If you’d seen what I’ve just seen in India, Sancho, Hay truck stop is the acme of public hygiene. Arrrgh.…
Open Thread – Mon 6 May 2024
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- Guest Post: Mem – The Ratchet Effect of Power-Price Increases
- Will the wind warriors become social outcasts?
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 Jan 2025
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He is maintaining his column in The Australian.
Sadiq Khan urges censorship and reveals the real purpose of the Online Safety Bill
Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for public lands boss, questions reliability of renewable power
FIRE THE LOT
If only Stalin knew!
Enyway got a fresh lamb last week.
Life is good.
Pet or roast?
Roast, fried ect over the week.
Pro. John Mearsheimer Exposes The Real Hand Behind The Ukraine Conflict!
Oct 7 was a “prison break”?
I’ve just lost a lot of respect for Mearsheimer.
Stalin was a bank robber before going into politics. No change to profession, really. Just the name of it changed.
Get a load of this. Don’t eat spinach. 🙂
Staff, prefects condemn “outdated Colonial concepts of attractiveness”
“These western whores deserve everything that’s coming to them, after parading around with their knees exposed, and making direct eye contact with their superiors- males”, Head Boy Mohamed* ibn Mohamed* stated. When told that no student had been assaulted, or even approached in connection to the computerised spreadsheet and asked for clarification, ibn Mohamed shrugged and said “Inshallah, they soon will be. Who can blame the cat, if the meat is left out?”
Very good.
Greens go antisemitic!
WARNING: The cocoa beans that we use to make our chocolate can expose you to cadmium, which is known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm
So that’s why the Aztecs died out. Who knew?
climate changed
Seriously.
In the latter years of primary school, and in my single year of co-ed high school before going all boarding school-y in the Rat, it was extremely common knowledge that the girls ranked boys in exactly – exactly – the same manner.
Even in boarding school, some tenuous means of contact (letters – yes I know) were forwarded back and forth between other schools containing chicks, including but not limited to Loreto and St. Micks in the Sticks where we were aware such rankings existed.
Chicks rank blokes in workplaces today, and vice versa. It is the way of the world.
Should anyone bother to look closely at girls’ schools where male teachers are also ranked – looking at you Allan, Gillard, Plibersek – it may be very uncomfortable for those squealing in public today.
Heard a rumor that Aussie Post is closing branches at some of the biggest shopping centers. Not sure if this is just in Melbourne or in other cities as well. The one in Chadstone is slated for closure.
Expect it is a function of rents. Everyone who bought a post office a few years ago off the back of those proposed leases must be feeling a little sick. I expect the supermarkets will be next as soon as online sales an support it.
No post office in Kew Junction now
Allen is mediocre mediocrity.
Like the Sneakers cabinet, too weak to organise a coup. Need to talk to Keating.
In the latter years of primary school, and in my single year of co-ed high school before going all boarding school-y in the Rat, it was extremely common knowledge that the girls ranked boys in exactly – exactly – the same manner.
it is called ” Decision Criteria Analysis” and taught in every University around the globe.
This shows its limitation. It should be probability analysis.
WEF Young Leaders Speech Is Pure Evil!
Direct?
Ex Melbourne?
Yes and yes.
A little more expensive that Cathay and Singapore but no awkward stopovers.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to go to Ireland mid July to end August too.
Ireland is a balmy 18c in August apparently.
Whereabouts in Ireland are you visiting?
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan blasts schoolboys at Yarra Valley Grammar over ‘disgraceful’ ranking of female classmates (Sky News, 6 May)
That is so stupid and opportunistic. Girls rank themselves and other sheilas all the time. They also continuously rank boys. When I was at school I was ranked no 1 in the hot stakes.
How the mighty have fallen
it is called ” Decision Criteria Analysis” and taught in every University around the globe.
Didn’t TailGunner distill this down to “WB” and “WNB”?
… wonder who put those ideas in your head … its a dirty lowdown
Gang rampage: ‘There’s a war zone in Australia that no one knows about’An attack on a Northern Territory community, which sent terrified residents running for their lives from shotgun blasts, left people savagely beaten, shot with arrows and homes torched, has sparked fears of retaliation | WATCH
By liam mendes
May 6, 2024
5 minute read
An armed attack last week on a remote Northern Territory community that sent terrified residents fleeing from shotgun blasts and left homes torched has sparked fears of retaliation and an all-out war between rival family groups.
The tiny community of Nauiyu on the Daly River, three hours south of Darwin, was attacked last week by up to 25 people armed with various weapons – including shotguns, axes and crossbows – who had driven into the community and set homes and vehicles alight, with locals describing the town, population 350, as a “war zone”.
One person allegedly fired the shotgun at a group of people, with video obtained by The Australian showing residents, including children, running for their lives as shots erupt behind them.
One man can be heard yelling “gun, gun, gun” as smoke billows into the sky in the distance.
One stolen car was paraded through the community before being smashed into a home and set on fire, an eight-month-old baby apparently inside, although it had safely escaped when police arrived.
Police say four people attended the local clinic to have pellets removed from their skin. Another man was pictured with an arrow piercing his abdomen and protruding from his back.
Yet another video shows a group of five girls in their teens and early 20s smashing down a door and savagely beating a woman with their fists.
She falls to the floor, defenceless, while they continue to stomp and beat her. Locals say the victim had made comments online about a deceased male.
“There’s a war zone in Australia that no one knows about,” said one local, too scared to be identified. It is a commonly used term in the NT, but it had greater resonance last week, with the community at breaking point and bracing for the violence to return.
Elder Mark Casey, the oldest living Indigenous man in the area, said what happened on Tuesday last week first started after a dispute over a local footy grand final several years ago, with social media exacerbating tensions.
“They kept on fighting, it just escalated to what it is now, and now we’re here,” he said.
“It’d simmer and then someone would put something on social media, and then its off again,” the 73-year-old said.
“This community was built by people in the 1950s and ’60s; the old people have died out and it means nothing to young people.
“Hardly anybody works in this community, they’ve got nothing else to do than get on Facebook and sling crap at one another. And that’s what starts these wars.”
The retired Aboriginal community police officer of almost 23 years said seeing the destruction and violence in his community was a “crying shame”.
It’s a cultural thing!
I’m interested in how that 8 month old safely escaped the car. Obviously advanced for his/her/thems age.
“Return to Direct Instruction to counter heteronormativity”: Head of Staff LGBTQIAPP++furry Alliance
“Still, in pushing all Learning Activities away from fuddy-duddy “conversation” and “the provable facts of Enlightenment Science” into endless screen-based exercises on relativism, I can’t help but feel somewhat responsible that I handed these males the tools and the perfect cover to conduct this… this awful data entry” Mizz Flange-Waffen said through tears of rage.
“But after eleven years doing three degrees at uni, I’m just not ready for that level of human-to-human interaction”, the first-year probation teacher added before taking twelve weeks’ stress leave on full pay.
Oct 7 was a “prison break”?
I’ve just lost a lot of respect for Mearsheimer.
And Stalin did get the trains to run on time* 93.7% of the time.
…
* As defined by the People’s Timetable Recording Bureau.
Another unintended consequence of “niceness”: “good”, responsible folk desex their dogs as all the authorities encourage, consequently the only dogs running around with balls are the ones owned by the methhead dickwad studded collar types, consequently all the pound mongrels now look like Satan spawned hell demons:
..
https://dogshome.com/dog-adoption/adopt-a-dog/?age=&sex=&breed1=&resulttype=0&ShelterLocation=&Submit=Submit&pageno=1
Not a bad choice considering the crime rates and weak as piss judicial system.
Test
1,2,3 up a gum tree
We called it Discrete Component Analysis – key word being “discrete” otherwise it tends to become PCA.
You now find better looking and calmer tempered dogs running around the streets of third world shitholes than the ones getting “rescued” here.
Oh no. Poor chap has just seen a staffie cross.
Dry your eyes princess. I sure you will find your poodle if you keep looking.
Why is it that you goons keep going to “staffie cross”? Why not call the dogs at issue by the most common breed instead of white-washing it with the inly half that’s reasonable?
Dishonest cnts.
I wouldn’t go that far (unfortunately) but she certainly tells it straight and points out the double standard.
Stan Grant’s wife just ended Albo’s career live on air. Tracey Holmes
Paging Ms. Inman Grant…stat.
She’s too busy chasing people for misgendering.
Not a joke, that’s what she’s actually doing.
JC at 6:00 :-
This background level thing is ridiculous. Another point the chocolate company could make is how much chocolate you would have to eat to reach dangerous levels of cadmium intake.
Example: “If you eat the weight of a Tesla in chocolate each year, you will exceed the safe level of cadmium intake. Be careful!”
Same for noocular radiation. People are paranoid about noocular power (“no safe level”) but shrug when you point out the common sources of radiation all around us.
The one I love to raise with them is medical scans using radioactive contrast. I don’t know anyone who has refused a scan based on fear of noocular exposure.
Living is classed as a health hazard these days.
Bwah ha ha ha.
I had forgotten that.
The school officially known as St Martins in the Pines was nick-named “St Micks in the Sticks”.
Another unintended consequence of “niceness”: “good”, responsible folk desex their dogs as all the authorities encourage, consequently the only dogs running around with balls are the ones owned by the methhead dickwad studded collar types, consequently all the pound mongrels now look like Satan spawned hell demons:
We need more Kristi Noem’s. A LOT more Kristi Noems.
We need more people to buy border collies and let them roam free rooting every stray in town,
Yes, that makes sense.
