Noice just realised your pen name. I used to FIFO out of Thangool on one of my projects. Used to…
Open Thread – Wed 1 Nov 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
By the way, any chance of any of the monumental morons in this abortion of a so called government caring…
“The misinformation, disinformation, there will be no legislation until, well – there simply won’t be any legislation,” Senator farrell said…
Snap!
Ivo de Boer?
Overpriced Gantt Chart Newsletter:
Equity
Women in Iceland, including the Prime Minister, went on strike
Schools, shops, banks, and Iceland’s famous swimming pools closed last Tuesday as women across the country, including the prime minister, went on strike to end unequal pay and gender-based violence. That day, all-male news teams announced shutdowns within the volcanic island that led to public transport delays, understaffed hospitals, and more. Trade unions, the strike’s main organizers, called on women and nonbinary people to refuse any paid and unpaid work, including household errands and child care. Interestingly, while for the last 14 years, Iceland has been ranked as the world’s most gender-equal country by the World Economic Forum, the pay gap between the median earnings of women relative to the median earnings of men there is 21% – indicating that the world still has a long way to go in achieving gender equality.
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Imagine dying in a hospital because a female doctor refused to do any work, because she feels oppressed earning more money than you.
Thanks Calli, I’ll give it a go. Thought you were correcting errent apostrophes for a moment. Thats’s just not on!
Maybe so but I’ll defend the ones trying to reform the system in the hope one day they will be in position of influence.
From Rosie’s earlier links: BBC on the strike in ‘Jabalia refugee camp’
I’m no expert (on anything), but those craters suggest the explosive force was upwards and outwards. I imagine that an airstrike would have tumbled at least some of the debris into the craters. Perhaps this happened, but secondary explosions from munitions blew any debris clear?
I’d be genuinely interested to read an educated opinion regarding the blast zone and surrounds as shown in these photos.
(You’re doing a good job with posting this info, Rosie. Thanks).
Keep us updated on their progress.
Thanks for that – I’ve ordered a copy.
Real Deal – you need a gravatar account at https://gravatar.com/. Sign up button top right. Make sure you use an account name that isn’t you, and doubly make sure the email address you use for it IS NOT ONE YOU USE REGULARLY. Otherwise Gravatar will send your pen name to other people’s phones in autofill when they you do emails to you, which I found out by accident.
In the gravatar account you can upload and crop a photo or graphic. You can also add more photos as I do, that’s under the profile page.
https://gravatar.com/bofncl
As you can see my account name is not my name, and the underlying email isn’t my name either.
Once all that is done, the gravatar is usable at most comment sections – WordPress and Disqus certainly.
Recently Gravatar changed login to default to two factor, with an email to your email address. But you can get around that by choosing alternate login procedure, whereupon it’ll just ask for your password.
(I don’t know how all this works on a phone.)
Thanks Dr Faustus.
What do we want?
A cure for Tourette’s
When do we want it?
C**t
I just want that T! 🙂
A Palestinian man from al-Badrasawi family carries the body of his child who was killed in Israeli strikes, at Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip, October 31. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
Leaving aside the apparent disinterest of onlookers, what do we think of the alleged ‘body of his child’ this man is holding aloft? Presumably the head is to his right, but doesn’t seem to ‘hang’ much. That could be rigor mortis I guess. The legs appear a touch short and minus feet, but that could also be the case if they had been amputated. Oh, the lack of blood stains in that area.
Call me cynical, but …
Can one have too many civil war books?
😀
while the philistines of today are actually recording it on go-pro and streaming it, for the vicarious thrill of their ordinary citizenry, from Gaza to Lakemba they’re actually cheering this.
They are not philistines, they are Muslims. This is the basis of it all. They kill because they go to paradise (Al Jannah) . They kill in a certain way – knives, beheadings -because it is in their book. They don’t show off, they prove it to their relatives, who as a result, will also be welcomed in Paradise. It is vital that we see this as a central belief. The West and the legal system gets this all wrong as the West lacks belief and hence judges their actions from a ‘rational’ point of view. They don’t commit suicide, they are entering paradise. Nothing stops them except meeting Mo. Their path is standard for the past 1500 years and can be predicted exactly. But our plods, politicians, lawyers, magistrates and judges have not woken up.
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Do you hate politics? This could be the reason why
Voters are increasingly distrustful of politicians and switching off from the news, while clickbait media and social media are driving polarisation. – AFR
Michelle Grattan
We have a distrustful and disillusioned electorate; a professionalised political system that frequently alienates the sort of people we should be attracting into parliament; a public service that has been found wanting; an excessively secretive approach to information and accountability; media that are too often driven by clicks and ratings; and social media that debase political discourse more often than elevate it.
All this invites the questions: is our democracy failing us, and how can it do better?
The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer found that “Australia is already on a path to polarisation, driven by a series of macro forces that are weakening the country’s social fabric and creating increasing division in society.
This year’s report finds that almost half of Australians (45 per cent) say the nation is more divided today than in the past – with the rich and powerful identified as a major dividing force (72 per cent), followed by hostile foreign governments (69 per cent), journalists (51 per cent) and government leaders (49 per cent).
Today’s Labor and Liberal backbenchers are much more quiescent than a few decades ago. Labor celebrates its more diverse caucus, but that doesn’t extend to a diversity of views at caucus meetings. One might have expected a debate after the referendum result – it didn’t happen. A caucus meeting with more than two questions can be considered lively. The Coalition party room is usually also placid.
It’s too easy to romanticise the past; parliament was always a bear pit. But now, thanks to televising, we see its inglorious detail. Speaker Milton Dick daily must wage a Herculean battle in question time, which over the years has resisted efforts to make it more productive and civilised.
Visitors who watch this hour and a bit from the public gallery are often totally disillusioned by the spectacle. I recall a few years ago talking to a group of community leaders visiting Canberra who’d observed question time earlier in the day. They were outraged. “What can we do?” they asked. I could only suggest they contact their local MP.
Any improvement has been marginal. This government, like the last, has its backbenchers fire off Dorothy Dixers, which can be summarised as questions inviting ministers to say what a good job the government is doing. While the opposition has the opportunity to ask incisive questions, in practice it is often just looking for TV grabs and, anyway, ministers seldom attempt to genuinely answer questions from the other side.
The larger crossbench has probably produced a few more questions actually seeking information (and the government is very polite to the teals).
But mostly, I have to say, question time is pretty useless.
However, there is an important qualification to that damning judgment.
When a minister is under pressure, question time can be potent.
We saw this in recent months with Transport Minister Catherine King and Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney.
These encounters can be painful to watch, and not for the faint-hearted to endure. Ministers sometimes complain the attacks amount to bullying. Another interpretation is that ministers are being held publicly accountable.
Some aspects of the parliament do excel, and we should not overlook that.
The committee system, notably in the Senate, has grown in importance.
While some committee work amounts to little more than going through the partisan motions, in other cases the efforts can be first-rate.
This year parliamentarians in various committee hearings did remarkable digging on PwC and the other consultancies; they also put strong pressure on Qantas, as well as delving into the government’s performance in rejecting the bid for Qatar Airways to be allowed more flights.
But more generally, too often backbenchers – in their parliamentary role – find themselves foot soldiers following orders, or rather, talking points. Hear one on a topic, and you’ve heard them all. Frequently that goes for ministers too, when they are speaking outside their own area.
Governments (or perhaps it is more accurate to say, alternative governments) preach the virtues of transparency and accountability but practise the habits of information control and secrecy.
Holding secrets
The Canberra press gallery has great physical access to the executive government because it is housed in the same building – this Parliament House – and can roam the ministerial corridors. Over the years, however, governments have found extra ways to limit and control access to government information. This ranges across a number of fronts.
When I first came to Canberra in the early 1970s, even a junior reporter could contact senior public servants and, if they came to trust you, they would talk to you on a “background” basis. This was not a matter of “leaks”, though of course there were those on occasion. I am referring here to the intricacies of policy, information that was very helpful for understanding and reporting.
Governments of both sides have closed down this access, and beefed up the PR sections of departments which are, mostly, worse than useless.
The overpopulated PR section of the Defence Department is a standing joke with the media.
Freedom-of-information legislation is supposed to further accountability. But the former FOI commissioner, Leo Hardiman, who earlier this year resigned only a year into his five-year term, has recited a litany of issues with how that system operates.
On other fronts, routinely governments baulk at giving information that might embarrass them.
Examples this year have included continued secrecy, on “security” grounds, of passenger details and destination of VIP flights.
The secrecy around the flights was imposed in the latter days of the Coalition government, driven in part by the police, but it flies in the face of what was done for five decades and seems to have little serious justification.
The government repeatedly refuses Senate demands for documents on a range of issues, and takes forever to provide answers (or non-answers) to Senate questions on notice.
To balance the ledger, it should be acknowledged the Auditor-General does a good (though necessarily limited) job.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has been an overdue development, though not without some secrecy issues in its operation.
Too much info?
I never thought I would say this, but sometimes you can have too much information.
Circulation was always important to newspapers, ratings to TV. But the digital age has brought the “clicks revolution”, so the popularity of individual stories can be readily and immediately measured. And that has implications for political coverage.
It means even serious media outlets will lean to the popular, while the dull and worthy (but often important) subjects struggle for readership.
Even these days, a story about Scott Morrison is a no-brainer when it comes to clicks. Voters showed they’d had enough of his prime ministership, but online readers continue to lap up references to him.
Reportage about trade policy? Not so much. If clicks become KPIs for judging journalists, that’s very bad.
There are some other developments in the media over recent years that affect coverage, for the worse.
The traditional media have become leaner, as their business models have been compromised by the digital age, and the squeeze on journalist numbers has hit, in particular, some of the specialist reporters.
So you have fewer eyes on some crucial policy areas, especially eyes that have been on them for quite a long time.
Fewer specialists adds to the trend to look at policy through a very political lens, because the stories are often written by generalist political reporters and, as well, because it’s easier to do them that way, and they get more readers.
