maybe advertisers aren’t moving yet because there’s nowhere else to go.
How do you price this ?
What does the pricing look like next week, next month, next year ?
You can see why the horrible pricks Reid Hoffman & Sam Altman were so keen for the last administration to effectively regulate the industry so OpenAI would be the only one with a licence to operate.
Perhaps on a subscription model? I really don’t know how AI pages could carry adverts and be able to make money. The sub model would be expensive though. It probably means that AI will be fitted to other sites like Google with Gem, X with Grok etc. I don’t think the sub model is viable on its own if they’re offered free on the big tech sites.
Subscriptions for various levels of AI. A free level, then additional tiers, with specialisations for various disciplines.
the specialisation thing works because it isn’t actually “artificial intelligence”, but machine learning. so want an academic AI for engineering? There will be a specialised AI with a subscription for you. Some people will even want to run one in house. So software sales as current practice. Hence the insane prices and demand for NVIdia GPUs. Although interestingly, I read the other day that these new Apple Studio desktops can be configured with enormous GB of RAM in the CPU and GPU that although individually expensive, are the size of a biscuit tin and sit on a small bit of your desk, and are vastly cheaper than a bank of GPUs in an air conditioned warehouse from NVIdia and AMD. And can run a decent sized LLM on their own. So while there are all these tech firms buying nuclear power stations and the like to run their AI, the Apple example means the demand for power and price per hardware unit and current LLM will start declining. Overall power won’t decline of course. We will just get more powerful LLMs in the future.
but, I almost want to meet the awesome marketing genius that got to label these platforms “AI”
Whilst AI does seem to have value, it just failed me in a very interesting way. I was ‘googling’ “how much does the medicare system cost australia each year”, and it didnt matter how specifically I tried to phrase it, all it got back was:
1) Summary of how the 2% medicare levy ‘pays’ for it
2) Stories about how much money labor has added to the scheme in the last year or 2.
It was very loath to tell me what it actually cost .. I eventually found it as a column in a bar graph,, but it certainly didnt see to want me to know.
Certainly not performance based. Daily Telegraph:
It’s all I could be bothered with.
The rise of anti Semitic behaviour can be placed solely at her feet. Along of course with her counterparts in Canberra and Melbourne.
Ugly people, the worst.
Loathsome, despicable trash. Toxic parasites.
A former council librarian FMD
Best not to look at those sort of things. Librarians are good at organising things, so there is that.
OUR NATIONAL CREDIT CARD HAS BEEN MAXED OUT
Before writing this piece did she sit down and speak to her own husband about his cheap and crude pork barrelling deals under the last Coalition government, particularly when he sold out on net zero for some quick bucks, bucks which were later taken away by the Albanese Labor government?
Just wondering.
Dunno about others but I find it absolute chutzpah to now hear or read how the Liberals and Nationals are suddenly so concerned about government spending. I mean, the Coalition government did nothing about out of control NDIS spending for the entirety of its nine years in government…………..NOTHING.
Best not to ask the Nationals about that stuff. Their love of uninterrupted government lack of interference tends to be quite selective.
Being the stupid liberals they are, they thought Gillard, the architect will shoulder the blame for ever.
How wrong they were.
From the get go the NDIS was a giant Fabian wet dream. Pure Gillard. I don’t know where you would start to unwind it – and I’m on it.
My understanding is under the old scheme I would not have got anything. I cannot imagine being without my electric wheelchair, I would be housebound and totally reliant on others.
Assuming it was the taxpayer who bought you the wheelchair, you remain ‘totally reliant on others’ no?
But why fund the arts or increase Aboriginal handouts or provide all the freebies and handouts to a mob of incompatible immigrants and so on and so on. The amount of waste and pork barelling by government to undeserving groups and bludgers is so outrageous that providing an electric wheelchair to a disabled person means little in the big scheme of things but life changing to the recipient.
It will unwind itself (Soviet Union pension style*) sooner or later once we run through our last 150y of stored productivity and find we have (Adam Smith style) ‘ruined the nation’.
*you still got your monthly Soviet pension after the collapse, problem was it barely bought a pack of Russian cigarettes.
The rise of anti Semitic behaviour can be placed solely at her feet.
The incompetence even predates the rampant Jew hatred. You remember when the elderly nonagenarian great-grandmother was tasered in her nursing home (the plod who tasered her was given a suspended sentence only this week)? In the aftermath, both Hogarthian gin slags were oddly missing from any accountability, it was just too hard an issue for them deal with. And then it’s all gotten worse, Catley has never been responsible for anything. She’s herself has said little about the endemic Jew hatred now seen on our streets but why would she? Jew haters aren’t likely to criticise or condemn Jew hatred. Anyway, in a master class of gaslighting, all that Jew hatred was just a hoax!
The Pretty Boy Minns premiership is a scam, a pretty effective one. Minns talks a good talk, nothing else, I despise him.
The plod wants his job back I believe. Send him to Walgett
I object to the use of the epithet “stupid” to refer to the Liberals.
They are most adept at stealing our money and ruining our lives.
Let us review the achievements of Howard alone. I mean, singlehandedly, he:
That is the very opposite of stupid. Getting so-called conservatives to vote for that takes some doing!
No, not all bad.
Not bad for billionaire investors, undoubtedly.
Which of those just favour trillionaire investors?
All of them.
lol
Bloody hell, sombody is gaming the downticks! 🙂
Must be those pesky visitors , Hughey.
Ask the boss to check in.
You’re whining like a little bitch about 2? Wait and see what the two limy wogs do around here on both sides of the ticket curation caper.
it wasn’t me dickhead.
I resemble being called a dickhead! 🙂
Comments like Howard favored trillionaires by making sales tax more efficient, helping lower inflation and ruinous interest rate levels, freeing up labor markets, and lastly witnessing productivity drop after he left office. Yeah, you’re a dickead and perhaps two other people who gave you a downtick agree, you ignorant whiny little bitch.
I upset JC. Do I get a prize? 🙂
No, you didn’t upset me in the least, Hughey. Think of me as your teacher grading your work. You received a F for the sludge you posted, and then you’re whining and insinuating I may have down ticked you. If anyone sounded upset, it was you about two 2 downticks, you ignorant clown. The only prize you’ll get is a clown suit.
A clown suit? Aren’t I lucky! 🙂
Very lucky.
The language is prize enough, Hugh.
This is the sort of interaction that makes the blog worth visiting.
Now all that remains is jelly wrestling. Go to fellas! 😀
Hang on. I’m still trying to get into my boob tube.
Remember folks it’s always jihad first.
Fascinating that Burka’s efforts to recruit muslim voters are being undermined by so called extremist muslims who consider the Australian government ‘shirk’ while raking in welfare, ndis, child care and other taxpayer funded benefits.
Why are they here?
(Mauritania still has many people without electricity or running water, many black Mauritanians are kept as slaves.)
https://www.memri.org/reports/economic-jihad-mauritanian-tribes-donate-millions-hamas
This is Catturd’s pinned comment today. I don’t know when he put it up, but there’re already over 2,000 comments. I haven’t been through all of them but, my goodness it’s horrifying.
@catturd2
How many of you know someone who had major health issues after getting the COVID vaccine?
Tell your story here –
I got an outbreak of pimples after taking the vaccine.
I got covid.
I tried really really hard to get ‘Covid’ (prolonged homevisits and car rides with those afflicted) but the best I could do was scratch up a ‘positive test’ after multiple tries.
Perhaps I shoulda taken the vax?
You should call things by their right name.
What you got was AIDS.
And it wasn’t from a vaccine.
It was from getting jabbed up the freckle.
🙂
I posted this clip from Dr. John Campbell on vitamin D late last night so many might have missed it. It deserves a wider view so I’m reposting it. Only 14 min.
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: The 4th circuit has officially CLEARED THE WAY for Elon Musk and DOGE to continue operating in USAID
MASSIVE WIN to start the weekend
DOGE can now start digging deeper into USAID to expose past and present corruption.
This is a bad day to be a bad guy in USAID!
They’re out of their minds.
Five Senate Democrats Head to Gitmo to Protest Detention of Tren de Aragua Terrorists and Killers – But Don’t Give a D*mn About Americans’ Safety
These Democrats are the same people who would now be engaged in lawfare with conservatives and Trump supporters and locking them up had they won the election.
@EricLDaugh
State Department is OFFICIALLY shuttering USAID.
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Illegal migrant influencer Leonel Moreno has been deported
Judge Who Upheld Block Of Trump’s Deportation Flights Is A Major Dem Donor
The issue now is Judge Roberts and his position to deny President Trump’s ability to run the agenda he was elected to perform.
If Roberts and the Supreme Court now rule in favour of the Judicial Revolt, can the rest of the Supreme Court do a vote of no confidence in the Chief Justice?
There are not enough on the right to do just that.
Which leaves President Trump where?
@RepBrandonGill
Here is NPR’s CEO @krmaher at our hearing a couple days ago.
That’s a look of unadulterated contempt for the taxpayers who pay for her gravy train.
I suppose Grok being the top of the food chain is really saying the quiet part out loud.
TwitterX is just the information gatherer.
Imagine if Google/Alphabet had been this honest 20 years ago.
Legislation/regulation would look a lot different.
@DefiyantlyFree
Here is a list of billionaires who are exclusively contributing to the Democratic Party:
– George Soros
– Michael Bloomberg
– Reid Hoffman
– Hansjorg Weiss
– Tom Steyer
– Sam Bankman – Fried
– JB Pritzker
– Marc Benioff
– Neil Blum
– Mark Cuban
– Laurene Powell Jobs
– Bill Gates
Here is the list that have contributed to Republicans in the last year:
– Elon Musk
– Zuckerberg
– Bezos
Oh yes, be afraid of the oligarchs, but not the ones on the right. The ones on the left who have been systemically funneling all of their money through 501(c)(4)s that have been purchasing elections by destroying election integrity measures across the country, investing in insane ballot measures, and overall funneling $2 billion worth of dark money per election cycle.
Please tell me some more about oligarchy Bernie Sanders, from one of your 4 mansions no less.
Oh and please fact check me.
Fact check you?
Bankman- Fried is in jail for fraud.
So the massive donations to the Democratic Party was a waste!
The same people who say how much of a loss Elon booked today are the same kind of people who cheer on a SpaceX rocket exploding.
They will be very quiet when xAI does it’s next raise.
Just like they were conspicuously quiet when SpaceX brought the stranded astronauts home.
And played down the dolphins. Any other time…
Trouble is he’s going to skate into power on “standing up” to the US. Worse than Trudeau.
@BreitbartNews
Unelected Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares Special Relationship with U.S. “Over”
@bruce_barrett
Ontario Dairy Farmer FORCED to dump 30,000 litres of milk because he went over quota.
I assume this overproduction is the reason for Canada’s 200% tariff on milk imported from the USA?
Funny how since Trump started to apply tariffs that the dirty secret of “free trade ” is coming out. Ie that it was never free.
Prop up the price through tariffs and minimum prices and you have to have quotas.
stick something in one part of a market, and something pokes out another side. It needs to be hammered back in, then another bit pokes up.
Shocking bodycam footage shows NJ Mayor Gina LaPlaca staggering while arrested for allegedly driving drunk with toddler in car
@LauraLoomer
Many people are wondering why there are calls to fire @PeteHegseth but no calls to fire @MikeWaltz47.
There is an active OPP taking place, and it involves Chinese Alex Wong and Senator Tom Cotton, who has been plotting to take @PeteHegseth’s job.
Tom Cotton has been gunning for a role in the Trump admin for a long time and if you recall, the mainstream media ran an entire shadow influence campaign to pitch Cotton as DOD Secretary before the 2024 election.
Alex Wong is not only Mike Waltz’s Deputy National Security Advisor, but he also served as the Foreign policy advisor for Tom Cotton from 2015-2017.
It was Tom Cotton who referred Wong to Waltz.
Tom Cotton knows he’s getting primaried, so he wants to be the DOD Secretary after being passed over for the job. He was initially rumored to be a top contender to be CIA Director or DOD Secretary.
Cotton is so thirsty to be DOD Secretary, even though he said he wasn’t, and now, it appears that he is even having Never Trumpers like @BillKristol do his bidding for him.
Did you know that Bill Kristol’s son Joseph Kristol @JoeKristol was appointed as Tom Cotton’s @SenTomCotton legislative Director during the first Trump admin?
2 days ago, @BillKristol tweeted that @SecDef Hegseth would be Fired by President Trump by today, and then he floated Cotton to be Hegseth’s replacement.
Alex Wong was on the Signal chat, he is Mike Waltz’s deputy and he was sent to Waltz by Cotton.
This all appears very coordinated.
Ask yourself why Tom Cotton would hire the son of one of the most anti-Trump individuals to be his LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR and why he referred his Chinese foreign policy advisor to go work for the NSC?
I hope Hegseth has his head on a swivel.
Receipts
As usual, the AEC is busy enabling the big steal, routine in recent times.
Not only encouraging (left leaning) postal votes, using left aligned Computershare to sequester postal votes without opportunity for scrutineering, but now massively overprinting ballot papers.
They proudly advertise in their press kit that they have printed 55 Million Ballot Papers!
That’s around 4 per voter.
Only a small fraction of the excess is needed to sway key marginals, and with this embarrassingly large effort, even the most diligent scrutineering effort will not be able to keep track of 40 million spare ballots.
Even UN Election Monitors wouldn’t swallow this fraud.
There’s two ballot papers per person, one for the Reps and one for the Senate and there needs to be extra for when people make mistakes and request another ballot.
