Despicable grifters. Wasting our money to tell us how much they’re bribing us with even more of our own money
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Chris was awarded Anti-Slavery Australia’s Freedom Award, and named in the Top 100 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders Crewther…
Moira returns. There are some valuable lessons here for conservatives and others on the right. Ya see, Moira Deeming was…
From the Hun: Sam Groth will serve a deputy leader. David Davis will become leader of the upper house and…
JA was an ex tennis player. He kept those Gladiators in line!
Funeral for the 11yo taken out in Melbourne’s Auburn South.
So far driver not charged even though there was a death, surely the car would have been checked by the spanners by now and ruled in/out mechanical issues. What’s the delay, if the driver is hysterical to the point of being un-interviewable than tell us or does she already have a pro-bono lawyer from the community she’s from engaged in legal chicanery?
An inspector and senior connie delivering groceries to the perps house, so how can the police carry out an impartial investigation if they are hand petting & acting as social workers?
Lastly I’m wary especially after Southport jumping at shadows but rumours elsewhere driver was a recent immigrant (Fits with the p-plates) from the Arabic speaking region.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/beautiful-boy-funeral-for-schoolboy-jack-davey-killed-after-car-crashed-through-school-fence/news-story/68a0e08f34f5e7881ac637eb1f76bb8d
If anything from Southport again the authorities need to be open and forthright otherwise we get the information abhorring the vacuum. Vic Pol already have public trust issues, delivering groceries was a terrible look.
Brace Yourselves: The World’s Already Getting Better, and Trump Isn’t Even Sworn In Yet!
Lead investigator behind seizing of P’Nut the squirrel is unmasked – as officials give an update
Miltonf
November 10, 2024 1:41 pm
Come on, are you for real?
Rosie – November 10, 2024 12:22 pm
Milei at the UN.
https://x.com/HeadWarriorTWM/status/1855372163273863674?t=gfBBNr2UNH4yZmr0nowBYQ&s=19
My takeaway from his speech?
He’s going to claim the Falkland Islands – to which Argentina has no historical right – and Starmer will give it to him.
Outsiders
‘Clean sweep’: Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris in ‘landslide’
Mark Dolan DEMANDS ‘Trump-Style’ REBOOT to SAVE a ‘Declining’ Britain – ‘We NEED a REVOLUTION!’
At the moment, I’m choking on cat fur.
Brushing just gives me a fur collection the size of a cat.
Years ago, I had a rug – the composition of which I don’t remember – and it attracted every bit of pet fur in the house, and clung on to it.
It was great – I never had to vacuum, because every bit of hair/fur or lint would stick to it. It must have been fairly cheap so a synthetic, I imagine.
Anyone have an idea of what it would have been?
is that Elsie?
Gen. Mike Flynn;
https://vigilantnews.com/post/general-flynn-delivers-bone-chilling-post-election-warning/
Brisbane Olympics cost blowouts to surpass $500m
Mackenzie Scott
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Cost blowouts to deliver the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games could climb to $681m, with a major infrastructure project expected to run over budget by half a billion dollars.
The revelation came as Premier David Crisafulli announced that promoted former senator Amanda Stoker to his “next-gen” assistant ministry alongside six other newly-elected MPs.
Necessary upgrades to provide linkages from Brisbane’s Roma St train station to the federal government’s $2.5bn Brisbane Live arena project are expected to run over by up to $500m.
Deputy Premier and State Development and Infrastructure Minister Jarrod Bleijie labelled the blowout as “extraordinary” and said the department had been advised that the cost-analysis of Brisbane Live shows likely blowouts in the federal government’s outlay.
“This is an extraordinary amount of blowouts that the Labor Party have hid from the people of Queensland,” Mr Bleijie said.
“(Opposition leader) Steven Miles needs to apologise for hiding these cost blowouts … no one knew about it, the Labor Party knew about it, and they hid it from the people of Queensland.”
Last week, the new Liberal National government announced three minor venues for the games – Chandler Indoor Sports Centre, Sunshine Coast Indoor Sports Centre and Sunshine Coast Stadium – had already blown out by $181m before a builder was appointed.
The LNP government has committed to a review of Olympic Games venues in its first 100 days, which Mr Crisafulli is was confident will deliver what Queenslander want.
“We’re going to make sure that the state has world-class Games, and that involves world-class venues,” Mr Crisafulli said.
“They’ll get that, and they will also get generational infrastructure.”
The premier also announced his assistant ministry on Sunday, but failed to deliver on his promise of having a dedicated local government minister or assistant minister.
Is there any creature on the planet more deserving of being taken out behind the woodheap than slithery McConnel. His latest stunt is an attempt to rule from the grave. Unfortunately, it will be difficult for Trump to overturn his Rino tresaon if one of his serpent mates is elected. It is extraordinary how many of these ancient pollies are truely evil.
Term limits are an absolute necessity. That applies equally to the Australian Senate populated as it is by barely literate union logs paid a fortune to do nothing other than to leave the bar when the bell rings to vote as they are told.
A feelgood story for the whole family, or so I hear:
A chap in Alice Springs was recently released from prison on parole. For what, you ask? Well, apparently and allegedly and it is said by some, manslaughter.
During his trial, said chap was supposedly represented by a lady person from a Legal Aid agency specifically for indig people – fully funded, I may say, by both the NT and Federal governments.
Early on in his parole period – i.e., Thursday – this chap is supposed to have cut off his ankle monitoring arrangement and went, as they say in the classics, on the lam. His parole was revoked, and the hunt was on.
Jacks attending the chap’s (former) residence were somewhat bewildered to find the legal lady person (apparently) collecting the chap’s belongings.
‘Allo allo allo, what’s all this then?’
‘Oh, I’m his lawyer and going to store these at the office’, she said. Allegedly.
As they also say in the classics, enquiries were then made – which resulted in an Alice hotel room door being kicked in, and the discovery of said manslaughterer and legal aid lady person in the cot. Allegedly and apparently, both are now on the inside looking out.
If this is as reported, expect serious questions to be asked of this taxpayer-funded legal agency, which is already under heavy scrutiny.
