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OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 6:06 pm

The peaceful US march for Israel. Compare and Contrast to team-head-hackers.

Total Truth re Muslim Palestinian Gazan Hamas – Team Head Hackers – Thai Man would agree

From the Comments

– That’s no march ! Where’s the flares and angry faces ?

– Bet there were no threats to behead, gas or kill there.

– Yes, like virtually everything, one side id well behaved and the other side show their hatred in one form or another. And which is which is usually quite predictable.

– Today I watched Peter Dutton rip the hide off that useless moron Albosleazy at Question Time.

Albosleazy’s reply was to yell abuse, blame shift and deny his uselessness as he prepares to abandon the problems here at home while he flys off overseas yet again to another equally useless gab-fest.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:13 pm

Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary says 59 US personnel have been injured in attacks on troops in Iraq and Syria.

One of the US bases is co-located at an oil refinery.
Saw footage of it last week on twitter.
Dunno if it was in Iraq or Syria.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 6:15 pm

Nice to see the sheltering civilians were able bodied military aged men.
No women, no children, no elderly and hopefully no babies.
Still hopeful some hostages will be freed.

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2023 6:19 pm

“Egypt will take the 36 premature babies “

How nice, any news on the Jewish babies kidnapped into Israel on 7 October 2023?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 15, 2023 6:19 pm

Elbow trying some elbow grease to have it both ways…

‘No qualification, whatsoever, in my condemnation’: Mr Albanese
Tessa Flemming profile image
3h ago
By Tessa Flemming

You just heard Opposition Leader Peter Dutton saying Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was “missing in action” when the Jewish community “needs him most”.

Mr Albanese was quick to respond, saying it was an attempt for Mr Dutton to “weaponise anti-Semitism”.

He called the speech “beyond contempt”.

“I spoke in this chamber on Monday about the events in Caulfield and about the events in the eastern suburbs of Sydney,” Mr Albanese said.

“There was no qualification, no qualification whatsoever, in my condemnation.

“At a time when there is social division, leaders have a choice, they have to either bring people together or divide them.”

Mr Albanese added he was against the “idea of selective human rights”.

“Now, Jewish Australians are fearful at the moment,” he said.

“The sort of activity that is occurring is scaring them and I stand with them.

“No-one should threaten people because of their religion or their race in this country.

But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.”

The legendary hijab pulling Jews of Sydney at it again.
Faster than a CCTV
Stronger than a gust of wind
its: SuperYid!!!

Salvatore, Iron Publican
November 15, 2023 6:21 pm

Yo Albanese: Some verifiable examples, & now;

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened

Lee
Lee
November 15, 2023 6:27 pm

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.”

Pull the other one.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 15, 2023 6:27 pm

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened

I’ll take – Things That Never Happened – for $500

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 15, 2023 6:28 pm

Im sorry, but IDF need to go the full TE Lawrence on any member of Hamas.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/14/news/noa-marcianos-death-confirmed-by-israel-after-horrific-hamas-video-of-tragic-idf-soldier/

Israel on Tuesday confirmed the death of a 19-year-old female soldier abducted by Hamas who spoke to the camera in a recent propaganda video released by the terror organization — before the video cut to reveal her dead body.

Zatara
Zatara
November 15, 2023 6:28 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
November 15, 2023 6:29 pm

My article “The lost ships and men of the Navy” over at Military History and Heritage of Victoria: https://www.mhhv.org.au/the-lost-ships-and-men-of-the-navy/

Might interest some. It was written primarily to counter a myth there is only one ship of the RAN, that was lost in combat, remaining to be found.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 15, 2023 6:30 pm

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened”

To borrow from the Beeb and Their ABC, “This claim could not be independently verified”.

P
P
November 15, 2023 6:30 pm

– Now we see the true Albo – the hysterical uncontrolled maniacal socialist who’s been exposed as a shameful bludger who sponges off the taxpayers of Australia. The worst PM in living memory.

The worst PM during my lifetime is Fraser. What he did cannot now be undone.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 15, 2023 6:32 pm

rosie
Nov 15, 2023 6:15 PM

Still hopeful some hostages will be freed.

I would like to believe that would happen.

Unfortunately, unless rescued by the IDF as they advance on their objectives, i would presume them to have been murdered.

We can always hope, but i doubt any of those poor souls will survive.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 15, 2023 6:33 pm

The worst PM during my lifetime is Fraser. What he did cannot now be undone.

You missed Shitlam ?

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2023 6:35 pm

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.””

BULLSHIT. I’m reminded of that dreadful day in 2014 when ordinary Australians were held hostage by a Muslim maniac, Man Monis, and in order to deflect from the fact that a Muslim has taken innocent men and women as hostages, leftist scum started a Twitter hashtag to deflect from the real crime in the Lindt Cafe. As with the Lindt cafe, Sleazy’s words trivialise the real victims of Muslim terror.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:35 pm

i would presume them to have been murdered.

Any recoveries of the 200+ hostages would be a blessing.
Unfortunately, tragically, I would be expecting them all to have been murdered by now.

bespoke
bespoke
November 15, 2023 6:36 pm

How nice, any news on the Jewish babies kidnapped into Israel on 7 October 2023?

Unfortunately no, Cassie. But since the IDF is supplying the incubators I thought it worthy counter to the heartless Israeli properganda.

P
P
November 15, 2023 6:36 pm

You missed Shitlam ?

No.

I live in Sydney. I’ve just listened to today’s TV news.

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2023 6:36 pm

That should read….”kidnapped into Gaza on 7 October 2023″.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 6:38 pm

Vagabond

Nov 15, 2023 5:44 PM

How might Israel put Hamas on trial?

For crimes committed on Israeli soil, just run them through the criminal system in Israel.
For those they capture in Gaza, forcibly extradite them and ditto.
For those in Qatar and elsewhere?
Well, you know …

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:39 pm

Nah, these Hamas demons need to be taken out like the post Munich games clean up.

cohenite
November 15, 2023 6:41 pm

“But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.”

First the Pacific Islands are sinking now this complete and utter BS. Rub and tug left the best of him in the knock shop.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:42 pm

Israel needs to start offering bounties.
You offer a Pali $5mill to give info on the local Hamas leaders, things get cleaned up.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 6:42 pm

Too good not to enter into:

But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.

I’ll give this one the Thatcher to Negus treatment:

‘Who?’

‘Uhhh…. well…’

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 6:43 pm

Israel needs to start offering bounties

I’d be surprised if they weren’t already doing it.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 15, 2023 6:45 pm

cohenite
Nov 15, 2023 6:41 PM
—————————
Rub and tug left the best of him in the knock shop.

I will be soaking by brain in paint stripper to remove that mental image.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 6:46 pm

Mal and Tammy used to stop in at the roadhouse I worked at in old home town. I’m going back 10 years here etc. It was on the way to their ranch out the back of Hamilton.

He was just a miserable old clapped out geriatric, but Tammy was very spritely and posh. Could talk shit (genuinely) with average peasants and riff-raff, as equally as with heads of states and royalty I would guarantee.

Johnny Rotten
November 15, 2023 6:46 pm

thefrollickingmole
Nov 15, 2023 6:19 PM
Elbow trying some elbow grease to have it both ways…

Well, he can have it right up the arse the same as Wenny Pong. Just look at them both sitting on the fence in that brilliant Leak Cartoon that Tom posted this morning.

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 6:48 pm

Always liked Tammy and thought she was too good for Fraser trash.

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 6:48 pm

Even more style than Zara Bate.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 15, 2023 6:49 pm

Grandson in the weekend throwing things around when its not going his way. Trying not to laugh I said to if he behaves like that at my house I don’t want him to come. Head down, lip quivers, runs to his bedroom. I go in, well what are you going to do? Walks out, butter wouldn’t melt. He’s just like me. He’s getting better behaved. Luigi is getting worse.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 15, 2023 6:49 pm

Sounds like Dutton pushed right buttons on Albo. After what we have seen of the Muslims marauding through out cities screaming out the most abominable and unhinged Jew hatred – stuff so vile that most Australians were shocked to hear it here – Albo has to put in they ‘Islamophobia’ bit.

Being worried about Islam does not look so irrational at the moment.

And as for the Jews, again we have never seen people subject to such menace, but Albo felt he had to equivocate. What a worthless gelatinous polyp of a creature.

He thinks flying around the world for photo ops and incontinently shitting out money for any fashionable victim he encounters is what a leader does. But a situation in his own country it is spluttering rage that anyone is putting him on the spot by insolently asking for leadership.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 6:49 pm

But it is also the case that Arab Australians, and Islamic Australians, and women wearing hijabs in the streets of Sydney and Melbourne are being threatened and I stand against that as well.

‘I would dearly like both Jews and Muslims to vote for me, as although my polling – along with my judgment – is shithouse, I wish to pump myself up with no justification whatsoever as a statesman of Churchillian – nay, Ghandi-esque proportions.’

