There’s a village in France home to a couple of odd fatties that could do with a loud bang.

I’m currently drawing up list of countries and groups of people who should be nuked.

Can we include personal vendettas such as neighbours, bosses, and random strangers who just give off a weird vibe from a distance?

Can we include personal vendettas such as neighbours, bosses, and random strangers who just give off a weird vibe from a distance?

I doubt MAD would work if nukes could take out limited areas of the size of a typical housing section or smaller.

Now here is what is really interesting. I asked The Cats about a day or so ago …

“What News source that is sympathetic to Israel … Beheaded babies etc … should I look to … ”

I was only posted one link and that was to the Blog of a Grahame Bird …

Then came a slew of “You will never be Welcome on this Blog … and Never be one of the Cool Kids !!! and a torrent of Oi Vey … and Oh Gawd …much patting of hands ”

But no link to a trustworthy source of News that might give some balance to the Information I am getting from other sources.

What conclusion to draw ?

Joe Vialls knew about mini nukes!

Can we include personal vendettas such as neighbours, bosses, and random strangers who just give off a weird vibe from a distance?

With all the chop chop around you might be able to extract enough polonium to nuke individuals.

By way of background … such learning as may have rubbed off on me was by interaction with Jews . I remember my Voice Coach sat me down and we watched “the Man in the Glass Booth ” … he told me about how his Son got sick of having Palisinian Kids throwing rocks at him in the IDF and buggered off to Amsterdam to sell dope instead. And Dad was proud … So many beautifull Jews in my Life …. Old Mate Voice Coach is no longer with us ,,, but when he was he was withering … destructively so … any argument that was ill considered or self serving … One HARD Man … a Jew I loved .

Any outbreak of wokeness, communism or feral islam should be considered as a candidate for nuke purification.

Oh. I was thinking more of personal grudges, like strangers who walk three abreast on a footpath. Or people I suspect vote green, liebor, or libtard (no evidence offered; just a suspicion). Or anyone who rides one of those electric scooters (use yer bloody feet!).

It seems you have a philosophical underpinning to your list. This could be problematic for me. I’ll get back to you.

It’s a sin to immenatise the eschaton, but is it also illegal?

Dot, I’m going to have to search for the meaning of about six of those words.
But, ummmmm …. yeah. O.K.

Had a barbecue stopper moment on the weekend.
Bunch of people around, but lynchpin was mine wifey’s oldest friend. She and husband are ex farmers- now in the winch n pulley servicing game, very smart mover, all over construction, mining and now turbine farms (I decline to call them wind farms or renewable electricity farms for obvious reasons). Her brother is ex-staffer to a federal MP, also worked for Holden, now works for AGL. Her daughter- and this is a real tragedy, because she’s a fantastic kid- has graduated Env Science, and now working for EY Pacifica, the Orwellianly rebadged Ernst & Young.
(Also at the table was my brother-in-law, curently holding 3000 more sheep than he usually would be because Stop The Boats, who now has the Flat Rocks turbine farm on his horizon.)
Anyway, she’s a great old bird, but was hopelessly tying herself up in knots trying to talk her way out of the obvious industrial-political insinuation where Ernst & Young are the modellers of choice for the ALP, AGL are having their coal-forsaking destruction plan written into legislation via carbonses reduction targets, and therefore could not fail, and in the meantime red meat production being deliberately sabotaged from the inner city desks of the likes of Murray Watt and Animals Australia. I reminded her of the long, languishing expiry of auto manufacturing, crippled by skyrocketing energy prices, tangled in a constant maze of tarrifs and duties, drip-fed all the way by subsidies and lubricated by the promise of a transition to scented candle production.
I maintained that the productive people in Australia were being banned from sensibly self-sufficient food, power, and manufacturing… and effectively shanghai’d into a lifetime of compulsory service to “service providers” like AGL.
“But everyone agrees we’ve got to put a stop to carbon and go renewable” she said
“Nope, the only Anglosphere. And only the rulers of the Anglosphere. Russia, Asia, Africa, South America are going gangbusters on coal, gas and nukular, and we’ve just got a ruling class who are using a bullsh*t myth to transfer all of our wealth to themselves.”

