Open Thread – Weekend 11 Nov 2023


The Poppy Field near Argenteuil, Claude Monet, 1873

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 11, 2023 12:36 am

Bam.

This thread dedicated to Direct Energy Weapons and the BOM’s radar sites which aren’t really radar sites.

And Tartaria. Obviously.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 12:54 am

Xi got the Solomons and didn’t have to do a princey dance.

Not like Airbus Albo in Tuvalu.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 12:54 am

WTF is Tataria which is mentioned all the time and what the hell are direct energy weapons? (lasers?)

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:00 am

Stop spamming the site Toad. Live by standards you expect of others.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 11, 2023 1:01 am

Fab Five

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:04 am

The Dealers missus must be laughing her vinegar tits off.

Doesn’t even need to go to the knife block for December season.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:06 am

I don’t have standards JC. I’m from Tartaria.

Now I’ll scroll by.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:10 am

No, I won’t scroll by in the same way you haven’t with me. There were about 20 comments by you on the page 7. You need to live by your own standards or STFU. Dickhead.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:11 am

Did you know KD that Cyclone Tracy was the smallest cyclone ever measured? Until one in 2008 somewhere defeated it. This isn’t about punch, it is about size.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:15 am

You’re tempting me get out Direct Energy Weapons JC. From Tartaria of all places.

I might have to taunt you a second time!

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:18 am

Toad. You couldn’t taunt Muddy without screwing it up. I doubt you could taunt me. If that’s your intent then, good luck trolling.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 11, 2023 1:20 am

We need a Tartarian Voice To Parliament.

Anyone who doesn’t agree is an igorant shill for the MSM.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:23 am

I thought it was Tataria, not Tartaria. I would go along with those chicks theory for a bit, if I got a look in. Same if any chicks into Flat Earth.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:32 am

Never ever taunting of Muddy JC. Always enjoy reading his/her posts. Sometimes opinions differ – that’s the beauty of the Cat.

Yours are usually scroll past. Sometimes not.

Meanwhile, Leak is brilliant in the Oz. Tom will no doubt post at about 04:00AM.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:32 am

Cyclone Tracy

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:34 am
JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:38 am

Toad, just to digress, you chose the ugliest blog name I’ve ever seen on the Cat. I’m mean, seriously barking toad?

(That’s obviously another one with self esteem issues). You couldn’t go higher than barking toad? Okay.

Yours are usually scroll past. Sometimes not.

Funny that, because I can’t ever recall you coming up with a thoughtful idea on any issue.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:43 am

scroll 🙂

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 1:45 am

I gave you an uptick because I’m nice.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:48 am

Seriously what with the “scroll” and then:

I gave you an uptick because I’m nice.

Are you drunk?

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:50 am

Barking Toad is a cool name. Been to the Dunmarra roadhouse in the NT at night time? Shit ton of them and they bark!

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 1:55 am

Cool? If barking road is cool, what’s ugly?

He complained I post too many times and then find out the barker has chimed in about the same on days post a lot. What a toad.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 1:56 am

Young abbo chick I was riding the Greyhound with said “Way too many toads here, hey?”

Sure was. Like a stampede of them. Many were barking.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 11, 2023 2:02 am

Zafiro, I hope you’re not taunting JC. That wouldn’t be fair 🙂

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 2:03 am

Nah, sort of. True story, Toad.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 2:07 am

Barking Toad
Nov 11, 2023 2:02 AM

Zafiro, I hope you’re not taunting JC. That wouldn’t be fair

That’s another scroll, right Toad?

Look, you’re either going to scroll or you’re not.

By the way, I think he was taunting you, with the reference to those critters being real barkers.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 11, 2023 2:08 am

Next stop was Big BP roadhouse at Tennant Creek at midnight. Maaaaate! Put that on your bucket list.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 2:09 am

Anyway, don’t annoy Muddy. He’s too precious and fragile for a scroller like you to be taunting and getting him all hot under the collar with deadheaded comments.

Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 11, 2023 4:08 am
caveman
caveman
November 11, 2023 5:09 am

Only trouble with the Leak cartoon is that the MSM don’t ask those questions.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 11, 2023 5:35 am

In dogs gotta dog news, also file under police appeasement. Hun:

Pro-Palestinian protesters were pepper sprayed in a chaotic clash with police outside a Caulfield synagogue on Friday night just hours after a Muslim-owned burger store was set alight.

A nasty clash occurred in Princes Park on Friday night after a Caulfield South synagogue was evacuated as hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a park across the road.

Dozens of attendees were forced out of their Shabbat service about 7:30pm on Friday night after protesters – draped in Palestinian flags and chanting “free, free Palestine” – gathered outside the synagogue.

Footage obtained by the Herald Sun shows protesters clashing with police as they streamed onto Hawthorn Rd following what had started as a mostly peaceful protest in Princes Park.

Dozens of locals, some dressed in Israeli flags, could be heard yelling at the protesters.

Rocks were allegedly thrown from some members of protest, with police forced to use pepper spray to separate the two groups.

The Herald Sun understands at least one person was arrested after breaking through a line of officers.

Victoria Police said in a statement there were about 200 people in each of the two groups demonstrating at the rally in the vicinity of Princes Park in Caulfield South on 10 November.

“There were no major incidents of note. The was one man sprayed with OC spray and removed from the area under breach of the peace provisions and one man has reported receiving minor injuries after being hit by a rock. Police will investigate both incidents further and will review CCTV and vision from the event to detect any other offences,” the statement said.

“Our top priority was keeping the peace to ensure the event did not impact the safety of the broader community. We will continue to retain communication with all communities which have a strong interest in events unfolding in the Middle East.”

Local resident Keith, 80, said: “The whole thing is disgusting. It achieves absolutely nothing. It’s not going to solve anything.”

Jayden David, who lives nearby, said he was shocked to see hundreds of protesters flood his local park, outside the Synagogue his family attends.

“It’s quite aggressive to come to a known Jewish area on Shabbat to protest like this,” he said.

Former federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports – now known as Macnamara – Michael Danby slammed the handling of the protest as “outrageous”.

“It was outrageous this demonstration was allowed to take place tonight in a small park directly opposite the synagogue in Maple St, Caulfield,” he told the Herald Sun.

“Worse on advice from Vic Pol. The rabbis and the congregants have had to abandon regular Friday night Shabbat service and were sent home for their own safety.

“Many Australians will wonder what this country is coming to.”

Premier Jacinta Allan on Friday night called for Victorians to “show each other love, care and support in these difficult times”.

“It is our diversity that makes us great, and our compassion that unites us – there is never any place for antisemitism or Islamophobia in Victoria,” she said.

Local residents who did not wish to be named due to fears of repercussions described it as “atrocious.”

“We are so sick of the Palestinians inciting violence. Shabbat prayers were cancelled due to safety concerns.

“People should be able to pray in peace,” he said angrily.

Local rabbi, Rabbi Noam Sendor, in a letter to his congregation on Friday afternoon, advised members to “remain calm, determined and vigilant and to continue to stand up against darkness” if they are confronted with threats or violence.

“As you may very well be aware, there is heightened tension in the area of our Shul in the aftermath of the fire on the corner of Hawthorn and Glenhuntly,” he said.

“We are aware that this evening at 7pm there is a planned protest outside Burgertory.

“Certainly we suggest that people avoid the area tonight to and from Shul and remain hyper-vigilant for anything or anyone suspicious.”

Rabbi Noam advised that Shabbat proceedings were set to continue despite the threat, assuring that police would be present in the area.

“We have been in touch with CSG and at this point there is no directive to change the schedule for Shabbat and things should proceed as usual,” he said.

Members of the Shul have been asked to report anything suspicious, to “remain calm, determined and vigilant and to continue to stand up against darkness and hate through observance of Torah and service of Hashem”.

Good work Premier Phuckface and now the understudy. Can also trace back to Christine “I Had To Eat” Nixon. Lax policing standards have allowed bad actors to be emboldened.
Ms Allen said the other day about standing with Israel. Well show some guts darling. Instead of dropping the ‘Islamophobia’ turd into the discussion.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 11, 2023 5:45 am

Xi got the Solomons and didn’t have to do a princey dance.

If Australia’s diplomats weren’t too busy sucking each others dicks to get posting to Europe & the US, they would have spent a lot more time building our own string of pearls through Asia & the Pacific.
When China turns up with the money, it’s too late for Australia to put on the short dress & lippy and expect these pacific nations to care.
Don’t get me wrong, they love whatever aid Australia offers.
They’ll take it.
Then China gives them 10x.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 5:52 am

Allen is a typical example of the garbage that is the political class.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 11, 2023 5:52 am

And Vikki Campion writes on phuckwittery writ large and bold and flourescent, like Dirk Diggler announcing his screen name:

It was an immense sorrow that mothers and war widows couldn’t deal with, so they put up a cross, built a cenotaph, or planted a tree.

Their sorrow built a war memorial in Canberra, Australia’s capital, which lures more visitors than Parliament House.

Grief built the cultural soul of Australia.

In country towns, mothers’ sorrow planted avenues with the seeds of trees that grew where their little boys had died in battle, fighting the war that created the legend of ANZAC, and unwrapped Australia to the world as a nation who volunteered their lives for peace and liberty.

The fact our governments are now giving carpetbaggers authority to butcher our rural war memorials so they can get their junk to a hill to rip you off on power prices is beyond contemptible.