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 6:54 pm

Tammy is a top woman. I remember as a kid the media used to paint her as some out of touch posh weirdo. Not the case.

JC
JC
November 15, 2023 6:54 pm

Other than not allowing Qatar access, what mechanism is the government using to keep airfares high?

Q, Delta, American, United and Jetstar fly direct routes to and from Australia and the prices are comparable.

Indirect routes.
Take your pick. There’s plenty of them. My cousin’s relatives recently traveled from Italy to Oz for a holiday with China Airways through Shanghai.

Europe would have an even larger selection in terms of direct and indirect routes.

In a sign of the travel industry’s lingering anger about the federal government’s blocking of additional flights from Qantas rival Qatar Airways, Mr Turner went off-script at Wednesday’s annual general meeting.

Did anyone ask Mr. Turner that if he thinks about Q’s government protection is like, really bad, what does he say about Qatar Air receiving massive fuel subsidies and allowed to piggyback off the Qatar government’s credit rating when raising debt to buy or lease planes?

Fares are up because, costs have risen, people are traveling a lot and there are still staff shortages around the world.

Markets = shit happens.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:55 pm

I’d be surprised if they weren’t already doing it.

You’re probably right.
Keep in mind, Zero Dark Thirty was a total pile of shit.
It was a Pakistani walk-in who told them where Bin Laden was.
Who is now living a nice life in the US with $US25mill in his skyrocket.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 6:58 pm

spluttering rage that anyone is putting him on the spot by insolently asking for leadership

Elbow, calling from the conservatory;

‘Jenkins? JENKINS!

‘Fetch the Bentley, will you? The peasants are getting uppity again – I will adjourn to the club.’

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 6:58 pm

Obviously the raid took place.
But it wasn’t the work of a strong, female CIA agent going up against the patriarchy.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 15, 2023 7:02 pm

Brumble-
Social licence was an emergent quality of a business as defined by the market, not a pre-requisite set by the State (directly or indirectly).
Rubbish. The “social” bit is a dead giveaway that the concept was invented by a pinko, and the “license” bit makes it obvious that it was designed to be enforceable, ie retracted by the Lizard People at their will.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 7:04 pm

P
Nov 15, 2023 6:30 PM

– Now we see the true Albo – the hysterical uncontrolled maniacal socialist who’s been exposed as a shameful bludger who sponges off the taxpayers of Australia. The worst PM in living memory.

The worst PM during my lifetime is Fraser. What he did cannot now be undone.

P,

were you not old enough at “It’s Time” ?

– Hanging Head in Shame, I fulfilled the prophecy and Voted for Whitlam – the beginning of the Destruction of Australia Sorry Whitlam is the Worst Australiam PM Ever

Tough Call – many come close – Malcom Fraser, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Malcolm TurdBull & ScoMo from Marketing “I haven’t a Clue”, but Thai Tug Albosleezy is going for Runner up to Whitless

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Johnny Rotten
November 15, 2023 7:04 pm

JC
Nov 15, 2023 6:54 PM
Other than not allowing Qatar access,

And that is the rub. What valid reason (or reasons) has the Feral Guv’ment given to the Australian voter/taxpayer for not allowing Qatar greater access. It all seems to have been pushed to the background with other recent events having now taken over.

This Feral Guv’ment promised to be transparent. LOL. FFS.

bespoke
bespoke
November 15, 2023 7:08 pm

OldOzzie

I was never a lefty.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 7:10 pm

Tammy had Zara Bate fully covered, bro.

Zatara
Zatara
November 15, 2023 7:12 pm

One of the US bases is co-located at an oil refinery.

Sounds like Kahsham, aka Conoco Fields.

Where Wagner Group bit off more than they could chew back in 2018.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 7:13 pm

Young Aussie reveals the secret perks of attending a private school that the rich struggle to admit: ‘There’s a huge difference’

. Entrepreneur reveals harsh reality about public and private schools
. He claimed private school students receive three key advantages

A publicly-educated entrepreneur has revealed the three crucial advantages he believes are only accessible to those who attended private schools.

Zane Marshall, founder of marketing agency Lux Social, claimed that 70 per cent of the CEO’s who ran the nation’s top 100 companies were privately educated.

Mr Marshall said private schools offered their students three things – a good education, a high level of self-worth and exclusive networking opportunities.

‘When you look at the difference between public and private schools there’s a huge difference, despite what people say,’ he said in a TikTok video.

‘Where I think private school students get the biggest advantage is it’s who you know, it’s the network that you are exposed to. Obviously the level of education plays a huge part but it’s the network that is the most important.

‘When I compare my friends that went to private schools, they all went off into really high paying jobs or got these amazing opportunities early on through their network from the private school.

‘Whether it was from the sporting team, whether it was from a friend of a friend that they went to school with, someone’s uncle, someone’s dad, they all got really good opportunities through the network in the school.’

Mr Marshall said the level of self-worth instilled in students at private schools was the most important ingredient for future success.

‘The level of confidence and the high level of self-worth that is instilled in private school students by their teachers. I didn’t get that at public school,’ he said.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 15, 2023 7:14 pm

“Egypt will take the 36 premature babies “

They won’t be staying. Notable no adult Palis allowed. They’re not Robinson Crusoe there either. The Muslim not so Brotherhood
.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:16 pm

Malcolm Roberts. On the money, again.

Federal Government Enables the States to Steal Property

JC
JC
November 15, 2023 7:16 pm

The only rub there is, is when you’re rubbed down after your soiled diaper is removed. One heavily subsidised airline wouldn’t make a dint to airfares when there is a huge array of direct and indirect choices. If there were why aren’t the North American routes less expensive than the European routes, which is the towel headed airline’s main focus? They’re comparable. STFU Wodney because you’re a fat mouthed annoying limey imbecile. You shit for brains, go ask Socrates.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:19 pm

Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti

Professor of Oncology at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London:

“At the end of last year I reported that I was seeing melanoma patients who had been stable for years relapse after their first booster (their third injection). I was told it was merely a coincidence and to keep quiet about it, but it became impossible to do so. The number of my patients affected has been rising ever since. I saw two more cases of cancer relapse post booster vaccination in my patients just this last week.

Other oncologists have contacted me from all over the world including from Australia and the US. The consensus is that it is no longer confined to melanoma but that increased incidence of lymphomas, leukaemias and kidney cancers is being seen after booster injections. Additionally my colorectal cancer colleagues report an epidemic of explosive cancers (those presenting with multiple metastatic spread in the liver and elsewhere). All these cancers are occurring (with very few exceptions) in patients who have been forced to have a Covid booster whether they were keen or not, for many so they could travel.

So why are these cancers occurring? T cell suppression was my first likely explanation given that immunotherapy is so effective in these cancers. However we must also now consider DNA plasmid and SV40 integration in promoting cancer development, a feature made even more concerning by reports that mRNA spike protein binds p53 and other cancer suppressor genes. It is very clear and very frightening that these vaccines have several elements to cause a perfect storm in cancer development in those patients lucky enough to have avoided heart attacks, clots, strokes, autoimmune diseases and other common adverse reactions to the Covid vaccines.
To advise booster vaccines, as is the current case, is no more and no less than medical incompetence; to continue to do so with the above information is medical negligence which can carry a custodial sentence.

No ifs or buts any longer. All mRNA vaccines must be halted and banned now.” Angus Dalgleish

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:20 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 7:21 pm

For food motivated Sydney Cats, today I popped into Lobster House on Pitt Street.
I had the truffle lobster roll.
Five stars.
It’s around the corner from the Downing Centre so the next time you are fighting a speeding ticket, worth walking the block to partake.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:22 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:23 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 7:24 pm

The Lovely Peace Loving Australian Mislims & Labor PM Thai Tug Alboslezzy”AwaysOverseasy” and Labor Fence Sitter Wong support this!

Israel is investigating ‘several cases’ of sex attacks by Hamas terrorists during October 7 massacre including woman who was gang-raped then shot at festival

– Witnesses told Israeli police they saw instances of sexual violence on October 7

From The Comments

– Hamas is vile!!

– Full support for Israel.

– Typical modus operandi of groups like Hamas.

– Palestinians will probably still support them as freedom fighters.

Remember What Malcolm Fraser gave Australia

Sins of the brothers: How Australian Mohammed Skaf rapists shocking acts continued behind bars

The vile behaviour of the Skaf brother rapists did not stop when they were jailed, as can be revealed in their shocking prison files and Bilal’s sordid jail art.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 7:24 pm

President Newsom.
After beating Haley in the most boring campaign in modern history, I wonder what his first order of business will be.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 7:27 pm

bespoke
Nov 15, 2023 7:08 PM

OldOzzie

I was never a lefty.

bespoke,

Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa – I failed as an under 30 and was swayed by the “It’s Time ” Crap – I blame Little Pattie for my downfall – “I Have Sinned”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 7:30 pm

Semi final time in the World Cup (of crikkit, not luigi-ball).

