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Top 50 woo hoo
Greens want Stalinism.
6th
Podium?
well, well top twenty
This is truly disgusting. (H/t Tim Blair)
Turtle – who said SJWs didn’t know the truth?
Treasonous witch comes out against Trump
Surprising List of Stars ‘Rail Against Patriarchy’ During 2018 Women’s March
Whoops sorry, wrong pic
Why, she’s perfectly correct.
Top 15?
12th Battalion A.I.F
VIC producing 30MW of Wind Power! (Demand 6,500 MW)
If her head’s anything to go by you might be right.
Typical womoan. I am shocked.
It looks like these creatures are totally self unaware.
It looks like these creatures are totally unaware.
FIFY.
From the uvver fred …
What about the other parties to his e-mails?
This is surely grounds for a “fishing expedition” warrant if there ever was.
Draft a warrant with 50-60 of Strzok’s likely correspondents on it and see if their emails have also been lost.
Obama should be shootin’ hoops with all the bros on the inside.
Won’t happen. Too many usual suspects. We all know how Ted and Bill got away. The excuses and alibis would fill the Trump Tower.
Fanny Faine is back on 774 ABC.
Dutton has a secret agenda.
Oxfam bimbette gets free squawk.
The rich are getting richer and all the profits are kept by billionaires to impoverish the poor.
Tax the rich.
“And the needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along like before.”
Frydemburgers is either on a promise, or has gone full retard. Either way this government is determined to put the Greebns out of business, eating their gluten-free fair trade tofu lunch in public.
Here’s a tip, imbeciles, a “free market” doesn’t mean giving smug, wealthy leftist virtue-signallers stuff for free. Here’s another, not all musk are lifesavers.
Let me try and understand the point of the pussy marchers.
They’re railing against the patriarchy because society gave them the freedom to make life defining decisions which they now regret and this is all Trump’s fault?
at Allenwood?
This could be any UN sponsored air head actress visiting a Phnom Penh underage brothel. It’s worse – a New York apartment.
I didn’t think it was that bad.
And others are offended because they are missing certain nethers.
Virulent Leftardism is an epidemic form of ‘Munchausen Syndrome’, or even ‘Munchausen by Poxy!”
A pox on ALL their houses!
(And regarding that womyn fright-bat’s nightmare juvenile feline, perhaps she should do the right thing and cart it along to the nearest vet (or S.T.D. Clinic, as the case may be) and have it quietly and humanely euthanased.
GOD BLESS TOM BRADY
My diagnosis? A lot of those frightbats are projecting their Trump Derangement Syndrome onto their vaginas. Will not end well.
I was always a little curious in a not so curious sort of way what Getty Pics or Getty images meant when you saw a pic either on the web or elsewhere, so I did an exhaustive investigation. I went straight to wiki.
Getty pics/images is a business.
History
I’m not sure if it buys the pics, or people send them in for prestige reasons, but Getty takes a vig every time they sell an image.
2GB Richmond NSW train crash.
2GB train hit buffer.
Poll
Hysteria an old-fashioned term for a psychological disorder characterized by conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization) or a change in self-awareness (such as a fugue state or selective amnesia).
Also from the uvver fred. From Breitbart.
Today’s Q drop. They’re all going down.
This is what Srr and I have been screeching about for years. The evil for humanity that was coming down the pike with Globalisation is not easily comprehended. Hillary would have been the last President.
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Will SESSIONS drop the hammer?
1 of 22.
#Memo shifts narrative.
#Memo reinstates SESSIONS’ authority re: Russia/ALL.
#Memo factually demonstrates collusion at highest levels.
#Memo factually demonstrates HUSSEIN ADMIN weaponized INTEL community to ensure D victory [+insurance].
#Memo factually demonstrates ‘knowingly false intel’ provided to FISA Judges to obtain warrant(s).
THEY NEVER THOUGHT SHE WOULD LOSE.
[The 16 Year Plan To Destroy America]
Hussein [8]
Install rogue_ops
Leak C-intel/Mil assets
Cut funding to Mil
Command away from generals
Launch ‘good guy’ takedown (internal remove) – Valerie Jarrett (sniffer)
SAP sell-off
Snowden open source Prism/Keyscore (catastrophic to US Mil v. bad actors (WW) +Clowns/-No Such Agency)
Target/weaken conservative base (IRS/MSM)
Open border (flood illegals: D win) ISIS/MS13 fund/install (fear, targeting/removal, domestic-assets etc.)
Blind-eye NK [nuke build]
[Clas-1, 2, 3]
Blind-eye Iran [fund and supply]
Blind-eye [CLAS 23-41]
Stage SC [AS [187]]
U1 fund/supply IRAN/NK [+reduce US capacity]
KILL NASA (prevent space domination/allow bad actors to take down MIL SATs/WW secure comms/install WMDs) – RISK OF EMP SPACE ORIG (HELPLESS)
[CLAS 1-99]
HRC [8] WWIII [death & weapons real/WAR FAKE & CONTROLLED][population growth control/pocket billions]
Eliminate final rogue_ops within Gov’t/MIL
KILL economy [starve/need/enslave]
Open borders
Revise Constitution
Ban sale of firearms (2nd amen removal)
Install ‘on team’ SC justices> legal win(s) across spectrum of challengers (AS 187)
Removal of electoral college [pop vote ^easier manipulation/illegal votes/Soros machines]
Limit/remove funding of MIL
Closure of US MIL installations WW [Germany 1st]
Destruction of opposing MSM/other news outlets (censoring), CLAS 1-59
[]
Pure EVIL.
Narrative intercept [4am].
Sessions/Nunes Russian OPS.
Repub distortion of facts to remove Mueller.[POTUS free pass].
Shutdown Primary Reasons.
Distract.
Weaken military assets.
Inc illegal votes.
Black voters abandoning.
“Keep them starved”
“Keep them blind”
“Keep them stupid”
HRC March 13, 2013 [intercept].
The Great Awakening.
Fight, Fight, Fight.
Q
Dr Bear is in session. Next up Lord Waffleworth and the bedwetters.
Was it an old buffer?
Was it Bob Hawke?
ROFL for the day:
So from 2020 to 2030 we’re going to have an epic EV hockey stick!
Electric cars set as next shock for MPs
Bloody hell Annie you don’t think anyone’s going to actually read that?
Bonus post.
yye1fxo 01/22/18 (Mon) 06:25:40 No.48
@Jack, MZ, ES, JB, EM, SH, MSM, etc.
Do you know that we know?
Do you know that we see all?
Do you know that we hear all?
FEAR the STORM.
NOBODY PLAYING THE GAME GETS A FREE PASS.
NOBODY.
Q
▶Q !UW.yye1fxo 01/22/18 (Mon) 06:28:00 No.49
THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD.
THE GREAT AWAKENING.
A WEEK TO REMEMBER.
Q
▶Q !UW.yye1fxo 01/22/18 (Mon) 06:54:33 No.50
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/
Q
Speaking of the Womyn’s March, I suspect my favourite radfem blogger has been sectioned.
Which is a shame, because her hot take on the Donald’s Amerikkka would’ve been epic.
In a ‘shroom chewing, toad licking way.
I like the headline:
How many points do I get if I pot a protester?
I confess a conflict of interest so I won’t vote in the poll: conditions here have been very dry and for a couple weeks a bunch of young wood ducks have been coming by for a feed. They’re fun, but I have to hose the driveway afterwards.
Sadly no, OCO. They’re oblivious that they’ve been pulled from a burning wreck.
As long as they’re safe in their beds with remote control and bloggy entertainment.
Fluoride and food additives have a lot to do with it.
CNN reports that a 1 km long asteroid will lightly strike the earth on 4th February, but it won’t be reported by NASA because Donald Trump.
Anti-Trumpism is nearing peak stupid.
No points and the bag limit is four, with no breeding age females.
The Sixteen Year Plan to Destroy America.
https://youtu.be/XNKzjcF1uGc
I think Frydemburgers has stuck his tongue in one too many light sockets. Unfortunately they were powered by renewables, so there would never be a lethal amount of amperage supplied. Takes a pretty good current to croak those lizard brain stems.
I await with baited breath the arrival of a gazillion electric velocipedes, accompanied by matter transmitters, transporter rooms and a TARDIS in every garage, with a free chook. They’re starting to make Labor look like a better option, if I’m going to get cornholed in the shower I’d prefer it to be by a perpetrator with a hair trigger and little endurance, not some private school pervert whose brief just smuggled in a lifetime supply of viagra.
Moving to Diesel and gas for electricity generation.
Electricity for cars.
We could, of course, just use the liquid fuels in motor vehicles.
(And save some energy along the way.)
Anne, how much of your pension do you spend on raw water?
Probably TA’s fault. Can’t blame DT?
$270 on the spot fine and 6 points (you have to clean up the mess).
12 points in 12 months and you get a white van with bull bar and satnav preprogrammed with school crossing locations.
So SMOD is the puppet master, not Putin.
Hopefully it hits a shithole.
For those Cats interested – tickets now available for Jordan Peterson lecture on Sydney 12 March – available through Ticketek:
premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=DRJORDAN18
Anne – It may take a while. Via Lucianne:
House Intelligence Committee Will Vote To Release FISA Corruption Memo…
I do hope Sessions nails these people. At the moment I’m uncertain whether he is playing a long game or is inhibited in some way. Signs suggest the former. However a special prosecutor has to have time to delve through the morass, and therefore would have to be appointed soon. The Dems will squelch any legal action if they get power.
Surely they blamed Trump?
Not sure an electric car makes sense at $14,000 per kwh (SA/VIC price)
A mortgage required for the drive to beach.
First vote to suspend normal rules and processes associated with de-classification. 30 mins. Second vote to declassify memo, 30 mins. Total 1 hour. Add 30 mins to vote to permanently suspend fillibusters.
Oh and get rid of the supermajority for procedural votes.
Leigh Lowe #2616141, posted on January 22, 2018, at 10:43 am
I doubt if any female protesters would be attempting to breed anyway…
Is it kosher to use a Rottweiler as a bird dog?
And throw back the undersized / oversized ones?
Bruce of Newcastle #2616130, posted on January 22, 2018, at 10:34 am
Am I right in thinking that represents a highly improbable 55% pa compound growth rate?
OCO, I would die before I’d ask my fellow citizens to support me.
I drink distilled water.