Warms the cockles of your heart, it does.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151434920 From the Richardson Post.
Not enough.
Day 2 he needs to commission an investigation into that whole shit-show with a promise that those who are still in the military as at noon on day 2 risk being subjected to court martial for there rank incompetence.
Those who acknowledge their part in the debacle and quit will be exempt providing they did not act in a criminal manner.
And so it starts:
Protesters March in NYC Over President-Elect Donald Trump’s Win
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Late Night isn’t taking this well.
4 great years of memes coming up. One of the best from WIP:
Mandurah crowd turns up for lunch with Pauline Hanson sends warning to major parties ahead of Federal electionRachel FennerMandurah Times
Sun, 10 November 2024 9:24AM
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“Pauline Hanson is not racist at all, tell everyone wherever they come from, she is not racist,” a fired-up Parminder Singh Manj, One Nation’s third-place Senate candidate, told a crowd at Mandurah’s Halls Park on Saturday.
A crowd of about 150 people showed up for lunch with Pauline Hanson who is currently touring WA.
Earlier on Saturday she’d hosted a breakfast in Bunbury, and on Sunday was set to appear at a lunch in Burn’s Beach.
The divisive Queensland pollie received a rock star welcome from the crowd, stopping to take selfies and sign One Nation hats.
This was a buoyed Hanson – different to the woman who earlier in the week broke down on Sky News over a court ruling that found she’d made racist comments about fellow Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
Man behaving badly.
Currently unsupervised at home. (Mrs MS is elsewhere getting her nails done.)
Listening to the genius (A favourite) Itzhak Perlman playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – without any music score in front on him. Extraordinary!
Necking a bottle of red wine as I listen.
Life is good!
Academic Agent – How I Knew Trump Would Win
This Is How You KNOW Jan 6 Was A PsyOp! w/ Tucker Carlson
Federal Election 2025: Voices for Forrest unveils Sue Chapman as candidate for South West WA seatKatina CurtisThe West Australian
Sat, 9 November 2024 9:00PM
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Bunbury surgeon Sue Chapman will be unveiled as the community independent candidate for Forrest, pitching to voters she believes feel forgotten and disillusioned after more than 50 years of Liberal representation.
The Voices for Forrest group will introduce Dr Chapman today as its pick to take on Liberal Ben Small in the federal electorate covering the State’s South West.
Incumbent Nola Marino, who has held the seat since 2007, is retiring at the next election, due by mid-May, and Dr Chapman said the feedback from her community was it’s time for a real change.
“There was a strong sense that they were feeling that they had been forgotten by federal politics. For 50 years, this seat has been held by Liberals and it has, for a very long period of time, been a safe Liberal seat,” she told The Sunday Times.
The new candidate is a teal, and a urologist, who supports wind farms – the jokes about pizz and wind are reaching a high standard..
Rockdoctor
November 10, 2024 1:49 pm
I smelt a rat when, within two hours, Plod was saying that the investigation would “take weeks or months” but then saying it “was a tragic accident”.
I wondered how you could conclude “tragic accident” whilst saying an investigation wasn’t complete and wouldn’t be for months.
Also it is unusual for someone aged in their early 40’s to be on P plates unless they have lost their licence. Whilst mostly sticking to their mantra of “under investigation, no comment will be made” they made one exception. That is, to say she had a “clean driving record”.
The kid glove treatment from VikPlod also heightened my suspicions as well.
It all became clear Friday night whilst having a beer with an old colleague who informs me that she is an immigrant from Iran.
Not nearly.
After Trump installs a brand new loyal executive team in the FBI and NSA, a special investigation team consisting only of Trump/Flynn appointees should be opened on Brennan, Mayorkas, Clapper, Wray and Nuland on charges of suspected treason. Subject them to a public trial broadcast on PBS/X every day with sentencing handed down on a 4th of July.
There really does need to be a reckoning.
Cost blowouts to deliver the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games could climb to $681m
This is where Chrisifulli will lose ground in the regions north of Rocky. If the Katters get some half decent candidates that don’t outshine Robbie this is where the vote will probably end up. If not the ALP will claw back some coastal seats. As it is KAP’s selection is as bad as Pauline’s.
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It all became clear Friday night whilst having a beer with an old colleague who informs me that she is an immigrant from Iran.
Ruins my theory the responsible person might have been one of Luigis recently released non-refugees.
Tactically, that is very, very stupid.
If he ever has to front a tribunal/court/enquiry over this, the obvious question is this:-
“So, on November 4th (and for months before) you claimed to have a rock solid case against President Trump. But on November 8th you fold the tent on your prosecution.
Tell me.
?What new evidence did you obtain between the 4th and 8th November which rendered your ‘rock solid’ case unlikely to succeed?”
Rudd and his Murdoch derangement syndrome.
He really should not be the US ambassador.
https://x.com/Anthonywodillon/status/1855478787401818179?t=SiQAKE55MgKwEEakj3LiaQ&s=19
Rudd isn’t fit for any public office let alone Ambassador in DC.
You can smell the bullshit from here.
Sinclair on fire over at twitter.
https://x.com/SincDavidson/status/1855475567233310974?t=BqauwQ3aJB65UROk4q2cNg&s=19
Daniel Greenfield’s excellent analysis of the struggle of the individual to maintain:
Socio-Feudalism’s War on the IndividualIs man born free or a slave?November 8, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
The transformation of the medieval world into the modern world came about with the idea that man could and should transform his lot in life. The liberal individualism of the Enlightenment however was soon countered by reactionary movements, feudal and socio-feudal, seeking to put the genie of individual autonomy back in the box through collectivist movements.
Among the most prominent of these was what would eventually be called socialism. While early socialist movements had been a radical Christian heresy emphasizing communal living, these experiments invariably failed on a local level leaving behind a trail of wrecked lives.
19th century radical theorists began laying out plans for the communal transformations of entire societies. Fourier’s socialist ‘Phalanxes’ which would influence everything from Soviet communal farms to hippie communes in the U.S,. were feudal mass communities with no private property and everyone assigned a role in life under the rule of a centralized ‘omniarch’.
