“With a name like Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, surely there couldn’t be two of these?” Probably an independent contractor security guard.…
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Unbelievable that this should even be necessary. I thought doctors were there to save lives, not end them.Utah bans doctors…
Some 17 year old has reported stabbed her 10 year old sister in Newcastle. What a society!!!
Dover this is a few paragraphs into the article. Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence…
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Breastfeeding in public was still happening in the 1960s, so I assume it had always happened.
The thing that had the biggest influence was the “teachings” of Dr. Spock, who recommended fixed feeding times, rather than feeding on demand which had been the norm, for, I dunno, 65,000 years?
What’s the difference?
Just so sad the depths this place has fallen.
The difference is that between having a just claim and a mere claim. Or to put it another way, the justice of your claim is independent of your power to effectively enforce that claim.
https://open.substack.com/pub/harryrichardson/p/wall-st-is-cannibalising-americas?r=22jqht&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Uh huh.
The reality was that Parliament borrowed the money from the Banks in Paris to compensate the West Indies Plantation owners for their losses.
That was in 1837 and the Debt was only paid off in 2015.
Boris Johnson’s family is only one of the many that receive a regular cheque from the Trust Fund for SlaveOwners, now in it’s 186th year.
So, if they want to pay Reparations, they know where the money is, it’s been keeping them in Caviar and Champagne since 1837.
That was monty, actually.
There were multiple goals for European colonialists, and different priorities for different countries. One thing is for sure, while they may have copped financial losses in the short term, they were not going to keep it up in the medium to long term. They weren’t running charities.
Cheap raw materials, gems and precious metals, and food products all poured into the colonisers’ countries. Thing is, those things had always been there, or potentially been there (e.g. plantations) long before the colonisers arrived. But, they were monetised by the incomers, and some of that money remained in the colonies, even in the worst cases (I’m looking at Belgium here, although there are other contenders.)
The point is, critics of colonisation have a fair point when they say that there was brutality and disposession and all the rest. But, to look at it from air-conditioned comfort in the C21st, overlaid with wokeness, is like assessing a live export ship from the point of view of a vegan.
In ranking successful post colonial countries, surely the first would be India, which is going gangbusters. Then there is Indonesia, which is an extraordinary political achievement in keeping hundreds of islands together as a country.
At the bottom of the list are African countries like Somalia (chaos) and Mali (poorest country on the planet, or close to it.)
Both India and Indonesia had hundreds of years of ‘colonialism’, and their political, cultural and physical infrastructure reflect that.
Then there is South Africa. What a tragedy. 400 years of nation building, to the point where it was by far the richest and most developed country on the continent, and now it is melting like an ice sculpture on Christmas Day. 🙁
Oh, and Zimbabwe. Another tragedy.
Simplistic slogans about ‘colonialism’ are rubbish, and display a profound ignorance of history.
Apart from those mentioned, can any of the critics show us how throwing off the shackles of ‘colonialism’ has resulted in improved outcomes for the countries under discussion?
They think they’ve exited the culture wars while at the same time they’ve embraced the alphabet lobby.
Let’s see how this works out for them electorally.
On colonialism and the profit and outcomes thereof…
From my perspective only the Brits got it even remotely right. The French got moderately close, especially when the colony’s weather was good. The Spaniards were honest in their desire for pillage first and everything else second. The Belgians disgraceful and the Germans a bit of a non-starter, despite their best efforts. The Yanks in the Philippines were a more benign version of what they inherited from Spain.
What is reprehensible about (especially) the Brits is that, having run a mostly-benign “rule, educate, build (and profit)” strategy, they either willingly or otherwise just cut and ran after WWII.
India ought to have been the exemplar – overstay your welcome by a few years – but for whatever reason that template was thrown out the window, especially in Africa. [Our (Gough’s) approach in PNG was also egregious in this regard.] In colony after colony, they ran away just before the job was done. Didn’t have the cojones to see the exit strategy though. Poor form.
That’s the real tragedy, and at heart the real source of grievance, though it’s rarely recognised and never acknowledged.
Kinda snap, Johanna.
duk – I get your point. Driving at 100kph through a school zone at 3.30pm may not necessarily result in you turning a kiddie into bitumen pizza.
But, the chances of parents (and many other people) agreeing that it is worth the risk is so close to zero that it is barely worth mentioning.
You’re on a loser with this one.
Is it racist to ask if some cultures are/were better than others?
I was merely offering the forum the opportunity to explain *why* the 2 are treated differently… so far, no one has taken up the opportunity.
PS… ‘give me a break’ is not an argument, nor is ‘I would prefer to live in a society which does not equate the 2’.
Further to the British Empire, I can’t recall his name but there’s a Canadian professor who lost his job a few years ago at a Canadian university because he dared to defend the British and the British empire, specifically in relation to India. The totalitarian and tyrannical little Marxists then decided to lynch him and terminate his career. The woke are such a tolerant lot! Anyway, this professor, being of Indian extraction, specifically from the Punjab, specifically from a Sikh religious background, had immediate family who experienced life under the Raj, his parents having migrated from India to Canada, and he grew up listening to stories by his parents and grandparents of their experiences living under the British rule, followed by the catastrophic violence and slaughter of partition and then under the newly independent India. He described how his parents never got over the trauma of partition and its ensuing violence. His parents and grandparents witnessed first hand what happened when the British pulled out, millions were butchered, including many in his own family. The Punjab was a slaughterhouse between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. Anyway, what did he say that was so offensive and ruffled the feathers of the always tolerant woke? Well, he dared to say that British rule, whilst not perfect, was fairly benign, the British imposed order and laws on the subcontinent, and most importantly, the British kept the warring religious groups apart.
No!
“I was merely offering the forum the opportunity to explain *why* the 2 are treated differently… so far, no one has taken up the opportunity.”
Because they’re not the same. Seriously, give me a break.
“Simplistic slogans about ‘colonialism’ are rubbish, and display a profound ignorance of history.”
Well said Johanna.
Honest question, does anyone have a view on the partial colonisation of China? I get the feeling the old gang was there to plunder.
Is someone trying to claim a woman breastfeeding an infant (usually done with some discretion) is analogulous to public urination.
Why do you think they are the same?
Yes. Because the losers don’t like it. And anything not liked that the left as ruled a matter of victimhood is racist.
Glad I could be of help.
Excellent – 3rd meaty topic for the day 🙂
I am of the school that only believes negative rights exist … the right not to be killed, the right not to have your stuff stolen etc etc etc.
This is because postive rights … the ‘right’ to an education, the ‘right’ to free health care etc by necessity clash with negative rights – if you have a ‘right’ to an education, someone else has the obligation to provide you with it – which means stealing their time or their resources.
SITREP 5/7/23: Prigozhin’s Masterpiece Amid Powerful New Airstrikes
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
8 MAY 2023
Let’s start with some updates about previously ongoing developments.
The Prigozhin saga has appeared to have concluded in the expected and predictable manner. Prigozhin now claims all is fine, and that a new deal has been struck with the Russian MOD to deliver all appropriate ammo, plus securing of the Wagner flanks. This was after Chechen leader Kadyrov claimed to have already been sending his men to take over Bakhmut from Wagner.
Prigozhin claims that previous theater commander Surovikin has now been appointed as some sort of special liaison to Wagner in terms of logistics and supply.
