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The definition of fair weather fans right here. Let’s see what else drops off the “Dynasty”!
MeowMix, a popular Panthers podcast that started in 2019, is shutting down indefinitely due to the team's poor performance 🥀
The podcast announced they can no longer 'justify' the time spent away from their wives and children on Sundays
(Via @MeowMixPodcast)
MirkyMark retweeted
Support for the most radical censorship bill in the West is 100% fake, paid for by the corrupt @AlboMP and his billionaire backer, Twiggy Forrest, who takes hundreds of millions a year of taxpayer money. They’re desperate to censor critics who correctly point out that their policies put the financial interests of China ahead of the security and prosperity of the Australian people.
MirkyMark retweeted
Anthony Albanese has done something no Australian prime minister has ever done before.
He's taken a free trade agreement — a document that is supposed to be about buying and selling — and he's stuffed it full of climate ideology until it's barely recognisable as trade at all.
This isn't a free trade deal. It's a climate agreement wearing a trade deal as a disguise.
Here's what his own government's documents admit. DFAT published a paper titled "Benefits for Trade, Environment and Climate," and buried in it is this line: for the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia has made a binding commitment to implement the obligations under the Paris Agreement.
Not a reference. Not a nod. A binding commitment. And the same document says the agreement can be suspended over serious violations of climate obligations.
So if a future Australian government — any government, Labor or Liberal — decides the Paris targets are too expensive, too punishing, too destructive to our economy, Europe can drag us before a dispute panel and suspend the deal. That's not sovereignty. That's a leash.
And Albanese knows exactly what he's doing. Ursula von der Leyen stood in our own Parliament and said she was proud to have made decarbonisation a defining pillar of this agreement. A defining pillar. In a trade deal. The woman running Europe didn't hide it. She celebrated it. And our Prime Minister sat there and smiled.
Now let's talk about what these targets actually mean for ordinary Australians. The 2030 target is a forty-three percent cut below two thousand and five levels. The Climate Change Authority itself admits emissions need to more than double their current rate of reduction to get there in four years.
The Institute of Public Affairs ran the numbers and found that meeting the twenty thirty-five target of sixty-two to seventy percent would require the equivalent of a two hundred and ninety billion dollar tax burden over a decade. That's not a rounding error. That's a generation of wealth confiscated in the name of a theory that Europe itself is quietly walking back as its own industries collapse.
And here's the kicker that should make every Australian furious. The European Union has told us point blank — once negotiations are done, they're done.
Don Farrell repeated it. There is no reopening. There is no amendment. Whatever is written in that text is written in stone, and it binds not just Albanese but every prime minister who comes after him.
This is a man who can't win a debate on climate policy at the ballot box, so he's outsourcing it to Brussels.
He's taking the most contentious, most divisive policy in Australian politics and locking it into an international treaty so that even if the people vote him out, the ideology survives him. That's not governance. That's entrenchment.
Why is any of this in a trade deal in the first place? Because the far left has learned that you can't sell climate destruction directly to voters, so you smuggle it in through the back door of agreements nobody reads.
You attach it to something people want — cheaper wine, more beef exports — and hope they don't notice the poison pill. And when the Coalition objects, Albanese calls them nativist and protectionist. He turns legitimate sovereignty concerns into a culture war so he doesn't have to answer the actual question: why should a future elected Australian government be unable to change its own energy policy without asking permission from Europe?
But before we get to the treaty, let's look at what the green agenda has already done to this country on its own. Because the damage isn't theoretical. It's on every power bill in Australia right now.
Household electricity bills are up thirty-five percent since the start of twenty twenty-two. Gas is up forty-nine percent.
MirkyMark retweeted
Look at Andrew Clennell threatening One Nation. Asking if Pauline has pulled her cartoons. The answer was NO so look how he carried on. This is the media. This is what they do. I am thankful we have social media. The legacy media is dead. Andrew is the bloke that hounded the NSW premier enforce mask mandates and lockdowns. I have included the video of him begging for lockdowns.
MirkyMark retweeted
How is @shellenberger doing better work on Australian affairs, than most Australian Journalists based in Australia?
Taxpayers gave mining titan Twiggy Forrest's Fortescu A$308M in energy subsidies in 2025 alone, plus A$99M for an H2 project he abandoned. In exchange, Forrest gave millions for propaganda to pass @AlboMP government's censorship bill. It's a transparent, sinister quid pro quo.
