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Open Thread – Mon 11 Dec 2023
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My point yesterday precisely. You cannot reform a culture that wages war on the people it supposedly protects – you…
future??? its already here
and where are the consequences?!?!?!??!?!?!?
And they will continue flogging us until our morale improves.
🙂
Good morning,
Missed it by this much | |
Blessed are the floor scrapers!
Here we go again!
Let us all try to find understanding … or even failing this … a failure to leap to immediate enmity.. in these next few week Christ the Savior is Born … but he was still doing this stuff in July .. Just look at the way we treat each other!!!? May The Lord Almighty have Mercy on Us because we seem to have None Upon Each other .. Well sit back and be a POS … and rely on your’e complacent ..hatred … and being Right about Everything. …
There is a World beyond this …
and even if there isnt …
There is a beautifull World Right here and Right now …
it might just be slipping beyond your grasp .. gotta run to catch up ..
Peace
@Dot .. Yes I know you Hate me because folks like me are an utter anathema to folks like you … you have gathered all sorts of evidence of how pernicious and influence I am …stuff about me being a lumberjack and such …. Oh Gosh aren’t you the wag !!
But really ? Who are folks like me ? Do you actually know how we think? Or is it more convenient to Straw man me and pretend that… you are kinda kinda amusing ?
Never Mind just keep coughing up old Monty Python Skits and keep the blather romping on …
When my brother and I were kids in East Victoria Park, WA (solid working class), on Christmas Eve Mum and Dad would sometimes drag a mattress and blankets out onto the front lawn and we would lie there and look for Santa’s sleigh. Even if we didn’t see it, we would say to each other, “Look, there! Oh, you just missed it”. And we would do it until sleep filled our heads and, somehow, we would wake up back in bed on Christmas morning.
Now, Mum and Dad are gone and I’m almost 74. My two girls are 36 and 47. Christmas has become an ‘event’. It means pork and ham and turkey and roast veggies and I’ll tell you what I want for Christmas or I’ll buy the pressies and you just wrap them …
But you know what? I STILL believe in Christmas. No, I don’t mean I think there’s some fat guy in a red suit etc. etc. (although that doesn’t hurt).
But, to me, Christmas is still a SPECIAL time of the year. It’s unique … thee’s nothing like it. It IS a magic time, to me. Dreams can come true. People CAN hug one another and say ‘Merry Christmas’ and feel, just for a while, loved, wanted, needed …
And now I stop and think about it, maybe St Nicholas isn’t such a figment.
Merry Christmas.
Looks like this new OT is gunna be a scrolling one!
Dot
Dec 11, 2023 12:14 AM
Blessed are the floor scrapers! ”
What a stingy uncharitable gutless attempt at humour … How can you justify such a tottally nasty and vicious snipe at people you dont even know ? For shame Sir … for Shame …
It’s early in the morning, less than an hour into the new day, but just over five hours into the next day on the Hebrew calendar.
Scrolling comment didn’t refer to you Bruce.
Thank you
Bruce in WA
The “Booka Mate … I was at wukk with this chick and she had no lunch … Hey I have and you get mine .. Eat the whole bloody thing .. and it wasnt because she forgot to pack it … she was out of cash …WHAT in Austrralia… !!?? Holy Hell where are we going Old Mate?
They were (now) dead Frenchmen from 1875 who may not have ever existed, probably dead before WWI.
The horror. The absolute horror.
If you don’t have a kaffiah in your wardrobe to demonstrate against whatever Jews are doing this week, you can turn up instead wearing a David Jones shopping bag
It hit her so hard and she made such a big deal of it … You are my sister in Christ .. but even if you bloody well weren’t … youi gotta have some kinda lunch … BTW it was cheese noodles and sausages in tomato …peasant tucker … and a nectarine.. for desert.
@Dot .. seems Horror is you purview … no matter how irrelevant .. seems a place you love to settle upon .
Good on you Bruce.
I think that Christmas in coastal WA is magic timing, when the lawn at night is dry and cool and the days are blazing white gold, and somehow the damn wind stops blowing for a while, and it burns a sense of place and time into kids’ souls.
New day.
Fresh start.
Life is good.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Thank you Tom.
Tim Blair in todays Tele:
IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE AS WOKE POWER HITS
THE WALL
TIM BLAIR
11 Dec 2023
Credit where it’s due. The woke movement has scored many victories by relentlessly and ruinously arguing that up is down, female is male, diversity is unity, justice is evil, and peace is war.
Some of these victories, of course, are decidedly on the soft side. Wokens often win by taking on institutions or entities that are either already inclined towards squishy leftism or can’t be bothered getting into a fight.
Again, credit to the woke and their successful strategy. It’s easy to tear down antagonists that are too lazy or too unaware to be antagonised.
But every so often our woke warriors come up against opponents they just can’t defeat. They collide with rigid, time-tested elemental forces that won’t be shifted by screaming, pleading or playing victim.
They run headfirst into logic and reality. And logic and reality don’t yield to anyone, woke or not.
We saw a striking example of this in October. “Australia has just had the world’s first referendum on identity politics, a creed so established among its elites that Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister, wanted it embedded in the Constitution,” Fraser Nelson, editor of the UK Spectator, wrote at the time.
“The Yes campaign outspent No by five to one. It had sports stars, companies and the whole establishment on its side, yet still lost every Australian state. Stunned, it blames its defeat on racism, ignorance, misinformation and general black magic.”
Or, in other words, woke hit the wall. And now it’s happened again, possibly in a far more significant and influential way.
Background: as is the case in Australia and throughout the western world, American universities are philosophically owned by the left. Their humanities departments, especially, are horribly fertile breeding swamps for commie simps.
In those environments, a twisted, “wokified” version of truth prevails. From the politically perverted view currently dominant in universities, even left-infested agencies such as the ABC, BBC or The New York Times seem monstrously right-wing.
So when the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified last week before a US House of Representatives Committee, they gave the sort of answers that would have satisfied their campus comrades.
The trouble was that Penn’s Liz Magill, Harvard’s Claudine Gay and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth weren’t on campus. They weren’t protected by a cocoon of leftist bias and bigotry. They instead appeared before the world via video – and to normal viewers their woke testimony proved profoundly shocking.
All three university presidents were asked if calls on their respective campuses for the genocide of Jewish people would constitute harassment. To most people – or at least people with even a vague knowledge of history – the answer to this question would be obvious. And brief.
But none of the university bosses could manage a straightforward or unequivocal “yes”. Magill’s response went way beyond standard leftist evasion and into an area of legal discussion that may have last been explored during the post-World War II Nuremberg trials.
“If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment, yes,” Magill said. “It is a context-dependent decision.”
Let’s unpack those comments, as an academic of Magill’s standing might say. Speech about genocide only becomes harassment if it turns into conduct. That’s the “context” we’re talking about here.
By that standard, anyone can screech as much as they like about killing all the Jews, but it would only become harassment if they actually … killed all the Jews. That’s where we are currently at with the anti-Semitic left.
