Indolent May 9, 2024 7:13 pm SWEDEN SHAKEN BY CRISIS OF VIOLENCEDid Dutchsinse predict this?
Open Thread – Weekend 2 Dec 2023
Eurovision will do that to a country. Bad music is very dangerous!
Great stuff Rabz, thanks!
Here it is DrB. https://newcatallaxy.blog/support/
Dover, did it by googling new catallaxy support. There doesn’t seem to be a link here.
Agree, Zulu. The Pallies have also made their own situation completely untenable by doing nothing but feed bile about Jews to their children, and impress martyrdom on them. Nothing but a death cult. Now they’ve got nothing but angry ideologues no-one else in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon or Egypt wants them. As Douglas Murray points out in his superb reporting from Israel linked here yesterday and now running in the Oz, Israel is left to sort this problem out by themselves, while the West falls over backward trying to make it impossible to find a resolution.
I was pleased to hear Israel hit hard today at the external miscreants in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon was well as destroying more tunnel infrastructure in Gaza. The people might be all Hamas, but without the tunnels they can be limited in the damage the can do in the future.
B of N @9:54pm:
I still have a vinyl copy of the Flas Gordon soundtrack.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Dec 2, 2023 11:24 PM
Health warning – this is a powerful and confronting article.
Silence is violence … but not for Jewish women
The #MeToo and Believe All Women brigade are publicly and energetically refusing to believe the first-hand accounts of Israeli women. But I cannot forget this image – as a woman, and a human. Warning: graphic.
By gemma tognini
From Inquirer
December 2, 2023
5 minute read
59
You can see her only from behind. In any other circumstances her long, dark, wavy hair would seem beautifully wild, untamed even. Here, it falls down her slender back, just above where her hands sit, bound and dirtied. Your eyes travel to the bottoms of her khaki pants. They’re filthy and bloodstained in places that speak of the unthinkable.
She’s being led by the elbow, paraded barefoot through a dusty Gazan street. There’s blood on her ankles and arms too. A person, I won’t call it a man (these are the actions of a coward, not a real man), pushes her head roughly as he shoves her into a waiting car to the jeers of bystanders lining the streets.
This image was captured, I think, in the wild 48 hours following October 7. It seems a blur now, and of all the terrible things I’ve forced myself to watch in the past month, of all the first-hand accounts I’ve forced myself to listen to and read, I can’t forget this image. As a woman. As a human. But I want to try to achieve the impossible. Put emotion to one side and take a clinical, analytical, surgical approach as I ask a question that many of you have been asking since this pogrom was launched.
Where are the modern-day feminists? Where are the #MeToo and Believe All Women brigade?
I’ll offer a couple of answers to start with. They’re publicly and energetically refusing to believe the first-hand accounts of Israeli women, Jewish women. At the very least they’re downplaying and diminishing, gutless in their mealy-mouthed responses to October 7. Or they’re silent altogether. Hiding, cowardly and complicit in their refusal to speak.
These are the progressive feminists who say rape is violence. Unless, of course, it’s the rape of Jewish women, Israeli women. Then, apparently, rape is resistance.
These women are immoral and without conscience. To these activists, teachers and academics who live in safe ivory towers, and to the ignorant and undecided, let me take you through some inconvenient truths about life for women in Gaza. It is a way of life that isn’t determined by the Israelis but by Hamas, the government so many of you love to point out was democratically elected, as was Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist party.
In Gaza, there are no laws prohibiting violence against women in a family situation, not even sexual violence.
So, when you’re throwing your fist in the air and yelling “From the river to the sea”, you’re championing a regime that says it’s OK for a father to rape or beat his daughter. A son is legally permitted to abuse his mother.
About 15 per cent of married women in Gaza experience sexual abuse from their husbands. More than half say the abuse is ongoing.
More than 63 per cent of Palestinian men agree that a woman should tolerate violence to keep the family together. One in five young girls is married before the age of 18. More than half of married women in Gaza admit to being subject to some form of violence at the hands of their husbands, be it physical, sexual, psychological, social or economic. Less than 1 per cent will report it, for fear of the consequences. If she does make it to court, then the law views a woman’s testimony as worth half that of a man.
A man caught in adultery will serve six months in prison. A woman will be jailed for two years and, if she’s granted a divorce, she must pay him for the privilege. A man? In Gaza a man can get divorced whenever he likes, for any reason he likes, and he won’t pay a cent to anyone.
There’s no safety for girls at school, either, according to the available data. As many as 16.7 per cent of school-aged girls report suffering physical and or psychological violence at the hands of their teachers or classmates. They don’t enjoy basic freedoms such as what clothes they’ll wear. Police enforce the modesty of women, the boundaries of which are decided by men.
People are marching in support of this. Sections of the media are bowing at the altar of this aberration, a way of life none of them would ever willingly submit to. They’re the same people who throw around phrases like “silence is violence”. But their own silence about the plight of Israeli women is OK.
They’ve lost their minds. But by refusing to denounce what happened to Israeli and Jewish women, modern feminists are championing a cause that denigrates Gazan women. You can’t make it up.
All of this information, this data, is embarrassingly easy to access. It’s freely available online on a variety of non-government organisation and academic websites. In the bitterest of ironies, I sourced much from the UN, specifically UN Women, the official offshoot that supposedly champions women the world over but whose social media and public comments have ignored the plight of Israeli and Jewish women. Case in point: it shared one post condemning the atrocities on October 7. One. It then deleted the post, using an excuse that the situation had moved on and the post was dated.
This same UN that adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza but voted down a provision that condemned Hamas’s murderous October 7 attack. It doesn’t even try to pretend.
The number of women and young girls defending Hamas’s femicide, savagery and brutal subjugation of women as a means of resistance is astonishing. I don’t understand it but I do believe it’s a telling window into both a person’s intellectual soundness and moral compass.
The main reason the image of that young woman continues to haunt me is because every so often, for a brief moment, I imagine it being me. Or my niece. My mother, aunty, sister-in-law or girlfriends. The terror of that thought leaves me breathless.
There is no middle ground here. No sanctuary to be found in sins of omission or words unspoken. The divide between those who deny and deflect and those with the courage to confront grows daily. There is one enemy women in Gaza deserve freedom from, and that enemy is Hamas.
Reposted, too vital to be lost behind the page.
It should be obvious that the desire which unites Western Feminists and Eastern Islamists- and Green Globalists- is the lust to overthrow Western Civilization and install a religious tyranny in perpetuity.
Oh, you mighty warriors of Islam!
Give this broken down old crock a Self Loading Rifle of the sort I learned to use nearly fifty years ago – and can still strip, blindfolded – and I’ll give you a lesson on soldiering you’ll remember all your remaining days…
Yarab womanages in gaza – why am I here?
“I’m here because I’ve got no f*cking choice” … 🙁
IIIIIIT’S GROUNDCOVID DAYYYY!
Lock down and rig that election!
Come here groundcovid!
No really, the WHO may as well name this disease “election fever”.
For Cats that love film and history I commend a Russian (anti)war film from 1985, on YouTube, “Come and See”. The title is from the Book of Revelations to give you a feel for the movie.
It is set in 1943 Belarus under German control.
Not for the feint hearted.
Monstrous.
The only slightly human scene in the film is when the li’l goil does some dancing in her jackboots and the li’l boy thinks that there might be something else on this planet worth existing for.
Until it all goes ‘orribly wrong, again … 🙁
Yes Rabz, monstrous, but a lesson for now.
IDF propaganda, or solid glimmer of hope?
Hell if I know.
Hamarse is basically ISIS under another nameplate. No Arab government wants to be near then except possibly the Turkish creep.
Yep, it’s all the fault of wimmenses.
When they behave badly, it’s their fault.
When men behave badly, it’s also their fault, not that of the weak, pathetic creatures who actually behave badly.
Is there anything wimmenses can’t do?
I’m beginning to feel like a CO2 molecule. 🙂
It’s not in men’s DNA to behave badly.
Week In Pictures.
JC
Dec 3, 2023 3:38 AM
I agree, I met some nasty males and females, both were repulsive in a different way.
Thank God most people are OK.
I’m beginning to feel like a CO2 molecule. ?
