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Open Thread – Weekend 5 April 2025
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Kneecap, an Irish Republican bank from Northern Island, has had their visas to the US revoked. Good. However in the…
Why aren’t the blades made of wood? They were since their development in the 9th century. Plenty of material, and…
Just further to the UK and nauseating double standards, hideous hypocrisy and endless two tier policing, there’s some Irish hip…
Why, in Strasbourg, is the sign in English? Pommy cultural appropriation?
@EYakoby
Video shows a bus packed with terror supporters travelling from Atlanta to Washington DC.
Who is funding this?
Why are the crowds around 70 to 80 % women ( in the gender sense) ? Each random photos shows this. The voices are always high pitched in the chants.
Remember the pussy hat busloads. Probably the same mailing list.
Why the Feds are eyeing China’s grifter oligarchs — and how they’re shedding light on corruption at every level
Further to the UK, soon to be the IK, once a bastion of free speech and great comedy, now a crumbling Orwellian nightmare governed by a party headed a PM who is a very creepy, sinister, lying, totalitarian adulterer and all round anti-Semite (a man who loves to give the knee to and cosy up to totalitarian movements, be it BLM or Islamism), where ordinary men and women languish in prison for the crime of posting a rude or obnoxious X post, where an upper middle class couple from Hertfordshire are arrested and shoved into the clink for six hours, their crime being that they ‘allegedly’ sent acerbic emails to their child’s school due to an administration dispute. Forget about Der Sturmer hating Jews and Israel, he hates his own fellow indigenous countrymen and he wants to destroy the UK. He’s well on his way there! I could go on, I’m sure you get the drift of just how low this kingdom has fallen but in news overnight………
A little preface, in the last ‘Conservative’ (cough) government, one of the few Conservatives who was actually a ‘real conservative’ was Jacob Rees-Mogg. Until July 2024, Rees-Mogg represented a constituency in western England, a constituency in the quaint and very pretty county of Somerset (they drink cider in Somerset), a county I know quite well. The Plantagenet looking and very aristocratic Rees-Mogg is a tall and thin man, and he happens to be a devout Roman Catholic and father to six or seven children (can’t remember but it’s quite a few). His wife is equally posh, an heiress to the Earl Fitzwilliam family, an interesting historical tidbit was that Mrs Rees-Mogg’s maternal grandfather was the lover of Kathleen Kennedy, JFK’s sister, and the two lovers died in a plane crash over the French alps in 1948. The very posh and Catholic Rees-Mogg was always dignified in the face of a barrage of progressive left-wing mirth and ridicule during his years in parliament because of his Catholicism, because of his aristo background and because of his staunchly conservative politics. Yet you could never fault Rees-Mogg’s private life or his character, a very decent and moral man, someone I would describe as rather ‘daggy’ (daggy is good) but you see progressive scum, blinded by hatred for all things Christian, for all things moral and for all things English, will do their utmost to ridicule, smear, and destroy people they hate and Rees-Mogg was their ultimate target, and in July last year progressive and left-wing scum got their wish, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s lost his constituency of North-East Somerset and Hanham to a Labour luminary, a man who happens to be a great pal of Der Sturmer, a man named Dan Norris.
On Friday, UK Labour MP Dan Norris was arrested by the Avon and Somerset Police on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. He was suspended by the Labour Party on the same day.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s any buyer’s remorse in North-East Somerset and Hanham? I suspect there is. There will be a by-election coming up, given Norris’ arrest. I do hope Rees-Mogg stands and I hope he wins.
By the way, some like to insist Victoria Starmer, the wife of the obscene Fuhrer Starmer, is Jewish. She is not Jewish, her father was Jewish, her mother was not. Victoria Starmer is not halachically Jewish.
The how it started bit of the Norris story.
Musk derangement syndrome has Dems rejecting everything they claim to stand for
I thought they stood for nothing except power and grifting. Like labor
Note the word “claim”.
Exclusive — Sen. David McCormick: Tariffs ‘Just One Chapter of the Book of the Trump Economic Agenda’
@amuse
TERROR: Soros-funded Indivisible is openly admitting they are behind the 1300 paid protests happening today in all 50 states. Democrat billionaires are funding these uprisings and they should held legally accountable for the violence and vandalism.
I suspect he is the brain behind much of what’s happening.
Stephen Miller, Rebalancing Global Trade is a “Matter of National Survival”
I’m such a fan of this man !
all I have left
😀
Riccardo, stll making waves.
As predicted Albo announces a battery subsidy to fool the gullible into investing their money into home batteries so the periodic and haphazard renewable energy grid can raid your system to smooth out the inevitable power shortages.
You don’t need storage with big coal, gas, hydro or nuclear generation. The home batteries also relieve the generation companies of the burden of providing adequate storage. It’s equivalent to fuel companies with refineries but no service stations, you store the fuel at home.
I have 3 years of collected data from my own 6kW rooftop solar
the trouble with batteries to store our own fuel is that we’d need at least 35 kWh of storage
cost would be in the order of $40k
so, if Abalone’s subsidy is north of $25k I’ll consider it
And become another cow in the dairy herd.
And another fire hazard.
my own electric fence ?
Nailed it.
so, if
Abalone’smy contribution to my subsidy is north of $25k I’ll consider itDoes the local system allow for you to not feed into the grid? This way they can’t raid your system.
Oh we cant be havvvin that!!!
Hence the push for ‘smart meters’ … we are all in this together you realise?
The Oz notes that ‘taxpayers will contribute $4000 for an average household battery installation…..(to) push electricity prices down for everyone’
Is that calculation before or after the $4000 bill?
The ‘pushing of electricity prices down’ is measured against what the retail price WILL BE in the near and medium-term future.
Technically, then, it is not false advertising, as every bugger knows the price will increase with each passing hour.
As predicted Albo announces a battery subsidy to fool the gullible into investing their money into home batteries so the periodic and haphazard renewable energy grid can raid your system to smooth out the inevitable power shortages.
Gez, we have a 10kw system, connected to the grid. While it once earned a lucrative feedback “earn”, we now battle them over every bill. I want to “go off grid” with a battery as the little we now earn is not worth the effort.
But I assume that once “off grid” our power stored in our battery – disconnected from the grid” is our own – & not subject to further imposts.
A man next door installed solar panels all over his roof, and all his fences and on top of outbuildings. Then he put in batteries. He told me how was going off-grid.
Unfortunately his batteries exploded one Boxing Day and his house was razed to the ground..
I rather expect more of this to occur. Like an EV, the less risky option would be to locate the batteries well way from one’s home.
At the very least. The U.K. is totally lost.
JK Rowling says suspension of toddler from nursery for ‘transphobia or homophobia’ is ‘totalitarian insanity’
We haven’t reached peak totalitarian until legal charges and sanctions are applied in-utero based on ‘probability.’
Sound nuts?
Watch this space.
Can’t find an example of that specifically.
Would you settle for screening fetuses and killing 2 year olds based on probability?
That painting is magnificent
@mickitiki
She knocked it out the ballpark. WTF…..@GOP
MAGA ..!
https://x.com/i/status/1908268646868107655
Outstanding!
Beautifully done. Love JD and others in this AI band as well.
Blackball, WolfIE, shatzzz
i am too distraught to report on the overnight results as I recoil to my room and replay the hayclon yrs of Wilko and O Leary at Leeds.
Go wolves.
But the Broncos kicked Tiger a*se.
Is Tottenham cannot get a win against Southampton at home tonight/early Monday morning, then Ange is toast.
Don’t think Spurs could afford to sack him .. much as the media woud like it! .. Their season is over & 14 points clear of relegation with 8 to go should be enuf to keep them up ….
If the Eels can win one .. anyone can .. LOL!
Can’t believe the Dragons pin their winna hopes on that flog, Flanagan ……
Another Leeds bottle job.
This is a bad week, Crows fall short and now the fear of port at home to Santa Kilda.
Got the Suns. Poort should get over Saints but no gimme because they are a rubbish side.
Melbourne supporters booking Mt Buller as we speak
Ya Juiced me up BB – i beginning to feel comfortable to come out of the room and walk outside – In my Powa Scarfe.
Cant get over Melbs – Gawn being beaten by Reece Stanley was a surprise.
Hardwicke must be killing himeslf laughing over the Louckous deal.
Rowell – is is some unti l – and hes so braod.
Could be Hawks, Crows and Suns this yr.
I am too frightened to look at my weekly hororscope
I’m too scared to look at my super balance.
🙁
The other benefit of home batteries for energy corporates is the removal of slabs of solar energy feed into the grid that turns the wholesale price negative during the day. That’s not good business for the big generation investors.
They are treating you like idiots and so far they have no reason to change their opinion.
More importantly for Not Zero, the guarantee of consistent high prices in the NEM hopefully encourages a queue of renewables investors willing to build out Labor’s fantasy.
The AEMO Statement of Opportunities tells us that the regulator’s ringpiece is currently twitching like a rabbit’s nose as the grid deteriorates, and system reliability collapses. Even relaxing the Reliability Standard won’t help the southern states.
Gabor 5/4 @ 7:45
There is no such thing as free trade.
The naval gazers were banging on about a min world wage level and conditions – this is going to do it.
Trump can pick and choose.
I read this morning on ABC (hopefully true then) that Albo has just committed another $2.3 billion of our taxpayer money to subsidizing home batteries to soak up excess power from solar panels. I’ll leave it to others to point out the many flaws and downsides to this latest band aid approach to convincing the public that our grid is in safe hands. Scrolling down the article is a photo showing the batteries and various gizmos attached to the outside wall side of a house. Given that yesterday I endured an unhinged aggressive rant from neighbours (rusted on Labor voters), on “nasty Elon Musk”, I was surprised to see the very prominent display of two Tesla batteries. Lefty heads must be exploding everywhere! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-05/labor-pledges-2-3-billion-to-subsidise-home-batteries/105142194
The solar subsidy goes straight to the bottom line for Twiggy and Holmes à Court.
The cost of much needed distribution system upgrade is also kicked down the road to make renewables look “cheaper” in the short term. If you’re connected to the grid then you cannot avoid the massive increases in system costs which will flow into your power bill. The free battery power won’t touch that unless you go off grid.
System costs that are soon to be inflated wildly by “investment” in “re-wiring the nation”.
I can remember when the Slime screeched about gold plating the grid. Now they demand it
We were told by our energy provider to make the grid fit for purpose for renewables, ie allow domestic rooftop solar to be used wherever needed will cost 800 billion
amen
Dan Andrews is advising Luigi on this campaign. And you know the debt hell that evil grub loaded onto Sictoria. Need I say more?
Quid pro quo .. Dan is, probably, after a “maaates rates” ” handout to cover his, eventual, bike case outcome ………!
I know, right? Last week they were saving the planet, now sabotaging them is making a political statement… They hate Trump and Musk more than they love the planet apparently.
Perfidious
Just like the commonwealt the games – they shut them out over there childish royal family / Brishish dislike – to rub it in their faces – its al lthe fasshion now and hte proleteriat soaked it up. They should have thrown Andrew out of a window on the cement.