In the wake of October 7’s atrocities, they’ll indulge all manner of Jew hatred – and they’ll indulge even more of it, right up to the level of genocide.
Magill last week quit her $1.8 million University of Pennsylvania gig. She kind of had to, once businessman Ross Stevens told the university he’d withdraw a $150 million donation unless Magill went.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the university’s board at first “stood by Ms Magill, overwhelmingly expressing continued support for her in a virtual meeting on Thursday”. But, the WSJ continued, the board – presumably just as reality-detached as Magill herself – found themselves “increasingly at odds with others in the school community and the broader public”.
In this story of woke academics versus Israel and the Jewish people, the school community and the broader public are our proxies for logic and reality.
Just as the Australian people stood up to the woke horror that would have been the Voice, civilised forces in the US have risen up against Magill and her university associates.
Count this as a meaningful win. Now we move on to the next.
Also in today’s Tele:
SCALPS PILE UP OVER UNI OUTRAGE
Washington: The president of an Ivy League university stepped down on the weekend in the wake of a firestorm of criticism after a congressional hearing on the rise in anti-Semitism on US campuses.
University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill “voluntarily tendered her resignation”, the chair of the university’s board of trustees, Scott Bok, announced.
Mr Bok then stepped down himself, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the campus student newspaper.
Magill was among three presidents of elite universities who faced withering criticism for their testimony last week during a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism.
The trio gave long-winded, lawyerly and seemingly evasive answers at the hearing when asked whether students who call for the “genocide of Jews” on their campuses violate codes of student conduct.
The blowback was rapid and intense. Some 74 members of congress wrote letters demanding the immediate removal of Ms Magill, and the presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harvard president Claudine Gay later apologised for failing to more strongly condemn threats of antiSemitic violence on her campus.
“When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret,” she told the Harvard Crimson newspaper.
Ms Magill faced even more scathing criticism. Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor Josh Shapiro called her performance “absolutely shameful”, and a major donor said he would rescind a $US100m gift to the university’s Wharton School of Business.
Mr Bok, who helms the university’s board of trustees – a body that handles major governance issues – said Ms Magill made “a very unfortunate misstep” as he announced her departure.
“She was not herself,” he said in a statement.
Riiiiiiight…
Harvard board is meeting today. It’s Sunday in the US!
Two down?
Donations must have dropped off a cliff.
If they are only doing it because of donations, that is disgraceful in and of itself.
A cliff or Everest? 🙂
Can you imagine a virtue signalling billionaire wanting to be publicly named as a benefactor to these rat holes now?
The real get will be Columbia. There’s going to be some work getting through that steel door.
This is Bud Lite in on steroids.
Magill might not be president but she remains as a tenured professor.
The Tim Blair commentary reminded me. Juan recently admonished me for once stating that the slippery slope argument is bullshit. Eventually bad ideas hit a wall.
Well, da squeal hit freaking Jupiter and woke just smashed into Saturn.
Well, the presidents of the anti-semitic administrations that run the Ivy League, have certainly succeeded in gender equality – persecution of Jews used to be man’s work.
This is why I subscribe to the Tele. This man can write.
A couple of months ago Chamath & Sachs mentioned something on the All-In Pod that they kind of moved off the subject pretty quickly.
It was some billionaire who was trying to get a pledge movement off the ground where they wouldn’t buy their kids places in college or pay for their tuition if they got there on their own merits.
Similar but different to that movement from Buffett, Gates etc where they leave their wealth to their foundations, not their kids.
This was before 7th Oct so unrelated to the anti semitism.
Rosie
She done for. I can’t imagine any kid wanting to have any association with her unless they want to go on a dole line for the rest of their lives. Big corps, consultancies, law firms are going to go through CVs with a fine comb now and any association with toxic names will kill job applications.
She will have an office in the basement with nothing to do.
“Bruce in WA
Dec 11, 2023 12:41 AM”
A lovely comment, thank you.
This is why I subscribe to the Tele. This man can write.”
Yep, me too. Also, it is actually quite a good newspaper and compliments its sister publication, The Oz.
Those university presidents got into their positions by giving non-answers, waffling on, telling porkies, etc. The system is full of them, as are the major political parties and large bureaucracies. It’s somewhat heartening to see these few go but there are many more to replace them.
Who will lead the foundations when they are gone?
My bet is the kids for a hefty sum.
Somewhat tangential to that, what information do young people receive regarding the HECS debts that they are racking up when they sign up for a subject at university?
My bet is the kids for a hefty sum.
Or the Clinton model where it’s pure grift & the IRS doesn’t seem to care.
This is what passes for “analysis” at the ABC.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-11/inside-the-gold-scam-that-made-a-fortune-off-a-gst-loophole/103206526
“Scam”? Note the status and relationship between the plaintiff and litigation funder.
Petros, when I went through the cost of the degree is clearly stated up front.
Then you’d get a statement in the mail once a year showing your outstanding.
I paid mine off pretty quickly so don’t know how that looked post the early 2000’s.
Ackman’s reporting on X that Harvard’s board is meeting again tomorrow. What a harrowing experience it must be having a crisis.
No, that’s a soy boy.
A cuck is a dude with no spine who lets his wife be shared with “bulls” and even funds this degeneracy to please his wife. They may enjoy watching. Politically it means you are letting others live in your head rent free. “They are cucked on energy policy” for example.
Sure soy boys, cucks, betas, blue pillers and SIMPs have a nexus and you can be all at the same time, but they mean different things. A “trad con” could be most of the above but very unlikely a soy boy and highly unlikely to be a cuck IRL but may be a white knight.
…to the point where you give up and accept their position on an issue.
i.e., the SFL are cucked are on just about every policy position possible.
I see that the ‘Strap On’ has reappeared to defecate the site and he/she/it is now openly engaging in 7 October denial.
Another example:
Destiny (the Twitch streaming gamer and far lefty, bread tube debate bro) is a cuck, a mangina, a blue piller, a beta male, bisexual, a soy boy and a SIMP.
I can see Dreyfus announcing his retirement.
But only after he takes some stick over the BH settlement.
That means that BH & the migrant stupidity can be attributed to him, tying everything up in a nice little package for the media to then move on from.
Good morning to most of you on this wet drizzly dark pre-ice age summers day.
It’s such BS though.
I worked for Harvey Weinstein.
I went to U Penn.
I was a trial attorney for Derek Chauvin.
All markers of an apparently successful person, who might be blackballed now not for an actual reason, but feels.
Alex Jones is back on X.
Now, this is a sport contract.
Let’s see if he again accuses other parents losing their kids in a school shoot of creating a hoax. Can’t stand that human looking toad.
At least they didn’t announce it on the anniversary of Pearl Harbour, JC.
Let’s see if he again accuses other parents losing their kids in a school shoot of creating a hoax. Can’t stand that human looking toad.”
