Awesome song, brilliantly performed. Interesting that Paul Simon went on to have a stellar solo career, while Art Garfunkel did…
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“guv karen bollocks” Steady on, Rabz. Our Michele (Bullock) is a beaut country girl whose upbringing in Armidale NSW gave…
How could they fill up two and a half minutes on such a non-subject?
Well, the new USSR is threatening nuclear drops every 48 hours. At some stage someone like Trump is going to…
As a life long cat owner, I can attest to the accuracy of this. https://ace.mu.nu/archives/cat%20christmas%20coming%20soon.jpg
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Only a fool thinks otherwise.
Presentation of the Lord – Feast day Feb 2
The feast recalls the occasion when Mary and Joseph, in observance of Jewish custom, presented their first born son to the priest in the temple in Jerusalem 40 days after his birth.
There they were met by the old priest Simeon who was promised that “he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.” It is he who declared the infant to be “the light to enlighten the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.”
At the beginning of the eighth century, Pope Sergius inaugurated a candlelight procession; at the end of the same century the blessing and distribution of candles which continues to this day became part of the celebration, giving the feast its popular name: Candlemas.
Dover
The rest of the link says, she was held in prison and the won an appeal. In other words an injustice was rectified. Would that happen in Gaza?
Winston Smith
Feb 2, 2024 9:04 AM
Thank you for that Winston. Very well said.
What led to that action?
I doubt Israel is in the habit of locking up old Gazan ladies for no reason.
If a mistake was made a free judiciary has corrected it and a free press has reported it.
Snap, JC.
It’s a complete coincidence all the sealioning is all pro-Palli.
Complete coincidence. It’s just very important to point out the perfidy of .. oh yes, that’s the fake term I’m looking for… “zionists”.
and it’s going to be a doozy.
Federal government’s decision over Tasmania’s salmon farming industry in Macquarie Harbour hangs in the balance as public submissions end
Shadow environment minister Jonathon Duniam has warned the price of salmon will go up under Tanya Plibersek’s watch as public submissions on whether the federal government should reconsider salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour end on Friday.
Lauren Evans – Digital Reporter
Australians will pay more salmon at their local supermarket under the federal government’s watch, says shadow environment minister Jonathon Duniam, as public submissions on the future of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour end on Friday.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek opened a public consultation in December after environmental groups – Australia Institute, Bob Brown Foundation and Australian Marine Conservation Society – demanded the government reconsider salmon farming on Tasmania’s west coast over concerns the rare Maugean Skate fish would become extinct.
The consultation period began on December 4, with members of the public given the chance to have their say following months of uncertainty surrounding the state’s 1.3 billion salmon industry.
Ms Plibersek will now decide whether to reconsider legislation passed in 2012, governing salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour, will be need to be changed – a crucial decision Mr Duniam is not confident the government will get right.
“It’s one thing to read submissions that are sent in by email from all over the country, but it’s entirely something else to understand the scale of Macquarie Harbour,” Mr Duniam told SkyNews.com.au.
“I honestly believe with a seat like hers in Sydney, I feel that she’s getting pressured from every different direction to make a decision that suits her local electorate, and this is the fear I have about environment ministers that don’t actually get out and understand on the ground what’s at stake here.
“There are families with mortgages to pay, kids to raise, communities hanging on the edge wondering what’s going to happen here, this uncertainty must end.
“Tanya Plibersek has to get it right but I suspect she won’t.”
But as pressures grows on the government to make a constructive decision, both economically and sustainably, environmental groups say they will not stop until salmon farming is banned altogether.
“The minister must find that fish farms cannot be allowed in Macquarie Harbour,” Bob Brown Foundation manager Alistair Allan told SkyNews.com.au.
“We will campaign to ensure that fish farms are removed permanently in order to protect the last known habitat of the critically endangered Maugean skate.”
Mr Duniam, who is Tasmanian himself, said the impact of this decision will not only affect families on the west coast if the industry is scaled back, but also impact Australian consumers forced to pay a higher price for salmon at their local supermarket.
“I do think the prices of salmon will go up… we’re a long way from where they farm salmon in Europe and South America, it will cost a lot of money to get that product here… we could be looking at $5 extra for a 500 gram packet of smoked salmon,” he said.
“It means if you like your smoked salmon, if you like a salmon fillet, you’re probably going to be paying more as a result of this decision.
“There are bad outcomes every which way we look if Tanya Plibersek doesn’t back in the industry when she makes a decision to have a review or not.”
Tasmania produces 90 per cent of Australia’s Atlantic salmon, with Macquarie Harbour around six times the size of Sydney Harbour.
The constant uproar sparked a visit from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month when he was met with a group of protestors shouting “save the Maguean Skate” in the state’s south.
But while he reiterated the Maguean Skate and people’s jobs can co-exist, many were left wondering where the government stands when it comes to this vital industry.
“We support jobs but we support it being done in a sustainable way and we are confident that can happen,” Mr Albanese said at a production facility last month.
On Sunday, Mr Duniam met with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Premier Jeremy Rockliff and Salmon Tasmania CEO Luke Martin in the close-knit town of Strahan – where almost half of the 700 people who live there work in the aquaculture sector – to demonstrate the “Liberal commitment” to the community.
“We came here today to look workers in the eyes, to understand from them directly how all of these issues that they’re currently facing affect them,” Mr Duniam said.
Mr Dutton weighed in, saying: “I wish that the Prime Minister would be honest with the people of Tasmania.”
“The fact is that we’ve got a political decision that’s been taken, driven by radical environmental groups, that is at the moment being presided over by Tanya Plibersek, which is likely to adversely affect this community.”
Late last year, Adam Saltmarsh, who works for the well-known salmon production company Tassal, said any potential industry stoppage would be “catastrophic” for the community in Strahan.
“If this industry was to be scaled back, it would affect the community a lot, the flow on effects for the schools, local sporting groups, doctors, the nurses,” he told SkyNews.com.au.
“We take pride in what we do, it’s our backyard, our life is revolved around this body of water. It’s not an inland town, it’s a harbour side town and without the industry on the harbour, there is no town.
“It would be catastrophic if we had to give this up.”
From the Comments
– I guess we can look forward to higher unemployment numbers and higher prices now. It’s like we don’t have a cost of living crisis going on at the moment.
– the greens are a bunch of activists constantly looking for a cause, and don’t care who loses their livelihood.
– At the risk of repeating myself which i do frequently – Socialism is about creating dependency on the state. Either work for government, supply government, or be dependent on government. Getting rid of the bourgeois salmon industry is a great is a great idea for Labor, comrades.
Placates the Greens in exchange for their preferences, puts a whole bunch more people on the dole so dependent on them, and best of all the price of salmon will be so high only the elites in government will be able to afford it using government money.
It’s almost the perfect outcome for them.
Shame we don’t have a caviar industry they could go after.
– it’s six times the size of Sydney Harbour, surely they can coexist
– Plebersek doesn’t care if she wrecks another industry.
– Our food supplies and food chain are under threat from these climate clowns.
They are a danger to all of us.
– Tanya hasn’t destroyed any Australian business’s for a while so let’s shut it down She’s so angry albo treats her like a nobody when if she played her cards write she could have been pm !!
Why do the words “Utter nonsense” spring to mind?
