Open Thread – Mon 15 April 2024


Pandora’s Box, Charles Edward Perugini, late 1800s

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 7:20 pm

WA NewsCrimeNSW NewsPerth

Bondi Junction attack: Perth landmarks to be illuminated white in honour of Sydney stabbing victims

Muddy
Muddy
April 15, 2024 7:22 pm

Vigiltainment (h/t C.L.).

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 7:30 pm

The Big Sneakers?

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:12 am

“We’ve got flowers.”
The perfect euphemism for a gutless society that refuses to defend itself, and stops others from doing so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 15, 2024 7:25 pm

Webb shows she’s unfit for command at every turn

Steady on Gez.

She’s a girl person, and therefore a natural at the helm of any organisation.

Ah. Ah, hang on. Forget I said anything.

rosie
rosie
April 15, 2024 7:28 pm

Maybe Cauci targeted people who were less likely to resist, and is there any chance there were more women that men shopping in the shops he first targeted?

Muddy
Muddy
April 15, 2024 7:38 pm
Reply to  rosie

Predators seldom choose prey they perceive as bigger, faster, or more capable of inflicting physical damage than them. This applies to both the animal and human world.

A predator also wants to expend the least amount of energy to hunt and kill their prey, lest they be required to escape from a larger predator (if one exists) that wants what they have (food).

Baba
Baba
April 15, 2024 7:30 pm

If only Cheap Charlie had stumped up for the price of his top secret ASIS motel bolt hole.

Indolent
Indolent
April 15, 2024 7:33 pm
Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 10:31 am
Reply to  Indolent

Yeah. They need to get outside in the sunlight and do productive things.

I think I’ve heard that somewhere before, starting with my mum.

Muddy
Muddy
April 15, 2024 7:33 pm

The unfortunate long-term consequence of the Lehrman-Higgins case, is that it may have the opposite of an ‘encouragement’ affect on those who have genuinely* been the victim of sexual abuse, but who may fear the potential public/mediascum attention, particularly if there are well-known personalities involved. (But only if the personality is an ‘outsider’ and therefore fair game for reputational assassination by the unarmed state militia).

* Not a reflection of my opinion on this particular case.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 15, 2024 7:36 pm

Speaking of actual domestic violence offenders, and not just the horrible ones put up by Lisa Wilkinson (the Hun):

Former Australian cricket star Michael Slater has faced court on a slew of domestic violence charges after he was arrested on the Sunshine Coast over the weekend.

Highlights:

He faces 19 charges, including assault occasioning bodily harm, choking and strangulation, four charges of common assault, enter dwelling at night by break, unlawful stalking and breaching bail conditions. All charges except for the bail breach are domestic violence offences.

And:

Police alleged in the documents on December 6, 2023 Slater had sent a woman a text saying “I fell and think I’ve broke my rib” and “Oh, and I need some vodka”.

Slater then allegedly picked up a vodka bottle and raised it above his head, threatening “I’ll f—ing kill you”.

The woman attempted to escape into the laundry area and Slater allegedly launched towards her, grabbed her throat and slammed her into a fridge.

Also:

Later that day (April 12) about 9.50pm, Slater allegedly went to her house and slapped her kitchen window, repeatedly saying “f–k you” and “where’s you daughter?”.

It is alleged Slater demanded to be let inside, telling her to “f—ing open the door” before climbing through the smashed window into her home and continuing his “aggressive and demeaning behaviour”.

Nice.

About 300 messages were allegedly sent to the woman, some which called her a “c–t,” an “escort” and a “slut.”

Documents stated he also allegedly sent a voice messages threatening suicide.

“Get f–ked, you’re a fraud, I’m going to hang my skull at the front of your house,” Slater allegedly said in the voice message.

“How does that f—ing feel, you c–t?

“You f—ing killed me”

Once again, his lawyers are running the ‘mental health’ defence, trying to get the charges downgraded and firmly in handpattery land.

With a bit of good fortune, and given events over the weekend the judiciary might be able to separate genuine ‘mental health’ from ‘I’ve cocked up yet again, it’s all my fault but I will try and assign blame to something – anything – else’, and bin this bloke for several years.

Indolent
Indolent
April 15, 2024 7:36 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 15, 2024 7:38 pm

I loved watching Michael Slater as a player.

However, it proves the point that the person one may see on the picture wireless is very rarely the real person.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 10:38 am

Major “Pappy” Boyington USMC was a Medal of Honor winning fighter pilot in WWII. He was also an incredibly aggressive drunk.

Likely not a coincidence.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 7:43 pm

Network 10 could be out of pocket $8m after Bruce Lehrmann winAdelaide LangNCA NewsWire
Mon, 15 April 2024 4:24PM

Network 10 could be out of pocket for millions despite scoring a resounding victory in the defamation lawsuit brought by Bruce Lehrmann, a leading defamation lawyer has revealed.
On Monday, Justice Michael Lee ruled the media company had not defamed Lehrmann by airing an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project in which she alleged she had been raped by a fellow political staffer in Parliament House during March 2019.
The justice found Lehrmann had been so “hellbent on having sex” that he “did not care one way or another whether Ms Higgins understood or agreed to what was going on”.
He ruled in favour of Network 10 and said the question of costs would be determined at a later date.

MinterEllison partner Peter Bartlett, who successfully led Nine’s defence against Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation claims, estimated Network 10 and its former presenter Lisa Wilkinson have paid $8m to defend themselves in the defamation case brought by Lehrmann.
Despite the victory, Mr Bartlett said the media company will likely face difficulties in recouping their multimillion dollar costs from Lehrmann, who is currently unemployed.
“By all appearances, Lehrmann doesn’t have a deep pocket,” he said.
“So clearly Channel 10 will be out of pocket because they won’t be able to recover that quantum of costs from Lehrmann.”
Mr Bartlett noted Network 10 could have Lehrmann declared as bankrupt, but it would still be a challenge “to get blood out of a stone”.
“At best they’re going to be able to get a couple of hundred thousand dollars but they’re not going to be able to get much,” he surmised.
He drew parallels with the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation fight, in which Nine were able to compel media magnate Kerry Stokes to pay costs because they had funded the lawsuit.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 15, 2024 7:43 pm

3 minutes to cross the road, The traffic is insane my neck of the woods.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 15, 2024 7:46 pm

The traffic.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 8:00 pm

Anyway, long life and good health to all on the Cat. Mme Zulu is mixing her first G and T in some time…

Bruce in WA
April 15, 2024 10:30 pm

Hope it’s a good l-o-o-o-n-g one!!

