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— Milton Friedman-
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I can’t leave this on the other thread.
Shammy, good for soaking up hooker’s blood.
Another thing is to find out what a “moose knuckle” is.
Chad Morgan
7th Battalion A.I.F
A term made famous in this country by a purveyor of “quality j’ism”.
I’ve said good night old the old fred till it be good morrow.
Good morrow, all, and now goodnight.
To the power of ten? Tenth?
Yes! The digital age is upon us. Naughts and ones rule.
Damn, I just missed the first 11.
Must try harder.
#winning
Just finished reading the ol open thread, and I have a bone to pick with Stimpson.
Stimpson, if you ever try that fuba shit again you deserve to be beaten like a muslim wife.
Thanks, Balders. In memory of one of my mob. Was a miner at the Edna May, at Westonia. Enlisted, aged 40, and served in a tunneling company on the Western Front. Gassed in 1917, returned to Australia in 1919, never recovered his health, and was so disgusted by the treatment he got that he returned his medals in 1924. He died in 1941.
Iran should definitely have nukes. If a country as fucked up as Pakistan has them, why not the Iranians?
From the old OT:
Interesting paper
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/quantised-inertia-from-fundamentals.html
Actual paper: McCulloch, M.E., 2016. “Quantised inertia from relativity & the uncertainty principle”, EPL, 115, 69001.
The Captain has a couple of A grade rants about the “education” system:
1st
Request-There’s No Rush to Graduate from College
2nd
Request-Why College is Truly Obsolete and No Longer Needed
A couple minutes of joyous music for y’all Drivers Seat (try to ignore the lemon sucking singer, what a maroon.)
Bop along and enjoy.
Hard to imagine a more dangerous and nerve-racking job on the Western Front than tunnelling.
No wonder he was pissed.
Iran should definitely have nukes. If a country as fucked up as Pakistan has them, why not the Iranians?
I don’t trust them.
Maybe give the Persians nukes, but not the Iranians.
Bit shonky.
A vignette from Expatria:
Scene – Trafalgar Square, London, around 1 pm. A crocodile of primary age schoolkids with teachers at each end is proceeding into the National Portrait Gallery to have their little minds elevated by contemplating the faces of the men who built the Empire, created the Industrial Revolution and bonked Yoko Ono. All of the kiddies were quiet, respectful, well-behaved etc etc.
And, on this thoroughly ordinary London afternoon, all of them were wearing f**ing fluorescent high-viz jackets.
I’ve been out of Australia for 2 years, but has this custom been adopted yet? I would hate to think Australia was falling behind in the insane nanny stakes.
Liberty Quote
Oh look, look what Lachlan and James have done to themselves. The sheer genius.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-advanced-talks-underway-for-new-conservative-network-amid-fears-fox-news-moving-too-far-left/
12.30 in Beijing. Very warm☺
Hints of smog.
Never worn one in my life and never will. I call em, Lego People.
It really does show how far we’ve fallen. I always wondered how the slaves were kept so docile? Now I know…
JC
There is one alternative conservative network to FOX in the US already. It’s called One America News Network and is independent and family owned (Herring Networks Inc.). Based in San Diego with a news bureau in Washington D.C.
They are trying something new, they are reporting the news instead of trying to be the news.
Hahaha. Knight on the overhyped 100 days (his Steve Bannon in a corker).
Meanwhile, at TrumpHitler Central (H/T Cut & Paste):
Top 30, yeah baby
Memo Doomlord: the latest Ramirez is the equivalent of a liberty quote.
President Trump Speech To NRA – 1:45pm Livestream
Posted on April 28, 2017 by sundance
President Trump is in Atlanta today to deliver a speech at the National Rifle Association forum.
Live Stream Link* – Alternate Live Stream*
* https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/28/president-trump-speech-to-nra-145pm-livestream/
Live at the NRA conference in Atlanta, a billion lefty heads explode as Trump pledges he will never infringe the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms.
Pic of the day: boys swim with buffalos on a hot afternoon in the Tawi River on the outskirts of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India. India continues to experience scorching heat as temperatures across much of the country have already breached the 40-degree Celsius mark (WSJ).
Yep, over 70%, which is more than the Never-Trumpers/Always Slavers said he could achieve with The Wall, which makes pushing his other big Western Civilization Saving moves harder now and pushing through with The Wall a little later, very smart business [of Serving Humanity]! 🙂
JC
#2366604, posted on April 29, 2017 at 2:31 am
Oh look, look what Lachlan and James have done to themselves. The sheer genius.
EXCLUSIVE: Advanced Talks Underway For New Conservative Network …
_____________________________________
Why does everyone pretend like Rupert and Jerry’s dinner with Donald in Scotland, wasn’t anything special?
Oh, coz it’s more cool to be near sighted smart arses, than to see the future by reflecting on the past, with the wisdom of age.
Tom
#2366609, posted on April 29, 2017 at 4:10 am
Hahaha. Knight on the overhyped 100 days* (his Steve Bannon in a corker).
________________________________________________________
HAHAHAHAHAHA … HA!
… and if *that –
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/723c8dd0185e62abdb1debff9d258e53?width=1024
IS the impression that our ‘insiders and movers and shakers‘ have, Civilisation Is Saved! 🙂 😉
🙂
Tom
#2366611, posted on April 29, 2017 at 4:29 am
Memo Doomlord: the latest Ramirez* is the equivalent of a liberty quote.
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* http://www.michaelpramirez.com/ball–chain.html
🙂 … can you imagine an American Economy strong enough to lift and fly away that burdensome tax ball and chain?
My Trumpian mate already has … 😉 … I’ll shut up now … 🙂
Tom
#2366613, posted on April 29, 2017 at 4:34 am
Live at the NRA conference in Atlanta, a billion lefty heads explode as Trump pledges he will never infringe the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms.
_____________________
“… Proud to be an American … Now, I have a message for the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC; look, look, I get it, I know you don’t wanna be here; you thought you’d be covering President Hillary Clinton this year. Well sorry about that, you’re not. So get over it, and join the men and women of the National Rifle Association in welcoming the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump!” –
https://youtu.be/HXKuoND-Ptg?t=5641
Secretary Rex Tillerson Remarks on North Korea to U.N. Security Council “The Time Has Come”…
Posted on April 28, 2017 by sundance
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to New York Friday to discuss the ongoing threats by North Korea with the United Nations Security Council. Secretary Tillerson urged all member nations to act “before North Korea does.”
Video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOULhKAxTQQ
[TRANSCRIPT] – SECRETARY TILLERSON: Thank you, Secretary General, for that most helpful briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as Secretary of State of the United States, and I thank you for the opportunity to address the Security Council.
According to UN Security Council Resolution 2321, a stated objective of this council is North Korea’s abandonment of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
For the past 20 years, well-intentioned diplomatic efforts to halt these programs have failed. It is only by first dismantling them that there can be peace, stability, and economic prosperity for all of Northeast Asia.