No evidence of antisemitic chants at Opera House: police
NSW Police have found no evidence that an offensive antisemitic phrase was ever used at a widely condemned pro-Palestine rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
The snap rally on October 9 was sparked by a decision to light the Opera House’s sails in the colours of the Israeli flag after the Hamas attack that sparked the latest Israel-Gaza conflict.
Edited footage of protesters chanting “gas the Jews” was later shared by the Australian Jewish Association with news organisation, leading to widespread condemnation and changes to hate-crimes laws.
But NSW Police on Friday said an extensive investigation found no evidence the chants occurred at the rally.
“As a result of independent forensic analysis of audio-video files of the demonstration provided to investigators, police have no evidence that this phrase was used,” they said in a statement.
“Police also obtained statements from several individuals who attended the protest indicating they heard the phrase. However, these statements have not attributed the phrase to any specific individual.”
Detectives continue to ask anyone with information who may not have yet spoken with police to come forward.
Remember the time of suicide bombings.
As volunteers declined in numbers… very few signed up for a second tour… they started using mentally handicapped kids.
I remember the pause as an SBS newsreader read out that a blow for women’s equality had been struck in Israel as the first woman suicide bomber had blown herself up trying to murder Israelis.
Later it was revealed that the Pallies raped those Palestinian women then offered to let them expunge their shame by carrying out a suicide bombing.
Roger,
this comment below that crap article sheds more light on what happened.
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I WILL TRY ONE MORE TIME TO GO AROUND THE CENSURE AT HAARETZ THAT KEEPS TAKING DOWN MY POSTS. 1) Amira Hass has an unprofessional article, as she has no knowledge of how this lady found herself in custody 2) an awful amount of lawyers and pro Hamas/PA organizations claimed to be NGOs were involved and informed including the Physicians without Borders known for its pro Hamas militantism 3) the caretaker of that lady was not freed thus there is the response for the involvement of this lady 4) no one has assessed if she truly has Alzheimer but if she does and was involved through her caretaker in activities it took time to investigate, the grade to AMIRA HASS IS INCOMPLETE. A serious newspaper even as biased as the NY Times in the U.S. would have waited for more information instead of filling the blanks with an uncertain article as to the facts in this story.”
Zulu Snap – agreed Why do the words “Utter nonsense” spring to mind?
Flying back to D-Town later today.
Quite a bit of the newer Melbourne CBD buildings’ architecture is pleasing to the eye.
There. I said it.
…and haven’t we prepared well for it with our procurement and burying old airframes?
There is no way in hell I’d fight for this country now.
“offensive and completely unacceptable”.
Boooom! ZZZZZapppp! Pow!
Yes, your deputy commish slams the anonymous hundreds like a rampagin’ SuperNanny, months after the offences.
We’re not going to make it.
Us too.
Why do I find this hard to believe?
But if true, just as well I did not take up that final pressure; they must have been completely innocent, perhaps just taking their pet pigs for a walk or admiring a pretty goat in the passersby.
I don’t have the energy to trawl through the legislation but I wonder if it mentions anything about Tasmanian jobs being in danger of becoming extinct?
To my feeble mind, “where’s the Jews” is far more directly menacing. “Gas the Jews” was an unrealisable ambition for the Opera House mob, “where’s the Jews” was a direct threat to any Jew that the mob came across.
But I’m not “an eminent, independent expert”.
Anonymity is your best friend.
FMD! They just firebombed John Hinderaker’s office
He’s only doing his job, it’s the police who are spinning it.
Howard was wrong. Ordinary Australians need firearms for self defense.
Gaia hates golf.
‘No shortage of public fields’: Zali Steggall calls for golf course to be ‘transitioned’ (Sky News, 2 Feb)
So the Chook wants to transition a public space into a public space? Amazing! That’s Teal alchemy for you.
I like the way Snrub thinks!
Dover
On a scale of one to ten, how do you rate burning empty houses against burning houses with old people, women and children, dead or alive, inside them?
The industrial military complex will require it because:
There are ~12000 AMRAAMS. A much superior air to air missile, the AIM 260, is going into production. There are others also ready to go.
Atacms have been superseded by the Precision Strike Missile.
Tomahawks are so old. There are now stealth cruise missiles and the capacity to launch dozens of missiles from crates released by transport aircraft is being explored.
Harpoons are updated but not comparable to the new anti-ship missiles in production.
186 F22s air superiority fighters with one air to air kill, a balloon. 6th gen fighters are in prototype development, very superior to current fighters.
New stealth bombers going into production.
New AWACs currently in production.
The USA has a huge stockpile of weapons and hardware rapidly becoming obsolete.
I don’t think there will be a war. If there is one the only hope China has of inflicting serious damage on the USA is a nuke strike. Hmmm … .
If its my parent’s house? 9. With them in it? 10.
NSW Police have found no evidence that an offensive antisemitic phrase was ever used at a widely condemned pro-Palestine rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
who will believe, the police or your lying ears.
The NSW Police are seriously pissing me off.
One of my hobbies is to digitise audio recording (vinyl, cassette tapes etc).
I didn’t need to depoly any of my tools to clearly discern that “Gas the Jews” and “F##k the Jews” on the video posted on the internet.
So I don’t know how the so-called-forensic “expert” was unable to work out what was said.
$50k Brisbane portrait competition opened to works created wholly or in part by AI.
An amusing turn of phrase to describe an incompetent:
‘eminent, independent expert’
Monorail!
That’s a question best put to the IDF.
That’s almost axiomatic.
If my parents are inside the house, definitely a ten.
If the house has no-one inside, just possessions, a two, the extra point being not for the clothing, furniture, etc, but for the loss of items of sentimental value, which cannot be readily replaced.
But perhaps you place more value on old photos and documents than I do.
Gazan justice.
And, no, the family AK-47 and RPG do not have sentimental value.
Peter G
By consideration of the potential value of future contracts with the police?
Fahamiya Khalidid, the old woman ‘with dementia’…
I don’t know how common that surname is in the territory, but could she be related to Rashid Ismail Khalidi?
If she does have dementia, could it be that her identity could not be confirmed in the initial encounter and afterwards, and she was taken into protective custody? How do we know her request for a lawyer was denied, if she has dementia?
It would not be surprising if there was a lot more to this story. Sadly, by the time Israel fact-checks, the media cycle will have moved on to another such allegation, and the original fiction will have been absorbed as fact.
PRESS RELEASE: PRESS RELEASE – National Rally Against Reckless Renewables – 6 Feb 2024 – Parliament House. Canberra 10am
Get the Word Out
The National Rally Against Reckless Renewables is on the first sitting day of Parliament, Tuesday, 6th February 2024, at 10am in front of Parliament House. This peaceful rally is grassroots, representing many diverse regional communities who are directly and adversely affected by the Australian Government’s reckless rollout of “renewables”.
https://getthewordout.com.au/press-release/press-release-press-release-national-rally-against-reckless-renewables-6-feb-2024-parliament-house-10am/
Amazing to read people diminish the value of a family home merely for argumentative purposes.
Poor bugger.
Died trying to do a good deed.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/02/two-killed-by-freight-train-in-sydney-as-attempted-track-rescue-ends-in-tragedy
An apparent train track rescue has ended in tragedy for two people in northern Sydney.
A woman, aged in her 30s, was being helped off the tracks at Berowra by a man, aged in his 20s, when they were both hit by a freight train about midnight on Friday, police said.
Pure, unadulterated gaslighting.