What’s that old adage, ahhhh yes………
‘What’s good for the goose is good for the gander‘
In news just in…..
Two British MPs, Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed, were denied entrance to Israel on Saturday, after an investigation reportedly revealed that the two wished to enter the country to document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred, Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority announced.
The two parliamentarians landed at Ben-Gurion Airport at 2:30 pm on Saturday after flying in from Luton with their two aides.
During questioning, the passengers reportedly revealed that the purpose of their arrival was to “document security forces and spread hate speech against Israel.”
As a result, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel decided to refuse entry to the four and subsequently ordered their removal from Israel.
Fabbo. Of course there’s predictable outrage from Humpty Dumpty David Lammy, the racist Jew hating UK Foreign Secretary. Meanwhile the UK has, over the last decade, denied entry to Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, David Wood, Lauren Southern and countless others, including some Israelis. David Wood, the American Christian apologetic, was due to attend the ARC conference in February however his visa to the UK was denied.
The Filth have certainly become emboldened.
More proof, if it were needed, that the UK is indeed, as you wrote earlier, becoming the IK.
The outburst of fascist repression of free speech may just have misjudged its timing.
Conservatives, via Musk will soon have the capacity to flood the stratosphere with modern day equivalents of Radio Caroline.
Newton’s Third Law (Universal Law if you are a plantation black Democrat racist) was always about more than just physics (or whatever sparkly worm BS the Left now claim to be science).
Soros’s attacks on Musk have nothing to do with policy. Trump is creating enterprises and networks that will break Soros’s hold on the corrupt markets.
Is the solar battery at home policy in part designed to both induce Holmes a Court to direct the Teal MPs to support Labor, and to enhance the chances of all Teal candidates?
Simon rumoured to be taking control of suburban newspapers to push his renewable investment agenda and his Teal political wing.
They have set up new “local” news in seats wanted by the Teals. See https://www.gazettenews.au/
How Will You Be Affected by Trump’s Tariffs? Trump’s Treasury Secretary Breaks It Down
Tucker Carlson Network
The video features a discussion on the potential impacts of Trump’s tariffs, with a focus on how the U.S. and foreign countries might react. Key points include: 1. **Economic Uncertainty**: The introduction of tariffs, alongside other factors like AI and immigration policies, creates a lot of uncertainty regarding their economic impacts, and it’s challenging to predict exactly how they’ll unfold. 2. **Need for Economic Change**: The speaker argues that the old economic system in the U.S. was not working effectively, likening it to a bodybuilder on steroids—appearing strong from the outside while damaging vital organs internally. The tariffs are intended to avoid a future financial crisis by making fundamental changes. 3. **International Response**: The implementation of tariffs is expected to lead to significant lobbying from foreign countries, each seeking adjustments based on different factors like trade deficits and currency manipulation. 4. **Domestic Manufacturing**: The tariffs are seen as an incentive for companies to build their factories in the U.S. to avoid the tariffs, which align with the administration’s goals of boosting local manufacturing. 5. **Impact on China**: The tariffs are particularly challenging for China due to its imbalanced economy, heavily reliant on exports. The U.S. aims to leverage this to rebalance trade relations, potentially benefiting U.S. manufacturing. 6. **Communication Channels**: The strong relationship between President Trump and China’s Chairman Xi is highlighted as a safeguard against misunderstandings or escalations between the two nations. 7. **European Dynamics**: Europe, especially Germany, faces its own set of challenges with imbalanced exports and reliance on Russian energy. The scenario underscores a need for European countries to rebalance their economic strategies. The discussion suggests a belief in challenging existing systems and creating new economic dynamics while recognizing the complexity and potential risks of such significant changes.
full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnX1SQfgJI
Ah, yes. “Uncertainty”. That’s what they say when it is certain, but they don’t like it. As a useful addendum, they also get to claim that all the bad things that will happen are certain, but that it would not be responsible to state any of the good things will happen because.. yup.. it’s uncertain.
To be clear – tariffs: not good.
Sent to me by US friends overnight : Facebook post by Martin Iles doing the rounds, his outlook on US and Trump :
https://www.facebook.com/100044629290317/posts/1198746158289683/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=DO8jCvyV3SAiVKHV#
very impressive collection of US military hardware/personnel numbers …!
They still got beaten by a bunch of rag headed, goat herders in pyjamas. We need to keep a perceptive on this arithmetic of metal.
Great thread:
Outside Euro/UK, Canada, Mexico, Japan and China the tariffs don’t mean that much. So after this opening salvo settles expect distinct individual agreements to get underway and eventually settled. Trump wants a deal and most certainly so do the counterparties. Even if they have to hold their noses while doing it. All else is noise and bluster for their constituencies.
And it’s not just trade. It’s trade+reserve currency+military dominance+shared intel+space assets+global finance/banking mechanisms+access to technology. In a word, relationships.
Meaning, much more than dollars and cents in trade, this episode ties into the whole of the relationship nations have and want to have with Trump’s US and vv.
The S&P was historically well over valued (ask Grok) by several significant measures. A correction was coming at some point. Leveraged hedgies make the unwind all the more dramatic, when they have to dump everything, as well as Mag7’s.
You bet it is and no not close at all. This is doomstering . Russians love this stuff.
If US dominance is breaking and foreign money is leaving ask your mufti why are US bond yields falling below 4%?
You can ask him, he’s on Twitter.
On solar panels I stupidly put myself in for an assessment of viability for rooftop panels.
Got a quick phone call from one guy to tee up the detailed call with both co-owners of the property to go through it.
I canned the second call because I don’t need an hour long “save da planet” sales pitch.
If they call back I am just going to tell them to send me their numbers in writing so I can go over it myself or forget it.
I doubt it will be worth it.
We use gas for heating and hot water (fairly new combo water heater). Our electricity bill is less than $1300 p.a. If I take out the roughly $1 per day supply charge, consumption is a bit over $900.
Without batteries I then take out most lighting, roughly half the fridge costs, a chunk of evening cooking and TV costs and I am left with not much that solar panels can help with.
My son put on solar panels, to cover the heating costs of the swimming pool, sez his, before pool heat, bills were about the same as since the panels … soo happy ….!
Did he put the heater on a timer? We reduced our power bill by 2/3 by running our major appliances sequentially after 10 am ( washing , dish washer, a/C( if needed) in that order. Our hws is set on a timer to run between 11 and 3, and we use the oven around 3pm if we are baking.
At our last energy briefing we were given a graph of usage vs generation for the last few months , when we ( residents in the village) generate most power, we consume the least., so many of us have changed our habits.
Actually, the cost is of no interest to him, more the kids complaining about “too cold” but threw in a bit of “justification” .. LOL!
Solar panels are a good deal (good panels), so long as you control when and where the energy you produce goes. Input charges when the grid doesn’t want energy are going to get “worse”.
It would be even better if battery technology was at a point where the cost of a battery and management of it was worth it, but it isn’t. Would suggest getting panels now and installing a battery in 8-10 when the battery tech is better. Ideally, someone who got panels about 5 years ago will be in a great spot to upgrade as the battery tech matures.
Time for a coffee;
https://x.com/CultureExploreX/status/1908459734933426662
Probably a lot more for a coffee at those places than the cost of a flat white at an Eatery in Australia.
Last time in Europe, 7yrs ago, coffee and crossaint €1.80.
Live a little, Rotten.
Always.
@amuse
UK: After learning of the murder of three young British girls Lucy Connolly wrote, “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f’ing hotels full of the b’ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.” After she took her dog for a walk she returned home and deleted the post – it was visible for less than four hours. Despite that, she was arrested and denied bail. Lucy is being jailed for until after her daughter turns three for a post on X. There is no free speech in Britain – JD Vance was right.
Migrants Killed Half of Spain’s Female Murder Victims (5 Apr)
Not allowed to tell the truth.
Makes the pathetic excuse for a king look even more useless.
The beefeaters and palace guards still dressing up.in their silly costumes. Rather absurd in a country where society and the economy is crumbling. It also implies a reverance for British heritage which is non existent in the establishment.
If you watched the Mark Felton “More horses than tanks”, the silly costumes and horses are exempted from budget cuts because of their tourism value. Tanks OTOH …
Rather grotesque. I used to visit Britain on my holidays but that’s getting on for 30 years ago
Then fund them from the tourism budget, on a full cost recovery basis.
Then put the recovered money into the actual defence budget.
I just purloined two new phrases from Powerline commenters (Dimsdale & prouddeplorable):
Noice. (The phrases in a socio-political sense, not the real medical conditions).
the thing about home solar these days is that it is effectively a financial hedge
all the replicated generating infrastructure, extra transmission,snowy-2 big buckets, and idiotic subsidies basically guarantees future electricity price rises that will be out of step with inflation
when you do the ROI pick a Discount Rate that accounts for this
We put 6kW on the roof 5 years ago and the Vik Govt ponied up $2250 subsidy … from memory we were out of pocket about $3500
simple ROI was 3 years
in real terms … probably closer to 2 years
The Carbon Crisis
We don’t have enough
Ian Plimer – 5th of April, 2005
Extract from the Spectator Australia –
“We have a carbon dioxide crisis in Australia. There is not enough of the gas produced locally. We import carbon dioxide from China, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and Italy yet we bury carbon dioxide in old hydrocarbon wells. Food grade carbon dioxide with more than 99.9 per cent carbon dioxide is used for carbonated drinks and food preservation and normally is a by-product from ammonia manufactured for fertilisers and explosives. Industrial grades of carbon dioxide are used to create an inert blanket for grain storage, welding and metal working, fire extinguishers, life jackets, foaming rubber and plastics, water treatment, and immobilising animals before slaughter. Carbon dioxide is used to decaffeinate coffee: solid carbon dioxide (‘dry ice’) is used as a coolant.
There are some vital facts that drinkers need to know. Fermentation of sugars releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and drinks such as beer, champagne and cider have added food-grade carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide has an inverse solubility. The colder your carbonated drink, the more carbon dioxide is dissolved. As your carbonated alcoholic drink warms, which in my world is a heinous sin, it exsolves carbon dioxide and keeps bubbling well after its drink by time. The gas to push keg beer along the lines is carbon dioxide but Guinness uses nitrogen thereby creating a creamy texture and the surge and settle effect by bubbles one hundredth the size of carbon dioxide bubbles. Try telling a drinker in the embrace of Bacchus that they should lead a net zero life and see how far you get.
Food and industrial grade carbon dioxide in Australia is produced from wells in the Otway Basin. Carbon dioxide from old oil wells needs compression, purification, dehydration and cooling to make easily transportable liquid carbon dioxide. Caroline-1 well near Mount Gambier was an abandoned oil well that produced 811,000 tonnes of liquefied carbon dioxide from 1967 until 2017. It has been replaced by Boggy Creek-1 in Victoria drilled as a wildcat oil well in 1992. The Langwarrin-1 well in South Australia was drilled in 2019, is not in production and could produce 100 tonnes per day of liquefied carbon dioxide. Water and carbon dioxide are extracted from coal-seam gas and conventional gas from oilfields. The Longford gas plant in Gippsland produces about 60,000 tonnes per annum of liquefied carbon dioxide for the Australian and New Zealand beverage industry. Liquid carbon dioxide is pumped down old wells to push out the last remaining oil and gas and it is also sequestered underground in abandoned oil and gas fields to ‘save the planet’.”