Recent decades have also seen more extensive “opinion journalism”.
This has the advantage for media companies of being relatively cheap and attracting readers, viewers and listeners.
The big-name opinion journalists build “brands” and often become shouty and extreme in their bid to attract audiences.
Other manifestations of the growth of opinion journalism include shows where journalists talk to other journalists, and the intrusion of more opinion into the way the news is reported.
Today’s media are polarised which, together with the growth of social media, contributes to a wider phenomenon of many people living in “silos” in terms of where they get their information and what information they choose to consume.
Even some journalists choose to inhabit silos, avoiding certain media.
Social media can be the ultimate in “siloing”; for some people, it also removes all inhibitions to behaving badly.
The downsides of polarisation and silos are obvious.
Some media consumers no longer operate in a limited “common square” of information. Debate becomes more fractured, angry and extreme.
Tolerance is in shorter supply.
Benefits from the spectrum
Perhaps we should add there are small offsets to the negatives in this polarisation.
Media stretching across the spectrum from left to right contributes to diversity, with one end picking up on issues the other end prefers to ignore.
But I reiterate, there is a cost and I think the negatives outweigh the positives.
And while polarisation has added to diversity, the concentrated ownership of Australia’s [metropolitan] print media, which is overwhelmingly in Murdoch hands, is a serious distortion of diversity.
Women’s interest in news is at a record low.
News avoidance is high, driven largely by a sense of being overwhelmed by information overload and the amount of conflict and negativity in the coverage.
Each PM brings his or her own style and skill set to mustering the media. And their own little tricks.
Just one example from Anthony Albanese’s tool box.
At his news conferences, he limits journalists to a single question, so an individual can’t pursue a dodgy or evasive answer. Given various other journalists have their own priorities, there is often no follow-up.
The Voice referendum this year put our democratic system through its paces, and different judgments will be made about how it performed
The referendum showed many people are unfamiliar with some basics of the political system, especially the Constitution. Sharp questions were raised about so-called misinformation and disinformation. The Yes advocates complained strongly about that. Remember, this was the first referendum campaign in which we’ve had the full play of social media.
I might say that I don’t like this terminology of misinformation and disinformation, which we have taken from abroad. I would prefer to talk about, firstly, wrong or misleading information.
That falls into two categories – some of it deliberately misleading, and some inadvertently so. Beyond that, there is contested information – where one side makes a claim the other rejects, but which can’t be definitely established or disproved, or at least not at the time.
In the referendum, we saw a good deal of dispute over whether some points were contested claims or mis/dis-information. The Voice campaign has given more impetus to those pushing for truth in political advertising legislation. Special Minister of State Don Farrell is looking at this, but is aware of the difficulties it presents.
Even more contentious, however, is the legislation the government already has in the public arena to crack down on “misinformation and disinformation” on the internet.
The move has attracted many critics, including eminent constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey, one of the advocates for the Voice.
In the internet age, there are good reasons to try to stop the spread of misleading information.
But at some point you run up against the right to free speech.
And then, as we saw in the Voice debate, there is that fine line between “misleading” information and “contested” information.
Bespoke
If your close personal pals were against what the rest of those pikers were doing to the citizenry, they could have resigned, but they didn’t, so don’t post horsehit they hated what they were doing. There are other jobs around.
This is what bravery looks like.
It’s not your Vicplod pals.
While scrolling around Twitter I have been reporting the most egregious examples of terror support, river to the sea, gratuitous dead baby porn, hamas hashtagging, noticed last night one of the accounts has already been taken down.
Also saw brand new accounts just posting stuff like ‘baby murderers’ on Israeli accounts.
I’m not going to debate the terror boosters, but applaud the brave, usually Indians, Americans and Israelis who correct the record.
I did reply to one that said Israelis shouldn’t be in Gaza, completely agreeing and suggesting she contact hamas and tell them to release the hostages.
Death Of Shani Louk Confirmed, Was Kidnapped And Driven Through Gaza Streets Mostly Naked To Jeering Crowds
Kidnapped German citizen’s mostly naked body, with limbs twisted in the wrong direction, was driven in the back of a pick up truck through Gaza streets, as large crowds of “civilians” spit on her and beat her limp body. Now skull bone has been recovered which DNA testing confirmed is Shani.
Fuking animals.
Hamas’ atrocities highlighted through comparison to Manson Family
35 minutes ago
The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair has written a column comparing the Hamas terrorists’ actions to the Manson family murders in Los Angeles in 1969.
“Here, now, 2023 – we’re still shocked by those murders,” Mr Blair told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“That was eight people – but 1,400 people were killed in oftentimes much more horrific and brutal, deliberately brutal ways?
“And three weeks later we’ve got Hamas … saying things like ‘Israel’s showing all those atrocities as a distraction.’
“Well there’s a pretty easy way for Hamas not to produce those distractions – don’t kill people.”
It’s a miracle!
“There is and never shall be any historical, colonial, political, cultural or intellectual context for 7th. October.
Evil needs no justification or rationale to vent itself on the innocent: rape, mutilation, baby killing and incineration spring from the Satanic Verses!”
This, X Infinity.
It had been posted earlier today. Thank you to the commenter who posted it. I have saved it and will keep a copy on me at all times to shove into peoples faces if they come at me with the two most obscene sentences used right now.
“Yes, but”. and
“you have to understand”.
Looking at the promotion for the book on Grant, the thought came to mind that he would have been sacked by the murderously incompetent Westmorland.
No spit polish, no starch.
The poor Vietnam GI’s had no chance under that politicised show pony. He ran the war as a bureaucracy which given that he had no advanced military/strategic studies qualifications is probably understandable.
True, heard that this morning at the neighbourhood house activity I attended this morning, I dont watch it any more.
I don’t watch any free to air, just scroll around the net for factual stuff and decent commentary.
Also heard dumbass comments about Halloween.
No idea it’s a truncation of ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ which provides a clue about the nature of the event.
There, with a tiny bit of editing I’ve just saved a thousand words!
Ok, no, not only her of course.
The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
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@elonmusk on George Soros: “In my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity.”
Previously the reaction against Israel’s response to attacks from the Orcs from Hamas would have sprung up among our ‘intellectuals’ who live in palaces of theory behind enormous walls cutting them completely off from the real world (which would be disruptive to their theorising), some reflexively contrarian scribblers in the newspapers such as Phatty Adams, and a flood of stinky university students spilling through the streets like an enormous sewer pipe had burst, shouting awkward chants and carrying placards with permutations of Stars of David, swastikas (some drawn in the direction the Nazis used), hand drawn pictures of Uncles Sam, dollar signs, John Howard etc. along with a few professional looking placards reading “End the Occupation” and “Free Palestine” – with the words “Socialist Alliance” written in the border.
I think the difference this time is the influx of Muslims from shithole countries. Already steeped in backward grievances, emboldened by a timid political class with hair-trigger readiness to bow and scrape to what they see as a new voting bloc, and years of being told that Australians are racist so it does not matter if you hate them back and Australian culture does not exist so you are free to continue to your dark age* values and vendettas.
On the old blog there were sometimes talk about how the best society was simply the one with the fewest restrictions where everything else would fall into place through the spirit of cooperation, and you had to cooperate to survive. That is not without appeal. Our current society and much of its malaise I think comes from the way communal discourse among the people is being pushed aside to be replaced by blind, inflexible, laws. People knew how to behave around each other and the public was not afraid to insist. Everything is now the business of the state to manage. Whatever you see, think twice about getting involved because you might find yourself on the wrong side of the law.
Identity politics, the predatory trannies demanding access to school kids, and even things right down to removing toys from parks – these are all things imposed from above. Things like the Covid mandates and restrictions on free speech which do have support from some people are manufactured from government organisations that have carefully instilled and cultivated fear in people in the community who feel isolated from the community beyond a few people they know well and the TV people.
But one weakness to the goodly society discussed was with the unburdening of laws culture would become more important. It is not something to be imposed, dictated, or planned. But it would need to be harmonious and high trust. Many of our recent imports come from societies nothing like that. People with Western European cultural heritage will have much in common. Atheists still have values largely match those of Christians, even if they would insist on having taken different routes to get there. The particular Islamic culture of many places is incompatible. They are the ones that we seem to have largely attracted and which, like oil in water, have formed themselves into discrete blobs where they can avoid mixing with society at large. They cling to prejudices, to a chauvinism about how special they are, and all the nonsense that drove them out of their homelands in the first place.
So they feel entitled to march in the streets making demands that would have been unimaginable previously for their savagery, hatred, prejudice, and contempt for human life.
But we must do nothing about that. There are laws. Leave it to the government…
*I deliberately did not say ‘Mediaeval’. The European Mediaeval period was a time of steady progress in just about every field – including science. Sadly they are much maligned especially in English speaking countries because the Mediaeval period is seen as Catholic and England has sired many countries that have inherited this defect of vision.
About 2 million Arab muslims are citizens of Israel with all rights. In the surrounding muslim shitholes less than 10000 Jews remain with no rights.
I’ve seen the first couple of photos, but the last one suggests his medical training is a wee bit deficient (putting it kindly).
As a general Grant had essentially two things in his favour:
1. A dogged perseverance.
2. A Commander in Chief who backed him to win.
He was also an excellent horseman, regarded as the best among the students at West Point in his time there. That also says something about his character.
I have no Vicplod pals you dissembling buffoon. It was a civil discussion between Makka and I and his outrage at what they did is justified
Get a life man child.
[Source].
I’m looking at you, Filth Filter.
THE U.N.: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
In the three weeks that have gone by since the Gazan massacre of October 7, the United Nations Security Council has not been able to adopt a single resolution relating to the massacre or the resulting war:
For decades, the U.N. has been largely a force for evil.
Maybe some of its branches do some good somewhere, I don’t know.
But when it comes to international crises, to war and peace, to genocide or attempted genocide, the U.N., when not useless, is likely to be on the wrong side.
On the international stage, it seems to exist mostly to give Arab countries a forum in which to attack Israel.
