Coverage of another SpaceX launch. https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxROVEevgKl Just gone live!
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Australia proudly comes in at 13th most expensive, Have no fear, Bowen will work tirelessly to make us world leaders.
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…
Cassie, do you refuse to read books based on the beliefs of their authors?
Bruce Johnson is right!
Yes Australian Labor Party This will Assist Inflation in Australia – Up!
‘The moment they come in’: Unions line up targets of IR changes
David Marin-Guzman – Workplace correspondent
Qantas, BHP, warehouses, manufacturing and food and beverage processing will be the first to be targeted under Labor’s new labour hire laws, according to unions and employers.
Transport Workers Union national secretary Michael Kaine said the union would immediately make an application to lift the rates of Qantas cabin crew and freight workers under the new ‘same job, same pay’ regime that passed parliament on Thursday and comes into effect in the new year,
Qantas will be the first of many applications under the laws that require labour hire workers to be paid at least the same as the direct workforce.
The government estimates that about 66,000 labour hire workers will be affected, but employers say the number will be far bigger.
Mr Kaine said under former CEO Alan Joyce, the workforce split across 17 subsidiaries and 21 external companies and cabin crew and freight workers were “pitted against one another with vastly different pay and conditions”.
“We will use the new laws to stop Qantas cannibalising itself,” he said.
“The moment these new powers come into effect, the TWU will fight to lift pay and conditions for labour hire cabin crew and freight workers at Qantas.”
Unions can file applications for orders after royal assent, expected in the new year, and any orders take effect from November at the earliest. Applications can include multiple labour hire entities at the one workplace.
Qantas and BHP’s Operation Services – which is specifically named in the legislation’s explanatory memorandum – are the major targets of the laws.
However, United Workers Union secretary Tim Kennedy, a key proponent of the changes, expected the laws to play out strongest in warehousing and logistics, manufacturing, and food and beverage processing.
While the UWU has secured labour hire pay clauses at warehouses used by major supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles, Mr Kennedy said there were still many employers and sites that had resisted.
“There are significant holdouts around the place and they are the reason we have raised this as a policy issue for the Labor party since 2014,” he said.
“While not the majority it’s material enough to distort the labour market in a way that doesn’t work for everyone.”
However, the UWU is likely to be selective about the sites it pursues as he said applications are “going to take up quite a lot of union resources”.
Labor’s crossbench deal was a “fantastic win” and had been an issue the union had been pushing for decades, said Matt Journeaux, the Australian Meat Industry Employees Association federal secretary.
“I wouldn’t think there are any meat sites in Queensland that pay labour hire more than what the EBA is,” he said.
But now that the laws have passed the union may not even have to make an application.
“I suspect most employers will just comply and not wait for the union to have a win by taking them to the Fair Work Commission”.
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union secretary Steve Murphy, whose union is expected to target BHP’s labour hire arm for maintenance workers, said he was already seeing the effects of the laws on employers.
“Just recently, Downer, a major rail manufacturer in NSW, terminated its on-site agreement with a labour hire company that it owned and operated in order to undercut wages,” he said.
“Closing loopholes that allow for wage theft and exploitation sends a clear signal that this kind of business model is done – the cost of doing business is to pay workers properly.”
Recruitment Consulting and Staffing Association chief executive Charles Cameron, who argues the laws will tie firms up in complexity, says public school teachers and local government were likely to face a “lot of activity”.
“There have been a number of procurement firms that have tried to drive down labour hire rates in local government. everything from customer service through to grounds service through to general business support,” he said.
While union clauses on labour hire pay are common in commercial construction, the Master Builders Association predicts unions will use the laws to rope in areas of the building industry that don’t have such deals.
“This essentially legislates jump-up clauses, which is seen in some EBAs in the commercial sector – a measure that was previously banned under the building code due to anticompetitive behaviour,” CEO Denita Wawn said.
Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Farrow said the laws would help achieve real wage growth for his members.
“The labour hire exploitation model is a cancer which started in the mining industry but soon infected other areas of the economy like agriculture, aviation, construction and many others,” he said.
Biden: lies. All lies.
Raskin:absolutely no evidence.
Hunter (in background) chuckles.
He is one very odd dude.
Stopping the Mullahs vs. Getting Them All Set Up
by Majid Rafizadeh
. Not surprisingly, billions from the West have enabled the Iranian regime to help plan, finance and support, among other aggressions, the invasion of Israel and genocidal massacre of Jews perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. Western money gifted to Iran is also helping the regime advance its nuclear weapons program to near-completion by “a few weeks or less, after which they can make as many bombs as they like.
. The more money the Iranian regime is handed, the more trouble it causes.
. Compared to the tens of billion the US delivers to Iran, the US government’s annual $3.8 billion investment in Israel — which invariably inspires extensive howling from some quarters — is proportionately bus fare.
. It is high-time for the Biden administration to learn from previous administrations — inconveniently for them, Republican — that only economic and military pressure work on rogue and predatory regimes such as Iran. Appeasement, regrettably…. just ignites conflict.
The Biden administration’s policy towards the expansionist regime of Iran has been anchored in appeasement policies, including handing over billions of dollars in a seeming effort to bribe Iran’s mullahs not to cause even further trouble in the Middle East before the US presidential election on November 5, 2024.
Not surprisingly, billions from the West have enabled the Iranian regime to help plan, finance and support, among other aggressions, the invasion of Israel and genocidal massacre of Jews perpetrated by Hamas on October 7. Western money gifted to Iran is also helping the regime advance its nuclear weapons program to near-completion by “a few weeks or less, after which they can make as many bombs as they like.
From the Iranian regime’s dispiriting record of cheating (such as here, here and here), no “deal” will stop them.
The more money the Iranian regime is handed, the more trouble it causes.
The Iranian regime prefers to cause trouble by hiding behind their human-shield proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. This system not only enables the mullahs to claim “plausible deniability;” it also enables others to get killed while the mullahs enjoy kebabs in Tehran.
Thanks to immense largesse from the West — business from Europe, and massive payouts — $150 billion from the Obama administration, and an additional $70 billion from Biden — have enabled Iran’s regime to:
Compared to the tens of billion the US delivers to Iran, the US government’s annual $3.8 billion investment in Israel — which invariably inspires extensive howling from some quarters — is proportionately bus fare.
Er have we forgotten that Freddy is a fruity danish?
Which makes that Genoveva bird- a reality TV star, ie notoriously shy and grounded- a handy “beard” cover for a night of bumping into strangers at da club
None of my non-Jewish friends, organisation colleagues, etc who know I am Jewish have said anything about it. None have asked what I think. I suspect many don’t know what to think. Like unwilling to pick up a hot potato. It’s strange, and scary.
There is an article up at the Oz about the Voice and white superiority. Can’t access on my mobile for some reason.
Can somebody post it.
Thanks.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GA7hdzzXcAAAK2N?format=jpg&name=large
Better off to block the tunnel exits…
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.
No idea why it’s paywalled in the DT it’s free in the Mail online .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12844047/Princess-Mary-returns-Australia-Christmas.html
Not unusual in such circumstances. Happens all the time to families of victims.
Mr. 29% to “drastically” cut immigration levels.
Should have kept your pre-election promise to do so, Elbow.
Political capital – hard to come by, easily spent.
That’s merely one he got caught with.
We wuz told he was a womaniser. Unless it was lost in translation and the Aussie press didn’t get it.
Strangely, St Christopher was portrayed as a cynocephali in some Christian art.
Ah Gamboto. Wondered what happened to here. Odious is an understatement. Another North Shore leftie. Ugggh.
I can’t follow the idea of how privatisation MUST occur before dollarisation.
You could conversely argue that dollarisation will make future privatisation more attractive.
“OldOzzie
Dec 10, 2023 9:21 AM
French Farmers Dump Manure On Govt Buildings To Protest Climate Hysteria”
old ozzie,
THAT, is what I wish we could organise here everytime the filth protest against the Jews. I would dearly love to see great big Septic Waste tankers spraying their load over all the disgusting worms.
Also needs to be done at Parliament House.
1. We don’t want to be.
2. They don’t have to be inferior.
3. It’s not genetic, it is a choice about fully joining society.
No Stan. That was the silent majority saying enough of this sh*t.
If you had any guts at all you would back Jacinta for an Audit and a RC into indigenous child abuse.
Deflecting from the real issues to racism just underlines what a coward you really are.
