Australia proudly comes in at 13th most expensive, Have no fear, Bowen will work tirelessly to make us world leaders.
Open Thread – Weekend 13 Dec 2023
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Shatterzzz Strange ..? .. I have always been under the impression that once the Prez election was decided the incumbent…
Indolent November 18, 2024 8:33 am@BreannaMorelloPeople automatically assume you’re a Republican if you’re displaying an American flag.What does that tell you…
Not quite a tradition. Recall John Kerry bleating that the eeeevill Nixon sent him across the border into Cambodia at…
Now you know why the interlectuals wanted the police force educated in institutions they control. Just look at the coppers…
BAM!
This thread dedicated to lip-reading, in all its forms.
Doh 2nd place.
Turd
Yeah 4th 🙂
Fifth
A beautiful painting and much more realistic depiction of Mary than usually seen.
err, am I missing something here, Cats?
So let’s have some Miss Maggie Dodgers and her Hollyweirdettes on this 13th of December … 🙂
Moved across from the old fred.
This, this attitude is the reason we’ve been treading water for the past 20 years.
BHP has one of if not the the highest rates in the world for a large corp outside of US tech.
So Give a li’l, you monstrous personages …
They wore the cloak of free speech, but that’s not what they’ve been doing for years and years.
A few month’s ago, I suggested we’d reached peak woke. We’re at the peak and descending right now.
I posted it in whole because it’s so good.
Gonsky
This open thread for the weekend on 13 December is for next Wednesday.
Moved from the old thread
I didn’t respond to Mad Karen’s (aka JMH) accusations the other day so here it is.
Dover asked for people to donate for the upkeep of the site, and like others here who have sent him money for this purpose, we want to see the site going in order to keep rightwing views in continuance.
This worthless skunk suggests responding to the request and sending few hundred dollars a year for upkeep is corrupt and dishonest. He accuses Dover of corruptly promoting cash for comment. What a junkyard pos of shit.
I bet that not a single one of the battered wives crew have sent a dime.
Let’s try a little transparency. I sent Dover exactly 300 bucks for upkeep back in October, which I done every year since it began.
Has:
Wodney
Driller
Turtlehead
Barking Toad
Mad Karen
and the other battereds
sent even a nickel over the past 3 years of operation?
And this
Moreover, there’s this.
I would estimate the rough cost of running the operation would be around $10,000 a year to be done properly. If you take the personal time and effort Dover puts into running the site, the cost would be closer to at least 30K just to break even (my estimate only).
How about the users/commenters sending him donations to operate the site and help him defray the cost? In the interest of complete transparency, I will from now on announce my donation and when I send it (next October). How about others doing the same?
If Mad Karen and the others want to demonstrate their interest in the site and that it’s not just self-interested trolling, then post the donation you’ve made or will make.
This also applies to others here. If you really want to keep the site going and have it perform better, then make a donation to help things along. The site doesn’t run without money, unfortunately, and even if people have their differences, they can also ignore their personal prejudices and make a donation to help things along.
I think it’s unfair have the site owner take most of the burden if you believe the site has worth and rightwing ideas need to be promoted as well as explored. Send him a donation!
Johannes Leak.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom for the Toons
With what can Hezbollah threaten Israel?
Repost.
Indolent has posted it previously.
Tucker on X (Ep. 46) | The Alex Jones Interview
Formalizing the evil of Hamas – clearly, officially, and openly – analysis
If Israel does not complete its operation in Gaza, we will not be able to eradicate Hamas terrorism.
By AYELET FRISH
For seventy-five years, international media coverage of Israel has been, for the most part, asymmetrical, unfair, and hypocritical.
For decades, the media has depicted Israel as the strong, Goliath-like conqueror and oppressor, and the Palestinians as the weak oppressed nation, in a comparison that is designed to automatically evoke sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
Fake news and a lack of professionalism run rampant in today’s media climate and prevent the truth from coming to light.
It is for these reasons that I firmly believe that Israel must obtain international legitimacy and approval for its just war against the Hamas terrorist regime, and the only impactful way of doing so is by presenting all of the evidence in its possession about the unbelievable atrocities committed by Hamas– clearly, officially, and openly – through its highest offices – the prime minister, the president, and the IDF chief of General Staff.
The battlefield of the 21st century extends far beyond the terror tunnels of Gaza. I am speaking about the battle of public perception in the global media.
I have stated the following on numerous occasions, and I reiterate: Israel has committed a serious error in judgment by not holding an official open-door media event for the foreign press aimed at publicly displaying and exposing the vile acts perpetrated by Hamas.
Since the onset of the war, over 1,000 foreign correspondents have arrived in Israel to cover the aftermath of the October 7th attack and the events that followed.
The fact that these journalists traveled far and wide should have been utilized by Israel’s government to garner widespread support for its operation.
This support is critical. The foreign journalists should have been invited to a massive public press event hosted by an official Israeli agency that their networks would surely broadcast live.
They should have heard and seen firsthand, by Israeli officials and survivors, what happened here on Oct. 7th. They should have been provided with all the evidence in Israel’s possession – the official, undeniable, horrifying documentation of the brutalities that occurred – and they should have published this evidence as part of their coverage of the war.
If we want to have a chance of reaching our two major war objectives – the complete elimination of Hamas and the return of all of our hostages- Israel must gain widespread international support from our allies and the moderate Arab world to see the operation through to the end.
Israel must publicly formalize the evil of Hamas, once and for all.
It must shake the public sphere with a special press conference that would turn into a massive worldwide media event, live-streamed by all the major international networks, hosted by one of Israel’s leaders, under the official capacity of their state office, presenting the official data, forensic pathology reports, the graphic videos, photo evidence, and live testimonies of survivors and released hostages.
And I believe it is still not too late.
We have official autopsy reports from world-renowned forensic pathologists who assisted Israeli colleagues in identifying desecrated bodies and human remains- many of the victims were burned, decapitated, and mutilated, essentially unrecognizable.
These reports paint a clear picture of what Hamas did, and the evidence is all there, in writing by the experts, ready for public review.
We have video footage from security cameras taken from the streets and homes of the kibbutzim, and ambulance footage from the first responders, who are seen running around treating countless civilians and soldiers while under fire. We have security cam footage from the IDF bases that were infiltrated.
We know precisely what Hamas did because we have go-pro and body cam footage from the terrorists captured and killed in Israel, and we have Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) reports from the interrogations conducted with the terrorists who survived.
We have video from the body cams of IDF soldiers and the official forensics reports of the Israeli Police and law enforcement agencies. In short, we have ample sources of official, reliable, and undeniable information that cannot be contested by any government, agency, or human who views them.
All this information must be displayed on the world stage.
The perfect example of how an official display of the evidence steers the public discourse in Israel’s favor is the recent special session held at the United Nations this past Monday, aimed at publicly condemning and raising awareness for Hamas’ sexual violence during the Oct. 7 massacre.
The initiative, spearheaded by Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, included graphic testimonies and records obtained during the Israeli Police investigations of what transpired in southern Israel- a compilation of over 700 testimonies from survivors and tens of thousands of videos that chronicle monstrous and shocking acts.
Hamas terrorists raped and tortured many women and children in the southern Israeli communities. Some were raped to death, others gang-raped. Some women were murdered and then raped. Bodies were dismembered, and some victims were beheaded.
While it is true that Israel has presented the evidence to world leaders such as President Biden, US Secretary of State Blinken, UK Prime Minister Sunak, and French President Macron, it is not enough.
Showing evidence behind closed doors is ineffective, and releasing small snippets on social media is counterproductive, as some might think that the footage was staged or fake.
Some will say that we should be considerate of the sensitivities of readers around the world and spare them the chilling and gory details.
We cannot do that.
If we do not tell the world exactly what happened, these horrors will likely visit their children, because the terror of Hamas-ISIS is spreading across the globe.
After the success of the UN event, I believe that the US Congress should be the next big stage to showcase the horrors of the Hamas attack to the world.
As Israel’s closest ally, and as the world’s greatest superpower and force for good, the United States has a special role to play in exposing the truth and facilitating Israel in garnering international legitimacy.
The most effective way to do this is for the US to hold a special joint session of Congress in the Chamber of the House, or a special open-door congressional committee hearing, centered on displaying official evidence of the October 7th massacre to US leadership, US lawmakers from both chambers and to the entire world, who will surely be watching and reading about the contents of this historic session and the reactions of the congressmembers who were there to witness it in person.
Israel has the hard evidence, and it can easily provide groundbreaking materials to US Congress- evidence that would leave the world astounded and horrified.
Israeli officials dealing with hostages and survivors can facilitate bringing brave individuals to give live testimonies of survival, abuse, rape, and torture on center stage.
Israel must bring its top officials and leadership to present this documentation of horror to its allies in Congress.
There will not be a dry eye in the room when this happens. America, as the world’s leading superpower and a beacon of values, morality, and justice, must do this for the sake of the entire world.
The world must realize that the atrocities that Hamas committed were not perpetrated because of a land dispute, or because Israel conquered Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
Hamas wants the world to think that their actions took place as a response to Israel’s rule over Gaza, which is simply untrue.
They attacked because of their fanaticism.
If we do not expose the truth about Hamas in a big way, if Israel doesn’t complete its operation in Gaza, the threat of Hamas terrorism will not be eradicated from the world.
There is more by this Lady & the rest is worth the read
a dime.
a nickel
JC – I’ve just had a look in my purse – I don’t have any of these things.
I would be surprised if this lip-reader’s evidence has much impact on Lehrmann’s case.
Channel 10 seem to think it will.