For that, American taxpayers contribute our dollars?
The U.N. stopped being relevant a long time ago.
These days, the best the U.S. can do is prevent it from doing gratuitous harm.
Maybe one of these days, we will jettison the organization altogether.
Ivy Leaguers, Find Your Spines
I spent my years at Columbia ignoring my common sense in the face of a glaring double standard. Now my classmates cheer on murder and I’m sitting with my shame.
From the always excellent Tablet Magazine
World War III – It’s Inevitable
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong;
It is safe to say that nobody can hold a light to Socrates. Nobody has forecast war three years in advance as you did in 2011. Nobody has predicted a Middle East War in advance as you did two years ago. Even your posts on Turkey and its conflict with NATO, our bases there, and Erodan’s dream of restoring the Ottoman Empire. Everywhere I look, I see your forecast coming to life before my eyes. I can see World War III unfolding in a calamity of self-interests clashing with stupidity.
Besides market forecasts, your approach in creating Socrates to cope with the entire spectrum from politics to war has been a profound step forward in analysis. You deserve more than a Nobel Prize. You have achieved something significant for mankind.
RH
REPLY: Thank you. You have hit the nail on the head a – “calamity of self-interests clashing with stupidity.” I see the world as the Biblical story of Joseph telling the Pharoah there will be 7 years of plenty and 7 years of drought. This story attempts to tell us that there is a business cycle, and we better live with it. Marx, Keynes, and Central Banks all attempted to either manipulate the business cycle or terminate it.
This was from Geneva 10 years ago. War comes when there is economic distress, set in motion with COVID-19 locking everyone down. Businesses closed, people lost their jobs, and the elite thought this was no big deal. You cannot raise interest rates to solve a shortage of food or to make it rain.
On December 3rd, 2013, I posted that Socrates had pinpointed where this would all begin as Ukraine. On February 5th, 2014, I also warned that anti-semitism and pro-Nazism would rise again. I want to stress that these forecasts are NOT my personal opinion. The sooner people wake up and understand that everything has a cycle, the sooner we can reach a new paradigm in our political economy.
We are headed into World War III, as the computer has forecast, starting here in 2023 because all the old tensions in the world between people and nations will tear the world apart. We are witnessing anti-semitism rising around the world in Russia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. This is extremely dangerous because it crosses all borders and raises old myths that have emerged from Jews and their connection to banking. For you see, Christians and Muslims had the sin of usury, so they could not engage in banking. That is what was really behind the Protestant Reformation that was usurped and funded by the “billionaires” of those days who wanted to engage in banking but would be excommunicated if they did. The Protestant Reformation was funded and eliminated the sin of usury so Christians could enter the banking field.
Jews were typically targeted when there was an economic downturn. Spain targeted Jews and Muslims and confiscated their assets. Edward I of England borrowed from the Jews to fund his war with France, and when he could not repay, he suddenly discovered they were Jews and expelled them from England, but defaulted on his loans and confiscated all their property.
It has been the religion of the Jews that has been the excuse to target the Jews when it traces back to economics. Both Hitler and Mussolini rose to power following the depression post-World War I, which was revenge led by France against Germany for past wars. Turn down the economy, and you get civil unrest and war. Even my dogs watch everything I do and connect the dogs to anticipate where I will go next or what I will do. It seems like nobody wants to look at history to connect the dots, as even my dogs do.
In 139 BC, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus expelled all Jews from the city of Rome. Then, in 63 BC, as a result of Pompey’s conquest of the East12,000 Jews were killed, and many more were sent into the diaspora, which was the biblical dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland. In 59 BC, Cicero criticized Jews for being too influential in public assemblies. He also refers to Jews and Syrians as “races born to be slaves.” Then we come to 19AD, during the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius (14-37AD), who also expelled the Jews from Rome. Most of the prejudice of the Jews in Rome was similar to that of the Christians – both refused to worship the gods of Rome.
Anti-semitism will continue to rise, and this will divide nations and peoples within nations because of old myths that they have no idea why they even exist.
As I have said, the old tensions and disagreements will fester and split the world apart. It is irrelevant if they ever had any basis in truth. The old hatred will rise again. Even Crimea has been fought over for millennia. It was part of the Pontus Kingdom, which stretched around most of the Black Sea. There is a vast historical database that Socrates refers to to determine where and when such events will unfold. That is why the CIA wanted the source code.
The Fed Chairman, when Bretton Woods collapsed, took the view that the business cycle always won. I spoke with Paul Volcker, and he agreed that the business cycle was about 8 years. He also concluded post-1975 in what he called the Rediscovery of the Business Cycle.
What I hope to leave behind is that there is the existence of cycles. If we understand humanity and connect the dots, we can create a world that is much better for all of us, and we will not have to freeze to death with no fossil fuels and eat bugs.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/socrates/world-war-iii-its-inevitable/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Obviously I’m aware of jurisdictions and limitations, but I truly believe that the case could be made for some media outlets (photographers who knowingly take and distribute staged photos) being accessories to the actions of these reptiles.
Moslems become a malignant , disruptive and at times violent group when living in the west. Besides outright invasions, history shows time and time again that moslems refuse peaceful co-existence.
You only has to visit the shitholes of Islam around the globe to understand their so culture of victimhood and revenge. Which every single moslem immigrant brings here with them. They will NEVER integrate with us. Only overrun us, given the opportunity.
All moslem immigration should be stopped now.
No shit, Sherlock.
Do you hate politics?
I don’t hate politics, I hate politicians.
Ha!
It seems Disney is planning on doing a live action remake of their Hercules animated movie.
Who would play Hercules (i.e. Heracles)? Son of Zeus and Alcmene – herself daughter of Perseus and Andromeda?
Apparently, the front runner is Michael B Jordan – the guy who starred in Creed and the Black Panther.
Did they not watch the South Park Panderverse cartoon? Or their balance sheet?
As common beliefs break down, the law steps in to fill the gap & preserve order.
This is why multiculturalism, taken to an extreme, is a threat to a cohesive society.
See also Popper’s paradox of tolerance.
Crikey Muddy, what are you referring to?
I’m naturally sympathetic to any concept that’d see a few j’ismists in jail, however I’m not sure where your train of thought began.
He also showed himself not to be intimidated by the reputation of Robert E. Lee, at the start of the final campaigns.
France’s Nightmare Is Yours Now
How the Oct. 7 massacres in Israel gave birth to a global pogrom
BY MARC WEITZMANN
What am I watching?
I was staring at my phone in blank incomprehension watching the worldwide demonstrations of enthusiasm that followed the bloodiest pogrom since World War II—the “gas the Jews!” of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Sydney, the “fuck the Jews!” in London, the N@zi salutes in Paris, the N@zi flags in New York.
I was scrolling through footage from some of the most prestigious universities in America sinking further every day into their own sh@t—the Washington University pro-Hamas students yelling “f@ck Israel!” and “you guys are all f@cking gays!”; Columbia students gathering to celebrate the massacre in Israel one day after a Jewish student was beaten with a stick outside the main library; the Cherry Hill East high school student who screamed his hatred to his Jewish fellow classmates in the hall; the antisemitic demonstrations at UCLA.
There was the Stanford professor who forced his Jewish students to identify themselves before grouping them in a corner so that they could feel “what the Palestinians feel,” the UC Davis associate professor who warned the “Zionists journalists” that they should “fear us” (whoever that “us” is) because “we can find their addresses and their children’s schools,” and who ended her post with hatchets and blood-drip emojis.
I was seeing “keep the world clean” signs decorated with a Star of David pushed into a garbage can, exhibited by pro-Palestinian supporters in Washington Square Park and Warsaw.
And, of course, I saw video of passersby everywhere tearing down posters of Jewish kids kidnapped by Hamas in the hope of making the victims disappear, even while their murderers were being publicly celebrated in the streets.
I was watching all of this from the viewpoint of a French Jew who for years has lived with the absolute conviction that if the sh@t really hit the fan in his own country, there would always be the U.S.
It made no sense.
Then I came upon a video taken right after Oct. 7 that I had previously missed. It showed a professor at Cornell university named Russell Rickford, a Black Lives Matter supporter.
Standing under the rain, among the signs, in front of the demonstrators, Rickford was screaming into his microphone: “It was exhilarating! It was exhilarating! It was energizing! I was exhilarated!” The “it” was the pogrom.
Mentally, I immediately thanked Rickford for his unabashed honesty. I knew exactly where I was now.
The whole planet had become France, and Mohamed Merah had returned.
Merah was the 23-year-old killer of Algerian descent raised and born in the city of Toulouse, France, who on March 19, 2012, entered the local Ozar Hatorah school with a Parabellum 9-millimeter and a .45 ACP and shot at close range one of the rabbis in the school along with his two sons, Gabriel, 3, and Aryeh, 6. He then chased little Myriam, age 9, across the courtyard, grabbed her by her hair, put his weapon’s barrel against her head and pulled the trigger, before walking back quietly toward his scooter.
Like the Hamas pogromists of Oct. 7 he had equipped himself with a GoPro camera so the slaughter could be filmed and widely seen.
Since social media was still relatively new, he sent his videos to the offices of Al Jazeera, where—Qatar being Qatar—the journalists waited for the emir’s orders to know whether they should air the images or not.
Under pressure from the French government, the videos were not aired.
IMerah’s murders changed everything in France—for the worse.
t also provided a sickening preview of how the massacre of Oct. 7 is likely to change the lives of Jews in other Western countries.
Thanks BoN re advice about gravatar. Appreciate that, sounds a little tricky. I’ll leave it till I have a little more head space.
Dover comment in moderation – have tried usual changes but can’t see problem?
At last, some hope regarding a fight-back from western nations to preserve and celebrate democratic values.
The Oz today reporting the meeting of the ARC (cutely named Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) in London. This meeting has been called by world leaders to reaffirm the liberal and democratic values of the West. Opening address by Jordan Peterson & addresses by Ayyan Hirsi Aly & others , & attended by world leaders. Our retinue included John Howard, Matt Canavan, John Anderson, Barnaby Joyce Scott Morrison, Mark Latham, James Paterson & journos Greg Sheridan and Paul Kelly.
