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Tina Norton.
JC, in Delhi, where the air was thick with smog and closed the airport and started to bring about my…
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
I would order a pizza about once a month, so it’s not going to kill me.
It’s all about the dough.
If you order pizza hut or dominos, you’re killing your heart.
Most local joints do a nice crust, not the heart killers the major chains are.
‘EU leadership must go!’ Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘whirl of war’ ahead of EU elections
It’s another win Reynolds coming up.
If BH & DS don’t settle, Reynolds wins with costs.
The WA division of the Federal court is brutal.
Reynolds has won six of these so far hasn’t she?
I’ve lost count.
Brown should be lining up for some $$$ too.
bern
I’ve never ordered from those two houses of horror. That would be like eating a “hearty breakfast” (once described) at the Mud Island Inn.
Nine-month-old baby is released from hospital after being stabbed in Bondi attack that killed her mother and five others – as health minister gives update on her treatment
Daily Mail.
Dutton has joined the orgy of exploitation by politicians of the slaughter of innocent people to elevate themselves and prepare us for slavery in all but name.
They are the enemies of decent people everywhere.
Two Presidents Walk into a Convenience Store
The people of New York were shocked when former President Donald Trump made an appearance at a bodega in Harlem amid his own court battle. Crowds of New Yorkers swarmed the store to get a glimpse of the former president, and he was met with loud applause and cheers from the crowd. Trump strategically picked this bodega, as a worker there was attacked by an assailant who was not charged thanks to pro-crime anti-American AG Alvin Bragg.
This area of Harlem is not a safe neighborhood by any means. Donald Trump walked into what one would consider “the hood” on short notice in a city that has hated him since he turned conservative. The city no longer hates Trump. The people now see Trump on a personable level as he, like so many others, has become a victim of the corrupt justice system.
https://youtu.be/I71_SbHIXuE
https://youtu.be/_rnHvZxSTAQ
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/two-presidents-walk-into-a-convenient-store/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I’m not eating much pizza these days.
I’m eating far too much roast chicken though.
Does Melbourne have a Chargrill Charlie’s yet?
You need to get into that, skin & all.
I love their chicken and gravy rolls, Bern. Not great for the waistline, though.
There’s a Charlie’s in Camberwell…
Roger
Outside of the very big US cities, food choice is crap. But then doesn’t that also apply to Australia too, to some extent?
I don’t agree JC, you just have to do your research before you travel.
But sure, if you have a car full of kids & convenience is paramount, your options are limited.
In the country we have the farmer’s gate and markets, JC.
And in our case we can grow some of our own fruit and veg with no pesticides.
Cats – these ridiculous Fatty Trump lawsuits, for goodness’ sake – the dumbocrats are not gifted with any shame.
Some of the most preposterous evil collectivist crackpots (BIRM) to have existed in human history.
Defecating in their trousers, sniffing li’l goils hair, unashamedly amassing ill gotten fortunes via insider trading, visiting kiddee fiddling resorts, having “troublesome” people bumped off, invoking wacism at the drop of a hat, encouraging lynch mobs, forgetting what planet they exist on, cultivating voteherds, hanging around until they rightfully belong in a coffin, giving press conferences where their batteries go flat and just generally being obnoxious all round wompusses, I tells ya.
It isn’t right, is it?
Another short clip from the Rogan interview.
Tucker Carlson on How the CIA Set-up Richard Nixon
Could someone explain to me how Large Scale Generation Certificate (LGC) cash that flows to wind and solar is green?
Ta for the afternoon mind worm where I chase down some figures online.
?OK not even going near the concrete that needs fly ash from coal but 2000T of steel.
Average of 770Kg of coking coal per tonne of steel produced. Times by 2000T gives us 1.54mil kg total. Divide by 1000 gets 1540T of coking coal for 1 windmill on structure alone.
OK approx 3.3 kg of CO2 in 1 kg of anthracite. Times by 2000 gives us 6.6mil kg of CO2 or 6600 tonne per structure.
Average car emits from the 1-4 tonne of CO2 a year.
Any certificate once concrete and the rare earths in the generators/fibreglass is an outright scam.
Feel free to critique my maths if I have erred and law of averages I probably have…
When you also take in the inefficiency the erratic wind turbines inflict especially on OC gas turbines it’s likely you could shut down the wind turbines and just run CC gas turbines and produce net less CO2. Birds and bats would love you too, of course.
‘Offsetting’ whatever you have just purchased – say, an airline ticket – seems a similar, but simpler scam. The extra you have paid to ‘offset’ is paid (well, perhaps 5% of it?) to a company that claims to plant a tree to assuage your guilt. Even IF that ‘tree’ is planted, as a seedling or sapling, it will not convert nearly the same amount of ebil-gas (CO2) as a fully grown tree. What happens if it doesn’t grow, or is wiped out by a bushfire? Can you get your money back?
