Tom Stiglich.
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Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
Rudi is selling his apartment because of the legal fees. At his age it will be impossible to get back up.
I personally believe is one of the most gorgeous buildings in NYC. Internally, it needs a bit of as clean out though.
The outside of the building. It’s just off Madison ave.
In some countries such people as Mo would be shot on site. I remember a few years ago the mayor of Venice incurred progressive leftist scum wrath when he said that any person yelling “Allens Snackbar” will be shot on site. The mayor was right, they should be shot on site. If a person is yelling Allens Snackbar, that’s a very clear war cry against the infidel, just like when they yell “remember the Khaybar” which is an exhortation to kill Jews. Israelis, and Christians and Yazidis from the ME, and Hindus from the subcontinent all know this. Mo’s antics yesterday, if it had had happened in Israel, India, or even in some Mussie ME countries, would have resulted in the plane being stormed by military, Mo shot on site, and his body dragged onto the tarmac. I don’t have a problem with that outcome, in fact I would regard such an outcome as positive.
Oh and in news just in, Mo is now refusing to come out of his cell. From the Daily Telegraph…
However there was more drama as he was due to appear in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday as he repeatedly refused to leave his cell at Surry Hills police station.
On Tuesday morning, after waiting for several minutes for him to appear on a videolink, Magistrate Greg Grogin told the court that Mr Arif had refused to come out of his cell to make his first court appearance.
“Apparently he’s refusing to come out of his cell and they have to extract him if he’s to come to court, Mr Grogin told the court.
Mo the Mussie is laughing at us, just like Man Monis laughed at us for years. Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson aren’t laughing, they’re dead.
Stop stirring head prefect. I’ve already worked at a firm which had Trump as a client. Great guy and a good payer.
Seems Thomas Mayo joins the “Bruce Pascoe Society.”
I’m struggling to think of a dress code where this would be appropriate.
Rukshan:
A strong contingent of Victorian farmers made the long distance trek to Parliament House in Melbourne with 45 Tractors to voice their displeasure with the Daniel Andrews Labor government over a controversial project to run renewable energy power towers/lines through their prime agricultural land and farming properties.
I spoke to some of the farmers that were present, and included their thoughts and concerns in this highlight video, alongside some of the comments made by activists and politicians that were present at the protest in Melbourne today.
Farmer Tractor Convoy Comes to Parliament House
LOl. I’m actually half serious. You worked at an Australian or US firm?
What’s wrong with the old practice of chucking a tear gas grenade into the cell, and sending a couple of the oeuns in, wearing respirators?
Doh!
They will find 12 people who weren’t in GA at the time of “the incident” but have since moved there.
From Chicago.
Stop helping.
It’s not helpful.
Rita Panahi giving it to QANTAS right between the eyes:
As predicted, I see the media are making apologies for the mad mullah of Mascot, claiming he has mental health issues.
Rita Panahi: What sort of profound corporate idiocy would motivate any business to so loudly back such a contentious, divisive proposal?
The airline’s latest divisive move to support the race-based referendum shows the national carrier is a shell of its former glory.
Rita Panahi
Qantas is no longer the spirit of Australia.
It is a substandard service, charging premium rates, protected from market forces by a government-backed oligopoly.
Australians pay too much for airfares and in recent years have become accustomed to budget service at exorbitant prices, not to mention political grandstanding.
Qantas this week decided to disaffect at least half the Australian population by stepping up its support for the race-based referendum.
Standing next to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, outgoing chief executive Alan Joyce announced increased support for the already cashed-up Yes23 campaign, including painting three planes with the logo, and providing activists with free flights to spread the message across the country.
What sort of profound corporate idiocy would motivate any business to so loudly back a contentious, divisive proposal that is floundering in the polls?
The latest poll, commissioned by Nine and conducted by Resolve, showed the Yes vote plummeting further nationally, trailing the No vote 46 per cent to 54 per cent.
One could be forgiven for believing there are other motivations at play for Qantas beyond vacuous corporate virtue signalling on a matter that has nothing to do with the aviation industry.
It was only two months ago that the Albanese government rejected Qatar Airways’ request for more Australian routes that would have disrupted Qantas’s grip on landing rights and exposed the flying kangaroo to much-needed competition.
Qatar’s bid reportedly had the backing of premiers and tourism operators.
Earlier this month industry modelling revealed that the decision to block Qatar’s bid will cost the economy more than $500m a year in lost tourism revenue.
Also, earlier this month Qantas and Joyce were widely mocked for offering Albanese’s 23-year-old son membership to the ultra-exclusive Chairman’s Lounge.
Normally only the captains of industry, A-list celebrities and federal politicians can access Chairman’s, but somehow a university student was deemed worthy.
Now I would never suggest there was a quid pro quo in these arrangements, but one can understand why many would believe that to be so.
What a shame Australia’s national carrier has become a shell of its former glory.
Dr F at 7:15.
I know, right.
What next?
People expecting a DPP to read his brief before going to court?
Sorry, there was a prisoner in a Queensland gaol, who tried to rape a female prison officer. Later, he got all butt hurt because the prison officers threw a teargas grenade into his cell, when he refused to come out.
Snap BB!
Sheesh…it’s not as though it’s a position on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
LOL! This what happens when brainless dickheads think they are lawyers.
It would be lovely for him if all of Trump’s cases were heard by Aileen Cannon in West Virginia with juries exclusively populated by old white Republican men, but the law doesn’t work like that.
If he didn’t want to get judged in purple or blue jurisdictions, he shouldn’t have committed crimes there.
Same business model, but.
I have been writing about air fares and airline competition since 1985 and that is 100% correct.
The latest Labor government has simply removed competition as a rationale for airline competition.
As if you need reminding, the ALP exists only to provide market distortions that advantage unions.
Competition advantages consumers. The Australian government is an enemy of consumers that will do whatever it takes to deliver high wages for unions, which means high air fares for consumers.
Exactly, Sancho.