This is a little story in a little village named O’Connell, and its ANZAC Memorial Avenue of Trees that describes who we are now as a nation.

When Field Marshal Lord Allenby cut the white ribbon stretched across O’Connell Avenue on January 20, 1926, he couldn’t tell the folk there, who raised money for the war memorial with community dances, that “in 97 years, we will chop these down to get foreign-made wind industrialisation through for a multinational developer”.

Yet, here we are.

In historic O’Connell, 185km west of Sydney, 66 men enlisted to fight, and 12 were killed in action. You had a one in five chance of dying. That doesn’t include those who were maimed, who returned with their minds out of shape.

Lord Allenby told those who planted O’Connell Anzac Memorial Avenue that he never wished to lead braver troops. He told them their names “would live forever in the gallant deeds they had performed for the Empire” and “it was fitting that their memory should be perpetuated by an avenue of that kind”.

“As the trees flourished and grew larger in stature, he trusted that the memory of the men to whom they were dedicated would become greener and greener, and more firmly fixed in the minds of their fellow countrymen,” the Bathurst National Advocate reported.

For 97 years, that was true. Families never forgot, and the Desert Ash grew a greener and greener cathedral canopy.

But Saturday could be the final Remembrance Day that the O’Connell community gathers by the memorial before it is butchered.

Spain-based Naturgy Group and the NSW and Albanese governments see it as just trees in the way of their renewables gold rush.

If we are up Rio Tinto for blasting a sacred Aboriginal cave, what are we doing to the foreign wind company for slashing sacred trees to the fallen?

It’s a dreadful shame no endangered frog is living in it.

From the overseas developer to the renewable grifters, to the shameless bureaucrats who believe this should happen, to the weak ministers with the backbones of slugs, this is an incomprehensible act of national shame that speaks to who we now are.

They would not dare rip down memorials for wind factories in Britain or America.

In Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, stretching over 259ha, every war grave gets a wreath, green with a red bow on every stone, every Armistice Day.

Semi-trailer after semi-trailer of American corporates park full of wreaths, and they honour the fallen.

In Australia, our corporates won’t proudly and visibly support our veterans; they drum up support for the doomed Voice referendum and forget about Indigenous issues as quickly as they seemed to care.

Overseas companies now have more rights than the blood of Australian soldiers who fought in World War One, which gave us the two defining moments in our calendar: Armistice Day and Anzac Day.

A government that sits idly by and lets a foreign company chop down a war memorial has lost its reason to be in power.

No member of the Minns government should say Lest We Forget when they are complicit with this.

You should have remembered.

What is the point of putting the signs up on the NSW War Memorials Register if you are ready to forget? To forget the Harris family, who sent four boys and had one come home?

From black and white photos of my great-grandfathers in their slouch hats shine the eyes of my brothers, nephews and sons.

My brother and his military mates fight a different war than they did — and has since they worked the waves, pulling tiny bodies- — the same size as his own baby — from an ocean that broke apart in his hands.

His sacrifice was what every good soldier sacrificed in the wars before him, in their belief of duty to their country, of freedom and peace.

Suffering, sacrifice, and sorrow grew this avenue.

How dare you allow a foreign company to chop it down at the expense of our sons’ blood?

In the proposed route on NSW Planning documents, the wind turbines will come via the Port of Newcastle and go on a three-day drive, through Dunedoo and down through Mudgee to end up at Oberon for the Paling Yards Wind Farm and others still at the scoping stage.

At O’Connell, each oversized, over-mass vehicle requires at least 6 metres clearance above it and 8 metres across, destroying the cathedral of a connected canopy.

Australian Standards on ‘pruning of amenity trees’ allows a maximum of 10 per cent pruning – yet this, like every other environmental regulation, is junked for a wind factory.

Instead, 120 trees will lose all their boughs on one side, predisposing them to a slow death.

The transition costs to Net Zero are higher energy bills, ruined agricultural land, and koalas murdered with blunt force trauma … and now our cultural soul.

Grief planted this memorial avenue. Greed will cut it down.

Ms Campion it’s a great column. Details the complete and utter morons who hold no regard for those who spilled blood to make us safe.
But Mr Joyce did sign on to have Australia as Net Zero, which of course will never happen despite all the warm, fuzzy barking by Bowen and associated flogs.
So desecration of memorials like this will be more often. Terrible state of affairs.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 11, 2023 5:54 am

Next time Paul Murray looks down the camera & says “we back The Blue”, remember the NSW Plod & Vic Plod’s behaviour since Oct 7th.

And where are the whistleblowers from both organisations?
The orders to treat the Hamas supporters with kid gloves can not possibly be all verbal.
How hard is it to screen shot something & share it?

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 11, 2023 5:58 am

And of course on this day:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 6:12 am

The wind ‘farm’ abominations and all the free passes they get makes think all the environmental hand wringing and restrictions of the last 50 years was just to sabotage the real economy.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 6:17 am

Seems political office in western ‘democracies’ is only open to effete, entitled cretins

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 6:19 am
Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 6:29 am
vr
vr
November 11, 2023 6:32 am

Princess Park that connects Hawthorn and Bambra Roads is where I tend to go to exercise and hangout. It was a wonderful respite during the innumerous Andrews-Labor lockdowns. I am sorry to see that it has been desecrated by these protests.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 11, 2023 6:34 am

The operators of these would have one of the most fulfilling jobs in the IDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Caterpillar_D9

132andBush
132andBush
November 11, 2023 6:39 am

I wrote to the NSW Minister for Police after the Opera House nazi episode.
Finally got a response yesterday.

Thank you for your correspondence to the Hon. Yasmin Catley MP, Minister for Police and Counterterrorism
and Minister for the Hunter in relation to the pro-Palestinian protest rally that took place in
Sydney CBD on Monday, on 9 October 2023. The Minister has asked that the NSW Police Force
(NSWPF) respond on her behalf.
The NSWPF supports the rights of individuals and groups to assemble and protest. However, it does not
condone people committing criminal offences when attending demonstrations or public assemblies.
During an assembly, procession or protest, Police will balance the rights of participants with maintaining
public order to minimise any disruption or harm to the wider community.
The NSWPF wishes to assure the community that the NSWPF is treating this matter with the utmost
seriousness.
As a result, Operation Shelter has commenced to coordinate the response and gathering all intelligence
available in relation to community sentiment, potential protest activity and potential demonstrations that
might take place in the future. The Operation will also oversee Strike Force Mealing, which has been
established to further investigate any offences that may have been committed on the day of the protest
on Monday, 9 October 2023.
While these operations remain in progress, it is inappropriate for the NSWPF to provide any further
commentary at this time.
The NSWPF’s primary purpose is to ensure that all members of the community feel safe and supported
and are free to go about their daily lives without the fear of violence or discrimination. The community
can be assured that the NSWPF will continue to provide a safe environment for all and that appropriate
policing responses are in place across the state.
Thank you for writing to the Minister about this matter.

The primary purpose is to uphold the law, you touchy feely cretins. Equally.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 11, 2023 6:41 am

Ha ha.
At one point in that article they refer to it as “Purgatory”.

132andBush
132andBush
November 11, 2023 6:42 am

As to tearing down old Australia for the new religion, I shall link to this again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 11, 2023 6:43 am

feelthebern

Nov 11, 2023 6:34 AM

The operators of these would have one of the most fulfilling jobs in the IDF.

What colours do they come in?
Can I get an electric version?
I am thinking about getting one for school pick-up.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 11, 2023 6:46 am

Excellent work Bushie

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 11, 2023 6:51 am

Thank you for writing to the Minister about this matter.

So Bushie you should feel chagrined that the actual Minister in charge of law enforcement hasn’t actually read your email. Seems the response was by some underling. Almost like a carbon copy response to all enquiries. FMD

132andBush
132andBush
November 11, 2023 6:57 am

BB

Yes, I was expecting as much.
I’m guessing they had a lot of correspondence to wade through, it’s been over a month.
Replies during lockdown were a lot quicker.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 11, 2023 6:59 am

This week at MIT.

Retsef Levi
@RetsefL

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.

This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.

Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.

Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.

MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus.

The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.

Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.

Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.

At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.

As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration’s guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.

Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.

We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid.

Signed,

The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

PS Netanyahu is a MIT alum.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 7:02 am

More green energy woes.

Renewable Energy Meltdown Spreads: Plug Power Crashes After ‘Going Concern’ Warning (10 Nov)

Plug Power reported third-quarter losses of $283.5 million, equivalent to 47 cents per share, widening from a loss of $170.8 million, or 30 cents per share, in the same quarter one year ago … It blamed a “severe hydrogen shortage” that has “negatively affected direct cost of service as well as the timing for implementation of fleet upgrades into customer operated equipment.”

German Gov’t Agrees To Bailout Giant Loss-Making Wind Farm, UK Increases Subsidies (10 Nov)

Reuters reports the German government, Siemens AG, and other parties will provide billions of euros in project-related guarantees to support Siemens AG’s struggling wind turbine division. This financial assistance comes just weeks after the company warned about mounting losses amid a meltdown across wind and solar industries.

Time For A Generator? New Warning Says Half Of US At Risk Of Grid Down This Winter (10 Nov)

The 2023-24 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA) report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. warns of a heightened risk of “insufficient energy supply” during extreme cold spells. … According to Bloomberg, this year’s WRA is “even more dire than last year’s report, which said a quarter of Americans were at risk of cold-weather power emergencies.

