Open Thread – Fri 15 Dec 2023


The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873

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calli
calli
December 15, 2023 7:15 pm

Which brings me back to Rukshan. Why did he post something that was so easily put in the “doubtful” box?

Something that he, as a professional photographer, would know to be false.

It makes me wonder about other assertions and motives.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 7:17 pm

Dutch growers eye pot of gold as weed test trial rolls out

By AFP
AFP
Updated 5:04PM December 15, 2023, First published at 8:03AM December 15, 2023
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Ashwin Matai looks proudly at hundreds of his cannabis plants growing under fierce LED lights, knowing that, as of Friday, his prized weed is no longer illegal in The Netherlands.

“I call it a historic moment,” the 34-year-old said after The Netherlands decriminalised the production of cannabis in certain regions as part of a four-year test.

It is a common misconception that cannabis is legal in The Netherlands, world-famous for its “coffee shops” that in fact sell pot, not coffee.

In fact, consumption is illegal but “tolerated” under a policy dating back nearly five decades.

But the production and supply of cannabis was neither legal nor tolerated, meaning growers like Matai were forced to operate in the shadows.

From Friday, coffee shops in Breda and Tilburg, two cities in the southern part of the country, are legally allowed to sell pot from registered suppliers – all legally.

One of those 10 farms is “Holland High”, where Matai is “cultivation director”. He said the trial would be of huge benefit to consumers.

Matai grows more than 45 varieties of cannabis in his “culture room” heated to 25C, where scissor-wielding staff cut and prune the plants with almost surgical precision.

“The product will be clean, tested, pesticide-free. We know exactly what comes in, what comes out so the consumer will get a much safer product,” he said.

Before the pilot program, coffee shops were in a legal grey area that was exploited by gangs, resulting in petty crime and anti-social behaviour.

“All the coffee shops, our own retail infrastructure, who are selling cannabis over the counter, the way they get supplied is all a mystery,” Matai said.

Before the trial, it was a “cat and mouse game” with the authorities. The people who do their best to supply the coffee shops were “taking risks, every day”.

The firm had to move its plants from its illegal plantations to its above-board greenhouse over a period of two weeks, in a military-style “special operation”.

They used “scout cars” to warn of police patrols while they were shifting the gear.

Holland High chief executive Edwin van der Knaap, said about €35m-€40m ($57m-65m) had been sunk into the project, with the first deliveries expected from February.

More than 33,000 plants from dozens of varieties are cultivated on the farm, which the managers claim is the most “technologically advanced” of those participating.

Pre-rolled joints and edible cannabis products are also produced there.

Van der Knaap said he was “very confident” that the trial would end in a full decriminalisation – “the only way possible”.

“Fifty years ago, The Netherlands was sort of leading in the cannabis space, was sort of the hot bed of cannabis,” he said.

He felt that moves to legalise the drug in the US and Canada have left The Netherlands trailing behind but hoped the trial would change all that.

“We are well positioned to take The Netherlands back to the forefront of the cannabis industry,” he said.

miltonf
miltonf
December 15, 2023 7:19 pm

Dr Anne Webster

hmm had to look that one up- one of those ‘doctors’. Geez the Nats may as well be the ALP with that one.

Alamak!
December 15, 2023 7:20 pm

Can someone give me a quick wrap up?

Lisa W lied/deflected/spechified/lied(again)/failed to recall/confused herself/failed to follow directions/talked bs/dumped on 10/lied(more)/dumped on producer/provided bs answers/ignored counsel telling her to shut up.

She was a solid asset for the other team. Well done, Lisa!

Roger
Roger
December 15, 2023 7:20 pm

Eyrie, I’ve noticed that lefties aren’t very good with physics. Or chemistry. Nor even basic arithmetic.

In Miles’s case, just convert coal exports into royalties.

shatterzzz
December 15, 2023 7:21 pm

Quite possibly the unfunniest idiot to have existed in human history. Whose brilliant idea was it to give him a speaking gig at Bazza’s “state tribute”?

geez! .. this must have been a riotous shindig .. the only place on the web I’ve heard it mentioned is here on the “cat”….

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 15, 2023 7:21 pm

Dutchies, go short on anything connected to the promised pot boom, get in on the ground floor for stroopwaffel and psychological counselling service providers. Haven’t the swamp germans caught up with the Montana debacle?

Jorge
Jorge
December 15, 2023 7:21 pm

apart from two doggies, one of whom has sparkling eyes and a thuggish grin.

Haha. Caught the reference, Delta. Loved it.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 15, 2023 7:22 pm

Delta I was shopping yesterday for grandson’s first bike, a West Indian gentleman in a wheelchair with his leg off above the knee. I waited until he cleared the aisle, I’m limping a bit, he says to me “I guess the bike is not for you”, with a grin on his face. I responded, “probably not for you either”. We both laughed. Now here’s a guy that makes the world smile, he’s not a victim and gets on with life. I thought of you Delta, no complaints, enjoying life as well as you can. You are still an inspiration.

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 7:29 pm

I know my comment will go down like a lead balloon, but there it is. The truth is the truth, no use sugar coating it.

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 7:29 pm

Thanks Zafiro, I hadn’t thought of that. All the cats I’ve ever owned have been black.

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 7:30 pm

the ins & outs of digital forensics re phone camera images

– > Right_Click – > Properties

shatterzzz
December 15, 2023 7:31 pm

Do you remember his performance – or lack of it – as Minister for Agriculture?

The only performance folk should remember the Burka for is bonking his way around the globe at tax payers expense ………

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 15, 2023 7:32 pm

Wally I had old Karri for benchtops and jarrah for floorboards when I lived in Mt Lawley. The karri had gone almost whitish green and was the hardest timber I’ve ever worked with.

Jorge
Jorge
December 15, 2023 7:33 pm

SBS reporting Ukraine to become part of the EU following Hungary abstaining when it came up for a vote. In return, Hungary gets a $10b payoff.
Hungary continues to holdout though re the latest aid package to the Ukraine. Both Poland and Hungary seem to be wavering lately.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 7:34 pm

If I was given an image of a bit of flesh with no accompanying provenance except feelz, I’d be wondering.

It’s not just that.
That screenshot was the only surviving image from a phone which had “100% died”, without any time-stamp.
There seemed to be no curiosity about how that could be.
Britnah claimed it was a government phone and suspected the phone was remotely wiped by some Mossad-like agency.
Except we then find the images have magically been recovered. They were on personal phone, not a work phone.
One would think at that point, enquiring minds might say, “That’s great news Britnah! Have you got the original of that bruise photo?”
But no.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 7:34 pm

The only performance folk should remember the Burka for is bonking his way around the globe at tax payers expense ………

“I promise you, I’ll try and learn something about agriculture…”

Bar Beach Swimmer
December 15, 2023 7:36 pm

BoN

Eyrie, I’ve noticed that lefties aren’t very good with physics. Or chemistry. Nor even basic arithmetic

Or common sense.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 15, 2023 7:37 pm

SBS reporting Ukraine to become part of the EU following Hungary abstaining

Moldova too, which will piss off Pute. He wanted Moldova.