Small beer in the greater scheme of things, but someone should refer it to that brand spanking new anti-corruption agency they’ve set up down in Canberra.
A state premier has resigned over less.
Further to the GA county indictment this retard is the grand jury foreperson.
Still sounds like one of the perks of being a true Tory, though.
Please don’t say “convoy”.
It’s not a real convoy if it doesn’t have a steely-eyed road warrior up front in a Kenworth.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 15, 2023 7:49 PM
He still lives in your head.
If the convoy leader isn’t easily deterred by broomsticks, it’s a real convoy.
Waiting for all the lefty apologists and excusers to come out in his defence in five, four …
Tug yer forelock in the presence of the new Establishment.
Olympic standard failed predictonators are hard to forget, it’s true.
And a big Hi! to Faulty as well.
Oh, your forelock. Sorry, I thought you said something else.
Not her again…surely her 15 minutes of fame is up?
His hair bleeds.
We know,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxp6OG8izQg
Sancho Panzer
Aug 15, 2023 7:58 PM
Have you had a booster!
And this is why I am reluctant to mention it.
FMD. The Parkes telescope is now the Murrrayong telescope in the latest attempt by government-backed activists to wipe out the past 250 years of Australian civilisation — promoted, of course, by the Maoist ABC.
The one thing that unites the ABC’s communist proletariat is the belief that the rest of us are stupid.
Can you post a meaningless dog video, Tickler?
“His hair bleeds.”
Nasty and adolescent comment from the pervert apologist.
struth was the Johnny Appleseed of Peshawar jacarandas. Gone but not forgotten. Slung a mean word salad.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 15, 2023 8:07 PM
You are struggling!
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
No word as yet whether dogs were involved.
Relax Cranky, if we ever met I would not punch you.
I’d point and laugh.
Well, that’s Dark Emu on steroids.
I’m surprised it wasn’t covered in “The Dish”.
Kudos to the maintenance crews at Loy Yang B and Yallourn power stations.
Every time you look they are running at or over 100% of capacity.
Loy Yang B is 116% at present.
Just stay away from children, monty.
*would not*
You misspelled ‘could’.
We all for sit for a meal and be happy.
… says Bear.
“m0nty
Aug 15, 2023 8:14 PM
Relax Cranky, if we ever met I would not punch you.
I’d point and laugh.:
Punched anyone today pervert apologist? Oh and I’m fabulous, and those who know me here can attest to that fact.
Now, be a good pervert apologist and piss off.
I think Sky’s Chris Kenny must be having a falling out with his children.
He loathes democracy and one vote one value. He’s all for the apartheid referendum.
I can’t wait for Outback Truckers to come on at 8.30pm on 7 Mate. Sky News at night has become an anti-democratic clownshow.
It would be lovely for him if all of Trump’s cases were heard by Aileen Cannon in West Virginia with juries exclusively populated by old white Republican men, but the law doesn’t work like that.
GA is the only shit-hole where Trump is charged with RICO offences dickless.
If he didn’t want to get judged in purple or blue jurisdictions, he shouldn’t have committed crimes there.
He’s been indicted in Fl, a red state, for a non-existent crime under the PRA. My favourite is that fat bastard, Bragg’s indictment, in NY which depends on the Statute of Limitations for civil claims of sexual assault being extended and for Stormy to be believed.
Do better dickless. And isn’t it time for the milko’s kiddies to be put to bed.
“I think Sky’s Chris Kenny must be having a falling out with his children.
He loathes democracy and one vote one value. He’s all for the apartheid referendum.”
I started watching him and quickly switched off.
I don’t know what his shtick is, perhaps it’s guilt for being behind the Hindmarsh Island case? I dunno. Strange man, and his cardinal sin,, as far as I’m concerned, is that he doesn’t like dogs, now that’s unforgiveable.
Bet he doesn’t live in Quenthland then.
Ruff
I recall no less an august media goliath than the ABC going in to bat for him on this calumny, do I not? Granted, they may have overdone it a tad…
I suspect nobody wants to be reminded of Hindmarsh Island. Scare the horses and all that.
No kidding, it’s real. Check out the link if you don’t believe it.
LOW IQ GEORGIA DA CHARGES TRUMP WITH CONSPIRACY FOR BOOKING A HOTEL ROOM IN GEORGIA
AZ will follow with similar charges, though they started a lot later.
You gotta hand it to Trump, he didn’t forget the flyover states when it came to committing crimes. Donnie & Lied, a crime spree spectacular.
Giuliani is sweating bullets.
I presume he cribbed this speech from all the mobsters he put away for RICO back in the good old days.
Fatboy, you’ve been predicting Trump goes to jail since Wussiagate. Recall, the walls were closing in? STFU.
In Mrs Mushroom news:
‘Death wall’ inside mushroom chef’s house
Doesn’t rule out Chinese mushrooms.
But helps explain why the kids are in care.
MUnty explains his comments.
“Airy-fairy third-hand reports from partisan shills, LOL.”
Bastard Asian grocers.
Amiright?
What’s going on here, then?
And suddenly everyone’s misunderstanding our traditional way of life.
The Georgia RICO charge carries a five-year minimum gaol sentence. Given that this is such an obvious and public crime with evidence in plain sight, it’s going to be hard for Trump to wriggle out of this one.
Fani wants it done within six months. The battle for second in the GOP nomination process becomes more important.
Still looking, but I don’t think there’s a Donny Osmond tune for this one.
“Real lawyers”
The very best of hands.
Fatboy, the dumb gangbager has indicted Trump for booking a hotel room.
Do you understand what racketeering actually is?
FMD, I had a image of dickless quivering with dickless delight at the thought (sic) of the great man incarcerated. It was like a desexed shaven poodle slurping tidbits from its own arse.
m0nty
Aug 15, 2023 8:14 PM
Relax Cranky, if we ever met I would not punch you.
I’d point and laugh.
