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If the Houthis tried this on Israel , hundreds of planes would appear over Yemen inside 24 hours to carpet…
the do less damage that way
If only:
Did the 3 work cruises pay for the rest of the holiday ?
Well Gidday!!
I second that.
4% of 2024 is over already….
Sunday Tele had a poll wrap that said Labor was in a bad to very bad position re subjects voters cared about.
But at the end they admitted the 2PP was still 50/50.
So what does it take to move the needle?
Good morning…although it’s not morning yet here in the warmish West.
Cash!
I’ve seen nothing but the best from humanity greeting this dog. Exceptions being a Karen at a shopping mall ( he’s now banned from ) and a bloke that wanted to plonk his kid on his back.
I remember yelling at screen …. F-off you dopey bastard! Stevo concurred with more pleasant language.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the P-22 Day Festival 2023 in Griffith Park (5 of 6)
Aimee in particular is my Mutt of the Week
I hope all the sandgropers turned their aircon up to 24C as per the state funded nudge unit ads on the idiot box. Our overlords need to update this webpage: https://www.energy.gov.au/news-media/news/beat-heat
pete of perth
Jan 15, 2024 1:48 AM
I hope all the sandgropers turned their aircon up to 24C as per the state funded nudge unit ads on the idiot box. Our overlords need to update this webpage: https://www.energy.gov.au/news-media/news/beat-heat
I’ve been dipping in the bath.
How does this figure in your opinion that the US doesn’t make much that’s significant in warfare.
First XI.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Sorry — still having spastic mouse problems that make it extremely difficult to post cartoons.
Thanks for those you managed to provide, Tom.
Toda’ys Tele:
WONG’S MID EAST MISSION
COURTNEY GOULD
15 Jan 2024
Senator Penny Wong will meet with the families of Israeli hostages on her first trip to the Middle East as Foreign Minister, as tensions continue to rise in the region over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
However, The Australian last night revealed Senator Wong would not follow her Opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham or former PM Scott Morrison in visiting the southern Israeli towns where the October 7 massacres by Hamas occurred.
Senator Wong, who flies out this morning, will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank where she will meet with families of hostages and survivors of the October 7 attacks. She will also meet with those impacted by settler violence in the West Bank.
“This visit is about advocating for a pathway out of this conflict,” Senator Wong said ahead of her departure. “I will be advocating for an increase in the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance, the upholding of international law and greater protection of civilians, and avoiding regional escalation.”
Senator Wong’s trip follows that of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who was in the region last week.
He warned the Israeli government that the civilian death toll in Gaza was “far too high”.
Sunday marked 100 days since terror group Hamas killed 1200 Israelis and took another 240 hostage on October 7 last year. Israel’s retaliation has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Senator Wong will have to walk a tightrope as she reiterates Australia’s condemnation of Hamas and support for Israel’s right to defend itself while also calling for steps to be taken towards a “sustainable ceasefire”.
“Australia has consistently and unequivocally condemned Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks … We continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages,” Senator Wong said. “I will express our profound concern that there are increasingly few safe places for Gazans … I will reiterate our call for safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access.
“Australia wants to see steps towards a sustainable ceasefire. That can never be one-sided.
“It is our view that Gaza must no longer be used as a platform for terrorism and that Hamas must lay down its arms.”
Senator Wong will also visit Oman, Jordan and the UAE where she will hold meetings with counterparts about the de-escalation of tensions.
The government faced criticism last year when it opted to send junior minister Tim Watts as the first Australian government representative to the region. Senator Wong’s trip was announced a day later.
The government said the visit builds on the extensive diplomatic efforts Senator Wong has made since the crisis began and is the first by a Foreign Minister since 2016.
Her departure comes just days after Australia supported US and UK air strikes on Yemen in retaliation for Iran-backed Houthi rebel attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
FMD.
What a joke.
The Wong Chap Chicom Malaysian Rugmuncher.
Can we somehow leave it in Gaza?
We don’t want it back.
He warned the Israeli government that the civilian death toll in Gaza was “far too high”.
Sadly Bomber Harris is not availabe for comment.
(H/T to the Cat who made this comment a while ago.)
“It is our view that Gaza must no longer be used as a platform for terrorism and that Hamas must lay down its arms.”
It’s a no brainer then to let the IDF prosecute the war right to the end so that Hamarse is exterminated.
It’s not that fvcking hard.
Simples.
Thank you Tom.
However, The Australian last night revealed Senator Wong Chap Chicom Malaysian Rugmuncher would not follow her Opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham or former PM Scott Morrison in visiting the southern Israeli towns where the October 7 massacres by Hamas occurred.
Tokenistic twat.
The two USN sailors announced lost at sea Friday are reported to be SEALs who were doing a nighttime board and search mission of a vessel off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden .
Oohh…the Paywallion:
Penny Wong will not go to October 7 massacre sites during Israel visit, sparking fury in Jerusalem
By YONI BASHAN
MARGIN CALL EDITOR
Foreign Minister Penny Wong will not visit the southern Israeli towns where the October 7 massacres occurred, marking another break in Australia’s position from some of its closest allies whose leaders have visited the Jewish state in the aftermath of terror group Hamas’s assault.
Senator Wong will meet survivors of the terrorist attacks that sparked the war between Israel and Hamas during a tour of the Middle East slated to begin this week. But she will not follow European and British officials, her opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham or former prime minister Scott Morrison in touring the sites where the most deadly attacks were inflicted on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
The Australian understands the Foreign Minister’s decision will concern Israeli government officials, and it is likely to spark anger among Australia’s Jewish community.
Senator Wong is scheduled to depart Australia on Monday for a week-long tour of the region, the first time a senior Albanese government minister has visited Israel since the events of October 7. The itinerary includes meetings with representatives in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, and the United Arab Emirates.
It comes amid continuing military action being waged by the United States and Britain on Houthi rebels in Yemen over attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea, and as a second front in Israel’s war on Iranian proxies threatens to open up with Hezbollah on the border with Lebanon.
Choosing not to visit the towns and villages where Hamas launched its deadliest attacks signals yet another break from Western allies on Israel, following the Albanese government’s support for an immediate ceasefire at the UN General Assembly last month.
A spokeswoman for Senator Wong declined to comment on the decision, but The Australian understands time constraints prevented the Foreign Minister from touring the sites, located about a 90-minute drive from the Israeli capital, Jerusalem. Writing in The Australian on Monday, former Rudd-government minister and Labor Friends of Israel co-founder Mike Kelly said he believed it was incumbent on Senator Wong to visit the kibbutzim.
“She would gain a close, personal appreciation of the brutal, sadistic savagery and genocidal regional Islamist agenda of Hamas,” Mr Kelly said, in a piece co-written with Strategic Analysis Australia senior fellow Anthony Bergin. “Having this perspective should help form a sound position on Israel’s right and need to prosecute the war against Hamas and to ensure Israel, and the wider world, is never again subject to this kind of evil.”
Those who have visited the communities nearly wiped out by Hamas include the European Union’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
Others include German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European parliament president Roberta Metsola, Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, Portuguese Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former US vice-president Mike Pence.
Senator Birmingham and backbench Labor MPs Josh Burns and Michelle Ananda-Rajah also visited massacre sites last month during a joint parliamentary visit.
Mr Morrison visited sites during a joint trip with former British prime minister Boris Johnson.
Senator Wong’s decision aligns with that of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who hasn’t toured the sites. But Mr Blinken has just completed his fifth visit to Israel and the broader region since October 7, deployments that have centred on solidifying the US-Israeli partnership and high-stakes diplomacy to prevent a wider conflagration.