Continue reading →
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/28/secretary-rex-tillerson-remarks-on-north-korea-to-u-n-security-council-the-time-has-come/
Memo Doomlord: the latest Ramirez is the equivalent of a liberty quote
I know a relatively small operation in a US territory that has one person dedicated to handling regulatory reporting. Each year they churn out 130+ seperate reports which include such bizarre and pointless information as the number of welding rods used.
“Freedom is not a gift of government, freedom is a gift of God.”
I wonder how many Australian Politicians agree with this statement, my guess is that it would be less than 5.
The rest would question why there was any need for a notions as outdated as Freedom and God, when you have the privilege of living in a National Safety Multicultural LGBT Muslim Child Grooming Super State.
Bill MitchellVerified account @mitchellvii 3h3 hours ago
YourVoice™ Spotlight at 3pm ET today!
@EvanSayet, Author of
“KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks”
LIBERALISM DEBUNKED!
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkJzywbzaNGv
Today’s Fake News Roundup
Westpac to ban loans to restaurants who use too much salt and sugar in their food.
Mariqville Council bans smoke detectors which contain radioactive substances.
Fox News endorses diversity in hirings and opens up its bathrooms to all genders.
Victorian Government issues guidance paper to all departments: “First, ask what Chavez would have done, then do it”.
Tasmania to drain all man-made lakes, return to nature, scrap hydro schemes and go completely wind and solar. All tourists to be issued with soft-soled moccasins to avoid damage to national parks.
Labor and Greens to merge, new name Green Labor.
UK News That Ought To Be Fake
Senior lawyers demand difficult and unpopular decisions in order to replace white males in judiciary.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/28/lawyers-replace-white-males-judiciary/
Can we take our next intake of immigrants from the Czech Republic and Hungary? The anti Communist sentiment is strong over here, and the people could teach our youngsters a thing or two.
“In a powerful speech before the European Parliament Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán urged leaders of the EU to respect Hungary’s sovereignty and to examine its need for serious structural reform.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/28/hungarian-prime-minister-challenges-european-union-fiery-address/
ha, politicians; it’s hard enough finding church goers to agree with it, in this age when we’re not free to think about anything (let alone God), without being attacked for ‘the wrong politics‘ of our thinking –
“The first time you think, is the last time you’re a Democrat [liberal]” –
Evan Sayet, Author of,
“KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks”
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkJzywbzaNGv
Lot of bulk grain in storage in Australia this year, with a looming mouse plague to attack grain stored on the ground in bunkers and storage bags.
If all the logistics chain works efficiently, there still isn’t enough capacity to get rid of all the old seasons grain before new seasons rolls in.
Big financial hits to the unlucky ones that cannot sell their grain in 2017, and have to wait until 2018 to get paid for the year. [if the mice don’t eat the lot, or downgrade it.]
So the train drivers union goes on strike, goes on go slow, grabs the chance to extort bribes to not be utter bastards.
Welcome to Australia, nice place you have, pity if something should happen to it……………..
Anybody think there are more grain trucks on victorias crap roads than usual?.
Train drivers on strike push grain traffic onto the roads, that is all part of the plan.
Tens of millions of dollars of grain left dumped and stranded for the mouse plague.
Bring on the robot trains, too soon isn’t quick enough.
Tweaking Nick’s comments for Western Academia in general-
Nick DeSenso @NickDeSenso 5h5 hours ago
The demonization and dehumanization of “white people” is now a virtue in
Americanacademia.They are laying the seedbed for genocide.
..
Dems[Leftists] throw bricks, urine, and explosives at Trump supporters.
Maybebc the media & DNC dehumanized them and painted targets on their backs.Out Goondiwindi way, a couple of years ago, the problem was corellas. They would tear holes in the super heavy duty plastic covering the grain in ground bunkers. Also denuded stands of trees on the river bank. Rumour has it a few locals put out some “special” grain for the marauders.
Don’t you people ever sleep?
Self driving trains ought to be a doddle compared to self driving cars.
There are lots of examples of driver-less trains around the world –
The Vancouver SkyTrain is the longest automated transit system in the world.
Barcelona Metro line 9 without train driver.
London’s Victoria line trains
AirTrain JFK system.
Vancouver Skytrain system.
Rapid KL – Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line
But we can’t have them here cause ‘wukkas’ or sumfin.
Grain movement was also pushed onto the roads by their yarragrad government decision to cut rail transport on rural grain lines when summer temperatures got into low to mid thirties.
Big Australia cannot afford to have rail lines that can transport grain in the Mallee summer.
The unfunded infrastructure liabilities can be kicked further down the road, by shutting train lines in summer, and cutting rural road speed limits to eighty kilometers an hour.
Social Justice electricity can work if the proles are curfewed to bed at sunset.
Their Oligarchs have their indulgences 24/7 every day of the year, the proles of Big Australia not so much.
Love it. Ten points.
Excellent piece by Gerard Henderson on the facts and statistics of child sexual abuse – and the corrupt royal commission into George Pell. Turns out the nation’s protestant churches are statistically the worst offenders but this has been censored by the media and the commission itself.
Do Cats&Kittehs want an early weekend laughfest?
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard about! Enjoy!
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Jeez
Why
Where’s Fisk? Fisk, is this a stimulus to the genetic disease units at UK hospitals?
In short – white chick hates white blokes.
#FyreFestival
Malcolm announces grain will be prioritized for Australians. We’re saved.
From Herodotus’ link, @ 6:51:
Whereas it is all too impossible that persons selected on the grounds of gender, religion, or skin colour rather than judicial merit could suffer from any form of bias, because perfection.
Gunner, that Piggly sign in the background is s nice touch. Not as good as the rainbow ending in a bottle shop though.
Indeed, the numbers for the Uniting Church are incredible, but since it is a ‘liberal’ church why would the media seek to investigate further?
Give Malcolm Turnbull a chance. RENDEZVIEW: CONSERVATIVES have to accept the reality that Malcolm Turnbull is Prime Minister, writes Miranda Devine. And the Daily Telegraph want us to pay to read it. LOL.
While on the topic of that selective Royal Commission. Has Fatty Ashton captured Geo. Pell yet and spirited him to a high security secret location? We have been waiting for a long time to see some action on this front. Meanwhile the accused continues to swan around Rome.
We know Trumble is PM. Do we like Trumble playing being PM. NO!
Phat Phuk Un fires another fizzer.
Devine is Niki Savva, with a facelift.
Does Henderson have the stats on what percentage was homosexual crime?
It has been 78 days since the corrupt Victoria Police – led by a a commissioner who lied multiple times to a parliamentary committee into child sexual abuse – sent its fraudulent brief against against George Pell to the DPP (for the second time).