Figuring out exactly why these scams are so successful (why do they appeal to people on an emotional/psychological level), and then doing something about them, is the key. They are so established now, though, that any contradiction has to successfully convince people they were duped. The human ego does not like that at all.
Are you not motivated? Well, try watching this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuZjpxmsZQ
Feel free to critique my maths if I have erred and law of averages I probably have…
Your maths might be right, which is all well & good.
But have you taken into account feelz?
& the rainbow serpent?
In the last 18 years, “Idiocracy” has transmogrified from a satire to a documentary.
This is what happens when you talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded, I tells ya.
My wife did not find that movie funny.
It’s too close to the truth now to be funny, obviously.
In the last 18 years, “Idiocracy” has transmogrified from a satire to a documentary.
Always makes me think of the vile D’Ambrosio woman with her BA. A BA seems to be a requirement for idiocracy membership.
Now, all the people who really think that Humans only have 2 years to go before the End of the World. Please form a queue outside the Dis United Nations Building in NYC and wait.
Don’t do anything, just wait. The bloated Dis UN with their loads of ‘Other People’s Money will feed and clothe you and wash you and care for you over the next 2 years.
At the end of those 2 years, and with Planet Earth still here (as I expect it will be), then go away and get a real job and stop your stupid moaning for once and for ALL.
Meanwhile, the rest of the World can get on with – ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’.
JC organic food is a nice little earner for some people, especially the ticket clippers in the certifier game. My main gripe is that it’s a hijacked word. Have you ever eaten anything inorganic?
dave, ‘organic’ means produced free from chemical pesticides or chemical fertilisers.
If some people are prepared to pay a premium for such produce that’s the free market in operation, yeah?
Therefore organic means growns in shit
You can actually tell if the fruit and veggies are likely to be naturally grown as they present with far more imperfections.
I’m pretty confident chicken is organic as it’s easier to control. As far as eggs go, well I’ll know if they’re not as I’ll start to feel like crap.
Bruce of Newc, I nearly got clocked by a Kookaburra swooping down to swipe some meat from the verandah rail as I bent down to put some on the ledge for the eager Currawongs, and now a Magpie has turned up, We’ve never had them here before. I am defrosting all of Attapuss’s meat drawer in the freezer for them all. His little spirit is looking at me wondering why I haven’t shut him out yet. When he was dying I sat out here with him several times on my lap and he perked up, his own place again after the days in hospital until we arrived home.
I am not sure how good Fussy Cat is for birds though. Must check.
Cat Protection Society could probably do with it too.
I missed Attapuss demise. What happened?
@MikeBenzCyber
Ukraine “Aid” & The Blob Uniparty: it ain’t about ideology, it ain’t about democracy — it’s strictly business.
@MikeBenzCyber
“Ukraine Aid” defense funding is a lie. It’s “Seize Eurasia” offense funds. As long as “Seize Eurasia” is Blob policy, it will be trillions to Ukraine & doom to all who oppose.
Trump was impeached over Ukraine military “aid” 3 yrs before 2022’s war. This is what FISA is about
The only thing the Christian Leb’s should have done was kill the pos muzzie instead of subduing him. He wouldn’t do it again. Treat the muzzies the same way they treat anyone else. They don’t like it one bit, and pull their collective heads in ala Cronulla riots. When we’ve had enough and who hasn’t treat them with contempt.
In the whole foods and processed foods wars, I’m trying to work out the difference.
The only processed food I eat is Weetbix, Rolled oats, Milk – homogenised. Sometimes a salami.
That’s rather bizarre – According to the propaganda, I’m eating a ‘near natural’ diet.
Can’t remember when I bought a packet of something – apart from flour, sugar, and yeast.
I buy stuff from the butcher and that’s stuff he makes himself – sausages, roasts, mince.
Haven’t had pizza in nearly a year.
Australia ‘heading towards’ a Central Bank Digital Currency
Use it or lose it. That applies to cash as well.
For Cat’s with an interest in military literature – Mick Malone’s memoirs “Two Ranks on the Road” are being released, today.
Thanks, Zulu. If I had the spare change, I’d grab a copy. I like those type of books that don’t just repeat in a difference sequence what other authors have written on the same topic – one’s that ADD to the historical record, rather than nibble at it and regurgitate. (Yes, I understand the commercial pressure of sales in a very small market).
What the hell does the local Aboriginal tribe have to do with the Bondi massacre?
I have watched smoking ceremonies, candle lighting to the farting of the didge and now an obeisance to the elders past present and future.
Apart from all the pollie scum infesting the memorial, it has ZERO to do with the victims and everything to do with virtue signalling by various groups.
What a shambles.