Who would have thought that we (the Planet) doesn’t have enough CO2.
“A country is it’s people, NOT it’s geography.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1908560845367361543
Most of us know that here on the Cat, but hopefully some others will listen to Elon.
… before it’s too late.
Which is not to say that its geography does not matter to its people.
It clearly does. But Musk tells an obvious truth which is forgotten as far as the West is concerned, which is that the people of a country have a long-established culture. Swamping the culture with newcomers destroys a culture and the people who have inherited it, created it and who still hold to it. Musk concentrates on the forgotten fact but hugely obvious fact – that the West can’t accept a swampload of inflows from the billions of people who’d like to arrive there.
He’s wrong. A people reflect their geography. Italians are what they are because of their position on the Mediterreanean basin and regional and local geography.
But what are 4th generation Italians living in the US? I can see a little original heritage in the second gen, but by the third it’s almost completely lost and by the forth it’s done.
How does that contradict what I said?
I didn’t say you did. Stop being so defensive as it’s not a good look.
Ok, but easy to conclude that given the ‘But…’ at the start. Would have been clearer had you said, Yes,…’ or ”Exactly,…’; however, ‘But…’ indicates a disagreement or qualification.
No. A people reflect the country they have developed in over time. Brits, Italians, Greeks etc..the people are the country and they reflect the heritage and character of that country. The geography is the land they inhabit. Geography is just one of many influences. By your logic, heritage doesn’t matter. How completely wrong.
And that heritage and character is reflected in part by its geography.
Listening to Brent Bultitude on 2SM talkback.
Based on bultitude, who believes in global boiling but is a bit ambiguous about ruinables, and the calibre of the callers who do believe in ruinables, albo will win and Australia is rooted.
2SM still going ? So you going by a sample of three.
If Albo does by chance get in , Australia will be the first ever to polish a turd.
2SM has picked up since Chris Smith replaced that old zenipud laws. It has a fair spread and a reasonable audience. I don’t mean it to be representative since it caters for the old folk. 2GB leads the pack and the young’uns go for Nova and kyle and Jackie.
That’s alright so when they complain about their next load of Electricity Bills just tell then to STFU.
Had a big family do yesterday. No wonder this country is stuffed. Son 2 chucked in his job at the Venture Capital mob. A niche market for them. They get their money too easy, he found he was to be responsible for compliance when everyone does whatever they want. The theme being “I’m too busy to do that”, attitude. Son 3 chucked his job in, as well. World’s largest, yet only rewards the less than average, not the high achievers. Strange as it sounds, they only pay a bonus if you exceed your own previous best. Same company had an IT guy that was sacked by a bean counter when they didn’t know what he did. Fixed problems when they happened, no fuss. He was away for a few days before they were alerted to a downturn in sales. Had someone else doing his job, not very well. He came back on contractor rates. Son is going to a position that the owner has venues all over Australia but in Canberra his business model doesn’t work. Quelle surprise, locals are lazy, self entitled and think they should be in charge. DiL chucked her’s in after finding out she’s doing her job plus training owners friend who’s getting paid the same but doesn’t know how to do the work. Another attendee, a scientist, chucked his in when his boss was away discovered his boss does nothing and makes it look like its him thats lazy.
Yes, and there is this ‘Productivity’ thingy’ to worry about. Funny that.
People like that boss take a big risk whenever they take a holiday. The next up the line might notice the difference.
Something Hairy has often noted to me from his own experiences in management – people are given performance indicators based on what bean counters asses they do, not on what they usefully stop others from doing, ie fixing problems when they happened, or before they happen, which should somehow be nominated as part of the success of any job.
Piers Akerman:
The teal tango. Very good Mr Akerman.
They really are a bunch of pretentious popinjays.
The teals’ slick appeal to naive emotional voters, predominantly female, demeans the intelligence of their supporters.
White leftoid women fuking the West.
Ha! You got that right. Watch the demonstrations in the USA on now, to confirm it.
I still don’t like Akerman, he called Snowden a traitor.
Well worn but true! .. “how can you tell when a pollie is lying..?”
“Their lips move” ..!
designed to capture the hearts and minds of voters.
No just the wallet for more “free” stuff
I concur.
The last line is perfection.
https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1899347054767317184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1899347054767317184%7Ctwgr%5E2789b3eedafb465323bd24a395f2a9c9b3b00f69%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
You have to be highly educated to be so stupid.
And it’s easy to be so stupid if you are insulated and protected by a wall of money, preferably other people’s money.
Just took out that stupid red minus that follows you round, Calli.
There never was a truer meme than the above.
Agree Calli.
There is also a huge difference between “Highly”, educated and “Well”, educated.
The Well educated are the ones who actually achieve the worth while.
Stupid should be painful.
Lol.
It’s not just the education which makes leftoids so stupid but the disconnect from reality. The teals are a perfect example: pampered, prosperous women who have never experienced hardship. As a result they take their social structure and all its protection of them for granted, so they indulge their ego issues like global boiling and ruinables and can’t see their advocacy of leftoid issues will destroy the very social infrastructure which protects them.
It’s called cognitive dissonance; and spoilt, white women personify it.
Nails it. Allegra Spender is a disaster in Wentworth.
Dover
Oil appears to be making it’s way into the $50s (a barre)l. What happens to the Russian war effort at that point, when the average cost for Russian oil extraction is a circle around $45 dollars a barrel?
Saudis, etc. will very likely cut production. I doubt they want to cop the reduction themselves.
Sure, but what happens to the war effort if the Saudis don’t? Don’t bank on the Saudis wanting to reduce supply either.
They’ll make adjustments and it continues.
What “adjustments” will they make?
No idea.
Then don’t say they’ll make adjustments if you have no idea. The only adjustment they can make is to persuade suppliers to accept even more rubble. The Chinese aren’t going to take in rubbles. Perhaps North Korea will though. 🙂
Not at all. Given their success in managing the sanctions regime, I think its plausible to conclude they’ll meet this challenge too.
Explain in a little detail what these adjustments will be made then when you said you have no idea: but the adjustments are coming.You’re sounding like a NG cargo cultist. What saved your guy was that the oil price remained high(ish). If oil price falls to close to breakeven, your guy is done like a Sunday roast unless of course Chinese will oblige and take in rubbles. Obviously, you think they will because there’s no other fcking “adjustment”.
NG cargo cultist?
Waiting in hope for the next load of imports.
That may not be as meaningful as you think. The US is going to be producing a LOT more oil. WTI will be plentiful meaning much lower prices- into the 40’s I expect. The Saudi’s won’t like it but will swallow it for good US relations in their tough neighbourhood.
Peter Schiff: Tariffs & the Coming Economic Collapse
Lord, Schiff?
He’s been forecasting “Economic Collapse” since the turn of the century. He’s made a career out of being a Chicken Little.
The title is clickbait but his argument seems fundamentally sound.
Gold is making him look good for now. Even a broken clock etc…
His thesis is based on the money printing thing by the Fed. When someone doesn’t understand monetary economics or wants to lie about it, they usually talk about money printing with no other explanation. Schiff does that all the time to cater to the ignorant.
Here’s the Fed’s balance sheet. It’s decreased by over US$2 trillion dollars since May 2022.
$9 trillion May 2022, to $6.7 trillion 2nd April 2025.
Over this period, you can say there’s been “negative printing” or a reduction in the money supply.
From memory, he doesn’t talk about money printing. There’s mention of QE but it is more about the tariffs, trade imbalances, etc.
He talked about it at the very beginning of this vid. Money printing is the very foundation of his thesis.
Lay out what he said that is wrong in the beginning of that video.
I just told you, he talks about the US printing.
Lay it out.
He talks about how the US is engaged in money printing.
He says the US has basically been able to buy all these imports by operating an inflationary monetary policy.
He’s basically a crank.
Ok, but how does that work?
Ask him, not me.
So he’s more or less over the target.
How so?
From “The Siege” by Ben MacIntyre. One of the hostages has just been murdered. The situation is seeming utterly hopeless.
“Ron Morris thought of something he could do. He did what Englishmen have always done in moments of utter hopelessness.
He made everyone a nice cup of tea.” Page264.
Does the book talk about Shia or Sunni? I think the Alawites were involved somewhere in all this.
That’s what I do too, Zulu.
It is very soothing in stressful times for all.
His books are the best.
Stitches holding my spine closed came out on Thursday, I did a simple dance class on Friday, and am now trying to do one walk in the local area daily. Yesterday I set out and the Ro Knox sign on the telegraph pole near our gate had disappeared, while ten metres down on another pole had suddenly appeared one for Allegra Spender.
The teals really are steals. So much for ‘their’ democracy and electoral freedom.
The sTeals vandalize Lib corflutes.
The right does not vandalize lefty (and teal) corflutes.
That’s because the right is law abiding.
Therefore the Teals are immoral and lawless.
You can tell a person by what they do, not what they say.
Did the spinal problem cause any symptoms in the periphery(feet and hands)?
No. I never had any of that, no tingling or pain, the surgeon asked re that before the op, although I did get occasional foot and leg muscle cramps which may have been unrelated. Or perhaps not. Haven’t had any since the operation.
I just ‘knew’ there was something going on in my coccyx area, related to the fall on ice, which could flare up with bad pain and then settle down for a while, but I was always aware of a problem and hurtiness. http://www.coccyx.org for the experiences of others, some of whom did get neuropathies.
SA recently banned electoral corflutes from being placed on public property – so except for the odd one on private properties there are hardly any posters around at all and there is no feel it’s election season. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing yet. But I’m surprised (I shouldn’t be) to find it was the Liberals that pushed for this on the basis of… reducing plastic pollution.
It’s at least removed the Left’s ability to engage in these kinds of shenanigans, but also I suspect it will make it even harder for smaller right-wing parties to be seen, as it was at least a way to get visibility outside of media control.
Stitches came out on Thursday, my bum fell off. HA! Good to hear Lizzie.
Would be nice to see suspender belt given the old heave ho. What a collection of horrible entitled people. Anyone remember the Carla Zampatti Ford Laser?
Meh. Just put diagonally embroidered “Zampatti” cloth on the doors.
At least Bertoni got the angle grinder out for the 242GLE Volvo…
Not allowed to tell someone they have a mental illness.
NSW Criminalizes LGBT Conversion Practices (6 Apr)
Five years for trying to help someone. Sheesh. In a related matter:
Trump ends ‘woke’ transgender research and orders studies on ‘regret’ of trans kids after ‘mutilations’ (5 Apr)
There’re going to be a lot of very unhappy people once this fad finally expires. Already transgenders have the highest suicide rate.
