Open Thread – Wed 6 Dec 2023


Summer Day, Ivan Shishkin, 1891

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Bruce in WA
December 6, 2023 12:16 am

Wait … moi? First?

Thank you Mum and Dad and all the little people who helped me get here.

Mmmmmmwaaaah!

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
December 6, 2023 12:21 am

Second? Depending on the refresh rate.

Helen
Helen
December 6, 2023 12:23 am

Bugger third

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 6, 2023 12:30 am

Another thread to be haunted by the faces of the banality of evil- Sharaz, Higgins, Wilkinson, Gallagher, Tingle, Adler.
There’s righteousness in the beauty of Deborah Conway and Gal Godot.

Alamak!
December 6, 2023 12:35 am

Another thread to be haunted by the faces of the banality of evil- Sharaz, Higgins, Wilkinson, Gallagher, Tingle, Adler.

This one is not going away …

pete of perth
pete of perth
December 6, 2023 12:38 am

1st time visiting Surfers Paradise. Not as many tatts as I expected.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 12:40 am

Contrary to the common belief of people with PhD’s, journalism degrees, and/or TikTok accounts, most Israeli Jews didn’t come from post-Holocaust Europe; rather, they were forced to go to Israel as refugees from a collective temper tantrum by Arab and other Muslim governments. Beginning in the 1940s, most were stripped of their homes and other wealth and sent packing. They and their ancestors had never lived anywhere but the Middle East since Biblical times. Consider Iraq:

More here

https://graboyes.substack.com/p/the-jew-movers-are-back

pete of perth
pete of perth
December 6, 2023 12:44 am

anticipated

John H.
John H.
December 6, 2023 12:45 am

Wally Dalí
Dec 6, 2023 12:30 AM
Another thread to be haunted by the faces of the banality of evil- Sharaz, Higgins, Wilkinson, Gallagher, Tingle, Adler.
There’s righteousness in the beauty of Deborah Conway and Gal Godot.

Politicians hiring coke addicts and drunks who get a kick out of running around Parliament late at night, hiring people who lie to the police and in court, making taxpayer funded huge confidential payouts on spurious grounds of a failure of a duty of care by an employer who is somehow responsible for the drunken coke fueled escapades in the deep of night. And Schmidt wonder why people are losing faith in government.

amortiser
amortiser
December 6, 2023 12:46 am

Interesting that the details about Sharaz sending that document to all and sundry describing Brucie as “the perpetrator” hasn’t yet appeared in Sam Maiden’s account of today’s proceedings. Maybe she nipped out to the pub when that was being detailed.

Looks like Brittney is trying to make a second claim of being too drunk or drugged to give informed consent.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 6, 2023 12:57 am

Surfers Paradise Is an ancient Aboriginal term many people of many thong.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 12:59 am

Good interview with Eric Prince, Blackwater CEO.

There are several thousand Iranian troops in Venezuela!

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/03/erik_prince_this_feels_like_a_second_carter_administration_america_is_getting_our_ass_kicked_around_the_world.html

Reckons Venezuela is going to try and take Guyana’s oil assets.

Bruce in WA
December 6, 2023 1:21 am

Reckons Venezuela is going to try and take Guyana’s oil assets.

Pretty much a lay-down misère I think.

Gabor
Gabor
December 6, 2023 1:31 am

Bruce in WA
Dec 6, 2023 1:21 AM

Reckons Venezuela is going to try and take Guyana’s oil assets.

Pretty much a lay-down misère I think.

Why?
I thought they had the second largest oil reserves in the world.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
December 6, 2023 1:32 am

The kids are happy. That’s all that matters!

Cash!


Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 102

Gabor
Gabor
December 6, 2023 1:43 am

PS, correction, the largest.
“The proven oil reserves in Venezuela are recognized as the largest in the world, totaling 300 billion barrels “

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 6, 2023 2:12 am

Contrary to the common belief of people with PhD’s, journalism degrees, and/or TikTok accounts, most Israeli Jews didn’t come from post-Holocaust Europe

If the UN vote in 1947 didn’t decide where to dump Jews from Europe, the US and Europe would have had to give them a home or permitted them to return. Voting for a patch of useless dirt that where Jews could be finally slaughtered by the Arab forces organised by Britain seemed like the perfect solution. It’s not well known that application for UN membership was refused a few times while the UN hoped it would never need to be admitted among real nations. Anti-Israelism has been central to the core of the UN since day one.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 3:28 am

Voting for a patch of useless dirt that where Jews could be finally slaughtered by the Arab forces organised by Britain seemed like the perfect solution.

Where did you get that rubbish from?

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 3:32 am

Where did you get that rubbish from?

Not Marty, obviously.

Get a diaper change, Wodney, you worthless limey slimeball.

Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 4:13 am
Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 4:21 am

Thanks once again Tom.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 4:27 am

JC
Dec 6, 2023 3:32 AM

It’s that Pompous Windbag once again trying to be the Blog’s self appointed Milk Monitor.

Come on down Junior Cretin and get your prize. More fat pizza and a renewal subscription to those Penthouse Forum letters so that you can and eat and play with your willy wonka at the same time.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh. What an image to present to the Blog.

And with all that up thumb/down thumb, dumb, dumb, bum, bum paranoia to boot.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 4:28 am

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

– Epictetus

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 4:32 am

Crooked Limeball’s up and the ticking will be absolutely frantic. 55 is the new objective for all his comments. Most popular intelligent slimeball who’s ever donned the 007 cape ,along with Wongpenny whom he found in a cheap catalogue. Me loves you wrong time is what finally attracted him.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 4:38 am

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh. What an image to present to the Blog.

Oh yes, images presented to the blog and on the blog.

Martin Armstrong is a convicted unrepentant felon who spent 11 years in jail for defrauding investors. Like most criminals, he thinks he is innocent. This video promotes this view which is a lie and misleads his clients.

Currently he is running a predatory business, a scam. It has been exposed here:
“Armstrong Economics – The Scam Business Model Exposé” https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/armstrongeconomics-scam-business-model.html

“Top bloke”, “top cobber” according to Woddenhead, the limey crook.

Petros
Petros
December 6, 2023 6:06 am

What do people think of the Nakba? How many Arabs were displaced?

Petros
Petros
December 6, 2023 6:09 am

The Brittany and Bruce fiasco just shows the sort of lying, immoral, party-climbing, useless losers that infest the Libs and no doubt the ALP these days.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 6, 2023 6:19 am

Haha, after the Sultan of Dubai guy said climate science is rubbish now Saudi is now infuriating the greens.

