Its relevant given the unlimited powers you seem to have ascribed to Trump during his time in office.

Don’t exaggerate, as a president doesn’t have unlimited powers and I never went close to suggesting so.. However, he has the authority to declassify anything he wants at his choosing.

Facts are that there are laws which relate to handling of classified information and there is no evidence that Trump declassified anything, especially not the classified documents he removed to his personal address after leaving office.

You appear to be reading the Atlantic too much. These so called laws aren’t at all clear and then they will surely be tested in SCOTUS.

There was convention but that’s not law.

Which he admitted to and gave back eventually.

He can admit anything he likes but it doesn’t change anything because we don’t know the context nor if he was just trying to impress someone. We don’t even know if the document being discussed was in fact on show.

And Trump knowingly and publicly declared on record to sharing classified information to non-certified people in breach of multiple security laws and policies.

His action alone showed he declassified. There’s no law to that restriction.

A fish is caught by the mouth and Trump will be caught on this offence by his own recorded words.

By the Espionage Act? Don’t make me LOL

“Playing psychotherapist again? What next? That I need a Dr2 antagonist with a D1 specificity in the VTA-Nacc efferents? Or how about a 5 HT2a agonist though I think that may very well be cause by association because it exists in a heterodimer complex with TrkB and that is where a lot of whole interesting stuff is happening with regard to depression and neurodegeneration.”

How many autistic people does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but what do you want me to change it into?

“I don’t know who my ancestors were 700,000 years ago but I can tell you one thing: they were black.”

Black skin is an environmental adaptation, not an essential genetic trait of homo sapiens.

What on earth is his point?

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

– Roger Moore

How many autistic people does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but what do you want me to change it into?

How many Palestinians does it take to change a lightbulb? None – it’s easier to sit in the dark and blame the Israelis.

“I am quite capable of feeling superior to other people, and I often do. But I need a better reason than the colour of my skin.”

Quite so.

calli
Oct 4, 2023 6:10 PM
And…just like that…Seven News dogwhistles the cheats with the news that the AEC won’t differentiate between multiple votes.

I saw that report and thought, wow, they are practically telling cheats how to go about it. Well done, journalists. It’s something I expected of ABC, not Seven.

The leaders of the Yes campaign should stop throwing blame and take some instead

Five key figures in the Yes camp are the biggest losers of this referendum and they’re already shifting blame and making excuses as their Voice heads to defeat.

First on the list is Linda Burney.

“I don’t know who my ancestors were 700,000 years ago but I can tell you one thing: they were black.”

Well ‘Fat arse Beazley’, go along to Ancestry dot com and they may be able to help you out. And the Guv’ment will then have your DNA if they have not already. More LOL.

LOL more. I must stop laughing so much.

“Liar, you did it to me 3 times. You’re the one that complained about the loss of the thumbs and desperately wanted them back. You’re the one that posts long screeds wearing out my scroll wheel. You’re always posting here, pontificating on the ills of the world. There is no humour in you, you’re so intense. I prefer Heraclitus, Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play”

Anyone know this Plonker? Is he a mate of JC’s? LOL,

Well ‘Fat arse Beazley’,

There is supposed to be footage of Beazo, dressed in his specially made camouflage suit, jammed in the turret hatch of a Leopard tank, being extracted by his minions…..said footage marked “Never To Be released…”

Cassie of Sydney

Oct 4, 2023 8:52 PM

“I was pointing out to Cassie, who was playing psychotherapist, “

Nope, I never play psychotherapist. One doesn’t need to be a psychotherapist to see that you desperately crave attention, hence your verbal sludge. It’s sad.

There’s a bit of that around here.

Alamak!
Oct 4, 2023 8:56 PM
Dot> He was no longer president then and sharing classified docs that he stated and believed to be classified – so the “i’m a prez now && can do anyXXXX” defence doesn’t apply.

Anyone who asserts or believes Trump was guilty of some crime because he took some documents is a fuking moron.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 4, 2023 9:35 PM
So well done Sir Walter. We would never have got ‘fish and chips’ otherwise. LOL.

Didn’t he go to the chopping block for treason?