Some advice from my experience last election. Make sure the AEC employee initials both ballot papers. I filled out my ballot for the Reps and realised it hadn’t been initialled, which would have made it an invalid vote had I put it into the box.
I doubt the majority of “counters” are so efficient/dedicated as to check for “initials” …. My opinion of folk employed on the Saturday “vote” gravy train is it’s a few bob extra “lurk’ without much effort needed ..
Oddly enough, I doubt I’ll get mine before I leave Australia on the 17th.
Already printed, you say? Then bloody well post them out!
The ballots won’t have been printed at this stage because candidate nominations wouldn’t have closed yet, they usually close around a week after the election is called.
It’s likely, probably certain in some communities, that many postal voters act under direction from others. The famed Aussie secret ballot is no more.
They have to provide for out of electorate voting with paper based forms. Required by the act.
Are they accounted for after?
The Kennedy assassination isn’t history — it’s a warning
Of course.
Elon Musk torches Democrats for being ‘real villains’ of Tesla vandalism, blames left-wing propaganda
Napolitano to Newsmax: Guardian Says MI6 Involved in Signal Flap
And boasberg involved again.
Along with Eisen and Brock lodging a lawsuit a few hours later. It was an op. The swine judge was randomly selected again too. All pure coincidence.
Breaking news
Albo announces aid to Thailand post earthquake to be called the Rebuild & Transform package (R&T for short).
Albo refers to his long and storied history with the Thai community in Marrickville.
‘Tug and Rub’ Politics.
Everything the Liars touch has to have some communist undertone. “Rebuild & Transform”. He probably thinks it sounds like “Glorious Five-year Plan”.
Looking for some more “Handsome Boy” praise.
Where’s the money coming from?
The good Dr Carney (for a doctor he is) is getting some scrutiny over his PhD.
Imagine if the BoE had a top dog who cheated on his homework.
Oh the shame of it.
It’ now 9am and a dull, overcast, windless morning. Three states on the eastern seaboard (Qld, NSW and Vic) have been running at around 80% coal-powered energy for the past two hours. All those turbines and solar panels producing a piddling amount. More of them would make no difference as there’s nothing to power them. SA only has its lights on because it uses small amount of energy (a quarter of the energy used by Vic) and bolsters it system with gas (this morning up to 40%) or imports energy from Vic (coal-fueled).The difference between Dutton’s policy and Albo’s is that the lights will stay on under Dutton but not under Albo.
They physical light maybe, not so much the psychological one.
Special place in hell for these enabler teachers.
Middle School Girls FORCED To Undress In Front Of Biological Male
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwiWm4vm-nM
FMD. Trannies are sick fuks.
Tranny enablers are worse.
Trannies would be in a world of pain every time they poked their filthy heads into a kiddies loo.
The enablers are their protection and enforcers.
Kill the enablers.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a mass shooting of a school board by an enraged father – or mother.
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though “middle school girls forced to undress” should be enough to get the pitchforks out.
As we approach Easter I find this article interesting.
Pew Research: Most Christians raised in the faith hold onto it in adulthood
The following countries had retention rates between 57% and 61%: Canada, Germany, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden.
A large majority of the people in these countries who abandoned the Christian faith no longer identify with any religion at all. Only a small percentage switched to a different religion.
The video “When The British Began to HATE” from the Black Pigeon Speaks channel discusses the perceived decline of the United Kingdom across various sectors, emphasizing economic stagnation, healthcare system failures, and social issues. Key points include: 1. **Economic Decline**: The UK is experiencing prolonged economic stagnation, with certain regions becoming poorer than some Eastern European areas. 2. **Healthcare System Struggles**: The NHS is described as underfunded and overburdened by an aging population and immigration, contrasting with Japan’s more effective healthcare model. 3. **Anarcho-Tyranny and Justice System**: The video criticizes the UK’s “anarcho-tyranny,” where law enforcement and legal systems, influenced by a managerial state, allegedly fail to manage true criminal activity while excessively policing speech. 4. **Free Speech and Social Tensions**: The video argues for absolute free speech to address societal issues and criticizes Britain’s two-tier justice system, highlighting cases of disproportionate legal consequences. 5. **Proposed Solutions**: To address these challenges, the video suggests devolving power to local communities, enforcing standardized sentencing, and implementing free speech laws to combat the alleged societal decline. The commentary is intertwined with a sponsored promotion of health supplements.
This popped up in my YT feed The Missing Billion exposing China’s true population https://www.youtube.com/live/aFbMWq-xvXU?feature=shared
Her thesis is that China’s real population is actually 300-400 million. She explains how she arrived at this number China was never over 1 billion to begin with – based on the last post WW2 nationalist census then applying published fertility rates arriving at a figure of some 800 – 900 million.
Followed by massive Covid death toll and abnormal death rates since ( blaming the Chinese vaccine,) the comments are interesting, another if her videos talks about the bird flu death toll. She mentions salt imports have halved since 2019 as an external data point.
Out of curiosity, and to see if she is not a swivel eyed loon, I watched a few other of her videos . She is making a case that Xi is loosing power and the PLA is making a move in several other videos backed up by news stories – hands up if you knew Blackrock purchased 43 Chinese ports.
Another video talks about BYD and she suggests it will be the next Evergrande. This video includes a snippet comparing the build quality if the byd vs Tesla, by a Chinese mechanic in China ( brave!). Again comments are most interesting ( especially from Aussie body shop – parts takes months, arrive damaged or badly made, sensors impossible to recalibrate). https://youtu.be/p8hZjZ7TkYo?feature=shared
Could all be total BS , but interesting theses that would explain much about China’s post covid “recovery”.
Thanks Diogenes- this is the sort of slantwise perspective I come to the Cat looking for.
…that, and the recipes
The Blackrock port deal is off, due to the CCP monstering CK Hutchinson.
Panama Canal Deal Derailed After Beijing Launches Antitrust Probe (29 Mar)
Interesting where this goes, since Trump is adamant that the canal ports must be removed from Chinese control. The Blackrock deal was a good compromise, but apparently the Chinese government wants to keep that control.
Expect a visit from the Marines.
China is behaving like a recalcitrant teenager who has just had the ‘grounded’ order applied.
A normal teenager cops the punishment, China is doubling down.
Not only is that stupid, it’s dangerous.
I missed it the first couple of times, but in watching some of her videos she often references the Falun Gong founder.
Make of that what you will.
Caught a fleeting glimpse on the internet. Turns out it’s the title of WW1 novel by John Buchan who to judge by this get up may not be welcome in the People’s Republic.
This is my trade paperback of Greenmantle- needless to say it looks like the sort of all-in boys-own fun that you’re just not allowed to have any more.
Bring Back Biggles!
The video discusses the relationship between Islam and evolutionary psychology, featuring Professor Edward Dutton. Main points explored include: 1. **Evolutionary Psychology and Intelligence**: Dutton discusses how evolutionary psychology examines the development of the human mind, emphasizing that many psychological traits, including intelligence, have strong genetic components. 2. **Islam and Ethnocentrism**: Dutton posits that Islam as a religion can sometimes increase ethnocentrism and reduce intelligence due to a focus on group selection and religious conformity, rather than individual intellectual advancement. 3. **Caste System and Intelligence in India**: The conversation explores the Indian caste system’s impact on intelligence and societal structure. The system is seen as contributing to maintaining high intelligence levels among certain groups due to endogamous marriage practices. 4. **Western Decline and the Rise of Conservatism**: The discussion touches on the decline of intelligence in the West, linked to demographic and societal changes, and suggests this could lead to a resurgence of more conservative, ethnocentric values. 5. **Future of Civilization and India’s Role**: The dialogue suggests that as the West becomes more decadent and individualistic, the center of civilization’s intellectual and cultural leadership could shift to India due to its ongoing adherence to traditional and ethnocentric values. The conversation reflects on global trends of intelligence, innovation, and demographic changes, exploring both the potential decline of Western societies and the rise of more conservative movements worldwide, including in India.
Dutton posits that Islam as a religion can sometimes increase ethnocentrism and reduce intelligence due to a focus on group selection …..
and thus cousin marriage
India could raise it’s average IQ levels in two generations by forbidding cousin marriage.
They won’t do that because Cousin Marriage gives the Brahmin Caste a massive pool of low IQ wukka drones who believe any shit they are told.
Lmao
Dover: Get off your “LMAO” stop laughing and consider something else instead of batting for the klepto all the time.
You do realize that, despite the terms appearing “harsher,” *US mining firms would still be paying some royalties and taxes after a period. Plus, exploiting those assets would mean jobs for locals.
Would you agree that this deal differs from the Russian one, which involves an outright invasion and seizing everything in its path for itself? Or perhaps not?
If you’d bothered to give it some thought, the deal isn’t actually that bad for Ukraine. No commercial mining company would even consider investing a cent in those mining operations without some protective cover from the U.S. Perhaps this type of arrangement could encourage some to take a risky plunge.
*US refers to U.S. mining firms, not the U.S. government.
This is a terrible deal. The US encouraged UKR to gamble and now it wants to buy the house at discount rate because UKR is desperate for cash. We’re supposed to think this is a good deal because the US will let them sleep in the loft above the garage.
It’s just terrible because it’s the US, and every second comment of yours has an anti-American bias. Meanwhile, your guy invaded the place, taking ownership of the areas he’s invaded. That’s a far better idea then, according to you. Just invade your neighbor and steal what you want.
Those reserves stuck in the ground are worth nothing unless they’re exploited, and the idea that an outside mining company would start an operation without some blanket security is silly thinking. Would you? Would you risk your money under those conditions?
Ukraine eventually will receive taxes and royalties. Locals will get hired. Terrible idea. Shocking!
You’re right. Zelensky should haggle even harder so that the US comes back with an even harsher bid because that will be even better for locals. Maybe have them throw in all farmland. Elysium.
I know I’m right. Maybe you ought to be directing your concerns about the locals to the Kelpto – Mr 87%- who started it by invading his neighbour’s territory.
You’re still ignoring the commercial aspect of deal because you have no answer. What commercial mining operation would dare set up shop without a tripwire-like security guarantee? You?
There is no reported security guarantee. So either the proposal isn’t serious or the investment is at own risk.
In the upcoming election in The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ostraya will it be the Popular Front for the Liberation of Wombats or the Democratic Popular Peoples Front that wins the election?
The public serpent welfare immigration party will win. With help from the Proslavery unconservation party.
The Australian Electoral Commission will make sure that votes go where they are needed.
bad cattitude turns 4
and a gato turns introspective
From the London Tele-
One quarter of Brits now identify as disabled
Not much different here .. Last survey/graph was 20% of population .. Lotza OPM sugar on the table for the slightest complaint nowadayz, autism & ADHD figures ballooned once eligible for CentreLink claims & now add on the, gift that keeps on giving, NDIS … why wouldn’t you join the CentreLink queue ? ……
Self respect.
That sounds reasonably accurate.
DOGE Derangement Syndrome: Woman Arrested After Allegedly Promising to ‘Blow Everything up’ at Federal Building
Pete of Perth
Seems media is as usual concentrating on clickbait and not real news.
Bangkok has declared a level 2 disaster. You might have to consider changing destinations, Suvarnabhumi Airport is still running but that’s well out of town. Don Mueang is operating but with lots of delays. Raised motorways need engineer checks so that means the roads below them would likely be closed. If you know Bangkok traffic you know what that means. Taxi drivers are ripping off locals let along farang tourist.
Properly built condos and buildings unaffected, some of the shoddier built Chinese crap less so. Already one Thaksin Shinawatra’s name is being brought up in Chinese partnerships with the shoddier constructions and bridges.
That said Thais especially when money from visitors or businessmen is involved will move mountains to get things running at least at baseline level.
I’m getting drip fed info from txt msg and email over there. South, east and north east unaffected. North west, central and Bangkok yes.
I have family due to fly there next week, they are in they same boat as you. If I hear something like don’t come I’ll let you know as one of these people I know is an expat living round Banglamung in Chonburi province.
@GuntherEagleman
These people are batsht crazy.
There was no sound. What exactly was happening?
@elonmusk
@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).
Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale.
X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth.
xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach. The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.
I would like to recognize the hardcore dedication of everyone at xAI and X that has brought us to this point. This is just the beginning.
Thank you for your continued partnership and support.
Noami Wolf somewhat redeemed her Clinton past with her well understood objections to the mRNA vaccines, enough to suggest a level of objectivity.
The following Substack article of hers makes some interesting points regarding Musk’s DOGE activities, making some (perhaps false) assumptions on lack of NDAs and other protections, and their potential consequences.
For me though, Musk’s warnings about AI have been ignored by himself by conflating AI dangers with the human subjectiveness of leftist AI. But even without purposeful bias, human fallibility cannot be guaranteed not to leach into any AI creation. And Musk has already flagged his own fallibility, unintentionally.
DOGE is committed to government efficiency, which is great, except that efficiency has a trade-off with accuracy, as does accuracy with efficiency. Does AI know this? If Musk gives efficiency primacy, it will adversely affect accuracy. What are the real word consequences of that?
The Sack of Rome: Elon Musk’s Digital Coup
Musk is executing his engineering methodology. Remove parts until you need to put some back. If you don’t need to do that, you didn’t remove enough. Musk actually said that mistakes will inevitably be made but they will fix them.
Well, that’s the positive view. If it was done at arm’s length then I don’t see an issue, but it’s a big if. The bigger issue is running government through AI. We rightly detest it’s use in weeding out callers who has legitimate questions that require human accountability, but on steroids accountability could disappear altogether.