I’d go deeper into this entire situation, unpacking what it could mean, and what it was all about, but to be quite frank, I think most of us agree that this entire saga was quite tedious and tiresome, and is ultimately a circular argument of who was to blame, whether it was all just theater, etc. If it’s truly resolved then I think for now we can move on and not need to devote massive page space to this anymore.
The only people doing so so are likely just trying to profit from the sensationalist clickbait circumstances surrounding this strange episode. I’ll return to it if it flares up again, but for now it appears not much is left to be said on it other than, as someone recently aptly flourished: “The dogs bark, but the caravan rolls on.”
Only thing I’ll say is that numerous sources from the AFU continue to maintain that the Wagner saga was an illusion, and that no ammunition depletion is recorded. For instance, in a new CNN article, spokesman for AFU’s eastern grouping, Serhii Cherevatyi, said:
“Now they are firing more than 20,000 shells a day. That’s why (Prigozhin’s remarks on ammunition starvation) is a complete bluff,” he said.
Another report where Ukrainian sources state that new Wagner units with additional equipment and ammo are “constantly arriving” for a final strike on AFU positions, and that this does not match what Wagner has been saying:
Funnily enough, in the same report, Ukrainian GUR appears to confirm some of the theories from the Russian side, which is that Wagner is not ‘low on shells’ per se, but rather that Wagner is greedy for an endless increase of them, which no amount will satiate:
One other key revelation from the episode, however, was Prigozhin’s reiteration that Ukraine is losing 400-600 men in Bakhmut per day, which should silence the doubters who claimed these events mean that Russia is now suffering a lopsided loss ratio against Ukraine.
This was from Prigozhin’s new video which can be seen here: VIDEO LINK.
Another statement from a Ukrainian source:
All Prigozhin’s statements about “exiting Bakhmut” are all fakes and lies, and “these will be difficult days of missile attacks, attacks by Shaheds,” because “Russia wants to stage a bloody show in Ukraine.”
And lastly, for anyone that’s interested, prior to the resolution, Prigozhin had released a pretty exhaustive document which clarified all the issues with a lot of interesting details, which can be read in full here (just run it through an auto-translator): LINK.
The document has some very interesting observations from a tactical standpoint as Prigozhin goes into battle details. He confirms, for instance, that there are 30k Wagnerians against 35k AFU directly in Bakhmut and 80k+ total in general area near Bakhmut. He also states that Wagner consumes on average 6000 shells per day.
Using these numbers, he makes some interesting accounts by way of Soviet artillery theory, such as the following:
– Second: according to the norms defined by the Rules of Shooting and Fire Control, the consumption of ammunition for suppressing the enemy’s platoon strongpoint is 180 shells per 1 hectare. The average length of the front of the Wagner PMC, taking into account different periods, is 80 km. This is about 400 enemy strongholds. Their suppression requires 180 x 400, that is, 72 thousand shells per day. And so on every day.
Lastly and most interestingly, Prigozhin states something which appears to answer a question I had last time, in that he believes that Russia currently produces enough shells to fully arm everyone as needed, and as such the ‘shell hunger’ induced is ‘artificial’:
Anyway, onto the next.
As the caravan rolls on through Bakhmut, several more blocks were captured today with the newly renewed Wagner forces marching on.
One brief remark on Bakhmut and why it’s taking so long to capture it compared to other cities. Compared to Mariupol, the contrast is easy to see: Mariupol was locked against the sea, which meant that it was easy to surround on three sides, giving no possibility for reinforcement and supplies. Ironically, the crafty and resourceful AFU still managed to resupply the final Azovstal bastion to an extent, for a while at least, by flying helicopters low over the sea—but the point remains.
Zelensky ordered to continue pumping the city full of reinforcements. This is why the battle is taking so long compared to the other two major urban engagements thus far.
But the big question is why did Zelensky do this? As I’ve covered before—apart from wanting to delay Russian forces up until the time of Ukraine’s counter-offensive—the main reason is because, unlike Mariupol and Severodonetsk, Bakhmut is the final frontier before the all-important Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomerate which represents, in effect, the AFU’s “last stand” in Donbass. So of course when the defender pours all their resources into holding a city and refuses to retreat, and it’s a city which does not have natural obstructions like water, then it’s going to take much longer. Not to mention that Bakhmut is a very naturally defensible city due to the height advantages for the defender right on its outskirts:
As for Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, the other big urban battles: the AFU chose to slip away there and after some bitter fighting, the order from command was simply to preserve their forces and retreat.
Bakhmut was actually supposed to go the same way, showing that the high command’s style did not change. But the order to retreat in this case was simply annulled and reversed by Zelensky himself. We actually have proof of that now as the order itself was apparently leaked recently:
Reports claim that one of the key objectives of the new offensive will be for the AFU to capture the Energodar nuclear plant.
I believe this is one of those objectives with a great cost to benefit ratio for the AFU, as technically it’s not very difficult to capture it, as it’s right on the water and doesn’t require liberating many tens of kilometers of territory. And it is a prominent enough big ticket item that by capturing it, you can nearly declare a ‘victory’ to the entire offensive just from that alone. It would certainly be, at the least, a major psychological victory and would allow Ukraine to have a lot of new blackmail leverage over Russia, including that of potential nuclear falseflags, etc.
And, there’s been a new slew of headlines from Western MSM and political figures calling the offensive into question, or pleading for a lowering of expectations.
Czech President Petr Pavel urged Ukraine “not to rush” into a counter-offensive in order to avoid the inevitable heavy losses. Crucially, he said that Ukraine will only get one chance at this:
Washington Post similarly released a cautioning note from Ukrainian defense minister Reznikov, who said that most people are awaiting something “huge” and shouldn’t overwork their expectations:
More and more, western leaders are now positioning themselves towards the inevitable peace talks. Even Henry Kissinger just stated in a new interview that China will be used to rein Russia into peace talks “by the end of this year”.
The U.S. is in a desperate position now as all of their key military officials are predicting the kick off of the Taiwan war in the next two years or less, and they need to prepare themselves by massively re-arming the depleted American stockpiles which are all being sucked up into the black hole that is Ukraine. The U.S. MIC can’t take this conflict for much longer.
On the other hand, Russia is only just ramping up, economically. Not only has the Ruble once more risen against the dollar this week, back to around 76:
But it was announced today that Russia has officially returned to the top 10 global economies as per nominal GDP.
A few last, disparate things. I reported last time on the big Pavlograd compound that was destroyed by Russian strikes. A few closer satellite images have become available of the strikes, which show more detail of the impacts and consequences:
Recall that this crater is said to be 30 meters (100ft) deep. And you can now see that many other facilities, quonsets, hangars, etc., were devastated. Not only was some important chemical producing facility destroyed, but it was confirmed that a ballistic missile workshop also bit the bullet, which was used to covertly manufacture Ukraine’s homemade Grom-2 missiles.
Now, as of this writing, there is a massive aerial attack on Ukraine ongoing. Some sources claim it could be one of Russia’s largest ever, which was also said about the strike days ago.
But this just goes to show, the past week has been filled with almost daily strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and positions. The current strikes are reportedly utilizing everything from sea-fired Kalibrs to Geran drones to Tu-22m and Tu-95 launched missiles.
Many areas were hit, including these warehouses in Odessa:
One report says that the same railway depot where Leopards were just seen days ago (a photo of which I posted in a recent report) was destroyed by missiles. Likewise, Zatoka bridge, which connects Romania to Odessa, was reportedly hit, though there is no confirmation as of yet. The targeting of a key infrastructure bridge would be a big step up and could mean this week’s latest spate of strikes could be portending some big movements.
