Mantaray
Nov 30, 2023 1:41 PM
Plenty of people bad-mouthing Amin al-Husseini on the basis that he was besties with Adolf, recruited Arab brigades to fight alongside Adolf, and gave his full support to Adolf’s undertaking to eradicate Jews, but no-one here wants to discuss more pertinent issues…like….

What about Husseini’s nephew, who said….often…that his greatest inspiration was his uncle Amin? No-one on the New Cat care about the germane issues? Why is that?

Calm down Mant.

Most of us would have seen that pic of the towel head meeting with the swine. But most of of us wouldn’t know his family tree down to who his cousin was.

Was that germane or German enough for you?

Sad to hear Calli. Keep well.

JC

Nov 30, 2023 11:45 PM

Imagine the outcry and the squealing of this happened under the Libs.

Gap fees highest since Medicare’s inception

We don’t have to imagine.
Abbott tried to introduce a $7 co-payment for otherwise bulk-billed doctor’s visits.
It included all manner of exemptions for pensioners etc, and annual caps.
A modesht proposhal, one might say.
From the ensuing frenzy you would think the sky was about to fall in.
And here we are.
Paying a lot more than $7.

This McGowan chap who passed on.
I have never heard of him.
A member of a musical ensemble going by the name of “The Rogues” I understand.
It all sounds a little unsavoury to me.

Katzenjammer
Nov 30, 2023 10:43 PM

Do you like Kipling.
Don’t know. I’ve never kippled.

Mr Kipling does a very nice line in cakes.

No French Tarts or Randy Tarts though –

https://www.mrkipling.com.au/

Nietzsche bursts into tears at the drop of a hat.
A right little Britney, he is.

Australian 7-11 sells for $1.7bn. How do you go about spending that?

Oh yeah, what is it then, trans?

Don’t keep us in suspense like you always do when you bigmouth something and have nothing to show for it except abuse.

Go for it, tell us what’s different and nothing to do with the left. What’s this unique discovery you’ve observed, Einstein?

Tomorrow lol. Don’t forget.

Nietzsche wept.

Fill the glass one more time.

Pitiful

Trans, ummm is that it, or are you’re going to post this amazing thesis tomorrow?

You’re very argumentative in the evening.

I’m not passing judgement. If you’ve come up with an incredible dissertation then you should be pleased people are asking for it and not calling them names.

You’re one of the brightest, most insightful people on the Cat, so please help understand all this new world, Professor Trans.

Gratitude when it’s deserved. Thank you Geoffrey Robertson for taking NSW ICAC to the UN Human Rights Commission and hopefully sending this terrible regime into the trash, where an accusation is enough to blight a reputation without evidence. All ICACs need to be scrapped asap. They are authoritarian star chambers and have no place in Australia.

United Nations puts arrogant ICAC on notice

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has just issued a ruling that will ruin Christmas for this country’s anti-corruption commissions. Their days of avoiding the scrutiny of a full appeal process may soon be over.

Unlike courts, the decisions of anti-corruption commissions are not subject to a full appeal on the merits – a ludicrous privilege that has watered down one of the most effective checks on the these quasi-judicial bodies.

Some of these commissions also delight in subjecting innocent people to public show trials without saying why such reputation-destroying procedures are necessary.

Nobody should ever forget that when former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian was subjected to one of these performances she was confronted with questions that had already been asked and answered at an earlier private hearing. But all that might be about to change.

And if it does, primary responsibility will rest with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption and the highhanded manner with which it dealt not with azal, unlike most of ICAC’s innocent victims, had the resources to recruit star human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, KC, who has just persuaded the UN Human Rights Committee that certain procedures at ICAC violate international human rights.

The result is that Australia’s record on human rights has been damaged. This will play into the hands of our adversaries and hamper this country’s efforts to promote the rule of law.

This is not what Kazal was after. After examining ICAC’s case against Kazal, prosecutors refused to charge him with anything. At law, he is an innocent man. But that was not enough. He wanted his reputation back.

He had already tried and failed with the only permissible challenge – a narrowly based judicial review that was limited to questions of law.

NSW governments, past and present, must share the blame for the fact that this ruling has diminished the entire nation’s record on human rights.

The Coalition, when in office in Sydney, rejected a recommendation from the late David Levine, an ICAC inspector, and refused to introduce an exoneration protocol to restore the reputations of innocent people who had been trashed by ICAC only to be acquitted in court or not even prosecuted.

That would have given Kazal a remedy. It would also have recognised the fact that in free societies everyone enjoys a presumption of innocence until an real court – not a government agency – rules otherwise.

Robertson’s advocacy has persuaded the UN committee that certain procedures at ICAC violated Kazal’s rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The committee has ruled that the federal government should compensate Kazal and prevent similar violations.

