Uncle Warren, Howard Marks, Druck, all showed to make money in this environment, all you had to do was listen…
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The US domestic herd is currently a bit short due to drought I believe, while we have just had 100,000…
Gunna be rough in DC, Virginia, Maryland. But how much this impacts other regions, time will tell. I think I can…
All the best Winston. Stay well.
Lutnick has said repeatedly that they expect countries that export to the US to eat part of the tariff they’re…
Gidday
Yippee – first time ever.
See also:
“The Fog of War”.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 3, 2025 12:27 am
Quadrant put this up as one of their ‘archive’ pieces the other day.
It is one of thirteen articles and reviews I have written for the Magazine or the online version between 2017 and 2022. I asked that all payments be put back into the Magazine.
I no longer write for Quadrant.
Perhaps I should no longer write for Catallaxy either.
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Continue to post here lovely lady.
Nice tits by the way. ( :
Lizzie, please keep writing, Anywhere! Your writing is so evocative, interesting and informative. It is as if one is standing before an historic, linear tapestry following the story as it unfolds. Your telling of the story also prompts further reading.
🙂 By the by, I wandered off into looking for the word to describe someone who weaves a tapestry (perhaps ‘weaver’ or ‘tapissier’?) and found “How Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries were Made – The Metropolitan Museum of Art”. The number of people involved “Production of a set of six five-by-eight-yard tapestries … would have necessitated the equivalent of thirty weavers over a period of eight to sixteen months, excluding the cost and time involved in the design and preparation of the cartoons and setting up of the looms.”
So, Thank You, Lizzie, for the opportunity to have a greater understanding of history.
Oh no,is Lizzie leaving the cat again?
Repeat.
“WINNING vs Tony Stewart at Pomona: A Fiery Final Round!!!”
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
Indeed, the pipsqueak with a heart the size of a caraway seed — yes hide him lest he say “if you don’t like our policies don’t vote for us” that worked soooooo well — ask Bill Shorten
Alas, Peanut Head disproved my theory that no one is unelectable. That was quite disheartening.
Blackout is a bit of a liability. Anyone seen Plibbers or kd? It’s a freak show – would give Whitlam’s Cabinet a run.
Peter Broelman.
Hmm yes and. more fool you/us should the fools vote for the fools
Mark Knight.
Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
My body clock is out of sync. Thinks. Must be the end of daylight saving soon. Yep. This coming Sunday. Must remember to tell guests coming to special lunch on Sunday otherwise at least one couple will turn up at the wrong time. (My partner is apt to put the clocks forward which ended up in a total disaster one year.)
So you get another hour in bed in the mornings. Sounds good. You should do it more often. Say once a month.
Just had a scary thought. I’m alone on the blog with DrBG as my only companion!
I do think they keep daylight saving going a few weeks too long. At least for lower latitudes like northern NSW. People get up in the dark.
Agreed – end of March at the very latest, but no reason it could not work just November to Feb., I think.
For DST, a USism is apropos and easy to remember:
“Spring forward, Fall back”
So instead of adjusting a minute or two each day, you get to do it all in one hit.
‘How does daylight saving time affect electricity demand? An answer using aggregate data from a natural experiment in Western Australia’, Energy Economics 66 (August 2017): 247-260, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.06.018.
I wonder if the impact on the grid of daylight saving has changed much since the above paper was written (given the increased introduction of wind and solar dependent energy sources since 2017) ?
link no work
Try this link to the abstract/ summary https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140988317302128?via%3Dihub
Thanks. See below.
Such a beautiful crisp Autumn morning — first gold on the horizon now the softest pink suffusing mid-sky and will probably vanish before I finish typing — Nature is breath-taking — looks like a good day ahead. Thank you God.
Yes Tinta, it is a glorious morning on the farm. A crisp night last night with a marvellous star studded sky. Saw large satellite overhead (international station?).
Slight mist over the paddocks this morning as sun rises. we are watching the red dumped parrots gorge on the seed in the feeder my husband made on paddock fence just outside our bedroom door. It is a French door so we can watch them cavort and quarrel. All pairs of male and females. Sometimes we see the resident fox go home past our door after his nightly patrol. Birds scatter when he arrives.
Thanks your description has me there – won’t impose for breakfast as it’s Lent and I’m fasting. Cheers and thanks for the word picture.
Here I think we are at last big gasp/tail end of the wet season now. Everything soggy this morning. Not as bad as further west though.
i won’t complain too much as I worry that will jinx next wet season. we are now so far overdue for the next drought i worry it will be federation drought severity.
The US is headed for civil war. Insurrectionist judges, treasonous democrats, loony left street theatre, violent anti-Musk-eteers, continuing media lies, insufficient reform of dodgy voting practises, to name a few.
The American left is just having its customary violent tantrum after a major election defeat — because it stood for policies that 80% of Americans oppose.
Lefties are radicals who hate democracy because it rewards popularity, which they can never have because their entire existence is dedicated to subverting what most Americans like.
No. This is more. The Left stand to lose everything for a generation if President Trump dismantles their organisation.
Never underestimate the inhumanity of a rabid Socialist.
They would rather this than not be in power.
What kind of American are you?
A very ‘UnCivil’ War……….
Aren’t they all?
Australian politics doesn’t look that good either. While I don’t accept that the daily media chook feed of “neck and neck” polls is accurate, we still have a problem. Media overwhelmingly leans left, leaving shallow impressions on minds that are anything but inquiring. The News website is a cesspit of TDS. Daytime Sky are mostly Labor Luvvies. The ABC is continuing its downward slide into lefty la-la land on copious taxpayer moolah.
Sky after dark isn’t that much better than their daytime stable. Bolt and Sharri have TDS and speak to guests who feed it while Sharri even has Vance derangement syndrome.
Awhile back I considered subscribing to Sky, glad I didn’t bother.
Beautiful painting, Dover.
More doggie fun.
Big Balls To The Rescue: DOGE Saves A Terabyte Of Data Destroyed By Exiting USIP Employees (3 Apr)
The USIP is small beer – a thousandth the size of USAID. But the extraordinary behaviour of the employees when the Doggies came to visit suggests some really stinky stuff was going on. We’ll have to wait to find out though.
I keep hearing about these crimes but not seeing any consequences.I suspect all these guys will successfully run the clock out.When on power the Dems are ruthless just like the ALP.witness them gaoling people for ignoring a congressional subpoena whereas ones issued by the Republicans are routinely ignored.
As well as watching the parrots at our feeder, we have been watching Trump’s address on the introduction of tariffs on the world’s imports into the US. Trump at his best. Appealing to the workers of the US – indeed, he had a automotive worker from Detroit come to the mike. He is a consummate pollie, as well as a great patriot. Donald read out a llitany of unfair tariffs from other countries.
He is putting globalisation under the microscope. And it is about time. Like most schemes, it has its penalties. Arky recently wrote a post that had me thinking.He wrote about the cost of de-industrialising our economy. Yes, our high wages made us uncompetitive. But what has been the cost in terms of our security?
Were watching Trump. The media will go ballistic today!
His table of reciprocal tariffs was enlightening. It needs to be out there so people can see how one sided it all is.
Apparently Albo wants to take the US to the WTO for unfair imposition of tariffs. Good luck with that. It will play out well for a section of the electorate, possibly the ones who would vote for him anyway.
I was reading a piece that showed Japan charges a 700% tariff on American grown rice.
Yes Abalone, good luck with the WTO.
Whilst that is excessive, Japan has been through the problem of the Allies blockading foodstuffs during the war.
Japan went through several years of starvation due to them.
However while this is a reason for their tariffs, there are other ways to get around the problem – storage of ten years of rice for ten years is possible.
And the rice farmers are a very potent electoral block and they have no problems with playing the starvation card.
No tariffs on lettuce!
must be a day ending in Y.
The media has a bad case of Tariff Derangement Syndrome.
Today’s Daily Tele:
PRINCIPAL REVERSES ANZAC DECISION
SUZAN GIULIANI
3 Apr 2025
A Sydney primary school principal who faced intense criticism from parents and veterans after she told students they could opt out of an Anzac Day service has made a stunning backflip on her decision.
In an email to families yesterday, Sherwood Ridge Primary School principal Jody Sullivan said it was the school’s expectation that “all students” now attend its special Anzac Day service on April 10.
The note followed reporting on the issue by 2GB and The Daily Telegraph, in which the initial decision by the school was labelled an insult to veterans.
“The message sent out last month was seen as disrespectful by some members of the broader community and has detracted from our longstanding tradition of acknowledging and respecting Anzac Day in our school,” Ms Sullivan said.
“I want to apologise for this.”
Ms Sullivan told parents last week they could let teachers know if they didn’t want their children to attend to accommodate a small number of Christian students who don’t “commemorate war”.
The state school in Kellyville is holding the event two weeks before Anzac Day due to school holidays.
Education Minister Prue Car yesterday said all schools were expected to “respect the tradition” of Anzac Day. “The principal should not have sent out that email to the school and the Secretary will be speaking to her this morning,” Ms Carr said.
NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said: “She (the principal) understands that Anzac Day assemblies in public schools have never been and never will, under my leadership, be an opt in special assembly. A parent may not want their child to participate in a particular lesson or particular area of the curriculum, they have always been able to approach the school … it won’t be opt in.”
Former Commando and RSL NSW President Mick Bainbridge said Anzac Day is not a celebration of war, but “commemorates the horrors of war and ensures the sacrifices of those who served and died are never forgotten.”
editorial page 18
Bullshite.
She made a shite decision that blew up in her face. Pun intended.
Easier to blame the Christian students than to say <insert other religious or non religious type here> in her excuse.
And look at the nasty little snip at Christians!
The school’s in the heart of the Bible Belt too. Way to endear yourself to parents.
What a dope.
And look at the nasty little snip at Christians!
Hz, I was trying for about ten minutes to think of something along those lines.
I reckon you did it justice.
Somehow gadening leave is on the agenda for this one…
She’ll be given a job “in the office” for a while.
to accomodate a small number of Christian students
Huh, Christians. It’s always the Christians, innit.
Or the Jews, Buddhists, Hindus but never the Muslims.
As if she would normally give a damn about Christian sensibilities.
There are Christians who are pacifists.
I believe they are misinformed and, in this case, clearly wrong about the purpose of ANZAC Day.
Alas, the principal forwent the opportunity to correct their misapprehensions respectfully and in private.
Was she not up to the task morally & intellectually? Did the letter seem the easier way of dealing with the issue at a time when every minority asserts its right not only to be heard but to be indulged?
It would seem she’s about to be educated herself.
@ThisDayinCovid
During the pandemic Fauci’s bioethicist wife, Christine Grady, offered nurses a choice: Get vaccinated, or lose your job.
Yesterday, she was offered a choice: Transfer to an office in Alaska, or lose your job.
What’s fair is fair. Everyone deserves a choice.
Alaska’s? She should be going to Alcatraz
From the comments:
Paula Has@PaulaJ1974
That bitch needs to jailed
I’m one of those nurses that had to take her f*cking poison to keep my job, keep my house
Now I have multiple medical issues
So she can go straight to hell along with her f*cking husband who murdered millions of people
Livestream Today – Federal Court Australia – Thurs 3rd and Fri 4th April Starting 10.15 a.m. – Rainforest Reserves vs Tanya Plibersek and Twiggy Forrest
For anyone who is not able to attend the hearing today, we encourage you to share this information and link, with anyone who may be interested in our upcoming Federal Court trial starting tomorrow (Thurs. 3rd April, 2025) regarding Upper Burdekin, Nth Qld.
Case number: VID837/2024 – Rainforest Reserves Australia Inc v. Minister for the Environment and Water & Another.
These proceedings will be livestreamed and listed as such. The link will be available on the Federal Court of Australia’s YouTube webpage
Rainforest Reserves Australia is dedicated to preserving this area due to its outstanding biodiversity, which includes 29,000 hectares of our Seaview Ranges in the Great Dividing Range. We are also committed to protecting the aerial habitats vital for birdlife, bats, insects, and migratory species in accordance with international treaties and agreements.
This area is irreplaceable and truly worth saving.
Kind regards,
Carolyn Emms
Rainforest Reserves Australia
https://www.youtube.com/user/FederalCourtAus Note: couldn’t post a live link.
Note the link above now works!
Vs? Ffs
@zerohedge
*AMAZON PUTS IN A LAST-MINUTE BID TO ACQUIRE ALL OF TIKTOK: NYT
The Biden administration allowed all these gangs and cartels to operate in America, to the point that when they were arrested they were generally released with a slap on the wrist.
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: 40 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members and affiliates arrested in a massive operation near Austin, TX.
This is exactly what I voted for!
I suspect there’s more likelihood of civil war in the UK than in the US. In fact I predict we will see massive civil unrest and violence in the UK within the next decade.
Oh and there’s a massive difference between Donald Trump and Der Sturmer. Der Sturmer hates his fellow countrymen and wishes to chain them whereas Donald Trump loves his fellow countrymen and wishes to free them.
What’s that saying about fascism constantly hanging over the US and landing squarely on Europe?
Nup no guns.The Brits are incapable of fighting.
I see on TV that Molotov cocktails are the revolutionaries’ weapons of choice.
There is this little essay:
“Men who wanted to be left Alone”.
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know, that the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the “Men who wanted to be left Alone” are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. . . .
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these “Men who wanted to be left Alone”, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy . . . . but it will fall upon deaf ears..
See also:
“THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
“This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service.” – Francis Parker Yockey,
He is loudly and proudly stating that they’re determined to cheat.
