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Not surprising. The current Polish government are lefty and globalist.
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He knows that we need to keep those 7 year olds in the Congo “employed”. He’s doing them a favour.
Keir Starmer has come out as “non-spinary”. Absolutely awesome!
Interestingly at a time when smoking has never had lower uptake. Certainly in Australia.
The cost of a packet brings on various ailments on those beyond reform, though.
I’m a confirmed cigar smoker, I’m smoking at the moment. And I suffer from none of the fashionable ailments mentioned. Maybe smoking cigars is healthy. Certainly vegan!
TB fell as lung cancer rates rose. China and the Middle East have very high rates of smoking but lung cancer rates are not dramatically higher.
Smoking has nothing to do with lung cancer.
I dunno cigars and pipes generally lead to oral and mouth cancers. Many a smoker feels great today.
Of course, not in everyone, but it was more fun before the poor house was a bigger concern than health.
YMMV.
Another SIEV.
I don’t know whether it is me but does it seem these stories are being buried down the news page now?
Unlike 10 years ago.
The way the world is going, it looks like they will try memory hole the holocaust too.
Already happening. Forget about Holocaust deniers, we now have Holocaust ignoramuses.
None of them have drowned yet.
So steadfast they did a runner to the other side of the world.
Re bogus cinnamon (FTB at 5.24 am):
True – the stuff at the supermarket described as ‘cinnamon’ is a pale shadow of the real thing when it comes to flavour and intensity.
I use imported cinnamon from Holland (Kaneel made by Albert Heijn) and it is vastly superior and much more concentrated. I estimate that you only need about a fifth as much to get a comparable amount of flavour, and much better flavour at that.
The Ambrook article and the research paper from The Journal of Drug Research in Ayurvedic Sciences point out that both Cinnamomum verum and Cinnamomum cassia belong to the “Cinnamomum Family”.
If you want the super strong flavour for cooking you select Cinnamomum cassia (as a stick/quill it is a hard, curled piece of bark); if you want the more subtle spice from Sri Lanka, select Cinnamomum verum (as a stick/quill it is a fragile, multi layered 5 cm piece of bark)
Beware of possible high levels of ‘coumarin’ in Cinnamomum cassia.
I saw something yesterday that hasn’t happened here for a few years.
A pair of letterboxes laid out their dog mats in the forecourt of the surf club and proceeded to do the Allah bobble. The forecourt is always packed with people carrying boards and boats from the club and using the showers.
Penny’s finest are obviously feeling victorious.
This occurred regularly a couple of years ago when four would turn up. They gave up when it became obvious that they were not going to provoke a reaction. The Club soon fitted more cameras.
Obviously they were doing the bidding of some unseen muzzy thug.
It is interesting that these people would target our little town. They are not locals. The only muzzies here run the worlds best Malay restaurant and spend more time in the bar than on their knees.
A little scary though.
From time to time they “have a go” – but not in the Australian tradition. Recall all those years ago when they decided to “make their presence felt” in “The Shire” by pissing in family picnic baskets in Gunnamatta Park & provoking the lifesavers on Cronulla Beach. This provoked a very nasty interlude only curtailed, as I recall, when the Muzzie mothers confiscated their sons’ car keys. The NSW police were totally ineffective – in fact, seemingly more sympathetic (or afraid?) towards the Muzzies. This was dissected some time ago by some very goos article in Quadrant.
I imagine NSW Plod is afraid it may break out again. Probably not in the beach suburbs, however.
Easily fixed by a little gas-fired barbecue and a lot of pork products.
and a couple of incontinent dogs allowed to run loose. 😀
Mr Mashni said that “settler colonists” such as Israel and “the system here” bomb land.
“Indigenous people don’t do that,” he said.
“Israel and Australia share two things in common, aside from being a sh*thole, racist, settler colony, that’s the number one thing, they also have the highest incidence of skin cancer.
“Their skin is designed for Northern Europe, where there is not much sun so you need to be white so you get extra vitamin D.
“But our skin is designed for this land, it’s designed for the Middle East. Not to say Judaism isn’t connected to the land.”
I’ll just preface this by saying that the above screed is racist to its core. Mashni is an insidious, sinister, lying, racist thug. He also has a long and unsavoury past, which includes a police record.
Note Mashni’s caveat, ‘Not to say Judaism isn’t connected to the land.”, Mashni is being deliberately sly here, he’s saying that whilst Judaism might be connected to the land, the Jewish people are not, and he’s implying, very clearly, that Jews of Ashkenazi (European) descent are not Semites but are descendants of Turkish Khazars, a theory long debunked but a favourite theory of rabid Jew haters. Of course, he deliberately avoids talking about Mizrachi Jews from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq and so on. All expelled after 1948, now that was a real ‘Nakba’.
On a more serious issue, this lying creep was given an audience by Senator Pong and the leftist media fawn over this racist creep. Yet they have the audacity to criticise us on the right. I am tired of the hypocrisy.
Oh and is Mashni implying that it is only ‘skin colour’ that proves your indigenousness? As an aside, my father and brother are very dark, almost as dark as Mashni. Oh and if ‘skin colour’ determines your indigenousness, where does that leave the likes of Michael Mansell, Marcus Stewart and other indigenous men and women who have whiter skin than I do?
By the way, the prophet of Islam was noted for his white skin.
A gem from the China Film Administration,
where too much is not enough.
Action-wise, it’s so bonkers it makes
Saving Private Ryan look like a Nora Ephron film.
The GayBC/Australian Bolshevik Collective calls in the Marxist pervert thought police:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/catholic-archbishop-julian-porteous-letter-to-parents-criticised/103838640
Correction: it is a central part of the Marxist pervert thought police.
TheirABC – predictable as ever.
The Catholic Archbishop of Hobart issued a letter about the attacks on traditional theology by the usual suspects. They quoted a few lines, and then launched into lengthy expressions of outrage from – the usual suspects.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/catholic-archbishop-julian-porteous-letter-to-parents-criticised/103838640
What is infuriating is that Porteous said, quite reasonably, that if parents disagreed with the Church’s teachings, they should enrol their children in schools more aligned to their beliefs. This set the would-be dictators into a frenzied rage. No, the Church should bend to their beliefs, otherwise it’s hatey-hatey.
As has been mentioned many times before, Muslim schools are strangely free from criticism for their much more rigid and punitive beliefs.
Cometh the raw prawns.
Climate Destroying Shrimp (13 May)
Bill Gates funds cow vaccine to reduce livestock ‘farts’ full of methane emissions to stop ‘climate change’ (12 May)
Pass me another prawn cocktail please.
The humble prawn is in my top three seafoods. Those 70s staples, garlic prawns and prawn cocktail (done properly) have aged very well indeed.
I patronised the Canberra Hyatt’s smorgasbord on several occasions, and always ended with mixed feelings. There were numerous yummy things available, but I ended up eating mainly their delicious, perfectly cooked, king prawns with cocktail sauce.
Garlic prawns have many variations, all good if done well. The now extinct Woodstock pizzeria in Canberra did a magnificent version, featuring a rich tomato and garlic sauce, served bubbling hot in cast iron bowls.
I need to stop before I start dribbling. 🙂
Bruce Lehrmann trial: Inquiry head Walter Sofronoff KC to face ACT Integrity Commission
Daily Mail
These dickheads, as lawyers, are not fit to tie Sofranoff’s bootlaces.
It’s the usual performative nonsense courtesy of people who didn’t get the result they wanted.
He will eat them for breakfast.
Hopefully this will see the dismantling of the ACT. It’s a long shot.
I say that the Palestinians in Australia did the best possible thing they could for their children; they got them out of that snake pit.
And then proceed to remake it here?
That is exactly what they intend to do. There is NO gratitude whatsoever or respect for those who threw them the rescue line. Only distain and hatred leading to eventual conflict. It is the same everywhere…
Bons get yourself a black dog and visit the surf club at the appropriate time.
“Where the Catholic system education system receives government funding, then I’m very concerned that we have government funding going to a school or to a system which condones this kind of breach of anti-discrimination laws.”
Remember when the alphabet people just wanted tolerance?
Mr Mashni said that “settler colonists” such as Israel and “the system here” bomb land.
Mashni is an arsehole but look at the dickheads around him:
People – Australia Palestine Advocacy Network – APAN
With the added bonus of spreading their sick cult into a Christian society. If you want to look at a malevolent colonization, Islam has been doing it for around 1500 years.
Well done the Archbishop in TAS. Looking forward to ABC articles about Islamic leaders views on similar subjects.
Islam now Albo’s highest priority – Politics, Policy, Political Views (politicom.com.au)
Here’s the reason:
https://www.muslimvotesmatter.com.au/
This is a site run by muslims; they say:
“The Muslim community is the largest, and among the fastest growing, minority groups in Australia.
Our collective voting bloc is the most valuable, yet underutilised, asset we have.
Muslim Votes Matter unlocks this highly influential tool which requires significant organisation, forward planning, and community mobilisation.
There are over 20 seats where the Muslim community collectively has the potential deciding vote. ”
ALL OF THOSE SEATS ARE ALP SEATS; except one held by Adam Bandt.
ALL OF THEM.
The alp is selling out Australia for political gain. As the muslim population grows social mayhem results. This is happening in every Western nation which has a muslim population; look at Sweden and France etc. This was all predicted by Dr Peter Hammond many years ago:
https://www.godreports.com/2015/09/how-islam-takes-over-countries/
I repeat: by importing muslims the alp is destroying this nation for short term political gain.
Calli mentioned earlier ‘Tirra Lilra by the River’, which is also the title of
a fine old Australian novel in the tradition of a woman’s search for identity, drawing its title from that piece of cultural literacy, ‘The Lady of Shallot’, Tennyson’s lovely poem which Calli also quoted in homage to the redolent header pic on this thread.
Some modern commentary says the poem can be used to depict ‘gender relations’ of past time when women were cloistered – and that may be true – but it depicts these relations more essentially – as the attraction of a woman to a man, for it is Lancelot’s manly presence that brings down the curse of death, a fate which befalls all those enchanted. This is a culturally deep tale from the cosmology of the ancient religion of river sprites, visitations of these to human births, and the resultant pleaded for and saved life became mythically lived only under a curse regarding its fulfilment in sexual love. The tension in these tales is always between the human and the divine. Tennyson’s poem shows this intense attraction of a human woman-sprite cursed, sick of living only in mirrored shadows of life, to a man’s ‘being’ so cleverly culturally and romantically evoked by these few stanzas of the longer tale.