This is where things get interesting. ICAC is the nation’s oldest anti-corruption commission and other agencies – including the National Anti-Corruption Commission – have adopted many of its structures.

So if the federal government is to comply with the Human Rights Committee’s ruling and prevent similar rights violations, this might require the Albanese government to initiate changes at other anti-corruption commissions – including its own.

Mark Fowler, who is one of the nation’s leading human rights lawyers, believes the UN committee’s decision is momentous not only for ICAC in NSW but for every state and territory anti-corruption commission.

“The committee’s ruling in Kazal v Australia that the Commonwealth ‘is also under an obligation to take all steps necessary to prevent similar violations from occurring in the future’ necessitates an immediate review of all federal, state and territory corruption commission regimes,” says Fowler, who is an adjunct associate professor of law and principal of Fowler Charity Law.

“Where that review locates dissonance between domestic law and Australia’s international obligations there are three potential replies open.

“First, states and territories may elect to amend their own laws. Second, the Commonwealth may pass legislation, relying on its external affairs power, overriding the inconsistent state or territory anti-corruption laws.

“This was the course of action taken by the Keating government in 1994 in response to the UNHRC’s view in Toonen v Australia that Tasmania’s laws criminalising sodomy breached Article 17 of the ICCPR, the same Article on which the UNHRC now relies in the Kazal matter.

“The third option is for the Commonwealth and any offending state or territory to take no action. That would leave Australia in breach of its international obligations and risk damaging its international standing on human rights,” Fowler says.

When this country ratified the ICCPR it willingly took on the obligation under Article 2(3)(a) of that treaty to provide Australians with an effective remedy whenever their rights under that Covenant are violated.

In the Kazal case, the UN committee summarised the problem with ICAC’s procedures like this: “ … the inquiry conducted by ICAC, and its adverse public findings made against [Kazal] which he could not challenge, amounted to a violation of (Kazal’s) rights under Article 17 of the Covenant”.

The absence of reasons for ICAC’s decisions to hold a public hearing and make its findings public amounted to an arbitrary interference in Kazal’s right to privacy.

The federal government, of course, cannot be forced to live up to its treaty obligations. But unless it does it will be appeasing ICAC and similar bodies by sacrificing human rights.

Douglas Murray

Welcome to Summer one and all.

Looking forward to global boiling and blackouts driving a great big pin into Bowens unreliable expensive environmentally disastrous wasteful energy scheme.

Meanwhile todays weather forecast for Melbourne Max 18c 68% chance of rain. Aah Summer gotta love it.

Now they’re after the Christians and the civilisation of the West.
Symbolised by Christmas trees.

Yes Lizzie, the start of the decline was when we started saying Happy Holidays to appease these dickheads.
It’s Christmas, not Xmas either.

more torture by the scum, though deaths are still not confirmed.

I must say, O’Neill is a decent looker for a pol, so she should automatically get a pass for being a brain dead nonce.

hamas making good use of the ceasefire.

Dr Eli David thinks Hamas are just playing a hideous game

No shortage of “top men” prepared to defend Oz to the braid ….. LOL!

there are now 68 senior officers in the Royal Australian Navy, consisting of 50 Commodores, 15 Rear Admirals, and 3 Vice-Admirals which include the Chief of Navy, the Vice-Chief of Defence, and head of the Australian Submarine Agency.

In the Royal Australian Air Force, there are currently 50 Air Commodores, 14 Air Vice-Marshals, and two Air Marshals — one who serves as RAAF chief.

ADF total strength has dropped from 62 429 t0 41 079 since 1983

Cassie

What’s the rumor about who it was supposed to be?

The Fate of the World – Answering Questions – Part 2

COMMENT #3: Thank you sincerely for another amazing WEC. I think that I’ve either attended (or bought tickets to get videos) for all WECs except for first one in Princeton in 2011(?) and maybe one or two in Europe.

In listening carefully, you said that you expect “news” in mid-December. Will they lock us down again?

Best,
J

REPLY #3 I reviewed several markets on the Private Blog, which you have probably seen under the title:

Ukraine on the Edge of Victory or Defeat
We have a Double Directional Change in gold during December as well.

COMMENT #4: As a retired Army Officer (1990) I am expected to be a “Soldier for life.” according to the Army Retirement publication called “Echoes”. Well, the Retirement Services has a board that meets occasionally discussing retirement issues and does recommendations. Not one mention of the woke programs and their effects were mentioned on the possible issues facing recruiting. Based on my years of active-duty service, I can tell you the LGBQT indoctrination, and DEI forced training has a severe negative impact. I, in good faith, cannot recommend any service at this time. I told Retirement Services that.