Speakers referred to the “crisis of identity “ in the West. It was noted by author Adam Creighton, that this group could rival the Davos mob.
I have not seen any other reference to this important conference & its significant Australian attendees, in the larger media community.
I’m only keeping what I regard as the classics these days – Shelby Foote, Bruce Catton, Stephen Sears, and I’m finding Allen C Guelzo quite interesting reading on the subject.
Advice – if you’re going to choose a Gravatar, choose a really annoying one.
Tip – pick a leftie icon. Reels them in every time. 😀
I think Fisk had Che’s morgue portrait.
In a city which has seen a hundred thousand people on the streets openly supporting savagery, calling for Israel to be wiped out, etc etc. ….
The Metropolitan Police have made an arrest.
Of a cockney who posted on Facebook that he didn’t like seeing Palestinian flags flying all over his city.
The accompanying video of the arrest will be of particular interest to anyone who read last nights extended post on London accents.
(source, Tommy Robinson)
“Our retinue included John Howard, Matt Canavan, John Anderson, Barnaby Joyce Scott Morrison, Mark Latham, James Paterson & journos Greg Sheridan and Paul Kelly.”
Good to see Mark Latham included.
On old SincCat, Tim T. had this one. Quite perfect.
Likewise.
However Rukshan Fernando did manage to score an interview with John Winston Howard.
LIVE BLOG: Israel airstrike on Gaza refugee camp kills Hamas commander, as terror group says more hostages to be released
The Rafah crossing could be open in a matter of days, with the United States flagging there had been “real progress” made in discussions with Egyptian and Qatari officials to allow foreign citizens trapped in the enclave to evacuate.
David Wu
Digital Reporter
From the Comments
– Rock the Casbah Israel
– During the second world war in England when they were being bombed into submission especially in London they removed many children to the countryside, I suppose the other Muslim countries don’t want to help remove those children in Gaza, says a lot about their Muslim brothers.
– Hamas wont permit civilians to move to safer areas.
– Hamas playing ganes with peoples’s lives using them to gain world attention.
The world must unite against terrorism . The Western world is at stake
– The UN wants a ceasefire now, to stop Israel from destroying Hamas. They have always hated Israel and it is constantly making excuses for Hamas.
Dismantle this extreme leftist organisation now.
– If Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages this would all be over instantly.
– The UN needs to be abolished immediately. Stop paying membership funds, let them fade off into the sunset. They are just a group of confused little people.
– Too little to late, Israel will hammer you regardless.
– No ceasefire until Hamas is annilated
Real Deal – just making sure you know there’re things to be careful of. As you know I use the features a lot, it’s a good service.
Winner of the Best Halloween Costume.
UK Labor leader Keir Starmer saying calls for a truce are misguided because it would leave Hamas with the capacity to carry out terror attacks in Israel.
I won’t go so far as to call this courageous, because it’s what every Western political leader should be saying, but it should be noted that Starmer is facing a revolt from within his party over his pro-Israel stance, which shows up Albanese & Wong for the craven amoral ciphers that they are.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12693057/John-Howard-migrants-multiculturalism-gbnews.html
LOL. Future president.
Jacinta Price.
Guess The Ethnicity of the Criminal!
Suspect killed in attempted car theft, leads police to a larger organized auto theft crime ring
“We do believe that there are several others out there, and we do have a few others that have been identified.”
In a harrowing turn of events, an attempted car theft ended with one assailant dead and the other facing multiple criminal charges, including second-degree murder.
The incident occurred when the two assailants made the mistake of trying to carjack an armed citizen who decided he would rather hold on to his vehicle.
Sal, I have no illusions that actual legal proceedings based on new legislation (impractical across international jurisdictions anyway) will curb the mis/dis/mal-information of the powerful media empires and the ability (and willingness) of the same to provoke violence and other measurable damages for their own commercial benefit.
HOWEVER, I would love to see some type of reputational damage inflicted upon those outlets which consistently OMIT contextual or other relevant information when curating (not reporting, but curating) high-value stories, such as the present situation in the Levant.
What prompted this wishful thinking was a Reuters photo from the recent ‘refugee camp’ bombing. In one image a man on a stretcher, supposedly a survivor of the ‘bombing’ was being carried by a group of other men. Admittedly, stretcher-man was partly obscured, but my first impressions were that given the devastation around him, his face, head, and torso were remarkably clean and positioned comfortably. While his right leg and foot could not be seen, he appeared without major external injury.
There needs to be some type of consequence for falsities and omissions currently being peddled by much of the Filth Filter (media), for the outcomes of these lies are real and significant. I believe that some of the FF are actively participating in the dissemination of h@m@s propaganda. Their reason for doing so is immaterial.
With great responsibility … etc. You know, the thing.
A fanciful expectation? Perhaps.
However, without rules/expectations/boundaries that are ENFORCED, it is a natural human trait to do whatever works for us. If that’s hurting others – directly or indirectly – many have no problems finding a justification.
Sal, it’s not unknown for accredited Western photo-journalists to aid Palestinian propaganda endeavours.
Part of the tradition of lying for the cause which goes back to Walter Duranty.
I saw there was a YouTube clip where Gen Z’ers alarmed that they might be drafted if there is a war.
What did you think? Did you really think that the government mollycoddling you, inserting itself into every avenue of life, monitoring your speech, weaponising departments, convincing you to give up rights and promising they will take care of everything for you – did you really think they did that because they wanted you to be happy?
They did it so they own you. They did it so you must do what they want.
They can seize your bank account, they can find your face in a crowd with a billion cameras and facial recognistion software, they can monitor your communications, they can come after your friends and family, and you will have long convinced yourself that the Second Amendment was ridiculous because there was no way you would be defending yourself against the government.
Remember that scene at the beginning of the movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’?
Muddy, Roger. Thank you. 200% agreement from me. Pallywood productions pretty much require the connivance of western j’ismists.
The most effective treatment would be to discredit them in the eyes of their peers & the world.
I remember that, in Iraq, the media companies used to employ ‘stringers’ who would go out and do the photographing for them while they sat in the hotel bar, and that a lot of these stringers were actually insurgents feeding propaganda photos to the news agencies.
As always, Mark Steyn says it best.
The barbarians are at the gates, and then paraglide over them. Miss Louk suffered merely the customary fate of infidel women: The brave heroes of Hamas gang-raped her and then broke her legs. That’s why her limbs are splayed in the scene below:
Miss Louk is already dead by the time of her arrival in Gaza. She was gang-raped so vigorously that back at the festival site she left a piece of her skull, from which the authorities identified her.
Who supports such acts? Well, if you’re British or American or European, a huge proportion of your neighbours do. Here is Hasan Piker, formerly of the Young Turks podcast in America and now host of a Twitch channel with millions of followers. Mr Piker argues that all those beheaded and tortured Israeli babies are legitimate targets:
Piker, born in New Jersey to Turkish parents and raised in Istanbul, told Klein he thought the October 7 terror attack was justified.
‘This is going to sound very radical and possibly very violent, but this is a matter of law and maybe if you agree with this, a matter of morality: Palestinians have the legal ground to violently seize back their own homes from these settlers,’ he said.
‘This is a reality, and that is precisely the reason why they have to exist under endless occupation in the West Bank.’
Klein told Piker: ‘If they were settlers, that would be a lot more understandable.’
Piker replied: ‘There are baby settlers as well, there are baby settlers as well. There are babies in the settlements…’
He then moved on to declare he was ‘a one-stater’, and defend YouTuber JT Chapman, who tweeted his own defense of Hamas’ attacks.
Mr Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, the founder and impresario of the Young Turks podcast. Whenever he has had cause to mention me, Mr Uygur has always portrayed me as a fringe racist wackjob. Yet he is the one whose family argue coolly and rationally in favour of targeting babies. So presumably that’s fine and dandy and mainstream.
You have to be awfully optimistic if you think such blood lust will be sated by merely Jewish moppets. Identity politics is, by its very nature, dehumanising: It teaches millions of people, and virtually the entirety of our youth, to view Fred Smith not as Fred Smith but as an anonymous foot-soldier of a despised and targetable group – even if Fred is only two months old.
As I say, this is way beyond Jews. So I find all the scholarly references to the Six-Day War, the UN plans for Jerusalem, the British Mandate, etc, etc, frankly a bit peripheral. My own advice is simple: In any contest of Barbarians vs [Whatever], it is unlikely to work out well if you choose the side of the Barbarians. Look at that scene from Gaza. The big butch men of Hamas found a defenceless woman. So they gang-raped her, then tortured her, then killed her, then threw her in the back of the truck like a New Hampshire hunter taking his buck down to the general store to be weighed. And, when they get to the Gazan equivalent of the general store, they are welcomed as heroes, and the people dance in the streets around the poor lady’s corpse, and one brave kid leaps toward the flatbed to spit on her. As I said a couple of weeks back, a generation hence that poisoned moppet will be a resident of Clichy-sous-Bois or Luton or Dearborn…
I do not wish to live among the relatively small number of savages who raped and murdered her. I do not wish to live among the far larger number of savages who dance in the street and proclaim the greatness of Allah at the sight of her defilement. I do not wish to live among children who spit on her poor broken body. I do not wish to live among sophisticated educated Turks (once Israel’s best friends in the region) who rationalise such scenes. I do not wish to live among mobs who chant “Gas the Jews!” outside an opera house…
And yet my government, like yours, has invited the barbarians within the gates, and tens of millions of westerners raised to revile their own inheritance have made common cause with them. This will not end well.
I agree with Steyn.
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The last very likely involves a statement to be made by Nasrallah this Friday.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Says the Country is Ready to “Sacrifice Millions of Lives” to Prevent Palestinian Settlement on Its Territory
In a recent visit to al-Arish in northern Sinai, Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly made a bold declaration that NO Palestinian refugees will be accepted into Egypt.
