“Keane also mentioned that Hegseth had extensive combat experience.” Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has two Bronze Stars.
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Like the Israelis, they are a Semitic people and entitled to control their ancestral land.” Crete?
Numbers Bob comment over at Michael Smith. The article about Penny Mong voting for Pally Statehood. Is he an early…
Similar to having a road network that doesn’t connect two towns A & B 200 km apart – meaning you…
Is that out of Beau Geste? Enemy at the Gates in this case. Best part of the whole movie with…
Don’t call us.
I think you are missing the point JC.
Iran has no way to defeat the US. But that is not to say that Iran and/or her moslem supporters cannot inflict very serious damage to US assets and the west around the globe and at home.
That’s great, and if they used that on a single US ship – even if it failed- the response would be a little traumatic for Iran. The US has the capability to carpet bomb every single inch of land on earth.
Where are the bodies? A question that should be asked about the “Frontier Wars.”
I dunno. Aboriginals didn’t bury their dead IIRR like Christians did. So there would have been massive destruction from animals.
Mind you, it’s one of the greater con jobs of ancient/medieval chronicling to claim massive numbers killed in battles – and for there to be very little evidence in graves nearby.
Put it this way. Two armies of 500 each fighting each other, with about 60 dead on the losing side sounds much more impressive if you add zeroes.
“It was the army of King John versus the men of King Bruce. 5000 on each side and the losers lost 600.”
Moonee Valley Turf Club puts its foot in it. Two weeks after a big majority of punters told our Abo activist grifters to piss off, the entertainment at the W.S. Cox Plate opens with a fat old white bloke welcoming sports fans to their own country with pointless non-musical noise from a didgeridoo.
What is it with sports monopolies? Every one of them insults their audience with woke bullshit.
Veteran presenter Tracey Holmes resigns from the ABC just months after her husband Stan Grant also left
Oh noes – not Tracey gone, following sTan?
How will I ever not watch their ABC again?
Iran has one great advantage over the yanks; which is the madness or will to do shit things. Under biden the US is just mad. They wouldn’t cross Trump.
There’s no point to miss. Iran’s use of proxies around the world is going to come to a end soon enough and this war has to be fought, because those bearded mullah monkeys have it coming. There’s no way of avoiding this, I believe.
Readers added context: Democrats prefer to carpet bomb USA and its deplorables 20 times over, rather than do the rest of the earth.
Resigning from the ALPBC? Jeez things must be crook.
Yes! A more subtle Arlene Composta.
The same airs of progressive earnestness, the same brazenly ridiculous sophistries.
Iran’s card against the West is the Straight of Hormuz. The US can say fu to to the EU but if those economies are tanking US self-sufficiency in oil will mean nothing if their exports are going south. Western countries currently sanctioning Russian oil are going to have to rethink their situation. China will just remain neutral but maintain their existing relationships, as will Russia. I doubt Iran will engage in domestic terrorism in the US. I don’t even think they will throw the first punch against US, but if it comes they’ll probably target their carrier groups.
“C’mon Tracey, we’re leaving.”
They talked big and made threats when Trump kaboomed Soleimani. He told them he was taking their threats very seriously and would respond harshly if they continued. They stopped.
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I don’t know how, amirite?
The camp mess has the ABCTV on most of the time. Fortunately silent most of the time.
We get to ignore a cavalcade of average looking but very expensive females, and a very few blokes who happen to look like good dancers.
What do you think their proxies are doing now that you mentioned earlier?
It’s called retiring with a flourish.
You don’t expect them to go quietly into that good pasture do you?
Soon some of those 2 million people scraping by on little food and water may just have a thing to say about the well fed energetic young men manning the missile bunkers. At very least some of the fighters may avail themselves of the hidden food and medicines for their own kith and kin upstairs squatting in squalor. Once that starts happening, it could break down pretty rapidly. The convoys of trucks will have to be long indeed to keep 2 million people in food and water for four months, I can’t see that happening.
They’ve been playing this threat since the Shah was removed. It’s getting close to the time when they have to be carpet bombed to oblivion.
What do we think the average daily civilian mortality rate in G@z@ might have been prior to the butchery of 7th October? Those bodies, with appropriate dressing, would be available for propaganda purposes, correct? Any guesses at the rough number of ‘props’?
The Ranga and Head putting on a master-class.Enzed dropping catches.
What is it going to use to hit Tehran?
JC
If the US hit the Iranian oil export terminal (Kharg Island???), how quickly could the US revive the fracking and exploration that Hiden shut down, and build the cancelled pipelines, to enable increased oil and gas exports to Europe?
The US or the west didn’t lift a finger to help the masses going out against the mullah’s recently. They had an opportunity and whimped out.
True, but as we have recently witnessed, the US hasn’t got the will. A bunch of towel headed goat herders saw them off with their tail between their legs. Now, Talis are great pals with…… China. Who are now pals with ….. Russia.
US presence and involvement has resulted in much worse outcomes for all concerned.
If they were really intent in hitting Tehran, they would also use B 52s that can be sent from various bases around the world – including the US – and refueled in the air.
The carrier groups would also be able to remain outside of the missile range and hit Iran.
The first punch will always be by the Armed forces, not proxies Further, US in Syria has ambiguous status.
Without escort, no.
They’re arguably out of range.