The atavistic magic of banishment to an ‘otherworld’ found deep within pools, or within rivers, the mystery of the reflection of a human face, later to be a shining glass mirror, is strong here. Mirrors and combs for hair (another magical thing) were often found in heathen graves.
His broad clear brow in sunlight glow’d;
On burnish’d hooves his war-horse trode;
From underneath his helmet flow’d
His coal-black curls as on he rode,
As he rode down to Camelot.
From the bank and from the river
He flash’d into the crystal mirror,
‘Tirra lirra,’ by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro’ the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack’d from side to side;
‘The curse is come upon me!’ cried
The Lady of Shalott.
Perhaps.
But those who could and did leave left the future
of any Pali state in the hands of those who spawned
the PLO and hamarse.
Fun day at the pool.
Children evacuated from burning Sydney pool (Tele, paywalled)
Slightly ironic that the fire guys couldn’t just shove a hose in the swimming pool for water to put the fire out. Pouring water with lots of lovely electrolytes onto an electrical fire probably isn’t a wise choice.
Mashni is a migrant settler & a property developer.
I hope he’s “paying the rent.”
He’s a settler colonist
These people have no sense of their place in the scheme of things, just their place as they believe it to be due to them. No irony awareness at all.
They completely lack the capability to see themselves as they really are.
Put a few in the clink whilst you’re at it. Hun:
That last part is beyond the pale of any sane person. Pissing on the memory of those who have fallen to barbarians.
I wonder how many actual students are in this encampment. Get the fire hose out.
“The Muslim community is the largest, and among the fastest growing, minority groups in Australia.
Our collective voting bloc is the most valuable, yet underutilised, asset we have.
Muslim Votes Matter unlocks this highly influential tool which requires significant organisation, forward planning, and community mobilisation.
There are over 20 seats where the Muslim community collectively has the potential deciding vote. ”
They may be over-egging the pudding here. Hindus and Sikhs are numerous as well, although I haven’t been able to find figures specific to electorates. And, they loathe Muslims for very good reasons.
This public crowing might not be such a good idea. For one thing, it reveals Labor politicians for what they are – dedicated to power at all costs.
It also makes them look like puppets. Muppets, in fact.
We still have a chance to avoid the fate of the UK and some European countries. Let’s hope we make it.
Yes. Well said.
Nice one WSJ
Better enjoy Seinfeld before it gets cancelled.
“I’m Victoria, hi”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_6fZGSOQI
This is cope. Biden is the President. In reality, the WSJ is quite content with this Presidency but it has to produce material for its particular readership.
Biden is not the President.
The teleprompter is the President.
The author of the teleprompter script (Obama?) is the president. Creepy Joe is the resident
It’s Magic.
Stop coping guys.
Not cope. Reality. The guy has tofu in his skull right now. It’s elder abuse.
He keeps on repeating typographical instructions like “Pause” which no one with a working brain would do.
This is entirely explicable since the Bernie Bro far-left would be unelectable, but having a meat puppet to front for them lets them get their long cherished agenda up.
In Kurt Schlichter’s novels he had this scenario laid out long before it happened. The only thing he got wrong was to choose Elizabeth Warren as his demented woke President, not Joe.
Sure, but Biden in the lead up to the election, his first year and second year was able to play the part. For the most part, that is what Presidents do. We made excuses for Trump saying largely that his Presidency was undermined by his own choices and by the Deep State. The Deep State is the author of the teleprompter, or at least it establishes the bounds of whoever the author is.
I love Biden’s 80,000 strong rallies, they are just so amazing!
What is “cope”? You’re just randomly using that word now.
No one is doubting “Biden is the President.The point of the story is that Biden screws up nearly everything he touches.
“the WSJ is quite content with this Presidency but it has to produce material for its particular readership.”
The feelz thing crops up. You don’t read yet know exactly what’s being said on the editorial page.
No one is doubting, see above. But the point is that he’s still the President. If you can’t beat a ‘screw up’ or those that enthroned a screw up, what the hell are you laughing about?
This isn’t ‘feelz’ JC. A lot of what the WSJ wants its getting from Biden. They might belly ache in the editorial pages about Biden, but they’re still getting it.
Fair enough, but how do you beat Dementia when he’s still sitting in the Oval Office? The corrupt prick has been wrong on everything for the past 50 years, and that’s not an exaggeration.
You need to separate the political news, business news and the editorial pages of the WSJ.
While the editorial pages holds its nose withTrump they are critical in the extreme of Dementia’s failed presidency. They don’t treat Trump unfairly while being critical.
I don’t know why but of all the terrible things happening lately this one sticks.
North Lakes woman Emma Lovell was killed when a teenager, then 17, stabbed her in the chest after entering her home in the early hours of December 26, 2022.
Supreme Court Justice Tom Sullivan on Monday sentenced the teen, now 19 years old, to 14 years jail after finding the offence was “particularly heinous” in the circumstances. In sentencing him to 14 years, Justice Sullivan said 503 days the teen spent in pre-sentence custody was declared as time served. So with time already served, the teenager will be eligible for release after serving more than nine years – or 70 per cent of the sentence – behind bars. Prosecutors have pushed for a life sentence for the teenager, asking Justice Sullivan during a sentencing hearing on May 3 to find the offence “particularly heinous”. Crown prosecutor David Nardone argued the teenager’s “high culpability” during the crime was because he went armed with a knife to the Lovell home
.
The court was told after the fatal blow, Mr Lovell was also stabbed in the back, then forced to the ground and kicked in the face.
Justice Sullivan said the teenager when arrested lied that he had slept from 9pm that night, and told police: “My auntie lives in Zillmere. You go ring her, I’ve got a f**king alibi from 9’oclock to now”.
While detained outside the residence, the teen was seen laughing.
Justice Sullivan said the teenager was prepared to, and did, use a knife at the time he attempted to flee from the Lovell’s during the confrontation.
?“You could have, but did not, discard the knife before the fatal blow was dealt,” he said.
“You were prepared to use violence … the kicking of Mr Lovell’s head was gratuitous violence.
The court was told the teenager attributed his offending to the days-long drug binge he had been on before the offending.
Justice Sullivan said the teenager had also been given multiple court-imposed probation orders for other offences. The child had a lengthy criminal history prior to the murder, including 16 break-and-enters where two of the homes were occupied. Yet he was not in jail.
During a sentencing hearing on May 3, the court was told the teenager was just four months shy of turning 18 when he fatally stabbed Ms Lovell.
We live in the best country where there are individual freedoms/rights. But what is destroying this country is the alp/greens removal of individual responsibility. The 2 Rs go together: rights and responsibility. But the left has removed responsibility and replaced it with excuses like racism, colonialism, sexism etc. Result: breakdown in law and order and no respect for our country and its traditions.
This monster hid behind drug use and his upbringing. He should have got life and been named.
If only we banned knives!
If only we banned knives and screwdrivers!
If only we banned knives, screwdrivers and lumps of four by two, cricket bats, star pickets and bricks, crime would be eradicated!
I see Victorinox has made a start by designing a Swiss Army Knife which doesn’t have a knife.
My grandson was savagely assaulted (2 punches to his head from behind) by a professional boxer over two years ago. He suffered 2 breaks in his jaw and required specialist micro surgery. He was a champion athlete – rugby & track & field – but is still suffering from PTSD (the attack was not anticipated).
This attack took place during the Covid years. I am convinced that the social and psychological dislocation during those years greatly contributed to the increase in violence attacks that have now become a daily occurrence in our cities.
Hi Vicki
so sorry and disappointed about your grandson.
from experience it is the least threatening and those that radiate a good nature that this happens to.
dont use Covid as an excuse. It was the hysteria of hatred that was swelled by the alp and urged on by the media.
it was social hysteria.
i hope with time your sons recovers, builds his confidence and taken on the world.
The Left may not like Elon’s Twitter but he has quite a bit of impact in the real world.
GameStop Stock Surges Nearly 70% After “Roaring Kitty” Returns to X (14 May)
Yep a single X commenter made a company’s stock rise 110% just by posting one tweet. Heh, try ignoring the platform lefties, when it has that much market power.
Incredible numbers, particular Nevada.
Meaningless. All the action is in the steal.
After Dems Spent $30M to Flip Wisconsin Supreme Court, Ballot Boxes Will Come Back (13 May)
The fix is in. All we need now to know is if the election is close enough to steal, and what the two sides do as a consequence of that.
When are you going to start telling Republicans in the US to not bother voting?
When the Dems do Ft Sumter 2.0.
“We are looking at the tools that we have to respond to this,” he added. “We are also raising our concerns at the highest level of the Israeli government and it’s something that we make no bones about – this is completely and utterly unacceptable behaviour.”
No probs with the Hamas/Gazan Oct 7 massacre but “unacceptable behaviour ” when your Israeli ..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/total-outrage-white-house-condemns-israeli-settlers-attack-on-gaza-aid-trucks/ar-BB1mkt9P?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=490ad9d6bddf4ddaa4fe1896d4f80677&ei=53
Julie Inman Grant gets a one finger salute:
Gab Stands Firm Against Australia’s Censorship Demands (13 May)
Well done that man. Mzzz Inman Goebbels has no jurisdiction over you, she can piss up a wall.
“she can piss up a wall.”
Easier said than done. Try another metaphor.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/surely-this-rates-more-than-a-tiny-page-3-article.html
That got anything to do with this?
Ex-wife of former army lawyer David McBride makes call ahead of court battle (Tele, 14 May, not paywalled)
exclusive
State Labor MPs push ‘alternative proteins’ – tofu, bugs & algae – to replace meat days before live sheep ban
Josh ZimmermanThe West Australian
Tue, 14 May 2024 6:44AM
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Five WA Labor MPs recommended the Government provide more support for “alternative proteins” — such as tofu, insects and algae — just two days before it was confirmed live sheep exports would be banned from 2028.
The “discussion paper” was tabled to Parliament on the same day State Treasurer Rita Saffioti handed down her first Budget last week.
