I hope the SFLs are taking note, or is Australia not yet dire enough for this medicine?
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Just scrolled back and saw your invite Lizzie – I should have contacted you in advance. We are driving back this pm. Next time.
These people vote. Even worse, they procreate.
Link to gas light post.
Safe trip back, TE. Get my email from Dover anyway, as it may be useful in future to be in touch. I am supposed to have an article coming out in Quadrant, sticking my neck out a bit on C5th British history, rather a back-burner issue for Quadrant recently given The Voice and now Hamas (I’ve just been watching some livestreamed action by the IDF in Gaza, major explosions and constant bursts of gunfire). Possibly my piece will appear in the Jan bumper issue, but it is rather long, so maybe I’ll have to revise it down, or out. I’ll send you a copy if it doesn’t appear soon anyway. Would value your opinion.
Hamas leaders reveal motive behind October 7 attack on Israel
Had an interesting discussion with a mate re “what do Hamas want?” and “what is their aim?” and why did they launch their attack etc the other day.
It was a bit of a mystery, but as the article suggests, Hamas basically were in danger of becoming a spent force. You can only get so much mileage out of swaggering around and having youngsters whisper “there goes one of the tough men”.
So in order to keep “the movement” alive they attack a bunch of defenceless civilians, and then fall back on the myths of “refugee camps” and “the river to the sea” and so on. It seems the majority of people who live in the Gaza Strip were getting on with their lives, but now they have become a bunch of human shields for gangsters who needed to keep the myth going to stay relevant.
Top Ender, I’m finding your book on the sinking of HMAS Sydney a damnfine piece of reading, indeed. Well done, Sir!
TE
it’s an interesting point which could well be valid but, it seems like they had been planning it (and stockpiling) for it for quite a while…?
Israel officials accuse Gaza reporters of knowing about Hamas attack
Followed by the sound of editorial trousers browning:
Better late than Late, I guess.
Link.
Top Ender
Nov 10, 2023 1:51 PM
Hamas leaders reveal motive behind October 7 attack on Israel
So in order to keep “the movement” alive they attack a bunch of defenceless civilians, and then fall back on the myths of “refugee camps” and “the river to the sea” and so on.
It seems the majority of people who live in the Gaza Strip were getting on with their lives, but now they have become a bunch of human shields for gangsters who needed to keep the myth going to stay relevant.
TE,
NO – The Palestinian Gazans are taught Hate from the Day they are born – They do absolutely nothing and like Austraian Aboriginals are rewarded Sit Down Money by the Wolrd
Money For Nothing: The Radical Growth of the Gazan Population
To understand Gaza, you must understand what a welfare state on steroids looks like.
This is a state that produces nothing, living only on the largesse of others.
To hide this destructive parasitism, it has not only actual “workers” but also “idle workers,” a term I borrow from the Talmud. The former work and get value for their wages; the latter happily do little or nothing and get the same or lower wages. Those in the second category think they’re getting money for nothing, but they could not be more wrong—and Gaza is Exhibit A.
Now let’s attend to the Gazans. I arbitrarily chose 18-year intervals to chart their population growth.
From 1951-1968 Gaza grew from 278,000 to 354,760 or an increase of 28%
From 1969-1987 Gaza grew from 354,760 to 868,100 or 144%
From 1987-2005 Gaza grew from 868,100 to 1,500,000 or 72%
From 2005-2023 Gaza grew from 1,500,000 to 2,380,000 or 58%
None of these increases represent natural (normal) population increases.
The problem is that these substantial growth levels were experienced alongside unemployment rates from 50% to 80%.
Here is where we begin to understand the unusual nature of Gaza compared to the rest of the world.
Poverty has always been epidemic in Gaza but here’s an interesting factoid, which is that there’s always money for bureaucrats: Before 2006, there were 80,000 government workers in the pay of the Palestinian Authority (PA). When Hamas threw out the Palestinian Authority in 2006, the PA continued to pay their salaries to maintain their loyalties. They were no longer working but were receiving the same salaries.
Having them on the payroll not only bought their loyalty, it allowed statistical lies. In 2021, the Palestinian authorities claim the unemployment rate was 44.7%, which probably would not include those still being paid by the Palestinian Authority while staying at home. In other words, donor nations were snookered into believing that they were helping create a viable economy.
More factoids: Gaza normally receives 455 trucks of aid per day. That is unusual for most places in the world. Of course, it has no exports except for some agricultural produce. Gaza does not manufacture its daily needs and wants. Essentially, everything is imported.
What is going on here?
The population increases, while unemployment is very high.
Most of Gaza’s needs are imported through the largesse of Europe and the United States. People in Gaza are willing to live at lower wages scales if they do not have to exert themselves.
This circumstance makes them a captive population, like all welfare-dependent groups, and it perverts normal population dynamics.
Under normal circumstances, people will move from places of high unemployment to places with better possibilities.
These Gazans are caught by a system that seemingly gives them something for nothing. But it’s not really nothing. Instead, they are cannon fodder for Hamas.
They are tools for the EU, the UN, and the United States to pressure Israel into withdrawing to the 1967 suicide borders.
They are pawns of the Iranian Mullahs who will fight to the last Gazan, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemini Houthi, and Shi’ite Iraqi to remove the Jewish State of Israel from the world.
The most insidious aspect of this circumstance is that the West, including most prominently the Biden administration, is willing to use the Palestinian Arabs to get at the Israelis.
As long as Gazans live on cynical welfare, their population will continue to grow in ways that can never be sustainable.
For instance, she should stand at the edge of Gaza and call on Hamas to surrender to justice, return all hostages, disarm and acknowledge their crimes against Israel, Palestinian populations and all humanity.
The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.
There’s also the view of the Israeli left that intensifying the Israeli settlement on the West Bank has pushed Hamas’ hand. Declining powers can get antsy and this provided a good excuse to attack in the name of Palestinian land, reviving all the old tropes.
What Does Catholic Just-War Doctrine Say About Israel and Hamas?
National Catholic Register – Interviews – November 9, 2023
REGISTER ROUNDTABLE: V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Philpott and R.R. Reno
Assess How Church Teaching Applies to the Crisis in the Holy Land
Plenty of employment in Gaza, those tunnels don’t dig themselves.
Somebody earlier wanted this article posted. Here ‘tis. From the Oz.
Wong should be travelling to the Middle East and involving herself directly. That, after all, is the job of Australia’s chief diplomat.
The Wong chap is a communist with no interest in foreign affairs but the usual power hype. Not for thee but me.
I doubt even Gough would have pulled it off at the annual Labor Conference. Hawke wouldn’t have touched it with a barge pole.
Somebody earlier wanted this article posted. Here ‘tis. From the Oz.
Thanks Mak.
The Washington Post made a huge mistake in killing this cartoon
By Post Editorial Board
NOT THIS POST: The Washington Post has apologized (in full cringe mode) over the cartoon above, which the paper published Wednesday.
But the apology is the mistake, not the publication.
In it, artist Michael Ramirez makes a powerful point about what’s really going on in Gaza: Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields while blaming Israel for the result.
Indeed, the terrorists savor every innocent killed as Israel moves to eliminate the terrorist group that slaughtered roughly 1,400 of its civilians, along with mass rapes and the kidnapping of 200-plus hostages it still holds — and is also using as human shields.
Opinion editor David Shipley says the cartoon “was seen by many readers as racist”
— though the drawing is simply, and plainly, a caricature of an actual Hamas spokesman who celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks across southern Israel.