I wonder how long this farce is going to run? Government money is about to run out, the US is running a huge deficit and raising debt is getting harder. Subsidies are only possible while there’s money – and if the subsidies get cut all these wretched green companies are going to die. Especially in a recession.

caveman
caveman
November 11, 2023 7:07 am

Burgertory: Popular burger shop in Melbourne burned after owner’s pro-Palestine controversy

More evidence of climate change.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 7:15 am

Cats know I like this long term metric since snow only melts at a real temperature of zero Celsius, so fake temperature adjustments and models don’t affect it.

“Another Inconvenient Truth”: Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Nears 57-Year High (10 Nov)

A new weekly report from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab reveals snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere is at the upper end of a 57-year maximum.

“Yet another inconvenient truth. When it warms, it snows more, which starts the process of cooling. That has been old-time climate cycle theory for 60 years because it was in a book my dad gave me when I was 8,” meteorologist Joe Bastardi wrote on X.

Bastardi quoted another X user’s post: “Latest Rutgers snow lab NH snow cover extent, now near the 57yr maximum. Astonishing in a world “Burning up.””

You can’t gaslight snow. Nice to see this being reported in a widely read site.

Rabz
November 11, 2023 7:33 am

yeah, but gerbil broiling, BoN …

Anders
Anders
November 11, 2023 7:41 am

The TV news the other day solemnly intoned “It’s been the hottest year in 125,000 years”.

LOL.

P
P
November 11, 2023 7:41 am

This November, remember nobody really ever dies
By Philippa Martyr – November 11, 2023

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 7:45 am
Crossie
Crossie
November 11, 2023 7:49 am

I wonder how long this farce is going to run? Government money is about to run out, the US is running a huge deficit and raising debt is getting harder. Subsidies are only possible while there’s money – and if the subsidies get cut all these wretched green companies are going to die. Especially in a recession.

If a technology needs subsidies decades after inception then it will always need subsidies. Just take agriculture here and in Europe, we can do it cheap and on a grand scale but Europeans, mostly the French, need subsidies to compete with us, the US and Canada because in Europe it’s not about technology or farming but politics and ideology.

The drive to dive out cheap energy is not about science or global warming but politics and ideology. It is anti-human and anti-humanistic, it aims to strip us of well-being and culture that has enriched us for centuries.

Bruce
Bruce
November 11, 2023 7:50 am

Cyclone Tracey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HYbgLcIz2s

The physical damage to the city was still quite evident in late 1983, when I worked in the region for a while. .

The societal and psychological damage is with us still.

Crossie
Crossie
November 11, 2023 7:50 am

Anders
Nov 11, 2023 7:41 AM
The TV news the other day solemnly intoned “It’s been the hottest year in 125,000 years”.

It hasn’t even been the hottest year since 2017.

Crossie
Crossie
November 11, 2023 7:55 am

Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 11, 2023 7:15 AM
Cats know I like this long term metric since snow only melts at a real temperature of zero Celsius, so fake temperature adjustments and models don’t affect it.

This winter we had quite a few days of morning frost here yet each time the official minimum was recorded as 2 degrees Celsius. Do they think everyone is stupid?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 7:57 am

Rodeos are killing the planet.

Radical environmentalists eager to end rodeo (10 Nov)

I wonder what they think of bullfighting? Be fun to see Greens take on Spanish bullfighting fans, they just might see red.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 7:59 am

Im not sure about the dynamics of snow in the northern hemisphere. Someone posted an article about the likely changes in weather patterns if the Artic Ocean didn’t fully freeze over over winter. Now THAT really would be climate change. The idea that human behaviour either causes or could stop it is simply laughable. Akin to Aztec child sacrifice for a good harvest with models.

Razey
Razey
November 11, 2023 7:59 am

Regarding diversity. It doesn’t take much sewage to pollute a river.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 8:07 am

The VicPlod/Jew/Muzzie dynamic is exactly what you would expect when certain laws are not policed and bad laws are policed (albeit against certain, predominantly soft, targets). Chickens, meet roost.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
November 11, 2023 8:11 am

What’s 1.8m of rising oceans divided by 3mm per annum? 600 years. But it’s a story that never dies.
To the tune of Bye-Bye Miss America Pie:
It’s toodle-oo to ol’ Tuvalu,
Share a bevvy, impose a levy
Til the seas submerge you.
Them good old guys
Will come and live over here,
Singin’ have another whisky or beer.

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 8:11 am
Gabor
Gabor
November 11, 2023 8:12 am

Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 11, 2023 7:15 AM

Cats know I like this long term metric since snow only melts at a real temperature of zero Celsius, so fake temperature adjustments and models don’t affect it.

“Another Inconvenient Truth”: Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Nears 57-Year High (10 Nov)

I personally don’t believe that humans have a lot to do with climate variations, when a single volcano can emit ten times the amount of gasses in one eruption than we blame humans for doing it, but my relatives in France are saying that for the last 10 or so years or more the winters were exceptionally mild.
Summers remained nearly the same.

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 8:13 am

No water but everyone seems to be getting their washing done.

Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:14 am

The wind ‘farm’ abominations and all the free passes they get makes think all the environmental hand wringing and restrictions of the last 50 years was just to sabotage the real economy.

100% correct. The last thing they care about is the environment. Remember when they changed coal fired stations in England to wood chip or pellets and then clear felled large swarths of Canada and transported it across instead of digging coal straight out of the ground next door? All for “climate change”? What do you think that did to the environment? How many trees were felled, creatures were killed and energy was used for that little brainstorm?

P
P
November 11, 2023 8:17 am

Don’t Forget What the Israel-Hamas War Is About

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As the brutal war in Gaza moves into its next phase, we must never forget that Hamas’ evil surprise attack on Israeli civilians was the spark that caused the fire.

National Catholic Register – November 9, 2023

Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:17 am

Mindy Robinson
@iheartmindy

In the last few years alone, the FBI got caught:

• Covering up Hunter Biden’s laptop full of espionage crimes on Biden and lying about it being “Russian disinfo” right before an election.

• Set up election protestors using un-indicted co-conspirators like Ray Epps and whoever laid the pipe bomb they refuse to investigate on J6, to punish citizens from ever complaining about shady ass elections again.

• Framed a mentally ill man that referred to himself as “Captain Autism” for the fake kidnapping of Governor Whitmer that the FBI basically planned itself.

• Poorly covered up the Las Vegas shooting and to this day refuses FOIA requests to solve the murder of 58 people that everyone in Vegas knows was the government itself, and not some old man using some mythical bumpstock that never jams while witnesses report seeing and hearing other gunmen throughout the night.

• They’ve also let…shit I don’t even know at this point, dozens of mass shooters “already previously known to authorities” just “slip” through their fingers over and over again…as well as never explaining who supplied all these angry teenagers working part time and living at home with tens of thousands of dollars in gear.

But none of that matters…because after declaring honest citizens, Patriot grandmas, veterans, and concerned parents as the real “Enemy of the State” instead of looking for actual terrorists that are literally walking over our border…Congress members actually voted “yes” to reward the FBI with a $300 million brand dollar new office for no reason, when the entire agency should be dissolved instead.

Every single Congress member no matter the party that voted for this…is a Deep State controlled pawn, change my mind.

The “this” she’s referring to is –

Shem Horne
@Shem_Infinite

I still can’t get over the fact that the FBI spied on the GOP nominee for President in 2016, then again when he took office, tried to overthrow him, and are now trying to throw him in prison, and the Republicans voted to give them a new headquarters. What a worthless party.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 8:18 am

The VicPlod/Jew/Muzzie dynamic

The other dynamic is fun. They had been happy to let their useful idiot progressive allies run with their weird fetishes, but as the Muslims get a feeling of strength that seems to be changing.

Muslims Protest British Band Coldplay’s Concert Over LGBTQ+ Support (10 Nov)

There’ve been a few cases recently where qwerties have wanted to stand beside their muslim brothers in protests but were sent packing.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 8:19 am

there is never any place for antisemitism or Islamophobia in Victoria,” she said.

Because roaming packs of Jewish people picketing mosques during friday prayers is a big thing dontchknow?

Tearing the headscarfs off letterbox ladies while screaming “THIS IS DREDEL COUNTRY”..

Razey
Razey
November 11, 2023 8:21 am

The Victorian gestapo have an expensive looking tower in the CBD. One wonder what these turds are up to all day. There cant be that many old grannies in the need of pepper spraying.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 11, 2023 8:25 am

Those of us who have been on the receiving end of their up-the-chain gutless ‘superiors’ ducking for cover over incidents like this would, I’m sure, be unsurprised.

‘I’ll kill her’: male heritage adviser’s death threats ignored ‘because he’s Aboriginal’

EXCLUSIVE
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
COLUMNIST

and STEPHEN RICE
NSW EDITOR

An Indigenous adviser to Transport for NSW who threatened to kill a senior female executive has been allowed to stay in his job “because he is Aboriginal and a cultural knowledge holder”, with the woman’s bosses fearing a $2.2bn infrastructure project might be shut down if he was sacked.