Counter to that:
LIB GURU: TURNBULL GOVERNMENT “HATES THEIR OWN”
All true. Turnbull thinks he has a constituency of soft left voters when actually they’re all going to vote for the ALP and Greens anyway. Meanwhile he’s stabbing what used to be the Lib base in the back with crazy policies like RET and stealing gas from companies while not building coal or nuke plants.
Maybe Devine and Savva will come to their senses. I doubt it: something about Turnbull clouds the minds of such people so they don’t see reality.
Good article at the Speccy on Le Macron
On the occasion of one hundred days of global leftoid tantrums destined to last eight years, time for an encore: Hitler reacts to Trump becoming president. (H/T Gunner at 8.12am).
Skinny Monty beclowns himself @Darling Harbour.
antifa can’t take a trick at the moment!
On Seven reporter Mike Amor (who said he would leave the US if Trump became president) smirkingly laments that Trump has achieved little in the first 100 days “honeymoon period”.
Sums it all up really.
Weekend Reading out.
Thanks Tom – the US election was just MADE for use in Downfall parodies!
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Miranda Devine continues her Turnbull campaign.
The Nationals won the election because the ‘one seat’ Devine claims for Turncoat was won by them, from the ALP. And no-one deserves a ‘fair go’ just because they are leader: that’s partisan boosting.
Yes, it’s those nasty ‘delcons’ again. The delcons said Turnbull would destroy the LNP and, as Turnbull destroys the LNP, it is difficult to see how they are ‘thwarted by reality’. Those ‘thwarted by reality’ would be the Turnbull boosters who, oddly, seem to continually be baffled by the failings of their Messiah.
Foolishly, however, the Prime Minister cited Abbott’s loss of 30 Newspolls in a row as the reason for his overthrow, and so polls now take on a disproportionate significance.
Hahahahaha!
The ‘doing OK’ bits seem to be mostly following Abbott’s policies, not Turnbull’s. Turnbull, for instance, we know is in favour of SSM. And border control was, and is, owned by Abbott and Dutton. Turnbull would dump it in a heartbeat if he could.
Devine’s credibility as a political commentator is dead and buried, along with any hope of the LNP winning the next election.
The Science is Settled – Leftists ARE literally cucks!
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Lol:
Real Mark Latham @RealMarkLatham
Here’s an idea: how about I convert to segregationist Islam and disgrace the ANZAC legend. Will get me jobs at ABC, SBS, Turnbull Government
Oh they do, Miranda. What they don’t accept is that he should stay prime minister.
Ah so presiding over “the most serious peacetime issue this country has faced since the depression” whilst making it worse not better is what Miranda thinks is “doing OK on any fair assessment”.
If that’s “doing OK” I’d hate to know what not doing ok looks like.
Robert Gottliebsen: a plan to avoid a power crisis (last weekend)
He’s correct about the crisis but just as wrong as Turnbull about what to do about it. Gottliebsen has drunk the climate Kool Aid too.
We are so screwed.
One of Preznit Dreamboat’s legacies isn’t looking too flash.
Um, OK. More feminism like this please:
ABC Online: Meet the women stamping out sexism in Canberra’s hospitality scene.
That’ll show men.
The woman who came up with this revolutionary servitude wants rudeness banned in bars.
Seriously:
The Dutch ‘Illuminati’ Anne was spruiking a couple of days ago was himself spruiking a bank start up in 2015.
Funny how someone claiming to be involved in an oh so vague satanic cult and resigning because he didn’t care to perform a human sacrifice doesn’t appear to have made the slightest effort to take his concerns to the police for years but instead is out there doing ‘don’t trust evil banks with your money trust me’ seminars
Not to mention that you’d think a fair dinkum baby killing satanic cult of between 8000 and 8500 of the world’s richest and most influential people would know how to shut nobody foot soldier people up.
I been they would only have to turn up at one of the dude’s seminars. Only 50 seats available!
Poor Ronald, one minute shovelling Iraqi cash out of the back of trucks in German bank basements to practically running the entire Illuminati venture of trillions to speaking at €15 seminars for 50 folk.
The only people who take this stuff seriously are the extremely gullible and the extremely malicious.
Is this the catholic satanic cult shy srr was referring to?
Credibility zero.
If it’s trolling, lamer than test pattern and monty combined.
Ronald Bernard in Dutch 2015
https://irmaschiffers2014.wordpress.com/tag/ronald-bernard/
Another link on joyful b bank
Is this even legal?
They should get some topless barmaids too.
On my list of most hated weasel words.
North Korea’s latest scary missile launch may have killed a sun-bathing turtle when it crash-landed.
Ezra Levant and Rebel Media in Australia?
We have a non-violent Antifa interviewee whose lack of logic is breathtaking and whose anti-white and anti-job policy beggars belief. He is white and has a job.
The most important issue – Does Ezra wear chinos?
To serve man?
Let it be known…the only reason that the Malcolm is PM is because Denial Andrews couldn’t control his UFU buddies. They totally fecked up a careful plan to get Electricity Bill to take the poison chalice with an openly hostile conservative senate making sure he and the liars party wore every bit of the last ten years of disaster. In order to save the Liberals we have to destroy them!
This kind of misandry and stereotyping isn’t helpful at all. Does she really think that women out on a night out are angels? Spare me the double standards.
Segued into the top 100.
That’ll show em, lol. The hand that washes the dishes controls the world.
In most countries rocket science is up there with brain surgery. In North Korea, it seems there are a few who cannot even read a slide rule and will have to be euthanised. Or does ‘purged’ sound more humane?
Places to avoid in Australia:
1 Footscray.
Little green fish doesn’t know what water is, and completely fails to see all the flying birds…
Xenophon wants traditional media protected from ‘cannibals’
Odd how traditional media groups like the Daily Terror and the Hun seem to be doing pretty well, and Breitbart is rollicking along.
Maybe it’s only the lefty media groups who are being cannibalized by other lefty groups like Facechook, Google and the ABC…?
Maybe there’s a message in it, Mr Xenophon, that trying to sell oodles of green fake news and stupid SJW shows doesn’t work so well?
Little bit of investigative journalism:
Speeches delivered by Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied during her taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East and Africa did not include any mention of the oppression of women in the countries she visited.
The ABC employee’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-sponsored book tour late last year took her to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, Egypt and Sudan.
DFAT has confirmed in a response to questions on notice from Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz that Ms Abdel-Magied did not speak out against practices such as female genital mutilation and the death penalty, which occur in some of the countries she visited. The department also confirmed that the $11,485 bill for Ms Abdel-Magied’s trip included $3246.20 for travel, $4605.87 for accommodation and $3632.93 for “incidentals”.
In Sudan, more than 90 per cent of women undergo forced genital mutilation, forced marriage is permissible, and polygamy is permissible for men. In Saudi Arabia women are flogged and stoned for adultery and not permitted to drive or leave the home without wearing the abaya, a sleeveless, full-body covering.
In the United Arab Emirates, women require the permission of a male relative to remarry, while in Qatar marital rape is not a crime.
