Classics!

Paul Hertzog – Steal the night (HQ Audio)

Tim Mathison after his court decision wants his privacy back so is changing his name to Mustafa.

Mustafa Nipple.
😉

the al bakri family had seven toddlers of around the same age? I’m a little sceptical.

Gaza buffer zone likely outcome

The lack of follow up from the alleged death toll in the hospital carpark is odd.
I suppose people might having been in their cars at 7 pm but it seems more likely they were inside buildings.

Who sends their toddlers to stay with an hamas leader when Israel is after that leader?
Oh wait.

I don’t watch much tele, can someone explain who the two sheilas are in Leak’s cartoon. Ann Aly and Bridget McKenzie?

Catturd ™
@catturd2

Nobody in the world is safe under Joe Biden.

Thanks Cassie. I was completely wrong!

Thanks also HZ.

Precisely.

Where There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes

Hamas terrorists used weapons from NORTH KOREA in their horrific attack on Israel – including assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers that were first sold by Kim Jong Un to Iran

Man searching carrot field finds ancient gold and bronze jewelry — and multiple teeth

Citibank FIRES glamorous banker Nozima Husainova after she posted vile anti-Semitic post about Jewish people following Hamas terror attacks: ‘No wonder Hitler wanted rid of them’

I meant Bridget Archer not McKenzie as well. My synapses don’t seem to be firing this morning.

There are no “innocents” in so many of these places – apart from children too young to be indoctrinated.

Now you’ve upset both Luigi & the chap .. they know those 16 Oz “rorters” living in Gaza are innocents .. I meanz imagine Oz citizens supporting terrorism ……..!

It’s amazing how people can dismiss this stuff so they can remain warm and cozy in their bubble.

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My Lunch Break:

Today, we dive into an insane narrative that has master slave builders. Then we take a trip and get our boots on the ground in Oshkosh Wisconsin where they have the Tartarian symbol right on the front of their building!

Welcome to Tartaria, Wisconsin?

Queensland Tweetie goneski.

Not sure about that.

Pileoshit like Sleazy tells different audiences what they want to hear.

Publicly she says it’s dead, yet Nein Brisbane were reporting that Pileoshit addressed a parliamentary labour meeting called at short notice, and said basically nothing has changed. I suppose she is still deluded in thinking she can win the next election.

Pileoshit addressed a parliamentary labour meeting called at short notice, and said basically nothing has changed.

Well she would say that, wouldn’t she?

Caucus is dominated by the Left.

I’d say her leadership has never been more tenuous.

Pro-Palestinian group halts access to Pine Gap
Liam Mendes
Liam Mendes

Pro-Palestinian protestors have blocked access to the US surveillance base at Pine Gap in Alice Springs, with one protestor locking himself to a barrel splattered with red paint on the middle of the road.

Workers at the military base have been prevented from entering from around 5am, with metal cables previously covering the road.

At 7:20am the fire brigade arrived and have begun the process of removing the barrel from the road.

Here’s air tickets to Palestine – One way.

Swimming Australia are at risk of being booted from World Aquatics, the governing body. Crash Craddock on a most alarming turn of events. A familiar name pops up:

Mega-sponsor Gina Rinehart has walked away from Swimming Australia as the crisis-torn body faces the threat of expulsion from its sport.

Rinehart has injected more than $60 million into Olympic and Paralympic sports and still sponsors 92 elite swimmers – but her relationship with Swimming Australia (SA) was broken two years ago.

Remarkably Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, and the swimmers are becoming closer as the national swim team surges to world beating heights while SA is in disarray.

This is partially the reason why the sport in Australia is leading a bizarre double life, mixing record medal hauls with mayhem.

With 13 gold medals at the recent World Championships in Fukuoka, Australia is now the world’s No.1 swimming nation with Rinehart’s backing allowing athletes to train as fulltime professionals.

But behind the scenes there has been incredible, unprecedented turmoil.

Former chief executive Eugenie Buckley resigned in April this year after a power battle with the disenchanted state member organisations.

The sport’s global parent body, World Aquatics, has threatened to expel Australia unless it improves its governance and there will be a major vote on a proposed new constitution at a watershed meeting on Friday.

SA’s sponsorship has dropped from around $10 million to just over $3 million a year after Rinehart withdrew her backing two years ago.

This masthead can reveal that the breakdown between Rinehart and SA can be traced back to a chance conversation Rinehart had with the parent of an Olympic swimmer in July, 2021.