Evidently we haven’t had enough Hitler documentaries on TV to educate people about the evils of totalitarianism.
Watching Leave the World Behind on Netflix last night & I saw the Obama’s have an executive producer credit.
I went down that rabbit hole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Ground_Productions
To me it seems like a front to funnel Netflix shareholder funds into the Obama’s pockets.
Bet you’re just a filthy little parasite, toad.
Ever sent a donation seeing you’re a concern troll.
$300 Max.
Daily Telegraph goes full snowflake:
“Harrowing footage” of Pali prisoners – in their underpants! Hands tied!
It would have been even more “harrowing” if one of the slobs was wearing a suicide vest under his Demis Roussos mumu and detonated.
Naaa. 10K with all the consulting work he’s said he’s had done. Min.
Good call by the DT now everyone will see claims if no food supplies in Gazastan is just BS
Apparently a heatwave will “lash” the east coast today.
Oh my! We have a brutal weather system on the way. Take care Cats. Stay safe.
Consulting services for what?
It was to do with the slowness in loading up. He said he brought tech guys in to help him. How much was the hourly rate? Recall how effortlessly the old Cat worked? Sinc was paying for hosting functions for the guy running Ozblogdom. Before that, there were massive problems with the old Cat too. The old blog cost around 10K plus a year to operate in that way. There’s a shitload of comments on here. It’s not a blog that has accumulated 279 comments over 15 years! 🙂
In any event, ask Dover how much it costs.
So Sydny gets the “hottest day in years”.
Does this mean it has been cold for years?
The cold, of course, is caused by globule warmening.
The point really isn’t how much the blog costs.
It was GMH’s unhinged assertion that JC got “special privileges” here and would be banned if he wasn’t a contributor.
The solution is, of course, for GMH to start up GMH.blogspot and immediately ban JC.
He would rightfully say none of my business.
I don’t think you’re helping Dover by dragging him into your personal battles.
JC
Dec 9, 2023 3:55 AM
None of your farking business Big Nose and nosy parker. Stick to your self promotion. You need it Big Time.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
– Mark Twain
Canada Limiting Oil and Gas Industry Emission
Canada has announced a plan to use a cap-and-trade system to impose greenhouse gas emission limits on its oil and gas industry. Under the “draft framework,” Canada will issue emissions allowances to oil and gas producers, which will be capped at levels between 35% and 38% below 2019 levels, beginning in 2030. The government will then continue to lower allowances in stages until the industry reaches net zero by 2050.
Ottawa plans to finish drafting regulations by next year, with a final plan in place by 2026. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault called the plan “ambitious” but “practical.” “It considers the global demand for oil and gas, and the importance of the sector in Canada’s economy, and sets a limit that is strict, but achievable,” Guilbeault said. This is all part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan for Canada to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, which he announced during his election in 2021.
Critics state that the timeframe is simply not achievable for the world’s fourth-largest oil producer and fifth-largest natural gas producer. Federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson admitted that the government is uncertain how they will implement these measures without shutting down production entirely. A failed execution “would essentially make us poorer in Canada and make our American friends or folks in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere richer,” he stated.
Globalists everywhere are making lofty pledges on the heels of the COP28 summit. The only rush comes when attempting to meet these arbitrary targets. The only reason governments are targeting 2030 and 2050 is because they were directed to do so by Klaus Schwab and the globalists at the World Economic Forum. It will be interesting to see the final plans for this idea that sacrifices Canada’s economic health for the climate change psyops.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/canada-limiting-oil-and-gas-industry-emission/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Further to the woke tyranny that is out of control on US universities, in companies both here in Oz and in across the West, in sporting codes and so on, I’ve long argued here on these pages that there is still one thing we have up our sleeve that we can use to smash wokery with and that is good old fashioned dosh…
PULL THE DOSH
And you know what, Sanchez? If all you’re doing is posting comments that you agree with someone and how good is that, and then running a grudge against me because I belittled the weirdo one time due to his groveling act over at the lollipop blog when it first started. It’s not communism, and the poisonous little worm should be at the bottom of the pyramid and considered as someone with zero to offer.
And yes, he once boasted of running a blog. Imagine that success. Same as Mr 279 comments over 15 years. Busy, busy little beavers just brimming with advice. No concern trolling there at all. Fcking lowrent douchbags.
Cassie
Did you see the comment above? The evil UPenn bint was fired by the board. She got the size 10!
As I’ve maintained, we’ve reached peak woke and now descending down the other side of the rubble.
I get a strange feeling this Ivy League bullshit they pulled has the hallmarks of Bud Lite incident. The damage that’s been done will be counted in years in terms of the brand.
Don’t fck with American Jews. If only they learned a lesson and moved over to the GOP side though. 🙂
From the Paywallion, the Sluttany Higgins trainwreck rolls on:
Taxpayers entitled to truth on Higgins’ $2.4m payment
One does not need to be a genius to work out the bigger the payout agreed by the Albanese government to Brittany Higgins, the worse it looked for the Liberals.
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
From Inquirer
December 9, 2023
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From Inquirer
December 9, 2023
10 MINUTE READ
On February 11, 2021, just a few days before Brittany Higgins aired a rape allegation against Bruce Lehrmann on The Project, the former Liberal staffer texted her then boyfriend. “I’m just stressy that this will all become a litigious matter now,” she wrote to David Sharaz.
That would prove to be an understatement. This tawdry national debacle, arising from Higgins’s allegation that Lehrmann raped her in Parliament House on March 23, 2019, is into its fourth year, with more to come in 2024, and has become one of the nation’s biggest legal gorge fests.
Just about every person involved has had their interests represented by lawyers. Not just Higgins and Lehrmann, or just Higgins’s former bosses, Linda Reynolds and Fiona Brown. Lehrmann’s barrister, Steve Whybrow SC, and former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold had senior lawyers defending their interests at the board of inquiry earlier this year. To top it off, former judge Walter Sofronoff KC, who conducted that inquiry into claims of political interference, has had to engage lawyers to defend him from claims by Drumgold in litigation slated for next year.
We, the taxpayers, are the only people who have not had our interests represented. That needs to change next year because our interests need protecting.
Whatever the result of the defamation trial by Lehrmann against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, taxpayers will want to know the truth behind the $2.445m payment to Higgins by the Albanese government in December last year. That’s how much taxpayers were effectively forced to deposit into the pockets of Higgins and her lawyers when the commonwealth inked a secret settlement on December 13.
Brittany Higgins’ compensation
$400,000 for hurt, distress and humiliation
$1,480,000 as a capital payment for loss of earning capacity
$220,000 for medical and like expenses arising from the alleged sexual assault
$100,000 for past and future domestic assistance
$245,000 to cover legal costs
TOTAL: $2,445,000
WHAT THE COMMONWEALTH SIGNED OFF
Without any admissions of liability, the parties have agreed to resolve all claims by Ms Higgins against the beneficiaries (apart from) … Bruce Lehrmann; Senator Linda Reynolds and Senator Michaelia Cash.
Higgins testified on Tuesday that “the commonwealth admitted that they breached their duty of care and that they didn’t go through proper processes, so that’s actually why they settled with me”.
In fact, the deed of release, dated December 13, 2022, expressly states that the parties have agreed to resolve all claims between them “without any admissions of liability”. That acknowledgment is repeated later in the deed.
The deed, now public after being tendered this week during the defamation proceedings, was settled with a series of annexures that detail only Higgins’s version of events.
Higgins was paid $1.48m for loss of earnings calculated over 40 years of claimed incapacity; $400,000 for hurt, distress and humiliation; $220,000 for medical expenses; $100,000 for “past and future domestic assistance”; and $245,000 for legal costs. This settlement was reached just days after the then DPP decided not to proceed with a second trial against Lerhmann.
This settlement was reached despite the fact Higgins’s claims about the behaviour of senators Reynolds and Michaelia Cash and Reynolds’s then chief of staff, Brown, were hotly contested at the first trial, which ended due to jury misconduct. And they remain contested. Nor do we know if the commonwealth made any investigation at all about the reasonableness of Higgins’s claim for 40 years of lost income or any of the other amounts claimed by Higgins, although given the speed and lack of formal proceedings with which the matter was settled, taxpayers are entitled to ask questions about these matters, too.
The settlement was made in haste, in secret, and with many serious legal and political questions left unanswered about the conduct of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Anthony Albanese, along with the Department of Finance and the Attorney-General’s Department.
It’s curious to digest this deed in tandem with the defamation trial in Sydney.
The commonwealth’s deed has attached to it a document titled “Events complained about”. Higgins claimed that Brown “made it clear by her words and demeanour that the events of March 22-23, 2019 must be put to one side and that the claimant needed to remain silent about the sexual assault, in order to keep her job/career … In that context the claimant felt she had no choice but to abandon pursuit of the complaint of sexual assault with the AFP.”
In court on Tuesday, Justice Michael Lee asked Higgins to explain precisely what Brown said or did. “You’ve given a lot of evidence about what you felt,” the judge said. “I want to know what she said or what she did, which you said amounted to an obstruction, so you had to choose between your career and making a complaint to the police?”
Now there’s a judge who knows how to test claims.
Brown told The Australian earlier this year that after Higgins alluded to sexual activity, Reynolds suggested that Higgins might wish to speak with the Australian Federal Police. Brown found the phone number, checked where the AFP offices were and offered to show Higgins where they were located.
Why didn’t the Albanese government test the veracity of Higgins’s claims before shelling out more than $2.4m to her? An investigation is needed to determine the links between Higgins and her partner, Sharaz, with the Prime Minister, Dreyfus, Gallagher and any other Labor MP or person on their behalf.
