Donald J Trump announces Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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This week Elizabeth Lund was booted – she was VP of Quality. And dusky Mr Ted Colbert was let go…
I had no idea that Rita Panahi is quite famous in the US due to her “Lefties Losing It” segments…
More chick bashing Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science -but I’m pleased to see ‘physiognomy’ back in the charts,…
Sour grapes.
She had to eat?
Catley’s husband is a former member for the same electorate.
Australia’s political caste (the ineptocracy)* in action.
(I’d also mention that she’s a former librarian, but I wouldn’t want to give librarians a bad rap.)
* a hat tip to whoever coined that word!
Me thinks the Yes campaign was done by Bud Light advertising. First, insult your audience; second, have grifters insult your audienc; third, did I mention insult your audience as rascist in a racist referendum; forth, have Luigi the Unbelievable of the Ineptecrasy not know what is in the Uluru Statement, waving a piece of paper, parallels of “Peace in our time”. Labor, doing what Labor do every effing time…….stuffing up coz they’ve never had a clue. The SFL will no doubt have a hol my beer moment instead of capitalising on a disastrous situation. They also don’t have a clue.
“alwaysright
Oct 12, 2023 10:23 AM
NSW police have the same weakness as VIC police.
The brown paper bag.”
I thought they were Aldi bags? 😀
That arsehole Pearson had the gall to use the term “we” in describing this as the culmination of a 20 year process, when he clearly went out of his way to exclude Australians from the process.
The referendum IS the only involvement Australians have had in the process, and as such, no will also be a great big up yours to people like Pearson for not involving us in the process.
But I repeat myself. Again and again. Geez
It’s not about the Titanic at all. It’s about controlling the world through money supply and the length historically gone to achieve that, which many or many not include sinking the titanic.
I think we’ve gone well beyond that now. Our current “betters” seem determined to control our every breath or, even better, stifle it altogether in the name of population reduction, for which wars are also quite useful.
May or may not
Leader of the free world.
Joe Biden Slams Fist on Podium, Randomly Starts Shouting Out of Nowhere During Roundtable with Jewish Leaders (11 Oct, via Lucianne)
Getting harder and harder for his handlers to prevent him airing what’s in his soul.
Hear, hear!
Ezra Levant at Rebel News:
Hamas are worse than Nazis; even Nazis tried to hide their crimes.
Unpaywalled for wide distribution (but not for the faint of heart).
BB much earlier:-
there was was a head tilt from our fawning media and vows we ‘must do better’ to understand the plight of those adherents of the Allen’s Snackbar.
And who can forget the lame posturing after 9/11 by Peter FlogSimons.:-
Hello. We are sorry. We are desperately sorry that the world has now moved to the point where it is on the edge of an abyss from which there can be no return. We accept that such hate as drove the planes into the World Trade Centre towers can only have come from incredible suffering, and we are desperately sorry for that suffering, even if we are yet to come to grips with its specific cause.
Sometimes a disaster is just a disaster. Implying the sinking of the titanic was some sort of plan to control money is, well it is unhinged.
“Fair Shake
Oct 12, 2023 10:47 AM
Final update on SE Melbourne family home invasion and stabbing by gang. Trial at end. Last chap sentenced this morning.
All up 6 years jail with a min 3 years. No one was expecting a semi-responsible sentencing. Great news. Family can put this appalling violence behind them. Hopefully the message get thru to him and others. For such a horrible week, I am rejoicing in this small bit of good news.”
Fair Shake,
good to hear that some justice was served. I hope your friends can now heal and hopefully in some way, be able to put the worst behind them.
Thank you for keeping us updated.
“Hamas are worse than Nazis; even Nazis tried to hide their crimes.”
That’s exactly what my father said last night.
Welcome to sadistic Sadiq Khan’s plan for London
I am sitting here reading through this below and sipping on my tea like a good little blue-haired Silicon Valley gender confused… and I realise I immediately want whiskey, the strongest available to man.
Here is the C40 Future of Urban Consumption proposal:
Aviation
Progressive target:
1 short-haul return flight (less than 1,500 km) every 2 years per person
53% sustainable aviation fuel adopted (or other equivalent low-carbon technology or fuel)
Ambitious target:
1 short-haul return flight (less than 1,500 km) every 3 years per person
100% sustainable aviation fuel adopted (or other equivalent low-carbon technology or fuel).
Dietary change
Progressive target:
16 kg of meat per person per year.
90 kg dairy consumption per person per year.
Ambitious target:
0 kg of meat consumption per year.
0 kg dairy consumption per year.
Clothing consumption
Progressive target:
8 new clothing items per person per year.
Ambitious target:
3 new clothing items per person per year.
Vehicle ownership
Progressive target:
190 vehicles per 1,000 people
20-year lifetime for body of vehicle (shell & interior).
Ambitious target:
0 private vehicles.
50-year lifetime for body of vehicle (shell & interior).
Electronics
Progressive target:
7-year optimum lifetime of laptops and similar electronic devices.
Ambitious target:
7-year optimum lifetime of laptops and similar electronic devices.
And during all of this, misogynistic and racist extremist conspiracy theorists such as yours truly have been stating that this was in the cards. The media propagandists have been doing their part. Of course!
OK I am getting with the Future –
1 Car Toyota Series 80 Landcruiser 29 years Old, 2nd Car Honda Jazz 17 years Old – Both drive like new and I would be pushing to buy 3 new clothing items per person per year.
WTF?
Rufus T Firefly
Oct 12, 2023 10:22 AM
lotocoti (Quoted)
Oct 12, 2023 9:48 AM
Looks like the Tel el-Hawa Home Owners Association
backed the wrong strong horse.
I do have sympathy for the non Hamas population in Gaza, but I cannot help but agree with the words of that Imam, in Sydney, shouted on Sunday evening.
“I’m elated, it’s a day of courage, it’s a day of pride, it’s a day of victory – this is the day we’ve been waiting for.”
Correct.
If people who considered themselves thought leaders genuinely wanted Australia to get in behind Constitutional change we would have seen something like a constitutional convention. A broad based and representative meeting to road test the Voice against the whole package of the Uluru Statement in the context of the nation, to explain and extract issues affecting the whole of Australia.
Instead we have seen from afar a series of folkloric meetings in dusty places, from whence the Great and Good emerged, initiated and energised – and then promptly informed Australia to not worry about the details.
Political smartarsery writ large.
Could not have been done worse.
As much as I would love it if people suddenly started thinking long and hard about public policy, I wonder if the No vote’s popularity is less about people suddenly becoming intelligent and more a “safe” way for them to get back at our institutions after those institutions so badly bullied them during Covid.
Daily Mail. HAMAS should be treated in the same manner as any other plague and eliminated from the face of the Earth.
From the “Keeping the Peace in the State of NSW” Thread:
Standouts:
BBS –
Megan: –
Cassie: –
There are more gems – read them, please.
dover0beach
Jees mate, phrasing.
Blackout Bowen Labor/Greens & NSW and VIC Labor here we come!
Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe
California project would be one of the most egregious cases of environmental destruction in human history
When it comes to “renewables” wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example, over 500,000 square miles of biofuel plantations have already replaced farms and forests to replace a mere 4 percent of transportation fuel. To source raw materials to build “sustainable” batteries, mining operations are scaling up, with no end in sight, in nations with appalling labor conditions and nonexistent environmental regulations. But the worst offender is the wind industry.
America’s wind power industry somehow manages to attract almost no negative coverage in the press, or litigation from environmentalists, despite causing some of the most obvious and tragic environmental catastrophes so far this century. Last August I wrote about the ongoing slaughter of whales off America’s northeast coast thanks to construction of offshore wind turbines:
“When you detonate massive explosives, repeatedly drive steel piles into the ocean floor with a hydraulic hammer, and blast high decibel sonar mapping signals underwater, you’re going to harm animals that rely on sound to orient themselves in the ocean. To say it is mere coincidence that hundreds of these creatures have washed ashore, dead, all of a sudden, during precisely the same months when the blasting and pounding began, is brazen deception.”
Nonetheless, when the story can’t be buried, deception is the strategy. Not one major environmental organization, government watchdog agency, or media outlet has called for a slowdown in industrial offshore wind projects. Instead, they repeatedly claim these allegations are misinformation. And from that paragon of truth, FactCheck.org, we get this: “No Evidence Offshore Wind Development Killing Whales.”
Let’s set aside the obvious negative impact on whale populations of tens of thousands of marine surveying and construction sorties into offshore areas where shipping traffic has never before been concentrated, or the impact of noise and explosions on not one site, such as would be the case with a lone oil rig, but on thousands of sites, each one being prepared for an offshore wind turbine. The destruction wrought by wind turbines extends well beyond what it’s doing to whales.
A report just released by a New England fishermen association summarizes research they completed on offshore wind projects. Their findings are stunning. Just the geographic extent of these proposed offshore wind projects is unprecedented. According to the report, “Federal regulators at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have designated almost 10 million acres for wind farm surveys and development.” That is over 15,000 square miles.
Not included in that allocation are the corridors where high voltage lines will have to cross the ocean floor to transfer electricity from the turbines to land-based power grids. The report found that “electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emanating from subsea cables appear to produce birth deformities in juvenile lobster.” That’s just the beginning.
The report also found that wind farms “increase sea surface temperatures and alter upper-ocean hydrodynamics in ways scientists do not yet understand,” and “whip up sea sediment and generate highly turbid wakes that are 30-150 meters wide and several kilometers in length, having a major impact on primary production by phytoplankton which are the base of marine food chains.” And there’s more.
Wind turbines “generate operational noise in a low frequency range (less than 700 Hz) with most energy concentrated between 2 and 200 Hz. This frequency range overlaps with that used by fish for communication, mating, spawning, and spatial movement,” and “high voltage direct current undersea cables produce magnetic fields that negatively affect the drifting trajectory of haddock larvae by interfering with their magnetic orientation abilities.” Haddock are “a significant portion of U.S. commercial fish landings and are an important component of the marine food chain.”
– Nothing to see here, right?
– Imagine the logistics.
– Where are the environmentalists?
It was good to see reports of CBA directors copping a pasting from shareholders at the AGM over wasting $2M on the Yes campaign. There were calls for them to reimburse the company out of their personal finances. It’s really important that shareholder displeasure over craven corporate virtue signalling gets lots of publicity. Minor Shareholders might not have much power individually but concerted protests and votes against re-election and remuneration of directors who do this might get some results.
https://richardgage911.org/videos-evidence/
Ref 9/11, a question to all on this blog.
How many tall buildings, steel reinforced, have collapsed due to fire since,
[pick a date], say 1900?
Answer, 3.
What is even more amazing, is that all 3 occurred on Manhattan Island on 9/11/2001.
The South Tower, the North Tower and Building 7, (the Saloman Bros Building), are the ONLY steel reinforced skyscrapers to collapse, almost into their own footprint, in history.