I heard a similar analogy for Kurt Tank (FW190 designer) vs Willy Messerschmidt (Me 109 designer):
When something failed in the FW 190, they strengthened it, when something failed in the Me 109, they lightened all the other parts 😉
I much prefer Kurt Tanks engineering philosophy.
With Willy, the Me 109 – after the G model, had nothing more to lighten. With the K model, it was just a mess, unable to be improved and engineered into a dead end but German war production was locked into their production line.
By the time the late Me 109 G and the K models arrived it was clear the small airframe could not accomodate the greater power and armament demanded.
Why keep building them?
Being an Elon fanboi I’m going to see things a little differently. Elon has real world experience, the likes of Wolfe will never have. He has done things more accurately, efficiently and so much cheaper than just about anyone else for a hundred years. Wolfe is another mutley, writing about stuff they’ll never do, nor have ever done. Just opinion based on feelz.
Well obviously you didn’t read it because she addresses that. There’s a lot of what-ifs but they are pertinent questions when it comes to AI.
What if’s are a reason to do nothing. Ask someone a series of 10 binary questions, they’ll either arrive at a satisfactory result that is more than likely to be positive. Give them the same questions at once and they’ll get it wrong. To much information confuses people. This is based purely on my own experience. I’ve had a successful career being right about most things I’ve been involved with. AI is only a tool. It will never be a decision maker. She appears to be pissed not being in the loop. I don’t recall her being upset about successive demonrat administrations demonstratively misusing government data against conservatives. She’s pissed because using AI the fraud has been exposed so quickly. Did she actually think someone was going to read paper copy. When the government has your data, you no longer own it, it is not proprietry.
The Bee
Greenland Furiously Making Snowballs In Preparation For American Military Invasion
It’s funny, because it’s True! 😀
Starmer and Macron Become Obstacles to Peace, as the British and French Leaders Adopt Condescending Tone Towards Trump Administration, Pretend To Teach Them How To Deal With Putin
I saw a video the other day, may have been linked from the last OT. Britain & France are recalibrating the peacekeeping idea as their respective militaries tell the pollies they can’t physically support such a thing without US assistance. While other European leaders are publicly beating their chests, behind the scenes they are saying no.
The commentator said they were prepared to fight to the last Pole.
Fight to the last Pole? Europe has been there before, around 85 years ago.
There’ll be no Churchill bashing around here, mate.
Churchill wasn’t the PM at either the time of Munich, or in September 1939.
Sure, but he led the political faction that sought confrontation in Munich and particularly later in ’39. Chamberlain’s pivot to provide a security guarantee in early ’39 to Poland wouldn’t have happened absent that background. And with no hope, plan, or intention of actually supporting Poland if war eventuated.
He wasn’t PM.
To repeat what I said above, he led the political faction that sought confrontation
Oh the sneering, strategy. Always works. 🙂
So it was the faction that caused the little corporal to go nuts across Europe and then Russia.?
I think it was me, but can’t recall. Just after the time you went all “Cooperist”, a response from Victor Hanson was linked here for your benefit. Did you watch it or is Hanson too much of a GAE’ist for your liking.
Not sure how the above amounts to sneering.
At the time, even the British largely thought German claims re Danzig were reasonable. So what did providing Poland a security guarantee in late March actually achieve? They could do nothing about it and neither did they try. Same as the French. All this did was allow the Poles to ignore German overtures re Danzig. The Germans were entirely focussed on reclaiming their lost territories, which they largely already achieved, and with the Soviet Union in the East.
lol. A few months after the Munich agreement and after the Sudetenland concession, the Nazis occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia, proving that Hitler’s promises were worthless.
Well, along with Hungary and Poland. But that still leaves you with the pointlessness of the security guarantees of France and Britain. If Hitler’s promises were worthless, what of their promises of direct assistance that never materialised and never had any hope of doing so?
The Judge Boasberg/Ray Epps connection should scare every American…
If nothing else Trump has to nail boasberg; he personifies the corrupt, activist judiciary.
This is the sort of thing I alluded to prev. Trump and associates should have been prepared for this onslaught by the judiciary and have affective countermeasures in place to cut them off in the bud.
Doesn’t seem to be the case. Fighting a rearguard action is always troublesome, tied up in courts with uncertain outcome is not a good prospect.
I reserve my objectivity for this reason. The moment someone becomes beyond reproach, failure is inevitable.
He can be impeached. It’s now only a matter of will.
Needs two-thirds in the Senate. Which ain’t going to happen.
It’d be better to get the DoJ to investigate him thoroughly. He has so many conflicts of interest that he’s probably broken the law.
Evil, corrupt POS.
The Hillary Clinton Political Comeback Begins TODAY!
Europe- effete and nihilistic
Pearl clutching at The Guardian:
May I suggest the Guardianistas lead the way to the brave new world by going without heating this winter.
Great painting: a maiden in the garden. Those were the days.
From the last thread muddy had a go at the lessor of 2 evils justification for holding your nose and voting for the lnp. Muddy said both parties had to be exterminated or words to that effect so a pure political Phoenix would rise from their ashes.
My reply:
What a bunch of bullshit. High and mighty, rarefied gobsmuckle.
What are you going to do nit wit: draw a duck’s face on your ballot. Vote for any of the minors with no preferences so your vote dies, or preference so your vote ends up with one of the majors.
This snotty, both parties are beneath me attitude only harms the conservative side. The left are tribalised and toe the company line. Rugged head up arse individualism like this nonsense destroys the conservative side of politics where the it’s my way or the highway and my pure views must prevail undermine defeating the left.
It also completely misreads and misunderstands the punters who run a mile from fanatical sprout like this. The left camouflage their fanaticism behind soft lies but mind dead saints like you insist on shoving your honest brutal take on reality in their faces with the result they will avoid you like the plague you are.
If anyone wants to spoil their vote….I’ll have it. Please.
Is “soil” near enough?
Yes, we’ll keep voting for the lesser evil. We’ve been doing that and have wound up with evil.
This just demonstrates the democracy is more than the ballot box. Free speech and accountability are FAR BIGGER democratic cornerstones than the ballot box, a once in few years bad set of choices.
Under compulsory preferential voting your choice is largely cock & balls or Tweeledum or TweedleDee. The Liberals are always preferable to the Liars so receive my 3rd or 4th preference.
While I acknowledge the appeal, I am not standing in line to engage in primary school level artwork. Others may take a different view.
Which means you voted for them, bear.
Not good.
Just go the illustration, for goodness’ sake.
Agree. Dutton is not Trumble and can be nudged. Of course you have to vote for the lesser evil. Holding out for some imagined ideal gubmint sometime in the future is stupid beyond belief. Just think Blaney gold mine, Tas salmon, barramundi and stone top kitchens. I repeat- stupid beyond belief.
I’m not a Qlder (think a lot about becoming one though) and I had no great hopes for Crissafoolie but I wanted Miles gone. How sweet it was. Saturday night at Ingham watching his TV tantie.
I don’t care how anyone votes so long as they put liars,greens and teals at the bottom of the ticket.
I just shake my head at the fractured conservative / libertarian vote. PHON, Family First, TOP (UAP), KAP and whatever other parties of that nature just don’t have the critical mass to get numbers anywhere.
I’d just about settle for control of the Senate.
As with Labor, the Coalition’s long term primary vote is in decline (we’ll see if that changes come 3rd May).
Those ex-LNP voters are looking for an alternative.
USAID is gone:
Appeals court backs Musk, Trump in fight over shutting down USAID headquarters – Washington Times
The 3 Appeal judges, one a Trump appointee, one a Bush and the 3rd from Clinton made the simple observation that Elon is not in charge but following Trump and Rubio’s orders. The original corrupt judge did not make that distinction.
Hopefully this runs through all the other TROs.
Logically and under precedent it should, but leftard judges only follow precedent when it is convenient.
From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Sympathizers – PJ Media
I usd to think Tim Kaine was the most repulsive, but Waltz outdoes the grub. Geez Minnesota is fuked. Timmy turd comes from Minnesota too.
Times might be tougher than I thought.
A group of friends are planning a picnic this week outside the SCG when Andre Bocelli is performing.
They got the idea from the people hanging outside the Taylor Swift gigs.
And these people are not poor.
It’s actually not a terrible strategy.
I’ve mentioned this before here, it’s always amusing to look at the webcam on the Olympic Tower in Munich when there’s a concert on in the stadium and seeing the hundreds of picnickers on the hill overlooking the stadium. I had a look at Google Street View from the top of the hill and, although trees obscure the stage, they can probably see the big screens.
What do make of his stance on tariffs?On one hand the valuations, esp that of tech stocks, have been frothy. The policy uncertainty that he introduces is a bit unsettling.
I am not sure what to think of his policy re Tik Tok? He used to be in the shut it down camp and now it looks like he wants it to survive. Why the change of heart? He hasn’t explained the change in stance.
I’ve been wondering the same, vr.
From a claim I read a while back before the election, there’s an American billionaire investor in TikTok who is also a major financial supporter of Trump. Maybe there’s a bit of that going on.
On another note, the problem is that bank stocks fell sharply again today, and I believe that’s one of the better indicators for the broader macroeconomic picture. PCE came in at 2.8%, which suggests two things: the Fed isn’t going to ease policy anytime soon, and tariffs could actually worsen inflation rates while slowing down the economy. That’s stagflation. He needs to get his fat arse moving and deliver on the deregulation and tax cuts he promised before it’s too late.
That’s the worry. He needs to do more in elaborating his tariff stance. If he can’t, it needs to be delegated to someone more eloquent. It’s not about his minions putting out memes. This is serious.
The Greenland thing is just bonkers.
Saw a liberal party stooge trying to hand out fliers in my local area. He was copping a serve from one of the rustedon local Labor voters as I went past.
Honestly at this point I’m not really interested in engaging with any of the spruikers. It’s the same as any correspondence with my MP’s (as far as I can tell, it’s ignored. Not even a thanks for taking the time to write). It changes absolutely nothing.
Just look at immigration. My entire lifetime it’s polled as being too much, and yet here we are with massive immigration every year.
D.C. Cardinal Slams Trump’s Migration Reforms as ‘Crusade’
no wonder people don’t go to church anymore. just stfu
The Vatican City mini-state receives no unauthorised immigrants and maintains one of the strictest border protocols in the world.
They make my stomach churn. Luther really had a point.
He had a few points, actually.
😀
But he nailed the papacy.
“Nailed”…get it?
chuckle
Don’t give up your day job
Aw…I thought it was quite good.
Must admit I’ve haven’t been afforded the courtesy of a reply from pollimuppets’ offices since the 80s.
Emails are easy to send and easy to ignore.
They’re quite happy to ignore letters too.
yeah – Howard’s office ignored one from me in the late 80s.
It should be amusing since it exposes the utter stupidity of leftoids but there’s so many of these cock-eyed snivelers: 26 minutes of leftoids keying Teslas and committing other terrorist acts and getting caught:
Tesla Vandals Caught In The FUNNIEST WAYS!
Topher explains how you don’t have to make a choice of the lessor evil between SFlnp and the liars: the uniparty. Simple: put both last and reduce the base vote of the uniparty, while primary voting for all the good minority parties! Topher, like all idealists grossly exaggerates the interest and intelligence of the punters:
Aussies VS the Uniparty – This is how we WIN. Topher Project Ep 040
He is wrong about lower house voting.
Very, very wrong.
For the 2nd time in 3 weeks I live on a Queensland Island.
Huey! You can stop now!
Count your blessings.
People pay a fortune for waterfront views.
😀
You referring to that great global warming soothsayer Flannery?
Oh God.
Dr Jill had a big part in the Hidden presidency, no concerns mentioned them.
No concerns about Hunter either.
I bet he was privy to highly classified information.
Which he then traded for benefits
One assumes the “multiple people present” did not make their objections known?
Because Hiden did it, doesn’t make it better. Official meetings are no place for spouses or children.
I agree.
His wife has an appropriate security clearance; and as far as I know isn’t making $millions from Pete’s connections.
After the complete corruption and bullshit of the corpse’s reign all ignored by the shit msm, it comes as no surprise the same msm is making up any bullshit it can about Trump’s team.
Don’t be gullible head prefect.
You’d take your spouse or girlfriend to a client meeting?
It’s inappropriate.
My wife used to work for me.
Pete used to work for his missus.
She has a security clearance and can take shorthand.
Not the same thing.
Of course it’s not. I’m much better looking than Pete.
It also makes her a security risk, clearance or otherwise she’s now a target for espionage.
Or more to the point, scandalous and scabrous media lies and bullshit.
How secretive was it, when they are publishing photos of the meeting?
From the Oz.
Ben Roberts-Smith’s former mistress is the mystery witness whose secretly recorded conversation with investigative journalist Nick McKenzie has sparked an 11th-hour bid by the war veteran to reopen his defamation appeal against the Nine newspapers.
Roberts-Smith, in an interlocutory application, claims there was a miscarriage of justice in his failed defamation case against The Canberra Times, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in light of new revelations McKenzie had allegedly obtained information relating to his legal strategy during trial.
The Federal Court has responded quickly to Roberts-Smith’s application, with Justice Nye Perram – one of three judges who reserved their decision on the appeal in February last year – calling a case management hearing for Monday to “discuss the parties’ perspectives” on how to address the issues.
The shock intervention comes after Sky News Australia on Monday published a recording of McKenzie in which he appears to tell Roberts-Smith’s former mistress – identified during the defamation trial as Person 17 – that he had access to part of the soldier’s legal strategy during the case.