Higgins claimed in court last week it was not her intention to damage the Morrison government. That is at odds with texts between her and Sharaz, whom Higgins started dating before her interview in February 2021 with The Project.
On March 26, 2021, for example, Higgins said of Morrison: “He’s about to be f..ked over. Just wait. We’ve got him.” It is believed Higgins was referring to her and Sharaz’s belief Morrison’s office had been “backgrounding” against them. Sharaz – who Higgins said in court last week had a “grudge” against the Coalition at the time they met – made frequent disparaging remarks in his texts to Higgins about the then prime minister, at one point telling Higgins: “I still hate the c…”.
The tranche of text messages seen by this newspaper revealed Higgins and Sharaz had directly enlisted the support of senior Labor figures to pursue her allegation of rape and her allegation that the Coalition government tried to cover it up – these claims were unproven at the time the Albanese government paid Higgins over $2.4m, and they remain unproven.
We know the Attorney-General muzzled Reynolds in her defence against Higgins’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit, threatening to tear up an agreement to pay Reynolds’s legal fees and any costs awarded unless she agreed not to attend a mediation.
We know the deed signed by the commonwealth and Higgins included a release from any past, existing or future claims against the commonwealth. But the release by Higgins specifically excludes Reynolds and Cash from certain future claims.
Was the Albanese government leaving the door open for Higgins to make future claims against Reynolds, knowing this would cause more political problems for the senator and the Liberals?
This matter and its referral by Reynolds to the National Anti-Corruption Commission two months ago is the first and biggest test for the newly created NACC. It’s not about Reynolds. It’s about the proper administration of government and taxpayer funds. To cut to the chase: did the Albanese government agree to pay Higgins a multimillion payment in secret in return for what they perceived to be services rendered for her role in bringing down the Morrison government by taking her allegation to the media before formalising a police complaint? Once Higgins decided to do that, the then Labor opposition went hell for leather in parliament, and in the media, to destroy Reynolds, Cash, Brown and especially Morrison.
Once the Morrison government was defeated in May last year, the new Albanese government was free to settle with Higgins. One does not need to be a genius to work out the bigger the payout agreed by the Albanese government to Higgins, the worse it looked for the Liberals.
It is also important to remember the rape allegation is separate and distinct from Higgins’s allegations against Reynolds and Cash. Millions of dollars have been spent on the conflicting claims in the he said/she said battle. Taxpayers are entitled to be fed up with this part of the saga. But we should be engaged on the fact the commonwealth didn’t spend a dollar testing the conflicting claims between Higgins on the one hand and Reynolds, Cash and Brown on the other.
We are entitled to understand what kind of potential precedents are being set by the commonwealth’s handling of these cases. A payment to former Liberal staffer Rachelle Miller was settled by the Albanese government in July last year. Miller, who worked for former Liberal minister Alan Tudge and Cash between 2016 and 2018, had filed a complaint with the Department of Finance alleging bullying, harassment and discrimination at work, and made high-profile allegations against Tudge. She was paid $650,000, which included $300,000 for hurt, distress, humiliation, dislocation of life, loss of professional standing and impairment of personal dignity. Were Miller’s claims checked? Or was this another payment waved through for political reasons?
The Australian understands that before this settlement, and after The Project interview, Miller left a voice message on Higgins’s phone, asking whether she might be interested in being part of a possible class action, presumably against the commonwealth. That does not appear to have eventuated, with Miller signing off on a deed of settlement in July last year, five months before the commonwealth settled with Higgins. What other similar payments have been made that we do not know about?
We know the payment to Higgins, and the manner in which it was done, stands in stark contrast to how military veterans are treated when making claims for mental impairment or physical injury suffered in the course of their work.
This week Barnaby Joyce put this question on notice to the Albanese government: “In respect of veterans’ compensation and other payments: For each of the past 10 years how many veterans or dependants received compensation since the current government took office? For each month, how many veterans or dependants received compensation or other forms of payments totalling at least $2.3m? In each case, what was the timeframe from the lodgement of the claim, to approval for payment? Without requesting identifiable personal information, to what injuries, conditions or circumstances did each payment relate?”
We await the answer.
The political questions about this payment are as murky as the legal ones. Taxpayers are entitled to know whether the deed settled with Higgins complied with the Legal Services Directions. It is not enough that we have a few throwaway lines from the Attorney-General that everything is hunky dory. As an 18-year-old Mandy Rice Davies quipped once, he would say that, wouldn’t he.
If the department responsible for this settlement did not test the veracity of Higgins’s claims, how can the department, on behalf of the commonwealth, be meeting its obligations to act as a “model litigant” under the Legal Services Directions? Appendix C to those directions, headed Criteria For Settlement, includes this direction: “Settlement on the basis of legal principle and practice requires the existence of at least a meaningful prospect of liability being established. In particular, settlement is not to be effected merely because of the cost of defending what is clearly a spurious claim.”
An investigation is needed to ascertain whether the department followed the additional criteria set down in those guidelines that apply to settlements over $100,000. Without that, how can taxpayers be satisfied that public money is being paid for valid claims?
Given what we already know about this secret payment by the Albanese government, and the questions it raises about the improper administration of government and possible misuse of taxpayer funds, if the NACC does not launch a full-scale investigation, many will be forced to ask whether this new body is nothing more than a political show pony.
Speaking of which, why didn’t the teals demand a NACC investigation into this secret, uncontested payment to Higgins given they based their election campaigns on cleaning up politics with an anti-corruption commission?
Before it’s over there will be many political, legal and moral lessons from this frightful saga. While many issues remain hotly contested by the various protagonists, there is less room for disagreement about one matter. This expensive, damaging public farce began when two young staff members decided to enter Parliament House in the early hours of March 23, 2019, in a serious breach of security rules.
The potential political karma is clear, too. The merciless exploitation of Higgins to damage the Morrison government might turn into a political nightmare for the Albanese government.
In the meantime, taxpayers face their own nightmare. We have funded a criminal trial, a public board of inquiry, paid for the courts and judges to accommodate myriad defamation actions, watched as our elected representatives have had to spend time on this debacle. Surely we are entitled to know whether the Albanese government’s secret $2.4m payment to Higgins that relied only on her claims was corrupted by politics.
JANET ALBRECHTSEN COLUMNIST
For the record, I give a small monthly donation to Dover, a donation I am more than happy to give so that Dover can offset costs. This blog is important for people to come and vent opinion on political, economic and cultural issues, and I reckon we will need this space more than ever over the next few years. I don’t see my donation as according me any special privileges, it is simply to help with blog maintenance.
It was GMH’s unhinged assertion that JC got “special privileges” here and would be banned if he wasn’t a contributor.
“unhinged” is accurate, and utter chutzpah coming from someone who, as the JC born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago once said, is not herself/himself/itself without sin.
Which obviously means you’ve contributed zero to the upkeep of running this blog that allows you to peddle hogwash from a plagiarizing convicted felon. You lowrent, parasitical limey wog, Wodney.
Chuck Schumer is a Threat to the World
“The Republicans have blocked funding for Ukraine, demanding restraints on the unrelenting onslaught of illegal aliens. Chuck Schumer has put out the propaganda that will risk everything the world has worked for since World War II. The Democrats are on board with the Neocons. The only way they can continue this insane agenda as we watch the world rising up and turning against the left in Argentina, Brazil, and Germany as the Greens collapse to 7% approval ratings, even in Alberta, Canada, invoking the Sovereignty Act against Trudeau, they know their days are numbered. Trump is 47 points ahead of all Republicans, and if the election were today without illegal aliens voting, he would wipe the floor clean in Washington.
That said, the Democrats are desperate. Schumer astonishingly lied to the world, which promotes World War III, claiming that the Republicans daring to block funding for Ukraine and Israel means we are just a step away from letting Vladimir Putin “walk right through Ukraine and right through Europe.” Not only is Russia not interested in invading Europe. Communism fell, and they REFUSE to acknowledge that fact. The people overthrew Communism and have no intention of going back. They demonize Putin as propaganda for their agenda, as they have done to Trump, Saddam Hussein, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and Bashar al-Assad. That’s a psychological tactic to get people to hate their opponents.
What Schumer is really saying is the Democrats are desperate for votes. In other words, under no condition will the Democrats close the border. They intend to grant these people citizenship by executive order so they can win in 2024.
“Republicans just blocked a very much needed proposal to send funding for Ukraine, funding for Israel, humanitarian aid for innocent civilians in Gaza, and funding for the Indo-Pacific,” Schumer said, If there is a word for what we most need now, it is to be serious.”
They know the tide is turning. Their policies have reduced the living standards for everyone and increased crime. Just wait until we have terrorist attacks next year, thanks to the open borders. The 49-51 vote reflected this disconcerting trend within Congress that has become a source of distress for the Neocons and their puppets – the Democrats. When Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, aiding Kyiv was a bipartisan project. In May of that year, a $40bn Ukraine aid package sailed through the House with a vote of 368-57 and the Senate with a vote of 86 -11.
Many ask me if I will attend the New York Annual Coin Show. The answer is NO WAY! The days of New York City are over. Wall Street is quietly moving to Miami. They tax everything, reform nothing, and the city is in its final stages of decline and fall, following the same path as the collapse of Rome, the city itself. They are swapping economic-producing people they overtax for the unskilled people who have flooded in for free food.