Ian Brown, who was contracted as cultural heritage manager on the massive Coffs Harbour Bypass project, made the death threat against senior Transport for NSW executive Rochelle Hicks during a meeting at the Coffs Harbour Local Aboriginal Land Council in June, stating: “If I see Rochelle I will kill her.”

Ms Hicks, deputy project director for the Coffs Harbour Bypass, was not present at the meeting but was left terrified and distraught when informed of the threat.

Her fears were compounded when her bosses refused to sack or take effective action against Mr Brown, who had previously called her a “white c..t”.

“When I was told by the managers above me I was not permitted to terminate Ian Brown’s contract or remove him … because he was Aboriginal and a cultural knowledge holder and it may be a political risk, I thought it was absolutely ridiculous and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” she told The Weekend Australian.

….

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 8:26 am

my relatives in France are saying that for the last 10 or so years or more the winters were exceptionally mild.

Gabor – that is the result of the mild temperatures in the Atlantic linked to the thermohaline cycle. The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation metric is pretty clear – it has a cycle period of about 60-65 years and we’ve been bumping along the top of the current peak. You can see what happens when the cycle turns. The period in the mid seventies was the New Ice Age scare. The previous peak was the Dust Bowl and the peak before that was the Federation Drought.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 8:27 am

ABCcess nearly bells the cat…
But shies away from the obvious back into the safe arms of waffle.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-11/jim-chalmers-away-reserve-bank-step-towards-economic-policy/103091444
Oh, and stop being “sullen”..
But the growing sullenness amongst voters about the cost-of-living pressures they face


The good news you might have missed
We haven’t had a recession — which had been a concern 12 months ago.
then
Similarly, the labour market has been holding up: absorbing the migrants whose arrival has helped keep the economy ticking over as well as generating enough jobs so that people being financially squeezed can get second jobs to help keep them afloat.

The only reason we arent in a recession is the mass importation of 500,000+ new consumption units all borrowing and spending away.
Quite how long they can keep “juicing” the stats like this without the wheels coming off is up to debate.

Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:29 am

I’ve had EVs near me on the road lately and I can’t wait to get away from them. You couldn’t pay me to get in one.

Tesla Model X Slides Down Boat Ramp, Ignites And Burns Underwater

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 8:30 am

Rochelle Hicks had the gall to say no to more heritage blackmail.
No mechanical sieve and millions more dollars looking for the lucky last knapped stone.
Wish Victorian state government enterprises had the guts to say no.

Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:53 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:54 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 8:59 am

‘She was gang-raped, then executed’: Testimonies from Oct. 7

The Israel Police questioned perpetrators and interviewed victims and others, shedding light on the sadistic nature of the Islamic terrorists.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 11, 2023 9:02 am

Caravans.
Delivering hay and coming back empty with drop-deck trailers when I spy a caravaner coming up to a bend on a narrow section of road.
I push off as far as I can safely go, considering trees at the road edge, only to see the Jayco juggernaut cut the bend by a good margin.
I try to go a bit further off and we manage to pass with me looking in the side mirror to see if the silly bugger hasn’t tipped the show over. A lot of sway and tilt but it stayed upright.
I consoled myself with the thought that the driver’s wife will be giving him absolute buggery over that effort.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 11, 2023 9:03 am

Pallywood couldn’t afford After Effects.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 11, 2023 9:09 am

Rosie
Nov 11, 2023 6:03 AM
lots of discussion around the shooting at people trying to leave Al nasr hospital compound.
Idf aren’t in the area and those who can differentiate say it was AK 47s, used by hamas.
If al nasr wasn’t an hamas nest, and if the idf noose wasn’t tightening normal civilians would stay, right?
What does Monty think.

The Phat Phuck doesn’t think, he just babbles left fascist talking points, leavened heavily with grotesque anti-semitism.

Aaron
Aaron
November 11, 2023 9:13 am

I know there is a skills shortage, but fmd how does Joe Hildebrand get a gig anywhere.

What dreck he comes out with. Spoken or written.

Brainfart 302 from Joe.

Cassie of Sydney
November 11, 2023 9:13 am

It’s very hard for me and other Jews not to be pessimistic about Jewish life in this country, or anywhere in the West, after what ensued in Caulfield last night. I know Caulfield well, very well. The prognosis is not good. As I’ve said and written since 7 October, the protests in this country, in fact across the West, are not ‘pro-Palestinian’ rallies, NO, NO, NO, they are anti-Israel and Jew hating rallies.

A Shabbat service at a synagogue in Caulfield South has been cancelled after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a local park following an attack on a Muslim-owned restaurant.

Burgertory store in Caulfield gutted by fire after owner attends pro-Palestine rally
A Shabbat service at a synagogue in Caulfield South has been cancelled after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a local park following an attack on a Muslim-owned restaurant.

Pro-Palestinian protesters were pepper sprayed in a chaotic clash with police outside a Caulfield synagogue on Friday night just hours after a Muslim-owned burger store was set alight.

A nasty clash occurred in Princes Park on Friday night after a Caulfield South synagogue was evacuated as hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters stormed a park across the road.

Dozens of attendees were forced out of their Shabbat service about 7:30pm on Friday night after protesters, draped in Palestinian flags and chanting “free, free Palestine”, gathered outside the synagogue.

Footage obtained by the Herald Sun shows protesters clashing with police as they streamed onto Hawthorn Rd following what had started as a mostly peaceful protest in Princes Park.

Dozens of locals, some dressed in Israeli flags, could be heard yelling at the protesters.

Rocks were allegedly thrown from some members of protest, with police forced to use pepper spray to separate the two groups.

The Herald Sun understands at least one person was arrested after breaking through a line of officers.

Victoria Police said in a statement there were about 200 people in each of the two groups demonstrating at the rally in the vicinity of Princes Park in Caulfield South on 10 November.

“There were no major incidents of note. The was one man sprayed with OC spray and removed from the area under breach of the peace provisions and one man has reported receiving minor injuries after being hit by a rock. Police will investigate both incidents further and will review CCTV and vision from the event to detect any other offences,” the statement said.

“Our top priority was keeping the peace to ensure the event did not impact the safety of the broader community. We will continue to retain communication with all communities which have a strong interest in events unfolding in the Middle East.”

Local resident Keith, 80, said: “The whole thing is disgusting. It achieves absolutely nothing. It’s not going to solve anything.”

Jayden David, who lives nearby, said he was shocked to see hundreds of protesters flood his local park, outside the Synagogue his family attends.

“It’s quite aggressive to come to a known Jewish area on Shabbat to protest like this,” he said.

Former federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports, now known as Macnamara, Michael Danby slammed the handling of the protest as “outrageous”.

“It was outrageous this demonstration was allowed to take place tonight in a small park directly opposite the synagogue in Maple St, Caulfield,” he told the Herald Sun.

“Worse on advice from Vic Pol. The rabbis and the congregants have had to abandon regular Friday night Shabbat service and were sent home for their own safety.

“Many Australians will wonder what this country is coming to.”

Premier Jacinta Allan on Friday night called for Victorians to “show each other love, care and support in these difficult times”.

“It is our diversity that makes us great, and our compassion that unites us – there is never any place for antisemitism or Islamophobia in Victoria,” she said.

Local residents who did not wish to be named due to fears of repercussions described it as “atrocious.”

“We are so sick of the Palestinians inciting violence. Shabbat prayers were cancelled due to safety concerns.

“People should be able to pray in peace,” he said angrily.

Local rabbi, Rabbi Noam Sendor, in a letter to his congregation on Friday afternoon, advised members to “remain calm, determined and vigilant and to continue to stand up against darkness” if they are confronted with threats or violence.

“As you may very well be aware, there is heightened tension in the area of our Shul in the aftermath of the fire on the corner of Hawthorn and Glenhuntly,” he said.

“We are aware that this evening at 7pm there is a planned protest outside Burgertory.

“Certainly we suggest that people avoid the area tonight to and from Shul and remain hyper-vigilant for anything or anyone suspicious.”

Rabbi Noam advised that Shabbat proceedings were set to continue despite the threat, assuring that police would be present in the area.

“We have been in touch with CSG and at this point there is no directive to change the schedule for Shabbat and things should proceed as usual,” he said.

Members of the Shul have been asked to report anything suspicious, to “remain calm, determined and vigilant and to continue to stand up against darkness and hate through observance of Torah and service of Hashem”.

A group of about 100 Israelis gathered near the burnt Burgertory store in show of solidarity and support.

Angelo, 53, said: “We’re here to show support for Israel.”

“I have no issue with them coming here, but all they want to do is cause trouble,” he said.

Hana, 50, said: “We want to go to Shabbat dinner. We missed the Shabbat candlelight and we’re meant to be home by now but if we don’t do this, who will?

“We live in the area, they (the Palestinians) don’t – they’ve just come here to cause trouble,” she said.

Cars driving passed with Palestinian occupants hurled abuse at each other with one passenger spitting at the group and yelling out, “Sharmootas”.

Tensions between the two faith communities reached boiling point on Friday after news spread that the popular burger restaurant went up in flames overnight.

In a shocking video posted online on Friday, a man filming the gutted shop front can be heard making fun of children killed in Gaza.

“Oh something smells burnt. I don’t know if that’s the cooking or the smell of burnt children in Gaza,” he said.

“Burn in hell.”

Victoria Police said the blaze was being treated as suspicious but have flagged that is unlikely to have been racially motivated.

