Boo.

Time for Sleep

It’s a new day – will Israel really do it yet, or still be held back by Brandon.

Time for Sleep – Nearly

The 26-year-old analyst who shaped the world’s view of Gaza

Aaron Patrick
Senior correspondent

On Wednesday evening, just before 6pm, a 26-year-old civilian from Canberra began writing a post that would shape views around the world about what had happened at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza some 15 hours earlier.

In a 31-post thread on X, Nathan Ruser argued that an explosion at the facility couldn’t have been caused by an Israeli bomb or missile, contrary to an allegation by Hamas that was taken seriously by the international media, including the New York Times, which ran a banner headline across its homepage blaming the Jewish state.

the ubiquity of photographs and videos, and cheap satellite imagery, allows computer savvy people without security clearances to assess what’s happening in war zones in almost real time.

Sims-like computer game

Which is what Ruser did. While many readers might have imagined a missile smashed through the hospital’s roof, collapsing the building on the patients and staff inside, Ruser pointed out that the deaths occurred in a car park where the damage occurred in an area covering approximately 15 by 15 metres.

Ruser declined to be interviewed on Friday. In replies to questions put through a spokesman, he said he hadn’t received any assistance from intelligence agencies or the Israeli government.

Bias allegations

Many of his readers aren’t convinced. Amid plaudits was abuse from people angry that he supported Israeli denials of what looked like a war crime.

The breach caused the defence forces around the world to review their security arrangements.

According to the Oz, Albo will be in China from Nov 4th & 7th.
After begging for an audience since they were elected 18 months ago, China finally locks in the date.

China forcing Albo to miss Derby Day & the Melbourne Cup.
What an enormous f*ck you by China.

So his ‘no excuse for the degree of civilian casualties’ was gratuitous and completely without evidence.

Interesting. He starts with one thing and finishes with the opposite.

It the light of Blair’s Voice piece, it’s logical Albocide.

Ben Ean and fruit toast. OJ down the front of me.

Ranga, ever since the plugin was activated, I’ve found the downticks revealing and often amusing. I got used to my shadow plopping a thumb on every single comment, but thought I’d say something every so often just to draw attention to it for the casual viewer. Even made up some dumb memes to celebrate.

Let’s just say my ego remains unharmed by one (or many) downticks. 😀 The old bat in me prefers a verbal disagreement, the curious bit a desire for new information. As neither are forthcoming, I just put it down to either cowardice or stupidity. Or that person has been banned and can’t make any sort of statement.

In the end, it doesn’t matter. The comments always stand or fall on their own intrinsic merit, not anonymous “likes”.

When I see the majority of downthumbs I go What! An innocuous comment downthumbed. I either couldn’t care less or say why I disagree. There are so many good comments to get bogged down with mutley level of intelligence. I like how we generally see things in a similar way with slight variations.

The Yes voters petulance and irritable, spiteful bad temper is quite revealing.

Imagine if the Yes vote had passed and every time they didn’t get their way in parliament we’d be subject to this kind of carry-on, howling and yet more insults about racism.

Methinks too much of their racism is what they see in the mirror.

Each-way Albo and his government will now show us their complete lack of maturity and be 100% negative to anything the Liberal/Nationals do or say, even if it is a good thing for the country. Where did the money go is a current question being asked anywhere it can be, without being censored.

That seems to be where the government has a blind spot, that they are elected to govern the country, not give it away, cut it up or divide it nor do deals internationally that commit us to wars in foreign lands.

On Reddit I was surprised at the shellacking the Yes voters are getting, usually pretty left on their political threads. It seems a lot of people were not pleased with being called racists and misinformed idiots, who knew? Also a place where the money spent already is being questioned.

That was the best chance the Yes camp will ever get, with the current migration intakes, the ratio of Yes to No will only decrease.

They took too much for granted and found their priviledge didn’t extend as far as they thought. Spoiled by so much largesse, now angry when deprived of their expected prize.

