Open Thread – Mon 14 April 2025


“Flevit super illam” (He wept over it), Enrique Simonet, 1892

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Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 9:58 am

We’re on the same path.

@Rickster_75

This is bullsh!t. Minneapolis becomes the first city to let Muslim prayers to be played over loud speaker 5 times a day.

But we can’t ring our Church bell, they’re banned. Muslims would never let Church bells ring in their country.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 2:39 pm
Reply to  Indolent

How the West was won … no, undone.

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 10:00 am

@RepBrandonGill

Too many of our colleges are propaganda factories spewing anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian hate.

Their multibillion dollar hedge funds (endowments) should be taxed.

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 10:02 am

I find it extraordinary that he should even have to do something like this. I would have thought it was self-evident.

BREAKING: President Trump Signs Executive Order Barring Illegal Aliens From Receiving Social Security

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 10:04 am

@LauraLoomer

JUST IN:

Dan Caldwell @dandcaldwell, one of the top advisors for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth, was escorted out of the Pentagon today after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.

You’ll recall, Dan Caldwell was listed as the point of contact for the DOD in @MikeWaltz47’s SignalGate chat.

He has since locked down his X account.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 10:06 am

ABccess introducing its latest layer of story massager.

They have an “elder in residence” who just happens to be a lifelong ABccess catamite.

https://www.abc.net.au/about/plans-reports-and-submissions/indigenous-diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-inclusion-annual-report-2023-2024-part-5/104690716
Imagine having an awards night for…. 3% of your workforce – token much?

https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/abc-welcomes-professor-jackie-huggins-as-inaugural-elder-in-resi/105181848

A professional race pimp.
It has almost never removed its blood funnel from the jugular of the Australian people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Huggins

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 10:10 am
Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 10:11 am

Muslim Votes Matter to preference Greens over Labor on HTV cards in several key seats:

The group, which is campaigning for candidates in 32 seats has endorsed Greens in the Victorian seats of Wills and Bruce, where Labor MPs are preparing for a backlash over the party’s response to the war in Gaza. Most of the 32 seats are held by Labor and have significant Muslim populations.

Muslim Votes Matter has also endorsed the Greens in the Queensland seat of Moreton, the South Australian seat of Sturt, and independents [i.e. Muslim independents – R.] in the western-Sydney seats of Blaxland and Watson, held by Labor ministers Jason Clare and Tony Burke.

Guardian Australia has also confirmed the political party launched by the former Labor senator Fatima Payman, who has a strong personal brand in suburbs with high Muslim populations, Australia’s Voice, will also encourage voters to preference the Greens above her former party and the Liberals on Senate ballot papers.

The Guardian (AU) 16 April 2025

I’m so old I remember when the left deplored sectarianism in elections.

Last edited 5 days ago by Roger
Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 16, 2025 8:45 pm
Reply to  Roger

And I’m old enough to remember when they pretended to believe in freedom of thought and expression.

cohenite
April 16, 2025 10:12 am

Great toon and one of the strangest acts by any politician ever. Whitmer is nuts:

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Conversely Australia’s greatest female pollie is having her image desecrated by the fuking abc:

ABC targets Jacinta Price with ‘shocking’ racial discrimination and double standards

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 10:14 am

It is vital, nay essential that all the people involved in this report – even those reporting on it, and their extended families , be forced to do as they outlined in this report.
Any politician referencing it, any department head or pubic serpent must be named and issued with a food card which only allows them to purchase the items they talk about – forever.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/16/swapping-out-red-meat-and-creamy-pasta-sauce-could-significantly-cut-household-emissions-australian-research-finds

In Australia, there was currently no requirement for companies to include greenhouse gas emissions information on food labelling, something the George Institute would like to see change.

In fact, skip the card, it must be tattooed on their foreheads, with anyone caught supplying them with evil carbins subjected to the same punishment.
For the chiiiiildren!

Entropy
Entropy
April 16, 2025 12:07 pm

Written by vegans no doubt.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 3:33 pm

They’ll have to prise the carbonara from my cold dead hands.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 10:17 am

Dogs are killing the planet.

Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: ‘Dogs Are Environmental Villains’ – ‘Significant’ carbon footprint (15 Apr)

Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.

An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised”.

I think Curtin Uni drones like these two academics are killing the planet far more than doggies are. We can sure breed ’em here, and that’s not the dogs.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2025 10:23 am

They should be doing something useful like breeding barkless dogs.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 11:59 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Basenjis.

damon
damon
April 16, 2025 10:44 am

So the dingo, imported with the aborigines, is not part of our ‘cultural heritage’?

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 12:00 pm
Reply to  damon

We can make a slight exception for the Dingo.
Keep the mob on Fraser Island. Only feed them International Tourists. Win, win. 😀

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
April 16, 2025 12:41 pm
Reply to  Pogria

No, not tourists. International students.

damon
damon
April 16, 2025 2:08 pm
Reply to  Barking Toad

Labor voters for dessert.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2025 10:21 am

It is vital, nay essential that all the people involved in this report – even those reporting on it, and their extended families , be forced to do as they outlined in this report.
?
I’d have thought hunted down and exterminated was more appropriate.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 10:37 am
Reply to  Eyrie

After 6 months of living the way they want everyone else to, they will do it themselves.

Cassie of Sydney
April 16, 2025 10:21 am

Muslim Votes Matter to preference Greens over Labor on HTV cards in several key seats:

How unsurprising, Jew haters always side with other Jew haters.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 10:43 am

It’s an unholy alliance that bodes ill for our country.

Helen
Helen
April 16, 2025 11:15 am

My first thought, too.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 12:07 pm
Reply to  Helen

As Muslim core beliefs are opposite to Green ones, it cannot be a permanent alliance IMHO.
The Greens think they will dump and discard their allies when no longer needed. The Muslim view would be the mirror image.
My suspicion is that the unnatural alliance will play out as it did in Iran.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

Gaza unites them presently along with a broader commitment to socialism and the welfare state with Muslims a major beneficiary thereof as a permanent victim class.

Notable that the MVM spokesperson said they were endorsing Greens candidates despite Green policy on religious schools not being able to discriminate according to their religious beliefs in hiring staff.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 2:22 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

Yep.
The MEK were as surprised as everyone else when the Victory Banquet turned into the standard Muslim Slaughter of the Godless Allies.
You’d think those who ally themselves with Islam would learn, but it seems not.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 10:27 am

Tale of woe.

Wash Post writer: ‘I made my home fossil-fuel-free. Why did my utility bills nearly double? (15 Apr)

After spending $41K to go all-electric, a California writer finds her utility bills doubled—proof that green dreams can come with a hefty, and ironic, price tag.

“I couldn’t wait to see our next utility bill,” she writes. “But to my dismay, the now all-electric bill was nearly double the total of what we’d paid a year earlier for both gas and electricity. This is, I’m sorry, a dirty little secret of switching your home to electric.”

While Ellison’s harrowing adventure would likely be a wake-up call to others with similar experiences, her faith is unshaken.

It’s a mystery. We should ask Chris Bowen to explain it to us.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 16, 2025 12:28 pm

Gullible nitwits paying a price for stupidity. Should be more of it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 11:01 am

Richard Armitage has died.

Richard Armitage, Powell deputy and foreign policy heavyweight, dies at 79 (15 Apr)

I had a lot of time for him. Not least because the Left went apeshit when Valerie Plame was outed as CIA. They blamed Bush, and the howling went on for months and months, but Armitage legally released that information.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 16, 2025 6:29 pm

Sheridan had a full obituary printed in the Oz today, they were besties.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 11:27 am

132andBush

 April 16, 2025 6:28 am

 Reply to  Beertruk

This is all part of a long term strategy.

First Australia Day, then ANZAC Day.

And “Change the Date” is the most deceptive and disingenuous slogan of all.
The minute the date is changed there will be “growing calls” to “re-imagine the celebration in a more inclusive way”.
Which will mean another multi-culti fest with extra added burning gumleaves and nappy dances.

Ceres
Ceres
April 16, 2025 1:22 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Don’t forget to include the other protected species – islam

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 11:37 am

saying Zelinsky started the war

In three sentences or less, what is the best reason for believing that Zelenskyyyy started the war?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 11:54 am

I think the case could be made that the “colour revolution” was a US/EU orchestrated coup in effect.

https://insightintelligence.com.au/colour-revolutions-the-most-sophisticated-warfare-method/

Putin the shirtless definitely started the shooting war though.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 12:32 pm

Remember, in 2019 Zelensky was elected as a peace candidate. The Americans would have preferred a Poroshenko victory.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 1:37 pm
Reply to  Roger

Their parliament had already amended their constitution in Feb 2019 to make NATO membership a national goal. I don’t know enough about Ukraine law to know if Z even had authority to change direction on that issue, at least not without parliament undoing the amendment. Hard to see how Z was going to be the peace candidate.
Z was pushing Biden for NATO membership in Sept 2021, so if Z had any authority to switch to a Russophile policy he certainly had not used it in the intervening 2 years.
The direction set by Poroshenko, public support, and Parliament and immediately adopted and sustained by Z, was provoking Putin and risked escalating war.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 16, 2025 12:56 pm

The war doesn’t start with the first shot.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 1:07 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

The war doesn’t start with the first shot.

Yes it does. Anything that happened before that is used as a justification by the side that starts the war by firing the first shot.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2025 3:38 pm

“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”

Clausewitz

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 1:03 pm

Agreed but that doesn’t finger Zelenskyyy specifically.
During Z’s time the war didn’t officially begin until Russia invaded Ukraine. Any appeal to a prior provocation on the part of Ukraine has to go back to 2014 – a time before Z became president. So there’s no conceivable argument that Z started the war.

Perhaps I should have given more context. I was responding to something Cohenite said yesterday about Bolt:

Blot is outraged that Canavan won’t agree with him that Trump is a Nazi for saying Zelinsky started the war.

Calling him a Nazi is pretty stupid, obviously.
The only thing left to check is, did Trump really blame Z for starting the war?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RTrgtSG08M
Yes.

Angmo
Angmo
April 16, 2025 5:37 pm

Who started killing Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine?

alans
alans
April 16, 2025 7:55 pm
Reply to  Angmo

Russian speakers, or “green’ men masquerading as Russian speaking Ukrainians?

P
P
April 16, 2025 11:40 am

Holy Week at White House features dinner with Christian leaders, religious service
President Trump has placed two figurines, representing angels, to guard and keep watch over the Oval Office.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 11:56 am
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 12:16 pm

Kaitlin. I lover her to bits. It’s good she has bodyguards behind her.