Brought to by WaffenPlod.
I suppose it depends not on what my house means to me, but what I am and why my house might be burned down.
If I am a sneaky, psychotic, ununiformed rapey-rapist and child killer, my house might be incineration-ready. Particularly if it conceals entrances to underground death chambers.
If I’m just your average schmuck caught up in the nefarious doings of my local criminal overlords, not so much.
A Pallie home is nest of vipers , where plotting or supporting barbarism thrives inside its walls. Burn the fker to the ground.
Your sensible centrist article for the day.
RTWT
Universities used to be places where young people could learn about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. But now conservatives are trying to turn them into indoctrination camps that promote “Mathematics” and “Science” and other outdated concepts. Why don’t they just bring back alchemy and be done with it?
It has been genuinely disturbing to see the brave and pioneering President of Harvard, Claudine Gay, ousted from her job simply because she is an empowered black woman. Some of her critics claim that she should have unequivocally condemned those who call for the genocide of Jews but, as she pointed out, it’s very much context dependent. Only the other day, I accidentally called for the genocide of Jews whilst I was ordering a flat white at Borough Market.
Titania McGrath
Steve Bannon: I Will Be Shocked If There Are No Criminal Referrals for What Victoria Nuland (There is that Pig again) and Others Have Done in Other Countries in the Name of the American People (VIDEO)
The Gateway Pundit’s Richard Abelson revealed in August 2023 how Victoria Nuland and the Biden regime were responsible for the overthrow of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Biden Regime is behind the overthrow of Pakistan’s democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan, explosive diplomatic cables reveal.
Revolver News’ Darren Beattie charges that Color Revolution insurrectionist Victoria Nuland, who is also to blame for the Ukraine Coup 2014 and the current horrific war, orchestrated the coup.
On March 27, Imran Khan produced the diplomatic cipher, showing US demands to remove Khan in a coup.
As early as 2021, Imran Khan had accused Victoria Nuland and the Biden administration of trying to oust him.
Ironically, Khan was investigated in October 2022 over daring to reveal the diplomatic cipher’s evidence of a “foreign conspiracy,” The Dawn reported, and banned from running for re-election.
Unbeknownst to the American public – The Biden regime has been working behind the scenes to plot wars, and blow up pipelines, and pay off Iranian mullahs, and set up secret biological labs, and overthrow Pakistani leaders, and meddle in Israeli politics – and the list goes on and on and on…
And, quite often, Victoria Nuland’s name seems to appear in the mix.
Steve Bannon: I got to ask you, because you’re the world’s living expert on Victoria Nuland and color revolutions, it’s kind of sad to see her, really, the queen of Ukraine sitting there on a cold square in the middle of the night, getting off a plane with one microphone there.
No Zelensky, no big pomp in the circumstance. Your thoughts, sir?
Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz.
Gotta be true .. After all HAARETZ being a certified pro-Hamas media spruiker ain’t gonna lie .. FFS!
Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon.
What an insipid waste of space. Plod desk jockey.
But, if you watch carefully, the body language says the opposite to what the mouth is saying.
NSW Plod has joined Vic Plod in the corruption stakes.
No Crime – Democrat Staffers Who Produced Anal Sex Video in Hart Office Building Will Not Be Prosecuted
February 1, 2024 – Sundance
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, an aide to Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, filmed himself having anal sex in the Hart Senate Office Building hearing room.
The video was shared on a platform where gay men share their pornographic sexual activity. The Daily Caller received a copy of the video and published the story.
After the story went viral, Senator Ben Cardin removed Mr. Maese-Czeropski from his staff and delivered the following statement. “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate. We will have no further comment on this personnel matter.”
Understandably, most Democrats downplayed and/or ignored the indecency exhibited by the behavior.
However, given recent events in the world of leftist politics, the extreme nature of the degeneracy is simply another step in the direction of leftism in both culture and politics.
As Representative Mike Collins (GA-10) noted, “Gay porn in the Senate, swearing in ceremony on child porn in Virginia, tranny tap dancers in the White House, and Satanic statues in Iowa,” the vile nature of the leftist perversions are on full display.
History is replete with examples of Marxism (satanic influenced depravity and indecency), advancing through society with public expressions of cultural evil, degeneracy and perversion.
Boundaries of civility are not just removed; they are destroyed in favor of perversion.
The absence of moral behavior in the Senate chamber is not a new phenomenon, but the scale of recent indecency reflects a toxic exhibition of evil as manifest.
Link – https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/01/no-crime-democrat-staffers-who-produced-anal-sex-video-in-hart-office-building-will-not-be-prosecuted/
America under Obama/Biden is screwed and if Mike Obama gets in – Plug the Plug!
SAF – NYPD Believe 5 Illegal Aliens, Who Beat Cops Then Received Bail, Left Town on Charity Bus Heading to Sanctuary in California
February 1, 2024 Sundance
The only reason this story gained traction was because CCTV video was involved. With tens of millions of violent illegal aliens throughout the country, just imagine how much crime is occurring without detection or without widespread public knowledge.
In New York City, five illegal aliens acting as a pack of wild dogs were caught-on-camera attacking two NYPD cops in Times Square. They were tracked down and arrested. However, after appearing in court, they immediately received bail.
In an update, after receiving bail the five assault criminals have now hopped a charity bus heading to California to avoid prosecution.
NEW YORK – Four of the migrants cut loose without bail after allegedly ganging up on two NYPD cops near Times Square may be on the run, The Post has learned.
Cops believe the group hopped on a bus bound for California on Wednesday after giving phony names to a church-affiliated nonprofit group that helps migrants get rides out of the city, according to law enforcement sources.
Four migrants were charged with assault on a police officer and obstruction immediately after the shocking, caught-on-video attack Saturday in Midtown: Darwin Andres Gomez, 19, Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24.
All were released without monetary bail, though Reveron, who had prior arrests on his rap sheet, was put on supervised release. A fifth asylum-seeking suspect, Jhoan Boada, 22, was hit with the same charges and also released without bail Wednesday. (read more)
Wait until you deal with the scum of the superannuation industry.
Hey coomer, where’s the hot beef injection?
An article that could only have been written by a prat.
There is no evidence that the current maladminstration could do any harm to their country’s enemies. They are far more effective to harm friends.
NSW Police have found no evidence that an offensive antisemitic phrase was ever used at a widely condemned pro-Palestine rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
NSW plod having their very own, “Lets Go Brandon” moment ……..!
So glad “she’s” still out there fighting the good fight.
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Islamism is destroying British democracy
We cannot have a society where MPs resign in fear for their lives, intimidated by a minority of hardline radicals
RAKIB EHSAN
Mike Freer’s decision to step down as the MP for Finchley & Golders Green – a north London constituency with a sizeable Jewish population – is yet another victory for Islamist aggressors against British liberal democracy.
In his letter to the chairman of the local party, Freer highlighted serious threats to his personal safety whilst serving as a parliamentarian.
When meeting with constituents at a mosque back in 2011, he was accosted by a group of men belonging to “Muslims Against Crusades”. Freer, who is openly gay and an unapologetic supporter of Israel, had to be relocated to a locked room for protection.
It has also been revealed that Ali Harbi Ali – the Islamist terrorist who stabbed long-serving Tory MP Sir David Amess to death at a constituency surgery in October 2021 – had visited Freer’s constituency intending to attack him.
