Sounds great. Or the Hungarian policy of zero income tax for families with four or more children. The Chinese might…
Open Thread – Wed 20 Dec 2023
- Madame Cackle and her media mates
- Open Thread – Weekend 27 July 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 25 July 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 July 2024
- All the drivel fit to print
PISS OFF, NAZI
10 thumbs up!
Every day, somewhere, at one level of government or other, they ban something that ordinary people enjoy. I’m mad, and…
It’s a complete waste of time and effort for a troll to try sell made-up bullshit to Australia’s most informed…
Thanks for that explanation Dot
And not a cute owl either. Looks like she skips cardio AND weights nights.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 20, 2023 7:28 PM
Robert. Keep paying your taxes as poor Florence is still stuck. But the MSM will never tell you. At least the ABC Four Corners tried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhxRknHCvU
I mean listen to these dopes who have NO engineering SFA whatsoever. And that is Malcolm Bull Shit Stein – I am A Building Nation Builder. WTF – He couldn’t do it with Lego Bricks.
Yeah and my name is Albo Ever Sleasy and I am your spitting Prime Slinister. Stop Shorten as he is nasty. Oh Dear where do I go now?
Karens at large.
The Worst National Park Reviews of the Year
Sigh.
I think “chandeliers” is Sydney-speak for “visible exposed haemorrhoids”.
Most indelicate.
I’m surprised Lizzie raised it.
I think they call them “hanging chads” in Flo’da.
Never a good look with arseless chaps.
Sundance is all over the Colorado supreme court decision. Provided Trump appeals to the federal supreme court before Jan 4, then his name remains on the ballot.
Most doctors are frustrated farmers who dislike paying tax so it’s not surprising.
I have Dr Max Lake to thank for many nice reds.
Lakes Folly. Great name
Haven’t had one for ages so don’t know if they are still as good as they were
Chris:
Hydrochloric acid you may survive, but hydrofluoric acid?
You be a dead man.
Think I might engage in a spot of branch stacking at Kooyong branch. Rochelle needs some grassroots support.
sometimes the Cat learnings are bit too detailed imho, not being a surgeon specialised in rectal issues.
mUnty!!!
Bruce in WA:;
Bikini shots, please – that’s what we’re here for.
You may be biased.
This is the mob behind the big push to install ruinables throughout the farming land of Australia:
https://www.netzeroaustralia.net.au/about/our-people/
The club I am a member of ( male only, lots of tools ) have a Monday morning walking group.
After said walk , they have coffee at a local cafe
One of the blokes asked a passing lady when she was going to move the mulch that had been dumped on her drive and nature strip
She walked over to the ATM , withdrew $500 and placed it on a table
Cash in advance to shift the mulch !
Today was the day when the mulch had to be moved
Ten blokes turned up and moved 10m3 in one hour and twenty minutes
Job done !
“Mullet barbie”, a term quoted about an hour ago on this esteemed blog. Consider it stolen for future use.
Please tell me it’s not Yosemite.
Brown is unbackably short as a straight out bet. Going to have to box her up with something longer in an exotic or multi I think.
That’s quite hurtful and I’m quite chagrined. Having said that, you’re a limey crook. That’s something you can’t hide with ticks, Woddenhead.
OO
Speaking if which, can people stop referring to David Sharaz as “Shiraz”. It is giviing wine a bad name.
also repetition. eight words should be enough.
Boambee John
I suspect The Biden Clan would like to see Iran get the bomb, and detonate one over Tel Aviv in a Mother of All Suicide Bombings.
What they don’t want is for Iran to not use it, and wait until they have half a dozen bombs. One each for the Greater and Lesser Satan’s in New York, Washington, London, Tel Aviv, Berlin and Paris.
The players in this game are not rational actors.
One cubic meter per bloke per hour and 20?
Bludgers.
Brother and I shifted 3 cubic meters in 45 minutes….. of under turf.
The economics of mulch is quite curious. Tree chippings are essentially a waste product and generally make quite good (free) mulch ( except palms) but people still buy bags of generally inferior mulch from Bunnings.
Where does one sign up as a litigation funder to participate in Fiona Brown’s earnings from her odds-on defamation action?
See. Men can do anything! All by themselves!
Not sharaz weather in the West. Something chilled and white for a few months yet.
I know the HF of what I hyperbowl.
I once hand-carried a bottle of HF into a certain news-hogging Islamic country to check the dip of their drillholes which a Russian logging outfit had surveyed at 60.0 degrees to 400m on every hole. Too good to be true, right? So HF and acid tube.
“Mister Chris, this method is very … old, isn’t it?
“The word you are looking for Mr Mohammed is primitive. Yes, this is an independent technique just to check.”
My primitive method gave a result which I checked against the table in the Field Geologists Manual for meniscus correction on acid tube surveys.
60.0 degrees.
On four holes.
To 400m.
FMD. I hear you ask how can the third world drill to such precision through alternating magnetite and hard felsic intrusions?
Every hole they built a concrete and brick footing and bolted the Boart diamond rig and three-cylinder Deutz diesel engine directly to it like a 1940s industrial plant.
And I imagine they must have banned heavy pulldown forces such as used by Aussie drillers to get metres, too.
Council offers mulched tree clippings gratis in this neck of the woods.
Trump’s appeal from the Colorado BS to the SC should succeed but remember these funks are on the SC:
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Ketanji Brown Jackson
John G. Roberts
Electricity consumption? How about oil&gas?
Total
US 19 million barrels a day.