He’s a lunatic, however his booting from Twitter was purely political. Whilst banning Jones, the woke scum then running Twitter (until Musk took over) were very selective in who they turfed and who they didn’t. Remember, Jones’ banning from Twitter was at the height of the Trump presidency back in 2018, and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and so on capitulated to the leftist woke mobs and turfed Jones and others at the same meanwhile while allowing the mullahs in Tehran to remain on the platform.
First they came for Alex Jones, and then they came for Donald Trump, a sitting president.
Elon Musk has been a Godsend for free speech.
Sandy Hook is when Alex Jones lost me. What a monumentally silly thing to say.
If he didn’t lose it and attacked progressive ideas regrading gun control then went fully paranoid about Uvalde and Las Vegas well then he would have made a positive difference.
Bern
Each team plays 162 games per season. Sounds like a lot, but that’s what google says.
He’s being paid 700 biggies for 1620 games over 10 years. Thats $432,000 a game. Games last around 3.5 hours on average? That’s $123,000 hourly rate. $2,060 a minute and $34 a second. No wage theft here I think.
Somebody with her views has no right to be anywhere near educating the next generation. She has to be retired altogether.
Tim Blair forgot about the Budweiser debacle which was the first large scale consumer rebellion against wokeness.
I wish you people would have some form of decency, and just once in a while think of the floor scrapers.
Peace, baby.
I think it’s just a tax evasion tactic. Their kids are still in charge of the foundations and can award themselves any salaries they want.
I wondered who Max Blumenthal was and what he had to say. So I looked him up.
Oh. Okay. Got it now.
Imagine how horrible that floor-scraping job was. No sanders, just a blade. All the peels of dirt encrusted shellac and varnish. Not as bad as street sweeping, but getting there.
I take it you are being sarcastic, it’s not harrowing enough. What is now obvious to the general population is that the elite universities, and even the not so elite, do not reflect society but are now arrayed against it. It is becoming clear that these institutions that were set up to pass on the best of the knowledge and civilisational progress to subsequent generations are doing the opposite. A big clean-up is necessary and the sacking of those three university presidents will be a good start.
I’d take the floor scraping inside ahead of the ditch digging outside any day.
Looks better fun than hanging onto a cement grinder.
In Horse Has Bolted news, Hun:
She’s trying rooly hard you guys! Please understand!
Blair:
But the lesson is to get the big hitters in the game and play hard:
Well, Tony Burqa would say it’s a fixed term contract without permanent tenure which conveniently stops just short of the LSL threshold.
And with no overtime rates, meal allowances or paternity leave.
Practically slavery.
Somali parents hoping for better life for their kids are now fighting ‘woke’ Minnesota schools teaching ‘sexualized topics’ and pushing pro-transgender books on their grade-school children that violates their religion
Hamas Warns It Could Kill All Hostages Unless Israel Meets Demands
Yep.
Lost me forever over that one.
WHAT’S GOING ON? Governor DeSantis Ignores Good Candidates – Picks Controversial Sheriff in Same County as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Trial
Love the fact that Gustavo Caillebotte thought to immortalise this piece of trade in such detail. The streaks of exposed putty filling the joints make me happy.
Lambo BBQ.
Luxury cars destroyed in Sydney garage fire (Tele, 11 Nov, paywalled)
From the photo it looks to be a fire which started inside the garage, and on one side of it just where a car might sit.
The insurance payout is going to be quite painful for the insurance company I expect.
Hamas might be defeated soon but the poisonous ideology that created it festers on.
more mass surrenders, Israeli artillery now inside gaza.
Jewish Federations chair to replace UPenn chair
Trump: Dems Replay ‘Threat to Democracy Hoax’
The High Court forced her to release ONE of them, she and her genius colleagues saw an opportunity to wedge the Opposition, and let the other 147 go, purely for political gain.
Then the evil bastards started to run amok, and she is shocked, she says, shocked, that criminals should commit (alleged) crimes.
Stockman: The Destruction Of The American Middle Class
Yes, the sacking of a Uni head doesn’t solve the problem completely.
But it does send a message to the underlings.
Perhaps what is required next is a mechanism, reporting to the Board and independent of the CEO where students and the public can report anti-Semitism by staff and other students.
Specifically anti-Semitism.
Any general “hate-speech” monitoring will simply be clogged with frivolous complaints of “misgendering” and “cultural appropriation”.
Yes, because letting people have access to uncurated information is such a threat to “democracy”!
zerohedge
@zerohedge
Al Gore Warns: People Having Access To Non-Mainstream Information “Threatens Democracy”
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Incoming class? White males forbidden to study medicine at Stanford?
Oh wait, way in the back there!
Dots man-crush /ferret impersonator is starting of with a nice touch.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-11/argentina-javer-milei-economic-shock-unavoidable-sworn-in/103212018
While the speech was light on details, he said key steps would include a fiscal adjustment equivalent to 5 per cent of the country’s GDP through cuts that he said would fall on “the state and not the private sector”.
..
Mind you, hes starting from an awful place..
The challenges are huge. Argentina’s net foreign currency reserves are estimated at $US10 billion in the red, annual inflation is 143 per cent and rising, and a recession is around the corner and capital controls skew the exchange rate.
And they’re trying to whitewash it as “unfortunate errors” when what it was nothing short of outright murder.
NHS Under Fire: Whistleblower Claims Patients Were Unjustly Euthanized to Falsely Inflate COVID Pandemic Toll
Talking of outright murder.
GOP Lawmakers Want Fauci Held Responsible For Past Actions
Not that I expect any action to actually be taken against him.
5% of GDP is pretty decently sized. I think he forgot a zero though.
“You can’t read a newspaper and hear about crimes being committed like this and not feel anything,”
You’re not just another one of us bystanders, Minister.
Sandy Hook is when Alex Jones lost me. What a monumentally silly thing to say.
Id be inclined to say the courts provided a remedy to actual damage to reputations as it was supposed to. (accusing parents of being actors etc).
There was no reason to curtail his ability to speak via other methods.
I think hes a huckster and snake oil salesman, but let him rant and rave, if he causes more reputational damage then the courts will be the appropriate venue to trim his wings.
I think it’s just a tax evasion tactic.
100% crossie.
He seems to be a Turnbull clone.
Kevin McCarthy Says Republicans Are Too White, Democrats ‘Actually Look Like America’
Turtlehead Bowen throwing Australia under the bus.
Chris Bowen tells Cop28 to ‘end the use of fossil fuels’ in energy systems as talks try to break deadlock
The Gates foundation has funded a lot of companies in the M12 ecosystem, which is the Microsoft related vc ecosystem which Billy boy owned seed in from a lot earlier stage (where you make the lionshare of the returns).
Woke-free’ beer company launched as alternative to Bud Light releases ‘Real Women of America’ calendar starring Riley Gaines and will donate 10% of sales to her foundation to fight trans athletes in sports
An explosive new study describing “unintended immune responses” from mRNA injections has dropped a tactical nuke on Pfizer
I wondered who Max Blumenthal was
Ex-Israel he actually is pretty decent.