It was researched and authored by the Education and Health standing committee, which is chaired by Gosnells MP Chris Tallentire alongside Maylands MP Lisa Baker, Hillarys MP Caitlin Collins, Dawesville MP Lisa Munday and Pilbara MP Kevin Michel.
The report notes Australians eat twice the recommended amount of red meat — putting them at heightened risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease — and that livestock production “takes a toll on the environment” through the use large amounts of land and water, as well as “contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions”
Alternative proteins? That does not sound good.
aka Putting out the trash
Two smart ladies.
Daniela Camborne and Pippa Malmgren on China and Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65vWFBhZcYI
Some ABC article
No comment about the comment. Where is Meanjin? Is it a city in China? Did a quick search…it’s an Indigenous name for the land some of Brisbane is situated on. Wtf? So we are going there, are we? We’re going to be renaming our major cities with some Aboriginal name that was probably made up by some Aboriginal Inc committee with an extremely generous expenses budget a couple of minutes ago? Within 5 years you’ll mention Brisbane and some arsehole will make a point of expressly correcting you or doing it in a slightly (but not much) more subtle way, ie. responding with ‘oh yes I was in MEANJIN last year’ and say ‘Meanjin’ another 15 times in the next few sentences.
Well, I am going to do what I currently do when people pull that shit after I say ‘Bombay’, which they correct to ‘Mumbai’* – I’ll say ‘Bombay’ another 15 times in the next few sentences.
Incidentally, this is coming for every Australian city. The cat is out of the bag. The regional Aboriginal Incs across the country will think the Meanjin gambit is a great idea and get together to come up with alternative names to be used for each city, and the ABC types will clamour to use them profusely in order to show their virtue and allyship.
Hell, no. I will never say these names except when I’m taking the piss out of them.
I wonder – is this where we, the Australian people, draw the line? We didn’t with Ayers Rock, but virtually no one lives there and has any meaningful history with the place. Okay, Uluru, whatever. But I think it could well be different if the names of the places we were born in, lived in, raised families etc are on the chopping block.
*which they invariably pronounce incorrectly – I’ve been to India, been to Bombay, watched Indian TV…’Mumbai’ rhymes with ‘Bombay’. They just switch the ‘B’ for an ‘M’. Unlike other Indian cities which the British renamed and reverted back to their original names after the they buggered off, Bombay was founded and named by the Brits. So ‘Mumbai’ is just a Hindi version of ‘Bombay’ that sounds virtually the same when spoken.
Indians I’ve worked with typically say “Bombay” when speaking English, even those from Mumbai.
Beautiful crisp morning in Armidale: clear blue sky enlivened by chemtrails and evidences of HAARP weather manipulation – some clearly visible radiation beams apparently chasing aircraft flying north.
I’d bet this doesn’t get a mention in the media.
I have been reading about the theory of the HARP experiments. It most certainly is not from the MSM, though.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/21/germany-so-much-for-the-grown-up-country/&ved=2ahUKEwjxrc_8hYyGAxXqyDgGHZzuCzcQFnoECBoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2d0PezJSWWU12FMN2stMvd
A brilliant expose by Fraser Myers on how the risks of political consensus (uniparty) and one fascist demagogue (Merkel) destroyed Germany.
The parallels with SFL behaviour are terrifying.
oh yes the weather in Wakkarhmada is glorious, isn’t it? Quintessential Wakkarhmada weather for this time of year. I love living in Wakkarhmada. Don’t you love living in Wakkarhmada? Wakkarhmada for me!
China Behind One of the World’s ‘Largest Online Scams’ | China in Focus
Can’t manage hospitals, schools or crime.
Want to tell us what to eat.
Take a hike.
YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS!!!
AND YOU VILL BE HEPPY!
(I honestly can’t believe this is happening in my own State… how does GGF’d sound?)
State Labor MPs push ‘alternative proteins’ – tofu, bugs & algae – to replace meat days before live sheep ban
Firstly, these ‘state Labor MPs’ can go jump.
Secondly, I will not be eating bugs and algae.
Finally, I don’t mind a bit of tofu…occasionally, Japanese style.
Don’t be a Debbie downer.
Under Labor, Australia has the opportunity to be a global bugs and algae superpower. Live exports to the Middle East without the drama.
Add it to the list.
“State Labor MPs push ‘alternative proteins’ – tofu, bugs & algae – to replace meat days before live sheep ban”
That’s SO yesterday!
The big thing now is lab grown meat – cultured animal cells.
The US allows it, some parts of Europe are banning it.
If you wanted to, you could eat this and it wouldn’t be “cruel” to animals, so would it be fine for vegetarians and/or vegans?
Given the solar & wind factory precedent we could clear the Great Barrier Reef to grow the algae 😉 :-O
Small problem.
Bugs are Haram.
[Small problem…get it?]
😀
It better not be a big problem.
I should watch Starship Troopers again. I wonder how they’d taste?
On the subject of Mooslimes claiming that they, in effect, control 30HoR seats, that is unlikely to go down well in many nearby seats currently held by the Liars.
Our aside the Hindu and Sikh voters, plenty of “normies” are less than impressed with that style of triumphalism and the arrogance it demonstrates. The Liars might later come to regret tying their future to an arrogant ethnic and religious minority.
Whistleblower jailed for almost six years after leaking files to the ABC over alleged Afghanistan war crimes
Daily Mail.
Wow he lives on Garden Point – I am super impressed. AIUI that is the entire area covered by the name Meanjin.
First Rule of democratic lower house fight club is you do not talk about the democratic lower house fight club.
Repeat First Rule until its understood by Labor. And then have the Wong chap explain it to Albo.
David McBride sentenced to five years, eight months jail for leaking classified military documents
By ben packham
Former army legal officer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months jail, with a non-parole period of 27 months, for stealing classified Defence secrets and sharing them with journalists.
ACT Supreme Court Justice David Mossop found McBride had committed a “gross breach of trust” and had shown “no contrition for his offending”.
McBride’s supporters cried “shame on you” as Justice Massop delivered the sentence, which his legal team vowed to appeal.
Justice Mossop said McBride was “not such a bad lawyer” that he could have genuinely believed he was not committing a crime.
“He hoped that his conduct would ultimately be somehow vindicated. That is very different from an honest belief no offence was occurring,” he said.
The principle of “general deterrence” was key in formulating the penalty, Justice Mossop said, noting “self-confident people with strong opinions” needed to be deterred from making unlawful disclosures.
Ahead of the sentence, McBride declared he had “never been so proud to be an Australian”.
“I may have broken the law, but I did not break my oath to the people of Australia, and the soldiers who keep us safe,” he said as he entered the court.
McBride – who serviced two tours in Afghanistan – leaked the classified documents to the ABC, which used them to produce its 2017 Afghan Files reports alleging a cover-up of war crimes by Australian soldiers.
The judge said McBride’s conduct had caused significant harm to the commonwealth by releasing Defence secrets, including its rules of engagement in Afghanistan.
He said Australia’s foreign partners had to be informed of the leak, which may have “reduced their willingness to share information with Australia”.
Justice Mossop said the release of the information risked informing Australia’s adversaries on the ADF’s use of force and its limitations, offering them a “technical advantage”.
The former army major pleaded guilty in November to three charges of stealing and unlawfully sharing secret information, after Justice Mossop struck out his planned defence that he was doing his duty as an army officer.
The court heard McBride believed the ADF was undertaking “illegal” and “overzealous” murder investigations into serving soldiers who had killed captured Afghans while defending themselves.
He believed such investigations were of a “political nature”, and made a complaint to the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force. But the IGADF found McBride’s complaint could not be substantiated.
The court heard McBride stole 235 Defence documents from his workplace, 207 of were marked “secret”, storing them in plastic tubs in his Canberra house.
On one occasion in 2016, when he was moving house, the documents remained in the tubs in the lounge room during a real estate inspection.
“Unsurprisingly, this did not comply with the Commonwealth government’s policy and storage of information bearing protective marking secret,” Justice Mossop said.
He said “secret” and “top secret” security classifications were designed to protect material that, should it be released, “could be expected to cause serious damage” to the national interest or loss of life.
The court heard McBride leaked secret documents to three journalists including the ABC’s Dan Oakes.
The journalist told a “totally different story to the one I was pushing”, said McBride, who was furious at the suggestion that Australia’s special forces “kill people unnecessarily”.
Justice Mossop said he accepted McBride was of good character but said he had become “obsessed with the correctness of his own feelings” to the point that he was unable to comprehend when his views may have been incorrect.
He found his conduct was honourable only to the extent that it was not motivated by financial gain or to assist to Australia’s adversaries.
The Human Rights Law Centre said the sentence represented a “dark day for democracy”.
“The imprisonment of a whistleblower will have a grave chilling effect on potential truth-tellers,” the centre’s Kieran Pender said.
“Our democracy suffers when people can’t speak up about potential wrongdoing. There is no public interest in prosecuting whistleblowers.”
As I’ve suggested.
Also, if you look at the recent UK local elections, the big story was the defection of a significant portion of Labour’s traditional Muslim vote to the radical left – Islamo-Greens, Independents and Galloway’s mob. The lesson being that once you start indulging this voter bloc, their demands become more extreme and when you can’t meet them, they defect.
What/where is this “Meanjin” of which they speak?
Those who’ve booked a flight from Perth to Brisbane, may find they’re instead boarding a flight to Turrbal.
It’s a bad magazine?
OK, OK, details.
Algae, then.
Look, this is broad brush thinking here, adding $329 billion to GDP plus 232,900 well-paying jobs.
You forgot fungus.
Could eating bug powder and fungus meat help fight climate change? Yes, but there are easier ways (Phys.org, 2022)
What I’d give for a kelp burger right now! I am salivating already.
To serve two years, three months.
The court heard McBride leaked secret documents to three journalists including the ABC’s Dan Oakes.
The journalist told a “totally different story to the one I was pushing”, said McBride, who was furious at the suggestion that Australia’s special forces “kill people unnecessarily”.
The section in bold explains why the ACT Supreme Court threw him in jail.
Whistleblowers are protected only if their information suits the ever so precious narrative. Their ABC twisted the story to do just that.