Building 7 wasn’t even hit by an aircraft, it just collapse in sympathy.
The bit of footage, where a BBC correspondent announces the collapse of Bldg 7, whilst it is clearly standing, in the backdrop out of the window, always makes me smile.
Just before 9/11 a skyscraper in Germany was “fully engulfed” in flames for eight hours and didn’t collapse.
Just after, a building in South America was on fire for 5 hours, it didn’t collapse.
The first of the WTC Towers burned for 2 hours and 20 mins, on only four floors and it collapsed. The second burned for only 1 hour and 20 mins.
The videos on the attached links are quite long, but architects and engineers dispel the US Govt line that the steel melted, causing the collapses. The temps that office fires can reach are nowhere near the temp required to melt steel.
(Whilst long, these doco’s are well worth a watch.)
In short, what the Govt said occurred, is simply NOT possible.
A group of them are attempting to bring the US Govt to a public hearing in order to show the complicity and evil, held within Govt.
One unit of the NYFD reached the fire in the first bldg to collapse, and his report can be heard. He said “the fire here is NOT too bad and we can put it out with TWO lines”.
So it is not even a huge fire, yet we are supposed to believe it caused catastrophic damage to the steel supports.
Less than a minute later, the building collapsed.
The Official Report states there was NO explosions in the buildings.
On one of the videos, after this is stated, they cross to about 15 eye witnesses on the day, who clearly state, “there was an explosion, then the building collapsed”.
There was even one camera, mounted on a tripod, filming the demise.
Just before the collapse, it shudders.
“Nothing to see here, ……., move along please!”
Now, given the greatest loss of life on the US mainland in a single day, one can rest assured that extensive testing of the steel girders was conducted, to prove the theory, ….., right?
Nope. Honest Rudi Gulliani, the very next day, started removing ALL of the debris, 400 tons per day, in trucks and shipped it all off to, …….., China.
NONE, was kept for testing by the Govt. NONE.
That the Israeli/US intelligence have missed the 2,000 missiles buildup, (Israel’s est), and the deployment of over 1,000 fighters entering Israel, is at best, ………, “suspicious”. This is no small enterprise.
That the US is sending TWO Carrier Battle Groups, to assist Israel to defeat Hamas,
(???????????), is plainly ridiculous.
It is either war with Iran, (“this time it will work!” – Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan, Bolton et al), or maybe, attempting to strengthen the US position in Syria.
Either way, these psychopath NeoCons, (who have never in their lives, got a call right), not happy with the losses incurred in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, want to launch a war that will lead to the destruction of the USA and probably, lead to a nuclear conflagration, that will end life on earth.
FMD.
Dot, I think he’s replicating the crowing, this time directed at Gaza. That is, turn about being fair play.
Oh.
There should be more of this. It’s abuse of shareholders but whose really going to file suit unless they’re a baller of some degree. Suing a large corporation? May as well leave your head out on the kerb near one of the intersections at Hyde Park.
There was indeed a constitutional convention (by name if not substance). Malcolm Turnbull and Shorten initiated it in 2017.
So you know who to blame for the whole debacle.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 12, 2023 11:23 AM
“Hamas are worse than Nazis; even Nazis tried to hide their crimes.”
Hamas are martyrs. That is why they don’t hide their faces and film it all. They believe they go to paradise. It’s all in the Koran. Now the western press is saying they were on drugs as a rationale for this savagery. No.
In the West we cannot fathom the strength of family belief. You can be assured that many of the Hamas soldiers were the eldest son of the extended family. The family – mother, father, brothers, cousins, uncles….would be proud of the number of people, including babies, their son slaughtered before being killed. That is the reality and we have it here in Australia.
Trojan Horse Joe
“Pull It!!”
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”? Frank Zappa
I know they try to keep us distracted with Taylor Swift’s latest escapades, today’s fake indictments of Trump, Biden’s dog biting another White House visitor, Dementia Joe falling down or shitting his pants while lying about his past, our imminent death from climate change and gas stoves, black lesbians from Maryland being appointed senator from California, allowing millions of third world savages to invade our homeland and then proposing Trumps wall, the annual government shutdown kabuki dance, and sending another $25 billion into Zelensky’s off-shore bank accounts for his noble freedom fighting efforts against Russia.
But I know and you know it is all bullshit, meant to divert our attention from the imminent destruction of our financial system at the behest of the Deep State cabal using Dementia Joe as their Trojan horse.
They plan to implement their Great Reset agenda come hell or high water. They want to reduce the “surplus population” of the planet through whatever means necessary, whether it be their toxic vaccines, global warfare, climate lockdowns, destroying farmers, starving the peasants, making sure you own nothing, and creating a catastrophic financial collapse designed to impoverish the masses.
Summed by Wile E. Coyote’s Gravity Lessons
If you haven’t read Tim Blair’s take on that Yes vote Ad – You’re the Voice – you’re missing a magnificent column. Over at Quadrant.
Um, here’s one that collapsed yesterday, if that helps.
Fire rips through car park at Luton Airport (11 Oct)
Lots of hand wringing from EV fans right now. The carpark was enormous, and has to now be completely demolished.
Netanyahu: Terrorists Burned People Alive; Every Hamas Member Is ‘a Dead Man’; Gantz Invokes Ten Plagues
As Breitbart News reported earlier Wednesday, Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz of the Blue and White Party agreed to form an emergency government of national unity, setting aside political differences until the end of the war. Other opposition parties may follow.
As he introduced the new government, a visibly anguished Netanyahu said:
We saw the wild animals, we saw the barbarians we have to deal with. We are fighting a fierce enemy, an enemy worse than ISIS. We saw boys and girls, bound, shot in the head. Men and women who were burned while still alive, young girls who were raped and slaughtered, soldiers with their heads cut off.
In one place, they forced people to enter a place, and put spare tires around them so that there would be fuel, and they burned them alive.
What a great horror. How great the pain.
We all know families whose loved ones were murdered, were kidnapped, were burned. But however great the horror, that is how great our heroism. Men and women, fathers and Mothers, warriors and citizens who have discovered supreme courage and bravery. We are all fighting together, we all fought, and we all will fight for our home.
The horrific practice of burning people with tires was known as “necklacing” in South Africa, and was practiced by the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s as a way of punishing suspected informers and political rivals.
Tires, usually filled with fuel, were placed around victims’ necks, and the tires were then set alight, ensuring a slow, painful, and horrific death.
Netanyahu added that every member of Hamas should be considered “a dead man.”
Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant also spoke, vowing to “wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.”
“What happened has not happened to the Jewish people since 1945,” he added. “There’s no situation in which you kill Israeli kids and we go about our business.”
Those remarks came as the Israeli Air Force (IAF) hit Gaza on what was called an “unprecedented” scale.
Gantz, a former defense minister himself, added: “There’s a time for peace and a time for war, now is the time for war.”
He praised the many Israelis who were returning from around the world to rejoin their units and fight for their country.
He warned: “The reward of our enemies will be blood, fire and pillars of smoke” — a quote from the Book of Joel (3:3) that is also reference, in Jewish tradition, to the Ten Plagues of the Bible that preceded the liberation of the Israelites from slavery.
The screeech was never going to be anything but – just look at the drooling cretins flogging it, for goodness’ sake.
It was good to see reports of CBA directors copping a pasting from shareholders at the AGM over wasting $2M on the Yes campaign.
Berkshire Hathaway do an annual poll of where shareholder funds can be donated if it is tax effective to do so.
I’ve forgotten the mechanics of it, Uncle Warren included it in his letter several years ago.
Bottom line, shareholders money gets donated according to shareholder wishes.
I think even the board abstains from their shareholder rights when it comes to voting as there are several large shareholders on the board.
That’s the way it should be.
JC
Black Lives Matter want peace – the peace of the grave – for whites.
Blundering around with their heads lodged firmly in their fundaments.
FOX up to their old tricks again.
RCP again:
These are great numbers for Trump in two important battleground states.
PLAYBOY > HARVARD
I’m so old, I can remember when it would have been shocking to suggest that Playboy Magazine has more moral sense than Harvard University.
Nowadays, maybe that doesn’t come as a surprise. In any event, it’s true.
When former porn performer Mia Khalifa tweeted her support for Hamas’s mass murderers and suggested that the killers should film their deeds horizontally so she could see them better, Playboy promptly cashiered her:
That is a vastly clearer and stronger statement than anything that has come out of Cambridge.
On the bright side, though, student groups at Harvard that rushed to support Hamas’s attack are in full retreat.
Some groups have rescinded their approval of the pro-Hamas statement they signed, while students have been resigning from boards of directors of signatory organizations.
This may be driven in part by the fact that “billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called for the university to release the names of the students in these groups so that they will not be hired by Wall Street.”
Heh. Moral guidance comes from Playboy and Wall Street, not from universities or churches. That is the world we are living in.
Always fun to see what a minister’s staffers are up to.
Labor staffer apologises to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek after attending pro-Palestine rally in Sydney on Monday (Sky News, 12 Oct)
Tanya, Tanya, say it ain’t so that you have an antisemite working for you.
Dr Faustus at 11:26
Harvard students scramble to take back support for letter attacking Israel as some CEOs look to blacklist them
A flurry of Harvard University students and groups are desperately trying to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel for the mass slaughter of its own people by Hamas terrorists — as some business titans seek to blacklist them from future jobs.
Four of the initial 34 student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement have already withdrawn their support — while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.
Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
Others in groups supporting the initial letter — which held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” — quit while distancing themselves from any involvement.
“As a board member of a Harvard group that signed the statement on Israel, I think it was egregious and have resigned from my role,” Danielle Mikaelian tweeted Monday.
“I am sorry for the pain this caused,” the law student continued. “My organization did not have a formal process, and I didn’t even see the statement until we had signed on.”
Mikaelian added that she “prevented another student group I remain on the board of from signing on when I saw the statement.
“This statement is not representative of my values, and my heart is with those impacted.”
Tell me you’re a boomer without telling me you’re a boomer.
“End of the rope.”
Science is answering the most important questions in life.
Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought (Phys.org, 11 Oct)
On the other hand the taxpayers, who have to pay the salaries of the large team of researchers and the people flipping 350 thousand coins, always lose.
Cars exploding at Luton airport London: Huge fire causes partial collapse of structure
So you’re not allowed to send a lithium battery through the post unless it’s in a fire-proof, blast-proof package but you can park your #Tesla in a multi-story car park next to very expensive, well-made cars.
Explain that one to me again
David Maddison
October 11, 2023 at 4:51 pm · Reply
It’s only a matter of time before terrorists (who have been invited to Western countries by foolish governments and are already living among us and loved by the Left) work out they can use these vehicles for vehicular homicides. Just appropriately miswire them to ensure a battery ignition and park a bunch in an underground car park of an apartment block or office building. The inferno would be unstoppable soon leading to failure of support structures of the building.
