Right, so they’re now firebombing day care centres. How’s that soshul coheshun going?
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Sky interviewing US Studies Centre CEO, Michael Green. Oh boy. TDS on full display. Apparently “Trump doesn’t have as a…
The childcare centre attack is more likely to be a tobacco shop turf war target. Throw in a bit of…
Also: Accurate language is important.
If at all.
Warrior kings have always struck at neighbours when they are weak or distracted, or appear to be so. Vice versa, a response has very rarely been anything near proportionate – and with very good reason. Leave an enemy standing, especially when standing on something you wouldn’t mind having, is complete folly.
Exhibit A – the constantly changing boundaries of Europe over millennia.
The Husics of this world need reminding that this is not a football game.
Champerty, maintenance & barratry.
It’s all happening!
If Michael Crichton was alive today he’d be spewin’ if he hadn’t written a blockbuster along the lines of the Pfizer MNRA controversies before it actually came to pass.
Electrostatic Accelerated Electrons Within Information Horizons Exert Bidirectional Propellant-Less Thrust
Authors: Ankur S. Bhatt, F. M. Becker
During internal discharge (electrical breakdown or field emission transmission), thin symmetric capacitors accelerate slightly towards the anode; an anomaly that does not appear obvious using standard physics. The effect can be predicted by core concepts of a model called quantised inertia (MiHsC) which assumes inertia of accelerated particles, such as electrons, is caused by Unruh radiation. This discrete Unruh radiation etc..
If the first few lines of umitigated sludge weren’t enough, we again have to read about Unruh radiation. An utterly theoretical, unproven BS idea, just like the aether and the phlogiston.
This crap has been around since the mid 1970s. Never detected or proven.
Just like String Theory, which dates even further back to the 1950s.. or Cold Fusion.. or Quantum Computing.. or standard Fusion.
Hippie physicists smoking bongs.
Garbage ideas which are destroying physics.
Making of a mountain out of a mole hill.
Clever man.
I may re-watch The Matrix tonight.
Areff, there’s a website called Pawshake.
I believe they match cat sitters too.
I found my dog sitter there which wasn’t so easy for a Weimaraner who liked to sleep on the bed.
. Billy Bunter came to mind, except Billy was an intellectual giant compared to the Mile’o’Tool
Can someone post a link to the defamation case, please.
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong from my iPad.
Actually I think you are dead wrong and I will dig up the empirical evidence of it later.
Yes, I was thinking of how the European kings civilised warfare for a while, at least, before the American war between the states, and Sherman’s dictum that “[we are] not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies”.
That’s nice, Ed.
I’m sure you are a-okay with convoys of people from your electorate being shepherded by police to the Eastern Suburbs to “express a view”.
I bet you’d be up on your hind legs in a flash if the compliment was returned.
Didn’t Mizzzz Knickerless record a couple of “private conversations”?
Shoot.
I think it was CERN that found the empirical evidence of Unruh radiation too.
If CERN is “backyard physics” for you, then I have your intergalactic cruiser ready for you, Lord Lrrr.
War that is proportionate is called organised sport.
Lizzie:
It’s actually “The Peace of Submission.” Your guide was indulging in a bit of not very subtle Taqiyya.
I suppose this is right but it makes it sound like a lightning strike.
What about a slower process like a marinade ?
You know; the still, small voice, the gentle breeze, not the whirlwind.
The Spleen.
No, don’t thank me.
Yeah, they’re right behind the Pallies, about a hundred miles behind them.
Ditto.
Ditto.
You really did not understand my point about nuclear weapons and MAD, did you?
The governments of the “Arab Street” will ensure that no existential threat to Israel arises. As Jordan, Syria and Lebanon did over the PLO, and Egypt did over the Muslim Brotherhood, they will suppress anything that could lead to the Samson option.
Ftb:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kuif35Ao_-o?si=kectjXLES06R7y8p
Back at 2:15pm
I like Eugene Petersen’s description.
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. It’s the title of one of his books.
She recorded conversations to which she was a party.
Third party recording is a horse of an entirely different colour.
Sorry. The thread is like quicksilver. The Spleen was for Miles.
Thanks bbs
BJ, I think that refers to the recording of Britts’ lawyer’s conversation with the boyfriend and the bestie.
Take it as read that I’m dumb; my immediate dumbness hinges on the puzzling comment that ‘there is no space for agnostics on the Cat’.
I can be told otherwise, but it seems to me that personal religious persuasion is probably the most neutral space on the blogue.
That too, Jorge, and probably for most believers.
I think what the pope (not this one) was getting at is that God is a person whom one encounters, not a mere abstract idea.
feelthebern
Dec 12, 2023 1:15 PM
Can someone post a link to the defamation case, please.
This works on Win 10 and Firefox.
As a general rule I only raise the topic in response to others, as I did with Lizzie last night.
Yes. Is the concept of self interested politicians familiar to you? Arab governments have crushed the more enthusiastic Jihadis regularly, and will do so again if the shadow of a mushroom cloud enters the scene.
OCO, good post on submarines.
The last sub that Australia built was the final boat of the Collins class, HMAS Rankin, delivered in 2003 – 41 months late.
Even then it didn’t work properly.
I wish it was hippie physicists smoking bongs but alas it is sober conventional physicists who are the problem. That problem isn’t unique to physics.
Flyingduk:
It won’t be game over – Israel will turn to a bio/nuclear battlefield.
It won’t be pretty, and I doubt if Israel will give a damn about leakage from the battlefield of either weapon.
We aren’t looking – from Israel’s viewpoint, as supporters of it.
calli
Dec 12, 2023 1:22 PM
I actually liked that film.
fight me!
On the Unruh radiation controversy.
It’s a start.
The first paper uses data generated in the second (which was obviously published first). I think the first lot of guys are from the University of Tech at Haifa.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00043
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics – Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics – Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:1903.00043 [gr-qc]
(or arXiv:1903.00043v7 [gr-qc] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1903.00043
Phys. Rev. D 104, 025015 (2021)
Experimental Observation of Acceleration-Induced Thermality
Morgan H. Lynch, Eliahu Cohen, Yaron Hadad, Ido Kaminer
We examine the radiation emitted by high energy positrons channeled into silicon crystal samples. The positrons are modeled as semiclassical vector currents coupled to an Unruh-DeWitt detector to incorporate any local change in the energy of the positron. In the subsequent accelerated QED analysis, we discover a Larmor formula and power spectrum that are both thermalized by the acceleration. Thus, these systems explicitly exhibit thermalization of the detector energy gap at the celebrated Fulling-Davies-Unruh (FDU) temperature. Our derived power spectrum, with a nonzero energy gap, is then shown to have an excellent statistical agreement with high energy channeling experiments and also provides a method to directly measure the FDU temperature. We also investigate the Rindler horizon dynamics and confirm that the Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy law is satisfied in these experiments. As such, we present the evidence for the first observation of acceleration-induced thermality in a non-analogue system.