Anti-Trumpers Don’t Know What They’re Saying

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 2:28 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

She needs to have a good look at her diet, but.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 12:20 pm

I stopped for a cuppa and was channel surfing. Came across “The Promise”, on world movies. Sounded interesting so I looked it up on imdb.
It’s about the Armenian Genocide.
I need to go back to work, but I can’t drag myself away.
There is much info on the film at imdb.

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:31 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I need to go back to work

Brain surgeon? Professional race car driver? Dare devil? Romance novelist?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:31 pm
Reply to  Arky

Pirate?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:32 pm
Reply to  Arky

Chimney sweep?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:33 pm
Reply to  Arky

You work in a liquorice factory cutting the lengths.

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:33 pm
Reply to  Arky

Give us a hint.

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:34 pm
Reply to  Arky

Zoo keeper?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:35 pm
Reply to  Arky

Bar maid at a seaside tavern frequented by grizzled mariners?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:38 pm
Reply to  Arky

Does the work require eye protection and a whistle?

Arky
April 16, 2025 12:39 pm
Reply to  Arky

Do you tattoo the ears of livestock?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
April 16, 2025 12:49 pm
Reply to  Arky

Oi

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 12:38 pm
Reply to  Arky

Connoisseur collector of pavement durries.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 12:42 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

Bingo!!!

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 12:43 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

“I say that looks awfully like a White Ox stubbie”

johanna
johanna
April 16, 2025 12:48 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

Nah,

White Ox smokers save the butts for recycling into subsequent durries.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 12:54 pm
Reply to  johanna

Well spotted. Exactly and that is why they are rare. A CCPD,Connoisseur collector of pavement durries, would salivate if they found one.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 12:59 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

Pogria, I do hope you open your collection for a public viewing. At least pass it onto a museum when you reach the designated smoking lounge in the sky.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 2:28 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

No can do john.
I need the leftovers to pad out my wooden leg. aaargh!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 12:24 pm

dover0beach
 April 16, 2025 9:21 am

Incredible news overnight. 4chan was hacked and stats revealed nearly half of all comments in /pol/ were from Israel. Almost double the comments of the US with less than 3% of its population. That suggests a gov psyop.

Whilst every online comment in support of Hamarse, Pukin or the CCP is the totally spontaneous thoughts of individual independent citizens, right?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 2:04 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

A more startling implication of that hypothesis is that the denizens of /pol/ are so influential in American politics that it was a worthy target of a psyop.
Never would have guessed.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 12:28 pm

That chick at 11:00 on the Kaitlan clip looks like she is of her of head on opiates.

Any bloke sliping one up on her is f*cked in the head.

Last edited 4 days ago by Steve Trickler
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 2:33 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

The tongue movements – Stelazine?

Last edited 4 days ago by Winston Smith
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 12:47 pm

That chick at 11:00 on the Kaitlan clip looks like she is of her of head on opiates.
Any bloke sliping one up on her is f*cked in the head.

Look at her. Her body language suggests she is f*cked in the head.

Last edited 4 days ago by Steve Trickler
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 12:53 pm

Steve trickler
 April 16, 2025 12:28 pm

That chick at 11:00 on the Kaitlan clip looks like she is of her of head on opiates.
Any bloke sliping one up on her is f*cked in the head.

Who is the downticker? Someone rooting a bushpig?

Last edited 4 days ago by Steve Trickler
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 12:54 pm

dover0beach
 April 16, 2025 9:21 am

Incredible news overnight. 4chan was hacked and stats revealed nearly half of all comments in /pol/ were from Israel. Almost double the comments of the US with less than 3% of its population. That suggests a gov psyop.

OK.
So possibly the most sophisticated and innovative security service in the world … who brought you the entertaining spectacle of mass simultaneous castration by pager, followed by remote controlled walkie-talkie decapitations, not to mention multiple targeted assassinations abroad … is running a psy-op via an obscure website which probably isn’t close to the top 100 views in the US.
Oh, and they forget to cover their tracks by using disguised IP addresses.
Sure.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 12:56 pm

From the Oz.

Hamas has accused the Israeli military of trying to kill the last Israeli-American hostage in Gaza, after the military group was forced to admit it had “lost contact” with his captors.
The inflammatory claim came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the group would continue to “suffer blow after blow” unless it agreed to a truce.
In a statement on Telegram, Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s military wing the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said contact with the group holding Edan Alexander, whose release reportedly takes centre stage in Israel’s latest proposal for a renewed ceasefire.
“We announce that we have lost contact with the group holding soldier Edan Alexander following a direct strike on their location,” Abu Obeida wrote. “We are still trying to reach them at this moment,” he added.
However, he continued: “It seems that the (Israeli Defence Force) is deliberately trying to kill him and relieve themselves from the pressure caused by the dual-citizen prisoners in order to continue its genocide.”
Hamas’s military wing also released a video addressed to the families of the remaining hostages, warning them that their loved ones were likely to return in coffins if Israel kept up its bombardment of the territory.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 12:59 pm

Should be pretty straightforward response now:

“Hamas has said <ENTER LIE>>”

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 1:34 pm

Translation: Bugger, the infidel died on us after not being fed tor a month. How can we capitalise on this?.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 1:05 pm

Greens’ Franklin candidate quits over dual citizenship in possible boost for George
Matthew Denholm
A Greens candidate hailed as the party’s “face of the future” has been forced to quit the election contest over dual citizenship concerns.
As forecast by The Australian, the Tasmanian Greens on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of their candidate for the southern Tasmanian seat of Franklin, Owen Fitzgerald, after legal advice he is a New Zealand citizen.
This makes him ineligible to stand for election to federal parliament under Section 44 of the constitution.
Greens senator Nick McKim said fault lied with the part’s “vetting process”. “This situation is not Owen’s fault,” he said.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 1:16 pm

Of course, he has no idea which sh!thole he was spurted out of

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 1:16 pm

Face of the future?

Does he have a toothbrush moustache?

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 1:36 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Doesn’t look like he could even grow a moustache.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 16, 2025 1:21 pm

Gosh, I must stand for parliament. Wait a minute, I’m not a citizen, duzznt madda.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 1:24 pm

While on the subject of s.44, may I suggest that our PM is an Italian citizen by virtue of his Italian father and Italy’s jus sanguinis citizenship law.

This is why he did not include his father’s name on his parliamentary citizenship declaration.

Why the LNP has not pursued this baffles me. It’s not just the question of Albanese’s dual citizenship but that his attempt to obfuscate on the issue goes to his character.

Last edited 4 days ago by Roger
Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2025 2:11 pm
Reply to  Roger

Oh please, we’re talking about the SFL’s.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 2:49 pm
Reply to  Roger

Fatima Payman cough…

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 3:17 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Wasn’t she supposed to be off to Afghanistan to sort her “dual” status out a coupla weeks ago ..?
Haven’t heard anymore about it ……..!

Salvatore - Iron Publican
April 16, 2025 4:17 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

That was an April Fool announcement.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 3:02 pm
Reply to  Roger

The Greens kicked off the recent major punch-up on MPs being ineligible for election due to foreign citizenship – part of an internal brawl.
The Liars and SFLs joined in happily – then the issue went vewy vewy quiet-
the adults in the back rooms realised many Hon. Members were neither, not being constitutionally entitled to sit.
Abalone is not alone in being invalid – I am sure he regrets the ABC fluff piece about long lost dad Carlo – ironic if Carlo was not even his true father.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 3:15 pm
Reply to  Roger

I still reckon Luigi’s “dad” is the bloke with the tie on not the waiter ..!

Fibs
mem
mem
April 16, 2025 4:54 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

Nah the guy down the back on the left, standing in dark jacket looking sideways at guess who. Yep that was him, chap has same facial features as Luigi, weak chin, mousy hair and weak stance.

Helen
Helen
April 16, 2025 10:26 pm
Reply to  mem

That looks like a woman to me.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 5:50 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

That would be Luigi’s uncle, who was his mum’s chaperone on the trip.

Helen
Helen
April 16, 2025 10:24 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

Good get! Def NOT the waiter

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 3:26 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger, some time ago, I think I read that Italian citizenship can only be claimed through the maternal line. In other words, the mother has to be an Italian citizen. For obvious reasons, I found this kind of funny.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 3:55 pm
Reply to  JC

Hmmm – then why has Daddy Mollusc been disappeared from Lil Abalones records?

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 5:53 pm
Reply to  JC

It’s acquired by birth if one parent was an Italian citizen, JC.

Albanese acquired it by birth.

Hence the absent father on the declaration, else Albo would have been out of parliament.

Last edited 4 days ago by Roger
H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 3:39 pm
Reply to  Roger

Haven’t we already been down the Papa Luigi (MIA) road?

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2025 2:27 pm

“This situation is not Owen’s fault,” he said.

Or alternatively:

“Owen was too stupid to read the rules and just thought he’d have a go at getting into the trough.”

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 1:07 pm

Apropos saving the West…

The divorce rate and the abortion rate in Hungary have both halved since 2010 (or very nearly so for the abortion rate, from 16.9 per 1000 women to 9.6; by comparison our abortion rate is estimated to be 19.7).

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 16, 2025 1:33 pm
Reply to  Roger

Hungary seems to be run by sane, intelligent people. For another thing, they want to avoid getting into a war with Russia, unlike most of the EU leaders. And they won’t take in Muslims.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

It’s not without its problems, chiefly the economy (not helped by the recent drought), but the government has excellent social policies.

I suppose it’s too late to send any of our ostensibly “conservative” Liberals there on a study tour to learn something.

m0nty
April 16, 2025 1:50 pm
Reply to  Roger

So apart from terrible results on income, education, health and the environment, Orban made Hungary great again. Hmm.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 2:05 pm
Reply to  m0nty

They rank as pretty solid middle of the pack on most metrics you mong.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 2:19 pm

Indeed FM, notwithstanding they didn’t get their share of the EU “redistribution funds” that other EU nations get. The equivalent of Australia’s entire agricultural GDP for a year.

Yet they have only **slightly higher** inflation than us and if not for the suspension of EU funds, their GDP would be a full % above ours.

Their health system is in the top 15%.

So, not world class but hardly “terrible.”

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  m0nty

What was that?

Sounded like a rake hitting an empty vessel.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 3:19 pm
Reply to  Roger

Our lot only do “study” tours to places the “Hollywood type” folk frequent .. FFS!

