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Intrepid journo says Dutton will never be PM.
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Need to add Korea to Shoeless inside
Introduction
Koreans have a unique custom of taking their shoes off at the door. This is not only practiced in Korean households but also in public places like schools, hospitals, and offices. The practice of removing shoes is deeply ingrained in Korean culture and is considered a sign of respect, cleanliness, and hospitality.
Cultural Significance of Removing Shoes in Korea
In Korea, the practice of removing shoes has been a tradition for centuries. According to Korean etiquette, entering someone’s home with shoes on is considered impolite and disrespectful.
It is believed that shoes bring in dirt and negative energy from outside, which disrupts the harmony and cleanliness of the home.
Hygiene and Health Benefits of Removing Shoes
Removing shoes at the door is not only a cultural norm but also a hygienic practice.
Shoes carry bacteria, germs, and other harmful microorganisms that can spread diseases. By removing shoes at the door, Koreans prevent the spread of germs and keep their homes clean and healthy.
Importance of Cleanliness in Korean Culture
Cleanliness is an essential part of Korean culture. Koreans take pride in maintaining hygiene and cleanliness in all aspects of their lives. Removing shoes at the door is just one example of how Koreans prioritize cleanliness and hygiene.
Respect for Elders and Ancestors
In Korean culture, elders and ancestors hold a significant place of respect. Removing shoes at the door is considered a way to show respect to ancestors who have passed away. It is believed that removing shoes before entering the house shows that one is leaving behind any negativity or bad luck outside.
The Role of Traditional Korean Flooring
Traditional Korean homes are built with ondol, a type of underfloor heating system. Ondol requires people to remove their shoes before entering the house to prevent damage to the floor. Korean flooring is made of natural materials like wood, bamboo, and paper, which can be easily damaged by shoes.
Shoe Storage in Korean Homes
Koreans have a designated area to store shoes outside the house called a “shoe cabinet.” Shoe cabinets are usually placed near the entrance of the house and have multiple compartments for different types of shoes. This ensures that shoes remain organized and do not clutter the entrance.
The Role of Slippers in Korean Culture
After removing shoes, Koreans wear slippers inside their homes. Slippers are provided for guests as well to ensure that they feel comfortable and welcomed. Wearing slippers also prevents slipping on polished floors and keeps feet warm during the winter.
Shoe Removal in Public Places
Removing shoes in public places like schools or hospitals is a common practice in Korea. In these places, people wear special indoor shoes that are kept separate from outdoor shoes. This prevents dirt and germs from outside being brought indoors.
Global Influence of Korean Shoe Removal
The practice of removing shoes at the door has gained global recognition in recent years. Many cultures around the world have adopted this practice as a way to maintain hygiene and cleanliness inside homes.
Conclusion
The custom of removing shoes at the door is deeply ingrained in Korean culture and represents respect, cleanliness, and hospitality. This practice has been passed down through generations and continues to be an essential cultural norm in modern-day Korea.
Birds in the United States and Canada will no longer be named after people because the previous selection process was “clouded by racism and misogyny”, the American Ornithological Society has announced.
Australia to follow suit and recognise modern Australia. The Bush Turkey will be renamed the Tony Burke,The Galah will be renamed the Albo and the old crow will be renamed the Marcia Langton, .
Hezbollah also needs to watch its pennies.
Even though it’s well funded by Iran, unlike Hamas which anyone can effectively transfer funds to, Hezbollah has been de-banked since 2017.
Thanks to the efforts of Richard Grenell & Donald Trump.
Hezbollah still gets money but good luck getting a visa to a range of countries if you use one of their remaining cutouts.
Meanwhile in Canberra the druggie capital of Australia….
A 43-year-old woman has been charged after allegedly running onto the tarmac and under a plane at Canberra Airport on Wednesday evening (1 November).
Footage shared to social media shows the woman – wearing black pants, slippers and a jacket – approaching the front wheel and cockpit of a QantasLink plane and trying to get the pilot’s attention.
The plane was reportedly bound for Adelaide, and witnesses claim the woman was trying to get the pilot to let her board.
After a brief time watching the plane, the video ends with her walking back towards the airport to the soundtrack of blaring alarms.
She was taken into custody by the Australian Federal Police at 7:30 pm that day, and charged with two counts of damaging property, one count of entering a security zone without permission and one count of possessing a small quantity of cannabis.
She was taken for a mental health assessment and refused bail. She’s due to appear in court today (3 November).
Simon Hales, who witnessed the incident from inside the airport, described it as “a little different”.
“… a lady who had clearly missed her flight decided she could still catch it,” he posted to Facebook on Wednesday.
“Pushed past the staff at the door and ran down onto the tarmac and ran up to the plane. Literally standing underneath it next to the front wheel. Lucky the pilot was warned or spotted her and killed the engine. She then came back into the gate and ran out the door.”
Flights at the airport were delayed for about 10 minutes.
Why do people bite on the Waleed theatre?
They would have already mapped it out over the next week.
“Waleed gets backlash from barefeet comments”.
Then they’ll move to some made up racists.
Finally, the backlash is because of Islamaphobia.
The cherry on top will be along the lines of Waleed saying leave my family alone.]
Then Albo saying he stands will Waleed.
Watch it happen.
Qantas has slumped behind arch-rival Virgin on all measures of brand trust, pride, “love”, value and transparency, damning confidential figures presented to senior managers show, revealing the extent of damage to the airline’s reputation this year.
Bit hard to believe afte reading yesterday about the vast number of passengers dudded by the Virgin “bankruptcy” with the new mob thumbing their noses at anyone who was left out of pocket over tickets/ loyalty programmes ect …. only the “big” players got anything out of the receivers handout(s) ……….
anyone who was left out of pocket over tickets/ loyalty programmes ect
Virgin honoured every point in their velocity program.
And did not give them an effective haircut when they were re-capped.
Popped into The Duck (people in the Mosman area know the place)* where they have taken to asking me for what scotches to get in.
Last week I suggested Aberlour – I prefer less peaty scotches as weather warm weather and fruitier Speysides. But I did cation against the cask strength because it is…well…cask strength.
Well, for whatever reason that was the one they got. The A’bunadh. 120 proof. 60% alc/vol. Happily I was on hand for the inaugural serve, and able to warn that this cask strength was meant to be diluted. So now they can earn customers who might be otherwise taking their luck.
It was ver nice, very smooth, and you could easily pick out the fruity sherry-cask flavours which you would not get otherwise.
I know. I tried it once without dilution and found it so unpalatable I tipped the bottle out.
The price of naïveté.
* I would note that in these relaxed environs Messrs Johnny Walker Red and Black are not to be seen.
“My money’s on Ronnie RAAF. 0830 to 1500, weekdays only, two hour lunch break and public holidays off. Airconditioned offices only.”
When one first enters the Theatre of Operations, one can but hope for the best.
I had my fair share of terror, let me tell you.
After a few hours of looking for “other ranks” to chide, over their uniform or length of hair, we would all retire to the Combined Officers’ Mess overlooking K4.
Do you remember it? What service did you say you were with?
It was occasionally a very sticky affair, thanks to ham fisted ironing of my first batman.
Odious man with an Irish name, from the western suburbs somewhere. Couldn’t iron a seam to save himself, so I naturally had him replaced.
Once the replacement arrived, I cautioned him, to “learn nothing from that Irishman” and thankfully he was much better.
After about 7.00 pm, as you would recall, the fighting died down enough for the stewards to serve dinner. The Krug was always acceptable and surprisingly, the Beluga was usually good. We had a C5 on call to do the Europe run for food, of course. Twice a week, as I recall. Odessa-Marseilles-Rome-Mogadishu.
Well, the troops have to be well fed.
Beef Wellington and Cassoulet were both acceptable, but sometimes other choices were barely fit for the other ranks.
One evening I recall, as we were entertaining some of the British Airways Hostesses, over from Nairobi, the steward had the gaul to tell me, in front of a guest mind you, that the Chateau Laffitte ’68 was off the list!
Well, I can tell you, he got 30 days picket duty pdq, for failing in his job. Imagine.
After a meal, as you would recall, ……, sorry what service were you with?, ….., anyway we would hop into the sedan chairs, that the amah’s always complained about, lazy devils, and be delivered back to our quarters. The odd thrashing, kept them in line.
I recall one evening, with two lovelies in tow, my quarters had not been refurbished.
Well, you can imagine my embarrassment, but luckily, the game of “Cavalry” proceeded apace.
As for air-conditioning, well, of course we had none.
We relied solely on the amah, to gently wave the fan above us.
So, ……, don’t tell me about the difficulties of war.
Probably, the worst thing about the war, was putting up with the appalling Naval Officers.
Very lower deck, some of them.
The “lower classes” have not lost their moral clarity.
If you mean those who have a basic education & work to support themselves and their family:
I have always maintained that they possess the best “BS detectors” in the land. It was these people who protested against mandated vaccination in such huge numbers in Canberra.
There are many leftards calling for Marcia Langton to be our next Governor-General.
Bloody hell! .. last Monday the odds were on the “gucci gnome” scoring the job so I’m plonking for “the turtle” to come next then “the chap” followed by “plus-I=suk” before we get to round to “willy”
“Billy” must be luvvin’ this .. before Luigi’s ascension he was the most despised pollie the Liars had now he’s dropped to 4th place, putting him back in with a chance ….. Chloe’s the happiest .. she’s still got the curtain measurements ..!
Fond memories of Fraser Island 4WD Driving
DESTINATIONS – BUSH CHARACTERS, YARNS & POETRY
THE DUNNY RUN
Bush Poetry by Verna McKenzie
Drive 200 metres to the nearest dunny?
Well, some might think that’s kind of funny!
But chaps of decorum and a sense of pride,
Think nothing of it and are glad of the ride.
While others, like me, aren’t so fussy you see,
We dig in the sand for a poo and a wee!
It’s therapeutic under a sighing She Oak tree,
Quietly communing with nature, quite naturally.
But perhaps when I can’t find a loo with a view,
I’ll hitch a ride with the Boys to the Public one too !!
-real estate agencies being inundated with beach house owners looking to off load,
On the other hand, small farms increasingly sought over within driving distance from capital cities – at least in our experience. Lots of city folk with funds looking for a retreat as things get worse.
Some weird fetishes about shoes on display.
As a kid, I only wore shoes to school and when compelled to, like visiting my parents’ friends. And it was not because my parents couldn’t afford them. I just hated them, and my soles were capable of walking over oyster shells on the rocks without me feeling a twinge.
That never changed. I only ever wear shoes when I have to, never at home (thick socks or slippers in winter.)
Admittedly, I have bad feet, and finding tolerably comfortable ones has always been a challenge.
Still, Wally’s diatribe is amusing, because the largest group of barefooters in public in my experience is Aborigines, followed by surfers.
Not sure they were his intended targets. 🙂
We let customers down’: Qantas chairman Richard Goyder and CEO Vanessa Hudson issue apologies at airline’s AGM
The Qantas chairman and chief executive officer have both issued apologies at the airline’s AGM and conceded the carrier had got a number of things wrong in recent times.