Yet the LGBTQ+ mob openly converting children to its lifestyle is apparently perfectly acceptable.
Snap, shoulda scanned down.
Does the law also apply to LGBTs who try to recruit young people?
Sorry, of course not. I’ll see myself out (so to speak).
The Teals, from day 1, have always reminded me of the “Cool Group” at school.
To be avoided at all costs.
There is a certain type of woman who aspires to be part of the group, that’s where they harvest their votes. And the male dim bulbs who follow in their wake, hoping for a bit of the other should they pass the test.
Take a look of any of the film clips of them prancing and preening and laying down the law and tell me I’m wrong.
And when you make it into the ‘cool group ‘ turns out they’re not so cool after all.
You mean like these chicks. Guess the film.
Ahaha! One of my favourite scenes. The fight at the end always has the Beloved in stitches.
No idea.
Don’t even recognise the actresses.
It’s Muriel’s Wedding. Banana Girl Rhonda is exposed for having an affair with Queen Bee’s husband…Chook.
It ends in black eyes and a chick fight.
Porpoise Spit, loosely modelled on Coolangatta.
Must watch that again, great film.
No wonder I didn’t recognise the scene from the film.
Never seen the film, not my cup of tea.
Sophie Lee. She shot to stardom compering Bugs Bunny Cartoons. She is a nice lady who converted to Judaism for love.
Has always kept her opinions to herself and never sought out notoriety.
It was set in a salubrious coastal hideaway called Porpoise Spit, whoops ( Coffs Harbour anyone?)
Coolangatta. The Beloved’s family is from up that way and recognised some of the location shots.
No one admitted to knowing a rooster called Chook. 😀
Tweed Heads rather than Coolangatta. As at 2 weeks ago the Chinese restaurant is still there looking exactly as it did in the movie. ( Inside & out). They do a nice Laksa.
The exterior shots for Muriel’s friend’s mum’s house are still on the Tweed side of the border and was the neighbour to a lady who treated our late son.
Mrs D & I still refer to Tweed Heads as Porpoise Pit.
The Grapes of Wrath?
Bananas of Wrath?
Wife went to an evening of old school friends of the the cool girl variety.
Doctors, lawyers and accountantants wives. All on the scrapheap replaced by later models. Bitter and twisted. Pretty much the way they were at school.
I wonder if it was Allegra who was a guest at Carla Zampatti’s dinner.
She declined to reveal the exact identities of her guests, though PS understands at least one of her daughters and a son-in-law were there
Carla pictured there on her stairs at home in 2020 for that dinner, hanging on to her stylish wrought iron stair rails. Sad that she then lost her footing and her life falling back on the many steps of the Opera House. I never do steps now without hanging on.
It is surprising, reading http://www.coccyx.org, how many people bust their coccyx falling back on hard stair edges. Better than doing it with your head, as Carla did. Take care, older Cats and Kittehs. Danger lurks there.
May I add, wear sensible shoes, and don’t rush !
Well, Lizzie…you probably know how often I fall at the farm – either chasing cows on foot (& fall into dips in the ground) or getting over wire fences and/or the couple of stiles husband has built for me over fences. Touch wood – haven’t broken bones, though once got nasty damage to legs from electric fence that was “on”!
But came back to city a month and a half ago and had terrific fall on debris a Council worker had left on a footpath on my walk to the beach. Stupidly saying “good morning” to workers and not watching where I was stepping….Doctor certain I had broken ribs on left side – but Cat Scan said not. But has still taken quite a few weeks to diminish pain. Knee also took a fair hit and “plays up” a bit by aching during the night.
Husband reminded me of a saying of Barry Humphrey’s character “Sandy Blight”…..”don’t fall down…or they will put you in a home!”
Since he was clearly referring to the plans of relatives ……I will be more careful in future!!!!
There are little things out to get us at any age, Vicki. Sorry to hear of your Council rubbish fall after your lithe awareness of all sorts of hazards at the farm.
I’ve taken two ‘falls’ recently, neither of them due to age. The first when I got up too quickly out of bed in Jaipur and had dizziness from blood pressure change, something which has happened to me occasionally in youth too. I tripped over a pillow lying on the floor, grabbing some curtains to break my fall and hurt my right knee a little, plus a couple of ribs. It got bettere in a few days so nothing broken.
The second was when I was putting a note into the bank of mailboxes at my second son’s place about 6 weeks ago. I stepped back not noticing a gas meter and pipe that lay immediately behind. I fell backwards twisting my right leg and left foot (lost my shoe) but my fall there was broken by a wall close behind which caught my left shoulder and unclad elbow as I slid down it. Noone saw it and I got myself up after sitting there looking at some garbage bins with a ‘what’s happened?’ look on my face.
Left foot has taken weeks to feel unbruised again, and my elbow sustained a horrible graze, which only healed properly in time for surgery where no open wounds are permitted. I hid this big graze from Hairy as I dared not say I had taken a fall, let alone that I did it at that son’s place, for that one causes me enough trouble anyway. Hairy freaks out about me and ‘falls’ now, for he’s read horror stories about broken hips etc. So have I actually. I’m intent myself now on taking more care.
You should too even on the farm, Vicki. Pogria too. You have a little way to go still, but once you hit 80 the game seems to change. Not so fast now, girl, you say to yourself and try to impose a caution you are unused to accepting.
A late addition to TWiP comments. Brutal, but I can’t fault it.
Vicious
But accurate.
I’m well-aware of blue flies, but last summer in Melbourne’s east I’ve been seeing lots of green ones. Like other flies they love the rubbish bin, but they don’t seem interested in me in the least. If they’re taking over from the regular black ones, that’s fine with me.
The video on the China Observer channel discusses recent cyber activities by a hacker group called Anonymous 64, including their infiltration of multiple Chinese governmental and military websites. Anonymous 64 aims to expose corruption and criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), calling for the dismantling of the CCP and the creation of a new China. Key points from the video include: 1. **Hacks and Exposures**: Anonymous 64 claims to have hacked various official Chinese websites, releasing personal information about officials they label as “traitors” nurtured by the CCP. The group accuses these officials of crimes such as internet censorship, maintaining political stability by force, and implementing harmful policies. 2. **Targeted Individuals**: The hackers identified five officials they accuse of crimes against the Chinese people, including Lei Liu, responsible for public opinion control, and Yi Wang for aggressive diplomacy leading to China’s international isolation. 3. **Hacker History**: Anonymous 64’s activities coincide with anniversaries of significant events like the Tiananmen Square massacre, and they have continuously posted about their operations. There are suggestions that Anonymous 64 might be linked to or inspired by the original Anonymous hacker group known for political activism. 4. **Propaganda and Accusations**: The CCP has accused Anonymous 64 of having ties to Taiwan’s Cyber Command, alleging these activities are part of a broader cyber warfare effort against China. Taiwan has denied these claims, suggesting the CCP is using these accusations as a distraction from domestic issues. 5. **Broader Implications**: The video highlights how these cyber activities aim to challenge the CCP’s control over information and offer alternative narratives to the Chinese public. The efforts are seen as part of a broader fight against censorship and to bring international attention to internal Chinese dissatisfactions. 6. **International Reactions**: The cyber attacks and revelations also align with broader geopolitical changes, including the US’s stance against state-sponsored hacking. The video discusses historical actions by the US Department of Justice in pursuing Chinese hackers as a countermeasure. Overall, these revelations and cyber attacks by Anonymous 64 are portrayed as a response to what the group describes as the oppressive policies of the CCP, and a call to expose corruption and promote democratic ideals within China.
LOL, we have the e-Karen to sort people like that out.
Four-year terms? Fine. As long as the house has mid-term elections like the US.
A young doctor had moved out to a small community to replace a doctor who was retiring.
The older doctor suggested that the young one accompany him on his rounds, so the community could become used to a new doctor.
At the first house, a woman complains, “I’ve been a little sick to my stomach.”
The older doctor says, “Well, you’ve probably been overdoing the fresh fruit. Cut back on the amount you’ve been eating and see if that does the trick?”
As they left, the younger man said, “You didn’t even examine that woman? How’d you come to the diagnosis so quickly?”
“I didn’t have to. You noticed I dropped my stethoscope on the floor in there? When I bent over to pick it up, I noticed a half dozen banana peels in the trash. That was what probably was making her sick.”
The younger doctor said “Pretty clever. If you don’t mind, I think I’ll try that at the next house.”
Arriving at the next house, they spent several minutes talking with a younger woman. She said that she just didn’t have the energy she once did and said, “I’m feeling terribly run down lately.”
“You’ve probably been doing too much for the Church,” the younger doctor told her. “Perhaps you should cut back a bit and see if that helps.”
As they left, the elder doctor said, “I know that woman well. Your diagnosis is almost certainly correct, she’s very active in the church, but how did you arrive at it?”
“I did what you did at the last house. I dropped my stethoscope and, when I bent down to retrieve it, I noticed the vicar under the bed”.
This truly is “another” – at least the third. How many conflicts must be uncovered before there’s some action?
Laura Loomer Uncovers ANOTHER Shocking Conflict of Interest Involving Obama Judge Who Is Threatening to Jail Trump Officials for Not Bringing Violent Illegals Back to US Homeland
“Radical Transparency”: Elon Obliterates Woke Jessica Tarlov to Her Face When She Tries Accusing Him of Corruption
Tarlov, a Jew, supports the demorats who are feeding Israel to islam. She personifies the woke, white woman. Watters and Gutfeld eviscerate the bitch but in a good natured way. I watch the Five hoping the Judge will smack tarlov right between her narrow, slitty eyes.
She is the worst thing on The Five and degrades the program. Harold is slippery and ingratiates himself but has also defended the Demonrats and all the fake stuff for the past four years, so he’s really no better.
The latest gadget that the Left does not like.
The retard finder. Just wave it near ‘Leftoids’ and watch the reaction –
https://twitter.com/i/status/1908258019600695457
These morons don’t even know that they are protesting for the continued cover-up of government waste and fraud.
Using their money.
Typical lefties.
Greenland: How Trump Can Deal with the Raging Danes to America’s Advantage
Trump’s Tariffs Are Working — Here Are All The Countries Already Backing Down
Good take on idiotic disney; surprised it was not in WIP:
@julie_kelly2
A dozen of our toughest guys at DOJ and FBI cannot possibly in 10 weeks immediately identify and remove every single bad actor in a 100,000+ employee dept with a long history of corruption. Be patient and get a grip. Encourage them instead of giving them sh*t. It’s happening.
Vale, Peanut, who served the Trump electoral cause so well.
@MikeBenzCyber
If you have to call yourself nonviolent, you’re obviously violent or bordering it. Normal people don’t need to pre-advertise themselves as not being violent.
@MikeBenzCyber
I love how there’s no single policy complaint they can point to that’s wrong so they’re just protesting a random unrelated car company
Let’s Try Really Hard To Walk This Back news (the Hun):
Almost died? Again?
But:
This account was backed up by the bus driver, as well as the kids on said bus.
