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Top Ender
Top Ender
August 31, 2022 9:49 pm

Detention for all:

An elite Sydney private school has suspended students after child abuse, racist, sexist and homo­phobic material was shared in a private chat room.

Knox Grammar is investigating and moved to reassure parents on Wednesday as detectives from the NSW police Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad reviewed the material.

Some students have left the school, which charges up to $35,000 in annual fees, after the group Gang Gang on messaging app Discord was uncovered.

Students from the school were involved in setting up the chat group, The Daily Telegraph reports, and the material shared included videos appearing to show the rape of young men.

There were also comments about wanting to be a pedophile and raping children and account names included N…er Removal Service and F…otthater3000.

Knox Grammar headmaster Scott James sent a letter to parents on Wednesday saying there had been a range of disciplinary messages depending on what each boy had posted. “In regard to the images, some were taken during school activities and later doctored; the school has spoken with all families of identifiable students,” he said.

Oz

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 31, 2022 9:49 pm

So flicking through the channels and land on a quiz show, called Win The Week. Standard fare, except a face looked familiar. Press button for information about the guests, and blow me down with a very faint zephyr, Grace Tame is participating.
Every bit as ugly as you imagine, if she smiled, her face would crack into a million pieces. Hosted by a POC.
Bring back Tony Barber, Baby John Burgess with Adriana Xenides.

MatrixTransform
August 31, 2022 9:49 pm

Physical cash can probably be tracked fairly easily now

hah!
ive had the same lobster in my wallet for 3 months !!
catch me if you can

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 31, 2022 9:50 pm

On the ABC I failed to mention

Frank
Frank
August 31, 2022 9:51 pm

Pity Munty’s commode. Nasty.

Zipster
August 31, 2022 9:54 pm

the dna of wokeism is pure communism.

wokeism takes the notion of hegelian dialectic to its ultimate conclusion. its worldview is one of purification of everything wrong with the world towards the shining light of an enlightened techno utopia.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 31, 2022 9:54 pm

Checked out The Thief, his Wife, and the Canoe last night.

Bloke is a UK prison warder, but has a sideline buying and renting out houses. Gets in over his head, and decides to “go canoeing” in the North Sea, and disappear.

Dot
Dot
August 31, 2022 9:54 pm

Knox Grammar headmaster Scott James sent a letter to parents on Wednesday saying there had been a range of disciplinary messages depending on what each boy had posted. “In regard to the images, some were taken during school activities and later doctored; the school has spoken with all families of identifiable students,” he said.

Parody is illegal.

YOU. ARE. NOT. ALLOWED. TO. HAVE. A. SENSE. OF. HUMOUR. IN. MODERN. AUSTRALIA!

YOU. WILL. BE. TONE. POLICED!

Frank
Frank
August 31, 2022 9:56 pm

I’ve never seen Grace Tame outside of print. Does she manage to hold her own when she speaks or is it one of those feed her cues to recite the lines affairs?

Dot
Dot
August 31, 2022 9:57 pm

I really want to know why Knox Grammar thinks it can police what is put on a private chat server.

Fucking idiots.

Are they trying to redeem iDubbz as the Content Cop???

Zipster
August 31, 2022 9:57 pm

Microdots can be fairly cheaply produced now, the best way to not be debanked is crypto currency and not a stupid one like government coin, Fed coin or Doge.

with an ip for life you can be basically expelled from every aspect of society, including the ability to earn and spend money. without access to the internet, crypto is useless.

Arky
August 31, 2022 9:58 pm

Wally Dalí says:
August 31, 2022 at 9:38 pm
and be the TA/gopher yourself

..
I always do that.
But you have to know them and build up a relationship.
Don’t shop around for each job.
Have a bloke and stick with him throughout the years.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 31, 2022 9:59 pm

I’ve never seen Grace Tame outside of print.

Has anyone seen Grace Tame and Greta Thunberg together, in the same room?

Dot
Dot
August 31, 2022 9:59 pm

IP for life is incredibly draconian bollocks, but you don’t *really* need an IP either.

rickw
rickw
August 31, 2022 10:01 pm

see if they’re game enough to send the police to these farms to shoot the cattle the government deems to be excessive.

The Stasi shooting cattle would be great social media content. Potent down the track when people a hungry.

Arky
August 31, 2022 10:01 pm

Pay cash and always round it up to the nearest fifty.
They like to hide it from the missus as much as the government.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 31, 2022 10:06 pm

I’ve never seen Grace Tame outside of print. Does she manage to hold her own when she speaks or is it one of those feed her cues to recite the lines affairs?

Very wooden, not unlike Pinnochio’s sister. Lies, people pulling strings. A hopeless performance unless scripted.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 31, 2022 10:07 pm

Close italics!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 31, 2022 10:09 pm

Pay cash and always round it up to the nearest fifty.

“When we had the farm” – pay cash, and throw in a trailer load of firewood.

MatrixTransform
August 31, 2022 10:10 pm

IP for life

Im sure its all cRaZy TaLk

but it is fascinating to think that you could be bit-masked outta places simply by the address you have.

no backed server required or packet inspection

you know … same way how routing already works

Zipster
August 31, 2022 10:12 pm

IP for life is incredibly draconian bollocks, but you don’t *really* need an IP either.

the chinese already have this proposal and were trying to convince others to take it up. what it will become is a universal id that becomes your access to everything. and simplified monitoring of all your activities. without one you’ll be in the streets begging for food.

MatrixTransform
August 31, 2022 10:13 pm

Pay cash and always round it up to the nearest fifty

won’t work for me … missus rounds in hundreds

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 31, 2022 10:17 pm

“Grace can do well in her Drama course but needs to develop creativity.”

Zipster
August 31, 2022 10:18 pm

Inside China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet
Huawei is developing the technology for a new network. But what does this mean for the rights of users?

Whereas today’s internet is owned by everyone and no one, they were in the process of building something very different — a new infrastructure that could put power back in the hands of nation states, instead of individuals.

The team who had masterminded the New IP (internet protocol) proposal was from the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which had sent the largest delegation of any company to the September meeting.

The idea was to illustrate that the current internet is a relic that has reached the limits of its technical prowess. It was time, Huawei proposed, for a new global network with a top-down design, and the Chinese should be the ones to build it.

“Of course [China] want a technological infrastructure that gives them the absolute control which they have achieved politically, a design that matches the totalitarian impulse,’’ says Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and a social scientist at Harvard University. “So that is frightening to me and it should be frightening to every single person.”

Zipster
August 31, 2022 10:19 pm

The New IP presentation paints a picture of a digital world in 2030 where virtual reality, holographic communication and remote surgery are ubiquitous — and for which our current network is unfit. Traditional IP protocol is described as “unstable” and “vastly insufficient”, with “lots of security, reliability and configuration problems”.

The documents suggest a new network should instead have a “top-to-bottom design” and promote data-sharing schemes across governments “thereby serving AI, Big Data and all kinds of other applications”. Many experts fear that under New IP, internet service providers, usually state-owned, would have control and oversight of every device connected to the network and be able to monitor and gate individual access.

Arky
August 31, 2022 10:20 pm

won’t work for me … missus rounds in hundreds

..
You’re not thinking straight.
$50 that your missus doesn’t know about is worth $200 that she does.

MatrixTransform
August 31, 2022 10:22 pm

$50 that your missus doesn’t know about is worth $200 that she does.

maybe true but doesn’t matter

she already spent both

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 31, 2022 10:25 pm

“Grace can do well in her Drama course but needs to develop creativity.”

