I have said already I don’t have a solution but I believe confronting islam is not going to work because we don’t have the balls to stick to our guns.

Are you being obtuse on purpose?

In other words, it’s a sin of omission or commission. Bzzzzt. Lightning worthy in Christianity.

Based on a Surah supposedly given to Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel.

I think we know where this is coming from, calli.

On the garage door, I was talking about access not egress. Once you’re inside the garage you can unhook the door from the motor and raise it manually. But you have to get in first.

Hadn’t thought of that, I have a normal side door to get into the garage.

Great job Cassie!

I was wondering if anyone, even with a camera crew in tow, would wear a kippah down Lakemba way?

That would be a true test of Australian “diversity” right there on show for all to see.

dover0beach
Jan 3, 2024 5:31 PM

Er…what are “Ws” in this context?

Pressure on Europeans.
Pressure on US.
Pressure on Israel.
Increase in prestige across ME, particularly their allies.
And so on.

Forgive me, Dover, but we’re supposed to untangle all those points as “Ws”?

At least it’s not Ks, which we would have a problem with.

I need a little more convincing on the “taqiya” line of “lying is acceptable” to fool infidels.

Islam infiltrates and conquers by stages directly related to their population within the host nation. I have linked to Hammond’s thesis before. Here is another variation of it. The first stage involves Taqiyya: Sanctioned deceit of kafirs and Kitman: Half-truths told to kafirs.

I would argue that in Australia we have moved beyond the first stage since the mullahs are now openly advocating hate against the Jews (and it must be understood the Jews are a proxy for all of the West) as this bastard demonstrates:

Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023

And iran is openly boasting about lying to the biden admin.

Muddy
Jan 3, 2024 5:56 PM
I propose that when Cats write of the United Nations, they choose to preface the phrase with a suitable adjective – such as ‘controversial’.

This is optional, of course, but is also exactly what our ideological opponents do to us.

If we are to get the funding to the UN cut we must make this organisation controversial, on the nose, a byword. Our enemies do it all the time with a lot of success. Let’s follow their example.

billie, I understand we live in an age where everyone is entitled to an opinion and to express it. There’s not much I can do about that. But if you aren’t going to offer an evidentiary basis for your opinions and don’t engage with the evidence others do offer for theirs, I’m going to politely ignore you.

I beat you to it Cassie! 😛

I grabbed one with the intention of asking “which version is this one? the one from Russia, Egypt, England, France or Turkey” so that I could corner them into admitting there’s more than one version (as they stupidly believe it’s all G-d’s word and cannot then deviate).

I remembered a wise Cat said there’s no point arguing with them as logic doesn’t apply.

So, I laden it in bin.

Have a nice evening Cats…. outta here as beach beckons…

More regarding ChatGPT, it need not be as harmful to our kids as long as we tell them how it works and why, that there are certain people who want to lie to them. We don’t have to accuse their teachers as the liars, we could be more effective by telling them that the teachers are not clever enough to work it out that they also are being lied to.

Indolent
Jan 3, 2024 6:19 PM
Harvard’s Claudine Gay set to keep her near $900K annual salary despite resigning as university president

That may not last long when the other Harvard academics find out that they are not being paid as much as the world’s most famous plagiarist.

Roger
Jan 3, 2024 6:21 PM
In other words, it’s a sin of omission or commission. Bzzzzt. Lightning worthy in Christianity.

Based on a Surah supposedly given to Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel.

Would that be the same archangel Gabriel who informed Mary that she will bear the son of God? The same son of God who has then been sidelined by his father in favour of Mohammad? The inconsistencies abound. Are muslims saying that God is inconsistent?

My friends at coffee today were concerned for me when I said I intended to go on the anti-Semitism march being organised by the Christian churches.

Is this being organised by the ACL? Go, Lizzie. It’s important.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jan 3, 2024 7:02 PM
(BTW did I mention the average time for a new cop in NSW to stay in the force is 3 years, but at least Charles Sturt Uni is making a motza. )

And we can only imagine what nonsense they are teaching them.

