It is obvious who you want band, Salv.

Really? Sounds like projection again.

Don’t be dishonest and shiftless for a change.

In the unlikely & unprecedented event I’m ever dishonest or shiftless, you’ll be the first to know.

Britt latest:

– was zonked on valium when her wife, David, sent a text to “half the press gallery” naming Lehrmann as the perpetrator of a rape.

Brittany (and Bruce) like to party. I guess the mental illness thing comes and goes.

Channel 10’s lawyers must be thinking ‘Oh, crap’

I’m more of the school that believes Ch10’s lawyers have always been thinking ‘Eureka! A client with millions in kitty, litigating for the sake of litigating”

Re Christmas Beetles. There are plenty of those brown Beetles, but Christmas Beetles are different. A bit larger with more iridescent green on them. Not certain on that. Perhaps one of our wildlife experts could enlighten us.

unprecedented event I’m ever dishonest

Driller dishonest, embittered? LOL.

The dumb prick can’t keep his story straight from one comment to the next.

Higgins ‘left date to sit with Lehrmann’
Ellie Dudley
Ellie Dudley

Brittany Higgins has denied lying to police about the true reason her Bumble date left The Dock Hotel on the night of the alleged rape.

Ms Higgins has maintained he exited the pub after being teased by other Liberal staffers at the event for wearing a suit and overselling his rank in the public service.

However, Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister Steve Whybrow SC suggested he actually left because she was not paying him attention and was more interested in spending time with Mr Lehrmann and Liberal staffer Austin Wenke.

Mr Whybrow suggested Ms Higgins lied to police in telling them her date left The Dock hotel because he was being “mercilessly bullied” by her colleagues.

Ms Higgins responded: “Not true.”

The court was then played CCTV footage from The Dock hotel that showed Ms Higgins ignore her date for an extended period of time, and instead move to sit with Mr Lehrmann and Mr Wenke at a side table.

While she was absent from the main table, Ms Higgins’ date appeared to socialise with the other staffers present with whom he exchanged business cards at the end of the night.

He left the pub without saying goodbye to Ms Higgins.

Ms Higgins conceded she was “very rude” to her date.

“In hindsight, I was very rude to my date and he left because I was rude to my date,” she said.

Mr Whybrow: “You ignored him for the preference of sitting with … Mr Lehrman and Mr Wenke.”

Ms Higgins: “Honestly, I was so drunk at that point, but I did ignore my date and I was really rude.”

Warning you that “your ego and mouth would get you into trouble” isn’t a legal threat, maaate.

Oh, what trouble would that be then Turtlehead? Surely you’re not pretending you’re concerned about my welfare in some ambiguous way?

There are many kinds of trouble, and the Law defines them – not you.

If you’re going to make an underhanded threat then make sure you can explain yourself, you worthless pos.

Vindictive little prick aren’t you?

Yet, if you hadn’t insinuated yourself in the stoush that Juan Peron started, none of this would’ve happened, but I’m the vindictive prick? Go drink some iodine, dickhead.

Bespoke
Dec 5, 2023 12:11 PM
Climate summit leader defends controversial comments that alarmed scientists and sent shockwaves through meeting

HT/ instapundit.

I really don’t know what is going to brake the back of the global boiling bullshit; not even when guys like the sheik call it out have an effect. I don’t think it will be a straw braking the back situation; I think it will have to come simultaneously from a number of sources: msm, prominent scientists, businessmen, and the sheeple crawling around in the dark before this ends.

Yes, either killed, wounded or exiled. Note, I said the adult male pop.

The Arab historian cited above estimates 5000 killed & 15 000 wounded.

5 ring-leaders were officially exiled.

Out of a male population of c. 500 000

Not decimation, by any stretch.

GreyRanga
Dec 5, 2023 9:42 AM
Crossie the likes of Amanda Stoker with their delicate sensibilities look the other way lest they be upset. They have no principles or those they have are variable according to who is doing what. It’s called hypocrisy. Her and the likes have no knowledge of what it means.

I would have thought Stoker would want to differentiate herself from the mean girls and get ahead of them by putting out a strong statement against the rapes by maybe relating them to hers and the Lidia Thorpe’s supposed experiences.

She is running for a state seat in the coming Queensland election and this could have got her some publicity. Could her silence be because she thinks her voters would be Hamas devotees? If so then she knows nothing about her voters.

Sancho Panzer
Dec 5, 2023 1:02 PM
Winston Smith

Dec 5, 2023 10:06 AM

Sancho:
Be careful

Or what, exact, Nurse Betty?

Go ahead gerbil brain, explain yourself. Or what?

As such figures often are in that part of the world.

I saw an interview on Sky with Laura Jayes speaking to some Pali offal (hmmm…auto-correct did not think that an error), probably PA Minister of The Zionists Are Killing The Children.