During a Senate estimates session on March 2, Senator Abetz asked DFAT secretary Frances Adamson and first assistant secretary Rob Tranter whether Ms Abdel-Magied “spoke against the death penalty or spoke against female genital mutilation at any stage or, indeed, the oppression of women at any stage in some of these countries”.
In a response published on DFAT’s website, the department responded “no”, adding: “Ms Abdel-Magied promoted Australia as a destination for investment and education and helped broaden knowledge and understanding of Australia’s modern, open, diverse and inclusive society.”
“She also promoted the role of women in male-dominated industries such as science, technology and engineering, drawing on her background as a mechanical engineer.”
Ms Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day Facebook post: “LEST. WE. FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …)”, which she subsequently deleted and apologised for, prompted calls for her sacking as host of the weekly Australia Wide ABC TV program and as a board member on the taxpayer-funded Council for Australian-Arab Relations, run by DFAT.
The activist’s tour was intended to promote her book, Yassmin’s Story.
Oz link
With the 2000 Olympics built facilities already available at Homebush and other parts of greater western Sydney it would be better to concentrate on getting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Just refurbish the existing infrastructure and leave the 2030 Games to country Victoria.
I can’t see the surprise when she and many others don’t even speak out about it here, a safe place to do so.
Australia should never ever bid for an Olympics, commonwealth games or World Cup. They are financial blackholes.
We must direct our efforts to seats on the Security Council and the UNHRC.
The off the record word is the reason why no infrastructure was built in Sydney until now, was because the State Government was still paying for the Olympics.
You forgot to mention corrupt, IT.
No stupid Car races either.
Fact check: true.
It’s a structural problem: lefties in the news meeja are interested only in framing narratives that support the prejudices of the lunatic fringe — not the public interest stories that the masses are interested in and will pay to read, see or hear.
For example, the reason the Ten Network bleeding cash is that it’s tailoring its programming for the chic, young, relatively poor leftist lunatic fringe — the Death Valley of demographics for commercial media served primarily by Fakefacts and Their ABC and SBS, via our $1.5 billion annual subsidy.
That’s the demographic Zylophone’s freelance greens party panders to.
From the old thread:
“Poor JC, whipped more often than a red-headed stepchild, and it is he who is doing the whipping!
I think the word used for dudes like him is “massacre-ist” or something.”
Guys, I don’t condone JC’s over-the-top aggressive attacks at all.
But don’t think for one second you’ve ever whipped him. Ever.
He owns you, and he’s set up shop inside your heads – every tme he shows up there’s a posse of you that come scrambling along together to hold hands and try to face him down.
Poorly.
(Checks to make sure cat has been properly released into pigeon aviary)
Chinese giants Guangzhou Evergrande will be disciplined after a banner slamming “British dogs” was unfurled by fans during a game in Hong Kong, Asia’s football governing body said Thursday.
The anti-independence banner, which said “Annihilate British dogs, destroy HK independence poison” in Chinese, was held up during Evergrande’s 6-0 AFC Champions League win over Hong Kong’s Eastern on Tuesday.
I’m sorry, but Yassmin is the spitting image of Chad Morgan. Just with darker skin.
I have to assume he once did a tour in the Sudan…
With better dentition
There’s a police app you can use to dob in someone swearing at an AFL match. The police will immediately swoop down and “investigate” the alleged swearer. Beacause all crime has stopped in Melbourne, no breakins or car jackings etc so police resources are now focussed on nabbing people – with the aid of dibber dobbers – who cuss in public
Poor old Yassmin. She’s had a rough week, but I’m confident it won’t hurt her Melbourne Cup campaign.
Tucker Carlson just had a frightbat on Fox News arguing that breastfeeding should be discouraged because it encourages gender roles. FMD.
LOL. The late great Bleak may have made mention of it though.
Ted Talks are an embarrassing forum for the propagation of Always Wrong (for some reason their speakers are all balding middle-aged guys trying to dress like Steve Jobs – what’s with that?), so it’s not surprising that Ivanka is spruiking them.
I once asked a girl volunteer at a rescue hound agency what breed a dog was, only to be told ‘oh, we don’t like to breed label’.
FFS, it makes a big difference if you have kids for example knowing the breed and its characteristics.
Recent controversial events on Manus island reminded me of what is missing from Yassim Abdul McDweeb’s turban – lots and lots of fruit, especially bananas.
She needs to go the full Carmen Miranda.
Scene: Airstrip of a remote outback cattle station.
Props: Royal Flying Doctor aircraft.
Action: Pilot does a walk-around of the aircraft in preparation for take-off.
Costume: Pilot uniform, covered in a high-viz vest.
Don’t be stupid all your life.
“Categorisation is the basis of cognition”.
speechless.
How much acid did Pillger drop back in the 60’s?
(letter in the gruinaid)
We note the growing concern across Latin America that elements of the right wing within Venezuela have called again for the ousting of the elected president, Nicolás Maduro – including overt calls on the military to oust the president – before the constitutional end of his term (Editorial, 26 April). This follows the US decision to renew sanctions against Venezuela. With Donald Trump attacking Venezuela during his election campaign, there is great concern that he may step up intervention aimed at regime change. We call for respect for Venezuela’s national sovereignty and an end to such interventions.
John Pilger, Richard Gott, Andy de la Tour, Michael Mansfield QC, John Hendy QC, Judith Amanthis, Dr Julie Hearn, Dr Hazel Marsh, Professor Frank Land, Salma Yaqoob
Just how shithouse does life have to get in how many different countries before the stinking corpse of socialism is finaly cremated?
Jetstar is rated the worst airline in the world.
Did you catch gawky antifa geek’s last desperate line?
….. as he hastily retreats stage left .
Ezra couldn’t have written a better ending.
I read some time ago that Australia has one of the worst drug taking problems in the world.
Maybe with this we can go for first place?
ACT government considers pill-testing trial for music festivals with new working group
The ACT government could be a step closer to allowing pill-testing at music festivals as it rounds up a working group to consider a controversial proposal.
A bar in a Canberra? Best one is the departure lounge.
Scratch a ‘progressive socialist’, find a rockspider.
This also works at the BBC, ABC and for the senior membership of the ALP.
A couple of things out of the deadtree Weekend Oz Aaarrrrtzzz Section.
First they’ve replaced uberlefty TV guy Graeme Blundell with much more balanced Eddie Cockrell. Graeame would always recommend only unwatchable ABC, SBS and Ten boilerplate, but Eddie this week is fifty fifty, with a couple ABC, a couple SBS, a Ten and the rest 7 and 9. Even the ABC, SBS and Ten ones are actually interesting.
So that was encouraging. Then I read this book review.
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Looks fascinating, and the review is a fine review.
I’ll just let you read it first then look at who the reviewer is.
Maybe there’s some hope for him after all.
On the other hand the Aaarrrrzzz Section probably will return to its usual wall-to-wall leftiness next week.