Zelensky appeared to confirm as much in a new video statement seen here, where he states that there will be big ‘new events’ in May and June.
These strikes are particularly significant in light of recent developments we’ve followed here vis a vis Ukraine’s AD missile drought. Recall that they are said to be very low, to the extent that experts have begun to openly encourage them to begin “letting some missiles through”.
On this account, for the past two days some on the AFU side have been bragging that an American Patriot missile has shot down a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile. But the problem is, even Twitter’s community notes proceeded to comically ‘fact check’ this fraud, given that Ukrainian Air Force’s own spokesman, Yuriy Ignat, confirmed there was no such missile shot down.
And only a fool could possibly think the wreckage they showed was a Kinzhal anyway; does this sewer pipe look like a Kinzhal to you?
But critics and self-avowed ‘experts’ disagreed with me, saying that HIMARs M31 missiles have advanced INS (Inertial Navigation System) which can store up the GPS coordinates such that even if you jam the GPS, the INS will get the missile to its destination. That’s possible, but unfortunately INS is less accurate the further out that the missile is jammed. And now, I’ve been vindicated as a major new CNN article has revealed exactly what I’ve been saying for over a year:
Ukraine’s own frontline troops describe the dwindling usability of the HIMARs:
Of course, the HIMARs have always been oversold, buried in the fat of another MSM article comes this little-seen revelation:
It seems that the longer time goes on, the more we end up learning how awful U.S. weapons actually were all along, and how over-hyped all their early ‘claimed successes’ really were. For instance, recall how devastating the Javelin was billed to be in the early part of the war, yet after damn near a year and a half of fighting, there isn’t a single clear piece of footage showing even one successful Javelin hit.
And of course, as I’ve already exposed before, even in the U.S. Army’s own internal tests they found the Javelin to only have a 19% success rate:
CEO of Russia’s largest arms concern, Rostec, in this video states that Russia produced ~150 total helicopters last year, i.e. Ka-52s, Mi-28s, etc., and this year so far they are already at ~300. That should give you an idea of how much Russian production has ramped up. He also states that Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have also been similarly expanded in production.
Meanwhile, Turkish minister Cavusoglu in this video states how the U.S. secretly begged Turkey to hand over the Russian S-400 so the U.S. could study and reverse engineer it, to which Turkey politely declined.
Well, time is nigh. I guess we’ll find out soon what they really have left, and whether they have the moxie to launch a big one on May 9th as they’ve been threatening for so long to do.
In the meantime, this is what U.S. defense and intel forces are up to, and how they’re preparing for a conflict-rife future:
I don’t think they had much choice. The unrest from India to Kenya to Egypt and the holy land occurred at the same time that the people of the UK were utterly exhausted. Since there was no way a thousand simultaneous fires could be put out they chose the gracious option.
Not helped of course by the communists undermining everything they could.
The mistake that was made was in the colonies themselves – except India they were better off as colonies than they are now. Colonialism is a pretty good thing really, especially with tribalism and corruption always lurking. We see the same here with aboriginal people.
The French worked out better, since they managed to keep some places like New Caledonia. Now that the locals see what is happening everywhere that “won” their independence there’s a new-found realization that being part of France might actually be a good thing. Took sixty years for people to work it out though.
Kinda snap bullshit. What about the Dutch! 🙂
flyingduksays:
May 8, 2023 at 4:51 pm
I have no problems with women breastfeeding in public, we all know breast is best for a baby. Most women do it discreetly and modestly. As for those women who don’t, who flop their breast out for all to see, I don’t particularly like it but to compare to public urinating and masturbation, give me a break.
I was merely offering the forum the opportunity to explain *why* the 2 are treated differently… so far, no one has taken up the opportunity.
PS… ‘give me a break’ is not an argument, nor is ‘I would prefer to live in a society which does not equate the 2’.
I am the eldest of eight and when my Mum was breastfeeding my younger brothers and sisters we never gave it a thought. Even when other Mums did it in public. Never gave it a second thought. But that was over 60 years ago. I am now age 70 years.
The trouble is now the World is such a crazy wimpy place that people that sneeze are thought of as Covid carriers. LOL.
What a farked up World this has now become.
Sure, there are good and God awful cultures, but this should not be confused with describing people being better or worse. People are basically the same with a few modifications here and there. Culture essentially describes groups of people at different stages of development.
Its not about winning or losing, I regard this blog as a valuable forum for me to test out ideas against a audience of intelligent thinkers … having others disagree helps me think through the issues – thankyou.
In ranking successful post colonial countries, surely the first would be India, which is going gangbusters.
India was 4 Countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma.
None of those are going gangbusters, mostly because of por human capital.
Then there is Indonesia, which is an extraordinary political achievement in keeping hundreds of islands together as a country.
Indonesia is 99% monoracial, that solves a lot of problems, plus being a dictatorship run by elites somewhat negates the lack of human capital.
I think the simple answer is that Britain was exhausted by the war. The Indian provinces had been ruled as a diarchy since 1919 were more or less autonomous by 1935. The appetite to continue the Raj in the face of civil disobedience in India and financial constraints at home just wasn’t there.
Cassie, saying:
twice is still not an argument … nor will it be a 3rd time.
Is someone trying to claim a woman breastfeeding an infant (usually done with some discretion) is analogulous to public urination.
Why do you think they are the same?
I hesitate to enter this debate. But I will. I don’t particularly like to see women breastfeed in public – particularly in Parliament as a Greens senator did some time back.
Yes, of course it is a natural process and a baby must be fed. But expressed milk in a bottle can be negotiated when nursing in public is unavoidable.
And why the reservation? Well, the breast is also undeniably a sexual delight as well as infant nourishment. And while these days anything seems to go in terms of public nakedness, I still think it is inappropriate in public.
Go ahead – call me a prude.
OK.
I was merely offering the forum the opportunity to explain *why* the 2 are treated differently… so far, no one has taken up the opportunity.
Lol; the difference between suckling the infant and pulling the pud in public? Well I guess the answer is nothing because both are racist since they both produce white stuff.
I referenced the rise in advocates for ‘in your face’ (not discreet) breast feeding and asked why it was now virtually celebrated, whereas public urination (masturbation was not my comparator, it was someone elses) was not.
Both involve dual usage parts of the anatomy formerly considered private.
An action in the service of another, in this case to feed an infant who has no control on its needs which must be met for it to survive.
On the other, both are subject to self-control. And planning.
Duk
Whatever you think of public (state) ownership is irrelevant. You’re using a road that doesn’t belong to you. We share the road and the state imposes rules in how manage this. If you don’t like the rules that are in place then don’t use the road system. Another way of looking at road rules such as speeding is crime prevention. That concept has been around since we began to codify our laws.
One other thing. Your view that there is no such thing as a victimless crime is logically nonsensical .
Someone has a gun in their possession and takes a shot in your direction but misses. You’re suggesting that isn’t a crime because there’s no harmed victim and therefore the shooter should avoid an attempted murder rap. You cannot be serious.
Oh, and I don’t appreciate a boob popped out for public display regardless of its purpose.
But the modesty is always best. It’s part of what makes us human and not field animals.
Vicki, how would you handle a kid wanting a tit feed on a long flight from Oz to Europe?
