Sure, then they can return to Saudi Arabia.
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Oct 2023
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Identity politics reaches it’s nadir after the US election: Democrats not sure whether to blame the misogyny of “black and…
Oh dear, it appears I’ve upset Anne Aly. I wrote to her last night and asked why she laughed at…
“Where people have their primary identity as something other than Australian.” So that makes Jewish-Australians sus, eh? What about: Christian-Australians…
I understand he takes some chemical supplements, too. Sorry, better clarify – the supplements taken by the bloke on the…
Cassie.
The U.S. Center for Security Policy has been quite strong on the Isl@mic threat for some years now. Frank Gaffney heads it.
Winston Churchill
Bowen in the Wind
Stuart Ballantyne writes that the reason Australia is ignoring nuclear power is because of the intransigence of climate minister Chris Bowen.
May thy knife chip and shatter!
Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia (27 Oct)
Make pretty good arrowheads too, you’d think, but it’d be a reverse Catch 22 since if you could catch enough tiger sharks for the necessary number of teeth you wouldn’t then need their teeth to hunt with. Flake, yum!
Please add to the list.
Melanie Phillips.
Victoriastan Lieborals. Not afraid to do the right thing after trying everything else.
…….. there’s no money it for the parasitic big donors to the UNiparty.
PM Albanese’s Diary: complete and total surrender after long and expensive battle
https://michaelwest.com.au/pm-albaneses-diary-complete-and-total-surrender-after-long-and-expensive-battle/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-10-25&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update
Rex Patrick via Michael West news.
Didn’t Marcia Langton promise that “Welcome to Country” was finished, if the referendum was defeated?
Unfortunately, I think she was just referring to herself ( mind when she getz back from her Bali recovery and needz a cash top-up … who knoze?) too many grifters in the game now plus all those gummint depts & corporate nabobs who just luv spending OPM will ensure it endures ……..
If permitted to include historical figures:
John of Damascus (+AD749).
Credited as being the first literary critic of Islam & the Quran (The Heresy of the Ishmaelites).
Traditionally regarded as the last of the Church Fathers, whose writings defined early Christian orthodoxy.
Add Tom Holland to the list of truth tellers about Islam.
Stuart Ballantyne writes that the reason Australia is ignoring nuclear power is because of the intransigence of climate minister Chris Bowen.
Why anyone would listen to this third rate intellect is anyone’s guess. He is an embarrassment.
A few of us here Cassie, publicly while a couple of people were but the nice Muslim family next door, that run a local restaurant, who cares about the middle east anyhow?
While the middle east had moved here a few decades ago and yes some Muslims are decent people despite their religion.
Ferdinand and Isabella?
Muslims are decent people despite their religion.
agree
correction some Muslims are decent people despite their religion.
It doesn’t matter what the people in charge of news organisations like Sky News think: university journalism schools are presenting them with a 100% uniform brand of political activists pretending to be journalists who think the public is too stupid to vote and that freedom and democracy must be immediately replaced by communist tyranny rebranded as a glorious woke revolution.
They laugh in the faces of those who think journalists are supposed to be the public’s eyes and ears — so last-century, so pre-revolutionary.
Journalists are turkeys campaigning for Christmas because they’re so brainwashed they can’t stop what they’re doing. Exceptions to the rule are rarer than hen’s teeth.
Hilaire Belloc, Winston Churchill, Los Reyes Catolicos.
People still don’t get it. These disgusting spiteful collectivist cretins don’t want anyone to have access to cheap reliable power. Except themselves, of course, paid for by others.
It’s not about going greenfilth, it’s about going without.
You will:
Eat ze bugs
Exist in a pod
Own nothing
and be happy
Or else …
Aboriginal elite’s rejection of Jacinta Price’s Royal Commission proposal is nothing new – the establishment has been letting down Indigenous kids for decades
Jacinta Price’s proposal for a Royal Commission into Aboriginal child sex abuse was a non-starter in the ideologically charged world of Indigenous politics, writes Nick Cater.
The Indigenous establishment’s rejection of a Royal Commission into Aboriginal child sex abuse has vindicated the decision of Australians to vote No at this month’s referendum.
Here was a chance to allow young Aboriginal voices to tell their stories about the pain and constant fear of living at the mercy of adults with abusive intent.
A Royal Commission would not have been a panacea.
Still, it would at least have given us greater insights into this seemingly intractable evil and helped shape public policy in ways that would make a practical difference to vulnerable lives.
However, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s proposal was a non-starter in the ideologically charged world of Aboriginal politics.
In an open letter, dozens of welfare and Indigenous organisations condemned Senator Price’s proposal for playing “into the basest negative perceptions of some people about Aboriginal people and communities.”
“These calls for a Royal Commission into the sexual abuse of Aboriginal children have been made without one shred of real evidence being presented,” the joint statement said.
We have more than sufficient evidence to conclude Aboriginal children are far more likely to be sexually assaulted than other young Australians.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that in 2012, rates of sexual assault reported to police among Indigenous children aged under nine in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory were two to four times higher than rates among non-Indigenous children in these jurisdictions.
That statistic alone should have been enough to gain Senator Price cross-party support for her call to establish a Royal Commission.
Yet the head of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, Muriel Bamblett, says calls for a Royal Commission were “demonising Aboriginal men and reinforcing false stereotypes just to get media attention.”
The reluctance of the Aboriginal elite to throw light on the excess of violence and misery in remote Indigenous communities is not new.
Senator Price’s mother, Bess Price, encountered the same objections when she began speaking out on behalf of women and children in remote communities almost 20 years ago.
Aboriginal academics in the cities objected to the stigmatisation of Aboriginal people.
They sought to justify the violence, falsely claiming that most perpetrators were non-Indigenous.
They urged us to consider the underlying causes of crime, like poverty, intergenerational trauma, and colonial oppression’s dark legacy.
When Price appeared on ABC’s Q&A 12 years ago, it provoked one of the most atrocious tweets in the history of the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I watched a show where a guy had sex with a horse, and I’m sure it was less offensive than Bess Price,” indigenous lawyer Larissa Behrendt posted.
Such visceral, intemperate reactions cannot be explained as a mere difference of opinion.
It is the response of someone whose entire vision of the world is disturbed by the notion that indigenous people are anything other than victims.
For those whose understanding of the world is shaped by identity politics, it is hard to absorb that the victims of oppression might also be oppressors.
They are quick to explain away the most abhorrent crimes on the grounds that the criminal was driven by circumstances beyond his or her control.
The internalisation of oppression means that Aboriginal men “may adopt the devaluing views against women”, claims one apparently serious academic article.
“Colonial historical oppression disrupted the once matrilineal and woman-centred gender roles to be replaced with Western forms of the patriarchy.”
Nothing will change for Aboriginal children and their mothers in remote communities so long as academics and the Aboriginal elite persist in making these convoluted excuses.
In fact, things will almost certainly deteriorate.
Most Australians can see through the cant and hypocrisy of the Aboriginal elite.
Senator Price has shown the courage to rock the boat.
That dozens of Aboriginal organisations have united to oppose the Royal Commission suggests the audit of Indigenous spending the Opposition proposes is long overdue.
For those interested, Serge has a good essay up on The Bulge and Market Garden in the context of the Wehrmacht rout in ’44 Europe following Overlord.. Somewhat focused on Model’s effort.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-last-effort-germanys-final-battle
Everyone on team Christianity at the battles of Lepanto and at the Gates of Vienna.
Charles Martel.
Vicki
Oct 28, 2023 12:09 PM
Stuart Ballantyne writes that the reason Australia is ignoring nuclear power is because of the intransigence of climate minister Chris Bowen.
Why anyone would listen to this third rate intellect is anyone’s guess. He is an embarrassment.
Vicki,
from search – https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Bowen+in+the+Wind%22.&ia=web
https://www.theaustralian.com.au › commentary › letters › bowen-in-the-wind-us-and-the-tsar-and-global-bullseye › news-story › bc7f2494841378726b51b2629ad1de96
Bowen in the wind, us and the tsar, and global bullseye
Chris Bowen displays a short fuse, a rude and defensive attitude, and an inability to understand that irrespective of how much money is thrown at renewables they remain intermittent and unreliable …
El Cid
Yet Muriel Bamblett has run the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency since 1999, responsible for aboriginal children who are at risk.