Get over it, and take your wlecome to country with you. Australians are absolutely fed up with that stupied imported rubbish.

Excellent article at Spiked, about the misbegotten “alliance” between the former leftists (now fascists) and the murderers of radical Islam. It confirms the utter failure of multiculturalism to enable maintenance of peaceful societies.

By Brendan O’Neill, so well worth reading.

Yes two very good articles on spiked this morning. The other one about turdberg and the er twats.

Mentioned earlier – but (the Hun):

A group of Indigenous Yes supporters have attacked No voters, the media, Coalition MPs and conservative think tanks, accusing them of fuelling a “racist” campaign against the Voice.

The authors and signatories of an open letter, which expansively details the reasons some Yes campaign leaders believe the October 14 referendum failed, declined to be named before the three-page document was distributed on Sunday night.

Of course they ‘declined to be named’. And:

“There has always been racism against First Nations people in Australia,” the letter said.

“It increased with multiple daily instances during the campaign and was a powerful driver for the No campaign.

“But this campaign went beyond just racism. ‘If you don’t know – vote No’ gave expression to ignorance and licensed abandonment of civic responsibility on the part of many voters who voted no.”

$40 billion, each and every year doesn’t really seem like the abandonment of civic responsibility*. From upthread:

Imagine if the Yes vote had passed and every time they didn’t get their way in parliament we’d be subject to this kind of carry-on, howling and yet more insults about racism.

Precisely. This wide brown land is now seeing exactly what would have happened if Elbow’s ‘I want you to vote for an idea’ had got over the line, and is breathing hard after realising the size of the bullet it dodged.

*Arguable.

The authors and signatories of an open letter, which expansively details the reasons some Yes campaign leaders believe the October 14 referendum failed, declined to be named before the three-page document was distributed on Sunday night.

“Declined to be named” suggests a major split in the activists, none of whom were shy about putting their names to public statements before the vote.

I wonder how long it will be before those who refused to sign on leak the names of the recalcitrants?

The Gaza hospital bomb looks no worse than an average night in Paris.

Cassie of Sydney
Oct 23, 2023 8:21 AM
The Jew hatred we see on the streets in the west has been directly sponsored by far-left academia, and much of this was spawned in American ivy league universities, such as Stanford, Princeton, UCLA, Yale and the biggest of them all……Harvard.

And the vehicle used to justify and transmit this hatred is the Great Lie – multiculturalism.

snap indolent.

In Even Their ABC Can Smell a Sinking Ship news:

A sinkhole, toxic gas and the $2 billion mistake behind Snowy 2.0’s blowout

The pumped hydro project, trumpeted as a grand “nation-building” scheme, was first estimated to cost just $2 billion. It’s blown out to $12 billion.

It was expected to produce its first power next year — now, it won’t be keeping any lights on for at least another four years.

Snowy Hydro has revealed to Four Corners as much as $2 billion of this blowout can be blamed on the stalled tunnel boring machine they call Florence.

Its 15km journey below Kosciuszko National Park should be well underway by now, but it’s gone just 150m.

Snowy Hydro’s Top Men explain: Not our fault:

In Snowy Hydro’s words, Florence is “one of the most technically advanced machines in the world”. With a price tag of more than $150 million, it’s not just a tunnelling machine, it’s a mobile factory.

But for the past 19 months, it’s had little chance to show off. It’s barely even moved.

The boasts are based on Florence’s ability to operate in both hard and soft ground.

But to work in soft ground, a so-called “slurry system” should be in place, which helps shore up the ground ahead.

Not only was this slurry system not operating, its key equipment wasn’t even on site.

Luckily, the Isambard Kingdom Brunel of modern politics, the Top Men’s Top Man, is available to give on-the-spot guidance:

The project’s original champion, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, is not convinced.

“Clearly, it’s an oversight, it’s wrong. I mean, if you’re going to be dealing with soft ground that needs to be slurried and you don’t have the slurrying kit, you’ve screwed up, haven’t you?”

