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Pogria
Pogria
October 24, 2023 4:32 pm

Master trolling by Musk-eye.

I wonder if Elon put the proposal to them like this. 😀

Johnny Rotten
October 24, 2023 4:38 pm

Steve trickler
Oct 24, 2023 4:08 PM
Berlin:

Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Official Video – Top Gun)

I like Roxette better as she doesn’t have Knob Head Cruise in it – and she was HOT –

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lnl9U-hHp1I

Chris
Chris
October 24, 2023 4:39 pm

The magic number started with a wretch in the US, Naomi Oreskes, who determined with science and statistics that 97.3% of published climate scientists accepted the principle of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Which, naturally, quickly became 97% of scientists think the world is doomed unless we [insert snake oil of choice]…

I read Naomi Oreskes book.
UWA actually hosted her as a visiting scholar one year.
FMD.

Dot
Dot
October 24, 2023 4:43 pm

*and there sure ain’t no animals in the cartoon farmyard neither

Hmm…you are simply dealing with lunatics.

Regenerative farming is usually reliant on cell grazing at high stocking rates. The heavy demand of a cash crop can be lessened by grazing the stubble, low till etc.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 24, 2023 4:45 pm

Sancho said about business activity survey returns to the ABS:

From that point forward I just copied everything on every return from the previous one with only minor tweaks for plausibility.

Would that be a matter of individual officer discretion or a matter of policy and ABS tradition?
Could that insistence be affecting the returns of all mining companies, big earners, and possibly thousands of other businesses?
All tending to massage the inflow, outflows, wealth, and productivity assessments of the nation.
One challenge that totalitarian regimes were never able to meet was to be able to see themselves accurately. Never mind centrally planning the economy, they cannot get an accurate picture at a point in time. Hassles like the above have to be a big part of the reason.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 4:50 pm

The magic number started with a wretch in the US, Naomi Oreskes

Who is that masked woman?
She says telling people that masks don’t work would just confuse them.

The Mask Comes Off (19 Oct)

Amusing she’s in on the Covid and climate scams simultaneously.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 4:50 pm

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lnl9U-hHp1I

From that link – I didn’t realize Rod Stewart had released “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.”

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 24, 2023 4:58 pm

UWA actually hosted her as a visiting scholar one year.
FMD.

She worked (briefly) as a field geo in Australia for Western Mining, before heading into academe and a brilliant career in climate gaslighting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 5:00 pm

Some jobs simply don’t require time in the office. Ever.

If you can do your job from home Patel can do it from Bangalore. I’d be heading back to the office quick smart and make sure the boss knows it.

Gilas
Gilas
October 24, 2023 5:02 pm

Davey Boy
Oct 24, 2023 2:21 PM

I recall our conversation at Berala pre-poll recently (prior to the Hamas atrocities) where you opined that anti-semitism in Labor-land is not just present, but fashionable.

Rank hypocrisy, racism, projection and blatant, undisguised lying is in their DNA, as it is in all leftards.
All part of their compensating mechanism for a complete inability to defend or argue their untenable, insane beliefs.
And always couched in the gentlest, warmest, positive language a psychopath can conjure up.

During the NO volunteering, it was a real struggle to stay quiet while hearing the YESsers regurgitate their focus-group-enhanced lies to the incoming voters.

One can only thank some undefined Deity for our success, against the overwhelming might arraigned against us.

Coverage of the Hamas, Israel issue is simply following well worn paths dating back to the second intifada IIRC, at least.
Not the first time. Unfortunately, it won’t be the last

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 5:10 pm

We are governed by retards.

A little harsh but Bowen certainly fits the bill. Gives Conroy a run for his money.

cohenite
October 24, 2023 5:11 pm

Frank
Oct 24, 2023 3:34 PM
A classic from the ABC, climate scientists with government jobs are speaking out post retirement about how they were stymied in the work if they tried to speak out with the truth about the environment.

Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope

Typical; a fat, past her menopause bint.. There are so many of them pushing the virtue issues, particularly saving the fuking planet. 33 million years ago the bloody Antarctica didn’t exist. Tectonic plate movements finally established it. Apart from the NW part of the Antarctica, the WAP, which is underpinned by volcanoes, Antarctica is getting colder and ice is expanding.

She, like so many of these patronising arseholes, are nothing but walking egos whose training and expertise is entirely subservient to their cause.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2023 5:16 pm

eric hinton
Oct 24, 2023 4:02 PM
“Regerative Farming” is a trojan horse for carbon accounting.
…and “carbon accounting” is a pantomime horse full of commies.

I used to watch this podcast (?); two genial fellas in Boorowa walking through their paddocks talking about grass, stocking rates, ways to farm in variable rainfall areas for farmers with a bit of maverick rising in their star sign. Riveting stuff.

Those interested should look up Talaheni, John Ive, a former CSIRO (real) scientist on his work on a farm near the Yass River.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 24, 2023 5:17 pm

Greta Thunderberg parody. Very funny indeed!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 24, 2023 5:17 pm

In case anyone is wondering about the reference to the lawyer tittering at a Packham…

There was a T-Shirt of Finbarr Saunders pointing at and giggling at a pear – geddit? “A nice pear (pair)”.

I thought people familiar would recognise it but it is not on Goolag search.

Might be some sort of cock up.

rosie
rosie
October 24, 2023 5:18 pm

Two armrests, the horror.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 5:19 pm

ons

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PoliticsNow: ABC reporter ‘rotated out of Israel’ after babies comment
ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner. Picture: Supplied
ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner. Picture: Supplied

By sophie elsworth ,
geoff chambers
and adam creighton
5:30AM October 24, 2023

Welcome to The Australian’s rolling coverage of news from Canberra and around the country.
What you need to know

1 hour ago
ABC’s Joyner has left Israel after ‘bullsh..’ babies comment
1 hour ago
ABC boss defends ‘genocide’ comments
3 hours ago
ABC under fire for interviewing Hamas leader
4 hours ago
ABC forks out $800,000 on Heston Russell case
9:32 am
ABC reporter investigated over ‘bullsh–’ baby comment

3m ago
Husic doubles down on Israel criticism
Staff writers
Staff writers

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos MARCH 29, 2023: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese with the Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic spoke to the media during a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic has reaffirmed his support for a reevaluation of the Israeli military response to its conflict with Hamas, calling for a “strategic, more precise” solution.

This comes after Mr Husic broke from the Labor party line, arguing the Israeli military response did not minimise its threat to civilians. More
10 minutes ago
Time to clean this place up: Ryan targets lobbying reform
Staff writers
Staff writers

Teal Independent MP Monique Ryan has claimed it is time “to clean this place up” in regards to lobbying, criticising the political overreach granted to the Pharmacy Guild.

“The Pharmacy Guild is one of the country’s most powerful lobby groups. In 2021-22, it spent $7.1 million on ‘public relations campaigns’ – but under existing regulations, the Guild’s operatives are not required to register as lobbyists,” Dr Ryan said on X.

“The news today that the Guild has taken on a co-founder of Advance Australia as CEO shows they’re only going to ramp up their lobbying efforts. We can probably look forward to some really inventive public relations exercises in Canberra.”

The Kooyong MP will lodge a bill to the Parliament in November to target lobbying reform.

“It’s clear our current lobbying regulations are broken. I’ve been working on a bill that fixes it,” Dr Ryan said.

“Next month I’m introducing a bill that would finally regulate lobbying in this country so our government works in the public interest, not for vested interests.”

– James Dowling
1 hour ago
ABC’s Garma Festival cost blowout revealed
Sophie Elsworth
Sophie Elsworth

The ABC spent more than $150,000 in flights, accommodation and taxis in sending 37 staff to the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land in August.

At Senate estimates on Tuesday, the ABC’s chief financial officer Melanie Kleyn said this compared to 38 staff who were sent to the festival in 2022 at a cost of $186,000.

She said extensive work was done by staff in attendance at the festival including broadcasting programs including Q+A and Insiders. More
1 hour ago
ABC’s Joyner has left Israel after ‘bullsh..’ babies comment
Sophie Elsworth
Sophie Elsworth

ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner will no longer report from Israel and he will not be returning to the war zone following the controversial comments he made refuting claims babies had been beheaded by Hamas terrorists.

Mr Anderson told Senate estimates on Tuesday that he has “rotated out of Israel and is taking a break.

“I believe (he is) returning to his normal base which is in Istanbul.”

Joyner, is under investigation by the ABC after The Australian this month revealed comments he made about babies being beheaded by Hamas terrorists as “bullshit” in a WhatsApp group with international media.

What’s the Hebrew for “Get that fvcking idiot out of here, NOW!”

Razey
Razey
October 24, 2023 5:20 pm

Just because this carbon crap is complete nonsense, doesnt mean we shouldnt be making lots of money off it. Now, how to work out the grift to get us some ca$h.

JC
JC
October 24, 2023 5:20 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 24, 2023 4:30 PM
Who invited him/her/it onto this Blog? FFS

The blog owner.

