Time for me to turn flukes ..Chappies.. got work on the early morrow… hug those that love you …

Peace M

I want every man on my crew to go home in one piece and dont give a bugger about the bosses bottom line

A pretend shop steward then.

That explains the spelling.

@ Bruce … my last .. I have a nesting pair of Chitty Chitties in the tree just by my truck… Joy … much much Joy …

And yes I do read the Daily Stormer

Since when was starting sentences with capitalised “And” or “But” (however grammatically correct) ever considered good style for prose?

There is one other chief offender here, but it is also a Birdism. See “ Latest Medical Emergency Realtime” 27 Oct 2016.

Peace M

Peace for people of goodwill.

That doesn’t include Hamas.

Gabor – all that is excellent. I’ve never heard the Mehter band music though. Russian classical is wonderful as everyone knows (1812).

I was doing walk yesterday and a guy and his girl were in their car. Year 12s I think, near the school. Doof doof rap! The car was just about shaking but it was awful. I don’t understand current tastes.

With her very first single as a solo artist, Dusty Springfield secured her glorified place in the pantheon of rock & roll history.

The 1963 release of “I Only Want to Be With You” made her the second English artist – following the Beatles – to break through in America as part of the initial wave of the British Invasion, launching the international career of one of rock’s most distinctive, far-reaching and enduring female vocalists.

BANDSTAND LIVE IN AUSTRALIA DUSTY SPRINGFIELD 1967 Excerpt

I have a nesting pair of Chitty Chitties

I have no idea what a chitty chitty is!

Peewee? A few years ago I got friendly with some peewees, they had chicks and I made friends with the chicks too. Sadly they moved on. But one male still remembers me, so today I went off for a walk…not far from my house flap flap flap he came over, hovering. I gave him some mince and off he went. It’s a fun ritual, and fairly rare, about once a month.

England are toast SA master class these last 8 overs.

Ukraine has to be telling the truth by now.

You can’t lie about the day to day outcomes of a war 600+ days straight against a numerically superior enemy.

If they were consistently being materially dishonest, Ukraine would have ceased to exist by now.

Zelenskyy is phoning Hamas for tips

These wars are totally incomparable.

Bruce, I think that that Bolton spook was hinting at the Willie Wag-Tail, Rhypidura leukophrys. All over the place in savannah landscapes west and north, heaps of Aboriginal names basically mimicking their chitti-chitti challenge call. More melodic whistly notes to in quiet times, often hear them on still nights. Very charismatic, gutsy, communicate territory and harem boundaries by flaring their white eyebrows. Nest in weird places out in the open- on the top of fence-posts, had one on the crook of the depth handle of a seeding rig once.
Lent their name to Chittering.

We are in Amman after quite a tiring flight from Rome, as our day started early and there has been much hanging around airports, first at Rome, now here. Hairy’s phone GPS in flight showed we were over Israel, which concerned me, but later it seemed to show we came via the Red Sea; we could definitely see into Israel, and noted Jerusalem by its lights in the visible distance and other Israeli towns, Gaza area not lit up though. Sad and strange to look over that way and think of all the turmoil going on. I also had a vague fear that a stray rocket might suddenly appear. Turmoil then started for us as we hit some heavy turbulance, which distressed me, as the plane was a complete 1990’s crate. Our business class seats were of that date too, and very few of the seat electronics worked. My footrest for instance wouldn’t go down, and Hairy couldn’t get his antiquated tray table up. There was no TV at all. The vinyl seats were frayed and had ingrained grubbiness. We could only hope the serious electronics of this plane and the engines would survive the journey. As we landed the pilot’s door flew open and I could see into the cockpit and all of the array of lights in there that the two of them were working on.

The service and food were fine though. Hairy assures me Royal Jordanian will provide a proper Dreamliner with proper carrels for our next flight in three hours now to Bangkok, where we will R and R for three days before coming home.

We are in a big and very middle-eastern airport business lounge. Hairy just comes and sits down next to me and says the midnight flight to Tel Aviv has just been cancelled.