Did anyone apart from you, Trampis the Idiot and Steve from Brisbane ever comment on that post about Cassie that you put up on the Dead Phat Pussy blog in April?
Stop looking: because eventually you’re going to come face-to-face with Fem Smutsiga Små Fingrar.
Trust me.
Tits shorten attached to blackout’s arse about nuclear and in a fizzy with Neil Mitchell’s suggestion to have an enquiry about nuke said why not have an enquiry about Unicorns. I would have thought tits would support an enquiry into that rape allegation.
Dot
Aug 15, 2023 9:16 PM
Given that this is such an obvious and public crime with evidence in plain sight
Do you understand what racketeering actually is?
Disagreeing with DemonRats?
Australia has to experience ruin before shocking swine like these are tarred, feathered, and flung into rivers.
The simple fact is that Australia is on the rails to spend $300bn over the next 10-15 years to buy an inefficient power system.
And then pay $50+bn every 10 years replacing the bits that wear out.
Even at it’s inefficient worst, Australia could buy 24/7 power and a nuclear industry for that.
Watched the Spain Swden game and left stunned, again, at how poor the refereeing/VAR is …….
Spanish player takes the huff at being called out for a foul & the kicks the ball across the far side of the pitch & the ref does nuttin’ .. in the Premier League/mens game that would have been a yellow and depending on the ref a possible red ..
Then a Spanish handball (accidental) in the box in the last couple of minutes ref waves play on and the VAR doesn’t intervene ….. Handballs in the box, accidental or not, are always penalties …….
The entire tournament has been riddled with these sort of rubbish decisions and several times they,may, have had a direct bearing on the final result ..
It’s just not bloody good enuf ……. FFS ….
And on tomorrow’s Oz game .. I’m half & half would luv to see them make the final BUT the thought of the media over-the-top hype, right thru to next Sunday, makes me think losing might not be such a bad result .. LOL!
There are some extremely unappealing pollimuppetts out there and Shorten must be close to the top of the list. Another BA LLB. Idiocracy indeed. Skill, integrity and competence are not wanted in canbra.
If you don’t support nuclear power, you’re scientifically illiterate.
Anyway when I think of Shorten I think Clean Event and Chiquita mushrooms. What a grub.
Do you understand that the Republican Party has now fallen so far that it is breaking laws designed to convict mobsters and the KKK?
They’re stupid, but the Liars are also scheming bitches. There’s a money angle to why they’re not supporting nuke to point of being completely hostile . The party or individuals have been bought by the renewball lobby.
There’s also the union angle. Renewballs means lots of labor content, whereas a few reactors would mean a tiny number of workers in comparison.
Wrong party. You’re referring to the Hiden Crime Family and the Demonrat party.
You can start by explaining the fault and physical element of each alleged breach of those laws.
Nope. There’s no need for nukes. We’ve got enough coal to see out the rest of this century at least.
If you support nukes you must be a Climate Change zealot.
Babylon Bee
Call me Grinch, but I would be prepared to accept a Matilda’s loss at this point just so Albo doesn’t get his public holiday, in addition to limiting the OTT hyperbole associated with the whole event.
No.
We’re not going into deep space with a steam engine Barry.
We have enough thorium and uranium to last for thousands of years.
All that matters is scale. Let the market decide, I’d heavily tip the most energy-dense energy source and what can be modular can scale up the most.
Barry
You’re pushing shit uphill. We’re a small country unable to really do much about gerbil warming bullshit. Our way out of this mess is to go with nuclear or renewballs. If we decided to to our own way, the current set would mean our exports would be blocked or hindered with taxes etc. They would even tax our imports.
“Did anyone apart from you, Trampis the Idiot and Steve from Brisbane ever comment on that post about Cassie that you put up on the Dead Phat Pussy blog in April?”
The one where he called me a “Liberal Party stalwart”? LOL. Yeah, he didn’t like it because he was called out by me and others here for his justification of violence towards women who are trying to save women only spaces. But we know he approves of violence towards his ideological foes. Let me tell you a basic fact about the pervert apologist, and that he is despicable grub. His desire to punch Nazis is simply code to punch people whose political and social views he doesn’t like, particularly women, and that says everything you need to know about the commentator called “Monty”.
His desire raged all over the forest floor like a stag in heat, but his competence and capacity were like being flogged with a warm lettuce.
Unbelievable about that Malaysian airline situation and the Australian police failures of response. That could have been us! We were on that exact same flight just a few weeks ago, same flight number and times. I can’t imagine the emotions of those people left sitting on a plane on the tarmac after a 2.5 hour terror flight back wondering what was going on, thinking hooray we’re back safely in Sydney, and then to be left for THREE HOURS while our coppers decided what to do. There were 196 people on that flight left sitting there with a possibility of some unknown explosive on board.
Hells bells. I am sorry too for Malaysian Airlines. They are a good airline trying to make a profit flying older planes at cheaper rates, and keeping up standards of safety and service, while being let down by a crazy Islamic pilot and now this shouty old guy.
The mistake people make about politicians is to believe they’re stupid as evidence by the reaction to the Liar’s Party opposition to nuclear power. In cases like this the operating assumption should always be to follow the money.
Sky News host Peta Credlin exposes Labor’s ‘lie’ on the Uluru Statement from the Heart under Freedom of Information Act
Sydney Airport is a disgrace. As Hairy said to them re their inability to provide good luggage carousel signage, Sydney Airport never fails to disappoint. Except this time it was a serious matter. Where was airport security initially? The police failure too was extreme: they should have had those passengers off asap.
I hope there is an enquiry and better systems are in place for next time.
Heart Scarring Observed in Children Months After COVID-19 Vaccination: Study
“Hells bells. I am sorry too for Malaysian Airlines. They are a good airline”
Yes they are, it’s just that they’ve had a lot of bad luck over the last decade.
White House: We Must ‘Make Irreversible Progress’ on Climate, Biden Has ‘Not Been Afraid’ to Use Emergency Powers
Not only that … why on earth fly a plane with possible bomber/terrorist onboard to the busiest airport in Oz? Insane stuff and a really good plan for the next guy with a (real) bomb..