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Second paper (published first) = I think these guys have something to do with CERN:
https://inspirehep.net/files/635b576911b7ae90f46783fc2a48a980
Nature Communications
ARTICLE
Experimental evidence of quantum radiation
reaction in aligned crystals
Tobias N. Wistisen 1 , Antonino Di Piazza2, Helge V. Knudsen 1 & Ulrik I. Uggerhø
Here’s some older evidence, which shocked me a little:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/037596019391008S?via%3Dihub
Physics Letters A
Volume 172, Issue 4, 4 January 1993, Pages 203-207
Evidence for Unruh’s effect in hardon physics
Abstract
In order that confinement should survive, light quarks inside hadrons have a very high acceleration and will feel a thermal bath with an Unruh temperature near 137 MeV. We show that this temperature is consistent with the experimentally observed departure from the Gottfried sum rule for the difference of the proton and neutron structure functions in deep inelastic electron scattering.
There is space for agnostics but as usual we’re in minority. Moreso here than the general population. Doesn’t matter, there are much more important matters to discuss than beliefs about deities.
Are you sure you read that before you sent it? 🙂
Seems to me the answer is in the lead up to the question.
Areff:
I’m still happy to take her for you, RF.
I promise not to make her into Spag Bol like JC suggested.
Dover Beach – please pass my details onto areff for Elsies care.
It was a tactic aimed at avoiding a prolonged battle in Japan which would have killed far more Japanese civilians. And it might make sense to use nukes on a nation quite far away, for Israel it would be the end.
. Billy Bunter came to mind, except Billy was an intellectual giant compared to the Miles’o’Tool
Cassie/Rosie.
Well, that’s certainly put Flyingduk in his place, and has utterly convinced me of the wrongness of his posts.
What is the optimal dose of resistance training for longevity?
As is usually the case with exercise, not nearly as much as most people think. The benefit curves for exercise very quickly flatten, and in relation to resistance training can dip.
FD:
Personally, I think it’s about giving a message to,
1) the Gazans that Israel is not giving up and the surrenders are happening.
2) the Western MSM and the actual difference in the way both sides treat people – “here, see these are still alive and have not been violated”.
3) We will not back down, “yes, we want our people back, but you lot better hurry up in giving them up”.
4) For the Israelis, at the forefront of their thinking can not be a worry about those other than the current cohort who attacked the country, otherwise Israel itself will fail.
5) The message to everyone else is the resolve to succeed; that will have resonance with the rest.
There is space for agnostics but as usual we’re in minority. Moreso here than the general population. Doesn’t matter, there are much more important matters to discuss than beliefs about deities.
I broadly agree.
But I certainly don’t get any sense that agnosticism or atheism are somehow taboo or shout-down topics on this forum. In fact, here we are…
The ‘No Religion’ people now occupy second place in the census (38.9%). I suspect many who tick ‘Christianity’ (43.9%) do so for cultural or other reasons since they aren’t represented in the churches.
So agnostics are perhaps now a majority of the general population.
The Cat probably reflects those figures.
I’ve often reflected that calling politicians a**eholes is both offensive to, and shows an ingratitude of, a**eholes, which serve a vital purpose: the elimination of waste.
Politicians produce waste like the rest of us, but they seem to excrete where – and upon whomever – they like, without the sanction we averages would incur.
I think the obvious solution is the (compulsory) installation of personal elimination monitoring devices in each elected official.
Husic is such a hypocrite.
Loved deplatforming and cancelling for anything he didn’t like.
Now he’s calling McCarthyism on holding people to account for genocidal speech and intimidation.
We examine the radiation emitted by high energy positrons channeled into silicon crystal samples. The positrons are modeled as semiclassical vector currents coupled to an Unruh-DeWitt detector…
There’s your problems, right there.
Bryce DeWitt was the genius who introduced String Theory to the World, then championed by others, such as Witten, Susskind, Greene et al.
All otherwise reputable theoretical physicists who developed a blind spot for a Theory of Everything, attempting to link the 3 elementary forces with gravity.
In the 60s and 70s this eventually became known as String Theory, with all of its 10-11 dimensions, Calabi-Yau Manifolds and other assorted evidence-free abstruse flotsam.
Bullsh!t on stilts for decades. $Billions spent chasing rainbows at the end of unicorns.
Unruh Radiation is one of String Theory’s sisters.
The problem of citations, pressure to publish, ever-more-arcane mathematics etc.. had well and truly arrived to that previously-strict discipline.. Thus we see the turd in an otherwise limpid pond.
Even Phys.Org is starting to look like a humanities website to anyone with a middling knowledge of maths and classical-quantum physics
Enough said.
Littlefinger
“An amoral opportunist, his methods are totally unscrupulous, including the use of lies, treachery, and murder to achieve his goals.”
Little finger !!
Gold.
You win.
Everyone has their own idea on what is more important, John.
Law, education reform is higher on my list then obsessing over diatry needs yet I still read with interest.
So what was the purpose of the (ahem) “coaching simulation” then?
I don’t think this is an attempt to blow up the trial.
I don’t think it is a stretch to suggest Zwier could be in a bit of career trouble over this.
Unruh radiation. An utterly theoretical, unproven BS idea, just like the aether and the phlogiston.
Or Dark Matter and Dark energy?
MiHsC at least produces experimentally testable hypotheses.
Kilometres.
Premier.
For those concerned about Israel using nuclear weapons I am led to believe they possess Neutron bombs which are tactical weapons with a blast radius of about 600 metres. Dead people, little damage and a half life of 12 years. Perfect for Gaza.
I’d like to thank my family, friends and … blah blah blah.
re Miles. There is something in his visage that shouts “Dumb”, “Mean” and “Vengeful” all at the same time. Though he has a PhD in Union studies(?!??) which probably comes in handy in managing up.
How about “furlong”?
Cos he won’t be around for long.