The return of Lassie.
rosie
May 6, 2024 6:21 pm
OK.
Yes, I think we would pay a small premium to go direct (maybe 10-15%).
When we went last August-September, the premium for direct flights on JAL, ANA and Qantas was red-hot.
OK, so we are all furious about our betters telling us that we must not believe that our local terrorism has any thing to do with Islam.
So, who initiated this lethal fantasy?
Tony Abbott – the man who also jailed Hanson. I quiver in my disgust with this self appointed saint.
He didn’t even bother to defend himself against Turnbull while he pratteled on about his sister’s sexuality.
For the past week I have been smitten with Covid*, Omicron flavour. Quite annoying, with textbook Dr Google symptons, but no worse than a heavy cold and certainly less severe than winter flu or bronchitis.
I caught it one to two days after Best Man dragged it home from the local, toxic supermarket (textbook incubation timing, btw) and so we suffered together, in silence because speech precipitated hacking coughing fits.
I knew immediately that this wasn’t a common coronavirus because, firstly, I rarely catch them and never from my bed buddy. My symptoms dutifully followed his, including the one day of reprieve and the subsequent day of misery.
I took the RAT, solely because our dear church buddies all are of a certain age and I would not expose any of them, with all their myriad malfunctions, to any health risks. In the meantime, I have been binge watching Netflix and look forward to sharing some brief reviews when I regain a tad more energy.
*Don’t be alarmed: I wore a mask whilst typing this to avoid infecting anyone.
Have seen The book of Eli?
Is this gonna scare me?
No. It’s about an apocalyptic surviver with the copy of the bible left.
Be thankful that it was nothing serious D.
Tony Abbott – the man who also jailed Hanson.
So disgusting that you can hardly believe it.
Dr. John Campbell
Kyle’s vaccine injury journey
Abbott would be better just shutting up rather than fluffing around like how does now.
Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet?
Yes.
Next question.
@charliekirk11
Let me get this straight. Thousands of “protesters” build illegal encampments on college campuses, populated by non-student agitators, funded by outside money and college administrators spend weeks pandering and negotiating. One white frat kid allegedly makes King Kong noises toward an overweight black protester and Ole Miss launches a “conduct probe.” Of all the reasons to launch an investigation after the last few weeks!
Remember, it’s always the white kid’s fault.
Now this kid has the entire left wing mob coming after him and his family.
similar here except I didn’t test
the missus is still suffering and did actually test attaining yet another RAT fail
nasty bug
Western society is being fragmented bit by bit. If there is no crack for the wedge to be inserted, a new one is being created week by week.
go on get the ball
you know its in there somewhere
… good dog
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 6, 2024 6:35 pm
Gang rampage: ‘There’s a war zone in Australia that no one knows about’An attack on a Northern Territory community, which sent terrified residents running for their lives from shotgun blasts, left people savagely beaten, shot with arrows and homes torched, has sparked fears of retaliation | WATCH
By liam mendes
Come on down, Linda Burney wherever you are and do your Job. And leave that Gucci Bag at home.
Far too busy sulking because she wasn’t appointed Governor General.
After months of defamation Brittany and Dave need to come up to speed on Equity and Trusts.
At UWA at least, one of Equity and Trusts, Administrative or Constitutional Law usually got you in 2nd year.
Unlike the crapshoot that is defamation there is a lot of law in equity and trusts. It is both much more interesting and useful.
Delta – my sympathy. Husband and I were invited to a weekend at a friend’s farm in the Hunter Valley a week ago. We were alarmed to find that one of the other 6 invited guests was ill with terrible coughing fits. While I kept my distance, husband was caught opposite her at the table several times & subsequently has come down with a very nasty virus. While RAT tests are negative, I suspect it is a new Covid variant.
I have so far avoided it through using First Defence ( a nasal spray) for the initial contact through inhalation, & also Betadine gargle in the event it has still reached the throat.
Husband has been coughing at night though not too bad during the day. Have been treating him with Aspirin & his cortisone inhaler which treats his occasional asthma. Have found some Doxycycline which was prescribed for his last bout late last year & he is taking that. He has had symptoms for a week but seems better in the last day.
I am quite cautious re the new Covid strains. Geert Van den Bossche believes they will become more virulent because of immune escape as a result of the heavy vax program. But eventually may become endemic.
No virus in the history of mankind has ever become “more” virulent over time.
Why would “*Covid” do so?
This thinking is very reminiscent of the announcement by Neil Ferguson, of the Imperial College in London.
He stated early in 2020, that unlike every other virus that man has encountered, “*Covid” modelling showed that the infection and death rates, are represented by a straight line, going up at 50 degrees, killing all humans on earth.
(I remember when this “expert” opinion came true, a very sad day indeed).
Every other virus in history, (EVERY virus), conforms to a Bell curve.
That is hardly going to stampede the horses though, so the lapdog press, at every governments request, went ahead with the “we are all going to die” headlines.
Like him or not, he does good work.
—-
Spanian:
The Birthplace of Sydney’s Crime Culture, GLEBE 2037 – Into The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6unhEPb4Q
Putin is a dictator and not a politician.
I don’t disagree. Putin is a ruthless dictator, albeit quite a popular one, although his popularity might be diminishing, I don’t know, it’s hard to say, long wars drain people’s spirits…however the Russian spirit is one of resignation, they will tolerate much more deprivation than people in the West.
I studied Russian history, I can safety assert that Vladimir Putin is no communist but he most certainly fancies himself as a modern day Tsar. Putin’s heroes are not Marx, Lenin or Stalin, his heroes are Peter, Catherine, Nicholas I and Alexander II. He yearns for Imperial Russia, the Russia of the tsars, of absolutism and autocracy, and for a triumphant Orthodoxy. He is on the record as saying that he will not go down in Russian history as a second Nicholas II, a weak and indecisive man who was one actually of the more benign Romanov rulers, and who walked away from his job in March 1917, a move that proved disastrous for Russia and without a doubt opened the way for the October coup by the Bolsheviks. Putin is much more like Nicholas I, cold, ruthless, dictatorial and expansionist.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is very similar to Russia’s war in Crimea in the 1850s.
“A weak and indecisive man, dominated by his wife..”
I would agree with you on your last point Cassie.
Has Russia moved west to threaten Europe, or has NATO moved east to threaten Russia, since 1991?
What was the cause of the Crimean war in 1854?
A meeting at Chequers, where Lord Palmerston and the rest of his Cabinet, discussed options on the “Russia” question, is worth looking up.
The meeting went well into the night, with all of the participants becoming, ……., “tired and emotional”.
Next morning, war was declared.
Miltonf
May 6, 2024 7:15 pm
Tony Abbott – the man who also jailed Hanson.
So disgusting that you can hardly believe it.
In fact tone did the preparatory work. He took One Nation to court on some pretence of electoral fraud which meant its funding was illegal. It was beatie who then did the criminal work since ON was registered in QLD. So, in fact it was a classic uniparty effort.
The jailing judge was overruled shades of USA
Not a Rick Roll, really.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/another-mostly-video-memepool
US Military Academy Introduces Woke Curriculum with Courses on Deconstructing Patriotism, Cross-Dressing in the Military, Gender Norms, and Representation in the Ranks
How to win wars 101.
Not.
And everyone thought it all funny when it was only in the universities.
And still they think it can be rolled back without any effort on our part. “Once they see the consequences in real life”…
Do we get it yet?
It’s awful by design and consuming all before it at an accelerating pace.
The Ideological Roots of the Open Borders Push
44 Senators Call on Biden to Reject Two Totalitarian Agreements That Surrender U.S Sovereignty to WHO
Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure
The Daily Telegraph is reporting…
Cops continue to smash down doors of Wakeley church rioters
Moments after they banged on his door at dawn on Monday, this man was in handcuffs – and police are making no apologies.
Please note that those same ‘cops’ are yet to ‘smash down the doors of the Opera House rioters‘. Hmm, funny that.
+1000 Cassie. Forged in the fires of COVID now ready to wield.
Welcome to our two tiered policing world…
In the WAtoday story on Islamophobia and the latest jihad stabby.”clarificationAn initial version of this story said Imam Syed Wadood Janud spoke on behalf of the Muslim community of Perth. We would like to clarify that he spoke for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Perth.”
The initial story was picked up by all the press around Australia. What morons. No doubt the Sunni Muz complained imediately. I simply asked my local 7-Eleven Muz. (you’ve all got one)
For those interested: The Ahmadiyya believe that a new prophet, Ahmad arrived in India in late 1800s. It is complete heresy to the Sunni muz and my 7-Eleven bloke. Punishable by death, hence ISIS and Al Qaeda regularly kill them. There is about 8000 in Oz ( refugees aplenty) and they try to appear as the moderate peaceful Muz. Hence when there is a JIhadi attack they are out there in the press saying this is not Islam we are peaceful, blah, blah.
In the May edition of Quadrant, there is a simple letter to the editor from Jo Hackett titled “The Wedding Ring.”
Read it.
If you don’t have a subscription, get one.
The story is worth the entire years subscription cost.
Jo Hackett was the lady selling “Don’t Welcome Me to My Own Country” bumper stickers, before THAT referendum.
It is available at Quadrant On-Line.
Hmmm i notice that the letters have gone badly off-topic in the Quadrant. I don’t like it. It’s facebook-level stuff, neither standalone columns, nor engaging to correct or expand upon larger topics.
Dare I say it might be the feelz of a female editor?
I also don’t like the unimpressive texta illustrations of Fieldhouse, and the undercooked, ideas-lite comic strip from Simon Whatsisname. They add nothing, only cheapen the whole magazine.
