I find it extraordinary that he should even have to do something like this. I would have thought it was…
Open Thread – Mon 14 April 2025
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #100
- Open Thread – Mon 14 April 2025
- Telco Derangement Syndrome
- Open Thread – Weekend 12 April 2025
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Trump Issues Holy Week Declaration on ‘the Living Son of God’, Plans White House Easter Service
And there it is. Your journey to the dark side is complete.
@RepBrandonGill Too many of our colleges are propaganda factories spewing anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian hate. Their multibillion dollar hedge…
We’re on the same path. @Rickster_75 This is bullsh!t. Minneapolis becomes the first city to let Muslim prayers to be…
In todays American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/don_t_trust_me_i_m_a_doctor.html
The Wall Street Journal, taking a break from criticizing President Trump over immigration and tariffs, noticed the declining trust in doctors. This past February, they published an article questioning, “Why we don’t trust doctors like we used to.”
They referenced a Gallup survey that stated, “Americans’ ratings of US professions stay historically low.”
In other words, it’s not only doctors who are held in low esteem but much of the administrative class as well.
Its the Fourth Turning – characterised by ‘widespread loss of trust in the institutions’. Neil Howe’s book is being increasingly quoted lately
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
@bennyjohnson
General Flynn Says Ukraine Was AWARE of The Assassination Attempt on Trump Ahead of Time, Calls on FBI Director Kash Patel To Investigate:
“Ukraine was a part of this. There’s another missile out there. Is the FBI going to take this shit seriously? Get in there and dig in.”
Do you remember last year, before the election, the reference practically every other day to WWIII? I do. That’s exactly what they want. Possibly the only thing holding them back is the US refusing to give the security guarantees demanded, which would inevitably drag them into the conflict.
@tpbreaking
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy claims that the war between Russia and his nation could “escalate into a World War.”
@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: The White House has started notifying Congress of a plan to eliminate all public broadcasting funding and codify foreign aid cuts identified by Elon Musk’s DOGE. Key proposed cuts include $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, and $8.3 billion from USAID – NYP
ABC anyone?
Nice to see the Drowning Centre serving up some dodgy impromptu street theatre, again.
@zerohedge
*KEYSTONE OPERATOR INITIATES PIPELINE RESTART MONDAY
@KatKanada_TM
Mark Carney fear mongers about the US:
“They want to break us so they can own us.
They want our resources. They want our water. They want our land & country.”
Mark Carney fear mongers about the US:
Oh, I thought it was just leftists accusing other of what they are really doing themselves again…..
Carney looks like a real nasty piece of work. Reminds me of Tony Blair.
A former SAS soldier, who was ducked down in tall grass metres behind Oliver Schulz as he allegedly committed a war crime, was unable to say if anyone in their troop answered Mr Schulz’s numerous calls asking whether he should shoot a local Afghan man.
The soldier, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was shown close to 10 minutes of footage from a helmet camera worn by the dog handler from their patrol.
The video, shown in the Downing Centre Local Court, was paused and slowed down at various moments so he could give his understanding of what unfolded on May 28, 2012, and decipher his own body language.
At one stage, Mr Schulz stands over local man Dad Mohammed, who he is now charged with murdering, having yelled out to his troop three variations of “do you want me to drop this c..t?” – ie, “do I shoot this person?”.
Mohammed had just “moved from the compound of interest”, the soldier told the court earlier, which is why it was “so pertinent” to intercept him. However, he couldn’t recall seeing that occur.
Knelt down in the grass behind Mr Schulz, the soldier turned his head and body towards another troop member 10m to 20m away and made a hand gesture or signal. He told the court he thought he was pointing over his shoulder to indicate “they were calling for him”.
The video showed that he then turned his head back towards Mr Schulz but he could not remember why. He said he didn’t remember “conveying anything” to Mr Schulz and had “no idea” if anyone responded to any of Ms Schulz’ calls.
Prosecutor Philip Strickland SC questioned in what circumstances a trooper would ask for permission to shoot someone.
“If they were uncertain (about) where we are in the ROE (rules of engagement) or escalation of force, they might seek some clarification,” he said.
Mr Schulz then allegedly shoots the man, who is laying in a wheat field, three times.
Mr Schulz, whose army colleagues have been called to give evidence as part of a committal hearing into his war crime murder charge over the past week, sat in the body of the courtroom.
He has not yet entered any pleas in the matter.
The soldier from Mr Schulz’ troop, who took the stand on Monday, was also asked to decipher a redacted letter to his girlfriend on May 29, 2012, which appeared to describe the events of the day before, and began: “Hello [name], how are you today?”
He wrote that he went to his room and as soon as he sat down, someone came in and told him they would receive orders in ten minutes.
The soldier, in his letter, described the orders and the scene on the ground, some of which was replaced with “asterisks” so that he didn’t disclose any sensitive information.
“(They) told us about a guy running towards us with a (redacted)… And we moved into position to cut him off.
“I was the first one to see him and [redacted], causing him to drop his (redacted).”
He described in the letter that they lost sight of the man because he was in tall grass.
“One of the guys had a [redacted] so let him go. And it charged in and (redacted).”
Mr Strickland suggested it could have said that “One of the guys had a ‘military working dog’”.
The letter continued: “A little disappointing though, because I can’t claim it as (redacted).”
Asked what the asterisks meant there, the soldier said he had “no idea”.
“Sure you’ve got no idea?” Mr Strickland asked. “Positive”.
The former soldier said it was an “embellishment of the day” because “it clearly isn’t how things happened” and agreed he was probably trying to impress his girlfriend.
“I clearly wasn’t the first person to see anyone,” he said, referring to an earlier portion of the letter.
The letter continued: “We then ran up everyone else in the area and started (redacted) to find out who they were.
“We brought (redacted) back,” with the soldier suggesting that probably referred to the number of detainees.
The matter returns on Wednesday.
So nice Mr Mohammed was running towards him with a redacted eh? Was that a redacted AK47 or a redacted suicide belt?
I wonder why we have recruitment difficulties.
Uncle/Brother/Farmer/Cuz/Neighbour/Son Mohammed reached for his mobile phone and started keying in numbers while he lay on the ground. I asked superiors what I should do.
Mohammed kept keying his phone as previous suicide bombers have done. I thought he had an explosive vest and was about to kill me and others around me.
Innocent. Costs awarded to Sgt O.
The poseur of Point Piper.
Malcolm TurnBullshit.
yet here she still is…..
I think “Chief Learning Officer” is code for Chief Indoctrination Officer.
@unlimited_ls
NEW: Ford exec goes on rant at elderly passenger for watching Fox News during flight
Ford executive Barrett Evans, the company’s Chief Learning Officer, posted a rant on social media
He described seeing an elderly man watching Fox News on a flight from San Diego
‘Deplaning and I notice he and his wife getting into their airport wheelchairs to be pushed to next gate. My filter was malfunctioning…’
“Love to see you supporting DEI.”
The elderly passenger replied:
“Not me”
Evans said:
‘”Yes – you.
‘That wheelchair, and the human pushing it, are provided at no direct cost to you – rather by a subsidized cost attributed to every passenger in this airport. Provided to level the playing field – for you.”‘
The entitlement of these *rseholes is out of control. He’s playing out a TikTok slaaaaay in real life, attacking people he sees as weaker than himself, in a setting wherein humble forbearance used to be the norm.
Or just plain old minding your own business.
Not only are their traditional voters decamping bit the Libs aren’t attracting new young voters.
Neither is Labor, for that matter.
Bribery is a poor substitute for engaging in a contest of ideas about how to secure a brighter future for coming generations.
The young are innately idealistic and are there to be won over if only someone would make the effort (and you’ll need more than a lame diss track!).
phht, forget reason, sense and and logic
Lib, Labor, Green, Teal …. they’re essentially just Political Pronouns
In Pissing On Graves news, Hun:
FMD
I regard the greens as the epitome of evil. Seeing them up close confirms this
FMD indeed. Word fail me.
I’m back from sunny Coffs Harbour where it rained every day.
So what’s happened?
The weather dear Winston, the weather.
As in – Events my dear boy, events – Harold Macmillan.
Back in 1984, in August, we were staying in Palm Cove. I have a photo of everything grey and wet, labelled ‘The Sunshine State in the Dry Season’!
I see Cranky has spent the time this morning to craft yet another interminable screed on domestic politics, but is yet to condemn the firebombing of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s house (likely by a crazed Trumpist) on the first night of Passover.
Monty, monty. You do realise the perp is on record as being anti-Trump don’t you? Do keep up.
Facts, schmacts, mUnturd don’t need your sleazy facts.
And don’t expect to hear any condemnation from the turd, should the arsonist ultimately be confirmed to be a leftard, just a swift disappearance for a while.
BoN, you wouldn’t be able to keep up if you stuffed your face with Krispy Kremes, morning till night. Fat Freaks are made, not born.
Very hard to keep up when you are dragging around a ton of fat.
I see that mUnty has again raised another illogical spectre
and (as usual) has failed to condemn Ghengis Khan’s murderous rampage
with critical thinking skills like that he could Prime Minister
And yes he’s one of yours.
Kanye rather famously is a rabid antisemite. And Balmer has a very weird beard.
Suspected arsonist Cody Balmer accused of firebombing Gov. Shapiro’s home pictured — as his disturbing online photos are revealed (14 Apr)
Kanye, you mean Trump’s old mate? Hmm.
Piss off, Nazi
He’s only recently outed himself as an antisemite. Don’t ever stop taking your manic-depression medications, it’s bad.
There’s something about antisemitism that rots the soul and shows the inner person. Which says a lot about the Left given the extreme antisemitism we’re now seeing on Australian streets every week.
But I am pleased that you obviously agree with me that Balmer is a far lefty.
Keep scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Yeah this Cody Balmer looks like a real hardcore MAGA incel.
Piss off, Nazi.
Yep he didn’t like Biden either. You do realise that the antisemitic far left have been protesting against both Biden and Trump? Even Albo gets this treatment.
I’m detecting a common thread in his motivation…
This would have to be the first and only time Monty has had a rant about someone attacking a Jew or Jews.
Phuck off dickhead.
Shapiro just gave $5m to a mosque. Jewish in name only
“Likely by a crazed Trumpist”?
More likely to be a Jesse Smollett operation.
Today’s Daily Tele:
‘ADOLESCENCE’ A REMINDER ABOUT DANGER OF ALGORITHMS
JULIE – INMAN-GRANT
15 Apr 2025
The much-watched Netflix drama Adolescence – which tells the disturbing story of a 13-year-old boy who is accused of murdering a female classmate – has ignited a worthy global conversation about the potentially destructive influence social media might be having on our kids.
From the dark forces social media platforms employ to keep kids connected and endlessly scrolling, to influencers who seek to capitalise on these opaque algorithms to manipulate young minds, it’s clear this is not a fair fight.
The harrowing storyline of Adolescence explores themes of toxic masculinity and the online “manosphere”. We know boys and young men are lured down rabbit holes of harmful content promoting (among other things) violence and crime, intolerance, hate, violent pornography, misogyny and even self-harm.
This form of digital conditioning may start with an initial interest in fitness or gaming, which then kicks off a destructive algorithmic amplification of the more extreme content. Influencers profit with more views, reinforcing the vicious monetisation cycle built into these lucrative systems.
As someone who lived and breathed Big Tech for more than two decades, before serving as Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, I can tell you that what you see in Adolescence is just the tip of the iceberg.
Beneath the surface, girls are also being targeted by algorithmic manipulation at the hands of social media platforms, drawing them into harmful spirals of toxic beauty ideals, disordered eating and suicidal ideation.
The recent media coverage of the proliferation of hashtag #SkinnyTok is a prime example. The “algorithm effect” keeps kids endlessly scrolling, and is quietly shaping what they see, believe, and even who they think they should be.
It’s time to retune algorithms for wellbeing, not watch time. Children’s adolescence is far too important to leave in the hands of machines optimised purely for engagement.
That’s why we’re urging tech companies to embed Safety by Design into their algorithmic recommender systems and through every stage of the AI development life cycle.
eSafety is gearing up to implement the Australian government’s Social Media Minimum Age legislation, which will require certain social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent young people having accounts until age 16.
This “delay” will give us vital time to protect the health and wellbeing of Australian teens, building their resilience to engage online safely. That also includes empowering and enabling parents to better engage in their children’s online lives.
Ultimately, the targeting of young people, whether by humans or machines, must stop. Transparency, accountability, and robust child protections need to be integrated into the digital environment by default, not as an afterthought.
Julie Inman-Grant is Australian eSafety Commissioner
FMD.
I will be interested in Letters to the Editor on the subject over the next few days.
STFU Julie Inman Goebbels. You need deporting, jailing or both. Miserable excuse for a human being.
Yip, tweenage toxic male falls under the spell of viral Knife Yer Classmate Challenge.
…Nicholas de Paulo has a fantastic bit about developing the second series of Adolescence. A gang of thirteen year-old white British girls get together… and r*pe innocent Pakistani men, whole families, uncles, brothers, cousins, workmates from the minicab depot… it’s just awful, and just so so true, those poor voteherds, those hideous natives.
So, instead of all of this happening to a fictional 13 year old boy it will soon happen to a fictional 16 year old boy.
Is this a fictional World or what?
Yep.
The programme was the signal for a new round of controls upon our speech, based on an entirely fictional premise.
Easy to “ deconstruct” this narrative, when all the right people are shouting the same conclusion we must draw from it.
As our left/media/arts coterie is so completely derivative, I am sure there is an Arts Council grant vacuum working on a “ real, authentic, haunting” local version as we speak – and the stabber won’t be a Sudanese with a machete, depend upon it.
Way back When,we, kidz wuz just kidz …… before “technology”
Oh for heavens sake, will somebody please relieve me of this obnoxious woman, and any and everyone who enabled her to be where she is.
To paraphrase the Critical Drinker: “Fvck off, it’s just a work of fiction!”
It enrages me that this horrible woman from the land of the First Amendment is censoring and lecturing us.
Gosh, she neglects to mention the harmful spiral of transgenderism which she so strongly spruiks for in her own axe wielding against those opposed to it in schoools.
How’s that energy transition going? “The government is facing fresh calls to take urgent action on Britain’s soaring industrial energy costs, as leading industry bodies warn that more manufacturers could face collapse unless electricity prices are brought in line with European” competitors.https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/labour-warned-more-industries-could-need-british-steel-style-rescue-amid-soaring-energy-costs/
Australia is next.