Canada and Japan’s foreign ministers did not visit southern Israeli communities on their recent visits either.
In remarks released ahead of her departure, Senator Wong signalled that her mission wasn’t one of solidarity with Israel and made several sharply disapproving statements of its role in the current conflict, saying the Jewish state “must respect international humanitarian law and conduct military operations lawfully”.
“The way Israel defends itself matters,” she said. “I will express our profound concern that there are increasingly few safe places for Gazans. I will reiterate our call for safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access so that food, water, fuel, medicine and essential assistance (can) reach people in desperate need, and so civilians can get to safety.”
But she also reiterated the Australian government’s condemnation of Hamas, the need for the terrorist group to surrender and to immediately return all Israeli hostages – some 132 of them – still being held in Gaza.
“Australia has consistently and unequivocally condemned Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks, the appalling loss of life, and the heinous acts of violence perpetrated in those attacks, including sexual violence. We continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages,” she said. “One hundred days since the October 7 terror attacks, this visit is about advocating for a pathway out of this conflict.”
Her visit to Israel comes at a time of wrinkles developing in relations with the Jewish state and as Australia begins distancing itself from pro-Israeli positions adopted by the nation’s AUKUS partners. Last month Australia broke with the UK and US to vote in favour of a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza during an emergency session of the UN general assembly. The US was one of 10 countries to vote against that resolution; the UK abstained, as did Germany and Ukraine.
The UN vote is likely to be a focal point of discussion between Senator Wong and her Israeli counterpart, as will Australia’s mysterious position on the case brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
Those hearings began in The Hague last week, but unlike the UK or the US – both of which oppose South Africa’s application – the Albanese government has yet to reveal its position.
YONI BASHAN MARGIN CALL EDITOR
The twat has no idea and is out of of it’s depth.
Comments section is not happy.
Plenty more ‘Flannery’ forecast for the next couple of days in Sydney. So much for the BOM’s forecast of a hot dry Summer (or something like that).
Currently raining as I post.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml#skip
I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
– George H. W. Bush
Another FMD brain fart moment.
Still at the Paywallion:
Aboriginal mother wins adoption appeal against British couple
EXCLUSIVE
By ELLIE DUDLEY
LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
and JOANNA PANAGOPOULOS
REPORTER
An Aboriginal mother has won an appeal against a decision granting a British couple responsibility of her two children who have been living in the UK for nearly four years, in the latest court challenge regarding the care of Indigenous children whose biological parents are deemed unfit to care for them.
The Wiradjuri mother had applied to appeal a decision that gave parental responsibility for her two teenage children to the British couple, known as Ms M and Mr L, who had taken them to Britain.
The children were taken from the mother into the care of the state in 2010 because of “serious concerns” regarding her parenting capacity. They were then handed through multiple carers, and attempts were made to settle them permanently with a maternal aunt.
In 2015 it became increasingly difficult to find the children a permanent home and they risked being separated. However, Ms M, who was familiar with them from her work through an Aboriginal charity agency, offered to take them both in and, with Mr L, became authorised carers for the children.
Mr L’s visa expired in 2019, and Ms M’s a year after, requiring them to return to Britain. With the court’s consent, Ms M travelled to the UK with the children in mid-2020, with the expectation to return a few months later.
But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit all four remained overseas, and have not returned.
Before Ms M and the children left Australia, the mother applied to the Children’s Court for the return of parental responsibility. Ms M and Mr L applied separately, seeking responsibility themselves.
In June 2022 the Children’s Court granted parental responsibility of the children partially to the state, which would control the children’s religious and cultural upbringing, and partially to Ms M and Mr L, who would provide a home for the children, and control their education and medical treatments.
However, last month the mother successfully appealed these orders, on the basis that the Children’s Court did not have the jurisdiction to grant parental responsibility while the children are in Britain, and the decision was quashed.
It is unclear whether the children will be returned to Australia, or if the NSW Communities and Justice Secretary will appeal the decision to the High Court.
The case follows extensive reporting in The Australian of cases regarding whether Aboriginal children can be adopted by their long-term, white foster families due to NSW laws requiring, at first preference, they be adopted by someone of the Aboriginal community to which their birth parent belongs. If not practicable, the child can be placed with an adoptive parent from another Aboriginal community. Only if that is not feasible may the child be adopted by non-Aboriginal parents.
The Australian revealed last March that the adoption by long-term foster parents of Aboriginal siblings “Mary” and “Michael” was being blocked by their mother, who believed her children should not be permanently placed with a “non-Aboriginal family (who) wouldn’t understand the Aboriginal culture”.
A month later, in a separate case, Aboriginal teenager “Richard” made an impassioned plea to a judge to approve his adoption by his white foster parents, saying “no one is listening” to him.
Both cases were eventually resolved, with the NSW Supreme Court granting the adoptions.
SNAICC, the national voice for Indigenous children, said Aboriginal children were most commonly removed from their parents due to a “lack of supports provided to families to address the challenges they face and underlying issues such as homelessness, poverty and mental health concerns”.
“The most effective and immediate action the government can make to ensure the safety and protection of our children is to stand up a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Commissioner, with the legislated power to investigate and make recommendations on issues impacting our children,” SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle said.
ELLIE DUDLEY LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
JOANNA PANAGOPOULOS REPORTER
Intellectual Froglegs has a fun new video out.
a href=”https://rumble.com/v43wj2b-rino-season-new-intellectual-froglegs.html”>RINO Season
whoops.
RINO Season
And as for those ‘Hootie Tooties’ –
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
– Ronald Reagan
Yep. The kids might grow up not believing in the rainbow serpent. Can’t have that.
Yep. The kids might grow up not believing in the rainbow serpent. Can’t have that.
The culture is certainly alive at Alice Springs.
Wins the adoption appeal, teenage children stay in UK with foster parents?
Some cultures are better than others. And some are so bloody awful they should be obliterated.
What they have in the Alice is not aboriginal culture. It’s a degenerate mess with a few fragments of aboriginal culture totally buggered up by alcohol and drugs. Sooner It’s stamped out the better for everyone, especially the children.
The pro Palestinian/Islamist/leftist protests on streets of London, Sydney and elsewhere are now open, transparent…
Hate marches
More specifically, open, transparent hate marches against Jews. Empowered by weeks of police doing nothing, there are now open calls for the killing of Jews on the streets of London and Sydney. There are now placards calling “Jews a curse”. These marches are screeching “genocide”, but here’s the truth, it’s a genocide against the Jews they want.
The alliance between the left and Islam is now laid bare for all to see.
Meanwhile the NSWaffen are ‘monitoring’ the situation.
Just remember how the left, for the last decade, including that rodent progressive who appears here (he’s lurking at the moment, coward that he is), have routinely accused anyone and everyone of being a “Nazi’ for refusing to kowtow to progressive leftist agendas. So, women who want to protect female only spaces are ‘Nazis’, Liberals/conservatives and libertarians are ‘Nazis’, Tony Abbot, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton are ‘Nazis’. Except here the truth, those, including that rodent here, who’ve spent the last ten years screeching, shouting and screaming about how ‘Nazis’ everywhere ARE the real Nazis.
Someone mentioned the other day that SBS has been taken over by the Greeks, or words to that effect. Who are the Greeks there nowadays? Kostakidis left years ago.
What they have in the Alice is not aboriginal culture. It’s a degenerate mess with a few fragments of aboriginal culture totally buggered up by alcohol and drugs. Sooner It’s stamped out the better for everyone, especially the children.
Women and children were bashed and knocked about in aboriginal culture long before the Brits got here:
Life and Death in Pre-Contact Aboriginal Australia
You are right that these days alcohol and drugs make the situation worse.