Bar Beach Swimmer
December 15, 2023 7:39 pm

I was just thinking about Keith Miller and Messerschmitts and what he woulda thought about Smith blubbering because of Sandpapergate.

Bar Beach Swimmer
December 15, 2023 7:40 pm

We have a Jarrah dining suite.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 15, 2023 7:43 pm

Another publicly funded jew hater…

“Im doing journalism”!!!!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1735469448126140534

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 15, 2023 7:43 pm

Burka never gave me the impression he was a pants man.
Good Morning Moscow.
The Hippy Hippy Shake.
“Victor….you are a very unattractive man.”

Zafiro
Zafiro
December 15, 2023 7:43 pm

Moldova too, which will piss off Pute. He wanted Moldova.

Never heard of it. Don’t you mean Molvania?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
December 15, 2023 7:49 pm

This Is America: The Bikini Yoga Whore Hustle

“This Is America” explores the undercurrents pulling Western civilization into the abyss.

I made the mistake a few months back of YouTubing yoga poses for my amateur morning yoga routine in the yard.

I’m actually pretty good at it, relatively speaking, despite little formal training aside from some free classes in a hi-so Bangkok studio I went to back in the day. (It was always a dystopian and jarring juxtaposition to leave the well-perfumed sanctuary of a Silom yoga studio into the urban hellscape that is the Central Business District.)

But there’s always room to acquire new and improved techniques.

In return for wanting to learn something valuable to improve my life, YouTube saw fit to put me onto what can only be described as the Bikini Yoga Whore algorithm, a close cousin to the Guitar Whore algorithm we have explored previously.

These are unserious people who intentionally select the most salacious positions so as to maximally showcase their assets, accompanied by the most enticing thumbnail lure maximum incel viewership into the sales funnel.

Digger
Digger
December 15, 2023 7:49 pm

Given the choice of sending Hussey or Warner in on the 2nd dig when you had to bat out the day for a draw I know who I would want, regardless of statistics.

That’s where we differ a bit, Hussey never batted above 5 in the Australian side so I doubt he could hold up an end by opening….

It may be fashionable to ignore or erase the 18,477 international runs and 210 catches made by Warner for Australia, which is over 6000 more than Hussey, ( this is not an anti Hussey post, I like Michael Hussey) plus he had a 12 month suspension but the fact that he was good enough to be picked again speaks volumes to his value. The matches and world cups won by Australia while he was playing can’t be erased either.

Alamak!
December 15, 2023 7:49 pm

One would think at that point, enquiring minds might say, “That’s great news Britnah! Have you got the original of that bruise photo?”
But no.

And the photo was apparently shared between phones via Whatsapp, which can be backed up with one click. So even if the phone was wiped by Govt Agency … the backup could have survived.

Conclusion is that Bri, advised by the Sharaz the Genuis, worked very hard over period of months to remove all possible traces of evidence so that only her story would survive.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 7:51 pm

What planet is Lisa Wilkinson on?

The Project star’s interview with Brittany Higgins portrayed Liberal staffer Fiona Brown as an uncaring party hack who helped cover up a rape. Now those claims are being blown apart.
By stephen rice
From Commentary
2 hours ago
7 minute read

What planet is Lisa Wilkinson on?

Her interview with Brittany Higgins crucified Linda Reynolds’ chief of staff Fiona Brown, portraying her as an uncaring Liberal Party hack who, it seemed to suggest, helped cover up the rape of a young woman for political convenience.

Yet in the witness box at Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial this week, Wilkinson has claimed The Project portrayed Brown as a “caring” person and was “complimentary” of her.

That will be news to anyone who watched the program, and certainly news to Brown herself, whose life was turned upside down by the unproven – and almost entirely unchallenged – allegations levelled against her after a lifetime of distinguished public service.

The Project gave Brown a starring role as a chief ­villain – second only to the alleged rapist – in the story Higgins told. But Lehrmann wasn’t named in the program. Brown was.

Higgins claimed that she told Brown in their first meeting she had been raped in Reynolds’ office; that Brown had viewed the CCTV footage from that night but refused to let Higgins see it; that Brown had not supported Higgins after that night, and in fact offered Higgins a “payout” to get her out of the way in the lead up to the election.

“It was like standing in front of a firing squad”, Brown recalled in an interview with The Australian earlier this year. “And it was the day that my life ended, as I knew it.”

“The worst thing you can say about a woman is she walked past another woman’s rape,” Brown says.

None of it was true, she says. But her world fell apart. Colleagues shunned her.

At one point not long after, she walked into the sea in a bid to end it all, saved by a caring young surfer who took her by the hand and pulled her back to shore.

Brown has been left so traumatised she has asked to be excused on medical grounds from giving evidence in the defamation case. Justice Michael Lee has yet to rule on whether she will be required to testify.

Wilkinson and her colleagues are trying to prove they acted reasonably and in the public interest in the way they handled Higgins’ rape allegations.

The TV veteran might have used her two days in the witness box to clear up some of the misreporting around the case.

Instead, Wilkinson doubled down on her claims that Brown was part of a conspiracy to cover up a hideous crime – “taking orders from the Prime Minister’s office” – while simultaneously claiming she had been “nice” to Brown in the program.

The Sofronoff Inquiry completely debunked the idea there was some kind of political conspiracy to bury the rape claim but Higgins and Wilkinson have clung to it like a liferaft through this trial.

A somewhat puzzled Justice Lee pointed out that Brown had arranged a meeting for Higgins with the AFP, and had taken her down to AFP offices.

Lee: “Do you think it’s consistent with a systemic cover up of a rape allegation for someone to escort someone to an AFP office?”

Wilkinson: “I think if Ms Brown had been properly trained in dealing with a survivor of sexual assault, the internal AFP would not have been a place to take them.”

So now Brown is being condemned for taking Higgins to the police.

You couldn’t make it up.

“You’d agree that it would be wicked conduct … being involved in the systemic cover up of a rape allegation?” Lee asked.

“Yeah, it was about keeping the details away from the media,” Wilkinson said, before retreating to her claim that Brown should have been happy with her treatment at the hands of The Project.

Wilkinson wouldn’t concede that any of the allegations in the show were even critical of Brown.

She rejected the idea that viewers would have been left with the impression that Brown applied pressure on Higgins not to go to the police.

Not at all. When she began the program by stating that Higgins was “forced to choose between her career and the pursuit of justice” she hadn’t meant the young woman had been pressured by Brown not to go to the police. No, what she’d meant was that Higgins had put pressure on herself.

