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Gateway Pundit is reporting that solar panels in Beirut are exploding. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/developing-home-solar-systems-explode-beirut-lebanon-following/ This is probably hoax stuff. On the other…
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Johnson/Faulkner/Maxwell was entertaining to watch. Almost made me like the Aussie team again, but not quite.
If they didn’t wan the job with the “firm” all they had to do is go away, shut up and lead their lives. Badmouthing everybody was not a good move, they now have no friends either in their old or new life.
The real problem is that Harry is a weak character who was fine while propped up by his brother and sister-in-law and the rest of the royal family. Meghan Markle sized him up and knew exactly which buttons to push to control him. Even though Markle may be wily she is really quite stupid that she didn’t see this coming.
Island strife: Greece serves Germany a dose of its own medicine
A former minister in Athens turns the tables with a proposal that recalls unwelcome advice during the debt crisis
As Greece sank into the mother of all debt crises in 2010, the German tabloid Bild ran a story under the headline: “Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks! And sell the Acropolis, too!”
One former Greek government minister never forgot the newspaper’s impertinent advice.
Like a reincarnation of Nemesis, the ancient Greek goddess, Panagiotis Lafazanis last week recommended — in an interview with Bild, no less — that Germany should consider selling an island or two to overcome a budgetary emergency of its own.
This crisis erupted on November 15, when Germany’s constitutional court ruled that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government had broken the law by trying to use €60bn of unspent pandemic funds for fighting climate change and modernising industry.
As a result of the court’s decision, Germany’s budget plans for this year and 2024 are in chaos.
Lafazanis, who was a member of Greece’s Stalinist communist party before he joined the radical leftist Syriza movement, served as energy minister in the Syriza-led government that came to power in 2015.
He used his interview with Bild to pour salt on Germany’s wounds like olive oil on a Greek salad.
Scholz’s government could address its troubles by imposing emergency taxes on businesses and individuals, but that might cause an uproar, he observed. So perhaps it would make sense for Germany to sell off some public assets, including islands, “in order to bring in a large amount quickly”, he suggested.
Referring to the austerity measures demanded of Greece in return for three international bailouts between 2010 and 2018, Lafazanis added: “Life takes revenge. Germany will now experience what it imposed on Greece.”
He didn’t specify which islands Germany ought to sell, but he may have had in mind Rügen, a popular Baltic Sea tourist spot.
This formed part of former chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bundestag constituency when she was in power and helped to organise the Greek bailouts whose terms Lafazanis denounced.
Either way, the German media were unimpressed.
One Munich newspaper called the proposal of Lafazanis “a perfidious sideswipe” at Germany.
In the end, Greece didn’t sell any islands, let alone the Acropolis, to get out of its debt hole. It likewise stretches the imagination to expect that Germany will sell Rügen or any other territory.
If anything, when it comes to European islands, history suggests that Germany has tended to be on the other side of the equation.
In 1890, it acquired the North Sea island of Heligoland from the UK in exchange for recognising British claims in east Africa, including the islands that make up Zanzibar.
That wasn’t a sale, or a deal made under duress, but there are several 19th century examples of states buying and selling land from each other.
In the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the US bought vast tracts of territory west of the Mississippi from France, then ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Sixty-four years later, the US bought Alaska from the Russian empire.
Donald Trump attracted a mixture of ridicule and outrage when, as president, he suggested in 2019 that Denmark should sell Greenland — an island — to the US.
He even called Mette Frederiksen, the then Danish prime minister, “nasty” for rejecting what he saw as the sort of real estate deal he specialised in.
However, Trump’s proposal was less outlandish than it seemed.
The US had first become interested in Greenland around the time it acquired Alaska in the 1860s, and the idea of buying it resurfaced in 1946 because of its strategic value at the onset of the cold war.
Nothing came of it, possibly because public enthusiasm for buying Greenland was almost as cold as the Danish territory itself.
As a Gallup poll at the time revealed, only 45 per cent of Americans correctly identified where Greenland was, and only 10 per cent knew how many people lived there.
Morn. Looks like Qld is going to pip WA this year for the first cyclone of the season. Big mass of convection over Sol Is starting to brew. All conditions there just vorticity to get it spinning is a tad weak.
Am waiting for news.com kiddehs to start their chicken little impressions a yesterdays GFS run had it crossing in SEQ after arcing down coast.
Beautiful sunny day in Cairns. Looked a couple of blocks up Kerrawa & Clifton Beach. Nothing tempting… Real estate itch scratched. Had morning tea at Palm Cove. Run down was my impression and compared to my last visit more affordably priced cars than I remember last time. Downturn in tourism especially all the backpacker attrations/tours very evident on northrrn beaches. I say even the CBD hasn’t bounced completely back after going to the markets in Grafton st yesterday.
ZK2A:
We’ve spent hundreds of millions trying to teach these mothers about nutrition, exercise, abstention from alcohol, smoking and dope. You’d think the effect on their babies would have some kind of control on their behaviour but from the worsening problem stated above it has led to no change in the habits.
The only thing to do now is to allow the consequences of their decisions free reign. Let them drink themselves into insensibility and their babies into foetal alcohol syndrome.
Bad decisions have bad consequences. Learn the lesson or watch your babies die, girls.
Dutton calls on Albanese to sack Chesty Blonde.
The STC management has cancelled a planned post-performance “Q&A” session between protesting cast members of The Seagull and the audience tonight after heckling during the curtain call on Saturday, reportedly fearing for the well-being of the actors.
I’m just going to leave this here for Cassie to comment if/when she has the chance.
HamasisisUK might have to be very angry about that. I
UK to carry out flights over Gaza to locate hostages
The United Kingdom will carry out surveillance flights over Israel and Gaza to help locate hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the British Ministry of Defence has announced.
Arky:
Lovely bit of kit.
My last motorcycle – stock photo.
Cant afford to fall off them anymore – the transplant treatment has left me with a skeleton that will break if a dandelion hits it.
miltonf
The 10% whose votes are the only ones counted?
Are the Ballarat na*is real, or just a false flag op?
They all seem too organised and appropriately dressed.
I figure they’re there to present a na*i threat that Vic ALP can action, or a police honeypot for nutters.
Aaron
What’s the point of all the bloody coppers there after the murders? Why aren’t they at the damn borders stopping these mongrels getting in?
its nice they’ve incorporated the Palestinian situation into their play.
– make noise and offend nice people
– get heckled by said people
– cry foul and starting blubbing for protection
That depends if the blonde, long-haired son of a VIKPOL CIB detective is there or not.
Those archived skeletons are worth their weight in gold.
Splendid!
What’s the topic…how to lose a safe seat?
Russian army snaps up Chinese off-road buggies popular in US
Purchase of hundreds of all-terrain vehicles made by Shandong Odes could put exports to west at risk
Russia’s military has bought hundreds of Chinese all-terrain vehicles popular in the US, in a move that risks heightening tensions between the west and Beijing over President Xi Jinping’s tacit backing for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s purchases open up the buggy manufacturer Shandong Odes Industry to retaliation from authorities in the US, where the vehicles are popular among farmers and powersports enthusiasts.
China has insisted it is not selling military equipment to Russia, but Ukraine’s allies are concerned about sales of non-lethal goods useful for defence industries or on the battlefield.
Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the Desertcross 1000-3 utility terrain vehicle earlier this month alongside defence minister Sergei Shoigu, who said the Chinese-made buggy “was extremely in demand”.
Social media footage has shown Russian soldiers using them in the field.
The Russian military was already fielding 537 “basic” versions of Shandong Odes’s Desertcross 1000-3 and planned to buy another 1,500 with “additional options”, state newswire Tass reported, citing a panel the defence ministry put up next to the vehicle seen by Putin.
In a clear warning last month, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said Russia was “dependent on willing third-country individuals and entities to resupply its military and perpetuate its heinous war against Ukraine”.
“We will not hesitate in holding them accountable,” Yellen said.
Russia’s use of the vehicles comes as Putin’s military increasingly turns to Chinese suppliers for equipment needed to maintain its invasion of Ukraine, and highlights the dilemma facing Chinese companies whose sales to Russia could expose them to retaliation from Washington. Shandong Odes would be particularly vulnerable to such retaliation because of its high volume of US sales.
Experts said the use of the vehicles also reflected Russia’s limited military manufacturing capacity as it deploys the non-armoured buggies in the field.
Shandong Odes claims to have hundreds of dealers around the world including in the US and Europe, where it sells under the Aodes brand.
There are more than 100 dealerships licensed to sell Aodes-branded vehicles in the US to a market ranging from ranchers to holidaymakers.
It is not known how many they sell, but bills of lading show Shandong Odes as having shipped 4,200 heavy items to the US that were labelled as “low speed” or “all-terrain” vehicles in the past year.
Aodes is the top-selling brand for such buggies at Play-N-Around Motorsports in Pinehurst, Texas, and the US version of the Desertcross 1000-3 — which sells for about $20,000 in the US — is one of the models it offers. But while general manager Branden Williamson said he was “absolutely” aware the vehicles were being used by Russian troops, he added that it would only be an issue if resulting sanctions forced up prices.
