Open Thread – Weekend 21 Oct 2023


The Landing State, Claude Monet, 1869

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Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 11:56 am

Masks are symbols of control. Making people do ridiculous things against their will or risk punishment is about raw power.

I just loved wearing the face mask and sunglasses and my big hat when I withdrew money from the Bank ATM during the ‘Virus Non Crisis’. If the wank bank and Guv’ment could recognise me on the ATM camera then good luck to them.

But I don’t fink’ so. T.W.A.T.S. all of them.

Bluey
Bluey
October 21, 2023 11:59 am

Roger
Oct 21, 2023 10:41 AM
The color of your skin will be your uniform.

What does that mean?

Exactly what it says. If things get really bad you won’t be able to tell if someone is politically aligned, or a decent person. It will default to exactly what it has for millennia. Does that person look like me?
Have a good hard look at the ethnic divides there are now, like Indians preferring to hire their family or other Indians, or suburbs like Redfern and Lakemba (remember police telling Lauren Southern not to go there?) and tell me that it won’t be the default. Hell look at some of the research out there about in group preferences.

Bluey
Bluey
October 21, 2023 12:00 pm

That’s not to say I want it to happen BTW. Just that it will be the reality. That lizard brain is incredibly hard to switch off.

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 12:04 pm

Not immediately clear what goes into ‘substantiations’…

It’s a judgment made by child protection officers after notification of a potential case (by, for example, a teacher) and its subsequent investigation.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 12:06 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 11:47 AM

LOL. So good to wind you up. You WIMP.

You seem to have a very selective memory about your constant obtuse abuse of many posters here. I fink’ that your dementia is becoming quite obvious now.

You are the short arse wog here. I am just a pommy bastard. Fark off you T.W.A.T.

And the word ‘limey’ is USA’n. Are you really an Australian or just an imposter?

And relying on Dotty Dot of Dottiness is just like you – hiding behind someone else’s pathetic comments.

Well, I have a thick skin but you have a thick head. You Sictorian Pompous Windbag.

STFU and try to learn how the US Congress works.

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 12:06 pm

If things get really bad you won’t be able to tell if someone is politically aligned, or a decent person. It will default to exactly what it has for millennia. Does that person look like me?

So it was an observation, not an exhortation.

OK.

cohenite
October 21, 2023 12:07 pm

There is an epidemic of mentally ill people who run academia. It’s bad enough that universities all across the U.S. are tainted by leftist professors, but with these kinds of people, we are reaching new levels.

Transgender UC Davis Professor Jemma Decristo made threats against Jews last week after Hamas terrorists ambushed Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 Jews.

The professor referenced ‘Zionist journalists’ and was quoted as saying on his/her UC Davis page: “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation, they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.” After the quote there are emojis with a knife, axe, and blood droplets.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:07 pm

Glamorous TV news presenter who Giorgia Meloni’s partner was overheard inviting for a ‘threesome or foursome’ with his mistress – before Italian PM dumped him on social media

Meloni and partner of 10 years had been ‘diverged for some time’, says PM

The glamorous tv presenter is quite the looker.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 21, 2023 12:09 pm

I’d hold hands with her

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 12:10 pm

No more Mr. Nice Guy towards you, Wodney, you incontinent limey piece of shit. For too long you’ve trolled and abused people here for absolutely no reason other than you’re angry for having soiled your diaper.

Go easy on Wodney.
I am pretty sure the Lady Boy gets a hold of his phone and posts the more fruity stuff here wiffout Wodney knowing.
You can tell by the poor spelling and grammar.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 21, 2023 12:11 pm

“The most recent Child Protection Australia data release by the AIHW shows that Indigenous children were less likely to be the subject of a substantiated notification of child sexual abuse in 2021-22 (6.8 per cent of substantiations) than were non-Indigenous children (9 per cent of substantiations).”

hmmm…
Im noticing..
https://aifs.gov.au/resources/policy-and-practice-papers/child-abuse-and-neglect-indigenous-australian-communities
(be sure to look at the grovelling “we are white dog c*nts doing this study and not worthy preface.)
It is clear that Indigenous children are significantly over-represented in most statutory child protection systems. Based on notifications (or reports) to child protection departments around Australia in 2001-2002, 3,254 Indigenous children under 17 years had some form of abuse substantiated – that is, the statutory protection authority believed that abuse or neglect had occurred (AIHW 2003). This rate of substantiation was on average 4.3 times higher (for all types of abuse) in the Indigenous population than in the non-Indigenous population. The rate varied widely between states, with Victoria and Western Australia having a substantiation rate nearly eight times higher for Indigenous children than non-Indigenous children. Indigenous children were the subject of proportionately fewer substantiations for sexual abuse than non-Indigenous children and proportionately higher substantiations for neglect than non-Indigenous children.
….

Once a report is made, there may be a number of reasons why the substantiation rate of sexual abuse is lower for Indigenous than for non-Indigenous children. It is possible that child protection authorities and other professions with the responsibility to protect the child are uncertain about what the best response would be, particularly in the legacy of the ‘stolen generation’ when many Indigenous children were removed from their family and community. It is also possible that practitioners are overwhelmed by the size, complexity and number of problems experienced by Indigenous communities. Problems created by a lack of resources (such as a lack of appropriate Indigenous substitute carers accessible to the community) may create uncertainty about what is best for an Indigenous child – remaining with some level of risk, or facing the adverse impact of cultural dislocation.

get that – being buggered up the bum by unkle badfinger is preferable to a dislocated culture…

That whole paper makes depressing reading, its cosistantly “we know the problem, but we will act as though applying the same standards to Aboriginal people is racist…

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:11 pm

TWAT, sicktoria. How many more times are you going to repeat and repeat and repeat, you demented limey slimeball.

You’ve never justified the constant trolling in posting ridiculous nonsense by a convicted fraudster. You can’t defend it, can you, you incontinent troll.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:13 pm

Never thought of that possibility, Sanchez. It very well be the Ladyboy taking over and posting here.

Bluey
Bluey
October 21, 2023 12:17 pm

Roger
Oct 21, 2023 12:06 PM
If things get really bad you won’t be able to tell if someone is politically aligned, or a decent person. It will default to exactly what it has for millennia. Does that person look like me?

So it was an observation, not an exhortation.

OK.

Well, yeah? Why would you think otherwise? There are no winners in a “civil” war, or significant unrest.
One reason I oppose mass immigration is there’s no filter as to people assimilating into society. I think the Swiss have something, in that the local community have to approve of you, but most of the western world doesn’t.
There also has to be enough of the dominant culture to assimilate into, and I think Australia is past the point where there is enough of that culture. It takes generations for people to assimilate, how many of the Greek and Italian families that came post WW2 still declare they’re Greek or Italian for example, despite a couple of generations being born here and not speaking a word of the language?
In contrast, I don’t think I’ve met anyone from the Polish post war immigration that you could tell, bar a funny last name.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 12:17 pm

@Dot … OK you and the 6 confirm away … Go your hardest… I never enter into a discussion where I know I will be roundly agreed with . What value? What could I possibly learn ? ..

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 12:20 pm

“The most recent Child Protection Australia data release by the AIHW shows that Indigenous children were less likely to be the subject of a substantiated notification of child sexual abuse in 2021-22 (6.8 per cent of substantiations) than were non-Indigenous children (9 per cent of substantiations).”

And if her figures are correct, that would be a significant turnaround.

What accounts for it?

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 12:21 pm

Go listen to Biden’s speech … It is something Terry Gilliam couldn’t have dreamed up in his wildest and most dysphoric moments.

“Pretty consistently knocking them for 6”

cohenite
October 21, 2023 12:24 pm

Meloni and partner of 10 years had been ‘diverged for some time’, says PM

What a sleasebag. Meloni is ok and doesn’t deserve such treatment.

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 12:25 pm

Well, yeah? Why would you think otherwise?

It was a little short on context.

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 12:31 pm

“one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation, they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.”

And one type of person they have easy access to is you Jeramy (his real name). Do you have any idea how little it would cost to hire some lads from Compton to make you vanish?

You might want to give that whole threatening thing a bit more thought. Maybe take a sabbatical to Gaza where they will vanish you for free once they find out you are a trannie.

Putz.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 21, 2023 12:31 pm

Go easy on Wodney.

At the risk of being accused of joining a pile on I think he might just knotted the hanky a bit tight or got a dodgy kipper. Leave JC to paint his front lawn in peace. LOL

Bluey
Bluey
October 21, 2023 12:32 pm

Roger
Oct 21, 2023 12:25 PM
Well, yeah? Why would you think otherwise?

It was a little short on context.

Huh. I thought the whole talking about things being really bad was enough. Guess not.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 12:33 pm

Reading Guy Laron’s book on the subject of the Six – Day War.

In the opening stages of that war, a Syrian Army attack on an Israeli kibbutz was repulsed by Israeli reservists, pensioners and teenage High school students….