So I have escaped to Escape to the Country rather than blow a foofle valve.
Finding the info about trees in a forest operating as families via fungi in the soil fascinating.
Yes. It’s a symbiotic relationship, and occurs with greater or lesser intensity depending upon species.
Eucalypts enjoy the same advantages as well as the featured deciduous trees.
Fascinating….thanks!
What the hell does the local Aboriginal tribe have to do with the Bondi massacre?
Everything of course.
The attacks were a manifestation of colonialism.
Anyone could have foreseen that the memorial was going to be hijacked by the politicians and their pets. It was always going to be about virtue signalling and not about the victims and their families.
Eggspurt reckons CBDC is going to happen here, but thinks there can be “guardrails” put around it. (ref the Canadian truckers’ cancellation.)
There is no credibility in the guardrails compromise, the authorities won’t respect the guardrails. A CBDC could be okay for along as it is an optional payment alternative, like gift cards and bitcoin, but again that’s a guardrail that may not be respected.
Seems like only last week IIRC the RBA was telling us their own survey showed Australians didn’t want a CBDC.
What happened to Attapuss?
Roger, organic means derived from living matter. Or it used to. Think animal, mineral or vegetable. Two of those are organic, one is not.
dave, not in the marketing of produce.
Laws define it.
The law also says a bloke can say “I am a shiela” and walk into a girls changing room.
That’s obviously an unreasonable law.
From organic veges to gender….that escalated quickly!
😀
dave, in English words can have more than one meaning.
Context is key.
There Should Be a Civil Rights Case Against this Judge & Bragg to Get into Federal Court
https://twitter.com/i/status/1780563810752872874
I know other have written but I just waiting for a delivery, so …
Just heard Dutton on radio about Elon and censorship to “protect” the citizens, and he threw in child exploitation, as they always do as a justification for curtailing free speech.
Why do Liberals leaders disappoint like clockwork?
Wrote to his office about not folding on Stage 3 tax cuts, and stand for something – but he did not and folded. Must not have been “a hill he wanted to die on”, even though it was the “right thing” to do for 4 years until Albo reneged and then it was not the “right thing”
So we need to take real life stabbings of Christian clergy off the web (and “X”) because they could mess with people’s brains.
And we need to take rampages thru shopping centres because it could trigger people.
But who gets to decide what’s ok to broadcast? If it’s me, I am all for it. Otherwise I don’t trust you.
Dutton did not mention movies with realistic ultra violence.
Nor did he mention video games with stylised violence that de-sensitises the player.
Nor did he mention fake screams and bloody hospital scenes after middle East bomb attacks broadcast every regularly.
He seemed to be very selective about what is so dangerous to see that it has to be “pulled down”.
.
P.S. I note the NSW police are all gun-ho with arresting Christian rioters, but not pro-Hamas ones. Oh, and that riot was another piece of footage that has to be taken down for public safety – its a balance you know, Mr Dutton said.
Christians a small relatively compliant easily controlled where as to upset the mushrooms all hell would break lose and the cops may get injured!
Muslims shoot back and the police are scared. Simple.
Therefore, they take the easy mark.
This is the inevitable result of immigration that is higher than 50,000 per year. Numbers above that put pressure on housing, jobs, health services, educational services etc. By concentrating on the noisy newcomers social services are then not available to care for our most vulnerable, the aged and the infirm. Neither of the major parties could give a stuff about them and I just hope that they will pay a political price.
Qld Labor: *Sigh* ‘Spose it’s your turn.
Qld LNP: Really? I’m sure we just had it. We’ve done our bit.
Lab: You don’t wanna?
LNP: Nah, can’t be buggered. Already got the post-polli career inked in anyway. Expenses still being upped, though?
Lab: Yeah, ‘course. Stuff this for a lurk, eh? O.K., we’ll take it again.
LNP: Whatever.
Lab: *Smirks*
LNP: *Facial expression remains unchanged; between apathetic and bewildered.*
Seems like only last week IIRC the RBA was telling us their own survey showed Australians didn’t want a CBDC
They said they didn’t want a voice to parliament also.
Wivenhoe! Good to ‘see’ you here.
20min Mark Rober video.
He visits Anduril (the super drone company backed by Peter Thiel & Elon).
Then a pretty cool ad.
Then an even cooler backyard drone challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGENEXocJU
The modern (and changed) meaning of organic, grown without artificial chemicals, is a form of stolen virtue. The lambs and grains I produce are equal at least to any organically certified. Organic certification requires that a lot of useful tools are foregone.
The great Norman Borgault once estimated if we were forced to go “organic ” we could feed about 4.5 billion. About half the current population.
If you’re a follower of Norman Borlaug I’ll give you a pass on your logomachy, dave.
Because they’re motivated by pragmatism rather than principle.