Sad to hear ..! some disgusting “fan” berating that loveable Soufs personality, Latrine, with the sort of “blek” taunts that Sam Kerr excels at &, of course, in keeping with “proud” 251 tradition the offender is being soundly “boo-ed” whilst “Sam” is applauded cos her ‘victim was “plod” .. it’s not who you “blek” but the ethnicity you “blek” …..
https://au.sports.yahoo.com/wighton-calls-racism-alleged-mitchell-024037382.html
The court heard McBride believed the ADF was undertaking “illegal” and “overzealous” murder investigations into serving soldiers who had killed captured Afghans while defending themselves.
He believed such investigations were of a “political nature”, and made a complaint to the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force. But the IGADF found McBride’s complaint could not be substantiated.
The court heard McBride stole 235 Defence documents from his workplace, 207 of were marked “secret”, storing them in plastic tubs in his Canberra house.
So, McBride leaked documents that supported the “misdemeanours”? That is, argued that they were not, in fact, misdemeanours? A confusing report.
I suspect McBride is a martyr to a good cause viz the destruction of our enemies. However, the IDF hierarchy doesn’t see it that way.
I understand that the IDF are having a hard time recruiting.
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Wilkie blasts Labor for ‘punishing’ whistleblowerStaff writers
Independent MP and staunch David McBride supporter Andrew Wilkie has criticised Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus for not exercising his powers to keep Mr McBride out of jail while accusing the government of not practising what they preach.
Mr Wilkie alleged that the decision of the Labor government to not intervene was to dissuade further whistleblowers in the future.
“I tell you why the government behaved this way,” he said. “Because governments, be they LNP or Labor, hate whistleblowers. They hate people speaking up. They hate people shining a light on official misconduct.
“They consistently want to punish the whistleblower, and they consistently want to send a message to would-be whistleblowers to not cause problems for governments. That’s how I explain it today.”
Former army legal officer McBride, 60, was today sentenced to five years and eight months jail, with a non-parole period of 27 months, for stealing classified Defence secrets and sharing them with journalists.
ACT Supreme Court Justice David Mossop found McBride had committed a “gross breach of trust” and had shown “no contrition for his offending”.
Mr Wilkie later said governments have said in the past that “whistleblowers have there place in a democracy, and they should have some protection..
“But frankly that looks more and more like lip service when this government has no interest in proving the protections in the Corporations Act, and has shown little interest in proving the protections in the Public Disclosure Act,” Mr Wilkie said.
“Instead the Attorney-General chose not to intervene. We’ve got to understand here that the Attorney-General has the legal power to intervene in a case like this. He has a responsibility to intervene in a case like this,” he said.
“The federal Attorney-General chose not to and the result being that we had this astonishing turn of events today, where not only was the first Australian to front a court for war crimes a whistleblower, but he is also the first person to go to jail for war crimes as a whistleblower.
“This is a shameful day for the Australian government. I wish Mr McBride strength as he goes through his prison sentence and I criticise the court in no way. The court merely applied the law.”
– Jordan
McBride and two other military lawyers have been pushing for years for an investigation into senior command accountability for any war crimes in Afghanistan.
If you accept the Brereton investigation findings as Chief of Defence does then how come such war crimes were being committed over several years but no senior officer was aware and took any action.
One aspect you will never see mentioned in the newspaper articles or Brereton investigation is what aerial surveillance saw in real time and recorded. In one major outdoor “incident” involving BRS there was a RAAF drone and Orion aircraft (13 crew) overhead. Simply not possible they did not see what happened. However if they did then goes right to the top in terms of accountability.
If interested I recommend the Twitter account of ex military lawyer Major Stuart McCarthy (go back to September just after BRS defamation case ended). I have heard McCarthy say the investigating journalists were told by Defence “Corporal not Generals”.
Labor getting desperate in Qld. Placing blame on Federal govt. Myles and Treasurer Dick are demanding that Albanese govt. cut immigration as Qld cannot cope with the population growth. Ignore the fact that Myles took over the town planning for the Redlands because he had a intense dislike for former mayor. He pushed more housing and smaller blocks despite the council being update for the demand that the govt. mandated. No increase in infrastracture spending of any kind. Needless to day major problems in that one area and all caused by Labor, in particular Myles.
U.N. Cuts Gaza Death Toll Figures by Half, Confirming Hamas Is Lying About Casualties
Anyone else shocked? No?
Lying Hamarse Liars lie. News at seven.
Just spitballing here you understand… but maybe that’s why the authorities were sitting on the information you leaked, because it could be twisted by people with agendas?
The Free Beacon report is a misrepresentation. Disappointing I know.
Now tell us about this marvelous facility where the 10,000 plus bodies are being stored, and why they can’t tell the difference between a child sized corpse and that of an adult.
Not to mention getting around the Muslim laws regarding rapid burial.
McBride gets binned and the hack got an Order of Australia. The system works!
McBride ruling : Leaks like this may stop allies sharing intelligence.
Like the US withholding intelligence from Israel?
McBride was done over, with the help of the ABC, because he said the it wasn’t the guys on the ground fault, but the shiny bums and the rules of engagement they put in place.
Zat
JD Vance is the number two pick in the betting after Scott. He’d make a great VP and eventually Prez. Very bright dude.
https://electionbettingodds.com/RepublicanVicePresident_2024.html
I think Trump could do better than the fave, Scott.
Trump needs someone to hold his hand when making appointments. The last crop were disasters.
JC
I’m generally against taking known good guys out of houses with tight margins, which describes the US Senate even more than the US House of Representatives. The Reps have shot themselves in the foot many more times than once doing that.
That being said, if I had to pick a Rep Senator for VP either of them would do but Scott is a solid player who would probably attract more minority votes.
On the other hand, Vance is a heck of a success story. A hillbilly kid born and raised dirt poor in the coal country of the Appalachians, enlisted Marine combat veteran who returns, goes to college, then a prestigious law school, and eventually the Senate. Inspiring and extremely competent.
I’m still a big fan of Ramaswamy as well. If he doesn’t get picked for VP he’d make an excellent Chief of Staff or head of the Office of Management and Budget where he could swing a big machete and go nuts eliminating deadwood agencies and people.
I’d be willing to give Sen Ted Cruz to be Attorney General. Gawd, I’d pay for tickets to watch him clean up the DoJ.
Trump is really spoiled with the choices. There are some incredibly good candidates on the GOP.
Incredible numbers, particular Nevada.
They are incredible because they show that a large minority of the population still prefers the senile pervert. Whether this is due to the stupidity of people or the impact of the msm or both, I don’t know.
I suspect both your reasons are valid and are intrinsically linked. The stupid read, listen, see and believe MSM… They fundamentally never know anything else.
It’s both, Cronkite. We see it here too, with the rusted-on.
There are still a bunch of shy voters unwilling to divulge and perhaps even tell pollsters they are voting for the child molester. And remember, Republicans are being hunted, so the shy Trump voter figure could be between 5% and 10%. Be conservative and add 5% to his lead.
He could actually take New York. Even California will see a narrowing. The con artist governor can’t explain $20 billion expenditure, and most likely the money was stolen.
“I think Trump could do better than the fave, Scott.”
VP is presumably, but not certainly, the successor – DJT only has one more term, don’t forget.Other posts are also, err, interesting.
What about AG? Kash Patel please! He’s seen all the Nunes stuff and was a prosecutor in the DoJ, so he knows where the skeletons are.
Sec State? Ramaswamy – so he can “learn the ropes” of how the deep state works, make some contacts etc etc. With that info/training, he’d make a great Prez.
I’d pick Patel for Sec State, Ramaswamy for Chief of Staff or OMB, and Cruz for AG.
I’d have them all on my selection team for the rest of the billets though.
And I’d be raiding successful businesses for their CEOs to take 4 year sabbaticals to serve in my administration.
CEOs love to serve.
They can sell their holdings tax free when they take up their role.
This is one of the reason the Kennedy’s started to get so involved in ambassadorships.
Same tax shield without a patch of the work or scrutiny.
They are buried. Did you miss the IDF digging up graves at Al Shifa hospital looking for dead hostages? If they found any we would know by now.
So how are Hamarse/the UN (same-same) going to identify them? I doubt that the Hamarse forensic service is up to the job.
JD Vance is the number two pick in the betting after Scott. He’d make a great VP and eventually Prez. Very bright dude.
Ramaswamy is the best, most incisive commentator in the race.
He’d make a damn good VP.
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
And he’s young too.
As well as ‘of colour’. All good vote catchers.
Budget 2024: Labor to Invest $288 Million into Rolling out the National Digital IDThe digital ID system will make cybersecurity ’simpler, safer, and more secure,’ says Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.
It cost then $175m to fix some issues in the Vic electricity reading thingy. $ 288m??? Lol. That’ll be the IBM/Accenture sign on fee… ex. GST.
$288m to fix the ‘glitch’ that enabled MyGov accounts to be used for siphoning peoples tax refunds to scammers bank accounts: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/how-to-spot-text-email-phone-tax-scams/102778352
The more we rely on Digital IDs the more we are likely to be scammed since Govt folks never connect the dots until big $$$ has been stolen.
’simpler, safer, and more secure,’
If that phrase doesn’t make you shudder and immediately believe the opposite – may Greta visit your dreams. And stay. FOREVER!
I’ve read a couple of articles on the left side saying that if Dementia can’t pull up in the polls and therefore even the cheating won’t get him over the line, the Demons should install Crooked Hilary into the slot at the convention.
I’m not sure even the Democrats would try that one on.
Yeah, the same rumour mills put out Michell Obama as the dark horse, so to speak.
Hillary is one of the most hated women in America, by both sides.
Michelle might give Trump a good fight.
The Kenyan’s husband has ruled himself out. S/he has said, quite empathically, that s/he’s not interested. I said several months ago when there was speculation here that Michael would run. She’s too lazy to do so and not interested.
Well that’s what a true very dark horse would say…. 😉
A draft horse.
Nigel Farage
No More Lockdowns
It would be a hard pick between the two, at least as presidential candidates.But for VP, I believe Vance has an inspiring CV while Vivek would be needed in a very important executive role like Homeland. If anyone can fix the border once and for all, it would be him.
A few things Baris has been saying over the last week or so.
1) RFK jr is no longer taking votes from Trump in key regions (WI, MI, MN). Remember the national polls for RFK jr don’t matter, it’s all about which states he’s dragging votes off Trump.
2) In some regions the black vote for Trump is up to 25%.