Pass the parcel.

Technical Note: Snowy 2.0 was expected to backfill the closure of Eraring power station in 2025. It’s stretch target now is to somehow help when Bayswater power station closes in 2030 – and NSW goes black.

Some extracts from Wiki (probably drafted by a supporter of multiculturalism).

The earliest academic critics of multiculturalism in Australia were the philosophers

Lachlan Chipman[29] and Frank Knopfelmacher,[30] sociologist Tanya Birrell[31] and the political scientist Raymond Sestito.[32][when?] Chipman and Knopfelmacher were concerned with threats to social cohesion, while Birrell’s concern was that multiculturalism obscures the social costs associated with large scale immigration that fall most heavily on the most recently arrived and unskilled immigrants. Sestito’s arguments were based on the role of political parties. He argued that political parties were instrumental in pursuing multicultural policies, and that these policies would put strain on the political system and would not promote better understanding in the Australian community.[33][34]

Those social costs now fall mostly on the unskilled native Australians, who don’t benefit from programs to support immigration and multiculturalism.

Historian Geoffrey Blainey achieved mainstream recognition as a critic of multiculturalism when he wrote that multiculturalism threatened to transform Australia into a “cluster of tribes”. In his 1984 book All for Australia, Blainey criticised Australian multiculturalism for tending to emphasise the rights of ethnic minorities at the expense of the majority population and for being “anti-British”, despite Britons being the largest ethnic group to have migrated to Australia. According to Blainey, such policies created divisions and threatened national cohesion. He argued that “the evidence is clear that many multicultural societies have failed and that the human cost of the failure has been high” and warned that “we should think very carefully about the perils of converting Australia into a giant multicultural laboratory for the assumed benefit of the peoples of the world”.[39]

Blainey was excoriated at the time, but has proven to be smarter than his oh-so “edumacated” critics.

Historian John Hirst argued that while multiculturalism might serve the needs of ethnic politics and the demands of certain ethnic groups for government funding for the promotion of their separate ethnic identity, it is a perilous concept on which to found national policy.[40] Hirst identified contradictory statements by political leaders that suggested the term was a nonsense concept.

Another accurate prophecy.

Critics have argued that multiculturalism was introduced as official policy in Australia without public support or consultation. According to academic Mark Lopez: “Multiculturalism was developed by a small number of academics, social workers and activists, initially located on the fringe of the political arena of immigration, settlement and welfare. The authors responsible for versions of the ideology were also principal actors in the struggle to advance their beliefs and make them government policy”.

Academics, political activists and public servants with time on their hands and a hatred for their own nation.

That one “cultural” (actually fanatical religious) group can march through the streets demanding the deaths of those who are not part of their group, and not be stopped or arrested, is a stark demonstration of the failure of multiculturalism.

More gold from the Daily Expose.

https://expose-news.com/2023/10/22/legal-groups-seek-halt-to-uk-arms-sales-to-israel-over-illegal-attacks-on-civilians-in-palestine/

Never think about the human rights of the raped and murdered Israeli women at the rave cum rape party.

If it was about human rights they could have buried that girl instead of parading her around in the back of a ute screaming “god is great!”.

One obvious thing though, if Hamas were lying about this incident, then they are lying about everything.

‘falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus’ applies to our wise rulers too.

A comparison between the NZ election and the possibility of Elbow losing for the same reasons…

Daily Mail

Universities or monoversities as Rabz called them need to be sidelined and rendered irrelevant. We need to move back to institutes of technology without BA(comms) courses ofcouse

London is contemptible place.

Brisbane City Council will “pay the rent” through grants to Indigenous organisations under a plan by maverick Greens lord mayoral hopeful Jonathan Sriranganathan.

$40 million proposed.

Courier-Mail

‘The majority of Australians have committed a shameful act’: Yes campaign blames Coalition for referendum failure

The leaders of the failed Yes campaign have revealed who they blame for the unsuccessful referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in a draft letter that has leaked to the media.