So nuking your enemys homeland to make your victory less costly is the same as nuking your own homeland to reduce it to ashes after you have lost?
Thats certainly an unconventional take….
The Peace of Submission. If you submit there will be peace otherwise pieces of you. These scum of the earth don’t fit in anywhere including each other. Nothing is good enough for the crazies until a crazier one comes along.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
This is why Jack Smith is trying to elevate his case to SCOTUS before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled
He wants this trial done before the election
But he’s exposing his true motives by not following the standard appeals process
He is openly admitting this is about politics, not justice
Gilas…
They built a detector. How else are they going to detect it!?
The third paper was a nuclear physics paper from 1993. It said their results of a high energy interaction were explained by considering Unruh radiation. The data fits the theory. Thats how it should work. You got too angry to read the abstract I showed you. You also reckoned there was never any evidence of Unruh radiation ever found.
Since most interferometers are made for the sole purpose of teaching undergrad physics, does that mean they’re BS too?
I found two peer reviewed papers saying they have empirical evidence of Unruh radiation. This is infinitely more evidence than say dark matter has.
If you condemn Unruh radiation in the basis that it is the little sister of string theory, do you reject relativity as Einstein (ignore Mach etc for now) came up with both relativity and the cosmological constant?
Jack Poso ??
@JackPosobiec
Hi @BobVanderPlaats!
Why have you been silent while Kim Reynolds allowed a Satanic Alter to be installed in the Iowa State Capitol?
But they’re not summaries. If they were, that would be admirable.
They are huge slabs of text copied from his reading list, with ‘helpful’ bolding for those slowpokes among us who need guidance re the important bits.
What’s more, this egomaniac diverts readers from the original websites and creators, depriving them of people clicking on their sites, just to make himself look good.
I do not need a reading list with bolded bits from a would-be Kindy teacher who imagines that I need forcefed ‘information’ flooding the pages here.
And, stop pretending that you are leading the Information Revolution. You are just threadbombing with stuff that you personally have decided that we should know. Just like Internet wankers since Day 1.
BTW, have you asked Quadrant about taking away from their site to make youself look good?
That stunt of posting a whole article was shameful. It was the final proof of what a dickhead you are.
FOAD
So, the Arab world can be relied upon to *not* trigger the nuclear option, but the Israelis can be relied upon to use it if needed?…. okayyyyy
What do the 50% of Jews who live *outside* Israel think of that? ….. start by surveying the New Yorkers….
I doubt Israel will commit suicide, even if they are being over-run.
Satanic Alter? Is this like a doppelgänger?
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals
a mocking name for Miles? For some inexplicable reason he reminds me of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz
hence:
“if I only had a brain”
No idea how true this is.
Israel drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power: NYT
Supreme Court: Trump must respond to special counsel’s presidential immunity petition before Christmas
Please keep in mind, Steven Miles is one of the more intelligent ALP members in Qld parliament.
Killing off their own young.
Brazil to Mandate COVID Shots for Children as Young as 6 Months
You’ve reduced your argument to “So, what you really mean to say is …” and totally missed the irony.
Is that D’ath retard still running around ?
I was hoping she’d put her hat in the ring.
Good to hear!… I was concerned that being labelled an antisemite* by the usual suspects had comprehensively debunked my analysis….
* ? or should that be ‘antizionist’ – most of my posts relate to Israel, not Jews, and are always about its military prospects, not its claims to existence.
Idiocracy:2023?
johanna
Dec 12, 2023 12:43 PM
Before I start, I know that people are going to get worked up about comparisons between anti-Semites. But, it is a legitimate subject for discussion, particularly at the moment.
Islam is much worse than Nazism, and even communism. The psychology of 10/7 is one of psychopathy. Islam is a mind virus, it literally turns people into monsters; or it attracts monsters who cower the rest of the population. I think the first alternative is the case because in every poll of the pallis and muzzies around the world there is always a majority who support terrorism so either most people are already monsters or have a capacity to become monsters. In the end it doesn’t matter because leftism, another pernicious mind virus, regards islam and muzzies as victims to be tolerated and supported against the evil of the West. It’s a fine pincer movement and the only consolation will be that islam will behead the lefties who enabled it during the early stages of its development in the West.
Cohenite from last night:
On what basis is that acceptable? He’s on foreign soil – it’s bad enough doing it here.
Is he making a claim to that land? Because the ancestors of the current crop may have traipsed “out of Africa”. And what about everyone else’s ancestors and their claims/beliefs? And not just here.
I think he’s the dumbest politician – and I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone dumber.
Here’s something really controversial I’ve been thinking for a while.
Really, really, really, really controversial.
We should sell Christmas Island to Israel on the condition that sets up a new sovereign State for Jews there and both will always honour each other’s right of return.
Call it The Republic of Judah or Plan B.
Fostering Elsie – might be a long shot, but the RSPCA does run a cat fostering service here in Qld, so something similar might be available in Melbourne.
A lot of people tick Christianity for reasons other than belief. “Losing My Religion” is a book by an Aussie Anglican minister that documents the decline in Christianity over the past century.
Perhaps agnostics are in a majority now but strangely while most people do not subscribe to traditional religions they may embrace some metaphysical beliefs about something something isn’t life strange there must be more to life than this mere physicality. The “not religious but spiritual” claim is weird. It reminds me of the Springsteen song, Reason to Believe, which touches on the seemingly innate need to believe in something Other. Neuro\cognitive arguments for that need being part of our nature arising from evolutionary developments don’t make sense to me. For someone like myself, who has problems with evolutionary theory, who perceives human beings as evolutionary discontinuous, with cognition and behaviors that appear to defy evolutionary imperatives, human beings are very weird creatures.
Dot, not far from the truth when they were looking for a home for “Israel” way way back.
What does this gain Israel…. apart from enraging 380 million of their neighbours?
It is short sighted to think that Gaza is Israels only problem here, or that eliminating its population will solve anything.
The problem here is that we have 2 religious groups claiming divine right to the same land. Personally I dont think thats fixable until 1 group eliminates the other, and given the relative sizes of the 2 sides (and of their diasporas) I can only see one end if thats the route taken. Theres only 15 million jews in the world vs nearly 2 billion muslims, and the muslims are rapidly colonising the western safe spaces which have supported Israel since 1948.
Didn’t you know?
Calling someone antisemitic is how you disprove anyone’s argument regarding anything to do with Isreal or Jews.