B John
Dunno, but I read a report the says the US has now replaced Russia’s oil exports to Europe. I didn’t know this. I knew they were heavily supplying gas, but now oil too.
https://www.energymonitor.ai/industry/a-missed-opportunity-eus-new-oil-imports-are-a-backdoor-to-russia/
I don’t know; the survivors all seem to have iphones.
They are handing them out FOC in Italy. OPM magic money.
I think last time (2014) all deaths from natural causes were included in the gaza war death toll.
Even the msm now admits there is no differential between terrorist or civilian deaths in Gaza.
Also, and unfortunately, child deaths can also be terrorist deaths, plenty of teenage boys engaged in military activity/weapon manufacturer.
Not to mention how many have been killed by the 550 plus hamas misfires.
I remember when reading Bury’s History of Greece (which very properly ignored everything in Greece’s history after the death of Alexander the Great since from that moment all the Greeks did was brag about their history up until Alexander the Great. And Nana Mouscouri.)
He detailed the story of the Battle of Marathon, and the extreme disparity of casualites, especially the number of Athenian dead compared to Persian – with the Athenian number of 192 seeming fancifully light. But then he noted that the monument raised after the battle named each of the Athenian dead, so there was a check in that. The Persians retreated after the battle so they must have been seriously impacted by the battle and the Athenians athenians really had achieved a remarkable victory.
As explained in Bury the Athenian (with about 10% Plataeans) marched toward the Persian lines and then, at a distance I forget but which very deliberately chosen, the ‘charged at a run’ which the Persians were totally unable to calculate – like the Turks at Beersheba.
So instead of being decimated under a shower of arrows, and before the Persian front line was ready? The Athenians were amongst them hacking them to bits.
I don’t know if this was a phalanx formation but if it was then it was all the more amazing as the phalanx had to move slowly to maintain cohesion.
Then there is the globe conquering Nana…
No, as the carrier groups would be more than happy to provide cover.
The carrier groups also have capability to refuel fighters in mid air.
One the carriers apparently is quite new to the US fleet and has about 80 planes on board. These things are air forces on water.
Then there are very real precision missile strikes against Iranian missiles bases, which the US would be charting every second of the day.
The victory of $2.80 favourite Romantic Warrior (J: J.McDonald; T: D. Shum) in Australia’s weight-for-age championship, the $5 million W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, opens the floodgates for international raiders to try to win the Southern Hemisphere’s most famous race outside of the Melbourne Cup.
Air freighting of thoroughbreds between Hong Kong and Melbourne will now become a super-highway.
And for Junior Cretin (JC) and other cronies –
We are All Searching For an Answer
https://youtu.be/XEDatFQ3m98
Just for the record, they were Russians in America. Back in the U.S.S.R., there was little demand for a Chicago during the Communist Days. But Russia’s Leonid & Friends is making people smile in the U.S.A. This song, “I’ve Been Searching So Long,” was released in 1974 as part of their album “Chicago VII,” this powerful ballad delves into the theme of yearning, longing, and the search for love. However, the interpretation depends on who is listening. For some, it reflects the turmoil and loneliness they have endured in their love lives. For others, it reminds them of the universal struggle to find genuine connection and lasting love.
I think this applies to our lives in general as we search for simple, honest government and to get along with our lives and enjoy our families instead of always being manipulated by those in power regardless of their political party. “I’ve Been Searching So Long” undeniably strikes a chord with its powerful lyrics and emotive melodies that applies still to our political situation.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/we-are-all-searching-for-an-answer/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The fighters don’t have the range.
They’re going to refuel over Iran?
Nothing to do with Iran, but..
We hired a stunning Iranian engineer.
She had everyone mesmerised. She was the cause of a little friction and lots of booting the young blokes from around her cubicle.
She was also taking kickbacks from subbies.
Tears of regret when she was marched out the door. But the place was much calmer following the ending of our Persian experience.
That depends on Iranian missile range. Do you know what that is?
Dover, what you implying is that Iran is impregnable because of it’s superior air defenses? That’s veering toward Baghdad Bob bullshit.
Tom. Where does all that massive prize money come from?
Can we get some for our local gymkhana?
Johnny Rottenhead is posting a link to a convicted felon.
Here’s the explanation.
https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/where-and-how-to-complain.html
Has to be the main target, along with all C&C and comms centers around Iran. If the exchange ended there , we will all be the better.
So Armstrong contends that there was no black market in the USSR during the Cold War? Righto.
With people looking for gullible idiots with open wallets.
A pensive, thoughtful vignette from the convicted fraudster and 11 year prison veteran.
Why are we sending fighters to Tehran?
Iran has fought air defense for real, and ground war even more so. Their core national competence is bloody-mindedness. It would take a pretty savage war to make them sit down.
And they are here as well as there.
I just read a transcript of this year’s Andrew Olle lecture, this year given by Leigh Sales. She mouthed all the words about how journalists are supposed to be impartial. She hinted that in some cases that might not have been the case. Regrettable.
Lotsa high-minded stuff about the need to avoid taking a side,
No mention of TheirABC’s clearly partisan approach to the wildly unpopular ‘Voice,’
FMD, these people live in Dreamland.
Punting.
Australia has the world’s best prizemoney system, because, unlike the UK and Europe, it’s tied to betting turnover.
As a result — especially after the unplanned boom caused by Kung Flu — Australia has the world’s richest horse-racing prizemoney.
And governments love it because they’re getting rich off betting taxes.
Horse-racing is in Australia’s blood. Every town in the country with a pub has had a racecourse for the past 150 years, storied by its famous poets and historians like Banjo Paterson.