“It doesn’t make a difference to me that another company is using their product for [the Russian] military,” Williamson said.
Russian customs records show Shandong Odes has exported vehicles to a number of civilian buyers. They suggest it sent 137 Desertcross vehicles in March and April — worth about $1.6mn in sales. The principal buyer was Formula 7, a Russian motorsports company.
Shandong Odes declined to comment and its US headquarters did not respond to a request for comment. A person close to the company denied that it sold the vehicles to the Russian military or Russian dealers.
Pavel Luzin, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation who studies the Russian military, said Russia could have bought the vehicles on the secondary market without Shandong Odes’s knowledge.
“They might be better than the motorcycles or old [Soviet-made vehicles] Russian soldiers are widely using now, but no more than that,” Luzin said. “This is yet more demonstration that Russia can’t produce that much equipment or goods for its army.”
In numerous high-level visits to Beijing in recent months, European leaders have called on China to use its close ties with Russia to persuade it to withdraw from Ukraine.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel are set to visit Beijing this week for the first in-person EU-China summit in four years, which is expected to involve tough talks on Ukraine and trade.
But Xi and Putin continue to hail their deep friendship and growing trade ties. China has insisted it is not selling military equipment to Russia, but Ukraine’s allies are concerned about sales of non-lethal goods useful for defence industries or the battlefield.
Chinese exports of lorries to Russia have surged, freeing Moscow’s domestic producers to focus on supporting the war effort.
In January 2022, on the eve of the full-scale invasion, official Chinese data suggests Russia bought $32mn worth of heavy goods vehicles and trailer trucks. In July, such imports peaked at almost a billion dollars. Last month, they were worth $378mn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWvOI_MD-Q
This is a video about the Mt Erebus disaster, goes for 1 hour 17 mins.
It is a bit dry, because it goes into the Human Factors influences, in some depth.
This however, gives the viewer a good insight, into all of the factors leading to the disaster.
Yeah, not so nice when audience feedback to the actors is full of hurty-words.
It is supposed to be the actors ramming their woke lunacy down the neck of the audience, who are have to siddown, shuddup, & be told they’re racist occupiers.
I am no anti-vaxxer, and the imprecise use of a pejorative label by those driven to derangement by ‘the spectre of Covid’* is an inadvertent confession of intellectual and emotional bankruptcy on their part.
I am a huge fan of vaccines. I grew up not knowing until I was reading literature more than 50 years old the sicknesses and disfigurements that used to plague us.
But my understanding of vaccines also involved them having been tested for side effects and contraindications – like any medicine. They also involved the principle that a measured minimal incursion of one virus or another, would spur the body to develop a defence ready for when it encountered a later, broader assault.
The new vaccines had not been tested to the extent that made me confident by a long way. This was all the more telling as the mRNA vaccines did not work the same way, targeting cells’ DNA and co-opting processes that had not really been put to the test before, and the consequences of which had also not been tested.
The side effects of the mRNA vaccines are clear for all to see: Indolent has developed antennae like the male mosquito which through everything resonate only at the specific frequency of the females’ wings, although for him it is the word ‘suddenly’; and Figures conviction that mood not only effects susceptibility to illness, but actually causes it.
Point is that I know why I trust vaccines and it is more than simply that the label on the vial says ‘vaccine’, and it is those more subtle reasons that made me balk at the mRNA vaccines.
So instead of being called an anti-vaxxer I suppose the proper insult is that I have an understanding of what a vaccine is rather than repeating like a sheep that ‘it says vaccine’.
Maybe they can call me Anti-baa.
Oh, and about the asterisk attached to
When Marx wrote that in the Communist Manifesto he too was gaslighting.
New Zealand -WEF Favorite & the First to Fall?
COMMENT: RE: New Zealand Whistleblower
Dear Martin,
I live in Wellington, New Zealand. A government town, I guess New Zealand’s version of DC on a much smaller scale. I have worked for and with the government here up to the highest level and can attest to witnessing some of the corruption and ineptitude in the system.
Thank you for publishing what is going on here. Few people in New Zealand have the courage to speak up and when they do they are quickly knocked down. Under the previous administration led by Jacinda Ardern a culture of fear and division was created – “two classes of people” and my wife and I, choosing to be unvaccinated, have been on the receiving end of that.
There is a new centre-right government now but we don’t expect any meaningful change, there never is.The whistleblower is in court here in Wellington today and they will go hard to destroy him and his message. Brave man.
God Bless you and keep up the fight please – on behalf of us little people.
Kind Regards,
Anonymous
REPLY: I have been to New Zealand and held speaking engagements there on several trips. I can’t believe how many people are writing in from New Zealand. I apologize I have not been to the Australia/New Zealand in the past 5 years. Time flies, and the world keeps disintegrating. If NZ$ closed above 156 at year-end, it appears we have a brewing political crisis despite the overthrow of the WEF-installed government. The bureaucracy is well entrenched and despite the political change, it does not appear that this will reverse the direction of the country. Therein lies the problem.
I will be doing specialized reports around the world because the requests are coming in even from places like Bangladesh. It is becoming obvious that people around the world “feel” something is just not right. Governments will now do whatever they can to crush dissent and oppress the truth. Instead of arresting people at Pfizer, which they cannot do since so many get funds from them, there is no putting this genie back in the bottle. The collapse in confidence of governments around the world is unfolding but by their own hand.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/govt-incompetence/new-zealand-wef-favorite-the-first-to-fall/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Johnny Rotten:
Interesting Armstrong letter this am.
That’s a bit unfair to the dog, but.
I first read that as Charles Martel.
We should be so lucky!
Geert Wilders and the liberal Jewish intelligentsia
Support for truthtellers about Islam and antisemitism is the litmus test for liberal Jews’ post-Oct. 7 awakening.
Came across an interetsing snippet reading ARNHEM, according to Beevor, “Boy” Browning was on the ground in Holland .. came in on the 2nd airdrop .. Can’t recall him in “A Bridge To Far” appearing anywhere other than in England during the planning and end re-hash ……….
Winkin’, Blinken, and Nod
This week’s column on the ongoing fight between civilization and barbarity focuses on the role on the United Nations and its various agencies in keeping jihadism alive and well; the outrageous efforts by the incompetent Anthony Blinken to hamstring Israel’s justified defense; and the little-known or publicized support by Arab leaders for Israel’s eradication of Hamas.
Winkin’
Every one of the United Nation’s agencies involved in the Middle East have placed it on the side of the most barbarous enemies of civilization. The worst is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Disgusted by the agency’s role, Germany has frozen its substantial contributions to UNRWA (Germany is UNRWA’s second largest donor at $202 million last year) and the United States should do no less.
(In 2018 President Trump cut funds to UNRWA; the Biden Administration rushed to restore them.)
In the latest conflict, one UNRWA teacher stuffed a child hostage in his attic, starved him and deprived him of medicines.
UNRWA relief supplies were found in Hamas tunnels.
Attached to an abandoned backpack in Gaza were two identification tags, one describing the owner as a member of Hamas, the other the same owner as an UNRWA employee.
Disturbed that it is suddenly receiving the attention and opprobrium it has long deserved, UNRWA tweeted: ”Spreading unsubstantiated claims about @UNRWA must stop immediately.”
David Burge responded: “Or we’ll hold your children hostage in an attic and starve them.“
In response to the terror attacks of October 7, UNRWA teachers, principals, and administrators reacted this way:
”Reality surpasses our wildest dreams;” ”welcome to the great October,” and more.
The massacres were justified as “restoring rights’ and “redressing Palestinian ‘grievances’.”
Lebanese-Iraqi Hussain Abdul-Hussain nails it:
UNRWA’s very existence is political and unjustified.
All the world’s refugees get one UN agency, UNHCR, and Palestinians get their own agency UNRWA.
Also, UN refugee mission is to resettle refugees, like UNHCR does, not maintain Palestinian refugee status and make it hereditary, even when these Palestinian refugees have long been settled.
Blinken
Having played a role in the negotiation of the cease-fire and its extension, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said little, if anything, about Hamas’s repeated violations of the terms of the agreement.
Families were to be released together. They were not.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was supposed to be given access to the hostages to oversee their existence and conditions. It was not.
Indeed, the ICRC refused repeatedly to provide to an elderly hostage needed medicines given them by her daughter. Upon her release she is in very poor health.
Hamas has tortured hostages and their families.
They said one young girl was dead, and then said she wasn’t. She returned home in severely traumatized state, whispering because for almost two months she had been forbidden to speak.
She was fearful, obviously poorly fed, and covered in head lice and bug bites.
Another young hostage who saw his father murdered was forced to watch over and over videos Hamas took of the onslaught in Israel with a gun held to his head, forbidden to cry.
A father was filmed by Hamas crying as they told him his family – a baby, a toddler, and his wife — were dead. (Whether they are or not no one knows.)
