Australia proudly comes in at 13th most expensive, Have no fear, Bowen will work tirelessly to make us world leaders.
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Now you know why the interlectuals wanted the police force educated in institutions they control. Just look at the coppers…
What have you got against John Williams, Cassie?
No, it’s an opinion, you mentally impaired moron. There’s nothing factual about predictions.
Did you read he piece and actually understand it, you delusion meathead?
.
.1 Gold is a store of value, then
In other words, gold has been a comparatively bad store of value over the very long term.
Oh FFS, you’re a moron. You have no idea what medium of exchange actually means. There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant of the term, but there is to use it to defend an argument when you have no idea what medium of exchange means. Learn what it actually means you delusional skank.
What’s the third point, you dickless wonder?
Why is it a lie by misdirection? What exactly am I lying about?
I actually posted the piece because I believed the gold bugs would like to read the comment. I was half hoping you’d avoid reading the commentary, for the obvious reason that you’re a clown.
Now, I’m lying because I posted a piece on a subject I have little interest in for other people to enjoy? Can you see why I have zero respect for you and that you really need to stop talking to me? I’m just intolerant of your craven dishonesty and delusions. Just go away.
They can be political morons but artistic worthies. And chances are that Peter Gabriel has merely been long exposed to inaccurate information: he may believe that the land that is Israel really was once a purely Palestinian homeland, that the Israelis really pushed them out of the way by military force, and Da Jooz are still trying to exterminate the innocent Palis who are guilty of nothing more than wanting to live in their own lands in peace.
His sympathies would thereby be reasonable.
Just wrong.
By mere dint of unquestioningly following the MSM narrative it would seem the ‘decent’ thing.
He is a singer. Not a thinker.
But if you have any scrapbooks with cutout newspaper pictures of him, with locks of hair or cigarette butts purporting to be his that cost you thousands on eBay, and pagers margined with glitter where you dreamily practiced signing “Mrs Calli Gabriel” over and over – might be time to visit the incinerator.
Ta.
I had to reset my computer today and appear to have lost some stuff.
Auto-corrupt is just spiteful.
Roger – you’ve misentered you email. That or you’re on older tech.
Telephone Line – ELO (1977)
Essaying the important issues, again …
When you’re incessantly hoovering western aid, you need to think that it might just be your last day on this planet.
Which in any sane world, it would be.
*Rubbish purveyed within may bear no resemblance to economic hypotheses, accidental, coincidental or otherwise … 😡
Easy for me to say since I’m not into music that much and find the groupie thing bizarre.
Until the they see it will cost them nothing will change their minds. And it is far more pro-active then emoting online.
Chris Bowen should not even be allowed to use scissors unsupervised.
Erm…no. But I often hum a few bars of Solsbury Hill when pegging put the washing.
As predicted Jaspers heading up the Cape… Our parched part of Queensland will be lucky to get an inch of rain out of her…
Looked up today, apart from an unusually wet July at 76mm we have had otherwise 40 odd mm of rain since May. After Jasper disappears no sign of any wet season on the long range forecast either…
He is a singer. Not a thinker.
True, but when I see how Morrissey has been treated by the left, cancelled, smeared, ridiculed for being a truth teller, particularly about Islam, I think it is time we applied the same standard to hypocrites of the left.
by the way, Morrissey is pro Jew and pro Israel.
testing
I’m back!
Thanks y’all.
Assisi is very beautiful, to visit for the view to the valley below from the square in front of St Francis alone.
That’s Italy, you could pick about any town (except Messina*) and find unique charm everywhere.
*okay the clock tower and the art museum were good.
Well, Mrs Johanne Sebastian Lode apologises.
This one is a doubler, since Denny Lane founded both Moody Blues and Wings. He put down his guitar for the last time this week aged 79.
The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin (1972)
Wings – Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five (1974)
Old Ozzie:
Joe Biden is frightened at what Obama can reveal about him and his family, more to the point.
He’ll add it to the bolognese mix.
Cassie of Sydney
It was explained to me that the idea was to have the woman fat enough to continue breast feeding the sons up until the age of 1 year in case of very limited food.
I didn’t bother asking ‘what happened to the daughters?’
Covid lovers going for the moonshot (the Hun):
‘dogs suspected of having Covid’
Oh my dear lord. The funding bucket must be really running low.
In a wierd way, I am satisfied with the forecasts for continuing dry for the Gregory.
We had made the decision not to go ahead with the January seeding on the basis that forgone income was a superior outcome to lost capital. We have more than adequate fodder stocks to survive a failed wet.
But then a few minor storms arrived and the greed bug started playing its insidious games. “C’mon, give it a go”. It’ll work out”.
Thank heavens for a hard nosed daughter.
Hypocrisy reigns supreme in the Arab world.
If you think that there are facts, then yes. But the Arab muz world is not about facts it is about feelings and power. That is why the COP28 was such a success. A bunch of feelings people ( climate officiandoes) met a bunch of rich people who know how to manipulate feelings for power (the Arabs). Hamas, Iraqis, Jordanians, Lebs will never tell the truth. The concept of a ‘fact’ outside of a personal power is incomprehensible to them. If you get a chance read Sir Richard Burton’s journey – he nailed it.