Saudi Arabia Says ‘Absolutely Not’ to Fossil Fuel Phase Down Demand by Climate Crazies (5 Dec)

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister rejected any phase down of fossil fuel now or in the future on Monday, using an interview at the U.N.’s COP28 conference to reject the increasingly strident demands of climate activists.

He probably likes climate conferences though, given how much jet fuel he gets to sell whenever one comes along.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 6:24 am

The Nakba?
What do the numbers matter?
Many left voluntarily expecting the Arabs to win, and also assuming they would be slaughtered the way they slaughtered Jews, others were expelled, because they posed a threat to the Israeli war effort.
They were hostile to Jews, had conducted pogroms against them for years.
There was a war, they lost.
Many muslims however stayed in what is now Israel and still live there, mostly peacefully, as Israeli citizens.
The only ethnic cleansing that was done, was done by muslims, again.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 6:38 am

As Guterres would say the Nakba didn’t happen in a vacuum.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 6:38 am

What do people think of the Nakba?

What do people think of the partition of India & Pakistan?
Or the Turkey/Greece switcheroo.
Why the mystical name “Nakba” given to a not uncommon situation during 20th century.

How many Arabs were displaced?

They participated in starting multiple wars.
They lost all of them.
And the numbers?
A fraction of the number of other displacements but because they’re “Pali’s” they are treated like like super special or something?

It’s pure anti-Semitism.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 6, 2023 6:41 am

Cassie from the Old Thread

Pogria, my mother always said to us children, never ever cower in the corner. I watched a video of a Jewish woman on 7 October kicking and fighting the Nazi scum who were trying to drag her away. She fought. We will fight the Palestinian Nazi scum, and we will fight the leftist progressive scum.

I find it amazing that just because one feels wretched, depressed and sad those feelings would automatically translate into defeatism, cowering and adopting the foetal position. Those that think in that way do not know the Jewish people at all, they are God’s chosen people and that is why through millennia their spirit, resilience, intelligence and striving is testament to their celebration of God’s choice.

In fact it is out of those feelings of wretchedness, depression and sadness that springs hope, rejuvenation and the spirit to continue to fight for a just and good cause. Go Israel and a pox on Jew-haters everywhere, a pox has certainly diseased their souls.

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 6:47 am

Oh. They even hold baby Jesus hostage on the West Bank.

I don’t give a sh*t about your plaster figure, you virtue signalling Christian numpties. If you had any decency, you would replace it with a picture of little Kfir.

If you can’t sense divine anger at this travesty, I certainly can.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 6:50 am

In 2006 Hamas won the election.
If was living there then, I would have made plans to leave.
If you’ve been happy enough to live there for the past 17 years, I’m not why you deserve much sympathy.

Keep in mind, 50,000 Victorian families made the choice to leave between 2020 & 2022.

Instead of leaving the Hamas state, the population growth in Gaza has been enormous.
Looks like they mostly like the state of affairs.

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 6:51 am

Oh. That’s nice. Amnesty International has discovered a “war crime” in Gaza.

At least the Israelis had the decency to declare war before they started.

Has the International Red Cross checked up on the welfare of the hostages yet? Perhaps Amnesty International might like to help them.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 6:55 am

The Greeks consider the ‘people swap’ a genocide with estimates of up to one million Greeks massacred.
The fall of the Ottoman Empire also saw the Armenian genocide 600,000 to 1.2 million killed and the Assyrian genocide, 250,000 killed.
An estimated 6000 Israelis and 8000 to 15,000 Arabs died in the 47-49 war yet the only refugees in perpetuity are the Palestinians (which was never a nationality).

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 6:57 am

What do people think of the Nakba?

The grudges and the grievances is getting too much.

What do the Japanese think of Nagasaki or the Germans think of Dresden? How about the British and the London bombings? A decade after WW2 grievances were set aside and people moved on with their lives. Historical grievances are held by people with mental issues. Unfortunately, the 21st is historical grievance central.

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 7:01 am

Historical grievances are held by people with mental issues.

Correct. That is also true on a personal level, as well as nations. You don’t forget, but you move on to bigger and better things. If you don’t, you’re no better than Gollum obsessing over the Precious.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 7:01 am

JC, re your Venezuelan post.
You know my long held views about the US looking to liberate their off shore energy assets.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 7:04 am

Perhaps the Greeks should have spent the last 100 years committing acts of terror is support of their ‘right of return’.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 7:04 am

Amnesty International has stated in a report that knowingly committing disproportionate attacks qualifies as a war crime.

LOL. Yes, because all wars are fought using an algo proportioning out attacks. These meatballs have even taken the leftwing principle of equality to assessing wars. FMD.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 7:05 am

Historical grievances are held by people with mental issues.

Correct. That is also true on a personal level,

A grudge can motivate for a very, very short period of time.
Then becomes such an impediment.

Bespoke
Bespoke
December 6, 2023 7:05 am

I find it amazing that just because one feels wretched, depressed and sad those feelings would automatically translate into defeatism, cowering and adopting the foetal position. Those that think in that way do not know the Jewish people at all

Dunno Tinta. Looking at the footage . Some ran some were more definite to various degrees. So your typical human reaction.

I gotten weary of people defining a group or race over the decades.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 7:07 am

Israel at war: IDF surrounds Khan Younis ‘closing in on Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar

the Australian might be paywalled.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 7:09 am

Bern:

You know my long held views about the US looking to liberate their off shore energy assets.

You’re referring to the Americans eyeing off Ven’s offshore oil assets? They should. 🙂

If I’m not mistaken, American firms held some of these offshore wells and the communist government expropriated them without compensation.

Imagine the grievances in 300 years time though.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 7:11 am

US statements jeopardising remaining hostages?
Kind of assuming the US would talk to Israel before issuing certain statements.

15M AGO
IDF rebukes US over hostage abuse claims
ANNE BARROWCLOUGH

The Israeli military has issued a rare rebuke to the US, after the US State Department spokesman claimed Hamas had not released the remaining female hostages to keep proof of sexual abuse quiet.

Matthew Miller told reporters: “It seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage and the reason this fell apart is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari described Mr Miller’s comments as “irresponsible and inaccurate,” and said he should have avoided making them.

In a statement, Rear Adm. Hagari said: “The discourse on the subject is irresponsible, inaccurate and should be avoided. We conduct round-the-clock intelligence surveillance of the abductees, and demand from all international organizations to verify their condition, their safety and provide them with medical attention – both women and men.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 7:14 am

I gotta say, this is one of the worst vacations I’ve ever had. I got here and then I’m in bed with COVID for 8 days. Wifey and the kid contracted some bug and they’ve been out of action for the past week.

I think we’ve had 4 days out of the 3 weeks illness free.

