dover0beach September 19, 2024 11:53 pm Israel didn’t tamper with Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, it made them – New York TimesLots…
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Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, eh? What will go off next? Their Sony Walkmans? The telex machine?
dover0beach September 19, 2024 11:53 pm Israel didn’t tamper with Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, it made them – New York Times…
Holland also produced a substantial number of volunteers for the SS. I had a workmate who told me his Grandfather…
This was a cyber attack similar to the Stuxnet worm that crippled Iran’s nuclear facilities a decade or so ago.…
But in Australia we can’t even stop them demonstrating! Australian politicians are piss weak useless pricks. Labor will let anyone stay in Australia if there is a chance the will vole for them.
This one Black Ball?
Sorry, THEY WILL VOTE FOR THEM
Kirby Bluntly Says Ukraine Aid “Near End Of The Rope” & Won’t Be “Indefinite”
In a surprise and stunning admission, given only a week ago these words might have been unthinkable coming straight from the White House, Biden’s national security council spokesman John Kirby bluntly admitted that funding for Ukraine is “coming near the end of the rope” and is “not going to be indefinite.”
He had said the words in a Wednesday afternoon press briefing wherein he unveiled a new $200 million arms package for Ukraine, which is drawn from previously Congressionally approved funds.
But interestingly this new $200 million was apparently surplus from the infamous “accounting error”:
According to the Pentagon, the $200 million package for Ukraine used funds made available by a Pentagon “accounting error” that overvalued previous arms shipped into the conflict. As the White House has been struggling to get Congress to authorize more Ukraine spending, the Pentagon has said it has about $5 billion in Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the US to ship weapons straight from its own military stockpiles.
In more “normal” times we might expect Kirby’s bluntly asserting that Ukraine funding is “not going to be indefinite” to result in a massive D.C. beltway and mainstream media uproar, but those same MSM politicians pundits are now consumed with Israel-Gaza developments.
Rosie here be the article:
Have at it kind reader.
Vic PS 20% rise. I’d happily trade this 20% pay rise over 5 years for an 80% PS staff count reduction (and similar contractor reductions).
‘Gough Whitlam wannabe’: LNP Senator says Anthony Albanese has ‘broken Australia’
Labor has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on the Voice to Parliament’s Yes campaign, according to LNP Senator James McGrath.
According to Mr McGrath, that money could have been spent on bettering Aboriginal health and education and even used to tackle the country’s cost of living crisis.
“We have got to make sure we get out there and are united as a team, which we are under Peter Dutton,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“We have got to get out there and represent our community and fight on those issues that people care about.
“The number one issue out there once the Voice is over cost of living.
“We need to make sure Anthony Albanese owns this result and make sure that this Gough Whitlam wannabe knows that he’s the one who has broken Australia.”
I apologise for my spelling and grammar above:
Why it can;t be refuled on the wharf…
It put me in mind of “any fule knows that” and the immortal Molesworth and his school St Custards.
Why it can;t be refuled on the wharf from a tanker, or from a lighter alongside is unclear.
Probably global warming issue 🙂
That’s the one calli.
Dobrym Ootram Dot, et al,
Interesting interview by the Whitehouse Security NeoCon buffoon, John Kirby, yesterday.
“You don’t want to bake in long term support, when you are at the end of the rope and on Ukraine funding, we are coming near to the end of the rope.”
The clown puppet had better start organising rooftop choppers, just like that other American victory in April 1975.
I’m sure those Azov guys, (who are definitely NOT Nazi’s), will “look after” him.
Joe “Sniffer” Biden – Jan 2023
“We will support Ukraine for as long, as it takes.”
“I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went.” —Newly inaugurated President Lyndon Johnson at a White House meeting on November 24, 1963
Ray Martin has spoken an uncomfortable truth about Indigenous affairs
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Veteran broadcaster, seasoned journalist, and five-time Gold Logie winner Ray Martin, I have concluded, has spoken an uncomfortable truth about Indigenous affairs. His remarks will no doubt outrage many Australians who consider themselves caring and decent, but what he had to say is far more important than placating easily offended types.
“There is $34 billion going out there every year somewhere and it’s doing next to nothing,” Martin said in January 2019, referring to the Productivity Commission’s 2015-16 estimate of the total spending by the state, territory, and federal governments on Indigenous Australians. “You can’t just keep calling the ‘poor bugger me’ card and blaming whitefellas when kids don’t go to school and get their faces and noses wiped.”
Dead right, Ray Martin. You cannot realise sovereignty without self-responsibility. And to think that nearly five years after you made that observation, the Albanese government wants to entrench the poor bugger me presumption in our constitution forever more. Something to do with making progress and moving forward, we are told.
But that was the Ray Martin of 2019. The one of 2023 is far different. As reported last week, he spoke last month at the pro-Indigenous Voice to Parliament ‘West Says Yes’ rally in Marrickville, Sydney. There he derided the No campaign’s slogan ‘If you don’t know, vote No’.
“What that asinine slogan is saying is if you’re a dinosaur or a dickhead who can’t be bothered reading, then vote No,” said Martin, to the cheers of the crowd. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who was present, told ABC radio the next day that Martin had made a “great speech”.
Let’s briefly recap the Voice concept. As Paul Kelly noted in this masthead last week, even its proponents admit it goes far beyond constitutional recognition. “The Voice to parliament is a structural reform,” note referendum working group member Professor Megan Davis and fellow constitutional law expert Professor George Williams. “It is a change to the structure of Australia’s public institutions and would redistribute public power via the Constitution, Australia’s highest law.” And through its representations, Davis informs us, the Voice “will have a lot of power”.
So what does Martin say in response to the many questions concerning the composition, function, and governance of this prestigious and powerful institution, the membership of which 96.2 per cent of the Australian population would be ineligible because of their race? An institution, I should add, that cannot be abolished by parliament.
“At this stage of the game, the details simply don’t matter,” he said. “They never did matter, honestly. They’re irrelevant.”
Details, schmetails. That breezy dismissal says much about the man who is supposedly the pinnacle of Australian journalism. Do not concern yourself with asking government ministers about the intricacies of constitutional changes that will transform how parliament and the executive operate. It does not matter. They are irrelevant. To quote Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the late former Queensland premier and exemplar of open and transparent government, “Don’t you worry about that”.
My response in such matters is straightforward. If the government wants us to vote Yes in a referendum but refuses to hold a convention or otherwise provide us with sufficient information to make an informed decision, I will vote No. I have no interest in playing constitutional charades. As for the details Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney have provided regarding the Voice, little needs to be said. Comparatively speaking, we would have received more information from a comatose and limbless Marcel Marceau.
Incidentally, it does not bother me that Martin labels my ilk a dinosaur. Many of those majestic creatures were native to Australia, dating back around 250 million years. Contrary to Martin’s anthropocentric biases, they were intelligent animals. And they lived in harmony with the environment on these lands for millions of years, long before humans set foot on this continent – but I digress.
As for Martin’s tirade against “nonsensical and stupid” referendum slogans,” I am all for calling them out. Here are a couple for starters: “It’s just a modest request” and “Our nation’s birth certificate should recognise this”. How many times have we heard Albanese say, “It is a generous and gracious invitation”? Thank goodness the referendum campaign ends this weekend, otherwise there would be a real risk of death by platitude.
Likewise, Martin should be pleased to learn voters are heeding his exhortation “If you don’t know, find out what you don’t know”. Given the Albanese government has been so reticent, Australians have made a special effort to find out where the Voice could take us. For example, referendum working group member Thomas Mayo: “Some might criticise that it can only give advice to parliament but advice coming through firstly a referendum of Australian people saying, ‘this Voice must be respected and its advice acted upon’ is a powerful thing.”
Fellow working group member Professor Marcia Langton: “People who are opposing [the Voice referendum] are saying we are destroying the fabric of their sacred Constitution. Yes, that’s right, that’s exactly what we’re doing”. And as Albanese himself said, it would be “brave” of government to defy the Voice’s advice. Advisory body my hat.
You would swear that Martin has been secretly commissioned to bolster the perception that the Yes campaign is one of pretentiousness and elitism. “If we wake up on … October 15 and Australia has voted No, what will the New York Times and The Times of London and the best media in Europe and Asia and South America, what will the world say about us,” Martin asks rhetorically.
Let me respond to that by providing an example of what this so-called “best media” is already reporting about the referendum. From the BBC last month concerning a rise in support for the No vote: “Though some argue the shift reflects public sentiment, Yes campaigners blame it on an ecosystem of disinformation – which they say is being led by figures in the No camp”.
It quotes Mayo thus: “People are going to suffer throughout this campaign. I think the most shameful thing is what the opposition has done to this conversation, and history will reflect that.”
That same news item also quotes Marjorie Anderson, national manager at 13 Yarn, a crisis support line for Indigenous Australians: “We won’t know the scale of the damage until after the referendum. Think about the responsibility if the Aboriginal suicide rate goes up and we can link that back to disinformation around the Voice”. Sorry, Ray Martin, but if people overseas are so gullible that they believe this alarmist claptrap, I could not care less about their opinion.
On a closing note, mention should also be made of this government’s curious priorities. This week we witnessed the vilest public display of mass anti-Semitism in this country. The fear and disquiet have been exacerbated by the failure of federal ministers, particularly those whose electorates are in Western Sydney, to condemn its genocidal ideology.
You might ask what Albanese was doing when this was happening. He was in Uluru, campaigning for the Voice. So moved was he during this visit that he burst into tears.
When you reflect on the fracturing of this country and the knowledge that we have another two years before the next election, you could be excused for doing the same.
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The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour.
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She added an exclamation mark to the “YES” vote…
The Russian turd floats to the top again.
Don’t know if this was produced yesterday but if not, prepare yourself for a spike in blood pressure. Daily Telegraph:
It’s all very well to sack the Minister and Commish. Which should certainly happen. But who replaces them? I fear more of the same.
Neigh! An equine loss is tipped.
When It Comes to U.S. Intelligence Community Claims, ie. Egypt Warning Israel, Apply Strong Cynicism
October 12, 2023 – Sundance
Apparently, some people have forgotten that American citizens are in an abusive relationship with our government.
A government that has demonstrably lied repeatedly and used the official institutions of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to do so [See reference of 50 former intel officials claiming Biden laptop was Russian disinformation].
So, allow me to walk through the process of the story attributed most recently to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, as relayed to him by DNI Avril Haines, an Obama operative inside the Biden administration, and broadcast to media.
McCaul claims the US Intelligence Community know that Egypt warned Israel of the pending Hamas attack. Everything about this is sketchy in the extreme. Senior Egyptian Intelligence officials state, without qualification, that such a warning never happened {link}, and Bibi Netanyahu has said it was fake news {link}.
I believe President Fattah Abdel al-Sisi and Prime Minister Netanyahu –
here’s why.
First, don’t forget the geopolitical motives to disparage and diminish Egypt after they recently joined the BRICS economic alliance.
Second, don’t forget that following Obama and Clinton’s ill-fated attempt to install a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, General al-Sisi was forced to stop the Islamist Spring in Egypt. That put Sisi on the opposite side of Obama, and years of manipulative disparagement ensued. However, Sisi put his commitment to eradicating extremism -like Hamas- into action, not mere words {GO DEEP}.
Privileged Son of Perfume Tycoon Leads Harvard Pro-Palestinian Group Behind Disgusting Letter Blaming Israel for Hamas Terror Attack
The reaction to the Hamas attack on Israel by left wing college students is disgusting.
At Harvard University, 31 student groups signed a letter blaming Israel as “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ barbaric slaughter of innocent Israelis including 260 young adults at a concert on Saturday morning.
These students publicly chose to stand with monsters committing war crimes, shooting children in their beds, raping women and kidnapping civilians.
A student leader from the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, one of the groups behind the letter, is the son of wealthy perfume tycoon Jo Malone.
The Daily Mail reports, according to Harvard’s directory of student groups, Josh Willcox, 22, is listed as one of three students who runs the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.