China 14 million barrels a day.
Per capita consumption annually.
US 922 gallons per cap
China 140 gallons per cap.
How about gas consumption
US 90 cubic feet per cap
China 4.83 feet per cap. ( that’s 4 with a decimal after it).
Total gas consumption.
US gas consumption 832 billion cubic meters.
China gas consumption 330 billion cubic meters.
Sadly, it appears China is still in second place in terms of the size of the economy.
But the Council blokes will only dump whole truckloads so ‘free’ is awkward.
Roger – yep there are a couple of places near here too. I used to just get a couple of buckets of Moreton bay fig leaves from the street which served well. No jacarandas.
Dumped in several locations here. You roll up with a trailer/ute/bags and take what you need.
Books closed.
I don’t think the legals on this one will be very high after the Lehrmann decision drops.
So far I think Ten’s local lawyers have bullshitted Paramount HQ in the US. I think that once Lee is finished with them, you can expect the adults from Paramount to get into the driver’s seat and stop the bleeding.
Looks like Jasper’s trying to splutter back to life. Convection over the top end and Gulf is booming, vertical wind shear low.
Wow, US outlets have Jaspers remnants as an invest again, short for investigation area.
None of the publicly available models interested in anything at the moment…
Be wary of the Pinfolds Sharaz.
It could be a Chinese knock-off.
Like Chateau La Feet.
Dr. John Campbell
Sir Christopher Chope MP
Moreton Bay figs…my part of the world. Magnificent specimens in their local habitat, albeit inclined to push up the bitumen and damage pipes.
A cafe? Do you mean the old cafeteria at the airport end of the complex, or is Russell going full “cafe society”?
Imagine if the trial goes really bad for them and the head office clears them out. Imagine looking for a job and telling the interviewer you were in-house counsel at 10.
And I imagine they must have banned heavy pulldown forces such as used by Aussie drillers to get metres, too.
Regrettably rife in the coal industry with rougher drilling companies on metres rates. Best one I saw was s 6m run of pure massive sandstone that was so ropy you would have thought someone put the 6m on a lathe, when challenged “yeah ah thats what you f*&%n get…”
The Colorado court’s indictment against Trump is fuked in many ways; but one of the most ironic is they have barred him from running because he incited an insurrection on Jan 6. None of the folks at the Capital and charged with criminal offences, and convicted were charged with insurrection.
Don’t sweat it Cronkite. It’s going to be overturned at the Supremos. You’re such a worry wart at times, which is par for the course with lawyer folk.
I think the only question Ch 10/ Paramount lawyers will have, “ Who do we make the cheque payable to and how many zeros?”
Quarantine also, it is (or should be) linked to trade and immigration.
Boom!
Vivek Ramaswamy with Colion Noir.
(Youtube – a bit old, but I love that statement. As I’ve asked before: If our own government has no reason to fear us (no reason for believing there will be negative consequences for not listening to us), how can we expect anything other than deception, ignorance, or destruction from that same government?).
The population should NOT fear their government. That is Albo in Wonderland stuff – a surreal distortion of the natural state of democratic representation.
Oops. Sorry. Formatting fail.
Also Ramaswamy:
Roger at 8:18 – these are fine. Planted around an oval in the 1930 or 40s I expect. You see some interesting plantings around inner city Sydney but no one seems too concerned till a house actually collapses.
The Rubin Report on a Malcolm Roberts speech.
Crowd Goes Silent as Politician Gives Brave Speech Denouncing WEF Agenda
I see there is much talk of Penfolds Bin 389.
I used to be a keen consumer – many lunchtime in Bicentennial Park with my mates sharing a bottle over these divine bread rolls from a local Vietnamese bakery – damn their bread was good!
When I first went to Japan I took three bottles of grog (to share) for the first night: a chardonnay I scarce remember because it was for entree cheese, Bin 389 to go with a sliced beef dish of my friends devising, and a bottle of Irish Mist.
The last two were ambrosia! Although the Greek myths do not specifically refer to people slow dancing in the laneway to Falling Joys and (The) Clouds.
Fair comment.
Someone has a problem with Vietnamese bread?
Or 90’s independent music?
Ed Morrissey
@EdMorrissey
In other words, a state court has found Trump guilty of a federal crime with which he’s never even been charged, based on informal allegations of unlawful conduct that took place 2,000 miles from the court’s jurisdiction.
This is patently absurd.
The ‘crowd’ was most likely either asleep, heavily medicated, or simply not present. Roberts’ speech, however, did remind me of my as-yet-unfleshed belief that a new feudalism is coming, at least regarding access to affordable energy.
My grandma’s old subruban street in inner city New Farm saw them planted probably around 1920, Bear. The road is much wider than modern design allows for and they still survive and flourish, albeit under close scrutiny from council’s tree doctors.
Gaza hospital chief admits to being Hamas commander, using clinic as military base
What inspired Pauline Hanson’s ‘Please Explain’ cartoon?
I keep saying this.
The longer it went, the more one wonders why Ten were persisting.
Until you realise that possibly the same lawyers who copped the writ also cleared the program for broadcast.
What do they say when the writ drops?
“Oops. We rolled the dice on the broadcast and got called on it. We’ll have to pay.”
No. I think Ten management have continued to play it down with Paramount HQ, portraying it as a Hail Mary suit from Lehrmann and, if they lose, bag out the jurdge.
But having worked for a couple of US multinationals, the one thing I do know is that their in-house lawyers have all the humour and empathy of Great Whites.