Liz, you’re really surprising me. First it’s the Novotel and now you’re suggesting you’re flying commercial rather than private jet. What the hell is going on here?
Shateraazz 15/8 @ 9:54
This tournament is having a deleterious effect on me. I react like chief commissioner Dreyfus when he hears the name Cleasea when I hear wimmenz have done something.
Please can some point me to a place in the world where there a no wimmenz, no homos but there needs to be an engineering project and a bakery.
Good analysis of the bogus indictment charges against Trump. You would have to be a dickless cuckold like dickless to defend this shit:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/trump-indicted-on-13-counts-in-georgia-2020-election-probe/
What was the police failure?
Good article on the trannie insurrection with a great article a realistic photo of that creature dylan mulvaney.
Biological women in the United States are being subjected to genocidal violation – we could call it existential rape of a certain type – by misogynistic biological males posing as trans-women. These fake women hate real women. They are the real oppressive patriarchs who wish to—like a lot of men—simply take up more space in the world and deny and confiscate the hard-fought rights women have battled for over the course of decades. They are not content to govern the corporate boardrooms; they want to compete with women in beauty contests, sports, and other existential life experiences, and to have a coercive monopoly on the right to claim that a definitive definition of a woman is trans-phobic, sexist, and toxic—all the while claiming that they are real women.
Before these trans bullies came along, no one had a problem defining what a woman is: an adult female with XX chromosomal markers. Trans-women have now taken away a woman’s right to live by her biological definition and to feel pride in her femininity.
When colleges add menstruation products to men’s bathrooms with the demand to treat men who menstruate with the same respect, one has to ask: Where are the real men standing guard by the doors of such bathrooms—their territory—proclaiming: Not on our watch! Where are the men ready to dislodge and destroy such dispensers in principled revolt? Let us be clear: men do not menstruate. It is sheer lunacy to assert as much.
Biological male trans-women seek to erase real women by claiming that a man who feels he was born in the wrong body but has no desire to remove his genitalia—such as Dylan Mulvaney—can still be a woman. Mulvaney is a grown man with a penis and testicles. He has said he refuses “to tuck” because the world needs to get used to the fact that some women have penises. He even believes he will get pregnant one day—I suppose that’s why he was seen frolicking with a tampon on his show chronicling his transformation to girlhood. Where exactly is he placing the tampon?….
Plane arrives at busy airport with suspected terrorist who may have brought a bomb onboard in hand-carry or checked-in.
Airport police leave the plane where it is for more than an hour.
WTF
Barry/dot
Use of coal, uranium, thorium to build that mountain range in northern wa for origrahic rainfall across Oz.
Also would like to know if a mountain range across the Nullarbor would have the same effect on the cold air from the southern ocean.
Where should it have been diverted to, landing in Sydney Harbor?
Presumably the plane was segregated off and well away, so what’s the issue here?
M0nty, I’d strongly advise you to back off if and when you meet Cassie.
La Cassie has an impressive presence.
Jet black hair and very red lipstick and such good fair skin. She’s still a looker. I imagine in her younger days she was very much like Liz Storer; with the same forthright manner and good humour as well as looks. Similarly, Cassie can condemn with a scornful glance and wither an opponent with a word, smiling all the time.
You would be mincemeat.
JC> Common sense would suggest a smaller airport that could be easier to manage with less disruption e.g. Darwin or similar. The plane had enough fuel to fly anywhere in mainland Oz.
No, it was just left alone. Perhaps you’d be fine with being stuck on a plane with a muzzie lunatic after landing but most people would rather get away asap.
LOL Dot, that sea lion bullshit doesn’t work on me. You’re the lawyer, not me. Supposedly.
Georgia is going to televise the trial, so you will get to sit back and be edumacated.
We have a one-bedroom apartment here with a kitchen, but I drew the line at any cookery. We went to the restaurant on the end of the point. Ate well and Hairy polished off half of a bottle of red. I don’t drink when dining but would like some for later. However, there are big signs saying you can’t take ANY opened alcohol outside, so we put a rolled up serviette into the bottle and Hairy stuffs it under his jacket, and we prepare to leave. But we were caught out. The waitress has spotted us, runs up and offers us a cap for the bottle. You may take the bottle, sir, because you have purchased it, she says, as Hairy sheepishly brings it out like a naughty schoolboy.
An older Liz Storer, eh?
So Cranky really is Hyacinth Bucket.
Why would common sense suggest a smaller airport when there were more police resources at Sydney?
Perhaps I would be fine? Don’t be a moron by asking NPC questions, which I would expect from Fatboy.
Why is an hour too long a wait? How would 10 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour make a difference if in fact he had designs on blowing up the plane?
How often now do people in powerful positions who have made a ballsup just front the cameras and deny their organisation did any wrong. That NSW woman cop talked about how cautious they had to be which was why they left 196 people in a plane for three hours with a ranting lunatic. If only three or four blokes got together, opened the doors and booted him out onto the concrete below. That female copper needs to learn that her response is a disgrace. I’ll bet if she was on that plane security would have sprung into action a lot quicker.
monty, I think you’re mistaking Liz Storer for someone else. Manners prevents me from naming them.
They took three hours to turn up. The Police Commissioner was just shown on The Late Show making all of the usual excuses about needing more time that she made for viewing the tazering that ninety year old woman in a Cooma nursing home. Liz Storer just did a wonderful spoof saying it was about time they had a man doing a man’s job.
I had to laugh at this. Camera falls out of a small plane lands in a pig sty fully intact. Watch the pig’s reaction.
The closest a pig could get to… WTF!
JC> Delay was 2.5 hours and the police had an hours notice the plane was turning back – it was a s**t-show as Sydney airport always is but with more serious potential consequences.
And fine if you want to sit on a plane for hours with potential bomber or killer. Most people aren’t so idiotic and use common sense to avoid harm.
