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This week Anduril announced they were spending $US1bill in Ohio to build a new manufacturing plant. They’re a private defence…
They joined in the murders and rapes, they supported and voted for Hamas. The bill is due. It is quite…
Early 1970s K Mart gun ad:
Please not “Richter”. All earthquakes now are reported in moment magnitude scale. Same idea as Richter regarding logarithmic scale but…
Hawthorn racism scandal won’t proceed. Fell over.
Caroline Wilson of course pushing the barrow. Piss orf darling
Not new but new to me.
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1756561127557718286
The war in Ukraine is co-incidentally a landgrab by multinationals and money-earner for Blackrock.
Saw the Carl Vinson up close in Gage Roads off Perth. 87 I think. Impressive. The pilots off her were the ones in Top Gun.
Not all USN Pilots are graduates of “Top Gun” at Miramar.
No doubt some were on board, probably 2 or 3 per Squadron.
The RAAF has a similar course.
I spent 24 hours on USS America, (CV-66), whilst I was in Mogadishu, 1993/94.
I saw 3 launches and 3 recoveries during that period, including 1 night recovery.
The Flight Deck is a VERY busy and dangerous place, on board a carrier.
Very impressive, as you say.
The Officers and sailors on board were all very accomodating and welcoming. They showed us all over the ship, from top to bottom.
We were even introduced to the Captain, who gave us a brief on how operations are brought together.
I had a tour of the USS America when she was in Sydney Harbour on Vietnam R & R 1969 .. You have to see firsthand one of these “biggies’ to believe them ..!
She carried more combat aircraft than the entire RAAF at the time plus her crew numbers surpassed more than half of the entire RAAF enlistment ..
And she was one of the 4 active US carriers in the late 60s …
Close GreyRanga. Carl Vinson was off Freo in December 1986. She was also there in 1994 and then came to Hobart for 5 days. The Liberal Speaker of the House, Rene Hidding is a friend of mine and we sponsored a squadron of Jet Jockies who secured two adjoining rooms on the river side of the Grand Chancellor Hotel. We hosted them to many places over the 5 days including a day in Parliament where Rene recognised them from the Speakers chair and had their names included in Hansards.
They, in turn, gave us a cooks tour of the ship.
A great experience.
E-things go e-boom in Sydney’s big old e-fires
Here’s a little known fact: more people have been killed in fires started by lithium-ion batteries than by nuclear power. Yet which one do the greenies want no part of?
Tim Blair
One thing in favour of bicycles: they very rarely catch fire.
Even the earliest bikes were largely flame-resistant, despite being made from wood. Had he wanted to set his timber-framed 1817 creation ablaze, bicycle inventor Karl von Drais would’ve basically had to throw the accursed machine on a bonfire, just like a common witch.
The same goes for the earliest non-motorised scooters, which were nothing more than wheels and planks. A few were presumably repurposed as firewood during the Great Depression, but hipsters can still find many unburned and functioning examples on eBay.
Bikes and scooters remained pretty much immune to immolation right up until relatively recently, when a few bright sparks added electric propulsion and lithium ion batteries to the two-wheeled equation.
Revenue-wise, this was a brilliant move. A Mordor Intelligence study puts Australia’s e-bike market size at nearly $100m. Globally, Grand View Research says the e-scooter market last year hit $55.7bn.
Serious coin, then. But the boom in e-bike and e-scooter sales is matched by massively enhanced career opportunities in the fields of fire suppression, household evacuation and emergency medical care.
Consider just a few media reports this year of Sydney e-fires:
January 19: “Several people have been lucky to escape with their lives after a faulty e-bike battery sparked a fire that engulfed a Sydney beachside apartment block.
“The e-bike had been left on to charge in a bedroom overnight, prompting warnings from fire authorities of the risks posed by lithium-ion batteries.”
March 14: “An e-bike burst into flames in an apartment block in Bankstown in Sydney’s southwest.
“It is believed the fire occurred after the e-bike’s battery, which was plugged into a generator device, went into thermal runaway … a second lithium-ion battery, believed to be from an e-scooter or e-bike, caught fire in the back of a garbage truck in Silverwater in Sydney’s west.”
May 23: “Four people have escaped an intense house fire, possibly caused by an e-scooter on charge, at Narraweena.” And on Sunday, Chippendale apartments were evacuated after a battery went thermal at a e-bike rental joint.
NSW Fire and Rescue’s Bryce Jonas told the Daily Mail: “We were struggling to find the source of the fire, but after some perseverance we managed to find an electric bike battery burning at the back of the store.” It’s always a safe bet.
Speaking of safety, nuclear is about as safe as a large-scale energy source can be, yet anti-atomic panic merchants keep pushing the near-exhausted “you wouldn’t want them in your backyard” line.
These clowns are more concerned about the infinitesimal risk of future Australian nuclear disasters than they are about lithium-ion fires happening right now in NSW at a rate, according to authorities, of nearly six per week.
Those Chippendale apartment residents had a more personal perspective. Many, the Mail reported, were furious that a business that charged lithium-ion batteries was allowed to operate beneath a residential block.
Said one: “Electric bikes are good for the environment, but you have to think about your neighbours.”
That’s a generous way of looking at things, but the people pushing lithium-ion batteries aren’t really interested in anybody’s neighbours or even in people generally. Their battery enthusiasm arises from religious devotion.
“Lithium-ion batteries are the critical pillar in a fossil fuel-free economy,” a 2021 United Nations paper declared.
“The use of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and stationary storage systems has indeed reduced greenhouse gas emissions by replacing combustion engines.”
And by erasing humans.
As I reported back in March, data collated by Australian emergency responder advisory firm EV Firesafe indicates that 36 people were killed worldwide by lithium-ion battery fires in just the first half of 2023.
The key point then remains the key point now: more people were killed in six months by the likes of bike-boosting batteries than have been killed throughout the entire 68-year history of industrial nuclear energy.
They’d be blocking harbours to stop thousands of Chinese lithium-ion bicycle e-bombs getting in.
And they’d be wise to do so at a protective distance. Those things go up like you wouldn’t believe.
Tim Blair
Daily Tele
Wait….a Mordor Intelligence Agency?
presumably staffed by goblins.
Ta Matey.
Just as well I scrolled to have a look at this thread Top Ender, I was going to post today’s Tele Tim Blair article.
Why Lisa Wilkinson’s eye-watering legal bill could backfire on her – as court reveals how she ran up $1.8m in fees fighting Bruce Lehrmann in court
Daily Mail. Don’t you just weep for the lady, in her plight? Naah, me neither. Big boys games, big boys rules.
If poor old Cranky had bothered to look at Alex Zucco’s pinned tweet she would have seen video taken from Phillip Clayton Simpson’s own feed, where he is given the mic by the terfs in front of Parliament in Spring St and proceeds to gob off at nearby counter-protestors.
https://x.com/zucco_alex/status/1794238566496891061?s=46
You lot are so hilariously lazy, and keep embarrassing yourselves.
Everything I wrote above stands. Now piss off Jew hater.
You keep getting everything wrong, Cranky.
I don’t hate you, or any of your kin. Zionism in and of itself is a noble cause, Israel deserves to exist. Where the world is increasingly having a problem with it is when Zionism is used by fanatics to implement massacres of civilians.
Yes, Hamas is responsible for massacres of civilians, especially on 10/7. As I said before, though: an eye for an eye is a primitive way to conduct international affairs. And even if that is your standard, there have been more than enough eyes plucked out now. The war can not be won, the way it is being conducted now.
You, of course, will not engage with any of what I said, and will retreat back to your Billy Bass routine, because you are unable to make any sort of nuanced argument. There is no way to justify air strikes on a refugee camp, all you have is propaganda and lies.
Just piss off Jew hater. You support the rape and murder of Jews. The only Nazi here is YOU.
Note that the fascist turd says nothing about the far higher numbers being killed by Mooslimes elsewhere in the Middle East. Very selective indignation on display.
It’s embarrassing to have to share this space with scum like Monty.
“terfs”.
mUnturd still being free with the hate speech. Too stupid to even understand what he is writing.
Monty has turned into Bird.
domestic spying
“Our Hospitals were Half-Empty” Glasgow Porter tells Scottish COVID-19 inquiry
The cruelty of trans ideology, with Graham Linehan
The pervert apologist is our very own Alex Jones, but that is a tad unfair to Jones, because Alex Jones has never advocated physically assaulting women whose opinions he does not approve of……unlike our very own pervert apologist.
Russell Broadband
OpenDAEN: Staggering Numbers
Seeing reports now of a possible exchange of fire between Egyptian and Israeli troops at the Rafah crossing.
“The Information Is Essentially Fictional” | Net Zero Watch Director Net Zero Plans
True, some people have no get up and go drive. While others work and support them.
Unfair I say.
That clip has been revived & doing the rounds on social media over the past week or so. Good.
It was 6 years ago. Much discussed on the Cat at the time. The Plod who was handed that stick of dynamite with hissing fuse has since left the force & gone on to great things, UN for some big stuff, joined a security consultancy firm, with most recent gig is as the Royal Commissioner into veteran suicide.
Given how he handled the Lauren Southern “case”, i.e. she & some friends walking on a Sydney street, I have significant reservations as to his leadership abilities (his security consultancy profile disagrees with me, and has a few quick slogans to prove he’s a top man).
He could have and should have, handled the matter in much better fashion.
Spotted in the Marrakech airport business lounge – a cat on a lead.
And I swear I haven’t yet taken a sip of my G&T.
Which I earned – a motorbike tipped over onto me in the medina a couple of hours ago. Refused to cry in pain – swore instead.
Was at the local rugby on Saturday and there was a lady with a kid (baby female goat) on a lead. And a little jacket. I quizzed her abut it and she said her daughter who has a couple of acres saved it from a couple of wedge tails that were trying to cart it off.
Thank goodness…they’ve taken away the screaming baby. Today has been a bit of a train wreck and a yodelling infant was the last straw.
Did buy a nice turquoise bowl in the market though…pre motorcycle accident.
calli
May 28, 2024 12:22 am
I hope you are OK.
What did you do to deserve this? Seems Morocco is not the best place for you?
Lets hope the rest of your holiday makes up for it.
Insulted a djinn maybe?
Now that I recall, you best keep well away from wheeled vehicles, didn’t you have an altercation with a minivan in the past?
Thailand if my memory serves me right?
Oh noes! A spilled G & T is always a loss. But glad to hear you survived without too much damage, Calli. You could have been seriously injured. The perils of travel tend to be other people doing unexpected things.
Oh, I’m reading upthread as I go and I see your G & T came after the accident, and like you, survived. It was well-deserved when you finally got it. A G & T always helps revivals after misadventures.
The paths in the medina are narrow and crowded. Keep to the right they said.
And I did for that is my natural inclination. 🙂
However, that did not stop a nitwit on another contraption clipping a parked bike and dropping it…on me.
As for the noxious djinns…I have the best type of immunity.
KevinM, you have an excellent memory. I can only recall one Cat with similar, particularly when it comes to my bibs and bobs of adventures.
Nice to see another takes such an interest.
My apologies, I didn’t mean to intrude, will keep away in the future. I do remember a lot of other posts, and posters too, far less erudite or interesting, so I leave them in the memory vault.
No need to apologise. My Thailand tussle with the minibus is a source of family amusement.
Angkor Wat – scene of a Lara Croft wannabe landing on her backside in a puddle.
Now this, I never knew, I simply let auto correct to correct me even if it makes no sense. Lets face it a lot of comments on the net make no sense anyway.
Because saying Frig! has other meanings.
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Bob Gorrell.
Tina Norton.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
Perchance, does this make Andrew Giles a misogynist? does he have a woman problem? or is he just malicious toward the Australian people given he puts everyone in danger — fact check: has he looked at his watch while talking to a woman?
article in the Oz I’ll put it up in a tick
Sorry it’s a long article with great detail in the types of creatures that Minister Giles’ directive has permitted to remain in Australia and the Tribunal’ reasons as to why they are deemed fit to remain in Australia.
Trio of rapists on the Andrew Giles visa leniency list
EXCLUSIVE
By PAUL GARVEY. SENIOR REPORTER. and RHIANNON DOWN. REPORTER
8:59PM MAY 27, 2024
A trio of child rapists are among the growing list of pedophiles and sex offenders allowed to remain in the country under Andrew Giles’s call for greater tolerance for foreign offenders with ties to Australia, as the Immigration Minister refuses to say if he will intervene in any of the visa approvals.
Abdul Wahab Trad, a 45-year-old Lebanese citizen who permanently relocated to Australia in 2013 escaped deportation in March over his 2020 rape of a 13-year-old girl after the Administrative Appeals Tribunal found that the man’s ties to Australia weighed heavily in favour of revoking the cancellation of his visa.
His case is one of dozens identified by The Australian in which the AAT’s decision has been shaped by Mr Giles’s Direction 99. The direction’s biggest change was to make the “strength, nature and duration of an individual’s ties to Australia” a primary consideration for the tribunal when considering appeals against the cancellation of visas.
Since the direction was handed down in January 2023, dozens of convicted non-citizens – including rapists, drug traffickers, pedophiles and repeat domestic violence perpetrators – have avoided being kicked out of the country after successfully arguing to the AAT that they had ties to Australia. That cohort includes Sudan-born Emmanuel Saki, who was charged over a stabbing murder in Queensland weeks after the AAT agreed to revoke the cancellation of his visa.
In addition to the Trad case, The Australian has identified two more cases of convicted child rapists allowed to remain in Australia at least in part due to the Direction 99 guidance.