RFK just admitted that he literally had a “brain worm” some time back. This unfortunately explains some of his more bizarre positions.
Dems might still vote for him though as mental acuity isn’t high on their list of requirements.
You can’t have an addict in a position of such power.
He wasn’t a heroin addict for 14 years.
He still is an addict that just doesn’t use.
Wow.
He’s lost all the drift from from the GOP side after he came out and said he supported abortion up to even the point of birth. He walked it back the next day, but the damage on the GOP side of things is permanent. The only votes he’s get are from the Demons.
Keel, Trumpster is ~78. I think this time around, he needs someone that people would perceive as easily slotting into the big chair if the dude goes to heaven.
Every word is true.
@Jules31415
Trump: “There’s no fraud here. There’s no crime here. This is 4 weeks of keeping me from campaigning…He’s a corrupt judge, and he’s a conflicted judge, and he oughta let us go out and campaign and get rid of this scam…There’s no case here.”
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: UNC’s board just unanimously abolished the entire DEI department and transferred all funds to campus police.
The UNC frat boys won.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7GAg8sWDpI
Why Middle Eastern Countries won’t accept Palestinian refugees.
RFK reminds me a lot of the stupid son in the series, Succession, who wanted to be president.
To be clear, addicts can do many things and function very well in positions with a lot responsibility.
You just don’t want them at the top of a decision making tree with real power.
The Oval Office being one of them.
Too true.
I don’t think he would take it, but never say never. There was talk of Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary under Trump. I don’t think it would work though.
Tulsi sec defence.
John Yoo AG.
JC> Jamie is not that dumb and not that poor (money, rep, connections, …) that being Treasury Sec would be any kind of promotion. I imagine he has been invited to the white house previously and said nevermore!.
I do like Vikranthaswannies but he’s still too green and shoots from the hip without thinking. He’ll have a go at POTUS another day…
I mean, this does go to show how smart and quick DJT is that he shoots from the hip always, and he’s always pretty spot on.
Scott is ok I guess… a bit dry but VPOTUS isn’t that high a profile gig and he’s certainly better than the Karmaliar.
Maybe Vance is the way to go… we’ll see soon enough…
Did McBride -always- say he did it to exonerate troops?
The fact that news of a secret new petrol tax just leaked out in CA isn’t doing the Dems much good either there either.
$.50 per gallon increase in state petrol tax in 2025, followed by another in 2026. Yeah, that’s a winner.
Brendon O’Neil compares that insufferable little bitch greta with Eden Golan, the Israeli-Russian 20-year-old who sang for Israel in the Eurovision finals in Malmo.
Queen Greta has exposed the truth about the green movement (telegraph.co.uk)
Pity this could not have happened to that bastard de niro:
Actor Steve Buscemi Assaulted in Random Attack in Crime-Ridden New York City | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim H?ft
Hey, at least this time he wasn’t fed head first in the wood chipper. Be thankful.
You know, Trump is capable of assembling a fantastic administration. It could knock the ball right out the park.
The energy issue would essentially be resolved, and it would be fascinating to see the enormous possibilities created by productivity gains resulting from robotics and AI. China will be completely rooted if robotics and artificial intelligence get significant traction, as there will be no need to outsource most manufacturing. It would return home.
We saw gains of enormous magnitude in the 90s when the internet was being set up. In certain quarters, we were witnessing non-inflationary growth rates of 5% plus. Only developing nations that are headed in the right direction exhibit these growth rates. It could potentially be an incredible time save for potential negatives like Taiwan etc.
In terms of turning things back and righting the ship, several people have suggested that it’s impossible because Trump is one man. Obviously, it’s true that he is one man, but it’s also missing the fact that this one man would be hiring others, and they would be hiring more like-minded people. It’s not really one person.
Attached is the best take on McBride.
Not the most complete, but the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYYIVoCvsM
Yes, it is friendlyjordies.
And it’s a case of forget the messenger, remember the message.
Which is exactly what a lot of former DNC donors are now publicly saying in relation to Trump.
Cohenite, they made a movie about your cute owls.
It’s in the Foxtel movie store at the moment.
“Love Lies Bleeding”.
It’s got that Kristen Stewart bird in it.
Can you post a review, Wolfman style once you watch it?
Thelma and Louise on steroids meet The 50 Foot Woman.
Forgot about the Hulk.
Speaking of Kristen Stewart, she’s in a movie called Underwater.
One of the scariest movies I’ve seen in years.
Will give you nightmares.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, 12 mins.
Don’t just gaze at her, listen to her.
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1784264775574188371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1784264775574188371%7Ctwgr%5Ef28ade57875acaa35a77a4015febe1ed4cbb833c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.steynonline.com%2F14303%2Fdiversity-is-our-death
It’s funny as letterboxes don’t even seem to attend evening prayers at mosques but feel the need to pray in public places.
Are you certain that they were women under those robes?
feelthebern
May 14, 2024 4:34 pm
Cohenite, they made a movie about your cute owls.
It’s in the Foxtel movie store at the moment.
“Love Lies Bleeding”.
Forget that lesso crap. Here’s a real cute owl
What a lovely pair of b-b-b-b-b-b-big b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bblue eyes!
That’s an A.I. image, Cronkite.
Fake
Cohenite, re: Queen Greta has exposed the truth about the green movement
Any chance you can post the full article?
Queen Greta has exposed the truth about the green movement
Any chance you can post the full article?
So, Greta Thunberg has a new cause. She’s found a new crusade to throw her weight behind. Forget saving the planet – now she wants to save Palestine.
Yes, the pint-sized prophetess of doom has swapped raging against industrialism for raging against Israel. Mother Nature will just have to wait – her erstwhile valiant defender is busy fixing the Middle East now.
Yesterday, Greta was snapped at the protest in Malmo, Sweden against Israel’s inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest.
She looked the part. She had a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders and a smug look on her face: the two must-haves of every puffed-up bourgeois activist who gets off on fuming against Israel.
The keffiyeh really has become the uniform of the self-righteous. Go into a hip coffee shop or overpriced Soho burger joint and I guarantee you’ll see a Gen Z’er decked out in the Palestinian scarf.
Whatever happened to the sin of “cultural appropriation”? Not long ago, the right-on raged against white dudes who wear their hair in dreadlocks and white women who don kominos. “Stop stealing other people’s culture!”, they’d yell. Yet now they themselves spend their days in Arab attire.
That image of Greta in Malmo, looking very satisfied with herself, summed up the role the keffiyeh plays in the life of the 21st-century activist. Keffiyeh-wearing is less about drawing attention to the plight of the Palestinians than drawing attention to you. Look at me in my Arab garb, aren’t I good and hyper socially aware – that’s the needy cry of these hipster appropriators.
Yet beneath their radical chic, darker sentiments lurk. Their boilerplate hatred for Israel can have horrible consequences. So while young Greta was signalling her virtue on the streets of Malmo, another young woman was holed up in her hotel room for fear of mob assault.
It was Eden Golan, the Israeli-Russian 20-year-old who sang for Israel in the Eurovision finals in Malmo.
Golan’s inclusion in Eurovision sickened the anti-Israel protesters. Israel, they said, must be given the boot over its “genocide in Gaza” – their juvenile and historically illiterate term for Israel’s war against Hamas.
A mob even swarmed around the hotel Ms Golan was staying in. She received death threats. Things were so bad that she was warned not to leave her room. She was given a 24-hour security detail.
Is this really “progressive activism”? It looks more like bullying to me. The bullying of a young woman by a baying mob of Israel-bashers.
How galling that Greta should have been in the thick of such a regressive protest. This is someone who has spoken out about her own experiences of bullying. Who has said that women in the public eye get too much flak.
Yet now she preens at a protest that has had the consequence, intentional or otherwise, of filling a young woman with such dread that she has essentially become a prisoner in her own hotel.
We might call this woke privilege. Because Greta subscribes to chattering-class correct-think on every issue – climate change, transgenderism, Israel – she is granted the freedom to go about her business as she sees fit.
Ms Golan, on the other hand, is denied such basic liberty. Her national heritage, her devotion to her homeland, marks her out as morally suspect. And thus she must hide. “Shame!”, protesters shouted, as if she were a modern-day witch deserving of a dunking.
It is tempting to see Greta’s conversion from the climate-change cult to the anti-Israel religion as just bandwagon-jumping.
Perhaps her saviour complex, her burning sense of virtue, just needs a new outlet. So, like others of her generation, she ditches climate and trans and all the rest and moves on to “Palestine solidarity”. That’s the issue on which you can really make moral waves these days.
But I think there’s something else going on, too. The truth is that climate activism and anti-Israel agitation are very comfy bedfellows. There are even some creepy commonalities between green agitation and Israel’s greatest ideological foe: radical Islam.
Both, at root, represent a disgust with modernity. Both the privileged Western weepers over industrial society and the Islamist haters of Israel share an aversion to the modern world, to progress, to Enlightenment itself.
Hence we can even have a situation where Muslim activists who yell “Allahu Akbar” can be elected as councillors for the Green Party.
The upper-middle class recycling obsessive in Hampstead might seem a million miles from the bearded radical who publicly sings the praises of Allah – but they share an instinctive revulsion for capitalist society. One sees it as a crime against Mother Nature, the other as an affront to Muhammad.
To both sides, Israel is the pinnacle of the modernity they hate. A young, confident, entrepreneurial nation that rendered the desert a land of plenty? Boo. Hiss. Cast its people from our social circles.
So it makes sense that Greta has temporarily ditched Gaia for Gaza. For this crisis, too, furnishes her with an opportunity to advertise her pious rejection of the modern world.
The Doom Pixie reduced to Xenophon lite stunts. Sad.
The Doom Pixie reduced to Xenophon lite stunts. Sad.
More of a doom goblin, I’d have said.
So it makes sense that Greta has temporarily ditched Gaia for Gaza.
Sounds as though she is searching for that elusive “G” spot.
Typo. Some staffer put in a “z” instead of an “i” and the rest is history.
Racist xenophobes.
On Budget night it is easy to become despondent. It is important at these times to take a minute to laugh in the face of all that ails you. In that spirit, take a moment to revisit what now seems a golden age, the 2012-13 Budget speech.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8hZ0wxSUV0
The airport is in the bit of Brisbane called Turrbal by whichever local mob settled that area.