Nevertheless Blinken, who played a significant role in the disastrous flight from Afghanistan, decided this week that he should tell Israel how to proceed.
Israel has done more to preserve the lives of civilians than any military force in history.
Blinken, however, decided to publicly warn the Israelis that they must preserve such lives and tried at the same time — inconsistently — to tell them they were running out of “credit” and had to speed things up.
I read it as a message they should return to former ways and leave before the job was done.
Nod
What gets little coverage in the media is that many Arab countries share Israel’s belief that there can be no peace or prosperity for all in the Middle East unless Hamas is eradicated.
The Saudis, UAE, Egypt, and Jordan want Israel to eliminate Hamas, even if the UN and the State department might not.
Indeed, the reliably very left-wing Israeli publication Haaretz reported this week that in behind the scenes talks with Israeli officials, almost every Arab leader told Israel that it should not end the war with Hamas until Hamas is totally destroyed.
They obviously see Hamas as proxies for Iran and Qatar, who are their domestic enemies, even if Blinken thinks they are our allies.
Why on earth would they announce that?
Disgusting pig.
This is Mohammed Arife, a MusIim imam.
Press ?? if you want an immediate end to Muslim migration.
Gabor:
Welcome to the club, Gabor.
Winston – At the very same time nanny big government has also been depressing the crap out of them with lurid Covid and climate rubbish, plus race-shaming. Just being pregnant is now a climate crime. So they’re self-medicating with donuts and chardy.
Give people hope and they build for the future. Remove all hope and you have a society hooked on vodka etc, like the CCCP was.
Winston – my last motorcyle…
Try this one mate!
Tasmanian cricket selectors for the national team prefer the Brian Harradine model.
Leverage, leverage, leverage.
Advocate of a government solution to every problem absolves incompetent government of responsibility for inflation.
Whilst in financial straits the Brits should have offered to pay for the Parthenon Marbles for 50 pound and family vouchers to The Royal Cheddar Cheese Rodeo Show.
Shut them up.
Truly, some nations have been known to sink so low that they cannot be entrusted with their own historical artefacts.
Look at the deliberate obliteration of history in Muslim lands because it does not accord with Koranic teaching. When they decided to blow up those enormous carved Buddhas in Afghanistan a Special Stonemason Tactical team should have been sent in. Blow the heads off the Allah-wallahs to get the job done. Tell them they are martyrs and there are 72 goats ‘their nethers not yet discovered by the foreskinned parts of men’ waiting for them. They will be happy. They will look forward to it.
Gawd!
This one goes for 38 mins. It’s a new doco. Last 10 minutes or so explains the AirNZ royal commission. Worth a look just for that.
The deadliest plane crash cover up.
That’s a very good question CL.
And it’s not as if Israel and others haven’t been doing everything in their power to locate hostages for nearly two months, better late than never UK.
Hopefully they find some living hostages.
Marc Zell
What?
He is not reflexively falling on his face begging forgiveness so they will stop saying mean things?
Unheard of!
It’s always a big tell to start naming the state from which selectors come.
It’s like saying the ABC is centrist because Mal Turnbull agrees with it.
Bailey got to be part of the in-crowd. Echo chambers gonna echo.
Cool!
We will soon hear about a genocide of STC actors in the form of people not agreeing with them.
Her “brand” was the hands-off, work-life balance, “don’t call me before school drop-off”, Presidential style*.
In other words, someone who would always have a ready supply of victims to shove under the bus if they pulled the wrong rein in one of her many scheduled absences.
Of course, that only works for minor crises. When the Big Nuclear thing happens, you own it.
…
* The first time I heard the phrase “hands off, Presidential style” was during a job interview back in the ’90’s used to describe the CEO.
I said that it sounded more like a description of a Board Chairman rather than a CEO and, of course, I would always consult the CEO on critical matters.
Just like that, I went from red hot unbackable favourite to scratched at the barrier.
I didn’t even say “Lazy, blame-shifting arsehole” out loud.
Indolent:
And they got voted in because the middle class US didn’t want to be called names.
Just pathetic.
Traditional castella sponge cake
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Traditional castella sponge cake
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Bring one of Japan’s favourite baked desserts into your home with this traditional castella sponge cake recipe. Introduced to the Japanese by Portuguese merchants in the 16th Century and now a speciality of the Nagasaki region, Castella sponges have a finer, more compact texture than traditional sponge cakes, while still being lighter than pound cakes or butter cakes. This castella is ideal for serving during afternoon tea, or for dessert.
Ingredients
4 medium sized eggs, room temperature
110g sugar
2-3 tbsp honey
100g strong flour
Categories
Occasions: Desserts, Snacks
Key ingredients: Flour
Method
Prepare the egg mixture: In a metal bowl, crack 4 eggs, add 110g sugar and beat with an electric mixer over boiling water in a double boiler fashion on high speed for 6 minutes. The volume of the beaten eggs will increase by about 4 times.Whisk the egg mixture: Add 2-3 tbsp honey into the egg mixture and whisk on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Sift 33g of the flour into the mixture, then lightly whisk on medium speed, then add another 33g of the flour and whisk. Add the last remaining 34g of flour and whisk until combined for about 1 minute. Do not overmix, this will lead to a fallen or flat cake.Pour the batter into a tin: Put some parchment paper in a baking tin and pour the batter into the tin. Using a skewer, draw a zigzag line to remove any large air bubbles from the batter. This will give an even texture throughout to the finished cake.Bake the cake: Bake at 180°C in a pre-heated oven for 10-15 minutes until the top turns a rich brown. Then quickly cover it with cooking foil and lower the temperature to 170°C and continue baking. It will take about 55 minutes in total. Test with a skewer, when it comes out clean the cake is done.Cool the cake: When done, take the cake out from the tin and immediately cover the surface with cling film. Turn the cake over onto a flat plate and while it is still hot put it in a plastic bag and leave it for 12 hours so that the cake will have a moist texture.Serve and enjoy: Before serving, slice off the sides of the cake. Serve with tea or coffee and a spoonful of Chantilly cream for extra decadence.
Tips
You can keep the cake in the fridge for up to 5 days or wrap it with cling film and freeze for up to a month.
This I want to see:
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1731464053740966113
CL
I hope Israel politely declines. Would I be a bad person for harbouring suspicions on Whitehall’s motives for such generosity?
Crossie.
Markle misjudged the nature and tradition of the Monarchy. She thought it was a variation of Hollywood. And, in part, it is.
However, she misjudged the rigidity of succession rules. She, and her band of PR advisors, thought this was a big budget network TV series, where established stars could not only pull obscene salaries, but hold hire and fire power over all and sundry.
She was the box office star of The Real Princesses of Windsor, and it would all implode without her. She fully expected to have centuries of succession tradition to be swept away to accomodate her. Dropping the waaacism trump card on the table would be the final play to ensure success.
A cursory reading of history only back as far as 1936 would have told her this wasn’t going to happen.
That bloke Wong is shedding a tear over Peta Murphy’s death during Question Time.
Too bad he couldn’t squeeze out a fake one for Kimberly Kitching.
This is my latest project, a TZ350A, supposedly one of the first three brought into Australia and was raced by Bryan Hindle. It all looks the part and the frame number is right. I’m trying to get more evidence for the Hindle claim but many of those from back then are no longer with us. I also raced one of these in the mid 70’s with a remarkable lack of success. The bike is almost complete but needs a full resto, plus some know in the late 70’s replaced the original swing arm with an alloy one, dunno why he would never have been competitive on it with those brakes, beautiful as they are.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/198621587@N03/53374359524/in/datetaken-friend/
“Not because I doubted the science – I studied physics at Cambridge and know the basic science of global warming is rock solid.”
FACT CHECK: Partially true.
Although the physics of IR interaction with certain gasses is pretty well documented, including by empirical measurement, there is no indication that these interactions are the dominant driver of earths climate, nor that CO2 is the dominant gas.
There are several questions that remain to be answered, including:
how much the overlap of absorption spectrum between CO2 and H2O matters;
how much latent heat transport by H2O (which “bypasses” the greenhouse effect) matters;
how much cloud cover changes and what effects those changes have;
why satellites (which measure bulk atmospheric temperature from a few hundred meters and up) show different temperatures to “ground based” thermometers, yet match well with direct measurements by weather balloons;
how much benefit humans get from burning and otherwise using fossil fuels (eg whether cheap energy for refrigeration and so on benefits the poor more than the CO2 harms them);
does the environmental costs in creating “renewables” exceed the environmental costs of fossil fuels.
Since we don’t know, and using the “precautionary principle”, we should NOT radically alter our entire economy in order to “please” the environmentalists – without clear answers to the above questions/points, we may do more harm than we intend to mitigate, both financial AND environmental, and that would truly be a disaster.
In truth, the climate disaster brigade does itself no favours when for the last 40 years or so they have told us that we have 10 years to change or it will be too late. Nor have the done themselves any favours by claiming that more CO2 than expected producing less warming than expected is somehow “worse than we thought”.
