In which Killer of the IPA sets the New Yoik pace, and the pond regrets digging out Our Henry in full fascist flight...

Vulgar, incredibly vulgar...

At least the intent of "Make Australian manufacturing great again" becomes a tad clearer. 

It's "Make Qantas Advertise in the lizard Oz again".

And squeezed into the top of the vulgarity?

Predictable, incredibly predictable, as once again the reptiles tried to help the lettuce ...

Internal drama
Ley’s day of net-zero reckoning revealed as Hawke condemned
Conservative MPs have branded Alex Hawke as Liberal Party’s ‘leader by proxy’ as Sussan Ley prepares to reveal crucial net-zero position.
By Sarah Ison

And over on the extreme far right, more disappointment ...

Wait, what's happened to the hole in bucket man? 

Where was the old bigot ranting away?

Did the reptiles really think the latest contribution to the Australian Daily Zionist News was a substitute?

In Israel, Australia’s betrayal is evident everywhere you go
We didn’t expect that every Israeli we met – private citizens, cab drivers, restaurant staff and shopkeepers – all knew the Albanese government had put Israel into the deep freeze.
By Peter Jennings and Anthony Bergin

In Gaza and the West Bank, the current government of Israel's genocidal intent is everywhere to be seen.

And did the reptiles think that kackling Klaire's kontribution would sort out Susssan's dilemma?

‘Spot reducing’ emissions is no way to fix climate
When dieting or exercising, the body leans out all over – reducing fat in one area, such as the belly, through targeted exercise, is a fool’s errand. The climate is the same.
By Claire Lehmann
Contributor

Cackling Claire was in the word salad camp besides Tamworth's enduring shame, and others who had Little to be Proud of ...

..Dumping net zero should not mean turning our backs on climate action. It should mean re-prosecuting the case for nuclear energy and practical solutions such as large-scale reforestation and carbon capture. Abandoning an unrealistic slogan does not signal a return to the past; it can mark the beginning of a more intelligent, future-focused approach – one where clean energy is also cheap energy. Real climate leadership isn’t about chanting catchy phrases. It’s about making the hard, rational choices that keep the lights on, the economy strong, and the air clean.
Claire Lehmann is the founder and editor-in-chief of Quillette.

What remarkably obtuse advice. How remarkably easy it was to ignore this sort of softcore climate science denialism ...

And it didn't get any better when the reptiles wheeled in Freedom Boy to help out ...

Don’t fall for false war over net-zero
After legislating a net-zero target, the teals voted with the government for new coal and gas subsidies. But the founder of Climate 200 doesn’t want to talk about this betrayal by his candidates.
by Tim Wilson

Wonder boy's solution in a sentence?

Minimising public risk and cost can be achieved through reverse auctions to maximise private investment and generation output. More importantly, a Liberal solution can build Australia’s clean reindustrialised future and deliver net-zero price increases and net-zero outages, and that’s the pathway to achieve emissions reduction too.

No wonder the lettuce is doing well, there are so many word salads in need of its services.

And was it wise for Geoff to chamber another bullet celebrating Tamworth's eternal shame?

Liberals and Nationals are bleeding money and members, and One Nation reaps the benefits
It is now probable Barnaby Joyce will take his money-making abilities to One Nation ahead of the 2028 election.
By Geoff Chambers
Political editor

Why are the reptiles pumping up the Barners straw man?

...While nothing lasts forever in politics, the conservative side of politics is currently on life support.
The challenge for Hanson and One Nation is whether they will squander the rising protest vote that they have attracted since polling day.
Hanson will hope she can ride a similar wave as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Coalition strategists who predict that disillusioned voters will flock back to them before the next election shouldn’t be overconfident.
It is true that One Nation over the years has suffered from organisational pressures, average candidates and a poor retention rate for elected parliamentarians, but if the winds are blowing in the right direction and Hanson attracts big donors and high-profile candidates, One Nation could wreak havoc in the regions and outer suburbs.
The Liberals and Nationals must get the show together – and fast.
After the first rise of One Nation in 1998, the Coalition had John Howard, Tim Fischer and Ron Boswell to lead the fight.
In 2025, it has Sussan Ley and Littleproud in the hot seats.
The contrast between 1998 and 2025 couldn’t be starker.