So it’s you causing global warming!
Thanks, Tom.
Today’s Tele:
WHY ALBO IS LEADING HIS GOVERNMENT TO
DISASTER
Peta Credlin
3 Dec 20203
By allowing his frontbenchers to call Peter Dutton a “protector of pedophiles” – but then neither repeating the line himself nor forcing them to withdraw – Anthony Albanese has managed to look both low and weak. In a trainwreck interview with 3AW radio host Neil Mitchell on Friday, indeed a fitting finale for the famously combative Melbourne radio legend who is retiring from his regular morning spot, the Prime Minister tried to defend himself by invoking a bizarre new governmental doctrine: That PMs are only esponsible for what they say and can’t be held accountable for the despicable claims of their ministers. It was a garbage performance from a PM who’s looking more and more like he’s leading a one-term
government.
With the parliamentary year drawing to a close, even diehard supporters are starting to worry that the Albanese Government is in serious trouble. It’s not just that Newspoll last week, for the first time, had the Government and the Opposition neck and neck; but also the catastrophic fall in Labor’s primary vote, to 31 per cent, which is Labor’s lowest result in more than a decade.
It’s not just that the foreign criminals legislation, that was so urgent that parliament had to pass it immediately at the beginning of the week – but it hadn’t even been introduced by week’s end. Or that the Government’s own policies, on energy and on workplace relations, are making the costof-living crisis, worse. Or that the Government’s only real “achievement”, a budget surplus for the first time in 15 years, is an accidental one, that owes nothing to prudent decision-making and frugal
Government, and everything to the serendipity of continued sky-high commodity prices – the very coal and gas resources that the Government wants us to keep in the ground and never use.
It’s more that this Government has been exposed as a bunch of third-rate amateurs, with ministers out of their depth and a Prime Minister who’s incapable of taking charge when his underlings stuff up. Ever since the High Court ruled that the foreign child rapist, known only as NZYQ, could not be kept in indefinite detention, the Government has been sinking deeper into a morass of its own making, first characterised by telling lies to exonerate itself, and then by telling lies about the Opposition leader in a pathetic attempt to mask its own ineptitude.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil’s monumental mishandling of this issue shows that she’s not fit for office: First, she had no plan B, despite knowing that the High Court was likely to release NZYQ; then she claimed that there was nothing that could be done because “you can’t out-legislate the High Court, only to then be forced into a humiliating backdown to do just that. But despite chest-beating with the cry, “these are the toughest laws ever introduced”, she was forced into another humiliation
by needing Opposition amendments to strengthen her legislation. And then finally, in the ultimate low blow, she resorted to the pedophile smear as a smokescreen for her own incompetence.
The fact that other frontbenchers, like Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, and Aged Care Minister Anika Wells, repeated the smear shows, in my experience, it was a co-ordinated strategy. Seriously, given Dutton’s work as a Queensland police detective in the sexual assault squad locking up pedophiles and later his efforts as home affairs minister in deporting them out of the country (along with drug-dealers, outlaw bikies, murders and more) is there really no line that Labor won’t cross?
But you know that a Government is in trouble when its senior members start disassociating themselves from its own actions. In parliament, the Speaker – who would normally be expected to protect ministers – ordered O’Neil to withdraw her pedophile smear. Also tellingly, the Government’s wo most senior ministers from the right, former leader Bill Shorten and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, pointedly distanced themselves from the “pedophiles” smear. Shorten said that Dutton should have supported Labor’s legislation earlier in the week but, when asked about the
pedophile claim, could hardly have made his disapproval more clear, when he said: “They’re not my words”.
Of course, nearly all governments suffer from midterm blues. In this case though, the PM has seemed totally shell-shocked since the defeat of his signature Voice. And it’s clear he’s taken refuge in overseas travel rather than taking charge of his government. Labor insiders and strategists are promising the party faithful that they will use the summer to reset. But the Government’s only idea for reviving its fortunes is more handouts, which will put its budget surplus at risk, make inflationary pressures worse, and – even if it succeeds in lifting Labor’s spirits, and its polls – will reflect better on
the obviously ambitious Treasurer Jim Chalmers than on Albanese.
Meanwhile, having well judged the public mood on the Voice, and with a promise to start releasing key policy positions in the New Year, Peter Dutton is looking more and more credible as the alternative prime minister. And that’s exactly why Labor has attacked him as hard and as personally as they have this week. But, given Dutton’s record, this smear says a lot more about the government’s character (or lack of it) than it does the Opposition leader.
Thanks Tom.
Has to be this one.
Shame Powerline prevents hot linking, and doesn’t acknowledge the source of their memes. This one appears to be from Tim Poole.
Gabor
I was kidding around.
Peta Credlin continued:
CLARE O’NEIL MUST RESIGN OVER DETAINEE
SCANDAL – OR BE SACKED
The man at the centre of the High Court case, known only as NZYQ, came to Australia illegally by boat in 2012 during Julia’s Gillard government when Chris Bowen was the immigration minister and presided over the worst breach of our borders in history.
He applied for protection as a refugee (he’s an ethnic Rohingya Muslim) and while in Australia raped a 10-year-old boy and was imprisoned.
The rape conviction meant he did not then meet the character test to stay in Australia but, similarly, no other country wanted him. So into detention he went until he took his case to the High Court.
Last week we finally got to see the reasons for the NZYQ decision when the High Court’s written judgment was released. And what was shocking to read was that the court’s decision only related to this one individual, not the 140 other foreign criminals the Albanese Government has released with him. Meaning the minister panicked and released the whole lot into the community, with no plan as to how to keep the community safe.
I have never seen such incompetence from a federal Government. I thought that the pink batts fiasco last time Labor was in office was about as bad as it could get ($2 billion to put roof batts into homes and, after 4 deaths and 200 fires, $2 billion to then rip them all out), but this detainee mess is worse because they were warned and did nothing.
Even now, as you read this column, despite the promises last week, Labor have still not introduced the legislation to fix this mess. With one week of parliament left, time is running out. The new laws must be passed and the minister must resign, or be sacked.
Thumbs up: The SA council that’s scrapped welcomes to country because the country belongs to everyone.
Thumbs down: The Victorian Labor government that rejected a draft law last week to ban people carrying machetes.
“Half of a man” – That’s better than world feminists allow Jews. Like medieval or Islamic courts, the evidence of a Jew in their own cases needs to be supported by the word of those who aren’t Jewish. Another example of traditional antisemitic practices being applied to Israel.
Hamarse is basically ISIS under another nameplate. No Arab government wants to be near then except possibly the Turkish creep.
A few things on twitter overnight, which I can’t read the full columns because they are paywalled, saying exactly this.
The Arab states say one thing publicly and privately want Hamas gone.
There is too much money to be made via trade deals to be derailed by “new ISIS”.
We’re at our pals place outside NYC. Their internet speed is 428 mbs. I’ve never seen pages load so fast. FMD
Gulf leaders oppose Iran’s calls to arm Palestinians, cut ties with Israel: report
Did a 5am gym session today.
Walking back to my illegally parked car at 6am (seriously city of Sydney, you want me to pay 12 bucks to park my car at 5am on a Sunday morning?) & saw a group of hot young women clearly been out all night at the bars & clubs.
I thought to myself how long I could stay out nowadays?
Anything past 11pm and I’m falling asleep.
I think if I tried to stay up partying until 6am, it would literally kill me.
Feminists these days are simply handmaidens for the communist patriarchy. Earlier generations were just their useful idiots.
You have to go back to the suffragettes to find anything of real substance.
#metoo, the lionising of false accusers and the puerile paraphernalia like pussy hats has been feminism’s death knell for many sensible women. While doing well in a field dominated by males, without “help” but reliant on my own talent, I want to get as far away from quotas, and inclusivity and stupid glass ceilings as possible.
And now we see “feminists” actively supporting an actual culture of oppression, rape and torture of women and girls. As I said last night, I want the most vocal of them dumped in Gaza to see and experience for themselves what these lovely Sheiks of Arabie are really like.
Long Island JC?
Quite so. Everyone needs a machete to peel their lunchtime oranges.