One of those cases, referred to only as ZJFQ, involved an Afghan citizen who raped a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl in separate incidents in the space of six months in 2020 and who the AAT found was a “moderate to high risk” of committing further sexual offences.
In the other case, dubbed XLFM, a Kenyan-born man who raped the 17-year-old younger sister of the mother of his child and who also robbed a female service station attendant using a meat cleaver was also spared deportation.
Those three cases are in addition to the recent decision in CHCY, in which a New Zealand-born man who raped his stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth also successfully argued that his ties to Australia meant he should be issued a new visa.
DETAINEE CASES THAT TURNED ON GILES’S DETERMINATION
What the tribunal said in each case:
CHCY
Rape, domestic violence, indecent treatment of children under 16 lineal descendent/guardian/carer
‘The tribunal finds CHCY has lived for the majority of his life in Australia, working full time, making a contribution to the taxation system, the community and his family. The tribunal places weight on this consideration, noting the direction clearly articulates tolerance should be given to non-citizens in CHCY’s circumstances’
LMFV
Sexual intercourse with a 23-year-old woman, taking advantage of her cognitive impairment, recklessly causing grievous bodily harm by infecting the victim with HIV
‘By contrast in Sierra Leone mental health care, and the availability of health care for persons with HIV, who are stigmatised, and whose mortality rates in hospitals is very elevated by Australian standards, shows that the applicant, if returned to Sierra Leone, would be at very great risk … Health is a matter expressly to be taken into account under this provision of the Direction: cl 9.2(1)(a)’
Abdul Wahab Trad
Sexual intercourse with child between 10 and 14 years, intentionally sexually touching a child between 10 and under 16 years, and intentionally inciting a child between 10 and 16 to sexually touch
‘The applicant has resided in Australia for a period of more than 10 years. Accordingly, the factors in principle 5.2(4) of the direction, particularly the length of time the applicant has been in Australia, support a finding that there would be higher level of tolerance by the Australian community for his criminal conduct than there would be for a non-citizen who has not lived in the community for an extended period.
Rakesh Razwantee
Use of electronic communication with intent to expose a person under the age of 16 years, to indecent matter
‘Overall, the consideration of the applicant’s links to the Australian community, primarily because of the impact on his immediate family, his wife and two minor daughters, that an adverse decision would have, weighs heavily in favour of revocation of the cancellation of the decision to cancel the applicant’s visa’
Kristian Kalinov
Sold or supplied or offered to sell or supply a trafficable quantity of methylamphetamine, assault occasioning bodily harm, possession of unlawfully obtained property (two counts), money laundering (two counts),possess false travel documents, common assault in circumstances of aggravation or racial aggravation
‘I find that the impact on the applicant’s mother, stepfather and brother if he were to be deported would be significant. Overall, the consideration of the applicant’s links to the Australian community, primarily because of the impact on his immediate family of an adverse decision, weighs in favour of revocation of the cancellation of the decision to cancel the applicant’s visa’
Frank Fetelika
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm, aggravated breaking and entering
‘As the minister rightly noted, while the applicant arrived in Australia after his formative years, the applicant has been in Australia for over 13 years and has contributed to the Australian community through his regular employment. Overall, the consideration of the applicant’s links to the Australian community, primarily because of the impact on his immediate family of an adverse decision, in particular the impact on his two minor children, weighs in favour of revocation of the cancellation of the decision to cancel the applicant’s visa’
JGNS
76 convictions over 22 years, including armed assault with intent to rob and home burglary
‘The Applicant’s ties to the Australian community are long-standing and deep … He has contributed significantly and positively to the community, in particular to the Noongar community … The minister is correct to agree that this consideration strongly favours revocation of the cancellation of the applicant’s visa’
XRGY
Suspected people smuggler
‘The strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia, weighs against refusal of the visa and that moderate weight should be given to it’
KQHR
Convicted of more than 150 offences over 40 years, including multiple counts of armed robbery
‘I place significant weight on the fact that the applicant has spent the majority of his life in Australia … This is a factor that weighs very heavily in favour of revocation of the cancellation decision’
ZHRS
Multiple charges including acts of family violence, driving a stolen vehicle at speed into a police garage
‘The strength nature and duration of ties to Australia consideration weighs in favour of a finding that there is another reason for revocation of the visa cancellation decision’
Brett Terry Manuel
Violence offences related to four incidents in which he assaulted a person with whom he was then in, or had been in, an intimate personal relationship
“The applicant has been in Australia since he was a young child, has strong links to the Australian community and would appear to have made some positive contributions to the community’
Farhan Ahmed Farah
Armed robbery, multiple robbery and theft-related offences
‘The tribunal also notes that two of the factors in favour of revocation, the best interests of children and the applicant’s ties to Australia are primary considerations attracting moderate weight’
WCHR
Multiple charges including kidnapping
‘The principal factor favouring revocation is the strength, nature and duration of the applicant’s ties to Australia. It is a primary consideration’
Ashley Thompson
Convictions included unlawful assault, theft, dangerous driving while pursued by police, trafficking methamphetamine, make threat to kill and resist emergency worker on duty
‘I place significant weight on the fact that the applicant has spent the majority of his life in Australia including those formative years which he spent with the Yorta Yorta people. His ties to the Yorta Yorta country and community add significant weight to this primary consideration. This is a factor that weighs very heavily in favour of revocation of the cancellation decision.’
Kasun Gayathra Wickramakarulu Arachchi
Demanding property by oral threats
‘The primary considerations of the protection and expectations of the Australian community weigh in favour of not revoking the cancellation decision, but in my view they are outweighed significantly by the countervailing considerations, namely, the primary considerations of the strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia and the best interests of minor children, together with the other considerations of the extent of impediments if removed and the impact on Australian business interests’
Foster Moli
Possessed a trafficable quantity of methylamphetamine with intent to sell or supply it to another
‘The tribunal finds that the strength, nature and duration of the applicant’s ties to Australia weigh moderately in favour of revocation of the cancellation decision’
Troy Olaman
“Substantial” criminal record including assault occasioning actual bodily harm (DV)
‘Having carefully considered all the circumstances, the Tribunal has decided to give greatest weight to the primary considerations of the best interest of the applicant’s child and the strength of the applicant’s ties to Australia and to the other consideration of extent of impediment if removed’
HWGF
Multiple domestic violence offences
‘The tribunal considers that although there are strong countervailing considerations weigh against revoking the cancellation decision, including the protection of the Australian community, family violence and the expectations of the Australian community, these are outweighed in the applicant’s case by the primary and other relevant considerations weighing in favour of revoking the cancellation decision, namely the best interests of minor children impacted by the decision, the strength, nature and duration of the applicant’s ties to the Australian community, the legal consequences of the decision, the extent of impediments if removed to the DRC and impact of the decision on victims of his offending’
Samuel Brock Saunders
Domestic violence offences
‘The applicant has strong ties to the community noting he came to Australia as a young child and spent his formative years here and has significant family ties to this country through his 10 children and their extended families and through his stepmother and sister. Those ties are strengthened by the fact his children identify as Indigenous Australians’
Pera Henare Wihongi-Lim
Multiple drug and stealing offences
‘In assessing the various competing arguments, the tribunal considers that the applicant does have strong ties to Australia, and certainly far stronger ties to Australia than are any ties to New Zealand. The Tribunal assesses this primary consideration as now weighing ‘heavily’ in favour of revocation of the mandatory cancellation decision’
TJHG
Various serious federal drug crimes, including importation of a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug
‘I do not accept that his ties are superficial. This is not borne out by the strength of support for him from his local parish … This primary consideration weighs in favour of cancellation of the revocation decision’
YVBM
Extensive criminal history in Australia involving crimes of violence and family violence
‘The tribunal has formed the view that the primary consideration 3, the strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia, weighs heavily in favour of the revocation of the cancellation of the applicant’s visa’
Aloisio Epifania Michael Muller
Reckless grievous bodily harm – in company
‘He came to Australia as a child and feels connected to the country, including because his mother is buried here. While the Applicant has family in New Zealand the tribunal accepts he sees his future in Australia where he has the support of family and community networks. Having regard to all the circumstances, including the other considerations, the Tribunal places strong weight on this consideration in favour of revocation of the cancellation of the Applicant’s visa’
Peter Dobrosavljevic
45 property offences, assaulting a public officer, obstructing police
‘It must be recognised that the applicant has been in Australia most of his life and considers himself to be Australian. Many in the community would share this view. He has no noted family ties outside Australia and his elderly parents testified they need his assistance with their care to remain in their home’
Mark Anthony Ibardaloza
Caused grievous bodily harm in the course of an aggravated home burglary, criminal damage or destruction of property, aggravated home burglary
‘I find that the third primary consideration, being the strength nature and duration of ties to Australia, weighs in favour of revoking the cancellation decision. I further find that this consideration should be heavily weighted’
Dawson Rawiri
Multiple DV convictions
‘The applicant’s extended family in Australia include a brother, 13 aunts and uncles, more than 30 cousins and 30 nieces and nephews. Though there is little information about the applicant’s relationship with them, I accept that a decision not to revoke the mandatory cancellation decision would have an emotional impact on them … Having particular regard to the impact of the decision on Ms Bailey and the applicant’s five adult sons, I find this consideration weighs in favour of revoking the mandatory cancellation decision’
Jamaal Jama
Armed robbery
‘The tribunal gives this consideration strong weight towards setting aside the delegate’s decision on the basis that Mr Jama’s evidenced ties to Australia involve people who are either Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents or have a right to remain in Australia indefinitel’
Jordan Paul Mitchell
Assault occasioning bodily harm, possessing a prohibited weapon, assaulting a public officer
‘The applicant has close ties to the Australian community because his partner, child and other family members reside in the Australian community. Further, the applicant has been in Australia since he was a child and spent his formative years here. He has a wide circle of family and friends who will be impacted by his removal. Overall, the tribunal finds that the strength, nature and duration of the Applicant’s ties to Australia weigh strongly in favour of revocation of the cancellation decision’
Denley Rawiri-Pukeroa
Use carriage service to menace/harass/offend, domestic violence offences, destroy or damage property
‘The tribunal considers that primary consideration 3 now weighs ‘heavily’ in favour of revocation of the visa cancellation decision’
BNPB
Multiple counts of aggravated armed robbery
‘The applicant has lived in Australia for almost the entirety of his life, including during his formative years, from when he was a three-year-old child. He has not travelled outside of Australia since his arrival. I therefore find that he has very strong ties to Australia, and that considerable weight should be given’
Thi Tuyet Anh Nguyen
Money laundering
‘The applicant’s ties to her husband, adult daughter J, children and stepchildren in Australia can be regarded as strong and they would be negatively impacted if she was removed to Vietnam … On balance, I find that the strength, nature and duration of the applicant’s ties to Australia weighs moderately in favour of revocation of the cancellation decision’
Sefanaia Mitiani Tavola
Larceny, common assault, domestic violence, recklessly causing grievous bodily harm
‘The tribunal concludes that, taking into account that the applicant has resided in Australia since he was five years of age, was educated in Australia, has never returned to Fiji, has worked in employment in Australia, and has provided some positive contribution to his community in Australia, it would be contrary to the requirements of paragraphs 8.3(4)(a)(i) and (ii) of the Direction not to revoke the decision under review, irrespective of the Applicant’s criminal offending. But for paragraph 8.3 of the direction (strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia), the Tribunal would have come to a different conclusion’
Sophia Reo Brown
Domestic violence and drug offences
‘The tribunal has formed the view that the primary consideration 3, the strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia, weighs very heavily in favour of the revocation of the cancellation of the applicant’s visa’
Blair Kenneth Burrows
Sexually touching another person without consent, common assault
‘His ties to Australia through his daughter and his younger sisters are very significant …
In conclusion with respect to ties to Australia, I place significant weight on the fact that the applicant has spent the majority of his life in Australia including his formative years. The respondent accepts that this consideration weighs strongly in favour of revocation’
ZJFQ
Sexual intercourse with a child under 16 years, sexual intercourse without consent, committing an act of indecency without consent
‘Primary consideration 3 weighs in favour of revocation of the mandatory visa cancellation decision as the applicant has lived in Australia for six and a half years and members of his immediate family members reside in Australia and will suffer emotional distress if he is removed to Afghanistan’
Glenn Taylor
Over 35 offences including domestic violence, stalking, assaulting a police officer
‘The applicant has two adult sons in Australia, who are Australian citizens. He has no contact with the two sons due to the AVO. He states that he intends to recommence his relationship with the sons. The applicant believes he has an adult daughter who is an Australian citizen but he has never had a relationship with the daughter … The tribunal gives this consideration (strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia) some weight in favour of revocation’
BJKY
Cultivating cannabis, blackmail
‘The evidence before the tribunal was whilst BJKY, his mother and sisters love their country of birth, they have no desire to ever live there permanently again. The evidence indicated that removing BJKY from his immediate family would leave him without the prosocial factors he needs to keep to the path he has embarked upon and would put significant pressure on his family who remained in Australia. Accordingly, the Tribunal found this consideration weighs strongly in favour of revocation of the cancellation’
DLZZ
Kidnapping, assault
‘I accept that the applicant has meaningful links to the Australian community in addition to the familial ties through his mother. I also accept that the applicant has been ordinarily resident in Australia since his formative years and that he contributed to the Australian community through his work and payment of taxes and through his involvement with his church and the Persian Fair … I find that this third primary consideration, the strength, nature and duration of ties to Australia, weighs heavily against refusal of the visa’
Himi Mau Rewiri
Supply and possess prohibited drugs
‘The tribunal accepts that the applicant has strong family ties in Australia and that he would have also formed strong social links during his 20 years of residence in this country. The tribunal has formed the view that this consideration weighs heavily in favour of revocation’
XLFM
Sexual intercourse without consent, robbery armed with an offensive weapon.