They will now impose a Congestion Tax using the excuse of cleaner air when they are just broke. What’s next? Taxing you for breathing out CO2 to prevent climate change? New York City just voted to slash funding for sanitation. So we get cleaner air and dirty streets? New York City is now a breeding ground overrun with rats, historically the source of plagues. The police budget is declining by $5.6 billion as well at a time when crime is through the roof and the city’s infrastructure is crumbling as busloads of illegals arrive daily. Sorry, last year, two coin dealers were robbed. If you buy anything there, you pay sales tax if you leave with it, so this is taxation without representation.
I prefer to stay clear of NYC. When Schumer, Hochul, and AOC represent it, it is like a foreign country. Marxism has consumed politics in New York, and the people, with their politicians, refuse to open their eyes to see the decline and fall unfolding. NYC’s days are numbered. Just like Rome, when they opened the border during the reign of Valens, it took at best 6 years for the city to collapse. Representatives throughout the Thirteen Colonies met in New York City in 1765 to organize resistance to Crown policies. That was 258 years ago, and 3 x 8.6 = 25.8. NYC is doomed. The charges against Trump can be brought against any company in New York, whoever borrowed. They can now claim you overvalued your collateral to get the loan as if the Bank does not have its own appraisers. The hatred for Trump by Democrats in NYC reminds me of Herbert Hoover’s apology in his memoirs. They are desperate for money. They will take what they do to Trump and apply it to other companies for the big bucks. If you have property in NYC – it’s time to sell. You are better off just renting if you cannot leave.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/immigratin/chuck-schummer-is-a-threat-to-the-world/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
PULL THE DOSH
Won’t happen .. it’s all that Luigi & plenty wrong understand about how to make “friends” .. splash ’em with cash .. as long as it’s OPM, of course ……….!
An infernal alliance
Melanie Phillips – Dec 8, 2023
Liberal society is marching shoulder to shoulder with the savages of Islamic holy war
The evidence is becoming overwhelming of a profound moral collapse in the west.
An excerpt:
Today’s a great day to wash a quilt.
You don’t get too many 40 degree plus days these days so you need to use the opportunity when they arise.
Better than taking one to the cleaners & have it stink of their industrial cleaning.
Gerard Henderson in today’s Oz:
gerard hendersonNothing ‘silent’ in anti-Semitism of self-delusional left
GERARD HENDERSON
12:00AM DECEMBER 9, 2023
4 COMMENTS
It was quite a sight to behold. On Monday, Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week and a high-profile critic of contemporary Israel, was the subject of a soft interview on ABC TV’s 7.30 program. The interviewer was Laura Tingle.
Towards the end of the segment, Tingle asked: “As a Jewish Australian, I wonder how you see what has been happening in terms of the capacity for people to speak out.” Adler replied: “Well, I think it’s a tragedy that we are being silenced.”
So there was Adler on one of the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster’s leading current affairs programs, complaining she lacked a platform. It’s called self-delusion.
And now for a brief backstory. Apart from being 7.30’s chief political correspondent and occasional presenter, Tingle files a column for The Weekend Australian Financial Review. On Saturday, December 2, she wrote in support of three actors who took a curtain call at the Sydney Theatre Company’s performance of The Seagull the previous Saturday wearing keffiyehs around their shoulders.
This trio were indicating their support for Palestinians in the current Israel-Gaza war. The other two actors did not join the silent demonstration. Tingle objected to the criticism directed at the trio and complained about “the bitter and dangerous reductionism in political debates in Australia”. Meaning the likes of the keffiyeh-wearing trio were being silenced.
Tingle then complained that some unnamed politicians along with some media outlets “seem to be emphasising only a rise in anti-Semitism in Australia without acknowledging a rise in Islamophobia”. More self-delusion.
In recent times, chants of “f..k the Jews” and “gas the Jews” have been heard on Sydney’s streets. And convoys of men have headed from their suburbs to protest against Israel in areas of Sydney and Melbourne in which many Jewish Australians live. Muslim Australians have not been subjected to similar intimidation. Tingle should be aware of this.
In any event, on December 2, Tingle backed the STC actors who engaged in the protest. Then on Monday, December 4, in her capacity as acting presenter, Tingle spoke to Adler, whom she knew supported the views in her AFR column, on 7.30.
Adler ran the intellectually pretentious line that “actors, artists, writers have always had political views”, implying they should always be noted. And she quoted poet Percy B. Shelley as saying artists are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. This is arrant nonsense. When it comes to international and national politics, actors are no better qualified to comment than stagehands or makeup artists. There is no causal connection between political judgment and artistic skills.
Moreover, Adler does not seem to appreciate that there is a difference between an actor signing a petition or putting up a post and stating their views before a captive audience, the members of which have no right of reply.
Adler went on to complain about the “Israel lobby” and to mock STC donors who threatened to withdraw support from the company “from the comfort of their airconditioned theatre”. The implication was that this amounted to a case of wealthy Jews behaving badly – since some Jewish donors had complained about the demonstration.
However, neither Adler nor Tingle condemned the barbarity of the Hamas terrorists who invaded southern Israel on October 7 – raping women and murdering babies in the process. It was not that kind of interview.
Adler also complained that attempts had been made to silence her choice of speakers on Palestinian literary culture at the AWW this year. But she failed to mention that the 2023 taxpayer-subsidised AWW was a left-wing stack that included two Palestinian artists who had engaged in anti-Semitism. I wrote about this in my column on February 25.
What was missing from 7.30 on Monday was any debate. Michael Gawenda is the author of the recently published My Life as a Jew (Scribe) and a former editor of The Age. Like Adler, Gawenda is a person of the left – but he does not embrace the green-left desire to have Israel wiped off the map and he is genuinely, and correctly, concerned about the rise of rampant anti-Semitism in Western nations.
An Adler/Gawenda debate would have made for lively television. But such discussions are rare on the ABC these days. Gawenda has penned a withering critique of the Tingle/Adler interview in his Gawenda Unleashed! on Substack. Read it for a glimpse of what ABC censorship prevents viewers from witnessing.
The absence of debate on the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster has been acknowledged, albeit reluctantly, by the ABC. It has just released the report of the Referendum Coverage Review Committee – signed off by Mark Maley, the ABC’s manager of editorial policies.
It is known that the ABC tries very hard to provide balance in the lead-up to elections and referendums. It kind of sets up a stopwatch to calculate balance between the contested parties. Even so, this was not achieved with respect to the October 14 referendum on whether an Indigenous voice to parliament and the executive should be placed in the Constitution.
According to Maley, “of the coverage that expressed a position on the voice, 51 per cent was in support and 23 per cent was against”. Yet on October 14, 39 per cent voted yes and 61 per cent voted no. Maley wrote that “all (ABC) teams reported that it was significantly more difficult getting No voices to speak on the record”.
He pointed out that “Senator (Jacinta) Nampijinpa Price declined at least 52 interview requests with the ABC”. Price told Nine newspapers her “role in this campaign was to ask Australians to vote no … not to boost the ratings on the failing activist ABC”.
That’s the problem for the ABC. Many political conservatives decline invitations to appear on programs because they get confronted by hostile journalists and/or audiences, or because they cannot be bothered. While other conservatives have been “cancelled”, Price is an example of the former; Gawenda of the latter. Meanwhile, the likes of Adler get soft questions from Tingle while asserting “it is impossible to be a critic of Israel”.
Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog blog can be found at theaustralian.com.au.
GERARD HENDERSON
And include the support and part played by Palestinians in Gaza, not only Hamas, and the celebrations of it by their supporters around the world. Don’t let all the others off the hook by making it exclusively about Hamas.
Reading JANET ALBRECHTSEN’s column I get the feeling that the criteria in play there was used to vet the “due diligence” side of the Gaza “humanitarian” intake ..!
“When we (gummint) say we dun somethin’ right & proper-like it’s your job as the vote-her to believe it .. not raise queries … soooo F**K ORF!” ……
While the hostages remain hidden in Gaza, the IDF are in the midst of processing a crime scene. A crime scene in which the criminals still roam free and attack and continue to kill.
Sadly, the time for the hostage return has passed and they are likely dead. Which makes it even more imperative that they are found and the perpetrators prosecuted. If this happened anywhere else it the world, it would be perfectly reasonable.
If this happened anywhere else it the world, it would be perfectly reasonable.
Indeed, but when it comes to Israel, Jews and Jews having the right to defend ourselves, the world is perfectly unreasonable.
Hamas has executed another hostage and pretends they thwarted an attempt to rescue him
I have watched the video of Saar Baruch from Kibbutz Be’eri who identified himself on it
In the end we see his severely beaten corpse with multiple bruises & swelling on his face
Not sharing
Janet Albrechtsen laments the (net)taxpayer $ spent on the trials and inquiries concerning Higgins’ allegations. On the other hand, the now daily revelations will feed the descent from Wokeism noted above by JC. The media will now be more careful about running campaigns that promote supposed MeToo victims. Many of the public now know the truth.
Add this result to the NO vote, which involved another sizeable drain on Consolidated Revenue, and we can hope that key elements of the grievance industry have suffered lasting losses
A hamasisis called lord bebo has linked the murder vid in the thread. Not watching.
Poor boy, may his memory be a blessing.
Give them hell, Israel.
I take studies and papers with a heap of scepticism. You can easily find ones to support just about eny theoretical theory nodays and conformation bias is rampant.
Not that I disagree with it just saying thay are being use not to consult but to force change. Also way to many people fussing over how other people live.
Lol and rent a two bedroom on the upper east side at 8k a month without being able to deduct rent against tax, like you can with mortgage interest.
Good point.
He’s wearing a freaking ankle bracelet unable to leave his bed sit.