I’m not going overseas ever again. … until next year.

Min
Min
December 6, 2023 7:17 am

Johnny Rotten Glad to see you know the stoic philosophers Seneca said similar

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 7:19 am

More footage on twitter of Mr fafo running around Khan Yunis, sometimes with other young men, getting video for social media, the Israelis having handily told them which buildings they are going to bomb next.
Apparently black smoke is an indication that the location is a weapons dump.
And while hamas took advantage of the no drones allowed periods during the ceasefire to move stuff around IDF could still work out various things using before and after footage.
So they kinda know where the rocket launch sites are.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 7:23 am

And while hamas took advantage of the no drones allowed periods during the ceasefire to move stuff around IDF could still work out various things using before and after footage.

And most likely satellite imagery from Uncle Sam. Nighttime offers no respite either.

In conclusion, military satellites have indeed made significant advancements in their night vision capabilities. Through the use of thermal imaging and low-light imaging technologies, these satellites can see in complete darkness and provide valuable intelligence to military personnel.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 7:48 am
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 6, 2023 7:48 am

Nein is engaging in irresponsible fearmongering.

In a normal world a BOM spokesman would have put them in their place already.

Jasper is no threat to the Queensland coast yet. In about 4 to 5 days we may know where it will hit. Each model run has it crossing further and further north which at the moment seems Mackay, Upper level high that will block movement too far south.

This one is destined for the north/far north coast somewhere and there’s a good chance it will be a messy tropical depression by the time it reaches to coast.

cohenite
December 6, 2023 7:59 am

What do people think of the Nakba? How many Arabs were displaced?

Not enough.

132andBush
132andBush
December 6, 2023 7:59 am

The naqba.

The name you give to your failed genocidal undertaking in order to portray yourself as the ultimate victims.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 6, 2023 8:03 am

Euromedia has been following the Venezuelan referendum well. I came across this spat a couple of weeks ago by accident.

France 24’s coverage I have found quite good…

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20231204-venezuelans-approve-referendum-to-claim-sovereignty-over-region-of-guyana

Take away from the polls, voter turnout around 50% so they already know it is a distraction squirrel and Chavez/Maduro have run the oil industry infrastructure into the ground and Exxon has a big stake in Guyana’s oil game so analysis I saw basically asserting its a grab for money.

We do live in interesting times….

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 6, 2023 8:06 am

Art news.

British artist Jesse Darling wins 2023 Turner Prize (6 Dec)

British artist Jesse Darling won the prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.

The 41-year-old — who now lives in Berlin — pipped Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker to the £25,000 ($30,000) award.

Darling was announced the winner of the 2023 prize by British rapper Tinie Tempah during a ceremony in Eastbourne, on England’s southeast coast.

All I can say it’s got more to it than the banana duct taped to the wall.

shatterzzz
December 6, 2023 8:07 am

Hezbollah having supply problems due to Israeli airstrikes on convoys from Iran ..
yesterday they loaded “homemade” rockets into several of their latest model Iran made launchers .. 2 exploded on-site killing all the crews .. the others fired, successfully, but bounced off the tanks they were supposed to destroy .. Israeli Air Force followed up on the heat signals and kaput went the other three launchers & crews ……

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 8:10 am
shatterzzz
December 6, 2023 8:11 am
calli
calli
December 6, 2023 8:14 am

All I can say it’s got more to it than the banana duct taped to the wall.

Turner would be so proud.

The Yartz now represent the very worst of our society. Parasitic, nihilistic, ugly, unoriginal, without skill or finesse.

Zafiro
Zafiro
December 6, 2023 8:20 am

Ghislane Leung

Rory Pilgrim

What a crock of shit.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 6, 2023 8:21 am

Ive got a pile of junk to go to the tip. Where’s my Turner prize?

Crossie
Crossie
December 6, 2023 8:22 am

The Yartz now represent the very worst of our society. Parasitic, nihilistic, ugly, unoriginal, without skill or finesse.

Calli, what I saw at the link is not art, it a rubbish dump and that’s where it will end up in historical terms. It is also a power display, it tells everyone who appreciates good art that they cannot have it, they will have what the powerful let them.

Zafiro
Zafiro
December 6, 2023 8:23 am

Barbara Walker

At least some artistic talent; albeit nothing amazing.

Black Ball
Black Ball
December 6, 2023 8:23 am

Yes where is Clementine Ford? Rita Panahi:

The modern feminist movement cares little about women. That much has been clear for some time from siding with trans activists over females fighting to protect sex-based rights and spaces to the sisterhood’s total abandonment of women living under Islam.

Instead of focusing on what is in the best interests of women, modern feminism has become a political movement that merely uses women to advance a relentlessly Leftist agenda.

Issues of great importance are ignored if politically inconvenient while trivial issues are inflated and inflamed.

We saw that when feminists criticised ex-PM Tony Abbott’s pro-women paid parental leave proposal and then hyperventilated over his supposed “misogyny” because he looked at his watch and there was that time he winked during a radio interview.

But even I, who has long called out the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of these pretenders, have been shocked by the callousness with which so many feminists, and their male allies, are treating the events of October 7, namely the mass rape, torture and slaughter of Israeli women.

Some like Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam have remained silent about Hamas Islamists’ barbaric acts against women and girls including sexual violence too horrific to describe on these pages.

Then there are those who seek to rationalise, minimise or even deny the suffering inflicted on females for the ‘crime’ of being Israeli. The same feminists who see ‘rape culture’ everywhere ignore it where is actually exists just like they ignored the rape culture behind the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal. They ignore mass suffering because in their warped worldview the perpetrators are the oppressed, and the victims are the oppressors.

I asked where she was. Ta da!

Clementine Ford, who has a Nova podcast, berated women who feel betrayed by feminists like her, accusing them of being colonisers who pretend they’re not white.

“I don’t care that you felt betrayed or let down,” she wrote.

You’re pathetic, you disgust me … you are not the victims, especially not when you live in Australia and are globbing on to some kind of bizarre pretence that you are being harmed here!”

Clearly, the ‘believe all women’ mantra does not apply to Zionists, and for the record I am a Zionist as is every person who believes in an independent Jewish state and supports the continued existence of Israel.

Quite an incredible response from the disgusting eyesore. But par for the course.

lotocoti
lotocoti
December 6, 2023 8:24 am

What do people think of the Nakba?

An entirely self inflicted wound.

Crossie
Crossie
December 6, 2023 8:24 am

GreyRanga
Dec 6, 2023 8:21 AM
Ive got a pile of junk to go to the tip. Where’s my Turner prize?

Snap, GreyRanga.