I was just reflecting on this today.
Australia as a democratic polity has historically had a conservative disposition but no articulated conservative philosophy or doctrine.
Consequently, ostensibly conservative politicians like Menzies (who supported the centralisation and expansion of the federal government) or Howard (immigration, property rights & renewables) have been able to execute some quite radical policy moves without being held accountable to clearly expressed conservative principles.
The electorate, the source of sovereignty and legitimacy in a democracy, had judged them on appearances rather than against an objective standard.
Howard’s broad church certainly allowed some curious fellow travelers inside the tent. You get the feeling he was never bothered by their presence (and actively encouraged at least one).
Lizzie – Kookas are like that: what they see they nuke. Anything in the way is a mere obstacle, including magpies.
Sadly one of my old kookas is no more, she lost an eye a couple months ago, probably in a fight with the local magpie clan. Kookaburras with one eye unfortunately can’t survive. And a friendly cockie appears to’ve died in the last couple days, he had lost all his feathers to beak-and-feather disease, so he probably expired from hypothermia in the wet weather. Ah well, this happens.
Lots of birds here after the wet weather, very keen for nosh, especially the noisy miners and rainbow lorikeets.
So I wrote my meaningless email of outrage to Dutton’s office. It was a waste of time but probably lowered the heart rate. I am now barracading in anticipation of the Swat assault.
FFS – even Dutton. Is there not anyone in the political sewer who has any understanding of, and sympathy for real Australia.
The Nation is the guardian of its culture.
Once the Nation has been disappeared, the culture follows.
That’s the aim of the rest of the world. Remove White Judeo/Christian culture from the globe.
The problem for the rest of the world is that they won’t have anyone to bludge off. The world will be South Africa with Chinese characteristics.
Imagine that.
The interesting part will be the generation that wants that culture, will facilitate it. Global Tribal Idiocracy.
In fact the violent films and games are far more gory and explicit than the real stuff they are trying to censor. Our masters are lying to us on an industrial scale but keep insisting trust us. No way. We must resist even if it’s just objecting on blogs.
feelthebern
April 21, 2024 5:00 pm
Or, better still, make it yourself.
We are also telling marketing researchers that we don’t like woke movies, TV, radio, internet etc yet they keep making the rubbish even at a loss. We tell them we don’t want EVs but they keep making them and pushing them on us. We tell them we don’t want vegan food but they still stock them in supermarkets while hiking up the price of other food. We tell them we don’t like the transgender invasions of all female spaces and sports but they still keep on doing it. The powers that be despise us, we are not customers or citizens, so what are we?
Crossie:
The Patrol comes up to 20 years old this year.
I could buy a new one, but why would I? Full of gadgets that will break in 5 years time, a nagging reminder that the back door isn’t closed, or the seat belt isn’t fastened, or I haven’t put the garbage out, or I just ran over the dog…
And no “Shut the hell up” button/switch/lever/app.
That’s the major reason I won’t buy one.
I’m not missing out on a sale – they are.
And if everyone in Australia held on to their toaster/4WD/TV/house for an extra year, the bastards would realise the customer doesn’t have to buy their crap but they have to sell it.
Of course, the government is now a major player in the economy, never the less they can be pressured.
This quirky and bossily talkative little animal suffered a massive brain aneurism (a stroke) four days before we were due home, which resulted in his back and back legs being paralyzed. He was nearly dead, quite cold when he was found on our bed only an hour after he was last seen. No reason for it happening, just life being mean.
Our lovely young cat sitter, who had given him every care, and our son, got him to our ‘GP’ Vet (didn’t know vets had GP’s) who sent him on to emergency specialist care. We were in daily contact with the specialists; we couldn’t have got home earlier as the flights from Chile wouldn’t have been any different, I think only twice weekly. He was in the emergency hospital for five nights at $850 a day and we had over $2000 of tests done, but on taking him home to home nurse we decided on further advice that his quality of life would not improve and did not want to put him through more stressful tests given that no better outcome was at all likely. He would never walk again given the extent of his paralysis. There was no treatment but nursing care. It all sadly brought back feelings I had when my bother was similarly afflicted, only he was completely unable to move. Attapuss was also incontinent and couldn’t eat or drink except by eye-dropper; he was constantly dripping urine onto special pads. His blood work done suggested some metabolic issues. One of his pupils was dilated far more than the other and involuntary shudders occasionally ran over his head and down his neck.
We had two very lovely days with him keeping him by us all the time, and he still tried to ‘talk’ to us as usual, even though his little voice box was not working properly. He objected whenever I left the room. When we first picked him up and got him home he grabbed my hand, pulling it down to his mouth with his little soft paws, and started to lick it all over. He was so glad to be back home, and safe, and loved, and lying on me for his chest rubs as we all watched TV. Not missing his legs then, he began to purr and even attempted to groom himself. He also seemed to enjoy being on me on the verandah, looking over the gully as branches caught the breeze and the birds flew in wide swoops to the highest trees.