The Wedding Ring
Madam: My father returned from the war with ten quid in his pocket. He’d been flying Spitfires and Hurricanes over Europe and later in Burma. He was invalided out, worn out by what he’d seen and done. One dream had kept him going during the three years away from Australia—to marry his fiancée, settle down and become a farmer.
He arrived in Melbourne, with his faded RAAF uniform hanging off a lanky body scrawny from bouts of malaria and burnt near-black from the tropical sun. His aim was to buy a wedding ring, as the long-awaited event was planned for two days hence. My mother’s family was not about to allow time for any pre-marital hanky-panky!
Dad found a jeweller’s shop near Flinders Street station and went in to purchase a ring. The shop was run down and gloomy and the counters dusty. Buying jewellery had obviously not been a priority for Melburnians during the hard years of war. The elderly jeweller shuffled out from a back room.
“I need a wedding ring, please. Doesn’t have to be fancy, just something simple will do the trick.”
The old man looked at him thoughtfully. “You have been over there, to my side of the world?”
“Yeah, just got off the boat, and I’m getting married in a couple of days. She’s been waiting three years.”
“Well,” said the jeweller slowly, setting the dust motes dancing as he pulled out a tray of rings. “I am thinking, perhaps one of these?”
Dad’s heart sank when he saw the prices.
“I only have ten quid,” he said, embarrassed.
“Let me see, this one here should suit. It’s excellent quality, and wide enough to last a lifetime or more. That’s what you want, is it not? One day your great-great granddaughter will wear it.”
Dad shifted from one foot to another. “It’s just fine. In fact, it’s more than just fine. It’s a beautiful ring, but …”
“I’ll wrap it for you then.” The jeweller polished the ring carefully and found a small box.
“I can’t afford it,” said Dad loudly.
“You see my name up there, on the sign? Ezra Lieberman. You know what that means? Of course you do. So this ring is a gift, an offering of thanks, from someone who was too old to go and fight for his people. Now leave me, my friend, and get married and live happily ever after. Otherwise, what was it all for?”
And so Dad left, with the tiny box in his pocket. He married my mother as planned, brought up a large family and eventually owned the farm they so desired.
Eighty years later, as shrieking ghouls from earlier times rise up to stalk our streets, his great-granddaughter will wear this ring when she marries her beloved. And that is just as it should be. Otherwise, what was it all for?
Joanna Hackett
This thread on Quadrant has over 60 comments, in part due to the fact that a vile Jew-hater has added his voice to the mix. Apparently he has commented on other Quaddie threads as well, though this was my first encounter with his bile.
Jesus was crucified, survived, & moved to Pakistan.
To mainstream Islam, this is heresy.
Abbott would be better just shutting up rather than fluffing around like how does now.
It’s all about the ‘pension” top-up .. swanning around the globe waffling on the lucrative paid-to-yap circuit .. knowing the media is salivating on every word …!
Can’t escape him, even here in Spain.
Chortle. I’ll look for them here in the market.
Reading John Nichols book “Spitfire.” There is ONE Spitfire that served in the “Battle of Britain” still flying..
‘Violent’ leader of Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest is unmasked as son of millionaire ad execs who is married to a model and lives in $3.4M Brooklyn brownstone
He’s described as ” a long time figure in the anarchist world…”
bons
May 6, 2024 7:13 pm
I will never forgive myself for voting for him/LNP against my better judgement.
Still remember him strutting in front of the cameras in his long black overcoat, so fashionable at the time, spouting his abuse of ON and Hanson.
But I thought he did a Walk to Canossa and holding my nose voted for him anyway.
As Cassy says, never again!
The liberals are dead to me as an option, trouble is, where to turn?
Family First!
Indolent
May 6, 2024 9:30 pm
Why does it surprise you?
Ordinary people have a job to make a living, thus having no time to go to protest meetings.
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind issues urgent warning to Aussies with ‘connected’ car as inquiry is launched
Is your car spying on YOU?
I’ve been watching the Tattooist of Auschwitz. It’s the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen. The camps were run by a collection of the most brutal psychopaths who had no souls.
It’s actually very difficult to watch as the story is real, related to a survivor living in Melbourne.
Yes, visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington is one of the most sobering experiences of my life.
absolute sub-human psychopaths…
I’ve read the book, which pulls no punches on the violence and sheer brutality inmates encountered. It is a reconstruction in novelistic style of a story told to the author by an old Jewish survivor re his days there as a tattooist.
Some critical commenters have a go at it re its possible partially-told tale, but in essence it has a definite ring of truth. There is also a follow-on book about the character of Cilka, which is more admittedly a novel, but based on the experiences in a Soviet gulag of one of the girls whose teenage lives were lived out at Auschwitz.
Digger, we visited in the 90s. I’ll never in my life forget one thing. The smell of leather of the massive shoe collection exhibit. That, for some reason really hit home.
JC
May 6, 2024 10:04 pm
It was said before, these people live among us, always have, always will be, all they need is an opportunity to act out their depravity.
Yes, the movie ‘Zone of Interest’ is very good at pointing out the banal and very ordinary lives of those who were in their daily work performing the most outrageous and horrific abuses, including mass murder, on a whole population who had been stigmatised as sub-human (not just Jewish people either). The ‘bosses’ of the camps pretended not to be psychopaths but ‘decent Germans, doing a job that was necessary albeit unpleasant’.
Unbelievable. This is how far people can be led, finally into blood lust and sexual sadism and other unspeakable things.
Incoming UN “Planetary Emergency” Will Rapidly Expand the Technocratic Takeover – Vigilant News Network
The calls for declaration of an emergency have also reached the White House. Last week, Bloomberg reported the Biden administration is considering declaring a climate emergency.
“White House officials have renewed discussions about potentially declaring a national climate emergency, an unprecedented step that could unlock federal powers to stifle oil development,” Bloomberg wrote.
White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez told Bloomberg that Biden “has treated the climate crisis as an emergency since day one”.
The election is rooted. Forget it. These bastards are playing for keeps. The GOP is useless and is still trying to get rid of RINOs. If the current lawfare fails they’ll imprison Trump as a climate criminal.
Ben Shapiro had an idea to solve a number of problems on university campuses.
Abolish all government student loans and privatise the lot.
The first outcome is that students self select courses that will enable them to pay back the loan.
The second outcome is that 3 degree journalists and other.professional students will become a thing of the past. As will people who just get a degree and never use it.
Third, low socio economic taxpayers will not subsidise the wealthy either below market interest rates or thru loan forgiveness.
His argument is based on the old axiom that whenever the government takes over handing out the money it always ends up pear shape
The reason he is writing on t he subject is because the RINO’s are talking about doing some deal on Biden’s loan forgiveness package.
Interesting, if true?
You’re probably right.
The German population in 1939 was around, 79.5 million. That means in percentage terms it was around .14 percent of the population that had no qualms in killing people en masse and treating them in the most inhumane ways possible. It small in proportion, but boy it’s a decent number of murderous psychopaths.
Was just down at a local establishment, having a feed with an associate.
Obviously, I was rated highly by the bargirls.
On the subject of Nazis. I notice that a lot of people here reference the loons in the green movement as Marxists, I believe its wrong to describe them that way as they aren’t.
Believe it or not, a very important faction of the Nazi party were misanthropic, ecological zealots. The modern green movement derives from this faction.
There’s more here.
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its
Historical Antecedents
Ecological science began in Germany in the 19th C started by a couple of German mental cases.
It’s an interesting read.
Call them what they are. Green Nazis.
What an utter slimeball.
@WallStreetSilv
Bill Gates: “I don’t remember talking about masks at all”
This is footage of him lying about masks and here’s proof that he DID talk about masks.
The size of this dog still staggers me. He’s been clocked at 34 mph
= 54.717696 kph.
When Stevo drops the leash in a crowd…. trust!
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane celebrating Cinco De Mayo 2024 on the 3rd Street Promenade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFRN-i245tQ
Johannes Leak. Brilliant.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brilliant .. luv it ..LOL!
Burqa most go close to rivalling Wong as the most loathsome Liar left from the R-G-R debacle.
Burke’s press conference “leave my kids out of it” after he was caught flying around with his CoS who he was rooting and left his wife for always comes to mind.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich.
This one is reminiscent of the well known book “The Wit, of Malcolm Fraser”.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom
Got to love constructivism and kids making their own meaning…
My grandson is about to moved from what is supposed to be a really good public school into the Catholic system due to bullying. He tells me that it is going to be a really strict school because it has a cross in its school badge and will not hear any other explanation of why a cross on the badge.
Diogenes, at 14 years of age my granddaughter was mercilessly bullied in a very well known private school in Sydney. As a result, she attempted suicide. She was subsequently warmly accepted into a local Catholic private school – even though her family is not Catholic.
It was the very best thing for her. She was protected and nourished within that school & we will be eternally grateful. Today she is a magnificent, confidant 18 year old attending the first year of a prestigious university degree, having attained exceptional HSC results.
Leak.
Magnificent.
A Barcelona snapshot.
I went to Barcelona for one thing only…a tour of La Sagrada Familia. Not disappointed.
Last time I thought I could just sashay in and view. No dice! I had to be content with a walk around the perimeter. My impressions on entering as one of the first group of the day –
A story carved in stone – the Nativity. A cave, a mother and child, angels from Japan, shepherds from Turkey, a friendly dog, a donkey, and doors full of bronze leaves, a frog, a cicada. Then into the vast, echoing, but warm and welcoming space. A gigantic forest, petrified, leaning inward and bursting into a filigreed canopy, bathed in blue and green and turquoise from the stained glass windows to the east. Birds, living ones, flying to and fro high above.
