Old Ozzie @ 7.57am:

Man! Your health trials make me ashamed of my puerile complaints about long recovery (for me) from Covid- indeed, from even contracting the creepy Wuhan export.

Wishing you all the very best – as, I am sure, all Cats do.

Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 14, 2023 10:24 AM
Imagine a Korean soap opera written by a pallie without intolerance to death gluten, directed by a flamboyantly homosexual Indian bloke.

Dot – Pitch the project to Disney, they’ll give you $300 million.

I recently watched Broker, a Korean movie of a different kind. Not a soapie, a drama about selling babies. Well done and by the same director who did Parasite. That’s a great movie. Currently watching Vigilante, a Korean series about a trainee copper deciding to do what the courts won’t do.

Johanna: Some of her surname’s best syllables are Jewish.

Of the more than 30,000 Jews in the Netherlands who were able to go into hiding or made an attempt to escape abroad, approximately one third were still betrayed or discovered and transported, sometimes after many years of being hidden, as was the case with the Frank family.

I read this in the Ann Frank House when we visited. The historians try to be fair with the numbers, and to look at the unusual circumstances of the occupation in Holland, which explains some of the differential in Jewish deportation from Holland in comparison to lesser numbers France and Belgium. But the betrayals did happen, probably due in part to increasing hunger on the part of the population trying to support hidden families. This is in some way understandable.

However, it is also that case that the Nazis were sold on the idea of the Dutch as blonde blue-eyed Aryans and it seems some of the Dutch bought into that as well.

Whatever, the past happened and no point dwelling there. I was brought to tears by Ann Frank’s pasted up pictures of American film stars on her little bit of wall, torn out of magazines. Poor little kid, she was so full of hope and goodwill.

Modern politics is bankrupt but people continue believing that the existing structures can be redeemed.

I’m an anti authoritarian so consider me only a temporary alie.

Man! Your health trials make me ashamed of my puerile complaints about long recovery (for me) from Covid- indeed, from even contracting the creepy Wuhan export.

Was there ever a study made about the number of ailments by male-female?
Who is worse off?

Just a few weeks ago, Team Sky was hailing Squishy Rishi’s promise to ban cars in 2035 rather than 2027 (or whatever) as a conservative “we’re back, baby” moment in the history of the West.

the idea of front page photographs of the atrocities is the way to go – but for reasons you mention, I can’t see it occurring.

Me either.

Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Smash Grand Central, Vandalize New York Times (10 Nov)

The mob was part of a “Flood Manhattan for Gaza” protest that initially converged on Columbus Circle earlier in the evening, where they set fire to an Israeli flag and taunted a small faction of counter-demonstrators before marching through Manhattan and splattering fake blood on the New York Times building.

“We don’t want a Jewish state. We want ‘48!” the anti-Israel protesters chanted at the starting point, referring to Palestine before the establishment of Israel.

On Thursday night, pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the lobby of the New York Times itself. They vandalized police cars outside the building, painting “FREE GAZA” on them.

I suspect this was correctly seen as a warning by all other MSM papers: support Israel at your peril, Molotov cocktails are cheaper than newspaper offices.

Of course plod could stop to this sort of thing if they wanted to. It’s a complete mystery why they don’t.

Thanks Zulu, for the link to Andy Stewart late last evening. To my total dismay and embarrassment as a teenager, my dad was dragging me and my siblings along to Festival Hall to every Stewart concert, along with Kenneth McKellar and Moira Anderson, while my school mates were lining up for the Beatles. My shame was complete.

You’ve reminded me that after six decades I still know all their songs, accent and word perfect, even if i can’t remember where I left my reading glasses.

I now have a much better understanding of the longing for home my dad must have felt, despite his great love for Australia. I wish I’d been more sympathetic. But teenagers were and are, ever so.

Of course plod could stop to this sort of thing if they wanted to. It’s a complete mystery why they don’t.

After BLM, Defund the Police, revolving door bailouts and the Floyd corruptathon, and the border debacle letting millions, do you blame the NY cops for saying “fk it, if this is what they want then they can have it.” I bet their families are saying something like that.

This is how societies and civilizations disintegrate. Slowly at first, then fast. The result being at some point Marshall Law- which punters will beg for when the chaos and violence become too much to bear. This is the strategy the Left are attempting to employ in the US. And why they are so hell bent on stopping Trump.

Megan I didn’t go to the concerts but we did have a lot of records. Don’t think I ever recovered.

I had the misfortune to inherit the lot, vinyl, cassette and CD. Can’t bring myself to take them to the Salvos yet, but I doubt they would even take them off my hands.