In the recording, McKenzie tells the woman that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife, Emma Roberts, and her friend, Danielle Scott, had been “actively briefing us on his legal strategy” in respect to her.
“I’ve just breached my f..king ethics … This has put me in a shit position now,” he said.
Ha, what ethics: these reporters and the Judge oversaw a gross injustice.
Jeez I hate the FMIC.
I hope BRS wins. BIG.
You just can’t trust former mistresses. What is the world coming to?
Wong goes west in hope of another Labor winThe starter’s gun has been fired on Anthony Albanese’s fight to keep his WA seats this Federal election, with senior minister Penny Wong flying west to start campaigning.
Senator Wong was in Piara Waters, to kickstart Matt Keogh’s campaign in Burt – one of several Labor seats Mr Albanese must retain if he is two win a second term of government.
In 2022, WA delivered Mr Albanese a majority government.
With polling showing this election race will be tight, Mr Albanese must also retain the Liberal seats won in WA three years ago – Swan, Hasluck and Pearce.
Labor is also hopeful of winning the new Federal seat of Bullwinkel, which is nominally Labor.
Penny Wong in Western Australia to urge Sandgropers to vote Labor..
Wearing her keffiyeh?
Tells you something about the quality of this Labor government that she’s regarded as one of their better performers and hence is out on the hustings.
Labor strategists are probably assuming West Australian sheep farmers won’t throw things at a lady..
She ain’t no lady.
Subtle, Zulu.
That Wong chap isn’t a lady
Bullwinkel. The wong chap should feel quite at home there.
The Liars clearly worried about WA. Not sure kd will help. (S)he’s not on the red leather for no reason.
Nuclear War in Space: the GOLDEN DOME Satellite Constellation
I would suggest that my Uber driver this morning was one of Albo’s Palli terrorists.
Saeed had virtually no English and couldn’t operate a GPS. He was constantly mumbling into his headset and obviously receiving instructions. I asked him where he was from but got a “no Engleeeesh” reply.
I imagine that a license was optional.
Uber must offer limitless dodgy employment opportunities for our valued ‘skilled migrants’.
Google Maps has helped when you get the driver’s “cousin”.
Pissing it down all morning here in Meanjin. None of that seemed to bother the 20-odd sodden protesters standing outside the Tesla dealership in the Valley.
Dedicated.
And ignored.
Dr F,
photos of the morons would have been welcome here. 😀
Well, not quite Baz.
Remembering there would be two ballot papers per voter (Reps and Senate), not allowing for some spoilage.
They don’t know where or when people will turn up to vote.
Imagine the Palmer-Outrage if they ran out of ballot papers or were moving boxes of papers from one booth to another on the day?
These activist judges (spit) going after Trump are real pieces of work. This bitch for instance:
Notorious J6 Jailer Plays Victim
looks as venomous as she is- they really hate America and Americans
She is close buddies with Boasberg who is just as bad.
How surprising.
Mark Steyn has long been openly and utterly scathing of the “corrupt” Washington D.C. judges in particular.
Look how scared and ashamed they look when a young Aussie asks them real questions about our runaway mass migration and their population replacement program;
https://x.com/NoticerNews/status/1905838188649648608
Who let him in?
They won’t let that happen again.
Albo’s face and eye movements said it all. “How dare this little nothing guy upset my media moment.” I reckon they will retreat to staged shots with selected friendly audiences pretty soon? None of them have experience out on the hustings facing a hostile public. The public sniff blood.
Indeed. You feel baseball bats will be out. While not confident, the Lieborals might be OK with a half decent campaign.
Universities have a lot to answer for BIRM. Pullulating heaps of marxist hate.
And canbra is like a big uni campus
You really can’t help but hate them. By their actions they show they hate everything that is dear to you. Vile, spiteful campus radicals that act for foreign interests while growing rich on the taxpayer dime. I know the type. Lots in canbra – pubes as well as pollimuppetts.
Quite valid questions. And that shows you that there is no more Free Speech.
I hope we see a lot more of this in the campaign. Dutton’s message that Luigi is “weak” comes through loud and clear in scenes like this.
Ex-Labor voter?
No idea.
Haw!!!
I especially liked the shotgun axe. Cool.
Absolute admiration.
Private contractor v government employee.
Synagogues in this city, across Australia and across the West are all now decked out like Fort Knox.
This morning I woke up, looked outside and pondered the inclement weather however I was determined to go to shul to hear Kaddish and then attend the communal lunch. As always Shul was wonderful and the lunch was super, Dave Sharma was the guest speaker. After such occasions I usually feel really good and this good feeling puts me in good store for the weekend however that nice feeing quickly evaporated by the following. As I approached the security exit doors to leave the synagogue the two security men at the exit were looking at their security screens and they told me and the others leaving that there were now police at the front and back of the synagogue and we are being advised to avoid walking along Park Street towards Town Hall because there was a pro-Pallie protest march full of rabid Nazi leftist and Muslim scum. Sure enough, I walked onto Park Street to go and get the bus on Elizabeth Street and whole sections of Park Street and Elizabeth Streets had been cordoned off by police to allow the protest but to keep the Nazi scum far away from the synagogue.
It’s such a wonderful country we live in now.
I’ve been to the Great Synagogue Cassie and was made to feel very welcome.
Regarding what you described- the cowardly, pissie hypocrisy just leaves me speechless. How dare canbra import violent thugs.
As I’ve said before, people have been murdered by canbra imports. The Pelligrini coffee guy in Melbourne, the couple in Brisbane (in the their own home), the Lindt cafe victims. Why is the miserable commonwealth abomination in canbra not liable for this?
Staggering to hear so many on here jump to the AEC’s defence.
If the AEC affecting the outcome of elections is not in your threat model, you must be a crypto-statist.
How else do you explain their relentless drive to take elections electronic. We’ve seen the catastrophic cheating that Diebold has enabled in the US.
The AEC need to be challenged and audited constantly and publicly, because the path they are on is diabolical.
The only reason for electronic elections is to enable cheating.
The AEC is not and cannot be independent. We have to assume that every part of the State involved in elections is compromised.
Paper ballots and fingers dipped in ink, along with vigorous scrutineering by all sides will lead to fair elections. There is no other way.
And photo ID.
I wasn’t defending the AEC, just pointing out that you’re an idiot. You forgot that every voter gets two ballot papers.
That said, I agree that the AEC needs to be carefully watched.
Diogenes stay safe, I see thunderstorms are the culprit this time.
We had our first real sunny day in ages.
Then the storms were building this arvo which fortunately kept inland. I was busy doing uni joints on one of the cars that started tinging at me every time the clutch took up the engine power after we got home from Victoria.
Thanks Rockdoctor. The rains have now cleared away and we now have a flood free exit. Our across the road neighbour looks out over the creek to the rear of the village. The creek is only about 10mm below the post Alfred flooding level
Remember the pubic serpent while away on a ‘work’ trip that was injured during wild sex? The commonwealth was liable for that. As it was for the fat filth that collapsed the bike. Rotten, evil city. A truly disgusting place in so many ways.
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Looking at some of today’s earlier posts, there appears to be some paranoia about ‘upthumbs’ and ‘downthumbs’.
And that the ups and downs can be orchestrated.
Oh dear.
Went out for dinner in Naarrrm last evening and, because road traffic is a shit-show in Naarrrm, I travelled by trolley-bus.
On the way across town to dinner a woman had a not so perky titty hanging out, feeding her offspring. When they arrived at their stop the kid jumped off her lap and hopped down the steps of the trolley-bus unaided. Had to be well over two years old. I think if the kid can walk and talk, it’s titty milk cut off time.
On the return journey there was an enormous woman sitting near me with a tattoo of a folding, collapsible chair on her arm.
Strange tattoo I thought.
Then it occurred to me. It was probably like a WW2 RAF pilot stencilling vanquished Messerschmitts on his Spitfire.
Although I can’t believe she’s only destroyed one folding chair.
Did you eat mushrooms by any chance?
Bewbs are no good when they are in use.
Trump Delivers Ultimatum to Iran & Rejects Putin’s Offer for the Ukraine –
“President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, seeking a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and replace the agreement that Trump withdrew America from during his first term in office. The letter essentially gave the choice to negotiate or he would take military action. The deadline was 2 months, which puts us square into May, which the computer has been targeting for the past year.”
Trump has said: “We have a situation with Iran that something’s going to happen very soon. Very, very soon.” He added: “Hopefully we can have a peace deal, … I’m not speaking out of strength or weakness. I’m just saying I’d rather see a peace deal than the other. But the other will solve the problem.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/geopolitical/trump-delivers-ultimatum-to-iran-rejects-putins-offer-for-the-uraine/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
It’s pretty clear Ben Roberts-Smith was brought undone by a toxic and possibly illegal cabal involving his ex-wife, her friend, his ex-mistress and a very very grubby and unethical Nine journalist. Whilst defamation cases are always risky, I always had a niggling feeling that there was something very smelly about the judgment against Roberts-Smith.
It’s the actions of the former Mrs Robert-Smith I find particularly egregious, as she has two children by her ex-husband. A classier woman, even if she harboured severe animosity towards her ex, would consider her children by this man but clearly Mrs Roberts-Smith was and is only bent on revenge…..one wonders if she ever thought of how her children would handle the defamation court’s verdict that her husband was likely a war criminal.
I know someone whose ex-husband was involved in a major scandal, and for days this woman had journalists hounding her for more shmuts on the man. She flatly refused to speak to any of the MSM because as she said to friends….’Whilst I personally don’t have much good to say about the man he is the father of my children, and I’m not going to further blot the man’s character and prejudice their relationship with him.
But she was a much classier woman than the ex-Mrs Robert-Smith.
Part of that cabal is a number of those who are jealous that Ben Roberts -Smith was decorated, and they were not.
I agree, Cassie. This all smacks of a hell hath no fury vendetta.
He’s no saint. I don’t expect the guys who do the rotten jobs to be saints.
I also believe there’s a degree of jealousy from those who consider themselves passed over for his prestigious award.
For Valour
Who knew it would come at such a price?
Right. When you fight fire with fire, don’t ask for all the Geneva claptrap that is not appropriate in a theatre where nobody wears uniform and are essentially guerillas.
I don’t expect soldiers to be saints – I expect them to be effective.
I read Top Ender’s Lethality in Combat and appreciate that summary treatment of bad guys is the historic norm.
I expressed my support of our blokes even if they had exceeded their brief, to a soldier I know. I think he just spent a year workshopping the troopies on the demand for higher standards that came out of this case.
He disagreed with my view.
Early in the piece, but Sportsbet has:
One would imagine that, behind the curtains, the whole ALP machine loathes Albanese and his passion fingers.
TAB has minority gubment (either party) @ $1.30
It’s a long way out and at this stage the betting agencies are encouraging skin ($’s) in the game. When things close in the odds will shorten.
Confirmed. The public service has harassed me all last year, just low level & very low IQ compliance stuff, however it kept me from concentrating on running the business.
Crisafulli’s election should have ended it (similar harassment disappeared * poof * like magic when Campbell Newman was elected)
Nope, a few weeks after Christwhatafool became Premier, the public service commenced outright over the top regulatory overreach, more like persecution & hounding – such that no amount of initiatives to assist small/medium business will be able to compensate for.
No way that in a few weeks time I’d even consider voting LNP. They’ve done too much damage.
I went into bat for him here a number of times when he was stalking Freckless for the leader. Especially as I though Mander was just as useless.
Despite the tough on crime no respite for NQ as well. Some round town asking already has any teens actually bee tried as an adult yet? I know one that should be front and centre is the Cains rape. Yet that’s gone dead.
Townsville City Council and our stolen valour mayor. Still not sacked, same with the council which is insolvent from the mail round town. We were just slugged massive increases in valuations and the disaster funding is allegedly coving the solvency issues. ‘fooli is an ex deputy mayor of this town and a lot here are wondering what skeletons are in his closet.
Lastly and I reckon Dutton would be privately pissed about the olympics dropping now. Don’t be surprised this spills into the Federal election, I found a study done by ISPOS in Oct 23 that in SEQ they are viewed favourably by 38%, mostly hovering about 40%. Also the so called independent infrastructure board has 2 maaates from his Townsville City Council days.
Problem is at a federal level Phil Thompson is an awesome member.
Candidates for the seat of Longman (Qld) and MS’s voting preferences whist holding his nose:
LNP (sitting) …….. 2
Liebor …………….. 3
Greenslimecommunistscum ……. 4
Family First ………. 1
Appalling lack of choice but there you have it ….
Politics has given me the sh*ts today…realised I was angry about everything. Abalone, SFLs, the USA, the UK and all stops in between.
And it’s raining so the garden is out of bounds except for the ducks.
So I stitched myself two linen blouses, cloned from something nice I bought in Naples last year. Much better than grinding my teeth over the state of the world.
A productive day, despite all the swirling lunatics.
Very sensible. I’m with the Buddhists on this, it’s caring about things that’s stressful. The trick is to not give a fying fluck about the vast number of nasty numbskulls that infest the place. Once you stop caring about things, you can return to sanity and happiness.
If Australia is going to let albo get back in, then the people deserve all they’re undoubtedly going to get
Sometimes a nice cup of tea helps.
And manual work is very soothing. Or so they tell me.
It’s rare but I’m with Nietzsche on this…
Buddhism is nihilistic.
The Stoics, otoh, were on to something.