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 8:29 am

I’m going to enter my ironing board for the Turner prize.

It has a damaged iron (glue covered base…whoops) a burned cover, broken askew strut, and is currently being used as extra bench space while I tidy up – papers, material, a couple of poorly folded clothing items, a bag of old pens.

I’m going to win I tells ya.

I’m calling the artwork “The Detritus of Grief”. It’s a shoo in.

132andBush
132andBush
December 6, 2023 8:31 am

GreyRanga
Dec 6, 2023 8:21 AM
Ive got a pile of junk to go to the tip. Where’s my Turner prize?

There are farm machinery graveyards with more artistic merit.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 8:33 am

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

– Epictetus

Bespoke
Bespoke
December 6, 2023 8:33 am

I’m going to win I tells ya.

No way!
My deposit in toilet is sure to win.
I shall call it.

Life in the fast lane.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 8:40 am
Rabz
December 6, 2023 8:40 am

Jews feels wretched, depressed and sad

I listened to the Deb Conway Blot interview last night and she echoed Cassie’s sentiments almost word for word.

Deb Conway has spoken out in support of Israel on previous occasions, remarks that included some barely concealed contempt for the vile expediency and hypocrisy of her yaartz luvvies confreres.

Nick Cave is another Aussie rock legend who has no time for anti-Israel bigots.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 8:41 am
Rabz
December 6, 2023 8:43 am

The Yartz now represent the very worst of our society. Parasitic, nihilistic, ugly, unoriginal, without skill or finesse

The same could be said of modern “architecture”, another of my pet hates.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
December 6, 2023 8:44 am

The opposition and their complicit MSM mates are trying exactly the tactics they used against Tony Abbott – now targeting Peter Dutton.
It didn’t work back then, and it isn’t working now.
But Dutton needs to be as assiduous on energy as Abbott was on the “big bad tax on everything” aka the Gillard carbon tax, and border protection as well.
Energy is the hottest of hot issues, and a stake needs to be driven through the heart of this Big Scam Vampire before it bleeds us white and destroys us along with the rest of the west.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 6, 2023 8:46 am

Barbara Walker

At least some artistic talent; albeit nothing amazing

She’s coloured-in an arms-length selfie, Zaf. F*ck me it’s smartphone rectangle format. Disqualified.
…having said, it’s worlds beyond the charlatan “installation” scam art.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 8:49 am

JC, look at her smiling when she answers.
What an evil bitch.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 6, 2023 8:52 am

rosie
Dec 6, 2023 7:04 AM
Perhaps the Greeks should have spent the last 100 years committing acts of terror is support of their ‘right of return’.

Much of (now Turkish) Anatolia was Greek in Biblical times. The Turkic tribes, IIRC, arrived centuries later. The Greeks have a stronger claim to a “Right of Return” to Anatolia then the Arabs (who arrived in the 7th or 8th Centuries Anno Domini have to the lands of Israel, that were Jewish for thousands of years before the Arabs arrived.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 8:53 am

I’m not familiar with either MEGA or Wasabi but this is a general warning that they, and other providers, can wipe out your content, and, in one case mentioned here, destroy years of medical research without warning or recourse.
 
WARNING!!! MEGA and Wasabi can screw you if, in their sole opinion, they think you MIGHT have violated their AUP

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 8:53 am
JC
JC
December 6, 2023 8:54 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 8:55 am
Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 8:59 am

I don’t usually take notice of Hollyweird goings on, but…

‘Susan Sarandon dropped from film after anti-Jewish rant’

Her agent has reportedly also dropped her from his roster.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 6, 2023 9:04 am

JC, are you still smarting over Thought Leader pulling in 127 upticks a while back?
I mean, suggesting ticks are gamed just because Smokey Bear put up a very, very popular comment.
As if.
Let it go.

P
P
December 6, 2023 9:07 am

NSW Government delays conversion practices bill, but don’t rest yet
By Monica Doumit – December 1, 2023

Excerpts:

At the end of last week, the NSW Government announced that it would not table its bill seeking to ban so-called conversion practices before the end of the year. Instead, the government will wait and continue its consultation, with the aim of introducing a bill early in 2024. The pause is welcome, because the proposals put forward to date are anti-faith, anti-freedom and child endangering.

Proposals have also been put forward that say that consent is irrelevant when it comes to conversion or suppression practices. What this means is that even if a person voluntarily asks for help or advice from a priest or a psychologist or a friend, the priest or psychologist or friend can still be in legal trouble if they provide that help or advice.

Treating consent as irrelevant is tantamount the state saying: “If you want to live in accordance with your sexual identity, you can ask anyone for help, and we will punish anyone who refuses to support you. If you want to live in accordance with your religious identity, you cannot ask anyone for help, and we will punish anyone who tries to support you.”

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
December 6, 2023 9:12 am

We all knew the NDIS was a bad idea from the get go. It was intended to do two things, firstly to make the RGR government look good, and secondly to wedge Abbott, who felt he had to give it the soft treatment along with promising not to reduce the funding for the “enemy talking to our friends” ABC.
It could have been a branch of the Centrelink juggernaut. It should have always had more critical examination of needs, a cost/benefit analysis based on reality rather than the magic money tree.

Zafiro
Zafiro
December 6, 2023 9:13 am

Nick Cave

Brilliant short essay on anti-PC/wokeness.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
December 6, 2023 9:18 am

Jo Nova:
“In the last couple of weeks a New Zealand whistleblower came forward with detailed, but anonymized data showing that certain batches of the experimental you-know-what, were associated with shockingly high mortality rates. As this news started to spread, the government could have responded to correct or explain this, instead they arrested him, thus accidentally verifying that the data he showed was not wrong, but real. His crime apparently was not faking-up the data, but “accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes” which seems like a very strange crime given that, as he describes it, he was paid to work with the data, and the results of public health data is — in a free society — supposed to be public.”

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 6, 2023 9:19 am

British artist Jesse Darling won the prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday for his sculptures and installations that invoke societal breakdown.

It doesn’t “invoke societal breakdown”. Granting it the prize is societal breakdown itself.

British artist Jesse Darling wins 2023 Turner Prize

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 9:19 am

It should have always had more critical examination of needs, a cost/benefit analysis based on reality rather than the magic money tree.

Somewhere along the way the ‘insurance’ component got lost and we ended up with a national disability scheme.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 9:26 am

Sancho Panzer
Dec 6, 2023 9:04 AM

Oh okay. It’s obviously legit then. 🙂

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 6, 2023 9:26 am

Just get a load of this fcking bint from UPenn.

