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This is longish, involves two separate pieces in the Hun, but is extremely cool. It’s either a ‘green shoots’ scenario, or one where a magistrate is unceremoniously dumped:
Andrew Rule, also in the Hun and apropos of the same decision:
An indictment indeed. And:
We need her like in NQ.
Fooli today was in the CM front page adding to the Adult crime offences.
So far not one offender has been charged under the legislation but hey he’s got olympic jobs for his white shoe brigade mates from his council days…
Sad to say she’ll probably be appealed and over ruled.
When did the police of all people become advocates for violent crims?
It’s supposed to be a police force, not a a social workers collective.
Once they experienced the thrill of overwhelming force during lockdown .. they understood why crims get a high from violence ..!
Interesting tidbit thrown my way today.
Thai building collapse after the earthquake.
One of the owners of a crane company sent 3 cranes, largest in Thailand at stand by rate of THB150,000 a day per crane as a gift to help dig out any buried survivors. He’s apparently coving fuel and wages for as Thais say “good luck”. Theravada Buddhist trait.
The cranes have sat idle for days as the the Thai army with foreign experts has said they are worried that people will die if cranes start removing large debris & they cant hear survivors. Apparently generators are being limited due to noise, experts telling them. Crane company owner has now apparently told authorities if you don’t need my help then I’ll take my cranes away.
Families of the buried workers (Mostly Burmese or Cambodian) have had enough and don’t care. They think after a week with no food, water or even medical treatment using the cranes may save more than they may kill.
Apparently as expected, there’s a lot of corruption from all quarters tied up in the construction and contracts and the authorities don’t want to go near it.
I have relatives flying in next week and the welcome mat is out for Songkran in the regions as Bangkok still has some issues. I have been told second hand Suvarnabhumi Airport was heaving today with tourists and all transport is pretty well back to normal.
Been in Bangkok for 3 days. Everything is normal chaos. Plenty of tourists.
If I can make a point on the tarrifs.
Trump could have gone incremental, one by one, dragging out his whole term for bugger all change.
Instead he’s made it a crisis for everyone, who then have to come back to him with offers.
Calling it ” chaos” is a silly thing, playing by WTO rules would sink any change.
It’s dammed clever as a way of forcing change quickly, and with maximum advantage to the USA.
He hit Iraq with a 39% reciprocal tariff.
Lutnick has an amazing story.
He was dropping his boys off at different schools on the morning of Sept 11th.
Six months earlier, both kids were at the same school so he would have been in the office when the planes hit.
The Oz has a great pic of Albo on the front page.
Tripping over?
“I’ll show you how good I am at running the country. If I just step back”!
In the TalkTV video featuring Peter Hitchens, he critiques the state of the police in the UK, particularly highlighting issues of inefficiency and menacing overreach. He traces the problem back to changes initiated in the 1960s by Roy Jenkins, who merged local police forces into larger entities, making them less responsive to local needs and more subject to central control. Hitchens argues that these changes, along with the cessation of regular foot patrols, have led to a police force that fails to prevent crime effectively. He also highlights the influence of political correctness on police priorities, suggesting that police are now more focused on monitoring speech than addressing crimes like burglary or antisocial behavior. Hitchens proposes reforming the police by returning to smaller local forces that are more accountable to the communities they serve. He emphasizes the need for police presence to prevent crime rather than just reacting to it and criticizes public sector workers for using their influence to report non-criminal offenses to the police, further exacerbating the issue.
mRNA “Vaccines” Linked to Genetic Changes That Can Cause Cancer, Autoimmune Disorders
War Is Hell
One of Lionel Richie’s greatest
Still
And yes, 45 years ago she did tell me she never needed me.
And yes, somewhere deep inside something inside me still does love her. (FOOL!)
Same boat tho mine was killed in a car crash in 1970 .. still think about/see her every day .. 4 kid s& 8 grandkids later ..
When I go it’ll be .. “He Stopped Loving her Today” They’ll play ……..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67kVNNL5Zwc
Hairy telling me there is definite chatter online about a likely Series 3 of Rogue Heroes. I’d expected that because there were so many items left ‘unfinished’ in the Series 2 episodes. It’s still very enjoyable, though it doesn’t quite pack the marvellous punch of the initial Series 1. Paddy is still leading with is usual ‘poettic’ form though throughout, with one liners that delight..
FFS if Dutton is like the dog that caught the car it is chasing and actually forms government they need a clean out of the BOM.
29 deg & 88% humidity but nuffin except on the ranges storm wise at nearly 10pm Qld time.
Forecast has changed 3 times today from showers increasing to showers possible now.
Yuk another sticky night. Yeah we’ve had bulk rain but last week or two has been very sultry till the early hours.
Southern jet stream is riding more north, same the high pressure systems so I think a transition to the dry season is imminent. Still the longer range GFS are throwing up lows towards the end of April in the Coral Sea.
Anything that late is lucky to be a Cat 2 but not unheard of…
Defending yourself is now a crime in Germany. I wonder whether they’d have bothered to charge him if she had died. In Belgium they let rapists walk free to offend again.
@realMaalouf
GERMANY:
A young girl was attacked by an Eritrean man who tried to rob and rape her. She defended herself with a knife and fatally wounded the attacker.
Her trial has begun, and she is now facing charges of ‘intentional bodily harm resulting in death’.
A disgusting travesty.
Apparently in France you can get into very serious trouble if you injure or kill your attacker in the course of self-defence.
Personally, I’d far rather be tried by twelve people than carried by six.
Don’t get that choice in France, Code Napoleon.
Not so according to Google AI and Wikipedia. A jury trial is available for felonies (seems to apply here), though it’s done with 3 judges and 6 to 9 jurors.
See Jury trial – Wikipedia?
Thanks for the clarification.
@DC_Draino
This might be the single best explanation of Trump’s tariff policies I’ve seen and it was from a former Democrat on Piers Morgan
Listen to the passion in her voice
Even @KariLake was impressed
Bravo @bungarsargon
Yes, that’s what you get when someone wakes up and sees the light.
@DC_Draino
1 significant election fraud arrest
1 significant Epstein client arrest
1 significant Covid creation/lockdown arrest
1 significant Big Pharma arrest
1 significant Russia collusion arrest
1 significant Trump assassination attempt arrest
1 significant DOGE fraud arrest
All we want is 1 of these arrests to know that progress is being made
‘Idiotic’: Keir Starmer ‘misapprehends’ Netflix series Adolescence as documentary
Facechooking-
Spotify has siezed up my feed of Podcast Of The Lotus Eaters. I thought it was an uploading stumble from head office, but it’s been weeks, and now i notice that even past episodes can no longer be re-played.
What is to be done? Anyone else have this happen?
Have not seen anyone vaping in Bangkok.
Magic.
Sade – Smooth Operator – Official – 1984
KD at 21:00 on Ms Roberts-Giuffre …
Hmmm.
So not bus-induced kidney damage, then?