Alongside these events, Freer has spoken of many “low level incidents” which have clearly taken their toll on him and his husband.
The horrific Islamist killing of Sir David Amess – a fellow member of the Conservative Friends of Israel – should have served as a major wake-up call for Britain.
But instead of recognising the ideological motivations behind a fatal attack which saw a well-respected MP murdered in a church hall, some sought to explain it away by referring to the “toxicity” of social media.
It would be laughable if it wasn’t so utterly tragic.
Islamist terror is not the only threat to MPs safety.
Jo Cox was murdered by a far Right racist; others have been attacked by the mentally disturbed. But Islamist motivated attacks are the greatest threat.
I do not share Mr Freer’s unapologetic support for Israel.
I do not support Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir or Bezalel Smotrich.
I welcomed foreign secretary Lord Cameron’s recent comments to the Conservative Middle East Council, which suggest that Britain is ready to bring forward the moment when it formally recognises a Palestinian state.
The fact that I disagree with him does not change a simple fact: that he is an elected representative who has been returned to the Commons by his local constituents in Finchley & Golders Green on four consecutive occasions.
Part of being a mature British citizen is accepting a plurality of views on domestic and geopolitical matters which are admittedly highly sensitive.
That is at the heart of the social contract that comes with living in an advanced liberal democracy, one where I – as a member of a racial, ethnic, and religious minority – enjoy considerable rights, freedoms, and protections.
But they are to be valued and appreciated – not exploited in an intimidatory fashion in the name of religio-political tribalism.
Freer’s decision to walk away from British politics for fear of his personal safety is yet another example of the Islamist-inspired erosion of British parliamentary democracy.
Irrespective of political affiliation and policy preferences, those who value respect for the rule of law as a cornerstone of our liberal democracy should be gravely concerned.
” If a mistake was made a free judiciary has corrected it and a free press has reported it. ”
A free judiciary and a free press, just like they’ll have in a Free Palestine.
Mass migration will permanently alter Britain
It’s not just a matter of hospitals and houses. The British way of life could be irrevocably changed
ALLISON PEARSON
Call me old-fashioned, but I rather liked our country when women and children didn’t have acid thrown at them in the street, teachers weren’t forced into hiding with their family for educating pupils about religious tolerance, Saturdays in the capital didn’t feature anti-Semitic hate marches and well-loved Members of Parliament didn’t quit their jobs after being subject to death threats because they spoke up for their Jewish constituents.
Yesterday was a perilous and dark moment in the history of this democracy. Mike Freer, Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, announced he was leaving politics after being hounded with death threats for his pro-Israel views.
A decade ago, a group called “Muslims Against Crusades” urged its supporters to target the man who represents the UK’s most heavily Jewish area.
Alluding to the stabbing of Labour MP Stephen Timms by an Islamist extremist, the group told Mr Freer to “let Stephen Timms be a warning to you.”
Today, Mr Freer considers himself “lucky to be alive”, having learned that Ali Harbi Ali, the terrorist who went on to murder Sir David Amess MP in 2021, had turned up at his constituency office in north London with the intention of killing him.
A devastating arson attack there in December followed by an email (calling him “the kind of person who deserved to be set alight”) was the final straw.
Since the heinous massacre by Hamas of 1200 men, women, children and babies in their cribs on October 7 and the occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces, anti-Semites have been horribly emboldened.
As one of the founders of British Friends of Israel, and a signatory to the October Declaration asserting the right of Israel to defend herself, I have had the smallest possible glimpse of what Mike Freer and his husband Angelo have had to endure.
Graphic pictures of defiled and mutilated Israeli women and children have been sent to me as a “Jew-loving bitch” who “deserves the same”.
And yet, perfectly understandable though it is, Mike Freer’s decision to step down is a victory for the zealots who have no respect for the norms of what feels daily like a less and less civilised society.
It’s a capitulation to forces against which we need to stand firm if the ballot box is to mean anything.
But don’t expect the Prime Minister or the Leader of the Opposition to attack the culprits.
After lovely, gentle Sir David was murdered, his fellow Parliamentarians could not wait to change the subject from barbarous slaughter to online safety.
In the Commons, there was a cowardly stampede away from the elephant in the room.
It is a measure of the success of extremist groups that, too often, fear of being seen as Islamophobic now trumps the solemn duty to defend the British way of life.
It’s not only supporters of Israel who are at risk.
Last November, a mob surrounded the Tower Hamlets office of MP Rushanara Ali after she abstained from a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza (never mind that it was the official Labour party position).
A primary school in east London received bomb threats after its headteacher banned pro-Palestine badges.
Katharine Birbalsingh, the redoubtable head of Michaela Community School, and her staff have faced appalling threats of violence after Muslim pupils were told they were not permitted to pray during the school day.
That decision was in keeping with the strict secular ethos which Birbalsingh believes is the best way to bind her multi-faith school together.
But the fanatics in the UK demand ever more concessions.
What runs through these alarming events is a tantrummy defiance, a determination by hardline “community leaders” to get their own way regardless of what custom or the law of the land may say.
As long as such people remain an aggrieved minority it is just about possible to keep a lid on it.
There are enough of us to speak up for our Jewish citizens and call out medieval attitudes towards women, girls and gay people, and to assist those who want to integrate to do so.
I think that’s why I found the Office for National Statistics projection that the UK’s population will exceed 70 million by 2026 so devastating.
It’s not just that our hospitals and transport system can barely cope with the people here already (although they can’t). It’s not just that we know for a fact that our useless elite are not going to build a town the size of Doncaster every year to provide enough housing (so our young people are going to feel ever more alienated).
No, it’s that 92 per cent of the 6.6 million rise – 6.1 million people – will come from immigration, not British people having children.
Such a surge would utterly reshape the Britain we love, its culture and even its language.
Professor Matthew Goodwin points out that, since the 1990s, the share of school pupils whose first language is not English has almost tripled.
I have taught English as a second language in Tower Hamlets, and, let me tell you, it will simply not be possible to integrate such a vast number of human beings within that time frame.
And that’s if they want to be integrated, which the extremists who have hounded out Mike Freer clearly don’t.
Five cities the size of Birmingham within fifteen years.
Seriously?
There is no democratic consent for such demographic change.
No one voted for it. Mindboggling “diversity” is being ushered in against the express will of the people by politicians who think GDP matters more than a contented nation and that anyone who objects is “racist”.
Parliament has the power to stop this, and stop it they must or they will never be forgiven.
And they must do so soon. I could cry thinking of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two world wars to protect this precious island, its values, its green places, its eccentricity, its kindness, its humour.
What did they die for?
So we could become some teeming Travelodge of Babel? Call me old-fashioned, but no.
We have to protest; we must.
A case study in Popper’s paradox of tolerance.
NSW Police say words ‘gas the Jews’ not spoken at Sydney Opera House
If you don’t laugh at this, it is best to cry. After stumbling upon and personally witnessing the ghastly scene at Sydney Town Hall on Monday night 9 October 2023, and then being informed an hour later that Sydney’s CBD was “Judenfrei”, then having spent time viewing and listening to the footage taken of the horror of what happened on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on Monday night 9 October 2023, hear this……
the words “gas the Jews” and “f*ck the Jews” were screamed, shouted and screeched.
End of story.