Just returned home from staying at my sister’s in the inner-west. I was standing at the bus stop on the corner of Elizabeth and Park Streets waiting for the bus and a young woman, clearly at university, walks past me with a bag on her shoulder emblazoned with the words “Free Palestine”.
It isn’t often that I feel like I want to engage in physical violence, but I do admit I had such a feeling on seeing this young, very Anglo Saxon looking woman walk past me. Not that I would, and not that I did, but I did loudly yell out……
Am Yisrael Chai
A must-read from Brendan O’Neil. Some extracts …
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/12/09/it-isnt-free-speech-that-causes-violence-its-censorship/
Whilst I have dallied with a move to WV, the American dream is dead.
Sources cited, data and methods provided.
https://www.investopedia.com/the-american-dream-now-costs-over-usd3-million-8409951
Dreadful stuff.
The Second Sunday of Advent
The Second Reading at Mass today – 2 Peter 3:8-14
The one that needs to be audited is coconut head from Noosa. He taken in $500 million, over the years, with no oversight.
The Second Sunday of Advent
The Second Reading at Mass today – 2 Peter 3:8-14
It’s those damned pre-medievals again.
What Happened When This Woman Met Her Nazi Torturer
Maïti Girtanner prayed for 40 years for the power to forgive.
Somehow the photos of defeated Gazan’s remind me of photos of the Uighurs under the CCP.
I like pointing out to the loons that militant zionism is the ultimate expression of indigenous sovereignty.
That tends to get their knickers in a twist.
I assume it is intended as giving physical form to what usually comes out of those buildings.
For those searching for direction from the BruBri Morality Tale , I have asked the Reverend ChatGPT. Thank you to alamak (Sp?)for the idea. It concludes:
The moral here, a lesson plain and true,
Beware the spirits’ potent brew.
For when vodka’s hold doth take its toll,
Secrets entwine, truth fades in its roll.
In courtly halls where shadows stray,
Maidens and knights in passions’ playe,
Remember this tale of Bri and Bru,
Keep from vodka’s tempting brew.
In my opinion, Milei has one huge problem, which is the foreign debt.
Egypt’s foreign debt is the reason Washington can keep it on a short leash.
Similar to Pakistan.
Play ball or get cut off from global debt markets.
Not the same thing as music, and specifically Wagner. Music is a direct emotional intoxicant, and as such not listening to some things makes sense if it has bad associations for you. Certain paintings (or painters, eg. Goya) can do this for you too. Hairy and I like Wagner’s music very much, we enjoy its grand mythic scope and passion, and don’t see it as the Nazi’s did, for they used this existential passion only for evil.
Literature speaks of authors and ideas, it is intellect, a different thing. Only poetry comes anywhere near in written form to the direct immediacy that music has, of compelling emotion, often elegiac or lyrical, but it usually contains also some positional argument. For instance, Phillip Larkin’s demeaning ‘mum and dad’ poem is emotional, like a slap in the face. It’s a great poem that says a lot, but it ends on such an unhopeful note.
They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were f*cked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
I rather like his ‘Church Going’ poem though, which is more of an essay.
So, as with music, don’t condemn outright, as there may be wiggle-room.
Thanks Zulu. The article was pure drivel
Has anybody ever done a study on Aboriginal sports stars and the colour of their girlfriends. Throw in Stan Grant and new ABC poster boy Tony Armstrong.
JC mentioned the $500 man from Noosa, Noel Pearson. Not seen any mention of him since the No vote won.
JC mentioned the $500 man from Noosa, Noel Pearson. Not seen any mention of him since the No vote won.
A 251 keepin’ the pride! .. maybe ..
he did promise to disappear from sight if NO won .. LOL!
I take some hope from occasionally reading the thoughts of the loony lefty losers. They are so utterly stupid. Defeating halfwits can’t be all that difficult, surely?
Yes, humanity en masse near naked and cowed always looks very vulnerable. However, don’t waste too much pity on these ideologues. They would have killed you in in a heartbeat if you were home on October 7th in a kibbutz, or if you were a teenage girl at a rock concert near Gaza. Being female, you could have been in for a lot worse first. And if you were a baby or a child, no pity from these for you then, nor your hapless parents looking on. Sheer bestial criminality.
Retribution will come, but with justice applied first. A just retribution, I think. These fighters will get a consideration of how they have been formed and manipulated, which is more than many of them deserve.
What does she think would have happened to her if she’d been at that music festival?
smirking woke biach takes one for the collective
British man attacked for taking down Palestine flag in London | Leo Kearse
Good. I hope she heard you and understood, Cassie.
I’ve got a call of ‘Israel Forever’ ready for a similar moment.
This is via Michael Smith.
Papuans showing their support for Israel.
So good to see.
One suspects she will have been forced to resign because of the damage done to the university’s bottom line, not because she violated a principle.
One alumnus pulled $100m in capital funding, just for starters.
Now, who was that Australian cricket player who was the recipient of “monkey noises” from the non-white Indian audiences in India? Bindman seems to have a blind eye to such events. when the perpetrators are not white.
After Pandora opened the box (‘jar’ in the myth actually, but ‘box’ in the idiom) and all the spites escaped to plague humankind, remaining at the bottom of the jar (or box – but I am referencing the myth now) was… Hope. It is this hope that that saves us from being overwhelmed by those teeming human ills.
I hope the Palis look in the bottom of their box and find not Hope, but a piece of paper:
Zulu, thanks for posting that very odd article-
Was it actually penned by Gambotto-Burke? Or was it Grant? Or was it meant to be a parody of Stan the Tan?
Or-
and this is where i’d put my money-
Did Antonella type into Chat GPT “Write a few hundred words in the style of Stan Grant on the indelible racism of Western Civilization, include at least eighteen pretentious references to long-dead anthropologists, philosophers, fantasists, and hoaxes.”
I think that little beastie was tried by Sri Lanka a couple of years back. It devastated their largely agricultural economy, and led to riots and their entire government being given the lemon and sars – along with the homes of gummint leaders being occupied and/or burnt down.
Hang on a minute. I believe the economy of this wide brown land is driven in significant part by… agriculture.
Good to see that there was some improvement in general musical culture at the Cat last night.
Rabz linked to Asturias (Layenda) by piano prodigy Isaac Albeniz, as transcribed for guitar by Andres Segovia and played by Oz virtuoso John Williams.
This piece was originally composed for solo piano by that pianistic genius, as part of his Espagna Suite.
Outside of piano competitions, it is probably his most popular composition.
Now for some aspiring musos’ trivia…
The guitar arrangement is a technically much easier version of the piano one, as can be seen here, note the rapid jumps required to play the fortissimo (ff) 4-note chords in the main theme, with low-register L-hand octaves, while keeping tempo.
An often insormountable trap for many pianists.
Then compare this to the guitar arrangement, in a properly-synchronised video (which the Segovia and Williams ones, on YT, are NOT).
PS. many Cats will also appreciate Anastasia Huppmann’s contribution..
UPenn president resigns after testimony to Congress on antisemitism
She’ll be remaining on in her tenured role within the law school at UPenn.
That’s why she was smirking during her visit to DC.
Take a few bullets.
Step down from one roll, remain in the other.
With many, many stories to tell at her next dinner party.
This is how one demonstrates loyalty to the blob.
Early in the week OldOzzie posted an article by Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis has connections in Israel for anyone interested her website https://www.phyllis-chesler.com/articles
DISNEY TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SOUTHPARK! What On Earth Is Bob Iger Thinking Now
Agree the Gambotto muck just writes itself. I really loathe the North Shore.
Long since relocated to the UK, I believe.
Which might further explain the disconnect with the average Australian’s views.
he is unconsciously referring back to nineteenth-century theories and how do these marxist scribblers actually know this?
Well, there was an element of superiority about it, but not in the way projected by the article.
Firstly there was the academic elitism which never saw a No voter who wasn’t racist.
And secondly there was this concept of a form of black superiority (here for 260,000 years, deep spiritual connection to the land, yada, yada).
Most of these academic activists think they have a deep understanding of Aboriginal culture because they once went to the opening night cocktail party for Bangarra Dance Company.
This is my experience also. Sometimes there are just no words.
I’m encouraged by the number of Christians who are right on top of the crime committed on 7/10 and are both angry and sympathetic. Many ask me how the kids are going, knowing the risk in simple things like dropping little ones off at school.
Keep in mind that atrocities against Christians have been occurring in Africa for decades also. And then there is the passive/aggressive suppression in Asia from Buddhist and Muslim states. It’s only the feel-good types who aren’t aware and are blasé about Israel. The ones connected with the wider communion are very sympathetic.