MirkyMark retweeted
An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni @mscott
Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice
Dear Professor Scott,
I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
You cannot be serious.
You are quoted as saying:
"Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other."
Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic.
My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government.
While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage.
At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live.
People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later.
Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure.
Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking.
I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable.
And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was.
Kind? For whom?
Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods.
And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support.
The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified.
The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings.
While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive.
Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand.
We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on.
Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them.
And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion?
It is sickening.
Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment?
Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them?
Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand?
I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause.
Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences.
I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do...
But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price.
We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up.
Some of those people will never recover what they lost.
And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy.
What an absolute disgrace.
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, Voices for Freedom
New Zealand
Interesting @brivael The Australian data since this current government is 2022 is reflective of the path we are on.
L'argument de la Chine, c'est l'argument de tous les collectivistes abrutis dès qu'il s'agit de justifier leur délire.
Alors parlons-en, de la Chine.
Le collectivisme chinois communiste, on l'a déjà essayé. Ça s'appelle la période maoïste.
Le Grand Bond en avant, de 1958 à 1962. Les terres sont collectivisées de force et les paysans regroupés dans des communes populaires. On les arrache aux champs pour fondre leurs casseroles dans des hauts-fourneaux de jardin. Les cadres gonflent les chiffres des récoltes pour plaire au Parti, et pendant ce temps l'État réquisitionne le grain. Résultat : la pire famine de l'histoire humaine, avec 30 à 45 millions de morts selon les historiens.
Ensuite, la Révolution culturelle, de 1966 à 1976. Purges, humiliations publiques, intellectuels déportés à la campagne, enfants qui dénoncent leurs parents, universités fermées pendant des années. Encore 1 à 2 millions de morts, et des dizaines de millions de vies brisées.
Voilà le bilan du collectivisme chinois. Ce n'est pas une théorie, ce sont des cadavres.
Et qu'a fait la Chine ensuite ? Elle a tourné le dos à tout ça. En 1978, Deng Xiaoping ouvre le pays au marché : propriété privée, zones économiques spéciales, investissements étrangers. Shenzhen passe du village de pêcheurs à une métropole de plus de 17 millions d'habitants. Environ 800 millions de personnes sortent de l'extrême pauvreté.
Aujourd'hui, sur bien des aspects, la Chine est économiquement plus capitaliste que les États-Unis. Les dépenses publiques y pèsent 33 % du PIB, contre 37,6 % aux USA. En France, on est à 57,2 %, c'est-à-dire plus que l'URSS en 1990.
Et l'entrepreneuriat là-bas, c'est d'une violence que tu n'imagines même pas. Des guerres des prix qui rasent des secteurs entiers en six mois. Des boîtes qui itèrent à une vitesse délirante. Des fondateurs qui bossent en 996. Ils ont compris comment on monte des boîtes. BYD, DeepSeek, Shein, Temu : aucune de ces entreprises n'est née d'un contre-budget inspiré d'économistes hétérodoxes.
Donc Jean-Luc, désolé, mais on n'est plus au XXe siècle. Tu vas pouvoir arrêter ta propagande et arrêter de bourrer le crâne de tout le monde.
Voilà la réalité : tu nous fais honte, et tu es une espèce d'ordure qui ment à absolument tout le monde.
The Fly Dubai terrorist was radicalised in Australia, at RMIT in Victoria, his confession reveals!
Now we know: FZ1073’s Omani co-pilot was radicalised in Australia, consumed extremist material, had links to a Muslim Brotherhood-linked centre in Melbourne, trained in boxing, and was inspired by 9/11. The investigation continues. This is UAE transparency, and it should be celebrated by the world: facts released, evidence followed, justice above all.
God bless the Flydubai Indian pilot, crew, and Israeli passengers who stopped this terrorist attack.
🚨 FZ1073 INVESTIGATION UPDATE
Investigations being conducted by the UAE Public Prosecution found:
• The 29-year-old Omani co-pilot allegedly attempted to seize control of FZ1073 and use the aircraft in a suicide attack on the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, intending to cause maximum casualties.
• Investigators traced his turn toward extremist ideology to 2017 while studying in Australia, where he consumed extremist publications and online content glorifying terrorism and suicide attacks.
