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Please not “Richter”. All earthquakes now are reported in moment magnitude scale. Same idea as Richter regarding logarithmic scale but…
Rowan Dean gave a well-deserved retrospective slap during his Clown Show segment to Victoria’s COVID era “Health Adviser” Brett Sutton.…
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No shortage of calories there, in fact it looks like a surplus.
One would hope that anal and the old perv are the last gasp of a venal, malicious and incompetent establishment. The same way the printing presses spew out barely read copies of the Aged and Sydney morning vomit
Mother Lode
June 8, 2024 10:09 am
Well, it provides a justification for the Appellate court to overturn the conviction without having to go into grotesque malfeasance of Merchan’s conduct.
Possibly. The issue will be whether merchan knew before the jury verdict came down. If that is the case all bets are off. Or would be in a normal society. The US is currently being run by a demented pervert who shat his diaper at D-Day.
Dr Jill had to hold her nose.
Joe Von Schitzenpants?
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So the lad and I will be heading around Melbourne for a look at things, MCG, Skydeck and whatever else needs a look at.
From our hotel room across from Southern Cross station, you could see a bit of history. Along those tracks a few old brick buildings of business that depended on rail. Built on a vision from the state’s early leaders and entrepreneurship which the current mob do not share.
Yeah they might be building a rail loop and some other roads no one wants, it’s not the same.
Yes Vicco needs another Sir Henry Bolte. Amazing how people I need in my work still talk about him.
Cohenite:
Thanks for the heads up re Bernard Gaynor and the NSW Government/Gary Burns Lawfare against him.
If there was ever a case of an individual standing for decency and our rights, it’s Bernard.
I hope you all can help in some way by cash donation or legal assistance.
Merchan is covering his ass. He has done what the scum paid him to do and now he is attempting to distance himself from the inevitable blowback when The Evil Orange Man becomes President again.
He is preparing the ground for a higher court to take over and believes he can sit back and stay untainted.
Of course I could be entirely wrong, yet again, and he will gaol the Evil Orange Man.
Either way he has a target on his back.
Slimy creatures like him always try to have an each way bet.
Last night I watched ERIC .. New Netflix series with Benedict Cumberbatch .. My best recommendation .. AVOID .. bloody awfie! .. 6 agonizing episodes of very little .. 1st 4 eps slower than a wet weekend .. the plot is ludicrous .. & ERIC, God bless ‘im a cameo .. very rarely seen and sez little .. In fact other than needing a catchy title no idea why he is there .. 2/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16283824/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_1_nm_6_q_eric
And more information: shrillary was fined $113000 for describing the fee for preparation of the Steele, wussia, wussia dossier as campaign expenses:
DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine | AP News
Trump on the other hand faces 100 years in jail for NOT misdescribing a payment.
John Edwards, a 2008 Democrat presidential candidate has an interesting background in soliciting donations to hide an ongoing affair during his campaign as well.
cohenite
June 7, 2024 8:45 pm
Best bet is the first nukes will go off in the ME, when Israel gets pushed too far by her allies, or when Iran decides to deal with her ‘Jewish problem.’
WW3 will happen – just like WW1 – as agreements and Alliances pull in the major powers.
The use of nukes is not necessarily the start of WW3 – but that’s just my opinion. Islam will probably have a go at Israel, then blackmail the West into allowing them to continue Hitlers Solution.
Does anyone here think that we will swap Washington/London/Berlin for Tel Aviv? I doubt it.
Nor will the Americans swap any cities for Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra.
Israel, OTOH certainly has nukes and the means to deliver them anywhere between Libya and Pakistan.
Depending on delivery method, Israel can deliver them almost world wide.
They have advanced submarines that could easily infiltrate just about any port in the world outside of US and Russia. Just a matter of dropping a nuke with a 6 hour timer out of a torpedo tube and getting out of Dodge.
It irks me that no one talks about level 1 delivery methods – you don’t need an ICBM worth billions to flatten Isfahan, just a couple of donkeys and a cart with an all up value of 87 Shekels + a cargo of bananas parked in a marketplace in Isfahan Fruit Souk, and when it goes *bang* we blame the Iranian nuclear program.
I feel some sympathy for the donkeys but.
How do you know it hasn’t already started and that we are merely in the prologue?
That’s my point, DB. Assassinating the ArchDuke wasn’t the flashpoint, the sides were being drawn up with the Treaties and Agreements of Mutual Assistance that were already in existence as is the case now.
Archduke Ferdinand was just one of hundreds of potential flashpoints from his assassination to the price of pineapples in Moscow Fruit Markets.
Just about any excuse would have done. After all, what’s the point of having a crisis if they can’t profit from it?
The train is now rolling, and we seem to be steadily increasing speed because no one has had the sense to put an effective* emergency brake on it.
The bastards will sit back, sipping champagne, and having “High Level Meetings” and engaging in “Shuttle Diplomacy” with squadrons of press chasing them looking for any scraps of information that fall from the Great Men’s Tables, while they congratulate themselves for being the “smartest men in the room”. And even when they stuff it up, which looks increasingly more likely, they’ll write their memoirs about how WW3 would never have happened if they had only been allowed to let diplomacy work.
*The UN is not an effective brake – it has become a make work program for useless diplomats to burnish their credentials and let them live a life of luxury they could never even dream of if they were in private enterprise, while delaying and disrupting people who could solve the problems we face.
Frig it. Rant over.
The problem isn’t diplomacy. The problems relate to the political objectives.
The tools of the political objectives are the Diplomat Caste and the fact they need crises to maintain their lifestyles.
That’s why we are up to our necks in these crises – we have to keep the Expert Caste employed in tasks that are commensurate with their University Qualifications.
I didn’t expect The Times to go here:
Astonishing. Anyone who has watched “ Screams before the Silence” & also followed the responses by first attenders shortly after 7 October will gasp at any denial of the atrocities.
Vicki, do you think those reporting or interviewed are unware of either?
Aware – but would they view this evidence? Like Penny Wong, who refused to visit the devastated kibbutzim, probably not.
Did you read the article?
I have, after your question, Dover. It is wearying to read more about this obscenity, but I did. It is a laboured attempt to do the impossible : suggest that the rapes were exaggerated, at the very least. What did it say? Oh yes – they were actually murders!