3 hours or an hour? Someone said it was an hour.
Almanac was suggesting a smaller airport would have done the trick? They’d still be on the plane as of now.
Yeah, exactly.
Ye gods, JC. My noives would have given out long before then.
And … it was nearly three hours not one before those passengers got off.
I’d have been a fit case for hospitalisation after three hour of it.
It was an utter disgrace.
More NPC response.
I read that it was an hour wait, you dickhead. Your idea of landing in a smaller airport is simply idiotic.
Liz Sorer is on the Sky Late Show with James McPherson and the funny little guy with the checked suit who is having a wonderful time there too – Hamish, I think.
Liz socks them both through the screen regularly.
Jorge has the right idea. You’re just embarrassing yourself JC – stick to insult tennis with the Matrix.
Liz
I asked what was the problem about the incident as I didn’t know much about it.
Almanac made this comment.
More than an hour doesn’t eggsactly read like 3 1/2 hours. I reads like an hour and a bit, so calm down.
It was nearly six hours if you take the 2.5 hour return flight into consideration too.
That’s how I read the reports anyway. I am also unsure of when the passenger in question was subdued and stopped, if at all, during any of this.
It is probably sub judice now to say anything about that passenger but he was definitely in a religious frame of mind.
They weren’t worried about a backlash from certain electorates in Western Sydney?
The way this has been reported has been a textbook example of nudging. Constant mention of her calm demeanour as a professional medico who helped sow insanity and panic everywhere in Melbourne. She helped shut down businesses and schools and blighted the lives of kids so that even now we hear reports of how they can never recover. But she spoke calmly.
My submission to the draft of the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023.
The idea of empowering ACMA or other authorities to deal with misinformation and disinformation is probably the surest way to provide a mechanism for the worst abuses of misinformation and disinformation.
The fact is that humans will always be subject to misinformation and disinformation. It can never be eradicated. But the very best way to treat the problem is absolute freedom of speech.
People need education and being taught how to think rather than sheltered safe spaces and rote answers from officialdom. And ideas given freedom to be expressed in an environment of reasoning and serious people will minimise any difficulties raised by misinformation or disinformation.
By contrast, any attempt to sensor or restrict speech provides the platform in which misinformation and disinformation can be sheltered, protected and never challenged. This is obvious from a simple review of history. The curbing of freedom of speech has historically been a principal component of the most horrible restrictions on freedom and the oppression of citizens.
To punish speech is to suppress it and is an expression of a totalitarian elite.
No good can result from this legislation.
“Tits shorten attached to blackout’s arse about nuclear and in a fizzy with Neil Mitchell’s suggestion to have an enquiry about nuke said why not have an enquiry about Unicorns. I would have thought tits would support an enquiry into that rape allegation”.
So 2010ish.
“I haven’t heard what the PM said, but I support it”.
All we need is Combet knocking off Juanita Phillips in Rome on the taxpayer tit.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 91
Billy Connolly at his finest.
Saw him live, in Perth, way back when. Some moron tried to heckle him, and had his sorry ar$e sawed to bits, and handed to him…
Mark Dice:
Gee, What a “Coincidence”
And you’re more of an NPC than Fatboy.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: this is the war we needed to have.
A wake up call. The winner of the next world war will be the side that can mass produce the best and most drones and integrate their use with other arms.
Chips and the industrial base to produce the good gear en masse for years on end are vital.
Our reliance on others to produce the industrial might required for war materiel is criminal incompetence.
I can’t even imagine what a nightmare the battlefields of the near future will bring. Simple, basic things like patrolling won’t be anything like we train for currently.
In the near future Ukrainians will be training us.
Punishing the single malt, and watching “Sharpe ” on the internet, are occupations worthy of a gentleman.
If only we didn’t buy our imports below cost. Heaven
Spoke to an old mate recently who I went through IETs and several exercises with.
He told me he had just finished up for good “After 18 years”.
18 years?
Bloody hell. I still think of those days as quite recent.
Not so.
What is “NPC” standing for here?
Looked it up but the definition makes little sense describing a poster.
What am I missing?
Welcome to country ‘guilt politics’ can’t force true respect
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
More than any other campaign, the push to alter the Constitution to provide for an Indigenous-only body that will have special rights over the rest of the population has done much to highlight overreach by Indigenous leaders and their supporters.
One wonders whether the activists behind the Yes campaign realised their insistence upon this constitutional change, and the manner of their campaigning, would get many Australians thinking about a whole range of issues that have been foisted on us and that we have, to date, accepted uncritically.
Overreach in any policy area can have unfortunate consequences, setting back momentum for reform for years to come. It’s no different with Indigenous recognition.
What began as a move to recognise Indigenous history, culture and people became a move to establish a constitutional Indigenous-only voice to parliament on matters affecting Indigenous people only.
A close examination of the proposed wording revealed much more than that – it now envisages a constitutional Indigenous-only voice to executive government as well as parliament, and not limited to matters that only affect Indigenous people.
Perhaps more telling, any research into the Uluru Statement, which the government has committed to implement in full, reveals the voice is only one part of a three-part process – voice, treaty, and truth-telling, with reparations integral to the last two parts.
For many Australians, this project’s overreach is made worse by the means employed to finagle this change into our Constitution, with emotional blackmail, deception and intimidation.
The unfolding of the Yes campaign in this way has many of us thinking much more about other Indigenous shibboleths.
Take welcome to country ceremonies. Here again is another example of overreach: ceremonies demanded by a small group of activists, slotted into schedules by well-meaning white people, paid for by taxpayers, shareholders and others who may have no interest in being welcomed to their own country.
This week, Senator Jacinta Price called for an end to these ceremonies because, she said, “we are all Australians and we share this great land”.
The simplicity and truth of Price’s observation cuts to the heart of the use, and especially the overuse, of welcome to country ceremonies.
If these rituals occurred once in a blue moon, say, at big events only, we might let it ride – a symbolic gesture to Indigenous people.