Duk – The problem with “rights” is they naturally lead to superiority. Lefties especially stick their nose in the air and say ‘it’s my right to do such and such’ when they really mean ‘I’m better than you’.
Christianity is fun since in essence no one has any rights at all, none, just responsibilities. Which works well since if everyone has responsibilities, and does them, you don’t need rights. Maybe that’s why the Left hates Christianity so much.
Bother. Just plain modesty. It has a mystique and allure all its own. Every culture draws the line in its own way.
Even the Highlanders didn’t mooch around stark naked but harvested the kunai grass for skirts. And don’t forget the gourds for the fellas. 🙂
Gee. I’m on someone’s speed dial.
Unless your That Sheila in the Green Dress carrying the sword, breasts are for feeding babies, so flop ’em out.
calli, I’m with you on that.
I don’t think that breastfeeding is shameful, but given that female breasts are sex objects in our culture, a bit of coverage is a good plan.
Of course, there may be those who have exhibitionist tendencies, and politics has provided a perfect opportunity …
Highlanders loved fighting in the nood.
Update 156 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
MAY 6 2023
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts present at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have received information that the announced evacuation of residents from the nearby town of Enerhodar – where most plant staff live – has started and they are closely monitoring the situation for any potential impact on nuclear safety and security, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.
While operating staff remain at the site, Director General Grossi expressed deep concern about the increasingly tense, stressful, and challenging conditions for personnel – and their families – at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant (NPP), located by the frontline in a southern Ukrainian region that has seen a recent increase in military presence and activity.
The IAEA experts at the site are continuing to hear shelling on a regular basis, including late on Friday.
“The general situation in the area near the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant is becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous. I’m extremely concerned about the very real nuclear safety and security risks facing the plant. We must act now to prevent the threat of a severe nuclear accident and its associated consequences for the population and the environment. This major nuclear facility must be protected. I will continue to press for a commitment by all sides to achieve this vital objective, and the IAEA will continue to do everything it can to help ensure nuclear safety and security at the plant,” he said.
The IAEA experts at the ZNPP site were not able to visit Enerhodar in recent days. But they have received information about the situation regarding the evacuation in the town. It is part of a wider temporary evacuation in the region reportedly announced on Friday.
ZNPP Site Director Yuri Chernichuk has publicly stated that operating staff are not being evacuated and that they are doing everything necessary to ensure nuclear safety and security at the plant, whose six reactors are all in shutdown mode. He also said that plant equipment is maintained in accordance with all necessary nuclear safety and security regulations.
Since the beginning of the conflict almost 15 months ago, the number of staff at the ZNPP has gradually declined but site management has stated that it has remained sufficient for the safe operation of the plant.
Well, because feeding a toddler is not the same as taking a dump. There is no terrible mess left over. Providing sustenance to a child is an obvious good. One is smelly, the other isn’t. One can be done discreetly, the other cannot. You will have more of one than the other for obvious reasons. I could go on.
I think this distinction largely falls apart. The ‘right to an education’ is simply a claim against anyone interfering with whom you choose to educate your child or yourself. A right to health care isn’t necessarily to ‘free health’ care, but your right to visit and enjoy the services of a pharmacist, therapist, doctor, surgeon or the like. Conversely, ‘negative’ rights also require an infrastructure to enforce. Crimes against the person or property require a some level of administration of justice.
Still, the point I was making, which the distinction between ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ rights leaves unaddressed, is the ground of these rights, or what they are for. The respective goods not only justify them, but also limit them.
Calli, lol, that was me on the last one. I was just trying to be a little annoying to get a reaction.
I just learned this zero thing from the weekend discussion . I suspect those two blog pests, wodney and the turtlehead have been doing this for ages.
Kissing is also considered a sexual act but it is also a greeting. Contex matters.
Ed Case says:
May 8, 2023 at 5:23 pm
Unless your That Sheila in the Green Dress carrying the sword
Ed are you Colour Blind like me?
What was Penny Mordaunt wearing to the coronation?
The politician wore a Teal (Blue/Green) caped dress designed by luxury ready-to-wear brand Safiyaa, embroidered with a fern motif, which is a nod to the privy council. The teal colour, called “Poseidon”, is a reference to her Portsmouth constituency. She arrived wearing ballerina flats, with studded bows and later changed into a pair of nude stilettos.
A source told The Sunday Times last month: “She is paying for [her outfit] herself as there is no budget for it, and no question that any taxpayers’ money should be spent on it. Penny has said that after the coronation she might sell it and use the money to fund future uniforms for women.”
Fans of fantasy TV and film, like Game of Thrones to Star Wars watchers, grew excited on social media, comparing her look to a fictional warrior princess in “gladiator robes”.
Got me dead to rights there!
Annoy away, JC. I thrive on the attention. 🙂
Joanna> Great writing above, it could be a fantastic speech if anyone could be found to deliver it in a suitable venue …
Today seems to have a good ratio of interesting topics vs abusive comments. Perhaps it happens on Mondays.
Re breastfeeding on a flight:
As I said, JC, planning via “expressing” milk prior to flight & feeding via a bottle – if in Economy. If seated in Business or First Class – breastfeeding not such a problem.
Simple.
On the breastfeeding in public, people need to use their common sense. As Calli and Joh have said, don’t flaunt it, recognize the sexual aspect of the breast, especially when men are present, and discreetly feed the baby and there’s an end to it. I remember noticing a woman covering up and she performed the feeding so discreetly I hadn’t noticed until it was done. Also, re Vicki’s point, recognize that some situations or places are inappropriate. My point here would be that it isn’t a right per se, but should definitely be tolerated when done discreetly in public. The ‘right’ is one of feeding your child, not one of feeding your child anywhere you please in what ever manner you please.
Well, yes. My thoughts are that you must look at this through the standards of the time, and this particular standard was stamped out – primarily by the English, and later the US on the Mediterranean coast.
If I were to adopt the screamy noodle-arm point of view, and had I a relative in my deep and distant past who was executed – whether hung, drawn and quartered, buried alive, shot, flayed, given the Blood Eagle treatment, burned at the stake, had his throat slit or gibbeted – then I could (and might) scream for reparations at the hands of the descendants of the people responsible.
However, and like slavery, everyone engaged in capital punishment so the slavery reparation argument becomes a moot point.
So, and to summarise – piss off, you cash-grabbing mendicants.
In my young and pretty days, I never flashed my breasts or anything like that. Let me assure readers, there was no shortage of takers.
I don’t understand how young women have been conned into thinking that they have to look like cheap hookers to be attractive. The horrible tatts, the awful piercings, and clothes that appear to have come from a Bangkok hooker’s ‘do not buy’ pile.
I’m not arguing for the ‘girl next door’ model. But if feminists are worth anything, how about campaigning against girls looking and behaving like hookers?
There was a strip joint in NYC owned by a limeball (limey slimeball) where we’d get taken to by brokers. I swear, the racks on view there were incomparable. The name of the joint was Scores owned by Peter Stringfellow. That was his real name..