Mallee Miss
Mallee Miss
April 16, 2024 6:44 am

That is truly excellent news. My very best to her.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 15, 2024 8:09 pm

Stabbing at a church in western Sydney.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 15, 2024 8:14 pm

The incident happened on Monday night just after 7pm at Wakeley’s Christ The Good Shepherd Church, where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was saying Mass.
Bishop Emmanuel can be seen speaking to the congregation before a man walks up to him and allegedly stabs him a number of times. 
The young man dressed in all black can be seen approaching the altar where Bishop Emmanuel was standing before allegedly stabbing his face and body before people tried to stop him.

?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 15, 2024 8:15 pm

PA, that thought had crossed my mind fleetingly as I read the judgement. Lee certainly appeared to me to be going out on a limb with the things he claimed happehed without a skerrick of proof. The whole tawdry event of a couple of tubbies doing or not doing something is a lot of feelz. As plod said in the beginning, there’s not enough evidence and thats without the litany of lies flowing from all and sundry. Lee can say “I tried my best, its up to the appeal judge if there is an appeal”. He squibbed it. Spineless. Looking forward to the revolution.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 15, 2024 8:24 pm

The full judgment is tough going.
I did searches on names initially (like Wilkinson) but then reverted to reading the thing as it was published.
Lee really gives it to Sharaz, which is odd how he didn’t mention him today as a sack of shit like he did with the chap from Channel 7.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 15, 2024 8:32 pm

Lee really gives it to Sharaz

I find it curious that all the protagonists in this rightly described ‘omnishambles’ (h/t Lee J), within six months of the aforementioned notoriety being gained, all decided it was burger time.

Sharaz, Lehrmann and Higgins.

Just look at them. A pudgy, nondescript, jowly trio of nobodies.

Bruce in WA
April 15, 2024 10:34 pm

Absolutely. Looking at some of the “before” photos of Brittany, she was quite pretty and well put together. (God that sounds sexist, but it was meant to be just an observation!)

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 15, 2024 8:32 pm

A French man, Damien Guerot, has been identified as the viral “Bollard Man” hero who tried to stop the killer during his stabbing spree on Saturday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68814871

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 15, 2024 8:36 pm
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 8:54 pm

They should never have to buy their own drinks as long as they live?

rosie
rosie
April 15, 2024 8:33 pm

“Lee certainly appeared to me to be going out on a limb with the things he claimed happehed without a skerrick of proof”
Is a transcript of Higgin’s testimony available?
Sounds like it boiled down to a he said she said and Lee preferred what she said.

JC
JC
April 15, 2024 8:39 pm
Last edited 9 months ago by JC
Boambee John
Boambee John
April 15, 2024 8:45 pm

Did Lee make any specific comments about the lack of observation of the media code of ethics by Ch 10 and the Cane Toad?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 15, 2024 8:47 pm

https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca0369

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited (Trial Judgment) [2024] FCA 369

File number: NSD 103 of 2023
Judgment of: LEE J
Date of judgment: 15 April 2024

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 9:23 pm
Reply to  hzhousewife

1098 prargraphs. One for the diehards. I see the Kangaroo Court of Australia gets a mention. Which is nice.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 15, 2024 8:54 pm

Scrolling my twitter feed this evening.
There’s a lot of head scratching over the Iran attacks on Israel.
Also, black men really like beating up elderly Asians.

cohenite
April 15, 2024 8:55 pm

Video of the latest stabbing of Christian bishop at Westfield. The stabber has a beard. It looks like a Christian Leb church. By the looks of the reaction to the guy from the congregation I reckon he’s a smear now.:

Sydney church stabbing latest: Priest attacked during livestream (telegraph.co.uk)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 15, 2024 8:58 pm

Bern at 8:24.

Lee really gives it to Sharaz, which is odd how he didn’t mention him today as a sack of shit like he did with the chap from Channel 7.

He made an oblique reference to Sharaz when talking about Britnah’s credibility, noting that a particular thing had happened “before Sharaz was involved”, implying that post-Sharaz Britnah was less credible.
Strange that he should observe that her evidence was “malleable”, but only in the hands of one person.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 9:29 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Strange that he should observe that her evidence was “malleable”, but only in the hands of one person.

His treatment of Brittany’s evidence seems generous. Which helps in a “he said she said”. Bruce’s evidence seems to have been dismissed in total.

Chris
Chris
April 15, 2024 9:01 pm

Copycat murder is real. Taught by media rewarded by media.
I have been considering going armed to Church because of qwerty nutters and the rabid killer people.
John Howard passed laws for every state based on the lie that Australians do not need self- defence. Unless they are policewimmin, apparently.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 15, 2024 9:02 pm

Boambee John
 April 15, 2024 8:45 pm

Did Lee make any specific comments about the lack of observation of the media code of ethics by Ch 10 and the Cane Toad?

Notwithstanding legal advice, he did say Toad should have known better over the Loggies speech.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 9:05 pm

I wonder if the stabbing of the Lebanese bishop in Wakeley near Fairfield is a copycat action.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 9:10 pm

The inference for the church stabbing is that it’s someone from the congregation but I wouldn’t be too sure, anyone can come into a church.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 9:14 pm

Seems the push is on in New South Wales to allow security guards to carry batons and pepper sprays, but not Tasers or firearms.

cohenite
April 15, 2024 9:22 pm

A class 1F security licence allows the security guy to be armed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 9:34 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Presumably Armaguard guys. They would be the only civilians I have ever seen armed in public. Not minimum wage guys in flouro vests outside BWS.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 9:44 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Apparently bank tellers (at least some of them) were armed back in the day. Must have been before my time as I never came across any guns in my mercifully short time.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 9:59 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

In the early 1970’s. Some longhair walked into a bank, and asked about how to send money to the Viet Cong. The bank teller – a Vietnam veteran – pointed the bank pistol at him and told him to “get out, or I’ll blow your fooking head off.”

Bruce in WA
April 15, 2024 10:38 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

My brother was a bank teller back in the very early 70s. He said the tellers had a handgun (revolver) in a wooden cradle below the desk, pointing out and slightly up.

Digger
Digger
April 15, 2024 10:17 pm

I started a security company with my brother in Tassie during the 1990’s and there were two levels. A security guard could not be armed but security agents could if they made application, demonstrated a requirement and completed the requisite training.