So is the Grayzone.
But mention Israel, this mob turn into a pack of frickin’ full blown anti-Semites.
Huge amount of reaction but iv seen very little effort in explaining what free speech is and is not.
A contract rider on electric car battery insurance will kill what’s left of that rich people’s virtue-signalling fiasco. Stone dead.
Like Australia’s new electricity grid, electric cars were designed by hippies who don’t understand engineering.
Sandy Hook is when Alex Jones lost me. What a monumentally silly thing to say.
I’ve viewed Alex Jones as a performing bear.
I’ve rarely watched his content.
The most being the Joe Rogan podcasts, one with Tim Dillon & Jones, one with Eddie Bravo & Jones.
Both were hilarious as Dillon took the piss out of him & Eddie is just a different cat.
He’s been like Saturday Night Live since social media became a thing.
No need to watch the content because if something actually entertaining comes up, the clip will go viral.
The bubble the US college big-wigs live in is a bizarre one.
They view “misgendering” and views contrary to a hard left, cultural marxist one as hate speech.
But they then view physical harassment of Jews & calls for genocide as contextual.
They actually believe this stuff.
There hasn’t been free speech on college campuses for years.
And as the past two months has shown, they genuinely don’t care about real incitement to violence.
They need to have their endowments seized.
The Yale & Harvard ones can go toward reparations (rich kids used to be able to take slaves there way way back).
He sure does get up your nose, but nearly 20 years ago Jones was a lone voice yelling from the rooftops how the Deep State/WEF/Bilderbergers et al were going to try to control our lives and everything we read, see and hear. He was considered a crank then. But now proved absolutely correct. So, there is that.
I can’t believe we haven’t got world peace yet. We ended racism forever.
https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/st-paul-city-council-election-results-cheniqua-johnson-wins-anika-bowie/
What is your view on Sandy Hook, Nakkas?
A false flag operation with the parents being paid actors?
What use is it when it gets cancelled out by the stupid stuff.
BTW: the ‘deep state’ was being discussed long before him.
He caters to the lowest denominator.
They could also have waited until they worked out what to do next, there was no rush. Besides all that, if they didn’t comply what was the High Court going to do? If I remember correctly, Dan Andrews disrespected the High Court in the Pell case and nothing happened.
If ever there was evidence, proof that leftism is a mental illness, it is this. The question is, is it curable? My sense is no, not as long as Govt’s keep handing out Billions to these parasites and allowing them to thrive on OPM. It wasn’t until the money was pulled that Magill came undone. There’s the solution to runaway leftism.
Always someone else’s fault with these guys. When he was elected Speaker he did so by making a solemn promise to the Freedom Caucus. Then in a classic example of FAFO he broke the promise. If he hadn’t done that he’d still be Speaker.
No they don’t.
Watch the smirk on their faces.
They think they’re clever revolutionaries who’ve invented a brilliant new word salad that subverts the dominant paradigm — without having to wear camoflage and fight for a ragtag army in the hot swamps of outback Cuba with Fidel and Che.
All from the comfort of their luxury university sinecures paid for by people who despise them.
He hadn’t done the Sandy Hook thing back then. He was making solid points about how our 1984 was just around the corner, while everyone was cheering Bush for invading Iraq. I’m talking about the Deep State as we now know it, the Deep State that removed a sitting POTUS , stole an election and gave us Covid. Back then a laughable proposition.
Ex-commissioner for facial recognition tech joins Facewatch firm he approved
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/10/ex-commissioner-for-facial-recognition-tech-joins-facewatch-firm-he-approved
I have no doubt that the subs deal will result in a similar pipeline of job opportunities for all those involved.
There should be life time bans on politicians & public servants being employed by companies they approve contracts for.
Which would mean lots of jobs for their kids & partners.
And the former pollies & public servants having to work for a cut out like a think tank funded by the beneficiary company.
Look for jump in statistics regarding ‘female’ predators.
Experts and the MSN will be mystified.
You left one of JC’s bags behind. Fk off and get it , that’s a good boy.
Had a sparky in for a bit of medical stuff.
His flabber was ghasted over his last chiro appointment, when the “sex” section in the form had about 20 different flavours to choose from.
He screen caped it and showed it to me.
“brotherboy”, “Sistergirl”, “asexual”, “Aromantic”, “2 spirit”….. and so on.
with “other” at the end.
Can we take that as agreement that Alex Jones is a swivel-eyed clickbait merchant, then?
ABCcess finance “guru” knows whos to blame for high house prices…
Alan Kohler blames immigration, tax policies for house prices
Former Liberal prime minister John Howard’s policies blamed
Kohler says homes should be affordable like they were in 1980s
. Thank you that was a delight to read and think about
Is “sparky” a separate gender?
There should be life time bans on politicians & public servants being employed by companies they approve contracts for.
+10000000000000000000000000000000000
Cough Palace”chook” & Olympics
The Morning Soup Kitchen Line in Milan
https://twitter.com/i/status/1733423746235416721
All for Show – Pretending the Border is Closed for the Cameras
https://twitter.com/i/status/1733582828154323178
Is “sparky” a separate gender?
Im kicking myself i didnt think to run that line past him…
If you arent already shorting Pfizer…
https://expose-news.com/2023/12/10/study-describing-unintended-immune-responses/
I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
– Billy Connolly
ftb at 7:01 – Hard to think Albo doesn’t lose someone over this. I thought it would be Gallagher but Dreyfus must now be 50:50. I expect if it looks hopeless half way through 2024 there will be an exodus of R-G-R deadwood “leaving on their own terms” as seems to be the modern parlance.
Albanese’s inflation is out of control.
Figures a Bit Low there – My House & Contents Insurance 34.8%, Car Insurance 31.8% and Electricity 30% – Food definitely more than 8.2%
Why would the board bone Claudine?
She told them what they’d be getting.
It will be interesting to see if The Chook’s boyfriend hangs around or if she gets the Daggles’ flick once the aroma of power fades.
HBB
With “their own terms” happening to be a comfortable taxpayer funded sinecure in a pleasant location?
Actually I couldn’t care less.
I want the special ambassador to Bermuda role. For the first year, then …
Like the OECD? Bipartisan UniParty policy in action here.
Australian Labor Party Really Do Hate Australia & Australians – Didn’t 60% NO to the Voice Tell them Something????
Major Australia Day event is cancelled over sensitivities around celebrating the national day
Australia Day Gala dinner cancelled
High Commissioner cited ‘sensitivities’
Labor Anthony Albanese’s high commissioner to the UK has scrapped the annual Australia Day fundraiser, citing ‘sensitivities’ over the controversial public holiday.
Labor Stephen Smith, Australia’s highest-ranking diplomat to the UK who previously served as Labor defence minister and Labor foreign affairs minister under the Labor Rudd and Gillard governments before retiring from frontline politics in 2013, has put an end to the popular Australia Day Gala dinner.