RobB
October 11, 2023 at 9:23 pm · Reply
Dont give ’em ideas
Cricket captains of the world, take note.
ROFLMAO!! YES had tens of millions more funding than NO, and a lot of free “celebrity” support (which might not have been as helpful as they thought it would be).
OFF THE BOOKS
A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to deny hiring members of student groups at Harvard who signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, the CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by the a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups who “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
“Same,” David Duel, CEO of healthcare services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman.
The backlash and possible blacklisting has led to a flurry of backpedaling by four of the initial student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement — while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.
Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
The pro-Hamas Harvard groups that signed the letter are
African American Resistance Organization; Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College; Harvard Act on a Dream; Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Association; Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association; Harvard Chan Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine; Harvard College Pakistan Student Association; Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association; Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association; Harvard Graduate School of Education Islamic Society; Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine; Harvard Islamic Society; Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine; Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine; Harvard Jews for Liberation; Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women’s Caucus; Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus; Harvard Muslim Law School Association; Harvard Pakistan Forum; Harvard Prison Divest Coalition; Harvard South Asian Law Students Association; Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research; Harvard TPS Coalition; Harvard Undergraduate Arab Women’s Collective; Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo; Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women’s Medical Alliance; Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association; Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee; Middle East and North African Graduate School of Design Student Society; Neighbor Program Cambridge; Sikhs and Companions of Harvard Undergraduates; and Society of Arab Students.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence, the letter states, adding: “The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”
The letter has since been updated to remove the list of groups who signed it “for student safety.”
“I am sorry for the pain this caused,” the law student continued. “My organization did not have a formal process, and I didn’t even see the statement until we had signed on.”
Pro tip:
When long marchers feel sufficiently empowered, they dispense with the democratic pretenses.
Is it just me, or has the No campaign dried up these past 2 weeks? I expect Price and Mundine are still on the campaign trail with coverage being throttled by msm. …but I have seen no ads, no signage.
or Maybe I’ve been fixated on Israel.
Have already voted No.
Albo and Burney were the worst kind of celebrity endorsement. Worse than useless.
I attended the synagogue in Perth last night and it was a very beautiful ceremony and great to see Jews and non-Jews alike united against the medieval barbarism of Islam.
Heaps of cops everywhere so kudos to WA State Gubbermint.
Lots of pollies too; Libby Mettam, Shane Love, Bill Johnston, Tony Buti, Michaelia Cash, Ian Goodenough, Reynolds, David Honey, Glen Sterle, Simon Millman, various Mayors, Justices, even di Russo was there and so were all networks (although I didn’t see ABC there)…
“I am sorry for the pain this caused,” the law student continued. “My organization did not have a formal process, and I didn’t even see the statement until we had signed on.”
Reminds me of a quote from friend of mine who is an Auditor….
How do you know when someone has not read a document? It has their signature on the bottom.
Albo and Burney were the worst kind of celebrity endorsement. Worse than useless.
I’ll raise you a Malcom Turnbull and a Ray Martin.
What is this constant (every 5 mins) advertising I am seeing in last week or two pushing YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES?
Could be better stated as “we didn’t have the $billions to run a complete re-education and internment program, but next time we will go full retard.”
Latest Rasmussen Poll
Richard Goyder’s Qantas pantomime swansong
The Qantas chairman has elected to take an excruciating route to the inevitable.
Joe Aston – Columnist
And the scales fell from Richard Goyder’s eyes.
This was a major shift from the Qantas chairman, to accept that he was part of the problem.
Six weeks ago, as the ACCC’s deceptive conduct lawsuit landed with a thud, Goyder denied that Qantas’ transgressions were serious enough to demand “knee-jerk reactions”.
He was maintaining the delusion that Qantas’ problems were being blown out of proportion, having previously maintained the delusion that Qantas didn’t have any problems at all.
Five weeks ago, as Alan Joyce left the airline early, Goyder brought out his limited edition eau de parfum, Humility by Uncle Rich and insisted, “I think my role in (Qantas’ turnaround) is pretty important”.
Three weeks ago, Goyder reckoned, “people want me to continue to do the role, and I think I’m well suited to do it”, adding that “compared to almost any airline in the world, Qantas has done a pretty good job”.
A spritz of moral relativism to complement the humility?
Two weeks ago, Goyder told the Senate he retained the confidence of “about 14 of (Qantas’) top 20 shareholders”.
That confidence didn’t last long, if it was even construed correctly in the first place.
So, Goyder elected to take an excruciating route to the inevitable. His may have been a noble intention to repair the mess, but it always betrayed a failure to comprehend his own agency in the ugly decisions that caused it.
But he got there, he shifted, he went from microdosing reality to shooting it up.
On Wednesday morning, he said: “OK, it’s over honey. Let’s just be civil and adult about this and do what’s right for the kids.”
Deluded Uncle Rich may have been the character he’s played in recent months, but that is not who Richard Goyder is.
He’s been in denial, but he is not dumb, and he didn’t get here without some innate good judgment.
It takes a lot to accept that the problem is you, but it clearly dawned on Goyder that he could genuinely satisfy his desire to do the right thing. The real tell there is how quickly he cleaned out Maxine Brenner and Jacqueline Hey and provided clear air for a high-quality board to be constructed around Goyder’s successor. Investors will love that, as they should.
All of these realisations were available to Goyder a month ago. He needn’t have lost acres of skin in the public flayings or a full week in back-to-back meetings being yelled at by Qantas shareholders.
He was clearly in shock.
This doesn’t normally happen to people like him, to people whose trajectory has only ever been up. As we’ve said before, Goyder has spent his entire career not preparing for this moment.
Up there on the very, very tip of the corporate pyramid, it’s a feedback loop of unreality.
There would’ve been almost no friction in Goyder’s life. Even planes would wait for him. As Qantas, AFL and Woodside chairman, it’s a world of no inconvenience and utter acquiescence.
Non-executive directors are also beholden to the quality of information that company management provides them.
In so many cases, boards place their trust in executives who feed them bullshit.
That is no excuse for directors not to go out and sense-check their information, and now that Goyder’s back with us in reality, it’s blindingly obvious that is the first thing he should have done.
Let’s hope he finally kicks some of those no-hopers up the arse on his way out the door.
Goyder’s reluctance to accept his predetermined fate is also very easy to understand on a human level. He just didn’t want it to be true.
Who would want to give up the chairmanship of Qantas?
That is a trophy, and nobody gives up their trophies lightly. Accepting the marriage is over takes time because we had so many happy times together. This was so good for me! I loved this!
A hallmark of Goyder’s management style is to slow everything down, to shoehorn milestone events into his own ponderous timeline. We’ve seen that in the CEO successions at Woodside, Qantas and the AFL, and even in renewal of the AFL Commission. It is supposedly a symptom of steady long-termism, but is incredibly one-dimensional.
Slowing everything down at Qantas became untenable weeks ago, but Goyder was the last to realise it. Being long-term isn’t helpful in a crisis. A long-term plan to extinguish a wildfire will not save anyone from burning alive.
What will happen next is that a legion of carpetbaggers will turn up touting for the Qantas chair – indeed, for any spot on the Qantas board.
A platoon of investment bankers will be pushing Goyder to install their spivvy mates who might later sling them mandates.
People will desperately want these jobs, and they will knock themselves out striving for the prize. Everyone might want to be Qantas chairman, but the person who wants it most or who lobbies hardest will not be the person shareholders need to do it.
This is actually where Goyder’s trademark approach, to slow things down and do them thoroughly, will play to shareholders’ advantage. He must get this right. Qantas is as complex as businesses get, and massive, top-down cultural change is needed in the organisation.
Goyder will consult widely because he won’t want to be Mike Wilkins at AMP and appoint David Murray on a whim, or Lindsay Maxsted at Westpac appointing John McFarlane. No saviours here, please. We just need world class.
With Wednesday’s announcement, Goyder has ensured the Qantas AGM in three weeks will still be bad, but no longer a re-enactment of the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones.
Make no mistake, Todd Sampson will be carried out in a box. He is going down. But Belinda Hutchinson may now survive, and retail shareholders probably won’t storm the stage.
Now that Richard’s joined us in the land of the living, he’s got a ripping opportunity here to stage-manage this pantomime for comic effect, to remind Doreen and Barry from Toowoomba who the real Qantas villains are.
He should get Alan Joyce back to warm up the crowd and soak up a few crates of tomatoes.
Jetstar’s Steph Tully can hand out the tattoo removal vouchers. PR man Andrew McGinnes makes the perfect usher, officiously wielding his flashlight, a “Kick Me” sign stapled to his back.
And Andrew Finch (or Lord Dovegrey Airmiles-Haughtipants, as Kaz Cooke christened him on X) will be the 3-Minute Angel, offering shoulder massages or free hugs to the army of pensioners.
It would be truly priceless to see Finch endure physical contact with an actual commoner.
If he gives us a show, well, Goyder will have earned his director’s fee after all.
There was indeed. Narrowly based, it intended to visit ‘recognition’ but resulted in the Uluru Statement.
Which Turnbull rejected.
So not especially relevant to the Referendum.
I only get FTA TV (can’t bring myself to pay for it). I wouldn’t be surprised to hear all the Yes advertising backfired. No doubt some “expert” can tell us why. Todd Sampson might have some spare time coming up after the QANTAS AGM.
Price and Mundine have still been giving meetings and No rallies, but the media has stopped covering them like they did a month ago.
I reckon people made up their minds ages ago and the frantic Yes campaign belies the upcoming results. The media will be apoplectic come Sunday, get ready to be told how ignorant we all are for voting No.
Waddya mean “trick”? Of course they are anti-trans.
Heston Russell has his horoscope read to him on Monday…….
“Judgement day is here – Monday October 16th at 10:15am in Sydney at the Federal Court, Justice Lee will deliver his judgement on my ABC Defamation trial.”
The wall-to-wall Yes advertising is likely turning undecideds off in droves. No one likes being badgered and preached at during every. single. ad. break.
The harder they push, the more you have to ask, why so frantic?
Also, a Johnny Farnham earworm is the most irritating one there is.
Arguably the clearest indication of supposedly objective Establishment disapproval of the No position was seen at the National Press Club addresses by the prominent leaders of the Yes and No campaigns – namely, the distinction between how they were hosted.
The Yes leaders were hosted in the main room with the standard silver service lunch and wine. The No leaders were hosted in a broom closet with attendees squeezed in – no lunch, no wine. When this became notable, the host stated the main room was being “renovated”.
Yet when ‘conservative’ Noel Pearson gave his address (a day or two after Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price had given theirs), he was back in a big room -possibly not the regular room, but definitely not the broom cupboard Mundine and Price presented in – and with lunch and wine served for the attendees.
Razey
Bring it on.
I’m disgusted that these illegal, celebratory gatherings of ghouls and psychopaths are being honoured with the word “protest”.
What the hell are they “protesting”? That the cowardly and cruel attacks didn’t kill enough Jews? That they weren’t killed horribly enough?
