HagarBush

Just hanging and occasionally caustic.

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Every single point I made in my NIH lecture on Covid origins is now confirmed as accurate and relevant by the revelation that in private the scientists tasked with investigating the issue thought the same.

[Nielsen @Nielsen_zen]

De sidste 5 års terror angreb i EU:
2021 - Islam 3 - Venstre 1 - Højre 0
2022 - Islam 2 - Venstre 13 - Højre 1
2023 - Islam 5 - Venstre 23 - Højre 0
2024 - Islam 6 - Venstre 17 - Højre 1
2025 - Islam 9 - Venstre 11 - Højre 1

Scorecard:
Islam - 25
Venstre - 65
Højre - 3

Men husk nu det er højrefløjs-terror vi skal fokusere på.

[Old Soldier @OMGTheMess]

Oh dear
Spin that Jim!

[Peter Lyndon-James @PeterPerthWA]

THE LABOR MONEY LOOP.

Let me show you how the loop works. Every figure here is from the AEC register.

Step one. The unions donate directly to Labor. The CFMEU has given Labor $2,788,155 across its various divisions. The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union: $2,861,140. The Electrical Trades Union: $2,044,650. The Australian Workers Union: $988,191. Total union direct donations to Labor across all years in the primary data: $18,457,271.

Step two. Labor wins government. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, a Labor-controlled ministry, paid the ACTU $10,577,005 in 2024-25. In 2023-24 it paid them $6,465,199. The Department of Industry paid them another $963,998 in 2024-25. Total government payments to the ACTU across all years in the register: $20,790,026.

Step three. The ACTU spends the money on elections. In 2024-25 the ACTU spent $5,425,881 on electoral expenditure. In 2018-19, the year Labor needed to win, the ACTU spent $20,808,774 on electoral campaigns. Total ACTU electoral expenditure across all years, $34,345,497.

The unions fund Labor. Labor funds the ACTU. The ACTU campaigns to re-elect Labor. The government then funds the ACTU again.

Now I’ll carry the other argument, because that’s how I do things. The government payments to the ACTU are for legitimate workplace relations services, safety programs, Fair Work representation, training. The electoral spending comes from member fees, not government grants. These are legally separate streams and the ACTU is not the only organisation that receives government contracts while also engaging in advocacy.

But here is the structural question the data raises.

The same organisation that receives $10.5 million from a Labor government in one year spends $5.4 million backing Labor’s re-election in the same year. No individual needs to pick up a phone. No instruction needs to be given. The incentive structure does the work automatically.

And the unions that built the financial pipeline to Labor in the first place have donated $18.4 million directly to the party across the full dataset.

This is not a conspiracy. It is a financial architecture. It is in the public register. And it has been operating for decades.

None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.

Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong.

What’s your thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

Sources:
AEC Transparency Register, Donations_Made.csv — union donations to Labor, all years; Detailed_Discretionary_Benefits.csv — government payments to ACTU all years; Significant_Third_Party_Returns.csv — ACTU electoral expenditure all years. Total government payments to ACTU: $20,790,026. Total union direct donations to Labor: $18,457,271. Total ACTU electoral expenditure: $34,345,497. All figures computed 25 July 2026 from primary data.

[HagarBush @BushHagar]

@JacintaAllanMP How about dodgy trade unions?

[HagarBush @BushHagar]

@campbellclaret He isn’t wrong though

[Charles Haig @charles_haig01]

The fact the PM met to procure donations from the son of a foreign money launderer should have substantially more coverage.

The subtext also raises questions about how much property in Australia has been acquired by money laundering schemes for foreigners and criminal groups.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

In April, Albo warned Australians about misinformation flooding their phones.

He didn't mention his govt was already paying wage subsidies to 2 of the networks he named as trustworthy.

Or part-paying the wages of over 2,000 journalists nationwide.

Here are the receipts 🧵

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

My committee combed through millions of COVID documents, and what did we find?

Anthony Fauci destroyed records. He told others to delete emails. And then he told them to delete them from deleted files.

He and his allies privately doubted the "implausible" line on a lab leak while publicly attacking anyone who raised it.

And he never took responsibility for funding dangerous research in China.

Next week, Dr. Fauci goes under oath in front of my committee, and he’s going to answer for everything we’ve found.

[David Ansara @DavidAnsara]

“The real reason why, despite all the ANC’s averrals, African nationalism in South Africa has taken an almost exactly similar course as it did in the rest of the continent is that once in power it is driven by the same politically dominant class, the bureaucratic bourgeoisie.

Moreover, the explosive factor that drives them far off course is also the same, the almost irresistible (and apparently bottomless) appetite of that class for primary accumulation.

The fundamental problem, of course, is that a bureaucratic bourgeoisie is not productive in the way that a commercial and industrial (or even agricultural) middle class is. Because it does not itself generate wealth, it is inevitably parasitic and can achieve its goals only through patronage and corruption.”

~ RW Johnson, 'Fighting for the Dream' (2019)

[David Ansara @DavidAnsara]

"The big question about ANC rule was whether African nationalism which had elsewhere conquered only poorer agrarian economies and societies would be able to cope with the challenges of running a modern industrial economy.

Twenty years of ANC rule have shown conclusively that the party is hopelessly ill-equipped for this task. Indeed, everything suggests that South Africa under the ANC is fast slipping backward and that even the survival of South Africa as a unitary state cannot be taken for granted.

The fundamental reason why the question of regime change has to be posed is that it is now clear that South Africa can either choose to have an ANC government or it can have a modern industrial economy. It cannot have both.”

~ RW Johnson, 'How Long Can South Africa Survive? The looming crisis' (2015)

[Casey Krol @CaseyKrol]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 1,730 mosques
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 0 churches

This is what suicidal empathy looks like.

[HagarBush @BushHagar]

@haribaldijones I am at a loss how Kiss got the job but I wish him luck

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked memo reveals police were told NOT to arrest violent BLM rioters, even for assaulting officers or smashing statues, because it might “trigger” them.

Police also warned about "increased tensions when interacting with the BAME community".
https://t.co/0IDpvkXVU8

[Sandy Lanceley @sandylanceley]

Burn it all down. This has absolutely done me in.

Members of Victoria’s “first people’s assembly” are paid $200,000 per year for what is only an advisory body. There are 34 people on it!

This is basically the same salary as a Victorian MP who has legislative responsibilities

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

Anthony Albanese flew into Adelaide yesterday for the Labor conference using the VIP RAAF jet in clear breach of the rules.

The jet is to be used for parliamentary business only.

A Labor conference is not parliamentary business.

Now look what Albanese has gone and done. He's blocked us from tracking the taxpayer funded jet.

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

Minister Chris Bowen is now referring to himself as President of the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (UNFCCC)

Tonight, It was uncovered that Bowen is paying activist to join him on overseas trips. $20,000 per person, to act as Bowen's private cheerleader.

[HagarBush @BushHagar]

@Keir_Starmer More gaslighting delusional by nonsense. Good riddance

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Why are our Government officials allowed to lie like this and not face any scrutiny from the media ?

Zero charges, zero threat. Huge lie.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Keir Starmer used his last act as Prime Minister to promote a man to the House of Lords who did everything he could to cover up the mass rape of children across London

You don't hate these people enough