While it is a big ask to find survivors of the rapes – perhaps amongst those kidnapped, IF they survive – the state of the bodies is horrific testimony. Oh wait, broken pelvises, nails and bullets in relevant areas of bodies means nothing.
That they could view this material, and still speculate that the evidence is inconclusive is stark testimony to prejudice beyond understanding.
Even so, I was really shocked by the initial refusal of many “leftist” friends to believe ANY of the accusations. Indeed, one friend of many many years, shrugged his shoulders, and said , “Well, that is war, isn’t it?”
We are strange creatures.
No we are not, they are.
Re: how WW111 start? Probably as a result of a minor, but escalating event. And it will happen very quickly.
We all watch with mouths agape at the stupidity and brinkmanship.
incidentally, we listened this morning to Kim Beasley being interviewed re our defence issues. Interestingly, he implied ( as we understood it) that US & Brit subs are patrolling our waters all the time.
Has anyone got the actual text of Merchan’s “juror misconduct” letter?
Scroll down here.
Love this video: How ships cross the Panama Canal.
I watched Godzilla Minus One last weekend. I only found out about it from The Critical Drinker. On a fraction of the budget they made a movie better than Hollywood can manage. The special effects were top notch. The monster looks a bit clunky but it is in fact a perfect rendering of the 1950’s designed monster-suit designed for a man to wear.
Good stuff!
Beasley is a big fat lump.of lard who has nothing to contribute. A defender eggspurt who was never in services. Went into parliament at. 27 iirc. Always part of the problem
Multi generational troughers.
Absolutely. Makes me wanna puke. Why go thru the hard slog at Duntroon when you can do a course at Oxford ? Fukwit
Where is Britain’s grand strategy?
Britains foreign policy has certainly changed from making sure that no one nation became dominant on the European land mass.
Link to article about Mechan letter to attorneys is here
Letter is at bottom of article and is available on scribd
The majority of the US sub fleet is now assigned to the Pacific.
Yes. Topender put some of my fears to rest earlier this year.
The Continent’s Future at Stake in European Elections:
Indolent
The TikTok videos of Doctors and Nurses ‘dancing’ was the moral equivalent of the orchestra greeting the incoming inmates of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Sachsenhausen.
As expected.
Pritchard has forecasted 8 of the last 3 recessions. Careful.
Disclosure: my bet is still a form stagflation.
Sure, Makka.
But my bet is that whatever the outcome, peasants will be the ones to cop it in the neck.
What are the odds that he will be claiming that Trump intefered with the jury?
The juror cousin thing is a hoax, the Facebook poster admitted it.
Bad luck you lot, Trump is still guilty.
His ham sandwich also.
Hey, is it a coincidence that just days after you referred to Trump as “Von Schitzenpants”, Creepy Joe had his own, very public, episode of shitting in his pants?
PS, does Shtillary still live in New York? If so, will Bragg drag her before the same judge over her misuse of campaign funds in 2016 to promote the bogus Steele Dossier?
And how is the Russian disinformation line on Grunter’s dick pics standing, now that the FBI has introduced the Laptop from Hell as evidence in Grunter’s trial?
It’s just telling us what we already knew, Muttley. That the decision was predetermined, regardless of the veracity of the Facebook post.
Piss off you dirty stink
Speaking of dirty stinks apparently ‘Dr’ Jill had to cover her nose after the old perv’s accident
Despite what most people think, there is no real anonymity on the internet, it will be found out who it was and if a relation exists.
The simple fact that the judge took the trouble to inform both parties means something.
I imagine there will he a flurry of activity in the White House, summoning all the expertise and ingenuity they can muster to deal with the emergency: How can we hide this until after the election?
Cringe On-Pierre may have to add a few more evasive expressions for her press briefings as her usual repertoire will be no more up to the task of gaslighting the public than it is now.
BBC continued in panic mode last night: there’s a movement to the right, wait a minute, the extreme right, in Europe!
Newshour had a woman on to explain. It’s like this, she said. The right offer simplistic solutions and world views. The more valid political views are more complex, nuanced, and global!
Most scary of all was that a lot of the rightward push was coming from “the young”. Horror of horrors.
Example One was a 25 year old from Hungary with “piercing green eyes”. Example Two was asked why he was voting rightwards: immigration.
He said he was not so much voting right as voting common sense.
This did not please the BBC operative.
But the Greens are never the extreme left, are they?
Merchan is covering his ass. He has done what the scum paid him to do and now he is attempting to distance himself from the inevitable blowback when The Evil Orange Man becomes President again.
There’s too much mess now in the USA for Trump to clean house.
Beasley is a big fat lump.of lard who has nothing to contribute. A defender eggspurt who was never in services. Went into parliament at. 27 iirc. Always part of the problem?
Beasley’s father produced the immortal quote about joining the Labor Party when it contained the cream of the working class. It now contained the dregs of the middle class, who persisted in using the Party as an intellectual spittoon. I’m looking at you, Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese.
Get in here and explain this for us Monty.
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m0nty
June 8, 2024 12:03 pm
The juror cousin thing is a hoax, the Facebook poster admitted it.
Bad luck you lot, Trump is still guilty.
Got a link dickless. All I could find was this scuttlebutt:
“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted,” the user wrote on the New York court system’s Facebook page, Judge Merchan said. “Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!” the user added.
The juror’s relative, named Michael Anderson, left the comment on May 29, the day the jury began deliberations in the trial and a day before Trump’s historic felony conviction, the judge said. Jurors are prohibited from discussing or communicating about trials they are serving on with anyone.
Some new Friday commenters on the post claimed that Anderson is an internet provocateur of sorts, a self-proclaimed “professional sh**poster,” as the user self-identified in a Friday post, the Hill found.
Judge Merchan Flags Online Post Claiming Inappropriate Jury Discussion of Trump Hush-Money Trial | National Review
Those commentators were dickless demorat shrillers. Just like you dickless. And merchan did send the letter. So go sit on a pineapple you retard.
Wot Cohenite sed, Munted.
Munter and the pineapple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e3FajuSgs0
Continuing the theme when Victoria built shit, up on the Skydeck level and looking over Melbourne. Over Port Phillip Bay, over the MCG sporting precinct, over the CBD literally, over the outer suburbs. Just superb.