If the judgement goes badly for Ten, you can bank on swift and serious repercussions.
One thing though, settlements in oz for these matters are comparatively minuscule to the often outlandish “gifts” in the US. However, they won’t forgive incompetence.
I suspect it was a stars thing. The stars run the show and overwhelmed the legal department.
Don’t sweat it Cronkite. It’s going to be overturned at the Supremos.
Maybe; if they take it.
This is just one play by the demorats to stop Trump. The law cases are ALL bullshit so in a real world they will all fail; but that leaves the Epstein option.
They will take it because it has important ramifications. It’s actually a (very) federal issue because of the implications with respect to the other states.
What’s the Epstein option?
Chortle. A fill in no less. Try your luck outside the bubble darling. Daily Telegraph:
Quite a few morons listed.
For Brown?
Lee will be deciding if and how much Lehrrman gets paid.
But if Brown sues this isn’t just a business v business commercial litigation. It will be day after day of testimony about how a wealthy media personality and a media organisation tried to destroy a woman for just doing her job.
Not a good look.
Let’s cut the cheque.
Maybe give Triple J the Khyber Pass and be done with it.
Get a load of this abortion at the elite American schools.
whoops H/T WSJ.
What’s the Epstein option?
Hanging yourself 3″ off the cell floor with bed sheets, jock-straps and wrist watches.
Not to be confused with the shrillary option which involves suicide by shooting yourself in the back 10 times.
An ABC spokesman said Lattouf would not be returning to the show and her replacement had not been decided.
She’s a good looking kunt. In palestine or any other muzzie shithole she would have had 6 kiddies by now and be as fat as a 2 humped camel.
This dude is whip smart.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1737290316527370495
Antoinette here
There’s a few Tiktok efforts in the article which I am trying to retrieve but they may well be deleted.
A spiteful and fatuous blacklist
Melanie Phillips – Dec 20, 2023
The UK is marching in lockstep with America’s disastrous Middle East policy
Yeah, that is a possibility too.
Times have changed. Twenty five years ago the lawyers would have ruled the roost, and no-one would dare depart from the cleared script*.
Now, not so much.
Two other possibilities.
Firstly, that general management overruled the lawyers.
Or, secondly, that someone like Llewellyn juiced up the script approved by the lawyers.
…
* Remember Jill Singer at Channel Stokes pulling a fainting couch stunt on air after the lawyers binned her hatchet job on Jeff Kennett.
OMG!
You quoted that without attribution?
Are you a Harvard grad?
I’m not sure I’d use these lawyers.
Ever.
marquelawyers
@marquelawyers
Trying to freeze the assets of an individual defendant in a case that isn’t about fraud or theft, just defamation, is straight from the crazy eyes section of the litigator’s handbook.
Oh God no. I learned the trick from Marty.
The three justices Trump nominated have not covered themselves in glory. Worse still, they hate him and are just waiting to stab him again.
Crossie
That’s four and the headcount on the supremos is 9, as you know. Roberts is weak, but I don’t think he’d go with the minority.
Marque lawyers from Dec 8 last year on Dumgold’s brain fart which was demolished by Sofronoff.
What are their thoughts on Fatso Sharaz demanding Reynolds cough up hundreds of thousands as security for costs in a mere defamation case?
Outdoor pursuits, still rampantly pursued in Brisvegas and surrounds.
I see the Brih-nee catastrophe shows no signs of slowing. I also feel quite strongly that the lady’s problem, quite simply, is this:
She has never been told ‘no’. By anyone, ever, in relation to anything.
A bit ordinary (the Hun);
Grand sale, grand sale, grand sale.
Velour couches with lion-shaped armrests will spike in value.
Chris
I was referring more of the danger of hydroflouric acid – as used in glass etching and gold extraction. If spilt on skin, it just rips into and destroys the underlying layers and kills the poor bugger. IIRC one of the hospitals I worked in – Kalgoorlie? – we had Calcium Gluconate on the A&E trolley to sponge down skin spills.
Also IIRC, hydroflouric acid is the one the lads from the subcontinent used to throw in the faces of infidel women who were immodestly dressed. Horrific burns and scarring for the survivors.
Franco gone eh?
First thing I remember moving to Victoria in the 1980’s was those ads…
Few years ago we actually drove past one of his shops, still there.
It may have been that Lerhmann was the first one to tell her no and therefore he had to be destroyed.
Margaret River was opened up by doctors too.
Like f#ck it was.
The Dalís planted vines here first in 1873, no that’s not a typo.
And then Margaret River came to us, a century later.
*names changed to protect my kids against being Historical Wine Family w#nkers
The FDA Can Now Withhold COVID Vaccine Safety Records. Again, We Ask – Are The FDA, With Their Ties to Bill Gates, Fit For Purpose?
a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before being tapped to run Penn.
From memory, Gay was one of only a handful people of colour who clerked for RBG during her tenure on the Supreme Court.
I’m halfway through the final Indiana Jones movie.
So far significantly better than the Crystal Skull abomination.
But not a patch on the first 3.
James Mangold is the director and he’s done some great stuff.
It’s my considered opinion that there is a certain element of “you go, girl. No – one will believe a man when he says he didn’t commit rope.”
Megalo Megalo Megalo! Vale Franco.
Roger at 8:56 – really need to be more concerned about the road, they’re pretty powerful. One at UWA literally tore itself in half. The branch must have weighed several tonnes.
Escalate.
Not tolerate.