I just see a bright future, along with Brittany Higgins, as Greens politicians.

Indolent
Indolent
August 31, 2022 10:38 pm

Putin isn’t “standing up” to Biden and Obama, they’re his allies.

If this is so, then the whole war is nothing but a charade to weaken the West. I don’t think this is the case. Putin might be ex-KGB but, he is also a Russian patriot. I do believe that Obama and co. wanted war and did everything they could to provoke it. Just think of all those billions pouring into Ukraine and how many pockets it’s going into. Just another way to bilk the West. But, believe it or not, Russia seems to be the only country at the moment seriously holding out against the NWO, which explains why they are so desperate to win – and to cover up the putrid corruption in Ukraine, of course.

I have lost all respect for America and other Western governments which have sold their people out. If Putin gives them a black eye then all power to him. The pushback has to come from somewhere. There are no heroes in this game.

Indolent
Indolent
August 31, 2022 10:41 pm

If you think disloyal, envious and unwise people are allied to evil foreign powers with a destructive ideology, if they are capable of enslaving you, assuming they’re stupid (as opposed to unwise) is quite a heroic assumption.

Perhaps not so heroic as you think.

Louis Litt
August 31, 2022 10:50 pm

Bless you Mr Gorbochov.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

dover0beach says: August 31, 2022 at 10:25 pm

Hard to believe that the capital city of Mississippi, Jackson, is without running water at the moment. Residents are literally lining up for water.

What is the cause of this?
The only reports I could find were either CNN or NPR.
Lots of mention by both of various elected civic officials. The total & complete lack of bracketed party affiliation eg, (D) or (R) after the names pretty much reveals who is at fault.
No mention of the cause of the problem – which is an answer in itself.

ffs, 21 century American cities & they’re reduced to handing out bottles of water, & manage to stuff up even that.

Dot
Dot
August 31, 2022 11:03 pm

If this is so, then the whole war is nothing but a charade to weaken the West.

Obama made comments to Putin’s surrogate, Medvedev about being more flexible after the (2012) election.

The Russiagate claims aimed at Trump were pure projection.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
August 31, 2022 11:05 pm

Dover, Jackson Hole pays…

MatrixTransform
August 31, 2022 11:09 pm

the problem with being a sparky is that the stuff you install lasts for 50 years
doesnt break down
and it isnt a major capex or write-off

better off being a painter

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 31, 2022 11:16 pm

What is the cause of this (no running water in Jackson)?
Crumbling infrastructure.
Democrat mayors since 1997.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:39 pm

Picked a good day to fly Sydney-Perth. Train and bus strikes in Sydney to add to the morning traffic plus a late taxi.

Nonetheless the security queue wasn’t as fucked up as last time so we got to the lounge with plenty of time to spare. Only one loudmouthed wanker yapping on his phone but that was enough-

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:40 pm

Only one loudmouthed wanker yapping on his phone but that was enough-

Just chillin in the lounge bro…
Yeah bro..sounds great bro…
Bro I tell you the sound’s, what’s the word bro? really rich bro, yeah that’s it bro…..

And so on ad nauseum bro this and bro fucking that

I took a good look at him, sort of a fat Rolf Harris,spectacles,beard and all.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:45 pm

I can’t post the whole comment so I’m having to post in parts to see what is causing the error. It is the last part so I’ll break that up as well.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:46 pm

Picked up a hire car in Perth which turned out to be a Chinese LDV SUV, sort of a soft, spongy celestial version of the Landcruiser with some weird hieroglyphics on the steering wheel.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:46 pm

It’s the first time I have had to read a hire car manual to work out some of the functions and even now I have no idea what a button marked with 2 crossed swords over a clock does.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:49 pm

All sections post OK except the last sentence. ‘Next stop drive Mr Spongy to Albany for a few days to visit relatives then on to Margaret River.’

calli
calli
August 31, 2022 11:52 pm

My first impression was correct. In Amsterdam, at least, Covid is OVER.

The testing station on Damrak looks forlorn, milling crowds from Central up to the Rijksmuseum and beyond. A few MIMs (Mongs in Masks) in the museum – I should have spoken to them to confirm my suspicion that London to a Brick they were Aussies.

They’re digging up one of the main roads in central Amsterdam – the Niewejdis Voorburgwahl – the reason being the heavy traffic making everything sink. It’s sand underneath and it’s all collapsing. And, on traffic, many…many ICE vehicles. Good luck with going all electric here.

Australia is being conned. Bigtime.

Harlequin Decline
August 31, 2022 11:52 pm

The last sentence wouldn’t post but if I add a few words in front and put it in quotes as above it’s OK.

Beats me what the problem is.

calli
calli
August 31, 2022 11:59 pm

All the guys on the Night Watch send their regards – looking as wonderful as ever, despite their age.

It has been restored since last I saw it – turns out all the pits and bubbles were the result of inadequate/poor stretching of the canvas.

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 1:13 am

Australia is being conned. Bigtime.

You can only con stupid and gullible people.

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 1:28 am

Newsom’s in-laws donate to DeSantis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svMLmcghVEs

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 1:48 am

Japanese WWII combat boot dissection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vkmJz5fTw0

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 3:43 am

Physical cash can probably be tracked fairly easily now.

Yes.
Amazing how cheap & accurate bill reading is now.

calli
calli
September 1, 2022 3:44 am

You can only con stupid and gullible people.

I think there’s a third category – the trusting. We have a high trust society which is a precious thing – watch it erode.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 4:16 am
Johnny Rotten
September 1, 2022 4:32 am

Whoops !!!! I hit the “Report comment” for Tom’s Chip Bok cartoon by accident. My apologies.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2022 5:27 am

Caught two trams up and down Elizabeth St in Melb CBD last light- chock-a-block and hardly any masks. Good to see.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2022 5:28 am

I think there’s a third category – the trusting. We have a high trust society which is a precious thing – watch it erode.

with vile untrustworthy politicians

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2022 5:31 am

Keep the reports coming Calli- enjoy reading them. Thanks.

bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 5:34 am

chrislsays:
August 31, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Matrix Transformation
How long did it take ?
Two hours

You got ripped off. Iv changed all my power points.

bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 5:48 am

Still some masketeers around my way, milton. Including school kids.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 6:19 am
bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 6:26 am

“You have got to get a job, you have got to do something productive with your time. I’ve got no idea what I’ll end up doing at the moment but you have got to do something.”

I know a few ex inmates trying to do that and some have succeeded.

Goodluck to him.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 6:36 am

Buhler?
The Victorian totalitarian politburo has decided to drop the charge against Mrs. Buhler, who was arrested in front of her family for posting a Facebook comment in support of a protest against lockdowns.
The Libs should do an election advert based on this and other atrocities and make Dan pay for his awful mismanagement.
But they have lost their balls and don’t know where to get another set.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 1, 2022 6:39 am

Interesting chat on Unheard with Wolfgang Streek on the end of “imperial” Germany, ie it’s current predicament.
https://youtu.be/mUYrsA4sJeE

Reading between the lines he seems to imply that the purpose of the war in Ukraine, from the US PoV is to deliberately weaken Europe to make Europe more dependant on it.

The only problem is the current US govt (admin and legislature) is so incompetent they have weakened themselves.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 6:42 am

Thanks Tom. Great work by Leak, another wipeout by Ramirez.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 6:47 am

Big Tech sinks to the level of old Soviet newspapers Izvestia and Pravda.
Gateway Pundit

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 6:52 am

California urges people to avoid charging their electric cars due to shortage of power in that state.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 6:53 am

Are you suggesting that the coup, the takeover of Crimea, the First Donbas War, and this current conflict, are an elaborate and intended unfolding of Obama’s, and now Biden’s ‘flexibility'( which is effectively also the position of the national security state in Washington and across the parties)?

