Well spotted Ceres.
Open Thread – Mon 9 Oct 2023
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- From darkness to the promise of light
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
How depressing: Australia (3-12) trail India by 521 runs after day three.
This is the WSJ but not paywalled. Also not what you’d expect.Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet Trump appears…
Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her
Yeah, funny that.
Not a whisper out of anyone.
Mark Leach is an Anglican priest here in Sydney. He posted this on X overnight…
This afternoon, in Sydney, I briefly waved an Israeli flag off to the side of a pro Palestian protest. I was on the steps of the Anglican Cathedral. I am an Anglican clergyman. I am the child of a German Jewish mother who fled the holocaust. I wanted to make a small stand against the genocidal hatred of Hamas being supported by the pro Palestinian mob. I wanted to show the Jews of Australia that Christians (who after all are simply followers of a Jew), would stand for them, and for Israel, in the face of such hatred and contempt.
On this afternoon I was chased off the steps of the Cathedral. I ran, followed by a small mob of large angry Muslims hurling abuse at me. I ran onto George St and hid behind a police van. The police dispersed the group who were looking for me.
I have not been that scared in a long, long time.
Why did I do it?
Because Australia is surely the best country in the world! Our democracy, our free speech, our rule of law, our multi-cultural diversity and acceptance of each other, our freedom of religion, and our safety make us the envy of the world. And all of that was being eroded this afternoon.
The Islamist/Jihadist strategy is to instil fear in non-muslim populations so that they will either convert to Islam, or live in dhimitude (a state of subservience to muslims). And the fear in the Jewish population in Sydney is palpable. The Police Minister, to their shame, warned the Jews to stay away from Town Hall or the Opera House because the police could not (or would not?) guarantee their safety.
I took a tiny stand because we cannot, we must not, give in to such fear. We cannot fear upsetting Islamic sensibilities and so self-censor our speech and religion and policing. We, as Jews, cannot give in to the fear that our Gentile Australian neighbours will turn against us if we ‘stir up trouble’ by speaking up for, and standing up for our rights as citizens. We must not cede one iota of our precious liberal, secular, democratic, pluralist state. Never again means never again.
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Thank you Father Leach.
I also saw those Nazis at Town Hall.
Short letter sent to police minister.
What the hell else do you do?
Off to grandson1 daycare for grandparents visit. He’s moved to an older kids area and is a bit overwhelmed. He’s just 3 but wears size 6 clothes. The other kids think he is older coz of his size.
That’s unfortunate:
It’s possible to see why it took Team Albo 12 hours to workshop support for Israel.
What you get at a Roger Waters concert:
Pink Floyd fans walk out of Roger Waters gig at London Palladium after he spent an HOUR reading from his unpublished autobiography and told stories about his pet duck called Donald
– in his quieter moments he rants about Jews…
Daily Mail
Any politician who has to legislate for the censorship of opinion is a failure and a fraud.
Pat Condell.
Last week, Pat Condell, for the first time in a long time uploaded a video on the LGBTQI+ perverts and grooming. Despite quickly gaining over 100K viewers, Youtube took it down. As Condell says, ‘Youtube’ is now mainstream media.
From herein, Pat Condell will only be uploading now on Rumble and other alternative media. He is worth supporting.
Could they be covering for Biden or Milley who gave Iran the info? Nothing would surprise me with that lot.
Crossie, there was no intel that YouTube couldn’t tell you.
Totally made up shit by WaPo.
I cannot understand Palestinians at all. They rely on Israelis for electricity, water, gas, supplies, jobs and yet they attack them at every opportunity. Is this not like dealing with snakes?
A cute little Fiat? lol. Those who know Hairy could never see him at the wheel of that I am sure. We are in a big SUV, black, basic, made by Opel who are a Cherman company. The good thing about little Fiats is you can park them most places; not so with a big SUV. Sheer looxury here in this Italian villa, as once the gates close you have a big parking area and only two cars in it – ours, and ‘the boss’s’ SUV Porsche.
The concierge and general factotum around here is Sri Lankan and today showed me how to use the very fearful iron in the villa’s laundry. It weighed about three kilos and was attached to a tank by two 1/2 inch diameter black electric cords, making it very unwieldly. Speaking in my very bad Singhalese and his equally bad English, garnished with a little Italian which I guessed from French, we got along well. He told me he looks after ‘the boss’ who is old and lives in a sectioned off part of the main villa. I’ve never seen or heard him. Why this big iron? I ask, when he tells me the laundry from the 4 lettable rooms goes to a firm in town. It is to do the boss shirts, he indicates, opening a cabinet door to show a row of them hanging beautifully done. I do his shirts, I cooking him, I am drive him, I do ride-on mow him, I meet the peoples for stay, and I do rooms, says my new friend. Boss is good me, he concludes.
I went for a lone walk around the grounds down to the tennis court, and found much of the acre or so overgrown, grass high and weedy, running to swamp by the river tributary. No ride-on mow down there, I note, and also note that the premises at the rear entry gate are well-kept, but at the actual front of the building, the original entry, there is dereliction. The driveway needs more gravel, the roses lining it are struggling, the mondo grass is patchy and weeds are spring up everywhere. Vines and overhanging branches from trees hundreds of years old and left uncontrolled have taken over this area. I walk towards what seems to be a small arbour and find it is actually an old well, with a winder-chain and an ancient hanging bucket to bring up water, the original clean water source for the house, now all tangled with vines. Old stone and terracotta pots as big as me are covered in lichen and mould.
Thirty years ago this house seems to have been a wedding venue, but no more. The rooms we enjoy are still high quality as are the common-use interiors, full of good things, but the gardens are only maintained at the rear entry, where all looks like well-kept parkland with floral borders. The neglected front aspect, not seen by visitors usually unless they walk around, is where the main C16th frescos of the house still exist, so faded now externally, but showing the original owner, like something from a Renaissance painting, and his son and his son’s wife. Beneath them lower on the building is a freize of cupids. A family home. When ‘the boss’ is gone, I wonder what it’s new future will be.
Big decision coming up Ranga.
League or union?
Hamas now saying they’re going to live broadcast executions of the Israeli hostages as payback for what Israel’s action in Gaza.
When people describe these Nazis as “animals”, no, no, no, animals don’t behave this way. Hamas, and those who protested here in Sydney, shouting, screeching, screaming…….”f*ck the Jews”………..are simply human garbage.
I saw those Nazis in Sydney’s CBD.
Why do NSW plod have such a hair trigger when it comes to Muslims.
They really are a protected species.
History has shown you don’t want to be on the side that targets innocent people (children, the elderly) and then goes runs and hides amongst the civilian population to use them as human shields.
Apart from the magnificent music Roger Waters has given us he is just another grabbing wealthy Communist with nothing to say.
I wonder if police would have stood by if a group of people had walked through Sydney’s CBD screeching, screaming and shouting “f*ck the Muslims”?
“herein”
hereon
Yesterday was probably more shocking for Minns than Albo. He authorises the lighting of the Opera House sails with Israel flag but at the same time allows the police to issue a permit for a Muslim protest in the city*. When things start getting ugly his police arrest a Jew who is only carrying an Israeli flag but leave alone all the muslims setting off flares and fireworks. To me it looks like muslims are in charge of this state, what they want they get. I think he will live to regret this day.
*Why was the permit given for protest in the city and Opera House and not only for Lakemba? The police minister and the commissioner are completely incompetent, giving these vital jobs to women was not such a smart move after all.
Just imagine the Neanderthal type thinking of the Hamas ape that didn’t target IDF personnel but instead went house to house killing and raping civilians.
These are animals that need to be put down.
Union is spelt with a capital U, Bern.
Some CNN retard was on twitter blaming Israel why there haven’t been elections in 17 years in Gaza & the West Bank.