We’re well into the first series of Band of Brothers now. Watched two episodes last night showing the deterioration of morale in Easy Company, as newcomers arrive and old friends are killed, and the war in Europe nears its end. In the first one, there was the stunning refusal of the hero, promoted to lead, who deliberately disobeys orders. After a bruising attack over a river to gain some live Germans as informants, and a request for them to do it again the next day, he asks for a fake report that this second attack took place but had no success. He told his men to sleep through the time of departure, effectively, not to go. In the second episode Easy Company was in Germany in April 1945 doing territorial clearing in towns and forests. The horrors of discovering a Nazi concentration camp sent one vulnerable young untried soldier over the edge into suicide, another was descending into alcoholism and looting for profit, as the stress from years of it takes its toll on the older members of the Company. The camp scenes were particularly gruelling to see so well done, Stephen Speilberg at his best as Exec Producer with Tom Hanks.
The airborne 101 of Easy Company will be at Berchtesgaden next, and maybe watching tonight we will see them at Eagles Nest, where they had headquarters, Hitler’s showpiece for important international visitors and the Nazi elite, which we visited in September (not his Berghof residence on the Obersalzberg mountain, which the US forces destroyed). Made in 2001 this series wears well. Glad I agreed to see it, second time for Hairy.
Voice defeat ‘proves whites still think they’re superior’
How does it prove it? How many non whites voted no. Just more marxist race bating. Relocated to the youkay eh…lucky for us.
Perhaps the perceived superiority is in the forms of government being proposed.
An obvious big-man power grab as opposed to representative government for all.
No wonder the defeated are still squirming and shilling – it was a huge loss of money and prestige.
“OldOzzie
Dec 10, 2023 9:21 AM
French Farmers Dump Manure On Govt Buildings To Protest Climate Hysteria”
The French Know How to Protest –
https://twitter.com/i/status/1732993702103036008
LOL
Lizzie, did you catch Tom Hanks one-second or so of cameo appearance in that episode?
& the much longer small role played by Hanks Jnr? (i.e. Colin Hanks) He’s a chip off the old block, looks-wise.
Money and prestige were the reasons the Voice launched in the first place.
And the increase in attacks on Christians in India since c. 2000.
I see Hanks and Spielberg are making a new WW2 series about the US 8th Air Force , bombing the Nazis from England.
Hopefully as good as BoB and The Pacific. He better choose Zimmer for the music score.
I have the DVD set of BoB and there is one disc dedicated to the follow ups and background story of the survivors of Easy Co. Their reunions etc. All went back into every day life and had big families, enjoying their quiet life back home. Living their American dream. Tough improvising bunch who saw off the Great Depression and WW2 then built the great US postwar expansion.
No doubt I’ll watch it again.
Milton.F @ 10.12
Yes I remember Antonella Gambotto from the 1980’s she was basically a fanzine hack with a crush on Nick Cave, her writing was as pretentious and vapid as all get out.
Plus xa change ….
CRISPR = The Walking Dead.
If I was a black person & someone knocked on my door offering CRISPR technology to cure my sickle cell, I’d be be running a mile.
Weather Watch TV: Jasper update 10/12.
Talking muchos rain now. 300-400mm in 36 hours etc.
Our economy driven by agriculture? This is one thing I am a greenie on, mining fertile ground for a once return. How much is agriculture worth a ton compared to mining? The farming areas have all the services closer at hand which is the only reason that I see that the miners will take over. Being able to feed yourself is more important. Then again politicians don’t have to worry as their shopping bags come full of money instead of food.
PluckaChook retiring from politics … a copybook of that pr1ck Andrews, retire before the Sh1t hits the fan and suffers in indignation of being voted out. Gutless pr1cks!
Have you asked what THEY think?
We dont have a social map for “I am filled with bloodlust and rage for what was done to your distant relatives.”
Our fathers did not have to say “How do you FEEL” when the foul orc of reality wipe out small towns full of innocents.
Our society does not have a routine for “How can I donate for bullets and bombs to kill these rabid dogs?”
You can count a few atheists in there too, Calli. It takes a lot to make me angry, but Hamas managed it. And anyone who isn’t angered by it is either shamefully ignorant or depraved.
Voice defeat ‘proves whites still think they’re superior’
When they lobbed here in 1788 they were clearly superior.
They wore clothes and footwear and head coverings. They had ships that could sail around the world. They had animals and plants for food. They had weapons that went bang to hunt and protect themselves.
Meanwhile the boongs wandered the country hoping for a lightning strike to start a fire so they could cook a diseased wombat on it. They didn’t even wear the nappies they don now to do the stomp in the dust while banging sticks together.
They’re still largely superior although most of the inhabitants that were here before 1788 and their descendants have joined the white society and have benefited accordingly.
The myth of the noble savage lifestyle is nothing more than a myth.
I dont think it’s a case of white superiority, rather Western culture superiority, which anyone can choose to subscribe to.
That’s why they lost.
Pallet Chook has resigned.
She would have stayed but the unions have pulled the rug out from under her.
Mak, snap!
Roxby Downs fertile land?
LOL!
There are still quite a few hold-outs who play the “but both sides” routine. They think they’re being “compassionate” and “fair”.
They’d never have the same attitude to Pol Pot or Hitler. Which I take great pleasure in pointing out. As well as the gross indoctrination to murder that’s taking place in UN backed schools, not just the madrassas.
Story at the ABC today about a NT indigenous schoolgirl learning to fly and hoping to become a commercial pilot.
Details a bit cryptic, but a few hints dropped that she was fostered out to a white family and previously the burden of culture was holding her back.
We are not superior. Our culture is superior. It is superior because it arose from millennia of learning from other cultures that led to the creation of a society that is adaptable, forward looking, and vibrant. Our willingness to learn, to change our ways, to grow, our humility, is what has made our society superior.
Have they signed a letter calling on Hamas to free the hostages..
Palacechook resigns.
Apparently she wants to go on holiday.
I haven’t heard of any of these pretentious mumming nobodies. And am unlikely to.
Girls, if you’re so supportive, do a Little Pattie and go entertain your “troops” over in Gaza. They’ll thank you for it in ways you least expect.
No? Then shut up you w@nkers.
They need to see the acres of manflesh captured by the IDF. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so hot to trot.
For that is what it’s all about. A certain female perversion that adores the tough guy, even if he’s a psycho.
‘Creatives’ now seeking to dictate foreign policy as well as climate policy.
Why not let them have a go at the economy while they’re at it?
And now, it looks like, us Queenslanders must endure that insufferable, unflushable turd Miles as PluckaChook’s replacement, as the turd is of the left faction. Almost, I say ALMOST, enough for me to bring the Lieborals (aka LNP) up the preference list.
I wonder if Pissyfulli will bring out the usual polite platitudes and thank PluckaChook for her service to Qld yadda yadda yadda?
I like the way a bunch of mummers describe themselves as “creatives”. Not like engineers or scientists or mathematicians. Oh no. Or musicians or painters or poets even. It’s dressing up and reciting words put together by someone else that makes you a “creative”.
Silly buggers. Not even smart enough to notice how dim they are.
Lizzie, it came to mind to wonder how badly behaved the Uighers must have been to enrage the CCP.
Queenslanders, enjoy Mr Miles, he comes across to me as repugnant. Why is it that every change brings on someone WORSE!
Cassie, do you refuse to read books based on the beliefs of their authors?”
It depends, Damon. I do choose not to read some works based on the putrid beliefs of the authors. It might surprise you (or not) to know that I have not read, nor ever will read, Mein Kampf or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Why? Well, to put it delicately, I don’t like those authors’ beliefs.
I want 3200 “creatives” to be made to watch a certain 43 minutes of raw footage…..
Just like Jacinta Allan is far worse than Dan, Steven Miles is far worse than the Chook.
Yes, I’m really interested to learn what 3200 grant sucking leeches have to say on anything.
And I choose never ever to fork out another cent on any STC production.
As a matter of principle, I will subscribe to the Darlinghurst Theatre Company next year. They actually have good productions.
PULL THE DOSH.
white superiority
being white “houso” stuff the “superiority” .. I’d be more than happy with “equality” ……. LOL!
Story at the ABC today about a NT indigenous schoolgirl learning to fly and hoping to become a commercial pilot.
Details a bit cryptic, but a few hints dropped that she was fostered out to a white family and previously the burden of culture was holding her back.
Bloody hell! .. the standard of “our” ABC “quality control” regarding 251 feelz-good is unacceptable if “hints” are slipping thru ….. FFS!