But routinely now, a welcome to country (performed by an Elder) or an acknowledgment of country (performed by anyone who can rote-learn a few sentences) precedes a school assembly, a board meeting, a footy match, a citizenship ceremony, and so on.
The sheer frequency has many of us wondering more and more about the purpose, meaning and effect of these words. And increasingly, many people are turning away.
In an interview with this newspaper a few months ago, Marcia Langton threatened that if Australians were so ungrateful as to vote no, they could forget about asking her to do a welcome to country.
“I imagine that most Australians who are non-Indigenous, if we lose the referendum, will not be able to look me in the eye,” she says. “How are they going to ever ask an Indigenous person, a Traditional Owner, for a welcome to country? … If they have the temerity to do it, of course the answer is going to be no.”
Langton’s overreach drew a sharp response from readers of this newspaper the likes of which I have not seen since I started writing many moons ago.
People expressed views that Price raised this week – that it’s not at all welcoming to tell Australians that “this isn’t your country” and asking, like Price, for the welcome to country shebang to stop.
Price told me on Monday “schools are getting kids to write acknowledgments to country, in primary schools and in preschools, the pendulum has swung too far on this”.
“It has the opposite effect to what I guess it was hoping to achieve. Welcome to country ceremonies have created opportunities (for some Indigenous people) to make money, to assert themselves as authorities and I think it’s ostracised a lot of Australians who aren’t Indigenous to think that, well, you know what, I belong here too,” she said.
“I’ve been at citizenship ceremonies where a welcome to country’s being given, but basically it’s been a lecture about how miserable our country’s history is and how Aboriginal people have been hard done by, as opposed to it being a day of celebration for new citizens and a welcoming for them to feel like they’re part of the country. So, that’s where I think it has gone a step too far in a lot of cases.”
Price’s concerns about overreach by people she dubs the “activist class” will be shared by many Australians.
Policy and power zealotry is not limited to Indigenous matters, but the voice campaign is certainly one of the worst examples of intemperance working against the common good.
“I’ve been a cross-cultural educator for a number of decades, it’s been about creating understanding to recognise our similarities, not our differences, so that we can be more unified,” Price told me. “But the approach that a lot of activists have taken is to inflict guilt politics on the country.
“And that’s what I see this referendum has certainly been about – guilting people into voting.” The Uluru Statement has been presented as a kind-hearted gesture, a set of words that goes to the heart of recognition and reconciliation.
It is only down to those who have asked questions that we now know the Uluru Statement seeks to alter how our governing powers are exercised in this country, dividing people according to race.
With this background, Australians are beginning to realise welcome to county ceremonies are simply a way of conditioning us for what is to come. When non-Indigenous people are “welcomed” to country, it suggests we are being welcomed to a country that is not ours, to a country that belongs to others.
If that is the case then, not unreasonably, many people can see a direct line from a welcome to country to treaty and reparations. Thomas Mayo and, somewhat more theatrically, Midnight Oil, suggest Australians may need to “pay the rent”.
This only makes sense if we are tenants of land owned by others. The problem for most Australians is that they thought this was one country with a single and exclusive sovereignty in which we all had those rights to land granted by parliament and our courts.
Constant attempts, especially by the ABC, but also many others, to rename our cities and places performs a similar function of conditioning us minus consent.
When the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster takes it upon itself to refer to Sydney-Gadigal or Melbourne-Naarm, it starts the process of delegitimising ownership of land as determined under Australian law.
On Tuesday morning on ABC News Radio, Sydney disappeared; it is simply Gadigal land. This is being imposed on an unwilling population, many of whom are only now starting to recognise what is happening.
With overreach comes a natural scepticism, unfortunate division, even boredom, the very opposite of what is needed – drawing Australians together with authentic respect for one another.
Oz
Top Ender
Aug 16, 2023 2:26 AM
Thanks for that and many upticks.
+11
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Thanks Tom.
NSW woman cop
Curious if true. Most news articles I have seen state the Feds boarded & by the looks handed him to the State Plod after. Probably due to the lack of facilities the Fed’s would have in NSW.
Airports are a Federal responsibility and especially international ones plus you have 2 Cdo Regt down the road that wouldn’t have had to rely on permission from NSW to use if it deteriorated.
Speculation, and based on MSM reports:
This has hallmarks of the Lindt cafe written all over it. Specialist, actually highly-trained-for-just-this-sort-of-thing ADF units ten minutes away by chopper putting their hands up, and NSW plod going ‘Uh, we got this, we’re okay, no no no, we can do it right this time. Just give us a minute, uh, hang on, now where did I put that plan….’
Janet Albrechtsen, hits it out of the park again. You can tell she’s not a journalist, too much truth-telling.
Someone wise said: You can’t live in the past, there’s no future in it. How very true. I am a child of immigrants to Australia. My parents were furious every time we drove past the settlements allotted to aboriginal people . They would say: ‘che vergogna’ – how shameful – to herd and hide our fellow citizens. Indeed and how did that happen? Government policy, that’s how.
We must not forget the Past and we’ve been gifted the Present in which to do better. That’s always been how societies have built the Future and thrived, with the intent to ameliorate all lives in the process.
At least fifty years of political and bureaucratic policy impositions has seen too many of our aboriginal brothers and sisters consigned to remote town camps in order to animate the ‘noble savage’ myth. That policy has caused immeasurable suffering and has been the fuel and fodder for city-based power-hungry activists to foment division in our nation.
I’ve had enough of the hateful rants by activists, and enough of mealy-mouthed shibboleths from incompetent turd-rate politicians. It’s a NO from me.
I was particularly amused by whoever it was last night that said the aircraft should have flown to Darwin. A four hour voyage from Sydney.
Because everyone knows that nothing bad happens when loaded-up passenger aircraft are forced to remain in the air for extended periods with one (or more) lunatics on board.
And a Malaysian Airlines one to boot. No downside, right?