The CIA World Factbook online estimate of the mortality rate for G@z@ [pre-war of course] is 2.88 per 1,000 of population. My high school vege maths makes that out to be 6, 048 deaths annually; 16.5 per day.
Why is this relevant? Propaganda. Bodies for hire. Each day, a ‘fresh’ 16.5 corpses likely unrelated to divine retribution, will be available to arrange artistically in front of the vile international media.
Given that only an estimated 3% of the G@z@n population is over the age of 65, the vast majority of these bodies will be young or youngish.
Well they made all sorts of noises when cousin”Sol” was taken out and they ended up being empty threats. There would not by any land war between Iran and the US.
The USN strike fighters and USAF strategic bombers have stand off weapon capabilities.
Far greater than the biggest and baddest S-300.
If they were really intent in hitting Tehran, they would also use B 52s
Submarine-launched Tomahawks with conventional warheads, I suggest. That’s what Clinton used in 1997 against terrorist training bases in Afghanistan.
You have zero chance of losing an aircraft that way.
At the Guardian, must be some fuel left.
Israel claiming to have hit 150 underground targets overnight.
I remember when reading Bury’s History of Greece (which very properly ignored everything in Greece’s history after the death of Alexander the Great since from that moment all the Greeks did was brag about their history up until Alexander the Great.
One of the many things I love about this blog is the attachment of many of its patrons to classical Ancient History. Maybe it explains the great depth of understanding of human behaviour that is present here.
Now, Mother Lode…..in respect to the phalanx ….yes, it was already employed by the Spartans and others. The linking the shields allowed an effective counter to the larger, but disorganised numbers of the “barbarians”.
And good old Bury! Heavens, I bet it is no longer used today, but it was, and still is, an excellent coverage of the magnificent rise of classical Greek culture, although archaeological discoveries and resolutions of historical controversies will no doubt make it outdated today.
And BTW I totally agree with you about the lack of interest in Greek/Macedonian history after Alexander’s extraordinary conquest of the great eastern nations. Husband and I followed the footsteps (by car!) of Alexander years ago as he invaded the domain of the Persians in modern day Turkey. We followed his journey down the Ionian coast, up into the Anatolian high land, through the Cilician Gates, down to Tarsus (where he almost died from pneumonia after plunging into ice cold water from the mountains) and down the coast where he encountered the army of the Persian king & fought the battle of Issus. A burial mound was still there, near the town of Iskenderum (Turkish for “Alexander”) – but has probably been destroyed by the recent catastrophic earthquake in the area.
Alexander then proceeded into modern Syria. But that was where we said goodbye to him.
The wikipedia entry on G@Z@ is a pretty solid wall of omissions.
If I know Paliwood I would think the dead drove themselves to the hospital.
“Morosi gave it all a bit of zip and zing though- nothing like an Asian sex bomb”
And provided a potentially interesting (and likely apocryphal) slogan for Queensland Tourism:
“See Cairns in June”
The swamp of Australian politics has been poisonous from the Whitlam days onward.
Nice commemoration in Armidale today:
Armidale hosts rare military parade (Ncl local news, 28 Oct)
AAR cavalry regiment with a history going back to 1885. Here’s the wiki:
12th/16th Hunter River Lancers
That they can reach medical attention means (a). civilian mobility has not been measurably impeded (by the wholesale destruction of infrastructure such as roads), and (b). that hospitals are open for business illustrates how Isr@el has NOT been actively targeting these nodes of civilian infrastructure as was initially suggested.
The inability to access ambulance services means nothing without a broader context. Perhaps this service was always inadequate, or was not universally available. As a propaganda statement however …
I imagined that a Greek phalanx might have been more suited to a defensive purpose?
According to some bloke called Herodotus at the online World History Encyclopedia – I’m incorrect, and the phalanx – which another website states was only 8 hoplites x 8 hoplites (which seems more maneuverable) – was indeed used ‘at a run’ at Marathon.
Note to self: See if this Herodotus bloke still has his book in print. I’d like to know more detail.
Briefly. 😀
Half the Iranian fleet was sunk in an afternoon, and the only reason the other half wasn’t was that Reagan wanted to give the Iranians a chance to back down. Which they did, abjectly.
I think that little rocket-potting exercise the USS Carney pulled off last week was a small reminder to Iran, who’d had their proxies fire about a dozen silkworms at her sister USS Mason in the same place in 2016. It was quite embarrassing for the Iranians how badly that went.
JC
Thanks re oil and the US.
IIRC, Silkworm is a developed version of the old Soviet SS-N-2 Styx. Guidance et al might have been improved, but it probably remains a large, relatively slow, missile.
A Styx sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat, a Second World War UK ship, after the 1967 stoush.
O.K. … there’s a difference between a traditional Greek phalanx and a Macedonian phalanx. Interesting.
Would you like to know more?
Oh. Starship Troopers flashback.
@Muddy, are there any figures available for infant mortality rates? Pallywood is running auditions.
Herodotus histories online free from google books.
Those poor hostages; I said at the beginning they were as a good as dead; the hamas dogs released a few for PR points and then claimed most have been killed by Israeli bombing. The hamas propaganda and the media are going to defeat Israel; again.
Colonial frontier wars, for instance.
Australia throwing away early dominance due to Mitch Marsh blocking away.
Of course the dead and injured could have been hamas fighters in and around the 150 underground structures Israel claims to have hit overnight.
Yes, cohenite. I fear so. Some of those faces are burned into my synapses.