“Protesting” that a deeply injured party fights back? And people are meant to sympathise. Seriously.
… and a carpark in Luton
Does anyone even watch commercial TV these days?
I haven’t seen much billboard or static advertising for either campaign. I’ve seen a few cars with Yes bumper stickers, but not many. Overall public interest in this referendum seems at best muted.
Remember those names….
BoN
snap!
That settles it for me – not getting on board an aeroplane until the pilots and crew have had psychiatric testing.
Although I’m in WA. Perhaps we’ve been written off by the Yes campaign (which wouldn’t be an unreasonable strategic decision).
An excerpt from The Voice was the very first bit of computer generated music I experienced. On my Commodore 64, it was a marvel. Around 1986 or thereabouts.
That’s how ancient that particular single is. At least they didn’t use something from ABBA.
With airlines you only want muzzies subsidising the avgas.
While you are at it, do more than consider stopping any further visas for problematic applicants.
And read up on the Critical Mass Theory.
From the sky:
Is that Hirohito asking for a ceasefire?
It’s about time the EU was demolished and the arrogant bastards running it were tried for their Crimes Against Sanity.
“Take a chance on me” ?
Pilot suicide by passenger plane crash happens more often than you might realise – aside from MH370 which definitely wasn’t that, no sir, just ask the Malaysian government – there was also that German co-pilot who flew his plane into the side of a mountain.
And the Air France plane that inexplicably crashed into the sea off the coast of South America: I don’t recall the exact details but one of the co-pilots was doing something that prevented the other pilots from correcting the plane’s course. That seemed a little sus but no way to know.
Starting to wonder how the bloke in Qatar who thought giving the HAMAS leadership a home-away-from-home is doing ……?
Might not be on the Qatari ruler’s Chrissie card list anymore ……..
Israelis can’t carpet bomb Qatar(unfortunately .. duuuh!) but there are lotz quieter ways to deprive bedouins of their oasis ……….!
Dover good AFR Joe Aston Article in Moderation – can’t see the problem
Possibly a mistake when Abba offers so many good songs …
Waterloo? Take a Chance on Me? The Name of the Game?
Aha. Penny Hirohito.
On the 8th December 1941 ?
(Ht wherelse but the Bee)
“H B Bear
Oct 12, 2023 12:38 PM
I only get FTA TV (can’t bring myself to pay for it).”
Bear, I also refuse to pay for TV. The only reason I have SKY is because I am in a regional area. Even so, when the weather is bad, the aerial doesn’t cope. DVD or book time!
Some dickhead posted this “How many tall buildings, steel reinforced, have collapsed due to fire since,”
The WTC WASN”T steel reinforced, it was made of steel, not reinforced concrete, two totally different methods of construction. Before some fool says that the fire didn’t reach the melting point of steel, it didn’t have to, the steel softened and lost its strength, this happens at relatively low temps. I’ve been to many fires in steel structures, as a rule they collapse way earlier than similar timber structures due to the steel softening, and that’s for low rise. Use the same structure over many stories with a huge weight on top of it and the collapses were entirely predictable.
The method of construction used the ‘tube within a tube’ method which is very strong, until it’s not, then catastrophe.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/world-trade-center-construction-unique.htm
I’ve been away for a while, avoiding JC and having surgery. It’s been peaceful.
Cheers
The Luton Airport Carpark was also a steel structure, not concrete.
Will Israel Do What it Takes to Secure Peace?
Moral reflections on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden – and Gaza.
It is certainly true that Australians do not *have* the right to self defence by firearms, this is. excluded from the approved uses.
(Also Roger at 10:37).
I made this point yesterday.
After shovelling cash at Yessirs, corporates have gone vewwy, vewwy quiet, particularly those with high retail exposure (Bunnings, Dan Murphy’s, Colesworth and Banks).
And it wasn’t as if this was always part of the grand plan. They started out putting up posters, playing promos over the PA and issuing t-shirts and badges to staff.
Then it stopped.
Suddenly and everywhere.
Why?
It can’t simply have been crashing polls. Five years ago they would have simply ploughed on through because “right thing to do”.
Is it the Bud Light effect?
Have they realised that conservatives aren’t stupid drones and are capable of deep, sustained consumer boycotts?
“Other peoples’ munni
Munni Munni
It’s a big mans’ world …”
Money! Money! Money!
Snap, Rabz!
HZhousewife
Yep the networks have obviously studied their vulnerability to Sleezy retribution and cast the No adrift.
Jacinta is still very active regularly broadcasting beautifully crafted encouraging messages to the troops.
Dutton is a disappointment. He should be frothing over these last few days but he is AWOL.
SBS, who I believe to be more insidious and far less scrutinised than ABC is a sewer of racist voice propaganda and fantasies. Some of their pro Voice productions are very sophisticated and must have cost fortunes.
‘Take the peoples money and use it to destroy them’.
Not just some dickhead, but Rufus T Firefly, a dear, dear friend of the blog from 78 Canberra Avenue, Griffith, ACT, who in the same post blamed 9/11 on Jews and the 2023 Hamas attacks on US neoconservatives.
I dare say they’ve received considerable “negative feedback” from customers.
Here you go Rabz, I can’t pass that one up.
‘I’m excited this time’: Chet has moved on from his fear of home (Tele, 9 Oct)
I am indebted sir, since it was you who educated us into the world of rollerskating.
Chet Faker – Gold (2014)
Superb video!
A man will face court on Thursday charged over an alleged anti-Semitic incident in Sydney’s east where he appears to threaten to kill four teenagers.
Abdullah Al-Taay allegedly verbally threatened four teenagers on Bellevue Rd in Bellevue Hill at 6.30pm on Monday after they had tried to display an Israeli flag on their car.
Like the rampaging climate activists I look forward to a sympathetic Judge taking great sympathy on this thug because his cause is just and his great aunty fatima was shot in the arse by the Israelis after hurling saucepans at them.
If I hadn’t already been irrevocably committed to voting “No”, hearing that monstrous dirge would have done the trick.
hzhousewife
Oct 12, 2023 12:38 PM
Meh. Myself and others like me are insulted almost every day. Ageist, racist and sexist remarks are routine because I’m an ‘old white man’. We are told we are dinosaurs, d*ckheads. Our opinions are either mischaracterised by the MSM as fundamentally racist and dripping with colonialism (although they are no such thing) or, are ignored as irrelevant in their modern world. Being told we are ‘ignorant’ is just another barb.
This is not ‘oh, woe is me’ complaint. We are not harmed by the insults and often strengthen our resolve to speak out against the malevolent Left. Our voices may be diminished but history will prove our opinions and warnings to be valid. In times to come, the people of Australia will look back and think of this decade as the good ‘ol days. The march to the ‘enlightened’ promised by the Left will be revealed as a fool’s façade – but it will be too late.
Four of Britain’s top lawyers complain to Ofcom about BBC stance on Hamas
The corporation is accused of abandoning impartiality over its refusal to call Hamas ‘terrorists
Four of Britain’s most senior lawyers have accused the BBC of abandoning impartiality by refusing to describe Hamas as “terrorists”.
In a letter to Ofcom, Lord Wolfson KC, Lord Pannick KC, Lord Grabiner KC and Jeremy Brier KC urged the regulator to investigate the corporation.
They said that the BBC had taken sides and described Hamas in “more sympathetic terms”.
The four co-signed the letter alongside Lord Polak, honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
They said: “On 7th October 2023, Hamas launched a large invasion of the State of Israel which resulted variously in the slaughter, rape and abduction of over a thousand Israeli citizens.
“There is nothing controversial about that. It is a fact.
“The BBC has fallen well below the standards expressed in its Editorial Values in reporting of that invasion and the consequences therefrom.”
They claimed that “it is beyond doubt that the BBC has not shown impartiality in terms of the nomenclature it uses to refer to Hamas as ‘militants’.”
The authors of the letter said that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and “that is not a matter of debate or discussion. It is a matter of legal fact.
“The question then arises: how can it be impartial (i.e. not taking sides) to describe an organisation in terms which departs from established legal meaning and substitutes a word which refers to an organisation which is violent or aggressive but not necessarily engaged in terrorism and not necessarily proscribed? In short, by a significantly ‘watered-down’ descriptor which is less legally precise.
“The answer is it cannot be impartial to do so. It necessarily involves the BBC ‘stepping into the arena’ and taking sides so as to describe Hamas in more sympathetic terms.
“Put another way: in trying to be impartial, the BBC has become partial.”
The letter pointed out that the BBC referred to the Manchester Arena bombing as a “terror attack”. The BBC Bitesize GCSE guide refers to both Al Qaeda and the IRA as “terrorist” groups.
“The use of the word ‘terrorism’ is neither confusing nor imprecise. It is a very accurate statement within the natural use of the English language as to what Hamas is engaged in,” the authors said.
“If the BBC is only declining to use the word ‘terrorist’ in the context of Israel then this is further evidence of partiality (by discriminating in this case only).”
The authors stated that the BBC should call Hamas “terrorists” just as they would refer to someone as a “murderer” if that person had been convicted by a court – both are legal, factual definitions, they said.
University apologises after professor calls road signs in Welsh ‘dangerous and unintelligible’
Dr Nigel Hunt, visiting professor at Wrexham University, has since defended his comments as ‘free speech’
A university has apologised after one of its professors labelled Welsh-language road signs “unintelligible” and “potentially dangerous”.
Dr Nigel Hunt, a psychology expert and visiting professor at Wrexham University, has since defended his comments as “free speech”.
Dr Hunt aired his views on a Facebook group called the ‘Department of Petty Rage’, where he posted a picture of a bilingual sign and said they should just be written just in English.
He wrote: “Signs like this. They are confusing as they contain irrelevant and – to most people – unintelligible information.
“Road signs in two languages are potentially dangerous as it takes longer to determine the message.
“As most people even in Wales do not understand these signs (the Welsh language is declining despite the attempts to popularise it) then please just use English.”
Road signs in Wales by law have to be written in Welsh first as part of the Welsh Language Act which places the two languages on equal footing and tries to promote Welsh learning.
An aside, when visiting Wales in 1970 was surprised to hear a Policeman coversing with an Older Lady in Welsh in a Small Village
A couple of weeks ago Britain was up in arms and calling for GB News to be banned because Laurence Fox said the word “shag”. He was immediately sacked.
Now the BBC is apologizing for baby decapitators.
Seems to me to be a tiny dissonance.
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ?
The BBC and Black Lives Matter have exposed the virtue-signalling class’s moral depravity
Anyone who cannot see that Hamas committed an act of genocide has lost all sense of right and wrong
For once, I’m not blaming the politicians. Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Suella Braverman, even Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden: all have behaved impeccably these past few days. It’s the footballers, the pop stars, the middle-class virtue-signallers, the knee-takers and emoji posters, the HR activists, the academics, charity workers and “human rights” advocates who are missing in action, days after the worst anti-Semitic massacre in 78 years.