Haka. When were women permitted to perform Haka?
But if you have any scrapbooks with cutout newspaper pictures of him, with locks of hair or cigarette butts purporting to be his that cost you thousands on eBay, and pagers margined with glitter where you dreamily practiced signing “Mrs Calli Gabriel” over and over – might be time to visit the incinerator.
You mean i have to get rid of this… and this?
Ive had them since I was a child… a small, scared child, alone, in a dark room.
Nevah!!!
But is Morrisey’s songs about love or whatever good because his politics is right?
Or is it just the songs resonating with you.
I don’t think there is a necessary political connection so you will find some artists agree with your politics and some won’t.
That said, some people (I hesitate to muse the word ‘artist’ as being a little to grandiose) who take their non-performative selves waaaay to seriously and make it so you cannot hear them or see them without associating their politics. I cannot watch George Clooney, for example, because every role he appears in he looks like that Obama-fellating half-wit.
I can’t listen to Wagner due to his philosophy.
Don’t know Morrisey’s songs but there was a fascinating article about him in Spiked.
The Angry Bootneck is spot on so I will just leave this here (5:39):
The Angry Bootneck:
Do Some Work Lazy Bint: Volume IV
JC
Don’t you listen to the nasty man, Elsie.
He doesn’t like cats or dogs either.
I can’t listen to Wagner due to his music.
The fire in Morrissey now
Why the perpetual outsider offends all the right people.
Aboriginal activists proclaim that they have everything in common with the locally resident Islamic “settler colonists”.
Not even this?
Strictly speaking, the Lebanese are not Arabs but an indigenous arabised population that shares a lot of DNA with Sephardic Jews and those called Palestinians.
Chuckle. You beat me to it, DrBG.
Sancho
Officer Tackleberry (Police Academy) had a very effective technique.
My life has been massively enriched having known you, Squirette.
Almost seven years. Although at times, you do remind me of my erstwhile sister, Lizzie, who I do miss very much.
That is a good thang.
I seem to remember a little book which had all the cuts for the roof, depending on pitch, including any compound angles.
If Wagner lived in the 21stC he would be a progressive.
Oh ok, no change then.
Laibach – Under The Iron Sky (2012)
Fun movie!
Just like I would not give a brass razoo to any UN charity, I would not give a brass razoo to the Red Cross. The Red Cross took sides in World War II when it helped to hide and cover up the crimes of Nazis in World War II, and it is helping to hide and cover up the crimes of the Nazis in 2023.
From Powerline…
THE RED CROSS TAKES A SIDE
It is hard to understand why a wide range of non-governmental organizations, including but not limited to news organizations, have become embedded with Hamas in Gaza and are on Hamas’s side. A case in point is the Red Cross. From the Jerusalem Post:
Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas were reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross in a meeting earlier this week, with the Red Cross telling one family they need to “think about the Palestinian side,” KAN reported on Thursday night.
Roni and Simona, the parents of Doron Steinbrecher who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from Kfar Azza on October 7, were invited to a meeting with the Red Cross earlier this week.
Doron needs a medication she takes daily and her parents thought that the Red Cross was finally willing to transfer the medication to her, but instead they were sat down and reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross.
“Think about the Palestinian side,” the representatives of the Red Cross told Simona, according to KAN. “It’s hard for the Palestinians, they’re being bombed.”
I’m guessing the parents of the kidnapped Israeli have been thinking a lot about the Palestinian side, and what it did on October 7 and has been doing for many years. The upshot was that the Red Cross refused to try to get medicine to the Israeli hostage.
Those who assume moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas are bad enough–inexplicably bad, really–but how much worse are those supposedly civilized people and institutions that actually side with the mass murderers?
I haven’t heard the word “smiting” for a while, well it’s time to smite the Red Cross, the UN, Save the Children (except for Jewish children) and all the rest of the Jew hating NGO charities. They need to be eradicated, destroyed and erased. Enough, finito.
Whenever I hear some Wagner, I immediately envision some good ol’ universal soldiers, just going for it … 😕
My abiding memory of Syria and Jordan that continues to light my fire was the common sight of grossly fat arabs perched on top of tiny ass staggering along under the joint destroying weight.
Mussies’ contempt for animals is a pointer to their whole supermacist ideology.
I love the story of their arrival in Basque country where they anticipated a fellow travellers’ welcome. They may have been welcomed except the idiots started killing dogs who the Basques adore.
They even published statements declaring that dogs were unclean and would be killed on sight.
Apparently they learned severe lessons about f*king with truely hard men.
Life would be a lot quieter if you did. Compartmentalisation is the key strategy to employ.
The Siegfried Idyll is just about bearable. Everything else of his I’ve heard is silly bombast.
Or this?
Matt Taibbi: New Whistleblower Docs Expose Key Tactics of the Censorship Industrial Complex
Much thunder and lightning here, and some occasionally heavy rain.
The Red Cross took sides in World War II when it helped to hide and cover up the crimes of Nazis…
…I think of the Doors.
Haven’t read it JohnJJJ, but dipped into the bio of RB and wife that came out a fair while ago now.
In it the writer talked about his meticulous preparation for his journey to Mecca. He steeped himself in Islamic practice so as not to give himself away as a European. One thing I remember was in crossing the threshold of a mosque one always did so with the right foot first. There were other little giveaways as well.