Riyadh Summit Reveals Arab World’s Rift With Iran On Israel
I wonder if the ” we want Pileoshit gone by Christmas” that is being bandied about up here is a distraction squirrel.
The Victorian Labor government that rejected a draft law last week to ban people carrying machetes.
Crime is good.
Means the state can ration law enforcement.
The state would ration everything if it had the power to.
But get caught carrying a pocket knife and the sky will fall on you …
But get caught carrying a pocket knife and the sky will fall on you …
And defend your house from invaders
South Africa ’emerging’ seriously!
JC if using a PC or a laptop used in the same place mostly, which a lot don’t these days, have it hard wired from the router. My old laptop running XP loads at 1GB.
Not expecting Luigi to be making any “we luv green” supporting statement for this one …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12816253/Aussie-EV-charging-company-Tritium-Anthony-Albanese-shuts-Brisbane-factory.html
Some time ago here there was discussion on the Australian Constitution and a section that had been mandated after WW2 to prohibit the Federal Government from forcing a medical procedure on a person.
Anyone remember or have a link? I am unable to find it now.
Look? LOOK?
He is low and weak. The neatly manufactured facade has simply been shed to reveal the actuality.
Anything else from him is just hand waving and mouth movements.
Remember calli the suffragettes were upper class or close to it, that only wanted the vote for themselves not the likes of you, a normal lady. Your opinion didn’t count.
Dinosaurs are qwerty, and they can tweet.
Trannysaurus Rex: The Activist Academics ‘Queering’ Dinosaurs (2 Dec)
Now we know why they went extinct.
Anthony Albanese has managed to look both low and weak.”
And this is news?
Yes, ranga. But they had skin in the game, going to prison, force feeding and the like.
I know it’s fashionable here to talk about denying women the vote. I disagree. What I would like to see is voluntary voting.
And these days, that would be “upper class adjacent”. 🙂
Anyone see the spanking the Matilda’s got at the hands of the Canadian team. 5-0
I’m no soccer fan but even I could see they were embarrassingly bad and utterly inept at stages.
No Kerr no team it seems.
people carrying machetes.
People need machetes to fight off Somalian home invaders.
Another immigration stroke of genius.
SANTA WILL DELIVER A SACK OF VIOLENCE
JENNY – MCNAUGHTON
Christmas is the most deadly time of the year for family violence victim survivors
Christmas might be the most magical time of the year for many Australians, but data shows that for a significant proportion of people experiencing domestic and family violence, the summer holidays are anything but.
Data shows significantly more incidents reported during December than any other month of the year, with calls to services and police dramatically increasing in the lead-up to Christmas. In NSW, six family violence murders were recorded in January 2022.
This year, our child and family services organisation, Berry Street, is expecting a very busy December due to increases in the cost of living and the pressure this is placing on families. Most family violence is perpetrated by men against women and it can impact people of all genders, identities, age groups, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds and walks of life. We need to recognise children as victim-survivors of violence in their own right, even if they are not present when the violence is occurring.
The first step to solving this pressing issue is recognising it within our community. The violence often takes place behind closed doors, and people experiencing it are often coerced or frightened out of discussing it with others.
Nevertheless, there are still signs to look out for, including seeming nervous or afraid when the person is around, or having cuts, bruises and other injuries that are either unexplained or come with unlikely explanations. You might also notice the perpetrator criticising them, undermining their credibility, or actively humiliating them.
We need to work to break down harmful gender stereotypes and challenge ideas about masculinitythat emphasise aggression, dominance and control.
1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or 1800respect.org.au.
Men’s Referral Service: 1300 766 491.
Jenny McNaughton is Deputy CEO of Berry Street
Apparently is is all our fault Lads…because ‘masuculinity,’ not because ‘free will’ and women and/or men making shit choices in life.
Southampton. Actually, the friends we co-owned the house with. Same place. Funny feeling, when we go back.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
– Billy Connolly
The First Sunday of Advent
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says the goal of Advent is to make present for ourselves and our families the “ancient expectancy of the Messiah … by sharing in the long preparation for the Saviour’s first coming.”
This weekend’s artwork The Annunciation
Tanner painted The Annunciation soon after returning to Paris from a trip to Egypt and Palestine in 1897. The son of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Tanner specialized in religious subjects, and wanted to experience the people, culture, architecture, and light of the Holy Land. Influenced by what he saw, Tanner created an unconventional image of the moment when the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear the Son of God. Mary is shown as an adolescent dressed in rumpled Middle Eastern peasant clothing, without a halo or other holy attributes. Gabriel appears only as a shaft of light. Tanner entered this painting in the 1898 Paris Salon exhibition, after which it was bought for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1899, making it his first work to enter an American museum.
Where was that Marxist lesbian misandrist shite published beertrruk?
I see berry st has at least one doctor- a doctor of critical theory. Poisonous Marxism.
If it’s Haaretz, it might be a faint glimmer of hope. They are unlikely to support Bibi otherwise.
The fetid halls of Marxist academia.
According to them, “democracy” is whatever they say it is.
Senate Democrats’ assault on democratic norms continues
Democrats try to strip candidates from the ballot, in the name of democracy
It’s very hard to see a happy outcome with a total lack of honesty, integrity or simply regard for the laws of the land.
Academic is a dirty word.
And talking of happy outcomes, not looking good.
Your personality might help shield you from dementia, researchers say
Joe Biden has surrendered Israel to his heartless, hard-Left Democrats
So might living in the country rather than the city, according to another recent study done in Australia.
I think the correct word for SA should be “submerging”.
“South Africa ’emerging’ seriously!”
Interesting to see Musk fighting fire with fire.
YouTube adds explanatory links to videos criticising global warming, directing the viewer to government approved information.
Now Musk is adding “community notes” to misleading tweets, showing the inherent context and errors.
Well done.
The graphic warning is probably for all the genociding that isn’t happening.
Eh?
I never said Macbeth wasn’t responsible for his actions.
Nor Bill or Harry.
Way to miss the point.
There might be a bit of this. Following the herd is not a new trait.
The real reason liberals attack Israel
Study: Children of Conservative Parents Have Better Mental Health
UAW President Compares Israel to Nazi Germany as Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza
Now Musk is adding “community notes” to misleading tweets
Community notes has been around for a while.
It’s really good at picking up corporate media using images from years ago in breaking news.
Not the only ones who do it but the basement blogger doing that is one thing, the NYT & WaPo doing it is another.
Looks like they could use some global boiling in Munich.
Add in the SA government removing the title of Anzac Day, but retaining the public holiday (don’t want to annoy the wukkas by abolishing that, nor annoy the indignant indigenes and multi-cultis by reminding them of colonialist history) as another distraction squirrel.
This is unbelievable. Here it is compulsory to check people’s visa status before employing them.
Biden’s DOJ Fines Tennessee Christian Trucking Company $700,000 for Requiring Workers to Disclose Legal Status
Why’s the #MeToo crowd silent on Hamas rape?
Global Warming Alert! Private Jets Headed To Global Warming Conference “Literally Frozen On Runway” In Munich Germany
DON’T ACCEPT TERRORISM AS THE NEW NORMAL
No, it isn’t, but sociologists have noted an increase in ‘herd’ mentality with the advent of modernity and the middle class. Instead of being directed by an inherited tradition or an internalised moral code, mass culture produces people who are directed by what others around them think. Social media obviously adds an extra dimension to this.
‘The Lonely Crowd’ by David Riesman (1950) is the classic study.
That doesn’t mean such people aren’t morally responsible for the views they adopt.
Kamala Harris Attacks Israel Over Hamas War: “Too Many Innocent Palestinians Have Been Killed”
Christian Family Forcibly Removed from Home at Gun Point, Handcuffed and Locked in Van After FBI Allegedly “Goaded” 15-Year-Old Son into Posting Controversial Memes
I wonder if Lewis was influenced by Tanner’s painting when he described the angel visiting Ransom’s sitting room?
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Exactly.
Section 51 xxiiiA and the BMA Case is what you are looking for Eyrie.
It is funny because “the court’s interpretation of civil conscription is narrower now”, the idea that being forced to do something for free isn’t conscription though if it is for the “public good”.
They are literally living in la la land. And note the “around the world” bit.