That’s why I’m smarter than you are. 😉
Hehe…
No, an Asteroid Is Not Going to Collide with Earth in February
How can I finish a comment about asteroids without this classic Der Spiegel cover?
An awful idea. What happens when the Dems hold the Senate and the Presidency?
SA and Victoria living on our power as usual. Just as well Tasmania has next to no heavy industry or where would they be!
Can someone give an update on the Aluminium refineries we used to have compared with the present?
So from 2020 to 2030 we’re going to have an epic EV hockey stick!
2030 is the QLD government’s finish line for 50% renewables, meaning QLD will have long since ceased to underwrite security of supply to the eastern grid.
Just how are those 1000 000 cars going to be charged and who is going to pay the exorbitant cost for it?
Fuck!
The asteroid is going to miss Haiti by 4 million kms.
I guess we’ll just have to let it slowly self-destruct all by itself.
Not sure if Frank Elly has returned to RN this morning or they just repeating last year’ shows.
Rafe –
the gangrene web site http://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/
provides a graph of the value roonybells (and yes, it exaggerates the roonybell contribution)
Always worth a look on windless summer night.*
*I’m suspicious about the reported solar power provided at night.
The news is fake. This would be a targeted Deep State strike. The weapons are real.
Somehow Trump knows in advance and has already thwarted two live missile attacks so far.
He keeps saying they’re REALLY STUPID so I hope he’s on it.
Q
HRC [8] WWIII [death & weapons real/WAR FAKE & CONTROLLED][population growth control/pocket billions]
Bruce, good post on the FISA affair at the old thread.
Interesting.
But it’s only four pages. I’m sure the key points could be leaked without anyone being the wiser.
And on that point, I find it disgraceful that duly elected congressmen in the United States of America have to sign a declaration that they will obey the secret police. Funny how there is no leftist agitation for an Ellsberg-style expose of the document’s contents.
So the safe bet is to target only the male version of the protestors. The less numerous ‘shrunken-shouldered, hollow-chested, chicken legged cuck-atoo’.
Will top level vicpol hand fifty thousand dollar fines to the duck protestors this year?.
If they did it to Milo, why not hysterical duck huggers?.
Will anybody from their media ask vicpol a question about how suddenly police made law has not only erupted into existence but it targets the political enemies of the politicians that hand out promotions and pay rises to the right sort of top level coppers.
How is this not bribery?.
How many women voted for Trump again?
It was 53% of white women, apparently.
How many females, not counting their betas there with them, are actually in the protests?
Australia Day debate: There are 364 other days to wear a black armband
TONY ABBOTT – The Australian12:00AM January 22, 2018
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” asks the John Cleese character in the classic film Life of Brian. It’s worth asking the same question of the British settlement of Australia at the same time as we acknowledge the dispossession of the original inhabitants.
Sure, not everything’s perfect in contemporary Australia; and it’s possible that Aboriginal life could have continued for some time without modernity bursting upon it, had governor Arthur Phillip not raised the Union flag and toasted the king on January 26, 1788, but it’s hard to imagine a better Australia in the absence of the Western civilisation that began here from that date. The rule of law, equality of the sexes, scientific curiosity, technological progress, responsible government — plus the constant self-criticism and lust for improvement that makes us so self-conscious of our collective failings towards Aboriginal people — all date from then; and may not have been present to anything like the same extent had the settlers fanning out from Sydney Cove been other than British.
We could all make a list of the things that should be better: trust in politicians, economic competitiveness, standards in schools, safety on our streets (especially in Melbourne), congested roads and inefficient public transport, and — yes — the wellbeing of the First Australians, but is anything to be gained by this annual cycle of agonising over the date of our national day? Besides, there are drawbacks to all the other contenders: too many people are the worse for wear on January 1, the anniversary of the foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia; and Anzac Day commemorates an unsuccessful military campaign (led, you guessed it, by the despised British). So let’s grow up and treat Australia Day as a good time to reflect on how far we’ve come as a country and, for those in public life, how far we’ve yet to go. It’s pretty obvious that the Greens and other far-Left councillors resolving not to have citizenship ceremonies on January 26 are really just telling voters that they’re uninterested or incompetent at the job they were elected to do — which was not to bay at the moon and pretend that facts aren’t facts.
For his time, governor Phillip was a remarkably humane and enlightened man. There was no punitive expedition after he was speared at Manly. He declared “there shall be no slavery in a free land”. The British government had instructed the expedition to treat the native people “with amity and kindness”. And while many Aboriginal people were exploited and mistreated, seven white men were hanged after the Myall Creek massacre in 1838.
In some ways, it’s hard to imagine a less auspicious beginning. The 800 convicts who arrived with the First Fleet were a pretty representative slice of Britain’s criminal class.
Those were tougher times to be sure but few of them had merely stolen a loaf of bread to feed their families. The coming ashore of convicts after official proceedings to inaugurate the settlement was supposedly followed by a drunken orgy of relief after nine months at sea. Yet within a generation, a new society had emerged that was as law-abiding (if not, perhaps, quite as hardworking or God-fearing) as any other. Australia’s early settlement is probably history’s most successful exercise in penal reform.
The Australia of those days had all that era’s faults: women were kept in their place; dissent was barely tolerated; different races were discriminated against; not everyone could vote; few had access to good education and health care. But the spirit that animated the society thus established has subsequently addressed all these issues, not perfectly, but as well as anywhere.
The surest sign of our success (and of the decency and magnanimity that characterises our people) is that the vast majority of Aboriginal Australians are as proud of our country as they are of their indigenous heritage. How could any Australian’s heart not beat with pride?
There are 364 other days of the year when we can wear a black armband and strive to overcome our national failures. For instance, I expect again to spend a week this year trying to come to grips with the challenges facing remote indigenous Australians, and spend another week cycling through regional areas for Soldier On to raise awareness of the problems facing veterans during the annual Pollie Pedal.
Doubtless, you’ll hear a lot from me this year about ending the emissions obsession that’s sending power prices through the roof and killing industries. I’ll have more to say about scaling back immigration (even though migration is central to our national story) to keep wages up and housing prices down. And regrettably, there will be too many instances of political-correctness-gone-crazy to criticise and correct. But this Friday I will gladly join millions of my fellow Australians to declare my faith in what, to us, is surely the best country on earth.
We all wear rad suits?
Why Harry Reid Went Nuclear
So now that the Democrats have bugged every GOP prez candidate and all their staffers using a FISA figleaf and have lied incessantly with help from their maaates in the MSM, what do you think will happen Infi? The gloves on the left side of politics are off.
It only remains to be seen if they will be brought to account for their illegality.
So what are these silly moles on about again?
Says it all, really. Tony for PM.
He talked well before he was elected.
We found out his talk was cheap, and that’s being polite.
If Abbott was PM, the date would already be changed.
Oh my god.
Fucken jonny come lately poms.
My pick for letter of the day from the $Oz:
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community is holding weekend-long celebrations for Australia Day in all main cities which includes barbecues, dinners, flag ceremonies, community service awards, sports and fun for children
We are celebrating our eternal optimism, where in a world of negativity we have “you’ll be right mate” attitude; where a stranger is called mate; where we recognise that our individual achievement rarely occurs without a helping hand from others.
It’s where we unite to celebrate success and to battle adversity. It’s where we don’t shy away from hardships but bond together to tackle it. Where we have the freedom to pursue our dreams, and everyone has a fair chance. So, bring your mate, bring your neighbour, and let’s celebrate what makes an Aussie an Aussie
Ata Ul Hadi, Berwick, Vic
also
is a fraud now.
Australians, urban in particular, are more neurotic, uptight, judgemental, weak-at-the-knees and materialistic than anyone on the planet.
srr’s moved on, Annie. I guess there always has to be one of every sort left on here.
One me, one Johanna, one you, one Calli, one Gab, one Delta – where do I stop?
Hold on, they are all Kittehs. Moon phases people. Individualiteh rulz.
Oh, and Stimpy of course. He’s a moon phase type also. Honorary Kit. 🙂
The laconic style that has been mostly destroyed by Nanny State over-regulation of every aspect of citizen’s lives from cradle to grave… constantly henpecked over micro-infringements.
All male characteristics.
All female characteristics.
Females – the destroyer of civilisations
It would have been called Team Australia Day.
A message to you muzzies above.
Our aboriginal people are in Mourning because you are here.
On this national day of mourning could you please dress in bla………………….sorry, you beat me to it.
Absolutely, Struth. That is why we keep the Australian Conservatives in reserve.
Abbot Redux should be given a go though, and he won’t do it with Bernardi, more’s the pity.
EDITORIALS
Public service sickies no joke
Working conditions in Western countries have come a long way since Edwardian seamstresses fell ill from exhaustion and poor working conditions. Or so we thought. Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd tried to paint a bleak picture yesterday, claiming private sector workplaces were too “tough” in granting sick leave and workers were too scared to take it. It was unrealistic, Mr Lloyd claimed, to expect public servants to take the same amount of days off as their private sector counterparts.
It would be as ungracious as Mr Lloyd’s view of the private sector to suggest public servants were more … ahem … delicate … than those of us in the rest of the workforce. So we won’t suggest it. We’ll just agree with businessman Tony Shepherd who said Mr Lloyd’s claim was “rubbish’’. Mr Shepherd, who has run companies with 22,000 staff, had never heard of such an idea. To the contrary, many managers share the experience of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO James Pearson, who has often had to insist that staff who turn up sick go home and take their sick leave rather than soldiering on for the team.
Mr Lloyd, who has a “toolkit’’ to advise managers on how to boost attendance, admits there’s a problem with sick leave in “some areas” of the bureaucracy after 30 agencies reported an increase in sick days taken last year. Staff in Human Services took an average of more than 15 days. Unscheduled leave overall in the public service was slightly down in the year to June 2017, to an average 11.4 days per worker, compared with 9.5 days in the private sector. Two fewer days off is hardly Brutopia, Mr Lloyd.
The amazing thing is that “far right” Cory Bernardi believes exactly the same things that Paul Keating believes. That’s how far-left wacko Australian politics has become.
That’s not a defence, it’s a backhanded-compliment.
JENNIFER ORIEL – Elites beware, a populist tidal wave looms
Populism is the great evil of the modern age. The word is so dangerous it has become a virtual synonym generator. For populism see: xenophobia, nationalism, right-wing and strongmen. If you believe much of the media, the personification of evil is US President Donald Trump. A year ago, the establishment feared the Trump effect would go global. Free-world citizens had begun to fight back against open borders, hatred of the West, selective racism against white people, Christophobia and big government. However, European voters returned centrists to office in a series of key elections. Pro-Trump parties in Australia performed poorly in state elections. Political elites are celebrating the restoration of order. Yet the conditions historically associated with populist uprisings remain.