Oh, you mighty warriors of Allah!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 21, 2023 12:34 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
October 21, 2023 12:37 pm

The most powerful article I’ve yet read on the Voice shambles – and the state of modern Australia. And he calls out Bruce Pascoe for the fake he is:

Real truths that should be told after the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

GEOFFREY BLAINEY

It must be hard for a prime minister to admit that he has been crushingly defeated in an electoral contest that he originally expected to win with ease. In one segment of his speech last Saturday night, Anthony Albanese praised himself as a bold man of conviction – as if he had actually won the referendum.

Many viewers who at first sympathised with the Prime Minister on television regretted that he did not directly congratulate the two Aboriginal leaders who especially defeated him.

Only one sentence was needed. He failed to speak that sentence. Yet in our long political history this probably was the most significant public victory yet achieved by Aboriginal campaigners. Moreover, they had fully digested and then condemned the controversial Uluru Statement from the Heart, but Albanese had not even digested it. As a political leader he has his merits, but command of crucial detail is not yet one of them.

Alongside him on election night was Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney. She offered no congratulations to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the talented senator by whom she had been overshadowed and outgunned this year.

In the past 60 years there were notable victories in achieving Aboriginal goals but they owed more to mainstream or white Australian political leaders The victories also owed as much to High Court judges. Here was a unique event – a national triumph for two true-blue Aboriginal leaders, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Price.

Crucial to the national debate is the health of Indigenous people. It is often proclaimed to be a matter of urgency, almost of shame, that they have a “life expectancy eight years shorter than non-Indigenous Australians”.

But that fact, standing on its own, is misleading. The life expectancy of us all, Aboriginal people included, has improved dramatically since 1788. Nearly every country in Africa has a much lower life expectation than Indigenous Australia. Even the EU displays more than an eight-year gap between member nations. There is even a wide gap between north and south England.

Today Aboriginal Australians have a life expectancy equal to that of Bulgaria and rural Romania. Their life expectancy is higher than that in Russia and Ukraine. It is about the same as the average citizen of the world. Indeed, it soon would be improved if those Aboriginal men aged 40 and older were not heavy smokers. Of course we in the Western world – my generation included – taught them to smoke.

Ownership of land remains another divisive topic. Federal departments some years ago should have investigated what proved to be right or wrong, sensible or misguided, in the way vast areas of land were transferred to Indigenous people. Should these new possessors of the land be exempted from paying taxes on this new but erratic source of income? Moreover, should the families who lived on native title lands be able to build a house and own the land? Instead, most of such land is held collectively, almost in Soviet fashion.

Here is one of the most remarkable ventures in Australia’s modern history, indeed in world history, but some of the key effects are blanketed in silence or dispute.

In all, an area of land twice as large as Indonesia and eight times as large as France has been transferred to Aboriginal Australians since 1975. The supporters of this transfer tend to excuse it or apologise for it by asserting that it is largely desert or semi-desert, but in fact it embraces or borders one of the main mining regions in the world. It also contains mini-regions with high rainfall and a potential for tropical agriculture as well as large expanses that are reserved for environmental reasons.

Gary Johns, a minister in the Keating government, later became an alert investigator into Aboriginal affairs. In The Burden of Culture he is brave enough to conclude that the introduction of native title has proved to be a dubious reform: “The benefits are few and fitful; the costs are high; the disputes are many; the system will need to be propped up forever on the pretence that native title holders can contribute to the ‘north’ of Australia, or indeed, the remainder of Australia.”

In Johns’ opinion, these unique kinds of land tenure that now occupy a little more than half of the nation are based on the faith that all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a spiritual affinity with their tribal lands, to which their spirit or soul, on death, must return.

But most Indigenous people even in the Outback no longer cling to the religious faith that underpins the concept of native title. The censuses of 2016 and 2021 make this clear. I believe most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are far, far better off today than if they were living in 1788. Price, after recently expressing a similar belief, was flayed by critics who had faint idea what daily life ashore was like before the coming of the First Fleet. Unfortunately, a minority of Aboriginal people still have to struggle with two different values and ways of life.

This land is infinitely more fruitful than it was in 1788, and most Aboriginal people are now the gainers. The whole globe gains too. In some years Australia produces enough food to sustain probably 100 million people in the world as a whole. In the past decade it has produced for at least one billion people the minerals with which to build aircraft, railways, motorways, ships, cars, power stations, schools, stadiums and city apartments. Likewise, here in this continent arose a democratic society that, for all its imperfections, offers liberty in a world where liberty is not normal.

The idea that Aboriginal people could have remained, even today, the only occupiers of this huge expanse of land is fanciful.

How can the 1000 or more Aboriginal towns be helped? Have such tiny and remote towns a future? The question has to be asked again and again. It is an experiment rarely conducted in modern history – the creation of isolated towns that grow little of their own food, rely heavily on subsidies and social welfare, are mostly too small to attract a capable nurse, police officer or teacher, and provide few jobs for their poorly educated children. Most of these Aboriginal towns are too far apart to share amenities. They are also marred by family violence.

The Uluru statement laments the high numbers of Aboriginal men in jail but does not mention that so many are there because they bash the women of their own race. This message Price has emphasised. Without saying so too loudly, she knows the so-called Stolen Generations were often Aboriginal children who had to be rescued for the sake of their own safety and welfare.

Such remote and tiny towns can exist only in a nation that is wealthy enough to subsidise them on a generous scale. Yet many are eyesores, viewed by their few visitors as blots on the nation that allows them to exist.

One argument in their favour is that the older people wish to retain their own culture and to oppose assimilation by an alien culture. On the other hand, the recent censuses reveal that Christian pastors – mostly Aboriginal – are more influential here than in most suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.

A simple, short and accurate statement of the rival Yes and No cases is required for every referendum. This year, small but rival groups of federal parliamentarians had each summarised the arguments to be printed, side-by-side, in Your Official Referendum Booklet. The Australian government then printed millions of copies. Translated into many Indigenous and foreign languages, it reached more households than any bestselling novel in our history. At the front of the booklet, readers are assured they will find valuable information on where and how to vote if they turn to page 21. But the editors had forgotten to number the final pages.

Even enthusiastic citizens must have been bored or even bamboozled, except for the occasional short quotations from lawyers speaking with some authority.

Alas, the booklet did not even print the one-page Uluru Statement from the Heart. As this referendum involved more factors than any other in the past 100 years, a lucid source of information was vital. The booklet failed.

In contrast, at the 1999 referendum on the proposed republic, a committee of four lawyers and historians – presided over by Ninian Stephen, the former High Court judge and governor-general – had issued a readable and careful assessment of the rival arguments. The present government seemed unwise to ignore such a precedent.

Australia is one of the oldest continuous democracies in the world. Democracy is government by debate. The federation and the commonwealth were born only after long and extensive democratic debate extending from 1889 to 1900. In contrast, the present government has shunned or tried to minimise debate.

We can now see that the debate conducted during the past year was indirectly a clash about two conflicting views of this nation’s history.

Albanese’s view is of an Aboriginal Australia that was – for 60,000 or more years – a form of utopia. His vision owed much to historian Bruce Pascoe, an engaging speaker who by pretending to be Aboriginal tended to convince young people, and their teachers too, that he possessed an insider’s knowledge. Pascoe claimed the Aboriginal people invented democracy and that they lived in peace and prosperity until the Europeans invaded.

The present government and its leader can hardly be attacked when the heads of the University of Melbourne, RMIT University and other universities actually promote a similar black-armband version of Australia’s history.

Albanese was captivated by a heroic version of history even before he won the federal election last year.

Persuaded that such a version had been deliberately hidden from us all, he announced that since 1788 our nation had provided largely a history of brutality – until the era of multiculturalism arrived. One day his project – though defeated in last Saturday’s referendum – may provoke or inspire a total rewriting of Australia’s history. Its official names will be Truth-telling and Makarrata, for they are embodied in the short Uluru statement: a document containing highly vulnerable accusations against mainstream Australia as well as several sobering statements about Aboriginal distress today.

There are two different Australias. Admittedly, many Aboriginal Australians live in unsatisfactory and even appalling conditions. Also true is that a larger number in urban Australia have become important ingredients of our success as a modern nation. They are often overlooked.

On election night we often gathered from commentators the idea that most Aboriginal Australians lived in the Northern Territory or in remote tropical outposts to the east and west. In fact, NSW, especially Sydney and its far western hinterland, is the nation’s stronghold of Aboriginal people.

More live there than in any other state and territory; and an update from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the surprising advances they have made in the 10 years from 2011 to 2021. Their life expectations are higher than the referendum booklet dismally reported. Of their houses, the overwhelming numbers are not overcrowded.

More than 40 per cent of these houses are owned outright or with a mortgage. The proportion of their students who pass year 12 or attend university and other tertiary institutions has soared. Successful Aborig­inal leader Mundine, originally a tradie, was reared in one of these towns far west of Sydney.