Biden admin commits to shutting down coal plants in push for green agenda
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Heavy snow and ice has frozen jets in Munich bound for Dubai’s global warming conference.
They are weak. The Kurgan isn’t weak, be like the Kurgan.
Okay, that was S-tier Drama Queening.
Maybe tone it down.
Lauren3ve
@Lauren3veMemes
Trump just posted this on Truth
ABSOLUTE FIRE!!!!
Yes, it is.
Joe Biden has surrendered Israel to his heartless, hard-Left Democrats
The rot of anti-Israel thinking in the highest echelons of American Democratic politics has been in train for some time
ZOE STRIMPEL
My recent visit to Israel coincided with David Cameron’s first trip as Foreign Secretary. Cameron had flown in to do rather what one would expect of a Foreign Office stooge: an exercise in appearing to signal support for Israel, but only inasmuch as its self-defence is limited.
Which is to say, not long after saying all the right things about the footage of some of the most gruesome barbarism ever filmed, as Hamas gangs executed, raped and kidnapped Israeli kibbutzniks and festivalgoers, Cameron “warned Israel”, via the BBC, that its war efforts in response are too much for his liking. The Gazan death toll, Cameron declared, is “too high”. One wonders what the “right amount” would be.
Thankfully, Israelis don’t much care about any of what our august Foreign Secretary, back from the wilds of Chipping Norton, has to say about their country’s war efforts. In fact, when I asked them what they made of Cameron’s visit, nobody had even known it had happened.
Israelis are, with good reason, much more interested in what sort of rhetoric and support comes from the US. For decades, the two countries have worked closely. Israel has traded its wares – some of the best military and spy technology in the world – and maintained its position as the only holdout of US values in the entire Middle East and quite a bit beyond. In return, Israelis rightly expect American investment, armour and a vague promise of protection.
But while Western support for Israel hasn’t vanished completely – and the US is still committed to providing Israel with billions in funding per year – the tone and stance has perilously shifted.
Biden initially appeared strong on Israel, even against the yowls of his party, which is now a toxic assemblage that has usurped the better angels of America’s nature and produced vicious anti-Israel voices such as congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
The US president held out despite his own flaws, as the man who fled from Afghanistan, handing over the keys (and weapons) to the Taliban as if the millions of women whose lives were betrayed by his doing so simply didn’t matter.
Yet now it looks increasingly like Biden – and his moral backbone – are forsaking Israel.
Perhaps, having inherited such a toxic coalition, it was only a matter of time until he would bow to pressure from those advancing an anti-Israel agenda, in spite of the fact that a great deal of ordinary Americans still vocally support the Jewish state and what it stands for.
Last week saw several developments that would have been absurd if they weren’t so concerning.
It was revealed by the Washington Post that Biden, in a desperate bid at appeasement, secretly apologised to figures from the Muslim community in a private meeting.
His crime?
Casting doubt on the reliability of Hamas casualty figures. “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” he had stated on October 25, with perfect justification, given that the source for such figures the whole world seems happy to swallow come from a barbaric group of zombie terrorists.
The outrage that followed Biden’s comment was so intense that he gave more than 30 minutes extra of the scheduled time to Muslim leaders, grovelling: “I’m sorry. I’m disappointed in myself. I will do better.”
This woeful exchange pointed to the sheer heft of the machinery that has been bearing down on the White House.
Another result was a bewildering tweet last week – since retracted – appearing to indicate a possible shift in policy, in capitulation to “progressive” demands for a ceasefire. “Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace,” tweeted the President. “To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can’t do that.”
Biden may have realised that equating Hamas’s barbarism with Israel’s entirely just response was a bit off, but that is little reassurance against the turning tide.
The moral poisoning of America’s Democrats seems inexorable.
Secretary of state Anthony Blinken hasn’t been much better, last week demanding “compliance with international humanitarian law” and “a clear plan” for what comes next – as if Israel were a bunch of bloodthirsty marauders that has to be restrained.
This is, of course, false – the IDF is arguably the most moral army in the world. But by issuing impossible demands on Israel, Blinken comes across as yet another statesman trying to tie the state’s hands.
It won’t work, however. “There is no way we are not going back to fighting until the end,” said Netanyahu – and indeed the country, still traumatised by the horrific crimes committed on October 7, wouldn’t want it any other way.
Nevertheless, the rot of anti-Israel thinking in the highest echelons of American Democratic politics has been in train for some time. In 2021, the Biden administration rejoined the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which has become a forum for anti-Israel sentient.
Biden also indicated he would reopen a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem to Palestine.
This presidential trend was set in place by Obama, who only supported Israel through gritted teeth, and who has continued to speak in this vein since October 7. At an event in early November, as Israelis were still reeling, he went on about the evils of the Israeli “occupation” in Gaza, saying it is “unbearable”. This message was quickly promoted by those who hate Israel.
People accuse Israel of acting arrogantly, aggressively, and unilaterally.
The first two are distortions.
The latter has become increasingly necessary as its best and closest ally turns its back.
Turbo charges it, in fact. Especially among the youngsters.
What would motivate someone to.do a PhD in critical theory?
Matt Kean on Sky news trgional dribbling sh&%, zaaap.
Just came back to, still going. 2nd zaaap…
Observations on Cairns, always been Asians here due to Japanese, in last 12months big influx of Chinese, very noticeable. Still few backpackers. Most euro’s seem to be travelling on a medium budget these days.
Bout to head into CBD today to the markets but Smithfield shopping centre was very run down. Was told big spat going on with anchor tennants Colesworths who want to expand & Lendlease has kyboshed them. Rents are apparently very high and a big turnover of commercial tenancies.
Most infrastructure is finished finally. Gordonvale bypass is very good…
The COP28 climate summit has bowled up a plethora of pledges on renewable energy, health and agriculture, and Australia has signed up to all the biggies.
Australia seeks to play good cop at climate summit
Hans van Leeuwen Europe correspondent
Dubai | The Albanese government has thrown its weight behind a flurry of declarations and initiatives at the COP28 climate summit, despite being one of the few countries not to field a political heavyweight to the conference’s all-star opening plenary.
Australia joined 100-plus countries signing up for headline declarations on renewed climate action in farming and healthcare, and also backed a pledge to triple the world’s renewable energy generation capacity by 2030.
The Albanese government also swung behind the formal launch of the 36-country Climate Club, which will be serviced by the OECD in Paris. Its members are ultimately looking to work more closely in policy lockstep, rather than in a disjointed or competitive way.
Although Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did not join more than 160 other leaders at the summit, the government still hopes to co-host COP31 in 2026 with the Pacific countries, and is keen to be perceived globally as a good climate citizen.
The renewable energy pledge, which was signed by 116 nations and also came with a commitment to double the rate of average annual improvements in energy efficiency, was feted by climate activists. They said it could help tilt the COP28 outcome more towards green energy and away from fossil fuels.
“It is a refreshing change to see an Australian government back the right kind of energy at the UN climate conference,” said Richie Merzian, international director at the Smart Energy Council.
“We welcome this leadership and look forward to it continuing throughout COP28 and beyond.”
Climate Change and Energy Minister Blackout Bowen noted that the announcement put Australia in the company of other resource-rich developed countries such as the US, Canada and Norway.
“For emissions to go down around the world, we need a big international push,” he said. “Australia has the resources and the smarts to help supply the world with clean energy technologies to drive down those emissions, while spurring new Australian industry.”
But Australia did not sign a pledge by 22 countries to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The countries included US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Britain, the continental European users of nuclear power, and the UAE.
Climate Club
The government is in similar company, however, in the Climate Club, which includes the US, the EU, most major European countries, Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Singapore.
The initiative was first proposed by Germany, following a spate of unilateral measures such as the subsidy-splurging Inflation Reduction Act in the US and the carbon border tax in the EU.
It will initially focus on emission-intensive heavy industries such as steel and cement, and a spokeswoman for Blackout Bowen said Australia expected a “laser-like” focus on this.
Under the auspices of the OECD, which is headed by former Australian finance minister Mathias Cormann, the club will also conduct technical work on measuring emissions and devising common standards, as well as mobilising finance and creating shared policy toolkits.