This tart’s brother said it almost killed her. We’ll get back to that shortly…
But he said it almost killed her. He must be some sort of medical professional.
Almost certainly, he must be a medical professional to say such a thing.
WHAT?
Oh. Oh righto. So this lying mole’s PR team – hired with the $20 mill she got from the Royals has roped the brother in from the other side of the world to speculate. Got it.
Yes. Yes it will, and even then she won’t be believed because of all the cry-wolf bullshit sympathy-dredging she’s been up to.
This is, as they used to say on The Late Show, champagne comedy.
She sounds like Corporal Klinger’s family.
They are continually “dying”:
M*A*S*H 0223 – Klinger’s Father Dying (again)
Wait!
Wut?!?
She’s not dead?
Not even close?
But I sent my best suit to the dry-cleaners expecting a funeral this week.
I had liver and kidney failure. The solution from my gastroenterologist was Just Stop Booze, which I did, along with taking lots of Milk Thistle and globe artichoke supplement, so that everything is entirely normal now.
This person should seek similar advice, instead of doing mad things.
@MikeBenzCyber
All the riots show is how formulaic, astroturfed & predictable they are. Like congrats, you proved once again you are nothing but a page ripped out of a color revolution playbook using destabilizing street protests to harm a democratically elected gov’t beloved by its people.
What about the EU? There’s at least as bad.
@ReclaimTheNetHQ
NO FREE TRADE WITHOUT FREE SPEECH: TRUMP TEAM WARNS UK
The Trump administration is tying trade to free speech, and calling out Britain for cracking down.
The UK is trying to control online speech. Now the US State Dept is publicly pressuring the UK.
The message to London? Free expression isn’t optional.
Good, now do the same to Australia Mr. Trump.
The thing about solar is the million of panels will have to end up somewhere when they expire.
What do you do. Put them in landfill? Toxic muck.
Not many people talk about this dlilemma.
Ditto for the blades from expired wind generators.
Nor the dilemma of the seriously toxic chemicals in each panel. I think we should charge a fee of say $1 k to have each panel properly and safely disposed of. Oh sorry did something happen to the savings??
St. Peter’s Basilica to exhibit Veronica’s Veil on April 6
On Sunday, April 6, the fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica will display the revered “Veronica’s Veil,” a cloth that, according to tradition, was used to wipe the face of Jesus on his way to Calvary
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Gosh, as a Catholic girl born and raised in the 1950s/60s, I had forgotten about this. Thanks for reminding me, P.
France’s Ban BACKFIRES Ferociously
Dr. John Campbell
Spinal cord injury after covid vaccines
Charles Veitch:
PRO HAMAS: This Time They’re Quite Angry
Lots of young leftoid kunts.
‘Tariff turmoil’: Australians getting their ‘knickers in a twist’ over Trump
“This Is WAY Bigger Than Anyone Realizes… | Victor Davis Hanson”
DOGE’s border expert reveals terrifying number of illegals on Medicaid: ‘It’s just ramping up’
Jihad Rising in Africa While the West Averts its Eyes
Nothing will change until the persecuted folk toughen up and start getting rid of muslims.
More nimble competitors will no doubt fill the opportunity window. They are dealing with a POTUS that knows all the angles of commerce and negotiation. Big Co CEO has shareholders who will have something to say about market share.
Yes, capital allocation is going to go from AI, Ai energy support, tech/robotics etc into building massive sneaker factories that American will be beating on the factory gates to be employed.
/s
Tough but doable by the next CPI stats?
Apple
Estimates for manufacturing an Iphone in the US is said to be about US$3,500.
Grokster
Current cost to build
Grokster says 235 million iphones were built last reporting year.
Apple is NOT going to set up a factory in the US to build phones. That’s not going to happen. Nike, same thing.
Maybe Apple will get an exemption for the phones since they are building factories in the US. Grok;
There will be others. They will eventually need a lot of copper.
And if Apple does, then who misses out and why?
From the US POV, the US alone benefits from construction through to operation.Plus there will be investments needed in the grid. There is also the tech IP from the new generation fabrication ops. So who misses out on any of that will be down to their competitiveness. Nett it all out, I can’t see the US and particularly US workers not majorly benefiting from Trump’s policies.
The problem is that tariffs are a fictitious way of trying to equalize prices for similar goods produced in different countries. They’re a fictitious construct and can be taken down or played with by the government of the day. Would you spend $5 billion of new plant and equipment to arbitrage the tariffs? At the margin there will be, not I’m very doubtful on a wholesale basis.
And to answer your other comment. There could very likely be a recovery in the next few months, but that would come with changes to this proposal.
Very perspective, which is why copper futures were down 9% for the day and down 8% for the month. Stock up!
Yep. Markets, particularly futures often over react. The best buys are when there is blood in the streets and people all around are losing their heads.
You seem to be forecasting the end of the world. I think this will be a buying opportunity. Not yet, but soon. In a month or 2.
I’m not forecasting any end of the world, while you appear to be regurgitating the latest talking points you read from pro Trump Rightwing media. Stop doing so as I’m well aware of them.
This is a huge risk and it’s and may not work out.
Every single important indicator has turned down since the announcement and rather than being at least neutral, you’re suggesting everything is going to be fine and dandy. But okay. If you’re going to be smarmy when your opinions are challenged or rather what you’re repeating, let it be so.
You just can’t handle an alternate opinion. Because you have such a big fkg head.
You’ve been panic stricken since the announcement. You’re pissed because a bigger share of GDP will now go to worker wage packets rather than share prices. Don’t worry, there’ll still be plenty to go around.
If you read what I’m saying it boils down to this; wait and see before slashing your wrists.
I’m not saying “everything will be fine and dandy”. I’m saying it will be quite different but will work out good, better. Eventually. Your pining for Obama/Biden globalist policies is pathetic.
It’s actually the opposite and your smarmy comments will always get a response. You can’t handle anyone with opposing opinions, and yours really aren’t original—they’re just regurgitated.
And here we go again with the hi-hi wage shtick, just in a slightly different format, always forced on us by some government edict. I care as much about those workers as they care about me.
On purely economic terms, global supply chains actually worked great when the world remained peaceful and un-contentious, but that’s not something we can look forward to. However, unlike you, I’m under no illusions that economic inefficiency is fine and dandy or that hi-hi wages brought about by government interference are a good thing. You just have a giant chip on your shoulder.
Higher wages, not your hi-hi wages bullshit only comes from efficient capital allocation and productivity increases. There’s no other way. If you make things inefficient and cause wage inflation because of that inefficiency, all you’re doing is creating hi-hi wages and not the former. There’s no free lunch, champ.
Oh…let head Prefect slash his wrists, not deadly cuts though.
Here’s mango adding some intellectual heft to the general conversation.
I saw that, too.
Those quoted figures are unconvincing.
Which one, Bons?
Now that April Fool’s Day is out of the way, everything we’re told will be true, right?
Just as well I have plenty of movies and other shows to watch. The media is so hooked on Tariff Derangement Syndrome they’ve made politics unwatcheable.
There’s over 150 years of economic thought behind the position that tariffs are bad economically. That edifice doesn’t just disappear overnight because orange man good. T-man may achieve some of the onshoring he’s hoping for, but it will be at the expense of consumers. There’s no free lunch, it’s a trade-off.
The debate around the tariffs is not derangement, it is legitimate. It’s lazy to dismiss any opinion you don’t like as “derangement”.
This is the thing about the tariff policy that I don’t get. I get this it’s a way for the US government to raise more money and hope like anything that the tariff impact on prices will be absorbed through the exchange rate and the foreign exporter eating some of the hit. I get that. I get that the administration believes there will be a one off impact to inflation. However, what if it doesn’t? And it looks more likely that it won’t because the Administration is pushing a lower dollar policy.
But having said all this, if they really wanted to move manufacturing back to the US, why not offer a long-term tax holiday to anyone wanting to set up shop in the US. Something like zero corp tax for 15 years and 100% depreciation allowances?
Speculating , but it seems Trump wants quicker deficit results than what a tax holiday can deliver. He wants to take in more revenue asap to fund tax cuts for example.
Inflation? You were talking up the lower 10 yr yields earlier. Which is it?
Many trillion$ have been taken out of equities and parked in Treasuries and money market funds. That enormous dam load will be put back to work. Given some time.
Prices going up isn’t inflation per se. It’s problematic when nominal wages are impacted. If they aren’t, it’s a loss of real purchasing power.
And Trump’s success may not be ours. If these policies tip China over the edge, we’re pretty well done for.
Is that why the LNP is running dead in the election. Poisoned chalice?
Look at the bond rate.
For NSW residents:
Preserve Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum
The national and international significance of the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum has been recognised in NSW Parliament by the Minister for Tourism and the Arts.
?The museum is at imminent risk of closure due to restrictions imposed by its landlord, preventing critical security upgrades and repairs, following a break-in and theft in August 2024. Thus, the museum is forced to pay thousands each week for security guards. This could quickly extinguish remaining funds, which would result in relinquishment of licences, leaving the museum no choice but to dispose of the precious collection.
More details, and go here, to sign the petition:
Done. The landlord is a French multinational. How did that happen?
Globallsation (spelling deliberate).
Ask ADF & ex ADF about Thales and you will get a string of expletives. From what my mate has told me about them only way I can see they have the contract for ammo still is that there are some maaates in high places getting preferential treatment.
There’s 2 separate streams of paperwork to sign for ammo, Thales paperwork and the ADF paperwork. Thales won’t bend to the ADF & the ADF can’t as theirs is governed by regulations.
Mate was involved in a sign back where he handed back a heap of HE but the det cord length was wrong. No one bothered measuring it and the Dems guys stuffed up the calculation. A discrepancy of around 2m he knows went up in a puff as it was a Cdo guy who prep’ed the charges and he was helping. Thales, him (as the Ammo supervisor) and his Ops Cell were pinged for 6 months by Myanbat because there was a cost difference of a few dollars. OpsWO in the end just ignored it and it finally stopped.
Another time Orchard Hills stuff up a consignment that was Thales’s fault this time, unit’s paperwork and ammo request all good. Saturday morning ammo didn’t arrive at Holsworthy. They had a choco course in. A manager at Thales failed to sign off the release, then refused to come in on a Saturday morning to put said signature on paperwork. He said on of the WO’s and a Thales storeman were looking at the prepared pallet but couldn’t take it. Result a bunch of ARes soldiers finished the course with a shortfall and Defence had to spend the next 12 months flying some of these guys from as far as Perth to make up the shortfall.
That’s two I know from my mate. I know there would be more out there. Thales haven’t got a good name in the ranks.
Bishop.
Can the collection be donated to the AWM, or to one of the various military museums around Australia?
Labor from what I heard has chopped the budget for museums etc.
Puckapunyal was meant to get a new museum like the one at Infantry Training centre Singleton that was like a giant safe but open to the public so they didn’t have to come on to the base. They were going to build it off Blamey Ave near the gate, I thought is wasn’t an exactly good place as I know that area used to flood when I was an Army Brat on the patch but that’s apparently where it was meant to go.
