Sunderland and Stevens need to be sacked.
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I feel for you, Cassie. Mum is getting frailer by the day also. Still in her own home, not eating…
It is if you count the people charging $200 an hour to cut lawns under the NDIS rort scheme.
Geez, got to the farm….pulled a few weeds out of my garden & got a terrific sting on one finger.…
state previously voted for Fetterman, who’s clearly cognitive fcked. He may have won through significant cheating as well. Dumb candidates…
Where was this, calli?
(I can easily imagine it happening at the usual places of self-worship where ‘social justice’ & virtue signalling have been substituted for the gospel & praise, but you seem to be referring to something specific.)
I think you’ll find Johnstone was thick with Kernot and the Australian democrats. Same toilet different sh*t
Loyalty prevents me, Roger.
I just wish I had the courage to tackle it afterwards. I guess is most Christians these days have little contact with real Jews but plenty of contact with the anti-Semitic MSM. And the younger are, the more ignorant they are.
Remember when Australia’s greatest intellect said the West using drones against terrorists wasn’t fair?
And terrorism was just a perpetual irritant (unless it’s your kind of people, of course)
Waleed, he’s a wally.
Write a letter Calli.
It’s disgraceful.
Rok Dok
There was a Labor woman MLC in NSW who got stuck into the peado thing here. She received no support from the Party, and soon lost pre-selection.
Can’t recall her name, but IIRC, she was of Italian ethnicity. The Liars have a long, and unsavoury, history with paedos.
Hamarse leader was unaware of hamarse terrorist attack.
A big boy did it, then ran away.
I don’t get this. Social media and various rightwing news sites are very excited about the Hidens moving money around within the family circle. Hiden’s brother apparently sent a cheque for 200K to brother Joe. It’s supposed to indicate corruption etc. The problem is though the cheque is dated 2018 when Hiden was unemployed.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-evidence-of-direct-payment-to-joe-biden/
What am I not getting here?
Franca Arena
Hetty I remember, as for the MP could be the NSW one. I did search on goolag but D’Arcy is the only Q’lander that comes up and for some reason Liz Cunningham but she was notorious for other reasons.
The only mob that seems to do good work quietly around child safety is the Morcombe Foundation, disclaimer I had a relative who was heavily involved in the case to get Cowan so could be unconsciously biased.
Not only did the PM lose the Yes campaign he also:
Gave Dutton a massive win
Created a super star in Jacinta Price
Showed the country how little support all his Ministers had on this issue. Even his Aboriginal Ministers seat voted No.
Killed Treaties in the states which were already in progress. A major policy dilemma now for Labor Governments.
In Qld reinvigorated LNP support as leader came out against treaties.
Opened the eyes of the public to Aboriginal issues, native title and treaties and finding etc.
Helped the people learn more about certain Aboriginal leader’s.
Thanks Albo. Amazing work .
Wow BJ just read Arena’s bio.
No wonder they wanted her shut up. Wonder how many of the judiciary and parliament she had dirt on?
Rosie, I think I will tackle it in person, but after much prayer and at the right time and in the right frame of mind. I think I have to put a “face” on the abstraction that many Aussie Christians see as Jewry.
For too long the “face” of Islam has been a constant in our media, always as suffering some sort of slight or glossed over when crimes are committed. It has a way of infecting the mind.
Day after day, week after week, Muslims are murdering Christians in Africa and elsewhere, just for being Christian. I don’t feel like playing “nice”, but calling a spade a spade. The niceness is a form of verbal jizya.
Even the terrorism and acts of barbarism committed on Oct 7 are described as an “incursion”. Why? It was terrorism, not a stroll across the border to attack the military.
Sometimes I have trouble even recognising my fellow believers.
Bourne. Publish. Brilliant.
Understood.
Timing is everything.
More ignorance than malice then. Best nipped in the bud with a gentle correction from an older, wiser soul.
Excellent:
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Perhaps not in QLD. The caucus told Palaszczuk she was out of line on Thursday.
Was talking to adult family about Voice issues.
One is Brisbane civil servant. His Department received newsletter saying could take 2 days off due to Voice result. He was a quiet No voter as his boss hard core Yes. Boss took a day off.
When referendum was announced Catholic Archbishop was promoting Yes campaign. Looked at diocese web page and under FAQ and there was a wishy washy Q and A about whether would cost people money. The answer already caused some suspicion. However just before the vote that para had been totally deleted.
Roger,
Premiers electorate was 62% No.
If they keep pushing treaties and truth telling going to be a major Qld election issue where they already know the public’s feelings.
Massive infighting amongst their MPs already on the issue.
Labor Qld will be cursing PM over this.
Saw a clip on YouTube of upcoming movie called One Life. Stars Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton who helped rescue Jews in WW2.
Only heard of him about a year ago. If you Google him you will find a video clip of a This is your life type show decades ago when they asked people in the audience to stand up if saved by him. Defy you not to get emotional watching it.
Miltonf
That’s the one.
QLD ALP on 26% primary last poll (Sept.).
Palaszczuk can no longer call the shots and the left dominated caucus is behind treaty 100%.
Sounds like a recipe for an electoral whitewash, but with 12 months to go don’t underestimate the ability of Crisafulli and the LNP head office to stuff things up.
Clearly quite enough to make her a threat.
Cost of living crisis impeccable data.
Bunnings sausage sizzle snags price has increased by 50%.
Sack Albanese (if you can catch the little commo prick in Australia).
My God! Those vocals!
O Virtus Sapentiae // Danish National Vocal Ensemble (Live)
Seems to me that Queensland Labor wants to rule, not represent. In other words they are in parliament under false pretences.
Naturally, non representation makes for more division, and therefore more opportunities for creeping totalitarianism. They can simply pick off foes as being “racist”.
Exxxxxcccellllent (rubs hands together).
Yes Franca Arena and remember Mr Justice Yeldham?
Won’t work on their voters though (or should that be ex-voters?).
Pretty much standard operating practice for modern left wing parties I reckon Calli. Particularly since bLIAR won in 97.