All that will happen is the STC mob will furtively move over to Darlinghurst.
Comment, from the Oz.
He Who Must Not Be Named: The Hunter Biden Indictment is Itself a Model of Evasion
The Chook resigns. So someone else can take the party to the next election – which they’re a certainty to lose.
And manage the cost of the Olympics as well.
Cassie, it might also be useful to get a list of the signatories. You can then make informed decisions on which “creatives” you want to support, given they move around so much.
And yes. People can change and grow up and see their younger selves as complete tossers. They might even find themselves admitting they were wrong.
But just as they committed their position to writing now, I want to see a written retraction in the future.
U.N. Climate Scientists Want Your Government To Answer To Them Instead Of You
Fair chance the resignation was not voluntary.
In May next year she’d have overtaken Peter Beattie as the longest serving ALP Premier of Qld. Her ego (these bastards all have ego that Princess Anne wouldn’t be able to showjump over) will have wanted that record, badly.
The ignorance of the anti-Israel mob beggars belief
The real Kevin McCarthy emerges now that he’s retiring.
Watch Kevin McCarthy Take Down His Own Party While Praising Democrats In New Viral Video
I see that we have three commenters here who are “either shamefully ignorant or depraved”, or more probably both.
3200 Australian creatives who have signed a letter
3200! .. bloody hell! .. no wonder “our” ABC is an ever expanding sheltered workshop in need of lotz more OPM ………..!
You’re not missing much, Cassie. Although the Protocols are sometimes funny, though not intentionally. I read most of Mein Kampf, which proves how tough I was as a teenager, because it’s fairly awful. Not as bad as Oscar’s De Profundis, mind you.
I made a point of reading material by twisted sickos when younger so as to get some understanding of what makes a twisted sicko. I am now swamped by the output of twisted sickos, as with the sou disant “creatives” above, so I’m glad I did read them so many years ago. It makes recognising the stink of moral decay that much quicker.
I have no problem thinking this way in regards to Ukraine, calli.
Unlike Israel there are no distinctions between the leaderships.
they’re being “compassionate” and “fair”
True about Hitler, but there were very many leftards who thought that Pol Pot was wonderful, and only reluctantly went quiet (rather than openly accepting the truth) when the reality became too stark to ignore.
Scap that last line.
OldOzzie
The young are ignorant.
News at 11.
And further to Damon’s comment at the top of the page, and given that I’ve just read about the nauseating stunt planned by some 3200 Australian ‘actors and musicians who are preparing to don Palestinian scarves on stages across the country, in a repeat of the anti-Israel stunt that split the STC‘, hear this…..
I refuse to spend one cent of my hard earned money to watch and/or listen to mediocre actors and musicians pontificate, lecture, spout off and preach about an issue that they know F*CK ALL about. Let’s call them what these ‘actors and musicians’ are…..they are Nazi apologists. Goebbels would like these moral and intellectual cretins. Oh even worse, these far-left, oh so progressive actors and musicians are rape apologists.
The Doomsday Cult Needs To Recalculate Its Many Failed Predictions
I & I Editorial Board
Five years ago, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown said, with great certainty, that “in less than five years, even the worst skeptics will be believers.”
While we’re not sure why some skeptics are in his mind worse than others, it’s clear that he was wrong.
Wrong as the prediction of the end of snow was wrong.
Just as wrong as Prince Charles, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Al Gore, celebrated activist James Hansen and the tiresome, we’ll-have-no-coal John Kerry declaring we have fewer than 100 months or 12 years or 10 years or four years or 500 days to save Earth from the menace of man-made global warming.
We’ve had a half-century of various failed climate and ecological predictions, 18 of them “spectacularly wrong,” yet the carbon-obsessed doomsayers continue to insist that a planetary tragedy is imminent.
The difference between them and the end-of-the-world cults that have to recalculate the day of the apocalypse when their prophecies come and go without incident is that much of the Western world has bought into the climate zealots’ hysteria.
In addition to the many botched timeline predictions, there is also the temperature dashboard warning light message.
Once we reach a global temperature that is 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than that of the preindustrial era (whatever that was), we will have arrived at a disastrous threshold.
Never mind that there is no such thing as a measurable global temperature, or that the temperature record is unreliable, or that the 1.5 degrees was not established by science but a number agreed upon in order to forge a climate agreement.
And never mind that somehow we have essentially hit that 1.5 degrees Celsius tipping point (the climate holocaust should materialize any day now, right? – the lunatics at the Guardian of course say we’re on the verge of catastrophe) and at the same time, the Associated Press reports “the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago.”
Regarding the latter, for any rational group of people, that would be cause for a thorough reevaluation.
But not for the climate fanatics.
The central committee of zealots, con artists, corrupt researchers, look-at-mes, and political despots, both elected and appointed, that is forcing the green energy transition will not stray from its goal.
The Eco-palian clerics are never diverted by reality. They refuse to concede their militancy is dangerous.
They clearly enjoy hectoring and sermonizing.
They try to win converts through coercion and lies, as do the laymen, who believe that blocking others’ free movement and vandalism are acceptable methods for making an argument.
Their star qualities seem to be visible to only a limited audience, I have never heard of any of them, nor of the two who started the idiocy.
PS, unless Milly Alcock is trans, a name change is called for.
If Miles wanted to immediately get on the front foot against his bland “I stand for nothing” LNP adversary he’d cancel the unpopular Olympics and announce a raft of cuts to government fees and charges to address cost of living pressures.
Grasp the zeitgeist with both hands, as it were.
Roger
They exist as parasites on the economy, don’t encourage them to take more direct action.
Thanks for that explanation, HZH, that makes more sense.
One can’t equate the CCP of course with the IDF, and I don’t suggest you do. For yes, the mode of subjugation is somewhat pictorially similar, but the Uighers were and still are being punished collectively for their culture, not as terrorist fighters as in the Hamas operatives pic; and therein lies the difference. The IDF don’t go after civilians as the CCP do, even when it is very hard, as in Gaza, to tell the difference.
Re the STC tea-towel wearing stunt at curtain call.
The stunt was pre-planned. Thus it may be safe to assume that the Two actors who did not wear a keffiyah had made a conscious choice to not participate.
Zero of the countless news reports I’ve seen have made any mention of those two conscientious objectors.
Unless my eyes deceive me, one of those is Sigrid Thornton.
The Liberal Media’s Desperate New ‘Trump Will be a Dictator’ Narrative
The leftwing media recently got its orders from the Biden campaign on a new narrative to smear Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Because their previous narrative of Trump colluding with Russia and Vladimir Putin has been discredited, they are promoting a
new one: if Donald Trump wins the November 2024 presidential election, he will become a dictator similar to Hitler or Napoleon.
This fear-mongering theme appeared in similar articles within days of each other in The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The Atlantic is promoting the theme in a January/February special issue with 16 essays where liberal elite authors warn how a dictatorial Trump presidency in 2025 would threaten America and the world on issues ranging from abortion, NATO, climate, the courts, immigration, etc. The Atlantic has posted online 16 of these anti-Trump essays and plans to add more.
The most prominent of these Trump-will-be-a-dictator essays was written for the Washington Post by Robert Kagan, a Never Trumper and neoconservative who advised John McCain and Mitt Romney and now works for the liberal Brookings Institution.
Kagan’s article was published in full hysteria mode with an image of Caeser’s head morphing into Trump, a Napoleon hat with Trump’s face superimposed on red streaks resembling blood, and references to Hitler and McCarthyism.
Kagan led his article off by warning that there is a good chance Trump will win the 2024 presidential election.
He blames this on dysfunction in Washington and President Biden carrying the world’s problems “like an albatross around his neck.”
Kagan also made the bizarre claim that Trump has “unusual advantages” for a presidential candidate because he has Fox News and the Speaker of the House “in his pocket.”
Kagan made these arguments to sidestep the main reasons why Donald Trump’s candidacy is surging and Biden’s is in trouble:
Joe Biden is one of the weakest U.S. presidents in history, and the vast majority of Americans believe they are worse off today than when Trump was president.
As a result, there’s no reference in Kagan’s article about the U.S. economic downturn, steeply increased inflation, the rise of crime in U.S. cities, or the flood of illegal migrants during the Biden presidency.
Kagan also doesn’t say a word about the serious deterioration in global security on Biden’s watch, including the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, increased Chinese military provocations against Taiwan, the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, and the surge in Iran’s nuclear weapons program to produce uranium just below weapons-grade.