Last edited 4 days ago by shatterzzz
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 1:35 pm
Reply to  Roger

Costello backs baby boom as birth rate dives (Paywallian today)

Australia’s fertility rate will plunge to a record low this year without a single policy from either major party to address it, raising concerns from ‘baby bonus’ treasurer Peter Costello that ­productivity is about to crash further.

One for mum, one for dad, and one for the country.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 1:45 pm

What’s it plunging to Bruce? 1.4?

In 2023 it was 1.5.

bons
bons
April 16, 2025 3:52 pm
Reply to  Roger

A number of years ago I sat through a Brookings sponsored seminar on the EU. It was pitched at foreign (non-EU) corporates working in Europe.

Some of it was informative, but what stood out was the EU officials’ inability to not drift into slamming Orban. Some of it was Bolt level crazy. Absolute derangement over someone daring to go counter to “ever closer integration” dogma.

I didn’t know much about Orban, but I left when the American Brookings host referred to him as a fascist.

Many of my colleagues refused to believe me when I briefed at our weekly meeting.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 1:48 pm

The video from Lei’s Real Talk covers a leaked Chinese Communist Party (CCP) document detailing China’s comprehensive strategy to counteract former President Trump’s tariff war. The host reveals that this strategy is not just economic but spans diplomatic and military dimensions, indicating a “total war” as declared by Beijing. Key takeaways from this strategy include: 1. **International United Front Strategy**: China aims to form global alliances with countries frustrated by the U.S.’s trade policies, isolating the U.S. economically. Target countries include major economies like Germany, France, the UK, and others. 2. **Financial Strategies**: The document outlines financial war plans, asking officials to transfer foreign assets back to China and prepare for potential financial confrontation by selling off U.S. investments, hoping to destabilize U.S. financial markets. 3. **Domestic Economic Preparations**: The strategy includes enhancing self-reliance, possibly reviving rationing systems reminiscent of the 1970s post-Cultural Revolution China as a secret weapon against economic pressure from the U.S. 4. **Strengthening Political Alliances**: China plans to deepen ties with Russia, Iran, and North Korea, aiming to counter U.S. global influence and weaken NATO. 5. **Military Preparedness**: The document highlights military strategies, particularly focusing on a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait, which would give China a geographical advantage over the U.S. The leaked document has reportedly caused significant anxiety among Chinese officials, primarily due to instructions that could substantially affect officials’ personal wealth and political stability. Xi Jinping’s aggressive stance stems from fears of being held accountable for issues like the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is skepticism within Chinese technocrats about the feasibility and realism of Jinping’s strategies. The video suggests that while the CCP wants to project strength, internal confidence is shaken, and these moves might be politically self-destructive due to the potential for economic turmoil and social unrest. The host suggests that this situation exposes a fragile political reality in China, potentially marked by future internal and external conflicts.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 1:51 pm

(Reporter Li Jingru of Watch China) According to comprehensive reports from overseas media, recently, while announcing a 90-day postponement of reciprocal tariffs on countries other than China, US President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 125%. With the previous 20% surcharge on fentanyl, the final tariff is 145%. Beijing also announced a tit-for-tat increase in tariffs on US goods to 125%. The escalation of the US-China tariff war has attracted attention from the outside world. Watch China reporters interviewed Professor Yuan Hongbing, a famous legal scholar living in Australia who often discloses the inside story of the CCP’s top leaders.

The real purpose of Trump’s tariff war has become clear

Regarding Trump’s move to suspend reciprocal tariffs for 90 days but increase tariffs on China to 145%, some reports said that Trump’s decision was sudden and caught the world off guard. Yuan Hongbing said: “I think Trump’s overall strategic arrangement is an overall strategic layout. The fundamental reason for this strategic layout is very simple, that is, the strategy of the global expansion of the Chinese Communist totalitarianism and Trump’s ideal of making America great again are natural enemies in destiny. Generally speaking, this time it was Trump who first launched an economic war and tariff war against the Chinese Communist tyranny, and it was a decisive battle. The Chinese Communist Party obviously lacked sufficient preparation for Trump’s decisive economic war attack. Of course, they had some strategic thinking in advance, but they were not fully prepared. However, due to the pressure of the overall situation, it had to fight a comprehensive battle, which is what the media now said that Xi Jinping was resisting Trump’s economic war attack. As for this incident, we can get a deeper understanding from a document within the Chinese Communist Party that was just issued by a conscientious person within the Chinese Communist Party system.”

The CPC Central Committee issued a secret document to deal with the escalation of the US-China tariff war

Yuan Hongbing disclosed the main content of this secret document of the CCP in an interview. “Now let us introduce to the international community the general content of the document just issued by people of conscience within the CCP system. That is, the CCP’s provincial and ministerial officials, prefectural and county-level officials will enter the confidentiality rooms of their respective regions on April 7, April 8, and April 9, 2025, and read a document of the CPC Central Committee. They are not allowed to record, excerpt, or take photos. This document is the resolution of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on responding to the tariff war of the Trump administration in the United States. The title of the resolution is ‘Through decisive great struggles, firmly grasp the initiative and dominance of the great changes that have not been seen in a century.’ The above title of the resolution is the general policy and principle proposed by the CCP to respond to Trump’s tariff war. This resolution claims that the US tariff war is not an isolated economic challenge, but an initiative initiated by Trump. The first battle of the total war of politics, economy, military and culture. This is also the content of this document. The resolution states that the entire party and the entire army of the CPC Central Committee must respond to the wise strategic call of General Secretary Xi and defeat the hegemony of the United States in the economy, military and international politics since the end of World War II through a decisive great struggle. This resolution has a total of more than 7,000 words, and makes a series of so-called strategic guidance deployments for the CPC to conduct a so-called decisive struggle with the Trump administration in the United States in various fields of economy, politics and military. Since this resolution is only allowed to be read in confidential rooms in various places, and it is not allowed to record, excerpt or take pictures, it is because of the fear that the content of this confidential document will be known to the US authorities. Therefore, people of conscience within the CPC system can only rely on their memory to make a report on the general content of the resolution.

The resolution first proposed guidelines for dealing with the tariff war, requiring the CCP’s United Front Work Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with each other and take a two-pronged approach, and to regard international united front work as a top priority in the future. The key point of international united front work is to make full use of the widespread dissatisfaction of the international community that will inevitably be caused by Trump’s tariff war, and focus on forming a strong international economic united front against Trump with economically developed countries such as Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and China ‘s neighboring countries, and resolutely safeguard the globalized economic order with the World Trade Organization as its core. If Trump insists on fighting the tariff war to the end, then the power of the international economic united front must be brought into play, and India, Vietnam and other wavering countries must also be united. Taking advantage of Trump’s self-isolation of the United States, the United States must be kicked out of the globalization process of the international economic united front, and the era of American economic hegemony must be ended in one fell swoop.

In order to implement the above-mentioned guidelines for economic warfare, this resolution specifically proposes two international financial action plans. The first one is that the state should be aware of the deposits of party and government officials and state-owned enterprise officials in foreign countries totaling more than 200,000 US dollars. Once it is necessary to implement a major decoupling from the US economy, the families of these officials will be immediately required to transfer their deposits in the United States back to the country or to other countries. Anyone who disobeys will be severely punished for treason. The second international financial action plan is to make so-called full preparations. Once the central government decides to decouple from the US economy, it will be able to complete the sale of 1 trillion US dollars of US Treasury bonds and 2 trillion US dollars of US corporate stocks and bonds in the shortest possible time.

In terms of economic warfare, this resolution emphasizes the need to further improve the mechanism for achieving self-circulation in China’s huge domestic economy. At the same time, in the face of Trump’s declaration of a state of emergency in the United States, the CCP’s resolution requires governments at all levels to be fully prepared to partially or fully restore the supply system to cope with possible difficult situations. Moreover, this resolution also calls the restoration of the supply system the trump card to defeat Trump’s economic warfare (Yuan Hongbing: You can see that the entire CCP is now completely returning to a policy in the desperate situation of history, but it regards it as a trump card.)

In the field of international politics, the resolution requires the CCP’s International Liaison Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consolidate their strategic cooperative relations with Russia, Iran, and North Korea, respectively, as the cornerstone of international politics to cope with Trump’s challenge. On this basis, China should continue to deepen its relations with neighboring countries and southern countries, especially to strengthen its economic, cultural, political and military presence in Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and even Thailand. At the same time, China should grasp the Marxist law that economy determines politics, promptly discover and use the anger and dissatisfaction of European countries and Canada with Trump’s tariff war, divide and disintegrate, at least weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and knock down the support point of NATO’s political and military strategy of the United States after World War II. And use this conflict of economic interests to weaken the international political relations between the United States and Japan, the United States and South Korea, and the United States and Australia and New Zealand, gradually making the United States not only autistic in the economic field, but also losing its status as an international policeman in international politics, and handing over the international political hegemony of the United States that has lasted for 80 years since the end of World War II.

In the so-called military struggle, the resolution requires the entire party and the entire army to deeply understand and resolutely implement President Xi Jinping’s strategic concept of a military decisive battle with the United States in the Taiwan Strait. The resolution believes that if the economic war with the United States eventually develops to a white-hot level, then a military decisive battle between China and the United States is inevitable. Taking the initiative in choosing the battlefield for the decisive battle into one’s own hands is the first step to victory. Therefore, the resolution believes that by launching a decisive battle in the Taiwan Strait, the CCP can rely on the strategic depth of the mainland and gain a geographical advantage over the United States.

The resolution also defines the war in the Taiwan Strait launched by Xi Jinping as a new type of conventional war with systematic informationized battlefield full-area control under modern high-tech conditions backed by a strong and reliable nuclear deterrent. The purpose of this war is to destroy the US military bases in Japan, South Korea, and Guam in the Philippines under the condition of US military intervention, and to use this war to withdraw the US military presence to the east of Hawaii, that is, to turn the United States into a regional country. The resolution finally declares that only by bravely accepting the challenges of the stormy waves can we win a great victory. After defeating the total war launched by Trump, which is led by the tariff war, the so-called ideal of a community with a shared future for mankind advocated by the CCP will become the direction of human development in the 21st century. The above content is roughly what the conscientious people in the CCP system expressed from memory. ”

Central secret documents cause widespread and extreme concern among CCP officials

Yuan Hongbing quoted the words of people of conscience within the CCP system and further disclosed: “People of conscience within the CCP system believe that the CCP obviously intends to use this resolution to stabilize the extremely chaotic state of people’s hearts within the CCP caused by Trump’s tariff war. But the result is contrary to expectations. After this secret resolution was transmitted to officials above the county and regiment level in accordance with the aforementioned confidentiality procedure, it not only failed to stabilize the hearts of officials, but on the contrary, it was like pouring a bucket of cold water into a hot oil pan, causing widespread extreme anxiety among officials.