The paper has pulled the ’toon off its website and is “also publishing a selection of responses to the caricature,” Shipley writes.
This retreat simply encourages those objecting to a message — in this case, Ramirez’s — to cry “racism” so as to censor it, and to intimidate anyone who agrees with Ramirez into shutting up.
“Democracy dies in darkness” is the WaPo’s slogan; we’re saddened to see it surrendering to the dark side.
— The Post Editorial Board
On visit to Israel, I have seen the horror that the world must not forget
By Douglas Murray
It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over.
But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over.
The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.
Yet the world seems to have moved on.
Already the international media are focused not on the atrocities Hamas committed against Israel but on the response of Israel to the terrorists of Hamas.
Every day the New York Times and other papers give their views on how Israel should bring the war to a draw.
And every day there are protests across the world made up of people who are either evil or ignorant.
That some of the anti-Israel protesters are ignorant is provable.
Two girls interviewed at one pro-Hamas protest in London were asked what their reaction was when they first learned that Hamas had attacked Israel on October 7.
“I don’t believe they did, did they,” said one.
“Honestly, I think I need to be a bit more clued up on everything that’s going on, so I feel I’m not really qualified to answer that too well,” said the other.
Well, she appeared to feel “qualified” enough to turn up at an anti-Israel demo.
Her friend, holding a banner, actually said, “I mean, I’m not sure I’ve seen anything that shows that that’s actually happened.”
These two ignoramuses should have come to Israel with me this week.
Specifically, they should have come to the site of the music festival massacre, and seen the remains of that “peace rave” where people their age, and very similar to them, were gunned down and raped just as the party was “coming up.”
Or perhaps they should have come with me to the small community of Nir Oz on the border of Gaza.
I have been to kibbutzim like this many times in the past. The citizens of these small towns and communities are often very left-wing. Often “peaceniks.” They have been accustomed to rockets for years.
Ever since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and Hamas got elected and killed their rivals, the people of these communities have known that their neighbors might not love them.
But few could have imagined the sheer human hate and evil that came down on their community one Saturday morning last month.
Nir Oz is — or was — a community of 400 people. Today it is a ghost town.
Within sight of the Gaza border, the terrorists came in from four different entrances on October 7 and went from house to house.
One of the surviving members of the community took me around.
We moved carefully through the burned-out ruins of his town.
He knew the families who had lived in every one of these houses. He knew their names, their stories, their hobbies.
It was a scene of utter carnage.
Of the community’s 400 people, at least 30 were murdered in their homes and over 80 were kidnapped and taken into Gaza, many very badly wounded.
Most of the modest houses had a safe room built into them in which the families could shelter from the rockets fired at them regularly from Gaza. But these were not enough on the morning of October 7.
In house after house, I saw the results. Each was left as it was left that day. Many were burned out.
Tables were overthrown and belongings strewn everywhere. In some of the houses, the bloodstains spoke for themselves.
The safe rooms didn’t lock, because nobody expected such a battalion-style invasion of terrorists.
As a result, the residents of Nir Oz met their ends in their “safe rooms,” trying to hold the doors shut as the terrorists of Hamas tried to open them from the other side. The bullet holes around the handles told the story in most houses.
An elderly woman struggled to keep the door closed, and was shot repeatedly from the other side of the door before the terrorists burst in and finished her off.
One old man who had not been able to get out was burned alive in his home by the terrorists. “He always said he had the best view,” my guide said, as we stood on this dead man’s balcony overlooking Gaza.
Worst was when we came to the home of my guide’s sister. She had been out of the house when the terrorists came in.
Her two teenage sons barricaded themselves into the safe room. Surrounded by their toys and magazines, you could see all the signs of the struggle these brave young lads put up.
But the terrorists broke in, wounded them and stole them — taking them into Gaza.
Then there were the Thai workers who helped in the kibbutz and had their own accommodation. The terrorists had gone from door to door, shooting them.
As in so many other places in the settlements, you could see the stains on the floor where someone had crawled during their last moments or been dragged out half-dead. At the end of this row of accommodation was their bomb shelter.
It was plain from the inside that this was the site of a massacre.
Hamas packed the Thai men and women into this small room and then butchered them. The floor was still thick with their congealed blood.
And here it looked like Hamas had tried to save their bullets. The walls and ceiling — even the air conditioning unit — were all covered in blood spatter.
Here, like so many other parts of the community, there were occasional handprints in blood, where people had tried to stand or avoid being dragged in their dying moments.
These imprints should not be forgotten. These were all people who had done nothing wrong.
To a man, woman and child, they were all just going about their lives.
Most had some dream of peace. Some houses still had their shopping lists on their fridge doors. Others had signs saying “Live and let live.”
Hamas didn’t allow them to live. The world must never forget this.
Israel cannot live with Hamas. The world must realize this.
Photo on extwitter of the cnn photojournalist in Israel with a grenade in his hand.
Taken from his own Facebook page.
Not embedded, simply, a terrorist.
WaPo’s mission statement, not a warning against complacency.
The Blind Leading the Blind
Gladys Berejiklian the ‘obvious candidate’ to replace Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin if she is ousted amid ongoing backlash over telco’s nationwide 14-hour network outage
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has been floated as one candidate who could take the top job at Optus, as the incumbent boss continues to cop backlash over Wednesday’s major network blackout.
At lunchtime today I decided to go to an exercise class at the last minute. Whilst waiting for a bus in Sydney’s CBD, a big mobile billboard truck drove passed me, and the truck was emblazoned in big posters saying “Stop the war in Gaza” and stating that ‘children are being wiped out’.
Hmmm. Interesting.
A few days ago, a mobile billboard truck covered with pictures of the over 200 kidnapped Jewish men, women, children and babies, was stopped in Bondi (where lots of Jewish people live, there are numerous synagogues and so on) by the NSWaffen Police and the following happened…
A mobile billboard showing pictures of kidnapped Israelis while driving through Bondi on Sunday turned off its sign after being told by police that “there’s lots of people that come in from other places” to visit the beach and “some people may take exception”.
Photos from the scene, posted to X by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), showed the truck being pulled over, two officers approaching the driver, and the truck subsequently parked with its digital sign turned off.
“A truck carrying hostage posters was asked to turn the signs off in Bondi,” the AJA wrote on X.
“This is a scandal just like when the government told Jews to stay home while a mob chanted ‘gas the Jews’ at Sydney’s Opera House. If Jews aren’t safe in Bondi, are they safe anywhere in Australia? Police should focus on dealing with the threats not silencing Jews.”
The AJA added, “They were told it was a safety issue and they could display the signs in Vaucluse but not Bondi.”
Okay then, I now wait for the NSWaffen Police to stop the truck I saw today, and tell the driver of this truck that “there are lots of people that come in from other places to visit the CBD and some people may take exception“, because you see, this Jew has taken exception to the billboard truck, so I will wait in great anticipation for the NSWaffen Police to apply the same standard to the billboard truck and its driver that I saw today driving around our CBD, as it did to the driver of the billboard truck in Bondi, or will the NSWWaffen Police continue to engage in selective policing? I already know the answer to this question.
I repeat, I now have zero confidence and zero respect for the NSWaffen Police. I now take “exception” to the NSWaffen Police.
On top of the nearest roof…
Why Trump’s rally mattered more than the GOP debate in Miami
Most people are swayed by intangibles: by moods, sentiments, feelings
Do you believe in coincidences? I used to. But like Macbeth I have just “supped full with horror.”
That is, I have been flipping back and forth between the glitzy but pointless Republican debate in Miami and Donald Trump’s rally in nearby Hialeah, Florida.