Accompanied by government officials and public figures, Madbouly said, “We are prepared to sacrifice millions of lives to ensure that no one encroaches upon our territory.”
This statement comes in the wake of reports suggesting that an Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to Wall Street Journal.
Madbouly’s comments underscore Egypt’s unwavering commitment to its territorial integrity and sovereignty. “Egypt will never allow anything to be imposed on it,” he added, emphasizing that regional issues would not be solved at Egypt’s “expense.”
His remarks serve as a stern warning to any entities contemplating the idea of transferring the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip to Sinai.
The Israeli Intelligence Ministry reportedly drafted a document dated October 13, proposing the transfer of Gaza’s civilian population to tent cities in northern Sinai, Ynet News reported.
This would be followed by the construction of permanent cities and an undefined humanitarian corridor.
A security zone would also be established inside Israel to prevent the displaced Palestinians from entering.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has downplayed the report, describing it as a “concept paper” and a hypothetical exercise.
During his visit, Madbouly also stopped at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. He stated that Egypt is “engaging at all levels starting with the political leadership with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to all state agencies that are moving to solve this unprecedented humanitarian crisis that the innocent residents of the Gaza Strip are exposed to today.”
Madbouly’s statement echoes Jordanian leader King Abdullah’s sentiment that NO Palestinian refugees will be accepted into Jordan or Egypt.
“The first part of the question on the issue of refugees coming to Jordan and I think I can quite strongly speak on behalf of Jordan as a nation of our friends in Egypt: That is a red line, because I think that is the plan by certain of the usual suspects to try and create de facto issues on the ground. No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt,” said Abdullah.
I do like the fragrance of panic in the morning. It smells of victory.
Sales of Bud Light’s parent company tumble even further seven months after controversial Dylan Mulvaney partnership (Sky News, 1 Nov)
Someone at Bud Light must’ve had a black cat cross the road in front of him, because they then splashed $100 million on UFC sponsorship in desperation to shed their reputation as a beer for gay men.
Bud Light Returns as the Official Beer of the UFC in Record-Setting $100 Million Deal (24 Oct)
Which didn’t work. The only result of that was to draw the ire of righties towards UFC.
‘Slap in the Face!’: UFC Facing Boycott After $100M Bud Light Sponsorship (25 Oct)
I just hope these elite executives learn a thing or two out of this utter fiasco. Money doesn’t buy love from righties, you have to earn it. And you guys just threw it all away for a fake woman.
Posting a video to Facebook was what got the above-mentioned Cockney bloke arrested.
This is the video that got him arrested & handcuffed in his kitchen, in his tracksuit.
I stated the obvious from the very beginning: That the most important aspect of this war was the information space. It is a competition for influence.
h@m@s never had a hope of competing militarily, but they knew there were plenty of willing messengers within the decadent first world that would enthusiastically burnish their image to those in their own world. (I remain confident that the initial motivation was an internal need for h@m@s to prove itself).
Iran to Head UN Human Rights Forum Weeks After Their Proxy Group Slaughters 1,400 Jews and Where Women are Beaten Bloody for Not Wearing Hijab
ham-arse works for me. They’re the rear end of a pig.
Bloody hell. That made me gasp and tear up.
Then you have liars like Higgins and Abbie Chatfield. Unbelievable.
Further to Dover’s Post above
World War III Watch: Yemen Officially Declares War on Israel, Launches Large-Scale Ballistic and Drone Strikes
In an alarming development, the Yemeni Armed Forces have officially declared war on Israel.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces and also the spokesperson for Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, announced that they have launched massive military strikes against Israeli targets in the “occupied territories.”
In response to the missile strikes, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been on high alert. They reported the successful interception of a surface-to-surface missile in the vicinity of the Red Sea.
“The [Israeli Air Force] intercepted a surface-to-surface missile in the area of the Red Sea. This is the first operational interception by the Arrow Aerial Defense System since the beginning of the war. An additional aerial threat was successfully intercepted by IAF fighter jets in the area this morning. No infiltrations into Israeli territory were identified.”
Calli:-
Advice – if you’re going to choose a Gravatar, choose a really annoying one.
Tip – pick a leftie icon. Reels them in every time. ?
I think Fisk had Che’s morgue portrait.
I was going to pick a sci-fi geeky picture, but on that advice I may change it to a really irritating lefty pic.
I was thinking Jane Caro’s last Reason Party electoral poster. It is Halloween after all
Consistent with Mark Steyn’s report, the New York Times was reporting last night that the piece of remains (without which she could not be alive) used to identify her were found at the site of the rave festival.
From that it would seem that the reports that the IDF recovered her body from Gaza may have been incorrect.
LOL, “Yemeni Armed Forces” is it? The Houthis now have delusions of grandeur.
They declared war on Israel overnight. I diagnose a severe case of RDS.
More in the Game of Guess the American Ethnicity!
DC HELL: “Smart and Talented” 13-Year-Old Child Gunned Down While Trying to Carjack Police Officer in the Nation’s Capital
Now that is an Israeli airstrike.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/c8d07bac06d2d034a7bacc0ab0826734
Compare and contrast with the hospital parking lot last week.
American Non-Justice
Far Left anti-Israel Protesters Interrupt and Shut Down Tony Blinken’s Testimony in Senate Appropriations Hearing – No Mass Arrests, No Transfer to the Gulag, No indictments with 1512 Charges
No Yemen didn’t declare war on Israel, the Houthis did. They are not the Yemeni Government.
Real Deal – just making sure you know there’re things to be careful of. As you know I use the features a lot, it’s a good service.
Ta, BoN/Bruce.
Some questions of equal difficulty:
How many hours in a day?
Name the capital city of NSW?
What religion is the Pope?
A comment via OldOzzie’s link to the death of a 13 year-old in a failed carjacking:
Hmmm. Wow.
That ice hockey player got moida’d.
It’s borderline reckless indifference to human life.
The best thing the attacker can do is confess and plea to manslaughter (although the best he can hope for is assault causing death or similar).
Dagestan head labels anti-Jewish rioters ‘pathetic cowardly animals’
The Russian republic’s governor gave a tongue-lashing to the mob that fell for Ukrainian incitement
The 150 or so people who stormed the Makhachkala airport incited by fake news of “Jewish refugees” have brought dishonor to themselves and the Caucasus, governor of the Republic of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov said on Tuesday.
“You are pathetic animal-like cowards – not even beasts, but cattle, because you have no courage,” Melikov said during a press event, addressing the rioters.
“You’re brave only in a mob. You hide behind women. You hide your faces. What kind of men are you?” – One could say Typical Muslim Male – Hamas, Palestinian Gazan, or any Muslim Man around the World today?
Over 80 people have been arrested since Sunday, when a violent mob swarmed the runway at the Dagestani capital’s international airport, believing that an inbound flight from Tel Aviv was bringing Israeli refugees. The rumor appears to have originated from ‘Utro Dagestan’ (“Morning Dagestan”), a Telegram channel linked to Ukrainian intelligence services, which has since been banned for incitement of violence.
More than 20 people were injured in the riot, including several police officers who were deployed to restore order.
Melikov has vowed to mercilessly punish the culprits, describing the riot as a “betrayal” of Dagestani and Russian values.
I suspected that was bogus.
Shades of Comical Ali.
Thanks Bruce.
Iran is pushing their clients in Syria, Iraq and Yemen to support Hamas without having to commit themselves. So far the Hezbies though have been trying to do as little as they can while trumpeting to the media their strenuous efforts, which is a tell. The mullahs rather like their fleshpots in Tehran and a sub launched H bomb would ruin their cushy lifestyle. So implausible deniability is the phrase of the day.
Putin met with Hamas leaders, not Z man.
Get a grip.
Russian soldiers suspected of mass murder in Donbass – investigators
Two troops are believed to be behind the killings of nine people, including two children, in the city of Volnovakha
Two Russian military service members have been taken into custody on suspicion of mass murder in Donbass, authorities reported on Monday. Investigators believe they gunned down nine civilians, including two children, in the city of Volnovakha.
The arrest of two troops recruited from Russia’s Far East and serving under contract was announced by the Russian Investigative Committee two days after the bodies of the victims were found.
According to media reports, the victims were members of a local family named Kapkanets, who were celebrating someone’s birthday during the evening the crime took place. They were reportedly found in the morning with gunshot wounds in several rooms of the house. Some outlets have suggested that the assailants used thermal vision goggles and silenced firearms during the nighttime raid.
The neighbors described the family as good people who were not prone to provoking conflicts.
They reportedly had a side business producing and selling moonshine.
RT was told by a local source that the two suspects, who appeared to be in their early 20s, wanted to procure some alcohol, but the family would not offer it on credit.
The row allegedly led to the massacre.
Thank you for the pics duncanm
In Embarrassing News Com:
Police have launched a critical incident investigation after an officer was struck by a flash bang grenade at a Goulburn training facility.
The officer was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital for treatment to a significant leg injury.
A NSW police spokesperson said the officer, attached to the Tactical Operations Regional Support Unit, was struck by the flash bang at 1.30pm on Tuesday.
One thing you have to hand to the Gaza males is when it comes to personal appearance they are all 10/10 .. all these pix of horror and devastation yet the blokes are all either clean shaven or designer stubble-d plus wearing clean top range tee shirts …
I didn’t hear any verbal exhortations to take action of any kind towards the subjects of his displeasure. Apart from a couple of expletives not directed to any identified individual or organisation, it was remarkably tame.
Take a Walk on the Casual Side: The Best Unstructured Blazers for Men This Fall
Equal parts sophisticated and slouchy
What is an Unstructured Blazer?
Unlike the football-padded two-piece that you may or may not have worn to your prom, unstructured blazers offer a fit free of canvassing, padding or other shape-informing components commonly seen on a traditional jacket.
With roots in American Ivy sporting and championed by tailors like Giorgio Armani in the ’70s, the unstructured blazer has seen a rise in popularity over the past 50 years for a more relaxed fit and casual flair than it’s “hard” counterparts.