Bryant Hevesi – Digital Reporter
Qantas has continued its damage control after a tumultuous few months by issuing a series of apologies at the airline’s annual general meeting.
Both chairman Richard Goyder and chief executive Vanessa Hudson acknowledged before shareholders the carrier had made a number of missteps in recent times.
Mr Goyder on Friday said the airline’s “post-COVID return to flying was a lot more challenging than expected” and conceded Qantas “had let customers down”.
Qantas has endured a turbulent period, fuelled by anger over flight credits and the High Court upholding a decision that the airline illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs.
The ACCC has also launched legal action against Qantas, alleging it engaged in false, misleading or deceptive conduct by advertising flights already cancelled.
Mr Goyder, who announced last month he would retire at next year’s AGM, said he wanted to begin his speech to shareholders by “speaking plainly about the recent past”.
“It’s clear there’s been a substantial loss of trust in the national carrier and we understand why,” he said.
“There are things we got wrong, there are things we could’ve handled better, and should’ve handled better, things we should’ve fixed faster, and for all those things, we apologise.
“We also acknowledge the impact of the ACCC’s allegations and the High Court decision on the ground handling matter which landed within two weeks of each other.”
The AGM was to mark the official handover of the chief executive role from Alan Joyce to Vanessa Hudson, but he brought forward his retirement to early September.
Ms Hudson, who was elevated to the job after being chief financial officer, spoke of the conversations she had with customers, staff and shareholders since her promotion.
“Reflecting on what I’ve heard, the disappointment and the frustration is clear. As Richard said, there are many things, big and small, that we didn’t get right,” she said.
“And for that, we have sincerely apologised to our customers, our people and today I apologise to you, our shareholders.”
Ms Hudson said she was “determined to make Qantas one of the most trusted brands in the country again”.
“Determined to be the company that you, as owners, are proud of (but) delivers value for stakeholders and gets the balance right,” she added.
“Doing this won’t be easy and it will take time. But I’m confident we’ll succeed because of the incredible passion our people have for Qantas and what it has long represented.”
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– Thank goodness this article didn’t refer to Qantas as “the national carrier”; it is just another business beholden to its shareholders, and has been for quite some time.
As for rebuilding trust, well that was so easily squandered.
It took 20 years to kill off a good reputation; you can bet it will take much longer to build it back up.
Call me cynical, but I can’t see that happening.
Removing shoes in public places like schools or hospitals is a common practice in Korea. In these places, people wear special indoor shoes that are kept separate from outdoor shoes. This prevents dirt and germs from outside being brought indoors.
Poor Frank Costanza.
Is this because she can sod off somewhere as GG then, in her absence, we become a republic and she can therefore be refused re-entry?
I have had worse ideas.
Have you seen that Tom Hanks movie The Terminal? We could bottle the trout up in the international terminal. Make her terminally terminal.
Just putting it out there.
Having her skulking about claiming sovereignty over seats in the QANTAS lounge, or doing welcomes to country at the entrance to McDonalds (equal to 5% of purchase), or demanding an equal say from the machines that thank you for washing your hands after having a slash.
Little kids are such a hoot. Just got back from a walk with 13 mo. I finished a drink with an exaggerated aaah and put it on the side table then she had a drink, finished with an exaggerated aaah and put it on the side-table.
I came here with no agenda. Just that there are complicated things going on and I cannot understand any of it.
I recall watching a trial. Young Iraqi Jew charged with rape. Context … In Western Australia … His family was all dead and he found refuge in Australia .
The Prosecution played recordings of his Initial interviews. He was barely able to speak English and absolutely terrified. … He would never had imagined that he might have had the right to remain silent.
What had happened to the poor bugger is that he washed up in Australia having been through God Knows What.
It was safe and quiet. A new culture. He discovered Pornography. He went to a TAFE to learn to speak English. He was a handsome young feller and got taken to a bottle Oh by some young Aussie Razorback … They both fell into bed with a bottle of whisky.
…
Prosecution was able to show a box of “stick mags” to the jury …absolutely inadmissible but his Lawyer was a miserable failure ..even the prosecution was apologizing.
Oh and she had and exam the following morning and couldnt make it because she was raped …
Poor bloke was black out drunk.
Fast forward three years to the trial. Now he CAN speak English and is working for the Australian Government as an interpreter …
And scrubbed up quite well … very intelligent… and even though he had no one in Australia to make His case the local Rabbi did.
The bloke was clearly innocent and the Jury only took a coffee and a sneeze to acquit.
Peace … and Justice. but it takes and infrastructure to enable that…
Not a bunch of hot headed doxxers and “shut it all down” … folks… that is why we have Free Speech and civilized discussuion ..
Teal MP Monique Ryan slammed by Jewish school principal for ‘unacceptable’ social media comment about Israel-Hamas war
A principal of a Melbourne Jewish school has sent a scathing two-page letter to Independent MP Monique Ryan, blasting her for highlighting the “intolerable” human suffering in Gaza and not the deaths of civilians in Israel.
Adriana Mageros
Digital Reporter
A principal of a prominent Jewish Zionist school in Melbourne has slammed Kooyong MP Monique Ryan for public comments she has made about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Bialik College Principal Jeremy Stowe-Lindner sent a scathing letter to the Teal MP, accusing her of bias after she expressed concern for the “intolerable” human suffering in Gaza.
Ms Ryan, who is also a paediatric neurologist, had taken to Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday to declare “we have no greater responsibility than protecting our children”.
“As a paediatrician, I find the human suffering in Gaza intolerable,” she said.
“I join my medical colleagues from around the world in calling for a humanitarian pause so that aid can reach people in desperate need.”
In his two-page letter, Mr Stowe-Lindner slammed Ms Ryan’s response as “unacceptable” given there are Jewish families in her electorate who have also lost loved ones during this conflict.
“I write as Principal of the only Jewish school in your electorate, a school with hundreds of children and parents who you represent, and a school which has multiple family members attending, online and in person, funerals of murdered love (sic) ones in Israel,” he said.
“All decent people share your concern for suffering and hope for the conflict to end. No-one wants to see innocents harmed in any way, and in any jurisdiction, even in a war.
“Nevertheless, your response to the suffering only in Gaza is unacceptable.”
The Principal of the Hawthorn school urged the Independent MP to also acknowledge the civilians deaths in Israel after terror group Hamas’ brutal attacks almost three weeks ago.
“Perhaps a reference to the intolerable suffering of the families of 1400 Israeli civilians on October 7 who were murdered, raped, beheaded would be appropriate too?” he said.
“Or to those Jewish families sheltering in bomb shelters from 5000 Hamas rockets in just a few hours on that day who were wiped out through hand grenades being thrown into their shelters?
“Or to that catastrophe as a pogrom, the deadliest day for world Judaism since the Holocaust?”
Mr Stowe-Lindner again claimed she had only highlighted one side of the suffering in Gaza.
“Your use of the word ‘intolerable’ is apt – the blindness of the apparently ethical to the suffering of the one side is indeed intolerable, and something that I am sure the hundreds of Jewish residents in your electorate and other like-minded decent-minded non-Jewish citizens have noticed,” he wrote.
“‘Intolerable’ is the thought that one side – Israel – should pause this war whilst the other side continues to hold hundreds of civilians hostage and rain hundreds of rockets on civilian populations.”
He also claimed Ms Ryan has only made one reference to the “Hamas terrorist death cult” since the October 7 attacks, accusing her of not saying more in commendation of the group.
Ms Ryan has since turned off comments on the post on Twitter and Facebook.
SkyNews.com.au has contacted Ms Ryan for comment.
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– Teals are a scourge to our democracy
– The Teals are an extension of the Labor/Greens .
They are not diplomats just mouth pieces !
What would they know about the Middle East or
the Gaza / Israel issues . Zero .
– God I miss Josh Frydenberg..
– Each of these teal/fake independants have been found out. What a waste of a vote they are. All hypocrites and non performers of the highest level. I really hope their constituents see the light and learn their lesson at the next election. These imposters have con tributed to the disaster our country has been forced to endure since the last election. That said, the Libs need to submit quality authentic Lib candidates in each of their electrorates now, not just before the election, to give them a fair chance of rolling these losers.
– Monique wants the one term in parliament.
– Teal, isn’t that the colour of blue green toxic algae. It’s a shame that there is an algal bloom in our Federal government. I hope they all get flushed away in the next federal election. Useless people.
Growing up in NZ in the 70s twas a shoe free zone (I think still is), until we went formal to jandals (thongs). A friends of mine feet were enormous and toes splayed every which way (no idea how he got into shoes if at all). A teacher looked down one day and cried ‘ Jesus Christ boy, you could land several aircraft on those’. [Back in those days, if this teacher had not made some derogatory comment about your height, weight, limbs, hair, intelligence then you just weren’t in the club.]
Coming to Aus in late 70s – as someone mentioned above bindi-eyes, hot asphalt required footwear of sorts.
Vicki
Nov 3, 2023 2:24 PM
-real estate agencies being inundated with beach house owners looking to off load,
On the other hand, small farms increasingly sought over within driving distance from capital cities – at least in our experience. Lots of city folk with funds looking for a retreat as things get worse.
Vicki,
small farms – no Land tax in NSW
Generally, you do not pay land tax on:
. your home, known as your principal place of residence
. your farm, known as primary production land
. any land you own with total taxable value below the land tax threshold.
Um, how about you go forth and fornicate thyself? Hun:
FMD. Read that penultimate paragraph and phucking weep. Bollocks on stilts doesn’t begin to describe it.
Again illustrates the side that Labor are on. Disgraceful conduct.
Virgin honoured every point in their velocity program.
Damn! .. can’t remember where I read the article but it said Virgin are cancelling any unused pre-bankruptcy stuff including paid tix on December 31, 2023 .. anyone with any unused by then .. tuff titties! ..
The backbone of the story was an OAP, with carer, who used the last of his super, booked 2 business class flights ($A15 000) to USA to see his dying son and never got to fly cos they went broke and has been told no refund but you can still fly .. as he points out, “bit bloody late, now” .. It then went on to everyone else who is/will miss out because of the cut-off date and no cash refunds for anything ………..
Japanese hotels had free slippers, at one we were invited to keep them but I never used them, strictly shoes off when I got in of an evening in tiny Japanese business hotel room but I did see Japanese wearing them around the hotel, mostly in Hiroshima, along with the hotel pyjamas when they were using the male only and female only public baths on the second floor, which were nude bathing only as costumes were considered bad manners.
Each to their own.
the reason the lady can’t use her credit is because Virgin no longer fly to the US.
They should give her a refund.
Three of the most important words to keep our society safe and functioning
“Change my Mind”
‘ow posh!
When I were a kid you woke up and never thought about putting anything on your feet unless and until you were going out into the street, which was the region out front beyond the property line.
We wore thongs going to the shops and such. If we went to a park, then off they came.
Does anyone else remember the thick 1970’s thongs called Mr Fongs which came with a free pair of chopsticks?
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all 7 charges.