Because it’s his blog, and it’s private property – contrary to some assertions made by frauds who also promote convicted frauds.

Tell Ms Wongypenny to write that down, because you’ll forget it.

Sure it’s not Penny Wong. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 5:21 pm

Dover, could you delete my last?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 24, 2023 5:22 pm

The heavy demand of a cash crop can be lessened by grazing the stubble,

Grazing the stubble was always a toss-up. Is it worth the cost?

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 5:24 pm

Joyner should be “rotated” to the Congo.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2023 5:24 pm

ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner will no longer report from Israel and he will not be returning to the war zone following the controversial comments he made refuting claims babies had been beheaded by Hamas terrorists.

Semi-literate trash. He did not “refute” the claims by offering contrary evidence. He “rejected” them because he did not like their implications about Hamarse.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2023 5:25 pm

Tell Ms Wongypenny to write that down, because you’ll forget it.

I think we all know that Ms Wongypenny is not, in fact, a Ms.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 24, 2023 5:26 pm

Razey send me $50 and I’ll tell you.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 5:27 pm

Regenerative farming simply makes sense.
[…was I meant to read that in an Antony Fauci voice? joke]
Oh it does to me too Vicki, i think everyone finds they’re 3/4 doing it already, and the last 1/4 appeals to their sentiment. But, like organic and Organic™, there’s a big difference between the meaning of the word, and the meme.
And there are thousands of hungry desk workers just itching to get their gatekeeper hands on the means of production, because they’re better people and love rivers and animals more than the nasty farm people they see on 4 Corners. Maybe the Antony Fauci voice is less of a joke than i’d like to hit you with on a sunny afternoon…

Anyway the reason I’m grinding my teeth in the office instead of working on this sunny afternoon is, I’m battling with a pruning contract company over a massively inflated invoice. Half the work they did turns out was handballed to a celestial subcontractor- so after a week of trying to get the work on spec, bashing my head against the wall with the “supervisor”, I told them to bugger off because to go back thru would be to risk irreparable damage on top of vague sh*t technique.
And the other crew was in-house… who were equally terrible, but i did the right thing and coached them, being Timorese they were at least able to engage- but if their workers don’t make the minimum wage, their pay gets topped up at my expense, which apparently was communicated to me.
I’m sick of being a nice bloke, it’s just bleeding me dry. Absenteee owners woith open chequebooks are a big part of the problem, it encourages contractors to a “house style” which involves constant clean-up work. And stretching out hours.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 5:28 pm

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic has reaffirmed his support for a reevaluation of the Israeli military response to its conflict with Hamas, calling for a “strategic, more precise” solution.

We should airdrop Mr Husic into Gaza so he can reevaluate the Israeli military response first hand. A year or so should be enough for a good thorough check.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 24, 2023 5:29 pm

It is actually kind of funny to see the recommended food pairings for Champagne – like fish and chips. Perhaps not the local fish and chip shop but still not exactly haute cuisine either.

If you look up the tasting notes on a vineyard’s website for their various wines you can expect to be regaled with absurdly and torturously pretentious recommendations like blue swimmer crab in a caramelised citrus based reduction with asparagus shoots of 5 cm beside wilted kale served by a smiling man whose sign is Sagittarius.

I find it annoying because o have no idea how something that specific will taste or feel so I cannot think of an alternative.

I think they make those recommendations as a joke gala way through a bottle. They are really just saying “If you drink this wine you are going to be so pissed laughing you will make nonsense like this up”.

Now that would be a recommendation.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 24, 2023 5:31 pm

joke gala half way through a bottle…

vr
vr
October 24, 2023 5:31 pm

This insightful article catalogues the problems at The NY Times by a former insider.

My New York Times problem and ours

From Commentary Magazine.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 5:31 pm

Just because this carbon crap is complete nonsense, doesnt mean we shouldnt be making lots of money off it.
Golden handcuffs, razey-san. The audits and obligations will only increase.
…and then they’ll give you your instructions for methane.
…and then nitrogen.
…paying attention yet?

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 24, 2023 5:32 pm

Jacinta Allen having a sook over Mark Knight’s caricature. Snap if already mentioned upthread.
Pulling the Gillard defence

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2023 5:32 pm

Berka at 4:45.
I cared very little how accurate returns to the ABS were. Most of them were just vehicles to expand public sector employment.
In fact, shortly after that some wanker in HR in the organisation f-cking voluntarily registered us for bundles of ABS returns which he then tried to deflect to others to complete.
Apparently we should do as many as we could because “good corporate citizen”
Fortunately the boss dumped most of them back on this dickhead. The few I got assigned were either binned or got the cut ‘n paste treatment.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 5:33 pm

Wine labels work like the backs of cereal boxes.

JC
JC
October 24, 2023 5:42 pm

vr, I don’t think your link works.

Think it’s this one.

https://www.commentary.org/alison-cowan/my-new-york-times-problem-and-ours/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 5:43 pm

Joyner should be “rotated” to the Congo.

Do the Congolese still eat each other?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2023 5:44 pm

Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):

A son, whose faulty antique firearm accidentally discharged killing his mother, has been urged to carry her photo and look at it whenever he’s tempted to do wrong.

Cristian Dino Charles Lawlor, 24, was granted immediate parole on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a downgraded charge of dangerous conduct with a weapon and several summary offences.

Brisbane’s Supreme Court heard the tragic and unique case involved Lawlor attempting to restore a rifle – a family heirloom that was over 100 years old.

You can potentially see where this is going…

Despite only having a rudimentary knowledge of firearms Lawlor, who did not have a gun licence, had managed to make it operable and even discharged it a number of times.

On May 7 2021 he placed the firearm in a disassembled state – which he thought would render it safe – but with a live round in the barrel uncocked and unprimed in a bag in the garage of the family’s Taigum home.

Live round, you say? Uncocked, you say?

The following day his mother Giustina Lawlor for an unknown reason decided to shift the bag which the family knew contained the gun and take it into the laundry.

No one knows exactly what happened next as she was alone however it’s thought the bag may have been dropped causing the firearm to discharge with a bullet entering Giustina’s abdomen.

Wasn’t really where I thought this was going after all.

The court heard Lawlor had mental health issues precipitated by or pre-existing his drug use.

Ah.

Lawlor spent nine days in custody after his arrest before receiving Supreme Court bail. He was later returned to custody after going to a petrol station with a butterfly knife in April this year and kicking the doors.

Ahhhhhh.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 24, 2023 5:44 pm

Wally Dalí Oct 24, 2023 5:27 PM

I feel your pain, & empathize.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2023 5:46 pm

Afterthought:

with a live round in the barrel uncocked and unprimed

Not an armourer, but I am unsure how one would uncock and unprime a round, live or not.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 24, 2023 5:48 pm

REVEALED: The video Israel claims shows a Hamas terrorist ADMITTING crazed jihadi gunmen were ordered to ‘behead’ Jewish victims and ‘do whatever you want’ with them during invasion

. The Israeli military has shown the Mail footage of this prisoner’s interview
. We are choosing NOT to publish the video for ethical reasons, but believe it is in the public interest to report its contents

The Hamas captive speaks calmly and clearly. His commanders, he says, ordered their fighters to ‘behead’ women, children and the elderly.

They were like ‘animals’ and instructed the invaders that, after murdering women, they should abuse their bodies, he says.

Even after two weeks of unremittingly sickening stories that have emerged since the October 7 atrocity, these are gruesome and incendiary claims, and they come amid a huge backlash against allegations that Hamas beheaded victims.

He says that in Gaza, he had been taught in mosques to respect women and children, but it was ‘different’ in the Hamas ‘army’.

‘In the army they tell us to kill, massacre them everywhere,’ he says. ‘Women and children and so on. In the religion, they say it is forbidden to kill children, women, the elderly. In the army, the commander will tell you, stomp on their heads, behead them, do whatever you want with them.’

If this is true, it is the first indication that Hamas terrorists actively sought to decapitate victims. It has been suggested that headless bodies found by rescue workers might have been decapitated by blasts from the grenades terrorists were hurling into homes, rather than being deliberately beheaded.

It is obvious, therefore, why the Israeli military wants the startling claims made in this video to be public on the all-important information battlefield.

Equally, there is no doubt that Israel’s enemies will say the video is just propaganda.

There is more. The interrogator asks the man about the comparison Israel has been making between Hamas and the Islamic State terror group.

The captive appears to agree, saying: ‘ISIS burns, beheads and butchers…Hamas became ISIS.’

He says that Hamas commanders sent fighters on suicide missions, telling them:

‘You’re going to go in, not come back.’

He says they are ‘inhuman’, and became ‘animals’, and adds: ‘It’s things a person doesn’t do. Beheading people. Having sex with dead bodies – meaning the body of a dead young woman.’

Israel is still trying to rescue more than 200 hostages snatched by Hamas and taken to Gaza, and any snippet of information could be a vital clue as to their whereabouts.