Silence does not ordinarily imply complicity. But what if you are one of those people who jumps on every bandwagon and keeps adding flags, logos and messages of support to your Facebook or TikTok page, but had nothing to say about a genocidal attack on Jews, no unequivocal support to proffer to Israel, no interest in properly condemning Hamas? What if you posted Slava Ukraini on your profile, put up a poster for BLM in your front window, and keep spamming your WhatsApp neighbourhood group with political messaging, but cannot conceive of tweeting Am Yisrael Chai?
Are you scared of retribution, and if so what does that tell us about extremism in Britain, the failure of integration and the police’s lack of commitment to upholding the same law for all? Or do you think that Israel got what it deserved, and does that not make you an anti-Semite? Or is it because you believe the world’s only Jewish state to be so powerful as to not need support, and you have therefore, inadvertently, internalised another anti-Semitic trope? Do you think that 7.2 million Jews, far fewer than London’s population, surrounded by fanatics armed with 150,000 missiles, threatened by a quasi-nuclear Iran that swears to destroy them, don’t deserve sympathy?
Genocide is the act of deliberately killing large numbers of people from a nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying it. Hamas has committed an act of genocide, a crime against humanity, against the Jewish people and Israel: anybody who cannot see this has lost all sense of right and wrong.
If anything, describing Hamas as “terrorist” is too soft: they are war criminals, more akin to Islamic State and the Khmer Rouge than al-Qaeda or the IRA. They massacred over 1,000 men, women, children and babies, shooting them and burning them alive, injuring thousands of others, raping dozens and kidnapping scores. They would have killed far more had they not belatedly been neutralised.
Almost uniquely, comparisons with the Nazis are the most appropriate historic parallel. Hamas are Nazis, with the same aim: they want to ethnically cleanse the region of Jews from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea. Hamas’s 1988 Charter calls for the total eradication of Israel, its replacement by an Islamist state and cites approvingly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a gross anti-Semitic forgery also endorsed in Mein Kampf.
The Third Reich’s Einsatzgruppen were SS death squads that inflicted mass murder. They played a central role in the implementation of the Final Solution, and some of their leaders were condemned to death at Nuremberg. The Hamas barbarians who entered Israel from Gaza, an independent territory from which Israel had entirely withdrawn in 2005, were jihadi Einsatzgruppen, a depraved Islamist take on the original Nazi monstrosity.
The SS rode cars and motorbikes; Hamas also operated paragliders and bulldozers. Hitler’s men often hid what they did. The Hamas war criminals live-streamed their inhumanity, and some supporters across the West were openly celebrating within hours of the attacks (I witnessed a firework display and a flag-waving crowd dancing with joy in Edgware Road, London, late on Saturday night).
History repeats itself. Nobody ever learns. Optimism is cowardice. Brace for long, dark weeks ahead.
Does anyone remember the address for mUnty’s pseudo-Cat? The last time i visited it, around a year ago, the vukltures were circling the picked-clean bones.
I am wondering if he is over there now, telling himself, Trampis and Steve from Brissy how virtuous they are, how waaaycissst NO voters are, and slagging off at the “Nazi” Israelis.
Avoiding, but missing me all the same, no doubt. I can’t imagine how it feels, Little Miss Muffet.
Good luck with the surgery anyway.
We had no problem in deciphering the Welsh signage. Easy peasey.
After all, we have plenty of tongue-twisters here, and more to come. And not just in New South Wales. 🙂
Because how can you start off with a two-thirds majority of people behind you and lose them as recently as three months ago?”
Maybe because they were so smug it never occured to them that normal folk can use the internet and not only read blogs/memes but can check the info about how hard dun by 251s are …… starting at $40 billion a year and escalating to the plethora of taxpayer funded 251s only organizations over and above the $40 billions ……
Ol’ John Farnham must be regretting the day he agreed to let “You’re the Voice” be used by the Yes mob.
No-one will play it again.
Nobody saw this coming:
Eddie Jones tipped to quit Wallabies & coach Japan acc. to The Australian.
Shouldn’t this set a precedent for Opposition Leader Dutton or Pauline Hanson to ask questions in Parliament about how many other anti-semitic Nazis are employed on the staff of PM Albanese, his Ministers and all Labor Senators and MHRs?
Such inventory would be very informative?
“Allegedly”?
He SAYS it! Nothing alleged about it. He threatened to kill some kids on a Sydney street!
The circumstances of the threat were real and menacing. Given the events in Israel, those kids were entitled to feel fear and imminent danger.
He needs to be imprisoned.
Bloody Elbow really can’t read a room. Yesterday, he was finally shamed into sending aircraft to collect aussies from Israel. Today, they find out they are not being flown home, they will be dropped in London, then have to make their own way home.
Does he NEVER watch or read mainstream news. His fluffers must be working some serious overtime.
This happened on my street, just a few minutes before I walked past. AT that time of night there are few people around. If I’d come across this bloke making threats, I would have given him an earful.
Most of the broadcast royalties go to the song’s writers, who apparently were never asked.
They’ll be mightily cheesed off when the next royalty payment, significantly diminished, lands in the bank account.
What’s the point? If the Liars Party were a carcass it would be hamarse from ribs to the hind legs. Everyone knows that.
Old Ozzie:
I just read your bit on the ‘march’ threatened by the muslims.
OK Minns. That’s your ‘hope’ Now what have you done to make it come true? Or are you going to pull the police back and say “It was too hard.”
And what are you going to do after salat tomorrow? Plead lack of knowledge?
There was a methodical process of keeping former Nazis from participating in government.
Oh dear .. the sheer hypocrisy! .. a policy soon forgotten when the western allies realised they didn’t have enuf experienced folk to run the post-war German gummint..!
What is it With Greens around the World, but here in Australia especially the ACT Government as well as NSW Upper House & their influence on their Australian Labor Serfs?
Maggie Chapman’s outburst on Gaza is unforgivable – it’s time for the SNP to ditch the Greens
Humza Yousaf should rip up Sturgeon’s deal after MSP’s comments damage Scotland’s reputation on the world stage
It would be very doubtful if the weasel words now being uttered by Maggie Chapman, to take the heat out of her support of Hamas over their massacre of innocent Israeli men, women and children, will stifle the almost universal criticism of this outspoken Scottish Greens MSP.
It shouldn’t and if the rank and file of what is still Scotland’s biggest party – the SNP – had any self respect they would vote at their annual conference in Aberdeen this weekend to end the controversial deal Nicola Sturgeon signed to allow the Greens to form a coalition government.
Astonishingly, however, the coalition with the Greens is not even on the conference agenda, prompting Fergus Ewing, a former SNP cabinet minister to insist that delegates should force a debate. He said: “It is time for the coalition deal to be scrapped or at the very least re-appraised.”
Chapman’s outburst on Gaza, which caused outrage at home and abroad, is being seen as the last straw for many disgruntled voters and they’re unlikely to be pacified by her attempts to row back on her outburst.
Criticism of what has been seen as the malign influence that the seven-strong Scottish Greens have had on the 64-strong SNP has been growing steadily in recent months.
In the most controversial and, for the SNP, most damaging issue, they were the moving force behind Sturgeon’s plans to allow 16-year-olds to change their gender through a simple declaration.
On Gaza, Chapman insisted that the Hamas terror attack was “a consequence of #Apartheid, of illegal occupation, & of imperial aggression by the Israel state”. She also said: “Palestinian civilians have seen their homes destroyed, their water stolen & their land appropriated illegally.”
However, in what was a clear attempt to dampen the vitriol aimed at her she is now saying that her initial outburst had been an attempt to put the entire Gaza situation “into context”.
What that context might be she does not explain and in her latest comments she links Israel with Hamas over the Gaza crisis saying: “The killing of innocent civilians by Hamas & Israel is reprehensible. I condemn them wholeheartedly & anyone who knows me will know this is my view.”
MSP heavily criticised
Because her words were heavily criticised everywhere and seen to have damaged Scotland’s reputation on the world stage, they resulted in her being “spoken to” by Karen Slater, the joint leader of her party.
The Ageing Limp Lettuce was put back in its Box for Future Floggings
Bruce of Newcastle,
Maybe, maybe not.
“Labor staffer apologises to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek after attending pro-Palestine rally in Sydney on Monday (Sky News, 12 Oct)
A 22-year-old staffer who works for Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has apologised after attending a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney earlier this week, but concerns are now being raised over Labor’s ability to hire “decent” staff.
Tanya, Tanya, say it ain’t so that you have an antisemite working for you.
Well, of course Tanya does.
I’m sorry but I don’t accept this staffer’s “apology”. He/she knew exactly what they were joining in on. By the way, what’s the staffer’s name? If this was a staffer of a senior Liberal or National, he/she would have been already named and sacked.
THE STAFFER NEEDS TO BE SACKED.
The progressive left never forgive, I am not going to forgive this staffer’s actions either.
But I should not be surprised. Labor and the Greens are riddled to the core with Jew hatred and active Jew haters. It is many in Labor and almost all the Greens who are the Nazi Pallie supporters, yet they spend their time screeching “Nazi” at anyone who dares to disagree with their ideology, be it on the Voice, transperverts, anything. Aided by a putrid D-grade media, and yes, also aided by spineless Liberals and Nationals who cower in the corner rather than coming out fighting. Perhaps it’s time more on the right find their ticker. Perhaps next time a Labor or Greens politicians or commentator screeches Nazi at a Liberal or Nat or PHON, the Lib or Nat or PHON person should throw back the excrement and state that “we don’t hang around Nazi Pallies, we don’t participate in Jew hating protests where people scream “gas the Jews”. I think the time for being nice is over, finito. Memo to those on the right, it isn’t hard to throw it back, it isn’t hard to rub the faces of leftist scum in the excrement they defecate.
I say NO to the continuing double standards, I say NO to one standard for the right and zero standards for the left. Enough.
I’ve just got back from a walk to DJs, Peter Sheppard shoes, and I popped into Woolworths on Pitt Street to get a few groceries. I bought a packet of Smith’s crinkle chips to gobble, only to reel that a small packet has almost doubled in price. I thought to myself, my God, how are families surviving, they must be struggling to put food on the table and then I remembered that at least Australian mothers and fathers haven’t seen their children executed in front of them, at least Australian babies haven’t been decapitated, at least Australian mothers and fathers haven’t been butchered in front of their children, at least young Australian men haven’t been murdered trying to flee a music festival, and at least young Australian women haven’t been taken hostage by a barbarous death cult, all of whom have been gang raped and most, if not all, have had their throats cut by now.
You might still be wondering why these people were targeted by such savages? Well I’ll tell you why, because they were Jews, that’s why.
That staffer needs to be sacked.
“Young and naive.”
At least they didn’t use something from ABBA.
Money, money, money ………!
Well, yes, but that would have ventilated (and therefore ultimately limited) the most radical excesses they had up their sleeve.