‘The applicant’s ties to Australia are very strong. He has no comparable ties anywhere else in the world. This factor weighs very heavily in favour of the applicant’
Byram Murat
Burglary, trespassing, break, enter and steal, receiving stolen property, various minor drug offences
‘The applicant has also now lived in Australia for a long time. There have also been some periods of positive contribution to the Australian community by the applicant in the form of both paid employment, and periods of study. In the final assessment, the tribunal considers that primary consideration 3 weighs reasonably strongly in favour of revocation of the visa cancellation decision’
The latest examples emerged as opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan vowed to scrap Direction 99 if the Coalition were returned to power at the next election. Mr Tehan called on Mr Giles to reveal if he planned to rescind the order that contributed to CHCY having his visa restored.
“We will on day one, as a priority, rescind that Andrew Giles ministerial direction if we are elected at the next election,” Mr Tehan said.
“And the fact that this child rapist, the most heinous of crimes to rape a stepdaughter while your partner is giving birth in hospital, what it shows is that ministerial direction is clearly failing.
“I don’t think that you could get a worse example that the ministerial direction is clearly failing, and that is why it needs to be rescinded. And it’s why Andrew Giles needs to come out today and explain why he won’t rescind it.
“We raised this last week; he did nothing.”
The growing number of cases of convicted foreign criminals allowed to remain in Australia in the wake of Direction 99 will add to pressure on the Albanese government over its handling of immigration matters.
The Trad decision describes how the man was driving along a road in Bankstown, in Sydney’s southwest, when he encountered the victim who got into his van. He then drove the girl to a park, where he touched her breast and digitally penetrated her vagina.
Trad’s case was decided by former Labor senator Linda Kirk, who found that primary consideration 3 – the strength, nature and duration of ties provision introduced under Direction 99 – weighed heavily in favour of revoking the cancellation of Trad’s visa.
“The applicant’s immediate family members provided statements in which they state the love and support for their husband and brother, and their desire for him to return to live with them in the community,” Dr Kirk’s decision said.
“The evidence is that the applicant’s wife, children, sister and brother will be highly distressed if he is returned to Lebanon.
“(Trad’s wife) and the two children will be emotionally devastated and financially disadvantaged if the applicant is unable to return home and resume employment as the family’s primary breadwinner.
“The tribunal finds that if the applicant’s visa is not reinstated, his immediate family will suffer considerable emotional and practical hardship due to the absence of their husband and father, and financial distress as a consequence of him not being able to contribute to the family’s finances.”
Dr Kirk also found Trad had made a “positive contribution” to the economy during his time in Australia, through his employment as an installer of wardrobes, kitchens and shower screens.
Dr Kirk was also responsible for an AAT decision revoking the cancellation of the visa of a 29-year-old Afghanistan citizen who had arrived in Australia in May 2017.
The man, ZJFQ, had twice been convicted of sexual offences against teenage girls, had been found to lack empathy for his victims, had not engaged in any sex-offender rehabilitation programs, had not demonstrated that he understood the concept of consent or that sex with underage girls is unlawful, and did not take responsibility for his actions.
“The tribunal finds that the likelihood that the applicant will engage in further criminal or other serious conduct, specifically sexual offences, is moderate to high,” Dr Kirk wrote.
The AAT found that the “strength of ties” consideration in ZJFQ’s case weighed in favour of revoking the cancellation of his visa, noting that separating him from his siblings and parents in Australia would cause them emotional distress.
The decision in the man’s case was, however, more heavily influenced by the lack of mental health services and treatment in Afghanistan, with Dr Kirk noting he would likely become homeless and destitute if he was sent there.
A spokeswoman for Mr Giles did not address questions about whether the minister would rescind any of the latest decisions. Instead, she said that while the rulings had been guided by Direction 99, AAT members ultimately exercised their own discretion.
“The ministerial direction places a significant emphasis on serious offending and family violence – which need to be considered in all matters,” Mr Giles’s spokeswoman said.
Thanks Tinta – reproduced in toto on my Australia wide FB page – total readers 2 – because this seems to show a pattern of the abuse of Australian citizens by the very highest government officials.
…and as I’ve said on multiple occasions, they seem to be concentrating on bringing in people whose primary goal is to terrorise Australians, and refuse to integrate. So here’s a link, I’d guess.
I think that it is safe to assume that none of these are Catholic clerics, nor are any former Marines named Duggan.
Notice the model immigrant whose ‘extended family in Australia include a brother, 13 aunts and uncles, more than 30 cousins and 30 nieces and nephews.’ All model citizens, no doubt.
Jo Nova draws attention to the wind drought affecting the installed multitude of bird slicing windmills. Our political class have for the most part elected to wear the transparent clothing of climate alarmism plus the scarf of just two renewable tints, wind and solar. I love the Enid Blyton allusion, but the renewables illusion is not a pretty thing to contemplate.
“There’s no extension cord long enough to get to the land at the top of The Renewable Faraway tree where we have dependable wind.”
Any politician still bleating about a “two state solution” is merely displaying their ignorance. Gaza, handed back by Sharon twenty years ago, was the golden opportunity for the so called Palis to show that a contiguous state could work. They failed big time, even before the latest horrendous incursion into Israel, which has unlocked the whirlwind they richly deserve.
Similarly, those who refer to the “occupied West Bank” demonstrate ignorance of the history of that part of Israel. If Jordan, substantially Pali in makeup, can’t be the second state, and that’s a most unlikely outcome, then there is nowhere else to fill that empty dream.
‘that’s a most unlikely outcome’.
Indeed it is. Jordan does’;t want th3em, nor does Egypt want the Gazans.
More things a Voice would have fixed (the NT News):
And:
These activities are generally more prevalent after Grand Finals, where the losing team routinely accuses the winning team of ‘putting a spell’ on the oval.
Maybe if they’d been given more money.
What are these dozen something words (from the linked clip) supposed to be proving?
Whoever that idiot was he didn’t have the balls to stay the centre of attention for too long.
It’s just mUnturd being a sexist hater of women.
An excellent summary of the perfidies visited on Trump since 2016, at American Thinker. I don’t have any hope that the game will be played more fairly this year.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/if_they_can_do_it_to_trump_they_can_do_it_to_you.html
& just like that, Sandy Hook is memory holed until the Bidens leave the stage.
Joe and Hunter Biden used a visit to Sandy Hook memorial service to set up secret meet with Chinese over $10m-a-year deal, new emails reveal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448897/Hunter-Biden-meeting-Joe-Chinese-business-partners-texts-Sandy-Hookk.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mayor-pete-humiliates-himself-cbs-interview-blames-airline-turbulence-climate-change
Monty carefully ignores the ‘trans activists’ who would assault women at these events without the muscle provided.
It’s trans nazi meets new nazi and I don’t care.
https://x.com/Nic3218/status/1771404776791810054?t=3h37zpoMK9_jgKbmyU5ZrQ&s=19
That cymbal is copping a fearful pounding, rosie. Cymbalic!
At least you are acknowledging that you are in the side of neo-Nazis. More than Cranky will do.
“Preliminary investigations showed that Egyptian security personnel had reacted to an exchange of gunfire “between Israeli forces and members of the Palestinian resistance, which led to shooting in several directions,” the source said, adding that Egypt would take necessary measures to prevent the incident from recurring”
Sounds like an Egyptian got trigger happy, whether out of fear or solidarity, don’t know.
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/05/27/israeli-military-investigating-reported-exchange-of-fire-with-egyptian-troops
Random observations after a week in the Lombardy countryside:
Italian plumbing has improved out of sight. Italian house lighting on the other hand…*peers at screen through gloom*…saves electricity, I guess.
Chestnut trees are a magnificent and ubiquitous street and park tree.
The roads are in a similar condition to ours minus any sign of roadworks.
There is sense that things are changing for the worse and the country is weak militarily. There is talk of reintroducing military service.
There are enough contrails to satisfy the most ardent conspiracy theorist.
Cash is still a common form of payment.
Train timetables are still only a vague guide to departure and arrival times.
All phone calls require minimum of 15 ‘Ciaos’ before ending the call.
Italians of my generation see a similar deterioration in the education of their children and grandchildren.
They also hold most politicians in contempt.
Home cooked Italian food is to die for. And I very well might given the pressure my heart is under after a 3 course lunch and even more gelato. Or pizza. Or risotto. Or, as the local hot eating spot succinctly announces on its outside wall, Food and Booze.
Recycling requires sorting in the kitchen – paper, plastic, general and wet. What happens to glass I have no idea. *insert Italian shrug here*
Massive supermarkets have replaced local markets and smaller specialist shops. There are five supermarkets within 1 minute’s drive from our apartment.
Gelato cosumption is compulsory every single day. Followed immediately by coffee.
History is around every corner. But you all knew that.
Amazon delivers, even though the postal service does not, can not or will not depending on the day and the wind direction.
Smoking is still in common practice and ciggies are displayed on an open shelf. If the Tabac is closed, there is a convenient vending machine for 24/7 feeding of your habit.
Helmets whilst riding bikes, ebikes and escooters are a matter of personal choice
Gym gear is rarely seen as an acceptable fashion choice in the public square.
There is much less overt use of mobile phones in cafes, shops or in the streets.
It’s been an exceedingly wet spring, there’s a fair bit of standing water.
The poppies are flowering everywhere.
Wheat, corn and rice are at varying growth points in the fields.
Fuel is pricier than in Oz.
Most cars are late models and there are a lot more larger SUVs than I’ve ever seen in the past. The ancient Fiats or Lancias appear no more.
The Passigiata continues in the smaller towns and villages. Festivals are everywhere at the weekend.
Even though there is general sense of the place being a bit run down, it’s still spectacular to look at and a great place to spend time with old, and new, friends.
Ciao, ciao, ciao x 15.
Lovely! Most things unchanged. Only the long arms of political correctness reaching occasionally into daily life.
A fantastically informative post thanks Megan. I love getting the opinions of every Cat traveller on what’s going on where they are landed. Your Italian experience as so well summarised gels pretty well with what we observed in Tuscany and northern Italy last October. A very visitable country with so many different things to see each time.
Monty carefully ignores the ‘trans activists’ who would assault women at these events without the muscle provided.
He loves those trans activists who assault women. Recall his glee on these pages at the infamy that ensued in the park in Auckland in March 2023. He celebrated it.
After all, remember his line, ‘I wanna punch a Nazi’, that includes ‘punching terfs’.
Monty is a disgrace.
No argument from me. Disgrace is far too nice for what he says and does. And who he is.
His desire to punch a Nazi is purely theoretical. He is too much of a gutless wimp to act on it.
I never said anything about punching terfs. Stop lying, Cranky.
Embedding neo-Nazis in your political movement is the disgrace here.
Shame about the shops Megan- do the “Coop”s still exist?
Have seen one near Milan, but none out where we are, towards Magenta.
Have also seen lots of hijabs but not a single keffiyah. Surprising.
Wasn’t Sam Neill banging Tingle for a while?
https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/william-weir-event-horizon-sam-neill-wont-need-eyes-to-see-gif-15977214
Wow what a painting – what the annalysis of it.
Public health officials still pushing disinformation:
Despite the manufacturer stating that people who have had organ transplants NOT have the vaccine, Qld Health continues to advise us to do so.
(The information is in the paper slip enclosed in the vaccine package itself, it is also in the Mims Information Annual.)
I loved the giant Italian grocery stores with their delis, burchers and bakeries, there was one near where we stayed in La Spezia other than that, not travelling by car I’ve only visited comparatively small grocery stores, and coop is one chain that’s still around, even in central Rome.
Like everyone else price is a consideration and the big stores are cheaper and more convenient if you don’t like lugging home your bottled water etc by hand.
Haven’t seen many shopping luggers at all on this trip. I see many more of them back in the Very Brught Green Wedge as I drive home with my Aldi haul in the car.
I expect things to be very different in Sicily.
Overnight the pervert apologist wrote this….
Where the world is increasingly having a problem with it is when Zionism is used by fanatics to implement massacres of civilians.
What a disgrace. A complete lie and blood libel.
Would it ever write that “Islam is used by fanatics to implement massacres of civilians”? Of course not, it lurrrves Mooslimes, but hates Jews.
Yeah, as I said Monty has turned into Bird.
There’s a strong correlation between leftism and mental illness.
… and conspiracy theories about Joooooooooos.
Why the hell is ‘Zionism’ anyone’s business anyway, apart from antiquarians? It isn’t the reason for current conflicts.
Excellent point, Bruce. Israel exists and the interests today are those of the Israeli State. I never use the term Zionists, except when dealing with historical issues, including some Christian ones, such as a Priory of Zion/Sion, as some such priories did monastically exist and had nothing to do with any Dan Brown da Vinci Code nonsense.
The continued use of the term is an attempt to delegitimise the Israeli state.
The same applies when Australia is deemed “the colony” (Lidia Thorpe).
La Tingle might actually be in some bother now that she has been accused of campaigning against Dutton.
It’s all too easy for the ABC to dismiss her opinion about Australia, but active and aggressive political campaigning might not be so easy to brush aside.
Heopfully she responds like most ABC types, with combative, ego driven spitefulness.
She’ll sink like stone if she leaves, like that other fool, their economic lead who didn’t know how the tax system works .. Emma Alba?
Repulsive individual
It’s worse than that. She was a Walkley nominated economics correspondent that either didn’t know, or wilfully chose to conflate the difference between profit and revenue.