On the weekend in London, directly outside the UK Parliament, a Muslim named Mohammad Al Kurd took to the stage* and said the following to a crowd of thousands….
‘the day will come where we must normalise massacres as the status quo”.
The London plod stood back and did nothing. I guess threatening ‘massacres’ is letting off steam.
* Oh and on that stage was the member for Grayndler’s good buddy, Jeremy Corbyn. I now wait for the member for Grayndler to distance himself from Corbyn.
I’m still waiting for the Liberals and Nationals to put up a senate motion to censure that fat slug, Mehreen Faruqi, a woman who should, as Pauline Hanson rightly said, ‘piss off back to Pakistan’.
Ahahaha! The Wanderer! One of my favourites.
Petros, I think the comment was that the original staff was predominately Greek, not the current one.
They’ll book you for anything these days. 😀
No doubt the piss wreck mother was talking through a legal representative. There is no mention of her cleaning up her own life. This is about looking after the children. Is it the mother talking or Aboriginal activist legal system where piss wreck parents and assorted relatives have custody of children to get the benefits but still don’t care for the kids. I know through friends the illegal things that happen and are allowed to happen because Aboriginal. No recourse for these illegal acts either. Legal adoption reversed 18 months later coz grandma wanted benefits. I don’t care what colour your arse is, if you’re not looking after your kids you shouldn’t have them.
The Top Stories Taiwan & Berlin
“Anthony Blinken cannot sleep at night when there is world peace. He is like a drunk in a bar who punches you because you looked in his direction, and he ASSUMED you were going to punch him first – so he does what he wrong thought you would do. This guy is so dangerous to National Security that it’s not funny. China has now accused the US of sending “a gravely wrong signal” to those pushing for Taiwan’s independence after Saturday’s election result.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent Taiwanese president-elect William Lai a message of congratulations following the election. Blinken’s prayers and those of his fellow Neocons were answered. His message of congratulations for Lai’s victory, who is a staunch independence supporter, emphasized the partnership between Taipei and Washington, which he said was rooted in democratic values.
Blinken said: “We look forward to working with Dr. Lai and Taiwan’s leaders of all parties to advance our shared interests and values,” adding that the US is “committed to maintaining cross-strait peace and stability” and that he looked forward to collaborating which he hoped would “further our longstanding unofficial relationship” and be “consistent with the US One China policy.”
China viewed the message as a violation of Washington’s commitment to maintain only unofficial ties with Taiwan. The conflict is clearly the result of the US Neocons and even Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, which gave the people the impression that the United States was supporting war with China. Our sources say that this “impression” is what supported the victory of Mr. Lai, who has vowed to protect Taiwan from an increasingly aggressive China. Of course, China has become more aggressive when slapped in the face by the Neocons. As long as everyone agreed to the one-China policy, then there was no pressing urgency to invade Taiwan. With this rising tension, China will be compelled to act, or in their culture, it will be a loss of face. For the life of me, I cannot understand how someone like Pelosi and Blinken have no real understanding of the world they wanted to rule.
In Europe, we have the complete incompetence of European leaders who have set up a crisis that I seriously doubt they understood. Even in the DAX, January was a key target, as is March. If there is going to be war in Europe, the first target will be June.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/future-forecasts/the-top-stories-taiwan-berlin/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Even worse, the kids might grow up not believing in free money and no responsibility for their own actions. They might grow up as normal people and lead happy and useful lives. We can’t have that, it’s not culturally sensitive.
I find it interesting that the kids’ mother is not capable of looking after them yet has no problem in pursuing them through law fare trying to further ruin their lives. I have just one word for people like her, scum.
Have been sitting here wondering, hmm where do I know that name, Mohammad Al-Kurd, so called “Palestinian poet”, from?
And then I remembered, this Muslim cockroach was invited to and appeared at last year’s leftist/progressive wank fest called the Adelaide Writer’s Festival. He was fawned over by Adler, Nilligan, all the rest of the ABC vermin.
So, Al-Kurd, on a London podium on the weekend, called for the normalisation of massacres, which is speech for a massacre against Jews. He clearly gets off on them, Nazi that he is. Now, will Al-Kurd the Nazi ever be given a visa again?
There are others who’ve tried to come to this country, men and women who’ve never called for ‘massacres”, never called for blood libels against Jews, names such as Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson, Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos. These people are banned from this country, they would be hard-pressed to ever get a visa yet we give visas to Muslim cockroaches who want to ‘normalise massacres’ like that of 7 October. Al-Kurd is on the record saying even worse things against Jews.
And let’s get to the nub of this issue. Robinson, McInnes, Yiannopolous and Hopkins were banned by spineless, cowardly, stupid f*cking Liberal governments, the chief bonzo and all round turd being that spineless dimwit called Scott Morrison. All the Liberals ever did was capitulate to their ideological enemies and their screeches of “they’re all Nazis”, except of course, and here’s the truth, Robinson, McInnes, Yiannopolous and Hopkins are NOT Nazis whereas the likes of Al-Kurd, given a visa, and Sleazy’s good buddy, are Nazis.
But I get it, according to the cockroach left….
Calling for genocide against Jews = good
Calling out and condemning genocide against Jews = bad
My niece and her husband have been providing foster care to a toddler who is indigenous. This dear little child is just gorgeous and is much loved by her foster parents and the large extended family. It is such a travesty that they cannot adopt this delightful little child.
Towards the end of this interview with John Anderson Dr Anthony Dillon talks about cases being brought by aboriginal adults who, as children, were left in circumstances of extreme abuse and neglect with aboriginal family.
In other words their lives were a living hell because they were left in circumstances wherein a white child would have been permanently removed. They were discriminated against by the state BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE.
Oh terrific, the limey crook has a gas problem first thing in the morning.
Now we can look forward to the mindless quotes.
I remember listening to Jill Singer, the late ABC presenter, on radio banging on about international adoption because Bronwyn Bishop was supporting the program as a minister. She was dead against kids being adopted and removed from the culture because of the damage it would do to the child.
I rang up and said “poverty is not a culture”
When faced with two different cultures, sensible people take the best either culture has to offer.
And complete losers take the worst.
oops sorry link to the interview of Dr Anthony Dillon and John Anderson is here
Maybe we should have a class action by the Unstolen Generation to reveal to the general population what these children were and still are exposed to in the name of culture.
Iirc the Aboriginal mother discovered her Aboriginality somewhat belatedly and the entire argument, to us normies anyhow, is a crock.
In any case teenagers usually have standing on custody matters and good luck forcing them to return to Australia or to their mother.
Indeed:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/sco/archive/index.jsp?map=rain&outlook=probmedian&period=season1&year=2023&month=11&day=23
Remember, the aboriginal children would have been removed from the mother because of the physical condition of the children.
Obvious health issues from neglect would have been the overriding reason for the original removal order.
The activists have luckily found a judge with more ideology than compassion.
Even if they were babies in 2010 they are going to be around 14 15 16 now.
She’s keen for the children to be taken from people who have been the only stable family in their lives, and make them start again.
Very caring.
They desperately wanted bushfires. All to stoke the Glowball Boiling scam.
Now all they’ll get is topped up dams and lush gardens.
What a disappointment.
The children are valuable. They are worth munni.
There’s a scene in One Life, the film about Nicholas Winton, that provides some insight into the differences between cultures and ideology. Children need to be saved. It is tragic that this can sometimes mean the severing of a child from the culture he/she was born into, but isn’t it better to have a living child rather than a dead child?