‘Lattouf continues fight against racism at ABC’.

It’s racist to not permit the Islamic cultural imperative to disparage, denigrate and otherwise slander Israel. ABC allows that for white employees, so her sacking must be due to the Pantone code of her skin colour.

Apologies, I am always behind on the Cat but anyway…..
Further to watching youtube of the israeli interviewer, very interesting.
Also Konstantin Kisin has just done a walk-along with a large ProPalestine march, talking to the crowd. Great comments and reader response.

extract enough polonium to nuke individuals.

I nuked some guys with polonium once. True story!

Process tech guys, they came and gave us a presentation about their technology to extract copper and uranium out of stuff. On paper not a bad process. I pointed out to them that polonium would be extracted in the first stage of their process, then precipitated in the second stage. Since it was countercurrent the polonium would then be re-extracted and go around and around forever until everything was glowing in the dark.

Oh shit they said, and went back to Canada. It was a fun meeting.

@ Cassie of Sydney
Jan 18, 2024 9:56 PM

My sentiments entirely ..

Mark Bolton:
Can you write a coherent sentence so we could have an idea of what you are going on about instead of the ludicrous ‘stream of consciousness’ rubbish you insist on?
Or even better, just STFU?

@ Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 18, 2024 9:58 PM

Back when I had house .. it was Possums Possums and more ….. folks would winge about Possums fighting in the roof “Oh the midnight racket” …

But the trick is .. and being a smart bloke you would tottally be across this …

You feed the possum in the roof … big old bugger want a slice of apple .. Oh Yes please! … so he lives in your roof ..and any nocturnal fighting gets done is at the edge of His territory … i.e. next door …

Not sure if this has been mentioned in dispatches here but the Mark Steyn -ats- Mann lawsuit is currently underway in a hearing this week. Witnesses for the defence will include Steve McIntyre who Mann hates more than anyone in the world.

Also:

Inspired by the glories of the glass barbie.

‘just a little pick-me-up’, I think he said.

To those responding to my

“RIP Brian you filthy Kike .. ”

You clearly never read the first part of my Eulogy and nor are you the sorts of people that ever will … YOU are the bigots.

Old Mate Brian ??? ….nah screw this you dont deserve a glimpse into the intricacies of a funny clever and inspiring bloke … You werent there so go suffer.

screw this you dont deserve a glimpse into the intricacies of a funny clever and inspiring bloke … You werent there so go suffer

Sounds like a goodbye to me.

You feed the possum in the roof … big old bugger want a slice of apple .. Oh Yes please!

Apple? Luxury! They would love that to bits!

My ones get some bread, then a carrot afterwards for teeth cleaning. It seems to work since the elderly lady has been arriving for about 12 years or so.

@Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 18, 2024 10:34 PM

What ever it takes… keep ’em happy at Home … OK that said I dont mind it when Possums might fight ceaselessly in my roof .. I find it like a sort of Lullaby …

Least of my worries and most of my joys …

Crikey. It switches to another subject as though nothing just happened.
Barely a 3% flounce.
Interesting.
Machine-like even.
Huh.
A slightly familiar pattern, no?

$150 Million?
I could afford a new motor for the 380!
🙂

Temptation?

@ Knuckle Dragger
Jan 18, 2024 11:07 PM

And you might be dissapointed to learn that blokes in jail dont render extrajudicial punishment on each other … so wipe youre salveing chops … no action there ..

@Knuckle Dragger
Jan 18, 2024 11:07 PM

These little chicks will applade your witticisms but .. let’s face it .. they hated you … The Cooll crew of 14 year old girls that ran an institution that may have held you in thrall … but that was a while ago ..

You werent funny then and you arent now …

Wanna know what ? They hate my guts too … So it Goes.