And Kagan, of course, omits growing concerns in the U.S. and abroad about Joe Biden’s mental decline and fitness for office.
No one believes Kagan really thinks that Trump has a media advantage because Fox News is behind him (which I dispute) when the mainstream media establishment and social media are still dominant in this country and prepared to do whatever it takes to defeat Trump and elect Biden.
Kagan and the other anti-Trump essayists realize our country is in trouble and that Donald Trump’s solutions will be attractive to many voters.
They know most Americans believe Trump will take quick action to reverse the damage done to the U.S. economy by “Bidenomics” and high energy costs.
Kagan realizes many Americans are angry about Biden’s failure to secure the U.S. southern border and stop the surge in crime in our cities and are willing to look to Trump to fix these problems.
Kagan is also aware that most Americans know the U.S. was more secure under Trump because he was a strong and decisive president.
They remember that despite Democratic warnings in 2016 that it would be dangerous to elect Donald Trump as president because he would get the U.S. into new wars, Trump was the first president in decades to not begin a new overseas military campaign and used diplomacy and economic sanctions to create four years of relative peace.
Kagan understands that most Americans believe that if Trump is reelected, he will not get the United States into another war.
Miles strikes me as the little boy caught doing smells in the back of the classroom and blaming it on someone else.
Be sure to tread carefully around him…an accident is always imminent.
Re Qld politics: Please keep in mind that Steven Miles is not as intelligent as Anastacia Palaszczuk.
Abbie Chatfield’s claim to fame seems to be based on large mammaries, and a low cut dress.
It is interesting to ponder who, would actually notice or care if Gough’s Australia Council scam was defunded.
Why is it that we are required to guarantee employment to these pretentious creatures.
Where is the Rock Band Council, or the Tradies’ Council, or the Fishermans’ Council.
We are subsidising wealthy peoples’ entertainment and sheltering these ‘creatives’ from the discipline of the market. None of these creeps would dare to pull these stunts if their employment status would be effected.
This is why I’m offering him free advice – he needs all the help he can get.
I also want to see Crisafulli be made to work for the privilege of government.
They are initially nurtured within our universities, who have for twenty years fed this vile stuff into the general culture and especially into our schools. It has ruined nearly all media creative works (including advertising) in print, TV, film and on the internet since then, has permeated all of the creative funding bodies and exhibitions, so it is now thoroughly self-perpetuating within the visible parts of our culture.
Thankfully, we can now put a figure on the resistance. 61% of us. Politicians note.
Only those who benefit from it, I suspect.
Btw, it’s now called Creative Australia.
Well, at least her claims will be visible.
Otherwise he’ll be as lazy & inept as a premier as he has been as opposition leader.
And likely a one termer, leading to another multi-term Labor government.
You see, there’s method in my apparent madness.
I think such a move would be strongly applauded.
Make it policy in the next election Libs and romp home on it, promising an end to this and other woke nonsense, including climate craziness.
200% agreement here.
He’s showing zero inclination to lock up the demographic that is burgling & carjacking the state’s normies.
No indication he’ll deliver a hard kick to the goolies of the Health Depts pen pushers.
Very likely to be a one-termer. Alas.
Like Elbow, Chrisafulli is a time-server waiting in line for the premiership. He knows Pony Girl’s corrupt union circus is so on-the-nose a la Dan Andrews that all he has to do is avoid major mistakes to reach his objective at the next state election.
PS: As I keep saying, the ALP no longer represents anyone but a tiny minority of union members (less than 8% of the private workforce) and is propped up by compulsory super management fees (and the Greens). It is little more than a nursery for professional Marxist activists who’ve never had real jobs.
No-one would notice Creative Australia disappearing. Nor the Walkely’s, the Booker’s, Pulitzer’s, even the Nobel’s, which all seem nowadays to be purchased, or quite off the mark, and in some cases clearly a cabal of groupies rewarding each other.
alwaysright
Dec 10, 2023 9:36 AM
We won’t, but our masters would do it in a second.
I refer to him as the most punchable face in Qld politics. Cameron Dick comes a close second.
BTW it’s Dr Miles PHD
Knuckle Dragger
Dec 10, 2023 11:38 AM
an EU ban on glyphosate
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Shirley, we wouldn’t ban glyphosate here. Would we?
I think that little beastie was tried by Sri Lanka a couple of years back. It devastated their largely agricultural economy, and led to riots and their entire government being given the lemon and sars – along with the homes of gummint leaders being occupied and/or burnt down.
Hang on a minute. I believe the economy of this wide brown land is driven in significant part by… agriculture.
Would gummint leaders investment properties also be included in the razing? Just for clarification.
Gawd, in the midst of their defeat and the twisted wreckage of the machinery whereby they were going to lord it over everyone else, the only response they can come up with is the tattered, faded, threadbare blanket of ‘raaaaacism’.
If they took a moment to reappraise the nagging unease they constantly feel in the presence of happier people, consider that they might have made some stupid choices, or pondered the possible motives of the grievance peddling demagogues, or even noticed that in mainstream society amongst whites (which, of course includes Asians) there is an alotting fortunes which must be something other than race…
Maybe, just maybe, they can find real joy in their life.
As is they must clutch at the talisman of their victimhood around their necks, desperately muttering their prayer “It is not my fault! It is whitey! They owe me!”
They blind themselves to their problems and thus misdiagnose the solution. They receive vast sums of money with absolutely no obligation on their part and it is not making them happier.
3200 Australian creatives
Not one of these sycophantic imbeciles has ever contributed anything to our society.
On the public teat from birth and forever.
Move to Gaza Strip you carnts and see how you enjoy life there.
Doctor in trade unionism.
Seems Billy Shitten is shortening in the odds to take over from Airbus according to some inside punters.
But the dealer’s missus has been quietly hovering, trying to stay clear of the Airbus disaster.
The December knives are getting honed.
Banning fertiliser was the apex.
Not being allowed to apply useful chemicals was part of it, however the collapse of the rice yield was principally due to no fertiliser being banned.
Bruce of Newcastle
Can we swap the 813k Muslims for 813k Jews?
The 3200. Probably see themselves as 300 Spartans.
Jerry Seinfeld has an Aust/NZ tour in June 24. Perhaps he could work that into his routine.
Chloe may well be contacting curtain suppliers, this time with more certainty.
Miles strikes me as the little boy caught doing smells in the back of the classroom and blaming it on someone else.
Miles is a thug and a back-stabbing bastard. He is as cunning as a shithouse rat and as dumb as King Chuck’s tampon. The sheeple who will still vote for him are worse though.
Maybe cancel that holiday, Elbow.
That’s all the Muslims we have to give, otherwise I’d sweeten the deal by offering more.
Bill Shorten
Cons:
Proven unelectable.
Wrong faction.
Personal baggage.
Pros:
Not Albanese
Roger that – err – Roger.
I also want to see Crisafulli be made to work for the privilege of government.
Otherwise he’ll be as lazy & inept as a premier as he has been as opposition leader.
Totally agree. As much as Palace”chook” is on the nose IMO she could have had a chance next year for the reasons you make out above, he’s been a very lazy opposition leader. Which is the polar opposite of what I saw when he was Townsville City Councillor, he was one of the headkickers of the non aligned councillors and very effective at it. So one wonders where has it gone?
SATP, KAP is already running hard on law and order. This will siphon votes away from Crisifulli given his intention to keep on the same track of reinforcing failure with youth crime. Those preference won’t go back to the LNP.
Okay. Let’s go with “Muslim adjacent”.
I can think of 3,200 off the top of my head.
Which is how the Palacechook got there herself. To the perpetual agony of the loathsome Cameron Dick, who made no secret that Anastasia Who? was being fed into the machine so that he could take out Newman after his expected second term.
This is actually quite true. In real life, although she looks like she’s made from PlayDoh, the Palacechook is a pleasant and surprisingly thoughtful person.
Miles, OTOH, is entirely driven by the political zeitgeist.
Windbag John Kerry’s flatulence was the perfect ‘keynote’ for UN climate confab
By Post Editorial Board
It wasn’t technically the keynote address, but John Kerry’s gas eruption pretty well summed up the substance of COP-28, the United Nations’ latest climate conference.
President Biden’s “climate envoy” was plummily ranting on — “I find myself getting more and more militant because I do not understand how adults who are in a position of responsibility can be avoiding responsibility for taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis” — when the distinctive sound erupted and a fellow panelist politely shielded her nose.
That flatulence carried more meaning than all his alarmist verbal emissions on global warming, and all the other noise at the confab— or, for that matter, any UN climate conference.