Willcox has lived a privileged life including attending an elite school $30,000-a-year school in London and living in luxury apartments in New York and London.
The internet is forever .. “Sugar Ray” Martin, 2019, before becoming a rated VOICE contender ……
“There is $34 billion going out there every year somewhere and it’s doing next to nothing,” Martin said in January 2019, referring to the Productivity Commission’s 2015-16 estimate of the total spending by the state, territory, and federal governments on Indigenous Australians. “You can’t just keep calling the ‘poor bugger me’ card and blaming whitefellas when kids don’t go to school and get their faces and noses wiped.”
Since the increase in numbers over the last few years is in the tens of thousands, it’s a con job pretending to care about fiscal responsibility.
He wasn’t. Nor was Nixon. The Dems refused to fund the war after Ford took office.
If you want to quote history, best you learn from it first.
25 Dec 1991 was one of the best days in human history.
Yes. But at least they’ll know they’re sackable.
It might concentrate their minds on the job. The real one.
SHAME ON JOURNALISTS
A supercilious Sky News “journalist” interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and almost immediately started interrogating him about Palestinian civilians. What is Israel going to do to assure that no Palestinian civilians are harmed?
Happily, Bennett wasn’t having it.
He fired back with both barrels, to the discomfiture of the reporter, who at the end was left refusing to answer Bennett’s question.
It is pretty glorious: 6 Mins 51 Secs
Rufus T Firefly outing himself as a 9/11 troofer AND a tankie was not on my Tarot cards for 2023.
Said plonk of a reporter had his sorry arze handed to him on a silver platter!
That reporter…supercilious, trying to take the moral high ground and failing dismally.
Bennett’s question assumed that smooth faced liar would actually take up arms to protect his family. Bzzzzzzzt. No he wouldn’t. He’d expect others to protect him, and then take the blame or a bullet.
Immoral Equivalence
The efforts of mainstream media, government officials, and elite universities to avoid outright condemnation of Hamas reveal a West at war with itself.
The horror of the events that took place in Israel this past weekend is still sinking in. Such atrocities, deliberately videoed and broadcast for the world to see, reveal a pathological mindset. It is also a harbinger of far worse to come unless we face the truth: far from constituting a clash of civilizations, these attacks repudiate civilization.
Sponsored by Iran, Hamas has little ideology beyond hatred, but hatred is ideology enough when your adversary fails to understand the multifaceted war being waged against it.
For decades, Islamists, trained first by the Nazis and later by the KGB, learned how to manipulate the instruments of political warfare.
By coopting naïve Western elites to embrace anti-Western, anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic memes, they’ve gradually succeeded beyond their wildest initial expectations.
True to form, the mainstream media in the West covered the attacks with soulless rhetoric. The New York Times, for example, refused to apply the word “terrorists” to the murderers, even as images of the atrocities flooded social media.
The Washington Post, PBS, NPR, and Reuters all opted for the far milder “militants.”
An antiseptic moral equivalence infuses mainstream media coverage in the West. Reports routinely take pains to emphasize that there are victims on both sides.
Hours after the invasion, PBS’s NewsHour announced, “In an unprecedented surprise attack, the militant Hamas rulers of Gaza sent dozens of fighters into Israel by land, sea, and air,” but then followed with this laconic statement: “Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians are reported dead between the attack and Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza cities.”
Similarly, the Washington Post noted that “the death toll has risen to 700 in Israel and thousands have been injured, according to local media, while Palestinian authorities said at least 370 were killed and 2,200 injured in Gaza.” On October 9, too, the New York Times and the Washington Post duly reported death totals on both sides.
In a New York Times editorial, “The Global Context of the Hamas–Israel War,” we see two photos: one of a boy running against a background of unidentified burning buildings far in the distance, from Ashkelon in Israel; the other, with no location provided, shows “a Palestinian mother [crying] next to the body of her son.”
The asymmetry of pity on display in the pairing is clear. From these contrasting photos, are we meant to understand that the greater fault lies with Israel and, ultimately, America?
The UN is a totally useless, outdated toothless tiger.
I can speak from experience on this topic, as an ADF Officer, I was part of a UN “Peace Making” mission, to a completely destroyed sh*thole, (Mogadishu), that was once a very beautiful city, in the early 1990’s.
There were plenty of troops and equipment, from all over the world, but they didn’t control too much territory at all, complete waste of time.
I was in the major centre, but I did travel to the regions and all of the detachments were merely isolated pockets, that did not venture out of their compounds.
ADF troops in Baidoa did seize control.
Of course, as soon as the US and UN departed, it was as if they were never there.
Way beyond time to scrap this anachronism.
It’s not “doxxing” to publish someone’s name and photo.
If they are proud of their views, they will revel in the publicity. Could it be that they thought they had the mob behind them, but now feel uncomfortably isolated?
Do they teach 9/11 antisemitic truthiness at Duntroon or ADFA?
intimate with local goats
Jesus Christ, leave it at home and buy a stick mag. FFS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jh97d/muslim_dating_site/
Anyone with the name “Yasmin” should not be allowed in public office.
Why can’t the ship be refuelled from a lighter? Using ones brain is not part of the job description. Why is it functionaries in charge have never done anything in the real world?
Bunch of HR/NDIS/Council types at my local Cafe having a meeting.
At least three not ordering anything.
Rude as.
Reflecting on that Sky interviewer, he repeated, “I’m the journalist” several times as he tried to browbeat the former Israeli PM. He honestly believed it was some sort of mantra to force submission.
What a pissant. A soft handed, entitled scribbler, lucky for the battle hardened Bennett to give him the time of day in his busy schedule.
Sky needs to review his contract. He’s useless.
The old lizard of oz’s response is correct – “you write about history, I make history”.
Ahahaha! Mr McSnotty has finally woken up.
By the way…you missed.
All parties?
How very even handed.
ASIO Mike probably lies awake at night,
hoping his crew can find some Masada Complex types
who could tear the nation’s social cohesion apart.
‘Catastrophic mistake’: Peter Dutton on why the Yes campaign is doomed to fail
A day out from the referendum, Peter Dutton has accused the Prime Minster of making a “catastrophic mistake” during the Yes campaign.
Mr Dutton, who has led the campaign against the referendum with Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, said the Prime Minister had ultimately written a “cheque he couldn’t cash”.
“I think the Prime Minister made a catastrophic mistake in not providing the details to Australians,’’ Mr Dutton said.
“He’s instinctively won their hearts because Australians do want better outcomes for Indigenous Australians, but he hasn’t won their minds.
“And that’s the reality for a vast majority of Australians in my judgement, and I hope that people will vote No on the weekend not to reject the proposition of helping or recognising Indigenous Australians — quite the opposite.
“But people roundly have rejected the Voice proposal and the Prime Minister wrote a cheque that he couldn’t cash.”
Asked what should be done next, Mr Dutton said a full audit of spending was required
“I think there needs to be a very close look at where the money is being spent within communities,’’ he said.
“There’s a lot of angst within Indigenous communities, as you go around the country speaking to women, to families. They’re concerned about where money is being spent.
“There’s goodwill on both sides of politics in this regard to the amount of money that’s tipped into the top of the funnel in Canberra.
“But when you get to Alice Springs and you see the conditions that people are living in the lack of support that’s provided there. The money’s going somewhere and it’s not to those who are most in need.”
The Liberal leader said it was “unfair” that a lot of younger Indigenous people in particular have had their expectations lifted.
“They’ve heard there’s racism involved in people’s decisions,’’ he told ABC radio.
“But the fact is that four or five out of ten Labor voters are predicted to vote No. And when you get that sort of outcome, you know that it’s a rejection, not of people not having a burning desire to do good for Indigenous Australians.
“It’s a rejection of the model put forward unwisely by the Prime Minister and the campaign conducted in such a way that he’s been able to turn 65 per cent support which was the initial reaction into something much less than that.”
Apropos of everything, will be seriously looking at getting one of these; for the wild pigs and dogs:
https://www.scsa-au.com/
Who is threatening social cohesion?
Does he think the average Australia is impressed by his mealy-mouthed moral equivalence?
average Australian
Australia shouldn’t condemn terrorism because terrorism supporters might have to be very angry.
I wonder which flag they’d fly if it were German nationalists
tryng to liberate Occupied East Prussia from the Polish colonisers.
The Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel is Only the Preliminary Bout. America is “the Main Event.” Here are the Details of the Coming Attack on America by China.
If an accurate history is ever written of this time the key thing will be the cheating against Trump. All this ghastly mayhem by the scum of humanity would not be occurring if Trump were POTUS.
Israel is going to expand:
Israelis Report Armored Vehicles Approaching Border from Jordan – Convoys of Muslim Women and Children Evacuate from West Bank
Heart rending. Tear inducing. New York Post via JJ Sefton
No words
Take a Guess from Police Description
Two men stabbed inside store in Melbourne’s Footscray
Two men were allegedly stabbed in what police describe as an “unprovoked attack” inside an inner-city store.
Investigators have since released images and CCTV footage of a man they believe may be able to assist with their inquires into the shocking alleged attack.
The man is described as being about 175cm tall with dark coloured hair and dreadlocks.
He was wearing a dark coloured baseball cap with white writing, a denim jacket over the top of a dark hooded jumper, dark coloured pants, white shoes, and was carrying a dark bag.
Our Mikey has lots in common with the movie Mikey. One of them plays the part of a complete moron, the other is an actor.
Maybe out Mikey is not acting.
our
For those interested in the drawbacks of UN peacekeeping attempts I can recommend the movies:
‘The Siege of Jadotville’ (netflix) – A Company of 155 Irish soldiers on a peacekeeping mission in the Congo were attacked by a 3000+ force of Katanganese, held out for 5 days, but eventually surrendered to the rebels.
‘Shake Hands With the Devil’ (amazon ) – The Canadian commander of UN peacekeepers in Rwanda is aware of the impending genocide and tries unsuccessfully to get the UN authorities to allow him to do something about it but is refused.
More than isolated. Unemployable too.
Ackman Doubles Down on Blacklisting Harvard Students (12 Oct)
Should’ve thought about that kids before you supported baby-killing jihadists. No yummy hedge fund jerbs for you.
Some thoughts, Chris Minns is a nice guy, and that’s the only reason Labor won in March. A tired Liberal government, post-Covid anger (rightly so), and the Labor party, after three disastrous leaders, finally put up someone half decent to lead the party. Minns is of the right of the party but it is clear he isn’t in charge, he has little to no authority over his party and cabinet. Daley, Catley and so on are mediocre garbage who should have been booted days ago. In early September, a female NSW Labor MLA in the NSW upper House wrote on Facebook that we Jews are a “race of whingers”……..as yet she hasn’t been booted. I think the ALP, state and federal, has a serious anti-Semitism problem, it’s just been hidden until now. The revelations about “Yassie” aren’t surprising, she refuses to take responsibility for anything, she went missing in action when that elderly woman was tasered. She should have been booted then. As I’ve said, the scab is off, the Jew hatred is plain to see. The left, and that includes so many in Labor, ALL of the Greens, ALL at their ABC, at the Malchurian Guardian, and Nine Newspapers and so on have all spent the late few decades trying to hide their Jew hatred behind the mask of “anti-Zionism”, but the events of last Saturday have now finally torn off that scabby infected mask. If there is to be any good to come out of the barbarity of last weekend, this is one thing. And then I hear revelations that a son of a NSW state Labor Minister was at the Opera House, and then yesterday the revelation that one of Plibersek’s staffers was also at the rally, I just feel sick in my stomach.