Now, I would have thought that’d be one situation in which some protection would be advised. 😀
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Simplicius The Thinker
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I wrote in the last report that basically I see his arrest as a final hour desperation measure by AFU/SBU to plug all the leaks and tighten up their ship on the eve of their so-called ‘offensive’
So his arrest to me signifies a start of a new phase from them, whether that actually leads to real offensives or not, but at the minimum it signifies a ‘projected’ offensive phase where they will certainly attempt to make it look like they’re going on a major offensive, and project a lot of ‘activity’ which is probably partly what his arrest is meant to show for the sake of morale and making it look like they’re actually doing something and capturing enemies, etc. This is all to set the stage for the inevitable failure of their ‘offensive’.
Here’s the famous San Fran crap map.
People are leaving because they’re fed up with stepping in it, smelling it and watching the denizens do all this stuff. The city is being hollowed out.
Public standards and enforcement have their place. Without them the people go to other places.
JC
Scores, wasn’t that where KRuddy got a little overenthusiastic?
Correct. You do not have right to hang the tit out for the purpose of berating anyone who looks at you oddly, which is half the reason these stupid (and invariably pig ugly) women do so.
They don’t do it to feed a child, they do it to make a point – or more correctly, start an argument using the child as a human shield.
If a colony did not possess the technology to take advantage of it’s (?) natural resources until the colonisers arrived, does this negate or only dilute, modern claims of reparations due?
Bangladesh didn’t become Bangladesh until 1971 – in 1947, it was East Bengal, then East Pakistan.
Fighting ‘in da nood’ when it is 5C with a wind chill of 10C might just be … challenging, as the Americans say when they mean ‘everything has turned to shit.’
May be some unresolved issues from the sexual revolution hanging about.
I’ve been going over the whole colonisation/leave ‘em be conundrum for a while now.
What’s done is done, and done at a time that is in many ways as alien to modern thinking as the moment Pythagoras decided that 3:4:5 was something rather special. Or Copernicus decided that the sun, rather than the Earth was the centre. We are trying to put the chicken back in the egg, but alas, the chick is a little too big now.
No amount of money, or brow beating, or extortion will change the past. The colonised have benefited in different ways and most of them positive.
My great great great grandfathers were transportees for crimes so trivial these days they’d barely get a fine. They were, essentially, used as handy slaves to build Australia. I’m proud of them because they “made good”. Why can’t others see the story of their lives the same way?
Because, if their forebears hadn’t done the same, they simply wouldn’t be alive to indulge in a great whinge.
Lol, that’s right. And who could blame that lunatic for getting over excited too.
I’m not kidding, at one time that joint had the best collection of 11 outta 10s in the world.
I never really like strip joints because you end up getting frustrated by just looking and not touching.
Because they’re angling to make a profit from it?
There seems to be a battle going on between individual rights (“wear any damn thing I like because feminist and female”) vs public standards of modesty(“xxxx is not suitable clothing for airplanes/schools/wedding/etc”).
I don’t see anyone sharing the concept that women could/should dress in a way that makes them less objects of the patriarchy, though that thinking was around in earlier times.
Lol. The coldest I’ve ever seen in the PNG highlands is around 10C.
It might be a little brisker on the Borders.
Nordstroms just left. One by one, the high end and anchor retailers are leaving.
They are committing suicide. 🙁
Iirc, international law had changed just before Australia’s settlement. Merely mapping a territory & planting a flag on land, as Capt. Cook had done, no longer conveyed rights of ownership. There had to be a settlement; thus the arrival of the convicts in 1788, principally to head off French ambitions.
Ed are you Colour Blind like me?
Looks that way, OldOzzie.
Was 100% sure that set of Norks was wearing Green until someone mentioned a Royal Blue dress.
You mean bulldyke lezzso dress to look sexy to please men?
Sexy as
I guess I keep better company. Aunts and freinds breastfed like it was part normal ruiteen and it is. If I ever come an exhibitionists the best reaction is none at all. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
Am i missing something? I don’t get the “crap map” – what does it mean/represent?
My great great great grandfathers were transportees for crimes so trivial these days they’d barely get a fine.
What, the whole 16 of them?
It does explain a few things, though.
Oh my word. I thought that was going to be disgusting, but clicked on it anyway.
I was not disappointed.
Every month, that person will be reminded that ‘she’ is not a bloke.
no, they are playing for the other team – so to speak.
You’re going to the wrong strip joints.
Lysander
Locations in San Fran where a grogan has been dropped in the street. Clearly San Fran is worse than the Hay truck stop.
My father’s ancestors were Scottish crofters. They were evicted from their smallholdings during the Highland clearances, marched to the nearest seaport under guard, and “put aboard” to Australia. They made good.
Oh, ok…wow…. thanks BJ….
Potentially less ‘pants out the window’ moment, though.
This shitting in the street in the US is I suppose another example of collapsing civilization. Making life unpleasant and impossible for regular citizens.
Spearmint Rhino ring a bell?
On breastfeeding.
A simple scarf dropped over feeding bub and boob does the trick.
If 10 Muslim ladies in a detention center with 1000 blokes can do it outside without a fuss then its pretty well tried and tested.
Plus it gives you an excuse to hit hubby up for a hermes…
JCsays:
May 8, 2023 at 4:59 pm
Honest question, does anyone have a view on the partial colonisation of China? I get the feeling the old gang was there to plunder.
Ill throw a little wrinkle into that example, at the time 90% of the Chinese were the conquered subjects of the Qing dynasty, an ethnic minority who had seized power.
The stereotypical que worn by the Chinese was a sign of subjugation.
The various Euros all wanted a slice of the market and each of the expansions into China were however very opportunistic ventures, usually after the Chinese tried to push concessions they had already given out.
San Francisco was once, unarguably, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Carlson, Musk Had ‘Conversation’ About ‘Working Together’ As Former Host Looks to ‘Torch’ Fox News: Report
Pussycat Lounge. … sadly now closed.
I never really like strip joints because you end up getting frustrated by just looking and not touching.
You’re going to the wrong strip joints.
From spearmint rhino to Listerine hyena in a single bound.
From Scores to open sores.
From Crazy horse to insane meth mouth
From Moulin Rouge to Mangy seborrhea
KD knows all the classy joints.
(BTW Crazy Horse was awesome, 11/10s, and the ladies all wear some sort of mirkin on the nethers, so its art not stripping)!
I’ve never been to a strip club
So far the discussion about what is acceptable or criminal in public hasn’t considered farting. This guy makes a good living from farting in public:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/GilstrapTV/
And who can forget the great French flatulist, Le Pétomane, who had them rolling in the aisles with his fragrant and vibrant farting in 19thC France. And then there are these exponents of the art of farting:
The world’s oldest joke, traced back to 1900 BC in Mesopotamia, is about farting, suggesting that flatulence – derived from the Latin word “flatus”, the act of blowing – was as much of an entertaining no-no for the ancients as it is for us today.
“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap,” goes the ancient Sumerian joke. Though not much of a rib-tickler, it reveals that breaking wind even a millennia ago was taboo, especially for women. The only known exception to such windy activity in public is the Yanomami tribe of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela, for whom farting is a form of greeting.
Over centuries, farting has featured in European and English literature. Dante’s Inferno mentions a demon who “uses his ass as a trumpet”, while Chaucer is almost avidly scatological.
From A Brief History of Passing Wind
Oops
…. that I didn’t like.
Hey, hang on. You just have to know the right people.
“I’ve never been to a strip club”
Nor have I. Lidia Thorpe has.
“I’ve never been to a strip club”
One does not go to a strip club, one winds up in one.
Good Lord
Collingwood have apologised to Lance Franklin for some booing he copped.