All got canned in Smith/Houston’s budget cutting exercise. They closed the Artillery Museum at Middle Head and now are trying to jam all that in the present Armoured Museum for a combined museum, the RAAC Museum has been closed for 2 years now as a result.
Not only that the Feds took over all the revenue streams from the various Cops shops, RAAC gave them the finger and shut theirs down completely.
All the above came from a family member who was working on Puckapunyal last year.
We will be visiting the Singleton Infantry Museum on
Anzac weekend during a reunion, Rockdocktor, with my husband’s mates from the 4th intake who trained there in 1966 and went to Vietnam with 1ARU..
We live in Newcastle, one mate at Singleton is the town undertaker and very connected to the infantry museum. One further mate was RSM of the Australian Army, Arthur Francis, now deceased, who set up the digital filing range before he retired. Very interesting if any old blokes want to visit.
Cheers, mares.
What a surprise:
Hamas: 72% of Casualties are Male | Frontpage Mag
How sad, I have crocodile tears previously prepared.
So sad.
Missed a bit.
I reported on this yesterday.
Lying pricks.
The Australian media who took Hamas’ claims as gospel, that is.
Including the lead journalist of the local Murdoch rag who refused to concede my point that the figures should be treated with caution.
Looking forward to them running apologies…
Mintox!
Men At Work , Be Good Johnny (Live In San Francisco 1983)
Oops.
Men At Work , Be Good Johnny (Live In San Francisco 1983)
Why is Trump Using Tariffs? The Truth That Has Misled the World on Tariffs
“For all the criticism of Trump and the risk of a global trade war, as Macron wants to unleash a trade war to elevate France to the top of the EU, if we just look at the data, we can see why Trump has taken this approach. Even those Republicans like Rand Paul joining the Democrats in calling tariffs a tax, none of them are looking at this issue objectively or seriously. Under the Biden Administration, not only was there a wholesale invasion of illegal immigrants, but on the trade front, he paid no attention at all, and most seemed to assume he was too senile to pay attention.
They are resoundingly calling Trump insane, mainly because they have something to lose. Free Trade has been one-sided. There is a risk that France will push to impose trade barriers against others to support their Marxist agenda. That will be devastating, but we see the world economy headed into a recession for the USA, yet a Depression for the EU. The fact that Trump imposed a 10% tariff on the UK but 20% on the EU is actually driving a wedge between Starmer’s dream of overruling BREXIT to get back into the Marxist utopia of the EU.
In addition, the belligerence of Macron is having an impact. There is a growing discontent with the European Union and the 20% tariff on the EU, with Macron vowing that full retaliation may prove to be the wedge that starts the fragmentation of the EU. Hungary has its own currency and can quickly leave the EU and resume trade with both the USA and Russia. Ukraine has long suppressed the Hungarian people trapped within the boundaries of Ukraine. The same is true for all of those members questioning the EU yet did not join the euro.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/trade-war/why-is-trump-using-tariffs-the-truth-that-has-misled-the-world-on-tariffs/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
For 50 years, the EU celebrated its tariff wall and the CAP, which is an illegal embargo in WTO terms but is supported through fake environmental and health arguments..
Macron is a clown. A competitive tariff war with the US will be a massive loser for Europe, especially France. High margin luxury goods, domestic goods and machinery can easily be substituted by the US.
Trump’s biggest enemy in his attempts to enhance conditions of the US people is Wall Street with their fake crisis propaganda, their disloyalty to the US and their support of the clown Democrats. Wall Street of course supports Macron.
Some obvious legal remedies for getting rid of that frubulous jowled poxant soros:
(13) @amuse on X: “TERROR: Soros-funded Indivisible is openly admitting they are behind the 1300 paid protests happening today in all 50 states. Democrat billionaires are funding these uprisings and they should held legally accountable for the violence and vandalism. https://t.co/cp4T3CgJCG” / X
Resurfaced Clip of Trump Telling Oprah His Tariff Ideas in 1988 Goes Viral
Trump CRUSHES Globalization: Unleashes Fear in the Elite, Champions the Forgotten – April 5, 2025
Wow, Dutton is really running scared of media beat ups. What makes anyone think he will be any different as PM? Do you think after this he or his front bench will make unpopular calls?
Candidate for Whitlam or ex now made some views on women in combat roles a few years back that some may disagree with but were done in a measured way without abuse:
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/the-liberal-party-has-dumped-the-nsw-candidate-for-the-seat-of-whitlam-over-claims-women-shouldnt-be-in-the-army/news-story/56d1ad1f60c5a4dafef9e9c815d04007
I will stay out of the commentary this is likely to generate as I am a civi but I will say this guys view is not uncommon among Infantry SNCO’s I may have known even recently.
A month out and I’m not being inspired…
I’m not surprised.
What we don’t know about is the number of prospective Liberal candidates with entirely reasonable conservative views who were weeded out in preselection.
They had someone ready to go too. That had my spidey senses tingling. The candidate now was defeated at the last election, close to Perrottet and had a dad as a long term MP. I can’t find anything on his factional allegiance but I’d tip the left.
Seems all to convenient but the optics for conservatives is still, we don’t matter.
I recall some posts on this blog, some time ago, about how the majority of women who had passed the School of Insanity, sorry Infantry, at Singleton were now awaiting discharge on medical grounds?
Any sign of Rabz’s anarchist manifesto yet?
I’ll be in tomorrow if I don’t make it back tonight, Rabz.
Seeing talk on Twitter that Trump may fire Powell. Market reaction to that would be interesting.
Where’s the talk?
I’m voting against Anal.
Me too, but I ain’t voting for Dutton.
You won’t be embracing the suck?
Enjoy another three years of Labor overlords. With a side of Greens.
“Dad, what’s the difference between Labor & Liberal?”
“Oh…about three years, son.”
What’s your alternative.
Don’t give them your primary vote and the funding attached.
Send a message, at least.
The Liberals have been taking conservative voters for suckers since at least Abbott’s term (not him, but the moderates who undermined him).
Oh, I don’t like you.
Bound to work.
What about the election result? I suppose the whinging will take up lots more bandwidth.
I don’t like it, but this time I’ll hold my nose. Others, of course, can do as they wish.
PHON for me, if that upsets you tough.
I don’t give a proverbial.
For me, it’s personal. I want Swanson out.
I’m not in your electorate, calli, but friends are. They are also anyone but Meryl. Spare us a thought here in Ncle with the 2nd Sharon.
Same for me. I want Allegra Spender out of Wentworth.
I’m sensing that Wentworth is agreeing with me too, at least in the Vaucluse part of it. Now it encompasses Darlinghurst and that’s strongly Green, so the battle is going to be hard fought there.
Who then: the Arch Angel, Pete the pether puller, a cacophony of filth; or will you cunningly scribble a meaningful retort on the ballot paper for the general mirth of the officials.
Every vote against Dutton is a vote for Albanese. If anyone does not understand that standby for another 3 years of regression on steroids…
Oppositions don’t win elections. Gubments lose them. I want Anal gone. Then we can work on Dutton.
Good luck working on Dutton, just liebor lite.
Read what I wrote. I want anal gone
Read what I wrote too, I want sleazy gone but replacing a soft turd turd with a stiffer turd ain’t gonna help us.
Copycat Albanese slammed for ‘plagiarising’ speech
Nelson_Kidd-Players
April 6, 2025 1:13 pm
Sounds like the sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina).
Keep your arse clean and properly crutched, you should be fine.
On Mark Levin’s Life, Liberty and Levin (Fox News), China expert Gordon Chang reports there is an internal power struggle inside the Chinese Communist Party between the Chinese military and Premier Xi.
Chang says Xi is vulnerable because he has abandoned domestic economic growth as an economic strategy and thinks he must export his way out of faltering national economic growth — which makes him a sitting duck for Trump’s trade war.
Chalk up the Orange Oaf (h/t JC) for a major tariff victory later this year.
I think the Orange Oaf’s goal is more ambitious than trade concessions from China.
He’s building a trade alliance sans China.
Involving who?
Canada and Mexico will basically be economically integrated into the US economy. Other countries will follow.
We will have to choose.
Wait no more, Cats, for here it is! 🙂
Big stupid gubment will be banished.
The ALPBC will be shut down, as of yesterday.
The NT and the ACT will be abolished.
All Monoversities will be closed down and a review undertaken of their faculties – any not serving anything resembling a useful purpose and those decreed to be purveying left wing idiocy will be closed down, forever.
Big fat corporates engaging in collectivist virtue signalling will be hit with a 100% tax on their gross income.
Spacechook and tak tok will be banned.
The remaining braindead lamestream meeja organs will be forced to announce an “Acknowledgement of the Orange Man (who is very very bad) Bad” before their uninterrupted broadcasts of newsreels of Australia from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
All hippies and commos will be summarily sentenced to existing in “camps o’ happiness and freedom” in the most remote infernal deserts on the continent. They will be joined by every white numbskull that had the gall to try and claim they were not white.
The ALP and the Ozzie greenfilth will be banned and membership of either decreed to be a summary executionable offence.
ALPFL will be banned and anyone caught practising it sentenced to summary execution.
And yes, Rog, there will be more. The observations above are barely scratching a very filthy surface. 🙂
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. 😀
Pogs, you forgot the first bit. “I’m intrigued”
I’m new at this.
A Benevolent Dictator no less. Get the Armed Forces onside and your in.
Funny, I was roundly chastised for mentioning reading someone who argued a benevolent dictator was probably the best form of government.
I think it is thought to be the most efficient type of government. As in it takes the least time to decide anything.
However, most Roman emperors after Augustus gave that style of government a bad name.
Book burnings, nationalisation, control of the media, concentration camps.
Far from being anarchist, that’s the most fascist manifesto I’ve seen since 1920.
Have you considered adding another 15 actions to make a 25 point plan? 🙂
Book burnings and nationalisationionion, were not mentioned, Squire.
So let’s not have any misrepresentationionion, or it’s off to one of the happiness camps. 🙂
So sorry, Rabzenfuhrer.
The shuttering of the useless humanities departments and the total seizure of company revenue seemed awfully close to book burnings and nationalisation.
A mere mortal could suggest, dear Rabzenfuhrer, that your great plan risks being incomplete if the dangerous ideas of the left wing idiots are left intact in the monoversity libraries for other subversive elements to take up.
And the virtue signalling company’s costs still remain to be paid, meaning your regime would have to pay those costs. So taking ownership of the revenue and the expenses implies the company has been nationalised for all practical purposes, even if nominally the corporation’s owners on paper are still private citizens (exactly the fascist formula).
So really, oh most exalted Rabzenfuhrer, I was only taking your great plan to its logical conclusion.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
Just shut all of it down.
Forever.
That’s all rather mild, Rabz.
Except for the camps of happiness bit.
chrisl
How’s your thoughts on the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo?
I went to it last year for the first time in decades and thought it was a smaller than it used to be. Also more mainstream than it used to be. Then again 20 years ago my siblings and I with a few other boys used to spend more time at the Lions Footy Club bar than actually doing much else 😀
Sad loss last year of Colin Stray who was one of the local businessmen who helped get it going so I’m curious to see how it went this year as he was very influential.