Socialists had to justify the elevation of the collective over the individual through fatalism about the role of man. All evidence to the contrary, man had no ability to change his lot in life. He was only an atom in the larger phalanxes of life. As Robert Owen, the Father of British Socialism, told Congress in an address in 1825, man “never did, nor is it possible he ever can form his own character” but is “universally plastic” and socialists could make him over into anything at all.
The Declaration of Independence asserted that man was born free, but to the socialists he was born a slave and the best that he could ever hope for was to be a slave to the right cause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson insightfully critiqued Fourier because he “treats man as a plastic thing, something that may be put up or down, ripened or retarded, moulded, polished, made into solid, or fluid, or gas, at the will of the leader… but skips the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers, which eludes all conditions, which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes.” Was man a “plastic thing” or the bearer of the mystery of the “faculty of life”?
Leftist revolutionary movements might begin by hailing the power of the individual but invariably ended up in a socio-feudalism system making malleable man over to fit the five-year plan.
Socialism postured as progressive when it was reactionary. Its leaders, most often hailing from the upper class and upper middle class, reverted newly liberated societies in Russia and China back to feudalism under the guise of liberating them. The Bolsheviks took Czarist feudalism and rebranded it as collective farming, forbidding the ‘liberated’ farmers from owning property or livestock, and even from leaving their farms to seek a better life in the big cities.
The empowerment of the individual had given way to the enslavement of man in the service of an ideal society. Individuals were once again worthless except as they fit into a larger plan.
The socialist argument against individualism was human fallibility. The muckrakers gathered every example of misery and described them as social ills that society had to collectively remedy. Outwardly private philanthropic organizations claimed to help the poor, but their embrace of eugenics, including mandatory sterilization, seizing children from parents, prohibition, and greater state intervention, including mandatory centralized state education, set a pattern that was innately socialist even when its proponents avoided the use of the word.
Every crisis, including WWI and the Great Depression, was seen as a reason for replacing smaller institutions with larger ones and further disempowering the individual. The National Socialists blamed Germany’s loss in WWI on free enterprise. FDR and the Democrats blamed the Great Depression on free enterprise. Both built a state system for seizing control of it. The Bolsheviks not only blamed individual farmers for their famine, but used it to wipe them out.
The post-war economic rebound in America and Europe did not end socialism, but rebooted it with governments confiscating even more wealth for the benefit of society. The macro conflicts of WWII and the Cold War, the threat of atomic annihilation, were used to define the individual as too small to make a difference on his or her own except as part of a larger mass movement.
Class warfare gave way to identity politics. Individuals had to join groups to fight for a fairer society. What governmental institutions had failed to accomplish in fully transforming man, the new movements set out to accomplish in the psychedelic decade. The individual was told that liberation would come from losing his bourgeois background, worldview, inhibitions, morality and values to a new emerging humanistic blob shooting along the rainbow to the right side of history.
The eighties marked a reassertion of individual priorities over mass movements. The movements that had broken the country were distrusted. Socio-feudalism struck back with an environmental crisis taking place on such a scale that individuals were nothing when measured against it. Global authorities had to immediately seize total power to save the human race.
Environmentalism has brought socio-feudalists closest to realizing Fourier’s vision of abolishing private property and packing everyone off to collective compounds with a defined role in life. Man has had his day, but individuals can’t help selfishly wrecking the planet. Only subservience to larger systems can stop global warming, end human misery and transform the world.
A new wave of gender identity activism further eliminated the line between the individual and the state. The personal was political at the most granular level. The pronouns you used, the products you bought, whether you left the light on or not, were political choices. Human existence became a series of political tests measuring allegiance to a state ideology.
When the personal is political, there is nothing personal left to the individual.
Socio-feudalism had contrived to reduce man to a state of total subservience.
Medieval England banned playing games especially “fute-ball” because it was seen as a distraction from the priorities of the state. Postmodern California passed two laws outlawing Indian mascots, along with plastic bags, gendered toys and a thousand other things.
Postmodern man occupies a world of illusory technologies and shrinking possibilities where children are discouraged from riding bikes, packed off to early schooling at toddlerhood and indoctrinated to believe that their playthings are the reason for the destruction of the world.
Socio-feudalism has the destruction of individual autonomy as its central goal and the pandemic lockdowns showed how easy that goal is to achieve in the face of a crisis. Government could and did assert control over what an individual could wear and whether he could leave the house. The public eventually responded to it not with a mass movement, as those mostly failed or were repressed, but by unilaterally discarding the prohibitions of the state.
Americans had ultimately fulfilled Emerson’s faith in “the faculty of life, which spawns and scorns system and system-makers, which eludes all conditions.” And that is why socio-feudalism will fail unless it can reduce mankind to a state of abject helplessness, ignorance and fear. That is what Communist and Islamist regimes strove for with varying degrees of success. And it is still the great aim of socio-feudalism today.
The ultimate struggle will be less about movements and more about individuals. The more the system fails, the more repressive it will become. And only millions of individuals can defeat it.
Further from Makka’s link to Flynn’s comments:-
I posted upthread that salami-slicing 5-10% here and there won’t do it.
Chopping entire departments is the way to go.
And decentralisation to the regions solves the Congressional opposition from the pork-barrell brigade. Instead of cutting small regional offices you would be creating relatively larger ones in regional hubs.
Musk did it with Twitter. Asked himself “who is essential to keeping this platform running? Everyone else can f-ck right off.”
The one thing I would like to see in Education at a Federal level is a simple charter of parents’ rights and an ombudsman to deal with complaints about rogue school district administrators.
The number 1 item on the charter would be that teachers and education staff shall not discuss any medical intervention for students without the express written consent of both parents.
South China Sea update:
Word is that the Kamala campaign, which raised more than $1 billion, finished off $20 million in debt.
Had the Dims been successful that moron would be ‘running’ the economy.