The fire comes just one week after restaurant owner Hash Tayeh came under fire for attending a pro-Palestine march where he was captured in a video chanting “from the river to the sea”, which is widely recognised as a call for the destruction of Israel.

The Caulfield store is nestled in the heart of the Melbourne Jewish community, leading to fierce backlash from locals.

Tensions escalated outside the burnt-out store on Friday afternoon, with police having to intervene after two groups got into a scuffle.

It’s understood a pro-Palestinian group marched from Monash University in Caulfield to the store, where officers were forced to separate the groups.

Police detained several people outside the store to “keep the peace”.

“Police responded to reports of people clashing in Caulfield on 10 November,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.

“It’s believed a verbal altercation took place between around 15 people on Glen Huntly Road just after 2.30pm.

“A number of people were detained briefly in an effort to keep the peace. One female was arrested briefly for failing to provide identification.

“No one was injured during the incident.

“Police will maintain a presence in the area for community safety and to prevent any breaches of the peace.”

The Melbourne-based businessman, who owns the fast-food chain across Melbourne, posted an open letter to the city’s Jewish community last week after vision emerged of him at the rally.

“I write to address the troubling rumors (sic) that have been circulating about myself, suggesting that I hold anti-Semitic sentiments due to my attendance at pro-Palestinian rallies,” he wrote.

“I want to make it abundantly clear that these rumors (sic) are unfounded and far from the truth.”

Mr Tayeh said dozens of his family members had been killed in the conflict.

“I’ve had 38 family members killed and 2 orphans I’ve been sponsoring for the last five years aged seven and nine both killed,” he wrote.

Days after the vision emerged, the burger joint was flooded with negative reviews online, with one disgruntled customer calling for the Caulfield store to be “boycotted”.

“Disgusted to see the CEO of this company being caught out calling for (the) death of Jews today,” the review read.

“You’ve lost many Jewish customers, and your store in Caulfield will be boycotted.”

Victoria Police Inspector Scott Dwyer said the force were treating Friday’s blaze as a “stand-alone” incident and cautioned those making assumptions on who may have caused the fire.

Insp Dwyer failed to say whether there were any suspects.

“I’d like to point out, at this stage, there is nothing to indicate that this incident is related to any religious or political involvement,” he said.

“I am confident that this is not religiously or politically motivated.

“This incident, again, is a criminal act, it’s a suspicious fire that’s been linked, I would warn people not to make assumptions or draw lines of inquiry that aren’t there between this incident and anything else that is occurring.

“We are treating this as a stand-alone incident, and I would encourage the community to treat it as such.”

Early last week, the Burgertory store on Sydney Rd in Coburg North proudly flew two Palestinian flags above the shop.

In social media comments attached to the video of the Palestinian flags, a friend of Mr Tayeh’s compared the Israeli government to the Nazis, posting an image with a swastika at the centre of a Star of David.

“Thank you for all your support over the last week brother,” Mr Tayeh said, before his friend fired the image into the comment section.

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, said he was concerned the “chilling explosion of violence” would “turn deadly”.

“Something very wrong is happening in the city I love,” he told the Herald Sun.

“This deliberate and terrifying outburst of antisemitism and intimidation that took place in the heart of the Jewish community is a warning sign that things are spiralling out of control and that we should all be worried.

“People who are visibly Jewish and businesses are being targeted and harassed at levels never seen before, and I am concerned that this will turn deadly.”

Caulfield MP David Southwick said he acknowledged there were “tensions” in his community in the wake of the fire

“Many are concerned about the fire at Caulfield South Burgertory early this morning,” he said. “I know tensions are running high and people are feeling vulnerable, but we must remain calm and allow police to investigate.

“I will have more to say once VicPol provides an update.”

Burger shop owner responds after Palestine chant controversy

President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, who noted police had likely ruled out the attack being racial motivated, said “nothing justifies any form of violence”.

“We are aware that during the day on Friday there was also a physical altercation outside the takeaway shop,” he said.

“We deeply respect the right to free speech, and appreciate the ongoing work being done by Victoria Police to protect the community.”

Originally published as Burgertory store in Caulfield gutted by fire after owner attends pro-Palestine rally

Caulfield IS a Jewish area. This IS deliberate intimidation of Melbourne Jews. Here’s some facts, my side doesn’t engage in violence, my side doesn’t engage in hateful rhetoric, my side doesn’t engage in intimidation. Period. What happened last night is what happened in Germany in the 1930s.

Oh and shout out to Monty the Jew hater, who’s no doubt lurking here, did you rush to Caulfield to help your Jew hating mates last night, when they congregated to intimidate and threaten Jews? Or perhaps turning up to ‘intimidate and threaten ” Jews in a heavily Jewish suburb, outside a synagogue, on Shabbat, falls under your rather oblique description…..”legitimate grievances”.

And all of this was on the anniversary of Kristallnacht……which happened on the 9 and 10 November 1938.

In the USA gun ownership by Jews is soaring. You can see why.

Indolent
Indolent
November 11, 2023 9:16 am

If this happens they won’t be able to cheat hard enough to keep Trump out.

Two-thirds of North America may experience power shortages this winter – NERC

Cassie of Sydney
November 11, 2023 9:16 am

Oh and as I predicted, Jacinta Allan is far worse the Dan Andrews.

Premier Jacinta Allan on Friday night called for Victorians to “show each other love, care and support in these difficult times”.

“It is our diversity that makes us great, and our compassion that unites us, there is never any place for antisemitism or Islamophobia in Victoria,” she said

Note the weasel words and gaslighting? There was zero ‘Islamophobia” in Caulfield last night, but there was a lot of Jew hatred in Caulfield last night.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 9:17 am

snow only melts at a real temperature of zero Celsius

I had a 30 year shrub plant that did not survive the frosts this year.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 11, 2023 9:21 am

Black Ball
Nov 11, 2023 6:51 AM
Thank you for writing to the Minister about this matter.

So Bushie you should feel chagrined that the actual Minister in charge of law enforcement hasn’t actually read your email. Seems the response was by some underling. Almost like a carbon copy response to all enquiries. FMD

I drafted many such responses during my time in the public service. If you are lucky, the minister’s chief of staff might have seen the letter, and the minister’s office might have received a copy of the response.

BB is correct, if there are multiple letters on the same subject, then a “form” response will be used.

Johnny Rotten
November 11, 2023 9:22 am

No Worries –

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 9:22 am

Sometimes just knowing awful people feel bad all the time, because their heads are full of worms is consolation in itself.

Vagina (sand in it) Trolly has a sad.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-11/patriarchy-wifedom-george-orwell-eileen-o-shaughnessy/103092134

“Wifedom making me very cranky!” I could actually hear her shouting.

I knew exactly why. The book had made me pretty cranky, too.
..

Now a ” its awful, i went on an extensive Euro holiday”…
I read Funder’s meticulous excavation of the patriarchal truths kept buried by 20th century literary criticism and biography while I was on holiday overseas. It was a long anticipated trip, and a trip solely planned and organised by me.

As is the case in many marriages, it’s the wife who is the travel agent, and I had spent months researching and booking hotels, worrying about plane times and connections, calibrating itineraries and schedules so that a series of train bookings lined up like Rockettes to get us to far-flung destinations.

I was very proud of myself. The trip was fabulous, if a bit exhausting for me.

Vagina has weavers hands….
I watched as the man and boy I loved, contentedly wake each morning, brush the sleep from their eyes and ask with delight what the plans were for the day. Their trip was laid out like a magic carpet for them, and no one noticed that my hands were red-raw from weaving it.

Crazy lady is crazy.

The wife is an enabler, and a bearer of the mental and even physical load in ways that make her work both crucial and unvalued, all while it is also completely invisible. It’s a story as old as time and as powerfully present, to greater and lesser degrees, in all our relationships. And it’s driving many of us crazy.

Resentful harridan is resentful.
We bitched to each other resentfully about this reality, and I quizzed my friends: is this you, too? We wondered if Wifedom was the book breaking up marriages around the country.

Funder’s demolition of the patriarchal structure that keeps many of us trapped in this place is something to behold
..
Seething Vagina is seething.
It’s hard to contain the seething anger you feel reading Funder’s biography, and I’m pretty sure that AI has now evolved to empath-level algorithms because that’s the only explanation for my social media feeds changing to an endless roll of “mental burden” posts as I read the book.

The worn-out faces and narrowed eyes of the tired women in the videos made subtitles redundant: I knew exactly what was pissing them off just by the way they looked at me.

Much the same feeling ABC (lack of) listeners then?

The biggest drops were in mornings (Virginia Trioli) and afternoons (Jacinta Parsons), each down by 2.3 points.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 11, 2023 9:24 am

Vox senior correspondent Emily Stone just published an article cleverly titled, “The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.” Stone delivers the article much like a sage graciously dispensing wisdom from on high, illuminating the darkness of ignorant people still frustrated that groceries and other basic goods are so expensive.

Clearly Emily Stone has a degree in journalism from a major university.