We have finite resources, and they should be applied to make the most benefit for the most people – people who exist NOW, not in 100 years time. In that case, I would rather the trillions already spent on global warming had been spent on the worlds poor for clean water and sanitation, access to modern farming techniques, access to clean and smoke free cooking fuels and other such measures that improve their quality of life and life expectancy right now. They then may care enough about the environment to make their own countries enact pollution controls on toxic chemicals, prevent plastics from entering the ocean, stop deforestation and so on, which would do more for the environment than the current policies which trap them in medieval-era energy usage does.
Demonstrating against Jew-hatred isn’t enough
Melanie Phillips, Dec 3, 2023
A direct line runs between defamation of Israel and attacks on Jews
Spiders in Glass Jar: Ze Desperately Buys Time as Enemies Plot
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER 2 DEC 2023
A clearer picture of the outlook for the next term of the war is starting to resolve before us.
We’ve long reported rumors that the issue of offense vs. defense had become a breaking point between Zelensky and Zaluzhny, and now Zelensky has finally bitten the bullet and announced a full change of posture to a defensive one, with the mandate to begin building vast fortifications and defenses all throughout Ukraine:
You know where there’s zero Muslim anti-Semitism and zero Muslim terrorism?
China.
On the sin list
Free mixing with women.
Not on the sin list
Raping, murdering, stealing and taking hostages.
leave the sin and allah will give you victory
That’s because China has its Uyghur population under the thumb, though I’m sure they are anti Semitic as the rest of their brothers and sisters who, like most of people of Gaza have never even seen a Jew.
Twitter is full of Pakistani, Turkish and Indonesian anti Semites.
United in hate.
Browning was desperate to “see the action” on “Market Garden.’ He and his 500 man “cloth of gold ” headquarters were flown to Nijmegen, using 38 gliders, that would have been far better used to land British airborne troops, near Wolfheze at the start of the operation. For all the use they were there, they should have stayed in England.
It was largely Browning’s decisions that contributed greatly to the failure of the operation – he never spoke of it after the war.
Chinese Social Media Platforms Are Now Awash With Antisemitism
How do the likes of Bailey and Hohns ever get to be selectors in the first place. Can anyone imagine the AllBlack selectors having players tell them what to do. Me thinks they are so grateful they’re open to suggestions.
gosh, some shocking excuses for human beings in the US congress
Joe Biden’s fecklessness may bring defeat for Israel AND Ukraine
By Post Editorial Board
Whether it’s diplomacy or high strategy, the Biden administration’s obliviousness knows no bounds.
Diplomacy first: “I don’t think you have the credit for that,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel’s War Cabinet last week, right after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “The entire Israeli society is united behind the goal of dismantling Hamas, even if it takes months.”
Meaning: The Biden administration won’t stand by Jerusalem for a protracted fight.
Blinken also offered up a list of impossible demands: “The massive loss of civilian life and displacement of the scale we saw in northern Gaza [must] not be repeated in the south”; Israel must “clearly and precisely” designate civilian safe zones and avoid “enduring internal displacement.”
We don’t actually know how “massive” civilian losses have been; Hamas cites deaths over 10,000, but it counts its own casualties in that figure.
Yes, civilian suffering is vast: There’s a war on; most Gazans have fled the north (despite Hamas shooting at them when they flee) and will have to flee to the safe zones Israel’s already designating in the south as the IDF moves in.
And out of the areas where the IDF announces it’s going next — thereby, as The Post’s Caitlin Doornos reports, sacrificing the huge military advantage of surprise in order to minimize civilian suffering.
That, notes IDF Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler, is why “you can find so many videos of Palestinians standing outside of buildings that they had been told to leave, filming the strike from their own phone standing there because they know that we’re going to hit.”
The IDF is also taking casualties by sending in ground forces to clear known Hamas strongholds rather than starting with airstrikes — trading Israeli lives to protect ordinary Gazans.
That lets Israeli special forces disarm the various civilian-killing booby traps Hamas leaves behind, and avoids civilian-slaughtering secondary explosions from bombs igniting Hamas ammo dumps.
The IDF assault on the terror bases in and around Al-Shifa hospital are a case in point: Yes, patients suffered in having to evacuate — but far fewer innocent lives were lost than when that terrorist rocket misfired into the Al-Ahli hospital parking lot.
Israel will keep on finding new ways to keep civilian casualties down, but it can’t stop fighting until Hamas is annihilated.
Blinken admits that overriding truth: “Hamas cannot remain in control of Gaza,” but he’s made it clear President Biden won’t give the Israelis the “credit” needed to take too long to do it — even though taking more time would help keep civilian deaths down.
Call it “Catch-22” diplomacy.
Meanwhile, Team Biden’s strategic decision to barely respond to attacks on US forces across the Mideast is now paying off — for Iran and its “axis of resistance.”
Houthi forces (armed and financed by Tehran) in Yemen last week fired at a US warship engaged in freeing a civilian ship from Houthi pirates — and on Sunday they escalated, firing on the USS Carney and multiple commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
The signal is unmistakable: Worse is ahead, at least as long as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
Iran has ordered up what Biden fears most: escalation.
In his mind, that leads straight to a much larger war — Vietnam, say, if not World War III; count on him to push Jerusalem even harder to end the fighting soon, even with the job unfinished.
For nearly two years, Vladimir Putin’s been pushing the same Biden-panic button to keep the prez from getting Ukraine the advanced weapons it most needs to beat off the Russian invasion; now Iran’s using it to manipulate him into undercutting Israel.
Biden sees the right side in these conflicts, but all the rest of his instincts serve the bad guys’ interests.
From the Comments
– Actually, Blinken has already demonstrated that he has the skills to handle this situation. The problem isn’t civilian casualties. The problem is simply the messaging.
Step 1: Write a letter stating that there are no civilian casualties. Anything stating that there are civilian casualties in Gaza bears all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
Step 2: Have 51 reputable former heads of intelligence agencies sign the letter. Let’s say, Walter Brennan, Maxwell Smart, Leon Panetta, Agent 99, “The Chief”, Inspector Gadget, James Bond, etc.
Step 3: Instruct all social media companies that any post even hinting that there have been innocent casualties in Gaza are to be removed as misinformation.
Problem solved.
– I cannot stand when Biden talks tough to Israel, “demands” they follow the laws of war, etc., as if Israel is the party needing a lecture.
Hey Mr. Aviator sunglasses, try talking tough to Hamas, demand they release U.S. hostages or feel the wrath of the U.S. military.
Good lord, this has to be the weakest President ever, lets everyone fire shots at our military and he sits back and does…nothing.
President Biden must face reality: It’s time to act vs. Iran
A US Navy destroyer and three commercial vessels came under attack Sunday from Iran’s terror outfit in Yemen while Iranian proxies resumed attacks against US military bases in Iraq and Syria.
President Biden must face reality: The ayatollah in Iran is attacking Americans and American allies without fear.
Biden so far has responded with American mush, but Ali Khamenei won’t back down until he runs into American steel.
The latest escalation against the USS Carney and three other ships, one British-owned, did not arrive in a vacuum.
Iran is the leading threat to freedom of navigation in the Middle East, perpetrating at least 26 harassments, attacks or seizures between January 2021 and July 2023.
In just the past week, the Yemen-based Houthis — a terrorist ally of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, trained by Hezbollah and armed with missiles and drones from Tehran — launched a drone attack against an Israeli-linked cargo ship and fired two ballistic missiles near another American destroyer, the USS Mason.
Undeterred
The week before that, the Houthis seized a Japanese-operated cargo ship in the Red Sea.
That’s on top of weeks of missile and drone attacks launched from Yemen toward southern Israel — most of which were intercepted by the Carney and Israeli air defenses.
It’s also on top of the 74 Iranian-directed attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17 — leaving dozens of US service members injured and one contractor dead.
Biden has deployed two carrier strike groups to the region in what was supposedly a show of force to deter Iran’s regional escalation.
But Tehran has been unimpressed.
A week after Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre, Biden and his closest European allies allowed the United Nations missile embargo on Iran to expire — opting against triggering the snapback of UN sanctions on Tehran.
Why? Out of fear Iran would escalate in response.
Weeks later, following dozens of attacks on US forces, Biden issued a sanctions waiver giving Iran access to $10 billion previously held in Iraq.
That’s in addition to the $6 billion ransom payment that still awaits Iran in Qatar and the $30 billion in oil revenue Biden provides through nonenforcement of sanctions.
Biden refuses to add the Houthis back to the official US terror list — a status he revoked shortly after taking office.
And Khamenei keeps driving toward a weapon of mass destruction with the UN’s nuclear watchdog warning that Iran is increasing its production of high-enriched uranium while stonewalling inspectors.
The ayatollah sees Biden offering nothing but money and strategic benefits for Tehran while hesitating to use military power, and warning Jerusalem against targeting Iran’s terror infrastructure on Israel’s northern border.