As I’ve maintained, we’ve reached peak woke and now descending down the other side of the rubble.
I think you might be right, JC, I hope you’re right, however as the divine Lozza Fox says, wokeism destroys everything, and coming out of it we find ourselves standing in literal rubble!
Quite frankly I’d be happy to see ALL universities across the West reduced to rubble because, as the sublime Gad Saad says, these mind viruses all originated in universities, specifically in the humanities departments.
Poor boy, may his memory be a blessing.
Give them hell, Israel.”
I have tears coming down my face.
You know what makes me really angry, it’s leftist western scum, be it the Laura Shingles, the Abbie Chatfields, the Chlamydia Fords, the Hideous Thorpes, and all the rest of the leftist scum who are now open and unapologetic apologists for rapists and murderers.
Beertruk
Dec 9, 2023 7:44 AM
Looking at that itemised compensation list, one would be entitled to think they are taking the p…s.
$100K for domestic help for an otherwise mobile fit person?
I know someone in a wheelchair with no family help, she gets nowhere that.
hamas still firing rockets at Israel
I don’t like Ackman. I think he’s a dick. Despite what’s happened, I think he’d rather lose his limbs than support the GOP.
But boy he’s done tireless work in going after the heads of these ivy leagues. Credit where credit’s due.
Try getting a My Aged Care assessment for someone who can’t walk unaided, can no longer cook, clean, garden. The only thing she can do for herself is hygiene and make a cup of tea.
Mercifully, she has family to look after her and sufficient money to pay for services…up to a point. Pity help anyone who doesn’t have those things.
northern Gaza now at mop up stage.
Goodness, I appear to have been deplatformed – neither of my recent comments accepted and even an offer to donate has disappeared from the ether. If only I knew what crime I had committed! I do have two email addresses, [email protected] and [email protected]. Perhaps I have used the wrong one – but both have been rejected so I have no idea.
Do tell!
93.1% of which are vile useless ghouls determined to smear Israel as “da baddie”.
Technology, any form of new tech and someone will find a way to use it for sexual stuff. It always ends up there.
I just want to be left alone.
This will never get old – lardarsed manboobed moozley yarabs grovelling on the ground in their grundies before the IDF.
Eat it, you vile monstrous terrorist sex pests!
Well got thru ARNHEM by Antony Beevor and quite an eye opener for someone who’s general knowledge of the battle came from the “boys own tally ho” of the movie, A BRIDGE TOO FAR, how divorced from the reality of the slaughter that was Arnhem and the gung ho bravado portrayed in the film is the truth ……!
Thousands of men & “boys” (mainly on the German side) killed, wounded or maimed for the egos of several British generals .. a campaign launched for no other reason than to inflate Montgomery’s image plus satisfy the paratroop commanders desire for “action ..
Very poorly planned due to avoiding/ignoring any negative reports on the strength of the German opposition and dropping paras & supplies so far away from their objectives and, of course, sending a 30kms long column of tanks and support along 64kms of single file highway and expecting it to be a “walk in the park” ..
The reality that taking the bridges only came about because Eisenhower was trying to avoid clashing with Montgomery over ”who’s, really, in charge” issues rather than logical war aims .. Montgomery’s obsession with being better than Patton was the ultimate inspiration for Market Garden .. supported by several of his subordinates longing to get the “paras” airborne ……..
The movie may be excellent but this book lays bare the reality .. not for the squeamish 15/10 ..!
I don’t know how they know but they know
The AFR View
Labor has no grasp of Australia’s need to compete
Everything Anthony Albanese has done since the election betrays an utter indifference to sharpening the ability of a high-cost economy to compete in the global marketplace.
The Albanese government has stunned business by getting its new “same job, same pay” laws to kneecap labour hire companies through parliament this week, after quietly stitching up a deal with crossbench senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock to pass the first parts of the Closing Loopholes Bill.
As the mining industry vows to fight back, it is clear that on economic matters this Labor government first does the bidding of the ACTU and the party’s union paymasters.
There should be no mistaking Labor’s sacrifice of the national interest in doing so.
Anthony Albanese’s pre-election rhetoric was that workers needed jobs in profitable companies.
Everything he has done since betrays an utter indifference to sharpening the ability of a high-cost economy to compete in the global marketplace.
The prime minister, the treasurer and other economic ministers hardly even recognise the issue, preferring thought bubbles about creating a battery industry or hauling super funds to Canberra to wrangle other people’s money into this or that government plan.
Rather than becoming more competitive, the government’s focus is on redistribution and re-regulation – even of Australia’s most successful global industry, where average wages of $150,000 or so are higher than mining pay in the US or Canada, and where almost all workers are permanent and full-time.
The resources industry got Australia through the pandemic and delivered Jim Chalmers’ temporary budget surplus.
More importantly, the forward-facing low carbon mining industry – such as rare earths, lithium and copper – that Australia hopes will take over from coal and gas will face much tougher global competition.
Yet Labor chooses to push it in completely the wrong direction.
Uniquely rigid system
The crucial starting point is that Australia has a uniquely rigid workplace system that prescribes how, when and where jobs are done. Any flexibilities that survive in this framework are important.
The government is using the distorted language of “closing loopholes” to talk about its changes.
But it is really tightening the regulatory screws even harder, slamming the door on flexibilities that are normal in other industrialised countries – or, as BHP puts it, tying businesses in knots.
The most economically damaging parts of the bill are the same job, same pay rules aimed at outside labour hire firms on worksites, and the redefining of casual work.
The first will arbitrarily lift wages with no link to productivity, job experience or the dozens of other factors that make up wages.
Redefining casualisation will force employers, including small business, into a complex 15 tests of casual work status at regular intervals.
In both cases, the burdens of proving they are not affected all fall on employers.
Labor’s hope will be that labour hire firms, essential to mining companies for specific work packages or ramping up capacity quickly, will just give up if they are confronted with perhaps hundreds of different terms and conditions.
The government assured the Australian Resources and Energy Employer Association that legitimate outside service contractors would not be caught up in changes aimed at labour hire firms.
The Australian Hotels Association backed the changes after the threat of back payments and fines for misdefining casuals was reduced.
But AREEA also made it clear that it had read the room on Labor’s political determination to get its way on industrial relations matters.
The rest of the bill, including the redefining of casuals, will be debated in February.
Another independent member of parliament, lower house teal Allegra Spender, argues that flexible work in casual jobs, temporary jobs, independent contracting and the gig economy has been essential for getting people into the workforce and in managing the rising cost of living.
It’s taking a sledgehammer to workers to threaten this, she says.
In the bigger picture, it is difficult to see how Australia’s most fundamental economic problem of declining productivity can be reversed unless workplaces are made more flexible, not less.
Yet Dr Chalmers dismisses any reform in that direction as “scorched earth”.
The government’s strategy of throwing subsidies at favoured industries is no substitute for bad policy settings across the whole economy.
BHP says its plan for a $2 billion copper hub in South Australia is now harder to justify.
Australia has a rapidly growing lithium sector, but it must compete against Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, where extraction methods are easier.
Now a government bent on ignoring Australia’s broader competitiveness is just adding to the costs.
It doesn’t matter how much evidence is presented, muslims aren’t interested and the progressive left will die in a ditch rather than admit they are wrong.
You have to wonder where all the money is coming from for these antisemitic climate crazies.
COP28 panel blames Israel and the U.S. for Palestinian “genocide” (7 Dec)
There’re so many weird groups of maniac green nazis. Someone must be giving them dosh.
alwaysright
Dec 9, 2023 8:44 AM
way to many people fussing over how other people live
I just want to be left alone.
alwaysright,
jsut change your name to Greta Garbo
JC earlier.
This is Marty-speak.
“I tried to shake-down the New York Annual Coin Show for a fat appearance fee but they weren’t having it. So now I’ll slag them up hill and down dale.”
The bureau of mediocrity has forecast a terrifying 44 degrees here in Sydneystan.
I’ll be surprised if it tops 37. Ah – whaddya know – they’ve “revised” the forecast – 38 tops.
BTW, the last 40 degree day we had in Sydneystan was almost precisely three years ago.
Laura Shingles, the Abbie Chatfields, the Chlamydia Fords, the Hideous Thorpes
All of whom went into hysterics at Brite-kees ordeal and any other “feminist” wealth transferring issue, yet somehow square that with supporting the hamarse rape brigades.
Many as in Marty asked himself.
Melanie Phillips
An infernal alliance
and
Complicity with barbarism
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton calls on Foreign Minister Penny Wong to express ‘definite support’ on Israel trip
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has cautiously welcomed Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s announcement she will visit Israel, saying he hopes she does not call for “restraint” in the country’s fight against Hamas.
Max Melzer – Digital Reporter
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called on Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong to show “definite support” for Israel during her planned visit next year.
Labor Senator Wong confirmed the trip on Friday, with the Labor Foreign Minister also set to visit other Middle Eastern nations as part of an effort to resolve the conflict in Gaza.
It is understood the government has been planning the trip for weeks and had been waiting for the war to pass through its initial stage before increasing engagement on the ground.
Mr Dutton, who has repeatedly called for Labor Senator Wong and Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit Israel since the October 7 attack, cautiously welcomed the move, but expressed concerns over what messages would be expressed by the Labor Foreign Minister.
“It’s a welcome move but it’s certainly very late and I think that other countries that indicated their strong and unequivocal support for Israel did it very quickly,” he told Sky News Australia on Friday.
“We know that (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Sunak and other world leaders, including the French President, visited Israel, went to Tel Aviv very early on.