Arky
April 15, 2024 9:25 pm

The Bishop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhyF42Rkffk
..
I hope he recovers.

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
April 15, 2024 9:35 pm

Liverpool church stabbing. This won’t end well. Maronites are not to be messed with.

johnjjj
johnjjj
April 15, 2024 11:02 pm
Reply to  Johnjjj

Seems I may have that wrong. Trying to find my way through the schisms. Assyrian, Nestorian and many more. But not Maronite.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 9:41 pm

The churchgoers reaction to the stabbing of the Lebanese bishop is a reminder to the police that Christians can be very unhappy about these sort of attacks and to protest in large numbers. I don’t think these particular Christians are much into turning the other cheek.

JD
JD
April 15, 2024 10:38 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Don’t think the Bishop is Lebanese. It is the Assyrian Church of the East. Part of the Oriental Orthodox Church. The Maronites are Cats who use an Eastern Liturgy. The Orthos are still in Lent, fasting till the first Sunday in May for Easter,

JD
JD
April 15, 2024 11:19 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Not Lebanese. Assyrian Church of the East. Part of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Still in Lent, fasting and praying till Easter on 5th of May.

Arky
April 15, 2024 9:49 pm

The link above has a few, interesting… items.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 9:50 pm

Evelyn Rae is commenting on the church stabbing on Sky and says that we are lucky to have a world class legal system that considers someone as innocent until proven guilty. I had to laugh at that particularly today in the aftermath of Justice Lee’s decision on Bruce Lerhmann.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 10:10 pm

I see that the police are in a bind at the church in Wakeley, the assailant is in the church with the police but they now have no way of getting him out past the crowds waiting outside.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 10:15 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Hand him over to the crowd for the justice they may deal out…

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 10:15 pm

The political reporter from The Oz is urging social harmony on the crowds at the church. Harmony? After somebody just tried to kill their bishop? Some of these scribblers don’t quite understand the events on which they are reporting.

amortiser
amortiser
April 15, 2024 10:18 pm

The should give the guy a shave and dress him in a police uniform and walk him out of the church to the cells. That blonde female inspector will sort it out quick smart.

Black Ball
Black Ball
April 15, 2024 10:21 pm

Off topic.
Bayer Leverkusen win the Bundesliga for the first time ever. To put it in perspective, Bayern Munich have won the last 11 titles.
Leverkusen have not lost since Xabi Alonso took the reins. 5 games to play in the league and all over.
Kind of like Liverpool FC ffs. City will now win with a leg in the air. Like Britanny

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
April 17, 2024 11:05 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Black ball a mag result. Bayern are soft and the bundesliga is corrupt in its overarching support of them then bullshit from Craig foster that Germany are good in the World Cup because 9 of the starting 11 play for Bayern.
does harry Kayne think hevôis the bad luck charm?

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 10:40 pm

It’s interesting to see the police around the church with riot gear. It’s even more interesting that never once did they think it was necessary to be so equipped during the pro-Palestinian riots.

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 10:42 pm
Reply to  Crossie

It’s clear the NSW government is not terribly interested in these Christians’ votes.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
April 15, 2024 11:15 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Run by dumb shiela candidate #2 after dumb shiela candidate #1 fucked up the Lindt Cafe siege.

How hard must they have tried to find two of the most incompetent women on earth to push for the same job?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 15, 2024 10:41 pm

A large single malt – or three – or four – and watching Robert Duvall, and Micheal Caine, in “Second Hand Lions” is a worthy occupation, now that Mme Zulu’s test results are negative…

Crossie
Crossie
April 15, 2024 10:47 pm

Paul Murray is advising the assembled crowds around the church to disperse which would be the best for everyone including the church. Where was he on 9th October last year? Why didn’t anyone advise the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protesters to do the same?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 15, 2024 10:49 pm

I’m off to the city tomorrow to gatecrash the Vic Energy Minister’s luvvie fest on Wednesday.
Guess who’s coming to dinner Lily.

Indolent
Indolent
April 15, 2024 10:56 pm
JC
JC
April 15, 2024 11:05 pm

repeat

Last edited 9 months ago by JC
Indolent
Indolent
April 15, 2024 11:05 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
April 15, 2024 11:38 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Not upsetting the trannies became policy.

JD
JD
April 15, 2024 11:22 pm

Test.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 15, 2024 11:46 pm

She’s aged well.

Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (Live)
?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZgah5suEyc

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 15, 2024 11:55 pm

Dido – Thank You (Live at Brixton Academy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXtEE-YX7s

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 16, 2024 12:11 am

News com au running with Bishop was “allegedly” attacked.
Can’t be too careful when it was live streamed.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
April 16, 2024 12:14 am
Reply to  Bourne1879

Muslim according to https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/update-sydney-bishop-stabber-is-radical-muslim-angry/ Though how they know was probably a wild guess.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
April 16, 2024 12:33 am
Last edited 9 months ago by Pete of Perth
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 4:09 am
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
April 16, 2024 4:16 am

Thanks Tom.

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 4:53 am

This is what appeasement brings you.
Didn’t we learn anything the last time we tried it?
Arrogant and threatening. This is your future, imposed on us by a political and media caste who have no bloody idea of what the repercussions will be like.

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:03 am

According to reports coming from Israel and Turkey the Biden Administration provided guidance to Iran in its missile and drone strike against Israel.
Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”

KevinM
KevinM
April 16, 2024 5:10 am

Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:03 am

According to reports coming from Israel and Turkey the Biden Administration provided guidance to Iran in its missile and drone strike against Israel.

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”

Providing guidance? What does it mean, if anything.
But if it means they approved of it if were to be kept to limits, who needs enemies with friends like that?

BTW I doubt if it’s true but.

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:17 am
Reply to  KevinM

Providing guidance? I’d say it’s complicity in the planning of an attack on an ally by one of its enemies.
Surely that can’t be too difficult to understand.
And considering that the Biden Administration has released some $80 Billion in funds back to Iran, it’s all too believable.

KevinM
KevinM
April 16, 2024 5:18 am

Re, the verdict of the defamation case, only now had time to read the comments and some of the relevant sections.
Now we have a comedian for a judge.

Like him, Bruce, or not, I think he was more than hardly done by, that he is a d..head is beside the point, the rest of this sorry cast, including the politicians are far more despicable.

What happened at PH we shall never know but for the judge to declare that he is a r…ist on no evidence at all is just too much.

The man is finished, what sort of a job can he get now?