Is there no end to this bullshit?
Lidia Thorpe has the honour of being permanently banned from a strip club.
Watching the can-can being danced in the Moulin Rouge was an experience I would describe as “educational.”
‘We are not a party for single-issue culture wars, dominated by reactionary populists,’ Susan Lay, the canbra punk rocker.
I reckon Lidia Thorpe would be good company, whether at a strip club or a Church Fete.
Eddles, does that have anything to do with your addiction?
As part of the Feral Guv’ments Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, here are the latest announcements –
– A Blackout will now be called a Brownout
– A Brownout will now be called a Bowen Out (of his depth).
– A White wash cannot be called that anymore (too racist apparently)
– Man Overboard is no longer allowed (not enough Men)
– Chairman is not allowed as there are not enough chairs
– A Cock or Two is no longer a bird. Although a Gala (Galah) Dinner is still allowed.
– A Pheasant Plucker is not allowed as we have run out of Pluckers (although I am told that there are plenty of those pluckers in Canberra).
– The cost of the Voice will be included in the InVoice that the Guv’ment sends you all. Please pay promptly within 7 days as the Guv’ment needs the cash.
That should do until Tuesday Night’s Budget. More gnus to be revealed shortly. Until then, TC and have a nice Day Voters everywhere in the Land of OZ…………………………….
From The Spectator link @ 6:34-
Wilberforce is a hero to Woke idiots like the clown that wrote this drivel, but back in the 1830s he was popularly regarded as a grifter who had enabled the West Indies Plantation owners to get paid for their Freed Slaves from the Public Purse.
The Debt to the Bankers wasn’t paid off until 2015.
If it were me I’d be sending child protection services to her place to see if the children are malnourished. Vegan diets and children really don’t mix.
‘Now that’s entitlement’: Community reacts to bizarre letter sent from vegan family to neighbour calling out their cooking habits (Sky News, 8 May)
A strange written note sent from a vegan Perth family to their neighbour has divided the online community after it was shared on social media over the weekend.
Sarah, a wife and mother living in the northern suburb of Burns Beach, sent the letter to her next door neighbour, addressing concerns of an “upsetting” smell of meat coming from the house.
Urging the neighbour to “please take seriously”, the “important message” proceeds to state a bizarre request.
“Hello neighbour,” the letter begins.
“Could you please shut your side window when cooking please.
“My family are vegan (we eat only plant based foods) and the smell of the meat you cook makes us feel sick and upset.
“We would appreciate your understanding.
“Thanks. Sarah, Wayne & Kids.”
The letter didn’t fare well on social media, with debate breaking out over the message being a display of “entitled behaviour” by vegans.
Lady, try that one on muslim neighbours butchering sheep in the back yard for Eid.
Ed Case sooking because the Poms didnt have a civil war over slavery?
Anyone living in Filth (formerly perth) can tell me if Heathridge is a junkie sty or worth a look for a block of land i might be able to pinch cheap.
Have a fallen through auction that might take an insulting offer.
The lie here is that the Liberals have embraced the alphabet agenda, which is at the forefront of the culture wars.
Fortunately I usually turn around if I have reached Trigg. Unless going up to Joondalup for a hit. I get no satisfaction seeing Perf exposed to ridicule.
Lay sounds like a California demonrat.
NSW politics is having a popcorn phase. Herr Premier Minns is doing lame excuses, stealing Nats and causing carnage. Not bad work for a single day.
Speaking of the culture wars…
The ‘Cis’ Slur and the War on Normality
A very good piece.
The Channel 7 weather chick mentioned that today was the coldest early May temperature in 85 years. I just couldn’t resist asking how that global warming is going?
Hope Rowan Dean works it into his Ice Age segment on next Sunday’s The Outsiders.
Whats up with all the TV ratings survey scammy callers recently. Driving me nuts.
Sussan said:
SINGLE ISSUE Culture Wars are out.
It makes sense too, voters aren’t interested in Women Only Fire Crews giving them a female perspective on Fires while watching their house burn down.
duk,
It was your comparator, stated twice as a matter of fact.
What you are saying, in effect, is the pervert sicko who sits across from a breastfeeding mother and starts whacking off is to be considered as acceptable in the public space as the latter. Regardless of discreet or in your face breastfeeding.
The Nats now know what they need to do, throw Franklin out of the party. They have no benefit from his membership since he has taken his vote away.
From the Oz. I haven’t posted the whole article.
Yep, but they’re much more organised as well.
The Aust Conservation Foundation sponsoring the main evening news on Ch 7 is one way they apply pressure.
If conservatives (no pun) did this it would be a scandal.
Nigel Biggar’s recent book ‘Colonialism; a moral reckoning’, reviewed here in The Telegraph (British) provides a lot of economic data on which to found moral claims, as well as legal and other data specifically about the British Empire. Colonialism in general, of all nations, is a huge topic; rightly said by some here to be in need of disaggregating.
Biggar doesn’t always get his facts right though. He sees Australian aboriginal issues through the frame of moral outrage on issues we’d dispute.
Crossie – It’s so like Our Julia and Slippery Slipper. The sliminess of all of them is like a convocation of leopard slugs.
What you are saying, in effect, is the pervert sicko who sits across from a breastfeeding mother and starts whacking off is to be considered as acceptable in the public space as the latter.
What an imagination, eh?
You wouldn’t be that Pervert Sicko, by any chance?
He’s evidently much more stupid than I thought.
Ed are you Colour Blind like me?
Ed, have you figured out yet that the New England Highway goes through Toowoomba?
It’s in my ‘to read’ pile, Lizzie.
I’m interested to see how he handled the topic and will send him a critique for him to consider in case a revised edition is in the offing.
Really?
What about in countries where people can’t afford to buy and sterilise bottles, or keep milk refrigerated to ensure the milk hasn’t spoiled after leaving home, which could also be a problem here in hot weather?
Put aside one off political exhibitionists.
We had that discussion here at the time. Cashiers don’t get to take their babies to the cash register and pop them on.
A single politician doesn’t set the standard.
It’s not recommended, by the way, to confuse small babies with bottles.
My experience is that mums invariably put a muslin over their shoulder, (even when feeding their babies in parents rooms in department stores) ,probably because they want to avoid salacious eyes at what is an important part of the relationship between mother and infant.
I suppose you never had a new baby with three older children who had to go here, there and everywhere.
Yes. Mum and bub retiring to a quiet place where they can look at each other is even better.
The joy of this connection as bub and mum play with each other so intimately is what the chest-feeders want to take from real women. Womanhood centres around our monthly cycles for the purpose of pregnancy and baby making and feeding. Prancing trannies can keep right out of it. They are not women. This is not their birthright.
He seems like the dumbest person in the Higgins/Lehrman case “room”. I feel a large payout coming along soon plus some resignation(s) and apologies. Not sure about the last one.
Ed Casesays:
May 8, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Sussan said:
SINGLE ISSUE Culture Wars are out.
It makes sense too, voters aren’t interested in Women Only Fire Crews giving them a female perspective on Fires while watching their house burn down.
Single sex fire crews sounds like a single issue culture war, Grandpa Ed Simpson. Women’s only toilets and change rooms is not. Neither is women’s only contact sports.
But nice (if weak) try at deflection.
Or are just too gutless to make a stand and counter it all.
Susan (Sussan) Ley, she fooled me once and got my vote. Never again.