@townhallcom
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: A law requiring proof of citizenship to vote is “voter suppression.”
And then there is the horror -the horror – of voter ID!
Oh, the horror, the horror!
Don’t the Demoscum require Voer ID at their conventions
Yes, but that’s different! (Stamps foot.)
Many things require personal ID.
You never hear complaints from people about that.
Unless they are crooks and fraudsters.
Try picking up your parcel at the post office without any ID at all.
From the old thread…
Aha!
I suspected the bust up with hubby might have something to do with it.
And wondered if he had threatened to spill the beans on (ahem) “legal shortcuts” taken in her compo case.
As Dr F suggests, the “days to live” post was a bit of private pity trolling/emotional blackmail which went public.
And, that was self-applied dirt on her face, not bruising.
Bulk Brittany Mark II.
Smashed.
@DefiantLs
Harris: “There is an unelected billionaire who should not, and will not have a greater voice than the working people of Wisconsin.”
I’m not sure about this tariff war but there’s one thing I agree wholeheartedly with and that is….
No free trade without free speech
That should have been engraved in stone 25 years ago.
One part of this tariff war is that the Trump administration is trying to contain China. This should have been done 15 years ago and it may well be too late but at least he’s trying.
I believe the justification for the original cosying up to China was that if they joined the rest of the world economically they would liberalise politically.
Someone forgot that Socialists never give up power easily.
“You can vote your way into Socialism, but you always have to shoot your way out.”
Meme of the week
Daily Tele Editorial:
DAY OF HONOUR NOW RESTORED
3 Apr 2025
The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday about the decision by Sherwood Ridge Primary School to allow students to bypass Anzac Day commemorations.
In an email to parents, principal Jody Sullivan invited them to withdraw students from the school’s commemoration if they had problems with it.
Following The Daily Telegraph’s report on the matter, however, there has been a rapid and very welcome change of heart. In a new email to parents, principal Sullivan now makes clear that “all students” are to attend the school’s special Anzac Day service.
We applaud the principal’s revised stance, and acknowledge her apology to the school community. These actions are both to Ms Sullivan’s credit.
The Daily Telegraph would also note, however, that the same sort of disregard held by some Australians towards Australia Day is now making undeniable inroads on Anzac Day.
Quite aside from the specific Sherwood Ridge Primary School incident, this is a deeply regrettable and even unsustainable situation. It is unsustainable because a nation cannot survive as a nation without deep loyalty to its foundations and traditions.
Australia, in other words, cannot remain Australian unless the essence of our nationhood is protected and venerated.
Australia Day and Anzac Day are both core elements of our Australian identity. As such, they have proved impressively resilient to all attempts at excising or diminishing them.
While we call for protection, we should be aware that both of our national days are proving immensely powerful.
As evidence of this, we note that nationwide support for Anzac Day has continued to grow despite the loss of all World War I veterans. Their heroism and commitment live on beyond the battlefield and beyond earthly bounds.
Our soldiers will not be denied, even in death.
This Anzac Day, perhaps make a further vow to never give in to forces of negativity. Never give in to the anti-Australian mob.
Your paper certainly never will
Bullshit. She tried it on and the backlash was fierce. She needs to be put on a supervised probation.
If we don’t win this war it’s truly the end. Our wimps here would gladly follow on.
Meta begs Trump for help as EU prepares massive fines over alleged violations of Digital Markets Act: report
Re Ms Roberts-Giuffre.
People who engage in pity-trolling on health issues are the worst.
@TaraBull808
“Wisconsin is not for sale!” – Judge Susan Crawford.
LOL. The Dems just bought it.
@PressSec
This “scoop” is garbage.
Elon Musk and President Trump have both *publicly* stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete.
Fake news from Politico, who just lost millions of dollars because the doggies canceled all the grift they were receiving.
Ha! this time it’s personal.
@amuse
WISCONSIN: Soros-backed Susan Crawford outspend Musk-backed Brad Schimel by almost 230% with 70% coming from out-of-state billionaires. Both candidates benefited from $40 million (each) in outside spending with Elon Musk spending as much as $14 million making the race the most expensive judicial election in history.
@DC_Draino
Wisconsin Supreme Court justices come & go, but Constitutional amendments are forever
And Wisconsin now has mandatory voter ID in their constitution
Now the Democrat election fraud machines in Milwaukee & Madison will become almost obsolete
Just watch the difference in the next Wisconsin election
My concern is define “Voter ID.”
This is where the Left continually outsmart us.
@RealSKeshel
Brad Schimel’s 1.063mm votes last night was higher than any Democrat vote total in the history of any WI Supreme Court race. He lost by 10.
Turnout ain’t the issue, folks. Dems have mastered ballot harvesting over a lengthy early voting period and can figure out with basic math where their opponent is likely to wind up in order to get over the top.
The country can’t survive with mail-in voting.
They’ve shut down for the week.
@GuntherEagleman
Activist judges are running a coup, elections are being stolen, and spending is out of control…
And our @HouseGOP is arguing about being able to vote from home.
We have NO leadership in the House.
Houston, we have a problem.
Astronauts Recount the Harrowing Moment Boeing’s Starliner Almost Doomed Them (2 Apr)
Nightmare scenario. If another thruster had failed while they were trying to dock they would be stuck in the Starliner capsule a hundred metres away, waiting to die because there would be nothing anyone could do to save them. Fortunately the spacecraft held together long enough to dock, but certainly an echo of Apollo 13.
NASA is always very conservative about what is allowed in the “keep out” zone around the ISS. They had to waive all the caution to allow the Stayliner to dock.
Nobody has said but I bet Butch and Suny didn’t even have EVA suits so they could leave the deathtrap and spacewalk to the ISS.
Boeing got the new F-47 fighter contract which leaves me brimming with confidence.The only good thing is that I think the fighter division is the former McDonell Douglas.
The important thing is that Boeing has the whole troupe of dancing female workers. DEI to the rescue!
McDonell Douglas is the reason Boeing is in the state it is in.
https://youtu.be/nCbHpJShoXk?feature=shared
Another brilliant brain fart, guaranteed to further endear this country to the Prez Fatty Trump administration.
albansleazy should have kevni “village idiot” ruff, our equally esteemed ambassador to the US, deliver this wondrous news.
Dr Mutton also needs to keep his big stupid gob shut about the tariffs.
His bloviating on the subject yesterday was less than helpful.
His political instincts have always been questionable.
Straight to the jugular – like a panther pouncing. The stupid, stupid Administration will never have seen this coming.
Trump has no chance against this lithe political animal.
Haw!
His timing is as always perfect too…
Trump Admin. Suspends Financial Contributions to WTO (27 Mar)
That’s 11% of their budget. Belt tightening time!
First >snigger< out loud this fine day.
It would appear that Canada has this morning agreed to drop all tariffs on USA to zero, Israel did the same, so Trump’s tariffs are working as he expected them to.
Canada has already said they’ll drop their tariffs if America does the same and Mexico has advised that they won’t be imposing tit-for-tax tariffs.
@RapidResponse47
@POTUS: “My fellow Americans, this is LIBERATION DAY — April 2, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make American wealthy again.”
Who would have thought that the socialist socialite Mexican President has better political instincts than the Canadian PM who used to be the governor of Bank of England?
As I wrote yesterday, I’m no apologist for Prince Andrew, who is a rude, entitled Hanoverian boor, spoilt by his mother. More than anything in the world Andrew and his ghastly ex-wife both love da dosh, and this is what has always gotten them into trouble, because this love of dosh has made both easy prey for unscrupulous men and women like Epstein to cultivate, manipulate and blackmail. Epstein was a very clever man, Prince Boor and his red-headed bimbo ex are not and have never been clever. Both Randy Andy and Fergie are greedy avaricious dolts.
I always had reservations about Giuffre’s fabulous fables and her accusations against Andrew were never tested in court because the royal family run a mile from such things. They instead made the unwise decision to pay Giuffre an enormous sum. Remember, she also made similar accusations against attorney Alan Dershowitz who fought her legally and won.
Beginning in 2015, Dershowitz was involved in a series of defamation lawsuits and countersuits over allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct. The suits were settled in 2022 with his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, saying…..
“I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz
Giuffre has a long history of lying and embellishing. She’s a hustler.
Also wondering if due to as Sancho has noted regarding separation from partner that she’s looking at her lifestyle and a payout to the ex not adding up. So she’s circling for a second run.
Think about it. She was handed 20 million Oz dollars by Boofhead.
Dershowitz took her on in Court. I reckon over half of that 20 mil went to Dershowitz. hahahahaha
I think two things were at play.
1. A quick earn from the bus company (not Prince Andrew level, but maybe $100k with a “do you know who I am?” premium).
2. I reckon the ex has broken ranks and threatened to disclose details of legal – and not so legal – tactics used to extract cash.
She is also alleged to have provided other girls to Epstein in some of the various court cases
You’ve only mentioned Dershowitz. It could have been an honest mistake and one example doesn’t make a long history.
What other examples do you know of?
Wrongly accusing someone of being a rapist isn’t enough?
F-ck off.
An honest mistake?
Specifically identifying him by name with 100% certainty, then folding on the steps of the court when she was going to face cross-examination?
Give me a break.
Again, one example doesn’t make a “long history”.
As for whether her withdrawal was suspicious, that does rather depend on when she became aware of Dershowitz’ alibi or exculpatory evidence. Perhaps that only happened after the trial got under way.
Blot was pompously sounding off last evening about his (entirely unsurprising) inability to comprehend why Prez Fatty Trump was referring to yesterday as “Liberation Day”.
Let’s allow the great man to explain it himself:
And it’s very real.
Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State
Astounding.
Israel has the same problem with the Deep State that the US is now dealing with.
The Head of Shin Bet refused to alert the government as the Oct 7 Massacre was forming shape because they – like the sleeping guard dog – didn’t want to bark, because it felt it ‘would upset the burglar’.
Britain has fallen to this state of Dictatorship of the Judicial Bureaucracy which assumes it’s primary job is to protect us from ourselves, not our enemies. Israel is taking steps to control this Judicial overthrow of the elected governments, and the US is starting its fightback.
All over the West, the Communist Judiciary, in league with Islam, are pouring through the gates, and the citizenry are asleep while the media watchdogs signal “All is Well”.
Europe’s Latest Attacks On Free Speech And Free Elections Prove Vance’s Munich Warning Right
The Western Elites’ War Against Democracy Is Now Out in the Open
The enemy has revealed itself, and at the end of the road of all totalitarian governments lie the Death Camps.
We have been warned, deny it at your own peril.
USAID and the Architecture of Perception
Sky allowing vacuous Abalone morning prime time hogging, as learned from Despot Dan.
‘Unbelievable!’ Furious farmer warns of ‘rationing’ as workers slap Labour with wheat strike: ‘I question if it’s worth farming anymore’
Jeremy Clarkson would support the farmers.
This $16K EV will shock you! XPENG Mona 03
Following last nights EV thread. I am not saying these cars are good, but they are cheap and there are a lot of them coming. We also need to remember that china has bought up some legacy auto brands like volvo and MG so these are in fact now chicom cars.
Volvo automotive is back with the Swedes.
Er check myself- minority v Geely chinee
I hope they get rid of the Chinese language in the controls (of course they will) and I wonder just how tall the bloke is.
If he’s 5’6″, then the car is too small for >50% of Australian male drivers.
Aust?ralia
Males175.6 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Females161.8 cm (5 ft 3+ 1?2 in)
Trump tariffs live updates: India faces 26% ‘discounted’ duties as POTUS unveils sweeping reciprocal tariffs
Belgium. This was posted on April 1 but, unfortunately, I don’t think it’s April Fools. It sounds like she was drugged. This just goes to show the current level of respect for women, at least in Europe. The judge should be charged.
Medical student convicted of raping another student escapes sentence as “He is young and talented”
Finally. A real case of, “future doctor.”
Just doesn’t have the same ring as “aspiring rapper”.
The one thing we can be sure of is that the man’s cultural background while not being stated, is that he is Muslim, and this is semi proven by the sentence.
First German troop deployment since WWII lands on Putin’s doorstep
Weren’t they in other places from time to time, even Afghanistan?
Yes, minor deployments of minor units individual postings and so hamstrung with rules of engagement that their US/NATO allies refused to have them in the field, they were so incompetent and poorly led.
I’d put damn good money they have been put there to provide the European Union with an excuse to up the ante toward a direct military confrontation with Russia.
We’ve seen this playbook before in Vietnam.
Australia 10%
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs: Here’s how much countries are getting hit
Only fair. We put a 10% tariff(GST) on all imports
That’s not a tariff, moron. It’s a domestic tax, which also applies to domestically-produced goods.
Trump is a swivel-eyed loon.
Projection again Monty. Get a mirror.
monty is very low energy lately.
Maybe needs to plug himself into a wall socket.
Maybe GI related?
And KamelToe is a true genius, with practical, well-balanced policy options. //Sarc//
Piss off, swivel-eyed Nazi.
And you are a far-left extremist.
60c exchange rate is a criminal offence
And soon to go lower.
If our exports can’t nake money at a 60 cent dollar they are doomed anyway
Morsie.
Think of it this way: it’s not just the exchange rate at the nominal level. What’s important is the real exchange rate.
The last time the Aussie dollar was stuck at 60 cents or lower was about 20 years ago. Since then, accumulated inflation (cost structure) has likely been around 50%—probably much more. In real terms, the exchange rate could be well below 50 cents if you’re making a comparison like that.
There are other import duties on our exports going into the US. Been there, done that.
Interesting – Australia isn’t mentioned, so I guess we’ll get 10% tariffs.