They don’t have to address your argument, just call you names and have you arrested for “hate speech”.
Everyone knows Isreal only exists while the U.S. backs them militarily.
They do not have the capability to defeat all their neighbours alone…
Instead of encouraging people to go to Quadrant, this egomaniac posted the whole article, thereby depriving Quadrant of traffic and people potentially reading other stuff while they are there.
Quite uncalled for, Johanna. I’ll bet I am not alone in being mightily grateful (indeed, I have said this in a post) to Old Ozzie for his indefatigable posting of very valuable and interesting articles which I probably would not otherwise have come across.
Why would you think he is an egomaniac? I would have thought he is just being helpful and providing material for us all to discuss.
If you don’t understand the suspicion of those that try to tie Israelis hand. Tuff!
To be clear, Israel is Israel.
Not part of Tasmania (yes, this thought bubble was floated).
Former Australian opener Ed Cowan (yes) has thrown his support behind Mitch Johnson in his flaying of the houso ranga cack-handed cheat (the Hun):
Yep. And:
A walking wicket. Glorious, from one of Warner’s opening partners.
Mind you, this is coming from someone who played 18 Tests and averaged 31. Duck Egg Joe finished with better figures.
Malcolm Roberts’ latest top rant in the senate
Team Player Brittany ?
Please.
Doesn’t sound like st Lisa is going up today.
The problem here is that we have 2 religious groups claiming divine right to the same land.
Hmmm. I think that there is more to the struggle than that solely. The Abraham Accord is central to competing concerns. Not that I am downplaying the religious focus. But the prosperous Muslims seem to me to be far less transfixed with the demands of Allah in the real world.
James O’Keefe might have ended the IBM ceos career.
BTW I do encourage Cats to subscribe to Quadrant. It is a superb magazine, not simply because of the articles relevant to local issues, but because of the very distinguished writers providing interesting stuff on many topics, local & OS.
Australian Spectator is also a fabulous read, & worth having online.
THE DESECRATION OF MAN
by Carl R. Trueman
January 2024
Brittany : I’ve kept it all in house.
What a load of shite.
Pitch for new Ten series …
“I’m the Biggest Loser. Get me out of here!”.
Dot.
Christmas Island is way to small.
Go the original Kimberly scheme.
https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/7/6/the-plan-for-jewish-settlement-in-australia-in-the-1930s-the-kimberley-scheme
A series of reports and articles appeared between 1934 and 1938 promoting the desirability of large-scale immigration into the vast area of the Kimberley in north-west Australia[v]. A letter was published in the London Jewish Chronicle in which the author, Charles Chomley called on the Australian government to view an influx of Jews as being of a mutual interest[vi].
Given the backdrop of the failed Evian Conference, it must have seemed to the Freeland League that a genuine alternative had appeared. Australia, a country built by immigrants was assessed as an ideal proposition with its areas of under population, vast land mass and an acknowledged need for economic growth through a substantial increase in population. The continent was seen by the League as an opportunity to be pursued with some haste and Steinberg, a supreme public speaker and organizer was tasked with the role of leading the initiative.
An outline submission was made to the Australian High Commissioner in London suggesting that a joint scheme funded by the League would unleash the economic potential which had so far not materialized to the extent envisaged. The outcome was an invitation from the Commissioner for the League to prepare a blueprint setting out its vision supported by practical plans to turn it into a reality, and a favored area of land was quickly identified as the preferred location.
Very much appreciate your work Old Ozzie.
Looks like secret recordings are fine in court.
What a bag of worms this case will be.
Telephone conversations secretly recorded by Higgins to be played in court
Justice Lee will allow the tender of the two secretly-recorded telephone conversations, despite earlier concerns it may contravene the ACT’s listening devices act.
“On 1 December 2023 Mr Whybrow SC during the course of the cross-examination of Ms Higgins sought to play an audio recording apparently taken on 5 February 2021 between Ms Higgins, Senator Cash and Mr Try,” Lee said.
“When this course was suggested, I asked the question of whether or not this was a ‘covert’ recording of a telephone conversation and discussion took place as to whether or not the playing of the recording could contravene the listening devices act”.
Lee said he would allow the recordings to be used in cross-examination on a limited basis only.
The court will play the two recordings now.
Re Israeli hospitalisation numbers.
Be wary of falling for the Lancet “Iraqi Body Count” trap (i.e. counting the same thing multiple times).
For example, one person might be admitted to a hospital close to the front, then admitted to a specialist hospital in, say, Tel Aviv, then transferred to a couple of rehab facilities.
One person … 3-4 hospital admissions.
Sr Cash has the worst phone voice ever.
ABC’s The Drum, dead as a parrot in a Monty Python sketch. Only 4 more episodes to go.
Via Michael Smith News.
Areff at 12:38
Not uncommon. Rarely ends well.
Brittany saying Cash wasn’t supportive doesn’t seem to past muster.
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Bar Beach Swimmer
Dec 12, 2023 1:06 PM
FD @ 12:44pm
Horrifying thought, isn’t it?
But it’s how I feel when I see a Burka or a Thobe.
A city out of control…
Dramatic testimony of a car-jacking in Townsville…
Two words: concealed carry.
Wilkinson could be about to knock Walter Duranty off the perch as the worst journalist in history.
After listening to that audio I have a tiny bit of sympathy for lawyers and the courts.
Getting clarity?
Being affirmed?
Add value?
Triggered systems and processes?
This has to be a piss take:
Meet Jeremy Godfrey — Head of Ireland’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ — Responsible for Social Media Censorship and Policing Free Speech
A nickname for Steven Miles?
Inches
Areff, try House sitting sites like Housesitters.com.au
They usually have people looking for a free bed at your place which may not suit you, but sometimes you can offer a payment and maybe find someone who’ll take a fee for caring at theirs. Or try other sites, as suggested above.
Don’t give up yet, you’ll find somewhere soon. I’d have her in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for Attapuss and Hairy’s doubts about how he’d fare plus the extra responsibility when we are away. I sat on the sofa after lunch and Attapuss jumped up on the arm of it immediately wailing, desperate for me to cover my curled legs with the usual light blanket which makes ‘his spot’ on me. He gets so keen for this luv after lunch and dinner that he starts scrabbling at the blanket even before I can finish spreading it out. As he settled in and presented his chest for a rub, Hairy commented dryly to him to watch out, he’d better get on that chair over there and get used to it because mum was busy considering dumping him. Not true, of course.