The coup was legitimate, unless you think Russia had a right to control Ukraine through Yanukovych who was caught red handed rigging Parliamentary votes.

Assuming Ukraine is controlled by an anti democratic, progressive western influence – okay then does Biden control Sweden now?

Ukraine was more secure with Trump as President. So who then Ukraine for four years?

The concessions Clinton gave militarily with regards to nuclear arms in the 1990s basically ruined America’s nuclear triad. Now who has the most nuclear warheads?

Russia’s nationalism isn’t a front, “right wing” nationalism is.

Putin was an ex KGB colonel. You have to hate the west and capitalism deeply to succeed in that organisation like that. He is literallly allied to China and North Korea.

China and Russia censor the social media they unleash on Western countries. Fake news is literally a Russian phenomenon. Is Putin doing that because he loves Russia, democracy, babies and Christianity?

There’s no Pepes protesting the obviously rigged Russian elections and no twerking on Baidu.

As for Extinction Rebellion and trannies tweaking in Western Cathedrals, follow the money.

Those stunts don’t happen in Russia, nowhere nearly as often.

COVID wasn’t created in a lab and unleashed on the West. That dialectical was pure opportunism.

Woke ideology is the true CCP and KGB virus.

Yuri Bezhmehov was more correct than he realised.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 6:53 am

who then controlled

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 6:58 am

On Meaningless Careers
Some thoughts on the pointlessness of so many jobs.

https://www.youngmoney.co/p/meaningless-careers

Mid/late 20’s, self made dude saying the whole system is a scam.
Needs to be more like him.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 6:58 am

Those stunts don’t happen in Russian cathedrals because when they did those responsible got three years in prison.
Also recall topless Femwhatever they called themselves getting beaten by Cossacks with canes or switches at some other event.
Not for the faint-hearted.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 6:59 am

““right wing” nationalism is.”

What’s wrong with “right-wing nationalism?

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 7:00 am

“You have to hate the west and capitalism deeply to succeed in that organisation like that.”

Yes, I’ve long thought that about their ABC.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 7:07 am

Has the left’s bete noir (Murdoch media) changed its spots/outlook? For decades News Ltd has been attacked for carrying more conservative viewpoints, but perhaps there has been a change at the top.
News dot come dot au is reflecting the DOJ and FBI stance on documents at Mar-a-lago, including and uncritical report of “that photo” of documents arranged on the carpet.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 7:07 am

A few months ago, far-left protesters stormed and vandalised churches across the US. I would have liked to have seen police, armed with canes and whips, deal with the scum.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 7:09 am

“News dot come dot au is reflecting the DOJ and FBI stance on documents at Mar-a-lago, including and uncritical report of “that photo” of documents arranged on the carpet.”

News.com.au has always been a cesspit of adolescent progressivism.

Johnny Rotten
September 1, 2022 7:21 am

Anchor Whatsays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:52 am
California urges people to avoid charging their electric cars due to shortage of power in that state.

Time to change the EV for a proper ICE vehicle and move to another US State like Texas, Arizona or Florida.

Only if they are not woke though. Those other States don’t do woke.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 7:25 am

Another calendar flip. 1 September.

Get right with your respective deities, because it’s 7 to 37 months now until…. well, you know.
It would be remiss not to keep track of the Great Prediction.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 7:31 am

News.com.au has always been a cesspit of adolescent progressivism.

A dumping ground.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 7:33 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 7:41 am

The cheek of Joe Aston taking the piss out of the jobs summit!!

Rear Window’s jobs summit preview
The Albanese government’s Jobs and Skills Summit: has so much ever been written about so little?
Welcome to the main non-event, where 142 painstakingly selected rent-seekers will huff and puff and … rubber-stamp the government’s pre-ordained policy path. Someone change the channel already.
The participants are already delirious with self-satisfaction at their momentary relevance to the political agenda, a menagerie of government welfare recipients, the vast majority plucked from the grey secretariats of interest groups.
And what an inspired roll-call for a jobs summit.
Australian Banking Association CEO Anna Bligh will represent the big four, inexorably pushing their customers onto apps as they close branches and lay off tellers. Rio Tinto’s Australian head Kellie Parker can share her expertise in automating Pilbara operations and replacing her workforce with robots.
As for major retailers Brad Banducci of Woolworths, Steve Cain of Coles and Rob Scott of Wesfarmers, well, they all know a thing or two about wage theft.
Alan Joyce is the quintessential jobs summiteer, having relieved 15,400 Qantas Group employees (or 42 per cent of the company’s headcount) of their jobs – including 1800 of them illegally – since taking over the airline in 2008.
PwC’s Tom Seymour and KPMG’s Alison Kitchen are attending, as is appropriate. Their firms have just about supplanted the Australian Public Service, and elsewhere, furnish clients with sound and exorbitant advice on “rightsizing” their workforces.
We know premiers Daniel Andrews and Annastacia Palaszczuk are awesome job-creators, attempting to employ every working-age citizen in the state public sector.
Former Australia Post boss Christine Holgate at least knows how to reward her staff. Perhaps she can be timekeeper?
That clapped-out old doomsayer Ross Garnaut is going. He wants the world to end, so he’ll be right for once.
The Australian Council of Social Services is going. It wants an increase to the JobSeeker payment. The Australian Hotels Association is going. It wants an increase to the JobSeeker payment straight in the pokies.
The National Farmers’ Federation is going. It wants more Samoans shearing sheep and picking fruit for $20 a day (minus food and lodgings). The Master Builders are going – no unions please.
Unfortunately for them, a full quarter of the delegates are representatives of trade unions. Anyone who’s anyone – and plenty who are nobody – in the labour movement will be there, except John Setka, who couldn’t make bail. Just kidding!
And what about who’s not going? Andrew Liveris, global statesman without portfolio, is a glaring omission. What aimless talkfest could be complete without him?
Can you believe it, Albo left off the Australian Chiropractors’ Association! The PM will be black-balled from Alex Malley’s soon-to-be-launched multimedia platform for years.
There’ll also be no Mike Cannon-Brookes. The absence of Double Bay Jesus may be explained by the attendance of Andrew Forrest. Word is there isn’t enough airspace in Parliament’s Great Hall for two messiahs to float. It’s an OH&S thing…

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 1, 2022 7:43 am

Faith and begorrah.

…we do have to ask why we’re resorting to this kind of quite unsuitable accommodation.

If you have to ask why, maybe you’re a feckin’ ijit.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 7:45 am

Good on Andrew Laming….

Nine admits its Andrew Laming upskirt story untrue

Nine has admitted the central claim of a television news report about a federal MP – which earned the network a Walkley Award – is untrue, leaving the media company potentially liable for a massive damages payout.

On March 27 last year, Nine aired a segment on its nightly news bulletin in which then federal MP Andrew Laming was accused of committing the criminal offence of taking an inappropriate “upskirting” photo of a Brisbane store worker, Crystal White, without her consent.

Dr Laming was never charged over the incident, and repeatedly requested Nine apologise to him for the erroneous claim that he upskirted Ms White. He also asked for the story to be removed from the network’s digital platforms. Nine refused to comply.

The former politician subsequently launched defamation proceedings against Nine last August, seeking general damages, aggravated damages and special damages, as well as legal costs that will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Given the imputations carried in the news report suggested serious criminal behaviour, any damages payout awarded to Dr Laming would likely be a six-­figure sum.