Actually TE, that’s not entirely true. While JQ aren’t great, the methodology used can’t exactly equate them to being the worst in the world. Choice are on the right track but are pretty loose.
Good moonin’ all.
Is Mick Trumble still PM?
Lysenkoism now rules Australia. Electricity generation is the equivalent to soviet tractor production.
Tass – Our wonderful state sponsored generators (wind/solar) continue to generate more electricity than we could possibly ever want at cheapest price in the world. Making Australian citizens sooo wealthy.
But there is work still to be done. There are still some coal fired electricity generators churning out electricity 24 x 7 x 365 at 3c per kwh that must be replaced by the peoples chosen power source. If these plants continue to operate (despite government threats and taxes) then the state will use dynamite to solve the problem.
It’s the only question three year olds ever ask. Drives one to drink.
One of my favorite inspirational speakers @simonsinek teaches us the power of asking the simple question – ‘Why?’
Excellent piece by Gerard Henderson on the facts and statistics of child sexual abuse – and the corrupt royal commission into George Pell. Turns out the nation’s protestant churches are statistically the worst offenders but this has been censored by the media and the commission itself.
Not to mention the Commission’s own lack of curiosity about child abuse in Islam. They have held just three private interviews in regard to allegations of child sexual abuse in Islamic institutions and will not be conducting any more.
If Labor wins the next election all those trucks are going to be driven by TWU members:
I have been saying that for some time.
Every flight on Jetstar is a flight to/from hell.
Yassmin probably spoke to a total of 100 people in all seven countries, tops.
You can bet this crowd of Sudanese will be signing up multi million dollar contracts any day now.
Cousins?
Yammie and her adoring fans.
According to freedom of the press index, Reporters without Borders, Australia’s press has become even more free. Yes, it’s true! Read for yourself. Australia has jumped from 25 to 19 all in the space of a re-elected Turnbull Government. Sinc, take note…some evidence of potential greatness revealed.
Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, explains why negotiating with the EU is a complete waste of time for Theresa May.
Theresa May mustn’t negotiate with these people at all. Just pretend to negotiate for 2 years and then cut ties.
Wow.
Compulsory reading.
Thanks. Very interesting.
I have a question for Bruce of Newcastle.
Has anyone calculated the amount of CO2 produced by green policy induced bushfires in VIC and NSW? Although nothing much happened in this hottest summer evah, the total tonnage of material that is oxidized on a Black xxxday must be enormous.
Tim Blair has posted a quite magnificent three sentence riposte to Clammy Ford’s lengthy opinion piece in defence of Yassmin Abdel-Magied published in Fewfacts:
Suggested citizenship question –
Name the woman in the photo at this link.
Rubbish. They haven’t assaulted passengers or killed the Easter Bunny yet.
Low achievers.
val majkus
Time to buy Toll shares.
No capitalism like crony capitalism.
Bruce of Newcastle
I was reading an article similar to that one where they thought the main reason occkies werent more dominant underwater was their short lifespans.
Like having everyone breed at 13 and die by 14 years old…
Anyone who claims Jetstar is the world’s worst airline hasn’t flown Aerolineas Argentinas.
Theresa May mustn’t negotiate with these people at all. Just pretend to negotiate for 2 years and then cut ties.
The problem is that the UK desperately needs access to the European single market, which will be denied them unless and until they sign up for the worst possible financial settlement Merkel et. al. can inflict on them. Failing that some British businesses have already indicated they will relocate to EU countries. It’s a diabolical situation. The best thing for the UK would be for the EU itself to fall apart. Unfortunately May doesn’t yet realise that.
The biggest man-made source of CO2 was Obama as he kissed goodbye to Kuwait leaving over 500 burning oil wells which were not put out for over 3 years.
Every year the burning off in Indonesia and the Amazon for agricultural purposes, a lot of which is for palm oil and green biofuel, rates very highly.
Figure 7.3 from the IPCC purports to give both natural and human emissions of CO2:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/figure-7-3.html
However LUC is wrong; it is at worst neutral and probably a sink rather than a source of emissions because the plants cut down are mature and suck down less CO2 than the quick growing crops which replace them.
That should be saddam not Obama.
This demonstrates perfectly the folly of voting ALP or Greens in the HOR to teach Trumbell a lesson.
An easy mistake to make.
Damn! Lost track of the article, but Baroness Somethingoranother goes public on first cousin marriages amongst the bearded and the bagged. Of course, no one will take any notice as it is a trigger topic and a stampede for the safe spaces may lead to harmful situations. But the ensuing birth defects, both in the home countries and now in Britain, are cause for much concern by the Baroness. The strain on the NHS is never divulged, nor the onus on the State when such offspring are rejected by the tribe.
Hence the votes for Shooters, Pauline Hanson, Katter, Xenophon, Palmer, whoever.
Mayfly, it’s quite an old story from 2015. Has it been rehashed because “irritants”?
Damn! Lost track of the article, but Baroness Somethingoranother goes public on first cousin marriages
Here you go, GM.
Snap, calli!
IR;
Just assume that anything a Socialist government does, returns it to shit and there’s your answer.
Delayed burning means that fire is hotter, kills more animals, destroys more seed, and so on.
Greens are evil.
Note no British Muslim is reported as attempting to rebut her claims…just “bigotry”.
I hope this bloke at Breitbart is correct.
According to French physicist Serge Galam, a victory for populist anti-mass migration presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is entirely possible due to a phenomenon known as differentiated abstention.
Professor Galam, who works as a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), says the science proves the possibility of a Le Pen victory, SFR reports.
“Differentiated abstention” is the key, according to Galam, who defined the term as: “The gap between the vote intention declared in the polls and the actual vote.”
Her chief critic was Lord Sheik. LOL
You miss the point.
The shorten policy under normal circumstances would be rejected by enough voters to ensure that the ALP would never achieve government.
However, the SFL (Stupid.Fscking.Liberals) have as their leader someone who is even more on the nose than one of shorten’s policies. Add to that booming energy prices (the Federalis will be blamed), collapsing job market, superannuation theft, muesli problems and host of other things that annoys the occasional SFL voter, and voila we have an unelectable party. The remaining federal SFL will fit in a commuter bus after the next election.
Thanks Calla & Roger. Because I read it THIS morning, I assumed it must be topical news. Unless the Baroness has had another rush of blood.
Indeed.
Got it in one, IR.
All we can do now is batten the hatches, save the furniture and hope like hell to weather the storm, avoid all cliches, and pray.
Their Australian big truck crony oligarchy will get their money’s worth out of the shorten foundation government.
Ruin the owner drivers, then charge rates that enable the robot trucks to replace the Apex predators on community release that currently do the steering wheel holding training courses.
I could never find it within me to hate Alan Bond. I sympathise with his family, angry about the fictitious “bio-pic” on Nine last week (which was a ratings bomb).
“Mr Shorten has today confirmed that he will acquiesce to the demands of the Transport Workers Union”
While I don’t douby he will, that article was written by Michalea Cash on Friday 29 April 2016.