Thanks JC The shit-eating grimace on the face of the creature is Satan breaking through. My wordy lordy it is.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 9:27 am
MatrixTransform
December 6, 2023 9:31 am

look at her smiling when she answers

that is the very picture of what I call “The Shit-Eating Grin”

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 6, 2023 9:32 am

the only refugees in perpetuity are the Palestinians (which was never a nationality)

Internally displaced within their Ottoman Empire province of Syria.
Same climate, same food, same language, same market places.

MatrixTransform
December 6, 2023 9:33 am

Tinta, snap!

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2023 9:34 am

Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCain’s being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on.

Really?

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 9:38 am

What’s the odd man out here, pun intended?

Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged Tuesday to lawmakers on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that antisemitism was a growing problem at their schools.

Vicki
Vicki
December 6, 2023 9:41 am

Somewhere along the way the ‘insurance’ component got lost and we ended up with a national disability scheme.

Roger, what really gives me “the dirts” is that Bill Shorten gave a talk at the Sydney Institute years ago in which he outlined an “insurance” scheme for the disabled. He brought along a charming couple who described their plight, having been unable to have a holiday in years as a result of the special needs of their disabled son.

Of course, we were all in total sympathy with the couple & most of us thought that this “insurance” scheme may be a scaled down Medicare or something similar. It seemed like “a good idea at the time”!

Recently, Shorten appeared before the Sydney Institute to answer for what has eventuated with the NDIS. I had all my fury harnessed & prepared, & found, damn it, that the function had been transferred to the 61st (or thereabouts) floor of the Chifley Sq building. I hate the damn lifts into building & missed the opportunity to give Shorten hell. DAMN!

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 9:41 am

That grin is, “who are you to question me!”

She’s the smartest person in the room dontcha know. That silly, hysterical Senator having the gall to parse my answers and come up with emptiness. How dare she!

This thing knows that influential people have her back, as does that other thing, Gay, from Harvard. They truly believe that there’s such a position as being on “the right side of history” and they’re on it. They will believe it until the beast that controls them lets them see exactly what they are and where they’re headed.

They also believe, like countless others, that many…many words will hide their intent.

Let your yes, be yes and your no be no has real resonance here.

Black Ball
Black Ball
December 6, 2023 9:41 am

Kevin Donnelly on our edumacashon system:

Australia’s dismal results in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment test (PISA) prove, once again, how substandard our education system is now, despite the additional billions invested and countless government inquiries and reviews over the last 30 years.

In mathematics, Australia is ranked 16th, in reading 12th and science 10th. While, on average, the 2022 results are the same as 2018, over time students’ performance has declined in all subjects, placing today’s students a year behind those who sat the 2000 test.

test.

PISA measures the performance of 15-year-old students across over 80 countries and economic systems and ranks students in terms of a six-point scale in mathematics, science and reading where six is high ability and one represents low understanding.

The percentage of Australian students achieving level two, described as a minimum level of proficiency and despite the billions spent as a result of the 2011 Gonski school funding review, has increased six points in mathematics and reading as well as five points in science since 2012. In addition to more students performing at the basic level compared to 2012, the percentage of top performing Australian students is only 12 per cenr compared to Singapore 41 per cent, Taipei 32 per cent, Macao 29 per cent, Hong Kong 27 per cent, Japan 23 per cent and South Korea 32 per cent.

As a result of the education establishment’s tall poppy syndrome, where competition and meritocracy are downplayed in favour of equality of outcomes and discriminating in favour of victim groups, the nation’s brightest continue to underperform.

It not just test results proving why governments, education departments, the Australian Education Union, professional associations and consultants charging schools thousands of dollars a day must be held accountable.

Additional evidence of their incompetence is the fact recently arrived overseas students consistently outperform students who’ve been schooled in Australia. The longer you’ve been at school in Australia, the poorer the result.

Despite 41 per cent of immigrant students not speaking English at home, in mathematics immigrant students outperform non-immigrant students by 24 points and in reading the gap amounts to 15 points.

The OECD’s analysis explains one of the reasons for Australia’s underperformance is the high rate of disruption and lack of classroom discipline. Some 25 per cent of students said they could not work well in class, 33 per cent did not listen to the teacher and 40 per cent admitted they were distracted when using digital devices.

The analysis also shows, despite the Australian Education Union’s perennial complaint about lack of funding and its demand taxpayers invest additional billions to raise standards, there is minimal connection between extra funding and test results.

The PISA report states: “While there is some correlation between spending and academic performance, history shows that countries determined to build a first-class education system can achieve this even in adverse economic conditions.”

One of the other furphies pushed by the AEU and the Woke Australian Council for Educational Research is a student’s socio-economic status (SES) as measured by postcode, parental qualifications and wealth, determines educational success or failure.

The AEU argues the only reason students in Catholic and Independent schools achieve such strong academic results, compared to under-privileged low SES students in government schools, is because they come from wealthy backgrounds.

Untrue. When determining what leads to strong test results the PISA analysis concludes “disadvantaged background does not determine destiny” and “social disadvantage does not automatically lead to poor educational performance”.

Instead of being the main determinant in educational success or failure, the PISA’s analysis concludes SES “accounted for 15 per cent of the variation in mathematics performance in PISA 2022 in Australia (compared to 15 per cent on average across OECD countries)”.

As argued by the Australian academic Gary Marks, more important than a student’s home background are schools having a rigorous academic curriculum, effective teachers and classroom practice, high expectations and regular testing and feedback plus supportive parents.

Marks also argues, factors ignored by the Gonski school funding review, that student ability, motivation and inherited intelligence, are vitally important.

Much of the educational debate over the last 30 to 40 years assumes working class and migrant students underperform because they are disadvantaged. It’s time to jettison what Michael Gove, when UK education secretary, called “soft bigotry of low expectations”.

Although the PISA report notes caution has to be taken when analysing the 2022 results, given the impact of Covid-19, it also states across the OECD, including Australia: “Educational trajectories were negative well before the pandemic hit.”

Add the hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming in and it’s really onwards and downwards.
Stick a fork in, we’re done.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 6, 2023 9:42 am

Daily Mail article:

Jacqui Lambie launches legal action against Indigenous activist who questioned her heritage and said too many ‘poor whites’ are claiming to be Aboriginal.

Going to be interesting.

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 9:44 am

Jewish benefactors need to pull yheir money from these universities.

There are better, more wholesome places to donate money.

It puts the lie to the conspiracy theory that Jews rule the world. If they do, they’re pretty crummy at it.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
December 6, 2023 9:50 am

Jews generally need to live up to their smart genes and stop voting left.

