Ben Roberts-Smith reportedly attending Queen’s service
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Ben Roberts-Smith is reportedly planning to attend the Queen’s funeral service as a recipient of the Victoria Cross.

The Afghanistan war veteran, who is suing Nine newspapers for defamation over allegations Mr Roberts-Smith was involved in unlawful killings during his time in Afghanistan, has been invited by Buckingham Palace as a matter of protocol, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Victoria Cross recipients from several Commonwealth nations had been invited to participate in an order of chivalry procession on the day of the Queen’s funeral.

Hey cohenite, regale us with ripping yarns of your swashbuckling manly adventures as… a librarian. LOL.

Sure dickless. Libraries are microcosms of society. I would see amidst the genuine readers, researchers and the like, the refuse and rejected who would come in to hide among the normal folk. I would offer them a bit of protection. I can imagine you loitering down the shelves between the periodicals and fiction sections. What was your favourite refuge dickless as you hid in the library away from the harsh world.

Fair’s fair m0nty. If you’re going to call for him to make a revelation about himself you ought to start by describing the bravest and most manly thing you’ve ever done in your life.

Dickless thinks he’s on a winner and comes out shrivelled testicles swinging. There’s power in them books which is why I reckon dickless was loiterer in libraries when he was a young prick, hiding from the world.

So you’re an actual working librarian, cohenite? Oh, this is priceless. cohenite the librarian, acts like he’s Schwarzenegger but actually he’s de Vito.

Actually, my nickname was Conan the Librarian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8

“Never bring a stick to a swordfight”.

– Sun Tzu.

Never bring a stick to a swordfight”.

“Never bring a pair of scissors to a gunfight”.

m0nty says:
September 13, 2022 at 3:22 pm

I’m not the one throwing around insults about penises, that’s the librarian doing that. Obviously you would have to be a he-man to cast aspersions like that… or maybe cohenite is actually a clown.

Fatboy, Cronkite’s a lawyer (albeit a family lawyer mostly likely). Lot’s of Lawyers appear to be extremely fond of books and we have friends in the US who are lawyers whose favorite pastime , I recall, was collecting first edition antique books. They eagerly went to auctions for first editions and old books. Lawyers love books, so it wouldn’t surprise that Cronkers has a librarian qualification just to learn how to properly catalogue books. You wouldn’t appreciate this vocation because you’re an uncultured, donut munching obese hippo.

“When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.”

Sun Tzu

Hey MOnst. I’m sorry I make fat references about you all the time. If I keep doing it (making fat references) just ignore it as you’re bigger than that. 🙂

“Never plant your tomatoes before Melbourne Cup Day”
– Sun Tzu.

Bespoke…

Two Jamaican Rastafarians went to an Emotions Party where you had to go dressed as an emotion.

A guy in red turned up and everyone worked out he was “anger” and another bloke turned up all in black and people worked out he was morbid.

Then these two Rastafarians (yeah mun, drink some rum mun) rock up, completely starkers! One has his member in a bowl of custard, the other with his member in a pear. Nobody can work out what they are.

The first Rasta says:

I’m deeply in dis-pear mun.

The second Rasta says:

And I’m fucking dis-custard.

(its the only joke i know)

“A man can stand many times.
But he can only fall once”.

– Sun Tzu

“Only barbarians and evil men serve their parmagiana on top of their chips.
Such men have no standing”.

– Sun Tzu.

Doesn’t seem to be a great deal of academic riguer in ‘Uncle’ Jack’s life, or even theatre where he had roles on stage. Rather the contrary.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/uncle-jack-charles-aboriginal-actor-elder-theatre-film-tv/101336818

Doesn’t seem to be a great deal of academic riguer in ‘Uncle’ Jack’s life, or even theatre where he had roles on stage. Rather the contrary.

When did this habit of describing Aborigines as “Uncle” or “Auntie” begin?

Speaking of books, I have just re-read Jack Vance’s Demon Princes series. What a tragedy, first Jack Vance dead now Betty. In honour of Jack when I was senior librarian in charge of cataloguing and keeping general order by kicking unruly ruffians from the premises, I always put jack in the 810s rather than in the hoi poloi fiction section.

Thank God, Dover has the Turtlehead backing him up . I was getting worried.

He was a black in DC shooting a white woman. There was zero chance a DC jury was going to convict the killer.