I’ve commented on this before; the only version of History taught in our curriculum is that which is designed to impress guilt upon our kids. breeding activists by the time they leave school. Ditto for the climate hoax, indigenies etc.

The purpose of our Marxism infested ed system is to breed leftist activists.

Absolutely agree with this.

Years ago, I discovered my kids were being presented to by the AYCC, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, at their private school, who made ambit claims about climate change causing earthquakes and volcanoes eruptions .. much drama and fear mongery was pitched in excited tones I was told. Helpful ways for them to contribute to the AYCC’s coffers and how to convince their families of the plight.

I rang the school to enquire about this and what other activities were planned for the students. I was told that the school encourages students to be come active in current events and to help shape the world the way they want it.

I also asked if the people presenting were checked out in any way personally, was the material fact-checked beforehand even.

Nope, all good, they had no clue what was going to be pitched all they knew was that these groups contact the school and are welcomed in because activism is good.

The bastards have to concern at all for the paying parents or giving any balance to the meaterial pitched at kids.

The left are so far ahead of the right side of politics it is absurd to think we have any chance for generations unless something quite major happens to change this.

I know first hand how far reaching the left control the early learning of our children and then it will be their children and every year, their propaganda is more evolved.

The Voice went too early, in 10 years it will be a shoe in.

Some sensible advice from the burrower of Beaconsfield.

Politicians urge Melbourne school children to stay away from pro-Palestine protest next week amid rising tensions over Israel-Hamas war in Australia (Sky, 14 Nov)

Three senior politicians have advised students to not participate in a planned pro-Palestine rally next week, insisting kids should be kept out following shocking scenes at a demonstration last week.
…
“I wouldn’t encourage it. I’m not sure what it changes. Just generally, I think the community, we just need to somehow express your view, but everyone is getting so in each other’s faces,” Mr Shorten said, in reference to the violence at some rallies.
…
Shadow foreign minister Simon Birmingham also later appeared on Sky News and said he was”deeply troubled” by the idea of kids joining protests.
…
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan kept it simple saying “keep our kids out of this”.

Seeing that big finance companies are blacklisting students who protest in support of Hamas baby murderers it would be wise to attend to that recommendation kids.

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan kept it simple saying “keep our kids out of this”.

1. They’re not “our” kids.
2. I disagree. Let them protest. It will publicise the fact that Mohammedanism is an evil, false and violent cult. The more people convinced of this the better.

GO!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar

Mme Zulu’s mother survived the “Hunger Winter” – she maintained all her days that no -one knew how they would react, until they actually found themselves in that situation.

I have to agree with that.
Unless you are a saint, nobody can tell how they would react in a certain situation.
We are human.

Shadow of the vampire is very, very good with the whole ” was he really a vampire” story

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Nov 14, 2023 11:37 AM

Oh, I forgot.

There you go, you take it all too seriously.
Never mind, as you go.

The Voice went too early, in 10 years it will be a shoe in.

Yes. We can only do our best and talk out grandkids out of it.

Our kids are something of a lost cause.

Of course, that’s not everyone’s experience, but it is mine.

Which I must apologise most humbly for presenting here, of course?

Nope. Feck off, Kevni and your ilk.

Diogenes
Nov 14, 2023 11:32 AM

The airport waiting is a fair point I’d forgotten about – I suppose it is one of those inconveniences that stops being seen as a problem once you accept it as inevitable.
Except it isn’t inevitable it is an economic trade-off contingent on technology and demand.

A 320km/h top speed seems even more feasible in a country which is mostly flat and is not prone to earthquakes (okay, well, there is that Newcastle bit I s`pose.)
Suddenly the 600km/h becomes effectively 300km/h and the bullet looks competitive.

A similar point was made about flying cars being able to reduce the door-to-door travel time by not needing airports.

The result being at some point Marshall Law- which punters will beg for

Uh.

Marshall Law is an Australian television series, which aired on the Seven Network in 2002, starring Lisa McCune and Alison Whyte as lawyers and sisters.

I can see why the punters would beg for that.

Nov 14, 2023 8:07 AM
Vicki:

An ethnic breakdown of the executive and senior executive level staff of the Department might be enlightening.

Daughter was in the passport office, because there was a problem the post office couldn’t fix.
All staff subconts, once one of them get to a prominent position in the department the rest follow.
Sorry if I sound like some other poster, but it is a fact.

All staff subconts, once one of them get to a prominent position in the department the rest follow.

Yep. Like hires like.
I saw it on many a selection committee I sat on in Academia.

True, Kevni, true fact. I have an academic CV five pages long to prove it.

Show you at my birthday party!