For the past 12 months, Nine has defended the truth of the news report but last Thursday the network quietly amended its defence in the Federal Court, six weeks before the matter was to go to trial.

The amended documents withdrew most of the news report’s central claims, most notably that Dr Laming had taken a lewd photograph of Ms White.

The lodged documents also include an admission that the news report had conveyed some defamatory imputations of Dr Laming and he was “entitled to damages”.

Nine has entirely withdrawn its “truth” defence in relation to the “upskirting” claim, as well as its defences of “qualified privilege” and “honest opinion”.

In February, Nine journalists Peter Fegan and Rebeka Powell won a Walkley Award in the television/video news reporting category for their submitted work titled “The Investigation of Andrew Laming”, despite the defamation action being before the courts at the time.

Walkley Foundation chief executive Shona Martyn said the journalism awards body “is aware this matter is before the courts and will monitor the situation”.

Nine declined to comment on Wednesday.

In launching defamation proceedings last year, Dr Laming’s lawyers claimed: “By reason of publication by Nine Network and TCN 9 of the Nine news report, and the republications of it and the substantial grapevine effect, Laming has been gravely injured in his character and reputation, and has suffered substantial hurt, distress and embarrassment and has and will continue to suffer loss and damage.”

The claim outlined various aggravating factors of Dr Laming’s “hurt”, including Nine’s characterisation of Ms White as his “victim … The respondents knew and intended that the allegations in the Nine news report would ­irrevocably damage Laming’s personal and professional ­reputation.”

The parties have been ordered to attend a mediation hearing in the Federal Court on Friday.”

Some further points…

1. I hope Laming wins big time.

2. I know legal action is expensive and draining but when you’ve been defamed by the left, you must take action through the courts.

3. Just a reminder, the unlamented Scumbag Morrison didn’t have Laming’s back throughout this ordeal. Instead, Scumbag Morrison, just like he did with Kelly, Christensen and Porter, turned his back on them and sided with the left.

4. Will the Wokley be revoked? Not on your nelly, Louse Nilligan’s Wokley still hasn’t been revoked.

shatterzzz
September 1, 2022 7:48 am

Showing my age I thinx .. Had to “google” ICE vehicles FFS! .. why not just say petrol/normal cars and stop confusing old folk .. LOL!

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 7:54 am

“feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2022 at 7:41 am”

Thanks, a good laugh. Aston’s on the mark, particularly his description….the “Double Bay Jesus“.

shatterzzz
September 1, 2022 7:58 am

In a statement, the department confirmed the temporary accommodation arrangement saying “while it is not ideal for arrivals to stay here, this is being used as a temporary measure while the Government works to find alternative accommodation without delay.

The above statement refers to Ireland and housing “boat-folk” in a sporting stadium whilst they source more permanent accomodation for them but always amazes me how western gummints can bend over backwards to ensure “boat-folk” are housed immediately but never seem to have any interests in home-grown “homelessness” issues!

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 8:07 am

Nine admits its Andrew Laming upskirt story untrue

Do what must be done, Lord Laming.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 1, 2022 8:09 am

. Aston’s on the mark, particularly his description….the “Double Bay Jesus“.

Harsh but fair

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 1, 2022 8:12 am

Bloke is a UK prison warder, but has a sideline buying and renting out houses. Gets in over his head, and decides to “go canoeing” in the North Sea, and disappear.

I knew a guy from California who disappeared while body surfing in big waves off Baja. No body ever found.
However he had a Cessna Citation 500 series rating and instructed, did pre buy evaluations and checkouts of new owners. Had also delivered Citations to Central and South America. Hmmm….

I like to think he’s on the beach at Rio.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 8:16 am

ROFLMAO.

As I suspected when m0nty-fa first linked to the photo of classified document folders spread out across the floor, it was not Trump being careless, it was the FBI setting up a photo-shoot that could be leaked to favoured j’ismists. m0nty-fa also suggested that parts of the covers were whited out, potentially interfering with evidence.

It thus seems likely that the FBI, as with the Mueller “investigation”, has no intention of facing up to a court in this matter. They will follow the previous Crossfire Hurricane technique of leaks to favoured j’ismists and entrapment of lower level Trump staffers on procedural “crimes” such as lying to the FBI. They will then lean on these “criminals”, threatening to bankrupt them, to persuade them to say things that can add to the entirely political “narrative” now being constructed.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 1, 2022 8:17 am

Apologies if posted before, but I had totally forgotten the Tank Museum at Bovington channel, but this popped up in my suggestions.
An interesting chat on whether the tank is really dead in the context of what is going on in the Ukraine, and put into historical context.

https://youtu.be/sF_kbEWSf1M

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 8:18 am

Black Ballsays:
August 31, 2022 at 9:50 pm
On the ABC I failed to mention

Where else? Even SBS has some standards.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 8:25 am

Cassie at 7:45.
.5 Will anyone at Nein be fired?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 8:27 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 1, 2022 at 7:25 am

Another calendar flip. 1 September.

Get right with your respective deities, because it’s 7 to 37 months now

I know, right.
When it was 18 – 48 months we all thought that was so far in the future, but now the walls are closing in.
April Fools Day next year and some of us will be Gonski.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 8:30 am

rosiesays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:12 am
AfR, paywalled
Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass has delivered a stinging rebuke of the Andrews Labor government for a “failure to apologise” to public housing residents locked down without notice in breach of their human rights more than two years ago.

I’m sure that TaliDan will be mortified, absolutely mortified … NOT!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:33 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 8:38 am

Tax reform teal Allegra Spender’s $280m deal revealed

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Wentworth independent MP ­Allegra Spender is a corporate ­director of a private Australian company that did not pay tax on a $280m payment it received in 2019, according to annual transparency reports published by the Australian Taxation Office.

A spokesman for Ms Spender said the $280m payment was a one-off dividend payment from “related companies” that had already been taxed at the full corporate rate of 30 per cent.

“Allegra is an experienced company director,” he said. “She is a director of Waeriver, Tirano and Arodene investment holding companies. She was appointed a director of Waeriver in 2005.

“There was a one-off dividend from related companies to Waeriver of $280m in FY2019 – $84m of tax, at the full 30 per cent corporate tax rate, had already been paid by related companies on that income in prior years.”

The payment was made to a private company called Waeriver Pty Ltd, of which Ms Spender is a director alongside her sister and Australian fashion designer Bianca and half-brother Johan Alexander Schuman.

Ms Spender, who campaigned on a platform of integrity in politics, said the investments were passive and vowed to declare any conflicts of interest with them going forward.

“These are passive investment companies with no operations and managed at arm’s length,” she said.

“Given this arm’s length relationship and passive investments, I don’t expect any conflicts of interest but if any arise, I will declare them and manage them to ensure that they do not affect my ability to represent my electorate.”

Company reports show Waeriver is headquartered at the Carla Zampatti Building in Sydney.

Under the tax transparency laws brought in by the former Labor government, the ATO is required to produce an annual report on certain corporate tax entities. The report reveals tax paid by public and foreign corporations with a total income of $100m or more, as well as Australian-owned resident private corporations with a total income of $200m or more.

I’m happy to be corrected but, even though tax has been paid at the 30 cent rate, doesn’t La Spender still have to pay the difference between the 30 cents, and whatever the applicable rate is?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 8:41 am

They will follow the previous Crossfire Hurricane technique of leaks to favoured j’ismists and entrapment of lower level Trump staffers on procedural “crimes” such as lying to the FBI.