How to Wear an Unstructured Blazer
While a proper Mad Men-style jacket might seem like a relic of an office-core era gone by, where pinstripes and cognac, not WeWork hats and Nature Valley granola bars, were king, the best unstructured blazers put the typical finance-bro fleece vests to shame.
They play exceptionally nicely with oxfords or even a classic t-shirt, and make for a look that’ll also work when the end-of-day bell tolls bar o’clock.
Plus, it’s the perfect light layer for fall, the official season for flexy and (much more importantly) comfy clothes.
To help you look your best this fall — and to prevent #menswear 2.0 — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight some of the best blazers for men to rock this fall, with all the slouchy sophistication and none of the annoying hassle of a typical suit jacket.
These jackets, from entry-level Uniqlo looks to Italian masterpieces (we are not talking about Botticelli) should get you through work, or just back into a dressed-up-and-ready-to-go mindset.
Below, the best unstructured blazers to live in this fall.
The other fun thing about the Houthis is the only thing their missiles and drones actually hit were Egyptian resorts on the Gulf of Eilat. They didn’t hit the Israeli towns because the IDF shot those ones down.
So far the Egyptians have chosen to say nuffin about the Houthi oopsies, even though several of their citizens were injured.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Nov 1, 2023 11:17 AM
In a city which has seen a hundred thousand people on the streets openly supporting savagery, calling for Israel to be wiped out, etc etc. ….
The Metropolitan Police have made an arrest.
Of a cockney who posted on Facebook that he didn’t like seeing Palestinian flags flying all over his city.
Met Police have just turned up in the dead of night to arrest a gentleman,…
His crime? Showing disapproval of Palestinian flags flying all the way along his local high Street.
The accompanying video of the arrest will be of particular interest to anyone who read last nights extended post on London accents.
Blimey Guvnor’ and Gordon Bennett. This poor Geezer will most probably be sent to a Prison Ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. Or, sent to the Colonies.
Graeme#4
November 1, 2023 at 11:01 am · Reply
Some other range-extending options:
1. Tow a generator behind your EV: https://gajitz.com/little-generator-trailer-lets-electric-cars-go-the-distance/
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Can one have too many civil war books?
I had a military/history book clean-out not so long ago yet still have 3 bookshelves full of CW, 3 shelves of WW2 (half a doz WW1 mixed in), one shelf of Napoleonic Wars & 2 shelves of ancient history (mainly Rome) and 2 shelves of miscellaneous military stuff ……..90% non fiction, 10% fiction
and a 2nd bookcase of paperback novels ……… The joys of op-shopping .. LOL!
Had a run-in on twaddle last night with a “true conservative” who was making fun of people “who believe in sky fairies” and “sky daddy” (as in, God).
All of the silly arguments he proffered (like “believe in God is a population control method”) were Marxist in nature, yet he truly was a conservative.
Now, I don’t have a problem with those that don’t believe and, as they say, “each to their own” but am wary of these anti-theist types (not atheists) as I think you must be a special type of moron to be conservative, value all that has been learnt and handed down through history and then be, not just an atheist (which I, personally, can live with) but an anti-theist.
…then again, I guess you never know what brand of “special” you’re going to encounter on twaddle.
In the arrest video, I counted at least six police officers that were visible. For a faceache post.
We’re in ‘safe’ hands aren’t we?
The Houthis control the capital and from what I can tell from the map the principal areas of Yemen.
the murderously incompetent Westmorland.
Don’t forget McNamara.
Islamism is a failed ideology. Muslims must embrace the West – Paywalled
Those who came here to escape tyranny are now cheering the tyrants they left behind
HUSSAIN ABDUL-HUSSAIN
Growing up in Iraq and Lebanon, we looked at the West with awe. The West was ahead of the Arabs world on many levels, including government, urban planning, social welfare, science, literature, technology and military strength.
In Lebanon, almost every child at school was taught three languages, learning English and French, in addition to our native Arabic. Parents talked to their children in these languages.
We generally associated success and wealth with speaking Western languages.
Those who spoke fluent English or French, the upper and middle classes, tried to mimic native American, British, or French accents.
The better your Western language and accent, the higher social status you signalled.
During my years in the old homeland, the Arabs were in consensus over the need to emulate the West, but there was an obstacle: The West was Christian and we were Muslim.
The Arabs therefore reasoned that they would copy everything from the West except for social norms.
We Muslims did not eat pork or drink alcohol.
Inter-gender relations were strictly limited and monitored.
The collective tribal opinion always trumped independent personal thinking.
Our Westernized life copied consumerism but left out values such as liberty, freedom, and equality.
The result was a society that was Western on the outside but backward and tribal on the inside.
Our societies produced states that were in our image: Sovereign on the outside but failing on the inside.
State failure gave rise to nativist Islamism. Islam the religion we already practised.
The new brand was Islamism, in which Islam decided – not only our spiritual and social lives – but all other aspects of our lives, including government, politics, economics and military.
In Islamism, the West stopped being a model worth emulating and became a punching bag on which Islamist movements blamed our failure.
Islamism argued that our countries were not backward because we didn’t emulate the West enough, but because we imitated the West too much.
We had abandoned our orthodox Islamic creed, under pressure from the imperial West, whose plan was to make us abandon our religion and spread its own – materialism and Christianity.
To fix our countries and beat the West, Islamism said that we had to revive Islam the exact same way it was practiced in the seventh century, when our civilisation had enjoyed a golden age that endured until Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798.
Eradicating Western influences and replacing them with “authentic” nativist Islamism was exactly where our Middle Eastern backwardness met Western academic fantasies.
Leading the Left, Western academia called for breaking the establishment everywhere and replacing it with native, even if rudimentary, social and political systems.
The Left saw Islamism as authentic and unadulterated by White European colonialism.
To push for progress, the Middle East had to decolonized and Islamism restored.
Western Progressives were, in effect, promoting conservative ideologies, an irony that most of them seem to have missed.
A Muslim-born anti-traditionalist Arab, like me, is considered Left and Progressive in any Muslim country.
Breaking with Islamic tradition and calling for the endorsement of Enlightenment ideas, such as liberty and equality, mean that I am pushing for change.
But in America, it is people like Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who – with her hijab – celebrates a conservative Islamic code and is labeled Progressive.
For disagreeing with her hijab, Progressives in the West call me Conservative.
This brings us to Arab and Muslim immigrants in the West.
While growing up in the Middle East, we looked up to these immigrants, saw them successful and Westernized.
Today, under the influence of Islamism, they appear to have become ashamed of their Westernisation, especially when they visit home.
They often try to prove that they have not forgotten their roots, their customs, or social traditions, which include political beliefs.
This is why Arab and Muslim immigrants in the West now endorse the most radical and conservative of Islamist ideologies.
The same Arab and Muslim immigrants, who left their homeland to flee tyranny and failing government, are now cheering for the same tyrants that they left behind seeking better lives.
Given praise they receive from Progressives, standing against democracy becomes a double prize for many Arabs and Muslims in the West: Loved in the old homeland, and acting like the poster children for authenticity and diversity in their new countries.
What Arab or Muslim would not take such a win-win, support-Hamas, deal?
Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). He tweets at @hahussain
Yes, Muddy, we are in safe hands, aren’t we?
Police have launched a critical incident investigation after an officer was struck by a flash bang grenade at a Goulburn training facility.
What is it with flash bangs & the plod.
The video of the NSW plod in a Lindt Cafe showed that throwing flash bangs is not something they do well.
Meat is murder.
Cigarette style warning labels could reduce people’s meat consumption (via Phys.org, 31 Oct)
Certainly puts my appetite off. In other news SBS has gotten a case of ethical advertising disease.
No betting, booze or burgers while watching strange ethnic movies? What a downer!
How many mad Man Monis extremists are being “fostered” in Australia?
When I was driving to work this AM a car in front of me had a palestinian flag on it with the “river to the sea” line. I’m due for a new car in January and was tempted to accidentally run up his a$$.
Not sure why a “town” has a flag.
Anthony Albanese on Wednesday told reporters the government would “examine the ruling and respond appropriately.”
“Quite clearly, there was an issue with the former government’s legislation, which is what this ruling relates to but when it comes to the legal consequences, will seek advice,” he said.
The Libs really had the worst luck with their Solicitors-General.
It’s almost like they were being sabotaged at every turn.
Lysander, political conservatives without a religion may be more common than many would suspect.
We Muslims did not eat pork or drink alcohol.0
My ex Iranian Muslim Employee and Friend, likes Bacon & Pork Ribs, drinks beer & loves Red Wine – as he reminds me
Does Shiraz wine come from Iran?
By Anahita Shams
BBC Persian
Until the Islamic revolution, Iran had a tradition of wine-making which stretched back centuries. It centred on the ancient city of Shiraz – but is there a connection between the place and the wine of the same name now produced and drunk across the world?
“I remember my father bringing in the grapes and putting them in a big clay vat,” says California-based wine-maker Darioush Khaledi, recalling his childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran.
“I would climb on top and smell and enjoy the wine.”
Darioush’s family was from Shiraz, a fabled city in south-western Iran, whose name was once synonymous with viticulture and the poetry and culture of wine.
He remembers happy evenings when the family would gather, sipping wine from clay cups, and reciting lines from the 14th Century Persian poet Hafez.
“It wasn’t just about drinking wine,” he says. “It was an adventure.”
The world Darioush remembers came to an end in 1979 when Iran’s new Islamic rulers banned alcohol.
They shut down wineries, ripped up commercial vineyards and consigned to history a culture stretching back thousands of years.
The official government of Yemen is the Saudi-backed Sunni one. The capital is Aden.
There is no such thing as “Islamism.”
This is a weasel word invented to allow people to comment on Islamic terrorism without offending Muslims.
Muslim murderers are orthodox adherents in good standing.
‘Culture shock’: Photo of $15,000 bike left unattended in Singapore goes viral
A tourist’s simple photo of a bike has been viewed one million times, with internet users blown away by the “ultimate culture shock”.