Coroner to allow ‘racist texts’ from Zachary Rolfe in Kumanjayi Walker inquest

Matt Cunningham
Sky News Northern Australia Correspondent
@mattcunningham
An hour ago September 13, 2022

A coronor will allow “racist” text messages sent between Constable Zachary Rolfe and other members of the Alice Springs police to be admitted as evidence in the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has also ruled that the inquiry should hear testimony from Constable Rolfe’s ex-fiance Claudia Campagnaro, who is also a former Alice Springs police officer.

“I consider that both bodies of evidence are likely relevant to the issues likely to arise in these proceedings, and I will receive that evidence,” she said.

Ms Armitage is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Walker, who was shot dead by Constable Rolfe during a botch arrest attempt in the remote Indigenous community of Yuendumu on November 9, 2019.

In March a jury found Constable Rolfe not guilty of Mr Walker’s murder, and the reserve charges of manslaughter and engaging in a violent act causing death.

On Monday the inquest heard messages seized from Constable Rolfe’s phone after the shooting included “overtly racist” comments from one of his superiors.

Last week counsel assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer, had told the inquest the messages showed Constable Rolfe and other Alice Springs police officers had a negative attitude towards Aboriginal people and to police working in remote Indigenous communities.

Constable Rolfe’s lawyers had objected to the text messages being admitted as evidence in the inquest.

They argued the seizure of the messages for the purpose of a coronial investigation was unlawful, and “cannot be used in these proceedings”.

They also argued the messages were “too remote” to be relevant to the coronial investigation, and that their ventilation at the inquest could undermine Constable Rolfe’s acquittal by a jury.

But Ms Armitage disagreed.

“I consider that the phone was lawfully interrogated,” she wrote in her decision.

“But even if it was not, this would prohibit me from receiving the evidence.”

She said the messages could have a bearing on the findings and recommendations she might make under the Coroner’s Act.

“I would not have investigated this matter if there were not an evidentiary basis to suggest that Constable Rolfe and other police officers with whom he was communicating held racist views about Aboriginal people,” Ms Armitage wrote.

She said she accepted the submissions from counsel for Mr Walker’s family and others that “an available interpretation of the text messages is that they are prima facie evidence of racism, and within the Immediate Response Team and the Alice Springs Patrol Group”.

“Further, I accept the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency’s submission that it is sufficient that this racism ‘may have played a role – conscious or unconscious – in the immediate acts causing death or in the broader structures concerning the IRT and its deployment.

“The inquest will inquire as to whether this is in fact the case.”

Northern Territory Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker says he was not involved in the decision to charge Constable Zachary Rolfe. “I completely reject any inference that I was in a meeting with the Chief Minister and the Director of Public Prosecutions. It is simply not true. It did not More

Ms Armitage said the argument that admitting the messages might undermine Constable Rolfe’s Supreme Court acquittal was “misconceived”.

“Provided I do not include in a finding or statement that a person is or may be guilty of an offence, it does not ‘controvert’ an acquittal for a Coroner to inquire into the facts underlying an offence of which the person has been acquitted,” she wrote.

The messages are yet to be tendered to the court.

The inquest continues.

The inquest continues.

The coroner has called Rolfe’s ex – fiance to give evidence, and she is tipping a bucket of shit all over him.

People will keep dying unnecessarily unless we quit harming them with COVID jabs

BOM weather report:

Key atmospheric and oceanic indicators of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) show an established La Niña. Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures have been cooling since June and are now at La Niña thresholds. Atmospheric indicators including the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), trade wind strength, and equatorial cloudiness are also displaying patterns typical of a La Niña event.

The Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) continues to show a weak signal with most models suggesting it will remain weak for at least the next seven days. A weak MJO is unlikely to have much impact on Australian climate

I’m a librarian too.

Cassie of Sydneysays:

September 13, 2022 at 6:28 pm

Tonight on his Sky programme, Chris Kenny tried to dismiss the concerns of those of us who are opposed to the Voice because he says that most of those who are opposed to the Voice are also monarchists. Don’t know where he conjured that up from.

Why not say most of those who support Da Voice are Republicans.
The latest talking points tie up colonialism, the Republic and Da Voice.
It isn’t a stretch to see where this goes next.
A Republic with the Head of State role filled by a Council of Wise Aunties and Uncles.

The first battle in any war is to attribute dodgy quotes to one’s enemies.

– Sun Tzu.