According to people of conscience within the CCP system, a new theme immediately emerged in the whispers and heated discussions in Beijing’s official circles. This theme is that Xi Jinping’s so-called decisive great struggle against Trump is likely to become the last and biggest unfinished project of Xi Jinping’s rule. After this project is unfinished, it will be the time for the CCP to perish as a party and a country.

The official circles in Beijing have been talking about the fact that the main reason why Xi Jinping decided to react fiercely and take on Trump’s tariff war is that the think tank of the CPC Central Committee has convinced Xi Jinping that if he backs down on the tariff war, the United States will inevitably join other countries to re-raise the COVID-19 pandemic and hold the CCP accountable for its crimes against humanity and economic responsibilities. This is exactly what Xi Jinping fears the most. So some people call this worry about the international community holding the CCP accountable for crimes against humanity and economic crimes for the COVID-19 a political Achilles’ heel of Xi Jinping. Because it was Xi Jinping’s direct instructions that caused the Wuhan virus pandemic to lose its initial effective epidemic prevention time and spread to all of China and the world.

In private conversations among the CCP’s technical bureaucrats in the economic and diplomatic fields, Xi Jinping’s attempt to unite Europe, Japan, Australia and other countries to kick the United States out of the international political circle is generally ridiculed. They generally believe that Xi Jinping’s idea is a completely unrealistic dream. Its consequence is bound to repeat the Cultural Revolution when Mao Zedong once wanted to form a United Nations annex to exclude the United States. In the end, it can only leave a historical laughing stock and there is no possibility of realization.

At present, the Beijing officialdom is filled with an unprecedented atmosphere of despair. Officials generally judge that the shock wave of Trump’s tariff war may form a tsunami of unemployment in China this summer. Because last year, less than one-third of China’s college and technical school graduates actually achieved formal employment, and the rest were some temporary employment, some underemployment, etc. In 2025, more than 12 million college and technical school graduates will flood into society, so these officials judge that the mutual stimulation of unemployed college students and a large number of unemployed migrant workers after graduation will constitute the first wave of “storms” in Trump’s tariff war. This “storm” will impact and shake the CCP’s stability maintenance mechanism.

Beijing officials are whispering that the final strategy that Xi Jinping can come up with is to return to the state-monopolized economy and the supply system or semi-supply system under the wartime state during the Cultural Revolution, and then launch a war in the Taiwan Strait to solve the economic crisis he is facing. Officials believe that all the above strategies and tactics to deal with Trump’s current tariff war are actually seeking death. Because the implementation of a state-monopolized economy and supply system will inevitably lead to the extreme desolation and extreme hardship of people’s livelihood. And this consequence is very likely to ignite the long-accumulated anger in Chinese society against Xi Jinping’s retrogression. The most serious threat to Xi Jinping from launching a war in the Taiwan Strait does not come from outside, but from within the Chinese Communist Party’s military, especially among the current senior officers of the Chinese Communist Party, there are generally two-faced people who are absolutely not loyal to Xi Jinping. According to a second-generation red person familiar with the situation in the Chinese Communist Party’s military, many high- and middle-level officers are now eagerly waiting for Xi Jinping to launch a war in the Taiwan Strait. As long as China enters a state of war, these officers will find a historic opportunity to launch a mutiny and completely get rid of the tyrannical communist emperor Xi Jinping. This is the reaction we are seeing now from this document within the Chinese Communist Party system.”

The high-level political purge in the military is far from over. Has the CCP’s attempted armed invasion of Taiwan been postponed to 2027?

According to the overseas Chinese media “The Epoch Times”, recently, multiple departments of the Chinese Communist Party simultaneously issued new policies related to conscription and war preparation drug management, encouraging and guiding college students, especially fresh graduates, to join the army, which has caused concerns from the outside world that the CCP is preparing to invade Taiwan by force at an accelerated time. Yuan Hongbing analyzed this and pointed out: “Now the large-scale conscription of college students is to alleviate the inevitable dilemma of unemployment after graduation, and also to prepare for launching a war in the Taiwan Strait. Moreover, according to conscientious people in the Chinese Communist Party system, a symbolic phenomenon is that all the advertising videos in Beijing Airport have been replaced with the blood-red word “unification”, which looks extremely creepy and extremely murderous. Conscience people in the system believe that, in general, this historic decisive battle between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party’s tyranny is inevitable. The reason is simple, that is, there is an irreconcilable and fatal hostility between the two political wills of Xi Jinping’s communist totalitarianism global expansion and Trump’s “Make America Great Again”. This hostility is objective, and it cannot be eliminated by anyone’s will or through any political strategy.

In order to realize his ideal of making America great again, or to prevent America from further weakening, Trump took the initiative to launch this tariff war against the CCP tyranny. As you can see, the tariff war seemed to be aimed at all countries, but it was a surprise. Only the CCP and the United States were left on the battlefield to fight an economic duel. The final result of this economic duel is that the United States will win the final economic victory, and the CCP will suffer a heavy blow. The reason is simple. The size of the US economy and its potential for economic development are far greater than the CCP tyranny. So when the CCP is forced into a desperate situation economically, Xi Jinping has only one way to fight back, that is, to launch a military war. The most likely place to launch a military war, or a place that the CCP has long dreamed of, is the Taiwan Strait. So it may be inevitable that the century-long decisive battle between China and the United States will break out in the Taiwan Strait, or more accurately, a military decisive battle between the CCP tyranny and the liberal democratic front led by the United States. However, due to the current large-scale purge of the army within the CCP tyranny, the purge in the army caused by Miao Hua’s disloyalty case and Miao Hua’s accusation has not yet ended. Therefore, the conditions for Xi Jinping to launch a war across the Taiwan Strait are insufficient before 2025. However, launching a war across the Taiwan Strait before January 2027 will be a highly likely event. And now the two words “Beijing Airport” have created such a bloody and murderous atmosphere, which is to a certain extent a psychological warfare. “

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bons
bons
April 16, 2025 4:42 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Like all dictatorships, especially closed community communist dictatorships, the CCP has no understanding of incrementalism.

The idiot thugs have no understanding that “our way or the salt mines” has no value in a real world populated by players who are as strong, or stronger than you.

It is their weakness.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 2:13 pm

Oh noes.

Monty was wrong!
Inconceivable!

Dems purity spiraling into arson.

The suspect who tried to murder Pennsylvania’s Dem Governor and his family told the police he was doing it due to what Shapiro “wants to do to the Palestinian people”

https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1912352703428108483

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 2:28 pm

no one beats smutley in wrongology!

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 2:32 pm

My name, is Inigo Montoya…

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 2:45 pm
Reply to  Pogria

A Florin for your thoughts.

Tom
Tom
April 16, 2025 2:54 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Florin is one of our marvellous forgotten words.
For those under 70, a florin is two bob (translation for milennials: 20 cents),

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Tom

And also the country of origin of fictional character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride.

Entropy
Entropy
April 16, 2025 3:20 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Now there is a movie that unfairly denigrates the polydactyl.

damon
damon
April 16, 2025 5:18 pm
Reply to  Tom

What about a zack?

P
P
April 16, 2025 6:19 pm
Reply to  damon
cohenite
April 16, 2025 4:17 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Cheapskate.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  cohenite

A Trey Bit?
A Bob?
A Deener?

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 3:08 pm

They spiraled into full retard some time ago.

Entropy
Entropy
April 16, 2025 3:24 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Never go full retard.

P
P
April 16, 2025 2:20 pm

Zippster
April 16, 2025 1:51 pm

Too much scrolling required.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 2:26 pm
Reply to  P

“Scroll on, scroll on, with hope in your heart, and you’ll never scroll alone.” 😛

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 2:32 pm

Ms. Hamer, candidate for Kooyong, owns two properties and the media are going crazy. She’s not even in parliament yet, and plenty of MPs own more than one property.
Paul Murray will have plenty of ammo to continue his exposure of media bias in the way conservatives are treated by the media compared to the soft questions to Labor/Green/Teals.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 2:44 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Have “journalists” checked on the property interests of Allegra da Big Spenda lately?

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 3:57 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

The harborfront apartment where she is “ not authorised” to install solar panels among them?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 16, 2025 8:57 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

‘Not authorised’ by a body corporate consisting of her and her in-laws, so I understand.

MatrixTransform
April 16, 2025 3:31 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

you gotta watch out for those “candidates from Kooyong”

… some of them are shady cats

*wink

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Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 3:37 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Doesn’t AnAl have at least three?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 16, 2025 8:56 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

The property portfolio of failed Greens parliamentary candidate and woke virtue-signaller Julian ‘How I love my postnominals’ Julian Burnside AO KC is, so I understand, worth more than 20 million dollars, so I understand. And I don’t see any sign that he lets Aborigines, refugees etc etc use it rent-free.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2025 3:05 pm

Oh Noes! O’Neill.
Claire O’Neill says that the coalition policy will have young people bidding against each other at house auctions.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Facepalm. Maybe double.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 16, 2025 3:31 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

If you’re a chesty blonde, you don’t need brains as well.

Gabor
Gabor
April 16, 2025 5:05 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I must be the odd one out, I prefer small to med size. if ‘perky’ is better.

132andBush
132andBush
April 16, 2025 7:22 pm
Reply to  Gabor

There’s an old saying; “There’s no substitute for cubes”.

Yes it’s referring to engines but that’s coincidental.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 7:55 pm
Reply to  132andBush

Another old saying – not endorsing it, mind you – “ Whaterever doesn’t fit in your mouth is wasted”.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 8:07 pm
Reply to  132andBush

The only thing faster than cubic inches is rectangular dollars.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 3:36 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Can’t be right ..! Whoever heard of people “bidding” at auctions .. LOL!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 16, 2025 4:03 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

Yeah, its a new thing shatterzz, try to keep up.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 3:15 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2025 3:25 pm

Just breaking now on Sky:

Bombshell hush money scandal: Parliament House researcher asked to sign NDA over rape and bullying claims
A Parliament House researcher was twice asked to sign a confidentiality agreement by the Albanese Government over allegations she was discriminated against and bullied when she disclosed how she was allegedly raped as a young woman in politics.