Lies. All of it.
State Health Depts in Qld and NT are treating kids as young as 5 &6 suffering from STD’s. I know this from my sister who is a nurse.
Muslims are decent in inverse proportion to their demographic preponderance.
Didn’t know this…
In the 1960s Brigitte Bardot spoke against Muslim immigration to France.
She’s since been fined 5 times for making “anti-Islamic” comments.
thread on possibility that today’s activities are an attempt to get hostages released, it’s just an opinion of a fox journo though
Muriel Bamblett
She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.
another don
Good on you Nick Cater.
I have nothing but contempt for ‘universities’.
Fun fact for the day: Qatar has just sentenced 8 Indian naval officers to death for “spying for Israel”. How not to win friends in the middle of a ME war.
And further down in the story you get the real reason why Qatar getz away with all it’s terrorism sponsorship .. too many countries putting their energy needs before their citizens welfare ……
Qatar, a country, the size of a postage stamp, allowed to punch way above it’s weight
The case involving the eight Indians, who were working on a submarine project with a private company for the Qatari authorities, could also become a diplomatic headache for New Delhi, which depends heavily on Qatar for its natural gas needs.
Watch: Chinese Jet Comes Dangerously Within 10 Feet Of US B-52 Bomber
BY TYLER DURDEN
There’s been another military close-call between US and Chinese aerial patrols in skies off China, with the Pentagon blasting the unsafe maneuvering of a Chinese fighter jet.
“The Chinese Shenyang J-11 rapidly approached the US B-52 bomber on Tuesday over the South China Sea and came within 10 feet of contact,” a Pentagon official said Thursday of the fresh incident. The Department of Defense subsequently released footage of the extremely close intercept.
The US statement said the Chinese J-11 harassed the B-52, flying at “uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below, in front of, and within 10 feet of the B-52, putting both aircraft in danger of a collision.”
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command went on to say “We are concerned this pilot was unaware of how close he came to causing a collision,” in a press release.
But like with the other episodes, Beijing has a different reading, charging that this is but the result of Western aggression and hegemony which seeks to provoke incidents by sending military assets thousands of miles away near China’s waters.
“The U.S. military planes traveled thousands of miles to China’s doorstep to flex muscle,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning has said in response. She emphasized, “That is the source of maritime and air security risks, and is not conducive to regional peace and stability.”
There’s definitely need for a Roayal Commission into those who refute the need for a Royal Commission into Aboriginal child sex abuse.
If asked, every one of them will deliver a package, leave open a lock, pass on information etc. Every. Single. One. They are ALL ultimately complicit in furthering the Caliphate if called upon, unless they have bikie biz to attend to.
Can’t really fathom what down-thumb brings to this site.
Infantile.
It’s finally filtering through to the MSM:
Do We Really Know That Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cause Significant Climate Change?
My favourite, simple disprove of alarmism is from the IPCC’s AR4, Fig 7.3 which conclusively shows human CO2 is only 3% of the annual CO2 emissions which means humans cannot be responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2. So even if you believe CO2 controls climate, it doesn’t, humans do not cause the increase in CO2.
End of fukng story.
Does anyone have a better, simple disproof of alarmism?
Need a Royal Commission into Aboriginal child
sexabuse.That last character is a full stop, AKA period.
Left off the link:
Do We Really Know That Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cause Significant Climate Change?
Another for the list, an early arrival – Bernard Lewis
By their names shall ye know them. The Bamblett family is one of the key “big names” in Victorian aboriginal affairs.
Why on earth would someone in that position want to rock the
boatgravy train?Perhaps so, but you couldn’t reach that conclusion based only on the Hamas hospital segment. The old refrain “if it bleeds, it leads” can explain that one just as easily.
Kudlow: Biden’s “Peace Through Weakness” Strategy In The Mideast A Disaster
LARRY KUDLOW: Now as we know, for nearly three years President Biden tried to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran.
He inherited this stupidity from President Obama. Obama’s deal would never have passed the Senate, so they put it together through the United Nations instead and they attached U.N. Security Council sanctions on that misbegotten deal.
Lately however, when the U.N. ballistic missile sanctions expired last week they were not even snapped back.
So now, even those unenforced sanctions have essentially expired, but the Biden administration has also chosen not to enforce the economic sanctions that were put in place by the Trump administration.
Those economic and energy sanctions that were strictly implemented by Mr. Trump and his administration basically bankrupted Iran.
So when Trump took out Iran’s top military man Soleimani, the Iranians didn’t do anything because they were broke.
Today as we all know, and as the facts show, Iran is flush with energy and foreign exchange reserves that they have used to finance Hamas and other terrorist groups.
Indeed before the October 7th blow-up, Biden was trying to give Iran even more cash.
Essentially the key point I suppose, is to acknowledge Iran’s direct role in training and financing the terrorist attacks against Israel and the United States.
To do that would require an acknowledgment from Biden that his Iranian policy of appeasement has gone wrong, very wrong, from the very beginning.
Apparently, he doesn’t want to make that acknowledgment.
So he and his spokespeople have come up with this fiction which at best is semantic and at worst is an outright lie, that Iran had no direct involvement in Israel, or American massacres.
You can parse words but you can’t parse the truth.
Iran is unappeasable.
Without deterrence, Iran will continue as the largest state sponsor of terrorism. The Bidens have got to understand this hard fact. Iran will never change. It will never change its ways, nor will its terrorist puppets.
And if President Biden wants to show Americans and the rest of the world that he has figured this out, then he must at a bare minimum reinstate the economic and energy sanctions of the Trump years, and the quickest way I can think to do that would simply be to interdict or impound an Iranian ship on the high seas that might be carrying oil or weapons, or anything else forbidden under those sanctions.
Those sanctions were imposed legislatively by the U.S. Congress and enforced by the Trump administration.
To be real simple, I call it “Stop A Ship.” If you do, you will send a message.
Go back to the Trump model.
A change of Biden’s policies towards Iran that is honest and transparent reappraisal of the failure, well that is the best thing Biden can do to protect Israel and the United States.
And then just, please, quit lying to us, alright?
I haven’t followed it up since I originally posted on this (last weekend, iirc), but there’s a reasonable basis for the suspicion that official figures cited to refute the need have been manipulated.
How else does one explain the unprecedented drop in substantiated abuse cases involving indigenous children, which is an astonishing reversal of an historical trend, which has otherwise drawn no scrutiny from officials or the media?
Did the courts manage to lock all of the indigenous kiddy fiddlers up in the space of a year or two?
Interesting post, Makka, thank you.
They have probably seconded the same team that puts together our CPI figures.
Marcia’s message stick is still in Bali trying to figure out how to traverse the seas.
Gerry Adams thinks Gazans have either 3 or 10 toes.
Pity the prick didn’t do this first up …
The Indigenous establishment’s
Correction: The Aboriginal Aristocracy.
They behave as the old aristocracy would. Defined and undefined rules of engagement, hierarchy status, narrative (religious) beliefs, self determined entitlement to riches of others, large property portfolios, requirement for lessers to pay homage and defer to their superiority… cos you know its for your own good / safety / betterment.
I agree Rosie. I do not hate all Muslims…although I think that importing too many Muslims causes big problems for western secular countries.
I believe Islamic immigration to the West should cease.
Campion
Sorry, but if you are in trouble this early in a drought you
a) are a bad farmer/grazier
B) fully expecting to dip into Other People’s Money to bail you out of your lack of planning.
Andy Crapp trying to prove it’s possible to be even worse than Clover Moore?
Similar situation here in the Wild West – my informant had been a nurse in the outback communities. She cited the “Big man” culture.
Not so innocent civilians
Would Guterres ever assert that the death of Gaza civilians past and future also does not “happen in a vacuum”? Hardly.
But just who are these “innocent civilians” of Gaza? These are the same people who elected Hamas in 2006, knowing that Hamas’ charter called for the extermination of all Jews. That charter preceded Hamas’ election by almost two decades.
These “civilians” knew for whom they voted and why they voted for them.
There are the same “civilians” whose homes conceal entrances to Hamas’ tunnels, whose hospitals shield Hamas’ leaders, whose clinics and schools are used as launching pads for Hamas’ rockets.
These are the “civilians” who rushed across the border fence on October 7 to maraud, rape and murder.
These are the “civilians” who are used as human shields. My sympathy for them is lacking.