It was held annually for the past 20 years in the marble-clad Exhibition Hall of the Australian High Commission on the Strand on the Saturday closest to January 26.
The black-tie evet, which is run by the not-for-profit Australia Day Foundation, has previously attracted some of Australia’s biggest exports, including singers Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Tim Minchin and entertainer Barry Humphries and broadcaster Clive James.
A spokesman for the High Commission of Australia told The Sydney Morning Herald it was ‘well known that Australia Day touches on sensitivities for some Australians’.
‘The high commissioner is happy to acknowledge that was part of the decision-making process with respect to the various alternative dates suggested by the foundation,’ the spokesman added.
Leader of the opposition Peter Dutton called on Mr Albanese to ‘reverse this bad decision’.
‘Australia Day is our national day and it shouldn’t be cancelled like this,’ he said.
Labor Mr Smith told the organisers that it would not be appropriate to hold the 2024 event around January 26, which marks the First Fleet’s landing in Sydney in 1788.
The High Commission of Australia reportedly wanted to charge the charity £29,000 ($55,000), impose a curfew of 11pm and proposed the event be held in March instead.
Phil Aitken, founding member of the foundation told the paper, the lack of support for the event after 20 years was ‘very sad’.
‘I was very disappointed to be told that it was not appropriate to have a function around Australia Day that might be interpreted as insensitive back in Australia,’ he said.
Advertising titan Bill Muirhead, who was also a founding member of the foundation, slammed the decision as ‘un-Australian’ .
‘The last time I checked, January 26 was still Australia Day,’ Mr Muirhead told the paper.
The event has turned a profit in recent years which has been used to fund scholarships for Australians to study in the UK.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham called on the Labor federal government to overturn Mr Smith’s decision.
‘It’s not a high commissioner’s place to unilaterally change the date of Australia Day,’ Mr Birmingham told the paper.
‘Stephen Smith doesn’t just look like a killjoy who’s ashamed of Australian history but is also trashing a prime event that promotes investment, travel and trade with Australia.
‘Labor Penny Wong and Don Farrell should overrule this ridiculous decision that burns the goodwill and reputation of an event built up over many years by proud expats happy to give their time to promote our nation.’
Mr Smith was believed to be the Labor Prime Minister’s third choice for the ambassadorial role as the government struggled to fill the post for nearly a year.
Earlier this year, he stoked controversy when he said it was ‘inevitable’ that Australia will become a republic and remove King Charles as head of state.
Comments Not Kind to Labor
Anthony Blinken says sexual violence inflicted by Hamas ‘is beyond anything that I’ve seen’ as he slams UN for being slow to respond to the allegations
. Blinken repeatedly told Tapper he did’t have a good answer as to why certain entities have not condemned Hamas’ use of sexual violence on October 7
. Tapper questioned whether anti-Semitism was the driving force behind the denial of some that Hamas used rape as a weapon
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented on the horrifying nature of Hamas’ sexual violence against innocent Israelis on October 7.
During a Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Blinken discussed the reasons some global organizations, countries, and leaders took an inordinate amount of time to acknowledge and condemn the atrocious sexual violence of the terrorist group.
The Biden administration’s top diplomat said he was baffled by the failure to respond of some entities around the globe.
‘I don’t know why countries, leaders, international organizations were so slow to focus on this, to bring it to people’s attention. I’m glad it is finally happening.’
Tapper, host of ‘State of the Union,’ specifically asked Blinken why the United Nations had not called attention to the sex crimes of the radical Palestinian organization and if he thought their much-stalled acknowledgement was due to anti-Semitism.
Again, Blinken said he did not have a good answer for Tapper, but stated unequivocally: ‘The atrocities that we saw on October 7 are almost beyond human description or beyond our capacity to digest.’
‘And we’ve talked about them before, but the sexual violence that we saw on October 7 is beyond anything that I’ve seen either.’
The failure to condemn, and in some cases the failure to believe, the incidents of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas is something about which ‘these organizations, these countries, need to ask themselves,’ he said.
Some of ‘these’ entities who have inadequately condemned or called attention to Hamas’ sexual violence include prominent members of the Democratic party, including Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, who faced backlash last week for her tepid position on the matter.
House Democrats are planning to introduce a resolution condemning Hamas’ use of rape against Israeli women as a weapon of war after some of their colleagues have publicly failed to do so.
There a severe weather warning for NSW today.
31? in Parramatta today. Or as we call it, “Monday”. So I check Bourke. Surely that will be hotterer?
37?. Smack bang on average.
I’m not sure I can take much more of this global boilinging!
Malcolm Roberts
Labor’s Tent Cities
Are Politicians Even in Control? – Steve Hilton
Check
Neil Oliver: The more you speak, the easier it becomes to say more. Don’t doubt that you are right.
Saves us some money, at least. But apart from that, any blackfella lighter than my iPhone laments their own existence if they find it offensive. And even the ones that aren’t can’t complain if they’re enjoying modern conveniences unless they were wrongly taken away from their parents.
And even then the date wouldn’t deserve contempt as such a scenario wasn’t caused by it.
Please, let’s bag Christmas before the Australia Day self loathing begins.
The whole mess is so blindingly clusterducked that the only conclusion is that political gain far outweighed any thought of harm to ordinary Australians.
First, Labor had 6 months of advance warning that the High Court decision could go against them. Plenty of time to work out new legislation to offset a negative HC ruling.
Second, even the most junior manager/armed forces corporal/ volunteer sport organiser knows to “war game” alternative scenarios and prepare for them. Labor and the Canberra mandarins didn’t.
Third, it’s clear only NZYQ had to be released immediately. The government could have waited 3 weeks until the HC released the reasons for its decision before releasing the rest of them.
So getting caught “flatfooted” (h/t ABC) is totally wrong.
Releasing dangerous criminals into the population was a deliberate strategy to focus anger on Dutton, a representative of the Howard Government which argued for indefinite detention.
An additional side “benefit” of community anger would be to reduce the esteem the HC is held in because in 2004 it ruled that indefinite detention was lawful. Such a backflip should have upset us mug punters and assisted in the slide towards anarchy so beloved of the Marxists currently in power.
Without the squeemish addition of “islamophobia” in the same sentence.
The High Court will on Wednesday give us the benefit of more wisdom:
A jailed Aboriginal man will learn this week whether he has any prospects of being released by order of the High Court after arguing his innocence since a nearly 40-year-old murder on or near the River Torrens.
Adelaide man Derek John Bromley, 67, has been in jail since 1984 for the murder of Stephen Docoza, 21, whose decomposed body was found floating in Adelaide’s River Torrens that same year.
Bromley was sentenced to 36 years’ jail, subsequently reduced to 24 years, but he has remained inside because of his insistence he never committed the crime.
This has rendered him ineligible for parole since 2006.
Bromley and his off-sider John Karpany were found guilty of bludgeoning Docoza to death, allegedly after he refused their sexual advances at what was then a gay beat on the banks of the same river where academic George Duncan was killed in a gay hate crime and his body found in the water in 1972.