The American Left filled the swamp to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration. Left politicians shut down the US government in a bid to prevent immigration reforms. Rather than holding obstructionist Democrats to account, the Left media played a fast hand of blame-shifting to declare Trump culpable. The ABC conceded the US government was shut down during Obama’s presidency too, but went the extra mile to damn Trump by highlighting his party’s control of both houses.
Despite Trump’s numerous policy wins, anti-Trumpers are determined to damn him. A column for The Washington Post by Jennifer Rubin illustrates the popular media narrative: “President Trump’s ability to ride a global wave of right-wing populism — xenophobic, authoritarian, protectionist and (white) nationalistic — into office was a fluke … the entire ‘America First’ strategy has proven largely unworkable.” Ironically, Rubin’s evidence for the supposed failure of Trump’s America-first policy includes a Gallup poll on other countries’ approval of US leadership.
The conflation of populism, nationalism, white skin and xenophobia has become increasingly common in left-wing literature since Trump took office. The UN frequently fuels a narrative of bigotry against pro-Western politicians by denigrating them as populists, nationalists and xenophobes. The angry rhetoric will reach fever pitch this year as the UN pressures Western states to compromise sovereignty for the global compact on migration.
The Trump administration withdrew from the UN migration compact negotiations last month, citing defence of US sovereignty as a major concern. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said: “We simply cannot in good faith support a process that could undermine the sovereign right of the US to enforce our immigration law and secure our borders.”
As I have written, the UN and other supranational organisations are pressuring Western nations to open borders to anyone who claims refugee status, despite copious evidence that many have lied to gain entry and access benefits. In the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (which sets the frame of reference for the coming global migration compact), the UN vilifies dissenters as xenophobic. It is lazy and dishonest. A recent UN report shows about half of the world’s refugees are produced by three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. Yet the UN will not tackle political Islam as a cause of asylum-seeking behaviour. Instead, it shifts the refugee burden on to states that do not create it while relieving Islamist regimes of their primary responsibility to take care of their own citizens. The Trump administration is smart enough to see the writing on the wall and has acted pre-emptively to protect its sovereignty against the UN and refugee-producing Islamist states.
The gulf between political elites and the people on border policy continues to produce popular support for politicians prepared to defend national sovereignty against supranationalists.
There is a historical relationship between poorly designed migration and the rise of populist movements. In an incisive analysis for The New Criterion, former British MP Douglas Carswell compared the common characteristics of three historical populist movements. He deduced that populist movements marked the end of exceptionalist eras in the Roman, Venetian and Dutch republics.
The republics shared three central features. Each was an independent entity, meaning that they recognised and defended borders against foreign entities. Second, each established internal constraints by various constitutional arrangements to militate against the concentration of power. Finally, each embraced interdependence, defined as prosperity through trade.
In Carswell’s account, the promise of prosperity was spoiled by the concentration of wealth and power. Rome’s use of mass slave labour from subjugated territories led to the development of big agrarian enterprises and decline of smaller freehold farm businesses. Power became concentrated as big farming enterprises gave cash to the Senate in exchange for future tax revenue. Populist revolt in Venice was preceded by the development of an elite class that acquired great wealth from resource-rich colonies and established rule by heredity. In the Dutch case also, a rapid rise in wealth from foreign regions preceded the decline of the republic. Carswell concludes: “A sudden inflow of wealth from overseas upset the internal equilibrium in each of these three republics.”
While it is difficult to establish causation in the analysis of mass movements and revolution, it appears that when the loyalty of political elites shifts from their friends and countrymen to outsiders, the body politic breaks down.
The combination of cultural and economic xenophilia accompanies the rise of populist revolts. Western governments are soothing the well-founded anger of citizens by economic measures, secure border policy, straight talk on the threat of jihad and clarifying non-negotiable Western values. Thus far, the measures have limited the threat posed to majoritarian democracy by populist parties of both the Left and Right. However, the coming economic downturn could change all that.
Voters are losing patience with debt-creating immigration policy, big government, perks and pay rises for politicians, inflated staffer salaries, useless green schemes, the bloated public service, publicly funded activist networks in the media and academia, and supranational meddling in our nation’s internal affairs. The burden of debt created by all the useless layers of government and governance are becoming unmanageable. Beyond the beltway, people are struggling with high taxation, soaring living costs and the burden of unprecedented debt. The writing is on the wall.
Australians, urban in particular, are more neurotic, uptight, judgemental, weak-at-the-knees and materialistic than anyone on the planet.
Ramped up urbanisation is a big part of many of the problems we face, from welfare dependency & violent crime to over regulation.
Decades ago now Bob Santamaria had a vision of a decentralised Australian population clustered around regional cities of moderate size. Alas, no major political party shared that vision. Too late now.
Sorry – Reference – JENNIFER ORIEL – Elites beware, a populist tidal wave looms
James Woods comments on the left-wing, pro-rapist women’s march …
A good post, Delta. Being Australian has nothing to do with where you are a from, it’s all about accepting it as your home and all that represents.
Hmm. Let’s see now. Neurotic (how does my bum look in this?), uptight (I didn’t say that, why don’t you listen?), judgemental (don’t wear that tie with that suit), weak-at-the-knees (Colin Firth in the Pemberley Lake scene), and materialistic (diamonds!). Yep. I think I make the grade. 🙂
James Woods comments on the left-wing, [email protected] women’s march …
James Woods comments on the left-wing, pro-r-p1st women’s march …
Wasn’t regional decentralization one of Whitlam’s dream policies?
That worked out well, didn’t it?
Bit of Facebooking.
Noticed New Idea and Women’s Weekly in newsagent and both had front covers indicating Charles and Camilla have divorced. Both claimed as exclusives. Have they both reached the height of desperation to sell their mags or are the TV, radio and papers covering up the story ?
DHS: two weeks ‘sick’, plus four weeks leave, plus a week or so of flex time, plus public holidays and they can also “buy” leave plus massive wage inflation $90-110k all day long.
We are being absolutely robbed.
We could wear it if it was only a dollar cost, but when a person or group of people takes advantage of a person or a group of people for long enough, they go from feeling a little guilty about it, to feeling contempt for the group they’re ripping off.
It goes from massive mental self deception: “we deserve this because we, umm, work really, really hard – once I even worked until 5:30!…”
to eventually:
“We deserve this because you are all stupid by giving it to us”.
That contempt flows into the culture of the organisation.
Only if taught to target the crotch and to tear the piece out, not merely grip.
I don’t agree. Middle class welfare, thanks Howard, is rampant. No matter who your average person votes for, whether a Labor, Liberal or PHON, it’s all about ‘how much cash can you give me for my childcare, etc, etc’.
You can’t force people to live where YOU want them to live.
The best you can to is present them with as many choices as are practically possible and the freedom to move within the nation so that they can match their aspirations with their means.
Don’t worry, Lizzie. Everything, the full Satanic horror show, is going to be revealed, but gently.
The QAnon bread crumbs are a genius move on Trump’s part. He could never have red-pilled the world from the Whitehouse.
Through 8Chan and independent truther journalists he’s getting people to answer questions and join the dots for themselves.
Soon we’ll have proof that the “Clowns In America” and other agency principals are criminals.
Then the trafficking, SRA and NWO plan for global genicide.
According to Bernard Sale, decentralization is coming to Oz via smashed avocado and feta on toast.
I note the same phenomenon is this week seen as responsible for the rise in Hobart house prices.
oops. Bernie Salt not Sale.
Why is SBS allowed to run programmes lauding the racist filth Whitlam that wanted to reject all south vietnamese refugees. Why was this scum not buried in a public urinal.
To Bruce of Newcastle at 10.34am, I seriously doubt that they’ll ever have electric cars in the Mendicant State of Weatherdill’s Greater Snowtown. There just aren’t enough second-hand Evereadys and third-hand promises in Musk’s Great Big Carpet-Bag to run them all.
They’ll more likely opt for the Fred Flintstone/Barney Rubble-mobile from Flim Flannery Motors.
Stupidity of the Liberal Party continues
Electric car plans spark showdown
Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has stared down opposition from the Coalition backbench over government support to the electric car industry, declaring the government would continue to support the “very exciting” sector.
Mr Frydenberg restated his claim that electric cars could be to the transport sector “what the iPhone has been to the communication sector” despite claims from his colleagues they produce more carbon emissions than normal cars.
“This is a very exciting space, we are living in the decade of disruption, there is global momentum around electric vehicles and I think they will be to the transport sector what the iPhone has been to the communication sector,” Mr Fyrdenberg told ABC radio.
The Australian reported this morning Liberal MP Craig Kelly, backed by Nationals MPs Andrew Broad and John Williams, would raise government support for electric cars at the next partyroom meeting and argue there should be no further subsidies given to the sector.
Mr Frydenberg this morning said the government would continue to support the industry.
“But what we will need to see is some of the infrastructure issues solved because when people come to make a decision about the vehicle they purchase they want to make sure that if they do purchase an electric vehicle that they can plug it in when they go on a long road trip and the infrastructure is consistent throughout the country,” he said.
“So there are some logistical issues that we will cooperate closely with state and local governments on to ensure more reliability and connectivity in the grid.”
The Energy Minister is facing a partyroom showdown over his support for electric vehicles in Australia, amid industry calls for $7000 tax breaks and concerns the vehicles could have a bigger carbon footprint than internal combustion vehicles.
Mr Frydenberg came under attack from conservative colleagues yesterday after predicting the number of electric vehicles would grow from 4000 to 230,000 within seven years, and to one million by 2030.
He also foreshadowed more support for the electric vehicle industry, working towards “better co-ordination of existing and future activities to support low emissions vehicles”.
Mr Frydenberg’s comments sparked a backlash from several Coalition backbenchers who warned against new tax breaks for electric cars, arguing that they were no greener than equivalent petrol or diesel vehicles.
The issue now threatens to reignite last year’s debate within the government over clean energy targets and the role of coal in Australia’s energy future.
Craig Kelly, who chairs the Coalition’s environment and energy committee, said he would raise the issue in the partyroom after parliament resumed next month.
Mr Kelly warned that the government would have to develop a policy on electric vehicles before the next election, and the Coalition should resist calls to support the industry.