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:28 am
Reply to  KevinM

Exactly, KevinM. The bloke is an unpleasant dickhead. It doesn’t make him a rapist.

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 11:52 am
Reply to  KevinM

KevinM:

The man is finished, what sort of a job can he get now?

I hear a position has opened up in the Male Model/Escort sector due to an unfortunate misunderstanding with a Lady Copper who initiated a red line which the previous position holder immediately stepped over.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2024 5:58 am

Like the climateers who want to ignore inconvenient temperatures from the 1930s, the media now want to say the problem with Iran dates from Israel’s attack on that embassy annex in Damascus. Never mind that Iran has been funding and supplying Hezbollocks and Hamarse for decades.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
April 16, 2024 5:59 am

David Gilmour = P Floyd paid the bills.

The Haunting of “Wuthering Heights.” Vocal ANALYSIS of Kate Bush’s first masterpiece!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBXoN0tJf_g

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2024 6:01 am

When you come across a mainstream media channel (apart from Fox News) which will say that the cases against Trump are fraudulent, let me know.
Nearly all of them pretend that it’s not election interference, nothing like a third world dictatorship, oh no!

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 6:06 am

Restrained by parishioners, the Islamist terrorist who attacked Bishop Mar Mari reportedly said in Arabic: “if He wasn’t criticising my Prophet (Muhammad) and my religion (islam), I wouldn’t have come or attacked” pic.twitter.com/Lo4L7V8Ebh

— Paul Serran (@paul_serran) April 15, 2024

If true this might get even more interesting.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2024 6:21 am
Reply to  Zatara

Can’t access Twitter site – has it been blocked?

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 6:31 am
Reply to  Vicki

Yes Vicki, it appears they blocked it.
Looks like someone didn’t like what he had to say.

As I said, this could get interesting.

calli
calli
April 16, 2024 6:20 am

Why is there only one figure in Leak’s cartoon? The judge was quite clear that they were both liars, one organised the other disorganised.

Why one type of liar is more believable than the other is anyone’s guess.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 16, 2024 7:21 am
Reply to  calli

Leak Jr is showing signs of being a little too pro the establishment and conventional thinking.

Bazinga
Bazinga
April 16, 2024 12:14 pm
Reply to  calli

Organised implies premeditated

Harlequin Decline
April 16, 2024 6:36 am

In Rome at the moment after 3 days in Amsterdam. Many tourists in both cities. We inadvertently visited Keukenhof which had a spectacular spring garden display(I had no idea it was the height of the tulip flowering season and the garden is world famous).

The Dutch host was up to speed on the Sydney stabbings and like many of us thought it was a Muslim maniac running amok.

Similarly in Rome the well informed concierge assumed the same and even queried why they had ruled out terrorism without knowing the motive.

We spoke to a Floridian family at the Vatican who were going to vote for Trump and saw the lawfare for what it was.

The statue of the Dying Gaul at the Capitoline Museum was magnificent, one of the great works of Western civilisation-thanks Tinta for the recommendation.

In contrast the visit to the Vatican museums and the Sistine Chapel was an absolute ordeal due to the crowds. We booked a small group tour in a laughable attempt to beat the queues. Little did we know that there were dozens of ‘small group tours’ mixed in with the thousands of other punters.

Even before it opened on Monday the non tour queue was a good 500m long and then there was the tour group queue joining from the other side.

It was jam packed from start to finish which meant 2 hours of shuffling past one thing after another with the guide babbling something incomprehensible in your ear and being jostled by various bipedal lifeforms some of which clearly had not being paying enough attention to matters of personal hygiene.

It weren’t like this 30 years ago I can tell you.

Never again!

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2024 7:16 am

Harlequin – agree that statue of the Dying Gaul is magnificent. For me – beats all ancient and modern masters.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2024 6:39 am

OK. The Oz today & the breakfast TV stations is reporting a massive incident in Sydney’s SWest. An Assyrian Christian church leader attacked by a young offender with a knife and suffered injuries. He was restrained by parishioners until po,ice arrived. But by that time huge crowds had arrived – seemingly in support of the offender as they attacked police with bricks and paling torn from neighbouring houses! Many injuries to police & their vehicles. Offender “known to police” & is said to have explained his action as having been offended by comments made re the Prophet ( not the Christian one!).

And so it begins?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
April 16, 2024 6:51 am
Reply to  Vicki

Beirut sectarian violence in Sydney, nice. Maronites from my experience won’t take a backwards step. Was only a matter of time as the muslims now obviously have critical mass.

Other thing is Police own this one, the weird beard set has been allowed to hassle people for years unimpeded. Motorcade after Cronulla and repeated motorcades after Oct 8 through Jewish suburbs are 2 I can think of off the top of my head.

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2024 6:58 am

TV presenters are saying the violent crowds outside the Church were supporting the Church parishioners. I think they have got that wrong, but maybe I am wrong.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
April 16, 2024 7:04 am

Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar was also just 15 years old.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 7:04 am

Gotta laff ..! MSN News runs a story whinge-ing about Gazans getting knocked back for “temporary” visas cos .. not likely to leave afterwards .. but shutz off comments …
Methinx it might be cos most Oz folk agree with the knockbacks & comments might take the bite out of the whinge .. LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/palestinians-were-refused-australian-visitor-visas-due-to-concerns-they-would-not-stay-temporarily/ar-BB1lF5TN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=746a174b7a424802a1b579cd6ba53514&ei=20

Vicki
Vicki
April 16, 2024 7:05 am

Yep – crowds were in support of the Bishop.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2024 7:11 am

More trouble in the EV world.

Tesla to Lay Off More Than 10% of Its Staff (15 Apr)

Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, an internal memo seen by Reuters on Monday shows, as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles (EVs). …

Tesla shares were down 5% at $162.42 late on Monday. Shares of EV makers Rivian Automotive, Lucid Group and VinFast Auto were also trading between 2.2% and 10.7% lower.

Everyone who wants one has already bought one, and the normies don’t want an EV. Good luck Mr Bowen getting them to buy one.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2024 7:21 am

This is hilarious.

Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling.”

Here’s the link for the full story.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rodents-incapacitate-millions-in-eco-friendly-military-equipment-in-ukraine-the-unforeseen-problem/ar-BB1iOyki?cvid=1cd547cfc73e44cf98245aeda8fc841e&ei=10

Crossie
Crossie
April 16, 2024 7:23 am

Everyone who wants one has already bought one, and the normies don’t want an EV. Good luck Mr Bowen getting them to buy one.