The High Court will on Wednesday pass judgment on the case, which many of Bromley’s supporters believe will be his last chance of total freedom.
More at the Oz
Just when we were talking about comfortable retirement gigs …
January 26, which marks the First Fleet’s landing in Sydney in 1788.
Fail.
‘Airbus Albo’ brings his dog Toto on taxpayer funded flights
Sky News host Paul Murray says “Airbus Albo” has been bringing his dog on the plane which the taxpayers pay for.
“We know what sends him particularly crazy is the nickname that sticks,” Mr Murray said.
“Because it matters, why? That’s the one of course, of Airbus Albo.
“Guess whose dog has been flying on the plane you pay for?
“That’s right, Toto.”
As Paul Murray said The Australian said AirBus Albo has given more Press Conferences Overseas, since the defeat of the Voice, than he has in this Country
Stephan Smith is probably due some reward for all those election nights on the ALPBC trying to defend the Liars performance. They need to start thinking about arrangements for 2025.
People change.
20 years ago Riccardo Bosi was an SF leader and warrior of great repute.
Now he has….. no standing.
Even better than a 3 word slogan. Can’t focus group that one away.
Morn all
Slightly overcast morning. Feed in bands of rain to Jasper just off the coast. Still on Cyclone warning, though I haven’t cleared out or tied down anything yet. That decision will be made this evening depending on track. Tully to Port Douglas crossing by the looks, Cat 1 or maybe Cat 2.
Vertical wind shear and dry air has decimated Jasper, very little convection this morning. Looks like Cyclone Ita once it got to Townsville a few years back, bit of wind and very little rain.
Yeah, I doubt Gay will go as easily as Magill. The uni will be walking on eggshells since she’s black and female. Interestingly her husband works for the Orwellian-named Stanford University Department of Health Research and Policy. I don’t know what he does there but Stanford has been fingered by Matt Taibbi in the Twitter Files re the Covid censorship industrial complex. Which is not to say he is involved, but Stanford itself is dirty up to their eyeballs.
Outgoing Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was an ‘abject failure’ on every measure except one
On every measure except one, Annastacia Palaszczuk was an “abject failure” whose government was in a “death spiral”, former Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail editor Des Houghton argues.
Des Houghton – SkyNews.com.au Columnist
Annastacia Palaszczuk was an abject failure by every political measure except one.
She had the gift of the common touch. She was not a nasty cow in the style of some of the so-called “mean girls” who now dominate the Labor Party and the Greens.
Palaszczuk, 54, who announced her resignation on Sunday, had the ability to project homespun optimism, even in times of crisis. And there were plenty of those.
Hardly anyone was surprised that she ousted herself after eight years at the helm. Palaszczuk’s personal popularity was declining, her political authority was evaporating, and her government was dysfunctional at almost every level. It is time for her to go.
Just two months ago she was adamant she would not quit and said she would contest the next election as leader, and she took a thinly veiled swipe at those within her own party who had already begun to undermine her.
“Politics needs good people, not selfish people, not ruthless people, not ambitious people,” the Premier said
However, it had become painfully obvious to everyone inside the party that her government was in a death spiral.
Five polls in a row suggested she could not win the state election set for October 26 next year.
Bellicose Robert Schwarten, a Cabinet minister in the Beattie government, was the first to call on Premier Palaszczuk to resign, telling The Courier-Mail the party urgently needed a “new model”.
Another former Cabinet minister, Bob Gibbs, agreed. Gibbs described the Premier as the “walking dead”, adding that no one in the current Palaszczuk Cabinet would have been talented enough to claim a ministry in the Wayne Goss and Peter Beattie cabinets.
And therein lies a painful truth for the Queensland Labor Party. Gibbs was right.
None of the current ministers have put their departments in better shape than when they found them.
Queensland is struggling with a youth crime crisis, a housing crisis and an ambulance and hospital crisis. Literacy and numeracy have plunged and classrooms are in a crisis with mass teacher resignations.
Now struggle-street families are starting to ask why Queensland’s electricity prices are the highest in the country when the state is blessed with vast reserves of coal and increasing volumes of renewables.
A damning report by Queensland Auditor-General Brendal Worrall found that Queensland Police last year failed to respond to 86,594 calls that required a police response.
Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli said the thin blue line had become thinner under Labor with police numbers falling by 202 officers, despite the ALP’s election pledge to raise them by 1450 by 2025.
“Families should not be left living in fear of becoming the next victim of crime, because the thin blue line is getting thinner under Labor,” Crisafulli said.
The Courier-Mail reported Queensland’s major hospitals were at breaking point and were unable to adequately service patient needs at least 156 times in a recent three-month period.
Health Minister Shannon Fentiman, meanwhile, jumps at every photo opportunity she can while being accused in state parliament of hiding bad news about the serious hospital failures.
Fentiman struggled to contain the fallout of a scandal inside Queensland Health’s Forensic and Scientific Services division when it was found to be “fundamentally flawed”.
Up to 103,000 DNA crime scene samples, many from suspected murderers and rapists, will have to be reanalysed because the method originally used to test them was faulty.
The Australian’s Hedley Thomas stumbled upon the scandal when compiling his podcast series into the death of 23-year-old stabbing victim Shandee Blackburn.
The blunders, betrayals and backflips undermined Palaszczuk’s leadership and left her with little option but to stand down.
The billion-dollar cost overruns in grandiose projects like Brisbane’s Cross River Rail and the Olympic stadium at the Gabba have shaken public confidence in the ability of Deputy Premier Steven Miles and Transport Minister Mark Bailey.
And Palaszczuk made some poor personal decisions. She tarnished her image during the youth crime crisis skipping town on a “luxury European escape”.
Deputy Opposition leader Jarrod Bleijie taunted Labor leaders in Parliament recently.
He said Labor’s greatest hits album was entitled Chaos and Crisis, and that Miles’s favourite track was I Want to Break Free by Queen.
“I want to break free, I want to break free, I want to break free from your lies … God knows, God knows I want to break free,” he said.
Bleijie suggested other songs befitting Palaszczuk ministers including Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz for Fentiman, and Carly Simon’s You’re so Vain for Treasurer Cameron Dick.
Dick was “a guy so arrogant that he looks down on people and polishes the chandeliers with his nose,” Bleijie told the House.
Palaszczuk became the “accidental Premier” in 2015 when the government of Campbell Newman was wiped out in a landslide. She won two more terms.
Today she gave Miles her “strong endorsement” to replace her.
“Our best days are ahead of us,” she said without a hint of irony.
In cricketing parlance he is facing a demon quick on a green-top.
He is hoping for anything to get up the other end and leave his batting partner to it … a snick through slips, a quick leg-bye … anything.
Even his attempts to get on the front foot are just hopeless swishes of the bat as the ball flies through to the keeper. Even after he misses another short one and cops it in the ribs, he has the temerity to sledge the bowler.