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Electric cars made up less than 0.1 per cent of last year’s car sales, and can cost tens of thousands of dollars more than an equivalent internal combustion vehicle.
Electric Vehicle Council chief executive Behyad Jafari called for a package of measures to reduce electric vehicle prices by up to $7000, including fringe benefits and luxury car tax exemptions, and the axing of stamp duty and registration charges by the states.
“We need in Australia a nationally co-ordinated plan to support the transition from internal combustion vehicles to electric vehicles,” he said.
Opponents say the environmental benefits of electric cars are overstated, given Australia’s energy mix.
A study for the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development more than a year ago found the high reliance on coal-fired power in Victoria, NSW and Queensland meant electric vehicles charged on the grid in those states “have a higher CO2 output than those emitted from the tailpipes of comparative petrol cars”.
“We need to be very careful that any subsidies or concessions we give to electric cars in Australia will not increase CO2 emissions rather than decrease them,’’ Mr Kelly said.
“The risk here is you’ll have the rich person in Balmain buying a Tesla, subsidised by a bloke in Penrith who’s driving a Corolla.
“And the Tesla will have more carbon emissions than the Corolla.”
Support for electric vehicles is currently modest in Australia compared with nations such as France, Britain and Norway, where consumers can receive rebates of up to $15,000.
Buyers in Australia benefit from a higher threshold before they pay the 33 per cent luxury car tax ($75,526 against $65,094 for other vehicles).
Some states and territories offer discounts on stamp duty and registration.
Owners of EVs also avoid the 40c/litre fuel excise, which pays for the nation’s roads, alarming transport planners.
Mr Frydenberg indicated new concessions could be introduced in time to support what he says will be a transport “revolution”.
“The Turnbull government looks forward to continuing to work with all state and territory governments, along with consumer groups and industry, on better co-ordination of existing and future activities to support low emissions vehicles,” he said.
The minister said the carbon footprint of electric vehicles in Australia would improve as more renewable energy sources came on line.
Australia committed at the Paris climate change conference to reducing its carbon emissions by 26 to 28 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030. The transport sector accounts for about 18 per of Australia’s emissions.
The government is considering how to reduce the carbon intensity of passenger vehicles through the Ministerial Forum on Vehicle Emissions, but the forum, which was convened in 2015, is yet to release its recommendations.
Mr Broad, who was a fierce opponent of the Clean Energy Target and moves away from reliable baseload energy, said the jury was still out on whether electric vehicles, hybrids, or some other technology — such as hydrogen — would emerge as the best way to lower transport emissions.
“Historically, governments always get it wrong when they try to pick winners,” the Victorian Nationals MP said.
Senator Williams said electric vehicles should have to “stand on their own two feet”.
The NSW Nationals senator also cautioned against European-style measures to take petrol and diesel cars off the road.
“What’s the farmer supposed to do? Stand around all day charging their vehicle?” he said.
Labor energy and climate change spokesman Mark Butler said the government must “take their own advice and finally adopt vehicle emission standards for Australia”.
“Vehicle emissions standards would boost the supply and demand for electric vehicles.
“Australia is the only advanced country without such standards in place,” Mr Butler said.
“The government has sat on advice about the need for vehicle emissions standards for over three years, and they still haven’t committed to implementing standards.”
Flagging an election showdown on the issue, Mr Butler said Labor would soon announce a detailed policy to cut carbon pollution from transport.
“Ultimately, to achieve the greatest pollution cuts from moving to (electric vehicle), we need to transition our energy system to low pollution sources like renewables.”
Greens transport spokeswoman Janet Rice said the government should help make electric vehicles more affordable in the short term until they became competitive with petrol or diesel cars.
But it was crucial that they ran on renewable power to ensure they reduced the transport sector’s carbon footprint, she said.
“If Josh Frydenberg is as enthusiastic about electric vehicles as he claims to be, he should be maximising their potential by forcibly retiring coal-fired power stations and replacing them with clean, reliable and cheap renewable energy,” she said.
Petrol and diesel SUVs overtook passenger vehicles last year as Australians’ cars of choice, hitting more than 465,000 in sales.
The car industry said if the government wanted to counter this trend and increase the number of electric vehicles on the road, it would need to make them more attractive to consumers.
“There is a cost differential at the moment that is quite considerable,” Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries chief executive Tony Weber said.
Australian Automobile Association chief executive Michael Bradley said sales would be largely influenced by the rollout of charging infrastructure, improvement in battery technology and financial incentives to consumers.
Am I right in thinking that represents a highly improbable 55% pa compound growth rate?
Must be when the comcar fleet is up for renewal.
The third most boring man in Australia.
NITV (SBS for indigenous Lefties) running a week of black armband docos in the lead up to “Invasion Day”.
Your taxes at work, good people.
The ALP has always had a special hatred for Asians.
Absolutely hates them. Their familial traditions, conservatism, religiosity, respect for elders, modesty, industriousness, reverence for merit – hates them.
During ads in the NBN Nine news I check the EPG. Kudos to SBS today for a couple of marvellous movies. Sadly they are a little late for me since I get up early.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 11:30pm SBS 1
Altered States 10:30pm SBS 2 (Viceland)
Seen the first many times, but it is worthwhile watching over and over. Screening Altered States though is notable. Not a movie that you’d see on a commercial channel. I’ve only seen it once, but it was Alien-level in adrenaline generation. Memorable. A really good ‘what if’ SF thriller.
One of the marks of an iconic movie are the no-name stars who become mega as a result. Altered States made both William Hurt and Drew Barrymore. (And to stem the usual response…Gorky Park.)
Relax Roger. You could count the number of viewers on one hand.
The SBS/abo equivalent of sending “Are you there” messages into outer space.
Labels seem meaningless nowadays.
Isn’t it cultural appropriation for brown people to use a television network like this?
Good-o. I don’t like rough revelations. Or untimely ones. I’ll give them three hundred years to make their play. In God’s good time, as they say. We’ll all be helots on Soma by then anyway.
Unless they are branch stacking with Viets or Chinamen.
Aging old harlot calls out young harlots for harlot-like behavior…
Feminists squeal..
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/brigitte-bardot-me-too-harassment-hollywood
In a new interview with Paris Match, the 83-year-old was asked what she thinks about the movement. She replied that many actresses flirt with producers to get roles and the vast majority of harassment claims are “hypocritical, ridiculous and without interest”.
Katie Hopkins: The exodus from W. European shithole countries like Britain proceeds apace.
Destinations: US, NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, the Czech republic & even Hungary & Poland.
Q. for Peter Dutton: Shouldn’t we be actively tapping into this stream?
Immigration request denied. Why should we take people who actively voted to destroy themselves? What assurance do we have that they won’t do the same here?
Well, not as a skin suit.
Jennifer O –
Worthy observations.
I would add that in my experience, perfectly reasonable, rational people become vicious, violent, revolutionaries when they find they can’t pay the mortgage, can’t afford (or get) food, fuel, electricity toilet paper …
Never show a pit pony the light.
Mother of all voyages
PART 2: The fleet sets sail from England, a young child, would-be mutineers and a convict planning escape aboard.
See it through the eye of a spyglass. Eleven British ships at full sail cutting across the Atlantic. Arthur Phillip’s majestic First Fleet flotilla en route to a place where a troubled bush kid named Ned Kelly will one day hammer a bulletproof breastplate and a golden girl named Betty Cuthbert will set fire to a running track and a bronzed larrikin named Paul Hogan will crack jokes atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Turn the spyglass a little to your left and zero in on the smallest convict transport ship in the fleet, Friendship. Hear the sound of a baby cry.
Convict Susannah Holmes pulls her infant son, Henry Kable Jr, to her breast. The boy is the most famous child in the fleet, the central figure in a convict love story splashed across the papers of Fleet Street.
Norwich Castle jail in the 1780s was an unlikely place for romance to bloom but it bloomed all the same for convicted thieves Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes. They conceived a child in prison, Henry Kable Jr. Shortly after the boy’s birth, Susannah was selected for transportation to Botany Bay. Boarding the prison hulk in Plymouth in which the young mother and child would wait to be transferred to the First Fleet, the prison hulk captain spotted Susannah with her five-month-old baby in her arms.
“The Captain, finding that one of them had an infant, peremptorily refused to take it on board, saying that he had no orders to take children,” said a newspaper report at the time.
Henry Kable Jr was promptly passed into the hands of Norwich prison jailer John Simpson, who had accompanied the transportees to Plymouth.
“The frantic mother was led to her cell, execrating the cruelty of the man under whose care she was now placed, and vowing to put an end to her life as soon as she could obtain the means,” the newspaper reported. “Shocked at the non-paralleled brutality of the Captain, and his humanity not less affected by the agonies of the poor woman, and the situation of the helpless babe, Mr Simpson resolved still, if possible, to get it restored to her. No way was left but an immediate personal application to Lord Sydney (chief government architect of the Botany Bay experiment) … He therefore immediately went back to Plymouth, and set off in the first coach to London, carrying the child all the way on his knee, and feeding it at the different inns he arrived at as well as he could.”
Heroic Simpson, so the newspapers said, was denied initial access to Lord Sydney’s office but refused to be turned away and chanced upon Lord Sydney as he was descending a set of stairs. Lord Sydney was reportedly puzzled by the jailer’s sweeping and tragic narrative, but sympathetic too. Inspired by Simpson’s spirited quest, his Lordship promised the child would be returned to his mother and, moreover, his father, Henry Kable, would be permitted to join his despairing lover aboard the Friendship. Simpson set off to Norwich to collect Henry Kable Sr and, “travelling three days and nights without sleep”, returned to Plymouth to see mother, father and child reunited just before the departure of the Friendship.
“It is with utmost pleasure that I inform you of my safe arrival with my little charge at Plymouth,” Simpson wrote in a letter quoted by London’s newspapers. “But it would take an abler pen than mine to describe the joy that the mother received her infant and her intended husband with. Suffice it to say, that the tears that flowed from their eyes, with the innocent smiles of the babe, on the sight of the mother, who had saved her milk for it, drew tears likewise from my eyes. And it was with the utmost regret that I parted with the child, after having travelled with it on my lap for upwards of 700 miles backwards and forwards.”
Henry Kable Jr only reminds seasick and miserable Lieutenant Ralph Clark, permanently unsatisfied royal marine on the Friendship, how much he misses his own wife and child back home.