If Israel is criticised for releasing a prisoner video, it should be said that several of the hostages have already been paraded on video by Hamas, some looking terrified.

And confirmation that victims were found without heads has come from numerous sources, including Israel’s most senior pathologists tasked with identifying them.

Yesterday the Israeli authorities hit back in dramatic style at the doubters who are spreading ‘Holocaust denial-like’ theories. In a bid to counter the sceptics bleating about ‘fake news’, they staged what must be the most macabre cinematic event in history.

Only journalists were allowed into the 45-minute screening of unedited footage collected from the head-cams and smartphones of Hamas death squads. Many were in tears at the screening in a military complex in Tel Aviv.

The footage included clear recordings of civilians being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned. Corpses were arranged for all to see – bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes.

In one clip, a Hamas terrorist throws a grenade at a father and his son. The blast kills the father, who pitches forward on to the turf, while the young boy is covered in his blood.

The child is dragged inside and forced to sit next to his brother, whose eye is a bloody mess after being subjected to horrific torture. One of the boys sobs: ‘Why am I alive?’ as the ruthless terrorists stand over the body of his father.

Another dark chunk of footage showed the headless corpses of IDF soldiers splayed in the street.Introducing the grim screening, government spokesman Eylon Levy said: ‘The IDF has been collecting footage from bodycams taken by Hamas death squads as they rampaged through the communities in southern Israel, butchering everyone in sight.

‘I can’t believe I’m saying this – as we work to defeat the terror organisation, we are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time as people are casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities Hamas committed against our people, and in fact recorded, in order to glorify this violence.’

On Sunday, Israeli president Isaac Herzog said manuals seized from the bodies of Hamas killers contained instructions on how to make chemical weapons.

He said they were ‘official Al Qaeda material’ which showed how to build a weapon with cyanide.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 24, 2023 5:48 pm

Wine labels work like the backs of cereal boxes.

The bottle bards will make themselves sticky and tumescent over an egregious plonk that made Ben Ean taste like Pouilly Fuisse.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 24, 2023 5:50 pm

She’s back!

A Federal Court judge has questioned Lisa Wilkinson’s legal team for causing complications in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial by launching a costs claim against her former employer Network 10.

Ms Wilkinson commenced the new lawsuit in a different court with completely separate legal teams, claiming the network backed out of an agreement to pay her legal costs in the defamation suit brought by Mr Lehrmann.

According to documents filed in the NSW Supreme Court, the broadcaster is refusing to pay two invoices totalling $723,000 in legal fees after Ms Wilkinson hired high-profile defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou SC and Gillis Delaney Lawyers partner Anthony Jefferies earlier this year, instead of opting to use Network 10’s retained law firm Thomson Geer.

Ms Wilkinson alleges Network 10 twice accepted it was liable to indemnify the TV star even if she was “independently represented”.

In a statement, Network 10 said: “The lawyers engaged by Lisa Wilkinson have issued invoices for a very substantial amount of money, in excess of $700,000, and in good governance these need to be justified through due process.

“In the meantime, Network 10’s focus is on defending the defamation claim brought by Bruce Lehrmann.”

The 63-year-old television presenter quit Channel 10’s The Project in November 2022 after she made claims she was subject to “targeted toxicity”.

During a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Michael Lee questioned why the costs dispute had been lodged in a separate court rather than to him, as it could complicate the trial.

“The possibility of undue complication by having aspects of this judicial controversy bifurcated over two courts … I am going to have to make costs orders in these proceedings one way or the other,” he told the court.

He said he didn’t understand why Ms Wilkinson filed the claim in a different court, saying he deals with disputes of that nature daily and said it would have been “far more efficient” for him to hear the cross-claim.

Justice Lee said it would reduce complications in the determination of costs in the defamation matter if it were put before him.

“I just do not understand why, unless there is some misapprehension about the way federal jurisdiction operates, I’m not sure why a decision was made to commence a proceeding in another court,” he said.

Sue Chrysanthou SC, who is representing Ms Wilkinson in the defamation matter, told the court neither her legal team in this matter or the legal team retained by Network 10 were involved in the Supreme Court lawsuit.

She submitted the costs dispute could potentially complicate her position if it were to be heard in the Federal Court.

“We think that removing that issue from these proceedings will ensure that the respondents proper conduct of the defence, which is a cooperative approach from our perspective,” Ms Chrysanthou said.

“We would prefer not to be distracted by that dispute between our clients having regard to the issues in the case before your honour.”

Mr Lehrmann launched defamation action in March against Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over the 2021 coverage of Ms Higgins’ rape allegation against him.

He later also launched proceedings against the ABC over the live broadcast of a National Press Club address by Ms Higgins.

While he was not named in the report or Ms Higgins’ speech, Mr Lehrmann claims he was still identified by the media companies and has alleged there were four defamatory meanings in their publication implying he raped Ms Higgins at Parliament House in March 2019.

He has strongly denied all allegations.

Ms Wilkinson’s costs claim will be in court for the first time on November 4, while the defamation trial is set to begin on November 24 and run for about four weeks.

Mr Lehrmann’s Supreme Court trial in the ACT last year was aborted due to juror misconduct. He had pleaded not guilty to a single charge of sexually assaulting Ms Higgins.

The charges were subsequently dropped by the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, who declined to pursue a retrial over concerns about Ms Higgins’ mental health.

Mr Lehrmann has continued to deny the allegations and no finding has ever been made against him.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 5:50 pm

Nah bugger it. Work time. Got that diagonal white gold light which is irresistible. If a NW sea breeze sits up, I’ll declare summer is here, no more rain until May.

Johnny Rotten
October 24, 2023 5:52 pm

Sancho Panzer
Oct 24, 2023 5:25 PM
Tell Ms Wongypenny to write that down, because you’ll forget it.

I think we all know that Ms Wongypenny is not, in fact, a Ms.

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose of those rather tight tights (a la Fatty Downer) has NO humour whatsoever. OR NO dress sense or NO sense at all –

Here is Agent Rotten doing stuff that Mrs Stencho could only ever ask her sheep shagger husband to do (and only with gum boots on) and only with sheep/goats going bah bah.

BUT Agent Rotten can do more than this in a flash – And the Ladies drop their knickers in a flash. Thank you ladies and I will see you later for a bit of “rogering”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KLJQ4ukhOw

AND then there is Agent Rotten’s Nephew –

https://www.google.com/search?q=flashman+blackadder&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU906AU906&oq=flashman+and+blackadder&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMgoIAhAAGIYDGIoFMgoIAxAAGIYDGIoFMgoIBBAAGIYDGIoFMgoIBRAAGIYDGIoF0gEJMzIzNDFqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ed1ab539,vid:T9tmhX5u9rA,st:0

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 24, 2023 5:53 pm

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If the police can scour the internet for hate speech, surely they can arrest protesters calling for the eradication of a nation

On Saturday night, senior officers at Scotland Yard no doubt poured large Glennhoddles all round and congratulated themselves on a job well done.

By their own estimation, they were certainly entitled to do so. After all, a potentially volatile large pro-Palestinian demonstration had passed off ‘peacefully’ and with few arrests.

The fact that elements of the 100,000-strong crowd appeared to be calling for a holy war to wipe Israel off the face of the earth didn’t seem to trouble the police.

No laws had been broken, the cops insisted, pointing out that chants of ‘jihad’ could be interpreted in several ways.

For instance, it can be used in a religious sense to mean a personal struggle to become a better Muslim. True, but it’s a question of context. In relation to Israel, jihad is a call to arms. Are we seriously expected to believe that those people demanding ‘jihad’ at the weekend were really chanting:

What do we want?

A personal struggle to become a better Muslim.

When do we want it?

Now!

Er, perhaps not, especially as they were also singing ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free’ and carrying placards reading ‘Muslim Army’, two weeks after a self-styled Muslim army had invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,400 Jews, including babies and old women, and taken 200 hostages.

The jihad enthusiasts caught on video were from Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group so extreme that they are banned in Germany and across the Muslim world, which would tend to give some indication of their motives.

And what about the pro-Hamas headbanger waving what appeared to a casual observer to be an Islamic State flag?

No, you’ve got it all wrong, said the Met. Specialist counter-terrorism officers had carefully examined the white squiggles on the black flag and concluded that they weren’t an exact match for the ISIS version. So that’s all right then.

We’re in angels and pinheads territory here. The police seem to be going out of their way to find excuses for not arresting any pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist, no matter how menacing their behaviour.

Once again, Scotland Yard is bending the knee to the Left-wing mob, just as it did during the Black Lives Matter madness a couple of years ago.

Met Commissioner Mark Rowley was at it again yesterday, hiding behind spurious claims that he didn’t have the legal authority to make more arrests. He was speaking after being summoned to a meeting with Home Secretary Suella Braverman to explain his softly-softly approach.