The Uluru statement, compiled by the leading large group of Indigenous activists, concludes that a revolutionary new era is beginning: “We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country.” But hosts of Aboriginal people have little need to leave their base camp in the big towns and cities and go trekking.

They belong to the 21st century and share in its opportunities.

Historian Geoffrey Blainey is the author of more than 40 books. His recent memoir is called Before I Forget (Penguin).

Oz

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:42 pm

What a sleasebag. Meloni is ok and doesn’t deserve such treatment.

Cronkite, fair enough. There’s a slight problem here, though. Meloni is often grandstanding about family values and keeping out illegals.

1. She’s been holed up for 10 years, unmarried, and has had a kid with a creep.
2. She let the German NGO arseholes off the hook and allowed that island to be overrun.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 12:46 pm

And he calls out Bruce Pascoe for the fake he is:

I’ve seen the withering contempt of “fullblood” Indigenous people, for the likes of Bruce Pascoe – I can’t work out why he hasn’t attracted similar disdain.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 12:47 pm

H B Bear
Oct 21, 2023 12:31 PM
Go easy on Wodney.

No need, as I will never go easy on “Jer Cough Cretin”, the resident Sictorian Pompous Windbag and font of fark all knowledge.

T.W.A.T. that he /she/it is. A Wimp.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 21, 2023 12:53 pm

The brain meltdowns from the screech continues. Some obese fauxboriginal rapper I had never heard (I am still none the wiser looking him up), of who resides in Shep ends association with Melbourne Storm because one of their part owners gave money to the No campaign.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/aussie-rappers-letter-rocks-melbourne-storm/news-story/907035828171b75ce11333bb224300ea

Bonus for the Storm I’d say.

cohenite
October 21, 2023 12:55 pm

1. She’s been holed up for 10 years, unmarried, and has had a kid with a creep.

He’s a good looking swine; even the best woman can get fooled. But she’s had the sprog and is a good mum. The bastard should have married her.

2. She let the German NGO arseholes off the hook and allowed that island to be overrun.

I don’t know what this is about.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:55 pm

Lord, you’re thick Wodney. He’s saying that about you, you feces riddled half corpse.
Keep repeating the same old same old. TWAT, LOL, SICKTORIA, SPECSAVERS, and of course the posting rubbish from a convicted fraudster. My lord, they must have had easy walk-through immigration. In fact, you epitomize what has been historically wrong with our immigration system. A 10 quid pom and a Thai Ladyboy collecting welfare cheques.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 12:56 pm

Alongside him on election night was Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney. She offered no congratulations to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the talented senator by whom she had been overshadowed and outgunned this year.

Tennis Elbo and ‘Gucci” Burney should now be known as part of the “Dis Ingenious” tribe. NOt Indigenous. A tribe that came to this Continent 2 years before the Brits did in 1788. And they brought “Mis Information” with them.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 12:57 pm

I don’t know what this is about.

Illegals over-running Lampedusa brought in or guided by German NGOs.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:00 pm

As a chronic lurker and now a recent poster. An observation. Only reason I ever followed this group is because you Blokes and Blokesses are decent aggregators. This idiotic bellicosity is just scroll stuff. Though it seems an “in house joke” it isnt funny .

Aggregation Ho !!!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 21, 2023 1:01 pm

Roger

What accounts for it?

The Victorian “yarook” mob where whining about overreporting of Aboriginal families, something like 4-7 times more (from memory) the rest of the population.

By carefully defining it I suspect the numbers are higher, but they are able to fall back on a lower % by notification.

If they are doing that then its disgustingly political, not factual.

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 1:02 pm

Huh. I thought the whole talking about things being really bad was enough. Guess not.

I wondered why you raised skin colour in a discussion of culture. In my vie wit is not, in itself, determinative of whether a person belongs to a culture or not – many other attributes come before that.

You’ve clarified why you mentioned it – thanks for that. I do hope the scenario you envisage never comes about.

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 1:04 pm

If they are doing that then its disgustingly political, not factual.

That is my suspicion also, mole.

The historical figures for the last ten years or so are available at the AIWH website.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 1:04 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 12:55 PM

More poor sledging from the Sictorian Pompous Windbag. So obtuse with that amateur abuse. Please try harder – when you have a big shit in your MelBum Slum shithouse.

Not a 10 pound Pom as I have informed you before. You T.W.A.T. But you are just like Tennis Elbow and the other wanker “Pollies” here. Just not listening. Dementia again.

Onwards and upwards. Today is Trafalgar Day. Well done the Royal Navy. Saving the Western World in 1805 and for so many years afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 1:05 pm

Over and out.

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 1:06 pm

Unsurprisingly, it appears at least some of the terrorists of 7 Oct had some artificial help to amp them up.

“Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant that has been clandestinely produced in southern Europe and trafficked through Turkey to the consumer markets on the Arabian Peninsula, as reported by Nir Dvori of Channel 12,” the publication explained.

The pills were found in the pockets of the terrorists who died.

It described the stimulant as the “cocaine for the poor,” and the report charges it allowed Hamas members “to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference.”

Oh come on
Oh come on
October 21, 2023 1:07 pm

Interesting ABC article about how menstruating persons are finding it difficult to afford tampons and pads:

As prices for sanitary products steadily increase, Australians with periods are feeling the pinch

To be fair, a couple of times it does say “woman”:

And myself, as a woman of colour and a woman from a multicultural background, there’s a lot of additional barriers like not wanting to use tampons and wanting to use something else instead.

So many barriers. What a hellish life.

By the way, gents. In case you were worried: tampons and pads. Coming soon and freely available from the nearest men’s room.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:07 pm

OK a shout out to the good people we have lost ..Bill Leak … Julian Assange … Spike Milligan … Gonzalo Lira … Proffessor Bunyip

Dissidents … God Bless them … Truth tellers . They would never draw blood … just try to wake us up to ourselves…

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 21, 2023 1:09 pm

Not immediately clear what goes into ‘substantiations’, or whether they happen consistently across all communities.

It’s a judgment made by child protection officers after notification of a potential case (by, for example, a teacher) and its subsequent investigation.

Yes it is.
My point was more about how that might be applied consistently in a community where a child lives with adults who are unlikely to report potential or actual cases and the child doesn’t attend school, or otherwise come to the attention of someone who might report abuse.

And then where the chances of a child safety officer investigating and taking prompt action are limited by resources, remoteness and cultural ‘sensitivity’.

My take is that children’s interests are possibly not best served by the agencies supposedly serving them when those agencies are also deeply engaged in cultural politics.

But I could just be a mislead stupid racist.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 1:10 pm

More poor sledging from the Sictorian Pompous Windbag

How sad, the worst sledger here now plays the little victim.

See if you can make to the toilet next time wodney you filthy animal.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:13 pm

@Dr Faustus .. you are on the right track… I have been to such places… you have no idea. To me it looks unfixable… I Pray to the Almighty that I am wrong.

P
P
October 21, 2023 1:13 pm

Onwards and upwards. Today is Trafalgar Day. Well done the Royal Navy. Saving the Western World in 1805 and for so many years afterwards.

Trafalgar Night

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 1:16 pm

Speaking about Aircraft Tyres and Runways when wet, from earlier discussions

Plane skids off runway in heavy rain as three people die in Storm Babet

Holiday flight from Corfu ends up on grass verge at Leeds Bradford airport

Oh come on
Oh come on
October 21, 2023 1:17 pm

Hey, doesn’t the Week of Silence end today? Or tomorrow? Can’t remember exactly when it was declared.

Anyhoo, there should be a lot of screeching soon.

I’m still looking forward to Noel Pearson’s farewell speech as promised following a No vote. He’ll probably just lip synch to a few minutes of MLK’s Mountaintop speech.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 1:18 pm

The ‘part time bovver boy’ (and part time ladyboy) is up and about today.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 1:19 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 1:10 PM

LOL. Your so called Banter is just like Net Zero……………….Zero.

Please try harder as your so called wit only rhymes with the word shit.

Amateur Sictorian Pompous Windbag that you are. Please try and learn about the US system when you next go there to advise them – On Sweet Fark All that is.

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 1:20 pm

And myself, as a woman of colour and a woman from a multicultural background, there’s a lot of additional barriers like not wanting to use tampons and wanting to use something else instead.

By all means, use something “traditional” to your ‘people’. Or invent something new.

But either way, how is it society’s problem and why do you feel the need to whine to us about it?

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 1:21 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 21, 2023 1:18 PM

And the Sheep Shagger and C U in the N T has turned up. With his gum boots for those sheilas.

Baaaaaaaah. Baaaaaaaaah.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:22 pm

@Dr Faustus “But I could just be a mislead stupid racist.” This is the sneering insult from our moral superiors that is supposed to make us quiver in fear.

And they use the “R ” word as I might use the “C” word (but never at home) …

If that line of reasoning is ever on you used call them a “C” … A “F” ing “C” ..and invite them into an ernest discussion about who is the “knuckle dragger” ..