Golly, I wonder what else causes kidney damage (apart from buses).
Google suggests that a possible contributor to kidney failure is drug or alcohol abuse.
Which, as KD suggests, may not be inconsistent with the face-plant type facial bruising we see in the Daily Mail photos.
As for the “four days to live”?
A bit of artistic licence there I think.
Someone in ED has given her the “come to Jesus” speech … “if you don’t straighten up and fly right, you will eventually go into renal failure and, if that is not treated, you will be goneski in four days”.
Not an unreasonable prognosis.
Which was then selectively quoted.
Obviously Rudd is at the top of any list of “Australians Pissing off Trump Administration Officials’.
Always have Kevin in your multi.
But you might want to bracket him with Abalone, Downer and Trumble.
Diplomatic Immunity!
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (Demo “Movie Edit” Version) [HD, extended clip, remastered audio]
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Nails it!
Michael Ramirez.
This idiot doesn’t realise his left wing mates caused this?
A.F. Branco.
Henry Payne.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
Anyone else loving how Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the smug bunker of regulated international trade?
It’s brilliant.
Every time someone whines about the nasty US, Team Trump point out that the whiner has much higher tariffs and/or trade barriers to US products. For example, I had no idea that we ban US beef because of BSE, which 300+ million Americans must be immune to.
I’m very impressed about how TT have done their homework and are ready for the predictable wailing and rending of garments.
Notably, sensible responses have come from some countries, like India. Even the UK has realised that brawling over this issue is a bad idea.
Unfortunately, we are in the middle of an election campaign, so breast-beating will be the order of the day, to our national detriment. I wonder if anyone important is returning Kevni’s phone calls and texts?
No wonder the Dimmocrats are in chaos. After four years of Sleepy Joe, where all they had to do was show up now and then and keep on grifting, they are suddenly in the middle of a ‘hurrcn.’ Their posessions are being damaged or are disappearing in the wind and rain, loved ones are being struck down, and their insurance policies were originally written in California but cancelled just before the fires, thanks to their own initiatives.
There is no doubt that this Presidency will transform America and the world. DJT is not an innately modest man, but he sure has learned from hiis mistakes in Round One.
What with all those phony hydrogen and offshore wind fantasies collapsing everywhere locally, we may just be turning the corner.
Nailed it, Johanna.
The Democrat organisation and cheating is still intact. See Wisconsin. What you are seeing is window dressing.
Why is Alex Wong still employed?
Why is Mike Walz covering for him?
Wong was the one who put together the signal group.
This has been demonstrated to beyond all doubt.
Trump puts a broom through the NSC but Wong remains.
Why?
He’s gone, with several others. Loomered. . See below.
“Trump has now connected the dots to show that America has actually been going through its own “color revolution” with three stages: 1) Demoralizing and disorienting the American people by driving God out of the culture and disconnecting the people from the virtues of their heritage; 2) Dividing the American People along racial, economic, gender, and ethnic lines; and then 3) Creating a crisis (like a civil war) from which the country cannot recover.
America has already passed through the first two stages of this color revolution and is now in the crisis stage. If we have learned anything about the enemies of America, we know they are unscrupulous, unprincipled, and unrestricted by any traditional norms. But because they tend to run with a limited repertoire of operations that have worked in the past, it’s possible to figure out what the enemies of the United States are likely to attempt.”
Read More:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/what_s_the_real_target_of_the_assault_on_tesla.html
The waste and fraud being uncovered in the US is an existential threat to the many bad actors being funded via NGOs or other dodgy schemes.
How they must envy the Australian left, funded by all those union controlled super schemes. Plenty of money flows from the super funds to unions and onwards to the Labor Party.
What is also being uncovered in the US is how many fake identities there are, some for defrauding the social security system, but importantly there are many that serve as fake voter ID.
The time has come for the 2020 election and the J6 frauds to be conspicuously exposed. It’s all very well to publish old documents relating to the JFK assassination, but the truth about dodgy voter rolls and manipulation whether by ballot harvesting or machine hacks must come out. The statistics from 2020 reveal a huge number of anomalies, but the symposium which presented them has been shoved down the memory hole. Murdoch was monstered and sacked Carlson.
How often we hear the BBC say that conservative politicians or commentators have produced “no evidence to support their allegations”. Imagine my surprise last night to hear the same BBC say that “most economists” think Trump’s tariffs are bad.
That’s a very sweeping statement, with no evidence.
They’re bad if you’re a globalist.
False conservatives are the pits, here and in the US:
RINO Lawmakers in Florida Are Using Their Supermajority to Impose the Latest Green Agenda Scam.
Good news though:
Vance: ‘We Were Prepared’ for ‘Radical Courts’ to Interfere with Deportation Efforts
And even better:
Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman,’ Famous for Scene Busting Green Energy Myths, Begins Filming Season 2 in Texas
Worth mentioning is that the international trade bureaucracy, exemplifieed by the WTO, is just another self-appointed supranational that provides opportunities for living large while telling other people what to do.
They have ‘Doha rounds’ like the ‘COP rounds’ – meaning international gabfests with all expenses paid. Results are not necessarily a good thing.
A long time acquaintance of mine (we were undergraduates together) has spent her whole career as an ‘expert’ in trade. She (and, she’s very bright, much brighter than me) has worked through the public service to consultancy to academia, always talking about trade policy.
Very successful, always made good money.
Thing is, whenever I tried to understand her work, I couldn’t. It was all about weaving your way through the maze of regulation, with the odd nod to What Might Have Been.
There are at least tens of thousands of people like her all over the world; parasitic supra nationals are everywhere.
Interesting comment regarding Dutton/Sydney living off another blog ……..!
During his tenure as Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese claimed a Living Away From Home Allowance (LAFHA) totaling $17,169 over 59 nights to stay in his personally owned, mortgage-free Canberra apartment, whenever he attended sessions of parliament. The spirit of this legislation was to reimburse politicians and public servants for expenses incurred whilst traveling and paying to stay in accommodation in a location other than their home.
This is fraud. Why is Albanese not charged for rorting taxpayer funds while staying in a unit he owned?
In true style of a hypocrite and coward, Albanese digs the dirt on Dutton and has an unknown underling expose Dutton for doing something which is clearly, clearly Albanese, is the choice of Dutton he is entitled to do.
It’s a rort, but it’s not fraud. Federal public servants used to have something similar – i.e. accommodation allowance (which varied according to city and region) and travel allowance. Where you stayed was your business (many used to crash with a mate). About 30 years ago departments started cracking down on it. Many of them now have select accommodation providers and a corporate credit card that has to be acquitted. Not surprisingly, the politicians have chosen to remain on the old scheme.
Ah, a rort but legal ..Well, that makes it AOK then .. Bit like the “trust me, I’m a politician” is a, truthful, campaign slogan .. LOL!
Legal doesn’t mean moral.
feelthebern
April 4, 2025 6:41 am
Why is Alex Wong still employed?
An excellent question!