He was a difficult personality. Made a lot of enemies in India and elsewhere.
Cassie
I gave this one thumbs up (I lack the IT knowledge to do more) but have a hundred complimentary ones.
That useless Liars idiot (BIRM) Tickner moved to the Australian Red Cross after departing Parliament. That was the end of them for me.
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must have been a bad capacitor
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Why the West’s sanctions on Moscow aren’t harming ordinary Russians
BoN – sad news – I was going to post some Wings songs this evening (purely to annoy Yarks) but here we are …
Denny Laine …
DrBeauGan
Dec 9, 2023 7:29 PM
What have you got against John Williams, Cassie?
He practicality copied Gustav Holst’s Mars for Star Wars
His music is overrated.
10 best Darwin Award videos.
Glenn Greewald
CAMPAIGN OVER: Nikki Haley Exposed as Neocon Fraud & Corporatist Shill
Heaven or Las Vegas … 🙂
He practicality copied Gustav Holst’s Mars for Star Wars
His music is overrated.
No, we are talking about different John Williams. The John Williams I am referring to to is the Australian born classical guitarist, John Williams.
There is a US composer by the name of John Williams, who composed the music to Star Wars and Lost in Space.
Democrat strategist calls Mike Johnson’s Christian beliefs ‘a bigger threat than Al-Qaeda’
Re the Red Cross arsewipes (see comment 8:19pm).
Here in Australia these so-called charitable organisations are anything but. 80 to 90% of their income comes from the taxpayer via government grants to (ostensibly) to do “good works” and so they don’t give two hoots about what the donating public actually are donating for. Small example; my local Salvo’s has stopped their street front nativity display and flown the LGBTI+ etc flag instead.
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 9, 2023 8:49 PM
Noted.
Carolyn’s fingers … 🙂
Asturias …
That useless Liars idiot (BIRM) Tickner moved to the Australian Red Cross after departing Parliament. That was the end of them for me.
I have never given a cent to the Red Cross or to any UN charity. Not a cent. And anyone who comes near me trying to solicit any dosh from either of these Jew hating charities gets short shrift and a lecture. My sister once chased a person off her property. That person came to her door trying to solicit money for a UN charity, they got the fright of lives with the reception they received from my sister. I almost felt sorry for the UN spruiker!
No, we are talking about different John Williams. The John Williams I am referring to to is the Australian born classical guitarist, John Williams.
His music was crap!
Different John Williams. Cassie was talking about the guitarist.
Classical Gas [Mason Williams] | Tommy Emmanuel
err, that’s enough of that, Cats – let’s have some normal transmissions resume …
Miss Laydee …
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 9, 2023 7:50 PM
Curse you Bruce…had to listen to a couple of other Moody Blues songs that
are my favs:
Steppin In a Slide Zone
Gemini Dreams
Im Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
This applies also to the charitable works of the mainstream churches, btw.
They’ve essentially become an arm of government, trading their spiritual independence for tax payer funding to build little bureaucratic kingdoms of this world.
Very foolish of them, not mention unfaithful.
Rabz has redeemed himself on the matter of musical taste by posting Asturias. A beautiful piece of music brilliantly played by the right John Williams.
Mate tells me in the Baluchi Pass area of Afghanistan when he was there was only one visible NGO being the red cross. Said there was contact with insurgents or fire missions being called in most days so the area definitely wasn’t stable.
He said any NGO or journalist that operated in that area without protection was regarded with suspicion by us, Dutch & Yanks.
My distaste for RC like BJ comes from them giving the useless Tickner a plum job.
Got to be Peter Frampton on the maraca shakers..
Jethro Tull – Living In The Past (1976)
Hey, Laydeez … 🙂
err, Beaugy – that was entirely accidental, Squire 😕
This might already have been posted. it’s a few days old.
Exposing the Real Origin of Jewish Hatred | Andrew Klavan
I should also add that for decades the Red Cross and it hideous sister, the corrupt Red Crescent, denied membership to Magen David Adom because MDA rightly refused to replace its red Star of David with a pre-approved symbol. Apparently the Star of David triggered too many Muslims.
Mas Que Nada, Perderette!
Roger 9:01
Yep. Colleague of mine, lovely bloke, wanted a bit of career variety. Employed by a church charity mob. Lasted 6 months. The waste was unbelievable and they didn’t care. He was told, don’t bother with efficiencies, 90% of our income come from Government and they pay up.
Oh. So you’re irredeemable. Ok.
It’s not just you, but the general taste in music here is too horrible. Apart from some Dire Straits and some of Fleetwood Mac, there’s been almost nothing worth listening to for centuries. The caterwauling chicks you put up are occasionally worth a look, but not a listen.
I hope you listened to Asturias, but I bet you didn’t.
There are too many charities, too many little fiefdoms for people to make money and gain status. The church based ones I don’t know about. There are now so many charitable organisations these should be amalgamated to reduce the enormous waste that occurs. There are organisations that evaluate charities.
I wasn’t aware that charities relied so much on taxpayer funding. That compounds the problem.
Heitor Villa-Lobos has produced some good stuff in recent times. Can’t think of much else atm.