Out of thier depth on wet cement … and in a fist fight. Which is what they were promising us. Although it would be someone else’s fists … should we fail to conform .

Parasites .. the lot of them …

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 1:23 pm

T.W.A.T.

Further proof that the English can’t spell or understand it.

Bovver boy – what does T.W.A.T. mean? There’s a reference for ‘TWAT’, but the full stops after each letter indicate that it’s an abbreviation.

So – either you’ve been demonstrating that you can’t write your own language for some time now, or you’re using a mystery abbreviated term. Which is it?

Enquiring minds, etc.

Steve of Kenmore
October 21, 2023 1:24 pm

Just sat through a 20 minute Welcome to the Country at my grandkids Kindergarten. Cultural Marxism starts early.

Winston Smith
October 21, 2023 1:24 pm

OldOzzie Avatar
OldOzzie

Just a reminder of the Loving People Malcolm Fraser then Labor allowed in
64% of Palestinian refugees taken in by Denmark in 1992 now have criminal records
Summed up in The Comments
– Similar or worse criminal muslim refugee stats would be found around the western world.
It is in their DNA. Just what group in Australia is the most prominent for violence, criminal behaviour and dominates the drug scene.

It’s the culture, OO. The culture cannot mix with any other culture except by violence and domination. There is no other culture in existence that Islam is not violently opposed to, or gathering strength to become violent towards.
1400+ years of conflict and our political elite still refuses to see the long term threat – all they see is the short term gain.
At some stage we will have to fight them for our own existence.

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
? Winston S. Churchill

Israel is relearning that lesson, Again
The rest of the world is helping the advance guard of Islam get settled behind fortifications in our cities.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:25 pm

@Dr Faustus By way of disambiguation… I am not talking about Aboriginals in general … just the Toyota Dreaming Crew.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 1:25 pm

And the Sheep Shagger

You’ve been told before about sheep in the NT (and lack thereof) before, part timer.

I assume you’ve taken no notice because Martin Armstrong hasn’t posted on the subject.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 1:26 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 1:10 PM

LOL. Your so called Banter is just like Net Zero……………….Zero.

Your LOL’ing yourself, is a net zero, you incontinent limey wog.

Please try harder as your so called wit only rhymes with the word shit.

That’s what’s running down your leg, you maggot ridden dickhead.

Amateur Sictorian Pompous Windbag that you are. Please try and learn about the US system when you next go there to advise them – On Sweet Fark All that is.

Oh yea, this putdown is coming from the legal genius who told us blogs are public property.

STFU, you ossified, incontinent clown. We have your measure and no amount of abuse makes you sound smarter. And stop finagling the ticks as we know it’s you too

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 1:27 pm

‘CAN’T DO ANYTHING’: ‘Wicked’ ace card Hamas has over Israel

Hamas can’t match Israeli firepower but it has one advantage over that may see it use this highly unconventional and unpredictable war tactic.

Map of Gaza’s complex tunnel network reveals Israel’s mammoth task

Hamas knows it can’t match Israeli firepower in the air, sea or ground. So it’s drawing the conflict into a territory over which its fighters have complete control: underground.

“You can’t see there. You can’t breathe there. You can’t communicate. You can’t navigate. You can’t shoot. You can’t do anything unless you have specialised equipment and specialised training,” says US West Point military academy urban warfare expert John Spencer. “At this scale, it will be a massive challenge.”

It’s a challenge of which Israel’s defence force is well aware.

“Think of the Gaza Strip as one layer for civilians and then another layer for Hamas. We are trying to get to that second layer that Hamas has built,” a military spokesperson said.

And it has had a taste of this network before.

During a 2021 clash within the Gaza Strip, Israel claimed it used precision air strikes to demolish more than 100 kilometres of tunnels. Hamas retorted that it had 500 kilometres of tunnels, and only 5 per cent had been damaged.

Probably a Very Dumb Question and perhaps the CAT Military Bloggers can answer for me

Given Russia has used thermobaric weapons – also known as vacuum bombs

– A thermobaric bomb (also called a vacuum or aerosol bomb – or fuel air explosive) consists of a fuel container with two separate explosive charges.

The Question isWhy wouldn’t you when you find the entrance to a Tunnel – pump a Fuel Air Mix into the Tunnel and Ignite It?

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:28 pm

@ Knuckle Dragger… and so you speak on behalf of enquiring minds?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 1:30 pm

How does a thermobaric bomb work?

A thermobaric bomb (also called a vacuum or aerosol bomb – or fuel air explosive) consists of a fuel container with two separate explosive charges.

This can be launched as a rocket or dropped as a bomb from aircraft. When it hits its target, the first explosive charge opens the container and widely scatters fuel mixture as a cloud.

This cloud can penetrate any building openings or defences that are not totally sealed.

A second charge then detonates the cloud, resulting in a huge fireball, a massive blast wave and a vacuum which sucks up all surrounding oxygen.

The weapon can destroy reinforced buildings, equipment and kill or injure people.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 1:32 pm

Just sat through a 20 minute Welcome to the Country at my grandkids Kindergarten.

Who also did not recieve Marcia’s memo.

They don’t seem to take much notice of her do they?

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:33 pm

@ OldOzzie … I find this whole “who blew up whom and with what” conversation baffling. It is some time since I used explosives but I could tell you the Brand of Fractuer … or Gelignite … of definitely ANFO …just from the delightful after blast aroma … and I was a mere civilian …

Not a connoisseur …

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 1:33 pm

Erk

receive

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 1:34 pm

Steve of Kenmore
Oct 21, 2023 1:24 PM
Just sat through a 20 minute Welcome to the Country at my grandkids Kindergarten. Cultural Marxism starts early.

I would have walked out and taken the whole Family with me. And then said NO…………60 %

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 21, 2023 1:35 pm

Why wouldn’t you when you find the entrance to a Tunnel – pump a Fuel Air Mix into the Tunnel and Ignite It?

I’m just an army brat with no service myself but I believe the US tried gassing out the Viet Cong in their tunnel system. Problem was the VC had anticipated this response and had simple airlocks like a kitchen sink trap. Hamas is likely to have similar engineering designs.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 1:37 pm

One of the funniest comments for a while was asking if Bovver Boys were also keeping close to each other in order to stay warm. Forget who it was.

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 1:37 pm

Why wouldn’t you when you find the entrance to a Tunnel – pump a Fuel Air Mix into the Tunnel and Ignite It?

No reason not to, except you run the risk of some offshoot of the tunnel you don’t know about running under something important, or being stuffed with God’s own stash of explosives.

Another other option might be flooding the tunnels with seawater. Or tear gas.

To this point they have used the ‘bury them in a mountain of rubble by dropping the whole neighborhood on top of them’ technique with great apparent success as the IDF seem to have penetrated much farther into Gaza than is being announced publicly.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 21, 2023 1:41 pm

OldOzzie

If they have been well made then there should be plenty of doglegs & multiple ventilation/ entry/ exit points for tunnels.

Doglegs were pretty standard for well constructed WW1 defences, as the blast doesnt travel round corners very well.

You could wreck a lot of entrances but miss most of the underground structure I think.
Im not an expert on thermobaric stuff though, Im sure someone else will dig up better info.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:41 pm

@ Rockdoctor … I have some VC connections and you are exactly right… blood and steel …they were on a different level …

How about we give Peace a chance ?

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 1:44 pm

Gonzalo Lira

No.

Mark Bolton
Oct 21, 2023 12:17 PM

@Dot … OK you and the 6 confirm away … Go your hardest… I never enter into a discussion where I know I will be roundly agreed with . What value? What could I possibly learn ? ..

That’s up to you, NewCatallaxy believes in self-directed learning and self-discipline, the bottle within.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 1:44 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 1:26 PM

You the Dipstick are the Abuse Queen. From Day one you have tried to pile into me. And, you still have a go at so many other posters here.

Having lived in this Great Country along with my Parents, sisters, brothers, Uncles, Aunties, nephews, nieces and lovely daughter. Just STFU.

You seem to live a very sad life down there in Sictoria. Go to NY and play with the sad Demo C Rats.

Bye, bye and don’t come back. You will not be missed.

Oh, and BTW. I have paid shed loads of taxes and still do.