Could face 115 years in gaol
Interesting…
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, State Judge William Clark has thrown out the results of the September Democrat primary election and ordered a new primary to be scheduled and conducted [Court Order Here]. The issue was ballot harvesting and ballot fraud – both violations of state law.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/01/connecticut-judge-throws-out-election-results-and-orders-new-primary-after-shocking-evidence-of-democrat-ballot-fraud/
rosie
Nov 3, 2023 2:45 PM
Japanese hotels had free slippers, at one we were invited to keep them but I never used them, strictly shoes off when I got in of an evening in tiny Japanese business hotel room but I did see Japanese wearing them around the hotel, mostly in Hiroshima, along with the hotel pyjamas when they were using the male only and female only public baths on the second floor, which were nude bathing only as costumes were considered bad manners.
Each to their own.
rosie,
I would frighten the heck out of anyone with me in a swimming costume, let alone Nude Bathing in the Japanese Public Baths – Though I do remeber being naked with a decorous small towel in a Korean Bath House
Funny.
Well done, bespoke.
You can watch Hezbollocks leader, Hassan Nasrallah speech here, live in English at 9pm AWST:
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1355890/hezbollah-how-to-follow-hassan-nasrallahs-speech-live-on-friday.html
I’ve been doing some research on Hassan and experts think he’s more moderate when he speaks and to be feared when he doesn’t say anything so, by having an online broadcast, “they” think he’ll condemn Israel but that’ll be it; perhaps give them a warning. To announce war on Israel would be to sign his own death certificate.
Yeah right, he got an APS job after being committed to trial (for RAPE) and waiting three years for the trial and his Rabbi represented him in court.
His name or this is completely made-up BS.
You are willing to make up complete BS because you are an inveterate liar and just want to hate Israel and Jews generally.
Go away, Graeme. Your charade didn’t last long. You do not write like ‘MH” and he does not write like the real MB and neither do you.
You don’t know WTF you are talking about you lying halfwit.
There is nothing complicated. Hamas, like you, hate Jews and you think they shouldn’t have a right to live.
Gay Jews are explaining to the Poofters for Palestine crowd exactly what to expect from their Islamic friends.
Electric car dream flameout: Biden’s bribes still aren’t moving EVs
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times
The last thing consumers want during a time of soaring interest rates and sky-high inflation is an expensive fashion statement.
Electric cars are primarily marketed to individuals anxious that others know they care so deeply about the planet that they’re willing to accept the tradeoffs that come with owning an electric vehicle (EV).
The vast majority of drivers, however, aren’t interested in trading a 5-minute stop for gas for an hours-long roadside charging session.
No wonder General Motors CEO Mary Barra told investors last week she was delaying the launch of big new models like the Chevrolet Equinox EV, the Silverado EV RST and the GMC Sierra EV Denali.
GM also retracted previously proclaimed production targets as overly optimistic.
“We are not providing new targets,” explained GM chief financial officer Paul Jacobson, “but are moving to a more agile approach to continually evaluate EV demand.”
That’s a clever way of pretending that making 2,400 electric Cadillac Lyriq SUVs instead of the 25,000 that had been forecast is all part of the strategy.
It was only last year that the automaker claimed its electric car production would be “solidly profitable” by 2025, touting “software revenue opportunities” and the “positive impacts of new clean energy tax credits.”
By software revenue, some electric car makers have floated the idea of turning optional equipment into recurring subscriptions.
Under this dystopian business model, features like heated seats require a separate monthly payment — something nobody wants.
While the tax credits are attractive, even the $7,500 Uncle Sam is willing to pay the wealthy to go electric isn’t enough to generate momentum.
And that $7,500 figure is just the most visible manifestation of the government’s involvement in the industry.
In May, for instance, state and local authorities in Indiana approved $330 million in tax subsidies for an EV battery factory planned by Ultium Cells, GM’s joint venture with South Korea’s LG.
President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act cut a blank check to the industry with a provision known as “45X” that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates will transfer a stunning $30.6 billion in taxpayer cash into the pockets of EV battery makers.
Industry analysts at Benchmark Source think the total battery subsidy total could be closer to $150 billion.
There’s even $7.5 billion in federal funding to pay for roadside charging stations.
Despite all this, the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated already dismal EV sales would have dropped another 29 percent if the government stopped paying people to buy electric cars.
This is why everything in this country is more expensive these days.
Government is taking billions of dollars from productive citizens and handing it to companies engaged in an unprofitable and unwanted business.
None of this market manipulation is doing anything to benefit the environment.
According to the Energy Information Agency, 78% of America’s power comes from burning fossil fuels or nuclear power. Solar panels account for a bit over 3%.
Twice as many Teslas are powered by burning coal as are powered by windmills, and somehow their owners are still convinced they’re helping save the planet.
The government needs to stop abetting these delusions by exiting the car business.
When automakers can come up with an electric offering that’s attractive to the general public, subsidies won’t be needed to convince the public to buy.
Cheers Delta.
Yeah, Japanese slippers are pretty cool.
What I loved was that even the bathroom (toilet in our lingo) there was a pair so you never had your feet in direct contact with the floor. I remember a (Japanese) friend being utterly aghast that I had not supplied such in my new place.
I had only just moved in. Still, cheaper to buy extra slippers than put friends through therapy.
I also learned how to wear shoes with the laces so loose they were slip-ons, but never got the Japanese habit of actually standing on the backs, flattening them and rendering the shoes slippers.
Despite the Vapours song, I did not turn completely Japanese.
The Joke That is American Justice at Work
Trump Attorney Alina Habba Summarizes Status of New York Case Against Trump Business Organization
November 2, 2023 – Sundance
Everything about the case in New York City against the Trump organization business operations is ridiculous.
There are no victims. There was no fraud. All of the lenders did their own due diligence. All of the loans were paid back without issue and the statement of financial condition was factual and accurate.
Additionally, the statute being used as the predicate for the case is a consumer fraud statute, intended to protect borrowers from predatory lenders.
In the four corners of this case, Trump is the borrower, and the banks were the lenders.
New York is flipping the statute to claim the borrower defrauded the lenders, despite the lenders denying there was any fraud and there was no harm.
The entire case is ridiculous.
In this brief video segment, Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba reviews the current status of the case. WATCH:
That gave me my laugh of the day. Mainstream media has become increasingly irrelevant. I, for one, will enjoy watching them disappear up their own fundament.
Daisy Cousens
The Truth About Hamas
On the other hand, the Jewish people also have their Turkeys for Christmas.
meme-Zelenskyy-USA-Israel
Sorry all, buggered the links. This is the front view of the person demanding a ceasefire.
@Mother Lode
Nov 3, 2023 3:05 PM
I know a little about the Japs .. but far more about the Vietnamese.
I love the way you must take off your shoes in an Asian home … In my case – always huge boots…
It symbolizes respect ..equality ..
Just got back from the shops. I’m in a 40kph zone past schools, here is this arsehole plaincop up my bottom. I could see his lights across the dash and aerials. Sorely tempted to stop. Must be a slow day. Usually the cops leave old blokes alone.
Tom:
If that’s the case, then there is something dreadfully wrong with our tax system that allows such a gross misallocation of valuable capital.
Malcolm Roberts doing stellar work, as usual.
Australia Post Flies in the Face of a Cashless Agenda
@GreyRanga
Nov 3, 2023 3:15 PM
Yup I have been a proffessional driver … courier .. public transport and such.
40 k school zones are so easy to miss … and the rozzers dont like it …
But hey Drive Safe Brother ! The Life you save might just be mine.
If you have time, this Breitbart article is worth reading and watching the clips.
Some New Yorkers being hit with a cluebat, amongst other things.
Just out of interest, the final sermon on Friday is the big one in the Mosques. Generally there is action around the world at this time – Friday night and Saturday. They get all fired up as they are reminded that the Jews betrayed the Mo and the Khaybar gig – I mentioned earlier. I don’t know if most of the Jihadi attacks happen at this time of the week as there are no martyr stats with date stamps. But I am sure our intelligence services and police are up on this information — oh wait– Please rest easy as we have Yasmin Catley – Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism in NSW and Cath Burn is now in ASIO – mu mushkilla ( no worries) as the Arabs say.
Miner
Mine supervisor
Union rep
Geotechnician
Pilot
Proffffesional driver (courier [does not need professional accreditation], bus driver “and such”)
Plant operator
Electronics technician
Drug addict
Alcoholic
Lived as a resident in three states and the NT
Suuuure buddy.
You can’t keep up with your lies Graeme. One of the aliases you think you have covertly picked also has served gaol time which would have disqualified him for some of those jobs.
Implantation dermoids
Calluses
Cracked skin
Infections
Animal /insect bites
Trauma
etc..
Yeah… Iceman Ötzi and the Armenians from 5,500 years ago were too stupid to appreciate the advantages of walking barefoot.
Dear God save us from our idiot “leaders”.
Huge amount Qantas spent on Yes campaign
Qantas spent $370k on Yes campaign (& if you believe that you also believe in the Tooth Fairy)
Qantas revealed it spent about $370,000 on supporting the Yes campaign in the lead up to the Voice to Parliament referendum, which failed.
Mr Goyder said Qantas management, led by Mr Joyce, had made a recommendation to support the campaign, which was endorsed by the board.
“The contribution we made was in kind and equal to about $370,000,” he said.
“We knew at the time that there would be a diverse set of views but we felt it was important that we continued to support what we had done for a long period of time in terms of Aboriginal reconciliation.”
Mr Joyce unveiled three planes with the Yes23 campaign logo at Sydney Airport in August alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Ms Hudson and Mr Goyder had fronted a marathon three and a half-hour senate committee hearing for an inquiry in September where they were grilled about Qantas’ connection to the Yes campaign.
Senator Bridget McKenzie repeated the Coalition’s inference the decision to back the Yes campaign was some sort of ‘quid pro quo’ in exchange for the government’s rejection of Qatar Airways’ request for more flights into Australia.
Qantas’ legal counsel Andrew Finch denied this. Ms Hudson, when asked later, insisted they were “completely different and unrelated positions”.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Children’s Health Defense and several parents today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a Philadelphia law that allows minors to consent to vaccination without their parents’ knowledge, saying the legislation violates the constitutionally protected doctrine of informed consent and fundamental parental rights.
The lawsuit alleges the City of Philadelphia engaged in a “wink and a nod” practice of vaccinating children behind parents backs without informed consent for the past 15 years, under the cover of the 2007 General Minor Consent Regulation.
That rule allows children 11 and older to consent to vaccination without parental knowledge as long as they receive a “vaccine information statement” for the administered shot.
They weren’t screaming “ceasefire” when Hamas was butchering women and children.
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
BREAKING – IRAN OFFICIAL: HEZBOLLAH WILL JOIN THE WAR IF NO CEASEFIRE
To be a “professional driver” just means you have to take your responsibility seriously. Everyone that operates a motor vehicle should think this way. Courtesy … looking way ahead… the realization that not every one using the Public thoroughfares thinks like you … some are old …some are young.