Sue Ellen and other ministers expressed outrage at the Met’s failure to detain demonstrators who they maintain were inciting terrorist violence. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick rightly pointed out:

‘Chanting jihad on the streets of London is completely reprehensible and I never want to see scenes like that. This is a highly incendiary chant which is extremely intimidating to British Jews.’

But not against the law, according to Rowley. Parliament must give the police powers before he can act.

We’ve heard this weasel cop-out from the Commissioner before. He said the same about his failure to prevent Just Stop Oil nutjobs slow marching through London and bringing traffic to a standstill.

Yet when the Government beefed up the law at his request, he refused to use it, and now JSO are lining up another round of road blocks later this month.

Rowley’s ‘my hands are tied’ schtick is disingenuous, to say the least. The statute book is brimming with ‘hate crime’ laws which could be deployed.

If the police can scour the internet to prosecute anyone using ‘inappropriate’ language online and arrest those who state publicly that no woman can have a penis, then surely they can feel the collars of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for the eradication of an entire nation.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 24, 2023 6:01 pm

ABC director David Anderson, who appeared before the Communications Legislation estimates hearing on Tuesday, confirmed the broadcaster had launched an internal investigation into Tom Joyner’s conduct in the Middle East after he sent a text to several hundred other journalists in Israel that read: “the story about the babies is bulls**t”.

“He was at the time trying to do what journalists were doing, he was trying to verify what sources could back up what claims were being made at the time,” Mr Anderson said.

Sure sounds like verification.

He later revealed Mr Joyner has been “rotated” out of Israel and was taking a break before returning to his usual post in Istanbul.

Where his views will be appreciated.

Senator Hughes blasted a 7.30 interview with Hamas terrorist Dr Basem Naim from October 17, saying she had “zero comprehension” why the ABC had platformed a prescribed terrorist and suggested the public broadcaster had “legitimised” a terrorist.

“It is not legitimising terrorism,” Mr Anderson said.

“One of their lies was that they didn’t harm Israelis.

“Through that interview, we challenged them and they admitted that they had done that.

“This is editorially justified to interview that representative given the heinous act that they did, to challenge them on the claims and the misinformation they spread.”

Reading the ABC written piece on the interview with the terrorist shows no sign of challenging “the claims and the misinformation they spread“.
Not by a fair margin:

Hamas’s head of international relations Dr Basem Naim says the terrorist group’s plan was never to target civilians when militants attacked Southern Israel on October 7.

“In the middle of the confrontation, there was some civilians. The clear instruction was not to kill civilians.”

The Hamas leader also claimed there were no plans to take civilian hostages.

“We haven’t planned at any moment to take any civilian hostages. The plan was to take on the fight against soldiers and to take some soldiers as hostages.”

Clearly something went slightly awry.

Pressed on whether he was claiming the terrorist group had lost control of its fighters, Dr Naim told 7.30 that others had infiltrated the Hamas operation.

But luckily:

Dr Naim claims Hamas is taking care of the civilian hostages, and will release them once hostilities cease.

“We are caring for them based on our moral obligations. But at the moment the aggression is stopped, we are ready to release all of them, including all foreigners,” he said.

Their ABC sums up thus:

He also defended Hamas’s brutal terrorist attacks as an act of defence.

“They have crushed us, squeezed us in the corner, and given us only one or two choices, either to be killed by a rocket or to (be) killed by poverty, unemployment … we have decided to die in dignity,” he told ABC’s 7.30.

“We are occupied people, we are defending our existence.”

Noble people, defending their existence.
Similar to David Anderson.

mareeS
mareeS
October 24, 2023 6:06 pm

Looks like Dutton is making the beginnings of a renewables reset. He was in Port Stephens today to meet a nascent and fast-growing opposition to Bowen’s proposed Newcastle-Port Stephens offshore wind farm, which he has approved with nil consultation of local interests apart from maritime unions and local labor/greens.

Lots of people hot under the collar about this, including tourist operators, fishing industry, surfers, recreational boaters and yachtsmen, whale and dolphin protection groups. Funnily enough, the coal, shipping and port industries are silent at present.

Illawarra coastal interests have had the same non-consultation, and the two are presently forming a coalition.

Johnny Rotten
October 24, 2023 6:10 pm

If the police can scour the internet to prosecute anyone using ‘inappropriate’ language online and arrest those who state publicly that no woman can have an opinion, then surely they can arrest someone with a BIG NOse and a short arse –

Come on down “Jer Cough Cretin” and meet ex-Chair Person Dan of Sictoria. LOL.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2023 6:10 pm

Sharri Markson has put the rest of the Australian corporate media to shame.

rosie
rosie
October 24, 2023 6:11 pm

Having unfortunately visited Twitter where I had a look at an Israeli account, some hamas apologist had replied to a video of the hospital carpark fire with an unblurred photo of the six dead toddlers and babies on a gurney.
It was real.
Much carry on about the hospital carpark deaths, too many, but not 500, and not at the hands of Israel.

Chris
Chris
October 24, 2023 6:14 pm

Afterthought:

with a live round in the barrel uncocked and unprimed

Not an armourer, but I am unsure how one would uncock and unprime a round, live or not.

Sloppy terminology for sure. Perhaps the geniuses of the media felt themselves fully informed by the geniuses of the crack Police Public Relations Squad.
Many old fashioned actions would allow the operator to un-cock, eg by holding the hammer or cocking piece, and releasing the trigger then letting the hammer to half-cock or the cocking piece to a safety notch.
At the end of it, the firing pin is resting on the round and any blow on the hammer or cocking piece could fire it.
If it were a rifle with the stock were removed, that cocking piece could be the most likely landing point for the dropped barrelled action. And if the bits were in a shopping bag, the likely result of an uninformed person picking it up wrongly is that the big bits fall out.
Very dangerous indeed.

Johnny Rotten
October 24, 2023 6:16 pm

mareeS
Oct 24, 2023 6:06 PM
Looks like Dutton is making the beginnings of a renewables reset. He was in Port Stephens today to meet a nascent and fast-growing opposition to Bowen’s proposed Newcastle-Port Stephens offshore wind farm, which he has approved with nil consultation of local interests apart from maritime unions and local labor/greens.

Lots of people hot under the collar about this, including tourist operators, fishing industry, surfers, recreational boaters and yachtsmen, whale and dolphin protection groups. Funnily enough, the coal, shipping and port industries are silent at present.

Illawarra coastal interests have had the same non-consultation, and the two are presently forming a coalition.

And where are the local Tribes standing up for the Environment?

And where is Tanya PleberSuck looking after the Environment?

Blackout Bowen would be hiding of course. C U in the N T.

R soles all of them.

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2023 6:17 pm

“We are occupied people, we are defending our existence.”

Gaza hasn’t been occupied since 2005.

Did the ABC point that out?

In the meantime, the people of Gaza could have chosen peaceful co-existence which would eventually have seen security measures such as control of border crossings, air and sea space which Israel was authorised to use by the Oslo Accords relaxed.

Instead, the Gazans elected Hamas to govern them and Hamas immediately adopted an aggressive posture towards Israel. This prompted many Palestinians who did not support Hamas and could see the writing on the wall to leave Gaza.

Did the ABC report that?

eric hinton
eric hinton
October 24, 2023 6:19 pm

Wally Dalí
Oct 24, 2023 5:50 PM

If a NW sea breeze sits up, I’ll declare summer is here, no more rain until May.

Please explain. I understood sea breeze (in what I think is your neck of the woods) were always SW.

Johnny Rotten
October 24, 2023 6:21 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 24, 2023 5:43 PM
Joyner should be “rotated” to the Congo.

Do the Congolese still eat each other?

If they do, then that will reduce the population and give them all stomach ache. LOL.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2023 6:22 pm

One for aspiring authors like Lizzie?

Australian Literature Festival at Sea

This 5-night roundtrip voyage, sailing from Sydney with calls in Tasmania, is a dream voyage for literature lovers. Take part in thought-provoking talks, hear accomplished authors share the secrets of their creative process and finesse your own literary skills in hands-on workshops and interactive Q&As. 

December 2024.
Cunard.
Which ship?
The Queen Elizabeth, of course.

mareeS
mareeS
October 24, 2023 6:24 pm

Sorry, tried to link 2GB No Coastal Windfarms Port Stephens interview. I am hopeless at links. Sorry.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 6:27 pm

Noble people, defending their existence.

“A people who have never lost an opportunity, to lose an opportunity.” Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and statesman.

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 6:27 pm

I’m on the Queen Elizabeth in late Feb…Pacific cruise, and hopefully I get to see where Mum was born.

Got the “Literary Cruise” stuff and binned it instantly. If I want to read books at sea, the ship has an excellent library.

shatterzzz
October 24, 2023 6:28 pm

It’s very rare for me to feel ashamed to be a pom but reading this does! .. the only consolation I have is I left GeordieLand for Oz 56 years ago, thank Christ! …….
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/23/hamas-fugitive-leader-living-in-london-government-subsidised-housing-after-receiving-uk-citizenship/

cohenite
October 24, 2023 6:30 pm

Sharri Markson has put the rest of the Australian corporate media to shame.