The health declaration, signed by more than 120 countries, represented the first time that the issue has been formally and explicitly tackled through the COP process.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard, who is in Dubai as chairwoman of research and advocacy group the Wellcome Trust, said she was “excited”, since she and her team had campaigned to get health issues on the COP agenda.
“We hope this will be the beginning of governments and decision-makers committing, concretely, to the climate action we need to protect our health, across mitigation, adaptation and finance work streams,” she told The Australian Financial Review.
Most climate health campaigners focus on pollution and extreme heat. Ms Gillard gave malaria and dengue fever as examples of illnesses that were becoming more prevalent because of climate change. The World Health Organisation has recorded an eightfold increase in dengue cases in the past two decades, of which 70 per cent are in Asia.
‘In good company’
Ms Gillard also took a swipe at the main target of COP ire, the coal, oil and gas industries. “Accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels is a crucial step,” she said.
The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting COP28, has come under intense pressure to wrangle the 198 negotiating nations into agreeing tougher language on curbing fossil fuels into the communique due on December 12.
Countries like India, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia have typically resisted this at past COPs. The UAE is in a difficult position: as host it needs to deliver a successful outcome; but as one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, it would normally put up some resistance.
In an initial draft text released at the weekend, the UAE and the United Nations canvassed a range of options. The alternative wordings of “phase out” and “phase down” were both included, and this could apply to either “fossil fuels”, “new coal” and/or “fossil fuel subsidies”. This could shift the onus of effort onto the Saudis, Indians and Russians.
Blackout Bowen told a Guardian podcast on Friday that if “a coalition, internationally in good company” emerged that was backing “sensible strengthening” of the push against fossil fuels, Australia “will be in that good company”.
He also confirmed that Australia was advocating to host COP 31 in three years’ time, a massive logistical exercise. But he said the process for choosing hosts was “opaque” and the COP decision had been “caught up in a little vortex” by disagreements over who would host the summit next year.
Farming, tax
Like health, the issues of food and agriculture have not been mainstream at COP, but came into focus with a declaration signed by 130 countries including Australia.
Although the declaration was light on specifics, it included $US200 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of a $US2.5 billion funding package.
National Farmers Federation president David Jochinke, who will travel to Dubai this week, said the declaration sought to protect food production, and “reaffirms farmers being at the core of decisions made that affect them”.
“It’s critical that climate adaptation doesn’t compromise our ability to produce food and fibre, or result in reduced productivity, by limiting herd numbers, for example,” he said.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt said Australia’s involvement would “deepen ties with valued trading partners across the globe – countries who are increasingly demanding strong sustainability credentials for food and fibre imports”.
One initiative Australia did not sign up to directly was a new taskforce on international taxation, launched by France, Kenya, Spain, Antigua & Barbuda and Barbados.
Hosted by the European Climate Foundation, it will try to kickstart a global negotiation process for new taxes on aviation, shipping and global financial transactions, with proceeds to be spent on climate projects. The plan is to put forward proposals for wider debate at COP30 in 2025, in Brazil.
Power lust.
Leftards can’t get enough of it.
Steve Mudflap McGrew’s REMASCULATE podcast
@REMASCULATE
Perfectly said.
We need to be scared.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Fox News guests get visibly uncomfortable after host Greg Gutfeld calls out advertisers and his employer for firing Tucker Carlson.
You could feel the tension in that room.
“Musk may be the last man standing between real freedom of speech and the suffocating block of the censorship industrial complex.”
“He realizes that advertisers have no spine and could be easily cowed by special interest groups in cahoots with political allies.”
“If you don’t believe me, I got two words for you: Tucker Carlson.”
Interesting Rock. I love FNQ. Need to do another visit. A shame the sunlander is gone. The sleeping accommodation on the tilt train doesn’t appeal. Next time will be a roadtrip a reckon.
The deep state law academicians also play a dog and pony show trick.
Provision X did not consider banning Z, which appears to be true, it only bans Y, even though Z is more egregious than Y; the authors of said legislation did not consider nor care for Z and even had a permissive attitude to Z.
Yet there is often little to no extrinsic material to suggest otherwise, which is largely irrelevant; the constitution is meant to be the highest source material (so only context would matter if there was any inherent ambiguity, in Eyrie’s case, there isn’t). If they did not want Z prohibited as well, they could have drafted it differently; the people presumably voted for both Y and Z to be prohibited with a supermajority of the electors throughout the Commonwealth and the electors among the States.
Ambiguity does not exist because you want to wind back a provision curtailing government power. You drafted it and it was voted for. Yet with Pape and criminal law cases, the appeals courts hide behind Mother Matilda’s apron of “democratic will” as a safety blanket.
Grace Chong
@gc22gc
McCarthy Engineered the Santos Expulsion to Go After MAGA and Speaker Mike Johnson
Regarding “community notes” Senator Katy Gallagher was “noted”.
She had Tweeted that the new digital ID was voluntary. The community note added below said it was not voluntary if you needed to have the ID to access Government services.
It was up for quite a while and was being re Tweeted and trending. The the “community note” was removed.
However it had been retweeted all over by then.
Always be wary of people who say, “I have your back.”
They’re often the ones shafting you.
(From my upcoming book, ‘Roger’s Life Learnings’)
So they can prove with laughable philosophy and “reason” that freedom is bad; to wit society must be destroyed with cultural Marxism and then cured with actual State Socialism (never going to “full” communism).
In the process, anything good, or anything or anyone capable of good is oppressing themselves and everyone else.
It is junk, doublespeak and kowtowing to regimes like Mao and Stalin.
Nothing more and nothing less.
The end goal is they make their utopia. No single-sex schools, unless The Party says so. No farmer’s markets, unless The Party says so. Economic equality, unless The Party says so. No firearm ownership, unless The Party says so. “I believe in Democratic Socialism”, until The Party says so. “I believe in private property”, until The Party says so.
The working class erred by supporting Howard & Hanson and not purging the ALP and Greens of these communist wankers.
That’s a looong drive, milt.
Plan a lot of stops along the way in order to avoid sciatica.
So a Digital ID is like the COVID Vaccine?
Does that mean I already have a Digital ID?
Toon to the fore ..! outplayed Man Utd and took a deserved 1-0 result .. should have been more but a win’s a win ……
Howayyy the lads ………. woof, woof ..!
Streamed live 6 hours ago.
It’s a biggie. Those solar storms have made a dent.
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dutchsinse:
12/02/2023 — Large M7.7 strikes West Pacific Philippines
On “fire” – arms:
The Party in submersible South Australia is declaring that fundamental human rights aren’t fundamental. The New Man will have more rights to services and care as a ward of the State, but he won’t want or need to hunt, unless he is part of a protected class who will be better off economically by being segregated from society:
https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/licences-and-permits/wildlife-permits/permit-types/hunting/bow-hunting
The Government of South Australia is moving to ban the use of bows and crossbows to hunt animals.
In the least, it is part of a list of reasons forming a good rationale for the argument to break up the States into a collection of a greater number of smaller States.
Kamala Harris Attacks Israel Over Hamas War: “Too Many Innocent Palestinians Have Been Killed”
The only “innocent” Palestinians still wear nappies .. as for the rest .. F*** ’em ..!
Easy topic, in a largely made up ‘discipline’ – you write up your opinion in 100,000 words, get the certificate, and call yourself ’Doctor’.
(See also: PhD in Paul Keating.)
Boambee John
Dec 2, 2023 5:11 PM
Don’t forget the the many men who seem willing to stay with physically and mentally abusive wives and partners.
PhDs are a sick sick joke. I am acquainted with two such persons and it confirms my stance. Just have a read of the Macquarie uni handbook for further confirmation.
Agreed shatterzzz – there is no such creature as an “innocent pallyweirdo”.
Paging Bomber Harris of the RAF.
Was it illegal when you parked? Or did you park where it was legal at the time and, in Sydney fashion, a new regulation spontaneously popped out from the chaotic infinite realm of random possible regulations into reality and a street sign sprouted fully formed from the ground.
Even the most indifferent observer of Sydney’s parking and traffic regulations would find it impossible to account for what they see through human agency.