@ dover0beach
Jan 18, 2024 11:56 PM

But we all knew this was going to be the enevitable ? So how many people had to die?

Jesus weeps ..

A peaceable agreement was always available … but apparenty not to some … demostraly all alive now …

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Jan 18, 2024 11:11 PM
Temptation?

I agree with Mandy: Oh you are awful, but I like you

For those interested.

HENRY ERGAS

No justice in ‘genocide’ case against Israel

(Winston Churchill, left, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Yalta in 1945. Stalin realised that the genocide convention could serve as an ‘invaluable propaganda weapon’. Picture: Getty Images)

5:00AM JANUARY 19, 2024

With the International Court of Justice weighing up South Africa’s case against Israel, the proceedings risk merely confirming everything that is wrong with the Genocide Convention.

At the heart of the problems is the definition of genocide – a definition that proved troublesome from the outset.

The origins of the word itself are well known. Speaking in August 1941, Winston Churchill called the atrocities being committed by the Nazis in the western borderlands of the Soviet Union a “crime without a name”. Addressing that lacuna, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who had fled to the US, coined the term “genocide” to describe the intentional annihilation of an entire people.

The relevant chapter of Lemkin’s 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, was cursory, accounting for just 16 of the book’s 671 pages, and left the crime poorly defined. But what the neologism referred to was clear enough, and became even clearer as horrifying descriptions of the Holocaust emerged.

These were not crimes committed in the pursuit of military objectives; on the contrary, the killing often began, and invariably continued, once the fighting ended. At Babi Yar, and in Nazi-occupied Europe more generally, defenceless victims were rounded up, taken to the killing fields and slaughtered.

In war crimes, there was always the defence that innocent deaths were the side-effect of legitimate military action. In the Holocaust – as later in Cambodia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and the slaughter of the Yazidis in Syria – any such claim would have been ludicrous, since it was precisely the absence of an opposing force that made the scale of the massacres possible. The contemporary equivalent would be if Israel detained the inhabitants of those parts of Gaza it securely controlled and proceeded to butcher them.

Advised by Lemkin, the US attempted to bring the crime’s distinctiveness to light in the draft bill of indictment for the International Military Tribunal that convened in Nuremberg. However, partly because of uncertainty about whether genocide was a separate crime or simply a facet of “crimes against humanity”, the IMT’s judgment omitted genocide entirely.

The United Nations General Assembly therefore passed a resolution on December 11, 1946 affirming that genocide – which it defined as the “denial of the right of existence of entire human groups” – was indeed a distinct crime under international law. Additionally, the resolution instructed the UN’s Economic and Social Council to begin “drawing up a draft convention on the crime of genocide”.

(Foreign Minister Penny Wong is “weak” not to take a clear position on South Africa’s bid to have Israel found guilty of genocide by the ICJ, but weaker still is the Prime Minister, says Sky News host Peta Credlin. Ms Credlin said Anthony Albanese “barely seems across the issue More)

However, by the time work got under way, relations between the great powers had deteriorated dramatically, stoking Stalin’s ever-growing paranoia. As Stalin well knew, the Soviet regime’s policy of deporting entire ethnic groups had displaced at least 3.4 million people, causing countless deaths and exposing the USSR to accusations of genocide. Fuelling his fears, in late 1947 the Lithuanian government-in-exile charged the USSR with genocide against the Lithuanian nation.

(Pro-Palestinian sympathisers wave placards outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague before the hearing of the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa. Picture: AFP)

Yet Stalin also realised that the convention could serve as an invaluable propaganda weapon. The result, Anton Weiss-Wendt’s two-volume history of the Soviet role in the convention’s framing convincingly shows, was that Stalin personally went through successive drafts “with a fine-tooth comb, striking out provisions deemed harmful to the Soviet Union and emphasising those that could be used against the West”.