Jane Carosene has a sad over the Dumb being removed.
Jane Caro
@JaneCaro
So sorry to hear this news about
@ABCthedrum
I always enjoyed being included on the panel. What will they replace it with? More Antiques Roadshow? Hope not. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103218822
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I have replied.
thefrollickingmole
@frollickingmole
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3m
must…resist… temptation…
Surely with the vintage of many of the guests and hoary topics it raked over again and again the difference was negligible
Antiques Roadshow would be an improvement.
I agree Vicki.
So I resubscribed (after a few years not) last week.
No support from Cash? Now making Reynolds assessment of Britts as a lying cow looking more on the money.
To take your last point first, look at the events of 7 October. If Israel is being over-run, they are all dead, or are about to be after the rape and torture finishes. That is the trigger for the nuclear option.
The “Arab World” has a great incentive to not trigger the nuclear option. The Israelis will be no deader, but they will join them in oblivion. They have demonstrated in the past that they are willing to come down hard on those who threaten the fragile equilibrium, they will do it again.
And western “progressives” will huff and puff, but do nothing practical to stop them.
I know your face.
ABC’s The Drum, dead as a parrot in a Monty Python sketch. Only 4 more episodes to go.
An early Christmas gift! Thank you ABC. Life is good.
1st phone conversation seems to be bugger all.
Higgins heard in secret recording asking staffer to find out which journalist knew about alleged assault
The first conversation is between Higgins and Senator Michaelia Cash’s aide Daniel Try.
Higgins says she is having PTSD flashbacks and “random panic attacks” related to the alleged assault by Bruce Lehrmann. In the secretly-recorded conversation she asks Try if he can find out the name of the journalist from the Canberra Times who asked a question about the alleged incident.
Higgins says it would help her if she knew who the journalist was.
Try says he will try to find out.
Flyingduk:
I had a sarc tag in there, FD, but it didn’t appear.
Let me try again:
I’d cancel our Sub to The Australian before I’d cancel either Quadrant or The Spectator. I was feeling crabby earlier because some historical and thoughtful comments I’d written on the Oz re the Israel situation had been put in the Pending basket, where they will rest for days, which is a form of censorship they use a lot if they can’t play their ‘community standards’. Such Pending comments are usually released long after the article they address has fallen off the radar.
Duk, hamas is the government of Gaza, I care not how many civilians die, they put them there. If your neighbour starts taking pot shots at you and your family are you going to have a meaningful conversation with him or get rid of him and his family coz they support him as well and if they don’t what are they going to do? I’m over measured response, whatever they get back is okay by me. For me they’re worse than the plague.
No.
The sarc tag doesn’t appear.
greater than sarc lesser than
Huh?
Vigilante movement…
Sancho Panzer at 2:09
Certainly not a good look.
I just checked the last few hundred posts – none call you an antisemite. Accusing others of calling one’s self an antisemite has become a pretty weak defense for putting forward unfounded arguments.
I have looked into the legality of covert recordings. I was told this was legal, under the telecommunications act, provided:
1) At least 1 party agrees
2) The recording is taken for the purpose of making contemporaneous notes.
Furthermore, said notes could be in electronic form (ie the recording itself becomes the notes).
Nickname for Steven Miles: Steven Giles?
From Rosie’s link at 3.38pm. Yes, the IDF will apply justice and ID. Meanwhile:
I don’t often use bold, but this one is worth it.
It’s always good to remind yourself of all the BS that has come out of Al Gore’s and
John Kerry’s mouth.
Does the MSM use any of this in current day interviews?
Nope! They are whores; they play along to keep their jobs.
Note: Gulag / Y-Tube have shadow banned this bloke to the hilt. I ask myself if YT sent him the Silver Play Button for acquiring 100k subs. I bet you they didn’t.
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Tony Heller:
Nobel Laureate Al Gore
’twas obvious bloke ….. my reply was aimed at the usual suspects, not your good self 😉
No-one here called anyone here an antisemitic.
Stop playing the victim.
Just observed a consistent, repeated implication that Israel’s response to Hamas barbarity should have been to do nothing;
as though the situation for Israel is on all fours with the US led incursions in Afghanistan.
Guess what, it’s not.
I mentioned previously, odd how Bri worked under Cash for more than a year but not a single thing in writing about her alleged incident at Parliament. Yet she secretly records phone calls to get “evidence” on the same.
A Brinny fact muster in full swing.
Second.
I was feeling crabby earlier because some historical and thoughtful comments I’d written on the Oz re the Israel situation had been put in the Pending basket, where they will rest for days, which is a form of censorship they use a lot if they can’t play their ‘community standards’.
You are not on your own, Lizzie. After decades of regular letters in The Oz, I reckon I was cancelled during the Covid years – shortly after a letter I wrote in late 2022 concerning the Shergold report on the government’s response to Covid. I seem to have been provisionally pardoned, but my letters are often edited – which didn’t happen in the past. Could just be a new Editor of course……
This channel 10 chap doesn’t seem like the sharpest of tools.
Not Miles standard.
But close.
Bar Beach Swimmer
Big call – Plibbers, Joe Ludwig, Stephen Conroy. Probably Top 5.
That term ‘fragile equilibrium’ was on lips everywhere in Israel when we were there, in relatively normal times. Everyone knew the place functioned on a continual knife-edge and that at any time some silly thing could set it off. But there was also a sense that whatever mayhem ensued, it would revert once more to a bearable equilibrium – and this was told to us by both Arab and Israeli people, shop owners and restaurant owners alike, who had a vested interest in it being so. They’d also sniffed a lot of winds.
There is an hamasisis leader vid circulating on twitter, they don’t just want Israel Jews dead, they are calling on all muslims to kill all the Jews.
So surprise.
Bowen exhibits the dangerous self-assured evangelism so common on the Left. Perfect for a new religion.
Some people want to be called an antisemite – it reinforces their belief that their ideas have merit.
I don’t doubt Hamas was half forced on them. The PA in Gaza may have lost an election, but it was then assassinated out of opposition by Hamas.
I’d like to think Gazans are learning the error of their ways and they can be pulled out of their Jewish hatred.
I think I’m dreaming, though.
He has no equal. None whatsoever.
There’s a huge gap between him and the very eligible runners-up.