“It’s certainly come very late in the piece, but nonetheless it’s welcome, and I hope instead of telling the Israelis that they need to show restraint, I hope that she (Senator Wong) provides definite support to the Israelis to wipe out Hamas.
“That’s what’s required until people of Jewish faith can live in some peace within Israel.”
Mr Dutton has been highly critical of the government’s response to the war in Gaza, accusing various members of failing to adequately condemn the actions of Hamas and show unequivocal support for Israel.
Labor Senator Wong has consistently expressed support for the Israeli government and its right to defend itself from the militants, but argued “the way it does so matters,” in reference to the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict.
However, other Labor government Ministers have expressed different views.
Amongst the most vocal has been Labor Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic, who claimed Palestinians caught up in the conflict were paying a “horrible price” for acts they had not committed and equated attacks on Gaza to “barbarism.”
Thanks humanity – we have now deliberately nurtured the most invincibly stupid numbskulls to have existed in human history.
Grate work.
*islam being of course, the most feminist of religions.
Censored – The Study That Shows a Staggering 17 Million Deaths After Covid Vaccine Rollout.
Ah Jacqui Lambie, the female Brian Harradine.
How Liberals Let Antisemitism Happen Here
They were all truly horrible humans before Oct 7th.
If here is good in this it is Israel’s determination to show the world what happened then and in doing so , expose these vile supporters of that evil for the hate filled barbarians they are. My sense is many people have woken up to these left woke grubs and are repulsed by them and their views.
And in Gaza, drown every last one of these vermin. Then flatten everything above ground.
Redefining casualisation will force employers, including small business, into a complex 15 tests of casual work status at regular intervals.
In both cases, the burdens of proving they are not affected all fall on employers.
You know what other industry outside mining uses massive numbers of temps, some massively qualified and on 6 figure sums?
Medical.
Has Elbow and his merry band of mongoloids just blown a huge hole in state budgets?
Has he made regional staffing even more of a nightmare?
Biden Admin Sent Billions in Tax Dollars to Fraudulent Solar Company
Was it CL here the other day saying Australia should tell the world to shove it on Net-Zeroes* because “they need our stuff”.
Shortly after that I popped over to the Oz to read about Rio going to the next phase of it’s Simandou iron ore project.
Simandou is in Guinea and the size of the reserve absolutely dwarfs the Pilbara. In fact, it is referred to as the “Pilbara killer” in some quarters.
The world doesn’t “need our stuff” at any price. The majors are now thinking it is easier to do business in Guinea than Australia.
…
* To be clear, I think Net-Zeroes is bullshit. But I take JC’s pragmatic point that we could be left to hang out to dry on this.
Went through the fake and gay palaver which is Year Six Primary School Graduation, last night. Youngest got Art, Lions Club Scholarship and deputy Dux- I got increasingly pissed off at the fake and gay Acknowledgement Of Country, bangin’ didge remix oz anthem, sincere recognition and applause in appreciation of the teachers and staff who are paid to do their job very poorly, parade of primped kids in heels, makeup and dickie hats, renamed factions, made up School Values, oh so casual Mr Capital Letter handles for the oh so casual “teachers”, made up traditional dance, repetition of “learning” used as a noun, endless thanking of commercial sponsors….
and, not one speaker read without notes. Came to my mind because the wind was whipping havoc with the A4 sheets everyone was fishing out and filing away- even a “teacher” with twenty years experience cannot say “Thanks Mrs CJ, thankyou LJ Hooker, congratulations Jaydah, would Mr K please come forward to present the award for Outstanding Achievement in Digital Performance brought to us by our Partners in Learning at Office Choice Dot Com thankyou” without holding down a sheet of reflex with two hands, apparently printed in 11pt half-tone because they’re dipping their head away from the mic to squint their way through the complex incantation…
Anyhoo, that’s us done for Primary School. I wonder how the old pile of bricks is going to be faring when the next generation gets there.
Hunter indictment designed specifically to avoid Joe Biden
Somewhere in sleepy Tassie, a little town gets a brand new community hall.
This is Ed Husic of the selective memory, to him there is no such date as the 7th October 2023. It is so convenient and comforting to have such an incurable condition.
This is why I am not a conservative. There is nothing remaining in the post modern west that is worth conserving.
Governments, bureaucrazees, corporates, quackademia, the various churches, the braindead lamestream meeja …
I just wanna crush kill destroy.
Unfortunately the lesson taken from these documentaries is that it is over, that it only happened because of especially evil and crazy, the holocaust happened because of racism, and the modern conceit of people that they will be courageous and effective fighting back.
That picture of a crowd of Germans doing the Nazi salute, with a single solitary man keeping his arms folded? You know everyone imagines they would be the solitary man.
Oh, and of course they learn that it was a particular inherent danger of the Right, so the Right must be vigilantly watched, people on the Right must constantly check what they say lest they stray into Nazism because somehow Nazism sprung from their beliefs, and the Left need not fear their own beliefs because they are not on the Right. No excess is excessive.
The lesson people should learn is that the danger lies in unthinking and uncompromising subordination to a defective but tyrannical dogma, the danger of letting such dogma divide people into classes of good and bad where the supposedly bad are to be dehumanised pending their removal, the danger of large government that decides what new powers it has whenever it deems it needs it, which enforces laws selectively, and has moved from safeguarding the rights of its citizens to dictating how those ‘freedoms’ are to be enjoyed – what you are ‘free’ to say, to purchase, to believe etc.
There is a reason Nazi Germany was near indistinguishable from Soviet Russia.
To learn these lessons from the Hitler documentaries would be to risk standing against the groupthink.
Like the solitary man in the picture.
We must stop assuming that Labor know anything apart from how to insult the opposition and throw money at everything they like. They have always operated on one hemisphere of the brain.
“You’re all individuals!”
“I’m not!”
We went to an art exhibition in Southhampton while we were staying there. They were exhibiting an exhibition of well known artists who lived in the area.
I’d never heard of her Elaine De Cooning who obviously was the wife of the very famous artist.
He portrait works struck me just how magnificent they are. An incredible talent.
I looked her up through Google and came across this work; a portrait of JFK.
Beyond amazing.
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/john-f-kennedy/XQF-K0o7uDLA-g?hl=en-GB&avm=2
We must be careful that in the process we don’t destroy everything that is good and universally useful though I agree with you that for that we don’t need universities. With the modern technology universities are now obsolete, go for it.
It’s not a single man in Germany now.
Many many people in the West have their eyes wide open regarding the unholy alliance of the progressive left and islam.
Though twitter is not the room, there is a great deal of uncompromising blunt push back against muslim propaganda.
Some people might get a glimpse of reality when muslims alternate between posting pictures of wide eyed gazan children clutching pet cats and gazans stomping the body of a murdered Israeli taxi driver with his eyes gouged out.
Apparently islamophobia is so bad in the UK some muslims are leaving.
Such laughable lies said with straight faces.
If only that were true.
Crossie – Cass made the original observation.
The other items on my laundry list were nominated for very specific reasons.
They could be wiped off the face of the earth as of yesterday and no one with a functioning brain would miss them for so much as a millisecond.
Hamas have a new video out of pristine uniformed terrorists and some fantastic new rockets and eight pack launchers.
They’ve managed to kill a car so far.
It’s the church founded by Christ that is the foundation of our civilisation, only a glib idiot would wish for her destruction.
Viva Christo Rey.
We certainly could.
And that would be political suicide domestically.
That’s why Morrison capitulated.
Oh f*ck off, you sanctimonious twat.
I referred to “churches” for a reason, you f*cking moron – being as they are, infested with woke hypocritical imbeciles, most of whom don’t even believe in God.
Bari Weiss being blamed for the death of Rafaat baking powder, protested against at university of Texas,
Sigh!
Bit early for a stoush.
It’s never too early for a stoush, Rog.
Pity the Saturday morning chores are beckoning.
The president sat for her several times, and she created hundreds of sketches and at least two dozen canvases as she attempted to capture his character and energy.
…so they were bonking. Bloody artists and alpha males, every time…
Probably us by way of our government.
rosie
Dec 9, 2023 9:26 AM
It’s not a single man in Germany now.
Many many people in the West have their eyes wide open regarding the unholy alliance of the progressive left and islam.
rosie,
not enogh people!
I agree with the Article By AYELET FRISH – ealier upthread
Formalizing the evil of Hamas – clearly, officially, and openly – analysis
If Israel does not complete its operation in Gaza, we will not be able to eradicate Hamas terrorism.
It is for these reasons that I firmly believe that Israel must obtain international legitimacy and approval for its just war against the Hamas terrorist regime, and the only impactful way of doing so is by presenting all of the evidence in its possession about the unbelievable atrocities committed by Hamas– clearly, officially, and openly – through its highest offices – the prime minister, the president, and the IDF chief of General Staff.
The battlefield of the 21st century extends far beyond the terror tunnels of Gaza. I am speaking about the battle of public perception in the global media.
I have stated the following on numerous occasions, and I reiterate:
Israel has committed a serious error in judgment by not holding an official open-door media event for the foreign press aimed at publicly displaying and exposing the vile acts perpetrated by Hamas.
From the Comments
– A first class article which makes it crystal clear that fighting a war does necessarily include to fight in the media – by simply exposing the truth.
Footage of the terrible assassination of October 7th is a highly effective weapon in the field of public opinion which indeed must be used to its full extend.
The article also makes clear that UN ambassador Gilad Erdan is the right man at the right place, to say the least.
And it exposes the hypocisy of women’s rights organisations which prefer to keep silent. I wonder what their real goal might be ?
By and large, Ms Ayelet Frish does provide a wake-up call which must not be ignored.
