What to do when the government broadcaster publishes such stuff, apart from assuming the government agrees with it?

Winston, this is why I hold the Coalition as much as Labor responsible for the ABC’s attacks on mainstream Australians and western civilisation in general. They must promise to reign in the ABC financially and politically if they want my vote.

If they are too squishy to get in amongst the issues the simplest thing is to break it up and sell off what is not useful.

Peta Credlin delivers Albanese’s political obituary:

Shameful legacy from poor leadership

Peta Credlin, The Courier Mail, 12 October, 2024

It’s hard to credit that it could have happened so quickly, yet with at least six months to go in its first term, the Albanese government looks to be on the verge of disintegration. Its legislation has stalled, its forward agenda is threadbare, its senior members are at odds, and it appears to have lost any moral compass. And yet most of them, including the Prime Minister and his office, appear to be in denial about how bad things are.

The government’s inability to commemorate the slaughter of Israeli men, women and children as the result of a terrorist attack with a simple condolence motion shows how far modern Labor has travelled from the days of Bob Hawke, who famously said that “if the bell tolls for Israel, it tolls for all mankind”.

As things stood on the evening of October 7 last year, there was only one victim – and that was Israel, with 1200 civilians killed and 250 taken hostage.

If the government really felt it necessary to mourn equally those dead in Israel’s counter-attack, it could have waited a week or so and moved a separate resolution, perhaps on the anniversary of Israel’s incursion into Gaza. Instead, by trying to conflate the victims of a terrorist atrocity with the dead civilians that Hamas and Hezbollah use as human shields, the Albanese government diminished itself, as well as spelt the end of Australia’s historic bipartisanship in support of Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself.

The inability of senior ministers to articulate a uniform position on anything to do with the Middle East, and the PM’s unedifying insistence that his position was the same as Joe Biden’s, when clearly it was not, just added to the sense of drift and confusion that began when Treasurer Jim Chalmers reportedly leaked that the government was looking to revisit the tax treatment of rental properties and capital gains.

Then there was the obvious trickery of rushing in legislation to prevent the privatisation of the NBN, that no one has proposed, that could only be sold at a massive loss, and that even Kevin Rudd said should eventually be sold.

Seriously, does no one in the PM’s office do their homework before trying on a political stunt in case it backfires like this?

Add in the government’s equally transparent game-playing with a Labor-dominated parliamentary committee inquiry into the feasibility of nuclear power to report a few weeks prior to the likely May election.

Rather than govern the country, it seems ministerial offices in Canberra are fixated on political games, when Australians are struggling to afford even the basics.

And speaking of ministerial offices, the shock press conference last week from Defence Minister Richard Marles’ chief of staff, who claims to have been bullied out of her job, is a big problem.

It’s less about the hypocritical contrast between Labor’s alleged treatment of this former diplomat-turned-staffer – and its sanctimonious weaponisation of the Brittany Higgins situation – and more about the inertia this saga creates in one of the most important offices in the country.

Is it any wonder that defence experts are alarmed at our lack of military preparedness, bumbling speeches from the minister, budget blowouts and lagging decision-making if internal issues inside his office are not resolved and allowed to fester like this? To keep someone on full pay yet ban her from her office for months is like nothing I have seen, but it speaks volumes to me about what else is happening behind closed doors.

Even on the current polls, the Albanese government is all but certain to have to do a deal with the Greens, post-election, to stay in office. And this is before most voters are even focused on the election.

If the polls are bad now, they are only likely to get worse because, let’s not forget, Labor was elected in 2022 on a record low 32 per cent primary vote. If a first-term margin is supposed to be your high-water mark, that’s grim, isn’t it? Add in the fact that a government vying for a second term usually has a record to run on, but ask yourself this: What has the Albanese government achieved?

Albanese and Dutton clash over October 7 massacre motion

After six quarters of negative growth in per capita GDP, meaning the country is in a sharp recession, there’s no way that most voters will feel better off under the Albanese government.