As many other excellent questions badly need asking:
1) Why are the Dementocrats allowed to effectively block the US govt from running? Mike Johnson was a dodgy insider ?RINO prior to last November, but now his colours are truly on display. Why is the Trump admin allowing this?
2) What were the early delays in confirmations (Patel, Gabbard, RFK Jr) all about? I thought the Reps had the numbers in Congress.. was that an illusion? Tail wagging dogs and all that..
3) Why haven’t the RINOs been effectively neutered? They didn’t just materialize. Was there really no plan to deal with these well established, treacherous K..ts? The same can be said for the activist judges, they didn’t just appear last January.
4) With all the massive corruption and fraud uncovered by Elon, has anyone asked what the Reps were doing while this was happening? The USAID stuff didn’t just suddenly appear under the incontinent corpse command.
5) With all the massive corruption and fraud uncovered by Elon, why have there been no high-profile arrests of just ONE or TWO of the THOUSANDS of scammers running those allegedly-50,000 NGOs?
6) Where are the police and army when now-well-established-and-documented Colour Revolution (BLM-Antifa playbook) tactical protests are damaging the Country, in full view of independent media and even the MSM?
7) Where are the early, sudden, high-profile, prosecutions of senior Dem swampers that almost succeeded in capturing the US last November?
8) Why is Trump still crapping on, on his multiple press conferences and speeches, making exactly… and I mean EXACTLY, the same points, using EXACTLY the same language, as he was doing in his first week of office? Does he not have media advisors tasked with improving-refining his messaging?
And this is just a start.
Maybe,some of these actions may need more time, but the optics truly suck.
All is NOT well in Trump’s Camelot.
I want to see someone charged and jailed. Lots of aomeones.
As for the reactions of our political leaders, Lethbridge nails it today.
Second raters taken by surprise by world events (h/t Donald Horne) that have been in the offing for ten years.
Snap Bungonia!
The 5 eastern states making up the National Energy Market (NEM) are currently being powered by a combined 70% coal. Very little wind and as yet not much solar (6% wind and 1% solar.) More transmission lines, solar panels and turbines would be redundant in this situation as the weather dependent power sources are not producing. South Australia that destroyed its coal fired station is operating on over 50% gas and drawing on battery power and liquid fuel (Kerosene?).Why is it ok for SA to use gas and not other states? Why isn’t this contradiction on the front page of every newspaper?
All the states have gas power plants.
The real difference with SA is that they resort to diesel to fill the gaps yet continue to virtue signal.
Same as the ACT. The joint is NOT using 100% Ruin A Balls energy. It cheats by importing other generated electricity which is not from Ruin A Balls.
And as with SA the media goes along with the charade.
The real difference is that SA is relying on gas more times than not (over 50%) this morning plus kerosene and still needs to import from Vic (coal power). Victoria is operating currently on 73% coal. What happens when the coal goes and it’s windless and overcast in the southern states?
All the states rely on gas for supply during peak times, mem.
The use of diesel (or kerosene) regularly is the real scandal if you accept the agw hypothesis.
And still no-one in either major Australian political party is game to call out the reason for this energy madness: the fake science of “climate change” — the greatest hoax in the history of the human race.
the fake science of “climate change” — the greatest hoax in the history of the human race.
Except for organised religion.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/03/billboard-chriss-fight-against-aussie-censorship/
Very well done those organisations supporting him.
I wonder if Billboard Chris has a go fund me page?
Is Federal Laybore’s Erection Bus an EV and where is Blackout Bowen?
Trump really is amazing. Instead of seeking revenge for himself, he is trying to ensure that others are not abused in the same way.
Neal Katyal’s Law Firm Striking Trump Deal Stuns MSNBC Viewers
Murdoch was monstered and sacked Carlson.
True but I suspect Murdoch had no choice. As JC wrote on this forum at the time Carlson was sacked, many companies were pulling their advertising from Fox and specifically from Carlson’s show on Fox. At the end of the day, whether we like it or not, privately owned media outlets like Fox and Sky Oz depend on advertising revenue to keep them afloat.
During his best days on Fox, especially during Covid, Tucker Carlson was the voice of disaffected and disenchanted working and middle America but since his departure from Fox he’s outed himself as an ignoble crank of the fringe right. Having set up his own Youtube channel, Carlson now platforms and gives voices to anti-Semites and other assorted cranks. He isn’t missed, unless of course you think him giving a Youtube platform to the likes of Darryl Cooper, a rabid Jew hater who thinks the evil man of World War II wasn’t Hitler but rather was Churchill, and that a secret cabal of Jews was behind World War II, and Carlson not challenging Cooper on such ridiculous, absurd and offensive claims, is journalism. That isn’t journalism, just like David Irving’s revisionist historical pulp isn’t history.
Maybe Tucker’s crankness was there all along? Perhaps Murdoch knew something we didn’t know about Carlson?
Lastly, it’s ironic how Fatty Palmer is using Tucker Carlson in his advertising for his Trumpet of Patriots party and spruiking free speech, this is the same Fatty Palmer who refused to help Abbott and the Liberals back in 2014 amend Section 18C. Oh yes, that was the time when Palmer was being fawned over by the ABC, Fairfax and others on the left. They just loved Fatty Palmer then, all because he was a thorn in the side of the Abbott government. Lastly on Palmer, let’s hope after this election we finally see the back of this hideous man, all he’s done is fracture the voting right, which I guess was always his intent. Unlike Pauline, he’s offered nothing of substance to the Australian political scene. Instead his legacy is the loon from Tasmania.
Palmer could have been Liberal Party’s Elon Musk by supporting them against Labor, Greens and teals. He could have drawn the left’s and the media’s fire away from the Coalition so that they could have a clear path to winning and that way enacting the policies Palmer professes to promote.
That Trumpet part of his party’s name is so cynical and parasitic that I can’t take anything he says at face value, he is a fraud.
Fat cloive’s latest ads on Sky are absolutely bloody infuriating.
Legislation prevents me expressing my genuine thoughts on Mr. Palmer.
A love so deep you cant unleash it in public?
Love is love now Arky
Up to his third ‘party’ now. A vile creature.
There have been plenty of revelations about the hack-friendly voting machines, and Murdoch squibbed it.
Have you forgotten the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News, which resulted in Fox News agreeing to pay Dominion over USD$787 million, and where Fox acknowledged the court’s earlier ruling that Fox had broadcast false statements about Dominion?
Yeah, I can see why Murdoch ‘squibbed it’ after that.
A haemorrhoid on the arse that is Australian politics.
@catturd2
The European Union is one big giant disinformation network.
@nicksortor
Judge Boasberg now wants to potentially JAIL Trump officials…
But he let Ray Epps, the alleged FBI informant who literally ORCHESTRATED riots on J6, walk free, while grandmas were thrown in prison.
That should put it ALL into perspective.
Boasberg is a deep state operative
People on X doing their best create noise.. it’s not helping… boys!