The gap between the vote intention declared in the polls and the actual vote.
Sort of like the Bradley Effect.
Voters may tell pollsters they intend to vote for Macron because they don’t want to openly associate themselves with Le Pen, but in the privacy of the voting booth deeper sentiments come to the fore.
douby = doubt
Popularly known as the shy Tory phenomenon.
CL, I decided not to watch the Alan Bond mini-series because the trailers all focused on his womanising.
His business career was going to be a side show.
That is why we have helpers in nursing homes assisting the aged and infirm to ensure they make the correct choice.
As a former Bell Group shareholder, I have no difficulty whatsoever in hating the thieving prick – his family, by the way blew millions of dollars of Bell Group money on designer clothes and jewellery, so I don’t have much sympathy for them, either.
The funniest moment of the week surely goes to American university students on their hunger strike.
They eat when hungry.
Gotta be some laughs in that for next 5 years.
US custody court proves it is a cultural marxist front.
O.K. sports fans, particularly those who have played team sports or enjoyed watching the building of the League and Game Changing, Melbourne Storm* 😉 🙂 – how do you not see Trump’s Political and Social Boot Camp, for bringing a new, league and game changing, champion team, into the world’s game of life?
It’s still pre-season (thank God), and lots of new players need to be trained up, not just in active skills, but more importantly, in mental and spiritual strength, endurance and will to power through the most daunting odds against success.
From the first time anyone asked Trump to run (decades ago), there hasn’t been a day when someone hasn’t thrown their arms up in despair and disgust of him letting them down, only to find that while they were wailing and flailing, he was continuing to make good, solid ground, and not simply in scoring points, but also more importantly, in making the whole team stronger and harder to predict and plan successful counter plays against.
He isn’t only playing for a game, or a season, but the world record of all time.
And training a whole world of players to be a part of that greatness involves a lot of tempering of frustrations of the more naturally skilled players, as well as a lot of knocking down and hardening up of the softer souls, so that no matter how often they get knocked down, they get up, again and again and again and … WIN, Bigly! 😉 🙂
* also a Murdoch baby that Murdoch ‘let down‘ and ‘knocked down‘ in their early building up. Great win after great win, we had to scour Murdoch Press for any hint of kind word about them, and if you relied on any positive media promotion of our Victorian team, Storm, to justify sticking with them, well, they wouldn’t have had a fan through any of their many finals appearances or Grand Final Wins 😉 … and yes Queensland, your gratitude to us for your Melbourne Storm era State of Origin successes, is appreciated 🙂 😉
In the week that saw Scott Morrison shift debt around, definitionally, and allot it here and there to fool the shareholders (us), I actually laugh at the relative triviality of Bond’s misuse of Bell Resources. If he could be jailed for that, every Treasurer for the last 50 years should have done porridge. At least Bond built some stuff, won the America’s Cup (creating a knock-on windfall for the country) and died having made a new mega-fortune in African mining.
Metadata laws are a wonderful example of government idiocy.
An individual or organization who does not want to be monitored by the government law enforcement agencies will use a logless VPN for all internet traffic and VOIP application for voice calls (this is common amongst state government departments). The only thing an investigator would possibly glean from a so protected communicator is that their target was using the internet (and in some cases, from where). In most cases, no indication of content, location, when or who they are communicating with.
Whereas, for the normal phone/internet user; the content, location, time and who you are communicating with is apparent.
Hence the bad guy and/or privacy obsessed will choose to use VPN and VOIP (who are probably already doing this anyway).
So why bother with the metadata legislation? It only serves to monitor the innocent and stupid criminals.
Incoherent rambler – I couldn’t tell you what the difference between the Green holocaust theory of forest management and sane forest management would be like in CO2 emissions.
Cohenite’s comment on clearing in Indo and elsewhere for biofuel plantations is a good one. The palm oil plantations are sparse in biomass compared to the tall jungle they replace. I suspect the palm oil for biodiesel which is produced from them is a small fraction of the plant mass burnt off to clear the land for the plantations. Then there’s the biodiversity loss.
Another example of Green hypocrisy, as if we need any more of them.
The theft of a cool billion and a half of someone else’s money is ‘relatively trivial” and “misuse?
The only thing on offer from Merkel will be this: the UK will have access to the single market, so long as they accept open borders and pay the EU (Germany) $100 billion.
That is the deal. May can either accept it or walk away. If she accepts this pile of garbage, the UK will destroy it’s credibility and negotiating power for a generation. If she doesn’t accept it, Britain might lose a couple of points in GDP. Which means nothing over the long run.
So why bother with the metadata legislation? It only serves to monitor the innocent…
Bingo!
May needs to prepare a massive tax cut and deregulation package for Brexit. That can be part of her “negotiating” strategy – UK taxes will go down to half of the EU’s.
Another Greek ‘Economist’; saving Ten, Pfft!
The EU could fall apart if Russia invaded one of their countries and got away with it.
“The theft of a cool billion and a half of someone else’s money is ‘relatively trivial” and “misuse?”
I agree. As a shareholder, lets just say I hope he rots in hell.
Just read yesterday the Chinese government has banned Islamic names for new babies in Xingiang which has about ten million Uighers ,a Turkmen Islamic people . Ther are 29 names on the list ,including Mohammed and derivations on that name .,any child bearing a banned name will recieve no government benefit ,school. Hospitals etc . They are Changing . Mid East place names with Uighur and Han Chinese names . Moves are afoot to remove minarets and domes from mosques . These draconian steps are being because the Uighers are becoming infected with the lone wolf syndrome as the left has named Islamic rerrorism . Not only do the Chinese kill are ed terrorists and excecute those capturesd. they are attacking the cause of it. Islam . I suppose we in the west will have to copy this solution if we ever get leaders with the guts to defend western civilisation .wonder what happens tomoslem hate preachers in China ? They would have a very interesting life I imagine .
Indeed. As another shareholder, I expressed my free and uncensored opinion upthread, and the comment is in moderation. There were at least two, and possibly four suicides as a result of that “misuse”, and yes, I hope he rots in Hell.
Commissioned shortly after the Big Bang, the old Simpson washing machine, has been throwing a hissy. The waste water pump springs a leak. Much poking about reveals several small nails and screws inside pump, welded together with rust. Memo to self: Check pockets before placing clothes in machine.
The Continental System didn’t work for Napoleon and won’t work for Merkel, who anyway has a trade surplus with Pommyland.
I love this stuff from guys like Juncker as every word and silly threat they make just means hard Brexit is more likely. Which is what it should be. Burn all the EU legislation, green crap and silly rules in one big bonfire and start again with sanity.
Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be “everyday racism” after it was accused of discriminating against autistic people.
In the daily pineapple treatment section.
If she doesn’t accept it, Britain might lose a couple of points in GDP. Which means nothing over the long run.