To imagine this city was brought to a standstill for a couple of years by imbeciles in power should boil one’s blood
It’s all happened before. I first went across to Melbournibad in 1990, around the time Pyramid went bust. Every major skyscraper under construction was in the hands of their banks. Took a while to shake that one off. The Victoriastan government is in worse shape now.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen assaulted in central Copenhagen, man arrested
very short on details, including the fact a knife was used, leads one to
suspect the usual suspects
Of course – like Trud and Pravda – what’s left out is more important than what’s put in.
For those who want to see Florence Drillers birthplace, here’s video about part of the process.
Either that or it’s a Korean Dalek factory.
Miranda Devine
“If this is legit, it should wipe out Trump’s conviction.
Judge Juan Merchan has alerted Trump’s attorneys to a Facebook post ”
We will see if legit. In any case Merchan should have sequestered that jury.
How and why would Israel be forced to use nukes by getting pushed too far by allies? Who is Islam here? Iran? Turkey? KSA? Egypt? Indonesia? A Coalition of these states? And what is the blackmail they are going to use?
Perhaps I wasn’t as clear as I thought:
How and why would Israel be forced to use nukes by getting pushed too far by allies?
By refusing to allow the use of the patriot batteries that are the cornerstone of the Iron Dome system in the case of the 150,000 rockets from Hezbollah in Lebanon, or limiting Israel’s ability to defend itself by refusing spares and supplies for its air force and army. If Israel cannot defend itself by conventional means, it will use unconventional means.
Does not the term “Never Again” and the lesson of Masada mean anything these days?
Who is Islam here? Iran? Turkey? KSA? Egypt? Indonesia? A Coalition of these states?
Any combination of these countries that are attacking Israel. A few are ruled out because they are unlikely to attack Israel. Egypt, KSA, and Indonesia come to mind. Remember other nations can – and do – attack Israel by proxy, and Israel is not stupid. The appearance of a couple of battalions of Indonesian speaking soldiers in the Gaza Strip would be a de facto declaration of war to the Israeli military leadership.
And what is the blackmail they are going to use?
I thought was the most obvious – Iran is weeks/months/years away from developing their nuke.
Here’s a scenario for you:
Iran detonates a nuke over Tel Aviv. Iran tells the Western powers they have secreted multiple nukes in our capital cities and will make them go bang if we don’t allow them to slaughter the rest of the Israeli population.
This is nuclear blackmail and we have a senile president and his cabal of America Haters calling the shots in Washington.
Re 1, that seems to be one party saying to the other unless you keep giving me what I want, unconditionally, I will bring the entire house down.
Re 2, so it isn’t Islam so much as neighboring states.
Re 3, if Iran has nuked Tel Aviv, there will already have been a nuclear exchange before the ultimatum can take place.
Re 1, that seems to be one party saying to the other unless you keep giving me what I want, unconditionally, I will bring the entire house down.
Re 2, so it isn’t Islam so much as neighboring states.
Re 3, if Iran has nuked Tel Aviv, there will already have been a nuclear exchange before the ultimatum can take place.
Resurfaced Clip of ‘Star Wars’ Actress Just Made Things Worse for Disney
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip about Disney being forced to deal with “Star Wars: The Acolyte” star Amandla Stenberg coming under fire for resurfaced racial comments in her conversation with Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show”.
https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1799090270518059020
Not a letterbox in sight.
Or a black or swarthy ME type. Harmonious and from the what seems to be at leisure there , baby making inspiration!
Amazing that those baths have been in use since Roman times. Muzzies have no grounds to intefere with this ancient culture.
And lack of fatties.
T & A,
Winston will now hide behind the couch.
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders known for Earthrise photo, dies in plane crash
By adella beaini
The former Apollo 8 astronaut who captured the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo from space has tragically died in a plane crash.
Retired Major General William Anders, 90, was killed when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
Social media users caught footage of Anders attempting to make a loop in his vintage T-34 Mentor, before crashing straight into the water.
“The family is devastated,” his son, retired air force Lt Colonel Greg Anders, said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.”
Doing acrobatics aged 90…way to go! Gee forces at that age though…sounds like he might’ve blacked out or blown his aorta.
High G manoeuvres are a nasty way to find out you have an aneurysm.
If I can ask a favor – can anybody link to the “Earthrise” photo?
Here is a link to it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1799174912890048609
He’s right. The ME , Africa and woke Euro leaders have gone a long way to f**k European culture forever. Only the architecture remains.
We don’t see the entire loop on film so can’t say for sure but, excluding some sort of medical episode or mechanical failure (e.g. jammed flight control cables), it looks like a rookie error from a 90 year old.
From the very beginning of the footage we can see he has no way out. If he pulls too hard he will stall it and he is too far around the loop to roll out of it.
One of the immutable laws of aviation … if you pull into a loop at 50′ – 100′, don’t manage your power all the way around and don’t actively relax back-pressure over the top, you will hit the ground.
Stick to shopper carts. That never grow old spirit will kill you.
Woof!
Mike Lee Blasts ‘Political Weaponization Of Our Judicial System’ After Trump’s Guilty Verdict
Bruce of Newcastle
June 8, 2024 2:12 pm
Reply to Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Wouldn’t be a stack of g’s in a loop in that aircraft I wouldn’t think.
Maybe 3-4 if you really pulled in hard.
I doubt it would pop a valve, but it might cause a grey-out for a couple of seconds in a 90 year old.
Shouldn’t be anything dramatic over the top where you release backpressure (lift and gravity are working in concert inverted, so you have to fly the loop, not just pull back all the way around).
PS … the aeroplane in question is g limited to +6/-3, which is pretty standard for aerobatic aircraft.
But most people don’t go near that in a loop and generally nurse vintage aircraft around a bit, not pushing the envelope.
You especially don’t want to horse a retired military trainer around. They have invariably had their fair share of ham handed abuse from junior birdmen long ago.
Truth be told, I may have over G’d one once upon a time as well.
Credit to the bloke in clip 4. After knocking the pr*ck out, he drags him to the sidewalk so he does’t get run over.
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virtually deported into the multiverse
In other never grow old news 40yo surfer missing off Margaret River. I last surfed down that way in my late 30s, got put back on the beach twice and went in. Gotta know your limits in those waves. In your 20s just come to the surface (eventually), laugh it off and paddle back out.