I’m not surprised at the short career spans if most of them turn out like Kristina Keneally’s son.

Pakis go from 4/47 and 5/90-ish to 9/300

Few bookies willl have done their rupees over that.

Anti-Semitism ‘running unchecked’ amid ‘unchallenged, unimpeded’ radical sermons

By alexi demetriadi
NSW Political Reporter
and mohammad alfares
6:54PM January 3, 2024
292 Comments

Anti-Semitism is “running unchecked” in NSW with Jewish and political leaders at a loss as to the inability to charge under existing legislation extremist clerics calling Jews “monsters” and “descendants of pigs and monkeys”, and that they “ran like rats” from Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

It comes as The Australian revealed footage of sheikh Ahmed Zoud giving a hate-fuelled and anti-Semitic sermon at Lakemba’s As-Sunnah mosque in southwest Sydney.

Senator Dave Sharma – a former Australian ambassador to Israel – said the longer it went “unpunished” the “more normalised it becomes”.

“Is this really the sort of Australia Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns want us to live in, where speech demonising religious minorities is allowed to pass unchallenged,” the Senator said.

“They both talk a lot about social cohesion, but they are failing the most fundamental tests of leadership in allowing anti-Semitism like this to run unchecked.

“I find it hard to understand how these sermons wishing harm to Jews fail to meet the threshold of criminal conduct. At the very least, this should be tested in court. And if our laws are inadequate, we should strengthen them.”

The NSW government recently “streamlined” section 93z of the state crimes act, which outlaws public acts of incitement of violence towards a group on the basis of race and religion.

The legislation dropped the requirement for police to seek approval from the Director of Public Prosecutions before laying charges.

However, after police felt forced to drop investigations into previous anti-Semitic sermons citing the criminality threshold, and given sheikh Zoud’s recent comments, Jewish and political leaders have criticised the legislation and apparent inaction to “test” it in court.

“It’s time they tested the extensive anti-incitement and harassment laws passed by state and federal parliaments over the years with exactly this sort of conduct in mind,” Opposition Home Affairs spokesman James Paterson said, asking when state and federal governments would “finally say enough is enough”.

“We have a growing crisis of anti-Semitism in this country and it is only going to get worse with tragic and predictable consequences unless they act.”

The Australian has previously reported that the “absence” of a low-level criminal offence dealing with inciting hatred or contempt meant only specific incitements of violence were viewed as chargeable.

However, a NSW government spokesman said it was “always prepared” to improve laws and that the state’s anti-discrimination legislation was subject to a Law Reform Commission review, which would include looking at its adequacy and “whether these (anti-discrimination) protections should be harmonised with the criminal law”.

The government amended the Anti-Discrimination Act to prohibit religious vilification last year, although that is a civil not criminal provision.

Sheikh Zoud’s December 22 sermon was what the cleric called “the truth about the Jews”.

“Who are these terrorists… these monsters… who have removed mercy from their hearts,” he said in Arabic.

“These (people) are the Jews, not all of them, but most of them.

“The most important characteristic of the Jews is that they are thirsty for bloodshed… another is betrayal and treachery.”

Sheikh Zoud said the Jews “loved to shed blood” and accused them of raising their children on “violence, terrorism and killing”.

“The Jews (will always) remain the Jews, the days nor years change them,” he said, calling them “vengeful people” with “international bonds”.

Appearing to refer to Hamas’ October 7 attacks, which killed more than 1200 Israelis, sheikh Zoud said Jews “ran like rats”.

“The cowards fell before the attacks of the mujahideen… (they ran) like rats,” he said.

It follows cleric Abu Ousayd calling Israelis “descendants of pigs and monkeys” in a sermon at the Al Madina Dawah Centre on December 29.

Previously, The Australian revealed that Ousayd – also known as Wissam Haddad – and clerics “Brother Ismail” and “Bro Mohammed” had given sermons calling for jihad, the establishment of a Muslim army to fight the West, recited parables about killing Jews, and encouraged people to spit on Israel “so the Jews would drown”.