Biden remains committed to a failed strategic posture that will end with more American and allied deaths and a nuclear-armed state sponsor of terrorism.
His strategy must change.
Refreezing all cash made available to Iran over the last few months and cracking down on Iranian oil shipments to China are the easy first steps.
Senators can force Biden’s hand on both counts by voting on two bills that passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support.
Next comes the reestablishment of US military deterrence.
America must defend itself and regional allies against any attempt by Iran to retaliate — a reassurance Riyadh and Abu Dhabi need, given the potential for Tehran to break its de-escalation pact with the Gulf Arab states.
By striking Iranian and Houthi targets, Biden would advance the cause of Middle East peace.
Whatever Biden does next, he must internalize one simple truth: Tehran will keep attacking Americans and US allies unless and until he flashes American steel.
Old Ozzzie:
It is a conundrum – but I’m heartened by some old blokes wise words…
“Kill them all. God and Satan will know their own.”
WANT HEALTHY KIDS? GO RIGHT
Reality is what you already know. Data is when someone puts numbers to reality. Like, for example, this Institute for Family Studies/Gallup survey, via Breitbart:
Children of conservative parents are more likely to have good mental health compared to children of liberal parents, according to a new Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and Gallup research brief published Thursday.
“As it happens, being raised by liberal parents is a much larger risk factor for mental health problems in adolescence than being raised in a low-income household with parents who did not attend college,” wrote the brief’s author, Jonathan Rothwell, the principal economist at Gallup and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
That is a rather stunning finding!
Sorry, New York Post. Nice try but nobody is falling for the neocon bundle.
Ukraine has already lost and should never have been double-dared into a proxy war by Washington in the first place.
That has nothing to do with Israel.
“Kill them all. Let their God sort them out.”
The T- shirt, bearing that logo, was banned in the unit I served with.
USA Gen Z, losing faith in everything.
That is such a novel attitude for human beings I’m struggling to believe it is true. Nietzsche would have been pleased.
Very few people of my generation think like that. I’m one of ’em. I’m not sure it is a good idea for a whole generation to stop group identification because it might place societal cohesion at risk.
This time around, Arab nations are allegedly pressuring Israel to destroy Hamas
By Andrea Widburg
One of the things I’ve been saying to anyone who will listen is that the most interesting thing about the current war between Israel and Hamas is that the surrounding Sunni Arab nations are staying out of it.
This observation may be meaningful, for Haaretz has reported that not only are the Sunni Arabs staying out of the war, but they are also encouraging Israel to finish what she started.
This is great news if only Biden doesn’t undermine this excellent situation.
Here in America, we know that Democrats are now the party of antisemitism, something that Democrat Jews are only slowly realizing.
It’s in Democrat enclaves—e.g., big cities, academia, the White House, the State Department, and the CIA—that rampant Israel hatred, a mere variant of antisemitism, is making itself known.
Biden is paying lip service to supporting Israel, but the ceasefire he bullied Israel into only benefitted Hamas because Israel lost momentum and Hamas was able to regroup.
Even worse, as Caroline Glick reports, Israel has no ability to push back against Biden’s pressure because Biden holds the keys to Israel’s armory.
Without America, Israel has no weapons.
All her systems integrated with American-supplied ammunition.
Even after the Obama administration made plain that Israel could not count on having a friend in the White House, Israel didn’t or couldn’t disengage from her dependence on America’s defense contractors.
For that reason, Biden is now effectively managing Israel’s war…and he is, as I said, no friend to Israel.
If you an average peon in communist china you will not have a X (Twitter) account, what you see on X is PRC propoganda
Wally Dalí
I think you mean gumboot, wally.
Farmer Gez:
Give us a link, sport. Some of us don’t have pornographic memories and can remember every frame of a movie.
Old news via Jo
WordPress? Pfft! More like WokePress, lol am i right.
dover hosts the Cat’ on WordPress, yes? Have to worry about how many of the Catallaxy’s nine lives remain with WokePress on the prowl.
Arky
Nah. It’s just a correction of the last months sell down. I’ll believe it’s breaking out if it hits A$3300/oz by Friday.
C.L. at12:53
Hard to see Albo making it to the next election without losing someone from the clown car that passes as Federal Cabinet. Can’t see this episode being the one though.
OldOzzie
Dec 4, 2023 2:54 PM
Good lord, this has to be the weakest President ever, lets everyone fire shots at our military and he sits back and does…nothing.
That’s what has surprised me. I would have thought that the earlier attacks back in October would have resulted in a stern warning. Consequently, Sunday’s attacks would have prompted a barrage response.
It’s not as if the US don’t have real-time satellite surveillance – those satellites would be operating with pin-sharp clarity. And the US probably has a few on-the-ground assets in Yemen feeding intelligence.
In any case, the Ayatollahs, and the Houthis are obviously not too concerned about an American response.
Opposite my local swimming pool .. just opened .. an NIDS provider office .. all decked out with neon signs & lighting .. this is in a residential housing area .. no other commercial business within 1km (shopping centre) .. a “for sale” house 3 months ago .. houses here go for between $750K & $1 000 000 .. not only has someone got money ya gotta wonder how they got Council permission to open a business in a fully residential street .. FFS!
Chinsty Blonde.
Those jaws could crack a coconut.
They’ll be watering down the Cab Sav at intermission next.
Without America, Israel has no weapons.
All her systems integrated with American-supplied ammunition.
I can’t quite believe that a country, as technically advanced, like Israel is wholly reliant on US patriachy .. Sure, they’ll have some weaponry that needs US ammo but I’d guess more for quantity than their ability to produce it themselves ..
those F35s are made in the US of A but the modifications the Israelis have made make them far superior to the standard F35 the US supplies to anyone (including USAAF) .. so why wouldn’t Israel be wholly dependent on the US weapon-wize..?
Dot
Dec 4, 2023 10:42 AM
Massive breakout in gold.
Pray for me and good drill results 0:) at Mallina.
Go AAR!
Bruce O’Nuke:
Something that all police departments all over the world need to remember – Vigilantism happens when police and the justice system refuses to do the job it gets paid to do.
Just sayin’.
Add the Rozelle Interchange to the question, “Why do people live in Sydney?”.
The Chairman Dan solution – just don’t build it is the answer. Got to get the price down from $1bn though.
Also disenfranchising thousands + of young men in their 20s and 30s never ends well. More so if you try to browbeat them and gaslight them into blaming them for their disenfranchisement.
Exhaustion, Politics & The War in Ukraine – Public Support, Allied Endurance & the War in 2024
Aussie analyst. Long, detailed. I’ve watched a few of his presentations. Impressive.
If I make it, I might move to Perth and reanimate the Worst of Perf blogue.
That is exactly what the Korean series, Vigilante, is about. It wasn’t the police that failed, it was the courts, a police cadet becomes the vigilante. We are close to the same problem emerging with youth violence of a certain demographic in some regional areas. Those people need to be named, need to be seen on screen, but instead are protected by laws created by people who have no appreciation of how shame can be a powerful motivator.
It lives!
The lefties of TSSH live on in all of their sartorial and architectural televisual information superhighway splendour!
https://theworstofperth.com/
Great background. If only they also went full Nuremberg on Tim Minchin and Jane Austen too.
HB Bear
Tell me about the Mobile Rap Mobile in Inglewood, Western Australia.
A lot of people don’t realise that Napoleon would have lost the battle of Austerlitz if it wasn’t for Ollanius Pius.
Inglewood is quite hip. I used to go to a great Italian place out that way. Now closed I think.
Those jaws could crack a coconut.
Calli,
Johannes Leak nailed it with the jaw in last Monday’s toon.
Mt Lawley GC is probably the best choice if you want to avoid the BS of Karrinyup and Cottesloe and don’t mind a bit of a commute.
GOLT MIT UNS!
How Toxic Masculinity begins. heh 😀
duncanm
Dec 4, 2023 1:16 PM
See how the Islamic victim game works? The problem is that it only works on the idiots with the attention span of a goldfish – the rest of us can see – and remember – exactly what they’re doing.
In fact calling the woke ‘goldfish’ is a damn good idea.
Pogs, her “glamour” shots are always front on, never profile. We know why. Pugnacious from birth. Plus competitive troughing.
Those hoop-la earrings are a visual diversion.
H B Bear
Dec 4, 2023 4:13 PM
Add the Rozelle Interchange to the question, “Why do people live in Sydney?”.
Because here on the Northern Beaches it is Beautiful & and we can raise the Drawbridge to keep the peasants out (Unfortunately Mosman Residents come to Clontarf, because they can park for free on the Southern Side of the Sewer Construct) – only 2 other ways into Northern Beaches – Roseville Bridge and Mona Vale Roads & we can blockade them
That’s Our Kate, calli.
Please don’t confuse your comments!
Pogria
Dec 4, 2023 4:46 PM
How Toxic Masculinity begins. heh
Pogria,
he thinks he is reaching for a pair of inflated balloons!
Well, we didn’t choose the most expensive coffin for Dad…not by a country mile. But today we chose the very best flowers…I hope they live up to the florist’s picture.