They pursued Carter Page because an FBI informant lined up a phone call from another FBI asset & he couldn’t remember the phone call, or how long the phone call took.
He actually thought it was a wrong number.
He was still pursued under an obstruction of justice scenario.
Really quite bizarre.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 8:42 am

Diogenessays:
September 1, 2022 at 8:17 am
Apologies if posted before, but I had totally forgotten the Tank Museum at Bovington channel, but this popped up in my suggestions.
An interesting chat on whether the tank is really dead in the context of what is going on in the Ukraine, and put into historical context.

There is what seems to be a semi-official British Army website called The Wavell Room that has had several short articles on this. It has a lot of other articles on other aspects of modern war.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:44 am

Just Days After Phasing Out New Gas Cars, California Says “Avoid Charging EVs” Amid Grid Emergency

Shortly after 1800ET, just as Californians begin to head home for the day, the California Independent System Operator issued a level-1 energy emergency alert shortly after tapping all its available power supplies.

Despite earlier warnings to reduce usage, Californians – in all their self-righteous virtue – decided to charge their EV anyway, pushing demand above capacity

Bear in mind that it is not even in the scheduled Flex Alert period (from 4pm to 9pm PST) yet.

“It’s pretty clear Mother Nature has outrun us,” California Governor Gavin Newsom, who issued an executive order Wednesday to free up emergency power supplies, said during a news conference.

“The reality is we’re living in an age of extremes — extreme heat, extreme drought.”

. and extreme lack of grid preparedness for your state’s virtue-signaling.

Update (1600ET): As the day went on, California warmed up more than expected and that has prompted California’s grid operator to issue a specific warning of the potential for power shortfalls that could lead to blackouts on Wednesday night.

Officials asked residents to cut back on power use Wednesday between 4 and 9 p.m. as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This is a manifestation of what CAISO warned folks about back in May, that unless they see voluntary curtailments the grid could become unstable during certain periods of high demand,” said Gary Cunningham, director of market research at risk management firm Tradition Energy.

“In this case it is extreme heat that is causing it, but overall weakness in the supply picture are adding to the issue.”

The heat poses the biggest test to the grid since the summer of 2020, when rolling outages engulfed portions of the state.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 8:44 am

I’m happy to be corrected but, even though tax has been paid at the 30 cent rate, doesn’t La Spender still have to pay the difference between the 30 cents, and whatever the applicable rate is?

Read the story again.
It was a payment between companies.
No rate differential.
Much as I can’t stand her, this is an Alberici level beat-up.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 1, 2022 8:45 am

Eyrie, Baja is also known for Great Whites as well.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 8:47 am

The Libs should do an election advert based on this and other atrocities and make Dan pay for his awful mismanagement.
But they have lost their balls and don’t know where to get another set.

The Stupid Fucking Victorian Liberals are so emasculated they think their best chance of avoiding a WA-style wipeout is to run on Labor policies.

There’ll be red faces all round on the morning after November 26 when they realise their surviving MPs will be lucky to fill a minibus and they’ll have to fire their hopeless leader Matthew Guy – for the second time!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 8:47 am

I like to think he’s on the beach at Rio

What would have been the motivation to disappear.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:48 am

Norwegian Tesla Owners Go On Hunger Strike Over Company’s Poor Customer Service And Build Quality

The owners are taking exception with “poor customer service” and being “ignored by the automaker” as phone calls go unanswered.

According to the report, the list of issues with their vehicles includes “poor paint quality, rust, inability to meet claimed battery life, failing heat pumps, stuck door handles in the cold, and yellowing infotainment screens (that Tesla told the NHTSA were only meant to last “5-6 years” anyway).”

Some have also suffered “issues with the car’s lights, bubbling seats, water collecting in the trunk, loose trim pieces, and reduced power”, while others are simply complaining that “autopilot does not work properly”.

Tell us something we don’t know…

Regardless, owners felt like they had to escalate the issue because the company’s customer service is awful. They complain about spending “an inordinate amount of time waiting on hold to actually speak with someone from Tesla” and not having their calls returned. The Drive even commented that they have heard “similar complaints” from U.S. owners.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 8:51 am

Got an uber this morning.
The “wear a face mask if possible” prompt was not there for the first time in over two years.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 1, 2022 8:52 am

it was not Trump being careless, it was the FBI setting up a photo-shoot that could be leaked to favoured j’ismists.

Not bagging you, bj, but the the forensic scale in the foreground was a bit of giveaway.

It doesn’t seem to matter what the FBI does: leaking photos of ‘secret documents’, providing full access of the affidavit to helpful media commentators…

When they lose shame, the next steps are straight out of the Gestapo/KGB handbook: kicking doors down at 3am and disappearing people in the system.

Oh…

Zipster
September 1, 2022 8:52 am

Morphological freedom by a queer transhumanist anarchist (from Livestream #139)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips

again we see that the woke’s relativism expresses itself as transhumanist anarchism. in this sense wokeness places itself above everything else because it encompasses two extremes and claims to arrive at a higher reality.

However the real reality is that this is nothing but indoctrinated schizophrenia.

not only is wokeism self destructive, but it is civilizationally destructive. left to their own devices the woke will destroy everything in their relentless drive towards a techno utopia.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:53 am

Western Allies Led By UK’s Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal… In April

There’s mounting evidence that the war in Ukraine could have been over by this point, but key Western backers of Kiev sought to sabotage the potential for peaceful settlement through negotiations. That’s precisely what regional Ukrainian media reports concluded as early as May, soon after the UK’s Boris Johnson showed up in the capital on a “surprise” visit to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time the month prior

This is what a bombshell story in Ukrainska Pravda said at the time, but which was almost completely ignored in Western mainstream media:

According Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning,

brought two simple messages. The first is that Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with.

And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to “press him.”

The Ukrainian media English-language report went on to emphasize that Three days after Johnson left for Britain, Putin went public and said talks with Ukraine “had turned into a dead end”.

Zipster
September 1, 2022 8:56 am

again we see that the woke’s relativism expresses itself as transhumanist anarchism

in the woke viewpoint pitting two opposites like anarchy and fascism is entirely acceptable. just as pitting diversity and equity as two incompatible opposites is the core of woke’s schizophrenic mantra

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 1, 2022 8:58 am

The Stupid Fucking Victorian Liberals are so emasculated they think their best chance of avoiding a WA-style wipeout is to run on Labor policies.

Their ABC having the best time with it:

Victorian Liberal Party branch stacking claims as Pentecostal church ‘infiltrate’ branches

Party members say dwindling membership bases have left local branches vulnerable to groups seeking to build their power base.

“Our current membership is ageing, unable to recruit younger members, and therefore leaves a door open for the sorts of things that’s been happening,” veteran Liberal Party member and delegate for its Gippsland East local branch, Peter Wilson, said.

When you look like a hollow tree, squirrels move in.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 9:01 am

SUBMISSION TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE BILL INQUIRY
CLIMATE CHANGE

As elected members of parliament we have a shared solemn duty to behave with integrity.

This embraces our duty to ensure legislation and policies are solidly based on accurate and objective data so that the consequences on our constituents and nation are safe, affordable, reasonable and fair.

Yet Attachment 1

shows there has never been, and there remains no, factual scientific basis presented in parliament for legislation cutting or limiting the production of carbon dioxide from human activity. Parliament has never debated the climate science.

The term logical scientific point means the empirical scientific data within a logical scientific framework proving causality. Senators and members of parliament have never been presented with the necessary logical scientific points to justify legislating the cutting or limiting of carbon dioxide from human activity. Nor has parliament ever been presented with the specific, quantified effect of carbon dioxide from human activity on any aspect of climate or weather.