You see, I think optics are important, and the optics aren’t looking too good for us Jews across the West at the moment, and particularly here in Sydney. Jews, as I write, are being attacked and spat upon in the streets of London and NYC, LA, Chicago and so on, kosher restaurants are being vandalised in North London, I could go on and on and on. And here in NSW, my community had a rally on late Wednesday arvo and evening, on a cliff top at Dover Heights, next to the ocean. It goes without saying that at my rally, among my people, we bunch of “whingers” behaved impeccably, there was no hate speech, nobody spewed “let’s go kill Palestinians” etc. There were no flares, no burning of flags, but the optics were that we Jews were perched on a steep clifftop next to ocean, and I’m sure this optic was noticed in Lakemba, in Bankstown, in Greenacre, and I’m sure they were smirking and laughing at that clifftop optic, because they’ve made it clear that they hold the power, they have claimed, with the connivance of the NSW police, the streets of Sydney’s CBD.
I don’t want these terrorist sympathisers, these unapologetic Jew haters, these proponents of “gas the Jews” walking through and polluting Hyde Park. Despite Minns saying any such protest is illegal, they’re thumbing their noses, fingers and whatever to any government request or authority. Does anyone seriously think there won’t be violence and hate speech at Sunday’s protest? Facing Hyde Park is the Great Synagogue. What will the NSW police do? Will they enforce the law, or will they do what they did on Monday night and provide a personal escort to these dregs of humanity, will they stand aside whilst these dregs chant a call to genocide that is “from the river to the sea” and “gas the Jews”. Will NSW police, on Sunday morning, issue another “Judenfrei” edict, telling us Jews to steer clear of Sydney’s CBD?
Wow, what an arsehole that Sky ‘journalist’ is.
N.B. UK Sky is rabidly left wing.
‘Supercilious’ is right, but we need to add a few more descriptors, like arrogant, ignorant, anti-semitic and rude. This dickhead really showed his hand when, having been asked ‘what would you do?’ he pretended to be a cop and said ‘I’m asking the questions here.’
What a jerk.
Not how I would describe it. More of a stomach churning performance from the talking haircut.
Dover, my comment at 10.45 am is awaiting moderation, for no obvious reason.
When you get a minute. 🙂
FLASHBACK: Thanks to someone who posted it in the comments, I ran across this 2009 piece by Bill Whittle on why Sarah Palin had to be destroyed.
Let’s wrap this up by getting to brass tacks here.
This isn’t a fight between Democrats and Republicans, or even between Liberals and Conservatives. This is a fight to the death between the populists and the elites.
Sarah Palin is the anti-Obama. He is urban; she is rural. He preaches dependency on the government and she leads a life of independence. He consistently apologizes for the sins of the country he was elected to lead, and she is unabashedly proud of it. He opposes the war in Iraq; she has skin in the game. And on and on.
And that is why she had to be destroyed, by the Democratic Party, by the New York media elites, and by many of the inside-the-beltway voices of various and sundry GOP “strategists.”
She needs to be destroyed because the one thing that can never be allowed to happen is this: you cannot have a voice in this political debate. You know who I mean. You rubes, you hicks out there in flyover country. Your job is pay taxes, vote for who they have decided over cocktails makes them feel better about themselves, and occasionally provide your inbred idiot sons and daughters for the army or police force or whatever you people without Ivy League educations do with your tawdry little lives.
Meanwhile, the Harvard-educated elitist geniuses will run the country according to their infinitely brighter intellectual and moral lights.
This week, in particular, has been a reminder of just how dim those bulbs actually are.
From the Sarah Palin Article Referenced above
The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first real test of the US Marine Corps in World War II.
There was real anger toward the Japanese after Pearl Harbor and the atrocities they had committed in China and to American prisoners at Bataan, but the Marines had not yet dealt with them face to face and still reserved a professional soldier’s decency towards surrendering troops.
A Marine recon unit reported seeing Japanese troops flying a white flag on an isolated spit of land near Guadalcanal, and so A Marine named Frank Goettge asked for volunteers to help rescue these surrendering Japanese soldiers.
25 men stepped forward, and when they reached the beach the Marines warily went ashore to help the trapped Japanese.
Once they were all within range, the Japanese opened fire with machine guns, and after hours of fighting only one Marine was able to escape.
As he swam away he looked over his shoulder, and saw the flashing Samurai swords of the Japanese officers as they hacked at and beheaded the survivors. When reinforcements returned they found that their buddies had been mutilated and dismembered, and any Marine corps tattoos had been hacked off their arms and stuffed into their mouths.
The Marines never treated the Japense the same way after that.
Alinski and his followers want you to believe that if you fight dirty in response to people fighting dirty with you, then you have lost your morals and in fact your identity. But that’s a lie.
We are in a political fight to the death with people who will stop at nothing
“He was wearing a dark coloured baseball cap with white writing, a denim jacket over the top of a dark hooded jumper, dark coloured pants, white shoes, and was carrying a dark bag.”
A minor point but from the video the tall dark chap with dreadlocks was actually wearing red and navy sneakers with white rubber souls.
Then there’s the time when they gave Haiti cholera. Thousands died.
Yes.
Much more provocative than the Opera House, and privately, viciously so. They know exactly how to hurt and who to hurt.
That looks like Cheaper Buy Miles in Paisley St.
Who knows why?
Dylan Mulvaney honored with ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD.’
“I only publicly came out online 560 days ago.”
“No matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what I say or what surgeries I get I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those HATEFUL peoples standards.”
Says a female student claiming the “I know nothing” defense regarding the pro-Hamas statement her Harvard student organization signed.
Well honey, unless you immediately resigned from the organization and publicly rejected the original letter… you own it.
Welcome to the world of being held being responsible for your actions, and joining an organization which supports terrorisism is definitely an action.
French were wise.
Doesn’t take long for a mob under cover of darkness to make their way from Republique to the 4th and the 8th with many Jewish businesses schools and at least two synagogues.
18 years ago in the SMH:
The ABC is not likely to change any time soon.
Israel prepares ‘ground manoeuvre’ against Hamas but no decision made to commence, says army
More recently they managed to put this one up.
As air strikes devastated neighbourhoods in Gaza, this family joined waves of people fleeing their homes on foot
All occurring in a vacuum it seems.
Just for “context”, imagine a Jewish vigil outside the Lakemba mosque.
No. I can’t either.
Chris Minns & The Australian Labor Party – and ASIO Wimp – Take Note of How it is Done!
France bans pro-Palestinian demonstrations & orders supporters deported.
Friday, 13 October 2023
France has announced it will ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations after the bloody attack on Israel by Hamas, on the grounds such protests threaten public order.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a note to regional prefects that the demonstrations “are likely to generate disturbances to public order”, adding that organisers should face arrest as well as any troublemakers.
Mr Darmanin ordered foreign nationals who break the rules to be “systematically” deported.
In defiance of his order, several hundred people had gathered in the central Place de la Republique in Paris shouting pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli slogans, AFP correspondents said.
Mr Darmanin had told French media earlier that over 100 “anti-Semitic acts” had been recorded in France since the attack by Hamas on Israel on Saturday, with 24 people arrested.
In his order to prefects, Darmanin reiterated his request that foreigners guilty of any anti-Semitic offence or of advocating terrorism should have their residence permit “systematically withdrawn” and expelled “without delay” from France.
From the Comments
– See told ya Peter Dutton is spot on!!
– Yeah, but it is a crying shame that our useless PM and his mob can’t take the same approach.
– France isn’t talking about deporting French citizens…they are talking about deporting “foreigners” who support godless murderers, kidnappers, hostage-takers and baby-beheaders.
AnAl the Brothel-Hopper will crawl into bed with those types if there is a vote to be had for the cause of Racism and Apartheid in it.
– Bet Sleazy does not do the same.
– No, because he hasn’t got the balls, besides he backs Palestine.
– Dutton stands with Macron.
Albo stands with Terrorists !
– Look who voters are the electorate of Grayndler for Albanese. He is going to look after number one.
But he won’t open the border to them.
OK.
Key points.
Free hostages.
Destroy Humus.
Receive humanitarian relief.
Me me me me me me me me me me. At least he didn’t win a beauty pageant.
Biological Man Crowned ‘Miss Portugal’ in Miss Universe Pageant (9 Oct)
A few months ago the same thing happened in the Netherlands. Amazing that men are better than women at winning beauty contests.
What the Hell Is Wrong With the People of Gaza? – Paywalled
It’s a fair question, “What the hell is wrong with the people of Gaza?” after witnessing the atrocities of last weekend, including now-confirmed reports of murdered Jewish babies, some of them beheaded. But the question is much bigger than this week’s expanded conflict, which did not begin in a vacuum.
In 1949, the people of that sparsely inhabited strip — there were only 120,000 there at the time — found themselves on the Arab side of the armistice line between Israeli and Arab forces. Egyptian troops occupied Gaza and kept the local Palestinian Arabs under military rule for almost 20 years. Egyptian occupation certainly did no favors towards the development of a civil culture there.
Israel captured Gaza, along with Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, during the 1967 Six-Day War and began a military occupation of its own. When it came time for Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin to make peace, Jerusalem was happy to trade land to get it. The 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty transitioned the Sinai back to Egyptian control but, when it came to Gaza, Sadat said, in effect, “No thanks, Menachem, you can keep it.”
Even today, Reuters reports that Egypt “has rejected the setting up of safe corridors for refugees fleeing the Gaza Strip.”
All 2.3 million Gazans can stay and get blown up, for all their Arab brothers in Egypt could care.
Something similar happened in the West Bank. Like Gaza, the ancient Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria remained on the Arab side of the ’49 armistice line and were held by Jordanian troops. Unlike Egypt and Gaza, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Israel conquered that area, too, in 1967, and Jordan seemed happy to be rid of it. When Jerusalem and Amman made peace in 1994, Jordani Prime Minister Abdelsalam Majali didn’t ask for any of the occupied Palestinian lands back in exchange.
It seems the Palestinians have long been a headache that other Arab countries were glad to be rid of.
Israel hoped it’d gotten itself rid of Gaza’s Palestinians when it unilaterally withdrew from the Strip in 2005.
What it got was a terror state next door, despite the people of Gaza getting out from under “Zionist oppression” and enjoying lavish financial and material aid from around the world.
While it’s true that the Arabs of the occupied territories haven’t exactly gotten a fair shake from anyone, whether Arab or Israeli, it’s also true that they’ve acted as their own worst enemies, “never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” as Henry Kissinger put it.
It’s a short line from the creation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1964 as a Soviet-sponsored nationalist-terrorist group to the people of Gaza electing Hamas as their “legitimate” government in 2006.
If Israeli occupation was no fun, the Palestinians cut off their noses to spite their faces when they legitimized Hamas rule.
I want you to see now just one example of what being governed by Hamas means:
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
A few years ago, Gaza received new water pipelines thanks to foreign aid.
Hamas dug up the pipelines and turned them into rockets that they later fired at Israel – 45 Secs
Even if I were a Gazan in good standing, dedicated to the destruction of Israel, I imagine I’d be pretty upset if my local officials were tearing up the neighborhood’s water pipes.
Sure, “Kill the Jews” and all that, but I’d still like some fresh water for taking showers and cooking meals for my kids.
Admittedly, I weigh these options as a bourgeois 21st-century man from middle America, and so I lack the fine moral perceptions of a Rashida Tlaib or a Hamas freedom fighter hacking the head off a Filipino guest worker with a garden hoe.
So we return to the headline question: “What the hell is wrong with the people of Gaza?”
I don’t have an answer, or at least not a comfortable answer. The 20th-century French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss described Islam as “a barracks religion” where “women are excluded from social life and infidels from the spiritual community.” Islam is fine for regimenting young men but less so with tolerance and sharing.
It’s easy with a militaristic religion — and after years of neglect by your ethnic brothers and years more of occupation by the hated Jews — to decide to rip up water pipes to make rockets. From there, it’s easier still to launch them at civilians on the other side of a fence and then finally to get on with the delicious savagery of murdering Jewish babies.
All made possible, really, by the barbaric militarization of Gazan society by the Gazans themselves. Look again at the AP photo atop this article.
Israeli PM Golda Meir said many years ago,
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
The day for peace has not yet come, that’s what’s wrong.
It has come to this.
Meanwhile X appears to be purging the cataloguing of hamarses
atrocities.