Now deleted.
yep
Its, not it’s. Apostrophe man strikes again.
Hairy has ‘go up’ to bed once more and I am left again to turn off the downstairs lights. At least I’ve now found out where the switches are. Those carved faces on the fireplace mantlepiece surrounds seem almost alive tonight.
It’s very quiet here, not yet midnight. This whole area was once the breadbasket of the Renaissance, producing farina in an old factory close by this house, adding value to raw wheat, next to the tributary leading down to the river, the transport towards Venice. The factory, with a new modern extension, still produces farina, quite noisily, during the days. The first owners here were wealthy people due to the fertility of the lands they owned and the work of its peasantry and the value the factory added. Now the suburbs have moved in and isolated this place in its own past.
We’re going to have a look around Treviso town tomorrow.
Neither Obama nor Biden are in charge of anything, they are the titles used by the Morlocks behind the curtain.
Palestinian and Israeli supporters clash at London Underground station as police try and keep the peace on a night that saw thousands of people descend on Israeli embassy chanting and throwing fireworks as Rishi Sunak visits synagogue to show support
Daily Mail
Londinistan
Sydneystan
Fun fact.
Freddy Fittler’s kid is lighting up school boy rugby in Sydney.
Wouldn’t that be a story if he’s the white knight that turns around the wallabies over the next decade.
Lysander
Oct 9, 2023 5:10 PM
Lol Cohenite, lovely to see you making a “guest appearance” at my “favourite” lefty blog!!!
Interesting blog.. good enough to earn a bookmark.
More nuanced discussion, plenty of the usual delusional, ignorant take on reality, but without the Commo-Marxist demented bravado.
One feels one could almost have a sensible discussion with these leftards.
I’ve already “educated” a Teal look-alike YES voter with Cohenite’s explanation of the difference between advice and representation.
Criticism of this view, in the blog, had that surfeit of sneer we often see in the supremely arrogant.
But the real surprise was seeing that Arky is a proponent of YES.
Good to see The Australian article condemning the NSW police minister for allowing the outrage at the Opera House but warning the Jewish community to stay at home “ arresting the lone protester with the Israeli flag. An embarrassed Minns interviewed this morning. He should force his Police Minister to apologise or resign.
I’ve seen Fittler’s kid on TV. He’s a big lug. Much bigger than Freddy was at his age. I’m sure Uncle Nick Politis will have an offer for him.
As soon as that Bowling Club Beryl was appointed top of NSW plod I thought she was a figurehead.
Similar to Tony calling the shots while Uncle Junior had the title.
Rest easy: this is not a NSW-specific thing.
London son, who lives not far from the Israeli Embassy, sent us overnight pictures of the protests there.
In the land of Pronoun Crime and Facebook Offence, it’s apparently acceptable to carry signs in public demanding that Jews should be beheaded wherever you find them. The online stuff is something to behold.
Presumably there is a tsunami of enforcement in the works.
Just out in the Oz:
NSW Police Minister should resign over Jewish community call
Simon Benson
It is almost beyond belief that Jewish residents of Sydney have been told to stay in their homes because the police can’t guarantee their safety.
This is nothing short of a disgrace. And the NSW police Minister Yasmin Catley should resign for allowing this to happen.
There is almost no equivalent for the appalling lack of judgment by the NSW police to allow a pro-Palestinian march on the CBD, knowing members of the Jewish community might want to attend the Opera House.
This has denied the Jewish community the right to join in solidarity over the murder of their people in favour of a protest that seeks to celebrate it. Presumably the protest will have a police escort.
With all the instruments of State, it is equally implausible that the NSW police can’t keep the Jewish community safe.
And it could have easily been resolved.
Catley must bear ultimate responsibility for this decision – one which flies in the face of the decision of her Premier Chris Minns to light up the Opera House in the first place as a mark of respect to the Jewish community.
And it is one the minister will come to regret.
One can only imagine the shock from Jewish leaders when told by police that they should urge people to stay at home.
They will be justifiably outraged and should be demanding of an explanation from the NSW government and the NSW police.
Not much going on visually. However, if you put on head phones you can hear the constant sounds of drones. I think they are pegging targets.
A few big booms just a minute ago.
Israel is not f*cking around.
Gaza Live: Real-time HD Camera Feeds from Gaza
Re Fittler’s boy playing Rugby Union – my grandson played rugby a few years ago against the son of another well known Rugby League ex star. We asked him if he coaches his son & he laughed & said his boy said “Dad, you know nothing about this game!”
Exceeding the KPI.
The party faithful police command have achieved enormous success in reducing community respect or belief that they are impartial in upholding the law.
ThanksTopender – that was the article I was referring to earlier.
Outside the pommy labour conference, one man stood alone.
Crossie
Oct 10, 2023 7:47 AM
Biden isn’t pulling the strings.
Obama is doing everything he can to let Iran off the leash.
This is getting interesting, who is in charge then?
Don’t go Bird or ssr.
Chris Minns is what you get after the NSW LNP government starts behaving like the Greens and is thrown out by the disgusted electorate.
The only alternative is a trade union party that no longer represents (or needs) the workers because it’s sustained by the compulsory superannuation gravy train.
And lightening didn’t strike!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Imagine lying this boldly with no pushback.
Only on CNN.
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
This is what pure evil looks like.
Hamas is a terrorist organization whose explicit goal is to murder jews. They murdered over 800 innocent men, women, and children. They raped women then paraded their bodies in the streets. They ripped babies from their mothers’ arms and took them as hostages. This is terrorism.
JUST IN: Hamas Terrorists Threaten Mass Execution of Civilian Hostages (Including Americans) on Live TV as Joe Biden Takes the Rest of Monday Off
“Chris Minns is what you get after the NSW LNP government starts behaving like the Greens and is thrown out by the disgusted electorate.
The only alternative is a trade union party that no longer represents (or needs) the workers because it’s sustained by the compulsory superannuation gravy train.”
Yep. I’ve never had a problem with Minns, who’s old style Labor right. But it’s the garbage in his party, many of whom are now ministers, that are problematic.
So, will Hamas broadcast the execution of children?
I await the Greens’ statement on this.
Obama and his acolytes are running the WH.
An Austere Religious Scholar comes out swinging:
Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten has described last night’s pro-Palestinian demonstration in Sydney as ?”un-Australian”.
Shorten said the demonstrators were motivated by anti-Semitism.
Unbelievable grasp of theology and current affairs.
It’s almost as if there’s political blood in the water.
Somebody commented yesterday that the Palestinians abducting Israeli civilians were not masked but their weapons were covered. This is proof that the weapons Americans left behind in Afghanistan are now in Gaza. American Chiefs of Staff should be brought in front of a Nuremberg tribunal for that alone.
What am I doing on television?
I’m hearing multiple drones now from the livestream above … and now jets.
Boom! I actually got rattled with that one.
Jeepers.
The images of Hamas coming on those home made gliders with automatic longarms is chilling.
EU suspends aid to Palestine
There can be no more “business as usual,” Brussels has declared
The EU has suspended all aid and development assistance to Palestine in the wake of the attack by militant group Hamas on Israel, the bloc announced on Monday. Further aid-related budget proposals have also been postponed “until further notice,” according to EU Neighborhood and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi.
Brussels will review its entire aid and development policy towards Palestine, the official said, claiming that the “scale of terror and brutality against Israel and its people” was a “turning point” for the EU.
“There can be no business as usual,” Varhelyi said in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter). “We need action and we need it now.”
The comments came following a surprise attack by Hamas which saw militants breach Gaza’s border with Israel and briefly overrun several settlements after a massive rocket attack. The Israeli authorities have estimated that more than 700 people were killed in the assault and over 2,200 injured.