Yes it is mentioned, and shown as 10%.
Federal election 2025Peter DuttonPolitics
Federal Election 2025: Dutton lands in Perth with $600m pledge for infrastructure, mining & agriculture
Jessica Page, Katina Curtis and Oliver LaneThe West Australian
Thu, 3 April 2025 2:00AM
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Peter Dutton has landed in Perth promising millions of dollars to WA’s key industries during his first visit to the State since the campaign officially began.
The Opposition Leader said he wanted the State to continue to be the powerhouse of the nation’s economy but said it needed a government that played to WA’s strengths, not worked against it.
“Unfortunately, crucial industries like mining and agriculture are under threat from an Albanese Labor Government that is more interested in appeasing inner-city Greens activists, than the prosperity of our nation,” Mr Dutton said.
The Coalition will announce $600 million for a new “Ag and Mining Roads” fund at a campaign event with industry leaders on Thursday.
The money will be spent over four years to upgrade roads critical to getting products into domestic and export markets, and will be granted after consultation with truckies, miners and farmers — though it is not yet decided how much would be allocated to WA.
“Australia relies on the strength of our mining and agricultural sectors — but they can’t operate at full potential when the roads connecting them to markets are not up to scratch,” Mr Dutton said.
“That’s why this announcement is so important to WA infrastructure and investment.”
He’s pledged $6.5m to renovate an Afghani mosque in Melbourne.
$600m for a nationwide regional roads fund is pathetic.
The WA LayBore State Guv’ment has milked enough royalty money from the Mining Industry to fix its own roads. Get spending Roger C(r)ook,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
So he’s pledging $600M specifically to benefit Gina Rinehart. Good ROI by her.
What about Twiggy? And Holmes à Court?
Piss off, swivel-eyed Nazi.
So Gina R operates the only mining business in Australia. Who would have guessed?
Hey Nazi, you really are a moron.
Farmers don’t need handouts – they just need government to get off their backs and do the infrastructure jobs they are in power to do!
Typical Marxist governments – convinced that by taxing people, the infrastructure just appears like magic.
Utterly unable to see that taxing isn’t the goal – it’s the means to an end.
He is proposing to improve infrastructure.
At today’s costs how far do you suppose $600m will go?
Perth is the place to be. Looks like the heat is over now too.
Daylight saving? What’s that?
A means whereby some state governments torment parents with young children.
It’s a form of regulation that insists men will get an erection on the way to work.
🙂
Hmmm.
Not following it closely but I had the impression that a kid had asked to be excused.
But it looks like she was doing it off her own bat and involving the whole school.
How she planned this to play out …
1. Send out the letter dripping with “inclusivity” and “respect” which is “taking the temperature of the school communidy”.
2. The pre-arranged responses come in from her lefty pals. BTW, in this context, “school communidy” means anyone in her circle of Karens, who may or may not have any connection to the school.
3. She then advises that the “overwhelming majority” (25 out of 35 responses) of the “school communidy” wants to ditch Anzac Day.
All worked beautifully until the phone switchboard in the Minister’s office melted and she got her horoscope read to her.
Also, as a Cat mentioned in the previous OT, there is most likely NO choice to opt out when “welcome to country”, is being mandated in the quadrangle.
Speaking of April Fools, Volcano Cafe had a rather good 1 April blogpost, which is a bit of a tradition.
Mount Rainier development (1 Apr)
The first para in italics has just been added so as not to confuse gullible visitors, but the original was a joy to read cold. And some great graphics too!
The comment section sort of got hijacked though since Iceland decided to erupt again on the same day and Kilauea on Hawaii started to produce some awesome fire fountains.
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Cute owl
That can’t be real.
Oh look, rabid swivel-eyed Nazi is here!
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Independent Curtin MP Kate Chaney has launched an extraordinary tirade against Seven West Media, accusing the company of running a “smear campaign” against her as she vies for reelection in her formerly blue-ribbon seat.
In a statement released Wednesday, Chaney said the Kerry Stokes-chaired company – which has significant control of the media landscape in Chaney’s home state of WA – was running a campaign against her to claw back lost influence on Australian politics.
Hahahahaha
I’ve been proven an empty vessel and will be begging daddy for a job soon.
The swing this time is on back towards the Libs and some of these seats will be away from left leaning groups like Climate200.
Needs to join forces with the Kangaroo Court guy.
Independent Curtin MP Kate Chaney has launched an extraordinary tirade against Seven West Media, accusing the company of running a “smear campaign” against her as she vies for reelection in her formerly blue-ribbon seat.
Back in 2022, up against Scumbag, the Teals were treated with kid gloves by most of the media and commentariat. Many even billed the hard-left Teals as ‘independent Liberals’….cough, cough. However in 2025 there’s a torchlight being shone on them and they don’t like it one bit. They truly are such hypocrites.
Teals scooped up a lot of the anti SloMo vote. Will be a lot harder this time around. Lot of Lieboral corflute around Curtin. I suspect Chaney knows she’s finished.
I’m really enjoying Trump tariff reactions from dickheads around the world.
Some common themes appearing, none of which display any internal logic.
Apparently Trump is an economic ignoramous who is destroying the US with these tariffs which will lead to inflation and recession.
Ummmm. So shouldn’t the response be to drop their own tariffs and restrictions immediately?
Yiz can’t have it both ways idiots.
You can’t claim tariffs really really bad and keep your own.
Notice, Trump at least is logically consistent in claiming he loves tariffs and then implementing them.
The other side have to figure out at least something consistent.
The “we hate tariffs when you do it to us” isn’t a logical argument against tariffs. In fact it is an argument for tariffs, because it implies they give an unfair advantage which is precisely trump’s claim.
The reality of it will unfold over time, and we will find out exactly what happens when the major consumer and still industrial nation for the first time in modern history reverses course on global free trade.
I’m buggered if I know what will happen, and increasingly convinced that the “experts” don’t know either.
Every channel this morning has had it on constant coverage, of course with the genuflections to Albo’s stateman like opposition. TDS is a great distraction squirrel from the mess wallet wizard has made of the economy.
I’ll reiterate what I said last night. I have never seen in my life the main stream media so invested in getting a Prime Minister and his party across the line.
Trumps racked in billions of investment dollars. Majority of countries are like deers in the headlights, they can offer the same, encourage manufacturing in the country. We cant because we dont have cheap reliable base load power and we are stymied between the Greens net zero BS and the rainbow serpent. We become a modern day stone age culture.
Yep apparently a policy announced months ago before the election is a bombshell and a surprise.
Arky! We expect you to KNOW what will happen!
Chicoms are not just going after the low end auto market, the premium auto market is about to be obliterated. They, aside from stealing every bit of IP that can get their hands on, have been paying big bucks to western engineers and designers to work for them. One of many:
Huawei Maextro S800 Luxury Sedan | Technology Demonstration
So much for trade surplus dollars are harmless.
Agreed.
E.g. Those economists that are wrong about everything, all the time.
Albo trying to talk up the “community pharmacy” as if it’s like a local pub.
“My shout! Fizzy Beroccas all round!”
Pssst…(sotto voce) Got anything harder?
LOL. Albo, Bad Penny and Kevin Rudd who all loudly slagged Trump over and over now say that tariffs aren’t the act of a friend.
‘Not the act of a friend’: Albanese blasts Trump’s new tariffs (Paywallian)
Albo speaking about Year 7 economics is especially rich, given he’s been raping the voters with taxes and high energy costs. What a bunch of hypocrites.
So, given how Labor is trying to align Dutton and Trump as two peas from the same pod, why aren’t the stupid Liberals throwing it back, aligning Handsome Boy with Xi?
One reason why they might not go harder go harder is because the Libs are counting on Chinese expat votes in key seats.
A few weeks before the campaign started Dutton was promising better relations with the Chicoms.
Similarly, Dutton won’t touch Indian migration (apart from the 25% cut across the board from all sources for two years, which is merely symbolic and will do little to relieve the pressure on the housing sector).
Because they’re stupid?
Whereas Mr Albanese maintains a total ban on the importation of US beef under the guise of biosecurity.
Trump, at least, is no fool.
I don’t get the 46% slap against Vietnam. Does the orange oaf think the Vietnam war is still going?
Perhaps it’s because he’s worried the Chinese will move factories to Vietnam in order to arb the tariffs.
The Chicoms are already there, up and running, JC.
Rog
And Fiji copped something like that too? 90% of Americans would never have heard of Fiji and if they did they probably think it’s an Island in the Caribbean.
Fiji imposes a 63% tariff on American imports.
Wall Street Journal main page.
Fiji is a Carribbean Island? And you trust their reporting?
Dude, it was meant to as a joke.
To ask the question is to answer it.
Hello Range Rover, Landcruiser, hello Ferrari, anyone paying attention over there?
BYD Yangwang U9: The Reasonably Priced Hypercar!
My youtube feed is full of these chicom EVs….How do you spell tariff again…
White House abruptly fires career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move
Sad. And after all that effort on recruiting from ACLU and similar organisations.
Media Lie About Deported ‘Maryland Father’s’ Legal Status, Downplay His Gang Ties
Amazing the number of people I talk to who think tariffs didn’t exist before January 2025, and they a wholly a Trump invention.
When I school them on NAFTA and how Mexico and particularly Canadia were taking the piss with their own tariffs on US goods and also allowing back-door access for Chinah to US markets they fall silent.
It is also interesting to hear people quacking on about how Tangerine Man is destroying Australian business.
Oh?
The concern being shown is touching, but I didn’t hear much of it when Renewball driven power prices were destroying Australian business (and with a far higher impost than a 10% tariff).
And, when Xi imposed tariffs on Australian exports, there wasn’t open hostility towards him. It was more like “see what you made him do” with stern advice not to poke the Panda with a stick.
This illustrates why one should not rely upon the msm.
Wonder how much Chinese stuff Australia gets via NZ?
That’s why I don’t buy anything with “Product of NZ” label.
Linda McMahon Abruptly Tells States Their Time to Spend COVID Relief Has Passed
Avi:
MUST WATCH: Avi Yemini and Billboard Chris take on the HOSTILE streets of Melbourne
Because multi tiered “justice” depending on sex/race/gay/etc is obviously the superior form of it…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/02/victoria-anti-vilification-social-cohesion-laws-sam-kerr-ntwnfb
The Australian state of Victoria has passed laws to crack down on hate speech, which include a so-called “Sam Kerr clause” to prevent the harsh new penalties from being used to punish the people they are intended to protect.
…
To secure the bill’s passage through parliament, the Victorian Labor government struck a deal with the Greens to add several safeguards, including requiring police and the courts to consider the “social, historical, and cultural context” when making decisions about vilification in both civil and criminal cases.
It was referred to as the “Sam Kerr clause” during the debate, said Animal Justice party MP Georgie Purcell, who supported the amendment.
killing kuffr is back on the menu boyz!
I just bought a large pile of Dow futures currently down just over 1000 points (-2.5%). This is way over discounted and as usual Asia over-reacts.
Hope I’m right. 🙂
I’m thinking… In the short to medium term only, isn’t this a good position for Australia to be in—at least on the import side of things?
If the US chokes off demand for imports, it creates an oversupply. If that happens, there should be some discounting to offload the excess supply globally. All else being equal, that should be good for us on this side.
Yes.
It’s the knock on effects.
Not least of which is our exports to Chinah, some of which ended up as manufactured goods destined for the US.
Singapore iron ore spot price is only down about 1.4% and trading around 101 bucks a ton. You can draw a circle around $101. It’s not really reacting.
Greens call for Australian ‘Liberation Day’Greens leader Adam Bandt had a two-word response to the tariff announcement: “End AUKUS.”
The minor party has stridently opposed the deal for Australia to buy US nuclear-powered submarines then build its own from the start.
Mr Bandt followed up his simple statement by saying Australia needed to disentangle itself from the US.
“Forget Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’, today should be Australia’s liberation day — when we finally liberate ourselves from being shackled too closely to Trump,” he posted on social media.
“Trump is dangerous. It’s time for Labor & Liberal to act. Let’s cancel AUKUS & set our own independent foreign policy.”
Liberation – from the Greens?
The Greens increased their primary HoR vote in 2022, something neither the LNP nor the ALP managed to do.
Bandt is tapping into resentment among the young and the majors have only themselves to blame.
As for an “independent” foreign policy…yeah, right.
But a certain fat chinese communist bastard isn’t, right, bum bandit?
That would be the fat Chinese bastard trying to finally put in place a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, would it?
The excremetal member for Canbreaaaaagh Mr pocock on their ABCcess this morning sooking about the impact losing 40,000 Pubic serpents would have on small businesses in the festering shithole.
My considered response: Cry more
Do all the crying
Drown yourself in the lake of tears you cry.
Who knows…young, aspirational types from Sydney might move in to take advantage of all those below market property sales?
Howard and Costello got the razor out in 1996. It worked. However, the ugly growth grew back.
Time for Dutton to get the razor out again.
Ms Sullivan told parents last week they could let teachers know if they didn’t want their children to attend to accommodate a small number of Christian students who don’t “commemorate war”.
Are any parents allowed to let their teachers know if they don’t want their children to attend ‘ramadan, pride month, black history month and NAIDOC week because they don’t commemorate islam and made up pagan stories my nana told me?
Asking for a friend.
Exactly.
Adam Creighton made a very astute comment that I read yesterday: an economy can either sustain high wages or high energy prices—it can’t have both.
100% correct, and that’s why we’re in big trouble.
Unfortunately, the trade union membership doesn’t read Adam Creighton.