Drone video of Gaza bombing/shelling results.
The Israeli technique of telling Gazans to “Move now because something really bad is about to happen where you are” proves itself non-hyperbolic.
Hamas Told Gaza Civilians to Ignore IDF Warnings to Evacuate
Hamas and Palestinian jihadis are up to their usual sick tricks of using Gaza civilians as human shields and telling civilians to ignore Israeli warnings to evacuate.
Remember that the next time you see a Western outlet or Palestinian account bemoaning the women and children killed in Gaza. – ABC Australia
The same terrorists who dismantled their own water pipes to make rockets to fire on Israel before screeching about Israel cutting off water to Gaza have absolutely no issue with using civilian women and children as pawns.
Any sacrifice for the never-ending jihad against Israel! Palestinian Authority leadership refers to terrorists killed by Israelis as “martyrs” for a reason.
As PJ Media’s Robert Spencer previously explained, Palestinian terrorists believe that their quest to wipe Israel off the map is a religious one, in service to Allah and Islam.
The Palestinian terrorists have long hidden their weapons and military targets in and around mosques, schools, residential high-rises, and hospitals.
The latest confirmation that Palestinian terrorists are using their civilians in Gaza as human shields, from MEMRI, via JihadWatch:
Very few Jap’s taken prisoner by AIF in WWII.
Unless specifically ordered to capture, for Intelligence requirements, all Jap’s were neutralised on sight.
There is ample documentation of this, but also my mum’s brother, (9th Div – Tobruk, Alamein, Balikpapan), told me that almost everyone in the Div, had relatives in the 8th Div, (including his brother), which did not lead to any compassion at all, to the Jap’s.
He told me of a patrol he was engaged in, that came across a dozen or so, emaciated Jap soldiers. This was not an unheard of, as the AIF cleared out the enemy in New Guinea. They were starving.
After the initial contact, when half were neutralised, the others surrendered. Whilst they were being searched, they came across a wallet from an AIF soldier, photos, money etc.
“I didn’t kill them”, he told me, “because I didn’t get to the Bren first”.
He rarely spoke of the war in the Pacific. I plied with him beers to loosen him up.
This story was from 1979 and even then, he was shaking with rage.
I neither condone or criticise such actions, because decades later, in the comfort of my lounge, it is not possible for me to fully empathise with him.
I am merely thankful, I was not subjected to such scenarios whilst I served.
Lest we forget.
30,830 Turks, 6,386 Afghans, 1,613 Pakistanis, 659 Iranians, 538 Syrians caught at Southern border since 2021
Once again, what could possibly go wrong? What could be more wonderful than diversity?
“Thousands of ‘special interest aliens’ from Middle East countries stopped at southern border since 2021: data,” by Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin, and Griff Jenkins, Fox News, October 10, 2023:
Thousands of “special interest aliens” from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News.
“Special interest aliens” are people from countries identified by the U.S. government as having conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat to the U.S.
That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria.
Agents also encountered 13,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 139 from Yemen, 123 from Iraq and 15,594 from Mauritania.
Monday night’s pro-Palestinian protest where masked thugs yelled “f–k the Jews” and burned an Israeli flag.
F the Jews is unsavoury.
I’m more concerned about the ones saying Gas the Jews.
Where was Mike from ASIO when that was being chanted?
Still needs to be done …. “pour encourager les autres’.
NONE WERE SPARED: Women, Children, Elderly, Peace Activists, Holocaust Survivor — Victims of Hamas Attacks Faced ‘Evil Not Created Even by the Devil’
Haha, this really didn’t age well…
Exactly two months. Ah what would we be without EU envoys?
Dunno about X deleting Hamas footage.
TikTok definitely.
Considering the quantum being uploaded to X, you have to be blind to not get exposure to the evil & barbarity.
In an age that considers itself more enlightened than any that has come before it.
Never mind useless Mike; there were two rows of NSW plod standing right in front of them.
It would have been extremely difficult for small numbers of soldiers operating in the New Guinea jungle to take prisoners.
There may have been elements of vengeance.
I had close relatives who fought there, one of whom later guarded POWs, including Japanese, in Victoria.
He make sure Japanese being repatriated were not subject to abuse on their way to Victorian ports.
Sunrise host Matt Shirvington confronts Anthony Albanese about huge problem for The Voice – before Albo blasts ‘arrogance’ of the No camp
. Research reveals referendum isn’t important for Aussies
. PM admits Voice won’t impact on non-Indigenous people
From The Comments
– He really has no clue!
– Albo creates division in this country and then throws his toys out of the pram when he realises that he’s on the losing side of the division.
– This guy calling someone else arrogant…. sigh…. Albosleazy will be a backbencher by Monday morning having ignored the cost of living crisis…
– The usual rant of the loser.
– Make sure you watch Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain Vote No video, which came out today. Hilarious, and timely.
– Never ever believe the drivel from Elmo….period.
– PMs were suppose to be neutral in referendums Albo has been the most divisive arrogant misinformed PM ever! Vote NO to this garbage!
– Vote no, in pen.
– Vote NO for a future where all Australians are treated as equals.
– Albo needs to resign after yes vote goes down. He has divided this country.
There is never enough Molesworth, TE, as any fule kno.
Today’s version would have him kissing Fotherington-Thomas on the lips in public and coming out as binary. Eeeuw!
BTW, when I typed ‘molesworth’ into Google, to check some references, the real one didn’t come up.
Google is evil. Oh, yeah.
Vote No – Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
– William Shakespeare
His mind trapped in a graveyard orbit, on today’s Sunrise show Albanese has lashed out at the NO campaign accusing it of arrogance – a slap in the face to all those who sought a tiny bit of detail.
Showing that he has learnt nothing in his long and ignorantly conducted campaign, he produced three monumental lies in quick succession:
Firstly, he said the Voice won’t impact on 97 per cent of Aussies.
Secondly, he said it was a modest change.
Thirdly, he said it’s a gracious request.
I honestly think Albanese is, at best, a bit thick.
Thanks, Dan! He hired tens of thousands of public sector employees to disguise the crumbling economy, and now his successors have inherited the Augean Stables.
Victoria – The Failed State.
Ah… gracious to the end.
The ratcheted right never gets it.
No, Breitbart – he is not a “biological man.” He is a man.
Cassiee
Is it time to team up with those Maronite Christians who supported Mark Latham in western Sydney, and attended Cdl Pell’s funeral?
Mailed my “NO” postal vote Wednesday. Got an email from AEC this morning confirming receipt.
Australia Post sometimes does deliver.
Muslims are now in total control of Britain:
FA branded ‘spineless’ for refusing to light up Wembley Stadium arch in Israel’s colours.
Australia soccer body agrees.
The English and Australian teams will compromise with black arm bands only for their ‘friendly’ tonight.
Black Ball
Oct 13, 2023 10:35 AM
Heart rending. Tear inducing. New York Post via JJ Sefton
Saw that. Just terrible. Also saw a man talking about how he and his family were hiding in their safe-room. Hamas terrorists were nearby and he could hear shooting and screams of his neighbours. He said he was actively considering killing his young daughters so they would not fall into the hands of the terrorists – better that they be killed by someone who loves them than be killed by Hamas or kidnapped to a life of endless horror in Gaza.
By the Grace of God, the family were not discovered and have survived – but I cannot imagine the sheer terror and desperation that would drive a father to even consider such a ‘solution’.
Unspeakable monstrous brutality by the Hamas terrorists is a stain on what passes for humanity in our so-called civilised world. No mercy – I hope Israel sends them all to Hell.
I note the Australian coach Graham Arnold was in the English press blaming a lack of government support for the game’s relative lack of popularity here.
Soccer must be suckled on the government’s teat, apparently.
I hope they get walloped.
I am appalled to find that our icebreaker isn’t solar powered.
Come to think of it, why do we need an icebreaker at all?
Isn’t the ice all gone?
I loved the digging up of the prayer room playgays
Yup, as I said above, the Left has been anti-Semitic and anti Zionist for a very long time, Deflecting blame to garage Nazis is bullshit.
He needs to buy a mirror for The Lodge as it obviously doesn’t have one.
No. It’s not pure evil.
They asked of a war and now they’ve got one.
.. and Bob Hawke
Blaming Israel for Hamas Attacks Sparks Backlash Across U.S., Exposing Deep Rifts- WSJ Paywalled
As debates span colleges, politics and workplaces, critics of the nation dodge reputational and professional damage
Across U.S. universities, workplaces and halls of power, a swift backlash is meeting those who denounce Israel in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attack on Saturday.
On social media and beyond, some groups and individuals sympathetic to the Palestinian cause effectively placed blame for the attack on Israel, alleging that the nation’s policies have left Palestinians little choice but to lash out with violence. Some of that commentary came over the weekend, as reports of atrocities committed by Hamas were beginning to emerge.
Many of those statements have since been met with fierce resistance from a variety of voices, including Jewish groups and university heads. Some corporate leaders have also entered the fray, with some threatening not to hire students who blamed Israel for the attack.
That pushback has prompted some progressive politicians and left-leaning student organizations to walk back statements blaming the Jewish state for the violence that began over the weekend or remove their names from petitions condemning Israel.
The tension has ensnared the likes of Harvard President Claudine Gay, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and college students who faulted Israel for creating the conditions that they said led to the attacks.
On Tuesday, the law firm Winston & Strawn rescinded a job offer to a summer associate studying at the New York University School of Law after the student wrote in a newsletter that “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.”
“These comments profoundly conflict with Winston & Strawn’s values as a firm,” the company wrote in a statement. “Accordingly, the Firm has rescinded the law student’s offer of employment.”
The fallout highlights the deep rift between progressive Democrats, who have a strong voice on many college campuses, and moderate Democrats and Republicans over Israel and especially the treatment of Palestinians. The U.S. has long backed Israel with military aid and diplomatic support, but in recent years, pockets of the left have grown increasingly critical of Israel, likening it in some instances to an apartheid state for failing to give Palestinians full rights. The rising rhetoric has accompanied an uptick in antisemitism reports on college campuses in recent years.
On Saturday morning, as the details of the attack were only starting to emerge, campus groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine said Israel was to blame because its policies in Gaza were too restrictive.
The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and more than 30 other student groups signed a statement last weekend saying that Israel’s “apartheid regime is the only one to blame” for the violence.
Around the same time, Harvard President Gay issued a memo saying she was “heartbroken by the death and destruction” caused by the surprise Hamas attack on Saturday and Israel’s retaliation against Gaza.
Shortly thereafter, former Harvard President Larry Summers criticized Gay for failing to condemn Hamas.
On Tuesday, at least 17 Harvard student organizations, including Harvard Hillel, 500 faculty and staff members and more than 3,000 alumni and students signed a statement calling the Palestine Solidarity Committee statement “completely wrong and deeply offensive.”
Gay on Tuesday amended her statements about the attacks amid growing pressure.
“As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” Gay wrote. “Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of long standing conflicts in the region.”
Several groups withdrew their support for the letter this week, including the school’s Islamic Society and Nepali Student Association. By Wednesday, all of the signatories of the letter were removed and a note attached at the bottom of the letter said they had been “concealed” for student safet
Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said universities stepped up their commentary on political issues during the pandemic and following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The engagement shifted expectations, said Morey, and has left schools “trapped…in a cycle of having to weigh in on everything and if they don’t, that failure to say something is saying something.”
Meanwhile, companies, which have a long history of scouring job candidates’ online personas for racist and other red-flag comments, have in recent days shown an unwillingness to put up with sentiment casting blame toward Israel.
Bill Ackman, a prominent hedge-fund manager, said Tuesday on social-media platform X that CEOs have been asking for the names of students involved with the organizations who signed the letter that circulated around Harvard to ensure “that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.” Other CEOs, including Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen, said online that he also wanted to know, so that he wouldn’t hire them.
Ackman, who has given roughly $50 million to Harvard over the years, said he has since heard from more executives, other significant Harvard donors and parents of Harvard students thanking him for speaking out.