Across the soaring, glorious space to the other door, the journey from life to death. Outside, the Passion in its horror. Sorrow, shame, the sordidness of sin laid bare in all its crushing cruelty. Two rusted I beams make the cross. The characters in the timeless story appear – frail, grotesque, penitent, pitying…all except one. His face imbedded in a scarf below, he hangs above, face hidden, bowed down.
If you stand at a certain place and look up, you can see a gilded figure behind the mass of brutally carved grey stone. It’s the risen Christ.
This building is replete with stories, it’s the Bible in stone. And it’s relentlessly Spanish.
Unfinished, even the cranes add colour and life to the place. The workshops, the yard full of materials, the builders in hi-viz – the work is a reminder of how cathedrals were built long ago. They spanned decades and generations, drawing on talents as yet unborn.
A profound lesson for this instant gratification age.
Call them what they are. Green Nazis.
Yep.
It’s no wonder the UN is a waste-of-space organization ..! .. Voting on admitting a “nation” that doesn’t exist anymore .. FFS!
Palestine is just a word, nowadayz, and has been since 1947 .. It’ll never exist again except in nostalgia but the, too-much-money-too-much-time-on-hand, UN wantz to have a feel-good vote ..
Luigi & “the chap” both champing at the bit for another OS trip and a bit of we-luvs-ya towards their terrorist maaates ……..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/why-anthony-albanese-will-face-a-tough-call-when-the-un-votes-on-full-membership-for-palestine/ar-BB1lUvSQ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=165924abf1d142319a4d5a7e57c5c763&ei=18
Johannes Leak. Brilliant.
So brilliant is Johannes’ cartoon in the Australian today that the editor should have published the paper today without any print words and just with Johannes’ cartoon emblazoned on the front page.
Three of NSWaffen’s finest on the job. Public Safety is assured.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13385859/Sydney-Liverpool-jaywalking-cops.html
Saving the environment.
Bloody hell..! .. Apparently, Whyalla Steel has been shutdown for the past 8 weeks and this is the 1st I’ve heard of it .. Not sure how much steel they still make in Wollongong/Newcastle but this SA operation being offline must be creating a massive slowdown/backlog in Oz steel production ..
I had read that the bloke that owns Whyalla is in serious financial difficulties in England (he, currently, controls all UK steel production) so whether Whyalla’s troubles are related to this or just the balls-up this report mentions is yet to be seen ….!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-07/sa-whyalla-steelworks-blast-furnace-issues/103808270
seems the media is having trouble with deal-or-no-deal understanding .. Reality is you don’t have a deal unless both sides agree .. Hamas is a terrorist organization who cares, apart from the media, apparently, if they “agree” .. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-07/hamas-accepts-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-from-egypt-and-qatar/103812578
It’s official ..! .. We have gone completely WOKE .. FFS!
Why stop at the jumper..? .. There’s his undies, shoes, sox ect ……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nrl/article-13364681/Westfield-Bondi-Junction-Kangaroos-Rebel-stabbing.html
Basically hamas has agreed to allow itself to survive, with many terrorists currently imprisoned in Israel returned to fight another day and the world to fund its capacity to attack Israel in the future.
No wonder Israel is saying no and pressing on.
I’m glad you enjoyed the basilica Calli.
It is glorious, at any distance.
Sooo how’s that China appeasement going Wong?
Another one with our Navy boys:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/shadow-home-affairs-minister-demands-australian-response-to-chinese-warplane-flare-incident-be-incredibly-robust/news-story/cf6ff0ce5f89f6022cc1d3aa5862cb93
We are truly run by Kindergarteners…
OMG
Their ABC this morning is all about
And by inference big bad Israel is now the recalcitrant party that must be brought to heel.
That this development even gets a mention shows you what the narrative will be for the next few days.
https://twitter.com/just_whatever/status/1787583789931041097
Shatterzz, I see the owner Gupta owes nearly a Billion to Greensill creditors. “What a brilliant idea” Julie Bishop was contacted to explain why she was pumping up Greensill’s financial credentials to Josh Friedeggburger while she was still FM. Nothing to see here. There are other steel manufacturers in UK. British Steel is owned by the choggies. Used to be TATA owned.
I’m sure I read somewhere his operation(s) were the major UK producer ..
Just checked .. he was going broke but your right he onsold to the Chinese .. Still owes ton of money tho …….
..
From last night’s posts:
Spitfire – nice aircraft with excellent handling qualities but not such a great warplane. 11000 man hours to build one.
Bf 109 took only 4000 man hours to build and was just as good.
The Germans actually had a captured Spitfire but didn’t think much of the Merlin so fitted a DB605. They thought that was pretty good.
Then after the war the Spanish built the Buchon which was a 109 with a Merlin engine because they couldn’t get Daimler-Benz engines.
The 109 had nice things like single lever engine control and the pilot’s legs were straight out to higher mounted rudder pedals which improved g tolerance.
As you mention, the ability of the Spitfire to turn tighter than a Me109, was its major advantage.
It was not heavily armoured, with 6 X .303 guns. (Hurricane had 8).
The 1940 version of the Me109 had 2 X 7.92 guns with a 20mm cannon.
The American fighters from 1943 onward outperformed all others in the west.
After initially disappointing performance, the P51 (Mustang) was equipped with a RR Merlin engine which made it a very useful aircraft indeed.
By far the most lethal fighter however, was the P47 (Thunderbolt).
P47 had 8 X 50 cal guns, P51 had 6.
P47 was powered by a massive 18 cylinder, 46 litre radial engine, which gave it outstanding performance, despite its extraordinary weight and size.
As the war dragged on, the P51 was used more for bomber escort and the P47 more for ground attack. This was not because the P47’s lack of performance at altitude, (it was superb), but more because of the P51’s lack of carrying capacity at low level.
P47 was also a VERY survivable aircraft, ie you could lose a cylinder, (or two in one case), and still make it home. Not so with the in line Merlin.
Many more of the top ten P47 aces survived, than top ten P51 aces.
It is something like 8 to 2. (To reinforce the durability of the P47).
Hamas has been forcing captives to produce proof of life videos including Hersh Goldberg who’s hand was blown off when Hamas threw a grenade into the bomb shelter where he and others fleeing the Nova festival were.
About fourteen of them were killed, plenty of video coverage of it before, during after.
Why should Hamas monsters who want to do this again and again be handed the means to do so?
Hersh Goldberg is an American citizen.
Why isn’t Biden sending in Navy Seals to rescue him and the other American hostages?
I watched the movie about the rescue of Captain Rich Philips from Somalia pirates last night.
Another dreadful movie about men.
Excellent.
Why should Hamas monsters who want to do this again and again be handed the means to do so?
They should not.
The picture wireless informs me that Hamas is still pegging rockets into Israel, while accepting a ceasefire proposal drafted up by Egypt and….
Qatar.
No wonder Israel’s giving them the finger.
calli
May 7, 2024 6:23 am
Thank you for this beautiful vignette I was there bathed in the warm and turquoise light — thank you
Calli is the Cat’s travelogue queen.
Interesting headline in The Advertiser… :
I don’t know what their explanation for the spike is as the article is behind a paywall, but it does make one wonder…
JC not having a go at you being pedantic about Marxists and Nazi’s. There is now no differentiation between any on the left, muzzies included. Only the scale. Nothing on the left works properly to any degree. Every crackpot idea is given legs, with each trying to claim it as their own. On pain of death is the only way they can control the population. I look at my grandchildren, one has just learnt to walk, the other wants to do everything himself or wants to be shown how to. At what age and what triggers the human race to become indolent. It has no place in the animal kingdom. Is it genetic? I’m at a loss.
Ace has described Israel’s reaction to Hamas’ Ceasefire agreement in his own brilliantly, incisive way;
“Israeli Warplanes Begin Pounding Rafah Like Sweetdick Pounding Fani’s Wretched Snizz”.
“In an obvious attempt to delay this final attack on their terror stronghold, Hamas announced they were “agreeing” to a ceasefire.
Not the ceasefire deal that Israel agreed to, of course. No, they “agreed” to a ceasefire deal Israel had no part of.”
“Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, yesterday, as the military told about 110,000 people there to evacuate. Hours later, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the group had accepted a cease-fire proposal from Qatar and Egypt.
The full details of the proposal were unclear, but the conflict remains unresolved. Comments by Hamas and Israeli officials made it clear that Haniyeh was not referring to the plan that Israel had recently put forward.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the proposal did not meet Israel’s demands. Israel’s war cabinet had also decided unanimously to “continue with its action in Rafah in order to exert military pressure on Hamas,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.”
Hang in there Prime Minister Netanyahu.
“I think it’s seriously [time] that we talked about putting fully qualified psychiatrist or psychologist in our schools and maybe looking at reducing the chaplains program because I’m not sure that that is helpful either,” Lambie told The Today Show.
Green-Teal level dhimmitude from Jacqui Lambie.
The propaganda, it’s not working!
Monmouth Poll: Americans’ Climate Change Concern Drops (6 May)
As usual it is the Left that believes in this imaginary crisis. Given that MAGA righties would be reluctant these days to do polls you could think the real numbers are even lower.
Pogria who would have thought, muzzies agreeing with muzzies. No terrorism is too much. The Persians once were great thinkers till the reavers got back in control. What’s a head or 50 million amongst reavers.
Nutshell, Ranga.
Islam’s designs are quite different from the Left’s.
