Open Thread – Mon 6 May 2024


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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 7, 2024 1:59 pm

rosie
 May 7, 2024 1:47 pm

If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.

Cliffs of Moher, West Coast.

Last edited 6 months ago by Sancho Panzer
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 7, 2024 2:22 pm

TE @12:42PM….

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.

Convict remains? Thylacine remains?

Who decided they were Aboriginal bones? Carbon dating?

At least they stopped global warming by using brown paper bags instead of plastic bags.

Zatara
Zatara
May 7, 2024 2:31 pm

If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.

Dunno how long you intend to stay but…

Florida Sate University vs Georgia Tech.
American college football season opener.
Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 24 August.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 7, 2024 2:33 pm

If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.

Dublin canals. Take petrol and matches and fire up refugee tents.

?

Vicki
Vicki
May 7, 2024 2:56 pm

IDF finally ready to seek out the remaining Hamas scum in Rafah. And all of a sudden Hamas is ready to negotiate the return of the hostages. So predictable.

Now that we have the benefit of time to review the last 6 months of conflict in Gaza, it is not unreasonable to suppose the atrocities of 7 October were specifically designed to invoke the most severe response from Israel. This would be guaranteed to generate outrage amongst all the anti-Semites, supporters of the “downtrodden”, and the generally historical illiterate. It certainly achieved all of that in spades.

Of course, their own casualties amongst the Gazan populace were always expendable. With much of the world shouting “genocide” at Israel, the Hamas scum now have a chance to extract terms of reconstruction, & even territory gains, that would have been unthinkable before the conflict.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 7, 2024 3:16 pm

More on the Tassie bones, including a pic of the very white Mansell lady.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-07/aboriginal-remains-put-in-paper-bag-given-to-tac/103812138

Aaron
Aaron
May 7, 2024 3:16 pm

Ongoing list.

Should resign from this most excellent regime in a sane World (So far).

Gallagher, O’Neil, Giles, Clare, Kearney. (All those Celtic names)? I do remember the IRA sharing techniques and tactics with Yessir Crackafat’s mob.

Far away and without doubt the most inept bunch of Socialist student clowns to insult our intelligence in years.

Neil, Rik. Mike and Vyvian would be more use.

shatterzzz
May 7, 2024 3:17 pm

With much of the world shouting “genocide” at Israel, the Hamas scum now have a chance to extract terms of reconstruction, & even territory gains, that would have been unthinkable before the conflict.

I don’t think “Benny” is overly interested or concerned with the media luv-of-Hamas outpourings ….
Clean ’em out, glass ’em or, preferably both ……..!

Kneel
Kneel
May 7, 2024 3:21 pm

“…the Hamas scum now have a chance to extract terms of reconstruction, & even territory gains, that would have been unthinkable before the conflict.”

Israel’s response to any such “terms” should be the starting position of “The Gaza strip, the West Bank and the Temple Mount are no longer autonomous, and are under full Israeli control. These are closed areas, and no-one and nothing may enter or leave without thorough vetting by the IDF. We may be prepared to negotiate these terms. If any agreement is reached, any breech of the agreement in any of these areas may result in the most severe consequences for all these areas for whatever length of time and under whatever terms the Israeli government and the IDF decide is appropriate given the nature of the breech.”
In short: we’ve had enough of you lot lying to us, so if you fuck around, you’ll find out what a real no-holds-barred war looks like, and it ain’t gonna be pretty. No more warnings, no more compromises. Start shit with us, and we’ll send you off to heaven and your 72 white grapes faster than you can say “insh’ Allah!”

Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 3:23 pm

The Board provides informed, impartial, and evidence-based recommendations to the Minister for Immigration or the Delegate concerning the necessity (or otherwise) of visa conditions which may be required to be imposed on a person subject to a bridging visa (BVR) grant.
Community safety is the Board’s highest priority.

One of the board members may need to update her resume to include her recent work on deciding who should wear ankle bracelets.

Carmel Guerra OAM – Director & Chief Executive Officer

For over 30 years, Carmel Guerra has been a strong advocate for young people of refugee and migrant backgrounds in Victoria.

In 1988, Carmel helped form the Ethnic Youth Issues Network and in 2000 established the Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues (CMYI). These organisations seeded the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) in 2007, Victoria’s first independent organisation to work exclusively with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.

Carmel’s journey to improve advocacy and support networks for young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds has placed her at the forefront of service delivery and policy development. With a background in direct youth work, she has used her experience to collaborate in research partnerships and write or contribute to numerous publications, including ‘Ethnic Youth Gangs in Australia: Do they exist?’, and ‘Wealth of all Nations’; the first comprehensive study undertaken into the needs of refugee young people in Australia.

Carmel is recognised for her knowledge on multicultural youth issues and her commentary has been published in major newspapers and journals. She has served on numerous boards and committees and is currently a member of the Youth Parole Board of Victoria, the Migration Council of Australia and the SBS Community Advisory Committee.

Carmel is also the Chairperson of the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (MYAN), the national peak body representing multicultural youth issues in Australia.

Carmel was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2016 for services to multicultural youth in Victoria, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Community Harmony in 2015 and the Centenary Medal for services to young people from migrant and refugee communities in 2005. She was also awarded a Not-for-Profit Fellowship at Harvard Business School in 2016.

In 2022, Carmel was awarded a Deakin Honorary Doctorate for distinguished service to the Australian community, especially to migrant youth, social inclusion and cultural diversity.

Carmel remains a fearless advocate for multicultural young people.

So with that experience (no law enforcement) she was qualified to be offered the job, and she was confident enough to accept.

FY 2023
$16,259,138 = grants received
$18,903 = donations received

Grant revenue
Government grants are recognised at fair value where there is reasonable assurance that the grant will be received and all grant conditions will be met.

P.S. not enough time to find out who these characters are:
Professor Mr. Peter Martin AMMr. Graham Ashton APM AM = ex policeman if I remember right

Kneel
Kneel
May 7, 2024 3:31 pm

“Professor Mr. Peter Martin AMMr. Graham Ashton APM AM = ex policeman if I remember right”

You remember correctly.

Wikipedia says: “Graham Leonard AshtonAM APM (born 1962[1]) is an Australian police officer who was the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 2015 to 2020. He also served in the Australian Federal Police for a long period.”

His own website: “Peter Martin is economics editor of The Conversation  and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

A former Commonwealth Treasury official and former economics editor of The Age, he has reported economics since 1985.”

Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 3:46 pm

The Oz is reporting….

Rossmoyne parents push for closure of prayer room in wake of ‘jihadi’ stabbing
Perth authorities were warned a Muslim prayer room at the school of the 16-year-old self-described “jihadi” shot dead by police was being used to spread extremist ideologies.

Parents at the prestigious Rossmoyne Senior High attended by extremist teen James Hollands have called for the school to close its Muslim prayer room amid fears it is being used to try to radicalise vulnerable students.

The parents of a Rossmoyne student wrote to Western Australian education minister Tony Buti and several other elected officials flagging their fears about attempts by other students to radicalise their son just a month before Hollands stabbed a random passerby and was killed by police.

The father of the student is understood to have raised concerns that a group of Muslim converts at the school were using a dedicated prayer room as a meeting place in which to try to recruit more children.

The Australian understands Hollands was among the student cohort at the centre of concerns.

Frustrated by the lack of action from the school and the education department, he then started an online petition calling for the removal of prayer rooms from all state schools in Western Australia.

The petition, addressed to Dr Buti and launched on 29 April, said the presence of prayer rooms in state schools contravened ethical standards and infringes on regulations concerning the separation of religion and state within schools and could also facilitate radicalisation.

“This practice not only undermines the diverse fabric of our society but also violates the fundamental rights of students to receive an education free from religious influence,” the petition said.

“Moreover, the promotion of religious activities within public schools perpetuates societal divisions and contributes to the alienation and marginalisation of certain religious and cultural groups, thereby fostering religious radicalisation among impressionable students.”

The petition has received more than 600 signatures.

One school parents said frustrated mothers and fathers had again called for the school to shut down the room in the wake of Saturday night’s incident, but had been told that the facility would remain.