“When you’re hiring someone, among the issues that are critically important are their character, their judgments and how they care about their fellow human beings. If they support terrorists, I don’t know what company would want them,” he said in an interview. Ackman, who has long been active on X, formerly known as Twitter, said his tweet was his most-liked ever.
The Anti-Defamation League Wednesday urged CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to sign its “Workplace Pledge to Fight Antisemitism,” promising to support Jewish employees and use workplace media platforms to condemn antisemitic acts.
In recent years, many young professionals and job seekers have become more highly attuned to employers’ engagement on social and political issues. Some, for instance, called for a broad corporate response to the murder of Floyd in 2020. In a Gallup survey last year, 59% of young professionals said businesses should take a public stance on current events. That share was lower among older generations, and as low as 41% for workers between the ages of 45 and 59.
Many companies have stayed out of the discussion of Israel and Hamas. Some, including Microsoft, opted to put out internal notes to employees instead of making public pronouncements like they did when Russia attacked Ukraine, according to one communication strategist who advises corporate clients.
Elected officials who in the past have voiced criticism of Israel have moved to guard themselves against association with activists who have called for the nation’s destruction.
On Sunday, some of the hundreds of participants at a rally promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America in New York City’s Times Square blamed Israel for the attack. The group posted on social media that the events “are a direct result of Israel’s apartheid regime—a regime that receives billions in funding from the United States.”
Ocasio-Cortez has been associated with the DSA. On Tuesday, two days after the rally and after she had been called out on social media, she distanced herself from the event.
“It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it,” she said.
Wendyball suffers from a slight amount of competition for hearts and minds: AFL, NRL and rugby. They are ahead of gridiron though.
Gridiron Australia (wiki)
I’m helpfully mentioning this so Graham understands there’s a possible worse fate. Although after the World Cup fiasco he’s probably better off than Raelene’s old gig is.
From Mark Steyn….
I am a Jew
Laura Rosen Cohen
I am a Jew.
I am a Jew, born of a Jewish mother, going back to our Matriarchs: Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah.
I am a Jew, born of a Jewish father, going back to our Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I am a Jew, married to a Jew of the priestly class, the holy Kohanim, going back to Aaron the first Priest, brother of Moses.
I am a Jew with Jewish children.
I am a Jew who was a slave in Egypt, who walked through the desert and received the Torah from G-d in the wilderness. I am a Jew who walked from slavery to freedom through the desert, guided by a pillar of fire, of G-d’s light, to the Promised Land, led by Moses himself.
I am a Jew who survived the pogroms of early Christianity, the merciless jihad of the early Muslims, the pogroms and blood libels of Europe, the Inquisition, the Holocaust and the demonic current incarnation of antisemitism found within the Islamic world and supported by progressive Nazis in the Western world and beyond.
I am a Jew whose family was murdered in Europe because they were Jews. I am a Jew whose family friends were slaughtered on a yacht in Cyprus, orphaning their children because they were Jews. I am a Jew whose brother in law was murdered by Muslim Jew-haters because he was a Jew.
I am a Jew who is witnessing in real time, the largest slaughter of Jewish people since the Holocaust. The Jews who have been slaughtered are my sisters, brothers, children, aunts, uncles and cousins. They are my mother and father. My grandparents. Precious limbs, each one upon the body of the Jewish people, fragile human branches on the Jewish Tree of Life. Gone, murdered in cold blood because they were Jews.
I am a Jew watching bloodthirsty, demonic ghouls – children of Amalek of all colours, religions and nationalities all over the world – cheer for the murder, and rape of Jews, the beheading of Jewish babies, the kidnapping of Jewish women, children and grandparents, the incineration of humans and the caging of frightened children. Yes they are in cages if they are even still alive, in the territory of the savage barbarians of Gaza. Because they are Jews.
The hostages, I cannot think of them without my heart aching and my breath quickening. It’s too much to bear.
I am a Jew who realizes that unlike the original, more initially subtle, Nazis of old, the new wicked, bone-chilling Muslim Nazi savages of Hamas and Gaza and their sympathizers and friends are openly flaunting their bloodlust for Jews, putting it up loudly and proudly on social media in allegedly civilized countries. Not just in faraway lands, but right in all of our front lawns, city centers and downtowns.
I am a Jew who sees you. I see you Jew-haters and your plans and feel the winds of your unquenchable murderous appetite in full view. You’re so proud and so confidently transparent that it makes my soul feel momentarily cold. I see you baying, more primitive than animals in full view of the world with no secret Wannsee conference for you neo-Nazis.
I won’t call you animals because not even animals behave in this manner. And all over the internet, I see you wretched souls daring to compare Jews to Nazis, taking a side by claiming to not take a side. In doing so, you side with terror. For you, it’s satisfying that the Jews got what you feel was coming to them in your poisoned soul. But guess what? What starts with the Jews never ends with us. What starts in Israel never ends there. It’s just the laboratory for terrorists. Read the writing on the wall. You are next.
I am a Jew who is watching you, friends and foes.
I see you. I hear you.
I am a Jew and we will survive. When the ashes of the evil souls who perpetrated these acts, and those who celebrated them, are scattered upon the Earth and their souls descend to hell, the Jews – the eternal Jew – will still be here for time immemorial.
Dearest readers, I can barely process it all.
Thank you for your many messages of concern and support, which I hope to answer personally in the coming days and weeks. The only things comforting me right now are small bits of wisdom gained from various Jewish sources and persons in the past days. I will share them with you.
One was a clip of a young Jewish girl who was diagnosed with cancer several hours before Shabbat when she was a teenager. She said she never asked G-d why, she understood that G-d had His reasons, and there must be a reason, so she just asked G-d to stay by her side during this journey.
Next, some thoughts from a Rabbi: though we may wonder “why”, this is not the right question to ask. It is not a Jewish question because everything is in G-d’s hands and therefore “why” is unanswerable. The Jewish response therefore must be “what?”. What can I do? What should I do? I invite you all, Jews and non-Jews alike, to share in the “what” that I personally am adhering to: adding more light into the darkness, more goodness, more charity, more moral clarity, more prayer, more mitzvahs, remove fear from your life, add courage, add bravery, add your voice where it’s needed. Take on an act of goodness and kindness that you haven’t until now.
And if you think you don’t have the words, as another Rabbi suggested, you do. Words of prayer and Psalms are the words.
Lastly, my personal and heartfelt thanks as always to Mark Steyn for the incredible essays and insights (here, here, here, here and here), and his unfailing moral clarity and fortitude.
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
I think Laura, like Ben Shapiro, has said it very well.
Barry Cohen always struck me as a good man – a gentleman in every respect.
He was saying that about Labor EIGHTEEN years ago.
China’s foreign minister said overnight that the Palestinian people have been denied justice.
How that justice will be supplied when for many Palestinians it entails the destruction of Israel, he didn’t say.
I’m not a huge fan of Ben Shapiro but his podcast essay (snippeted by Morgan last night) was a literary, moral and polemical masterpiece.
Across U.S. universities, workplaces and halls of power, a swift backlash is meeting those who denounce Israel in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attack on Saturday.
It is interesting that a couple of “friends” who yesterday argued that the atrocity photos involving the babies were probably concocted today attempted were super friendly this morning at the local cafe. Too late.
Barry Cohen was always having a big cry over how bigoted Aussies were.
He did very well out of Australia, but try to find an expression of gratitude to Australia for the opportuntities it provided him.
Steve Scalise Quits House Speaker Race
GOP nominee for top job ran into stubborn opposition from bloc of fellow Republicans
WASHINGTON—Rep. Steve Scalise withdrew from contention for House speaker late Thursday, after clinching the Republican Party’s nomination but failing to win over a stubborn bloc of critics who stood between him and the gavel, the latest dramatic turn in the party’s leadership fight.
The party has been trying to move quickly to fill the absence created by the ouster of Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) that was engineered by Republican rebels, but the intraparty divisions on display last week have only grown deeper.
Scalise, the House majority leader, narrowly won the party’s speaker nomination Wednesday over Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in a 113-99 tally, a margin that did little to convince many Jordan supporters to unify behind Scalise. He made the announcement at a GOP conference meeting Thursday evening.
“It wasn’t going to happen today, it wasn’t going to happen tomorrow,” an emotional Scalise told reporters. “It needs to happen soon.”
A speaker needs to win a majority of the full House, and Scalise had little wiggle room in the 221-212 chamber, as all Democrats are expected to back their pick, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.
That had left Scalise and his allies scrambling to build support to get him above the 217 threshold needed to win.
Scalise’s efforts to win over the holdouts had stalled Thursday, when a nearly three-hour meeting he called ended in an impasse and later efforts to sway his opponents came up short. Although the Louisiana Republican is well-liked within his party, some hard-line Republicans objected to promoting a figure they viewed as an extension of the status quo.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the next steps would be for a chamber that has been effectively frozen for more than a week. More Republicans had been openly discussing Thursday the possibility of giving Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.) more power to bring legislation to the House floor, a move that would likely require a vote by the full House.
House Republicans met Thursday in the basement of the Capitol to hash out their differences, but the closed-door meeting turned into a session for airing grievances—one lawmaker called it a “struggle session”—and left nothing resolved. Scalise, who is undergoing treatment for a blood cancer, used the gathering to try to assuage concerns about his health, lawmakers said, while also rejecting speculation that he would cut side deals to win the speakership.
While only about a half-dozen members spoke up against him, lawmakers said, Republicans left the meeting frustrated at the impasse and uncertain about the path ahead. Scalise continued conversations with groups of GOP lawmakers into the evening.
“We don’t see the light at the end of that tunnel,” said Rep. Steve Womack (R., Ark.). “That’s a mirage right now. There are very strong divisions and people willing to acknowledge they are not in Scalise’s camp, standing just a few feet from him.”
As an indicator of Scalise’s uphill climb, McCarthy on Thursday told reporters that while it was possible Scalise could get the votes, ahead of the conference vote “he had told a lot of people he was going to be at 150, and he wasn’t there.” In his own speaker fight, McCarthy had the support of 188 Republicans in the conference vote, before struggling to win on the House floor.
Congress faces pressing deadlines. A short-term spending law funding the government expires in mid-November, and little progress on spending negotiations can occur while the House is paralyzed with no speaker. The fighting in Israel and Gaza also added more urgency to restoring House operations, lawmakers said.
“If it’s not going to be Steve Scalise, then we need to figure out who it is,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R., N.Y.). “There’s too many bigger things happening in the world right now. There’s too many fronts here at home. We need to be serious about getting back to work.”
Republicans described a situation so rudderless that no one could come up with a strategy for breaking the impasse. Supporters of Scalise called for settling matters on the floor with a vote to force all members to take a public stance, but a bloc supporting Jordan promised to stop Scalise from winning. Scalise’s performance on subsequent ballots would be worse than on an initial round of voting, they said.
“He’s burned a lot of bridges,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R., S.C.), who said he would vote for Scalise on a first ballot but not necessarily on subsequent ones.
Fueling the flames was the successful defeat a day earlier of a proposed rules change that would have forced the matter to be settled inside the GOP conference, by voting over and over until a single member had 217 votes. Scalise instead won with a simple majority.
They believe it works the other way around, we’re the dummies that will fall into line due to the power of their assurances. In a great many cases it works too, it happens when you internalise that P. T. Barnum quote about never losing a buck by underestimating the intelligence of the general public.
I wonder if Albanese’s mantra of “governments do better when we listen” will be applied if the No vote triumphs tomorrow?
I suspect not.
And take note of those who take the opportunity to drive the wedge of division further into the body politic.
They’ll need to be publicly held accountable.
Social cohesion and all that, eh Mike?
Thank you for posting that Cassie. It is so hard to process the events of the past few days.
Hard to see the light at the moment.
My sister’s illness, the tragic deaths of the Smith children and their grandfather and then the horror unfolding in Israel.
Hopefully tomorrow night there is a little something to the positive.