Not a high bar but what has St Sharri done now.

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 6:31 pm

I say “hopefully” because it is cyclone season. Could be in for a bumpy ride.

Pogria
Pogria
October 24, 2023 6:32 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 24, 2023 5:43 PM
Joyner should be “rotated” to the Congo.

Do the Congolese still eat each other?

I suggest Joyner be sent to Sentinel Island and ask the locals if they think the Israeli murders are bullshit.

cohenite
October 24, 2023 6:35 pm

In a just world biden would be stripped naked, coated with honey and staked over a meat ant nest. In his negotiations with the iranians he withdrew ALL of the US’s missile installations in the ME. iran used the opportunity to give the hamas dogs the go ahead and are now winning the PR war as biden needs time and wants Israel to wait until US assets are re-installed in the region.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 6:35 pm

The ALPBC might be looking for a while for a ME reporter not inherently biased against Israel. The last few have generally been a disgrace. Unexpectedly.

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 6:37 pm

Chris Reason from 7 has been hit right between the eyes with the cluebat. The IDF “presentation” (sorry, I can’t think of another word right now), changed everything.

No more smugging for this guy. Only nightmares.

Cassie of Sydney
October 24, 2023 6:46 pm

“ABC Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner will no longer report from Israel and he will not be returning to the war zone following the controversial comments he made refuting claims babies had been beheaded by Hamas terrorists.”

Joyner should have been sacked. But, as we all know, it’s their ABC, and it’s out of control. David Anderson has said today he won’t apologise to Heston Russell, just like the broadcaster never apologised to the late Cardinal George Pell, and hasn’t apologised to Christian Porter, or Alan Tudge, or Andrew Laming and numerous others, despite forking dosh in defamation cases.

A few months ago C.L. made the very accurate comment that whilst the ABC is shedding viewers, and I believe is rapidly losing any remaining relevance and goodwill among ordinary Australians, it is becoming more menacing and more malevolent by the day. It operates like the cult of Scientology, and like Scientology it engages in “fair game”, it deliberately targets particular individuals due to their politics, opinions, religion and so on. C.L. is right, I believe it is an organisation that is becoming more dangerous by the day, and any future Coalition government must find a spine to cut the dosh to the ABC. The only way it will reined in is by suffocating it financially.

Cut the ABC dosh. It no longer represent us ordinary Australians, instead it spits in our faces.

JC
JC
October 24, 2023 6:47 pm

On the way to gym, I was listening to a podcast offering a suggestion for Trump to use as a persuasion technique against the demons.

The podcastor reckons that Trump should keep telling demonrats that he’s there to save them for other other demonrats.

If he kept at it could work out.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 6:48 pm
Cassie of Sydney
October 24, 2023 6:49 pm

“Sharri Markson has put the rest of the Australian corporate media to shame.”

Yep.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 6:53 pm

6:35 Much as I deplore the disingenuous and plentiful cheap shots at American political figures, from both sides of the imaginary fence, and tend to skip by them. I also never take them at face value but check the sources. The Jabbering Cadaver seems a justifiable target for such scrutiny.

This one seems too incredible by far and I would welcome any further insight.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/biden-confuses-tuskegee-airmen-with-syphilis-study-victims-in-explaining-covid-vaccine-reluctance.html

P
P
October 24, 2023 6:53 pm

Sharri Markson has put the rest of the Australian corporate media to shame.

Here?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 6:54 pm

In a just world biden would be stripped naked, coated with honey and staked over a meat ant nest.

I think “embalmed” is the word you are searching for Cohers.
He needs to be in a pyramid for about five thousand years.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
October 24, 2023 6:57 pm

The magic number started with a wretch in the US, Naomi Oreskes, who determined with science and statistics that 97.3% of published climate scientists accepted the principle of Anthropogenic Global Warming.

I must strenuously object!

That 97.3% number was originally invented out of thin air   tortured from the data released by the skeptical science web site (which, remarkably, appears to be limping along to this day), started by a dead set Aussie, John Cook.

He’s a true blue Scientist, John is. He’s now something or other at the Centre for Behavioral Change… so obviously someone to look up to, admire and, errm, believe on all things climate, and especially statistics. This stat was probably his proudest moment… he still includes it in his bio. Strangely, he doesn’t include his academic qualification in said bio…

It’s as Aussie as the Hills Hoist that stat. A source of national, errm, pride.

Don’t let them damn Yankees take the, errm, credit.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 24, 2023 6:57 pm

The ABC sets out to destroy ideological enemies. I read some time ago how meja watch goes after people and only lets them know on Friday afternoon.

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 6:57 pm

Bruce, honey is a preservative. The ants…not so much.

So…a very small pyramid.*

* h/t Zoolander 😀

Chris
Chris
October 24, 2023 6:58 pm

Not a high bar but what has St Sharri done now.

+1

eric hinton
eric hinton
October 24, 2023 6:58 pm

Boambee John
Oct 24, 2023 5:16 PM

Thanks

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 6:59 pm

Chris Reason from 7 has been hit right between the eyes with the cluebat. The IDF “presentation” … changed everything.

Haha, Mr Reason had to watch that?
While on Damascus Road perchance?
He may need to see an opthalmologist.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:00 pm
calli
calli
October 24, 2023 7:01 pm

He looked a basket case Bruce.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:02 pm
JC
JC
October 24, 2023 7:03 pm

The U.S. share of imports from China has been declining, a fact that has been driven much attention. Since hitting a peak of 21.6% in 2017, China’s share of total U.S. goods imports fell to 16.5%

in 2022 and was just 13.5% over the first eight months of this year, the lowest level since 2004.

These figures are at the core of the U.S-China “decoupling” narrative. The prevailing consensus is that the world’s two largest economies are going their separate ways as Beijing seeks greater economic self-sufficiency and Washington works overtime to cajole U.S. firms to diversify their global supply chains. The proof of “decoupling” is in the trade numbers. Or is it?

And

Based on figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. electrical machinery imports from China—as a percent of total U.S. imports—dropped by nearly 14 percentage points between 2016 and 2023; the decline in toys and apparel was considerable (8 and 12 percentage points, respectively), while the fall-off in furniture (21 percentage points) and footwear (20 percentage points) was more dramatic. These products are among the largest categories of U.S. imports from China, and hence their declines have had an outsized impact on bilateral trade flows and an outsized influence on the decoupling debate.

But here’s the rub: while the U.S. has been successful in finding alternatives to Chinese imports of motherboards, toys, sofas, and sandals, America’s dependence on China for strategic and critical minerals not only remains high, but in some cases, has actually increased. China’s role as the “factory to the world” is being recast as more firms diversify and derisk their global supply chains. But remember, China, in large part, is also the “refinery to the world.”

When it comes to refining iron ore into steel or pulverizing cobalt into fine purity particles for batteries, most roads lead through China. The nation’s processing infrastructure—think smelters, refiners, cracking activities, chemicals, and related capabilities—is second to none on a global scale. That is a potentially dangerous set-up for a country like the U.S., which according to the U.S. Geological Survey

, is 100% reliant on graphite and manganese imports, 76% per cobalt, and 56% net import reliant on nickel imports.

The U.S. is also significantly dependent on other countries for antimony, rare earth minerals, barite, bismuth, gallium, germanium, tantalum, yttrium, and many other minerals. The list goes on. Indeed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023

” report, the U.S. is now more than 50% net import reliant on 51 minerals, up from 47 from the prior report. And of these 51 minerals, China, as it happens, is the No. 1 supplier to the U.S. of 12 minerals deemed “critical.” America’s dependence on China for some of these commodities has actually risen over the past few years.

In other words, when it comes to critical minerals to power America’s green transition, and to support the U.S. semiconductor and defense sectors, the trend is for more, not less dependence on China. Between 2016 and 2022, U.S. import dependence on China for graphite as a percentage of total imports rose from 37% to 75%; magnesium increased from 38% to 51%; rare earth minerals jumped from 41% to 62%; and Yttrium rose from 50% to 74%.

Finally

Not only does China remain a key source of imports for the U.S., it also remains a key export market for U.S. goods. Through the first eight months of this year, America’s third-largest export market, after Canada and Mexico, was none other than China. The silver lining to all of this is that the world’s two largest economies are still in the business of doing business with each other.

In the end, the world we live in is far more complex and dynamic than the decoupling headlines suggest.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:04 pm
calli
calli
October 24, 2023 7:05 pm

Sorry, it’s no laughing matter of course. However, I was so down in the dumps this morning, I decided to do my morning walk to Mel Brookes’ “Jews in Space”.

It did put a heart in me. And a smile on my sad old dial.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:06 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 7:11 pm

I am reading Bob and Nikki book 6. I think I like them as much as I do because they resemble the Cafe. Something is always happening.

Just now outside, Mr Kooka goes thump onto the fence. I give him mince and ask ‘where’s your mum?’