If they did, they might abandon Labor the way QLD coal miners have.
It should be, an economy can probably get away with one or two out of high wages, high levels of variously coloured regulatory tape, and high energy prices.
But not all three.
Rather insensitive and badly timed.
I’ve had a headache all morning, which unless I get another opinion is an aggressive non-McWillams brain tumour.
I’m not expecting to last the weekend.
Well, stop posting stuff on a backwater blog read by almost nobody and use your remaining time wisely.
Bwah ha ha ha.
“I’ve been diagnosed with PMS – Penfolds-McWilliams Syndrome”.
(A yuuuge hangover).
Had to laugh, Israel was like the well behaved kid sitting at the front of the class with an apple for the teacher. Yesterday or a few days ago they announced they would be cutting all US impacting tariffs to zero. They still copped 17%.
Do they come out in front?
One cool chap that does not take sh8t from anyone.
It’s been a fun ride watching this bloke over the last few months.
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Charles Veitch:
A Day With the Hate Fuelled Wildlife of the Manchester Urban Jungle
Rabz, I kinda see you as an expert. 🙂
But on a serious note, do these tariffs impact the services sector? Would say Israeli software used in the US attract a tariff? Do you know?
I wondered what exactly Norfolk Island exported to the USA given they copped a 29% tariff? All I could think of was tourism packages? ( Or maybe some fish?)
Avi Yemini and Billboard Chris take on the HOSTILE streets of Melbourne
that first interview is a shocker
Someone remind me why we are allowing these people into the country?
I don’t think loading a bunch of over lockers and sole moulds onto a ship and finding a shed and a bunch of girls to operate them is a terribly hard task.
The textile and chemical industries that fed that foot ware factory might be a different proposition.
Ummm yes it is, if this anecdote is any guide.
Our American friend runs an online specialist garment business for people entering o leaving hospital. They’re basically tracksuits with lots of zippers in the right places.
Several years ago, Trump imposed hostile tariffs against China. She went to potential domestic contractors for quotes. They were 150% to 200% higher than the Chinese. It would’ve killed the business. Eventually she moved the operation to Vietnam and ended up with sub-standard supplies.
Which is the trouble with tariffs. Nike will get relief and then what happens with the pleadings by others. This then becomes a pleading game – not an economic one.
What makes you think Nike will get a free pass?
Just a guess: It’s an American icon, and the administration wouldn’t let it go under.
The best, highest-paid job in the world at the moment is that of a D.C. lobbyist.
Oh, OK.
I take your point about “special exemptions” which are bad enough at industry level, but really, really bad if granted at enterprise level.
And it defeats Orange Hitler’s stated aim of bringing the manufacturing base back home.
Nike struck me as a funny one because they were totally on the BLM bandwagon and, despite their marketing imagery, it is really almost in the luxury brand category.
They could well afford to manufacture in the US.
I doubt it because their operation is so scaled with those 450,000 workers offshore making sneakers.
The US doesn’t have 450,000 workers primed up to go work in fcking Nike factories. That’s just not going to happen. Can robots eventually do most of the work? Possible I guess, but that’s about a decade away.
Since almost everything is automated I call BS on that number.
That will require they absorb some of that big fat profit margin they’re used to. Either that, or they cut back production to go for the ‘scarce luxury’ ploy.
As long as the Don gets to wet his beak when they come to tug their forelocks at the king’s court, they will be fine. They can have some cosy nostrum at Mar-A-Lago while they wait, capo–in-hand.
Maybe I don’t understand that industry, but it seems to me that a product made from a few cents of rubber and plastic and vinyl fabric shat out of moulds and cutting machines and glued and stitched together by teenagers on minimum wages, then sold for hundreds of dollars shouldn’t be that vulnerable.
I can’t believe that making the things takes up that much of the 30 odd billion Nike spends on cost of sales.
They spend 5 billion on advertising and promotion.
16 billion on administration.
The American market is 40%? of their sales.
Most of their risk is in currency movements.
Take a $200 shoe.
Lands in the USA at say, $80, to be generous.
The tariff is 46% of $80 = $37.
New price of shoe= $237.
No one paying $200 for the same brand of shoe their sports hero wears is foregoing those expensive shoes because of 37 bucks.
Have I erred anywhere in this calculus?
A quick look at Australia’s exports to the US by category tells us that the meat and livestock industry is way out in front and centre of the tariff imbroglio.
I’m very far from expert here, but there must be a significant non-tariff reason why the US, itself a major meat producer and consumer, imported $4.12bn of meat and edible offal from Australia in 2024.
Also interesting to note the extent to which the other Australian exports are market-traded commodities rather than what the ABS once termed ‘elaborately transformed manufactures’. Unless the Donald believes he’s going to depress these markets by 10%, it’s hard to see how these tariffs are going to benefit US industry.
(On the other hand, it’s Springtime for the US umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips industry.)
I daresay Australian’s exports to the US would mostly be feed for their livestock. Guess those rural Trump voters are getting some more inflation on the prices of their inputs.
Cannibal cows?
Holy Mackerel Fatman.
Fatman being Monty Pox Virus.
You say that like we have a monopoly on grain.
When Donald the Second gets the EPA and all sorts of other regulatory bodies off the back of US farmers, and fuel prices drop by 20% due to drill, baby, drill, the question becomes academic. We would struggle to compete anyway.
I guess you didn’t get up to that bit in your five weeks of Economics 101, eh?
It’s always funny when you lot invoke “drill baby drill” like it is a policy that means anything at all, performing seals barking along with brainless Sarah Palin.
Piss off, Nazi.
heh – seen this?
https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/03/25/alaska-wins-lawsuit-that-could-open-arctic-refuge-to-oil-exploration/
“In an order published Tuesday, Judge Sharon Gleason wrote that the U.S. Department of the Interior acted illegally when it canceled oil and gas leases held by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority on land within the refuge.”
BTW, if I remember correctly, AIDEA disperses profits to native peoples and causes in Alaska.
Fatboi doesn’t know Iowa produces more wheat that all of Australia. One small State. We have to import wheat to make bread.
US livestock is fed steak? LOL.
No wonder you failed Economics 1.
Livestock feed in the US would get a whole lot cheaper if Trump repeals the stupid ethanol in petrol law. Burning food in cars is immoral.
Well, yes, add that to the list of regulatory impositions which hamstring ‘Merican farmers.
Tariffs need not be inflationary when coupled with sweeping deregulation.
Piss off, Nazi.
I notice that the oil stockpile has been getting inputs instead of the outflow to Chinerr by the Bidens.
The USA has had to import Australian beef as it doesn’t have the beef herd to meet domestic demand. The US beef herd is a lot lower owing to drought and other things.
And a lot of Australian beef goes into those burgers that the Yanks love so much. So, up goes the price of those burgers.
That really does help with US inflation. /sarc
Yes, US market is mostly hamburger beef. The good stuff is a minority.
I think you have to drill down into the numbers a bit more.
My understanding is that beef exports to the US may not be all derived from 18 month old Angus and Hereford steers.
It may contain traces of their ageing mothers and 6-7 year old dairy cows.
My visits to the local abattoir retail outlet for a look at their “export quality” eye fillet confirms this.
They are about 75% the size of a bred-for-purpose eye fillet.
I think most of it goes for hamburger mince.
Which is good news for m0nster if there is a glut of hamburgers on the domestic market.
He’s a vegetarian and heavily into carbs. It won’t affect him.
Who knew Krispy Kremes were vegetarian.
I can’t see how this can make any economic sense.
United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper (Phys.org, 2 Apr)
An Atlas V to launch 27 satellites? Incredibly expensive, especially as the story says it has to have five solid fuel boosters strapped onto it. Still I like Bezos’s vision, if his money doesn’t run out.
He put up an update on his New Glenn rocket yesterday.
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1906753882375516247
It is supposed to land its booster onto a drone ship like Elon’s Falcon 9 does. Unfortunately the booster went kaboom in the first launch attempt while trying to land, but the second stage made it to orbit, which is a damn fine achievement for a first launch. I like the competitive tension between Musk and Bezos.
Bezos’s main use is as a bad example of how not to do private space.
On a step, a priest sat next to a drunk struggling to read a newspaper. Suddenly, with a slurred voice, the drunk asked the priest:
“Do you know what arthritis is?”
The parish priest soon thought of taking the opportunity to lecture the drunk and replied:
“It’s a disease caused by sinful and unruly life: excess, consumption of alcohol, drugs, marijuana, crack, and certainly lost women, prostitutes, promiscuity, sex, binges, and other things I dare not say.”
The drunk widened his eyes, shut up, and continued reading the newspaper.
A little later the priest, thinking that he had been too hard on the drunk, tried to soften:
“How long have you had arthritis?”
“I don’t have arthritis! It says here in the paper that the Pope has it.”
It’s going to be interesting to see how China, Japan, and SK jointly respond to these tariffs.
How long have you been having these wet dreams over the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 2.0?
Interesting that you said yesterday that it would take the US a decade to develop ship-building capability if SK and Japan pull the pin (as if they would anyway).
But when it was postulated a couple of weeks ago that Europe would have trouble filling the void if they didn’t have access to US military tech, you said “No problem. They can sort it before tea-time on Tuesday”.
With hearty belly laughs.
And you have the Jelly Belly to do that all day long…………
The Critic
Coming soon to an election near you.
British Labour might have committed political suicide after flooding the country with Third World immigrants to “rub the right’s nose in multiculturalism”.
Will the Liars here heed the lesson? Of course not, they are waaay smarter than those silly Poms. Just ask them, they’ll tell you.
A bit late for the ALP.
Just ask Tony Burke.
Liberal party will find the same fickleness with Indian demographics they are so wooing.
Top men.
Importing Middle Easterners is literally playing with fire.
It won’t be many more years before even Green politicians realise that, when their own seats come under threat.
Stock up on crocodile food.
Sky continues to fudge the reality. Going out and rounding up some vox pops who say Abalone would be better in dealing with Trump is more revealing about Sky than about the relative merits of the contenders.
Tariff Derangement Syndrome is making them unwatchable today, and possibly for weeks. We have trouble keeping up with the volume of Fox News (The Five, Laura, Jesse, Hannity, Gutfeld, and others) so watching these craven Laborites on Sky isn’t very attractive.
We have trouble keeping up with the volume of Fox News (The Five, Laura, Jesse, Hannity, Gutfeld, and others)
ditto
We record a lot then skip through at the end of the day eliminating ads and repeat topics, and watch in full some good interviews and novel items.
After Dark we are pretty much only bothering with Credlin each weeknight and sometimes a bit of Paul Murray, but the rest are too repetative.
I would rather watch Channel 7 daytime shows than Sky’s.
Sky could have fooled me.
Trump has such contempt for Albosleazy he’s reportedly not taking the latter’s phone calls.
Why the US imports so much Australian beef is the question. They have plenty over there.
I recall a fuss years ago when (probably in the Clinton era) they made allegations that some Australian beef packages (Frozen?) contained meat that was suspect.
Geoff Pryor, cartoonist in the Canberra Times, did a good one showing inspectors examining a package and saying “this one has some torn up betting tickets in it!”.
Most US beef is feedlot finished and fatty.
Most Australian exports to US is 95% chemically lean beef which is mixed with the US beef to make mince suitable for hamburger beef etc.
our beef comes in at the bottom of the market.
US cattle producers are presently getting as much for a 100 kg calf as an Australian producer might get for a prime 3 year old steer. Hence the US importers can chew up a 10% increase in price for breakfast.
This Australian beef is high quality for the job it does and is very much valued by US importers.
The US domestic beef herd is historically low due drought and other stuff, live cattle imports from Mexico is much reduced due to screw worm fly outbreak there so demand for Aus beef is high.
As with anything else coming out of Canberra the Pryor cartoon was inaccurate and based in fantasy.
Inaccurate but funny, Cassie.
Hamburger patties.
Meat substitution scandal.
They were putting in all manner of other meats – camel, goat, whatever – and passing it off as beef.
that was 1981 – 44 years ago.
That was in the UK. The EU stuff they were buying was made up of all sorts of beasties. Lol!
Just goes to show – I remember that cartoon.
What a gem!
Trump’s list of existing tariffs on which he based today’s “reciprocal” tariffs is instructive.
Turns out that some of these numbers only make sense if you divide America’s trade deficit with that country by its imports.
That is how stupid this is.
Tell us again about Japan’s 700% tariff on American rice.
Japan’s non-agriculture tariffs on US imports average around 2.5%.
Agriculture is a special case, as you well know.
Didn’t you once fail economics, Nazi?
A special case with special needs like you. Are you on the NDIS?
Piss off, Nazi. Go play with your Hamas buddies.
On the train tracks.
Sanchez:
I asked Grok to come up with an estimate on how much it costs Nike for a pair of average sneakers to manufacture in Vietnam. It sounds about right.
If they stay in Vietnam and the tariffs remain, the costs go up by 47%. You can toy around with the impact on the cost structure. How much the maker swallows, how much Nike, how much the consumer and if the exchange rate moves.
They sell those things at US $200- $300.
So, will anyone not buy their sports hero’s shoes because they go from $250 to $270 or $280?
Will they make most of it up in foreign currency movements anyway?
Correction:
average price US$110
But that probably includes the kiddies ones.
Sales wouldn’t go to zero obviously, but could they fall by 20%? Will people last out old sneakers for longer than before? Perhaps.
In any event Nike are the shoe/sneaker of choice for black Americans.
If the purpose is to reshore Nike back home and they need say 40% of the workforce of the 450,000 workers. That’s just not going to happen at least for a decade until more automation can be figured out.