Don’t get me started, Siltstone.
Government money is like an acid which dissolves what’s left of the Christian ethos in these churches.
That being said, good night all!
err, I did – many, many quite bits, hoping that some Stooges style guitars might puncture the pompousness, Squire.
Oh, sh*t – there I go again being a big crass rock ‘n’ roll philistine 😕
Sacré bleu, Cats – a big fat crackroach just decided that it could wander across the kitchen floor under my nose with zero consequences.
Until there was one … 🙂
Oh well. You’ve got some good points, I’m sure. 😉
The Tull are getting very nordic.
Jethro Tull – Wolf Unchained (26 Oct 2023)
Great to see them still producing ridiculously good music.
The caterwauling chicks you put up are occasionally worth a look, but not a listen
😕
Miss Ellie and Miss Maggie Dodgers are not “Caterwauling chicks”, Perfesser – they are aesthetically pleasing young womanages blessed with some mighty pipes.
Harrumph, I tells ya. 😕
Williams doing Asturias is sublime
try Ana Vidovich’s version
feel the difference
..
Here ya go Beaugan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTpKiUiM0I
Animals and nature appear to be theme with Tull. I enjoyed Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses.
Yarks – here’s a treat for your good ol’ self, Squire! 🙂
Jet is a great song.
Mull of kintyre not so much.
Red Rose Speedway …
When you were young and you didn’t believe in absurd concepts such as free trade,
You used to say
Live and let live
Ya knows ya did, ya knows did ya did …
But in this ever changing woild that we exist in
Makes ya wanna say
Live and let die …
Jorge
Dec 9, 2023 8:35 PM
One thing I remember was in crossing the threshold of a mosque one always did so with the right foot first. There were other little giveaways as well.
Interesting. This is actually a giveaway for a Jihadi, it is the same for the hamam ( i.e. the bathroom). A fact that can be used to identify them at an event ( Manchester?). There are many but I am sure our security service know them: no rings or watches on the left hand, no gold against the skin… There are many, they are listed in their books and are well known by Saudi security services.
Well, that’s just thrown my entire piss take totally off course … 😕
Linda lookin’ a bit tasteee in that film clip as well …
God Save the Queen, my son …
A fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential aitch bermb …
..
You come up with a better hook than:
..
Can’t be done.
Moody Blues got full of themselves after they did “Go Now”. Which I’d link if I knew how.
Indolent
Dec 9, 2023 8:39 PM
Georgia Prosecutors Warn of Prison Sentences for Trump, Top Allies
She is an ugly, soros crone; even worse than that fat black bitch in NY, letitia.
And what that fat crone letitia and her skinny judge are doing in NY is amazing. The Appellate Court has made several rulings against letitia and the judge but they are continuing to prosecute them anyway! FMD. These bastards are literally out of control.
President Trump Calls Peekaboo James “Bats**t Crazy” and Far Left Judge Engoron “Crooked” Before Attending Ongoing New York Show Trial (VIDEO)
Back when the Allies just swatted annoying flies …
The word of the season – “smite”. Do it with all the Biblical vehemence they deserve,
and Teenage Fanclub just wanna be the Hollies …
Police arrest 72 climate activists in Melbourne CBD for blocking traffic outside Flinders Street Station
Ya gotta laugh. The photos are all of protesters being arrested whilst stopping traffic due to a “climate breakdown” on a miserable drizzly Melbourne summer day that is so characteristic of the kind of shitty weather that Melbournites are inexplicably proud of and it has always been thus.
Now for a proper tune with a lovely melody
https://youtu.be/-XNFokmDKrE?si=l5PoVPfrWyPSS7BY
And a lovely romantic film clip.
https://youtu.be/nUm6yXC9gMg?si=_xrScPR8zJI8NdvZ
The TFC tune above is one of the greatest love songs in human history.
America’s Equity Obsession: An Interview with Heather Mac Donald
Leading American institutions have adopted a simple ideological explanation for the nation’s perceived ills: systemic racism. Why are black Americans overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites? Why do members of different groups tend to perform differently on standardized tests? From the concert hall to the faculty lounge to the corporate boardroom, our leaders insist that racial disparities can be fixed only with racial discrimination traveling under the banner of “equity.” That threatens not only American excellence but also the signal achievements of Western Civilization, according to Heather Mac Donald, author of When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.
At least we had some proper gerbil broiling weather in Sydneystan. The first 40 degree summer day for three years.
It is a concept. The holding of hysterical gullible imbeciles to account.
The IMMORTAL John Fogarty – “As Long As I Can See the Light.”
Boxing Day, Melbourne, 1988. In my cousins’ above ground pool on an overcast, cool, drizzly day. Me being generally wtf is this. Should be hot hot hot.
My first festive season that wasn’t spent in Perth. A profound climate culture shock.
Things haven’t changed. Summers are hot, except in Melbourne when they’re hot aside from when they’re not.
Their tenacity is astonishing. Most mornings you see a bunch of middle class old gals on a major interaction holding up anti oil signs and tying banners to street/ side walk fencing. Bitterly cold mornings wouldn’t deter them.
Listened to a couple of the protestors tonight. Both chicks around late twenties trying to explain what they were doing and both using almost identical speeches: ‘We’re very sorry but …..’.