Yes, Marcus Aurelius – not a philosopher’s stoic but on that track. Here’s a paraphrase of his contemplations –
‘don’t let things upset you’.
No, Buddhism is a set of recipes for not being miserable. Gautama’s first truth was that suffering is widespread, and his next truths were on how to avoid it.
He stated that killing living creatures, stealing, and telling lies deformed you and made being happy impossible. It’s a better argument for moral behaviour than pleasing God.
Mother reveals why she gave birth to her 10th child at 66Rachel Paula Abrahamson and Digital StaffNBC
March 28, 2025 11:20AM
TopicsLifestyle
A 66-year-old woman in Germany gave birth to her 10th child on March 19.
Alexandra Hildebrandt, the mother, tells TODAY.com that she did not use fertility drugs, and had no difficulty conceiving.
The baby, a boy named Philipp, was delivered through a cesarean section at Charité Hospital in Berlin. Hildebrandt says he weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and was “healthy”.
Philipp joins his siblings: Svitlana, 46; Artiom, 36; Elisabeth, 12; Maximilian, 12; Alexandra, 10; Leopold, 8; Anna, 7; Maria, 4; Katharina, 2.
Why did Hildebrandt want a 10th child?
“A big family is not only something wonderful, but above all, it is important for raising children properly,” Hildebrant, who is the director of Berlin’s popular Checkpoint Charlie Museum, writes in an email to TODAY.
Asked if friends and family were concerned about her having a child at her age, Hildebrandt replied, “I have only received positive feedback.”
Hildebrandt has welcomed eight children since turning 53, The Berliner reports. All of these pregnancies have come during her second marriage to former CDU politician Daniel Dormann.
In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Hildebrandt shared that she doesn’t smoke or drink, and has never used contraceptives.
“I eat very healthily, swim regularly for an hour, walk for two hours,” she said.
Hildebrandt’s OB/GYN, Dr. Wolfgang Henrich, told the publication that it was a “largely uncomplicated pregnancy.”
Dr. Brian Levine, a practice director at New York City’s fertility clinic CCRM, tells TODAY.com that the biological likelihood of 66-year-old conceiving without medical intervention is “incredibly low”.
Definitely a bullsh*t story.
Never underestimate a country that inspects its own stools.
Doesn’t necessarily mean bullshit, Pogria.
One of my patients in a small country town really liked being pregnant – she had 13 children.
Again, it cause me great anguish to have to say this, but Cronkite is right.
I think it was JFK who said, “If you don’t vote because you don’t want anything to do with dirty politics, you’ve got more to do with dirty politics than you think”.
If you lean conservative and are going to vote 1 Cocknballs Party, you are effectively giving a free kick to a Liars/Greens voter.
Then you’ll complain for three years that you ended up with a Lydia Thorpe type MP in your electorate.
Correct.
JFK would have known in many ways. Agree with you absolutely.
Cock & balls in anger, repent in leisure.
As a citizen you don’t get much. The right to re-enter the country (subject to health regulations) and your vote. That’s about it.
What’s wrong with this country in a nutshell.
This advice can be taken a step further: even Albanese Tumescent would be a significantly less appalling outcome than Chalmers/Plibersek rolling around in a puddle of policy poo with Green and Teal hands up their fundaments.
The only hope there would be a rump of Labor MP’s and Senators discovering something approaching integrity.
So not much.
I sometimes bemoan the low employment of lamp-posts and helicopter doors for improving the quality of politicians.
Then I reflect that I don’t want to live in a country where that is the norm.
I have found that uncongenial.
yes handing back the reins of power to Anal- talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Doing it to SloMo gave us Abalone in the first place.
correct
Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and do it. This is no argument for returning Abalone in any capacity.
The baseball bat deserves an outing occasionally.
It’s more about getting rid of Anal and the worst gubmint in the history of this great country than electing Dutton as far as I am concerned.
I just don’t see Australia surviving a Labor/Greens coalition.
Nor do I to be honest
I’m not sure it’ll survive a Liberal government, despite the occasional positive muttering from Dutton.
Lot of ruin in a country. Look at Victoriastan.
Look at Sydney- consider Bankstown. Have a look at the FJ Holden on youtube. I wasn’t a bad place then. Wrecked by canbra.
Bankstown square was our local mall in the 70s. The FJ Holden movie captures it perfectly in late 76 early 77. Went back last September. Completely unrecognisable.
Alas, Victoriastan is underwritten by the Commonwealth.
But his old mum!! Tears tears. Living as a house. Tears tears. What a sleekit bag of sh$t.
And many voted 1 Clivenballs Party and look what we ended up with….the demented push pig from Tasmania.
It is always astonishing why so many seem to believe Clive Palmer’s bilge.
The man is in politics purely for revenge over the LNP. He expected the newly elected Campbell Newman to table in parliament a Bill written by his lawyers to exempt his businesses from the approval processes every other business has to apply for. The last of the White Shoe Brigade.
i take it as a good tell that anyone supporting Clive is a rather ill informed idiot.
So has anyone asked Palmer what happened to the UAP? I actually thought about joining but joining was actually too easy if you know what I mean.
Last night, Nelson_Kidd recommended the following John Anderson Youtube discussion……
Islam Examined | Dr. Mark Durie and Dr. Richard Shumack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GDH3GLY8o&t=1434s
I highly recommend taking the time to listen to it. Both Durie and Shumack are scholars on Islam.
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claims NBC allegedly has been withholding a video that shows Lee Harvey Oswald near John F. Kennedy’s limo at the time of the shooting, seeming to conclude he was not the assassin.
@buitengebieden
Nobody’s gonna know..
I’ll cop flak for this. Introduce Lions into Australia.
Start at the TOP END ….enough wild pigs to keep their stomachs full for a hundred years. They can also keep the buffalo in check!
When they venture further south, they can start taking out the horses which are wreaking havoc.
Kangaroos would have a laugh ….no chance you are catching me!
No abo should be allowed to touch them if we did it.
The Last Lion | The Lion Whisperer
That’s even better than introducing polar bears to Antarctica.
I think you have a mistake.
” No Aboriginal should be allowed to be touched by them”.
There are still some real ones out there.
To alleviate Sancho’s great anguish in admitting I’m right here is a cute owl: and since we’re in an election race I thought a horse should be involved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHrDVJJplQ
ok that gives me excuse to put up some more Jane Birkin!
pete of perth,
if you are lurking.
Bangkok is still accepting tourists. Movement from airport to the city is very controlled due to taxi scams.
Thai Army is running busses to wherever the suburb of Bangkok people are staying. There are no taxis or private cars allowed at present.
Thanks.
Paywallian comments – one from three. Normal service has resumed.
The J-school graduates who now populate all of our news organisations see themselves as revolutionaries who aim to replace democracy with rule by experts they approve — because ordinary people are too stupid to be allowed to vote.
In other words, 99% of modern journalists loathe their audience.
That’s why 99% of the Paywallian audience can’t get reader comments published unless they are approved by the revolutionaries on the paper’s staff.
I haven’t submitted a reader comment to the Paywallian for years because doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
Comments about the media along these lines never fare well.
And I have refused to continue to subscribe for the same reason.
Exclusive: Chinese Leader Xi’s Power Weakened After Suffering Stroke
China in Focus – NTD
?01:23 Exclusive: Xi Faces Mortal Opposition Within the Regime
05:52 Report: China’s Xi Holds $1B in Assets Through Relatives
10:48 House Passes Bill to Scrutinize Money From China
11:58 US to Reestablish Defense in the Indo-Pacific
14:05 FBI Warns About Vulnerability at Northern Border
21:11 Doctor Awarded for Exposing CCP Forced Organ Harvesting
Not that I imagine anyone here is going to see it, but an acid review is worth a read:
Snow White (PG)
109 minutes
In cinemas
One star out of five
Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad. This latest Disney adaptation represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust.
When Snow White star Rachel Zegler, during a now notorious Vanity Fair interview, dismissed the Disney original as a politically retrograde “85-year-old cartoon”, she was merely echoing the same clueless company vandals who had, in previous reboots, made Cruella soppy, Mulan sexless and Maleficent misunderstood.
Tangling with the 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is different, though. The movie was the pre-eminent Disney property, the first animated American feature, and the one that set the tone. Its dismissal has thus oddly mythic implications, like a line crossed, or the end of an era.
And so this Snow White, cooked up by The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb and umpteen screenwriters (including Greta Gerwig and Jez Butterworth) through a near decade’s development, emerges as the epitome of Disney’s Pravda-like approach to contemporary adaptation – prescriptive politics first, followed by “inspirational” messaging, followed by more politics. Drama? Story? Character? Nope. These are, it seems, decadent tools of the oppressor.
The film begins with the announcement that Snow White was named after the winter storm raging the night she was born and not because, as the original claimed (quoting the Brothers Grimm and clearly causing huge offence), her “skin was white as snow”. We soon discover that Snow White will not sing the repellent heteronormative ballad Someday My Prince Will Come. In its place is a song called Waiting on a Wish about how Snow White just wants “to start speaking with a fearless heart’’. Sick bags are not supplied with each ticket.
When Snow White flees to the forest to escape the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot) she encounters our “Seven Dwarfs”. These are photorealistic computer-generated versions of the animated characters, only no one here deploys the potentially problematic “D” word.
Gadot attempts to vamp it up as the Queen, but she has none of the alienated eroticism that Angelina Jolie brought to Maleficent, or even the vocal fury that Lucille La Verne applied to the original role, 88 years ago. It’s hard not to see this as anything other than a crisis point for Disney, a studio that used to make flawless cinematic stories but now infantilises audiences with sanctimonious life lessons culled from the corpses of its murdered movies. Still, who doesn’t love to speak with a fearless heart?
The Times
Interestingly Jobs refused to work with Disney after eating their lunch with Dreamworks.
Woke => stupid
Destruction of art is a big part of the agenda. As you would expect from commies.
I am still trying to get over that article being in The Times.
A close friend just messaged me asking why Albo has been photographed wearing a white tie? I hadn’t noticed. Has anyone else seen this?
No, but while watching Escape to the Country he appeared in an ad wearing an oversized suit jacket & spitting all over the place.
He makes Peter Dutton look prime ministerial.
The last thing the NT needs is yet another member of the animal kingdom that will kill us on sight.
The introduced lions can go to Perth, and survive on the iced-up half-English derros infesting that particular CBD
No, they need to be released at canbra, preferably at parliament when it is sitting. Sportsbetting on the first to be chomped, the first to poo itself, etc.
That reminds me of the old story of The King, the Mice, and the Cheese.
Cats – compulsory preferential lower house voting means if you cast a legitimate vote, it goes to the unipardee or the greenfilth.
Don’t be a legitimate lower house voter – ‘orrible stupid people, the worst.
Yes, but you can have the satisfaction of denying the uniparty their $3.25 per primary vote or whatever the rate is these days.
It sends a message to their hip pocket, if nothing else.
Meanwhile, the primary votes of the ALP & LNP keep falling into “we can’t form government” territory.
With a bit of luck we’ll end up like Italy come the mid-century.
Sacré bleu, signor! 😕
Mama Mia!
Federal election 2025: Michaelia Cash makes combative pitch for Peter Dutton, slamming Anthony AlbaneseJohn FlintThe West Australian
Sat, 29 March 2025 3:57PM
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John Flint
WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash didn’t pull punches in her opening broadside of the election campaign, accusing Anthony Albanese of leading the most anti-mining and anti-WA government “we have ever seen”.
By the end of her 20-minute appearance, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate was in need of the glass of water handed to her by staff at Frasers Restaurant in Kings Park on Saturday.
Speaking just outside the restaurant, under sweltering midday sun, Ms Cash tore into Mr Albanese and on no fewer than eight occasion said WA voters faced a “clear choice” on May 3 between a second Albanese Government and a starkly different one led by Peter Dutton.
She said a Dutton Government would reduce inflation by “reining in excessive government spending”.
Under questioning by The Sunday Times, she said this would partially be achieved by winding back the number of public servants, but said there would be no wholescale axing of government departments, as is occurring under the Trump administration in the United States.
“Absolutely not. Peter has made it clear, and we have made this commitment to the Australian people: we will protect front line services.
“But more than that, we want to see an efficient public service . . . It is quite frankly unacceptable that Mr Albanese has now added 41,000 public servants to our public service at a massive cost to the Australian people, and yet, when they go into a government department, and in particular the Department of Social Services, their processing times have now gone substantially backwards.
“So our guarantee to the Australian people is this: a more efficient public service that puts you at the heart of it and delivers a better service to you.”
Senator Cash also took aim at widespread projections of a minority government.
“Mr Albanese will not be able to form a majority government at the next election. That is very clear. So what could end up happening is, in particular, Western Australia’s worst nightmare, and that is Mr Albanese governing and being told what to do by the Australian Greens and the Teals,” she said.
“Those Teals who have voted with the Australian Greens on the majority of occasions, they hate Western Australia. They hate our mining industry … We cannot risk the prosperity of our great state by putting Labor and the Greens anything other than at the bottom of those ballot papers.”
Who needs Bronny these days?
topher – you numpty – very, very bad advice is purveyed by you in your latest video, squire … 😡
Today’s The Five on Fox News (via Foxtel) once again illustrated why having Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford sit in as token leftists (aka Dem apologists) is a waste of time and money.
It doesn’t enhance the show. It might, if the other four savaged them as much as they deserve, but no, it doesn’t happen that much or as incisively as it should. Why have them on? we already know the talking points since they are emailed to all the fellow travelers in the media – including many here in Australia – and we really do not need more b/s and fake news from them.