Teal independent MP advocating for electric vehicles owns Tesla CFDs

In her maiden speech, ‘Teal’ independent MP Sophie Scamps backed “making electric vehicles affordable for everyday Australians”. But she has a financial interest in Tesla, it can be revealed.
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
@publicdefender
2 min read
September 13, 2022 – 5:46PM
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‘Teal’ independent Sophie Scamps used her maiden speech to federal parliament in August 2022 to advocate for electric vehicles.

Sydney ‘teal’ independent Sophie Scamps faces a call to exclude herself from parliamentary debate of electric vehicle policy because she has a financial interest in Tesla — held in a family trust.

After winning the northern suburbs seat of Mackellar at the May federal election by campaigning for increased integrity in politics and action on climate change, Dr Scamps did not disclose the holding in her initial declaration on the register of members’ interests.

Her family’s bet on the fortunes of the world’s best-known maker of electric vehicles was revealed in an update which came after she had used her House of Representatives first speech to advocate for “making electric vehicles affordable for everyday Australians”.

During the election campaign, she said “owning an EV should not be a privilege or a luxury.”

Dr Scamps does not directly own Tesla shares. Rather, her family trust holds Tesla CFDs, or contracts for difference. Australia’s investment regulator says a CFD is a “high-risk, leveraged derivative contract” that “allow(s) you to speculate on the short-term movements” in a share’s price.

Dr Scamps told The Telegraph: “My husband and I decided to invest in Tesla back in 2019, well before I had any intention to enter politics.

“We made this decision as it aligned with our family’s values, and our belief that the world must transition to a net zero future if we are to leave our children a liveable world.”

It’s understood the MP’s husband, former ACT Brumbies centre Adam Magro, is a sophisticated investor.

Liberal senator for NSW Hollie Hughes said Dr Scamps either had to “offload” the Tesla CFDs or bow out of EV policy debate.

“There’s a reasonably direct conflict of interest there,” Ms Hughes said.

“Tesla would be the major beneficiary”, she added, of the teals’ push to make EVs more affordable through tax breaks and other concessions.

Senior officials at Australia’s High Commission in London are deeply concerned and unhappy about Ben Roberts-Smith’s invitation to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, with sources close to the arrangements saying they did not expect the Victoria Cross recipient to accept the invitation.

Pardon the French, but just fuck right off.

It’s between the Palace and Roberts-Smith.

It’s between the Palace and Roberts-Smith.

Fair comment.

Obviously guns are going to be bought for cash, crypto, gold, silver or barter now.

Probably cash. I can’t imagine BillyBeau heading into a gun shop with a quarter horse to barter a rifle.

I am starting to get the impression that the Walker inquest is a two bob kangaroo court set up with the aim of forever destroying Zac Rolfe’s life.

It must rankle those virtue signalling arseholes in the NT that Rolfe was acquitted of any crime connected with shooting dead that crazed “aspiring rapper”.

The more I hear of these activist judges, magistrates and now a coroner, the less faith I have in our legal system.

I am starting to get the impression that the Walker inquest is a two bob kangaroo court set up with the aim of forever destroying Zac Rolfe’s life.

Call me uncharitable, but, reading the NT papers on – line, I’m of the opinion that the inquest was set up to placate the local aspiring rappers, after Zac Rolfe was found “Not Guilty.”

When Roberts-Smith walks passes Elbow at the funeral he should do a ‘Benny Hill’ pat on his head.

There are such gorgeous women around. Just beautiful and wonderful dress sense too.

Interesting:

I put in a NYC zip code and this message pinged back.

We’re sorry, but we cannot ship ammunition to New York City, not even to a licensed dealer. We are, however, able to ship to licensed dealers located outside of the city limits. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I reckon that would be unconstitutional or perhaps they can get away with it arguing population density makes it dangerous to ship ammo.

“A Republic with the Head of State role filled by a Council of Wise Aunties and Uncles.”

That would be a truly wonderful way to go – truly inspirational.

Dot

Under the US constitution can ammo be legally categorized differently to the right to bear arms (guns)?

Dover

I thought pile ons such as the example above were banned after the your thread about comportment- even if it’s Fatboy. If anyone was ever unsure why I can’t stand the turtlehead, the above is a great example of why I consider him to be a vile poisonous prick with zero attributes to any blog.

Happy to announce I have never heard of Jack Charles.

Devastated that I missed out on his “wider truths”.

Thanks Dot.