Thump. She landed next to him. I coaxed her onto my wrist and she was well fed.

Last night I checked the front door in the evening: Furries! I went outside and had to dance, as old mum possum was wandering around my feet on my small porch with a rather large kid on her back. My bare feet. Her very sharp claws…

Fortunately I was able to bribe her with bread not to climb up my leg, which would’ve been painful. I’d’ve had to’ve taken an iron tablet. First time I’ve seen her for a year.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2023 7:12 pm

Israel should release the video they briefed all the media on.
It can be age gated on social media platforms.

It’s like seeing footage of the Holocaust.
If it’s not spread far & wide the anti-Semites say it never happened.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:12 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
October 24, 2023 7:18 pm

I thought Allen might have been a skool ma’am before politics but not even that. Had a sinecure in Tanner’s office. Like anal and Mr urine.

132andBush
132andBush
October 24, 2023 7:18 pm

Listened to this today
Mikhaila Peterson, Israel/Palestine.

For the Palestinian side was Norman Finkelstein who spent most of his time talking as if to primary school children while adroitly avoiding some very important facts.
Trots out the “Gaza. Is. The. Worlds. Largest. Concentration. Camp. Ever” meme, which basically tries to compare Jews to Nazis.
He then rounds it off by offering a complete justification for Oct 7.
His mentor is Noam Chomsky, which says it all.

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 7:18 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2023 7:19 pm

Israel should release the video they briefed all the media on.

mUnter. I know you’re reading this.

Divert from Malmo to one of the border kibbutzes, there’s a lad.

But be sure to watch that video first. All of it.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
October 24, 2023 7:19 pm

Gaza hasn’t been occupied since 2005.

Did the ABC point that out?

No, of course not.

Gaza is Trisenbergian – it has not been occupied for 22 years; it is an open air prison camp; AND it is being invaded.

Do catch up.

Cassie of Sydney
October 24, 2023 7:22 pm

I’ve cried a last over the last two weeks, this has made me sob tonight. I don’t think people realise that what happened on October 7 2023 was a full blown invasion of southern Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amearCrAEUM

As for that Islamist weasel Ed Husic (someone I’ve long thought was always a weasel), when he smugly talks about “collective punishment” he’s engaging in a deliberate blood libel against Jews and Israel. Such a libel compares Israel to Nazi Germany, which did engage in “collective punishment”. It is a deliberate smear and Ed Weasel Husic is a f*cking Islamist disgrace. But he’s the son of Bosnian Muslims, and we know what side they fought on in World War II, just ask Balkan Jews and Serbs.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 24, 2023 7:24 pm

Re the Newcastle-Port Stephens offshore wind farm, which looks like being joined by an Illawarra version.

Anyone flying into north Germany now can see scores of these turbines stuck in the offshore region there. Mighty ugly they look too. When there last I researched them a little and apparently the government was looking at removing them as they weren’t very effective.

Strange Bowen and Co aren’t installing winf farms off Bondi and off Melbourne…

cohenite
October 24, 2023 7:30 pm

This one seems too incredible by far and I would welcome any further insight.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/biden-confuses-tuskegee-airmen-with-syphilis-study-victims-in-explaining-covid-vaccine-reluctance.html

If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black!

PeterM
PeterM
October 24, 2023 7:31 pm

Chanel nein news tonight referring to the small number Australians being brought out of the “Occupied Territories”.

Do they have editors any more?

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 7:32 pm

@calli 7:05 …

A great place to go in grim times. Mel Brooks has my huge respect. Another one like that I love is “Gay Niggers from Outer Space” … back before we hit hit with Big Gag… and all got torn to pieces once again ..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 7:44 pm

Mel Brooks has my huge respect.

Blazing Saddles (1974) Original Trailer

Any movie with Slim Pickens in it is worth watching.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 24, 2023 7:49 pm

Offshore wind factories should start at Manly and run up the coast to Palm Beach.
Zali Steggall and Sophie Scamps would be sooooooo pleased.

132andBush
132andBush
October 24, 2023 7:50 pm

And the comments on that MP podcast are being bombed by pro Finkelstein people.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2023 7:51 pm

Do they have editors any more?

One part low intellect.
One part incredibly poorly read.
One part group think.

Mix well & you have your member of the corporate media.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2023 7:56 pm

For the Palestinian side was Norman Finkelstein who spent most of his time talking as if to primary school children while adroitly avoiding some very important facts.

Always found it ironic, to say the least, that both Norman Finkelstein’s parents were Holocaust survivors.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 7:58 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle 7:44

My sentiments entirely !! Most of the time reality is too grim and too poorly grasped.

Fiction becomes a Palette upon which we may mix our paint and reflect a bit … and go on to , maybe maintain a a more objective perspective ..

As to Mr Pickens ? Barely does a day go by …. Well you know where i am going with this …

“Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
October 24, 2023 8:01 pm

“Gaza. Is. The. Worlds. Largest. Concentration. Camp. Ever”

Idiots don’t listen to the words of their own platutudes. In what prison or concentration camp could the inmates gain all that military equipment, construct that complex warfare tunnel system, and plan and execute that evil rampage.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 8:05 pm

Um, Mark, wasn’t your hump on the other side?
Oh never mind!

Roger
Roger
October 24, 2023 8:06 pm

One part low intellect.
One part incredibly poorly read.
One part group think.

Mix well & you have your member of the corporate media.

Mixed into the base of a post-modern education and garnished with a twist of arrogance.

billie
billie
October 24, 2023 8:14 pm

Ms Wilkinson’s costs claim will be in court for the first time on November 4, while the defamation trial is set to begin on November 24 and run for about four weeks.

If ever there were people deserving of years of nervous discomfort and money problems, it is the screaching evil and deceitful mob around the Brittany incident who attempted to destroy the life of Bruce Lehrman.

I hope he has the strength to persue them all for years, and why not, they tried to destroy him and would have but for the ego of this dreadful harpie.

There are so many more to come too, including the DPP himself.

Will someone drop the Labor party into the mix, to deflect or dilute, Albo and his 3 witches?

May they all fear for the rest of their lives that the spectre of justice is in a shadow nearby, or on the tip of the tongue of one of them who has had enough and wants to lower their burden.

A curse on them all, no peace, ever.

The shadenfreude comes with joy, at their troubles.

Frank
Frank
October 24, 2023 8:17 pm

I read some time ago how meja watch goes after people and only lets them know on Friday afternoon.

It was when they did that show “Mark Steyn Mug”. They send you a list of questions to which he replied that he was happy to go into the studio and answer live on air. They demurred, only being interested in a written response that they can torment into the required narrative. He declined. He got a prominent space in the Australian that week to do a rebuttal which worked out poorly for Liz Jackson, the host at the time. Slapped she was.

JC
JC
October 24, 2023 8:17 pm

Israel’s central bank held rates and lowered its 2023 GDP forecast to 2.3%, warning a wider war could affect growth.

Google disabled live traffic conditions in Israel and the Gaza Strip for its Maps and Waze apps at the request of the Israeli military.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 8:19 pm

@ Bruce of Newcastle … 7:05

“Oh never mind!” I never pass by a comment of yours and pay it scant attention ..

Since I am a “Working Class Bishop ..” All my flock are of value to me…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTcx_IaI8BY

To be more accurate I am “Bishop of No Fixed Abode…. “

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 8:21 pm

J’ism is just another area poorly served by falling into the university sector. A side serve of Bacon is in no one’s interests. Prof Mark Kenny is just embarrassing.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 8:24 pm

This too all

… when I was with my shrink … my best exploratory Literary reference was Moby Dick and then only page one .. the rest was an outrageously funny story about a big fish that got away. Great by way of precis.. BUT

None of this TL,DR … you gotta read the whole thing…

calli
calli
October 24, 2023 8:25 pm

“Gaza. Is. The. Worlds. Largest. Concentration. Camp. Ever”

Really? Yet we have Aussies over there for holidays…now caught up in the war.

Some “Butlins”.

cohenite
October 24, 2023 8:26 pm

Kenny on turdball’s folly, Snowy 2 where the cost is now $23 billion and rising. That would have built about 12000 MW of nukes which is what NSW needs. Turdball should join joe on that ant nest.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 8:27 pm

I am “Bishop of No Fixed Abode…. “

Glorious!

Haven’t seen that one before. The Goodies vs Marty Feldman in serious action!

Cassie of Sydney
October 24, 2023 8:29 pm

Norman Finkelstein

There is nothing like a Jew hating Jew.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 8:36 pm

@H B Bear 8:21

When I studied J’ism at Curtain Uni in the 90s (or was it still WAIT at that point ? ) .. The Head of Dept would have beaten us like a ginger step child for anything that was , sloppy, poorly sourced …or far far worse …. lacking in objectivity. “No one Cares what you think ~slap~ “

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 8:44 pm

Furries have just arrived.