Zero tolerance.
Weaselly weasel words used by corporates as filler, while they try and work out what to actually do.
I have long thought this to be the case.
Maybe a bit cuter than the other little girls and quickly developed the “butter wouldn’t melt” art of deflection. This continues through primary school, adolescence, university and into the workplace until it almost becomes a reflex action.
Look, a lot of people either passively let other people take the fall for things, or even actively try to drop others in it.
But when the relative stakes are such that you get a mild warning on your HR file vs he gets ten years in the slot, most people have a moral compass which pulls them up before reaching that point.
I don’t think she has that moral filter.
The subsequent lies which surfaced clearly demonstrate that.
Example … She pisses off to lunch without telling anyone. When questioned she holds up the victim card … “It was a panic attack in the toilets. And don’t question me again.”
Maybe a bit cuter than the other little girls and quickly developed the “butter wouldn’t melt” art of deflection.
At her peak, she was a Sydney 6.5.
A NY or London 5.
Not sure what that translates to in Canberra.
A neat little summary from the Daily Mail …
That is lotsa disputed items.
She’s from the Goldie.
Could be a Queensssland 8, maybe?
Except it is about fraud. The Moller Memo is quite damning. Several facts not revealed in the criminal trial have come out in this defmation trial. They also sought to try to make Lehrmann permanently unemployable in addition to the absurd settlement.
Fraud is defined as gaining financial advantage or causing financial disadvantage by deception.
This was written prior to Colorado’s Supreme Court shafting Trump but it makes clear what is likely to be addressed by the US Supremes.
The Case To Remove Trump From The Colorado Ballot Is Constitutionally Illiterate
Not So Woke Now Then News:
A third man accused of sexual assault by a woman who has made multiple “pattern” rape allegations will walk free after NSW’s Office of Public Prosecutions discontinued proceedings, just weeks after a damning court judgment called on prosecutors to re-examine her claims.
Charges against the accused – known as JM – are set to be formally withdrawn in court amid scrutiny on the ODPP, which has been accused of taking a “lazy and perhaps politically expedient” approach to prosecutorial decisions.
The prosecution of JM follows the acquittal of two other men who faced near-identical allegations they had sexually assaulted the complainant, who claimed she was too drunk to consent.
But a District Court judge earlier this month found the woman had an “idiosyncratic” and erroneous view of what constituted sexual assault which was not challenged by prosecutors, who put the cases before a jury in what was labelled a miscarriage of justice. The woman had earlier pursued other criminal complaints against three other men, who all pleaded guilty.
After confirming late on Monday that the case against JM was proceeding despite District Court judge Robert Newlinds calling on prosecutors to “join the dots” and critically analyse the woman’s claims, the ODPP has now confirmed the prosecution has been discontinued.
Oz
Merde! What have the Orstralians sent us!
Brittany Higgins and her fiancé David Sharaz have touched down in Paris after leaving Australia behind to start a new life in a small French village.
Daily Mail Australia understands the couple, who departed Brisbane International Airport on Monday dressed head-to-toe in white – to show solidarity to the women’s suffragette movement – landed at the Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday evening (AEDT).
This time however, the weary-eyed travellers were dressed in black as they pushed three suitcases across the arrivals terminal.
Revenge for the atomic resting in the South Pacific?
how about prosecuting the fruitcake for making false allegations!
Good to see the Daily Mail on the case. Do they have anyone in London?
A 9 on the Pilbara princess scale.
Teh Paywallian editorialises on Brittany’s payout. Over to you Lieborals.
Dave could probably pull a root in the Pilbara. If he lost a few pounds.
She nor Sharaz wouldn’t get a second look on the Gold Coast. That’s why they left. The picture in this article is Tallebudgera Creek. That’s why they left, it was recently closed because of sewage overflow caused by them. No matter where they go the s piles up. France better hope they don’t set up home near one of the nuke reactors.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/brittany-higgins-reveals-new-home-on-gold-coast-with-partner-david-sharaz/news-story/6d1d8eabee4bcc152fbb4b6f5bae405f
If politics is show biz for ugly people, Canberra is Hollywood
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Dave Simonds.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Egypt Completes Wall to Keep Out Palestinians from Gaza
Egyptian workers recently completed a 8-10 foot concrete border wall to keep out Palestinians. A security fence topped with barbed wire stands before the concrete wall and a series of earthen berms are behind the concrete wall.
Hmm.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
SBS ISSUES APOLOGY OVER VOICE SEGMENT
EXCLUSIVE – TIM BLAIR
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has won a significant apology from SBS over his treatment while appearing on the taxpayer-funded network during the Voice referendum.
Mr Mundine, a prominent campaigner for the No vote in this year’s Voice to Parliament referendum, demanded justice following a heated exchange with Yes advocate Marcia Langton on SBS’s NITV channel’s The Point program.
Host Narelda Jacobs openly sided with Prof Langton during the exchange, broadcast live on October 14 as Voice votes were being counted. Mr Mundine, a Daily Telegraph columnist and former SBS board member, complained directly to SBS a day after the broadcast.
“In that interview I said Marcia Langton … had called Australia a racist country,” Mr Mundine wrote.
“Ms Jacobs interrupted me and made the following comment: ‘We’re not going to sit here and take you abusing a national treasure like Marcia Langton who never said that Australians were racist.’
“This comment by Ms Jacobs was false,” Mundine continued. “In 2017, Ms Langton said: ‘Of course, Australia’s racist. It’s a horrible racist country.’