Consider: He was ranting about nations that refuse to shut down all their coal plants now, when he knows perfectly well that China is still building two new coal plants a week.
But his interlocutors in Beijing nod politely when he blathers on, vow they’ll do better in the future (as long as the United States makes a few concessions, demands Kerry dutifully toots to the prez) — and hold their laughter ’til he’s out of the room.
He might as well be farting as talking: The Chinese would still nod politely and ignore him.
All the self-important nabobs flying their private jets to Dubai for COP-28 are just as dim.
And as deluded:
The hottest news on the climate front is how many “carbon credits” turn out to be cons: A joint Guardian-Die Zeit investigation, for example, found more than 90% of “rainforest carbon offsets” certified by Verra, the world’s leading carbon credit certifier, involved nonexistent cuts in deforestation.
That scam centered on Zimbabwe, but the climate warriors might as well have been paying one of those infamous “Nigerian prince” con artists.
And while the conference crowd politely ignored Kerry’s emission, it’s obsessing over another big stink: The realization that “the world” isn’t going to meet their marquee goal of preventing global temps from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; they’re already up 1.2 °C and rising.
Even though the West has been burning gazillions on the cause: Biden and Democrats in Congress, for example, brag of having “invested” hundreds of billions (of taxpayer money) in Green New Deal schemes last year alone.
Right: Between bogus “offsets” and China’s coal plants (plus ones in India and around the developing world), the goal was always a fantasy.
Many at the conference came “carrying a sense of disillusionment,” reports The New York Times.
Good: Maybe they’ll even realize the whole crusade was ridiculous from the start.
Penn president resigns; Stefanik vows Harvard and MIT next
Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled Penn President Liz Magill, along with the presidents of Harvard and MIT, during a hearing Tuesday over their response to antisemitism on their campuses.
Yep. That was it.
Restrict the ability of farmers to feed a country by any means, however, and that sort of response is exactly what will happen.
Good: Maybe they’ll even realize the whole crusade was ridiculous from the start.
The creatures who really believe global boiling will never admit they were wrong but will simply go silent for a while until beginning their next virtue signalling POS.
Kathy Sheriff will have been paid three million quid….
Dick had been poised to take over from Palace Chook after the then expected ALP loss in the 2015 election. Her unexpected victory has meant a long time in her shadow.
I suppose after 9 years he may have lost the clout he had, but I can’t see him going down easy now to Miles.
Pogria:
The last sentence is repetitive.
GP’s latest showing many of the beautiful young women butchered and/or captured by the grubs. I still advocate tactical nukes all over the ME by Israel
From the Hun – comments allowed.
Love your work Calli!
Survivors to be employed as slave labor for the rest of their days..
Hamas animals and their shop of female victim horrors
Female Israeli soldiers captured and killed by Hamas terrorists had their breasts cut off, their crotches and intimate areas shot, their faces mutilated, their legs chopped, their heads severed, their bodies burned to ash — and of course, were raped.
And all the antisemites go: It’s Israel’s fault.
Let’s just pretend for a second that Hamas terrorists were justified in attacking Israel.
Let’s just put on the fantasy hats the anti-Israel crowd wears and act as if Israel were the aggressor — Israel the illegal occupier — Israel the terrorist-type nation with cruel genocidal intents to wipe off the face of the map all the Arabs, all the Muslims, all the Palestinians of the world.
Just for a fairytale moment; just for one short second, pretend as if Hamas were the innocent and Israelis the evil.
Would that still justify such treatment of women?
Hamas terrorists are beasts.
At the United Nations in New York, Israeli army reservist Shari Mendes spoke about the horrors of receiving and preparing for burial the bodies of female victims, some IDF soldiers, from the October 7 terror attack.
“These’ women arrived [at the IDF’s Shura base] with their eyes open, their mouths grimacing, their fists clenched,” Mendes said, The Jerusalem Post reported.
One woman’s arm had been broken in so many spots the rabbinical unit Mendes works with couldn’t place it properly in the shroud; other female soldiers “were shot in the crotch, intimate parts, vagina, or shot in the breast,” she said.
One survivor recounted how she watched a terrorist rape a woman, then cut off her breasts and play with them; one female victim arrived at the base with her legs cut off; others, with heads cut off; one “with a large kitchen knife still embedded in the neck,” Mendes said, The Jerusalem Post wrote.
Some were burned so badly they were more piles of ash — that disintegrated upon touch — than flesh and bodies; others were covered in blood, their faces unrecognizable because of the many bullet holes on their faces.
“It seems as if mutilation of these women’s faces was an objective in their murders,” Mendes said. “[Some even had] heads bashed in so badly that their brains were spilling out.”
Hamas terrorists are animals.
So what’s that make Rep, Pramila Jayapal, University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill and all the pro-Palestinian mouthpieces who’ve been protesting madly around college campuses and in choice spots in certain cities — certain Democrat-controlled enclaves — in recent weeks?
Tools of the terrorist beasts.
Tools of the terrorists.
“Rep. Jayapal dismisses Hamas rape charges to vilify Israel on CNN,” 770 KTTH wrote in one recent headline about the Democrat “Squad” member, Pramila Jayapal, who called for a more “balanced” approach in discussions of Hamas v. Israel.
“We have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians,” she said. “Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children.”
Wonder how many had their breasts cut off and played with after they were raped by IDF soldiers. Hmm.
The antisemites are out in full force, and they’re horrifically dismissing the Hamas dogs who brutally tortured women because a) they don’t care about violence against Jews or b) they’re ignorant of Israel history and are willing to shill for the antisemites because they feel as if they’re taking part in something important — and therefore, don’t care about violence against Jews.
“Harvard, M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania,” The New York Times just reported, “faced threats from donors, demands that their presidents resign and a congressional investigation as repercussions mounted over the universities’ responses to antisemitism on campus.”
Good.
Clear the campuses; shut down the doors; dry up the donor funding; set up the administrators for hot and fiery questions before Congress and the American people — anything to make clear that chasing down Jewish students and forcing them to hide behind locked doors to avoid the wrath of ignorant pro-Palestinian terrorist-enabling tools is not an expression of free speech.
“U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres involved a rarely exercised power” — one “that hasn’t been used for decades” — to warn the Security Council of an impending ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaze [and to urge] members to demand an immediate humanitarian cease-fire,” The Associated Press wrote.
And that’s as good a reason as any, maybe better, for all of Congress to sign on to a measure from Reps. Chip Roy and Mike Rogers, Republicans from Texas and Alabama, respectively, and from Sen. Mike Lee, Republican from Utah, to defund and draw back from the United Nations.
“This year, the United Nations’ corruption and its despicable, brazen political agenda have been on full display,” Roy said, in a statement about the “Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle, or DEFUND, Act of 2023” he helped introduce.
“From UNRWA actively protecting Hamas and acting against our ally Israel, the delayed condemning of Hamas, to China being elected to the ‘Human Rights Council’ to the propagation of climate hysteria,” the statement continued, “the UN’s decades-old internal rot once again raises the questions of why the United States is even still a member or why we’re wasting billions — indeed, $12.5 billion in 2021 — every year on it.”
Good question.
Why is America funding one of the leading antisemitic government organizations in the world?
One clear answer is this: Because Democrats hold political power.
“In one move, [Donald]Trump eliminated US funding for UNRWA,” Brookings wrote in 2018, of the previous administration’s pull of U.S. dollars from the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees — dollars that ended up helping terrorists and terrorism against Israel.
Then came Joe Biden, and it was this: “Biden administration to restore $235 million in US aid,” the BBC wrote in April, 2021.
Helping terrorists; enabling terrorists; talking out of both sides of the mouth to pretend to side with Israel while simultaneously siding with the groups that would like to eradicate the Jewish state and people — these are the ways of the Democrats, the globalists, the anti-semites.
But even antisemites should have standards when it comes to smashing in women’s heads and spilling their brains on the floor, or raping them repeatedly before cutting off their legs.
These are not acts of warfare.
These are acts of evil committed by those who have little in common with the human race.
And they should be treated as such.
They remain fantasists who perform by immersion. They therefore look for ‘a good story’ to put themselves in, and the fable of the spiritedly defiant little David versus the brutal swaggering Goliath would appeal to them on an emotional level that is impervious to contrary facts.
Through most of history societies have treated actors and musicians as cheap and tacky individuals. Silly people. The highest praise available to them perhaps being Lord So and So, twisting some pretty little actress’ hair around his finger while they reclined in post-coital langour, telling her she is sweet.