Attachment 2

shows that CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and The Chief Scientist have never produced the logical scientific points needed as the necessary and essential basis for climate change legislation. The supporting detailed scientific documents are Attachments 6 and 7.

I acknowledge and thank Senator Arthur Sinodinos as then Minister for Science and his predecessor Mr Greg Hunt for supporting me in arranging for my science and senate office teams to cross-examine government climate science agencies.

Enclosures: Attachments 1 through 9

Attachment 1 – Political Basis Driving Climate and Related Energy Policies
Attachment 2 – Cross-examining Government Science Agencies
Attachment 3 – Other Agencies, Institutions and Universities Fail to Prove Causality
Attachment 4 – Natural Global Experiments Confirm Carbon Dioxide’s Innocence
Attachment 5 – The Basis for Honest Policy and Legislation
Attachment 6 – The Savage Economic Burden of Policies Contradicting the Science
Attachment 7 – Restoring Scientific Integrity
Attachment 8 – Scientific and Statistical Analysis of CSIRO’s Presentations
Attachment 9 – The Hidden cost of Climate Policies and Renewables

In its presentations to my team and I, the CSIRO stated that there is no danger from carbon dioxide from human activity and that there is nothing unprecedented about our planet’s temperature.
Therefore, there is no scientific justification for any government to introduce policies designed to reduce carbon dioxide from human activity.

We are calling for all climate-based policies and subsidies for renewable energy to be rescinded. The consequences of climate alarmism cost the Australian economy in productivity and growth, and in our ability to compete in the highly competitive international arena.

Clearly, it is time to change our approach to climate change. These Bills must be rejected.

Yours sincerely,

Malcolm Roberts

https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/submission-to-the-climate-change-bill-inquiry/#attach

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 9:01 am

Daily Mail. All is not well in the Greens bouncy castle.

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe unleashes on Anthony Albanese’s plan to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament: ‘It’s a waste of money’

Greens Senator reignites debate over Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal
Believes the costs involved would be better spent on indigenous communities
Lidia Thorpe yet to decide whether she’ll support the proposed referendum
Comments prompted the Greens to reassure they will negotiate ‘in good faith’

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 9:06 am

Dr F

Not bagging you, bj, but the the forensic scale in the foreground was a bit of giveaway.

Apparently not to m0nty-fa, who believed that it was an illustration of Trump’s carelessness with classified documents.

The rest of my comment was a dig at the FBI and its sleazy political tactics. Stage 1, leak to friendly j’ismists, completed for this element. Satge 2, entrap junior staff, perhaps under way?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 9:07 am

Will anyone at Nein be fired?

Fauxfacts already has one finding of malicious defamation against it. Another one should be costly. Might even wake Costello from his slumber.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 9:09 am

LOL at all the pathetic incels lining up to bag Grace Tame’s looks. Let’s see your Hinge profiles, losers.

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 9:09 am

Jobs Summit. We’d like you to form small groups, introduce yourself to your neighbours and then discuss the issue before we reconvene. Everybody’s group will have a chance to have a say then.

Pointless Hell… as organised by the HR department but with better finger foods.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 9:11 am

Jobs Summit. We’d like you to form small groups, introduce yourself to your neighbours and then discuss the issue before we reconvene

No “Welcome to Country?”

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 9:11 am

Much as I can’t stand her, this is an Alberici level beat-up.

Rich hypocrite engages in tax planning. News at 11.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 9:14 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 1, 2022 9:14 am

The Jobson Skills Summit.

1) Keynote addresses by the good and great;

2) 12 x 1 hour sessions
• Address by ‘subject matter expert’
• Panel discussion
• Open discussion

Apparently this equates to community engagement and consensus. Certainly not a political ‘we’re only doing what you asked us’ stunt.

Even their ABC has doubts.

Read and weep.

Zipster
September 1, 2022 9:15 am

Big Tech sinks to the level of old Soviet newspapers Izvestia and Pravda.

most of the silicon valley billionaires are at the core of wokeism, hence its transhumanist flavour

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 9:16 am

Given up argument mUnty? Go back to sooking about your kids and complaining about the lack of class here. Fuckwit.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 1, 2022 9:17 am

Party members say dwindling membership bases have left local branches vulnerable to groups seeking to build their power base.

This is really bad news. If they’re not careful the Libs could be hijacked by woke bugpeople who’ve got no principles at all, are utterly incompetent at everything except brown-nosing backstabbing credit stealing and blame avoidance, have no “personality” other than their lifelong insatiable ambition for money status and power through a political career, are only joining the Libs because they don’t have the trade union connections to get ahead in Labor, and will go flat stick to ape or even outdo every woke idiocy of Labor/Greens to chase the teal seat votes.
Someone needs to tell Matthew Guy before it’s too late!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 1, 2022 9:18 am

Poor old Ramirez – a first class cartoonist matched with a second rate mind.

So how does he imagine the raid on Mar-a-Lago is his own fault.

He took documents when he left office – well, he was entitled to as a President leaving office. They have all done it. Obama took what, 33 million? And he has returned none, while Trump had been cooperating with the DOJ returning what they asked.

That the docs were confidential? The mechanism by which documents can be declassified is well understood. What is striking is the suspicious circumlocution “documents marked classified” (which covers documents that were classified but no longer are) rather than the more succinct “classified documents”. Officially they use the former, but when it gets into the crumbling ramshackle minds of talking heads and trolls it is just regurgitated as ‘classified documents’ blabbing that most significant distinction the alphabet agencies avoid. But they have far greater reach that the press releases…

The agencies involved are bending over backwards to keep concealed their real motivations, and even their purported ones as would appear in documents like the affidavit. No, not suspicious at all.

And Ramirez thinks Trump is the problem. But considering the appalling record of the alphabet agencies and the fact they see Trump as the enemy he really ought to consider that Trump is the good guy.

But he, and so many, cling to this certainty of Trump’s criminality no matter how elusive foundation is. It is like (drawing on an image I have used before) kids playing that game kerplunk where, as each of the first few straws of accusation is removed as it is revealed to be false, they expect that all the little balls can remain suspended if you carefully remove all the straws.

In reality, they just lose their marbles.

Zipster
September 1, 2022 9:18 am

most of the silicon valley billionaires are at the core of wokeism, hence its transhumanist flavour

zuckerberg, dorsey, brin and page come to mind. musk is also a transhumanist

then you have ultra fascists like soros and schwab

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 1, 2022 9:22 am
Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 9:24 am

“LOL at all the pathetic incels lining up to bag Grace Tame’s looks. Let’s see your Hinge profiles, losers.”

Hmm, I don’t recall any stern denunciations by you of the endless progressive baggings of Jenny Morrison’s looks, or Margie Abbott’s looks, or the endless baggings of conservative and right-wing women. No, instead all I’ve ever head from you, fat hypocrite, is silence.

As for Tame’s looks, I don’t think she’s plain, far from it. However, she has a nasty and very toxic personality and when you’re lumbered with that kind of personality, it shines through and no amount of “good looks” will mitigate that.

The only loser here is you.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 9:26 am

California Will Now Punish Doctors For Refusing To Comply With The Establishment COVID Narrative

In January of this year the California state government formed the “Vaccine Work Group” which was tasked to construct a series of draconian bills designed to silence the large percentage of the population that refuses to comply with covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Most of these bills have since been attempted and have failed to pass or have been shelved. They included:

Only one bill put together by the Vaccine Work Group has been passed by the state senate, and it is being sent for approval by Governor Gavin Newsom this week. Doctors and other medical professionals accused of spreading “disinformation” and “misinformation” can now have their state license suspended or revoked by the Medical Board or Osteopathic Medical Board of California for “unprofessional, conduct.”