An American tourist has gone viral online after expressing disbelief at the sight of a $US15,000 ($24,000) road bike left unattended on the street in Singapore.
“The ultimate Singapore culture shock: a $15k bike left unattended,” Nick Whitaker wrote on X, sharing a photo of a yellow Pinarello Dogma F12 leaning against a wall next to a coffee shop.
The post has been viewed one million times on the platform since Monday, with users highlighting the obvious contrast in crime rates between Singapore and the United States.
Singapore, an island nation home to 5.6 million people, is notoriously tough on even petty crime and as a result has some of the lowest crime rates in the world.
In 2021, Singapore was ranked third in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Safe Cities Index, behind Copenhagen and Toronto, although the authors noted in terms of crime rates Singapore scored equal best next to Tokyo and Osaka.
Mr Taylor claimed crime was “virtually non-existent in Singapore” due to “extremely strong deterrence … coupled with care about who they let in the country” that had created a “remarkably safe country with a pervasive, productively law-abiding culture”.
Many users questioned why Singapore could control crime while the US struggled. “About a month [ago] in Singapore, a woman left an expensive bag on an outdoor table to hold it,” commented travel writer Charlie Hub.
“She then went into the McDonald’s at Raffles City Mall to order. My old NYC brain realised what had been out of place. I no longer needed my urban danger vigilance. It was a deeply cathartic experience.”
One X user argued “this should be the norm everywhere” and “anything less is a policy failure”, while another agreed “we could have this here too”.
“This is the type of ordinary, first-world behaviour that surprises Americans because their country has fallen so low, that the concept of civility is outlandishly incomprehensible to them,” one person wrote.
Another said, “Aspiring to this level of law and order should be like aspiring to clean drinking water: obvious and uncontroversial. Tolerating routine crime and disorder is like tolerating a poisoned water supply.”
I like both Singapore & Japan, and I see Osaka is up there as well -My Wife on her first trip to Japan, on final day in Osaka went out of Hotel with her sister for breakfast & when she returned to Hotel before checking out to go to Airport, discovered she did not have her purse – Rang me in Panic, I said go back to where you had Breakfast – sure enough Lady who served her was holding her purse for her to come back and collect
One of my Staff on secondment to Japan in the 90s left an expensive camera on Tokyo Bus & was it returned to him
That’s a pretty poor hot take.
America lost the PR war, Nixon bombed Hanoi into submission and the South Vietnamese were under resourced and perhaps too corrupt for Vietnamisation to work.
America won most battles fought, Tet tactically failed, etc. The Ho Chi Minh trail became a shooting gallery for air power.
If you took out McNamara’s morons and exchanged that manpower for platforms and munitions it could have been an overall tactical victory for the West.
It amazes me even after the Vietnamese archives have been opened up, that people are reading the script that Gen Giap would hope they’d read.
From the Oz. Apologies if this has been posted already. I am utterly speechless.
In the Cold War it was Aden that was capital of the Marxist-Leninist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen supported by the Soviets, and Sana?a was capital of North Yemen, which was then an Arab republic (the Arabs having staged a coup). Now it’s reversed with the north being Shi’a and the south Sunni Arab. It’d make sense then to go back to North Yemen (Shi’a) and South Yemen (Sunni) along Cold War borders. That’d probably solve the current war. But since the Shi’a and Sunnis have been fighting like hyenas for 1,300 years it seems unlikely. Wikis:
Yemen Arab Republic
South Yemen
And I don’t have a prob with that.
The only issue was a conservative making fun of those that do, seems both counter intuitive and counter productive!!!
I had no idea the Saudis chose who is the official government of Yemen in the midst of a civil war. Still, according to the map on Wiki, Aden is held by the secessionist STC.
“Muslim murderers are orthodox adherents in good standing.”
Yep, it’s all sanctioned in the Koran and Hadith.
It’s an hour-long interview from 2011 but the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef’s conversion from son of Hamas founder to (disowned) Christ-follower is amazing.
https://youtu.be/uVXJ3MfaNqY?si=UP5PcTjIBlQrsaPo
Again, apologies if already posted. Oh, the ironing!
https://www.drive.com.au/news/viral-video-diesel-generator-powering-nrma-ev-chargers/?utm_source=Nine-Rail&utm_medium=Referral
I’d like to join a club or organisation that helps big nose mo bros to reach paradise. Where do I sign up? Since they are so keen to go there they must have run some advertising on the box or in newspapers. Only trying to help. I’m good like that.
It’s the official UNSC position Dover. The Houthis only exist because Iran has been backing them substantially, and because the Saudi army is hopeless.
It would be nice if the Sunnis and Shias’s concentrated on terminating each other and left the rest of the world out of it.
200%
Know lotsa conservatives without any religious beliefs (adherence to traditional ceremonies =/= “belief”)
Heck, that’d be most of my home district.
Rarely, perhaps not ever, heard religious publicly mocked.
Notable exceptions: Those for whom adherence to their religion causes them to bulldoze their previous civic/social life.
Usually this is a later-in-life full immersion baptism pentecostal or evangelical clan/cult with strict rules.
Trump.
Can’t be any clearer.
If only those palis hadn’t danced on the streets when Maggie T’s passing was announced.
🙂
I wonder if the terrorist scumbag is being invited to stay at the useless fffin judges place? FMD
Re “cockney” accents, shirley the bloke arrested was a Scot.
Regardless, the arrest was a monumental disgrace.
In a sane world people would be arrested just for the stupidity of this sentence.
Oops, problem with the UNSC link, I’ll try this one instead. Follow the “resolution” hyperlink.
Yep that works.
I take your point about anti-theists. But atheists can be conservative, respect the power and contributions of religious belief, not be Dawkins-style proselytisers (or twats scoffing about “sky fairies”) – without necessarily being garden variety morons.
The missing bit can be faith, not IQ.
They repelled a conventional invasion from the North in 1972. The North lost upwards of 100,000 men and HALF their tanks and artillery.
I am not religious, but I would take $1.01 that there is a God/Creator etc.
My father-in-law is a posh conservative chap from Brighton. He’s a hard core atheist. He was raised in a god bothering religious family.
Loonies have stormed Richard Marles office. Most interesting thing to have happened in Geelong since the Pyramid collapse. The thing I love about the ALP is all the racial healing…..
The light towers going up at Kardinia Park was pretty exciting.
Sounds like some good ol’ “Hi-Alanism”.
Am I a bad person for laughing out loud after reading that? Presumably they aren’t conservative anti-theists.
Funny line from an episode of Fauda series two after the team discover they’re now up against some fanatical hamarsed yoof fluent in the Abrahamic language:
“What – those assholes are now speaking Hebrew?”
The decision was 6-1, which suggests there is a real problem with the drafting of the law.
An old Spectator article. Still IMO relevant.
Dawkins, Deism and Jesus
Have we seen any photos yet of G@z@n casualties (not in shrouds) other than fit, military-age men?
I don’t doubt there have been females/elderly/young children killed, but the more ‘popular’ images of identifiable human casualties see to be likely/possible militia types.
Americans look at this bloke and go, oh f*ck! His gone 5:58 since then.
The last time in the States he broke the World record with the Noonan boys. I’ll post that again in minute.
This car is legend.
ZAPS RAT DOORSLAMMER RUNS AN INSANE 5.68 @ 258MPH
Roger was the drafting of the law done deliberately bad. Things like that don’t happen by accident. This is why the law must be written in plain English for all to see and the intent spelled out first. The law is only written for lawyers and those able to avoid it.
Singapore laws – I remember hearing about a law in Singapore against peeing in a lift .. but just looked online and apparantly all lifts have urine detectors these days.
Is that correct, couldn’t confirm it was in Australian lifts, but it might be
The lift stops and can only be restarted and the perpetrator released by someone with the correct access – amazing
What a time to be alive
I meant the claim to have launched “massive attacks against the Zionist entity”.
Hence the reference to Comical Ali.
Their path is standard for the past 1500 years and can be predicted exactly. But our plods, politicians, lawyers, magistrates and judges have not woken up.
Abdul Nacer Benbrika: Terror leader’s Aussie citizenship win
Q.E.D.
The bloke from Perth.
Blown Doorslammer World Record – John Zappia and Noonan Racing
If I could condense the New Testament and teachings of Jesus into a short sentence, it would be thus:
“Keep it real, moth……ers”
When faced with the question of whether a government’s actions are best explained by a conspiracy or incompetence, the law of parsimony dictates that one should opt for incompetence in the first instance, unless and until credible evidence to the contrary comes to light.
I doubt that too many are yearning for Abdul Benbrika to remain in our bosom, or going ‘well, of course, only a judge, a learned judge, can sort out whether he’s remained compliant with his citizenship pledge‘.
Stupidracist thought, but I’m tempted to think we might have dodged a bullet with the Referendum result. Yes, you want laws to work consistently, but you also want them to reflect what ‘we the people’ actually want.
The A-G responsible was Brandis.
Q: Why do pooves, lesbies and other qwerty people now feel it’s safe to go to Gaza?
A: Because there’s no roofs left to be thrown off from!
Hahahaha!
Wall Street Journal
The ARC conference in London has certainly attracted some high profile thinkers.
Andrew Bolt been interviewing people from the event and been some articles in the Australian from people at the event.
However there are some on Twitter casting doubts on the event with some saying it is a Trojan horse or WEF 2.0.
The money behind it is clearly the owners of GB News who are also apparently interested in buying UK Daily Telegraph.
The money involved in arranging this event is very big 1500 attending.
Topher Field of Aussie Wire, Rebekah Barnett and Rushkan clearly been sponsored to the event and giving it good coverage on Twitter. Avi is also there.
“And if someone says “Gas Hamas” what would the penalty be?”
I suspect the “best” reaction would be to say “Crusade!” – if, as they say in the UK, “jihad” has multiple meanings, then certainly “crusade” also has multiple meanings/usages.
Another one of the Iron Laws.