But if it comes to it, Yes ,I have operated a motor vehicle for pay ..
Amongst other things …
And we all have a responsibility to consider the welfare of those around us.
Marcia Langton having to swear allegiance to the British Crown?
Could Be Interesting – Tucker Carlson Visits Julian Assange?
Conservatives Savagely Rip Apart Far-Left, Trump-Hating “Journalist” After He Calls MAGA Nation and Faithful Christians MORE DANGEROUS than Hamas Terrorists
No, it doesn’t dickhead. It means you have an NHVR licence and need to follow the fatigue rules or submit a fatigue management plan under the guidelines, carry a log book, are responsible for the load/correct load security, DG signage and have chain of responsibility obligations.
Uber driver. Well FMD you idiot sandwich.
NY family wants 2 women charged who ripped down Israeli hostage posters while saying ‘f–k Israel
A New York family who confronted two potty-mouthed young women tearing down Israeli child hostage posters while screaming “f–k Israel” told The Post Thursday they’ve filed a police report and want the duo to face charges over the hateful encounter.
Marilyn Adler said she came face-to-face with the poster-rippers — who were featured on The Post’s Nov. 2 front page amid a slew of similar incidents — at Broadway and 79th Street on the Upper West Side while she was out with her two adult daughters on Tuesday afternoon.
When they urged the women to stop ripping down the fliers, Adler said they were immediately hit with a torrent of abuse.
“We asked them not to take the posters down. They cursed at my daughter. I was terrified. I felt scared,” the mom said.
“I was nervous that they would pull a knife or physically harm my daughters. They were very rough.”
Footage of the encounter, shared widely online by StopAntisemitism nonprofit group, captured Adler’s daughter, Melissa, asking the women to stop — as she stressed that those pictured on the posters were “innocent civilians.”
“F–k you, f–k Israel,” one of the poster-rippers was filmed screaming back.
The other woman chimed in: “F–k you b—h.”
“They didn’t let me get a word out. They said it was Israeli propaganda. They said Israel made up the hostages with AI,” Melissa, 23, told The Post.
“I said, ‘please have a conversation with me’. They wouldn’t stop screaming at me. They just cursed me out and screamed at me. I was just stunned.”
She added: “They looked at me with eyes full of hatred. They hate me simply because I’m a Jew. They don’t even know me.”
Her mom said she called 911 three times on the day but cops failed to show. So she said she filed a police report late Wednesday at the 20th Precinct.
“I’m still shaking from it,” Adler said.
“I showed the police the video. I said I want to press charges and find these women.”
“It’s the right thing,” her daughter said of her mom filing a complaint. “They harassed me, attacked me for nothing.”
“This is simply antisemitism,” Melissa added.
The incident involving the foul-mouthed poster-rippers is among a string of incidents that have occurred across the Big Apple in recent weeks ever since Hamas terrorists took more than 200 Israelis hostage on Oct. 7.
Gut-wrenching missing person posters featuring the hostages were quickly plastered across parts of Gotham — only for some to start ripping them down soon after.
“This is antisemitism at its deepest level. It’s an expression of inhumanity at its deepest level,” Rabbi Joseph Potasnik told The Post. “I don’t understand the depth of hatred.”
“Antisemitism has never left,” Potasnik, who is the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, added. “It was below the surface but now it’s in the mainstream.”
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– Between social media and news reports, their endeavors of hate will follow them in perpetuity.
Good luck obtaining quality employment when your prospective employer googles your names and looks at your accounts.
My advice is practice saying “would you like fries?”
– I wouldn’t trust these Nazis to touch people’s food.
– Expose them, get their names out..public scorn and losing job opportunities will be a far better punishment
Expose them, get their names out..public scorn and losing job opportunities will be a far better punishment
The two women have been identified as Aya and Dana Baraket.
As the two were tearing down Israeli child hostage posters, Ana screamed, “F–k you, f–k Israel.”
Her sister Dana Baraket chimed in, “F–k you b—h.”
Killer Jab? 24% Say Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccine
Sancho, I suggest you speak to an accountant about the benefits for big corporates of losing money for tax purposes in the USA.
Then ask yourself:
1. Why does the Ten Network target millenials as its core audience when the only two profitable TV networks in Australia target the 25-to-50 age range middle class?
Millenials love free stuff and hate spending money. That’s why the Seven and Nine networks run a mile from them — they aren’t buying what TV advertisers are selling.
2. Why does the Ten Network rate even less than the ABC? Ten is kidding itself if it thinks it can make money out of woke millenials. Thursday’s ratings.
Ten isn’t targeting millenials by accident. Therefore, its decision to lose money Down Under for the US parent is deliberate.
To all that are trying to dream up a persona for me. Save yourself the sweat. I am exactly as you see me.
Sure I have done Jail, but equally well so could most of us have.
Even if I didnt have a clean Police Clearance …I would still know that I am a decent kindly open minded contributer to the community where I live.
For Posterity 2 Haters You would Never Employ!
https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-dana-baraket-woman-caught-tearing-posters-of-missing-israeli-children-by-hamas-with-sister-aya-baraket-at-upper-west-side-nyc/
Some blokes that have done some Crowbar Hotel turn out to be far far better than before their stay. Others , like me, who did nothing wrong still come out better with some corners knocked off.
Tom – millennials range from 41 to 24 now.
I think it is thus: TV is terrible and Ch Ten have been on the nose for decades.
Another Future Unemployable
https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-noora-lahoud-boston-university-student-tears-down-posters-of-kidnapped-israelis-calls-it-fake-news/
Noora Lahoud is also a leader of @BU_Tweets’s “Students” for “Justice” in “Palestine” chapter. SJP campus groups have often espoused and even directly endorsed Hamas talking points. #StopHamas
Noora Lahoud, a Boston U Students for Justice in Palestine member, ripped down posters of hostage Israelis because she believes that Hamas’s kidnapping of 220+ and massacre of 1,400+ Israelis is “fake news.”
@BU_Tweets
, do you condone this behavior?
I still tape and watch Murder, She Wrote — it is decent without gratuitous sex scenes, without gore and guts and leaves a lot to the imagination — and Angela Lansbury is an absolute doll, a brilliant actress, IMHO her best work was in the Manchurian Candidate — her film debut was in Gaslight, an acting star in the making
Boy – The Unemployables are EveryWhere
https://opoyi.com/usa/who-is-samian-quazi-psychiatric-practitioner-praises-hamas-attack-calls-israelis-ziopigs/
NEW Canary Mission profile.
Samian Quazi is a psychiatric & mental health nurse practitioner in Pacifica, California who praised Hamas after it massacred Israelis on Oct 7, 2023. He also calls Israelis “Ziopigs” & compares them to Nazis. https://canarymission.org/individual/Samian_Quazi
Wanna know what works really well? In Crowbar Hotel certainly …but also in the Community generally. Not to curse at and pick fights with people whose stories you dont know , but would like to suppose.
Apparently, it’s shocking to say that there shouldn’t be a Pro-Palestinian march in London on Armistice day.
Nigel Farage’s shocking demand: STOP Pro-Palestine March at Cenotaph
. I just hope and pray she is counting staples, doing the photocopying and making the coffee – Cath ‘Lindt Cafe Debacle’ Burn cannot be trusted to make any kind of rational decision.
Wodger:
And that’s the very heart of it – the fact that Islam has a religious edict of footwear.
It’s a religion run by control freaks for people too infantilised to decide things for themselves.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
– Mae West
Ummm no, “most of us” haven’t.
What did you do jail time for and how long, Champ?
Our Global Order Collapsed (we haven’t noticed)
She looks like a first year, or Freshman. Away from home for the first time and immersed in the indoctrination machine 24/7. Fed propaganda and forced to regurgitate it until it becomes her new “truth”.
One wonders if her parents have any idea what she has become.
“Hold on to your seats. It’s sh*ts over F1!”
Steve, have a look at the Thai MotoGP race last weekend – you could throw a hankie over 1st to 3rd for most of the race, and multiple overtakes in the last several laps. Awesome. The riders are all fruit-loops – would YOU ride a motorbike that spins the real wheel at 300+km/h and tops out at 360km/h?
<trivia>
MotoGP riders all use kangaroo leather for their “leathers” because it is twice as strong and half the weight of cow leather.
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@ Winston Smith
Nov 3, 2023 3:54 PM
hashtag Not All … I was researching Islam and keeping lizards as pets… Haram or not ?
Very definite opinions… apparently.
Well is a lizard that lives in my front yard a pet or not… ?
Some of these people are never going to be helpfull.
Ronnie RAAF at 2.08:
Indeed. I found the beggars needed a taste of the riding crop to perform anywhere near adequately.
No mushrooms in the Wellington, of course. That would be gauche.
Gaul? Your steward was French? My word. All mine were darkies.
You have a kind, gentle soul. Any cheeky enlisted man with the temerity to not bow in my presence got 30 days of picquet duty.
That would have been difficult in a C130 hold.
There’s only one. Army. OC Spelling Company, 112th Punctuation Battalion.
Anti-Israel tropes in the Austalian media called out in the Oz. Knock them off here too.
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all 7 charges.
Could face 115 years in gaol
With what the fat bellied grifter knows about the demorats he’ll spend less time in jail then Epstein.
Dot
Nov 3, 2023 3:38 PM
To be a “professional driver” just means you have to take your responsibility seriously.
No, it doesn’t dickhead.
It means you have an NHVR licence and need to follow the fatigue rules or submit a fatigue management plan under the guidelines, carry a log book, are responsible for the load/correct load security, DG signage and have chain of responsibility obligations.
Got caught in Charleville on way Back From Madigan via Alice Springs & Plenty Highway – although we were 2 drivers and had requisite hours in our Log Books for relief driving – did not count as no sleeping cabin on truck
Inspector let us off and said just go to a Camping Ground and stay the night in Charleville
And this is why the left is winning all through the West:
Feckless Republicans Voted Against Censuring Pro-Terrorist Rashida Tlaib – Here are the 22 RINOS Who Sided with Democrats
Gutless pseudo conservatives. MT Greene sums the bastards and situation up:
“I want to tell you and remind everyone why conservative Americans across the country are absolutely disgusted with Republicans in Congress, and they are constantly disappointed and constantly upset. The Republicans in Congress never hold the line. They never fight back. They never hold anyone accountable. They never actually do what they promise on the campaign trail.
“They never do what they promise their constituents. They come here to Washington and all of a sudden they lose their courage and they don’t follow through and do the right thing.
“Let’s be real and be honest: Democrats stick together. They band together, and they never back down. Even when they are lying through their teeth in front of the cameras, in front of the microphones, they never back down. In attacking our former President, Trump, they never back down. In attacking Republicans, they never back down and never stop going after conservatives across America. They have used the federal government and weaponized it against the people. But yet, Republicans can’t censor Rashida Tlaib? You’ve got to be kidding me,” said Greene.
He and Soros have been the two biggest doners to the demonrat party. He’ll get 15 months in house detention at his mother’s home.
Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in Europe, primarily due to immigration and higher fertility rates among Muslims.[1][2][3] Since the 1960s, immigrants from Muslim countries started to appear in numbers in Western Europe, especially in France, Germany and Belgium. Although large Muslim communities have existed on the continent since Ottoman conquests in the late Middle Ages, especially in the Balkans, this was the first major wave of immigration of Muslims to northwestern Europe.[4]
Muslims in Europe are not a homogeneous group. They are of various national, ethnic and racial identities. The top regions of origin of Muslims in Western Europe are Turkey, the Maghreb (including Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria), and South Asia (including Pakistan and Afghanistan).[5]
In Western Europe, Muslims generally live in major urban areas, often concentrated in neighborhoods of large cities.[6]
According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2016 the total number of Muslims in Europe is roughly 4.9%. The total number of Muslims in the European Union in 2010 was about 19 million (3.8%).[7] The French capital of Paris and its metropolitan area has the largest number (1.7 million in 2008 according to The Economist)[8] of Muslims out of any city in the European Union. According to the Pew Research Center, as of 2017 France has Europe’s largest Muslim population, with 6 million Muslims.[9]
List of cities in the European Union by Muslim population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_European_Union_by_Muslim_population#:~:text=The%20French%20capital%20of%20Paris,population%2C%20with%206%20million%20Muslims
So, London is not that much different to mainland Continental Europe.
He’ll get 15 months in house detention at his mother’s home.
Alternatively he’ll slip on some soap and fall on a razor which will cut his throat.
Didn’t know they had Ice Hockey in prison.
@ OldOzzie
Nov 3, 2023 4:03 PM
I was never a “truckie” but on my time on the road saw horrific acts of irresponsibility.
Trucks over taking on blind corners just North of Meeka … nearly got us all splooshed ..definitely a 3 by fatality .. My radio wasnt working else I would have heard the preceding conversation..
When I cought up with one of the truckies involved ..a listener only … the expression “Couldnt drive a greased stick up a dog’s …” seemed apropos.
Now my radio does work …
Information …
But sadly no amount of Red Tape can prevent such transgressions. What is a Rozzer to do?
Think about it. Uncle George and Sam Fried are the biggest contributors to the Demons. Uncle George is trying to destroy civilization by wrecking the US legal system and Fried is a convicted fraudster. These two are the party’s biggest funders.
The US DemoCrap Candidate Politicians of Today – Anything in Australia beat These?
GROSS! Virginia Democrat Candidate Records Herself Peeing in Public and Posts It Online (VIDEO)
What is going on with the Democrats in Virginia?
First, it came out that Susanna Gibson, the Democrat candidate running for Virginia’s House of Delegates against Republican David Owen, posted sex acts with her husband online dubbed “HotWifeExperience” – while soliciting ‘tips’ from their online audience.
The 40-year-old mother of 2 who is running for a seat in the 57th district in suburban Richmond, reportedly used a platform called Chaturbate to stream sex acts with her husband in exchange for ‘tokens.’
Gibson also live-streamed videos so users could watch her urinate!
“Gibson talked about forcing unsuspecting hotel staff to take part in her porn, allowing viewers to do drugs off her body, and she solicited money on live-streamed videos so users could “watch me pee.”” GOP operative Steve Guest said.
Virginia Dem Susanna Gibson just NUKED her endorsement section on her website.
Gibson talked about forcing unsuspecting hotel staff to take part in her porn, allowing viewers to do drugs off her body, & she solicited money on live-streamed videos so users could “watch me pee.” https://t.co/LW5UnJJMNZ pic.twitter.com/r6ZKvGmTG0
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 21, 2023
Now this…
Jessica Anderson, the far-left Democrat running as Delegate for the 71st District of Virginia, which includes the City of Williamsburg and parts of James City and New Kent Counties, recorded herself peeing in public and posted it to TikTok.
Anderson, 41, is the Democrat nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates. Let that sink in.
“Avoid yellow snow,” Anderson said as she recorded herself urinating in public.
WATCH:
New from the #JessicaAndersonCringeCollection: “Yellow Snow”: the world’s unsexiest pee tape
because it’s totally normal to record yourself narrating a urination experience like a complete psycho then post it to TikTok then run for state legislative office pic.twitter.com/GpPuE4Kdvc
— The Virginia Project (@ProjectVirginia) October 31, 2023
Jessica Anderson defended urinating in public and posting the video with the creepy narration to TikTok.
“Since the right wing trolls and employees of the VA-GOP don’t like to show full context, I’ll help them out. Here’s my video of one of many fun running vlogs I made to bring joy and laughter to others. I was over a mile from a restroom and these are the realities of runners,” Anderson said.
So it is also necessary to film it and post it online?? This woman is 41 years old!
Right. So you’re a mine worker and bus driver but you never had a LR, MR or HR licence?
This is a lie.
Sure I have done Jail, but equally well so could most of us have.
Never been to jail myself and the reason why is – I’ve never been caught.
I haven’t been in civvy jail, apart from drunk lock up. Did three days in Army jail. That was hard core. Had some mates from my battery that did the maximum 28 days at MCE Ingleburn. They re-presented well reformed.
Looked to me like their improvised anti-Trophy device did its job.
They got a hit with the two stage RPG round.
Chaps and Chapeeses… when driving dont listen to music or spoken books… just be utterly “on Task” or parked up.
That near miss I spoke off. Once I got off the road I counted to five … not that many seconds but I was awake already …
That would have been where the prang would have occured.
Five seconds.
But I was “onto it already” ..
Peace..
Cath Burn, runs the hairdressers and cafe at ASIO I suppose. Fail into something else. Helps Mike Burgess find his own arse coz he certainly can’t find any garage nasties even when they present themselves at conservative meetings. Funny that.
The Lunacy of American Justice!
Complaint Calls for Trump New York Trial Judge’s Clerk to Be Disbarred for Excessive Political Donations
The top clerk for New York Justice Arthur Engoron, Allison Greenfield, appears to have violated judicial rules preventing officers of the court from making excessive political donations, Breitbart News has learned.
What’s more, it appears Engoron was advised of Greenfield’s violations in a 72-page complaint addressed to his court via email that was also filed with the New York State Bar Association the same day he decided to issue a gag order against former President Donald Trump in his case currently playing out in Engoron’s Manhattan courtroom.
Engoron has subsequently fined Trump a total of $15,000 for two alleged violations of that gag order preventing the former president from criticizing his principal law clerk.
But the evidence against Greenfield is astounding as laid out in the complaint that a third party filed against her. Such complaints are usually confidential, but the person who filed it—a Wisconsin man named Brock Fredin who runs a Twitter account called @JudicialProtest exposing such conflicts—published the entire complaint online.
“My name is Brock Fredin and I operate the Twitter account @JudicialProtest,” Fredin wrote in the Oct. 3, 2023, complaint sent to Engoron. “I write with respect to the blatantly unethical and partisan conduct of Your Honor’s Principal Law Clerk Allison Greenfield, the Court’s ‘Gag Order’ issued today concerning President Trump’s retweeting of my tweet about Ms. Greenfield and Senator Chuck Schumer taken at a Chelsea Reform Democrat Club brunch and the overly apparent appearance of impropriety in the above-referenced matter with respect to Ms. Greenfield’s repeated partisan political and Democrat activities while employed as a law clerk.
Given that President Trump’s post at-issue today was a re-tweet of my original tweet on the @JudicialProtest account, the Court’s order directing President Trump to remove it is a direct attack on my First Amendment rights (as well as President Trump’s), particularly since the Court asserted on the record that my tweet was a ‘personal attack’ on Ms. Greenfield rather than a post exposing and criticizing the misconduct of a public official.
I am consequently an interested party and submit this letter as such. To be clear, though, this letter and its contents are not a ‘personal attack’ on Ms. Greenfield.
Rather, this letter contains receipts and raises serious ethical violations as to her political speech and activities involving the Democrat Party while employed as your law clerk that undoubtedly create an appearance of impropriety in People v. Trump et al.”
The 72-page complaint, is available on a website it appears Fredin created to make it public. Therefore, since the complainant released it, its contents are now publicly-available information.
Throughout the complaint, it details significant political activity that Greenfield—the top clerk for Justice Engoron—has engaged in, including close relationships with top New York Democrats, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and now former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). It also details several efforts she engaged in as a Democrat Party organizer, canvassing for party officials and working to elect Democrats to office.
More importantly, the complaint notes that Greenfield has engaged in giving political donations to Democrat candidates and causes in excess of the amount of donations that court officials in New York are allowed to give on an annual basis. Moreover, it also reveals that she was endorsed by Democrats while running to be a New York Civil Court Judge while the case was pending.
New York ethics rules prohibit court officials like Greenfield from giving in excess of $500 in the aggregate in a particular calendar year in political donations.
This year and last year, Greenfield apparently exceeded that $500 threshold. Greenfield began as Justice Engoron’s principal law clerk in 2019—so she has been in this position for several years and in the two most recent years, 2022 and 2023, she violated the ethics rules for judicial staff.
In 2022 alone, Greenfield gave thousands of dollars in donations. The donations, which can be found in New York’s elections database, total several thousand dollars. She gave $200 to the Four Freedoms Democratic Club in New York on May 2, 2022.
Engoron has not, in the public court proceedings this month, notified counsel for Trump that he received this complaint about Greenfield’s apparent ethics violations.
What, if anything, becomes of these alleged violations of the ethics rules by Greenfield remains to be seen.
The judge in the case for now keeps siding with her, and even as recently as Thursday afternoon’s proceedings, according to live updates from New York Times reporters in the courtroom. Greenfield’s presence at Engoron’s side has been a centerpiece of the case as the trial plays out.
The judge accused one Trump lawyer of “misogyny,” according to the Times, for raising questions about Greenfield.
And we do see you, exactly as you are.
@ Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 4:17 PM
Civvy jail is really pretty good… provided you aren’t a complete Charlie Uniform November Tango …
which what some of my compatriots completely were. Some of them should never be allowed out… But not as many as you might think …
Once I got out, I recognized the faces and uniforms … they lived in my neighborhood… Prison Officers. all decent people. In fact I owe some of them my Life and Sanity… acts of kindness from them to me…
Nothing to forgive Brother …
When driving, do the speed limit please. When the lights turn green, get moving promptly. Geelong/Bellarine/Surf Coast worst traffic in Australia. Total retards. NSW best and fastest traffic.
Australia’s top selling cars in October 2023
1. FORD RANGER: 6,215 sales
2. TOYOTA HILUX: 5,766 sales
3. ISUZU UTE D-MAX: 3,198 sales
4. TOYOTA RAV 4: 2,598 sales
5. TOYOTA LANDCRUISER: 2,561 sales
6. MG ZS: 2,537 sales
7. MAZDA CX-5: 2,509 sales
8. TOYOTA PRADO: 2,320 sales
9. MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER: 2,238 sales
10. FORD EVEREST: 1,803 sales
I really doubt anyone who has ever been to prison, let alone sane people, think this.
Sock puppets conversing with other sock puppets.
Lame.