For Zulu…
Earthrise, 1968.
Thank you.
What a beautiful photo
Carpe, please say hello to Lady Jugulum from her fans at the Cat.
Diversity is our friend.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-press-denounce-activist-michael
Do not watch the video if you do not have a strong stomach.
Read the narrative instead.
Luckily, in Austraia we are not importing this problem, …….
I sometimes wonder just what the coppers are thinking as they actively suppress people defending themselves from this cultural invasion.
Do their mothers know what they’re doing?
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Let’s aim for 100%.
I was there about 18 months ago, it was dirty, homeless people around the streets, drug addled fvkwits carrying on like peanuts. it was downmarket and rather seedy.
Parts of the downtown area are like that, the 2 big stations and Fed Square.
If you go up and join the line at Lune to get a special croissant, it’s a different group of people.
Reminds me of Adelaide in the 1990s.
Was speaking with someone who lived in Melbourne for 20 years until about 2012. She loved it at the time. She went back for a week recently, and said it is depressing, and thoughts of re-creating that happy time are thoroughly extinguished.
I left around 2010 and fear that would be my experience. At the time the only real issue was a level of self satisfaction you typically associate with Sydneysiders. The bottom end of Elizabeth St and most of Swanston St were pretty ordinary even at that stage.
a shit hole with a little bit of glitter
Visited last month. Dirty and ridden with grafitti, crowded with foreign students..
And yes, the Vics somehow think its the epitome of city living to be compared with worlds great cities, or at least Sydney …
Sitting in the garden of Hotel Quirinale eating breakfast. It features a massive cedar tree and magnolia in full bloom. All around are marble statues, fountains and bright plants in terracotta pots.
It’s a tough gig, but someone has to do it.
Off to the Vatican this morning. I hope it isn’t as crowded as Harlequin’s visit. Saturday, so probably will be.
Comparing Rome to Madrid…Rome needs a good tub, as my mother would say. Grunge is part of its charm though. You drive in through the crumbling walls and almost immediately you are in a time capsule.
We’re booked there in September. Our favourite hotel in Rome.
calli I love that photo, every time I get a bit teary seeing it. That is us. Isn’t life amazing.
calli
June 8, 2024 3:48 pm
Sitting in the garden of Hotel Quirinale eating breakfast.
Just looked that up on the internet thingy. Very cool Calli, very cool.
That photo brings back so many memories. My first year of high school, and all agog with following the Apollo program. Like the little boy in “The Dish” I soaked it all up and kept a scrapbook.
Meanwhile, the pampered older ones of my generation were playing merry hell at uni with their pompous sit ins and pseudo intellectualism. The ones with the right stuff were up there in space or up to their armpits in the Vietnam swamp or heads down tails up paying off houses and raising families.
Most of those hippy moral deadbeats are gone or retired now, sitting in aged care and retirement villages, regaling others about how they stuck it to da Man. The worst of a big demographic blob of a generation .
Calli:
Don’t look now, but I think most of them are still there, and realising they’ve wasted their lives in a massive intellectual masturbation orgy.
Isn’t it miraculous how suddenly all opposition to genetically modified organisms has disappeared. Could we infer from it that it was never about genetically modified crops or organisms but that they resulted in cheap and abundant food?
Crossie, I’m still puzzled by the disappearance of the two winter flu pandemics.
Where did they go?
This afternoon I drove past Mt Druitt Westfield and saw a Tesla leaving the shopping centre car park. Lizzie, Mt Druitt ain’t what it used to be when you lived there as a kid.
Probably a fleet car.
But, you are right, there is a lot of money in the western suburbs these days. Tradies who set up small businesses, that kind of thing.
One family of Maltesers I know set up a bathroom renovation business in the 1970s. The principals are multimillionaires today.
It’s a patchwork quilt of wealth and poverty, whereas it used to be just poverty.
Agree. Many years ago we had businesses in the region & still have some property there. It has changed greatly. It is indeed a patchwork with some very wealthy ethnic property owners. Mind you, like many suburbs, it still has a definable “personality”!
It has changed beyond recognition, Crossie. However, it is still the home of some of the same sorts of people, who feel pushed around and almost pushed out by newcomers.
Probably Trump’s best shot at this stage:
Rubenfeld: “Believe it or not, there is one other avenue that the Trump lawyers could pursue. They could sue in federal court and ask for an emergency, temporary restraining order. Restraining order of what? Well, let me tell you something that you might not know. You’ve probably been reading in the press if you’ve been reading about this case, that Trump is already a convicted felon. The jury has convicted him. He’s a convicted felon. Well, guess what? That’s not true.
You’re not a convicted felon because of a jury verdict; you’re not convicted unless the judge enters a judgment of guilt against you. The judge still has the power, as I told you before, to throw out that verdict and enter a judgment of acquittal.
You are not convicted until the judge enters that judgment of guilt. Now, in New York, it’s very likely that Judge Mershon will enter that judgment of guilt against Trump on the same day that he issues sentencing, that’d be July 11th.
So, what would this federal case be about? In this federal action, Trump would sue Judge Bragg and other state actors and ask the federal judge for an emergency, temporary restraining order halting Judge Mershon from entering that judgment of guilt until the federal courts have had an opportunity to review and rule on the serious constitutional arguments that exist here.
Let me tell you why I think that might be a very important thing to happen. Because going after a former President of the United States and somebody who is running for President now, that’s a very bad look for this country.
It’s an especially bad look when the folks bringing the case and the judge deciding it are members of the opposing political party. It’s an even worse look when the crime is so unclear that the state is ‘hiding the ball’ about what the actual charges are right up through the trial, and indeed into the trial.
And even now, we don’t know exactly what the jury found Trump guilty of. If you’re going to go after a former president and somebody who’s running for president now, the poll-leading candidate, if you’re a member of the other party and you’re going to do that, you better have the goods.”
Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld Offers a Legal Roadmap for Trump’s Legal Team to Overturn ‘Guilty’ Verdict Before the Presidential Election | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim H?ft?
As an observer of politics, I want to have these fascist lunatics experience the full force of the counter-revolution triggered by their relentless campaign to jail their political opponents: let them jail Trump and then try to hold back the public backlash at the ballot box.