In early 1939 Nicholas Winton travelled to Prague after the Germans took Sudetenland. Winton’s mission was to save children at risk, specifically Jewish children. The Nazis were on the march, and even before war broke out in September 1939, well before the death camps, well before the systemic mass murder of Jews in eastern Europe, it was clear that Jews were at risk from annihilation. So, Winton and others were determined to save as many children as they could and put them in homes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
When in Prague, Winton went to speak with a Czech rabbi to try and get his help. Winton was determined to save as many Jewish children as possible. Despite Winton being Jewish on both sides, he’d been baptised into the CoE, and he didn’t regard himself as Jewish (that would not have stopped him from being murdered by the Nazis). The scene between Winton and the rabbi is illuminating and I won’t reveal all but I will say this. Winton could not and would not guarantee to the rabbi that the children would be put into Jewish homes where they could be brought up in a Jewish environment, no, his mission was to save the children, and he told the rabbi as much. The rabbi was not particularly happy about this (and I don’t blame the rabbi) however the rabbi understood the urgency that regardless, the children needed to be saved from certain death.
And therein lies the difference. The left aren’t interested in saving indigenous children through adoption, NO, NO, NO. The left are only interested in parroting ideology and bugger if children’s lives are imperiled and they die. Unlike the rabbi in Prague in 1939, the left don’t care a child’s future.
You’re right about that Gez. There must only be a handful of the Judiciary that aren’t in the ideological camp. Probably in the same proportion as the polititians.
a good story
Do they whip themselves into a lather over other cultures?
What about a Vietnamese kid adopted by an Anglo couple? Or a black kid?
I used to know a woman who adopted a kid from Africa. She was only on my periphery but we still have friends in common. Last I heard the kid (a girl) had grown up, gone to uni, and was now a success in…something or other. (Not medicine and not law. Something else.)
They are making decisions to entrench a legal standing for magical thinking – to Dreamtimes and
gender confusedRainbow Serpents, magical bonds to the land, and so on.Sacred bulltish.
Saving the life of any child must override culture.
a good story
Yep.
Latest update from the Bureau of Mythology. This year is going to be the hottest ever, even worse than thre hottest year ever last year. Down the coast at the moment, the Bureau of Mythology had predicted with great accuracy a high temperature, enough to boil water, of 17-23 degrees. They should pick lotto numbers with that sort of accuracy. I can see their collective faces as they earnestly nod in agreement definitely 17-23 as the highest ever temperature today. Strike me pink, do they not have mirrors. Silly question, that’s what they practice with to keep a straght face whilst feeding us this BS.
And I have completely lost control of the weeds in my garden. I shudder to think what is waiting for me when the rains let up.
And a true story.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
– Ronald Reagan
Response 66.6 is righ
Not wearing a mask, huh.
Bloody hell Crossie, lift your game.
Buy a Boer goat and the whole yard will be as bare as a concrete driveway.
Almost everyone knows that having children will deplete your financial resources however, that is not the case with indigenous culture. No wonder they want to keep that culture.
Our helping professions no longer seem to believe in that.
In their tiny minds maybe. Arctic sea ice is at the highest level for 20 years. The US midwest and Canada are ridiculously cold. The UK is due for five days of snow this week. Russia is so cold that a hot water pipe has burst in Moscow forcing 12 hrs rolling blackouts each day in temperatures of -22 C.
For This Time Of Year, Arctic Sea Ice Has Risen To It’s Highest Level in 21 Years (14 Jan)
Rolling Blackouts Narrowly Avoided In Alberta (14 Jan)
Desperate Vladimir Putin plunges 22 million Russians into darkness in bitter -22C winter (14 Jan)
Silly headline, Putin can’t make pipelines not break, but no joke having no heating in a Moscow winter. Here in Ncl I’ve had one 40 C day and one 38 C day and nothing much else over 30 C. Barely need to use a fan.
The question for adoption is this.
Does the bio-parent love piss/drugs & violence more or less than it loves its kid.
I used to have an amazing lady as a customer, Aboriginal, her own kids all in good middle class (apprentice with RIO, secretary for another mining mob etc) jobs and she had up to 4 kids fostered at any one time.
I asked her how she went with the more feral kids.
She said it took her 2 weeks to get a kid from feral to attending school and acting responsibly.
She would smother them with affection and when they played up make it clear she was hurt/sad and the kids responded.
Amazing old duck.
Ackman thinks hes got something…
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
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Business Insider is toast.
You will hear from us in a few weeks.
It will look something like this:
At My Signal, Unleash Hell
This is Arstrayah.
It could be searing hot in February.
There must be grounds for a lawsuit, Mole. My kid interned at BI for a while, before she to business school. It’s an unpleasant place to work.
Andrew Bolt:
In my neck of the woods February is a humid month but we got humidity a month early this year which means two months of discomfort this summer.
Trump tells eco mob protester to ‘go home to your mommy’ after hecklers in Iowa call ex-president a ‘climate criminal’ and are dragged out as crowd chants ‘USA’
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/covid-19-shots-linked-autism-vaccinated-rats-study
Researchers found that the vaccines had a “profound impact on key neurodevelopmental pathways,” with the male offspring exhibiting “pronounced autism-like behaviors, characterized by a marked reduction in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behavior.”
6 mice was apparently enough to declare the bivalent shots ‘safe’, so presumably, this study of 41 rats will suffice to show they weren’t?
Trump tells eco mob protester to ‘go home to your mommy’ after hecklers in Iowa call ex-president a ‘climate criminal’ and are dragged out as crowd chants ‘USA’
Im guessing he has dirt on most of the board with regards to their academic qualifications.
If someone committed fraud in gaining a qualification, would an employer have a claim against them as well?
Or the university that waved through the fraud?
Or if the universities own professors were shown to have fraudulent qualifications?
A self licking ice cream cone of fraud
From the story:
Yes, you read is right: they are protesting global boiling during temperatures of -18 C in Iowa, and snow so deep that people are having trouble getting to the primary caucus.
Supreme Court poised to end ‘constitutional revolution’ that’s marred US governance for 40 years
many good people in the Netherlands during the war also many Judass
Development: The Turkey regime arrested Sagiv Yehezkel over questioning for “incitements”
anyhow, genocide
part of any ‘proof of life’ video
Natural Instinct:
Probably still in the hope stage for many middle Australians. They believe that this current government can yet improve to the point that the virtue signalling benefits they get from voting Labor are enough to outweigh the existential threat that they pose.
When faced with two different cultures, sensible people take the best either culture has to offer.
Best of Western Culture:
Anaesthesia, Antibiotics, boiling water, indoor plumbing, mathematics, engineering, internal combustion, ….
Best of Aboriginal Culture
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Bueller?? Bueller???
Further to the successful equipment rescue mission last night, one of the first guys had his phone going:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/234373739626115
Wild and hairy, especially as it was all real. I’ve worked with smelting, the radiant heat off the lava must’ve been ferocious. The video plays for me ok despite being Facebook. – just dismiss the login thingie.
It is possible that hamas is distributing aid fairly and these men are just looters.
Right?
hamas shooting at civilians
I have two very close friends who have aboriginal genetic heritage (1/4)- neither claim aboriginality at all — about the stolen generation they emphatically believe: Better stolen than dead.
Consistency is a very high priority for pro-vaxers.
A previously perfectly healthy child comes down with autism symptoms within a day of their shots:
“Correlation doesn’t prove causation, doctors just renamed lots of old conditions as autism. Lots of children in 1950 were smearing faeces on walls and not a single doctor or parent noticed”.
A mass polio vaccine campaign is introduced after governments were under huge pressure to end the “epidemic”:
“Correlation definitely proves causation when it comes to polio rates falling after the polio vax – and whatever you do, don’t look at total paralysis rates because doctors never ever rename conditions because the phrase ‘differential diagnosis’ is for conspiracy theorists.”