Interesting how these things work. Mentioned the systematic murder of Christians in Africa just up thread, and see that C.L. has an article up on his site about Nigeria.
These guys are manic.
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Last weekend and the lead up to it was another instance of the great unveiling of what the establishment is really about.
Harry and Meghan fly to Caribbean on a private jet… days after attending a conference where attendees were told ‘climate change is impacting our mental health’
Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew over 4,000 miles by private jet after summit
I seem to be upsetting someone. Clearly they love both Labor and Hamas.
My heart is broken for the pain I have caused you. Have a tissue.
I guess Europe is heading back to marking Jewish property with the Star of David. Old habits die hard.
That would be the summit in NYC where their convoy of seven SUVs drove them to the venue from their hotel one block away?
John Anderson with Melanie Phillips (3:14)
In this clip, Melanie explores the Arab-Israeli conflict and offers her insight on the geo-political situation which has led to tensions escalating in recent times.
When it hurts someone on their side.
This is where you end up when you tolerate the fanatically intolerant.
The red triangle on the Pali flag symbolises their bloodied swords, btw.
Some interesting Twitter threads #1:
Now the Queen is gone don’t we miss her. Chilla can never fill her shoes and far from being a quaint eccentric, Chilla is right on board with Kerry filth and Biden filth. I tolerate him here in Oz. Nothing more.
The voice result leave is just a passive-aggressive way of punishing the average taxpayers who didn’t vote the way they were instructed. That money will not be available for something actually useful and there more money will be required from these same disobedient taxpayers.
Twitter thread #2:
Gabor: This is the Cat. We do oddball.
#3:
JC- the 200k payment from a well off person to help a family member is being noised about for the same reason Q exists… the create a strawman for the left to attack as “oh look at how unreasonable they are being”.
They can focus on that, ignore all the rest, and then pretend they covered it.
Unfortunately, it’s not like the left have a complete monopoly on idiots, so there’s always someone who can be relied upon to interview.
From memory, it was Cassie who posted a list of those Jews who had made a significant contribution to Australian society – headed by Sir John Monash.
Has anybody ever compiled such a list of the contribution, made to Australian society, of those of the Mooslime religion?
May there be many more such farewells.
I see some criticism of Outsiders upthread.
This might not be a popular view, but I turned it on for the first time in a long time last Sunday, and found it unwatchable.
Hit the off switch after about ten minutes. Honestly, Rowan Dean’s hyper-bowlic delivery style would be more at home on a Nutri-bullet infomercial than a serious current affairs program.
DON’T WAIT, ISRAEL
Israeli troops are poised to enter Gaza, but Western governments are encouraging delay:
Hamas, playing Joe Biden like a violin–not that that is difficult–released two American hostages, giving Biden a foreign policy “victory.”
But the reality is that the fate of all of the kidnap victims is in the hands of Hamas.
There is no point is allowing the terrorists to manipulate Israeli policy.
Israel’s first order of business should be exacting revenge against Gaza for the horrors of October 7. Most if not all of Gazan society has collaborated with Hamas over nearly two decades to turn that polity into the most hellish place on Earth, with a culture that is utterly dominated by Jew-hatred.
Killing all the Jews between the river and the sea has long been the sole goal of Gaza’s foreign and domestic policies.
After World War II, many Germans claimed that they didn’t know about the Holocaust. Some of them may have been telling the truth.
On the other hand, no one who lives in Gaza can have been ignorant of that polity’s genocidal purposes.
Further, while Hamas, like the Nazi Party, is the duly elected government of Gaza, Hamas actually got a majority of the vote, which the Nazis never did.
So Gazan “civilians,” assuming there are any, need to experience the full wrath of Israel’s revenge.
The situation is the same as what obtained in Germany in 1945: Gazans need to experience the full horror of war, so that the survivors’ memories of October 7 will always provoke a shudder, and no Gazan will ever again propose wiping out the Jews.
So, yes, Israel must kill everyone who is associated with Hamas in any way, so that that organization will never rise again.
But the first order of business should be revenge against the Gazans who for years have been working to exterminate Israel’s Jews.
And it should begin now.
Would those snot flickers who clearly object to my comments about Hamas and attitudes towards them in our churches care to debate me or put up an alternative argument?
Don’t be shy forest lurkers. You obviously have an opinion. Be brave and articulate your thoughts.
JC
Oct 22, 2023 1:08 PM
That is appalling. What’s next? Star of David and the word Juden daubed on the door? What a disgrace.
I’d never have made a diplomat. “Right, you lot. You’ve got 24 hours to hand over all those hostages, or the Gaza strip will be flattened, and turned into a car park for the Jeruselum franchise of MacDonald’s.”
My comment on Peter Smith’s guest post, arguing against normalising a disturbing pathology by refusing to use the preferred name of h@m@s, has garnered four downticks so far.
Good to know.
They’re out and about today, Muddy. Welcome to my (almost) exclusive club. 😀
How does calli get 13 downticks & I only get 4? Misandrists!
Posted before I read your comment calli. I’ll hold off on applying for trauma leave then.
Honestly, Rowan Dean’s hyper-bowlic delivery style would be more at home on a Nutri-bullet infomercial than a serious current affairs program.
It’s ironic that Rowan goes on about hyperbole. His rants are the most hyperbolic. Drives me spare. He’ll cut of Rita or Morrow mid sentence and go on a rambling rant for a long while, often repeating himself. I don’t watch it, I listen to the audio podcast later. Rowan needs a producer to tell him to tone down a bit. He can have useful things to say, but he doesn’t sound like the sort of bloke who listens very well.
Pub Test of US Treaty:
*Snif*
There’s something rotten in this deal…
Thanks for the tip, Muddy. Just had a look at Smith’s thread. One of the problems with the new site is that threads pop up and you don’t see them unless you go to the home page.
I have to agree with some of the commenters there, apropos of my experience today. There is something unpleasant hiding in our culture that’s being re-awakened. I haven’t seen it since I was a teenager.
May there be many more such farewells.