Dr Buti on Tuesday confirmed that he had received a letter from the parents on April 3, in which they expressed concerns that another Rossmoyne student was attempting to radicalise their child. The boy attempting to recruit their son, Mr Buti said, was named Mohammed.

The Australian has been told that the boy being targeted was in year 8. His parents have since been trying to shift him to another school.

Dr Buti told ABC radio that he had referred the April 3 letter directly to the Department of Education.

He said the letter was not directly concerned with the behaviour of Hollands.
“The issue was about radicalisation. The letter did not express concern about community safety, it was more concerned about their child being radicalised,” Dr Buti said.

Furious parents are understood to have expressed their anger over the school’s handling of Hollands and the broader cohort of students, as well as the school’s commitment to maintaining the prayer room.

Hollands was filmed in 2022 throwing a small homemade explosive device into a toilet block at the school. WA police commissioner Col Blanch on Tuesday morning confirmed that that incident was the catalyst for Hollands to be placed into a de-radicalisation program, under which he was restricted to using a basic phone without internet connectivity.

However, parents from the school have said that Hollands still had access to a laptop and has been seen at school watching “ISIS material” that he carried on a thumb drive.

Some questions….

Why do Muslim students have their own prayer room? I’m sure there are Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish students, along with students of no religion, at the school. Do they have a separate space? I bet they don’t.

Where are the parents of this young boy?

This is not a question…..just watch the school keep the ‘Muslim prayer room’ open, because we are now a stupid country. We prefer to tolerate the intolerant so that the intolerant can kill us.

billie
billie
May 7, 2024 3:52 pm

For those who would like the war, the fighting in Gaza to stop, perhaps remind the Hamas folks that there are consequences to actions and the Israels certainly understand there are consequences to their actions.

What is it the young folk say these days:

fork around, find out

There will never be peace between Hamas and Israel, let’s accept that and move forward.

It’s like a bad divorce of friends, you have to a pick a side and that’s that – you can’t try to be friends with both sides, it simply doesn’t work. Neither side trusts you and nor should they if you don’t care enough to back one or the other.

Look at the folks around you, anyone who tried that, has neither party as a friend.

Scale it up and it’s the same with Hamas and Israel, I don’t particularly have any issue or reason to like or dislike either one.

If prssured though, will pick a side.

calli
calli
May 7, 2024 4:02 pm

Sunrise over Zaragoza.

Unlike the Spanish, we turn in early – a product of a lifetime of building and early bird school starts.

So…the first rays of light popped through our terrace window and I leapt out of bed to say good morning to the sun. The dawn, streaked grey and apricot, backlit with gold, burnished the towers of the great cathedral. The early bird definitely caught this worm!

A magnificent city – last night we visited the old church, built on a Roman temple, “renovated” by the Moors, recaptured and returned to Christian worship and smothered in the riches of the New World.

Today it’s the big Pilar church and the Palace.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 7, 2024 4:04 pm

Cassie at 3:46.
A few brief points.
1. The now perforated stabby youth is referred to by the name “Hollands”. I will bet he had an adopted Jihadi name which he preferred to use. Why would media outlets disrespect him by using his “dead name” (to borrow from the trans lexicon)?
2. Authorities were very quick to put it out there that he had “been radicalised online”. Why say this, when there was ample intel that there was a group of raghead nut-jobs operating within the school?
They have no doubt backgrounding journos that it was online indoctrination from overseas, which then becomes a blind alley of enquiry. That is, the string pullers are untraceable and outside Australia’s jurisdiction anyway.
3. As others have pointed out, wherever the ring-leaders reside, why aren’t we deploying the long arms of Julie Imam Grant to shut them down?

Vicki
Vicki
May 7, 2024 4:09 pm

Scale it up and it’s the same with Hamas and Israel, I don’t particularly have any issue or reason to like or dislike either one.
If prssured though, will pick a side.

Would it be too much to suggest that you do some reading on the historical issues in this issue of global importance? Or is it easier to flip a coin?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 7, 2024 4:10 pm

Scale it up and it’s the same with Hamas and Israel, I don’t particularly have any issue or reason to like or dislike either one.

I do. It’s called October 7th.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 7, 2024 4:12 pm

WSJ confirms the US is delaying delivery of ammunition to Israel.
Nothing about Ukraine.
Its DC politics, not logistics or supply.
Looks like those two sub stacks are worth listening to.

JC
JC
May 7, 2024 4:13 pm

Alvin Purple’s case against Trump in NYC is going really well.

@JonathanTurley

Cohen will try to convice the jury to put his former client in jail for following his own legal advice. This would be difficult even for a competent and ethical lawyer. For Cohen, it is utter insanity.

Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 4:15 pm

3. As others have pointed out, wherever the ring-leaders reside, why aren’t we deploying the long arms of Julie Imam Grant to shut them down?

Quite so, and her original role, back in 2017, was supposed to entail monitoring online stuff that could/would endanger children and adolescents. But you see, that was her sly Trojan horse, we were fed lies about her role, this ‘eSkank’ is not interested in children becoming radicalised online, no, no, no, she’s only interested in censoring content for ordinary Australians..

Imam Grant is a fraud, but we all knew that. She sees herself as Chief Censor in the new Caliphate.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 7, 2024 4:16 pm

Question to Channel 9 journo “did you know about the mental health issues of those you interviewed?”
No was the answer.
The vast majority of the patients were long term users of anti depressants preceding any surgeries by Al Muderis.
Sloppy journalism bordering on negligent.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
May 7, 2024 4:18 pm

Hang on the police were certain that Jihadi James was a “lone wolf” who was “radicalised online”.
Now they’re trying to tell me that a whole bunch of blokes had secret meetings with a character named Mohammed? I just don’t believe it. No wonder the kids have trust issues.

Kneel
Kneel
May 7, 2024 4:18 pm

“Alvin Purple’s case against Trump in NYC is going really well.
@JonathanTurley
Cohen will try to convice the jury to put his former client in jail for following his own legal advice. This would be difficult even for a competent and ethical lawyer. For Cohen, it is utter insanity.”

Oh, it gets better:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/witness-says-trump-did-not-personally-ask-him-to-carry-out-hush-money-payments-5644621

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 7, 2024 4:20 pm

Tim Pallas sez just now on Channel Stokes that Victoria has the best economy in the country. With a straight face. FMD

Ceres
Ceres
May 7, 2024 4:21 pm

Scale it up and it’s the same with Hamas and Israel, I don’t particularly have any issue or reason to like or dislike either one.”

Then you’re missing a moral compass.

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 4:22 pm

Radicalized at the state school mosque.
Just wow.

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 4:25 pm

Watching Gangster Jihad on Prime.
A reminder of the last time ‘Australian’ muslims took to the streets to protest a foreign war.
The fact was it was all about a creating a muslim caliphate.

Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 4:33 pm

Now that’s better
Professor Peter Martin AM APM is a Professor of Practice at the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University. Previous to this appointment he was the Commissioner, Queensland Corrective Services (QCS), having taken up that position in November 2017. Previous to this Professor Martin was the Deputy Commissioner, Regional Operations, Queensland Police Service. He served as a police officer in Queensland, Australia for some 38 years.

He is a graduate of the Leadership in Counter-Terrorism (LinCT) Pacific Program.

Well you have to make money somehow after your retirement
Prior to joining the team at Duxton Hill Graham [Ashton] had over 40 years in law enforcement. Graham is a former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police (2015-2020), Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (2015), and Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police (2011-2015). He has been awarded Member of the Order of Australia, Australia Police Medal, National Police Service Medal and Victoria Police Medal for Excellence.

Graham has led internationally significant investigations and counter-terrorism operations including the Australian investigation into the 2002 Bali bombings for the joint Australian/Indonesian Taskforce, in Bali.

So the Home Affairs Minister appointed two experts and then, perhaps, one diversity hire.
And yes, I am pissed off, because these people take the money but never front up to the media/public when there is a SNAFU.

JC
JC
May 7, 2024 4:34 pm

Kneel

May 7, 2024 4:18 pm

Oh, it gets better:

Trump is not going to stop talking about the case and the corrupt judge has threatened jail. Look, it would be dangerous for Trump to go to jail, but part of me thinks he’s not going to be gagged and will continue talking. If he’s sent to jail so be it. There will be an eruption if that happens.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 7, 2024 4:37 pm

Ugh, I just had to hang a hat onto a hook next to my front door.