Almost like they’d been given a script.
Well prepped. Organised. Programmed.
The Triffids – Bury me deep in luurve …
Nothing changes in my ‘oose, Cats!
Well, Cats, it’s ALMOST Christmas.
And this ALMOST a Christmas carol …
Be firm, baybee!
Christmas Carols…..my favourite is the Kevin Bloody Wilson version.
Can’t and won’t link. Youse can Google.
“Wheel him round the other side Nanna!”
Hahahah!
I’ll tell him you’re a fan, BT, at his Pissy Krissy party next Tuesday. He and Betty and the kids have been friends of ours for 45 years this year. Fark … where did the time go!
Carol of the Bells – Solo Pianist George Winston – from DECEMBER
In the spirit of the Triffids, some laid back Swedish instrumental psychedelia. The two girls are hopeless vocalists but they put on a good show when they do sing.
Bruce in WA…..
He did a show at Royals rugby club in Canberra decades ago.
Me and fellow drunks had a few beers with him in the bar after the show.
Easy going, likeable bloke. And just as funny “off air”.
Also went to his show at the Greeks club a few years ago.
His daughter will ensure the show goes on – hahaha!
Rabz
Dec 9, 2023 10:15 PM
God Save the Queen, my son …
A fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential aitch bermb …
Johnny Rotten OK.
Classics!
Faithless – God Is a DJ (Live At Alexandra Palace 2005)
When I briefly worked in record shop in woke Newtown in the 1980s, Kevin’s cassettes were top sellers. Only Madonna outsold him.
I hope he made money out of it, record companies being what they are.
From the DT, no point linking as paywalled
Exclusive pics: No Frederik as Princess Mary arrives home
Princess Mary has arrived in Australia with two of her four children amid the affair scandal which has rocked the Danish royal family.
Someone insisted it was only a rumour, well it got to the Daily T now, see if it’s true.
Week In Pictures.
more engineers
‘Daily mail’ lol
Still in the salacious gossip column
Apparently the Star of David triggered too many Muslims.
They really are a touchy bunch.
Whatsapp not letting me share week in pictures.
Before I call it a Zuck censoring exercise, I shall try later today.
This map of the AfD support in Germany surprised me.
Michael A. Arouet
@MichaelAArouet
Leading party in German polls. Blue is AfD, black CDU/CSU.
Germans have finally enough of left green amateurs ruining German economy and pushing their indoctrination agenda.
https://x.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1733456315039481997?s=20
feelthebern
Dec 10, 2023 6:05 AM
So, basically the old East Germany?
Yeah, Gabor.
I understand the CDU having that base in the south & south-ish.
But I would have thought more pockets of AfD across the country.
And more CSU pockets in the east.
Have I got my CSU/CDU mixed up?
feelthebern
Dec 10, 2023 4:28 AM
Apparently the Star of David triggered too many Muslims.
Would be interesting to see what would happen if the Star of David was projected onto the Lakemba Monstrosity.
Your air conditioner is next
Surely this should mean they’ll start shutting down hundreds of data centres around the world right?
Lead the charge, these mass surveillance storage centres consume insane amounts of energy.
From The Daily Telegraph…
‘Love always’: The glowing texts accuser sent to Alan Jones
One of the men who accused Alan Jones of sexually touching him sent several glowing text messages after the alleged incidents, expressing ‘gratitude’ for the role the broadcaster played in his life.
Veteran broadcaster Alan Jones has denied allegations he indecently assaulted several young men. It is unclear when the alleged incidents took place but at least four people have come forward detailing moments Mr Jones allegedly groped them without consent. The first accuser, a man called Brad Webster who doesn’t want his real name to be used, was 20 when he started working for the radio host at 2GB. At the time, 65 year-old Alan Jones, who was also a former Wallabies coach and political speechwriter, also had news columns and a national TV program. Mr Webster alleges Mr Jones touched his genitals as he drove him home from 2GB Studios, which he says was one of his job requirements. Lawyers representing Mr Jones say he denies all accusations, telling the Sydney Morning Herald that: “Our client denies ever having indecently assaulted the persons referred to in your letter, and your suggestion that he has is scandalous, grossly offensive and seriously defamatory of him.”
One of the men who accused Alan Jones of sexually touching him sent several glowing text messages after the alleged incidents expressing “gratitude” for the role the broadcaster played in his life.
The messages were sent to Jones by a former colleague who went public this week with claims that Jones repeatedly groped him and attempted to kiss him.
Jones strongly denied the allegations and announced plans to sue The Sydney Morning Herald, which published the story on Thursday.
In the text messages, sent between 2018 and 2020, the man thanked Jones for sending him a wedding card, revealed that his wife was pregnant, and also sent best wishes to the shock jock before and after his back surgery.
The messages were sent long after the man had left his job with Jones, and some were signed off with “love always”.
In a text message on October 22, 2018, the man thanked Jones for sending him a card for his wedding and he said became “quite emotional reading it”.
“I’ll never be able to appropriately express my gratitude for what you have done to my life,” the man wrote.
“For you to be there by my side on a most special day means far more than you could realise.
“I will always strive to make you proud of me.”
He ended the message with: “Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.”
