UK judge orders Trump to pay $380K to man who penned infamous ‘Steele Dossier’

But in February, Justice Karen Steyn tossed the suit — without determining whether the allegations in the dossier were true or false — and ordered Trump to compensate Steele for his legal fees.

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Fake news will say it was empty

but

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The line to get into Biden’s speech in Atlanta, Georgia tonight.

They really do want WWIII

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Indolent
Mar 10, 2024 9:08 AM
UK judge orders Trump to pay $380K to man who penned infamous ‘Steele Dossier’

But in February, Justice Karen Steyn tossed the suit — without determining whether the allegations in the dossier were true or false — and ordered Trump to compensate Steele for his legal fees.

No surprise; look at the kunt.

dover0beach
Mar 10, 2024 9:10 AM
Massive defeat for cultural liberalism in Ireland. Referendum on redefining family and women’s role in the family defeated resoundingly, 67.7% to 32.3% and 73.9% to 26.1%, respectively. Only a single wealthy electorate voted, Yes.

I’m glad to see that Ireland is even better than Australia, that sane people outnumber the socially confused, and I’m being polite here, with such majorities.

Called in 1995, Karen practised from 2000 at 11KBW, focusing on public law, human rights, public international law and information law, with particular specialisms in armed conflict and national security. Karen was a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s A Panel, the Attorney General’s A Panel and the Welsh local authorities’ panel. She took silk in 2014.

I used to think the media was the main enemy of the West but I think the judiciary has supplanted the media as the main enemy of the West.

Tony Burke nods approvingly. Daily Telegraph with James Campbell reporting:

An American think-tank that monitors Muslim extremists has unearthed a February sermon at a Lakemba mosque in which an imam called Jews a “criminal, barbaric, tyrannical enemy” and demanded Palestine be restored “through Jihad for the sake of Allah”.

Telling his congregation in southwest Sydney that Jews had “trespassed on the land of (other) people and oppressed them”, imam Abdul Salam Zoud said: “These people only understand the language of force.”

He also said “all the billions that were spent to improve, beautify, and highlight the image of the Jews have all gone in vain”.

The sermon, which was delivered last month at the Masjid As-Sunnah mosque in Lakemba and published on its Facebook page, has been translated by the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) and uploaded to its website.

Since 1997 MEMRI has published English translations of Arabic material.

In the sermon the imam also said that “Jihad for the sake of Allah is the only solution when it comes to the infidel” and — in English — “to liberate and retrieve Palestine”.

The content of the sermon has outraged MPs and Jewish leaders, who said it should not be tolerated.

Liberal Senator Dave Sharma called the speech “disgusting” and “un-Australian”

“If it is not unlawful it should be,” he said.

“That crosses the line from free speech into inciting violence.”

Mr Sharma drew a contrast between the open displays of hatred with the recent case of Matildas captain Sam Kerr who is currently facing prosecution in the UK for allegedly calling a policeman a white bastard.

“This guy is citing violence against a whole group of people — Sam Kerr wasn’t doing that — but here police don’t seem to be interested,” he said.

David Ossip, President, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, said: “If we are serious about maintaining the communal cohesion and harmony we all treasure, we surely cannot tolerate hate preachers poisoning the minds of their adherents by vilifying other Australians and calling for jihad.

“Such sermons are incredibly dangerous and are completely inconsistent with our Australian values.”

In December, another imam at the mosque was revealed to have said Jews were “terrorists” and “monsters” who have “removed mercy from their hearts”.

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

Rabz the joint with imams inside.

flyingduk
Mar 10, 2024 9:54 AM
Biden has instigated the Berlin airlift for Gaza….Like its Germany in 1944.
try 1948 ?

Methinx, you missed the “sarcasm” bit .. LOL!

“We will see very hot temperatures reaching into the high 30s and low 40s,” he said.

Laffing out loud .. I don’t have air con (houso) .. and anytime the temp outside passes 35C it’s around 47C in the kitchen ….. it’s part of life .. you get used to it ..
trick .. kitchen temp doesn’t bother me cos I switch the portable a/c in the front room on and stay there .. LOL!

British police finally stop “monitoring the situation” and spring into action…

They arrested a lone anti-Hamas protester in London after he was surrounded & set upon by a pro-Pali crowd.

I suppose they’ll say it was for his own protection. Yet the police were an easy match for the crowd and no action was taken against any member of it. I’d call it moral and physical cowardice.

Know that generally a strong monsoonal pulse in the north keeps the high pressure systems south.
The highs are sliding a long way south of the continent. Hence the summer easterlies persisting along the east coast.

Where else, apart from academia and miscellaneous NGOs (often also funded by the taxpayer) are graduates of courses like indigenous and feminist “studies” going to find jobs?

..
On the boards of major Australian mining companies, where they will busy themselves with initiatives to ensure gender quotas and renewables.

A different pool and the incident happened several years ago.

Yes, but it illustrates a pattern.