Looks interesting, LizzieB. I’m ordering a copy.
Roger, it’s on my list too, as I’ve only read numerous reviews of it. Also, I was outraged at an interview in The Spectator where both Biggar and Matthew Paris who was interviewing him, had a joint hissy fit about Australia’s moral lapses re aboriginal people – seeming to rely on mythologies such as a line of exterminating hunters right across the island of Tasmania, and other ‘aboriginals wars’ fabrications.
I wrote to the Speccie about it but it didn’t get published.
Talking about thrill seekers, if you were managing the eastern electricity grid tonight you might be in for a real roller-coaster ride. Just enough wind to make ends meet at the moment, but if it drops it’s whoopsie time. I hope the lads and lasses and “thems” at AEMO have got thick underwear on tonight. Interestingly, I have noticed a lot more gas creep into the system in Vic. Now I wonder how this is happening given Dan’s aversion to gas. Something to do with a Chinese part owned company that is getting gas via Newtown perhaps? Check this site every now and again to see what I mean. https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
Yes. The Brits, though, had profit on their minds as the Chinese know.
While waiting for the tea plantations to prosper in India they cultivated opium poppies and trafficked the resulting opium to China. Laudanum use was also common in the West. I’m sure this is why the Chinese return the favour with fentanyl today. Auden: ‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.’
San Francisco was once, unarguably, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Must have been awhile back .. I was there in 2013 and the homeless/vagrants were very noticeable tho never encountered any problems never felt as safe as compared to New York which back then was a tourist heaven .. everyone was cheerful, friendly & helpful .. felt very safe .. seemed to be a plod/car presence on every corner …
Nigel Biggar’s recent book ‘Colonialism; a moral reckoning’, reviewed here in The Telegraph
Review available at Quadrant Online.
Nice to see Rita Panahi confront Michael Kroger about Pesutto/Deeming.
I suppose you never had a new baby with three older children who had to go here, there and everywhere.
Rosie, it is never wise to suppose anything.
Shatterzzz
I was briefly in San Fran in 1972, very nice then.
Mothers and fathers are honourable terms developed out of biological kinship. People who recognise this, believing there is an inherent biological difference between men and women and who want that difference to be respected are ‘reactionary populists’? Who knew?
Denying this is counter to reality. If the Liberals can’t see this, then how can they ever govern as adults grounded in reality on the many pressing issues confronting us today? They can’t.
Not while they are captive to an anti-rational ideology damaging to children and families.
Susan (Sussan) Ley, she fooled me once and got my vote. Never again.
Never missed a real estate “for sale” sign she couldn’t direct the Comcar to0!
None of the political class is capable of connecting and empathizing with regular citizens. Their ‘reality’ is what marxist Jounalists present to them.
TEST.
Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet is an unforgettable picture of an outpost of Empire in its declining throes. He makes the point that there were many Empire loyalist families in India willing to soldier on if required but they felt betrayed by the populace and politicians at home. After the war the mood had changed.
LoOks LikE the ShIft bUTton is FixEd.
Albrechtsen is always good on legal stuff. Much better than your average Bacon fed j’ismist. Not always the case, as Seven Nilligan comprehensively demonstrated.
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
Fauci Claims He Never Mandated Lockdowns or School Closures
“The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency. The globalists have climate change and a coming world war – COVID is no longer needed as a tool for control. They achieved the goal of destabilizing the economy for years to come and determined what portion of the population would blindly obey their ever-changing rules. The people responsible for the COVID mandates that destroyed the global economy are now coming under fire.
The most vocal proponents of COVID began backtracking their stance a few weeks before the WHO’s announcement. I reported how Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau insisted he never mandated vaccinations. Anthony Fauci, the face of the pandemic, denies shutting down schools and businesses. “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” he lied. “I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that,” he said, noting that he “happened to be perceived as the personification of the recommendations.”
Does he really think he can gaslight the world into believing he didn’t force vaccination, mask, and lockdown mandates? He went on a world tour, appearing at all hours on our TVs and radios for three years to tell us that we’d all die if we didn’t obey his commands.
Fauci also said he never demonized the fringe minority who refused to take the vaccine. “I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,” Fauci said. Thousands did not have a decision. COVID has become one of the most dividing tools in modern times. “Anti-vaxxers” were considered domestic terrorists who were killing their neighbors by failing to comply.
Fauci lied and people died. He is being exposed as a fraud but the current administration would never allow their COVID mascot to face charges.”
Bacon fed j’smist
Nice one, HB Bear!
Never missed a real estate “for sale” sign she couldn’t direct the Comcar to0!
Uh huh.
Albanese owns 6 rental properties and you live in a 3 bedroom Commission house in Sydney with your cat for $50/week.
No mention of how this will affect enrolments at CD University….
The man accused of murdering an international student during a home invasion in Millner last week has had his charges heard in court for the first time.
Brendan Kantilla, 29, faced Darwin Local Court Monday morning charged with murder, aggravated burglary and theft.
He was not granted bail and the case was adjourned to July 12.
Police allege Kantilla broke into the Trower Rd sharehouse in the early hours of Wednesday morning and assaulted Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman.
The 23-year-old, also known as Sifat, was discovered on his bed with critical head trauma by his housemates after they heard the sound of someone in their yard.
Mr Rahman was rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital where he died on Thursday.
Kantilla was arrested shortly after police were called to the scene about 4.25am.
Outcry from the Top End’s Bangladeshi and international student community has been strong.
The Bangladesh Association of the NT Inc.’s has released a seven-point plan to make the Territory safer for travellers.
Almost 1500 people have signed the association’s petition calling for the government and local leaders to work with the police and justice system to bring down crime.
The plan includes safer accommodation and public transport, calling for more transit officers on the road.
Increasing surveillance, police presence and patrols in residential and public areas is another key request.
The group has called for more support for victims of crime, including counselling and financial assistance, and better education in the community about the impact of crime and the importance of reporting suspicious behaviour.
They have also cited a need for increased resources and funding for community-based programs that address the root causes of crime, including poverty, substance abuse, and mental health.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles sent a letter to the association’s president, Abdus Sattar, after Mr Rahman’s death, extending condolences and saying “this is not the Territory we want to share with the world”.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the young international student, his family, his housemates, his friends and the Bangladeshi community, here in Darwin and back home,” she said.
Mr Sattar thanked Ms Fyles and called for swift measures to be taken.
“Please take immediate action to remove violence from the Territory and make it a better place which we call home,” he said on social media.
Mr Rahman arrived in the NT from Bangladesh just three months ago to study a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Charles Darwin University.
NT News
Claiming a dodgy tax deduction to inspect the rental property is as Australian as a Hills Hoist in the backyard.
Nice to see Rita Panahi confront Michael Kroger about Pesutto/Deeming.
Too tame by half. The simpering, pip pippering kroger personifies the wretched cowards of the libs. Defending proscuitto and the rest of the shitheads is pathetic and criticising Deeming for daring to sue the bastards was the pits. I now believe Moira has withdrawn her suit but proscuitto has officially supported the expulsion motion. Rita should have asked kroger where his balls were and whether he was transitioning.
On the subject of bacon, I dips me lid to the blogger who, on the day after the High Court freed Pell, captioned a hatchet-faxed photo of Chief Justice Ferguson of Victoria with ‘Would you like some bacon to go with the egg on your face, Ma’am?’
‘hatchet-faced’!