And I can vote.

shatterzzz
October 21, 2023 1:45 pm

Nelson at Trafalgar

Nelson: “Order the signal, Hardy.”
Hardy: “Aye, aye sir.”
Nelson: “Hold on, this isn’t what I dictated to Flags. What’s the meaning of this?”
Hardy: “Sorry sir?”
Nelson (reading aloud): „ England expects every person to do his or her duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious persuasion or disability.’ – What gobbledygook is this for God’s sake?”
Hardy: “Admiralty policy, I’m afraid, sir. We’re an equal opportunities employer now. We had the devil’s own job getting „ England ” past the censors, lest it be considered racist.”
Nelson: “Gadzooks, Hardy. Hand me my pipe and tobacco.”
Hardy: “Sorry sir. All naval vessels have now been designated smoke-free working environments.”
Nelson: “In that case, break open the rum ration. Let us splice the main brace to steel the men before battle.”
Hardy: “The rum ration has been abolished, Admiral. Its part of the Government’s policy on binge drinking.”
Nelson: “Good heavens, Hardy. I suppose we’d better get on with it full speed ahead.”
Hardy: “I think you’ll find that there’s a 4 knot speed limit in this stretch of water.”
Nelson: “Damn it man! We are on the eve of the greatest sea battle in history. We must advance with all dispatch. Report from the crow’s nest, please.”
Hardy: “That won’t be possible, sir.”
Nelson: “What?”
Hardy: “Health and Safety have closed the crow’s nest, sir. No harness; and they said that rope ladders don’t meet regulations. They won’t let anyone up there until proper scaffolding can be erected.”
Nelson: “Then get me the ship’s carpenter without delay, Hardy.”
Hardy: “He’s busy knocking up a wheelchair access to the foredeck Admiral.”
Nelson: “Wheelchair access? I’ve never heard anything so absurd.”
Hardy: “Health and safety again, sir. We have to provide a barrier- free environment for the differently abled.”
Nelson: “Differently abled? I’ve only one arm and one eye and I refuse even to hear mention of the word. I didn’t rise to the rank of admiral by playing the disability card.”
Hardy: “Actually, sir, you did. The Royal Navy is under- represented in the areas of visual impairment and limb deficiency.”
Nelson: “Whatever next? Give me full sail. The salt spray beckons.”
Hardy: “A couple of problems there too, sir. Health and safety won’t let the crew up the rigging without hard hats. And they don’t want anyone breathing in too much salt – haven’t you seen the adverts?”
Nelson: “I’ve never heard such infamy. Break out the cannon and tell the men to stand by to engage the enemy.”
Hardy: “The men are a bit worried about shooting at anyone, Admiral.”
Nelson: “What? This is mutiny!”
Hardy: “It’s not that, sir. It’s just that they’re afraid of being charged with murder if they actually kill anyone. There are a couple of legal-aid lawyers on board, watching everyone like hawks.”
Nelson: “Then how are we to sink the Frenchies and the Spanish?”
Hardy: “Actually, sir, we’re not.”
Nelson: “We’re not?”
Hardy: “No, sir.. The French and the Spanish are our European partners now. According to the Common Fisheries Policy, we shouldn’t even be in this stretch of water. We could get hit with a claim for compensation.”
Nelson: “But you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
Hardy: “I wouldn’t let the ship’s diversity coordinator hear you saying that sir. You’ll be up on disciplinary report.”
Nelson: “You must consider every man an enemy, who speaks ill of your King.”
Hardy: “Not any more, sir. We must be inclusive in this multicultural age. Now put on your Kevlar vest; it’s the rules. It could save your life”
Nelson: “Don’t tell me – Health and Safety. Whatever happened to rum, sodomy and the lash?”
Hardy: As I explained, sir, rum is off the menu! And there’s a ban on corporal punishment.”
Nelson: “What about sodomy?”
Hardy: “I believe that is now legal, sir.”
Nelson: “In that case………………. Kiss me, Hardy.”

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 1:46 pm

How about we give Peace a chance ?

When the Hamas leadership is dead, Gaza is liberated and they grudgingly get along with Israeli as does the West Bank, yes.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 1:46 pm

@ Dot … I see your’e sneer and accept it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 1:50 pm

Bovver boy – what does T.W.A.T. mean?

Thick Wodney – Anglo Tosser.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 1:52 pm

Johhny R

Explain how the Speaker pro tempore cannot make decisions in the same way as an elected permanent Speaker. After all they are both elected and what happens when the speaker is incapacitated? House rules can be altered. The WaPo mention some silly constitutional argument. It’s just Democrat squealing. The only mention is that the House “chuses” the Speaker and other officers, in 1788 speak. The idea that it cannot pass legislation now is just disinformation to demoralise you. Ignore it. Source document:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Read the last clause of section 2, Article I:

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Ignore Democrat propaganda.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 21, 2023 1:54 pm

From Day one you have tried to pile into me

Love is love…

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 1:56 pm

Mark Bolton
Oct 21, 2023 1:33 PM

@ OldOzzie … I find this whole “who blew up whom and with what” conversation baffling. It is some time since I used explosives but I could tell you the Brand of Fractuer … or Gelignite … of definitely ANFO …just from the delightful after blast aroma … and I was a mere civilian …

Not a connoisseur …

Mark,

on my 2 week Australian Army Pathfinder Explosives Course at Singelton, I used Det Cord, Gelignite, Plastic explosive, Detonators into Primers – always crimped Det Cord to Detonator behind ones back – Learn use of Shaped Charges – Interesting experience, other than having led the team digging shelter in side of creek, when no one volunteered, the OIC picked me to stay with him in shelter and as the others retreated to the top of a hill a mile away, had 1,000 Punds of explosive going off behind us – Rubble fell on the others a mile away – my heart was pounding – area was destroted with our various explosive tasks

Stonemason Father-in-law used black blasting powder tamped into holes in Sandstone Block we were blasting with Detonator set off by Hand Plunger similar to this

shatterzzz
October 21, 2023 1:56 pm

To this point they have used the ‘bury them in a mountain of rubble by dropping the whole neighborhood on top of them’ technique with great apparent success as the IDF seem to have penetrated much farther into Gaza than is being announced publicly.

I’m sure they (Israelis) are well versed in keeping the media in the dark and well away from their Gaza plans … personally, I favour the “no quarter”, no info approach, no none-Israeli media embed and when it’s all over announce “we’ll be making a full statement when the time is right ” … followed by some “seismic” activity in Iran and several, unaccounted for, disruptions in both Qatar & Lebanon …….

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 21, 2023 1:56 pm

Thanks P!

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 1:58 pm

DOVER

This need to go up next time.

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Jean-Michel-Grobon/732866/Roman-aqueducts-seen-on-the-slopes-of-Saint-Just,-c1790-1853.html

Unless I have already requested it, I got one request up IIRC?

P
P
October 21, 2023 2:00 pm

Thanks P!

It is than you T,E. Brilliant!

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 2:01 pm

You the Dipstick are the Abuse Queen.

Really? The ratio is 10:1. Your abuse of me and some others (10) to responses (1).

From Day one you have tried to pile into me.

Lying dickhead. I’ve constantly asked why you’re parroting a convicted fraudster. The end game for a lot of us was when you posted the Marty comment that he’s been running a sentient AI since the mid 80’s. You gullible, incontinent Bovver.

Having lived in this Great Country along with my Parents, sisters, brothers, Uncles, Aunties, nephews, nieces and lovely daughter. Just STFU.

You shouldn’t be here.

You seem to live a very sad life down there in Sictoria. Go to NY and play with the sad Demo C Rats.

Keep repeating the same old swill and by 2055 someone will think it’s funny.

Bye, bye and don’t come back. You will not be missed.

Lol.

Oh, and BTW. I have paid shed loads of taxes and still do.

Bullshit, as you talk and behave like a complete loser.

And I can vote.

Big mistake we made. All of you should have been given a one way ticket on a leaky dingy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 21, 2023 2:01 pm

Unsurprisingly, it appears at least some of the terrorists of 7 Oct had some artificial help to amp them up.

Bit of that going around.

‘Bored’ Russian troops spend days getting ‘high on salt narcotic’ in trenches (20 Oct)

Dozens of soldiers told the independent Russian newspaper Verstka that drug use was rife among the forces deployed to the war. Drugs were reported to be easily available to troops stuck in the trenches.

As a result, many Russian soldiers are turning to powerful drugs. The most popular one among the troops is ‘salt’ – a synthetic drug also known as alpha-PVP. One soldier described smoking ‘salt’ off a jar lid through a ballpoint pen and washing it down with vodka.

Ukrainian forces who seize Russian trenches have found drug paraphernalia left behind, including mainly ‘gunpowder’ (amphetamine), ‘pinecones’ (marijuana) and ‘salt’.

No idea if it’s true, but it was an interesting story when I read it this morning. Salt? Pinecones? Gunpowder? Washed down with vodka! We’re a long way from Bolivian marching powder.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:01 pm

Really, downvotes?

Who hates Jean Michel Grobon that much?

Philistines!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 2:03 pm

Oh, and BTW. I have paid shed loads of taxes and still do.

Bullshit, as you talk and behave like a complete loser.

The only tax Wodney pays is the GST on his Marmite and kippers.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:06 pm

Sancho Panzer
Oct 21, 2023 1:50 PM
Bovver boy – what does T.W.A.T. mean?

In your case Mrs Stencho Pantyhose it probably means –

Too Many Words Trickyou………………

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:07 pm

Bruce…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone

??