(I say ‘running’ because most of the economy runs more like auto-pilot – tens of thousands of businesses making wealth-producing choices all over America with no fanfare, and millions of consumers whose choices to their own benefit provide the motive force for it all. The government is at best a drag-chain but all too often a malign visitation.)
I see that the MFA of Qatar has released a letter denying reports suggesting Hamas is no longer welcome. Not surprised these reports were bogus.
Yeah, but let Arnie, CCP’s propagandist explain the Chinese claim.
See map.
Cute Syrian owl. No, really.
An English reviewer reflecting on the somewhat disappointing English output of Sidney Nolan compared to his antipodean work, made the observation that ‘true art is parochial’.
Getting away lightly, then.
Old School:
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The Parade Scene: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Why divert attention from the news item? Still, it’s amusing that you only focus on the Chinese claim even though the Philipine and Vietnamese claims overlap in many aspects. For instance, all three claim the Spratleys, and the like.
I wonder what naughty word I used in my reply. There was no swearing, naming of anybody, just a list of meds and the difficulty I am having in getting them.
Daniel Greenfield (h/t Vicki at 4.40pm):
Correct.
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21st century leftism is just the latest collectivist movement designed to put individuals back under the thumb of a neo-feudal oppressor — i.e. the nanny state.
PS: the Donald Trump-Elon Musk revolution will shortly reveal what happens to government when it is redesigned by a genius (Musk).
Inefficient government bureaucracy, which requires 2-3 times the money to do anything compared with the private sector, will be transformed when AI and computing replace the bureaucracy so the cost of government programs is reduced by 50-66% minimum and the prospect of hundreds of percent in savings
The impact on the multi-trillion-dollar US national debt will change the world.
The Deep State will be abolished simply because it is no longer needed.
Why not?
If you’re citing one outlandish claim, why not cite the most outlandish claim of all – the CCP’s to almost all of the Sth China sea with the added demand that anyone entering must seek permission.
Not to worry; John Coates assured Queenslanders it would cost nothing:
“These games break even, and that’s with a fair contingency in there.”
Firstly, this does not bode well for Luigi’s Censorship Bill.
But we had this bullshit during Trump’s first term.
The tut-tutting about using foreign aid as a bargaining chip, with lots of “hamfisted” and “clumsy” and “lacking in the nuance that delicate foreign policy requires”.
Like the 44 Presidents before Orange Man hadn’t done exactly that – using US foreign policy (including aid) – to advance their interests.
There were two things the MSM didn’t like when Trump did it:-
1. It wasn’t advancing a cause they agreed with (it was mostly about stemming the flow of illegals from Central America); and
2. It was announced on Twitter at 2 a.m. and the normally “well informed and well connected policy wonk” at the NYT or WaPo only found out about it when he picked up his soy latte on the way to the office.
Watch this space.
Trump is going to put the weights on the Euros to pick up the slack on NATO. First item … “You want to take on Putin. Fill you boots. With your money.”
“100%”
Elon wants to end the Fed.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854783747264012792
The Trump-Musk-Vance combination seems to be what’s been needed for a long long time. I hope there will be a knock effect across the Pacific.
Same great footage appearing from this airshow.
We are assured that high wages have to be paid to gubberment employees to attract the best and brightest.
Just imagine how dynamic the USA will be one an enormous sloshing talent pool is emptied into the free market, unleashed to show their dynamism and genius!!
Great stuff in Qld!
The new state government appears to have done away with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at its 1 William Street press conferences, in a curious move.
Annastacia Palaszczuk and Steven Miles often fronted the media pack 41 floors up in front of four flags: Australian, Queensland, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
However, moments before the LNP’s first press conference in the Newman-built Tower of Power a staffer for the Deputy Premier was spotted wrangling the heavy Australian flag to stand alongside the Queensland one – with no Indigenous representation in sight.
The professor has come a long way since his “potential greatness” comment.
Lucky Elon’s been red pilled! Maybe it happens to all of us at some stage if we have half a brain.
If one was wondering why the drawing room is for some quiet time and not for sketching with pencils, it is apparently abbreviated from ‘withdrawing room’. So there! 😀
Rockdoctor
November 10, 2024 11:35 am
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Went through there back in April, Greensborough/Rosanna/Buleen rd is a nightmare. Apart from the CMFEU wonder who else is making a quid off the route?
Inappropriate IMO when if they had of extended the Ring rd past Greensborough round Eltham and Templestowe to the east coming onto the E Fwy neat that Tunnel with the abo name they could have avoided such a scale of destruction of housing businesses that I saw.
Yes, the original route would have been better, but that was costed at $28B and the Bulleen route a mere $8B.
As it is, this is going to take 8 years and the Eltham route was going to be nearly 20 years.
The amount of destruction all the way past Doncaster road even is epic.
The original upstuff at Bulleen interchange needed fixing anyway, they had Thompson’s road coming in to a freeway entry/exit and it completely stuffed it since it was done so poorly.
Many of the entry or exits from the Eastern don’t have corresponding ramps .. e.g Burke road has western ramps on and off, but not eastern ramps.
This has made the work at Bulleen even more difficult as so much traffic, particularly trucks have only Bulleen or Chandler highway, passing Burke Road since no off ramps there to get to the ring road at the moment.
The Eltham council put up a huge sh*tfight to stop the ring road going its original route, so they content with massive traffic every day, just so they don’t have a free way go through,
Complete NIMBYs
Locals avoid the area completely.
Truck drivers and other professional drivers hate the whole thing
8 years! oh, if it’s on time .. for sure, CFMEU on time, pfft!
Oh, so the difference is that the Vietnamese and the Phillipines, for instance, won’t require international shipping to request permission to traverse their waters? Righttt.
Bruce of Newcastle November 9, 2024 12:04 pm
My first thought: Spike Milligan!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wITSTaqcdU4
We’ve just come back from visiting my firstborn mildy autistic son, now in his early fifties. We were at the home of the American woman whom I regard as a defacto daughter-in-law. They don’t live together but he’s round there a lot to help out as she is not physically well at present. In addition, she’s coping with a terrible case of extreme TDS brought on by the win. We expected that, and didn’t cause any waves due to her illness.