Call centre operators vs Kiwis. A few empty seats, but not many.

The subcon betting markets would be absolutely frenetic right now.

P
P
November 15, 2023 7:31 pm

P,

were you not old enough at “It’s Time” ?

I was. I remember well the week before the election attending the Musicians Christmas picnic at Concord Park which was attended by many well known musicians and their families.
Little Pattie was on the mic encouraging all to vote for Whitlam. Someone handed a box full of It’s Time badges to my two young boys 5yrs and 3yrs to hand out while I was attending to my daughter in the stroller. My husband nearly died when he saw his sons handing out the badges. It did them no harm, they have grown up as conservative as him and some of the grandchildren at this stage as well.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:33 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
November 15, 2023 7:37 pm

That naughty ACT MP again:

Another person has come forward about a former Greens MLA facing allegations following an intimate relationship with a 17-year-old.

ACT Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury confirmed on Wednesday another person reached out to their party to share information with them about former Member for Brindabella Johnathan Davis.

Mr Davis resigned from the Legislative Assembly and the ACT Greens after allegations emerged in the media on November 10.

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

The age of consent in the ACT is 16.

These allegations have not been substantiated. No charges have been laid, with ACT Policing confirming they received a referral in relation to the matter.

Daily Tele

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 15, 2023 7:38 pm


Sounds like Kahsham, aka Conoco Fields.

Where Wagner Group bit off more than they could chew back in 2018.

So Trump would have had to have approved that.
But the liberal chumps in the US still think he was a Russian puppet?
What a pack of retards.

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 7:42 pm

What a pack of retards.

biggest retards in the US must be in Massachusetts and Delaware for continually reelecting Kennedy and Biden year after year.

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 7:43 pm

And Ed Markey

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 7:46 pm

But who knows, it might be rigged in those states like it is in Penn

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 7:49 pm

Braverman’s letter was written in fire – none of us can doubt what a snake Sunak is

In sacking a woman who dared stand up to shrill Leftists and dangerous Islamists, the PM has forever destroyed his reputation

ALLISON PEARSON

Flipping heck, talk about being stabbed in the front. Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak must count as one of the most devastating epistolary verdicts ever pronounced on a Prime Minister by a sacked member of his Cabinet.

Hell hath no fury like a woman used as leverage to get a man into Number 10 who then sees all the promises he made her ignored.

It reads like she typed it in fire.

Conservative Party members had their suspicions that Rishi Sunak was a disingenuous, untrustworthy opportunist who lacked Conservative instincts.

That’s why they called him “snake” and chose Liz Truss instead.

Well, if there was ever any doubt about the man there sure as hell isn’t now.

Braverman has not merely penned a bitter rant, as some Sunak defenders are bound to claim.

This is a nailed-down, factual account of how Suella agreed to serve as Sunak’s home secretary in October 2022 “despite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister”.

Ouch.

In other words, Rishi really needed the darling of the Right to get him over the line into Number 10, but she would only give him her crucial support if he agreed to a number of conditions.

They included reducing legal migration by increasing salary thresholds on work visas (something that should have happened anyway after we were promised an Australian, points-based system) and reforming the international students route.

To make sure that Sunak followed through on his pledge to “stop the boats” Braverman asked for a “notwithstanding clause” to be put into the legislation which would exclude the operation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Human Rights Act and “other international law that had thus far obstructed progress on this issue”.

She didn’t want to leave the snake any wiggle room.

There was also a commitment to issue guidance to schools that protected biological sex and safeguarded single sex spaces.

Guidance that we have repeatedly been promised since the spring of this year; the PM must have splinters in his posterior from all that fence sitting.

(Sounds like Labor Thai Tug Albosleezy & Labor Ping Wong on Palestine)

Anyway, there is no way Suella was going to let him duck out of their arrangement.

She says she wrote “numerous” letters to him on the key subjects, demanded meetings with the PM and his team and worked out ways he could deliver his promises. “Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so.

Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.” You have to love that deliciously wounding “your distinctive style of government” – in other words: evasive, backside-covering and bloody useless.

The truly damaging thing for the Prime Minister is not Braverman’s sense that she has been used by a duplicitous man nor her personal disappointment.

It’s that Sunak was also reneging on promises made to the British people in the 2019 election manifesto and during the 2016 EU referendum.

One of the most devastating charges, as far as the public is concerned, is that the PM had no intention of “doing whatever it takes to stop the boats”.

Warned by Braverman that they would need to come up with a Plan B if the Supreme Court were to reject the Rwanda plan (ironically, we will know the verdict on Wednesday), she says the PM “opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices”.

Those of us who have long suspected that many in our Tory Government simply don’t have the stomach to fight the bien pensant elite and deliver what the people voted for can now see it confirmed in black and white.

Braverman accuses Sunak of irresponsibility, magical thinking – “believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion”.

The sting in the (snake’s) tail is that, even if the Supreme Court does give the go-ahead to Rwanda on Wednesday, Braverman says Sunak agreed so many compromises in the Illegal Migration Act that the deportations will face endless delays and legal challenges, propelling us back into a frustrating waiting game.

Another con.

The final page of the letter is one of the most damning things I have ever read.

It casts Fishy Rishi in the most appalling light as he fails to rise to the challenge of dealing with the “increasingly vicious anti-Semitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas’s terrorist atrocities of 7 Oct”.

As I read, I found myself sharing Suella’s mounting anger and screaming frustration.

“I have become hoarse,” she says, “urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism and intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion.”

What a woeful picture she paints of a weak, vacillating man who is unable to show leadership, to confront the very real problem of extremism and radicalisation, an existential threat to the British way of life.

“You sought to put off tough decisions to minimise political risk to yourself,” she says, and then, with one final twist of the knife, “in doing so you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else.”

A Prime Minister who doesn’t put the security of the public and the nation first does not deserve to be Prime Miniser.

That is what Suella Braverman’s letter is really saying, and it is profoundly shocking. It lays bare, in the most electrifying way, the power struggle between two senior politicians and the vast deceptions practised on a trusting population; something we rarely glimpse because the rules of the boys’ club forbid this degree of raw, intimate disclosure.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but Braverman’s is piping hot, a vindaloo of vituperation for the British Indian whom she sees as having betrayed not just herself, but Conservative voters.

I must say I found it entirely convincing.

The letter casts a whole new light on the turbulent events of recent weeks.

With the sacking of Suella Braverman, the Chapocracy is firmly in control again.

The four great offices of state are occupied by privately-educated men, two of whom have no electoral mandate (a whopping rejection over Brexit in the case of David Cameron).

Now, I have no objection to boarding school boys (I live with a lovely exemplar of that breed), but the chummy distribution of plum posts does grate.

Meanwhile, the bully boys continue their pattern of chucking women with strong views and Conservative principles – Priti, Liz and now Suella – overboard.

One Tory donor emailed me in disgust about “a pervasive misogyny” in the party’s higher echelons. Like me, the woman donor was “incandescent” about Sunak sacking Suella.

My, how delighted Rishi must have been to be shot of that wretched woman nagging him to keep his promises.

But it was a huge mistake.

The shrill Leftist progressives and the Islamists who pose a threat to our way of life now know they can bulldoze a weak Tory PM into dumping the only minister who dared to call out their ideology for the poisonous hatred that it is.

And, no, however much they briefed against her, Suella Braverman was not to blame for “inciting a mob of far-Right hooligans”.

Far from causing the weekend’s clashes, she warned this would be the outcome if the Metropolitan Police and their dripping wet Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, continued to appease the pro-Palestine marchers.

Failure to ban the deeply disrespectful protest on Armistice Day triggered a few hundred young white, working-class men to travel to London.

If their capital and its monuments were not being defended by the police, then they would have to defend it themselves.

I would never condone violence, but the fact is millions of us look on with mounting dismay as London becomes the backdrop for hostile sentiments that were summed up by one large banner on Saturday. I

t read: “You’re Either On the White Side of History (illustrations of a Union Jack, US and Israeli flags) or the Right Side of History (Palestinian and Iranian flags).” Bear in mind, the British taxpayer was footing the bill for the policing of those anti-Western banner-wavers who got away with blatant racism.

It’s called a “hate crime”, but only if you vote the wrong way.

No wonder Suella Braverman was at the end of her tether with the PM.

A week before, she tweeted: “The sick, inflammatory and, in some cases, clearly criminal chants, placards and paraphernalia openly on display mark a new low.

Anti-Semitism and other forms of racism together wth the valorising of terrorism on such a scale is deeply toubling. This can’t go on. Week by week, the streets of London are being polluted by hate, violence and anti-Semitism.