– The Jews built Israel from a tiny scrap of earth.
The Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank have no excuse for not making an effort, on their own, to do the same.
If they wanted to be rid of Hamas they could to it alone. They supposedly outnumber them by millions.
And yes, show the world what these Hamas dogs did to innocent children, women and men. If that doesn’t rally support, then nothing else will.
– Yes I’m shocked why Israel didn’t do that. Most people just don’t have any idea. The Muslims are lying and screaming and Israel is silent.
– Very good, now get the evidence out there!
As per Dastyari, they are pretty good at the game of self enrichment.
When will the wuckkers revolt? (and this is from the ABC)
“Income taxes drove the rise, in the absence of the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LMITO) which ceased over 2022-23,” the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.
Did you catch that? Household payments to the government have risen by nearly a third.
Economists call that a “leakage” although I don’t think that fully captures the extent of liquidity flooding out of households.
“The stand-out feature of today’s national accounts is the massive increase in household income tax payable,” former Treasury economist Warren Hogan said on X.
“[The] end of LMITO and bracket creep has seen a 28 per cent increase over the past year.”
The numbers speak for themselves. In the 2021 September quarter, the total household tax take was $65.1 billion, rising to $90.9 billion in the most recent data.
That is a dollar increase of $25.8 billion or a 40 per cent lift.
A decade ago the quarterly September tax take was $43.9 billion, so it has more than doubled in the past decade.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-09/tax-hitting-household-savings-more-than-interest-rates/103206806
OldOzzie at 8:53
Happens every time. Burqa delivering in spades for da bruvvas. Take note Lieborals.
Roger
We could, sure.
And they’d raise trade taxes on our imports and exports. They would do that in a heartbeat against us too in order to keep the horses from bolting. They tried it with the US and Trump made big threats back against the Euroweenies causing them to back off.
Trump has to get back in and destroy net zero.
Those multi million dollar gratuities for drunken airheaded slappers have got to be extorted from someone.
Tasmania, Australia’s meth addicted houso cousin. Nearly Christmas. 10 senators through an accident of history. Yep, not feeling too charitable this morning.
Likewise, Bear. Good thing I don’t believe in God.
You have probably all heard the joke about parents sending their socially inept child outside with a lamb chop around his neck so the neighbourhood dogs would play with him.
Same kind of solution for the same kind of people.
The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents
Their testimony to Congress was saturated by feminization
It was a clarifying moment, wasn’t it?
The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House Education Committee about the wave of rabid antisemitism on their campuses.
Representative Elise Stefanik of New York asked the same question of UPenn’s Liz Magill, MIT’s Sally Kornbluth and Harvard’s Claudine Gay.
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your campus’s rule of conduct, yes or no?
That was the question.
You might think it was a pretty simple question.
Stefanik, exhibiting a mixture of incredulity and barely contained rage, stressed: “This should be be the easiest question to answer,” as one president after the next emitted a pained I-can’t-believe-this-unenlightened-pol-is-asking-me-me-the-president-of-Harvard/MIT/Penn-this-stupid-question.”
Each in turn reverted to a script they must have worked out with their handlers/lawyers. “It all depends on the context.”
“Context.” It was the weasel word of the moment.
We’re all champions of free speech, don’t you know, so we wouldn’t dream of intruding upon our flock’s exercise of that sacrosanct right in pursuit of their dream of self-congratulatory moral perfection — unless, of course, that dream involves some prohibited attitude, criticizing St. Anthony Fauci, for example, or St. George Floyd, or, heaven forfend, supporting Donald Trump or expressing skepticism about the 2020 election or January 6.
Then, of course, it’s open-season on “free expression.”
I almost felt sorry for those three women. Almost.
There they were, emanating the self-righteous demeanor they had perfected over years, and, bang, an angry congresswoman exploded that cheap facade in minutes.
The upshot was not obvious to them immediately.
But the world’s outrage at those moral pygmies instantly washed over the PR offices of those obscenely rich bastions of self-entitlement. “Uh, oh: the girls really stepped in it this time.”
That was the universal reaction.
The feminization of higher ed — and of American society as a whole — is a large topic.
Here I want simply to note that the repellent jelly of moral confusion that united all three responses was saturated by that feminization.
None of those women could give a direct answer to a direct question about a matter of grave moral moment.
Instead, they temporized, equivocated, dodged and parried.
Wally
Sure, he could’ve rooted her. Have a look at some of her portraits on google search. There’s one of a dude with a Greek sounding name that I saw and is also on google search too. It was great.
Do you like her work?
Johnjjj:
I understand them all right, John.
There’s one thing the martyrs all have in common – they’re dead. Every one of them.
Amazing thread.
2 senators from the ACT and NT is equally outrageous. The ACT was on full display at the Sofronoff inquiry. A 3yo who’s found Mum’s dress up box and lipstick.
The would make no difference besides its all available enyway.
The Australian Labor Party is a racketeering outfit with a parliamentary front.
Another Keating interview. Looks like Mavis has found his kneepads.
There is a reason Nazi Germany was near indistinguishable from Soviet Russia.
2 cheeks of the same arse, collectivism
I think uni reform could be simple.
Remove degrees as qualifications for Pubic Serpent positions.
As it stands it appears some basket weaving courses still make you eligible for entry into the Pubes.
Also pubes salaries to the capped at 2/3rds of comparable private sector salaries
And politicians to be paid minimum wage, because screw them.
Bear, be thankful they only have two. Just checked the population stats – Taxmania, 541,000, the ACT, 431,000.
But then we are talking our beloved senate here, where the concept of “one vote one value” has never had any legs, so to speak. Lots of “untrimmed bushes”, though.
Dover
The last comment in the X thread says “they’re” being killed off. Why?
Bunbury.
Albrechtsen gives ‘em both barrels over the $2.4m to Brittany. Over to you Lieborals. Don’t f*ck it up like last time.
As per Dastyari, they are pretty good at the game of self enrichment.
Ya, nearly but not quite, gotta feel sorry for Chinki Sam .. lost his seat on the “gravy train” over pennies compared to his pardy bruvvas paper bags ….. LOL!
US Senate Blocks Foreign Border Spending Package
The Senate has prevented the US government from sending billions to aid foreign wars in a 49-51 vote. Republicans demanded that protections for the US border be implemented in the latest $111 billion spending package. The nation is spending billions on the illegals entering the country and those requesting a secure border are asking for a fraction of what the Biden Administration sent to Ukraine alone. Biden is now threatening to send American troops to Ukraine if he cannot send a blank check.
Biden continued with the claim that Putin wants to build the Russian empire and will not stop at Ukraine. “We’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden declared. Now some say Biden was merely stating that America would be forced to act if Russia attacked a NATO nation. The truth of the matter is that Biden is threatening to kill American men and women if he does not secure funding. National Security spokesperson John Kirby reiterated Biden’s threats. “America will not only spend money, but also shed its own blood,” he claimed. “If you think the cost of supporting Ukraine is high now just imagine how much higher it’s going to be not just in National Treasure but in American blood if he [Putin] starts going after one of our NATO allies… we [will] take our Article 5 commitments very seriously,” said Kirby.
Senator Bernie Sanders actually sided with the GOP over this issue as he did not want to send Israel “no-strings-attached money.” Sanders believes Netanyahu is a far-right extremist but does not believe the war can simply end. Rather, he does not believe America should focus on funding foreign wars at this time. “The problem with saying it is, it is not going to happen, because in Hamas, you have a corrupt terrorist organization that has stated before the attack on October 7, and after the attack on October 7, that their goal is to destroy Israel and engage in perpetual warfare,” Sanders continued. “To simply say ‘cease-fire,’ in my view, would be to provide false hope to anybody. I don’t know how you have a cease-fire with a group who says we don’t want a cease-fire.”
As for the Biden Administration, the situation at the US-Mexico border has never been worse. Americans want American taxes to go toward securing our own border and we deserve to have representation.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/senate-blocks-foreign-border-spending-package/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Keeper.
And politicians to be paid minimum wage, because screw them.
Should read politicians do it “gratis” cos they all profess “luv of country” is why they are there ……… !
The UniParty would be very happy with the state of Australian democracy. Both are struggling to get their primary vote into the mid 30s. I’m not holding my breath for reform.
Climate scientists debating releasing reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to “dim” the sun.
What could possibly go wrong?
Please. There is a ring road. Use it.
The world has never needed our stuff ‘at any price’. That perception has come about because people conflate the high returns on (successful) exploration with what they imagine to be excess returns on development.
More recently that perception has been reinforced by the screams of agony as long term commodity prices have been massively inflated by geopolitical influences and huge Chinese demand – but end users kept on buying anyway.
Not a particular problem when it’s the general public that has this perception.
But when government starts to believe that market-based project development is indifferent to unanticipated taxes and imposts and general regulation forkery – well, investors move elsewhere.
As we’re seeing.
They should have to pay us for tolerating their pointless offensive existences.
I expect the Precautionary Principlers have this one.
There are better accounts of the battle for Arnhem – Martin Middlebrook “Arnhem 1944 The Airborne Battle”, Robert Kershaw “It never Snows in September” – the German view of the battle, or Robin Neillands “Battle for the Rhineland.”
I’ve forgotten who the German personality was who said the worst thing Germany ever did was to win that battle.
J.C:
OK, since you started this virtue donation stoush, Dickhead –
I donated $10 month to the site up until a month ago (IIRC) and to make up the lack of one month, I’ve increased it to $20/month.
In terms of percentages, and you being a Billionaire adjacent person of incredible generosity, how about you spring for a bit more than a rounding error in your income?