His goal was to craft a definition that excluded the extermination of political adversaries while encompassing any Western action that stymied the Soviet empire. By eliminating the distinction between war crimes and genocide, the claim that genocide was under way could then be used to pressure the West into ending military operations, no matter how legitimate those operations might be.

Sir Hartley Shawcross, a distinguished barrister, former Nuremberg prosecutor and Labour politician who led Britain’s UN delegation, fully understood what the USSR was up to.

It was, he presciently warned the British cabinet, a “complete delusion” to believe the convention “would give people a greater sense of security”: “those atrocious crimes were largely the crimes of totalitarian states, which would not change their methods because of a convention to which a number of nations had adhered”. But Western democracies, if they were convicted of genocide, would inevitably buckle.

Unfortunately, the impetus behind the convention made it unstoppable – and its use as a big stick with which to beat the West materialised almost immediately. The ink on the final text was not even dry before the USSR accused the US of committing genocide in Korea, setting a pattern that was repeated in literally every Cold War conflict. The overblown rhetoric it used was also always the same: “Even the engineers of Nazi gas chambers”, the Soviets declared, paled compared to the “American genocide experts”.

And so was the objective: to force the West, as soon as it seemed to be gaining the upper hand, into an immediate ceasefire, if not complete withdrawal.

It would take too long to describe the relentless use the USSR made of the convention in its attacks on Israel. Already in 1950, it had compared Israel’s actions to the Holocaust, a claim it repeated in the United Nations in 1956, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1980 and 1982, each time receiving the enthusiastic support of the Arab states – which didn’t seem at all embarrassed about having officially declared, from the very outset, that their plainly genocidal objective was to “throw the Jews into the sea”.

It would nonetheless be wrong to blame the convention’s misuse solely on the Soviet bloc. Efforts by international tribunals, including the ICJ, to expand their jurisdiction also played an important role, notably by watering down the evidentiary requirements involved in making out the alleged crime.

Under the convention, genocide was “a crime of specific intent”: although the USSR attempted (unsuccessfully) to remove the need for proof of genocidal intention, the convention’s “intent to destroy” clause meant the plaintiff had to show that the perpetrator’s goal was specifically to exterminate the group and to do so because of its national, racial, ethnic or religious character. There had to be, the US State Department’s legal experts concluded, a demonstrable “overall plan to destroy a human group”.

Those hurdles have, however, been severely diluted: as the myriad inconsistencies in the case law show, the international tribunals have given themselves vast interpretative discretion. Yes, “genocide” still evokes images of Auschwitz: but as has recently happened to so many words, the term’s legal, intensely political, meaning has lost all moorings in history and common sense.

Lemkin was passionately convinced the genocide convention “would take the life of nations out of the hands of politicians and give it the objective basis of law”, protecting the innocent from slaughter. Instead, by preventing the intended victims from fighting back, it may now place them at the mercy of genocidal murderers. Precisely as Stalin intended.

Why was I not invited?

Third major study finds that multivitamin supplements improve memory and slow cognitive aging in older adults

Like some people here I know supplements can be beneficial, especially for older folk. I guess the multivits major benefit is the provision of trace nutrients like chromium, essential for sugar regulation, and iodine, critical for thyroid hormone optimization. Recent studies highlight creatine is beneficial for memory in people over 65. It is an energy provider that doesn’t require the usual energy producing processes in cells. In that regard it makes sense because a key issue with aging brains is reduced energy availability and in dementia that is a big problem.

Why was I not invited?

Who did you contact?

‘The list’ doesn’t actually exist. Mostly it’s in people’s heads and a collation of old emails is used for addresses. We probably need to make a proper list. Get organised etc.

Slackers that we are.

“Quote III
Davos is a gathering of wealthy tyrants…….
A bigger collection of people who should be smarter can’t be found anywhere. These pinheads think that the world’s ugliest trophy wife — John Kerry — is relevant. Stephen Kruiser”

Outstanding.

Read it and weep.

https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/feminisms-workplace-gulags?utm_source=substack&publication_id=448263&post_id=140780463&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=ry8mn

Hi ho, hi ho. It’s off to court we go.