According to Varhelyi, the EU has been “the biggest donor” to the Palestinians and Monday’s decision will affect development aid worth €691 million ($728.8 million). “All payments [are] immediately suspended. All projects [have been] put under review,” he said, adding that “the foundations for peace, tolerance and co-existence must now be addressed.”
The commissioner further stated that “incitement of hatred, violence, and glorification of terror have poisoned the minds of so many.” According to the Financial Times, the EU had pledged a total of €1.18 billion ($1.24 billion) in support for both the West Bank and Gaza between 2021 and 2024.
The EU Commission denied that any of its funding had gone to Hamas, which it designates as a terrorist group. “The EU is not funding Hamas or their terrorist activities directly or indirectly,” the bloc said in the wake of Saturday’s attack, adding that it had maintained a “no contact policy” with the organization since 2007.
The decision by Brussels came a day after Berlin announced that it would also halt aid to Palestinians and review assistance and development programs. German Development Minister Svenja Schulze called the Hamas attack a “terrible turning point,” stating that Berlin would “examine our entire commitment to the Palestinian territories.”
Mark Leach is the rector of Rozelle Anglican church.
He is an extremely brave man.
Yep. I’ve never had a problem with Minns, who’s old style Labor right. But it’s the garbage in his party, many of whom are now ministers, that are problematic.
Ho Chi Minns is the NSW Premier on big money cos he’s, supposedly, responsible for the running of the State and selection of “his” Cabinet members .. He is the face of NSW gummint and responsible for who has what job ….. we don’t elect the “faceless” nonentities behind him .. If a minister fails he is to blame ….!
She was my local member until we moved 2 years ago. Absolutely useless. Never saw her anywhere in the Central Coast portion of her electorate.
How she got a ministers gig in the first place still leaves me wondering.
Scotland’s first minister says relatives ‘trapped’ in Gaza
Humza Yousaf’s in-laws have “nowhere to go” as Israel bombs the Palestinian territory
“I’m in a situation where, frankly, night by night, day by day, we don’t know whether or not my mother-in-law and father-in-law – who have nothing to do, as most Gazans don’t, with Hamas or with any terror attack – whether they will make it through the night or not,” Yousef elaborated on Monday, adding that he and his wife “can’t sleep” and are constantly watching their phones waiting for any sort of reply.
I’m worried about my family. There will be many people, including in Scotland’s Jewish community for example, who will be really worried about their family in Israel that have come to harm,” Yousaf said. “My thoughts go out to everybody, because innocent civilians have nothing to do with the conflict, they have nothing to do with Hamas terror, have nothing to do with the loss of life and they’re the ones often – innocent people – who are paying the price.”
Wrong. It was irrevocably eroded with the disgusting vaxx mandates and lockdowns.
Freddy Jr could save Rugby in Australia.
The problem is there is a loser mindset with a lot of the private schools – they literally don’t want Rugby to be popular.
Look at those Portugal fans. That’s what we should be like.
He has the Penriff pedigree and the Eastern suburbs so he has the common touch. “I AM like Bob Hawke..”, he might say.
He has a huge task ahead of him, he will play in a losing Wallabies team in 2027, losing to the defending champions, Ireland, in the final.
Hopefully, then he captains the Wallabies to two (or three!) successive RWC victories.
Europe holds Holocaust memorial services while funding genocidal Palestinians. Sydney lights up the Opera House with Israel’s colours while telling Jews they need to hide. There’s a pattern to this. Sympathy is permitted for dead Jews. Live Jews are an inconvenience.
Man arrested for bringing Israeli flag to Sydney pro-Palestinian protest says ‘police should feel ashamed of themselves’
A Sydney man has slammed police for arresting him after he brought an Israeli flag to a pro-Palestinian rally on Monday night, claiming the actions of the officers were “excessive”.
Mark Spiro said he was hauled away by three police officers after being at a pro-Palestinian protest in Sydney’s CBD on Monday afternoon for “literally three seconds”.
“I walked from Town Hall Station across the road with a rolled up flag. I was literally at the protest for three seconds,” the Jewish father-of-two told Sky News reporter Caroline Marcus.
“The next thing I know I’ve got multiple police officers trying to grab the flag off of me, then carry me away from the scene, telling me I’m arrested for breach of the peace.”
Mr Spiro said police had planned to put him in a paddy wagon but he managed to negotiate, giving officers his flag and agreeing not to return to the city for 24 hours.
“It was excessive and at the time having both your arms pinned back for effectively having a rolled up Israeli flag was shocking and confronting,” he said.
“Then being dragged by that I felt like a ragdoll.”
The Sydney businessman says he simply wanted to show solidarity for Israel at the protest, which included calls for the extermination of Israel and chants of death to Jews.
“The police they should feel ashamed of themselves quite frankly. I was an innocent bystander with a rolled up Israeli flag,” Mr Spiro said.
“The people, that we are supporting and allowing a platform to celebrate the murder, rape, abduction of children, women, the elderly are allowed to desecrate one of our most famous sites.”
A New South Wales Police spokesperson said the man was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace but no further action will be taken.
No, its like dealing with scorpions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
‘How can humans be this cruel?’: Sky News host Sharri Markson reduced to tears by ‘pure savagery’ of Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians
Sky News host Sharri Markson has been reduced to tears while explaining the “pure savagery” of Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians, with the elderly, women, children and even babies “dragged off, kidnapped, and held hostage”.
After the covid skirmishes and crackdowns, I thought our police service could not disgrace themselves further.
I was wrong.
Oh Riley?
If young Zach isn’t playing for one of the Sydney NRL clubs when he leaves school, something has gone terribly wrong.
I suspect Bernie may be involved. He’s been conspicuously silent lately. The policies he pushes are the ones the WH is presently pushing, especially the climate rubbish.
When James O’Keefe talked with two Bernie bros they both were very big on climate action.
Ron Klain is no longer Biden’s chief of staff, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still involved. He’s said nice things about Bernie Bros in the past, and his wife is a green activist.
Pre-crime.
Slovakia halts military aid for Ukraine as parties that oppose it negotiate to form a new government
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has refused a plan by her country’s caretaker government to send further military aid to Ukraine, saying it doesn’t have the authority and parties that oppose such support are in talks to form a government following last week’s election.
The presidential office said in a statement Thursday that the current government of technocrats has only limited powers because it lost a mandatory confidence vote in Parliament on June 15, a month after President Zuzana Caputova swore it in.
The technocrat Cabinet was created with the aim of leading the country to Saturday’s early election.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/09/following-rebuke-election-slovakia-halts-military-aid-to-ukraine/
Zelensky looking Happy
Could is a hell of a word.
Well that was an error
He needed to stick to his guns and refuse, like I did in Canberra, where I spent 6 days in solitary for refusing to accept bail conditions that required me to stop protesting. If he wanted to make a point, he needed to carry through on it.
In between floods of tears for the poor Gazans, the SMH has revealed that an Oxford professor has stated that the taking of hostages will create difficulties for Israel.
Gee!
So if someone is going to attack you the police arrest you so the other person can’t commit the crime. Let’s try extending this – if a thief might steal from you, your belongings should be removed so they can’t commit the crime.
Scott Ritter: Are Hamas fighters using American weapons meant for Ukraine?
A video, the authenticity of which has yet to be verified, purports to show a Hamas fighter thanking Ukraine for the provision of small arms, ammunition, and hand grenades. More videos, taken during the actual assaults, show the Hamas fighters armed with a plethora of US-made weapons.
These videos have alarmed some US lawmakers, such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia’s 14th District, who, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack, Tweeted/Xeeted:
“We need to work with Israel to track serial numbers on any US weapons used by Hamas against Israel. Did they come from Afghanistan? Did they come from Ukraine? Highly likely the answer is both.”