He went quietly to sleep forever at the vet’s, as I stroked him and we lied comfortingly to him that he would be going home again soon. After he went, Hairy was in slow welling up tears and I was sobbing so hard I could hardly breathe. We loved him very much for nine years, a rescue kitten, still on my avatar. Our home feels so empty now without him, lurking around every corner ready to complain, create mayhem, or simply wanting us to follow a usual routine that always included special times for him. So you’ve had your lunch, he’d boss away, so now it’s time for you to get on that sofa and put the blanket on your legs and let me get up for my post-lunch love while you have a cup of tea. That was just one of the routines.
He had so many others, things he did, such a part of our existence. We’ve thrown out most of his toys, which we’d often hear him playing with up and down the hallway at 3am, but I didn’t have the heart to throw out his favorite soft ball, which in our beach house when a young cat he used to retrieve like a little dog and bring back to us when I threw it down the spiral staircase. He was down that staircase like a shot, pouncing on it, and bounding up the spiral to drop it at my feet, expectantly wanting more. Even recently, if I threw it up in the air in the hallway he’d be up there after it.
Scroll if you don’t like cats, but Attapuss deserves an obituary here.
Awwwww. I’m not a big cat person – I have a dog who is pretty much my sole family & which I DREAD losing – but the human connection to domestic animals is something almost magical that both fascinates me and crushes my emotions. I often joke that if given a choice between a dog or a human for company, 80% of the time, I’d choose a dog.
I recall at some point last year, entering my vets to cross paths with a very burly, hard-looking bloke on the way out, quiet tears just gushing down his face. His wife walking just behind him seemed more in control of her emotions (for the time being, I guess), but he look shattered.
Seven or eight years ago, I was working in one of the local hospitals when I got chatting to an elderly fella. He had been out walking his dog one morning when a driver hit them both. The bloke was taken to hospital with abrasions, but his dog was too injured, and was euthanised before he had an opportunity to say goodbye. He too, was feeling shattered. What can you say in a situation like that?
For all our deficits, we humans have the capacity – and the need – to bond with another species. *Sigh*
Yes, this is a lovely eulogy, even I had tears welling.
Thanks for that Lizzie. Sad for poor Attapuss, your experience was very like my old cat. I was so teary eyed when the vet did his thing he suggested I get a pet rock for a while. He actually said that. A nice guy, I don’t know if he’s still around he be in his eighties now. Instead of a rock I adopted the Cafe birdies, and they are often on the fence above my old cat’s grave, which is in the corner of my yard.
Sad news, Lizzie.
So very sorry. It’s like losing a member of the family. I know first hand how painful it can be.
Lizzie, that’s sad to hear. Attapuss will leave a gap here in the blog, I know your home will feel a little empty for a long time
Now I’m sitting here like a kid with tears running down my cheeks. So sad, Lizzie, and brought back memories of our last pussycat, a blue point Siamese who had what the vet thought was a brain bleed. One morning he just walked into furniture etc until he sat and looked at the wall from about six inches away. We realised he was totally blind. My wife wouldn’t let me go to the vet with her while he went to sleep. I said goodbye to him, but I don’t think he even knew.
God, now I’m blubbering.
Thanks for the reply, Lizzie. I didn’t know of Attapus dying, but it sounds like it was a fine way to go – in company of someone who loved him.
I still look around occasionally for Fatso and Buddy even though it’s been a few years now.
Elsie is good company, but lacks the character of the other two.
God bless you Lizzie and your darling little Attapus.
We need a Smug Tax. Not smog, but smug. Not a tax that IS smug, but a tax ON smug.
Research indicates that those who demonstrate smugness can afford to pay a Smug Tax.
South Park already did that.
Musta ,missed that one. Cheers.
On the subject of highly processed foods raised earlier, putting aside its reported high sodium content, how does plant based meat rate on the processing scale?
And insect based foods?
Terrible on every measure.
FWIW
“Dog food or fake meat? Most can’t tell the difference”
https://www.realagriculture.com/2019/07/dog-food-or-fake-meat-most-cant-tell-the-difference/
Sorry to hear of the demise of the great Attapuss, Lizzie.
Great pets are a terrible loss when they go.
Whenever one of Mme Zulu’s cats has to be euthanized, guess who gets the job of actually taking the beast to the vet…
I hope that Elsie is still doing well with you, Bob. At least strokes are fairly rare, so you have no need to worry about that.
We have told our cat sitter that none of this is her fault at all. It must be terrible to be minding someone’s loved animal in their home and have such an emergency happen out of the blue.