Most predictions of the impact to British GDP of loss of access to the European market are quite pessimistic over the long run, averaging out at c. -5% over the next 10 to 20 years. If correct, that equates to a significant impact on household incomes and government revenue. Personally, if I were British I’d be prepared to cop that for the present so as to be free of the EU and with the not unreasonable hope that the EU itself will break up in the meantime. But the PM has to face re-election in the medium term, and may thus calculate things differently.
incoherent rambler
I understand criminals being stupid. If they are innocent are they criminals?
Hey notafan, why didn’t people just go to the police about Jimmy Savile and All The Rotherham’s, and … oh that’s right, they did … don’t stop digging, it’s important everyone lets it sink in, which side you are so driven to champion.
Location: Qaqartoq, Greenland — about as isolated a tiny community as you can get.
Scenario: Cruise ship has anchored in the bay, we’re coming ashore in the tender. Waiting at the small jetty, having walked all of a hundred metres from the local kindy, is a gorgeous gaggle of kids … all wearing fluorescent lime green hi-vis jackets.
I laughed at the incongruity, so one of the little kids picked up a stone and threw it at me. 😀
Only if they’re in a band.
My favorite way of pointing out the evil of the EU to lefties who love it is to emphasize its a protectionist trade block which screws Africans by denying them access to what should be their biggest market.
Really harshes their mellow when you drop that into their conversation about how wonderful it is they can holiday in Spain without using their passport.
The best thing is I can link to impeccably leftist groups pointing out the same thing.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/africa/actsa.htm
Unfair subsidies
Even if all tariff barriers were removed overnight European farmers would remain at an enormous advantage. Despite the fact that European farming methods are expensive and African agricultural producers are often highly efficient, African farmers find it impossible to compete. The EU boosts its agricultural competitiveness through a complex web of policies called the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Through the CAP, Europe’s farmers are given various support programs and large subsidies including producer subsidies, subsidies to processors, and export subsidies. These enable farmers to earn a high price for their products while consumers still pay reasonable prices in the shops. African governments simply cannot afford to give their farmers the same benefits as European farmers receive through the CAP. Subsidies to processors of tomatoes, peaches, pears, citrus fruits and dried fruits have increased recently by 75 million Euros, to180 million Euros in 2001.
If the EU continues to use these support mechanisms for European producers it could wipe out any benefit that African producers gain from not having to pay tariffs when their produce enters European markets. This would inevitably reduce the amount of Southern African produce entering the EU. These subsidies and support for European farmers also lead to cheap European agricultural produce being sold on other markets across the world. This can mean that even within Southern Africa heavily subsidized produce from Europe can be sold so cheaply that products from neighboring Southern African countries cannot compete.
Catallaxy FactCheck: True
(next to the self-centred, egotistical coffee servers at Qaintarse)
Geriatric Mayfly, thankfully parts are still available for the old Simpson and the pumps are easy to replace. You’ll get a few more years out of her yet. Never understood why they didn’t design a trap into the drainage system.
That’d be Qaqortoq FFS
I am impressed Bruce. Hadn’t heard of them before. Rock music isn’t one of my strong points.
My bad grandma.
Seems to be the gist of the legislation.
I think metadata laws are worse than the RDA, 18C.
Add to that, the costs imposed on the providers is passed on to the consumer*.
*But, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
The EU needs Britain. Britain sure as hell doesn’t need those parasites.
Let the muzzies and the sodomites do as they wish with it.
Geriatric Mayfly, thankfully parts are still available for the old Simpson and the pumps are easy to replace
Good to know Sparkx. My surgery seems to have worked, as the river no longer runs and the pump continues to do its job.
IR;
And there you go.
Because no one knows what these ‘innocents’ are saying around their kitchen tables.
The government needs to know that they are truly innocent before they are no longer surveilled.
Bruce – They probably know Aussies well. About 20 km north is a big REE deposit owned by an Aussie company, which looks like it’ll get built. They regularly do Q&A sessions with the locals in Narsaq, Qaqortoq and Nanortalik.
Alan Bond stole about $1.2 Billion.
He spent 1298 days in prison, most of it in a low security prison farm where he filled out fellow inmates’ tax returns and tutored them on business management. He also paid some inmate thugs to be his bodyguards in the clink, so he never faced the usual extortion, blackmail and threats of violence made to rich white collar criminals.
Repaid his debt to the victims at about $1 million a day, and his son Craig miraculously hit the “wealthiest 500 in Australia” list shortly after the cell door clanged shut.
Bond was degenerate crook who swindled and robbed thousands of investors. I am surprised that somebody like CL has even a shred of approval for the thieving mongrel.
Any economist who thinks they can predict GDP in 10-20 years is lying. They can’t even predict it for next year. Economists is arguably worse at forecasting than climate science.
Currency Lad;
So we’ve finally found that well hidden surplus, eh?
And when he died, some of the unfathomably moronic thought he should have been given a State funeral..
Those special ‘Al Gore’ electrons cost heaps, y’know!
[GT]
The CSA said on Tuesday (April 25th) to have opened a file on the remarks of Ivan Rioufol, editorialist of the Figaro , held on CNews last Friday. Guest of the show L’heure des pros , animated by Pascal Praud, the polemist quoted a poll of the Institut Montaigne demonstrating according to him that “27% of the French Muslims claimed in the end the ideology of the” Islamic state and 50% of the young Muslims of the cities ” . The audiovisual authority has received about 40 reports, as revealed by Buzzfeed , while the replay of the show is not available on the CNews website .
At the AFP, Ivan Rioufol denounces an “intimidation” that would be “exploited by a religious minority”. “To say that 50% of young Muslims have a practice of Islam” rigorist “and” adopted a system of values clearly opposed to the values of the Republic “is a fact noted in this study of the Montaigne Institute, affirms -he. To bring it closer to the ideology of the Islamic State that applies sharia is a matter of my freedom to comment. ”
Video: 50% of French muslims support Islamic State in no go zones
This is curious.
A group of young men roaming Waterloo accidentally stumbles across some fellas leaving Bible class. And a fight breaks out. How about that?
The next posturing politician who says it is absurd that with its abundant coal and gas resources Australia should be facing a looming energy crisis without at the same time admitting that it is politicians who have put us in this situation deserves a good thrashing.
Pedro the Ignorant
and his son Craig miraculously hit the “wealthiest 500 in Australia” list shortly after the cell door clanged shut.
Amazing how often that happens, the gifted (in more than one way) child of the swindler gets their cock caught in the cash register and are able to assist the old man return to the lifestyle hes become accustomed to fairly rapidly.
Bring on the robots/’457′ Philippino gals.
Some of the comments that followed the story:
“Yassmin’s father Midhat Abdel-Magied is a migration agent. Migration Agent Registration Number: 0702087. His agency recruits in North Africa and the Middle East for students and business migrants. The name of his agency is Australia-MENA Links Pty Ltd. He has set up a number of business names under his company being Australianventure, Move2oz, Studyinginaustralia. Is it a coincidence that Yassmin is promoting Australia as a destination for business and education? Yassmin was a speaker, along with her father, in Khartoum in September 2016 for Startup Grind.”