If you imbue people with the attitude that the land “always was, always will be aboriginal” don’t be surprised if they have no respect for private property.

I’m fairly sure a survey of regional Australian’s would confirm it’s not a problem that’s isolated to Broome.

Farmer Gez
Mar 10, 2024 8:02 AM
Bom claim that the current string of a few hot days in March has only occurred four times in the past hundred years.

Epic gaslighting.

Time to bring the uptix back!

👍

If you imbue people with the attitude that the land “always was, always will be aboriginal” don’t be surprised if they have no respect for private property.

Yes. Plus a health dose of Marx and the class struggle. Police, residents and offenders all know the “justice system” is a revolving door. Unless you are the cable tie Old Mate.

The major parties in the Anglophone world are largely alienated from the majority of the public across most issues.

Then why is it that the majority of the public keep voting for these parties?

The major parties in the Anglophone world are largely alienated from the majority of the public across most issues.

I got there first yesterday.

“It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a syndrome.”

h/t Bork

This Week in Culture is a tough one full of trannies and screeching white leftie kunts; I could only get 2 minutes to where the trannie was talking about his doggie’s preferences.

I feel unusually shouty and aggressive today.

Could it be the Aggerall?

Moving on…

‘Biden’s DEI rules are worse than HAMAS’: Top microchip makers are postponing US expansion and instead expanding in dangerous Israel and Russia because American grants come with so many ‘equity’ caveats

News corp papers reporting 75,000 nurses left the job since Covid.
You left out why.
Nurses were in the front line & actually saw the effects of Covid

Nurses and doctors were indeed in the frontline in seeing Covid policy in action, especially in relation to mRNA vaccines. Doctors have committed a far amount in pursuing a career in medicine & are unlikely to throw it in readily. Nurses have also committed a great deal to their careers – but I believe are far more likely to call it quits and seek other employment.

I have noted here before that recent experience with GPs & specialists revealed that they will not even talk about Covid – let alone the vaccines. They just move on to other topics.

hefrollickingmole
Mar 10, 2024 12:19 PM

To put it another way, Broome has a crime index roughly equal to Rio di janeiro

Hey, at least it’s not like Chicago.

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

The contribution of Jews to Western society has been vast: science, arts, entertainment, business…okay, perhaps not sport. They have through European history many times victims of prejudice or the capricious calculations of ambitious princes, but when allowed in from the fringes we have all benefitted.

So what a laughable spectacle it is to see some imam – puffed up with self-importance and the epitome of the forces that have kept Islam backward, benighted, bereft of refinement, and hyper-vigilant for the slightest difference in word or manner to mark others as betraying Allah’s true will demanding their annihilation – coming to Australia and telling us (and here he is calling on all his wisdom and experience) that we need to be rid of Jews if we wish to flourish.

He will get around to explaining how we should get rid of this Christ fellow later. Then how people without religion are holding Australia back.

Education Minister Di Farmer introduced the Education (General Provisions) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 on March 6, which includes amendments related to homeschooling.
Under the proposed changes, students who are schooled at home are required to follow the government’s syllabus for senior subjects.

251s aged between 5 & 18 excluded .. cos .. schooling, home or classroom is sooooo “white” ……..!

Winston Smith Mar 10, 2024 12:05 PM

+1
Spot on with every word.

Matters indigenous -the latest amongst the “activists” in this part of the world is that they are entitled to (sizeable) compensation packages, as part of the “Stolen Generation.” The fact that none of them were born until years after those removals ceased, is a factor they appear unwilling to accommodate in their thinking….

Roger Mar 10, 2024 12:37 PM
The French aren’t tolerating it anymore…
Imam who ‘called the French flag satanic’ has his residency permit cancelled after living in the country since the 1980s and is deported to North Africa

The French mandarin & political class have a love of French culture.

Ours have a deep loathing of our culture.

Duk, you’re a Wooden Boat subscriber too. I knew I liked you.
I have had a 3HP vertical marine steam engine for the best part of 40 years, awaiting completion* of the ‘African Queen’ project.

Duk is a gentleman and a scholar.

Close friend has a Couta boat which my husband used to sail on. We all used to go to the Hobart wooden boat show every year. We once visited Sur in Oman, where wooden dhows are still constructed using traditional techniques.

What are the odds of mum being held responsible for their truancy, yeah I didn’t think so either.

She might be one of those parents who won’t send their kids to school for fear of “losing their culture?”

Thorpe calls out Wong at pro-Palestine rally
Staff writers
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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has accused Foreign Minister Penny Wong of being “too scared” to reinstate UNRWA funding.

Speaking at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne, Ms Thorpe called out Ms Wong for being afraid of her Labor colleagues as Sweden and Canada resumed funding to the United Nations aid agency on Saturday.

“All she [Ms Wong] has to do is release the funds to ensure that humanitarian aid is available yesterday, the day before. Not next week, urgently,” she said.