“Did nothing but dream all last night, about being with my most Sincere Betsey and Son,” he writes in his journal. “Oh my god, never did a man long so much after anything than I do to know how they both are, what would I give for a letter from her dear hand but why do I think of impossibilities because I love them tenderly with a sincere hart, as ever man loved woman.”
Clark is cranky. He believes the Friendship’s contracted sailors are demanding increases in meat rations with the sole aim to trade the food for sex with convict women. Sailors have prised an access hole in the barrier wall separating the female prisoners.
“The damned whores,” Lieutenant Clark writes.
As the fleet pushes southward deep into the Atlantic, word reaches Arthur Phillip on the Sirius of a mutiny plot on one of the largest male convict transports.
“I have received a report from the officers on board the Scarborough respecting the convicts, who, it is said, have formed a scheme for taking possession of the ship. I have ordered the ringleaders on board the Sirius … I have no time to enter into particulars.”
The particulars are that convict chancers Phillip Farrell and Thomas Griffiths have been betrayed by one of their own potential mutineers. No honour among a ship full of thieves. Farrell and Griffiths planned to take moonlight control of the ship with the brute force of a gang of freed convicts. But they sought assistance from the wrong man, a traitor who told the Scarborough’s security of the mutiny plot before being promptly transferred to another ship for his own safety. Farrell and Griffiths, who steadfastly deny the supposed plot, are made merciless example of. Bound hand and foot and flogged aboard the Sirius, 24 lashes each that cut progressively deeper into the exposed back flesh that won’t necessarily be disinfected by subsequent buckets of saltwater that only serve to “rub salt into the wound”.
Arthur Phillip instantly refocuses on the mission. He never loses sight of the grand goal of this bizarre social experiment.
“The sanguine might form expectations of extraordinary consequences, and be justified, in some degree, by the reflection, that from smaller, and not more respectable beginnings, powerful empires have frequently arisen,” he’ll later write. “The phlegmatic and apprehensive might magnify to themselves the difficulties of the undertaking, and prognosticate, from various causes, the total failure of it. Both, perhaps, would be wrong.
“To all it must appear a striking proof of the flourishing state of navigation in the present age, and a singular illustration of its vast progress since the early nautical efforts of mankind; that whereas the ancients coasted with timidity along the shores of the Mediterranean, and thought it a great effort to run across the narrow sea which separates Crete from Egypt, Great Britain, without hesitation, sends out a fleet to plant a settlement near the antipodes.”
Amid Phillip’s increasingly loyal crew on the Sirius stands an adventurous American able seaman named Jacob Nagle. He’s a Pennsylvanian who fought for and met none other than George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. He knows a good leader when he sees one. He notes, approvingly, Phillip’s response to an act of brutality aboard the Sirius. The ship’s third lieutenant had two crewmen flogged for not being at their designated watch positions. This act of aggression has caused the other modestly paid crewmen to threaten revolt, saying they’d sooner jump overboard than suffer the lash for such relatively minor mistakes.
“The governor ordered every officer on the ship into the cabin,” Nagle writes. “And told him if he knew any officer to strike a (crewman) on board he would brake him immediately. He said those men are all we have to depend upon and if we abuse these men that we have to trust, the convicts will rise and massacre us all. Those men are our support and if they are ill-treated they will all be dead before the voyage is half out and who is to bring us back again?”
Early June 1787, and the fleet sails into the Canary Islands, 100km west of Morocco. Some 21 convicts have now died on the Alexander, the least hygienic of the ships, its passengers riddled with pneumonia and dysentery. Jacob Nagle is not the only man in the fleet who welcomes a supply stopover on the Spanish-controlled island of Tenerife, where Phillip and his senior officers are treated to a lavish dinner with the local Spanish governor, the Marquis de Branciforte.
“We all went up to a wine ship to get some wine during the time the governor was gone,” Nagle writes.
In the cramped and motionless prison deck of the Alexander, convicts curse their officer captors for their abilities to freely enjoy themselves on land; they can only dream of the fresh fruits and meats the officers will indulge in and the island’s eye-pleasing Spanish women selling the fruits and meats. In a corner of the prison deck, the eyes of a resourceful convict named John Powers track and memorise the movements of the sentinels on watch as he considers the 30-plus crew members he’ll have to slip past unseen if he’s to carry out a bold and impossible plan forming in his tired mind.
Meanwhile, buying his wine on land, seaman Jacob Nagle is pick-pocketed by a deceptively fast old female beggar.
“I returned immediately to see after my pouch, having two guineas in it,” he writes. “The landlady took (the suspected thief) into her bedroom and searched her and found the pouch inside of her shift, at the back of her neck. If she had not stripped her naked she would not have found it.”
Phillip orders heavy stocks of available fruit — figs and mulberries mostly — to ward off the dreaded scurvy at sea. The eyes of the marines on board light up at the sight of fresh beef and bread stocks.
“Captain Cook had very fully shown, how favourable such expeditions might be made to the health of those engaged in them,” Phillip writes. “If the ancients made these islands the region of fable, and their poets decorated them with imaginary charms to supply the want of real knowledge, the moderns cannot wholly be exempted from a similar imputation.”
On a still night before the fleet is about to sail out of the waters off Tenerife, convict John Powers has had enough of the dank and disease-ridden abyss of the Alexander’s prison deck. Working temporarily above deck he spots an opportunity to scamper undetected to the edge of the Alexander, slides his body over the side and lowers himself down to a small rowboat attached to the mighty transport. He tucks himself low into the rowboat. In the black Tenerife waters he rows hurriedly to a Dutch East India Company vessel sharing sea space with the Alexander. He begs the Dutch East India crew to take him on board as a most-grateful crew member. He’s denied. He rows on, desperately searching for alternatives — anything but that hulking ship bound for Botany Bay. He rows into a nearby beach, frantically scrambles over slippery rocks fringing the shore, hides in the darkness of surrounding land cover. But it’s a fool’s quest. There’s no avoiding Botany Bay. There’s no escaping John Hunter, fierce commander of the fleet’s lead ship, HMS Sirius. Hunter is a stone-faced survivor of the bloody three-hour, close-range Battle of Dogger Bank in the North Sea during the American War of Independence.
“A little westward of the town they discovered the boat beating on the rocks,” Hunter writes. “And rowing in to pick her up they discovered the fellow concealing himself in the cliff of a rock, not having been able to get up the precipice. The officer presented a musket at him and threatened if he did not come down and get into the boat he would shoot him.”
On June 10 the fleet leaves Tenerife, heads south in the direction of the west coast of Africa. Five days later officer William Bradley, aboard the Sirius, notes a historic crossing that lifts the spirits of the younger sailors who have never journeyed this far south. “At noon crossed the Tropic of Cancer,” he writes. “Had the sun in the Zenith at nearly the same instant.”
Arthur Bowes Smyth, surgeon on the Lady Penrhyn, notes that the ceremony of “ducking” was “performed on all who had not crossed the line”.
It’s a ceremony that might stretch back as far the Vikings, dunking a fresh sailor’s head in the ocean in honour and appeasement of the gods. The First Fleet sailors dunk their heads in honour of Neptune, moody and fickle god of these treacherous and endless seas. Above deck, sailors and marines alike cheer and jeer the young sailors brave enough to submit to this rope-burning rite of passage. In the prison deck of the Alexander, failed convict escapee John Powers sits motionless in irons. He sits perfectly still because the slightest movement of his body stings his festering lash wounds. He pays no fealty to Neptune. The sea never did anything for him. He wouldn’t be the first English convict removed from his homeland to wish fatal peril on Phillip’s First Fleet. Neptune be damned.
And for any convict who dreams of ending their role in the great experiment, Neptune is about to meet them beyond the equator in the cold unknown Southern Ocean, where the ocean god will try his level best to drag this vast and brutal fleet down to the bottom of the deep blue sea, pulling the very notion of Australia down with it.
The First Fleet: A Graphic Journal continues tomorrow in The Australian
SA to lead the way with a massacre of the elites?
Thank God!
Sounds like he was a fan of the Globalists’ Agenda 21 vision of Smart Growth Cities. 👿
Sustainable Development always means Communist control of property and every Council in Australia has adopted ICLEI programs.
Do you get it yet? This is 1984, Brave New World!
Short explanation. 👉
https://youtu.be/VvDu9wC8UNI 4mins
Dunno. Any large quantity barrel orders from SA?
Immigration request denied. Why should we take people who actively voted to destroy themselves? What assurance do we have that they won’t do the same here?
Because in very many instances they didn’t vote for the destruction of their home countries in the first place and in other cases they’ve woken up to the plan. They are easily assimilated and bring capital and skills with them. It’s a “no brainer” compared to 3rd world immigration, if you ask me.
Ok. You can immigrate if you can provide evidence that you voted against the destruction of your own country – otherwise sod off.
“DHS: two weeks ‘sick’, plus four weeks leave, ‘
They get more than that:
Under the DHS enterprise agreement 2017, a full time employee actually accrues 23 days annual leave for each year of service.
A full time employee accrues 18 days ‘personal/carer’s leave – encompassing sick leave but also including carer’s leave and leave for other unforeseen ’emergencies’.
Although they have been increased slightly -used to be 20 and 15 days respectively – these basic arrangements were put in place in the first agency level agreements two decades ago.
A colleague once suggested to me that the net outcome of agency enterprise bargaining in the APS was to give people more reasons not to come to work.
Weak and incompetent management is largely to blame.
Sounds like he was a fan of the Globalists’ Agenda 21 vision of Smart Growth Cities.
Good Lord, Anne, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Santamaria was a staunch anti-Communist who trusted neither the Liberal nor Labor political elites to deliver a prosperous and peaceful Australia. He probably did more to obstruct the Communist agenda than any other single Australian and he would have dissected neo/cultural Marxism with the same forensic analysis that he applied to the old Marxism.
We already are on Soma!
That’s the job of the MSM and the Dopamine addiction at the end of your fingertips.
Add vaccinations, fluoride, stratospheric aerial injection, smart dust in food and we are all compliant zombies. (Not me)
This is a pretty mind-boggling article about the British spying on the Trump campaign with agreement from the likes of Boris Johnson and Theresa May. If true it will set the so-called special arrangement between the USA and Britain back for years. Apologies if already posted elsewhere on the site.
http://yournewswire.com/fbi-leaks-explosive-memo/
What happened to him, Roger?
When you are lead by a man like WeatherDildo you’d struggle to find one in Mainland Tasmania.