But higher US tariffs impacting say Vietnam isn’t the only component that goes into determining the exchange rate.
$18 – $25 (US dollars) sounds way high.
Putting aside the really high end gear, these are relatively simple products.
Let’s say the material costs $10 (that’s generous because most of the “gel inserts” and the like are just marketing gimmicks).
Google tells me the labour rate in Vietnam is $3.10. Which would imply it would take 2-3 labour hours to make a pair of shoes (another $6-$9). I reckon it would take 20 minutes, tops, in those sweatshops.
I wouldn’t mind betting Nike has a wholly owned middle-man entity to do “QC and shipping”. They buy the shoes for, say, $5 a pair and then “spend” $15 on QC etc (i.e. do nothing) and bill the US importer $20. This would have been primarily to avoid accusations of running a sweat-shop.
Don’t forget though. There are the transportation costs that zoom higher once they reach US shores. US ports are grossly inefficient and expensive and then there’s internal transport costs getting to stores or sell on-line. It adds up.
Ah, yes, but if they move back onshore they avoid port costs.
LOL. A condition increasingly suffered by “experts” across the planet.
Fortunately, there is no known cure.
Labor’s Assistant Minister for Women (jobs for the girls) was just on Sky.
I wasn’t really paying attention, as I was doing housework (ahem!), but I heard “Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton”, so I guess they’re trotting out the old “they have a women problem” again. Just like the Democrats they have to do ad hominem attacks since their record of actual government isn’t saleable.
If they’re doing it, it’s because their feedback tells them it works at some level. With compulsory voting and a tight result predicted, the politically disengaged who fall for this line can be crucial. Sussan Ley is deputy in order to deflect this, but is all but invisible.
Didn’t our rabid Nazi admit to failing economics?
Miserably so. Couldn’t even get through first year Deakin without dropping out because it was too hard for him. They also didn’t serve donuts in the canteen and that didn’t help.
Didn’t he say two weeks before switching to Jism.
I’ve seen security film of Munted breaking into the automated donut machine in the Deakin canteen.
It was a bit dark, but you can’t miss the body shape.
https://youtu.be/zh4k6-fuIzw
I know, right?
And, yet, here he is waffling on about all things Economics.
It’s like reading “How to pick up chicks” by Richard Simmons.
Speaking of our be-numbered Nazi, is that a Miata in this pic?:
Fiat Bambino I believe.
Please do not RSVP to our AGM. Thank you
Scottish mountains are queer and erotic.
The Gender Of Mountains (28 Mar, via Instapundit)
No wonder my family fled Scotland for better places, like Jamaica and Australia. Although it appears this insanity is now catching up to us again.
WHat they smoking up there? peat moss?
Nike has existing factories in the Phillipines.
Trump tariff on Philippines: 17%
I guess that’s where Nike will mostly go.
Probably.
I know someone up here currently going through the ringer for trying to recover a bond, his tenants pets (Which he isn’t allowed to refuse) made a mess and they just skipped out leaving the mess, house was similar too.
The article below, despite the rental shortage this is not an uncommon occurrence here. The whole RTA is pro tenant (The guy I know is dealing with them), laws are constantly changing to protect s-bags, TICA is a joke (3yrs for a delinquent tenant, no wonder this keeps happening) and a lot of real estates are only interested in the commission:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/renting/disgusting-townsville-landlord-horrified-by-state-of-house/news-story/e61be96fe22e79cf798fb947c10f8f02
I wouldn’t rent my place out again given what I went through last time. We’ll get to the stage where the only landlords left will be slumlords well versed in the vagaries and loopholes of the act.
We sold ours when the tenant moved out voluntarily.
Somehow I don’t think this has anything to do with “Health”
I also don’t think that victims of home invasions think this should be government’s high priority.
Follow the moneeeeeee………………………
Take a look at what’s happened to exchange rates of some of the majors today. We’ve been told by the experts that the dollar should strengthen with the advent of tariffs.
The Euro today has strengthened by .6%
Yen by 1.1%
Swiss by .86%
Aussie’s fallen by .35%
At the start of the year, the Euro has actually strengthened by about 5.5% even though we knew tariffs were incoming.
The point is that exchange rates may not absorb some of the tariffs costs as we were told by the experts. So what happens to the US inflation rate? It’s not a rhetorical question, but it doesn’t look good from the exchange rate perspective at the moment.
PPP doesn’t hold in the short-run?
Sure, but the reaction to (theoretically) less demand from the US should’ve strengthened the dollar though, no?
Agree. Perhaps a take-away is that no one knows how this will play out.
Speaking of the Euro, why is it strong? It’s biggest economy, is struggling.
Leaving aside the trade abortion.
The added fiscal spending and the slight easing in the US bond rate, due to lower growth expectations in the US, I suspect.
Also, JC aren’t mortgage rates tied to ten year yield rates?
Yeah, most are I think. Although when I last had a mortgage it was tied to Prime, but I’m talking about mid 90s.
The Bus Driver has given his side of the story now.
Who to believe? It’s a no brainer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14563827/Bus-driver-crash-Virginia-Giuffre-four-days-live-story.html
Yeah, but the witness you just interviewed sure did.
If the EU got hit with 20%, UK 10%, why did Switzerland get clobbered with 31%. I don’t get it.
Trump and his merry men obviously know more than we do. The Swiss have had everything tied up to suit themselves for quite a while.
I think it relates to agric. Switzerland is highly protective of some of its agric sectors like milk based products. It’s industrial and services sectors are very open and duty free I think.
Yep, you are probably right, JC.
Comment , from the Oz. Methinks JiMM votes Greens?
JiMM
4 hours ago
our punishingly high top marginal income tax rates
I almost choked on my cornflakes when I read this.
One of the greatest problems we face as a nation is the failure of our political class to adequately tax the rich and corporations.
Every billionaire serves to illustrate that the system is broken. Since we drastically slashed the tax on the top end of the food chain we have seen a massive shift of resources from the rest to the very very very rich. Which does none of us any favours.
Nobody has a right to be born rich. Nobody has a right to be able to live a life of luxury while others have to toil hard to just survive. We live in a ‘commonwealth’ where no one person should be provided with greater liberties and rights than another.
We need to reintroduce the 90% tax rate for earnings greater than a million a year.
We need to introduce a death tax that will allow the transfer of a home and up to five million dollars per sibling or dependent – but no more. If you think that a five million dollar headstart on the rest of the country is unfair then I am sorry but we will have to disagree.
Look at the USA currently to see what happens when a country allows wealth disparities to go unchecked.
And so I give Australia these wise words from a Grand Master –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBg7DnQjjcY
I remember at the time seeing that on TV.
Kerry Packer game, set and match!
I’m betting JiMM has the arse out of his jeans and his parents on the dole. No house to leave their offspring!
Him bludging from tax payers as well
just goes to show how fragile democracy is, when half the population is thick as a brick
Actually written and authorised by Adam Bandt of the Australian Communist Party.
Why does someone earning more have to pay a higher rate. They already pay more.
I remember when the left was fiercely anti-globalisation, fiercely anti-corporatisation, and fiercely pro-tariff to protect the jobs of the working class.
I remember the riots in Seattle in 2000 when the left rioted against globalisation and corporatisation.
What happened to the left?
The orange man.
They got left behind.
Grift is easier than working.
The leftards discovered that they preferred the lifestyle of the rich.
A message to the Australian ‘Wally Pollies’.
Now is the time to build a Fortress Australia –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg
From East Asian Coprosperity Sphere 2.0 to Eurasian Coprosperity Sphere 1.0.
Yeah, you think the Euros are going to open further to Chinese imports? Miracles can always happen I guess.
Given the things I’m seeing happening it’s certainly possible.
And winning the lottery is possible.
Do you think the Europeans will discuss China’s alliance with Russia dealing with Ukraine? How will that be handled?
It’s called pragmatism, and particular members of NATO are supreme practitioners of it.
I’m not sure that will need to be discussed. I’m not even sure what they could have against the Russians outside of being dragged into a proxy war by the US only to have this drain their military assets and cost them economically. They’re better off swallowing their pride.
Well, they have exported their industrial capacity to China, so what choice do they have?
To this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w
A “MEETING” doth not a trade bloc make.
But I’m happy for the Euros to get into bed with Xi and watch him roger them senseless.
You conjured a coprosperity sphere out of meeting.
Not conjured, DB – predicted a scenario.
Low odds, certainly. But worthy of thinking through.
Some insight into supposed anomalies in US tariffs:
But, yet, they’re still on the list…Australia, there’s a trade surplus. The U.S. has a trade surplus with Australia. They’re still on the list. So, are you thinking this is a negotiation in process?”
Trump is exposing a fair bit of hypocrisy during this exercise.
Most educational!
My understanding is that US beef is not imported due to BSE.
How does frozen or chilled meat transmit BSE to local herds? If there is the slightest possibility that this happens I’m happy with the ban.
We’ve had enough pests and diseases cross our borders without even more. And that’s not even taking into account the bipeds.
Look at the Abalone Immigration ‘Policy’ if you can call it that.
Plenty of pests being invited in.
Respect. This Female Athlete has earned it.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/04/02/womens-fencer-takes-knee-protest-refuses-face-trans-opponent-this-is-man/
Surely all these women in sports that allow men who want to enforce their alternate reality to compete against them could just walk away and start their own competitions?
They can’t because the men who pretend to be women are not after the sport – they are after forcing women to publicly accept their refusal of reality.
It’s about domination and bullying and is a disgrace to the people and organisations that allow it.
Good for Her !!!! Three Cheers !!
Redmond Sullivan is a bloke. No advantage over female sporting rivals. No siree!
@rsehole.
What a disgusting lowlife, taking advantage of young girls.
Why are so many tranny athletes in girls and women’s sport built like brick shithouses?
Usually fat blokes who are below average in male sports.
Respect.
And the only one with balls.
It’s going to be a long campaign – I have a flyer in my letterbox assuring me that “Western Australia will be worse off under Peter Dutton..”
Does it give a citation?
The Thoughts of President AnAl.
Trump Tariffs & Liberation Day
“President Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff on U.S. imports, with steeper reciprocal levies on goods from Europe, Japan, China, and more than 50 other nations. The problem is that he will be blamed for the recession/depression the world is headed into, which will not bottom until August 25th, 2028. Economists widely criticized tariffs for deepening the global trade collapse during the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were targeting agriculture because they did not understand currency. I disagree with what Trump is doing with tariffs. Some are justified where the EU is very abusive, for they are still living in the days of Marxism. You keep high tariffs to protect local jobs at the expense of your living standards. Citizens must pay 20% more for goods made domestically because they are subsidized by blocking imports from other provinces, as inside Canada, or nations such as the EU.
I believe Trump will have a PR problem because the economy is turning down because of global debt and warmongering, but the LEFT and economists, who are biased leftists in general, will blame Trump and his tariffs. I stated at the November WEC in 2024 that it did not matter who won economically, the world is in trouble, and we were headed into a recession by 2028.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/trade-war/trump-tariffs-liberation-day/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
And there you are Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Only two paragraphs.
There is a problem with the above. The EU is not a Nation although it finks’ it is.
Eu is partially funded by Tariffs.
13% according to this site.
How do tariffs work?
Thanks to the customs union the customs authorities of all EU countries work together as if they were one. They apply the same tariffs to goods imported into their territory from outside the EU.
75% of the collected customs duties are destined to the EU budget, representing 13.7% of the total budget for 2024
It also uses those tariffs to “influence “countries
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-tariffs-explained/
The EU Commission is an UNELECTED body. And has ALL the power.
The EU Parliament is ELECTED and has no power.
Democracy for the Elites. Not for the People.
What a JOKE. A Sick JOKE.
JR analysis.
The Currency Lad used to occasionally link to him, but The Brendan Option 209 on YouTube which went up a few hours ago is a belter. (Brendan Kilcoyne, genial Irish priest who DGAF)
Seven months since he posted anything on his blog.
I don’t think he is coming back.
A troll named Martin infests the blog.
Who is the primary reason I haven’t gone back there since earlier this year.
To say he needs professional psychological help is an understatement.
Utterly deranged.
LOL.
speaking of optimus
How it started, how its going
Pity Trump can’t tariff this.
Carry on Cowboy –
GEM Ch 92
Before you take money out of the Bank you are supposed to put money into it……………..LOL
Tell that to Sid James in ‘Stodge City’………………….
As the Town Mayor said – ‘I come from a family of right burkes’.
Probably related to Tony Burke.
You have to take a posse with you. Why, don’t they like cats? I said a posse not a pussy……………………lol
I have seen nearly all the Carry Ons (many years ago), but I can’t recall seeing that one, although I probably have.
Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey in a “western” sounds like a hoot.
It is and so many ‘one liners’.
Dodge City is ‘Stodge City’. lol
Someone posted earlier today about RFK Jnr cutting a swathe through the Elf Department.
Lots put on leave, and a couple of big-wigs offered the opportunity to “make a real difference” by being posted to an Indian reservation.
No hurry.
Just answer by 5:00 pm tomorrow.
So funny.
These dicks would swan around DC with lapel badges declaring their “First Nations Solidarity”.
But going to work on a dingy reservation in Montana or New Mexico?
Yeah … nah.
It is the practical realisation of the fantasies many here have expressed about relocating TheirABC HQ over the years.
Warms the cockles of the heart, it does.
In the meantime, we’ll just have to settle for some of the ALPBC being relocated to Parramatta.
How r-tarded can you get Muntard? So red meat exports to US are being used for red meat products in the US to eat? Feeding high quality Australian beef to US cows and sheep eh? What a moron.