Bruce, it’s that T badge on the car that looks like a thumb tack that is the important feature most EV buyers wanted. They needed to be able to signal to the rest of the drivers that they are virtuous AND well off. That’s something a Mercedes or a Maserati owner can’t claim.

Crossie
Crossie
April 16, 2024 7:28 am

Pogria

 April 16, 2024 7:21 am

This is hilarious.

“Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. 

That is a deadly stupidity. Even without the rodent predations aren’t these materials meant to biodegrade? It will be a case of use them quickly or lose them, not exactly a long term deterrent.

Pogria
Pogria
April 16, 2024 7:44 am
Reply to  Crossie

Crossie,
I believe the countries who “donated”, the bio-degradable military supplies, kept the good stuff for themselves.
The Russo-Ukraine war has been an excellent testing ground for “innovation”.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 9:03 am
Reply to  Crossie

Ah, but it is oh so environmentally chic and counter militarism.

Like protestors shoving long stemmed flowers into the rifle barrels of National Guardsmen.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 16, 2024 7:36 am

Started well, finished badly (the Hun):

Thomas Ross, 21, pleaded guilty in Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on April 15 to one charge of drink driving and one charge of careless driving.

The court heard Ross had been driving in the car with his sister on January 4, when he turned onto South Rd in Bentleigh East at a “fast pace” and lost control of his car.

Ross swerved across the busy main road with such force he smashed into a man driving a Tesla on the other side of the road

Yay!

before smashing into a power pole, dislodging it and causing it to fall.

Boo!

caveman
caveman
April 16, 2024 7:41 am

The “lions den” comment, is that referring to the criminal trial. Cause I get the message that the judge is saying it was stacked deck against him and is really denying him the right to justice.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2024 7:46 am

Do we have a name for the 15 year old stabster yet? Looks a lot like a case from a few years back where a programmed junior shot a Parramatta Police Station employee out in the street.

Last edited 9 months ago by Bungonia Bee
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2024 7:59 am

More battery fun.

Is a BAN on Home Batteries in Lofts Coming? (15 Apr)

The gist is that official electrical installation guidance is changing in the UK, to strongly advise against the installation of batteries in the likes of lofts, cupboards and even garages. …

Given that even garages may not provide adequate ventilation, will batteries have to be installed outside the house? (In which case, what happens when it rains!)

Logically you’d have to have a solidly built battery shed well separated from the house and garage. Which would make them even more expensive to install.

Figures
Figures
April 16, 2024 8:04 am

That’s ok Bruce. Bowen doesn’t actually want people to be able to drive cars. Cars are for the elite, not the hoi polloi. People refusing EVs won’t stop Labor/Green arseholes from banning ICE cars.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
April 16, 2024 8:05 am

Yep. Has been declared a terrorist incident.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 9:05 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Hate Crime charge enhancements coming one hopes?

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 8:05 am

Nort often I’m unimpressed with hospitals .. but .. yesterday I had an appointment for the pre admission check before day surgery later in the month .. Turned up 10 minutes before appointment .. no other folk there .. waited 20 minutes before being called by a nurse .. 25 minutes for a heart check and go over, question by question, paperwork I filled out 3 weeks ago .. then a 30 minute wait to see an anaesthetist, who had wandered in & out of his office several times during that period .. 10 minutes to go over most of the written questions/answers I’d been thru with the nurse .. then sat down, outside, again for another 20 minutes before the nurse turned up and said, “That’s it you can go” & gave me a paper of do’s & don’ts for the 24 hrs leading up to the surgery ….. duuuuuuh! ..
I got the impression that all this waiting around was more to do with staff filling in time than anything else .. there were several nurses wandering around but in the whole time I was the onIy customer ….. nearly 2 hours for around 40 minutes activity ……

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 16, 2024 8:05 am

Nanna Webb says the church stabbing’s a terror-related stabbing.

They may have picked the wrong target this time.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 8:09 am

The man is finished, what sort of a job can he get now?

I think he’s about to retire so saving the Luigi gummint’s embarrassment over Knickerless’ $millions payout will be rewarded .. I’m summizing several “jerbs fer the boyz” positions will be on offer! …… LOL!

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will
will
April 16, 2024 8:14 am

The “lions den” comment by J Lee was that after escaping the Lion’s den you don’t go back for your hat. So J Lee thinks he is guilty and escaped the consequences in the criminal trial.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:12 am
Reply to  will

Somewhat presumptuous. Appears a little out of character given Lee’s manner during the trial which always appeared measured. Whole thing seems incongruous and unsatisfactory.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 8:20 am

 seemingly in support of the offender as they attacked police with bricks and paling torn from neighbouring houses! Many injuries to police & their vehicles. 

Seems unlikely ..! .. The Islam population is centred mainly around Fairfield cbd/retail area .. the Assyrian/Maronites are from Fairfield Heights thru to Edensor Park/Waverley/Horsley Park so for the Islamists to get to the church would be anywhere from 30 to 60 mins drive, depending on traffic, well after the locals would have gathered ……

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 16, 2024 8:20 am

I see from the febrile reportage of Lehrmanngate that Lee J has apparently sorted out one of the great (to me, anyway) mysteries of the romantic evening in question:

“Given he had satisfied himself, and that he knew his girlfriend was awake and was attempting to contact him, calling an Uber and getting out of the Ministerial private office with celerity (and leaving Ms Higgins undressed) is the action of a cad, but is nonetheless explicable.”

No problems with the judicial concept that shaggery was front of mind, or that Bruce might be an utter cad.

But the idea that, having porked Brinny in the Minister’s office, Bruce would just bugger off home leaving her unconscious, nekkid and dribbling on the couch for someone to find suggests reckless lunacy and an inexplicable lack of self preservation. Strangely unexplored by Hizonner.

But, there we go.
It’s Canbra.

I must be young and naive.

calli
calli
April 16, 2024 8:28 am

So J Lee thinks he is guilty

That’s nice.

Some actual physical evidence to that guilt would be nice too.

On this basis the good judge might think the next offender is a pumpkin. And who could disabuse him of that? He appears to know everything.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:18 am
Reply to  calli

Some actual physical evidence to that guilt would be nice too.

Seems the closest we got was the bruise photo which mysteriously survived the “wiping” of the phone (a claim abandoned by Drumgold and anyone else who made it) before appearing in the Sharaz dossier 2 years after the event.

Forget going back for your hat. Try hanging your hat on that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2024 8:29 am

The section in the Lehrmann judgement on “Panties” is … quite brief.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:31 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

That will come as a disappointment to some commenters.