Today:
Tauranga least affordable city: survey
Auckland had the 4th least affordable house prices in the world last year. Must be all those Hollywood actresses migrating there because Trump666.
Which begs the question: if they’ve now dropped from 4th to 9th in the latest survey does a certain pregnant PM have anything to do with it? Flee, flee!
Tony Abbott – yet again proving he’s the greatest leader ever – when not in power.
As for Craig Kelly, if he has the courage of his conditions, he’ll have simply bag out Minister Joshie in Parliament, good and hard.
The only way the Executive will ever learn is if the backbench fully revolt.
And don’t forget, next election, vote Delcon.
Courage of convictions……..
Kev, the United States of America is a Corporation owned by the City of London.
Correct me if I am wrong, Des, but wasn’t the increase from 20 to 23 days Annual Leave the result of some convoluted logic that forcing people to take leave between Christmas and New Year was unfair (even if there was no work on), so the best solution was to have an “enforced shutdown” but add the extra three days to entitlement.
I’ll bet that, before the ink was dry on the EBA, many PS “managers” suddenly discovered that they needed to open between Christmas and New Year so that the indolent could come in between 10:00 and 3:00, take the phone off the hook and play office cricket, and preserve their extra three days leave.
#draintheswamp
For a complete fraud, Abbott does have strong convictions. A true Lieboral.
Thursday through Monday looks like the Dreadful Heat® is going to be baaaack!
Given that the grid struggled with two days above 35, this could be interesting.
We just need Dreadful Heat® to occur Monday through Friday for grid collapse.
Methinks it is time for the betting agencies to run a book on the timing of total grid collapse.
Ffs, enough of this ‘let’s get the best’ from other countries bullshit. Stop all immigration. Now.
There’s enough Pommy fucking bus and train drivers here as it is. One countries brain drain is another countries public service. Enough!
The thing is that a worker or small businessman moving from a country about to spiral down the sh1ffhole to a slightly better business climate for work takes with him not his own vote, but chain migration of dependants. Joe or Jackie moves to get a job or build a business, but takes a wife who worked in the DoT and two daughters who have Facebook, and suddenly the rational voters are two votes in deficit.
Same for us gweilo immigrants as for the Somalians – in a way.
What happened to Auckland was a buck-toothed marxist blatherskite was parachuted into office by a sleazy, bent kanaka over a government proven to be actually almost capable. Should be good buying by the time Peee-Emm Chad Morgan’s ugly, stupid rug money is hatched.
I am carefully considering not so much where I live, but where I might go on holidays overseas.
France and Italy are still on the agenda but very much skewed away from major cities to more rural and regional areas.
Further east still appeals greatly … we went Hungary last Northern summer and I detected a real “take no shit” attitude (very few Africans or overt Moozleys mooching around on the streets). Have been to Croatia and ditto. Poland and Czech Republic are also possibles.
I’m running out of superlatives:
I now have two offspring working in the USA. Both hope to become US citizens.
Bonfire Electricity Bills! Two day heat wave burns nearly $400m: $45 per head in Vic, $80 each in SA.
Fergoodnesssake?! Why didn’t the SA government run those diesels — Could’ve saved millions?
Businesses everywhere were running their diesels. Yonniestone reports that ” Fairfax press rural Victorian factory had two shipping container sized diesel powered generators running complete with black exhaust smoke.” (They were probably printing newspapers telling everyone of the evil of fossil fuels, and advising they turn their air conditioners down.)
Can South Australia waste even more money? Yes. it. can.
Meanwhile, the SA Energy Minister seems proud that the diesels “weren’t needed”. Reader Andrew writes: What if they’re right, and while BHP et al turned on the diesel, Weatherill didn’t, to preserve his “battery miracle” story?? That would mean he has spent $400m on diesel – diesel that is purely decorative and he never plans to use! Electricity at $14,000 a MW? Not an emergency. Load shedding? Not an emergency. Businesses like smelters closed? Not an emergency. Economically, the diesel should be on whenever the price reaches $300/MW.
Stupid piled on stupid in the quest for virtue signaling. How much is too much to spend to “look green” and achieve nothing?
Who wants to run a business in South Australia?
Mark M writes about a story in the Advertiser:
More than 800 properties in North Adelaide were blacked out just after 5pm on Friday. Businesses and pubs in North Adelaide were forced to close their doors on a night owners say would have been one of their busiest of the week.
Co-owner of Lion Hotel Tim Gregg said it was hard to have to ask customers to leave after the lights went out. “It is disappointing when you have got people booked in for a meal and you can’t call them because their details are in a system which doesn’t work when the power is out,” Mr Gregg said, sitting in the darkened and empty restaurant area which would have been just starting to fill if the power was on. “We has to ask people to leave because of OH and S issues. It is lucky that it was between lunch and dinner service but the bar would be losing in the thousands of dollars. Mr Gregg said he had more than 40 staff who were at a loose end until the power comes back on.”
Never forget the point of all this suffering. All these householders, spending up to two or three hundred on electricity for two days, are paying to make the weather nicer in 100 years, according to a theory that no official ever did due diligence on.
Hands up, who thinks residents would pay this kind of money if the government knocked at their door and gave them a choice? Anyone?
Jo
Anne
Have you ever been to Toowoomba (100+km west of Brisbane)?
The population is around 100k+ in a compact city about 10 km across.
We have everything that the bigger cities have without the traffic and other problems.
Had Australia been developed with stacks of regional cities, this size and a bit bigger, I am pretty sure it would be better than the current mess.
According to the Andrews government and the inner suburban cognoscenti there is no concern over African gangs.
My wife and daughter are planning a weekend and a concert in Melbourne soon and deliberately avoided accomodation that was not connected to very public and well lit thoroughfares.
They are not big conservatives and would not know a site like this even exists but they have received the danger warning loud and clear from various media.
Fat Tony, you still need the ‘shitho…’, sorry, world’s most livable cities for the scum to congregate, don’t want them tainting the regional vibe old salt.
C.L. is spot on. If the AbbottBeast were still P.M. Australia Day would already be changed, along with Constitutional recognition of aborigines, Homo-hoedowns, we’d be importing 14,000 Rohingya’s from Myanmar and Jacinda Ardern would have received an Australian Knighthood.
Google CEO Sundar “tandoori legs” Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore
Get them whiteys the fuck out of here
The author has missed an obvious connection here.
Five women accuse actor James Franco of
inappropriate or sexually exploitative behaviorbeing a naughty boy“Correct me if I am wrong, Des, but wasn’t the increase from 20 to 23 days Annual Leave the result of some convoluted logic that forcing people to take leave between Christmas and New Year was unfair ”
LL, In most of the agencies that have a Christmas shut-down, the ‘leave’ over the two or three days over the period is additional to and separate from annual leave and/or flextime. Instead, it is traded off against a short increase in the length of the working day during the year, usually from 7.21 hours to 7.30 hours.
I’m assuming that DHS doesn’t have a Christmas shut down, I can’t find anything in the EA and the bulk of DHS employees staff Centrelink and Medicare offices which – I assume – have to be operating over the period.
Heh, just went to check the ASX and found they’ve changed their website.
The colours are a bit softer and now there’s no start line on the ASX graph.
And the announcements list is one step down in font size…
I wonder how much they paid their web consultants?
7.30 hours Des? I don’t know how they do it! All these years I thought it was 11.30 start to 12.30 knock with an hour for lunch…
And some of you want this dishonest arsehole who is claiming we learnt our laconic style from aborigines to return to being PM.
No thanks.
I suspect that, if any investigation was to coast close to the yammering narcissistic flim-flam CNN would be there with a camera, while Bambi said:
A couple of great tweets in response to the Jordan Peterson Channel 4 interview. The first is amusing but, more importantly, a genuinely interesting and original concept, by an incredibly interesting and original thinker who I’ve only become familiar with over the past few months, Eric Weinstein.
The second is just funny. Here’s the link, but the tweet reads
Nailed it.
Yes Tony, I agree. It’s plenty big enough.
In fact I might move there. What’s the climate like?
Agenda 21 wants to move people out of the rural areas into large walled cities where individuals need permission to travel to the country.
This was the plan.
Hopefully we have been given a reprieve.
Yep, I’ve really missed such “Soaring Oratory™”.
Question to Catapedia …
The Red Ensign: it used to be the everyday flag until about the 1950s when Menzies passed a law allowing the Blue Ensign to be used by everyone. Now, of course, the BE is the normal, everyday flag and the RE is associated with the Navy. Question: can the RE still be used as the regular Australian flag?
IMO, the Red is more beautiful.
Ah, thanks Des.
I assume the figures you refer to are hours.minutes, as in 7 hours 21 minutes to 7 hours 30 minutes?
Irrespective of the calcs, I will bet that many old PS hardliners simply work the same old hours and put the revised hours on their timesheet.
They had a review in the weekend australian which shows the future of how all references to stone age Australia will be managed from now on.
I cant get around the paywall but here is the writer.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/Geordie+Williamson
Its the article on the alternative farmer, the article itself isnt that bad, talking about how different land management types can be tried and may be successful.
But its prefaced by a few paragraphs extolling how wonderfully managed the land was pre-settlement by “fire sick farming creating a vast grain belt” and similar pure shit like that.
Oh, Annie. You don’t know that They put ‘distilled water’ on the bottle, but it’s actually triple infused with gay frog serum? I’m terribly sorry.
But you know I’m a fan of yours, Annester. You’re good value, I like your shade of crazy.
I thought it funny that Savage Garden’s Darren Haynes doesn’t want his songs on Cory Bernardi’s playlist, as any third/fourth wave feminist worth her salt would go to town on these lyrics:
Just a twist in time …and you could be mine
Just a sip of wine …and you could be mine
Just a kiss divine …and you could be mine
Which rather suggests women are simple-minded creatures any suitor must first get drunk in order to kiss, which seals the deal on patriarchal dominance. Women also respond well to force, according to Mr Haynes
Come stand a little bit closer
Breath in and get a bit higher
You’ll never know what hit you
When I get to you
Really, someone should notify Spotify and have these incitements to gendered violence removed from their playlists.
Great to see my slash-taxes-and-lump-Labor-with-the-deficit strategy is gaining steam!
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-fiscal-nuclear-option-pass-unfunded-tax-cuts-and-leave-the-mess-for-labor-20180119-h0kz30.html
Germs Greer really does seem to have been munching on the sensible pills of late:
From the Oz.