Why it's part of a subtle jihad to take Susssan down by Xmas.

And what's worse, where was the celebration of Bob?

Never mind, at least there was a killer kontribution, with Killer of the IPA standing in for the derelict bromancer ... (in the archive if you want to try the Killer links)

The header: NYV mayor Mamdani uproar is much ado about nothing very much; Republicans are furious over NYC’s new Muslim socialist mayor. Zohran Mamdani talks a big game, but like Clover Moore in Sydney, his limited powers to reshape a city mean managing garbage pick-up may be the height of his revolution.

The caption for Killer's cunning ploy of comparing feeble New York to mighty Sydney, centre of the cosmopolitan universe: Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, left, and New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. Pictures: News Corp/Getty Im, ages (sic, so and thus)

Killer's sparsely illustrated attempt to downplay the mid-term results by making it all a meaningless affair ...

Would you really care if Sydney’s Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, threatened to ban gas exports or Melbourne’s Nicholas Reece demanded Australia dump the AUKUS pact?
From Donald Trump down, conservatives in the US have worked themselves into a rage over the election of the self-­described “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City.
Trump, who has repeatedly called Mamdani a “communist who would ruin the city”, has threatened to withhold federal funds from America’s largest city, and even send in the national guard. But really, who cares? The 34-year-old Ugandan born Muslim talks a big game, praising efforts to “globalise the intifada” and threatening to put up income taxes by 2 per cent.
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about,” he declared in his election night speech. But Ronald Reagan needn’t turn in his grave, given that little thing called the US ­constitution.
Mamdani will have to channel his rage into zoning regulations and rubbish pick-up schedules. For all the undoubted glamour of the New York City mayoralty Mamdani is a local official subject to New York State law. For all the conniptions about income or corporate tax going up, the Democrat governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has already explicitly ruled tax increases out.
Democrats did gain one extra seat in the city’s council, but only about a dozen are aligned with Mamdani’s Democratic Socialist of America faction; the rest know where their bread is buttered.
The city’s tax base is remarkably top heavy: the top 1 per cent of earners (around 40,000 people) pay almost half of the city’s personal income tax and more than the bottom 90 per cent ­combined.
Any significant flight of capital or rich individuals from the financial powerhouse would blow a huge hole in the city budget, making Mamdani’s promises harder to fulfil. And without its own central bank, there’ll be no modern monetary theory magic happening in City Hall.
Mamdani’s win doesn’t reflect some seismic shift in the national mood. New York City is politically, economically and culturally nothing like 90 per cent of the US.

You see? New York is a different country and they do things differently.

And just to help Killer, the pond was reminded of a recent effort by J. V. Last in The Bulwark regarding socialism ...Trump’s Nuclear Socialism, You’re worried about Mamdani? The real socialism is coming from inside the White House. (sorry, paywalled)

...If, before January 2029, the estimated value of Westinghouse is more than $30 billion, then the Trump administration can require BAM and Cameco to let Westinghouse go public via an IPO. At which point the government’s “participation interest” will convert to 20 percent ownership of Westinghouse.
Wait what?
Let me decode the back end of the deal for you.
First of all, you have to know that half of Westinghouse is owned by Cameco and the other half is owned by Brookfield Asset Management. Those companies purchased Westinghouse in 2023 for $4 billion.
The government has picked the winner for nuclear reactor construction—Westinghouse—by committing to infuse it with $80 billion in funding while also promising to alter regulatory structures to its benefit.2
In return, the government will take 20 percent of “cash distributions” after the first $17.5 billion Westinghouse receives and then, in 2029, if the value of Westinghouse’s business created by the government’s investment is over $30 billion, the government will require it to go public via an IPO and the government will then have a 20 percent ownership stake in the resulting company.3
In sum:

• The government decides that nuclear power should be built.
• The government selects the private company to build it.
• The government then extracts an ownership position in the company, whose value has been created by the government.