“I was, in fact, quoting Ms Langton’s exact words.”
Mr Mundine also noted that his mic had been turned off as Prof Langton made critical comments about his businesses, preventing his comments in self-defence from being heard.
Two months after his complaint, SBS Ombudsman Amy Stockwell finally conceded that the broadcaster was in the wrong. “SBS apologises for these breaches,” she wrote.
Editorial page 20
Editorial:
DOUBLE TAKEDOWN FOR TAX-FED MEDIA
It wasn’t a great Tuesday for Australia’s tax-funded public broadcasters.
First it was revealed that SBS had apologised to Daily Telegraph columnist and Indigenous campaigner Warren Mundine over two breaches arising from an imbalanced interview broadcast on the night of the Voice referendum.
During that piece, Yes activist Marcia Langton was hailed as a “national treasure” while Mundine was cut off and criticised.
“The terms chosen,” SBS’s 2000-word apology read in part, “gave the impression one perspective had been unduly favoured over another.”
You don’t say.
Then, over at the ABC, Aunty fired stand-in Sydney mornings radio host Antoinette Lattouf after belatedly discovering what Lattouf had been posting for some considerable time on social media.
Let’s just say that Lattouf, who is not entirely convinced about the Jew-hatred shown on our Opera House steps in October, lacks a certain balance when it comes to Middle Eastern issues.
Both SBS’s treatment of Mundine and the ABC’s hiring of Lattouf indicate a political and social climate at our public broadcasters at odds with broader public opinion.
Overdue corrections don’t help.
Today’s Tele:
AUSTRALIA’S WARSHIP REFUSAL DRAWS PRAISE
FROM CHINA
ELLEN RANSLEY
The Chinese government’s mouthpiece has welcomed reports Australia rejected the US request to send a warship to the Red Sea, saying the middle power was finally stepping out of America’s “shadow”.
In an opinion piece published by China’s state-run media The Global Times newspaper, author Jerry Grey celebrated the government’s reported refusal to send a warship to the Middle East, and Australia’s recent UN vote for a ceasefire. He said both proved Australia was “distancing itself from the US”.
“(Australia) has finally stepped out of the US’s shadow to call for a ceasefire and could potentially act as a mediator in the conflict if needed,” the paper said. “That opportunity will be lost if it has a military presence in the region. It is sensible for Australia to continue distancing itself from the US.”
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who seized power in Yemen nine years ago and have declared support for Hamas in the Israel-Gaza war, have targeted oil tankers and container ships in the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and vowed to continue to target ships going to Israel.
Economist Saul Eslake said several companies, including petrol giant BP, had already begun changing routes from the Suez Canal to the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Yemini rebels and the extended trip would be reflected in prices in Australia next year.
Mr Eslake said products like European cars would be the most affected but the extent of the damage on inflation would depend on whether the US and its allies could bring the conflict under control.
Australia has refused to send its defence ships to assist in the operation but on Wednesday morning Australia co-signed a statement led by the US calling on the group to stop.
NRMA spokesman Peter Khoury said there had been a small jump in petrol prices after the initial Houthis attacks but the prices had fallen and would continue to fall over Christmas.
Editorial, page 20
Editorial:
LABOR’S CHAOS GOES GLOBAL
According to the popular understanding of chaos theory, a tiny event in one location may lead to a far more dramatic or destructive event elsewhere.
This concept is generally expressed through the idea of a butterfly flapping its wings and eventually causing a hurricane.
Australia is currently witnessing a chaos theory event of our own. Instead of a butterfly’s wings, however, we’re looking at Labor seats in southwestern Sydney.
And replace the hurricane with deadly storms of violence in the Middle East – and potential confrontation in coming years with communist China.
Remarkably, base political considerations in those largely Islamic Labor seats played a significant part in the Albanese government’s decision not to send a warship to the Red Sea.
That warship, requested by the US, would have joined an international military alliance helping to protect commercial shipping in the area.
Fearing a voter backlash, the Albanese government – now appearing rudderless, in keeping with nautical themes – may send only a small, verging on symbolic number of land-bound navy personnel to Bahrain.
Strike one for chaos theory. Concerns over the views of relatively few voters have materially reduced our Red Sea presence, and our AUKUS responsibility-sharing authority.
And now comes strike two. China is using its primary international propaganda outfit to heap scorn on Australia’s avoidance of any warship commitment.
The loathsome Global Times newspaper mocked the decision by characterising it as Australia “distancing itself from the US”.
The article, if it can be so described, was accompanied by a cartoon of an alarmed kangaroo pausing on the edge of a deep hole dug by a shovel attached to a US flag.
Full marks there for creative subtlety, Global Times.
While we shouldn’t allow the views of communist propagandists to influence foreign policy, neither should Australians be pleased that China’s rulers are openly laughing at us.
Right now, we’re a butterfly of ridicule.
Knucklesfrom last night, “She’s never been told no”. Especially by the attendant at the buffet.
Marcia Langton, a national treasure? A taxpayer funded gold leaf turd is still a turd.
Tom
Dec 21, 2023 4:01 AM
Mark Knight.
So who let the farker into Australia in the first place?
Thanks Tom.
Robert Sewell
Dec 20, 2023 6:44 PM
Bertruk:
And that’s the yardstick the Aboriginal people had to live by – their numbers were limited by starvation and they had to kill their excess babies and elderly to survive.
Only a Collectivist would find something noble in that.