Fairly fascinating story today.
Farming family gives rare look into unique 10-story house: ‘We’re nothing fancy’ (5 Apr)
They obviously have some sort of business plan that works, and the house is impressively strange! I couldn’t work out where the house is but if they can see Newcastle from it it can’t be that far away from Cafe Bruce.
The Girvan tower was built at a cost of more than $2 million by local Peter Grey atop a hill on a back road between Stroud and Bulahdelah.
Rockdoctor An interesting day up at Seymour. It was a cross between a country show and field day. There was every type of tractor and implement imaginable with the focus on smaller machines. There was a demo of a Lucas Mill which was interesting. Not too much that was alternate or out there. Lots of stalls with handcrafts of excellent quality but not many buyers. As usual the most popular places were the food courts. I actually went there to check out a product I want to sell so I learnt a few things.
All in all a good day out.
Noice.
I remember used be full of stalls on Alpacas, Ostriches and other fads that never really got established. Was always good as it bought a lot of money into town and Seymour doesn’t have a great reputation. Plus a bit of a social outing for locals.
Too bad I didn’t know you were going, I would have given a shout out for the Royal Hotel. A relative used to work there before moving out of town and Paul & Leigh are great hosts. Would have been busy though.
Ostriches.LOL. Come in spinner. Avocado boat has sailed too.
I apologise for seeming to be a bit cranky tonight. Well…I am cranky.
I see the conservative vote being diluted from every direction. And while I’m (very loosely) conservative it its old definition, I can’t see any viable alternative at this time.
We have no money. We have no friends. We have been white anted almost into cultural oblivion. On the other side of the world, something extraordinary is happening. It might be successful, it might not. But we are in a position where we have zero leverage. The incumbents have nothing to offer us except more debt, more exposure to our enemies (or enemy).
For many years I ran a business where hard decisions, even the hardest, had to be made. I really can’t see this as any different.
today was olive day
got 10 litres of pristine kalamata before it started raining and there’s still another 5 litres on the tree
picked through them by hand and culled the ugly ones … maybe 1% blighted or bird-stuck … the rest were perfect
compared to last year’s woeful yield this is fabulous
I have no friends either but I do have olives
everything changes and nothing changes at all
… I’ll send you some when they’re done
The end of the tomato season. Over ripe, good for nothing except delicious passata.
As you say, some things never change.
fair trade I reckon
I had zero tomatoes this year (mainly due to neglect)
Outing yourself as a bloody wog? 😛
genetically, no
unfortunately though, it can be contagious
An enterprising local was stripping a half dozen trees in the local park. Look like a few different varieties with the big, fat ones dropping on the ground for a few weeks now.
I turn 70 later on this year. I have promised myself a peevish, cranky and irritable old age, and I am well on track to achieve that aim.
Start your T-shirt collection now! The latest one I’ve seen said “Adventure before Dementia”
No apologies necessary calli, you are not on your own. We are being overrun by dishonest media, both print and TV and suppression of real facts. Just in our circle of friends and acquaintances the understanding of Trump and his agenda is negligible. All people see is “Orange man bad” and ignore what he is actually pointing out.
Someone here the other night mentioned Matt Kean and how much pressure is applied to politicians to adhere to the approved agenda.
Any alternative pov is wrong and must be ridiculed.
It all seems to come down to how people must feel good about everything and be part of a tribe.
Calli, I am not cranky, I see what Australia is about to do to itself, and I believe these idiots deserve the pain that’s coming. Our family is fortified, one way and another, but if the Albo Labor crew is re-elected, I fear for Australia and good people.
Not sounding like a personage that is prone to be mercilessly mocked by collectivist crackpots.
As the probability of blackouts rises, we need to think through what we should lobby out local members to set as priorities.
Starting on the negative side, TV and radio must be early targets. Each uses lots of electricity, and should this be limited to, say, two hours per day for major networks only.
Then newspapers, restrict them to three sheets of paper (12 pages) per day.
Close down most public service central offices, keep only elements that deal across t he E counter, but put senior staff in them to handle the difficult matters.
Restrict shopping hours to two hours around lunchtime and again after 1600.
All of the above should happen before power is cut off to industry and suburbia. Better that fridges and freezers keep working than media and public service.
I like your idea of targeting the enablers (the filth-filter/meeja; which have somehow become a slight obsession of mine), though I’m uncertain how to make a convincing case. A list of ‘essential’ goods and services makes sense.
Hmmm, worth pondering…
(Question: Is there anything in existing retail electrickery contracts that specify the consumer need not pay if no product (‘trickery) is received? Probably a silly question!).
Nothing on the meter, no charge for usage.
But: I suspect that the connection(grid charge would remain in place.
Any reason we couldn’t blackout the areas that vote green or teal first?
A great thought, but unlikely.
Hitting Their ABC and the rest of the MSM will hit the sTeals and Slime hard enough.
Also, there are a lot of voters in those electorates who didn’t vote sTeal or Slime.
In the US “tens of thousands” is a nothing burger. For a decent sized demonstration you get “hundreds of thousands” or even millions. The ABC as usual is trying to hype this up as a big anti Trump anti Musk demonstration when it’s not big at all.
They routinely along with MSM inflate numbers here as well of left leaning protestors.
From what I read today it is almost entirely astroturf. Paid rent-a-crowds. Of course the MSM won’t ever mention that.
Did the ABC mention it was an astroturfed protest, funded by the likes of Soros?
Rhetorical question.
Trust the ABC to wet its panties over “tens of thousands” “in a score of locations” in an orchestrated protest, funded by billionaires and millionaires.
I would be willing to bet if the protests were in twenty locations most of them would have considerably less than 3-4000 protesters at each.
And most seem to be paid to be there, complete with scripts and pre-printed posters.
See Instapundit for more.
Very professionally printed posters I am guessing.
Like the ones at an English rally supporting mass immigration after the Southgate murders committed by a “Welsh choir boy.”
Contemplating what movie would best sum up Trump and the US under him:
The Delta Force (1986) – IMDb
That film was shot, in Israel, using Israelis as extras.
The film company flew a “counter terrorist” expert, out to Israel, to explain to the extra’s what was expected of them.
As he finished his briefing, a fairly ordinary looking individual got to his feet.
“Firstly, like all Israelis, we’ve all served our time in uniform, so we are all trained, if not veteran, soldiers.
Secondly, I’m a member of our counter terrorist squad, and I can see at least three other members here.
Thirdly, after recent events in Iraq (the bungled hostage rescue attempt in the early 1980’s), we reckon we know our job, better then you guys, you, so we don’t need anyone to show us what to do.”
The “counter terrorist expert flew home next day.
Iran. Operation Eagle Claw.
Sooo .. I’ve downloaded this Paramount streamer spy series .. THE AGENCY .. not been out long and halfway thru episode 1 & I’m thinking, “Hang on, I’ve seen this before .. I know what’s coming next” .. so I paused it & checked up (IMBD) but .. no.. it’s a “newbie” so I thinkz, “Must have read the book” .. no .. no book but a TV screenplay version ..!
Getz into episode 2 & realise I know what is happening & what is about to happen .. then .. BANG, crash, kapow, Batman .. it “Robin-‘d” me!.. The, bloody, thing is a straight-out copy/remake from a, very good, French series … THE BUREAU .. yet they make no mention of the “copy” in the “opening” credits .. just,apparently, running with it as an original ……..
The Bureau …
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4063800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_the%2520beureau
The Agency ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26656917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520agency
How many stream whatzits do you subscribe to Shatter ?
I pay for Paramount, son has Netflix, youngest daughter has Optus, middle daughter has Kayo so all the fitba codes covered .. I only watch live sport .. download everything else I watch, movies, series ect ….
Yay teamwork!
Prefer the Agency to the Bureau
Went to local picture parlour to see Statham’s Working Man . For once I preferred the film adaptation.
Yet we will triumph.
Words of Wisdom from Children –
Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. – Kellie, 11
Best line heard from a Divisional Officer at the Naval College instructing her division of new naval officers: “Nappi-San is your best friend.”
The Art of the Deal
my boy did that on his first day of school 30 years ago
the more things change, the more they stay the same
Perth thief’s car auto-locks in botched getawayAn armed robbery in Perth’s north hasn’t gone quite to plan for the offender.
WA Today.
What a dismal choice the fretched pollies in this dump offer:
Peter Dutton dumps candidate over comments about women in first sacking of election campaign | Daily Mail Online
Duttie is preferable to rub and tug like eating a dog turd is preferable to eating 2 dog turds.
Every.
Freakin’
Time.
The Liars find something in the past of a Lib candidate running in a safe Liars electorate (Whitlam is held by the Liars on a 2PP around 60:40) and the MSM run with it.
The Libs need a decent dirt unit.
You don’t reckon there isn’t a Liars candidate running in an unwinnable electorate with some fruity “river to the sea” social media posts in their past?
The Coalition believes in playing fair against the most dishonest and grubbiest of sewer dwellers.
Precisely! Well said!
I watched that clip and cannot find a single thing wrong with what he says. (If that’s all he said on the issue)
He stipulates combat roles.
Just common sense, my son saw this during his basic training, many girls not able to hack what is required and getting injured in greater numbers.
Same thing applies to women playing hard contact sports like the AWFL.
I’d have voted for Dutton if he stood by him.
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that Labor will win handily. The only bright spot in the whole thing is that we will be rid of Dutton as the leader of the Opposition.
Yeah, maybe turdball will come back. I can see the SFLs doing that.
Arthur Leggett death: WA’s last surviving World War II prisoner of war dies aged 106Dylan CapornThe West Australian
Sun, 6 April 2025 5:42PM
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Dylan Caporn
WA’s oldest surviving World War II prisoner of war — Arthur Leggett — has died aged 106.
Mr Leggett, who was well known across Perth as a fierce advocate for Australian veterans, died on Sunday, and was still an active president of the Ex-Prisoner of War Association of WA.
Serving in World War II and fought in Libya and the battles of Bardia and Tobruk before being captured at the age of 22 in the Battle of Crete.
He spent more than four years at a prisoner of war camp, and worked 12 hour days in Polish coal mines.
A powerful sight on Anzac Day commemorations each year, he stunned a silent Optus Stadium crowd in 2022, aged 103, when he read the Ode of Remembrance at the annual Fremantle Dockers Len Hall Game.
Ex-Prisoners of War Association WA secretary Ray Galliott paid tribute to Mr Leggett’s post-war service.
“Arthur Leggett always said that his duty as an ex-Army soldier was to ensure that the memory of his former colleagues was never forgotten and that the most effective way to do so was to educate the younger Australians of what earlier generations did to ensure we enjoy the freedom and safety of a secure country,” he said.
The Digger Generation has just about gone. And their Australia with it.
Not really.
If you move from a super-low wage environment to the US, the capital vs labour equilibrium changes.
There won’t be a one-for-one replacement of labour.