I disagree. Let them protest.

CL – Letting kids protest in support of Hamas is like unto letting kids have their cocks or nipples cut off for “gender affirmation”.

Keep them from making such mistakes until they’re 18, then they can do whatever they want to themselves.

“Gabor
Nov 14, 2023 11:02 AM
Man! Your health trials make me ashamed of my puerile complaints about long recovery (for me) from Covid- indeed, from even contracting the creepy Wuhan export.

Was there ever a study made about the number of ailments by male-female?
Who is worse off?”

Well, statistically men die younger.

It’s true though. He’s slept in till mid-day today after spending half the early hours watching something on TV. I haul off to bed just after The Late Debate, and was up for the tree man at seven am. Ships in the nite, we are, I tell him, as I make a grab at a hug.

Should have gone to Specsavers.

Another LOL, Sancho. You are in good form today.

Much is in the eye of the beholder, as the sages of the ages tell us.

Keep pushing that wheelbarrow. 🙂

so much of their speech, special interests, victimhood obsession and argumentation is shame based

disagree with one and watch

doesn’t matter what their cause is you wrong-thinkers can be summed up neatly with a pejorative(s) … ya climate-denying, nanna-killing, trump supporting, nazi, islamophobes !!

I think they’re trying to build a Perpetual Shame Machine

It’s almost as if morals & ethics & community standards & religious principles that underpinned the “west” for generations were replaced by another set that we never selected.

Now shaming has been shifted onto a set of issues that results in transfer of power to the “new generation”, or their backers at least.

MatrixTransform
Nov 14, 2023 11:52 AM
…
I think they’re trying to build a Perpetual Shame Machine

A few months ago I spoke to someone who provides counselling services to postgrad students. He told me how they handle campus but in the wider world become rather anxious. I have 3 nephews under 40 years and they are fine but something is going on with the under 40’s. There is a big spike in depression and anxiety with no clear explanation for that(I don’t accept the arguments of Haidt and Hari).

It’s weird MT. One personal encounter though makes me very concerned about the teaching profession. Over a decade ago now, an English teacher. So full of Lacan and Foucault, so much psychoanalytic mumbo jumbo, and he was teaching children. I asked him if there is any attempt to teach logic to high school students. He said that is what English is now about. FMD!

Now, back to the lecture of how aspirin helps stop cancer … .

Winston @ 11.27am:

Yep. Friend’s son married Chinese lass, who then managed to bring her aged parents out of China (note my earlier comments on the English couple who failed whatever test the Dept had) to live with them.

Said patents – who didn’t speak a word of English- nevertheless regularly availed themselves of regular medical checks on Medicare.

Friend’s son no longer married to the Chinese woman – but I bet the parents are still rotting the system, if still around.

Gabor

“All staff subconts, once one of them get to a prominent position in the department the rest follow.”

And that is under a system that is legally, and at least theoretically, merit based. Once the merit system is formally abolished, it will make ABC recruiting look like a model of probity.

What was that about aspirin & cancer? Nothing would surprise me about this old fashioned anti-inflammatory. Sure, too much of anything is dangerous. But it is much despised by the medicos these days.

But then, it is long off patent !

Flinduk:

Democracy is not the natural default position anywhere – it is a rare and fragile state that arises only among intelligent, hard working, decent (dare I say ‘god fearing’) people.
It cannot be transplanted to countries with average national IQs much below a hundred, and if you try, you fail. It always requires massive outside effort to maintain it, and it goes away when you stop that. This simple fact could have told us that invading Iraq and Afghanistan was all very well, but the nation building afterpiece (aka bringing them democracy) would fail and should not be attempted.

When we went into Iraq to settle that madman, I had great hopes that a democratic nation would emerge.
Several thousand of our finest soldiers later, I realise you are right and I was wrong.
What a disappointment. What a tragic waste of life.

They will need big tunnels

Uh oh!

@john H.
Nov 14, 2023 10:44 AM

The “kick in the arse” comment was well meant and well taken. Trying to stay informed is challenging. The MSM is clearly hopeless. There are a plethora of Independent sources that range from reliable, to insane… sadly, mostly the later. Some groups are OK with conversation. Others are not. I let it piss me off and I shouldn’t have done.

At least I learned something from that interaction.

Peace.

They will need big tunnels

Uh oh!

Your fears are unfounded, the government has a new ” ex- Hamas tunnel engineer” visa in the works, word is they are already oversubscribed

When we went into Iraq to settle that madman, I had great hopes that a democratic nation would emerge.
Several thousand of our finest soldiers later, I realise you are right and I was wrong.

Same.