Albanese, quoted in Oz
Note his concern about events “after the Hamas attack”.
Correlation doesn’t prove causation
It does – eventually – for example with parachutes and gravity – theres never been a Randomised Double Blinded Trial of Parachutes (to my knowledge), but enough ‘lesser quality’ experiments have been run to accept that their use *causes* rather than *correlates* with the survival of the person who jumped.
Steve Kirsch has discussed this. He has multiple collective ‘anecdotes’ which could not have happened by chance and must have been caused by the shots, for their p values exceed the age of the earth. At some point, enough ‘correlations’ pile up to equal causation.
Oh great, another day of the phlogiston theory of medicine…
Tut-tut.
Differently abled mouse.
Not spastic.
Bowen must be getting frustrated.
Japanese-backed wind generator’s licence knocked back (Paywallian)
If Plibs keeps knocking back projects like this it’s going to be hard to build all that loverly wind energy that he wants for us to be the world’s biggest exporter of unicorn fumes.
Wasn’t there a case last year, where the claim to “Aboriginal culture” was based on an Aboriginal ancestor, dating from the 1850’s?
Dallas Cowboys stinking it up on home turf. 0-27 just before half time against the Green Bay Packers.
Apologies to those who are the decent guys here if things got out of hand. I’ve been out of sorts for a few days over a personal issue that has now been dealt with and took me a little over the edge with the usual misfits, miscreants and their provocations.
I get your point Duk, but correlation alone does not prove causation. For example, my rooster crows every morning before the sun rises, so the two events are correlated, but we would not assume that my rooster crowing causes the sun to rise.
Depends on the items, quantities, etc. BTW, no one has said “US doesn’t make much that’s significant in warfare”.
If Plibs keeps knocking back projects like this it’s going to be hard to build all that loverly wind energy that he wants for us to be the world’s biggest exporter of unicorn fumes.
Keep going Plibs. There are many more such Projects that need knocking back in order to save the Environment –
Climate myths: Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter –
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11638-climate-myths-human-co2-emissions-are-too-tiny-to-matter/
More CO2 please say the trees and plants.
I presume he means the mistreatment and murder of the hostages, and the failure to return them. Even their corpses.
He does mean that, doesn’t he?
Sadly BoN this means more farmland appropriated for wind mines.
Sea water is far more valuable than prime agricultural land as clearly demonstrated by Plibber’s marine mandates.
Foolish landholders who sign up for these grossly inefficient tax turbines will find that the ‘project area’ means they have given their titles to a tenant whose sole intention is exploitation of that land with the enthusiastic backing of government who will use coercive powers to grab freehold land for renewables.
Meanwhile in America DEI continues to make Flying Unsafe – Look at the Photos of the Damage – I would think that Plane is a Write-Off!
United Airlines questioned about DEI impact on hard landing in Houston
A conservative activist is raising questions about whether a relatively recent United Airlines hard landing was attributable to the company’s DEI agenda.
The hard landed occurred on July 29th as a previously uneventful United Airlines Boeing 767-300ER flight from the Newark Liberty International Airport to the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston turned awfully dramatic.
“According to the [National Transportation Safety Board’s] preliminary report, while landing at IAH, the First Officer was flying and, despite best efforts to keep the nose wheel from bouncing, the nose wheel made contact with abnormal force,” as reported by Simple Flying, an aviation news source.
“The airplane appeared to bounce, and he reacted by pulling aft on the control yoke, in an effort to keep the nose wheel from impacting the runway a second time.
Subsequently, the speed brakes deployed, and the auto brakes engaged which resulted in a second bounce of the nose wheel.”
These bounces reportedly caused significant damage to the airplane.
The question now is why did this happen. Was it the airplane acting up, or was the pilot at fault? According to conservative activist Ashley St. Clair, it may well be the second one.
In a tweet posted Friday, she claimed the pilot was a DEI hire who’d “failed multiple trainings” but been hired anyway because he or she had checked the right identity boxes.
“Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?” St. Clair wrote in her tweets.
“Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training? Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?” she added.
When billionaire Elon Musk noted that this puts a lot of lives at risk “if true,” Ashley responded: “Wish it wasn’t & far from the only instance. Lots of very concerning corners being cut with DEI at United…”
However, United Airlines’ “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda does seem to suggest there could be some legitimacy to these allegations.
Three years ago in early 2021, the airline publicly vowed to up its so-called “diversity” by ensuring at least 50 percent of future hires were women or non-white minorities.
“Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people onboard our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color,” the airline tweeted at the time.
The announcement was met with heavy criticism by those who felt that hiring new pilots on the basis of gender and race instead of talent and qualifications was not only a discriminatory policy but a dangerous one as well.
Since the DEI hiring decision in 2021, several other incidents have occurred, including one that happened in December of 2022.
Meanwhile
Ted Cruz Asks Government Watchdog to Investigate DEI Hiring’s Role in FAA Near Misses
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suspects woke hiring practices might be behind recent airline near catastrophes and has asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate.
Cruz wrote to the GAO Thursday in advance of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on “addressing close calls to improve aviation safety” to request an investigation into the extent to which recent ‘near-misses’ are a result of overworked controllers due to Obama’s woke policy change that prioritized diversity over graduates of air traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) programs, which resulted in thousands of qualified applicants leaving the controller pipeline.
The Obama administration in 2013 introduced a biographical questionnaire (BQ) into the Air Traffic Control (ATC) hiring process in an attempt to improve ATC diversity. In his letter, Cruz writes, “After the FAA adopted the BQ and began favoring ‘off-the-street’ hiring over graduates of air traffic CTI programs, thousands of qualified applicants left the controller pipeline.”
His letter requests the GAO assess the impact of the biographical questionnaire on the controller workforce and the extent to which recent near-misses are a result of controllers being less-well-trained due to the Obama policy change.
Cruz says that the BQ “reportedly awarded more points for applicants who scored lower in science and were unemployed during the previous three years.
“The BQ has never been made public, but it also reportedly asked applicants about their favorite music and colors to learn more about an applicant’s background.”
The prospect of Wong being let out of its cage is disturbing.
The prospect of her attempting to impose her student union campus hatreds on an environment as complex and dangerous as the Middle East is terrifying and embarrasing.
It will take decades for us to recover any sort of reputation. Israel needs to be loud and public in criticising her uncalled for (jew hatred) interventions, as does Dutton.
In every way a repulsive creature who is too dangerous to be permitted power or authority ar any level.
Dover
You didn’t say that, but also no one suggested you did.
The tootsies aren’t going to be much of a problem to the US, which is the largest, most sophisticated arms manufacturer in the world. 🙂
Some years ago, I heard an interview with Prof Peter Doherty, in whch he told the story of a woman who took her child to be vaccinated. For various reasons (I can’t remember) the caccination was not performed. The next day, the child was diagnosed with autism. Had the vaccination been performed, undoubtedly it would have been classed as a vaccine-induced injury. Sometimes, shit happens.
Tom, I had the same problem a while ago, and it was absolutely infuriating. BTW I have an attached mouse, so it wasn’t about wireless issues.
I can’t remember how I fixed it, but I found the solution by typing something like ‘uncontrollable scrolling W10 desktop’ into Google and found various forums where solutions were suggested. One of them worked.
You might want to try searching with your own specs and see if anything useful comes up.
HTH
Mmm…nearly 50 years after “independence” and how many $billions in aid since and PNG doesn’t have its own police helicopters?
Strange example. The rooster crows because the sun is about to rise. So there is causation.