Petition to fire Yale professor who called for SOLIDARITY with Hamas murderers who slaughtered Israelis hits 35,000
. A petition to remove a Yale professor who cheered Hamas’ invasion of Israel has received some 35,000 signatures
. Associate professor Zareena Grewal called Israel a ‘murderous, genocidal settler state’ and said it had been ‘an extraordinary day’ following the attacks
. The Ivy League university has defended Grewal’s right to freedom of speech
May God give you and your sister healing light, Rosie.
I want the trifecta:
1. No
2. NZ Labor wipe-out
3. Victory for the Law and Justice Party in Poland on Sunday
DAVID MARCUS: Vile Ivy league students and far-left politicians call conservatives Nazis – but don’t condemn Hamas, killers of Jews. How sickeningly low can they go?
If you thought the idiotic bile, the bizarre rationalizations, the inane whataboutism from the Left over the Hamas slaughter of Israelis had run its course – think again.
None other than Democratic Socialist hero Senator Bernie Sanders has joined the chat.
In a dizzying statement full of equivocation and gross omissions on Wednesday, Sanders demanded that Israel’s response to the terrorist massacre be reigned in.
He accuses the Jewish State of a ‘war crime’ and ‘serious violation of international law’ by cutting off its supply of food, water and power to Gaza. ‘Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished,’ he writes.
Of course, they don’t, Senator. And neither does Israel target civilians.
But what’s so strange about his statement is that he doesn’t say much about the Israelis indiscriminately killed.
There’s nothing of the credible reports of children beheaded by Hamas savages, women raped and burned to death, threats to execute hostages, including defenseless elderly, young festival-goers and the disabled.
There’s scant recognition of the undeniable mass slaughter of Jews.
It’s outrageous. Sanders accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’ but soft-pedals on Hamas?
What must be shouted – loud and clear by all – is these terrorists can never again be allowed to walk this Earth. But in Sanders’ nauseatingly cautious prose, he fails to even come close to saying that.
“I want the trifecta:
1. No
2. NZ Labor wipe-out
3. Victory for the Law and Justice Party in Poland on Sunday”
Me too.
C.L. at 11:51
I think that can be filed under “For the Avoidance of Doubt” now. Enoch was right (sort of).
That’s charitable.
He’s an ideologue with a dualistic worldview who, at best, isn’t interested in other opinions and, at worst, regards the holders of other opinions as enemies.
Lizzie, we also found the centre of Split amazing, obviously dominated by Diocletian’s Palace.
Reference Emperors getting away from Rome, Diocles, (later Diocletian), being a local lad to Split, (born just up the road at Salona), only went to Rome once.
Some murmurings reached him about not spending time in the Capital, so he went to Rome, told all and sundry to “buck up” their ideas, or they will all be handed oars in the galleys, (or worse), then left again, never to return.
He will be remembered for good, (splitting the Empire) and bad, (pogroms against Christians), but he was the first, (perhaps only), Emperor to retire from office.
Trogir, Northwest of Split, is worth a look. An ex Venetian trading post.
LOL
Yep. Right wing and far right are just meaningless slurs now.
Bernie – “Hold my kombucha”.
How about a petition to abolish those universities?
Warren Mundine BOOED by a crowd of angry Yes activists while casting his vote just hours after Albo slammed the ‘arrogance’ of the No campaign
. Warren Mundine booed and heckled as he voted on the Voice
. Yes activists targeted the leading No campaigner in Sydney
Leading No supporter Warren Mundine has been heckled and booed by Yes activists just hours after Anthony Albanese slammed the ‘arrogance’ of the No campaign.
Smiling Mr Mundine was targeted by a vocal mob of apparently all-white Yes supporters as the Indigenous politician voted in early pre-polling in Sydney.
But as he tried to talk to locals outside the polling station, he was drowned out by deafening boos and chants of Yes, Yes, Yes.
Other activists waved their Yes placards in his face while No campaigners tried to shake hands with the prominent opponent to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Mr Mundine, wearing a casual shirt and sunglasses, also tried to talk to one of the Yes campaigners but the conversation was overwhelmed by the jeers.
The ugly incident comes just hours after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had attacked the ‘arrogant’ misinformation being spread by the No Campaign.
She loves dogs too.
From the Oz
Powell’s mistake in that regard was to lump aspirational Christian West Indian migrants together with Muslims from the sub-continent who had no desire to assimilate.
Well said. A mid-wit who doesn’t bother reading because he has all the answers and reality must confirm to his worldview, instead of the other way round.
All cabinet ministers should have min 5 or 10 years working in private sector with tax records to prove it. Albo shows that when people can live off the public for decades it limits their view of the real world and makes them unsuitable for public office.
Anal’s signature project is essentially an attempted Marxist Putsch.
There is no coming back from this. Not this. All those who have openly and cheerfully supported Hamas’ slaughter of babies and rape of children in Israel have shown us exactly who they are and the black hatred that dwells alive in their hearts and minds. If the perpetrators of these type of horrific atrocities can be so aggressively supported then those supporters are our nemesis, enemies of our civilization and should be treated as such.
Avi Yemeni reporting that Telstra has blocked The Truth About the War website.
Complaints have been made. Cats who use Telstra might like to test whether Telstra has listened.
OO at 10:25.
Could it be that Noosa Noel might get a bit more “Truth Telling” than he bargained for?
The tell-tale sign will be when we hear “sources familiar with the operation of the scheme* have told the ABC that no laws have been broken, and a recent report by the schemes auditor** has declared that all payments were appropriately approved by the board***”.
…
* Noel’s brother.
** Noel’s cousin.
*** Noel, his wife and his udder cousin.
He’s not the best example of the professional politician. Hasn’t made much progress since The Great Man stuck him in a corridor in old Parliament House.
Outstanding work. The only good NAZI is a dead NAZI.
More on Wimp – Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General Mike Burgess
‘Words matter’: ASIO Director-General Mike Burgesswarns use of ‘inflamed language’ about Israel-Hamas conflict will lead to ‘inflamed community tensions’
The head of ASIO has called for people to consider “social cohesion” when speaking about the Israel-Hamas conflict, explaining that while there were likely to be “strong emotive claims” about the issue, there is a “direct connection” between “inflamed language and inflamed community tensions”.
From the Comments
– Perhaps it would be well within the ASIO’s director (Mike Burgers) to do his job and stop telling us what we should and should not say.
So far, the only ones who have broken the law were the protesters at the Sydney Opera House while the police stood by and did nothing.
– I’m glad ASIO is not interested in lawful protest. What a relief. But most Australians are concerned with protests which provide sympathy and support for a terrorist group which has just massacred civilians including children and babies.
The question must be asked does ASIO have any role in taking any action against “protesters” who call for the killing of Jewish people or who support Hamas ? No, I didn’t think so !
All too hard, I guess. There are softer targets around. Don’t want to embarrass the Government.
– Instead of mumbling just do your job!
– No mate…..actions matter….do your job….rid Australia of extremists……..one job mate
– Mr Burgess might want to go to the pro-palestine protest tonight that will go ahead regardless of consent. I’m sure they’ll agree with him.
This situation has unfortunately been coming for years and his attitude that we should practice restraint is the reason the world is in this situation.
Appeasement of extremists doesn’t work.
– If you are not up to the job of protecting Australians against chanting terrorists maybe resign or let Mossad, take over.
– Lots of words but nothing said. It is illegal to support a terrorist organization, simple as that. HAMAS is a terrorist organization. Do your job sir.
– The evil you walk past is the evil you condone.
– Don’t tell Australians to be quiet.. if Australians wish to discuss and criticise hamas… we WILL
Do your bloody job!
– A comfortable bureaucrat living a fee life and no doubt well paid. As is often the case he is just a puppet of the woke industry and has little common sense. The response from the Israelis is exactly what is required
– Look after the security of the country. Don’t try to tell us what language to use or how to behave, as long as we’re within the law.
– How can it be allegedly when we all saw what was said and done. Nothing allegedly about it. They were protesters, fact, they burnt flags, fact, they chanted anti semitic slogans, fact.
aka the Gillard standard. Alas in the case of Craig Thompson, even this was a lie.
Intellectually he seems stuck in an undergrad soft left worldview, without learning anything from the decades of change in the economy && reforms initiated by his own team.
I guess learning from the “right” faction must be considered verboten and beyond the pale.
I hope you’re right Makka. If so, it will be one of the very few good things to come out of this horrid, evil event.
Albanese hasn’t really been tested in a job since he was a teller at the Commonwealth Bank.
Unfortunate name for someone heading up a security agency. Sounds and acts like another guy.
I bet he didn’t balance either.
The NSW Police are considering using strict powers to head off any trouble at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney this weekend, and have asked the local public to “reconsider” going into the city on Sunday.
Acting Commissioner Dave Hudson said the force had rarely used powers, and wanted to prevent a repeat of violent scenes from Monday night, The Daily Telegraph reports.
“I urge people considering entering the city on Sunday to reconsider,” Acting Commissioner Hudson said.
“However, I can indicate that the powers we are considering authorising will include any person who attends Hyde Park on Sunday with the intention to assemble and perhaps protest will be subject to searching powers where we don’t need reasonable cause to search,” he said.
Words are cheap – actions count Commissioner Hudson
White man’s burden.
I’m so old I can remember when breakfast TeeVee was a safe space for teenage Trotskyist refugees from the ’80’s.
Woke MSNBC loses 33% of primetime audience during coverage of the Israel Hamas war as it insists on publishing a joint death toll – while Fox and CNN see double-digit increases on viewing figures
. The outlet’s viewer figures were between October 7 and 10, which saw the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas terrorists
. By comparison, the shocking events saw a leap in Fox News’s audience, up 42 percent, and in CNN’s coverage, which saw a 17 percent rise in viewers
. MSNBC has come under fire for its coverage of the atrocities in Israel, including for its insistence on publishing a joint Israel and Gaza death toll
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Trudeau’s Horrible Year: Divorce, Economic Crisis, Chinese Influence Inquiry, Rift With India, NaziGate Scandal, Sinking in the Polls
2023 will not be missed by Justin Trudeau. The embattled Canadian Prime Minister has had a ‘annus horribilis‘ (horrible year), a year filled with strife and struggle, both personally and politically.
His divorce from his longtime wife was worsened with an internet rumor that was having a gay affair with Emanuel Macron.
Politically, a potentially damning ‘foreign influence inquest’ can unearth Chinese ties very damaging for Trudeau and his party.
And, of course, in just a week, the PM has gone from accusing India of political assassination, to happily applauding a 98-year-old Nazi fighter in Parliament in the ‘NaziGate’ scandal.
The polls show his support is as low as it has ever been, but he is still seen as the Liberal Party’s best chance to secure a historic fourth term in the next election in two years.
While Trudeau has defied low polling numbers before, to win three elections, most opinion polls show him losing badly to his newest rival, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
CL, what are you hearing regard Sunday’s Polish elections. Sadly, my feedback is that young Poles are eager to betray their heritage for EU dollars and sacrifice the Church to homosexual ideology. I’ll be very surprised if PIS wins.
Yes, the white man has to edumacate these uppity natives who go ahead and vote the “wrong” way.
Labor’s truthy slogan for the next election – “Shut up! We know better than youse!”
They and Optus long ago blocked Blazing Cat Fur.
Which was when I signed up for a VPN.
Just checked – they still are.
Don’t you just love corporate fascism?
And his freedom to teach.
Repugnant ideas R Us mainstreamed.
As others smarter than I observe: free speech is a powerful disinfectant.
In US law support for criminals and their activities can cross over a line and be charged as a conspiracy to commit the crime. People like her might consider that.
calli
Oct 13, 2023 12:53 PM
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General Mike Burgess
Unfortunate name for someone heading up a security agency. Sounds and acts like another guy.
calli,
interesting association – Guy Burgess
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain’s foreign and diplomatic services.
What more does Mikey Bourgeois have to do to justify his immediate dismissal?