• According to his confession, he became inspired by the 9/11 attacks and developed the idea of carrying out a similar attack using an aircraft—something he said influenced his decision to pursue aviation.
• His aviation career included Oman Air (2020–2024), Royal Air Maroc (2025), and Flydubai from January 2026.
• While studying in Melbourne, he attended an RMIT-affiliated mosque and became acquainted with people running MyCentre, which he claimed was supported by an association linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
• He allegedly prepared himself psychologically and physically by consuming terrorism-inciting material and undergoing private boxing training.
• Investigators found that he used two previous flights to Tel Aviv to reconnoitre the route and airport before attempting to execute his plan on his third flight on 30 September 2026.
• His Flydubai recruitment procedures were also examined. He had satisfied the required professional and security checks, with no indication at the time of extremist views or terrorist intent.
• During FZ1073, he allegedly attacked the captain inside the cockpit with an emergency crash axe, targeting his head.
• A return-flight captain, who happened to be onboard, noticed unusual activity around the cockpit, gained entry, and—with a cabin crew member and passengers—helped rescue the injured captain and subdue the accused.
• The return-flight captain and his co-pilot then regained control, diverted FZ1073 and landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
• In the presence of his lawyer, the accused gave a detailed confession and claimed he acted alone.
• The UAE Public Prosecution is still investigating whether there were accomplices or other connections and continues examining recordings, technical reports and other evidence.
The investigation continues.
And this idea is playing out across the west
Après toutes ces vagues d’immigration en Espagne, je vais vous expliquer par A + B pourquoi une partie de la gauche a structurellement besoin de flux continus d’arrivées irrégulières pour rester au pouvoir.
A. Un immigrant qui vient d’arriver via le Maroc, interviewé dans la rue par Nate Friedman, répond sans détour : une fois papiers obtenus, il votera socialiste toute sa vie. Pas par idéologie profonde. Par rationalité simple : le parti qui régularise, qui donne accès aux aides, qui parle « droits », devient le clientèle naturelle.
B. Les électeurs natifs, eux, commencent à voir le coût (logement, écoles, sécurité, cohésion).
L’IA accélère brutalement cette prise de conscience. Les narratifs émotionnels qui ont fonctionné pendant 40-50 ans (division, victimisation permanente, « si tu critiques tu es méchant ») perdent de leur puissance quand tout le monde peut croiser les données en deux clics.
Résultat mécanique : plus les gens comprennent le deal, plus il faut importer de nouveaux électeurs fidèles pour compenser ceux qui partent. C’est de l’arithmétique électorale pure. On l’a vu aux États-Unis malgré la victoire de Trump. On le voit en train de se rejouer en Europe.
Ce n’est pas une question de « haine des étrangers ». La plupart des gens qui arrivent réagissent rationnellement aux incentives qu’on leur met sous le nez. Le vrai problème, c’est l’idée politique qui transforme l’immigration en machine à clientèle permanente plutôt qu’en processus d’intégration exigeant et sélectif.
Les mauvaises idées ne détruisent pas seulement les sociétés. Elles finissent par détruire d’abord ceux qui les portent : la confiance s’érode, la polarisation explose, les crises s’enchaînent.
Si les peuples européens ne reprennent pas le contrôle de cette dynamique très vite, on se dirige vers des sociétés de plus en plus fragmentées, à basse confiance, où la seule collure qui reste est la redistribution clientéliste.
L’histoire montre que ce genre de trajectoire ne se termine rarement bien.
Mais on n’est pas condamnés. L’IA retire les piliers de l’opacité. X retire le monopole narratif. La reconversion est toujours possible.
Le 21e siècle appartiendra à ceux qui construisent des sociétés à haute confiance, pas à ceux qui diluent sans cesse le capital social pour sauver un pouvoir.
À nous de choisir.
MirkyMark retweeted
We are about to see a bunch of adverts telling us to “gamble responsibly”, and then State Of Origin 2 will be refereed by a self reported problem gambler.
What a time to be alive….
#RugbyLeague #NRL
This is true. And in Aus this view is represented in our prime minister, Albanese, and treasurer, Chalmers.
We have further to fall before we hit bottom.
For the record.
SpaceX, Hayek, and the Progressive War on Wealth Creation
The progressive left clings to the fantasy that wealth is manufactured by the state and its pet technocrats rather than by entrepreneurs who risk their own capital to create real value.