Their campaign up until now focussed on a fairly benign sounding “Recognise” concept, with no mention of political clout attached to it.
This is where Luigi has outsmarted himself and is going to cop it. The experts holding the “pre-mortem” into the result are pointing fingers and asking how a 60:40 poll advantage could be reversed in a few short months. The truth is, that public opinion advantage never existed. When people were polled 6-12 months ago, they thought they were looking at symbolic Recognition, and some were happy enough to go along with that. As time went on, they realised that they were being sold one with the lot, and rejected it.
The basic premise of the “expert” analysis is that this was “a good idea which has lost it’s way” rather than a shit idea which was never going to fly.
That’s so not going to happen.
His wife’s family are stuck in Gaza.
He himself is a Paki.
“Shouldn’t this set a precedent for Opposition Leader Dutton or Pauline Hanson to ask questions in Parliament about how many other anti-semitic Nazis are employed on the staff of PM Albanese, his Ministers and all Labor Senators and MHRs?”
Snap, John.
If the Liberals, Nationals, Lib Dems, UAP and PHON don’t run with this, then they’re just useless.
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 12, 2023 2:00 PM
“Labor staffer apologises to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek after attending pro-Palestine rally in Sydney on Monday (Sky News, 12 Oct)
A 22-year-old staffer who works for Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has apologised after attending a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney earlier this week, but concerns are now being raised over Labor’s ability to hire “decent” staff.
Tanya, Tanya, say it ain’t so that you have an antisemite working for you.
Well, of course Tanya does.
I’m sorry but I don’t accept this staffer’s “apology”. He/she knew exactly what they were joining in on.
By the way, what’s the staffer’s name? If this was a staffer of a senior Liberal or National, he/she would have been already named and sacked.
THE STAFFER NEEDS TO BE SACKED.
Cassie,
has been named
A 22-year-old staffer who works for Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has apologised after attending a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney.
Wild scenes erupted near Sydney’s Opera House on Monday night after hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered to celebrate the attack on Israel.
Among those who attended the event was Will Simmons, a university student who works part time in Labor’s electorate office.
Speaking to Sky News Australia on Thursday, Ms Plibersek said her staffer went to the event without her approval, but had since been very apologetic.
“He certainly didn’t go with my approval, he is a uni student who works two days a week in my office, he went to the rally, as soon as I found out I rang him and told him he shouldn’t have gone, he knows he shouldn’t have gone, he is very sorry that he went,” Ms Plibersek said.
“I have to be very clear, there is absolutely no justification for the scenes we saw at those rallies in Sydney and Melbourne, with people celebrating the horror that we’ve seen in Israel.
“It absolutely goes without saying, I watched those scenes unfolding in Israel, kids at a music festival being slaughtered, the idea that anyone in Australia would celebrate that, is just disgusting.”
Jimmy Dore’s channel is very much in Hamas’ corner.
Not cheering on the atrocities mind you, but sensing these to be wildly desperate acts by people driven past breaking point at the hands of Israel. That is, the savage acts are indeed horrifying, but they are the acts of men who have been denuded of their humanity by the inhumanity of Israel.
I believe this is the position of those who are not from the Middle East but must still hate Israel because they made their mind up when they were in uni and they really don’t want to go through all the effort of reconsidering an opinion.
Peter – It’s been verified widely.
Thancho I’ll have to pick you up on that. How does Luigi the Unbelievable of the Ineptocracy outsmart himself. I present a box and some rocks. They are smarter. Smart and Luigi should never appesr in the same sentence.
Appear
Stunning incompetence…yes, the ship travels north from Hobart to Burnie to refuel, and then travels south to the Antarctic:
A ruling which prevents the Australian Antarctic Division’s icebreaker from travelling under the Tasman Bridge to refuel is likely costing hundreds of thousands in extra dollars.
The RSV Nuyina has departed full of scientists and expeditioners – detouring to Burnie to refuel before travelling to Antarctica for the start of the summer season.
Dozens of expeditioners left on the $529m vessel on Monday to travel to the North-West Coast. The research vessel travelled via the East Coast, berthing at Burnie on Wednesday evening. It follows the 160m ship being refused permission by TasPorts to refuel at Selfs Point because it is deemed unsafe to travel under the Tasman Bridge.
Has anyone been fired for this? Don’t be silly!
Hobart Mercury
And then yesterday morning I saw the cutest thing. I normally stop for coffee, these days, in an area populated by Jewish folks, and particularly Hasidim. I was at traffic lights and I saw this little Hasidic boy waiting for the lights to cross over. He was by himself and wouldn’t have been older than 10. Presumably the mum was home watching over the 23 preschool siblings. He had all the regalia, the dark suit, hat and hair curls. A couple of others were waiting from him on the other side of the street.
Despite what went on in Sydney etc. at least the parents felt it safe to let him walk to school with kids the same age. That’s a good thing.
Bar Beach Swimmer
What they’re saying is that they are going to allow the confrontation – because that’s precisely what it will be – to go ahead, and the NSW Police are getting their excuses ready.
Hamas terrorists were sent millions in crypto in months before Israel terror attack
Electronic currencies have been used by terrorist groups to evade financial sanctions
Hamas and its allies were sent hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of cryptocurrencies in the months before the terrorist group’s attacks on Israel.
More than $134m (£108m) was transferred to cryptocurrency accounts controlled by Hamas and the allied Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group during the first half of 2023, according to analysts.
Hamas launched a large-scale terrorist attack on Israel on Saturday, which has left more than a thousand people dead. Questions have been raised about how the group was able to organise and fund the complex attack.
Analysis of blockchain records shows around $93m (£75m) of cryptocurrency was transferred to the PIJ alone between August 2021 and June this year, according to cryptocurrency analysis company Elliptic.
Hamas raised about $41m in crypto tokens over the past 18 months, according to figures from Tel Aviv-based crypto tracing company BitOK that were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Cryptocurrency has been used by Hamas and other terrorist organisations to evade global financial sanctions.
David Carlisle, vice president at Elliptic, said: “Hamas has been among the most prolific, raising millions of dollars in crypto alongside other Palestinian militant groups.”
In April Hamas announced it was suspending cryptocurrency donations, citing problems with “the safety of donors”.
A number of private companies and, increasingly, law enforcement agencies have become adept at tracing cryptocurrency payments through their “blockchains”, the public digital ledgers that record each transaction for tokens such as Bitcoin.
Israeli police said on Tuesday that they had frozen cryptocurrency accounts identified as belonging to Hamas.
A spokesman said: “The Israel Police, Ministry of Defense, and other partners will continue the fight against terrorist financing and targeting the strategic financial assets of terrorist organizations.”
Israeli police said they had also worked with their British counterparts to freeze a British bank account at Barclays, which they said was used by Hamas to solicit donations.
Barclays was asked for comment.
Hamas is a sanctioned terrorist organisation in the UK, US and EU, among other countries. It is illegal to provide the group with funding.
People aren’t “denuded of humanity”. They do it to themselves. It’s a choice.
As for the beheading or non-beheading…no worries. I’m sure the little kiddies just died in their sleep.
It’s hard to keep up with the stupid, insipid excuse making for the inexcusable.
This Is the worst Presidency ever.
Ah, no.
He is sorry that he was found out, he is sorry that the Hag barked at him on the phone, he is sorry his Labor career of staffer/adviser/ MP/PM has been put back a year or two, and he is no doubt sorry his name’s in the paper.
But I reckon he’s not sorry that he went to the protest.
If she doesn’t sack this staffer then she self identifies as sympathising with anti-Semitic Nazis. Isn’t the left’s favorite saying that the cover-up is worse than the crime?
Cassie you already know the answer, their just useless. I live in hope but every time they are presented with ammunition it blows up in their face or a fizzer.
A construction worker who allegedly threatened to kill four Jewish teenagers if they did not hide their Israeli flag has been charged with stalking and intimidation – as his identity can be unmasked for the first time.
Abdullah Al-taay, 23, was charged with stalk/intimidate intend fear physical harm after allegedly threatening to kill four Jewish teenagers who had been flying an Israeli flag in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill on Monday around 6.30pm.
He was granted bail on Thursday on the condition he does not enter Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where many Jewish Australians live.
Daily Mail
They used to laugh at him when he was senator.
I’m not an extravagantly paid Labor lawyer, but why did they introduce racial hatred laws?
Perhaps he should be taken along on a visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Why…it’s even in Tanya’s electorate!
Flaky YES safe-seat Liberals get one last virtue selfie.
Remember the names and faces of these dickheads.
From left to right – Liberal Party junior MP Matt Cross (so fashionable left, he’ll be the next Matt Kean) … aka Kermit the Flog.
Barry O’Farrell – one of the worst game players in the Libs and rejected ex-Premier.
Julian Leeser – soon to be a former MP slowly making the Lib’s safest North Shore seat ready for the teals.
One last selfie in the fight for lefty love.
See ya boys.
From the Comments
– Their votes are NOT needed, now that AnAl has totally sewn up the baby-beheaders’ vote for his side.
– They look like greens to me, pushing racial division. How can they not see how stupid they look?
– These guys must be really desperate to get people on their pics if they stoop to Barry O’Farrell. I guess you can go one step lower with old Malcolm himself and then it’s Kevin07 et al…:-)
Pogria
Oct 12, 2023 1:54 PM
Bloody Elbow really can’t read a room. Yesterday, he was finally shamed into sending aircraft to collect aussies from Israel. Today, they find out they are not being flown home, they will be dropped in London, then have to make their own way home. Does he NEVER watch or read mainstream news. His fluffers must be working some serious overtime.
Yeah, saw that. If it is just a matter of getting them to safety (and in airlift/shuttle style), why not the UAE from which point they can make their own decision. Or, multiple flights – to London or to Australia? I did note that the flight to London was free so I suppose there is that.
Re fuel prices:
Bulk diesel $2.29/litre
Servo diesel $2.39/litre
Indian Servo diesel (No Australians employed any more) $2.49/litre
Possibly due the ship containing 10,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate which is still stuck under the bridge. They rebuilt the bridge but left the ship in place.
Well, vote with your feet.
Muslim Tradie who allegedly told four teenagers he would ‘kill them’ if they did not hide their Israeli flag in Bellevue Hill – as judge BANS him from suburbs where Jewish Australians live
Al-taay was granted bail with the conditions that he does not enter almost all areas of the Eastern Suburbs where many Jewish communities live.
‘You are not to enter any of these suburbs unless for work purposes: Bellevue Hill, Double Bay, Woollahra, Queens Park, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Tamarama, Dover Heights, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay or Randwick,’
Magistrate Julie Huber told him.
She added: ‘You are not to attend any rally or protest.’
Oh come on
They refuse to believe the No voters woke up to their bullshit. Which will make it harder for them to try the same stunt again because they refuse to learn the lesson.
There they go again. “Exclusive”. As that somehow makes it all different.