They’ll be rostering the imams on to cope with the 24/7 shifts .. thank Allah for CentreLink .. at least the ‘devoted” won’t have to use up their holidays/sick leave to cope with the sore knees …….
Bourne1879
Oct 22, 2023 12:27 PM
Just superb.
But it’s everyone else’s fault to appreciate the brilliance of Albo’s brain queef
They would say that wouldn’t they. FMD maybe some introspection is required.
Not appreciate. Good Lord I hate basic mistakes.
How many “recommended” COVID shots are we up to now? It’s completely abnormal. There’s no seasonal thing. It just keeps on rolling through mutations of any length life cycle.
Two shots and a booster for every new variant (maybe 10?) in two years?
This is bad immunology and very bad politics.
We should use the barbaric recent demonstrations to make a point to our self-selected so-called elites.
Those “elites” routinely claim that Australia is a “successful multicultural nation”. Yet they remain silent when tens of thousands of a particular cultural/religious group march through the streets, calling for the deaths of another cultural/religious group. That they shield their eyes from the implications this lays bare the falsity of their pompous claims.
What is to be done, as Lenin asked?
Those with access via subscription to the media should use every opportunity to highlight the stupidity of the “successful multicultural nation” claim. Raise it in discussions with family and friends. Shirtfront politicians you meet in the street (a practice that Cassie excels at).
But don’t waste time and effort writing to government politicians. You will get a form letter in response, and the politician will never see your letter.
Meme
The passive aggressive tone too.
Andrew Bridgen MP Speech After Excess Deaths Debate
One in eight Londoners don’t believe Hamas is a terrorist organisation.
So, that means one in eight Londoners agree with Hamas’ charter to annihilate Jews, and Hamas’ charter is very specific that it wants to annihilate Jews not only across the middle east but also across the globe.
Jew hatred, the longest hatred, burning fiercely in 2023.
I am generally not a fan of woman captured mens’ sports but from the little I have seen, the standard of ball handling in womens’ rugby league is outstanding.
Fumbles are very rare. Passes are dead accurate and catching is excellent.
Perhaps if the Woke Wobblers hired a few of these kids as handling coaches they might win an occasional game. Unlikely I know, to win you have to want to win, not be overwhelmed by concern about the opposition’s feelz and your privilege.
Who would pay $170 per seat to have some half pissed abo hiss his vitriol at you and then watch the Wallabies make clowns of themselves.
RA like Tennis Australia has destroyed a magnificant sport in this country.
Hurt and bewildered by dinosaurs and dickheads.
Tell me, Emily, wasn’t it just as horrible what happened to those Israelis?
Sounds like a recipe for an electoral whitewash, but with 12 months to go don’t underestimate the ability of Crisafulli and the LNP head office to stuff things up.
Exactly I’m expecting Chrisifulli to pull a rabbit out of a hat and do a John Hewson 1993 next year. If he does get in next question I have is he going to repeal any Treaty measures? I may put that to his office this week being on a hiatus myself.
As for ALP being between rock and hard place, 3 seats up this way Townsville, Thuringowa and Mundingburra booths mostly between 65-80% no. All 3 have poorly performing ALP types or dickheads who think they are Rocky Balboa in the Flinders st nightclub precinct like Les Walker representing them. Burdekin has Dale Last who is already a Nat and immediately north & west is Katter held.
There are no wins for the ALP pushing this madness in the north.
MSU Professor Mark Skidmore was exonerated by MSU; his landmark paper showing over 250,000 killed by the COVID vaccine is now back in the peer-reviewed literature
My belief is that all these different campaigns – ‘first nations’ (stolen from Canada), global warming, COVID, multiculturalism etc are all about open borders and world government. Justine said it- Canada to be a ‘post nation’.
They know that their arguments are too weak to stand scrutiny. Easier to get a VPN and “Multi-tick”.
Health Hazzard said it too ‘new world order’.
Our polimuppets really need to be brought into line. Start working for us instead of against us.
Putting pressure on Israel to either lay off or to get ‘er done now isn’t helpful. They shouldn’t let those voices influence them.
It should begin when Israel is damned well ready. Nobody else gets a vote.
There already is one claim against Pfizer that we know of.
The vaccines are adulterated. The FDA is required by law to take them off the market. And you can now sue the manufacturers.
You just can’t see Palestinians suffering, their land shouldn’t have been taken away from them in the first place.”
In 1947, the UK turned the Palestine problem over to the UN. Read more. After looking at alternatives, the UN proposed terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized (Resolution 181 (II) of 1947).
And then the Arabs made war on Israel. Israel has won all of the wars ever since.
Arabs, reap what you sow.
Add together the large Muslim population and the British equivalent of the Greens, Labor (extreme) left and the Teals in London, and you probably come close to the number expressing that view.
Britain also claims to be multi-culti, rub their noses in their lies.
Please keep going with blaming Australia for the defeat of the activists. Also make sure to tell us how to vote at the next state and federal elections as it will help Australians make up their minds.
That article touches on something the MSM is studiously ignoring.
That is, how could such a massive operation be kept quiet? As a few of us were noting very early on it just doesn’t add up if we are to accept hamas has minority, or barely majority support.
How anyone can be calling for restraint is beyond me.
The kind of “humanity” than turns a blind eye to what happened on October 7.
Give it time and that atrocity will be whitewashed in a flood of “humanity”.
As for his poor grasp of history, perhaps his “humanity” might lead him to a few books on the Mandate and what happened next. Up until those texts become unavailable to the average joe, because inconvenient.
The nerve! Says Al Jiz
The statement from the office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was short and terse and said the following: ‘We will not respond to mendacious propaganda by Hamas we will continue to do everything necessary to bring all the captives and missing back home,” Jamjoon said live from occupied East Jerusalem.
“This is essentially the office of the prime minister saying Hamas is lying.
The majority of those Arabs heeded the call of their leaders to leave their homes and land – they could return when the invading Armies had “driven the Jews into the sea.”
At the same time, Israel was absorbing an equal number of Jews who had been expelled from their Arab birthplaces, in almost all cases, with the clothes they stood up in.