Despite having no written language, the local indigs just know that the modern spelling of “Toorbul Point” is wrong.
You want to hear what Goldman Sachs just said (Bidenomics is a Failure)
JC
May 14, 2024 4:07 pm
Bwah ha ha ha.
They are neck and neck in the fruitloop stakes.
Piss off you silly bitch.
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Danger Dane Reviews:
Albo would love to ban this video. Anthony Albanese Elon Musk Julie Inman Grant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSV28Aqla5M
Remarkable likeness!
By this yardstick, flights to Narrm, Eora, & other such places are about to become a whole lot more confusing.
Can’t wait for the day someone ends up in Adelaide when they thought they were flying from Cairns to Rockhampton, or something.
Early this morning I rang my mother to check on her. She remains in hospital. She was incoherent and rambling about how she hadn’t slept all night and how she’d had had the most terrible headache throughout the night. I could tell she’d been given drugs to help her headache. I couldn’t make any sense out of her so, being concerned, I decided to take the day off. I spoke to my sister and she said she would leave her work early and come to the hospital. My sister and I wanted to speak to the doctor.
Mum’s fall two weeks ago had torn flesh off her arm and leg. It was a very severe fall. Because of its seriousness of the damage to her leg and arm, it is taking a long time to heal, probably normal for a woman in her eighties. Anyway, I arrived at the hospital, her eyes lit up seeing me, however I noticed she was ‘odd’. The nurses are truly marvellous, and patient. The doctor came and he examined her. He asked her about her headache, he’d seen her about 8.30 last night and he said to her that she was fine when he was there. She said…”oh yes, the headache started when I saw that ghastly Meghan on television”. The nurse, the doctor and I all said…”who?”, to which my mother babbled “that ghastly Meghan Markle’, she’s just dreadful”. I looked at the doctor and nurse who were both trying not to laugh. and then I started laughing out loud.
I’m looking forward to my 80s (Deo volente).
The things I’ll get away with saying!
Remarkable likeness!
At least the Nazi chick is pretty.
Comes from Instapundit here:
https://instapundit.com/646968/
Putting her against the other young woman, you can’t help but think “Is Greta actually normal”?
It’s starting to happen here too.
Why banks are starting to limit cash withdrawals and deposits!
Jackie Lambie has become a caricature of a politician. She is now insisting, in her usual manner, on free sports coverage for everyone. Since when is watching sport a human right?
Nancy Pelosi yet again reveals Democrats’ disdain for average Americans
Farage Launches Campaign Against Pandemic Treaty and to ‘Take Back Control’ From the World Health Organization
‘Muslim Terrorists Are in Our Midst’: Florida Imam Calls for Annihilation of All Jews
But we must have a non violent way of settling our differences! say some.
There’s a significant fraction of our society who will refuse to accept reality even as the knife slashes across their windpipe.
Earlier:
That’s not whistleblowing, that’s just theft.
If you compound that idiocy with a) giving those secrets to journalists, and b) believing they will use them honourably, then you are clearly the sort of person who goes to the shops wearing a onesie.
With a backpack. With a strap over each shoulder.
I believe the term ‘army legal officer’ goes a long way to explaining this.
Inman Grant gets taken to the woodshed by Federal beak…
Federal court eviscerates eSafety Commissioner’s takedown order against X, claiming it would interfere with ‘comity of nations’ (Sky News, 14 May)
You may have an ego the size of a planet, but you don’t rule this planet. Go back to your WEF doghouse lady and lick your well deserved wounds. And leave us in peace.
On a different note, I was talking to a friend in the US who works in the timber industry and I asked him about the mysterious notion of sustainability.
Him,
Sustainable harvesting programs started in the 1950s, increasing tree growth ever since.
The US is greening up, more forest now than at the time of the first pilgrims.
Question is, we take all the progressive crap and every fad from the
US, why not this?
Ukraine War EXPOSES 30 Years Of Western Double Standards | Prof. Dr. Alfred de Zayas
Spending $288M to securely bolt the MyGov/ATO stable door after 500M++ has already bolted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/ato-reveals-cost-of-mygov-tax-identity-crime-fraud/102632572
Might not have happened if the refunds were collected in cash with passport or similar ID checks required …
I’d wager there are more trees in eastern Australia now than when the First Fleet arrived, outer suburban fringe clearing (which is a problem for fauna) notwithstanding.
Explorers and early settlers described (and occasionally painted) a park like landscape rather than virgin forest, which we now know was the result of indigenous burning practices.
That was my first thought, how naive, to be charitable, do you have to be to believe that journos won’t pursue their own agenda and use your info to accommodate same?
You keep posting this, Indolent, but the Tories have already said they won’t sign the treaty as is as it impinges on UK sovereignty.
Um, Labour will. And they’re going to win the election.
But Farage isn’t campaigning for Labour votes.
His vote comes from Red Tories.
To present it without mentioning the Tory position is either ignorant or disingenuous.
Red Tories as in commie Tories? Yep, that’s pretty accurate. Except Farage is actually taking them from the Blue Tories, who are fed up with the way the Tory elites have betrayed them.
The Conservative Party is dead, of suicide. Bury it, then salt the earth. They’ve turned into a whole party of Teals, and are now solidly leftist.
The bit the UK are objecting to is the requirement for them to give over 30% of their vaccinations in the event of a new fauxdemic.
Otherwise, I understood they were in lock step.
Is that even possible these days?
Panem et circenses!
It’s been a while but here’s The Punisher doing the laundry. He needs to do another load at the Whitehouse:
THE PUNISHER: DIRTY LAUNDRY [BOOTLEG UNIVERSE] (youtube.com)
Vandals attack colonial statue of former Tasmanian premier William Crowther on eve of court ruling
By matthew denholm
A controversial statue of a colonial-era premier has been significantly damaged on the eve of a court ruling about whether it should be removed.
The large statue of Tasmania’s William Crowther, in Hobart’s Franklin Square, has been vandalised, with its legs cut through at least halfway, apparently by grinding equipment.
A planning tribunal is expected on Wednesday to rule whether or not the statue can be removed, after a Hobart City Council decision to topple it was appealed by Crowther defenders.
It appeared someone could not await the outcome, with the statue’s legs cut so far through the council is understood to be concerned it may be unstable.
Hobart councillors are understood to have been advised of “significant damage” to the statue, and that an investigation is underway involving Tasmania Police.
Last year, the council’s planning committee voted to approve the council’s own application to remove the statue, over concerns about Crowther’s alleged role in mutilating an Aboriginal corpse.
Crowther, a surgeon noted for his work for the poor but also as a bone hunter, was in 1869 accused of removing and stealing the skull from the corpse of Aboriginal man William Lanne – a claim he denied.
Removal of the statue would be the first toppling of a monument to an Australian premier, amid the global push to remove symbols of colonialism.
The legal challenge before the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal argued the removal decision was based on incomplete and false heritage information.
One of the councillors opposed to the statue’s removal, Louise Elliot, on Tuesday condemned the attack.
“The statue was paid for by the people of Hobart in 1880s and the people of Hobart have again be fighting to save it,“ Ms Elliot said.
“I have no doubt that the pathetic hypocrites behind this vandalism believe themselves to be kind and tolerant, when it’s clear they’re blinded by their moral righteousness.
“The arrogance to think that you can destroy public property for your own narrow minded activism is astounding. It’s terrible to know that the council I’m a part of has fuelled this division.”
Former alderman Jeff Briscoe, who took the appeal with others, including a Crowther descendant, blamed a “misleading campaign” for “directly” provoking the vandalism.
“It is very sad news for the heritage of Hobart and the future of heritage sculptures throughout Australia,” Mr Briscoe said.
“It is especially upsetting to the community as it occurred on the eve of the decision from our appeal … the activists should be rightly condemned.”
Opponents of the statue’s removal argue Crowther was never proved to be involved in the Lanne mutilation, while others were implicated, and that rather than remove the statue interpretative material should be added.
However supporters of the statue’s downfall, including the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, argue there is little doubt Crowther was involved in the mutilation and his statue is a constant, painful reminder of the abuses suffered by Indigenous people.
The TAC was on Tuesday contacted for comment.
Perhaps they should have a posthumous trial with standard rules of evidence applied (i.e. no hearsay) and all parties in agreement to abide by the verdict.
Oi, she’s an expert at economics, computer software and psychology!
‘Mind your pennies’: Jacqui Lambie issues warning ahead of federal budget (Sky News, 13 May)
Senator compares social media addiction to drug use in emotional plea (Sky News,13 May)
Jacqui Lambie throws support behind banning social media for young children amid concerns for kids’ mental health (Sky News, 13 May)
Ok, yes, it was Sunday and Sky News needs filler for their political shows. Who better than the Mouth from the South?
(On the other hand I pretty much agree with her, so there’s that. 😀 )
The Hun:
Fair enough. Happens all the time.
That trial gives Victoriastani high country people a bad image. We all want to take to annoying Boomers with a shotgun from time to time but Society says you can’t.
Budget night and I want to see what Shorten is doing to rein in the Rolls Royce NDIS. For 2 years he’s been blah blah ing about the rorting with cruises, pet grooming, ipads, etc.
Meanwhile people dealing with everyday pain can’t get the once off surgery they desperately need.
When shopping, most days it’s not hard to pick an NDIS carer in the supermarket one on one aiding a recipient. Country cannot afford it
This is rapidly becoming the Celebrity Defence (the Tele):
For a start, I’m not confident that given enough overt premeditation, anyone should be able to resort to this stupid legislation as any sort of shield.
However, in the (very) rare cases where this could conceivably apply, TV dickheads like Andrew O’Keeffe, Michael Slater and now Kent are wiping this defence out.
The footage of Kent trying to take on some other dude out the front of a pub – presumably strengthened by the knowledge he’s regularly on the telly aside rugby league players – and ending upside down at the base of a tree is the only comfort I can take from this.
That Paul Kent stoush is piss poor. I saw better hen slap and claps when I was on the pub door.
and ending upside down at the base of a tree is the only comfort I can take from this.
Some funny farker interviewed the tree for his TikTok channel.
This is what the internet is meant for.
Random facts (apologies if already posted):
Between October 7 [2023] and May 12, Israel facilitated transportation of 27,775 trucks carrying 531,160 tons of humanitarian aid to Gazans, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies.