There are 15 million jews in the world, only 1/2 are in Israel. Prior to 1948 there was no Israel, ergo a homeland is a ‘nice to have’ for the Jews, not an essential. Triggering the ‘nuclear option’ not only destroys Israel, and its 7 million jews, it would trigger a pogrom that would lead to the deaths of the other 7 million. How does that help?
Israel should just have let hamasisis hang on to the hostages, no point in taking them on, just make them madder.
Hamas is composed of Palestinians of Gaza. It’s not some sort of invading foreign Arab force.
Israeli twitter is hopeful that Naama Levy braided some of the little girls’ hair while they were in captivity.
The western contributions to Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and other places have one thing in common.
Unlike the Israel/Muslim situations, none of them represented an existential threat to the western contributors. There is a potential existential threat to Israel. The events of 7 October demonstrated exactly what the likes of Hamarse, IJ, PLO, Isis, and all the other groups of nutters would like to do.
Every time they stick their heads above the parapet, Israel must eliminate that day’s threat. That does not guarantee perpetual security, but it does provide short term security. If, as Doc Duk suggests, the hundreds of millions of Muslims in the Middle East decide to overwhelm Israel, that is an existential threat.
But that will happen only if the Arab governments lead the attack. Without that leadership, there is no existential threat. And with that leadership, they are pushing Israel to the Samson Option. The Arab Governments, at least at present, are sensible enough to know that, and not to do it.
So, for the record, could Rosie and Cassie state whether they believe I am an anti-semite?
If this moggie is in need of a temporary home is in Sydney she can come here & stay with my two, unwanted, “owners” .. well fed and with the run of the place tho both, generally, outdoor-zy types except at meal-times ..
My only, non servant, input into the situation is telling ’em “I hate ’em” at least once a day … I’m ignored ………!
Kids and “they’ll keep you company, Dad” gifts .. what can you do ……. duuuuuuuuh!
Teh Dumb gawn. But news for tinted wimmenses in colourful indigenous headwear.
Vicki, I was speaking of comments on articles, not actual letters to the editor. In the olden days, lol, I had a few of those published in the SMH and Australian, sent with a stamp on them as all except one was in pre-email times, but I wouldn’t think of writing one now. Just not on my agenda these days. Must be the influence of the Cat. Comments reign. 🙂
naked men in Ireland, second dumbest protest ever (after queers for Palestine)
Twin, three year old girls taken as hostages? Oh, you mighty warriors of Allah! Oh, you fearless soldiers of Islam! Oh, you miserable, contemptible, sniveling mob of fvcking, contemptible cowards!
There is an hamasisis leader vid circulating on twitter, they don’t just want Israel Jews dead, they are calling on all muslims to kill all the Jews.
So surprise.
When your getting kicked from pillar to post squealing foul and hoping for a miracle is the way to go …….. does Mo do miracles ..?
it sounds like Cash was being accommodating to Hoggins?
Higgins: ‘I feel like I lost control of this entire situation’
Now the court is playing the conversation Higgins secretly recorded with Senator Michaelia Cash and Cash’s aide Daniel Try after Higgins resigned on 5 February 2021.
Higgins breaks down in tears during the conversation and talks about the alleged assault.
The conversation then centres on Higgins’ distress at how the Liberal party handled her allegation of assault in Parliament House.
Higgins said: “… I feel like I lost control of this entire situation and… the only way for me to kind of get a handle on it is to remove myself.”
Higgins said it felt like “everyone in the party [had] sort of moved on. Bruce got to move on with his life and I was the only one kind of keeping a secret and it was exhausting… [and] very stressful.
Higgins said to Cash and Try that every time someone brings it up with her it’s “this painful thing” and she realises “how wrong it was and it’s just it makes me feel so gross and so disgusting”.
“And if this happened in a park with a stranger… I’d go to the police tomorrow and I would get him arrested but because of all the weird party stuff… and the hierarchy and whatever else I felt like I couldn’t and that’s a problem.”
Cash tells Higgins if she wants to keep her job, she can secure her a job in Brisbane doing her social media.
Higgins said no, she just wants to “end my relationship with Parliament House pretty much at this point”.
Higgins said in the ACT criminal trial that she had multiple conversations with Cash about the alleged rape from October 2019, during her employment there.
But Cash said she first learned of the alleged rape almost 18 months later, in February 2021, when Higgins told her “out of the blue” prior to resigning.
It’s a good channel. Not the fear mongering sh*t you see from the BOM and the MSM riding on the back of the climate change wave.
Check it out.
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WeatherWatchTV:
Tropical Cyclone Jasper – Landfall likely Wednesday
Doc Duk
Take a few deep breaths, calm down.
If Muslims were raping, torturing and slaughtering their way through Israel, the more civilised parts of the world would be appalled. Should Israel then destroy the sources of that slaughter, there would be no reason to blame the Jews living elsewhere. Those responsible would clearly be those leading a Middle Eastern Pogrom on a scale far beyond the Holocaust, in a much shorter time frame.
@flyingduk
Your numbers based argument is a fantasy. They had serious attempts three times with their vastly greater numbers and failed – 1948, 1967, 1973, and haven’t attempted it again for half a century. Those greater numbers haven’t lifted a finger to help Hamas.
Guilty of alleged thought crime?
repeat –
Zulu
Don’t hold back, tell us what you really think.
Im unsure how this is supposed to be the “gotch” its being presented as?
Lisa Wilkinson’s lawyer says it is ‘clear’ from recording Cash’s aide knew about alleged assault
Sue Chrysanthou, for Lisa Wilkinson, has told the court it “is absolutely clear from the conversation with Mr Try a week before that Mr Try knows” the name of Higgins’ alleged assailant and that he knew it was an assault Higgins was talking about.
Chrysanthou said Try knew “exactly what Ms Higgins is talking about, including the name of the person who she’s accused [and that] Mr Try knows that had happened while she was in Linda Reynolds’ office; that is all absolutely clear from that first conversation.”
Llewellyn is now being cross-examined about the recordings.
These seem like people you can negotiate with…
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1734375624679039456
Hamarse: Aiiiieeee you are killing civilians
Also hamarse: We will strab suicide vests to every man woman and child and kill you all- no mercy Aiiiieeee”
Duk, the homeland of Israel is central to the whole religion. That has to be understood. It’s not just ‘nice to have’. That statement of yours is so thoroughly patronising it’s no wonder you inflame Jewish people here, yet you seem to have no comprehension as to why. Try it with Mecca or the Al Aqsa and see how far you get.