I cannot quite convey my loathing for the NSWaffen Police. Everyday they fall further into disrepute and ignominy, now they are desperately trying to cover up a dismal and tawdry event in Australian history, and by doing so they are doing the bidding of their Islamist masters. I’m no conspiracy theorist but I watched the joke that is the NSWaffen swoop on ludicrous neo Nazis at North Sydney station, for no reason, because those men had committed no crime, yet this same Waffen not only provided an escort to Islamist and leftist scum, they stood back and allowed such scum to scream, shout and screech Jew hatred.
By the way, four weeks after that dreadful night the same NSWaffen provided a personal escort to a convicted terrorist and and convoy of Islamist and leftist scum to drive all the way from the western suburbs of Sydney to the eastern suburbs of Sydney, where it just so happens lots of Jews live. It was an act designed to intimidate and threaten Jews, sanctioned by the NSWaffen Police.
I will repeat what I wrote above…
the words “gas the Jews” and “f*ck the Jews” were screamed, shouted and screeched on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on Monday night 9 October 2023.
I’m no language expert, but the sound and syntax of the sentence in the footage I have seen in no way resembles “where’s the Jews”.
And even if Cassie of Sydney is wrong, and yes, that can happen, a frenzied and frothing mob of Muslim and leftist scum screeching, screaming and shouting “where’s the Jews” on Monday night 9 October 2023 is just as intimidating and just as threatening as a frenzied mob screaming “gas the Jews”. Jewish history is replete with stories of mobs across Europe and the middle east screaming “where’s the Jews”…..before they rape and murder Jews and then pillage Jewish property.
Hear this, I never want to hear anyone ever say to me that I should respect the NSWaffen Police.
Canberra scuttlebutt:
Penny Wong all set to resign in next few months.
Presumably to spend more time with her family.
As one of Albanese’s Praetorian guard that’s going to make him more vulnerable.
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft
Interesting background article in the wake of the last Boeing screw up.
The British way of life could be irrevocably changed
Was this written 20 years ago??
Let’s see how they cope with this colonisation. Will they prefer the old Yankees or the new colonists brought over by coyotes?
Vicki, my grandson is also in the armed forces and they have been told war likely within five years.
calli it was Black Jock out of Porridge, though I notice the “Black” has been scrubbed from history.
A woman, aged in her 30s, was being helped off the tracks at Berowra by a man, aged in his 20s, when they were both hit by a freight train about midnight on Friday, police said.
Other reports are that he threw her phone onto the tracks & she jumped down to get it.
So he might not be the hero the initial reports make out.
That is your problem.
We have become a credentialed society, one can be as wrong as possible and still believed over others as long as he/she has the appropriate papers to prove of being an “expert”.
NSW Plod digging themselves a bigger hole.
How long before the details of the “expert” are known?
Enoch Powell is unavailable for comment.
How long before the details of the “expert” are known?
How dare you impugn the expert from the not-Hamarse listening agency..
More Canberra scuttlebutt:
A rift has developed between Albanese & Chalmers over the handling of the tax cuts.
If true, the wheels are really coming off this government now.
They were saying Boo-urns! Boo-urns!
Almost as amazing as seeing the value exaggerated merely for argumentative purposes.
With the exception of items of sentimental value, property can be replaced, lives cannot. To judge the value of property as almost equal to the value of lives surprises me.
Powell’s mistake was targeting West Indian Christian migrants while largely ignoring the challenge large numbers of Muslims from the sub-continent would pose to British social cohesion.
You sir, truly are the King of Kings.
If it’s my ears versus an expert, I’ll go with my ears every time.
I heard it on video. It’s just possible that it could have been faked; you can’t rule it out these days, but that isn’t what the ‘expert’ is claiming. The ‘phuk the jooz’ call was also quite clear.
Given that, the likelihood of it being ‘gas the jews’ is rather high even if you couldn’t hear it for yourself.
This plick murdered an MP less than three years ago, and is now free, looking for more victims? WTF’etyF?
Dot
Say what, Dot?
Gee, isn’t Israel naughty. Wonder what else can be found scaping amongst the dregs of the internet. Yummy. What fun.
No, this was before he murdered David Amess, for which crime he will be in prison until the day he dies.
Roger
OK, thanks.
American Fiction- looks good.
Oddly, the plot seems like something which South Park could thoroughly wring out in 22 minutes. Methinks they actually already have. I suppose that’s the glamour of Hollywood, throw a few hunred millon at it and git seen on the big screen.
The Israelis obviously anally raped the 82 year old before breaking her legs and then throwing her in the back of a ute to be photographed and then thrown in a pit.
Also, they may have baked the woman’s children in an oven while making her watch.
Oh. Wait, wait.
If the audio expert has massaged the evidence to suit the police narrative and that is confirmed by an independent authority that is the end of his career, not to mention the police commissioner.
Would they risk it? I don’t know.
Baker’s Delight trending on Twitter.
Why?
I can’t hear her name again.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1753073740366360787
Barking Toad:
There are some organisations that just love the concepts of ‘Protocols’. It’s a word that speaks of powerful institutional authority.
Sometimes they have to be reminded that Protocols are waayyy down the list of Laws and Regulations.
Bakers Delight founder Roger Gillespie
They also donate to the IPA and other conservative causes, along with the Paspaley family.
I don’t think a boycott by inner-city scum will hurt Bakers Delight.
Disbarred attorney jailed for bribery testifies he gave James Biden $800K in loans, only got half back in new twist
At least two young junior officers in our armed forces – from families known to us – have been told that we will be at war within three years.
Respectfully, junior officers in the ADF don’t get formally told things like that. They may have picked it up in informal discussions, but the classified intelligence forecasts aren’t promulgated far and wide, and anyway, they’re classified.
The Oz 2 tiered system of justice wields the marinated lettuce leaf .. again! ..
Its not what you do but who you know .. no conviction recorded for a stealing offence that carries up to 10 years gaol .. wouldn’t want to interfere with his future “silver spoon” career prospects would we … I’m guessin’ some “kid” from “houso” doing this “crime” wouldn’t be so lucky .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13035909/Rich-kid-Lachie-Chittenden-fear-eyes-grovels-magistrate-Byron-Bay-Schoolies-bender-paid-strangers-Amex-card-hes-forced-answer-single-question-wants-addressed.html
With the exception of items of sentimental value, property can be replaced, lives cannot. To judge the value of property as almost equal to the value of lives surprises me.
Didn’t see where this started but you need to spend part of your life working to acquire property. I call theft and the theft of your time the administrative state imposes, “little murders”. They add up.
mem
Feb 2, 2024 10:51 AM
Why thankee, mem.
I’ve no idea where that bit of political prose came from. Must have been the weetbix I had for brekky.
Yep, TE.
I joined in 1989 and was told in Singleton – the School of Infantry – that we could expect to be at war within 12 months as a result of Tiananmen Square.
I was told this by a corporal.
This stuff has all the hallmarks of the nonsense a couple of years ago where Terry from the Tyre Shop in the Army Reserve was going around telling people he’d received a letter warning him out for ‘active duty’, and that ‘he couldn’t say too much’ because of the ‘Official Secrets Act’.
This is true. They ‘have been told’ by people who speculate and want to motivate their team to work well because what they do is important.
The scope of capital works for the DoD tells the same story. The acquisitions tell the same story: Defence is picking up their game.
It is very unlikely as you say, that warning orders have been issued for war preparation. That is their job anyway.
This plick murdered an MP less than three years ago, and is now free, looking for more victims? WTF’etyF?