The released were tokens. Cruel, cruel buggers.
Katzenjammer.
One expects that a claim of increased infant (and other) mortality due to a ‘lack of medical supplies’ will be part of an info space (propaganda) package in the near future.
I find the whole propaganda/information space competition for influence fascinating, because I think there are elements that can be transferred and adapted to fit the political and social spheres, which our opponents long ago figured out.
I don’t know Cohenite, I think Israel have the resolve to see this through to the end.
Over 2000 ultra orthodox have volunteered, though they won’t be used as fighters as they will have insufficient training.
No more mowing the grass, it’s time to dig up the lawn and replace it.
Thanks, GreyRanga. I did a bit of classics reading in my youth, but memory is not what it … something. Bubbles. Red wine. …
The development of military tactics throughout history is a particular interest.
BJ – Yes, they were Iranian built versions. Still at that time the Houthis got a hit on an UAE naval catamaran with one, which gutted the ship completely. Sad, since the cat had been built in Tassie.
No. I now believe — especially after the apartheid referendum — that most of the Australian electorate now understands that governments routinely lie to them and have no interest in providing what they want.
The propaganda industry’s business model is that Australia voters are so stupid they’ll believe whatever they’re told.
That may have worked 30 years ago, but I no longer think it does.
I’m still inclined to think that a few at least, have been secreted from the area as extra insurance. I don’t know if that is practical, but that’s what I would do.
I would also expect that a future claim will be that h@m@s had no control over other groups, and therefore did their best to ‘protect’ as many hostages as they could. Wait for it.
From the Oz, on the subject of the Aboriginal flag. Said flag would have been flying high at the side of the Aboriginal warriors, during the “Frontier Wars?”
Evil evil Goolag evil!
Go to Project Gutenberg. Most of the other Greek authors are probably available there too. Lots of excellent stuff to be had for free!
How did we end up teaching these confused tenets to impressionable eleven- and twelve-year-olds? I discovered that the progenitors of the gender cult, such as radical cultural revolutionary Judith Butler (“they/them”), started by spreading this nonsense throughout American university campuses. The ideas then oozed forth rapidly into Australian universities, and into the curriculum via the Safe Schools Coalition.-The US: Exporter of evil ideas and misery
We don’t know what instructions have been issued to IDF. If (say) three IDF are confronted in a tunnel by a few Hamas with one holding a knife to the neck of a 70 year old woman or a youth in her 20s like yourself, do you all lay down your weapons, or do you aim the first shot at the hostage’s forehead as a mercy shot, and take out the Hamas rats. Many Israelis will have to figure how to live with this for the rest of their lives.
That teachas could even think about inflicting this poison on minors says to me that they are the dregs.
From Judith Butler – “Understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important.”
Another quote from someone with open eyes – “Today, the world is full of wilfully blind callous perpetrators and complicit witnesses who see no Evil and hide behind a veneer of intellectual abstraction.”
Had never heard of Judith Butler- bad bad person. What passes for ejucashun.
My fertile (and utterly unqualified/inexperienced) imagination pictures homo h@m@s avoiding subterranean combat wherever possible, and concentrating on trapping IDF and eliminating them by means other than small arms.
Perhaps Turkey could offer to re-settle surrendered Hamas fighters?
So boys get healthier relationships from hanging out with mental cases and pedos?
Aaaaalllrighty then.
Judging by the ‘reach’ (or is it reach-around) of the ALPBC for its 1.3 Billion dollars, this $3.5M will be barely enough for office space and gender sensitivity training of about 15 ‘influencers’.
Funny how Andrew Tate and Hamas are both ‘weird beards’. Maybe ban beards, hoodies and masks instead?
I posed this question yesterday, but there were no takers: What does Victory look like for h@m@s?
Is their victory state purely political, or a combination of military and political elements?
If it is political (international and regional attention; promises of future funding/other support, increased reputation, etc.), have they ‘won’ already?
The war against men and boys continues- straight out of the canbra coven.
B of N.
Thanks. Will do.
Victory for hamas is from the river to the sea, not today, not next week, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred years, whatever it takes.
Of a certain religion?
Who like to protest in Hyde Park?
Didn’t think so. Sigh.
I fear victory and a secure peace for Israel is annexation of Gaza, Southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights at a minimum; after severely deprecating Syrian and Iranian assets.
Israel probably doesn’t want to go this far but there’s too much to lose from constant threats. 100+ years more of this; what are the possible outcomes?
‘P.C.’ used to stand for Political Correctness.
It now means Precautionary Castration.
Insidious seems like a neutral adjective now.
Sack dickhead family law judges
Gaol false accusers for 10+ years
Stop funding Hamas and the PA
Legislate to overturn the unelected effective ban on pre nups (BFAs) in Australia
Defund Marxist-feminist loons who push an ideology that LOOKING at a woman is the same as a violent armed rape
That’s a start.
Some curious facts about “deboonkers”
Mick West hasn’t had a job in 15 years
Won’t reveal where his income comes from
Is a code pisser, not a scientist
Perma banned from Wikipedia for use/abuse of sick puppet accounts
Does not have a monetised media/social media account
Lives in a salubrious locale
Also glows in the dark (suspected)
Hendo tried to point out the difficulties with that to Mincing Marr. Without luck it appeared.
They have to. And ignoring the foul propaganda from helpful partisans is going to be essential. Israel simply can’t trust anyone, including the Biden administration.