Temporality is very strong evidence. Extremely strong evidence. Correlation as evidence is weaker if you aren’t talking about temporality. For example, if you notice that people who live around high voltage wires have higher cancer rates. In the absence of temporal evidence this might just be a function of the fact that richer people don’t tend to live near high voltage wires and rich people tend to be healthier.
Imagine if someone crashed their Volvo into a tree and then had a broken leg. The paramedics – if they were following pro-vaxer logic – would say “sorry. That broken leg can’t be because of the crash. We checked the data (that Volvo manufacturers provided us) and Volvos are clearly safer than motorbikes so your broken leg must have been caused by something else.”
A very true oldie but goodie.
On the other hand, the sun rising does, however, cause the rooster to crow. 100% correlation and causation.
Interesting that Plibbers is blocking all these ruinable projects.
Has she and the rest of Labor finally twigged that talking about ruinables is good for your green creds, but building, commissioning, then actually trying to rely on and having to subsidise while also charging customers is political suicide.
Ultimately the most unanswerable argument against ruinables is…ruinables.
The fact that this story sticks out in his mind just proves it. It virtually never happens (even on the unlikely assumption that Doherty is telling the truth). If vaccines didn’t cause autism then it would be exactly as common as stories of children coming down with autism symptoms straight after their shots.
Figures moving on from phlogiston and segueing into phrenology based medicine now.
Hope this has not been previously posted: Almost 1200 comments none too supportive of this ineptocracy of what is laughingly called the Albanese ‘government’
She’ll be following the advice of her department.
There are possible legal ramifications if she doesn’t and the decision is appealed.
Cite you the South African example, where the police air wing was grounded, because the spares and fuel had been sold on the “black market.”
Good. I hate most of their opinion based pieces.
I agree the covid mRNA vaccines were rushed to market and poorly tested. I also have concerns about their safety. But I think it is silly to say that correlation demonstrates causation, because obviously there are many examples where a high correlation exists in the absence of a causal relationship.
For example, my rooster crows every morning before the sun rises
Phrasing?
Davos theme this year:
Rebuilding Trust.
Chuckle.
All over Europe, the peasants are revolting!
“There is novel and preliminary evidence that some vaccines may contribute to developing autism in some patients with genetic predispositions in the context of a prolific vaccine schedule.”
That is the most you could say.
You then jump onto the snippet of pop science that causation can never be proved from the bastardisation of the fact that correlation alone does not imply causation.
Does KKR want Ackman being a very noisy pest?
Doubt it.
Why?
I don’t want children, the differently abled, mentally or physically, the morbidly obese, frail elderly or any other incompetents flying any planes.
New Medicare data makes it clear that the COVID vaccines have killed millions of people worldwide
Haw haw haw.
Your epistemological framework for disease is the same bloodletting had – it’s popular, been around a long time, every respected institution agreed with it and everybody’s parents and teachers taught it to them, ergo, it was true and scientific.
OTOH, my framework is that the processes with which we understand diseases should be corroborated by processes in other, independent, fields of knowledge.
Penny Wong. Everything that is wrong with our ruling class embodied in this useless shell. FMD
Does anyone know how to buy Coureur de Bois Maple Cream Liquer in Australia?
KKR has seen off more activists & lawsuits than I’ve had hot dinners.
But Ackman won’t just cause you grief in a corporate sense.
The guy occupies your life until you settle or he gets bored.
The Herbalife epic is a poor example of what happens when he goes all in.
Ie, it’s a recent & public example that caused his opponents to lose a lot of paint & sleep.
But that’s tame when compared to how far Ackman is willing to go when he’s on his high horse.
You just don’t need the grief.
(Wait for it. Someone will argue that genes and microbes aren’t real soon).
Im usually pretty harsh on people who claim psych injuries from work issues.
This lady is a definite exception.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12961271/Teacher-compensation-Waratah-Special-Development-School-Melbourne-humiliating-act.html
The teaching assistant claims she was paired with a class of teenage boys who were ‘constant’ masturbators from May 2014 to November 2015.
One of her tasks was to clean up after them, after they had masturbated,’ the County Court of Victoria judgement states.
‘She did this work for about one week before she broke down and resigned, and has not worked since.’
I memed…
https://imgflip.com/i/8ccnc9
Insurrection news
sunrise depends on where the ‘rooster’ is located
as in … EST-US or AEST
Presumably That Wong Chap is avoiding the areas where the attacks occurred on 7th October because acknowledging the attacks is ‘not helpful’ to her message telling the Israelis that they are in the wrong.
Rog-
Wong is the fr*kkin Minister.
Legal implications departmental advice pffffft. He’s the Minister, and the most lordy-lordy monomanic Minister we’ve had in our lifetime, albeit a slimy one who can talk his way into, and out of, any position, his high-handed Old Adelaide drone unchallenged by our quisling media pack.
Think of his “department” as being comprised of Brinnys and Bruces, Kerry O’Briens and Murray Wattses.
He’s the Minister, and he, and only he, should be copping an egging.
Constant Masturbators sounds like an edgy punk band.
You won’t see the APS6 and EL1 staff using that name in their pro Palestinian, Thatcher hating punk cover band soon.
“Dad, you’re so not cool!”
RFK Jr weighs in on South Africa’s genocide claims
The German police don’t seem very happy with propalastine protests.
Does this mean that we don’t need Ministers? If failing to follow departmental advice can lead to “possible legal ramifications”, how many ministers will have the courage to reject departmental advice?
Two simple examples. First, the Menzies government rejected RAAF advice to buy the A-5 Vigilante in the early 1960s, and bought the F-111. Teething problems delayed the introduction of the F-111s into service, but they were effective, and remained in service many tears after the A-5s were scrapped.
Second, in the early Noughties, Brendan Nelson rejected Defence advice, and bought the F-18F Super Hornet. It was soon accepted that he was correct.
Then there is departmental advice that sun, wind and batteries can operate a modern society …
no one messes with the LSE
Aust Jewish Association Statement on Penny Wong’s ‘Outrageous Insult & Disappointing Behaviour’
Dot:
No idea who would do that. Although I do suspect that a few strawmen are about to be used.
What’s this about Deutschland standing up for Israel in the “International Court”?
In For Your Own Good news, Chris Bowen is getting sexually excited:
What a clusterphuck. Well done Labor you evil bastards.
Rog-
Wong is the fr*kkin Minister.
Legal implications departmental advice pffffft.
I think you mean Plibersek.
And that’s how government works:
The parliament passes the legislation, the public service administers it and the minister signs off on the application of the legislation to specific cases with very little discretion.
If the government of the day doesn’t like it, they have to seek to amend or repeal the legislation.
Rule of law, for good or ill, as the case may be. Otherwise we’d be completely at the whim of the executive and ministers in particular.
Defence purchases aren’t legislated for, hence more ministerial discretion.
Sorry Roger, getting my site scanning skills shown up.
Nonetheless- apply Plibbers’ “brave leadership” (ie, jumping off the turbine bandwagon to side wiith the whale watchers) to Wong’s near-Israel visit.
Then why use that phrase in your statement?
The tootsies just shut the Red Sea and thereby the Suez Canal to shipping it doesn’t approve of. It’s breathtaking you are still waving poms poms as if nothing happened.
Amazing our common law espouses both executive prerogative and Departmental advice that must be followed.
Coal mining communities in QLD will be watching closely.
And as with the UK, where they are further down this road, the promised high paying “green jobs” to replace carbon intensive industries will not appear.
Israel saving lives with new medical technology.
Belief in genes and microbes AND terrain theory is bewildering.
They never do.
Thanks, Johanna. My computer problems are, as you say, infuriating.