Bring on the counter-revolution!
No. Too dangerous at present. Keep all redress until after Trump is back in power. He will be inviolable to them then. He’s not yet so, and the forces against him may still prevail if any outcry against them fails.
So she’s never having kids, then. If she still hasn’t “figured out”, by the age of 29, how or when her HECS debt is going to be paid off, it probably never will be. She may as well just be honest with herself about it.
I could be wrong but if you genuinely wanted kids, I don’t think your HECS debt is going to stop you. It is the most benign debt imaginable. No one ever bothers you about it – it just sits there until you start earning a certain amount of income and then your salary is garnished lightly until the debt is gone. You could easily go through life with a HECS debt and not even realise it. Does this woman think her kid would be up at night worrying about their mum’s HECS debt?
As for the home ownership thing – well sure that’d be nice, but you have your whole life to buy a place but only a few more years to have children. Hell, the kid wouldn’t even know their family didn’t own the place they lived in until they’re 5 or 6.
Although perhaps kids might be more financially manageable if she grated her cheese straight off the block?
Indeed, OCO.
Lack of money or not owning a house never stopped previous generations, or people in much poorer circumstances and countries than ours.
It’s an attitudinal change, and as I have said before, politicians and social commenters have not even tried to understand it.
They keep yapping on about financial incentives and child care and gender ‘equality’ – none of which have been particularly effective.
It’s one of those cul de sacs because genuine discussion has been minimal.
Nice precis, OCO.
Actually the banks take your HECS debt into account when assessing your credit worthiness. Because of the way the garnishee works, as you get pay rises and pass thresholds, the % rises and because it is not progressive you pay that % on your whole pay.
I was actually worse off after one pay rise because I earned $50 pa ( yes per annum!) higher than the threshold for the highest and most savage rate and had another 3% taken over the whole pay. Because of this extra HECS repayment $10 a week less went into my bank account. We were filthy with the Teachers Federation for doing that to us, the Union had NFI that the thresholds were so close.
What degree would cost $100,000 ? Must be medicine surely.
NOBODY can explain what happened at Apple Valley Village
So I’m selling a bar fridge on Gumtree (work moved offices and the boss no longer wants it in his office, lucky me). I reckon I’ll get $50 for it. A bloke from rural NSW has offered to buy it, wants me to post it to him (obviously I’m not going to do that or pay for it and he must know this) or he’ll arrange for a courier to pick it up. He knows I’m in WA. Wtf? What is he planning on putting inside that fridge before it makes the journey across the Nullarbor, I wonder? Think I’ll pass.
It’s probably a scam.
Perhaps its the setup of the overpayment scam.
Smart move, OCO.
About ten years ago, I bought a pistol safe from the US.
Loading sticker stated 10kg total weight.
Cardboard box had been opened and a fairly dodgy US Customs sticker placed over it.
Loading sticker now read 20kg.
Took a couple of photos and sent them off to Australian Customs.
No interest shown.
Which is why I now believe the Police and Customs sheepdog is asleep on the job and making common cause with the wolf.
Billions of dollars a year can buy a lot of protection – but not for you and me.
You only have to look at what’s going on with cigs and vapes to know there is corruption.
Sounds like the Danish PM got a good shove, not enough even to knock her over.
Had similar OCO, selling cedar windows, scammer was going to pay sight unseen, just give me your bank details. Yeah sure.
I’ve only ever seen three here, two 3’s and a Y, which was enormous. None in my actual suburb. Ncl is very lefty so surprising so few. Easily identifiable by the clouds of green smug they emit (am I being too unkind?)
As a measure of how lefty the place is the Socialist Equality Party had a stand outside Coles this morning. Obviously they decided we’re a good prospect for recruiting useful idiots. They appeared mainly to be railing against the war in Gaza from what I could tell.
Good grief! Newcastle lefty! That is news to me. Labor – yes – in view of the industrial history. But “Lefty”?? Good grief
My grandson has been at Newcastle Uni for a couple of years & we visit him occasionally. Love to have a meal at a pub on the waterfront. Real families, good people. We always enjoy it. Initially he was in uni residence, but now in house share. He loves Newcastle & wants to live there.Hint..hint…but he will have to find his own way after uni is completed.
Oi! Don’t ladle it on! 😀
It still seems mainly to be ye olde industrial lefty here. There’s a small green-prog precinct in the centre around Cooks Hill, but the suburbs still have the paleo-Labor feel.
My youngest brother did his BSc at Uni Ncl, is now earning a huge salary in Nevada. What forced he and family away was the company he’d been working for went bust during Covid, so he applied for and got a good job in Brissie. That company then sent him to the US where he was headhunted for double the salary. So you can do well with a degree from Ncl, but probably have to be prepared to go elsewhere.
Will have to tell grandson that story. Trouble is – he chose the wrong degree – Environmental Studies – thinking it would lead to employment. I am sure it would – but he struggles with the science components. He should go into real estate (he can sell anything) but his mother discourages him.
Saw a Tesla in the car park at Goulburn Square on Wednesday.
That was a real surprise.
Saw a Tesla at the charge station on Queenstown Tasmania a couple of months ago. Two asian ladies spent a lot of time in the coffee shop at the train station. Have wondered since how they got on touring.
Considerably more Teslas here in Merewether, Bruce, and in inner-Ncle, usual suspects.
A company division that I worked in made data boxes for mining equipment in Newcastle. The management was pretty sketchy when they bought that division, to the extent that the coffee runs were done in a fully sick HSV ute that they bought themselves with the owner’s money.
Reading up: Gumtree – not a serious company.
Think: Twitter before Musk took over.
The site is moderated by 22yo autistic nerds who make parking inspectors seem fair-minded.
I was selling some opal that I’d picked up in my travels and had lost then found again, so decided I’d be better off getting rid of them.
Sold at asking price within a couple of hours to a mob who promised they would reimburse my postage and insurance costs – “just note your account details to make the payment.”
A friend had a similar problem and got multiple threats from the buyer for not sending chairs off by freight at friends cost, and threats of ‘Government Agency’ intervention for ‘Attempted Fraud and Theft.” Friend was a bit elderly and had never experienced this level of threatening legal behaviour before. She was quite traumatised by the episode.