[Source: FDD].
“Sandhurst graduate” can serve only to compound the error.
Russell Broadbent on the Bureau of Statistics fiddling with excess deaths figures.
Australians can handle the truth
eSafety Commissioner’s ideological attack on free speech | Australia Censored
Nigel Farage: Populism is on the march, elite loathe common people | Carl Higbie FRONTLINE
Budget night and I want to see what Shorten is doing to rein in the Rolls Royce NDIS.
Has the NDIS Lounge in Lakemba made it onto social media yet?
Currently doing the WhatsApp group rounds.
Budgets should be reported pre & post Future Fund.
When all the pots are added up (it’s not just the Future Fund these days) it’s up near 300bill.
Depending on what forecasts & accounting trickery you use, it’s a 20bill plus non-cash swing factor.
I will wait for someone else to read the budget docs to see what the positive impact the Future Fund has on the budget bottom line.
Dr. John Campbell
Vaccine injury update
Budgets are like herpes. You get infected whether you like it or not. There’s no cure. You have to live with them. And you hate the person who gave it to you. Looking at you Jim.
Liberty Quote.
On Sagrada Familia
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1790033823243046998?t=8ugKAtrfGDhSxJ-i2gj7OA&s=19
NDIS .. I bumped into a Financial Planner a few days ago, who told me there is good money to be made in buying off-the-plan properties and offering the completed product to NDIS for accomodation.
Reckons people are being pushed out of various institutions and NDIS is paying up to $90,000 per person to have them accomodated in residential housing/apartment/town houses.
Has anyone else heard this, is it possibly true?
What on earth are we paying for and how can we possibly afford this level of generousity?
We can’t.
That’s the whole idea of the NDIS – Julia brought it in to bankrupt the country and turn us against each other
It’s a standard Fabian tactic.
Tip of the iceberg.
I know a boxing trainer who gets 40% of their work from “clients” via the government now.
And governments are now paying sex workers to toss the nutters off every month or so. Because it’s a human right or something.
Bring back Victorian style lunatic asylums I say.
Absolutely true and rife atm in Albany WA. “Carers” using the “windfall” to buy off road caravans…and bog them on soft, sandy beaches, but that’s another story.
What is this thing with the Treasurer bringing his family to his budget presentation? When did that start and why?
The family can certainly sit in the gallery but why must they be shown trudging through the corridors of the Parliament House with him?
Human shields?
Yes, what is this thing? Politicians parading families, chortling, congratulating themselves – untouched, far from the over-burdened and the homeless.
On Sagrada Familia
It’s huge and hideous. Inside and out. I am reasonably objective about this. I’ve seen plenty of cathedrals but never anything as ugly as this one.
You’d expect to see the Addams Family standing on the front steps.
Sorry, but that building is ugliness embossed in stone.
Labor are full of shite – treasurer Gomer Pile says that mums can stay longer with her new born rd the super gaurantee on govt paid maternity leave.
so why ship off children today care when mums are doing useless tasks such as making a sandwich.
child care workers are extremely skilled as they are looking after future generations and deserve further pay rises.
Good news for Georgians.
Something slipped in the budget not many noticed.
Compulsory Student Union membership is back.
That’s a “good get, Dunk” uptick, not a “hurrah for the red and white” one.
Turbo Cancer | Full Measure (youtube.com)
Net Zero Watch: The wheels are coming off the narrative of fear
Jim Chalmers,Paul Murray, Joe Hilderbrand, should t be allowed to talk about budgets. Albo might be ousted before end of year.
Biden 2.0 – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Actually obama 4.0
Courage begets courage on campus
‘There’s Never Been A Country Or State Called Palestine’: DeSantis Rips Pro-Palestinian Protesters
DrBeauGan
May 14, 2024 9:49 pm
Never seen it in the flesh so to speak, but I have my doubts about a religion that needs an elaborate, fancy, ostentation building to worship its God.
As I search for the 42 I’m more inclined to the simple protestant version, still not convinced BTW.
Agree!
Feels like the process is under way.
Wallet Wizards handout budget is his downpayment for a run at the top job. Not sure what reason is needed to formally dump albo but one will be found … or we can leave him in the job and just ignore him like Major Major in Catch 22.
Crossie
May 14, 2024 9:35 pm
Same as sporting heroes, celebrities. Share the limelight, the only one they may ever get.
I bet they save all the photos too for the family album.
Convention used to be that a politician only wheeled out the wife and kids if they’d been cautioned for biffo with a constituent, or caught shagging the secretary.
And how can you credibly invoke the alchoholic and/or closet homosexual plea that you want to “spend more time with the family” if they’re always haunting you, clip-clopping around the halls of parliament in brand spanking Osh Kosh and Colette Dinnigan gear?
On Gaudi’s masterpiece, love it or hate it, you have to marvel at the elliptical engineering that allows the incredible, soaring height without any buttressing.
All the columns lean into each other, shifting the downward force in a curve around the column rather than horizontally. It really is amazing. The columns are faced with granite, and the four central “evangelist” columns with porphyry.
The glass is simple and bright, befitting the modern Spain. It the morning there is a forest or ocean-like luminescence on the columns, in the afternoon the setting sun roars through the warm toned glass like a fire.
As for beautiful places of worship, the same religion that gives us Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s also gives us the beehive monk’s cell and remote monastery. The austere cassock and the ornamented stole.
In other travellers tales…driving in Portugal.
Toll roads are electronic. Trying to pay after the fact is a nightmare.
Apparently it’s a major issue with tourism here. It seems to me an excellent vehicle (pardon the pun) for government extortion.
I have just spent two hours on the phone trying to pay a road toll. I have only one day in Portugal.
No one seems to want my money. At least until the fine appears. Apparently it is a major problem here for tourists.
Governments. There is nothing, nothing at all that they can’t mess up.
I found the link below (copied awkwardly on phone, so hopefully it’s complete). My reading is you can’t pay manually until 48 hours after passing the control (why nobody wants your money?) and must be paid within 5 days; gives list of places / methods to pay. Good luck.
https://www.guerin.pt/en/blog/driving-tips/pay-tolls/#:~:text=You
Thanks, you champion! Hopefully I can pay before I’m in some remote place in the High Atlas!
There’s always a Practical Cat with a solution to every problem. 🙂
Can’t recall tolls in Portugal. We must have been driving on different roads or this is a new highway. But in USA I recall we obtained a device when we rented the car.
Eastern Europe has a better system, you check in at the border control, register your car number plates and a credit card, they do the rest.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
God is omnipresent, as he/she must be, so you can pray anywhere you like as the muslims are showing by spreading their praying mat 5 times a day at any convenient place..
I fully understand that worshipers need an all weather place to congregate, I also admit that it might as well be a nice one.
But for whose benefit?
Does God demand it or is it human pride and desire to show the world how rich and powerful you are?
Which is supposed to be a sin BTW, well sort of, not quite up to date on the list of sins yet.
I don’t discount the possibility that many of these edifices were built to glorify man and not God. Everything we do has the taint of sin, even our best intentions (Isaiah 64:6).
That’s one thing you’ll always trip over in scripture – our unworthiness. How you respond to that inescapable truth is what counts.
Men build temples to themselves to stand for all time it is only right that they also build them to the God they worship. Those buildings are witness to history as well as mankind’s dedication to its creator.
I think there is a yearning in men’s hearts to seek God, even if they don’t know him. Gaudi’s cathedral has always fascinated me, I really would like to see it for myself one day.
But as a believer I accept what St Paul said in Athens in Acts 17, “the God who made the world an everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.” Against all the temples and statues to deities in ancient Greece, Paul is saying God can be known apart from all that – for Paul that was by knowing or being known by the resurrected Jesus as Son of God.
I prefer simple church buildings but can understand why people want to lift their thoughts above the horizontal to the divine and heavenly.
Having said all that, I agree with the former Anglican Dean of Sydney who once described St Andrew’s Cathedral as a “rain shelter”.
Pride is generally considered to be the blackest of sins.
Hubristic pride along with malicious envy — two of the deadliest sins and Malcolm Turnbull is a great practitioner of both.
Right there, Tinta. Grew up with it, manifested itself in a narcissistic mother. Centre of the universe till the day she died.
BoN is usually first out of the blocks with this stuff…but I’m currently watching the dills from CNN and we now have a new climate horror. Zombie fires!
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/14/homepage/video/zombie-wildfires-canada-digvid
Morn all.
Guess I’ll read about wallet wizard’s budget today more. I didn’t bother as I really couldn’t care less at the fluff but I’ll take a stab at what it probably delivered or not.
A Claytons surplus, more debt but dressed up off the books or not onto them till well into the next term.
Rewards for maaates e.g. unions, professional women (Cleaners & part timer lower working women will get F all) and lefty interest groups.
More taxes.
More growth in government.
There’s only one rule that big government and its useful idiots in politics never break: every year government must get bigger.
Not only the Liars, but the SFLs have demonstrated they don’t give a stuff about the Australian Big Brother that big government is creating.
Costello’s legacy was a debt-free federal government by 2007, but by 2022 after nine years in power, the SFLs had crucified us with government debt approaching $1 trillion, creating the perfect excuse for the Liars to go ahead and bankrupt the country.
Janet Albrechtsen gives is good ‘n’ hard:
Forget the legal advice, what about some moral courage
The Gaza solidarity encampments at Australian universities reveal two things that may have slipped many people’s attention. First, free speech laws in this country are a bugger’s muddle. Second, too many vice-chancellors, paid more than $1m to lead our most esteemed universities, behave like low-level bureaucrats.
While some university chancellors, led by Jennifer Westacott, are honourably calling out anti-Semitism, vice-chancellors are frequently a far cry from the calibre that taxpayers and students deserve.
Once we understand the institutional failures in our legal system and our universities, it’s important to get the response right. We are in this mess because vice-chancellors, along with many others, have forgotten the important distinction between law and morality in a free and civilised society.
Vice-chancellors are meant to be well-educated folk. Universities are funded by taxpayers to be bastions of intellectual thought. This should mean university leaders, above others, are well-equipped and well-placed to explain the difference between law and morality.
Not everything that is illegal is immoral – a parking fine, for example. And, in a liberal democracy, not everything morally wrong should be prohibited by law. Much of what is called hate speech is a prime example.