For the moment they’re fellow travellers.
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 7:19 am
OMG
Their ABC this morning is all about
And by inference big bad Israel is now the recalcitrant party that must be brought to heel.
That this development even gets a mention shows you what the narrative will be for the next few days.
Israel has not agreed and is sending a delegation to Cairo –
From the BBC –
“The details of the agreement are unclear and Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “far from meeting Israel’s demands”. Israel will send a delegation to Cairo to negotiate further.”
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ABC
Islam’s designs are quite different from the Left’s.
For the moment they’re fellow travellers.
Correct, and once these ‘fellow travellers’ overthrow the system, any ensuing contest between Islam and the left will see the left lose…bigtime.
Anyone who possesses a modicum of knowledge about history, in particular the Iranian revolution, would know this.
Hamas bravado is for its domestic audience.
They all expect to be millionaires as the result of this war.
The left will travel with islam, if they reach the end of the road, islam will tear them to shreds at the end.
All those puny university students supporting hamas, those that haven’t already converted to islam will be saying their inshallahs quick smart.
If I was paying a child’s tuition at Columbia and they got involved in the protests/converted they’d also be finding a job at Walmart quick smart.
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 8:15 am
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ABC
Decision coming through now – No, no, no, no…..YES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlqmTKyQx0
And I’m next. And I want a longer Lifetime as well.
Fellow travellers they are, but not different. Total control. Its only a matter of who is in control.
Who?
https://www.forexlive.com/news/there-are-reports-of-an-assassination-attempt-on-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-20240506/
Not exactly getting the love they were looking for
https://twitter.com/AusGovInfra/status/1778595862442320206?t=OEgTa25wSY9Qjp5doCpmxg&s=19
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/holocaust-remembrance-day-never-again-is-now-lest-we-forget.html
Wow, that’s what an invasion looks like.
Where Unsold EVs Go To Die: Belgium’s Ports Drowning Under Glut Of Chinese Imports (7 May)
I can’t see the EU car companies surviving this. The place is getting poorer so that the punters can’t afford cars anyway, and they won’t be buying Porsches, they’ll buy cheap and cheerful Chinese cars. Eurpoean manufacturers can’t possibly compete with the high cost of electricity they are forced to pay. And if the EV fad fails the Chinese will just flood the market with petrol Geelys and etc instead.
Where else is al Jazeera banned?
https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1787261362814730569?t=k4vuZ1sLCaucFfj85IcUcw&s=19
For military Cats – seventy years since the French Union garrison of Dien Bien Phu surrendered to the Viet Minh.So very few survived the “death marches” and the Viet Minh prisoner of war camps.
Apparently the IDF ground invasion of Rafah had started.
No wonder Hamas have announced a unilateral ceasefire.
Hopefully they stick to it.
Great to hear there is talk of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Makes a welcome change from talk of war.
Hopefully some way can be found to bring the hostages home.
Those that have survived.
did it iever occur to them that maybe the shouldnt be taking taking hostages and murdering people en masse in the first place?
Eleven downticks has to be some sort of record?
You’ll go blind!
History suggests it matters quite a bit who is in control.
A leftist totalitarian system is yet to last a century.
Dhimmitude is measured in centuries.
She’s had a great 3+ years.
Pretend VP.
Swanning about having a great time.
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
REPORTER: “Hamas says it accepted a ceasefire deal. Your reaction?”
KAMALA: “Shrimp and grits. You wanted to know? Shrimp and grits.”
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1787534456334475288
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LOL Monty
Hamas have been holding and murdering hostages for over 7 months, there might be thirty odd still living and now you care?
Twitter is going off over the Rafah ‘invasion’ apparently there are up to 2 million people there.
Israel warned civilians to move, just like the US warned the civilians of Tokyo and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The UN says it’s hard.
Of course it.
Even if you have to walk two kilometres to a place of safety.
I’d certainly throw my hands up and say impossible.
Monty, can you please explain why not a single leftist anywhere on the planet has ever complained about the way the Soviets treated Germans after WWII but they are all so full of compassion for the Palestinians?
How are Palestinians less responsible for atrocities committed by Hamas than Germans were for atrocities committed by Nazis?
Figures, do you have brain damage?
Weak and evasive, try harder.
Or even WW1, and you can’t use the “they were Nazis and therefore deserved it” excuse for WW1.
My grandfather was not repatriated in 1923 after being captured in (what is current ) Romania in 1917.
My grandmother was arrested for the crime of being German in 1919 (born and lived in Riga).
monty!
One of your kids is on your computer.
I would just like the war to stop, rosie. Is that too much to ask?
The war can be stopped in an instant. All that is needed is for Hamas to surrender unconditionally and release all the hostages, including the dead ones.
WW2 ended the instant the Japanese surrendered, so it can be done.
The ceasefire agreement does include release of all hostages AFAIK.
Over a long time – long enough for ‘events’ to intervene, as they seem regularly to do, sadly. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/06/israel-rejects-hamas-ceasefire-offer-benjamin-netanyahu/
Nooo, that’s not entirely correct. It requires Israel to release a massive number of terrorists, and Hamas does not surrender unconditionally, or at all.
So Hamas is swapping hostages for terrorists, they are not releasing hostages. And the chnce of them all being released is nil, which is why unconditional surrender is necessary, since that’s the only way the IDF can then verify that they’ve all been released.
It’s is also believed some hostages have been taken to Egypt, likely as a hole card. Again the only way they can be verifiably recovered is if Hamas surrenders unconditionally.
It’s very simple.
And the Hamas ringleaders at the top layers taken out and shot for war crimes. We don’t need a trial.
LOL.
Speak to Hamarse, they have been firing unguided rockets at Israeli civilians for years, and started the current stoush on 7 October.
Indeed.
Not going to solve the Palestinian issue, but most of the world would be a better place with several thousand fewer arseholes. And Israel’s don’t ‘fcuk us around’ credentials burnished.
The Axis of China, on the other hand, would be happier for the Israel/Hamas situation to fester and discomfit the US presidency and the west more generally.
Bear that in mind while decoding the meejah and political talking heads. Like their ABC, presently explaining that Partners for Peace Hamas have agreed to a peace deal, which Israel is backsliding on…
There is a story running on X that Biden shat himself, whilst being asked questions by the mob. It is gaining momentum and the memes have started.
Here is an excellent sample. 😀
https://twitter.com/TheRicanMemes/status/1786757229594525804
That’s all too twee coming from someone who has not suffered anything from the Hamas atrocities, other than being faux concerned via leftist group think. Israel is protecting it’s existence, while you play fantasy footy. That’s how insignificant your “concern” is.
Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil has broken her media silence and (rightly) contradicted PM Spinocchio* on the independence of the board which ordered an ankle monitoring device be removed from a man who subsequently, it is alleged, engaged in a violent robbery in Perth which left an elderly woman in hospital.
The Community Protection Board was established by the Albanese government in December to make recommendations to government. The decision as to whether to accept those recommendations lies with the government.
*h/t calli!
On whose behalf?
Lauren Southern met an Aussie, got knocked up, became a tradwife… and got stuck in an abusive patriarchal marriage.
https://unherd.com/2024/05/lauren-southern-the-tradlife-influencer-filled-with-regret/
On one hand, the story is sad and typical, and she deserves support. On the other, she literally FAFO after spending years attacking feminism, only to discover what life is like under trad values.
Yep..! When Hamas sez, “No deal” .. the media is “mooove along, pleeze, nuttin’ to see ‘ere” but when Israel sez, “Up yours” ..
media is, “It’s sooo unfair Hamas coming to party but Israel knocks back invite” …….
Abusing your wife is not a traditional value.
That must be why Southern is in an Underground Railroad group of conservative women in abusive relationships.
you should consider a career as a barrister mUnty
You still don’t get it.
Whoever these men are they have failed their wives and have not lived up to traditional values by abusing them.
‘Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.’
Ephesians 5:25-29.
mUnturd is not familiar with those words.
If all these conservative wives can’t find husbands who don’t abuse them among the ranks of conservative men, perhaps the fault lies with conservative men.
If your shortcut for identifying good men from bad is which side of politics they come from, you will forever be stuck in this boring, tribalist troll mode.
Be patient, fatso.
The sooner the IDF weed out the scum, the sooner it will be over.
Is there any proof of Hamas murdering hostages?
Proof of life videos are anti-Semitic.
Comment, from the Oz.
1 hour ago
I’m praying for the Palestinian people. This is unforgivable and horrendous. Watching all the videos of scared and injured people, I just cannot believe the world is letting this happen. It’s a dystopian horror movie that we’re watching live on our phones. This violence will not bring peace for Israel. I am one of a rapidly increasing number of people who will never forgive the Israelis. I stand proudly and full of love for the people of Palestine.
The product of a fact free mind.
Have they watched the go pros of 7 Oct?
FAFO.
If the boot was on the other foot, the Palis would be dancing in the streets.
Tony Burke comments.
I would just like the war to stop, rosie. Is that too much to ask?
You wouldn’t mind the pervert apologist’s concern about ‘war’ if he didn’t like all wars, it is just that he is soooo selective about the conflicts he supports and those he doesn’t support. He isn’t so concerned about the war in Ukraine ‘stopping’.
The pervert apologist is such a verminous a hypocrite, particularly when it comes to Jews.
Uncommonly well said Cassie!
Hamas have been holding and murdering hostages for over 7 months, there might be thirty odd still living and now you care?
Exactly, not a word from him for 7 months. Not a word about the murders, the rapes, the kidnappings….nothing. Because it didn’t and doesn’t suit his narrative.