I hate scammers, and I’d gladly administer 20 lashes of the rattan cane in public for the arseholes who do this stuff.
Bernard Gaynor: Based on the upthread a serious donation is headed his way.
Catallaxy, Salvatore takes your observations & comments (on Maj Gaynor) seriously.
Many thanks from me, Salvatore. Seeing support for the good fight uplifts us all.
We really do need to get behind this poor bugger.
He’s another who is copping the vicious side of the pervert sector of our society, and for no other reason than that the pervert can get away with it with the aid of his sexual cohort in government.
Visiting Mildura. Seems like a fine city with great Mediterranean feel. Lotsa cypresses and palms. Staying at very woggy grand hotel with Italianate arches and shaped.potted figs. Great paddle steamer ride to Wentworth today then back to Mildura by bus past olive groves, vineyards and citrus orchards. Many fine.homes both old and new in Mildura and surrounds. The regions sure beat the capital city CBDs.
Crossie one of my old mates was Head of Biology dept at Uni. He was never worried about eating GMO food as he said all food is GMO just on a differing time scale. He was however concerned about processed food. Like him, we eat very little processed food. I like to know what I’m eating.
How processed do you think food based on insects and worms is likely to be? Yet the same suspects who are anti-GMO seem to be hot for that far.
Really beaut even though it’s quite cold here.
“clouds of green smug” snort!
Wentworth is actually on the Darling River. Always thought it was at the junction.
Well it’s where you go to see the junction, nice little park with a lookout, taken care of by the town, don’t know how much closer you could be.
Fair enough
We don’t see the entire loop on film so can’t say for sure but, excluding some sort of medical episode or mechanical failure (e.g. jammed flight control cables), it looks like a rookie error from a 90 year old.
Sancho you may have touched on something with the rookie error. My dad was and excellent motorcycle rider but after a massive prang which had him airlifted to RPA and resused twice he admitted when recovered that he f@#ked up, too cocky and took on an overtaking manoeuvre he should have been wiser not to. He was in his late 50’s when he had that oopsie. Luckily he survived.
That said brings back memories I was coming home from overseas 3 days after it happened, my family held the info from me till I landed in Sydney on a red eye run and turned my phone on. Such is life.
Gumtree is basically a haven for thieves, fences and scammers.
Speaking of which, I popped into the bank the other day to withdraw some folding currency to pay someone.
Teller : “Are you buying something today?”
Me : “Err, is that relevant?”
Teller : “Just a warning to look out for scammers.”
Me : “No problems. I know who I am paying and they have already delivered.”
I get why banks feel obliged to ask the question, but it does get your back up at first.
I was very happy to witness a check-out chick question a pensioner when he wanted to purchase a thousand dollars worth of gift cards. It turned out he was trying to “help a woman somewhere up north”, because her business was not doing well and her children were ill.
I had a chat with her and she told me they were trained to look out for gift card scams. Between us, we persuaded the gentleman to only buy a hundred dollars worth of cards. Just in case. He was happy with that. I shudder to think that he may have been swindled further on. The scammers can become quite shirty when they realise their mark may have been “educated”.
The Marxists In The Biden WH Are Warring Against The Middle Class
I’ve been squawking about this since about a year after Obama got in.
It became bloody obvious that he hated America, but he hated the Middle Class most of all because that was the foundation of a society he loathed.
Dr. John Campbell
Paramedic report
Whoever posted the photo of the massively lardarsed womanage above needs to be experiencing HOP Time™ first hand …
Sacre bleu!
She needs a couple more kilos to fill that figure out – NOT!
GreyRanga
June 8, 2024 5:29 pm
Had similar OCO, selling cedar windows, scammer was going to pay sight unseen, just give me your bank details. Yeah sure.
Well, no wonder.
Recently I booked (over the phone) a phone appointment with my GP. Routine prescription renewal.
Five minutes later, I get an SMS allegedly from the Grab-n-Go chain, asking me to update my personal information, including my Medicare number and bank details.
I phoned them, and it turned out it actually was them.
Managed to restrain myself. F’in eejits. No wonder scammers have it easy. They duplicate their methods.
My approach, which has worked so far, is as follows.
Never, ever provide personal information if you don’t have to. Rewards programs are data harvesters pure and simple. They get hacked all the time. Don’t touch them. If you are in them, withdraw asap. When you have to change your drivers licence, passport, bank details, credit cards and who knows what else, saving $4 on a bag of groceries or a bottle of wine will pale into insignificance.
Use Adblock and VPNs. Don’t make it easy to be tracked and hacked,
Thus endeth the lesson. 🙂
Ever since I tried to register with Dover’s site, or WordPress, (unsuccessfully) so I can edit, I get a lot of spam, and my email provider keeps informing me about it. At least they know it’s spam. But my email addy is now out there.
The latest is from a casino.
Make up a rule for your inbox, and anything with the word “unsubscribe”, forward into a seperate folder you creeate just for that purpose, call it newsletters or rubbish or whatever .. you’ll be amazed how little actually goes into your inbox after that!
Everywhere you give your email to and that includes the local pharmacy who don’t even know why they want my email address, it’s “their process”.
I have a gmail address I give everyone who wants it and even sometimes go and see how it’s going, empty it and life goes on.
Johanna:
I’d love to use a VPN, but if government can get in, so can the crooks. I have enough trouble with the intarwebs without adding another layer of complexity.
If you have a better way of getting and using a VPN without having to tell me “It’s easy.” I’ll listen.
I’ve tried to find an Adblock for about a year but they don’t seem to work for Win!!.
Adblock works for the browser not the operating system, I have it for Firefox and it works fine.
The Statin Elephants in the Room: Statin issues that go unacknowledged
Sancho Panzer
June 8, 2024 5:56 pm
Happened to my mother back in April, before she had her fall and was hospitalised. She needed to pay a handyman because he asked for cash. No problems, my mother loves using and paying with cash. She went to her bank, one of those few branches that still remains open and one she’s used for over forty years, and she was asked a similar question as you were. Well, my mother went ballistic.
She has now decided to withdraw cash when she shops at Coles and Woolies, which she does every few days. She’s aware that there are daily cash withdrawal limits but she says she prefers to hoard cash at home, something not uncommon with elderly people. A few years ago a relative of mine’s mother-in-law died and they found over $80,000 stashed away in her home, in books, saucepans, drawers and so on.