Tom
Tom
December 6, 2023 9:52 am

Hahaha. JC now has his own tribe of downtickers who must disapprove of his every comment. They make Calli’s lone troll look like a wimp.

PS: With JC in NYC, the Cat’s midnight stoushes now run all day.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 6, 2023 9:54 am

NSW Government delays conversion practices bill, but don’t rest yet

Schools with their LGBTNZYQ++ firebrand teachers, lurid materials, attempting to instil sexual practices before kids reach puberty and can discover their own sexual nature, encouraging the idea that all anxiety is rooted in denying a far fringe sexuality, and then discouraging kids from talking to their own parents, are centres of conversion therapy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 9:55 am

Australia’s dismal results in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment test (PISA) prove, once again, how substandard our education system is now

They were woeful.

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2023 9:57 am

Public education is straight conversion therapy.

Bespoke
Bespoke
December 6, 2023 9:58 am

Senator Kennedy never fails to bring his A-Game when interviewing witnesses before a committee. We especially enjoyed watching him ask FBI Director Christopher Wray about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 9:59 am

It puts the lie to the conspiracy theory that Jews rule the world. If they do, they’re pretty crummy at it.

I’ll say; just look at the state of the place!

No Jewish mother would tolerate it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 10:00 am

With JC in NYC, the Cat midnight stouches now run all day.

It’s always 11pm somewhere in the world. Get scrollin’.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 10:02 am

Public education is straight conversion therapy.

I wonder if that could fit on a bumper sticker?

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 10:04 am

Public education is like public golf courses. Vastly inferior and best avoided wherever possible.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 10:09 am

Yesterday was getting close to peak Gillard for Albo. Wonder how much longer da bruvvas will put up wiv that?

calli
calli
December 6, 2023 10:14 am

No Jewish mother would tolerate it.

Lol. You look thin. Here, eat something. Have you been eating properly? Met any nice girls/boys lately?

Gosh, my own mum could have been Jewish. 🙂

No way she’d want to rule the world though.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
December 6, 2023 10:14 am

JC is a legend.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
December 6, 2023 10:15 am

Just ask him.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 10:22 am

You’re the legend, Toad. And so are some of your buddies that you cling to here for dear life.

JC
JC
December 6, 2023 10:25 am

Hahaha. JC now has his own tribe of downtickers who must disapprove of his every comment. They make Calli’s lone troll look like a wimp.

It’s a old battered wives club now showing their displeasure with ticking. One of them is up all night ticking away like fiend. I’ve seen him do it.

I even had Juan Peron making it known he was joining the downtick club.
Funny as.

Rabz
December 6, 2023 10:27 am

Australia’s dismal results in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment test (PISA) prove, once again, how substandard our education system is

Results exactly as intended. Intelligent literate numerate people capable of rational thought and questioning the edicts of the politico/ meeja/ bureaucrazy/ quackademia-industrial complex will consume vastly more resources per capita than the ignorant illiterate innumerate anti-scientific ahistorical imbeciles being churned out by public schools and monoversities across the western world.

According to the UN.

Arky
December 6, 2023 10:37 am

I even had Juan Peron making it known he was joining the downtick club.
Funny as

..
Happy to uptick any good contribution from even the likes of you.
Haven’t seen anything today yet that warrants it.
Just yet another day of you simpering and attempting to ingratiate yourself with what you imagine is the prevailing popular views.
Pretty pathetic.
Mate.

Rabz
December 6, 2023 10:38 am

getting close to peak Gillard for Albo

Bear, we’ll know this when his meeja fluffers beginning bellowing incessantly “he just needs some clear air!”.

Meanwhile, on the increasingly disastrous great gaping maw that is the NDIS, that braindead VD ridden sleazebag Teats Peanuthead will be ranting at the NPC tomorrow before some assembled meeja fluffers on the results of his wondrous NDIS Review.

Don’t expect any (even token) attempts to restrict access to it, or wind back its increasingly ridiculous taxpayer funded excesses, blatant rorting and overcharging.

If you see any footage from the NPC of this inauspicious event, don’t forget to look out for his mistress, who’ll sitting under his nose in the chair closest to him, staring blankly into his dead empty eyes.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 10:44 am
JC
JC
December 6, 2023 10:46 am

Just yet another day of you simpering and attempting to ingratiate yourself with what you imagine is the prevailing popular views.
Pretty pathetic.

Juan’s now mind reader. If only we stopped importing.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 10:46 am

Really?

Thanks for bringing it into the new thread. The Wikileaks links can be found here

Petros
Petros
December 6, 2023 10:49 am

Thanks cats. It is a frequent source of frustration and also amusement how people like to start their arguments at a certain point in time. No mention of why there were so many Arabs in Palestine when they were not there in significant numbers prior to the 7th century. I often ask what their magic cut-off point is for people being considered as rightly local inhabitants. They don’t like to grant that to the Afrikaaners, for example.

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 10:50 am
rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 10:54 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 10:54 am
duncanm
duncanm
December 6, 2023 10:55 am

Another interesting article from Ayaan Hirsi Ali

https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/

This pretty much sums it up for me:

But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 10:57 am

It’s pretty hard to judge this when the PCR test itself was a scam.

Biden Admin Gave $86 Million to Company Accused of Peddling Fake COVID Test Kits

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 6, 2023 10:58 am

getting close to peak Gillard for Albo

Hopefully he has learned to knit Australian fauna to while away those long international flights.

Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 10:58 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 6, 2023 10:59 am
Arky
December 6, 2023 11:00 am

Juan’s now mind reader. If only we stopped importing.

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Juan doesn’t find the reptilian brain that hard to decipher.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 6, 2023 11:00 am

Only rich kids prosper from their education. That has to change

Julie Hare Education editor

In a twist of fate, Australia’s performance on an important international assessment of reading, science and maths has lifted – not because our 15-year-olds improved but because so many other countries crashed out of contention.

The much anticipated results of the 2022 Program for International Student Assessment have landed but posed many more questions than there are answers.

Why, for one, did Australian kids seem to get through pandemic lockdowns and months of home-schooling relatively unscathed while kids in other countries like Finland, Canada, Denmark and Hong Kong went backwards?

Also, why did Australia’s results stabilise between 2018 and 2022 after declining at every previous iteration since the inaugural PISA in 2000?

Australia’s performance on PISA 2000-22 (points)

Mathematical literacy – Scientific literacy – Reading literacy
Australia 487 507 498
OECD avg 472 485 476
Top: Singapore 575 561 453

Australian Independent Schools – Maths 519 Scientific 538 Reading 526
Catholic Schools – Maths 490 Scientific 511 Reading 504
Government Schools – Maths 475 Scientific 494 Reading 485

While the results are welcome news, it isn’t time to pop the champagne. The truth is, the gap between rich and poor in academic performance is vast and growing. Too few kids from the poorest families perform in the highest bands. Kids in government schools underperform those in Catholic and independent schools while girls continue to outperform boys.