And here’s Exhibit One in my brief against coincidences: my office reading group is just now, as I write, reading Dante’s Inferno. Yes, could there be any more apposite reading?
I am going to take a page here from that priest W. H. Auden talked about who advised the people who came to him for confession to “be brief, be blunt, and be gone.” An admirable imperative which I intend to obey.
It was pleasantly (mostly) surreal flicking back and forth between the tidy, well-laundered and well-pressed debate and the raucous free-for-all that was the Trump rally. The 10- or 15,000 strong crowd there was prepped and pumped up by Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who endorsed her old boss tonight. “USA, USA, USA” — the crowd was young, enthusiastic, unruly.
Over in Miami, it was a different scene. I doubt there was 1,000 people there. Like a middle chapter in an Agatha Christie mystery, the crew on stage had been whittled down. Once there were eight. Now there were five: Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott and Chris “Michelin Man” Christie.
Anyone wanting to know which event mattered more — the official debate, or Trump’s free-for-all down the road — need only avail himself of an applause-meter of the sort that they used to use on Queen for a Day.
By that measure, Trump won in a landslide. His thousands of fans generated enough energy to illuminate a small city.
Thanks OldOzzie @02:38.
Distressing but must be read.
Clothes make the man, Laurence Fox:
https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1722249176350912664
🙂
Suella Braverman, Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, has gone and done the unthinkable – she has questioned the supposed impartiality of London’s Metropolitan Police force. She didn’t do it in off the cuff remarks or at a tea, either.
Suella Braverman: Police must be even-handed with protests
There is a perception that senior officers play favourites when it comes to protesters
In this country we pride ourselves on our long-established traditions of freedom of expression. These liberties consist not only of freedom of speech but also freedom of assembly.
The right to protest in public is a cornerstone of democracy. That is why peaceful marches are never banned and even controversial and disruptive ones are policed rather than blocked.
Only in the most exceptional circumstances do the authorities step in.
The way the law works is clear: if a chief constable believes that there is a serious risk of disorder which the police will struggle to contain, he or she can ask the home secretary to ban a march. Even then, a static protest can take place.
…It is the pro-Palestinian movement that has mobilised tens of thousands of angry demonstrators and marched them through London every weekend.
From the start, these events have been problematic, not just because of violence around the fringes but because of the highly offensive content of chants, posters and stickers.
This is not a time for naiveté.
We have seen with our own eyes that terrorists have been valorised, Israel has been demonised as Nazis and Jews have been threatened with further massacres.
Each weekend has been worse than the previous one.
Last Saturday, in central London, police were attacked with fireworks, train services were brought to a halt by demonstrators and poppy sellers were mobbed and prevented from raising funds for veterans.
…The answer must be: even-handedly.
Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters.
During Covid, why was it that lockdown objectors were given no quarter by public order police yet Black Lives Matters demonstrators were enabled, allowed to break rules and even greeted with officers taking the knee?
Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law?
I have spoken to serving and former police officers who have noted this double standard.
Football fans are even more vocal about the tough way they are policed as compared to politically-connected minority groups who are favoured by the left…
Gaza update …….!
https://youtu.be/aBGADEEl_v8
I’m perplexed by Suella Braverman being a commentator.
She is the Home Secretary.
Fix the problem. Leave the hot takes to us.
Penny Wong has not once visited the Middle East.
She was being fed & watered in Qatar several weeks ago .. shirley, that is still in the mid-east ..!
Typical Green…
The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.
Always the same…..hatred of Israel, loving illegal immigrants, voting YES, f*cking little boys up the arse. The list could go on.
And in the ACT, encouraging meth heads, getting kids to believe they can be boys/girls depending on which day of the week, and encouraging people to commit suicide.
Just waiting to see what their childish rant will be tomorrow, Armistice Day.
Uncensored USA
@CarlosSimancas
What’s worse than an unstable liberal with a mental illness?
A drunk-driving unstable liberal with a mental illness.
Driving on the wrong side of the road.
“I suffer from really bad anxiety, especially with generational trauma and PTSD around white people and cops.”
“I’m non-binary.”
shatterzzz
Nov 10, 2023 3:07 PM
Gaza update …….!
https://youtu.be/aBGADEEl_v8
Thanks shatterzzz, like those updates
Had an interesting discussion with a mate re “what do Hamas want?” and “what is their aim?” and why did they launch their attack etc the other day.
It was Iran trying to derail the Israel-Saudi-UAE trade deal.
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
– Simon Wiesenthal
From The Oz.
The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.
Rand Paul Asks State Official Point Blank: What Is Being Done To Find ‘Off Ramp’ For Ukraine War? – 6 Mins 20mSecs
New ‘Orwellian’ HHS pronoun mandate forces employees to ‘deny reality,’ violate law: legal expert
Leaving aside the issue that Intergenerational trauma was first diagnosed amongst the children of Holocaust survivors, doesn’t this episode raise the issue about whether the young person featured in this interchange is sane enough to hold a driver’s licence?
Jewish billionaire Henry Swieca quits Columbia board over ‘abhorrent’ threats to Jews on campus
frollicking one…
there should be warnings to not click on those links
All of my links are of a certain quality.
Dot is obviously stunned at the volume of opportunity on show.
Going on past experience, they’re probably trying to make them infertile.
Gates-Funded Plan to Vaccinate 86 Million Girls Against HPV Will ‘Unleash Mass Casualty Event,’ Critic Says
The ACT Greens have referred its own member Johnathan Davis to police after allegations emerged that he had sex with two teenage boys, aged 15 and 17-years-old.
Sick prick.
Today’s anti-Israel protests are based on Hitleresque lies
YOUR baby’s DNA is being stored for DECADES in government labs and can be used in police investigations without your permission – and New Jersey parents are now suing for rights to their infants’ blood
I’ve just had a conversation with a person at one of our Jewish communal organisations. I told this person about the truck I saw earlier, this person already knew about the truck, and then this person proceeded to let me know just some of what the Jewish community in this country is currently experiencing at the moment, numerous death threats and these threats are so severe that they involve not just local police but also counter terrorism experts. Where are the threats emanating from? Let’s just say that they aren’t coming from any Grampian Nazis, no, they’re coming from real Nazis, Nazi Pallies.
Then this person, a person who’s not one for hyperbole, said something that made me wince, this person said that the halcyon days for Australian Jews and a thriving Jewish community on this continent are over, finito.
C.L.
Because its England, with lots and lots of tradition, its not so clear cut.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/08/mark-rowley-appointed-new-commissioner-of-the-metropolitan-police
A maggott gets a say in who is selected..
The Met commissioner is formally appointed by royal warrant from the Queen. The choice was made by the home secretary, Priti Patel, who had to take into account the views of Khan, who is also the police and crime commissioner for the capital.
Cassie of Sydney:
This will only happen when we get a conservative media group, and the Right is too fractured and vulnerable to disruption to have that happen. Government and Unions will descend on any conservative networks like sharks on a school of swimmers and tear it apart with lawfare, regulation and lies.
I’d support a Conservative newspaper and internet site with money but how many others would? Conservatives would nit pick it to death.
TheRealJohnnyBravo
@BouchellJohn
Imagine being so gas lighted that you go out and protest Israel, but have no idea that Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th.
Richard Tice
@TiceRichard
Disgusting….
Rochdale Cenotaph vandalised by Free Palestine idiots
They disrespect Britain, our history and our sacrifice…..
Thanks Old Ozzie. Cheers Zulu. And feelthebern, I have marked the lobster roll place down for next time.