Anders
Anders
April 16, 2024 8:30 am

Did Lee explore why Ms Higgins lied about Fiona Brown and destroyed her career? Was it the trauma made her done it? It suggests to me someone willing to lie and manipulate for their benefit… exactly what you might do to cover up the embarrassment of being found naked on your boss’s couch.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:31 am
Reply to  Anders

Bingo.

calli
calli
April 16, 2024 8:37 am

Reflecting on Leak’s seriously one-sided cartoon…

The case is definitely Australia’s Tar Baby. Anyone, even the magnificent Leak Jnr. is stuck in its greasy, gooey, moral morass the moment they touch it.

As for not depicting Knickerless, perhaps there was nothing there to set fire to.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2024 8:39 am

The big flaw in Lehrmann’s story was the ever-changing reasons for returning to Parliament House, coupled with his over-inflated ego. One story was that he went back to make some Very Important Notes about a Very Important Conversation about French submarines (which apparently had never been discussed whilst they were on the piss).
If you need to construct an alibi, pick something totally mundane and obscure (even knock up some draft notes on Monday morning as a cover). Plead that, yes, it was silly to go back to the office for that, but you just felt the boss was going to be on your case on Monday about it.
And stick to the story.
I don’t buy Lee’s take on the complications of going back for keys as against simply going home to knock on the door. Any chap who has gone out for “two beers” and is heading home at 3:00 a.m. would rather gouge their own eyes out than wake the bride.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:26 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Once Lehrmann ran the “never happened” defence in the criminal trial he was stuck with it. Still doesn’t impact on Brittany’s evidence and credibility though.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 9:01 am
Reply to  dover0beach

A child (7yrs girl) was the only reported casualty .. more than enuf for a “glass ’em” response .. after all, isn’t it the Gaza MoH that repeats, with monotony, “it’s all about the kiddies” ..!

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Alamak!
April 16, 2024 11:11 am
Reply to  dover0beach

It was pretty well telegraphed and planned with only targets being hit those military bases involved in the Israeli attack on Iranian embassy annex in Damascus. israel has the choice to keep this at current “theatrical” level or escalate. ME rules.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2024 8:48 am

From the Hun

‘Rust’ armourer Hannah Gutierrez sentenced to 18 months over deadly on-set shootingThe armourer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie Rust has been sentenced.
Merryn JohnsMaria Bervanakis and AFP

4 min read
April 16, 2024 – 6:35AM
News Corp Australia Network

The armourer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie Rust was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a US court.
Hannah Gutierrez stood impassive as a judge in the state of New Mexico told her she would serve the maximum sentence after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 death of Halyna Hutchins during filming of the budget Western.
“You were the armourer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone. You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said on Monday local time.
“But for you, Miss Hutchins would be alive. A husband would have his partner and a little boy would have his mother.”

Bruce in WA
April 16, 2024 1:15 pm

Hannah Gutierrez stood impassive

Really? The photos I saw showed her looking like shit on a stick: puffy-faced, red-eyed, hair like straw and tears streaming down her cheeks. Hardly “impassive”!

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 8:52 am

Thought for the day .. LOL!

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Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2024 8:57 am

That clip above would be about this incident. These are both overseas sites.
Another Stabbing Rocks Sydney: Priest, Worshippers Attacked in Church

Arky
April 16, 2024 8:57 am

It’s only five minutes.
Reposted from last night.
Will illuminate the incident last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhyF42Rkffk

Arky
April 16, 2024 8:59 am

From the four minute mark on is the relevant bit.

Indolent
Indolent
April 16, 2024 9:00 am

Dr. John Campbell

New treatment blocked

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 9:09 am

One for BoN .. LOL!

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2024 9:23 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Obviously a grey catbird.

The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the “catbird” genus Dumetella. 

Vicki
April 16, 2024 10:15 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

An early bird.

Bazinga
Bazinga
April 16, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

A bird that sleeps where it eats

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 9:11 am

From the four minute mark on is the relevant bit.

I take it the attacker was an aggrieved Buddhist?

Arky
April 16, 2024 9:16 am
Reply to  Roger

I can’t comment.
My Buddhist missus is listening and I fear a backlash.
She could insist on cooking dinner tonight.

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Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 9:24 am
Reply to  Arky

Chuckle.

shatterzzz
April 16, 2024 9:18 am

Gotta luv politicians .. LOL! .. Seems Ho Chi Minns has dun his sums and worked out there are more Assyrians/Maronites spread across outer western Sydney seats than Islamists in Fairfield/Bankstown/Lakemba ……..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/nsw-wakeley-church-bishop-stabbing-attack-police-minns/103728120

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 9:22 am

Astrophysicist Professor Valentina Zharkova explains that instead of CO2, it is the Sun that drives the climate change and because of its decreasing activity we should be ready for a colder period.

Note – she does not deny the longer trend of global warming, but does not believe the cause is human activity or CO2 (smart lady!).

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Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 9:30 am

Laugh all you want at those ‘Florida Man’ memes, they are funny as hell after all.

But watch how Florida cops handle road-blocking protestors.

Rack ’em and stack ’em.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 9:30 am
Reply to  Zatara
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2024 9:36 am

15 minutes ago

‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here’Staff writers

The teenager who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has allegedly claimed the Bishop had “involve(d) himself in (his) religion”.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that videos of the incident show the alleged attacker speaking in Arabic.
The rough translation of what the alleged attacker said, while lying on the ground inside the Church in police custody, is: “If he didn’t swear at my Prophet I wouldn’t be here. If he didn’t involve himself in my religion I wouldn’t be here”.
The teenager allegedly stabbed Bishop Emmanuel at the Assyrian orthodox church on Welcome Street in Wakely about 7.10pm.
The 15-year-old alleged attacker remains in custody this morning and has undergone surgery.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2024 11:23 am

the Russians would have given him on the spot surgery free of charge

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johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2024 3:41 pm

The online world saw him stab the guy, but we didn’t hear him say that or see the surgery but only the stabbing is “alleged”. Life is getting absurd.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 16, 2024 9:42 am

‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here’

Decapita-lists are so driven by the Prophet motive.