We’re leading the pack.
Yeah, we’re a superpower.
Yet another Brexit failure.
I blame Ghengis Khan
No, No, No, it was the Alamo
That would be the Labour government who is reversing Brexit.
Brexiteer fury as Labour set to do ‘terrible deal’ that will put EU judges back in control (14 Apr)
Do you ever get tired of being wrong Monty?
Nothing to with Brexit you idiot. Try Nut Zero/Net Zany and your fellow Climate Alarmists.
Yes, because the Kraut example of an energy system is soooo compelling.
Shit for brains.
China’s plan!
Oh look, our rabid Nazi appears.
Please note that not once since October 7 2023 has our rabid Nazi condemned the events of that day, not once has he come here and condemned the rampant Jew hatred in this country, the graffiti, the arson, the weekly Jew hating fests. Does anyone recall him ever condemning the firebombing of the Addas Synagogue in his home town? NO, I don’t recall Nazi boy ever writing any condemnation of that attack.
Methinks our rabid and very putrid Nazi is a stinking hypocrite.
Waiting to see if the weekly pro-Pally rally get a permit for their four hour hate fest in the Melbourne CBD for Easter Sunday. No doubt they will be obliged by our pathetic city council.
So the answer as to whether you would condemn a firebombing attack on the home of a leftist Jewish leader on Passover while he and his family sleep inside… is no.
So you condemn an antisemitic far lefty firebombing a Jewish family’s home? That’s an improvement. Did you condemn the firebombing of the synagogue in Sydney? Forgive me if my memory is faulty.
mUnty’s premise I suppose, is that the zionists don’t condemn properly enough
he’s onto the struggle session thing
except that most of the struggle is between both his synapses
IMOH, Monty does not have the mental ability to form an opinion of his own.
mUnty’s main message
… er you lot, somebody told me to tell you that you’re nazis
Pity he has no neurones to go with them.
Piss off, rabid Nazi.
Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025
Should be read by all!
Whoever wrote it did a fantastic job.
Huh? Whoever? Clue is in the first line, “Melania and I”… the husband of Melania Trump, bloke called Donald.
There are people in the White House whose job it is to write or at least check all messages going out from there.
Comment caught in moderation hell…
Rather serious topic if you have kids on long term ADD medication.
Paul Murray has pointed out the soft questioning of Albo – today I heard a beauty: “Which world leader will you meet first”.
Laura Jayes (eye candy for older men) back in the studio followed up with the other favoured gambit: “Donald Trump looms large over this election and it favours Labor.”
Trump has created uncertainty in the world and such uncertainty usually favours an incumbent in any national election rather than an opposition proposing a change. See, for example, the way polling in Canada has reversed since January, with the Conservatives now trailing the Liberals who were all but written off.
That’s not a value judgment on Trump’s policies on my part, but an observation that I think generally rings true.
The media has, of course, been highly irresponsible in stoking the fear with their often hysterical analysis.
She’s not wrong. Trump is delivering government back to the leftist Liberals in Canada. To the extent that he is a factor in Australia – which is not nearly as much – it would favour Albo.
The media has, of course, been highly irresponsible in stoking the fear with their often hysterical analysis.
Wot’ analysis? Hysterical mumbo jumbo, yes.
Quite…Alan Kohler has labelled Trump a dictator in the making.
Based on his record so far:
*worst*dictator*ever*
I suspect Montz is correct here.
The Media looms large over this election, and it favours Labor.
No one wants to buy a second hand EV.
Car Leasing Association Wants Govt Support As EV Second Hand Prices Plummet! (14 Apr)
Give us munni! This is wonderful karma since the leasing companies buy over 80% of EVs to meet their climate virtueness virtue. But the punters mostly rent EVs only if there’s nothing else on the lot. So they’ve been trying to offload these stupid vehicles…and no one wants to buy them. Haha.
That isn’t rentals, it’s leasing as opposed to buying. Here, because of government fbt exemptions and the like, a Tesla 3 is the same lease cost as a half the price Mazda 3.
not sure if that still saves the lease company in the end though as the residual might not cover the cost of the sale at auction. I expect most EV buyers rather than buy out the residualwill just hand them back and pick up a new one.
Playing around with residuals is a great way to grow market share (and go broke) as a finance company. Suspect they’re just another group who have bought the hype.
To quote the great Nelson Muntz … “Har Ha”.
What did they expect when the cost to replace the battery can be more than the car is worth?
Don’t think they thought it through that far.
You went too far, should have stopped after thought.
I’m thinking rather than kms bring a measure of a second hand car, for EVs it should be capacity . >95% good, >90% ok for a price, <85% no way José.
after 5 years an EV is a essentially write-off
… another example of needing 2x the “ruinable” infrastructure to the same job as anything normal
Ill post again without a trigger word.
People should be able to work out the obvious problems with dosing 1/4 of boys with this medication..
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4215747/
Methylphenidate is a commonly prescribed treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, little is known about its adverse effects on the male reproductive system. We report a 20-year-old male patient whose chief complaint was of delayed puberty. He spoke in a high-pitched voice and complained of lack of body hair, impaired libido, inadequate erectile function, chronic fatigue, and low energy. He had been treated with methylphenidate as an infant and had continued treatment for 17 years. On examination, the patient was lean and visibly lacked facial or body hair. He further explained that he had never been able to grow underarm or facial hair and that he was often mistakenly considered a young teenager rather than a 20-year-old. The patient’s genitalia were categorized as Tanner Stage 2. Laboratory studies confirmed low serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), and testosterone levels. The patient was given exogenous testosterone supplementation with pellets and human chorionic gonadotropin to maintain testicular size. After 4 months his symptoms improved and he demonstrated signs of puberty. Our goal is to further elucidate the possible impact of methylphenidate on the male reproductive system.
Going as planned I’d say. Remove the Hi-T boys who demonstrate “problematic” (i.e. non-feminine) behaviours, and turn them into emasculated, soy-munching, incel Green voters.
Look at the outcome, not the stated purpose, and you will find truth.
used to be problematic … now called toxic
That’t the word!
Adjectives for that type of boy/youth 50 years ago –
Sporty
Boisterous
Outdoorsy
Rough
Manly
Energetic
Physical
Adjectives for the same boys today –
Toxic
Toxic
Toxic
Toxic
Toxic
Toxic- oh, and
Toxic
Doverlord could you please release the comment, unsure what it dislikes in them..
Found it in the spam bin.
Thanks.
The story here.
Written by “Zeyi Yang”?
Thinly disguised pro-Chlnk propaganda.
Wired is owned by Condé Nast.
Jeff Bezos yesterday launched 6 ladies into space (briefly) aboard his penis rocket. Including Katy Perry.
Good on them! It would’ve been a wild ride, and the footage is excellent. And no space launch is safe, so they were taking a not-insignificant risk.
I keep an eye on Blue Origin’s X feed. The thump when the capsule hit the ground would’ve been ouchy. Lots of dust thrown up!
https://x.com/blueorigin
Free tickets for The Squad?
The press is jubilant about the “first all-female space crew since 1963”.
They were passengers, for heaven’s sake.
But Bezo doesnt go into space, he just goes into a space. Big difference between him and Musk.
The two stage New Glenn booster is a serious rocket, and intended to be reusable. Admittedly Bezos is a decade behind Elon but the intention is good.
The penis rocket has taught them a lot about reliable landings. And making some money from rich passengers is a useful thing.
Heh.
Jeff Bezos eats dirt in embarrassing face-plant after all-female celeb space mission (15 Apr)
Good on him for meeting the feminauts upon their re-entry and landing. But watch where you put your feet next time Jeff.
Brainless bimbos in space.
They use small retrorockets in the last meter or so like the Russians pioneered. They cause the dust.
ladies in space heh?
their natural inclination is toward directing traffic
from the passenger seat whilst I’m trying to locate a car-park
lolly-pop traffic controllers
the asteroid will be directed to miss
Touching that our Nazi is so concerned about the firebombing of Governor Shapiro’s home, it’s just that I fail to recall our Nazi expressing any similar concern and outrage when a rabbi’s home was firebombed last December in St Kilda and I fail to recall any similar concern and outrage when Josh Burns’ electoral office was set alight. Perhaps I missed his condemnation? I think not….because here’s the plain truth, our Nazi’s outrage is always selective when it comes to political violence.
GDP growth in the US is around the 2.8% mark in the latest data iirc. And CPI came in at -0.1% in March.
All it takes is one presser.
Ditch Net-Zero, ditch ruinables, keep coal plants functioning and start on a Nuclear Plant.
Conniptions from the legacy media…good
Will Dutton do it? No, he’s f*cking useless.
No, not the Chynese, they would never! sarc/
“Royal Navy ready to escort crucial fuel shipments to Scunthorpe steelworks amid ‘sabotage’ threatsThe move would ensure a ‘cargo of coking coal’ reaches the UK without being intercepted or redirected
Ministers are considering deploying the Royal Navy to escort a vital fuel shipment to Scunthorpe’s steelworks following yesterday’s landmark takeover.
The move would ensure what’s said to be a cargo of coking coal reaches the UK without being intercepted or redirected – as without fresh supplies, the furnaces would burn out and be nearly impossible to restart.
The Ministry of Defence said no decision had yet been taken on the Navy’s involvement – nor have Ministers filed a formal request.
But it comes as a separate shipment of coking coal is currently sitting at Immingham port on the Humber Estuary, with no sign of unloading.
The Times reports that British Steel owners Jingye attempted to sell the shipment to an unnamed Chinese firm, which would have starved the Scunthorpe works of crucial fuel.
The Government was then forced to intervene, with police securing the shipment.
That came as MPs and peers were recalled to Parliament for a rare Saturday sitting – the first since the Queen’s death in 2022 – and pushed the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill through both Houses in a matter of hours.
The emergency legislation empowers Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds to direct British Steel’s board and staff, and allows him to enter company premises “using force if necessary”.
The Government was forced to act after negotiations with Jingye broke down – with Reynolds telling Parliament that the firm had demanded “hundreds of millions of pounds” beyond the Government’s offer.
The company also refused to accept conditions preventing fund transfers to China or ensuring blast furnaces were maintained.
Reynolds said it became clear Jingye intended to cancel orders for raw materials and would have “irrevocably and unilaterally closed down” Scunthorpe without intervention.
A delegation of “six to eight” Jingye executives gained access despite having their security passes revoked before barricading themselves in a room.”
Can’t wait to hear American farmers view on this matter
Send Ambassador Rudd round to smooth things over
Haw!
Dont worry, the Albotross will ban beef exports to save the planet anyway.
(live trade first)
Im going to be eating a *lot* of skippy if they try that – abundant resource here in Western Vic
Imagine how much fun skippy mustering would be
Given the Chinese were banning everything from wine to lobsters last year, if I was an Aussie beef producer I wouldn’t be embracing this new-found love of all things Australian with a great deal of long term confidence.
And yet our trade surplus survived.
Well yes. They want our iron ore and our coal.
Lobsters are not so essential.
Their export licenses expired in March after China failed to renew them, giving no reasons, thereby breaking a trade agreement.
Pork and poultry were extended but not beef.
That Australia would benefit from the supply gap was already anticipated by local producers before Trump’s tariffs were announced.
Looks like the Chinese government believed the Donald when he promised large scale tariff hikes on Chinese imports during his election campaign.
Or some other shenanigans were afoot.
But it’s nice to know they no longer blame our beef for covid.
How does that change the equation for demand and supply between the three countries, Dover Jing?
Before the tariffs, the estimate was US buying around $3 billion of beef from Australia. Now China will be buying the same amount from Australia, therefore leaving that same amount to be produced and consumed by the domestic US market. It just appears to be mostly a customer swap causing no supply/demand imbalance. Don’t get giddy.
Moreover, it’s the Chinese who’ve been fcked over by their own tariffs on US beef. They’ve artificially limited their supply allowing other producers to raise prices against them.
What, Australian beef to US went from 3B to zero?
Yeah, and how does that change to equation for the three players?
Also if you weren’t so enamoured with the Chinese communist party you’d be aghast at this deal. It makes your country even more glued to the CCP and secondly but less importantly it may piss off our ally.
All Australia had to do is wait for another less despicable customer(s) to come along as global demand and supply wouldn’t change. There would be a customer swap.
I can’t find any evidence Australian beef is no longer exported to US. So this is a win for Australian producers and a loss for US beef producers as they’ll get less domestically.
Geopolitically, we have to play it carefully with both sides rather than just reflexively siding with US.
Beef is as close to a perfect market as you can get, with average exporter margins ranging from 5% to 20%. In other words, the 10% tariff essentially destroys the U.S. market for Australian exports.
Geopolitically, we must be cautious to avoid getting into bed with a thoroughly corrupt regime. Caution means not putting all our eggs in one big CCP basket, as nothing good will ever come of it.
Our trade surplus with this regime is so lopsided it’s actually alarming
We need to be hit again with that clue bat it seems.
The two stage New Glenn booster is a serious rocket, and intended to be reusable. Admittedly Bezos is a decade behind Elon but the intention is good.
The penis rocket has taught them a lot about reliable landings. And making some money from rich passengers is a useful thing.
I think New Glenn has some serious problems to do with the BE-4 engines. I don’t think they were running full thrust as it took one minute to get to 10,000 feet. Falcons and Starships get to 30,000 feet in the same time. Huge gravity losses for New Glenn.
Got into orbit but.
That is no mean achievement.
My wife achieved that the other night when I got out the Mt Difficulty Pinot Noir to have with the Monkfish.
Fred Flintstone?
Just had a wander around the back streets of Hawthorn East with me dawg.
A lot more Amelia Hamer posters on fences than those for that slag Ryan.
One huge fucker and one that also had the “Monique Please Do Not Take This Sign” poster. Mr Ryan hasn’t had a root since he was caught.
Had a two of her supporters doorknock a few weeks ago – dog went berserk (as little feisty ones do). Missus told them to fuck off – “….even the dog hates her”.
Only two and a bit weeks to go thank fuck.
Maybe we need to take a lesson from the left.
Free Speech! Ho! Ho! Inman Goebbles has to go!
For once I agree with Sheridan in the Oz.online.
Headline: “Is this our worst-ever election campaign?”
This is a government that plainly deserves to lose against an opposition that plainly doesn’t deserve to win. Here are two once proud teams playing the worst game ever seen to decide the wooden spoon.