REPLY #4: That was a stupid idea, just like putting transgender on a BudLight can. If you do not know who your customers are, you do not deserve to be in business. The US military made a major mistake with the vaccines and their WOKE programs.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/qa/the-fate-of-the-world-answering-questions/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

MEPs notify WHO that IHR amendments “adopted” in 2022 are null and void in the absence of evidence of a vote having taken place

democracy dies in deficits

Reply to Marty Gas release above

The Fan Email Confidence Trick
Many of Martin Armstrong’s blog posts start with fake manufactured fan email questions like the following in

Understanding Cycles

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I met someone who used to work for you. He said your models are far more complex than anyone imagines and that it is not a simple algorithm. He said you have relied on quantum mechanics which is why nobody has been able to duplicate what you do. Would you care to comment?

PD

In the following response, Martin Armstrong sidesteps the question but confirms the complexity of his models, talks about Energy and his “Schema Frequency” without any reference to what all that means practically. Above the question, there is a video explaining Quantum Theory.

However what I can say with 100% certainty is that Martin Armstrong is not using quantum mechanics technology, and that he did not ever use it.

I have to dig a little deeper here. He uses an old confidence trick where he manufactures a fake fan email that suggests this Quantum Mechanics claim. With that, Martin Armstrong does not actually have to claim it himself, giving him perfect cover, perfect deniability. He can always say he did not claim this while at the same time scoring credits from phantom followers, creating the illusion of being trusted by his readers. In other words, it is a shill technique.

In Are we Heading into a Food Shortage? he uses the trick as part of a scientific fraud as described in The Myth of the Martin Armstrong Global Cooling Prediction.

In The Real Implications of Forecasting Are More Profound Than you Think, Martin fabricates a comment with the aim of promoting his upcoming conference. Between the lines we can read that he tries to sell the conference based on the hope of many users to get a better understanding of the rather useless forecast arrays because he is aware of the fact that many of his clients have problems with them.

COMMENT:

Mr. Armstrong, I attended the Berlin Conference and I must say, you told us to expect a move between the Benchmarks in gold, and that the first quarter looked to be a countertrend move. You seem to be able to map out the direction of markets all the time. I am still working out the best way to read the arrays. But I have to ask. Why have you not been given the Noble Prize with such a long track record that is unbeatable?

REPLY:

The fact that we can forecast any event to the day PROVES that markets are by no means RANDOM.

In this blog bost, an attendee of that conference testifies that the comment is manufactured (emphasis addded):

Blog/Basic Concepts Posted Feb 10, 2016 by Martin Armstrong BUY-SELL COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I attended the Berlin Conference and I must say, you told us to expect a move between the Benchmarks in gold, and that the first quarter looked to be a countertrend move. You seem to be able to map out the direction of markets all the time. I am still working out the best way to read the arrays. But I have to ask. Why have you not been given the Noble Prize with such a long track record that is unbeatable?

I was at this WEC, and have evidence of what has been said by MA.

He never said such thing ! It’s fabricated answer afterward to make the promotion of the next WEC

Martin Armstrong may in fact (selectively) use received comments that suit his agenda. And he may use those to try to unsettle critics, or he may even use shills to make false claims about them. Obviously that does not legitimize his fraudulent practice (false advertising, fraudulent misrepresentation of performance of his products and services).

Do your own research about the use of his technique, assisted by the power of Google. Click on:

Advanced Google Search that detects the advertisement of his upcoming $2,750 conference, hidden in his fake client emails.

See also:

Martin Armstrong The Hyper Shill

Martin Armstrong Fake Fan Email Imitation

More links here:

https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-fan-email-confidence-trick.html

Weaponization Committee: Michael Shellenberger Reveals US and UK Military’s Leading Role in Censoring American Speech and Targeting Trump Supporters

The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox

In layman’s terms, that’s not 500%, that is up to 500 times the amount of residual DNA that is acceptable.

Market Talk – November 29, 2023

ASIA:

China will likely unleash 2.28 trillion yuan ($319 billion) of next year’s special local bond quota by the end of December, state media reported, a sign Beijing is moving early to boost growth in 2024. Authorities are expected to distribute 60% of next year’s special local government bond quota to provinces ahead of time, according to the Securities Daily. The newspaper cited Feng Lin, a senior analyst with Golden Credit Rating, in its report, along with several key members.