Anna Hough, 46, a mother of three, received legal letters from Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ department offering her a low-ball sum of money and asking her to sign a confidentiality agreement.

This is despite his public insistence that the Albanese Government would never demand a sexual assault victim sign non-disclosure clauses to keep their claim of assault or harassment secret.

And Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, who weaponised the treatment of women against the Morrison Government, allegedly declined to meet with the public servant and long-term Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) member and delegate.

More at the Link

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 3:40 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Usual Liars hypocrisy. Mean Girrrl Gallagher has no self awareness at all.

Foxbody
Foxbody
April 16, 2025 3:59 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Plenty of self awareness – and a f’n strong sense of self preservation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 3:43 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

All the usual Brittany Blob crew.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 3:44 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

The timing of historical sexual assault allegations makes you wonder …

alans
alans
April 16, 2025 8:06 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

We believe you, only if we can weaponise the allegations against the conservatives. Double standards me thinks, especially after the last effort by the Fab 3 from Labor during the Lehman imbroglio.

cohenite
April 16, 2025 4:25 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Hegseth is a line in the sand: if the demorat bastards get him they’re rooted; and so are we.

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 3:26 pm
cohenite
April 16, 2025 4:23 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Black boys are bad: too much testosterone and not enough grey matter and a tribal social context. They also hate whites. This murder should galvanise white society: they lost one of their best, killed by a typical black loser. But it won’t.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 8:13 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It’s about time some death sentences were handed out – under age or not.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 3:42 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Wussia, Wussia, Wussia?

Or Chinerr?

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 3:33 pm

Does the NSW Public Service still have “written” entrance exams ..?
Just had a coupla blokes at the door, wearing NSW “Houso” safety officer badges & couldn’t understand a word either was saying .. Ended up having them ring “Houso” so someone could explain what they wanted ..
Turns out they wanted to “check” the fire alarms .. Brought ’em in pointed out my two alarms .. they took a pix of each, gave me a thumbs up & that was that, they left ..
So 10 minutes to work out why they were here and 45 seconds to take the pix ….. Some , bloody, good “houso” jobs around, obviously .. beats being on the “rorters’ or the “dole” .. FFS!

Entropy
Entropy
April 16, 2025 3:49 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

I would have rung “houso” myself.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 4:24 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

What colour were they?

shatterzzz
April 16, 2025 8:00 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Both looked near 60, swarthy complexions, darkish skin could have been mid east, Paki or Indian not SE Asian …….

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 3:34 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

Yes. ABA’s USAID-funded Rule of Law programs to influence courts and judges around the world began in the CEELI Institute right after the Berlin Wall fell. It’s headquartered in Czech Republic, where Norm Eisen was Ambassador 2011-2014. In 2012, Norm Eisen gave remarks there.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 3:36 pm

LOL. Just got back from a few days in Canberra visiting family.

After the usual question about where we had been, the cabbie from the railway station to home offered a few robust unsolicited thoughts on Idiot Bowen, solar and wind power.

AnAl shouldn’t count on that cabbie’s vote.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 3:46 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Well done finding one who speaks English.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 4:44 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Very definitely an Ocker, and probably “Old Labor”, not new Liars.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 4:52 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Core 6PR demographic.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 6:09 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Uber driver I used in Canberra was from the subcontinent and full of praise for Australia as a country of opportunity. He drove for Uber in between shifts as a chef in an Indian restaurant and was saving for a deposit for a unit while living with his sister. He gave me some hope re the quality of some of our recent migrants at least.

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Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 3:39 pm
Helen
Helen
April 16, 2025 4:08 pm

Forced to watch Pravda last night being held hostage in a motel room with a dicky lock, I took some heartening messages on board.
Bandit is so sure the ALP will have to do a deal with him to be able to form government, he is in effect, campaigning for the LNP by laying down his demands, and aligning himself with the Teals.

Then the Ali party is also aligning with the Greens, in preference deals. Now they have joined up of their own volition, it should be so easy to pick them off with messaging –
Vote ALP and get PM Bandit and deputy Faruqui. High tax, super tax, no capital gains, no dividends, they want your hard earned savings to waste on their pipe dreams.

Especially with the expose of the SEC supposed charity which is really a Chinese funded front against the LNP.

Bluey
Bluey
April 16, 2025 4:18 pm
Reply to  Helen

I wouldn’t be so sure. Most of the people I deal with have effectively checked out of the election, regardless of how they’d normally vote.
A general malaise of not caring, because nothing changes. Absolutely nothing gets better. The solution is always some big announcement, import more people, and ignore Australians.

Hugh
Hugh
April 16, 2025 4:23 pm
Reply to  Bluey

Yep, that is pretty much my view.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 4:53 pm
Reply to  Bluey

Early voting and Covid changed everything.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 16, 2025 5:30 pm
Reply to  Bluey

you forgot ‘spend more’

cohenite
April 16, 2025 5:41 pm
Reply to  Bluey

People are fuking, lazy fools. But then I am in a bad mood.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 8:19 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Vote Green – Tough Love.

Helen
Helen
April 16, 2025 10:42 pm
Reply to  Bluey

I hope you are wrong Bluey and they wake up again before voting

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 4:15 pm

I had a thought…

If the trumpenreich is planning to hit Chinaaaahs energy dependency would they fill the gap with coal?

If so would that put Australian coal mobs on the front foot for earnings?
Or would the probable downturn in production and therefore energy demand cancel it out?

Which is a convoluted way of asking should I buy whitehaven coal shares now

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
April 16, 2025 4:34 pm

Well, I can not afford to buy any shares, BUT, if I had the ability, I would definitely buy any active coal producer as well as any gold producers…. but what would I know.

mem
mem
April 16, 2025 7:15 pm
Reply to  wivenhoe

First find and pay for your gold shares.

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 4:35 pm

This has to be a first.

British tennis player Harriet Dart shows remorse for complaining to the chair umpire mid-match, asking for her opponent to be forced to “wear deodorant because she smells really bad”.

Tom
Tom
April 16, 2025 4:39 pm

FMD. The Labor member for the suburban Darwin seat of Solomon is a climate zombie who’s pushing renewable energy to lower power bills – when they have increased by around 800% as a result of Labor’s devotion to the climate scam.

I’ve just watched the Sky News debate between the Labor hack, Luke Gosling, and his female CLP opponent, Lisa Bayliss, an ex-copper.

Being a climate zombie in the NT should mean Gosling has zero electoral credibility. In 2022, he needed Greenfilth preferences to get over the line against what seems to have been a weak CLP candidate.

A redistribution favours the CLP and, after the election of a new CLP government in the Territory, Lisa Bayliss has the wind at her back.

Look for Solomon to be one of the surprises on election night.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 4:56 pm
Reply to  Tom

Weren’t the Liars wiped out at State level? Might give both to the Lieborals if the swing is on.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 4:41 pm

The Greens.

Really, not totally at all completely barking mad.
Their candidate.

wibble, wibble.

https://greens.org.au/magazine/how-we-talk-about-colonisation-matters

or try this…
I can kiss my partner in public without being shamed because I am a cis female and he is a cis male (actually they both are, but I won’t dwell on my decision to live in ethical non-monogamy; polyamory is not what this article is about).


Over many years of being deeply involved in progressive politics, it has become increasingly apparent to me that this approach can only be sustained by people that live with a degree of privilege. For that reason, I am grateful that my parents struggled to make ends meet, and that their parents did before them. Because if we had been materially wealthy as well as being white, and in my generation’s case at least, English speaking, I might have been so sunk in privilege that I couldn’t tell my head from other parts of my anatomy.

…..

Universities caused this.
It takes severe education to have to pretend this sort of distilled effluence is rational.

Arky
April 16, 2025 4:59 pm

So we have gone from victim totem pole Olympics, to self- flagellation privilege Olympics?
“I’m so good because I recognise how privileged I am”?
It’s hard to predict where it goes from here.
I bet it isn’t “I’m so good because I’m a victim, but I forgive everyone and only want to be treated equally”.
Nah.

Jock
Jock
April 16, 2025 4:53 pm

Just drove south on Alford road in south of Sydney. And saw the allegra truck going the other way. Wondered what it was doing so far from its natural habitat near lots of inherited money!!

m0nty
April 16, 2025 4:55 pm

Trump now considering a farmer bailout.

Socialist pinko commie!

Arky
April 16, 2025 5:01 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Don’t get your udders in a twist.
Many other countries have extensive subsidies/ protections in place.
See if you can find three that don’t.

Jock
Jock
April 16, 2025 5:11 pm
Reply to  Arky

No. A commie would force farmers into a collective, force them to farm till they dropped then confiscate the food and let the farmers starve. Isn’t that what the commie heroes Mao, Stalin and Lenin did??

mareeS
mareeS
April 16, 2025 9:48 pm
Reply to  Jock

Uncle Ho, also.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 5:18 pm
Reply to  Arky

Australia?

Arky
April 16, 2025 5:21 pm

Nah.
All those non tariff barriers against fruit flies and insane cows or whatever.

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Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 5:10 pm
Reply to  m0nty

“Socialist pinko commies” don’t typically bail out farmers to destroy or hurt China. They, like Biden, usually just send hard US currency directly to the CCP while destroying farmers and other US industries. The $50Bn in farmer payments for the climate scam (to buy windmills/photo voltaic cells) is one such example under Biden. So too the $30Bn for farmers (to buy sh!tty Chinese equipment) under the Inflation Reduction Act! What a joke.

I’d be more than happy to temporarily prop up farmers whilst resetting the global trade and putting a lot of pressure on your main adversary.

But I guess you’re the resident expert on handouts.

Gabor
Gabor
April 16, 2025 5:17 pm
Reply to  m0nty

m0nty, I have French relatives who in some years make more profit by not producing anything on their land by leaving it fallow.
Not every year and it depends on the type of crop, but it happens, and it’s applicable to all EU member states.
You are leaving yourself wide open to criticism by going off half cocked.

(Gabor, AKA Gabriel )

Cassie of Sydney
April 16, 2025 5:21 pm
Reply to  m0nty

The Nazi’s here.

Lee
Lee
April 16, 2025 5:51 pm

And he’s got at least one, possibly two mates.