Similarly, the Jewish diaspora would survive a pogrom in Israel; as they have before. Turning selected parts of the Arab world to glass wouldn’t kill Jewish people in the diaspora. It would leave the Arabs too busy picking up the shreds of their own.
Also, it is unthinkable. Do not think it. It should not and will not be done.
Too much is at stake on both sides. Viva the IDF and the measured response.
So if your local far-left green weekly types won an election, Stalin’d all the opposition and started running Oz, you’d consider that the Australian population as a whole supports them?
Weird world you live in.
Would someone please tell me what BIRM stands for.
I’ve tried to find out but all I’ve come up with from the urban dictionary is:
Birm
A creative person with a strange attraction to outlandish fruit such as pineapples and bananas. Good at art and enjoys wearing strange hats and Hawaiian shirts. Or tees, whatever they feel like that day.
Good Lord. Are there any Birms here?
I’m not taking orders from you duk.
You’ve postulated so much nonsense here over the last year or so while trying to lord over us with your lived experience.
Now you want to be the victim.
Well, be the victim.
I’m not going to stop disagreeing with your godlike utterances.
“ergo a homeland is a ‘nice to have’ for the Jews, not an essential.”
Absolute bulldust. After World War II, a homeland for the Jews wasn’t just “nice”, it was essential. And besides, there had always been a continuous Jewish community living in Eretz Israel over the last two thousand years.
Niche Sydney milliner ‘Turbans R Us’ closing its doors.
Might be a connection there.
more britenees goodness.
Sky News gives court USB of secret recordings of Higgins’ lawyer speaking with her fiance
Sky News Australia has delivered a USB to the court of the so-called secret recordings of Brittany Higgins’ lawyer speaking to Higgins’ fiance, David Sharaz, at a Sydney bar.
The recordings were taken of Leon Zwier and others at the Park Hyatt Lobby Bar on 4 December and reportedly revealed the lawyer discussing how Higgins could respond to questions in cross-examination.
The USB has been tendered into evidence.
Lehrmann’s legal team earlier served the subpoena on Sky News for a copy of the tape “before we can do anything further”.
“We’ve already made contact with a representative who’s prepared to accept service of that subpoena on behalf of that organisation,” silk Steve Whybrow SC told the court.
Whybrow has tendered two stories about a secret tape recording which allege Zwier was secretly recorded discussing the case with Sharaz. The stories were published overnight: one on Sky News’ Sharri Markson’s program and one by Samantha Maiden on news.com.au.
re Mole’s link to the bombastic threat-maker. It’s all they’ve got left.
Main point – “The Sisters are going to blow the fences into Israel and blow up the prisons you put us in. Explosive belts are in preparation for everyone as we speak.”
We knew it was a death cult. This shows how much.
Wise people will ignore these hate mongers and see what they can salvage.
Geert Wilders pulls no punches.
Hamas was voted in. Hamas men are married to Palestinians, have Palestinian siblings, parents and children. Palestinian children have grow up to become Hamas members. They’re not foreign invaders.
C.L. if you wonder why I’ve been a bit testy about judges lately it’s because I am increasingly hearing it from people I know. They are escalating with the violence too, my daughter has a friend whose Aunty was the mother slashed at 10am on a Sunday morning FFS by car thieves. Judges swallow their BS hard done by stories & spring ’em.
Media doesn’t report on the collateral damage on other motorists or deaths due to their joy riding. However vigilante behaviour, gasp shock horror and I wont even go into that case except to say the poor girl on the bike that got killed was from an influential family. Media only covers attempted car jackings when posted on social media, guess what in Stocklands Aitkenvale and Willows Shopping Centre Kirwan car parks it’s now a common occurrence.
The park in Wagner st Deeragun is named after a lovely grandmother also whose grandchildren we knew, who was murdered in her own home by an aboriginal thug claiming mental illness about 5 years ago, funnily enough the sentence the POS got I can’t find.
Daily abandoned or smashed up cars are dumped in the suburbs. Both major parties are completely MIA on this issue or proposing more of the BS for hand petters that we currently see not working but mad hatter Bobs party is the only one proposing any ideas to fix the problem. Go figure.
As the new Justice minister in NZ stated “if some on the bench don’t want to uphold the law they swore an oath to then maybe they need to move on” or words to that effect, is fit in this case. Tim Nichols Shadow A-G doesn’t fill me with confidence either to rein them in, his time as leader was rather unremarkable as well.
Rant off!
this is sad. Pretty sure it’s a real dead baby, though not its cause of death but it has at least one too many parents.
Hoggins’ secret recordings of her, Daniel Try (Michaela Cash CoS) and Cash revealed little else but her turning of the taps and endless claims to victimhood, while Try/Cash were making offers of unfettered support for her, also attempting to talk the Hog out of leaving PH.
Compare this to Hoggins claims that she received no support, ever, from anyone in PH.
Followers of the YT stream would be aware that her paranoid rewriting of history has already been well documented.
Angus then revealed that all these lies didn’t need further context in The Project, as the focus of the program was that there was no independent means of addressing staff complaints in PH.
Thus Hoggins being able to only go through Brown entailed pervasive conflicts of interests that voided any other shows of support.
So, no need to tell the whole story, or indeed the truth.
A biased hatchet job on Brown and Reynolds was created, and the Hog’s version and lies never questioned.
Channel 10 are scum. Period.
Brucie should, if justice does exist, feel a lot richer tonight.
Bill, BIRM is an acronym for But I Repeat Myself. Tracks redundancy.
What you say when you say Hamas are nasty murderers and they also kill people.
Spiritual DIY.
The idea that America is not an empire is just cope. Still, the article was more about the Brits subservience to the US.
BIRM (But I repeat myself)
The Truth Always Surfaces
COMMENT: It first seemed you were just a Russian supporter. The more I read, the more I became shocked that we have instigated this conflict with Russia and all the conspiracy theories are being proven true. The person who referred me to your site said you had the best sources because everyone wanted to know what Socrates was forecasting. Your post today about Boris Johnson telling Zelensky there is no peace with Russia truly hit home. These people have no qualms about letting millions die for nothing. It makes me wonder if these people want power and enjoy hurting others. I cannot comprehend their thinking, let alone their moral character. Johnson has the blood of many on his hands, and he cannot wash them clean like Pontus Pilate.