Heartbreaking.
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: USC student Nate Baker (21) kiIIed by an illegal alien driving without a license (hit and run)
@ClownWorld_
CNN applied an orange filter to Trump’s face during his interview.
This isn’t journalism. It’s manipulation.
Why are they editing reality?
KD at 10:17 pm last evening
One scenario which might explain “No Bail Gail’s” hard line on crime …
If one of Gail’s besties is now a blithering mess and won’t leave the house after an ag-burg.
The other little line in there is “first time offending”.
This usually means “first tine caught” or, more insidiously, he has been before the courts before, found guilty and released “without a conviction recorded”.
A home invasion and raids on milk bars and service stations are reported over a two month time frame.
“First time offending” my arse.
Sorry, I made that point later before I saw your comment.
Didn’t tumble far enough. Hell would be about right.
Australian prime minister tumbles off stage during campaign event
Don’t know if anyone has already posted this:
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/that-time-a-marine-general-led-a-fictional-iran-against-the-us-military-and-won/
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: General Motors to significantly increase vehicle production in the United States following President Trump’s tariffs.
That was quick.
@Real_RobN
Adam Schiff conspired with CIA John Brennan to overthrow the United States government in 2016 and then, right out of a small room in Langley, covertly conspired with CIA Director Mike Pompeo to overthrow the sitting President of the United States.
Declassifications are coming…
We all hope they are, but …
No wonder there’s so much screaming.
@JackPosobiec
Trump is now upending global economics and waging war on the globalists on behalf of the American Worker
This is the path that leads to the return of the American Dream
Welcome to the Great Deal
It’s been clear since inauguration day that this Trump administration is revolutionary.
And the “revolutionaries” of the left hate being “Trumped” at their own game.
Wisconsin. None of this matters if there are never any consequences.
@Real_RobN
CONFIRMED:
U.S. Attorney General MUST INVESTIGATE and Prosecute.
Those economists that are wrong about everything all the time have never had a better opportunity to more loudly and proudly demonstrate their infallible error laden idiocy.
They are magnificently mUttleyesque.
The economic argument against tariffs is like coal in the NEM. The reality is so far from any theoretical approximation as to be virtually irrelevant. Trade (and so many of the “free” trade agreements) are so full of distortions, special interest pleadings and carve outs as to have worse price signal effects than a flat tariff regime.
Exactly. You might as well engage the services of your local witch doctor and/or get on down to interpreting some chicken entrails.
LOL.
ABC urgently needs more cash, says Kim Williams (Paywallian)
ABC urgently needs to be defunded, at least of taxpayer money. If they want to get munni from someplace else that’s fine by me, but not a cent from my wallet.
The joint should be reduced to a publicly funded Country Radio Station.
And so saving Taxpayers a load of money and one eyed reporting.
I believe Clive Palmer might be in the market for a media network.
Williams is doing a good impression of a cross dressing Ita.
Meanwhile the ALPBC continues to haemorrhage what few viewers and listeners it has.
SBS remains fully PC while running ads, Their ABC could do the same.
Further to KD’s post 10:17 last evening, there is this little snippet on the matter of “first time offending” …
… a home invasion (at least 1 offence) … assaulting innocent victims in raids (plural) on milk bars (plural) and service stations (plural) … at least four offences.
More correctly described as a “crime spree” than “first time offending”.
Do not mistake VicPlod for the police. They are an arm of the Victoriastani Liars. A simple mistake, although you would expect a magistrate to know better.
Why are VicPol advocating for very violent crims?
If they want to be social justice warriors then I strongly suggest they get another job or a big cleanout is needed.
The date trade will be in turmoil!
Cleanup of Waltz’s team after Signalgate.
JUST IN: President Trump Fires at Least Three “Neocon” National Security Staffers After Laura Loomer Oval Office Meeting – Loomer Responds
and
OOPS: Dana Bash’s Nasty Reporting on Laura Loomer and the NSC Firings Backfires When Loomer Exposes Her GLARING Conflict of Interest Regarding a Troublesome NSC Staffer
Number of Americans Filing for Unemployment Benefits Drops Again, Signaling Robust Labor Market Under Trump.
This is actually quite interesting. I saw the unemployment number this morning and it was steady. But there’s something else going on…
The spike in 2025 is of course doggies in action – all from the public serpent class. Yet unemployment numbers are declining. So either those serpents are immediately getting jerbs or the private sector is hiring any warm body they can. I suspect the latter as corporations gear up for Trumpism.
‘DOGE Impact’: Federal Govt Layoffs Dominate Biggest March Job Losses In 36 Years (4 Apr)
Unemployment number due tomorrow.
I think it will be up.
It’s been around 220k for a couple years, no sign of spiking. Yet at least.
Source.
I have argued public servants and publicly funded employees (NDIS, aged and childcare etc) should be backed out from employment figures which would prevent this.
Exactly.
Exclusive — JD Vance on ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs: ‘First Time’ in Decades ‘We Have an American President Saying No More’ to U.S. Being World’s ‘Piggy Bank’
So it’s all right if they do it but not if America does?
‘Attack on the Global Trade Order’ Cries German Chancellor, Warning Trump’s Tariffs ‘Fundamentally Wrong’
EU President Ursula von der Leyen is Apoplectic, Worries of Asian Product Dumping into EU
Government-Funded NGO Caught on Undercover Video Giving ICE Evasion Training
@libsoftiktok
The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting.
This should tell you everything you need to know…
LOL. And good luck with that. Tossers.
Isn’t that already illegal?
Left-Wing Organizations Opposing The SAVE Act Received More Than $150 Million From Soros Groups: Analysis
The Irony of ‘Nobody Elected Elon’
We have had some pretty poor “elected” results in our Senate too.
Tariffs Are The Only Way To Restore America’s Long-Term Economic Health
Imagine if we had a ‘revolutionary’ Coalition government that…
Shutdown the ABC and SBS (or severely defunded both)
Shutdown the various Human Rights Commissions that only ever, conveniently, go after conservatives and libertarians (ask Bernard Gaynor, Sall Grover, Pauline Hanson and so on)
Sack the e-Safety skank and shut the organisation down
Close down the various government funded climate authorities and quangos
Reined in union industry super funds
Terminated Labor’s IR laws
Slashed immigration
Forget about nuclear, built new coal fired plants
Walked away from net zero absurdity
Introduced a free speech law
Introduced a Medicare co-payment
Amended Section 18C
I could go on, I’m sure you get the drift. We can only dream.
Oh wait, those last two points above were introduced by the Abbott government in 2014, only to be blocked by Fatso Palmer who now has the chutzpah to campaign in 2025 on a free speech and curbing government waste and spending platform.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Oh and just further to those Labor IR laws, spineless Dutton has said he won’t revoke them. Oh and Dutton has consistently sided with the e-Safety Skank. I ask, what is the point of voting Liberal?
You wre having a dream, Cassie. The nightmare was when you woke up.
Like its audience.