Politically motivated dickbrain who throws his vocal platform to the aid of the inhumane.
He must go. And soon.
I bet he didn’t balance either.
Hahaha
Ozzie, I was having a lark with his name – he seems rather unfocused on doing the job he’s paid to do.
At least the former one gave value for money to his other paymaster.
Rosie when darkness abounds it is only an illusion for in our hearts there must only be light lest we become darkness ourselves. There is only life. Hold onto it with two hands and never let go.
No.
They have rogered me without my consent.
Thankyou CL.
Putting it in His and doctor’s hands this afternoon.
Didn’t they issue tellers with guns in those days. If so it’s lucky he didn’t shoot himself in the arse.
And Mr G Ranga.
Of course, there is a big difference between what people SAY in public and their actual job. No doubt he will gather a LOT of video and still photography and mobile phone ping data to jail hate speakers under criminal law, and also launch prosecutions in the Human Rights kangaroo court.
Here’s a link to BCF since I gave him a plug…
Morris Dancers Drop ‘Men’ From Name To Be Trans Inclusive … But Still Exclude Women (12 Oct)
I would’ve though Morris Dancers were trans inclusive by definition. They swish.
(He got DDOSed yesterday so the luvvies still really don’t like him.)
I am having conniptions that YES will win tomorrow, the media is spruiking “Record low voter turnout threatens No victory”.
Horrific images of murdered babies show ‘depravity in worst way’ reveals Antony Blinken
A shocked Mr Blinken said the photos were “beyond what anyone would want to imagine” and also included beheaded soldiers.
Israel has released horrifying images to prove that evil Hamas terrorists murdered babies during their merciless attacks. Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, confirmed he had seen some of the shocking pictures, saying: “It’s simply depravity in the worst imaginable way.”
“If images are worth one thousand words, these images may be worth a million.
“Babies riddled with bullets, young people burned alive.”
A shocked Mr Blinken said the photos were “beyond what anyone would want to imagine” and also included beheaded soldiers.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office posted images on social media yesterday showing infants disfigured and burned in an attack on a kibbutz near the Gaza border.
He had moved to counter Palestinian claims that there was no evidence to support accounts of atrocities committed during Saturday’s attack.
Mr Netanyahu said: “Hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization.
“The massacring of young people in an outdoor music festival. The butchering of entire families. The murder of parents in front of their children and the murder of children in front of their parents.
“The burning of people alive. Beheading. The kidnapping of a young boy – not only kidnapped, molested, hurt, attacked.”
One of the released images showed a tiny child, not more than 12 months old, lying on a white body bag that was much too large. The infant’s flower-patterned babygrow was covered with blood.
Other photographs show the blackened bodies of two infants murdered during the attacks in southern Israel.
The Jerusalem Post also said it had verified photographs of babies beheaded by the terrorists in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, just a mile from the border with Gaza.
Members of a rescue team who visited the site reported seeing a pregnant woman lying dead on the floor of the first house they walked into. She had been shot in the head, her unborn baby stabbed with a knife, it was said.
Yossi Landau, an aid worker, said he entered one house where two parents had their hands tied behind their backs.
He added: “Lying by their side were two small children, with their hands also tied behind their back. They were all burned to death.
“I saw a dead mother holding her dead baby, both killed with a single bullet that went through them. I saw 20 children shot and burned and piled together.”
John, PiS is tracking to win in Poland – however, the interference from outside the country by the EU and the US is unprecedented. Also: a record 2 million ex-pats have registered to vote. (That might actually be a good thing). The EU and the far-left US State Department are heavily invested in Donald Tusk. His stated objectives are de-Christianisation, baby-killing, open borders, obedience to Brussels and US war policy. He is a truly revolting, traitorous disgrace.
Dover something is messing with my content, and my attempts to contact you are blocked.
Don’t believe them for a minute Cassie. That they are “spruiking” gives it away.
The media are liars. We know this. They tell half-truths and leave out important facts.
Do not fear their lies.
The BBC’s Hamas terror cowardice shames Britain – Telegraph UK Paywalled
Moral equivocators plague the West. Genocide against Jews doesn’t count for the virtue-signalling FA
ALLISON PEARSON
Afew snapshots from the ongoing Israeli horror. A Jewish friend in New York forwards me a video recorded by Hamas in a kibbutz.
Should I have opened it? Probably not, but there’s no unseeing it now.
A family, I think they must have been a family (it was hard to tell amid the carnage), either dead or dying on their living-room floor.
When what appeared to be the father groaned and flung out an arm, maybe to reach the child (I think that mash of flesh must once have been a child) who lay dead next to him, one of the devils that the BBC is still struggling to call a “terrorist” unleashed a volley of bullets to finish him off. The blood, my God, the blood. The word that came to mind was abattoir. Except I’ve never seen an abattoir for human beings.
Israel could share that footage with the world this very day, and other scenes of scarcely credible barbarism.
But she has been remarkably restrained, only today releasing a devastating photograph of a baby’s blood-stained body.
Hamas has no such compunction. The group invites the international media to gawp at harrowing events in Gaza, both real and staged.
The terrorists (yes, John Simpson, that is what you should call them, no ifs no buts) are past masters at slaughtering people and then, before the bodies are cold, playing the sympathy card to appropriate for the Palestinians the empathy and compassion that rightfully belong to the Israelis.
We are already seeing how effective that shameless ploy can be.
In the immediate days after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, did media coverage increasingly focus on the impact of sanctions on the Russian people?
Of course not. Don’t be ridiculous. It was clear who were the aggressors and who were the victims, just as it should be now.
But when it’s Israel’s turn, a Left-leaning British broadcast media – what the hell, let’s call them what they are: anti-Semitic – seems to get more exercised about electricity being cut off in Gaza than the slaughter of infants in the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
“The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied,” said Golda Meir.
With eerie timing, the recent film, Golda (featuring a central performance of immense steely stillness by Helen Mirren), shows the then Israeli prime minister, back in 1973, rallying her shellshocked nation for war after Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack.
Then, as now, Israel had no choice; she had to vanquish her enemies to stave off the prospect of annihilation.
Most Israelis I speak to are concerned about innocent Palestinians getting caught up in the fighting, but what is the alternative – appear weak and invite more attacks?
Yesterday, in Tel Aviv, my friend’s sister waved goodbye to her husband and son. Aged 50 and 17 respectively, there is no legal requirement for either middle-aged man or teenage boy to fight, but they volunteered anyway.
Very soon, before next weekend probably, the dad will be driving his tank across the border into who knows what darkness.
Why wouldn’t he?
If terrorists invaded the UK, hunted down hundreds of young people at Glastonbury, gangraped our girls, jeering and spitting on their half-naked bodies and displaying them as spoils of war, abducted grandmothers and terrified children, burned people alive, shot the family dog and turned their living-room into a pop-up abattoir, is there anyone who would seriously suggest that Britons should not rise up in sorrow and rage to take out the murdering bastards who did that to their country?
Unfortunately, there are plenty of moral equivocators here in the West who tell us to see the slaughter of, to take just one example, eight-year-old Emily Hand, in “context”.
Leftists with minds so ideologically pure they can never allow them to be polluted with anything as vulgar as common decency.
On the day of the massacres, Rivkah Brown, an editor at Novara Media with all the fashionable, off-the-peg opinions of her Corbyn tribe, tweeted: “Today should be a day of celebration for supporters of democracy and human rights worldwide, as Gazans break out of their open-air prison and Hamas fighters cross into their colonisers’ territory.
The struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldn’t apologise for it.” How is that callous creature allowed to go on being a journalist?
The veteran foreign reporter John Simpson also managed a tin-eared approach to the tragedy, defending the BBC guidelines which say the word “terrorist” must not be used in relation to Hamas.
“Calling someone a terrorist means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality,” he opined loftily.
The English language cries out at such amoral hair-splitting.
What is an organisation dedicated to spreading terror if not a terrorist organisation?
Here’s another clue for you, John: Hamas’s Charter calls for the elimination of the Jews.
Pretty clear, I think. Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis was right to say the reluctance of the broadcast media to brand Hamas terrorists was a sign that “we are losing our moral compass”.
And what signal does the national broadcaster treating Israel and Hamas just the same send to British Jews who need all the support and solidarity they can get?
Honestly, I am ashamed of my country’s response.
While France was swiftly deporting at least two non-nationals for anti-Semitic acts, it was revealed that the Football Association will not light the Wembley arch in the colours of the Israeli flag because of “fears of a backlash from some communities” and because certain senior officials are wary of “the perception they might be taking sides in the conflict”.
Wembley was illuminated in the colours of France, Turkey and Ukraine after attacks, and even rainbow colours to protest LGBTQ issues in Qatar.
But Jews don’t matter apparently.
England players lose no opportunity to take the knee in a performative display to “kick out racism”, but given the opportunity to oppose genocide they fret about causing bad feeling in racist communities.
Cowardly, shameful and pathetic. Today, we hear that two Jewish schools will be closed in north London to protect “the safety of our precious children”.
That is completely the wrong response. Call in the army to protect kids if necessary, but whatever you do, do not capitulate to Islamic extremism.
Defend British values, damn it.
Israelis don’t have the luxury of cowardice. Courage is the air that they breathe because, unlike the Europeans engaging in minor skirmishes about gender identity and “hate speech”, they have a war to fight against “hate action”. It really is a matter of life and death.
That bestows a blazing clarity.
As one government minister in Jerusalem snapped at some bleeding-heart reporter from Channel 4 News, “We don’t need moral lessons from you.”
You know, I’ve had great difficulty forgetting that Hamas video of the massacre at the kibbutz.
No compartment in the brain appears willing to store such harrowing images so the murdered family stays there, on the periphery of my vision, flashing up occasionally when I’m making tea or just doing normal things. How they must have suffered.
A human abattoir created by evil terrorists.
Not militants. Terrorists. The souls of the dead cry out and the living must answer.
Pick a side, pick a side.
Half a million.
Viagra is turning the UK into a nation of dirty old men – it should be banned
There are not many upsides to growing older, but surely the freedom from 80-something sex addicts on pills is one of them
PETRONELLA WYATT
Of all the pills in all the world, Viagra is proving to be one of the most pernicious. It may have started as a benign miracle cure for the less enterprising in amours, but, according to new statistics, it is making Britain a country for dirty old men.
A record number of males over the age of 70 are popping the little blue pills, as often as they take their statins and felodipine.
Last year, the over-70s received a record 282,000 prescriptions, including 7,000 for nonagenarians, the eldest patient being 99.
There used to be a saying: “Better an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.” Or, to spell it out, better for single, grown-up women to be romanced by quiescent septuagenarians with open wallets and open-heart surgery, rather than younger bon soldats with a ravenous appetite to merge.
In this wide, wicked universe, there is nothing quite as comforting as a relationship with a man who can answer for your future, even if he can’t answer for his own.
The French call it “amitie amoureuse”, and it was love without the pressure of unwarranted expectations in the boudoir.
In fact, it was a blessed relief. But Western civilisation is a self-limiting disease. There are thumping parodoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack.
According to Frank Furedi of Kent University, “Contemporary culture sends out the signal that sex is for life. A lot of elderly men feel they must have a full-on sex life by any means necessary. They are fast becoming Generation Viagra.”
But sex isn’t for life.
Its actual purpose is to create life, something we have lost sight of in our fiery revolt against the traditions of our ancestors and our headlong rush into the ravine of transience and self-destruction.
There is, in any case, a form of human striving understood far better by the inhabitants of a modern democracy, and that is the striving for gratification without responsibility, and a belief in the divinity of the human body.
In the West, there is a misconception, fostered by magazines, social media and the new body acceptance, that insists on an equality of desirability and the right to act on it.
But the human body, except for a short time in youth, is not a beautiful thing. It is a hideous thing.
Women understand this better than men.
Our own bodies give us no pleasure. It is our constant effort to disguise, alter or conceal them. We never expose them aesthetically, but only as an act of provocation.