MW
REPLY: The West wants this war. Zelensky was told to keep fighting to kill as many Russians as possible. Lindsey Graham said it was the best money he ever spent to kill Russians. The problem is that 500,000 Ukrainians are now dead and still counting. Not a single leader in the West gave 2-seconds of thought about all the Ukrainian deaths and that 8 to 10 million have fled their homes. They have destroyed Ukraine because of their hatred of Russians. It was the unelected interim government installed by the US, EU, and Britain that started this civil war, attacking the Donbas on their instructions. The people voted for Zelensky because he promised peace. Johnson interfered and said no way.
McCain was at Maidan encouraging a revolution and that the United States would stand behind them. Can you imagine if a Russian addressed the crowd on January 6th, encouraging them to overthrow the government? The Neocons have used Ukraine for their purpose to wage war against Russia, and they never cared about the Ukrainian people or their country.
Khruschev arbitrarily drew the Ukraine border for administrative purposes. He grew up there and was responsible for rebuilding Kiev after World War II. His successor, Brezhnev, was also born there in the Donbas. Does that mean the Cuban Missle Crisis was not with Russia, but with Ukraine since they claim the Donbas? From the beginning, before the US started this civil war, I had employees on both sides in Donetsk and Kyiv and warned on February 20, 2014, that Ukraine should have been divided based on language. I stressed that point again in 2022. I also warned back on December 3rd, 2013, before the Maidan Revolution, that “Ukraine Maybe The Most Important Country To Watch.” This has NEVER been my personal opinion or wish. Our computer pinpointed Ukraine before anything even took place.
Our computer pinpointed Ukraine as the place where World War III would begin.”
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/5/7344206/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/the-truth-always-surfaces/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Yes.
He lost the plot just before stumps when learned counsel walked him off the end of the pier.
Asked about selective redaction and “blurring” of documents, his answer is “But we are making a TV show, not a police record.”
Quite so. It’s when you present your light entertainment as a rigorous investigation, therein lies the problem.
He claims that the premise of the program was to “point out that 3,000 people in Parliament House don’t have a mechanism for making complaints.”
Justice Lee points out that a complaint to the AFP is open to anyone.
Llewellyn replies, “Err, well, I’m talking about HR complaints.”
I could be wrong here, but I don’t think ‘Is ‘Onner was all that keen on wape trials being run by Karen from HR.
Once again, Justice Lee pulls the handbrake on “Well, Ms Hoggins felt that …” with an abrupt “No feelz. Just facts.”
After leading Llewellyn through multiple examples of Brown and Reynolds encouraging a complaint to the AFP, Llewellyn pleads that Britnah didn’t think it was sincere.
FMD.
Question (paraphrased): “Faced with evidence that Brown and Reynolds had encouraged a complaint, why did your TV show not only not report it, but claim that they had actively obstructed the lodging of a complaint?”
Llewellyn does a goldfish impression.
As a parting shot, learned counsel issues some “advice which is general in nature and applies to all witnesses” * …
“Do not discuss your evidence with anyone.”
…
* This was so not general advice. It was a shot at Llewellyn and indirectly at Zwier.
Thanks Lizzie
We got 9mm from Jasper. Winds today strongish like dry season SE surges but nowhere near the 90km/h predicted. Bohle, Ross and Black Rivers on flood watch for what I don’t know why. Finally off Cyclone warning.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this storm given its northward tilt in the last 24hr, that it doesn’t even make land fall and washes out somewhere off PNG. ATM anyway she’s headed up the Cape into thankfully sparsely populated areas and only at a Cat 2 which every house built up this way since 1975 would survive with little damage.
And Chris
apparently hamas sent this 4 year old girl out to test IDF alertness. Given how they treated Israeli children would anyone be surprised?
I’m constantly amazed that people believe that X or Y will not be allowed to happen because this or that government/s will prevent it. The Gulf states couldn’t bring the Yemeni rebels to heal and they are now the de facto government of Yemen ( and , BTW there has been a lot happening there in the last 24 hours). Affairs are never so clear cut or easily managed. Moreover, you can escalate matters to a level far short of Samson being on the table that nevertheless presents an existential threat.
Rosie at 0839 today
rosie
Dec 12, 2023 8:39 AM
Given Jordan has a border with Israel, this mans opinion matters
No it doesn’t.
You keep Ill wishing Israel.
Why is that?
Rosie at 349 today
rosie
Dec 12, 2023 3:49 PM
No-one here called anyone here an antisemitic.
Stop playing the victim.
So, please state again, for the record, do you consider me an antisemite?
Two tweets.
Mike Pompeo
@mikepompeo
As secretary of state, MIT canceled my campus speech about the CCP because it “risked offending” Chinese students.
Now these schools justify rampant antisemitism because of a “commitment” to free speech?
David Sacks
@DavidSacks
One can view the university presidents fight as a battle over free speech or a battle over woke double standards. Since the presidents don’t defend free speech but they do defend a double standard, I see it as the latter.
Yes, Pompeo is an idiot.
Both are close but no cigar.
Since Oct 7th, there has been calls for Jewish genocide & evidence of multiple incidents of physical intimidation of Jews on US campuses.
In most cases, the perpetrators film it & share because they are proud of it.
It’s not just hypocrisy.
There’s clearly violent acts that need to be prosecuted.
Looks like the cane toad gets to stew over Christmas/new year while the channel 10 bit might, just might, be done earlier.
Judge: ‘the more this case goes on the more I think I’m going to be engaged in it in any event right up till Father Christmas comes’
Justice Lee was hearing the separate issue of Lisa Wilkinson’s claim for the Ten Network to pay her legal costs when he remarked on the sprawling nature of the defamation case.
“The more this case goes on the more I think I’m going to be engaged in it in any event right up till Father Christmas comes,” Lee said.
Today saw the case take a new direction when it admitted into evidence a secret audio recording of Higgins’ lawyer talking to Higgins’ fiance David Sharaz.
Counsel for Ten and Wilkinson agreed to defer the case until mid-February 2024.
The court has adjourned until Wednesday morning when Llewellyn will return to the witness box to complete his cross-examination.
Well, no, they used nuclear because weren’t prepared to suffer the costs of a conventional victory and had the luxury of deploying nuclear without the costs given Japan at stage had no response. Those conditions aren’t active in the present case.
Indeed. You expect it will not be the last we hear on such matters.
Have you read their instruction manual, the Koran? I have, Ive read it twice and taken notes….