The bill defines “misinformation” as: False information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.

Note that it does not define misinformation as info that is contrary to scientific facts and evidence. Rather, it defines it as something that runs contrary to “consensus” and “standards of care.” The state government gets to dictate what the consensus is, and what the standard of care is. Meaning, any doctor that contradicts the STATE is subject to punishment. Science has nothing to do with it.

In a lawsuit against California’s Medical Board, Physicians for Informed Consent called the bill an attempt to “unconstitutionally target dissenting physicians, including by attempting to intimidate by investigation, censor and sanction physicians who publicly disagree with the government’s ever-evolving, erratic, and contradictory public health Covid-19 edicts.”

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 9:28 am

“classified document folders spread out across the floor”

Those framed covers of Time magazine in the box at the right hand side. G-men decide to hit him where it hurts and steal his mementos while stitching him up.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 9:32 am

The Lieborals are always at risk of infiltration by the religious Right. As usual the WA Lieborals lead the way.

Johnny Rotten
September 1, 2022 9:35 am

This Jobs Summit should be renamed as –

Jobs. Summit’ to pontificate on while the Populace can’t afford to buy food/drink, freeze in Winter/swelter in Summer, are jabbed to death and generally have a sorry time of it all.

Meanwhile, us ‘Pollies’ and Elites look like we are doing something. Have a great time of it all lording it over the Populace while wrecking the Australia we once knew.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 9:35 am

Rant of the day:

If they’re not careful the Libs could be hijacked by woke bugpeople who’ve got no principles at all, are utterly incompetent at everything except brown-nosing backstabbing credit stealing and blame avoidance, have no “personality” other than their lifelong insatiable ambition for money status and power through a political career, are only joining the Libs because they don’t have the trade union connections to get ahead in Labor, and will go flat stick to ape or even outdo every woke idiocy of Labor/Greens to chase the teal seat votes.

Well done, Tim Nielsen.

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 9:37 am

“LOL at all the pathetic incels lining up to bag Grace Tame’s looks.”

Those “incels” lined up to query her behaviour Monty. You really are a dishonest sack of shit aren’t you.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 9:38 am

Rita is slaying on twitter.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 9:38 am
m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 9:47 am

endless progressive baggings of Jenny Morrison’s looks, or Margie Abbott’s looks

* citation needed

Also LOL at Cassie of all people whinging that another woman is nasty.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 9:53 am

* citation needed

Also LOL at Cassie of all people whinging that another woman is nasty.”

I’m not whinging, far from it Fatso. Oh and I’m not in the public eye. I don’t recall you denouncing Magda Szubanski’s vicious bagging of Jenny Morrison last year, bagging what Jenny was wearing and implying that she was a far-right loon.

You really are a flat hypocritical slug.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 9:54 am

“flat hypocritical slug”

Fat hypocritical slug.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 9:54 am

Hypothetical.
How would people feel if Dawson horse traded for the site of the body for a shorter sentence?

MatrixTransform
September 1, 2022 9:55 am

No “Welcome to Country? [sic]”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 9:57 am

Chris Dawson ‘won’t apply for bail’ after murder conviction

theaustralian.com.au00:40
Police reveal lead on Lynette Dawson’s remains
David Murray
National Crime Correspondent
14 minutes ago September 1, 2022
No Comments

Chris Dawson will not apply for bail after his conviction for murdering his wife Lynette.

Dawson’s lawyer Greg Walsh told Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison he would not be applying for bail, despite asking for a bail hearing after Dawson’s trial on Tuesday.

Dawson appeared in the same court, 13A, and before the same Supreme Court judge, Ian Harrison SC, at 9.30am Thursday. He was escorted into court wearing a green prison-issue tracksuit and green shoes.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 1, 2022 10:00 am

m0ntysays:
September 1, 2022 at 9:09 am
LOL at all the pathetic incels lining up to bag Grace Tame’s looks. Let’s see your Hinge profiles, losers.

Poor old zero comprehension skills m0nty beclowns himself yet again. One person did comment on her looks but pathetically mentally defective m0nty can’t comprehend that the other were commenting on her behaviour, not her looks.
It’s desperately sad. Poor old halfwit.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:01 am

I don’t recall you denouncing Magda Szubanski’s vicious bagging of Jenny Morrison last year, bagging what Jenny was wearing and implying that she was a far-right loon.

She retweeted a pic of Jenny wearing a dull black dress watching Scott sign something and said, “I genuinely thought this was a photoshopped Handmaid’s Tale meme. But no. It’s 21st century Aussie life.”

If you are a delicate snowflake who is triggered by that gentle ribbing, perhaps you need to retreat to a safe space.

You really are a flat hypocritical slug.

Thank you for proving my point.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 10:02 am

Hypothetical.
How would people feel if Dawson horse traded for the site of the body for a shorter sentence?

Reveal the location of the body, and you are eligible for parole?

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 10:03 am

“Fat hypocritical slug.”

Archetypal Soyjak. Not only is he dishonest but also derivative, how tedious.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 10:03 am

“She retweeted a pic of Jenny wearing a dull black dress “

hmm, nasty, thanks for proving my point….that you’re a FAT hypocritical slug.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 10:04 am

Has Dawson decided to reveal location?
He’s 73 isn’t he?
I can’t see how a deal that allowed him the prospect of rejoining the world in his mid eighties (on parole) would be unreasonable trade off.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:05 am

Not bagging you, bj, but the the forensic scale in the foreground was a bit of giveaway.

It was pretty much like those displays that the cops put on when they raid a crim’s house and come away with bags of drugs or a cache of weapons. They get spread out on a table or on the floor for Plod to show off the haul. Except this time it was Top Secret humint documents.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 10:07 am

Monty
After all your claims about Dodd ushering in a New Haidmaiden World, pretending that Szubankski’s comment wasn’t meant to be insulting would be breathtaking, but it’s not, because it’s only to be expected, from you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 10:08 am

mUnty CSI Trump Victim Unit

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 10:10 am

Chris Dawson says people are constantly threatening to kill him in gaol.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 10:10 am

“Book him Danno. State Secrets Act.”

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 1, 2022 10:12 am

Doctors and other medical professionals accused of spreading “disinformation” and “misinformation” can now have their state license suspended or revoked by the Medical Board or Osteopathic Medical Board of California for “unprofessional, conduct.”

You realise they don’t need to suspend your licence to stop you working right?

I am still registered but can hardly give an anaesthetic if I cant enter a hospital without a vax certificate!

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:13 am

After all your claims about Dodd ushering in a New Haidmaiden World, pretending that Szubankski’s comment wasn’t meant to be insulting would be breathtaking, but it’s not, because it’s only to be expected, from you.

Cassie mentioned “endless progressive baggings of Jenny Morrison’s looks”. This tweet contained no bagging of Jenny Morrison’s looks. It referenced what she was wearing, which is a different thing. Also, one tweet does not constitute “endless”.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2022 10:14 am

“After all your claims about Dodd ushering in a New Haidmaiden World, pretending that Szubankski’s comment wasn’t meant to be insulting would be breathtaking, but it’s not, because it’s only to be expected, from you.”

He’s a stinking hypocrite.

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 10:17 am

“They get spread out on a table or on the floor for Plod to show off the haul.”