What is interesting is that my firstborn son, a leftie for most of his life, has blossomed out into a Gen X member of the Trump supporting generation since receiving his diagnosis of adult autism. He’s been on the internet constantly during this election. He has always had an interesting way with words, using words powerfully in unexpected ways, part of his syndrome. Now he’s thrilled to bits. A great admirer of Elon Musk, he tells us Elon has highly commended and personally retweeted one of his comments on X.
Well, it takes an autist to know another one. 🙂
I am thrilled for my son. He’s so chuffed by Elon’s attention.
This from one of the most unfunny bloated imbeciles to have existed in human history.
They don’t at present.
Not sure why that would change in regard to friendly countries at least.
Further to the pogrom against Jews in Amsterdam, and a pogrom it was, I think it was Zulu who wrote yesterday that many Dutch police are now recruited from the Muslim community. This is a problem, a big problem but what’s worse, infinitely worse is this….
Just last month, Dutch police officers indicated they would not be comfortable guarding Jewish institutions over their “moral objections” to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
So, now we have a clear politicisation of the Dutch Police, something happening in the UK and I suspect also happening here. They’re not even hiding their loathing of Jews anymore.
Yesterday Dutch Jewish academic David de Brujn uploaded a piece in The Free Press about his thoughts on what’s happening in Amsterdam. It’s worth reading. de Brujn is unsurprised by the pogrom, and his piece about growing up in Holland as a Jew is chilling. The nub of the piece is that the explosion in Jew hatred in the Netherlands is a direct result of mass Islamic immigration from Turkey and North Africa. These people are unapologetic genocidal Jew haters (and we here in Oz have brought in 3000 of them in the last few months). They loathe Jews and of course this Jew hatred neatly fuses with leftist Jew hatred. Further to the pogrom, the Muslims (and leftists) walking the streets of Amsterdam weren’t shouting ‘where’s the Israelis’, no, no, no, they were screaming, screeching and taunting ‘where’s the Yahood, where’s the Yahood, where’s Yahood‘. Now, folks, where have we heard that before?
https://www.thefp.com/p/pogrom-amsterdam-antisemitism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Read the above.
But what’s really chilling, really concerning is this politicisation of the police. Only last month, the Jerusalem Post reported that….
Officers in the Dutch police force have been refusing to protect Jewish targets, two officers told Nieuw Israëlisch Weekblad earlier this week.
Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, representing the Jewish Police Network, expressed concerns over changes they were seeing in the force.
“There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events. They talk about ‘moral dilemmas,’ and I see a tendency emerging to give in to that. That would truly mark the beginning of the end. I’m concerned about that,” Theeboom said.
It was very quaint to hear that King Willem-Alexander spoke yesterday with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, and said…
We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and last night we failed again,” the Dutch king Willem-Alexander reportedly said to Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in a phone call on Friday morning.
Well, yes ‘King’, nice words but words are easy, how about ‘not failing’, how about speaking up and addressing exactly what the problem is? Everyone knows what the problem is, so how about you, along with the Dutch PM, along with the Dutch people, instead of muttering some nice easy words actually show the Dutch Jewish community, show Europe, and show the world some real Dutch courage?
The day now recovering from an early start to watch the Wallabies v England.
After a slightly shaky start, it turned into a really good Test. The last few minutes were unbelievable for masochists who follow Australian rugby.
The Poms all knew they’d won as the scrum set just before full time, some smirking on the bench. Bit of a shame when Max Jorgensen crossed.
Text from London Son, who was at Twickenham: ‘There’s something satisfying when ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ just sort of peters out into a mumble…’
The CCP claims nearly the entire South China Sea, which stands as one of the most outlandish claims of all. Adding to this, China is in breach of the international tribunal’s findings, despite being a signatory to the agreement that requires all signatories to abide by its rulings. So, when a country makes outlandish claims, it is evidently following the CCP’s example.
Furthermore, there is indeed a huge difference: claims by other countries do not include demands that international shipping traversing international waters must seek permission.
Ask Arnie what he thinks of this?
Watching the Haka – for 3rd place NZ. Lol.
GO Kumuls!!
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 10, 2024 6:37 pm
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Bills vote record: Greens and Adam Bandt accused of undermining national securityRosie Lewis
2 hours ago.
Updated 32 minutes ago
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Adam Bandt has voted for just 6 per cent of Labor and Coalition government counter-terrorism and national security bills that went to a division during his 14 years in parliament, prompting Liberal Party accusations the Greens have undermined Australia’s law enforcement efforts.
Possibly.
But he will carry that albatross as long as he lives.
Most government employees are just cogs in a giant machine, they don’t question their angular momentum, how many teeth the next cog has, or how the machine works. You don’t need smart people for this. You need people who have an affinity with repetitive tasks, the myopia to only focus on the little bits of information before them devoid of context, and such detachment that they cannot see any person above the rut of their well-trod closed path.
Epsilon Minus Semi Morons, to borrow Huxley’s Brave New World as an example.
These dim mole-like creatures need nothing more than reliable food, regular soma, and the availability of promiscuous sex. Not $100,000/year, not training on how much they should loathe the people submitting their paperwork, and the lie that they are what makes the world work.
Subterranean offices in uninhabited locales with a few nooks for illicit opportunities of shaggery will provide a tiny space still large enough that they will never touch its edges – whether the boundaries of your world are 5 cm or 5 lightyears further than you can reach is the same thing.
We should choose our public servants with a contempt that respects their nature. And pay them the same way.
Or … how does it go again? … Yeah, that’s it …
Learn to code.
Just in case you didn’t think that men’s netball wasn’t very gay…
Aussie men’s netball team stuns with pre-match dance (9 Nov)
It’s really a sight to marvel at.
Gold $A4079/oz.
It will be interesting to see if it goes below the A$4k mark.
Just in case you didn’t think that men’s netball wasn’t very gay…
Aussie men’s netball team stuns with pre-match dance (9 Nov)
If the Hakka was a demonstration of having sex with a hobo whilst smoking a meth pipe, then it would look like this.