Husband, as his custom, has ch9 breakfast show on. My ears pricked to hear item on a grant from the US Dept of Defence to a QLD medical dept researching a cure for Parkinson’s disease.
Fantastic, But money from the US Dept of Defence??? Que? Of course neither of the CH9 presenters asked the obvious question. Given that the US Dept of Defence has notoriously given financial support to bio weapons, including to the bat flu research at Wuhan, it would be a logical query.
Not suggesting that there is anything other than Parkinson’s research in this case. But it irks me that these damn reporters don’t do their job.
The Australian’s editorial is calling for Kim Williams to act re Tingle; in summary, she is entitled to her views, but not employment at the ABC.
“when Zionism is used by fanatics to implement massacres of civilians.”
There has not been a single deliberate massacre of civilians in Gaza, not one.
Gaza has the lowest proportion of civilian casualties in war ever.
It’s a testament to Israeli belief in the sanctity of human life.
A value that is absent from hamas, and anyone who supports abortion.
The IDF has killed journalists, bombed medical convoys, opened fire on civilians queuing for rice and bombed refugee camps. This has all been extensively documented, rosie. Denying it is useless. Open your eyes.
Extensively documented by who?
The same “people” who did all that extensive documenting on Oct 7?
It is a war, M0nty. The IDF have taken extreme precautions to avoid non-combatant casualties and put their own soldiers at risk in order to do so. Hamas deliberately use their own people as human shields, as well as taking and using hostages as shields. They are terrorists. Any information put out by Hamas is propaganda. In a free society such as Israel, there is open debate and discussion of sources of information about casualties and strategies.
Compare and contrast the two, M0nty, and then do some historical research as to the causes of the Palestinian ‘refugee’ crisis and the permanent multi-story refugee cities (not ‘camps’) that grew up in Gaza once Hamas came to power and built its ‘war games metro’ rather than taking care of the welfare of the people of Gaza, squandering the money and goodwill that the rest of the Arab and the Western world offered..
You might even start having second thoughts as to the glory and righteousness of Hamas compared to the IDF and the virtues of the Israeli cause. You could get behind urging Hamas to surrender and release their hostages to avoid unnecessary killings of their human shields. That would help, if all of your ilk did so.
It is not much of a fight, Lizzie. One side has stones, drones, small arms and the odd missile, the other has helicopter gunships, bombers with complete air superiority, tanks and all the modern urban combat gear US money can buy.
Yes, everything Hamas puts out is propaganda. Same for Israel. Standard practice in war. One should be skeptical of everything.
I am not particularly interested in judging the moral superiority of either side. The Middle East is like that: once you start taking sides to escalate war, that is when genocide happens. I would much rather America work to de-escalate, which means withholding arms from Israel just like Reagan did multiple times.
Hey Jew hater, the escalation began on October 7.
You have already openly taken the side of Hamarse, fvck off.
“Gaza has the lowest proportion of civilian casualties in war ever.”
That is a big statement.
I am not saying that it is incorrect, (I do not know), but could you please attach a reference?
I am sure you would have one.
I can sate your curiosity, Vicki.
Soldiers are believed to be prone to developing Parkinsons because of exposure to chemicals in the course of their duties.
Especially the nerve agents. Which happens during destruction of the Russian and Iraqi stockpiles in the Middle East that everyone insists didn’t exist.
The comment also implies that every IDF soldier, Jew, Christian, Druze, Muslim is a willing participant in massacres.
Nothing is too hard for a Monty to swallow.
Not every IDF soldier was a participant. Some were, not all.
Megan your description of Italy is one of the reason I love our wog sisters and brothers. They’re very much their own people. Disagreeing even when they agree in principle. A bit like Cats and Kittahs I suppose. Your mention of Lombardy reminded of an Italian friend who hailed from there. He was twice my age and such different background, only to find we were twins separated at birth and time. Lost his faith at the Battle of Taranto seeing the death and destruction of fellow sailors. The hand movements that conveyed the unsaid dialogue. His wife didn’t speak much English mostly because it didn’t convey what she wanted to say. What magnificent people. I even started to learn Italian. My aunt was Italian extraction, her father, never spoke a word of Italian. I was to be going to Italy in July but a change in my wife’s employment means we can’t go. Wife has a friend with a villa near Rome.
I hope your trip is simply postponed for now, Ranga. Getting away from the tourist hot spots and out into the lesser known parts of the country is key to getting to know Italy more deeply.
Find an Italian conversation class and use what you learn every chance you get. We’ve realised, this trip, how much we’ve forgotten since the last aunt died during Covid. We were both far more fluent when we were speaking it regularly. We are committing one day a week when we get home to only converse in Italian.
When I married the SP all those decades ago I never expected to love Italy as much as I do.
We threatened to sue an employee of a well-known green NGO/ pressure group on behalf of our client, an ostensible ally of the employee’s organisation, for calling our client a Nazi because she spoke at a women’s rights rally. They settled pretty damn fast. It was fun.
Excellent!
I never said anything about punching terfs. Stop lying, Cranky.
Embedding neo-Nazis in your political movement is the disgrace here.
Yes you have, pervert apologist, your own memory is failing you On these very pages last year you revelled in the violence in that Auckland Park
And it isn’t my side that’s ’embedded neo-Nazis’ in our movements, it’s your side, why, we now even have a Nazi party in this country, it’s called the Greens.
Now piss off grub.
IIRC I said something along the lines of if you turn up to a hate rally to spread hate, you should not be surprised if you get some pushback, including copping some tomato sauce.
Subsequent events have proven that the neo-Nazis are on the side of the terfs, they are not hiding it at all. You can continue to deny it, Cranky, but the video evidence is plain to see upthread.
For goodness sakes, M0nty, you fail to accurately recall what you said by dissembling with the phrase ‘along the lines of’. You fully approved of unconscionable behaviour of a very Nazi mode. Let me just remind you that this rally was not a ‘hate rally to spread hate speech’ but a desire by women to have a voice in the transgender railroading over the rights of biological women. That is not hate, it is called debate in a free society. However debate was the last thing the violent transgender MEN in female attire there had in mind, and the keynote speaker’s life and limb were seriously in danger from an overworked mob, so much so that police, disgracefully unprotective, advised her to leave the country.
Definitely not New Zealand’s finest hour. Your specious use of ‘pushback’ is a sorry term indeed for an initial physical attack, physical pushing and shoving, on the physically tiny speaker’s person involving red sauce which gee’d up the mob for the further threatening violence and actual violence. One older woman had to be taken to hospital with a fractured skull.
No man calling himself a decent person, a husband and a father, should have accepted this behaviour. None I know did.
I can’t find any credible source for the fractured skull thing. Blog posts from randoms and a Facebook comment don’t cut it. I am going to say it didn’t happen. The video of the assault was real, of course, and I recall condemning it at the time, and I will condemn it again now.
As for the rest of it, a bit of jostling and some tomato soup or whatever, hardly qualifies as violence. We will have to agree to disagree on that, as we did back then.
If you want to act like a frightbat, I will call you a frightbat.
Jostling and tomato soup seems to qualify as violence when directed at lefturds.
Your recall is as accurate as your political lies.
Libertarian Party Nominates Giant Gay Bong
RFK Jr was a very progressive Democrat until like 10 minutes ago (Oct 2023) when he figured out he wouldn’t be allowed to compete with Biden in a primary. It’s not surprising that even the Libertarian Party doesn’t trust him.
Instead they picked a goofy looking male who only managed 2% of the vote when he ran for Senator in Georgia last cycle. Yeah, that’ll work.
No need to be conspiratorial. I read a news item about the relevant research and this research goes beyond Parkinson’s disease. It has implications in relation to chemical exposures for which there is much evidence playing a role in the increasing rates of PD. The microbiome issue isn’t just relevant to PD it also has relevance to immune function in general and the implications that has for wide variety of health issues. If there is a hidden agenda here it might be that the USA defense industry has noted increasing rates of PD in veterans.
Yep – Roger has said something similar. Nonetheless, you would think that people who get paid to ask questions – would ask them.
I doubt Vicki was being conspiratorial, John. Most people won’t see the connection past Uncle Bob getting Parkinsons, and not remembering he was in the ME during the war helping the rest of the world give Saddam the Heave Ho.
I actually thought there would be an increase in PD around the 2000’s from the excessive use of cocaine among the usual suspects. So far it hasn’t eventuated – and probably won’t.
Incidentally, people should watch what they say about each other in the heat of the moment. Last year, two idiots were having a worthless online stoush over what was then a prominent issue – a stoush that both probably thought no one was paying attention to at the time. One of the two came out with what I assume he figured was a zinger that basically imputed paedophilia to the other. The other found a couple of witnesses and it ended up costing Mr Zinger $50k. From a single sentence.
What Libertarianism Gets Wrong
@amuse
LAWFARE: While Trump and everyone working with him is gagged from publicly speaking about the witnesses in his trial, President Biden is allowed to personally visit the star witness against his son. What did he tell Hunter’s ex-wife? Did he promise her anything? Threaten her?
Anyone else notice whenever the question of supprt for Hamas comes up the finger pointing is always towards Iran ..
Yet Qatar who fund world-wide terrorism and shelter Hamas leadership very rarely attract any criticism ..
Apparently, having a popular 1st class air carrier service meanz your above reproach …!
Allowing a huge USAF base and a US Army refit/storage depot on your soil doesn’t hurt either.
The Qataris wrote the book on playing both ends against the middle
Incidentally, it was a worthless online stoush because it was essentially each side rather artlessly telling the other how stupid they are whilst not at all moving the needle on the issue for a third party.
So they were doing what m0nty does.
Money talks. Although it doesn’t buy power. Considering the colossal amount of cash the Qataris splash in DC, they don’t get that much bang for their buck.
I mean, a few years ago when the Gulf Arabs had their little internecine beat down on Qatar, you didn’t see Washington leaping to Qatar’s defence in any way (quite the opposite). What precisely do the Qataris buy with all that money? I kind of think they spend it to show that they can afford it. Typical Arab nouveau riche. ‘Our grandparents lived in tents, and so will our grandchildren.’
Do any other nations in the Middle East, splash money around the US Congress?
Just asking for a friend.
The US provide a massive new airport in Qatar, absolutely huge, and in return get a significant base for a US troop presence.
La Tingle has really dropped the ALPBC Board in the hot seat. Not just the co-op and Ita’s problem any more.
“Ms Tingle, would you mind leaving the room. Thank you.”
Will it make any difference though?
@catturd2
Ladies and Gentlemen – the Libertarian’s Presidential nominee.
To use a phrase I read of once and have wanted to use ever since in order to read as intelligent – It’s about external validation.
The promotion of the search for external validation – and in particular, the notion that if you demand it of an individual or group, who/which does not respond to the degree of your expectations, that equates with ‘hate’ for which punitive measures are not only possible, but mandatory – is a worrying portent for the next generation (where people will wear mental illness like bling, as a status symbol).
It is, as I’ve stated previously, like a hand grenade with a lengthy fuse, and will wreak economic and social destruction like we’ve never before encountered. If this has been an intentional, long-term tactic, rather than a ‘happy’ accident, it is unique and a stunning lesson – should we chose to heed it.
(Apologies for the extraordinary long sentences!).
I commented about leftism and mental illness earlier. I wonder if weed has something to do with it, since marijuana is something of a religious sacrament to the Left, especially for green-progressives.
The Daily Chart: Gone to Pot? | Power Line (27 May)
Perhaps that explains how insane the Left has been getting lately.
Given the hyper-potency of today’s skunk relative to that of yesteryear,* you’re likely onto something.
*in the US, anyway. We seem to be somewhat insulated from such developments. Not entirely sure why but it does seem to be the case. You don’t hear much about fentanyl being cut with everything – uppers, downers, you name it – here (thankfully). Maybe it is because we pay 10x more for illegal drugs than our American friends. Killing even a small proportion of your client base with fentanyl will hit the bottom line disproportionately hard when margins are as high as they are here.
Yes, the Powerline article has a bit on the hyperpotency issue. Quite amazing how strong it is now:
They are now consuming 60 times as much THC that they used to. Yet there is very little cognizance of it being a medical issue. Alcohol and nicotine get massive attention but THC seems nearly invisible to the regulation agencies.
More likely it’s because we aren’t too close to the Mexican border and don’t have ten million unknown Mexicans bringing in drugs as they do in the US. Add this to the increasing toleration of drug use (legal marihuana) and you have a ready market of polydrug users all ready to become addicted to fentanyl. It is a huge problem in the US and likely to hit here sometime too. Douglas Murray examines it in his new video on the US crisis. I put it up here a few days ago, worth seeing.
UK macroeconomist and commentator Philip Pilkington is predicting a Labour government will have to introduce higher taxes and make cuts to public services and as a result will preside over increasing industrial unrest.
A large part of the problem Starmer will inherit from the Tories is that mass immigration is imposing a significant cost to the budget “going forward” as migrants accrue more benefits (including access to subsidised housing & the NHS) than they will ever account for in taxes.
And the type of immigrants that are coming in aren’t the sort of people who would pay taxes unless forced to. Getting taxes out of low trust populations is a real problem and most of these people are coming from those societies. Then there’re the muslims who don’t regard as legitimate secular governments and their laws.
I would imagine there is a thriving cash market in some communities, yes.
It would never happen here, AnAl will look after us. //Sarc//
I am inclined towards the view that Tingle and the ‘water cooler’ are testing the water in respect of the incoming chairman.
She may however have overstepped the mark believing that ABC issues are exclusively the concern of the ABC and the public have no say in the matter.