THE NOOSA SHOCK

When the Australian team headed to Tokyo for the delayed 2020 Olympics, Rinehart partly sponsored the parents on a trip to Noosa where they could meet twice daily in a conference room to watch their sons and daughters swim for gold.

She joined them in the room but kept a low key presence away from the Channel 7 cameras which were beaming live responses around Australia.

Amid the raucous celebrations of Australia’s stellar Olympics a simple conversation between Rinehart and the parent of a swimmer took Rinehart aback and jolted her confidence in SA.

The parent said the swimmer had not received the funding he was due out of a multimillion-dollar sponsorship by Rinehart to SA which was to be paid to the swimmers.

SA, in a response to this claim, said: “SA was made aware that a swimmer had not put in his invoice and therefore had not been paid in late July, 2021. Upon receiving this information – the swimmer, who SA was told did not know how to download the invoice form – was paid in August, 2021.’’

SA forwarded to this masthead a list of total payments given the athletes via the sponsorship in that period.

But Mrs Rinehart then found out it wasn’t one but six Olympians who hadn’t timely received their funding despite Mrs Rinehart providing the funding to SA.

Mrs Rinehart also learnt from another parent, that funding was at multiple times delayed which made it difficult for them despite the fact that the Rinehart funding was never late to SA.

There was no mention at that time, that one or any of the parents had difficulty filling out any forms SA required.

Alarm bells rang and the starting gun in the quest for accountability had unofficially been fired.

That triggered …

THE CLOSED BOOKS

Unsettled by this Rinehart asked to see not only the minimum audited accounts of the swimmer payment program, but a further detailed reconciliation of individual payments to athletes each year.

This is where the gulf between some SA officials and Rinehart widened considerably because she was not given access to the records she sought and considered their response “rude.’’

Partially as a consequence of this and not wanting the swimmers to be deprived of payments or suffer, Mrs Rinehart decided to change the way she paid them, instead channelling the funds to close to 100 Olympic and Paralympic swimmers Australia wide through Swimming Queensland (SQ).

Mrs Rinehart changed to SQ with whom she had a longer relationship, to handle the swimmers funding – and the feedback is that this is working very well.

“I still can’t believe Swimming Australia lost the greatest benefactor I’ve seen since Santa Claus,’’ said Swimming Queensland chief executive Kevin Hasemann.

“Mrs Rinehart’s generosity towards our sport is astonishing. She’s been sponsoring swimming for the past 35 years, tipping in over $40m since 2012 through the Hancock Prospecting Swimmer Support Scheme, the lifeblood of performance swimming in Australia. A further $40m has been committed to the scheme leading up to the 2032 Home Olympics.

“Australia’s Tokyo triumph and ascension to world number one at the recent World Championships simply couldn’t have happened without Mrs Rinehart. And, but for her, the prospect of Australian swimmers replicating their amazing Tokyo record in Brisbane in 2032 would be torpedoed, and Australia’s prospects of a high medal tally would be a pipe dream.

“As the current administrators of the HPSSS, Swimming Queensland is enjoying a smooth, professional relationship with Mrs Rinehart and her team”

Even before the Noosa eye opening there had been concerns from Rinehart over other aspects of the swimming ecosystem.

THE DINNERS THAT NEVER HAPPENED

Rinehart’s own swimming gala awards night – The Patron’s Awards – at her home in Brisbane next month is partly a consequence of a funding fallout over two gala awards nights which never happened.

It is understood she parted with around $400,000 for two gala awards ceremonies in 2020 and 2021 which were cancelled by SA, and, only after repeated requests, was later given a portion of these funds back.

Such gala award dinners were an important annual event, with coaches, swimmers, parents, families, partners, volunteers and special guests all invited to attend.

After SA cancelled the 2020 Patron’s Awards dinner, Mrs Rinehart funded a smaller dinner for the swimmers only as nominated by the then highly-regarded CEO Alex Baumann.

The funding for this was provided by Mrs Rinehart personally and additionally to the $400,000 that had been provided to Swimming Australia for the two cancelled years of the gala award dinners.

However, the much smaller dinner arranged to assist with the disappointment of the nominated swimmers, could not fairly be described as a replacement for either of the two annual gala events that SA had cancelled.

SA responded to the dinner debate by declaring: “The 2020 Awards that were cancelled due to COVID operated under a separate contracting arrangement whereby they were a sponsor benefit as one element of a suite of benefits exchanged for a sponsorship agreement.

“In regard to 2021 Annual Awards, also cancelled due to COVID, Mrs Rinehart received a refund payment of $248,325 on 20th December of 2021.”