After what happened on October 7, Israel is morally free to destroy all of Gaza. The only rational assumption is that anyone in Gaza is hostile and wants to murder any Jew they can get to. If there were ever any good guys in Gaza, they’d have got out before this.
The fact that no other Muslim country wants to take refugees says it all. They have the moral responsibility if Gaza is destroyed totally.
Forget the hall of fame thing, but he was scouted for the Red Sox
Had never heard of Judith Butler- bad bad person
A typical hatchet faced lesso who is so dumb she doesn’t realise her and other mad lesso feminist’s assault on traditional sexuality has allowed the trans monsters to crawl out and attack women including lessos.
A whole lot of years ago I started following a blog ‘Butterflies and Wheels’ run by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangboom, authors of a book called ‘Why Truth Matters‘.
One of the chief reasons they wrote it was the dishonest feminist writing of one Judith Butler.
That cannot be correct!
Gaza has the most efficient ambulance service in the World. Each and every time some poor civilian is injured, there’s always an ambulance either there or pulling up within seconds. I saw it on YouTube.
TE will tell you better than myself that in the recreation of battles in war gaming the results are pretty much the same as real life and thats on the shake of a dice.
Why has the New York Times hired a Hitler sympathiser?
The Hakka… what a load of bs.
Would it still be bs if it were a Makka Hakka?
You a Kiwi Chris?
Was there ever a war game produced, based on the “Frontier Wars?”
Vicki you don’t need to be left behind
Order a dvd titled “In the footsteps of Alexander the Great” in which Michael Wood makes the trek so you don’t have to!
In ethics that’s called lying by omission.
Sales herself was accused of misrepresenting the Uluru Statement in an all-staff email to ABC news personnel.
Don’t view it in political wrappings. In their view, Arab Muslims lost honour in 1948, 1967 & 1973. Hamas has bloodied Israel. hamas has positioned Palestinians as the Muslims who regained honour for Islam. In aspects that matter to Muslims, Hamas did more damage to Israel’s reputation than all the Arab forces in previous wars. Even if they don’t exist into next year they could end up being written in future Islamic histories as the successors to Saladin.
Settlers of Cataan
Squatter
GO
If that was regaining honour, then the Muslim conception of honour disgraces every Muslim.
We know that from the vile phone call boasting about killing ordinary people in their homes. Big, bwave servants of Tash.
A standard ALPBC MO. More often than not ask yourself what is missing?
Well that one slipped under the ABC family tree radar.
More couples than tinder.
Mrs Tan.
Bob Carr’s missus is dead.
Nope, don’t care.
Tracey Holmes has had several stints at Aunty, and this probably won’t be the last (although she is in her late 50’s).
Strangely, she has ventured out into the wider world a few times, but always returns.
A Holming pigeon.
How’s the veal?
I’d like to think that Tash will pounce on the monsters and subject them to eternal digestion.
I’ll be here all week.
And, yes, it’s veally, veally good.
A sound comment with which I agree.
Perhaps my use of the word ‘political’ was misleading.
UN General Assembly calls for ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza leading to halt in Israel-Hamas fighting
Unfortunately, this resolution almost guarantees that French and US hostages will star in ‘beheading porn’ to drive the ‘give up and play the game’ point home in time for the next Security Council meeting.
I’m afraid that the worship of Tash has spread to the West.
I’d have some respect for any Muslim who declared that October 7 was a stain on Islam. Because it is.
unfortunately I read some of her crap too since my Ex had them on the shelf back in the early 2000’s along with Adorno, Zizek, and RW Connell
Connell is a an interesting one. Home-grown Aussie
early writing as RJ Connell … the bloke
nek minnit it’s Raewyn Connell … the same bloke but is a ‘she’ all over the internets ever since
Connell was in the hands of every Gender Studies and Queer politics undergrad .
and probably still is.
“Yasser Arafat has stated that “Jordan is Palestine.”Other Arab leaders, even King Hussein and Prince Hassan of Jordan, from time to time have affirmed that “Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine.” Moreover, in 1970 – 1971, late called the “Black September” period, when King Hussein waged war against Yasser Arafat’s Arab PLO Forces, who had been operating freely in Jordon until then, it was considered not an invasion of foreign terrorists but a CIVIL war.”
“From Time Immemorial”: Joan Peters; Page 240.
Odd that international law doesn’t seem to apply to Hamas.
she ain’t dumb … we are
her and her ilk appear to have succeeded on our watch
you should read her stuff and fully understand that creating monsters is exactly what she wants
Come on, lefties never keep their word.
From proposing an international anti-Hamas coalition to a truce in less than a week.
I note once Macron was back in France he started talking about terrorism as something the French would just have to live with.
Didn’t go down well in the media.
The Yessers are the most racist people, they decided ahead of time that all aboriginals will think as they want them to think, they were incapable of imagining aboriginal Australians as normal people.
On the election evening I thought it odd that Channel 7 allotted only 30 minutes after the news to the referendum reporting but they were right. By 7:25 pm they called it for No and that is why they are the most popular free to air television network in Australia, they got it right.
MT, someone commented today somewhere else about the Maine shooter that in the past people like him were institutionalised in mental hospitals but now we let the roam freely. The same used to be done to people who were not sure who or what they were such as transsexuals and multiple personalities but now we let them roam freely as well and even arrest people who point out the truth.