In her interview with Wilkinson, Higgins claimed that the first time she spoke to Brown was “the first time I vocalised I’d been raped.”

Let’s leave aside the fact that Brown completely denies that Higgins said anything about being raped, and has contemporaneous notes that record their conversation.

Leave aside, too, the improbability of any woman, let alone her boss and, in this case, a universally respected public servant, callously ignoring the plight a woman who says she’s just been raped.

Let’s just consider Wilkinson’s denial, under oath, that anyone might have thought less of Brown over this claim.

“The impression conveyed by that is that Ms Brown is some kind of vile apparatchik, correct?” Richardson asks.

Wilkinson: “I totally disagree.”

Richardson: “She comes across as cold and unfeeling?”

Wilkinson:“I totally disagree.”

Does it show Brown as caring? Richardson pushes.

It’s “neutral”, says Wilkinson.

Then there’s Higgins’ allegation – vehemently denied by Brown – that her boss had watched CCTV of her and Lehrmann in Parliament House that night and refused to let her see it.

Higgins: “It really hurt. It felt like a betrayal for them to sort of withhold that one really small thing that I needed just personally for myself to process to move on.”

No, that wasn’t critical of Brown either, according to Wilkinson.

And on it went.

Brown had allegedly told Higgins: “If you can’t deal with it, you can leave.”

“You portrayed Brown as a terrible human being,” Richardson suggested.

“I disagree,” said Wilkinson.

Then there’s Wilkinson asking Higgins what support she’d got after (allegedly) telling her she’d been raped.

Higgins: “Oh, we were given … we have an employee assistance program. I remember she gave me a brochure. She told me I could take the rest of the day off, and I did.”

Wilkinson: “Did she call the police?”

Higgins: “She said internal mechanisms were already at play.”

Again, let’s leave aside how, in the first meeting where Higgins’ discloses that she has been raped, some kind of internal “mechanism” could already be underway.

Let’s leave aside the program’s failure to reveal it was Brown and Reynolds who urged Higgins to go to the police.

Consider instead Wilkinson’s claim that this was an example of Brown being portrayed as “nice”, because “she gave her a brochure and told her to have the afternoon off.”

“That’s your answer?” Richardson asked, incredulous.

“Yes”, Wilkinson responded. “That’s a caring gesture.”

“Not a callous one?”

“How is taking the afternoon off a callous gesture?” Wilkinson asks.

Well, perhaps because a boss telling a woman who has just claimed to have been raped, not to go to the police or a doctor or a counsellor, but to “take the afternoon off” would be about as uncaring as it gets.

But that’s assuming Wilkinson wasn’t already fully aware of this – an assumption we must make, because she was giving evidence to a court under oath.

There were plenty of examples The Project could have shown of Brown actually being caring.

They could have shown Brown’s text offering Higgins to have her dad come along to the meeting with Reynolds – but the producers blurred that part of the message.

That was just “the vagaries of prime time television”, Wilkinson explained: “there’s a fairly short attention span that viewers have for very, very long messages.”

It would have been nice to have shown the note Higgins sent Brown months after the alleged rape and after Higgins had moved on to another office: “I wanted to say this in person but – I cannot overstate how much I’ve valued your support and advice throughout this period. You’ve been absolutely incredible and I’m so appreciative.”

Except that Higgins, unsurprisingly, hadn’t shared that message with The Project.

What Justice Lee will make of Wilkinson and Ten’s defence against Bruce Lehrmann remains to be seen.

But she and her colleagues live on Mars if they think their treatment of Fiona Brown looks like fair and reasonable journalism.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 15, 2023 7:53 pm

Sancho

Secondly there is her Loggies speech. She claims she “sought advice” but doesn’t say if it was legal advice or whether it came from Ten or other sources.

Dumbgold said he advised her against making the speech, she denies this.

Time to put Dumbgold on the stand?

Gilas
Gilas
December 15, 2023 7:58 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Dec 15, 2023 7:12 PM

It’s a busy time at work and I haven’t been following the Lehrmann/Ten/Amphibian court proceedings. Can someone give me a quick wrap up?

This article summarises the day quite well, despite the many displays of the Gold Coast Porkers.

miltonf
miltonf
December 15, 2023 8:00 pm

But she and her colleagues live on Mars if they think their treatment of Fiona Brown looks like fair and reasonable journalism.

their evil is breathtaking

Rohan
Rohan
December 15, 2023 8:05 pm

Indolent
Dec 15, 2023 6:00 PM
I read the comments on banning manufactured stone. Do they have any idea how many people will be thrown out of work over this? Do they even care?

Well… did you see what the left did to the timber industry in Victoriastan? It’s only 14,000 direct and indirect jobs. It’s just a flesh wound.

Roger
Roger
December 15, 2023 8:08 pm

Dumbgold said he advised her against making the speech, she denies this.

Whatever you may think of Drumgold, I always thought it implausible that he would green light that speech.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 8:09 pm

the bodies of two more Israelis kidnapped on 7 October recovered. No wonder Hamas decided to break the ceasefire.”

Thanks rosie. It makes me feel sick and sad. May their memories be a blessing.

I think the remaining hostages are dead. Israel knows it.

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 8:09 pm

These are unserious people who intentionally select the most salacious positions so as to maximally showcase their assets

…link please?

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 8:11 pm

Gilas
Dec 15, 2023 7:58 PM”

Thank you, Gilas.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 8:13 pm

Whatever you may think of Drumgold, I always thought it implausible that he would green light that speech.”

Agree. Dumgold’s faults are legion but I’ve always doubted Lisa’s porky that he gave her the greenlight..

cohenite
December 15, 2023 8:20 pm

Warner is head and shoulders ahead of everyone else mentioned

Sonny Bill would disagree.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 8:20 pm

I think the remaining hostages are dead. Israel knows it.

Reluctantly, I do agree with you.

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 8:25 pm

I think the remaining hostages are dead. Israel knows it.

Yes. As I feared also.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. – Job 19

God bless them, poor souls.

cohenite
December 15, 2023 8:26 pm

This article summarises the day quite well, despite the many displays of the Gold Coast Porkers.

What an arrogant piece of work the toad is.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 8:28 pm

I think the remaining hostages are dead. Israel knows it.

Well, maybe not all. I reckon some of the young women are now sex slaves, all sanctioned in the Koran, of course. And our local skankerhood, made up of such pearls as Chlamydia Ford, Abbie Chuckfield, Laura Shingle and so on now support the practice of rape and sexual slavery.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 8:31 pm

Chlamydia Ford hauled off to be a sex slave….

Roger
Roger
December 15, 2023 8:32 pm

Warner is head and shoulders ahead of everyone else mentioned

Warner’s test average is c. 45.