The second question voters normally ask is: Does the opposition deserve my vote? Unlike state Liberal oppositions, Peter Dutton is offering people a clear alternative to Labor based on conviction – supporting emissions-free nuclear power, wanting sharply reduced immigration, and offering first homebuyers a leg-up into the housing market. Overwhelmingly, people will make a choice based on who they think will best help them keep their head above water as the cost of living continues to bite.

But, increasingly, character will play out, too – both the character of the person chosen to lead us and the character of our country that we’ve seen on display recently over the Voice and Middle Eastern problems imported here.

All elections matter but it’s hard to see one that matters more than this.

IT’S GAME OVER IF ALBO GETS HIS WAY ON MUZZLING FREE SPEECH

The Albanese government’s “Misinformation Bill” is the biggest assault on freedom of speech ever attempted in Australia.

The fact that Labor wants to try to ram it through the parliament before the next election says it all.

And confirmation of its chilling impact on debate came courtesy of Aboriginal activist and Uluru Statement from the Heart co-author Megan Davis, who recently castigated Labor for not legislating against so-called misleading campaigns advocating a “No” vote.

Reflecting on the 12-month anniversary of the Voice defeat, on Monday, Davis argues that the laws before the parliament now would have helped defeat the “Trumpian” lies of the No campaign.

What Trumpian lies?

During the Voice debate, I spent months and months highlighting what Davis and other Indigenous leaders had said on the record over six years – in speeches, published articles and interviews – about the breadth of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which was a long manifesto that included treaties and reparations.

There was no lie in any of my material. In fact, I used their own words and official government documents issued under a Freedom of Information application to the legal section of the government’s peak Indigenous department.

Without a free media and freedom of speech, none of this would have come out. As it was, some of what I said was taken off social media until lawyers at Sky News and this paper demonstrated it as fact, and it was forced to be reinstated.

If the Prime Minister gets his new laws, it’s game over for debate in this country and our democracy will be fundamentally constrained.

For those who voted No this time last year, the fight is still not over.

This Is a Slow-Motion Nationalization of the Economy

Daniel Lacalle, Mises Wire, 6th October 2024

Global liquidity is expanding. In the past three months, the global money supply has soared by $4.7 trillion. This rapid increase started when the Federal Reserve panicked the first time and delayed the normalization of the balance sheet in June.

Since then, we have seen a chain of fresh stimulus policies implemented by developed economies, adding to the large fiscal packages already in place. Multi-trillion-dollar investment packages like the EU Next Generation Fund now include massive deficit spending plans. However, money velocity is not rising. All these programs only lead to secular stagnation. Government projects and current expenditures are consuming money at an unprecedented rate.

Developed economies cannot live without new and larger spending plans. The result is more debt, weaker productivity growth, and declining real wages.

In a recent report, Bank of America showed that the rise of unproductive debt has created a significant problem for the United States economy. For every dollar of new government debt, the gross domestic product impact has slumped to less than fifty cents. The United States is drowning in unproductive debt. However, at least the United States has some productivity growth. If we look at the euro area, the negative multiplier effect of new government debt is extremely evident. Despite enormous stimulus plans and negative nominal rates, the euro area has been stagnating for years.

Many of you may believe that bad policies and careless government spending are to blame, but I think this is intentional. It is a slow process of nationalizing the economy. Slowly depleting the middle class’s savings due to consistently declining real wages, the government expands its influence in the economy, garnering support from a substantial portion of the populace.

Market participants love this. A new stimulus plan means more money printing, which will bring more liquidity to markets and fuel multiple expansions regardless of weak economic figures. However, my esteemed colleagues should be wiser when hailing the next stage of financial repression. Discontent is rising among citizens, and one way or another, this will end badly.

Debt crises may not appear the same way as they used to. It is not a cataclysmic event but a slow boiling that leads to the same impoverishment.

Neo-Keynesians look at the past four years of the United States economy and claim victory. However, for many in the United States middle class, their impoverishment over the past four years has been like that of Greek citizens in 2009.

When central banks think of a soft landing, they are looking at a gradual erosion of the purchasing power of salaries and deposits. This is precisely what we are experiencing, compounded by the additional burden of higher taxes. There is no such thing as a soft landing. Only government bureaucrats and those who can conceal their wealth from money destruction can benefit from a soft landing.