It is simply shocking that half of all teenagers perform below expected levels in maths. In scientific literacy, the figure is 42 per cent and 43 per cent in reading.

What this means is that half of all young Australians on the cusp of adulthood are functionally illiterate.

They struggle with day-to-day tasks because they can’t properly comprehend what they read, or know how to apply mathematical knowledge or understand basic scientific concepts.

This is after 10 years in the education system.

We know that once kids start falling behind, they very rarely catch up. In fact, they continue to fall even further behind and so the vicious cycle goes on.

Despite the good intentions of the Gillard and Turnbull governments’ Gonski reforms that were supposed to direct additional funding to those schools with the largest proportion of disadvantaged students, there has been very little return to date on the $319 billion investment.

The fact is, funding matters. But after a certain point, the impact recedes.

The things that make the most difference are: curriculum, evidence-based teaching practice, teachers who understand the science of learning, teachers who aren’t burdened with futile tasks, schools where poor behaviour is minimised and expectations are high.

Education minister Jason Clare is negotiating a funding agreement with the states and territories that could embed all of these things and more. Hopefully, this time the best interests of all students is front of mind when the relevant ministers sign on the dotted line.

After all, it is simply not acceptable that only rich kids prosper from their education.

For those Interested in Reading the Original 491 Page report of OECD PISA 2022 Results The State of Learning and Equity in Education Publication
Volume I on which the Australian Financila Review is Based

It is fascinating to see where Islamic/Mulsim (The Religion of Peace) Countries place

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/53f23881-en.pdf?expires=1701817734&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=4E2E0DA601746F4F834E163F2DD3AE54

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 11:01 am

Not for one moment an I unsympathetic to the plight of children in Gaza, but the blame lies at the feet of their fathers, the sooner Hamasisis is destroyed the better.
Israel turns Gaza’s water back on.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 11:04 am

Another interesting article from Ayaan Hirsi Ali

As she admits, she still has a way to go.

I hope she’s attending a decent church.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 6, 2023 11:05 am

They and their ancestors had never lived anywhere but the Middle East since Biblical times. Consider Iraq.

Israel’s history is rooted in Jerusalem and Judea and all over what is now Israel, there is no doubting it, nor is there doubt about the pull of this homeland when Islamic nations expelled Jews from elsewhere in the Middle East. Go to Israel, as we two ‘gentiles’ did, and explore this for yourself. Read about it in Simon Montefiore’s great history of Jerusalem and the struggle for Israel’s indigenous lands. Thank you JC for your recognition of this and for standing up for Cassie late last night against commentary that simply doesn’t have a clue about Jewishness, where I’ve added my support also on the tail end of that thread.

Cassie should feel free to come here and express her fears, and those of other Jewish people, as well as to show her strengths added to theirs. I’ve been watching video of the IDF in action and I offer all honour to those brave soldiering men .. and women. The women who made history in sole charge of tank force during full combat operations on Oct 7th did their duty as well as any male team. Respect.

Roger
Roger
December 6, 2023 11:06 am

Why, for one, did Australian kids seem to get through pandemic lockdowns and months of home-schooling relatively unscathed while kids in other countries like Finland, Canada, Denmark and Hong Kong went backwards?

It did them good to be away from the influence of their teachers and disrupted classrooms?

Arky
Arky
December 6, 2023 11:10 am

Better clarify given the “gotcha” penchants of some.
The “reptilian brain” is a reference to various conspiracy crap, but:

The triune brain consists of the reptilian complex (basal ganglia), the paleomammalian complex (limbic system), and the neomammalian complex (neocortex), viewed each as independently
..
No, Juan doesn’t believe we are occupied by reptilian aliens.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 11:10 am

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

– Epictetus

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 6, 2023 11:11 am

Lehrmann told colleague: ‘Brittany is good looking, call her’
Ellie Dudley
Ellie Dudley

A former colleague of Bruce Lehrmann says he told her Brittany Higgins was “good looking” and wanted her to come to the Kingston Hotel for an event a few weeks before the alleged rape occurred.

Nikki Hamer, one of many Liberal staffers expected to give evidence today, said Mr Lehrmann also took Ms Higgins’ phone to prevent her from leaving the event.

Ms Hamer said she attended the Kingston Hotel after Linda Reynolds’ swearing-in ceremony on March 2, 2019 with Mr Lehrmann and other colleagues.

Ms Hamer said Mr Lehrmann told her he thought Ms Higgins was attractive, and instructed her to message Ms Higgins on Instagram to invite her to the pub.

“He made a comment saying, Brittany is good looking, is she free?” Ms Hamer said. “Can you reach out to her on Instagram and see if she’s free to come to the pub.”

At the time, Ms Higgins was working in former Liberal minister Steven Ciobo’s office, who had been dropped from the ministry and replaced by Senator Reynolds.

Ms Hamer said she did not have the Instagram messages anymore because Ms Higgins deleted her account for a period of time.

She said Ms Higgins arrived at the pub before the sun set, and the pair went outside to have a short conversation.

Later, when Ms Higgins said she had to leave to go to another event, Ms Hamer said Mr Lehrmann took Ms Higgins’ phone so she could not leave.

“He just took it and held it so that she couldn’t use it herself to book the Uber,” Ms Hamer said.

Ms Hamer said the phone was only with Mr Lehrmann for “a minute or two” before it was returned to Ms Higgins and she left.

Ms Hamer said after this interaction she had a tense conversation with Mr Wotton and Mr Lehrmann, who accused her of “being a feminist and feeling like I have to go and defend women.”

“Bruce said that I’d overreacted in the way I kind of spoke up and tried to defend Brittany,” Ms Hamer said. “And so I got quite defensive to that.”

Mr Lehrmann has denied calling Ms Higgins good looking or taking the phone out of her hand, and said he did not recall the tense conversation following

Arky
December 6, 2023 11:12 am

The “reptilian brain” is a reference to various conspiracy crap, but:

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Should read “isn’t a reference”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 6, 2023 11:12 am

Israel turns Gaza’s water back on.

Word is now that they are thinking of turning the water (pumped from the Med) into the tunnels to make life uncomfortable down there for Hamas’ terrorist operatives. The tunnels are at all different depths below ground level so if the aim is the keep tunnel water at knee level as some think is the aim it is going to be difficult without completely flooding the lower levels where Hamas leaders lurk.

Sounds like a plan.