It’s the Australian Public that will get the wooden spoon. Good and hard across the backside.
Across, you say?
Well, better than if applied using a Greens technique, I guess.
Looks like I might have used the firetruck word too many times in my post about my dawg walk in East Hawthorn.
awaiting approval
Odd thing; I am looking at your post, complete with the dreaded firetrucks, marked “Awaiting for approval“.
You used it too many times for my liking…quite unnecessary.
Imam-Grunt said:
Therefore these apps have the ability to “shape” what you see, believe, and who you think you should be. Imam-Grunt wants Big Gov to be the ultimate author of the algorithm’s policy parameters. With the stroke of a pen in Canberra and few taps at the keyboard in California these parameters and who they target can be changed instantly. Is there any reason to believe that Big Gov wouldn’t use this capability on everybody, not just young people?
It’s exercising editorial control over all social media content in a similar way that the MSM does with news and entertainment. This is just the sort of technical capability a Big Gov keen on “nudging” would build, not to mention the possibility of censorship.
Yes I’m making a slippery slope argument because this does sound like an enabling step in building a CCP-style Harmonious Society.
That’s ambiguous. Having the “shaping” apply to all users would also be one way in which young people are not targeted specifically.
Canadians are weird.
‘NOT PERMITTED’: Canada demands Vegemite be destroyed (News.com.au mainpage headline, 15 Apr)
Also an election-winnah in Australia:
True Blue.
At least he’s correct about one thing: Marmite is shite.
Promite is better than both.
Incredibly disappointing.
Sweet and slimy, Promite brings sadness and disharmony to the breakfast table. It contains so little health-giving salt it has to be refrigerated.
The sugar preserves it. 🙂
Hairy has Vegemite, and I am a Promite girl.
We rub along alright together though.
Totally agree. Promite is very yummy. Sticky, like honey.
It does have quite a lot of sugar in it to make it so. 🙂
Nothing wrong with Marmite at all.
It puts a rose in every cheek
Oh, to be in a Greens strategy meeting. The Daily Tele:
The Greens will stage a rave dance party fundraiser with requests for donations of up to $1000 on Anzac Day, in a move slammed as “one of the worst judgments” seen in modern Australian politics.
In the same article – Opinion Poll:
Is it appropriate for the Greens to hold a fundraiser rave on Anzac Day?
Yes – it’s a day that celebrates our freedoms 5 %
No – Anzac Day is about reflecting on sacrifice 95 %
783 votes
Dog turd on the shoe strategy. It looks like the Greens are content with 12%-13% of the inner-urban first preference vote, a small handful of MHR’s, and nuisance control of the Senate.
I expect the Greens kept a close eye on the Australian Democrats trajectory after cooperating with the Howard government on the GST. Better to be the dog chasing the car than the one who actually catches it.
Sacrifice is something the left never do themselves. Others yes, themselves no.
Any stock holding Cats have a view on the “RioUnification” imbroglio?
I’ve now received emails from both sides of the fence.
For what it is worth, I followed the recommendations of the Board.
Thanks Mak, I’m tempted to do the same.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Google announces new AI aimed at communicating with dolphins (15 Apr)
I, for one, welcome our new dolphin masters. And the white mice. I have a towel ready.
(Towel Day is celebrated on 25 May.)
“Humans always thought they were more intelligent than dolphins because they had invented so such – fire, the wheel, war. While all dolphins did was muck about in the water having a good time.
Dolphins, on the other hand, always thought they were more intelligent than humans – for precisely the same reason.”
Don’t get Arky going on dolphins.
Apple Warns China Tariffs Could Negatively Impact Child Slave Employment Opportunities
All restaurants are Taco Bell!
Australian Taco Bell operator Collins Foods to close or sell all local stores as it struggles against Guzman Y Gomez (Sky News, 15 Apr)
If they ever remake Demolition Man it’ll have to be “all restaurants are Guzman Y Gomez”.
Taco Bell was in the ‘ville. At the Lakes near the big McDonalds. Closed up recently.
Guzman Y Gomez, never set foot in one. Know they have also closed stores up this way as well.
Maybe we Mex’ed out?
Guzman Y Gomez was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars.
that movie was unintentionally prophetic in many things. Even Stallone and Snipes didn’t figure teh gags would actually come true.
That said, I not convinced about the three shells though.
enhance your calm people
GyG make an excellent spicy chicken nachos and a very decent breakfast burrito
Royal Navy ready to escort crucial fuel shipments to Scunthorpe steelworks amid ‘sabotage’ threats
This is what happens when countries refuse to use their own resources because ‘climate change’. Absolutely ridiculous.
Apparently Chinese coking coal burns in a more climate preserving method than British coal. So it must be brought 10,000 miles on a fossil fuel burning ship and bought at a premium from them.
Heh, Zatara. I saw your moderated comment (which happens some times).
I suspect you got moderated because of the name of that place: Sc*nthorpe.
Got that happen to me a few times on Doomlord’s Cat.
Thanks BoN. I was wondering about that.
Please come down for the Marcus Enfield award with special mention for whingeing entitled moaning:
Solicitor Mitchell Fuller who was sacked for calling in sick to go to the footy slams stigma around ‘mental health days’
A Melbourne solicitor sacked after calling in sick to go to the footy says he was burnt-out and under pressure — as he hit out at the workplace stigma around mental health.
Mitchell Fuller, a commercial lawyer, flew to Adelaide for last year’s AFL Gather Round, where he enjoyed a long weekend at the beach, pub and games with friends.
He took two days of sick leave — but was fired four months later by Madison Branson Lawyers after the firm discovered Instagram posts from his trip.
Mr Fuller’s sacking made headlines last week after the Fair Work Commission dismissed his unfair dismissal claim and found he had lied to his employer and provided no evidence beyond his own word that he was sick.
On Monday, the young lawyer — who is a former Victorian Greens candidate — broke his silence, telling the Herald Sun he was suffering burnout but felt pressured to keep turning up to work.
Madison Branson Lawyers managing director Simon Tsapepas declined to comment because cost proceedings were still on foot but pointed to the FWC judgement which found in his firm’s favour.
Mr Fuller said the suburban legal practice had a small number of staff but the “turnover was relentless”.
“Most new employees were gone within months. By six months in, I was already the longest-serving staff member,” he said.
Although he was still required to attend the office five days a week, he claimed he was no longer being assigned files or receiving one-on-one meetings with his supervisor.
Some days he said he was barely acknowledged.
Around the same time, Mr Fuller said he was unable to access his prescribed ADHD medication — which was essential to managing the demands of his work — due to a national shortage.
“My thoughts scattered, anxiety surged, and my mind felt like a broken radio constantly flicking between channels,” he said.
“I could barely hold a conversation, let alone focus on legal drafting. The existing situation in the office became almost unbearable. I was burning out on fast-forward.”
When his friends suggested he join them at the AFL’s Gather Round in Adelaide, he initially declined — but ultimately decided he needed the break.
“I realised I desperately needed a circuit breaker with close friends that care about me. I had plenty of personal leave, and I decided to take the Friday off,” he said.
Looking back, Mr Fuller said he should have taken the whole week off and seen a psychologist but like many young professionals he felt he needed to keep working.
When asked to account for his leave, he said he submitted a statutory declaration saying he was unwell, without going into detail.
“I didn’t go into detail about my mental state — for obvious reasons — but I believed I was within my rights to keep it general,” he said.
Mr Fuller also took the Monday off, providing a medical certificate from an online provider that stated he was too unwell to attend work.
“The weekend helped. I returned clearer, calmer, and more productive than I’d been in ages,” he said.
Three months later, Mr Fuller was told to attend a disciplinary meeting.
He said he was given a letter which listed a number of allegations, most of which he believed were minor, including one about violating a dress code.
Mr Fuller said he asked to reschedule the meeting so a support person from the Australian Services Union could attend.
Hours before the meeting, Mr Fuller said he received an email listing further allegations including that he was not sick when he took leave in April.
“I was baffled. My understanding was that personal leave was available when you’re unfit for work due to illness or injury. I didn’t realise you had to be coughing and spluttering to qualify,” he said.
According to Mr Fuller, the meeting ran out of time before the leave allegations were addressed.
He claimed he was never given a chance to formally respond before, days later, he received a termination letter accused of making a false statutory declaration and falsifying leave requests.
“There was no face-to-face discussion. No notice period. Just an abrupt end,” he said.
Feeling he had nothing to lose, he filed an unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Commission where he represented himself and faced a lengthy cross-examination.
Last week, FWC Deputy President Andrew Bell dismissed the claim, finding Mr Fuller had not only lied to his employer, but he had given false evidence to the Commission.
“The most generous conclusion that could be made is that Mr Fuller was simply indifferent to the accuracy of his witness statement to the point of falsity,” he said in his damning ruling.
“Either way, it is conduct no witness should engage in; for a practising solicitor giving evidence about a critical event, it is inexcusable.”
Mr Fuller said he respected the FWC decision but his experience exposed deeper flaws in how Australian workplaces — and workplace laws — respond to mental health.
Mr Fuller, who has ADHD, said it was unrealistic to expect people under pressure, especially those managing neurodivergent conditions, to document every symptom or access professional help immediately.
“If you’re neurodivergent, under pressure, and trying to manage a health condition without support, how likely are you to document every detail yourself, or get yourself into a psychologist’s office that very week?” he said.
“We need a better system that supports workers before they burn out, not one that punishes them after.
“As a society at large, we need to quit snickering at the idea of “mental health days” and start writing them explicitly into our workplace laws.
“Employees shouldn’t have to over-explain, self-diagnose, or conjure up evidence to justify the simple act of looking after themselves. It’s completely absurd.”
Incredible. He has a law degree but he doesn’t know how serious lying on a stat dec is!
Herald-Sun
So, just a bog standard, arrogant, lying, corrupt Green?
Zactly, no hint of contrition.
Makes me think there was a truckload more to this than chucking a sickie to go to the footy.
Sounds like there’s more to this than we are being told. I wonder if there was a history of these behaviours or if he was informally chatted too with the proviso if admitted it would be noted but with a formal apology it wouldn’t go further.
I had one where I blew 0.02 morning after, wasn’t drilling that day in the office but I was put in the crib room for half an hour and reblew at 0.00. The client was cool, both my supervisor and field manager, look we’ve all done it just don’t let it happen again then there will be problems. My consultancy went nuts, I had to write a formal apology to the directors and fill out a near miss incident form. I was pretty careful after with alcohol, went on to work another 18m with that client and 8 years with the consultancy. Good reports after. Just be humble and contrite.
Where I suspect the issue lies with Mitchell is he wasn’t gelling with the company. I was pretty astute with the 2 contracts I left before being cut. I knew manager and I were never going to make amends. Being a contractor you submit a resignation, my reason in both was that I think it is time for me to move on… thank you for the opportunity yadda yadda yadda.
The second time I knew I was training my replacement and he thought it eff’ed the way I was being treated. I told him mate it’s life, know when your times up and leave cordially.
I’ve been sacked a few times, never for not doing my job or doing something wrong but for expecting otgers to do their job or complaining they’d done the wrong thing.
Not only lies but has a fool for a client and doesn’t know the law. Sounds about right for a greenie.
so, he wants ‘work from home’ but ‘sick from the Adelaide Oval’ … sounds very millenial
We have one .. it’s called “dole” … LOL!
“We need a better system that supports workers before they burn out, not one that punishes them after”
Here’s a bloke who might clearly benefit from being a factory worker, with fixed on/off times, lunch breaks and no responsibility to think at all beyond doing the exact movements required in his role.
We have done a great disservice to many people who need constant direction by sending them off to university where they may get an education but seem unable to use it.
A suitable case for institutionalisation
Jail or the military, but being a greenie, the military is out so I reckon in the not too distant future, jail .. in days gone by, he would have been in the mental health stream, where I suspect he probably belongs
Poor bugger .. can’t see his life going well
What do I know though ..
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Lucy spacecraft prepares for second asteroid encounter (Phys.org, 14 Apr)
Always interesting to get a closeup of these beasties. So far we’ve seen an amazing bunch of strange asteroidal critters. The solar system is an interesting place. What is the rest of the galaxy like?
Planet Mars NEW Footage: Curiosity Rover
Wow and the Rover picked up the music on Mars! Boy was I wrong. I thought the background music would be AC/DC or JImmi screaming, but it is some hippy trance drivel.
Mars elevator muzak
You don’t want to know.
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Re: the Kirralie Smith and the trannie soccer player stoush. The trannie was guarded by dykes on wheels. The 2 emails Kirralie sent and which are basis of the snavelous claim are:
“I have cried a lot today… It is alleged two female soccer players were hospitalized over the weekend after being forced to play against a male appropriating womanhood.”
And
“Well, well, the top goal scorer after three rounds in the [Football NSW] Women’s First Grade is a male. How is that fair? That spot belongs to a woman.”
Wild scenes as trans footballer sues advocate for up to $100K over ‘vilifying’ tweets she claims incited hatred | Sky News Australia
If this trannie gets up we’re rooted and not in a good way.
Incidentally lesso relationships are the most violent of all relationships other than 3rd nations biffos.
And look at this trannie terrorist:
DOJ Charges Suspect in Arson Attacks on Tesla Showroom, GOP Office.
Well, he should’ve taken Bug’s advice and turn left at Albuquerque instead.
@ExxAlerts
BREAKING: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to invest $25 BILLION in Arizona, will build a third microchip factory.
@seanmdav
NYT finally gets around to admitting that ADHD diagnoses were a scam to justify the wholesale drugging of multiple generations of energetic boys.
Adding ADHD to the Centrelink benefits entitlements ensured Oz kids didn’t miss out on the drugs , either ..!
Now being reported as 5.2 magnitude.
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake just hit in the San Diego area.
“You stay classy, San Diego”
Perhaps because you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
@Riley_Gaines_
I’ve seen tons of conservative influencers and elected officials condemn the awful arson at Governor Shapiro’s residence. I haven’t seen any liberals condemn the Tesla firebombings.
We’re not the same.
Paging monty.Do you condemn the firebombing of Tesla dealerships?
@ImMeme0
DJ Vance: “For forty years, we have lost manufacturing capacity, workers are seeing their wages stagnate, and some of the most critical things that we need… we don’t make enough of that stuff… yes, as the president mentioned caused a little bit of disruption in the market but I actually think over the long term workers are going to benefit, stocks are going to go up, American businesses are going to benefit as we reinvest and reindustrialize our country.”