On December 4, 2019, when Jones was battling back problems, the man wrote: “Good luck with your surgery, mate.”
“I know it’s been a tough year and we haven’t spoken as much, which makes me sad, but I understand why,” he wrote. “Often I’ve just wanted to give you a big hug.
“Please get some rest over Christmas and I hope you’re back fighting fit.”
In late 2019, he wrote: “I’m glad your (sic) not in pain and will be in your own bed tomorrow night” before announcing he and his wife were expecting a baby.
The man wrote he wanted Jones to be the “first to know” the “special news” before “all the other riff raff find out …”
On May 12, 2020, the man sent a congratulations text following Jones’ retirement announcement.
“I, along with so many others, owe my career to you,” he wrote.
“You’ve seen me get married and become a father. In all that time you have only ever treated me with great decency and tremendous generosity,
“You’re (sic) kindness towards me has never, ever wavered. Even when you may have felt entitled to allow it.
“I can only say thankyou.”
Further to media outlets like the SMH, their ABC, the Guardian, Ten and so on, it is pretty clear that when targeting individuals to destroy, the sole criteria is a person’s ideological bent, and so the likes of conservatives such as Alan Jones, George Pell, Bruce Lehrmann, Alan Tudge, Andrew Laming and others are considered fair game.
Kate McChlamydia, the mendacious muckraking mediocrity who calls herself a journalist, is behind the Jones’ allegations, and she was behind the Craig McLachlan allegations, which effectively destroyed McLachlan’s life and career.
Andrew Lawrence nails the state of the UK…
Dying days of a sh*t government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WOYWYGfOnU
how good is this cartoon from week in pictures:
Just to be perfectly clear…
I always expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Ah ha!
Alwaysright did not! Caught!
Israeli comedians and satirists nail the hypocrisy of the UN and the skankerhood…
UN women’s investigation of the gender based violence on October 7th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB98QWIWoDs
On second thoughts…open your Powerline pics in a new window…et voila!
Seems you can circumvent the hotlink ban.
“Get…….The Comfy Chair!….”
I send pics from powerline to many many friends no problemo.
Inquisition
alwaysright
Dec 10, 2023 8:06 AM
Maybe, but this one didn’t work.
The ignorance of the anti-Israel mob beggars belief
‘From the river to the sea,’ chant young middle-class Westerners. Yet many of them don’t even know which river and sea it is
MICHAEL DEACON
COLUMNIST
All over the Western world, armies of Left-wing students are marching in support of Palestine. Touching though it is to see the young taking an interest in politics, I find the ferocity of their passion somewhat curious. Not because these Western students live thousands of miles from Palestine. But because many of them seem to know next to nothing about it.
This week, Ron E Hassner – a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley – carried out a survey of students from across the US, to gauge the depth of their knowledge. First the students were asked whether they endorsed the controversial pro-Palestine chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Those who said they did endorse it were then asked to name the river and the sea in question.
Remarkably, less than half of them could do so.
The correct answers are the Jordan and the Mediterranean. Yet 53 per cent of these crusaders for Palestinian rights didn’t know this. Some thought the river was the Nile. And even more incredibly, some thought the sea was the Caribbean.
A fascinating thought. Because, if Palestine stretches from the Nile to the Caribbean, that means it encompasses most of Africa, and indeed the West Indies. Which means that the students are calling for all non-Palestinian inhabitants of Africa and the West Indies to leave, so that the Palestinian people can at last reclaim their rightful territory.
Logically, in fact, the Atlantic ocean must be Palestinian, too. In which case, all the fish in it are settler colonialists. They, therefore, must also leave, so that the Palestinian people may swim peacefully once again in their rightful waters.
The most important point, though, is that if Palestine stretches from the Nile to the Caribbean, its territory does not include Israel. Which means the Israelis can keep it.
That little problem seems to be a special for Ostrayan IP addresses.
If you are in the USA USA, then it is not a problem.
I like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_WoKrRycvQ
Which leads to finding the early 1990’s TV series “Sharpe”. On Youtube all 18 movie length episodes. Use the channel by “Crusher”.
alwaysright
Dec 10, 2023 8:27 AM
Hmm, I keep that in mind and use a VPN if I get that error message and see if it works, thanks.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 47 Gonzalo Lira is an American citizen who’s been tortured in a Ukrainian prison since July, for the crime of criticizing Zelensky. Biden officials approve of this, because they’d like to apply the same standard here. The media agree. Here’s a statement from Gonzalo Lira’s father.
Trump Is Absolutely Smoking Biden In Yet Another Major Poll
– ZH
I hope he has tip top security.
alwaysright
Fancy that, it works.
Was that link about the spider? That is what came up on my screen.
If he was Peter Pan before, he won’t cheat on Mary with a woman in her late forties.
If they get the WHO treaty through there’s a 100% chance that a pandemic will be called, as soon as next year.
EXCLUSIVE Now BIDEN’S ex-Covid advisor admits pandemic may have been caused by a Wuhan lab leak – and warns there’s a 50% chance of another pandemic by 2050
George Soros funneled more than $50M to Iran-sympathizer groups linked to Robert Malley
You can’t get full episodes of the backstory and prologue (Sharpe’s Tiger, etc). The entire Napoleonic War story is up, complete with the crazy Prince Regent, silk socking stuffed full with shit Prince of Orange, electric guitars and Captain Hastings as Wellesley.