1st aid trucks enter Gaza as number of confirmed hostages held in Strip reaches 210

Why do they always insist on resupply during what should be a siege.

Top o’ the mornin’!

That was the longest performance of Showboat I’ve ever sat through. No intermission either. 😀

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Oct 22, 2023 6:37 AM

Gotta go. Nearly out of charge on all equipment and they only have English plug systems here. Our one English plug is in the checked baggage.

I take it Hairy is not in charge then?
At least an emergency battery pack should always be in your carry on backpack or similar. Also several plug conversions, suited to the intended places you are visiting.
Only LOL.
Have a safe flight.

Bruce, I think that that Bolton spook was hinting at the Willie Wag-Tail

Ah yes of course! Thanks Wally. I don’t have any around as there are too many predatory currawongs and intolerant noisy miners. There’re are small bush birds and willy wagtails in the reserve not to far away but none near the Cafe, since they wouldn’t be customers, they’d be menu choices.

100,000 Jew haters march in London.

Hitler may just have the last laugh after all.

What does that mean, Razey? That he wish to annihilate the Jews will be granted?

Not going to happen. The nations break themselves on Israel century after century, and they still endure. The other side of the story – any nation that shows kindness to and shelters the Jews prospers. This has been shown time and again.

They still don’t get the message. It’s a theological blind spot.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is a journo to watch. She has coined the term “Stenographers of Terrorists” for the msm.

Lizzie be pleased you will be out of Amman – we flew out of there back to Dubai on Emirates and also were in the Lounge at Amman

For you

The First U.S. Military Engagement in an Expanded Israeli War Has Begun

October 21, 2023 – Sundance

Today, the sketchy Pentagon statements about the USS Carney are starting to make sense. The initial suspicions within the originating statements {GO DEEP} are well founded. Today, the Pentagon is admitting the events in the Red Sea were “much more significant” than originally outlined.

Here’s the big picture, and we will go a little deeper.

The USS Carney is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer assigned to USS Ford Carrier Strike Group 12. As part of the October 8th deployment into the eastern Mediterranean, the USS Carney took up a defensive position for the strike group by going through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Fortunately, the Carney arrived in the Red Sea, on mission, Wednesday, just hours before four cruise missiles and 15 drones entered the established defensive perimeter airspace.

Obviously, the destination of the missiles and drones was/is unknown; however, the Pentagon said “potentially” targeted to hit Israel.

Now keep in mind, this report from CNN (think State Dept) is from a U.S. official that is NOT the Pentagon. Meaning this report is political in nature and slanted to provide the State Dept/political Intelligence Community perspective. Again, this is not a military report; this is a report from the U.S. political angle of government.

The Rest is a fascinating read!

In probably the Most Irrelevant News of the Day

Olivia Newton-John’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi reveals she was struck by mysterious illness – but claims she was later cured by Balinese elephants

Israel is deploying submarines. Something big is about to happen

Kadosh was to relay that submarines had been deployed at combat positions along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle East in response to escalating threats from Iran and Hezbollah.

The submarines are a vital element of Israel’s combat capabilities. The Defence Blog emphasizes that their deployment in the Middle East “is a clear signal of this country’s commitment to maintaining a strong deterrent stance”.

“Israeli submarines guarding safety”

The Israeli Navy currently operates five modern Dolphin I/II class submarines. All were designed and constructed by the German company Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW). Work is also underway on another Dolphin II class vessel. Photos of INS Drakon, the one in question, went around the world in early August. The vessel was spotted in front of the assembly hall in Kiel, in northern Germany.

Why Israel Doesn’t Win Wars Anymore

According to Hanania, in the post he’s graciously allowed us to excerpt below, Israel and other advanced countries have been hamstrung by human rights concerns.

Wars of Necessity, and Wars of Choice

Why Israel faces a tragic decision

Over the last few centuries, powerful states have been getting worse at winning wars against weaker adversaries. The chart below presents one such analysis demonstrating this development in international politics.