A couple weeks ago I was sprung by neighbour. He smirked: I’d had half a dozen cockies lined up on the fence, where I was giving them bread, plus one that was sitting on the top of my head. Probably not something most people see when looking at a neighbour.

Anyway fast forward to today, head cockie has arrived three times so far and each time has immediately jumped onto my head. That’s with me only on my front porch a couple feet from screen door.

All this would be fun, but those claws do a tad of damage. Hurts! I have scratches! So I’ve been sliding my hand under his talons and lifting. That had gone well the first two times today, he accepted a bit of bread and munched on it while sitting on my hand instead. Although I now have scratches all over my hand too.

Third time he got annoyed when I put my hand under his belly. I did get him up onto hand but he wasn’t happy and wanted to eat my appendage not the bread. Finally got it sorted, but not a good thing to have happening.

Hence the hat. I’ll have to wear it when exiting my front door, as cockie protection.

Ceres
Ceres
May 7, 2024 4:40 pm

So tired of these numpties taking offence at absolutely everything and getting oxygen from the likes of the ABC who love promoting so called aboriginal victimhood. Fed up with it like 61% who voted a big NO.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 7, 2024 4:41 pm

Black Ball
 May 7, 2024 4:20 pm

Tim Pallas sez just now on Channel Stokes that Victoria has the best economy in the country. With a straight face. FMD

Another waste of space that needs to get along to Spec Savers. If Sictoria has the best economy (a Marxist economy) then I guess that it follows that it has the best Guv’ment (Marxist).

Nice. Stay there please. Sictoria is a great experiment to observe (from the outside) and to see how far it goes down the plug hole with all that debt and hubris.

.

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Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 4:43 pm

Why do reporters keep lying to their readers (from epoch times)

A witness in President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial

The trial is a to do with an accounting treatment of an expense.
And it is the only such accounting trial in history to generate such interest.

And I do wonder why the judge is letting into evidence all this irrelevant rumour mongering.
Oh, stupid me. It is a case of “the process is the punishment” not the facts or the judgement.

Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 4:44 pm

Last year, a Muslim student at a strict London charter school called “Michaela”, founded and run by Katharine Birbalsingh, took legal action to try and force the school to allow Muslim prayer rituals. The school had always had a policy of no prayer rituals. This fact clearly did not bother the Muslim student or the student’s Muslim parents when they enrolled at the school. Ahhhhhh, but once enrolled and once attending the school, the student not only started complaining about the lack of prayer rituals, the student was also coercing other Muslim students to pray in the classroom and in the playground. There developed a clique of Muslim children and they were also harassing non-Muslim students.

In the face of this Muslim aggression, Katharine Birbalsingh (herself mixed race) stood her ground, remained defiant and said NO to prayer rituals and separate prayer spaces in her school.

The student, empowered by other Muslims and Guardianista leftists, took Michaela School to court over the policy, which the student argued was discriminatory.

The good news is that the bullying student has failed, in March of this year the student lost a High Court challenge against the Michaela School’s ban on prayer rituals.

The non-faith state secondary school previously told the High Court that allowing prayer rituals risked “undermining inclusion” among pupils.

The free school’s founder and head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh said the ruling was a “victory for all schools”.

In an 83-page written judgment dismissing the student’s case, Mr Justice Linden said: “The claimant at the very least impliedly accepted, when she enrolled at the school, that she would be subject to restrictions on her ability to manifest her religion.”

Pity we didn’t have more adults like Birbalsingh, instead we have too many cowards and capitulators.

cohenite
May 7, 2024 4:49 pm

Trump going to jail: it’s a standoff. The demorats want this so badly so they can kill the big orange guy; but they now realise the backlash will be enormous. The shit judges are going home and sweating. I’m sick of judges in the West. They are political, arrogant bastards, too immune from the consequences of their actions. It’s the same in Australia: the poseurs who gave us Mabu: Mason CJ, Brennan, Deane, Toohey, Gaudron & McHugh JJ with Dawson being the only dissenter. The majority should have all their land dispossessed and given to the 3rd nations.

calli
calli
May 7, 2024 5:01 pm

Great. A “prayer room” in a State school where children are being radicalised by other children. Not a rumour, not prejudice, but reality.

Any Cats know how hard it is to keep SRE lessons at schools? The ones where Mrs Jones from down the street comes in for forty minutes a week and tells the children Bible stories? No dedicated, exclusive space, just a classroom.

Exactly how many of these “prayer rooms” exist in schools? And why are they there at all? And if they are there, exactly which responsible adult supervises them?

As for children being bullied to convert, it will end the usual way. The muslims will continue on their destructive way, and Christians will be silenced. Because reasons.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 7, 2024 5:12 pm

Judith Sloan goes to town on the Victoriastan Budget in the Paywallian. There will be a hefty price to be paid for living south of the Murray.

Brislurker
Brislurker
May 7, 2024 5:16 pm

If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.?

Newgrange https://www.newgrange.com/
Fascinating burial mound estimated to be 5,000+ years old.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 7, 2024 5:21 pm

Sancho

They have no doubt backgrounding journos that it was online indoctrination from overseas, which then becomes a blind alley of enquiry. That is, the string pullers are untraceable and outside Australia’s jurisdiction anyway.

Our not very esteemed E-Safety Kommissar had no qualms telling Musk/X to take a video down world-wide, why so hesitant about Islamic “radicalisation” material?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 7, 2024 5:22 pm

cohenite
 May 7, 2024 4:49 pm

Trump going to jail: it’s a standoff. 

Trump can still be the US President (if elected) and operate out of Jail.

What a Country.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 7, 2024 5:27 pm

Natural Instinct at 4:33.
Don’t labour under the impression that Fatty Ashton is anything but a faithful servant of the Liars.
He comes from a line of five successive commissioners in Victorianistan who got the job because they were “sound”, as Sir Humphrey would say.
“Sound”, as in, “Will know precisely what their political masters want without a word being said”.

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 5:28 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 7, 2024 5:35 pm

We are currently looking at an Indian Ocean cruise from Capetown along the West Coast of Africa to some interesting places and that then heads up to the Arabian Sea and ends in Dubai in December, when we can fly on to the UK for Christmas.

I’m keen, but Hairy is less so. I said I wouldn’t ever go to Dubai again, but this cruise has got me thinking.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 7, 2024 5:41 pm

Some Rafah residents heeding the warning.

One you probably won’t see much in the MSM.

COGAT: Int’l orgs told us too much aid was sent to northern Gaza (6 May)

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) stated Sunday that they had been asked by international organizations to reduce the volume of goods transported to northern Gaza last week as too much was being sent to the area in relation to the population.

“Israel has continuously enhanced its humanitarian efforts to increase aid into Gaza, spearheading initiatives that significantly improve conditions in both northern and southern Gaza while addressing security concerns related to Hamas,” wrote COGAT on X on Sunday.

In other words the food is all there and ready in northern Gaza. The people just have to move from the south to the north to get to it.

I suspect Hamas is preventing that.

Baba
Baba
May 7, 2024 5:43 pm

Without googling where in Australia is the West Coast Hotel and why?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 7, 2024 5:59 pm

Baba
 May 7, 2024 5:43 pm

Without googling where in Australia is the West Coast Hotel and why?

Without a doubt you are a right plonker. And I didn’t need to google that.

Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 5:59 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 6:02 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 6:04 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 6:05 pm
Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 7, 2024 6:07 pm

Indolent
I wonder if the ABC editor in Chief will tell his troops the same message with regards to
A) the US election
B) the Oz election with Dutton swapped for Trump etc.
He said a general be fair things about 2 months ago.
So now, how about two specific case studies.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 7, 2024 6:13 pm

Without googling where in Australia is the West Coast Hotel and why?

It’s across the road from the Gravelly Hotel. Various conspiracy theorists go there at 8.30 on Friday nights for handbags at ten paces.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 7, 2024 6:15 pm

The non-faith state secondary school previously told the High Court that allowing prayer rituals risked “undermining inclusion” among pupils.

The free school’s founder and head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh said the ruling was a “victory for all schools”.