Members of the public are being mobbed and intimidated. Jewish people in particular feel threatened. Further action is necessary.”

Every word she wrote was true, of course, but nothing was done.

Now we know why: Sunak was frit to offend anyone. Compare and contrast with Germany where Nancy Faeser, the interior minister, this week implemented a formal ban on any groups or demonstrations that show support for Hamas “a terrorist organisation whose aim is to destroy the state of Israel”. Danke.

After the entirely predictable fracas on Armistice Day, Sunak said: “I condemn the violent, wholly unacceptable scenes we have seen from the EDL and associated groups and Hamas sympathisers attending the National March for Palestine … That is true for EDL thugs attacking police officers and trespassing on the Cenotaph, and it is true for those singing anti-Semitic chants and brandishing pro-Hamas signs and clothing… All criminality must be met with the full and swift force of the law.”

It was wrong of the PM to draw an equivalence between the rather pathetic group of white working-class lads I saw on Saturday and the vast army of anti-Semitic protesters calling for a “ceasefire” that would mean Israelis putting down their arms while Hamas murdered them.

If you believed the media reports, you would think that “far-Right yobs” had invaded the Cenotaph. They did not. I was about 300 yards away and, apart from a few beer cans being thrown after the two-minute silence, things were respectful and dignified.

What I did witness was police officers “kettling” the white demonstrators on the approach to Westminster Bridge in a provocative manner.

Had they tried the same strong-arm tactics with the pro-Palestine marchers – although they wouldn’t have dared, of course – there would have been a much more violent backlash.

Yet, within hours, the myth was written that the EDL and football holigans had caused all the trouble while the march by the coach-loads from Bradford and Batley had “passed off peacefully”.

Unluckily for the police, people now have cameras on their phones which gave the lie to the official version.

Numerous videos showed aggressive, frightening behaviour by Muslim protestors – including a poppy-wearing couple being threatened at Victoria Station (where poor Michael Gove was pursued by a mob) and one young woman shouting: “Death to all Jews!”

In a particulary disgraceful episode, pro-Palestine thugs assaulted white people in Trafalgar Square while riot police stood by and watched.

This was the Met’s response: “Having reviewed this footage, it’s clear the reaction of the officers was not what we would hope to see. We are making further enquiries to understand what happened.” Don’t bother; we know exactly why they didn’t intervene.

The police were quite clearly “playing favourites” with protesters, as Suella Braverman wrote in her controversial article for The Times.

Our former home secretary was spot on when she claimed the Met employed a “double standard” by taking a softer approach towards “pro-Palestinian mobs” than Right-wing and nationalist protesters.

I saw it with my own eyes and it was really disturbing. Islamist groups, organised in several cases by Hamas supporters, are allowed public “assertions of primacy” because they heavily outnumber the coppers who are instructed to “take steps to avoid community tension”.

More like: “Do nothing while offences are being committed and rely on photos to try to arrest the miscreants later on.”

The political class knows that they are sitting on a powder keg caused by mass immigration and a failure of multiculturalism that Braverman outlined in a recent speech in Washington DC.

While white working-class lads undoubtedly caused a fair bit of aggro, and some deserved to be arrested, the rush to pin the blame on them was a handy way of distracting the public gaze from hundreds of thousands of people who live in this country but profess their allegiance to a genocidal death cult in the Middle East while terrifying British Jews.

Suella Braverman was prepared to speak these unpalatable truths.

A proud Brexiteer, her patriotism and desire to protect Britain was never diluted by the nervous liberal platitudes murmured by the cowardly custards around her.

Talking to people of all backgrounds at the Cenotaph, I found widespread support for Suella and her robust brand of Conservatism.

It was what people voted for in huge numbers in 2019. What on Earth would they be voting for today after the sacking of a sirloin-steak home secretary and a skimmed-milk Cabinet reshuffle of Centrist Dads allegedly designed to shore up support among disenchanted voters in the Tory shires?

Braverman has, in effect, declared war on the Prime Minister.

The Chapocracy will be coming up with lines to defuse her grenades; she’s an emotional woman, you know, highly ambitious and bitter.

Well, I stand with Suella.

By sacking her, and ignoring the policies on which they were elected, the Conservative Government has declared war on its voters, the few of them that remain.

On Tuesday, the New Conservatives group of around 20 MPs said: “The Conservative Party now looks like it is deliberately walking away from the coalition of voters who brought us into power with a large majority in 2019.”

After Suella Braverman’s incendiary letter, we know that’s the truth, don’t we? What complacency, what arrogance to bank our votes and pretend to be “stopping the boats”, delivering a full Brexit, reducing immigration and guidng against pernicious gender nonsense in schools when you are not minded to do anything of the sort.

Richard Holden, the new party chairman, was on the radio on Tuesday and insisted: “The Conservative Party is a broad church.”

No, I’m afraid not, Mr Holden.

The Conservative Party is a church in which the choir has been sectioned off because true believers were singing too lustily from the wrong hymn sheet and the choir mistress has been sacked becaue the vicar thought she had too much faith and was showing him up.

Rishi Sunak’s reputation will never recover from these revelations, and nor does it deserve to.

I am furious with him and I won’t be alone.

He should leave for the US as soon as possible; he’s been using and abusing the electorate just as he used Suella Braverman.

Already plummeting in popularity, the Prime Minister’s nickname is Sunk – well, he is now.

Now, I have no objection to boarding school boys (I live with a lovely exemplar of that breed), but the chummy distribution of plum posts does grate.

Boarding school boys Summed up in 15 Secs Blackadder goes forth – Captain Cook – Row, row, row your boat

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 7:55 pm

Semi final time in the World Cup (of crikkit, not luigi-ball).

They were saying on SEN that Aus vs. Seth Ef might be put back a day because of a cyclone etc near Calcutta.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 7:56 pm

I posted Tucker Carlson Ep. 38 while watching. It is absolutely essential viewing, unless you have blood pressure problems.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 8:03 pm

OldOzzie

Nov 15, 2023 5:52 PM

AirBus Albosleezy LOSES it: PM’s voice quivers with rage as he erupts at Peter Dutton in unprecedented spray over Israel, Palestine and the High Court ruling that freed criminals… before taking off overseas again

What you are seeing is an intellectual midget under pressure to keep his job.
His whole strategy seems to be based around a mistaken view that Dutton is a cardboard cut-out who can be knocked over at will.
He made that mistake with da Voice. It was going to be the nulla-nulla Luigi was going to beat Dutton into submission with.
Same as this immigration detention fiasco. He knew it was coming but did nafink. Luigi thought he would just have to point across the despatch box and say “It wuz all his fault!”, release his tame MSM hounds and away we go.
Of course, the events in Israel and the Liar’s half-arsed response hasn’t helped.
Why?
Because Joe Public sees a direct corelation between Hamas thugs and the dregs let out of detention by the High Court.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2023 8:07 pm

This is the direct link to the Martin Shkreli interview I linked above which was from 7th November. Another person whose life was destroyed by opposing Hillary Clinton.

Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson

Ep. 36 What happens when you give Hillary Clinton the finger? Ask Martin Shkreli. He did four and a half years in prison. That may be why Sam Bankman-Fried just asked his advice on doing time.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 15, 2023 8:12 pm

Rub and tug left the best of him in the knock shop.

I will be soaking my brain in paint stripper to remove that mental image.

I may share that with many ferals I know 🙂

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 8:12 pm

Social licence was an emergent quality of a business as defined by the market, not a pre-requisite set by the State (directly or indirectly).

I first heard the term post-1996, at the Perth Royal Show, while manning a stand for the Sporting Shooters’ Association. A woman, veins pulsing on her forehead, screeched at me (literally), calling me a “potential murderer” and screaming at her son (about 9 – 10) to get away from me after he had wandered in to have a look at the stuffed fox we had on display. Poor little bugger was in tears, wondering what the hell he’d done wrong. Her “partner” got right in my personal space and informed me that “the people” had “rescinded” my social licence to own firearms and from that point on no-one in Australia would ever be “allowed” to have access to a firearm again.

No, I didn’t snot him; I was aware of how that would look after the media finished with it!

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 8:13 pm

Quote fail; everything from 2nd para on is me …

Winston Smith
November 15, 2023 8:14 pm

https://www.aussiedisposals.com.au/large-kerosene-lantern.html
Lizzie:
These are great – I have three of them in the garage for when they’re needed. A drum of 20Liters of Blue Kero costs about $90.
You can fill them now or wait if it’s hot and the kero evaporates.
Very simple to use, just don’t overfill them.

John Brumble
John Brumble
November 15, 2023 8:22 pm

Do try not to make yourself look stupid by commenting on something you have nfi about, Wally.

That the term was -later- coopted does not change its origin.

Winston Smith
November 15, 2023 8:26 pm

Johnny Rotten

Nov 15, 2023 5:01 PM
Australia: rub and tug and turtle.