She’s old. I think at least 14 or 15. Kid is adorable. Nice to have her back, although her daughter and son have been dropping by every week or so while she’s been away.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 24, 2023 8:44 pm

The Swedish central bank needs a tax payer bail out.
I did not have that on my bingo card for 2023.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 8:48 pm

Snowy 2.0 is no Ozemail for taxpayers.

132andBush
132andBush
October 24, 2023 8:52 pm

In what prison or concentration camp could the inmates gain all that military equipment, construct that complex warfare tunnel system, and plan and execute that evil rampage.

Indeed.
Or GROW in number rather than reduce.

Living that way because of they literally elected to.

It’s a disgusting comparison.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 8:56 pm

@ Bruce of Newcastle 8:44

Sadly In Mirrabooka we have no Possums … But we do have the Chitty Chiity ..( and in alarming abundance ) also the Wardung; a happy profusion, I can hear them sing as I type .. and the Koolbardie … but not so often.

When I was in Mundaring … Possums aplenty….

You are Blessed …

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2023 9:04 pm

When you began to reveal private information etc, I cut my losses with you and that was the end.

oh, I see … when was that?

did you copy the posts?

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 9:05 pm

Too all..

Also on the subject of Fiction. I loathe Hollywood bloodbath goulish diversions. I wont view anything with an American accent. They always manage to slip in some “POZ” They are not ennobling, they are not instructive , they give no respite. I am always on the look out for something dignified ..

This is one I am into recently and some of you may enjoy it …

Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased)

HTH ..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 24, 2023 9:11 pm

H B Bear

Oct 24, 2023 8:48 PM

Snowy 2.0 is no Ozemail for taxpayers.

Can we pick a quiet time (say, Christmas Eve), set fire to it and claim the insurance?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 9:11 pm

Mark – I did have a Chitty friend down in the reserve about 300m from the Cafe. He’d see me arrive, and would accept tiny morsels of mince thrown into the air. Haven’t been down that way for a few months though, so I don’t know how he’s hanging. The same area has thornbills and fantails, it’s a nice place.

The brushtail lady is well aware of the rules, which is bread then a carrot. The carrot is good for teeth cleaning.

cohenite
October 24, 2023 9:14 pm

This bitch on Q&A wore a palli scarf, castigated no voters, compared white Australia to Israel as oppressors and so forth. She’s the head of get Up and should fuk off to pallistone.

JC
JC
October 24, 2023 9:18 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
October 24, 2023 9:20 pm

Can we pick a quiet time (say, Christmas Eve), set fire to it and claim the insurance?

It’s worth a try. I’ll talk to Richo.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 24, 2023 9:24 pm

She’s the head of get Up and should fuk off to pallistone

There were only 14 or 15 punters waving online-bought Pali flags, and who blocked the road to Pine Gap the other day before the local jacks unceremoniously ejected them from the roadway and (apparently) told them ‘If you want water, there’s some back at Alice Springs’.

However, the reliable mail is that fully two thirds of them were off-duty staff (including a number of doctors) at the Alice Springs Hospital, a known hotbed of softcockery activism.

It’s easy to be an activist when you’re half a world away from actual danger.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 9:39 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle 9:11

We may be relating and crossed purposes … the”Chitty Chitty” is the Willy Wagtail .. The Idea of having a “totem” (no real word for it but it might convey the sense) .. animal was something a very dear and sadly less communicative friend turned me onto. And He said …now the Chittty Chitty will inspire you ..

I know to the more cynical ..having an Aboriginal Elder in my Life that I Loved and respected might seem like I am Being all “Noble Savage” and cringingly patronizing.

Think what you will ..

But Old Mate promised me He would “show me a thing or two ……. ”

and He has …

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 9:50 pm

We may be relating and crossed purposes … the”Chitty Chitty” is the Willy Wagtail

Mark – Yes. Another Cat helped me out. I have indeed had a fairly friendly Willy Wagtail. I can’t recall how it happened, but we got to be friendly down at the reserve. I would toss tiny bits of mince in the air and he’d catch and eat them. He’d follow me for a fair distance going from bush to bush, it was a fine thing.

Winston I think has Willy Wagtails. Sadly I can’t because I have a whole tribe of noisy miners who are ridiculously friendly towards me but not to other small birds.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 9:55 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle … watch the Chitty Chitty raise his little wings to spook insects from the grass so as He doesnt have to bend down to gobble them up…

But watch Him also thread so close to a grazing …say horse… and almost find Himself enmeshed in those thoughtless teeth, but so close does He go . His wings can remain furled and he flits and feasts none the less …

an Economy of Energy ..

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 9:59 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle…

Throwing mince for the Chitty Chitty ???!! I would never have dreampt such a thing conceivable …

So much to surprise and delight us? No ?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 24, 2023 10:03 pm

Mark – The grey fantails are well worth watching too. Similar style as the wagtails, but more in scrub than the grassland.

I’m not a twitcher, instead I run Cafe Bruce. The rules are to take food from the hand or starve. I get a lot of customers who choose the former option!

Indolent
Indolent
October 24, 2023 10:04 pm
JC
JC
October 24, 2023 10:04 pm

New 2024 Ferrari Roma Spider. Truly gorgeous car.

There a movie coming out at Xmas time on old Enzo with Adam Driver as the old man. Driver/Enzo .. has to be the Simulation having a little fun.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 10:09 pm

From the Bangkok Post today in the Airport Novotel I read that Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is urging Thai workers in Israel to return home amid a possible escalation in the war against Hamas. It has been little recognised that around 30,000 Thai workers, mostly male labourers, but also female domestics, have been currently working in Israel. The Thai government has capacity to repatriate 800 per day, 3000 have already returned, and 8500 are registered to return. However Israeli employers are holding wages payments until Nov 10th, which the Thai government are trying to get stopped and payments made on regular dates as usual. They are negotiating this with Israel via diplomatsthey, as poorer workers are loathe to return without their full wages. The involvement of Thai Nationals in this conflict, where attention has been on Western hostages, has received little press coverage, yet large numbers are involved, more than from any other Asian nation. The Thais are currently negotiating with Hammas through various channels for the return of 19 Thai laborers held hostage during Oct 7th as they were working on a site near Gaza. Already 30 Thais have died in this conflict, and 18 have been injured.

We still do not know the fates of the Thai hostages, says Mr. Stretha. He also announced an amnesty for the return of undocumented Thai workers who fear arrest if they are listed to go home. They still can find jobs here in our homeland, and the Thai government will try our best to take care of them, he said.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 10:12 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle

…scarcely no surprise …

an Economy of Energy ( forgive me getting Physical ..and perhaps a little Philosophical …but also very Chemical) … is what Life Craves.

And to quote a Bloke you may also remember ;

“Beautiful to Contemplate” ..

cohenite
October 24, 2023 10:20 pm

On a less sombre note, one of Cronkite’s cute owls.

The writ is on the way for this foul breach of copyright. That lump of lard is a travesty. To settle everyone’s nerves a true cute owl™?

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 10:22 pm

And to all

remember the derision this bloke copped for saying Chocolate was a nourishing food ?

Well back in the day … a healthy slab of the Good Stuff along with a belt of Whisky and a spliff … well it made our day .. but in the snows of Tasmania … going hard on rocks and shovels ….. have a spell and a bit of nourishment …. and a bit of an attitudinal “pick me up” ..time to get the chain saws screaming…

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 24, 2023 10:22 pm

Not even the Swiss Bank of Banks can be trusted by Swiss Banks.
That is so absolutely very 2023.

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 10:24 pm

It was called “cording” …

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 10:27 pm

Perhaps a better link ? Perhaps not ..

comment image

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 24, 2023 10:45 pm

Boy, Cohenite, I’m open to the idea of a cute owl (indeed my nephew’s wife competes in that space), but I am struggling to see one in that picture behind all the silicone…

Nelson_Kidd-Players
October 24, 2023 10:48 pm

My sister was going to be in a Cadbury commercial – it was filmed – and then JSM came along and we never saw the ad.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 10:50 pm

Eric H-
Classic hot summer pattern here is slight easterly at sunrise, doldrums and heating up, then sea moderate gusty breeze sometime from 2-3 PM… sometimes not, if there’s a trough down the coast or thunderstorm brewing.
The South-west sea breeze is more an ocean air stream from friggin Antarctica, haunts us in August and Sept.
Last few years- decade, really- we’ve had a straight southerly, even SSEasterly, which is uite steady and nice, get that Argentinian hot sun-cold air combo.
Having mapped all this out- for the corner of a very flat bit of the continent, there is surprising microclimates and mini-zephyrs. I was down the road just another (checks notes) 12km one stinker having a chat to a bloke who does fabrication, and he says “ah, here’s the sea breeze”. I thought about it, and it was a straight easterly, and I said, what, the inland sea? But yep, you can smell the kelp from Gracetown. Uncanny. Buggery knows what route it followed, there’s not exactly glen lines in this landscape. Inversion?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:05 pm

One for aspiring authors like Lizzie?

You’d had to drag me into a literary festival by the hair. No way I’d go voluntarily.