Arky
December 6, 2023 11:14 am

Juan is having difficulty with his avatar colour.

Johnny Rotten
December 6, 2023 11:14 am

Nigel Farage – Running to Save Britain

I have NEVER endorsed anyone for political office. Nigel is fighting for freedom. They even debanked him. He is not one of those do-nothing guys. We need people like Nigel who are willing to take the high road in the dark days ahead. Nigel at least had his eyes open, and his ears were always willing to listen.

What is important to Americans is that Britain is really just a vassal state of Washington. They do whatever the American Neocons tell them. We need Britain to resist this nonsense to reduce the volatility and amplitude of what unfolds between now and 2032.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/britain/nigel-farage-running-to-save-britain/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 11:17 am
rosie
rosie
December 6, 2023 11:18 am

of turning the water (pumped from the Med) into the tunnels to make life uncomfortable down there for Hamas’ terrorist operatives.

When someone obviously hasn’t clicked your link 🙂

Vicki
Vicki
December 6, 2023 11:19 am

The OECD’s analysis explains one of the reasons for Australia’s underperformance is the high rate of disruption and lack of classroom discipline. Some 25 per cent of students said they could not work well in class, 33 per cent did not listen to the teacher and 40 per cent admitted they were distracted when using digital devices.

Why mobiles have been allowed for so long before the recent backlash is beyond me. I wouldn’t stand for any distractions – even teaching adults. I when I mean distraction – I mean for ME. I would not stand for students turning up late for class & distracting my train of thought – so I would lock the door 10 minutes after class began. As there were 2X 45 minute segments – they had to wait 45 minutes. As a result – almost no-one ever turned up late!

But from what I hear, in all areas of education – from infants to university – actual standards of coherent content, as well as delivery of instruction, has declined beyond what many of us would recognise. It had been disguised under the dubious standard of “progress”. But since it has largely been at the behest of Marxists, it is anything but.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 6, 2023 11:23 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 11:29 am

Bridget Phetasy
@BridgetPhetasy

“Rape videos or it didn’t happen” is a pretty disgusting hill to die on–and yet here some of you are.

https://x.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1732155637260288033?s=20

shatterzzz
December 6, 2023 11:31 am

Bit of cheerful news out of Israel ….
https://youtu.be/KJ_0rUL3CGg

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 6, 2023 11:32 am

Indolent
Dec 6, 2023 10:46 AM

Really?

Thanks for bringing it into the new thread. The Wikileaks links can be found here

Clinton Email Files here – https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/

Thanks Indolent – have bookmarked both files & will work my way through reading

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 6, 2023 11:33 am

I would not stand for students turning up late for class & distracting my train of thought – so I would lock the door 10 minutes after class began.

Not an option available in university lecturing, Vicki, although it would be interesting to try it. We had to rely on techniques for managing an audience and not ceding control to any rowdiness. Good preparation and focus on clear delivery are what got me through, plus a bit of humour. If most are interested and want to learn then peer pressure also assists. I think this would be harder in the schoolroom though, where the seating around tables with interesting distractions to hand (like mobile phones, shudder) would make the job of teaching so much harder.

Bring back the ‘lecture’ situation to schoolrooms too. Control is built in to the lectern up front, where attention is directed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 6, 2023 11:33 am

Secretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken

Today, I announced a new visa restrictions policy targeting individuals and their family members involved in or meaningfully contributing to actions that undermine peace, security, and stability in the West Bank. Violence against civilians will have consequences.

https://x.com/SecBlinken/status/1732093745380659342?s=20

A couple of thoughts.
First, is this a – gasp – Muslim ban?
Second, the US is limiting the granting of visas, where Australia is embracing it. Something not quite right.

John
John
December 6, 2023 11:34 am

The way I read the MSM, that alleged “kiss” seems to be critical as to whether Bruce is guilty or not. They’ve been harping on it for days now.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
December 6, 2023 11:34 am

Labor “Ministers of the Crown” squirming a bit at their presser.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 11:36 am

Anybody who has seen different socio-economic groups parent their children will be in no doubt why education results vary so widely. It isn’t the ski holidays and Europe in the summer. No amount of Che Guava mumbo jumbo from the State School Teachers Union will change that.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 11:38 am

Hmmm where’s autocorrect when you really need it?

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2023 11:39 am

Why mobiles have been allowed for so long before the recent backlash is beyond me. I wouldn’t stand for any distractions – even teaching adults. I when I mean distraction – I mean for ME. I would not stand for students turning up late for class & distracting my train of thought – so I would lock the door 10 minutes after class began. As there were 2X 45 minute segments – they had to wait 45 minutes. As a result – almost no-one ever turned up late!

No. You just turn up the speakers to deafening levels until everyone shuts up. People can be late, you don’t know how insane the other instructors are or if they have a legitimate reason like a motor vehicle accident. Quite frankly getting them to do anything but sit there like dummies was the real challenge. Interactive learnin’ and actually doing the readings? Good luck!

PS if you locked them in these days, that’s a risk for a spicy anssault accusation.

But from what I hear, in all areas of education – from infants to university – actual standards of coherent content, as well as delivery of instruction, has declined beyond what many of us would recognise. It had been disguised under the dubious standard of “progress”. But since it has largely been at the behest of Marxists, it is anything but.

Content is QA reviewed and there is no hiding from bad teaching. A friend of mine writes a lot of subject outlines etc. She said that assessment feedback is now being demanded to be short videos! Seems like a like a lot of work for nothing. I imagine piss poor Marxist teaching would only go on where it was put on by leadership.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 6, 2023 11:40 am

Rabz

Dec 6, 2023 10:38 AM

getting close to peak Gillard for Albo

Bear, we’ll know this when his meeja fluffers beginning bellowing incessantly “he just needs some clear air!”.

And not forgetting, “How can we help, Prime Minister?”

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 6, 2023 11:42 am

And not forgetting, “How can we help, Prime Minister?”

Where do you start?

Dot
Dot
December 6, 2023 11:42 am

Bring back the ‘lecture’ situation to schoolrooms too.

Strictly speaking is not appropriate to university level topics. You’re going to give a lecture on genetic engineering and not allowing any questions because the tutorial/lecture system that emerged in the medieval period?

The market has moved to blended delivery, one upside to the multitude of downsides to COVIDmania.

Winston Smith
December 6, 2023 11:46 am

Winston Smith
Dec 6, 2023 11:37 AM
Digger:
Received your book today, definitely a decent read. Lot’s of good photos.
I’ve already read the bit in chapter 1 about the quarry.
Did you look under the sun visor for the keys? That used to be a favourite place both Jack and Dad ‘hid’ them. ?

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