The Bee (Bezos went for a ride).
Space Returns Unwanted Amazon Delivery
@BreannaMorello
DISTURBING
The federal government gave over $27 million to a nonprofit that sends sexually explicit health advice via text to children, instructs them on sex toy use, and conducts HIV testing without parental consent or notification.
The Center for Innovative Public Health Research stated that its researchers secured “waivers” from a HHS review board to covertly enroll minors in government-funded studies on teen sexual behavior.
Through its “Girls2Girls” teen pregnancy program, the center explained it avoided informing parents about their children’s participation.
Russia seeks to base long-range aircraft in Indonesia province, just 1300 kilometres north-east of DarwinCaitlyn RintoulThe Nightly
Tue, 15 April 2025 11:19AM
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Russia has reportedly lodged an official request to base several long-range aircraft in Indonesia’s easternmost province near Darwin.
The increase of Moscow’s Indo-Pacific military footprint has prompted the attention of Australian officials who are reportedly investigating the development.
Revelations Russia had sought permission for Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft to be based at the Manuhua Air Force Base at Biak Numfor in the Indonesian province of Papua had been posted on respected military website Janes on Tuesday.
“The request was received by the office of Minister of Defence Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin following his meeting with Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu in February 2025,” it stated.
The Manuhua Air Force Base, which shares a runway with the Frans Kaisiepo Airport, is just 1300 kilometres away from the Australian mainland.
thanks elbow
@mirandadevine
He continually insults Trump and Vance, while claiming support from the “American people”. He seems not to understand that we had an election and his guy lost. We’re done with the “Russian disinformation” line. There could not be a stupider message. This does not help Ukraine and alienates Americans.
Got to love dogs.
The People Who Came for Your Plastic Bag and Straw Now Want Your Dog (14 Apr)
Here’s who they are:
Sigh. I think I prefer dogs to Curtin Uni academics.
I prefer dogs to academics, period!
Dogs: making all the right enemies, since the Holocene.
to whit, see Barking Toad’s furry pollie doorknocker filters.
I don’t think, I know I prefer dogs to academics.
By the way all you Cat loathers out there, my bolshie pup is very good at catching and eating birds. Who’d a thought?
He is so speedy, they haven’t a chance. Also gulps them down in an instant. He doesn’t play with his food like a cat. 😀
Pig Dogs would love to eat academics
Preferably fresh.
@ezralevant
Montreal Police have allowed an 18-month antisemitic crime wave, (including a full riot that had no arrests). But they brutally beat a mom who was documenting the crimes.
Incredibly, police have charged her.
That tells you what the government wants from the police and who the police support.
Did anyone notice the FBI tan pants activists moving in to control the crowd?
So much for RFKj. Have we learnt nothing?
@ExxAlerts
BREAKING: FDA grants fast track designation on a “self-amplifying mRNA vaccine” for possible use against the H5N1 bird flu.
Just further to Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania and the outrageous firebombing of his home, I only heard about it early this morning. I note Shapiro is a mainstream moderate Democrat and a Jew who happens to be a stalwart Zionist….or ‘rabid Zionist‘ as our Nazi likes to call those who support Israel and believe in a Jewish homeland. The only hope the Democrat party has is with the likes of Shapiro and Fetterman (who would have thought). I also happen to think that if Kamala and the DNC had chosen Shapiro instead of Wacko Waltz from Minnesota as her running mate they might have had a better chance last November and they might might have held Pennsylvania. However, as it transpired the DNC is now captive to rabid anti-Zionists and they chose the Wacko from Minnesota to be Harris’ running mate. The rest is history.
I’m really touched how our resident troll has expressed such pious concern about what’s happened to Shapiro and his family and I’ve dealt with his verminous hypocrisy above however I’d also like to remind people that this same ‘troll’ remained silent when Jewish students were being smeared and harassed across Ivy League institutions such as Columbia, Harvard, Yale, UC and other elite colleges. But of course, those doing the smearing, harassing, intimidation and threats of Jews were Muslim and leftists and thus they warrant no sanctimonious condemnation from our hypocritical troll.
As they have shown since Oct. 7, usually Democrats and many of their supporters couldn’t give a shit about how Jews are treated.
On the other hand, none of these same people have condemned the Tesla firebombings, but some in fact have urged them on.
Cassie,
Shapiro donated FIVE million dollars for the building of a mosque in the last couple of weeks.
Whilst I sincerely believe the fire bombing was heinous, he too, is feeding the crocodile.
useful idiot
Democrat BIRM
Add firebombing of Tesla dealerships
Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says
America Winning: Nvidia to Invest $500 Billion to Build AI Chips and Supercomputers in Texas
A total sell out.
Janet Yellen: American Manufacturing Is a ‘Pipe Dream,’ May Not Be a ‘Desirable Goal’
Grandma is a WEF beast.
Australia Fills China’s Beef Market Gap As Trade War Halts US Exports
Mr trump. When China invades Australia, turn your back.
They are not worth saving.
Opinion: President Trump and the Fight to Save American Retail
Anti-Israel protestor.
US immigration enforcement reportedly arrests another Columbia University protest leader
‘Die Elon’: Terrorist busted–FBI nabs Dem behind attacks on Tesla, GOP HQ
@MikeBenzCyber
Meet the World Justice Project, which tells its global network of judges, prosecutors and courts what the “Rule of Law” should be, sponsored by USAID, the State Department, the World Bank, George Soros and Perkins Coie.
Is anyone surprised?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump’s Campus Crackdown is Long Overdue
I managed to get through the short stay with elder sister while in Brisbane by letting them know I was voting Green.
The shocked look on their faces was something to see.
I explained that the average Australian voter deserved the thrashing that the communist greens were going to dish out to them via the Labor Party, and they needed that to wake them up.
Silence.
Ha! Lovely darts son.
can someone explain to me the rationale of a coroner finding a the workplace carries responsibilty for suicide .. Shirley, unless we are talking “forceful” slave-labour you just quit if your unhappy with conditions …. It’s not as if it involved heavy, physical, labour but office work …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-15/toxic-workplace-culture-grampians-health-suicide-ballarat/105179124
A few home truths.
British Author Reveals Muslims Plan To Takeover The ENTIRE World!
China, India and South America will not allow it.
Well yes, they’ve been saying it since Mo was a marketplace root for the older men..
I don’t know, they are doing a damn fine job of it so far and they have done it in the past. Foiled by some devout Christians at the time, but there are none of those people around today.
The muzzies using a different tactic this time, working like a charm.
Look at the UK and even the US never mind OZ.
We are done.
And some more on floods.
Looks like an endless supply for the time being, sorry about that folks.
People having a hard time, reminding us every now and then is not a bad thing, I think?
Walls work.
You really have to laugh out loud. Frank Luntz ran a poll asking:
Do you agree America needs more factories and factory workers?
80% of respondents were in favor.
Next question:
Would you be happy and satisfied working in a factory?
72% of respondents said no.
My humble advice, keep every one of these illegals that matches up with keeping out of legal trouble, possibly paid some taxes and demonstrated stability. America is going to need them. 🙂
Those Bubba memes were right?
I don’t know why this got downticks – the criteria mentioned were what built America in the first place and is a damn sight better than the crop of Nicaraguan gangsters they’re getting.
Just make sure they’re assimilated by settling them into the general population, and not letting them set up enclaves.
And shoving them into factory jobs that the locals “don’t want to do”?
Better to cut off the dole and watch those jobs rapidly come back into demand again. Hunger does that.
Interesting inverse correlation between national IQ and national winter high temperature.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GocYyzvWQAA68Ca?format=jpg&name=medium
Hmm, didn’t spot us. Imagine the umm, Queenslanders!
seriously though, that is just a demonstration of how much absolute rubbish IQ measurement is.
If they give IQ’s out without any effort on the recipients efforts, that explains mine.
I’m not that clever or smart or whatever they are judging.
IQ measurements are bullshit – even a dumbarse like me can tell that.
IQ tests are generally reliable.
Average IQ of Nobels: gifted to profoundly gifted range(130-150 depending on domain). Less than 1% of the population.
Ashkenazi Jews, verbal IQ 117(old study), extraordinarily high per capita success in arts and sciences. Europe, cold
Sephardic Jews – hot ~100.
Northern Asians: slightly higher than Caucasians: do well in math. (Northern Asians, northern Europeans … cold).
Indigenous Australians: embarrassing.
In a past life I would have dug into the selection pressure issue, especially in relation to the three pronged effect of Yamnaya(genes)+cold+emphasis on education. However too politicised, would have been subject to the same demonization as Wade, Hernstein & Murray, Watson.
That was documented a long time ago but no-one wants to address the implications of it.
1984
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255669107_Brain_Size_Cranial_Morphology_Climate_and_Time_Machines
Damn it I had to look this up because onedrive stuffed up my database! This study compared brain size only in Africa from high altitudes to lower altitudes. Even there the size difference was noticeable.
It is about heat. Small changes in temperature generate a protective response that inhibits blah blah blah.
There is much more, even documented large eye and brain sizes in northern Europeans. The holocene has been shrinking our brains.
Speak for yourself.
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
He’s so adorable in a heterosexual way.
For someone who had a lunch date with mutley I’m not so sure. Ha.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Stand-by for the bleats … “silencing diverse viewpoints”.
PBS and NPR are about as diverse as a flock of merinos.
Did I not see a report recently that the entire staff of NPR were registered Dimocrats?
Not entirely – about 98%.
And the remaining 2% are Antifa.
Bessent on Trade Talks, Powell Future, Argentina, Dollar
bloomberg
New images of the Chinese J-50 stealth fighter
With new missiles of much longer range and potency maneuverability doesn’t matter so much, stealth becomes critical. Big mistake by Russia there. Su-57 is last century’s strategy.
The J-50 is possibly designed to cripple the USA through tanker and AWAC elimination, especially with the new PL 21 ramjet powered 200k range missile.
Fascinated to see talk on the notoriously left reddit, in an election thread, that immigration is a problem
One of my favourite drops.
Some wine wankers will tell you Felton Road is more better, but I’m not having it.
Mt Difficulty seems to be the unwitting source of much family friction.
We host Christmas for Mrs P’s motley rellos every odd year.
A couple of years ago I knocked the scab off a Mt Difficulty and I was going to savour it slowly throughout the day.
Busied myself in the kitchen and came back to the dining room to find the bottle was well below the plimsole line before the sun was over the yard-arm.
Mrs P’s freeloader niece was sitting there loading up on a Toby Jug full of the finest Central Otago pinot while her bottle of $6.99 paint stripper sat unopened on the sideboard.
I picked up the bottle and poured myself one, then forgot replace it on the table. It remained in an undisclosed location for the rest of the day.
Next time I was wiser.
Some idiot brought a bottle of zero-alcohol wine to our place some time after that.
Undrinkable, but I kept the bottle to take back to his place filled with something half decent.
So, the next Christmas, I carefully decanted a bottle of Mt Difficulty into the zero-alcohol bottle.
The thief passed it over without a second glance.
One of the best Pinot in the world consistantly. I’ve drank gallons of the stuff.
A year ago, visiting my best mate in NZ, it was 28 south seas peso’s a bottle a Woolies on special.
It is quoite noice.
And 28 bucks a bottle?
Tasty.
I’d have been enraged at the bitch, you should have given her a good arsekicking – that’s really shitty behaviour.
Peace and goodwill, Nurse Betty.
Peace and goodwill.
Bugger the peace and goodwill – you don’t need guests who pull that kind of shit.
Is this the “Roaring Meg”?
The Beloved and I consumed a bottle on site because of the tale that was spun – Meg was the local Madam*.
It was delicious!
*I was dubious. I wondered if Meg was the stretch of rapids far below.
Avi:
FULL DEBATE: Senator Gerard Rennick FACES OFF with Avi Yemini
Are you going to be one of them?
G’Day mate Australia.
I don’t get ppl who travel on Easter weekend….it’s like woohoo a whole extra 48 hours off let’s pack everything we own, umpteen kids, the canoe, the bbq, pack enough food to feed the whole of a 3rd world nation for a month, the bikes, the dog, 28 fishing rods and Grandma in the 4 tonne LandCruiser we don’t know how to drive…. then we’ll leave early to beat the traffic, ermmmm 10 k out of town no… every other numpty with a BCF membership got the same idea
Oh well nevermind nothing like 9 hours in a traffic jam with screaming bored kids fighting over the DVD player and mashing half chewed lollies on the carpet while singing “Let it Go!” out of tune for the 19th time…
11.5 hours from home you’ve covered 43.6 kilometres and your cheese is about to slide off your cracker so you pull into a Service Centre packed with 9753 other equally mental fools, park sideways across 6 spots in the truck section coz you know the Toyota runs on diesel so it’s a ‘truck ‘ isn’t it?
You all pile out of the big lorry ignoring the cold stares from the guy trying to park his 80 foot bdouble for a regulation break, send the kids to line up at Maccas for 57 minutes then still have no fkn clue what they want by the time you reach the server it doesn’t matter what the stinking rugrats order anyway coz 11 minutes later the wrappers are floating across the carpark, the soft serve is on the leather seats and the 9 year old has pickles in her hair and is screaming ‘you’re a poo poo head!” at the 7 year old who refuses to sit forwards or put his seat belt on.
25.8 hours after leaving home you reach the campsite a whole 103 ks away only to discover there’s no spots left within 17 kilometres of the beach or a toilet so you set up camp with the brown snakes nowhere near the neighbors who promised to hold a spot for you.
You spend the next day and a half listening to half pissed Shazza’s yelling “JAYDEN!!! Stop hitting your brother!!” and mumbling to your mates around the campfire about ‘serenity’ and ‘the good life’.
9am Monday you’re thinking prison food can’t be that bad surely? If I just bury them deep enough nobody will find them?
You say fuk this I’ll leave early and beat the traffic while visions of the 23 hour journey down here flash through your head.
So you pack the whole shebang back into the Pickle mobile along with the wet dog and sunburnt kids whining “weeeere hungreeeeeee!!!” , pull out onto the packed highway, find another Maccas to appease the brats. fill the ‘truck’ at $1.91 a litre and head the fuk home with the other 19.3 million nufftys thinkin about home and a sleep in would have been a good idea!!
Chuckle. Love it.
The pic reminds me of the traffic jams back to Sydney from doing Easter lunch with dads family at Gosford or Wamberal on that road.