“YAM’s father, apart from being a migration agent recruiting from the Middle East was also appointed by the Queensland Government as that state’s sole representative in the region. One of his specialities. Is writing grant applications. Who would have guessed?”
“So Yassmin’s father is a migration agent who recruits in north Africa and the Middle East for students and business migrants. So her DFAT funded visit to nine counties (accompanied by her father) was really to drum up business for him? Julie Bishop would not have known of this $11,000+ trip but some gullible public servant in DFAT authorised it and Ms Bishop needs to make sure this person is moved to a position where he/she has no authority to waste our money.”
“….. the Queensland Government appointed Dr Midhat Abdul-Mageid sole representative in the region – Doha, Quatar, as that States trade representative. Coincidentally, Quatar was one of the states included in YAM’s tax payer funded jaunt. Her promotion of his business was not solely reliant on handing out his business cards. I doubt even YAM would be that blatant.”
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Included in Midhat Abdel-Magied LinkdIn profile, was this:
Economic Development & Innovation:
Assisted over 100 firms successfully apply for government and private funding exceeding $400m to assist their growth.
Recommended the sponsorship of over 300 business migrants to Queensland with a potential investment of $300m+ and creation/retention of 300 jobs.
Received ‘High Commendation for Innovation’ for “Pro Edge” (a technology diffusion product – lean manufacturing – to assist local furniture manufacturers compete with imports).
Successfully lead the final stages of the negotiations for the signing of the contract estabkishing the technology diffusion centre: Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation
Team members:
Midhat Abdel-Magied
Criously, Midhat Abdel-magied’s company website page redirects to:
Queensland Government Queensland – Reconstruction Authority
STARTUP GRIND HOSTS
Dr. Midhat A Abdel-Magied (Australia-MENA Links)
Khartoum
September 24, 2016 / 5:00 PM
Curiously
oops … sorry about that, it’s only just now doing the rounds on facebook
Where he will join Holmes a Court for dumping minority shareholders in an effort to save his own skin.
Also, the first I’ve heard about security guards outside a church (yes, I live under a rock). The only ones I’ve ever seen are at the synagogue.
here’s something which is topical (from the Oz) NOTE Adani has not asked Westpac for a loan:
The best thing for the UK would be Europe playing very very hard ball. It then exposes the Socialist totalitarian scum for what they are and removes any doubts about the future toilet Europe had in mind for the UK.
More evidence that we’re approaching peak stupid:
The new AEMO boss, New Yorker Audrey Zibelman – who speaks in a dialect of opaque jargonese that I thought only existed in the APS – is a renewables enthusiast. In fact, that’s why she took the job – to further integrate renewables with our electricity grid, thus making electricity even more expensive and unreliable.
Interview here.
The Aus-Sudanese startup sector sounds truly agile and innovative. There has never been a more exciting time to be an Aus-Sudanese tax moocher.
Bring on the robots/’457′ Philippino gals.
I flew JAL for the first time a few years back after that Nippon internally. Wow. The service was extraordinary and that was cattle class. Faultless, friendly and very easy on the eye.
also from the Oz (tip, the AWU is after more deals)
“….. the Queensland Government appointed Dr Midhat Abdul-Mageid sole representative in the region – Doha, Qatar, as that States trade representative.
Why am I not surprised the whole family is living out of the tax payer’s pocket?
“The revolution will be subsidised.”
I see Ronery complaining about Bell Resouces again.
Investors had months to get out of the stock and I’m surprised that a stock trader of Ronery’s self described calibre would run the stock price to the bottom and not get out.
It’s really interesting how Rones does it. It’s basically whining mixed in with inappropriate boasting.
Just sad.
Roger, sadly subscribers only
Roger, sadly subscribers only
Here you go, val:
Sad when they’re relegated to the ABC trough/watercooler in their latter years.
Longer term trends like 20 years with the usual caveats ,like not electing someone like Huggy Chavez, are usually easier to predict than very short term flickers. Keep in mind that a large run off on the Boeing production line in one month can impact US GDP. You’d have to factor in strikes in Detroit in the old days.
Extending a momentum line isn’t that difficult.
Grant farming, its a new agile and innovative industry of the future.
That and stinking “not for profits” which rely on OPM and grants to exist.
http://www.thegrantshub.com.au/
Heres the testimonials.
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— Jodie Odgers, Grants Manager, Zoos Victoria
I find The Grants Hub very easy to navigate. There is lots of informative information to develop our work and thinking.
— Delia Donovan, Senior Executive Community & Sustainability, White Ribbon Australia
Thank you to the team at The Grants Hub. We were very pleased to be advised that our grant application was successful. Your ongoing support ensures a happy and healthy future for Indigenous Australians.
— April Long, Acting General Manager Enterprises and Programs, National Centre of Indigenous Excellence
As a charity, we are always looking for an affordable way to gain access to more funding, and this is what The Grants Hub enables us to do. Communication is efficient, consultants respond immediately and with a genuine desire to help, so when time is valuable, their service is second to none. We’d be a little fish lost out there in a big sea if it wasn’t for the awesome and supportive team at The Grants Hub.
— Mel Doughty, Master of Registrations, The Impact Project
Plus lots lots more.
If Morrisson wants to look for a place to trim some budget he could try here as well.
http://www.environment.gov.au/about-us/accountability-reporting/grants-listing
Evidently, all Zibelman’s talk about the “empowerment of the consumer ” in the ABC radio interview yesterday amounts to paying people to turn off their air conditioners on hot days and their heaters on cold days.
thanks Roger, much appreciated. No inspiration there for energy security and low prices.
yes, noticed that … home run generators is the answer if you actually want those things on hot and cold days? Or down to the shopping mall and leave your pets to cope
Our Five-Year Plans are working. So good to know.
*’Green’ Carpetbaggers.
Save us.
Roger
and consumer demand management
I think thats code for “brownouts and social justice load shedding”…
It’s obvious, Zibelman’s up to her neck in the renewables tank.
Useless Liberals
We’re sunk!
someone upthread (from WA?) mentioned ‘social justice electricity’
It is not cold Komrad, it is your imagination – more Borscht?
val majkus
I find putting “social justice” in front of nearly any new idiot idea from out “betters” aids communication of the real outcomes immeasurably.
Social justice sex education
Social justice transport policies
Social justice healthcare
And so on.
Assume social justice means the reverse of both those words when applied to whatever is being talked about.
or it could have been ‘social licence’ electricity
agree TFM – those darn greyhounds!
Oh oh, Central Planning, here we come.
Borscht? No thanks, I think I’ll just get stuck straight into the Vodka, if you don’t mind.
It’s going to be a long slog, might as well deaden the senses, and the pain. 😉