How this is presented in Court:- “The students merely want to quietly and respectfully practice religious observances in a way which does not intrude on other students and staff.”
What actually happens when they win:-
The call to prayer blaring out over the school PA and Muesli students bum up in school hallways loudly praying to Allah during class times.

Baba
Baba
May 7, 2024 6:22 pm

It’s incredible that Hamas not murdering hostages enrages so many here.

Pogria
Pogria
May 7, 2024 6:24 pm

Good news.
Although it should not have needed to have been Israel doing the heavy lifting.

https://nitter.poast.org/sentdefender/status/1787700960183136644#m

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 7, 2024 6:34 pm

Baba
 May 7, 2024 6:22 pm

It’s incredible that Hamas not murdering hostages enrages so many here.

How do you know that Ham Arse have not been murdering the hostages?

Are you in touch with Ham Arse? Are you a Ham Arse?

But maybe then, you are just an Arse.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 7, 2024 6:40 pm

In the finest tradition of mUnter on his worst days – Baba, earlier, and at 11.25:

She moves easily for someone so brutally raped her rectum was torn

Here is an almost perfect example of an armchair theorist with zero idea about the effects of adrenaline and the absolute instinct for survival have on the human body, and the human psyche.

People have been shot through the chest multiple times and still managed to run for 200 metres or more before collapsing (and dying).

People have stood up, on broken femurs, cradling their intestines after dragging themselves out of crashed cars (before dying).

People have punched through windscreens barehanded while hyped up on ice and similar psychotropic substances.

The only thing that will stop this sort of thing – people in their last minutes, or even hours – from relying on the last adrenaline dumps and instincts to survive is a direct and complete severing injury to the brain and/or spinal cord.

The injuries inflicted on that woman would have been extremely painful in normal circumstances. However, they are soft tissue injuries and would have registered zero on that scale at that time.

You flog.

Baba
Baba
May 7, 2024 6:49 pm

an armchair theorist with zero idea about the effects of adrenaline 

How long was the ride in the Jeep back to Gaza? Seconds?

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 7, 2024 6:52 pm

‘unutterable shame ‘ Deane- doesn’t stop him taking his pension. I loathe most lawyers.

Roger
Roger
May 7, 2024 6:56 pm

If anyone has some must do’s in Ireland please share.

If you happen upon Leo Varadkar, give him a piece of your mind.

Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 6:56 pm

I see the Jew hater keeps flogging but then again Jew hatred is an age old flog.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 7, 2024 6:58 pm

How long was the ride in the Jeep back to Gaza? Seconds?

You could provide an answer to your own question, seeing as how your view from the gamer chair (looking past the piles of Doritos, mind) would have been spectacular.

Baba
Baba
May 7, 2024 7:02 pm

It’s critical to your theory, Gadget.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 7, 2024 7:03 pm

Freed detainee Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan ‘helped distribute meth across WA’

  • EXCLUSIVE

By paige taylor

  • Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
  • 5:31PM May 7, 2024

The freed immigration detainee accused of bashing a Perth grandmother during a home invasion was playing a necessary and significant role in distributing “serious” quantities of meth across Western Australia five years after Australia gave him sanctuary as a refugee.
Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan was among a sustained wave of asylum seekers to reach Christmas Island by boat when the Rudd-Gillard Labor government was in power between 2007 and 2013. Doukoshkan arrived in 2010 but has been flagged for deportation since 2015 when he was charged with serious drug offences. In November last year, he was one of 152 people released from immigration detention facilities by a High Court ruling that detention is unlawful in cases where there is no forseeable prospect of deportation.
A transcript of Doukoshkan’s 2017 sentencing reveals why the government’s prospects of deporting him are slim — he has been recognised as a refuge and therefore cannot be returned to his country of origin.
At Doukoshkan’s 2017 sentencing hearing for drug trafficking offences, the Perth District Court heard that he had been tortured in Iran by authorities who suspected that he and his father were spies. The court heard this was because Doukoshkan’s brothers had migrated to the US, where one worked in IT and one worked for the military.
Born in Kuwait, Doukoshkan had what Judge Gillian Braddock described as a a good education at the International English School in Kuwait. The Kuwait International English School is described online as a private school and one of Kuwait’s best. Judge Braddock said the skills that Doukoshkan brought to his job at a migrant help centre in Perth where also “very useful” in the drug distribution operation.

“It is clear to me that you played a part in the distribution of methamphetamine into the community in Western Australia through friends and others and that you also did the bidding and made yourself useful to people who were in a position to organise the arrival by mail, or by courier, of large quantities, from 300, 350 grams to potentially over a kilogram of pure methamphetamine,” Judge Braddock said.

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 7:04 pm

Have a hunt around on telegram Baba.
If you look hard enough you’ll find footage* of them raping the poor girl again, as if that wasn’t obviously going to happen from the footage of them forcing her into the back seat dragging her by her hair aka ‘moving easily enough’.
*Someone posted that later footage on twitter with the windows of the vehicle scribbled over, which is why I know it exists.

Baba
Baba
May 7, 2024 7:12 pm

You could see through the scribble, rosie?

Pretty slack that both Pramila Patten’s UN team on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the NYT’s Screams Without Words investigation failed to find this damning evidence floating around the internet.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 7, 2024 7:19 pm

Ireland, Trinity College and the Book of Kells.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 7, 2024 7:29 pm

Avi:

Things almost went sideways during my recent visit to the University of Melbourne as Jewish students gathered for a peaceful protest against rising Jew hatred on campus

MelbUni tries (but FAILS!) to kick Avi Yemini off campus for ‘spreading hate’ against Hamas

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 7, 2024 7:31 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 7, 2024 7:35 pm

“There is no proof of Hamas murdering hostages.”

How about proof that they were all returned unharmed? 

Tragically, the text of the ‘ceasefire agreement’ agreed to by Hamas tells a different story.

It seems that Hamas thinks they will be struggling to find 33 hostages to return alive in the hostage/prisoner exchange. But, they cheerily promise to return bodies to make up the shortfall.

Not quite the snuff porn the first poster was apparently after. But not evidence that the pigs of Hamas have treated their hostages like humans.

Rabz
May 7, 2024 7:51 pm

Pallas sez just now on Channel Stokes that Victoria has the best economy in the country. With a straight face. FMD

Did he also mention that “War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength”?

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 8:16 pm

Exactly Dr Faustus.
That includes the Bibas children aged 1 and 4, dead or alive.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
May 7, 2024 8:18 pm

Any Judge who jails Trump arbitrarily will be very mindful that they’ll evermore experience extreme apprehension when starting their car each morning.

They’ll assume the MAGA cohort will behave as would BLM, Antifa, & the modern left in general.

m0nty
m0nty
May 7, 2024 8:42 pm

It seems obvious that the reason Hamas announced it was accepting the Egyptian peace deal was that Israel is about to launch a major new attack on Rafah. Which means it was a gesture, effectively, rather than a step towards an actual ceasefire.

There doesn’t seem to be much hope of peace any time soon, as the aggressor has little to no incentive to stop attacking. Much like in Ukraine.

PeterM
PeterM
May 7, 2024 8:47 pm

That would be the Egyptian peace deal that Israel had not been party to?

rosie
rosie
May 7, 2024 8:48 pm

“as the aggressor has little to no incentive to stop attacking”
that’s right Monty, despite everything, hamas continues to fire rockers at Israel.

cohenite
May 7, 2024 9:04 pm

Baba
 May 7, 2024 6:22 pm

It’s incredible that Hamas not murdering hostages enrages so many here.

They have. Fuk off and die.

Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 9:07 pm
Cassie of Sydney
May 7, 2024 9:08 pm

The pervert apologist supports Hamas.

LOL.

Arky
May 7, 2024 9:24 pm

hamas continues to fire rockers at Israel.

..

Which rockers would people like to see fired first?
I vote John Farnham.

Arky
May 7, 2024 9:26 pm

I’m the voice, woah wooooah oh woooooooah…splat.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
May 7, 2024 9:35 pm

There doesn’t seem to be much hope of peace any time soon, as the aggressor has little to no incentive to stop attacking

This animal is very bad; when you attack it, it defends itself.”

cohenite
May 7, 2024 9:40 pm

Even with the shit happening about biden 61% of black voters still support biden over Trump.