Nope ..! he was referring to a time frame before the murder .. the implication being if he’d been in his office it could have been him instead of the actual victim …….
..To judge the value of property as almost equal to the value of lives surprises me..
Spoken like a true son of the South!
/Im teasing
On a serious note, how many years of effective “enslavement” is represented by the money poured into a family home?
If only
The Plot Thickens as Comeuppance Looms for the Unhinged Zealots of the Vax Brigade.
Wow. US Speaker of the House slams Biden in a floor speech.
Cites 64 cases of liein Biden efforts to weaken the southern border and increase illegal immigration.
Amazing that he is now claiming “there is nothing I can do” to close the border without the Republicans authorizing him to give more money to Ukraine… and yes, that makes as little sense as it sounds.
They seem to be working hard to the same end here.
Layoffs surged 136% in January to second-highest level on record
She sings for her audience. She is in the dating pool. Some argue her academic record points to the gifted range. She wrote her first song at 12 years old. What does Shapiro expect her to do? Write songs for people who don’t buy her albums? I’ve never listened to her music but the few reviews I’ve read have been glowing.
EU agrees $54 billion in new aid for Ukraine as Hungary falls in line
And, just by the by.
The road to the New World Order runs through Ukraine
We are literally paying for our own enslavement.
Do not believe your lying ears.
The Biden Administration Is Treading On Texas’ Sovereignty, Not The Other Way Around
Steve Bannon: I Will Be Shocked If There Are No Criminal Referrals for What Victoria Nuland and Others Have Done in Other Countries in the Name of the American People
Neil Oliver: Watch Out – it’s lies & forever fear!
LOL
thefrollickingmole
Feb 2, 2024 11:37 AM
I think that’s the straw that broke the concept of Police integrity.
I know what I saw and heard.
A recall of our governments at all levels is required.
To my mind “Where’s the Jews” is more sinister than “Gas the Jews.” The latter could be seen as rhetorical given they lack the means to do it. “Where’s the Jews” indicates they were intent on targeting Jewish people who might be present at the Opera House and intimidating them.
Subsequently (the following week?) car convoys to suburbs with high numbers of Jewish households are organised for just that purpose and in a separate incident a group of Jewish teenagers is threatened with death for displaying the Israeli flag.
But…neo-Nazis!
Respectfully, junior officers in the ADF don’t get formally told things like that.
Junior Officers failed cadet class at boarding school.
They touch themself at night.
The problem is that we are so far down the food chain that our complaints matter nought.
Our organisations are corrupt from the top down, and activists have long hollowed them out of people with integrity.
The only solution is the long walk back, using the same merciless tactics used by the left. A secret, silent hollowing out of quislings everywhere, using plausible excuses.
White-ant everything. Alas, by the time such a process could be completed we will be living in Orwell’s hell. Or our children,,at least. When they’re deep in chains, our words will echo back. They’ll just have to deal with it.
I’m not exaggerating the value of the family home. There are priceless memories associated with mine that aren’t just tied up in things like books, photos or objects of sentimental value, associated with our lives and those of our loved ones. A home is more than an object, its an extension of the person/s that live/d there.
Dover, those who burn other people inside their own homes do not deserve consideration of any sort let alone for a family home. Argumentativeness does not enter into it.
You sir, truly are the King of Kings.
Drink up, Judah Ben-Hur.
Senor Spielbergo’s greatest work.
Junior officers covered in Top Enders statement include all below half-colonel and need to know.
Russell Brand
So I Went On Tucker And This Happened…
Andrew Lawrence
Stop f**king with the farmers
Did they chant ‘Gas the Jews’ or ‘Where’s the Jews!’
Spectator Australia – Andrew L. Urban – 2 February 2024 – 1:40 PM
Do you mean COVID?
Hell, I held out for 53 weeks and 1 day. Alas, I was not the last holdout.
Excellente!
John H, here’s an unusual cover of one of Taylor Swifts biggest hits. She can write a catchy tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c6U1H4j2YM
What they deserve is a Dresden-like firestorm that takes them, their homes, their grandparents, their dentist, and the Mister Minit franchisee that once fixed their shoes.
That Israel has not delivered that means they have kept an iron discipline to retain their moral basis.
To date, the all in funds ripped up on the metaverse investment by Meta (fb) is $US40bill making it one of the biggest boondoggles in US corporate history.
But to put this into perspective, that’s what Meta now generates a quarter in revenue.
Looks like after a couple of years of ripping up money on that idiocy, they are back on track raping & pillaging the global ad market & clipping tickets on ecommerce (ie tricking people into one click purchases of things they see on instagram).
On one of the uncontested words from the demonstartion, right after the rebranded “where the jews”.
takbir
But is one of those multiple usage words, Islamo-weasels like to use
In battle
Historically, the takbir has been used as a cry of victory.[21] Ibn Ishaq’s 8th century Life of Mohammed narrates two occasions when Muhammad proclaimed the Takbir during battle.[22]
Thanks P. I’ve just listened to it again and they definitely scream “gas the Jews“.
As Urban writes in his Speccie piece…
It is my opinion that this interpretation by police is an insult to the public’s intelligence.
I spit on the NSW Police Force.
That piece implies the expert was a detective or detectives.
It was earlier reported as “independent forensic analysis.”
Someone has their facts wrong.
“Where’s the Jews” indicates they were intent on targeting Jewish people who might be present at the Opera House and intimidating them.
Correct, they were hunting Jews…and the NSWaffen stood by and smiled.
META has a PE over 50 and has never paid a dividend.
Taylor Swift is not my thing but she has one song I like, “Style”.
META has a PE over 50 and has never paid a dividend.
It just declared it’s first one.
I think TikTok will eat it’s lunch in the ad space.
But not the ecommerce side of things.
Who in their right mind would transact on TikTok.
Charity bus? So the illegals, even the thugs among them, are not expected to pay for anything? That’s will please the average Americans no end, particularly those who can barely afford petrol to go to work. Watch Trump’s poll numbers go even higher.
Eyrie
It started with the comment by Dover below, and my response thereto.
Who in their right mind would transact on TikTok.
That little outburst just cost you 500 social credit points.
You have also been summonsed to the ministry of fun on the 50th floor of Joy tower.
Coincidentally your lack of social credit means you no longer have elevator privileges.
Yours in Joy: Winnie the Xi.
Just to enlarge on how intelligence forecasts work…
Intel services world-wide look at potential problem areas. They analyse it continuously using a “desk” system – eg: 10 chaps and chapettes read everything they can on the situation, being the “Gaza desk” OR they have a “Kamara desk” eg: a country of interest.
They routinely issue intelligence briefs along the lines of “Kamara’s new F-16 purchase – implications”.
The brief usually contains an element of forecast using key words like “likely” or “probably” or “almost certainly”. These are tied to percentages – eg: the last one means we think there is a 90% chance of something happening.
The briefs are given to people who have a NEED to know, and a RIGHT to know. You have to have both to get the brief, and you go to a sanitised room to hear it, or read it on a classified computer.
Only about 5% of armed forces get to see the very top level briefs.
Lastly, intel shops don’t predict what their own country will do – that’s up to the political leaders, unless of course they are one and the same.
Try listening to T Swifty’s muzak to see if it works or not. I am not in the target market but still it generates no feeling for or against.