Except the credulous tub of giblets described that as how they were being stored, only a few days ago. You really are a dishonest sack of shit, aren’t you Monty.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 10:18 am

mUnty dost protest too much. Fuckwit.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:20 am

It was also hilarious that Trump posted on Truth Social about the picture, which will put him further in the muck because he can’t claim any more that the FBI planted the documents, or that he didn’t know where they were stored – all because he was worried that people would think he was messy. DOJ playing him like a fiddle.

P
P
September 1, 2022 10:21 am

Pope encourages commitments for Season of Creation

Pope Francis calls for concrete commitment to care for our common home. His words come ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Creation celebrated on 1 September which kicks off the Season of Creation which lasts till 4 October.

He also prayed during this Season of Creation that the United Nations COP27 and COP15 summits may “unite the human family in decisively addressing the twin crises of climate and reduced biodiversity.”

^
Definitely not what I’ll be praying.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 1, 2022 10:23 am

It was pretty much like those displays that the cops put on when they raid a crim’s house and come away with bags of drugs or a cache of weapons.

Pretty much.
Except in those cases the display is usually the result of investigation, evidence of illegality, and the cops also usually come away with a perp in handcuffs.

It’s probably less usual to have contended evidence displayed against a moving background of investigation, leaks to the media, dissembling by the prosecuting agency, and no charges or specific allegations against an individual.

Sure, a fine distinction; but pretty much how you’d like a ‘rule of law’ jurisdiction to work.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2022 10:23 am

Fifty years ago.

Ooohhh those Russians.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:25 am

Trump keeps making filings, which is why the DOJ keeps taking actions even though it is close to mid-terms. Do you reckon he can stop himself? Probably not, LOL.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
IMPORTANT: Trump’s lawyers do NOT say he declassified anything in his possession — despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he declassified everything in his possession, his attorneys have never said this in any court document.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:26 am

Except in those cases the display is usually the result of investigation, evidence of illegality, and the cops also usually come away with a perp in handcuffs.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2022 10:27 am

You really are a flat hypocritical slug.

Praise like that will swell Monty’s ego.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 10:30 am

m0ntysays:
September 1, 2022 at 9:09 am
LOL at all the pathetic incels lining up to bag Grace Tame’s looks. Let’s see your Hinge profiles, losers.

We’ve already seen your profile (if that word applies to a planet sized object). Loser.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2022 10:33 am

How would people feel if Dawson horse traded for the site of the body for a shorter sentence?

ftb, I’d welcome it.
The family has been through four decades of grief and a funeral for Lyn’s remains would be helpful for them now.
I’m not sure what “closure” really means, but the certainty provided by disclosing the site of her remains must be of great help in dealing with the finality of Lyn’s life.

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:34 am

I see Sarah Palin was defeated by a Democrat in a special election for a vacant Congressional seat. Good.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 1, 2022 10:34 am

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Followed by a Jack Ruby moment, or a
Herman Goering moment?

#kleenexinaisle5please

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 10:38 am

Followed by a Jack Ruby moment, or a
Herman Goering moment?

More like an Al Capone moment. I bet Trump already has the clap.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 10:41 am

m0ntysays:
September 1, 2022 at 9:47 am
endless progressive baggings of Jenny Morrison’s looks, or Margie Abbott’s looks

* citation needed

Also LOL at Cassie of all people whinging that another woman is nasty.

Meeeeoowwww! Saucer of milk for Phat Pussy?

PS, have you realised yet that the documents strewn on the floor were not the result of Trump being careless, but the FBI setting up a photo shoot to leak to their maaaates in theMSM? Sucker, sucked in yet again.

johanna
johanna
September 1, 2022 10:46 am

Been watching a medium sized building (about 10 storeys) go up nearby with a crane to match for the last several months.

Until today, the crane had a smallish Aboriginal flag hanging off it, presumably to act as a windsock. This morning, above the Aboriginal flag someone has hung a very large Australian flag. 🙂

Trouble at mill for the CFMEU?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 10:47 am

m0nty-fa

It was pretty much like those displays that the cops put on when they raid a crim’s house and come away with bags of drugs or a cache of weapons. They get spread out on a table or on the floor for Plod to show off the haul. Except this time it was Top Secret humint documents.

Hmmm, a bit of short term memory loss here. Yesterday you pounced on the photo as proof that Trump was careless with classified documents, leaving them scattered on the floor.

Now you have no criticism of the FBI “agents”(funny way to spell clowns, but whatever) who spread them over the floor, photographed them and leaked them to the media. Hypocrite, what?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 10:48 am

m0ntysays:
September 1, 2022 at 10:13 am
After all your claims about Dodd ushering in a New Haidmaiden World, pretending that Szubankski’s comment wasn’t meant to be insulting would be breathtaking, but it’s not, because it’s only to be expected, from you.

Cassie mentioned “endless progressive baggings of Jenny Morrison’s looks”. This tweet contained no bagging of Jenny Morrison’s looks. It referenced what she was wearing, which is a different thing. Also, one tweet does not constitute “endless”.

Even one of your comments comes across as “endless progressive baggings”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2022 10:52 am

I see Sarah Palin was defeated by a Democrat in a special election

How many Venezuelans voted Monty? I’m sure there are millions, indeed trillions if necessary, of Venezuelans in sunny Alaska like there seem to be in Kenya. They like especially to vote at 3am in the morning.

Kenya Finds 3 Venezuelans Breached Its Election Servers Illegally (30 Aug)

Did you know that Dominion was originally a Venezuelan voting machine company Monty? Weird huh?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2022 10:53 am

Also, one tweet does not constitute “endless”.

Against my better judgement, I duck-duck-goed “criticisms of jenny morrisons looks”.
Fact check m0nty – I found several instances of abuse, led by Kathy Leete, Magda Szubanski (who “tippled down” on her abuse after being criticised for it), Mike Cannon Brooks, and this pearler: Social media platform Twitter lit up with vile attacks against Mrs Morrison
So yes, “endless” is an accurate description of the abuse heaped on the wife of a conservative PM.
M0nty is lying. Again.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 10:56 am

ROFLMAO, I looked up “Hinge profile”. After a bit on door hardware, I found out what m0nty-fa was referring to. I wonder does his missus know that he is into deletable dating apps?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 1, 2022 10:58 am

Boambee Johnsays:
September 1, 2022 at 10:47 am

Yes, exactly.
What an own goal by the fat imbecile.
Yesterday it was “here’s how Trump left the documents”, today it’s “this looks like the way cops arrange the evidence for display”.
Newsflash for the fat imbecile – when the cops arrange drugs or stolen goods for display, the evidence of the crime is the nature of the material and how it’s displayed is irrelevant. Here, there’s nothing illegal in the material per se, so if the FBI have arranged them for display, the display is not evidence of any wrongdoing.
Poor old mental defective.

struth
struth
September 1, 2022 10:59 am

Yes K D.
7 to 37 months …..

Because you all won’t go at once.
Where’s choo choo?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 1, 2022 11:00 am

Boambee Johnsays:
September 1, 2022 at 10:56 am
ROFLMAO, I looked up “Hinge profile”. After a bit on door hardware, I found out what m0nty-fa was referring to. I wonder does his missus know that he is into deletable dating apps?

“Fat contemptible imbecile looking for woman with very low standards.”

m0nty
m0nty
September 1, 2022 11:00 am

How many Venezuelans voted Monty? I’m sure there are millions, indeed trillions if necessary, of Venezuelans in sunny Alaska like there seem to be in Kenya. They like especially to vote at 3am in the morning.

Geez Bruce, you have been low energy lately. Is something wrong, how’s your health old mate?

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