The US has a black problem.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 7, 2024 9:41 pm

Who was the aggressor on 7th October mutley ? You f wit. Everything since then is a result of that. Israel is not the aggressor, Gaza needs to be levelled. Muzzies gone. River to the sea, pali free.

MatrixTransform
May 7, 2024 9:44 pm

The pervert apologist supports Hamas

the idiot is so disconnected from reality at this point

that the pervert apologist essentially is Hamas

as usual, the dim-witted have cause and effect arse-backwards

they’ll moan and whimper all the way to their bitter end

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MatrixTransform
May 7, 2024 9:49 pm

I vote John Farnham

mine the joint with Cocteau Twins and shell them with Bon Jovi

MatrixTransform
May 7, 2024 10:20 pm

I say Israel should Ted Nugent them from orbit

gas the bastards with Enya (full strength)

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MatrixTransform
May 7, 2024 10:27 pm

Katrina and the Waves … EMP ??

JD
JD
May 7, 2024 10:30 pm

Thanksgiving prayers for President Putin. I cut to the end of the service, which, btw is fantastic if you are Orthodox. I can sing most of those tunes in English even though it is in Russian/Slavonic!

Trying to imagine Albo in this place. Bloke appeared at the Greek Orthodox Church for Easter. Cringeworthy, though in good Paschal spirit we have to embrace him for the day!

https://youtu.be/44GXsQmYUK8?si=rNKrTvFkmkKD8AqP&t=650

Christ is Risen!

JD
JD
May 7, 2024 10:32 pm

That’s funny. It had English subtitles just a few minutes ago! Looks like YT is doing the usual!

m0nty
m0nty
May 7, 2024 10:49 pm

Stormy Daniels to testify today in the Vonshitzenpants trial. I look forward to reading about it tomorrow morning.

Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 11:07 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 11:10 pm

@SputnikInt

Key statements by Vladimir Putin at his inauguration speech:

Russia itself and only itself will determine its own fate;

Russia will pass through the difficult, milestone period with dignity and become even stronger, it must be self-sufficient and competitive;

The key priority for Russia is the people’s safeguarding, preservation of age-old values and traditions;

Russia is ready to strengthen good relations with all countries, with the world majority;

Russia will continue to work with partners on the formation of a multipolar world order;

Moscow does not refuse to carry out dialog with the West, is ready for dialog on security and strategic stability, but only on an equal footing;

It is necessary to remember the tragic price of internal turmoil and upheaval, so the political system of the Russian Federation must be stable;

Russia’s state system must be flexible and provide an opportunity to move forward;

It is necessary to ensure reliable continuity in Russia’s development for decades to come.

It is possible to achieve truly great goals only together with the people;

Russian nation is a united and great people, together the people of Russia will overcome obstacles and realize our plans, and win.

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Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 11:14 pm
KevinM
KevinM
May 7, 2024 11:18 pm

cohenite
May 7, 2024 9:40 pm

Even with the shit happening about biden 61% of black voters still support biden over Trump.

The US has a black problem.

This has been intriguing me for a while, if you look at the % of blacks 14 odd% in the total population it is by comparison not that great, yet they have an influence on domestic politics far beyond their numbers should warrant.

Forget about crime rates.
How come?

Same goes for muslims I suppose.

Indolent
Indolent
May 7, 2024 11:21 pm
JC
JC
May 7, 2024 11:28 pm

How come?

They’re a vital voting bloc for the demons, and the democrats pander to them bigly. In fact, if the split was 50/50, the demons would lose all elections.

There’s the possibility of a much darker side too. The cheating that goes on is concentrated in black urban locales, further helping the demons.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2024 12:57 am

How come?
Because that demographic’s vote is believed to change in reaction to political forces- in particular, they’re seen as a lock for the Democrats, so any movement towards, say, President Trump, has the bowtie class sh*tting themselves.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
May 8, 2024 3:39 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:01 am

Mark Knight classic.

Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
May 8, 2024 4:09 am
rosie
rosie
May 8, 2024 5:50 am
rosie
rosie
May 8, 2024 6:03 am

Now confirmed that hamas and friends took the bodies of 38 Israelis they had murdered back with them to Gaza.
How could they have done that if the IDF killed everyone with helicopters?
https://twitter.com/Israelkicksass/status/1787923737590841735?t=ltowRSezNbX0DeEPoLESIw&s=19

calli
calli
May 8, 2024 6:15 am

Thanks Rosie, for the recommendation to visit Zaragoza, a must see on a Spanish holiday. Something for everyone – magnificent churches, galleries and architecture. A castle. Roman ruins. And little back alleys full of restaurants selling delicious food and wine at the right price.

Few people speak English, but those who have a smattering want to converse to improve. Tell them you’re an Aussie and you’re sweet.

It was like springtime in Orange back home. Very fresh, a nip in the air and a brilliant blue sky. The lions of Aragon, standing dark and stern on the entrance to the bridge stood out starkly in contrast. The great church, with its four spires, crouches on the riverside, ornate, immovable. A short walk away and it’s another, smaller church with a leaning spire. Turn left and a covered market selling luscious tomatoes, pyramids of artichokes, every sort of fish, smallgoods and great joints of meat. And then there were the bibs and bobs, including sheep’s heads sawn in half, pig’s noses and other triggering body parts. A vegan’s nightmare.

Off to San Sebastián tomorrow.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 6:19 am

there is another dimension to these calls for an intifada of which both the minister and the vice-chancellors are apparently unaware. This is the call to ‘globalize the Intifada’ by making the Israel-Gaza conflict the flashpoint (in true Trotskyite fashion) for the mobilisation of a global revolutionary movement, led by university students and their external handlers. The primary targets for subversion and insurrection (in accordance with current radical analyses) are ‘settler-colonialist’ societies like the US, Australia, and Israel. 

People here probably already knew this- remember too that the marxist wreckers are very cranky that their attempted coup failed last year.

Vice-Chancellors Wrapped in Shame and Keffiyehs – Quadrant Online

KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 6:35 am

Changing of history?

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Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2024 7:03 am

From The Oz…

A controversial Muslim commentator who told people to “celebrate the victory” of the October 7 terror attack on Israel addressed the University of Sydney’s pro-Palestine encampment during a protest.

British commentator Sami Hamdi appeared at the sandstone university telling the crowd Israel is a “rabid Zionist project that wants to eradicate Palestine”.

Mr Hamdi, currently on an Australian tour, has previously had speaking engagements cancelled by Canadian universities for his comments following Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

Ten days after Hamas killed 1200 Israelis, most of them civilians, Mr Hamdi urged an audience to “celebrate the victory”, while wiping away tears.

“How many of you feel it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria? Allahu Akbar! How many of you felt it?” he said.

Gosh, such was his jubilation and elation at the murder of 1200 Jews that Mr Hamdi ‘cried’. Even the likes of Rudolf Hoss and other German Nazis maintained better composure when they were busily murdering Jews.

Hey Baba and Monty, did you meet up with Mr Hamdi? I’m sure the three of you would get along like a house on fire.

But I digress, I’m rather curious, just how did Hamdi get a visa? Hmm, interesting? Odd priorities emanating from our Department of Home Affairs. Anyone else remember, as I do, how under this same Home Affairs Minister named Clare O’Neil, how she and her department deliberately stalled the visa application of Donald Trump Jnr? In fact, I recall how Ms O’Neil even took to X to crow about the stalling. I also have heard that it took Graham Linehan, creator and writer of Father Ted, months before his visa was approved, again the Home Affairs department stalled his visa. Now you might ask what could possibly be behind the Linehan’s visa application stalling? Ahhhh, well you see, Linehan is gender critical, he doesn’t believe that a man with a dick who puts on a wig and lipstick and calls himself a woman should be able to access women’s spaces and sport.

Oh I get it….

A Muslim man who has a long history of making obscene and derogatory comments about Jews and Zionism = visa approved!

Donald Trump Jnr, a man with no criminal record, a man who is the son of a recent president of the USA = visa stalled (Trump Jnr cancelled his visit)!

Graham Linehan, a man with no criminal record, a man who is critical of this whole trannie pervert movement, a man who believes in biological reality (meaning his knows what a real vagina is) = visa stalled (grudgingly approved after months in limbo)!