Aside from arguing about your own home being burnt, look at the source of the info about the IDF, and the confusing details in the garbled report about the chain of command. Does every action on the battle field require general or need specific legal authorisation?
Do the three officers rank above or below the single commander with unknown rank? Who are the un-named sources who told Haaretz about the absence of legal authorisation?
As reported, it sounds like a beatup with muddy unnamed sources, loaded with assumptions and implications about chain of command and authorisations.
Which is completely inexcusable.
I cannot believe NSW police can’t see what I outlined above.
Looking for some anti-Albanese talking points I looked up his property portfolio. Impressive for a socialist lad who hates both negative gearing and landlords.
I then looked at Dutton’s. Oops. But he at least does not make hypocritical pronouncements about those who choose to get on in life.
You’ll have noticed there wasn’t a New Year cabinet reshuffle in the Elbow regime, what’s left of the Faceless Men having decided they could ride out referendum fallout and the incompetence of home affairs minister Clare O’Neill, for example:
So what’s left of the Faceless Men have decided, as long as Newspoll finds Labor is in a 2PP tie or better with the LNP, there’s no need for action because Mr Potato Head is unelectable — isn’t he?
Roll on, Newspoll!
PS: the suburbs are full of shy conservatives who make themselves known only on election day.
I saw the raw footage on Sharri Markson’s show several weeks ago, and there were most definitely calls to “gas the Jews.”
You couldn’t possibly misconstrue it as “where’s the Jews” unless you are near-deaf.
NSW plod are lying.
Home is an interesting concept. I’ve lived in many houses but only two homes. It has nothing to do with the size and lavishness of the place. Most houses are overated. The best place was a two storey 250 sq m on an acre out on a point overlooking the bay on a private road. The only thing going for it was its position. Built in the 1930’s out of fibro, lined with ply from tea chests. It came with maids quarters and a separate outside long drop for her lest she discovered her employers poo stank. This was their weekender. The place I’m living in now is the longest I’ve been in one house, 17 years, and only became a home a year ago. What makes a home, I don’t really know, but I like the feeling. Living on my yacht used to be pretty good too.
Who TF would do business on FB?
There can’t be billions of chicks selling candles off their husbands’ overtime.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-riddled-ex-CIA-agents-ex-FBI-agents-work-Twitter.html
Spooks infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook is riddled with ex-CIA agents – including President’s briefer who now runs ‘harmful content’ team – so many ex-FBI work at Twitter they have Slack channel and Google is rife with ex-CIA
Mint Press’ Alan MacLeod found that former CIA agents made up some of the top ranks in almost every politically sensitive department at Meta
He also found that former FBI agents migrated to Twitter in droves
DailyMail.com has been able to track down many of these former intelligence officials who are now working at top tech companies
I believe that META has always made money as a black money cash cow, at least since the IPO.
I still don’t believe their financials. 8.59 USD per share earnings available to common equity and they pay…50 cents per share?
Paying 453 USD per share for 50 c USD of dividends?
Okay, investors, you make my decisions look rational. The dividend yield pre tax is like 0.11% !!!
Having moved home three times, perhaps I take a more utilitarian view. Each time we moved, we discarded things we no longer wanted. Some of them (in my case, literally hundreds of books) had considerable personal/sentimental value, but they could not, in practical terms, come with us.
Must remember to pick up some rolls and a rodini from them tomorrow.
January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share.
The reported contretemps between Albanese and Chalmers over the tax cuts, could have legs.
We all know that Chalmers opposed any tax cuts. Perhaps the fiddle was a payoff to keep Chalmers on side.
Could it be that Albanese is inadvertaintly protecting us from the economic lunacy of Chalmers? Chalmers is to ecomomics what Bowen is to power.
The mob screaming in front of the Opera House with the Israeli flag projected, why did they want to know where to find Jews here in Sydney? The police knew exactly why – that’s the reason they kept Jews away.
Quibling over “gas them” or “where are they” is a distraction, just language sophistry glossing over the overt murderous intent prompted by their glorifying the sexually depraved slaughter of Jews done on their behalf in Israel. They wanted it here too.
I don’t even know what Taylor Swift looks like. Never heard her music nor even know if it is music. Ill3give her the benefit of doubt but the again the Lard Arse Kardashians had lots of fans too.
Mass migration will permanently alter Britain
It’s not just a matter of hospitals and houses. The British way of life could be irrevocably changed
ALLISON PEARSON
This applies equally here. While it would be a difficult meme to follow, I believe that a political party that calls an end to massive immigration numbers would attract a worthy following.
Of course it is a tricky call, since so many previous migrants want their families to follow. But if they could be convinced that further immigration risks the destruction of the way of life they coveted, I think they could be convinced.
Of course, there is one particular religious bloc that will scream and kick. But they are precisely the ones whose numbers we need to curtail. NOW.
That’s several instances, perhaps protocols have changed recently. Could it also be a strategy to inspire new recruits?
Dot, I have a level of trust in the PayPal gateway when it comes to transacting on instagram.
I don’t mind buying small value shite via that platform.
Even though the PayPal gateway is plugging into TikTok, I reckon they would have no idea of the tech TikTok has.
In 10 years time, if via PayPal, Instagram (fb/meta) admitted they had some kind of access to bank accounts, it would surprise me.
I would be surprised if TikTok said they did not.
I’ll, -3. Fat fingers.
This is quite amazing.
https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/yahoo-is-out-of-reasons-for-not-paying-a-dividend-12705807
Only two years later in 2016, the visual capitalist charted “the rise and fall of yahoo”.
Cassie,
P
Feb 2, 2024 2:41 PM
Did they chant ‘Gas the Jews’ or ‘Where’s the Jews!’
Spectator Australia – Andrew L. Urban – 2 February 2024 – 1:40 PM
Ambivalent on the first lot – but definitely “Gas the Jews” just before FTJ and definitely after FTJ
Mark Cuban sort of curses other businesspeople. He’s bad luck!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-rise-fall-yahoo/
Spotted on twitter as a controversy, that was an Anglican service I stumbled on at St Bartholomew’s, the invitor did say ‘service’ I assumed it was ecumenical, wrong
controversy
The briefs are given to people who have a NEED to know, and a RIGHT to know. You have to have both to get the brief, and you go to a sanitised room to hear it, or read it on a classified computer.
Top Ender, the advice that disturbed my sleep was that given to us plebs in the book of the late Jim Molin, “Danger on our Doorstep”.
Thanks. I’ll do that at some point. I listened to the link provided above. I probably won’t take to her music. Too set in my musical preferences although my recent introduction to Wolf Alice via Rabz was a pleasing revelation.
The Labor zealot — from R.F.X. Connor to Chris Bowen to Jim Chalmers — is a unique breed: not very bright intellectually, but cunning and up to their necks in backroom politics.
Excellent observation, Johanna.
Roger at 12:59 PM
Indeed. That is why I think that “Where’s the Jews” was a far more dangerous statement than “Gas the Jews”. Those people at the Opera House forecourt had no practical way to set up a mini-Auschwitz by the harbour, but they had (and would have used if they could) the capability to assault of murder any Jews they came across.
That is the only valid reason NSWPlod had to arrest the man with the Israeli flag: They lacked the numbers to control the mob. Their real failure was not weakness the first time, it is the ongoing unwillingness to control the Mooslime Mobs.
I’ve never listened to her music but the few reviews I’ve read have been glowing.