These are all interstate conflicts, but that’s not the point, as Western countries used to be a lot more willing to commit atrocities when putting down insurgencies too.

It would be nice to believe that there isn’t a tradeoff between protecting innocent life and winning wars.

My theory of the origins of counterinsurgency doctrine is that it emerged in the late 2000s as a way to tell policymakers what they wanted to hear, which is that you defeat an enemy and develop a stable state primarily by winning civilians over to your side, and you win civilians to your side by looking out for their objective interests. Yet this would be quite amazing if it were true.

Given that insurgents hide among civilians and live off the local economy and infrastructure, there will often be times when killing them or otherwise hindering their operations will require risking harm being done to the broader public.

How much harm one is willing to inflict on noncombatants is a political and moral question.

The basic idea behind COIN was that third world populations will like you if you’re nice to them and hate you if you’re mean to them, and you need to do things to make them like you. This isn’t completely crazy, as all else being equal it is much better to have the people on your side.

But insurgents usually have few qualms about killing collaborators, and sometimes even their families, which shapes the incentive structure that civilians face when deciding which side to support.

Israel is a different story though. Its opponents pose an existential threat to its way of life.

Despite this, the country has been remarkably restrained.

All of the Palestinian civilians killed in the last fifty years don’t even come close to the number of lives lost in the US war on ISIS, much less the Second World War.

This is primarily due to Israel facing a lot more scrutiny than most other nations would under similar circumstances.

Lockdown sceptics are rapidly being vindicated – Paywalled

The Covid inquiry has shown how the scientific process was perverted by advisers steeped in groupthink

Was there a better way? That’s the question central to everything at the Covid Inquiry.

If we refuse even to tentatively ask if there was a better way, we are guaranteeing a repeat of our pandemic failures.

Pogria that is my present wife, the glass didn’t work twice before!

The ‘threat’ of invading Gaza has certainly brought the Hamas supporters out into the public in every country. They can’t help but show their Jihad commitment.
Perhaps that is the reason. Israelis are smart. Now the West knows. I hope our coppers got plenty of photos. Easiest flushing in history.

Figures on Palestinian casualties are Hamas propaganda and should be treated as such – Paywalled

There is no ‘health ministry’ or ‘health authorities’ in Gaza. Just people told what to say by terrorists

Tuesday saw Western media commit a historically flagrant mistake with far-reaching consequences.

Reporting on a blast at a hospital in the Gaza Strip, the most prestigious newsrooms on Earth made the seemingly collective decision to suggest that an Israeli missile had struck the hospital.

As it turned out, the cause of the explosion was an errant missile aimed at Israel by Hamas-allied terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not an Israeli airstrike. A senior European intelligence source later told AFP that he believed a maximum of 50 people were killed, not the hundreds breathlessly pronounced dead by the press and their sources. This is consistent with the fact that the jihadi rocket appears to have struck the car park, not the hospital itself. The hospital is still operating, and appears to be largely undamaged.

The repercussions of this terrible journalism have been world-historical in their nature.

A meeting between President Joe Biden and Arab leaders to discuss the ongoing crisis was cancelled, and those same leaders are now condemning Israel as their people take to the streets. Many of those protests raged outside of American embassies in the region, prompting the State Department to issue a worldwide warning for US citizens overseas. And at home, American protesters, egged on by leading anti-Semites in Congress, are applying pressure on elected members of the Democratic Party to oppose Israel’s effort to wipe out Hamas.

So “no harm, no foul” doesn’t quite apply in this instance.

There’s little that can be done to remedy the propagation of this vile blood libel against Israel. Anti-Semites and ignoramuses around the world will cite false accounts of Tuesday’s events as a reason for Israel to lay down its righteous arms in the near-term and as a supposed example of its inhumanity for years to come.

But what the media must do is take steps to ensure this never happens again.

This starts with being clear about the source of the disinformation they used to justify their reckless reporting on the mislabeled hospital attack.