Oh and I should not won’t let the eternally stupid effing Liberals off the hook, don’t forget how they banned Tommy Robinson, Gavin McInnes, Milo Yiannopoulos and other far less offensive people from entering this country.

But silly me, Muslim Jew haters are waved through!

As I wrote last night, we are not the lucky country anymore, we are a very stupid country now.

rosie
rosie
May 8, 2024 7:20 am

Perhaps it’s the time of year but accommodation in Ireland is expensive.
Apparently airbnb use an algorithm to set prices. So I might hold off booking any more past Dublin, Wexford and Waterford. Plus I can decide once I’m there where I want to go. It’s not that big after all.
Glad you’re enjoying Zaragosa Calli.
The only food I remember from there is that weird dish with grapes decorating the top.

Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2024 7:29 am

Oh, and of course you won’t read about this in the Nine Newspapers, or in the Guardian, and of course you won’t see it on the MSM and particularly on their ABC because it doesn’t suit their narrative and besides, it really isn’t a good look, but a few days ago in Poland, outside the gates of Auschwitz no less, keffiyeh wearing pro-Palestine protesters, waving Pallie flags and changing ‘stop genocide’ protested and disrupted the annual March of the Living, an march that happens yearly between Auschwitz and the Birkenau death camps.

Monty and Baba’s friends.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 8, 2024 7:31 am

The security state mob are testing what narrative to use so their low information useful idiots can spread it today, with reference to the Trumps docs case.

No doubt we’ll see something tested out here later.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 8, 2024 7:32 am

So, is Clare an imbecile, or is he catering in a very clumsy and obvious way to his primary electoral constituency? 

Or both?
Because the one does not exclude the other. None of this behaviour is independent of the interests of the ALP; now a faithful Servant of the Prophet.

Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2024 7:34 am

That’s what we’ve come to folks, Jew haters turning up outside Auschwitz to scream at Jews. Eighty years ago Nazis were pushing us into the crematoriums, nowadays Nazis wish they could push us into the crematoriums.

Here’s a thought and fact for the day…

There is no genocide in Gaza.

shatterzzz
May 8, 2024 7:38 am

What is the difference between residential & commercial building projects?.. I live alongside the Smithfield industrial estate, the largest all industrial area in OZ, the media is constantly full of stories on residential housing shortages due in a large part to lack of material ..
Yet, the commercial building in this industrial complex is going “gang-busters” not only the actual building of factories but the ongoing clearance & levelling of land .. The estate which once ended around Eastern Creek Raceway is now extending out to Mamre Road, St Mary’s .. 100s of hectares of land being leveled and developed with no, noticeable, shortages of anything (including money) slowing it down ..
Add to that the new airport, which is is now almost a neighbour over at Kemps Creek, another project, seemingly, unaffected by material shortage(s) …….!

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Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 7:39 am

Stephanie Foster PSM was appointed as Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs on 28 November 2023.
Stephanie joined the Department of Home Affairs in October 2022 as Associate Secretary Immigration. Stephanie led the delivery of Immigration Operations, Immigration Policy, Refugee Policy and Programs, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Legal and Service Design and Delivery Programs.
Prior to this, Stephanie was Deputy Secretary Governance at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in December 2017, where she was responsible for the effective operations of the Executive Branch of Government, management of Cabinet and Cabinet Committees, advancing the government’s legislative program.
In 2021, Stephanie led a review into practices in parliamentary workplaces related to serious incidents and subsequently implemented recommendations, including the establishment of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service. Stephanie also implemented Government recommendations in the Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces aimed at making Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces safer and more respectful.
Stephanie began her journey in the APS in 1987 as a graduate at the Defence Signals Directorate where she went on to spend 16 years working in a range of analytic and management roles. Stephanie spent four years as First Assistant Secretary of Defence’s International Policy Division, providing policy support to overseas operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Solomon Islands and East Timor, and managed the Defence Cooperation Program and the Global Network of Defence Attachés.
Stephanie has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University. Stephanie was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2008 for her policy support to Australian Defence Force deployments overseas, and the French Officier de l’Ordre National du Merite in 2010 for her work to develop defence relations between France and Australia.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
May 8, 2024 7:41 am

Tom
 May 8, 2024 4:01 am

Mark Knight classic. Yes one small detail Monique’s derriere is just not realistic, it’s just not to the proper scale

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 7:41 am

BA (Hons!)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 8, 2024 7:42 am

For anyone going to Pommyland today:

UK airport chaos LIVE: Thousands of passengers stuck in queues amid border control issue (7 May)

Thousands of passengers are stuck in long queues at border control in multiple UK airports amid a “national outage” of passport e-gates

Reports on social media reveal that Stansted, Heathrow, Luton, Gatwick, East Midlands, Edinburgh and Manchester airports are all affected by the issue.

It has been revealed the issue is affecting border control e-gates meaning airports are having to check every passport by hand.

Sounds like a mess.

rosie
rosie
May 8, 2024 7:45 am

Government and large commercial contracts always trump small residential projects, labour and materials.
‘Big build’ is the cause of Victoria’s residential housing woes.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 8, 2024 7:47 am

A bit of advice Mutley. I usually charge for advice but I’ll make an exception in this case. Take the day off, not that you do anything productive, try as hard as you can not to be an anti-semitic dickhead. If you can do that for 5 minutes before you hit the keyboard to show all and sundry how utterly stupid you are. The world is a much better place without moronic instructions whizzing round in what passes for a brain. It’s not a lot to do but probably a lot more than usual. Get back to me tomorrow for more advice.

KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 7:56 am

but a few days ago in Poland, outside the gates of Auschwitz no less, keffiyeh wearing pro-Palestine protesters, waving Pallie flags and changing ‘stop genocide’ protested and disrupted the annual March of the Living, an march that happens yearly between Auschwitz and the Birkenau death camps.

The new government is just doing-allowing the EU hierarchy’s bidding, there is more I could say but better stay stumm.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 8:07 am

BoN @ 08:42am

It has been revealed the issue is affecting border control e-gates meaning airports are having to check every passport by hand.

Happened in Melbourne Saturday 27 April. Pattern?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 8, 2024 8:09 am

Vaudeville comes to Noo York.

Stormy Daniels gives graphic account of sexual encounter with Donald Trump during hush money trial
So, an self-admitted liar who lies for money:

  • Admits to making money from her giving evidence at the hearing;
  • Tells the court she hates Trump and hopes he goes to jail.

While the presiding judge sits back:

The judge said he agreed Ms Daniels said more at times than she should have, but he blamed the defence for not objecting more vigorously when she was testifying.

“I agree there are some things that would’ve been better left unsaid,” Judge Merchan said, noting the “witness was a little difficult to control”.

The US justice system as prime time entertainment – putting Xi and Vlad in the shade. What happens when the State no longer bothers to pretend to be serious.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
May 8, 2024 8:11 am

News from NT is confronting – for the long term leftoids (including Labor) that say remote settlements are the answer for aboriginals. Daly River is in ruins and fighting looks like civil war. Sky’s NT reporter Matt Cunningham has always tended to tell it like it is. Watch this morning, they will repeat the report.

Pogria
Pogria
May 8, 2024 8:12 am

There is a “poor Bulk Brittany”, article in the Mail about “we’ve tried for mediation”, etc.

Comments are almost 100% for Linda Reynolds. Good.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 8, 2024 8:13 am

Rosie the algorithm AirBnB use is inverse to the number of bookings through their site. If bookings are down the suggested price goes down. We use AirBnB and Stayz. Hardly ever do the two agree. If we followed their advice we’d never break even little make a healthy profit, which we do. Yes in the peak season prices are up but we always get at least a couple of hundred a night more. Just recently they suggested a higher price when there was no reason. The time for us letting the beachhouse out is almost at an end. Sick of dealing with people complaining about things that are wrong like not being close to a coffee shop or not close enough to diving reefs and restaurants not a high enough standard being our fault. Then you have the people that break things then hide them at the back of the cupboard. Besides that we spend 5 days in a row a fortnight here.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 8:15 am

New York really is a disgusting place.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2024 8:15 am

Astra-Zeneca withdraw the clot shot.