State and federal police made inquiries into the sermons, but were forced to drop investigations.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said sheikh Zoud’s comments depicted Jews as “less than human or representing the worst of humanity”.

“And yet, there is a muted response from all but the Jewish community and certain principled political leaders,” Mr Ossip said.

“It is difficult to imagine that such vilification would be tolerated if the target was any other minority group.

“Where is the condemnation from local MPs and other Islamic community leaders?”

The mosque was contacted, as was the Australian National Imams Council, who were asked if they condemned the sermon – although neither responded to questions from The Australian.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin called the sermon “chilling Nazi-grade anti-Semitism”.

“The characterisation of our community as bloodthirsty and treacherous appeals to deeply embedded anti-Jewish beliefs,” he said.

“It projects the killing of Jews as an act of self-defence and a sacred, religious duty.

“If this (anti-Semitic sermons) is allowed to pass, our social cohesion, our multiculturalism and our tolerance are a sham and no one is safe.”

NSW Upper House deputy president Rod Roberts – a 20-year police officer before becoming a MP – said inaction on “wheeling these guys in” had allowed the sermons to “gain momentum”.

“What more will it take for authorities to do something,” he asked.

“This isn’t an outlier, we’ve now got another cleric allowed to preach this vile hate speech unimpeded by state law.

“If there’s a legislation issue, it’s on the government to draft up laws that are operable and allow the police to take action.”

The NSW government spokesman called the sermon “unacceptable” and pointed to it strengthening both religious vilification and race-incitement laws since taking office, and that it was “always prepared to consider improvements” to existing legislation.

“NSW is a proud multicultural society – we need to pull together right now to protect our community cohesion,” he said.

The spokesman revealed the government was “constantly monitoring the operation of laws” and that it had “acted rapidly to update NSW anti-discrimination and vilification laws”.

“Law enforcement authorities continue to monitor the situation and stand ready to prosecute breaches of the criminal law,” he said.

The Australian understands that NSW Police are aware of the sermon at the As-Sunnah mosque.

The Labor party really is desperate to retain the vote in certain Western Sydney electorates, aren’t they?

But basically the virus is mutating downwards in severity and lethali

I would love you to be right, cohenite, and up until recently I believed that to be true.

However, husband and I got a second dose of the crappy thing a few months ago (the latest strain) & it was much more severe than the 3 day minor “cold” we contracted in 2022. I know, one example hardly proves anything. But again, anecdotally, I am hearing that the latest is more severe than previous bouts and, as a GP told me, “it lingers”.

This has worried me a bit, since Geert Van Den Bossche did warn that vaccinating during a pandemic would cause “immune escape” & a progressively more intense virus.

Possibly wrong – I absolutely hope so.

The people would have to vote against the left in such numbers as to prevent cheating. Can it be done?

Here? Yes. Emphatically.

In the USA? I doubt it. The opportunities for cheating there are just too great.

Warner led the cheating, was sent home from the tour, received a twelve-month suspension from all international and domestic cricket and was never considered for team leadership positions ever again.
Bad mistake, punitive consequences followed, and reputation forever stained.
It takes quite a strong character to bounce back from that. His lifetime batting stats are impressive and he still fields with consummate ease both in close and patrolling the fence.
Perhaps it’s time to leave his misdemeanours in the past. and let him retire without further acrimony.

Wait until you retire. Your yearly income comes into it so the lower it is the lower the CGT you will pay.

Yep and book any capital losses you plan on taking at the same time. Only really timing on CGT really. If you’re paying tax you’re making money.

Top Ender
Jan 3, 2024 8:18 PM

Any ideas on how to minimise CGT on a rental property that I have owned for 10 years?

Wait until you retire. Your yearly income comes into it so the lower it is the lower the CGT you will pay.

I don’t think so, Ender. You can’t offset income/ capital gains as they’re treated separately for tax purpose.