Any attempt to answer Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questions will more than likely turn up information that should make the US government very uncomfortable.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been saying since June of this year that US-made anti-tank weapons intended for Ukraine were turning up on the Israeli border. Left unsaid by Netanyahu was how this had come to be – corruption is rampant inside Ukraine, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has reported on hundreds of millions of dollars of aid being diverted into the hands of parties it was not originally intended for.
By my calculations based on conversations with numerous informed sources, the amount diverted could be as high as six out of every ten dollars of assistance sent to Ukraine. It’s one thing if this involves money; it’s another thing altogether if this involves weapons.
The wide availability of US-made weapons on the global black market used by terrorists/freedom fighters to arm themselves is reflective of the lax approach the US takes when it comes to providing military assistance to parties involved in active combat.
The US appears to be more interested in reinforcing the political messaging attached to such deliveries-that the US is actively supporting friends in need. The actual security-related aspects of this effort, however, seem to escape most senior US policy makers.
Re. Billy Shorten, I’m sure Chloe has those curtain measurements ready.
I have not gone loopy it’s just clear that Obama was not the brains behind his administration but it would be nice to know the names of the decision makers.
“Katzenjammer
Oct 10, 2023 8:30 AM
Europe holds Holocaust memorial services while funding genocidal Palestinians. Sydney lights up the Opera House with Israel’s colours while telling Jews they need to hide. There’s a pattern to this. Sympathy is permitted for dead Jews. Live Jews are an inconvenience.”
Well said.
Does anyone still doubt that the Australian mainstream media — forced to employ the brainwashed human trash graduated by university journalism schools — is now a radical, revolutionary political party?
Unless the rules have changed very recently, that’s not how it works with Labor.
The Caucus chooses the people, and the leader only allocates the portfolios. Arguably there may have been a better candidate for Police Minister, but given that the Ministry is basically a factional carve-up, the talent pool is necessarily pretty shallow. There are more important portfolios like Health and Education which require a modicum of ability, so the dunderheads simply have to be put somewhere else.
the man was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace
So why weren’t several hundred neanderthals arrested at the Town hall to prevent flares & outbursts of foul language around the Opera House foreshore?
Didn’t last even 24 hours.
EU in massive U-turn as it declares it WILL continue to fund Palestine (9 Oct)
What a disingenuous load of manure.
She got her job because “woman” even if they can’t define it. Recently there was a news clip of Minns surrounded by his minsters and they were all women. Male Labor MPs will have to transition if they want a minister’s position.
Unless the rules have changed very recently, that’s not how it works with Labor.
Happy to take the money .. then happy to take the lumps ……….!
Why Would Anyone Defend Hamas’ Pogrom?
It wasn’t just a crime against Israel — it was a crime against all humanity.
Among other atrocities, Hamas terrorists waited in vans to slaughter 260 Jews who were among the thousands attending a music festival — a genocidal crime that was the largest single murder of Jews since the Holocaust.
The mostly young people who were murdered in that ambush, and the many elderly people, women and children killed in Hamas attacks across southern Israel, were not part of any military operation nor caught in any crossfire. They were deliberately targeted — on the streets, at a bus stop, or in their homes — for brutal killings and kidnappings that we are only now learning about. It was easy to do because it was inconceivable that such war crimes would be committed by supposed freedom fighters.
Now we have learned from the Wall Street Journal that Iran was at the heart of the planning, funding and approval of this operation — making a mockery of an American administration that freed up to $6 billion in exchange for the release of five hostages. Already, more Americans have been reported lost in this fighting than were recovered by that deal and, of course, new hostages — reportedly including more Americans — have been taken.
In what world do any of today’s Harvard divinity students live that they would excuse assassinating women, children and teenagers enjoying a music festival? This was not the result of an accident or of crossfire in war but a planned genocidal act that no Harvard student should cheer on or encourage, no matter what the cause. Would these students have excused a leftist terrorist group gunning down kids leaving a Taylor Swift concert and then claim Donald Trump was responsible? One wonders.
No people have endured what Jews have endured, from slavery to dispersion to a Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were murdered only because of their religion.
These acts by Hamas echo this history and the recent rise of antisemitism.
Rather than acts of liberation, they were desperate acts to prevent a peace that the world believed was in reach until the actions of Hamas and Iran instead plunged the Middle East into war.
I am absolutely bloody furious about what transpired in Sydney last night. The footage of those disgusting animalistic imbeciles taking over the CBD made me want to smash things out of sheer rage.
The clown show of a government we’re cursed with here in NSW is even worse than its predecessor. I had zero expectations of those stinking labore morons and they haven’t disappointed in achieving a subterranean new lows.
BTW, how long until we witness attacks similar to the ones in Israel over here? Steyn again was spot on. This is the future these evil political deadsh*ts have created for us.
Don’t show that vision. It’ll upset people. It’ll make people angry.
Show the vision. Yes, it’ll upset people, make them angry,
but they won’t be able to pretend it didn’t happen.
They will see the weasels and know them for the liars they are.
Barack Obama’s silent on Israel war because he paved the way for it
By Post Editorial Board
Former President Barack Obama has a powerful presence in social and other forms of media. Just last week he took to the digital airwaves to mourn the passing of US football great Dick Butkus.
This makes his silence on the current war in Israel all the more repugnant.
As we write, he’s said nothing. But as thunderous as the silence is, it cannot come as a surprise.
This is the future of the Middle East that Obama, in effect, wanted, fought for and now has achieved: Iran ascendant; nascent normalization between Israel and Arab states in jeopardy; the terrorist group Hamas emboldened and abetted by Tehran to strike viciously against soft targets within Israel.
Why?
Because for Obama, a fundamental restructuring of the region was the paramount goal — both in policy terms and to satisfy his own sense of himself as a world-historical figure.
The Obama administration’s vision saw an empowered Iran as a fulcrum to force action from Israel on the Palestinian question.
Thus the Iran deal, which set the mullahs on the path toward nuclear breakout and regional hegemony they are now speeding down.
Thus Obama’s support of political Islam elsewhere — be it the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey — and his cession of Syria to Vladimir Putin.
Obama’s White House marketed this as “realism.”
It was no such thing but rather part of a pernicious and (as we have now seen) wantonly destructive radical idealism that blamed America and her allies, like Israel, for all global suffering.
The Trump years saw an interruption: a withdrawal from the Iran deal and a return to a close alliances with our actual allies in the region.
I was just about to ask why none of those disturbers of the peace were not arrested and if they have been arrested what are their names.
reminds me of this scene from Fury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohqt9nrghE
I recently moved from SA to Western Vic (I know, I know – out of the frying pan etc etc) and as such got 4 ‘welcome to electorate letters’ from the various state and federal MPs. ALL FOUR are female, and one is a ‘proud white abbo’ to boot.
This is what I mean, shouting “Nazis”, ignoring real Nazis at Sydney’s Town Hall and the Opera House. Again, this electorate is John Howard’s old electorate, if the Liberals had their act together they’d have chosen a candidate for Bennelong already.
Jerome Laxale’s WeChat account in the spotlight for linking No vote to the Nazis.
Chinese-Australian voters have been told that if they did not support the Voice to Parliament they would be seen as being in favour of “war” and “Nazis” by a social media account which purports to be authorised by a local North Sydney MP.
Chinese-Australian voters have been told that if they did not support the Voice to Parliament they would be seen as being in favour of “war” and “Nazis” by a social media account which purports to be authorised by a local North Sydney MP.
The comments, which have been branded “condescending”, were made in a WeChat group for locals in the Bennelong electorate by an account apparently operated by Labor MP Jerome Laxale’s office.
In screenshots of the discussion, which took place on September 29, the ‘Laxale account’ said, “If we look at who is calling for the (no) vote, we will find that their leaders are Peter Dutton, who loves to peddle war, and Pauline Hanson, who is against Asian immigrants.”