I like The Five apart from that. I like the Big Weekend Show, which runs for two hours on Sunday (East Australia Time) with four very good people on the panel, and no craven apologist leftists.
Harold’s OK. I just can’t stand Jessica’s voice.
They have both spent years defending the democrats including every terrible thing they did, as well as covering up for Joe the puppet.
Some simple questions, Cats:
Have they earned my vote?
Will they attempt to stop the real time destruction of this stupid, stupid country?
Are they opposed to mass immigration?
Are they in favour of lower taxes, mass deregulation and free speech?
Do they not have their heads enthusiastically inserted into the house sized bottomages of WEF globalists?
If they do, youse would be voting for them, I tells ya! 🙂
F-22 at Avalon.
Let forever be, Cats!
Ambrose Bierce, in his Devil’s Dictionary, gives as an example a man who says “I was enjoying my dinner in the library…” upon which which his clearly scandalised interlocutor interjects “You were eating in the library?” The first speaker clarifies “No. I had eaten some time before. I was just enjoying it in the library.”
That is precisely how I feel now.
i have just eaten some confit duck and drunk a German Spatburgunder (one of their Pinot Noirs).
Well, I am enjoying my dinner on the sofa…
I would have used a plate instead of a sofa.
Surge in Durable Goods Demand Signals Strong Trump Economy.
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The Only Building to Collapse in Bangkok’s Earthquake Was Built by China
ONE WORLD, ONE TOFU-DREG!!
It was fascinating watching the swaying tall buildings emptying their rooftop pools onto the streets below.
This is a seriously top idea, Cats.
But we should go the full African 120 degree safari experience:
Elephants
Hippos
Giraffes
Wildebeests
Rhinos
Panthers
Meerkats
Tiggers
Cheetahs
Chimps
Gorillas
Hyenas
Honey Badgers
Servals
Mongeese
Pangolins
Aardvarks
Gazelles
Vultures
It needs to happen. 🙂
No armadillos?
One is too many, Squire.
Aardvarks?
No, we already have enough Africans thanks
I think bringing many more of the beautiful Joburg girls would make Oz a better country.
“No One Wants Her”: Dementia Joe’s Aides Warned Donors That Replacing Joe With Heels Up Harris Would Be a Disaster
You mean, sniffy Joe was not a disaster? So it was all a planned destruction of US society?
@WallStreetApes
WOAH
Former Director of the CIA John Brennan “issued the Visas to 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers”
AGAIN: 15 out of the 19 Visas issued to the 9/11 hijackers were issued by the man who would become Director of the CIA
– John Brennan was the CIA daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton
– In 1996, he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
– John Brennan issued passports to 9/11 hijackers
– John Brennan becomes Director of the CIA
What are the odds???
There are conflicting claims about whether the arsehole converted to Islam or not.
Good riddance
@yashar
BREAKING
The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned.
Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.:
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
@amuse
UKRAINE: Zelensky has rejected Trump’s proposal outright. He refuses the minerals deal, does not consider U.S. military aid a debt, and will not enter into direct negotiations with Putin.
The little ponce has to go.
Alternatively just let it play out without our participation.
Victor Davis Hanson: How Donald Trump is Reshaping America in Just 7 Weeks
Kennedy: Congress can help DOGE cut waste
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21507/nuclear-iran-no-time-left
That’s the nightmare scenario I’ve spoken of before.
Iran builds 6 Nuclear weapons.
It detonates two in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
It tells the US and Europe it will destroy 4 major cities if they help Israel.
IOW – Tel Aviv for New York
Berlin – for Jerusalem.
Paris – for the hell of it.
Washington – just because.
Not one Western Leader will have the guts to tell Moscow and Peking that it will nuke them if Iran dares to carry out its threats.
Israel will just say ‘Fuggit’ and hit everyone.
Russia and China have just given a madman the means to destroy the planet if they help Iran get nukes.
What’s the likely yield of these nukes? The two to be used in Israel, are they air bursts or ground bursts? What exactly is the plan if the US/ NATO are successfully cowed?
Operation Samson/Masada.
I mean Iran’s plan. I’m trying to gauge this scenario.
The Twelfth Imam.
Hmm.
Dr. John Campbell
Vaccine long term effects
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Keeley – what a Star …
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It looks like the obvious damage in Bangkok is a 30 story 30% completed building that collapsed, a walkway between buidings that detached and a crane that collapsed with the driver ejected (who fell to his death).
The building consortium involved includes a multi national company that has had quality problems plus the Chinese and seems to have been struggling to get the work done. It also has a peculiar arrangement for certification.
It most likely is substandard building practices due to cost cutting or, less likely, the design engineers didn’t account for the vibration modes in a partially built building. It looks like the building pancaked down from the top so you would suspect the actual build is at fault.
Usually the design engineers in Thailand overdesign over and above the usual margins to account for any shortcuts in the building process.
Bangkok is built on the Chao Praya River floodplain so is particularly sensitive to an earthquake, especially a strong one.
Elsewhere in Thailand the damage seems to be limited.
Given the flood plain location, size and high rise nature of Bangkok it looks like the building quality of the high rises is reasonably good.
Seen and heard same HD.
From a Thai, THB2000mil cost now gone and 2 years over expected finish date too. At $US 60mil someone was making a killing.
Yes and the obligatory Chinese involvement.
People I know and got info off, live in Chonburi and didn’t feel the quake. Chonburi unlike the Bangkok area is on rock though.
Apparently the MRT red line is back in action in BKK. Songkran is in 2 weeks, major tourist attraction so my take is they’ll be pretty quick to reopen things.
I found an analysis this arvo that there’s an intra plate fault called the 3 Pagodas Fault (Can only think after the border crossing near Kanchanaburi) that caused the issue in BKK. Earthquake in Burma though was apparently pretty shallow on the Sunda plate boundary. That may change though as more becomes known from the Geo’s looking at it.
As usual it’s music time.
For my Saturday Night concert contributions this evening I have tried to stick to a theme: ATTACK OF THE CLONES.
All the music videos I’m going to suggest were sung by identical twins – female and good looking of course.
We’ll start with blonde Norwegian twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, more famously known as The Harp Twins. They actually live in Illinois but we won’t hold that against them. For one of their original tunes I’d suggest “LIGHT ELVES Ljósálfar” but they wear full length dresses in that video. Instead I’ll link to a video with some more figure-hugging costumes, heheh. Try their cover of Guns n’ Roses song Sweet Child Of Mine [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPj3hLNYls ].
Their STAR WARS Medley isn’t too bad either.
Federal election 2025: Security questions after extremist gatecrasher disrupts PM campaign event
False flag operation, anyone?
In the second instalment of Attack of The Clones we sample the musical delights of young Spanish twins Paula and Aitana, who dance and sing under the band name Twin Melody. They can also sing in French and English.
I thought their nicest song was “SUAVEMENTE”.
Instead I’ll link to a collaboration they did with another artist entitled “ALGUIEN COMO TÚ” [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEf-FUfwEUg ] because the ladies briefly appear in two-piece bikinis in this music video.
In the third episode of Attack of The Clones we have a tune which was briefly a top 10 hit in the UK. The Cheeky Girls are a Romanian singing duo consisting of identical twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia.
The Cheeky Girls – Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfODYOp41ww ].
In keeping with the cheeky theme the music video heavily features short shorts and hot pants modelled by the slim Romanians.
Some of the lyrics are these days a recipe for an assault charge, but apparently back in the year 2002 the progressive left hadn’t outlawed heterosexuality yet.
This concludes Attack Of The Clones.
Cats – a certain brunette bimbage renditioning one of my favourite songs … 🙂
Rockdoctor,
In Kamphaeng Phet they felt the quake but no reports of any significant damage. Reports from Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai also noticed it but no major dramas so far.
I saw some videos of seiching in klongs which you would expect but no reports of damage to the big dams. If the big one at Tak gives way there will be a significant problems downstream all the way to Bangkok.
I’d wager the dams will be pretty solid (touches wood). Rama IX was pivotal in it’s commission along with a lot of other engineering.
The level of respect I have seen for that King I’d say no short cuts would have allowed to have been taken and it would be pretty well built.
I don’t know much about that area but my trips to Chiang Mai & Chiang Rai the lithology was mainly granitic in composition. That makes strong foundations for dams.
One can hope anyway as I’m planning my next trip back to that part of the world later in the year.
Once you leave, boy, you cannot return … 😕
Threat of voice ‘lies’ haunting campaign
From the Oz. Anybody able to post this article? I can’t make any sense of it.
Here it is
Senior figures in the defeated push for an Indigenous voice to parliament have vowed to fight back against what they claim will be “lies” in the federal election, signalling a bitter campaign on Aboriginal affairs in the weeks ahead.
Uluru Youth co-chairs Bridget Cama and Allira Davis say lies about the Indigenous voice were repeated until people believed they were true and that strategy remains available to politicians and interest groups as Australians prepare to weigh up the Indigenous affairs policies of the major parties.
So far, Coalition Indigenous affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has said a Dutton government will prioritise an audit of all government spending on Indigenous affairs. Labor has made jobs and economic development its post-voice Indigenous affairs policy.
“The research is clear. Lies were one of the key reasons ‘No’ was successful. The data does not lie,” Ms Cama told The Australian.
“The conditions that allowed the lies to dictate the public debate remain.
“Most Australians walked into the ballot box disinformed (on the day of the voice referendum in 2023).
“What we want to ensure is that the Australian public is aware of the deliberate deceiving tactics that will be at play this federal election.”
Ms Cama, a Wiradjuri and Pasifika Fijian woman from Lithgow, NSW, and Ms Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman from Logan, Queensland, described the strategies used on social media during the voice campaign as scary and unethical.
They discuss misinformation and disinformation in a podcast about the voice, singling out Senator Nampijinpa Price for a social media post they claim distracted people from the point of the voice.
In that post on October 12, 2023 – two days before the referendum – Senator Nampijinpa Price said: “I voted no to grievance. I voted no to division. I voted no to separatism. I voted no to enshrining welfare dependency. I voted no to name calling, bullying, manipulation and gaslighting. I voted no because I want to fix the system that hasn’t been working instead of adding to it. I want an Australia where we can respect one another and be treated equally. Only when we are together and we serve Australians on the basis of need, not race, will we see better outcomes.”
‘The research is clear. Lies were one of the key reasons “No” was successful. The data does not lie’
Ms Cama and Ms Davis say in their podcast, High Society, that the post created distraction from what the voice was about.
“(It was) disappointing because it took what was supposed to be a really important issue, where we could have respectful conversations, into like a really toxic environment,” Ms Cama said.
Staunch supporters of an Indigenous voice in the Constitution continue to work towards a form of constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, though both sides of politics have now moved away from a rights-based approach to Indigenous policy. The “practical reconciliation” approach favoured by John Howard is common ground for both sides of politics even though their approaches vary.
Ms Cama and Ms Davis said that at the beginning of the voice campaign they saw incorrect information online and in the news as “an opportunity to get out there and actually educate people”.
“But then pretty soon we came to realise that it was actually deliberately being put out there,” Ms Davis said.
Both said they understood how Australians got confused during the voice campaign.
“And a big part of that was misinformation. But I think more notably the role of disinformation, and even post-referendum (is important),” Ms Cama said.
“We’re hearing people, you know, continually refer to it as just misinformation, which I think needs more analysis on it, because we actually know that it was disinformation, like it was deliberate and it was manipulative, and the purpose of it was to deceive the Australian people so that they voted no because they felt like they didn’t know what the proposal was about. And change is scary. And that campaign particularly drew on that fear and used it to their advantage.”
Ms Davis said: “And I just think it’s scary to see even like the election coming up, how visible it’s going to be throughout media.”
The Central Land Council, the Northern Territory’s biggest land council, on Friday laid out its priorities for the election. CLC chief executive Les Turner said the more than 20,000 Aboriginal people living remotely in Central Australia wanted the major parties to commit to further cost-of-living relief out bush by extending Labor’s capped price promise on 30 essential food items. This should be at all remote stores, and the remote area allowance should be increased as soon as possible, Mr Turner said.
“The allowance, just $9.10 per week for a single person, hasn’t increased for 25 years. A significant boost would compensate residents of very remote communities for the sky-high costs of food, furniture, clothing and transport. It would also make travel for medical appointments and cheaper groceries more affordable for the poorest Australians,” he said.
“The next government needs to extend funding for upgrades of drinking water infrastructure in our remote communities so our families can continue to survive and thrive on their land.
“Forty-six out of 73 of our remote communities are at high risk for water insecurity, in nine the risk is very high, and in five it’s extreme. In the absence of NT government investment in essential water infrastructure, this crisis needs to be addressed through the National Water Grid.
“We’ll work with whoever forms the next federal government and we’ll ask them to hold the Territory government to account for delivering effective cyclical housing maintenance and repairs of its severely degraded housing stock under the Remote Housing Partnership Agreement.
“They must stop the construction of unliveable hot boxes and design new houses that are fit for a steadily heating climate.
“Three thousand new remote community jobs across Australia are welcome but will not make much of an impact on the high jobseeker rate in Territory communities. We’re calling on all parties to commit to lifting the number of real jobs and to get serious about the reform of the community development program.”
They’ll go blind.
It’s misinformation to listen to exactly what they were saying?
The only thing you needed to do to vote No was to look at race relations in America.
What were the lies? These ladies fail to articulate any.