Robert, I had a couple of PDF books and their links saved to a drive that were written in the late 1800s on that subject (think they may have been from Quadrant). Sadly my drive that the books were on crapped itself and I lost everything that was on it.
Lesson learnt…back up on a second storage unit.
Lefty Polish government goes full fascist.
Outrage as New Polish Globalist Govt Shuts Down TV Channel, Sacks Media Companies Bosses (20 Oct)
The new Third Way party does seem to be an astroturf party, since it is supposed to be centre-right. It certainly isn’t acting like it.
BH’s status on the GC is debatable.
There is normal GC world where she’d be 6ish when she was at her peak.
But when compared to that small ecosystem of plastic fantastics who inhabit the place she’d be lucky to be a 2.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to condemn the “lefty Polish government” for heavying and shutting down media they don’t like.
That’s just a line they use on conservative governments, like Hungary’s Orban.
Both SBS’s treatment of Mundine and the ABC’s hiring of Lattouf indicate a political and social climate at our public broadcasters at odds with broader public opinion.
Overdue corrections don’t help.
Fine the Directors/’Leaders’ of SBS PERSONALLY…………..Hit them where it really hurts.
pete of perth
Dec 21, 2023 12:30 AM
A 9 on the Pilbara princess scale.
A Wildebeest?
Car crash.
“Tesla Wannabe” EV Names Have Run Out Of Cash, As SPAC-Crazed Bubble Bursts (21 Dec)
The whole thing was confected out of nowhere, pumped up with government subsidies and hype, and based on lies about climate science. Now it’s crashing, as governments are skint and the lack of real demand leaves lots of EVs unsold.
Paywallion:
Rape case #7 ends: charges dropped
By NATASHA ROBINSON
HEALTH EDITOR
21 Dec 2023
A third man accused of sexual assault by a woman who has made multiple “pattern” rape allegations will walk free after NSW’s Office of Public Prosecutions discontinued proceedings, just weeks after a damning court judgment called on prosecutors to re-examine her claims.
Charges against the accused – known as JM – are set to be formally withdrawn in court amid scrutiny on the ODPP, which has been accused of taking a “lazy and perhaps politically expedient” approach to prosecutorial decisions.
The prosecution of JM follows the acquittal of two other men who faced near-identical allegations they had sexually assaulted the complainant, who claimed she was too drunk to consent.
But a District Court judge earlier this month found the woman had an “idiosyncratic” and erroneous view of what constituted sexual assault which was not challenged by prosecutors, who put the cases before a jury in what was labelled a miscarriage of justice. The woman had earlier pursued other criminal complaints against a string of other men.
After confirming late on Monday that the case against JM was proceeding despite District Court judge Robert Newlinds calling on prosecutors to “join the dots” and critically analyse the woman’s claims, the ODPP has now confirmed the prosecution has been discontinued.
“The reasons for discontinuing an individual prosecution are privileged and will not be disclosed,” the office said in a statement. “The ODPP is not aware of further prosecutions currently on foot involving the same complainant.
“The decision to proceed with or terminate any prosecution is taken carefully and in accordance with the Prosecution Guidelines. Factors taken into account include matters relating to the victim, the accused and the offence.
“Factors which are irrelevant to the decision include political, individual or sectional interests, including media coverage or public sentiment.”
The discontinuance of the prosecution against JM comes after Judge Newlinds registered a “deep level of concern” over the abrogation of the prosecutor’s duty to interrogate complainants’ allegations amid concerns the ODPP was putting hopeless cases before juries and called upon prosectors to stop further prosecutions of men as a result of allegations levelled by the complainant who had gone to police about a string of men, at least six of whom faced charges in court.
“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,” he said in a costs judgment in the case of R v Martinez, which was dismissed by a jury after one hour of deliberation earlier this month.
“This must stop. Justice has not been served and will not be served by repeated cases being prosecuted based on obviously flawed evidence.”
In the Martinez case, the complainant had alleged she was sexually assaulted because she had been drunk and could not remember the evening in question. However, the court heard that she had initiated sex and enthusiastically consented. Another case against a defendant dubbed AS also went before a jury in November, with that accused also acquitted. The case against AS involved a very similar scenario, and Judge Newlinds said the men could not receive a fair trial because the jury was prevented from hearing details of the complainant’s history of accusing multiple men.
NSW DPP Sally Dowling SC, responded angrily to the criticism levelled by Judge Newlinds, issuing a statement saying the ODPP would make a complaint to the Judicial Commission.
“The ODPP unequivocally rejects any suggestion that it makes prosecution decisions lazily or on the basis of political expedience, or that it operates according to ‘some sort of unwritten policy’, as the judge has speculated,” the ODPP said in a statement.
“Such remarks unfairly impugn the integrity of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the staff of the ODPP.”
NATASHA ROBINSON HEALTH EDITOR
As someone mentioned earlier, prosocute her for false accusations.
spelunking, Gaza style
a thread on the SJP
an Indian explains why wealthy Muslim countries aren’t stupid enough to allow in any refugees from poor muslim countries, let alone mass immigration.
Curses…:
prosecute
The Coming American Civil War?
https://youtu.be/aDyQxtg0V2w
Judge Newlinds is a worthy candidate for the now unfortunately tainted honour “Australian Of The Year”.
Though I think he’d respectfully decline knowing that a skank like Grace Tame had been a previous recipient.
Marles is wrong – Australia is taking US and UK nuclear waste!
https://michaelwest.com.au/defence-minister-richard-marles-is-wrong-australia-is-taking-us-and-uk-nuclear-waste/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-12-21&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update
Rex Patrick via Michael West.