Sid Barnes’s is c. 63.

Granted, Barnes played fewer tests (c.13), but his career was interrupted by WWII.

Head and shoulders?

I don’t think so.

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 8:36 pm

I reckon some of the young women are now sex slaves

This is possible. Unspeakable evil.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 8:36 pm

Why was there a “state tribute” to Barry Humphries today anyway?

So collectivists can try and tarnish his magnificent legacy (again)?

He was a unique Ozzie Treasure – a man so adept at taking the piss that we loved him for it.

And actually very funny – like ROFL funny.

Possums!

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 8:38 pm

Warner is head and shoulders ahead of everyone else mentioned

Except he was part of a cheating conspiracy.

Back of the queue Buster.

Delta A
Delta A
December 15, 2023 8:39 pm

GreyRanga
Dec 15, 2023 7:22 PM

Thank you, GreyRanga. Your words mean a lot.

Digger
Digger
December 15, 2023 8:39 pm

Sonny Bill would disagree.

Sonny Bill is a terrible batsman…?

Rabz
December 15, 2023 8:39 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 15, 2023 8:40 pm

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is again.

They put a bit of it up on The Late Debate last nite but only a clip of the middle part. It is the intro and ending that make it absolutely telling.

‘The children of Gaza are suffering .. ‘ – too ripe for Sky.

Roger
Roger
December 15, 2023 8:41 pm

Why was there a “state tribute” to Barry Humphries today anyway?

It will be because members of his family agreed to it when asked and apparently had some say in how it unfolded. I made me think he must have been a lonely man to be so misunderstood by those closest to him.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 15, 2023 8:42 pm

Out of tonic water, so have composed a pre-dinner drink of lemon, lime and bitters with soda water and French Vermouth. Quite satisfactory.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 8:42 pm

Unspeakable evil.”

Yep. An unspeakable evil supported by the Greens and many in Labor including, I firmly believe, our PM and foreign minister, by much of our MSM, by our so called musicians and thespians, by the skankerhood, by university students, by our education unions, by teachers, even by many schoolchildren.

They ALL support and approve of rape and enslavement. Good to know.

There’s a rally on Sunday…..#Metoo unless you’re a Jew. I’ll be attending.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 8:43 pm

As well as being Australia’s funniest ever public figure, Barry Humphries was a Conservative.

So insert that in your lard laden house sized bottomages, collectivist possums! 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 15, 2023 8:43 pm

It will be because members of his family agreed to it when asked and apparently had some say in how it unfolded.

I think the family wanted it as his Up Yours to the Melbournites who refused to give him one. Good on Sydney for providing it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 15, 2023 8:47 pm

Time to put Dumbgold on the stand

He’s not on the list.
From memory, remaining ones are Brown (TBD), lip reader chap & a toxicologist.
Anyone else remember any more?

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 15, 2023 8:48 pm

Crikey are now calling the “Gas the Jews” footage at the Opera House a grand Jewish conspiracy.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 8:48 pm

There’s a rally on Sunday…..#Metoo unless you’re a Jew. I’ll be attending.

Attendees have been advised to wear a plain white t-shirt and jeans.

My plain white t-shirt

Cass – I will be there – but you do realise, violence is a distinct possibility?

This is Veneztraliastan, 2023 … 😕

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 8:51 pm

‘The children of Gaza are suffering .. ‘ – too ripe for Sky.

The Israelis should be broadcasting that into the Gaza Strip, surely?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 8:53 pm

but you do realise, violence is a distinct possibility?

Take a heavy wooden walking stick. Get up against a wall, and go for the elbows and the knees.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 9:00 pm

Crikey are now calling the “Gas the Jews” footage at the Opera House a grand Jewish conspiracy

Wow. Let’s recap, here, Cats.

Monday October Nine 2023, Sydneystan – the braindead NSW labore government declares that the Oprah House will be “lit up” in Cyan and White in sympathy with the Jewish peoples.

Seven o’clock that night, hordes of inbred braindead nazi moozley imeciles descend on Circular Quay stomping around screeching the following:

“Kill the Jews”
“Gas the Jews”

The only person detained by NSW f*cking po-lice that evening – an Anglican preacher who turned up with an Israeli Flag.

You do not get to erase this, you stupid evil nazi c*nts …

We know what happened. We saw it. The internet is forever.

You will be held accountable.

Shortly before you play a central role in various Hop Time™ Events held on the Oprah House forecourt.

You pieces of excrement.

cohenite
December 15, 2023 9:01 pm

This is the mob the slut married to the walking corpse biden employed to celebrate Christmas in the White House:

https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/news/dorrance-dance-used-for-wh-christmas-video-backs-defunding-police/

They support BLM, antifa and regard whites as the great oppressors. Biden is demented and has the awareness of a goldfish but the people around him must know this. The only issue in dealing with them is which calibre to use.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 15, 2023 9:02 pm

Seriously, a conspiracy?

These people are infantile droogs

Delta A
Delta A
December 15, 2023 9:02 pm

My plain white t-shirt …

Bless you, Rabz.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 9:03 pm

The left now supports the rape of Jewish women.

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 9:08 pm

but you do realise, violence is a distinct possibility?

Take a heavy wooden walking stick. Get up against a wall, and go for the elbows and the knees.

Deodorant. A common item in one’s purse. (Or in a jean’s pocket if a humid day for a bloke).
If the worst comes, keys in side ribs (under arms – no muscle to protect).

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 9:10 pm

Rabz wrote: My plain white t-shirt …

Mr. Rusty!
Another of the missed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 15, 2023 9:12 pm

Nothing on the crikey website.
What I saw was one of their tweets that someone I follow retweeted.

Real Deal
Real Deal
December 15, 2023 9:12 pm

I didn’t think it would be long before these repellent creatures would turn on each other. Such is the friendship they have:-

https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/a-conspiracy-lisa-wilkinson-grilled-on-farfetched-brittany-higgins-claims/news-story/f48baecbf19bd8baa0c46d97ce1aabf1

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 9:12 pm

cohenite
Dec 15, 2023 9:01 PM

A thousand years ago and on the other side of the world. The election lost, and still dignified.

Lee
Lee
December 15, 2023 9:14 pm

Crikey are now calling the “Gas the Jews” footage at the Opera House a grand Jewish conspiracy.

Sherri Markson showed the raw footage on Sky News.

There is no doubt that there were calls for “gas the Jews”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zUcFeixzpI&t=258s

rosie
rosie
December 15, 2023 9:16 pm

One third of hamas rockets fail, iirc they’ve fired around 12,000.
That’s 4000 on densely populated Gaza.
How many of the dead and injured children are directly at the hands of their lords and masters.
Did the brave journalist ask?
I’m sure hamas has the numbers at their fingertips.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 15, 2023 9:18 pm

There is no doubt that there were calls for “gas the Jews”:

Crikey was saying that unless the original video is handed over for forensic review, it should be viewed as fake.