Referring to neo-Nazis who oppose the Voice, the account continued, “The Nazi group certainly did not represent everyone, but their interests were the same”.
“The logic of this is not hard to understand.”
The account was not suggesting Mr Dutton and Ms Hanson were neo-Nazis.
It is not clear whether the posts were made by Mr Laxale himself or someone in his office, however Mr Laxale’s photo appeared on the account alongside Chinese characters reading, “federal parliamentarian Jerome” and an electoral authorisation.
It is a requirement of electoral law that politicians place an authorisation on their accounts.
Mr Laxale was contacted for clarification as to whether the account was legitimate and operated by his office, however despite the claims made by the account many participants in the discussion disagreed and indicated they would be voting “no”.
One participant wrote, “because the Nazi group opposed the Voice, so opposition to the Voice is similar to the Nazis, there is a problem with this logic.”
Another wrote, “Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price, and (Lidia) Thorpe were all Indigenous leaders … they were not Nazis!”
In response, the ‘Laxale account’ tried to shut down the debate, with the app’s translation function revealing, “I am reminding you that your words and deeds are inappropriate and not that you are not allowed to speak.”
“Please pay attention to your speech … we do not welcome intentionally raising any bars to lead to war.”
Another agreed with those disputing the ‘Laxale account’ claims and attempts to shut down discussion, saying, “Why can’t I express my opinion as a local resident?”
‘Cynical ploy’: Yes campaign pinged over ‘misleading’ signs
‘Can’t waltz in’: Western Sydney mayor says ‘no’ to Voice event
Chinese community media commentator Jeffrey Wang said that the “tone” of the “response to perfectly reasonable questions from the Chinese community is extremely condescending.”
“It’s like he expects all of his Chinese constituents to think the same way and no explanation is warranted.”
Mr Wang added that “it’s clear that these Chinese constituents are sophisticated and have read up on the issue and called out the logical fallacy of his rhetoric comparing ‘no’ voters to Nazis.”
Two points…
I await Laxale’s condemnation of real Nazis at Town Hall and the Sydney Opera House last night.
I have a strong feeling that the Australian Chinese community will overwhelmingly vote NO.
What interests does the EU have in the region that it’s important for them to keep funding terrorists? Could their aims and those of Hamas coincide?
Delusion in the White House. Bloodshed in Israel.
This administration thought it could tame the world’s rogue actors. It was wrong.
As Hamas gunmen were in the initial stages of a raid that has left more than 700 dead, 2,408 wounded, and at least 100 held hostage in Gaza, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem weighed in on the unfolding horror.
“We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred,” the official X account for the office posted. “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”
Observers of America’s policy in the Middle East will recognize the telltale talking points: the urging of restraint in the face of terror; the implied cycle of violence. The peace process has been dead for years, but the mindset behind it survives.
Let’s be clear. The timing of these diplomatic platitudes was grotesque. Here was the official bureau of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, which deals with the Palestinian Authority, calling on Israel to refrain from responding to the worst slaughter of innocent Jews since the Holocaust.
The original post was soon erased. Subsequent statements from President Biden and his senior advisers have dropped the both-sidesism and focused instead on Israel’s right to defend herself.
Nevertheless, this administration has a serious problem. While the official rhetorical response to the attack has been strong, there is a wide chasm between the president’s words and his administration’s actions.
Good luck trying to sleep in Gaza. Israel is keeping drones up on a continual basis.
And the jets are back.
Many distant booms.
I am reading a Clive Cussler book with my headphones on and just
listening to it all.
Another close BOOM!
Israel is going all out.
Hamas have burned an Israeli teenage girl alive.
With a mob cheering it on.
On telegram.
No doubt will end up on twitter and TikTok.
You don’t want to be on that side.
LOL
Biden Admin Says Calls for Israel Ceasefire ‘Not Accurate’
By Philip Wegmann – RCP Staff
Statements from the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs and Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted to social media over the weekend “did not accurately reflect” the position of the Biden administration in the wake of a deadly Hamas terrorist attack, a State Department spokesman told RealClearPolitics.
The White House has not called on Israel to stand down, and in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, President Biden promised that military assistance was “now on its way to Israel with more to follow over the coming days.”
Blinken repeatedly echoed that sentiment from Biden on the Sunday show circuit.
“The only things we’ve said to Israel are that we’re here, we’ve got your back, we want to make sure that you have the support that you need,” he told Margaret Brennan on CBS News’ Face the Nation. “We want to make sure that you have the assistance that you need.”
And yet Sunday evening, in a since-deleted post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Blinken seemed to back a ceasefire.
“Turkish Foreign Minister @HakanFidan and I spoke further on Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel. I encouraged Turkey’s advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages by Hamas immediately,” the secretary of state wrote.
This came after the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs shared a similar sentiment early Saturday morning, saying, “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” That initial tweet was also taken down later.
Its civilisation versus Neanderthals.
If the Bilderbergers are a powerful think tank, where do they come from and what is the power behind them?
Real Mac Report
@RealMacReport
Breaking: Netanyahu says “air strikes in Gaza are just the beginning” and what Israel will do next will “resonate for generations to come.”
It’s civilisation versus evil.
No greater love.
Harrowing, not graphic.
Dangerous times.
This is one of those points in history where an uncompromising, brutal response is required. Anything less will lead more of the same and worse. It is not a time for good men who do nothing.
Where do you stand?
Israel war live updates: Biden confirms at least 11 Americans among dead, US citizens ‘likely’ among hostages — as Hamas threatens to kill 1 prisoner for every airstrike
times of Israel live blog. Obama has spoken.
Israel seems to have a good idea about hamas locations ‘a mosque with a war room inside’
Larry Summers rips Harvard as student groups blame Israel for Hamas attacks: ‘Sickened’
Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president, blasted the Ivy League school’s administration over its lack of response to dozens of student groups who blamed Israel for Hamas’ surprise attack this weekend.
“In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today,” Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton who later went on to advise Barack Obama in the White House, wrote on his X social media account.
“The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups’ statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel.”
“Instead, Harvard is being defined by the morally unconscionable statement apparently coming from two dozen student groups blaming all the violence on Israel,” he wrote, adding: “I am sickened.”
Summers reacted on Monday to a statement signed by more than 30 Harvard student organizations who said they were holding Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ mass slaughter.
Sydney Opera House Israel-Palestine protest: Anger as Jews are told to stay home and dragged away from protest – while radical Muslims shout vile anti-semitic comments, throw flares, and chant ‘death to jews’
. Almost 2,000 people marched on Sydney Opera House
. Chants of ‘f*** the jews’ and ‘Allahu Akbar’ rang out
. Flares and other projectiles thrown at cops
. Radical Muslims burnt the Star of David in front of cops
. Counter-protestors arrested for unfurling Israeli flag
. ‘Despicable’ scenes condemned across political spectrum
If only Australia vigorously prosecuted antisemitic hate speech
Harrowing is the word.
Universities have become utterly degraded, anti social, anti scholarship institutions.
A degree these days has all the prestige of an elephant stamp.
Not being inclined to fear, I have to admit being fearful this morning for my grandchildren’s safety at school.
Good lord, what ahistorical horseshit.
They were murdered on the basis of their race, you appalling ignoramus.
MARK ALMOND: The savagery displayed by Hamas will change the world more than 9/11 did. Now China and Russia will move to seize the advantage
Beyond the immediate devastation, the shockwaves from the barbaric assault by Hamas on Israel are now reverberating across the world.
Monstrous in its scale, pitiless in its savagery, this unprecedented attack has ramifications that may be felt far beyond the Middle East — and for decades to come.
It is no exaggeration to argue that the primitive savagery displayed by Hamas at the weekend has sparked a geopolitical earthquake.