He was flat out blaming Israel for everything much as you would expect, but what was interesting was he singled out Israel’s original estimate of 1,400 killed and kidnapped being later revised down to 1,200 as proof they were lying about the number. How could it go down?

When he put forth the idea that the attack on the concert was carried out by the Israeli Air Force (with special rapey bullets I suppose) I think Laura realised there was no point letting it go on.

It must really chagrin those putrid, ill-shaven, Hamas dickheads that a woman feels entitled to be so forthright rather than submissive.

Thanks so much for the clarification, Calli. Lots of brown Beetles in our local pool yesterday. I tried to rescue a few but they had all expired. As a kid when our local river flooded I remember rescuing a stack of black beetles with an esky lid. If I were a Buddhist I would gain lots of Karma, nonetheless they were part of God’s wonderful creation.

As I write that, I remember rescuing a large insect that was like a flying praying mantis. My wife was about to back the car over it. I picked it up flung him into the air and gave him a blessing “have your freedom, little fella!”. No sooner that he flew off, a butcher bird swooped down and snaffled a very large flying meal. I was a little crestfallen.

and likely exaggerated for effect.

Quite so.

As I write that, I remember rescuing a large insect that was like a flying praying mantis. My wife was about to back the car over it. I picked it up flung him into the air and gave him a blessing “have your freedom, little fella!”. No sooner that he flew off, a butcher bird swooped down and snaffled a very large flying meal.

“It was written.”

IDF must read the Cat (just kidding)

Surely the Judge in the Britanny case would also have to take political realities into account. Because if, even on the balance of probabilities there was no rape, in the light of the $3 million payout, this would represent a fraudulent payment of taxpayers’ money. And the Labor government would be an accessory to such embezzlement. As they are fond of reminding us, the cover up is worse than the crime. This should be a double dissolution matter for the Govenor General.

In Luigi’s imminent reshuffle, is he brave enough to leave BlackoutBowen where he is?

Who else is stupid enough to take it on?

that didn’t last long

With good questioning technique, the knockout punches should be about this time, in the last session of interrogation. But Britanny looks to be answering Whybrow’s fumbling questions very confidently.

OMG, just watched the Louise Adler interview on the 7.30 report.
That woman is seriously warped. She should be on a watchlist.

THE sheer audacity of the lady dazzles. Those books! I mean the Roman novels, seven volumes, most over 800 pages, devoted to the successive crises of the Roman Republic, the best contemporary writing

McCullough engaged well known academics in the field to do the necessary research. Many stories there.

Just wow!

December 3, 2023

Dear President Gay,
Since my letter to you of November 4th to which you did not reply or even acknowledge, I have received substantial feedback and input from senior members of the Harvard faculty about a number of the issues I raised in my letter concerning free speech, antisemitism, and the impact of the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (OEDIB) at Harvard. I thought to share this feedback with you now as it may inform your testimony and potential questions you may receive from the Congress on Tuesday.

Free Speech at Harvard

In several of your communications since October 7th, you have emphasized Harvard’s commitment to free speech as the reason why the university has continued to permit eliminationist and threatening language on campus – i.e., calls for Intifada (suicide bombings, knifings, etc. of Israeli civilians) and the elimination of the state of Israel “From the River to the Sea.” You explained your tolerance for these protests on October 13th: “[O]ur university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous.”

In my letter to you, however, I noted that In The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Free Speech Rankings, Harvard has consistently finished in the bottom quartile in each of the past four years. I note that Harvard’s ranking has deteriorated each year, receiving its lowest free speech ranking ever for the 2023 academic year, last out of 254 universities with a rating of 0.00, the only university with an “abysmal” speech climate.

After sending my letter, I reached out to the faculty to reconcile your free speech absolutist commitment with Harvard having the lowest free speech ranking of any university. The faculty had a lot to say on this issue, as well as on antisemitism and the OEDIB. Notably, they were willing to share their views so long as I committed to keep their identities confidential. I have quoted their remarks below:

On Free Speech

“Years ago, Harvard stopped being a place where all perspectives were welcome.”

“Harvard is a place where loud, hate-filled protests appear to be encouraged, but where faculty and students can’t share points of view that are inconsistent with the accepted narrative on campus.”

“Harvard became a place where if you toed the party line, there was applause. If you disagree, you are drowned out. The gatekeepers of speech continue to further narrow what they deem acceptable speech.”

“The primary problem with speech at Harvard is that if you say the wrong thing, you will be cancelled, which leads to self-censorship. The result is what you actually think is not what you say.”

“Saying anything that doesn’t highlight the importance of slavery and colonialism as animating forces of history is not acceptable speech. Lived experience and ideology become the dominant forces of conversation. All of the courses follow the same playbook ideology. Ideology poses as coursework.”