AKA “capital flight”.
But yeah, Dim Chambers has a “doctorate in economics”, like that other equally offensive idiot, Andrew Leigh of the ACT.
Ryan O’Neal gone to God.
Good Lord, but air travel around this country has become a fkg nightmare. Does any plane ever run on time anymore? Do the hordes of Sth Asians flying around ever , EVER travel with just one carry on and not try to carry their house in the overhead compartment? At the airport pick up and drop offs will any Asian park properly or not block traffic for km’s while they load up in the middle of the fkg road?
All the hallmarks of a third world shithole in progress.
You miss out on the chance for a spot of anthropology if you do that. Had the chance to go out for a night on the town with a few of the local farm boys once. The seemy side of Bunbury nightlife would be good for a few stories at least. Bottled it, there was a feel of waking up gaffer taped to a lamp post about it.
Apart from that, how’s the day going Makka?
I “started” by encouraging other people to donate? Weider by the moment. I bet if we look back at your grand donations it would have begun when I poked with you with a stick.
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The least you could do with considering the delusional low rent crap you post here polluting other people’s comments.
What’s percentages of net worth have to do with anything, Nurse Betty? Last time I caught you using the leftwing term “social license”. Net worth has nothing to do with the size of a donation.
And you were also agreeing with the stunted dwarf that I was somehow paying dover off. You damaged orphan.
Let’s watch motel lover show up to defend your honor.
Country nightclubs do have an air of bacchanalian pleasures not readily available in an urban environment. They do have their downsides though.
Home now Bear, so in my sanctuary. Cool and relaxed, catching up.
‘Yeah…well…that’s just your opinion, man.’
– Annastacia Palaszczuk
The Chook Dude reference. Nice work.
Another fight, and this time a particularly ugly one, and look who started it and will spend the next week claiming that it is the victim here.
You are such a nasty little bitch JC.
And after all that you get to go through security!
Thanks.
Downs first White Russian for the day.
After the battle, one of Frost’s paras, who had swum the Rhine, shouted at an Irish Guards tank commander “Did you have a nice drive up?”
The tankie’s reply was “Glory be to God, we’ve been here since D-Day, not just Sunday!”
It must have been an unlucky week for Mr Billionaire Adjacent.
It’s still ranting about something that is just. not. his. business.
Turtlehead, you’ve had plenty of chances to ignore my comments and never speak to me. You even complained to the old blog owner threatening lawsuits like you do here when someone criticizes you, causing you to go into a fetal position sucking your thumb. Even now the ratio is about 10:1 with you initiating comments to or about me. At least you’re no longer groveling (to me) which is a good thing, because the groveling was something that was just untenable.
Such a sad piker, go cry to your keeper. Now go go on your mad ticking spree, you dishonest, filthy little clown.
Tasmania, Australia’s meth addicted houso cousin
Bunbury.
Oi
Bunhole ain’t Houso no more, it’s solidly Robbo and WIFO combo.
*Robbo is the antipodean Deano
**WIFO is the wife of a FIFO
Not much good news for Albo in Teh Weekend Paywallian. This week’s Prof van Wrongselen column reads like it was written by me. Which would make it a Prof van Rightselen of course.
Ryan O’Neil who played the commander of the 82nd Airborne in that fillum has died.
Ryan O’Neal, Star of ‘Love Story,’ ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘Paper Moon,’ Dies at 82 (8 Dec)
Lt Gen. James Gavin survived Arnhem and also died age 82. He broke two vertebrae when he landed but kept on going.
To encourage others to donate by highlighting the reason why? I’ll make it my business and there’s nothing you can do about it, you bed panning delusional putz.
It is worth noting that University Vice Chancellors/Presidents are hardly the ‘best of the best’, academically speaking. They are just politicians, who enthusiastically follow the latest ideological fashion. For example, it did not take Debbie Terry (UQ) more than 5 minutes to declare 5 days ‘relief’ from work or study for students and staff suffering from ‘trauma’ after defeat of the Voice referendum.
Winston Smith
Dec 9, 2023 10:46 AM
If any Poster should be banned it should be Junior Cretin. The self appointed ‘high and mighty’ (LOL) Blog Milk Monitor. The Mouth from the South. Pompous Windbag to boot.
Still crying – ‘It wasn’t me that started it Officer, it was the other geezer.’
More crying over ‘up thumbs/down thumb dumb, dumb, bum, bums’.
What a waste of blogging space in having to deal with this ‘Plonker’.
The eye-burning stupidity of government is out there for all to see – the so-called critical minerals are a perfect example.
The Commonwealth has a Critical Minerals Strategy.
Palacechook’s Queensland has a Critical Minerals Strategy too.
Both of these strategies are supposed to elevate the dim and sluggish mining industry, to get with the program, and join Australia on the road to International Renewables Superpowerdom.
Then, just to even things up, Queensland puts a 40% super royalty on its coal producers to fund the 2032 Olympics. And the Commonwealth gut-shoots labour hire – a mainstay of the remote mining industry – to oblige its ACTU overlords.
Aside from the direct cooling effect, the impact of casual government fiat circles back through uncertainty in the capital markets – which are effectively closed to the SME critical mineral explorers and developers. The ones that do most of the heavy lifting in the minor metals sector.
[May contain traces of tiny fists of rage.]
Oh, you’re just hurt because refer to you as a crook, which of course you are for posting that sludge.
Wodney, the bovverboy years.
I see the black female who was arrested while attempting to start race riots by burning down MLK’s house. No doubt a BLM radical.
And the scum at Vikpol took a knee to worship these cretins, while beating up grannies and accosting pregnant mums.
The only good news for HAMAS is they don’t celebrate Christmas otherwise this one would be looking very bleak for them .. LOL!
Gaza overnight …….!
https://youtu.be/AcahB12C8XY
Gavin was the youngest divisional commander, in the United States Army, since the Civil War, and had quite a reputation as a ladies man.
Excellent faceplant!
‘He Can’t Draw A Crowd’: Dylan Mulvaney Mocked For Sparse Support At Penn State Event (7 Dec, via Lucianne)
Still playing the victim after the Bud catastrophe “she” caused. The photo is pretty embarrassing. If he gets $40 grand for a talk then it cost the university about a thousand for each audience member.
I’m detecting a trend “in this space.”
QUT’s first female VC has just deleted merit from its hiring policy, opting for more “inclusive” selection criteria including gender and ethnicity.
And the scum at Vikpol took a knee to worship these cretins, while beating up grannies and accosting pregnant mums.
Something about Dirtyrat vikpol in particular. No accident that the nayzi march happened there I reckon.
I understand them all right, John.
There’s one thing the martyrs all have in common – they’re dead. Every one of them.
yep. What I am getting at here is that in Arab Muslim culture this will keep on going forever. The family has 12 kids and they only need one to be a martyr. If they are killed/ executed they remain a model for the younger brothers, cousins and others. So celebrating their death is a mistake if we want to stop this process. Islam is not about individuals, it is about the family and society. It is the sorcerer’s apprentice. I don’t know the solution, but it certainly bears thinking about.
On another topic. What a brilliant success for the Arabs was COP28. I admit I didn’t follow it. But it was classic Arab thinking. Get the enemy inside the tent, lots of meetings, smile, charm, be sympathetic to their concerns, excellent hospitality, meet the Emirs. May be throw some gold at it. All the climate nuts go away thinking they have achieved a new world. The Arabs just laugh and go on as normal, making much much more gold from oil and gas.
As they say: if only Moses had turned right after the Sinai instead of left.
Happy Hanukka, it’s the third candle tonight.
This must be the “pro-growth progressivism” Andrew Leigh was touting.
Good morning from Upper Tartaria where the downticks run wild and free, cavorting in the meadows.
If you’ve lost Van Onselen…
He’s the dancing queen, still only seventeen! Well ok thirteen.
Parents Fume After Trans-Identifying Boy Wins Regional Irish Dancing Competition, Heads To World Championship: Report (8 Dec)
Riverdance is never going to be the same.
Who will be first to sell up and go elsewhere?
Earlier:
Hmm. All those people:
1. Are male and of fighting age;
2. Very apparently well fed;
3. Have been permitted to have some clothes on, at least;
4. Have all their limbs and heads; and
5. Do not appear to have had their eyes gouged out, disembowelled or had their arms and legs broken.
The contrast between people taken by Hamas, and those by the IDF is brilliantly captured in that image.
BHP.
See my link at 10:43AM
(The linking text may have been a tad cryptic)
The 10% swing against the filth in mys seat of Dan’s was a real tell. The vote came at around the Voice cluster. Perhaps straws in the wind but it may be that the centre left is pulling the pin on the Liars, suffering as we ALL are from the COL shitshow Albo is not only willfully ignoring but exacerbating. Putting the reality of financial survival ahead of leftgreen dream brainfarts.
Last time I dropped my wife at Sydney international airport it was right at the beginning of the walkway. Wife asks why I didnt pull up closer. I said look as yo go past. Here up further are 3 cars, one pulling in between the two. Plenty of room behind but being Asians they have to get as close as possible. Late model Merc backs in, clips the front car then hits the second. Its on like donkey kong. Asian women should not be allowed to drive. It was Chinese vs Subcontinent vs Lebs.
I’m thinking of a musical to write.
Something like “Don’t cry for me Ostraya” .
I could call it Sheryl.
We are living in an Argentinian sort of time.
These people should be placed in strait jackets in a padded cell.
Knuckles I thought they were only allowed to frolic, definitely no cavorting, as you know cavorting leads to dancing!