Let’s just accept that the vast majority of Palestinians support hamas jihad as do millions of muslims in the rest of the world, including Australia.
No matter what atrocity is planned their localities lie with their co-religionists.
What are the odds that this isn’t his first march by a long shot?
Neil Oliver: We must maintain the courage to stand against all evil, perpetrated by anyone
Practically, because a response that is ‘unrestrained’ could bring other actors directly into the conflict.
That’s a great step forward, calling those who didn’t want aboriginal oversight of every government decision vicious.
And you knew it was coming, by the way.
Indigenous leaders are divided over the wording of a joint statement following the Voice referendum defeat, with several objecting to the tone of a draft open letter, which lays blame for the loss on the Coalition and is critical of No voters.
When you have a competition there is only one winner unless you are woke of course.
The yes vote did not lose anything as there was nothing to lose. Only something to win. Which went to the NO vote.
Get a grip you pussies and wake up to the rules of Life.
I now would like to claim some of this Taxpayer ‘free; money for the grieving that I have experienced since the other weekend. I would like a bit of the ‘mulla’ that is being thrown about and I have a flag flying at half mast.
$5,000 should do it as I am not very greedy and my Wine Merchant would love the business. Along with the grape growers and Mother Nature. Bless her cotton socks.
It has my underwear flying though and clean as whistle as I did my laundry yesterday.
Meanwhile, Tennis Elbow has his dirty laundry flying with him on that “Quaintarse” flight to the USA.
T.OSS.ER.
Good article at the speccie.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/our-enemy-the-government/
I’m taking a wild guess that Israel is hammering every hamas or other terrorist site it is aware of, before putting Israeli lives at greater risk, including now known sites on the West Bank.
Not surprisingly mosque-cum-weapons storage.
From the Oz.
The kind of humanity that calls tens of thousands marching while screaming for the deaths of those of a different culture “successful multiculturalism”?
This ones for Dot.
When he finally mans up and finds a nice older career lady to settle down with he night want to get her womb ticking with this Viet film.
https://youtu.be/yk6XZIhncYw?si=_OgST2s6jQ6yJa1F
They are ruthless little buggers with their setups.
And because its branded as a rom-com she cant complain.
Miltonf
Oct 22, 2023 2:41 PM
Hurt and bewildered by dinosaurs and dickheads.
Tsk, Tsk MiltonF
Waleed Aly, Ray Martin & Marcia Langton. Our “Elite Masters” will take you behind the Woodshed and Administer a Flogging
It should be the Full Statement
Hurt and bewildered by Illiterate, Uneducated, Dickhead Dinosurs, who are Supid Racists
Noya Dan and her grandmother must have been taken from their home but didn’t make it to Gaza.
Hamas are scum but the media and progressives lap up every word they say.
And I’m sure the restraint being shown by other muslim nations is because they know most of the fatalities occurring in Gaza are hamas terrorists or hamas caused.
I think that you mean “their loyalties”, but that reality puts the lie to Australia as a “successful multicultural nation”. Time to destroy that pernicious myth. Rub the noses of the multi-cultis in their blatant dishonesty.
They know that their arguments are too weak to stand scrutiny. Easier to get a VPN and “Multi-tick”.
I’ve seen that “Multi-tick” before on a TV advert about gambling. Seems to work for the organisers of the Gambling joints and the State Guv’ments.
Not so good for the punters though.
Losers.
Israel by the way is being restrained.
They have been giving Gazan civilians plenty of warning to get out of harm’s way, and not once have they deliberately targeted civilians.
I just watched the recording of today’s second hour and Rowan was measured even if serious as the content required. The other two were fine as well.
I see what you mean, Dover.
I also believe that what the “restraint” urgers really mean is “do nothing substantive/practical”.
They need to get those hostages home. They are being blackmailed both by Hamas and by the international community, some of whom are poised to invade and kill.
News Alert.
Hamas has just released 40 sex victims it took hostage:
Typical Cringing Labor Minister Ed Husic says Palestinian civilians paying an ‘utterly horrible price’ for Hamas’ brutal incursion into Israel
Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic has expressed concern for the Palestinian civilians caught up in the war between Hamas and Israel, arguing there must be a more “strategic and precise” way to hold the terror group to account.
From the Comments
– How do you know who is Hamas or not, the video seen on the day the terrorists attacked showed an Israeli tank on fire and the people dancing around it were just dressed as civilians.
So is this what Hamas looks like or do they wear military gear.
An Israeli soldier might think they are seeing civilians when in fact they could be Hamas.
That mistaken identity could cost the soldier his life.
Very much what our soldiers faced in Afghanistan, this is why civilians can be killed in wars like these.
– Hamas follows no rules, so this minister needs to clarify what he means by international law, or even better still stop opening this mouth.
– I wonder who started all this, that’s right, the vicious barbarians who butchered innocent people.
– What is Palestine doing to aid in the return of the hostages? I’m sure many ‘innocent’ people know where they are.
Why don’t Palestinians side with Israel to wipe out Hamas?
I think this guy’s judgement is skewed by his belief system.
– You reap what you sow Mr Husic and Palestinians in their various representations such as Hamas, PLO, PIJ, Hezbollah etc have been sowing death and disorder for decades.
– So what does he suggest as a way to hold the abhorrent Hamas to account?
– I would like to tell Ed Husic and Anne Aly that this Gaza / Israel war would not have happened of the Hamas terrorists hadnt massacred so many Israeli’s because they were Jews !..
Israel is fighting for survival and rightly so .
If it happened in Australia we would do the same to save our country from terrorists and their atrocities!
– Got news for you mate…..they should not have let HAMAS live with them and develop into the terrorists they are … you dont get it .walk with terror and have it in your Country its a bad thing…..sorry can we just go back 2 weeks….yes it was Hamas that attacked slaughtered and took hostages from …..yes Israel And they have been attacking Israel for a long time so lets not forget the facts
– Husic needs to go. Where is his condemnation of the terrorist atta k against Israel? By allowing him to swear in on his book, he admitted to loyalty to that ideology above this country.