This new increase in money supply may not bring a fresh burst of inflation because money velocity is not rising as well. However, that means lower investment, lower growth, and lower productivity. Market prices, multiple expansions, and bubbles may appear again, while families and small businesses find themselves in a tougher spot.

The back-to-back chain of stimulus plans shows the failure of Keynesian policies. We used to witness the introduction of a new spending and rate-cutting program a few years after the previous one. Now, governments simply add new programs on top of each other and claim that the economy is about to turn the corner.

Government spending consumes the majority of newly created money, leaving the productive economy with decreasing access to credit, declining currency purchasing power, and wealth confiscation through taxes and currency printing.

According to the most recent OECD report, inflation will be 3.5% with a global growth rate of 3.3% in 2025. The introduction of massive new spending and financial repression programs has resulted in 80% of OECD countries experiencing annual inflation that exceeds their central banks’ target. There is a global policy of absorbing productive and private sector wealth. A few years ago, someone dared to say, “You will not have anything, but you will be happy,” and most people understood the dangers of that promise. Nowadays, no one says it anymore. They’re just implementing it slowly. You will be poorer. Protect yourself from inflation and financial repression, or you will be a dependent subclass.

“Developed economies cannot live without new and larger spending plans. The result is more debt, weaker productivity growth, and declining real wages.”

The Australian economy’s malady diagnosed.

Even if the Commonwealth were to stop spending, the states are addicted to it.

California rejects further SpaceX rocket launches after Musk’s ‘aggressive’ presidential race involvement (msn.com)

It is the California Coastal Commission. AFAIK a bunch of Karens.
?They can’t actually stop launches from Vandenberg which is a DoD facility.

The Divide: Elites vs People | Matt Goodwin

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

 October 13, 2024 12:42 pm

ISIS sex slave kidnapped aged 11 is rescued a decade later thanks to TikTok video

Here is a perfect story for Hollywood to turn into a hit movie yet they will run a mile from it. It has drama, war, pathos and heartbreak to hold audiences on the edge of their seats however, Hollywood is no longer in the entertainment business, they have gone full Leni Riefenstahl for the left in general and Democrats in particular.

Maybe the new movie studio working with Kelsey Grammer and John Caviezel will pick it up and turn it into a success. It’s time for a new movie centre to be established in the US south and sunbelt.

Milley was quoted yesterday as saying that if Trump wins he’s afraid of being court marshalled. With good reason, apparently.

@MikeBenzCyber

He knows what he did.

Watching the Victorian edition of the 7 news….

Victoria will see a 400 million shortfall instamp duty revenue caused by falling house prices.

House prices are falling because of increased supply.

Supply has increased because investors are selling

Investors are selling for 2 reasons, 1) land tax 2) rental reforms

Whoduthunkit?

The Victorian Nazis have invaded Corowa in southern NSW, as per Channel 7 news. How convenient? And just when Albo needs a change of subject from the Muslim anti-Semites.

Time for one of cronkite’s cute owls

Lehrmann bid to appeal rape case without putting up $200k suretyStephen Rice
2 hours ago

Bruce Lehrmann returns to court on Monday in a bid to launch an appeal against the rape finding by judge Michael Lee without having to provide a $200,000 surety demanded by the Ten Network, or pay the $2m legal costs that have been awarded against him.
Mr Lehrmann wants the Full Court of the Federal Court to overturn Justice Lee’s ruling that on the balance of probabilities, the former Liberal Party staffer raped his former colleague Brittany ­Higgins in the then ministerial office of senator Linda Reynolds in Parliament House in March 2019.
Justice Lee ruled that Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson did not defame Mr Lehrmann when airing an interview with Ms Higgins about the rape on The Project in 2021.
The court was previously told that Mr Lehrmann – now on Centre­link – could be forced into bankruptcy if he couldn’t meet the costs order.
Mr Lehrmann argues that it is in the public interest that the appeal proceeds.
He says that he was denied procedural fairness in his defamation case against Ten and Wilkinson and that Justice Lee failed to properly apply the “Briginshaw principle”, which requires higher standards in civil cases involving serious allegations.