And like its credibility.
No mention of the number and costs of legal settlements.
Johanna earlier
It takes something right up there on the stupidity scale to cause my mouth to fall open, but that did it.
FFS, the poor farming practices which caused BSE are well known and well controlled.
There have been less than 250 cases worldwide since it was discovered back in the 80’s and Gongle tells me there were four (4) cases recorded in 2017.
And the main outbreak way back when was in the UK. There is no evidence it has ever been a serious problem in the US.
The farmers and lobbyists and politicians who put this in place need their arses kicked because this only damages the credibility of legitimate quarantine measures.
I was under the impression the main reason for international beef bans is foot and mouth disease. Admittedly the US hasn’t had an outbreak for many decades, but they’d be on the list of potentially affected countries.
This sort of regulatory tarriff is quite common throughout the world.
The best was the Chinese go slow on unloading coal ships. Does also remember that little “tarriff”. Anything that impedes trade for advantage is a tarriff.
Albo not also
I was in the UK around that period. Didn’t take much encouragement to swap to butter chicken.
I remember seeing kangaroo and emu meat appear on the supermarket shelves in London.
And the chap who stuffed up the modeling for mad cow disease was the same chap the UK government relied upon to screw up the covid predictions.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/
Which just goes to show how far having one picture of the PM bumming a pig can take you in life.
Imperial College epidemiologist Neil] Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. . . .
In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.
In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.
In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.
Last March, Ferguson admitted that his Imperial College model of the COVID-19 disease was based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus. Ferguson declined to release his original code so other scientists could check his results. He only released a heavily revised set of code last week, after a six-week delay.
The Age. Gawd Almighty
Chuckle.
I’m guessing the headline is much better than the analysis.
Must be a pun based on the beef export angle, surely?
The Grauniad-on-the-Yarra gives up and goes tabloid.
Somebody trying to be clever as Trump has a beef with us.
A leader would at least put the case either for selective reform or repeal before the electorate, tying it to the key issue of productivity and declining living standards, and give voters a real choice.
Possibly another terror attempt in Holland:
https://x.com/RadioEuropes/status/1907798060463198448
That looks like the car ad from way back. The car is so well made, the suicide bomber blows up himself. 😀
VW ad, yes was quite funny.
More here on incident, via Blazing Catfur
https://www.newsweek.com/amsterdam-car-explosion-videos-show-man-fire-after-incident-2054794
If we really want to be nice to the Yanks, why not recall an ambassador who has been insulting to them?
And ask if they still want a frigate to be sent to the Gulf – which we previously refused?
That ship has sailed. 😀
Australian warship to depart Darwin for Indo-Pacific mission (Sky News, 3 Apr)
Looks like she’s going to hook up with a British carrier group.
Royal Navy training exercise off the Welsh coast sees HMS Dauntless shoot down swarms of drones with awesome accuracy (3 Apr)
Good stuff. Now, where is that enemy nuclear powered submarine?
Big supporter of the “God Emperor” but but starting to wonder at all the inaction concerning the daily exposures whether they be FBI, CIA, DOGE, DoJ or anything else .. Lotza wordz/smokin’ guns ect .. but no one (as far as I’m aware) has been charged with any wrong-doing, to date ……
If all/any this stuff coming out is fact/true time to put up or shut up ……. FFS!
Yes and how many ‘Banksters’ went to the slammer as part of their ‘work’ in the GFC?
What can I say? I agree. I most certainly have no problems with his character flaws as they are perceived by his detractors re. sexual behavior and narcissism, but I have my doubts about his ability to think deeply about matters and select people on merit instead of likes. Sure, he gets some of it right it’s inevitable, even m0nty gets some things right on occasion.
I think he goes more by ‘feelz’ and pays more attention to public opinion about himself than the job in hand.
I hope I am completely off beam and he succeeds in destroying the deep state and his policies lead into a bright future for all of us*.
(need some emoticons here or /sarc?)
Mutley only ever gets something right by mistake.
Even a broken clock/watch can get it right twice a day.
Monty Pox Virus -Never.
I have great confidence that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino will get to the “perp walk” stage.
However, both will want all their ducks in a row – no escape for the guilty this time.
Such things do take time if you want actual prison terms and not just a show that results in acquittal.
Neither of those two will care about political party affiliation – if you broke the law, and they think they can prove it, you’d be arrested, indicted, tried, convicted and gaoled, God willing.
They’ve had less than 3 months, and unlike the other side, they won’t walk over peoples rights to prove they “have the power”.
Nor do they (largely) have a complicit judiciary on their side. They know this, and will act accordingly.
I awoke this morning with a brilliant, inspired, very funny sexist missive composed ready to go.
Legislation prevents me from posting.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Normal posting will ensue once the country returns to sanity.
However.
I invite the ladies to respond as if I had posted it.
We’ll get through this together.
No we won’t. I’ve heard stories about you. 😀
Sounds a bit like the ‘Virus Crisis’ BS.
We are all in this together. Yeah, right.
Arky, if you don’t stop posting this sexist, misogynistic, anti female vitriol I’ll be forced to do it.
Be warned, young man!
Its actually your latent homophobia stopping you.
If you werent a homophobe the thought of being arrested, charged and imprisoned for 5 years with a bunch of burly, sexually frustrated Islanders and Lebs would hold no fear for you.
Tony Mokbel free
Huh? I thought he was dead!
So did I!
Free? What did they used to cost?
Only out on bail. He will be living at his sister’s address.
Sictorian bail laws are the best. Don’t cha know.
Lawyer X?
It has become the standard tag line.
“Trump claims, without evidence, that xyz”.
Phrases like “Trump claims” or “Albanese asserts” are sufficient. It is already implicit that it is an opinion and the appended “without evidence” is merely added for effect, to give the impression the subject is knowingly lying.
Compare and contrast:-
“Conservative politician claims, without evidence …”
“Lefty politician points out that …”
See also “Dutton fails to produce modelling.” Very little mention of the $275 figure modelling produced.
Oz is in.
Senate Votes on Confirming Dr. Oz for Role in Trump Administration (3 Apr)
It’ll be interesting to see what he does.
The always excellent Adam Creighton.
Albanese owes Trump a debt of gratitude on tariffs
Adam Creighton is chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs.
Trump is channelllng an increasingly niche but longstanding view about the pre-eminence of manufacturing going back to Alexander Hamilton, who once wrote: “Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures.”
Abalone, are you reading and/or listening? You Marxist Tosser.
xi is channeling Hamilton?
It was always dangerous for a country to depend on another for its manufacturing. The obvious disadvantages are that you can be held to ransom or simply deprived of the goods altogether during wartime, boycotts and blockades.
Even between the best of friends you could run into trouble due to natural catastrophes that could befall the manufacturing countries thus destroying their manufacturing capacity.
Our politicians of all colours have mismanaged our future by de-industrialising. Being so remote we are even in greater peril from all of the above dangers than countries located next to each other.