Edit: three now.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 7:01 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Commie doesn’t like kulaks.
Same old same old.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 5:02 pm

I see in the Official Guide to the election that, even though it is a half-Senate election, we must fill in 12 squares below the line, while only six must be filled in to vote above the line.

The ‘impartial” AEC trying to encourage above the line voting?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 5:10 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Not really.
If you vote above the line you will be, in effect, filling out 12 or more below the line boxes.
If there are two Family First candidates, two Libertarian candidates and you vote them 1 and 2 above the line, you have effectively cast four preferences.
If they had anything less than 10-12 below the line, votes for minors would exhaust pretty quickly and there would be hundreds of thousands of invalid Senate votes … resulting in an even more “unrepresentative swill” than we have now.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 16, 2025 5:47 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Fair enough, but my point was that extra effort is required to vote below the line, and not just in working out which individuals are worth a vote.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 6:23 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

That’s why it was changed. Some win, some lose. I think they were getting too many invalid Senate votes – which does not fill you with confidence about what’s on the other end of the pencil.

caveman
caveman
April 16, 2025 5:10 pm

Dont know if its been posted but worthwhile listening to Tucker interview with Alex Jones , Kurt Weldon those two interviews tie in togther in a way. And Anson Frericks. Try and ignore Tuckers laugh but their eye openers. I cant link cause i stuff it up.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  caveman

Can’t watch Tucker.

His own anti-Jew and anti-Churchill comments and commentators and “facts” fill me with rage (and he’s meant to be on “our side”).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 5:12 pm

m0nty

 April 16, 2025 4:55 pm

Trump now considering a farmer bailout.

Socialist pinko commie!

I really don’t care Margaret.
At least he’s not throwing billions at trannie musicals in Guatemala or gay comic-books in Senagal.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 5:17 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Well said.

Cassie of Sydney
April 16, 2025 5:16 pm

This has just been uploaded onto Youtube by Stand with Us….

Blind Spot – An Eye-Opening Film About Campus Antisemitism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtRX14gaac&t=3794s

I would urge everyone to watch it, it’s about 1.5 hours. The documentary deals with the explosion of Jew hatred on American campuses after October 7 however without a doubt the seeds were sewn over the course of decades. One of the groups responsible, Students for Justice in Palestine, has been active on American college campuses for decades and there is talk that some leaders of this pernicious organisation had prior knowledge of the planned attacks on October 7. The documentary is a little depressing at times however it’s heartening to hear that private colleges such as Fordham University in NYC, Notre Dame, Hillsdale and others have stood firm against the Jew hatred. A student tried to set up a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Fordham University, a private Catholic institution, and was refused permission. The student took legal action and the courts sided with Fordham. Good.

But this Jew hatred has now cascaded down into American schools, both government and private school.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 5:19 pm

Thanks Cassie; bookmarked for this evening’s viewing!!!

Lee
Lee
April 16, 2025 5:36 pm

A student tried to set up a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine …

“Justice” is the very last thing you’ll get under Hamas.

Someone should ask the brain-dead moron how many Jews live in Gaza (precisely none) compared with Arabs living in Israel (2.1 million).

cohenite
April 16, 2025 5:33 pm

What a wretched scam decarbonisation/net zero is; apart from global boiling being bullshite, this hypocrisy:

The Illusion of Domestic Emission ReductionsLet’s start with what the data shows. According to the Global Carbon Project, since the year 2000:

  • China’s emissions have soared by over 208%,
  • India’s by 155%,
  • While the U.S. has reduced emissions by 10% and Europe by 16%.

At first glance, that might look like climate progress. But it’s anything but.
Those reductions in the West haven’t occurred because of cleaner innovation alone, they’ve come because we outsourced our manufacturing and heavy industries. The steel, cement, aluminum, and petrochemicals we once produced domestically are now made in countries burning more coal, emitting more carbon, and bypassing the same environmental standards we impose on ourselves. In “The Green Revolution’s Dirty Secret”, I explored how this offshoring affects not just emissions, but also human rights, resource depletion, and geopolitical stability.
This isn’t decarbonization. It’s creative accounting. We didn’t reduce emissions… we outsourced them, then patted ourselves on the back.

Tax Day Truth Bomb: Where Your Climate Dollars Really Went

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 16, 2025 5:33 pm

ALP: Dutton is fearmongering over Russians seeking a presence in Indo – its inconceivable 9again)

Meanwhile in 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/30/australian-military-alert-russia-bombers-indonesia-exercises

An Australian air force base was put on alert while Russian strategic bombers conducted exercises in neutral waters off Indonesia, a move experts said showed Moscow was looking to extend its influence in the Pacific.

The base in Darwin was briefly put on a state of “increased readiness” in early December during the Russian exercises, which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence, involved two nuclear-capable Tu-95MS bombers and more than 100 personnel.
RT, the Kremlin-backed English-language news channel, reported the exercise was the first Russian air patrol in the Pacific launched from Indonesia.
One of Australia’s foremost national security experts, Peter Jennings of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said the exercises showed Russia was again extending its influence to the peripheries of the world. “It is a reminder Russia is here and wants to be a player in Pacific security and will use military force to demonstrate that,” he told the ABC.

The aircraft took off from Indonesia’s Biak airfield, on an island north of Papua, and stayed in the air for more than eight hours. The aircraft flew only above neutral waters, according to the Russian military.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2025 6:35 pm

The Russkis know SE Asia waters well. Remember the Camh Ranh base?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 5:40 pm

From the Oz.
Someone called Will Glasgow who claims to be a business j’ism and Norf Asia correspondent telling us how the Chunks will beat Orange Hitler’s tariffs:-

Will they diversify and find new markets, as Beijing has declared? Up to a point. They are searching for a partner in Vietnam.

Will they open a factory there? No, he answers, without even the slightest evasion. They intend to sell the Vietnamese partner the finished product, which will continue to be made in the same Chinese factory in Fujian province by its 600-odd workers.

“(The Vietnamese partner) then puts it in another container with a stamp that says, made in Vietnam,” he tells The Australian. Loads of firms are doing it, he adds, beaming.

Err, Will, mate.
Have you been paying attention?
This is one of the very reasons Orange Hitler put the boots into Canadia and Meckico. Allowing back-door Chink access to the US market via NAFTA.
This Chink manufacturer is buying into the myth that Tangerine Man is stupid and can be easily fooled (or the Chinks can bribe their way through as usual).
The minute there is a whiff of this trans-shipment charade, Vietnam will levied with the Chunk equivalent tariff on ALL goods (not just trans-shipped).
There will be no long drawn out WTO lawyer fest running for years with no real result (except to continue to enable the fraud).
Wham, Bam, thank you Ma’am.
Now, who would like to play Trans-Shipment Roulette next?

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 5:45 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Err, Will, mate.

Have you been paying attention?

Maybe he’s angling for a job at the ABC…

Lee
Lee
April 16, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Why do I get the feeling many pundits are fervently hoping China wins a trade war with the U.S. just because of Trump?

Of course, it would be different if it was a Democrat admin.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 6:19 pm
Reply to  Lee

Why do I get the feeling many pundits are fervently hoping China wins a trade war with the U.S. just because of Trump?

Because at heart they’re Commies.

But they see themselves as members of the nomenklatura, naturally.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
April 16, 2025 6:23 pm
Reply to  Lee

I get that feeling too- the muck spewed out by ‘Times radio’ really is obnoxious. Usually dons some of which are full on pommie commies.

Spiteful muck like this..
Tyler Cowen: Trump will leave in ‘an embarrassed, pathetic way’

wishful thinking but nasty nevertheless- brought to us by the Murdochs. Trump is really challenging their smellie little orthodoxies.

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Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2025 6:24 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

For this very reason, Trump needs to tariff the shit out of Unzud.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 5:50 pm

From the “West.”
Aaron Geoffrey May: FIFO worker loses job after Virgin bans him over drunken outburst at Perth Airport

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 5:58 pm

Nanny wants to step in thanks to these fools.

There’s been talk on theirABC about limiting drinks and time of drinks at airports.

Drinking is the secret to flying. There’s nothing more physically disgusting (but desperately needed) as a few pints at Perth Airport at 6am.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 6:37 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I’ll raise you Singapore Changi at 4am 😀

Gabor
Gabor
April 16, 2025 6:44 pm
Reply to  Lysander

For me it’s strong spirits or Serepax to get me to an airport, never mind the actual flying contraption.

Can’t get rid of this phobia despite numerous attempts by psycho analysts,. I think I am saner than they are by the way.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 6:33 pm

Suck eggs to the richard cranium.

I enjoy drinks when flying, behavour like this just makes it harder for us who can handle our grog to enjoy a few on a flight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 6:17 pm

From the “West.”

WA voters have returned an expanded crossbench in the new Upper House, with the Electoral Commission finally calculating the results from the March 8 poll.
Under the new Statewide system, One Nation secured two seats, and the final spot went to the Animal Justice Party’s Amanda Dorn.
As predicted, the Greens won four positions and the Nationals picked up two.
After holding a majority for the last four years, Labor was reduced to 16 seats, meaning it will need the support of up to four crossbenchers to pass laws.
The Liberals won 10 seats.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 6:29 pm

The Liars lose control of the Upper House after Sneakers did away with the regional and pastoral divisions, ostensibly in the name of one vote one value.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 7:13 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

The ironing,,,,the ironing!

Tom
Tom
April 16, 2025 6:24 pm

IMO, Australia is the laziest country on earth. And to be re-elected the political leader of the laziest country on earth, the Incredible Luigi may or may not have calculated his best chance is to schedule the election during a fortnight of public holidays when Australia celebrates Easter and, a few days later, the Anzac Day long weekend.

What a great time for an election – we’re all on holiday!

I hope Australians prove to us we’re not so dumb or so easily bought.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 6:43 pm
Reply to  Tom

I hope Australians prove to us we’re not so dumb or so easily bought.

The primary vote of the majors is in decline.