The human body, compared to a vase, is very defective in form. It has clumsily distributed masses which become even clumsier with age.
Most men, however, are aesthetically deaf, dumb and blind, a disability reinforced by their vanity.
Their natural instinct is to investigate every stranger of the opposite sex with a view to deciding whether to behave towards them in an amorous manner.
This instinct is inhibited when they are travelling on the Tube at rush hour, but Generation Viagra is becoming a menace behind closed doors.
Look what it did to Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017, at 91.The ultimate playboy was unable to play any more, without resorting to drugs.
According to his widow, Crystal, who was interviewed two months ago, he took so much Viagra it made him deaf in one ear, and their relationship a misery.
Poor former playmate Crystal. She married a decrepit millionaire in the reasonable expectation of pipe, slippers and blank cheques, and ended up with a hard-of-hearing sex addict. It shouldn’t happen to nice girls.
I cannot help but think that Rishi Sunak missed a trick here.
Restrictions on the sale of Viagra, as opposed to on the sale of cigarettes, would have held surprising allure for countless women up and down the country.
If those born in 2009 won’t be allowed to smoke in 14 years, then men born before 1950 should be prohibited Viagra, if only for their own good.
WTF?
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Yet, I bet I can listen to a Hamas spokescretin if they wear a suit and tie. The Federal Government will give them 30 mn+ AUD as well.
I would’ve though Morris Dancers were trans inclusive by definition. They swish.
Hahaha – nice one Centurion.
It may well be that voter turnout may be lower this time because people want to vote on the day, in person and with pens. Trust in our institutions is at an all time low.
I would not see it as comfort to the Yes campaign at all.
Love the Cartoon – WSJ – Disney Goes All In on Sports Betting
After years of internal debate, the entertainment giant did a deal with a gambling company and will launch an ESPN betting app next month. Can it draw a bigger sports crowd without alienating Mickey’s fans?
Men are fertile until the day they die (in part because we die younger).
Petronella has penis envy. She should get a pill for that.
Avi Yemeni reporting that Telstra has blocked The Truth About the War website.
Complaints have been made. Cats who use Telstra might like to test whether Telstra has listened.
Still alive on my browser (BRAVE) ……… latest vid from Sderot (yesterday)
Questions raised as to whether Luigi is really above median level smart.
This from OO’s post of Joe Aston’ s last AFR article at 1:21 this morning seems quite apt:-
He was talking about the Top Men in business, but it seems to summarise the Rise and Rise of Luigi perfectly.
As an adultery magnet who aborted Boris Johnson’s child, Petronella Wyatt should probably keep her mouth shut about sex, morality and aesthetics.
The Queering of America
For most Americans, labels such as “gay,” “non-binary,” and even “members of the LGBTQ+ community” are generally used interchangeably to describe those preferring same sex partners. This imprecision suffices for ordinary conversation, but it fails to capture a key political distinction among today’s homosexuals, namely those embracing the label “queer.”
The label “queer” may appear new, but it is decades old.
Queers thus differ from homosexuals who embrace the traditional gay political agenda of same sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. Queerness aims to undermine the very ideas of normal sexual identity, create a world of “anything goes” where one form of sex is no better or worse than any other. This might include currently illegal sexual practices such as incest, bestiality, and p@dophilia. Queerness is thus revolutionary and subversive.
This subversive intent is apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden. At one New York City Gay Pride parade, a flamboyant drag queen openly chanted, “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” An estimated two million onlookers watched that Pride parade. Proselytizing can be outrageous as in another Gay Pride parade where stark naked tattooed men marched down the street waving to children and their families. Elsewhere a man was dressed as a giant penis, and he too, waved to the crowd. Interestingly, the parade was sponsored by Bud Light beer. A similar parade of naked gay men with children watching recently occurred in Seattle while in Los Angeles elementary school students as young as five were required to participate in a weeklong celebration of “National Coming Out Day.”
The most notable example of exposing youngsters to “Queer” is the fact that drag shows have now become ubiquitous in America’s public schools. One NYC organization—Drag Story Hour NYC—has recently given its raucous drag queen show 49 times in 34 public schools to kids as young as three thanks to $200,000 in city funds. Columbia, Missouri’s Values Diversity breakfast was held to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and featured a drag show where adults tossed dollar bills at lip-syncing dancers. No parent was informed about sexual content.
Permission slips just mentioned “traditionally there are songs, performances, and a food item.”
Queerness is a movement whose purpose is psychological affirmation of its adherents, not securing a tangible benefit, and, as such, is without limits.
Unlike most traditional gay political demands, for example, legalizing same-sex marriages, the Queer movement will not settle for half a loaf. They want to transform society in their image, not just a new law or two.
The crusade is not about men harmlessly dancing around pretending to be sexy floozies.
Don’t believe them for a minute Cassie. That they are “spruiking” gives it away.
Yes. Desperate dying death throes from Sleazy & Co.
My postal vote is in and that’s what matters. Negates the one Sleazy dropped in the box.
A “NO” win is as good as a Collingwood premiership. Well, nearly.
Personally, I don’t consider it to be a fundamental human right to watch other people being killed on Twitter.
“Rosie when darkness abounds it is only an illusion for in our hearts there must only be light lest we become darkness ourselves. “
And never forget – darkness is merely the lack of light. Once you understand this, the darkness can never win as long as you remain steadfast in shining your light upon it.
Modern-day Robin Hood foiling the ULEZ camera system is a must-see
The dinosaurs roaming the streets of London are legends of civil disobedience and common sense, and true champions of the people:
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear inflatable dinosaur costumes to block ULEZ cameras from identifying and fining non-compliant drivers.
If you haven’t heard, the ULEZ system is an “eye-in-the-sky” surveillance network that identifies, tracks, and fines drivers of vehicles that aren’t compliant with current emissions standards—unless these are Ministry of Defense vehicles, or other vehicles used by government elites, which are exempt from the rules because their occupants are important and sacrifices are for the little people.
Paul Sullivan, the dinosaur in orange, said he came across the idea on social media, and was happy to get involved, given the public’s overwhelmingly negative response to the ULEZ system.
Neither do I, C.L.
Until people who should know better start lying about it for their own gain. Then, sadly, the truth should be displayed for all (who wish to do so) to see.
We still have dim bulbs arguing that somehow dead non-beheaded babies are somehow more righteous for the perpetrators.
Such is the moral vacuum of our times.
Australian Jewish Association President on the Albanese Labor Government’s disgraceful support for terrorists
Friday, 13 October 2023
From the Comments
– What is the phrase? Come the Moment, Come the Man.
Well this is one of those moments.
And where is An Al? Off at Ayres Rock because Ayres Rock is where the remaining undecided Voice voters are hanging out and talking to people about kindie grade artwork.
(also, correct me if I am wrong, but has anyone in Government made comment on the significant amount of Aboriginal flags seen at the recent protests?)
Leadership isn’t always about having answers. That helps but a lot of the time being a leader is just standing up and telling the nervous that YOU have a plan to fix the problem even when you don’t.
Really haven’t seen Mr Council Flat showing any sign of that and have little faith that is going to change.
I’ve not seen or heard or single utterance from the imbecile indicating that he even knows what is job his, much less how to actually do it.
Here’s a hint, you staggeringly incompetent knobhead – there are no “garage nayzees” lurking in the suburbs (sorry to break this to you), but there are actual nayzees out in the streets screaming things such as “gas the Jews” and threatening to kill Jewish people. Shocking, I know, you monumental dunderheaded pudgy pawed f*ckwit.
P.S. Do not presume to tell me how to think, ever again, you pathetic parody of a human being.
Reward bias usually described as a preference for outcomes that result in short-term success, however that’s measured, versus long term.
Perhaps there is another term to describe preference for outcomes that are based on decades-old delusional worldviews which have not been updated for new facts and/or ideas.
Lazy Old Trot?
A few early morning presents being delivered to Gaza, live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L67KCD3inM0
A parable illustrates Israel’s plight and her strength
A hungry Wolf spied a Rooster in the forest. As he slowly crept toward his prey, the Rooster said, “I hear you, Mr. Wolf.”
The Wolf replied, “Then come over here, and I will have you for dinner.”
“Leave me in peace,” said the Rooster, “I have no problem with you.”
With that, the Wolf lunged at the Rooster, eager for his meal.
The Rooster jumped into the air and pecked the Wolf neatly in the face. “Again, I say, leave me in peace.”
“Now you’ve made me angry,” shouted the Wolf. “I’m going to tear off your wings and eat you at my leisure.” He lunged again.
The Rooster simply stepped sideways, and the Wolf ran into a tree. “Perhaps you should have a snake or a frog for your dinner today,” said the Rooster.
Clearing his head, the Wolf ran for the Rooster again. The Rooster stepped to his right and scratched the Wolf’s side with his claws. A ferocious brawl ensued. When the dust settled, the Wolf lay gasping on his back, his stomach laid open by the Rooster’s sharp talons.
As he lay dying, the Wolf cried, “You have killed me, how could a rooster defeat a wolf?”
The Rooster replied, “I have been hunted my entire life. When I was just an egg, snakes and birds wanted to eat me. As a chick, skunks and crows watched me from a distance. As a young rooster, foxes chased me. I learned to defend myself and my family.”
The Rooster continued. “You, Mr. Wolf, were fighting for your supper. I was fighting for my life.”
Some will ask, “What about the children of the terrorists who have been raised from birth to hate all Jews?”
This is where the videos come in, the ones showing armed terrorists raping and killing those attending a peace rally and others beheading babies.
How is the son or daughter of a Hamas terrorist going to feel when seeing a video showing his or her father beheading an innocent baby? We can only hope that these children can see the light and walk toward peace.
One common thread among all terrorists is that they are cowards. They are quite brave when beating and killing defenseless women and children, but they run screaming when confronted by a real military.
Even if they get a national majority, WLD, SA and WA are a lock for no.
When I found that out I stopped worrying. I think it took the steam out of Yes because since about then the polls have been dismal. 65% NO and only YES in Tasmania is backed by a lot of polling data. 85% turnout to scratch a very marginal YES over the line? Not very likely.
The Republic referendum had a turnout of 95.1% and only 0.86 invalid/informal votes.
Many of the “undecideds” have already voted.
Police descend on Sydney Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst and close off the entire street
QLD…not WLD!
Lindsey Graham Calls On The United States To Bomb Every Country In The World
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As tensions escalate in the Middle East following the deadly terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham sought to resolve the conflict and restore peace to the region by calling for the United States to begin bombing every country in the world.
“It’s the only solution,” Graham said to reporters while advocating for even more hostilities. “If we want to restore peace throughout the world, the only realistic answer is to lay waste to every single nation around the globe.”
“What about nations that have no involvement in the conflict?” asked reporter Michael Fuller.
“They’re all involved,” Graham answered. “Bomb ‘em all. Gone. All of ‘em. Bombs, bombs, bombs. Burn it all down, baby!”
“What about Paris?” Fuller asked.
“Have you seen the demographics of their population?” Graham responded. “Bomb ‘em.”
“Montreal?” Fuller pressed.
“Make it a parking lot,” Graham said resolutely.
“Tokyo?” Fuller asked, finally.
“Glass the place,” Graham answered.
When asked what he expected to be the result of so much widespread bombing, Graham was indifferent. “They’ll all know who’s boss,” he said. “Nothing will stabilize the entire world and ensure the safety of the American people like making every single country in the world hate the United States. On top of all that, some of us will also make massive amounts of money, so I’m very much in favor of this idea.”
At publishing time, Graham had reportedly already made a series of phone calls to the Pentagon to inquire about how many “gigantic nukes” the U.S. currently has on hand.
So, you’re don’t live in WA then? ‘Cause you ain’t getting a licence for that based on its looks alone.
Every tragedy and it’s all about him.
Not Again: Biden Compares Losing His Son to Israelis Who Had Family Slaughtered by Terrorists
Incidentally, his son died of cancer.