Probably the best article I’ve read re Trump’s tariffs.
The other shoe on tariffs hasn’t dropped yet- tax cuts.
Trump, being American, could be expected to actually lower personal income taxes.
Thanks for posting. Very informative
Thanks for your appreciation and you’re welcome. I try to post topical articles that, I hope, will be of informative to the feline community herein.
ofCreighton is laser-like focused on whether there is any chance the USA’s new tariffs will achieve within the USA what Trump is hoping for.
He totally ignores the effect these tariffs will have on other countries, such as whether a tariff screws countries who don’t deserve it.
Try this as an antidote (from Arnaud Bertrand on twitter):
Perhaps this is all acceptable from the America First perspective.
Interesting and thanks for posting. It seems clear that a more rational approach to tariff calculations would have seen a better outcome.
Every single Gobbo related, contaminated conviction should be set aside.
The question on my mind is not – how come Mokbel is now out of jail? – it is
how is it that Gobbo is not in jail?
Gotta luv th eOz “justice” system .. Sister has no probs covering the bail money with drug money .. LOL!
Unless, of course, Sis is such an astute business woman that she earned all her assets thru hard work .. LOL!
Competition claims would just about send the State of Victoria even further down the path to ruin.
Compensation claims..
Very similar in Vicco. 😀
More good news.
BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon has been confirmed as an Assistant Attorney General, 52-45 (4 Apr, via Instapundit)
FINALLY- I see Dutton is finally talking about ending the woke garbage indoctrinating and brainwashing our kids in schools.
This is supremely important if we are to turn back the disastrous state of our ed system and end the activist Marxist education kids now grow up in.
Go harder on this Dutton.
Dudzy .. good with the talking but very lame on walking the walk ….. LOL!
The public school system is at Augean Stables level right now. Impossible to fix.
He’d be better off encouraging home schooling, the Baccalaureate and religious schools.
Religious schools- wot, like New Hindoo High?
Public- ie State- Schools are no different from Private- ie Public- Schools, because they are all yoked to the corrupted curriculum. We went to the Catholic high school, not because we are turned on by worship of the dead, but because we thought they might be fundamentally fortified against the Shame, Complain and Rename culture which has been titrating down from the bloated Party appointees in the universities… but the staff are, with precious few exceptions, fickle adolescents themselves.
Afuera! to the lot of it, I say. Dissolve federal and state Education Departments and student subsidies, devolve the granting of any vouchers to a wastrels’ welfare department which only acts after a referral from local watchmen in police or health.
Hopefully there will be minimal Wagyl Worship there.
Yes Bruce, but the other 90 odd % of parents whose kids are in the ed system and can’t afford the Baccalaureate schools or have to work to feed their kids and keep the roof going will benefit immensely- IF he actually does it. It’s up to sensible Aussie families to make sure he does. More than ever parents should should get hold of their local reps and harangue them until he does.
Or we have another generation of idiot activists.
Fix the curriculum would do it.
Not going to happen since ACARA is a creature of the Left.
Combined homeschooling would fix a lot of your reservations: four or five families banding together.
ACARA are public serpents and can be replaced. So can the curriculum. If the LNP has a mind to. It’s called guts.
Everything in Govt is a creature of the left, which is why it’s so important for the SFL’s to grow a set and take them on. That , or we continue the spiral into the sewer as a nation.
That’s the choice in front of us.
Spine, guts and balls, all sadly lacking in the SFL’S
Bruce, that’s actually how home schooling works unless, of course you are so remote you rely on School of the Air.
My grandees went to home schooling when their awesome mother refused to have them stabbed with the covid poison.
Home schooling includes a network of other families in your local area so you can organise group study etc at each others homes. This also allows kids to socialise with other kids which is one of the crap arguments that anti-home schoolers spruik when they periodically call for its cancellation.
Socialising with the children who will not corrupt them like those they would meet in schools.
Maybe better to invite schools to participate in a revised curriculum, monitor and benchmark results and then roll out further. I don’t think home schooling is a feasible answer.
If you want a good laugh/cry look at f-10 history and geography syllabuses. English is not much better
Had I gone through under the new syllabus, whatever love of history or reading I had would have been crushed.
Oddly enough boys playing online games are often inspired to read up on historical battles and wars.
Son played some game. Scored highest mark in history for his interest in the Peloponessian war. Fueled further interest in Mediterranian history.
If you like your “shoot-em-up” movies an end to end blood-fest then you’ll luv this Netflix one from Mexico .. No deep story line(s) or in depth characterizations just guns, bullets, blood from go to woe .. 10/10 LOL!
COUNTERSTRIKE …. make sure you get a “subs” version cos otherwise it’ll be all Mexican .. LOL!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23648788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_counterstrike
From the Oz.
Since coming to office, the Albanese government has increased public spending by over $130bn dollars in a splurge rivalled only by the ill-fated government of Gough Whitlam. And the sheer scale of this pharaonic achievement is understated because it excludes both $45bn in “off budget” spending and the spending promises that will be made in the weeks ahead.
Watched the Albolanche for the first time just now.
Probably fell at least as far as Dan Andrews supposedly did.
No damage to Albo, apart from pride (if you could have any looking like that).
Just saying.
The big bloke Albo grabbed hold of on his way down, smoothly pivoted toward Albo so the clutching hand of Sleazy couldn’t secure a strong grip on the big fella’s shirt. Descent continued. hahahaha
Typical Abalone- seek something solid to cling to.
Haw!
Luigi was quick to pull back his hand when the bloke next to him didn’t take it. He then ducked behind him and went arse up. LOL.
Trump. Forging ahead, executing the plan on reciprocal tariffs;
Did he get a call from the Tony Abalone ?
I’m sure we would hear about it if he did. I think Abalone doesn’t want negative publicity before the election. Our exports do not rate when power is at stake.
Well, no doubt Rudd and/or Luigi called.
“Who? Tell ’em I’m busy. We’ll get back to them when we can.”
And where was the KRudd?
Every country: “You dumb bastard.”
Trump in the cab of an 18-wheeler he doesn’t know how to drive: “Yaaay, I’m driving!”
Gosh, you’re so lame m0ron. As well as stupid.
Einstein was right.
Wegener was right.
Marshall was right.
Trump is right.
A lot of the time the consensus are the idiots.
From The Spectator Australia – An extract –
Michael Baume –
It was hidden in one line of Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech. But it is a crucial reason the Albanese government must be voted out of office – and also prevented from becoming an even more destructive minority government dictated to by the Greens and Teals. What was hidden in the budget reply is, effectively, a Coalition direct public assault on the extremes of Labor’s disastrous renewables-only anti-fossil-fuels madness that underlies Australia’s cost-of-living crisis and negative per capita economic growth. But it is masquerading as only a specific issue for small business and regional Australia, with the Nationals’ David Littleproud hot on the chase as the Dutton opposition is almost being brave on climate, but not brave enough to make it overtly a key issue.