The 20th century and its genius mass production were able to take a two-bit plasterboard theatre production or an amusing vaudeville ditty and repeat for years over hundreds of theatres and phonograms – making millions on what used to be valued at a few dollars in front of house sales.
For the longest time studios and record companies managed this disproportion between talent and sales very carefully but since Actors and singers have thought to equate their sales with their gifts they have made fools of themselves repeatedly.
Studios used to train and nurture their talent over decades, but the other gift from the 20th century is the disposable product. Stars used to have a couple of three decades in them. Now they seem to emerge, soar, and fade in a few years. Works for the studios because there is a never ending stream of starry eyed naïfs stepping of Hollywood buses every week. Use them for a bit, then throw them out and get a new one.
But actors are overwhelmingly as base and replaceable as ever. They take themselves way too seriously for a few years and then cast adrift, with all their baggage, on the studios whim.
hzhousewife
Hzhousewife, it also made me think of something similar – prisoners kneeling front of a mass execution trench, with piles of sand/dirt ready to fill it in.
The Biden family’s banking shell game
Suspicious transactions test new House speaker’s resolve
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times
President Biden isn’t interested in settling questions about his problematic financial interactions with family members.
When asked Wednesday to explain payments flowing between him, his son Hunter and his brother Jim, he fired off a stern denial before shuffling away from the White House press pool.
“It’s just a bunch of lies,” the president said. “They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies.”
Reporters were inquiring about the discovery of bank records confirming that Hunter Biden’s business entity Owasco PC made small, regular deposits into the elder Biden‘s bank account.
That’s the same Owasco that received millions in payments from Chinese state enterprises.
The president has consistently denied awareness of Hunter’s financial dealings.
Friends of the administration go on to defend the transactions, explaining them as a dutiful son making payments on his father’s Ford Raptor while the son was using that pickup truck.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer isn’t buying that story.
“This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world,” the Kentucky Republican said in a statement.
New documents also reveal Mr. Biden sent at least 54 emails to Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin.
The then-vice president’s messages were concealed under aliases including “Robin Ware” and “Robert L. Peters.”
That’s a curious thing for someone not involved in the business to do.
Mr. Comer joined House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, in giving Hunter Biden until Dec. 13 to appear before the committees to explain what’s going on in a deposition, threatening contempt of Congress proceedings should the president’s son fail to appear pursuant to a subpoena issued last month.
It remains to be seen whether new House Speaker Mike Johnson will pursue contempt proceedings as ferociously as Rep. Nancy Pelosi did when she wielded the speaker’s gavel.
Both Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, former top aides to former President Donald Trump, are fighting unprecedented criminal contempt convictions at the hands of Democratic-appointed judges and Trump-hating juries.
As for Mr. Johnson, he announced that the full House would vote next week to continue the formal impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
“The House Democrats cheapened impeachment,” the Louisiana Republican argued.
“What you’re seeing now is the opposite of that, a very deliberate investigation uncovering and following the facts — that’s what the Constitution requires the House to do.”
With Mr. Comer having identified $24 million in cash pouring into 20 different shell companies linked with the Bidens and their associates, the big guy has some explaining to do.
Imaginations run wild in the absence of a credible response, which is why the last thing the president and his son should do is continue stonewalling.
Recall that the FBI opened a full inquiry into then-candidate Trump — using foreign-agent surveillance authority — based on a secondhand report of the sozzled ramblings of a low-level campaign aide talking to a an Australian diplomat in a London bar.
As Mr. Biden’s current defenders cheered the latter investigation, surely they will urge the president and his family to cooperate fully in this inquiry.
Come the revolution every worker will be granted a PhD, not just the sons of the rich, and be paid accordingly!
Aye!
See also leftard former supporters of Pol Pot. Silence for a while, then carry on as if nothing had happened.
EDITORIALS
Until DEI offices are closed, don’t expect better college presidents
by Washington Examiner
The moral degeneracy of the presidents of three prestigious universities who recently refused to condemn calls for genocide clearly is symptomatic of a larger problem.
The long-term solution must be to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracies and policies, root and branch, from higher education.
College boards of directors should fire presidents who won’t act to rein in proliferating antisemitic outrages on campus, and boards should insist that DEI regimes be dismantled.
Boards have, however, generally acted not to control DEI but to enable it.
Congress should yank their leash by making federal financing contingent on the proper application of First Amendment free-speech principles.
It’s clear that most university leaders lack an appropriate ethical framework to guarantee real academic freedom.
This appalling deficiency was on full display at a Dec. 5 hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee when Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania despicably equivocated over a simple question of whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of Jews.
All three used the same words, “depend[ing] on the context,” refusing to give a yes or no answer.
They whiffed even when given second and third chances by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to affirm that “calling for the genocide of Jews … constitute[s] bullying or harassment.”
National outrage even from prominent left-wingers has been fierce.
Laurence Tribe, Harvard law professor emeritus, who for decades was the leading spokesman for the progressive legal community, said, “Claudine Gay’s hesitant, formulaic, and bizarrely evasive answers were deeply troubling to me and many of my colleagues, students, and friends.”
These school presidents pretending to value free speech oversee campuses where the use of a disfavored pronoun can get students or faculty investigated.
This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression named Harvard the worst college in the nation for its weak speech protection, reporting that it earned the organization’s first-ever “zero” grade.
A Harvard evolutionary biologist can be forced off campus for stating the plain truth that there are only two biological sexes.
Yet calls for genocide do not necessarily count as harassment.
One reason the presidents are so confused or duplicitous about the boundaries between protected speech and unprotected, baleful conduct is that DEI regimes insist that what matters is not the actual words or actions at issue but the group “identity” of the speaker or actor.
Rather than applying neutral principles to everyone, which is what the Constitution, laws, Supreme Court decisions, and common decency demand, DEI categorizes people as either oppressors or the oppressed.
Then, they penalize harmless speech by the former while excusing seriously injurious conduct by the latter.
As Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald wrote on Dec. 6: “The real issue on campuses” is “the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum.”
Anyone who is of an anti-Western group or an open ally thereof can threaten intifada or join mobs forcing Jews to hide in library attics.
But a professor, after warning students that she would be reciting offensive language in a culturally contextual fashion, can be fired merely for saying the N-word aloud while reading Mark Twain.
These morally and legally inexcusable double standards are the direct and intended result of DEI.
That’s why thinkers across the political spectrum — including the avowedly atheist cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, once listed by Time magazine as one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People” — say colleges must adopt “clear and coherent free speech polic[ies]” and “disempower DEI bureaucrats, responsible to no one, who have turned campuses into laughing stocks.”
Until DEI regimes are extirpated and replaced by clear, neutral policies that protect speech and punish true threats, university presidents will defend the indefensible.
If college boards of directors won’t fix this, Congress should use its power of the purse to force the disassembly of DEI.
Can we go back to the true and tried traditions of treating actors as temporarily unemployed prostitutes?
Been a tradition in pretty well every culture, everywhere for most of human existence
Mother Lode
Dec 10, 2023 2:29 PM
I refuse to spend one cent of my hard earned money to watch and/or listen to mediocre actors and musicians pontificate, lecture, spout off and preach about an issue that they know F*CK ALL about.
Through most of history societies have treated actors and musicians as cheap and tacky individuals. Silly people. The highest praise available to them perhaps being Lord So and So, twisting some pretty little actress’ hair around his finger while they reclined in post-coital langour, telling her she is sweet.
Mother Lode,
I enjoy the Shakespearean Piss Taking of
Best of David Mitchell as William Shakespeare from Series 1 | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats
The idea that there are 3200 artists in this country is risible.
Barry Humphries was the last one.
Rockdoctor: Despite the j’ism caste playing “Three Monkeys” on it, this initiative of Katter’s has more support than many may realise.
If Christwhatafool wanted to win in a canter, he’d embrace this theme.
Coz the genpop are fed up to the back teeth with being burgled, carjacked, etc. and equally as fed up with seeing the coppers ordered to stand down, retreat to the station & just let the little turds vandalize police cars & joyride triumphantly in stolen vehicles.
If caught, the culprits are lucky to be even overnight in the cells, & if they’re serial recidivists, they’re moved to another town, into a “safe house”, to continue wreaking unchecked havoc on a new & unsuspecting district.
Jewish audience members and supporters should wear an Israeli flag.
Sir Les would not have signed. Nor would Dame Edna.
The very idea!
Thanks Australian Labor Party & AlboSleezy!