The RE is the flag of the merchant navy, the ANF is the only acceptable banner for use outside RAN/RAAF facilities/bases/vessels, the ANF still has a higher standing than the ensigns of those forces.
Don’t be a dickhead, Zippy. I realise the left have made the accusation of racism so cheap it is now virtually meaningless, but being an actual racist is still a bad look. Plus, you’ve chosen the most inept line of attack to use against Google.
What’s more, your comment isn’t even funny – “tandoori legs”? Wtf is that shit? It fails on all fronts.
Absolutely. If you remember that interview series Kerry O’Brien did with Keating, during the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era, Keating was still advocating real-world economic policies which, by that time, had become unspeakable anathema and heresy in the ALP. And if anyone but Keating had been articulating them, Red Kezza would have been in full 7.30 but-but-but mode.
All fire stick farming achieved was to created vast eucalypt near mono-cultures that, when combined with Green-Left land management practices, burn uncontrollably to the ground every ten to twenty years.
Great to see my slash-taxes-and-lump-Labor-with-the-deficit strategy is gaining steam!
Corp taxes same as Singapore- 17%
Income taxes scaled down to 25% in the top bracket. Not over 5 years. Immediately.
So now the NHS in Britain does not offer breast cancer screening to women who identify as men. I can remember a skit from Little Britain in which the ghastly drag queen (“I’m a LAY-deee!”) went in for some x-ray and the technician gave him a lead apron to protect his family jewels. The drag queen kept protesting that he didn’t need it because he was a “LAY-dee” and so on. Like the rest of Little Britain it wasn’t actually funny but it made a point.
Areff, a good pick up, though as Hayes bats for the other team, the person in the song could be 14 and he’d still get a leave pass.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/7834056/savage-garden-darren-hayes-coming-out-reactions-interview
Actually he’s a screaming fag, so what he is actually implying is that he gets his male conquests liquored up before making congress with them.
Germaine Greer is often rather sensible these days. I recall her going on Q&A a few times and raising eyebrows with her unPC views. Not quite in the same league as the irrepressible, unrepentant, brilliant Camille Paglia, though. There’s only one Camille. That woman is a force of nature. One of my favourite quotes of hers was spoken while she was slagging off her numerous feminist opponents, how pathetic and mediocre they were. It ran something like ‘after they are dead, the only thing they’ll be remembered for is what I said about them’.
If firetruck farming was so good for Australia, why do their left want a ban on using fire to burn off old pasture residue and chemical resistant weeds?.
Anne
#2616315, posted on January 22, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Have you ever been to Toowoomba?
Yes Tony, I agree. It’s plenty big enough.
In fact I might move there. What’s the climate like?
I find the climate of Toowoomba quite agreeable. Currently 27C, feels like 24C (BOM app).
Winters can be a little cold – doesn’t warm up through the day too much tho.
Summers are gnerally quite livable – usually only a week or 2 of hot weather.
If you load up the BOM app, you can set up Toowoomba as well as your current location – then you can compare in realish time (updated every half hour).
OK – this at Wiki:
Bring back the red, I say.
Never cheer Greer.
She’s a contrarian attention addict who knows that in today’s lunatic-left culture a hard-boiled right-of-centre quip or commentary will get her name back in the newspapers. She doesn’t believe in anything.
Am I hearing correctly?
Did Teresa May actually agree to a request from Obama to Spy on Trump, with the man who knows no comb Boris up to his neck as well?
There seems to be very good reasons why Trump wouldn’t go to London, and not for the reasons given.
Why he’s been giving The PM of Britain a wide birth.
You lucky bugger.
I hope they are not Californians though.
I do wish they would stop referring to tax cuts as being unfunded.
You don’t fund tax cuts. You cut funding everywhere else so you don’t spend more that you have.
They make it sound like the current level is the ‘proper’ level and any tax cuts a pure extravagance.
I swear much of this nonsense started with that shambling retard, Swan. I should love to be his diving instructor and, when he predictably got himself tangled in a metal anchor, got his head stuck up a dolphin’s arse, I would reassure him that I would get him some more oxygen – and promptly pierce one of his lungs, letting sea water in between the plurae. I could explain that since he can’t breath in as much then it is equivalent to him being given more oxygen.
Firestick, not auto-correct firetruck.
What happened to him, Roger?
Er, well…he died, Anne, of old age. 😉
Santamaria worked on the principle of subsidiarity (sometimes called a Catholic principle but also a feature of much Christian political common sense in the English & American traditions):
Human beings flourish best when political authority and power are devolved to the most local level practically possible. Nothing should be done at a centralised level that can be done at a more local level. Thus, for example, the Aust. Const. sensibly limited Commonwealth powers basically to foreign affairs and defence and providing a framework for free trade between the states.
In short, a concentrated, highly urban population facilitates centralised government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a few and easily corrupted, whilst a decentralised population makes decentralised political power more feasible.
When Germaine Greer and Paul Keating start making sense you know you really are down the rabbit hole. Time to put away the bong and go for a walk in the fresh air.
Well you are a dunce, Chris. Were you wearing calli’s skin to make that comment? It was her that I asked, not you.
But, then again, as I’ve previously observed, she is trying to be one of the boys. So is nilk, going by her accusation on the OT that Adern somehow lied about her pregnancy.
Question.
If it is a Total Fire Ban, why don’t firemen get the day off?
I mean, if the government has decreed that there shall be no fire, surely the services of firepersons are not required.
The Federal seat of McMillan, named after Scots mass murderer
‘massacres carried out in 1843. Aboriginal Language Group: Brataualang. Aboriginal people killed: sixty (at each of the five sites). Colonists killed: zero. Weapons used: Double-barrelled Purdey. Attacker details: twenty horsemen, known as the “Highland Brigade,” organized by Angus McMillan. In a box titled “Narrative,” these fragments form a horrific tale. McMillan, a local settler, and his group of armed horsemen, all Scots, had, for years, been attacking Aboriginal camps with impunity. In this instance, they attacked five campsites over five days. At one camp, people jumped into the waterhole but were shot as soon as they resurfaced to breathe. One of the survivors, a young boy who’d been shot in the eye, was captured by the Brigade and forced to lead them to other camps. “Human bones have been found at each of these sites on several occasions,” the text notes. “The rampage would fit the criteria of ‘genocidal massacre.’
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/mapping-massacres
McMillan kept a bag of his victims’ human skulls. See McMillan and his infamous bag below, sculpture in Sale Vic.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUGk9qkVQAAPfli.jpg
A principle that has been undermined by the High Court, the Commonwealth government and every other political institution from the moment it was passed. Including, of course, by those self-declared protectors of small government the Lieboral Party. Thus rendering the main argument in favour of a federation, competition between the states, dead in the water.
I think that should read “berth” in the interests of restricting harmful mental images.
If anyone has any doubts about the Q post above, I have a challenge for you. We have already lived through the first 8 years of the mooted plan. Can you name one single thing that Obama did which does not jibe with any of it.
One act which particularly springs to my mind is making Muslim outreach the top priority for NASA. Never mind that boring space stuff.
This to me is the whole script laid out in black and white and its enough to turn your stomach.
I suspect the dynamics of this exchange are repeated endless in domestic arguments across the world. The woman at some deep instinctive level knows she (and all other women) either because of nature or because how society is stitched up have received the shitty end of the stick in many areas. This knowledge leads to the shrill tone of frustration as she is confronted with the relentless logic of the male mind which for thousands of years has been applied to rationalise the aforementioned shitty stick.
Today’s major Catch 22 conundrum.
We have a chalkboard shopping list at home.
We have run out of chalk.
What to do?
Catastrophic systems failure.
Fire stick farming destroyed the ice age pine, casuarina and conifer like forests that provided deep shade and leaf litter that broke down slowly to enrich the soil and help even heavy rainfall slowly perculate into the soil.
These forests produced less run-off but with the benefit of streams that were far less turbid and ran for long periods. Water was less visible in lakes or rivers but held in the soil which produced abundant growth and transpiration leading to higher rainfall.
Eucalypts impoverish the soil as their leaf litter is rapidly broken down and allelopathic. Our good soils washed and blew into the oceans thanks to fire sticks.
But, then again, as I’ve previously observed, she is trying to be one of the boys. So is nilk, going by her accusation on the OT that Adern somehow lied about her pregnancy.
They don’t have to try at being anyone, no need.
Unlike you, you freak.
Ankles- lower than a c-$t.
… and destroyed the GB Reef, which used to extend around Tasmania and across to the Great Australian Bight, and out as far as New Zealand.
Thanks aborigines!
Thanks a lot!
There are 170,000 fewer retail jobs in 2017—and 75,000 more Amazon robots
You are correct about McMillan Testy.
He was a right sanctimonious murdering Scottish grafter. The name of the federal seat should be changed and I believe it will be.
Leigh Lowe
#2616358, posted on January 22, 2018 at 2:03 pm
Today’s major Catch 22 conundrum.
We have a chalkboard shopping list at home.
We have run out of chalk.
What to do?
Catastrophic systems failure.
Maaate – you’re fucked.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-record-homicide-rate-1.4497466
Mexico had over 29,000 murders in 2017, but homicide rate still lower than some Latin American nations
The country’s homicide rate was 20.5 per 100,000 people, but still lower than Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela
Can anyone remember who said they are not sending their best?
(The USA rate is is about 5)
Really enjoyed your rants on the last thread Struth.
About time you penned a book.
Pretty sure that is called a Market Failure.
There are three steps to go:
1) The Federal Government will provide you with an allowance for chalk. They can’t stop you from forgetting to buy it, so they will fund you cabcharges so you can go to the shop for when you run out.
2) You will be forbidden from putting certain foods on your shopping list because bureaucrats do not approve of them. You will be forbidden alcohol, cordials, soft drinks, meat, cigarettes, butter and such. These foods are not illegal, but you are to be deprived of them in return for you allowance. You will have visits from social workers where you have to prove you are only shopping for approved products.
3) They will keep cutting the remittance because of problems with the system – to wit, they are operated by public servants who viscerally would contest the word servant.
Supermarket jobs are safe as ‘Shopbot’ is given the boot
London: Fears that robots could take the jobs of humans may be premature after Britain’s first “Shopbot” was sacked after a week of confusing customers.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/supermarket-jobs-are-safe-as-shopbot-is-given-the-boot-20180122-p4yypv.html
Firestick warfare was no doubt quite effective.
Tribes to the north and west having tactical advantage on Catastrophic (TM) fire danger days.