Implementing this significant Coalition promise, which is to repeal the Albanese government’s latest oppressive piece of very expensive green tape, the mandatory climate reporting law, would play an important role in putting an end to any remaining fantasy of achieving net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. But the Coalition appears to want to do so without actually running the political risk of overtly saying so. This is at a time when multi-millions of dollars from rent-seeking renewable energy billionaires are being directed towards their self-interested net-zero political cause via the ‘independent’ Teals. Climate will be an issue.
But with the net-zero bandwagon losing momentum among Australia’s main trading partners, led by the Trump redux administration, there is a mounting political case for taking the climate catastrophists head on. Australians, already carrying the rapidly increasing cost burden of the net-zero nightmare, now face the coming cost-of-living impact of this latest law, of which the ordinary voter is generally unaware. But there is no doubting the significance of what is happening nor its impact; Asic chair Joe Longo, describes these new requirements as ‘the biggest change to corporate reporting in a generation’ while the Australian Institute of Company Directors welcomes Australia becoming ‘one of the first developed countries to implement such a comprehensive and extensive mandatory reporting regime’.
When Dutton in his budget reply said, ‘We will not force large firms to spend more than a billion dollars a year policing the emissions of every small business they deal with – as Labor is trying to do,’ he was effectively confirming the Coalition’s bold up-front commitment in January by Angus Taylor to scrap, when in office, the Albanese government’s onerous mandatory climate disclosure laws that began operating three months ago. Describing them as ‘a $2.3 billion compliance tax on the Australian economy that will make it harder for Australia’s farmers, manufacturers, and miners to attract capital, insurance, and financial services, it will also reduce the attractiveness for international companies to invest in Australia’.
The Australian Institute of Company Directors welcomes Australia becoming ‘one of the first developed countries to implement such a comprehensive and extensive mandatory reporting regime’.
Yep, more rules and power and prestige to them of managing more shuffling of papers and ticking boxes. No consideration of the cost and administrative burden on the industries involved. Of course they would be happy with the process. “One of the first developed countries” does this include China, India and Indonesia? Such an appeal to the “prestige” doesn’t say the process is needed, appropriate or worthy.
The wheels on the Bus go round and round, round and round.
Even the kids on the bus that “hit”, the Grifter are calling her a liar. Lol.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14569417/kids-bus-Virginia-Giuffre-slammed-small-crash.html
Perth crashes should demand respect. Ask Brocky.
hehe. naughty.
This is interesting.
I had an idea yeaterday of seeing if remote area ambulances could fit some sort of imaging to allow for better outcomes for stroke patients.
About 80% of strokes are the blood clot variety, and anticoagulants administered in the first hour massively improve outcomes and reduce the permeant damage.
Only problem is the other 20% or so are brain bleeds, where using the anticoagulants would probably kill them and definitely make them worse.
There is no way, outside a MRI/x-ray to know which sort a person has for sure.
Looks like both the RFDS and some ambulance services are well ahead of me..
When i looked for something like this 10 years ago there was nothing.
Having an ambo (especially in the country) be able to remotely upload this, then give medication authorized by a doc on the spot will be awesome.
https://emvision.com.au/
https://www.micro-x.com/industry/medical-solutions/head-ct (Monash developing)
Elon’s private astronauts have a small Xray imager, which they’ve been testing in orbit. It looks to be the size of a shoebox.
Very cool.
It means you are screwed, sonny boy.
What Donald Trump’s dramatic US trade war means for global climate action (Phys.org, 3 Apr)
Here’s who he is:
Fun that a denizen of Darwin Community College is now telling the leader of the free world what to do. Drones, everywhere drones.
Rakesh is probably in a panic about his prospects, now that the USAID loot has been lopped off. No more paid jaunts, overseas paid holidays, all expenses covered, networking for the next promotion etc. Bleak future ahead potentially for poor Rakesh.
Rakesh should
learn to code, er.. learn to weld.ummm.
Doesn’t trade use hydro carbons?
I thought these morons wanted us to shop local, and were worried about the “miles” embedded in everyones produce?
I want the loony leftists from 2005 back. At least they were mad in a comprehensible way. I don’t understand these current lunatics at all.
“Food miles” that’s what the nutters used to bang on about.
They don’t give a shit about “food miles” when we were air lifting live f*cking lobsters to the CCP aristocracy for them to gorge themselves on.
I believe that was popular until all the local market gardens were turned into suburbs to house the millions of immigrants who are expected to vote Labor within a few years.
They don’t understand either.
His research areas suggest he has more than a passing interest in keeping the climate scam going.
Wouldn’t be Ramesh Crusoe there either.
Incoming doggie, er, missiles!
Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: ‘What They Found Is Incredible’ (4 Apr)
Frankly with what Elon and his guys have been digging out from shadowy corners nothing would surprise me now.
Really, really need to see some charges laid, though it wouldnt surprise me to find all the cash slushing into various accounts has been “legal”
Proof that Biden is/was Mr 10%.
Thank you, Adam Creighton.
This is why we are fkd. I hate this 2 party system like the plague. These fkg parasites do nothing but rob our treasury and make our lives miserable.
The Noticer
No wonder the SFL’s are silent about Rudd’s missus. FMD.
They seem all to be shamelessly on the gravy train.
Literally selling out the country.
Pure UniParty.
Sounds like Labor’s fabled dirt unit has been busy.
Interesting tidbit.
The Bwitish worked hard on developing finely tuned clocks which were essential for navigation.
The next step was miniaturisation and mass production.
No doubt one of Wodney’s ancestors was the shop-steward who was the catalyst for moving the industry to Switzerland.
snork!
No doubt the Royal Navy had a keen interest as well. The Dutch seemed to do a lot of their early exploration work by bumping into things. Which has its downsides.
Well Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, I give you the Harrison Clock (John Harrison) which allowed the seafarers to know exactly where they were when sailing around the Globe. It was all about the Longitude. So important way before GPS.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/harrisons-clocks-longitude-problem
Captain Cook had one of his clocks (chronometers) and that helped him tremendously on his voyages. He bumped into the Great Southern Land and the rest is history. And Australia speaks English. Well sort of.
You most probably descended from a British convict.
Meanwhile, I was invited here and paid my own way.
Happy Friday you moron.
There used to be a British guy who used holiday in Thailand at an Aussie Bar I used to know of.
Apparently worked for Rolex. The guy used to delight in taking a look at all the knock offs being pedalled by the locals. Most he could pick as fakes pretty quickly but his opinion the fakes were getting harder and harder to spot. He even was asked to bring some back on one of his trips so claimed anyway.
Rolex wanted to study the counterfeits apparently.
Might be a BS story but apparently the guys credentials were legit from expats that knew him.
MY $20 “Rolex” still ticking 15 years on .. lose about a minute a week .. often fools folk .. LOL!
A problem that will become apparent to China as it attempts to establish an East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The mercantilism necessary to make such a project work is not compatible with rigid control by the CCP.