“Penny Wong is too scared of others in her government, like the Attorney-General, who holds the key to genocide in this country.”

– Mikaela Mulveney

With friends like Lydia Thorpe, do the Palis really need enemies?

With the age factor being evident here with an obvious example, watching movies in the early afternoon on weekdays, I thought this may be of interest to retired investors. Don’t buy shitty little stocks with high vol. At least no it’s a real gamble.

How investors get risk wrong
Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform

Illustration of a man pulling a dollar bill from under a bomb

Hire a wealth manager, and one of their first tasks will be to work out your attitude to risk. If you are not sure exactly what this means, the questions are unlikely to help. They range from the inane (“How do you think a friend who knows you well would describe your attitude to taking financial risks?”) to the baffling (“Many television programmes now have a welter of fast whizzing images. Do you find these a) interesting; b) irritating; or c) amusing but they distract from the message of the programme?”). This is not necessarily a sign that your new adviser is destined to annoy you. Instead, it hints at something fundamental. Risk sits at the heart of financial markets. But trying to pin down precisely what it is, let alone how much of it you want and which investment choices should follow, can be maddening.

To get around this, most investors instead think about volatility, which has the advantage of being much easier to define and measure. Volatility describes the spread of outcomes in a bell-curve-like probability distribution. Outcomes close to the centre are always the most likely; volatility determines how wide a range counts as “close”. High volatility also raises the chances of getting an extreme result: in investment terms, an enormous gain or a crushing loss. You can gauge a stock’s volatility by looking at how wildly it has moved in the past or, alternatively, how expensive it is to insure it against big jumps in the future.

All this feels pretty risk-like, even if a nagging doubt remains that real-life worries lack the symmetry of a bell curve: cross the road carelessly and you risk getting run over; there is no equally probable and correspondingly wonderful upside. But set such qualms aside, pretend volatility is risk and you can construct an entire theory of investment allowing everyone to build portfolios that maximise their returns according to their neuroticism. In 1952 Harry Markowitz did just this, and later won a Nobel prize for it. His Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is almost certainly the framework your new wealth manager is using to translate your attitude to risk into a set of investments. The trouble is that it is broken. For it turns out that a crucial tenet of MPT—that taking more risk rewards you with a higher expected return—is not true at all.

Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, a trio of academics, demonstrate this in UBS’s Global Investment Returns Yearbook, an update to which has just been released. They examine the prices of American shares since 1963 and British ones since 1984, ordering them by volatility and then calculating how those in each part of the distribution actually performed. For medium and low volatilities, the results are disappointing for adherents of MPT: returns are clustered, with volatility having barely any discernible effect. Among the riskiest stocks, things are even worse. Far from offering outsized returns, they dramatically underperformed the rest.

The Yearbook’s authors are too thorough to present such results without caveats. For both countries, the riskiest stocks tended to also be those of corporate minnows, accounting for just 7% of total market value on average. Conversely, the least risky companies were disproportionately likely to be giants, accounting for 41% and 58% of market value in America and Britain respectively. This scuppers the chances of pairing a big long position in low-volatility stocks with a matching short position in high-volatility ones, which would be the obvious trading strategy for profiting from the anomaly and arbitraging it away. In any case, short positions are inherently riskier than long ones, so shorting the market’s jumpiest stocks would be a tough sell to clients.

Yet it is now clear that no rational investor ought to be buying such stocks, given they can expect to be punished, not rewarded, for taking more risk. Nor is the fact that they were risky only obvious in hindsight: it is unlikely that the illiquid shares of small firms vulnerable to competition and economic headwinds ever looked a great deal safer. Meanwhile, lower down the risk spectrum, the surprise is that more people do not realise that the least volatile stocks yield similar returns for less risk, and seek them out.

Readers may not be flabbergasted by the conclusion—that investors are not entirely rational after all. They might still wish to take another look at the racier bits of their portfolios. Perhaps those are the positions that will lead to a gilded retirement. History, though, suggests that they might be speculation for speculation’s sake. Call it return-free risk.?

/Economist.

Didn’t Milei ban this?

The Guardian reports that Australia’s Chief Scientist Cathy Foley is campaigning for “free access” to research journals for “all Australians.”

Dig a little deeper and you find that the taxpayer will pay for it via a proposed PBS like scheme.

So, people who’ll never have a need to consult a research paper in their lives will be subsidising those who do.

Naturally, Elsevier, which publishes 20% of Australian research papers, is eager to “cooperate” with the government.

Meanwhile, 43% of Australian research papers are already open access and anyone with a library membership at a tertiary institution can access most of those which aren’t.

Why do we have a Chief Scientist anyway?

Dot, can you lie behind a pile of Bitcoin and defend it with a rifle? Asking for a friend.

“Penny Wong is too scared of others in her government, like the Attorney-General, who holds the key to genocide in this country.”

– Lidia Thorpe

Worth a separate quote, I thought.