Not sure whether this has already been posted, but How True.
https://youtu.be/jUm8w-i-eGM
Tennis Elbow is trying to be a Dictator.
Can we get the IDF to clean out a basement in Hawthorn. They’ll have to battle a mountain of Krispy Kreme boxes. I’ve heard it’s hard to destroy a mutley. If its not done properly it divides into two.
A disturbing aspect of the former Perth teen jihadi-wannabe that has slipped quietly under the radar.
The youth was in a bad enough way to be in a de radicalisation program at age 14. Being counselled, with supervision from the cops, apparently a source of concern in his school community and in the Perth Muslim community.
Yet little to no mention of any involvement of his parents in his car crash of a life.
Not from prurient interest; this has not happened in a vacuum. Or perhaps it has.
“Is there any proof of Hamas murdering hostages?”
Other than those they have been boasting about online.
And Noa Marciano who was beaten to death with a hammer in Shifa hospital.
Your context is amazing considering the videos of hamas murdering hostages in cold blood on 7 October, including a Tanzanian they had captured and a muslim Israeli they interrogated for directions to the Nova festival then executed.
In todays Paywallian even Mavis has doubts.
Elbow has two main useful idiots in the notionally oppositional Australian media: Troy Bramston at the Paywallian and Joe Hildebrand at Sky News. Both assume the public is too stupid to vote for anyone but the Liars so they roll out the Liars’ daily talking points with glee. Like useful idiots.
Monty dreams of having their mass media platforms.
Re Reynolds pursuing BH & her trust.
People should know the ATO tries this on 100’s of times per year.
And unlike private individuals going at each other, the ATO can do this via an administrative process without the need to front up to court (unless it’s appealed of course).
The ATO doesn’t try this on with the likes of Gina (just using her wealth as an example not saying they should).
They do it against those usually without the means to defend it.
There should be more outrage over the way the ATO operates.
ftb – when were the various trusts established? Long established trusts with legimate asset protection purposes would be all but immune. I’m not so sure in Brittany’s case, particularly with Dave milling around in the background with Zwier and other Liar friendly lawyers.
Bear if the ATO wants your money, they’ll do whatever it takes.
I know of one that was 20 something years old that the ATO pursued because a beneficiary had a bill in another entity.
Which was settled albeit late.
Didnt stop the ATO going after the trust.
Very doubtful the ATO will go after Brinny. She’s a special person.
This is a periodic theme of Gottliebsen(?) I think. Tax law is the murky and pointy end of administration and law. I never made enough or got too groovy to get involved in anything much.
Sky News and much of the media want to portray Hamas as offering a ceasefire while Israel isn’t accepting it. If that’s the headline, with no explanation, people will be “propagandised” into thinking Israel are the bad guys.
Indeed. Its almost as if the entire operation by Hamas is not a military one but a PR campaign to get the movement for a 2 state solution back on the global agenda ahead of US and other elections.
Comes down to accepting 2 state solution or remain 1 state at war with itself.
There is a story running on X that Biden shat himself, whilst being asked questions by the mob.
Gutfeld impishly suggested it was a regular thing and part of the reason for his “stiff gait”.
It appears that the “moderators” at the Oz also stand proudly with the Gazan Palestinians who in turn stand proudly with Hamas.
Whilst some hostages, almost all elderly women and children, were released in November 2023, very few of the young and elderly Jewish males kidnapped on that dreadful day in October 2023 have been released. Most of these males are probably dead. As for the young women who remain hostage in Gaza, I don’t want to think of the sexual horror and violence they are enduring.
Perhaps Baba thinks that the footage of Naama Levy, being dragged by her hair from the car by Palestinian males, her paints soiled red from bleeding from her anus and vagina after being raped, was not blood but beetroot? Perhaps Baba thinks it was staged by the IDF?
Perhaps Baba thinks that the body of Shani Louk was not real, her corpse was an IDF plastic dummy? Perhaps Baba thinks that was staged by the IDF?
Perhaps Baba thinks Ariet and Kfir Bibas were not real? They were dolls being held by their frightened mother, Shira? Perhaps Baba thinks that was staged by the IDF?
I think I will stop there. Once a Jew hater, always a Jew hater.
Perhaps Baba thinks that the footage of Naama Levy, being dragged by her hair from the car by Palestinian males, her paints soiled red from bleeding from her anus and vagina after being raped, was not blood but beetroot?
It’s a wonder that the Israeli infantry in the Gaza Strip are bothering to accept surrenders or take prisoners…
I asked for proof.
What rotten luck. Survived Israeli airstrikes only to be killed by a Hamas hammer. Not just a blunt instrument, mind. A Hamas hammer.
Then you’ll want the 6 camera angle HD experience.
Otherwise it’s not proof.
h/t Iowahawk
You have to read though Mavis’ tears of pain to see the doubt. Even then, it’s the doubt of concern whether Handsome Boy can reach his full potential:
In 12 months?
Wholly feasible.
Mavis must have the kneepads back.
Albanese has been overlooked for his entire career in Parliament. Even with the Liars that doesn’t happen by accident.
In Texas, they instill Toxic Masculinity from birth.
Real life Heroes don’t wear capes, they have mullets.
One AWESOME nine year old.
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/5406/-039-Don-039-t-Die-I-Will-Be-Back-039-9-Year-Old-Hero-Saves-Parents-039-Lives-Amidst-Tornado-Tragedy
One tough little bugger. How many western kids these days would have shat themselves on the spot and curled up in the fetal position?
I’m guessing he was home schooled, had farm chores, and loving parents.
Islam’s designs are quite different from the Left’s.
Please elaborate and consider the distinction between how the left/muzzie leaders describe their plans/ideology and the effect of those plans/ideology on average folk.
I would agree that the ideology of islam is different from the ideology of communism/marxism but the effect of both on average folk is the same: total personal oppression.
A premium on leadership, Mavis?
Your problem is Albanese is from the Reject Shop.
Got the Labor leadership because he wasn’t Bill Shorten.
Got the prime ministership because he wasn’t Scott Morrison.
Look under his feet and it says Made in China.
Bob Gorrell. His cartoon today is excellent.
“I asked for proof.”
What F**king Universe gives YOU the right to ask for proof?!?
Do your own trawling of the internet. It is all there.
And, if proof were given to YOUR satisfaction, you would roll out the filthy trope being used everywhere, “oh oh oh, well, they DESERVED it!”
You and muntsac are related. No, don’t lie.
The claim:
The footage:
She moves easily for someone so brutally raped her rectum was torn.
Baba the Jew hater is an expert on rape…and how a woman walks after being raped.
A few weeks ago Baba’s Jew hating trolling was sublimely smacked down by C.L. on his blog.
Baba doesn’t like Jews.
Surely this demands one of you anecdotes?
It wasn’t rape, rape?
Breaking news, Baba is Whoopi Goldberg.
Nice one, ‘Bern.
You idiot! The circumstances in which the poor girl found herself preclude normal responses. She was in survival mode. It beggars belief that many people – including women – doubt the footage of the GoPro cameras of the perpetrators, and indeed – testimony of survivors who witnessed atrocities while they themselves were in hiding for their lives.
You are a bag of shit.
She’d be in a state of shock so bad the pain would be relegated to a second or third order concern.
I hope they come for you one day.
I second these statements.
Baba, sounds like you are an expert on torn rectums, personal experience I suppose.
Baba the Jew hater is an expert on rape…and how a woman walks after being raped.
A few weeks ago Baba’s Jew hating obsession and trolling was sublimely smacked down by C.L. on his blog.
I think it is pretty clear Baba doesn’t like Jews very much.
No, I didn’t have to go back 2000 years. I just mentioned prominent examples that undermine your premise because they were obviously politicians. You could then look at every political regime, before or after, whether or not they were democracies, and find politicians.
It doesn’t matter if they are referred to as dictators. Your argument is that dictators are not politicians; they obviously are. You cannot rule from an office without being able to deal with the various political and economic elites of that particular country as well as of the broad mass of the public.
Join me as I wait for the ABC exposé of the Pell affair, the Vic government’s COVID response, and so on.
Ah yes, who could forget? Slapped down for expressing doubt about the 40 beheaded babies in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Not even Rosie believes that now.
Ah yes, who could forget? Slapped down for expressing doubt about the 40 beheaded babies in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Except, of course, you have forgotten. You were smacked down because you wrote that Lavrentia Beria was a Jew.
Except Beria was not a Jew. Beria was Georgian Orthodox.
You even apologised to C.L for your ‘error’.
Now piss off.
I confused him with another NKVD butcher, Genrikh Yagoda.
then get your facts straight before you mouth off
I confused him with another NKVD butcher, Genrikh Yagoda.
Nup. There was no confusion, you assume every ‘butcher’ is a Jew.
Just when we think that we have uncovered the devastating connection between US pharma researchers such as EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan lab, we find that there is documented material showing a connection of German virological teams in Wuhan pursuing joint work on HIV and other vaccines. I recall that the great HIV pioneer Luc de Montagnier, before his death, noted the evidence of HIV genomic inserts in the sequence. The importance of this new evidence is that it reveals amazing hint research between Chinese labs and the West!
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-smoking-gun-in-wuhan/
Vicki, not saying this isn’t true but I’ve found one needs to be a little careful with Brownstone.
Appreciate that, feelthebern. But one always should look at the authors of articles, and their credentials, rather than Brownstone itself.
“She moves easily for someone so brutally raped her rectum was torn.”
Experienced in tearing rectums are you? Well colour me surprised.