I’ve been going through music, poems, photos and other paraphernalia for the funeral. And delivered his beautiful FletcherJones coat and trousers, and polished (thanks Mum) shoes to the funeral director. Plus all the other items of clothing. My brother lovingly selected them and had them ready for me to put in the garment bag.
It’s almost as busy as a wedding. Seeing the minister tomorrow. The preparations seem to be endless.
I’ve been reflecting on what my Jewish s-i-l said to me the other day. “We do it all on the same day. That gives us leisure to argue afterwards!”.
Smart people.
Chuckle
I watched The impossible with wife last week. Based on a true story. I was impressed with Toxic Masculinity of the older boy.
Funerals are bloody hard work. People plan weddings now like the invasion of long desired rebel province. Usually a year in advance!
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Fight is on to save Broome’s soul from long lasting damage
Yuen Wing General Store employee Abby Chan told The West that pepper spray was kept behind the counter in case of a physical attack on staff, while a group of young boys had recently sprayed a “chemical” at her colleagues.
Young boys, eh. Lot to unpack there.
I’m not a misogynist.
I would never call Kate Upton, “fat”.
Like the ALPBC, the real news is what you aren’t told.
Not yet proud men.
Old Ozzie,
those wines are an absolute bargain! They really are worth drinking?
The Republic of Ireland, in the midst of its worst ever housing crisis with accompanying social unrest, has just pledged AUS$500m annuallyto help poor countries adapt to climate change.
OldOzzie
Dec 4, 2023 5:05 PM
As I have enjoyed this White as quaffing wine – have just ordered another dozen
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The Hidden Gem Cabernet Merlot is a nice drop as well IMHO.
H B Bear
Dec 4, 2023 5:10 PM
Young boys, eh. Lot to unpack there.
Like the ALPBC, the real news is what you aren’t told.
Stabbed 56 times: Knife crime infecting Victorian youths
When a 16-year-old boy was chased down by eight teenagers and was stabbed 56 times, it wasn’t just a horrific single act of violence.
It was, as we now know, part of a wider trend that has seen young kids arm themselves with knives at alarming rates.
Victoria has an increasingly concerning rate of youth knife crime and it isn’t disappearing anytime soon. To make matters more difficult, there are many conflicting opinions on what to do about it.
Knife crime is riddled throughout Melbourne’s suburbs. Most knife crimes recorded are the result of gang on gang violence.
Victorian Police say they “ … know that gang members are more commonly carrying and are prepared to use knives …” and they’re “ … determined to intervene before this type of behaviour becomes endemic to their lives”.
However, many communities are still questioning when change is going to occur.
Associate professor in Criminology from the University of Sydney, Garner Clancey, insisted that there is a challenge with “ … balancing what the community expects and what justice allows”.
Prof Clancey says the carrying of knives could be the result of numerous factors, but commonly violence is the result of simple rebellion.
“As the younger generation begin to develop independence, they’re more likely to take risks … it can be to feel a sort of exhilaration,” he told news.com.au.
However Victorian Police believe that the behaviour associated with gang-related offending stems from unhealthy environments prevalent in Victorian homes.
Police believe crime and gang affiliation can often be socially appealing or act as a way of escapism.
Often those involved in affiliated crimes look for ‘a sense of purpose’ unable to be achieved in other aspects of their life.
According to the Victorian police youth gang strategy (2023-2026), low socio-economic areas and fractured family structures are a likely contributor to youth crime.
From 2021 to 2022, around 57 per cent of 10-to-13 year-old offenders had either previously fallen victim to violent crimes or family violence.
Prof Clancey doesn’t necessarily believe low socio-economic areas are the root cause of youth knife crime.
He says that while “violence is more likely to be because of what they’re seeing”, it does not necessarily mean violence is only limited to ‘poorer’ areas.
Prof Clancey also mentioned that there are many reasons as to why the younger generation have started carrying weapons. Key reasons he believes are self defence or even credibility to their peers.
“Because maybe carrying a knife makes them look tough,” he said.
From January 2022 there has been an alarming number of reports of stabbing incidents.
In March of 2022, 16-year-old Declan Cutler was chased down and was stabbed 56 times after leaving a house party in Reservoir. This attack stemmed from an ongoing gang rivalry.
Three months later an 11-year-old-girl was beaten and stabbed repeatedly by three children, near the Frankston shopping centre. She was captured on camera cowering in a corner prior to her being stabbed.
On the 4th of December a stabbing in St Kilda left an 18 year-old boy succumbing to his injuries at St Kilda beach.
In May this year, Pasawm Lyhym, 16, was stabbed to death at a train station in Sunshine.
One month later, 14-year-old Ethan Hoac was mowed down and repeatedly stabbed while he was walking from St Albans train station.
In the following months, 16-year-old Rhyan Singh was stabbed by a 20-year-old man after being robbed of his phone and new Air Jordans.
In September a 17-year-old boy was left fighting for life after a gang attack near Wangaratta.
Shortly after, a 17-year-old girl was charged with murder after stabbing an 18-year-old man in Mildura and a 12-year-old girl in Footscray was charged with murder after stabbing a 37-year-old woman.
It doesn’t stop there. Knife crimes and gang violence are not only impacting individuals directly involved, but their surrounding community.
Victorian communities are becoming increasingly fearful and are taking to social media to express their concerns.
Pogria
Dec 4, 2023 5:13 PM
Old Ozzie,
those wines are an absolute bargain! They really are worth drinking?
Pogria,
Definitley worth drinking – as good as any of other white wines I have been drinking lately, and Johnny Rotten I will try the The Hidden Gem Cabernet Merlot is a nice drop as well IMHO.
are close to the same problem emerging with youth violence of a certain demographic in some regional areas.
Vigilante got more jail time than the reoffending turd in the stolen car he rammed recently that killed an innocent motorcycle rider in NQ. His sob story/siht upbringing surprise surprise got zero consideration by the magistrate.
Unlike the yoofs who have now moved on to knives, home invasion 2 weeks ago where a mother of a bub confronted 2 turd on a Sunday morning at 10am in her house got slashed for her troubles. I know of the family and heard the real story not the media arse covering.
Already happening and escalating….
Johnny Rotten I will try the The Hidden Gem Cabernet Merlot is a nice drop as well IMHO.
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I wonder who these Stabbie McStabfaces could be? Do we have a resurgence of the old razor gangs? Is it organised crime?
Why no! No it doesn’t appear to be. It’s just children and youth with an insatiable urge to stab random people or people they don’t like. How can this be? Have they learned it from television, from books, from music? Have they learned it from…home?
What are those homes like? Who lives in them? Might they be people who bear grudges against society? How can that be? They are Australians…aren’t they? And if they aren’t, who the hell are they and why are they still here?
So many questions.
As Humphrey says, the ragtag Elbow fringe activist regime, which supports Hamas’s murderous terrorism against Jews but represents only 8% of Australian workers in the real economy, is entering the Christmas-New Year killing season.
On Sharri Markson’s show, the Paywallian’s Geoff Chambers is tipping a reshuffle as the stench of a one-term horror show descends on the Elbow regime.
In particular, Tony Burke’s hand-picked deputy chair of Creative Australia (the old Australia Council) Wesley Enoch is revealed as a lunatic anti-Semite who celebrated the October 7 terrorist attack on Jewish civilians.
Of course, Burke won’t be thrown out in any reshuffle. He has a Sydney electorate full of radical Arabs cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Jews on October 7.
The Elbow regime is full of anti-semitic racists who support Hamas.
Clearly, we need more criminologists.
H B Bear
Dec 4, 2023 5:10 PM
Young boys, eh. Lot to unpack there.
Like the ALPBC, the real news is what you aren’t told.
‘Ukraine of Australia’: NT business owner Darren Clarke claims government ‘dumped’ money then forgot about Alice Springs as fears grow of another crime wave
A business owner living in Alice Springs has spoken candidly about just how little has changed in the outback town since a raft of federal politicians visited earlier this year and announced a major funding injection.
Business owner Darren Clarke has declared the Albanese government “dumped” money in Alice Springs earlier this year and then forgot about its residents, labelling the town as the “Ukraine of Australia”.
Speaking exclusively to Sky News Australia on Monday, Mr Clarke appeared both frustrated and despondent about the state of the outback town.
He told host Laura Jayes crime is on the rise again despite the federal government’s commitment to invest $48.8 million over two years to tackle the issue.
“It’s got really bad up here,” he said.
“We’ve had one of the worst weekends that I’ve seen for a long, long time.
“Our police are under resourced, they are outnumbered and we need the AFP … or the Australian Defence Force up here ASAP.”
Mr Clarke referred to several incidents of dangerous driving which occurred in the town on the weekend.
A 12-year-old boy was arrested after he allegedly rammed a stolen Toyota Prado into security vehicle in the town centre at about 4am on Sunday morning.
The driver then crashed the Prado into a police vehicle.