Dover, you’re posting that Frog idiot? Please! You and I have to have a serious talk about re-configuring your twitter feed. This is becoming unacceptable.

B John.

LOL, Okay, I forgot as I’m always slugged at the top rate. 🙂

So, let’s say you had no income and a cap gains of 30K. You derive the marginal income tax rate on the amount and benefit with the 50% discount that applies to that, right. That’s how it works?

There’s no Israeli consensus that the only option is to relocate Gazans.
If they go enmasse to the Sinai what difference would it make? They’d still be a neighbour.
Netanyahu is quite clear that he thinks it is possible in the absence of Hamas to institute a more secular Gaza, no-one thinks it will be easy.
New unwra free schools, new curriculum, new hope for the future.
Right now it’s literally a welfare state.

rosie
Jan 3, 2024 8:47 PM

There’s no Israeli consensus that the only option is to relocate Gazans.
If they go enmasse to the Sinai what difference would it make? They’d still be a neighbour.

The Med would also be sensible solution. Keep swimming.

calli
Jan 3, 2024 8:30 PM
That follows my offer to Mum to move in with us.

I was sent packing with a flea in my ear. ?

The same thing happened with my mother more than seven years ago. When I thought she could no longer live on her own I asked her to move in with us and she flat refused. A few years before that she was ill and I had her come over to stay with us until she was better. The next day she got in her car and went home telling me that my place was too loud for her.

This meant that when the time came we had to look for a place that would be acceptable to her. We went to almost every retirement village in Sydney’s western suburbs and finally found one she liked. They were nice enough to take her in as respite care for a month so she could experience what they had to offer. She liked it and moved in where she had her own unit though all meals were provided and cleaning and washing was taken care off.

They had weekly excursions to shopping and places of interest and best of all for my mother, they were next to a church which she could attend as often as she liked. It wasn’t cheap but mum was happy there which meant a lot to all of us.

Actually they never were patriotic, if I remember how the unions behaved in WWII.

Not just World War Two – there’s a Vietnam veteran, who lives in this part of the world, who was unloading Centurion tanks, deployed to the ‘fun factory”, and discovering that the” wharfies ‘ who loaded them in Australia, had stolen all the tools off every tank. (H/T Bruce.)

However, I was also staggered to see the picture of the attendant, because I wasn’t sure if it was an ugly female or an ugly bloke identifying as a female, but all I know is that once upon a time Qantas flight attendants were expected to be attractive and not look like, as this ‘person’ in the picture looked like, the rear end of a damaged Panzer tank from Stalingrad.

I looked at it too and thought it does not add up. Why is a Fiji looking woman wearing a Palestinian pin? From what I understand Fijians are very Christian.

I don’t think so, Ender. You can’t offset income/ capital gains as they’re treated separately for tax purpose.

JC is correct. About 15 years ago we sold a property which attracted hefty CGT. We had both just retired and, for a long time, were living off our savings, so income was virtually non-existent.

Still had to pay full CGT.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jan 3, 2024 9:00 PM
Actually they never were patriotic, if I remember how the unions behaved in WWII.

Not just World War Two – there’s a Vietnam veteran, who lives in this part of the world, who was unloading Centurion tanks, deployed to the ‘fun factory”, and discovering that the” wharfies ‘ who loaded them in Australia, had stolen all the tools off every tank. (H/T Bruce.)

Labor never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Isn’t that something that used to be said about Palestinians? No wonder they have such an affinity.

Digger
Jan 3, 2024 9:02 PM
I don’t think Michelle Obama as President would be tolerated.
I doubt that has anything to do with it.
Any Democrat, including Obama or Newson, will win because the Democrats know how to achieve victory. The stupid Republicans believe that honesty, politeness, turn the other cheek and God gives them the moral upper-hand.

That’s what Republicans would like everyone to believe while they are selling out their voters.

And Tony Windsor. Windsor is close to being the biggest imbecile on Twitter. Lord, he deserves so much abuse.

To describe Windsor as an imbecile is to focus on his better qualities. One of the many you wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.