Min
Min
November 11, 2023 9:27 am

May have been mentioned before but the Solicitor General ? , Correct title, who pronounced Tiwi islands were not subject to climate change because Australia only puts out 1% of emissions and we have no control of the weather and can’t change it . As someone asked why is his legal opinion shoved under Bowen ‘s nose?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 11, 2023 9:32 am

‘Progressives’ have no idea what would be done to them in Gaza

Jew-hatred is again on the march less than a century after the Holocaust. Why are moral, well-educated people on the left so keen to excuse the Hamas butchers and march alongside people calling for Israel’s annihilation?
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
From Inquirer
November 11, 2023
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When I was a student at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands between 1995 and 2000, my professors introduced me and my fellow students to a sensitive and difficult discussion: the betrayal of the Jews to the Nazis by Dutch collaborators during World War II. Three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered.

Inspired by Daniel Goldhagen’s 1996 book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, which argued that ordinary Germans were complicit in the Holocaust, my professor had us reckoning with a dark chapter in the Dutch past. To what extent were ordinary Dutch people responsible for the deportation and murder of their Jewish neighbours? Would we have joined the brave men and women who protested against the persecution of Jews or would we have been among the silent, if not complicit, majority?

Most of us at Leiden thought we would be in the former camp, which is very easy to say in hindsight. There were few students who thought it inappropriate of the professor to make us go through that exercise of moral reckoning, though perhaps these days more would say they felt “unsafe”.
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Now we are facing another reckoning, and all of us in the West must ask and answer that same question when it will really make a difference. In the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s response in Gaza, the poison of anti-Semitism is coursing through the veins of the West once more. This time it manifests itself as a well-orchestrated campaign against Israel, the state founded as the nation of the Jewish people, a place Jews can call home without fear of discrimination, pogroms and the threat of genocide.

In major cities all over the Western world, from London to Sydney, as well as on the campuses of elite universities from Harvard to Stanford, pro-Palestinian protesters chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – that is, Israel will be wiped off the map. Anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 1350 per cent in London. A Jewish prayer walk in London was cancelled after police informed the organisers that attendees would not be safe (a pro-Palestinian march was taking place 11km away on the same day). Petrol bombs were hurled at synagogues in Berlin. Posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas have been torn down systematically in London and New York, and Jews are being told to make themselves inconspicuous for their own safety.

‘Even when jihadist terror groups are militarily defeated, as ISIS was and Hamas may be, the dogma lives on in mosques and online.’

In short, Jew-hatred is again on the march in the heart of Europe less than a century after the Holocaust.

Why are moral, well-educated people on the left so keen to excuse the Hamas butchers and march alongside people calling for Israel’s annihilation?

Many of these people say they are anti-Zionists, not anti-Semites. They insist they are affected by the plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and do not endorse the terrorist tactics of Hamas.

But what exactly is anti-Zionism? At best, it is a lazy attitude that makes pristine moral demands of the state of Israel. It is an attitude that never questions Palestinians or for that matter Arab leaders on why they find it acceptable for Hamas terrorists to hide behind women and children and launch rockets from schools, mosques, hospitals and other civilian sites.

Take the example of the rocket misfired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad that hit a hospital in Gaza. After the fog of the initial confusion lifted and it became clear that PIJ was responsible, did any “anti-Zionists” marching for the Palestinian cause pause to digest what had happened? PIJ had clumsily killed – byHamas’s own account – more than 400 civilians. It did this while Hamas urged the residents of Gaza to stay put, knowing full well Israel was preparing a surge to clear Hamas out of Gaza. Hamas is dishonest in so many ways but at least it is honest about the fact it does not value human life – least of all the lives of those unfortunate enough to reside in Gaza.

My question for Western supporters of Palestinian activism is simple: Where was your outrage on October 8, the day after 1400 Israelis were slaughtered? Whatever your rationalisation, there must be a reason you feel less empathy for them than for the Palestinians who have been put in harm’s way by the actions of Hamas. Are you quite sure your anti-Zionism is not an old hatred clad in new clothes?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 9:33 am

When Vitrioli is finally yanked from the airwaves to save the radio station you suspect who might get the blame.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 9:41 am

Mr Bear.

Vagina Trolley has “retired” from radio.
But has been able, with remora like precision, to remain attached to Aunties withered dugs in the guise of “special projects for television”..

High-profile ABC broadcaster Virginia Trioli has been announced as the host of a new primetime ABC TV arts program. The as-yet-unnamed program, which is described as taking ‘the audience into the world of major arts luminaries’, will air in 2024.

Shame on you for thinking they would abandon someone so proficient in giving the audience what they want (halving listeners) to make a living in the…. private… sector…

Bruce
Bruce
November 11, 2023 9:41 am

Fentanyl-filled rockets?

Remind me again who is the SINGLE largest manufacturer and global supplier of Fentanyl?

The “medical-grade” stuff widely used in Oz hospitals comes from the same source.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 9:42 am

We will remember them

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 11, 2023 9:43 am

Many of these people say they are anti-Zionists, not anti-Semites.

Ask them what made twentieth century Zionism so necessary.

Johnny Rotten
November 11, 2023 9:43 am

Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

– David Ben-Gurion

Cassie of Sydney
November 11, 2023 9:43 am

Rukshan Fernando was there last night…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOisj1XmIdI

By the way, leftist progressive scum were there supporting their Jew hating genocidal maniacs. Hey Monty, were you there, intimidating Jews and throwing bricks at Jews?

What happened in Melbourne last night is a disgrace, and it is a portent of worse to come.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 9:49 am

What happened in Melbourne last night is a disgrace,


Indeed.
Join Vikpol and get a front row seat to the seeds of anarchy.

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
November 11, 2023 9:54 am

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over Public Relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard Feynman

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 10:00 am

Aunty does have trouble shaking them from the apron strings. Hence the need for the need of the Quentin Dumpster Long Goodbye.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 11, 2023 10:01 am

Every time I see iconic, legendary or popular written by news.com j’ismists now I have a look for idle curiosity but it is always some bespoke type business that I have never heard of and quite often confined inner city areas. Never heard of Burgletory either, don’t agree with burning the joint down but what does he expect wading into an emotionally charged debate that has nothing to do with his core business.

Watching that Vic Pol vid from Caufield, couple of observations. They would have had intel from their online team there would be a gathering like this, so like NSW cops at the Opera House they did nothing except send a token force. Looking at the video the only ones being targets of the pepper spray appeared to be in Israeli flags. So from a Police force that showed overwhelming numbers to little old ladies in parks during COVID or even had the gall to discharge gunpowder projected firearms on a war memorial couldn’t even deal with a few bored boys from Broadmeadow looking for a spot of bother on a Friday night.

Two tiered policing strikes again.

Gabor
Gabor
November 11, 2023 10:02 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Nov 11, 2023 9:32 AM

Would we have joined the brave men and women who protested against the persecution of Jews or would we have been among the silent, if not complicit, majority?

Most of us at Leiden thought we would be in the former camp, which is very easy to say in hindsight. There were few students who thought it inappropriate of the professor to make us go through that exercise of moral reckoning, though perhaps these days more would say they felt “unsafe”.

Try it, see what happens.

I can feel the frustration of others, at least we are not yet imprisoned for our view, but just you wait.
Police instructed by governments leaning one way does not help,

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
November 11, 2023 10:04 am

“It’s quite aggressive to come to a known Jewish area on Shabbat to protest like this,”

That’s one way to view it. Another is “normal aggression after the Friday sermon at their mosque”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 10:05 am

in the guise of “special projects for television”..

As someone who had special projects on their business card I ought to have some sympathy. In my case it was everything messy other people didn’t want to do. “This isn’t my job, give it to H B Bear.”

Cassie of Sydney
November 11, 2023 10:06 am

Dhimmi policing. Dhimmi Victoria. Dhimmi Australia.

Dhimmi world is here.

Crossie
Crossie
November 11, 2023 10:07 am

alwaysright
Nov 11, 2023 9:17 AM
snow only melts at a real temperature of zero Celsius

I had a 30 year shrub plant that did not survive the frosts this year.

The same with my frangipani that flourished for decades and then started getting frost bitten tips the last few winters.

Bluey
Bluey
November 11, 2023 10:08 am

alwaysright
Nov 11, 2023 9:49 AM

What happened in Melbourne last night is a disgrace,

Indeed.
Join Vikpol and get a front row seat to the seeds of anarchy.

Vicpol’s motto is what again?
They’re spent 20 or 30 years rebuilding a police force from one that had a reputation of being very corrupt, and that reputation has been destroyed in what, two or three?
Even if authorities start trying to turn it around now, it’ll be a generation before they get anywhere. Given the government Victoria gets, I don’t think they’ll recover in my lifetime.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 11, 2023 10:09 am

Two tiered policing strikes again.

Strike Force Malmo not required again.

Bluey
Bluey
November 11, 2023 10:14 am

Cassie of Sydney
Nov 11, 2023 10:06 AM
Dhimmi policing. Dhimmi Victoria. Dhimmi Australia.

Dhimmi world is here.

Please spend time with the people who are your rocks to cling to Cassie. I know it sounds condescending to say it, but you need those people right now.
I hope some brightness shines in your life in these times.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 10:20 am

What happened in Melbourne last night is a disgrace, and it is a portent of worse to come.

So a group of thugs went to a location with the specific aim of attacking, harassing and intimidating a group of people on the basis of their ethnicity/religion and no one was arrested? What about race hate laws in Vicco that were used against catch the fire ministries? Everyday I despise the political class a bit more.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 10:24 am

Richard Feynman


Now there is a bright spot. One of the greats.