Naama’s brain was running on adrenalin. Adrenalin feeds Fear or Rage so the human body is capable of flight or fight.
Naama had filthy apes, who had not long before brutalised her, screaming at her and belting her and dragging her by her hair. Her brain went into flight mode. Not to run away, but to keep upright and moving as ordered in the hope that she may survive.
I am surprised you acknowledge that it was blood on her pants. The Western Media, from the start lied, and made the narrative about how “poor girl was so frightened, she pooed her pants”.
You get off on this, don’t you Baa Baa.
She moves easily for someone so brutally raped her rectum was torn.
Some envy there baba; I bet you wish you were one of the boys enjoying the day out, eh.
With Dover’s indulgence, i post the full transcript of this amazing article:
The Smoking Gun in Wuhan APRIL 30, 2024
Robert Kogan
Theories of a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 have largely focused on the presence in the genome of the famous furin cleavage site. Less attention has been paid to other anomalies and, in particular, the presence of the so-called HIV inserts first flagged by the Indian research team Pradhan et al. in late January 2020 and quickly dismissed as untenable conspiracy-mongering.
Thus, when an Anglosphere group of scientists around Kristian Andersen came to Anthony Fauci at almost exactly the same time with their concerns that the virus had been engineered, their focus was on the furin cleavage site and they took great pains to distance themselves from Pradhan et al. and the HIV inserts.
But is that because they did not view them as anomalous, or rather because they were worried that the implications of the anomaly were too shocking to be pursued? The content of their FOIA’d emails and Slack messages makes clear that it is the latter. They too saw the anomaly, but they did not want to talk about it, since, as Edward Holmes put it, in both a February 4th 2020 email to Jeremy Farrar and a Slack group message on the same day, “this will make us look like loons.”
(More fully, Holmes wrote to his colleagues, referring to the first sketch of what would become their infamous ‘Proximal Origins’ paper, “Good idea not to mention all the other anomalies as this will make us look like loons.”)
As the Slack messages likewise make abundantly and sometimes embarrassingly clear, questions of expediency and even career considerations were never far from the minds of Andersen and his colleagues.
But someone who was too old to care about such matters was the late French virologist Luc Montagnier: none other than the man who is credited with having discovered HIV or the AIDS virus. Montagnier took the findings of Pradhan et al. very seriously, reproduced them independently with the help of the bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez and concluded that SAR-CoV-2 must have been created in a lab. He would indeed be widely treated as a “loon” for his troubles – and this despite the fact that the supposed “loon” had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine barely 10 years earlier for his discovery of HIV.
In an April 16th, 2020 interview with the French health news site Pourquoi Docteur? (Why Doctor?), Montagnier dismissed the idea that SARS-CoV-2 had emerged from a wet market as “a nice story” and insisted that, in light of the HIV inserts, the more likely scenario was that it had been engineered in an effort to create an HIV vaccine using a coronavirus as vector.
(Although the accompanying article is still online, the audio of Luc Montagnier’s interview with Pourquoi Docteur? is no longer available on the website or the podcast platform. Fortunately, a recording of it has been preserved on Facebook here.)
It is well known, after all, that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been conducting experiments with bat-borne coronaviruses. This is precisely why Kristian Andersen was convinced that a lab escape of the virus was far more probable than a natural origin. “I think the main thing still in my mind,” he wrote in a Slack message, “is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”
Andersen wrote this to his colleagues just before getting on the famous February 1st 2020 conference call during which the German coronavirus specialist Christian Drosten and the Dutch gain-of-function researcher Ron Fouchier are known to have harshly upbraided them for entertaining the ‘lab-leak’ hypothesis.
But surely no one in Wuhan was trying to create an HIV vaccine, and that is presumably why Andersen and his colleagues thought Montagnier’s theory was ‘friggin’’ unlikely and felt comfortable making lame attempts to diss the Nobel Prize laureate (“Nobel Prize Disease is a known thing”) in their conversations.
But the fact of the matter is that someone was trying to create an HIV vaccine in Wuhan.For this was precisely the aim of the longstanding German-Chinese cooperative virology project about which I have written here, here, and here and which gave rise to a full-fledged joint German-Chinese virology lab right in Wuhan. Indeed, as I have shown, the joint German-Chinese lab, located at Union Hospital on the left bank of the Yangtze River, is not just in Wuhan, but is also – unlike the Wuhan Institute of Virology – right in the area of the initial outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the city.Furthermore, the Wuhan Institute of Virology is itself an official partner in the German-Chinese virology network – and, as will be seen momentarily, key members of the network who were conducting experiments meant to facilitate the development of an HIV vaccine are based at none other than the WIV.
When he first stumbled upon the HIV inserts, Luc Montagnier could not have known all this. All he had to go on was the molecular data. But it is true.
The very title of the publicly-funded “transregional” collaborative research centre (TRR60) which gave rise to the joint German-Chinese lab is “Mutual interaction of chronic viruses with cells of the immune system: from fundamental research to immunotherapy and vaccination
The chronic viruses for which a vaccine was being sought were hepatitis-C and HIV. A mission statement is available in English here. The centrality of developing a “safe and effective” HIV vaccine is clear. Yes, the now infamous “safe and effective” formula is in the mission statement (as can be seen below).
As can be seen in the description below, sub-project B6 of TRR60, under the direction of Professors Rongge Yang and Binlian Sun of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was dedicated to studying “genetically engineered HIV gp120 V1/V2 glycosylation variants” for the purpose of facilitating “HIV vaccine development.”
Well, this is very interesting, since three of the four inserts identified by Pradhan et al. correspond precisely to “to short segments of amino acid residues in HIV-1 gp120”: i.e., the HIV envelope protein “glycoprotein 120”. More specifically, the residues “were a part of the V4, V5 and V1 domains respectively” (emphasis added).As “Seven of Nine MD” noted when this passage in Pradhan et al. was brought to her attention on X, “This does not look good for Rongge Yang and Ulf Dittmer.” (As touched upon here, the pseudonymous “Seven of Nine MD” X-account has taken up many of the topics of the German physician and virologist Johanna Deinert: a long-time proponent of the “lab-leak” hypothesis who was exiled from Twitter under the old regime and whose @DeinertDoc account has never been restored under the new.)
Professor Ulf Dittmer of University Hospital Essen was the coordinator of the “transregional” research centre, and he is the Co-Director of the German-Chinese lab at Union Hospital in Wuhan. (I have discussed his links to Christian Drosten .) Dittmer is in fact himself the co-author with no fewer than five members of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including Rongge Yang and Binlian Sun, of a 2016 paper on none other than the V1 region of the HIV envelope protein gp120.
The paper identifies the region as being “indispensable for…virus infection,” and the authors argue that their joint research “may facilitate the development of novel HIV vaccines.
There has, of course, been much excitement about an alleged ‘smoking gun’ in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which is supposed to prove the lab origins of SARS-CoV-2. Never mind that Chapel Hill is some 7,000 miles or so from Wuhan. But this ‘smoking gun’ – one with German, not American, fingerprints on it – is right in Wuhan. There is no need for the virus to have somehow got to the city in China prior to escape. The HIV work was being done right at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with its famous repository of coronaviruses.
Republished from The Daily Sceptic
It seems like we are in agreement. There is no proof of Hamas murdering hostages.
No proof that they are not, either.
Morons gotta moron.
Lauren Southern met an Aussie, got knocked up, became a tradwife…
Tragedy is, it wasn’t me she made the happiest man etc.
Are you referencing the TV chef chap?
Scroll the troll.
I bet Jew hating Baba thinks that there is no proof of the Holocaust, the death camps, the crematoriums and so on.
Ohhh, now I know, ‘Baba’ is David Irving.
Well, that’s alright then, Oct 7th is no bid deal after all.
It seems like we are in agreement. There is no proof of Hamas murdering hostages.
Who is this piece of shit? It makes dickless appear normal.
Meme of the Day #69
Well, more amazing is the revelation by Nuland that the US has many bio-labs in, of all places, far off Ukraine. Why Ukraine? The very same nation where the Biden family have been harvesting corrupt $$$ for years. So besides greed, you can be sure that the Billion$$ of US taxpayer hard earned being poured into Ukraine pockets is to keep mouths shut-or else.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue ridiculed the “cowardly” pro-Hamas demonstrators on America’s university campuses for their spineless approach to revolutionary protest.
Instead of willingness to die for their cause, the spoiled pro-Hamas snowflakes display no capacity for sacrifice and hide their faces in shame, object to being arrested, and demand “chicken nuggets and applesauce” when barricaded inside school buildings, Dr. Donohue notes in his biting essay, titled “Meet Our Bratty Revolutionaries.”
The protesters brandish swastika-bearing signs and boldly call for a “Final Solution” and an “Intifada Revolution” while they shout, “We Are Hamas,” but the timorous demonstrators “hide under blankets when speaking to the press” then demand amnesty after engaging in revolutionary protests, Donohue adds.
Oddly, the pro-Hamas protesters “have much in common with the Ku Klux Klan,” he observes, since “both hate Jews and both wear masks while demonstrating.”
States like New York eventually passed laws banning protesters like the KKK from wearing masks, but police are no longer allowed to enforce it, he writes, “much to the applause of the Jew-haters.”
Mask-wearing seems to be a constant among effete rebels, Donohue remarks, as observed with Occupy Wall Street “thugs” as well as Antifa terrorists; and now, the pro-Hamas “crazies” at the University of Michigan are being given masks upon entry to be able to conceal their identities.