It was a ‘fit up Guvnor’, it really was. But I lost me ‘ead anyway. ‘Ouch’.

Beazley has been a denizen of the political bubble since the day he was conceived

His father made the remark about joining the Labor Party, when it contained the cream of the working class. It now contained the dregs of the middle class, who persisted in using the Party as an intellectual spittoon. Bit difficult not to think of Paul Keating, Julia Gilliard, Kevin Rudd and Anthony Albanese as examples.

How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two.

One to change it, and one not to.

As Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Bronwyn Bishop declined an offer to go to sea in one. She told the assembled journos that she was not going to give them the opportunity to write “Bishop goes down on a cylinder full of seamen”.

I think that the sub mariners were very happy when she got caught up in “Helicopter Gate”. Stupid Pompous Woman.

The next Margaret Thatcher? LOL. You are having a Larf’.

I think JC and Dragnet have been here since the beginning.

I think I first met the Cat around 2006 when Jason was running it. Dot and I would bicker a lot in the beginning. It’s always been hard scrabble.

Humphreys later started Thoughts on Freedom, which was later closed down for some reason.

Anyway, Sliante to you mob. The next installment of payday for self funded retirees is tomorrow.

To the screeching harridan in the carpark at Midland Gate in Perth, fvck you and the horse you came on. You were called some very rude names indeed, if you can’t speak Afrikaans, that’s not my problem.

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 4, 2023 10:16 PM

Neanderthal person. You need some serious treatment when you believe everything on this Blog. And an angry person to boot.

Grow up. T.W.A.T.

Lawyers do not appeal.

I agree. Lawyers do not appeal to anyone. Let alone their family.

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 4, 2023 10:30 PM

I will keep posting here as long as I am allowed to by the Blog Meister. If you don’t like it then stiff shite. Same as with “Jer Cough Cretin”.

Neanderthal person – have fun playing with your little thingy.

From the Oz – I’ve posted the whole article. FIFTY YEARS ago……..

Israel’s fighting spirit tested on Yom Kippur

Fifty years ago this week a coalition of Arab states, backed by Soviet Russia, attacked the Jewish homeland on its holiest day.
By alan howe
October 4, 2023
7 minute read

The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967 was inevitable. Israel’s restive Arab neighbours – preoccupied by gratuitous resentment – had been taking potshots at their neighbour since a UN resolution in 1947 decreed that Britain’s former Palestinian mandate be divided to create a Jewish homeland.

On the night of Israel’s independence in 1948 the armies of four nations attacked it – Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria – while Saudi Arabia sent soldiers to fight under Egyptian command. Israel gained the upper hand and some ceasefires were negotiated while the fighting petered out but was never completely extinguished.

Those six days in 1967 were a war in waiting. All it needed was the spark and that came in May that year when the Soviet Union, which courted the Arab nations and supplied them with arms, shared intelligence reports – possibly a sales pitch – mischievously suggesting Israel was planning to attack Syria.
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Egypt mobilised its forces, blockaded the Strait of Tiran and set about planning Israel’s destruction. History records that, threatened with extinction, the Israelis launched a pre-emptive strike and took out most of Egypt’s air force as its planes were being readied on tarmacs.

But Israel’s success in 132 hours, the territories it seized, and the Arabs’ humiliation resolved little; the victor’s expanded lands included the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the sprawling Sinai Peninsula.

The Yom Kippur War six years later also was inevitable.

Fifty years ago this week, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, believing war with Egypt almost inevitable, was contemplating that once again many of the young soldiers defending the besieged state would die.

In echoes of the past, thousands of Egyptian troops had been on ostensible exercises along the Sinai Peninsula and equipment sent from the Sovet Union was being stockpiled along that border.

Egypt had spent most the year placing offensive formations of troops and equipment there, calling them exercises. The plan was that Israel would have to respond with regular soldiers and its more significant number of civilian reserves each time – this would help undermine Israel’s then-frail economy, with each false alarm costing about $20m. At first, Israel did respond, but then backed off as Egyptian president Anwar Sadat appeared to overplay his hand.