How is this different from the way the Chinese Communist Party operates?

Eek, we're all communists now. 

Mamdani is just swimming with the commie prevert tide begun by King Donald ...

Pause at this moment for the solitary visual distraction ... Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park after his historic victory to become the city's 111th mayor. Picture: Getty Images

Now back to downplaying it all, with Killer in top IPA form ... with nary a mention of those Governor contests, or that nasty Gavin's prop in California, or any of the down ballot results ... but with tired old 
"virtue signalling" trotted out in a way that only the virtuous at the IPA can do ...

Voters there – as in many of the world’s biggest and most important cities – have shifted markedly left over time, at least in rhetoric; the GOP candidate received barely more than 5 per cent of the vote. That’s because virtue signalling is a luxury good and last time I checked London’s similarly far-left and equally Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan hasn’t made a dent in that city’s income or wealth distribution.
Let me make some bold predictions: New York’s tax or regulatory regime won’t change significantly and there will be no discernible capital flight. Mamdani’s actual economic policies are the usual social-democrat populist gruel: cheaper childcare, free public transport, more affordable housing. About the only genuinely novel policy is to create a network of city-owned grocery stores that sell below market rates. The world has seen far worse left-wing programs.
His proposal to create a Department of Community Safety to take the growing burden of dealing with the army of homeless, mentally disturbed 911 callers away from the police might not even be a bad idea.
In fact, it was probably better Mamdani won on Tuesday with 52 per cent of the vote than the disgraced alleged sex pest governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo’s Covid restrictions terrorised New York and prompted tens of thousands of New Yorkers to emigrate to Florida and Texas. He is America’s Dan Andrews.
“Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,” Mamdani teased during his victory speech.
But if the inexperienced Mamdani turns out to be as disastrous for New York as Republicans claim he will be, they could be very keen to draw attention to Mamdani later down the track. What better warning to the rest of America not to vote Democrat. If he’s not a disaster, then he’s just another attention-seeking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unsurprisingly also hails from NYC.
Next year’s congressional midterm elections – at which Republicans will struggle to hang on to their slender majorities, as ­voters tend to swing away from the ruling party – is the far more consequential contest.

Oh yes ...

Mamdani, meanwhile, will have responsibility for the city’s police force, which he once accused of being “racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety”. Other kooky comments include “violence is an artificial construction” and that “real violence” happens when criminals are prosecuted.
Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik recently slammed Mamdani as “the definition of a ­jihadist”. To be sure, Mamdani hasn’t said complimentary things about Israel, and has taken a stridently pro-Palestinian line, but a third of New York’s huge Jewish population voted for him, so they can’t be too concerned about any Mamdani-induced increase in anti-Semitism.
The obsessive focus on Mamdani’s win might make sense if not much else was happening in the US politically. What’s far more interesting, in fact, is the vicious split on America’s right over Washington’s traditional support for Israel. But that’s for another day. For now let’s enjoy watching Mamdani “make NYC affordable for all”.
Adam Creighton is chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs.

Time for an infallible Pope, joyless division ...

And then, feeling a tad undernourished, the pond went searching for Our Henry, and hallelujah, he'd actually turned up, hidden under, if not a lettuce, then at least a cabbage leaf.

Peel back  the leaf and you scored five minutes of defamatory ranting, entirely fitting for the Australian Daily Zionist News ...(in the archive if you want to try the links)

The header: Is Pro-Palestine protester Josh Lees Australia’s worst pest? In bending over backwards to accommodate the Islamo-fascists, courts and governments are confusing freedom with licence.