There are some suburbs in Sydney that really are exclusive, you know. Just talk to a ex-resident of Greenacre who doesn’t fit a certain demographic. Or the very few who do try to cling onto their family homes.
I know because I’ve worked for them.
Ah, no.
He is sorry that he was found out, he is sorry that the Hag barked at him on the phone, he is sorry his Labor career of staffer/adviser/ MP/PM has been put back a year or two, and he is no doubt sorry his name’s in the paper.
But I reckon he’s not sorry that he went to the protest.
Correct, which is why I will not accept his apology. Like the others at the Jew hate festival at Sydney Town Hall and at the Opera house on Monday night, he’s a piece of human garbage. He’s more than happy to hobnob with Nazi Pallies. Oh, and did he not hear the taunts of “gas the Jews”? Or perhaps Mr Simmons has impaired hearing? Nah, I don’t think, I think he heard and saw everything. He’s only sorry he was found out.
Hats off the News Corporation, Sky News etc for doing real journalism and following this up.
As for Will Simmons, I am over being nice. No more, kaput. I want this to blight him for his whole life. Yeah, I know he’s young, but I can’t stop thinking about the pictures of the butchered children and babies coming out of southern Israel. They have not been allowed to grow up and do stupid things. Their lives were terminated by Nazi Pallies, scum that Mr Simmons likes to support.
Will Simmons can f*ck off.
But you know what, Willy boy will be okay, he’ll just spend his whole life working for Labor and the Greens as a staffer, paid for by you and me.
Re Peter West’s link,
earlier this morning, I came across an article describing how the MSM is trying to downgrade the butchered babies by stating “there is no proof they were beheaded, we heard that they had just been shot”. As if THAT will make us think and/or believe “oh, it wasn’t too bad, they were only shot”.
This was coming from media that had been taken through the houses and who were shown the bloody beds and bodies. No F*CKING SHAME!!!
I am trying to find the article but have been working all day and can’t remember where I saw it. Any one here see the article?
New Zealand’s farmers unite to dismantle Jacinda Ardern’s climate policies
Labour’s draconian plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions could cost party the next election
Farmers angered by New Zealand’s environmental policies have united behind Right-wing parties promising to roll them back if they win power in this weekend’s elections.
Some rural voters backed Jacinda Ardern in 2020, with the Labour Party – now led by Chris Hipkins – introducing policies including planting pine forests on grazing land and demanding farmers pay a levy on the methane excreted by their livestock.
Now, however, farmers are among the fiercest critics of Labour’s reign, and are all but unanimous in their wish to unseat the party.
They are not alone in their desire for change.
Polls and pundits indicate a coalition will be formed between the centre-right National the libertarian ACT and populist New Zealand First parties.
National is currently polling ahead of Labour, but does not have enough support to govern alone.
When the Telegraph asked six farmers in the South Island market town of Geraldine for their thoughts on the incumbent government’s chances, four used the phrase “we’ve got to get rid of them”. The others used stronger language to express the same sentiment.
Green policies intended to enhance New Zealand’s natural environment and reduce carbon emissions have made farming harder and more expensive, and morale is low in an industry once celebrated as the backbone of the country’s export-led economy.
It still is very important to the economy – a fact farmers accuse Wellington of failing to appreciate. Dairy exports alone are worth more than twice as much as New Zealand’s tourism industry – on a par with the value of its shipments of red meat.
Andrew Hoggard is a dairy farmer in the North Island’s Manawatu region whose frustration with the government recently propelled him into the political arena.
He announced he would run as an MP for ACT – which has “standing up for rural New Zealand” as a tenet of its campaign – when his tenure as president of Federated Farmers, a leading advocacy group, ended earlier this year.
“I guess if the country had been moving in the right direction and everything was hunky dory, I might have just said, ‘Sweet, I’m going back to the farm’,” Mr Hoggard said.
One of the first things Ms Ardern’s Labour government did during its second term was to introduce a draconian set of rules intended to protect New Zealand’s waterways from agricultural run-off.
“[The policy was] just completely unworkable and caused a hell of a lot of angst before the government eventually realised it had stuffed up,” said Mr Hoggard.
Some of the more extreme new rules were scrapped, including one requiring that hoofprints must never sink deeper than 8in in paddocks and another setting fixed dates for sowing crops – irrespective of the weather.
But what remains is a situation Mr Hoggard said “still has us in a state of paralysis”.
National and ACT have vowed to remove a lot of the red tape currently stifling farmers.
A major regulatory bugbear is Labour’s so-called “fart tax”.
This world-first scheme, intended to start in 2025, would tax methane emissions from livestock, which make up about a quarter of New Zealand’s greenhouse gases.
Farmers have described the scheme as unreasonably punitive, pointing out that New Zealand produces a tiny fraction of global emissions – 0.09 percent, the same as Ireland.
They also point to research that shows New Zealand’s milk and red meat production already emits less greenhouse gas per unit than most other agri-exporters, and that the levy would increase farmers’ costs, making them less competitive in the global market.
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 12, 2023 2:24 PM
Ah, no.
He is sorry that he was found out, he is sorry that the Hag barked at him on the phone, he is sorry his Labor career of staffer/adviser/ MP/PM has been put back a year or two, and he is no doubt sorry his name’s in the paper.
But I reckon he’s not sorry that he went to the protest.
Correct, which is why I will not accept his apology. Like the others at the Jew hate festival at Sydney Town Hall and at the Opera house on Monday night, he’s a piece of human garbage. He’s more than happy to hobnob with Nazi Pallies. Oh, and did he not hear the taunts of “gas the Jews”? Or perhaps Mr Simmons has impaired hearing? Nah, I don’t think, I think he heard and saw everything. He’s only sorry he was found out.
Hats off the News Corporation, Sky News etc for doing real journalism and following this up.
Cassie,
as I don’t subscibe to theaustralian, I have only recently found
https://www.skynews.com.au/
Best site for good coverage
enjoying – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ good selection of articles
An actual Nazi is retained as a staffer by Labor while Moira Deeming is dumped by the Liberal Party and called one by her own leader, just for attending a women’s rights rally.
Found the article.
Oh lord
We’re back to the injian stole me peteewl again.
Obviously, turtlehead thinks $2.49 is cheaper than $2.39.
Get the iodine!
Always Right:
Probably, but I’m wondering if they would dare, considering the polls. It would be more logical to lose the vote and have it again in a couple of years time with a better planned basket of lies, then play with the numbers.
Prince William: I suffered ‘cliff fall’ of loneliness after air ambulance job
‘Trauma catches up with you,’ heir to the throne warns as he speaks to first responders about mental health challenges
The Prince of Wales has said that he was lonely after he retired from his “traumatic” air ambulance pilot job.
The heir to the throne was speaking about his experiences as a first responder during a roundtable discussion with emergency service personnel about the importance of protecting their mental health while doing the job.
The 41-year-old warned the young emergency workers they could face a “cliff fall” of loneliness after they left their work in service, telling them that the trauma “catches up to you”.
“For me, the traumatic jobs were what triggered me,” he said.
“The biggest issue was when I left altogether … when you do retire or step away from what you’re doing, don’t underestimate that a bit of a cliff fall can happen.
“Because not only do you suddenly – life suddenly catches up to you a little bit – but then you’re also quite isolated … your teammates aren’t around to catch you and that can feel quite lonely and isolating.”
The Prince is passionate about supporting the mental well-being of those in the emergency services after his time as an air ambulance pilot and also as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot.
Kicking off the discussion with young responders, the Prince said: “As you know it’s world mental health week, so it felt very appropriate to come and have a chat to you guys and highlight again the fantastic work that you do on a day-to-day basis … but also to understand where the pressure points are in your day-to-day lives.
“I’d love to hear about how we’re getting on with the taboo and stigma around mental health. Are we making the difference that we think we’re making? I want to hear it from you guys because that’s where it matters.”
The group was joined by Dr Sian Williams, the former BBC journalist turned NHS clinical psychologist, who now works with the emergency services in the centre for anxiety, stress and trauma.
Speaking after the Prince’s warning of how difficult it can be after retiring from service, she said: “He’s an incredibly powerful advocate because he knows what it’s like to work on the front line and the challenges that you face while doing that, the emotions that it can bring up, and how best you can process those emotions.”
The Prince also told young people from the emergency services that he was advocating for “decompression breaks” in their career so they could clear their heads.
“We have to be better at managing your mental health, for the long-term welfare of all of you guys and the long-term efficacy of what you guys do,” he said.
The alcoholic nurse, cop, solider, whatever happened there?
Well, since Wee Willy Simmons has been outed as having attended the Jew hating festival, the NSW police should charge him for attending an illegal protest. There was no permit for the Jew hating festival. Oh and Wee Willy Simmons should be charged with “hate speech”.
‘gotta love the ‘bee
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1712268783916556573
About an hour ago I saw a pleasing thing.
For those who know Griffith, I’d parked near the cenotaph and had walked up a bit and crossed Banna Avenue opposite the NAB, heading for the bakery next door (Bertoldo’s, if you visit Griffith do yourself a favour).
While crossing the south bound side I spied one of these approaching, with an Australian flag on the antenna and an Israeli flag on what must’ve been a broom handle out the passenger’s window!
I waited on the nature strip half way over, made sure I caught his eye and applauded him as he went by. He gave me a thumbs up and “support Israel, mate” as he trundled past.
Good on him.
Editors, please fire any writer that uses ‘refuted’ to mean ‘denied’. The writer clearly is attempting to reframe a lie into the story.
Being ‘on the right side of history’ is one of those idiot ideas trotted out by leftists when they (typically) cannot convince people who do not already think like them.
Popper noted that there were political philosophies that were based on the idea that their authors had discovered the unseen but governing principles behind the dynamics of society and the progression of history, such that the future can be foreseen, deliberately aided, and protected from those who would try to thwart nature.
Among these were the Nazis. They believed the numinous Aryan race that had lost its proper place above the rest of humanity through interbreeding with inferior races, but could be restored to its rightful place by breeding out the mongrel. Then all would be well – even for non-Aryans.
Then you have the Marxists who thought it was all about class economics. They knew that capitalism was fated to give way to socialism and, finally, communism. The fact that advanced capitalist nations did not become communist. Communism actually sprung up in backward nations like Tsarist Russia and China. It was only later that they were able to manage to dupe wealthy nations such as Venezuela – which promptly turn into backwards shitholes.
Totalitarianism is required to pull the right levers and press the right buttons (remember though that those levers and buttons are people) and it does so at first with a view to progressing the next step to the great endgame, but quickly turns into a tool to cover up all the disasters that first step mysteriously created instead.
Talk about ‘the right side of history’ only makes sense if you believe you know what the future will be or, rather, supposed to be. They are used to bandying about this claim with conviction, even if without justification.
Old Ozzie:
Newt Gingrich’s solution is more of the same.