They will need big tunnels to get it out of Newcastle

Anyone who has rode on the Ncl-Syd train, as I have a fair bit, will know the patronage is so small that it would take several million years to get enough on ticket sales to pay for a stupid VFT. Meanwhile you can get in a car and be in Sydney faster using the M1. Faster even than flying, since Belmont A/P closed.

I prefer the train since you can use devices, read books, or look at the rather nice scenery and not have to worry about trucks and hoons.

Suddenly the 600km/h becomes effectively 300km/h and the bullet looks competitive.

You still have get to the station, and who knows what sort of a security check awaits?

I volunteer to fact check this. I’ll bring the wine.

Calm down Apple Eyes.

Guess I am living in the past. I remember when Catallaxy Files used to be brillaint for the latest scoop. Sure there was same salty bitchery, but it was all rough and tumble and mildly amusing.

Read through a few pages of this and it all “on House” Cheerleading and Pom Pom Parades and Special Handshakes. No information of any real consequence. Also appalling dishonesty.

Part of getting older? Some institution fall by the wayside. Stay curious and stay fresh … One of these days I will have had all questions answered and all mysteries solved.

Then I will probably bloody well die.

Boambee John
Nov 14, 2023 12:13 PM
Gabor

“All staff subconts, once one of them get to a prominent position in the department the rest follow.”

And that is under a system that is legally, and at least theoretically, merit based. Once the merit system is formally abolished, it will make ABC recruiting look like a model of probity.

the public service act in Queensland has been amended to explicitly remove “merit” and replace it with “eligible”. And of course, eligible means whatever they want it to mean. It’s a Humpty Dumpty world.

Mr Mashni said “everyone should be able to go where they want”.

right – so a congregation of Jews with Israeli flags would have no problems walking through Lakemba, or Craigieburn. Right?

Bruce O’Nuke:

So..
Where are all the Muslims?
There are billions of Muslims around the world, tens if not hundreds of millions in the Western world where The Marvels is playing. Where are they?

They are all wasting their talents ( those that have talent, and those who don’t) making videos for Paliwood.
Didntchaknow?

Mark Bolton
Nov 14, 2023 12:43 PM

Meh!

Concern trolling, bird.

The problem is that to achieve those speeds it could only have a maximum of 4 stations, the 2 termini,

and that is why it will always be unfeasible bullshit. Every would be commuter would want a station nearby, supported by the local vote chasing politican. In the end the VFT would become inevitably become a slow trot not much different to the current express services. And those that don’t fancy a commute will NIMBY.

Guess I am living in the past. I remember when Catallaxy Files used to be brillaint for the latest scoop.

Mark – There’s been a fair bit of stuff recently which suggests that the New Cat gets mined for ledes.

I know the last few weeks we’ve been ahead by about a day on a lot of what appears on Sky and Murdoch press outlets. Always gives me a warm feeling to see something we discussed get picked up. It’s fun!

A problem is that the right and left are diverging even more starkly, so what you might find interesting isn’t discussed here, because we regard it as rubbish. Which it usually is, if you examine the exegetical background.

I’m not going to sleep tonight, I remembered Jimmy Shand and his Band. Sorry, why should I have all the pain.

Put a 300km service on the line though and watch that change.

Diogenes – The other aspect is since Covid no one bothers with cities if they can help it. The drawing power of CBDs is much reduced, through WFH and Amazon.

That eats into the prospective bums on seats for a VFT. There just isn’t much worthwhile in Sydney anymore. I haven’t gone there for a decade, since I don’t need to. There’s nothing there worth the effort.

Framing Israel

How the media are reporting the war against the Jews and the west

Melanie Phillips, November 14, 2023

Bolt Ons

“Read through a few pages of this and it all “on House” Cheerleading and Pom Pom Parades and Special Handshakes. No information of any real consequence.”

Don’t feel obligated to stay.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Nov 14, 2023 9:15 AM

..It can sometimes seem to outsiders who haven’t experienced an ASD child personally or in their family that people ‘go on’ too much about ASD.

People with no personal experience in such issues should defer to the ones who do, or STFU.
Just realising one’s own child’s inability to achieve their full potential is heartbreaking.
The large majority of these kids are simply maladapted to “reading” other humans’ cues. A seemingly trivial problem, but potentially life-destroying.
Also, as if they weren’t disadvantaged enough these days, the overwhelming majority are, of course, males (~99%?).

To some extent, that may be so, but every family affected has to find out about it, and sharing the info can help.

Yes. Multiple minds are always better than one.

Sancho at 1323

I have always suspected that the Section 44 dual citizenship shambles resulted from an attempted purge of non-Stalinist Greens that got out of control.