On Antisemitism, Support for Hamas, and the Protests Against Israel

When I asked members of the faculty about the causes behind the Israeli/Gaza protests and the tolerance for antisemitism on campus, they explained:

“Whiteness at Harvard is deemed fundamentally oppressive. Indigenous peoples are presented as in need of justice and reparations. Jews are presented as white people. It is therefore ok to hate Israel and Jews as they are deemed to be oppressors.”

I asked: “Why are the protests only about Israel versus other conflicts in the Middle East and around the globe where Palestinians and other civilians were killed?”

“Israel is the rare case where we have a hot conflict between people that are deemed ‘white’ versus people of color.”

The Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (ODEIB)

“The primary animating force of the ODEIB is racism-colonialism and the denial of indigenous rights. The ODEIB is a home for people who are perceived to have been victimized.”

“The ODEIB was meant to include Asians, but it does not. It is focused on communities that experienced colonialism.”

“Recency matters. India is not included because they got autonomy 70 years ago.”

“The ODEIB is at the service of black students, to a lesser extent brown students, and to a lesser extent LGBTQ students.”

“It’s about whiteness versus people of color.”

“The DEI framework prioritizes people on the oppressed side of the narrative.”

Hiring Practices at Harvard

One topic which emerged when I spoke to the faculty was the issue of hiring at Harvard, an issue about which the faculty clearly has a lot of consternation.

When I asked why Harvard’s faculty has shifted sharply leftward in recent years, they explained:

“Each department decides whom they want, and the university can accept or reject the candidate. Left-leaning faculty appoint other left-wing faculty because they get to decide whom to hire and promote. It’s a bit like the Twitter algorithm which continues to feed you the points of view you want to hear. Eventually, each department reaches the tipping point.”

One senior member of the faculty shared that it is made abundantly clear that they cannot hire new faculty members unless they meet ODEIB requirements. That is, the candidate has to be a woman, person of color, or have LGBTQ+ status. Straight white males are “off the table.” Asians and those of South Asian (i.e., India) heritage are similarly disadvantaged in the process as they are deemed successful, overachieving minorities.

A number of the faculty bemoaned that in many cases they cannot hire the substantially more qualified person if he is a white or Asian straight male as the proposed candidate “has to be a woman or BIPOC person.” I was told that behind closed doors, it is common to hear: “I clearly don’t think this is the strongest candidate, but we can see where the train is headed. I therefore have no choice but to vote for the [lesser-qualified candidate.]”

It is made clear to the faculty that Harvard’s discriminatory approach to hiring should never be acknowledged or written about in an email. One professor said that he has been continually amazed that no one has brought a lawsuit as these practices are clearly illegal.

One faculty member explained that it is not just the administration that has been putting forth these requirements, but that external organizations like The Chronicle of Higher Education (TCHE) do “investigative reporting” where they do racial and gender audits of university departments. TCHE publicly scolds university departments that don’t meet their diversity requirements further reinforcing Harvard’s requirement for ODEIB-preferred candidates.

On all of the above issues, I know you will not rely on my survey of the faculty. I therefore encourage you to commission a highly credible, third-party firm to do an anonymous survey of the Harvard faculty. I am confident it will confirm and reinforce all that I have outlined above.

Discrimination at Harvard Is Not Limited to Antisemitism

The problems at Harvard are clearly not just about Jews and Israel. It is abundantly clear that straight white males are discriminated against in recruitment and advancement at Harvard. That is also apparently true to a somewhat lesser extent for men who are Asians or of Indian origin. The ODEIB is an important culprit in this discrimination on campus as it sees the world in a framework of oppressors and the oppressed, where the oppressor class includes white males, Asians, Jews and other people perceived to be successful and powerful.

While Harvard claims that it is committed to free expression, in practice free expression appears to only happen “behind closed doors” or among faculty and students speaking anonymously.

Conservative voices are squelched and often outright cancelled on campus. Tyler J. VanderWeele and Carole K. Hooven are two recent examples.

In March of this year, Mr. VanderWeele, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, a practicing Catholic, was effectively excommunicated from Harvard (saved only by his tenure) when it was discovered he had signed an amicus brief in 2015 which affirmed his view that the definition of marriage was between a man and a woman, and when he surfaced his pro-life views. See: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113323000226

Earlier this year, Ms. Hooven, an evolutionary biologist was cancelled and eventually forced to resign because she stated that one’s sex was biological and binary on Fox and Friends. See: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02467-5

I am saddened that the Harvard I love has lost its way. I am embarrassed for not having been aware and previously taken the time to investigate these issues until antisemitism exploded on campus. I should have paid more attention as it did not take a forensic analysis to surface and better understand these issues.