Dark criminal history of asylum seeker is revealed after he was arrested again – and how the convicted sex offender was once labelled a ‘danger’ to Aussies
. Judge warned asylum seeker was a danger
. Aliyawar Yawari preyed on elderly women
. He was freed by High Court’s detainees ruling
. Now accused of a sex attack on woman in motel
Aliyawar Yawari, 65, is a convicted sex offender who was branded a ‘danger to the Australian community’ by a judge after he attacked three women and kicked down the door of an ageing mother.
But he was freed by Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil’s department after last month’s High Court ruling found indefinite detention was unlawful.
Not a “snap!” comment but just on the PalaceChook bandwagon.
Hmm, yes. “Given everything”. Never lost a day of pay in 2 years of covid.
Still perplexes that da unionz ever supported her when their members were more likely to be affected than most.
There are at least 3200 bullshit-artists.
In our Parliaments.
Roger:
Why does the “Shoe Event Horizon” but instead of shoe shops, it becomes play houses, come to mind?
If indefinite detention was unlawful, why didn’t they just pass a law that made it 500 years of detention?
Gripping moment Israeli soldiers battle Hamas gunmen in Gaza school – then find tunnel leading to nearby mosque
Israeli Defence Forces have revealed footage of soldiers engaged in a battle with Hamas gunmen in a school in Gaza, before they find an entrance to an underground tunnel which leads to a nearby mosque.
The footage shows Israeli soldiers shooting into a dark corridor within the school complex, which is strewn with bits of wood and other debris.
The IDF says the video is taken in Shejaiya, northern Gaza, and that it shows soldiers from two units coming under fire from a Hamas terror cell.
It says Hamas fighters attempted to lure Israeli soldiers into an ambush with gunfire and explosives but were neutralised.
A second video shows the devastation of the neighbourhood and what appears to be a dark tunnel leading into the ground.
The IDF said this was a tunnel shaft, found inside one of the school’s classrooms, that lead to a nearby mosque.
Sharing the video on X, Israeli spokesperson Daniel Hagari wrote: ‘As part of the activities of the fighters of the 188th Brigade’s combat team in the heart of the Shejaiya neighborhood, forces from the Counter-Terrorism Unit (LOTR) along with fighters from the 74th Battalion of the Hamas Terrorist Squad encountered a school complex in the heart of the neighborhood.’
Israel claims to have killed all the gunmen in the area and found a number of weapons, grenades and ammunition.
It also said the tunnel shaft is part of ‘an extensive underground route’ in Shujaiya.
Israel is under increasing pressure to ensure the safety of civilians in Gaza.
The nation says Hamas are using civilians as human shields and operating out of civilian buildings.
Commet, from the Oz.
Doc Beaugan:
Perhaps it’s time we started doing stuff like standing up in the audience and shouting “Free the Israeli Hostages” and when the miscreant is taken out and the play recommences, have the next protester repeat the performance. Etc.
Make the bastards live up to their own rules of tolerance for different views.
The first thought that crossed my mind, given Islamic terrorists propensity for hiding explosives on their persons for suicide bombing, is that they were damn lucky the IDF let them keep their underwear on.
Know your Enemy – latest instalment from the Greens nomenklatura (below).
In summary, panhandling and leftardedness. Use of words, like ‘solidarity’ and ‘revolutionary’.
(added emphasis is mine)
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Hi Name,
This week we had a huge win in parliament!
We secured a new “water trigger” that forces the Environment Minister to assess every single gas fracking project… So if Labor chooses, now it can use this power to stop the Betaloo and Kimberley climate bombs.
It’s proof yet again that Greens pressure works. And it’s why we’re working so hard for historic growth in the next federal election.
As you may recall, we have the revolutionary “continuous campaign” plan to win the balance of power, but we’ve hit a roadblock… Name, we’re struggling to raise the funds.
The cost of living crisis has taken a real hit on our supporters.
Sadly, we’ve had people calling to let us know the $20 a week rent increase they’ve just received means they’ve had to cut everything – including their regular donation to the Greens.
The bottom line is we have a critical funding gap.
That’s why we’re reaching out into the movement and asking our friends and friends-of-friends, Name, can you dig deeper this year?
SAVE THE FUTURE
We’ve already seen what the power of the Greens in the parliament can do. As well as the water trigger, this year we’ve achieved:
– An inquiry into Coles & Woolies to stop price gouging.
– We’re holding PWC to account for the tax leaks scandal.
– Secure $3bn of housing investment for public and community housing.
– This week we also improved Labor’s nature laws – removing dodgy offsets that pay corporations who destroy nature.
This is all with the balance of power in the Senate!
Can you imagine what expanded power across the Lower House could achieve?
If we held the balance of power in the Lower House as well, we could stop all new coal and gas. We could fix the housing crisis. We could tax corporate superprofits to ease the cost of living. We could save our future.
That’s our plan.
We know we have many people who want this plan to succeed as much as we do, but they’re not able to support us financially any more. We understand, and we’re in this for them.
So the truth is, now we’re leaning on you, Name.
If you’re doing it tough yourself and can’t give, please know we’re fighting for you.
If you’re financially secure, can you help us plug the funding gap and keep our revolutionary campaign going around the country?
DONATE NOW
Thank you for everything you do to protect our future.
Yours in solidarity,
Adam Bandt
Leader of the Australian Greens
PS. If you’re doing it tough yourself, Name, and can’t give today please know we’re fighting for you. Perhaps if you know anyone who is financially secure, you could share our sign up page with them instead.
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Salvatore, Iron Publican
Thanks a bloody lot, Salvatore. That will help me sleep tonight.
Winston
See also: Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. They can never live up to their own (proclaimed) principles.
Years ago we had the shoe bomber. Who would now bet against the risk of an arse bomber?
They should have made then strip bare bum naked, then line the ladies of the IDF up to point at their willies and giggle.
Just remember that Crisafulli and co supported changing the law so that the identity of people charged with alleged sexual offences can be reported before they’re committed to stand trial.
Just remember that Crisafulli and co have supported forcing religious hospitals to provide VAD services.
Just remember that Crisafulli and co supported indigenous treaties, only abandoning it after the Voice vote, which in Queensland, if you recall, was decisively AGAINST the Voice. I think the NO vote was highest in QLD.
I could go on. I find Crisafulli utterly uninspiring and very mediocre. Look, I don’t live in QLD but would I vote for him? Probably not though he’ll probably win by default next year.
And this brings me to the Liberal and National parties in general. Only the other day, at the IPA Christmas function, I spoke with some fellow Cats and we pondered whether a Dutton government would find the gumption to wind back Labor’s ruinous policies, and we weren’t just talking about Labor’s ruinous economic policies, we also include Labor’s ruinous “social and cultural policies”. And we all said…probably not, which begs the question…….why vote Liberal or National?
Thank heavens we have an optional preferential voting system so that we don’t need to shift everybody’s opinion all at once. Except that we won’t see any real change until a whole lot of normies have shifted their own voting intentions.
Manipulate the normies!
Yep, this despite the grassroots membership feedback to branches being nuclear.
I’ll bet the words “Pauline” & “Bob” were a common response to the usual Qld LNP jeer of “Who else ya gunna vote for? Labor? Na na na”
Fair comment, over on the Daily Mail. Regarding the 17,000 Palestine dead, why isn’t Hamas making political capital out of displaying all those dead bodies? What a propaganda coup that would be!
It is estimated around 7000 hamas have been killed so far, don’t know how many have been taken prisoner before the mass surrenders of the last couple of days.
Kind of guessing that the 7000 includes a fair percentage of the most fanatical.
Possible the more that surrender the more that will surrender except unfortunately the ‘elite’ corp that are tasked with hostage keeping.
The older bloke in the latest video handing over am assault rifle was also photographed doing V for victory in front of an Israeli tank, in Israel on 7 October.
None the less hamasisis boosters* are claiming that as the proprietor of a metal workshop he couldn’t possibly be hamasi.
Or involved in weapon production.
*Will say anything, no matter how ludicrous.
I suppose after 9 years he may have lost the clout he had, but I can’t see him going down easy now to Miles.
Possibly not.
But the Palacechook reason for departure and nomination of Miles as her successor suggests the whole thing had been stitched up.
Dick is from the right and isn’t popular in the parliament because arrogant prick. Fentiman has a dreadful ministerial record and is carrying current baggage over her dim bulb handling of the Gabba redevelopment.
So Dr Miles is the likely heir apparent.
But a brutal leadership stoush would be a delight.