Crusaders from Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the pro-Hamas sect “want to promote violence without being subjected to it,” Donohue writes, a practice that is definitely “not manly.”
Whereas real revolutionaries “know they have to have some skin in the game,” today’s brand of rebels can not be taken seriously because “they are more worried about having an arrest record and how it may hurt their career than in making the ultimate sacrifice,” he adds.
They certainly do not want to give up their Apple phones and computers, despite the fact that Israel “has been making them since 1985,” he quips.
This all part of the Left and their Swamp to promote civil disruption and conflict. Designed to derail attention from the coming election.
Check out this c-bomb. They should have no place in this country.
Grrrr.
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Via Avi:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sWiDaXJ2zS4
Ancient Aboriginal bones apparently ’dropped off in brown paper bags’ by Tas authorities
Fury has erupted after ancient Tasmanian Aboriginal bones were apparently “dropped off” in brown paper bags at a Hobart reception desk last Friday.
Tasmanian Aboriginal leader Nala Mansell, who previously lashed authorities for their management of recently-discovered remains, said the way those remains were returned has now left her shocked.
“I’ve never heard of anything so terrible before,” she told the Mercury.
“It’s absolutely disgusting.
“I’m just not sure how you could possibly do anything worse than what they’ve done.”
The bones – a femur located by a member of the public at Carlton Beach in 2022, plus two femurs and a radius bone located by a fisherman at the Shank in 2016 – were apparently dropped off at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) reception desk on Friday by a member of the Coronial Division.
Ms Mansell said neither she nor anyone else at the TAC was contacted beforehand – and their requests to the Coronial Division for assistance in repatriating the remains to their homelands had simply been ignored.
She said if anyone else were to have their family member’s bones dropped off at their office in such a way, “there would be an uproar”.
“I can’t imagine any family who would think it’s okay to have the remains of a human being dropped off at reception in a brown paper bag,” she said.
“Apparently if they’re a black human being in this state, the rules are completely different.”
Ms Mansell also said neither she nor the TAC had been contacted over the 2022 Carlton Beach discovery, which was the subject of a public coronial report over the past few days.
Instead, she found out about the discovery via a social media post over the weekend.
“Once again when it comes to Aboriginal remains in this state … it’s a free-for-all,” she said.
Ms Mansell said she had contacted the Coronial Division weeks ago, asking to meet to discuss a way going forward in the future for similar cases, but “we’ve heard nothing back”.
She said she also contacted Attorney-General Guy Barnett on April 29 to ask for an investigation into the matter, as well as a request to meet urgently – but had also heard nothing back.
“For a people who have had to deal with repatriating our remains from different museums and institutions across the world, having to deal with the remains of our ancestors in cardboard boxes, it’s just a tragedy that we continue to be shut out of the process. The remains of our ancestors are disrespected as they’ve always been,” she said.
“It’s giving Aboriginal people no rights or entitlements to make decisions over the bodies of our dead.
“We know we come from the land and we go back into the land. We know that the spirits of our old people can’t be laid to rest until they are in their traditional homelands.”
The Coronial Division told the Mercury it was unable to comment on the matter.
The Mercury has also contacted Mr Barnett for comment.
Hobart Mercury
Geez ..! .. Do these folk ever do anything but whinge ..FFS!
Ms Mansell .. shirley not a relative of Mickie? …….
“jerbs fer the goils”? ..!
How are such remains supposed to be repatriated?
In a solid gold box maybe?
Attached to a 6 pack ……..!
Baba
May 7, 2024 12:00 pm
It seems like we are in agreement. There is no proof of Hamas murdering hostages.
Who is this ‘we’. You and your evil mates?
You are seriously deluded. I suppose the Holocaust never happened either. FFS.
Bruce Lehrmann sued by ex-landlord Lady Gaenor Meakes
By liam mendes
and ellie dudley
Bruce Lehrmann is being sued by the owner of a luxury bachelor pad in which he stayed for a year on the Seven Network’s dime.
Lady Gaenor Meakes, the owner of the multimillion-dollar property, has launched proceedings against the former Liberal staffer in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
A conciliation listing date has been set for May 23, to be held at the Civic Tower in Sydney.
Mr Lehrmann moved out of the Balgowlah property on Sydney’s northern beaches just over a month ago. The Australian understands he left the property earlier than expected due to intense media scrutiny, cutting the lease short by about three weeks.
During Mr Lehrmann’s mammoth defamation trial against Network 10 and presenter Lisa Wilkinson, the former Liberal staffer revealed Seven paid his rent at the Balgowlah accommodation for a full year in exchange for an exclusive interview on its flagship current affairs show, Spotlight.
The rent cost the network $2000 a week, amounting to more than $100,000 total.
Looks like I’m going to Ireland in July.
Rosie – Keep an eye on the news, the Irish are getting excitable.
Anti-immigration protesters in Dublin shout ‘Sinn Fein are traitors’ in asylum row (6 May)
The Al Muderis v Channel 9 defamation case is back on.
Channel 9 and their lawyers are just being so sneaky with their evidence and response for materials from Al Muderis’ lawyers.
One fun thing has popped up.
Two months ago, the most pompous of “experts” was requested to provide documents and case files that showed he was qualified to call himself an expert amongst other things.
As of today, despite repeated requests, nothing had been provided to the court and not even a response.
Seeing the future, I can see someone being binned from the lucrative post operative career of being an expert witness.
“Baba
May 7, 2024 12:00 pm
It seems like we are in agreement. There is no proof of Hamas murdering hostages.”
There is much footage of unarmed civilians attempting to flee conflict being gunned down en masse, some from the victims and some from the perpetrators.
I don’t need to watch any more to know who is the bad guy here.
Hamas should be exterminated the same as any infection or infestation.
Israel should not stop regardless of any “peace agreement” on the table – every time in the past Israel has agreed to such terms, the other side has broken the deal with heavy Israeli civilian casualties. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, same on me.” No retreat, no surrender, no mercy – Hamas and its supporters can leave permanently or die, their choice.
That is what I support Israel doing.
If you are concerned about “civilian casualties”, then you should be happy to learn that Israel is killing less civilians per combatant than any other war in history – around 4 times less than the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts, for instance.
Bruce
There isn’t anywhere in the world where people aren’t getting a bit excitable.
Why Linda Reynolds won’t let Brittany Higgins goFresh claims in the bitter defamation battle between Brittany Higgins, her partner David Sharaz and Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, who won’t stop until she gets an apology.
By claire harvey and kristen amiet
From Nation
2 hours ago
13 minute read
One name has echoed through the Brittany Higgins legal saga for years: Linda Reynolds.
Senator Reynolds was the Minister for Defence Industry back in 2019, when one of her young staffers – 24-year-old Brittany Higgins – alleged she’d been raped by a 23-year-old colleague, a slightly more senior adviser named Bruce Lehrmann.
Justice Michael Lee last month found, on the balance of probabilities, Bruce Lehrmann did rape Brittany Higgins on a couch in Reynolds’ ministerial suite in Parliament House.
It’s the same suite where Reynolds held a meeting with Higgins in the days after the attack.
Reynolds says, at that point, she and her former Chief of Staff, Fiona Brown, had no idea anything untoward had gone on – only that the two young people had returned to the office after hours. Bruce Lehrmann had been immediately told to pack up his things and leave the office – he subsequently lost his job.
The Senator has said – and Justice Lee found – that Reynolds and Brown in fact urged Brittany Higgins to take her complaint to the police as soon as they understood the seriousness of the allegation.
Indeed, Fiona Brown has given evidence that as soon as the word rape was mentioned, Reynolds ordered Brown to go to police whether Higgins wanted to or not – and Brown said she refused, wanting to give the young woman the right to choose.
Justice Lee found that in the years since, Higgins’ story has changed.
Back in 2019, Higgins expressed her gratitude for the support she received from Brown, in particular.
But by the time the allegation was aired in an episode of The Project in 2021, it had become – in Higgins’ telling – a full-blown cover-up orchestrated by the former senator and her chief of staff.
Here’s what Brittany Higgins said on the Project about the alleged conspiracy:
“I would try and raise it and I would try and bring it up. And it was always – it always sort of came back to sort of being a ‘me’ issue: ‘And if you can’t deal with it, then – then you can leave’.”
How about proof that they were all returned unharmed?
Or an explanation of how taking hostages was acceptable in the first place?
If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.
Dublin – anywhere.
Out of Dublin:
The monastic city at Glendalough
Neolithic tombs at Bru na Boinne (aka Newgrange) – the outside of the famous Passage Tomb is extensively restored, but the internal passage and chamber is arguably the most impressive of its kind.
Beats surfing in Mexico I guess…
Newgrange of course. I read this one yesterday, but Fingal’s Cave is actually in Scotland not Ireland. Nice place! Fingal, the Irish county is probably unhappy since it’s not in, like, Fingal. But since that’s not Ireland you’ll just have to do some Led Zeppelin instead: Giant’s Causeway (wiki)
Dingle.
The west coast is wild. The accent is a delight. Go into the pubs and listen to a ‘session’. Australians are always welcome.
I was robbed twice in Ireland. Of all the war zones and shitholes I have worked in, it was Ireland! So just be aware of gypsy pickpockets..
Okay agreed. Vlad Putin is Thomas Jefferson reincarnated.
That career is dead already.
I daresay the field of legal eagles specialising in medical malpractice (and defamation arising therefrom) is not huge, and word will get around.
He will be binned as an expert witness for one of two reasons:-
1. He is not an expert; or
2. He is an expert who pisses off judges by not responding to basic requests for documentation.