Would the Russian Army be handing this out to combat fatigue?

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:10 pm

@ Dot … I see your’e sneer and accept it.

What sneer? I don’t know what you feel like you can get out of commenting here.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:10 pm

Sancho Panzer
Oct 21, 2023 2:03 PM
Oh, and BTW. I have paid shed loads of taxes and still do.

Bullshit, as you talk and behave like a complete loser.

The only tax Wodney pays is the GST on his Marmite and kippers.

I actually pay a load of tax to help the Healthcare system with that lisp that you still seem to have Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Obviously the money is not getting through to the slum that you live in.

Vote YES for your money. Whoops – Too late. Game Over.

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 2:15 pm

What appals me is that having massacred 1400 Israelis and taken 200 hostage anyone anywhere would take anything Hamas said as truthful.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 2:16 pm

I actually pay a load of tax to help the Healthcare system

Is this from your part time bovver boy income?

From the English-Bovver translation function:

‘Oi right guvna – ooo wants sum bovver, innit?’
‘It ain’t half hot, Mum’
‘Oooh, you are awful’

Winston Smith
October 21, 2023 2:16 pm

Dot

Oct 21, 2023 10:37 AM
Sunak turned out better than expected so far, but the bar was set oh so low.

Dot, he’s made a Uturn of almost unbelievable magnitude since he’s been booted up the arse over his wife’s tax dodging business deals. Personally, I think it’s all window dressing and the nuts and bolts of globalism remain loktited to the old agenda.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:17 pm

rosie
Oct 21, 2023 2:15 PM
What appals me is that having massacred 1400 Israelis and taken 200 hostage anyone anywhere would take anything Hamas said as truthful.

Peace now, after we murder your civilians!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 2:18 pm

Daily Mail.

SUE REID: Never again, the world said. But this week a synagogue in Berlin was firebombed and the Star of David daubed on Jewish homes

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:18 pm

Dot, he’s made a Uturn of almost unbelievable magnitude since he’s been booted up the arse over his wife’s tax dodging business deals. Personally, I think it’s all window dressing and the nuts and bolts of globalism remain loktited to the old agenda.

As the old hag said, whatever works.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 2:19 pm

Explain how the Speaker pro tempore cannot make decisions in the same way as an elected permanent Speaker.

You’re asking this limey slimeball to explain this to you when

1. He thinks there’s no blog owner and this is a public space?

2. He thought he could also convince us Marty has been running a sentient AI since 1985?

You’re asking this feces riddled corpse to explain this to you?

Good luck, dot.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:20 pm

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Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:21 pm

Sorry Johnny but I don’t think we should be promoting an ongoing fraud perpetrated by a convicted fraudster.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 2:21 pm

There is no innocent reason why a 20 year old would have a blue octopus toy in her pro-Gaza photo op. I’m struggling to find one. So, the unfortunate conclusion is that it’s meant, as a signal, a tap on the nose for the in crowd.

I see she has dispensed with the Pippi Longstocking plaits. Getting a bit long in the tooth at 20, almost 21.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 2:22 pm

Palestine, transsexualism, globull warming, crt , open borders and Marxist identity politics are the cans being kicked by the Marxist establishment. Serve to undermine the nuclear family and the nation state.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:23 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 2:19 PM

“Jer Cough Cretin” just sign up. You know it makes cents. LOL

JR

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:23 pm

Explain how the Speaker pro tempore cannot make decisions in the same way as an elected permanent Speaker.

Yes. I think you’ve been had by Democrat Progressive “Cathedral” disinformation. It has worked because it has demoralised you.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 21, 2023 2:24 pm

Thunberg is going to find it a bit hard to sustain a life as an activist. Her shtick was that she was young and unqualified and female.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 2:25 pm

Go on, keep it spiteful. Keep posting Socrates, you limey slimeball. It all helps keep up appearances

You’re remind me of the only gay in the village. The only gay bovver in the village.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 2:26 pm

I really must be on a different wavelength to anyone that would find the Greta appealing. Horror movie material imo.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 21, 2023 2:29 pm

Would the Russian Army be handing this out to combat fatigue?

Dot – I recall that it was no biggie when the Poms were providing benzedrine to their guys in WW2.

The RAF on Speed: High-Flying or Flying High? (2022)

Fatigue is something you learn to live with in the olive drab. It goes with the territory. I used to sit perched on my pack on night piquet, since if I fell off I’d wake up. Then I’d get back on my pack until the next time I fell off. Eventually the next shift would relieve us.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:29 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 21, 2023 2:33 pm

There is no innocent reason why a 20 year old would have a blue octopus toy in her pro-Gaza photo op.

Someone must’ve educated her into its meaning since she then rapidly deleted the tweet.

Greta Thunberg Deletes Pro-Gaza Post that Includes ‘Symbol of Antisemitism’ (20 Oct)

Climate worrier Greta Thunberg deleted her post calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire “in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza” after the public noticed that she had an octopus in her photo, in reference to Nazi propaganda that depicted Jews as an octopus with tentacles all over the world.

Oops.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 2:34 pm

Good find, Dot

Where and how to complain
I have established beyond doubt, in an incontestable way that Martin Armstrong is running a scam with his Socrates system and various other products and services. Here is what you can do (and perhaps should do).

Depending on whom you want to address, here are the Martin Armstrong Inner Circle Details which includes company details, addresses, phone numbers etc..

File a SEC Complaint

Someone should also report wodney for assisting in running this out and out fraud.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 2:35 pm

Daily Mail.

Voice referendum Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo breaks his silence to reflect on the loss

Thomas Mayo break his silence after Voice defeat
Became face of Yes campaign on a Voice to Parliament

Thomas Mayo’s twelve year old son went to bed, in tears, and was “barely consolable” the night of the referendum…..is there no depths to which these people will not stoop?

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 2:36 pm

There is no innocent reason why a 20 year old would have a blue octopus toy in her pro-Gaza photo op.

Not only in the photo, but in a place of honoured prominence. Nobody near it to possible block it from view.

She got busted.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:36 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 21, 2023 2:16 PM

More shite from the Sheep Shagger. C U in the N T.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 2:36 pm

@ OldOzzie My experience with explosives was more enthusiastic. as a kiddie I learned the joys of Potassium Permanganate and Aluminum powder. as well as others. .. I was fortunate enough to have had some guidance from my elders and betters, as to not confining it in metal or glass .. no my bombs were all duct taped … some ducks flew off some ponds.

But later on I worked with proper professional explosives … I was retrospectively terrified at the risks I had taken …

And at the end of every job …gosh … lots of powder left and we just happen to by driving by the tip .. Oh a wrecked car ?

Tasmania … you understand …

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 2:39 pm

I see she has dispensed with the Pippi Longstocking plaits.

Bad visuals… when she wore the plaits and a black blouse her inner concentration camp guard was highlighted.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 2:39 pm

It’s a day old, but worth a read:

The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned dogs.

Greenfield/Sultan Knish

shatterzzz
October 21, 2023 2:39 pm

Thomas Mayo’s twelve year old son went to bed, in tears, and was “barely consolable” the night of the referendum…..is there no depths to which these people will not stoop?
Daddy, probably, told him he was target on the “stolen” list if NO got up .. FFS!

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:41 pm

There is no innocent reason why a 20 year old would have a blue octopus toy in her pro-Gaza photo op.

Took me a while to realise it is roughly the same as the Japanese propaganda about Russia leading up to the 1905 conflict.

It’s a very nasty slur.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 2:42 pm

She got busted.

I think it would be safe to style her a Neo Nazi.

Goes with all the other baggage of “environmentalism”, vegetarianism, totalitarian demands, and general weirdness.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 2:43 pm

@ Dot … so nastiness is something you notice ?

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 2:46 pm

And isn’t this hugely interesting explaining a lot of things about wodney woddenhead (aka Johnny Rotten)

From Dot’s link

A rather obvious conclusion can be drawn as follows because Martin Armstrong himself explains it to us with his own statement when he offered me a job in his illegal business:

Maybe you should come work for me? We could really use you around here. We have many aspects to our Ponzi scheme and you will be first in line and be a part of our inner circle purely based on the influence you have online and the threat you present against my business. We always pay our people the best and keep paying them for life just so they don’t talk too much and God forbid tell the authorities…
MA
Apparently some people who currently don’t ACTIVELY work for him are still committed to promote Armstrong Economics in their profiles to secure these “for life” payments.

I wonder how much Wodney’s scoring.
It’s also illegal in Australia to be promoting a scam like this.

https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/martin-armstrong-inner-circle-details.html?m=1

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 2:49 pm

@ Oldaussie that pic you sent Mate !!! It took me back … Initially I only was going to reference that but got carried away in all sorts of directions…

A Beethoven Brother !!! … I was never big on the fifth … had bigger bangs in mind …

But now Rachmaninoff is more my style….