Lizzie, sorry about Attapuss, We’ll all miss tails of his adventures.
Lizzie, that horrible pun was unintentional – just my failing eyesight.
As above, Lizzie. Elsie is an odd cat. She’s afraid of her own shadow at times. She’ll sit by the front door looking out at the world but as soon as I open the screen door, she bolts back under the bed. Sometimes she’ll be just walking through the house on a mission then runs as if there’s a dog in the room.
She’s only once been outside and came back in like a shot – something has scared her but she frightens easily.
She doesn’t play with toys – God knows I’ve bought enough to amuse me – she’ll just sit and watch as I roll tinkly balls around the room. It’s not as if she’s too dignified to play, she doesn’t seem to have the hunt reflex that 7 year old cats have.
A bit nonplussed by her I am.
Gazan women and children death count ‘statistically impossible’, Australian academics say
By stephen lunn
Gazan authorities’ repeated claims that women and children make up 70 per cent of the more than 30,000 Gazan casualties since the war started is “statistically impossible”, according to an analysis undertaken by three Australian academics.
Their article, published in the Britain-based Fathom journal, also says there is “serious doubt” about other aspects of the Gazan death count.
While the authors stress that every death is a human tragedy, they forensically examined the 70 per cent figure, which they say has gone unchallenged in most media coverage of the war.
They note that in late February, the Gazan Ministry of Health announced casualties had topped the 30,000 mark and that 70 per cent of them were women and children.
That figure has been repeatedly cited by Gazan authorities during the course of the war, their paper says.
Yet 43 per cent of those 30,000 were not hospital-registered deaths and were included as coming from “reliable media sources”.
Those unregistered deaths have been manipulated to dramatically overstate female and child casualties, the paper says.
Of the some 7000 unregistered deaths reported by both the MoH and the Hamas Government Media Office as at the end of 2023, the paper concludes just 10 were purported to be male. “This is obviously absurd,” report co-author, lawyer and University of Wollongong academic Greg Rose said.
“It’s clear the data, particularly the unregistered ‘media sources’ deaths, are being manipulated to contain almost no males.”
Professor Rose, along with Adelaide-based population economist Tom Simpson and RMIT biomathematician Lewi Stone, used publicly available data sources to adduce their findings through a statistical analysis.
“This paper demonstrates that the casualty figures concerning women and children are statistically impossible,” the study concludes. “Our results cast serious doubt on all other aspects of the Gazan death counts.”
Their report in Fathom, published by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, notes that even among the verifiable hospital data, 58 per cent of registered deaths were women and children, not 70 per cent. In 2024, that proportion fell to 42 per cent.
“This is still a large proportion, but it should be remembered that women and children make up 75 per cent of Gaza’s population,” the report says.
It finds that both the Ministry of Health and Hamas’ Government Media Office published the same total deaths as a result of the conflict through to the end of 2023 – 21,978, with the MoH reporting 15,349 were hospital-registered.
It says while the GMO reported 6098 male deaths, with the other 72 per cent being women and children, the MOH reported 6088 registered male deaths.
“We reverse-engineered those 2023 unregistered death claims and found that according to Hamas, just 10 men had been killed and their deaths not been registered, while almost 5000 children and 2000 women had been killed and their deaths not registered,” Professor Rose said.
He said the analysis had also uncovered a period in December when the statistics coming from the GMO saw the cumulative number of males killed in the war decline by more than 1000.
“There is no doubt many women and children have tragically been killed in Gaza – something to be expected given Hamas’ unfortunate use of human shields and given that most Gazans are women and children – but the precise proportion cannot be known,” he said. “The number of deaths of women and children, who are largely civilians, is demonstrated by the study to be a far smaller proportion of casualties than being reported.
“Our paper confirms the old saying that the first casualty of war is truth.”
Good Lord!
Arabs telling fibs!
A lovely obit for your Attapuss, Elizabeth. So sorry for your great loss.
Thank you, Delta. Much appreciated.
Dutton is dead to me. For good.
Brittany Higgins posts message to Instagram after Linda Reynolds responds to rape, defamation case
Sun, 21 April 2024 5:55PM
Caleb Runciman
Brittany Higgins has taken to Instagram hours after her former boss Linda Reynolds insisted she would continue defamation actions against her unless she accepted the federal court’s findings that there was no political cover-up of her rape allegation. Credit: RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/AAP
Brittany Higgins has taken to Instagram hours after her former boss Linda Reynolds insisted she would continue defamation actions against her unless Ms Higgins accepted the Federal Court’s findings that there was no political cover-up of her rape.
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee last week ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, Ms Higgins was raped by then-colleague Bruce Lehrmann in Senator Reynolds’ office in March 2019.