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Indolent
Nov 10, 2023 3:44 PM
TheRealJohnnyBravo
@BouchellJohn
They are not alone, it’s the vibe for most of them.
A sad indictment on today’s young people, all feels no facts.
The West MUST Wake Up | Victor Davis Hanson
Seems like the magic % had been reached and it’s too dangerous politically to oppose.
Why did we let it happen?
There was no sane reason for it.
John Fetterman has been so good on Israel since Oct 7th.
Who had a brain injured DNC creature being that clear & concise, condemning Hamas & supporting Israel on their bingo card?
Kneel:
I suspect under Sharia Law, they are totally innocent because Heroic Soldiers of Islam.
Under the normal Rules of War, rape is a capital crime.
Yet if you put some bacon onto the door handle of a mosque you will go to gaol and be murdered there.
What we’re seeing from the British and Australian police is quite revealing too.
The virgin affair haver Vs the Chad Lock changer…
While I was away, visiting my elderly parents, he had called a locksmith to our marital home and locked me out of it. Even now at 53, a long 14 years later, this moment remains one of the most emotionally charged of my entire life.
….
Yes, I was in the wrong to cheat, but the pain and humiliation I felt at the way my marriage of eight years ended — also within hours of my husband’s discovery — affected me every single day for years.
Was my immediate exile from the marriage really the right thing for my husband to do? Is horribly wounded pride a good enough reason to throw away years of mutual support and, yes, happiness?
I knew he knew about ten hours before I came home to the changed lock.
….
Being locked out by my husband felt like being paraded through the street naked with my head shorn as if I were caught collaborating with the enemy.
…
I have tried to contact him many times over the years, but he has locked me out of any communication. I am dead to him.
Now thats how you educate people.
Charles is still being his usual political, interfering, activist self. He is anything but a symbol of unity.
‘It’s not about class, race or rank. The King’s made a huge mistake’ | Nigel fumes over ‘woke’ poppy
The King wants REFUGEES to feel more welcome in Britain | ‘Choose your words CAREFULLY Charles!’
The Green….
Mr Davis, a former real estate agent, has led the ACT Greens’ push for a rent freeze, short-stay rental accommodation regulation and a voting age lowered to 16.
Some of the big names in the ACT Real Estate business have dents in their poo. That this little pedo was in it doesn’t surprise.
Greens thrive on these types as members.
I don’t see why the fuss. It’s okay to talk to the birds.
It’s when the birds start talking back to you that you’ve got problems.
(Or you’re a lonely Sage-Grouse.)
Nigel Farage.
‘Centre of gravity in Britain is BEHIND Braverman’: Police treat Hamas supporters with ‘kid gloves!’
Well, that’s just not going to happen. I get some morning coffee in Ripponlea and I still see the hasidic kids in full regalia on e-scooters. It must be a thing with these boys as they all seem to be riding these blessed scooters causing havoc on the road and sidewalks. I’ll start to worry when I’m not seeing them. 🙂
Whilst I have no time for Greens philosophy, these are only allegations at the moment. The way internal politics are played, especially by the Greens, I am waiting for further evidence to come to light. With all the ludicrous allegations we have had over the last few years I’m a bit more sceptical these days.
To be fair, they were on the other side in WWII
I suspect there’s more of an issue with Islamic lunacy in Sydney than there is in Melbourne.
Thanks Shatterz for the channel on Youtube with war updates, good to see a visual/mapped idea of what’s going on…
FMD, he’s 93 years old with a net worth of US$120 billion and is now accused of front running orders?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvE9hsCb4V0
Front running in this instance would mean he’s personally buying or selling stocks ahead of Berkshire.
I find it hard to believe, but boy, if it’s true.
Dave Sharma proves – as if proof were needed – that he is absolutely clueless.
The job of Australia’s top diplomat is to further Australia’s interests in the World. It is not getting involved *directly* in the Middle East. A simple affirmation of Israel would do nicely, unless and until Israel asks for more than that.
She would do a lot more good if she could unravel the Pacific, combat Chinese influence across the region or in fact any one of a hundred useful, local/regional things. Which is kinda what she has been doing… whether or not you approve, she is more or less heading in the right general direction.
‘Tis a sad day when you are demonstrably less useful that Mr Wong, but, congrats, Dave, you have it covered.
At Brighton Le-Sands for lunch. Posters on the power poles near the beach saying “Israeli ships” should not be allowed to dock in Sydney. Named a shipping line I had not heard of.
I suppose it is a bit naughty of me to like this comment from an article in the American Thinker.
I’m a bit more sceptical these days.
Scepticism is essential these days Bear.
But, in this case, I suspect the narcissistic little Green poof has been sprung.
One wonders if, at some stage, he hit the mud button of the Chief Minister given the incestuous Labor/Greens alliance in the Canberra town council.
I’m not sure about ACT, but isn’t the 15 year old counted as rape? Not able to give consent?
In Linda Burney’s electorate. No surprise for me there.
I grew up in the Division of Barton, went to school and was a nurse in that electorate.
My brother has lived in Sans Souci for the past 40yrs and tells me who lives there now.
For those who have not seen it the Ramirez Hamas cartoon can be seen in article at Gateway Pundit
The cartoon depicted a man labeled “Hamas” with a woman and children strapped to him, asking “How dare Israel attack civilians,”
Seems a pretty good summary of the situation.
Reminds me of another cartoon. Depicted IDF soldiers kneeling pointing gun. Behind him is a baby in a pram. Other the other side is a Hamas fighter kneeling pointing a gun. He is behind a baby in a pram.
What a pity Ramirez has TDS bad; he is spot on about other matters. That toon of his with the ugly muzzie with kids tied to him is a beauty.
Apparently Hamarse is a race.
Because cartoon racist.
Smooth brain energy at work there.
Gabor:
This is what gives me the irrits – We didn’t let this Mohammedan invasion happen, it was imposed on us by our governments and 10% of the population.
There has never been a referendum to find out if we want more immigration, our political elites refuse to hold one. And now it looks like the bastards are going to dump a stack of Hamarse supporters on us from the Gaza Strip.
Certainly needs a museum. Tolerance is only an ancient artifact and not a living language.
Famous magician Luigi the Unbelievable makes Pacific island disappear.
Australia opens the door for all 11,000 Tuvaluans to come to Australia, because their country will soon disappear under the waves due to climate change.
I ran some searches to find references to how many across the Pacific are growing, not shrinking. Most returned an uninterrupted sequence of reports based on climate models. However, with the terms “is tuvalu actually sinking” amazingly gave the second hit as an ABC Fact Check :
The verdict: “Checks out“. Of course there follows many caveats, such as that climate models include scenarios of much faster sea level rise than Tuvalu is currently experiencing. Models vs reality!
A dispiriting row at a dangerous moment
The public are more interested in tackling radical extremism than the internal decision-making process by which this is achieved
TELEGRAPH VIEW
A great many people will agree with Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary.
There is indeed a widespread perception that the police treat protests by particular groups differently to others.
It is true that the scenes witnessed at the pro-Palestinian marches in recent weeks have been disgraceful.
As Mrs Braverman wrote in the newspaper article that has proven so controversial, at these demonstrations “terrorists have been valorised, Israel has been demonised as Nazis and Jews have been threatened with further massacres”.
Is the Home Secretary so wrong to say that these constitute “hate marches”?
But Mrs Braverman holds one of the great offices of state and occupies a complex position in the constitutional settlement.