There is that.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 8:37 pm
Reply to  Roger

Of the UniParty the Liars have more to lose. Unions are virtually irrelevant in the private sector via membership, although they hang on via the Liars, legacy laws and institutions. As others have noted, Lieborals malaise largely self created. Although shows no sign of correction.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 16, 2025 6:26 pm

IMO, Australia is the laziest country on earth. 

check how many holidays they have in Sri Lanka

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 16, 2025 6:29 pm

2025 Srilanka Holidays15th January  Tamil Thai Pongal Day
11th January  Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day
9th February  Navam Full Moon Poya Day
14th February  Valentine’s Day
21st February  Mahasivarathri Day
4th February  National Day
9th March  Madin Full Moon Poya Day
10th March  Holi
20th March  March Equinox
12th April  Easter Sunday
14th April  Sinhala and Tamil New Year’s Day
13th April  Sinhala and Tamil New Year’s Eve
10th April  Good Friday
8th April  Bak Full Moon Poya Day
1st May  May Day
7th May  Vesak Full Moon Poya Day
8th May  Day after Vesak Full Moon Poya Day
10th May  Mother’s Day
24th May  Eid al-Fitr
21st June  Father’s Day
21st June  June Solstice
6th June  Poson Full Moon Poya Day
5th July  Esala Full Moon Poya Day
31st July  Eid al-Adha
3rd August  Raksha Bandhan
3rd August  Nikini Full Moon Poya Day
11th August  Janmashtami
22nd August  Ganesh Chaturthi
2nd September  Binara Full Moon Poya Day
22nd September  September Equinox
17th October  Navaratri
31st October  Adhi Vap Full Moon Poya Day
29th October  Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet’s Birthday)
25th October  Dussehra
2nd October  Vap Full Moon Poya Day
14th November  Deepavali
30th November  Il Full Moon Poya Day
21st December  December Solstice
24th December  Christmas Eve
25th December  Christmas Day
30th December  Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2025 6:30 pm

Interesting.

The Anna Hough story at 3:25 is now a non-starter on the Sky site….although the link somehow brings it up.

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 6:31 pm

Well, I’m off on leave Kittehs so you see you on the other side of Easter. As they say in the classics:

Christos Anesti

We got washing of feet Thursday night, Friday morning prayer, adoration of cross Friday evening, Saturday morning prayer and then we go all night (real Passover style*) from 11pm to 5am Sunday morning with a huge feast afterwards.

I intend to return fat, well suckled and content.

*no offence Cassie as its not a real Passover but was the way all Christians celebrated Easter until Constantine turned up and decided to join the crew…

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 6:48 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Er…other way ’round, Lys.

The Passover prefigured and anticipated Christ’s Paschal sacrifice.

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Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 7:18 pm
Reply to  Roger

And gentiles in the early church didn’t celebrate the seder.

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Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 7:32 pm
Reply to  Roger

I realise theee Roger. Just stating the point that it was originally an all nighter for Jews first, then Christians.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 7:35 pm
Reply to  Lysander

OK.

You had me worried there for a minute that the Christian observance of the seder practiced by some evangelicals had crept into the Catholic Church.

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Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 7:58 pm
Reply to  Roger

Totally.

And the evangelicals that do this don’t even recognise the true presence. Was watching Scott Hahn last night: A must watch for all evangelicals (just as sometimes you have to watch “the other side”)

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 16, 2025 6:37 pm

Earlier:

I’ve just watched the Sky News debate between the Labor hack, Luke Gosling, and his female CLP opponent, Lisa Bayliss, an ex-copper

I don’t know if Bayliss is a super-pollie in waiting or not, but she has the backing of the current NT CLP government which is riding high on locking up crooks left right and centre via changed bail laws (to the judiciary’s chagrin, I might add) and Jacinta Price as well.

Gosling has heavily relied on a few years in the military to gain and retain support in D-Town, which is a garrison town not unlike Townsville, but that’s it. Otherwise he’s another bog-standard Labor stooge.

Gosling is also known – in certain circles, and with what I am told is some level of justification – as ‘Nose Beers Luke’.

Miltonf
Miltonf
April 16, 2025 6:43 pm

had to look that up- a BA from UNSW too pfft

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Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2025 6:39 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
April 16, 2025 6:42 pm

Just being in the Army doesn’t make you a worthwhile person.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 8:34 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

No, not necessarily, but it does mean you’ve signed the Unlimited Liability clause.
And for that, respect is earned.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2025 6:42 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 8:37 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Meanwhile, the chinks are sniffing around, offering a lifetime ticket of Jack Daniels and Cheezels to the winners of the coding competition.

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 6:46 pm

The Libs are really pushing an ad on the radio that tells us how the Australian living standard is the worst performing in the Western world.

Are they getting feedback this could be hitting home?
Maybe this election isn’t over until the fat lady sings.

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Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2025 6:53 pm
Reply to  JC

They are the SFL’s. They ain’t that smart.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 6:59 pm
Reply to  JC

What they neglect to mention is the role of Scott and Josh (and Dutts, who was part of the Cabinet) in bringing us to this point.

The decline in productivity didn’t suddenly begin in May 2022.

Meantime they loaded the covid spend onto an already failing economy.

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JC
JC
April 16, 2025 7:14 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger

Things went downhill when Howard lost the election, and the Lying Slapper quickly introduced Fair Work.

The commodities boom essentially funneled a one-trillion-dollar jackpot through the economy. Any mistakes made by governments were masked by the boom, and no one seemed to care.

?State governments, such as Victoria’s, were also propped up by real estate revenue, which enabled massive infrastructure spending but was largely a payout to the CFMEU.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 7:16 pm
Reply to  JC

I don’t have the stats to hand JC but productivity really took a wrong turn around the time of Turnbull and it’s never recovered.

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JC
JC
April 16, 2025 7:23 pm
Reply to  Roger

(no) Work from home?

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 7:25 pm
Reply to  Roger

And yes, the commodity boom was mishandled.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  Roger

Oh Roger – you hit the jackpot! I have been saying this to people for ages & just get a blank stare!

Morrison misread the “pandemic” and destroyed the economy. Frydenberg, sadly, was a willing accomplice , borrowing and creating HUGE debt and ramping up immigration to “grow” the economy.

Labor is a nightmare, but the decline started under the Coalition.

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 7:04 pm

We keep reading about how vital rare earths are to the modern world and how they’re used in everything from smartphones to missiles.

I checked the total global demand, and it’s astonishingly small considering how important they are, at least for rare earths.

Posts on X suggest the entire world market for rare earth minerals is worth less than USD 7 billion annually, though this may reflect only specific segments or trade values.

But then you get to the broader category critical minerals and this is huge.

Broader Critical Minerals Market:

The market for critical minerals (including cobalt, lithium, nickel, copper, graphite, and rare earths) was estimated at USD 320 billion in 2022.

In the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Net Zero Emissions (NZE) Scenario, the combined market value of key energy transition minerals (copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and rare earth elements) is projected to more than double, reaching USD 770 billion by 2040

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2025 8:38 pm
Reply to  JC

Pardon my ignorance. What is the diff between rare and critical minerals?

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 9:55 pm
Reply to  Vicki

There’s an important distinction. Rare earths are minerals you’re never heard often with unpronounceable names. Critical minerals, you’ve heard of with easy sounding names.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 7:25 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

My solution: Bring back the Cajuns and chasser le castor. Then they can export fight’n music and real neat hats. lay-ZAY lay boh-TON roo-LAY as we say.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 16, 2025 7:15 pm

Trump now considering a farmer bailout.”

To be honest I do think it mightily unfair to apply sudden tariffs to agriculture. Using carrots as an example, how exactly can a grower stop them mid-growth, and then restart them ready for sale, at the drop of a hat? That can be done to a product assembly line, but not to asparagus, or milking cows.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  hzhousewife

Coles sells second grade carrots branded “I’m Perfect Quirky Carrots”. Cheaper than the usual carrots. Just fed half a large one to lady possum. She was very happy.

I like that the grower has found a market for the less than top grade carrots, which are perfectly yummy, and that Coles supports them by selling them, albeit at a lower price.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 17, 2025 7:16 am

Me too, buy them all the time, no difference in carrot quality. One can also buy ready to cook with egg liquid, made from little baby and the occasional giant egg, great use of product which doesn’t fir in the standard carton. I appreciate there is cold storage of bulk agricultural product, but I still think farmers should be afforded a bit of lead time re massive changes in the financial status of buying and selling.

bons
bons
April 16, 2025 7:25 pm

If Boris wants to operate out of Biak, encourage them.

Biak is the most unpleasant place on the planet. Unbelievably hot, with every bug known to man, disease ridden, plus, being uplifted coral throat infections from coral dust are constant.

They do do a good chili crab however.

Cassie of Sydney
April 16, 2025 7:29 pm

And in some good news from the UK (I know, it’s rare to read good news from this once sceptred isle)…..

Transgender women should not be legally defined as women, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Handing down the court’s judgment on whether sex-based protections should only apply to people who were born female, Lord Hodge said the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not acquired gender.

“The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex,” he told the court.

Amen.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2025 7:38 pm

Stand by for Labour to attempt to amend the Equality Act.

Megan
Megan
April 16, 2025 8:35 pm

Finally, truth and common-sense from a court. Unanimous! Take that men pretending they are women.

Now we need to get behind Kirralee Smith and Sall Grover here.

Not at all sure we will get the same result from our judicial system, thanks to the stupid Ranga In Charge (at the time) who could not define what an actual woman is.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 17, 2025 7:55 am

I think the idea of ‘acquired gender’ is the way to solve this issue.

No ‘acquired genders’ in women’s sports. They can still call themselves ‘women’ but we all know it’s a con, there are ‘biological women’ and ‘acquired gender women’.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 17, 2025 7:57 am

Keep ’em out of our toilets too.

If they’ve ‘acquired’ something they can use the disabled (now often labelled ‘unisex’), loos.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 7:35 pm

Lysander earlier …

Drinking is the secret to flying. There’s nothing more physically disgusting (but desperately needed) as a few pints at Perth Airport at 6am.

Two of us sitting in a packed cafe at Charles de Gaulle aerodrome at 9:00 a.m.
A bloke with a skinhead haircut toting a pint of beer approaches.
No spare seats so Mrs P motions him to sit at our table.
FMD.
He sits down and immediately gives me a lesson in judging books by their covers.
“Thank you ma’am, sir. I must apologise. I don’t normally drink alcohol in the morning. I am in the US Marines and have been on deployment for six months so I thought I might make an exception. I hope you don’t mind”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 7:50 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Charles De Gaulle airport was where some Mooslime started shouting the odds about why his wife was not removing her veil for a security check, and turned to find two airport cops, both carrying sub-machine guns, taking an interest in the proceedings…

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 8:33 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

My anecdote above was probably 15y ago now. I was in the small restaurant just through customs. 4am, waiting for connection, had jet lag and was like the marine, meh I’ll have a beer or two.

Small restaurant had a few Asian families in with small children. Like I do always I was quiet and had a few bottles of Tiger.

