TYSON TO PAUL

”I WILL HURT YOU”

Don’t say he hasn’t been warned.

Tyson is one of the greatest boxers and indeed martial artists of all time.

https://youtu.be/KaV8HiWKyug?feature=shared

Albanese government removes ASIO and ASIS heads from National Security Committee of Cabinet

I thought the following bit was pretty interesting:

Mr Davis’ department announced a review last month into whether to cut funding to think-tanks.

This would include the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which receives funding from both Australia the United States.

Shutting down ASPI, a frequent China critic, was on China’s list of 14 demands issued under the Coalition Government.

The implication is that Albo, Wong and Davis are working their way through a list of demands from China, who are offering the quid pro quo of dropping tariffs on wine and unembargoing other stuff, like coal.

So maybe the ASIO and ASIS thing was another line item crossed off.

Given our vulnerable position defense-wise it sounds like the elites in this country are edging away from the US and towards China. Perhaps they think placating the dragon will work.

Good luck with your results shatterzzz

Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?

Maybe just a gay hook-up while he was in town.

Mem – The comment box is now at the top not the bottom.

When you post a comment it first stays at the top, but when you refresh it goes to the bottom.

Bit of a work in progress so far. The commenting seems to work more like Disqus, if you are used to that.

You don’t need to login to comment, but I think you need to register if you want to do upticks. I haven’t tried that yet.

“Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas’s backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts of the Muslim world that strategies of atrocity should be added to the playbook of regimes challenging U.S. allies around the world.”

Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.

The aim of the Israeli PM, Benjamin Pfizer, is to keep his sorry arse out of gaol.
Much like St Volodymyr the Pure, he is prepared to sacrifice his entire population, to achieve his goal.

Israel has never been weaker, in comparison to its neighbours, than it is now.
The catastrophe, (for both parties), that is occurring in Gaza, will be nothing, compared to what will happen, if Pfizer directs an attack against Lebanon, which, looks more and more likely.
Back in Dec/Jan, Israel evacuated more than 30,000 inhabitants of Northern Israel. Clearly, because Israel is so strong, ……, right?

If Lebanon is attacked, Israel will be on its own, because those US Carriers will be either withdrawn, or, more likely sunk. The loss of significant Israeli territory is not merely possible, but likely.

This is clearly a disastrous scenario, for Israel. Perhaps it is time to look for the best outcome for Israel, not the PM.

Crap science report of the day.

Magpies under siege from climate and man-made noise (Phys.org, 18 Mar)

The combined impact of climate change and human-generated noise are proving double trouble for wild urban-dwelling bird species, changing their behavior in ways that could threaten their survival.

That’s the finding of a new study from The University of Western Australia published in the journal Animal Behaviour, which looked at how hotter temperatures and loud man-made noises, such as those from airplanes, impacted West Australian magpies, both individually and when they co-occurred.

Magpies are thriving. Indeed more warmth is a good thing for them since they can start their season earlier, thereby avoiding cuckoos. And magpies in urban areas are as well fed as can be, especially in my suburb.

Ah well, the UWA PhD student will probably get an immediate lectureship and rise to professor even before you can say “climate crap”.

Roger

 March 19, 2024 10:09 am

The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.

Chris Bowen is increasingly looking like a reverse King Canute, assuring Australians he can command the tides of world markets.

Well, he certainly seems to be some kind of a Canute.

How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?

Yes, knock it on the head. Olympics are a WOFTAM and a bloated joke*

Will probably be replaced by the Hunger Games by then anyway.

https://www.paris2024.org/en/sport/breaking/

*breaking as in break dancing FFS. Rabz doctrine required

Knuckles, I think it important for the destruction of Hamas is for the IDF to eliminate the foot soldiers as well as the leadership. The foot soldiers need to know they are targets, not just the top dogs. Advertise the fact. As we saw they were quite willing to surrender. Anyone identified in the massacre needs to be killed. The supporters that send money need two taps as well. I’m sure Mossad has the ability to identify them. Support terrorism and you’re a target. Benny Wonk comes to mind.

Candice and David Warner never forget.

Australia won’t forget about you pair of dunderheads, either.

Probably a first for a court-room?
Male museum visitor lodges legal battle against Mona over its women-only ‘ladies’ lounge’

Mona could be ordered to close down its opulent, emerald-curtained “ladies lounge” following a discrimination battle waged by an interstate museum visitor.

New South Wales resident Jason Lau has lodged a complaint with Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner after he paid $35 for a ticket to Mona, but was excluded from the artwork designed by Mona’s “first lady” Kirsha Kaechele.

The stoush was played out in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday, with Ms Kaechele speaking passionately about why she felt a women-only ladies’ lounge that excluded men was an essential statement in the male-dominated art world.