I look forward to Crikey maintaining this level of scrutiny for all their “reporting”.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 15, 2023 9:19 pm

ABCcess fact check

As not every single person in the crowd was chanting gas the Jews in unison you can’t say the crowd was doing so.

9/10 Pinocchios..

Related story: the ditch the witch crowd atrocity….

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 15, 2023 9:19 pm

Breaking story at the Oz over another ridiculous rape claim.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 9:20 pm

Take a heavy wooden walking stick.

Fork that – I’m tempted to take my aloominum Louisville Slugger and my two Swiss Armee knives.

Sorry*, Cats – the events of the last few months here have made me want to revert to those days in my yoof when ultra violence was dished out and when necessary, en masse.

With lots of ground grovelling going on. Always of our victims. We didn’t pick fights, but anyone picking them with us emerged in a critical care ward.

*I’m not.

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 9:21 pm

They’re no different to Holocaust deniers.

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 9:22 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Dec 15, 2023 9:03 PM

The left now supports the rape of Jewish women.

The left supports – or at the very least, tolerates – the rape of ANY woman not of their tribe. They use women, like every other identified group, as a tool. Once the tool is no longer of use – or a more productive tool comes along – they will discard it. Women, indigenous, refugees, gays, transsexuals, etc… all a means to an end; a distraction or smoke-screen. Very effective.

Regarding their intolerance of other ‘tribes’ – I’ve previously made the analogy with gang culture: If you are a full member of the gang, work towards the gang’s objectives and obey the internal gang rules, you will be protected. If you are an outsider, you are a legitimate target.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 9:25 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Dec 15, 2023 8:13 PM

Whatever you may think of Drumgold, I always thought it implausible that he would green light that speech.”

Agree. Dumgold’s faults are legion but I’ve always doubted Lisa’s porky that he gave her the greenlight..

I don’t think he gave it the green light as such.
But I don’t think he gave strident and firm advice not to deliver the speech either.
The mere fact that the subject was raised with Dumgold perhaps suggests that the Toad had been knocked back by Ten’s lawyers and was opinion-shopping.
Getting an ambivalent response from Dumgold she takes it back to Ten and says Dumgold has approved it, so they shrug and go along.

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 9:25 pm

No, Rabz. Walking stick. Be old and frail until you are attacked.

This from an umbrella ferrule aficionado.

Lee
Lee
December 15, 2023 9:25 pm

Crikey was saying that unless the original video is handed over for forensic review, it should be viewed as fake.

I look forward to Crikey maintaining this level of scrutiny for all their “reporting”.

And yet I bet Crikey also accepted every unproven allegation about Trump/Russia as true, without the slightest scepticism or qualification.

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 9:31 pm

A walking stick will be of little use if you are swarmed. Hence my suggestion of deodorant or similar. I’m not trying to alarm anyone, and am certainly not an expert (on anything); just trying to consider the practical aspect. These rodents work in packs.

Lee
Lee
December 15, 2023 9:32 pm

Crikey was saying that unless the original video is handed over for forensic review, it should be viewed as fake.

At least four people who were there have come forward and said they heard the cries of “gas the Jews.”

Is Crikey calling them liars?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 9:34 pm

‘Lazy, and perhaps politically expedient’: Judge lashes DPP over rape cases

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By natasha robinson
Health Editor
8:55PM December 15, 2023

A NSW judge has called for the “lazy and perhaps politically ­expedient” referrals of baseless rape accusations to the court to stop after the case of a man who spent eight months on remand in jail and faced a jury trial despite never committing a crime.

The “deep level of concern” over the abrogation of the prosecutor’s duty to interrogate complainants’ allegations – raising the risk of false convictions – has been exposed in a NSW District Court case in which a man faced trial despite clear evidence the sex he had with the alleged victim was consensual.

The woman had alleged the man sexually assaulted her, ­because she was so drunk she had a blackout and could not ­remember the events, despite it being clear she had “enthusiastically participated” in sex and consent was obtained every step of the way.

The man spent eight months in prison before eventually being granted bail and then acquitted by a jury on December 4.

In an application for a costs certificate following the trial, it was revealed the complainant had made five virtually identical allegations against other men. But a much-criticised piece of NSW legislation that fails to provide exceptions to admit tendency evidence relating to prior sexual history largely prevented the jury from knowing about the pattern of accusation. Had the jury known, the accused would have been “acquitted within minutes”, according to District Court judge Robert Newlinds.

His excoriating judgment granting a costs order, which is causing shockwaves at the NSW criminal bar, has exposed concern within the judiciary and among criminal lawyers as to the impact of the MeToo movement on the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution’s assessment of sexual assault cases, with a pattern emerging in which prosecutors take a reflexive “believe the victim” stance, and prefer to let the jury decide rather than discontinue hopeless cases.

“I think the prosecution took the lazy and perhaps politically expedient course of identifying that the complainant alleged she had been sexually assaulted and without properly considering the question of whether there was any evidence to support that allegation, and just prosecuted so as to let the jury decide,” Judge Newlinds said in the costs judgment.

“This must stop. Justice has not been served and will not be served by repeated cases being ­prosecuted based on obviously flawed evidence.”

The accused, who was given the pseudonym Mr Martinez by the court, faced trial in late November after being charged in June 2021 with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent. He was initially refused bail, which was then granted eight months later by the NSW Supreme Court.

The charges arose after Mr Martinez, who identifies as non-binary and prefers to use the pronoun “they”, had sex with the complainant, who was a friend. The complainant had had a lot to drink, but the evidence indicated the woman had initiated sex and participated enthusiastically in four occasions of intercourse.

Delta A
Delta A
December 15, 2023 9:35 pm

Anyone else remember any more?

I seem to recall that there’s one chap – and here, I’m going to be spectacularly unhelpful – from PH, I think, whose name was something like crus… Hopeless, but I do believe he’s still to come.

Good thing I never pursued a career in Law, eh?

Rabz
December 15, 2023 9:36 pm

err, after all that regrettable espousing of ultra violence, Cats, let’s have some aesthetically pleasing baybees* … 🙂

*BIRM

amortiser
amortiser
December 15, 2023 9:37 pm

feelthebern
Dec 15, 2023 9:19 PM
Breaking story at the Oz over another ridiculous rape claim.

Any more information?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 15, 2023 9:37 pm

A walking stick will be of little use if you are swarmed. Hence my suggestion of deodorant or similar.

Plus a cigarette lighter.

calli
calli
December 15, 2023 9:38 pm

Here ya go Rabz. Excellent umbrella fu.

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 15, 2023 9:40 pm

but you do realise, violence is a distinct possibility?