Australia’s top selling cars in October 2023 – From the Comments
– Let the beast engage 4 wheel drive. Marvel as it effortlessly negotiates kerbs. Feel the adrenaline as it mounts the pavement, makes short work of speed bumps and leaves you gasping as it surges up steep driveways.
Unleash the potential to exceed the speed limit three times over. Ford raging torrents in the Mews using the optional snorkel. . Carry hundreds of toilet rolls in the spacious luggage area during epidemics , along with the designer dogs.
Yes you can recreate the retro atmosphere of the bush, right here in the city.
– Jealousy is a curse
– Yep that’s right ..!! So you can STICK YOUR TESLAS WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE!!!
– EV sales have been slumping all over the world. There’s just soooo many unthought out issues with EVs, namely having enough charging stations, the time to charge, battery life, battery safety, battery recycling, and resale value. The future isn’t electric unless that electricity is generated by nuclear fission and they have a plan to recycle those trillions of spent lithium cells.
– Utes are great for parking in loading zones. Can’t do that in a passenger car.
– WTF. So the Tesla can’t make the top ten. But we are all supposed to want EV. Yeah right
This is the exact reason that trolls should always be smacked down.
OldOzzie
Nov 3, 2023 4:30 PM
Australia’s top selling cars in October 2023
Wot’? No EV sales to report?
I’m waiting for the latest sales figures for a battery powered Hot Air Balloon.
Surely, Blackout Bowen will buy one as he can provide all the hot air.
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Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 4:30 PM
Ablsolutely !! As a young bloke I drove really fast. I could handle it!!! . But I failed to realise I wasnt the only player … when I was 30 … I lost my licence for behaving like a dickhead behind the wheel … so from then, for a while it was only bicycles for me … so I rode my bike down to Jandakott and learned to fly …. Boy did that ever adjust my attitude.
I’m not a hoon, or ever was, Mark. Just drive properly. And at correct speed. Not slowly creating traffic issues.
The Israel-Hamas Tunnel War Will Be Like No Other
Story by Jeff Wise
After her release from two weeks of Hamas captivity, 85-year-old Yochaved Lifshitz described being marched for several kilometers underground by her captors through “a giant system of tunnels, like spiderwebs.”
Few other Israelis had seen the Gaza Strip’s storied tunnel complex, but many are now going to get the chance.
Israeli Defense Forces that pressed several miles into Gaza beginning last Friday are forced to contend with a sophisticated labyrinth of underground tunnels and bunkers constructed over several decades by Hamas, hiding fighters, weapons, and more than 200 Israeli hostages. The elaborate system is believed to extend for hundreds of miles and, in some locations, lies several hundred feet below ground. Military experts who have studied Hamas call the tunnels a formidable defensive system that would be incredibly costly for Israeli troops to neutralize, even after several weeks of heavy bombardment targeting the network.
Geographically, Gaza is militarily indefensible: a flat, low-lying expanse of arid coastal plain that measures just 25 miles long, four to eight miles wide, and surrounded by the sea and the militarized borders of Egypt and Israel. The IDF’s military superiority over Hamas is overwhelming with an air force, armored vehicles, artillery, and hundreds of thousands of troops deployed against a Hamas force of an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 fighters.
But the matchup becomes less lopsided when considering how Gaza’s dense urban landscape can negate many of the advantages of Israel’s high-tech military. Hiding in buildings and rubble, a relative few Hamas fighters can hold off vastly larger Israeli forces. Add a vast network of tunnels with widely scattered hidden entrances, and you’ve got an environment so challenging that it may not be possible for Israel to achieve its goal of destroying Hamas’s military capabilities.
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“It’s the worst nightmare for the people that have to plan an attack and for the people that have to execute it,” says Walker Mills, a Marine Corps captain who has studied and written about tunnel warfare. In classic guerrilla-war fashion, the IDF has been drawn into a fight where its advantages are minimized and those of its opponents are maximized. “You’re entering an environment that the enemy has created. It’s inherently prepared for you to come in and for them to defend it.”
Gazans built some tunnels in the 2000s under the border with Egypt in order to smuggle weapons and goods, but the tunneling effort took on a whole new scale after 2006 when Hamas took power and began to build an extensive system of fortifications both above and below ground.
The massive tunnel network, dubbed the “Gaza Metro,” is believed to be hundreds of miles long, possibly even longer than the 248 miles of the New York City subway.
Hamas diggers had the good fortune of a fairly deep water table and a soft substrate. “The geology is very conducive,” says John Spencer, chairman of urban-warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Unlike the Hezbollah tunnels in the north of Israel, where the rock is so hard Hezbollah crews had to cut through it with diamond-tipped drills, tunnels here can be dug quickly using unskilled labor.
Based on its experience countering tunnels in previous conflicts, Israel is well acquainted with the basic features of the Hamas underground complex. A standard tunnel size is six and a half feet tall and three feet wide and lined with precast concrete shoring. Many are about 160 feet deep, but they’ve been found as deep as 230 feet — deeper than the deepest stations in the London Tube. According to one Reuters report, a half-mile-long tunnel takes six months to build. Sections of tunnel have different characteristics depending on what they’re used for. Some are wide enough for small vehicles and are equipped with electric lighting and plumbing. Others are damp, unlit, and barely wide enough to walk through. Larger chambers have been dug to accommodate workshops, generators, command posts, weapon-making workshops, and storage facilities. Underground reserves hold hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel.
In 2014, after Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israeli hikers, the IDF invaded Gaza with the stated goal of destroying Hamas’s tunnel network. But the IDF found that it had been ill equipped to deal with the challenges of fighting underground. In one of the few published accounts of tunnel combat in Gaza, an Israeli sergeant described how he’d volunteered to enter a Hamas tunnel to see if it could be destroyed and had had to leave behind his standard-issue rifle and bulletproof vest and instead carried a flashlight, a camera, and a pistol. After spending an hour in the tunnel, and then returning a day later for a second check, he was able to gather enough information that the tunnel was destroyed. By the time the incursion ended a month later, 34 tunnels had been destroyed, but neither Hamas or its tunnel network was neutralized.
Still, the Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet learned where some of the tunnel network was located and how it was built. Israel gained some of the world’s best tunnel-detection technology, according to Spencer, such as sensors that listen for activity below the surface and ground-penetrating radar. But it’s questionable how effective these are against the most deeply buried sections of the tunnel system. “There’s a depth all technologies are limited to,” Spencer says. Since 2014, Israel has spent considerable effort building what are now considered to be the most advanced underground fighting capabilities in the world. It now trains all regular-army units in the fundamental concepts of tunnel warfare and has expanded a special-forces unit called Samur (“Weasel”) that specializes in infiltrating underground networks.
Once a tunnel is located, the question is how to destroy it. One tactic is to drop large bombs like the 5,000-pound GBU-28 “bunker buster” that Israel used extensively during an 11-day conflict in 2011, when Israel said air strikes destroyed more than 60 miles of tunnels. But this approach might not be viable in areas of Gaza where civilians remain.
Another option is to secure tunnel entrances and then seal them off or destroy them from within. To do that, Israeli forces will have to fight their way through an urban maze where attacks can come at any time from any direction — thanks in part to the tunnels that allow Hamas to move its fighters and weapons freely throughout the territory and to pop up to strike seemingly at random, even in areas that Israeli troops have already cleared. “In a battle like this, you can’t assume that any area is clear, even if you’ve been there for a long time,” says Spencer. “The soldiers are not going to ever be able to let their guard down. And even if they clear the house and anybody who goes back in that will have to clear it again. They’ll have to have their heads on the swivel 24 hours a day.”
With Israeli forces descending on Gaza City this week, fighters from Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad engaged in “hit-and-run” style attacks from the tunnels, popping back out to fire before disappearing again underground, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The weakest point of any tunnel is the entrance.
Once it has been captured, Israel has several ways of rendering the tunnel inoperative. In the past, Israel has sealed them up by filling them with concrete. But on the scale required in Gaza, this would be tremendously expensive, not to mention expose cement-mixer trucks to enemy fire.
Recently Israel has begun using a new kind of weapon called a “sponge bomb.” A liquid chemical mixture is poured into a tunnel, where it expands into a foam that then hardens. This has the advantage of being lightweight enough to be carried deep inside a tunnel to seal off side entrances that Hamas fighters could use to launch ambushes.
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Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 4:30 PM
I was terrible… I was a menace… I wasn’t a Hoon .. but I would just fang it HARD…
How I survived??!! .. never mind I could have taken some other lives with me, never happened …
Thank the Almighty.
In one of the world’s most urbanised societies, almost of them are utes or light trucks built for the farm — townies dreaming of the outback, but with air-conditioning — now being used to pick up and drop off kids to school in the suburbs of the big cities. FMD.
Riding a bike is harder than being in gaol for a few years.
This is full blown insanity.
Being in Jail aint so bad. Act like human being and you will be treated like one…
Riding a bicycle ? Well youre mileage might vary …
‘Block this march!’ Farage calls for pro-Palestine protest on Remembrance day to be axed
Nigel Farage said the police should follow the example of officers in Germany and crack down on the protesters.
Nigel Farage has urged for a pro-Palestine march, due to take place on Remembrance Day, to be stopped by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Met Police.
Mr Farage’s comments come after an activist group called for a million people to march in the capital to protest against Israel’s war on Hamas and to call for a ceasefire.
But the ex-UKIP leader said the UK should follow the example of German police and crack down on protesters.
Marches across the country have sparked unsavoury scenes and police have released images of people wanted for racially-aggravated harassment.
In a statement, the GB News presenter wrote: “I find it pretty extraordinary that there is a big pro-Palestine March, in fact, demands from some for a million-strong march, to come through the centre of London on the November 11.
“I’ve said before, to great criticism, that I’ve worried in the past about a lot of people coming into Britain with whom we have no shared history and no shared culture, and this, I think, is a very good example of that.
“Should this march go ahead? And especially should it be allowed to go down Whitehall, past the Cenotaph? I think the answer just has to be ‘no’ – I think this march has to be blocked.”
Mr Farage said there were other marches in cities away from London, but that the one in the capital should be stopped.
He said: “It’s not as if there’s a shortage of pro-Palestine marches. They’re taking place all the time and not just in London, but in many other cities as well.
“So I think this March should be blocked.
“Mayor [Sadiq] Khan has said precious little about it. It’s interesting to see that in Germany, they really are taking a very different approach.
“I was astonished to see the vice chancellor, Robert Habeck, who is a Green, saying that what was happening on the streets of Berlin was unacceptable and that there would be tough consequences.
“Four thousand people so far have been arrested on the streets of Germany. I think for historical, for cultural, for national reasons, we should not allow a march past the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, and I feel actually very, very strongly about that.”
Many on social media users agreed with Mr Farage’s fury, urging the group to call the march off.
One user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote: “It’s disgraceful. Asking for trouble. Day picked precisely to antagonise and force one culture over others.”
Another added: “It’s disgusting. So disrespectful of the people killed in the war. It won’t make the slightest difference to the events in the Middle East either!”
Former British Army intelligence office Philip Ingram said on TalkTV: “The Mayor of London should not allow them to go down Whitehall – they can protest somewhere else in the capital!”