When the Richmond Report into psych institutions came out in the early 80s it was the worst thing that could have happened to NSW. Mental hospital were closed and inmates let free. Ever since then the homeless situation just kept getting worse. Perhaps when we have had enough of this crap we will go back to pre-Richmond.
recently got back from the last show of Authentic Flamenco at the Capitol Theater in the heart of Babylon.
Paula Rodríguez, la bailarina que ha llevado el arte español hasta Australia
outstanding, mesmerising, brilliant
front-row VIP seats, and
even got a photo of us on stage with the performers after the show where I had my hand on her arse
… just kidding but I was tempted
Every time I hear this at an event or on a flight I think how unintelligent or stupid the announcer would have to be not to realise what the statement means, that they are insulting almost everyone on board.
my Ex was trouble with a photographic memory which was trouble
still, she had her good points
she used to say that universities were free-range mental asylums for the rich
Or better still FAFO.
God help us when conscription is implemented to fight WW3. Imagine the whining from the gen Z and left wing loons. Note, this time women will be drafted (all of a sudden, they won’t want their feminism).
Crikey,
I just watched Harry Brown with Michael Caine.
That is one dark movie.. and a standout for Caine.
leaving the paid carpark today I’m interacting with the parking robot
I’ve swiped the credit card and I’m typing my phone number into the robot interface to get a reciept
the whole time the missus is in the passenger seat going “the gate’s up!, go! … it’s up … are you listening to me? … it’s up ”
… imaging being stuck in a tank with one
who?
they’re in the ‘find out’ stage of ‘fuck around’.
Contains a chapter on how Arab landlords, in “Palestine” were prepared to sell their landholdings to wealthy Jewish businessmen, at well above the going rate, provided they were paid in gold…
In the Ayn Rand Institute Youtube video I linked to earlier, which deconstructed the sequence of four maps of Isr@el frequently used for anti-Isr@eli propaganda, there was a passing mention that documentation existed proving some early J*wish settlers formally purchased their land, rather than simply squatted as I had somehow previously assumed.
MatrixTransform
Oct 28, 2023 10:26 PM
She is right you know, and what if you don’t have a phone?
Strange as it seems lots of people do without it.
And they drive!
@ Rosie:
“No more mowing the grass, it’s time to dig up the lawn and replace it.”
Given the locale, perhaps a “Mediterranean Lawn”?
A substantial concrete slab; token garden edges; optional.
muddy,
thanks for that link – it was very informative.
who lotta gunfire in gaza at the moment..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpF3b5bsVXY
The so-called AI is nothing more than the programmers behind the label. The programmers have been told to refuse any responses that are positive to Israel. Don’t believe the hype, the real AI is generations away and even then the real human mind will be ahead in the strategy department. I’m not afraid of the future, it’s the past that will haunt us.
Israel—and America—Have No Choice but to Act
As Israel begins its ground invasion in Gaza, Niall Ferguson and Jay Mens on the hard strategic decisions facing the West.
October 28, 2023
Zugzwang is one of the ultimate challenges for a chess player.
In zugzwang, a player is in a situation where any move can only weaken one’s position and carries the risk of checkmate—but not moving isn’t an option. Beyond the intrinsic horror of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, it is now obvious that the attack was designed to provoke Israel into reacting. The extent of the zugzwang is increasingly clear, and Israel has few good options. Nor does the United States.
No one should have been surprised by the attacks on Israel by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Over the last year, there have been more than a dozen public meetings between Iranian officials and the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and PIJ. Enormous quantities of men and matériel have moved from Iraq into Syria, with other matériel arriving by land and air to Lebanon.
Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the common thread of the region’s so-called “Axis of Resistance,” have worked to build and consolidate enormous bunkers and fortifications across Syria along with Hezbollah.
Some anticipated another Lebanon War, others expected another Gaza War, and others expected a Third Intifada.
The only thing few—if any—expected was a design to drag Israel into all these battles and several more at once.
The Imperative to Act
In the aftermath of October 7, Israel must strike back. Propelled by nationwide rage, a new government of national unity in Jerusalem has vowed to destroy Hamas.
If that is the true goal, a ground operation in Gaza is necessary. Such an operation began in Israel on Friday night.
The very nature of urban warfare means that it will have an enormous human cost and an uncertain duration.
And this is not just urban warfare: there are two Gazas—the aboveground and the underground network of tunnels where Hamas’s men and weapons are stored.
And time is not on Israel’s side. International support is already waning, and nowhere more than in the Arab world.
Egypt and Jordan, Israel’s most important security partners in the region, have already accused Israel of planning the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Worse still, the operation will tie down a significant portion of Israel’s manpower and assets. Israel will, as a result, be especially vulnerable to the risk of overextension.
Gaza isn’t the only problem. There is also the West Bank, where unrest is already growing and where the Palestinian Authority is at risk of collapse.
Then, to the north, Hezbollah has its vast arsenal of rockets, drones, men, and missiles in Lebanon, while on the Syrian border tens of thousands of Iraqi militants have amassed with the goal of “liberating” the Golan.
Thousands more Iranian-made drones and ballistic missiles are spread out across dozens of bases in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
For that reason, Israel now relies on American support. Jerusalem is likely waiting for the last of American reinforcements—including another carrier strike group—to arrive in the region prior to launching its attack. But is there an alternative?
The Cost of Inaction
Israel cannot not move—the essence of zugzwang. Those calling for a cease-fire do not seem to understand the existential implications of October 7, or the fact that 224 people, including many children, have now been held hostage by Hamas for three weeks.