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 2:49 pm

Mark Bolton
Oct 21, 2023 2:43 PM
@ Dot … so nastiness is something you notice ?

It’s not too hard with Hamas and people shilling for their atrocities.

Winston Smith
October 21, 2023 2:51 pm

Steve of Kenmore

Oct 21, 2023 1:24 PM
Just sat through a 20 minute Welcome to the Country at my grandkids Kindergarten.

Why?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 2:52 pm

We have many aspects to our Ponzi scheme

And:

I wonder how much Wodney’s scoring

Ahahaha. The part time bovver boy Amway salesman.

Subscribe now!

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 2:53 pm

As much as I dislike Hawke aka Liddle filth, he was right when he called the Labor left a canker. Anal is a canker. Sat 14th was an attempted Putsch. Heartens me that the electorate saw thru it. As Geoffrey Blainey pointed out, anal didn’t even have the magnanimity to congratulate Mundine and Price.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 2:56 pm

@Dot .. well you noticed me and your first instinct was to assume my “nastiness” until the some council of elders and betters granted my right to a Voice. It hasn’t happened yet?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 21, 2023 2:58 pm

calli
Oct 21, 2023 1:32 PM
Just sat through a 20 minute Welcome to the Country at my grandkids Kindergarten.

Who also did not recieve Marcia’s memo.

They don’t seem to take much notice of her do they?

And most of them won’t, as long as the munni keeps coming.

Johnny Rotten
October 21, 2023 2:58 pm

It’s also illegal in Australia to be promoting a scam like this.

LOL. Dipstick. So, if you feel so much about it then report this so called ‘scam’ to the ACCC, the Feral Guv’ment. APRA, the ATO, ASIC, your State Guv’ment, your local Council, your local tea party. your dog/cat. FFS. Get a back bone and Man Up. Wimp and Pompous Windbag.

Go Now. Off yer’ Go. T.W.A.T……………And don’t come back.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 21, 2023 2:59 pm

There was some support in Scandinavia in WWII to the Germans, they even had their own SS Division:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_SS_Panzer_Division_Wiking

On wars I note that the EU/US are trying to delay the Gaza invasion to broker talks. Be interesting to see which way Bibi breaks. A an ex defence mate reckons the whole thing has parallels to an Arch Duke Ferdinand moment, especially if Hezbollah, Iran & the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria get involved pulling US & EU into the mess.

Wonder if Zelensky is feeling nervous at the moment, US can’t be everywhere at once and the Chinese will seize any opportunity to cause problems in the Pacific alarming Japan & Sth Korea.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:02 pm

@ Miltonf … Bob Santamaria ? ~nudge~ ?

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 3:02 pm

KD

It’s seriously illegal to be running scams like this. It’s really no more sophisticated than receiving an email from a long lost Nigerian relative who’s left you $100 million.

We can now see how Johnny Rotten is in on the scam.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 3:03 pm

Don’t tempt me Wodney, you low life scammer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:03 pm

Someone should also report wodney for assisting in running this out and out fraud.

Just lodged a report with Scamwatch.
I tried my best to downplay your involvement Wodney, so I hope it doesn’t cause you too much bovver.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 3:05 pm

We have many aspects to our Ponzi scheme

Indeed.

Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949) is an American self-taught economic forecaster and convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators.

And:

In 1999, Japanese fraud investigators accused Armstrong of collecting money from Japanese investors, improperly commingling these funds with funds from other investors, and using the fresh money to cover losses he had incurred while trading. United States prosecutors called it a three-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

What’s your cut, Johnny?

Razey
Razey
October 21, 2023 3:06 pm

Kindergartens doing the fake Aboriginal welcome to country is to brainwash the next generation in to accepting they dont/cant/never will own the land and to shame them into paying a rent tax to them. Classic.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:06 pm

Guys Guys … toughen up .. we want News News and more News … but it has to be reliable and intelligent .. stop scratching each others eyes out …

Get back on the program ..

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 3:07 pm

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Mark Bolton
Oct 21, 2023 2:36 PM

@ OldOzzie My experience with explosives was more enthusiastic. as a kiddie I learned the joys of Potassium Permanganate and Aluminum powder. as well as others. .. I was fortunate enough to have had some guidance from my elders and betters, as to not confining it in metal or glass .. no my bombs were all duct taped … some ducks flew off some ponds.

Heh – as an 8 years old used to buy saltpetere, from memory Selbys Chemicals off Burns Bay Road down from Lane Cove, and put into Silver Milk Bottle caps – fold over and place them tram tracks – like a firecracker going off, but not as exciting as Double Bunger in Mail Box – Not sure how my Single Mother survived me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:10 pm

It’s up to individual Cats, of course, but the more reports to Scamwatch, the higher priority it will get.
wink, nudge.

Petros
Petros
October 21, 2023 3:10 pm

Disindigenous, Johnny? You like?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 21, 2023 3:10 pm

Who is going to have the biggest dummy spit ?

Thomas Mayo (see Zulu post)
Megan Davis
Marcia Langton (,please mention Welcome to Country)
Noel Pearson

My money is on Pearson as his entities have gained the most, $550m, since 2005 and might be realising the gravy train ending. First to audit.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 3:11 pm

well you noticed me and your first instinct was to assume my “nastiness” until the some council of elders and betters granted my right to a Voice. It hasn’t happened yet?

I assumed Greta Thunberg made a nasty anti Israeli slur.

Other than that, I have NFI what you are babbling about.

Crossie
Crossie
October 21, 2023 3:11 pm

It described the stimulant as the “cocaine for the poor,” and the report charges it allowed Hamas members “to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference.”

A good excuse but I’m not buying it, they would have to be psychopaths to begin with.

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 3:12 pm

Thomas Mayo’s twelve year old son went to bed, in tears, and was “barely consolable” the night of the referendum

Why? Did his dad swat him or something?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 21, 2023 3:12 pm

On wars I note that the EU/US are trying to delay the Gaza invasion to broker talks.

I assumed the IDF were doing some refresher practice exercises. Just to get all their ducks lined up in a row.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:13 pm

@ OldOzzie my multiple Mother didnt survive me ..I went to Tazzie to celebrate her 80th and my 60th .. but she carked it before I even got there … Mothers ? !! my Goodness me who would have one ? There is so much to go wrong with them … so unreliable 😉

Weill said Brother … Peace.

Vicki
Vicki
October 21, 2023 3:13 pm

Calli – thank you for the Greenfield article. It explains so much. The massive increase in work permits over the last few years to the youth of Gaza to work in kibbutzim & other venues provided the opportunity for Hamas to execute their atrocities. It was a huge error of judgment by Israel & they have paid an horrific price. The fact that many of these assassins knew the families they slaughtered makes the tragedy more unbearable.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 21, 2023 3:14 pm

100%. Plus all the WTC and signage on buildings and in offices and the constant use by ABC of Aboriginal place names etc etc.

“Kindergartens doing the fake Aboriginal welcome to country is to brainwash the next generation in to accepting they dont/cant/never will own the land and to shame them into paying a rent tax to them. Classic.”

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
October 21, 2023 3:14 pm

The Westminster Declaration on the abhorrence of the Censorship structure being hauled into place is worth a read.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:15 pm

@Dot I heartily concur.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:18 pm

A big dollop of Mayo.

Imagine what we can achieve if the almost seven million Australians who voted ‘Yes’ continue to have conversations with their neighbours, meeting ‘No’ voters with an understanding that they may have voted ‘No’ because of the lies they were told’.

Oh, yes, please.
Let’s have more condescending hectoring from the losers.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 3:19 pm

I assumed Greta Thunberg made a nasty anti Israeli slur.

Other than that, I have NFI what you are babbling about.

@Dot I heartily concur.

This act took less than 24 hours to fall apart. You’re worse than m0nty and persona non grata until proven otherwise.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 3:20 pm

Vicki, it’s worse than an error of judgement. They were encouraged by the usual suspects.

Last year, Secretary of State Blinken addressed a J Street even and told the anti-Israel lobby that the Biden administration had pushed Israel to “improve the lives of Palestinians” by, among other things, “issuing thousands of work permits for Palestinians in Gaza”.

They were actively lobbied by the US to increase from around 7,500 to over 35,000 permits. No one could be expected to police this. If you’ve ever been stuck at the Bethlehem/Jerusalem checkpoint, you’ll know.

Whether it was meant or not, US meddling in Israel has cost scores of innocent lives.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 3:20 pm

Comment over on the “Quadrant” website, regarding the Voice.

“If you want a Voice, learn English.”

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 3:20 pm

On wars I note that the EU/US are trying to delay the Gaza invasion to broker talks.

Taking their time, preparing the battle-space. Take out known stongpoints with firepower, not lives. Create channeling obstacles (rubble). Making the enemy burn up reserves of stores. Phsyc ops, etc..

Fighting smarter, not harder.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 3:22 pm

I want the Gang of Four to coordinate their dummy spit into one gigantic tantrum. I want it to be prolonged, unhinged, untrammelled by good manners or any innate civilised quality.