Yet because news organizations are desperate to prove their worth to consumers with numbers and details suggesting that they’re especially well-sourced, they continue to launder Hamas’ lies.

But surely reporters would not continue to parrot Hamas through their intermediaries even after the ultra-consequential, industry-wide disgrace of Tuesday?

They most assuredly would.

“The death toll in Gaza has reached 3,785 people and more than 13,000 have been injured, Palestinian health officials say,” declared NBC News on Thursday.

Al Jazeera, it should come as no surprise, is reporting that the death toll outstrips 4,000 according to a “health ministry”.

These aren’t news reports, they’re terrorist propaganda.

It should hardly be on readers and viewers to sort through the disinformation issued by Hamas and dutifully echoed by the Western press, but it seems that task is likely to continue to fall on them. After all, if even Tuesday’s gross blunder has left the media unchastened, it seems clear that their unscrupulous relationship with Hamas terrorists continues.

Whenever you see a figure for Palestinian casualties in Gaza quoting any kind of officials or authorities, remember: that is Hamas talking.

And based on Tuesday’s hospital explosion, casualties will have been exaggerated many times over – and may well, in fact, have been caused by the terrorists themselves.

Meanwhile in UK – Colleagues left ‘appalled’ by top doctor’s comments on Israeli response to Hamas attacks

Dr Camilla Kingdon also failed to mention child hostages when writing about conflict and hospital strike in Gaza

Dr Camilla Kingdon, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), wrote to members on Friday about the conflict and the blast at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza earlier in the week.

Her comments came after controversy about who was responsible for the explosion at the hospital on Tuesday night.

Dr Kingdon’s comments have “appalled” some members of the college.

Dr Kingdon’s statement has been amended since its publication on Friday to add that the US government believes the hospital explosion was caused by a “malfunction” of a rocket fired from Gaza.

The fact remains that the LWNJs cannot be reasoned with and they hold all the power of the institutions. It is necessary for things to get much worse for Hoe public to rise against them. The No vote might just be a first chink in their armor.

Footage shows: Failed rocket launches fall within Gaza

IDF source confirms: 550 failed launches fell inside Gaza since the start of Hamas’ war with Israel two weeks ago.

Anal Airbus went to Kiev to visit the clown did she/he/it not?

The Tame thing seems to be modelled on the Greta to some extent.

Noticed how every motion from the opposition is now tagged as ‘playing politics’, while the adults just try to fix things (/sarc)

The 60% would like an apology from the PM.

I never expected any sense or decency out of the department of foreign affairies. One of the worst Canbra departments imo. Full of entitled soft handed nincompoop tax leaches.

Correct Rabz. A Channel Nine clone

Some shill on Medium is growing “research” that “proves” high red meat consumption causes diabetes.

Okay, what about the Massi before they started transitioning to a modern western diet? Incredibly healthy despite Stone Age medicine.

– That’s why we limit illegal immigration – too many are coming in – he says.

Once upon a time the fact that they were illegal would have been enough to stop them. The solution to “too many coming in” would have been more wire, more machine guns, and artillery.

Merely limiting them is a form of surrender.

… or more Winged Hussars.

Al Jazeera doing fine investigative journalism uncovering experts who conclude that Israel may very well be behind the Al-Ahli atrocity.
Very well, indeed:

Channel 4 journalists who visited the site in the aftermath of the incident also reported seeing small craters compatible with mortar strikes rather than missiles. Surrounding buildings only had superficial damage and no structural collapse.

The broadcaster said “this makes a ground detonating Israeli missile strike unlikely, but it doesn’t rule out an airburst munition which could cause major loss of life but would produce far less structural damage.”

An ‘air burst’ munition capable of incinerating cars, but not moving them, and causing major loss of life, but minor physical damage.
The absolute fiends.

Probably related to white phosphorus or the type of mini-nuke Israel used to collapse the WTC.

Shirley there’s an expert to help us with this…