Israel was receiving mixed advice about movements on the Sinai, but warnings were moving clockwise in Meir’s direction and she concluded that Sadat would attack within days. US secretary of state Henry Kissinger also had contradictory intelligence bulletins on his desk, but even though most of them indicated war was inevitable – one dated October 5 stated that war would break out the next day – he concluded Egypt would not attack.

But he made a threat to Meir that hobbled her and her country: while pleading for restraint from Egypt and Israel, he warned Meir that in the event of any 1967-like pre-emptive strike the US would offer Israel no assistance whatsoever – no ammunition, no intelligence, no replacement aircraft. Years later he confirmed that had Israel attacked first before the inevitable invasion “it would not have received so much as a nail”.

Egypt had been given more than a hint of Kissinger’s warnings to Meir. He had called Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed el-Zayyat and explained to him that Egypt and its allies were under no threat of attack. Furthermore, Kissinger – who had been made secretary of state 33 days earlier – in a desperate attempt to avoid another Middle East war, informed the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Jordan of the restrictions he had placed in Israel.

Kissinger asked his staff to forward an “oral message” to Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal and Jordan’s King Hussein: “Your Majesty – we have just received the report from the Israelis that Egyptian and Syrian forces are planning a co-ordinated attack within the next several hours. We have urged the Israelis not to launch any pre-emptive attack. I have spoken with the Egyptian foreign minister to urge that his government refrain from launching any attack which could lead to serious consequences. We have also discussed this matter on a most urgent basis with the Soviets.”

Washington’s warnings to Meir must have seemed liked manna from heaven to her enemies. Fighting began on the morning of October 6 with Egyptian and Syrian forces breaking through ceasefire lines on either side of the Jewish homeland that is 135km across at its widest.

As soon as the attack was under way, Zayyat called Kissinger to say his country had been provoked to act by Israel’s threatening naval manoeuvres.

For Israel’s holy day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the Jews’ most sacred day, the country’s reservist soldiers – the bulk of its defence manpower – had been allowed home. In the days it took to bring them to barracks and prepare for war, the conflict was well under way and the Arabs had made significant inroads with overwhelmingly larger forces.

Sadat had 800,000 troops at his disposal. Syria’s Hafez al-Assad had another 150,000. The Saudis and Moroccans helped out with thousands of troops, and ever-reliable busybody Fidel Castro, always happy to try to export revolution, chipped in with 1000 Cuban soldiers.

Kissinger appreciated the position in which he had placed Meir – her nation was now pushed seriously on to its back foot – and that he had been foolish to trust the Egyptians, but turning this ship around would not be easy.

The Russians had facilitated this war by flying serious weaponry to the region across several months. Israel was in for the fight of its life. And Kissinger was reluctant to launch an all-out airlift by the US lest it provoke the Russians into further action and the Arabs into cutting oil to the West.

He perhaps had reason to be wary: the Russians liked to keep their client states in the region dependent on them. And Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union’s general secretary of the Communist Party, allegedly addicted to sedatives and with an enthusiasm for alcohol that matched president Richard Nixon’s, later was reported to have shipped nuclear materials to an Egyptian port. Meanwhile Brezhnev was encouraging Algeria and Jordan to get involved. Jordan’s King Hussein, always under pressure from the many Palestinians living there but still licking wounds from his country’s comprehensive defeat in 1967, finally caved in and sent a brigade.

In what would be dubbed the Battle of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Kissinger and Nixon fought influential but reluctant congressmen – who did not want “another Vietnam” – for urgent and considerable aid for Israel, which had lost more than a dozen US-made Phantom fighter-bombers and almost 50 Skyhawk attack jets.

Senior members of the Pentagon resisted the push for large-scale airlift of arms, jets and anti-aircraft technology to Israel, at first suggesting two Phantoms could be sent, but not be directly delivered to America’s embattled ally. US secretary of defence James Schlesinger later would write that the Pentagon’s initial reluctance to assist Meir overtly was because it had expected another swift victory by Israel.