And there is a Feral Erection in 2025. Thank goodness. On yer’ way Marxists and please close the door on the way out.

That’s too late – he’s been in for nearly 18 months and look at the damage he’s done already. He’ll wreck the place in the next 12.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 8:30 pm

Mole at 6:19.
That is classic Luigi dog-whistling.
Paraphrased:-

“Yeah, yeah, I condemned those things that happened up there and down there.
Not nice.
But, you know, Islamophobia and hijab pulling and ride with you … and that.”

cohenite
November 15, 2023 8:31 pm

BoM and the boiling frog fuktards bleating about the summer from hell based on El Nino poking its head up like Kim Kardashian’s twerking arse are probably going to be disappointed. The latest SOI is heading towards neutral territory:

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/soi/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 8:34 pm

Top Ender

Nov 15, 2023 6:29 PM

My article “The lost ships and men of the Navy” over at Military History and Heritage of Victoria:

Where are the White Sub references?

cohenite
November 15, 2023 8:38 pm

Since the screech disappeared into the merk Kenny is implacable against the leftoids. Tonight he was ferocious about rub and tug’s claims about the muzzies copping it on the streets like the Jews are: where are the attacks and the gas the muzzies chants he frothed. No doubt some of it has to do with the fact that the divine Liz Storer’s pointed jewel encrusted high heel is up his quoit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 8:40 pm

leftist scum started a Twitter hashtag to deflect from the real crime in the Lindt Cafe

Which the author of later admitted was a complete and utter fabrication.
It was “the sort of thing which might happen”.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 8:41 pm

First of all they use footage of Mr Fafo, not on his selfie stick though, and if you look closely at the massed dead bodies waiting for burial there is movement, someone rolled? at the top to the left.

US ABC on Gaza

Winston Smith
November 15, 2023 8:44 pm

P
Nov 15, 2023 6:30 PM

– Now we see the true Albo – the hysterical uncontrolled maniacal socialist who’s been exposed as a shameful bludger who sponges off the taxpayers of Australia. The worst PM in living memory.

The worst PM during my lifetime is Fraser. What he did cannot now be undone.

Yes it can, but the price that will need to be paid is way too high for the average man to pay.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 15, 2023 8:45 pm

Up yer bum, Brumble.
It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck- it was, and is, a truncheon invented and wielded by the Gramsci gang.
Next you’ll be telling us that “incel” is a term invented by lovelorn Dungeons & Dragons fans in an online chat forum in ’92. Go on, go on.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 8:46 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 8:50 pm

Zafiro

Nov 15, 2023 6:46 PM

Mal and Tammy used to stop in at the roadhouse I worked at in old home town. I’m going back 10 years here etc. It was on the way to their ranch out the back of Hamilton.

Ten years ago?
The Fraser property (Nareen) was sold in 2000 to pay debts from a failed investment.
They moved to Mount Eliza. Tammie was later quoted as saying “We never went back. It was too painful.”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 15, 2023 8:51 pm

The political comment and world events on the NewCat is far superior to any news outlet. Thankyou for all the contributors for improving my day.some of you must spend much of the day scouring websites. The toing and froing in opinion is quite illuminating. In the age of the internet it is remarkably hard to get a complete picture of events with most sources inserting their own opinions instead of facts. “You lot” go a long way sorting the crap out. Thankyou me hearties.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 15, 2023 8:53 pm

I forgot to mention most of the MSN lie by omission.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 8:53 pm

Ten years ago?

Is that true? I’m not doubting you, but they were regular customers for a while, heading towards Hamilton.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
November 15, 2023 8:54 pm

Tammie was later quoted as saying “We never went back. It was too painful.”

As the Slim Dusty song has always said.
In circumstances where they’re forced off, after a lifetime, it would be logarithmically more painful.
I feel for her.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 8:55 pm

Her “partner” got right in my personal space and informed me that “the people” had “rescinded” my social licence to own firearms and from that point on no-one in Australia would ever be “allowed” to have access to a firearm again.

I commend you on your restraint. I remember at the height of the sheep mulseing debate, being told by some sniveling little girlieman that “my social licence to run a farm was being revoked” – when I pointed out that we had never mulsed a sheep in forty years, he looked blank…

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 8:57 pm

Tammie was later quoted as saying “We never went back. It was too painful.”

as they say, don’t look back but treasure the memories.

miltonf
miltonf
November 15, 2023 8:58 pm

Nareen website is quite interesting.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 8:59 pm

‘Raise your hands’: Israel raids hospital in centre of Gaza war

Israeli forces, some wearing facemasks and firing guns into the air, raided early Wednesday Gaza’s biggest hospital which was packed with thousands of Palestinian patients and displaced people, in the army’s battle against Hamas.

“All men 16 years and above, raise your hands,” a soldier shouted in accented Arabic through a loudspeaker, to those sheltering inside Al-Shifa hospital, which has become the centre of fierce urban combat for days.

“Exit the building towards the courtyard and surrender,” the soldier ordered, according to a journalist who visited the embattled hospital several days ago for interviews and was trapped inside because of the fighting outside.

About 1,000 male Palestinians, their hands above their heads, were soon led into the vast hospital courtyard, some of them stripped naked by Israeli soldiers checking them for weapons or explosives, the journalist told AFP.

The army labelled the raid a “precise and targeted” operation against Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that launched the October 7 attacks and which Israel claims is running a command centre in tunnels beneath the clinic.

As Israeli forces raced through the corridors, hundreds of young men emerged from different wards, including the maternity section, which was hit in a strike a few days ago, the journalist reported.

The Israeli army, in a statement early Wednesday, described it as “a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area” of the facility.

The army said it had delivered incubators, baby food and medical supplies to the hospital during the operation.

“Our medical teams and Arabic speaking soldiers are on the ground to ensure that these supplies reach those in need,” it said.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 15, 2023 9:01 pm

Winston in the 90’s I was paying that for 205 l. of Jet A1 kero.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 9:02 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 9:02 pm

Overseas Again – Albo Smashed in Debate

Anthony Albanese accused of being missing in action as dangerous criminals are released

The prime minister has faced unflattering allegations after 83 criminals behind “disgusting crimes” were released from prison.

Samantha Maiden

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 15, 2023 9:03 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 15, 2023 9:05 pm

JC

Nov 15, 2023 7:16 PM

The only rub there is, is when you’re rubbed down after your soiled diaper is removed. One heavily subsidised airline wouldn’t make a dint to airfares when there is a huge array of direct and indirect choices. 

This is just my gut feel from the occasional look at fare aggregator websites and promos I get, but I reckon fares are on the slide.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 9:10 pm
rosie
rosie
November 15, 2023 9:12 pm

Possible Sancho that war in ME has gotten people worried about terror attacks anywhere.
Muslims on extwitter tend to go with America Satan chasers.
Very very angry that US supports Israel.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 9:13 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/we-must-not-forget-the-hostages.html

Speech by the American mother of one of the Israeli hostages.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 15, 2023 9:17 pm

Cassie earlier you mentioned Albo saying to Dutton he was ‘politicising’ the release of violent criminals and anti Semitic behaviour.
Old Ozzie has just linked to that and what a sorry tale it is.
Of course it’s politicised Albo you dumb khunt. In what way, shape or form is any of this not political? Did you learn on the High Court to have these people released? Have you given money to UN outfits that are openly anti Israel?
There’s 2 questions for a start. Yet he’s orf to the US in short time. Lord have mercy.

Maman
Maman
November 15, 2023 9:17 pm

“Anybody know why the oz has launched Project Rehabilitate Marcia “intifada” Langton? Seems a tad soon.”

Taking the Albanese Route: Botox, filler, hair, designer outfit >>>>>> “Governor General”??

Siltstone
Siltstone
November 15, 2023 9:18 pm

Walli Dali and Bumble, re “Social Licence to Operate” , things have moved on and SLO is a bit last century and not a term of much utility in the real world. Great for seminars and PowerPoints though.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 15, 2023 9:18 pm

Lean on the High Court. FFS

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 15, 2023 9:21 pm

“Rub and tug left the best of him in the knock shop.”

Old Army joke: Why did the Army stop circumsising Duntroon cadets?

They realised that they were throwing the best part away.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
November 15, 2023 9:23 pm

BoM and the boiling frog fuktards bleating about the summer from hell based on El Nino poking its head up like Kim Kardashian’s twerking arse are probably going to be disappointed. The latest SOI is heading towards neutral territory

It was always insane to trust the SOI to be “normal” given the amount of water vapour thrown up by the Tongan volcano… their fervent hope was that that might raise temperatures and they could then attribute that to cow farts and SUVs and diss any reasonable discussion as “deniers!”.

Now that it would appear (for now) to be heading the “wrong” way, watch for intense discussion of this natural event if things continue…. how if it wasn’t for that, it would have been the hottest, yada, yada, yada.