Allowing Hamas to maintain its Islamist dystopia in the Gaza Strip after the October 7 massacre would leave Israel in a state of permanent fear.
The Cost of Action
The prospect of a multifront war means that Israel would be hard-pressed to attack Iran itself. The United States has the ability to attack Iran. The question is if it has the will to do so. Right now, it seems the answer is no.
It is telling that the Biden administration did not meaningfully retaliate to more than a dozen attacks by Iranian proxies in a single week, causing over 30 American casualties.
Only on Friday did U.S. forces launch two air strikes against facilities used by the IRGC and its proxies in eastern Syria.
But these were billed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as “precision self-defense strikes” because, in Austin’s words, “The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities.”
Equally revealing is the White House’s continued prevarication about the extent of Iran’s involvement on October 7.
The administration’s repeated suggestion that it was little more than an enthusiastic bystander is impossible to reconcile with the evidence that, for example, 500 Hamas terrorists got specialized combat instruction at Iranian facilities as recently as September.
This is Iran’s war.
But this administration refuses to acknowledge as much for fear that it will be compelled to act.
But even “precision self-defense” action has a cost—namely, that it emboldens rather than impairs the enemy. Should the war nevertheless escalate, the United States could face a massive wave of attacks against its military assets in the region, forcing it to choose between effective capitulation or another “forever war” in the Middle East.
Moreover, given the deep reluctance of the United States to do anything that might be interpreted as escalation, Iran may well seize the moment finally to test a nuclear weapon. That would be a sort of regional “checkmate.”
The latest estimates suggest that Iran would need only around four weeks to acquire enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear bomb and would only need around six months to prepare a test—just in time for the eve of the U.S. presidential election.
The Failure to Deter
The New Axis
A Concerted Response
The problem for Israel is that, unlike chess, this is a multiplayer game.
And the main player on Israel’s side, the United States, does not yet appreciate that it too is under zugzwang. Israel and America have to act.
And they have to act together. The alternative is victory not only for Hamas, not only for Iran, but also for the new Axis the Western world confronts.
Avi:
The world needs to be reminded of what happened here three weeks ago today
Chris
Oct 28, 2023 8:37 PM
Exactly.
Go was probably the most authentic simulation of the Pokemon frontier wars.
The descendants of Mewtwo are the rightful owners of this land. Every park, every city.
Gotta claim `em all.
Josh Hazlewood.
Glenn McGrath’s metronomic replacement is injury-riddled at 32 years of age, has bowled like shit throughout the World Cup so far and his head’s not in the game, judging by his numerous misfields.
You haven’t finished a Test series in years due to injury – in your most recent case, side strains which are a fast bowler’s death knell. You can’t be relied on to go five days of cricket without doing yourself a mischief, and there are quicker, better and younger bowlers than you kicking the door in.
You will never get another IPL, or for that matter BBL contract either.
It’s time, son.
I know … was counseled several times today on my driving
Something like 6% of the land had been brought outright, by the wealthy Jewish businessmen, from the absentee landlords of Damascus.
Worth watching, even for those who are well aware of what happened.
Sadly, regardless of the fact checking and awareness raising – including the live kill-p@rn (snuff) footage which I refuse to watch – a substantial number of people will continue to disbelieve the reality. They will side – at least outwardly (which is what matters at this point) – with the twisted, deluded myths of reptilian victimhood, not because of the content of the information they are being exposed to, but because of the identity of the sender/s. I don’t mean the J*wish people, but Outsiders.
Until we, conservatives, take control of the narrative, nothing we say will change the state of decay; no reasoned argument or logical proposal will triumph, because as Outsiders, we are not to be trusted. Without first repositioning ourselves, we are staring at puddles.
Muddy
Oct 28, 2023 11:12 PM
Sadly, regardless of the fact checking and awareness raising – including the live kill-p@rn (snuff) footage which I refuse to watch
I am in the same boat. Will not watch.
The Food Insecurity Scam Is Even Worse Than The Poverty Scam
California’s Environmental Regulations Are Crushing Pennsylvania
Thanks, Zulu. That’s an area in which I need to do more research.
A stroll with Cash.
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane in Chinatown downtown Los Angeles 6
The Hun:
‘That erupted on October 7’ might be more accurately described as ‘started by Palestine and Hamas on October 7’.
Uh huh. Riiiight.
Here is how you systemically, over decades, untether a traditionalist, grounded and fully functional civilisation.
..
Step 1: Romanticism.
Tell stories, compelling and riveting stories, about tragedy, true love, loss and deep emotion, setting the young, the beautiful and the love lorn against the harshness of traditions and reality. Romanticise the exotic over the native. Evoke an emotional response.
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Step 2: Liberty and Emancipation.
Instil in every young person a concern for Freedom over Duty; Rights over Obligations; Liberty over Responsibilities. As if these things aren’t supposed to be in balance, one requiring the other in order to exist, but rather, as if the first is primary and independent over the second, good in and of itself.
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Step 3: Sensation and Spectacle.
Distract the population with unending “must see” events: Grand finals, Grand Prix, Grand openings, football, fights, massive outdoor concerts. The holiday blockbuster. Make the individual’s ordinary life seem dull and valueless in comparison to the sensations available. Flood out traditional forms of reflection with the gaudy, the moronic and the sensational.
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Step 4: Extreme Individuality Phase.
All your heroes must project an aura of extreme individuality. For now. To breakdown remaining cohesion. Rock star stances, punk blank stares, sardonic expressions of disdain and derision. Only a temporary stage, later, not to be tolerated.