Hers is obviously a political role, given that she is an MP and a member of the Cabinet, but it includes certain statutory responsibilities and functions.
Her newspaper article effectively criticising Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, for not requesting a ban on Saturday’s pro-Palestine march, cut across operational decisions which have always been off-limits to politicians for good reason.
We do not want to live in a country in which ministers can direct officers to arrest particular individuals, or involve themselves directly in police decisions.
If Mrs Braverman had wanted Saturday’s march proscribed, she could have brought forward an emergency Bill to do so.
She did not, and now the Armistice Day protest is going ahead.
The country has been told by Sir Mark that there needed to be a realistic “threat of serious disorder” in order for the police to apply for a banning order, and intelligence on the demonstration does not currently meet the threshold. That may be a hopeful assessment.
Sir Mark must urgently set out what he is planning to do to ensure that the threat of violence is minimised, that Armistice Day commemorations are not disrupted, and that anti-Semitism is dealt with harshly.
Indeed, one of the dispiriting aspects of this whole row is that it has taken attention away from a concern surely more pressing to the public.
What is going to be done about the hateful extremism and anti-Jewish racism that has been on full display on the streets of major cities in recent weeks?
The country wants politicians to do more than complain from the sidelines.
From the Oz:
Bon, Cohenite et alia; very keen to hear your opinions of this.
DavidH beat me to it.
OldOzzie
That may be so, but what has she and her supporters done to deal with the problem?
There is no point in standing up and talking about the issues, when, as soon as she is out of camera range, the problem is ignored.
Pauline Hanson calls for Welcome to Country to be banned: ‘Australians are sick and tired of them’
. One Nation leader has demanded end to the rituals
. Says they have lost all meaning and are fake history
. Marcia Langton vowed to stop them if Voice rejected
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has demanded a ban on Welcome to Country rituals in the wake of the referendum defeat for the Voice to Parliament.
She said she wanted to hold leading Voice architect Professor Marcia Langton to her vow made in April that a No vote would end her performances of the ceremony.
‘We can only hope this promise is lived up to,’ said senator Hanson in a post on X of a speech she was unable to give in Parliament because of a censure motion.
‘They’re recited at the beginning of every parliamentary sitting day, every council meeting, and every zoom meeting held by public servants.
‘We hear them at the conclusion of every domestic flight – you can hear the groans in the cabin every time.
They have effectively lost all meaning for their constant repetition.
‘Australians – including many Indigenous people – are sick and tired of them. They are sick of being told Australia is not their country.’
The Queensland senator had been silenced in Parliament after offering to drive Greens senator Mahreen Faruqi ‘to the airport’ if she ‘didn’t love Australia’. Senator Hanson later withdrew her remarks about Senator Faruqi.
Senator Hanson’s planned speech was instead delivered in Parliament by One Nation colleague Malcolm Roberts and published online by senator Hanson.
‘There was some controversy in the Senate that resulted in my right to speak in the chamber being temporarily revoked by the Labor Government, with the support of the Greens,’ she posted on social media.
‘This happened due to comments I made during a debate where I criticised the Greens for their apologist stance toward Islamic extremist terrorism.
‘As a consequence, I was unable to deliver a speech I had prepared.’
In her planned speech, she railed against the Indigenous ceremonies and branded them a modern invention which had been dismissed as ‘divisive’ by some Aboriginal leaders.
She said the referendum result should bring an end to them all, including both Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country ceremonies.
‘It was more than a rejection of the voice,’ she said. ‘It was a rejection of the entire Uluru Statement – all 26 pages of it.
‘It was a rejection of a treaty and truth-telling – or more accurately, a re-write of history with an eye on financial settlements funded by non-indigenous taxpayers.
‘It was a rejection of identity politics, grievance politics and the activist cult of victimhood. And primarily, it was a rejection of racial division.
‘And one of the most racially divisive features of modern discourse in Australia is welcome to country ceremonies, along with acknowledgements of country.’
Senator Hanson added that the idea of Indigenous nations pre-existing before British colonisation was a fake idea imported from overseas.
‘Welcomes and acknowledgements deny the citizenship and sovereignty held equally by all Australians,’ she said.
‘They perpetuate the falsehood that prior to 1788, nations existed on this continent.
‘They didn’t. This is a foreign notion, an activist device imported from Canada that does not reflect the reality of Australian history.
‘It’s not even an genuine pre-settlement ritual for most Aborigines. It was invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley.’
She said South Australian Narungga elder and No campaigner Kerry White said the rituals should only be for Indigenous people welcoming other Indigenous people to their land.
‘She said its use by non-indigenous Australians was just virtue-signalling,’ said the senator. ‘She wasn’t wrong about the virtue-signalling, that’s for sure.
‘She even said ‘welcomes to country’ were an attack on Indigenous culture.
‘Another indigenous leader of the ‘no’ campaign, Senator Naminjimpa Price, who said recently that welcomes to country were “definitely divisive”.’
Be fair. How could a woman who doesn’t understand the issues explain to customers far too ignorant to understand the explanation, and a bunch of politicians even more ignorant, what went wrong?
Famous magician Luigi the Unbelievable makes Pacific island disappear.
It is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen since KRudd crying. Trying to dance on a Pacific island. We’ve had some horrible useless Prime Ministers from both sides over decades but this one is the worst.
FMD, the ranga gets a tick ahead of this fuckwit.
A one term wonder and he knows it. Hence the AirBus for constant photo ops.
The dxealer’s missus doesn’t even have to sharpen the December knife because he’s so useless.
Delta A
Nov 10, 2023 5:29 PM
From the Oz:
PM to offer Tuvalu residents climate visa.
The Australian government will offer refuge to up to 280 residents of the island nation per year as climate change threatens to wipe out their home.
Bon, Cohenite et alia; very keen to hear your opinions of this.
Go here:
Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Project
Over 30 years there has been NO change in sea level, sea temp o air temp. Rub and tug was in the Cook islands; here is their sea level graph for 30 years. It has had its ups (la Nina) and downs (El Nino) but the sea level now is what it was in 1997.
The leaders of these islands are grifters and rub and tug is a brothel bozo.
Keep it for the ceremonial occasions of its original design – for events when our local aborigines want to play at welcoming foreign natives for international native festivities. Put it back in its original box.
As much as I’d like to send all Year Zero (Greens) politicians and voters to Jabba the Hutt for his carbonite collection, we might consider that, should none of this be factual, comments here framed in a certain manner may leave the forum owner open to legal consequences.
Tony Heller:
For 35 years the United Nations has been saying the Maldives are about to drown due to the burning of fossil fuels.
The Drowned Maldives
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Famous magician Luigi the Unbelievable makes Pacific island disappear.
It is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen since KRudd crying. Trying to dance on a Pacific island. We’ve had some horrible useless Prime Ministers from both sides over decades but this one is the worst.
FMD, the ranga gets a tick ahead of this f*ckwit.
A one term wonder and he knows it. Hence the AirBus for constant photo ops.
The dxealer’s missus doesn’t even have to sharpen the December knife because he’s so useless.
Cassie
Have you made a formal complaint? Use the words they used to shut down the hostage truck. Force them to justify their different treatment of Jews and others.
If you get no response forward the correspondence to your local, state and federal representatives. And buttonhole them in the street every time you see them.
I’m just checking U.K. comedian Andrew Lawrence’s YouTube page for a fresh monologue. While many of his videos average views in the 20,000 to 30,000 range, his Fit in, or F**k Off from just three days ago has 110,000 views.
Heh.
I’m happy to give all Greens and Labor politicians exactly as much right to the presumption of innocence that they gave Lehrmann.