At least they are predictable, I guess.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 15, 2023 9:26 pm

Speaking of Kim Kardashian, I see she is named GQ magazine Man Of The Year. FMD

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
November 15, 2023 9:36 pm

Indians look like making a comfy 400 at the rate they’re going. In fact, 450 is not beyond the realms of possibility.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 9:39 pm

This is great (the Hun):

Portsea Golf Club is on a collision course with members over Daniel Andrews, with the president informing them that it would consider an application for the ex-premier to join on its merits.

The Herald Sun on Monday revealed that many of the club’s rank and file had expressed they would strongly resist any move to make Mr Andrews a member, after property baron Max Beck flagged putting the polarising ex-premier forward.

And:

And Wednesday, in a major spin offensive, club president Phil Cramer sent a “member update” to its base, stating: “If and when a formal application is received, it will be treated in accordance with the process outlined in the Portsea Golf Club’s Constitution, which includes notification to the membership base. Please note, our next membership intake is scheduled for the end of first quarter 2024.

And:

Some members have already said that if a bid to make Mr Andrews a member was successful, they would walk away. Others have said they will also resign if the former premier was “scared off” making an application by “the vocal minority”.

Gold. Further:

Mr Andrews is deeply unpopular among some of the PGC members, particularly due to his bans on Victoria’s golfing community during the pandemic and his decision to include Mornington Peninsula in metropolitan restrictions, which were often tougher than those on regional Victoria.

The very fact that Andrews is experiencing opposition to exclusive membership rights is enough. I look forward to this cage fight between well-to-do members on both sides, if for no other reason that it will remind this pillock that he is, in fact, deeply unpopular with those outside the lobbyist brigade.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 9:41 pm

In fact, 450 is not beyond the realms of possibility

The call centre operators are 1/203 after 29 overs. Traditionally (in recent times) you can count on a team doubling their total after 30.

That India have apparently asked for – and received – a slow, dry pitch suiting their spinners doesn’t seem to matter at present.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 15, 2023 9:42 pm

Company behind Miss Universe files for bankruptcy after accepting transgender contestants

You know my response already.

Parade a bloke, go broke.

Ha! You didn’t expect that, did you!?

Entropy
Entropy
November 15, 2023 9:45 pm

The SOI was pretty groundbreaking statistical model in the nineties. I still use the SOI and it does track access-s pretty well, but never use less than the 30 day average, and ideally the 90 day average. you should not read a temporary decoupling from the sea surface temps.

Here are the current SSTs. The pacific is in a classic El Niño pattern with a warm central pacific and a cold coral sea. The warm water of nwwa is interesting. It suggests the IOD is collapsing earlier than a lot of people thought. TBF, I was at a BoM briefing a month or so ago and the IOD guy thought that could happen. No one is suggesting a negative IOD as the after off Arabia is even warmer, but a neutral IOD might attenuate the El Niño event.

Anyway, back to the El Niño, this series of pacific subsurface temps would indicate the El Niño will be around some time. That warm water has to rise to the surface and get replaced by cooler water.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 9:45 pm

Portsea Golf Club is on a collision course with members over Daniel Andrews,

And he used to cheat playing golf. That’s enough for refusal at an exclusive place like Portsea.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 15, 2023 9:50 pm

‘Blatant case of discrimination’: Jewish school refused jumping castle hire

Have they tried being gay?

vr
vr
November 15, 2023 9:51 pm

Has Julian Lesser of the Libs said anything about the events of Oct 7 and the weekly anti-Semitic marches?

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2023 9:52 pm

Has Julian Lesser of the Libs said anything about the events of Oct 7 and the weekly anti-Semitic marches?”

Yes.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
November 15, 2023 9:56 pm

I look forward to this cage fight between well-to-do members on both sides

There will be no cage fight.

Digger
Digger
November 15, 2023 9:59 pm

What valid reason (or reasons) has the Feral Guv’ment given to the Australian voter/taxpayer for not allowing Qatar greater access.

As you know Qatar Airline is owned by the Qatari government. The government harbours HAMAS sub human pigs, Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal and for that the airline should be banned globally for ever… Let the bastards eat sand…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 10:00 pm

yoni bashan yoni bashan
Exposing the blatant lies of what lies beneath Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital

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What lies beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, has been an open secret for years among ordinary residents of the territory, and not least of all to officials watching from the eyrie of Israel’s vaunted security establishment.

Above ground is an overrun hospital; below the surface is a military nerve centre so vast that even terrorists captured on Oct­ober 7 were happy to gossip about it with interrogators.

“Most senior Hamas political and military officials are hiding in the hospitals, especially in Shifa,” one Hamas operative said during questioning, video of which was released by the IDF.
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It’s the “double war crime” that Israel has been shouting about for decades, proof that Hamas quite literally and obscenely hides behind its own population while indiscriminately attacking civilians just across the border.

The IDF clearly began laying plans for a takeover of al-Shifa weeks ago, disseminating maps and 3D graphics of not only the underground hiding spots but also the vast network of tunnels, situation rooms and weapons stores that have been carved into the earth.

Tapped phone calls were released as evidence that Hamas is hoarding fuel from al-Shifa to run air generators for its tunnels. Footage was also made available this week from the basement of Gaza’s Rantisi hospital, where explosive belts, grenades, Kalashnikovs and RPG missiles were uncovered.

Hamas leaders have ­always bargained that they would be kept safe using al-Shifa as a military cover, expecting Israel wouldn’t attack such a sensitive civilian location.

That may have been true, but the events of October 7, and the abduction of 240 hostages, have fundamentally shifted Israel’s military calculations.

The result has been an ­undeniable turning point in the conflict, with IDF forces now storming a section of al-Shifa in a raid that was predicated on ­“operational necessities” and obvious indications that “Hamas ­terrorist activity is being ­directed from the area”.

Not surprisingly, troops entered the hospital within hours of the White House revealing it had intelligence of its own that Hamas was using al-Shifa to run a military campaign, and probably to store weapons.

As National Security spokesman John Kirby said: “That is a war crime”. It’s a phrase that seemed to act as the green light that Israel had been seeking.

Israelis have been waiting for this moment since the start of the conflict. It signifies a direct assault on Hamas’s leadership apparatus, and could potentially lead to a recovery of hostages, if they’re held in the vicinity, as suspected, as others were thought to have been at Rantisi.

More critically, moving on al-Shifa stands to vindicate years of Israeli insistence that Hamas never comported itself as a functional government, and never tried to be, either – that it only ever existed to exploit its civilian population for a warped, religiously ­motivated ambition to destroy the Jewish state.

It’s a point that was effectively conceded by former Hamas leader and current official Khaled ­Mashaal during a television interview with the Al Arabiya news network last month.

Asked if the attacks of October 7 had not pointlessly led to the deaths of innocents on both sides of the border, Mashaal replied “We know very well the consequences of our operation on Oct­ober 7”, going on to explain that millions of civilians had died in Russia during World War II, and in the Vietnam War.

The implication was that Hamas expected the same from Gazans.

“The Palestinian nation is just like any other nation,” he said.

“No nation is liberated without sacrifices.”

cohenite
November 15, 2023 10:01 pm

Entropy
Nov 15, 2023 9:45 PM

Good analysis. This:

No one is suggesting a negative IOD as the after off Arabia is even warmer, but a neutral IOD might attenuate the El Niño event.

A +ve IOD produced the 2019 drought. The opposite produced the recent floods. We’ll know for sure what the IOD is doing if the mid summer monsoons arrive.

What do your BOM friends think the MJO is going to do?

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 10:01 pm

Great to have the Master Blaster in the commentary box on Kayo for a chat.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 15, 2023 10:03 pm

The call centre batsmen have looked so relaxed this series. I recall hearing Kohli a couple of years ago saying we do what we can, sometimes it works other times not. We’re not going to lose sleep over it. That is an attitude our cheats could do with instead of believing their own bullshit.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 10:10 pm

Yeah 430 on or so the cards if they give it a crack; albeit someone just bowled a maiden.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 15, 2023 10:16 pm

Even Mark “How can we help you Prime Minister” Riley couldn’t help Albo on the Channel Stokes News. Albo disappearing up the airline steps a terrible look. Advantage Spud.

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 10:19 pm

Wednesday … Hump Day … not the end (of the week); not even the beginning of the end; but perhaps the end of the beginning. (H/T Winnie)

Hasn’t been a good week pour moi; I found out I have some serious hip degeneration that is currently restricting my ability to walk and limiting me to <1 hour behind the wheel before I just have to get out and move. While being X-rayed today, the young radiographer asked me to roll over on my right side. I told her the last time I did that was on the beach … and the bast@rds kept trying to roll me back into the water!

So, I thought to myself, self, I thought, what about someone who CAN move … or at least could back in the day.