The States banning bow hunting or attempting to ban recreational, non-commercial hunting or fishing after the adoption of the ICESR and the Dams Case seems pretty shaky. Without being a deep state shill, you would normally assume the common law rights are locked in…
I just found out bow hunting is banned in Tasmania.
>hang out with commie phd list –query [disgust]
>read left-wing rat hole handbook –query [hypertension]
——————–
Assume all phds are suspect
>/usermilt cls y/n?
Cassie:
They get grants from the government?
Why?
Yup I am further from Brisbane than it is from Melbourne…
Coast road or Bruce goat track is painful, inland developmental roads are not much better but less travelled and in places quite good. The 300 odd km from Townsville by the coast not too bad at moments hiatus between roadworks.
Circus clowns (not exclusive to the left)
I’m not not sure who deserves most of the contempt.
Them or the ones cheering from behind.
Smart as in dumber than rocks.
No Amount Of Subsidies Will Ever Make A Wind/Solar Electricity System Economically Feasible (1 Dec)
so many stories
Do I really need to explain the dark triad/tetrad after Jordan Peterson has popularised it?
Anyway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia
Apologies to Rabz and others. I had the radio show scheduled to post last night but it didn’t post, and because I was out, I didn’t notice until it was too late.
That depends very much on the thesis topic.
A PhD is meant to advance human knowledge through original research.
The expansion and subsequent dumbing down of tertiary education in recent decades has had predictable results.
A pity Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, it might now be a green and prosperous place.
today’s hymn after communion, for anyone who doubts the Jewish connection to Israel.
Indolent’s link to an article asking “Why hasn’t Me Too raged against the rape of Israeli women”, is an article from The Times by a Janice Turner.
She starts off well, although she seems be enjoying her graphic descriptions of the rape and torture rather too much. All well and good, asks where are the Me Too crowd, the feminist anti-rape blah blah, then it drops,
“I doubt this film would have changed my views on the conflict either. Like most people I’m aghast at Israel killing Palestinian civilians. I’ve visited the West Bank, seen how settlers grab Arab land, rain rubbish and dirty nappies down upon the market in Hebron. But none of this is relevant here. One universal principle transcends all else: rape as a weapon of war is a crime against humanity.”
She then goes on with how she started, but no matter how much she demands recognition for the rape and murder from the usual suspects, she has to insert her token Anti Israel/Jew bias.
Mmm…yes; he can be very protective of her while banged up for life.
Some women just like bad boys. Others think they can save them.
‘Evolutionary psychology’ is so much claptrap.
How is this possible?
Just the sort of tripe you’d expect from this wringing wet toff.
Fortunately Israel is ignoring the pleas from its unfriends. Cameron has tacitly given his stamp of approval for terrorism.
He’s too stupid or too dishonest to remember the IRA bombings in London. Things were different then. The victims were precious Londoners, not disposable Jews.
The Bint’s Entitlement
In they Lady’s chamber in a long repose,
There upon her couch of style and ease,
Draw now thy sleep from night time’s restful doze,
Of heels and drinks and noisy repartee.
Sojourned until a hesitant intrude,
A watcher came upon thee while in want of cloth,
And stirred then from that interrupted snooze,
Thy welfare drove her to enquire thy want.
Though needful of a decorous redeem,
Still waved away her gentle cares of thee,
Then stirring to depart the brazen scene,
Reclaimed in borrowed garb thou modesty.
Like raiment soiled from midnight reveries,
To then be washed and pressed to wear anew,
A name may risk a reputation’s stain,
If ways are found that will relieve the pain.
Though balm to which provide such reminburse,
Comes out of others’ pockets and their purse,
So She of very large and heavy thigh,
Did make a fortune from her own decry.
Where to thee now to end this happy mess?
The courts!, For Him to claim his own redress,
And so each day brings forth more sorry farce,
As He then She each fall upon their arse.
Still, did He do what She has always said?
All bow before His Honour’s judgement bench.
(Wally, mine, of course!)
Until an arrest needs to be affected without using deadly force, amirite?
https://thepostmillennial.com/four-women-cops-unable-to-subdue-one-male-offender-on-chicago-street
Remember, an (sc)academic a few days ago seriously published an article claiming that women were not just hunters, but better at hunting than men in prehistoric times.
Great reminder – thanks Pauline.
Evol psych is more robust than what psychology started off as.
A nuclear physicist (not a PhD) with whom I once worked commented that a PhD is a moderately intelligent person who once had a couple of years to spare.
Outstanding WIP; as usual; what is the German word for bra: stopemfloppem.
I particularly like the final photo of the Israeli girl with the AR-15 on her shoulder as she waits for a bus. Any Israeli who is now not armed is a ratbag.
Israel didn’t take an observation break during the cease-fire and the results are coming thru …..
Gaza update …
https://youtu.be/EQky8L48vwI
Calli,
perhaps there should be a new game show. Like, for instance, the “I’m a celebrity, get me outta here!” But with “Leaders” and “spokespeople” for this or that country/cause to be helicoptered into Israel, to hang out near the border with Gaza and/or the West Bank. There, to spend 10 days being a part of the colour and movement that is delivered without reprieve to Israel from Hamas and the Palestinians. Cameron could put his hand up for the first season.
Not only private jets, no flights at all in Munich, and no trains at all too. Closed because of wigte global warming.
In earlier times they named that snow, but snow is so yesterday and no more existant…
“Private jets in Munich on the way to Dubai global warming conference are literally frozen on the runway, which has turned into a glacier,” said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist and former NOAA chief scientist.
44 cm of snow on ground in Munich. 60% of Europe is snow covered. Most snow since 2010.
https://confoundedinterest.net/2023/12/02/global-warming-alert-private-jets-headed-to-global-warming-conference-literally-frozen-on-runway-in-munich-germany/
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/private-jets-headed-global-warming-conference-literally-frozen-runway
” What would motivate someone to do a PhD in critical theory?”
Make it up as you go?
Remember, an (sc)academic a few days ago seriously published an article claiming that women were not just hunters, but better at hunting than men in prehistoric times.
Women hunt men dottie; just remember that; and they’re very good at it.
Lot of discussion recently about MacBeth and who was to blame: Mac or his missus. By way of comparison I just re-watched John Wayne’s best movie, The Quiet Man, which is basically a retelling of MacBeth. Mary Kate Danaher pushes Wayne to bash her brother who controls her wealth finally provoking the big fight by denying Wayne his marital rights. This version ends happily though with everyone happy as the baton of power passes from Squire ‘Red’ Will Danaher to his sister. The reason MacBeth ends in a mess is because the 3 witches are behind all the fuss. People forget about them and focus on Mac and his missus.
It is in the US as well.
The Biden junta’s latest attempt at writing their own contrarian law won’t survive appeal.
Reductionistic claptrap, dot.
It is to psychology as paleoanthropology is to anthropology.
Little wonder the two feed off each other, as in the feminist hunter theory aired here yesterday.
And a government grant.
Let’s be cynical.
Banging cute goth chicks in your tutorial with tig ole bitties.
Imagine the effort and internalised cringe in trying to bed said goth chick or start a relationship with her by talking about the evils of the most free, prosperous civilisations that have existed.
“Why yes, I would also like to have a holiday in North Korea too, now, I want to chase you around my flat without your ill-fitting bra on but keep those tight satin boy shorts on for a bit, then I would like to kiss you and finish undressing you, then fondle your body and have multiple instances of heteronormative intercourse as we continue to kiss and fondle each other, do you consent?”
Sorry. I did try out for Mills & Boon once.
Great to see that The Gore Effect lives. God has a sense of humour.
We didn’t have time to get into the witches last night.
Why the first-ever space junk fine is such a big deal (2 Dec)
I’m having trouble seeing how the two align. If you want a reductionist argument against radical feminists, just look at the world records for men and women for javelin, sprints, distance running and powerlifting.
Seems like a cuck fantasy. He should have left town and found a decent woman.
For those interested:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141550/CUCKOLD_SIMULATOR_Life_as_a_Beta_Male_Cuck/
I do not approve of Sky’s misuse of the term “coup”.
Surely in a coup there would be some public involvement, as in a popular uprising? At the very least a coup of the military sort would have someone outside of the party deciding the leadership was no good.