I happen to know a thing or two about the industry and the % of Australian meat that goes to the US gets mixed into hamburgers and other meat products in order to lift the US standard of meat.
Analogy: Its like you being here raises your IQ because of the others you mix with, but on your own, you’re still as dumb as dogshit.
The US will still import Australian beef for its local products. I won’t even bother getting into the economics of it given you passed your sole Keynesian unit at uni where everyone is forced to share everything and you couldn’t get your brain past that point.
Yes.
Being a blended product going into things like hamburgers, 10% will make sfa difference.
It’s not like there are two rib-eyes side by side in the supermarket and one just went up by 10%.
I was replying to Dr Faustus who was talking about meat, but I didn’t refer specifically to meat exports, I just said exports. Calm down with the weak attempt at a gotcha. Your lack of comprehension skills reflect poorly on you, not me.
You said “meat will be used as feed.”
Plain as day.
The Oz:
Anthony Albanese will be remembered as the prime minister of irrelevant anecdotes
The Mocker
5 hours ago.Updated 2 hours ago
If nothing else, Anthony Albanese will be remembered as the prime minister of personal anecdotes, especially those of marginal relevance.
Waving his Medicare card last week, Albanese invoked the late Kerry Packer and the legendary businessman’s near-death experience in 1990. Where is this going, I wondered. Silly me should have known to steel myself.
“The Australian values that say when Kerry Packer has a heart attack, he goes to the emergency department. He went to the emergency department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the same hospital that I went to when I had my car accident when I was leader of the Labor Party in January 2021, got the same level of care,” he said.
As if the infantile and patronising use of the present tense to describe events that happened (or rather didn’t happen) 35 years ago wasn’t bad enough. But Albanese, as is his wont, just had to insert himself in the story.
As with his references to being raised by a single mother in public housing, there would by now be only two or three people in Australia who are unaware Albanese had a road accident four years ago. It occurred in Hill Street in Marrickville, Sydney, when a car driven by a P-plater crossed into the wrong lane and collided with Albanese’s vehicle. The then opposition leader was conveyed to hospital by ambulance, where he remained overnight for observation and was discharged the following day.
I do not doubt it was a traumatic experience for Albanese at the time. But seemingly for him the greater trauma is the possibility we could all move on and put it behind us. January 2025: “I ended up in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Emergency Department like Kerry Packer ended up when he had a heart attack”. October 2024: “You might recall my car accident a couple of years ago”. February 2024: “I was in an accident a couple of years ago, you might remember”.
How could we forget? February 2024: “I grew up near Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown. That’s where I ended up when I had multiple – I can trace the stitches around my legs and arms, etc.” July 2023: “I ended up in the emergency department a couple of years ago after a car accident”. October 2022: “I [had] a near life-ending car crash”.
You wonder what it will take for him to stop telling us. In desperation, I have thought of writing to Sydney’s Inner West Council to beg it to install a plaque in Hill Street at the spot in question. I will even write the inscription to ensure it reflects the enormity of what took place. Something like “Albanese’s life was one of destiny, and unquestionably this narrow avoidance of disaster was a case of Providence intervening,” perhaps? But I fear even that would not quell his incessant reminiscing.
This trait is but one example of Albanese’s self-infatuation. In repeating ad nauseum his humble beginnings and the setbacks he has faced, he invites us to join him in marvelling at his achievements. It reeks of self-pity, but it is also a ploy to garner sympathy and head off criticism of his performance.
As for making it known (twice) that he and Packer were treated in the same hospital, that too is revealing. It is as much a case of compare as it is contrast. Ostensibly, Albanese cites it as a case of the latter – the billionaire businessman, irrespective of his great wealth, being brought to the same medical facility as the (self-styled) common man. But Albanese would quietly have us know that RPA Hospital has saved not just one, but two, great men.
There is another reason why Albanese is obsessed with sharing irrelevant anecdotes. It will resonate with those who have worked for an inept boss, particularly one who is incapable of getting across detail. Some try to hide their ignorance through bluff and some through bullying. And, as in Albanese’s case, some will wear down employees seeking direction by instead talking endlessly about themselves.
They also speak in platitudes.
“The Australian way is that we look after each other, is that we’re a country that in the language that we use with each other, fair dinkum, fair go, they’re part of the Australian lexicon,” said Albanese last week. “This [Medicare] card is part of Australian values.”
Speaking of cards, I can think of another that symbolise Australian values, or should I say the values of a select group of Australians. It is called the Australian Labor Party membership card.
Not just any ALP card, mind you. I am talking about the platinum version. It is an amazing card. A few examples will suffice.
It is one that allows you to occupy the highest offices in the land without ever having had a full-time job at length outside politics. Fair dinkum.
It is also one that ensures Albanese will receive an indexed pension of $350K plus a year when he retires. That is the Australian way of looking after each other, or rather us looking after Albanese.
Should Albanese wish to supplement his modest pension, his card will guarantee a lucrative directorship in an industry super fund. His fellow directors, particularly his former ministerial colleagues and fellow union members, will warmly welcome him. They look after each other, you see.
That card also gives Albanese and the members of his family access to the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge. In addition, his card has over the years magically transformed his economy class private international fares to first-class tickets at no cost to him. That was a case of then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Albanese looking after each other.
No matter how badly Australia fares under Labor, or how many businesses go under, or how much the cost of living rises, that little card will ensure Albanese never wants for anything. And if he really reckons this amounts to a fair go for all, then all I will say is there are many words in the Australian lexicon that come to mind when he makes such claims.
As for Albanese’s habit of constantly relaying personal anecdotes, I want to be clear I am not saying he should put a stop to them. In fact, I am very much looking forward to the one about what occupies him in retirement. For the good of the nation, we need to hear it sooner rather than later.
The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.
The Mocker nails the pretentious twat
Not a great idea to invoke the memory of Kerry Packer.
The bloke who handed some pompous Australian Democrats senator his arse for suggesting he wasn’t paying enough tax.
https://youtu.be/e97kq2XflKE?si=BnSjj09Lhi4YhmKB
Timeless classic.
Pretty sure that if Packer was alive today he would utterly despise Albosleazy.
Like the rest of us. And da bruvvas who installed Peanut Head as Leader of the Opposition.
Am I a bad person for laughing at this?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14566139/Anthony-Albanese-falls-stage-trying-pose-photo-campaign-trail-fail.html
Slusherella?
Now that takes me back. Good times.
No.
We’re all bad people, basking in the light of this monument to personal bravery and his struggle against all odds to shine a light into the farthest dark recesses of a Nation with his 500 Megawatt brilliance, and his grandeur to light our miserable lives.
Quick , someone get on to Royal Prince Alfred & tell them to have the cameras ready.
I’m going to watch that Dikkoter interview on China later. It should be quite amusing.
“The Australian way is that we look after each other, is that we’re a country that in the language that we use with each other, fair dinkum, fair go, they’re part of the Australian lexicon,” said Albanese last week. “This [Medicare] card is part of Australian values.”
Meanwhile there is the homeless and 3 million Australians about to join them. As per Paul Murray on SKY News the other night.
Advance Australia Fair – Yes Abalone but who for?
Surely not.
The Penguins are reported to be devastated.
That’s nothing! Norfolk Island got 29% !
Nobody has a right to be born rich. Nobody has a right to be able to live a life of luxury while others have to toil hard to just survive. We live in a ‘commonwealth’ where no one person should be provided with greater liberties and rights than another.
You farking dope. So how do you choose your Parents you FW1?
And what is wrong with getting rich?
You just exhibit the politics of envy just like every other Left Wing Nut Job.
JR analysis.
“ We live in a ‘commonwealth’ where no one person should be provided with greater liberties and rights than another.”
And yet he wants the right to take money other people earned and put it in his own pocket.
Normally called “theft”.
“Justice” involves paying a penalty for theft.
I would like to hear from the above quoted clown on his special topic, inequality, on the Aboriginal Industry-
Setting up a separate parallel parliament;
Royalties for minerals – not available to 98% of Australians;
Jobs reserved with ability a very secondary consideration;
Separate very lenient court systems;
Rights to control others property by alleging a mythical creature lives there;
Asserted rights over the ocean floor because of alleged ancestors walking there during the last ice age;
Free cattle stations;
Unrestricted hunting and fishing rights using the latest hardware;
Compulsory indoctrination of schoolkids with recently invented self serving” history”….
These are privileges unavailable to almost all Australians (wealthy or not) at any price.
Goodby advance australia fair.
Hello
If the Libs get in.
The purpose of a thing is what it does.
Australias purpose is to become lower Calcutta.
Hopefully not ‘The Black Hole of Calcutta’.
And the new name is………………………………
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/02/492447039/tk
The whole idea of globalisation is to reduce the factory wages bill for multinational corporations.
I just replaced a four-year-old pair of Adidas runners ($A150 at the local shoe shop) for $A60 online.
The countries that dominate manufacturing for the German brand are Indonesia, Vietnam and China (in that order), where the going rate for factory labor is around $US33 per month – just over $1 per day.
There is no way Adidas will swap $1 a day for the minimum US wage of $US7.25 per hour ($290 per week), an increase of around 870%, on a major input cost to get tariff protection in the American consumer market. That would be corporate suicide.
Lower profit margins. Will depend on the exchange rate pass-through to some extent.
I’m not sure the model worked out for these firms long term the way they thought it would.
Sure, they got low wages, but they also gave away all their proprietory manufacturing processes such that they lost completely the low end of the market to a competition they created themselves. That competition is becoming more sophisticated and in many cases bought out the original brands completely.
Complete idiots.
The only reason they flocked to China was for short term gains for the idiots who were running the companies back then, all of whom have taken their fat checks and retired to Florida years ago.
I suspect there was political pressure put on to make the move.
Remember back in them days it was a full court press to globalise. It’s been 45 years of non stop globalist propaganda.
The politicians and academics thought they would create a democratic, free China.
Even after TianAnMen Square they still thought that.
Idiots.
If we continued down this path all manufacturing would have been ceded to Chinese control.
In the 1990s it was the high tech red herring. As if manufacturing and technology were seperate things. So we did that for ten years. The clever country, blah blah. Then it was “services” lawn mowing, dog washing and massages.
Back in 2001 the enemy was “Terrorism”, not China. So we spent twenty years trying to get little Ahmed to like Sesame Street or something.
Then, all the way through we had the “climate change” distraction/ scam. Which has given us a transportation system that now consists of a horrifying mix of petrol / turbo diesels with weird filtration systems / petrol electric hybrids / plug in hybrids / full electrics. Anyone buying a car, attempting to manufacture a car, or start a car repair business faces a mess, with no real certainty as to what the market will look like in even five years time. What a mess.
More recently the death of traditional retail and media.
The hand wringing over Trump stirring up the supposedly Free trade mantra is risible. We all know he is right. Despite supposed FTAs etc, there are tarriffs, non monetary tarriffs (regulatory, taxes that act like tariffs (eg GST and luxury car taxes and regulatory “fees”). We do it, the US does it, everybody does it. Everybody is trying to clip somebody elses lunch.
The Chinese have a well developed communist version of mercantilism that deters imports.
Globalism allows the free flow of capital to those places with the cheapest labor. Dr Neil Soss who worked for Volker once brutally described it as ” Capital will always mate with the lowest cost of labour”. He was describing what would happen after the fall of the Iron and Bamboo curtains and the move towards freer trade.
He warned that it would mean the destruction of manufacturing jobs in the (supposed ) West.
This econ writer from Yale is having a day today.
In which case for Australia, Trump should be giving us negative Tariffs.
Nice. Where is my cut?
Just keep saying such things Yale weenie person. Columbia has been defunded. Penn has been defunded, Harvard looks about to be defunded. Yale…
Scroll the troll
Correct
This does seem to be the case.
Indeed. Here’s the receipts. (Comparison chart in tweet.)
Another interesting discovery is that all the AIs suggest the same formula
https://nitter.poast.org/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292#m
The 10% tariff Trump has put on Australian exports matches the 10% GST we have on US imports. Trump said the key to his approach was reciprocity. None of the idiots in the msm or the SFLs have picked that up. Australia also has a ban on US beef imports.
What Australia should do is feed blackout and the filth to the pigs, go back to coal while getting the nukes built so we become again the nation with the cheapest power in the world. And then make entreaties to Trump about becoming the 51st. But we won’t because we have gutless idiots running the dump and stupid punters who vote for them.
All I can recommend is stock up on ammo and gold.
I swear I didn’t see this before my bit of curry bashing above…..
Jason Clare MP
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BREAKING: Labor has announced $10.9m to support the work of the Hindu community in Australia.
$8.5m to build the first Hindu school in Australia.
$2.4m to expand the work of Karma Kitchen that helps to feed homeless Aussies.
…
The Indian Australian population has doubled in the last decade and Hinduism is the fastest growing major religion in Australia.
When you drive around Australia you’ll see lots of public and private schools. Catholic schools, Islamic schools, Jewish schools and schools of many other faiths.
But you won’t find a Hindu school.
…..
This investment will make the dreams of the Australian Hindu community a reality.
No separation of church (or should I say temple) and state for Australian politicians when it suits them,
vr, the government provides moderate capital grants to improve infrastructure for private schools, but I’ve not previously heard of them providing startup capital. The faith community has previously had to do that themselves to prove their viability. It’s blatant vote buying and not a good sign for our politics, obviously.
And what is the return on the investment?
Oh yes, VOTES,
Just keep paying/having them stolen, your taxes.
the karma kitchen? the plumbers union will be happy!