Cassie – the absolute best misdirection I ever heard of was a bloke who years ago would use cash all the time.
He’d had a couple of breakins by crooks but no one found anything.
One day a couple of young blokes noticed the cash smelt of lino.
So they broke in and tore up his entire lino flooring, took it out the back and separated layers. Tore the place down to the floorboards.
When the old bloke died, his daughters came up and lifted sections of the ceiling where the money lay happily between a couple of old layers of lino for protection. They knew it wasn’t under the new carpet put through the house which he got at a discount because they didn’t have to take out the old lino.
My last employer just sent an email asserting that I had been underpaid on annual leave balance, please send bank and ID detail including a selfie holding up drivers licence or open passport.
Yeah nah.
But I went to the corporate website and emailed the public enquiry email. Blow me down, it is real!
My Nigerian prince has come for me, and I am to be wed! Well, at least get a small amount of back pay.
I got a text saying my Medicare refund was ready to be processed, please contact .. dah dah etc.
Blocked it. If Medicare need me they can write to me.
When too many insoluble z-grade third world imbeciles are barely enuff …
Neil Oliver discusses ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders after concerns raised by AGE Scotland at Inquiry
In case people haven’t watched this, a Health Official handed a 101 year old partially deaf veteran a card to put beside his bed. The card read Do Not Resuscitate etc.
The print probably unable to be read or understood by the old bloke, would have seen the ambos walk back out, assuming it was all legal.
The Official, and anyone else concerned in this criminal act needs to answer to the Courts for their actions.
I’ve used Gumtree, quite extensively, for near Ten years. However I’ve never bought nor sold anything on the site.
All I have for a reference point is Ebay & any number of direct sales websites – all of which require money immediately.
When is the money supposed to change hands with Gumtree? Does the money get funneled through Gumtree or is it a private arrangement between buyer & seller?
I’ve sold a bunch of formerly loved stuff via gumtree.
I make clear cash at point of sale.
Seems to work for me but my transactions have been small.
Gumtree has had its lunch eaten by Facebook Marketplace. The scammers seem to be more numerous than genuine sellers now.
Turns out that the little house icon in Faceache is Marketplace.
I have done cash on pickup on both, worked well. I also used non-cash PayID (in advance of delivery) during the scamdemic, and that worked well too.
I have no idea, Sal.
I dropped the site as if it was made of a monkey pox infected wombat.
I don’t know how it works now, but about 6 years ago we had to clear out an old relative’s house and put a lot of stuff up for sale on Gumtree.
Cash only and pickup only, access restricted to a secure, separate space.
Didn’t have a problem.
This is smooth*, Cats – Dazza Hall ‘n’ “Steel Cut” Oates …
The eighties – what a decade.
*The bassline of which would be shamelessly pillaged by Mickey Jacksoni in Billie Jean – “they don’t know if they wanna be Jesse Jacksoni or Mickey Jacksoni, I tells ya!” 😕
Hey Rabz
Seeing as you’re here
Can you drop a name re whom Shorten is dropping his daks with?
Some legal caution required here, peoples.
Doxxing and slandering is not something Dover needs to cope with.
For those of us who might just happen to be languishing in a Kampuchean jungle – yes, you know who you are, Squire.
Just get off my planet by sundown, I asks ya … 😕
Wallee – go back and read last night’s comments – the bimbage’s identity is out there.
Without a doubt.
Are They TRYING to Start a Nuclear War?
I’m trying to get the message across – not just to the one person – but to several here who think it can’t happen, the Genie can be shoved back in the bottle, and if things go badly we can just restart the game at an opportune time.
It can’t and it won’t.
I’m reminded of the Russian proverb – “There are many roads into Russia, but only one way out.”
One thing to remember about the West and a potential nuclear war, is that the people who can start one have bunkers and food waiting for them just in case.
The wukkas?
They can kiss the bosses arse.
People might actually hear what he has to say. We can’t have that.
Former Bill Clinton Staffer George Stephanopoulos Says it’s ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ for a Reporter to Interview Trump Live on TV
William Anders dies in plane crash: Apollo 8 astronaut, 90, named as pilot killed in Washington fireball smash
This is what I love about the Cat, peoples – scurrilous gossip leavened with apocalyptic pronouncements … 😕
Split the difference with sleepy Jacksoni…
The Sleepy Jackson – Good Dancers (2003)
Back in Nagasaki, I got on down with Cho Cho San … 🙂
I’ve always liked the music he did himself rather than with the Sex Pistols. He broke the music scene with all the samples and such like. Much as I love good solid 3 minute rock and roll singles, Mr McLaren added some excellent stuff, and really it took off in the eighties.
Wally Dalí
June 8, 2024 7:44 pm
Or maybe not.
Special bonus sandgroper sister Jacksoni:
Little Birdy – Baby Blue (2003)
Katy Steele is Luke Steele’s sister. Both Perth bands fine contributions to the Aussie music scene.
Winter is here, and the flanno is on after a day of outdoor pursuits.
It’s glorious when being cool (or cold)* is a novelty rather than the norm.
*20 degrees.
Miss Janet Planet, being a li’l bit sassy, again … 🙂
One for Rabz:
Little Birdy – Come On Come On (2006)
Love the work they put into the video, very Spiderbaitish.
Tastee
So, the taxpayer funded Canberra rugby collective (the only male sports team permitted in Canberra) are being wacked by the NZ aspiring CMFEU recruits
Tonights ‘game’ has been made incomprehensible by the AAT appointed referees and the special guest video referees provided by The Project.
Contemporary rugby doesn’t exist beyond club level.
For the music nerds, Teh Weekend Paywallian has a story on The Dirty Three. Had only come across them on one of those Spotify algorithm driven playlists. Good stuff.
On the subject of the live sheep trade, one of the local Greenies is banging ou about how “This vile trade is barbaric, and must cease immediately. Sheep should be slaughtered in Australia, and the chilled carcasses exported.”
“Ummm, the biggest buyer of those sheep is the Kuwait’s. They’ve already said that they aren’t interested in chilled carcasses, if Australia won’t sell live sheep, they’ll find another seller. You do know that Australia is one of twenty suppliers of live sheep?”