Ms Higgins issued a statement saying that she acknowledged that Senator Reynolds and veteran Liberal staffer Fiona Brown, who was the office’s chief of staff at the time, had been hurt throughout the years of court cases and public debate over the handling of the matter.
“For that, I am also sorry,” Ms Higgins said.
On Sunday afternoon, Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds responded to the statement, saying that she hoped the recent findings gave Ms Higgins peace.
But the Liberal politician added that her defamation action against Ms Higgins and her fiance David Shiraz was never about the rape allegation, but “what Justice Lee exposed as false allegations raised two years after the rape” of “a dreadful and damaging political cover-up”.
Three hours after Ms Reynolds’ statement, Ms Higgins took to Instagram to post.
“Ah, wonderful,” Ms Higgins wrote on her Instagram story. “Keep showing people the truth of who you really are.”
The comments were accompanied by a photo showing the sun setting over sand dunes covered in 4WD track marks.
I’m sorry, what’s the significance of the image of the sun setting over sand dunes, covered in 4WD track marks?
Honestly what a piece of work this bint is. How many more pirouettes she does have in her act?
Suddenly now sorry after all the mediation and more that was directed by Justice Solomon… Sorry not buying her recently found contrition…
Hope Justice Solomon doesn’t fall for her sirens call like Lee obviously did.
“Tyre tracks all across your back, baby
I can see you’ve had your fun”
-J.M. Hendrix
Thank you.
…I don’t think that’s what the Hog was hinting at, probably more just what the kids call “shake off burn” instagram holiday thingo. Muddy’s on the money, she’s looking like a shallow, petulant piece of work now.
I’ve seldomly commented on this issue, but she’s really setting herself up for undeniable favourite status for the Most Universally Disliked Nobody in the Country Award, isn’t she?
Nearly three million dollars in her pocket?
Brittany needs to sack Dave as script writer. His days of exuding power are over.
Perplexed of Brisbane
April 21, 2024 5:39 pm
Reply to Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Too bad Reynolds can’t sue the ALP and the LNP. One blamed her and one hung her out to dry.
She can sue members of the liars and the limp dicks; and the toad.
She can’t sue the Mean Girls, parliamentary privilege.
I’d be surprised if any court would take it anywhere now that the NACC have said they are investigating it. Reynolds v B & D very much a discrete peripheral issue to the main event at this point.
From the Oz:-
Oh?
An investigation?
But we were told four days ago, with great certainty, that “the mistake was made by a junior producer”.
I’ll hazard a guess that Mr. Cohen (likely harbouring a rather hostile attitude whilst simultaneously retaining as counsel some serious legal horsepower) has not been mollified by “the work experience kid stuffed up, sorry about that, mate”
Why don’t they just settle with him and kill the story?
Why not indeed? But they are assuming they can walk all over the little people and that probably hasn’t occurred to them.
The refusal to sit down and negotiate is endemic in the Fourth Estate – so much so that it has been taken into the media gestalt.
Lot of personnel changes at Channel Stokes. Good time to keep your head down and look busy.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/04/well-done-those-men.html
Only trial and sentence a poodafile deserves!
Those jacks were lucky they didn’t collect one another in the crossfire.
Sad renews
https://reneweconomy.com.au/major-wind-farm-withdrawn-after-more-planning-delays-downsizing-name-changes-and-fierce-opposition/
Is this thing on?
Ugh, couldn’t get the site to refresh.
Is this thing on?
One of the problems with the new Cat design.
People could have made responses to lots of the comment, but to find out you’d have to scroll up and check all of them, and then open them to read them.
Better to have one long thread…
If people are careful with attributing quotes and comments the long thread worked fine. For detailed backwards and forwards the nested comments is probably best, although they do run the risk of being “left behind”. On balance I think the one thread approach works best.
That’s life with nested replies. There may be replies, even to one’s own comments, and you never know it.
Top Ender
April 21, 2024 10:43 pm
Is this thing on?
One of the problems with the new Cat design.
Same here, I hardly bother commenting now, I know, I know nobody is missing my comments, but to scroll endlessly for what others might think is a waste of time, you have to dive into the ‘view reply’ or you never find out.
Not everyone has the time or inclination to do that.
Changing the format was not a good move, my opinion only of course.
Catching up reading my inbox messages, have a lot from the Trump camp, because foolishly, I once donated to his campaign ages ago.
Reading about his plight at the moment, I am reminded about johanna’s comment about, ‘ what are you doing about it’?
I think it was quite appropriate and not nasty or antisemitic at all.
In a much more important and wider scale this is what’s happening in the US now.
People either do not care about their country’s legal state now, nor its future, or too apathetic.
Years ago the US wokeraty would be in arms about this sort of miscarriage of justice happening in a third world country.
Now?
He deserves it, full steam ahead convict, convict.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to him, and nothing I can do to help, not from here anyway but I have a dark foreboding for us, as allies of the US.