But the damage was done, Rinehart took measures to ensure her money was accountable.

THE SILENT BOARD MEMBER

Concerned by the mysterious delegation of her finances, Rinehart asked whether her company Hancock Prospecting could have a member on the SA board.

They met her partway – granting in part a set of eyes but no voice – but it did not heal the wounds.

Mrs Rinehart told this masthead: “A voiceless observer, hardly an interference with the board. Especially when we learnt that on most matters our observer was asked to leave the room, on grounds of “conflict”.

“I suspect if a swimmer was given permission to be a director, or a pod parent, that they may meet the same fate … excluded from much of the actual board meetings.’’

However where Rinehart became unpopular was when asking for accountability to expenses.

Mrs Rinehart said: “I don’t think it is an unusual or unfair expectation for any sponsor of sports to be sure its funds are going to the athletes and if applicable for agreed purposes. We don’t have such problems with any of the other Olympic sports we sponsor.’’

DIVES AND TURNS

Despite Rinehart’s concern over the spending of her sponsorship dollars, she denies any suggestion she had an overbearing personal influence on the running of the sport.

She was observed at the recent world championships in Japan, and earlier seeing the team off from Cairns prior to the Tokyo Olympics, and over the years enthusiastically supporting pool side.

SA said it parted ways with Rinehart because “during the re-negotiation process it was clear a number of Hancock Prospecting’s terms, including the mandating of Board and Executive positions, were not capable of acceptance.’’

Friends of Australian Sports Commission chief executive Kieren Perkins last month anonymously accused Rinehart of trying to “coach the team and run the board’’ in a story in Nine newspapers, but she denies this.

“I think the swimmers would all know, that it is not really correct,’’ she said, claiming there were only two or perhaps three occasions when she made suggestions to program schedules or training aides.

“The first was to follow the lead of the USA – then the best team in the world – learn what could from them and hold Olympic trials closer to the Games rather than almost four months out, thinking “a lot could happen in that time’’ between the trials and the Games.

“I didn’t know this at the time, but apparently some coaches had also pushed for holding the trials closer to the Olympics, so, I may not have been the first to suggest to the then president and the then head coach”.

After a modest or disappointing Rio Olympics in 2016, Australia changed this system for the Tokyo Olympics and immediately tapped into a telling vein of golden form.

Another Rinehart suggestion was to learn from the SAS preparation and training, and this was followed through successfully with then president John Bertrand.

Her other suggestion came after the World Championships in Budapest.

“It was clear for me to see that our swimmers were fast and should have been enjoying more medals, but it was their diving (and turning) that was letting them down.” she said.

“I suggested to (Swimming Australia) our swimmers should benefit from the Clogs Motion Analysis system that the USA swimmers enjoyed, to film their dives and turns, and help them improve.

“I then additionally bought several Clogs Motion Analysis systems and it seems this poolside equipment has helped, including for up and coming swimmers I’ve been told.’’

While small, precious cogs are being carefully put in place to help their swimmers dominate the world, mayhem swirls around the sport.

Serenity, progress and gold medals in the pool have been matched by boardroom chaos which may see the end of the Swimming Australia board.

This is crazy. Holy Shit!

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AXALP 2023 – AN AIRSHOW ON STEROIDS – 4K

Black Ball

Oct 20, 2023 9:31 AM

Johannes Leak is indeed in a very rich vein of form. Because there is a great deal to work with. Albo daily, maybe twice says something stupid. 

The Voice Treaty Truth crop-top was a magnificent cartooning device.
Brilliant.
It beautifully captured Luigi discarding jetsam over the side of SS Voice as it wallowed in heavy seas.

IDF poised to target Hamas leaders
clive williams clive williams

12:00AM October 20, 2023
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One of the primary objectives of the Israeli Defence Forces’ Operation Swords of Iron will be to hunt down and kill the Hamas leadership considered responsible for Operation Al Aqsa Flood – the recent deadly Hamas attacks on Israel.

The main Hamas leadership targets are: Mohammed Deif, head of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas; Marwan Issa, deputy head of the Brigades; Yehya Sinwar, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip; Ismail Hania, head of political affairs, and; Salah Al-Aruri, deputy head of political affairs. Deif and Sinwar apparently took the decision to plan and execute Operation Al Aqsa Flood.