Said it before, I’ll say it again: this is the war we needed to have.
A wake up call.
Great.
Get back to us once you & your family all volunteer to be in harms way.
Probably a stooge as part of the show.
I used to help out a street magician by being a fake audience and is where I learnt how sheep-like most people are. It went like this: He would start setting up and I would just be window shopping keep an eye out, sure enough, no one usually stopped even after he started. After a short while, I’d go over and just stand right in front of him. Sure as shit, 100% of the time, others would gather around very quickly. LOL, Sheep I tell you, Sheep!
The likelihood of a passenger getting a bomb through screening in their carry on luggage is pretty low these days.
Then the idea that he’s going to threaten to detonate it for a bit without doing so, running the risk of others tackling him?
The cabin crew handled it well isolating the passenger.
Sure the plod could have gotten to the plane sooner.
People expecting a Hollywood, Chuck Norris, Delta Force reaction are morons.
Hopefully this chappy will never be allowed on a plane ever again.
Nahh, I always expect Steven Segal on the passenger list.
Always bet on black.
I feel sorry for the businesses on the Wailea & Hana coast’s of Maui.
Only a small part of Maui is impacted & will receive the FEMA support.
These other places will have zero support but will have the punters cancelling trips.
NPC = non player character
used in games; the main players determine the plot and direction, the NPCs appear to parrot and reinforce these aspects.
In further Mrs Mushroom news; the investigation enters the It Is Understood phase:
MUSHROOM CLUE Major update in poison mushroom riddle as victim’s dying words to paramedic in ambulance are passed to homicide cops
My soshuls tell me this story has the Poms agog over their Cornflakes.
Apparently Australia is just like Wolf Creek, but with added poisonous spiders and snakes and mushrooms – but the brave England Lionesses have the willpower to survive against the psychopathic Mick Taylor Matildas.
Glad to see others are seeing parallels with Lindt. The plane was on the tarmac for around three hours – I live commented on it when the story first broke, giving the position and flight number from FlightRadar.
The plane was parked on the southern parallel runway, at the end where it bulges out into the bay.
Still can’t work out why it took so long. If the passenger was detained on board, he should have been marched off the plane immediately.
Cut out the “live”. Although a bit cheesed off with some of the banter while this was going on, I hadn’t quite self-destructed! 🙂
If the passenger was detained on board, he should have been marched off the plane immediately.
Definitely.
But different to Lindt.
He had a shot gun & an alleged bomb in his backpack.
He should have been “un-alived” promptly.
So we don’t get Bruce Willis in to “negotiate”?
Shame.
Australian commercial mushroom farms ‘safe’, industry says after fatal Leongatha lunch
Sadly, with that much elfin safety behind the Colesworth product, I think we must now assume that the fatal shrooms came from some unregulated Fu Manchu den in Melbourne.
An obvious call out for a Mushroom Commission.
How about a good shove down the stairs just to smarten him up?
Belay that…the numbskull would sue, and probably win.
It was Lindt redux at 30,000 ft, until it wasn’t and they were on the ground. He pretended he had a bomb and was going postal. In my book, that’s terrorism when linked with Snackbar gibberish.
Please don’t judge, I saw some of the can’t beat under 15 schoolboys last night. No positional play at all. They hardly move until the ball is kicked, not knowing where its going to be. They kick at the ball instead of through the ball to generate power and distance. One tight camera shot showed all but the goalies in the middle of the ground. It looked like 10 yo’s playing.
Premier Minns is ahead of the blame deflection curve on this one. This time yesterday:
Lindt Cafe at the front of political minds.
I only ever watched my daughters play soccer, because they loved it. I did not. That was until the youngest had her ACL destroyed by a b*tch deliberately targeting her knee. Much surgery ensued. Older daughter ruined her scapula as softball pitcher for school and uni teams. Still having treatment at 40.
Meanwhile son played rugby front row for much of his school life and never had an injury. And he played hard, just like his sisters.
Tells you all you need to know about women and sport. Sure, do it. But understand the chances of lifelong injury are high…because women have different bodies, designed for a different purpose.
I get it, 36 hours after the fact it’s easy to have a view that is different to one at the time.
If another passenger or cabin crew George Floyd’ed the nutter, no worries.
I think the only criticism should be how long the plod took to get onto the plane.
Monty you clown everyone from a police prosecutor at Louth to the State’s KC DPP appearing at a mafia murder trial must prove the fault and physical element of each offence. It is embedded in common and civil law systems.
Standing up in court and verbally abusing the jury whilst flailing your arms like Trigglypuff will get you nowhere.
This is like you accusing someone of murder without a body or evidence of a motive, means or opportunity being theorised by the police.
FWIW, Trump has been accused of watching TV.
The very best of hands.
I nominate Bill Shorten to head up the Mushroom Commission.
Re the Aussie girls.
We were awful upfront in the quarter final.
But the defensive structure of Catley & Carpenter was outstanding.
They maintained their width up & down the park.
If they played the way they did against Ireland with a rabble defence, France would have sat on the edge of the box taking shots all day.
If they maintain their width in the semi against the Poms, they might win.
If they don’t, the Pom’s win 3-0.
Not my brand of football at all, but this jumps out at me as a casual watcher:
And another things: two or three touches before deciding what to do with the ball at her feet; an extraordinary amount of shanking and wild shots; no particular energy in stopping a ball crossing the sideline.
Tonight’s bets.
Draw after 90mins, $3.
England 3-0, $23.
Sorry if posted before, but very interesting discussion on the use of the A bombs on Japan given yesterday was the anniversay of VJ day.
Were they justified? Hell yes!
Unofficial History of the Pacific War https://youtu.be/DrTS3lsjLWA
Mrs Mushroomson has an easy and possibly one I prepared earlier excuse, random Asian grocery, dried fungi, bought months ago, paid cash, so sorry don’t remember where.
So so unlucky it was the only fatal package.
“People expecting a Hollywood, Chuck Norris, Delta Force reaction are morons.”