This is one leftist faction of the ALP deciding Anna is on the nose with the hoi polloi. It isn’t even necessarily an ideological difference. Completely internal to the ALP.
This is not a coup.
The internet is a funny old place.
There seems to be a school of thought that because 7/11 Japan has taken over 7/11 Australia, they all will magically deliver the same product lines & service that the ones in Japan do.
These people vote.
Snowing in London yesterday.
In early December.
Normal average London December minimum 5°C (including urban heat island effect).
Elsewhere in the UK, the annual snow panic has come two months early.
Those agricultural promises in the UAE are working already.
Cuckold simulators.
That’s what the internet was invented for.
Allah snackbar stabbing in Paris.
You’ve lost me…I don’t want reductionist arguments for or against anything because they can’t account sufficiently for the richness of human experience.
Ergo they reduce us to less than we are.
Allah snackbar stabbing in Paris.
It must be a day ending in “Y”.
Anthony Albanese slammed in focus groups of swinging voter in Queensland and South Australia
Swinging voters are ripping into Anthony Albanese for failing to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, labelling him “weak” and “ineffective”.
Swinging voters have accused Anthony Albanese and the Labor government of failing to tackle the cost of living crisis, with some labelling the PM “weak” and “ineffective”.
Focus groups by Redbridge, published in the Sunday Telegraph, gathered soft voters in the Queensland electorates of Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan, and the South Australian seats of Sturt and Boothby.
Cost of living pressure was identified as the biggest concern for voters.
“He hasn’t really addressed cost-of-living and I get there’s global factors at play but I don’t think he’s done much concrete action on it,” said one annoyed voter.
Another accused him of being “missing in action” and “running off overseas again”.
“The belt is getting tighter and tighter but there’s no action,” a third said.
The criticism went on to get highly personal.
One voter described Mr Albanese as “weak” and “not strong”.
The most biting verdict came from a Queensland voter who opined: “He’s not a leader, he’s a follower. He’s a weak beta male”
Director of Redbridge Tony Barry told news.com.au the “problem for Labor is that soft voters’ evaluations of Anthony Albanese are underpinned by pervading concerns that he lacks strength and emerging hesitations about his vision and values”.
“Strong leadership is a key attribute in times of economic or national security crisis because voters need to have confidence that a Prime Minister has the courage to make tough decisions under pressure,” he said.
”Not being Scott Morrison will only get Albanese so far,” he said.
Mr Barry urged Mr Albanese to abandon his small target strategy in favour of bigger economics reforms.
Support for the Albanese government has plunged since the last election, with Newspoll putting the Labor Party’s primary vote at just 31 per cent – a result which would see it into minority government if an election were held now.
The four-point fall in the primary vote in just three weeks is the biggest single drop since the 2022 election.
It follows the Prime Minister’s failure to deliver the Voice in a referendum, rising interest rates and controversy over the release of immigration detainees with criminal convictions.
The Weekend Australian reported the Labor seats considered most at risk at the next election were Paterson, Gilmore, Richmond, Bennelong, Reid and Robertson in NSW, Swan, Pearce, Tangney and Hasluck in WA, Boothby in South Australia, Chisholm, Higgins, Aston and McEwen in Victoria and Lyons in Tasmania. Electoral redistributions in NSW, Victoria and WA are also being watched closely.
The only Arabs that promoted Jordan as Palestine were those that could profit from it. Completely understandable that the Arabs rejected the first partition plan by Peel Commission. Firstly, the Brits promised partition was never on the cards despite Balflour. Secondly, it gave the Arabs the least attractive areas, and they were asked to cede areas in which, in many cases, they were the vast majority. Thirdly, guess who else rejected it, the Zionist Congress.
And this is Supported by Australian Labor PM ALbosleezy, Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong giving 860 Visa to Palestinian Gazan Hamas – Vetting???? – Watching Videos of the Hatred Plaestinians teach their Kids, Thanks to Labor we can look forward to This!
One person is stabbed to death and ‘British tourist’ is among two injured after ‘assailant shouted “Allahu Akbar” before attacking passersby in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower’ – as suspect ‘who said he hated Muslims being killed’ is arrested
. Attacker said he could not stand Muslims being killed in the world, source says
It is “disturbing that global warming has been accompanied by a general cooling of multilateralism,” the pope proposed, and it is “essential to rebuild trust, which is the foundation of multilateralism.”
Climate change signals the need for political change and “a new multilateralism,” he declared.
“Let us emerge from the narrowness of self-interest and nationalism; these are approaches belonging to the past,” he urged. “Let us join in embracing an alternative vision: this will help to bring about an ecological conversion.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/12/02/pope-francis-cop28-climate-run-amok-planet-overheating/
Is “multilateralism” the new term for communism or has it been used before?
Starry Starry Night – https://zuozgemeinde.roundshot.com/#/
“Bespoke
Dec 3, 2023 9:55 AM
rain rubbish and dirty nappies down upon the market in Hebron.
How is this possible?”
My first reaction also Bespoke.
Lying liars gotta lie.
There’s no end to the lunacy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-passes-climate-bill-to-write-70-pct-by-2035-emissions-reduction-target-into-law/
Anthony Albanese is branded a ‘beta male’ as Aussies turn on the ‘weak’ PM for not tackling the cost-of-living crisis
. Prime Minister slammed over cost-of-living crisis
. Anthony Albanese called ‘bland’ by crucial voters
Don’t encourage them…they have no ideas other than more centralised control from Canberra through regulation.
easy question
feminsim is a gateway drug
Susan Sarandon’s Jew Rage is starting to bite back. hahahaha Well deserved.
Probably a typo. You are supposed to return a chook to a coop.
Multilateralism is essentially the binding of nation states through international agreements. Some would say it’s a step on the path to world government, if not already a form of it.
So when they inevitably fail can we arrest all the pollies?
From Wally’s extract towards the top o’ the page (not his words):
The widespread perception (media narrative) seems to be that h@m@s is a civilian government forced by circumstances beyond its control (evil neighbours) to reluctantly defend its citizens and territory.
Whereas my understanding is that the truth is the reverse: That while h@m@s has a political as well as an armed wing, the assumption of ‘government’ responsibilities in Gaza is a secondary or tertiary role that enables (via international recognition and funding) the pursuit of the publicly stated true purpose of the organisation.
* I still refuse to acknowledge their name, which partly means ‘courage.’
nice work ShakeSwimmer
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
and 90% subsidised by taxpayers who have absolutely no say in the distribution of the largesse.
Resentment? Dam straight.
I confess.
It was me.
When it came on the news the other night I cried out “Woo-hoo! Ki No Bi gin at 40 bucks a bottle in 7/11!”
So he killed random people, who may well have been Muslim, to fix that.
This is the point where we find out that he was “known to authorities” and had “known mental issues”.
Pogria
Dec 3, 2023 10:51 AM
Susan Sarandon’s Jew Rage is starting to bite back. hahahaha Well deserved.
Hitchcock said he was misinterpreted when he called actors cattle; he meant they should be treated like cattle. I don’t know why both can’t be right. This is why I rarely watch modern movies; all the actors in them are like this sarandon kunt.
Somebody should do a PHD on what a rort many PHD’s are.
I know an academic who has two and they were of zero use to the community but good for BS on his academic CV.
What would motivate someone to.do a PhD in critical theory?
AIDS. Once you’ve got bottom germs you can pontificate.
Finally.
About four o’clock this morning, the rain started. Not the usual roof-busting rain, but constant soakage. This time (and this is how you know the Wet rain’s begun) the weather came in from the ocean to the north.
Every piece of vegetation previously brown in D-Town, which is most of it, will within 48 hours be three times its size and so green it makes your eyes sting looking at it.
My gramps used to describe that as being “like a cow pissing on a flat rock” but perhaps not a “frog strangler”.
This is the reason for 90% of PHds.
I applied to the uni ethics committee to research a boring HR based topic on advice from, ahem, academic advisor. The value of employee induction on socialisation and company values. Zzzzzzzzzz times 1000.
What I really wanted to do was a case study comparing the different approaches of Richmond and Geelong AFL clubs (at the time…early noughties) as to the effect of the summary sacking of coaches on organisational trust.