Hence my tribute tonight to Sloopy girl.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 10:21 pm

Whoever down ticked my Master Blaster comment will burn in hell!

Salvatore, Iron Publican
November 15, 2023 10:22 pm

Bruce in WA Nov 15, 2023 10:19 PM
Wednesday … Hump Day

Hump day is Thursday.

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 10:29 pm

Hump day is Thursday.

Nope, always been Wednesday … Wodin’s Day … here in the West for as long as I can remember. Supposedly at the end of the middle of the week (Wed night), you’re “over the hump” and it’s all downhill from there on.

YMMV

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 10:29 pm

Brian Lara was probably the best batsman I have seen. But he was shaky early on until he got his eye in. Viv Richards was never shaky. Would pick Viv to bat for my life.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 10:38 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT96Zoe-yU4

Story behind the “Sloopy Girl” dancer…

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 10:42 pm

That’s a good story ZK2A. Thanks.

Bruce in WA
November 15, 2023 10:44 pm

Oh, give me a bucket of strength! Just walked past the teev to catch the opening of the ARIA Awards. First words out of their mouths?

“We acknowledge that we are on Gadigal land. Our Indigenous people were the very first storytellers and music makers in this land” (paraphrased).

Music?

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 15, 2023 10:45 pm

Sancho Panzer: Where are the White Sub references?

In the classified version of the paper.

Only available to Freemasons, and the rest of the Top Men.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 15, 2023 10:45 pm

Viv certainly didn’t worry about colonialism.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2023 10:46 pm

Only available to Freemasons, and the rest of the Top Men

I would certainly hope so.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 10:51 pm

Music?

Banging two bits of wood together, and making pharting noises blowing through a hollow log are hardly a Beethoven symphony…

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 10:51 pm

Simon Doull Kiwi commentator on Kayo thinks Ravi Jadeja might be a factor bowling in the NZ innings. Reallly? That’s revelatory.

dopey
dopey
November 15, 2023 11:02 pm

Nareen was sold to pay for a failed investment. Possibly the Lloyds of London debacle ? Seem to remember Fraser was a ‘ name ‘

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 11:03 pm

Ian Smuth, the old NZ wicket keeper from back in the day is a great commentator.

He also holds a test record. KD or any other fans want to have a crack?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 11:06 pm

Nareen was sold to pay for a failed investment. Possibly the Lloyds of London debacle ? Seem to remember Fraser was a ‘ name ‘

The same rumour reached my ears.

cohenite
November 15, 2023 11:06 pm

Who said John Wayne couldn’t be romantic; his fist kiss scene with Maureen O’Hara in the incomparable The Quite Man:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=622755934998676

cohenite
November 15, 2023 11:07 pm

first FFS.

MatrixTransform
November 15, 2023 11:11 pm

Story behind the “Sloopy Girl” dancer

excellent sense of of rhythm

and manages to express with movement so much of what I remember of that time

9/10

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2023 11:23 pm

and manages to express with movement so much of what I remember of that time

Mme Zulu says her shorts were as tight and brief as any back in the day. I asked for photographic evidence.

What’s a “male chauvinist pig?”

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 11:23 pm

India 397. Hard to see that getting chased down.

John H.
John H.
November 15, 2023 11:35 pm

Vicki,

Late last night it occurred to me that while aspirin offers protection against some cancers and for those with cancer I thought of two other components that would probably help and the research supported my intuition. Ginkgo Biloba and ibuprofen studies also point to possible benefits but comparison with aspirin isn’t possible because the research community has focused mostly on aspirin, another example of the availability heuristic fallacy. I don’t like the bleeding risk with aspirin. The reason why doctors are not keen on aspirin now is because of that risk, not because it is cheap.

MatrixTransform
November 15, 2023 11:42 pm

from the ot

Man’s prime motivation is not domination

JC … Nietzsche never said that it was

1/10

Jorge
Jorge
November 15, 2023 11:50 pm

But, but Tammy had you gone back to Nareen didn’t you realise all that pain would have been relieved by being welcomed to country.

Your white pain could never equal their pain, y’know.

MatrixTransform
November 15, 2023 11:50 pm

good to see that yr reading again though

*big thumb

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 15, 2023 11:51 pm

OK Ian Smith from NZ holds the test record for highest score by a batsman at no.9.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
November 16, 2023 12:03 am

Banging two bits of wood together, and making pharting noises blowing through a hollow log are hardly a Beethoven symphony…

That’s because the vast panoply of other instruments (some of which whiteys have not yet conceived) were destroyed in the Border Wars. As were the intricate scores therefore.

Like the rest of that rich, intricate, peaceful and idyllic culture, not even one shred remains.

So not up Tartaria then, but it’s all in Bruce Pascoe’s next book.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 16, 2023 12:08 am

We’ve lost Sting-
very sad, I was really getting into all his stuff lately. Thought he might have a lot of good years still to come, he was looking like he was making good decisions healthwise- goes to show, you never can tell

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 16, 2023 12:13 am

cohenite
Nov 15, 2023 11:06 PM

his fist kiss scene with Maureen O’Hara

Must have been a cute owl.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
November 16, 2023 12:18 am

Allanstan (lately Danistan)’s is workers’ comp scheme is utterly rooted if the numbers in this Oz article are anything to go by.

It suggests that one set of consultants estimated that the IFR (Insurance Funding Ration, essentially premiums vs claims) would have dropped to 38% in 7 years, absent any meaningful change. There really hasn’t been much meaningful change, but that is probably also a worst-case estimate.

A 38% IFR in the private sector – however you play with the figures – would mean you make FAI look like a model of insurance financial rectirude. People would already be in prison.

The state gov has already tightened things, a bit, and “bailed them out” to the tune of $1.5b, but the report suggests that another quiet $54b was possible.

This from a broke state.

Did In mention this?

Eye-watering future liabilities soaring above $53bn and wholesale flaws with the Victorian workers’ compensation scheme that would require further large taxpayer bailouts were concealed by the Labor government in the run-up to the last election, new documents reveal.

What amazes me is how fast these squander moneys can screw things up. If only they’d turned their talents too goodness and niceness instead of evil (h/t Maxwell Smart).

JC
JC
November 16, 2023 12:27 am

Trans

I never suggested he said those exact words but he most certainly has and can be interpreted that way.

How about you worry about acting like a Nietzschean good oracle to fellow switch flickers and we’ll worry about the rest. You’re drunk as usual and there’s no point engaging with drunks.

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 16, 2023 12:30 am

I remember going to the WACA . I was staying with my oldest sister who was living in Perf etc.

Larry Gomes and Jeff Dujon put on this masisve parternership. It was great bowler Courtney Walsh’s debut too IIRC

Zafiro
Zafiro
November 16, 2023 1:12 am

First test of 84/85 series when Kim Hughes ended up losing his shit, then AB took over.

Oh come on
Oh come on
November 16, 2023 1:59 am

The vaccinations do protect people from severe illness. They are cheap or free. They are effective, and they’re incredibly safe,” Australian Medical Association WA president Dr Michael Page said.

“So we certainly recommend people keep up to date with boosters.

“People should also consider vaccinating their children, particularly those aged under 12.”

Murderer.

calli
calli
November 16, 2023 2:56 am

Greetings from Flam, Norway. It is currently minus 6 outside, it’s dark, and it’s 4:45 pm.

Travelled one of the great railway journeys of the world today, the Flam railway. Frozen waterfalls, snow dusted “Christmas” trees everywhere, little villages painted what we would call “Federation” colours of red, mustard, off-white, green and blue. Snow everywhere, weighing down the branches, covering the fields, making strange mounds and hillocks and domes. The lakes are rimed and soupy with frost, the freeze starting at the shoreline and gradually extending out onto the surface. Soon it will be thick enough to walk on.

Being a complete Christmas nut, I have purchased still more gnomes to delight the grandchildren when they visit. How could I resist?

I saw a stone troll yesterday on the way down from the ski jump. He was hunched by the roadside, looking malevolently at the passing traffic. The sun had clearly blasted him. Observing the size and angle of the jump, my only thought was…are you serious? Anyone who attempted it must surely be crazy. On the side of the fence was one of those warning signs – a circle with a stroke through it. What were they prohibiting?

Tobogganing on the ski jump. 😀

John H.
John H.
November 16, 2023 3:15 am
JC
JC
November 16, 2023 3:27 am

You’re fired.

I don’t like cancellations, but this one is so well deserved.

Telling an American to get leave. The freaking nerve!

Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
November 16, 2023 4:11 am
The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
November 16, 2023 5:09 am

Daily Mail: Turkey’s President Erdogan declares Israel to be a terrorist state and he aquits Hamas.

Johnny Rotten
November 16, 2023 5:23 am

Thanks once more Tom. Sterling efforts.