I suspect it was just arrogance. She didn’t think about what she expressed, because it just seemed so right and natural to her to still be moaning about the Voice result, and she let go in the emotion of a totally supportive crowd at that event. The really do not comprehend that there is another completely legitimate opinion to the ones that they hold. Any divergence from their mindset has to be abolished by the cry of foolish uneducated right-wing bigotry, racist to the core. They simply cannot hear themselves.
bons, quite possibly. You get the impression that the timing is far from accidental and yet another provocation of management. The departure of Ita, who even by the standards of ALPBC MDs, showed not attempt to even begin to assert any control or even acknowledge the impotence of management is a clear opportunity. Senate Estimates is really the only forum in which the staff co-op is placed under any form of scrutiny and questions are batted away, seemingly without consequence to BAU.
As a director, Tingle puts the Board and MD right in the cross hairs in a way the usual Jon Faine types can never do.
On the subject of La Tingle, whatever happened to the frequent cry from Their ABC that “Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world”?
Subsequent events have proven that the neo-Nazis are on the side of the terfs, they are not hiding it at all. You can continue to deny it, Cranky, but the video evidence is plain to see upthread.
Subsequent events have proven that real Nazis are on the side of the progressive left and pro-Palestine movement, they are not hiding it at all. You can continue to deny it, pervert apologist, but the video evidence on and since October 7 is plain to see.
I note that not once have you condemned the rhetoric of the Opera House ‘incident’ on October 9.
You’re a Jew hating grub, pervert apologist, and every time you vomit up here, you will be called out for the Jew hater you are.
Hamas and its terrorists, including many ‘Gazans’ have slaughtered, raped and kidnapped civilians, mainly Jews. Only yesterday they were sending rockets to Tel Aviv. This has all been extensively documented, pervert apologist. Denying it is useless. Open your eyes, pervert apologist.
Nothing will happen to La Tingle.
Alas, I’m sure you are correct.
At the ABC, the lunatics run the asylum. Managers and the board do whatever the staff want, which doesn’t include quaint notions like complying with any charter.
ABC staff see their charter as advancing the cause of the Greens party through propaganda.
PS: Tune in to any ABC “news” bulletin and it’s little different from a Greens press release.
The untouchable….
What about when you become the BBQ? Have they crunched the numbers yet on exploding electric vehicle fires? We are currently staying in a Gold Coast high rise apartment for a few days R & R, and I do wonder if any electric vehicles are charging away worryingly in the underground carpark
These
fedneo-Nazis that have emerged over the last couple of years sure have some strange causes. They don’t seem to show up for things that you’d ordinarily expect Nazis to show up for. However, if it is some culture war issue, they’ll be there, marching against the dominant progressive narrative. They are very useful for the regime in this regard. So useful, in fact, that if they didn’t exist, the regime might have to create them…oh.Why not say the terfs are feds too, OCO. Everyone else’s purpose in life is to make Cats look bad.
Does anybody know what Professor Steven Kates is up to nowadays? I used to enjoy his posts in the old cat. Got his book “Economics for Infants” that I used to read to my kids at bedtime.
Indeed. Kates, Sloan and even Prof Davidson are missed in this iteration of the Cat.
Available from Amazon here. Not in Kindle form though – which is a real pity because then I’d buy a copy.
Best Sellers Rank: #6,004,242 in Books
They never miss a trick to get the “begging bowl” out ..
come in spinner … LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/palestinian-officials-seek-australian-help-with-building-democratic-institutions-amid-statehood-talks/ar-BB1n6HoY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=fee09d1215824077be3b12605ee1363b&ei=17
John – his blog is here, but nothing since January.
That and the bias towards the Albanese government she exhibited in her remarks along with the unjustified swipe at Peter Dutton.
Yes, I know, they’re all activist journalists at the ABC, but her views are incompatible with being on the board, which is tasked with ensuring the Corporation’s impartiality.
Is Williams content to be the straight man in the ABC’s running joke?
That is the several hundred thousand dollar question. As an Albo appointment, you are not overly optimistic but we shall see. Ita certainly didn’t go down rocking the boat.
Ita did pursue the Lattoush matter with some conviction.
Beautifully put.
Sadly, as predicted.
A “transgender” teenager in New Zealand has been hospitalized after attempting to perform a double mastectomy on herself after watching a YouTube video.
That’s a fair point, Lizzie. I’d be especially worried about the flood of Chinese EVs hitting the road. Had the misfortune of riding in one of those LDV cargo vans recently. Turbo diesel. Now of course diesels run a little rougher than petrol engines, but this thing sounded like a bucket of bolts, like something was seriously amiss. It had done 20k kays. I doubt it’ll do another 20k before the engine drops out.
Which is not a big deal (aside from the expense and inconvenience). However, if a bunch of shoddy batteries flame out…
To be fair to the utterly worthless Tories (not that they deserve it), they inherited it from Blair and Brown, who created the problem in the first instance. The useless Tories didn’t do a damn thing about it, though. They deserve to go the way of the Whigs.
Correct, Blair kicked it off, but I believe the numbers really escalated in the latter part of the 14 year Tory reign and that’s what has tipped the budget out of whack.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/winner-of-the-girls-400m.html
I’m old fashioned about these matters, but, if you’ve got a dick, you aren’t a girl?
I’d go so far as to say that even if you don’t have a dick, you are not necessarily a girl. If you’ve ever had one, then in my book, you are still basically a man, albeit, sadly, a dickless one. I don’t think any the less of you for that lack, btw, for who knows why it occurred, as long as you don’t think that due to extant dicklessness you can don a dress and suddenly ‘become’ a woman. You can’t. You are still a man.
Regarding leftism* and mental illness: What concerns me is that while there may be genuine avenues of investigation in this direction, the tendency of humans to seek reasons why they are not responsible – in part or whole – for an outcome or event that has occurred to them, thus abrogating any responsibility and the opportunity to learn, means that the development of effective counter-tactics will be pushed further into the future. Meanwhile, the damage done by ineffective tactics continues to accumulate. ‘Waiting for the opponent to make a mistake’ is NEVER an effective, stand-alone tactic.
My Point?
While our opponents flout, make, and break the established rules and structures according to their whim/plan, and are the primary reason for the measurable decline in our quality of life and the state of our (‘western’ first-world) social and economic structures, the INEFFECTIVENESS of conservatives to execute counter-tactics (or take the initiative) must also bear some responsibility.
Yes, I’ve written about this ad nauseam, and NO, I don’t yet have the answers to gift to anyone who cannot or will not, think for themselves. Yes, right-of-centres (is this relevant any longer?) are not as tribal, so let’s just forget about doing anything.
The longer ‘we’ avoid acknowledging that partial responsibility (not as individuals, because our over-sized egos and bloated pride will not permit anything other than comfort-stroking), however, the further into the future a practical, measurable-outcome fightback will commence. Will it be too late?
Rant over. I’m going back to knitting life-sized voodoo dolls.
*I dislike this term because I think it is ineffective, but I don’t yet have a better alternative.
Muddy, interesting comment. Perhaps because our society is wealthy enough to pat idiots hands, rather than abandoning them to the consequences of their actions is the issue.
I’m a great believer in the Tough Love theory which also forces me to deal with problems I create for myself, rather than sooking about them.
That temporary pier built by the US for around 350M$ in Gaza is now kaput.
Well…it was temporary.
That just leaves the deficit funding.
Ezra on the beat.
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Rebel News HQ:
Solidarity rally for Jewish girls’ school shot at by masked gunmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmsf3qMoc4
Back to farm and am relieved to see that the Beltie steer that I have been hand feeding for 6 weeks (he couldn’t walk due to severe tendon/ligament injury in off hind leg) is walking again with the herd. This exercise has not been without a cost. My lower back is now is an awful state due to too many bumpy rides across the paddocks in the ATV. My physio also deplored my carrying of full water containers on to said vehicle.
We were very very close to euthanising this steer – but he was born & raised on the property (originally going to be a stud bull) & is a real character. So we persevered.
Meantime we did have a very old cow euthanised last week. The Angus herd in the adjacent paddock took it badly. When we were burying her with a backhoe they turned their backs to the deed when laying down for their daily siesta & moped for the rest of the day. If you don’t believe a cow can “mope” you haven’t seen one doing it. Very very obvious. I think they thought that they may be “next”.
Cattle are far smarter and observant than most believe. Our small permanent Belted Galloway herd each know their “paddock” name (as opposed to their registration paper identity) and will respond if called. They all have individual personalities – some are spiteful, some placid, some are super bright. When we were feeding the steer separately some of the older cows learned the process and began to position themselves alone in paddocks in anticipation of special treatment. And they got it. The dopey youngsters didn’t ever figure it out.
Incidentally, few people, again, would believe that you can observe a form of “racism” amongst cattle. But, let me tell you, they know which breed they belong to! Our stud Belted Galloways are generally run, for convenience, with the commercial (what’s left of them) Angus. But the Belties really do not care for them – and generally “siesta” apart from them! The Belties choose the pasture for the day and the Angus tag along after them. We think it is hilariously funny, but dare not call the Angus “the blacks” when visitors are around!!!!
Love Belted Galloways, Vicki. Cute story of the clever cows.
Cranky, I reckon you need to crank it down a notch or two, from Frightbat levels down to something more normal. If you are going to run an Alinskyist playbook, you can’t just recite each item like a shopping list, you have to use some skill.
Unless you don’t have any skill, in which case… carry on.
Wow, more epic projection, this time RFR. Have you been, as OTO called it, hitting the skunk Monty?
Has to have been. No normal human with a heart could be this obnoxious without chemical help.
How the fuk do you deal with this level of mental turpitude:
The cost to keep the Earth’s temperature at slightly above the level scientists believe is catastrophic is $215 trillion. That is according to a new study from BloombergNEF’s
It issued its new New Energy Outlook, which shows that between now and 2050, it will require a $215 trillion investment to keep rising temperatures at 1.75 degrees C above preindustrial levels. Even at that level, the climate will have been severely damaged by 2050.
Lomborg and others some time ago did a cost benefit analysis of the money spent/wasted on alarmism predicated on a crucial point ignored by the alarmists: which is warming has benefits so if humans were causing AGW there would be good things happening as well as bad. So the costs would be mitigated by the benefits and a cost/benefit analysis would show an over all benefit:
In his Book, Cool It, Lomborg at figure 11 says the costs of keeping temperature at 1.5C increase (as if humans could do this) would cost $84 trillion for $11 trillion benefits whereas doing nothing would see $2trillion in benefits and only $1 trillion in costs.
I think it’s time alarmists were nuked.
Aliens driving past Earth wind their windows up and lock their doors.
The likely will.
The damage to the UK caused by Blair and ‘Cool Britannia’ is still mounting up. However, after Margaret Thatcher’s experiment with self reliance and rationalism, the Tory wretches that followed laid the foundations for 25 years of populist government as provider and life manager.
Britain is on the verge of 15 years of Labour Government operating in ‘perpetual crisis mode’. Which will not end happily, given that Starmer – moderate stalking horse job done – will be replaced in the first term by fashionable weathervane Ed Milliband, or a closet Trot of some description.
Whatever comes next will likely not be a Tory government, nor a United Kingdom.
The UK does seem to be prepared to suffer greater political mismanagement before demanding change. I have only read accounts of London in the 70s and British Leyland. It sounded grim. Australia’s closest parallel would appear to be Chairman Dan.
Four year terms in the UK mean too that the damage is long and on-going.
Five year terms, Lizzie.
Harking back to my youth & memories of UK governance the main problem is “insular” .. Different areas/locales takibg little interest in the “bigger” picture .. Everyone is concerned about their “patch” and an “I’m all right, Jack” attitude tended to supersede what was occurring elsewhere in UK ……
No reason to suppose the “London against the rest” attitude has changed much ……..
Pretty much what I was going to say, DrF. The UK is cooked.
I can see why Trump addressed the Libertarian confabulapolooza. He’s about to bring over half of them.
‘Mises Caucus Just Exploded’: Libertarian Party Nominates Left-Winger Chase Oliver (27 May)
Conquest’s second law in action, the Libertarian Party is now just another progressive astroturf outfit, one of a panoply. The righty libertarians are going to go to Trump en-mass.
https://lpmisescaucus.com/platform/
Sounds like something a couple of 3rd year political science students wrote while taking a break from a rigorous dungeons and dragons session.
A bong and a well thumbed thesaurus were likely involved.
One might write a piece on the intricacies of the internal political machinations of the US Libertarian Party, with a blow by blow account of the various players and their policy positions, but I fear having one’s ears removed slowly with a dull razor Chopper Reid style would be more fun and illuminating.
Pity you can’t copy “reddit” videos but this is worth a look .. nor sure if he’s stupid or a “your a braver man than me, Gunga Din” bloke but quite impressive .. TALKING a, BIG black bear off your property .. LOL!
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/
ZK2A does that mean mutley is a girl. Wonder if he cut off his own dick? Probably so, straight after the DYI lobotomy. You know it makes sense.
If policy makers and their attendant
lampreysexperts truly believed in the Precautionary Principle as a risk management tool, this should be a no brainer.Huge, deliberate, actual social and economic cost – at a scale quite unprecedented in human history – attempting to offset costs that might* be uncontrollable because they are delivered by very large scale natural processes.
In and of itself this is a classic case of a a decision (or set of decisions) where the PP should apply. Just not the way disasteratii imagine.
* “Might” used here in the sense that the climatic outcomes are massively, wildly uncertain, irrespective of one’s view of AGW. Viz: 3 billion years of surface geology since the Archean.