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 3:30 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Dover Beach, please ban MotherLoad for whatever reason you can think of.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
April 16, 2024 9:43 am

Definitely worth a read, an extract of which follows.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2024/04/a-new-blood-libel-endlessly-repeated/

Moreover, and this is an age-old problem articulated by philosophers as diverse as Plato and Heidegger – average minds are easily swayed by the cultural zeitgeist, by arguments from authority (whether from priests, politicians, ‘experts’ or celebrities), and especially by public opinion. They fall, regularly, for every contemporary trend. Look, for example, at the uncritical attitude and acceptance, from the majority, to the Covid-19 measures.
People with average intelligence are decent, kind, trustworthy, extraordinarily capable in ways that leave more intelligent people scratching their heads in admiration, not the least bit lacking in street smarts, and know implicitly what is good for themselves and their families, (especially when government policy negatively affects their wallets). What they are not, though, is particularly interested in abstract thought.
The impact of intelligence on politics and culture has become clear in recent months. People who six months ago couldn’t spell anti-Semitism are now parroting the most harebrained anti-Semitic delusions, without knowing much about Jews, Israel, Arabs, Islam or the modern history of the Middle East. In the words of Heidegger, people ‘fall’ into the ‘they’.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2024 11:23 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

evil cloaks itself in the skin of fake compassion

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 9:50 am

Moreover, and this is an age-old problem articulated by philosophers as diverse as Plato and Heidegger – average minds are easily swayed by the cultural zeitgeist…

Brilliant minds too, evidently:

Martin Heidegger and Nazism

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johnjjj
johnjjj
April 16, 2024 9:55 am

So if it is an Islamist attack then get ready for the following in order: Lone wolf, mentally deranged, family completely surprised, “he was religious, kind and gentle”, local Imam ” never seen him before”.. then after shown photos of him leaving the mosque every day.. “well yes he did attend the mosque but I never spoke to him” , local Islamic council asks for more government funding to identify and help these disadvantaged youngsters, academics claim more research funding is needed, NSW Police claim more money is needed for AI to identify potential terrorists.
Never let a stabbing go to waste.
The local Assyrian community go nuts, find his extended family, Islamic colleagues and friends and….

Makka
Makka
April 16, 2024 10:00 am
Reply to  johnjjj

Along with the inevitable; he was in a fragile state due to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.. and NSW Plod being sensitive to the ever sensitive moslem fraternity and begging for no escalation in this tense situation.

Rossini
Rossini
April 16, 2024 12:39 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

I see the press found the aged parents of the bloke who killed 6 people
Will they be on the look out to get an interview with this kids parents!!!
I doubt it

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 16, 2024 9:56 am

Decapita-lists are so driven by the Prophet motive.

Very good.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 16, 2024 9:58 am

I frequently watch YouTube clips of Jimmy Dore’s show. He often displays a socialist astigmatism when surveying events but he is no reflexive prog. In fact I think he views them as suspiciously as the establishment right.

but he really is hell-bent on the idea that Israel is intent on a genocide of the people now called Palestinian.

Rabz
April 16, 2024 10:00 am

Nothing like a “troublesome priest” to motivate some of the more “excitable” elements residing in a certain part of Sydney.

Crossie
Crossie
April 16, 2024 10:02 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
 April 16, 2024 9:36 am

15 minutes ago
‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here’

What about all the insults to Jesus and Christians in comedy routines, movies, TV shows, Mardi Gras parades? Can we react in the same way?

Vicki
April 16, 2024 10:23 am
Reply to  Crossie

Ah but that different – Islamists think that is entirely OK.

And what do we think? We think it is insensitive/rude/unacceptable…..but not worthy of assault or violence of any type. And may that continue….although I would like to see some civilised “push back” viz celebration of the concepts of Christianity.

Rossini
Rossini
April 16, 2024 12:41 pm
Reply to  Crossie

you are joking ..right!!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 16, 2024 10:02 am

Not sure I’d be citing Heidegger in this context.

Indeed.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 10:09 am

Funny…I don’t remember the referendum where we decided to import ME tribalism.

Vicki
April 16, 2024 10:17 am
Reply to  Roger

Sadly, Roger, it isn’t tribalism per se. It is straight out religious extremism.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 10:32 am
Reply to  Vicki

Vicki, I’m using tribalism not in the anthropological sense but in the sociological sense, in which religious loyalty is regarded as a marker (among others) of a group identity, with all that implies.

Last edited 9 months ago by Roger
one old bruce
one old bruce
April 16, 2024 10:35 am
Reply to  Roger

It was called the British Empire, Roger, which Australia etc were all part of. Ever wonder how so many Maltese got to stay in Australia after WW2? They were British citizens, just the same as us Aussies. Many also arrived after WW2 to stay here from Alexandria in Egypt, British passports in hand.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 10:44 am
Reply to  one old bruce

I’d suggest the Lebanese Muslims & the Assyrian Christians came here in the 1970s & 80s, bruce, and they weren’t British subjects.

Rossini
Rossini
April 16, 2024 12:53 pm
Reply to  Roger

Too late now but I bitch about it all the time.
Why this multiculturalism bullshit!
I thought we were all Australians

m0nty
m0nty
April 16, 2024 10:29 am

I see Trump fell asleep several times in the first day of his trial, LOL.

Cheer up Sleepy Don.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 10:33 am
Reply to  m0nty

At least he’s not dosed up for public appearances.

m0nty
m0nty
April 16, 2024 10:36 am
Reply to  Roger

Evidently he should be.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 10:46 am
Reply to  m0nty

He’s 77; he’s entitled to the occasional power nap.

m0nty
m0nty
April 16, 2024 11:19 am
Reply to  Roger

Sleepy Don!

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:40 am
Reply to  m0nty

Can’t speak as an accused but it’s quite easy to fall asleep in court. The thud of head on table usually gets a few laughs.

Tom
Tom
April 16, 2024 10:29 am

but he really is hell-bent on the idea that Israel is intent on a genocide of the people now called Palestinian.

Oldest trick in the (propaganda) book: accuse your enemies of what’s in your own heart.

And none of today’s parrots (especially the moosleys and their useful rent-a-crowd idiots) have even heard of Saul Alinsky or his Rules For Radicals.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2024 10:40 am

Morning TV …
Blah, blah, blah.
But the Christians shouldn’t have retaliated.

Last edited 9 months ago by Sancho Panzer
H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 10:50 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Vienna comes to Sydney. I suppose it was only a matter of time. Does Cronulla even have gates?

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 11:26 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Or Winged Hussars?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2024 10:43 am

Assyrians aren’t to be messed with!