The shop (Officeworks) is 30kms away but I have another appointment near there tomorrow, so I will be consulting my OW tech expert (who has a 100% success rate) on my way there.
I wouldn’t exactly out it like that, but it’s all about checks and balances and the division of power, as worked out incrementally over c. 800 years.
But you knew that.
😀
Good luck, Tom.
That’s hilarious. The only reason why they were arrested is The Express sent a journo to report undercover. He then told plod.
Six arrested over plot to ‘bring London Stock Exchange to standstill’ (14 Jan)
Well done that journo. I hope he survives, since the Left are a vindictive bunch.
The R.A.A.F. lost six F111’s during their service life – they had expected to lose eight, in the first year of service.
Dot:
No idea why. At any rate, terrain theory suffers from the same mathematical impossibility as germ theory/immunity – there are no negative feedbacks in the system so if it were true, recovery would be impossible therefore no organism could exist.
Neither terrain theory nor germ theory could possibly be true and both are completely ridiculous with even 10 seconds thought.
Terrain theory can’t explain why diseases sometimes cluster (eg colleagues coming down with the flu at the same time). And germ theory can’t possibly explain why doctors don’t drop dead 5 minutes after they start their job.
There is one theory that can explain bothof those things though.
No, there certainly is no way this could have happened by chance.
If I collected ‘anecdotes’ from Very Senior Pastors at Creation Ministries International, I could prove (with a highly significant p-value) that the Earth is 5,327 years old.
Kirsch’s schtick depends on people being impressed with Excel and Appeals to Authority – and having NFI about population statistics.
Meanwhile in America “The Home of the Lunatics”
FAA launches recruitment campaign for workers with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric problems and physical issues to hit woke DEI targets
. The FAA is recruiting people with specific disabilities under a new diversity drive
. The initiative is part of the broader ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ plan by the agency
. Critics were concerned about safety, while the FAA noted diversity’s importance
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for recruits with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities as it tries to hit woke DEI targets.
The agency is hunting people with psychiatric issues and other mental and physical conditions in its latest diversity drive.
The FAA, which includes jobs such as air traffic controllers, are keen to employ those with hearing and vision impairments, missing limbs, partial and complete paralysis.
Such a broad recruitment is all part of what the FAA term its ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ hiring plan.
The FAA, overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is responsible for regulating civil aviation and currently employs around 47,000 people, while John P. Benison is charged with implementing the agency’s DEI plan.
Benison, whose official title is as Assistant Administrator, Office of Civil Rights, ‘is responsible for assuring equal opportunity, and diversity precepts within the FAA’ with his officer overseeing all ‘civil rights, equal opportunity, and diversity matters.’
The FAA states on its website how individuals with ‘severe’ mental and physical disabilities represent an under-represented segment of the federal workforce.
The agency ‘actively supports diversity through various associations, programs, coalitions, and initiatives, emphasizing the importance of its diverse workforce.’
‘Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond,’ the FAA states.
However, there has been renewed attention on the FAA and the airline industry as a whole following an incident earlier this month when a plug door on a Boeing 737 Max 9 malfunctioned during an Alaska Airlines flight.
The FAA responded by grounding all 737 MAX 9 planes, conducting extensive inspections, and increasing oversight of Boeing’s production line.
Following the shocking incident, some public figures including Elon Musk suggested that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives may be responsible for compromising safety in the airline industry.
‘It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE,’ Musk wrote on his X platform on Tuesday, rearranging the abbreviation for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
Roger you have mentioned a couple of times now after me posting a column on mines being shuttered that Queensland will be looking on closely.
I’m not in tune with where the mines are in that state, are they mainly in Coalition electorates?
Teething problems delayed the introduction of the F-111s into service
They eventually proved to be great if we went to war against Tenterfield.
Now renamed DIE targets.
Hydrogen Hub (n): a term used by politicians to signify an industrial unicorn; a political chimera; a rhetorical device to avoid questions about future economic prospects ‘under my government good, well-paying jobs will be created by our Hydrogen Hub Initiative’.
It seems people in general cause JC massive grief. How is the blood pressure? I am sure you are a pleasure to deal with in real life as well as here.
The video shows gorgeous women ( hope it works).
They must like all these guys then.
Puerto Rican Judge Judy doesnt hold back.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1746373868779090259
Ex-Shin Bet head says Israel should negotiate with jailed intifada leader:
The discovery of the Roman dodecahedron simply reminds us of how stupid we are
The recent discovery reminds us of how advanced the Romans were, before it all went horribly wrong for Britain
WILLIAM SITWELL
There were two big mysteries in the news this week.
First there was the discovery of a Roman dodecahedron in a field in Lincolnshire and second there was the question of what happened to Michael Gove’s forehead.
And, I would add, are the two issues connected?
The dodecahedron find means that 120 such knobbly-objects have now been discovered across Europe, from the Netherlands to the UK, Germany to Austria.
With this latest object unearthed near the village of Norton Disney, close to the site of a Roman villa discovered in 1923, 33 of varying sizes, from a golf to a cricket ball, have been found in Britain alone. It has, as they all do, left people scratching their heads.
Indeed, it emerges that Lorena Hitchens – a doctoral student at Newcastle University whose PhD concerns dodecahedra – says that they “are some of the least understood objects to survive from the Roman Empire,” adding: “The Romans don’t mention these at all – no inscriptions, no writings, no pictorial depictions, nothing.”
Which leads to an even greater mystery, perhaps, on how she’s managing to get 80,000 words done on not knowing what the hell they are.
This find comes exactly 12 months after a metal detectorist found the fragment of another such object in a ploughed field in northern Flanders (and yes, I’ve also just got the chills having realised that Toby Jones – a hitherto, completely unheard of British character actor, now the most powerful man in Britain – starred in the TV series The Detectorists…)
The objects are things of intricate beauty and fascination. They are hollow, have 12 sides and there are large holes in each face and round studs in each corner.
A curator at the Gallo-Roman Museum in the Belgium city of Tongeren has speculated that they could be instruments to measure land, a calendar or an object related to sorcery or fortune telling.
But, says Guido Creemers: “none of [the hypotheses] is satisfying.”
It is also intriguing to think that these objects were quite common, in that so many have survived, but the fact that we have no clue about what they were used for is a salient reminder about our place in history.
Humans, across time, always tend to think that they are living in the greatest period, the moment of keenest discovery, of advancement in civilisation, of peak intellect.
It’s a bit like how people regard restaurants. Terence Conran said in 1997: “There has never been a more exciting time to eat out.”
The critic Michael Winner once wrote of “the golden period of the 1950s, when food tasted like it was meant to be.”
In 1791, Samuel Johnson wrote that: “there is nothing which yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.”
And William Fitzstephen, in 1170, talked of a public eating house where “every thing desirable is instantly procured”.
The dodecahedron reminds us of how advanced the Romans were.
They had underfloor heating, built roads and aqueducts, invented cement, had a functioning postal service, bound books, invented the Julian calendar, spread a unified currency across the empire, were hospitable to strangers, had a very relaxed attitude to sex and promiscuity, had an extremely good sense of humour (have you seen the graffiti in Pompeii?) and had enormous fun down at the circus.
Then it all went horribly wrong and Britain was plunged into the Dark Ages.
Civilisation declined for hundreds of years (you couldn’t get a table in a decent restaurant, let alone with a tablecloth, until the 1400s) and the story was one of frequent bouts of extreme violence perpetrated by Saxons, Vikings and Normans.
Then fast forward to today, an era in which we celebrate the idiocy forced upon children that is the iPad, denying them of the chance to think and create, we fight wars creating unimaginable suffering and you can’t get a cone of decent ice-cream on any British high street.