I suspect the Pacific Hwy through the Karangi Nat Park.
Trucking mob I’m with just pull the pin for Easter- not worth the greif
I had to go to Brisbane for an echocardiogram with the Transplant Vet.
Looking askance at the closeness of the date to Easter, I decided that I could squeeze in a visit to Coffs Harbour and see my sister who I talk with biweekly, but hadn’t seen or given a hug to for about five years.
Stayed a day too long as the rels all turned up for a “Who the Pharque are you party.”
Drove back, using the Toowoomba bypass of Brisbane, just over 1500k, in one hit – there was no traffic to speak of after Toowoomba.
But the roads were shitty – which I expected. One section below Augathella, was being lane marked at about midnight, and the new asphalt was already corrugating. In 6 months time it’ll be wrecked.
Now back in my own bed.
Always used to get one day of decent swell over Easter around Margaret River. Crowds used to thin out. Not sure I’d bother these days.
Me neither – I’m here and I will only go out if the Railway Hotel is open.
Not sure if already posted.
Australia’s renewable energy plan is dead.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G4z65FswjHw
A great picking apart of the BS.
Dutton and SFL’s take note.
WHY are they supporting this crap?
It’s in the name, SFL.
Yep. Someone should make a badge up for them.
They also underwrote the covid response.
SloMo even declared his intention to make the vax mandatory, a thought bubble he had to walk back when someone suggested it was unlawful.
Don’t expect rationality from them any time soon.
Slomo was one real dumbarse.
You can’t help but think that was a major reason he was there in the first place. Ask Lara Bingle.
Let’s see.
After this evening, I believe all the major U.S. banks will have reported their quarterly earnings. The quarter ended March 31, so there were no tariff-related stories to skew the results. So far, the results have been absolutely stellar, with all banks reporting gains above expectations. However, market reactions have been muted due to concerns about the future.
JPMorgan reported a net income of US$14.6 billion for the quarter.
Results from non-bank sectors have also been healthy and strong; however, these CEOs are also worried about the tariff situation.
JC earlier …
Yes, I know.
Finding someone to trim the hedges and clean the pool at your Martha’s Vineyard pile might be tough.
Here’s the thing.
Trump isn’t against immigration per se when it is in the best interests of the US.
What he is against is:-
1. Uncontrolled immigration; and
2. Immigrants (and their enablers) treating the US taxpayer as a massive opportunity for grift.
The hand-wringing question “who will pick the fruit?” from the Dimocrats is easily answered.
You issue a seasonal visa sponsored by a particular farmer or co-op and they return home at the end of the season.
Sanchez:
The problem is this: For all intents and purposes, the U.S. is basically at full employment, give or take the disruptions occurring in D.C.
I really don’t know where the extra workers will come from if the estimate is accurate and the U.S. needs something like 20,000 new factories built.
Sure, Trump isn’t against legal immigration, but he’s also said he wants the intake to be highly skilled. Perhaps with the advent of hyper-automation, the need for labor will be significantly reduced.
There’s also this to consider: Unskilled males in places like the Midwest might be largely written off. If over 100,000 are dying annually from fentanyl overdoses, how many are essentially living drug-fueled lives with no ambition to work? Employers would be unwise to hire these individuals. There really does exist a crisis in the US with respect to unskilled youngish white males, and sure, it’s probably not their fault entirely.
I live in Wentworth and got my postal vote today. No Libertarian candidate but One Nation has one, James Sternhell (who I’ve never heard of) so I put him first, followed by the Liberal, with Allegra dead last, below the Greens.
I wanted to vote above the line in the Senate but couldn’t because I couldn’t find six parties to support. (You have to pick at least 6 above the line or 12 below the line). So I individually picked each Libertarian followed by One Nation and the Liberals and then Australian Christians just to ensure no funny business.
For quite a long time, my problem has been more avoiding those I didn’t want to vote for rather than picking the ones I did.
Good job Indolent.
I have been voting below the line for Senate for a number of elections now as it actually reflects who I want.
I just gave up on watching an art program on YouTube.
Every FOUR minutes there was an add for a local Liar candidate.
This has got to be bent financing.
Download the Duck Duck Go browser and open YouTube there. It has a player in the browser that kills all the ads.
I never get YT ads in the Brave browser, which is what I use.
I turn off the innate adblock for righty websites though. Which I don’t for YT. It’s nice that that browser lets me choose like that.
Dutton attacking Albanese over the proposed Russian air force presence in Indonesia.
OK…I get it. It’s an election campaign, he’s down in the polls and you take anything you can get.
But Dutton was going to put US defense facilities here, including marines on rotation in the NT, on the table in tariff discussions.
The Hudson Helo crash:
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/rotor-assembly-recovered-from-hudson/
Nice. Hopefully we get a cause.
For non aviators like myself Blancolirio had a good vid up about it the other day.
Thank God we’re back on standard time for the winter — and daylight savings in the northern hemisphere. That means when Blot comes on at 7pm on weeknights, it’s 5am in New York City, when Fox News starts its daly transmission and I can switch straight over to avoid Australia’s biggest TV loudmouth.
chuckle
What’s the game with the Fed gummint “cherry-picking” the funding of private businesses with OPM (taxpayers) dollars?…. 100s, probably, 1 000s of “private” businesses across the spectrum go “south” every year but now the gummint is getting, actively, involved with “our” money and selecting a few to “finance” … for no other reason, at a glance, other than it sniffs a bit of “positive” publicity ..
Several get lucky, 1000s go broke .. A ticket in this gummint “lottery” appears to be how much media publicity the business can garner ……..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-15/act-labor-pledges-to-fund-health-co-op-canberra/105179780
Our governments simply just cannot leave the economy alone, despite nearly every time they do, it is a disaster that they were warned about.
Look for Labor Party connections…maaate!
Picking Winners is easy. Just ask any ‘Pollie’.
In the video “Are we closer to war than we think?” from Lei’s Real Talk, the host discusses the potential for China, under Xi Jinping, to start a conflict with Taiwan to secure domestic power amid economic troubles and political pressures. The video touches on concerns raised by various analysts, including hedge fund investor Kyle Bass and intelligence reports suggesting an impending Chinese action against Taiwan. The video outlines three possible scenarios for a Chinese takeover of Taiwan: 1. **Patient Blockade** – This strategy would involve a naval encirclement to cut off Taiwan’s supplies, leading to submission without direct military confrontation. 2. **Lightning Invasion** – This would entail a rapid missile and cyber-attack, followed by a swift military occupation of Taipei before the U.S. could react effectively. 3. **Full-scale Chaos** – Described as a doomsday scenario, this option involves simultaneous attacks on Taiwan and U.S. military assets abroad, combined with sabotage operations within the U.S. The host believes that the third scenario is unlikely, at least in the near term, due to the high risks involved for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the unpreparedness of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The first scenario would not meet the CCP’s political needs as it doesn’t create enough domestic justification for drastic controls. The second scenario, while plausible, is still unlikely because of expected U.S. intervention. Instead, the host suggests that if China acts, it might focus on smaller operations, such as seizing the Kinmen and Matsu Islands close to the mainland, which would be logistically easier and politically less risky. This could serve as a test for both the PLA’s capabilities and the international reactions, particularly from the U.S. Ultimately, the analysis concludes that while these scenarios are possible, Xi Jinping is primarily focused on maintaining power and would be cautious of any military actions that could jeopardize his position or provoke a large-scale international conflict.
I live in Wentworth and got my postal vote today. No Libertarian candidate but One Nation has one, James Sternhell (who I’ve never heard of) so I put him first, followed by the Liberal, with Allegra dead last, below the Greens.
I know James aka Jim. He’s rather…..ahem…..eccentric but he always fights the good fight. I’m glad he’s running. I might put him second however I’m putting the Liberal Ro Knox first. We have to get rid of the Teal whore.
Can always stick the Lieborals 2nd. They get the preferences but no AEC $$$. Don’t want to encourage them.
Yep. That’s my plan.
Saturday Morning Pictures
On Saturday mornings in times long ago
we’d pocket our pennies and off we would go
to visit the ‘pictures’, and there we would be
entranced by the movies that kids love to see.
In those far away times there wasn’t TV
so it was exciting for children like me,
no parents were with us, no need to behave
as we hailed our heroes, the good and the brave.
We weren’t just spectators, we loved to take part
and Lassie and Bambi, they quite stole our heart,
but when wicked villains came into our view
we’d jeer and we’d whistle, we’d hiss and we’d boo.
Lone Ranger and Tonto, and Tarzan as well
we’d cheer for those good guys when baddies they’d quell,
Three Stooges were funny, as were the cartoons
we delighted to laugh at those Loony Tunes.
When it was all over we’d have to stand still
while the Anthem was played, as that was the drill,
then we’d spill out the doors and run down the street,
pretend we were cowboys on steeds fast and fleet.
Forgive my nostalgia, I keep in my head
some memories of things that long have been dead,
but now that you’ve read this you also will know
of Saturday mornings a long time ago
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It reminds me of the time all of us kids went to see Cliff Richards in “Summer Holiday”.
We were all given free seats because…
But the theatre sold out so the thirty or so of us were picked out of the seated crowd and told to sit on the floor in the aisle so ‘paying customers’ could have seats, even the teenage girls.
Never forgotten the placement of us as separate because of where we lived.
Regarding IQ and so on, this is interesting:
Mankind Quarterly, Spring91, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p255, 42p
Author : Richard Lynn
Abstract : Presents a review of the world literature on racial differences in intelligence.
Studies using intelligence tests; Studies of reaction times; Contributions to civilization.
Race differences in intelligence: A global perspective.
Twenty one criteria by which the achievements of early civilizations could be judged. These were as follows:
1. In the ordinary circumstances of life in public places, they cover the greater part of the trunk with clothes.
2. They keep the body clean and take care to dispose of its waste products.
3. They do not practice severe mutilation or deformation of the body, except for medical reasons.
4. They have knowledge of building in brick or stone, if the necessary materials are available in their territory.
5. Many of them live in towns or cities, which are linked by roads.
6. They cultivate food-plants.
7. They domesticate animals and use some of the larger ones for transport (or have in the past so used them), if suitable species are available.
8. They have knowledge of the use of metals, if these are available.
9. They use wheels.
10. They exchange property by tile use of money.
11. They order their society by a system of laws, which are enforced in such a way that they ordinarily go about their various concerns in times of peace without danger of attack or arbitrary arrest.
12. They permit accused persons to defend themselves and to bring witnesses for their defence.
13. They do not use torture to extract information or for punishment.
14. They do not practice cannibalism.
15. Their religious systems include ethical elements and are not purely or grossly superstitious.
16. They use a script (not simply a succession of pictures) to communicate ideas.
17. There is some facility in the abstract use of numbers, without consideration of actual objects (or in other words, at least a start has been made in mathematics).
18. A calendar is in use, accurate to within a few days in the year.
19. Arrangements are made for the instruction or the young in intellectual subjects.
20. There is some appreciation of the fine arts.
21. Knowledge and understanding are valued as ends in themselves.
The findings can be read here – scroll to page 12
I read the abstract and won’t venture any further. Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid are typological classifications of what were then supposed as biological “races” which originated in the infancy of scientific anthropology in the late 18th C./early 19th C. that have since been rendered obsolete by the knowledge of DNA based genetics in the 20th C. That is to say, the science indicates that we are one race, not several, and cultural differences – such as those listed – are better explained by environmental rather than biological differences, e.g. the profound isolation of Australian aboriginals.
The issue isn’t about race it is about selection pressures on discreet populations. We know schizophrenia runs in families and is associated with higher intellectual capacities in those families and is associated with allele variations. The same is true of ASD, with Aspies have on average a 10% IQ lift and autism and schizophrenia genes are related, as yet another study highlighted a few days ago.
The idea that selection pressures stop above the neck does not make sense. Every human trait is going to be influenced by our genomes, even Bouchard’s famous separated twin studies revealed that. Clinically it is well established that different ethnic groups can require different treatments. That is evidenced by different treatment strategies for African Americans and some Asian ethnic groups; the latter possibly because of p450 relevant alleles. The idea of genetic equivalency is obviously false and people who make those claims are often motivated by ideological considerations not scientific findings.
The basic issue is what are you going to use these findings for? If you are caucasian, you might feel intellectually superior to negros, but this refers to populations, not individuals. You can’t believe you’re smarter than Thomas Sowell based on these numbers.
If you needed to hire an individual for a job requiring intelligence, again these results would have no practical utility whatsoever. Choosing the caucasian over the negroid would be only a tiny bit better than tossing a coin, and risk getting m0nty instead of Clarence Thomas. Or Black Ball. Who may or may not be as smart as Clarence Thomas but is hugely smarter than m0nty, that’s for sure.
Given that in any case the human race is doing what it does and miscgenating like mad, it’s going to matter less and less over time what your skin colour or eye shape is. We’ll be pretty much a mixture, even more than we already are.
How do get a real measure of intelligence with a score of 94 to 100? 100 to 110? 110 to 120 and so on. Can you tell? Can anyone really?
I tend to agree with the Leb Taleb. IQ testing may be useful for identifying cognitive deficiency, but it’s ineffective for assessing higher intelligence. East Asians often score high on IQ tests, yet their level of original thought and creativity doesn’t match with those scores. Nobels won, innovation etc.
Here’s where the rubber meets the road: the thing people value most is money. It’s the commodity most in demand as von Mises said. Of course, this is a generalization and doesn’t apply to everyone. Taleb showed there’s no real correlation between income and IQ. Once I saw that, most of my beliefs about IQ were pretty much smoked.
LOL, I’m pretty sure a test would very accurately measure yours Fredo
The smartest thing I’ve ever seen in my life to date was the Israeli mass-deballing of Hezbollah. Nothing comes close to that in terms of conceiving the idea, implementing it at the right time, and the sheer audacity. The brainpower it took from beginning to end would make every fox die of envy. And they kept it under wraps for so long.
Not arguing but questioning.
If it’s environmental reasons we look different, how come that people’s skin colour didn’t change after, in some cases, living in different environment for thousands of years?
Given that modern mankind isn’t terribly old.
Then again it’s an interesting set of criteria by which to judge a “society’s” advancement – or not.
Well, that excludes several cultures I can think of.
It would have been interesting to see similar results for jews and arabs.
Surely you know the answer to that?
Read somewhere that Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes, Muslims a total of three! (Not 3%!)