I neglected to credit Cassie for introducing him here some days ago.
At Brighton Le-Sands for lunch.
Best to be out of the area by sundown.
To Understand Mike Johnson, Look to Small-Town Louisiana
Understood, Figures. Many here would feel the same. My point, however, is about exposing The Cat and its owner to unwanted attention. Some would see decent mileage in using us as evidence of the ‘home-grown extremist right-wingers that pose a threat to social stability.’
Be an amazingly brief skit for a Palestinian version of Life of Brian.
Reg Al Palali: They’ve bled us white, those Hamas bastards. They’ve taken everything we have. And not just from us, but from our fathers, and from our fathers’ fathers.
Stan Fal Mouhd: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers…
Reg: Yeah.
Stan: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers’ fathers…
Reg: Alright Stan. Don’t labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?
**** The End ****
The Truth About Hamas | Peter Hitchens
Not just Lehrmann but also Pell, Porter and Laming.
No the atolls aren’t sinking. They’re getting bigger.
Data Show No Danger To Pacific Atolls From Sea Level …”The Majority Have Enlarged” (2015)
New Paper On Atolls: “There Has Been A 7.3% Increase In Net Island Area Over The Past Century”! (2015)
Tuvalu Not Experiencing Increased Sea level Rise (2004 research paper)
Even the ABC had a story to this effect once. I don’t immediately have a link. All this is obvious – if you look at the atolls of French Polynesia like Rangiroa they’re enormous. The central volcano has sunk millions of years ago but the coral grows up towards the light and sand is deposited onto it.
DrBeauGan
Nov 10, 2023 5:43 PM
Be fair. How could a woman who doesn’t understand the issues explain to customers far too ignorant to understand the explanation, and a bunch of politicians even more ignorant, what went wrong?
I disagree.
Michelle Rowland is a personal friend of my daughter (they are the same age) and she has known her long before her being a MP. Michelle is not ignorant.
Tap water at the moment tastes like garbage. I don’t trust it.
I’ll add this one by Tony Thomas in Quadrant. Tuvalu is mentioned.
The King Canutes of Climate Science (2015)
Watch Host’s Face as Thomas Sowell Exposes the Real Origin Jews Are Hated
There were no Mosques in Sydney before the early or mid 1970s, and none in the rest of NSW apart from a disused tin shed at Broken Hill. The Lebanese civil war was the initial cause of increased Middle East immigrants, mainly Christians. That crossed paths with Al Grasby’s mouldykulturism stuff, opening the gate for indiscriminate Middle East migration in general.
This is the creature judging Trump:
BREAKING: Unhinged Judge Engoron Under Scrutiny for Allegedly Posting Half-Naked Photos of Himself to High School Alumni Newsletter He Controls (VIDEO)
He looks like an anemic preying mantis. He and letitia make a good pair: he’s a preying mantis and she’s a fat, black slug.
Watched Ron Barassi’s state memorial held at the MCG today. Was really good. It’s on Kayo.
Obligatory welcome to country by “Aunty” someone; she went on to speak further about Barass, and was OK. I think they knew each other. Then Archie Roach’s son played a didgeridoo.
The COVID-19 blame game: Unvaccinated individuals disproportionately scapegoated, study suggests
Great word. Love it.
rub and tug is a brothel bozo.
Lovely darts cohenite!
An educated muzzie: arrogant, callous, smug and a liar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnYUATYGQe4
We made it back to Chez Top Ender OK, Bern. Lovely day in regional NSW just over the border from Canberra. Even the local leftie newsletter RiotACT was carrying the news of the Green MP who has been asked to stop being an MP for a while.
They also had this:
https://the-riotact.com/war-memorial-wins-comcare-safety-award-for-clever-wwii-rocket-restoration-project/720689?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=daily&utm_campaign=2023-11-10
which is quite interesting.
His wife is also a full on lefty Trump hater who having been caught this week is presently removing all her social media posts and accounts. It’s rather funny.
They probably can’t point to Israel or Gaza on a world map. and think Hamas and Palestinians are different people.
As much as I’d like to send all Year Zero (Greens) politicians and voters to Jabba the Hutt for his carbonite collection, we might consider that, should none of this be factual, comments here framed in a certain manner may leave the forum owner open to legal consequences.
FFS Muddy. Dover can handle it.
Stop being an appeaser.
Time for all of us to start pushing back and stop worrying about egg shells!
I actually think this is a very good idea. Bring them all here (what’s 11k in our migrant intake… drop in the ocean… pun intended). We then take ownership of Tuvalu and use it as the first advanced base in what is to become the Greater Australia-Pacific Co-Prosperity Sphere (may need some work on the nomenclature).
The reason the CCP is so interested in the Pacific isn’t just because it’s strategic… it’s because there are a lot of micro-nations easily and cheaply bought off. If we can buy them off with citizenship, all to the good.
The Optus bint. I’m curious is she the same idiot that wouldn’t answer phones outside hours of a few years back?
I’d be okay with just the acknowledgements of country being banned.
If the meeting isn’t the kind of community event that would warrant the attendance of a local aborigine, then don’t bother. At that point, the virtue signalling has reached the toxic level.
Indigenous intergenerational trauma involves magical transference across gaps of a few generations to someone who discovers as an adult that their great-grandmother was aboriginal. Holocaust survivor children lived from birth in the same household as their survivor parents. We don’t know the extent of pherenome influence.
How long have these indigenous elders been introduced as uncle this or auntie that?
I think I saw one introduced as Ma something too.
It’s ridiculous.
I think the BOM has been over cooking this ElNino since its inception.
Other forecasting agencies around the world take a lead from BOM on ElNino because it’s so important to Australia, and have followed suit. From memory the Japanese were a notable exception along with a couple of others.
The egg which will hopefully end up splattered over its face should come as no surprise seeing as it has relegated its core reason for existing to a second or third order function.
I hadn’t noticed the “300 per year” thing. No! Bring them all, at once.
It matters not that the chances of them sinking beneath the waves be zero… too good an opportunity to waste.
Mark from Mel
Polynesians are more likely to become good citizens than the middle easterners that Immigration seems obsessed with importing in massive numbers.
Barking Toad
Nov 10, 2023 6:29 PM
You might like to re-read what I wrote without the emotion, Mr. Toad. You also seem to have no idea of my irregular posts – repetitive, tedious, and wordy though they are – advocating practical tactics to be pursued.
I’m not here for the group therapy. I come and go whenever I need to. The reason I persist here is because I believe the average conservative has the policies, passion, and intellect to finally, after many decades, slow the social and cultural decay that my great grandparents’ generation would struggle to understand.
I’m not the sharpest pencil, and after the last few years, my meagre resources have all but vanished, but I don’t want to sit back and watch the legacy of so many generations dissolve in a drum of acid.
Conservatism hasn’t failed, but conservatives have. It’s late, but not TOO late. Now we have not an opportunity, but an imperative to stand up straight and push back, because I DO believe we have the capacity.
But only if we cease stroking our egos and valuing hubris more than humility.
I’ve made these same statements multiple times previously, and offered ideas – admittedly incompletely formed and sometimes abstract – for feedback and development.
If labeling me an appeaser makes you feel all warm and fuzzy … go for it. I’m pleased I’ve been able to fill some kind of void for you.
Never mind the quality feel the width.
Une tranche de la vie.
First excursion today on my own with master three and miss one.
Went swimmingly but very warm when returning to the car.
I remarked to master three the car would be very hot and he kindly suggested we turn the air conditioning on.