Following reports of the million-man march, the Metropolitan Police released a statement. They said: “Officers will be deployed across London on 11 and 12 November as part of a significant policing and security operation. We’re absolutely committed to ensuring the safety and security of anyone attending commemorative events.
(DeCoded The Cowardly Metropolitan Police will Allow the Hamas Gazan Palestinian Protestors to do what they like, and arrest Old Ladies and Ex UK Soldiers)
You’re a total fraud.
Funny how our ever so earnest politicians calling for a humanitarian truce (Hi Elbow, Penny, Ed, Adam!) never call on Hamas to surrender.
Makes you question which side they’re really on.
You haven;t ridden a bike I suspect, Dot.
Speaking of Jail… this was a full 20 years ago … Huge shout out to all the Prison Officers at Acacia Prison.. you guys had it exactly right… !!
Love you all to shreds…
@ Boambee John
Nov 3, 2023 4:27 PM
“And we do see you, exactly as you are.”
OK Sparky ? You tell me and then we will both know…
Question? There’s no doubt at all.
If you don’t know, then you are even dumber than your comments indicate.
Right. So you got out of Acacia in 2003? When did you go in there?
OK it was News Year’s Eve .. I had better places to be than jail , but wasnt.
The Prison Officers put on Cream on out TVs for midnight entertainment ..they were older now than they were then .. “The White Room .. ”
They had perfected their craft…
The Prison Officers were already pretty good.
Wanna know what ? If any one of those POS prisoners had put so much as a hand on the Prison Officers …walk through me…
This is how Reality actually works…
1 Republican & 22 Democrats vote against the House anti Semitism bill.
Wonder what that’s all about.
Interesting that MG is in the top 10. These Chinese shitboxes are everywhere.
I wonder how many owners know what the name stands for.
Chanticleer
Todd Sampson accidentally nails the big problem at Qantas
The fact the adman thinks his experience has never been more valuable to the embattled airline shows how important the choice of a new chairman is.
Elton John once sang that “sorry seems to be the hardest word”. Not at Qantas, where the apologies came thick and fast at Friday’s annual general meeting in Melbourne.
Chief executive Vanessa Hudson, outgoing chairman Richard Goyder, and every one of the directors who addressed the meeting adopted an appropriate tone of contrition and duly promised to rebuild the Qantas brand to its former glory.
Director Todd Sampson, who was most at risk of being voted off the board, spoke in a hushed tone, explaining that he had wrestled with his decision to seek re-election.
But after much soul-searching, the T-shirt-wearing director – it was a long sleeve T-shirt, perhaps in a nod to formality – judged that his long career in advertising meant he could help with the airline’s rescue.
“Of all times in Qantas’ history, especially with a new CEO, this is when my experience will be most valuable,” Sampson said.
Moments later, he survived his brush with shareholders – although a third voted against his re-election.
But the reason Sampson provided for remaining on the board goes directly to the heart of Qantas’ glaring governance problem.
How can shareholders rely on the very people who got Qantas into this mess – or at least failed to prevent management from crashing their airline’s reputation – to fix the problem?
Surely the time Sampson’s experience would have been most valuable was 12 to 18 months ago, before the company made a raft of terrible decisions, including unsuccessfully appealing the finding it had illegally sacked thousands of workers to the High Court, selling tickets on thousands of flights it had already cancelled (as the ACCC alleges) and putting an artificial deadline on the redemption of hundreds of millions of dollars of flight credits.
With Sampson and fellow director Belinda Hutchinson retaining their board seats, the importance of getting their choice of chairman right has grown again.
This is the big lesson from Friday’s meeting: the next Qantas chairman must be able to deliver a complete leadership and governance overhaul.
It’s fitting that the protest vote against Qantas’ remuneration vote – which came in at a staggering 83 per cent – was only just behind that of NAB, which received a protest vote of 88 per cent in the wake of the royal commission.
There is much Qantas can and should learn from the turnaround at NAB, which was led by a CEO and a chairman from outside the business – respected, steady leaders who immediately reassured large and small investors alike that it was not business as usual.
Qantas is arguably one step behind NAB, having appointed Hudson as its new CEO.
She may prove to be a revelation, but the promotion of one of Alan Joyce’s chief lieutenants does not scream new broom, particularly given how much animosity there was towards Joyce at Friday’s meeting.
So the replacement for Goyder, who will depart by November 2024’s AGM, is crucial.
Indeed, it may be the most important hiring decision Qantas has made in a generation.
Oops. Seems I’ve stumbled into the psychiatrist’s office. (Excuse me for interrupting, MB.)
Please could someone direct me back to The Cat?
https://youtu.be/dCc00pX_pFA
there are some things that simply cannot seperate us.
Look. I’m just trying to understand why someone thinks prison isn’t that “hard”.
We you in there for what, five years, ten years? Maybe you grew accustomed to it. I can see how if you went in say in 1997 and left in 2003 the world would have changed a lot.
No one is interrupting any one… post away …
I’m not into echo chambers. Might as well be a leftoid blog. Let people have their two cents worth. Ignore who you think is a crazy person.
Top tip for Israel and tunnels….
Get pipes and pumps. There’s plenty of water in the sea alongside Gaza.
Bill P
Nov 3, 2023 5:20 PM
I wonder how many owners know what the name stands for.
Morris Garages.
It’s time to defund the UN
Americans cannot be expected to support a functionally pro-terrorist organisation
NEWT GINGRICH
In 2005, I co-chaired a 12-member bipartisan task force with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to look at reforming the United Nations.
We called for the abolition of the current UN Human Rights Commission and the establishment of a new Human Rights Council composed of democracies and dedicated to monitoring, promoting, and enforcing human rights.
The UN’s one-sided reaction to Hamas’s terrorist assault on Israel – in violation of all international law – reminded me how completely our reform efforts failed.
Consider how one-sided and pro-terrorist the United Nations’ actions have been, in spite of the horrific news of the killing (and in some cases beheading) of babies, the massacre of innocent young people at a festival for peace, and the raping of women and desecration of their bodies.
Each new horror story emerging from the strip has failed to shake off the anti-Israel bias of the UN leadership.
Nowhere is this callous attitude to the suffering of Jewish civilians more evident than in the outrageous statements by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who said, “It is important to recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”
It’s not the only time Guterres has victim-blamed Israel:
follow this with his report to the UN Security Council. “The relentless bombardment of Gaza by Israeli forces, the level of civilian casualties, and the wholesale destruction of neighborhoods continue to mount and are deeply alarming. I am deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza. Let me be clear: No party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.”
So, in the opinion of the head of the United Nations, the problem in Gaza is Israel’s “clear violations” despite weeks of Israeli warnings that civilians should leave the combat zone.
Israel is clearly making efforts to limit civilian casualties – which are being hindered by Hamas.
One expert noted that Hamas’s first act of savagery and barbarism was on October 7, when their attack against Israeli innocents began.
But its second act has been forcing the civilian population of Gaza to serve as human shields against the Israeli offensive.
Continuing this one-sided, pro-terrorist bias, the United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a major resolution on the Gaza crisis, calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”
As an example of the depth of the United Nations’ bias against Israel, when Canada offered an amendment to “unequivocally reject and condemn the terrorist attacks by Hamas that took place in Israel starting on 7 October 2023 and the taking of hostages,” it failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to be adopted.
An institution that can’t clearly condemn terrorist attacks and vicious brutality is a deeply corrupted institution.
This was in sharp contrast to our call 18 years ago for the US government to endorse and call upon the UN and its members to, “affirm a responsibility of every sovereign government to protect its own citizenry and those within its borders from genocide, mass killing, and massive and sustained human rights violations.”
We called on the General Assembly to adopt a definition of terrorism and pass a comprehensive convention condemning all forms of terrorism.
There were a lot of specific reforms proposed by our commission, and almost none of them could be implemented because of resistance from the United Nations members. This was especially true for several smaller states for whom UN jobs were major patronage opportunities and the UN bureaucracy itself (which was deeply invested in nepotism and corruption).
It is important to remember that the United States invests about $12 billion a year in the United Nations (the US Coast Guard Budget is $13.5 billion by comparison).
Furthermore, American private donors give $206 million a year in voluntary donations making them fourth after the United States government, Germany, and the European Union.
It is fair to say that we Americans are stunningly generous to a bureaucratic, corrupt organisation which is often functionally pro-terrorist (look at UN officials in Lebanon and Gaza for example) and overwhelmingly rejects our values on issues such as the barbarism of Hamas.
Since 12 democracies donate 60 per cent of the United Nations assessments, they should band together to force real change by simply withholding their annual dues until the system is reformed.
If the United Nations is ever going to be returned to a path of support for civilisation, honesty, and fairness it is going to take a wrenching, all out struggle. The forces of corruption, bureaucracy, anti-Western radicalism, and antisemitism are not going to give in voluntarily. They must be defeated or things will just get worse.
The time for reform is long overdue.
And if the body still refuses to condemn anti-human values, the path forward it clear: it must be replaced with a smaller gathering of law-abiding democracies who can be relied upon to uphold the principles we hold most dear.
Poll – Is it time to defund the United Nations?
Yes 79%
No 6%
It needs reform 15%
Total votes: 4,142
And I don’t own one.
Sign up to sdupport hamas? Hmmm, perhaps not.
https://twitter.com/jacklanger/status/1719881217598730388
Mark Bolton
Nov 3, 2023 5:17 PM
What have you been smoking and is it legal?
Lysander
Nov 3, 2023 5:28 PM
Get pipes and pumps. There’s plenty of water in the sea alongside Gaza.
Which, by the way, is where they get most of their drinking water via 3 large desalination plants.
The US DemoCrap Candidate Politicians of Today – Anything in Australia beat These?
GROSS! Virginia Democrat Candidate Records Herself Peeing in Public and Posts It Online (VIDEO)
What is going on with the Democrats in Virginia?
And just think the Wussia dossier BS was about Trump getting peed on by wussian hookers. Never happened of course but his accusers are pissing everywhere.
LOL
Gaza has better infrastructure than Australia.
FMD.
perhaps, just perhaps, they had already prepared for this tactic – given it was used in the past.
How wind turbines are blinding the RAF’s vital North Sea radars
Blind spots caused by turbines pose a risk amid fears of Russian North Sea sabotage
Britain’s race to net zero risks blinding crucial radars protecting the UK from incursions over the North Sea amid fears that Russia will launch a campaign of sabotage.
Offshore wind farms blades interfere with radar signals and there are concerns that plans for a significant expansion of turbines in the North Sea by the end of the decade will cause problems for the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The Ministry of Defence has spent £18m over the past three years trying to stop wind farm blades from scrambling radar readings, the Telegraph can reveal.
However, none of this public spending has, so far, yielded a concrete solution to the problem.
Dangers in the North Sea are more than theoretical: a “ghost fleet” of Russian ships were spotted mapping communication and power cables in the area earlier this year, sparking fears that the Kremlin is preparing for a campaign of sabotage.