JC
JC
November 11, 2023 10:28 am
miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 10:33 am

They’re spent 20 or 30 years rebuilding a police force from one that had a reputation of being very corrupt, and that reputation has been destroyed in what, two or three?

I reckon any good will towards VicPol was erased by their conduct during the scamdemic. I don’t think NSW police is any better but they don’t have the odium of being the dick-tator’s goon squad.

shatterzzz
November 11, 2023 10:34 am

Gaza update video ..
https://youtu.be/HFu_YLePE68

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 10:35 am

404 on that link JC

Also apparently some bad bonds sales in the US, big jump in rates needed to get interest.
Does that mean anything??

Makka
Makka
November 11, 2023 10:35 am

there must be a reason you feel less empathy for them than for the Palestinians who have been put in harm’s way by the actions of Hamas. Are you quite sure your anti-Zionism is not an old hatred clad in new clothes?

I’m certain it is that, the old hatred. But I’m reminded too that millennials are extremely strong in one particular trait. Fairness. They tend to look at life – their life- judging situations , all situations as to what is fair and the concept of fair.

Is it fair that trans freaks should not be fully integrated and mix with kids just like normies?

Is it fair that over 200 years ago a stone age people were brought out of their noble violent, abusive, existence ? Shouldn’t they be compensated by present day taxpayers?

Is it fair that Islam be considered a murderous Dark Age cult when it’s just another religion?

Is it fair that Arabs in Gaza should live a displaced life in their countries of origin, and be understood when they lash out at their imposed life like on Oct 7? Have some sympathy.

Layered on top of this is the Marxist education they have been inducted into most of their life and voila- you have an Israel hating population feverishly supporting their concept of “fairness” and murderous Islamists

The very disturbing thing I can see is this; as boomers depart this demographic grows and then dominates. So, as far as Hamas is concerned, Israel should make hay while the sun shines and wipe them out from this earth before the millennial equation really takes hold.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 10:37 am

I reckon any good will towards VicPol

, when they changed to the black shirts.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 10:39 am

evaporated

Damon
Damon
November 11, 2023 10:40 am

Why is Islamophobia so abhorrent when antisemitism gets a free pass?

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
November 11, 2023 10:40 am

Gang-raped and executed … burned alive … babies beheaded? It’s going down the media memory hole.
BBC doesn’t want to talk about Hamas barbaric crimes, just bang on interminably about damage to people and places in Gaza.

Damon
Damon
November 11, 2023 10:41 am

PS. I am neither Jew nor Muslim.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 10:44 am

Why is Islamophobia so abhorrent when antisemitism gets a free pass?

for the same reason it’s ok to cut down a forest for windmills but not for building

Makka
Makka
November 11, 2023 10:45 am

There are reasons why other Arabs states in the ME won’t take in any more Palestinians. Most centre around the fact that they are violent troublemakers of very little wort.

Johnny Rotten
November 11, 2023 10:45 am

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

– Winston Churchill

Razey
Razey
November 11, 2023 10:46 am

A free trip for Hamas supporters to the Gaza strip. C’mon. Show your support.

Zatara
Zatara
November 11, 2023 10:48 am

Just Stop Oil?

In a small Florida town this morning a classic Florida Man addressed one of the recently ubiquitous ‘Just Stop Oil’ road blocks.

A mobile mechanic sort of lad in his work truck, he went around the back of his truck, pulled out a grease gun and a bucket of used engine oil, and proceeded to lube the protestors vigorously.

Being an ecologically sound gent, he cleaned up after himself by dumping kitty litter liberally over the thrashing protestors to provide maximum skin abrasion to ‘just stop the oil’.

Just stop just stopped.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 11, 2023 10:49 am

There are reasons why other Arabs states in the ME won’t take in any more Palestinians. Most centre around the fact that they are violent troublemakers of very little wort.

As the Jordanians discovered to their cost!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 11, 2023 10:50 am

BJ earlier.

BB is correct, if there are multiple letters on the same subject, then a “form” response will be used.

What if the incoming letters are also form letters and contain rAndOm caPiTAls?

Damon
Damon
November 11, 2023 10:51 am

After the University of Auckland investigated and declared Tuvalu was unequivocally not sinking, Australia now declares that it is, and offer succour to its inhabitants!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 11, 2023 10:56 am

mole at 9:22

Vagina (sand in it) Trolly has a sad.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-11/patriarchy-wifedom-george-orwell-eileen-o-shaughnessy/103092134

“Wifedom making me very cranky!” I could actually hear her shouting.

Has Russell Skelton fact-checked this article?
I am sure the woman in Sunshine tossing up between electricity and groceries feels Vitrioli’s pain.

Rabz
November 11, 2023 11:01 am

an attack on a moozley restaurant

Does anyone seriously think this “attack” was perpetrated by anyone other than moozleys?

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:01 am

Vagina Victriolli a typical example of our self appointed tax leach ancien regime.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:03 am

Wind in Vicco has swung around to a sou-wester. Amazing how quickly to temp drops. I hate sou westers!

Rabz
November 11, 2023 11:03 am

a mostly peaceful protest in Princes Park

LOL. Those j’ismist morons just can’t help themselves.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:04 am

Does anyone seriously think this “attack” was perpetrated by anyone other than moozleys?

A Jussie Smollett job?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 11, 2023 11:05 am

‘Progressives’ have no idea what would be done to them in Gaza

They think that at bottom all people have the save values (except for the wilfully evil right who rightly suffer from trying to live contrary to nature).

They think Hamas have the same love of peace as we do, the same tender feelings we do for family, same impulse to protect the young, the old, and the vulnerable. They think they would be happy to live their religion within a secular society as the religious in ours (except Christians – they are fanatics). They believe that in peace Hamas (and Palestinians in general) will be content to live and mingle with the rest of a multi-culti society, offering us exotic dishes and exotic glimpses of their customs, with their children going to our schools and universities to learn to think like us.

Progressives have no idea how different people and cultures can be.

Their entire conceit of themselves is as the brilliant ones with a singular grasp of human nature, able to look at all modes and manner of human existence discern the sublime eddies and currents of which merely particular combinations account for superficial differences – like a biologist can make sense of the organs and structures of different mammals to explain the differences in how they live.

Progressives gloss over the fact that biologists even though they can explain between a mouse and a moose, they cannot change one to the other.

Or that not all living things are mammals.

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:06 am

a mostly peaceful protest

there’s seriously no original thought- just lifted from the contrived anti Trump race war.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 11, 2023 11:06 am

Vikpol are following the ‘policing by consent of the perpetrators’ playbook. Public order offences and threatening behaviour are fully negotiable for the right sort of credentials.

The implied transaction is: you let off steam; but no exploding or beheading.
OK?

The right to protest is the fig leaf. The price in terms of intimidation and inconvenience can be paid by someone else.

Rabz
November 11, 2023 11:06 am

“Many Australians will wonder what this country is coming to.”

No, danby, you monumental f*ckwit, I already know what it’s come to.

A third world cesspit infested by increasingly aggressive squabbling tribes, thank to quisling knobheads like you and your equally braindamaged labore confreres.

Thanks a bunch.

cohenite
November 11, 2023 11:06 am

Trioli at her vile best: pause it at 56 seconds and reflect in the pus coming out of this bitch pulling a face in response to an interview with Barnaby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr1R2o_yzXo

Rabz
November 11, 2023 11:08 am

A Jussie Smollett job?

Insurance payout and “da Joooze” wear the blame.

As pointed out by Mole above, “dreidel country”.

Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
November 11, 2023 11:13 am

Insurance payout and “da Joooze” wear the blame.

That was my first thought as well.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 11, 2023 11:13 am

On Buggery:

The burger chain’s founder and CEO Hash Tayeh believes the fire was a hate crime after he was filmed at a pro-Palestine rally leading a “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant.

“Two weeks ago, we started receiving threats,” the Palestinian-Australian told reporters.

“My voice will not be silenced. I will be out there every Sunday calling for a ceasefire and calling for peace.”

At least we now know that “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a Peace Call.
That’s something.

Vikpol apparently thinks so too:

While police are treating the fire as suspicious, they are confident it was not religiously or politically motivated.

“I would warn people not to make assumptions or draw lines of inquiry that aren’t there between this incident and anything else that is occurring,” Victoria Police Inspector Scott Dwyer said.

Insurance job?
Big Burger cartel behaviour?

In good hands.

cohenite
November 11, 2023 11:13 am

Trioli’s analysis of Orwell’s wife’s vomit:

Funder’s book excoriates a fundamental truth unchanged from both before and after Orwell’s time: that what women do in a marriage, in a family, creates more time for the other members of that family than they would ever have if they had to manage their lives without her.

The wife is an enabler, and a bearer of the mental and even physical load in ways that make her work both crucial and unvalued, all while it is also completely invisible. It’s a story as old as time and as powerfully present, to greater and lesser degrees, in all our relationships. And it’s driving many of us crazy.

Single parent families with only a woman are the single most dysfunctional factor in the growth of delinquency and social breakdown. A close second would be marriages with emasculating kunts like trioli in them.

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 11:14 am

George Orwell’s wife went with him on a holiday to Catalonia?
Who knew.

Razey
Razey
November 11, 2023 11:15 am

Damon
Nov 11, 2023 10:51 AM
After the University of Auckland investigated and declared Tuvalu was unequivocally not sinking, Australia now declares that it is, and offer succour to its inhabitants!