Couldn’t get into the Clinic – full of subcontinentals, asians, arabs etc. All with daughters/family to translate, and most with multiple health issues.

Another example of the innate ‘friction’ of multiculturalism

An internal review completed by Mr Davis’ party released on Monday states they received allegations the 31-year-old was “engaging in inappropriate behaviour with younger people”

I am prepared to get absolutely shitcanned on this until it goes all the way to the HC denying an appeal.

Nearly every single word of that block quote is a weasel word.

Allegations
Inappropriate
Younger people
Possibly higher or lower than the age of consent

This just gets silly. Unless it was reported incorrectly, the ACT police have said no complainants have come forward and there is no reason to investigate this any further.

If someone in the Australia 1 “Party” sends a letter to the Liberal Party HQ that Senator X…” is alleged to engaged in inappropriate behaviour with younger people possibly higher or lower than the age of consent”, why does the Liberal Party have to do a damned thing? If this is the case we can basically SLAPP ourselves out of a pluralist democracy. Hello kaluminators and a 1692 Salem, MA., style directorate of slimy turds, litigators and liars.

It’s just lazy to think that simply because they are Muslims they have aims or interests that are identical or largely convergent.

Physician heal thyself.

I was accurate Dover. Hamas was an arm of the MB but with the decline of that organization due to Al Sisi’s coup and the hard times befalling Sunni jihadis they have edged towards Iran and the Shia. Strong horse and all that.

In Syria Hamas were never in good odour since they were associated with the Palis in the “refugee camps”, who Syrians and Lebs detest. Assad has been allied to Hezbollah, who are Shia clients of Iran. He’s Alawite/Alevi, who are similar to Shias and are regarded as close. Some tens of thousands of Hezbies have fought for Assad’s cause, often against Sunni opponents sponsored by Erdogan, who rather likes the idea of annexing the Sunni bits in NW Syria.

The problem of course is that muzzos always line up together when there’s an external threat, like now, but when there isn’t one they collapse into “there can be only one” infighting.

People with no personal experience in such issues should defer to the ones who do, or STFU.

Iv shared some os my personal triels and have appreciated the genuine feedback. But I stop myself identifying with others. Doing so leads to competitive pity sessions and diminishing the seriousness.

Lots of people are dealing with troubled children. Most will do it 24/7 for the rest of their lives spending what little saving thay have.

Weren’t the Nazis helped in the Low Countries by extensive government records about citizens details?

Quite, the nazis were most pleased with the thoroughness of the previous dutch administration.

@john H.
Nov 14, 2023 1:54 PM

Forgive slightly OT. Aspirin is a fascinating substance. The History of it is profoundly interesting. I once manufactured a few grams of it in a Chemistry class. I am unjabbed and when i eventually got the Coof it was my “go to” for the aches and pains.

So far the accusations against the greens chap appear to be on par with the ones raised against a certain high court judge back in the day.
Minus any police follow up.

Just realising one’s own child’s inability to achieve their full potential is heartbreaking……….Yes. Multiple minds are always better than one.

True words and wise.

Ahh Quaintarse. Years ago the Q Frequent Flyer program offered ‘rewards’ in the newly minted Telecom (I don’t think it was Telstra, then) shops. The list was the usual pens and junk. But they did not limit it to those items. It was whatever was in the shop.
Then Telecom started flogging computers and bigger items. Obviously Sales forgot to talk to Marketing. At that stage you had to mail a request for your Frequent Flyer points to be sent to you in Telecom notes (I should have kept a few). I dutifully collected $3K in one dollar Telecom notes and fronted up with the thick wad for all my office gear. They, at first, refused to allow me to take the gear. I was aghast! and stood my ground. After a few hours of calls, sweaty shop assistants, managers, middle and senior, I got my booty.
Marking people are so creative they are a dumb as ice cream. Gotto love them.

For autism, four boys to every girl. Girls typically are more severely affected.

Yep

Aspirin is a fascinating substance.

Been a Godsend for me. For a year I’ve had a version of long Covid where you get a lot of a certain inflammatory polypeptide expressed in nasal secretions, which then causes lymph tissue in the throat and sinuses swell up. Particularly affect males.

One asprin tablet and the swelling goes down in about 5 minutes, like magic. Antihistamine tablets (I use double dose loratidine) reduces the inflammatory secretion problem but it takes an hour to kick in, so the asprin is a wonderful short action fix.

The fun thing is I got long covid without ever realizing I ever had covid. So mild it was. But the biochemical changes have been interesting, albeit a proverbial pain in the bum. I’m not a fan of Chinese war virus designers.