FMD even Raygun is going “how embarrasing”
As someone who constantly deals with these persons in many various forms, I’m here to tell you that the wages offered obviously must be insufficient to the task.
No matter how puffed up you are Trump always has just the right pin to prick you.
Most government employees are just cogs in a giant machine, they don’t question their angular momentum, how many teeth the next cog has, or how the machine works. You don’t need smart people for this.
When Campbell Newman took the axe to the PS we got a few of these blokes in before the mining crash.
Had the credentials but most were pretty dim. They did have their advantages though when we were trying to interpret regulation they would give you a pretty honest meaning.
The PS isn’t attracting the best despite incentives. What to do, maybe going back to paying peanuts is probably the best outcome for the public.
Zippster at 2024 7:43 am
Our former race commissioner Soupy gets a mention from Sir Niall around the 28 minute mark. Talk about a blast from the past.
Just watching Outsiders from this morning.
‘Dr Arlene Battishill’s new name is Dr Arlene Battshit‘
It appears my sarcasm over “the best and brightest” may not have been correctly interpreted by many.
Many such cases.
And why would it change re China?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/our-enemy-within.html
Eyrie November 9, 2024 4:51 pm
Musk for that from Sandy Monroe, an automotive consultant who emphasises simplicity in design. He rubbished Tesla’s build quality and I think Musk brought him inside the tent. I got to do Monroe’s course once and what he taught certainly stuck with me.
Muntz had a similar philosophy with TV sets way back when. He’d lean over the prototype TV on the engineer’s desk and snip out components one-by-one until the TV stopped working. At that point he’d tell the engineer “Well, you’d better put that last one back in.” and move on with his day. 😀
You seem to be saying at once the Phillipine is almost outlandish as the Chinese claim, but then withdrawing this claim with a “but, but, it’s different” because it doesn’t explicitly include such a claim even though it is implied in any sovereign claim of this sort.
As to the second part, where’s the link?
Australia’s SCARIEST Laws EVER – Crazy New ‘Misinformation’ Law Will DESTROY Free Speech Downunder
There is an interesting video taken by a Dutch YouTube channel of the second night in Amsterdam doing the rounds.
Telstra blonked the T-Box they’ve replaced it with their home-grown “Fetch” box
do NOT pay for it because it simply doesn’t work
waste of space … land-fill
cancel Binge
cancel Foxtel
apparently, retards rule now
and retards need to learn an economic lesson
Aussie state is issued dire warning about Aboriginal treaty: ‘They’re out for blood’
Daily Mail.
Trump watching Kamala speech with Matt Gaetz, Susie Wiles and Oliver Stone
fascinating look behind the scene at the campaign in action
re
Nelson_Kidd-Players November 10, 2024 7:31 pm
Eyrie November 9, 2024 4:51pm
“Simplicate and add more lightness”
(Which I thought was Burt Rutan coin, but Wiki tells me it was Gordon Hooton, a designer for William Bushnell Stout, names I’ve never heard of.)
The Australian men’s netball team has channelled its inner boy band and left onlookers floored with a wild pre-match dance.
Oh, that’s why there were so many empty seats.
Elon Musk talks to JD Vance in Butler PA
more behind the scenes
On Sky tonight Kel Richard said this about the Trumpslide…..
Democracy defeated identity politics.
Just perfect, thanks Kel.
Oi Oi Oi!
—–
Mick Hinchy in Vegas.
We Did What SEMA Told Us We Couldn’t
The BBC is pretty woke these days, but there is still an intellectual honesty in this piece in the Democrats’ failure
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzl7zygpmo
that is completely lacking in ‘our’ ABC’s coverage
Elon EXPOSES How The DOJ Is Targeting Him | Joe Rogan & Elon Musk
I liked the old days of combined Footy and Netball Clubs better: Sheilas would play on Thursdays, blokes Saturdays and the they’d get together in the evening to start work on the next generation. Makes sense.
China’s doing great!
(1) BREAKING – Terrible Things UNFOLDING in China – Episode #237 – YouTube
ABC frothing at the mouth with this as their top story:
Their ABCess failing to distinguish between “what DJT stood for in the election” and “what DJT’s election means to some people”.
LOL whut? It’s not part of the published agenda and I’d never heard of it until now. Where oh where was it “permitted” to be “part of the mainstream Republican campaign”? Oh here:
I saw that one! It was in the Week-in-Pictures. It was a joke! These people at the ABCess can’t spot a joke. Straight to GULAG for Don Jnr apparently.
“Vance brutally beats three women” after the VP debate v Walz and two partisan comperesses was the O.G. and even funnier.
Why wasn’t that one ever featured on their ALPBC’s meme patrol?
Mintox.
Kenny Loggins – Footloose (VJAR extended dance remix)
Donald Trump’s 60% Tariff Threat Pushes US, Taiwanese Companies Out of China | Firstpost America
Hmm…
I remember when Muslims and leftists congregated on the Sydney Opera House steps, burning Israeli flags, setting of flares, and screaming, screeching and shouting….f*ck the Jews, where’s the Jews, and yes……gas the Jews, it’s odd coz I don’t recall a response where gangs of Jews then proceeded to prowl the streets hunting down, taunting and physically assaulting Muslims. If I missed something let me know and I’ll be happy to issue a correction.
The next time a convoy of Muslims drives through some of Sydney’s Jewish suburbs screaming anti-Jewish epithets at Jews, again it’s odd coz I don’t recall a response where gangs of Jews organised a convoy to drive through Muslim suburbs to taunt and physically assault Muslims. If I missed something let me know and I’ll be happy to issue a correction.
The next time a group of Muslims and leftists congregate in the Jewish suburb of Caulfield in Melbourne, on the Sabbath, in front of a synagogue, and hurl insults at Jews (the synagogue required police protection), it’s really odd coz I don’t recall a response where gangs of Jews entered a suburb where lots of Muslims live, screaming abuse outside a mosque and engaging in the taunting and physical assault of the Muslim residents of that suburb. Now look, if I missed something, please let me know and I’ll be happy to issue a correction.