Now that’s soldiering! (“Bamfylde you are no longer a superior officer, God Save Ireland!, etc).
Canadian Journalist Who Advocated Draconian Vaxx-Passport Mandates Dies Mysteriously at 33
Fully Vaccinated and Boosted Piers Morgan Tests Positive for COVID-19 — Blames “Anti-Vaxx” for Catching the Virus
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
The fact that “Putin is bad” doesn’t mean Ukraine is good. Here’s the TRUTH about the Zelensky regime:
– Banned 11 opposition parties
– Recently assassinated a 2019 Ukrainian Presidential candidate
– Consolidated all TV media into a single state TV media entity
– Recently banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
– Threatened not to hold elections unless the U.S. forks over more money
– Called “an autocrat” by the current mayor of Kyiv
– One of the worst records on Earth for government corruption
It would probably be dependent on having a cookie from visiting the site earlier.
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
Yet the piece of shit wouldn’t pay his child support…
I love the Bee.
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Hunter Biden Indicted For Not Paying Taxes On His Bribes
Sorry if this article from the Oz has already been posted.
moderated, naughty word somewhere, will try again.
Lefties: We respect the science!! you backwards trogs…
Also lefties
We will do a whole sharticle on a major newspaper condemning Javier Milei using…. astrologers as the basis for the sharticle.
As one of Argentina’s foremost astrologers, Gael Policano Rossi spends much of his life contemplating the future – and his prognosis for 2024 is bleak.
“I see chaos,” he replied when asked what the new year had in store for his country after the temperamental far-right libertarian Javier Milei became president.
As Policano smoked cigarettes down to their carrot-coloured ends, he predicted Argentina’s next leader, who takes office on Sunday, would oversee “a shock doctrine sh*tshow” and admitted his nicotine consumption had risen as a result.
“It’s the fu**ing Donald Trump agenda,” the 35-year-old astrologer and author warned over an afternoon coffee at his studio apartment-cum-consulting room in Santos Lugares, a town outside Buenos Aires.
….
Given the dearth of answers about Argentina’s fate, the Guardian asked two of the country’s best-known astrologers for their thoughts about the path ahead under the man they call “El Loco” (The Madman).
…
Policano, a leftwing poet, playwright and astrologer known as AstroMostra, offered a disturbing vision of the future.
He understood Milei’s victory as one of the last big upheavals in a 15-year period of disruption related to Pluto’s presence in Capricorn. That era, which began in 2008 and ends this year, saw the collapse of a succession of seemingly indestructible power structures, Policano said, citing the global financial crisis and Occupy Wall Street, the advance of the feminist movement, and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
…
Ludovica Squirru, a celebrity astrologer whose predictions are based on the Chinese zodiac, was unsure what Milei’s presidency held in store. “Milei is a metal dog … [and] the dragon year, which starts now, is his complementary opposite,” she said. “That means it could be the best or the worst year of his life.”
You cant parody them anymore, satire is dead.
American lefties are so deranged about Trump they cannot understand:
— In a nation that despises politicians, Trump is the most popular politician since JFK.
— Trump is popular because (like JFK) he stands for the little man against the might of the state, which lefties are defending because they’re now the state. It’s three decades since lefties were the opposition – they’re now the Pig State they used to despise.
— The persecution of Trump has made him a martyr for a cause that 80%+ of the population supports – even if they despise Trump.
This is Alex Jones.
Election Wizard
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JONES RESPONDS TO MUSK TWITTER POLL:
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Interesting that Hamburg and other ports as well as the Ruhr and what looks Ludwigshafenish(BASF) are the west German pockets, and Berlin is CDU/CSU.
The CDU & CSU are essentially the same party the CSU is the Bavarian version of the CDU – think aussie National Party and LNP in Qld.
Penn President Liz Magill has resigned.
“If he was Peter Pan before, he won’t cheat on Mary with a woman in her late forties.”
Dot,
What kind of woman a man finds attractive changes through the course of their life and situation. Some can have awesome women at home, yet dip it into something most others would find unbelievable. To wit, Swarschenegger and the middle aged housekeeper.
Sitting here in the cool drizzle of Sydney, reading this in the Oz:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned of the dangers of climate change as states brace for heatwave conditions
It’s good to start the day with a laugh.
If you’d upgraded to Flash Cat Platinum your links would work.
Brits May Be Forced To Take Selfie Before Watching Porn
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,
Brits may be forced to take a selfie and upload it to an adult website before watching porn under new rules to protect children.
Ofcom could force websites to use “facial age estimation” technology to confirm users are age appropriate.
Such technology is seen as more “privacy-friendly” because it would avoid viewers having to upload personal IDs or credit card information.
However, the shame aspect of having to take a selfie in order to watch hardcore pornography is very likely not just to prevent children accessing such material, but adults too.
French Farmers Dump Manure On Govt Buildings To Protest Climate Hysteria
yep that was the spider
Respect the science, Mole
JOE BIDEN IS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE DUMBER THAN A NORMAL PRESIDENT
Here is Joe Biden trying to read the teleprompter regarding infrastructure spending. A million, a billion, a trillion, who can tell?