This is Australia Woke.

The world is boiling.
The clot shots work.
A man can be a woman.
Queers for Palestine!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 11, 2023 11:17 am

Yongah Hill: War criminals and rapists could soon be released following landmark High Court Ruling
Tim Clarke and Katina CurtisThe West Australian
Fri, 10 November 2023 8:00PM

A Perth child rapist, a Turkish war criminal and a Zimbabwean kidnapper who witnessed cannibalism are among the indefinite detainees who could be among those released following a landmark High Court ruling.

On Wednesday, the country’s highest judiciary ruled that indefinite detention was unconstitutional — even for people convicted of serious crimes.

The test case was a man convicted of raping a 10-year-old boy in Sydney in 2015, who Federal Immigration Minister Andrew Giles yesterday confirmed had already been set free.

Dozens more are set to follow in the coming weeks, around 30 of them from the Yongah Hill Detention Centre near Northam.

And an investigation by The West Australian into recently heard cases of indefinite immigration detainees revealed the serious crimes which had previously prevented them from being released, or returned to their countries of origin.
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One man was convicted in the late 1990s for raping a 13-year-old girl in Perth, when he was 18.

Documents reveal that over the next 18 years, he has been convicted of a total of 75 offences, dealt with by sentencing courts on 41 occasions.

Another man being held in WA was refused a visa because of his activities in Turkey during the mid-90s, which involved informing on people who he knew may be tortured or murdered.

Government lawyers argued that involved a “complicity in crimes against humanity”.

And yet another man, whose final conviction led to a nine-year jail term for kidnapping, had previously been exposed to combat, killing and cannibalism in Zimbabwe before coming to Australia.

All these cases suggest the men are currently housed in Perth.

The West understands there could be as many as 30 people in Yongah Hill who will be imminently released because of the ruling.

This would likely be the largest number of people ever released from immigration detention at once in the State.

The Government said it has no choice but to release 92 refugees who have been refused visas.

But the Opposition has accused the Government of being caught unaware by the decision instead of having a plan in place to protect the community.

There goes the neighborhood…

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 11:17 am

Organising a holiday is right up there with never going on holiday, washing on a board by the river bank and cooking on a wood stove no matter the weather.
The suffering that really matters.

shatterzzz
November 11, 2023 11:18 am

How do folk who can’t understand English get jerbs as journos .. FFS!
Shocker of a headline for a shocking story …..!

Two young boys have died after being found dead inside a car in rural Queensland.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 11, 2023 11:18 am

From the river to the sea
Let Israel be free!

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 11:19 am

I hate sou westers

E and SE are much much worser.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 11, 2023 11:20 am

died after being found dead

Well, dead is a real killer.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 11, 2023 11:20 am

A courageous government would hold a referendum to overrule such High Court decisions.

John
John
November 11, 2023 11:21 am

I’ve received a very exciting e-mail from Origin Energy about their re-design of their new look invoice.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 11, 2023 11:21 am

Two young boys have died after being found dead inside a car in rural Queensland.

They’ve been deaded!

Twice!

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 11, 2023 11:24 am

The possible underlying message of the Origin email:

We’re hoping our new look doesn’t look like a scam to you.

Actually, considering how much identity is locked up in a ‘look’, why change?

miltonf
miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:26 am

A courageous government would hold a referendum to overrule such High Court decisions.

don’t you just legislate to nullify that maliciously ridiculous decision?

Makka
Makka
November 11, 2023 11:27 am

In Dan’s electorate it’s now 17c, BOM saying top of 25c. BS! No chance of making it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 11, 2023 11:28 am

Damon
Nov 11, 2023 10:51 AM

After the University of Auckland investigated and declared Tuvalu was unequivocally not sinking, Australia now declares that it is, and offer succour to its inhabitants!

Come on, man, have a heart.
Having blown up a $400m referendum in the middle of an economic crisis, Handsome Boy Albanese needs a quick win. A PI back pat, a meat tray – anything.

He can feel Goblin Shorten’s bony fingers caressing his throat.

C.L.
C.L.
November 11, 2023 11:36 am

John Pesutto blames Jewish people for the Caulfield trial-run pogrom:

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1723097667579077031

Zatara
Zatara
November 11, 2023 11:36 am

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pissed someone in the swamp off.

FBI Seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Cellphones, iPads as Part of Campaign Investigation

The investigation is centered around allegations the “campaign colluded with the Turkish government and others to direct money into his mayoral effort.”

It came a week after Adams had to abruptly and dramatically bail out of a slate of White House immigration meetings to fly back to the Big Apple when FBI agents raided the home of his lead fundraiser Brianna Suggs — almost as soon as he had landed in Washington DC.

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 11:39 am

From the get go it was only a matter of time before there are muslim terrorist attacks on Australian soil.
Just keep encouraging them Australia governments.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 11, 2023 11:40 am

I blame Canbra for the Caulfield trial run pogrom.

Vicki
November 11, 2023 11:40 am

A warning about phoning around to ascertain comparisons in energy providers. This applies to those who already have a fairly favourable plan & are looking for comparisons.

Husband phoned Red Energy to see if they could match or better our energy contract with AGL. We have a 10kw solar system & sell back to the grid at a quite good rate, but have been concerned about AGL’s readings now that they have recently installed a “smart meter”.

Red Energy could not match AGL’s rate for our energy supply back to the grid. But imagine our fury when we discovered that Red Energy, WITH NO AUTHORITY, had cancelled our AGL policy & opened one with Red Energy. We would not have believed they could do this – BUT THEY DID.

When it was discovered, husband, with great difficulty & a lot of time, cancelled the Red Energy contract, & attempts to reinstate the AGL agreement.

I am sure you have guessed what happened next. AGL flatly refused to offer the 20c per kw they were previously paying us (for over 7 years) for excess energy back to the grid. We thought we had convinced them through their Resolutions Centre – but this was later overruled by senior staff.

The most outrageous issue in the saga was the ability of Red Energy to cancel our AGL contract & sign us up with them. This is the problem with dealing with these issues by phone or internet. Digitalisation often sucks. The law has not kept pace with the changes to business transactions at this level.

Should we go to the Ombudsman? I don’t think it would be worth the effort – as a sharp AGL executive reminded us that they had the right to revise prices annually.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 11:41 am

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pissed someone in the swamp off.

Time for Texas to send a couple hundred more buses full of country shoppers to NYC.

Dot
Dot
November 11, 2023 11:43 am

On Wednesday, the country’s highest judiciary ruled that indefinite detention was unconstitutional — even for people convicted of serious crimes.

The right decision.

Don’t let these “Laura Norder” frauds use you as hostages in your own sovereign democratic decision making.

Make them write better laws. Life sentences, long SNPPs and deportation.

“Sir you have been indefinitely detained because you are unvaccinated, this is a national emergency I tells yas!”

The same people who tell you that you need constitutionally questionable mandatory minimum sentences are the same people appointing the judges who can’t properly use judicial discretion – remember that mandatory minimums are a second best solution.

If they can’t appoint good judges or simply appoint their maaaates (standard practice), – VOTE THEM OUT!

Vicki
November 11, 2023 11:46 am

Progressives have no idea how different people and cultures can be.
Their entire conceit of themselves is as the brilliant ones with a singular grasp of human nature, able to look at all modes and manner of human existence discern the sublime eddies and currents of which merely particular combinations account for superficial differences – like a biologist can make sense of the organs and structures of different mammals to explain the differences in how they live.

Well said, Mother Lode.

shatterzzz
November 11, 2023 11:47 am

A courageous government would hold a referendum to overrule such High Court decisions.

better still .. ignore it .. what are the, well paid, justices gonna do? … resign in protest! .. LOL!

Winston Smith
November 11, 2023 11:47 am

Cohenite

Nov 10, 2023 8:14 PM
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

I’ll take methed up turd nations ‘Warriors”, for $100 please Cohenite.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 11, 2023 11:49 am

The deep state is still monstering anyone getting near to the 2020 steal.

Why Are Fulton Attorneys Leaving A Case? – And Where Are the Ballots?? (10 Nov)

Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark, attorneys for Aaron Johnson and Teresa Crawford, have filed a motion to withdraw themselves from the case of Garland Favorito et al v. Alex Wan, et al. A key issue in the case are 150,000 Fulton County absentee / mail-in ballots some of which are reportedly without fold creases and which did not appear to be hand marked.

I recall the unfolded ballots at the time. Yet another tactic that the courts keep on finding ways to not examine. Persecuting legal beagles pursuing such cases has been pretty extensive, since the Left controls the bars like all other legal system organizations.

Rosie
Rosie
November 11, 2023 11:49 am

You’d have lost your money Winston.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 11, 2023 11:51 am

From the get go it was only a matter of time before there are muslim terrorist attacks on Australian soil.

Very dry bush this year, pity if Allah was to inspire anyone to light up some of it…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-08/melbourne-aran-ari-sherani-terror-offences-trial-outcome/103079562

In one propaganda video, Aran Sherani was dressed in a black hooded jumper and proclaimed: “We will burn your cities, burn your families alive … we will not cease until all the [non-believers] are dead. We will slaughter you all.”

In another video, Aran said: “Spill their blood so they know our blood is not cheap.”

Found not guilty, because… reasons…

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  1. There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…

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