Time will tell, but wouldn’t it be delicious if Australia gets nuclear waste from our AUKUS “partners” long before a sub is delivered.
It looks like Rex Patrick is the only journo digging deep into this shit show.
Oh ffs will you ugly old men cut the garbage about out of 10 ratings?
“Ooh, oooh, I’m so much more picky than anyone else because I can be.”
It’s like a blog troll being convinced no one can see through their sock puppetry.
Everyone knows that for anyone playing that silly game, either the stupid scale is performative or they prefer men to women.
What about the men who plead guilty? They may have felt their situation was hopeless and been convinced to plead guilty with the carrot of a reduced sentence dangled in front of them.
I’m not old, and chicks dig scars.
With regards joining the dots, another 3(?) men took a guilty plea due to the complainants allegations – I wonder what ‘deal’ they may have been offered by the ODPP and whether they have any recourse now?
Would also be in the public interest to know whether the complainant has been receiving any victim of crime financial compensation in each case as well.
Rosie why would plead guilty to something you didn’t do? I certainly would prefer to be wrongly convicted.
JB doesn’t seem to realise women do it to. Its called natural selection.
I’m here.
The wrong sort of immigration gets you the beheading of a nativity scene. An astute commenter surmised that the donkey might also have been sexually assaulted.
From Germany
Go right ahead love. Make a fuss. Get yourself sacked and get the law changed.
“What about the men who plead guilty? They may have felt their situation was hopeless and been convinced to plead guilty with the carrot of a reduced sentence dangled in front of them.’
Correct Rosie. Many men in such situations, overwhelmed by hopelessness and fear, have pleaded guilty. There is great pressure on them.
And remember, I’m pretty sure I remember reading that in the Bruce Lerhmann case, ACT Legal Aid had suggested to Lehrmann that he plead guilty. Lehrmann refused to. Secondly, I’m pretty sure I remember reading that the judge in the case, a female, also suggested he plead guilty (although I could be wrong about the judge, but I’m not wrong about Legal Aid).
The pressure young men are under in such circumstances is enormous.
Dowling was a Liberal appointee, appointed by Mark Sleazeman when he was AG.
I’m upset this morning. @MikeCarlton has blocked me on twitter for pointing out his multiple idiocies.
As to what Perfidious Albino said:
There are possible acts of fraud, perjury and even perversion of the course of justice by DPP officials.
The law needs to be changed (with mass sackings) and this is an even bigger scandal than the Higgins scandal.
Quite frankly I hope the DDPP makes such a huge fuss about this it can’t be ignored.
People like Kerri Judd are no better than mafioso capos, the difference is she has a commission. If the NSW DPP were to proceed against a forthright defendant we could end up with another DDPP in the High Court asking them to get again, ignore complainant testimony to further their perjury and fraud. To be frank, Henry Hill had more credibility than her.
This is absolutely unacceptable in a free and just society.
Cases like these are literal cancer for the fabric of society. It’s a lot of why men aren’t approaching women much anymore let alone marrying them or having kids.
consistency not her forte
Bern, FYI, Rex Patrick is a former politician and, before that, an RAN electronics technician. He is not a journalist.
How does this compare to the (awful, horrible, no good, dastardly) practice of hijab twitching?
//sarc, for the stupid among the lurkers//
Because you had sex with the accuser, you were both intoxicated and you don’t know how to overcome her claims when the steamroller of justice is coming your way.
Why would they condemn the Polish government when they would like nothing better than to have the AFP do the same to Sky News?
This is the last and definitive word.
Joanna Krupa was for a long time, 11/10.
OK, he’s not a journalist.
He’s the only one doing FOI requests into the steaming AUKUS turd.
Neil (test).
Ahhh. That’s where mUnter’s been all this time (the Courier-Mail):
‘Full leg hams’. There has to be a Brih-nee joke in there somewhere.
A ham-burgler. Oh yes.
The (test).
12 dot.
at least 12
Seal (test).
Neil the seal (test).
Ok, Neil the Seal seems like a bit of a j*rk, as far as seals go.
PS, Dover J-E-R-K is a banned word ?
Oh ffs will you ugly old men cut the garbage about out of 10 ratings?
Well I prefer a 10 to, say, a 3. Like the girl in that fillum. Now she was a 10!
I was fortunate to get my letter published in the Oz today. It was in response to the appalling ambiguity of the Albanese government in respect to support of Israel & the potential effect of encouraging hostility to our Jewish community. I was not the only contributor to express concern. Maybe the issue will have traction.
https://todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=4b1aa3db-be97-4f1f-b5f5-d8c023106cc5
Paul Kelly rightly points out (“ALP’s confusion over Mid-East war reveals its changed character” The Australian, 20 December) the significant shift in the Albanese government’s position regarding the Israeli conflict in Gaza.
It was open to Australia to abstain, as many western allies did, from the UN resolution in respect to cease-fire. But we did not. This sent a clear signal to the pro-Hamas sympathisers in this country that the government is not unsympathetic to their claims. While Sydney and other capital cities endure regular anti-Semitic gatherings in public places our Jewish communities understandably feel unsafe and threatened.
The Albanese government cannot continue to be ambiguous on these issues. They either stand for the rights of all Australians to feel safe and welcome on our streets, or they do not. They may think that the greater community is unconcerned. But the result of the recent Voice referendum indicates that they are failing to read the mood of Australia.