Bullshit Testes.
His Abo mate tried to kill him by clubbing him, other squatters were killed and as I said before, grow a fucking brain.
If you aren’t smart enough to realise you shouldn’t go around killing the white man and his animals, in those days, you got taught a lesson.
It’s wasn’t 21st century Victoriastan where you can invent new and exciting ways to kill white people (cars and bombs and bullets and removing heads) with no consequence.
You always conveniently forget who started these things.
OCO, unless the gay frogs are sneaking into my kitchen at night and playing leap frog in my Water Distilation machine I think I’m safe.
We have everything [in Toowoomba] that the bigger cities have without the traffic and other problems.
Except decent eateries, unless you include the Spotted Cow, which I most definitely don’t.
Leigh,
Ros Kelly recommends a whiteboard.
Fisky;
Yep. I’ve been pushing that line for nearly three years on this forum, and in private.
Made a few converts in pub discussions as well.
Que? Which western governments (apart from Trump)?
Sounds great, Tony. I love cold weather!
I’ll look you up when I get there! 🙋
I started life as a baby…………………………………………………………………boom tish
Thanks Top Ender, coming from you, that’s pretty cool.
Buggy whip manufacturing numbers are holding up though after a rough period.
‘who started these things’
Oh. That’s right, the brit invaders. Now fuck off back to the Perry Saleam branch of your retirement village.
Donald Trump inauguration: Supporters pay for Trump skywriting over Sydney
The letters T-R-U-M-P appeared in the sky just as thousands of women took to the CBD streets to protest against the Trump presidency.
areff
#2616375, posted on January 22, 2018 at 2:16 pm
We have everything [in Toowoomba] that the bigger cities have without the traffic and other problems.
Except decent eateries, unless you include the Spotted Cow, which I most definitely don’t.
Learn to cook 🙂
struth TP doesn’t think. Lost cause.
Anne, I was wandering around the web and was reading that one of the pages of the memo has been leaked?
What’s the story in conspiracyland?
You know what I mean, I’m not trying to be funny.
Ha!
Just his name is a trigger.
Anne
#2616379, posted on January 22, 2018 at 2:19 pm
Winters can be a little cold – doesn’t warm up through the day too much tho.
Summers are gnerally quite livable – usually only a week or 2 of hot weather.
Sounds great, Tony. I love cold weather!
I’ll look you up when I get there! 🙋
Feel free to use the Sinc Contact Agency
Ahhh feminists, are there any who werent/arent insane?
Which begs the question, why would insane people be allowed to police sexuality or have any rational idea how the world runs?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/22/simone-de-beauvoirs-mad-passion-for-young-lover-revealed-in-letters
The French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir’s “mad passion” for a lover 18 years her junior has been revealed in a letter published for the first time.
The letter also shows that she was never sexually satisfied by her partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
The writer, who condemned marriage as an “obscene” institution that enslaved women in her classic book The Second Sex, wrote to the film-maker Claude Lanzmann in 1953 saying she would throw herself into his “arms and I will stay there forever. I am your wife forever.”
In De Beauvoir’s letter from Amsterdam published by Le Monde, she wrote: “My darling child, you are my first absolute love, the one that only happens once (in life) or maybe never.
“I thought I would never say the words that now come naturally to me when I see you – I adore you. I adore you with all my body and soul … You are my destiny, my eternity, my life.”
The note is one of 112 love letters written to Lanzmann, the only man De Beauvoir ever lived with, which has been bought by Yale University.
It reveals that Sartre – who had many other lovers and always kept a separate apartment – was never able to satisfy her physically in the same way.
Mad as a box of frogs
Oh. That’s right, the brit invaders.
The Brit civilisers you mean. The noble abos are still killing each other and brutalising their kids in droves over 200 years after civilisation arrived. How determined are they to remain cave dwellers?
The sordid Macron story behind his mother-wife.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/emmanuel-macron-brigitte-auziere-how-french-president-wooed-his-teacher/news-story/b0c833d9cd26c1f5e651e8bfb3bc1ed0
If the sexes were changed, how long elder be jailed for?
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/955242541422727170
Sessions only achievement since taking office as AG has been to make pot harder to get hold of legally.
What a deadshit he has turned out to be.
So, you have verified that calli and nilk are already blokes. Izzat correct?
Today’s major Catch 22 conundrum.
We have a chalkboard shopping list at home.
We have run out of chalk.
What to do?
Call Arky.
He’s a teacher.
Thanks Roger. I DuckDuckGo’d him in the interim. He seems okay. 😜
Master’s thesis- Italy Changes Shirts: The Origins of Italian Fascism. 👍
Art as politics: France may be sending Britain a tapestry of lies
BEN MACINTYREThe Times12:00AM January 22, 2018
The beautiful Bayeux Tapestry, now heading to Britain for the first time, is fake news, French propaganda 1000 years old that gives a false account of the most important episode in 1066.
Every schoolchild knows that King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon monarch, died on the battlefield at Hastings when an arrow struck him in the eye, ushering in the reign of William I. As Sellar and Yeatman wrote in 1066 and All That: “The Norman Conquest was a Good Thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become top nation.”
That tale is not quite true. Harold was almost certainly hacked to ribbons by a group of Norman knights who had broken through the Anglo-Saxon lines. The arrow-in-the-eye story was cooked up afterwards to lend political and religious legitimacy to the precarious new dynasty, and then stitched into the great tapestry when it was heavily restored in the 19th century.
Just about every aspect of the tapestry is open to historical debate, including when it was made, where and for whom. It was not just a work of art but a political tool intended to reinforce Norman rule: the scene of Harold swearing allegiance to William, for example, is depicted as a formal ceremony with holy relics and numerous witnesses.
Even less subtly, a priapic figure preparing to copulate in the margins sends a message that the supposedly treacherous Harold is about to screw over the Norman pretender by reneging on his promise.
The most significant element of Norman propaganda concerns Harold’s death. The earliest account of the battle, the Song of the Battle of Hastings (aka Carmen de Hastingae Proelio) written by Bishop Guy of Amiens a year or so after the battle, states Harold was killed by four knights, probably including Duke William himself, and then dismembered.
The tapestry was created in the 1070s, but the claim Harold had died from a single arrow in the eye emerged only later.
The Normans had strong political motives for covering up the true nature of Harold’s grisly death and replacing it with the arrow myth. A single, fateful missile, hurtling out of the sky to strike down the king could be presented as an act of God, divine punishment for breaking his oath to support William’s claim.
The invading Norman duke needed all the support he could get from the Almighty. Harold had been anointed at his coronation, officially blessed by the Catholic Church and papacy. His death had to be seen as a thunderbolt from on high, not the brutal battlefield carve-up that it was.
“The new king did not want to be implicated in Harold’s violent end,” writes historian Chris Dennis. “Nor could he afford to undermine the legitimacy of his own accession by admitting responsibility for an anointed king’s death.”
The divinely directed arrow became the official version of events, and by the 12th century it was embedded in legend. The main supporting evidence for that account is the most famous panel in the Bayeux Tapestry, which appears to show the king gripping a golden arrow lodged in his eye, below the inscription Harold Rex interfectus est (“King Harold was killed”).
But the arrow was almost certainly a later addition, and the apparently mortally wounded figure may not even depict Harold. The king is more likely to be the man lying to the right, being trampled by a charger and diced up by a Norman knight. Etchings of the tapestry made in the 1730s appear to show the man on the left holding a spear, not an arrow. The first sketch of the tapestry with a fletched arrow is dated 1819, suggesting that by that point the tapestry had been updated to bring the pictorial record into line with the accepted myth.
The arrow itself is odd. It bends to fit under the inscription, in a way that indicates a later addition. Measured against the other arrows stuck in his shield, it does not even appear long enough to penetrate his head. The hand holding it is awkwardly bent.
Strangest of all is the direction of the missile itself; in order for an arrow, fired high into the air, to enter his eye at that angle, the king would have to have been staring into the sky, or lying on his back.
The supine figure on the right being hacked at by a horseman surely depicts Harold at the point of death. Indeed, one of the earliest accounts describes a Norman knight slashing the king in the thigh, precisely as in the image.
Some historians argue that both figures represent the king’s death, in successive images, like a cartoon, being first wounded in the eye and then mutilated. This is unlikely, since the two men are wearing different stockings: plain on the left, striped on the right.
The most plausible account of what really happened is Bishop Guy’s song, composed in the immediate aftermath.
Unlike other chroniclers, Guy was independent of the ducal court and had no reason to peddle the official version: he described how William spotted his enemy on the battlefield, summoned three knights to his side and led the posse that then charged at King Harold and chopped him down.
William’s personal role in the barbaric killing of an anointed king was airbrushed from history, either omitted from later accounts or replaced with the divinely ordained arrow. This became accepted fact after the 19th-century needleworkers embroidered the legend into history.
Harold’s remains may lie in Bosham, West Sussex, where he was born, or Waltham Abbey in Essex. So far, all requests to exhume him have been rejected.
The discovery of Richard III in a Leicester car park transformed our view of that king. Digging up Harold might prove, once and for all, that he did not die from a single arrow aimed by God, but under the swords of the French. That would be a long overdue revision of our national story, and one in the eye for William and his all-conquering propagandists.
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They settled peacefully.
That’s why the aboriginal activists call it settlement and not invasion.
Are you claiming it as an invasion?
Either way, let he who draws first blood, get some buckshot up their backsides.
You’d have to be some sort of dumb to be throwing spears and killing peaceful people that have guns.
If I was a chief of the spear chuckers I would have said, listen fellas, were fucked.
We’ve been so superstitious we couldn’t get out our own way enough to boil water.
You’ve all tasted white man’s food, and that’s awesome, some of you have been fixed up by their medicine.
Their firing spears are far superior to anything we have, and quite frankly I’d like to learn how to ride one of their horses.
Looks like fun.
let’s face it, this shit we’re doing is hard and getting us nowhere.
We’ve been doing the same thing and getting nowhere for years……..
And many aboriginal people did just that, while a few wanted to chuck spears first, and ask questions later.
Not bright.
CNN reports that a 1 km long asteroid will lightly strike the earth on 4th February, but it won’t be reported by NASA because Donald Trump.
Anti-Trumpism is nearing peak stupid.
A 1 km long asteroid does not “lightly strike” anything. It’s actually going to pass about several moon-distances from Earth. So, close – but no extinction-event-causing strike, light or otherwise.