She was accompanied by about 25 women, mainly dressed in blue power suits, glasses and pearl necklaces, who synchronised their movements in the hearing room – leaning back, leaning forward, holding onto their spectacle frames as one.

As the hearing concluded, the women formed a type of conga line and left the building while performing a synchronised dance step to the music of Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible.

Mr Lau represented himself via video link during the hearing, which was presided over by tribunal deputy president Richard Grueber.

He said that during his trip to Mona, he had been “quite surprised” to be refused access to the ladies lounge “on the basis I was male”.

“Any lay person would expect that if you buy a ticket, you would expect the provision of goods and services in line with the law,” he said.

Mr Lau also argued that men weren’t told they weren’t permitted entry to the lounge until after the ticket was purchased.

He has sought relief by Mona either removing the lounge, ceasing the exclusion of men, or creating a two-tiered ticketing system.

Mona’s lawyer Catherine Scott said to stop men being excluded from the artwork would change the very nature of the work, and also said Mona couldn’t change the ticketing system.

She argued the ladies’ lounge was covered by section 26 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act, which allows for discrimination in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged, or have a special need due to a particular attribute.

Ms Kaechele was called to the witness stand to give evidence about how and why she created the ladies’ lounge, giving a vivid description of the creative process.

“An artwork – my experience is they tend to emerge. They’re not borne out of a particular moment. They’re part of an emergent process that I’m completely enthralled by as an artist and have a sense of awe for,” she said.

“I feel that I’m a vessel and the artwork builds itself. I like to call it ‘God is the curator’, to irritate my atheist friends, but it really feels like this artwork is coming through me.”

Ms Kaechele said women were traditionally excluded from places of power, and that she designed the ladies’ lounge in response to Mona having an imbalance of works by male and female artists.

“This presented the opportunity to make a statement and make a place for the gathering of women, for the very special thing that happens when women come together – and I mean anyone who identities as a woman, you don’t have to be born a woman,” she said.

“It excludes men, and I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t find it titillating.

“I think women have a moment of excitement and glee. It’s naughty. But why can we have a sense of humour about it? It’s because as women, we don’t hold the power.”

In her closing submissions, Ms Scott said if the lounge was a club where entry was charged, “we wouldn’t be here today because clubs have an exemption” under discrimination laws.

She said the ladies’ lounge came about from Mona realising it had a lack of art by women.

“It’s potentially a really powerful piece, a really powerful medium,” she said.

“It also responds to the historical exclusion of women from spaces.”

Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.

“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.

“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”

Mr Grueber will hand down his decision at a date to be determined.

Candice certainly was star studded. Then she married David Warner.

She knows what she is doing. Controls his finances. Probably pegs him.

Add Beta to cheat, houso and ranga.

Last Oct, a kilo of blueberries was 18 bucks at Costco.
A month ago, 24 bucks.
Today, 32 bucks.
Dunno what’s going on there.
I’d supposed to be happy I’m a shareholder.

Entitled self-absorbed greenie scrote news (the Hun):

Two serial climate protesters who blocked the West Gate Bridge — delaying 16 emergency responses — have been handed extra jail time after a bid to have their sentences slashed backfired.

Extinction Rebellion protesters Deanna “Violet” Coco, 33, and her partner Bradley Homewood, 51, were jailed for three weeks after they used a truck to block three city-bound lanes of the bridge during morning peak hour on March 5.

The pair at the County Court on Tuesday argued they should be released on community sentences, but Judge David Sexton instead ordered they serve two months behind bars.

Two months. Should have been two years, but ‘green shoots’ (fnarrr). The judge (David Sexton):

“Whilst you may have been well intentioned or motivated having regard to your strongly held beliefs regarding the impacts of climate change, the methodology you each employed to make your points causing a significant risk and disruption to the lives of others.

“Your sustained obstruction of emergency workers was not appropriate and must be denounced.

And:

The court earlier heard 16 emergency calls, including three ambulances, were delayed as a result of the nearly 2½ hour-long protest.

Among those affected was Tarneit mother Roshni Lad who was forced to give birth on the side of the Western Ring Road after she and her husband were unable to reach the hospital.

Yep. Should have been two years. The Greens’ elected representatives:

Character references from state Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri and former federal Greens leader Bob Brown were submitted on the pair’s behalf.

Judge Sexton said Ms de Vietri’s description of the protest causing “some inconvenience to commuters” was a “spectacular understatement”.

Homewood, who had been in custody since his arrest, had already served two weeks of his sentence.

Coco had served ten days after she was freed on bail last week but was taken back into custody after the hearing.

Huzzah!

Brown of the earliest meja anti heroes.