Finger of alleged stabber cut off in aftermath of bishop attack (Tele, paywalled)

Political leaders have called for “calm” across Sydney after wild scenes and a mob mentality followed an attack on a popular Assyrian Christian leader.

He’s lucky he didn’t lose a different appendage.

Jock
Jock
April 16, 2024 2:32 pm

Among a large list, the Assyrians were also the subject of genocide by the turks. I doubt the Assyrians have forgotten Muslim brutality.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 16, 2024 10:52 am

Albo really worried about retaliation.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
April 16, 2024 10:55 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

He doesn’t seem to worried about provocations in the first place, though.

I.e “what’s 300 drones and missiles between friends?”

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 16, 2024 10:53 am

Down in Melbourne, and so yesterday we decided to go and check out some of the old arcades and so on in town – lovely buildings with leadlighting and so on.

About 2pm there was a lot of noise down our street. It was a demonstration preceded by police cars with flashing lights and so on. Yes, it was the Pallies on parade, complete with yelling, screaming, signs with obscenities on them – the whole mess.

Up from were 32 police all up – cars, alongside, in front etc. At the back were another 20. The idiots in the middle would have numbered no more than 300.

A crazy way to ensure “free speech.”

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
April 16, 2024 11:53 am
Reply to  Top Ender

When in Melbourne I always like to go inside the State Library and climb to the top story, the dome is so lovely.

Zatara
Zatara
April 16, 2024 10:58 am

“If you riot, if you loot, if you harm others, particularly if you harm a law enforcement officer during one of these violent assemblies, you’re going to jail.” — Governor DeSantis

The time of coddling/enabling of overgrown adolescents seems to have come to an end at least somewhere.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 16, 2024 10:58 am

Miles breathes a sigh of relief…

Molly the magpie’s 45-day ordeal finally over (15 Apr)

Molly the magpie has finally returned to its Gold Coast home and been reunited with its unlikely best friend Peggy the Staffy.

Queensland’s Department of Environment, Science and Innovation (DESI) made the announcement on Monday, marking the end of a 45-day saga that gripped the nation.

“(DESI) has approved a specialised license and today returned ‘Molly’ the magpie to a couple who took it in as a nestling in 2020,” the department revealed in a statement. …

Molly, the Mortensens and their staffies found friends in high places along the way in Queensland premier Stephen Miles who advocated heavily for the bird’s return.

A specialised election campaign flavoured license more like. DESI were probably fed up with all the calls from Miles’ minders.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 11:03 am

Miles breathes a sigh of relief…

I wouldn’t just yet if I were him.

Next up, a bunch of environmentalists will take DESI to court to challenge their authority to alter the conditions of the license.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 11:07 am

Miles is about to lose his social license.

Baba
Baba
April 16, 2024 11:10 am

A New Blood Libel Endlessly Repeated

The 40 beheaded babies?

Bobtheboozer
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 3:37 pm
Reply to  Baba

One of the staples of Islamic propaganda is the initial airing of a ludicrous statement that can be laughed at endlessly by them to cast doubt on ALL the claims, and Baba is one of the constant practitioners here.

Crossie
Crossie
April 16, 2024 11:16 am

Bruce of Newcastle

 April 16, 2024 10:43 am

Assyrians aren’t to be messed with!

Finger of alleged stabber cut off in aftermath of bishop attack(Tele, paywalled)

He could have cut his own finger if his hand slipped during the frenzied slashing.

Zippster
Zippster
April 16, 2024 11:17 am
Reply to  Crossie

the Russians would have wiped his smile permanently

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 11:20 am
Reply to  Crossie

Never bring a finger to a knife fight.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 11:28 am
Reply to  Crossie

Not uncommon in stabbing incidents.

Bruce in WA
April 16, 2024 1:27 pm
Reply to  Crossie

I have read reports that the knife he used was a flick knife (illegal, but I digress …) that at one stage snapped back on his fingers. Who knows??

Lysander
Lysander
April 16, 2024 11:30 am

The Iranian response was not, nor any potential Israeli counter will be, ‘theatrical’.

Indeed.. You don’t fire 300+ ordinances from your sovereign land into another sovereign country (even if you know most won’t get through because of their defences), without triggering a response.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
April 16, 2024 11:32 am

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/15/the-heroes-of-westfield-sydney/

It was a senseless, gut-wrenching horror. And it could have been so much worse, given the crowds of people within an arm’s length of the deranged, knife-wielding Cauchi. That it wasn’t is down to the courage of members of the public – and a solitary police woman.

These strangers could have fled or, in the case of the cop, waited for reinforcements. Doing so would be completely in line with the ‘don’t be a hero’ mantra of our risk-averse times. They could have retreated, whipped out their smartphones and recorded the lethal violence at a safe distance, before uploading the footage to a social-media platform of their choosing.

So, while we should applaud and admire the heroes of Westfield Sydney, we shouldn’t be surprised by their actions. Time and again, ordinary people reveal extraordinary depths of bravery. Their example should never cease to inspire us.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2024 11:33 am

PM to ‘Bollard Man’: stay as long as you likeRhiannon Down

Anthony Albanese has declared a French national who fought off Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi with a bollard is “welcome to stay for as long as you like”, following revelations his visa is due to expire.
Footage of French construction worker Damien Guerot brandishing a bollard at Cauchi to prevent him from climbing an escalator and potentially attacking more people, emerged on Saturday following the rampage.
“This is someone who we would welcome becoming an Australian citizen, although that would of course be a loss for France,” the Prime Minister said.
“We thank him for his extraordinary bravery.
“It says a lot about the nature of humanity at a time when we are facing difficult issues, that someone who is not a citizen of this country, stood bravely at the top of those escalators and stopped this perpetrator from getting onto another floor and potentially inflicting further carnage on citizens.
“I think that on Saturday we saw some of the best of human character at the same time as we saw such devastating tragedy.
“And I thank Damian for his extraordinary efforts.

Crossie
Crossie
April 16, 2024 11:45 am

Anthony Albanese has declared a French national who fought off Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi with a bollard is “welcome to stay for as long as you like”, following revelations his visa is due to expire.

Must be the first time I’ve agreed with Albo on anything.

Roger
Roger
April 16, 2024 11:55 am
Reply to  Crossie

Call me a cynic, but I see it as Albanese tapping into the general sentiment for a political boost.

Afte nearly 30 years in parliament he knows only too well the French chap is subject to the same visa conditions as any other visiting worker and even the Minister for Home Affairs can’t override them without legally valid reasons.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
April 16, 2024 12:04 pm

The lack of ph