The next time a group of Jewish artists is doxxed, with all their personal details revealed to the world at large, their crime being that they’re ‘Zios’, it’s again really odd coz I don’t recall any response where a group of Jews doxxed Musim artists, revealing all their personal information to the world at large. Again of course, if I missed any response, please let me know and I’ll be really happy to issue a correction.
The next time I see the torn posters of hostages in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, including Jewish areas like Bondi Junction, Bronte, Bondi Beach, those pictures included pics of the Bibas babes and their mother (their father, presumably, remains in a cage in Gaza), I don’t recall Jews going into Muslim suburbs and tearing down their pro-Hamas propaganda.
Except of course, this proud Jew, this proud Zionist, in November last year did tear down pro-Hamas gunk posters along Castlereagh Street. Whenever this proud Jew and proud Zionist sees such posters, she tears them down…..BUT…..I don’t go into Muslim suburbs, I don’t physically assault Muslims, I don’t shout epithets at them.
Anyway, I’m sure youse all get the message. The above is just a smidgen, and anyway, given what Jews across the West and in this country have had to put up with since 7 October, why can’t we go around shouting, screaming and screeching ‘f*ck Muslims’ and ‘where’s the Muslims’? Whey can’t we go around taunting and assaulting Muslims? Why can’t we go around driving convoys through Muslim suburbs to intimidate and threaten them? Why can’t we stand in front of a mosque and harass worshipers?
Oh that’s right, because Jews don’t do such things.
As for the tawdry and feeble justifications for what happened in Amsterdam, it has to rank with the justifications once put out by the Tsarist secret police after one of their infamous pogroms……that the Jews asked for it.
The pogrom in Amsterdam, just like the pogroms of Tsarist Russia, was planned days before any football match.
Link? I can’t find his account.
Hamas, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon, BBC, MSM generally.
All using civilians as cover for their aims and agenda.
The October 7th stories are being replaced by those of little children damaged because their parents, their political movements, the militias, the governments of contiguous states – all have malice towards Israel and must know that launching rockets will have consequences.
Try @potentiallygratePM
From the nested comments, and apropos of the indig Legal Aid tart sorting out a bloke on the run from parole after manslaughter beef:
Patience, my pretty. Patience.
I will hold you to the ‘fiction’ thing. 48 hours, max.
And as to the Mango Enquirer reference:
Everyone’s a pedo! Gas Pipes! Wake uOP SheePle!
Yes. He’s one of those people. Which, unsurprisingly, you believe wholeheartedly.
Flick.
Greg Gutfeld with a spot-on monologue about the media.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I don’t find Gutfeld funny, but his monologues are more than not bang-on.
(Okay, so I started watching because I had a small crush on Kat Timpf. I’m over that now).
Aboriginal legal service officer Samantha Alampi arrested after allegedly caught in hotel bed with missing offenderLiam Mendes
1 hours ago
Fugitive Jefferson Woodie and senior North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency official Samantha Alampi, seen on hotel CCTV footage at 10.50pm on Thursday, are facing serious charges.
A senior officer at the nation’s beleaguered Aboriginal legal service has been arrested after she was allegedly found in bed with one of her parole cases, who had recently been released from jail and gone missing.
Samantha Alampi – who manages the paroles of serious offenders for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency – was allegedly found in an Alice Springs hotel room with manslaughter offender Jefferson Woodie early on Sunday morning during a police raid.
Police had been hunting Woodie, who is 20 years old and 16 years younger than Ms Alampi, after he had allegedly removed his electronic ankle bracelet and gone on the run, just months after getting out of jail.
The Australian understands that it will be alleged the NAAJA officer laid a bizarre trail to the Mercure Resort in Alice Springs, as she tried to help the man escape a long second sentence for breaking his parole conditions.
Sources say the police had been warned about Woodie and Ms Alampi’s relationship and found the NAAJA employee picking up the convicted killer’s personal belongings from the Salvation Army Men’s Hostel where he had been residing while on parole on Friday.
She claimed she was taking them back to the legal service’s offices for safekeeping until he was found by authorities.
Police initially believed Woodie was attempting to travel to Darwin after his parole was revoked when he removed his ankle bracelet earlier in the week.
Multiple sources told The Australian that CCTV footage showed Ms Alampi checking into the Diplomat Hotel on Thursday night, before she moved to the Mercure on Saturday evening.
Just hours later, police barged in and allegedly found them together.
“The man’s parole was revoked … and police successfully located him at a commercial residence in Alice Springs this morning,” a police statement said on Sunday.
“Additionally, a 36-year-old woman has been arrested for her involvement in perverting the course of justice. Investigators allege she knowingly assisted the man, hindering police efforts to apprehend him.
“Both individuals are expected to face court at a later date on the relevant charges.”
@bennyjohnson
Oh. Ohhhhhh.
Hang on just a minute:
But – but – but someone very recently said:
Ah geez. That’s gotta burn.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 10, 2024 9:53 pm
I am more and more inclined to agree with Arky.
With some exceptions of course, we must not generalise.
Perfect timing.
Just perfect.
Next up will be weeks of silence, or ‘duh well you’re a retard’.
Despite being correct.
From OldLefty’s BBC link above.
Mmmyes.
I seem to remember two old white men (Leathery Cassidy and Faino) on their ABC asking each other “Is this the end of old white men in politics?” and furiously agreeing with each other that it was.
I assume Kenard is black but, either way, he’s on the money. Particular demographics may generally lean one way but they all like to see themselves as individuals. The minute you start regarding them as a bloc and labelling anyone who breaks from the pack as a class traitor, you are in trouble.
Where voting isn’t compulsory you have to do three things:-
1. Motivate your supporters to vote;
2. Don’t do anything which will motivate your opponents supporters to turn out; and
3. Swing undecided voters your way (or at least don’t piss them off).
Against that background we have seen several politically undisciplined and clueless acts from key Dimocrat players over the last eight years, namely:-
– Biden’s “You ain’t black” comment;
– Obama lecturing young black men as misogynists if they don’t fall in behind Kamal-toe;
– variously describing Republican voters as “deplorables” and “garbage”.