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Step 5: Eroticism and Titillation.
Insert sexuality into every work of fiction and art, as a precursor to the penultimate stage…
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Step 6: Degeneration.
In this stage every form of perversion and degeneration is celebrated. Values are flipped on their heads and the culture inverted. Victimhood is promoted over traditional stoicism.
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Step 7: Fear and Control.
Take every opportunity to divide and aggravate. Choose issues that are insoluble and intractable. Introduce policies that worsen existing problems. Manufacture crisis. Seize autocratic control
Given the conduct of Hamas, anyone who believes anything they say is an idiot.
I’d recommend Joan Peters’ book “From Time Immemorial” and Benny Morris’s “The Birth Of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.” Morris has written three or four excellent books on Israeli history. He’s condemned as an apologist for the Palestinians by right – wing Israelis, and a mouthpiece of the Israeli establishment by the Palestinians….
Foucault and de Beauvoir
The Day the Delusions Died by Konstantin Kisin
climate change
gender bullshit
occupied territories
and yes votes
I’m just glad to see that people are indeed waking up
20 years of dread
… starting to think I’m the last Rastafarian
..
Bingo.
don’t forget
Australia hasn’t worked it out yet
your country(sic) has been selected for a colour revolution
That’s 166 per day for the last 21 days.
I’m not aware of the scale of the air strikes, so it’s difficult to know how to analyse that further.
I’m also unsure of what the killed : wounded ratio might be with air strikes in an urban environment, but I’d guess (randomly) perhaps 1 : 2 or 3? Let’s say that it’s 1 killed : 2 wounded. That would make a daily casualty rate of 166 children* killed and 332 wounded. Looking at medical care for the wounded only, that’s 6, 972 wounded since the 7th of October (assuming, for the ease of analysis, an equal amount of air strikes and damage each day).
6, 972 wounded – children only – would place a reasonable pressure on any medical system, correct?
* What upper age limit defines a child for h@m@s?
I’ll pursue those, thanks Zulu.
The US has the capability to carpet bomb every single inch of land on earth.
There will be trouble if they come near my few square inches… ?
France’s U.N. Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere said his country supported the resolution “because nothing could justify the suffering of civilians,” and he urged collective efforts to establish a humanitarian truce.
That’s just France being France… If they haven’t got a reason to surrender their own country they sure as hell will advocate for another country to surrender… It is what they do best and most consistently…
Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit”
@Peoples_Pundit
1. It’s possible Team RFK doesn’t have a good read on ballot access rules, but his “activator-in-chief” says they’re targeting AK, DE, MD, NV, NH, NC, ND, SC, WV, and WY.
6 Red States.
2 Blue States.
2 Competitive States.
From a rules-only perspective, it makes little sense …
https://x.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1718281760021086267?s=20
This is why the national polls on RFK Jr don’t matter.
All that matters is how he drags away votes from Trump in key states.
Muddy
Oct 29, 2023 12:11 AM
I was interested and looked it up, not quite sure what a lunar year is in islam, “Hijri years, not Gregorian” but it is 15 of those or puberty for boys.
9 and or menstruation for girls.
God, reading this , I am glad I have no religion, but Christianity would be far more preferable than this.
How many muslims actually do abide by all those rules I wonder.
I knew an Albanian, who drank like an Irishman but cursing after every mouthful, that it was the Satan’s drink and he hated it. According to him as long as you don’t enjoy it it’s permitted.
I think he made it up.
Week In Pictures.
Doing a bit of Stickler.
news.com on the Gaza incursion, Israel are in around Beit Hanoun and have turned the water back on in the south.
Dictator Erdogan calling Israel war criminals.
Well he would say that.
15 is the typical SHTF military age.
Hopefully New Zealand’s cheating in the ruck gets exposed today.
Useless cheating English ref: “please don’t do that”.
DID YOU GIVE YOUR LABRADOR THE WHISTLE!?
(Grumble grumble).
Adios you miserable battleaxes.
ABC (America) will NOT renew “The View” for 2024.
Love the painting.
It’s that time of year again.
See ya!
Pence Pulls Out of Presidential Race: ‘This Is Not My Time’ (28 Oct)
Don’t bother closing the door behind you, we’ll do that. Just get outta here.
Not The News: there is speculation that Greens and Teals might combine to sponsor a bill making it more difficult to buy hammers.
Hopefully they’ll leave for someplace like Monaco or Paris, so that the US average IQ rises a little bit.
Joy Behar Claims You Can’t Eat a Deer if You Shoot It With an AR-15 (27 Oct)
She seems to think an AR-15 is a howitzer or something.
If they use the same playbook as refugee advocates,
anyone under thirty-two can be portrayed as a child.
Yes, it only shoots 155 mm WP rounds.
A hell of a gun for collectors.
Every long gun with a magazine is an AR-15 and every hand gun is a glock, as far as these people understand.
The ‘AR’ stands for ‘assault rifle’ which means it is a fully automatic weapon specially designed to kill people so they should be banned.
Assault hammers, surely. Which is the same thing but sounds more dangerous.
I’ll be shocked if that wasn’t really passed forward.
On review: cheats and you are still 1 point behind.
16 ABs on the field vs 14 Boks.
How to provoke a sudden attack of shyness.
Nobody would think any worse of her, if she answered.
So half-baked they can’t even bother using sufficient texta to make a decent sign.