The Above Comments are the first 9 Comments – The Australian Labor Party on Show – Anti-Semetic and Supporting – The vicious barbarians who butchered innocent people
Hamas has just released 40 sex victims it took hostage:
Funny, but not funny, JC. My heart breaks for what has happened to the girls & women captured by those savages.
Black Ball:
Bringing the race laws in by another means is respecting the result.
Do these people ever listen to themselves?
Why is it that wherever I look in the world, I see Authoritarian Socialists in the ascendant despite the very clear messages being sent by the citizens of these nations?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 22, 2023 3:16 PM
The better view is that Gazans are being “collectively sacrificed” by their Hamas leadership for strategic purposes. Shockingly, Hamas regards these innocent civilians are mere pawns.
Such leadership to take those lambs (and sheep) to the slaughter.
John Bolton: Release of two hostages is a delay tactic by Hamas
Former US National Security Advisor on release of two American hostages: I think this is an entirely cynical move by Hamas.
– How do you know who is Hamas or not, the video seen on the day the terrorists attacked showed an Israeli tank on fire and the people dancing around it were just dressed as civilians.
How do I know that a ‘Rag Head’ walking down George Street in the Sydney CBD is not a ‘nutter’? Should I carry my Magnum 45 around with me at all times?
ASIO – Advice please and Johnny Howard, no more Fridge Magnets.
‘It is divided’: Anthony Albanese is ‘not in control’ of his Labor cabinet
Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese isn’t in control of his Labor cabinet.
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic broke ranks by condemning Israel’s blockade on Gaza due to the widespread humanitarian catastrophe.
Fellow Labor minister Anne Aly backed Mr Husic, saying it was “difficult to argue” that Palestinians were not being “collectively punished”.
“Look, I appreciate Ed’s sentiments; he’s in a difficult situation; he’s calling for nuance, but so far, I think it’s fair to say that Israel has a right to self-defence,” Mr Hastie told Sky News Australia.
“And we’re hearing too many voices out of the Labor cabinet, and Anthony Albanese is not in control of his cabinet, and I think it is divided.”
Yeah, no worries.
Just put “Shameless” over there with “Dinosaur”, “Dickhead” and “Racist”.
Thomas Sowell on The Rise in Anti-Semitism Around the World
Black Ball
He’ll resign before he goes back to that position – his OAPP (Old Age Politician Pension is calculated on his income the year he retires.
Wrong side of history’: Democrats blasted for loss of ‘moral compass’ on Israel
Sky News host James Morrow says the Democrats are on the “wrong side of history” when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Mr Morrow said there is a “gross moral equivalence drawn” between Israelis and Palestinians.
He said the Palestinians have now been “elevated to the status of sainted victims” despite the crimes committed by Hamas.
“One of the most disappointing things about the past two weeks has been the way the left in general and Democrats … have lost any moral compass when it comes to Israel,” Mr Morrow said.
“When they’re confronted about it, Democrats run.
“Hamas’ attack on Israel was really part of a broader war on the civilised West.
“Which partially explains why the progressive left – still steeped in the bizarre Marxist liberation politics of the 1960s that now comes out in expressions like decolonisation.
“Democrats, The Australian Labor Party, Greens & Some TEALS are on the wrong side of history, and they know it.”
Yeah, it’s called a “lobby group”.
Fill your boots.
Funny that.
In the space of a week we’ve gone from “It just won’t work if it’s not in the Consishushun” to “We’ll have to find another way.”
For Cats and Kittehs so inclined:
A phrase often used as mouthwash by leftists to try to take some of the repulsive stink off their breaths as they enunciate their putrescent prescriptions is:
politics being the one skill they claim after choosing to spend endless hours and months and years immersing themselves in political treatises with seemingly perfect postdictive (but tragically no predictive) power. They might not be able to foretell events but make up for that with a painfully distended surfeit of explanations afterward.
Every eruption of Marxism (such as Cuba and Venezuela) is predicted to produce a proletarian utopia. Each time instead it ends up a corrupt, sclerotic, self-absorbed regime atop a miserable impoverished people who are almost invisible through the choking pall of internecine infighting.
Then they are overflowing, like an overtaxed septic tank behind a bleeding-edge beef-vindaloo restaurant, with explanations for what was done wrong.
So, returning to my original point (although I cannot really vouch for its originality) the ‘Everything is politics’ line.
My understanding was that it was a line by Thomas Mann in The Magic Mountain, spoken by a character who at the time reflected Mann’s thoughts. It was an earlier idea of his where he outlined what he thought was actually a weakness of liberal democracy.
The Germany that Mann exalted at the time he did so because it could simply make a decision and the thing would be done, while among the French and the English there would be persistent squabbling and compromise leading to an blunted enfeebled resolution.
He later changed his mind of course. Partly by the outcomes of WWI, and certainly before WWII.
But the resort to ‘Everything is politics’ is ironically an invitation to an ineffecatious muddle. It does not justify politicisation, it cautions against it. In truncated form devoid of its context it looks like an injunction to effective action. In fact it is, if voiced with the context of the story, better rendered as ‘beware of politics’.
But lefties have difficulty confronting their own slogans because, in reality, all their brilliant, nuances arguments are nothing but slogans – merely uttered with the confidence they are so much more*. (We have all had to put up with arguments that have ended in assertions treated as irrefutable truths.)
* As one philosopher put it: imagine an infinite sequence of telephone poles. You do not imagine infinity. You image perhaps 20, diminishing in size as they go. But that image also exactly describes 20 telephone poles. The difference is a feeling or expectation separate but attached. Lefties have very boring and flat ideas, but they imbue them with a feeling of profundity. They are amazingly beyond 20, doncha know. Just ask them.
Australian Keith Langford, 74, said his humanity brought him out to march today.
The kind of “humanity” than turns a blind eye to what happened on October 7.
I have come to the conclusion that humans cling to false narratives that make them feel good about themselves.