Not smart.
Like a poorly installed cooktop.
LIVE from the CENOTAPH: Remembrance Sunday 2024.London.
The sound doesn’t seem to be working though.
O.K., obviously that was an intentional silence!
On a personal note: Great Uncle Will and Great Uncle Norman – you are not forgotten.
(Will was an artillery lieut. killed at Ypres in 1917. Norman was an infantryman killed in Australia’s last battle of the war – Mont. Brehain, in 1918).
“channel of the second night in Amsterdam doing the rounds.”
No trouble inside the stadium, no trouble outside the stadium, no trouble on the train.
Obviously our young reporter had a good idea what was waiting for the Israelis when they got to the city centre, it’s why he travelled with them.
‘Bender’ actually states that these Maccabi supporters are grabbing poles to defend themselves.
He knew.
I suppose Jews should still go like lambs to the slaughter.
Can’t believe he thinks NATO membership is up for negotiation.
It’s difficult to tell from a distance, but the gentleman who just laid a wreath appeared be an Indian. Indian soldiers served at Gallipoli, and there is a relatively recent book about them, by Peter Stanley perhaps? I used to have it in my collection, but personal circumstances forced me to let go of many of my books. I think they also served on the Western Front? Someone more knowledgeable will be able to fill us in on this.
Winston, the secret to long life.
You have to stay alive because there is no one to take care of your cat when you are gone.
(found in a Chinese fortune cookie as you would)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQkdV4GwLc
“Wild Mountain Thyme” – bloke outside my local IGA, this morning, playing this on the guitar. Damnfine version!
And that was one group who probably had the numbers to defend themselves.
Not so those in small groups or who were on their own.
Didn’t choose to show some of that footage shared enthusiastically by the ‘Jew hunters’.
I posted a thread earlier where it was mentioned terrified people were contacting the ‘cheer squad’ for want of a more accurate description on Whatsapp to rescue them from the muslim mob.
The police stood and watched.
“Shackled and whipped with canes: Israel uncovers ‘thousands of hours’ of sickening footage showing Hamas interrogators torturing innocent Palestinians”
Expecting queers for gaza to protest, any minute now.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14063545/gaza-hamas-torture-palestine-israel.html
Perhaps it is standard, but the lack of banners identifying the groups of marchers is disappointing. Not that we would be able to read the banners from the angle of this citizen cameraman.
(No doubt the more astute will identify some by their headwear: The Paras and Scots regiments, for example).
When the UK was still part of the EU I liked his rants about the insane policies of the EU, he has been a great disappointment since.
It’s all about him now.
The Ravi Lancers is a book that documents the experience of Indian soldiers in WW1.
A comment from the chat of this Remembrance Day livestream:
Twenty three thousand Australian soldiers “Missing” on the Western Front, during World War One. I’ve seen the monument, with all their names on, at Hamel. Had to find my handkerchief, and blow my nose for some reason…
Die in battle, do not despair is the book on the Indians at the Dardenelles that I was thinking of. I still have it.
Instructional:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
Zulu, you’re a Mark Moyar admirer like myself:
Agency for Internal CorruptionHow the Swamp Sabotaged the Trump Presidency
I haven’t acquired it yet as I have a long list of priorities for my spare change, but you may find it of interest. If so, I’d love to read a brief review from you.
Bloody great.
Just enough rain to fill in the dots on the concrete, enough to make it be like Singapore in the premonsoon season.
Climate is what we ask for – weather is what we get.
In the mong Olympics the greens prove they are the all time champions.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/nov/11/australia-news-live-greens-propose-74bn-plan-to-wipe-all-student-debt-nation-to-mark-remembrance-day
Greens to announce plan to wipe all student debtSarah Basford Canales
The Greens will announce its $74bn plan to wipe all student debt as it looks to snatch a seat off Labor in inner-city Melbourne.
The minor party will reveal the proposal in Wills, held by Labor’s Peter Khalil, with their candidate, Samantha Ratnam, who led the party in Victoria for nearly seven years.
Costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office show the policy to wipe all student debt would cost $55bn over the next four years and $74bn over the decade. The Greens estimate this will save someone with a debt of $27,600 about $5,500 a year.
The Greens’ education spokesperson, Mehreen Faruqi, said the policy would make a “real, tangible difference to so many people doing it tough”.
It comes as Labor announced last week it would slash Hecs debts by 20% if it wins at the next federal election.
The Greens say they would pass any bill to reduce student debts in this term if Labor were to bring the proposal forward.
The sheer, unbridled, mendacious audacity of all the news networks now lining up to put up a concerted effort to push the following line: “Will Trump go after his enemies”.
The narrative emerges.
Interviews, comedians, commentators all pushing the line that Trump will “go after his enemies”.
In order to attempt to cut off that avenue.
Gone is the “let the process play out” “No one is above the law”. Lines.
And yet again, the right is too stupid to predict this course and have the devastating lines ready in reply.
When some dishonest media whore asks Jim Jordan “Will Trump go after his enemies” he is too damn stupid to point out the hypocrisy with one or two pithy lines.
”No one is above the law”.
”Trump will appoint good people and just like in his first term he will let the process play out”.
What you don’t do is play into the narrative that any future prosecutions would be Trump “going after his enemies”.
And you don’t let the pricks off the hook by accepting their phoney calls for unity.
F*cking idiot.
For extra traction he should have said: “It’s up to the prosecutors, including any misdeeds by your network. Trump won’t be involved, nor should he be either in pushing for prosecutions or stopping them”.
All the cool kids are over on the remembrance day fred…
Of course, the Democrats have just fully demonstrated that going after your political enemies with lawfare is very unpopular.
The Republicans need to walk a fine line between letting the pricks off the hook and doing something that will give them future political ammunition. Seeing justice done without further poisoning politics.
Nigel_Farage.
Help get Tommy out.
As it stands you are a empty shell.
Understand Cassie. It’s a horrible time. Best wishes.