The major Asian stock markets had mixed day today:

NIKKEI 225 decreased 87.17 points or -0.26% to 33,321.22
Shanghai decreased 16.87 points or -0.56% to 3,021.69
Hang Seng decreased 360.70 points or -2.08% to 16,993.44
ASX 200 increased 20.10 points or 0.29% to 7,035.30
Kospi decreased 1.95 points or -0.08% to 2,519.81
SENSEX increased 727.71 points or 1.10% to 66,901.91
Nifty50 increased 206.90 points or 1.04% to 20,096.60
The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

AUDUSD decreased 0.00323 or -0.49% to 0.66157
NZDUSD increased 0.00169 or 0.28% to 0.61529
USDJPY decreased 0.191 or -0.13% to 147.289
USDCNY increased 0.01213 or 0.17% to 7.14413
The above data was collected around 16:13 EST.

Precious Metals:

Gold increased 3.16 USD/t oz. or 0.15% to 2,044.05

Silver decreased 0.001 USD/t. oz or 0.00%% to 25.003

The above data was collected around 16:15 EST.

Some economic news from last night:

Australia:

Construction Work Done (QoQ) (Q3) increased from 0.4% to 1.3%

New Zealand:

RBNZ Interest Rate Decision remain the same at 5.5%

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-talk/market-talk-november-29-2023/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

This thread carries marty fan mail parodies.

Martin Armstrong’s Fake Fan Emails are so ridiculous and implausible that his readers have been writing parodies such as this one:

Re: Looks like yet another charlatan

Now, let me expand on his made-up letters since you brought it up and some others mentioned them elsewhere. All those letters could be broken down into three main categories:

1. Dear MA. Thank you for your existence. Our whole family has been reading your blog for years. It is so great that my 97-year-old grandma decided to learn how to read so as to be able to follow your blog. Occasionally on big family gatherings such as Thanksgiving or Christmas we even read your blog out loud (uncle Derek reads it because he has a strong voice and a better diction than our grandma). My children don’t go to school anymore because they have your blog. What else can you ask for in life, right? Thanks to your unique knowledge and extraordinary insight, we now know that politicians are not good as they claim during election campaigns and also that something bad is going on in Europe. It was really an eye-opener. Could you please elaborate on why grass is green and water is wet? Thank you.

This one is pretty funny

3. Your majesty. Words can’t express how grateful I am for living in the same time with you. Your knowledge of economics and physics is so amazing that you should be awarded the Nobel prize for both. I am just one of millions of your loyal followers and has been attending your conferences since the Civil War. I remember you once said gold would go up and down. And it did! You also said that there would be wars in the world. And then they happened! The world best forecaster indeed! Now everybody steals your predictions and claims as their own all over the place. They are so dishonest. At your last conference there were tens of thousands of people and you could not place them all so you had to turn thousands away. Will you hold your next conference in a larger place say exhibition halls or convention centers to accommodate all participants? Thank you.

What Morgan has done, quite rightly I think, is to finally neuter the two whores from Montecito…

The “naming” of the “racists” who speculated on where the offspring of Ginge and Whinge might sit on the Dulux colour card is really the death throes of the We’re Moving to Canada project.
They have now reached the point of fabricating stories about paparazzi car chases (no white Fiat Uno though) and attending every C-grade woke conference or awards night to garner attention.
But, as predicted, the circus has moved on, and no-one in the US much cares about what they have to say. Reviving the racism claims via their poncey buddy is all they have left.

eight freed hostages named

JC at 8:09.

I have to dig a little deeper here. He uses an old confidence trick where he manufactures a fake fan email that suggests this Quantum Mechanics claim. With that, Martin Armstrong does not actually have to claim it himself, giving him perfect cover, perfect deniability

His whole “sentient AI compuda” claim is based on the same con.
Deniability.
If he ever gets sued or prosecuted for a dodgy prediction, he simply says, “Not me. Socrates thought that up all by itself.”
How do you sue or prosecute a Big Website?
Of course, when anyone demands to look under Socrate’s toga, he will resist because IP.

trouble at mill

In terms of transparent fabrication, Marty’s fan mail would make the in-house authors of “letters” to Penthouse Forum blush.

LOl. I can’t believe anyone could be so gullible, so blind to evidence that Wodney isn’t a crook trying to suck people in trying to earn a few dollars (from Marty). The only problem is that Marty won’t cough up.

JC
Dec 1, 2023 9:00 AM

So, you read Penthouse Forum letters. That figures.

Johnny Rotten
Dec 1, 2023 9:07 AM

JC
Dec 1, 2023 9:00 AM

So, you read Penthouse Forum letters. That figures.

Except, I never said that and neither did the author of the comment, you dishonest little limey crook.

Sancho Panzer
Dec 1, 2023 8:52 AM

In terms of transparent fabrication, Marty’s fan mail would make the in-house authors of “letters” to Penthouse Forum blush.

Wodney now has to rely on outright fabrication.

This rant is spot on.

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Reverend Simon Sideways:

BBC presenter can’t stand his white workmates, rant!