If they fail, to whom can we turn to?
The only comment of Johanna’s that I have seen that was anti-Semitic (although I may have missed some) is the one months ago now which slammed Cassie, a distressed Jewish woman, for her expressed emotions; depicted Jews as basically responsible for their own situation because they were weak and didn’t organise or fight (a well-recognised and common European anti-Semitic meme laying blame on Jews for their ‘victim’ mentality); and lauded the Dutch and the speaker as paragons of staunch good sense in these matters.
Note too that this was just before a major doxxing of Jewish creative people who were trying to organise some level of resistance to the tremendous rise in anti-Semitism sweeping Australia, putting truth to the lie that it was easy for Jewish people to organise against anti-Semitism. Catallaxy was not covered in glory by the upticks for Johanna’s commentary on that day months ago. Matters can only resolve if she makes a genuine apology to Cassie. A decent person would do that, even if they believed they were not in the wrong or only inadvertently so.
How so as they’re not allowed to accept foreign money?
For those that haven’t seen this, Dutton is exploiting the slaughtered to betray Australia by doing an about face to now support Albo’s Ministry of Truth.
Our political class is full of traitorous tyrants, salivating at the golden opportunity to enslave us.
I must say that the timing of the Westfield massacre is almost too fortuitous, just one month before the Disinformation Bill was to meet its worthy demise. Dutton has officially joined the ranks of the satanic.
New OT up.
JC
April 21, 2024 11:34 pm
Living there at the time. Not every donation is scrutinised as you must realise, but you can doubt all you like.
Focus on the content and question, if possible.
Calm down KevinM.
I asked because they appear to be tight with respect to foreign donations.
Someone here asked me to buy them a MAGA hat when I visited a few years ago. I was unable to purchase it from the campaign booth at Trump Tower as I was a foreigner. I had to go to an adjacent booth that was unconnected to the campaign.
So yes, they are quite strict about this.
As to your question. Let me ask what you mean by “fail”? Fail what exactly?
JC
April 22, 2024 12:36 am
Turning into a totalitarian one party state of a fascist/communist leaning where individual rights are not existent, but it’s nearly there now.
Making excuses because one loves certain aspects of NY life will not fix it.
Oh, the premature rebuttal before anything I said. Well, if you’re going to hit that side of the toilet bowl, then let me respond further. I don’t believe you made any donation because it would’ve been rejected, just like the purchase of a $40 baseball cap.
The US has a Washington problem as well as large urban areas run by Demonrats. The rest of the country is doing fine and outside of those urban areas, even in blue states, the people are doing well. The place isn’t going to walk away from its close allies.
If it does, what are we going to do?
Switzerland does fine without being aligned. We could become a Switzerland if we wished.
Someone upthread mentioned the value of the embedded comments.
CL’s site has a format like Dover’s old Cat (except there is no Open Forum) and it is very easy and quick to load and use. You write a comment and it appears above in the timeline. Coming briefly back in to this current iteration of the Cat requires so much scrolling up and down to seek out embedded replies and add a comment all the way up at the top of the page rather than where you want to make it, at the base. I think a lot of commentary gets lost in the embedded format, and ‘can’t be bothered’ takes over. That’s my ‘new users’ experience.
CL’s site is also well moderated: no-one would be attacked by a fixated person, and called a cockroach, a gold-digger, or a ‘flouncer’, as I have been almost immediately I entered here. All of these things are slanders, btw, including ‘flouncing’, not factual, but negative opinions, slurs on character. Eschewing commenting to make a point is not ‘flouncing’. My point was an apology was due to Cassie: it still is. This fixated person’s attacks have distressed me greatly over the years and apparently are never-ending here, not an inviting prospect. Nor does CL tolerate unhinged commentary designed to injure Cassie, a Jewish commenter he admires; someone tried it and got themselves removed pronto.
At CL’s I do miss the features of an Open Forum, which allow for a wider spread of communications than an issue-directed site, and came in here to share my travelogues with those requesting that. I stayed to express my sadness over Attapuss and then the Westfield killings when as an elderly person alone I had the trial of attending an urgent medical appointment on the first day open (Westfields is more than a local shopping centre, it is a community hub).
As someone who in the past lived four days under threat of being killed by an unknown knife-wielding escapee from a locked ward until the police gave me the all-clear, I found this pretty confronting. I did not mention this in the piece I wrote about that day though. A nasty comment on that piece, more or less accusing me of grandstanding, was pretty upsetting though.
CL has no up or down ticking, which I think also improves the level of commentary.
There seems to be some sort of ‘toggle’ between up and down ticks, or am I imagining things?
It muddies the dick-ticking even more. Why have it?
Worse than trying to work out the toggle in the lighting system in some South American hotels. 🙂
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