In their mythology, government planners are the heroic “designers” of prosperity, while the private sector is a problem to be taxed, regulated, and morally lectured. As Hayek warned, “the more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual,” and progressives are determined to make individual planning all but impossible.
Their entire project rests on a basic fraud, confusing redistribution with creation. Social-democratic and socialist progressives boast about “fairness” and “equity,” but their toolkit is nothing more than confiscation and reallocation, slicing the same pie thinner while pretending they’ve baked a new one.
Hayek’s point that “there is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal” goes straight over their heads, they weaponize the latter to justify endless expropriation from those who actually produce.
The manufactured outrage on the progressive left over the SpaceX IPO is not about fraud, abuse, or failure, it is about their ongoing indoctrination campaign to portray success, risk-taking, and genuine wealth creation as moral crimes. A private company goes from “10 percent chance of success” to one of the most valuable enterprises on earth, and their instinctive response is not admiration or curiosity, but rage that such achievement is even allowed to exist. They see Elon Musk’s trillionaire status not as the byproduct of extraordinary innovation and execution, but as a kind of cosmic theft that must be punished by the tax state.
This is entirely consistent with the broader progressive project, socialize resentment, demonize entrepreneurial gains, and condition the public to believe that any concentration of wealth outside the state is inherently illegitimate. Hayek saw this coming decades ago when he warned that central planning steadily erodes the scope for individual initiative, because the logical end of their ideology is a public that no longer dares to think in terms of independent ambition or long-term wealth building. Progressive leaders feed this mindset daily, insisting that “rigged” markets and “oligarchs” are the problem, while cleverly leaving the state, and its favored constituencies, as the only acceptable repositories of power and resources.
Their reaction to SpaceX is a case study in this pathology. A company that has slashed launch costs, expanded human access to space, and built critical strategic infrastructure is reduced in their rhetoric to a symbol of “inequality” and “greed,” precisely because it exposes how much more effective decentralized, risk-taking capital can be than bureaucratic planning. The message encoded in their fury is clear, do not build, do not risk, do not aspire, unless it is under the watchful, confiscatory eye of the state.
$SPCX
Sad but true!
If Space X was Australian every single one of those employees would be taxed at 47%! Their reward for taking the risk and the effort to becoming successful!
Fortunately for them they aren’t in Australia.
The Australian Labor Gov thinks it’s their right to this money! 47% of $2T certainly pays off their $1T debt bill pretty quickly!
Unfortunately for them Australia will never have a Space X and the gov will miss out of 23.5% of any CGT that would have come in to pay off the debt!
Time to leave Australia any aspiring entrepreneurs
@GeoffWilsonWAM
100% accurate. Min wage earner is in 30% tax bracket. Just what Albanese wants. Keeps us all working for the government.
Australia’s new minimum wage is $26.44 an hour. A full-time worker earning the legal minimum now falls into the middle income tax bracket. Bracket creep has reached the point where minimum wage workers are being taxed as “middle income”.
It isn’t easy under Albanese.
#auspol
MirkyMark retweeted
Broncos Round 13 2026
11th - 5 wins 7 losses
Broncos Round 13 2025
11th - 5 wins 7 losses
Time for a harbour cruise Bomber @badel_cmail
MirkyMark retweeted
This is crazy: the federal government is using all the NDIS savings and almost all the NDIS savings + tax increases to pay itself due to a massive $19.6 billion cost blow-out on the bureaucracy over the next four years compared to forecasts in last year’s budget.
Put another way, over the four overlapping Budget years from 2025–26 to 2028–29, the government has increased the cost of running the bureaucracy by $19.6bn — enough to consume virtually all (99%) of the $19.8bn in NDIS savings it claims, 93% of those savings plus its negative-gearing/CGT tax grab, and 14.5 times the property/investor tax increase itself...
"The average staffing level increases from 215,900 this year to 217,300 in 2026-27. Since the Albanese government came to power in 2022, the size of the public service has ballooned by a quarter."
afr.com/policy/economy/publi…
MirkyMark retweeted
Hey Jim & Albo,
Keep your hands off my business.
You weren’t there for the sleepless nights, the stress, the risk, or the moments where everything was on the line.
I built this in the dark.
You don’t get to show up at the finish line with your hand out.
Not one cent.
You didn’t build it.
You didn’t back it.
You’re not entitled to it.
Get fucked.