I am not an ‘aspiring author’. I might one day write a memoir but hardly a novel, I suspect that may not be my forte, and should it turn out to be, then it won’t be enhanced by attendance at a luvvies love-in.

I do write occasional pieces just for the joy of recording something worthwhile, and also because I have something to say about the Arthurian legends and their origin.

My old copy chief when I was an advertising copywriter said never write unless you have something to say. Wise advice.

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2023 11:07 pm

who said the other day Ryan Adams was doing shows here?

well, dammit, no tickets left in Melb … both shows

some in Adelaide … possibly a trip to catch up with mates at the same time?

prolly wont happen

missed out again !!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:08 pm

Old copy chief was a journalist of the Old School, who was in ads for the money, his kids school fees etc.

He was a great bloke and very helpful to an unschooled girl from Sydney’s West.
He hired me, so he wanted to see me thrive.

I’ve met areff, who is a similar Old School journo. Bless them all. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:11 pm

In other news from the Bangkok Post, ‘Wild jumpo attacks, kills village chief’.

One has to feel sorry for the chief, who was badly mauled by a mother with a calf during a foray the group of elephants had made onto a precious palm plantation, where they did a lot of damage seeking food, so it’s a habitat issue where sympathies must also go to the elephants. A group of locals tried to chase them off, but not before the chief was badly injured. He died on the way to hospital. This was in Surat Thani, in the Tha Chana district, yesterday.

Other people’s lives.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:16 pm

Forgive my typing errors. Ouzo time here, a lovely evening drink, with water.

We are polishing off the bottle before tomorrow morning’s flight to Sydney.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 11:30 pm

That were me, MT
…the Ryan Adams I dig is the extended wig-out with The Cardinals. This tour is him solo… which will still be intense, but as i get older i’m finding it harder to fall under the spell unless the lights are down, the volume up and the drinks in plenty.

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2023 11:31 pm
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 24, 2023 11:33 pm

Everybody Knows
Inversion trick- taking a two-minute sketch from an album, turning it into a seven-piece kaleidoscope.

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2023 11:33 pm

has he lost it Wally?

what a shame if he has

the guy was brilliant

MatrixTransform
October 24, 2023 11:41 pm

One day there was a silence and it washed through the town
There was no reason to speak so no one made a sound
Her eyes were indigo and the cats was all calico
The sailboats, they all sailed by
And a river she cried

With cool and silvery eyes
And her heart, it was fit for desire
Drown in a river of tears, oh, river she cried
Left her with her heart
Made of ashes and fire

and a river she cried

Mark Bolton
October 24, 2023 11:51 pm

@Nelson_Kidd-Players 10:48 …

Deeply Entrenched interests VS Fresh Talent. Utterly No hope.

Boots always on our throats …always …. never mind and tell her from me “The fix was always in …. Big Confectionery ..it is a Brutal Game ”

She would have been a winner ..

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:52 pm

Hairy watching the Thai boxing on the TV, which they do to music! Great theatre, he says. He’s chosen that in preference either Al Jazeera or CNN which are the only news shows on offer in English.

In the Bangkok Post I read the tale of a young American boy who has two million followers for his aim to become a top Thai Boxer. He has a go fund me page for a trip here, and the Thai people are right behind him. Come and stay for a year and be made a champion, they applaud. Thai boxing is very big here. The guy on stage just wins a round and smiles. He’s a wirey little chap with a deep blue mouthguard on his upper teeth. Looks like a space invader. Two commentators going wild, nodding at each other’s comments.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2023 11:57 pm

Gosh, Matrix. Didn’t realise I was drinking science.

That’s exactly how it works with water, and very nice it is too.

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:06 am

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare 11:16

Much and all as I profoundly disapprove if you drinking Ouzo . a profoundly toxic substance that tastes disgusting …and wonder why a person of your merit and wide experience wouldnt be drinking ?ubrówka (ice cold straight from the freezer) or something much healthier, doubtless you have your reasons ..

I really love your written meanderings. Not so much as I find them compelling in them selves , though , sometimes I do, I just love it that you “Go Hard ” and tell us all about yourself . OK sometimes it might be a bit self indulgent .. sometimes a little prolix .

But you will always find a ready ear from me.

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:11 am

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

Full disclosure ..I am having a moderate ~slurp~ on James Boag Premium … Tazzie Boy that I am ..

MatrixTransform
October 25, 2023 12:12 am

Didn’t realise I was drinking science

don’t over-think it …. worry about it in the morning

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:12 am

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare ..and I also blush to confess a ciggie …. a roll you own of course ..

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 25, 2023 12:13 am

Ryan Adam’s one of a kind, fer sure. Saw him in Freo, must have been fifteen years ago, stood on stage and played and sang effortlessly for what must have been three hours, with band.
The “star gets heavy with wannabes backstage” was hardly a scandal, only got oxygen because of hashtag world… but to all accounts he was a sh*thead husband to Mandy Moore, who may have arguably had stars in her eyes getting led to the altar, but she’s aged into quite a babe with a genuine career, choreographing the pieces for La La Land fillum amongst other interesting stuff.
I reckon, like many mercurial creatives, he’s an autist prone to self-indulgence. His best stuff, and his best behaviour, is when he has a band around him. Whiskeytown told him to shove it, the Cardinals took ten years to tell him where to get off, the Cold Roses have gone and come back… I’d see him if he bought the fellas along with him, but not this time.
Swore to not end up like a Springsteen fanboi, going to see the same band every time no matter what- instead pledging to using the money and babysitter options to get back doing what first got me deep in the scene, which is going to see random cheap new acts at borderline venues. You Am I are playing at my local before Christmas… I love them dearly, but I have said no!
…Adams at the Astor in Perth is $99+.

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:14 am

chop chop … nah just kidding .. a “grow your own … ” a vice bestowed upon me by a Yugoslav fellow horticulturalist…

MatrixTransform
October 25, 2023 12:16 am

James Boag Premium

a fine drop

as is Makers Mark

Gabor
Gabor
October 25, 2023 12:18 am

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Oct 24, 2023 10:48 PM

Pardon my ignorance, what is “JSM”?

MatrixTransform
October 25, 2023 12:22 am

and I also blush to confess a ciggie

OMG …The Cat

… may portray depictions of tobacco usage

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:23 am

@ MatrixTransform 12:16

Indeed it is …. and I raise a glass to salute your discerning taste … stubby that is ..not a glass mug .. (we are not savages)

To Your Health !!

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:25 am

@Gabor John Stuart Mill .. a Philosopher.

Annie
Annie
October 25, 2023 12:28 am

We always enjoyed Keo Ouzo in Cyprus. Known as Bouzo to the British military!

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:28 am

@Gabor Nah ..just having a lend ..we were discussing Julius Sumner Millar … forgive my levity ..

MatrixTransform
October 25, 2023 12:31 am

You Am I are playing

another prodigy
shame the sentiment in the song doesn’t match reality

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 25, 2023 12:34 am
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 25, 2023 12:42 am

Easy, tiger
Tim Rogers is another one-off. Borderline toss-off, maybe, but for decades he made real connections out of unlikely ingredients.
And bugger me, his band can play.
There’s a line in a song, “Damn Songs”, which is about Tim’s favourite subject, which is the terrifying balancing act of opening a vein to let off the pressure, needing a crowd to hold him but not indulge him- being vulnerable to the poison of pop fizz.
“Sometimes I wake up screaming-
thinking I’ve got it all figured out”
I reckon that’s where he’s at, he’s actually quite content with where he’s at, and inevitably his songwriting has faded from the seat-of-the-pants vitality it once had.

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:45 am

@ Steve trickler

And when I saw Cash …I was more in the mind of this sort of thing… but each to our own ..

https://youtu.be/jf85_ZsIGxM

MatrixTransform
October 25, 2023 12:48 am

Easy, tiger

ur so defensive

try manning a school fete stall with the bloke

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 12:57 am

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare …

Might I ask … with the greatest of respect … is it just your good self and I that are shameless enough enough to use our real names? After all this is how we approach Life …Face to Face …

To all those that might nit pick and deride you ? You have absolutely nothing to hide.

??????? ?? ?????????? ???????????? ???? ?????? ????????????

Not So ?

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 1:00 am

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare …

I Tried to post in Russian … ie Cyrilic …

“Never let the perfect be the enemy of the sufficent … ”

Not So ?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 25, 2023 1:01 am

Like meat pies, love his work but I know not to think too much about how he’s made. Love the band, maybe more so for 90’s national parochialism, they would never make sense anywhere else or at any other time… and they’ll pass.
As for your school fete stall flex… I made a telly program with Alex from Blur, that was a demeaning experience

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 25, 2023 1:09 am

Mark Bolton
Oct 25, 2023 12:45 AM

Greatest dog in the world

Mark Bolton
October 25, 2023 1:13 am

trickler 1:09

Yes .. sure ..but you are going to have to fill me in on that one a bit … unless you are just thinking out loud .

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