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2024 8:15 am

I’m rather curious, just how did Hamdi get a visa? 

A number of officials would have had to have signed off on it before it reached the minister’s desk (if it did).

The LNP should be calling for a wide-ranging inquiry into Home Affairs as well as holding the ministers to account in parliament. Although I won’t hold my breath waiting for that.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2024 8:18 am

Astra-Zeneca withdraw the clot shot.
Because the dodgy, rushed, and forcefully injected shot- get this- causes blood clots.
Any cat who was coerced or sacked- Duk? Muddy? I hope you go ballistic.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 8:22 am

AstraZeneca is removing its Covid vaccine worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.
The jab, developed by Oxford University, can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its ‘marketing authorisation’, coming into effect today.
Similar applications to withdraw the vaccine will be made in other countries that had previously approved it, including the UK.

Possibly explains my last blood test.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 8:23 am

From the Daily Mail btw.

Cassie of Sydney
May 8, 2024 8:24 am

Ten days after Hamas killed 1200 Israelis, most of them civilians, Mr Hamdi urged an audience to “celebrate the victory”, while wiping away tears.

“How many of you feel it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened? How many of you felt the euphoria? Allahu Akbar! How many of you felt it?” he said.

Albo and Labor’s ‘soshul coheshun!

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2024 8:25 am

Victoria defies critics and goes on a Keynesian binge.

$23bn on infrastructure.

We’ll all suffer the hangover.

Starting with the impact on inflation.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 8:25 am

“Rare”!!

As my fcuking arse!

Black Ball
Black Ball
May 8, 2024 8:26 am

Rita Panahi:

When is a terrorist attack not a terrorist attack? The stabbing of a man in a Bunnings carpark in Perth’s south has all the hallmarks of a terror incident but authorities are reluctant to classify it as such.

The radicalised teen assailant – who was shot dead after threatening police with a large kitchen knife – was clear in stating why he was committing a violent act.

“Brothers please forgive me for any time I have wronged you, I am going on the path of jihad tonight for the sake of Allah,” wrote the 16-year-old Muslim convert.

“I am a soldier of the mujahideen of al-Qaeda and take responsibility for the actions that will … take place. Please don’t forget me and the mujahideen in your duat (afterlife).”

There you have it. The teenager made his intentions and motivations crystal clear and yet authorities, including the WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch, are baulking at calling a spade a spade.

“The motivation immediately prior to the attack is still under investigation,” Blanch said.

Is it because they don’t want to alarm the Australian public or have them ask uncomfortable questions given we had a stabbing allegedly by another radicalised Muslim teenager in Sydney just three weeks ago?

In the aftermath of the alleged terror incident at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley there were counter-terror raids across a number of Sydney suburbs with seven teenagers arrested.

Of course, the courts will decide if he’s guilty of the crime or not.

Predictably, some in the Muslim community claimed NSW police were too hasty to label the Wakeley attack terror-related.

Even more predictably, we had the usual cries of Islamophobia, as we do every time an incident like this occurs.

Perhaps it was with that in mind that Blanch gave this curious justification for obfuscating when clarity was required.

“You can say it is a terrorist act, I’m saying I don’t need to declare it an incident because I don’t need additional powers,” he said.

The teenager responsible for the Perth attack had been in a deradicalisation program for two years and there are reports he had mental health issues.

But being a terrorist and mentally ill are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, one could argue that every jihadist is mentally ill.

Well you could argue that indeed Ms Panahi.
As for the commish, what the hell is he on about? Is he the male version of Webb?

Indolent
Indolent
May 8, 2024 8:27 am

I don’t think that young man is likely to forget it.

@ThebestFigen

Novak Djokovic is very gentle athlete …

Class act!

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2024 8:36 am

As for the commish, what the hell is he on about?

It’s an operational decision under WA law relating to terrorism and extraordinary powers (other states have their own versions). Declaring the crime a terrorist act grants him extraordinary powers of search & arrest that he’d normally need warrants for.

What he’s saying is he doesn’t believe he needs those special powers atm (whether he’s right or wrong on that is another question).

Rita and the media are free to call it a terrorist act.

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 8, 2024 8:41 am

Vaudeville comes to Noo York.
The process is the punishment.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 8:44 am

But being a terrorist and mentally ill are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, one could argue that every jihadist is mentally ill.

Rita nails it and describes muslims perfectly.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2024 8:49 am

Hunter Valley bus crash driver Brett Button reaches plea deal, manslaughter charges to be dropped
@ShannonTonkin

3 min read
May 8, 2024 – 7:59AM.

Hunter Valley bus crash driver Brett Button has reached a plea deal with prosecutors that will see all manslaughter charges against him dropped, it has been reported.
The 59-year-old is due to face Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday where he is expected to enter guilty pleas to multiple charges of dangerous driving occasioning death after weeks of negotiations between his legal team and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In exchange for the pleas, the DPP will withdraw 10 counts of manslaughter against Button, Channel 7 reports.
Families of the 10 victims have told the media they are outraged by the development, while victim support service advocate Howard Brown labelled the decision “gutless”.
The DPP, meanwhile, is remaining tight-lipped about the news, instead warning Channel 7 it may be in breach of the law by reporting the families’ concerns.
Button was transporting 35 wedding guests from a venue in the Hunter Valley when he allegedly lost control of the coach on the night of June 11 last year.
The bus rolled over at a roundabout near Greta, killing 10 people and injuring 25 others.
Button was remanded in custody before being granted strict conditional bail on 89 charges related to the fatal crash.

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2024 8:56 am

But being a terrorist and mentally ill are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, one could argue that every jihadist is mentally ill.

Rita nails it and describes muslims perfectly.

Not every jihadist is mentally ill.

I’ll go out on a limb and suggest it’s only a minority who are.

I’ll also suggest that dismissing jihadis and Muslims generally as mentally ill doesn’t help us understand their beliefs and actions, which is essential to grasping the problem we face with large Muslim populations in Western countries.

Too many bought the lie that Islam is a religion of peace.

“Mental illness” is just another trope intended to disguise the real nature of Islam.

Last edited 6 months ago by Roger
KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 8:58 am

Indolent
May 8, 2024 8:30 am

See my tweet below on showing the world how to program an accurate Dominion database to flip votes

Even I, with my totally rusty VB6 could do that, I wouldn’t trust them to be running an honest software for a minute.

johnjjj
johnjjj
May 8, 2024 8:58 am

For all you baby boomers out there – ahh the sixties/seventies! On Free Form Friday, Mark Groubert (“you heard it first here, folks”) predicted that one result of the current left/Islam demos there will be a new Weather Underground (SDS/Weathermen) … bombs and all.

Indolent
Indolent
May 8, 2024 9:09 am

@newstart_2024

The Trudeau regime has introduced an Orwellian new law called the Online Harms Bill C-63, which will give police the power to retroactively search the Internet for ‘hate speech’ violations and arrest offenders, even if the offence occurred before the law existed.

This new bill is aimed at safeguarding the masses from so-called “hate speech.” Revolver.news reports: The real shocker in this bill is the alarming retroactive aspect. Essentially, whatever you’ve said in the past can now be weaponized against you by today’s draconian standards. Historian Dr. Muriel Blaive has weighed in on this draconian law, labeling it outright “mad.” She points out how it literally spits in the face of all Western legal traditions, especially the one about only being punished if you infringed on a law that was valid at the time of committing a crime.

Last edited 6 months ago by Indolent
Indolent
Indolent
May 8, 2024 9:20 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
May 8, 2024 9:42 am

Paranoia?
I’m beginning to wonder if things like e-passport reader failures at random aren’t just designed to make travel such a pain in the arse that people decide not to do it.
This may have filtered down to roadworks in Queensland. It is one thing to be delayed for 5 minutes upon encountering a set of roadworks but in the last couple of years it seems that the organisation is such that a 10+ kilometer section of highway is divided up into 5 or 6 sections of roadworks with a delay at each. This is especially bad when there is no reasonable alternative route and goes on for months.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 8, 2024 9:43 am

Who knew that aboriginal music isn’t popular in Sweden?