A simple example is materials handling.
In a low wage environment stuff will basically be moved in plastic crates and hand trolleys with lots of cheap labour.
In new factories in the US there will be stacks of conveyors, palletiser, automatic packing machines, etc.
That is just one example.
Sanchez
True, but the point about the number of factories doesn’t change or not that much.
True story.
When I was a kid my older siblings told me you could hear the local radio station through the electric fence.
As I put my ear up close they pushed me into it.
I still have a facial tic as a result.
Sacre bleu, Cats – the guitar work by the Belew is just off the scale … 😕
We can be heroes
F*ck! The speed is insane.
341 MPH: Bob Tasca III Shatters Own Record At PRO Superstar Shootout
All cats (feline members of the animal kingdom, not contributors to this august journal of record) should be baptised.
It’s a simple process.
Cat.
Sack.
Brick.
River/dam/wheelie bin.
Baptised.
The world is a better place afterwards.
I’d be happy if the dog species was made extinct. Filthy barking things that we have mutilated beyond recognition with selective breeding. If the wolves knew what we had done to them we would be in real trouble. Imagine if someone had done that to humans.
‘Man’s best friend’ – And it is written.
Dogs feel the same about you.
Miserable prick.
Cross the river Rabz. And pay your penny.
Ride across the river (live 1986)
A tough bullet to chew but we maybe need to vote Labor to avoid a Labor/Green, effectively coalition, government.
He looked a lot like Che Guevara …
Channel Stokes 6pm News furiously carrying water for Albo. The Lieborals women problem even got a run.
You are missing out.
I can only feel sorry for you.
Meh. We have friends who are dog people and dogs generally like me. Be nice if they didn’t bark or weren’t allowed to be kept in suburbia so people don’t lose sleep or have to live their lives with pointless noise pollution.
It’s a thin line …
He looked nothing like Che Guevara! But in deference I have to play this one in honour of the astronauts that Elon rescued a couple weeks ago.
Space Oddity (1969/2018)
I love that the screen on the dashboard says “DON’T PANIC”.
I love cats and dogs, I think they’re integral to our human story.
I went to see a movie today, one in the French Film Festival programme. The cinema was chockers which was delightful. People will go to the cinema if there’s something decent playing. The film I saw is the latest French version of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. I have always loved the novels of Alexandre Dumas and this film version of his classic novel was superb, spectacular, it took my breath away. I highly recommend it. I adored it.
It was also very comforting to see that French filmmakers haven’t fallen for the infuriating English habit of woke diversity wank where you now see, in almost all UK dramas and films, including historical dramas and films, ‘black’ or ‘subcontinent’ actors. Why, they even had a black woman play the very white Queen Anne Boleyn. It isn’t just ridiculous, it’s utterly offensive.
If The Count of Monte Cristo is showing at your local cinema, do yourselves a favour and go and see it!
I believe there is a black version of Emma and a trannie Mr Darcy.
If not there will be.
It wasn’t there at all in ‘Wolf Hall’, made in 2016, the first of the Mantel Cromwell series. Sadly, it is there, even though only as background vision, not with main characters, in the new series two of it ‘The Mirror and the Light’, 2025. Crowd scenes always have a few black faces, and the Spanish women are very dark senoritas. This doesn’t destroy credibility completely, there were such people, but not in the numbers required by contempory cinema rules in the UK. The producers must have pushed back to have had so little of it though, for no main historical storyline characters turned up black.
Quite different to what happened to Amor Towles great novel on the evils of communism. They completely ruined the story of ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ with unrealistic Muscovite black people everywhere, including a dreadlocked African as the main character’s best friend, a leftist whose downfall from communist grace was stark. You simply could not see this African man in the role.
I believe the ‘critical race’ theory goes that you are not supposed to notice, that we have to get used to ‘equality’ in seeing faces for individuals not as racial traits .. and it gives black actors jobs. That falls apart with simple common sense. You obviously DO notice and if it is completely out of place, as in Lenin and Stalin’s Russia, or in Henry VIII’s England, then it becomes a distraction from appreciating the rest of the show.
Don’t be too hasty Cass. Two of the frog movies we saw had gay kissing. I always close my eyes in disgust, but one scene went for an extended time and I kept opening and getting more disgusted.
I think gay kissing scenes are getting longer because they figure a lot of people are doing what I do and want to force it on people.
LOL….yes! Am very careful about what movies I choose! I can guarantee you’d like The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Lou, and his three favourite chords:
The Oz is reporting…
Labor is now leading the Coalition 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis, with the single-point gain mirroring the 2022 election result, despite voters backing Peter Dutton as the stronger and more decisive leader.
Unsurprising, the Liberals are simply Labor lite. They’re offering nothing to the electorate. I think the Oz electorate need another three years of Labor punishment.
Dutton is a dead log. He thinks he can win on points and wait for the other side to make mistake.
I think you’re right there. I just despair at the thought of another three years of Pong, Abalone, Burqa and all the rest of the far-left Nazi scum.
The worry I have is a Labor /Greens coalition, and the “politics of envy” that will flow, as a result.
Which is why I said it may be better to vote for the Liars so they govern in own right.
This is the kind of human garbage we’ve opened this country up to…..
A pro-Palestinian rally was held in western Sydney on Sunday, with some speakers likening federal politicians to “Jewish Zionists” while speaking of a “Holocaust industry” and referring to Australia as a “colony”.
About 250 people gathered at Paul Keating Park in Blacktown where the Teachers and School Staff for Palestine held an “anti-Palestinian racism” rally with 30 other community groups.
Cries of “shame” rang through the crowd as activists spoke against the major parties and waved Palestinian flags, before the rally, attended by multiple families, marched through nearby streets chanting “Palestine will live forever”.
Palestine Justice Movement Sydney co-founder Ahmed Abadla targeted Jewish Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus in his speech, where he labelled the Labor politician a “Zionist”.
Mr Abdala said Mr Dreyfus and other politicians were trying to “capitalise on the Holocaust industry” to build support for Israel in Australia. Mr Dreyfus travelled to Israel in January where he spoke of the “strong friendship” between the country and Australia.
The Labor MP, who is currently the most senior Jewish cabinet minister, has been outspoken about being the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors. He also recently published an opinion piece honouring his great-grandparents, who were killed during the Holocaust, after attending the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
At the rally, other speakers made appeals to the crowd to abandon the major parties for the Greens and independent representatives, including the Muslim Vote, at the upcoming federal election.
Muslim Votes Matter founder Sheikh Wesam Charkawi addressed the rally only weeks after he was allowed to return to Granville Boys High School, where he works as an educator, following a dramatic student protest.
The imam, who has been a prominent figure in the local ‘Muslim Vote’ movement, was previously ordered to work from home by the Department of Education for making social media posts about the two Bankstown nurses who allegedly made threats against Jewish patients on a livestream earlier this year.
Sheikh Wesam was joined by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine member and rally organiser Mariam Tohamy, who spoke at length about how Labor and the Liberals’ stance on Israel had “propelled racism” following Hamas’ October 7 attack.
Mr Dreyfus declined to comment.
I don’t recognise this country anymore.
Which makes them, as a bunch of Johnny-Come-Latelies, settler colonists.
Not the sharpest tools in the shed.
At what point will the Liars “strategists” realise the scale of the mistake they made by pushing large scale Muslim immigration? How many of those Gazans and Afghans the Liars, backed by the Slime, are bringing in will vote for the Muslim parties as soon as they can?
Neither do I and when the 2 odd years over 6 I worked outside the country one of the things I used to love was the feeling of familiarity on landing in Sydney or Melbourne. Sometimes I had been out of the country 6 months.
That’s long gone.
Immigration is too high, student visas should be curtailed savagely, and there should be strict controls on foreign ownership of housing.
In most of the countries I worked in I would not be allowed to own a house, so why do we let O/S students have ABN’s? Unless it by design…
It’s by design. Immigration knows that the “students” are here for money and PR, not the kind of rubbish degrees now on offer here.
I suspect that many Dept of Immigration staff came here the same way.
The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies
When they weren’t denouncing anyone in the immediate vicinity as “German Nayzees” 😕
They will be perfectly entitled to gather what remains of those tomes out of the radioactive rubble.
There will be no law against silly young peoples flirting with ridiculous ideas.
Nor would we shoot their perfessers* 🙂
*As much as we might like to.
@DefiyantlyFree
So last night, I watched two of the Indivisible training events where they trained activists for today’s totally pre-scripted, pre-planned and pre-orchestrated protests.
For a movement that continues to say they are non-violence they sure do use a lot of violent rhetoric.
They call the Trump administration a “hostile takeover” and demand a “forceful rejection” of the current leadership.
“Hostile takeover” isn’t the language of peaceful assembly. It’s the language of regime change.
All the trainings prime protestors to see the government not as an institution to reform—but as something illegitimate and dangerous.
The rhetoric gets worse as the trainings go on:
•“We must meet this moment with mass mobilization.”
•“Stop the MAGA takeover of our government.”
•“All hands on deck to stop the fascist threat.”
Indivisible, MoveOn and Working Families Party all had representatives at the training and all three of them provided exact signs and verbiage and tips on how to avoid being tracked.
I have never heard of a spontaneous protest that has weekly organization calls, tool kits, and pre-printed signage for everyone.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner hiding the ‘dangerous truth’
Now that Daylight Saving Time has finished in the southern states I can no longer cheat at getting first comment on a new post simply by staying up until 11pm.
Meh, I had a good run.
My parting shot for today is to digger:
Digger. April 6, 2025 10:49 pm
Welllll just be careful how you say that. Yes the uniparty routinely gets such a high share of votes in the House of Representatives that you have to rank Fiberals ahead of Liars or else Albo stays. But voting for other minor parties ahead of the Fiberals is also a bit like voting against Dutton because the Fiberals will not get the $3.39 per first preference formal vote that they would get if you just voted 1 Fiberals.
Topher suggests ranking minor freedom-loving parties ahead of the major/uniparty parties as a way to send a message of dissatisfaction and to build support for new parties over time.
Last week Rabz tried to convince me to vote informal in the House of Reps. That idea seems to be a slow-acting poison. I wasn’t persuaded straight away, but I can feel its persuasive power growing in my mind the closer election day gets and the more infuriated I am that no political party represents my preferences. Early days yet, but Rabz may succeed where MemoryVault failed.
I agree on the dogs.
Cats?
Not so much.
A friend of ours is in the last stages of MND, and he has lost the power of speech.
Our dog just seems to understand something isn’t quite right and has done things that tell you he knows, and is trying to help.
Incredibly touching.
Dogs are the best people I know.
Hear, hear! Which imbecile gave your post a thumbs down? Which I just cancelled.
Ditto for you.
Anyone who doesn’t like animals and especially dogs is suss.
Loyal, trusting and members of the family.
Unlike some people.
Cats we’ve had were the same if something wasn’t right.
When Two Legends Met 89 Years Ago – Don Bradman Came Face To Face With Babe Ruth
Dover. Why was that curbed?
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane inside The Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks