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I’m also non-tribal and have known some decent muslims. But I still want to deport them all. I’ve never known…
Nothing about a “Treaty” or “Reparations?”
Ranga, I’m with you on this one.
This is the NewCat, Focksbody – you aren’t allowed to criticise our moral superiors from the subcontinent and the Middle…
And a good morning to you all.
Silver.
and
Game on.
Both the US and the EU can survive, big and ugly enough, maybe bruised but survive.
Not too sure about China, she will survive for sure but in what shape?
Gabor, go and look at the numbers and think again. Not sure why anyone thinks out of this three China is the weakest.
Explain why you don’t think so?
China is exporting a lot of manufactured stuff, never mind cars. I am actually worried about the fallout for us and other countries that are supplying raw materials to them. What about the The Belt and Road if they run out of money? How low can the Ossie $ go?
Still better than becoming a satrapy of the CCP.
A bit late for such wishful thinking.
China will offload more of its cheap goods onto us and others rather than the US..
Bunnings will be brimming with them, more than ever. Untll we decide to raise tariffs heavily on China well above our GST of 10% and Bunnings could be left almost empty. Definitely a swings and roundabouts situation.
If you believe CCP economic statistics, then you probably also believed Soviet economic statistics.
Right up to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union.
I dont believe ANY government statistics, Australia and China included, but I do believe my lyin eyes: The West has gutted its manufacturing industry and China has magnified theirs. Peter Schiff talks about this. Wealth is *stuff* not *paper*. China doesn’t get richer by exchanging manufactured goods for paper, it gets poorer. If the West stops importing as much chinese stuff in future, the Chinese get to keep more of it at home. Production drives economies, NOT consumption, despite what our wise rulers constantly tell us.
Friend of mine has been importing manufactured items from China for decades.In his words their economy is stuffed.
anyone that’s dealt with China knows they already have a huge number of trade and import restrictions in place.
While waiting for the dough to rise and silently cursing the staff member I have to stand in for at this ungodly hour,
did you know:
Only four animals are known to demonstrate displacement (the ability to communicate about objects or events that are distant in time and space): humans, ravens, bees, and ants.
I’m not too sure about some humans when it comes to navigation, giving directions, but.
Dogs seem to do pretty well in telling you they don’t want to go into the grooming salon, clearly remembering it’s a place they didn’t enjoy. Perhaps that is simple stimulus-response, but dogs can also whine if you mention the name of the place, which seems to imply displacement communication. Seems as though the concept above refers to transferring location information to others of the species. When Lassie pulls on someone’s sleeve to alert someone to an owner in trouble down by the river, what is that though? And sheepdogs seem pretty able to communicate with each other as well as their handler about where sheep are heading.
Defining terms seems to be the crux of this ‘displacement’.
I think you’ve got the wrong end of the stick. Sheep go where the dog herds them.
Damon, I’m talking about watching two dogs cooperate herding sheep, even though they are a whole field apart, so maybe they are aware of each other.
As I said, I’m not sure what this ‘study’ claimed to show, humans and dogs seem more similar in cognitions than humans and bees or ants.
Interesting thread. If correct, we haven’t even seen the Chinese sell off their bonds yet. Their quiver is still largely full.
“asked”!
Goodnight, Cats and Catettes.
Tmoz we hop on a plane for Sinny, then Friday on a ship to cruise to NZ, Samoa, Polynesia, Hawaii, USA. Then change ships and cruise USA, Mexico, Panama Canal, Colombia, Miami, Bermuda (others I’ve forgotten) and finish in NYC. Fly to Washington State for a few days, then fly back to SYD and two days, then on to PER on 21 June. Not a bad little jaunt.
Point is, I may be gone for some time. Well, posts may be scant for a while. But I’ll still be reading … so play nicely!
Nice, Bruce.
What cruise lines?
Sydney to LA on Princess; the balance on Silversea.
Hope you enjoy it more than me .. I did 20 nights LA to Sydney (various stops) bored to tears by the end … glad to get off ……..LOL!
We booked to cross the Pacific to Los Angeles in March 2026 from Sydney on the Queen Anne. I am looking forward to the peace and quiet of days and days at sea, reading books and dropping in and out of this electric telegraph. Hope Elon can keep the pixels moving mid-Pacific.
If you want time to pass slowly spend it on a boat you are not sailing yourself. The novelty soon wears off. There is a reason most of these cruises look like a car journey with a 3yo with plenty of stops.
The novelty wears off? I think these will be cruises 37 and 38 that we’ve done. And another three booked.
This internetterey sephamore sort of thingie works in most places Bruce, so if you’re reading you can also be telling us about what’s going on in places you are in. Unless you are too busy having food, wine and fun Sounds llike a terrific trip, enjoy.
Sounds delightful, Bruce, have fun.
Point is, I may be gone for some time.
Not in the Polar sense I trust?
https://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Quotes/Last_Words/I_am_just_going_outside_and_may_be_some_time._2690.php
Yes, doc, it was deliberate!
Have you voted/postal voted?
Just think what might have changed by the time you get back? All good things one hopes? Wish you bonne voyage!
I don’t envy you. 2 weeks on a cruise ship is my limit. After that I go stir crazy. Still, enjoy while you can, you may come back to a different world.
Have a great trip Bruce!
I am all for the judiciary to intervene when an unconstitutional act is proposed by the executive, but surely everyday actions like hiring-fireing and other mundane everyday functions should be none of their business.
That goes for all countries, needless to say.
From the Jerusalem Post.
High Court freezes firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar until later decision
It’s not mundane for the person fired. Legal processes should place a high value on their being employed to protect the legal entitlements of the individual.
Maybe.
What about the reverse?
Not every company can afford that crap, and maybe they are getting rid of employee to reduce costs and stay afloat.
You might say “but this is GovCo” – and I agree.
BUT, once you set the precedent…
Who is to say correct terminating procedures were not followed?
You may say a lot of things about the current US gov. but why would they open themselves up for litigation with a rookie mistake?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Antone else remember the BLF?
I used to be a member. I could go on site to check gear I had hired out, with nobody bothering me. The membership wasn’t even in my name. I had a discussion with the Secretary. He said, there’s nothing we can do for you. I said, no one will argue with me.
Brett Lethbridge.
Typical Labor ,, considering a bloke with as much appeal as an empty cardboard box.. charismatic … LOL!
What fighting Tories looks like. aka the battle of ideas
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
That’s it. Nothing would have happened in the past, none of the great democratic progress originating in the US, would have occurred if activist judges were rampant then.
Gary Varvel #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused a prominent anti-domestic violence organisation of gaslighting the Australian public and threatened to review its funding after it told journalists not to suggest violence was part of Indigenous culture.
Our Watch, which receives about $20 million a year from the federal government, has produced a set of guidelines for media organisations reporting on violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Under a heading “context matters”, the organisation tells reporters: “Do not suggest violence is part of Indigenous culture”.
Senator Price, who is the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, said the advice did not marry with her experience as a Warlpiri woman.
More at Sky
I don’t have a reference, but, to the best of my knowledge, a prominent Aboriginal activist claimed that domestic violence, in Aboriginal communities was a legacy of colonialism.
Everything that contradicts the ‘primitive Paradise’ view of aboriginality is attributed to colonialism.
Which of course is absolute rubbish.
The early settlers and explorers often recorded the utmost savagery and barbarity perpetrated by Aborigines, particularly by men towards women and girls.
It’s trade war yet most conversations seem to be about finance and related monetary instruments.
We’ve slipped away from fundamentals to become a service and finance system that takes the essential goods trade as a given and only there to leverage investment decisions.
China uses trade as an economic expansion tool and a weapon for dominance. The money people aren’t as smart as they think and have imperiously misread the situation for years. One business economist tried to explain the huge build up of food and raw materials in China as some sought of self reliance and resilience tool rather than the more sinister likelihood of war preparation.
A load of bread is currency when you are hungry.
Well said, Gez. Many years ago I heard a NSW ex pollie say that we were destined to become just a service economy. That is exactly what we have become. As Arky has repeatedly said, we have de-industrialised. Our mining and agriculture sectors have done the heavy lifting.
This has placed us in a perilous position as China now flexes its muscles in the Indo Pacific. And yet defence spending is still pitifully low and is not even front and centre during our election! I am deeply deeply worried.
Am rereading the late Jim Molan’s 2022 book Danger on our Doorstep. He said then that they would start becoming aggressive in our region within 3-5 years. He was spot on as they have now started active reconnaissance of our coastal defences and communications in 2025.
I recommend all Cats read this book.
Well said, Gez. Many years ago I heard a NSW ex pollie say that we were destined to become just a service economy.
I covered this on my podcast last week – ‘service jobs’ are parasitic jobs that require real jobs to pay for them by producing real goods that we need: food, fuel, shelter etc.
https://rumble.com/v6rrbob-episode-51-wake-up-australia-dissecting-this-weeks-news-with-dr-bruce-paix.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
China should be careful about flexing its military muscle – if they piss off the US enough with that stuff, DJT may decide to hit the Three Gorges Dam with a couple of “bunker buster” cruise missiles. If that thing fails, it wipes out a large part of China’s “food bowl” and the subsequent down-stream dams also taken out in the flooding from that would remove 10+GW of electricity generation as well (not to mention the perhaps millions of people who would die from the flooding).
A couple more cruise missiles with incendiary warheads aimed at large coal storage and other fuel storage (diesel etc), a few more at power stations, maybe a few busy ports, and China would be in a world of hurt.
I’m not aware that, sans ICBM nuclear attack, the US has a similar vulnerability – certainly I don’t believe you could cripple the US with 50 conventional (ie, non-nuclear) cruise missiles like you could China. And the US has been testing hypersonic missiles as well, which could do the same damage and be much harder to stop.
Just sayin’…
Price is out of the blocks:
Federal Election: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price warns voters Labor may proceed with plans for Treaty and Makarrata despite Voice
Sky
She needs to do a lot of the heavy lifting for the LNP. Less about her own patch and more national focus.
I think she’s got the picture now.
Yep. Can’t understand, Gez, why they don’t have her more front and centre. I have heard her give a long public address on two occasions – she is very very impressive.
Dudzy worried about competition …… LOL!
Jacinta Price needs to campaign in her electorate to get herself re-elected or she will be less effective overall.
She’s a senator, she doesn’t have an ‘electorate’.
the various state labor governments ‘we will just do it anyway’ response to the Voice referendum belled the cat on that one.
Sought – sort
you know what I mean.
Sought of.
Bet against Trump, he lays it out for the markets to play it out. Hate to have been on the wrong side of the trade last night. Dow +2,900. Dont know if its good thing or not. Are interest rates now on hold cause we not spiraling out of control.
On hold to look for a possible panic spend on imports as the dollar dips.
Pretty amazing numbers.
Nasdaq Skyrockets 12%, S&P 500 Soars 9.5% (9 Apr)
We did all know he was using tariffs as a deal-making tool, but for the market to jump 10% in a matter of minutes just because he’s pausing them for 90 days is rather exuberant. But that’s America for you.
Well, like some other laggards, I’ve finally learned.
Open Thread on Wednesdays dies afer about 10.30 pm, because Thursday Thread is being born soon. Now – time to read down from the top.
Recent voting outcomes in Wisconsin show how crooked things can be, and have been. These manipulations are totally against the law and should be fully investigated. The effect of them will be massive and is against GOP, pro Dems.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/wisconsin_s_supreme_court_election_screams_for_department_of_justice_criminal_investigation.html
What else could you expect from a state named Wis-con–sin?
Oh dear..! When $A440million just isn’t enuf .. FFS!
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will spend the morning in far-north Queensland, where Labor’s making a play for a key seat.
Labor holds just 5 of 30 seats in Queensland, and sees little opportunity to gain many more.
But it has a few in its sights, and one of them is Leichhardt.
With the retirement of popular Liberal MP Warren Entsch, Labor sees this as their best chance to gain the seat.
Albanese will today announce a new $10 million fund, aimed at protecting and promoting the Great Barrier Reef.
The money includes $6 million for a “Kids for the Reef” rebate program for subsidised school excursions, so kids can see the wonders of the reef first-hand, and learn about its ecological importance.
It’s the prime minister’s third trip to Queensland so far this election campaign.
And we thought ScoMo was being profligate to award JC Uni $500,000 for the reef that is clearly not dying. At least that ten mill is recognition that the reef now needs ‘promoting’ after all the climate doomsaying that has been turning droves of international tourists off from coming. You can be sure though that those school kids being bussed in will get a heavy dose of WEF doomsaying as a clip on their ticket.
Two birds with one stone. Pork barrelling in the electorate and throwing money at very well off inner-city type people who will be the only ones outside of the region to be able to afford the rest of the (now-subsidised) trip. Free exclusive schooling (because you need to afford the house to live in the catchment) and now discounted first-class school excursions.
They have no chance in Herbert.
Phil Thompson is decent local member.
Same mad hatters Kenedy.
Liechardt different story.
I thought Waffleworth saved the reef with about $500m. Bigger welfare bludger than A Current Affair housos.
Both the US and the EU can survive, big and ugly enough, maybe bruised but survive.
Not too sure about China, she will survive for sure but in what shape?
The EU is more exposed to external factors than China & has a lot less levers to pull in a synchronised manner.
The EU is lucky Bessent appears to be trying to “break” the PBOC, not the ECB.
Ah, screw it, do over the Eurotrash while you are at it, Bessent.
Being Airstrip One, labelling the 2021 decision islamophobic should be sufficient to see their challenge succeed.
So Hamas don’t want to be labelled as terrorists any more? Even though their behaviour gives them away for exactly what they are – terrorists.
The challenge is being made to British Courts, so on recent form there isn’t too much real justice to be gained there. Hamas will likely sail home to an acceptable berth in the hallowed diplomatic halls of an Islamified Europe.
The state of the NSW Liberal Party. I will not be voting for the state Liberals any time soon.
Liberal leader Mark Speakman promotes two women in a mini reshuffle
A Liberal MP who defied her party by crossing the floor to support independent MP Alex Greenwich’s equality bill has been promoted to the frontbench under a mini-Coalition reshuffle.
Outspoken North Shore MP Felicity Wilson, who is also expected to use a Liberal Party conscience vote to support a Greens private members bill to increase access to abortion health care, will take on the women’s and Aboriginal affairs portfolios.
Ms Wilson is not the only MP to be promoted in the reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Port Macquarie MP Leslie Williams with State opposition leader Mark Speakman also appointing Holsworthy MP Tina Ayyad the roles of Opposition assistant minister for south western Sydney, health and youth portfolios.
Ms Ayyad is a former Liverpool councillor and deputy mayor and also the wife of Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun.
She was the sole Liberal MP among a group of 22 parliamentarians to sign a statement declaring that they stood with Palestinians and the Palestinian-Australian community “facing a catastrophic crisis” after the October 7 attacks.
The letter, which opened with a condemnation of “terrible acts of terror committed by Hamas” and called on the Australian government to compel Israel to “comply with international humanitarian law” was released by a cross-parliamentary group called the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Palestine.
More recently, Ms Ayyad has taken on the government over major local issues such as its delay in responding to a serious mosquito plague last year, which forced residents indoors.
Describing Ms Ayyad as a “powerhouse” for southwestern Sydney, Mr Speakman said the fellow moderate Liberal was never afraid to advocate for her constituents.
“She’s not afraid to speak up and she always puts her community first,” he said.
Mr Speakman also praised Ms Wilson for being a strong advocate for opportunity, equity and inclusion, describing the North Shore mum as someone who “gets what matters” to local families.
“And how to deliver,” he said.
Ms Wilson said she was keen to make a difference for women and Aboriginal communities.
For women, this included supporting reforms being put forward by Greens MLC Amanda Cohn to address the lack of abortion healthcare across NSW.
While the Liberal Party denied its members a conscience vote on the equality bill, it has offered one for abortion.
Ms Wilson will also advocate for greater measures to protect women from violence.
In her maiden speech, Ms Wilson revealed how her family had been “scarred by domestic violence” and “mental health issues”, her father was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, with her mum forced to raise three children on her own.
“I know the fracturing impact on a childhood of family violence and mental illness. I know the hardship of poverty; the struggle on welfare,” she told parliament.
“While he was a loving man, his illness led him to be violent, and my sisters and I suffered the brunt of his disease for a number of years.”
Felicity Wilson represents everything wrong with the NSW Liberals. Wilson is also a liar………..
Felicity Wilson admitted to providing false information on political forms having overstated the number of undergraduate university degrees that she held. Ms Wilson claimed she had a double degree from Macquarie University when she applied to be vice-president of the NSW Liberal state executive in 2013. However, she later admitted to holding only one undergraduate degree.
I was under the impression Mannoun is a Christian. Did he marry a Muslim woman?
No, Ned Mannoun and his wife Tina are Shiite Muslims. I actually don’t have a problem with Sleazeman promoting Tina Mannoun, I’ll take her any day over Felicity Wilson.
If Hamarse succeeds with its legal case in the UK, will she “call on the Australian government to compel Hamarse to “comply with international humanitarian law”? No? Thought not.
The words “abortion” and “healthcare” do not belong in the same sentence.
How long will this 90 day pause last? I give it no more than a week. Especially because the smart move by Europe is not to drop its tariffs. You just can’t trust Trump to do anything sane and stick to it.
I hope the ghouls shorting the markets took it in the shorts.
Piss off, Nazi boy.
First ‘Grexit’, then ‘Brexit’, then ‘Megxit’, now ‘Alexit’.
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Having to talk about one’s departure under these circumstances is hard, unless one spouts the usual insincere company line about everyone mutually feeling it was time to move on, which nobody believes and we’re not going to say either. So no explanations.
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Half a billion?
@FBIDirectorKash
Today we’re announcing yet another major narcotics seizure, this time in Port Everglades, Florida.
48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics worth over $509 million — now OFF American streets, thanks to the leadership of @AGPamBondi and our PANEX Task Force.
This is what happens when you let good cops be cops.
Thank you @USCG, our local law enforcement partners, and our FBI support teams for your incredible work to save American lives.
Thats roughly 20mt. That’s a big haul.
This is what happens when you let good cops be cops.
I would rather let drug addicts be drug addicts and task those cops to real crimes, like theft and assault.
Real crimes that are often committed to pay for the drug addiction. Get to the root cause.
Criminalisation of drug taking leads to most of those crimes … absent the illegality, drug price would be lower and it wouldnt be worth committing crimes to get your fix …how many smokers and alcoholics commit crimes to source their drugs?
@MarioNawfal
Former WSJ reporter @AsraNomani and her Pearl Project names who are actually paying for the attacks…
Don’t know what is going on as the low end of general aviation is not exactly growing but Kawasaki have just announced they will build a range of certified aero engines. All good if they can run on unleaded as 100 low lead is in danger from regulators although many lower power engines can run on unleaded avgas 91/96.
https://www.global-kawasaki-motors.com/aero-piston-engines/
Anyone want a Lycoming O 235 made for 80/87?
“The allies now receiving a tariff reprieve must work with Washington to wall off China.
Because the problem isn’t just Chinese dumping, etc., but third-party states that allow themselves to be used as PRC “platforms.”
That’s the expectation from Team Trump’s tariff warriors.”
New Zealand?
https://x.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1910026904775651833?t=YXHxGj9u7mx88HmfmlnWtg&s=19
I give it no more than a week
Please remember Nazi boy’s past predictions, and here are two pearls….
Biden can govern
Kamala Harris will win Iowa
Fatboy
Did you really make these two predictions?
I said Biden could govern, and he was doing so. His campaigning was poor, but the man could run the country perfectly well. In particular, I will not be verballed about competency in governance by supporters of Trump, who is currently chainsawing the government and the world economy.
I don’t recall the exact wording of what I said about Iowa, but I thought Harris would be a lot more competitive there than she ended up being. I was as wrong about that as you lot were about Trump in 2020. These things happen.
I note that Netanyahu went on bended knee to the White House to ask nicely with sugar on top that Israel be exempted from the nasty tariffs, and Trump gave him… nothing. I haven’t seen Cranky comment on that one. Is Trump anti-Semitic too?
Careful now Nazi boy, you’re allowing your toxic Jew hatred to spill over, unsurprising as you lot just can’t help yourselves.
I repeat, piss off RABID NAZI. You don’t come here in good faith, in fact you’re a putrid disgrace, an advocate for violence against those whose opinions you don’t like, in other words, a true Nazi.
And no, Donald Trump is no Jew hater but you…..YOU are a Jew hater.
Biden was asleep most of the time. An unelected cabal was “running” the country. You can substitute “ruining” or “looting” for running.
It has definitely been the looting as DOGE has uncovered and is still uncovering. How much has the US government budget gone up in the continuing resolutions since Obama? That’s how much fraud and looting was going on.
You say that like it’s a bad thing Monty.
Seventy seven million people voted for exactly that.
Prove that Creepy Joe, and NOT Dr Jill, Grunter, and a cabal of DemonRat back roomers, was actually “governing”.
The Creepy Joe (P)residency is proof of the adage that “There is a lot of ruin in a country.”and yes, quoting some incompetent pollster who has since retired from the business, you did say that Kameltoe would win Iowa.
Wrong, as usual.
a cabal of DemonRat back roomers, was actually “governing”
….as was the mechanical arm.
Oh, yes, I forgot the autopen. I wonder who had the access code. The DemonRats erred in thinking that Dave was a how to guide, like 1984.
ya fecking clown
You lost me right there.
Those words of wisdom from mutley but he still wonders why the Milko has made the third delivery this week when its supposed to be Sundays only.
@EricLDaugh
TRUMP IS HILARIOUS! The entire room just cracked up!
“For 4 years, Joe Biden tried to abolish the American coal industry – they did everything in their power… while he was awake, which wasn’t much… shutting down dozens of coal plants.”
Another one.
Ayrshire explosion LIVE as firefighters ‘running for cover’ after recycling centre fire (9 Apr)
Recycling old batteries is not for the faint hearted.
It’s a long way from throwing a couple of ‘C’ size batteries into the incinerator while Dad was burning the rubbish.
The belting was worth it!
Some irony in the name of the facility – Fenix (I’m assuming pronounced phoenix).
Biden was trying to prevent tariff runabouts by companies like Temu and Shein. No-one cared about that.
These companies also take advantage of the Universal Postal Union that forces countries like Australia and the US to subsidise Chinese postage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/economy/tariffs-amazon-walmart-china-shein.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Paywallian:
When the loony left runs your party, there are no old wise heads from the right faction to worry about the re-electability of buffoons like Bowen.
Link
This is my electorate so I’m really hoping that’s true. For the first time in several decades my vote might just count for something.
If nothing else comes out of the election but the booting of Bowen, it will be worth it.
Neutron stars are less dense than that overpaid mediocrity.
Can’t believe my luck .. 30 years in McMahon, a lot of it stuck with “blow-in” and AEC swapped me over to Fowler just before the last election so can’t help to vote the scumbag out ………..!
@amuse
?LAWFARE: Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley discovered damning evidence, exposing the Biden White House’s direct hand in orchestrating Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation into Donald Trump. Whistleblower disclosures and internal FBI records confirm that the politically charged probe, codenamed “Arctic Frost”, was greenlit in April 2022 not by an independent judiciary, but with the active participation of Biden administration officials.
At the center of the operation was FBI Agent Timothy Thibault, a partisan figure who served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau’s notoriously politicized DC Field Office. Thibault, who quietly retired in August 2022 amid mounting scrutiny, ran point on the investigation with direct coordination from the White House.
What emerges is not merely a breach of prosecutorial ethics but a chilling abuse of executive power: a sitting president leveraging federal law enforcement to target his chief political rival. It is the stuff of banana republics, not constitutional republics—and it marks yet another chapter in the Biden administration’s pattern of lawfare masquerading as justice.
Acting IRS commissioner takes a buy-out in protest because she doesn’t want DHS to know where the illegal aliens are
She was quite happy to supervise the leaking of Trump’s tax returns, and those of hundreds of thousands of those with the “wrong” political opinions.
Trump has acted. From 2 May it’s 30% or $25.
Part of this is to combat fentanyl imports.
Same reason Biden introduced STOP! requiring all inbound parcels to the US to have tracking.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-closes-de-minimis-exemptions-to-combat-chinas-role-in-americas-synthetic-opioid-crisis/
On recent precedent they’ll simply arrest the leaders and ban the party.
Top Spot: Reviled ‘Right-Wing’ AfD Now Germany’s Most Popular Party
Hopefully at the next election they will have the numbers to form government without going into a coalition with any other party.
Because that went so well with Hitler.
Australia of course got rid of de minimus a few years ago.
Not much complaining. Sinc wasn’t impressed.
And here’s some more insight into the mint Green NSW Liberals…..like Dai Le, Matt Camenzuli was expelled from the NSW Liberal Party.
I take this poll with a pinch of salt so I don’t think Camenzuli will beat Bowen but Bowen’s armour will be dented.
China Can’t Win a Trade War Against the U.S. for One Simple Reason | Opinion
They’re making a genuine attempt to wipe away the lunacy.
White House Uses Reporters’ Pronouns, Just Not the Way They Intended
From that story – brilliant!
“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Provides Clarity and Details Surrounding 90-Day Pause, Baseline 10% Tariffs and Chinese Tariffs at 125%
What an impressive speaker Scott Bessent is … answers everything calmly and clearly
CHARLES PAYNE: The truth about tariffs and the history lesson many critics are missing
I said Biden could govern, and he was doing so. His campaigning was poor, but the man could run the country perfectly well. In particular, I will not be verballed about competency in governance by supporters of Trump, who is currently chainsawing the government and the world economy.
Nazi boy is a touch sensitive today.
Doesn’t give enough credit to Trump himself but otherwise probably pretty accurate.
Outstanding Work, Doctor: How Jill Biden’s Lust for Power Saved America
Just a reminder about the current level of tariffs the US is applying, along with their ranking of total trade with the US:
China (3): 125%
Mexico (1) and Canada (2): 25%
Almost everyone else: 10%
Russia (23), North Korea and Belorussia: 0%
It would be funny if China bypassed the tariffs by selling via Russia.
Piss off, Nazi boy.
Great idea. Give Russia a ticket clip.
China sell via Mexico and Canada.
Not surprisingly trade between Russia is somewhat low atm mainly mineral fuels, precious metals, and fertilizers, no one is going to notice a sudden increase in fakes, cheap clothing and plasticware.
Selling via Wussia? The m0ron is not really on top of the reasons for the tariffs.
Funny how leftists were all for tariffs until Trump.
Farmers call bulldust on Labor’s cattle ban compensation delayMatthew Denholm
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Farmers are demanding both major parties commit to quickly resolving a long-running, bitter compensation battle over the Gillard government’s cattle export ban, as a damaging court case resumes mid-election campaign.
In 2020, the Federal Court found the 2011 snap ban on cattle exports in response to an ABC Four Corners program “constituted malfeasance in public office”, ordering the government to pay damages and costs.
Negotiations have since failed to reach agreement, with the government sticking to a $215m offer, less than half the $500m – plus a similar figure in interest – being demanded by the 215 injured parties. These include cattle producers, exporters, veterinarians and musterers whose incomes, businesses and lives have been severely impacted by the ban and the subsequent failure to pay compensation. The standoff has been blamed for suicides and business collapses, but the failure to reach agreement has forced the issue back to court for hearings from Monday, April 14.
I think the real loss is closer to a Billion plus interest.
I know what would happen were I to ignore a court order to pay someone.
It would be dishonest not to state that the markets over the last few days must have shaken up some in the Trump administration, and perhaps the great man himself.
Bessent’s body language was awful today.
If it is “the Art of the Deal’, the stick part has to remain convincing,
If it’s about reciprocity, then you have to stay the course.
If it’s about moving industry back, then you have to provide a level of certainty.
Markets and second and third order factors spooked them.
That is obvious and disappointing.
Spinning and massaging isn’t changing reality.
Leaving tariffs on China is irrelevant, because just like in the American civil war, goods will continue to bleed through third parties without too much friction, because there are huge interests on both sides for them to do so.
Markets spooked them, it can’t be denied.
In other words, a 125% tariff on goods from China, but a 10% tariff on countries next door to China which have a huge Chinese industrial presence, well, the results of that are obvious.
It’s bullshit face saving to state that the 125% is anything but a tariff in name only.
Obviously someone decided that America can’t, for the time being, do without cheap, shit Chinese goods.
Trump had one shot at this, and he is f*cking it up.
The spinning and bullshitting around this is revolting.
The real message: hit the US bond market and Trump will cave on tariffs.
F*cking abysmal performance.
Trump should remember Liz Truss.
Arky, relax, Trump never has one shot at anything. The first salvo is just that. My daughter as a 5yo wanted a pony. Her friends mother had one for sale. She negotiated down to a mouse, the back up to a dog. The friends mother also had a pup for sale. We got a dog.
There is then nothing to stop the US from raising tariffs on those countries to 125%.
Trump just demonstrated that there is:
The bond market.
Not if you do them one at a time, slowly.
I don’t recall the exact wording of what I said about Iowa, but I thought Harris would be a lot more competitive there than she ended up being.
I recall what you wrote, Nazi boy. Based on some dodgy polling you came here and opined that Kamala Harris is predicted to win Iowa and you were gloating about it.
As the rest of us knew at the time, Harris did not win Iowa. Then you did what you always do when you’ve got rotten egg splattered all over your face, you disappeared for months, although we know you’re always lurking here.
A wrongology sabbatical. All too common I’m afraid. mUnty back for the time being.
Poland to Return to Greece 76 Historic Greek Jewish Artifacts
Activist Judges Rubber Stamped Billions In Suspect Social Security Disability Claims
A DOGE worthy effort.
I see the cuck is back posting his verbal flatus.
Begone loser.
He would, if we could all just refrain from ‘feeding the troll’
Correct
Two hour interview, with time stamps.
@TuckerCarlson
The US government has spent the last 12 years trying to censor and destroy Alex Jones. They’re still trying, and it’s not because he’s crazy and dishonest. It’s because he’s telling the truth. Watch this.
to quote RFKJ
“they don’t censor you for telling lies, they censor you for telling the truth”” the government doesn’t want to eliminate disinformation, it wants to monopolise it”
I agree with Judith Sloan in today’s Oz – that Angus Taylor trounced Jim Chalmers in the Debate. I was pleasantly surprised, as I didn’t think he would – certainly by the measure that he did. Chalmer’s face said it all – surprise and unsettled.
Sloan gave an excellent analysis of Taylor – economically sound and with a wealth of experience in the world of big finance, but somewhat uncomfortable in the world of politics. He went on the offensive with great confidence, clarity and conviction (the 3 “C”s!) & he won the debate handsomely (he is also that!).
And to boot – he is from a farming background – what more can you ask? Love the way he was introduced on Sky as a former Rhodes scholar and “exceptionally gifted”.
Thanks, Vicki. I have it recorded and will watch the tape tonight.
@MikeBenzCyber
What an incredibly bold and powerful statement by the head of the US Treasury to say straight to the face of the American Bankers Association.
Don’t have Sky and didn’t see Chalmers v Taylor. You suspect that is what politics 3 years into the future will look like.
@MikeBenzCyber
X is the groupchat of American people with their elected American government.
This presents a real dilemma for the stupid forking gliberals. Do they preference Camenzuli (who was expelled from the gliberals) or braindead blackout bowen?
Don’t be surprised if it’s the latter.
Must admit when I joined the nsw young liberals at the tender age of 20, I felt like a fish out of water. Wishy washy squishes
Best not to speak about this. Like the time you stole your Mum’s eye liner after listening to too much New Order.
Ha ha know what you mean
How does it feel?
They better preference Camenzuli if they want any votes in the mortgage belt at the next state election.
Can we borrow him?
Kennedy on funding NPR, PBS: “That’s not the role of the federal government”
See also: Their ABC and the SBS (not the Special Boat Service).
I didn’t react in time last night to avoid hearing chambers’ opening litany of lies.
What he said was, to state the bleeding obvious, unbelievable.
How that clown could claim that the current labore goat circus has been anything other than the most disastrous bunch of amateur hour imbeciles overseeing the worst destruction of living standards and the economy in our lifetimes, defies description.
These labore forkwits make my blood boil. They have to go.
Correct. It’s a matter of survival. I don’t particularly like the other side (with a few honourable exceptions) but I hate them and their pubic pals in canbra. Why wouldn’t I ? They hate me and all that is dear to me.
There’s only one way, distasteful as it may seem. Spoiling your ballot isn’t one of them.
If Bandt wasn’t such a grub, I’d think he was a double agent.
Must be a good boost to the Libs that he opened his trap.
Write a book Rabz. I’ve got the title already. “How to fellate a carriage clock fancier does not give you work experience for your current job”. A bit long, maybe, “Blow by blow, how to be Treasurer”.
King Charles, Queen Camilla meet Pope Francis at the Vatican
The king and queen’s brief meeting with the pope April 9 was very different from the full schedule that had been planned for their state visit.
In addition to an audience with the pope, they would have attended “a service in the Sistine Chapel, focused on the theme of ‘care for creation,’ reflecting Pope Francis’ and his majesty’s long-standing commitment to nature,” according to the itinerary originally released by Buckingham Palace.
I would have been more impressed if both the king and the pope were more focussed on their Christian faithful.
It could prove a helpful meeting for the British monarch given the recent statistics that young Catholics have surpassed Britain’s churchgoing Anglican population by more than 2 to 1 among Generation Z and younger millennial churchgoers
The other Charles in Rome: ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ is buried in St. Peter’s Basilic
Wierd ..! I read, last week, “Charlie” was back in hospital due to his Cancer treatment .. must have been a very minor problem ………!
shattrzzz, apparently Camilla and Charles have subtly let it be known that Charles has been given only about a year to live, His cancer is vey advanced. No point in staying in hospital now, after that news. He’s probably on a trial getting last-ditch IV infusions of something hoped to help. Apparently William has been calling Harry for some reconciliation with Charles. That’s what my gossipy mind has read about, truth hard to tell.
My older sister, toughness personified, was first given three weeks, then six months, and now, as her cancer seems to have stalled somewhat, they are talking a year or so… and that’s all without any treatment.
Ivermectin is worth a go
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xkT9Anef-JQ
John Campbell and Dr Makis discussing Ivm and cancer
I’m lucky, when they took my Prostate out. last September, the surgeon on his morning visit said, “Oh .. I took the Cancer out as well, it was benign*, not causing any probs, but as I was already in there seemed pointless to leave it” ……
*Knew it was benign from the pre-op MRI ….
They all should have met at Mecca.
Don’t be surprised if it’s the latter.
Absolutely it will be, never underestimate the ability of the NSW Liberals to fck things up.
The Fed liberals do a pretty good job too, but then again they are Labor lite.
In Melbourne for a few days. Staying at the Windsor, a great dowager duchess of a hotel.
My first impression after a gap of 10 years – everything looks a bit sad, but not nearly as bad as I expected. The autumnal weather and ragged leaves were bound to create an unkempt appearance. Not prepared for the vast numbers of young Asians though.
Off to the Exhibition Hall soon – it’s the annual quilt symposium. Which explains the occasional phalanx of women of a certain age making their way determinedly up Spring Street, laughing and chatting as they go.
Mercifully there are no dodgy placards and demmos outside Parliament just across the road. And zero blue hair dye. All the rent-a-crowds have gone home for the holidays…or perhaps have been stood down pending the election. We want Handsome Boy to look his best.
Shudder.
I’m calling the Vicpol gangs squad. Hopefully they are on high alert.
Bother. I forgot to wear my colours. Grinning skull with crossed seam rippers.
You prefer blue hair screechers?
It’s the chick version of SummerNats without the fumes. I’m looking forward to seeing what some very creative women (and some guys) have been working on this year. And a rummage around the “show specials”.
Where would we be without our hobbies?
Good hobby it is too.
I have Model A seats and top to upholster later this year.
I’m not liking the range of choice on offer here. Can I ask for another box?
What happens when education and residency become an export industry.
Which was kicked off by Howard if I’m not mistaken
Amongst his other numerous sins.
Interesting to read your impressions Calli. I tend to avoid the cbd now. Melbourne Central and QV still quite good.
You’re at the right end of the city, Calli. Up around parliament and the theatre district, the architecture is magnificent.
All the muslim-inspired terrorism and murders happened at the bottom of the hill around Swanston and Elizabeth streets.
I haven’t ventured into the city for a decade. The place reminds me of Daniel Andrews *spit*.
Yeah, that end of town is chock full of stratospheric poorly built accomodation towers. Imagine what it will be like in 15-20 years. Dangerous to walk the streets due to the risk of falling split system external units from the 67th floor.
Sounds like Hong Kong. Just like home.
Crikey, nostalgia.
I remember staying there 20 odd years ago.
I may have disgraced myself at Flemington during my stay there.
True story: a few year back a friend and I went to the Tourism office near Flinders Street station and asked what we could do for the day in Melbourne. The reply was “go back to the hotel.”
Not called Melboring for nothing.
Ava Gardener during the filming in 1956 of Neville Shuts’s novel ‘On The Beacs’, about humanity dying out after a nuclear armageddon, and filmed in Melbourne, said it was an ideal place in which the film the end of the world.
Except it is not true, Lizzie:
Arrival at the end of the world | naa.gov.au
An urban myth which is very hard dying.
A myth, apparently, said to have been concocted by the Sun News-Pictorial’s Tom Prior, although also attributed to other inky scamps.
Possibly a little harsh. Catch a tram to Richmond and shoot up.
Let me know if you would like a kitteh coffee catch up, calli. Happy to pop into the city if you do.
Cassie and I can vouch that a coffee with Megan is time well spent.
A top Kitteh.
When has Melbourne not looked sad??
For example, fed square. Everything wrong with Melbourne in the one place
The new rail loop ensured the death of any faint possibility that Fed Square could add something to the city.
15 years ago. Changed slowly then all at once.
dover0beach
April 9, 2025 3:31 pm
Up 7.87%.
Presumably that’s what your sauces were telling you?
‘Big changes’: Queensland to rethink a Renewables-only approach – More investment into Coal Fired Electricity Generators for a start –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ov1RMsj77A
A 5 minute video
Mr. Dutton, please take note.
Another round of Qld government investment to prop up the NEM? Queensland electricity certainly isn’t for Queenslanders (thanks Anna).
I still don’t trust Crisafoolish, I will wait & see, I just hope queenslanders think very hard about voting for the liars again so soon.
Australia’s Energy Transition Plan (ISP 2024) is DEAD – A Hidden Report uncovered by a Federal Guv’ment Senate Enquiry –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4z65FswjHw
Only 9 mins and Top Stuff
Just because something is dead doesn’t mean our policy makers won’t still enthusiastically promote it. (Insert tired and repetitive joke about the LNP).
That’s a decent presentation, though. Thanks for linking to it.
While I’ve always described myself as a blunt pencil in regards to science and maths (and engineering, and …), even I can sense that ‘bleak’ is strong enough to adequately describe the economic devastation that is looming.
I visualise a future generation (metaphorically) smashing the headstones of everyone even tangentially associated with the precipitous decline in their quality of life compared to here and now. That’s if the records of our generation have not been expunged, that is.
Thanks to whomever it was on ye olde Fred for posting a link to the Jo Nova piece on POTUS Trump’s return to coal as a reliable energy source in the U.S.
(My emphasis).
It’s a challenge to find the appropriate words to describe the enthusiastic devolution to primitivism that has been implemented over the past three decades, and the long-term damage it has done to both national wealth and individual quality of life.
Sadly, I hold out little hope that any public Australian with significant authority will realise (or care) what the near-term future holds, let alone sniff the political opportunity.
Coal companies could become the new tobacco companies. A little grubby to hold but throw off cash like no tomorrow.
Yep, President Trump’s comment that you can have a lump of coal and drop a bomb on it and it’s still a lump of coal that can be used. No other energy source is so resilient and reliable. Fabulous image. One of the best speeches I’ve heard. Well worth studying.
It was me wot’ posted it but Jo wot’ rote’ it bless her cotton socks.
Senator Kennedy on AOC.She is why their are instructions on shampoo bottles.Oldie but a goodies.
Watched that one .. excellent jibe .. LOL!
https://x.com/i/status/1910008890449694993
Chuckle.
Re third party countries being used as go betweens to avoid tariffs I’ll post something later when I get time.
Adjacent to that, I guy I used to work with bought a nice plot of land near Yamba from the 100% legal business of facilitating this business.
Third party countries loved clipping the ticket.
And many companies had their doors knocked down to do the business (which they gladly did their own ticket clipping on).
Good on Jacinta for getting stuck into our watch vipers’ nest.
Ahahahaha!
Blabbersak on Sky explaining that the $275 lower power bill promise was that bills would be $275 lower than they would have been under the LNP.
Wow! That was workshopped to within an inch of its life. She said it with that smooth grin too. If I shook her hand I’d have to count my fingers afterwards.
Epic spin by Plibs. Wallet Wizard is also stonewalling.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers refuses to apologise for soaring power prices during Treasurers’ Debate with Angus Taylor (Sky News, 9 Apr)
Lying liars keep on lying.
Lame. They really have nothing to offer except poverty and misery (not for them of course)
That $275 number is a problem for the Liars. Not quite a “There will be no Carbon Tax under the government Iead” problem but close. Lieborals should be hammering it.
Why do you think they are called the SFL’s ?
An unprovable assertion dressed up as a failed promise.
That’s what it is all about.
The focus is now on China. We’re not out of the woods then if China falls over.
Top Ender
April 10, 2025 6:32 am
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused a prominent anti-domestic violence organisation of gaslighting the Australian public and threatened to review its funding after it told journalists not to suggest violence was part of Indigenous culture.
God she is great. Voting this time is simple. Hold your nose and vote conservative independent – PHON, Rennick – and then SFL. That way you get Jacinta. Try to be clever and you get get mullet girl and that kunt, faruqi.
Jacinta or mullet girl and faruqi.
Yep, once she got over the Invoice advocates being mean, she took 2 or 3 steps up and slayed them. Hasn’t looked back. I bet she put the wind up a lot of her fellow SFL’s. I just wish I could vote for her.
Taylor finally found his voice late last year.
Then he went wobbly again and I was afraid Dutton had been showing him footage of the Fightback campaign.
He’s a bright spot in an otherwise dismal lineup but his uneven performance suggests he relies a lot on confidence. Dutton has to back him to the fullest.
Gez on the old Fred …
Quite so.
This isn’t Mao’s Chinah where the peasants will just have to eat the shit sandwich served up by the “Leadership”.
As Tom said, they are an exporting economy making cheap shit where price is the sole determinant of success.
There are individual fortunes at stake here and they won’t sit idly by whilst Xi continues to bluff whilst holding a pair of twos.
Wealthy malcontents have been known to disappear in China.
It’s more subtle than defenestration but just as sinister in its implications.
Yep. All the billions don’t help you when you get the knock on the door. A little better in HK.
From the worst ozzie.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says not reacting to US President Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff announcement for Australia has worked in the country’s favour.
Mr Albanese said the US retreat vindicated his strategy.
“Overnight we’ve seen this change,” he told 4BC Radio in Cairns, where he is campaigning.
“What it does is show how important it is that my Government have continued to engage in a considered, adult, mature way, including with the Trump administration.
“We didn’t reach for any panic buttons.”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I feel so safe knowing that our future is in the hands of such a considered adult mature lying sack of shite.
It and it’s cohorts had no response because the so called representative in the USA is behind dogshite on the WhiteHouse welcome list. Combine that with their combined intellectual firepower being less than one of Blackouts whirly things on a calm day. Panic buttons only work when you have them available and are not cowering in the corner slushing you syllables into your wankerchief.
We are is such safe hands.
Billyboy, have you thought of monetising your well reasoned and succinct response to Abalone’s splattering of the english language. The SFL have need of such.
Feel free to do so on my behalf. I am a tad busy for the rest of the day performing surgery on an Isuzu NPR gearbox. I expect to see the remains of synchro rings that have been through Abalone’s slushing process as I proceed.
So very well said, Bill.
“their combined intellectual firepower being less than one of Blackouts whirly things on a calm day.” Worthy of going to the top of the new Cat list of quotable quotes.
The Abalone spin deserves such derision, of course.
So we are expected to believe that rabbit in the spotlight immobility was actually masterly inactivity?
“cowering in the corner” for sure.
Not sure why this characterisation of ‘Made in China’ as cheap and shit persists. Do we still think ‘Made in Taiwan’ as cheap and shit? China literally make the majority of computer and electrical parts that compose most of our finished electrical goods.
This clip from yesterday is also interesting.
Yep- cheap, sh*t, and in the much-vaunted electronic and automotive fields, riding on OPIP.
Here’s a “change my mind” challenge- name me a Chinese prestige brand.
As a stepping stone, name me a Taiwanese prestige brand.
as a colloraly, Sony and Toyota are solid products out of Japan, and Samsung – Hyundai out of R Korea- but they took the long high road getting there, and they are favoured by cultures which value honour and allow private wealth building… which the CCP don’t and won’t.
Re Taiwan, ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte are all prestige brands in computer parts. The majority of their production occurs in China.
Tsmc.
No.23, sweet and sour pork, $5 extra for steamed rice.
Well it won’t be MG, GWM. BYD,Haval or Chery. Cheap and shit is a legitimate market entry strategy as anyone who had a 1980s era Hyundai Excel would appreciate.
They were student cars when I was at Uni. A few blokes were still keeping 20 year old HQs on the road but they were being replaced by the throw away Excels.
Interestingly Suzuki is killing off the Jimny, the no frills 4WD that somehow gained cult like status because it fails some modern safety requirements. I’m not surprised. I owned one and it aquaplaned and four wheel drifted at 40 kph. Sufficiently slow to keep everything nice and safe.
See quite a few of them in this neck of the woods.
Where else wood you expect to see a Bear.
The first new Daewoo which appeared at Uni (95) was a burgundy manual, a boon from the father of a young filly when she started playing piano at the perth concert hall and needed a reliable ride at midnight on a tuesday.
I much preferred her friend’s surgeon-smock-green VP auto “Vacationer”, which went like a shower of proverbial. Once again, from Daddy.
Both these families were unshakeably well off, but sensible with it. The rest of us had two-decade-old sedans which dripped oil on the brick driveways of the leafy suburbs.
My wife’s ex bought one of our kids an excel.Got rid of it and replaced with a baby Peugeot, solid as a rock.
Not that a French car is the solution to anything, but those early Hyundais were shit. The paint job alone had faded in six months. But now, I have a Santa Fe and can’t say enough about how good it is.
Having a wife order shit on Temu will cure any misconception that China is about quality.
Come on. They are literally selling to the bottom of the market their and people characterize this as the entirety of Chinese manufacturing.
yep .. they are into fast turnaround “amusements” not high end white goods ……..
Reality most of their ‘trinkets” you’d never see here .. even in the $2 shops … I luv all the why-didn’t-someone-think-of-that stuff when I needed it range .. better late than never …… LOL!
I thought I ordered a weather station from an Australian website but got a delivery from China. The thing fell apart within months while the old one lasted many years.
To be honest I don’t know whether the old weather station was Chinese made but if it was it may have been at the time when China wanted to impress western customers. I think they feel they don’t need to do that now since nobody else makes it.
I use TEMU a lot never had a problem with their stuff .. Mind I’m only into “littlies” & gadgets, generally under $A10 each .. Buy all my Prostate-gone recovery stuff on Temu at between a quarter and eighth of the OZ chemist pricing (same brands) ..
Bought a USB washer for socks, grundies ect 6 months ago for $A4.95 still going strong ……. get thru lotza “grundies’ a day after prostate op .. …….duuuuuh!
I give you LG and every no name brand toaster, microwave oven and kettle that lasts less than two years before rusting up, leaks, peels or otherwise falls to pieces.
In any case it’s not about the quality though Temu and Shein are excellent examples of what not to buy, it’s the suicidal tendencies that have us exporting cheap energy while importing expensive unreliable energy and lowering our standard of living.
Daughters buy from shien all the time, mainly for dance wear when they don’t care if they fall apart after the first wearing.
Yep. The Chinese make whatever quality the customer will tolerate. You want good show that you inspect and you will get good stuff. They also aren’t so cheap anymore. My local jobbing engineering shop is getting more orders because he can compete with Chinese high quality prices.
Don’t need “prestige” brands, that is for pretentious wankers. Just make the stuff that goes in to the prestige brands.
The Chinese are folk who have a rover on Mars and return samples from the Moon, including Farside and a continuously manned space station. Stupid they are not.
Yep, friend went to China was told there are four levels of fakes for handbags she wanted to but all with different price tags.
That is so too on the European street. Four levels of fakes.
If I wear labels I don’t show them. Just let the quality do its work. And don’t buy fancy designer fads.
Speaking of which, Perri Cutten died the other day. Her clothes were mainstays of my office wardrobe in the 90s – I still have a couple of her classic jackets.
Not wildly expensive, stylish and well made.
She had a shop in Manuka which did well. There is a market for Australian designers who hit the sweet spot.
You’ve reached the take-the-girl-out-of-Mt Druitt & she ain’t coming back stage, Lizzie .. LOL!
My kids say to me, “why do you buy the cheap stuff, Dad, you can afford better” ..
And my answer, “been poor for so, bloody, long I can’t get use to “wasting” money just cos I’ve got some now” .. LOL!
Every year when we have our annual hard waste pick-up I see literally tons of not-that-old looking Chinese crap left out on nature strips.
Washing machines, dishwashers, microwave ovens, etc.
By contrast my 30 plus year old Simpson washing machine is still as good and reliable as the day it was installed.
George Orwell described these attempts at debate between our elected far quits perfectly.
No real differentiation between them.
Did Taylor and Dutton ever ask their opponents about the Green tail wagging the government dog?
Use that quote at The Oz and the moderators kill it.
Politicians are extremely sensitive these days.
A German journalist has just received seven months on probation for publishing a fairly tame meme of their Interior minister holding a sign saying, “I hate free speech!”
Plus a fine of about a hundred grand.
All the commentary said it was “free speech” but the literal translation of “Ich hasse die Meinungsfreiheit” is “I hate the freedom of opinion”.
Sarcasm isn’t the best place for a placard.
Inoffensive though, and a true sign of the state of Germany.
What I’d like to know is how much foreign influences (billionaire individuals, investment funds, etc) have been stroking that green tail?
I bit of idle speculation, but if Xi suddenly finds himself in trouble, will he go for Taiwan earlier than planned?
I gather the military advice is they’re not ready.
A strongly opposed amphibious invasion across the Taiwan Strait is by no means guaranteed success.
Well, yes.
But Xi might decide if they don’t go now they never will be able to. Plus legacy, plus plus distraction with patriotism.
and it also means the west might have a chance to stop them.
Yes, but should they fail it’ll be the end of him and possibly the CCP.
Big risk!
The all or nothing gambit? A courageous decision.
Very courageous, Chairman Xi!
I suspect that was a consideration point when discussing kneecapping the regime with tariffs and blocking rerouting of goods
I still believe that a false flag event staged within Taiwan that allegedly threatens mainland Chinese citizens or interests would be an ideal ‘spark’ or provocation.
I don’t know anything about Taiwan, however, so cannot speculate as to how such an event – China as the ‘rescuer’ – might be stimulated.
By a lie. It’s how they do everything else.
If so, expect Dover to suck that all up as gospel truth and post endless screeds on the evils of the Taiwanese.
From a mate who’s ex adf.
2027-2030. For a couple of reasons.
Aging demographics after 2030 will become a huge issue.
Their Military isn’t ready yet. However the arms race in Asia will mean by 2030 other surrounding countries will be far from a pushovers.
He reckons we’ll see the build up 12mnts out and the certainty will be 6mnth out. That scale of equipment and men is impossible to hide in this day and age. Also commandeering of civi vessels that would be required.
A couple of car carriers with a fake manifest and stuffed full of fast armour would make it all over red rover in a couple of hours.
Warning, if you read this you will grow breasts.
The soy factor is off the charts.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/10/wake-in-fright-understood-the-horrors-of-australian-booze-culture-50-years-on-nothings-changed
….
Of course, it’s an illusion: Australian men never really escape the playground rules of the handball court, which turn a swathe of casual interactions into high-stakes opportunities to prove ourselves.
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Wake in Fright is not the relic, or the time capsule, that it is sometimes described as. Masculine drinking culture has not changed one iota. As a sober Australian male – sober because I have to be, because the alternative will kill me – I am exposed daily to the disappointment of men around me who are sad I’m not playing the game.
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Joseph Earp is a critic, painter and novelist. His book, Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, will be published by Pantera Press on 29 April
“dating” is a sure tell of soycuck culture. Like veganism and welcome to country, its mention should be met with a guffaw and pity.
I am exposed daily to the disappointment of men around me who are sad I’m not playing the game.
Sure you are. Sod off and stop calling yourself a painter.
Any piccies of those who fronted up for a second date? Probably not.
A survey last year concluded that 46% of Muslims in the UK support Hamas.
Deport 100% of them, just to be sure.
I was going to suggest the figure is probably higher but respondents didn’t want to indicate their support.
In regard to deportation, many of these people will be 3rd or 4th generation UK citizens, so the option doesn’t exist.
The UK can look to more ancient traditions. For instance, the way they treated the Jews. Hamasniks would actually deserve it.
Regrettably true, and applies also here.
Keep an eye on the Muslim vote come 3 May.
Indeed. The proportion of primary votes it receives in certain seats will be “interesting”.
Hard-line muslims say voting is shirk but I bet they vote anyhow.
So assist them to reach a country more in line with their feelings.
The way of the British prog-left Establishment thus far has been to attempt to align the country’s feelings with their Muslim minority…and to intimidate those who publicly object.
@GeneralMCNews
BREAKING: The U.S. House passes HR 1526, curbing the power of district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions against presidential policies—aimed at restraining judicial overreach.
2 rinos voted against it: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE).
Andrew Lawrence
POLICE- Russell Brand update.
Shame I can only give this clip one thumbs up.
I missed this one at the time, but it’s very good news.
New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop (2 Apr, via Climate Depot)
GISS is at the epicentre of the climate scam. As is Gavin Schmidt the current boss. I used to look at his blog RealClimate (ho ho) and he’s off with the climate fairies. They have been distorting the surface temperature data into a pretzel to try and keep the fraud going. Abolishing GISS would be a blessing for the entire human race.
Shock, Horror! Richmond NSW to experience 30 degrees tomorrow.
No, it’s not climate change, it’s weather.
Large high pressure systems are dragging hotter air down from up north. It’s always 30+ up north this time of year.
It normally cools down by Anzac Day, at least for the Dawn Service!
But weather is variable any time.
Sweltering!
Millions of Australians to swelter through unseasonably hot April (Sky News mainpage headline, 10 Apr)
Apparently 26 in Sydney and 27 in Brisbane is “sweltering”. Sky News weather they/thems are full on climate nutters.
The long-term average max for Brisbane in April is… 27!
“Unseasonably hot”!
Currently on 24 heading for a max of 27 here on the Sunshine Coast.
Read the next word with a Con the Fruiterer voice… bewdiful !
probably, the best advert for QLD that they ever came up with,,,,Beautiful one day…perfect the next.
Or the other one – Drought one day, floods the next …
32 in summer is now extreme weather!
It’s actually fantastic weather at the moment. Closer to 30 would make it absolutely perfect.
Who knew!!!???
Oh, that’s right — if you admit the weather is variable, that’s the end of the scam.
ABC commentator was going full glorious leader CCCP, reign for 1000 years vs, running dog golden weasel hair imperialist lickspittle!
China are the blessed ones now, the tone used during the reporting was extremely unprofessional.
Even when he had on a ex-US trade negotiator (never to be invited again) who pointed out the positives and negatives of the tarriffs on China he could stop himself ejaculating ABCcess talking points to get her to toe the agreed line.
Rabz them now.
ABC should change its name to Media Australia Organization (MAO).
Love it.
Our Xi enthusiast might want to check what Don Farrell’s had to say this morning.
This should make The Devils Dictionary:
Government: A collection of criminal gangs that take over a territory with violence or threats thereof in order to loot the wealth of the inhabitants of that territory.
Democracy: A psyop run on the inhabitants where one criminal faction pretends to swap power with another allegedly at the choice of the inhabitants of that territory in “Elections”.
The State’s desire is to have a monopoly on the use of violence.
Apologies for my pedantry, but it’s Erections rather than Elections now: A brief few moments of interest and ‘attention’ (paid to the voters by candidates, who puff and preen) prior to returning to the natural state of basic function (no-magic, just-tragic). What-you-see is only what-you-get once every three years.
*the monopoly of
Welcome to Alice Springs, overseas tourist!
A man accused of brutally assaulting a tourist on the banks of an Alice Springs river has signalled he will fight the charges against him.
Twenty-four hours after the alleged aggravated assault, 22-year-old Christopher Lee Maxwell appeared before the Alice Springs Local Court on Wednesday.
It is alleged a 21-year-old Danish woman had just arrived in Alice Springs when she was attacked by Mr Maxwell in broad daylight, at 4pm, Tuesday.
It was alleged Mr Maxwell started pelting rocks at the woman at the South Terrace, alongside the Todd River, before knocking the female tourist out with a punch.
Mr Maxwell allegedly stomped on the head and chest of the unconscious woman, until bystanders managed to chase him away.
The tourist was taken to Alice Springs Hospital in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries, and Mr Maxwell was arrested close to the site of the alleged incident.
On Wednesday afternoon, Chief Judge Elizabeth Morris was told Mr Maxwell was seeking a directions hearing date, meaning he would be contesting the allegations against him.
Typically a directions hearing date is set within four weeks of a first appearance, however Ms Morris adjourned the matter to June 5 — 58 days away.
No application for bail was made for Mr Maxwell’s release, and he was remanded in custody.
NT News
Trouble is the NT judiciary — the No-one Elected Us Party — will probably side with the criminal and give him a bond — hence validating the assumption of the criminal class that it’s untouchable and crims can bash tourists with impunity.
Biting the hand that feeds it.
Welcome to the Alice Mk 2:
Alice Springs woman still missing since Tuesday after being stabbed, assaulted and dragged away
Police are still concerned for the welfare of an Alice Springs woman who has not been seen since a vicious stabbing and assault on Tuesday morning.
Police fear for the welfare of a woman who was violently stabbed and assaulted in Alice Springs early on Tuesday morning.
At around 10.45am on Tuesday, police received reports of blood on the pavement outside an office building on Bagot Street, The Gap.
NT Police have since released footage of the alleged offender, who they are actively seeking.
Police also confirmed they had still not located the victim, 36 hours after she was horrifically assaulted.
After reviewing CCTV, police identified that at 4.45am a man allegedly stabbed the woman with an unknown object, before physically assaulting her multiple times then dragged the victim towards Tuncks Rd.
The offender is described as being shirtless, wearing black shoes and a light-coloured hat.
NT News
So, Albo, how does that over $200 million dollar Arts Centre that you announced last year or so (when you last visited the Alice) help?
To be honest nothing will happen – and in the other dysfunctional “communities” across northern Oz – unless there is a sea-change in government thinking.
Refuse to supply water etc to such places.
Stop Centrelink for people refusing to work.
Close them all down.
Force the residents to move to bigger centres and work.
Won’t happen without a DOGE equivalent.
Australia, you’re standing in it.
From the Family Court to remote settlements, the blessed Gough left quite a trail of misery as his legacy.
To be honest nothing will happen until a few drunk/drugged/entitled 3rd nations are shot during one of their anti colonial bashings/stabbings.
Got the direction on shoe colour and hat colour- like them things won’t change over 48 hours at large… but no idea of skin colour.
Methinks i hear the dog which doesn’t bark.
That bloody dog never stops not barking, Wally.
What no trousers, shorts?
Is there a chance this fellow is bleck?
Someone smarter than me can comment, did the short sellers take a pounding overnight?
After the lessons of GameStock, and the misdirection of “The Big Short”, that information might be a bit hard to find.
Hope so.
Torched.
Upside Panic: Shorts Torched in the Mother of All Squeezes (10 Apr, paywalled)
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is in danger of losing his western Sydney seat of McMahon to local tech millionaire Matt Camenzuli, according to independent polling showing power bills a top concern.
Can we be that lucky? Bowen is probably one of the most risible, intellectually challenged politician I have ever come across …..and that is saying something!
He reminds me of that annoying kid we can all remember in school who hankered after being “teacher’s pet”. Despised by all, including the teacher.
That would be sweet!
Even better, not of the Uniparty
It would be nice if he was gone. The poll says his primary vote is 20%. He got nearly 50% last election. I think the poll is a bit wonkey.
Or the last election was a bit wonky.
Australia to reopen trade talks with EU.
Will not side with China in trade war with US
Trade Minister Don Farrell per SMH 10:26am
Why are we wasting time discussing trade with the EU? To provide endless opportunities for DFAT staff to snout they way through Michelin restaurants for years?
for zip outcome.
The main takeaway here is we’re not siding with China.
They’ll be looking to Europe as a possible alternative market for export product should China get nasty with us again in the fallout.
Not much fun when you’re on the receiving end, eh?
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Rabz<sup>235</sup>
Que?
He reckons we’ll see the build up 12mnts out and the certainty will be 6mnth out. That scale of equipment and men is impossible to hide in this day and age. Also commandeering of civi vessels that would be required.
I respect your mate’s presence in ADF. But I think that the prediction of a green light between 2027-2030 is too optimistic from our point of view.
The build up has already occurred. Their increase in maritime strength is simply massive. The late Jim Molan had it all assessed in 2020 when he wrote “Danger on our doorstep”. As I have said here recently – he predicted aggression within our immediate area from any time after 2025. He was spot on – their ships and subs are not merely in our waters, they are assessing the positions of internet cables, and demonstrating with astonishing arrogance, their blue water supremacy.
Alexander Downing wrote a stunning article in the Oz on the weekend in which he did not hold back in explaining the imminent danger. He is right in despairing of the failure to increase defence spending to a minimum of 3% of GDP. Both political parties seem to lack the understanding of our position and/or the courage to address it.
Which is disturbing given the forward to Molan’s book was written by…Peter Dutton.
Hastie has promised 2.5% by 2030; I suspect he’d like it to be 3% minimum but has been told no. And that modest rise in defence spending promised by the Liberals was going to be paid for by the public service cuts which are now off the table.
There’s about to be three carrier groups in the Indian Ocean. Two American and one British (with an Aussie air warfare destroyer attached).
That is sort of focused at Iran but I suspect is also a warning to China.
Thanks BoN. Didn’t know that. ANY deployment is welcome news.
Apparently the ADF gearing for 2027 at earliest training wise. I have been told that date is still extant.
On Defence spending. Agree, we are now at too litlle too late.
With the size of the extant 5th column of chlnks already in Australia, there is actually no amount of spending on defence that will save us. Whitey needs to arm himself.
Absolutely.
If war starts, how do we arrest and intern all enemy aliens?
Chinese who are Australian citizens would have to be included as they are still regarded as Chinese citizens by the CCP and are controlled from Beijing.
That is a million people in camps in the desert.
We are going to need a FAR bigger Army Reserve/militia.
Call-up will have to include women and older folks.
Wish we still had those firearms taken exclusively from law abiding citizens after Port Arthur, too.
You can still get a rifle. The hoops to get through are bigger and more, but you can still do it.
True – I miss my little M1 collection, but.
I do have small squadrons of F-35s and B2s in my bottom paddock.
Next to the nuclear plant.
Just call when needed.
It is prudent to hold them in one’s portfolio.
Just impolite to mention it over lunch at The Club.
In this video, Lindy Li, speaking with Dave Rubin, discusses the behind-the-scenes dynamics during President Joe Biden’s administration and campaign. Key points include: 1. Insider Dynamics: Li explains that significant political decisions, including the timing of certain announcements, were made without the knowledge of key insiders. High-ranking officials like Anita Dunn were often kept in the dark until the last moment. 2. Power Behind the Presidency: Li emphasizes that a “council” of unelected officials, notably Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, and Steve Ricchetti, wielded significant influence in the administration, effectively running the country. 3. Role of James Clyburn: Congressman James Clyburn played a crucial role in Biden’s political career, particularly by endorsing him and securing his victory in the South Carolina primary, which was pivotal for Biden’s 2020 campaign. Clyburn also influenced key decisions like appointing Kamala Harris as Vice President and Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. 4. Internal Conflicts: There were significant tensions within the administration, as well as between Biden’s team and Kamala Harris’s team. Disagreements and animosities persisted throughout, affecting the decision-making process. 5. Biden’s Health and Influence: Li mentions concerns about Biden’s health, suggesting he was incapacitated at times and discusses rumors of his son, Hunter Biden‘s involvement in high-level meetings, potentially without appropriate security clearances. Overall, the video provides a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes political maneuvering and the roles of key figures within Biden’s administration, highlighting internal conflicts and power dynamics.
a “council” of unelected officials, notably Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, and Steve Ricchetti, wielded significant influence in the administration, effectively running the country
And
Hang on, this isn’t what mUntard assured us this morning. Shirley a leftard would never lie?
Hang on, this isn’t what mUntard told us this morning. Shirley a leftard would never lie for political reasons?
I thought that the left opposed unelected officials (unless they are Soros-backed, Democrat approved judges) running the country?
Or are they only opposed to them when appointed by Republicans such as Musk?
Gabor posted earlier, “While waiting for the dough to rise”.
I couldn’t help but immediately think of all those investors around the world who were waiting for the very same to happen. I hope you have proven results.
As far as the baked goods go we always do.
Would be a disaster otherwise.
Don’t know much about the stock market, have shares in the majors and just collect the divies.
LOL Nazi scum, even your own side disagrees with you:
We were right: New books expose truth about Biden’s failing health. I’m furious. | Opinion
Lotsa quotes from White House insiders noting Biden was “rarely with it” and they even had a “death plan” as early as 2023 in case Biden died:
If you need more evidence Muntard, read on:
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, yet you somehow even manage to miss that opportunity.
Contingency planing is standard procedure for every political leader, you dumbarse.
Dover, why is my comment awaiting moderation??
For other Kittehs, it was in relation to this (scandalous) story:
We were right: New books expose truth about Biden’s failing health. I’m furious. | Opinion
If you tried to post from the story you probably went over the magical four links limit.
Paste “text only” or die.
Just pointing out that Muntard said above Biden governed particularly well and, yet, now all of these aides and Demonrats are coming out with a whole suite of books on how bad Biden’s mental faculties were.
Kamala and aides even had a “death plan” for Biden as early as January 2023.
I note that Biden has not made a single appearance since the election, which suggests to me that he is in care.
only as late as 2023.
Further proof of incompetence.
That happened to me the other day. Spam it said. I only linked to one place.
Because you haven’t learned to paste as plain text and had too many links.
Ground zero for the gerbil worming hysteria – the clown made the committee’s flunkies open all the hearing room windows and turn the air conditioning off on a hot summer’s day in Washington. Which of course, the idiots on the committee were too stupid to realise did not in way, shape or form bear out the lunatic’s fact and evidence free anti-scientific rantings.
Funnily enough, the first time I ever heard about gerbil worming was about exactly a year later, in mid 1989.
Unsurprisingly, I instinctively knew it was utter bullshit. Which it still is.
I first read that Tuvalu was sinking about 25 years ago. The tourist office is still open.
The syphilitic incontinent geriatric corruptocrat’s “failing health” was bleedingly obvious to anyone with a functioning brain even before the commencement of campaigning for the 2020 election.
His “election win” in 2020 is the greatest political fraud in US history.
Yep.
Just as Canadia and Mexico did, allowing Chinah back-door access to the US market via NAFTA.
The message is loud and clear.
But I can still see Luigi signing up to a pass-through deal with the Chunks and bringing the Wrath of Tangerine Man down upon us.
Eyewitness News: the entire lunchtime restaurant trade in Glenferrie Rd on this glorious autumn day appears to be NDIS workers taking their charges out for a feed. Not much conversation going on. Probably off to the grocers next. Sorry, providores.
The hills are alive!
Agent’s extreme act to sell home with showgirls, Indiana Jones (Tele, 10 Apr, not paywalled)
I love it when someone comes up with a ripper sales pitch. Good one Mr Horner!
10 points for creativity, 3 points for the house. Barely disguised but dressed up 1980s suburban bogan idea of large=quality. Did you see the arches and aluminium windows? I bet it’s red brick under the paint.
Anyone know about rare earth finds on Vic border Gottlirbson writing about them today needed by USA who ger them from China.
Lot of mineral sands in Vicco. Haven’t been exploited since the particle size is too small for conventional processing. Can’t recall the deposits’ names.
The elephant in the room though is Olympic Dam. That is 8.8 billion tonnes at about 1% REE. BHP doesn’t bother to extract the rare earths, since if they did their price would collapse. By far the largest REE resource on the planet.
So, Oz and China have the most REE?
Oz has the REE.
China has the cheap metallurgists.
To separate the RE elements requires 120 solvent extraction stages, all of which require close supervision by metallurgists.
Which is why China has a lock on REE production.
Thanks BoN. I was under the impression that China also had REE. But I suppose that just makes reducing Oz to a tribute nation even more attractive.
What about Papua, BoN? I know that China has access to iron ore deposits there. And REE, as well?
China does have a very large deposit of REE. But REEs aren’t rare. I could list a hundred deposits, and I did work on both the first and second largest ones.
I don’t know if PNG has any REE deposits.
There are 17 rare earth elements. They are chemically very similar, which makes separating them very tricky. That is why the Chinese have a lock on the supply, since they have a lot of highly trained, cheap and competent metallurgists. Who are needed to operate the process.
If it is in Victoria development is SOL.
What is SOL?
S**t out of luck
I do. These deposits have been spruiked as holding the key to Victoria’s glorious mining future since the 1980s. Nobody has shown any interest in them ever.
NW Vic has a lot of mineral sands.
Problem is a bit is under productive farmland.
There’s better deposits elsewhere with less hassle. Especially in Qld.
Vic should be drilling Otway basin if it were serious about resources.
Gold as well…
6 June 2024
Beach Energy approval
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/victoria-gas-port-campbell-great-ocean-road/103942762
Trump – yesterday..
Haw!
another
From The Oz:
O’Brien refuses to rule out Coalition ditching Paris climate target
Do it! Please!
yes!
“not ruled out”. Weak as piss. Make a decision.
Stupid. Effing. Liberals.
A looooong way short of calling out the whole CO2 commie scam.
Stand by for outraged spluttering demands for retraction, followed by a shamefaced promise to Never Ever Do It.
One bit at a time. It will happen.
I was pleasantly surprised with O’Brien in the debate today. Frankly, I didn’t know anything about him. Did a quick update on his background – all good and relevant to his current position. He made Bowen look like the rank amateur that he is. And he was solidly on the front foot – which is what the Coalition has often lacked. But not this time, I think.
He should just bite the bullet and ditch the crap!
Some talk upthread of Melbourne/Melboring/Mongyang CBD by various commenters visiting the joint.
Yep.
Been there twice over the last 18 months or so. It is nowhere near what it used to be.
It strikes me as a weird mesh of Gotham City (particularly when raining) and Escape to New York.
For that we in Melbourne have Dictator Dan and moronic voters who kept voting him in (even after his record long Covid lockdown) to blame.
And Jacinta Allan has learned absolutely nothing.
Like Andrews, Allen is ALP socialist left faction.
Socialist lefties don’t do commonsense, just ideology. Plus Allen isn’t smart enough to be anything but a drone driven by ideology out of a university textbook.
Andrews is still running the agenda. He’s just not up front.
Yes.
Pushback.
House passes bill to limit ‘rogue’ judges from pausing Trump’s executive actions (9 Apr)
We’ll see what the Senate does, but the outrageous rulings from the donkeys in black robes suggests this will be passed there too.
i think they need 60 votes in the senate. the republicans have 53 and thats if the RINOs are supporting the Bill. Collins, Murkowski and of course McConnell.
Dunno, some votes just need a majority and some need 60. The rules are arcane. Go figure.
Passover begins on Saturday night, I went to Bondi Junction to stock up on some Passover food, the prices are exorbitant, a box of matza costs over $8.00! I don’t know how families, particularly religious families (most of whom aren’t wealthy) cope financially. The kosher aisle was busy and I had a convivial discussion with a woman about how to make macaroons, she said she makes them using egg yolks to which I responded……..really? I make them using egg whites, sugar, coconut and some ground almonds.
Anyway, I walked home along Oxford Street Paddo and I noticed the window of a business that spruiked for Allegra back in 2022 but not this time. Back in 2022 the business had a big poster of Allega on the front windows but now it has a poster of Ro Knox.
Reality bites…..how I laughed. I suppose mea culpas are a good thing.
One hundred tonnes of matzah!
Joe and Jill Biden were at the Trump inauguration in January this year.
Jill wanted to be seen, jill told joe he could have an icecream later.
Paddington and Woollahra are the two nicest burbs in Australia.
Yes indeed, although I also like Point Piper, Darling Point and Vaucluse (around where Lizzie and Hairy live).
How would you know?
Because I’ve lived in Sydney and now visit, Dopey.
We lived in and owned a house in Neutral Bay.
Why is someone downticking your comment?
Spite filled victim. It’s kind of funny.
On the subject of ticks, Doge 2 left me an amusing comment on Discord the other day which I forgot to share.
I have no idea who this Doge2 character, although my suspicions are that it’s a woman due to the writing style.
Over a period of 8 days Doge2 claims that s/he zeroed 1,467 upticks under Wodney woddenhead’s comments.
According to this Doge2, s/he zerod out Wodney’s upticks and they subsequently reappeard. Doge continually went in and zeroed the ticks, and went they go again.
“Visitors”, or rather silent admirers must be very busy throughout the day as there’s no possibility Wodney would ever finagle ticking. No chance whatsoever. It’s very likely he’s the most popular commenter here by a country mile.
Doge reckons there are about 12 hours in the effort spread over 8 days.
I’ve never been able to converse with Doge2 as I only receive mail drops and doesn’t respond to my queries.
It’s not me.
Really, it isn’t.
Doge2 sounds too fem to be you, Sanchez.
It’s the funniest thing. 12 freaking hours, according to the Doge claim. Adding and subbing ticks Averaging a 11/2 hours a day. Amazing.
Cassie, JC has his own troll.
#Haters gotta hate.
Can the coalition find someone to address the energy situation in a realistic and hard-hitting way?
The ruinables advocates have almost wrecked our formerly affordable and reliable power system.
It should not that hard to come up with hard-hitting “three word slogans”.
Where have we heard that smear before?
Labor and their media running dogs used to criticise Abbott in those terms, because those short pithy slogans were hitting Labor hard.
“It’s a great big tax on everything” was a bit longer, but very effective.
Ditch The Deal?
It could morph into: Ditch The Steal.
Personally, I think the Beetrooter had the best argument against Paris as he was saying “every powerpoint in your house or business becomes a tax collection point”
If the shoe fits, wear it. (6 word slogan to counter)
Libs still committed to Paris climate numbers.FMD
FYD!!
Me as well
F”ken idiots
Obviously don’t want a lot of votes.
Least of all mine!
For years I have warned about the politicisation of everything, be it in education, healthcare, arts, media, academia etc. Back in mid 2023, when my stepfather fell, he was taken to RPA rather than to the usual nearby hospital, St Vinnies. Visiting him at RPA, I was staggered at how the hospital and its staff spruiked and promoted ‘progressive’ politics and ideology, from posters and lanyards preaching about ‘rights’ and LGBTQI+ crapola. I found it very unsettling. Since October 7, radical nurses have turned up at various weekly Nazi Pallie protests and even prior to the homicidal Bankstown nurses’ revelations, I knew some of our hospitals, such as Liverpool and Bankstown, were no go areas.
The bottom line is that the left have politicised everything in order to corrupt everything. And it’s worked a treat because for decades now, whilst the right was snoozing at the wheel, the left have laid waste to our education system, our healthcare, even art galleries have been poisoned and corrupted by the left. But October 7 has ripped the scab off this corruption and chickens are coming home to roost. There should be no politics or ideology in the class room, in a hospital ward, in a museum or in an art gallery.
As I write, NSW public hospital doctors are striking, something that would have once been anathema to most doctors, but socialised medicine ensures the complete degradation of healthcare. The Daily Telegraph has just uploaded this……
Doctors union warned over anti-Israel stickers
Striking doctors have been sent a letter from the state’s peak Jewish body asking them to cease the use of anti-Israel iconography at their industrial rallies.
Megaphones being used by doctors union organisers have been plastered with anti-Israel and intifada stickers, resulting in a legal letter from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) being sent to the Australian Salaries Medical Officer’s Federation on Thursday morning.
This comes as thousands of doctors have walked off the job for three days, holding rallies outside multiple hospitals across the state, fighting for a 30 per cent pay increase and better working conditions.
In the letter from the ECAJ’s Head of Legal Simone Abel, she said the presence of the iconography made Jewish doctors “feel psychologically unsafe” and was racially vilifying.
The letter also points to pictures of junior doctors rallying in keffiyehs outside Nepean Hospital.
It is understood that the megaphones with the anti-Israel stickers were borrowed from the more militant Maritime Union of Australia, which has been vocal in its support of the Palestinian movement.
“Several Jewish and non-Jewish salaried doctors have contacted us to bring to our attention the prominence of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish paraphernalia at the ASMOF industrial actions,” the letter states.
“It is both racially vilifying and socially ostracising to have slogans and wording such as ‘Intifada’ on prominent display during ASMOF industrial action.
“We are unclear why the industrial action seems to have had such a strong undercurrent of anti-Israel and antisemitic expression. While this makes most Jewish doctors feel psychosocially unsafe, it would also appear to be totally unrelated to the objectives of the industrial action and suggests that the action is being utilised in ways that are inconsistent with its stated objectives.”
Other doctors have also written to ASMOF to complain about the megaphone. One doctor, in a complaint to the union said it was “entirely inappropriate to allow this important medical issue to be mixed in with political rhetoric”.
“This has made a number of people feel very uncomfortable. Why are you making political comments when the needs of doctors should be priority? You are not acting with cultural safety in mind. Remove the sticker if you must use the megaphone,” the doctor wrote.
An ASMOF spokesperson said the anti-Israel stickers were not connected to the union’s industrial action in any way.
“Our rallies are solely focused on fighting for better conditions in our hospitals,” the spokesperson said.
“Our campaign is about addressing the chronic understaffing and burnout affecting doctors and patients in NSW.”
This is the inevitable result of the left’s march through the institutions. I no longer feel safe in our public hospital system. And it isn’t just Jews who should be afraid, everyone should be afraid.
Yeah. After those two Pali-sympathizing nurses said they killed Jews the trust in the medical system went right into the cellar.
Saw the doctors strike news when I landed in Sydney Mon night on news.
They lost any consideration of their POV as soon as I saw a Free Palistine sticker on a protest megaphone on tv footage.
Screw em.
Our de facto dauglhter-in-law has breast cancer surgery tomorrow.
We are going to care for her at our place after that.
Now we are wondering if due to this strike it will go ahead or not.
She has a Medicare Concession card (she has had to reduce her working hours) and she rang me to say her nuclear medicine scans were billed to her at nearly $1000. She will get some Medicare refunds but apparently there will still be a gap to pay.
Obviously we can help, but I thought our medical system completely bulk billed on significant threats to life such as cancer, certainly for people forced onto benefits? Not so?
Our de facto dauglhter-in-law has breast cancer surgery tomorrow.
High dose Ivermectin is showing very promising early results in even disseminated breast cancer and can be added to all conventional therapies with apparent synergy. I have a relative on it atm for stage 4 disseminated breast cancer with promising early results – most lesions shrunk to 1/2 size and NONE any bigger after 3 months.
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The Paywallion:
UQ lecturer Dani Linder’s Indigenous law posturing out of order
The Mocker
3 hours ago
It makes my heart soar to learn my taxes go towards paying the salary of University of Queensland law lecturer and Bundjalung/Kungarakany woman Dr Dani Linder, who, as this masthead reported this week, is “indigenising” UQ’s law curriculum.
This is a vitally important role, because the law as it stands is a colonial construct of old white men and thus totally unsuited for modern Australia. Ideally, our legal system should instead reflect the values and beliefs of the 3.8 per cent of Australians who identify as Indigenous, or should I say the values and beliefs of Indigenous activists such as Linder.
You would think young law students would be queuing up to hear this luminary speak. But as we learned from an audio recording of March 2024 shared with The Australian, Linder was outraged to discover not all of her Foundation of Law students were spellbound by her words.
Judging by her tone when she berated her students, she has never before had to suffer such impertinence. Her take on their alleged indifference was they had decided that a curriculum which, in Linder’s words, “prioritises … Indigenous perspectives” wasn’t much chop.
“There were tens of you that got up and decided that wasn’t important, and instead you were pretty unprofessional and walked out,” she remonstrated. “Watch what you say and what you do if you want to do well in your law degree, because being politically active in a way that’s protesting against my inclusion of Indigenous perspectives and up and leaving … that is really inappropriate, and I won’t be tolerating it.”
That is exactly the way one should speak to errant schoolchildren, I say. Warning the students who had walked out that she would “remember their faces,” Linder implied this would not only have consequences for their assessments but also their careers.
“I can tell you now if you want to get involved in any work while you’re doing your law degree, you’re not going to get hired and you’re not going to last if this is the type of behaviour that you’re engaging with,” she said.
That’s the stuff, Dr Linder. What a wonderful role model you are for your students. As for telling them in the same breath, “I am an expert in my field and recognised internationally and nationally for the work that I’ve done,” I have one question. What subject is your expertise, aside from Curriculum Karen 101?
Here is a thought. If Linder did feel so strongly about students leaving her lecture early, instead of pre-judging them she could have privately approached each to ascertain why they left. After all, they may have had a good reason. Could it be the self-declared law expert is unfamiliar with the concept of natural justice?
Inspired by Linder’s mission to indigenise the law curriculum, I decided to educate myself by researching historical newspapers in the National Library of Australia’s Trove collection. I have since discovered some fascinating information about Indigenous jurisprudence, and I am sure Linder will recognise my efforts and perhaps even incorporate the material I have found in her teachings.
To begin with, I learned that vicarious liability has long been recognised in First Nations law. Let’s take the case of three Indigenous men in Broome who in 1923 were found guilty of murdering an Aboriginal woman. Her ‘crime’ was being the wife of a man who had killed a woman and then absconded. As the Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser reported:
“Their tribal law demanded that his [wife] should pay the penalty of his crime, and she calmly submitted, while the accused stabbed herein, the stomach with a spear. The head of the spear broke off in the wound, which was not fatal. She was then stabbed again with the spear shaft, and as she was still alive, two of the accused held her while the other twisted her head round till her neck was broken.”
And let’s not forget First Nations criminal law. Reporting in 1980 on the Northern Territory case of seven Indigenous men who had pleaded guilty to conspiring to rape two girls aged 13 and 14, the Canberra Times cited one Dr Robert High Leyton, an anthropologist with the Northern Land Council.
“Pack rape of young girls of the tribe was a known punishment if they breached certain tribal laws,” he said.
Then there is First Nations property law. In 1936, Monsignor Xavier Gsell, then in charge of the Bathurst Islands mission, told the Brisbane-based Telegraph the influx of Japanese pearl divers had led to the trading of Indigenous women by their menfolk for goods such as tobacco and flour.
“He knew that girls as young as ten years had been traded,” reported the Telegraph. “The girls at first protested but afterwards went aboard the luggers.”
It was a practice The Argus also noted that same year.
“Questioning of the women revealed that they had either boarded the luggers for the lavish supplies of tobacco offered or had been beaten into submission by their husbands, who had been promised food by the Japanese,” the newspaper reported.
I realise these facts about Indigenous laws are unpalatable and belie the official narrative. But as noted by Linder and her co-authors in a 2023 paper, it is imperative we change “the mainstream discourse through truth-telling … to mitigate inherent racial biases within society”. And presumably truth-telling includes dispelling romantic but fallacious notions about what indigenising a law curriculum would involve – right, Dr Linder?
Turn it up. If a brave student raised these examples in Linder’s class, I guarantee this entitled lecturer would immediately start screeching, as well as claim these inconvenient facts breach her right to a culturally safe workplace.
But what of the students’ right to be treated in a respectful manner by their lecturers? There is no small irony in Linder’s haranguing students while waving the “I want to make it perfectly clear that there is a school code of conduct for students to follow” stick.
As Janet Albrechtsen noted yesterday, Linder’s actions raise questions about whether she is abiding by UQ’s staff code of conduct, which mandates that employees must not engage in bullying, harassment, discrimination, intimidation, humiliation or threatening behaviour. But instead of conducting a full investigation into Linder’s unseemly meltdown, UQ administrators have wet their pants. They claim their so-called internal review found nothing wrong and that the “lecture delivery and course content” were appropriate.
Those parents with a budding law student in their final year of school should take note. Remind your children they will not get much change from $100K for a law degree, and as such they should ensure prospective institutions deliver value and provide for open debate. The last thing your offspring need is to pay all that money only for a shouty activist to browbeat them. In short, let them know a UQ law degree is synonymous with uselessness.
Incidentally, I am not necessarily opposed to the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in law curricula. Some are informative and relevant. For example, in my research I came across a Herald article from 1939 which told the story of Father Ernest Worms, a missionary priest who had lived with a tribe in WA’s Kimberley Region for ten years.
The tribe had a “complex legal system”. he said, A case in point was that a “married man is forbidden to speak to his mother-in-law”. Neither could he look at her, and when he was out bush, he had to “carefully avoid her tracks”.
Do you know what? There is much Indigenous law can teach us.
The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.
The Mocker nails it again.
<Snort>…my Mother in Law is 2,500km away in Auckland…so I am good…;-)
My mob were in the North West of Western Australia from the 1860’s to the 1970’s.
They noted the practice of smashing the legs of the young girls, who had had sex with someone from the wrong skin group, and leaving them behind to die when the tribe “moved on.”
You married a New Zeland girl too, Beertruk.
Yes Eyrie…she is from Papakura.
Mrs Eyrie is from Matamata. Did her RN in Tauranga.
New Zealand farmer’s daughters are the best.
Well, you brought your politics into it.
Can’t have it both ways.
She does believe she can have it both ways, that’s the crux of the matter.
The reality is, she is a rascist and the behaviour continues because she and others, are not called to account.
Brilliant.
I married a New Zealand boy !
Ok Hz…what town is your Lad from???…
Invercargill !
lol See A.R. Radcliffe-Brown on ‘avoidance relationships’ in primitive societies (as he called them back in his early twentieth century day as a leading theoretical and field anthropologist).
These ‘primitives’ worked out that if you couldn’t talk to your mother-in-law or other likely troublesome people you couldn’t get into a barney about anything with them.
Good thinking. Lessons there, and better than other aboriginal ‘learnings’ invented by marginally aboriginal law lecturers for our poor benighted students regaled with today’s romantic mythologies. Jacinta N P is much closer to traditional realities, and her view is starkly different.
In the Oz
ATAR of 39 and accepted into a teaching degreeAs Australia cries out for more teachers, some universities are inflating enrolments by admitting students with the lowest high school results.
Does someone with such a low ATAR have a hope of passing the degree? Do you wonder why our kids are not being taught? Long gone are the days when your Maths or English Master had a BA Hons or Masters degree. Or wrote text books.
Yes. Yes they do. So long as they can parrot all the blak, climate and lefty dogma.
Wow. If Whitey had only realized that the ephemera which the anthropologists painstakingly documented and preserved were actually going to turn out to be so valuable to (checks notes) the distant relations of the poor souls who abandoned them so decisively, then they might have thought to (checks notes again) …er… preserve them in a museum for the last two and a half centuries.
Good news for Tony Mokbel:
The interwebs advise that he was incarcerated for 18 years, prior to his release.
In that time, he has not missed Essendon winning a final.
Ha!
Bam.
F*cking Vicpol…absolute pricks Look at the fat pig that used a chokehold on her.
What a tough guy.
—
Avi:
Gutless cops CHOKEHOLD Jewish grandma as violent anti-Israel mob run wild
That’s one feisty Jewish grandma!
If the EU got over it’s TDS and went along with the US, China would be absolutely keel-hauled. It’s biggest trading partners could turn out to be Russia and North Korea.
EU Imports from China: ~US$560 billion
EU Exports to China: ~US$221 billion
US Imports from China: ~US$462 billion
US Exports to China: ~US$150 billion
The US imports number would be larger because of the pass through China does using third country labeling.
560+462+ 100 = $1,122 trillion. ($100 billion is my estimated pass through)
That’s about 7% of Chinese GDP that could be “taxed”.
Of course, we’d get partially keel-hauled too, but it would be fun to watch.
EU & AUS free trade talks to re-commence.
Roger
I don’t know how that hasn’t been ironed out in the past. I hope we’d be able to lock into that too.
The EU is extremely protective of its agric sector though.
Both sides now more motivated to reach an agreement!
If Chris Uhlmann and former Labor minister Joel Fitzgerald can speak sensibly about our energy system, why is it that most of the Daytime Sky News people can’t?
Simple: for the first time in history, the federal parliamentary ALP is run by the socialist left faction. Albo’s circus is more radical than the Whitlam circus of the 1970s.
And journalism schools are now factories for political radicals that despise voters and democracy. It doesn’t matter where J-school grads end up being employed: they are all conditioned by the same anti-democratic ideology.
Note that Joel Fitzgibbon is a former Labor minister.
That’s a clue.
I’ve met him. He’s a good bloke.
That’s my impression.
Too good for Labor.
At least he talks sense and even more sense than the Libs/Nats.
Joel got a terrible scare when he nearly lost his seat to a PHON tradie. He hasn’t been the same since.
(I’m in his ex-electorate. His successor is a nonentity. Got a mailout from that guy this week, I can’t recall anything that was in it.)
I remember that.
I think Joel was struggling with the ALP even before that.
Also his son recently died.
Yes, I saw that.
A BIG non identity, all 6’8″. A coal miner in a party that wants to close down coal mines.
His dad, Eric, was a good operator, too. Brother Mark is CEO of NIB. I always got along with them in my journalist days.
The Great Unravelling Has Begun
Now to make it to Australia next.
Kennedy: Pres. Trump has mastered art of dealmaking
This might be the best think Ive seen all week
actually it is this..
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1910217490124390537
Note the brief use of an iconic IDF pic from ’67.
Yep – noted.
Note the brief use of an iconic IDF pic from ’67.
I am taking it that it is the pic at the 0:49 sec mark?
Yep!
Gloriously superb.
Superbly glorious.
Armadillo.
Or armored dildo?
https://x.com/AnnaDsays/status/1910030603518345403
I swear its smiling…
It’s nearly as long as he is. Wow!
Biden Insider: This Is Who Pulled Biden’s Strings Behind the Scenes | Lindy Li
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Will mUntard now recent on his assertions this morning?
Channel 7 newsreaders are ecstatic to advise their audiences that Trump has finally blinked, he saw sense, he’s been beaten into submission by better people in his party and has given up on tariffs.
I don’t think they mentioned that it was a pause for 90 days so what do they intend to say when time’s up? I can’t blame the newsreaders so much as the producers and the people who write the words that appear on their teleprompters. The newsreaders are just our versions of Ron Burgundy.
Hands up…who’d take economic advice from a news reader?
I have a lot of time for Joel Fitzgibbon. He lost his son last year in a army accident. Apparently Joel and Barnaby are good mates.
Joel is ‘old Labor’, a Labor party that bears zero resemblance to the Labor party in 2025.
As is Jennie George, who occasionally gets a letter up in the Oz re energy.
Yep, I have a lot of time for her too.
Joel Fitzgibbon was the last Labor politician to have been “on the spanners.” – he was an auto electrician by trade.
The party of the working class now has no room for members of the working class.
There is a whole demographic there, available to the politician willing to listen.
Ken Beazley would be spinning in his grave, not just turning.
Yes, the dregs of the middle class indeed.
Hello again, mUntard.
A new form of renewable energy that only works when the left is in power. Hurrah!
Grandpa Beazley spawned 3 generations on the public tit. Best to remain silent. The granddaughter inWA cabinet. Couldn’t run a school tuckshop.
I now have absolute visceral loathing for all our police forces. They are contemptible. They practise two tier policing.
At UWA in the late 1960’s we used to call them “Pigs”. I see no reason to change that.
I won’t mention the name, but I don’t really use Facebook and just found out by chance that a commenter who used to be here and on the old blog lost his young son, who passed away suddenly two years ago. It’s the saddest thing. I can’t imagine it. We never see him any more. At times absence means something.
Ah geez.
Two years ago – could be one of a few commenters I can think of.
In all seriousness, this is one of my greatest fears. Children are supposed to bury their parents, not the other way around.
I’m absolutely amazed I lived to 25 – due to sheer luck rather than any semblance of good management. The son and heir, who will be 21 in September – as I remind him occasionally – reminds me of me.
Very few things scare me. This does.
Children are supposed to bury their parents, not the other way around.
My late father maintained parents shouldn’t have to bury their children. My parents buried two of their off – spring.
My first would have been 50 this Easter. Never forgotten.
My son would have been 37 last week. No 2 son was 4 weeks old when No1 son died. He’s only just realised something in his own life is missing. No matter who it is, I feel for them.
Lordie. It was Cassie’s comment about Fitzgibbon that reminded me. I only found out a few days ago.
My youngest would have been 37 in January. Oldest’s wife has a birthday dinner for him and does a cake so that our grandsons know of him.
My brother, my parents’ first child, died before I was born and I always feel his absence. I often wonder what he would have been like and whether his existence would have changed mine.
Sir Robert Peel will be turning in his grave
Contemporary police may imagine his 9 principles of policing to be unsophisticated but that would only illustrate their conceit.
Credlin has a face like a serene plate of ovaltine. She interviewed sheridan tonight who was in full TDS mode. Sheridan looks like a creature from Jack Vance’s Planet of Adventure series. I’m inclined to think sheridan is like a Wankhman, although he could be a Dirdirman, which ever is the most insectoid. Whatever he is, he spittled lie after lie about Trump and his tariff brilliance. For instance sheridan said Trump had the lowest approval rating of any POTUS ever. In fact Trump has a record approval of 53%. Ovaltine did not correct the smozzy bastard and off he went about the chaos of Trump. I’d really like 5 minutes alone with the alien kook.
Sheridan is, as my old man used to say, a card carrying member of the silly old bastards association.
Greg Sheridan called Trump a brawler – hubby just said, yeah, and you Greg are a bawler.
dreg sheridini relaxin’ at home.
Bolt!
Abccess editorialising that ” no one really believes Trump has countries wanting to negotiate on trade”
That will be news to the EU…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/eu-offers-zero-tariff-deal-to-us-but-prepares-for-trade-war
Lies like that would be great ammunition to a government looking to reduce the deficit by a bit over a billion a year.
Celebrating Australia Day is racist: Discrimination CommissionerThe man hand-picked by Mark Dreyfus to combat racism claimed the national holiday is “not a day to be celebrated”. The Attorney-General has distanced himself from the remarks.
Daily Telegraph.
Sack him and the AG,
The Discrimination Commissioner is himself a race-baiter.
Aren’t they all?
This boasberg bastard is not going away despite the narrow SCOTUS judgment stressing that the district court activist judges can only adjudicate in the relevant jurisdiction not from another leftoid one. But the judgment has left the goggled eyed flumox some loopholes to explore through the verbal ruling he made as opposed to the written ones SCOTUS ruled on:
SCOTUS Halts Boasberg–For Now
Received a spread sheet and this is was below the accounting firm’s header on a fcking email. Not my accountants.
Because they are so “special.”
This is kowtowing or forelock tugging whether it’s towards BLM or Aborigines.
Respect is earned, not given.
Thash why we take the short bus!
it’s just everywhere
Activist judges are inflicting destructive ideology on the West. Even the best judges live in a bubble blissfully unaware/indifferent to the community consequences of their judgments. Case in point:
Australia’s youngest killer is back behind bars within days of his release after cops allegedly make horror find | Daily Mail Online
What would you do if this creature harmed or killed a love one? Who would you blame?
Some people are just born wrong.
Welcome to A.I. country
Donald Trump ‘remarkably consistent’ on China threat
Heard this bloke interviewed on BBC in the wee small hours.
A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after ChatGPT falsely told him he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kgydkr516o.amp
Bolt
‘Dance to his tune’: Bandt’s ‘terrible’ comments on Labor minority government shock country
@charliekirk11
High flow shower heads are BACK!
President Trump signs Executive Order to end the war on water pressure:
“I like to take a nice long shower to take care of my beautiful hair.”
We don’t deserve him.
Seinfeld-The Shower Head
Modern Democrats reveal their true intentions align with those of the Confederacy
That was a talking point with the lefties on C.L.’s blog months ago – that the U.S. economy would collapse if Trump kicked out illegal immigrants.
Frankly, I think it’s an admission that the left think that cheap labour from illegals while many federal laws are being violated is okay.
The DemonRats are pining for the days of slavery. Then they whined about who would pick the cotton, now they whine about having to pay nannies and gardeners full wages.
They are also the party of the KKK, well into the 20th century.
The 1924 DemonRat convention in Noo Yok (at Madison Square Gardens) was known as the Klanbake convention because many delegates wore KKK robes to it.
BTW, remember the fuss the DemonRats made about a Trump rally there last year? How dare he tread on their sacred site!
PS, Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a former senior KKK member. He was still a senator when he died in 2010.
Just caught up. Thank you very much for your kind offer, Megan.
Tomorrow is taken up, and we’re out on Saturday. Sadly.
Much enjoyment visiting the quilt show…many more arty type textiles than the more domestic, traditional bed quilts.
I’m enjoying Melbourne because I’m a tourist. The beautiful buildings, the trams, the pubs and cafes. Like home, I suppose it’s different if you live here.
Never mind, perhaps there will be another opportunity in future. Safe travel home!
Bet the big brave copper would never do that to a Muesli who was getting in somebody’s face.
But elderly ladies are low hanging fruit.
Beyond disgusting.
I am ashamed of the police in my state.
Agree. So much shame. Just like arresting a pregnant lady for a Facebook post and doing a bit BLM street theatre.
One of the nicest parts of Melbourne is the old row of terraces in Nicholson St opposite Carlton Gardens and Royal Exhibition building. A vestige of a more gracious age.
I saw them as we made our way back to the hotel. Very Paddington.
Yes! Three stories too. Used to work near there. So elegant.
Wally Dali
April 10, 2025 10:23 am
TSMC, the hint is in their title.
I had assumed TSMC were only located in Taiwan, but no!
https://techovedas.com/where-are-all-tsmc-fabs-located/
They’re already in the USA too, so Trump’s recent fab desires must be for some higher density (smaller process size) chip making which TSMC does in Taiwan but not USA yet.
It seems that Senator Jacinta Price is to be speaking in Perth, in the near future.
Will she be taking questions on the issue of mythical rainbow serpents?
Perhaps the Noongar aboriginal corporation can issue Wagyl Appeasement Credits, for a fee, so anyone wishing to build a bridge over a tributary of the Avon can buy a credit from someone who appeased the Wagyl elsewhere.
Surely monetising mythology is what
Goldman Sachsthe Wagyl would have wanted.dunno anything about the area but I like that Albert Park.
Is that viewed as an ok suburb by Melbourne people ?
Gracious living with a capital G. One of my engineering colleagues lived there. Ooh la la.
Ooh la la
There’s an expression I haven’t heard in years..
It is, and where we lived when we first moved back. The only problem are the housing commission projects in the area. One time I inadvertently left the garage door open one evening, a block of knives in the kitchen and the car were stolen. On another occasion, my wife was followed home; she left the front door open, and her purse was stolen in the hallway. These things were really concerning—knives stolen and a female followed inside.
In Melbourne’s early days, the area was the city’s garbage dump. Seriously!
US/Russia prisoner exchange (via the WSJ).
Russia released Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was sentenced last year to 12 years in a penal colony after being found guilty in Russia of treason for donating less than $100 to a U.S.-based Ukrainian charity. In exchange, the U.S. freed Arthur Petrov, a dual German-Russian citizen, who was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the U.S. for allegedly exporting sensitive microelectronics.
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Sydney property is a weird old thing.
People pay 20mill for a knock down rebuild (so 30, 40 mill all in) to have a house on the Bondi to Bronte walk where people going past are a couple of metres away from you.
Where as you could buy a ducks nuts place on Macpherson st Bronte for 20 odd and have 3 maybe 4 floors that all have ocean views with zero punters looking over your wall.
If I had unlimited money (which I dont) I know what I would rather.
Wolseley Road Point Piper is a nightmare to get in & out of.
Same with Louisa Road Birchgrove.
And that’s before you have the trucks and cranes for the non stop refurbs these types always are doing.
Some of the real prestige streets in Sydney are a hoax.
That will be the end of the Sydney property rant.
Oliver Schulz hearing: Ex-soldier ‘can’t recall’ day farmer shotJoanna Panagopoulos
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A former senior ADF member has told a court there were few cases in wartime Afghanistan where photographs of an enemy killed in action would have been taken “in situ”, and that bodies were sometimes moved, as he gave evidence in a hearing for war crime-accused Oliver Schulz.
The soldier, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also said he had no recollection of the day in Afghanistan 12 years ago when local farmer Dad Mohammad was allegedly fatally shot three times by SAS soldier Mr Schulz in a field, including whether he saw Mohammad’s body in the village of Dehjawze or whether he spoke to Mr Schulz about it afterwards.
Mr Schulz, aged 43, was charged with the war crime of murder in March 2023 after footage emerged of the alleged shooting of the unarmed Afghan man.
He was the first ADF member to ever be charged with a war crime in Australia.
Prosecutor Philip Strickland SC, on the fourth day of a committal hearing at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court, asked the soldier – who was part of the same mission as Mr Schulz on May 28, 2012, but in a different troop – whether photos were normally taken of an enemy killed in action (EKIA). He responded “Yes”.
Investigators were reportedly told the Afghan man was found dead with a radio on his person and had dropped a mobile phone connected to their insurgent target, known as Young Akira.
The soldier, who was one of numerous ADF witnesses this week, was then asked if “it’s important … to ensure the photo is of the body where it is found when shot.” The witness replied “No”.
When asked why, he said the photograph was simply “information” to relay back to base.
“I’m not trying to take a photograph of exactly what’s happening. This is combat,” the soldier said, adding if they were under fire, “I might drag the body over to the wall (and) take a photo there”.
“The only reason you take a photo is information,” he explained, so you could send the image back to decipher if “this is the guy”.
“It doesn’t have to be in situ,” and he didn’t think it “ever was”.
Earlier, Mr Strickland asked the soldier if he saw Mohammed on May 28, 2012. “Not that I can recall,” he replied.
Mr Strickland: “Did you see him being shot?”
“No,” the soldier responded.
Mr Strickland: “Did you see him before he was shot?”
“No.”
“Did you ever see his body after he was shot at the location in the village?”
“Not that I recall.”
“Does that mean you may have, but for some reason it’s an incident you’ve forgotten?”
“Yes.”
“Because you’ve seen many deaths of enemies killed in action?”
“Yes.”
He later said he had no recollection of speaking to Mr Schulz about Mohammad’s death on May 28 or afterwards.
The soldier also said he didn’t recall “anything that happened … or (that was done)” by him on that day, when asked, including “capturing or detaining the target Young Akira”.
The soldier agreed that he had seen “some footage on television in relation to 2012”, but he wasn’t sure whether it was the Four Corner’s episode which exposed the alleged killing. He did not, however, recognise whether he had been to that Afghan village from the media he watched.
On Tuesday, another soldier on rotation with the ADF in Afghanistan on May 28, 2012, also said that day did not “stand out” in his memory. “A lot of that tour, including the previous one, became all one big mesh,” he said.
That man was asked whether he ever witnessed anyone placing an object that hadn’t been found on a deceased person near Mohammed before pictures were taken, to which he responded no.
A summary report also reportedly stated Mohamed was “tactically manoeuvring” and displayed “hostile intent” before he was shot.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election Screams for Department of Justice Criminal Investigation
BEYOND PARODY: Senator Joni Ernst Says Federal Workers Showed up at the Office to PROTEST Having to Come to the Office
Green Policies, Not Trump Tariffs, Killing British Steel
Chuck Schumer Refuses to Condemn Attacks Against Tesla Amid Increasing Acceptance of Political Violence Among Dems
Elon Musk reveals jaw-dropping DOGE find he had to read several times before it ‘sank in’
There’s Nothing Free about ‘Free Trade’
the enemy of US industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIGmYdPQgw
The IMMORTAL Brian Cadd – and one of the greatest anti war songs ever written
5d
JC at 5:24.
Apart from the stark “sell cheap shit” trade deficits, this is the key:-
Understand this above all else.
Both Canada and Mexico f*cked around and found out in allowing a conduit into the US market under cover of NAFTA.
Playing footsies with Xi on back-door trade won’t result in a protracted ten year WTO lawyer fest with no real result.
It will result in immediate nuclear level tariff response from Tangerine Man.
And guess what?
Once in place, the tariffs won’t magically drop off when Donald goes.
Bonus!
Dutton Drone-Strike Foiled.
Firstly imagine the technical skills needed to produce a kamikaze remotely detonated flying bomb. It’s always disappointing when people use their skills for evilness instead of goodness. But of course the kid probably thinks he’s doing the right thing.
Secondly, imagine the level of surveillance taking place every day which allowed this (entirely solo?) scheme to be detected amidst all the other activity of society.
Thirdly, after this assassination plot it sounds like it is the Green/Left supporters who are “importing Trump style politics” into Australia not Dutton. It was Trump’s opponents who planned assassinations, not Trump supporters.
Overlooked
that’s going to hurt
Johannes Leak.
He’s brilliant, way smarter than the ‘economists’ who infest the MSM, and immediately brand anything outside their comfort zone as likely to plunge the world into a new Depression.
Gom Jo!
Minus m.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Matt Margolis #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Phew, back online. Or was that just me?
Johannes knows what happened…Trump derailed the blog.
I just got in by a side door.
The front door appears to be jammed shut still.
Sorry about that. Site was getting spammed via user reg and was put offline by host until I fixed the problem.
Wow! You are now important enough to be a target of attacks.
I don’t think its anything like that. More the ordinary nefariousness of the typical scammer that wants to flood your comments section with links, etc.
What???? Munty???
Well, you have a word with this user “reg” and sort him out, eh?
Thanks Dover
Well let us know if you want to upgrade security. Head prefect has offered big money and I’m sure the rest of us can chip in.
Anyone can chip in via the support tab at the top of the page. Thank you again to those that continue to do so.
Tipped in a few quid.
Thank you very much, Zulu.
I just got in by a side door.
The front door appears to be jammed shut still.
The front door is open now.
Thank you!
Greetings Cats. Glad we are still online. Thanks DB.
A rare moment of sense from this government.
Now what about reducing the economy’s reliance on immigration?
hahaha asking him to reduce his voteherd
Regards Qld councils & bed tax, on which there was some recent comments:
4 x mayors from opposite ends of Qld simultaneously had the same idea to whack on a bed tax?
The QHA (Qld Hotels Assn) contacted members a week ago, this excerpt from their advice may better sheet blame for the bed tax idea to where it belongs:
Tourism NGOs (average salary $250,000 & CEOs on $450,000) coming up with a way to prop up their cushy zero KPI careers at the expense of the industry they’re purportedly serving.
Having met some of these folk & experienced the dripping condescension & contempt in which they hold common/garden commercial operators, it is very easy to believe the idea is theirs.
Those salaries averaging $250,000 aren’t going to pay themselves.
Hope this helps, Rockdoctor, Roger, et al.
Thanks Sal.
As pointed out, the ratio of domestic to international visitors in QLD is 20:1.
This is local government (being advised by tourism hangers-on) putting its hand into the pockets of locals.
From the Oz.
An Israeli military official said Thursday that reserve pilots who publicly called for securing the release of hostages, even at the cost of ending the Gaza war, would be dismissed from the air force.
“With the full backing of the chief of the General Staff, the commander of the IAF (Israeli Air Force) has decided that any active reservist who signed the letter will not be able to continue serving in the IDF (military),” the official told AFP in response to a letter signed by around 1000 reserve and retired pilots.
The letter, which was published on a full page in multiple daily newspapers, directly challenges the policy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has insisted that increased military pressure on Gaza is the only way to get Palestinian militants to release hostages seized during Hamas’s October 2023 attack.
“We, the aircrew in the reserves and retired, demand the immediate return of the hostages even at the cost of an immediate cessation of hostilities,” the letter said.
“The war serves primarily political and personal interests, not security interests,” it said, adding that the resumed offensive “will result in the deaths of the hostages, IDF soldiers and innocent civilians, and the exhaustion of the reserve service”.
1000 pilots ! thats going to be a big dent