Discrimination at Harvard is not just illegal, but it is extremely damaging to our nation’s competitiveness, which is critically important in a world with growing geopolitical conflict and turmoil. Harvard should be an institution for our best and brightest, taught by our best and brightest who are in search of Veritas and excellence. Russia, China, and our other competitor nations are not selecting their scientific and educational leaders using Harvard’s diversity, equity and inclusion metrics.

President Gay, beginning with your testimony to Congress on Tuesday, you can begin to address the antisemitism that has exploded on campus during your presidency, the seeds for which began years before you became President. But as I hope you recognize, the issues at Harvard are much more expansive than antisemitism. Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine for other discriminatory practices at Harvard.

As President you have both the opportunity and the responsibility for addressing these critically important issues. It won’t be easy for you as I have been told that your recent “pivot on antisemitism” is already making the radical left wing of the faculty highly skeptical of you.

When 34 Harvard student organizations came out in support of Hamas’ barbaric terrorism, it was a wake up call for me. I hope that having to face the Congress on Tuesday will be a wake-up call for you.

Sincerely,

William A. Ackman, A.B. 1988, MBA 1992

Military briefing: How Israel is attacking Hamas’s vast tunnel network

May I suggest flooding them for a good 3 months. See where the water is being pumped out again for target generation. Sandstone (or parts thereof) may collapse by hydraulic force.

Emran Dad is the ringleader of child exploitation gang

Who’s your Daddy (too early?)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12825801/Brittany-Higgins-David-Sharaz.html

Yikes! Sending out the name of the accused to all these journos is not a great look at all.

I’m not judge but one finding I’d be coming to is that Brittnah did a lot of things with only half the story right, or wrong, or unable to tell what was right or wrong as she has admitted many times that she only found out many things much later.

It would be remiss of the judge not to reprimand her for “prosecuting” any public claims, or making anything at all public, while being under the influence of prescription medicine or only having “vague recollections” of anything that happened or not. Much of her “story” was made up at a later date and she has admitted this, repeatedly.

Going public based on scant detail, foggy memories and a lot of inuendo and hearsay is not a great look. She might not lose but it would be difficult for anyone to discount this.

Wha? What’s happened? That fizzed out into nothing.

John at 1:44 – it should certainly see the end of Dreyfus and possibly Gallagher.

Separatist Movement Growing Also in Australia

COMMENT: I would love a report on Australia/NZ as well. Australia has a separatist movement – WA is sick of paying the most GST taxes to prop up other States, and actively talks of separating. NT & SA would align, this is historical too. Probably Vic & Tas amalgamate. And people would say this would not happen, but NSW & Qld come together (NSW used to incorporate the whole of Qld) and they have Rugby in common, not Aussie Rules. Interesting, maybe all current Commonwealth countries and the USA split.

Regards from Down Under.

REPLY: As you know, I have even lived in Sydney for a stint. I went up to Kakadu and hired a guide who was like Crocodile Dundee. We lived off the land, swam with freshwater crocs, and caught Barramundi from the South Alligator River while fighting off crocs who were looking to eat us for dinner. I have been to every nook and cranny in Australia where “Aussies” have never gone; just as few Americans visit the Liberty Bell if they live within 10 miles of it.

So, I am very well aware of the stark differences in attitudes and culture between the South, North, and the West. The same is true between North & South in the USA, Germany, Italy, Britain, and Ireland, just to mention a few. In places like Spain and Canada, it tends to be East vs. West. The entire Ukrainian war is all about the Minsk Agreement that was supposed to allow the people of the Donbas to vote on their separation from the Ukrainians who outright hate Russian-speaking Ukrainians. That too, is a separatist movement.

This separatist movement is rising exponentially. It is indeed the turmoil we have, for it will be 86 years (10 x 8.6) from the formation of the IMF, World Bank, and this globalist agenda by 2032.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/separatists/separatist-movement-growing-also-in-australia/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

The Loons Brigade is harassing the blog and want to be taken seriously.

1. A scammer who posts fake content all the time, from a fraudster who was convicted and served 11 years “service” in Leaveworth.

2. A crazed gerbil brain, who thinks that “injuns stole mi petrol” buys a crate of iodine because he believes rural Queensland is a red hot nuclear target, the Chinese will invade Australia through Melbourne Airport using commercial airlines, and that it would be a good idea to shoot 1,000 people in the head to serve as a warning to others.

3. A whackoconomist and thought leader who thinks our ports ought to be closed because we’re purchasing imported goods “below cost”, everything ought to be made here and now would like to be known as Australia’s Juan Peron

4. A slob who pretends he’s running a pub when in fact it’s a broken-down lice ridden old junk heap motel on mud island, says he would murder bank staff if he had an incurable illness as punishment for not lending him money, who ran a blog for 15 years, accumulating 279 comments in all that time, and is now advising the current owner of this blog on how to run things by booting people he doesn’t like.

A closely knit intelligentsia.