In the past, Australia had only deemed the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades to be a terrorist organisation but now considers the whole of Hamas to be a terrorist organisation – on the basis that Hamas’s political leadership endorses the Brigades’ acts of terrorism against Israel. But Hamas enjoys considerable popular political support among Palestinians. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining a majority in the Legislative Council, and subsequently took control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah, a rival Palestinian political party.

Historically, Hamas has sought an Islamic Palestinian state over the combined territory of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, rejecting the two-state solution – although since 2017 it has indicated some flexibility on the issue.

The Brigades were officially established in 1991 as the paramilitary wing of Hamas. The Brigades undertake military activity on behalf of Hamas and have adopted terror tactics in their efforts to pressure Israel, including indiscriminate rocket attacks, suicide attacks, bombings, shootings and kidnappings directed against Israeli military and civilian targets.

Historically, the Brigades have predominantly operated in Gaza, with limited representation in the West Bank. In recent years, Hamas has also increased its presence in Lebanon in co-operation with Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran. Historically, there had not been much co-operation between Hamas (a Sunni organisation) and Hezbollah (a Shia organisation). What unites them is Israel as a common enemy.

Deif is now Israel’s primary target. He has been on the top of the most wanted list in Israel for several decades and has previously been accused of causing the deaths of dozens of Israelis through suicide bombings. He was born in 1965 in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, set up after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was born Mohammad Masri and became known as Mohammed Deif after he joined Hamas during the first Palestinian Uprising (or Intifada).

Israel arrested Deif in 1989 and he spent about 16 months in detention. Deif later completed a degree in science from the Islamic University in Gaza, where he studied biology, chemistry and physics. He was also interested in arts subjects, and headed the entertainment committee of the university.

While rising up the ranks of Hamas, Deif developed the Hamas network of tunnels and used his science background to improve its bomb-making expertise.

Deif started planning Operation Al Aqsa Flood after the Israeli police operation at the Al Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan in May 2021. The Israeli security operation was intended to safeguard Jewish access to the area (also sacred to Jews as the Temple Mount) and remove Palestinian protesters. It sparked a religious riot. Between May 10 and 14, Israeli police injured approximately 1000 Palestinian protesters, with some reported in critical condition.

A source in Gaza stated: “It (Operation Al Aqsa Flood) was triggered by scenes and footage of Israel storming Al Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, beating worshippers, attacking them, dragging elderly and young men out of the mosque. All this fuelled and ignited the anger.”

Deif’s current whereabouts are unknown, although he is most likely in Gaza. He has survived seven Israeli assassination attempts, the most recent in 2021.

Deif has stayed in the shadows for a long time because of the assassination risk he faces. Hamas sources say he sustained serious injuries in one leg and lost an eye in one of the Israeli assassination attempts. During an airstrike in 2014, his wife, three-year-old daughter and seven-month-old son were killed. Deif speaks out rarely, and has never appeared in public. But before the Operation Al Aqsa Flood attacks, he spoke to Palestinians through Hamas’s TV channel in an audio recording, signalling something significant was about to take place. He stated: “Today the rage of Al Aqsa, the rage of our people and nation is exploding. Our mujahedeen (holy warriors), today is your day to make this criminal understand that his time has ended.”

Deif said Israel has been repeatedly warned by Hamas to end its crimes against Palestinians and release the (6000) Palestinian prisoners, who he claimed were tortured and abused, and to stop its expropriation of Palestinian land.

“Every day the occupation (forces) storm our villages, towns and cities in the West Bank and raid houses, kill, injure, destroy and detain. At the same time, it (Israel) confiscates thousands of acres of our land, uproots our people from their houses to build settlements while its criminal siege continues on Gaza,” he said.

Deif stated Hamas had appealed to the international community to stop the “crimes of the occupation”, but that Israel continued to increase its provocation. He went on to say that Hamas in the past had appealed to Israel to finalise a humanitarian deal for releasing Palestinian prisoners, however, this was rejected.

“In light of the orgy of occupation and its denial of international laws and resolutions, and in light of American and Western support and international silence, we’ve decided to put an end to all this,” he stated.

Deif has always been security conscious. In the public domain, only three images of Deif are available – one of him in his 20s, another of him masked, and the third one just his shadow, which the TV used when broadcasting the audio tape. But clearly his days are numbered.

Operation Swords of Iron is likely to lead to the death of Hamas’s current leadership – but, in the absence of a negotiated settlement, their martyrdom will undoubtedly encourage the next generation of Palestinians to take on the might of Israel in the years ahead.

They’ll be consulting the old hands who organized Operation “Wrath of God.”

Football operations manager. Pretty much the second cheese.