The so-called moderate Palis are now actively recruiting baby-cooking homicidal rapists.
Fatah to Hamas and Islamic Jihad: Join the PLO (28 May)
We all know what that means. Meanwhile the military wing of Fatah and the PLO, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, said they participated in Oct 7 alongside Hamas.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a wing of Fatah: We participated in the October 7 attack (14 May)
Come in here Monty and tell us why Israel should not declare war on the Palestinian Authority, conquer the Palestinian Territories and occupy the whole place.
Until Israel sorts out the Iranian Mullocracy, she will never get to grips with the rest of the ants nest of lunatics that infest her borders.
And time is running out – if the Iranians develop nukes, Israels greatest strategic advantage is gone, and she will be helpless in the face of a tribe of savages who are happy to lose 10 million of their adherents killing 250,000 Jews.
Not surprised to find that Pinker’s thesis in The Better Angels of Our Nature, that we have become less violent over time, tendentiously quoted stats (not surprised). Even if you put aside the fact that available medical technologies would drastically reduce the number by which an assault led to death, or that among those deaths counted as homicides incl. self-defense, death while resisting arrest, and the like, he difference in homicide rates aren’t nearly or at all as different compared to the late 20thC if you look at and account for problems with the records, estimate of population, availability of emergency care, the rate would be around that of the US from the late 60s-early 90s.
The Western Sydney wing of the Labor party will be having kittens.
New poll shows Labor slipping as Coalition holds largest two-party preferred lead since last Federal Election in 2022 (Sky News, 27 May)
The problem for Albo, Wong and Tony Burqa is that the noisy protests at Sydney Madrassa oops University are from a small but very loud portion of the population. The quiet ordinary people support Israel, which seems to be reflected in this poll. Good luck squaring the circle ALP millennial staffer kiddies.
On the subject of La Tingle, whatever happened to the frequent cry from Their ABC that “Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world”?
Yesterday was just perfect here on the Gold Coast, a litany of Sunny Australia with the sky and sea contrasting blue as blue, the sand golden yellow, the ocean trout pink and the smashed avo green at lunch on trendy Main Beach’s Tedder Avenue. We had once considered buying a sub- penthouse on the (scary for me) 37th floor as an investment in Main Beach, but decided against it. Hairy still looks wistfully up, not usually a reverse shopper, but he’s always regretted not taking that and opting for the low-rise apartment at Broadbeach instead. We’ve always both had a soft spot for the Gold Coast.
We are now staying in an apartment in Surfer’s Paradise on the 16th floor where from our main balcony, drink in hand, we can look over from our glass eyrie into the evening lightshow of apartment towers coming up at dusk. Earlier we had enjoyed the snatched vistas of the ocean waves rolling in through openings between the high rise towers of this landscape. From our bedroom the mountains of the hinterland rise above the settlements on the wide lake of the Nerang River, and everywhere everything is interlaced with busy roadways, looking like Scalectrix below, thankfully silent this high up. Last night I cooked us a meal of the best steak and vegies, all provided pots and pans and cutlery just about up to the job, with breakfast on the large balcony a final touch for the goodies Hairy had got us from the local Coles,
This well-appointed spacious one-bedder is available for only $143 a nite including parking on a three nite mid-week stay and the bed is super-comfortable. I must say that is great value, just as was our small sojourn on Sydney’s south coast about a week ago. Coastal winters are the time for a quick and cheap getaway, Cats and Kittehs. Carpe diem.
Hi there, Lizzie, glad you are enjoying your getaway, Spouse and I used to keep our boat at Southport Yacht Club during southern winters along with friends from Newcastle/ Port Stephens. Tedder Ave a big favourite. Haven’t been there since the plague years.
That kunt tingle said Australia and by inference the West is racist: a good graphic of immigration, legal and illegal, where it’s coming from and going to:
The refugee crisis, captured in one staggering animated graphic – MarketWatch
This should be stamped on the vile bitch’s head.
Bloody Hell! that’s scary.
Political advice from mUnturd.
Physician, heal thyself.
Doesn’t your argument signal that being opposed to this is racist?
La Tingle’s argument certainly does.
Marching mushrooms.
Climate change is moving tree populations away from the soil fungi that sustain them (Phys.org, 27 May)
by SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks)
Oh noes, the mushrooms aren’t marching fast enough to keep up with the trees. Ok maybe the trees are Ents, they march pretty fast.
Those naughty trees, how dare they move so fast!
(SPUN? So so many drones.)
It’s like adaptation is a foreign concept to these carpet baggers. Two simple examples:
cattle heat stress days in the gulf country is forecast in the next thirty years to increase from 55 odd days to 65 odd days. Sounds bad. But, if a producer culled dry heifers every year’s muster, cattle will become more heat resistant in line with the progressive change in temperature.
Apples need a certain number of cold days (frosts) to flower. It’s about 57 days for the varieties grown in Stanthorpe. The average cold days in Stanthorpe will fall below that, obviously in some years much less. In climate change scenarios the frequency of years doing that will increase. So, an active breeding program on location, with say yield as the primary selection criterion, will automatically select for varieties that are less susceptible to fewer cold days.
and then of course, there is the new frontier of genetic engineering to accelerate the process.
But this sort of “wicked problem” isn’t meant to be actually solved of course. It is really about paying for sins and chasing other agendas than developing adaptation responses..
The Labour Party will inherit just enough money to introduce a UK NDIS. All the darkies and Mahommedans will leap on it like hyenas on an antelope. You’ll be able to see the rorting from space.
And so will end this scion of Democracy.
Cats are superspreaders.
Study shows relatively low number of superspreaders responsible for large portion of misinformation on Twitter (Phys.org, 27 May)
Okaaay, what disinformation is that?
Don Jr eh? I think we get the idea.
In other words superspreaders of the truth, which these Indiana Uni academics don’t like.
dover0beach
May 28, 2024 12:05 pm
Doesn’t your argument signal that being opposed to this is racist?
Opposed to tingle’s accusation Australia is racist or the legal and illegal immigration programs?
The racism accusation is an all-purpose label used by our masters to keep us down. For decades we were nice and accommodated and integrated all the newcomers, practically no questions asked. Did we get any credit for that? No, of course not. So what did our masters do? They ramped up the influx of new people fourfold which is now creating an economic disaster due to shortage of housing. So what do our masters do? They charge us with racism for noticing what they have caused. It’s always our fault, never theirs.
I read in the Oz that real Nazis interrupted a Deborah Conway event in Hobart on the weekend….screaming abuse at Conway and threatening Conway and patrons.
But of course, our resident Nazi spotter won’t condemn those real Nazis.
The protestors were a bunch of random locals, not any sort of organised group, and certainly not aligned with your neo-Nazi mates. All they did was stand up and protest during the performance, then get escorted out.
After the second protest, one of the patrons smashed his wine glass and threatened to cut the protestors. That was the only violence.
Again, Cranky, all you have is lies.
You’re a sicko, Jew hater.
We are also charged with racism for noticing that many of the illegal immigrants are killers, rapists and other kinds of criminals and therefore need to be deported. Once again, our masters have completely mismanaged this disaster so we are called racists again for noticing what they have done or failed to do.
Hey I know!
Let’s vote for the UniParty again and wish really hard, for a different result.
It is that crazy, it just might work!
That temporary pier built by the US for around 350M$ in Gaza is now kaput.
This is the military that wants to take on China in the waters around Taiwan?
Snigger.
When not running in to civilian shipping they are running aground.
Their pronouns are perfect though.
If you are going to sail over 6000 ocean miles to build a pier on a potentially rough sea, and the Mediterranean certainly is that, why would you assign your land force (US Army) to do it rather than your maritime one (USN)?
Because that’s what Biden did.
It was, of course, a lie.
Post-WWII Australia was perhaps the most successful multi-ethnic society in the world, chiefly because everyone was expected to integrate with the mainstream culture (and add something of their own to it).
Multiculturalism, as foisted upon us by the elites, is something else, and the polls and surveys suggest a majority of Australians are deeply concerned about the societal divisions it is fostering.
What would happen if “New Australian” was again the term (as post WWII) used to describe people coming from all over the world to make Australia their home.
An article earlier in the week wrote about “New Canadians”, and wow, all that that signified – positive implications for both the “Old” and the “New”.
Fashion news.
Clothed pig carcasses reveal the secrets of mummification—study provides insights for forensic scientists (Phys.org, 27 May)
Mongooses, mongeese?, are not impressed by how well dressed you are, they’ll eat you anyway.
Dover I hardly think it is racist to point out illegal immigration comes frome every shitehole in the world. Whatever race they happen to be has very little to do with the fact that these same people that continue to create havoc in their own countries now wish to do the same to other countries. Leaners vs lifters. Which ones do you want?. Do you seriously think we need more leaners when we are overrun with them now. They contribute nothing to society.
Import the Third World. Become like the Third World.
There’s something very familiar about the coverage of the Rafah air strike and the previous “Israel bombed the hospital” one from some time ago. Back then we were given footage of people shining torches into the burnt cars, as if looking for bodies. Now we see people raking charred bit of metal sheeting, after the flames have died down, as if looking for bodies.
Hamas aren’t into surrender or returning the remaining hostages. They are very much into brinkmanship and to continuing to fight, even if that is a few missiles over the fence from time to time, which they have done for years without much condemnation from the MSM.
They know their best card remaining is public opinion, and that public opinion is largely shaped by gullible left leaning media. They will always use that, even if it means getting some of their beloved “civilians” killed by using unsecured comms (that the Israelis will pick up) to say that Terror Boss #1 and #2 are at a certain place this evening.
Yep.
Hamas are mad, not stupid.
Post-WWII Australia was perhaps the most successful multi-ethnic society in the world, chiefly because everyone was expected to integrate with the mainstream culture (and add something of their own to it).
And the intake was largely European. No toxic cultures, mostly Christian.
That article on what Libertarianism gets Wrong managed to miss the point entirely.
How can we claim to be multicultural when we ban FGM, child marriage etc?
You think the authorities don’t turn a blind eye to these practices?
Yes, we see a few prosecutions, but they must know it’s only the tip of the iceberg and yet more resources don’t seem to be directed towards enforcing the laws.
I recall some secondary teachers in Sydney or Melbourne came forward last year to protest that child marriage was not uncommon among certain cohorts and it was difficult to get the authorities involved. It was not unusual for teenage girls to be taken on “family holidays” overseas and never come back to school.
Pity there are no Aztecs left to import.
Wind generation in NSW is a stunning ONE megawatt right now.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
People seem to misunderstand what I said. If the argument of the image cohenite provided is that Europeans accepting immigrants means that ‘we’ are not racist, than it signals that those opposed to this are racist.
Correct. Tingle and her scum ilk are the real racists and more importantly dividers.
I still think you’re misunderstanding the argument. Moreover, by using the word ‘racist’ you’re simply empowering their own arguments.
Revealed beyond any doubt as the monstrous lie it always was on the Sydney Oprah House Steps, 9 October 2023. Quite possibly the most disturbing and shameful day in modern Australian history. “What will they think of us overseas?”, indeed.
As pointed out by others previously (including Crossie’s excellent comments above) what possible benefit was there in importing hundreds of thousands of useless violent insoluble criminal deadsh*ts into this country?
So a select bunch of collectivist cockheads can feel good about themselves for no reason whatsoever? So smug harridans like Shingles can lecture us about our supposed wacism, even while hundreds of thousands more z-grade third world garbage continue to be shovelled into Sydney and Melbourne despite those cities’ increasingly precarious, overstretched and on the verge of collapse infrastructure?
Mass immigration has been the worst public policy disaster foisted on the Australian populace in my lifetime. Those responsible need to be held to account and mercilessly punished – even if unfortunately, some of mass immigration and multicu*turalism’s more egregious architects are now residing in Hades.
A warning via gumballs from 13 years ago.
What will it take to wake the West up?
Well, maybe if the Rum Corps actually did their job, …….
If the Israelis dropped the concern for public opinion and got on with it that card would be gone. It’s not like they get any credit for it anyway. It is asymmetric warfare and that is one of the main tactics used against them.
Israel is a moral country, their enemies are not. I can see where Israel cannot sink to the level of the surrounding savages.
I memed.
But this is a thing.
The ALP screw up and all of a sudden one of the comrades lights up with a brain dead statement and the caravan moves on.
I’m sure there are some Democrats that want the US relationship with Bibi to go down the same trajectory of that of Sadam.
Great friend to the US in the 80’s, later killed by the US.
Thanks Salvatore.
I didn’t realise the vid was from so long ago – but was it accurate?
Any fellow firearms owners in WA … bend down and kiss your arse goodbye. Our police minister on the new gun laws:
Mr Papalia said the current gun laws were inadequate and the new laws before parliament would have impacted Bombara from owning guns.
“The new laws state, categorically, that the possession and use of a firearm is a privilege and that privilege is conditional on public safety,” he said.
“This assumption drives every other part of the law and impacts every licenced (sic) firearm holder in the state.
“In addition, there will be no recreational licence in the new laws.
“He would have been impacted by the numerical limits of the new laws in that he would have only been able to possess five firearms.
“He would have been subject to a health check with a mental health component and the collectors licence that he held would have been subject to far stricter regulations and requirements, which would have prevented him from being approved as a collector.”
And the Libs?
“WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam said she was in favour of firearm reform.
“We have sought to refer this legislation to a committee to examine ways we can further strengthen it while avoiding unintended consequences, which the government has refused to do,” she said.
“The horrific murders at Floreat highlights the need for further consultation on firearm legislation to ensure it can keep Western Australians as safe as possible.”