Certainly, infants are innocent, but all children pay the price for the folly of adults.
More troubling are the adults – civilians all – who birthed and raised monsters, such as one evildoer who called his father from Kibbutz Mefalsim to boast in real time of his mass murder: “Father, look how many Jews I killed with my own hands! Your son, I killed ten Jews with my own hands!’ To which the proud father responded: “God is great. May God protect you.”
Consider this for a moment.
Is there one reader among you who would be “proud” of a child who boasted of mass murder?
If I while driving accidentally struck a pedestrian who fell to the ground and tore his pants, I would have been too embarrassed to tell my father.
And here, this savage not only murders, beheads, tortures, and dismembers, but he also has the presence of mind to call his father, knowing that his father would admire his cowardly and dastardly deeds.
Those are not “innocent civilians”; those are people steeped in a sick culture of hatred that is inconceivable to normal human beings.
Those are people who willingly aid and abet mass murder and then cry about the consequences when they and their homes are bombed.
Gaza’s imams this week issued a fatwa calling it a crime against Islam for any Gazan to travel south to avoid Israel’s offensive.
They are not “civilians” but passive combatants, tools in Hamas’ arsenal.
They deserve no protections – certainly not international law – and humanity will be better off without them.
The recourse to international law to protect these murderers and their accomplices is farcical.
For decades now, the West has struggled with a response to radical Islam and the proper method for conducting asymmetrical warfare.
Consequently, radical Islam, as typified by Iran, has grown stronger, and even stronger due to the appeasement of the Americans and the West.
But the primary fallacy has been the West’s choice to indulge the grisly notion that Israel has to be bound by the rules of war while their enemy does not, that somehow proxies of Iran are excused from the norms of war that bind all others.
The grossest ongoing violation of international law is the holding of Jewish hostages, which somehow the “world” condones as, well, just the way it is.
We are expected to provide water, electricity, food, medicine, and other needs to our enemy to demonstrate our commitment to international law, notwithstanding that the enemy can flout international law with impunity.
That, too, is senseless and immoral, and we should not tolerate that.
We should be unafraid to tell the world – including Biden, Blinken, Macron and whoever else visits Israel – that if Hamas still has enough fuel to launch rockets, then they have enough fuel, period.
Let the hospitals procure their fuel from the leaders they elected. Let the million and a half “innocent civilians” revolt against their cruel leaders if indeed they are so innocent and so troubled by the conditions in Gaza.
We should have no interest in making more Arab fathers proud of their sons’ talent for murdering Jews.
Only Israel has every military action assessed and approved by its lawyers.
That is no way to run a war and no way to win a war, which has resulted in decades of Israel not winning any wars and even thinking that wars are not winnable.
That is a defeatist strategy that has brought disaster upon us.
The United States and allies have fought wars in the last century that have killed millions of enemy civilians, with reassessments coming only after the wars’ successful conclusions.
That is a good template for us as well.
They must be really worried.
State Labor MP Mark Furner has got out his vote Labor A frames and volunteers already. Saw three set ups in 1km stretch on a road that leads to but not in his electorate.
Has to be a record for longest time before election which is year away.
I completely accept your theorem of inverse proportionality CL.
Excellent article. Thanks OO.
Bern, there was a Tablet piece I posted about a week ago that said both Egypt and the US warned Israel. However, Israel thought it would be one of those small actions where it would invariably end up in a prisoner exchange and not big scale.
Biden: If There Were Not An Israel We’d Have to Invent One
For those wondering if the US is using Israel as a vassal state, simply look at what President Biden has been spewing since the 1980s. “If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one,” Biden first said during a Senate session in 1986 after sending Israel $3 billion. Straight from the horse’s mouth. America funds Israel “to protect US interests in the region.”
Israel is a strategic military base for the West. It permitted America to keep an eye on not just oil but opium as well. America did not need to “create” an Israel since Britain basically did back in 1948 with the UN. Israel is not a charity and the West does not fund it because of religion. Yes, Israel was zoned for those of Jewish faith after World War II, but the true reason it was created was to provide the Allies with power in the Middle East.
America alone has provided Israel with $158 billion since 1948, prior to the Hamas attack. This money was not a loan but rather an investment. The US is now sending the nation over $100 billion and counting. Without Israel, Western forces would have no reason to patrol the seas or surround the region. Power and money are the only aspects that motivate governments. No one is funding this war out of concern for the people.
This is why the West immediately began building up Israel’s military. France provided Israel with the ability to build nuclear weapons near Dimona in the Negev Desert. When this became public knowledge in 1960, Eisenhower feigned shock, and the media began reporting that the factory was being used to create textiles rather than nuclear weapons.
Former French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville admitted in December 1960 that France assisted Israel in creating a “replica of [the] Marcoule plant.” France needed to protect its colonies in North Africa at the time and relied on Israeli intelligence. France provided the raw materials and arms while the US aided with financing through tax-deductible charities. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal, and France and Britain considered invading to seize the area. Then the former Soviet Union threatened to intervene and the world was ready to use the Middle East as their battleground. Now Russia is funding a nuclear plant near that area on behalf of Egypt. And yet, Israel’s current policy is to neither confirm nor deny if they have a nuclear program. Look at history and you will see how everything has been unfolding in accordance to the war cycle.
So yes, Israel became a vassal state after the Second World War in preparation for the third.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/biden-if-there-were-not-an-israel-wed-have-to-invent-one/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The concept of Year Zero (‘but better this time’) is one I have no doubt excites some. No doubt it seems absurd that what happened in Cambodia could be transplanted here, but is it really? Absurd, I mean.
Hence why I label the ‘greens’ as the Year Zeros. The core/cadre, I mean, not the comfortable upper middle class who vote Zero for virtue signalling purposes, or the Filth-Filter (media) addicts who might genuinely believe that the planet is on the verge (the 40-year emergency) of going ‘Pop!’
Our opponents and enemies have a far more effective understanding of human psychology and the power of propaganda than conservatives do.
I’m posting it every single time Marty goes up.
Martin Armstrong Socrates Scam
MatrixTransform
Oct 28, 2023 11:32 AM
Roger,
evidence of pre-stealthing right there !
Excellent use of the term.
Like “fake news”, “stealthing” is pumped-up and ripe for re-purposing against the Lizard People.
C.L.
Oct 28, 2023 12:30 PM
Can’t really fathom what down-thumb brings to this site.
Infantile.
Me neither- but I find if you don’t look at them, they don’t exist.
Easy left-had scan of the up-thumbticks will show me what’s worth reading, if i’ve got a few days to catch up on- the rest can go hang.
Re. Israel’s nightmare:
I posted a link about a week ago to a Foundation for the Defence of Democracies article regarding the pre- cataclysm intelligence background in the region, and how Lebanon helped a h@m@s counter-intel sweep in G@z@ which castrated an apparent network of Israeli sources very recently. I also recall reading somewhere that approximately 20 people had been arrested and executed in G@z@ – again very recently, on account of apparently being spies. These events may have had some impact on Israel’s ability to confirm any intel given by Egypt or the U.S. (Though non-specific intel might be impossible to confirm anyway).
Polls show support for nuclear power is increasing.
Even among Labor voters (52% in one recent instance).
This explains why Dutton has adopted it to wedge Albanese.
Have started watching the Beckham series on Netflix.
Shows his early days as a kid and then relationship with Posh Spice. Would drive 4 hours to see her for 20 minutes.
In 1998 France World Cup England played Argentina. He got sent off for a silly kick at Argentinian player who had brought him down. Lost the match and England manager threw him under the bus.
The hatred towards him, for months after, by the English public was incredible. Was spat on in the street. Same time that Posh was pregnant with first child.
Good series with plenty of coverage of important games and comments from his team mates and Posh and parents.
Likeable guy and so far Posh looks like tough girl as well.
Ha.
Random question.
If the death toll in G@z@ has risen to 7,000+ as claimed, where are those bodies/remains being stored or buried? That may seem a morbid question, but there’s a practical aspect to it. (Though I am admittedly ignorant of both the topography and civil facilities in the area).
“Colonial historical oppression disrupted the once matrilineal and woman-centred gender roles to be replaced with Western forms of the patriarchy.”
What ignorance this demonstrates by so-called university “experts”. Certainly, marriage betrothals and other obligations were determined (& sometimes still are) by matrilineal lines. But power & all forms of authority were always exercised by the male elders.