I thought it had great potential to illustrate how company values, knowledge transfer and success could be derailed by reactive decisions to terminating key staff members when those in charge thought success was not coming fast enough.
Advisor advised NO. I lost interest in pursuing it further. Any modern academic qualification is simply an exercise in persistence. No intelligence required. No dissent permitted.
Does he have a Goldilocks number in mind?
The squirrel gymnastics are fun.
Disney’s Bob Iger Blames COVID for ‘The Marvels’ Bombing Hard (1 Dec)
Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Woke Movie Flopped Because There Weren’t Enough ‘Executives’ On Set (1 Dec)
Child Grooming Content On X Reduced By 83% After Disney Pulls Ads (1 Dec)
Only one of these headlines is satire.
Worse still the advisor advised I use ‘onboarding’ rather than induction for my thesis.
This particular individual was a complete genius at discouraging keen learners
As predicted 7 October would be the beginning of another round of terror attacks.
There was a little video on twitter of an IDF soldier in northern Gaza inside a house with a western dtyle toilet, no water, no flush, he pulled out a toilet liner and another bag to put it in when finished, (clearly standard kit) closed the door then ran the bag down the stairs and flinged it on a pile of rubbish.
The clip had been reposted by muslims carrying on like two bob watches about how disgusting that a Jew was going to the toilet in a muslim house.
While we all know what muslims did in Jewish homes.
The hate is implacable and insane.
Oh and Disney’s latest movie release “Wish” is also an epic disaster.
Nolte: Disney’s ‘Wish’ Officially a Box Office Catastrophe — LOL (2 Dec)
You’d think they’d learn that woke is a total turnoff for the punters, but no, they just keep on doubling down.
They really are as dumb as dog shit. Stick to what you’re good at. Oh, wait…
This is research I can get around.
Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty and Misleading Communication Takes Over
Organizations
Organization Theory
Volume 1: 1–26
© The Author(s) 2020
Abstract
Why is bullshit so common in some organizations? Existing explanations focus on the characteristics of bullshitters, the nature of the audience, and social structural factors which encourage bullshitting. In this paper, I offer an alternative explanation: bullshitting is a social practice that organizational members engage with to become part of a speech community, to get things done in that community, and to reinforce their identity. When the practice of bullshitting works, it can gradually expand from a small group to take over an entire organization and industry. When bullshitting backfires, previously sacred concepts can become seen as empty and misleading talk.
Introduction
When Anna Weiner (heh) moved from a New York publisher to a Silicon Valley start-up, she was stunned by the way people spoke. The technology firm she worked for hired ‘a man who spoke in inscrutable jargon and maintained a robust fleet of social media accounts: He had thousands of followers and behaved as if he was an influencer. He was constantly changing job titles on a website where people voluntarily post their resumes, giving himself promotions to positions that did not exist’ (Weiner, 2020, pp. 162–3). Weiner was stunned when ‘the influencer brought a scooter into the office and
rolled about barking into a wireless headset about growth hacking: value prop, first moved advantage, proactive technology, paralellization. Leading edge-solutions. Holy grail’. ‘It was garbage language to my ears’, Weiner writes, ‘but the customers loved him. I couldn’t believe it worked’ (ibid).
The ‘garbage language’ Weiner stumbled on is not unique to Silicon Valley. Organizations in many industries are infused with similar language. The ex-Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway collected up some examples in her ‘guffopedia’. They include ‘chief pollinator’, ‘iconicity’ and ‘loincloth strategy’. Stephen Poole’s (2013) dictionary of management speak has entries on ‘thought shower’, ‘drill down’ and ‘going forward’. Another dictionary of business jargon includes ‘consumer centric’,
‘fast track’, ‘talent pipeline’ and ‘going granular’ (Watson, 2015). Sometimes these terms
refer to precise ideas. But more often, they are meaningless and misleading forms of communication. In other words, they are bullshit.
(Cue academic gallows humour).
First time huh?
Rub and tug photo shop but all true.
hamas says no more hostage exchange til end of war, presumably so they can hide evidence of so many murders, they’ll hang on to some to get back their favourite terrorists.
This style of coup is normally referred to as a “palace*” coup conducted by courtiers.
* No pun intended
possibly a female hostage being moved, though who else could it be?
hamas says oops
It may surprise you to learn that those icons of liquidated entrepreneurism, Jodeee Rich and Brad Keeling*, pioneered the practice of skateboards and scooters in the office in Australia.
Sort of gave it a bad name.
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* In terms of sucking in big name investors, they had more than one Alan Bond in their lives.
Talk of coups and questions about the Constitution this morning.
If only we had someone here who was an authority on both.
Everything he said was a lie.
Australia joins renewable energy pledge at COP28 (Sky News, 3 Dec)
How can you be this clueless and still be breathing?
I know an academic who has two and they were of zero use to the community but good for BS on his academic CV.
This is the reason for 90% of PHds.
Like everything, much has changed in the world, especially the universities. However, the raison d’être of doctorates has always been an entrance to a teaching position in a university, or college of advanced education.
However, circumstances changed when the universities became heavily funded by governments. It became easier to obtain postgraduate “scholarships” which funded higher degrees. As a result postgraduate degrees, including PhDs, became far more attainable – especially for those who rather liked the pleasures of research rather than the humdrum of actual teaching or the actual application of scholarship.
The rest is history – pardon the pun.
OldOzzie
Dec 3, 2023 10:41 AM
Anthony Albanese is branded a ‘beta male’ as Aussies turn on the ‘weak’ PM for not tackling the cost-of-living crisis
. Prime Minister slammed over cost-of-living crisis
. Anthony Albanese called ‘bland’ by crucial voters
And “Name Calling”. LOL.
The shock name calling emerged in focus groups carried out in marginal seats in Queensland and South Australia by RedBridge for News Corp.
Now, lets have a lot more of those FOCKus Groups.
Dutton should get into the game and jam it right up Airbus/Tennis Elbow.
quelled surprise
Admittedly he’s left-handed, but I always liked Mitchell Johnson. Now I know why (the Tele):
Tick.
Tick tick tick.
Tick tick BAM.
Hopefully the aforementioned send-off will involve thousands of Sonny Bill Williams masks in the crowd, which was undoubtedly the finest moment in South Africa’s entire history.
Damn straight.
Yes. He. Was. Should have been banned from playing cricket at any level for life, forthwith. At least the Pakis send their cheats to jail.
Re Fred Pawle’s show on ADHTV of last week. One of the guests was Prof James Allan from University of QLD.
Their discussion included the HC determination of indefinite detention.
Allan said the case was about the separation of powers.
Saying ‘there is no such thing as the separation of powers. It’s a doctrine that’s judicially made up…In Canada or Britain or New Zealand there is no separation of powers doctrine that allows Judges to strike down legislation. So the real question was the Migration Act, does the Migration Act allow indefinite detention and is the Migration Act constitutional? And back in 2004 the HC 4-3…said yes…Implicitly they must have overruled [the 2004 decision]…. But they haven’t released the reasons for the Judgement.’
Lawyers out there, any thoughts?
He goes on to pillory the SFLs’ choice of Justices – no black letter Judges perhaps bar one.
Asians are particularly keen on doctorates. The subject doesn’t matter as its purpose is to confer impeccable status and to silence doubters.
The love interest in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is not only beautiful and kindly but she has a doctorate from Oxford and works as an academic. Its main function seems to be aphrodisiacal. Little evidence of her intelligence or academic gifts is demonstrated in the film.
Last nite I commented on the quality material in the Weekend Oz Review Section re the Israeli war on Hamas. Also in that paper is the lead news article about the rise in Diabetes in Australia and how hospitals are overrun with late-stage treatment patients. Then we find out that the problem is intensified in aboriginal communities, with an article on Alice Springs showing how drastic the issue is within the aboriginal population, cries for more help with prevention as well as more ICU’s.
The money pent on Albo’s vanity Voice would have gone a long way to helping provide more and better treatments and could have given quite a lot of impetus to improving aboriginal nutrition. Too bad about that. A glaring fixable problem but ignored because it needed a Constitutional Voice. What bulldust we are fed.