With ministers hoping to build another 35 gigawatts (GWs) of offshore wind capacity over the next seven years, national security must now compete with energy security.
Defence sources say the problem lies in how wind turbine blades reflect the electromagnetic pulses used by RAF radars to detect aircraft.
These so-called “primary radar” pulses are reflected by aeroplanes, sending a signal back to aerials housed in giant ‘golf ball’ domes around the UK’s coastline that register their position.
However, metal turbine blades also reflect radar pulses, generating false returns that can flood operators’ screens with nonsense information.
A serving RAF officer explains: “If you have three blades on one turbine, that’s three false reflections. Imagine you then put up 10 or 20 turbines.”
One existing wind farm off Scotland, known as Moray West, comprises 60 turbines. A future development, the Morven wind farm south-east of Aberdeen, plans to include up to 192 turbines stretching across more than 20 miles.
Rob Ward, an analyst with radar maker Lockheed Martin, which supplies the RAF’s air defence equipment, says the move towards bigger turbines and shafts in recent years has created the problem.
“When they were the height of Big Ben it was never a problem. Now they’re the height of the Shard.”
North Sea turbines can span up to 80 metres (262ft) each, with the tallest rising more than 200 metres (656ft) from the sea’s surface.
Former RAF Tornado instructor Tim Davies recalls using offshore turbines to hide from ‘enemy’ fighter jets during training exercises.
“We used to fly into wind farms and rapidly change direction, knowing that their radar would struggle to see us,” he says.
So far, efforts to fix the radar reflection problem have been slow. The government’s Defence And Security Accelerator (DASA) has been running a special wind farm mitigation project since 2019.
DASA’s trials are exploring everything from new sensors positioned within wind farms to special radar-absorbent coatings for turbine blades.
Sources say the coatings could use stealth fighter technology, similar to that used on the F-35 Lightning jet, to reduce wind turbine blades’ radar reflections.
Meanwhile, LiveLink Aerospace has won funding from DASA to explore fitting cameras and other sensors to turbines.
Benjamin Keene, director of operations at LiveLink, says: “It’s a collection of different sensor types where we fuse the outputs together,” lapsing into military jargon as he details how a combination of remote cameras, microphones and radio aerials can be linked to special software that flags the presence of “fast jets”.
“We can ‘see’ things like VHF [very high frequency radio] transmissions, so if there’s an aircraft nearby that’s talking on the radio, we can put a target on a map and say ‘something is here’,” continues Keene.
However, live trials of these solutions are running up against other governmental deadlines.
A Government whitepaper from the DASA project’s outset explains that a ministerial target for getting a slew of new wind farms online by the end of 2025 “drives a very compressed procurement timeline with associated greater risk”.
The pressure of finding a solution has eased somewhat in recent months, after the failure of the Government’s recent offshore wind farm auction to attract any bids. Companies said the electricity price offered by the Government was too low.
However, the Government has maintained its target of reaching 50GWs of offshore wind power capacity by 2030 and there is speculation that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will signal support for the industry in his upcoming Autumn Statement.
Industry figures are nervous of talking about how security issues could potentially slow approvals of new wind farms.
Mark Wilson, director of health, safety, environment and operations at trade association Offshore Energies UK, said: “The UK’s energy system must change if we’re to meet our climate targets and this brings with it a range of new issues to navigate with agencies including the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.”
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “We have robust multi-layered systems that detect and deter potential threats to the UK. Our network of air defence radars is only one layer of that protection.
“We have launched three innovation competitions to identify technologies that can support the long-term co-existence of our radar systems and offshore wind farms, ensuring there is no compromise to UK security.”
Wonder if VicPlod have the Moe pigs head guys working on the mushroom case? You expect there would be a lot of overlap.
MB liked shower time with the 150kg yugos. Kept dropping the soap.
OldOzzie
Nov 3, 2023 5:30 PM
It’s time to defund the UN
There is no such thing as the united nations. The world’s nations have never been united and never will be.
Sam Bankman-Fried convicted in fraud and conspiracy trial, faces 110 years in prison
Announces he did not kill himself in prison next month.
Top Ender at 1:56
Not sure I would be taking that to the bank. J’ismist talk.
Zat, are you in Oz or the US at the moment?
Fraud involving mail in ballots. Impossible. Could never happen in the US. US elections are as safe as a bank vault.
Classical liberals Ignored the nutters untill it was to late.
Still preferable to being Epsteined.
I’m listening to Bryce McGain who played one Test for Australia, and got carted all over the shop. In South Africa a dozen years ago.
Forget that. He is a switched on bloke.
Just to satisfy the lurid curiosity of some .. rape does not happen in prison … sorry to dissapoint you but … the sentence handed down from the beak is what it is, an no more …. for involuntary buggery to be part of punishment … extrajudicial and all .. much as you might hope so it doesnt happen
Coming to the AGM?
This is an alarming and silly assertion.
I just asked you how long you were in Acacia for. You paid your debt to society. I just can’t understand why you think it is a cakewalk. Maybe more than a few years and it felt normal.
time enough for that kind of event, should he know enough about anyone dangerous.
like many dumb crypto bros he probably keeps life-changing amounts of crypto in personal wallets so totally up for a shakedown in the yard.
I could be wrong here, but I think the five attempted mudda charges are:-
3 times prior to Wellington Day on the ex-hubby;
One for the Wellington survivor who attended the lunch;
One for the hubby who was a late scratching from the Wellington lunch.
If that last charge is, in fact, the case, that is interesting.
I would have thought that offence would be around intent rather than attempt.
For example, if I go armed to someone’s house with the intent to kill them, but they are not home, is that technically attempted murder?
If rape were to happen in prison and it was smiled upon … I would be a very different “Bloke next door” … that is why it doesnt happen ..the prisoners wont put up with it nor will the staff. It only takes a few moment of reflection to realise the Truth of it.
I got put in Army jail at Kapooka for discharging my weapon without authority. It was a blank round, but discipline and what not needs to be adhered to. I hadn’t slept for three days, but neither had most other blokes. Got me out of going to the grunt factory, so all good.
As distinct from Ansett, where points evaporated, and travellers were slugged a levy for years afterwards to pay out employees, many of whom were responsible for it being in the shitty competitive position it was in when it sunk. Not the only reason, but a contributor.
JC, in MIA at the moment.
Pure, unadulterated bullshit.
@Zafiro
Nov 3, 2023 6:11 PM
“I got put in Army jail at Kapooka for discharging my weapon without authority.”
If I had my time all over again the Military might have knocked some scence into me sooner.
but likely not … Hope you are traveling well Mate.
I see those two yobbos of ME appearance who disrupted the Bondi commemoration of the kidnapped have been located and fined by police.
Which was quick. Already known to them perhaps?
Roger, could be but I was told first hand from a NSW plod I knew years ago. The intelligence they get from tip offs from SW Sydney would surprise the public. He put it down to grudges and those muslims who came here to escape that sort of behaviour.
Well, Tom, you made the assertion that there was some tax benefit in deliberately acquiring a company with the express purpose of making a loss.
Unless there is a provision in US tax law which gives some sort of multiplier deduction for offshore losses, it doesn’t make sense.
Ill-considered acquisition and poor business strategy, to be sure, but a deliberate loss maker from the get-go?
I doubt it.
Total truth, Dotty.
God, you are such a pedant and bitch. Just leave people be.
@Rockdoctor
Nov 3, 2023 6:20 PM
Yup I once knew a bloke that flew for the firm I was working for … was a Australian Fed…. Utter Hero …
“What we had to keep a lid on you wouldn’t believe… ”
But they did … how much longer ?
Mr Bolton.
This is real life.
You are not the big bloke in The Green Mile.
Unless you are.
Wait.
Thanks Mark.
@ Rockdoctor
Nov 3, 2023 6:20 PM
Low level geophys stuff … most alarming..
MIA as in missing in action? Gaza or Ukraine?
Miami, close enough.
Caught a bus this arvo with Lord Malcolm the Miserable.
Poor Cassie.
Slumming it.
Sure, little buddy.
The Australian Army intentionally sleep-deprived you for 72 to 88 hours and then put you and 39 other recruits on a firing range to learn how to use the M-16 (1980s).
This is some of the most fantastical bullshit ever posted here.
Mal Turdball?
Sure, guys who have been to gaol not only defend the screws from other prisoners, but describe the cops as “utter heroes” with secrets of the highest importance.
Enough of this Hardy Boys shit. It’s beyond ridiculous.
@ Dot
Nov 3, 2023 6:35 PM
Perhaps you have better things to do with your Life than dream up flawed Lives for the rest of us.
Then go on to make such fever dreams come true … for you?
All of us have flawed lives , none of us pretend not to .. But at least they are ours?
Listen Dotty That was how shit was in the 1980’s. You explained it exactly. 7.62 SLR, not M 16s. I’m not bullshitting yo.u.
It appears (only breaking news atm) that some idiot has attempted to drive their car into a nuclear power plant in North Carolina.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/11/03/deputies-searching-suspect-following-incident-oconee-nuclear-station/
Chris Bowen may have been involved.
Yes, you are Grigory.
Was he on his way to a global warmening demo with the brainwashed school kiddies making him rich from his family’s renewable energy investments?
Mao catches the bus!!!???
The first problem is the hostages in the tunnels.
The second problem is that the ground is sandy and unconsolidated, and the tunnels appear to be driven above the water table. The water would promptly disappear into the dirt, rather than flood along the workings and drown terrorists.
A ‘better’ technical solution (assuming no hostages) would be to locate and control the surface of as many openings as possible, install surface vent fans to control air flow through the workings, and introduce a ~5% propane/air mixture at entry points where the ventilation current showed air being sucked into the tunnel system.
Then, after flowing the explosive gas/air mixture long enough to infiltrate a decent length of tunnel (1kg of propane should treat about 10m of tunnel), fire a flare to set it off, continue sucking the oxygen-depleted fumes through the workings – and repeat, shooting blinded, scalded and gasping terrorists as they emerge from their hidey holes.
Unfortunately, this, or something similar, is why there will be no mass hostage release.
Good….
Hi Graeme
Dot
Smuggling is rampant in prison so maybe Mark gave special favours to gain that extra packet of Tim Tam’s.
Nothing I have ever posted here is untrue. I dont care who thinks otherwise. I know it to be true.
I Have nothing to prove to anyone , except to myself and my Almighty .
Listen Dotty. I am not Grigory or Greame Bird etc,
Ask Knuclke Dragger. He was in the Grunts
Good on them!
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News Ltd wouldn’t publish my comment in response to Wally’s “why do white people not wear shoes” comment.
Apparently asking “why terrorism is predominantly linked to Islam” is not something you can say on national TV, or as poster at News….
@ bespoke
Nov 3, 2023 6:48 PM
“Smuggling is rampant in prison…” yup shit Prison Officers bringing in drugs.
The people were were incarcerated with were bad enough sober.
We just liked it quiet and help keep it like that…
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We’re heading to Miami for Thanks. Looking forward to it. Then a few days in Boca with some other pals haven’t seen for ages.