Critical thinking takes effort, and the conclusions are often not what you hope for. While our current structure of education has largely abandoned to principles of detailed and impartial research in the Humanities, nothing excuses the blindness of a 74 year old to what has happened. I can only attribute it to – yes – lack of research – &, more significantly, the “feel good” approach of supporting the “underdog” AKA the Palestinians.
It always amazes me that support for the apparent “underdog” permits acceptance of all sorts of evil in that vessel. An old friend – an ostensibly intelligent ex lawyer – has always supported the Palestinians. Years ago, he would say to me, “Vicki, they only have stones to throw & the Israelis have machine guns”. It did my head in.
Real Deal at 2:07.
Yeah, I tuned in last Sunday looking for some sort of analysis of the numbers and a commentary on where it goes next.
All I got was a tub-thumping halftime speech delivered the morning after the game.
Oh & BTW – that lawyer friend was a very short little man & I reckon that had a lot to do with his obsession with “under dogs”. I might add – that he was notoriously unfaithful to his ever suffering wife (ex secretary in his office) throughout his life. Always trying to prove himself.
“could bring”
I think if they want to join in they will, regardless of the excuse, or lack of.
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton said he thinks the release of two American hostages by Hamas on Friday was a delay tactic, The Hill reports.
“Well obviously we should be very happy that at least two people have been let go,” Bolton was quoted as having said in an interview with Newsmax. “But … given the way Hamas put it, and given what we know about Hamas and how it operates, what the character of its leadership is, I have to say for those concerned with the other hostages, I think this is an entirely cynical move by them.”
Bolton opined that the release of the two hostages was an effort by Hamas to delay the IDF from going into Gaza, warning the delay will allow Hamas to “create more booby traps for them.”
“And it puts the lives of the remaining 200 plus hostages in even further jeopardy, but this is … hard logic to talk about it this way,” Bolton told Newsmax. “We’d hope that a civilized group would … leave everybody, let everybody go. That isn’t going to happen. They’re trying to play for time here, that’s what this is about.”
No kidding.
Yeah, but they were only really interested in the goats.
Moore to block proposal to light up Sydney Town Hall in Israeli colours
Lord Mayor Clover Moore will block a proposal to fly the Israeli flag outside Sydney Town Hall and light the building in blue and white, saying it would be divisive, harmful and counter to the city’s values of harmony and inclusion.
Liberal councillor Shauna Jarrett has listed a motion for Monday’s council meeting to illuminate Town Hall in the colours of the Israeli flag “as a mark of respect from the City of Sydney for Israel and the Jewish community”.
Several other Sydney councils are grappling with competing calls for gestures of goodwill regarding the Israeli-Hamas conflict, including Randwick, where a councillor is trying to undo a previous commitment to fly the Palestinian flag next month.
Moore, Sydney’s long-serving independent lord mayor, criticised the state government’s decision to light up the Sydney Opera House in the colours of the Israeli flag in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas terrorist group’s attacks on Israel on October 7. “I didn’t agree with that, taking one side or the other,” she said.
Is Lord Mayor Clover Moore just Plain Stupid or as Thick as a Brick saying it would be divisive, harmful and counter to the city’s values of harmony and inclusion.?
What does Clover Moore think is inclusive of the Sydney Middle Eastern Comminity marching by the Sydney Town Hall, saying “Death to the Jews”?
Does she support Beheading Babies – Families tied together & Burnt Alive – Young People at at Peace Music Festival being Slaughtered?
And She shows herself as an Elitist,
Mo different to Waleed Aly, Ray Martin & Marcia Langton. Our “Elite Masters” who call 61% of the Australian Electorate who voted NO
Illiterate, Uneducated, Dickhead Dinosurs, who are Supid Racists
Vicki
Oct 22, 2023 3:52 PM
I have come to the conclusion that humans cling to false narratives that make them feel good about themselves. Critical thinking takes effort, and the conclusions are often not what you hope for.
Spot on.
NSW Government should just over ride Moore.
politics being the one skill
“Poly Ticks” is NOt a skill. It is sleaze with the Farkers having their noses in the trough. And “Sleasebag” Tennis Elbow is up there with the worst of them.
Pigs, BTW are so clean in comparison. Well done you lovely Pigs.
Labor Senator Wong’s three words have reignited Israel debate
Australia has traditionally been a loyal friend of the state of Israel but three words from Labor Senator Penny Wong highlight the fragility of the situation.
As well as using the term Occupied Palestinian Territories, Senator Penny Wong called on Israel to exercise “restraint” after the Hamas attacks.
Hamas – already recognised as a terrorist organisation by Canberra – has lost much of its remaining international legitimacy through its latest massacre of Israeli civilians.
But it’s also lost legitimacy among its own people.
While democratically elected to govern Gaza 17 years ago, it has not held a vote since.
It blames Israel’s blockade for making it impossible to do so.
Israel rejects this.
And polls indicate Hamas’ popularity has plummeted to just 11 per cent after repeatedly using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
Nice piece in City Journal .
more here:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-radicalism-of-intersectionality
Rockdoctor
Oct 22, 2023 4:08 PM
NSW Government should just over ride Moore.
Clover NO Moore is the new motto. Tart.
Gotta tell you something …
Image Muslim Countries – Muslim Countries Taking Palestinian Migrants
ABC: “Australians with periods”.
Real world: “women”.
Labor is ‘only listening to the elites’ rather than ordinary Australians
Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson says strong Labor seats all said no to the Voice because ministers of the Albanese government are “only listening to the elites” rather than to ordinary Australians.
The Indigenous Voice was emphatically rejected by a majority of voters in every state and territory except the Australian Capital Territory at the referendum last weekend.
“Rather than the government listening to the activists, to the inner-city elites, and to the big corporations, it is time the government listened to ordinary Australians,” Ms Henderson told Sky News Australia.
“That’s why we’ve seen so many parts of Australia say no to the Voice.
“Strong Labor seats … all said no because these Labor members, these Labor ministers, are only listening to the elites, they’re only listening to the activists and not to ordinary Australians, including ordinary Indigenous Australians.”