Brutal early exit for Australia at Eurovision 2024 (8 May)

Australia has suffered a brutal early exit at Eurovision 2024, with our entry failing to make it past the first semi-final this morning and secure a place in the Grand Final.

Australia’s entry this year is electronic music duo Electric Fields, aka vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding alongside keyboard player and producer Michael Ross.

Their song, One Milkali (One Blood), was an uplifting dance floor anthem sung partly in the Indigenous language Yankunytjatjara – but it wasn’t enough to see them join the ten acts progressing to the Eurovision Grand Final from today’s semi-final. Their performance landed them in the bottom five out of the 15 acts that performed, alongside Iceland, Poland, Moldova and Azerbaijan, who all failed to qualify.

Maybe Monty should gone over there to offer them support, seeing it’s being held in Malmo.

bons
bons
May 8, 2024 9:55 am

‘UK AIRPORTS IN CHAOS’.

Was that you Calli?

KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 9:58 am

Bruce of Newcastle.

Maybe Monty should gone over there to offer them support, seeing it’s being held in Malmo.

All of his idiotic comments may be forgotten, but he will never, ever live the Malmo episode down.

It is cast in stone.

bons
bons
May 8, 2024 9:59 am

In the latest ‘anything the Left can do democracy does it better’ news:

Mounting speakers at night around Hamas scum campus encampments and playing the National Anthem on continuous loop.

Genius.

m0nty
m0nty
May 8, 2024 10:01 am

What a terrible day for Trump. Melania Trump, that is. Utter humiliation.

At least Vonshitzenpants didn’t fall asleep during Stormy’s testimony.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 10:02 am

Your comments say more about the sort of person you are Monty than DJT.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 8, 2024 10:05 am

Dumbest news report of the day comes courtesy of News.com.au.

Clean-tech manufacturing could create $215bn revenue and 53k jobs by 2035: new report (8 May)

Building clean-tech manufacturing in Australia could create of up to $215bn in revenue and 53,000 new jobs by 2035, according to a new report by an independent think tank.

Beyond Zero Emissions is calling on Australia to seize the opportunity and harness the nation’s abundant resources to help move the world towards net zero.

It comes as the Albanese government made major investments in clean-tech hubs in Gladstone, Queensland and the NSW Hunter Region over the last month.

BZE chief executive Heidi Lee said Australia already had the skills and key technologies needed to create a zero emissions economy, we just needed to use them.

What a load of codswallop and unicorn flatus! To start with it won’t work, the grid issues are unsolvable. Then next it won’t be economic. Australia cannot manufacture squat using renewables, as the experience of many other countries show. Germany for example. All that will occur is we’ll end up in a deep economic depression with no end in sight while countries like China, Indonesia and India eat our lunch.

I wonder who funds these weird think tanks?

cohenite
May 8, 2024 10:15 am

What a terrible day for Trump. Melania Trump, that is. Utter humiliation.
At least Vonshitzenpants didn’t fall asleep during Stormy’s testimony.

Dickless is jealous that women, even lying whores, claim Trump rooted them. Now go and look after the milko’s kiddies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2024 10:16 am

Britnah’s Trust Fund.
Anyone care to guess what it might be called?
Pantsless Log Trust?

Roger
Roger
May 8, 2024 10:25 am

I wonder who funds these weird think tanks?

In this instance the Hamer family seems to be the principal private donor.

cohenite
May 8, 2024 10:41 am

Stormy smacks Trump on his bare arse with a rolled up magazine:

Judge warns prosecutors about ‘degree of detail’ during Stormy Daniels’ salacious testimony as jurors struggle to keep straight faces (msn.com)

The adult film actress was referring to a magazine that Trump’s face was on the cover of and which she rolled up and “swatted him” with, she testified — drawing smirks from several of the jurors.

Stormy went on to describe the writing on the magazine and that Trump rooted her in the missionary position. We therefore know the whore is lying: because she is illiterate and has never had a root in her life in the missionary position.

But seriously this is disgusting. This extorting whore is grist for the mill of the demorat jury and shit judge. In the end Trump will go to jail for being one of the few blokes in the US who hasn’t fuked the bitch.

rosie
rosie
May 8, 2024 10:41 am

Parents unhappy with the prayer room at jihad academy should remove their children.
That might help the principal get principled.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 10:43 am

Twee, prissy and odious.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 10:46 am

The Hamers that is.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2024 10:47 am

The DPP, meanwhile, is remaining tight-lipped about the news, instead warning Channel 7 it may be in breach of the law by reporting the families’ concerns.

Utter bullshit.
Trying to extend contempt of court to cover the DPP.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2024 10:58 am

rosie
 May 8, 2024 10:41 am

Parents unhappy with the prayer room at jihad academy should remove their children.

Interesting.
The public school system is chockers full of teachers who insist on the purity of the secular system and rail against any intrusion of Christianity on their patch.
You wonder how the Muesli prayer-room slipped through unnoticed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 8, 2024 11:01 am

Imagine this.
A cohort of Catholic kids insist on a separate Catholic prayer room at their High School and use it to pray the rosary five times a day, and recruit other kids to anti-abortion protests.
Could happen.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 8, 2024 11:07 am

“Mental illness” is just another trope intended to disguise the real nature of Islam.

The whole concept of Islam is insane. Sadly, politicians of all colors ignore this because -votes. And don’t rock the boat.

The invasion started by Fraser continues..

KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 11:11 am

A cohort of Catholic kids insist on a separate Catholic prayer room at their High School and use it to pray the rosary five times a day, and recruit other kids to anti-abortion protests.

Could happen.

Actually, it not only could but should happen, but Christians are too timid and forgiving, I have given up the search for the meaning of the universe and God and everything.

To be honest the Old testament appeals to me more and more, none of this mamby pamby, offer the other cheek. You hit me, I hit back ten times more, suits me fine.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 8, 2024 11:12 am

To be honest the Old testament appeals to me more and more, none of this mamby pamby, offer the other cheek.

Yes I must admit that I find the New Testament prissy.

m0nty
m0nty
May 8, 2024 11:13 am

I am glad Bruce and cohenite are now coming to terms with the strong possibility of Vonshitzenpants going to gaol.

Bruce is still at the bargaining stage and cohenite is stuck on anger, as usual. At least they are on the path to acceptance.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2024 11:18 am
KevinM
KevinM
May 8, 2024 11:19 am

Parents unhappy with the prayer room at jihad academy should remove their children.

Why???
Public school is sort of public?
NO?
We pay for it, why let a section of the community, be it small at the moment but with a powerful voice, dominate or dictate how it should operate?
.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
May 8, 2024 11:21 am

the strong possibility of Vonshitzenpants going to gaol.

Ok Monty, can you show us on the doll where the bad man touched you.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
May 8, 2024 11:25 am

the strong possibility of Vonshitzenpants going to gaol.

Crikey, what has Biden done now? What have I missed?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 8, 2024 11:27 am

Ten’s attempt to uncover whether Bruce Lehrmann had secret financial backersSteve ZemekNCA NewsWire
Wed, 8 May 2024 9:11AM

Not Supplied Credit: News Corp Australia

Bruce Lehrmann did not have secret financial backers funding his failed defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson, a court has heard.
The highly-publicised matter returned to the Federal Court on Tuesday morning as Justice Michael Lee works his way through making a decision on the payment of Ten’s and Ms Wilkinson’s legal costs in light of Lehrmann’s bruising loss.
Justice Michael Lee found – on the balance of probabilities – that Lehrmann had raped Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House in March 2019 while they were both working for Senator Linda Reynolds.
Lehrmann sued after claiming he was defamed by Ms Wilkinson’s interview with Ms Higgins on The Project, however Justice Lee upheld the broadcaster’s truth defence.

Justice Lee will now hand down a decision on the payment of Network 10 and Ms Wilkinson’s legal bills – and he is due to hand down his costs judgment on Friday afternoon at 2.15pm.
Justice Lee previously told the court late that there would be a costs order in Ten’s favour.
As part of their efforts to recover their legal costs from Lehrmann, Network 10 was allowed to issue a notice to produce aimed at finding out if the ex-Liberal staffer had financial backers.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 8, 2024 11:38 am

Milko still banging your missus mutley, its Wednesday, has he moved in. Must be embarrassing.

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