Nixon angrily demanded a comprehensive airlift directly to Tel Aviv start immediately. (Nixon had his own problems: while Kissinger was in Moscow talking to Brezhnev on October 20, 1973, the president, besieged by Watergate issues, launched his Saturday Night Massacre in a bid to dismiss special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was closing in on the tapes that would imperil Nixon’s presidency. The attorney-general would not sack Cox and resigned, as did his deputy. Finally Nixon had solicitor general Robert Bork do the job. Nixon’s vice-president, Spiro Agnew, had been forced to resign the week before.)

By then, Israel was already turning the war around and began to make rapid progress, so much so that finally Brezhnev agreed with Kissinger to seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, and Kissinger spoke to the council’s other members – France, Britain and Australia, which was in its third term as a member.

On October 22, a unanimous call for a ceasefire was agreed at the UN. There were sporadic violations. By then Israeli general Ariel Sharon, later to be prime minister, had led efforts to cross the Suez and cut off Egyptian supply lines, and Sharon’s troops were on a road headed towards Cairo.

Across 19 days, a total of 2656 Israeli soldiers were killed along with 8258 of the enemy.

In the aftermath of the war, prisoners were exchanged, UN checkpoints were set up between the countries, and a peace deal was struck after exhaustive shuttle diplomacy by Kissinger. There was anger in Israel and pressure on Meir and her colourful defence minister, Moshe Dayan, to resign.

By 1978, Israel and Egypt had signed a peace agreement. The following year, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and would not be readmitted for a decade.

In Golda, this year’s big-budget political drama starring Helen Mirren as the chain-smoking Meir, there is a dramatised version of a conversation between her and Kissinger, believed to have originally been an exchange of correspondence: Kissinger had written that he was “an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third”. In the film, Meir responds: “You forget that in Israel we read from right to left.”

When the topic of Jewish influence in Western life arises, I always ask this question:

It’s quite strange really as hitting the top of the tree isn’t that hard to understand. If one has a strong family environment, and the parents value education very highly and keep the kids focused, it’s not hard to see the end result with those kids ending up with great jobs or professions.

There’s an interesting theory I once read about why Jewish people are bright. It’s a theory that they self selected in a way. When they moved to places, the one thing they could do was to act as merchants and traders. In the old days, you had to have a decent grasp of mental arithmetic in order to survive and prosper as a merchant. Kids from these families married into this group and on it went.

Dot
Oct 4, 2023 11:07 PM
$33 Trillion later

Err, that’s really got nothing to do with fractional reserve banking.

That money will never be paid back. The USA will default. Sad really. You cannot pay your debts. What a disgrace for such a Nation. The so called Leader of the Free World.

It’s over, part 7094. Daily Telegraph:

Council workers across NSW could soon be paid out for gender reassignment leave, if a plan by an inner city council gets the green light.

Inner West Council unanimously approved a motion to call on Local Government NSW to negotiate with unions and health professionals to provide paid gender affirmation leave – forecasting surgeries can result in a six-week recovery process.

Inner West Greens councillor Liz Atkins said if councils across NSW did not provide the additional paid leave, it would “effectively force trans, non-binary, and otherwise gender-diverse employees to leave our employ”.

“Some surgeries and other gender affirmation procedures can require six weeks or more recovery time during which employees would be out of a job,” she said. “Very few employees will have enough leave stored up for these processes.”

Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone ridiculed the plan, telling The Daily Telegraph he would not be backing the proposal when it goes to the Local Government NSW conference.

Mr Carbone said “no one should have extra leave” for gender reassignment.

“Trust Inner West (Council) to do this, right,” the southwest Sydney mayor said.

“We will also always respect workers’ rights and making sure that people have the right type of leave, but we certainly don’t want to provide anyone with additional leave when it comes to people’s gender.

“It doesn‘t matter who you are – everybody gets the same.”

Meanwhile, Cumberland councillor Steve Christou described the move as “garbage”.

“In a in a cost of living crisis, where people are struggling to pay their mortgage, their rent, the bills and put food on the table, Inner West Council have failed their residents,” he said. “There are other things they should be focusing on, there are other priorities at hand.

“What an absolute load of nonsense.”

Gender affirmation refers to surgery undertaken by a transgender or non-binary person in a transition process.

The Inner West councillor said LGNSW would be able to negotiate a statewide plan for council for the amount of leave provided.