It is mind boggling how actual sound evidence can be denied in favour of a theory of white oppression.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-us-troops-syria-oil-bashar-al-assad-kurds-wisconsin-rally-1482250
Zatara claimed Trump never said that US troops were in Syria for the oil.
It would appear, that Newsweek disagrees with him.
Let’s see where the other two Carrier Groups end up, ……, shall we?
I think there is an unspoken, even unarticulated, narrative that builds up in some people’s heads from lots of smaller uncritically accepted claims being forced into an order – like hearing the name ‘Palestinian’ and hearing that Israel was previously called Palestine as meaning Palestinians are the only natives of the land, or constantly hearing ‘occupation’ and assuming that the Israelis have invaded…name a place.
A lot of these people will have formed, over time, the idea that the there was once a land called Palestine which was the wonderful idyllic homeland of the Palestinians where they had lived in peace since forever. The Da Jews came with their British backers (boo hiss). These outsiders invaded Palestine and forced its poor peaceable people – utterly ignorant of the ways of conflict – into ghettos in the West Bank and Gaza where there huddled in fear. Thus the whole of Israel is actually occupation, and Da Jews should be expelled from the entire land. (Which, of course, is what is in Hamas’ charter.)
Wonder why? 🙂
You never hear about Palestinians hating Alexander the Great or the Romans or the Ottomans or the Mamluks.
Or the Mongols or the Khwarazmians or the Persians.
Noooo. Just Crusaders and the international bankers.
Roger
Oct 28, 2023 1:16 PM
Our opponents and enemies have a far more effective understanding of human psychology and the power of propaganda than conservatives do.
Can you imagine the hysterics and the lies that we’d see?
cohenite
Oct 28, 2023 12:34 PM
That is not a claim about the real world, it is a claim about an IPCC diagram. So to assess whether your claim is true, we only need to look at the diagram. I’m looking at that diagram right now. Your claim is false, which is obvious to anybody who understands the concept of negative numbers. The key in the bottom left says it shows fluxes – not net emissions. The fluxes going into a reservoir are counteracted by the fluxes going out of the reservoir (which should be counted as negative numbers). The diagram shows the opposed natural fluxes being almost equal and almost cancelling each other. But treating the fluxes out of the atmosphere as negative, we find the net accumulation rate according to that diagram is:
?0.2+119.6?120?2.6+1.6+70.6?70+20?22.2+6.4 = +3.2 GtC/yr.
The fossil fuel component (in their diagram) is 200% of the net accumulation in the atmosphere, which is easily explained if the atmosphere is not the only place the fossil carbon ends up, and indeed (in that diagram) the ocean and the land combined are absorbing as much as the atmosphere.
To be clear, after incomings are subtracted from outgoings, the human activity is the only net emitter in the diagram – and so is the only candidate for why CO2 went up (in the diagram).
For anyone who graduated high school (not you, Cohenite, apparently) the most confusing part of the diagram is the mysterious red numbers. They seem to be some estimated “man-made” fluxes as distinct from (and additional to) all the other black numbers that supposedly were the “pre-industrial natural balance” (yadda yadda). How on earth they know what those numbers were is the mystery.
Again, none of the above means the diagram is true of the real world, it just means your claim about the diagram is false. The diagram could also have been wrong at the time it was first published.
* The proxy reconstructions of temperatures of 8000 years ago show that current temperatures have likely not exceeded that norm of the Minoan warm period, so even if the predicted warming happens we already know it won’t be a catastrophe.
* The assumption of constant relative humidity in the models was disproven, so the high water vapour amplification won’t happen like models predicted.
Using a correct supporting argument is absolutely vital to reaching the best conclusion.
Ah…the prog-left’s Procrustean bed of white oppression, to which all historical evidence must conform or else be discarded.
May I recommend Nigel Biggar’s ‘Colonialism, A Moral Reckoning’? It supplies very good & sound arguments against this propaganda and identifies the real objective of this movement, which is to demoralise us and destroy our culture.
Reminds me why I rarely bother reading Armstrong commentary…
‘Vassal state’ is bullsh1t. It is an unhelpful reframing of the situation to foster hatred and align enemies together. Probably derived from Russian/Soviet propaganda.
Regarding the ambo from Maryborough with the God complex.
Yes, we can argue the merits of treatment for people with serious underlying conditions, and whether rigorous and expensive treatments are warranted.
Firstly, obesity is not necessarily a terminal condition in a 70 year old, and the definitions of “old person” and “obese” as applied by some 25 year old ambo might surprise some people here.
Secondly, not his call.
He was called out to someone who still had a pulse and had difficulty breathing. His job was to stabilise her and get her to hospital. Not to run his own impromptu Euthanasia Tribunal hearing in the park. If it later transpired that she had suffered permanent catastrophic brain damage, deal with that then. He was extremely lucky not to be facing criminal charges imho.
This happened in 2020. I wonder if it was after the start of Kung Flu, and he had elevated himself to exalted “protect the NHS” status.
Yeah, in 1948, three years after the end of the war, the Americans were thinking it would be a good idea to set up Israel as a vassal state in order to get a handle on the MidEast.
Speaking of Christmas and “turkeys”:
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/
Loved watching him play for Man U. He’d kick the ball 80 meters down field and drop it at his wingers feet while in full flight and without making him hesitate step. Blisteringly accurate long balls.
Because this WordPress site has no support for unicode, copying and pasting minus signs from calculator has resulted in ?s being inserted in the arithmetic. Without a preview function there was no way to know that was going to happen.
More at Telegraph link, Jeremy Brier KC
Eliminating Hamas is a legitimate Israeli war aim backed by international law
States are allowed to defend themselves against those who wish to destroy them
Watch this space.
As soon as a Liberal member gives someone like Lidia Thorpe a mild rebuke, Prosciutto will be all over them like a cheap suit, “calling out waaaacism”.
Mother Lode
Oct 28, 2023 1:22 PM
The 35-minute youtube video I linked to last night: Did Isr@el steal P@lestini@n Land? does a decent job of counteracting that element of the long-established propaganda.
The problem with propaganda is that whoever initiates and dominates, naturally has the advantage. With social media and the pace of the Filth Filter cycle, the defenders/reactors are constantly attempting to ‘fact-check.’ Hence why I frequently grumble that conservatives need to seize and maintain the initiative in these matters.
Colonel Crispin Berka
Oct 28, 2023 1:38 PM
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I miss perview, it was my fiend.
Shouldn’t generalize I know, but the conduct of Vicco ambos in 2014- defacing ambulances with anti Napthine graffiti has given me a very low opinion of them.
This includes degrading the capacity of an enemy to repeat aggression already inflicted or imminent.
There is mention in the piece that this bloke also gave the muddy ground with bird shit on it as reasons for not having a crack at doing his job.
‘I’m not getting down on that ground for this.’
Journalistic excellence from the Tele:
‘Crack’. Ha.
Makka,
He was also a brilliant corner kicker. This was due to repetitive training from his Dad who is a massive Man U fan and was teaching him from young age. His Dad has videos of 1300 games son played as a kid.
In one year they had won the League and FA Cup and were playing Bayern Munich in final of European cup. Bayern winning 1 nil with only about 10 minutes remaining. Man U scored twice, off corner kicks he took, to win the triple.
I am not even a soccer fan but like the series as shows what was going on behind the scenes. Sir Alex not a fan of Posh as he could see she was a distraction. I recall Sir Alex let him go but not got to that yet.
Leisurely lunch without a care in the world.
Dr F
Traditional law, but only for those fully initiated, could be acceptable.
Link
Gareth Gareth, get in here and explain yourself and your connection with the ICG.
Google has pulled out the algorithm stops, so to speak.
If you type in Gaza or Hamas you will be directed to various UN sites, Ali’s Jazza, Amnesty, various Islamic apologists, WaPo, Turnbull’s Guardian, SMH.
You get the drift.
JC
Oct 28, 2023 1:07 PM
Well Junior, your going to be very very busy then.
Traditional law, but only for those fully initiated, could be acceptable.
Yes. The Traditional Law that treats women and children so very, very well. No need for any Royal Commission as there is nothing so see over there.
I am posting this from my phone as I’m not able to open the Cat on my iPad for some reason. I just keep getting the following message: Request header fields too large. Does anyone know how I can reset my device or get rid of a block that may have been put on my device?