Good idea.
Then in apparent all seriousness he said he couldn’t say ‘air conditioning’ but could only say ‘conditioning’.
I didn’t argue.
Joe Bastardi yesterday:
Winter forecast (9 Nov)
The UAH temperature number suggest a strong and sharp el Nino, like 1998. I haven’t seen data suggesting an immediate sharp la Nina after that, but Bastardi is no slouch. And the la Nina after 1998 el Nino was pretty deep.
Who knows though? The one thing I’d bet is that the climate-addled government agencies will be wrong. NOAA usually is diametrically wrong, it’s funny.
Normally you go into real estate after the disgrace. This really narrows the options.
Reposted for excellence – an excerpt from mole’s heartwarming link at 4.01, and at the point after old love told her hubby she’d been playing away games:
Ideally, he’d be ‘in’ someone else by then.
It’s the details that sell a story.
The rotter.
The patriarchy getting another run.
I have an idea.
It will come as no surprise whatsoever to readers that the author of this self-serving exercise in self-pity is named Karen.
That stikes a chord with me too, Muddy. In my case it’s my parents’ generation, let alone my grandparents or earlier. As for the group therapy, offer a sociable little joke made by one’s hubby when I note a gay guy (the amazing Douglas Murray) is kinda attractive, and the downticking hounds of hell and the rabid valkyrie who leads them drop the sixteen tons on me. Group therapy like that I can do without, lol.
But this is still a great site, and I support it and its aims and enjoy it. I’m still here.
And looking at the IDF twitter feed it is very obvious that hamas are/were fully embedded in the civilian population both above and below ground and everyone knew, either silent out of fear or because they support Hamas.
Every time a liar or numpty squeals they would never use a hospital, just say no.
You don’t boast about 500 kilometres of tunnels criss-crossing a tiny place like the Gaza strip and have these things away from civilians.
Under residential buildings, under schools, under mosques, under hospitals.
Where do progs think hamas trained their thirty forty thousand murder squads?
That’s right, at the Hamas Terror TAFE.
To be fair, it probably doesn’t trust you either.
Did Dave Sharma completely miss the Abraham Accords in his potted history of Jewish-Arab detente ?
And now, Friday nite calls. G & T time. Wacko!
If labeling me an appeaser makes you feel all warm and fuzzy … go for it. I’m pleased I’ve been able to fill some kind of void for you.
Muddy, I always read and appreciate your comments.
But there comes a time when, as a civilized society, we need to push back against the evil forces of the likes of islam.
Being nice and polite doesn’t work when dealing with evil.
Well, that’s just not going to happen. I get some morning coffee in Ripponlea and I still see the hasidic kids in full regalia on e-scooters. It must be a thing with these boys as they all seem to be riding these blessed scooters causing havoc on the road and sidewalks. I’ll start to worry when I’m not seeing them. ?”
Let’s see what happens in Caulfield tonight. Nazis are threatening to stage a protest in Caulfield, and no I’m not referring to Grampian aka Sound of Music Nazis, I’m referring to real Nazis, those progressives and their Muslim/Islamist brothers. Wow, Nazis having a protest in Caulfield, on Shabbat! If this is the new Australia, I’m out of here.
Thanks cohenite, BoM and other knowledgeable cats for your replies and links. I keep these in a ‘climate rubbish’ folder to be dragged out when less informed Lefties try the ‘Tavula sinking’ BS.
I’ve amused myself for some of this arvo (waiting for a tradie who didn’t turn up) watching those sites, often in real time, depicting the ongoing activities of the IDF in Gaza, paying careful attention to some of the maps and noting where the embedded terrorists lurked – in hospitals, schools and kiddie day care centres predominantly. I am a fan of the Israeli series Fauda, which offers good insights into the security special services and the ‘rules’ of the IDF in ‘peacetime’ in Gaza, and this is Fauda IRL.
Recycle, repurpose, reuse!
Bantha fodder.
Temp reached 41.5 C today. ( I didn’t notice it in my nice air cond unit.) Tomorrow’s prediction, 20 C.
Love this crazy country!
I think the BOM has been over cooking this ElNino since its inception.
Other forecasting agencies around the world take a lead from BOM on ElNino because it’s so important to Australia, and have followed suit. From memory the Japanese were a notable exception along with a couple of others.
The egg which will hopefully end up splattered over its face should come as no surprise seeing as it has relegated its core reason for existing to a second or third order function.
The BOM’s forecasting success is abysmal. The problem is the analyses of the BOM’s forecasting ae not recent. Warwick Hughes did a brilliant simple expose of the BOM’s bullshit forecasting from 2003-2006.
Jo and Warwick 2010.
Baby steps (the Hun):
There’s a pic of Mr Hersant accompanying the piece. He has the shaved monobrow of the Gazan.
It will come as no surprise whatsoever to readers that the author of this self-serving exercise in self-pity is named Karen.
Bloke must have had a mate with him sharing a slab. Laughing at the bangs on the door. Maybe even had her best mate in the cot. Hahaha.
there should be warnings to not click on those links
Never mind the quality feel the width.
To be fair, most people balk at the taste test challenge.
As for El Nino; this is where you check (the BoM does have its uses):
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/soi/
The El Nino/La Nina index is almost back into neutral territory.
‘But I brought peanut butter’
Points out that Gazans casualty figures are curiously light in the male 17 to 35 category.
Also that Hamas terrorists on 7 October all wore uniforms including some in IDF uniforms.
I saw an interview with a senior female IDF officer who mentioned that hamas were dressed the same as them in passing, the only difference being that the hamas as IDF were armed with Kalashnikovs.
Perhaps another significant factor in why border posts were overwhelmed?
LTC Conricus briefing
Wow surprised these guys are still around. Worked a contract with another company founded by the same interests. Incompetent management and curious JORC claims in prospectuses was an understatement of the latter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12733581/Armour-Energy-collapses-Australian-shale-gas-exploration-company-plunges-receivership.html
Interesting. Old, but worth looking at a hero of lefties.
Stephen J Gould, was full of it.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould
‘But I brought peanut butter’
“Darl, I know I’ve been sprung hawking the fork. But please let me in – I’ve got all these jars of Eta with use by dates hovering.”
MSNBC are pushing a crazy b/s TDS and anti-conservative media mob called raw story.
This is the way the west ends.
So who had “Spain to recontest the civil war” on their bingo card?
The left have essentially traded Catalonia to stay in power.
The secessionist movement has had a blanket amnesty as the first part of its power sharing demands.
MADRID, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Spanish acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looked set to clinch another term in office after his Socialist Party (PSOE) on Thursday secured the backing of Catalan separatist party Junts to form a government in a deal the country’s opposition condemned as “a humiliation”.
A law granting amnesty to those prosecuted over Catalonia’s attempt to secede from Spain was included in the deal, the text showed.
..
The leftists have started shooting politicians.
Police were searching for two men after the former head of Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) in Catalonia, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, was shot in the face in Madrid. They have not yet offered a motive for the attack.
“Queers for Palestine”
“Blacks for the KKK”
“Jews for the Nazis”
It’s all making sense now.
Yes, Mole, and we all have noticed that Chile went recidivist too. You can pin-o-shay the tail on the donkey, but it comes back zombie-like.
“Greens for Hitler”
I had the locks changed, on my soon to be ex….
BoN is right about the hyping of El Nino. And everything else. A while ago the media jumped right in and said the Jacaranda trees were flowering three weeks early. I’ve been photographing them for years, and the photos (digital) all show a date about now.