Real Deal
Real Deal
November 16, 2023 6:06 am

Regarding discussions last night about Tammy and Malcolm Fraser.

Back in the mid 70s my late Dad was a rusted on Labor man – later to be a Pauline Hanson supporter.

He used to get political bumper stickers from union mates at the pub. Some of them ended up on the rear window of the Kingswood. In particular “You’ve got my job, Fraser. You’re next!”

There was one sticker that mum forbade him from displaying and stayed in his sock drawer. It went:-

“Tammy has one, Mal is one.” Short and punchy.

Beertruk
November 16, 2023 6:13 am

Meanwhile in other news,
India 397 d Un Zud 327.

rosie
rosie
November 16, 2023 6:24 am

Idf have lined up the mri room loot.
There was some Norwegian doctor claiming he’d worked there off and on for 16 years. No terrorists. Adamant.

hamas apologists demanding evidence that hamas use tunnels (in the comments). What?

Beertruk
November 16, 2023 6:41 am

Nick Cater in yesterday’s Paywallion on the shitweazels that are the British Bashing Corporation:

No voice of reason in BBC’s bungled hit job on referendum

Nick Cater
15 Nov 2023

If the BBC really wanted to understand last month’s voice referendum result, it would’ve been a good idea to talk to Australians who voted No.

That appears not to have crossed the minds of the producers of the BBC World Service podcast The Inquiry, who instead assembled a panel of experts whose sympathies lay with the Yes case.

It began with a cartoonish history of Australian settlement with the assistance of John Maynard, emeritus professor of Indigenous education and research at the University of Newcastle. Aboriginal people had first been driven to the brink of extinction by colonial settlement before suffering “more than a century and a half of discrimination and exploitation … herded on to worthless areas of land … given inadequate housing, clothing, inadequate diet, which has impacted on to Aboriginal health right up to today”.

But things began to look up in 2008 when the presenter told us, “prime minister Paul Rudd (not a misprint) made a formal apology to the country’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

The referendum proposal was a chance to take reconciliation to the next level. Still, it had been inexplicably knocked back in what host David Baker described as “yet another setback in the Indigenous fight to be heard”.

Expert number two was Tim Soutphommasane, well known to readers of this newspaper as a former Australian Human Rights Commissioner, who attacked the late cartoonist Bill Leak for racially stereotyping Aboriginal Australians. Soutphommasane is now chief diversity officer at Oxford University.

Professor Soutphommasane told us that campaigners had assumed “that the better angels of Australians’ nature would prevail”. Yet many Australians didn’t have an Indigenous friend, colleague or neighbour: “So understanding the significance of the voice … was something that many people just simply could not grasp.”

Andrea Carson, of La Trobe University, took up the underlying stupidity of non-expert Australians. “Australia is still very much a materialist country,” the professor explained. “They’re not thinking about higher-order issues such as human rights and equality.”

The No camp had generated “a lot of myths and disinformation”, and had a clearer social media campaign, and Australians had fallen for it.

The final expert was Thomas Mayo, the pro-voice campaigner who has previously said the “embarrassing” referendum had made it “hard for Australia now to talk about human rights to other countries like China”.

He laid the blame on Peter Dutton and an egregious misinformation campaign. He singled out the claim that the voice would have divided Australians by race, which he said was false and misleading. “It wasn’t about race,” he said. “Indigenous peoples aren’t a different race. We are a distinct people with a heritage and culture.”

Mayo’s social media posts claiming the voice would pave the way for reparations, forcing non-Indigenous Australians to pay the rent, were a setback for the Yes campaign. Yet Mayo told the BBC: “It was a simple message, just recognition through an advisory committee.

“We kept repeating that, but we just couldn’t get through. We are a nation frozen in time.”

If the podcast aimed to confirm the comfortable prejudices of social justice campaigners, the producers did a first-class job.

The referendum result confirmed in their minds that Australians are indeed stupid, borderline racist, selfish and uncaring.

Australians had stubbornly refused to understand what the referendum was about and had been duped by a slick misinformation campaign.

It reinforced their dark view of history, a long struggle for liberation from the forces of evil, an unequal contest between the oppressors and the permanently oppressed, from which we will only emerge when the vision of the anointed holds sway.

The show confirmed the expert class’s high estimation of itself. They are the people concerned about higher things whose ears are more finely tuned to the voices of the better angels.

Never once did the show take a detour from this self-serving narrative by asking if the 60 per cent of Australians who voted no might have had a point. Nursing historical grievances and locking a race-based institution permanently into the Constitution may indeed have been measures that would push Australians further apart. It may have led to more racism, not less, and denied Aboriginal Australians the path towards integration as fellow citizens.

Yet the die had been cast at the top of the show when Baker framed the question the experts were on hand to answer: “What went wrong with Australia’s Indigenous call for a voice?”

It ruled out any possibility that voters had got it right.

Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.

NICK CATER COLUMNIST

Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.

NICK CATER COLUMNIST

132andBush
132andBush
November 16, 2023 6:53 am

“At a time when there is social division, leaders have a choice, they have to either bring people together or divide them.”

Mr Albanese added he was against the “idea of selective human rights”.

Which is why you tried to push racial division down our throats with the invoice referendum, is it?

The thing that worries me most about the world right now is the leaders we need are not in office.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
November 16, 2023 6:58 am

White House slams IDF for violating hospital? Laws of war do not protect hospitals used for military purposes.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
November 16, 2023 7:00 am

BBC: “What went wrong with Australia’s Indigenous call for a voice?”
More pertinent: what has gone wrong with the BBC?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2023 7:06 am

More pertinent: what has gone wrong with the BBC?

Yeah.

BBC forced into humiliating apology after claiming Israel were ‘attacking medical teams’ (15 Nov)

Pouring petrol onto a dumpster fire. Muzzos and lefties will now be believe Israel has been shooting doctors because they heard it on the BBC. Despicable lies.

Vicki
Vicki
November 16, 2023 7:18 am

John H @11.35pm (way past my bedtime!)

Thanks John for comments on Aspirin. I still think it is much maligned now that other drugs are available. Eg it was the drug of choice -,at low dose- as cardio preventative. But now statins are all the go.

How solid is the research on bleeding problems- & are they related to high dosage?

shatterzzz
November 16, 2023 7:20 am

There has been an, unconfirmed, report of security at Al-Shifa Hospital immediately called 000 for, immediate, Vic plod intervention after several uniformed & armed individuals entered the hospital foyer without masks …… as you are all aware entry into any area of the hospital precinct requires a mask to be worn …… carrying weaponry is routine but to endanger the health of patients & staff by not wearing a mask is unacceptable …….!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2023 7:29 am

Paul Homewood doing good work.

BBC forced to correct misleading flood scare (15 Nov)

London, 15 November – Yet another complaint has been upheld against the BBC’s coverage of weather and climate issues.

In May this year, the BBC weatherman Chris Fawkes claimed in a video after the Bologna floods in Italy that “half the annual rainfall had fallen in 36 hours”.

The claim was utterly baseless, and data collected since has confirmed that rainfall totals were much less.

In upholding the complaint, the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit apologised for the lapse in editorial standards.

Reports have revealed that the BBC has been forced to correct more than a dozen false claims in climate and weather-related coverage after receiving public complaints in recent years.

Rapidly getting to the point that if you hear something on the BBC or the ABC you can be totally sure it is a lie, a misdirection or propaganda.

Vicki
Vicki
November 16, 2023 7:40 am

There had been little attention given to the large number of foreigners & non Jews indiscriminately slaughtered by Hamas butchers on 7/10.

There were many foreign agricultural workers on the kibbutzim – the most notorious execution being the poor Thai worker that a butcher tried to behead with a garden hoe. And as was mentioned yesterday here – the large number of Bedouin – whose presence in the Negev I was not aware of.

I don’t know why various governments are not raising this issue – although it is more likely that our press is simply not repeating it.

Vicki
Vicki
November 16, 2023 7:42 am

Again, re this issue of foreign nationals slaughtered: why is there not total outrage by their governments?

Cassie of Sydney
November 16, 2023 7:48 am

Vicki, Bedouin families were slaughtered as were Thai and Philippino nationals. The Bedouin have roamed southern Israel, Sinai and Northern Arabia for thousands of years.

Crossie
Crossie
November 16, 2023 7:49 am

Vicki
Nov 16, 2023 7:40 AM
There had been little attention given to the large number of foreigners & non Jews indiscriminately slaughtered by Hamas butchers on 7/10.

That’s because the governments of the countries where these people come from don’t care about them.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 16, 2023 7:49 am

Top Ender, this might be of interest to you.

Australians in the Battle of Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9yw1pgqNo

MatrixTransform
November 16, 2023 7:50 am

I never suggested he said those exact words but he most certainly has and can be interpreted that way

when the Bullshit Mining Company made their IPO, reckon JC bought the lot

they instantly made him Chief Scatologist

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