Elvis has left the building.
I mean Tony the crook Mokbel is now out on bail. A one million dollar surety.
Albotross, get your fresh Albotross here.
Monty Python got it right with the Albotross – Years ahead of their time –
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqW_BZu5Xk
Missed the h .. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqW_BZu5Xk
Dual citizenship threatens teal-backed Fremantle independent Kate Hulett’s bid for Canberra
Ek roll ap die vloor..
Oooops.
With your afternoon coffee.
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/australias-immigration-time-bomb-b5d?utm_source=substack&publication_id=454182&post_id=160232454&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=txwbk&triedRedirect=true
Copacabana immigrant dumping count .. NIL .. sez it all really ..!
Cassie at 9:19.
I agree with most of that except …
Here’s the thing.
When the Libs introduced WorkChoices, the ink was barely dry on the legislation before the Captains and Kings of industry were lining up to wring their hands and opine that “maybe gone too far”.
So, screw ’em.
I see an article in the Oz today headed “Business Puts Hard Word on Dutton to Gut IR Laws”.
But who does it quote as “Business”?
The CEOs of the Minerals Council, Resources and Energy Employers Association. Innes Willox, the weathervane CEO of the IAG, gets a run calling for a “review in 18 months when we have had time to assess the impact (of Luigi’s IR laws)”.
Hardly a declaration of war, and not one CEO or Chair of an ASX listed company was quoted.
Why?
Because, when Luigi starts ranting down the phone at them, they can hide behind the industry body, assuring Luigi that it is just a few “far right IPA nut-jobs” in the peak industry body.
So why would Dutton go out on a limb for these jellybacks who not only go to water on economic and IR policy, but publicly support Socialist-Left policies like net-zero, da Voice, etc?
If they want movement on IR, Dutton should read them the riot act … “I won’t go near it unless you tip millions into a publicity campaign and I see a huge majority of ASX200 CEOs and Directors putting their name to this personally (along with staying away from undermining our social policies as well). If you don’t nail your colours to the mast I will push for IR reform for small-medium business and you can swing in the breeze”.
Yep. Big Business loves Big Government. It’s been a while since the Lieborals vigorously defended small business either. At best they do not actively conspire with unions to impoverish the rest of us.
Cassie:“You couldn’t make this shit up.”
Apply the Tim Pool Time Machine: imagine going back 20 years to 2005, and telling people what is about to happen…
Well, I could go on, but shirley the point is made – no-one in 2005 would have believed this was possible – “Get outa here! None of that could happen!” they’d say. You’d not even be able to sell such a story line as some sort of Distopian Future Sci-Fi thriller – too unbelievable, they’d say.
Yet it did happen – all of it.
Stop the world – I want to get off!
Very well said.
Now fast forward 20 years in a Dr Who TARDIS and what will we see? A World destroyed by Nuclear War? The mind boggles.
Going on the current Dr Who everyone is going to be gay and black.
‘Woke’ criticism of Doctor Who proves show on right track, says its newest star (Grauniad, 1 Apr)
It’s real, not an April First joke.
I watched Dr Who when it first came on ABC c1967ish.
I refused to watch it ever since he became a sheila.
A thousand poxes on the woke POS who produce this excrement.
That alone would have been considered utterly ridiculous back in 2005.
Um, so how (and why?) did two guys get into last night’s MCG AFL match with guns?
Sunrise’s Matt Shirvington asks the question everyone wants answered as he speaks to security expert over MCG gun arrest | PerthNow
Interesting read for those who like astronomy/physics:
The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble Crisis | Scientific American
One day we will probably know what “dark energy” and “dark matter” are but, as a professional astronomer/academic told me not so long ago: “Essentially its ‘dark’ because we have absolutely no idea what it is and even if it exists.“
I will add: There is something impacting the way things move and interact in space and we can’t see what it is, so we call it dark matter. Similarly with the accelerated expansion, we can’t tell what it is, so we call it dark energy.
There is “effect” but the cause is well beyond us (at present).
It’s almost like Srinivasa Ramanujan, who rewrote mathematics, in caves in India circa 1900’s, despite never having studied it. I think there’s a whole house of cards, cosmologically speaking, ready to fall.
The Man who knew Infinity. Great movie. I recommended it it a while back on SBSondemand.
Indeed; a great moofie!!! Watched it “accidentally” one rainy day last year!!!…
I was given the same explanation by one of my physicist offspring.
oops. Cats had better check quick smart if you have Super with one of these mobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14570217/Hackers-target-Australias-super-fund-money-drained-accounts.html
@WallStreetApes
The European Union is preparing to fine Elon Musk $1 billion for X “disinformation”
This is EXACTLY what Mike Benz said would happen
Mike Benz said the organizations who got money from USAID to push censorship would now pressurize the EU to force censorship
“Mark my words that USA Truman show, these censors in exile, these, regime changers in exile right now are going to cling on to every international ally.
They will be pressurizing the United Nations. They’ll be pressurizing multilateral organizations like NATO, the EU, and even some of these economic development PACs to use the critical components they have there and sometimes dominant spot they have there to weaponize those assets”
The European Union is preparing to fine Elon Musk $1 billion for X “disinformation”
What a load of bollox. Elon could very well sue the EU for their Miss Information/Dis Information. There are plenty of examples starting with the ‘Virus Crisis’ BS.
@MikeBenzCyber
The punished are all becoming the politically elected, and it’s a beautiful sight to see
In the video, Treasury Secretary Bessent addresses questions about tariffs, trade policies, and their implications. She responds to concerns from allies such as South Korea and Japan regarding U.S. tariffs by emphasizing that these countries have also imposed tariffs in the past. Bessent suggests that strategic use of tariffs can be beneficial, referencing historical examples like Alexander Hamilton, and explains that the current administration aims to use tariff revenue to support working Americans with incentives like tax deductions and reductions. She stresses that while tariffs could initially generate significant revenue, the ultimate goal is to stimulate U.S. manufacturing, potentially reducing tariff revenue as domestic production increases. This plan is expected to avoid a direct impact on the national debt because the income from tariffs isn’t factored into current budget expectations. Bessent also acknowledges the risk of short-term market and economic fluctuations but highlights the potential for long-term gains, emphasizing private sector growth and job creation. Regarding concerns about possible price increases for consumers, she notes that businesses might absorb tariff costs to maintain competitiveness. The overall goal is to shift from a government-subsidized economy to one driven by private sector growth, aiming to increase the real after-tax purchasing power of American workers.
A much greater share of a growing US GDP going into the pockets of US workers and their families. Sharing the wealth. That is why the S&P is correcting for now. Eventually of course that wealth will be spent on US goods and services , consumption being 70% of the US economy.
We may not see a buy opp like this for quite some time.
What is it?
We don’t know but there is a lot of it centred around the USA democrat headquarters.
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@robinmonotti
Vittorio De Sica’s words are gold in the age of virtue signaling:
“Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.”
Vittorio De Sica