Mr Clarke claimed Alice Springs was the “Ukraine of Australia,” claiming politicians had forgotten about the town.
“They’ve dumped money here and forgotten about us, they haven’t checked back in to see what is happening with the money,” he said.
He said that if the same type and volume of crimes were happening in the streets of Sydney or Melbourne, media outlets and politicians would react differently.
“But up here … no one gives a damn about us, they give us money, they don’t check back in,” he said.
“We had two million dollars given for domestic violence, domestic violence figures are through the roof.
“There was $5.6 million dollars Laura, for emergency accommodation for these youths, getting them off the streets, and get them in a safe spot. Great idea but it hasn’t happened.
“Poor old Albo, he has had the wool pulled over his eyes. Get up here buddy and have a look what’s going on.”
Mr Clarke spoke of the tough new alcohol rules which restrict the sale of booze during specific times on certain days, arguing the measures do not target the crux of the problem.
“They are not seeing why people are actually drinking and what the problems are,” he said.
“These kids are angry, that are on the streets, very angry. And if you see the houses that they live in, I saw some photos on Friday that brought tears to my eyes. It’s just appalling the state of the housing that these kids are subject to.
“No wonder they are on the streets.”
Mr Clarke appeared visibly saddened and disheartened as he was asked about the future of the township and its residents.
He added local politicians had been thin on the ground since the defeat of the Voice to Parliament in October.
“It’s just really sad to watch these kids playing out what they are playing out,” he said.
“The people here in Alice Springs are so frustrated and so scared.
“I don’t know what we are going to do.”
Andrew Bolt Video worth a Listen.
A reshuffle can’t fix what is a dud hand to begin with.
‘Serious injury or death’: More than 1,500 GWM Ora electric hatchbacks recalled over programming defect in charging cable
A batch of 1,659 electric vehicles are been pulled off the market after the manufacturer identified defects in the charging plug which can cause “serious injury or death” to both drivers and bystanders.
A massive batch of electric vehicles of more than 1,500 units has been recalled over a dangerous charging issue which can potentially be deadly to drivers.
The federal government’s DITRDCA department issued an alert on Monday for 1,659 variants of the Great Wall Motors (GWM) Ora model sold across Australia.
The recall notice identified a “programming issue” in the affected cars, said to be occurring when the operator removes the charging cable without cancelling the charge.
In this instance, an electrical arc is created between the charging plug and vehicle, which can then turn hazardous for anyone in close proximity to the car.
“If an electrical arc comes into contact with the operator or bystanders it will increase the risk of serious injury or death,” the notice reads.
The outlined defects were found in the 2023 range of the Chinese EV.
Affected car owners will receive written notification by GWM to make an appointment at their preferred GWM dealer, who will then update the vehicle software free of charge.
I doubt it.
Mother Lode
Dec 4, 2023 2:16 PM
Since Mother has set the precedent, for your mouth titillation,
I present.
This was the crowning glory of our Russian night menu last week. Amazing!
If only der Fuehrer knew.
Link doesn’t work, Delta
Old Ozzie:
The Uniparty currently in power won’t do anything to stop the Iranians getting the bomb. That is self evident from the decisions and money coming from Washington.
Why on earth would they do that, I hear you ask?
Because the Uniparty wants the Israelis to have an excuse to clear the Iranian regime from the board for them, and a nuclear strike on Tel Aviv will do the job nicely – after a half a million Jews are immolated.
Unfortunately, this strategy will only work if Iran doesn’t use its first bomb, and builds half a dozen.
How will Washington and the NATO partners respond to an Iranian threat to nuke not just Tel Aviv, but New York, Washington, Berlin, London and Paris if it isn’t allowed to eliminate Israel in a Holocaust 2.1?
Crazy scenario?
But we are in the equivalent of a bomb shelter with no lights and we have a suicide bomber in with us.
Obama would love it. The Bigger Satan having to accede to Islams threats to slaughter the Little Satan.
I suspect some doodles of Cap’n Luigi (or maybe wine steward Luigi) and some shuffling deckchairs on a listing deck are rolling off the nib of young Master Leak’s pen as we speak.
Knives are a pure lottery. One day stab 50 times and live. The next one stab and you’re on a murder charge. A worrying escalation.
OMG, calli, you are not burying an FJ’s jacket are you?
Collectors item from the era before “we make nafink”.
Calli
Chinsty Blonde.
Looks like the blade on a D9.
Even Albo can’t back ‘em at the moment.
Guess who wrote……
“When a Catholic school – yes, a Catholic school – wants to teach the Catholic teachings and act in a Catholic manner towards situations, this seems to be a big issue for the minority of people to understand,” he said on 2GB Radio.
“What’s happened to morals, what’s happened to values, what’s happened to respecting people’s religions and what they stand for?
“We as Christians don’t have anything against different types of people. All we say is keep us out of it. Stop trying to brainwash our children and cause confusion for the next generation of Catholics.
“… We don’t care if you want to go and be whatever you want to be, but don’t try and force it upon us and drag us along with you. If you’re not into all the Catholic teachings, then don’t go to a Catholic school. No one is forcing parents to stand there and send their children to certain schools.”?
No, not a politician with values and job security.
Just an ordinary man, Rugby League player Adam Doueihi with a lot to lose – his career.
He was speaking out on same-sex matters after a Sydney girls school banned students bringing a same-sex partner as a date to their Year 12 formal. The issue has re-surfaced because in staying true to his morals, he recently questioned the English Premier League’s promotion of their Rainbow Laces campaign, which includes steps on what to say and what not to say to the LBGTetcetc mob.
Good on you Mr Doueihi.
A good government that has lost its way.
If the Ballarat Chapter of Grampians Nazis really, really wanted to take the piss, they would have marched with machetes.
“Too difficult to make them illegal” says Dan and his heirs and successors.
Watch them backflip on that one if the Grudge Nazis start collecting them.
Tough drafting gig to weave in the cultural exemptions into the Act without specifically saying “Sudanese”, though.
Victoria. ABC Regional Radio PM. Ooooooh – my God. Masked Nazis in Ballarat. How disgusting. How appalling. How racist. Not one mention of the Palestinian supporter whack jobs/useful idiots protesting every week in Melbourne. Why must we keep paying for this utterly biased crap from the ABC? Not just Victorian regional radio but everywhere. Bloody hell. What’s the point in calling in to the station?
Yes. And the next moment, it’s all finished. Gone.
Relish your dear Dad’s funeral, calli. Bask in the praise of his eulogies and record in memory those snippets about him that you didn’t know.
Don’t hold back.
‘Elites want to break the sovereignty of nations’ | Steve Bannon talks Trump, Farage, & Dublin Riots
Humphrey, you should be writing talking points for Ruperdink Mudrock’s designated useful idiot for the ALP regime, Joe Hildebrand, who has been tasked with the media polishing of the Elbow turd.
Apparently, the beeb’s new Doctor Who has made the Doctor (as played by David Tennant) gay, and Sir Isaac Newton is now a ‘tinted gentleman’ – Indian.
The jacket is beautiful, Sancho. Dad was a carpenter, but he always took trouble to look good for “occasions”. Did I mention the shoes are Florsheim? 🙂
He was a good, kindly old stick, and I was never ashamed of him. When some of my Lower North Shore poshy friends would mock me for having a tradie Dad, I would fling back – Jesus was a carpenter! That shut them up.
US Joins New Climate Pact to Shut Down All Coal Plants
Please Tom, I have to be able to live with myself.
Speaking of noice woines.
We just popped over the line to the Coonawarra for a few days.
Had dinner at a swisho restaurant on Saturday and lunch yesterday on the deck of a winery over-looking the vineyards.
Could of been in France.
Apart from the Stobie poles.
And the red gums.
And the B-triple timber trucks.
But some epic red wines.
Took a drive down Clay Wells Rd to Robe today to snag a fresh crayfish for dinner.
Beautiful spot beside that clear blue bay.
Don’t know why we don’t do it more often … less than an hour to the Coonawarra and about two to Robe.
I guess the last couple of times we did it were sneaky rat-runs through the pine plantation access tracks at night during The Great Lockdowns and it took a fair bit longer.
It never had a way. Australian governments have become so reactive that it is impossible for them to have a way. There will soon be an entire generation that has no experience of governance working for a better future rather than the next election. I thought we hit the bottom with Morrison’s last term but this government has plumbed new depths of ineptitude and narcissism.
Will Nigel Farage make a frontline political comeback after I’m A Celebrity?
EPA: Few Stations Show Increase in Hot Days
Sadly Sir FJ and his factory have also gone to God.
His biggest problem was that his stuff never wore out, particularly if you only kept it “for good”.
The other problem is, you would need to give it to a Thrift Shop far, far away.
You don’t want to come across some junkie (or worse, an ironic hipster) wearing Dad’s FJ jacket and Florsheims down the main street.
Xi smiles.
Sorry bespoke and others. Please just google, “Sharlotka Apple Cake.”
IMO, ‘Natasha’s Kitchen’ does the best version. Very easy (and enjoyable) to make. Light as a feather and very yummy.