When a city has a deadly disease running through it, you quarantine that disease and let it burn itself out.
Remove all the elements that succour it, and let it die.
We’ve tried the methods that leave the innocents alive, and we have only kept the plague going.
Israel must defend itself effectively, and with the same lack of mercy that has been shown to it by its tormenters.
Really?
So Australians who are surrounded by violence in a desert and face a possible humanitarian crisis amidst a relatively uncaring government… should be reintegrated into mainstream Australia?
That does sound wise!
D’ya think we could apply that wisdom to any other big issues the country is currently facing? 😀 Just throwing the idea out there.
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 12, 2023 2:24 PM
Ah, no.
He is sorry that he was found out, he is sorry that the Hag barked at him on the phone, he is sorry his Labor career of staffer/adviser/ MP/PM has been put back a year or two, and he is no doubt sorry his name’s in the paper.
But I reckon he’s not sorry that he went to the protest.
As for Will Simmons, I am over being nice. No more, kaput. I want this to blight him for his whole life. Yeah, I know he’s young, but I can’t stop thinking about the pictures of the butchered children and babies coming out of southern Israel. They have not been allowed to grow up and do stupid things. Their lives were terminated by Nazi Pallies, scum that Mr Simmons likes to support.
Will Simmons can f*ck off.
But you know what, Willy boy will be okay, he’ll just spend his whole life working for Labor and the Greens as a staffer, paid for by you and me.
What Will Simmons and Labor/Greens Support
Hamas militants threw hand grenades into children’s bedrooms, Israel says
AP
Trudging down a cul-de-sac turned to rubble, an Israeli army commander stopped in front of one scorched home, its front wall blown wide open. Look at what Hamas militants have done, he said, to this close-knit community that only days ago brimmed with life.
“Children in the same room and someone came and killed them all. Fifteen girls and teenagers, they put (them) in the same room, threw in a hand grenade, and it’s over,” Major General Itai Veruv said.
“This is a massacre. It’s a pogrom,” he said, recalling the brutal attacks on Jews in Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th century.
The Israeli military led a group of journalists on a tour of the village a few miles from Israel’s fortified border with Gaza on Wednesday, following an extended battle to retake it from militants. Before Israeli forces prevailed, the attackers killed more than 100 residents, Israeli officials said.
Be’eri, a settlement of a little more than 1000 people, is one of more than 20 towns and villages ambushed early Saturday as part of a sweeping assault launched from the embattled Palestinian enclave.
Fair Shake
This one?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/melbourne-family-targeted-in-terrifying-home-invasion-by-gang-wielding-knives-and-metal-bars-30944671.html
White van drivers despair as vehicles likely to be trapped at Luton Airport for weeks
Fire wreaks havoc as car park closure means cars cannot be accessed and flights are cancelled
A white Ford Custom van sits undamaged – but coated with a thin layer of soot – within the smouldering remains of Luton Airport’s car park.
But this is small comfort to its owner, who says he would be unable to retrieve it even if he could get past the police cordon and fire engines.
“There’s no floor in front of it,” said Chris Meacey, 57, a former policeman and ex-soldier with the Queen’s Regiment.
The van sits yards from where three levels of the car park collapsed under the pressure of the blaze. Up to 1,500 vehicles are believed to have been parked there at the time.
Long wait ahead
Mr Meacey, who now works for a washing machine firm, expects to wait at least two weeks before the van will be returned to him – if at all.
The tuna and cucumber sandwich he left in the glove compartment for his journey to Slovakia will have gone off by then, he says.
The inferno, which began just before 9pm on Tuesday, reached such high temperatures that firefighters were unable to enter Luton’s Car Park 2 to survey the damage.
SIDS? Sudden Israeli Death Syndrome?
About as realistic as some of the excuses offered so far.
Forgive me for assuming ‘bankers’ is code for Jews.
Bons, scroll back. At 12.42 pm ZK2A posted an article which should hearten you a little. Dutton has called for attendees of the pro Pali march to be deported if they are on temporary visas.
Dutton has also been very vocal on Facebook, condemning the terrorist massacre in Israel as, I suspect, he has been to the media. But he’s rarely given air time, especially when when he says something which might be popular with everyday Aussies.
The police put avoiding conflict far ahead of maintaining law and order.
Letting the Hamasidal maniacs have their vile infestation praising terrorism and crying out for more bloodshed was easier than enforcing existing laws. The latter course would have caused conflict, so the Hams won.
They wanted the Jews to stay in their homes because just knowing there are Jews would drive the Hams into a frenzy and there would have been conflict. So, it is lockdown for the Jews even though them going out and holding a vigil would not be breaking any laws.
The Jews do not scuffle with Police. The Hams would love to so they can play victim.
By any mainstream reckoning the vigil would have been an event more welcome in the hearts of Australians than the Hampage, but that counts for naught. The most intemperate, violent, aggressive, and frankly repulsive will overrule all other concerns.
Have the police found a pregnant woman liking a facebook post supporting Israel yet? I am guessing not, otherwise there would be footage of the Tactical Response Group kicking down her door and hauling her out in front of her terrified children.
Maybe this is why they issued guidelines demanding the we don’t say policemen any more. They are not men.
How Gaza’s wealthiest neighbourhood was flattened overnight
Middle-class Rimal was as close as it could get to Gaza’s Islington – now it lies in ruins
Before the war, it was the most upscale neighbourhood in Gaza City, with vibrant shops, cafés, ice cream parlours and a view on to the Mediterranean.
Today it stands largely in ruins after ferocious Israeli bombardment, in a clear sign that no part of Gaza will be safe in the coming weeks and months of conflict.
Residents of Rimal simply could not believe it when they first heard word that the area was being targeted. While the Palestinian enclave has for 16 years been overcrowded, blockaded and gripped by humanitarian crises, middle-class Rimal was about as close as it could get to being Gaza City’s own Islington.
Karam Maher, an 18-year-old Gaza resident, told The Daily Telegraph: “We felt the evacuation order was a rumour until an Israeli police officer called my dad and told him that we must evacuate if we cared about our lives.”
Speaking from an upscale hotel near Rimal, he added: “We didn’t know where to go, finally we decided to come to this hotel.
“It’s good to finally find accommodation, but it’s bad because nothing is like home. And I can hear the explosions here too.”
He went back at one stage to see if his building was still standing. It was at that point but the same cannot be said for much of Rimal.
The massive Israeli bombing there has destroyed roads that would usually be lined with street food vendors, ripped apart apartment blocks and damaged a mosque and a university building.
When war broke out, Mr Maher said, it felt like a surreal “dream”. But now, it’s “turned to a nightmare” even for Gaza’s more affluent residents.
Past conflicts with Hamas included heavy bombardments of Gaza but ended with the group still in power. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Israel is committed to destroying Hamas’ military and governing capabilities.
In a new tactic, Israel is warning civilians to evacuate whole Gaza neighbourhoods, rather than just individual buildings, then levelling large swaths in waves of airstrikes.
Israel’s tone has changed as well. In past conflicts, its military insisted on the precision of strikes in Gaza, trying to ward off criticism about civilian deaths. This time, military briefings emphasise the destruction being wreaked.
“We will not allow a reality in which Israeli children are murdered,” Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, said in a meeting with soldiers near the southern border on Tuesday.
“I have removed every restriction — we will eliminate anyone who fights us, and use every measure at our disposal.”
As weapons against their political opponents. They never expected that any of their actions might not be fully covered up by the MSM.
A sudden outbreak of candour?
LOL. I can’t recall if it was Bird or USSR, but they were slagging off about thems jewish banksters, particularly riled by the supposed biggest Jewish bankster of them all- Jamie Dimon. Dimon is 100% Greek origin. Obviously, it was assumed the last name was the tell.
It’s usually considered polite to confine fevered thoughts about controlled demolition and the impossibility of melting steel with avgas to a window of a few days around 9/11.
Yup. Think yourself into knots to avoid having to admit you may have been wrong.
The elite, nuanced, intellectual progressives find themselves having to do this repeatedly.
Sheesh, Cl Berka, that’s an absolute zinger.
Stealing it
Referendum betting odds are in free fall away from the Yes vote. Currently it’s $1.08 for No and $6.50 for yes. Those odds have lengthened from $1.09 and $6.00 just in the last hour. At that rate, by the time Saturday comes around No will be odds-on, and rightly so.
I’m looking forward to the head explosions!
‘It were an inside job’ season coming around so soon?
I still have my ‘Trump Insurrection’ decorations up!
Peter Dutton on the 21st anniversary of the Islamist terror bombings at Bali. Lest We Forget.
There’s someone here determined to make his way to the Roths-.Xchilds conspiracy. I’m predicting we’ll hear the whole Roths-.Xchilds cacophony by Feb 24.
I was at the rally last night in Dover Heights. I heard Dutton speak, he was impressive. I wish he was PM.
Netanyahu: “Every Hamas Operative Will Die. Hamas is ISIS.”
““Hamas — the Islamic State of Gaza — will be wiped from the face of the earth,” he says. “It will not continue to exist.”
Dutton attend the rally for Israel and us Jews.
Sleazy did not.
“In a new tactic, Israel is warning civilians to evacuate whole Gaza neighbourhoods, rather than just individual buildings, then levelling large swaths in waves of airstrikes.”
Good – don’t stop!
Seal off YOUR border with Gaza – there is still a 12 mile border with Egypt, which being a good muslim country will allow their brothers to escape into, right?
Warn them which areas are to be destroyed. Then destroy that area. Rinse and repeat until the entire strip is smoking rubble. Blockade the entire place – nothing in or out except via Egypt. Yes, nothing – no food, no water, nothing.
Sounds harsh, dunnit?
Yet if Israeli civilians are worthy of rape, torture and death just because they exist, what is your complaint against the Israeli’s doing the above. They give fair warning, they give you an escape route (via Egypt), they tell you what is going to happen – so much more humane than what Hamas did. And no-one is cheering for it either by the way – most are just sadly accepting that this is something that must be done. And it most certainly must be done.
“Look what you made us do” says Hamas.
Indeed.
Now look what you made Israel do.
Once again:
“They are demons – all they understand is death. We should give it to them.” – Dan Bongino
Delta
I’m not taking bets, but the Libs are not out of the game entirely to win the next election. Rudd’s C team isn’t exactly performing well. Unlike others, I don’t think the ref itself will be their undoing, but rather what they try to do to compensate and also the economy, particularly inflation.
‘This proposal provides nothing’: Jacinta Price on Voice to Parliament
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Price says the Voice to Parliament provides nothing but a feeling of the vibe.
The shadow minister cast her vote for the Voice Referendum on Thursday in Alice Springs.
“There are other absolute ways to move forward to improve lives of our most marginalised,” she told Sky News Australia.
“There are other angles that we haven’t taken yet, that this proposal does not provide whatsoever.
“In fact this proposal provides nothing.
“There is no detail there’s never been any detail on it other than the feeling of the vibe.”