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 22, 2023 2:41 PM
One in eight Londoners don’t believe Hamas is a terrorist organisation.
That’s because they are all Cheatski, ARSEnal, Wet Spam and Wimbledon football supporters.
Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur supporters are with the IDF and long may it last.
Boambee John
Raise you one, John:
A police chase involving an aboriginal, where the aboriginal crashes the car into a tree and kills himself is a “Death in Custody”. If the driver is an Effing White C**t, it isn’t.
All our stats need to be viewed in the light of providing ammunition to aboriginal victimisation, and widening the gap between the two.
‘Important visit’: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to travel to United States for ‘vital’ talks with President Biden
The Prime Minister is set to embark on a trip to the United States in what will be his ninth meeting with President Joe Biden as the possibility for broader conflict in the Middle East looms.
Summed up Perfectly by The First Comment
– Two idiots together.
– Nothing to go over there for except a dinner. Biden invited albodud, he thought I’ll get out if town as its too hot ,saves answering questions in parliament.
Forget the cost of living problem, forget climate change.
You know it does use heaps of fuel to fly the jet!! Then on the 4th November he’s off again to China. He’ll only be home to get the clothes washed and then bye!!
– The ALP has a long and well documented history of anti Israeli policies
– This wannabe has become a complete embarrassment to this country.
He is not even remotely close to being what you would call a leader.
– Albo…. an international embarrassment.
– This clown came to power promising utopia, affordable energy, cost of living measures, bringing the nation together, open and honest government,
and what has he delivered (1) the most divided nation in living memory, (2) unaffordable cost of living (3) the most expensive and unavailable energy system (4) the most highly paid politicians in the free world, (5) an immigration crisis (5) housing crisis (7) highest interest rates in recent memory & (8) a prime minister who has travelled more klms than any other person in the world, his emissions must be up there at the top end of the scale, little wonder the earth is burning.
It is time Albo and his travelling circus of Labor ministers stay and home and delivered on his election promises.
– Yes visit Israel and prove to us you’re not the socialistic and Palestinian supporter you’re seeming to be?
And by the by, there is absolutely no reason to go to China…that call is outrageous…who cares if they don’t buy our wine….there denigration of us as a nation for a start!
Chinas political stance is abhorrent, even to its own people and look who they support? the terrorists of the world!
– Albo is the Carbon Emissions King Hypocrite along with the in-hiding Blackout Chris Bowen, the Labor Minister for Climate, Change and Energy Policy – , Misinformation, Disinformation and Outright Dishonesty.
If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.
Li’l Miss Yael.
The most beautiful goil on the planet.
Not an owl.
“Nearly 50,000 traditionally religious Yemenite (Jews) who had never seen a plane, were airlifted to Israel in 1949 and 1950. Since the Book of Isaiah promised “They shall mount up with wings, as eagles” the Jewish community boarded the “Eagles” contentedly; to the pilots consternation, some of them lit a bonfire onboard, to cook their food.”
“From Time Immemorial”, Joan Peters, Page 41.
calli
They cannot wake up, Calli, until they climb out of the cocoon of piety they’ve entombed themselves in.
It’s a very comfortable cocoon, warm and dry, lined with silk, and impervious to the outside world – until the knife of reality opens that capsule and discards the entombed on the edge of a blade because they were just the means to an end- a two dollar silk kiffeyeh.
Hilarious black humour that John Bolton is being listened to by anyone. On the other hand these guys just keep on being invited onto the MSM . Christopher Steele the pee-pee man has been doing the rounds for the last a year and a half as a “Russia Expert” related to the Ukraine War. Every time I see him spouting something about it I LOL.
Experts like Bolton and Steele say a great deal about Experts.
Mother Lode, on the “everything is politics” babble, maybe a truer “truism” is “everything is choice”.
Obviously there are some things that are out of our hands, but someone, somewhere along the line, made a choice. It might not even be a conscious one.
Reading some stuff how Qatar are working to release hostages held by Hamas because they have been threatened with Russian style sanctions.
They have a sovereign fund of $US500bill that is invested primarily in Western assets.
That’s a fraction of the assets other Qataris have in Western nations.
Winston, it might be a cocoon of “niceness” or “fairness”. I’m not called upon to forgive Hamas, it would be presumptuous for me to do so.
But I see (and hear) Christians mouthing forgiveness as if the dead of Israel had no meaning. They should know better. They do know better.
Ok just been informed by youngest Grandson 6 years, that besides children python that arrived yesterday – pet for 11 year old – a Large Blue Tongue had wandered inside downstairs through the open back door – we have at least 3-4 Large Blue Tongues on our block of land
The Saudis wouldn’t mind the Qataris being put under the pump.
They would be ready to buy assets at a steep discount.
Just like everyone was lining up to buy Russian assets during 2022.
Bourne1879
Oct 22, 2023 12:27 PM
A fantastic example of the Streisand Effect
A snippet of Eddie Bravo on the Joe Rogan fight companion today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_a0lriy-w
In 8mins he jams in every conspiracy theory apart from Tartaria.
Ah, but for the luminaries of the left, free choice simply refers to where proper, enlightened, regulation has not yet reached.
People can still freely choose between full cream and almond milk coffee because the choice has not legally yet been made for them.
It is a poisonous crumb of chaos that must eventually be brought by law into harmony with progressive doctrine.
Raised the issue of how much was spent on Aboriginal matters, and where it all went..
There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.
– Mark Twain
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 22, 2023 2:41 PM
Jew hatred, the longest hatred, burning fiercely in 2023.
Take heart Cassie. The conquering Messiah will come. There will be no talk of ‘proportionality’ then.
Our huge old bluey’s sitting five steps from where I type. He’s enjoying a patch of sun and a drip from the hose after a bellyful of beef and blueberries.
We people crack on with our follies, and the world continues regardless.
A prayer for the IDF…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvQbPSnoWQ
What sort of imbecile down thumbs a comment about the most beautiful goil on this planet?
An anti-semite homosexual, presumably.
Dot is single?