The sudden shifting of global tectonic plates means that not only Israel’s local rivals, such as Iran, but the West’s rivals, China and Russia, may well now move to take advantage of the immediate focus on the Middle East.
Contrary to most Western reporting, the terrorists’ cynical slaughter of defenceless civilians, raping women and kidnapping others, gets little mention in the Arab media.
Mark Almond is Director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford
‘Nightmare clothing’: Tweet sparks debate over G-string undies
Few things can still divide women like the comfort – or lack thereof – of one particular underwear style – as one viral tweet has proven.
One Twitter user, named Emily, proved just how contentious an issue it remains when she deemed thongs “the most sensory nightmare piece of clothing that has ever existed” in a now-viral thread on Saturday.
“Are women ever going to admit that thongs are the most sensory nightmare piece of clothing that has ever existed or are they still going to look me in my eyeballs and say ‘I actually find them more comfortable’,” she wrote.
“How. How can they be more comfortable. If they were the most comfortable, all of our grandmothers would be wearing them. Not granny panties.
Chilling new dashcam shows men shooting Israeli festivalgoers point-blank, looting their belongings
Chilling new dashcam footage has revealed how Hamas militants stormed an Israeli music festival before shooting revellers point blank and looting their belongings.
What does the UN have to say about all this?
“Not being inclined to fear, I have to admit being fearful this morning for my grandchildren’s safety at school.
calli, security will be massive.
Given what ensued in Sydney’s CBD last night, given what I personally saw on Sydney’s CBD streets last night, when real Nazis were given free license to shout and scream “f*ck the Jews”, it is now clear we Jews are no longer safe even here in Sydney. After all, we were advised of this fact by NSW police, that we Jews we weren’t safe and that we Jews should stay away.
Won’t link the whole article but a reminder of what Israel is up against:
The distinction between Hamas and Israel is that Israel doesn’t bomb civilian houses. Nor use their citizens as shields.
Hamas need to be Rabzed pronto.
“It’s civilisation versus evil.”
Yes.
By the way, where’s our resident “Nazi puncher”? He’s been very quiet, hasn’t he?
Cassie monty is beside himself with glee. He loves his opponents being killed in cold blood.
“Hamas have burned an Israeli teenage girl alive.
With a mob cheering it on.
Never forget that the resident pervert apologist said such human garbage had “legitimate grievances”. Never forget that the pervert apologist wrote those words, in black and white, on these pages.
A quick “update”:
NOT “radical islam, but standard, official doctrine, straight out of the “official handbook”::
“And He brought down those of the People of the Book who supported them from their fortresses and cast terror in their hearts; some you slew, some you made captive. And He bequeathed upon you their lands, their habitations, and their possessions, and a land you never trod. God is powerful over everything. (33:26)
“The Prophet Muhammad will be fulfilled: Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him — except for the gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.”
NEVER forget that the fundamental purpose of terrorism is to TERRORIZE. Fearful, bewildered people are MUCH more “malleable”.
Thanks Top Ender for posting (in the early hours) the Daily Mail link to the electorate-by-electorate analysis of referendum voting.
SMH EDITORIAL
No excuses for murder of innocents in the Middle East
The Middle East has a long, complex and bitter history of conflict, but there is absolutely no justification for slaughtering hundreds of civilians in a street or at a music festival. Those who make excuses for the indiscriminate murder of innocent people in Israel on the weekend should be ashamed.
They not only anoint terror as an acceptable weapon, but play into the hands of extremists on both sides of the conflict. They also help erase attempts at resolution through moderation.
Incredibly, they profess support for people whose actions are beyond the pale:
the Hamas militants who carried out the weekend’s incursion into Israel showed a brutal contempt for humanity, with the release on Monday of hostage footage showing an unidentified Holocaust survivor and grandmother forced to pose with a Hamas rifle.
The Herald would like to think that those who hold the view that the Hamas attack was provoked must at the same time recognise the slaughter was entirely unjustified.
Yet social media has been littered with comments from users pointing out how long the people of Palestine had been oppressed, or that they live in the world’s biggest open air prison.
All of this may be true and reasonable to point out.
But to wilfully ignore or explain away the massacre of hundreds of civilians by a proscribed terrorist organisation is deeply alarming.
Hi monty!
Assistant Police Commissioner Tony Cooke should be sacked. His comments were disgraceful this morning. His slime low IQ statement this morning “assuring all communities that they will be safe”……except for the Jewish community.
AN “Immediate, BRUTAL RESPONSE” from Israel is EXACTLY what the moon-god worshipers want, because it will drag Israel down to the level of the psychopaths.
There are more “interesting” and effective ways to administer “attitude adjustment” but, to be effective, the details should not be published on the front pages of Haaretz or the New York Slimes.
I see you monty.
Now have a look at this shit. Daily Telegraph:
FMD
The man who chooses to dance with a bear
doesn’t get to decide when the dance is finished.
Old Jungle Saying.
I just checked something.
I have a small-ish group of just over 100 “friends” on Facebook (I try to keep it to extended family, close friends and acquaintances I may not regularly see).
Only one has an “I’m Voting Yes” profile picture.
Compare and contrast with the Gay Marriage thingy.
Does Cooke honestly think that the denizens of Lakemba and Greenacre are not “safe”?
Where does he imagine the threat to them will come from?
Come on Tony. Tell us. Spell it out.
On a par with Fatty Nixon. “I had to eat!”
A curious journalist (are there any?) should ask VIC POL and SYD Police if they can ensure safety of attendees of summer concerts given the events in Sydney last night.
It’s what they need. Give them what they want.
And no, it will not drag Israel down, any more than a just sentence for a criminal drags the court down.
This is the sort of thinking that has led to the situation we see today.
The EU wanders onto the world stage:
After a brisk two hour review:
But, other than that, rock solid:
You can never have too much nuance.
No loud bangs in Bruxelles, thank you very much…
Yep.
Hamas Senior Official: “Planet Earth Will Come Under [a System] Where There is… No Zionism, No Treacherous Christianity” (9 Oct)
Pay that one.
“I just checked something.
I have a small-ish group of just over 100 “friends” on Facebook (I try to keep it to extended family, close friends and acquaintances I may not regularly see).
Only one has an “I’m Voting Yes” profile picture.
Compare and contrast with the Gay Marriage thingy.”
There’s an old adage…”the opera isn’t over until fat lady sings” (I suppose that’s now “fatphobic”) and whilst I won’t completely count all my eggs, I’m thinking and feeling that the Voice is going to go down, down, down.
It’s over.
Noel Pearson:
‘No result will signal reconciliation no longer viable.’
Give us what we want or else.
Put a cork in it, Noel; you’re not helping.
As you would.
I think we’ve discussed this before. Hopefully you can take some comfort from the very serious professional gentlemen watching over them.
Someone having egrets? Or maybe kittens.
Not going to happen Hamas kiddies. Not this time.
NSW Police Minister should be sacked.
NSW Police Commissioner should be sacked.
NSW Deputy Police Commissioner should be sacked.
The NSW Police last night told me and other Jews I wasn’t safe in my own city, that means synagogues in this city aren’t safe, Jewish schools in this city aren’t safe, Jewish kindergartens in this city aren’t safe, Jewish communal organisations in this city aren’t safe.
What a disgrace.
Says a lot about Canberra.
Together with Albanese’s leadership, ’tis hoped.
I see the resident psycho is expressing their “freedom of speech” in the only way a banned person can.
Why not create a new persona and argue the point, coward?
Too lazy, eh?
Fear not…
NSW plod has sprung into action with threats of charges against participants this morning.
Top men.
“Reconciliation” requires some element of forgiveness from the party that considers themselves wronged. All I see is an extended hand, with the chant “Gimme, gimme, gimme.”
Which “residents”?
Only one group actually listened to the strutting, crowing capon.
Sydney. It’s not all bath houses and feather boas.