Last weekend for Hannukah lighting at the park near Newtown Synagogue, police and CSG were around the perimeter and sometimes mixing and hob nobbing with attendees. Evereyone is aware. Me, sitting alone for a while until friends well known to the congregation arrived – a police women just happened to wander nearby and struck up a friendly conversation to check this stranger. I’m glad they thought I needed to be checked.

In 1972 just after the Munich Olympic Games my brother passed through London airport after visiting Israel and parts of Europe. Because of our slightly swarthy family skin tone he was interviewed for a few hours. Although it was irritating and caused inconvenience, he thanked the security for being so thorough.

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 15, 2023 9:44 pm

Crikey was saying that unless the original video is handed over for forensic review, it should be viewed as fake.

Tell them they should submit a special request to The Elders of Zion for an audited and verified video.

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 9:45 pm

Take a heavy wooden walking stick

a simple fanning strike with with the tip of a 600mm stick will crack a coconut

and the skull isnt much harder

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 9:46 pm

BTW, how is the Save the World hunger strike in Canbra going?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 15, 2023 9:48 pm

Okay. BB at 2.50:

Crash Craddock has named his best ever 10 Australian batsmen:

Don Bradman
Steve Smith
Allan Border
Ricky Ponting
Greg Chappell
Matthew Hayden
Steve Waugh
David Warner
Michael Clarke
Adam Gilchrist

Firstly, Craddock is a (well-remunerated) weathervane, who tries to remain fashionable at all times.

Secondly, Warner and Gilchrist (yes) can go. Warner because he is the aforementioned flat-track bully, who could not be relied on to perform when it was really tough. Warner also – happily for him – played in an era where there weren’t a stack of quality specialist openers to replace him.

You cannot have someone named in the greatest ten Straya batsmen of all time who was a bunny for not one, but two England quicks.

Gilchrist may have been on the great Australian players, but not a great bat in his own right worthy of the list.

Replace them with Bill Ponsford and Stan McCabe. Both routinely went out against the Old Enemy and made shit tins of runs on wet decks against eye-watering English pace, wearing no helmets, chest or forearm guards, with no physios or magic spray or massages at lunch:

AND with Bodyline fields. They knew they were going to be hurt every single time they walked out. As far as I’m concerned, and although they were overshadowed by another midget loudmouth (a right hander that time), both those blokes should have been pushing their balls in wheelbarrows in front of them.

Digger
Digger
December 15, 2023 9:52 pm

Warner’s test average is c. 45.
Sid Barnes’s is c. 63.

Granted, Barnes played fewer tests (c.13), but his career was interrupted by WWII.

The original post makes no mention of test batsman. It calls for Australias best batsmen.

Barnes actually played 19 innings for Australia. 17 against ONE other country, England (Plus two against NZ where he played a first class game which was later called a test match) so he faced, at best, ten different bowlers. He also played in a test match (His first) where he and the Australian team still hold the world record. They were defeated by England by an innings and 579 runs in 1938.

I accept that he was a good batsman but not one of Australias top ten.

Sid Barnes:
Batting
Innings: 19
Not Outs: 2
Aggregate: 1072
Highest Score: 234
Average: 63.06
50s: 5
100s: 3
Ducks: 1
4s: 93
6s: 2
Scoring Rate N/A

David Warner:
Batting
Innings: 458
Not Outs: 25
Aggregate: 18477
Highest Score: 335*
Average: 42.67
50s: 93
100s: 49
Ducks: 22
4s: 2049
6s: 303
Scoring Rate 86.16

If you want to base the best batsmen on averages not overall impact then this is the top 10 Australian batsmen… That is not what the original post was about…

Highest averages
Player Average
KR Patterson 144.00
AE Trott. 102.50
DG Bradman. 99.94
SG Barnes. 63.05
AC Voges. 61.87
JK Moss. 60.00
C Bannerman. 59.75
SPD Smith. 58.44
BJ Hodge. 55.88
GS Chappell. 53.00

amortiser
amortiser
December 15, 2023 9:54 pm

Rukshan Fernando @therealrukshan
Lisa Wilkinson promoted herself as photography expert, and was even featured by
@CanonAustralia
Yet today she claim she has no basic idea about digital photographs containing metadata. In the videos featured on the Canon YouTube Lisa can be seen interacting with MetaData on photographs.

Maybe Lee J and Mr Richardson should be made aware of this and have Wilkinson returned to the witness box.

She wilfully differentiated between metadata on emails and photographs. She did this to explain away the fact that she was well aware of metadata years ago. This might make a strong case for deliberately misleading the court. What is that called?

Cassie of Sydney
December 15, 2023 10:01 pm

Evereyone is aware.

Correct, and the CSG do a great job. The security measures needed to protect Jewish schools, Jewish care homes, Jewish communal buildings, Jewish hospitals, Jewish kindergartens, synagogues and temples are huge, the costs for this security are exorbitant. But such measures are necessary. You may ask why? Because there is a history of deadly attacks on Jewish schools, such as when Jewish children were murdered at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, on Jewish care homes, on Chabad houses, on Jewish communal buildings, on Jewish kindergartens, on synagogues, even on kosher shops.

A few weeks ago, I went to Central Synagogue here in Sydney on a Sunday night to hear a survivor talk about the attack on Kfar Aza on 7 October. Arriving at the shul, there were about five CSG men and women checking and speaking to people entering the synagogue, and there were about 10 police outside on the street. I was asked by CSG what synagogue I normally go to, and I answered, I was then asked what was the name of the rabbi of that synagogue, and I answered. He let me in.

We Jews are targets, and here’s a fact, probably ninety percent of the threats emanate from a particular insidious religious ideology and their leftist scum allies. As for the far-right, in the USA they are probably more of a threat but not here in OZ. Most of the “far-right” in this country couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. But the left and the Islamists…..they are a danger to Jews.

Oh, as this government is, it’s cowardice and moral equivalence on Jew hatred has made us more of a target.

I hate to break it to everyone but when men and women screech, scream and shout “kill the Jews” and “gas the Jews”…………they mean it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 10:05 pm

Here ya go Rabz. Excellent umbrella fu.

Callie, could I buy one of those umbrellas on Amazon, do you think?

Rabz
December 15, 2023 10:07 pm

Hey, Gen V producers – do I get any credit for providing the soundtrack, you Hollyweirdo bastards!?

Yeah, of course not. 😡

P
P
December 15, 2023 10:10 pm
duncanm
duncanm
December 15, 2023 10:15 pm

calli
Dec 15, 2023 6:30 PM
Okay, I’ve watched it.

No interaction with Metadata, unless you count the video linking. All the rest looks like pretty straightforward numpty stuff.