I want the mask to come off once and for all in the most embarrassing, humiliating way.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 21, 2023 3:24 pm

Moment cops arrest hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors in NYC and load them on to busses as rallies calling for a Gaza ceasefire and Biden to stop giving aid to Israel are held across the US

. More than 150 pro-Palestinian protestors were arrested while calling for a Gaza ceasefire in NYC as demands mount for Biden to stop giving aid to Israel
. Several hundred people gathered in New York City on a rainy Friday afternoon, reportedly calling for a ‘ceasefire’ in Israel
. The rally was sponsored by NYC Democratic Socialists of America, a controversial group some politicians distanced themselves from in recent days

Meanwhile in Labor NSW

Pro-Palestine supporters flock to streets of Australian cities as situation in Gaza deteriorates

. Protests in Sydney, Perth, Hobart and Brisbane
. Sydney protest in co-operation with police

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:24 pm

@Zatara ..You are so right … this is going to be a horrible blood bath … Hamas have had the time and energy and fanaticism, as well as a claim to Justice…

May the Almighty have Mercy on us because we seem to have no Mercy on each other…

Peace.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:29 pm

Prosciutto leading from the rear again.

Pesutto said he would wait to see the government’s proposal and falsely suggested Labor was questioning its own commitment to the process.

“My understanding is the government isn’t itself sure about how to proceed in the space now, particularly after the weekend,” he told reporters.

“We’ll see what the government is going to propose. But at this stage, we’re not entertaining any immediate decisions on the matter.”

Prosciutto in his element.
Deferring and deflecting.

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 3:32 pm
JC
JC
October 21, 2023 3:33 pm

LOL, if you following the Socrates model, you would’ve been down -.55%.

Get a load of this.

https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/socrates-long-term-past-performance.html

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 3:34 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:35 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 3:33 PM
LOL, if you following the Socrates model, you would’ve been down -.55%.

Get a load of this.

https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/socrates-long-term-past-performance.html

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. LOL!

Roger
Roger
October 21, 2023 3:35 pm

Whether it was meant or not, US meddling in Israel has cost scores of innocent lives.

Something I posted earlier in the week that some may have missed:

Eyeless in Gaza
How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

The author concludes that US policies in the region left Israel “eyeless in Gaza.”

(Not intentionally, but almost inevitably.)

P
P
October 21, 2023 3:36 pm
Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:39 pm

@OldOzzie.. was it comrade L who said “nothing happens for decades then decades happen in weeks” ? Strap in Old Mate ..we are in for some ride.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 21, 2023 3:39 pm

JC
Oct 21, 2023 3:33 PM
LOL, if you following the Socrates model, you would’ve been down -.55%.

To be clear, that is a 55% loss, not .55%.

Oh come on
Oh come on
October 21, 2023 3:40 pm

And myself, as a woman of colour and a woman from a multicultural background, there’s a lot of additional barriers like not wanting to use tampons and wanting to use something else instead.

By all means, use something “traditional” to your ‘people’. Or invent something new.

But either way, how is it society’s problem and why do you feel the need to whine to us about it?

Also, she’s a 19yo chick studying Health Sciences at ANU, not Fatima living in a village in Goatherderstan, with her and her 3 sisters happily married to their 1st cousin after graduating kindergarten and completing their education.

In general, someone who knows to raise as many intersectional barriers as possible to portray themselves as a victim is unlikely to be clueless about modern sanitary methods, or be squeamish about using tampons.

Although I have to say that she might be in trouble. Her statement clearly implies that men cannot menstruate, and is thus subject to referral to the Cancel Council* who are likely to cancel her. At the very least, I’d expect her Woman of Colour and Woman from a Multicultural Background licences to be suspended.

*has this been used before? If not, I’m coining it. The Cancel Council is not unlike the similarly-named Cancer Council in its benevolence, but its mission is far more important and its authority much greater than the Cancer Council’s.

JC
JC
October 21, 2023 3:40 pm

Whoops..-.55%.

Should read -55%

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 3:40 pm

I want the mask to come off once and for all in the most embarrassing, humiliating way.

Well said, callie>

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 21, 2023 3:42 pm

Thousands join pro-Palestinian march in Sydney

Fun how all the usual suspects got so excited when a bunch of astroturf Nazis turned up to berate Ms Deeming. Now when thousands of real Nazis appear there’s crickets.

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 3:42 pm

Nyt has a paywalled article about the resumption of aid entering Gaza.
The possibility of weapons being introduced remains a possibility and not surprisingly Israel doesn’t want to supply hamas with fuel.
BBC is also reporting that Israel wants to have nothing to do with Gaza in the future, no supply of any kind, no entry of Gazans into Israel.
In the circumstances not surprising.

alwaysright
alwaysright
October 21, 2023 3:42 pm

Thousands join pro-Palestinian march in Sydney

Well, aint multiculti grand?

alwaysright
alwaysright
October 21, 2023 3:46 pm

reporting that Israel wants to have nothing to do with Gaza in the future, no supply of any kind

That would be a most sensible thing to do.

Dot
Dot
October 21, 2023 3:46 pm

Hamas have had the time and energy and fanaticism, as well as a claim to Justice…

“legitimate grievances”, say the village retards.

(Why do trolls use inappropriate, awkward capitalisation?)

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 3:47 pm

@ Zulu Kilo Two Alpha .. I was thinking the same just a few days ago … “What if all masks were to come off ” ?

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

All our masks will be ripped off and sooner than you might imagine..

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 3:51 pm

Looks like prosciutto still more comfortable attacking Moira than mother Russia mkII

alwaysright
alwaysright
October 21, 2023 3:53 pm

IF, I was Israel, I would leave nothing taller than 5′ 1″.

Consequences of actions and all that.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 21, 2023 3:55 pm

A an ex defence mate reckons the whole thing has parallels to an Arch Duke Ferdinand moment, especially if Hezbollah, Iran & the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria get involved pulling US & EU into the mess.

Yet Peter Zeihan has totally the opposite take which makes sense to me …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OagYlYna75Y&pp=ygUMcGV0ZXIgemVpaGFu

Cassie of Sydney
October 21, 2023 3:57 pm

What claim to “justice” does Hamas have?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 4:00 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/gaza-or-sydney.html

“The people are with Palestine!”

Go home and fight for the place, then!

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 4:01 pm

@Johnny Rotten .. I learned my working manners in the Wilds of Tasmania… Masks were kinda frowned upon …

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 4:03 pm

Seems to me gaza choses poverty and dependence a bit like those living in remote communities but with bile and bitterness dialed up to eleventy.
It’s not just religion but envy, they could have prosperity but that wouldn’t fuel their murderous inclinations.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 4:03 pm

Wow I didn’t get the turdburger octopus thing. She really is a horror.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 21, 2023 4:04 pm

The Hun:

Former governor-general, one-time Labor Party leader and Queensland great Bill Hayden has died, aged 90.

Died of shame, I expect.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 4:04 pm

What claim to “justice” does Hamas have?

They’ve earned justice in spades.

Now the dish needs to be served.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 4:05 pm

@Cassie of Sydney … with the greatest of respect …. you saw it and I saw it..

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 4:06 pm

Hayden seemed to get it towards the end.

Mark Bolton
October 21, 2023 4:07 pm

Too all .. referencing “Hardware” the movie … with a great VO from Iggy Pop … “This is what you want … this is what you get” ..

I am extremely unhappy about all of this..

Zatara
Zatara
October 21, 2023 4:08 pm

Seems to me gaza choses poverty

Rosie, do a search for videos of Gaza or the West Bank prior to this action. Poor they are not.

Whether their standard of living was earned or handed to them via international donations is another question. One with an obvious answer. The ultimate in entitlement one might say.

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 4:08 pm

Haydn converted to Catholicism in 2018.
I’d say he really got it.

rosie
rosie
October 21, 2023 4:10 pm

I’m absolutely certain that the elite live very well indeed, Zatara but with 46% unemployment?
That’s hopeless.

Pogria
Pogria
October 21, 2023 4:12 pm

Top Ender
Oct 21, 2023 2:24 PM
Thunberg is going to find it a bit hard to sustain a life as an activist. Her shtick was that she was young and unqualified and female.

Top Ender,
the next chapter is to define herself as “Greg Thunberg
Grifters gotta Grift.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 21, 2023 4:13 pm

Haydn converted to Catholicism in 2018.
I’d say he really got it.

Hayden and Walsh were about the only two Labor politicians I ever had the time of day for.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 21, 2023 4:15 pm

I’d add Latham and Campbell too Zulu. Yes Walsh too and maybe Button.

calli
calli
October 21, 2023 4:16 pm

Walsh was Cassandra. Button was okay.

Cassie of Sydney
October 21, 2023 4:17 pm

Hamas has NO claim to justice, Israel has a claim to justice, and justice Israel will administer.

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