Australia decisively defeated the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament on October 14 with more than 60 per cent of the country voting no.

The new statement was supposedly written to share the “insights and views of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community members and organisations who supported the Yes Campaign”.

From the Comments

– A whole week to write one letter? Wow!!

Revealed: The world’s 10 oldest jokes – so, would YOU laugh at any of these ancient gags?

Barbara Fortuna – Corsican Polyphony

apaprantly they toured Australia years ago did a few clubs here and there

A new Facebook group I’ve just seen:

Albo is a joke!!
9.7K members

Wendy Bacon, that old purveyor of propaganda and fabricated hit pieces. Now ties herself unbreakably to a terrorist cause.

If you wonder why our modern “journalists” are the way they are, look no further.

Dead and buried guys. Plus hopefully killed all talk of treaties.

But no:

It [the draft letter] also proposed the Uluru Statement from the Heart – from which the referendum question was derived – could be changed ‘to remove the aim of enshrining a First Nations Voice in the Constitution’.

The Yes campaign leaders would still be committed to the Uluru Statement’s aims of Voice, Treaty, Truth, though, and would look at other ways to establish a representative body of the type that was defeated in the referendum.

Which sits slightly uncomfortably with Uncle Luigi’s assurances that this was simply a modest, polite request for recognition.

Tucked away in the “why would I read it?” sealed section of Uluru Statement is a thicket of complex legal and constitutional issues that didn’t get a glance from the Experts and Former Judges who assured us that all was straightforward and ‘legally safe’.

The key Closing the Gap issues – health, justice, education, and the provision of infrastructure and social services in remote locations – are State and Local Government responsibilities. How was the Voice to Federal Parliament going to influence them?

Self determination and traditional law for hundreds of individual groups, remote and urban. How was that ever going to work in a First World setting?

How would it function in terms of governance?
Who would determine and codify it?
Who would police, andjudicate, and enforce it?
How would it interface with mainstream Australia?
Who would fund it?
Who would it apply to?

Restitution and compensation.

Luigi and Team Yes have humbugged, squished and obfuscated their way around these awkward issues using the Modest Voice as the stalking horse.

Looks like they are going to be front and centre issues now.

The Kraken come up for Albanese’s Prime Ministership.

How is this possible? Snowy 2.0 is a pumped hydro project. It requires power to be expended to pump the water back up into the holding dams. It expends more power pumping up than it generates flowing down. Am I missing something here?

Are you an AEMO Arts/Law graduate with
High-level Excel and PowerPoint skills?
No?

Well, look over there then…

“Australians are absolutely fed up with that stupied imported rubbish.”

But the ABC is persisting with the ‘Acknowledgment ofCountry’, and now using aboriginal names, followed by their English equivalents, for our largest cities, which, incidentally, didn’t exist at the time of colonisation.

So the Yes campaign now have registered cadres in every suburb. My street has at least five houses. Although they lost, they have a committed network of interfering do-gooders and moral crusaders around the country. This is the real result and we can expect the nudging of policy. There is not an equivalent network for the No.

In this “I don’t believe it, unless there is a video” world,
how about we publish photos and videos from the Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs hospitals of surgeries to repair battered women and children, sexually assaulted toddlers and then ask the Australian electorate what they would like to do about it.

Im doing a presentation for a careers day tomorrow at a 99% Aboriginal school.
Should be interesting.
But im a little stuck, should I take the big red firetruck, or the flash ambulance??

Believe me, if you want to see uneducated rednecks, read the HotCopper forums.

To wit: “Drilling the same tenement more than once is a distraction until they can force us to sell after a consolidation…”

The same people are so clever but won’t start their own mine.

Even if they wanted to nickel and dime the minnows, way more money can be made in finding success.

Dot I had a neighbour who was the CFO for a small cap miner. Sounded good on paper. He lived in a Govvie and drove an old Falcon. Pass on that one.