Threat of voice ‘lies’ haunting campaignPaige Taylor
Senior figures in the defeated push for an Indigenous voice to parliament have vowed to fight back against what they claim will be “lies” in the federal election, signalling a bitter campaign on Aboriginal affairs in the weeks ahead.
Uluru Youth co-chairs Bridget Cama and Allira Davis say lies about the Indigenous voice were repeated until people believed they were true and that strategy remains available to politicians and interest groups as Australians prepare to weigh up the Indigenous affairs policies of the major parties.
So far, Coalition Indigenous affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has said a Dutton government will prioritise an audit of all government spending on Indigenous affairs. Labor has made jobs and economic development its post-voice Indigenous affairs policy.
“The research is clear. Lies were one of the key reasons ‘No’ was successful. The data does not lie,” Ms Cama told The Australian.
“The conditions that allowed the lies to dictate the public debate remain.
“Most Australians walked into the ballot box disinformed (on the day of the voice referendum in 2023).
“What we want to ensure is that the Australian public is aware of the deliberate deceiving tactics that will be at play this federal election.”
Ms Cama, a Wiradjuri and Pasifika Fijian woman from Lithgow, NSW, and Ms Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman from Logan, Queensland, described the strategies used on social media during the voice campaign as scary and unethical.
They discuss misinformation and disinformation in a podcast about the voice, singling out Senator Nampijinpa Price for a social media post they claim distracted people from the point of the voice.
In that post on October 12, 2023 – two days before the referendum – Senator Nampijinpa Price said: “I voted no to grievance. I voted no to division. I voted no to separatism. I voted no to enshrining welfare dependency. I voted no to name calling, bullying, manipulation and gaslighting. I voted no because I want to fix the system that hasn’t been working instead of adding to it. I want an Australia where we can respect one another and be treated equally. Only when we are together and we serve Australians on the basis of need, not race, will we see better outcomes.”
Ms Cama and Ms Davis say in their podcast, High Society, that the post created distraction from what the voice was about.
“(It was) disappointing because it took what was supposed to be a really important issue, where we could have respectful conversations, into like a really toxic environment,” Ms Cama said.
Staunch supporters of an Indigenous voice in the Constitution continue to work towards a form of constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, though both sides of politics have now moved away from a rights-based approach to Indigenous policy. The “practical reconciliation” approach favoured by John Howard is common ground for both sides of politics even though their approaches vary.
Ms Cama and Ms Davis said that at the beginning of the voice campaign they saw incorrect information online and in the news as “an opportunity to get out there and actually educate people”.
“But then pretty soon we came to realise that it was actually deliberately being put out there,” Ms Davis said.
Both said they understood how Australians got confused during the voice campaign.
“And a big part of that was misinformation. But I think more notably the role of disinformation, and even post-referendum (is important),” Ms Cama said.
“We’re hearing people, you know, continually refer to it as just misinformation, which I think needs more analysis on it, because we actually know that it was disinformation, like it was deliberate and it was manipulative, and the purpose of it was to deceive the Australian people so that they voted no because they felt like they didn’t know what the proposal was about. And change is scary. And that campaign particularly drew on that fear and used it to their advantage.”
Ms Davis said: “And I just think it’s scary to see even like the election coming up, how visible it’s going to be throughout media.”
The Central Land Council, the Northern Territory’s biggest land council, on Friday laid out its priorities for the election. CLC chief executive Les Turner said the more than 20,000 Aboriginal people living remotely in Central Australia wanted the major parties to commit to further cost-of-living relief out bush by extending Labor’s capped price promise on 30 essential food items. This should be at all remote stores, and the remote area allowance should be increased as soon as possible, Mr Turner said.
“The allowance, just $9.10 per week for a single person, hasn’t increased for 25 years. A significant boost would compensate residents of very remote communities for the sky-high costs of food, furniture, clothing and transport. It would also make travel for medical appointments and cheaper groceries more affordable for the poorest Australians,” he said.
“The next government needs to extend funding for upgrades of drinking water infrastructure in our remote communities so our families can continue to survive and thrive on their land.
“Forty-six out of 73 of our remote communities are at high risk for water insecurity, in nine the risk is very high, and in five it’s extreme. In the absence of NT government investment in essential water infrastructure, this crisis needs to be addressed through the National Water Grid.
“We’ll work with whoever forms the next federal government and we’ll ask them to hold the Territory government to account for delivering effective cyclical housing maintenance and repairs of its severely degraded housing stock under the Remote Housing Partnership Agreement.
“They must stop the construction of unliveable hot boxes and design new houses that are fit for a steadily heating climate.
“Three thousand new remote community jobs across Australia are welcome but will not make much of an impact on the high jobseeker rate in Territory communities. We’re calling on all parties to commit to lifting the number of real jobs and to get serious about the reform of the community development program.”
People voted no because they understood exactly the agenda. It’s the young Cama and Davis who are suffering from misinformation.
Yet they never set out the ‘misinformation’ and refute it. Just empty rhetoric.
The first video reminds me of bathing in my childhood.
Music. Some will say this is trash. Fair enough.
If you are driving your car, watching the speedo, switch over to legacy radio for a song you have heard a gazzlion times before that could make you slow down.
This will make you hit the throttle.
CJ Bolland – The Prophet (Original Mix)
The next time your bank interrogates you about why you wish to withdraw your own money
… this is what you say
“It’s for anal bleaching treatment” is my preferred reason. If asked.
He’s been watching a lot of O’Reilly’s back catalogue.
All you need to know about Snow White : The Karening.
To all accounts, a multimillion dollar company with rocks in its head was rammed down the s-bend by the social media clout of a “Ladina” lookalike and Peter Dinklage.
…very, very funny is the realization that 99.9% of their target market- ie young kids, and their mothers and probably even grandmothers- have a infinitely more gripping mental image of Lord Farquad from Shrek (2001) than they do of Snow White from Snow White (1937).
Week In Pictures.
Snow White and the seven audience members
dover0beach March 29, 2025 10:23 pm
Reply to Winston Smith
Does it matter? From the lunatic Jihadi side as long as it causes mass casualties is enough.
Besides being destructive, Nukes are also a terror weapon.
Yes, it does matter. Having nuked Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and cowed the West, what then? At the moment, this scenario just looks like its based entirely on usual single premise. I asked about whether it involved air or ground bursts because the former minimises fallout while the latter maximises it. Yields, self-explanatory. Why Jerusalem and not Haifa?
Today in Too Many Bad Actors …
”over 90% of federal bureaucrats vote Democrat — even when the Democrat up for election has lost his wits and pervertedly sniffs women and children. Over 90% of mainstream news prevaricators vote Democrat — even when the Democrat party openly calls for government “fact-checkers” to censor the press. Over 90% of university professors vote Democrat — even when the Democrat party imposes “politically correct” speech codes, punishes merit, criminalizes dissent, and rewards mindless groupthink. When the bureaucracy, press, and academia are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Democrat party, why would Deep State Democrats worry about Donald Trump’s return? He’s just one man sitting atop a mountain of Democrats eager to stab him in the back (figuratively, yes, and perhaps even literally).”
However, it’s not all good news for the left. Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/a_maga_siege_of_the_democrats_deep_state.html
To which I reply: incentives matter. You would be surprised how quickly beliefs and ideology change when the income source is threatened.
If Google and other tech giants need nuclear power stations to run their data centres, how does our own dinky toy left think we are going to run a nation – including electric vehicles – without nuclear?
The Left doesn’t think.
They just emote and because they are the centre of their own personal universe, they have no concept of personal responsibility when they fukkup.
The assumption is made that external factors are responsible for the fukkupery. That’s why their first instinct is to make prisons for the ‘wreckers’ that caused their personal projects to fail.
Their second instinct is to stack the skulls in mounds or to bury them.
Mounds. No one on the left knows how to operate a backhoe or use a shovel.
To keep the lights on Abalone will just tell Australians to put their hands up.
Not for a robbery (he has already done that) but Abalone thinks that many hands make light work.
>groan<
Ha Ha ..!
Well obviously the right people will need to continue to get service. The bad thinkers can starve. Just look at the attitude of people like Monty. So long as they’re all right….
Speaking of the Gimp…
Is that Bandt? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDTdtXattk
40 quid donated.
It would be nice to see some NewCat donations.
Not allowed to complain about your kid’s school.
UK Parents Arrested for Complaining in Group Chat (29 Mar)
That’s why plod is too busy to arrest antisemitic Hamas-supporters: they have to send 6 police to detain a couple of parents all day for complaining.
I am not a history buff and don’t know the intricate details and timeline of how the Nazis introduced their regime, but looking at current day UK I am not surprised that there were so many Nazi supporters there before WWII and probably during.
What is happening is frightening but we seem to take it as normal, no outrage by the MSM.
No fighting back by the populace as it’s too dangerous.
Last time I was in County Durham (2016) the rellies were walking on eggshells, looking over their shoulders and shushing whenever the conversation got near “immigration” .. This, in a place that when I left in 1967 the non Geordie (off-white) population would have been 1 in 5000 ….
So silencing dissent has been a long while in the making ….!
Time to sue the pants off of these Keystone Cops. Trouble is, the Taxpayer always pays.
This is what is known as a Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy.
The one way helicopter flights can’t happen soon enough.
Labor commits to outlawing supermarket price gouging (after not really finding any gouging despite major review).
Supermarkets use huge amounts of electricity for refrigeration and lighting. It stands to reason that if power prices increase this adds significantly to costs and supermarkets will need to either absorb or pass these costs on to consumers. While supermarkets can absorb more cost increases than small business ultimately they need to remain profitable. They already operate on a business model requiring high turnover and small margins. “Gouging” is not common practice in a competitive environment. This whole exercise is “playing the public for stupid”. And of course the ABC is playing the lead role in promoting Labor’s “valiant” stance in standing up for consumers. Nothing will happen, just more committees and more reports. See below for link.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-29/labor-commits-to-outlawing-supermarket-price-gouging/105112494
The supermarkets need to do what the Servos tried to do and didn’t – add the electricity cost/fuel tax to the final tally.
People only complain when the costs are known to them.
And what did the ACCC just find.? Sweet F All.
governments *always* blame ‘the greedy corporations’ or ‘workers demanding unearned pay rises’ for inflation, when the real cause is loss of purchasing power due to money printing
Check out Rockdocters Pine Lime Splice Inflation Indicator above:
95% destruction of money value over ?the last 20 years.
“gouging” = trying to provide a market return on equity whilst also covering all government driven inflated operating costs
The mind boggles .. lotza gummint paid “spies” trooping thru ColesWorths trying to keep a check on the umpteen weekly price increses on goods .. LOL!
Time to stick a recyclable bamboo spork in the UK.
Question: Why was it closed?
Answer: The Chinese owners wanted it closed.
Oh. You didn’t know China owned it?
The British owners sold it and pocketed a nice little bonus.
Too bad about the wukkas in the ‘Satanic Mills’.
Too bad about the Unions who facilitated the sale.
The entire Ruling/Managerial Caste in GB are selling the country and leaving for greener pastures. They’ll leave the peasants to the tender mercies of the Muslims.
Any of the Ruling/Managerial Caste who don’t leave will announce their conversion to Islam a decade ago, and will start looking around for another 3 wives.
The best part about it all is that the muslims will do what they always have done – at the victory feast, they will slaughter all their old allies on the basis that a man who sold out his own culture will sell out theirs.
Just ask the Kurdish Mujahideen how that works.
Winnie, it was not British owned since last century. Tata, an Indian company, sold it to the choggies. It’s been in trouble forever, like most companies in the UK due to socialist and union interference. Mate of mine was some wheel at the aluminium pot line at Anglesey in North Wales. Oversaw the closing down after the price of electricity was made too high due greenscun policies. 500+ out of work. Recall the plant was relocated to the Gulf states. How did that work out for saving the planet? Nuclear powered in Wales. Diesel powered in the ME.
Does it really matter who owned it previously? The problem is that – due to government policy, ownership passed from British to foreigners hands, and the end result was that the foreigners closed down the mills so their mills get to take up the slack.
A lot more palatable than the government/Union/Green nexus closing it down.
And how much subsidies did they scam off the taxpayer before they did what they intended to do all along?
Majority of British steel production industry was all owned by the Injun bloke who just lost Whyalla not the Chicoms ……!
It makes perfect sense yet only the smart elites are not able to understand it.
Poor old Walt Disney, the man who banned Anette Funicello from exposing her belly button, must be howling in his grave.
Aaaah! .. nostalgic memories of Annette and the Mickey Mouse Club … LOL!
What happened to Annette?
@catturd2
Why are all these very young people suddenly getting turbo cancer?
experts are baffled?
Today’s Sunday Tele:
WHY YOUR CHOICE IS DUTTON OR ADAM BANDT AS NEXT PM
Peta Credlin
30 Mar 2025
Finally, it’s on – the race to decide the kind of country we will be in the decades to come. And, as voters, I don’t think we have had a more serious decision to make in years because these are unstable and challenging times, as even the Treasurer was forced to admit in his Budget speech last Tuesday. This is the election that will make or break our Australia because the choice is arrest our decline over the past three years under Labor or lock it in and accelerate it.
Peter Dutton is right: This election is a sliding doors moment. Re-elect Anthony Albanese and his green-left government and we will be poorer, weaker, and more divided: de-industrialised, thanks to an uncertain and expensive energy supply; increasingly estranged from our traditional allies; socially fractured thanks to the uncontrolled migration of people who aren’t expected to share our values; and saddled with deficits and a trillion dollars of debt.
