Friday 4th of April 2025

if it looks like a terrorist, walks like a terrorist, acts like a terrorist… it’s a terrorist...

wolf whistle

The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can’t quite decide if it’s a victory, or a defeat. They don’t know if it’s because they ran out of money, are giving up, or it’s all a big lie – but they all agree on two things: 1) Russia has not achieved anything and 2) This is a massive a surprise.

the murder of democracy in the senate by strange bed fellows, after a sleepless night...

murder

 

The chances of a July 2 federal election have shortened dramatically with the passage of Senate voting reforms after a marathon 40-hour debate.

The Coalition, with the support of the Greens and independent Senator Nick Xenophon, pushed through the bill shortly after 1.30pm on Friday by 36 votes to 23.

The debate was one of the longest considerations of a single bill in the past 26 years.


God save us ...

God save us ...

Disappointed by the government-commissioned review into anti-bullying program Safe Schools, far-right conservative MP George Christensen fell back on one of the oldest tricks in the homophobic playbook: an attempt to conflate homosexuality with paedophilia.

school's out for the derelict backsliders in parliament

school's out

Question Time live: Prime Minister warns all MPs to 'choose their words carefully' as Safe Schools debate ignites


an implacable logic designed to send bernie to hell...

 

bernie to hell...

A Donald Trump surrogate said during a campaign event Monday morning that Bernie Sanders needs to find Jesus. Sanders, of course, is Jewish.  Many of his Polish relatives on his father's side were killed during the Holocaust.

cigars, wine and live pigs... while burning some coal to the god of cash...

rorts-in-chief

Newly minted ambassador to the United States, former treasurer Joe Hockey, has taken the time to publicly defend Australia's climate change efforts after The New York Times published an editorial criticising changes at the CSIRO.

Two weeks ago, the revered American newspaper argued the decision to shift focus from climate change research and monitoring to mitigation and adaption stunned the scientific community and undermined commitments made at the November summit in Paris.

exceptionalism on parade ...

exceptionalism on parade ...


mixed messages ...

mixed messages ...

Now what? Did you think that the United States had finally grown up and come to the realization that they could in fact share the same hemisphere as the people of Cuba, accepting Cuban society as unquestioningly as they do that of Canada?

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