Normally, if an employee and their employer go to court, then the loser pays the legal bills. Feminism’s lapdog, Dreyfus, has now surpassed himself by coming up with a bill proposing that if an accusation is false or doesn’t succeed in court, the accuser will not have to pay the employer’s costs. And if only one small part of an accusation is upheld, the employer will have to pay all of the accuser’s costs.

Dreyfus has justified the change on the grounds that it will remove a barrier for those making accusations. Naturally employer groups are up in arms, rightly complaining this removes a disincentive to false accusations and speculative proceedings. Janet Albrechtsen, writing in The Australian fears it will intensify “the cult of disgruntled employees demanding ‘go away’ money”.

She writes that this will guarantee that more disgruntled employees will try their luck at “litigation lotto”. And she puts her finger on Labor’s broader agenda: “Worse, the proposal to protect complainants against costs orders is evidence of something more – an increased desire by the Labor government to place a finger on the scales of justice to tilt them against unpopular defendants.” Like men.

Rosie

while we don’t walk around chewing grass and leaves off bushes things like broccoli and lettuce are plants.
Something for him to ruminate over.

I msaw what you did there!

The law’s veneration of Indigenous mythology has gone too far

Indigenous Australians, like all ethnic groups, deserve respect for their beliefs. But the cost of respecting legends is too high.

Aaron Patrick – Senior correspondent

The Federal Court giveth, and the Federal Court taketh away.

Judge Natalie Charlesworth’s decision this week to permit construction of Santos’ Barossa gas pipeline was a rare defiance of one of the most important trends in Australian law of the past three decades: the embrace of Aboriginal mythology.

“The teaching included the transmission of the mythology associated with particular places and the rituals necessary to pay due respect to the Waugyl,” French wrote in 1993. “The medium for the transmission of the mythology was song.”

Powerful word

Today, the word song has been replaced by songline, giving it more authority. Common Ground, an Indigenous charity, states that songlines “trace astronomy and geographical elements from ancient stories, and describe how these things have helped shape the landscape as it is now”.

In journalism, we struggle to understand what happened yesterday.

Sacred locations

Indigenous Australians, like all ethnic groups, deserve respect for their beliefs. As the original Australians, forced to give up their land, they rightly are given special benefits.

If the Federal Court decides it is – an appeal against Charlesworth’s decision is possible – it should consider how many people will pay for indulging tribal myths.

Customers will pay more for gas. Santos shareholders will receive fewer dividends. Governments will raise less tax. Australia will be less wealthy.

That’s a big bill for judicial status.

OldOzzie
Jan 19, 2024 7:53 AM
Mak Siccar
Jan 19, 2024 7:36 AM

Read it and weep.

“Worse, the proposal to protect complainants against costs orders is evidence of something more – an increased desire by the Labor government to place a finger on the scales of justice to tilt them against unpopular defenders”

Mak.

read another Read it and weep. from the Australian Labor Party

Burke emboldens MUA, attacks ‘highly profitable’ DP World

It’s appalling. The first case reminds of the abuses of the Unfair Dismissal process by employees. The second reminds me of a story from 30 years ago a friend told me. Dock workers were told that they will receive a full day’s pay no matter how long it took them to unload a particular ship. It was done in half the time.

This is the price we pay, more specifically employers pay, when politicians with no experience in setting up and running a business design IR legislation.

OldOzzie
Jan 19, 2024 8:00 AM
The law’s veneration of Indigenous mythology has gone too far

Indigenous Australians, like all ethnic groups, deserve respect for their beliefs. But the cost of respecting legends is too high.

No idea, belief, ideology, concept intrinsically deserves respect. It is ludicrous to think like that.

I suppose being raptured could be considered flying without having lodged an approved flight plan with CASA.

I was front seat in an RFDS PC12 which hit a very large bug at 18,000 ft once – and you need to be on oxygen over 10,000

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jan 19, 2024 7:29 AM
Leak does Penny Wong to perfection – in word and image.