Marcia Langton says a “NO” vote will mean the end of “Welcome to Country.”
Is there a down side so far?
Add this clown to the list that Chris Minns needs to sack.
Shout out to Malcom Fraser who gave Australia illiterate goat herders as an immigration class.
Via Ace of Spades, an explanation about the video purporting to show an Israeli girl being burnt. Seems like internet scum are trying a cheap set up against the Jews, of course.
“BTW: Earlier I mentioned a video that Dave Reaboi mentioned seeing showing a mob setting fire to a girl. This video was from 2008, and showed a mob of Guatemalans going vigilante on a woman who I think they accused of shooting someone or participating in an armed robbery.
So it was propaganda. Actually, I don’t think it was — no one would offer that easily-disproved propaganda on behalf of Israel. It makes it appear that Israel is making all of this up.
It was clickaganda — someone just remixing a video to get some hits by linking an old shock video with the trending story of the day to make money.
In any event, it was definitely not from the latest war crimes from our Partners in Peace.“
But mostly.
From one of the “in betweeners” – keep your head down ,and come home to your family safe and in one piece.
Bee is already on to the Hamas ceasefire offer. They’re quick!
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1711424832447861212
Thanks for all the articles you give those who do not have a subscription.
I also appreciate ‘no italics’
NSW Police have form when it comes to dealing, or not dealing, with this sort of thing. There was no “breach of the peace” when the beaches of Cronulla were sullied by provocative misogynist behaviour by groups of middle eastern young men. There was no activity when convoys of thugs swarmed out of Punchbowl to attack whoever they could on the basis of their race. Do not forget the NSW Police priorities during the Lindt Cafe seige when they favoured the rights of the criminal over those of his victims. They stopped a reporter going into Lakemba on “breach of the peace” grounds. It is all very one way; institutional Islamophilia I would say.
Palestine is a concept, it is NOT a country(sic)
funding terrorists is what they’re doing
Genocide supprters:
Leftists Come Out in Support of Hamas Massacres, Send Money to Palestinians (9 Oct)
Mark well who they are.
Someone needs to explain Popper’s paradox of tolerance to the police and their political masters.
In simple language.
Never forget that earlier this year, the stinking putrid left, including the verminous hypocritical Greens, made a mountain out of former Premier Perrottet once wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress 21st birthday party.
Never forget that a fortnight ago, a far-left Canadian government honoured a real Nazi in its parliament.
Never forget that last night, on Sydney’s CBD streets, real Nazis, NOT prop Nazis, protested and walked through the city’s streets screeching “Death to Israel” and “f*ck the Jews”.
Palestine is a concept, it is NOT a country(sic)
funding terrorists is what they’re doing
Yep.
The NSW premier knows he has a problem.
As Tom said above, Michael Daley should be sacked.
From the Oz;
‘Best option’: NSW cops defend actions on protest
Staff writers
STAFF WRITERS
New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Tony Cooke commended the police officers present at the pro-Palestine protest in Sydney last night, saying that managing the movement of the group was “the best option for police”.
“In the circumstances, it was considered the best option for police was to manage the movement of those people from Sydney Town Hall to the Opera House, to ensure that we were able to control the movement of the people and get them to a place where we could manage the rally in its form and to prevent the risk of conflict,” Mr Cooke said.
“We were able to manage that to ensure there was no conflict last night. We are continuing to work across all communities, and all communities can be assured that we will continue to, so that they are free to go about their business without fear.”
Sydney businessman Mark Spiro, who was dragged from the protest by police after he arrived carrying an Israeli flag was allegedly removed “for his safety” according to the Assistant Commissioner.
“I understand (Mr Spiro’s) view very clearly … but also very clearly that situation caused and could have caused significant risk to him,” Mr Cooke said.
“This is not about us condoning, supporting or facilitating any process.”
When asked whether the commissioner urged Jewish residents not to attend the Opera House as it was illuminated in the national colours of Israel, Mr Cooke claimed NSW Police “spoke very clearly with members of the Jewish community” who then “made a decision not to attend”.
At its peak, the crowd grew to an estimated size of 1000 protestors.
“The entire rally and footage was covered by CCTV footage and an operation has been established to look into the issues last night,” Mr Cooke said.
“We will attempt to identify people who committed offences and will take appropriate actions to put them before the courts where it is possible.”
– James Dowling
For those who object to the word “brutal”, I am of the view that “gentle” doesn’t work with those who would murder women, children and geriatrics.
Ditto for those who would aid and abet.
Any word from Labor’s Muslim MPs?
Hello? Hello?
Crickets.
…“Of course, we all condemn the heinous attack on Israel, but…
More but- heads in action.
Useless catamites, I wonder if it was internal advice from their own security agencies about internal threats, or certain Arab states speculating on a cold winter looming with no Russian OR middle eastern gas supplies?
It’s odd that the Middle East cycle of violence never requires protection of Muslims in western countries from Jewish aggression.
PS – You neglected to mention Jewish tombstones aren’t safe. Thery’re very thorough in selecting defenceless targets.
Colour me sceptical. Justice is just as two-tiered here as in the US. If some Christian says something unkind about Islam he’ll be into court before you could say Fatima. A muslim saying kill the infidel gets a free pass. That’s what the hate speech laws are all about.
Of course I could be persuaded otherwise, after I see a few thousand arrests.
This is a variant on the ‘not all residents of Gaza support Hamas’ argument. OK, I accept that, and I accept that said residents have nowhere to go. Israel could address this by giving all residents 12hours to make their way to a designated safe area, probably the Southern end, then absolutely razing the rest. Once done, designate the N as safe zone, and do same to the S. Then, impose total blockade, but allow residents to leave under flag of truce whilst IDF transports them out of gaza to another location… No need for a costly ground war.
I think Biden/Obama have been mugged by reality.
Unprovoked war. In my mind, Gazan “authorities” have authorised the destruction of their quasi-state.
Well, the USS Bunker Hill pounding Hezbollah in southern Lebanon wasn’t on my tarot cards, not during this Presidency.
Ed, Fatima, Anne and Mehreen. We wait.
after I see a few thousand arrests
Aint “Rule of law” grand?
In further wankery, James Morrow writes:
Wouldn’t mind having a look at other languages and seeing what they are saying.
PS – You neglected to mention Jewish tombstones aren’t safe. Thery’re very thorough in selecting defenceless targets.
Oh yes, Jewish tombstones are regularly defaced and smashed by Nazis. That’s what Nazis do. Across Europe, Jewish cemeteries are vandalised (Malmo being an example), the Nazis in 2023 are truly the offspring of the Nazis that wreaked havoc in Europe between 1933 and 1945.
Is it wrong to think that these terrorist supporters around Australia should be deported?
H B Bear
Oct 10, 2023 10:23 AM
Shout out to Malcom Fraser who gave Australia illiterate goat herders as an immigration class.
That’s one gravestone which needs some additions. The slapper is the worst PM but big mal is in a fierce battle for second with turdball and krudd.
Israel was distracted — but so are we
The West’s fractured response reveals our weakness
BY Ayaan Hirsi Ali
How could Israel let this happen?
As footage of Gazan motorbikes pelting through holes in Israel’s “smart” border fence started to circulate, of paragliders descending on a desert rave, of entire families being kidnapped or butchered in their homes, that was the question on every Western analyst’s lips: how could Israel let this happen?
The more important question, however, is this: what will the West itself do now?
Launched from land, sea and air, the attack was unprecedented in both scale and barbarity. It was a display of Isis-like savagery. But it was also the culmination of a sophisticated military operation, probably months in the planning and aided by at least one foreign power. As a result, more than 800 Israelis have been slaughtered, and no doubt more will follow in the days and weeks to come. Again: how could Israel, with its vast intelligence apparatus and decades of experience, let this happen?