Spotted a few minutes ago outside the kitchen window.
You’ll have to open the image to get a sharper view. It’s an olive python.
with a professional smile for the camera
My daughter has one. Very docile, eats one small rat per month.
Is this poisonous?
No. The little sweetie has lived here for years. I have a collection of sloughed skins.
I don’t know if it’s male or female. They eat frogs and insects. It has just found a tiny opening between the brickwork and window frame and insinuated itself into the cavity. Last time I saw it – enjoying sunshine by the pond. And waiting for unwary marsh frogs.
Does it like Abalone?
I stayed at a hotel on the central coast many years ago (sorry, can’t remember the name) where they had a pet python. Not sure what kind. About 3m long.
It was a docile creature that lived in a pile of rocks above the pond, and sunned itself most days baside the water – probably with an eye on potential snacks.
I quite like reptiles – many a lizard has brightened my various homes.
Plenty of lizards in the LayBore Parteeeeeee along with snakes.
Careful what you wish for, you lot. Australia joining the US would lead to a massive influx of Latino and African-American internal migration. Not to mention inheriting the USA’s much more lax immigration laws. If you think we have Big Australia now, wait until we are New South Mexico.
USA’s lax immigration laws have lately become…less lax.
Do keep up Monty.
He can’t keep up. The Big Fat Tummy is a bit of a Drag. Along with the dress that it wears.
It’s a long march across the Pacific, fatso, particularly seeing as how most of your prospective immigrants are lazy c-nts.
Australia joining the US would lead to a massive influx of Latino and African-American internal migration.
Good; they all have dicks and would be great for our sporting teams. They would also keep leftoid sheilas off the streets.
Neither the Alaskan nor Hawaiian case studies support this hypothesis.
Then again perhaps at circa 70 years it is too soon to tell.
Yeah I hardly think a case study from 1867 is relevant.
Nobody finds your views relevant, Nazi.
“We will have the two leaders and an audience of undecided voters.”
Undecided voters haven’t been paying attention and aren’t a reliable judge of anything! The media seem to love them, perhaps because they see them as semi-useful idiots that they (the media) can influence by asking biased questions of the leaders during the TV show.
I have no respect for the media’s “vox pops” either.
All “box pops” should inform viewers how many people have been interviewed to make the selection broadcast or published.
Vox pops, fat fingers.
Dutton matched the pledge, btw.
Of course he did.
Those delightfully spicy ringpieces wont lick themselves…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese falls off a stage during campaign event.
And here is ‘Lard Arse………….LOL
Whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ZS-CId_hs
It is a sad pathetic sight. People walking down the street glued to the phone. Females are the worst…blokes not far behind.
The Hooters – All You Zombies
I like it as when they get to the traffic lights and don’t pay attention, they start walking and get run over.
Darwin was right. The gene pool gets sorted.
The survival of the most adaptable.
JR analysis
Its worse watching Mums with toddlers in the pram. Mum on the phone, chatting, toddler in the pram, poking away at some kind of device. And this out on the bike/walking path, twenty minutes from civilisation alongside a lagoon and river replete with ducks, jumping fish, cockatoos overhead etc. So terribly sad.
More Albotross romance…
Albo clung to her, crying, and then made love to her and went far inside her and she begged him to go deeper and, no longer afraid of injuring her, Albo went deep in mind and body, among crowded organ cavities, past the contours of her lungs and liver, and, shimmying past her heart, Albo felt her perfection
…
or
Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging Albos organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey
Gross!
Nah
Could never happen – would be a fundamental breach of the public companion contract.
Or is that pubic companion?
Wodney earlier:-
Look, Wodney, you need to be careful.
You rate very highly on the SGI (Sancho Gullibility Index). Based on you swallowing whole the ramblings of Marty Armstrong, I put you at around 9.6 – 9.7 on a scale of 10.
For reference, a six year old who believes in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny would have a SGI score of 9.5.
Given your SGI is in the red zone I suggest you limit your Paul Murray intake to 15 minutes a week
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. I know that you have a problem with free speech.
This apparently is a Free Speech Blog.
And who cares about any invented/inverted index that you may have. I am sure that there is a medicine for it somewhere.
Just stick to monitoring your BMI index and stay safe.
Bye bye.
The Fantastic Mr Fox on SBS World Movies – Ch32.
A Roald Dahl classic.
And this – Street Fighting Man –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUt0dZXPFoU
A nauseatingly twee Wes Anderson w*nk.
Gruinaid, tackling the big issues of the day.
We’ve had 11 seasons of the show with more than 100 couples getting thrust together over nearly a decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/i-put-the-married-at-first-sight-experiment-to-the-test-the-results-are-stark
How depressing 11 years of MAFS crap…
Mongettes
Acquiring a
Fella’s
Slavery
Thrust together. There’s the problem.
TFM, and I’ve not watched an episode.
I want a medal.
Sky News has the female protestor against Albo in the Hunter Valley on frequent rotation.
When are they going to do something about loudmouth fat chicks?
Ask Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. She has a BMI index index index………….
We can laugh at them all we like, but this short video shows that “Perfect is the enemy of good enough.”
Great painting. That’s me with the neck frill in the front row.
This boasberg bastard judge is a piece of work:
Jeb Boasberg’s Selective Sympathies
And trannies are deranged:
Nashville Trans School Shooter Planned Attack for Years
I had no idea McDonalds used this much beef.
https://www.beefcentral.com/trade/will-mcdonalds-us-fresh-only-strategy-impact-australian-beef-exports/
Thats a lot of beasts.
McDonald’s uses about 450,000 tonnes of ground beef each year in its US operations. Australia is a substantial contributor to that, accounting for around 120,000 tonnes (2012 company figures) of either manufacturing beef or patties sold into McDonald’s operations outside of Australia. The US is the largest of those destinations.
Remember the fat NZ PM who said they should buy Maccas and supply the whole world with kiwi beef.
@SystemUpdate_
Establishment factions are banning right-wing populists from running in elections worldwide in the name of protecting democracy. In Brazil, Bolsonaro has a sizeable lead in the polls against current Brazilian president Lula da Silva, but he is barred from running:
It’s a powderkeg and it will take just one spark.
It won’t stop at one country because the Left have no idea that people have little tolerance these days.
Glorious day in Sydney, sun shining, warm but with a cool crisp edge. My favourite kind of weather. I went for a long walk which cheered me because I have been sad, very sad, about Mum. I miss her terribly.
Whilst on my walk one of my best friends rang me. My friend is of Hungarian Jewish extraction, the daughter of survivors, one of Auschwitz and one of a forced labour camp. Mother and father were rounded up in 1944, the year the Germans decided to liquidate Hungarian Jewry. Both mother and father only survived because of their age, they were teenagers at the time and the Germans, instead of gassing or shooting them, put many Jewish teenagers to work, and that’s how my friends parents survived. But anyway I digress as usual. I’m sure many here think those Eastern European Jews who arrived in this country after the war were all scientists, or engineers, or bankers, or lawyers, or accountants or doctors. Alas, most were none of these things, they were a varied lot but few possessed ‘professional’ occupations, instead most of the Jewish refugees after the war were children of pedlars, machinists, tailors, rabbis, bakers, jewellers, watchmakers and so on, almost none had ‘elite’ occupations. Of course all were literate, all were multilingual (but not English), almost all had attended Cheders and Yeshivas but few, if any, had degrees. When my friend’s father arrived on a boat from Eastern Europe in 1952 he did not have any occupation, he didn’t even have a skill which he could use for work. Shortly after arriving he met my friend’s mother at a Jewish singles function here in Sydney and they decided to marry, both traumatised by war. Whilst in a displaced person’s camp in France, my friend’s mother had learned how to operate a textile machine and she then taught her new husband how to operate a similar machine. They set up a little shop in Bondi, in a little ordinary house they scraped to buy (Bondi was very working class back then) and for the next 16 years they produced children’s clothing which gave them enough money to build a life and raise children. But that ended in 1973 when the Whitlam government implemented a 25% across-the-board reduction in all tariffs, including those on clothing and textiles. This decision by the Whitlam government was catastrophic for my friend’s parent’s little business, it destroyed the business. My friend’s father then went to work as a packer in a warehouse in Sydney’s inner-west to support his growing family.
My friend reminded me of this today when she rang me, the reason why is because everyone is today talking about Trump and tariffs. Now, I don’t usually get involved in economic disputations and discussions here on this site because I don’t know much about economics but hear this, I have long been uncomfortable with the very idea of ‘free trade’, all that has happened after decades of ‘free trade’ is the hollowing out of industries across the West (I’m not discounting some other factors too) and this ‘hollowing’ out has crippled and destroyed once thriving working class areas and communities in the US, UK, Oz and other once great manufacturing nations, leaving those working class men and women with no jobs, no prospects, utterly dependant on government welfare a dependency no different to force-feeding them heroin, because it’s just as addictive. Free trade has benefited large leviathan corporations (such as the Amazons of the world, a company I have never bought from and never will buy from) and the worst thing about free trade, the biggest beneficiary has been a despotic totalitarian nation called China, a country which is flexing it’s military muscle as I write, menacing it’s neighbours, including this country…….it has a military ship circling and mapping this continent.
I don’t believe a tariff free world has benefited the average man or woman. The West, including Australia, sold its soul for cheap crappy goods, for the sake of a cheap Kmart toaster!
Anyway, apologies about the long rant, we have a PM who’s a toady to China. It’s clear we are now subordinate, economically and politically, to an aggressive China and we can thank free trade for that.
And who has President Xi’s support in the upcoming election.
Funny how it’s not getting much airplay in the MSM.
I’ve seen lefties on message boards like C.L.’s banging on about Trump being Putin’s and Xi’s “man” but I bet they’re silent about Albo.
Which is why I posted this earlier. You are not the only one.
Johnny Rotten
April 3, 2025 2:25 pm
A message to the Australian ‘Wally Pollies’.
Now is the time to build a Fortress Australia –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg
We need an AI photo of Anal standing in front of a Chinese flag, saluting.
A meme to put out there.
One that will resonate.
Victor Davis Hanson: Strategy to Trump China on the World Stage
I have created a form script for leaders of countries to use when they go to plead with Trump.
Mr President, thank you for meeting me.
The people of (insert country) have long had a special and close relationship with the United States. We are long standing friends who forged our strong ties fighting (circle a maximum of three from: World Wars / Indochina / war on terrorism / Cold War / Ukraine / war on drugs / large variety of communist insurgencies / in the deserts of Africa / in the jungles of Burma / the cold in the Arctic).
Through the years we have enjoyed the mutual benefits of trade, signing (insert free trade agreement you have been ruthlessly exploiting this last decade) in (year).
Mr. President, the USA has no stronger ally than (country).
We are willing to work together to overcome any impediment to restoring our relationship to the level we have previously, the people of both our countries, enjoyed (do NOT say “when we were getting away with it” or “until we see you off and can resume normal programming with the Democrats”).
We value US leadership and the role it has long played in the world order, and take very seriously the unique role (country) has had in assisting our American friends.
I’m looking forward to our talks this afternoon (smile and nod a bit).
(Leave room to shake uncontrollably and vomit).
It would not work.
You have to meet the Man and talk face to face.
Abalone where are/were you?
Trump’s not taking Albo’s calls (not surprising, as Albo keeps publicly insulting his intelligence).
If Albo were to turn up at the WH, Trump’s diary keeper would probably delegate an under-secretary of the State department to receive him.
And Albo would still be outmatched.
Along with the KRudd.
jeez Louise , Zip. There’s actually a Landrover looking SUV that can “swim” across a river.
Every single one of these cars is a copy of a great European luxury model.
Land/Range Rover
Ferrari
Mercedes Sedan.
I wouldn’t buy one in a zillion years, but I bet a lot of folks will.
Neh. That very quality of imitation will mean the massive many EV shoppers- image-conscious inner city retirees- will never touch them. Instead they’ll dig a bit deeper into their portfolio and reach for a car made by an established marque.
It may not cause an earthquake but there’ll be enough of a tremor to wake up the legacy carmakers. Cars are too expensive and need to get much less so – even the big brands.
Only dickheads will drive them. Would’nt be caught dead.
The cars look amazing just like their European analogues and at the fraction of the price. In time, they’re going to develop their own design just as Mazda and Toyota did.
Yep, they do.
But that applies equally to petrol/diesel.
The only future I can see for EVs is high performance two-seaters for sunday dash driving, where range don’t matter and batteries are maximized against the carriage. I’d be very wary of any EV co which believes it can make a family wagon, prime mover, or tractor… a door-dash milk cart or postie bike, or bare bones electric scooter for kids to break their wrists on, maybe.
The US State Department have confirmed that I was right, it’s about free speech. Topher Proj Ep 045
As an aside, I heard on the wireless today that parks Victoria has renamed Fairy Penguins “Little Penguins” because reasons. At some point our society will collapse under its own stupidity.
The people running Parks Victoria are obviously homophobic.
I always thought they were called fairy penguins because they resembled tinkerbell skipping up the beach rather than Julian Clary in full bitch mode. I was wrong.
What is the VIC govt going to rename Port Fairy then?
Some Abo name I guess.
I had a wireless once. And then I got a radio. And then I got the internet…………..
When did you get the trani?
In responding to DrF who was talking about meat tariff, the resident Nazi, Muntard said this:
WTAF? Cows eat cows he suggests? I said, as many other well informed Cats said:
The Nazi does the Nuremburg pivot and says:
Sure thing retard. And just to confirm every other Cats assertion on here and that you’re wrong, you can read your own SBS to see:
Australian farmers respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs | SBS News
Never bring a lie to a fact fight, monty.