University leaders should know better than most that the law – the most blunt of objects – is not always the right enforcer. Courts can credibly enforce only clear unambiguous laws. The problem with many laws on hate speech is they are subjective, unclear and essentially seek to enforce feelings, not facts. So it should come as no surprise that they are widely regarded as a dangerous joke dependent in large part on the whim of the presiding judge.
That said, university leaders should realise that limits on free speech are not solely, or even primarily, legal but moral.
Whether or not it is legal to call for “intifada” – a phrase that unequivocally threatens Jews – is not the point. It is immoral and it should therefore be condemned in the strongest terms.
The next, and separate, question is what consequences should flow from such behaviour. Universities frequently attach consequences to conduct that is legal but undesirable. Look at their fervour when policing what they deem disrespectful language. Mankind has been banned, to say nothing of pronoun crimes and misdemeanours. In other words, universities often sanction speech even when it’s not unlawful.
If universities find themselves between a rock and a hard place, it’s their own doing.
For many years their intellectual appetite has not stretched beyond low-hanging fruit. They have erected a superstructure dedicated to eliminating microaggressions in pursuit of what they dub their “equity, diversity and inclusion” project. Their websites are full of every conceivable, and inconceivable, codes of conduct governing behaviour on campus.
There are policies about gendered language, offering tips for students and staff to ensure they do not offend others by using the wrong pronouns. There are policies about “culturally inclusive calendars” too. And so on and so on and so on.
Monash University’s website boasts that its “Equity, Diversity and Anti-discrimination Policy suite strengthens the University’s commitment to providing an equitable and inclusive environment for students and staff.” Tell that to Jewish students on the receiving end of anti-Semitic bile at Monash last week.
The failure to act against anti-Semitism reveals that the EDI project is a crock.
A leader who understands the role of morality in a civilised society would understand that if you run a university, consequences should attach to anti-Semitism irrespective of its legality because it is immoral and because it threatens the safety of students and the proper, peaceful functioning of the university.
If university VCs keep mimicking low-level bureaucrats, hiding behind laws rather than showing moral leadership, their pay should reflect that. Last week, in a public show of cowardice, VCs from the nation’s grand old universities asked federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus for legal advice. They wanted to know whether protesters chanting “intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” breach our anti-discrimination laws.
The letter written by University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott and University of Adelaide vice-chancellor Peter Hoj on behalf of the Group of 8 universities says: “In possession of authoritative, definitive and enforceable advice, our universities would act immediately to prevent the use of these phrases on campus.”
Quite rightly, Dreyfus told them to get their own legal advice.
Before they shell out for that, VCs could exercise some inner moral judgment, gratis.
It pains me that universities where I studied – Adelaide and Sydney – where we have so many family ties, are now run by VCs who have made this about law when it is about moral fibre.
Students have been suspended in the past for far less than anti-Semitism.
For example, Hoj was VC at University of Queensland when anti-communist activist Drew Pavlou was suspended for two years for breaching the university’s student integrity and misconduct policy. Pavlou had made public criticisms of UQ’s ties to Beijing.
The moral lapse by university leaders right now is even harder to bear given the legal mess. At one end of the spectrum, laws that attach legal consequences to hurt feelings have produced nothing good for the country. The application and shadow effect of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has turbocharged identity politics, victimhood and cancel culture. Witness the current litigation between Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi and One Nation senator Pauline Hanson.
At the other end of the legal spectrum are laws that prohibit incitement to violence. Incitement to violence is objective, identifiable and well understood. Such laws are necessary for public safety. Appropriately they are criminal in nature and attract severe penalties.
However, the current laws are woefully weak and subject to a “good faith” defence. This is madness. How can one ever incite violence “in good faith”?
Confusion about our laws does not get the vice-chancellors off the moral hook.
On the contrary, when laws are confusing, all the more reason for university leaders to use the power and force of moral condemnation to stop hate speech and anti-Semitism on their campuses.
The problem with VCs predates these student encampments. Once university leaders allowed academics to spout anti-Semitism in the lecture room, it would inevitably spread on to campus lawns. These same university leaders now stand before us helpless, hapless and pathetic.
At La Trobe University, provost Robert Pike told staff via an email last Wednesday that if protesters entered lecture rooms, “allow them to share the information they wish to”.
Pike said staff might wish to cancel the class and reschedule.
We should never forget that at a meeting of the nation’s university chancellors on May 2, this group of highly educated university leaders who routinely brag about their equity and inclusion policies couldn’t collectively agree to condemn anti-Semitic protests and further commit to suspending students for that misconduct.
Last weekend Westacott spoke out, followed by University of Western Australia chancellor Robert French and UQ chancellor Peter Varghese. But most chancellors – and vice-chancellors – remain hidden behind laws, muttering unconvincingly about free speech and uttering weasel words that all forms of racism are nasty. You don’t say.
Right now, the issue is anti-Semitism. Is that so hard to say that with meaning – and consequences? Some of these jokers don’t deserve top billing at a comedy club, let alone at a university.
Ep 494 – RFK (feat. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NqrWr3XhII
This just dropped.
Posting before watching.
This will not be safe for work.
I expect clips of this to be across social media over the next 24 hours putting more nails in the RFK Jr coffin.
One of my favourite Israeli youtubers is ‘Oren aka travelingIsraeli’.
Oren has just posted this wonderful Israeli song which encapsulates the essence of Israel and the Jewish people and why Israel will survive and the Jewish people, despite the Jew haters across the world, including scum like our very own PM and his sidekick Pong, will survive too…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkdf35GDzI
I just can’t get my head around how pathetic people can be to blames Jews for their own failures. Nothing has changed. This is one and only one of many reasons that Israel and Jews will survive. They’ve had thousands of years of practice. The more I hear of your Mother, Cassie, the more I like her. I’m beginning to think my MiL is Jewish. They are very similar in outlook. A similar age, my MiL is starting to make jokes about dying. Along the lines of not having to worry about writing checks. Still sends the grandchildren checks for their birthdays. Although her father died relatively young, her aunts and uncles all lived well over 100. Give my best to your mum.
I put cash in my grandkids’ birthday cards and everyone is happy.
This Lady truly deserves the handle “Tough Muvva”.
https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1789755628031811595
Labor
Subsidising multi-nationals to build useless renewables and then using taxes to subsidise consumers to cope with the “cheapest” electricity.
The electrical energy sector is now officially nationalised as is the old Labor way. The LNP sat back and watched.
That about sums it up. LNP should go one further when they win the election and formally buy all the power companies back, it will at least keep control within Australia. The same must go with water.
We have given privatisation a go thinking it would lead to more efficiency and less waste and all we got was crony capitalism via subsidies.
Eurotrash & Canadian pensio funds as well.
Agreed on the last statement too.
Haha, a new portrait of King Charles is out – it looks like he’s been standing beside Michael Caine and Stanley Baker at the last defense of the mealy bags.
New King Charles portrait decoded by art expert who reveals hidden meanings (14 May)
Saliva Ukrazi!
Somebody’s off their hormones.
Excellent clip via Michael Smith.
I would add the anti-semitism being perpetrated now, also.
https://twitter.com/KatKanada_TM/status/1790254572885377241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1790254572885377241%7Ctwgr%5Ee86783a09a1123101e6608e0a3be4f3a89b053a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
Sad budget, Jim, threw us some of our own money back on electricity but forgot this ……..
That reminds me, the Archibald Prize happens sometime soon…
There will be portraits galore of the painters’ favourite anti-semites.
France in shock after brazen ambushers kill two police and free murderous crime boss The Fly
By jacquelin magnay
An extraordinarily brazen attack on a prison van, leaving two police dead and others wounded and freeing French crime boss Mohamed Amra, known as La Mouche (“The Fly”), has shocked France, with just 72 days to the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony
President Emmanuel Macron was horrified at the attack saying it “comes to a shock to us all”.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has instituted widespread powers to stop and search in a bid to find the killers, saying the “French Republic has come under attack”.
Several hundred police officers and gendarmes have been ordered into the manhunt.
‘They will pay’ – French PM after prison van attackAt least two French prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured on Tuesday (May 14) after…
Two police officers were killed in cold blood and another three injured, with two fighting for their lives in a critical condition, when six heavily armed men with machine guns surrounded the prison van and accompanying police vehicle near the Incarville toll both on the A145 motorway near Rouen in northern France.
Security footage reveals the astonishing daylight operation where a black car was driving the wrong way, swerving traffic, and then rammed the van as it went through the toll booth. The armed black-hooded assailants appeared from behind a large yellow truck.
After killing the police in the van and firing at the police car behind, disabling the officers, the gang then freed the crime boss, who was serving a life sentence, shepherding him into another vehicle.
Eyewitnesses Yvon and Jerome Barbier said the death toll could have been much higher because bullets were flying. They mistakenly believed it was the police shooting at drug traffickers as they drove past.
Incredibly during the entire two-minute operation, vehicles continued to move through the toll booths. Footage taken from inside a moving bus shows two hooded men with machine guns moving around the van.
Does the French legal system still provide for use of the guillotine?
Thanks once again Tom.
All that yummy copper just sitting there…
Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar (15 May)
The decentralization of the charging network makes it worse. It’s harder to steal petrol since it is in a bunker below ground, and a guy with a phone is watching you from the sales counter.
And since copper is needed in large quantities for the new Planet-saving electrification-of-everything the price is going to go up and up. Which will make it even yummier to steal. Catch 22 and all that.
LNP should go one further when they win the election and formally buy all the power companies back, it will at least keep control within Australia.
Fine, but you need to ban unions and/or declare them an essential industry and ban any form of industrial (in) action. After all the workers are employed by a benevolent government which surely wouldn’t do anything to hurt them.
The UN needs to be shut down.
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1790489060433097089
No need to do anything aggressive, just withhold funding and it all goes away.
More narrative collapse: Fewer than one-in-five Ukrainian ‘refugees’ living in Germany are working, because it’s simply ‘not worth it’
What cost of living crisis? Jim Chalmers’ wife wears stylish $1,900 Carla Zampatti outfit as she supports her husband handing down the Budget
Daily Mail
And , no doubt, the family travel’accomodation was paid by the mug taxpayers, as well …!
Doesn’t fit, shoulder keeps falling down.