The obvious answer — at least the one doing the rounds of the think tanks in Europe and America — is that Israel was distracted. And when facing such determined enemies as Hamas and Iran, who are always on the lookout for the perfect moment to strike, distraction amounts to suicide.
Just look at how the West has attempted — and failed — to process the carnage in Israel. Caught in a Manichean trap that prioritises moral certainty over reality, anti-Israel activists have succeeded in distracting us further.
They distort reality by pretending Israel is simply paying the price for its aggression; that it must, as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn put it, end its “occupation” of Gaza. (Ironically, these very same people tend to be the ones warning Israel not to launch an invasion of Gaza — is it occupied or not?)
Further distraction follows: in the form of protests outside Israeli embassies, in those contortions that enable activists to justify attacks on Jewish shops and restaurants.
As a result, many people are unable to agree on the few facts in this interminable conflict that are clear: that Hamas is driven more by its hatred of Jewish people than its love for the Palestinians; that Hamas routinely kills, tortures and persecutes Palestinians who seek peace with Israel; that, well before Hamas paraded the dead bodies of Israeli women down its streets, it used Palestinian children as human shields.
And now, there is the fact that Iran, Russia and China are looking on with glee. They see anarchy in Israel and a weeping wound in the Western alliance. The palaces of Tehran, Moscow and Beijing are all looking West, and what do they see?
Activists in Time Square calling another intifada, Jewish schoolchildren being told not to wear their uniform, national broadcasters giving airtime to Hamas apologists. Our weakness is plain for the world to see.
NSW Attorney General Michael Daley on 2GB this morning…
“what everyone needs to do is show restraint and respect”.
Yeah Mr Daley, I witnessed the restraint and respect at Town Hall last night, where I heard Nazis screaming pro-Hamas slogans, and shaking with fear I then walked to the bus stop where I cried.
Oh Mr Daley, only an hour or so later, reading the Oz, I saw the restraint and respect at the Sydney Opera House, where Nazis screeched, shouted and screamed….”f*ck the Jews”.
Then Mr Daley, I heard that Sydney Jews had been told to stay away, for fear of their safety.
So, Mr Daley, clearly my understanding and your understanding of the meaning of “restraint” and “respect” are different, very different,
Sack the NSW AG
Sack the NSW Police Minister
Sack the NSW Police Commissioner
Sack the NSW Deputy Police Commissioner
Jews aren’t safe on Sydney streets.
I think you’ll find they are mostly 2nd generation Australian citizens. Good luck with that.
sadly, at this point, the Israelis need to adopt the Russian philosophy towards hostages (ie all hostages are already dead) and get on with what needs to be done. The US could also come out and state that *all* US hostages are to be released immediately, or else, as could the EU.
Kowtowing to the terrorist supporting scum here will only encourage more of it.
Peaceful Jews aren’t safe.
Violent Muslims are given police protection.
Always a lively topic for those awkward silences at the pub.
“This is a variant on the ‘not all residents of Gaza support Hamas’ argument. OK, I accept that, and I accept that said residents have nowhere to go. Israel could address this by giving all residents 12hours to make their way to a designated safe area, probably the Southern end, then absolutely razing the rest. Once done, designate the N as safe zone, and do same to the S. Then, impose total blockade, but allow residents to leave under flag of truce whilst IDF transports them out of gaza to another location… No need for a costly ground war.”
Duk,
what is also needed if this situation were to pass, a massive media presence. Cameras, hundreds of them to film from every angle, via satellite streaming if possible, to show the world in real time, Hamas slaughtering their own people as they try to escape Gaza. No doubt whatsoever that, if Israel afforded Gazans the opportunity to leave safely, many would be killed by their own.
Heartbreaking story of wheelchair user unable to vote in the referendum via TheirABC here:
OK, the AEC made a boo boo. But, one step does not mean it is unable to be accessed. All that was required was for a couple of people to lift her chair over the threshhold. And, I would bet everything I have that if she had asked, that would have happened.
The real clue is in the accompanying photo. In their constant and impassioned pursuit of victimhood as the highest state of humanity, TheirABC found a wheelie wearing a Yes T shirt.
What a coincidence. Completely neutral. Would have done the same if it was a No T shirt. Blah, blah, blah.
TheirABC’s ‘experts’ are already drafting their explanations for the failure of the referendum (which they predicted would be won.) And, they are getting handsomely paid for both.
Thanks, taxpayers.
Don’t blame your cards, Bunker Hill was decommissioned in San Diego 2 weeks ago.
The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group arrives in the area tomorrow as well as a Marine Amphibious Ready Group based on the USS Bataan.
Doubt there will be any US ‘boots on the ground’, but there is plenty of ammo in those ships to be transferred if needed.
Maybe we should send John Pesutto from the SFL up to Sydney or Gaza. He can sniff out a Nazi from a mile away…although he has been known to blow his own people away in the process before he gets his eye in.
Says it all.
After Hosting a Party, Biden Calls a Lid Before Noon as War Rages (9 Oct)
McCarthy Leaves Door Open to Return as House Speaker in Response to Israel Crisis (9 Oct)
Biden partied at the WH as Israelis were being massacred and Americans taken hostage, and has now gone to bed at noon. McCarthy decides to make it about himself, by offering to manfully and heroically stride back into the Speakership.
You’d have to have a heart of tungsten not to feel for these poor guys. /s
Leaked email shows CBC executive telling journos to not refer to Hamas as a “terrorist organisation”
https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1710862706914349283?s=20
Harvard is a national disgrace
The university is incubating demonic ideologues
BY Jacob Howland
Those were the days. Progressive liberals have now given birth to a generation of demonic ideologues who excuse sheer evil.
Reading the “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine”, I can only hope that many Harvard faculty are appalled at the little monsters they’ve helped to create.
The statement, signed by 31 student organisations from Harvard College, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Medical School, and the Kennedy School of Government (including, incredibly, a group called “Harvard Jews for Liberation”), “hold[s] the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence”.
That would include, as Victor Davis Hanson has written, “pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street” — atrocities last seen during the Holocaust.
The statement makes no mention of Hamas, the Iranian-funded Islamist terror group that is explicitly dedicated to the obliteration of Israel through Jihad.
The Hamas Covenant includes the following language, from the hadith (sayings attributed to Mohammed): “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
Instead, the Harvard students characterise the Palestinians as hapless victims of “colonial retaliation”, academic cant as tiresome as it is crude.
“In the coming days,” their statement asserts, “Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.… Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory.”
But the ordeal that the citizens of Israel are suffering is very well-charted. It is an ordeal perfected by the Nazis: violent cruelty that is meant simply to humiliate and defile, including what the Holocaust survivor Terrence des Pres called “excremental assault”.
No one can watch this video of an Israeli woman, bruised and bloodied, her wrists tied with wire, her sweatpants soiled with feces (to beat the shit out of someone is a real thing), pulled out of the back of a Jeep by her hair, and not understand this fact.
Have the Harvard students seen this video of men chanting “Allah hu Akbar!” while sitting on the naked corpse of Shani Louk? She was a tattoo artist and conscientious objector to Israel military service who was murdered and robbed at a music festival for peace.
She could have been among their best friends.
Jacob Howland is Provost and Director of the Intellectual Foundations Program at UATX, commonly known as the University of Austin. His latest book is Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic (Paul Dry Books, 2018).
I’m afraid recent evil events, no matter what the response, are only going to give us more refugees pounding on the door; more surveillance state intrusion on the ordinary citizen; more institutionalised marxism; more emboldened Russian, Chinese and Islamic extremist sponsored encroachments across the globe; and a general acceleration of our overall decline.
We’re well past the point where society learns from its errors and course corrects. It’s more of the same, worserer and harder.
The politicisation of the Opera House must now be viewed as complete.