And the three were peace prizes which don’t count
Muzzies busy in Texas. Some good observations about islam and the blindness of leftoid Western policy makers about this wretched ideology:
Jihad, Texas Style | Frontpage Mag
One survey of Western Muslims after another has shown that an unsettling majority of them want to live under sharia law – and expect to be living under it before too long. The goal of broadening the ambit of sharia law, after all, is a major reason why millions of Muslims moved from their native lands to the West in the first place. It’s called expanding the umma. It’s called turning the Dar al Harb (House of War) into the Dar as Islam (House of Islam), one block at a time. And lying about it to infidels is called taqiyya.
I can just see Texans, of all people, willingly yielding to sharia law and Muesli overlords.
Why wouldn’t Muzzies want Sharia? It establishes male dominance over women, and legalises child rape.
In the year of ’39, assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne’er looked back, never feared, never cried
Don’t you hear my call though you’re many years away
Don’t you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
In the year of ’39 came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the Earth is old and grey, little darling, we’ll away
But my love, this cannot be
Oh, so many years have gone though I’m older but a year
Your mother’s eyes, from your eyes, cry to me
Does anyone know where these words come from?
(no cheating)
“39” – Brian May (from Queen’s “A Night at the Opera”).
About physics and space travel, apparently. Great skiffle song btw.
Blot going TDS and asking demanding that Matt Canavan agree that Trump saying the little Ukrainian dictator is an arsehole proves he is Hitler. Canavan says saying Trump is Hitler would jeopardise Australia’s relationship with the US.
Blot is outraged that Canavan won’t agree with him that Trump is a Nazi for saying Zelinsky started the war.
Yes. It was his most extraordinary TDS insanity ever.
How much lomger can the clown survive.
Antiques Roadshow is more entertaining. They just had a mandolin made in an Allied POW camp. Poor bugger who made it shipped back to East Germany. End of (his) story.
The bloviators should heed stories like this, not the voices in their heads.
I think he’s ok. That’s all.
Waiting for a conservative guest to tell Bolt where he can stick his TDS.
At least Canavan stood up to Bolt.
At least the politician stood up to the journalist?
Bolt is a commentator, not a journalist.
Okay, fair enough. I don’t see saviours in the political class so may be guilty of something similar to politico-worship – wishing for real journalism that actually does speak truth to power.
In three sentences or less, what is the best reason for believing that Zelenskyyyy started the war?
From the West.
Woman in her 20s unable to pee for six years results in psychiatric hospital admission and rare diagnosis
Why does Canavan even waste his time with that pissant? I certainly wouldn’t waste my time even listening to him.
FFS. The grifters of the Victorian Councill of Aboriginal Community Health Organisations is unloading a government grant of several hundred thousand dollars into Sky News to try to stop the Stupid Frigging Liberals from winning the federal election and removing the rivers of gold.it relies on from the ALP.
Of all the government-funded grifting, this is the most brazen. The blackfella industry can’t afford the loss of revenue that Jacinta Price’s campaign against waste represents.
More proof that taxation is outright theft.
govt is indistinguishable from organized crime
This gross misuse of taxpayers’ money for partisan political purposes must surely be illegal.
I can’t believe how rude Andrew Bolt was to Matt Canavan just now. He practically accused Matt of excusing Trump over the Ukraine debacle. This Trump Derangement Syndrome will drive away a lot of his audience. He started off with “I’m not saying Trump is Hitler but…” and it went downhill from there. Canavan was trying to explain to him that Australia is in no position to alienate the US but Bolt kept on digging.
Bolt has f*king lost it.
I think he puts too much store in what that doddering old fool Sheridan has to say.
Anyway, wtf is Trump to be excused for re the Ukraine? He didn’t start the effing war.
I’m sure Matt Canavan was about to point that out to him but couldn’t get a word in edgeways.
No ordinary Australian gives a shit about Ukraine. Most would not even know where it is.
The idiot’s still ranting about Prez Fatty Trump right now.
I used to enjoy reading Bolt in the Hun but that was a long time ago, before they put up the paywall! Listened to him on MTR- always came across as wooden.
The Thunderbirds were more lifelike and less stiff.
Bolt’s fawning love affair with the dictator is sickening.
Makes me wonder though is Bolt just following newscorpse directives? The Times has been pumping out anti Trump poison since c2016.
I’d say so. NY Post is full of TDS also.
I thought it was just the NYT?
https://nypost.com/
one wee vote for journalists challenging puppet politicians. cheers.
Oh wow. Bolt lost it with Canavan. What an exhibition. Never have I heard Bolt look at or delve into the tensions between Ukraine and Russia going back to 2014 which eventually resulted in the invasion by Russia in 2022. I think Bolt will be retiring soon.
Neither party is giving a damn about Ukraine this election and it’s driving the Dutch Prima Donna mad.
Despite what the Democrats and neocons in America believe, the same is true of the vast majority of Americans.
I’d like to see some individual seat projections on the Canada polls. Much has been made of the Conservatives’ recent decline, but they are still about 5% up on last election – although the Liberals are, too.
The Canadian situation seems to be the exact opposite of the one we are having in Australia, with Canadians switching heavily to the two major parties. The Liberals gains have been mostly at the expense of their erstwhile New Democratic partners, while the Conservatives have taken the votes from the People’s Party.
I suspect the Canadian Liberals’ gains may be somewhat illusory as they could end up falling victim to a “natural jerrymander” – with their gains being locked up in too few seats. Poilievre still has a good chance.
Avi Yemeni said the 8pm podcast would reveal a nasty “political scandal shaking the NZ Greens party”. Sounds tasty. Any info, cats?
Kiwiblog has nothing up, so me not know…
Yep blot has TDS and he is an especially arrogant sufferer as well. I hope Canavan tells him to get fuked. Blot has already banned Pauline and a host of other good sources. He defaults to his ABC persona very quickly.
If and when Gutfeld and Watters are dropped by Foxtel, that’s it for me. I nearly went when they dropped TCM and replaced them with stupid Brit movies, but I’m barely hanging on. About the only Australian news commentary worth feeding is the Late Debate and Rowan Dean.
Agree. Rowan Dean has never wavered over jabs, Climate change, Trump etc. Rowan’s Friday night show is pretty good but he needs to ditch dopey Richo who has no rational arguments. Relies on just being a Labor stalwart. Past his use-by. James Macpherson is another goodie.
On Outsiders the other day Dean had a not-so-subtle dig at his so-called conservative colleagues at Sky suffering from TDS.
Dr. Phil corrects and puts in her place a lying Palestinian propagandist:
(121) WATCH Palestinian Guests Face When Dr. Phil Corrects Her Lies About Israel – YouTube
My 2c worth for what it is.
Liberals and Nationals need to pick a side ideologically. The broad church approach isn’t working. The party seems increasingly listless at all levels.
Either they are a true conservative party or soft left leaning centrist party.
Nationals have seemed to have vacated the conservative spectrum apart from a few in the party. There needs to be an alternative, not one of these single personality party entities.
Parties change I get that, Democrats were one that I remember once Don Chipp backed off they drifted left.
Libs need some serious navel gazing when the dust settles and gimmicks like more women aren’t the answer.
Besides who is lurking in the winds when Dutton fails, I can’t see any of his cabinet that I would support except for maybe two who need more time in the parliament. Price for one, once she earns her stripes I hope puts her hand in the air.
Agree with your 2c.
And by the way, Blot is a cnut. I find it hard to concentrate when all I can see is that great big wart he won;t get off his face.
The older Bolt gets the more he seems to think that repeating Democrat/leftist talking points will make him more popular with people who wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.
Price shouldn’t go near the leadership unless the coalition is purged of wets.
Point duly taken.
Price is one of the few people in politics to have abandoned ideology for commonsense.
That’s a pretty redundant comment seeing China’s tariffs are 125%.
Apparently reporting news is redundant.
It was around a two days ago, but irrespective, wasn’t it 100% certain export sales of jets would be caught?
By the way Dover, my comment was referring to the person reporting this – not yours.
One thing blot ignores in his pro zylenski/ukraine BS is this:
General Flynn Says Ukraine Was AWARE of The Assassination Attempt on Trump Ahead of Time, Calls on FBI Director Kash Patel To Investigate – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
Batteries and Blades: A Toxic Secret | Aidan Morrison
Who is advising Dutton, or is he stupid enough by himself?
From DT can’t link.
Harry’s extraordinary role exposes Dutton’s house of cards campaign
Rolling out Peter Dutton’s son as an example of a young Australian’s struggle with the housing market, then conceding he’ll get a leg up is the latest weird development
I presume Dutton Jnr is a guest of the Chairman’s Lounge.
If he isn’t, then why not since he’s so well connected.
The Libs could have some fun with this.
For lack of anything else interesting to watch, I’ve just got The Sydney Institute chat with Prue Goward and some bloke who used to work for Gillard. The analysis naturally leads to the conclusion that this election will result in a minority Labour/Greens government – and then the bloke said “which will almost certainly result in Labour losing the next election”
In which case, can we please just skip this election, and go straight to 2028? Why waste time !!
If, God forbid, Labor and the Green do form a minority government we can be absolutely sure that Australians and businesses will be taxed to the eyeballs and inflation will skyrocket as will energy prices.
Not to mention the almost complete collapse of industry and business closures dwarfing the last three years.
Andrew Lawrence
Birmingham Filth.
Read the other day about one nearly overwhelmed exterminator guy who claimed he caught a foot long rat.
This strike comes after Birmingham councillors awarded themselves a nearly 6% pay rise in January even though the council doesn’t “have enough money”:
The Birmingham bin strike is a symptom of British decline – spiked
That should be a 22-inch long rat!
Get al load of what the orange oaf says to the journo prick. Wait until the end. His zingers are unbeatable.
Kaitlan Collins suffers from severe TDS.
Funny as.
Putin might be interested in a real peace deal but Zelensky is just prancing about big noting himself.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff says his meeting with Vladimir Putin lasted *5 hours*
“This is the third meeting I’ve had with him. This last meeting lasted close to five hours […] Putin’s request is to have a permanent peace here.”
Bullshit! Putin invaded Ukraine, not the other way around. Putin can have all the peace he wants without any tedious meetings. All he needs to do is withdraw his invading forces from Ukraine and stop bombing the shit out of them.
He told them why. US puppet government NATO expanding and the EU not honouring the agreement made. You’re a fool. I’m not a putin apologist. Russia is never going to accept expansion of NATO. Now we have the fool macron wanting to send nukes to Poland. FFS.
Correct.
Not really… Putin invaded Ukraine for sound reasons (aka ‘cassus belli’ which the western media *never* talks about:
1) Relentless expansion of NATO Eastwards: inclusion of Ukraine would put it on the very border of Russia – think ‘nuclear missles in cuba’ close to understand how the Russians are threatened by this
2) Nearly a decade of shelling of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine by the nazi sympathising ones in the West.
And yes, there are REAL nazis in Western Ukraine (which the Russians are a tad sensitive about, given their history) – a colleague of mine served as a medic in Ukraine and took a number of photos like this.
these were real pictures he took in Donetsk last year
and
plus
Emotional stuff.
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar (Royal Albert Hall Organ)
We just watched the last Nicole Kidman flick, Holland.
Do. Not. Go. There.
Thanks for the heads up TE.
Ta Matey.
Quelle surprise!
Adam Bandt not so vocal when he’s asked the questions
When it comes to politicians, the maxim is to look at what they do, not what they say.
A couple of years ago, Greens leader Adam Bandt complained that voters were sick of the “establishment parties” avoiding scrutiny by failing to answer questions. He was so bothered that he tried to change parliamentary rules in order to force ministers to answer frankly in question time, “not waffle on about something else”, so the government could be held to account.
“For too long the establishment parties have teamed up to ensure questions don’t have to be answered and we have seen that again today, but the Greens will continue this push,” Bandt thundered in September 2023. It seems he has a short memory.
In Brisbane on Tuesday, flanked by Griffith MP Max Chandler-Mather and senators Penny Allman-Payne and Larissa Waters, Bandt announced a Greens policy to spend $11.6bn over four years on free lunches for every public school student, funded by the party’s big corporations tax, which is designed to raise $514bn in a decade.
A big-spending, ambitious policy from a party leader visiting the Queensland capital for only the second time this campaign, to sandbag the seats of his three Brisbane MPs.
But Bandt gave short shrift to the local journalists, who were bursting with questions about his future as Greens leader, the party’s position on Gaza, and Chandler-Mather’s apparent sidelining from the campaign.
None of those could be asked, as a heavy-handed Bandt adviser micromanaged the press conference from the side, allowing just two questions on the new policy, and then interrupting follow-up inquiries to instruct journalists when it was their turn. After just 10 minutes and eight questions – most met with waffle – the adviser declared Bandt had to go, and called it quits.
For the leader of a party that could deliver Anthony Albanese minority government after May 3, Bandt should allow himself to be subjected to the same scrutiny he expects of the major parties.
Oz
Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence
now you say you’re sorry for being so untrue
Mark Steyn, with plenty of examples to choose from.
When the Police Switch Sides
To me it looked like the police were enjoying themselves.
Behind Beijing’s Blackmail
the conquest of the west
Meme
@LangmanVince
Another example of our corrupt media in America. Six wealthy women got more coverage for spending about 9 minutes in space, than two brave astronauts got who were rescued by Elon Musk after being stranded in space for 9 months
The stranded astronauts would probably still be there if Kamala was elected.
There is no doubt the Biden administration refused Musk’s offer to rescue them out of pure spite.
@WesternLensman
MILLER: “There’s 15 million illegal aliens. If every one of them got the trial that you’re asking for, it would take centuries to remove them.”
This was part of the Biden regime open borders calculus. Overload the country by any means necessary with as many unvetted illegals as possible—
— knowing the massive mobilization of resources and enforcement operations to remove them would be extraordinarily daunting — while simultaneously relying on heavily funded leftwing legal groups and activist courts to delay, obstruct and impede deportations at every possible turn.
And, of course, counting on legacy media to run interference for it all.
Making it extraordinarily difficult to carry out mass removal of illegal aliens — “An essential component of having something that we like to call a country.”
This was part of the Biden regime open borders calculus. Overload the country by any means necessary with as many unvetted illegals as possible—
AKA the Cloward – Piven strategy
That biden and his sprog will die peacefully in bed is a crime.
@catturd2
Democrats #1 priority now is to bring a MS-13 gang banger who’s a citizen of El Salvador back to the USA where he was here illegally. If you’re wondering why they have a 21% approval rate.