Incompetence runs true; as a general rule, whenever the self-serving, semi-malevolent clown circus of government attempts conspiracy – it ends up in the ditch because incompetence.
Ye neither they nor Jordan will allow Gazan civilians to evacuate into their territory, thus giving the IDF the freedom to act without restriction against Hamas.
“Andrew Bolt been interviewing people from the event and been some articles in the Australian from people at the event.”
Has Bolt interviewed Mark Latham yet?
I’m glad ARC has invited Latham, they’re clearly not cowards like Sky and Blot.
Mother Lode
Nov 1, 2023 11:36 AM
Now that’s what I call a ‘clue bat’.
Excellent post, ML.
My youtube feed is full of the different speeches and panels, this morning I listened to JBP, Ayaan, John Anderson and Oz G? ( who I was not aware of), very sound discussions.
Albernes said he was bringing in 400,000 immigrants . Have we been told who they are .We know they are here. The fact that Benbrika has surfaced we can now presume exactly who Albernerse has brought in. We can now wonder no longer how Albanese was so sure he would get his Yes Voice through referendum in the same manner.
Muddy I’ve seen an unpixelated photo of those six toddlers on a gurney (on twitter) taken from their feet rather than their heads.
Trust me, they were real.
I don’t think they were all killed at the same time, because iirc the claim was they were all in the home of the senior female hamas that the Israelis killed.
A couple had bandaged heads, one I wish they had bandaged his/her poor little head.
Also don’t know if they were killed by ‘friendly” fire or the IDF.
Also seen a couple of other photos of badly burnt Gazan children with missing limbs in a hospital, possibly from the fire in the same hospital car park.
I imagine these kind of images are being widely circulated in the muslim world but they don’t last long on westen social media.
I’m taking it as read there are many civilian casualties in Gaza but staged photos, short films, of undamaged looking bloody children being cradled in arms are considered better by the propaganda machine because western media simply won’t publish dead baby porn.
Konstantin Kisin was very entertaining.
Correct Roger because once out they won’t go back, and who could blame them.
Gaza City, home to over a million, is being pulverised, that realistically means years before people can go back.
The Mail has an article where a “Clinical Psychologist”, puts forward his reasons for the murder of Lillie James. Lillie was tragically beaten to death by her psychotic ex-boyfriend at the school where she she taught.
The head-doc, obviously trying for some free advertising, is giving pointers on what to look for in a partner to, hopefully, stop him from killing you!
What has drawn my rage, is this line by said head-doc, “He believes Thijssen, 24, snapped when Ms James, 21, jilted him after just five weeks”
Lillie didn’t JILT the psycho boyfriend, she broke up with him after a few weeks because she realised the relationship wasn’t for her. The word JILT, means reneging on a promise. To Lillie, the relationship had run its course. But, head-doc can’t resist having a dig at the dead woman, apportioning some of the blame for her own murder on the victim. She can’t answer back, can she?
I have no reason to hate Jews/Hebrews. I love Seinfeld and Harry Sheezel who won B&F in first season from being drafted. That is next level. But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider.
ZK2A I earnestly recommend ‘The Destroying Angel’ by Brett Gibbons. Or you can get the guts of his revisionist view on the rifle musket in the American Civil War on YouChoob.
All his work in books or videos is great; I have gone down some the experimental route but he has done so much!
Lyrics for a tribute video I just stumbled upon on Youtube.
Teenager apparently coward-punched outside of a bar in the U.S. in 2021. Fell, hit his head, brain bleed, gone.
You never know the full story, but if as stated above … Sobering.
Albernes said he was bringing in 400,000 immigrants . Have we been told who they are
Students mostly.
And temporary workers.
Oops. Twenty-three year.
Still…
Great. Graeme Bird has multiple accounts now.
I’m not Bird. Good old know all pompous Dot. Some things never change.
Miss Louk is already dead by the time of her arrival in Gaza. She was gang-raped so vigorously that back at the festival site she left a piece of her skull, from which the authorities identified her.
OK, I’m going to bite.
It’s not as if the overwhelming fog-of-war is most definitely NOT producing mega-tonnes of BS from both sides.. but:
1. How does gang-roping pulverise a skull to such an extent as to produce residual fragments?
2. How were they able to DNA identify this woman? Where had she previously offered tissue for DNA typing? (If the IDF had the body, why the need for DNA typing?)
Nothing I have read clarifies any of this.
(Just like X (Twatter), where 99.9% of Ukes and Gaza-Israel claims are simply overt BS.)
Maybe more astute Cats can link the chapter and verse that show this claim to be true.
Around 95% of the 400 or 500k this year will be permanent immigrants – lets not pretend that most of that group would come here if there was no free residence coupon attached to the crappy english or business studies course.
But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider.
Because they’re fuking muslims you fuking moron. Muslims hate everyone. They’re just starting with the Jews.
I’d prefer to drink a beer and chew the fat with Bird than you, little dotty.
Walter Kirn
@walterkirn
No one wants to see college students (& everyone else) be free to speak their minds more than I
Here’s the rub
They’ve led the way, with their teachers & anti-disinfo institutes etc, in establishing illiberal values society-wide
So be free, yes, but remember who kept the lights on for you
But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider.
I would suggest that most readers of this blog have indeed put a great deal of consideration into this issue. Cats are amongst the most informed contributors to public discourse that you will encounter.
I would suggest that the majority of contributors have a clear understanding of the historical claims made over this part of the Middle East and the political settlements that have been made.
As for the “hatred” towards Israel – I would further suggest that in the Middle East hatreds are pretty widespread. Israel is despised by many Islamists not simply because of its occupation of what was once called “the holy land”, but because it is an eminently successful nation that leads the world in many technologies and has an outstanding GDP. And that is without taking into consideration the religious aversion of Islamists towards Jews.
BTW the fact that your neighbours want your land and possessions suggests “hatred” is not the only explanation.
But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider.
F*ck.
Me.
Dead.
Thanks Vicki. Good too see someone give a considered opinion.
“Consider.”
Okay, and I’ve considered that you are an anti-Semitic troll.
It’s full of Collingwood supporters?
Its inhabitants are left-handed, and/or rangas?
It has better lawn bowls facilities?
You can buy guinea pigs cheaper there?
Truly, a question for the ages.
Oh. Hang on.
“Great. Graeme Bird has multiple accounts now.”
Dunno if he’s Bird but one thing is for sure, he’s a first-rate creep.
I’m not a troll Cassie. Just looking for a bit more robust discussion, Otherwise we might as well be a pack of Leftoids that all agree about everything. Echo chamber etc
I’ll say this about Bird, he’s an entertaining anti-Semite, “Zafiro” is not entertaining.
I’m not anti-Semite you cretin. Just looking for some discussion and debate that isn’t a one-way street.
Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 1, 2023 12:36 PM
Meat is murder.
What are the Greenies going to do when Researchers from the University of “Somewhere or Other” tell them that vegetables and fruits have feelings too and don’t like to be eaten.
The mind boggles with the way this crazy World is going.
TheBlaze
@theblaze
Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan: “The degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public. It was a state publication. Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats.”
https://x.com/theblaze/status/1719438646829269355?s=20
Remember when mob spokesman initially said there was no suppression?
But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider. They don’t all hate Israel. I’ve worked in most of these countries with the locals. Certainly the mullas and imams push the Muslimlands and the “remember Khaybar” Friday sermon BS, broadcast at full volume so all the Farangi get to hear it. But I found plenty of Arabs that admire Israel and the Jews. In Jordan, Saudi, UAE and others.
“I’m not anti-Semite you cretin. Just looking for some discussion and debate that isn’t a one-way street.”
Yes you are, writing offensive bullshit such as “But you must consider why everyone in that part of the world hate Israel. Consider.”
PISS OFF.
“In Jordan, Saudi, UAE and others.”
And in Iran. The tragedy with Iran is that most Iranians like Israel and Israelis.
If we are to consider hatred in that part of the world, let’s first consider why the Sunni and Shia have hated each other for so many centuries and with such deep passion.
Then find the common denominator.
Just to add. My only thoughts on all this is to get the rich Arabs countries and Israel to develop the Gaza area. Unrealistic perhaps, but get rid of all the NGOs, the UN and any ‘humanitarian’ groups. They just help the local mafia – Hamas
There was a plan to connect, by rail, the UAE with Amman in Jordan to create an internal port. Goods are transported to Dubai ( from India and the like) and then travel by rail to the Meditareanan and across to Europe. Gaza is well situated for this. It was to be in competition with the Chinese Belt and Road. The Saudis were already building the railway. I don’t know what came of it.
Cassie I regard Mark Steyn as the preeminent commentator on world affairs. Is humourous as well in his delivery if the issue warrants.
“Interestingly, while for the last 14 years, Iceland has been ranked as the world’s most gender-equal country by the World Economic Forum, the pay gap between the median earnings of women relative to the median earnings of men there is 21% – indicating that the world still has a long way to go in achieving gender equality.”
Can we get the stats broken down by job – you know, doctor, plumber etc.
I would guess there is no difference at that level – the difference is that women generally prefer “people” jobs (nurse, counselor, child minder etc) and men generally prefer “things” jobs (engineer, mechanic, plumber etc), and that there are many more jobs for the latter and many more applicants for the former. So it’s just supply and demand – male nurses and female engineers get the same money as their opposite sex counterparts do.
Yup, we’re just poor tax payers who fund these public “servants”.
Dozens of Commonwealth Games fat cats were pocketing gold medal taxpayer-funded salaries with ten earning more than $300,000 and one pulling in at least $500,000.
The pay packets for 32 executives leading Victoria’s 2026 Commonwealth Games have been blasted as “extravagant” by the opposition which described them as emblematic of Labor waste that helped doom the event.
The Commonwealth Games annual report tabled in parliament on Wednesday reveals the overall annual cost of employing the executives soared through $11m by June 30.
Oz
Yes Zatara Like Catholics and Protestants.
Hamas – not our responsibility to protect Gazan civilians.
This is all you need to know.
https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1718988399057551639