“Why I left the left” Melanie Phillips on why she left the Guardian
Premiered Mar 20, 2020
Syria and Iraq isn’t the entire region. If things continue as they have over the last two weeks they’ll probably have to get out of Syria, and its possible that their bases in Iraq too will become too difficult to hold the positions in eastern Syria and northern Iraq. Saw a report on X overnight of some US army personnel departing Bagdad.
Crossie, try cleaning your cache. Calli was having that same problem Thurs or Fri too.
>Israel was zoned for those of Jewish faith after World War II, but the true reason it was created was to provide the Allies with power in the Middle East.
If the UN vote for the recommended creation of Israel failed at the UN, all those surviving displaced Jews would have wanted to settle in the USA or return to their homes in Europe. At the Evian Conference before the war and the UN vote after, the Allies escaped having millions of immigrant Jews. After declaration of the establishment of Israel on 14 May 1948 Israel’s application for UN membership was knocked back twice, finally approved a year later on the third submission. UN member states assumed Arab forces would solve their Jewish problem.
In an iPad is that the same as “Clear History and Website Data”?
Dover
Re-configuring how, where and when troops are deployed doesn’t mean they’re getting out of the region. They have two fleets moving into the area with a ton of firepower.
Imagine.
Thousands marching through Sydney shouting “Gas the Jews”.
Jews told to hide in the US.
100,000 marching through London in support of Palestine.
Would you have seen this coming on 9/11?
Perhaps the Jews can nuke Gaza while pirate Pete writes a column understanding their grievances.
Hilarious that journos are demanding that the IDF protect them.
The response was masterful:
“Your employees tend to associate themselves with Hamas operations”. “This makes them vulnerable to Israeli counter operations”. “The IDF urges news agencies to take steps to ensure the safety of your employees”.
This war has produced so many examples of how to deal effectively with journo scum.
Your claim is false, which is obvious to anybody who understands the concept of negative numbers. The key in the bottom left says it shows fluxes – not net emissions. The fluxes going into a reservoir are counteracted by the fluxes going out of the reservoir (which should be counted as negative numbers). The diagram shows the opposed natural fluxes being almost equal and almost cancelling each other.
The fossil fuel component (in their diagram) is 200% of the net accumulation in the atmosphere, which is easily explained if the atmosphere is not the only place the fossil carbon ends up, and indeed (in that diagram) the ocean and the land combined are absorbing as much as the atmosphere.
This is the typical argument (sic) against my valid conclusion that Figure 7.3 shows human emissions are only 3% of the total: which is natural emissions and sinks (fluxes) are in balance. I should have mentioned that for smartarses like you. Nature is never in balance; if it were all people would be dickheads like you.
To be clear, after incomings are subtracted from outgoings, the human activity is the only net emitter in the diagram – and so is the only candidate for why CO2 went up (in the diagram)
In a sense you are right here because humans don’t have or are not sinks. But here is the point: there are 3 isotopes of CO2. Human activity is C12. It is not distinguishable from the vast natural C12 natural emissions (volcanoes, fires, rotting vegetation, Phytoplankton activity). So any distinction between human CO2 emission and natural C12 CO2 emissions on the basis that humans either do not have sinks or that natural C12 CO2 is in balance is as dumb as your condescension.
For anyone who graduated high school (not you, Cohenite, apparently) the most confusing part of the diagram is the mysterious red numbers.
The human red arrows are land use change at 1.6 and fossil fuels are 6.4. The other red arrows are God knows what which goes to my general point which you condescendingly ignore: namely humans are NOT responsible for the increase in CO2 and the IPCC is a bunch of ratbags.
In 2001 the EIA had already made this point but this quickly disappeared when obuma became POTUS.
As for your alternative suggestions, while true, they are simply too complicated for the media which is running this BS today. Any reference to historical contradictions to alarmism are ignored.
On a personal note, get fuked.
Copying a link and posting it immediately after you link to the crook? I don’t think so, champ.
I only hope others do it too.
How much is he paying you?
This war has produced so many examples of how to deal effectively with journo scum.
The Israelis have had a lot of practice.
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That was during the months of divisions in Israel over judicial reform when Biden would have viewed another small outbreak from Gaza as damage that might remove Netanyahu.
“This is not Auschwitz. These are Israeli civilians, raped, butchered, burned alive.”
I wonder how many of the people decrying Israel’s taking the fight to Hamas in the Gaza Strip would have quite the same scruples about ‘plucky little Ukraine’ if they killed Russian civilians in the pursuit of military targets?
I don’t mean by this to make an equivalence between the two conflicts, but merely to draw attention to the specific aspect of collateral civilian casualties in war. I suspect every war until now has involved civilian casualties, and we all sense the tragedy of such losses. Mind you, the death of combatants is a tragedy too. They are non-sentient materiel. They are (to use the cliched formula) sons, brothers, fathers, taxi drivers, clerks, plumbers,
rangasetc. co-opted to catch bullets with their bodies.War would not be OK if only soldiers died.
But Hamas is something else. They are not the bog standard Wehrmacht teenagers. They are the SS – indoctrinated, fanatical, inhuman. Their peacetime occupation is forcing the next war. They thirst for blood, they delight near orgasmically at the suffering of their victims be they children, women, and the elderly – the very defenceless ones they would claim to be fighting for among their own people.
The death of Palestinian civilians – of any civilian – is tragic of course, and they may be being held where they are by brut force or by the more physically tamper-proof binds of propaganda but seriously, the efforts Israel has made to spare civilians (many of whom are nevertheless baying slaveringly for Jewish blood) has been extraordinary. The many nations calling with condescending piousness were never troubled when it was their turn, and few have had to endure such an existential* threat. Ah, but these countries would not be so strident now. Now their attitude is go let their people pay the price of surrendering while quarantining themselves from the consequences. Hello? Merkel, anyone?
I must end my meandering rant now. Just know that two pints of Guinness and a shot of Glenlivit (the only Speyside in my local) were involved. Perhaps I can blame them and make ridiculous demands like handing over their breweries and distillery while they let me kill them!
* I hate this word in such contexts because I first encountered it in philosophy – but, that’s me. And I can make a tenuous connection here that as infuriating as Kierkegaard’s restatement of his points in the same text were, the obsession of the Palis with the exact same murderous campaigns without learning subtlety is also pointless.
Face masks let thugs, thieves and other criminals hide in plain sight. Ban them – Paywalled
This poisonous legacy of lockdown should be restricted at public protests and in some other settings
ISABEL OAKESHOTT
There were very few protests when, during the Covid pandemic, the Government temporarily banned protests.
No outraged crowds took to the streets in defiance of the extraordinary and very casual announcement that demonstrations of more than two people would be criminalised.
It was November 2020, and after six months of Covid hell, the nation had grown wearily used to the unprecedented.
If she had any qualms about emulating a feature of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, the then home secretary Priti Patel did not show it.
When attempting to introduce the policy at the stroke of his own pen, the then health secretary Matt Hancock had met some resistance from government lawyers, but that was soon overcome with a little help from his Cabinet Office friend Michael Gove.
In a private WhatsApp message, Gove cheerfully reassured Hancock he’d put a “team on it”. The pair agreed that public protests – even those in which participants marched in groups of six – “undermine public confidence in social distancing”, and that was that.
At the time, the official justification was that any public gatherings whatsoever “risked spreading disease”.
Now public gatherings pose a new threat – and it is time for a much less drastic measure than banning them altogether.
In the interests of crime prevention and indeed national security, it is time to outlaw the wearing of face masks during public demonstrations and in a number of other specific settings.
Never mind the irony that, by criminalising face coverings at protests and in shops – where they are linked to a huge rise in theft – the Government would be coming full circle, outlawing the very thing that it originally forced us all to do.
It is in fact as a direct consequence of the appalling mask mandate during Covid – now widely discredited as having little medical merit – that we are in the sorry situation we are.
In yet another poisonous legacy of the pandemic, the use of scarves, rags and bits of polypropylene to obscure faces has been normalised – giving cover to all manner of cowardly anti-Semites, terrorist sympathisers, thieves and thugs.
Once largely confined to bank robbers and members of the IRA, these nasty bits of cloth are now everywhere, making the work of the police and intelligence agencies much more difficult.