Sorry. That derg probably won’t hunt.

https://youtu.be/ylNZ7q5VOe0?t=90
https://youtu.be/ylNZ7q5VOe0?t=132

I see all sorts of metadata in the footer of the images she’s playing with.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 10:17 pm

Oh – BTW – the down thumber – I have moderator privileges, which I’m quite happy to utilise tonight.

In other words, you cease and desist or I publicise everything, including your email address.

Happee now? 🙂

P
P
December 15, 2023 10:35 pm

Oh – BTW – the down thumber – I have moderator privileges, which I’m quite happy to utilise tonight.

In other words, you cease and desist or I publicise everything, including your email address.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Not by you or anyone else.

duncanm
duncanm
December 15, 2023 10:36 pm

Lee Avatar
Lee
Dec 15, 2023 9:14 PM
Crikey are now calling the “Gas the Jews” footage at the Opera House a grand Jewish conspiracy.

not crikey – that other festering sore, RMIT ‘factlab’

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 15, 2023 10:38 pm

We Jews are targets

We’re obnoxious because we refuse to act like victims when others demand it.
But we acknowledge ourselves as victims when mass slaughter occurs.

Other minorities probably wouldn’t understand this – they work from an acceptance of their status and identity as victims when others victimise them.

duncanm
duncanm
December 15, 2023 10:39 pm

No surprise that Crikey’s Antoinette Lattouf is a seasoned Israel hater..

https://twitter.com/search?q=israel%20(from%3Aantoinette_news)&src=typed_query

Indolent
Indolent
December 15, 2023 10:40 pm
P
P
December 15, 2023 10:40 pm

I have moderator privileges, which I’m quite happy to utilise tonight.

Do it and you are finished.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 10:40 pm

They’ve now been warned, P.

No more allowances for Jew haters.

Siltstone
Siltstone
December 15, 2023 10:42 pm

P @ 10:10
Thanks for posting that remarkable rendition of “Shall we gather at the river?”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 15, 2023 10:43 pm

I and a (very) small group received a Warner anecdote from an extremely reliable source in high-end crikkiting circles today.

I will post it on the new fred, as it is in the public interest.

No metadata involved.

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 10:44 pm

Rabz:

Oh – BTW – the down thumber – I have moderator privileges, which I’m quite happy to utilise tonight.
In other words, you cease and desist or I publicise everything, including your email address.
Happee now? ?

Do it, Rabz, Do it.
You know you want to, do it!
Do It Do IT!
This prick has caused enough trouble just so they can get their jollies at the sites expense.

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 10:45 pm

well, if anybody gives a flying … we found the old man in Sydney.

not entirely sure how he got here from Deniliquin but definitely did so via Wagga

we’re on a plane to Sydney in the morning and BiL is already up there

things aren’t optimal
the meds he got for the heart have caused a brain bleed and he’s lost function on the LHS possible requires surgery though not entirely sure yet
though, looking positive and theyre talking rehab

his race car days are over and the little green demon will have to stay in the shed from now on

Rabz
December 15, 2023 10:46 pm

Do it and you are finished.

Yes, that’s been wished upon me for many moons.

Yet finished, I am not.

FFS, I’m just trying to put a stop to the Jew hater infesting this blogue.

P
P
December 15, 2023 10:50 pm

They’ve now been warned, P.

No more allowances for Jew haters.

This blog, I’m happy to say, accommodates free speech. Not to be abused.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 10:52 pm

This blog, I’m happy to say, accommodates free speech. Not to be abused.

Including, good ol’ Jew haters – yeah, no.

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 10:53 pm

Rabz:
Is the downticker the same person who has been dodgying up the amount of downticks?

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 15, 2023 10:54 pm

Jew haters should be allowed to expose themselves. They’re transparent although they usually believe they’re secreted behind a veil of false sophistry.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 15, 2023 10:55 pm

Matrix.

Thinners possibly causing or making worse a brain bleed?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 10:55 pm

Saw a Kerry O’Keefe snippet on Soshul Meeja talking about the Bairstow run out.
“You’ve got to treat the popping crease just like Julian Arrange treated the Ecuadorian Embassy. I mean, you just never leave, no matter what.”

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 10:56 pm

I was going to curl up with a good book, but if you think I’m moving away from the keyboard now – except for toileting privileges – you’d be wrong.
DO IT Rabz!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 15, 2023 10:57 pm

There’s a rally on Sunday…..#Metoo unless you’re a Jew. I’ll be attending.

Unless it’s in the later afternoon we can’t be there. Shame, as there is strength in Cat numbers.

Christmas party to attend way up on the Northern Beaches.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 10:57 pm

Calm down Betty.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 11:00 pm

We’ve had enough of that.

braindead inbred violent racist sexist homophobic utterly useless welfare bludging moozley forkwits (BIRM) that now infest rotten “western” countries are in the seeming ascendency.

Until they aren’t.

I am of the Venetians that destroyed the moozleys at Lepanto.

We do not forgive or forget. Mess with us at your peril, you morons. 🙂

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 11:00 pm

Lost and found but still lost, Matrix?
I guess it’s one answer to one question you have/had now.
Best of luck.

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 11:01 pm

Rabz:
Hold everything, I’m going to crack a 2l tub of choc chip ice cream.
……………………………………………………
Bugger. It’s vanilla & Boysenberry.
Shrugs.
Close enuff.
Polish that crystal ball, Rabz.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 11:04 pm

Rabz:
Hold everything, I’m going to crack a 2l tub of choc chip ice cream.

Rabz – I’m pouring myself a large single malt.

Digger
Digger
December 15, 2023 11:04 pm

You cannot have someone named in the greatest ten Straya batsmen of all time who was a bunny for not one, but two England quicks.

Now we are drilling down to stats that don’t cover the circumstances. Warner has played 33 tests against England while England has the two greatest fast bowlers in test cricket history based on wickets taken. He didn’t only do that he opened the batting against those two greatest ever fast bowlers.

This question started out about the top ten cricket batsmen and far too many have turned into a moralistic, virtue signalling witch hunt against one very good batsman in particular.

As a matter of fact Warner is very close to being the best all round batsman we have. He is no. 5 in test cricket runs, no. 6 in ODI’s, no. 2 in 20/20 and no.3 overall.

Those numbers cannot be ignored in a simple top 10 batsmen list…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 15, 2023 11:07 pm

I am of the Venetians that destroyed the moozleys at Lepanto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFY8B6vgPI

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 11:08 pm

Posting on the Cat is a privilege not a right.
We’ve put up with this bullshit artist for months and he/she/it/xir has ignored the warnings.
There’s a price for that, clever dick.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 15, 2023 11:09 pm

I’d quite like to see the mad downticker exposed, rabz. Idiots are irritating.

Dot
Dot
December 15, 2023 11:09 pm

(Take that Rabz!)

Only joking.

I hope anyone LARPing with sock puppets and MPD screws up very badly.