No filthy looks, no one actually cared and once the call to gate went I finished off. Contrast the same with a 7am beer in Sydney once that I had body being on a 7 hour time difference after clearing customs. I had multiple filthy looks. I ended up after boarding sleeping the whole 3 hours from SYD-TSV and the beers helped.

Suppose what I’m trying to say people in airports generally are having a good time heading holidays or have their circadian rhythm completely balls up. Alcohol is a relaxant.

Do concede the younger generation cant handle their grog more so than us of earlier generations. Add drugs to that mix which IMO is very under-reported in said incidents. Unfortunately again for those of us who never cause issues we will lose another privilege and I understand the risk management side of why that is so.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2025 8:35 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Lovely story, Sancho. I have an inferior tale to tell, but, for me, a strange experience. Was coming home from solo trip to Italy ( husband went on motorbike safari with mates) & young lass sitting next to me shared a drink or two. For some reason I brought out a bottle of Cognac I was taking home. We shared a glass or two. Husband was mightily annoyed by the reduced quantity that arrived home.

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Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2025 9:00 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Been there. Done (most of) that!

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Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 9:05 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I have never drank before or during flying. I enjoy the experience.

Only time I have was on a Jetstar sardine can to Darwin escaping Horrible Hunchback’s Covid tyranny (#neverforget). That was four cans of VB over a four hour flight; done so as it relieved me from wearing a mask.

Maybe if I did it frequently as part of employment etc like Rockdoctor then yeah, a different story.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 9:55 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Gawd hope I don’t sound like a groggo…

😀

Funny was going through the passports the other night to search for the current one. Photos certainly don’t get better…

Do have some interesting experiences where flight attendants have kept feeding me beer. Believe it on not Qantas 767 crew who knew me and China Airways.

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Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 10:08 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

All good. Enjoyed your whine at Brisbane Airport last weekend.

Entropy
Entropy
April 16, 2025 11:03 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Never ever fly Jetstar.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 7:47 pm

Leaders Debate on Their ABC soon at 8pm.
He is a loathsome, offensive brute, yet I can’t look away.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2025 8:02 pm

From the Oz.

Peter Dutton says a Coalition government would spend more than the Albanese government proposes on defence and national security and would provide the money earlier.
The Opposition Leader said Labor’s target of defence spending of 2.3 per cent of GDP in 10 years was “totally inadequate” and in any case Labor would not even achieve the 2.3 per cent aim.
“It’s certainly inadequate, and it’s not going to reach 2.3 per cent, they won’t achieve that figure. Let’s be very clear about it,” Mr Dutton said in an exclusive interview with The Australian.
“We will increase defence spending significantly,” he said.
Mr Dutton is expected to reveal the Coalition’s defence policy next week, ahead of Anzac Day, with an eye to cutting costs and leveraging industrial involvement in defence industries, particularly in the AUKUS nuclear subs program.
“We didn’t come to that agreement like a mendicant, cap in hand with nothing to offer,” he said.
“If Australia is a reliable and trusted partner and a partner with capability and a partner willing to contribute to the overall industrial output or defence capability of our respective partners, then the whole idea, in my mind, of AUKUS was that we would be adding to the output so that the drum beat could increase because of our partnership,” he said.

Arky
April 16, 2025 8:10 pm

Gold just popped through US $3300.
Hooray!

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 10:20 pm
Reply to  Arky

It just means the currency is continually depreciating.
It’s a frigging economic disaster hiding behind a ray of sunshine.

cohenite
April 16, 2025 8:10 pm

How sweet it would be if this ugly, fat arsed bitch gets her comeuppance:

Trump administration refers NY AG Tish James for prosecution

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 8:18 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Phrenology rarely disappoints.

damon
damon
April 16, 2025 8:27 pm
Reply to  cohenite

I read she had resigned?

Arky
April 16, 2025 8:14 pm

Gold up 30% for the year.
BTC down 18%

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 8:26 pm
Reply to  Arky

What is BTC?

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 8:34 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Bitcoin. Right. I don’t understand that.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2025 8:29 pm
Reply to  Arky

Explains why I have not heard from my Bitcoin devotee friend
for a while.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  Vicki

You never hear about the losers.

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 16, 2025 9:44 pm
Reply to  Vicki

I well remember when I gave my kids one each of a bitcoin and a gold coin. I remember it because the price of each was about 1600 AUD at the time.

Fast forward to now, the bitcoin is 132,000, and the gold coin 5000.

Zoom out and you can see which has been the better performer.

mareeS
mareeS
April 16, 2025 10:28 pm
Reply to  flyingduk

Latest from my son, who is savvy on these things, BTC is done, and Bitcoin Cash is next as the new international fiat currency.

Nothing like a day at the races, hey?

flyingduk
flyingduk
April 16, 2025 11:21 pm
Reply to  mareeS

Nothing like a day at the races, hey?

8 year winning streak in my case 😉

JC
JC
April 16, 2025 8:51 pm

Look who may have blinked.

Beijing would be open to trade talks if the Trump administration showed more respect, adopted a more consistent position, and chose a point person for discussions, according to a Bloomberg report that cited an unnamed person familiar with the Chinese government’s thinking.

lol, show more respect to a despicable regime.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2025 9:06 pm

The movie on SBS now: 6 Days. The religion is not really mentioned. But it was part of the Shia/Sunni conflict. Sunni Arabs wanted to separate from Iran.
Even when you ask A.I., it skates over the issue. No wonder no one in the West realises the hatred.
They hate each other far more that they hate the Jews. Jews and Christians can be a source of tax.
Apostates (kuffar), as they see each other, must be deaded. A simple fact you can find out from plenty of taxi drivers in Australia.
Therein lies the solution.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 9:17 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

ken oath. There is always a solution.

Research the Iran/Iraq war in the ’80s. That was big. Didn’t rate as much of a mention as it deserved.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2025 10:16 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Shows you how much people know. Ask them what the second biggest war fatalities-wise following WWII, and none of them have heard of the Congo. Iran/Iaq either.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 9:13 pm

Leaders Debate on Their ABC.
Infuriating.
They both dodge questions about their own plans and just attack each other.
Both housing plans would drive up prices, Albo may have more stimulus for supply, Dutton may stop more immigration pressure.
Neither honcho ever answered the question “when will power bills come down?”
Albo saying cliiimate chaaange causing more extreme weather events, Dutton saying we don’t know, nope, they’re both wrong, we do know that extreme weather events are not getting more frequent (e.g. global cyclones, USA weather).
Both planning deficit budgets, both morons committed to Nutty Zero By 2050, grrr!

Annoying that we’re having to vote for either of these parties.

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DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 16, 2025 9:34 pm

We don’t. We can write rude words or draw rude pictures on the ballot paper. It’s the only way of letting them know they all suck

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 9:51 pm

As time goes on, the more the Uniparty unifies. It’s like a mathematical certainty or constant.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 16, 2025 10:22 pm

I fear we have outlasted the world where political leaders’ words fired our hearts as much as our minds.

Such as:

”We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom.”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 16, 2025 9:15 pm

My daughter graduated today and we were given three seperate welcome to my world genuflections.
My wife commented on the very few men sitting on stage in the Uni academic assembly. Trite speeches about “disrupting” something or other. I had to laugh at these cookie cutter academics pretending to be innovators and leaders.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 9:37 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Congratulations to your daughter. I have already got a Peter Finch-Network rant organised for my daughters graduation.

The cookie cutter academics are what you get at the very tail end of a civilisation. The Chunks won’t have any use for them.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 16, 2025 9:21 pm

for Steve trickler

I raise your enola gray for Spandau ballet to cut a long story short

https://youtu.be/JE2sCISQmpE?si=o49zx9_ALUmERbb9

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2025 9:26 pm

JC

 April 16, 2025 8:51 pm

Look who may have blinked.

Beijing would be open to trade talks if the Trump administration showed more respect …

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
The truck-stop hooker who steals ciggies from the servo shop demands to be shown a little respeck!

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
April 16, 2025 10:17 pm

Just cracked a bottle of Laphroaigh Lore.
Tastes like it was filtered through an Arab labourers unwashed – for a month – grundies, then hung over a bonfire for two weeks – just for the final finishing taste.
Chucked the rest down the sink.
At least the muncher will be clean.

Zafiro
Zafiro
April 16, 2025 10:28 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

LOL. Yeah nah stick to the XXXX

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
April 16, 2025 10:54 pm

There’s only an hour left in this thread so nobody will read this, but…
Today I saw a Trumpet Of Patriots election ad on Youtube promoting a policy that is NOT on the https://trumpetofpatriots.org/policies/ web site.
IIRC, it said HECS debts would be forgiven/cancelled and tuition would be free.
Finding that one a bit hard to believe, especially how it would be paid for.

Arky
April 16, 2025 11:00 pm

If yer never elected, you can promise anything.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 10:59 pm

Louis Litt
 April 16, 2025 9:21 pm

for Steve trickler
I raise your enola gray for Spandau ballet to cut a long story short
https://youtu.be/JE2sCISQmpE?si=o49zx9_ALUmERbb9

Probably about 15 years since hearing that …a guess.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2025 11:08 pm

Look I don’t use derogatory female insults often but I’m struggling not to about Sam “glug glug” Maiden. You got gifted a sentence for drink driving with a BS excuse any pleb would be jealous of. IMO it would be, as what Flyingduks magistrate referred to as interesting or words that effect. (My memory fades there on his exact words)

Eat some humble pie and carry on a little chastened, LOL yeah na. Sam honestly get off your high horse you convicted drink driver before try to smear others!

https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/new-sharetrade-drama-ignites-for-peter-dutton-over-bhp-shares-selloff/news-story/cfa45437822163f4da7edd7a5e81edb3

You want to be a conduit for ALP leaks make sure your own house is in order before grandstanding others discussions…

Seriously you have no credibility.

End rant.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 11:11 pm

She’s a honey. Hat tip to the band.

Sade – Smooth Operator (Live 2011)

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2025 11:20 pm

We found Samantha Hopper and her 2 babies underwater in her car, solving a 23-year-old missing persons case in Russelville, Arkansas, bringing home a mother, daughter, sister, and friend.

Samantha Hopper (19), was 8-months pregnant when she and her 22-month-old daughter, Courtney Holt went missing on September 11, 1998.

Adventures With Purpose:

SOLVED: Missing 23-years Underwater (Samantha Hopper, 22-month-old Daughter Courtney, Unborn Baby)

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