Every day, thousands of crimes are being committed by individuals and gangs who dramatically reduce their (already shamefully low) chances of ever facing justice simply by concealing their features.
For anyone with any kind of questionable business, masking up is a complete no brainer. For what use is CCTV, versus a balaclava?
The Met is still trying to track down two women who wore images of paragliders on their backs during a recent pro-Palestine march.
No wonder it’s proving so difficult when at least one of the pair was cowering behind a mask. Scotland Yard may have an impressive facial recognition database, but the technology is of little use amid this scourge.
Then there was the shocking appearance, earlier this week, of masked men in the public gallery of Belfast’s Crown Court during a murder trial linked to a paramilitary organisation.
The Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland labelled the intimidating spectacle unacceptable, and has demanded an investigation.
That it ever could have happened is an extraordinary indicator of how shrug-shrug our authorities have become about such behaviour. With regret, despite our proud tradition of tolerance, it is time to force people to show their faces.
Society is paying a much wider price for the habit than at protests and in retail settings.
Take those asylum seekers who work illegally while their food and accommodation is provided by the British taxpayer.
Why do so many cover their faces, even on a sweltering summer day, as they cycle around? After risking their lives crossing the Channel, fleeing war and terror, it seems unlikely that they are worried about air pollution.
The reality is that some are up to no good, and don’t want to be caught.
Critics will hand-wring about civil liberties and argue that such a measure is in any case unenforceable.
Unfortunately, it proved remarkably easy to force the entire population to wear masks in multiple settings during Covid.
With enough political will, therefore, the reverse will also be true.
There is of course a debate to be had about where this leaves the niqab. It is sad that this country is rapidly becoming so lawless that we should have to contemplate setting aside the precious principle that – within the realms of decency – people in this country should be free to wear what they want.
Careful consultation would be required on how to handle this most sensitive issue, but it may be that at a time of frightening division in this country over the situation in Israel and Gaza, freedom of religious expression must take second place to the preservation of law and order.
It is worth noting that religious leaders made disappointingly little fuss when their flocks were banned from collective worship for the best part of two years during the last force majeure. This proposal is small fry by comparison.
The good news is that banning masks, balaclavas and the like would make an immediate and demonstrably positive difference.
Within days, police would be able to do what the Government was never able to achieve during the pandemic – and show that this is a mask policy that actually works.
Good to be able to use my iPad again to read and comment on The Cat again. Dover, thanks for the help.
Yep.
No “frontline wukka” kudos to be had in this one.
The article talked about the other three ambos “being uncomfortable” with the decision, but there was no reference to him holding a senior ranking to them. In fact, his lawyers tried to throw the other three under the bus by trying to apportion blame to them. This argument doesn’t hold any water if he was the ranking officer on scene.
Sounds to me like a common or garden office bully who wasn’t going to get his uniform dirty to save someone he regarded as a second class citizen (ie fat and old).
Grub.
There good reasons why no other Arab state wants more Palestinians inside their borders.
‘Diversity is our strength.’
One of the great lies of contemporary times.
Along with ‘We’re all in this together.’
I don’t know whether it’s worth noting, but today is the tenth anniversary of Professor Bunyip’s last post on his wonderful blog. His wit, deft writing and perceptive analysis are much missed. I sometimes wonder whether a poster here reminds me of him but either way, I regret he doesn’t attend to his blog anymore.
Ha! Just got up to order one more Guinness (happiness comes in threes) and had one guys who seems to have some input into stock ask if I thought they should get the Lagavulin 16 in again. I suggested that it might be good to go for something less peaty in the warmer months and suggested Aberlour.
Not a God Oracle, but a Grog Oracle.
And tonight is a 2017 St Emilion with dinner. I generally prefer Left Bank Bordeaux, but a good St Emilion beats a mediocre Margaux.
At nearly $200 a bottle?
Add to the list of caller-outers of of the headloppers:
John III Sobieski of Poland.
Once largely confined to bank robbers and members of the IRA, these nasty bits of cloth are now everywhere, making the work of the police and intelligence agencies much more difficult.
Amusing anecdote about balaclavas. Puckapunyal Military area late ’80’s, usual Sunday morning boring as batsh&t for the local Military Police detachment till they got a call from an distraught army wife whose hubby was in the field about IRA terrorists running around the scrub off Sanananda rd near the primary school.
Was actually some friends of mine who had camped out there and being a bitter cold winter morning and still tipsy from the Jim Beam bottle consumed the night before, were just clowning around.
MP det knew exactly where the boys were and couldn’t stop sniggering when they told the boys what had happened and to please stop.
Daily Mail.
Well that is the retail price at God Damn Murphy’s. The Duck will be paying less.
Last year I swear Lagavulin 16 was about $140.
Oh let’s not forget the magnificent Oriana Fallaci — I think it was she who used the term Eurabia —
Lode, at 2.59:
Here’s the thing – for me, at least:
There is almost universal handpattery outrage that Israel, after having 1400 of its citizens butchered and after daily rocket and other attacks that continue to this day, has not only flattened bits of a territory it shares a border with and is now engaged in a ground assault designed to stop that, or anything like that happening again.
Outrage.
Yet – when the US had 3000 of its citizens killed in a single attack it not only plonked much of its best combat outfits in a country on the other side of the world, and not only embarked on a 20-year war there but had a coalition of allies do the same thing, and the same journalistic institutions didn’t bat an eyelid.
It goes both ways, you faux-virtuous Nobel Peace Prize wannabe-winning pack of flogs.
AND – this time the journos are embedded with the instigators. During the Afghan wars they were deeply ensconced within Allied camps, which says much about their desire for airconditioning above all else.
H/T Michael Smith. Words fail me, they honestly do.
Just focus on their assets in Syria and Iraq. Ignore Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. East Med is closer to eastern Syria than the Gulf. Same for Western and North areas of Iraq and even then the distance is pushing it if those planes are fully loaded. Anyway, if US was planning anything re Iran they probably wouldn’t be putting their carrier groups in the Gulf. Base in Erbil hit overnight. Massive fires. Same in multiple bases in Syria. Last week, the base hit in Syria where it was reported no one was hurt. Yesterday, a report came out that nearly 20 servicemen were seriously injured and being transferred to Ramstein in Germany. So, overall, those bases are in for a hell of a time.
From memory, yes.
Diversity is our strength, we’re all in this together, I’ll take it out if you don’t like it. The elite don’t associate with the diverse except for a bit of rumpy pumpy, your in this mess coz of us and you’ll do what you’re told. Rules don’t apply to us and the last speaks for itself.
I don’t know whether it’s worth noting, but today is the tenth anniversary of Professor Bunyip’s last post on his wonderful blog. His wit, deft writing and perceptive analysis are much missed. I sometimes wonder whether a poster here reminds me of him but either way, I regret he doesn’t attend to his blog anymore.
Didn’t he pull up stumps when his girlfriend left him because by his own admission he procrastinated about tying the knot.
Harvard doesn’t know when to stop digging.
“Harvard Creates an Emergency Task Force… To Protect Its Precious Terrorist-Supporters and Antisemites from Reputational Damage
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Ivy League isn’t sending their best.
Noah Pollak @NoahPollak
Harvard just announced the creation of an official “task force” — not to help Jewish students facing calls for genocide from their fellow students, but to help the students *calling for genocide.* Harvard is beyond sick.
harvardemergencytaskforce.jpg
From the Harvard Crimson.
Harvard will establish a task force to support students experiencing doxxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel “entirely responsible” for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
It’s not doxxing. They signed a public statement.
They claim LibsofTikTok “doxxes” people with their posted statements and TikToks, too. No — all she did was expose it to a wider audience than the Circle of Affirmation the poster was hoping for. That’s not making private information public, which is what doxxing is. That’s taking public information and sharing it with more of the public.
The new task force will be in operation until Nov. 3, at which point the task force will reassess its efforts to ensure that its work meets student needs, according to an email obtained by The Crimson. The message, dated Tuesday, was sent to doxxed students by Dean of Students Thomas Dunne.
“We are truly grateful for all the tremendous work that students have put forth in supporting each other through this most difficult time, and we appreciate the collaborative spirit in which students, faculty, and staff have come together to repel this repugnant assault on our community,” Dunne wrote.
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In the weeks that followed, students have faced doxxing attacks on websites, social media, and a billboard truck displaying group members’ names and faces and describing them as “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.”