I thought it was Alex.
To answer your question…yes. The “j” word is verboten.
Like SincCat but different.
Oh ffs will you ugly old men cut the garbage about out of 10 ratings?
I agree. And I rate that comment a straight 8.5.
The Italicised bit reminds me of a Yes Prime Minister episode about there being “absolutely no question of the BBC bowing to political pressure”.
All they have to do is check who is selling hams and meat on eBay and pay them a visit.
Oi! Get the name correct, that’s Graceless Tame.
400kg of ham? Magda?
Openly thumbing his nose. Herald Sun:
Suspend him with no pay. Scratch all advertising with him in it. Suspend his commentary duties. Rinse and repeat all summer, preferably the rest of his career.
Tom nailed it during the Perf Test. Australians are mightily sick of seeing cricket princesses preening around the ground whilst being fellated by the media. They are attention whores who are adding zero to anything. Or minus 40 million if you talk about Alinta.
Public prosecutors across a few states are compromised. Remember Pell and the VIK OPP.
Here we are 21 December 2023, two more days til the end if the traditional working week. Business winds down, peoples minds are on family, Christmas and having a break.
I await patiently the traditional Dumping of the Garbage from Victorian Labor Government. Although to be honest they have been dumping quite a bit out of season already.
Ham on the lam.
Queensland this time, not the south of France.
Queensland this time, not the south of France.
Maybe someone wanted a mid-flight snack?
Vicki
Dec 21, 2023 8:14 AM”
Thank you Vicki. Looking forward to catching up with fellow Cats tonight.
I just want to say this, we Jews are now living in a parallel universe, a universe made of eggshells, and we Jews are now tiptoeing around on these eggshells, it isn’t pleasant. When I go to work I function okay, I do my job properly but nobody knows how I am feeling underneath. I guess nobody can know, I can’t expect them to know, but my apprehension is sometimes overwhelming. Yesterday, when I got into a lift to go up a few floors, there was another woman in the left who is also Jewish. Whilst there were other people in the lift, we smiled at each other, I said hello to her, she said hello back, we then asked each other how we were “travelling”, she said “okay”, I said ‘okay” and then I said, “when we’re here it is like we are in a parallel universe” to which she nodded and agreed. I could see her apprehension, she could see mine.
I’m grateful for those Australians who have the back of Australian Jews, a community that has basically existed since the first fleet, but I’m seeing a lot of ambiguity, a lot of silence, a lot of cowardice. Here’s the thing, there should be a march in every city of this country, a march AGAINST Jew hatred, where hundreds of thousands of Australians come out to show solidarity with the Australian Jewish community. Until then my apprehension is going no where because the Jew hatred now running amok in this country isn’t like the Jew hatred of old, where people had stupid stereotypes of Jews being rich and having big noses. NO, NO, the Jew hatred now palpable in this country has been imported from some very unsavoury places on the planet, and the left are now openly aligning themselves with genocidal violent Jew hatred, condoning rape, slaughter and kidnapping of Jews. And don’t think for one moment that the perpetrators and their sympathisers, such as the left, wouldn’t do to us Jews here what they did to the Jews in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
Ita likely has few feelings/ opinions either way about Israel and the Palestinians. That’s a cover.
This is just a senior in a position of power smashing down a bumptious, good looking, youthful up and comer.
Take that, kid !
FU, Time, Fate, Decline and Decay !
I’m not a has-been.
Don’t piss off the powerful as the shadows lengthen.
But seriously, no matter how many millions Tasmania spends on marketing, a seal performing for social media has done more to raise its profile globally.
All they have to do is check who is selling hams and meat on eBay and pay them a visit.
Or at the local pub.
We ask that question every time you post here.
Another Slime infiltrator, alongside Green Kean.
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 21, 2023 8:29 AM
I just want to say this, we Jews are now living in a parallel universe, a universe made of eggshells, and we Jews are now tiptoeing around on these eggshells, it isn’t pleasant.
…snip…
Yesterday, when I got into a lift to go up a few floors, there was another woman in the left who is also Jewish. Whilst there were other people in the lift, we smiled at each other, I said hello to her, she said hello back, we then asked each other how we were “travelling”, she said “okay”, I said ‘okay” and then I said, “when we’re here it is like we are in a parallel universe” to which she nodded and agreed. I could see her apprehension, she could see mine.
I suspect this is now a very common experience. I had pretty much the same exchange with another Jewish person at a social function where there were very few other Jews present. Nobody said anything nasty or political there but you are always aware that it could happen.
Congratulations, Vicki!
My broader concern about the trade union government in Canberra is that it no longer represents anyone but the tiny minority (8% outside the public service) who belong to unions.
And unions no longer need members as they have been gifted the immense cash flow that comes with control of the $A3.5 trillion Australian superannuation industry.
Therefore, unions are now little more than nurseries for Marxist political radicals.
The Elbow regime represents neither the working class or middle Australia and, on the surge of anti-semitism that you note in your letter, they are behaving exactly as we would expect of a bunch of political radicals.
Australians hate radicalism and voted for it in 2022 only because the “conservative” LNP government had become Labor lite — as Turnbull’s anointed successor intended.
hamas leader thanks Canada Australia and New Zealand for their support.
eye roll at the Zara protest, I see Zionists
This is where the dregs of the Labor Party has taken us.
There are Jews in office in the Party. Dreyfus, Danby? Where are you and what do you think? Or are you laying low and hoping at all goes away? It won’t.