ISRAEL WARNED NOT TO OFFEND GAZANS
You see this every time conflict breaks out between Israel and Palestinian terrorists. This time, it is the Telegraph, but you can find many more examples: “How the invasion of Gaza risks radicalising a new generation of Palestinians.”
As opposed to the generation that launched the October 7 massacre, apparently.
Air strikes and a lightning ground offensive in the north forced more than a million people into southern Gaza, a pocket of relative safety until last week when it too came under bombardment.
The future of the whole of Gaza, and indeed the Gazan people, is now more uncertain than ever as concerns grow that the war is fostering yet more animosity between Israel and the Palestinian people.
What fosters animosity between Israel and the Palestinian people is the sick Palestinian culture, which has reached its apotheosis in Gaza, that teaches children that killing Jews is the highest possible aspiration.
You have probably heard the audio recording of the young Hamas terrorist who called his parents in the midst of the slaughter to report that he had killed ten Jews.
They were suitably proud of him.
The idea that Palestinians would be peaceful if only Israel would stop defending itself is either a fantasy or a deliberate attempt to undermine Israel’s security.
What will diminish the likelihood of future October 7s is a crushing victory in the current war, that convinces Palestinians that dedicating themselves to destroying Israel was a catastrophic mistake.
from OOs link:
Shirley, we wouldn’t ban glyphosate here. Would we?
We can’t be that stupid. Can we? Are we?
THE RED CROSS TAKES A SIDE
It is hard to understand why a wide range of non-governmental organizations, including but not limited to news organizations, have become embedded with Hamas in Gaza and are on Hamas’s side.
A case in point is the Red Cross.
From the Jerusalem Post:
Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas were reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross in a meeting earlier this week, with the Red Cross telling one family they need to “think about the Palestinian side,” KAN reported on Thursday night.
Roni and Simona, the parents of Doron Steinbrecher who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from Kfar Azza on October 7, were invited to a meeting with the Red Cross earlier this week.
Doron needs a medication she takes daily and her parents thought that the Red Cross was finally willing to transfer the medication to her, but instead they were sat down and reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross.
“Think about the Palestinian side,” the representatives of the Red Cross told Simona, according to KAN. “It’s hard for the Palestinians, they’re being bombed.”
I’m guessing the parents of the kidnapped Israeli have been thinking a lot about the Palestinian side, and what it did on October 7 and has been doing for many years.
The upshot was that the Red Cross refused to try to get medicine to the Israeli hostage.
Those who assume moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas are bad enough–inexplicably bad, really–but how much worse are those supposedly civilized people and institutions that actually side with the mass murderers?
I have an answer to my last two questions. We are that stupid and we don’t look like we are improving.
Shirley you jest! Can’t be that stupid? I give you Cris Bowen and rest my case.
“The river from the sea /
Makes Hamas tunnels so drippy!”
Israel’s IDF flushes Hamas’s tunnels with sea water — and sends terrorists scurrying out like rats
Hear that flushing noise?
Amid all the screeching of the anti-Semitic global elites, the haze of pro-Hamas global protests, and the Biden administration’s efforts to micromanage how Israel conducts its war against avowed terrorists, Israel’s Defense Forces have been quietly takin’ care of business.
AT’s editor, Andrea Widburg has written about the mass surrenders which is happy news indeed, here.
But how they did it is fascinating.
A ban on glyphosate would mean that councils might resort to (horror amongst horrors) burning.
Won’t someone think of the see oh twos?
These pictures of this mass surrender are circulating now all over the arab countries, especially on Palestinian social media accounts, and their morale is on the floor now. LFG!!!
This is very important, Hamas savages in Gaza who surrounded themselves to save their lives.
Why is important? In the ME culture, this kind of humiliation (naked and on the ground) goes a long way toward showing that they are defeated.
I was really down on Milei succeeding and this was compounded more so by the Argentinian dude I met (also a libertarian fellow traveller) who was pessimistic.
In my opinion, Milei has one huge problem, which is the foreign debt. His policies need to be pushed in omnibus style and all at once.
He needs to
1 Deregulate the labor market
2. Close down departments and fire masses of government schleps.
3. Government spending has to be cut massively
4. Privatisation
5. Cut red tape.
Then comes the dollarisation
The privatising has to be carefully performed and constructed in a way that foreign investors are totally comfortable holding Argentine assets and feel safeguarded against expropriation by future leftist trolls. In my mind he can only achieve this by incorporating important provisions allowing foreign investors the ability to seek compensation against Argentine assets held overseas.
Privatisation is the most important element of the package because it then allows Dollarisation.
God’s speed.
Walter Bingham:
Diaspora Jewry’s days are over, all Jews must move to Israel for safety – opinion (JPost, 9 Dec)
It’s sad to see a guy who is believed to be the oldest working journalist in the world, who saw Krystallnacht and who fought the Nazis as a soldier in the British Army, be so pessimistic. But he’s seen it and done it and lived through it over a long life.
Not my place to say much else, other than the explosion in really nasty antisemitism from so many people here in Australia and in many other countries is breathtaking, and not in a good way. Hamas seems to ripped Pandora’s Box open and all sorts of horrors are suddenly spraying out of it.