Bern, I don’t, what I want is that our police and security apparatus are ready and willing to handle the situation pronto, and once again, as with what happened back on that dreadful day and night in December 2014, they don’t, instead they stall, thinking that they can either reason or placate the dickhead. KD above was right, it was shades of Lindt Cafe, too many shades.
You don’t negotiate with terrorists, you don’t try and reason or pacify someone shouting that he is a “slave of Allah.
I wrote this last night. In Israel and elsewhere, where terrorism, or even the mutterings of terrorism by some deranged effwit, are very real and everyday concerns, they know that when a situation arises like the one at Mascot two days ago, or like what ensued in the Lindt Cafe back in 2014, you do NOT allow the situation to fester because festering makes it worse, particularly over a period of time. You move, and you move quickly. In Israel, the IDF or Shin Bet would have moved on the plane as soon as it returned to the Sydney tarmac. Why? Because there’s always the risk that innocents will die, because, as I said above, time actually makes situations worse.
As with what happened in Martin Place back in December 2014, the useless police probably thought that they could reason with the person, or worse, as with what happened on that dreadful day almost nine yeas ago, they were too worried about the concerns and reactions from a certain violent religious group. Never mind the reactions of the people on board that plane, and never mind the reactions of the people inside that cafe that day, who of whom later died and are unavailable for comment.
But no doubt Allah’s slave will be out and about in a year or two (if that), and you know what? As with the story of Man Monis, we’ll no doubt read about Allah’s slave again in the future, and here’s my prediction, it won’t be a nice story.
Also, just to bookend my “men and women are physically different” comment, here’s Front Page Mag’s shot of Dylan Mulvaney courtesy of cohenite.
No amount of makeup and beehive is going to change the obvious – it’s a man in drag. Forget all the glamour “girl” photos. Hell, soft lighting and a makeup artist could make even me look glamourous. A big ask…but they could.
I’ll note the amount of birds in Busselona still playing netball at sixty plus.
He’s too busy sneering at nuclear energy proponents.
Bill Shorten mocks Neil Mitchell in brutal nuclear rebuke (Sky energy page headline, 15 Aug)
Labor really does seem to want this country to go down the gurgler.
I take it that Sky Marshals are no longer operational.
The lack of inflight response will only embolden other austere clerics who prefer meeting their allotted virgins a little later.
Calli – You can add this one today.
Transgender powerlifter has ‘smashed’ the women’s record (Sky, 15 Aug)
Farcical.
Heh…Wally. Netty was another sport they played, long after school was done and well into uni. And hockey. We had shoes for different sports all lined up at the back door – sometimes I would think that I had millipedes rather than children.
Official Taster?
Bring it!
I don’t actually blame the women for poor playing. They appear to have never being taught basic skills. 57 years of martial arts I still do the basic techniques taught the first day. On a positive note the Sveltettes looked beautiful. Ahhh the beauty of youth, I wonder what their grannies look like?
“No amount of makeup and beehive is going to change the obvious – it’s a man in drag. “
Indeed, but worse, Mulvaney is parodying women. He’s putting on “women face” to parody, ridicule and demean us. The great feminist Sheila Jeffreys is right, “women face” is demeaning, ridiculing and insulting to women, just like once upon time those people who put on black face to ridicule and demean black people. It’s no different, putting on women face is a scandal, an act of deviancy. Mulvaney is a sicko, who needs urgent psychological help. But now, just pointing out the obvious makes you and me, and Kellie-Jay, and Sall Grover, and Moira Deeming, and many other men and women, bigots, Nazis or “Nazi adjacent”. Just ask little Johnny Pesutto.
People expecting a Hollywood, Chuck Norris, Delta Force reaction are morons.
Reminds me of this ………
https://ibb.co/48Jh1xP
m0nty
Aug 15, 2023 10:03 PM
Do you understand what racketeering actually is?
Do you understand that the Republican Party has now fallen so far that it is breaking laws designed to convict mobsters and the KKK?
As is to be expected of a leftard, the fat fascist fool rejects the presumption of innocence in favour of “Execution first, trial later”.
I was stunned last night when Credelin interviewing the woman behind the app ‘Giggle for Girls’ which only admits biological woman.
A pervert (group) is sueing the app and the founder for huge damages, for something.
And now the Human Rights Commission has received leave to intervene on the part of the perverts.
A couple of questions.
This has been a lavish suit obviously generously funded. By whom? Who is funding a perverted micro minority so lavishly?
Who in the AHRC has determined that ‘cocks in frocks’ have the right to force their unwanted attentions upon a private group of people doing private things?
Where are the SFL screaming the house down over this perverted outrage? Oh, I forgot, they are helping Labor negotiate with the Elders; far more important.
To be honest, I think you pays your money and takes your chances flying Malaysian these days.
Give Michael Smith a visit. He has an excellent short clip on how to deal with the “sit down”, road blockers. Awesome and fun.
Yep.
“There Is No Climate Crisis”…1600 Scientists Worldwide, Nobel Prize Laureate Sign Declaration (15 Aug)
Apart from the recent effect of the Hunga Tonga volcano, which has produced a nice and pleasant winter here at the Cafe, there’s still not much happening in the real world. I wonder when the Left will notice?
If you are waiting for the plod to come to the rescue, you will be disappointed.
Keep in mind NSW plod shot one of the two hostages who died at Lindt.
I shudder to think how many passengers would die from the “rescuers” if a plane had to be stormed in Australia.
Calli mentioned hockey. That’s great to watch women play. They have no problem with positional play. Skills are right up there. The only difference between the women and men is the speed and power of the hit. Has to be in the training.
He had a shot gun & an alleged bomb in his backpack.
getting baffled I is .. FFS! ..
If he had a “shotty” on hand how did the crew “isolate” him? ..
A quick, “Excuse me, Sir, would you mind putting the gun down whilst we detain you” ..
Not to mention how he got it thru security .. dear God! ……