Change the government and we still have serious challenges: How does a small economy like ours maintain resilience in a much less globalised world; how does a multiethnic society maintain social cohesion; and how do we defend ourselves as America retreats? But at least the Liberal-National Coalition has largely avoided falling under the spell of the climate cult, identity politics and the strange notion that communist China is our friend.
Most of all, Dutton is fighting to win a majority in his own right whereas his opponent can only hang on to power, at best, in a Frankenstein alliance with the Greens.
Budget week has sharpened the political contest. Labor thought it had snookered the opposition with a budget of electoral giveaways, topped off with a tax cut costing a whopping $17 billion, even though it only delivered long-suffering taxpayers 70 cents a day, from the middle of next year. To Dutton’s credit, the Opposition withstood media pressure to match to this insulting offer to instead deliver real relief by halving the fuel excise. This move is smart because the more you drive, the more you will save and for a household with two cars, this represents a $1500-a-year saving. The Coalition’s target seats are in outer-metro areas and regional Australia. These voters feel left behind and forgotten and given how far they drive compared to those who live in the inner-city (and EVs don’t win here do they?). Add in the tradies who spend their day in their utes, and the transport companies who pass on the high cost of fuel to everything in our supply chain, this announcement shows that Dutton wants to win.
I would love to see more tax policy but it’s almost impossible to do this work in opposition without the resources of treasury experts. But still, there’s plenty of policy thinking already out there to help us understand why a Coalition government would be a better way forward: Nuclear, not renewables; one flag, not three; education, not indoctrination; much lower immigration; 40,000 fewer bureaucrats; superannuation for homes; a defence of biological sex to protect women and girls; cracking down on foreign criminals; and more real support for defence. As Dutton made clear in his budget reply, countries can’t tax their way to prosperity or subsidise their way to success.
Under Dutton, Australians could expect something like Howard 2.0: Steady, predictable, incremental government; without the climate indoctrination and the energy madness that refuses to use here the coal and gas we still export to others (but won’t if Labor is re-elected with Greens support). Unlike Anthony Albanese, who only seems to fire up when he’s attacking “Tories” in the parliament; who was the first PM in 70 years to refuse an American request for military assistance when he declined to send a frigate to the Red Sea; and who has overturned 70 years of bipartisan support for Israel at the UN, we could expect the former Queensland cop to be strong and sensible in a crisis.
On the current polls, and this has been trend for over 18 months to date, my expectation is that the Coalition vote will strengthen during the campaign. For one thing, as more people tune in to politics, anger about the 8 per cent drop in average living standards, two successive years of declining GDP per person and Labor’s glaring broken promise to cut power bills by $275 per household per year will only intensify. The Coalition will surely leap on the budget papers’ admission that, but for federal and state handouts, power prices would be 45 per cent higher (Budget Paper 1, page 48). For another, the tendency for the Coalition’s vote to improve during recent campaigns should be reinforced by the PM’s proven inability to master detail and the fact that he’s a drag on Labor’s brand.
The biggest challenge for the Coalition is not to win more seats than Labor, it’s to win in their own right because there’s no way they will ever be able to negotiate with the Greens or the Teals because that would mean abandoning their values, and that’s a price no leader should ever pay. So over the next few weeks, Australians must come to understand that the choice they are being given is between a Dutton majority or an Albanese-Bandt alliance in a hung parliament.
That’s the choice.
Make no mistake, this will be an ugly campaign. As is already obvious, Labor’s main tactic is personal attacks on the opposition leader, and the ALP (and ACTU) dirt unit has more to come. There will be the usual scare campaign too on Medicare (as evidenced by Albanese using the stunt of his green card to kick off the election) but never forget the fact that, under his watch, bulk-billing rates fell from 88 to 78 per cent.
What every voter must understand over the next five weeks is that as bad as things are now, if Labor clings on to power they will get worse, much worse. Labor can’t stop wasting money, it’s in their DNA and you will pay for it. Labor can’t help dividing society because the modern left builds its powerbase on hard-left activism designed to split us into tribes, not a nation of people who pull together. And the price that Labor will pay the Greens to keep Albanese in the Lodge will rip the heart out of industry, agriculture and resources as they shut down the live sheep trade, logging, salmon farming in Tasmania, new gas fields and the North West Shelf. As well as an end to coal and gas exports, should a re-elected Labor government be dependent on the Greens, there’ll inevitably be a push for wealth taxes, death duties and taxes on the family home.
Albanese is weak, we know that. In any alliance with the Greens, Albanese would be PM in name only – Adam Bandt would be the de facto leader. See why I say that this is the most important election in generations.
Thumbs up:
World Athletics Council: For announcing a new mandatory gender test for every athlete wanting to compete in events for women. About time!
Thumbs down:
Apple Maps: For making Indigenous place names compulsory in its maps. It’s not even something we can choose to turn off. From now on, it’s Google Maps only for me.
Howard 2.0? They are going to take away the rest of our guns?
Who knows?
That was caving in to the the howling of ‘the govermunts gotta do sumeting’ moment at the time.
Interesting vid by Topher on the subject of guns:
Why Australia’s MILLION illegal guns prove that guns are safe. Topher Project Ep 037
That’s the point I stopped reading.
I think I’ll vote Greens, because the voters still haven’t got the message after Abalone.
Reality is a slightly shorter column …… dumb or dumber .. LOL!
That’s a lot of extra puppet strings considering the “backroom boyz” already run the country …… !
Albanese would be PM in name only – Adam Bandt would be the de facto leader.
Arrest the decline? Slow it slightly maybe. Otherwise it seems a hopelessly optimistic take.
What the hell.
@FrontlinesTPUSA
BREAKING: Employees of Jackson-Hewitt, a tax services company, were handing out flyers to illegal immigrants lined up outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC, which is famous for housing migrants on the taxpayer’s dime.
The flyer indicates that illegal immigrants can get up to $14,000 in tax returns based on how many children they have.
When the employee found out @sav_says_ is a journalist, he took the flyer back and said legal would have to get involved if he is on camera.
@TPUSA
@EndWokeness
Homicides per 100,000 in El Salvador:
2015: 103
2016: 81.0
2017: 60.2
2018: 50.4
2019: 35.8
2020: 21.2
2021: 18.1
2022: 7.8
2023: 2.4
2024: 2.0
2025: 1.15
This is what happens when you take the people doing the crime off the streets.
Yes, odd that. And I get called ‘bloodthirsty.’
Ho hum.
@liz_churchill10
TEN nurses who work on the same ward have diagnosed brain tumours.
The ‘Covid Vaccine’ is a Biological Weapon meant to cause cancer.
Pure coincidence says Dr. Fauci & Co.
Reminiscent of the breast cancer cluster at the ABC studios in Brisbane in the late 80’s.
Well to be fair, their ABC got to move out of an inconvenient mouldy riverside crumbly brick building in Toowong to a brand new, custom built, flash and airy building at Southbank adjqncet to all these pubs and eateries.
@RadioEuropes
BREAKING NEWS
The British Sentencing Council has decided that starting Tuesday, white men will be sentenced to longer prison sentences than women and ethnic minorities.
UK has fallen.
I suspect that this has been happening for some time. This announcement is to build up support for Der Sturmer among women and ethnic minorities.
The Sentencing Council is independent.
Starmer has vowed legislation to overrule it.
If he doesn’t deliver his popularity will take another hit.
And he’s now at war with judges who’ve refused his request not to implement the council’s policy.
Meme
The Coalition of the Willying Wallying.
Just saw more footage of the Pitts Special spearing in at Avalon.
Looks like a fundamental mistake by the pilot.
He starts into a loop at low altitude.
When he reaches the top he executes a couple of flick rolls, but doesn’t appear to gain any altitude during these rolls.
This is critical, because he then attempts to complete the second half of the loop.
Ruh-roh.
When you come over of a loop (inverted) the lift from the wings and gravity are working in concert with each, not counter to each other.
So, when viewed from side on, if you just pull on back pressure all the way, you won’t fly a neat circle, but something which looks like a “9” with a flattened top. This is bad when the ground cuts through the middle of the “9”. And once you get to about 2 o’clock on the way down there is no way out.
@GoodwinMJ
I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of individual liberty; now it’s morphing before our very eyes into an Orwellian nightmare. We need a political revolution to restore common sense. And we need it now.
Being discussed on Outsiders on SKY News right now.
@catturd2
Don’t doubt me …
The full court press to get rid of Pete Hegseth is not only coming from the anti-american Democrats and their media propagandists – but from every war pig in the Republican Party as well. (THEY DO NOT WANT PEACE)
WHY?
They all want endless war to line the pockets of their military war machine big donors and big war lobbyists.
It’s simple – they want never-ending war to get their weapons manufactures filthy rich and they can launder some of those funds back to themselves to get themselves and their families filthy rich. (How many billions of the Ukraine funds are reported lost? They just can’t seem to find it can they? Imagine that.)
Then when it’s time to build back the war-torn countries – you guessed it – their buddies get all the building and construction contracts with more money laundering coming back to themselves.
How do you think almost every member of Congress walks into office with 10k in their bank accounts and leave office worth 10s of millions of dollars?
– Pete is standing in the way of this. Stand with Pete.
Another money sink.
US Institute of Peace lays off staff after dramatic standoff with DOGE
Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Zelensky Will Be Gone and NATO Will Fall Apart
Poor old Walt Disney, the man who banned Anette Funicello from exposing her belly button, must be howling in his grave.
Disney went woke and now it’s going broke and hear this, I have zero sympathy for the company.
It’s rather amusing to watch the fallout from this ‘Snow White’ travesty. Everyone involved in the production are now blaming each other. Over the last few days the producer’s son has come out and blamed the little rodent Racher Zegler for the failure of the film, blaming her ‘pro-Nazi Pallie’ activism’. But Zegler’s pro-Nazi Pallie activism has been just one part of the film’s problem, the others being that she has continually dissed, scoffed and mocked the original, and she’s played the whole fourth wave feminist bulldust when publicising the film. But the big problem actually isn’t Zegler, it’s that this new Snow White thought it could be an homage to woke, and instead it has crashed and burned into being a complete and utter parody. It’s actually glorious to watch. Those who pay their hard-earned dosh to go and watch a film aren’t going to pay to see this woke drivel. Ordinary men and women are saying…………..
NO.
The woke are never going to admit they were wrong.
It’s always someone else’s fault.
See my post above:
Sen. Kennedy EPIC Take On Elon Musk’s DOGE Left Everyone SPEECHLESS!
From The Oz…..
Education Minister and Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare says Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke received a video threat directing him to a location “without the police”.
Mr Clare said there was no suggestion this was perpetrated by the Muslim votes matter challenge in Mr Burke’s electorate of Watson, in Sydney’s west.
He said Australia had not seen the kind of violence that happened “in the US or in the UK”.
“The nature of Australia if you’re a politician or a contender, you stand there, people come up to you … but you don’t get the sort of stuff that happens overseas,” he told Sky News.
Don’t worry, Mr Burqa, I’m sure it’s just a hoax!
So whose decision was it to flood Australia with violent muslims? Oh, that’s right!
It began with Malcolm Fraser.
The Jew hating hijabi nurse is probably 3rd generation.
Fraser’s mother, I believe, had Jewish roots. It’s very plausible this him very focused on refugee issues.
It was a stuff up, JC.
Lebanese Christian leaders here (a community with 19th C roots) petitioned the government for special consideration for Christians displaced by the civil war. Senior public servants advised against any concessions, pointing out several potential problems. Fraser & his cabinet went ahead regardless. The program on the ground was poorly administered and instead of Maronite Christians we got the Muslim hillbillies who refuse to assimilate.
Looking back, sure. I’m just pointing out that his mind was focused on helping referees because of his mother’s background. He did a lot of work in this area.
If I vaguely recall, at the time, the press here reported that Christian militias were conducting wholesale massacres and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, which may or may not have been true.
The worst sort of horrid cynic might even think that Team Burke is trying for a Smollet Sympathy Sandbag.
I thought similar.
Was thinking same. Threats, waaacist flyers seem a little too convenient.
Burke is now claiming the AFP advised him to leave a Muslim community event because of threatening behaviour.
Jason Clare is backing his claim.
The photo with the story was interesting. I very much doubt it was righties who did that, which means either special people of no describable description, or Greens.
Big news for Llareggub drill rappers.
Years ago, the Black Welsh Music Awards used to have Welsh Coal Mining Choirs before they had all had a bath.
Great minds think alike ……. LOL!
Being a Geordie from a coal county that was my 1st reaction ..!
I have also instituted a new Award, and I have won it !!!
The only problem with not giving a fying fluck about anything is that it spoils reading murder mysteries. When you can’t care about the corpse and have a vague idea that the world is better with them dead, when you don’t give a stuff about whodunnit, or what exactly they dun and how they dunnit, it’s hard to carry on reading.
Dr. John Campbell with Prof. Robert Clancy
Negative immunity
IOW, the ‘vaxine’ causes Covid – it doesn’t stop you getting it.
Story buried deep in the hun: the mob has forced the Park Hyatt in Melbourne to cancel a George Pell memorial event. It was a charity event to raise funds for persecuted Christians. Wonder is “non-practising Catholic” Albo will speak up?
I’m so old I remember when the prog-left called people who opposed freedom of speech and association “fascists.”
Canadian PM Mark Carney Is Accused of Plagiarizing His University of Oxford Doctorate Thesis – Liberal Party in Meltdown Ahead of Next Month’s Elections
Ha ha!
His thesis supervisor: “Nothing to see here. “Word overlapping” happens all the time.”
Oxford ain’t what it used to be.