My middle Daughter s driving up from Melbourne later this month with 2 of her kids to see TS Sydney show ………
Lets give the devil his due; if it was “Where’s the Jews” it’s just as bad.
It’s also appalling grammar, which given the cohort is to be expected.
… or murder …
Sounds exactly like the Bureau of Meteorology. And as accurate.
I have to say I don’t know why governments bother with strategic Intelligence, since it seems from long historical experience always to be exactly wrong. An oxymoron staffed by morons. They would be better served by devoting the money and staff to infantry and armour capability and readiness.
the advice that disturbed my sleep was that given to us plebs in the book of the late Jim Molin, “Danger on our Doorstep”.
That’s the advantage of being out of the armed forces, and out of the public circus – you can write what you like. Plus Jim wrote well.
My personal preference has been to write mainly on the nuke submarine shambles for The Spectator. I could never have done that while in the Services.
Personally I think the Chinese are a nation of shopkeepers and aren’t the Third Reich revitalised, despite several revolting habits. I can’t see them invading Taiwan or doing anything close to it, despite sabre-rattling.
If they get their carrier ideas expanded, and operating at carrier full strength capabilities and rampaging around the world I might have a rethink.
I distinctly remember shortly after the event seeing some close in footage of crazed moozley sh*tbags (BIRM) screeching “kill da Jooze, gas da Jooze” as they were stomping maniacally towards the Oprah House steps. It absolutely infuriated me at the time unlike anything I’d seen or heard for many many moons.
The latter footage of the backs of the crowd is not what I’m talking about above, BTW, where the first part of the quote of the screech above appears to stopped (presumably after some of them were advised to tone it down a bit).
Interesting that earlier footage of that appalling hatefest appears to have been memory holed.
What should have happened that evening – the moozleys should have been bashed into the next post code, arrested and then gaoled indefinitely, before being forcibly deported to whatever shithole they emanated from, along with their stinking stupid families, regardless of whether they were born here or not.
I am no longer in any mood to share a country, let alone a planet, with these disgusting evil filthy bestial inbred sacks of excrement.
As for NSW police, I’ve always regarded them as worse than useless as well as utterly incompetent and corrupt.
Thoughts?
This is allowable per the guidance in SMSFR 2008/2 paragraph 131 and is not considered a breach of the sole purpose test.
“If an SMSF trustee is reimbursed out of the funds of the SMSF for expenses properly incurred in the administration of the SMSF, the reimbursement will not involve the provision of a benefit in contravention of the sole purpose test. “
Angus Taylor in the Oz about the Liars revamp of Stge 3 Tax Cuts.
Must remember to pick up some rolls and a rodini from them tomorrow.
I don’t think much of their rolls and buns, but Baker’s Delight wholemeal bread loaves are the best around.
Perhaps we aren’t getting the full story but anyhow, those wicked Israelis
with her ‘caregiver’ who remains in custody
Just finished a yummy sticky date bun from Baker’s Delight with butter and French cherry jam on it, Bought two this morning in place of brekkie and lunch. Attacked one in the car coming home. This one with jam was my lunch. Hairy begged me for half of it as it was so delicious. I am so glad to hear they need my continuing support. 🙂
With the evergrowing so called taking back our land protests it seems they want it all ways our land and your improvements for 200 years . So let ‘s demand you can have your land back but please give back all cultural appropriation Start with what you are wearing you certainly did not have clothes when the Brits arrived . Here’ a piece of twine to tie your Dick wiith.
NSW Police sound like that (pretending innocence) interviewer who sought to assure her TV audience that the crowd was chanting “Let’s go, Brandon!”
Nice.
And remember, Labor both State and Federal have shafted the Kulaks, I mean farmers as hard as they can. This ‘class war’ is not theoretical.
I wouldn’t be panicking over scuttlebutt from junior officers, I have family in the armed forces, they aren’t repeating any such claims and if we suddenly have universal conscription we are all in big trouble.
I remember when I was young being told by an Army recruit an Indonesian invasion was imminent.
Still waiting for that one.
Don’t know why I am sending this out
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Yes TE
Going to be difficult to continue to flood the western world with cheap Chinese goods if they declare war on the west.
Bruce of N
Very many years ago, I worked in an “oxymoron staffed by morons”.
Strategic intelligence, if based on hard assessments of capabilities, can be quite accurate. If country X has a large army, but miniscule navy and air force, their capability to do Australia harm is limited. Strategic intelligence can make sound judgements on these matters.
The big problem arises as things become more tactical. If all three services in the potential enemy are of an adequate size, then judging their intent becomes more important, and it is very difficult to read the minds of people from different cultures.
That is where things can go “exactly wrong”. See Israel in October 1973 and again in October 2023. The relevant capabilities existed, the ability to read minds did not (and there could have been an element of military and political complacency involved).
Yep. I am not hearing such either.
The universal conscription idea was caught and shot about 1977. Professionalisation of the military, and technical advance of what they actually do, meant that even then they could use only a very small number of a particular year cohort.
Not sure how long ago that was, but the size of the Indonesian Navy and Air Force is not exactly a deep secret. Are they all good swimmers, who do not fear sharks or crocodiles?
All are abhorrent, but it was without doubt ‘gas the Jews’ in the early clips I saw. If it was ‘Where’s the Jews’ it would imply an intended immediate action, as Cassie pointed out, not an immediate vain but desired hope as in ‘gas’. Whereabouts were not being sought, but a reference to the Holocaust was definitely being made.
Imagine if a group of Jews marched yelling ‘Eff the Muslims’ or ‘Drown the Muslims’ or ‘Where’s the Muslims’. It would be unthinkable and outrageous.
Why charges can’t be laid against the leaders of this outrage on the Opera House forecourt is beyond rational thinking. But cover-up is the name of the police game.
I eagerly await the identity of the doubtless left-hearing phonemic specialist who has such certainty about this matter. I’d give him a phoneme or two in return.
“I don’t think much of their [bakers delight] rolls and buns,…”
The cheese and olive rolls are awesome.
As are the spinach and feta pull-aparts.
Now I know they back conservatives, I’m even more likely to buy ’em!
H B Bear
Feb 2, 2024 3:32 PM
Roger at 12:59 PM
I tend to agree but let’s leave aside the fact that she is out of her depth in her current portfolio. Also rats and all that!
I remember from long ago someone saying India regarded Australia as a promising target. The most prominent advocates of the China threat are the upper echelons of the USA military. Aging men who have reached the peak in their military careers and probably aiming for lucrative position as a military consultant with Lockheed etc. In a sense it is outrageous. For example, the F 22, 186 built, at 340 million each, unequaled air superiority fighter. Kills to date: one balloon.
Why is burning houses rather than blowing them up more heinous?
Houses belonging to hamas leaders, houses with booby traps, houses with weapons caches, houses with tunnels or just poor innocent houses minding their own business?
I remember this BS, being flown like a kite before 9/11.
IDF soldiers burn houses in Gaza amid shortage of explosives; ‘not as revenge’
“But let’s not leave aside”. I’ve had a hard day.
Thank God for that. Imagine the tantrums otherwise.
That’s the one for me, Old Ozzie. 🙂
Fight the years with the services of a good beautician.
And remember that birthday cake has no calories.
Lotsa cake = sheer enjoyment = longevity.
Simply mix well with gin.
That, and keep reading. You’re never to old to learn.