Give the average person a Celtic Romano dodecahedron and ask them – Clive Anderson’s Whose Line is it Anyway style – to imagine and improvise its use and they’ll probably just chuck it at someone, with all the brains of a Neanderthal.
Which is possibly what happened to Michael Gove.
Having (no doubt) fiercely castigated his ex-wife, Sarah Vine, for describing in The Spectator – and in doing so breaking the last taboo – who was at the Garrick one evening over Christmas (Kwasi Kwarteng, his wife, their vicar, Lord Howard, Lord Winston and Sting) she would have puffed, shrugged her shoulders yelled something like – “Oh do shut up you pompous idiot’” – and, grabbing the nearest object, a 1,600 year old dodecahedron, flung it at him and caused some very satisfying and temporary scarring.
Teething problems delayed the introduction of the F-111s into service
Then again that clown Gareth Gareth Evans deployed one against Tasmania, so there is that.
Oh boy.
Correct, BB. Labor’s vote has not recovered from the 2019 disaster and if present policies continue it likely never will.
Mr. 32%’s victory went against historical precedent in that he didn’t do it with gains in QLD. I doubt he’ll repeat that feat, although he may scrape through with urban Teal/Green support next time. Thus, the country-city divide grows unless Dutton can tap into metropolitan discontent in a big way.
Say…do you suppose they’re Communists?
Bullshit.
I hope mother and daughter are okay, JC. Not prying, just sending best wishes.
FAA’s Insane Diversity Push May Change DEI to DIE
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is, remember, the federal agency that oversees commercial air travel, including the airlines, their primary purpose being to keep air travel, above all things, safe.
So why, then, has that agency bought into the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion nonsense to the point where their hiring choices have the chance of actually getting American air travelers killed?
The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.” The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
This is what, back in my days in Uncle Sam’s colors, we used to refer to as a “Charlie Foxtrot.”
The FAA wants to bring in people who are “under-represented,” including, of all things, people with “severe intellectual disability” and “psychiatric disability.”
Of all the things they list, those two are the most concerning.
At what, precisely, does the FAA plan to put these people to work doing? It’s safe to assume that by “severe intellectual disability,” one means at best a substandard IQ, if not an outright inability to function in any organized workplace; there’s a reason these people are “under-represented” in the workplace, and it’s because there is just so little we can safely have them do – especially in this industry, which involves, I remind you, loading a couple of hundred people in a jet-propelled aluminum can and propelling them through the air at 36,000 feet for a few hours.
Even more disconcerting, though, is the perceived need to bring in those with a “psychiatric disability.”
Given the line of work I’m in, I get to read all manner of government-agency lunacy every day, so it takes a real whopper to faze me these days, but when I first read that, I honestly did a double-take – “Wait, what?”
On second reading, though, yes, I had it right.
The FAA – who I remind you, is responsible for ensuring safe air travel – is planning to ramp up hiring of those with “psychiatric disabilities.”
What kind of psychiatric disabilities? Sociopathy, I would posit, is a psychiatric disability, as is schizophrenia or “other psychotic disorders,” bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive disorder.
Surely the FAA isn’t going to be hiring people with these kinds of disorders to do, well, anything the FAA needs done?
Has our federal government gone absolutely bonkers?
What in the world could the U.S. taxpayers, who after all are paying for all this, have to gain by the FAA taking this bats*** crazy action?
This latest effort by the FAA is downright unsettling, and whoever takes the seat at the Resolute Desk next January should look into dismantling this initiative, tout de suite.
While Katter holds Kennedy, I should have added.
Following GreyRanga’s “Bureau of Mythology”:
January 2024, to 0900 today, in inner NW Briz Vegas:
107mm, according to my Chinese-made, Bunnings rain gauge; taken each morning.
And we are in a partial rain shadow, which protects us from the worst of the suburb-rearranging storms Brisbane sometimes gets in Summer.
thefrollickingmole
Jan 15, 2024 11:44 AM
Puerto Rican Judge Judy doesn’t hold back.
That is very disturbing mole.
Bloody well done that Judge! Commonsense prevails. From the Oz.
Sadly both Shin Bet and Mossad have been captured by the lefty deep state in Israel. They spent their time chasing Likud supporters and were distracted from the real enemy. Unfortunately Netanyahu, who they were persecuting, is in dock for their failures, which is ironic. Likud is going to be wiped out in the next election.
The best thing they could do with Mr Intifada Kiddie is to deport him to either Syria or Gaza. The latter would let the IDF pot him with a nice missile with his name on it.
(Yes I do know who Marwan Barghouti is. He’s in gaol for murder, and no I didn’t have to look it up.)
A Woolworths store “in Brisbane” has been vandalized overnight. Peter Dutton’s fault apparently.
Calli
Wifey is back in hospital with pancreatitis. It’s a beast in terms of pain. She’s had it before, which may be an indicator of a potential nasty. But imaging and the specialist’s diagnosis was good this morning basically ruling that out. Took two days to sort it out. Now just anti biotics and pain killer. The New York daughter has been driving me freaking as they’re as close as twins. Her phone calls are a killer 🙂
Thanks for asking
Good thing the US has ~4,900 AGM-158 JASSM-ER cruise missiles, a few thousand AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, ~3000+ Harpoons, etc. etc. etc..
To quote the old Doritos commercial, “Crunch all you want, we’ll make more”.
Speedbox
Jan 15, 2024 12:14 PM
Horrible little story, looks like the bloke went to jail to keep the mother out, came out and found shed sold the kids to some shady people for $500.
Kirsch’s ‘schtick’ was to be so good at analysing numerical trends in economic data that he could spot anomalies and trends early, and parlay that into billions of dollars in profit in the financial world.
He is now using those same proven skills to spot anomalies in the population health data (disability and death claims for example) and has shown that something (baffling) happened after the max vax rollout (note – after the vax rollout, NOT after the first year of COVID) – and this lead to ‘multi-sigma’ increases in death and disability claims which cannot be explained by either COVID itself, or random chance.
If thats a ‘schtick’,, good luck to him!
This message was brought to you by Boeing – killing $100 insurgents at only $1million a time.
That’s the defining issue Roger. If Dutton can tap into the inner city seats, he’s home.
Layzell was part of a Government that did nothing about the Enviro Court at Gloucester.
Hollow words and false outrage come to mind.
The thing is the US has a trillion dollars for such things.
Which is 10 million dead insurgents.
Bye guys, hope your family finds enough of you to bury in a shoebox.
(They have an abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly. – Hermocrates of Syracuse)
The latter explains the whole unedifying debacle that was the Covid response – ministers throwing their hands up saying they had been advised by their department so they had to do it.
They had more backbone in their student years when they trawled Honi Soit or Tharunka drawing dicks from the ears of Liberal ministers.
None had the nads to say “But if we lock everyone in their homes isn’t that going to create problems as well?” or “Kids are scarcely affected and they develop more than an appreciation for ‘three times tables’ at school”.
And wouldn’t be wonderful if one said “If we do what you say what will be the outcome?” So they could later say “Well, you predicted this glorious result that did not eventuate, and a lot have been sorely impacted. I will be moving you to an outer office to make way for some better at advice.”
My job is in Project Management (All hail the PMBOK!”) and it is to me astounding how appallingly planned and executed political policies and laws are.
Hell, even a local High School would not be able to function with government quality leadership. Imagine a school building a school hall and half way through running out of money – they can’t just wave their hand and conjure more dollars. Or it does not have space for half the students. Someone would be sacked
In government they are simply moved to a new portfolio with a clean slate and the barnacle-like accretion of disasters starts all over again.
How’s this Armchair Warlord chap ever going to make it past Captain?