Around the West we have millions of people on disability payments, rotting away, while the Marxist wreckers claim we can’t compete in assembling sneakers or iPhones. they barely contain their contempt for that work.
When I was an apprentice forty years ago, the government had a program for the disabled.
We had a 100% blind bloke who under that program worked for the first time in years. Set up at a bench with boxes positioned and tooling he assembled parts.
He absolutely loved working, because now he could get out of the house, make new friends and really socialise again.
Work is a beautiful thing, and we are disgusting because we throw so many on the shit heap and claim to be too good to provide the economy that would sustain work for them.
Write an article on that Arky, and send it to Quadrant and the Spectator!
From the Oz. The settlement, struck by former Liberal Premier Colin Barnett, was described as a “de facto Treaty.” Why am I sure of a similar legal dogfight, in any of the States that signs a “treaty” with the Indigenous?
Perth’s new airport runway and developments on the holiday island of Rottnest are among billions of dollars worth of projects and government works facing delays after the Aboriginal corporation recognised for its cultural heritage work across the metropolitan area imploded.
The Whadjuk Aboriginal Corporation – the representative corporation for all traditional owners of Perth and surrounds – has been cut off from the money that flows from Australia’s biggest native title settlement following months of tumult.
Perpetual, the trustee of the Noongar Boodja Trust established as part of the historic $1.3bn settlement struck by former Liberal premier Colin Barnett, on Monday gave the corporation a suspension notice, telling the three remaining board members to go into administration.
Chaos within Whadjuk has included a months-long stalemate during which two people insisted they were both the chairperson, and surprise redundancies last month that left the corporation with just one paid staff member.
Why are we not surprised, Leaners!
Just bought tickets to Banksy show.
I once spotted a small one in the wild, back of the English pub in Lake St. Next visit, gorn.
The “Banksy” phenomenon is bust.
Regime-approved dissident.
I was this many years old when I discovered that Chivas Regal may be drunk if the Glenfiddich is running low, without resorting to water or ice to choke it down.
The man gets it again. M Steyn.
I turned 50 today.
I spent 10 minutes looking into the mirror thinking about my stupid mistakes.
I am good. Moving on.
Steve, coming up 72, got news for you mate, the mistakes don’t stop at 50.
Moving on? Is that in the manner of The Lying Slapper or just trying to outrun the mistakes as they catch up?
You’ve got 10 years to go. Typically, they’re not good.
Many happy returns, Steve!
still a baby.
Happy Birthday.
Looking good mate!
Well, happy birthday Steve.
I’ve got another five hundred days or so to go yet… I plan similar stoic celebrations. Or, I might go sailing in Sweden while I’ve still got enough life in me to pay off a holiday loan…
Mistakes?
No. They are merely auditions. You’ll get your lines right eventually. 😀
I forgot to add something.
Happy birthday.
That trickle isn’t going to turn back into a stream, sadly.
Anytime you walk past a toilet use it.
John Spooner.
SFL’s will look at this cartoon and still not work out where they’re going wrong.
Mark Knight.
Ha, ha, ha……………
Fair Plibbers looks set to be left at the alter again. The Liars Skeletor.
Mark Knight #2.
Clever.
Peter Broelman.
Too soon?
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
More on the the greentards in today’s Tele :
GREENS’ ANZAC PARTY OFF
16 Apr 2025
The Greens have backflipped on holding a dance party fundraiser on Anzac Day.
The event page and an Instagram post about the planned fundraiser in Perth were pulled hours after the hard left minor party faced backlash over the scheduled party.
The event was slated to be held on April 25 at a West Perth tattoo parlour and licensed venue to raise fund for the Greens candidate in the seat of Perth, Sophie Greer. The event was selling single tickets for $30 with the option to donate as well.
In a statement, the Greens confirmed the event had been put off to another date, but did not say to when.
“The event originally scheduled for 25 April has been rescheduled.’’
<snigger snort!!!>
This is all part of a long term strategy.
First Australia Day, then ANZAC Day.
..and all the while, all in for the all-new Holy Month of Ramadan, Queer Pride Month, and Aboriginal Pride Month.
Lets not forget this ….
this
grrr…. image wont attachy…. this from the Greens
Tucker Carlson:
The Left Loves to Wink and Nod at Its Own Violent Radicals
The left is obsessed with studying extremism and political violence – and it’s hard not to blame them.
Political violence is becoming a major problem in the second Trump era, and unfortunately, more and more citizens seem not only to be embracing radical views online but acting on them in real life.
Just take a look at Nikita Casap, the Wisconsin teenager who allegedly murdered his parents and plotted to assassinate Donald Trump. Many news stories are pointing to Casap’s deranged Satanic and Neo-Nazi views, but are ignoring his alleged connection to a contact in Ukraine and his plan to flee to the Eastern European country after using a “weapon of mass destruction” on the president.
Or all the Tesla terrorists who firebombed dealerships and charging stations across the country, and spray-painted the electric cars with swastikas and anti-Trump and anti-Musk slogans.
Or the self-avowed socialist who firebombed the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion while Josh Shapiro and his family slept inside. The suspect, 38-year-old Cody Balmer, supported Black Lives Matter and even glorified political violence on social media.
Take your pick.
But of course, corporate media and so-called “experts” in extremism consistently blame the normalization of political violence on the right, rather than examining themselves. In fact, the left will often condemn right-wing political violence while shrugging off – or even ‘winking’ at – the violence from their own side.
CNN’s recent interview with Taylor Lorenz perfectly captures this twisted dynamic.
CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, who’s producing a program on extremism for the network, made an absurd claim Friday that right-wing extremism is worse than left-wing extremism.
“I guess what we’re looking at here is obviously, you know, when it comes to extremism in this country, I mean, the issue very much so is on the right, on the far-right, from, you know, from Charlottesville to January 6th,” O’Sullivan said. “There isn’t exactly an equivalent on the left in this moment.”
And then during his interview with Lorenz that aired Sunday, O’Sullivan laughed off the journalist’s notion that CEO killer Luigi Mangione was a “morally good man.” The pair also compared support for Trump to support for Mangione.
It’s pretty clear why O’Sullivan, Lorenz and countless others on the left are playing this game. They don’t care about political violence. They are simply pushing the narrative left-wing activists want to hear. They are trying to service a political goal and play lip service to so-called principles.
When the left want to do whataboutism they can only point to J6.
Funny thing is that there are no earlier eruptions of violence from the right, and there have been none since.
On the day most of the crowd was as well behaved as you will have come to expect from the people who, when they do hold public gatherings, are so civic minded that they leave the areas cleaner than they found them.
At the location where riot broke out there is footage of police firing tear gas and rubber bullets unprovoked into the crowd, as well as people identifying ‘Feds’.
‘Right wing’ violence – as in people who voted from Trump (and as opposed to sporadic neo-Nazi violence – which is generally racist like BLM and properly of the left) – is not really a thing.
J6 was “an eruption of violence” from (a) plants in the crowd, many of whom looked like antifa for hire, and (b) police and security who were responsible for at least two deaths – of women – on the day.
Then they’ll have fun in a Chile-like replay, won’t they?
Claims of innocence won’t make much headway when all the violence they give a wink and a nod to, start to come true.
The internet is forever, all you leftist idiots.
Resolve needed. Tight legislation, no leftie bleeding heart judges, more jails, more mental institutions. Throw the book continually at the mongrels as is happening with Tesla crims and those inclined will soon be reminded of, or mugged by reality.
Labor’s flagship $8.5bn election policy promising Australians won’t need a credit card to see a doctor has sparked a growing backlash from GPs and medical leaders, who insist many doctors won’t make the switch and not all patients will be bulk-billed.
As Anthony Albanese stood up in the battleground Tasmanian seat of Lyons on Tuesday and said three times more people would get to see a doctor for free under his policies, a growing cohort of doctors was warning patients not to expect a free consult by simply producing a Medicare card, and urging them to ask their GP if they would switch to bulk-billing.
BUT
But the nation’s peak doctors’ body has flatly said that not all patients will be bulk-billed as a result of the incentives policy and also questions whether the majority of practices would be better off fully bulk-billing as rebates remained depressed. It also is disappointed that the incentives boosts run counter to serious health policy reform.
Other grassroots doctors’ forums have carried out straw polls in which doctors have expressed reluctance to shift to the new model because it would cost their practices money.
Now leading doctors’ organisations have echoed their concerns. Australian Medical Association president Danielle McMullen said people should not expect to walk into a GP practice and be seen for free.
“It’s always hard to know until the program starts, but certainly we don’t think it’s going to have the impact the government’s been saying, that nine out of 10 people will be able to walk into a general practice and have a bulk billed consultation,” said Dr McMullen, who is a GP.
“We don’t think that that’s the outcome it will achieve. In a cost-of-living crisis, the idea that you could promise free healthcare in an election setting, that seems appealing at a first glance. But this isn’t a policy that has been through broad consultation with the sector.
“On the odd consultation, it will make it a bit easier for us to offer a bulk-billing discount. But the bulk-billing policy change is unlikely to have the impact the government says, and our real frustration is that it doesn’t fix the structural reforms to Medicare that are needed.
“It is important to understand that not all doctors are going to switch to fully bulk-billing, and patients should have a conversation with their practice about what the changes may mean for them.”
Oz
And the comments aren’t supporting Elbow:
Peter
Had a gut full of Albo’s promises that are aimed solely at gathering votes and many that are unworkable and post the election will be walked back or severely attenuated. Every day another billion or so. They are economy wreckers and their profligate spending is continuing and gathering pace. We just cannot afford Labor. All Australians will pay dearly for a long time with these guys at the wheel. This level of pork barrelling is unprecedented.
Gary
If they didn’t take so much of our money in tax, we could easily afford the occasional visit to the doctor.
Geoffrey
Labor’s pushing a Medicare policy built on an assumption not unlike ” if we build it, they will come”. In truth, Labor doesn’t know what the bulk-billing uptake by doctors will be and after the $275 fiasco, I am surprised they are promising once again what they can’t control. I’d suggest they’ve even promised it more than 98 times his time. Will Albanese repeat his last guarantee, “I don’t think, I know.”?
northofsouth
In my experience you value things you pay for more than that which you get for free. I value my medical service and am prepared to pay. Having lived in the UK, I can assure you, the “free” NHS was not fit for purpose. Socialised health care results in lower availability and quality of care.
Free healthcare is invariably rationed healthcare, and the dominant relationship between medical practices and government. The patient is the thing argued over, not served.
Then we have the political response to reports of problems: “We will increase spending on health by…” But since you cannot increase the number of doctors anywhere near as fast of easily as a bureaucrats, that is where the money is spent.
Besides, if you take on another doctor or nurse, it is not just just the cost of their salaries but all the expensive procedures and medicines they will dispense throughout the year. Easier to get 5 bureaucrats.
Free healthcare is invariably rationed healthcare
and it isnt ‘free’ …. if it was, it wouldn’t cost 30 billion dollars a year and thats just medicare … the PBS adds another 12b
Land of Poms and pong.
Unions threaten to cripple whole of UK with bin strikes as Labour told ‘get a grip!’ (14 Apr)
It’s a fun fiasco since Labour is hard left, therefore they certainly aren’t going to take on the unions. But the councils that pay the bin-men are skint and can’t afford to give them the pay rise they are demanding.
If the UK councils are anything like the ones here, they are absolute squander monkeys and need a DOGE style reckoning
Local councils in the UK are limited in how much they can raise rates to keep up with expenses and have their budgets topped up by Whitehall, which is essentially broke. Services and maintenance grants (e.g. to fox pot holes) are being cut by the Labour government to save money.
IPSOS Poll:
The rest of the article is not particularly bad for Labor though.
With that sort of concern it’s evident if the electorate put them back in then they deserve all they get.
Then again governments lose power, oppositions don’t win it.
I think immigration is under represented. That and the cost of living are the 2 biggest issues I hear talk about.
Missed the Canavan / Bolte face to face last night. Probably just as well, I am a great fan of Canavan, & think he is the most underrated pollie in Oz. A committed Aussie with traditional values, a damn good brain and greater integrity than most pollies.
We are on the road at the moment, so just reading back comments from yesterday. I noted flyingduk’s comments re the Fourth Turning. Totally agree we are deep in that now.
I read it years ago (its a bloody hard read) but certainly seems to be coming true now, and is being increasingly mentioned by the historically aware comentariat.
While I was away:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Esc4cYpPM/
How is Elsie?
She’s good, but the house is knee deep in fur as she sheds her summer coat and puts on the winter one.
Apparently she – after a year of bolting whenever old mate comes over for coffee, by day two she was waiting at the door for him to dole out the food.
Faithless hussy.
Seems the Eurotrash got a lot of pushback on the proposal to ban carbon fiber from 2029. Wonder why?
That’s what it looks like to me.
Murdoch Empire Targets Trump on Tariffs (Newsmax, 15 Apr)
The Oz has been carrying a lot of Trump-critical WSJ articles lately. I don’t subscribe but the stories are tagged as coming from the WSJ in their urls. I don’t know why the Murdochs are so hostile. James, yes, I can understand since he’s a greenie, but Rupert and Lachlan you’d think would be supportive.
The TDS even extends down to the local Murdoch owned rag in these parts.
No Coles mince for these, sorry BoN.
Blue-faced honey eater drinking deeply from the nectar-rich flowers.
Picture by, Jerry Coleby-Williams
Director, Seed Savers Network
Patron, HOPE
No connection whatsoever, just like the picture and thought others might as well.
My ones only get bits of bread. No mince. They arrive on wet days when they can’t get nectar from flowers. Right now I can see one out the office window – she’s working her way around the camellia flowers.
@RealMacReport
Leavitt: “The President made it clear to Harvard: Follow federal law, no longer break Title VI. The President is also begging a good question: More than $2 billion out the door to Harvard when they have a more than $50 billion endowment. Why are American taxpayers subsidizing a university that has billions of dollars in the bank already.”
Yes they do have 50 B but what is the return on that?
That is what they have to budget on, using the capital up won’t last long, so 2 B is a lot of money.
yep, a 4% return on 50b = 2b a year, so DOGE will cut their income in half.
Their budget includes the high fees they charge on top of the $2B.
@MikeBenzCyber
George Soros – Where He Fits In The Structure Of The Blob
With that sort of concern it’s evident if the electorate put them back in then they deserve all they get.