Thought we’d exhausted the topic of Julie Bishop et. al. at the coronation.
Time to cook something for Hairy’s dinner. I am still full of savories, delicate sandwiches and heaps of cake from an arvo tea today for a friend turning 70 so won’t eat much if anything. All the dancing girls were there in a private home and we all had a great time, without alcohol. Being alcohol free is not usually the case but the birthday girl doesn’t drink and I think people respected this by not bringing alcohol. So many women brought some very fine home cookery on a plate. My expensive contribution, purchased in Double Bay on the way, was yummy, but the home-cooked stuff has a desired authenticity. These approximately twenty girls vie somewhat competitively to bring the plate offering that is most quickly emptied. There is something charmingly country and old-style about that and some are excellent cooks. A few, like me, opt out and purchase something, or bring fruit. Some of us also add a present of flowers, a pot plant a scented candle as well as our ‘door’ money for the main cake and candles. As usual at these events there was so much food left over and we all took a selection home to our hubbies (or children) in some thoughtfully provided little boxes.
Sally Rugg’s case against Monique Ryan, touted by the activist’s lawyer as having implications for every Australian worker who has been asked to work unreasonable additional hours, has quietly settled out of court.
Ms Rugg reached an in-principle agreement with her teal MP former boss and the commonwealth on April 28, accepting an offer of about $100,000 to abandon her claim.
Neither Dr Ryan nor the government were required to admit fault, and all parties have agreed to pay their own legal costs, which in the case of Dr Ryan and the government means they will be covered by the taxpayer.
Oz
We were contemplating a serviced apartment, in Oban, with the Tobermorey whisky distillery, in close proximity…
You must admit, though, clearing the peasants out has made the Highlands a far more amenable place for fly fishing and grouse shooting.
NO, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Who would admit that? You T.W.A.T. And I am English by birth. You sound just like Jerk Off Cretin and a Clown to boot. P&ss off to another Blog.
Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
Yeah but so much for property rights
Which, outside the public service and the Parliamentary triangle, would render her unemployable. I expect she will resume after a few weeks in Bali.
The antics of these disgusting people, their contempt for taxpayers show taxation is outright theft. Demanding money with menaces.
Havent you heard? The petrol sniffers own everything.
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
I did hear that the British powers that be once said that they should have gone to Australia and left the convicts behind.
You mean the Mexican gang member?
Get a load of Marty’s used condom directing traffic on this blog.
Andrew Bridgen and Fraser Myers clash in fiery debate on Covid vaccine harms
Entropysays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:11 pm
Who in the hell would want to live in a Croft anyway? In such a. Cold place?
I bet those Highlanders thanked the British government for sending them to Australia in the end.
Strange that as the Norwegians didn’t mind the cold. Nor did the Swedes or the Finns or the Danes or the Picts or the Northern English or anyone else for that matter. Saxons, Angles, Jutes, etc, etc, etc.
Who in the hell would want to live in a desert with not much water and have a Dreamtime while they roasted. And waited for the White Fellas to turn up in Big Ships with loads and loads of free moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
JCsays:
May 8, 2023 at 8:26 pm
I love it how you don’t read my posts but somehow have an opinion. You T.W.A.T
On yer’ bike…………………And don’t forget the ‘elmet…………………..
Daily Mail.
The COVID vaccines have an estimated death rate >1,000 higher than the acceptable safe limit
Watching the Coronation concert.
“I also want to express my pride and gratitude for the millions of people who serve, in the forces, in classrooms, hospital wards and local communities,” William continued. “I wish I could mention you all. Your service inspires us, and tonight we celebrate you too.”
Who fed your miserable hides?
Calli:
It’s not me doing the uptick zero thing.
JC is claiming his suspicions merely to goad me into addressing him so he can scream abuse because he’s taking a drubbing in the stock market. This is his sixth attempt in the last 2 months. It isn’t working for him:
Dr. David Martin contending that SARS was actively created to target people. The first part is 2 min and the second is about a minute and a half.
Dr. David Martin
@DrDMartinWorld
One of the most destructive patents in history was filed in 2002 by UNC Chapel Hill. This facilitated the creation of SARS-CoV-1 and was the Gain of Function tool that Anthony Fauci and the NAID used to create the weapon known as COVID-19.
Everyone need to be aware of this.
Part 2
Wilkinson is a ‘no body’ now. Along with her dick head ‘Partner’ with the red bandage around his head. Good riddance to the both of those Tossers. Australia is better off without them. Along with the KRudd, Gizzard and the Waffler from Wooly Whara……….lol
I know that Winston. It never crossed my mind.
Knuckle Dragger:
Perfect – “Look at me look at me how dare you look at me.” That should be one word for these harridans.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Another “W” for the conspiracy theorists!
NASA openly and casually discussing stratospheric aerosol spraying and geoengineering by regular planes.
And speaking of the leetle grey cells…I’m miffed that Poirot has been replaced by the nein footy numbskulls. And they were bumped for the royal galah.
Morse and Lewis must suffice.
Dr. John Campbell interview (on Rumble)
Dr. Malhotra and big pharma questions
Feminists wanting the next generation to look like tarts – which is how many of them behaved – validate their own behaviour.
Or whatever. I really don’t care. Like ugly cars, I can just ignore ugly people.
So when did you transition?
I just learned this zero thing from the weekend discussion . I suspect those two blog pests, wodney and the turtlehead have been doing this for ages.
I do believe it is because Jerk Off is a short arse and his/her/it/whatever Engrish is Farked. Just saying……………………………………I could say more but I will get banned……………..by the Modder.
Lizzie: If the Liberals can’t see this…
Bizarrely, as I noted a few days ago, the object now seems to be to gain the votes of the smallest possible demographic/interest group. It seems counter-intuitive, no?
#Liberalssixfeetdeep.
If the powers will not protect people but let violent scum get worse until they take lives, then the powers are responsible for what comes.
Earlier:
Not really something to hang your hat on. Whether you were you were from Cornwall or not (as you keep mentioning), you must agree that removing the peasantry gouging around in the dirt is better for everyone.
mem:
73% provided by filthy hydrocarbins.
Wind has gone up 2% in the last hour.
And that should have been the end of it.
Drumgold mistakenly saw an opportunity to become the Cochrane of his era, but because he was used to being a big dog in the little yard of furious agreement between political allies, he underestimated the impact his rank stupidity would have when scrutinised by normal people.
Where Did All The “Trust the Science” People Go?
ZK2A:
The arrow of atomic level stupidity appears to be going two ways.
NADT.
Woke Identity Marxism Video: The Reformers: A New Film About the Grievance Studies Affair
Just by the way, I visited IMDB today as I was curious about a few character actors on TV serials and guess what. They’ve gone all wobbly on sex, apparently unable to distinguish whether someone is an aunt or an uncle so showing both. I felt dirty just being there.
Steve trickled 8/5 @ 1.51am
The Vernon Coleman article hits the nail on the head. Watching the coronation, watching Charles I kept thinking of a man with failings , like me, like everyone else. But I got the feeling he did not treat the mass or the arch bishop seriously.
Nor the customs nor their traditions. The highlight was the choir.
As the article states it was all about him and not for the country.
The Middleton or the Spenser family are the future , the females are the future of the crown and of England and it’s standards.
What were all those American Entertainers there. Where was the best orchestra in England, their opera singers , their orators pitching their poetry and great literature.