Can’t wait for the tea break and hoping for rain (or, right about now, a devastating bushfire or cyclone would be great).
Does AirbusAlbo take toto overseas? What about 6 weeks quarantine each time. Does he have to take him coz he got no mates to look after him.
This idiot assumes that nobody can remember anything that happened more than a week ago. When John Howard was PM immigration was no more than 50,000 per year, maybe even lower. However it’s his fault that half a million have arrived this year.
As for houses being affordable like they were in 1980s, his party is making sure that mortgage interest rate at least is heading into the heights of that era.
Private schoolboys, who essentially wrote the book on bullying, have long appreciated the value of a good nickname. As tablejabber and castshole would understand.
What exactly would his motive for continuing to insist on his innocence, if he wasnt?
The system of course, cannot be questioned… hence he stays in till he admits they were right.
Hamas threatens to kill all remaining hostages if demands are not met
Hamas on Sunday threatened to kill all of its remaining hostages if demands such as more aid for Gaza and prisoner exchanges were not met, after suffering repeated losses in its battle with Israel.
The Palestinian terror group is still holding the bodies of 20 hostages who died in captivity, Israel said over the weekend.
Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, claimed Sunday that not another single kidnap victim will leave Gaza alive unless Israel agrees to all its demands in negotiations that broke down at the start of December. At least some of those demands have been for more aid for Gaza residents and the freeing of Palestinian prisoners.
“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership… nor its supporters… can take their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance,” Obeida said in a televised broadcast.
The ultimatum came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that of the 137 hostages believed to still be in Hamas custody, 20 are dead. More than 100 were freed in an aid and prisoner pact last month.
Hamas had previously accused Israel of killing hostages during its relentless airstrike campaigns in northern Gaza, with the allegations reiterated in a Hamas video by hostage Yarden Bibas, who blamed Netanyahu for the death of his wife and two young boys.
Israel slammed the claims as propaganda, and it has accused the terror group of stooping so low as to even refuse to hand over the bodies of its dead.
Hamas is allegedly trying to leverage the corpses in the stalled hostage exchange negotiations in hopes of freeing more Palestinians from Israeli prisons and seeing more aid trucks arrive in Gaza.
The terrorists had freed more than 100 hostages during a seven-day ceasefire last month, but after the two sides failed to agree on an eighth wave of exchanges, the war resumed Dec. 1.
Since the end of the cease-fire, 3,500 Hamas targets have been taken out in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday, with more than 22,000 targets destroyed since the war began Oct. 7 with Hamas’ deadly sneak attack on Israel.
A senior IDF official claimed that with Israel’s latest advancements in northern and southern Gaza, there are now “signs of Hamas breaking,” the Times of Israel reports.
“The extent of the destruction and damage creates command and control problems [for Hamas]. There are areas in the Gaza Strip that Hamas no longer controls militarily,” the official said.
But despite Israel’s latest victories across Gaza, the official said fighting will only intensify as Hamas continues to hold out for as long as it can.
After nearly two months of warfare in northern Gaza, including raiding and destroying multiple headquarters, the IDF is now focusing its bombardments around Khan Younis, the largest city in the south.
There has been heavy fighting reported in the center of the city, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to after being evacuated from the north.
During the fighting, the IDF encircled the northern Gaza home of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the man believed to have orchestrated the Oct. 7 massacre that killed more than 1,200 Israelis.
But Sinwar had already allegedly escaped south by hiding out in an evacuating humanitarian vehicle and is now believed to be in one of the tunnels in Khan Younis that is part of Hamas’ extensive underground network, the Times of Israel reported.
Along with taking out half of Hamas’ estimated 24 battalion leaders, the Israeli military estimates that about 7,000 Hamas terrorists have been killed during the war.
Gaza’s Hamas-linked Health Ministry believes the war has claimed more than 17,700 victims in all, the majority women and children, with an IDF spokesman previously describing the ratio of terrorist-to-civilian killed as “positive.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged the Jewish state to do more to avoid the deaths of civilians in the Palestinian enclave, acknowledging that not enough has been done by America’s staunch ally.
“The intent is there, but the results are not always manifesting themselves,” Blinken told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Blinken said Israel needs to conduct lengthier pauses in the war to allow civilians to escape and for more aid to arrive to the nearly 2 million Palestinians who have been displaced since the conflict began.
Despite the concerns over Israel’s handling of the war, Blinken noted that the Jewish state has the final say on how it will conduct the fighting and when it will end.
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“We have these discussions with Israel, including about the duration as well as how it is prosecuting this campaign against Hamas,” he said. “These are decisions for Israel to make.
“But Hamas has decisions to make, too. It could get out from hiding behind civilians tomorrow. It could put down its arms tomorrow. It could surrender tomorrow, and this would be over,” the US’s top diplomat said.
Blinken also defended America’s decision to bypass a congressional vote to sell nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition for Israel.
The secretary of state said the sale was only a small amount of what Israel needs as he called on Congress to pass a $100 billion aid bill for Israel, Ukraine and other national security necessities.
In South Australia, will Anzac Day be in Germinal?
(Remembering that under the Reign of Terror, the names of the months were changed as a way of persecuting Christians:
Vendémiaire (Vintage)
Brumaire (Misty)
Frimaire (Frosty)
Nivôse (Snowy)
Pluviôse (Rainy)
Ventôse (Windy)
Messidor (Harvest time)
Thermidor (Heat)
Fructidor (Fruit-bearing)
Prairial (Meadow)
Germinal (Germination)
Floréal (Floral)
So too were the days of the week:
Primidi (First day)
Duodi (Second day)
Tridi (Third day)
Quartidi (Fourth day)
Quintidi (Fifth day)
Sextidi (Sixth day)
Septidi (Seventh day)
Octidi (Eighth day)
Nonidi (Ninth day)
Décadi (Tenth day)
Presented without comment (the Tele):
ABC recently featured a schoolgirl from Canberra of Palestinian origins complaining of bullying at school, including taunts of “terrorist.”
She’s pictured wearing a sullen look, the now obligatory keffiyeh and a t-shirt which, although partially obscured, appears to proclaim the slogan ‘Palestine shall be free from the river to the sea.’
Without verification, I have doubts any such taunts were made (Canberra?), but I suggest the young lady might want to use the occasion to question the nature & content of her political beliefs instead of playing the victim. Rejecting terrorism and conceding Israel’s right to exist would be a good place to begin the journey to peace.
Sadly, it is likely that the ‘new recruits to Hamas due to what you did to me/my family/my home/my country’ will be well in excess of the -7000 the IDF has in their claim count.
flyingduk
Dec 11, 2023 11:00 AM
Bromley was sentenced to 36 years’ jail, subsequently reduced to 24 years, but he has remained inside because of his insistence he never committed the crime.
I’m as innocent as a newborn in this respect of the law, (or most of the laws to be honest). but how can it be a reason to deny parole?
No wonder Kohler pines for the 1980s. It was when he last had some credibility. Finance’s Ol’ Leathery. Has been a barracker for years now.