This has been in the offing for some time and, I believe, is the chief explanation for Morrison’s conversion to net zero at Glasgow.
Easy Apple Cake – Sharlotka (VIDEO)
“Disastrous” Sadiq Khan Stokes Division and Alienates True Londoners
The Tories are certainly afraid of the prospect.
Rishi suggested over the weekend that “There’s room for Nigel in a broad church Conservative Party.”
It seems like all market theory doesn’t apply anymore where companies like MacMillan and Disney prefer to insult their customers. I don’t get it even though we are witnessing an attempted coup by the global left.
Mark Levin: Democrat Party and media in this country are ‘CORRUPT AS HELL’
There are some suggesting Newton was gay. Impossible to resolve now but his romantic letters to a mathematician, and his deathbed confession that he had never “known” a woman, are interesting. He may have been asexual but that is much less common than homosexuality but in his day a much safer option than being openly homosexual. The general view is that he died a virgin.
Broad churches should be burnt to the ground.
calli
Dec 4, 2023 6:02 PM
The jacket is beautiful, Sancho. Dad was a carpenter, but he always took trouble to look good for “occasions”. Did I mention the shoes are Florsheim? ?
He was a good, kindly old stick, and I was never ashamed of him. When some of my Lower North Shore poshy friends would mock me for having a tradie Dad, I would fling back – Jesus was a carpenter! That shut them up.
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You f/king degenerate cretin. Downticking this post? I hope you have enough tissues to mop up your wank dribbles, you filthy, putrid thing.
Smarty pants. Now shut up an go cooka cake.
Some jolly good ideas from Lord Monkton there? Fond as I am of having a British Royal Family I can see the appeal of at least scaring them witless that this is coming.
Queen Elizabeth the Great (RIP) did advise Charles strongly NOT to continue with his politicking on matters climatic but to constrain his interests to his own farming and productive activities where no-one would care. How stupid he and now William are to have not taken this advice to heart.
News Corpse is reporting one of the indefinite detention released angels has already been charged with assaulting a woman. Well done to all involved.
While China gets a free pass to build and run hundreds of them. Russia too.
The West is asleep at the wheel.
I wonder how Justice Gaggle feels.
Murray Twot reminds me of Andrew Wilkie. Similar caliber.
More EV problems…
All 1659 Chinese made GWM Ora vehicles in Australia have been recalled due to a “software problem”.
The vehicle is one of the cheapest electric cars on the market in Australia and the recall comes just seven months after it arrived.
Michael Smith has an excellent clip of Peter Dutton giving a speech of solidarity to a group of Rabbi’s.
Liar Ministers of Agriculture are rarely drawn from the first XI.
Hands off our hams! ?
I’m calling on the big supermarket chains to put a price freeze on Christmas hams so families can budget this Christmas.-fmd
Calli,
my mother was dressed in her favourite dress, shoes and Rosary entwined in her hands.
She looked beautiful and peaceful.
I hope you have a joyful wake.
The houses are like that because of the adults who live there.
Any child under 16 found on the streets after 10pm (that’s being generous) should be immediately transferred to a well-supervised hostel to live there for six months and attend school regularly too while his (or her) home accommodation is substantially improved. No ifs and buts. Put some legislative teeth into it.
What’s happened to money allocated to build such a hostel in Alice Springs? Do it. Get the army in to do it, don’t wait for the ‘elders’ to stop drinking and arguing about it. Australia has voted 60% in favour of real action and bugger the outcry about implementing it.
I honestly don’t care if they choose to portray Doctor Who as a one-legged gay Eskimo dwarf with Tourettes.
He is a fictional character.
Isaac Newton, on the other hand, never drove an Uber or worked in a 7-Eleven.
Wonder who is in Cairns federally atm, Dassault Falcon 7x flew over recently landing at Cairns Airport. Origin was Mackay.
Operators happen include one RAAF VIP fleet. Richard need his golf clubs again…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Mary kostakidis exposed because yes living in Gaza is exactly the same as being gassed in Auschwitz.
This is going to resonate with many Cats, calli. Me included.
Father wore one of the many beautiful pullovers that Mother knitted for him. The jacket was for my darling 21 YO RMIT student nephew who, having been offered a job investigating photo voltaic somethings, was tragically killed on a work experience placement several years ago.
My brother, his Dad, being too distraught to do much more than process minute by minute, asked me to drop of Son’s favourite leather jacket at the funeral parlour. I did, but when the kind gentleman held out his arms to take it, suddenly, I was crying helplessly, unable to let go of this last earthly connection with my dear boy.
Sorry, calli. This is not about me, but as I indicated above, your sadness touches us all.
Have to buy some Dr Pepper next time I shop. Nice to see a big company commit a Class Act.
Exhibit A – the Liars Idiot Son who, with Gillard and Four Corners, cost the nation between $500m and $800m. Without iron ore and coal this place would be Argentina.
As against “outside the tent pissing in”?
Yep.
Amazing (apparently) how many stab wounds you can take that miss vital areas, and that allow you to keep going. Conversely (and equally apparently), it is amazing how just one seemingly pissweak cut can end you.
I have heard stories of murder beefs being pleaded down to manslaughter because the crook – who in all likelihood was a confused as anyone when his victim croaked – said to the jacks ‘well I stabbed a dozen other blokes over 15 years and none of them died, so I didn’t think this one would’.
Who poses the most danger to Australian Jews…
1. The 20 or so Grampian dress up Nazis marching through the streets of Ballarat yesterday?
or
2. The weekly Jew hating festivals in our capital cities for seven weeks now, that are attracting thousands of REAL NAZIS who are screaming, screeching and shouting genocide against Jews?
One guess, the answer isn’t hard.
Sancho Panzer
Dec 4, 2023 6:44 PM
How about a one legged Tarzan then? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnkY1tBvMU
Or, a black one legged gay James Bond? There, that should improve the ratings.
Magnum Force.
Delta,
big and much hugs.
Bit sticky for golf in Cairns this time of year no? Time to be heading down the Peninsula.
The STC management has cancelled a planned post-performance “Q&A” session between protesting cast members of The Seagull and the audience tonight after heckling during the curtain call on Saturday, reportedly fearing for the well-being of the actors.”
I might book a ticket and take some eggs.
What happens when you liberate the newsreader from the teleprompter.
Without America, Israel has no weapons.
All her systems integrated with American-supplied ammunition.
I think Israel has a slightly lower reliance on the US for military support than Australia. Hard to identify a major weapons system that doesn’t have US input in Australia.
Real carpenters earn more than lawyers on average and more useful.
Well, it had to happen.
In the car*, heading home from smallgoodsery when George Michael’s ‘Last Christmas’ started pumping on the radio.
I let it run, primarily because it wasn’t Mariah Carey.
*Conveyance, if you are so inclined.
Best if no-one booked tickets.
As against setting fire to the tent, as Bear suggested.
(Politically speaking, of course.)
I’ll tell wife you said that, Delta.
Leave them on the window sill for a couple of weeks.
If challenged, repeat the dismissals trotted out by the Left when Fraser Anning copped it.
“Come on! It’s just an egg”.
Oh, and aim at the vegans.
The 20 or so Grampian dress up Nazis marching through the streets of Ballarat yesterday?
I maybe wrong but I reckon this was a put-up job. Similar shite has happened in the US (Wisconsin?). I think the local marxist agitators got an email from the US.
Delta, it isn’t really about me either. It’s a fact of life, the last rite of passage.
We do what we can to make that dignified, and for believers, a holy thing. Even as I watched my father take his last breath and stroked his hair, in the back of my mind was a thought – this is a great mystery. Even said it out loud to the surrounding family.
Pretty much all of you have been where I am now. It’s a well-trodden path. When Lizzie’s aunt in the US died, I linked to the choir of St Paul’s London and “Crossing the Bar”. So…it’s going onto the little leaflet we hand out at next week. He loved sailing and ships and the sea. It seems fitting.
Sal @ 1:28pm
It is supposed to be the actors ramming their woke lunacy down the neck of the audience, who have to pay their money, siddown, shuddup, & be told they’re racist occupiers.
FIFY
I hope she says, “Go cook it yourself, Sonny!”
Our age’s obsession with sex makes his priapic proclivities central to his historical significance. I also remember reading that he was an intently studied Christian – certainly beyond the social niceties of the age, which would make fudge-packing less than consistent. But who knows for certain?
The point I made was about making Newton Indian, and about Dr Who who, over decades of speculation as to his relationships with his female companions, gay. There is a certain ‘accent’ that a straight guy has in his dealings with women which the Doctor had. Until, suddenly, now.
Also a couple of episodes after the Doctor had explained to him, by a bisexual or tranny or something, that there were things he could not understand because he was a ‘male presenting person’.
And a season after the canonical first Doctor (as per William Hartnell who was the first of the specifically numbered Doctor incarnations), was retconned to make the first Doctor a girl of ‘diverse’ ethnicity.