The things you learn. I could have sworn I had read commentary about Mrs Dot…
Do you think the Egyptians and Jordanians ‘want’ to enter the conflict? These aren’t countries friendly to Hamas.
OldOzzie – Blueys love mince. I had one around recently, I offered him a small lump of mince and the lizard was in heaven. Immediate friend! On the other hand my brother has them in his tiny yard at the back of his Sydney apartment. They get fed blueberries and raspberries and thrive on those just as well.
There have been uprisings in Jordan from what I read. The king isn’t that popular there.
Dover – you need to fix this.
Taking what seems like several years to load a two sentence comment is simply not good enough.
A Time of Lawlessness
Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims
Calli:
None of my upticks are registering, while someone is pasting the down ticks with gay abandon.
So obviously something is being stuffed around with.
And I find it difficult to believe there is nothing to be done about it.
Why US Businesses Can’t Wait to Get Out of China
Researchers Find Pfizer Excluded Clinical Trial Deaths From FDA COVID Vaccine EUA Request
Boambee John
We are creating a ghetto society of peoples who will never integrate.
The next step is a Nation of Tribes, then a Nation of Tribes at war with each other.
Geoffrey Blainey’s piece in the Oz
Dover, the site is loading very slowly. The server appears to be overwhelmed. It might be that 1k+ comments are slowing things up, or something else entirely.
Wow – how did calli mange to rack up 13 downthumbs?
She’s just special.
manage, FFS
Letz follow the belt and road Linda, and see the all knowing Emperor Xi he will have the answers.
Sorry. Looks as if others are having the same difficulty. Perhaps we’re just all too talkative of a Sunday evening.
Can uptick.
I’ve never downticked anyone and don’t intend to start now, so dunno.
I would also note that during the Voice referendum, the joint was lightning. Doubtless these are just some final gremlins that need to be kicked fair in the sack.
I suspect there’s 4 of them messing about with the ticking. I’m pretty sure I’ve identified them because of the pattern.
And it should begin now.
Yesterday…
San Francisco Apartment Building Loses $250 Million in Value Amid Crime Crisis – Now Facing Forclosure
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/san-francisco-apartment-building-loses-250-million-value/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-10-22
That doesn’t look good for San Francisco…
DB
I’ve ticked one time only, as I think it’s nonsense. If you have something to say, then do so. However, there is ticking manipulation going on, as it’s obvious.
Ticking manipulation, it creates a very sour environment and also could distort the types of conversations that could occur on either side of the ticks. If it continues or the blog owner allows it to do so, I will name the names and demonstrate the pattern. There are two in particular who are here 24/7 and what they are doing is woeful. It’s not hard to figure out who it is.
I doubt that the NSW Government controls the flag poles at Town Hall, but it certainly controls many other flag poles within the City of Sydney. Load them all up, and illuminate Parliament House as well.
Albanese is heading off to his spiritual home next month.
Is he taking ‘the bloke’ along to show him around?
I don’t downtick. If I disagree, I like to say why and take my lumps. Upticking – no worries, I agree or it’s a good comment that has made me think. All pretty simple and straightforward really.
As Grigs once accused me – “chummy and unsubtle”, which really means friendly and forthright. One of those backhanded compliments, as far as it goes.
I’m working on the problem as we type.
JC you cannot tell who is doing thumbs down. Someone who never comments could do it. I won’t thumbs down even the dumbest of the dumb.
Biden Tries To Be The Hero Of His Own Crisis
It’s Sunday. Someone is probably having a Call of Duty tournament or something. Blogs have to fit into the edges of such things, bills have to be paid.
Poor Tony Heller, his server guy turned out to be a raving lefty and erased about ten years of blog files to save hard disk space on the server, without bothering to ask. Then sent him a nasty message and pulled the plug completely. He’s back up and running but all those myriad of blog posts with masses of useful data are gone. Sadly the internet is not forever, especially when lefties are in the loop.
Whoops, I meant that for KD, but DB is also fine.
I wasn’t just talking about downticks. I was also referring to self boosting upticks too. Nothing in the world is 100%, but 90% is also fine.
Our huge old bluey’s sitting five steps from where I type. He’s enjoying a patch of sun and a drip from the hose after a bellyful of beef and blueberries.
We are in Sydney & as soon as we arrive the resident water dragons arrive to wait to be fed – ditto the lorrikeets. The water dragons have their “table” – the base of an umbrella stand on our terrace – where they wait. Who says reptiles aren’t smart?
The lorikeets arrive at a small balcony upstairs where they stare in the window when we are watching TV. When husband goes downstairs they fly to the railing where they can spy him downstairs getting the saucer of honey (yes, birdlovers – I know they shouldn’t have honey!). The funny thing is that the water dragons feel they need to participate in this other venue & scale the wall and drape themselves on the outdoor chairs – trying to persuade husband to feed them as well.
This interference outrages the male lorikeets. Recently one male tried to intimidate the dragon by doing a sort of ritualistic dance right in the dragon’s face. Had no effect on the dragon, of course. We videoed the whole comedy & found we had a soundtrack from an old British gangster movie playing in the background. As the lorikeet fluttered and aggressively approached the dragon, he appeared to be uttering the movie dialogue….”I don’t know who he works for…he’s not saying anything…”! A very funny clip – my son-in-law apparently put it on TikTok.
“The stenographers of terrorists that they are”.
The western media.
Good to know, Bruce.
Always keep hard copies of everything. I do. Bugger the trees, they’ll re-grow.
I changed the tick restriction about an hour or so earlier.
Attack on Free Speech: Misinformation Bill explained
Choice of silk sees Lisa Wilkinson’s ties to Ten turn toxic
Lisa, Lisa Lisa .. all that legal stuff used to be so much fun didn’t it? When you were gutting some poor bastard, years after a supposed event and to heck with innocence till found guilty eh? Good times, prizes, book sales oh my!
What?
Another glass of shadenfreude?
Why yes, yes please .. keep it coming …
What?
Would I like another glass of shadenfreude?
Why yes, yes please .. keep it coming …
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