The people who have been calling everyone “Nazis” now say it’s “harassment” to be properly identified as “Antisemites.” Got it.
Megyn Kelly @megynkelly
This school is not salvageable. Don’t send your kid there, don’t hire from there, don’t donate there.
Fact check: True.
This next post sounds like made-up nonsense to me, but with Harvard, and the Woke Pogrom Mobs of Diversity always demanding reparations for everything, who knows.
LukeYoungblood.eth @LukeYoungblood
Did you also hear they are planning on giving cash to students impacted (read students who FAFO) to help them when they get fired from their jobs? I’m pretty sure this is violating some laws on terrorism financing. Audit Harvard’s finances and make sure they aren’t funding Hamas.
Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:19 PM Comments”
I’d go further, they are a complicit part of the hamas propaganda machine, if not members, then at least supporters, not surprisingly all seem to be muslim, and locals.
In other words lying liars who lie, in word and picture.
Cognitive dissonance equal to the queers for palestine:
Cygnal polled Muslims and Jews in America. It found that 57% of Muslims believed that Hamas atrocities against Jews were justified. But a less widely reported result found that 11.5% of American Jews also agreed that Hamas was justified.
Havard, Yale, Oxbridge- all trading on past glories. Time for something new. I regard Unis as evil, predatory and corrupted and clapped out institutions. ‘Professor’ and ‘doctor’ are dirty words
Even in the early 80s I remember that fine old sandstone building at Sydney Uni defaced with lezzo graffiti- carved into the plaster
Bowen is Albo’s Jim Cairns. Echos of The Great Man himself.
Italian woman wins court battle to evict her adult sons
Morosi gave it all a bit of zip and zing though- nothing like an Asian sex bomb
Dover
If push comes to shove, the US doesn’t have to worry about forward bases in Syria and Iraq, when it has a base in Israel anytime it wants. Syria would be a nothing burger in the war anyway and the only concern is Iran. Iran would be an easy target to neuter. US could attack the Island terminal and apparently their electricity production is quite centralized.
Jim had a ‘kind of love’ for Juni- you could put it that way!
Assuming one is NOT a “Science” denier, (ie you believe that over the last 1.5 million years, earth has undergone multiple Glaciation events), how did earth extract itself from the icy grip of the Ice Ages?
Did some ancient civilisations have extremely inefficient coal fired Power Stations and ICE powered vehicles that spewed CO2 into the atmosphere, thus warming the planet?
Perhaps Bruce Pascoe may wish to comment.
Or, was the warming of the planet more to do with the orbit of earth around the sun AND the angle of the earth reference the sun?
Given that we are expected to suspend reality and concede that a trace gas, (CO2), of 420 parts per MILLION, (0.042% of atmosphere), is causing the temp on earth to increase, by just under 1 deg C since the mid 18th century, when the most abundant GHG, (Water Vapour @ 4.0%), is not only 100X more abundant, but each molecule absorbs, hence re-emits more energy than CO2.
Would a rise of 1 deg C be enough to extract earth from the Ice Ages?
Perhaps we should ask Australian of the Year 2007, Prof Tim Flannery.
He seems to get it right all the time.
Because the Cat collective knows a lot of stuff — does any cat or kitteh know if there is a list of charities which donated to the Yes campaign either by public support in the media or with money — that would be very very useful. Thank you
Anybody else remember the old joke about a “Morosi” being “a screw that held a cabinet together?”
Like fun we will Ranga!
News.com. the ‘Syriangirl’ x account (boosted by a local support called ‘aussiemum55’) claimed hamas had decisively beaten the IDF at Beit Hanoun, unfortunately someone pointed out her photos of less injured IDF soldiers was from 2014. According to news.com coming at hamas from three sides.
I think Whitlam said ‘Jim’s c*nt struck’
And if the US attacks Iran proper, who is to say that the Iranians haven’t squirreled away a number of terrorist cells inside the US and elsewhere, to be enabled in retaliation attacks. The Iranians are a smart cunning lot, not to confused with Gulf or other ME Arabs.
Knuckle Dragger at 3:24.
That first uptick was mine.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Mind you, even then the hollowed halls of Academe disgorged plenty of idiot intellectuals whose square mortarboards fit skintight over squareheads, and their idiot charges who see the whole panoply of historical and global events as a field where their angst that daddy didn’t hug them enough plays out, who thought America deserved it.
There really is a woolly-witted crowd out there who think the greatest proof of righteousness is to despise and blame their own collective – by which very act they lift themselves above and are spared the opprobrium they level at others. It is the secret way by means of which collectivists betray a secret or even unconscious belief in individualism.
When KRudd stood up and apologised for the Stolen Generation inc. he was holding himself as responsible as the rest of the nation on whose behalf he presumed to apologise? What a KRunt! No, he was above it, the same way that in movies the one Nazi (theme for the day) who shows compassion for the protagonists and helps them escape is suddenly absolved of collective guilt, and even beatified.
KRudd had no doubt he was already a saint, and was in fact becoming impatient with this God fellow stealing his thunder.
And the uni students, college students, professors and lecturers, and now deferential MSM, are all busy strutting around like peacocks displaying their virtue on their tales in the same way I have no doubt a Greek playwright described peacock’s tails as being covered in eyes, but completely blind.
/rant
(I swear, it did not start as a rant.)
I’ve been reading an excellent compilation of snippets and links at Ace about the speed with which the ESG Investment Rort is swiftly crumbling.
Here’s is a very interesting snippet;
“Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton will release an advisory Wednesday that gives updates and guidance on the enforcement of laws passed by the state that restrict government entities from granting large contracts to companies that boycott energy companies, discriminate against firearm entities or associations, or boycott Israel, the Daily Caller has learned first.
“The Office of the Attorney General will continue to vigorously enforce our laws that prevent taxpayer funds from going to companies whose ‘ESG’ policies harm Texans or key Texas industries,” Paxton told the Caller before releasing the advisory.”
I wonder if Blackout Bowen will start listening to the drums?
you might ask the yes campaign Tinta, they said a 100 including oxfam and Fred hollows though I’m guessing the rest are more or less small fry. Vinnies and Salvos were also yes
Sounds like you’re conceding that those bases are vulnerable. As for Iran, I wouldn’t underestimate it. And they themselves have a way of neutering the West if push comes to shove.
Trouble with formatting.
Here’s the link.
Wasn’t it Jim Cairns who said that “Communist victories in Vietnam and Cambodia would bring some stability to the region?”
Never mind several hundreds of thousands of dead Vietnamese and Cambodians?
They’re beholden to institutional islam. The loonies running the joint interpret it that others must sacrifice themselves for those at the top of the food chain, and conveniently insist that any other interpretations are invalid, and hence punishable…by them.
Many treat their religion the same way we treat taxes. Of course, its privileges appeal to any ego, envy or malice, making perfect useful idiots, convinced of their own superiority and righteousness, of which not mass murder can put it at risk.
It has rather a lot in common with Marxism, come to think of it.
“Not even”
And they may very well attack the US through terror cells. That would enrage the Americans to the point of wanting to turn Iran into smouldering ruins. Americans are very trigger happy people. Anytime there’s an issue around the world and negative for the US, polls show that up to 40% of the population wants to go to war.
In any event, it has to come to something with Iran in the end because the proxy shtick doesn’t have much life in it any longer as Israel and the US have said Iranian proxies and Iran are the same thing.
If Iran tried something on US soil Tehran would end up as a smouldering ruin. Shades of 911 isn’t going to work out for them.
In any event, everyone hates the mullahs.
Junie Morosi, who just celebrated her 90th birthday, must marvel at the current Liars clownshow after frigging her way to the top of the Whitlam circus half a century ago.
PS: the difference now is that all the Liars groupies are bought and paid for by Paul Keating’s compulsory superannuation cash flow, which has removed the need of unions to have members.
News.com is an absolute cesspool lately, they really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this urban myth. LOL it’s a different take though in an Amsterdam setting:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/truth-about-dad-daughter-sex-act-on-amsterdam-hens-party-exposed/news-story/0fb07e427178ce6c2aadc02e6acf2384
Samuel aka “Sam” Clench is at it again as well. Pity the coward doesn’t allow comments. Guess he knows his arguments don’t stack up to proper scrutiny.
I haven’t really thought about it and accepted your word that they could be vulnerable. We’re having a discussion, I thought, and not a debate.