We all know the real culprit here.
Climate Change!
Hamas then stole all of it. It was quite amusing. There’s total complete incompetence and then there’s the Biden Administration. I wonder if Buttigieg did the organization for it seeing he’s boss of the Department of Transport?
Millie, probably, rang Sinwar to give him a heads up …
Why don’t they just use the roads?
Oh, ….., sorry!
Another great article on American Thinker titled ‘On Memorial Day, Remember Those Who Died For Nothing”
Well worth the read and not very long.
Too many links for me to link it(plus I don’t know how to)
Bruce in WA
May 28, 2024 2:00 pm
Any fellow firearms owners in WA … bend down and kiss your arse goodbye. Our police minister on the new gun laws:
Mr Papalia said the current gun laws were inadequate and the new laws before parliament would have impacted Bombara from owning guns.
“The new laws state, categorically, that the possession and use of a firearm is a privilege and that privilege is conditional on public safety,” he said.
“This assumption drives every other part of the law and impacts every licenced (sic) firearm holder in the state.
“In addition, there will be no recreational licence in the new laws.
What is the state body looking after and representing shooters in WA? I would have recommended the National Shooting Council, NSC, but they seem to be having a bit of infighting. One thing gun owners absolutely need is a unified front.
I hope Buttplug is not indicative of the type of bright young graduate McKinsey’s employs.
So much for cracking down on domestic violence ..! Why on earth would a case be adjourned for 10 months ..? FFS!
Taylan May won’t play again this season. The Panthers winger pleaded not guilty to the charges he was accused of this morning. The matter has been adjourned until March 2025
La Tingle – I look forward to this week’s MWD, Media Watch Dog, by Gerard Henderson.
One of those things in life that one would prefer to avoid really, coming to Gerard’s very precise and sharp attention, though I do wish it on others, particularly the ABC.
I see that the Fat Fascist Fool mUnturd is using the sexist hate term terf (trans exclusionary radical feminist), a group which includes both heterosexual women and lesbians opposed to trans-“women” having access to women’s only places.
He is clearly both misogynist and homophobic
The Attempted Cancelling of Nigel Farage
Post-WWII Australia was perhaps the most successful multi-ethnic society in the world, chiefly because everyone was expected to integrate with the mainstream culture (and add something of their own to it).
A perhaps interesting observation, in 1980 a potential Anglo Celtic migrant to Australia, in the course of an hour’s interview at the Consulate, was given chapter and verse about ‘the need to fit in’ and ‘don’t expect any favours for being British’.
This included being given a little handbook explaining Australians and Australian culture.
HILL: The gathering Cloward-Piven driven deportation storm
m0nty
May 28, 2024 11:23 am
Reply to Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Decoded this means “I would like to see more dead Israelis”.
It’s a common talking point with hamas sympathisers and they don’t really know what they’re really saying, or don’t care.
Equity, comrade.
M0nty forgot to mention the miles of tunnels and the willingness to kill their own as human shields. That makes it quite a fight for the decent Israeli IDF to combat. These Hamas brutes are terrorists. What part of that doesn’t M0nty understand? Talk about refusal to see what is really going on, in particular the Hamas takeover for the past twenty years where they’ve done nothing productive, their only aim being to take out Israel. And yep, M0nty’s there with them on that – kill all Jews from the river to the sea, eh M0nty?
Yes Fraser was fully on board with multiculturalism. Fraser was pretty hard left.
He would certainly be right at home among today’s post Howard Lieborals.
Well, Mr Pantsdown was the f&ckwit who, against Secretarial advice, initiated large scale Middle East immigration.
There is that!
Fitzsimian making a point…
Just not the one he though he was.
Twitter being silly again – where have tweets from all the people I follow gone?
Bring back the bird!
…….
Peter FitzSimons
@Peter_Fitz
Yes. that is something I still don’t understand.
Pre-Musk, those we wanted to see would float to the top.
Post-Musk, they are buried.
Why is that?
?
Bandannaman has discovered shadowbanning? Say it ain’t so!
Irony upon irony.
Pennsylvania is sitting on major untapped lithium ‘white gold mine’ that could generate new billion-dollar industry, government study finds
Good one I!
The Closing of the Internet Mind
Decoded further 123, it’s also an interesting admission by Munted:
Yep, Lysander. Snap. Wot I just said above to Bushie’s comment that quotes our leftist touchstone.
“Twitter being silly again – where have tweets from all the people I follow gone?
Bring back the bird!”
He needs to choose ‘following ‘ instead of ‘for you’?
Too difficult a concept for the handkerchiefed idiot to comprehend.
WA Cats, on getting rid of recreational shooting (Ill thought out knee jerk by imbeciles).
I’ll be in touch with the SSAA and will join shooter council. These bodies need to put it out clear to the LNP & Nationals. You support this bill we will direct our members to put you last on the ballot. Libs don’t need any more losses.
Us Eastern States are next if this is allowed to wash.
Second too start going after the cops. Why was WA’s Cheif Wiggum and his keystone lads allowing a guy with multiple guns, about to go off the deep end and I’d say balance of probabilities probably had AVO’s out on him to keep them?
Over east guns are usually the first thing seized either by malicious AVO’s or out of precaution.
There seems very little questions I can see on Police preventative actions, though am happy to be corrected if he just exploded like a 50yo stick of gelignite sweating nitro everywhere.
I’ll be in touch with the SSAA and will join shooter council. These bodies need to put it out clear to the LNP & Nationals. You support this bill we will direct our members to put you last on the ballot. Libs don’t need any more losses.
Do it! We are increasingly living in perilous times. I am not a violent person and deplore violence. But Australian international security has not been as precarious since WWII. At the very least, I would like to think we could feed ourselves on the land.
Dover spammanator ate a post on WA gun confiscation scheme.
Unsure what the naughty word was.
I’ll have things that didn’t happen for $1000 please.
If you can’t see the tweet linked by Peter Horwitz, the author, a muslim, claims to have been threatened by ‘a lot of Jewish family’s’ (sic) living nearly in, yes the Northern suburbs where very few Jews but perhaps 250 thousand muslims live.
https://x.com/asaf_brukarz/status/1794325531925819700?t=mrg5n4FzD8SQ9hk0U5BsaA&s=19
Fruit Tingle’s sneering at all of us is problematic for her, although I believe she hasn’t realised it yet.
By sneering at we ordinary yobs, she is informing us that SHE is not racist. That SHE is superior to us.
Where is the proof? Yakking about racism is the easy part. Where are her multi-coloured lodgers? Does she have a family of Abos living in her spare room so the kiddies can go to her old alma mater?
Does she have a Prayer area in her lounge room? Has she given succour to those poor pedos, rapists and murderers that we yobs want to be rid of?
Seriously, what ARE her “I’m no racist”, bona fides?
It’s all about the seeming.
How easily the lefty Tingle-types oscillate from Australia being such a bonzer multi-cultural place to “we are all racist”.
It just depends which view suits them on the day.
A great photo of Tel Aviv just after it was stolen from the Palestinians.
https://x.com/MaxNordau/status/1794019410069320116?t=CwRC0Wi96_BCO7kO2iEQyA&s=19
Aerial photos of the Israel border with any Muslim neighbour (doesn’t matter which one) illustrates the same thing.
Rosie, I have always argued that the Pallies want the remarkable nation that Israelis have created. Of course, it would be a shithole within a couple of years if ever, God help us, they ever acquire it.
The following occurred to me on reading the sentence I have highlighted in bold. How is that adherents of non “Judeo-Christian faiths” never seem have second thoughts about their faiths? Or is it just not talked about in the mainstream press?
Jacinta Allen in VIC is putting forward legislation to hold Pollies to approved behavioural standards, particularly regarding speech. What could possibly go wrong when a Premier at least as dictatorial as Dan steps up to the plate with something like this?
Sky News ran the story without comment. Then turning on a dime they got stuck into Keith Pitt over nuclear! Would you have one in your electorate? Is nuclear popular with your electorate? These tactics reflect badly on the daytime Sky crew, who certainly reinforce the (well researched) estimate that 80% of journos lean left.
Waste of time.
How do you “hold pollies to account” other than through the electoral system?
Would I have one in my electorate? I’d even have one in my backyard if I got power at cost to resell!
I’d need a big powerboard, but.
Daytime Sky isn’t worth watching even when there is nothing else on.
There is not enough iron ore in WA for a gun buy back and the end of recreational shooters licence. Choose one.
HB … they don’t intend to have a buyback as in 96. They intend to take away your licence so your firearms will be illegal. The present voluntary buyback is capped. When the dough runs out, you get nothing.
Biden’s FBI Justified Its Deadly Force Policy in Mar-a-Lago Raid Because of “Life Threatening” Kitchen Utensils, Resort Gym Equipment
We already knew that pro-Pali demonstrators are low-calibre zombies. They have confirmed this in various ways, most recently by protesting Deborah Conway’s concert in Hobart.
“How is that adherents of non “Judeo-Christian faiths” never seem have second thoughts about their faiths?”
Because publically abandoning islam can be big trouble even a death sentence?
Ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
There is a priest in Canberra, Buddhist to Catholic to the priesthood. That’s an amazing journey.
How, one may ponder, will Ms Joseph Xi Allen enforce behavioural standards for pollie speech.
Personaly, I am in favour of the her fascism. With the SFL are all locked up in re-education camp the ground will finally be clear for actual conservatives to reoccupy the Party.
The very thought of her proposal is stunning. But if that degree of fascism is what is necessary to wake up lazy f..king Victorians, then go for it Sweets.
The 10 largest animals in Australia which were hunted to extinction by the 3rd nations:
10 Prehistoric Giants of Australia | KickassFacts
Next time some dickhead extols the green credentials of the 3rd nations just mention this.
Sisi visiting Beijing atm.
The daughter of the turd that murdered the mother and daughter in WA, had told the coppers three times that her father had guns and was violent. She specifically mentioned the Glock. She’ll be right love, no worries.
They did nothing.
But we will come for the guns belonging to the good guys, because, reasons.
That’s fine. Until you want police acting on matters not subjected to scrutiny in the courts not much is going to change. I’m sure exparte AVOs aren’t being abused for ulterior motives. There is a definite limit on the capacity of the law to regulate human behaviour. As far as it can tell this guy could still have long arms under any of the changes proposed. I’m not sure how or why he was allowed pistols.
Did they ignore the repeated warnings from the family about the weapons and the violence so that the nutter would generate a shooting giving them the opportunity to confiscate ALL the WA weapons?
Nothing is beyond the fascists in control over there.
Sisi visiting Beijing atm.
Interesting. I didn’t mind Al Sisi during his leadership in Egypt. But accusations of corruption/authoritarianism etc during his presidency arose. Who knows? Chinese money attracts and subverts across all boundaries. Attributable to the weakness of us humans. God help us.
Reading Twitter, it’s astonishing to look at the ramblings of all the ABC top men. Past and present. Quentin Dempster. Barrie Cassidy. Mile Carlton. Etc etc. They literally despise normal Australians. It’s all day, everyday. They are literally demented with hate.
All of them believe that they are independent intellectuals. The ultimate narcissists.
did you ever know a dictator who loved their own people?
Many of them (not necessarily those mentioned) were happy enough as the ALPBC slid from a national institution to a staff run Marxist cesspit from the late 60s till today. It is naive to think that happened by accident.
The Axis of Ashbolt.
Stumping up more investment for that new city he wants to build west of Alex?
That’d be ironic since if Hamas’d done things differently Gaza could’ve been that city.
Spot on, BoN.
How do we know they don’t?
Indian census returns this century indicate atheism and agnosticism are growing in India at c. 15% per year.
I would say that’s actually just a change of emphasis from religious Hinduism to Hindu nationalism. The BJP have been pushing hard with the latter aspect.
Actually, I think the census response is “no religion” but other surveys have been more specific re atheism or agnosticism.
Sociologically, this would be expected in a country experiencing economic growth and an expanding middle class.
I almost feel sorry for this administration re Gaza. They have torched a huge amount of diplomatic, military, and political capital and have received little to no recognition for it.
Do you mean Ben Pfizer?
WA Police are pretty crap Pogria.
Evidence by way of past and a recent experience I had with them…
We live at a T intersection where our house is half way down a hill, on an upside down T, looking up the street that goes up to the top of the hill. Day and night, cars come and park outside one (or two?) houses up the hill and wait there for about 2-3 minutes, tops.
They then drive down the hill to the intersection that our house overlooks (so, their car is pointing directly at our place) and I have no idea why, but every single car stops there for a minute or two (no, there’s no traffic).
Weird huh?
So I can only deduce that they are stopping at a place to get something from there, evidently, in a hurry. After they have left they want to stop anywhere immediately on the street (but away from said house) to see/check what they got? Sound like a fair assumption?
Dunno how all this works as I never got involved in that life, period, but I told Plod I was unhappy about the traffic and some of the hoons associated with it (more unhappy their headlights constantly shining into our rooms).
Plod: “Nah, nothing sounds strange there.” Twice I complained and once my local MP took it up and the fat bastards still do nothing.
Now that would make me wonder if the police are being paid off.
Sadly, that did cross my mind Roger…
It’s reality, I’m afraid – there is no police force free from corruption. The question is, is it occasional, opportunistic corruption or systemic? With QLD police in the 1970s & 80s it was systemic, which meant the good guys were isolated & on the back foot, until a few of them got together and went to carefully selected journalists with the evidence.
I still get gassed at 4am. Chlorine.
Curious that a whole suburb is being chlorinated at 4am most days and there’s no interest. Been going on for years.
So very sorry to read that Lysander.