“Unless gender affirmation leave is included in employees’ terms and conditions, trans and gender-diverse people have to rely upon their employer’s good will to provide access to leave for gender affirmation procedures where they do not have sufficient leave accrued,” the councillor said.

“In some cases, employees could be forced to choose between employment and surgery if leave without pay is refused or not available.

“It may be that not all employees of all councils have an entitlement to leave without pay.”

Banking groups ANZ and Suncorp provide six-weeks of paid gender affirmation leave, with up to a year of unpaid leave also included in staff entitlements.

It is understood the Office of Local government does not keep record of the number gender-diverse employees working in the sector.

A pic of Mr Atkins accompanies the article. FMD

No need to walk through any thing. I got it wrong.

Yep, you most certainly did get that wrong. It was jaw dropping stoopid too.

Just like you got it wrong when you fired up about the ‘Future Fund’ and did not look at the latest numbers on the website. That was a little while ago. You may not remember as your attention span is very limited.

Run me me through that as I’ve had quite a few dustups and don’t exactly recall what part of this discussion you got wrong again.

Then, you stated an untruth about my post about ‘Quaintarse’. No, the share buy backs and dividends were not funded by the increase in debt over the 15 years of the short arse irish wanker being in charge

It’s not as simple as you think it is, Wods. If there’s a period of expansion to say purchase new planes, you can see a rise in debt level while dividends remain. Investors will look a the balance sheet, P/L statement and make those determinations on their little lonesome.

It was mostly funded by the 2.7 billion dollars of Australian Taxpayer money.

We’ve been through this. The government closed down operations of a going concern and therefore the firm should be compensated. Also, I don’t think that tiny little loudmouth brain of yours realizes that the bulk of that money went to keep paying employees during the lockdown. We would otherwise have seen absolutely massive layoffs.

Money that Quaintarse does not need to pay back.

All businesses that faced closure were compensated, you idiot.

Well, as an Australian Taxpayer they should pay that money back or that the Australian Taxpayer gets shares in the Company. It is NOT Free Money.

They were locked down by government edict as was everyone else.

And how did the Irish shirt lifter get all that money as a bonus when he left quick smart? Because he had the Board and Chairman in his back pocket. Wimps.

He was paid in line with other airline CEOs around the world. If you didn’t like his compensation package, you should have bought some stock and then worked your way up to board level and complained in the board room, otherwise, it’s really none of your business how much people are paid.

Oh dear there’s the firebrand mayor again!

A Western Sydney council has said “no” to the Yes campaign after discovering the ALP had organised a large pro-Voice rally featuring Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney without filling out the required paperwork.

The event, billed as a “Cabramatta Rally with Linda Burney”, was to take place at midday on Thursday at Cabramatta’s Cabravale Memorial Park with the minister as well as local Labor politicians scheduled to attend.

However, Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone said that he contacted organisers to tell them the event could not go forward because the relevant permissions had not been filed, saying “ they should not expect to waltz in from North Sydney and take over our parks.”

Chortle worthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNGv6inwTgk

Good single malt, and Richard Sharpe on D.V.D.

“Sir, there are ladies present. That being so, I would have thought there were gentlemen present. For the last time, I must ask you to lower your voice.”

Where in the UK, were you raised, Wods?

JC
Oct 4, 2023 11:35 PM

None of your farking business Big Nose.

in not leaving

Didn’t they always pay a dividend before the lockdowns? Wasn’t that dividend increasing?

All you’ve got to do is HODL and your equity goes up.

Dotty Dot of Dottiness.

The dividends that Quaintarse paid along with the share buy backs came with money from you and I, the long suffering Australian Taxpayer. 2.7 billion dollars worth.

Please try and keep up with events my dear boy……………..With no reference to Harold Macmillan of course, LOL.

Oh, you know I live in melbourne, you live in Sydney, but telling us where in the UK you hail from is a classified secret in case Chinese spies find out? You complete dolt.

LOL. It is none of your business. So, try something else. I already have have the Chinese and Japanese ladies all over me and they like to be as you know, discrete. So my lips are sealed.