What do they have in terms of neutering the West? Saudi oil installations? They may try that with missile attacks, but the US is energy self sufficient and if push came to shove the Americans wouldn’t give a rats about Europe or the rest of the world if they had to destroy Iran.
Frankly, I don’t see the Mullahs as exceedingly smart. They’re just as old and likely as mentally feeble as Hiden.
Very convenient, coming up to the next Presidential election. Nothing like a war to get punters rallying around POTUS.
All that remains to be seen is if Iran is “courageous” enough to hit US assets of which there are plenty to choose from in the area. Not forgetting the close relationship Iran has with China , which could possibly extend to various kinds of weapons, such as the carrier killer missiles.
The point here is that escalation beyond Israel/ Hamas in Gaza could get quite ugly, very quickly. And not just in the ME.
China doesn’t like Iran. It does business with them, but they aren’t exactly exchanging bodily fluids. China could be hurt too if the US hits Iran, but China going to war to help Iran? Nope, not going to happen.
As I said Iran could have terror cells in the US, but other than killing people in shopping malls, what else are they going to do? The US grid is very distributed anyway.
Would the US cower if Iran tried something on US soil? Hardly.
“Gaza is now under complete blackout. Electricity, internet, and communication have all been cut off. Genocide isn’t enough of a word to describe what’s happening.”
So let me get this straight – the Gaza govt, which enjoys majority support of the citizenry, has the stated policy of wiping Jews from the face of the earth, sent 2000+ soldiers to rape, pillage, kidnap and murder civilians, instantly demands a cease fire after doing so and is now complaining that the very people they attacked and vowed the wipe out have cut off electricity and water to them? How freaking dumb do you have to be to perform such acts against people supplying you with “vital” supplies, and why should I care what happens to you when the completely predictable happens?
As far as I am concerned Israel should flatten the joint with a few dozen fuel/air explosives. That they haven’t shows the kind of restraint the Gazans would never show and clearly do not deserve.
Israel should stop being so civilised and give Gaza the war it wants – it would be over in a day and provide an object lesson to the rest of the Muslim world that if you fuck with the west, you might not like the price you will have to pay.
I always wondered if Professor Bunyip was in fact Imre Salusinszky.
Makka
Oct 28, 2023 3:56 PM
So, overall, those bases are in for a hell of a time.
And if the US attacks Iran proper, who is to say that the Iranians haven’t squirreled away a number of terrorist cells inside the US and elsewhere, to be enabled in retaliation attacks.
The Iranians are a smart cunning lot, not to confused with Gulf or other ME Arabs.
Makka,
know a lot of Iranian People & have worked with them (Ladies particulary Intelligent & Beautiful) and they will always tell you – “We are Persians not Arab Camel Traders”
Having been to Tehran 1970, would like to go back with one of my ex employees and see the Country – Both UK & Australian Iranians hate the Mullahs, and say when they go back, they go to lots of Parties all in Western Gear
The Sunnis are well behaved elsewhere around the region. So, who’s going to present an issue? No one in the region is going to assist Iran to the point of going to war for them. Russia has a business relationship, but that’s all. I mentioned China before.
Look, we can all speculate, but one thing is for certain in my mind. Iran has reached the end of the road with their proxy bullshit and eventually this fight has to be fought, one way or another.
Where else?
Straya savaging the Arderns in the World Cup.
0/60 after four and a half overs.
I’d thought Channel 7, with its long history of covering horse racing, would know better. They’ve given a microphone to an arrogant middle-aged ego-maniac named Daniel McPherson, whose primary mission is to draw attention to himself and turn off Seven’s racing audience. They should have gone for a chick in a swimsuit.
I thought Bunyip was here under a different nom de plume.
I never wonder who Professor Bunyip is.
Yes I have a lot of time for some Iranians I’ve met and the some of the women are very stylish. Exhibit A our own Rita.
Excellent question.
As Willis Eisenbach (at WUWT) always asks when presented with claims of catastrophes in the natural world:
Where are the bodies?
In every single case, the bodies are not visible, like the Great Garbage Island in the Pacific that we have been told about but nobody has ever photographed.
The MSM’s coverage today is all about the suffering Gazans. The suffering of Israelis is clearly not rated as important.
A pox on them!
That’s not my experience. I worked with quite a few in the US and they were all dicks to a man. I found those I worked with to be untrustworthy arseholes, but that’s just anecdotal obviously. I don’t know if it’s the cohort, but I suspect a large number residing in the US were taking in from the Shah’s regime and they could be different perhaps.
I didn’t say or infer they would. However China has been helping out Iran for more than a decade with missile tech. It would be foolish to expect Iran not to use it if attacked. Don’t underestimate the propaganda power of moslems inflicting serious damage on the US.
It would depend entirely on what that “something” might be. There are 4.5 million moslems in the US so engaging in what would be perceived as an unjust ME war against Islam (aiding Israel) could cause serious upheavals back in the US.
The US will never lose. But the destruction and deaths may be much worse than any current expectation.
Nor I. I believe he’s a handsome devil though. 😀
I didn’t suggest you did.
Okay, so domestic loons take a rest from shooting up malls every other day while Iranian cells take over. All in all it would be net zero impact. 🙂
Even before the fall of the Shah I believe there was a massive cohort of Iranians in LA.
Oh no! Super serious journal of august record, Newsweek agrees with the anti American shit poster!
Great, great fashion designers, very good, the best, excellent, believe me.
Europe, the US. Global US assets and installations. This won’t be a US vs Iran thing. It could easily become a US (or the west) vs Islam thing.
Go to any airport in the west – who do you see doing catering, cargo and baggage handling, security. Don’t be wishing for a war against Islam.
Straya 0/108.
After nine overs. Travis Head 50 reds off 25 rocks.
Goodness me.
Australians are bung it on in the cricket. No mercy.
Think of the worst thing that could happen and Iran detonates a dirty bomb in a major US city. That is possible but next day Iran wouldn’t exist. They know this too.
I recall, about a decade ago, Iran’s secret weapon to challenge US naval might in the Gulf were fast speed boats with guns on the back of them. Whoopee do.
The thing is that we need to divorce the regular Iranian people and the religious loons tied in closely with the mullahocracy. They’re thieving corrupt, ruthless pricks, but they aren’t that smart. Just thugs with beards.
A question that should be asked about the “Frontier Wars.”
I found some bloke raging about Ben Shapiro.
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/former-breitbart-colleague-i-saw
It seems like BS to me.
Phil Leotardo, apropos of Tony Soprano and the Persians:
‘That fat cocksucker says I look like the Shah of Iran’
No firsthand experience but I understand the Iranian middle classes were at the front of the queue when KRuddy got the people smuggling industry fired up again. Perhaps understandable when you consider the history of their own country. Jordan, Libya, Iraq, Syria … the history of countries once the local strongman has gone isn’t great (with a little help from the US and the CIA). Perhaps, like Afghanistan, the place is actually ungovernable?
The fat guy who puked when Phil was whacked was my favourite character. I wish they did more with him.
I worked with quite a few Iranians I met in the oil patch. The general message was the best or Iran has already left. Like Scotland. They were very smart, cultured type people. Could be seen as snooty by some. But I liked them. Good thinkers all of them and they really took care of their kids education. Fanatics about that.
Expats I knew who worked there before the Revolution reckon it was a fantastic gig. Open, historically interesting, great food and fun times. Awesome ladies. Good bux.
Nyt
link but probably paywalled
There’s a very good interview with John Anderson and Victor Hanson done a few days ago. Hanson reckons it’s different this time as regards Western tolerance towards Islamic extremism. I’m not saying he’s right, but he’s also worth listening to.
https://johnanderson.net.au/conversations-victor-davis-hanson-historian-and-writer/
It’s Peter van Onselen isn’t it?
My observation is local Iranians refer to themselves as Persians, don’t seem particularly religious, some send their daughters to Catholic schools and are very keen on tertiary education.
Don’t know about what would happen if push came to shove though.
Am I correct in thinking that Iran is believed to have been getting cosy with Venezuela for some years now? If I was them, Iran, I’d insert sleepers with the targets being multiple nodes of the U.S. energy grid. Social & economic destabilisation in the homeland will be an irritating distraction at least, to more kinetic operations elsewhere.
Electric grid, I meant.