The caption: Josh Lees speaks to Pro-Palestinian supporters as they gather to march from Hyde Park to Belmore Park in Sydney last month. Picture: Nikki Short

The pond did wonder if it was wise to reproduce Our Henry's bile and bigotry, because it seemed enough to warrant a court action, but never mind ...the pond knew that Our Henry was in a suppurating rage because his references really didn't wander much from the twentieth century ...

Giving evidence earlier this year in the Supreme Court of NSW, John (Josh) Lees claimed that protests organised by the Palestine Action Group “have always occurred in a welcoming, inclusive and family-friendly environment”.
There was little sign of that this week as masked demonstrators draped in keffiyehs tried to storm Darling Harbour’s Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition, a showcase for maritime weapons systems. Nor was a ­“family-friendly” spirit on display late last month in Melbourne, where an entirely peaceful March for Australia was attacked by protesters burning the Australian flag and brandishing Palestine’s.
The video footage leaves no doubt. At Darling Harbour, police were, in Superintendent Paul Dunstan’s words, “set upon by a pack of very angry protesters”, leaving several officers injured.
Victoria Police Commander Wayne Cheeseman’s account of the Melbourne clashes was starker still: “Bottles filled with shards of glass were thrown at police, bins set on fire, and police pelted with large rocks (by) issue-motivated groups on the left,” he said – before wearily concluding that “Melbourne has had a gutful”.
That policing protests by Hamas’s fellow travellers has already consumed over 24,000 police shifts in Melbourne alone, costing more than $25m, makes Cheeseman’s conclusion all the more credible.

The reptiles at this point flung in a graphic snap full of shocking violence, A blockade organised by the Palestine Action Group took place in front of Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition at Sydney ICC this morning. Picture: NewsWire / Dylan Robinson

Meanwhile in Haaretz ...

Enough of that, on with Our Henry, intent on breaking Godwin's Law...and clearly in the school of "drive over the b*stards" (blogger bot compliant) ...

None of that, of course, stopped Lees from blaming the violence on “police brutality meted out to peaceful protesters”. James Dean – who at least exuded existential cool – was a rebel without a cause; Lees is a protester without a pause, vowing, after this week’s riot, to “keep protesting until Palestine is free”.
That tireless outrage would be merely puerile if it wasn’t so consequential. Indignation is, for Lees, not a reaction but an occupation; yet his success in persuading the courts to weaken restrictions on demonstrations is undeniable. And while NSW had to be prodded by the judiciary into indulgence, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has done so willingly – refusing to enforce the Unlawful Assemblies and Processions Act 1958, which could have prevented Melbourne’s descent into chaos.
Underlying the limp-handed responses is a familiar confusion. In an observation the NSW Supreme Court recently cited in Lees v State of New South Wales (2025), which struck down restrictions on demonstrations near places of worship, NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Walton said that “the common law tradition is against the idea that freedom of political communication lies in the gift of the government.” But Justice Walton’s contention simply does not apply to public assembly.
In fact, the presupposition in the common law tradition has always been the opposite. As A. V. Dicey – the great late 19th century English constitutionalist – made clear, “there is no special principle of law allowing A, B, and C to meet in the open air for discussion.” Lord Hewart reaffirmed the point in Duncan v Jones (1936), noting that the common law “does not recognise any special right of public meeting for political or other purposes”, with a slew of Australian courts following suit.
The regulation of public assembly, conceived as a condition-laden privilege rather than an untrammelled right, was viewed as a cornerstone of peaceful democracy. No one expressed that better than Leonard Hobhouse, the author of the vastly influential Liberalism (1911), who praised “the organisation of restraint in the service of freedom”. For Hobhouse, “the orderly presentation of discontent is the very breath of a free society,” yet “the state must prevent the conversion of discussion into tumult, for only in order can discussion bear fruit”.
Far from an “anything goes” philosophy, the conviction was that “the state’s management of protest through legitimate policing is not the negation of freedom but its civilising condition” – a conviction that, until recently, lay at the heart of the liberal tradition of public order. Nor did that conviction undermine representative government; on the contrary, it strengthened it.
That was apparent in the interwar years, when violence – fuelled by and fuelling ever deeper social and political divisions – engulfed Europe.