I love the way has managed to capture Penny’s vicious little mouth that double-speaks.

bombs in the Hamas’ eye are a nice touch.

Diogenes.

You have nailed it. Universities are the only national institutions that have no accountability. They are gangbangers.

Collectively they sneer at the nation knowing that politicans lack the courage to impose standards. Individual accountability is governed by the ‘you scratch mine and I’ll massage yours’ policy.

Academics are bribed into compliance by salaries that massively exceed what they would earn with the same qualifications and experience in the productive sector.

Also in today’s unlinkable Oz is another Cameron Milner hit piece, trollying Albanese and the Chap for their shocking performance over Australian ‘support’ for Israel.

Milner, himself a one-time senior ALP apparatchik from the Labor Right, takes care to point out that Dear Leader Albanese is a waste of space and Wong an ideological zombie – both enmeshed in the BDS push of the Marxist tendency of the Labor Left.

Wong has joined the Corbyn club as the only Labor foreign minister to also be publicly thanked by Hamas – for her recent support at the UN.

And

Albanese initially distanced himself from his Foreign Minister’s decision not to visit the October 7 massacre sites – he should have followed his political instincts.

By an interview on Monday, however, the Prime Minister was saying a visit to the site would only amount to a photo op – such is the level of confusion within the Labor Party over these matters, and misunderstanding of the strong message of joint loss and support such a visit would show Israel and Jews around the world.

A player getting his place in history documented – as the Worst Government In Living Memory blunders on…

Indigenous Australians, like all ethnic groups, deserve respect for their beliefs.

Nope, no group, however defined, ‘deserves’ respect for anything. Respect for their beliefs is earned based upon the intrinsic worth of said groups beliefs, and some beliefs are harmful and wrong.

Aboriginals deserve no more ‘respect’ for their dream time stories (which have no basis in fact and may adversely affect my life) than do Somali FGM practitioners.

I am reminded of Napiers response to the Hindu priests who complained to him about the British prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre:

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”

UN: No indication Hamas was building elaborate tunnel system

Katz, it’s like a giant version of The Great Escape.

Odd that no one noticed the vast piles of excavated material. It isn’t as if they could hide it in their trousers.

Good luck being a male management person in any women heavy institution under Dreyfus’s rad fem enabling law.

But what is that silence I hear. Oh, of course, that’s the LNP that has complied with and supported Labor’s union agenda despite its author Gillard having been massively rejected by the electorate.

Abbott had the endorsement to act, but his cowardice (politely presented as sensitivity) sold us out. How I despise that creep.

Dreyfus and Burke are simply finishing Gillard’s program of crippling enterprise through
fear.

The fact that the FWC still exists is sufficient reason to never vote LNP. They are exclusively self interested cowards who stand for nothing and take their lead from the ABC.

Of all of the issues that forment distress on these pages, IR is the greatest threat to our wellbeing, but it is rarely mentioned except by Salvatore.

If you attempt to raise IR issues at your local LNP branch you will be howled down by “but Work Choices”, FFS. The zeitgeist Turnbull still rules the LNP.

Academics are bribed into compliance by salaries that massively exceed what they would earn with the same qualifications and experience in the productive sector.

Yeah… nah.

If you attempt to raise IR issues at your local LNP branch you will be howled down by “but Work Choices”, FFS. The zeitgeist Turnbull still rules the LNP.

Some years ago now, I resigned my LNP membership for this reason.

Young and naive, I foolishly thought that 40+ years experience, from tools to boardroom, might be a useful grassroots contribution from an industry/IR policy perspective. Only to be taken aside by a 20-something policy advisor for a ‘what you need to understand’ lecture.

Australian policy development (apparently in all areas of human endeavour) is done in a content vacuum. With selected, carefully curated ‘expert’ input to put a gloss of respectability on predetermined ‘realpolitik’ decisions.

Which probably explains where we are.