I don’t believe you are alone though, regarding the blackshirts in WA. It seems to be across the board now for Oz.
The average, law abiding Aussie has to start looking out for themselves. There are many, everyday implements that can be used for personal safety. We really have to be prepared to look after ourselves.
Also, remember the rule about dealing with dogs that attack livestock.
Three S’s.
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
TTYTT Pogria
It was getting so bad at one point I was thinking of asking my former CFMEU neighbour (who used to beat people/scabs up for a living, he’s told me, and he looks the part!) to help me out.
I won’t publish how, but you can use your imagination and think of the things they want to take away from law abiding citizens….
Lysander,
Law Abiding Citizen was on FTA last night.
The average citizen can accomplish much, as long as they don’t feel as though they need to brag.
Really, a job well done, is its own reward.
Back in the day I provided the local constabulary with about thirty number plates of motorbikes and cars which spent a very short time visiting a house across the road, all in a weekend. Told thank you, don’t you worry about that. No action, went on for about 6 months.
Also had flat next door turned into a “depot”, the one next to us had sideway covered in rubbish and waste iron so no-one could come up the side, big dogs. One Sunday afternoon the two little girls were locked out in the back yard and spent hours crying to be let inside, saying they were hungry and thirsty. My own little girl wanted us to get them over the fence so they could come in and play. Reported situation, they moved on after another couple of months. It was heartbreaking.
Both these occurred 30 years go, the neighbourhood has improved out of sight since and the low-life’s could not afford to live here now.
Lysander, seen the same thing in our street. Bearded git driving old van stops outside a certain house, meets with resident and then drives off after a minute or so. The resident was one later murdered by a couple of his moronic mates who kept his head in the boot of their car. Nobody in the street was sorry as certain petty crimes stopped too. This is a good part of Toowoomba.
Back in 1986 saw Top Gun in Adelaide shortly after arriving back from the US. It was dusk when we got out and we noted another bearded git in old van dropping what looked to be very young, painted up girls on street corners. Obvious what was going on. I’d guess in both cases nothing was done because the regular payments were being made.
Hmmm indeed…..
Well, I’m sure that WA Plod have a much “richer history” of corruption than just about anywhere else in Australia (notwithstanding VicPol’s several high profile entrants of the last few years, not to mention the ones they don’t publish).
(That comment may be ahistorical, hysterical or just wrong but sometimes it appears that way to me!)
Not sure WAPOL would be any worse than their Victoriastani, NSW or Qld counterparts, all of whom have various well known bad eggs amongst them.
Certainly the demise of the silver fox Don Hancock, was suggestive of more iceberg around,
Having a head rolling around in the boot would drive me nuts.
I’d tie it under the car so I could keep an eye on the road.
Eyrie – If you haven’t read Police Your Planet you should. Ripper golden age SF.
Got about a quarter of the way into it and stopped. I’ll give it another go. I did get the drift. Lester del Rey.
Long time since I read it, must reread it! I have the paperback around somewhere. I’ll probably have to download the Gutenberg file though since I have no idea which bookcase I’d have the dead tree one in. I have a lot of bookcases!
A bloke by the name of Douglas Smith is apparently upset.
Good Lord.
Maybe leave off the last two words.
Galatians 3:28.
This person should be issued a periscope, so he can look around and see over the bullshyte
We’re a democracy and the majority reject his point of view, such is life
It’s like having to live in a state with a Labor government, such is life
Just get on with it man, stop whining
Of all the utter malarkey, ever written….
I believe we do our part with $40 billion worth of outstretched hands per year. How about the indigenes acknowledge that and say thank you. The constant demands, complaints and accusations will not get us there.
What a steaming pile of horse droppings.
There’s your problem right there: gullible idiots happy to believe the lies of activists who ultimately don’t give a shit about the victims of their wickedness.
Thanks for putting this up, BB. It gives us a clear idea of what we’re up against. A grand coalition of whinging losers.
And knives.
Don’t forget knives.
Pro tip. Don’t start something you can’t finish.
Criminal Sudanese migrant who self-identifies as Aboriginal is allowed to stay in Australia
Daily Mail.
Walls are closing in on Giles. Still reckon he’s the favourite to go under the bus. Factions may not be able to save him. Killing season not for a couple of months yet. Clock is ticking to clear the decks for 2025.
Even Mark “How can we help, Prime Minister” Riley has given up on him.
Baristas everywhere should quake in terror (the Hun):
How do you like your noodle arm-concealing tatt sleeves now?
Any idea what one of those full arm tats cost?
Anyone?
I find it interesting how this Labor government operates in comparison to previous Labor governments. It seems as if the Foreign Minister Penny Wong is the Prime minister. She makes all the announcements and statements and Albo simply points enquires her way.
The Foreign Minister can certain make suggestion but the ultimate decisions are made by the PM and the cabinet. That doesn’t seem to be happening as Albo who is supposed to be on top of everything relating to foreign relations is definitely not up on issues.
Is this state of affairs due to Albo being the lazy fair weather PM who is only interested in perks and benefits of the position? Could it be that he is happy to leave the hard work to others? The other question is who is really in charge? Is Penny Wong dominating the party room? Is she the de facto PM and actually running the show?
So many questions yet I am leaning to the theory of Albo’s fecklessness. He is too much into his lifestyle which takes precedence over his duties to keep on eye on his government ministers. No wonder so many ministers are failing miserably since nobody is checking their homework.
Re, the palli fluffers that tried to have a go at Deborah Conway in Hobart, an awesome member of the audience took exception to the disturbance.
Said audience member smashed a wine glass and went all Sgt Milton Warden on them. Boo yah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfk-JTdQ_0I
Mirambro Creek 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon. Not a wine designed for aging.
Dark fruit bouquet and flavour with a hint of liquorice, tannins from stalks and seeds rather than oak and less from skins despite colour, not bad balance of flavours but rather flat – not much depth (the taste when you first sip it does not develop – like the way orange juice tastes like orange juice in the first second as it does at 20 seconds).
Only $40. Good with a non-greasy burger (Batch Burger, Kirribilli) where the burgr flavour has depth.
Sorry, it is just that you lot focus on historical injustices, human suffering, political overreach and oppression – and miss out on the big picture.
I mean…pickles! A civilisational crossroads.
I think his bandana is too tight.
What was happening was that left-leaning Twatters were promoting the Twats a few like-minded types.
Now they are back in the pack with everyone else, something which I thought would appeal to the very egalitarian FitzSimian.
As Rosie says, he can always follow his fellow travellers.
What he really misses is knowing his pearls of wisdom would be routinely bumped up the feed of people who couldn’t give a shit about him.
Forgot the link to the Deborah Conway story.
here ya go,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13465899/Deborah-Conway-pro-palestine-Israel-concert.html
So you are allowed to self-identify as an aboriginal now?
I wonder if other people self-identify as aboriginals?
Nah, that is unthinkable, no one would do that.
You used to have to be accepted by the local community as indigenous, and the going rate in the Kimberlys was three cartons of VB.
Identification in itself is not sufficient according to law.
Apparently law doesn’t matter in this case.
We are all aborigines now.
I certainly am, if asked.
You never know what may come your way, ….., eh bloke?
100s of excess teen deaths are Hamas combatants.
https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1792547444317671829?t=-pBJ8bArFkR1pCs8BFeeYA&s=19
Hamas’s talent as a terrorist organisation is to get young people to die for a religion its leaders barely believe in.
That’s the whole point – the old blokes get the young blokes to do stupid shit and it leaves a surplus of younger women to get married off to the older blokes. The ugly ones get left with the goat herders.
I’d have thought it was an obvious facet of the Mohammedan Cult.
Deborah Conway was not only right on this but not afraid to say it on the ABC.
No wonder they’re trying to shut her down.
Two word slogan , Albo can thank me later.
Labor Kills
Information is hard to find atm, but apparently two international free speech organisations have been granted leave by the Federal Court to be heard in the esafety v X case despite arguments against from esafety’s legal reps.
The fact that the mob who work for our eKaren thought they could oppose these organisations speaks volumes about the ridiculousness of the entire, stupid, self inflicted mess.
Interesting Israeli account that geolocates incidents in Gaza and Lebanon.
https://x.com/MiddleEastBuka?t=BIgPXkJQfLl7pA7cbcPBQg&s=09
When you can’t worship in the Hagia Sophia, just build your own.
https://x.com/Culture_Crit/status/1794829245035970955?t=ZhCQm7ijhrMVpnGoQNFg6Q&s=19
That is a beautiful thing, Rosie.
Magnificent – and a lesson for the Marxists and other barbarians.
The Rafah massacre.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1795213590120550760?t=tMgPk7-2FnEXIKDs77-66g&s=19
two international free speech organisations have been granted leave by the Federal Court
There’s still so much to hate about our idiot federation with plays like this.
Apparently food prices in Gaza have dropped since the IDF took over the Rafah crossing
https://x.com/Jewtastic/status/1795149064390283321?t=zQ6bETJPt_LTneQlinNEdA&s=19
Allan filth really has nothing other than tired old Marxist-feminist hatred. What loathsome trash these people are.
Victoria now has a Parl Secretary, ie baby-Minister for Men’s Behavior – Michael Smith News
Tell me this is from the Babylon Bee?!
Surely this was meant to be the Parliamentary Setchetary for Hetereosexual Caucasian Men’s Behaviour?
When Hamas says jump, Piers Morga says how high?
https://x.com/Jewsarethegoat/status/1795222662521802955?t=Qb1MUHWbyZcyh-4WG5kHlw&s=19
Albanese’s Nett Zero Economy. – Michael Smith News
oh no another Doctor
Furiosa: A Non-Mad Max Saga
Furiosa is a really decent post-apocalyptic action movie, with Anya Taylor-Joy replacing Charlize Theron in the title role. The only problem is that its trying to be a Mad Max movie without Mad Max, and it seems audiences aren’t loving it.
I’m watching Josh Freydenberg’s program on Sky and am struck by how passive Albo appears in what he says. He agrees with Josh about the anti-Semitic activities on our university campuses and streets yet he is not offering anything or committing his government to do anything about it. Every other person being interviewed has more to offer. Albo does not act like a Prime Minister, more like a spectator.
Crossie,
words without meaning.
Simply mouthing focus group platitudes.
Un frigging believable.
And Julia Gillard saying, “should of”. Jesus wept.
I’m not surprised by Julia’s problems with language ever since she had a problem with pronouncing hyperbole. For a university educated person that was a telling lapse.
She was still more convincing in her decency than Albanese was; he was pure PR and waffle. But neither of them could admit any fault in Labor’s approach. They could control these outrages by using existing laws, and by heavying police to act but they absolutely lack the will to do this. Voteherds win
Sgt Schultz.
He’s the dog that caught the car it was chasing, and now doesn’t know what to do with it.
You are witnessing a man without a backbone.
This amoeba rose to the top of the Labor pardee. He is the best they have to offer.
But he does fight Tories, or so he told us. Silly bugger.
Very hard for someone with a left wing pro Pali background to be caught and asked the hard question.
Especially an amoral spineless person.
Lots of stuff around today about this. The box office is really dismal. Yet Cats who have seen it say it isn’t bad. I thought this was curious until I read another from John Nolte today.
Nolte: ‘Mad Max with Sexless Girlboss’ Drives Memorial Day Box Office to 26-Year Low (27 May)
Ok yeah, that may be true. But I followed his embedded links and they said everything you need to know. You see Furiosa may be a lady but she looks just like a tranny…
One more observation while watching Josh Freydenberg’s program, Julia Gillard is miles ahead of Albo in being able to express her solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people. Albo looked uncomfortable and straight away had to qualify his support with his belief in a two state solution. Albo really is a small man.
Albo was a total damp squib. As usual.
Crossie,
Albo is small. No man whatsoever.
completely out of his depth, he thought it was just about doing deals – like with what’s his name, Joyce at QANTAS
The Palestinians have rejected five offers of a Two State solution since the late 1930’s, while continuing to demand the total annihilation of the State of Israel. What makes a mental pygmy like Albanese think they are remotely interested in such a solution, today?
Snap, Crossie. I just said that in response to your first comment. It seems to be a general view in any of the responses I have seen tonight to this program, online and on sky.
Albo was hopeless, Gillard did at least seem sincere.
It is gratifying that Bronwyn Bishop on Sharri’s program just now made the same comparison between Albo and Julia Gillard’s responses when being interviewed by Josh Freydenberg for his Never Again program. Albo’s inadequacy is really quite stark and noticeable.
Julia Gillard was outstanding. I have not ever been a fan, but I am enormously impressed with her integrity and insight in seeing anti-Semitism for what it is. She was unwavering.
Albanese? He was unequivocal in his condemnation of the protesters against Israel. I think that should be acknowledged. But he was not challenged with a question on his Foreign Minister’s appalling position re Israel and the Gazan conflict. Until his government clearly supports Israel’s right to destroy those who massacred its citizens, he cannot claim claim clarity on this issue.
Well said, Vicki.
Mossad are deep state. Lefties. They aren’t a friend of Netanyahu. I would not be surprised if they play similar games to what the US alphabet agencies do.
An Arab claims a Jew threatened him.
News at 11.
(Just after the article about a stash of left foot shoes found in an abandoned quarry.)
It was a superb documentary I think Peter Cosgrove said it best when he said that…
Hitler would be happy.
Real Nazis are now empowered in this country, and those real Nazis are Muslims and leftists, who have been empowered by a weak, spineless, supine, and craven Labor government.
As for the Greens, they are now a fully fledged Nazi party, and scum who vote for the Greens are no different to those who voted for Hitler in 1933.