I think it was JC who said, a month ago, that the Oz electorate needs another three years of ‘them’. The electorate hasn’t learned its lesson. It doesn’t help that the Coalition is a pale facsimile of ‘them’ and is offering little difference.
It’s why I’m voting Green.
Not doing it to be nasty, doing it for some tough love.
It’s why you allow your teenage kids to drink a small amount of alcohol at home with the occasional meal – that’s to teach them the effects of alcohol in the ultimate ‘safe space’. They are aware of the effect of alcohol if someone spikes a drink, and they know it’s time to get the hell out of there.
I just want to know where Trump touched Blot.
Why can’t any of our useless pollies stand up and say something like this?
State Department Nominee Sarah Rogers: Terms Like Disinformation Have Lost Their Meaning, I Will Bring Transparency
Because our ‘Pollies’ are a load of ‘R Soles’.
Oh yeah.
Watched another series this week. Murderer in the family story. So many dead end red herrings and threads never tied up that you’re left annoyed at the laziness of the script writer.
Not having a resolution is not being clever.
EXCLUSIVE: State Department Axes $214 Million in Foreign Grants, From Cash for ‘Newsroom Sustainability’ in Moldova to ‘Media Diversity’ in the UK
@BreannaMorello
JUST IN
Almost 20,000 IRS employees are accepting the Trump administration’s second deferred buyout offer, according to Bloomberg.
That’s roughly one-fifth of the agency.
JC at 20:21
This is defective logic.
I accept that it is most probably true that higher intelligence is associated with greater ability to earn a high income.
However, higher incomes tend to come with higher responsibilities, more stress, longer hours, and normally require a dedicated focus on one’s career for many years on end.
Many people do not want that. Many people are quite happy to make do with an income significantly less than what they could potentially earn.
Years ago, one of my bosses asked me why I didn’t become a doctor. Said I had the capability to do so.
No way. I’m too lazy. Have you seen the hours and stuff they have to do just to train and keep up with current stuff?
Exactly.
And besides, what would you do with all the extra money? You can’t take it with you. It would probably end up being taxed or squandered.
If I were a betting man, I’d wager that not many people on their death bed are saying to themselves, “I should have spent more time at the office.”
My God, the hideous Hogarthian gin slag is a disgrace….
During a meeting with one of Sydney’s leading media executives, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the media scrutiny made her feel like a domestic violence victim.
I’m sure she meant that the media scrutiny made her feel like domestic violence perpetrator, except she is really a public violence perpetrator.
What does this nasty slag even mean?
Is se implying that domestic violence sufferers are somehow victimized all over again by undue media scrutiny?
Not a NSW resident, but if I was I wouldn’t care a jot about how you feel, Karen.
Do the job you’re handsomely paid to do or get out and let someone else have a go.
Wow!
I wonder how she would define the term “genocide”?
Dover.
This place is GOLD.
They all know.
@MdBreathe
Cover-up caught on camera! ER staff at @bswhealth call security on @Berkeley4peace after admitting shots cause heart damage.
@libsoftiktok
Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman admits the quiet part out loud:
She says Democrats are meeting behind closed doors with leftist attorney generals in order to coordinate lawfare against President Trump
@DawnsMission
The drug Remdesivir is so dangerous that it was pulled in 2019 when used as a Ebola drug but somehow Fauci got it approved as the hospital Covid protocol with kickbacks to hospitals from the government to use it.
The drug is most likely responsible for most of the “Covid” deaths in the hospitals.
People need to refuse this drug if they are admitted to the hospital with COVID because it continues to be used today.
I hope Monty doesn’t refuse it.
The drug Remdesivir is so dangerous that it was pulled in 2019 when used as a Ebola drug
Quite, if untreated ebola has a higher survival rate than remdesivir, wtf would you take it for a cold?
I didn’t watch Blot last night, in fact I don’t watch him much anymore and I don’t miss him. I find him tedious, I wish he’d retire and Sky put in James Macpherson instead.
The truth is that Blot is wobbly on a lot of stuff, he goes on about free speech but his record on free speech is somewhat imperfect. I recall his hysterical hectoring and denunciations of Mark Latham two years ago after Latham wrote, on X, some unkind words about a sinister homosexual politician’s sexual acts.
The truth is that Blot blows with the wind. He was courageous on Cardinal Pell and kol hakavod to him for that but on most other things he’s not very courageous.
Cassie, I don’t think it’s about courage, so much. He is just extraordinarily opinionated. He rarely concedes that there are other viewpoints that have merit.
I agree that Macpherson could be a good successor.
@BreannaMorello
JUST IN
Aliakbar Mohammad Amin was arrested for sending threatening text messages targeting the life of DNI Tulsi Gabbard and her husband.
One message reportedly read, “Prepare to die, you, Tulsi, and everyone you hold dear. America will burn.”
Amin also allegedly shared an image of himself pointing a gun at a photo of Gabbard.
He now faces federal charges.
probably ‘taken out of context’ I would think?
@MdBreathe
My first patient today went into afib 6 hours after his 3rd covid shot. Cardiologist said nothing. I hear these stories all day long.
Another day in northern Oz:
Miriam Bowenda, 39, of Aurukun, jailed for beating her drinking companion unconscious
An Aurukun woman who attacked her female drinking companion with a metal walking crutch that she took from an amputee has been jailed for the “extremely dangerous” daylight attack in a Cairns park.
Magistrate Leanne Scoines described the assault on the woman and on the man whose walking crutch she used, as “inappropriate and extremely dangerous street violence that must be condemned”.
Miriam Bowenda, 39, of Aurukun, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm in company while armed on August 24, 2024 and was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment.
She also pleaded guilty to twice stealing alcohol from the Edmonton BWS in October and November 20204, which had a combined total value of $526, and for failing to appear in court, for which she received an additional one-month sentence.
Cairns Magistrates Court was told the attack occurred behind the Cock and Bull pub, where Bowenda had been drinking with at least three friends, including the female victim, a young relative and the 61-year-old man who owned the walking crutch.
An disagreement broke out and the violence escalated quickly, Ms Scoines said.
The court was told Bowenda struck the female victim several times across the head and face before the 61-year-old man rolled his body into the path of the blows to help the victim.
He was attacked too.
“The (first) victim received several blows to the face and head, rendering her unconscious — this type of street violence must be condemned.” Ms Scoines said.
“It is aggravated by the fact that one of the victims was an elderly man with obvious incapacity issues.”
Defence solicitor Madison Thieme said Bowenda had grown up amid “extreme violence and drinking”, and had herself been drinking heavily on the day of the attack.
She said Bowenda had been struggling with alcohol issues for some time and her recent stint in prison was a “wake-up call”.
The court was told Bowenda was on parole for other offences when the attacks occurred.
Magistrate Scoines set Bowenda’s parole eligibility date at July 26, 2025.
Courier-Mail with no comments allowed
A note to the Libs and Nats: this is what happens when you give the people what they want.
Seven in Ten Believe ‘Britain Is Broken’ as Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Soars in Polls (15 Apr)
The punters want net zero booted and country shoppers deported. The council elections will be interesting. I think Starmer cancelled the ones they were most afraid of losing to Farage, but if the swing follows these numbers the result will shake both establishment parties like an earthquake.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Dia De Los Muertos 2024 family festival in Canoga Park, CA (4 of 4)
I’m sure she meant that the media scrutiny made her feel like domestic violence perpetrator, except she is really a public violence perpetrator.
Perfectly said. Webb is despicable.
BREAKING: Top Hegseth Advisor Escorted Out of Pentagon For Leaking – Dan Caldwell Was Also Part of the Mike Waltz Houthi Chat Group
@nataliegwinters
The Chinese Progressive Association gave Judge Indira Talwani its Workers Justice award in 2012.
This group has deep ties to the CCP.
This judge is now trying to stop Trump from reversing legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants allowed in by Biden.
Is Civil War Coming to Europe?
Obama calls Trump’s freeze of Harvard funding ‘unlawful’
@EricLDaugh
WOW, EVEN CNN? Chief legal correspondent Paula Reid goes on the news and says Trump is *NOT* violating the Supreme Court ruling by not flying Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.
Will Democrats listen now?
“They did NOT order the administration to return him to the United States. They said that they need to facilitate his return. They could have said ‘we order him returned,’ but they didn’t do that.”
@StephenM and @MarcoRubio said this yesterday in the Oval Office, and so did AG Bondi.
“The Supreme Court appeared to defer to the executive branch given that this is an international matter, and you see, yes, it does look a little bit like a semantic game, but they are playing within the bounds of what the Supreme Court ruled.”
“So no, they are not defying this order.”
What do you do now, Democrats, when you lost CNN?
Total embarassment.
Nolte — Peak Trump: President Surges To Highest Approval Rating Since Inauguration
“Safe” Plant-Based Plastics Linked to Organ Damage
Posh private school DEI events canceled amid ‘evolving political and legal landscape’
Snoozer Kelly has pulled another fevered column from his geriatric arse for today’s Paywallian. The Lieborals are bad but this is worse.
Am I missing something here?
WTF does Prez Fatty Trump have to do with next month’s Australian feral erection, especially given we are currently subject to the increasingly arbitrary idiocy of the most incompetent malicious coven of corruptocrat cretins to have cursed this country in my lifetime?
This “orange ‘itler is evil” phenomenon is the product of the malignant stupidity and dishonesty of our beloved braindead lamestream meeja and the incurious credulity of the vast bulk of the electorate. Blot has been banging his TDS drum incessantly, trying desperately to assert some connection to labore’s seemingly miraculous recovery in their electoral prospects to Fatty Trump’s prezidency.
It’s an absolute load o’ bollocks that bears as much relation to reality as anything spewing forth from albansleazy’s fetid cakehole.
BTW, the labore spruikers were out in force today, at Sydenham and Central stations. Had to physically restrain myself from giving them a deafening gobful. Effing infuriating ignorant morons.
Alleged Northern Territory chase teen ‘on bail for car theft’Liam Mendes
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A teenager arrested for allegedly driving a stolen Land-Cruiser and chasing police with it in a remote Northern Territory community was on bail at the time for car theft and was recently sentenced for his involvement in three extra stolen car incidents.
It can be revealed the 19-year-old was bailed by a Territory judge less than a month ago for his involvement in an alleged car theft in 2024 for which he is still before the courts, and he had also pleaded guilty to three other 2023 incidents involving car thefts.
The 19-year-old and a 21-year-old were both remanded in custody on Monday after they were arrested at the weekend, charged with chasing police in a stolen Toyota flat-bed Land-Cruiser in a remote community more than 350km from Darwin.
The men are accused of rear-ending the fleeing police car, and have been charged with 14 and 12 offences respectively, including driving a motor vehicle without consent, endanger occupants of vehicles, assault member of police force, drive motor vehicle while unlicensed and breach of bail.
The 19-year-old was also charged with going armed in public, damage to property, failing to obey the direction of a police officer and failing to display L-plates.
He was given bail by Territory judge Stephen Geary on March 19 after being charged with multiple counts of driving a motor vehicle without consent, aggravated robbery, failure to obey direction of police, aggravated recklessly endangering serious harm, damage to property, theft and trespass.
From the worst australian
Policing to keep us all safe /sarc
A Katanning man who resisted police after they mistakenly arrested him after confusing a TV remote for a weapon has been fined.
Ralph Adrian Wallam appeared in Albany Magistrates Court via video link from Albany Regional Prison on Thursday, April 10 and pleaded guilty to one charge of obstructing public officers.
Police attended the 28-year-old’s Katanning home in the early hours of February 6 after a neighbour complained about a loud party.
When they entered, officers saw Wallam pointing a TV remote in an “aggressive manner” at another person and asking him to leave.
Believing the remote was a “different weapon”, police asked Wallam to drop it before arresting him.
Wallam struggled and refused to get in the police vehicle, saying he hadn’t done anything wrong, and he wouldn’t leave the house without his bumbag.
Other occupants of the house then surrounded the officers as they tried to load Wallam into the car, only moving away after police deployed pepper spray.
Defence lawyer Kyah Langdon said Wallam was on parole after serving several years in prison and, concerned he would be imprisoned again, wanted to bring a bumbag containing his deceased grandmother’s valuables.
Ms Langdon said Wallam admitted he should have respected police more.
Ms Langdon also said the stress of the incident caused him to drink alcohol, breaching a community-based order.
He was subsequently made to serve the remainder of his sentence until April 21.
Magistrate Erin O’Donnell admonished police for their “assumption” about what Wallam was holding but agreed he escalated the matter by resisting arrest.
She fined him $700 with costs of $300.
The same useless cops that are supposed to be the ones to determine our ability to own rifles.
Ms Langdon said Wallam admitted he should have respected police more.
If I recall, respect must be *earned* whereas fear can be commanded.
It’s an easy mistake to make, especially when speedily attempting to turn off idiots like Dr Mutton and albansleazy after they’ve invaded my living room.
Bugger, there goes another tv after I could’nt tell the difference. Sounds like more BS from useless effing cops.
Dud judge.
Somali Criminal Allowed To Stay In UK Because Deportation Would “Stress” Him Out (15 Apr)
Clearly the Left has thoroughly colonized the beak establishment. Which is not a surprise really, it would’ve been a priority for them. Ah well it was a nice civilization while it lasted, pity it is now collapsing.
The Tories didn’t listen.
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Nobody should ever vote for the Australian Nazi Party aka the Greens.
When I was an apprentice forty years ago, the government had a program for the disabled.
Yes. Even 20 years ago disabled were commonly in “sheltered workshops”. A friend had a Down’s syndrome kid who loved going and packing rubber bands. A win win for all. Now the NDIS just throws money around so they can play video games all day.
When the NDIS was first proposed it was going to pay for itself through participants gaining employment and becoming taxpayers.
I suspect there were some heroic assumptions behind that thought.
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.
And there it is.
Your journey to the dark side is complete.
Hey Duk,
You should read An Enemy of the People, if you haven’t already done so.
Besides being a brilliant drama, I reckon you might relate to much of it.
We’re now moving into the next phase of the net zero madness: renewables are dying of old age. And they aren’t very old age.
Solar Alert! Rooftop Decay, Facility Decommissioning (15 Apr)
Very likely the same here. A lot of people are going to be very unhappy. Good luck Albo with your $2.3 billion home battery brain fart, as the solar panels to charge the frigging things will now be expiring due to wear and tear at an accelerating rate.