Dot
Dot
December 15, 2023 11:10 pm

LOL

Sometimes I give nearly everyone upticks.

Good content needs feedback.

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 11:10 pm

Thinners possibly causing or making worse a brain bleed?

yep, exactly

this is a tough gig for BiL
only last week he had to go back to to Deni for a mate’s funeral
52 and a heart attack

here for a good time, not a long time

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 11:12 pm

The ticking is mildly annoying, but I think any oustering should be Dover’s call.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 11:14 pm

Cats, a Friday night is as good a time as any to talk a big game.

This country has been sold down the toilet by our not so beloved leaders over the course of my lifetime.

We were blessed with everything – an entire continent, FFS – a hardy population of those of the European stock and those wonderful natives, who assimilated.

An irreverence that resulted from our supposed isolation.

Then it went ‘orribly wrong.

Collectivism. 😡

Dot
Dot
December 15, 2023 11:14 pm

Oh well

No camps for this mucker

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/pro-vaccine-canadian-journalist-who-called-unvaccinated-police/

Pro-Vaccine Canadian Journalist Who Advocated for Vaxx Passport and Called for Unvaccinated to be Fired Dies at Age 33

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Conversation

DiedSuddenly
@DiedSuddenly_
Journalist who advocated that the unvaccinated be put in concentration camps dies suddenly at the young age of 33:

“Ian Vandaelle has died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead,” his family revealed.

Vandaelle was a business journalist who worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Post.

He was also previously a producer at BNN Bloomberg for over a decade.

Vandaelle advocated for vaccine passports and mandates and called for the firing of anyone who refused the injections.

He also suggested that unvaccinated people should be arrested and taken away to concentration camps.”

MatrixTransform
December 15, 2023 11:15 pm

I guess it’s one answer to one question you have/had now.

Muddy, I think God’s fncking with me this week

Rabz
December 15, 2023 11:19 pm

Wow – chooks without heads are frantically blunderin’ around, cats!

Yes, I would never dox anyone, no matter how tempting it might seem.

As much as I hate to say this Cats, we are approaching a (very)crossroads.

Fatty Trump will not win the 2024 election. Just as he did not in 2020.

We know why. 😕

Dot
Dot
December 15, 2023 11:19 pm

P
Dec 15, 2023 10:40 PM
I have moderator privileges, which I’m quite happy to utilise tonight.

Do it and you are finished.

Oh my what an odd thing to say, why would you say that!?

Muddy
Muddy
December 15, 2023 11:20 pm

It’s likely this has already been posted, as it’s 1 day old, but worth looking at:

Combat Footage of IDF Soldiers Fighting Hamas in Gaza

House to house. What a slow, messy business. At the 8 minute 19 second mark, an Israeli soldier comes up against the enemy within about a 2.5 metre range. Cripes.

Zippster
Zippster
December 15, 2023 11:21 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 15, 2023 11:22 pm

Journalist who advocated that the unvaccinated be put in concentration camps dies suddenly at the young age of 33:

That’ll learn ‘im.

JC
JC
December 15, 2023 11:23 pm

Received this email from NYU. Coming from the Alumni parents association.

You just have to LOL

NYU to Create Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Nov 15, 2023
New Center Will Use Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Examine New Ways to Combat Age-Old Form of Hatred

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 15, 2023 11:24 pm

Sigh !!

Winston Smith
December 15, 2023 11:25 pm

Rabz

Dec 15, 2023 11:14 PM
Cats, a Friday night is as good a time as any to talk a big game.

This country has been sold down the toilet by our not so beloved leaders over the course of my lifetime.

Rabz, our leaders are Quislings. Little more needs to be said, apart from the fact they have Quisled* to a minority just so they won’t get called names.
*Quisled is a neologism I have just patented or whatever you do with neologisms.

Dot
Dot
December 15, 2023 11:25 pm

His Honour: “it’s ok. I’ve been in the same situation”

This guy has to write for Larry David sooner or later.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
December 15, 2023 11:28 pm

Barry Humphries last wife of 30 years was a Spender I believe, might explain the Sydney memorial and content.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 15, 2023 11:35 pm

Journalist who advocated that the unvaccinated be put in concentration camps dies suddenly at the young age of 33

Died of shame, I would imagine.

JC
JC
December 15, 2023 11:35 pm

I’ve been going to the same dentist for decades. Funny dude. This one’s not in the city so I’m unable to give a running account of the dreadful people and the horrible graffiti there, although I was in the city last evening and didn’t see any graffiti.

He was telling me that another patient came in and told him he’d lost 120 KGs. The dentist dude looked puzzled because he couldn’t recall seeing him that huge and so he asked him to elaborate.

The patient replied that he’d lost 20kg and dumped the wife.

Rabz
December 15, 2023 11:43 pm

Li’l Miss Pattee, lookin a bit tastee and soft

And the Goug, peoples. No politician has been as cool or possessed the cred as the Goug.

Of course, it was all inevitably a disaster, but that’s why idiots voted for them.

It still doesn’t explain the 32% albansleazy. 😕

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
December 15, 2023 11:44 pm

Combat Footage of IDF Soldiers Fighting Hamas in Gaza
House to house. What a slow, messy business. At the 8 minute 19 second mark, an Israeli soldier comes up against the enemy within about a 2.5 metre range.

Has any other war conflict had this level of on the spot footage, first by Hamas and Palesinian foottage of their glee about their utterly depraped rape-tortue.

JC
JC
December 15, 2023 11:52 pm

No politician has been as cool or possessed the cred as the Goug.

This one sounds pretty cool, while munching an apple.

Digger
Digger
December 16, 2023 12:02 am

This country has been sold down the toilet by our not so beloved leaders over the course of my lifetime.

Very much like life… we ultimately end up with what we deserve…

Directly or indirectly, we have elected those that inflict the damage. It is difficult to recall a Cat who wasn’t baying for the end of the last government…
Well, all of those got their wish… this is the result.

Elections and words have consequences…

Rabz
December 16, 2023 12:10 am

This one sounds pretty cool, while munching an apple

le Polivere and a young mcMotherage

calli
calli
December 16, 2023 5:20 am

The

https://youtu.be/ylNZ7q5VOe0?t=90
https://youtu.be/ylNZ7q5VOe0?t=132

I see all sorts of metadata in the footer of the images she’s playing with.

Thanks Duncanm. I only viewed the videos linked on Rukshan’s tweet. I didn’t go hunting for additional Canon videos (didn’t know they existed).

These ones are far more sophisticated, and build a picture of LW being an accomplished photographer. And yes, she’s auditioning images with the metadata clearly visible in a side panel.

In other words, she’s being mendacious before the court. There’s a word for that.

And my sincere apologies to Rukshan for doubting his assertion. I did it based on insufficient information that he provided, but at the end of the day he is right and I was wrong.

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