I thought he came to any vaguely intellectual discussion unarmed?
Lies are all that he had.
And no dick.
DOGE volunteer: This made my jaw drop
Maman, this morning, and Steve T and Winston, and anyone else not scrolling, thank your for your kindly words or perhaps thoughts only. I know there are good people here as well as haters who love to hate.
There is something I need to clarify. I am not ‘leaving’ Catallaxy, certainly not with an election pending.
What I was ruminating about on the auld thread in some misery was something that has been concerning me for a while. I am stalled on everything that I want to do as any sort of writer. I feel so pressured.
I have two projects that need finishing – the main one is my Arthurian material, summarised in two articles (one from Quadrant) now up on academia.com and which many scholars there are reading and recommending to others on site. This is a genuine contribution to knowledge and it could and definitely should be extended further; but it may have to be that it rests as it is.
The other project is a family history I have started. In it I try to imaginatively lay out the early twentieth century worlds of both sets of my grandparents in the UK, during times that created the outlook and personalities of my parents as I detail their lives in far off Australia in the 1940’s. For my parents the potter’s hand had certainly shaken in some ways not immediately visible in the clay. Can I work out how and why? I am stalled on that too.
The Quadrant piece I wrote in 2019 that was recently republished on the new online site in the ‘archive’ section jogged at me. In it I reviewed a book by a man, a writer of the pattern-seeking historical material such as I write, a man consumed with time’s passing and stalled his own search for cultural meaning and confirmation. And here I am. It’s not unusual.
I admire writers who devote blocks of time to their work every day regardless of how they feel or other distractions, Lizzie.
We can all learn from their discipline.
And still have time to drop in at the Cat!
Yes, Roger. Way to go. Must improve, must improve.
I have had my stitches out today and can now sit far more comfortably and for longer than in the past two years since I fractured my coccyx on ice in Finland in Jan 2023. Wouldn’t have missed the travel there though, even so. A very happy time, dogsledding etc. Loss of the bottom part of one’s spine and some surgery (coccygectomy) is not much of a price to pay for relief from what is called coccydinia – tailbone pain..
That has been one of my problems in the past two years.
Anyone with coccydinia – see http://www.coccyx.com for help and comfort. A fantastic website which shows so many of the deficiences of the current medical system as well as a good source of contact for doctors who may be able to help for what is a very misunderstood and often diagnosed medical condition leaving many sufferers in pain and misery for years without relief. 2000 sad tales on that site. There is a great fear of the surgery, largely becauses GP’s don’t understand how surgical techniques have improved re that in recent years. No need to fear a poor outcome these days, as one had to do in the past..
The human coccyx, our ‘tailbone’ sits underneath the pelvic anatomy. It is regarded as a remnant of our ‘ancestral’ tail. It still has some supportive functions in the musculature of the anus but can be removed without functional damage if done carefully.
As humans evolved the upright stance, the coccyx turned under the pelvis but not completely. Hence a fall on the coccyx area, as the upright human lost balance (a problem with our upright stance) led to fractures of these bones, and resultant failure to heal as the movement of sitting constrantly caused refracturing of the healing bones. Welcome to coccydinia. Blame evolution, just one of its little errors trying to turn a four legged brachiating creature into a two legged one weight-bearing and sitting down one.
typo – often mis-diagnosed
All I can say is I like reading what you write Lizzie. Both the historical and the travel! I’d give you a bird if I could, but they are their own free personages and I doubt they’d like to move to Sydney.
Every time I watch “Vera” I think of you being there IRL at the recent funeral you attended in England, and your remarks here re this.
Thanks, it has made Brenda come alive for me.
DOGE uncovers VA’s agreement to pay $380K per month for minor website modifications
I have a new name for you Munted:
Kleiner penis Nazi.
One has to ask, is it necessary to insert the “L” in Kleiner penis?
Lean trimmings sound nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfLLbBws1pg
I’m glad to see that people are slowly waking up to the AEC and looking underneath that pure white shirt to see the not so immaculate singlet with the tomato sauce and toothpaste stains.
And yes, I’m on a Elon meme kick.
Putin Explains America’s Ongoing Position on Greenland
“Vladimir Putin is one world leader who has studied history thoroughly. In a recent address, Putin discussed America’s plan to annex Greenland and explained that it is not some “extravagant plan” that Trump imagined. In fact, the United States had plans to annex Greenland going back to the 1860s.
Secretary of State William H. Seward was keenly in favor of annexing Iceland and Greenland in the 1860s as part of American expansionism. Not only was Greenland abundant in minerals, fish, and game, but it provided a strategic military base. Denmark was willing to listen to the proposal and considered selling Iceland and Greenland for $5.5 million in gold. There was no formal offer and President Andrew Johnson along with Congress refused to approve of a treaty, as it was considered wasteful by Republicans at the time.
America believed Canada may consider joining the United States if they acquired Greenland. The Trump Administration’s ideas may seem absurd but this geopolitical strategy spans over 150 years.
The Alaska Purchase of 1867 was immediately met with backlash. The media mocked the purchase of Alaska as “Seward’s icebox” or “Seward’s folly,” angered that the $7.2 million purchase should have been spent elsewhere. The media claimed the “polar bear garden” had nothing of value and relentlessly mocked the acquisition. The unpopularity of the Alaksa Purchase is one of the reasons the Greenland proposal failed back then.
America’s ambitions in the Arctic continued. In 1919, Denmark, Germany, and the United States discussed territorial disputes, and had the deal passed, the United States would have acquired Greenland. During the next World War, Denmark permitted the United States to establish military bases on Greenland to prevent the Nazis from capturing it. The United States offered to buy the land after the war ended but it fell through.
Putin explained that the United States will continue to “systematically pursue its geostrategic, military, economic, and political interests in the Arctic.” He said that this is a matter between two specific countries and “has nothing to do with us [Russia.” However, Russia is extremely concerned that “NATO views the Arctic as a potential staging ground for conflict,” noting that NATO is actively training troops to fight in Arctic conditions. They are taking troops from Sweden and Finland, “countries with which, I should note, we had no issues until very recently.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/putin-explains-americas-ongoing-position-on-greenland/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Thanks Marty
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LOL.
Putin is quite the comedian.
The first two letters of NATO refer to North Atlantic so why the consternation?
Sky has declared war on Trump. Absolutely no rational analysis o what Trump’s tarrifs are all about, just little Aussie Battler BS.
They are 100% behind Abolone. There is now no conservative media in Australia.
Yep, the Australian mob, blot, kunty, preying mantis and sweet sherry all have TDS; although sweet sherry tonight was almost benign about Trump’s tariffs. If it were not for Gutfeld, The Five and Watters I’d fuk Sky off. And it’ll get worse when the old man dies and his spoilt brat, jamie, takes over.
Rowan Dean and Rita would never get behind Albosleazy in million years.
Surprisingly Sharri is not anti-Trump on the issue of tariffs. Her editorial tonight explained that we have come off the best of all countries and our beef may even be cheaper when compared to tariffs on other beef exporters to the US. She also had guests on who likewise did not light their hair on fire.
Yikes – albansleazy has suffered an impromptu near existence ending stage dive face plant. Presumably he was then rushed to RPA, proudly waving his medicare card in the air (like he just doesn’t care).
This is what elections are for.
The LOLs.
Well it’s not to “shape the future of Australia” as the AEC claims.
Interestingly, “shape the future of Australia” is how the Australian Public Service Commission describe themselves.
Hang on, who’s in charge here, the people or the blob?
If only elections “shape the future of Australia”.
Not nearly good enough: like everything else he does.
Trump Admin. Removes Anthony Fauci’s Wife and One of His Closest Cronies from The National Institutes of Healthhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/winning-trump-admin-removes-anthony-faucis-wife-one/
Let’s get Australia on its back – Vote for a party which wanted to kill ya! (You’re spoiled for choice).
P.S. Why haven’t they combined Vote & Jab?
The squillion dollars worth of waxes must have expired, huh?
What a shame. I really feel like a VoJab right now.
Or a Jote.
Really good interview with the CTO’s of the US Army and Navy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNSXYD4nnw0
52mins.
Hosted by a16z who are seed investors in Palantir, Anduril & Hadrian.
Who I would like to be over the next 4 years:
Smaller defence tech companies.
Who I would not like to be over the next 4 years:
Any of the defence primes;
Any of the large defence consultancies;
About 1000 of the shiny bums in the DoD who have held up innovation with the goal of getting a gig with a defence prime when they retire.
Sharri is not engaging in Trump Tariff hysteria. She’s actually nailing the issue.
I was pleasantly surprised that she has refused to join the rest of the panickers.
I’ve seen so many Aussie pollies complaining about tariffs today but not one has said Australia should drop its tariffs against other countries.
None of them have mentioned how China has treated us over the last few years with tariffs and boycotts yet hair on fire about 10% which is lower than most have got. All of the over-reaction is to invoke Trump and that way help Labor during the election campaign.
Zactly.
I’m sick of hearing about it. It’s a convenient distraction squirrel for Labors failings.
Opposition need to start getting more combative with journalists calling a spade a spade on this one.
Sharri on Sky tonight has just cited Stephen Kotkin from Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and I think Kotkin says it best about Trump’s tariffs, in fact his words apply to Trump’s election win last year and the Trump presidency. Kotkin…
‘challenges the view that Trump’s posturing and the rebalancing that he’s set in motion signals that the US is retreating from the world. This is not about America giving up its role in the world, all of that is social media rubbish. This is about a rebalancing of the costs and benefits, and it’s happening, and it’s a mess, and Trump’s version of it is going to maybe even fail to produce a new equilibrium, but it’s going to break the current equilibrium that needed to be broken.’
I think the above are important words, it could not go on the way it’s gone on for the last two decades. Everything needs to be blown up and Trump is the man to do it.
This is what Lutnick has said pretty much from November onwards.
Lionel did belt out some crackers.
White Nights • Say You, Say Me • Lionel Richie
Reports second Reaper drone in 72 hours downed by Yemen.
dover0beach
April 3, 2025 8:45 pm
Reports second Reaper drone in 72 hours downed by Yemen.
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Send in a hundred more with bacon attached.
Four Days To Live Oh No news (the Hun):
The collision with a bus, when both vehicles were effectively going in the same direction, driven by a bloke with 16 years’ experience in same, with 29 kids on board, and which resulted in almost no damage and both vehicles being driven away. And no decapitated kids.
But – four days!
Less than four days! Far less!
Ahhh. Spidey senses indicate the ‘fall’ may be a result of being shitfaced.
Some people are grifting attention seekers from the cradle. It appears Ms Whatsername might be one of them.
And get this, she has an agent communicating with the press. An agent?
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/04/when-it-comes-to-water-in-iran-there-is-no-good-news
Old mate has just informed me that grandson in law is being discharged from hospital. The thorns/cuts/bruises to his feet have come good – two nurses each took two hours picking the thorns out with tweezers before an infection took hold.
Old mate will be looking after Elsie while I’m away for a couple of weeks getting an echocardiogram and diabetes workup. Unfortunately the meds needed for suppressing the rejection aren’t kind to the pancreas.
…and brother in Laws brother went on a cruise, sent a photo of him drinking wine in the afternoon, felt a bit crook when he went to bed, was medevacked off the cruise ship overnight, and died this morning.
I’m off for a couple of weeks, Ins’Allah.
All the best Winston. Stay well.
I’ve read a range of pieces today from Australia’s alleged leading economists and strategists.
It’s like none of them have read or listened to anything Bessent or Lutnick have said.
In the case of Bessent, he laid out his views long before the election.
Lutnick has been the administration loudmouth since November.
My view is that there is next to zero chance of the US avoiding a recession this year.
Some regions will see an economic contraction that hasn’t been seen for generations.
These are white collar, government related, consultancy types.
Northern Virginia property prices are going to be smoked.
For example, Booze Allen derives 90% of its income from US government contracts.
This will flow on to service industries exposed to these regions.
Gunna be rough in DC, Virginia, Maryland.
But how much this impacts other regions, time will tell.
I think I can guess how the other regions will react, they’ll blow raspberries in the DC’s direction. Some might advise the sacked public servants to learn to code as the denizens of DC often advised the sacked factory workers over the last couple of decades.
I’d like to know which Australian royally pissed of Peter Navarro.
He can’t wait to shit can Australia.
It’s not just in response to Australian journos.
I saw him on Fox last week off a long run using Australia as an example.
Krudd or Hockey must have pushed in front of him at a breakfast buffet or something similar.
It would have to be Rudd.
A repulsive mediocrity so typical of canbra and the ANU
A good illustration.
26% of the beef content of a hamburger is Strayan beef. So a 10% tariff on Strayan beef equates to a 2.6% increase on the beef content.
Which, when you dilute it further by including other ingredients, labour, energy, logistics and storage, the cost impact on the end product would be minuscule.
And that’s before any domestic substitution effect.
Lutnick has said repeatedly that they expect countries that export to the US to eat part of the tariff they’re getting hit with.
So using Sancho’s example, the price increase for the ground beef for the end consumer would be less.
Not so hot for the Australian beef exporter having to reduce your margin though.
The US domestic herd is currently a bit short due to drought I believe, while we have just had 100,000 animals drown. Don’t know how difficult it is to explain to State Department types that you can’t just stop and start trade in animals and vegetables at the drop of a hat, like you can for computer chips and automobiles.
Uncle Warren, Howard Marks, Druck, all showed to make money in this environment, all you had to do was listen to and read what Bessent was saying.