Then it came, as the old fascist fogey, invoking the Godwin's Law clause to quash public dissent and protest, wheeled out ... Oswald Mosley

Guilt by visual association.

And what of assorted protests that could, would or should disappear under Our Henry's invocation of the fascist smear?

There are any number of listicles, but the pond must keep on with the smearing ...

As street protests spiralled out of control, governments on the continent responded by granting themselves sweeping powers to suppress extremist movements, notably under the Weimar Republic’s Law for the Protection of the Republic (1922) and France’s Law of 10 January 1936. Yet the remedies those laws provided were so draconian that they were rarely implemented – prompting historian Detlev Peukert, in his study of the Weimar collapse, to observe that “the Republic oscillated between impotence and over-reaction: either constitutional scruples paralysed it, or emergency powers hollowed out its legitimacy”.
In contrast, Britain’s Public Order Act (1936) did not proscribe fascism as a belief system or political ideology. It targeted the form in which fascism was practised – its performative, intimidatory and violence-laden modes, epitomised by the Mosleyites’ strategy of parading through Jewish neighbourhoods and staging inflammatory rallies outside synagogues. The act strengthened police powers to restrict or prohibit marches, banned political uniforms, and authorised the suppression of flags and banners likely to incite discord or ­disorder.
As Sir John Simon, the Conservative home secretary, explained when introducing the bill, “The bill is directed not against opinions, however foolish or extreme, but against practices which menace the public peace: it does not touch belief; it deals only with intimidation.” Labour’s Clement Attlee agreed, insisting that “where movements, whether Fascist or Communist, seek to intimidate, it is right that the state should intervene.”
The results were far-reaching. “Without martyring the fascists”, observes historian Martin Pugh, the act “deprived Mosley’s movement of the theatrics that had been central to its appeal”, halting its spread and hastening its marginalisation.
Those effects were noted in Australia, leading Robert Menzies – then federal attorney-general – to ask his department whether similar legislation was needed here. It was not, the department replied, because “the States already possess ample powers to prevent disorderly processions.” And they were not reluctant to use them.

And so to another visual breach of Godwin's Law,  Fascist leader Oswald Mosley inspecting members of the British Union of Fascists outside the Royal Mint in London, 1935.

The old bigot did really jump the shark and nuke the fridge this week, and the pond was pleased when it finally ended ...

The result of that “restrained firmness,” Andrew Moore concludes in his study of the period, was that while Australia developed no Public Order Act, the police and political establishment achieved the same outcome: the disappearance of street militancy by the mid-1930s, without the need to outlaw beliefs. By clamping down on tumult, dissent was channelled into speech, vote, and parliamentary rivalry, replacing harassment and violence by robust political competition.
But those powers have been steadily wound back, and the will to use them has eroded still further. The result is a permissiveness that mistakes liberty for licence – though only for the chosen few, as none are more eager to silence opponents than Josh Lees and his ­Islamist allies. Masquerading as champions of free speech, what they seek is the freedom to prevent others from enjoying the freedoms they claim for themselves.
Yes, Lees is a clown; but as the Islamo-Fascists, emboldened by judicial indulgence, revive Mosley’s old tactics of parading near synagogues, baiting real or presumed “Zios”, and attacking Jewish targets, the crippling of legal protections is no laughing matter. It marks the point where liberty, unmoored from order, begins to demolish its own foundations – and with them, the Australia it once defended and sustained. 

Phew, he really is finely attuned to fascism, or perhaps other one party states offering "restrained firmness", or as in Vlad the sociopath's regime, a timely ability to use windows for the odd defenestration.

And now it's time to lift the spirits and cleanse the palate by closing with the immortal Rowe ...