Me too Delta. Granddaughters birthday party tomorrow. BBQ, inflatable castle and a gaggle of squealing little girls.
Life is good.
Gutfeld’s opening monologue on shrillary and the demorats is one for the ages.
“He’d forgiven me all the times before..”
The election also seemed pretty whiffy to me.
The right was well ahead in the polls.
A lot of that going about lately.
No clear victor in Spanish election as results defy predictions (CNN, 24 Jul)
Weird huh?
I got to do some Socratic questioning during a history extra today. We should have been doing the Cold War but a year 10 sjw female type asked me what I thought about the Gaza invasion. She had obviously pissed off several of her classmates earlier because I asked some questions that had her classmates smiling because they could see where my questing was taking her, made her look uninformed with questions like “So Hamas were reacting to Israeli occupation? What year did Israel leave Gaza? ” Her “they didn’t” Me ” You might want to factcheck that answer” her (small voice) “oh 2007”.
I am not sure I convinced her, but she certainly was exposed to a pile of facts and history she was unaware of.
A Democrat Prostitute Lost a Virginia House Race by Only 2%
An actual prostitute, not just a political one.
She would have been too honest for the rest of the whores.
Daily Mail.
If I were the IDF, I reckon that very soon I would like a day or two pause if it could be backed up with some hostages coming home. All is realistically OTT but some is good. It sets a precedent. Pause = hostages.
In return, having blocked all the tunnel entrances we can find, I’m quite pleased to have some escaping rats identify a few more for me.
Rinse and repeat until all the hostages we can get home, are home.
Then continue. The end game surely has to be to kill them in the tunnels.
What horrible words they are, but here we are.
And CNN, despite their photojournalists on the spot, hedging regarding the numbers moving south along the main drag, which has gone from dozens to 80,000 on Thursday.
Couldn’t ‘independently’ verify.
We know why.
Saw video yesterday of a bloke yesterday dragging an elderly woman along on a chair along the humanitarian corridor..
Apparently no-one would help him.
Deserting like rats on a ship once they realised hamas were losing.
Also remember abc wondering how Gazans could find out about requests to move south without telephones.
Message seems to be getting through.
the white house, cnn finally noticed
BoN
Re Elnino
Model forecasts are already back one degree from what BOM has been predicting since mid year.
To paraphrase Obi Wan – “This is not the ElNino they were looking for”
The 2 rats shooting at cars near Kempsey have disappeared from view. The msm have gone quite; bets:
1 3rd nations
2 muzzies/pallis
3 trannies
Newsflash mate – If you LET them vandalise the Centopaph which honours your ancestors YOU damned well deserve to be disrespected.
I was hoping she’d win. It’s not a problem in Italy.
Cicciolina (wiki)
Melbourne, perhaps mainly in the West is currently subject to what looks like a cabbage moth plague of biblical proportions.
Climate changy.
Diogenes
You teaching Montys kid?
The 2 rats shooting at cars near Kempsey have disappeared from view. The msm have gone quite; bets:
1 3rd nations
2 muzzies/pallis
3 trannies
The images are not real clear.
Apparently Hamarse is a race.
May as well be ..! Prior to October 7 most western countries spouted an, oft used, ideal .. “NO negotiations with terrorists EVER!” … on & 7 October that was all forgotten and they joined the queue to cheer-lead HAMAS …….
Bushie – not being on the land I haven’t been keeping track of the el Nino progress. Did check last month’s update on BoM’s climate page, but not since. However Joe Bastardi is always interesting and usually more accurate, being as he is a climate realist as well as a meteorologist, and this morning I’d read the article I linked.
I think either the hostages are under Shifa or they are dead.
Hamas doesn’t appear to have released any proof of live videos lately but they still have value as a bargaining chip so there is a glimmer of hope.
Caulfield? Hahahahaha. They need to get it going before 6 pm as everyone’s pretty much tucked into bed by 7.
News reports address Hamas via a paradigm that separates Hamas from ordinary Palestinians, as though they’re some sort of foreigners who breathe different air. The news as usual lies. Hamas are ordinary Palestinian citizens; their Palestinian wives feed them, wash their clothes, and carry their next generation of potential Jew-hating slaughterers.
more CNN, note all the disclaimers at the start, they don’t do that with their Gazan correspondents.
They’re just scrotes. Killer scrotes, but scrotes nonetheless (the Tele):
And:
Sam Dieter Lisczak, 30, was found shot dead near Fernbank Creek Rd, an access road to the M1 motorway, near Port Macquarie.
And:
Three became two. Drug-forked idiots with long histories of being cockheads.
At least one of the three won’t bother taxpayers any more. Result.
Minor blockquote fail. I blame the humidity.
Apparently her suggestion of kinky sex was spurned.
Yeah, I saw some cabbage moths in the garden this arvo. Haven’t seen them around for yonks. Of course, climate change.
Times like these, the Cat always speeds up, which makes it very difficult to keep up.
What has (figuratively) struck me, especially recently, is that humanity is existing on a hair trigger* … 😕
*Again
Have a great day, bespoke. Granddaughters are wonderful! I’m sure you, like me, try not to spoil them but darn it; they are so eminently spoilable.
Enjoy.
As for an El Nino summer in Sydneystan – it’s increasingly unlikely to happen.
I’ll make this prediction upon hearing the latest gerbil worming catastrophist figures.
Today, for example – sunny with semi high winds. Not hot, not Sydneystan summer.
Sydneystan summers, what remains of them, are increasingly being pushed out into late February and early March.
This is heresy, Baybee! 🙂
thought CNN was bad, ABC Australia worse by eleventy percent.
I can’t recall if it’s the first or second Tuesday in November when the US “erections” are held. Things are look a little tired and shitty at the moment, but in a year’s time I bet things will be looking on the up and up and quite different to now.
Not everything’s shitty – even now.
Many lung cancer patients now have access to a potentially life-saving medication.
Osimertinib, sold under the brand name Tagrisso, is available to patients with Stage 1B-3A lung cancer who have a certain genetic mutation and have had surgery to remove cancerous tumors.
Lung cancer has been a deadly scourge and now maybe not as much.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/lung-cancer-pill-shows-earth-shattering-results-5-year-study-optimistic-time
Mr Diogenes teaches Cold War history.
Professor Diogenes Terguson, to be precise.
Then you would be wrong, Squire.
Again. 🙂
Marlboro(TM), now with added Osimertinib(TM).
Spoil her as much as you can. You may not get the chance again. Her future may not be as good as it is today.
May you both have a wonderful day tomorrow!
A protest supporting Pales in Caulfield, for those in the rest of the country who may not know, is pure effing provocation.
From Caulfield Park down Balaclava Rd or Inkerman down to East StKilda is Jewish schools, bakeries, etc. The heart of that community in Melbourne.
When I was running the mobile mechanic and living in the area, I met many, including my old friend Kuba.
If this protest is licenced by VicPol to go ahead, it is a disgrace.
None here yet, but the noisy miners have been bringing all sorts of unfortunate critters in their beaks. To which I add a tiny bit of bread and off they go to feed the chicks. Insect sangas, yum!
Very few insects here at the Cafe itself, I think they’re getting them from the strangler fig in neighbours’ yard, which has a full load of ripe figs on it. Maccas for wildlife! Koels, currawongs, channel-billed cuckoos and many others in it all day. Even the cockies have been arriving at my front door with fig bits in their beaks, which is interesting since I didn’t know that they ate them. And after dark it’s fruit bats squeaking all night like poorly oiled doors.