Should be in the Olympics, since it’s a very exacting sport, and much more kinetic than dressage.
Jousting Makes Comeback in England as Competitive Sport (10 Dec)
And, if they get bored with lances they can use ladders instead.
Wild ‘ladder fight’ after man removes Palestinian flag in London street (10 Dec)
From the footage I can see that’s a fine kinetic sport also!
The system of course, cannot be questioned… hence he stays in till he admits they were right.
Another of those stupid “tough on crime” laws passed to look like they are doing something.
I do hope the chap is guilty, only because if hes not then there has been an awful miscarriage of justice.
Id consider keeping him locked up past his set sentence as an injustice as well.
In the latter years of Howard’s tenure kick-started the population ponzi, with permanent visas increased to c. 160 000 and student & 457 visas to 250 000.
Except for covid, we’ve never looked back.
The researchers discovered that a necessary ingredient in the mRNA vaccines, 1-methylpseudouridine, has an unfortunate side-effect; it messes up RNA translation one-third of the time by slipping a gear every so often. Instead of making the intended spike protein, these tiny mis-translational slip-ups create … other things. Other kinds of proteins. New ones.
Do you recall, Duk, that Robert Malone was always concerned about the use of Pseudouridine in the mRNA shots? Seems like he was right all along.
Anthony Blinken says sexual violence inflicted by Hamas ‘is beyond anything that I’ve seen’ as he slams UN for being slow to respond to the allegations
Blinken was the first major international figure, as I recall, to be shown the evidence for the atrocities by the Israelis. Like Musk, and others, it was beyond anything imaginable.
In my state they have accept responsibility. But it has no effect on release after the sentence has been fulfilled.
Minister for High Energy Prices, Chris Bowen MP – Blackout Bowen
“Has there ever been anyone sitting on the government’s front benches in Federal Parliament as unbelievably dumb as this bloke?
He was our Immigration Minister when 1200 illegal boat people died at sea as a result of the then Labor government’s soft policy on border protection.
As Shadow Treasurer, he then lost Bill Shorten’s 2019 ‘unlosable’ federal election by telling voters that if they didn’t like the ALP’s policies, then they shouldn’t vote for them.
So voters didn’t – and they lost that election, against all expectations.
Despite his tragic past performance, PM Albanese still chose him to manage the critical portfolio of energy and climate change.
Since then, our electricity prices have increased exponentially and are now higher than the OECD average, which has never been the case previously.
The Menzies Research Centre (MRC) has analysed the global situation and has noted in a recent report that Australia has a less diverse mix of technologies than most of the other countries in the OECD.
“The most notable difference between Australia and the OECD nations is our country’s absence of nuclear power”, said MRC’s Executive Director, David Hughes.
He went on to say, “This week, world leaders assembled for a global climate summit in Dubai. The Australia delegation led by anti-nuclear energy campaigner Chris Bowen were embarrassed when the US, Canada, France, Japan, the UAE and Britain recognised “the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions/carbon neutrality by or around mid-century and in keeping a 1.5C limit on temperature rise within reach”.
French President Emmanuel Macron had a specific message for Australia: “I hope that you will manage to lift the ban. Nuclear energy is a source that is necessary to succeed for carbon neutrality in 2050.”
France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy.
MRC also pointed out that by replacing just one of Australia’s coal generators with nuclear power would remove around 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 annually, equivalent to the emissions created by nearly 900,000 cars running on petrol.
David Hughes said, “As we know, nuclear technology isn’t just good for the environment, it also provides reliable baseload power which drives down electricity prices.”
He also referred to a poll undertaken in Australia that showed opposition to lifting the nuclear ban sitting at just 18%.
Chris Bowen is not only isolated at the Dubai climate summit. He is becoming even more detached from the wishes of the Australian voting public.
Surely, even Albanese must see that this guy is a total misfit in this role – as he was in all previous ones.”
https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/34036/albanese-and-his-incompetent-misfit-ministers/
Immigration during the Howard years was ~100,000 a year, and then up to 150,000 in 2006 and 230,000 in 2007, his last year in office [Source]. The Liberals just had to prove they weren’t horrible racists and boost immigration numbers, of course the left still called them Wacists anyway.
But it is bullshit to blame Howard specifically when Rudd/Gillard and then the Liberals kept the immigration rate at average 250K+ a year. I remember concern about high immigration rates during Gillard’s term and she appointed a Minister for Population to make it look like she was doing something while keeping immigration at the exact same rate.
flyingduk
How many new recruits to Mossad will result from the barbarities of 7 October?
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Immigration went through the roof in the latter part of Howard’s tenure.
The Population Ponzi has been Treasury and UniParty policy for some time.
On the slowness of certain UN countries to respond to the atrocious events of 7/10, I put it down to
– a pre-existing anti-Israel bias, either from the mouthpieces or as a generalised mood in those countries
– the events happen unremarked in those countries already. I have already cited countries in Africa, for instance, where massacres and obscene cruelty are commonplace.
Either way, their consciences are seared to a point where you wonder whether they are fit to be members or representatives of a so-called “humanitarian” organisation.
Somewhere along the line it became a university business model.
So, despite the hysterical disappointment of the activists at BOM, Cyclone Jasper is just a bit of piss and wind — like most of them.
If I had to live my life over, I’d live over a saloon.
– W. C. Fields
I think it was more to do with covertly jacking up GDP numbers than fear of being labeled racist.
Yeah…nah. It didn’t help, but Shorten had already lost the trust of regional Qld by talking out of both sides of his mouth about the future of coal mining depending on the audience. That’s where the crucial seats were lost.
Anders
IIRC, when Gillard became PM, she made some comments suggesting that there was no need tom aim for a “Big Australia” but backed off soon after.
I assume that the Big Australia lobby had a few stern words to her in a back room.
to aim …
Comments went down the “memory hole” overnight…
The Liberal Party took to calling Howard ‘the father of the nation’ during the latter stages of his premiership.
They were right…only not in a good way.
I’ve known two Italian families that have been refused permanency in Australia (despite one being a bank manager and the other a L’Osservatore Romano journo) due to them having down syndrome sons.
Lobbied both Dutton and Scomo and no interest at all.
While Labor will hand out residency to any Palli’s, the SFLs didn’t understand that two families of over 13 people, and their future children, would all be lifelong Libs.
Can’t quite upvote that Knight toon. It’s giving far too much credit to P.Dutton.
There is one parallel.
He may yet be crushed in the hydraulic press of public opinion. He just has to “pursue” a “policy objective” too far and find himself grasping…
As with many things, I blame him generally. Surprising how many issues can be traced back to a bubbling spring during the Howard years. He was good on boats and IR though IMO. Always guaranteed to raise the level of feeling in the room.
Thank you to everyone who has pointed out that immigration numbers were way higher than 50,000 towards the end of the Howard government’s era. I don’t remember actual numbers being published and am thinking that it was deliberate to minimise opposition to it.