“Oh, and, if the live sheep trade is stopped, what is to become of the surplus wethers?”
The answer was simple “Oh, just stop breeding wethers, then!”
Words fail me, they honestly vooking do.
We could always use the ships instead to live export Greenies to Kuwait. The ship might need to be steam cleaned after disembarkation though.
Gold
Ridiculously good track and video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6unocQBcQ&list=RDMM&index=3
“Wild Mountain Thyme – Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?”
Australia exports more LPG than Qatar. Qatar gets nearly $80 billion in tax revenue. Australia gets about $2.5 billion. The legislation reducing the tax on LPG exports was enacted by martin ferguson. Ferguson now works for the LPG export industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nNpSaLxO8
Crikey, speak of the Devil & he appears.
Nudging Ten years I’ve used Gumtree – (though caveat, never for buying or selling) without ever encountering a scammer, except for Gumtree moderators.
As I typed earlier I simultaneously updated my advertisement. A few minutes later the following email is sent to me:
It’s hard to not laugh at the amateurishness.
In news in…..four hostages freed by IDF and Shin Bet.
Well done to the IDF and ShinBet. Confusion and damnation to Hamas and the Palestinians.
Crikey, it seems the Israeli Army has just rescued Four (4) hostages, alive and “in good medical condition”
Snap, Cassie.
The hardest working personage in Show Biz, Cats, before those regrettable PCP and Reefer fuelled incidents … 😕
A bit of Saturday night humour:
RED SKELTON’S SECRET TO THE PERFECT MARRIAGE
1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.
2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas.
3. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. “Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said. So I suggested the kitchen.
5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
6. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said “There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!” So I bought her an electric chair.
7. My wife told me the car wasn’t running well because there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, “In the lake.”
8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.
9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the garbage?” The driver said, “No, jump in!”.
10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.
11. I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was ‘Always’.
12. I haven’t spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don’t like to interrupt her.
13. The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, “What’s on the TV?”
I said, “Dust!”.
Very droll, Cohenite. An interesting insight into the male mind.
Yes, and they really are quite funny, because marriage is like that.
Just like telling tall stories about the old man on nite out wit’ da girls.
Jay “the jaw” Leno interviewing a goil …
Trigger warning: So cute
Amazing and wonderful.
IDF rescues hostages Noa Argamani, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv, and Almog Meir (JPost, 8 Jun)
From two locations, without tipping off the terrorists would would instantly execute their hostages? That is seriously out there competence. Those guys shouldn’t need to buy drinks the rest of their lives.
Adventures With Purpose:
Adventures With Purpose Solves 30-Year-Old Cold Case from 1994 During Search for Another Missing Person from 2018.
The search took place outside of Elk Grove, CA – April 13, 2024, when Adventures With Purpose (AWP), the renowned volunteer dive team known for solving cold cases, successfully recovered the vehicle and remains of Arnell Narvaiz, a man missing since July 1, 1994. The discovery occurred during a search operation for another missing person, Duke Haringer, near the Delta Island Ranch in Sacramento County.
Arnell Narvaiz, who vanished while driving his beige 1988 Toyota to his workplace at a Delta Island Ranch, had been missing for nearly three decades. His vehicle was located submerged 30 feet deep in the Delta, buried up to the windows in silt. The AWP team, using advanced sonar technology, identified and verified the vehicle by retrieving its license plate.
COLD CASE SOLVED: Found 30 Years After He Went Missing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKEsVJpn6Og
Catching up with some observations from the UK-
One of our Cotswold walks took us to Hidcote Gardens from Chipping Campden. The visitors were quiet, well dressed, mainly elderly and it was like stepping back to the 1950’s when people made some effort to look smart when going on an ‘outing’.
Lots of Union Jack’s being displayed in the smaller towns in the South West on England.
In the UK there is some sort of fixation on allergies that wasn’t present last time. Before booking a restaurant or ordering a meal it seems to be compulsory to ask if you have any allergies.
London didn’t seem to have changed much from 6 years ago apart from even more renovation/restoration works going on on both public and private buildings. It is the most I’ve seen over the last 45 years-peak scaffolding.
I’ve used AirBnB in various countries and generally it’s been OK once you realise the description and photos you see when booking are as good as it gets and reality will be a little disappointing. However Covent Garden is an exception, over 10 years we’ve stayed in 3 different apartments and they’ve all been crappy in one way or another.
A common dinner dodge ploy is, after dining, one of the diners has an “Allergic Reaction” to something in the meal and while they have a fit on the floor and the ambulance is called, the other 8 or so diners leave without paying.
Scum.
Ha! Elsie is wriggling around my feet – she’s unhappy. I’ve cut down her bikkies because she’s putting on a bit of a gut. She still gets the wet stuff in the morning, but because cats like to snack, she’s down to 2 scoops of bikkies instead of 3 overnight.
Her bowl still has enough to get her through to morning but she can tell there’s not been as much the last 3 or 4 days.
Bikkie withdrawal – cats get it too.
You old softie, Winnie.
Not a softie. That’s a dreadful slur on my character.
Everyone here is aware of my potential to be a mass murdering, apocalyptic loon personality.
🙂
And it’s also a rotten malicious lie that I took the heating mat for a home brewing kit and put it in a box with a couple of blankets for the cold nights we’ve been having.
3 degrees C this morning!
She’s very well cared for. This will be a comfort to areff coping with the high levels of TDS in New York city.
She’s putting on bit of a gut. They say cats start to look like their carers.
Jees. The lies they say about me! I still wear an item of clothing from my school days!
Yep – it’s a scarf.
Tishboom.
Try the veal – I’m here every bloody day.
Israeli military rescues four hostages alive from Gaza
Israel’s military rescued four hostages from central Nuseirat in Gaza on Saturday in what it described as a complex daytime operation.
The four hostages were held in two separate locations in Nuseirat in central Gaza, the military said on Saturday night AEST, after being kidnapped from a musical festival in Israel on October 7.
Noa Argamani, rescued in Saturday’s raid, was shown in one of the first early images of the Hamas-led raid into southern Israel, as a clip of her kidnapping circulated widely on social media.
Israel said that the four rescued hostages are in good medical condition and have been transferred to Sheba Medical Centre for evaluation.
The latest operation brings the total hostages rescued alive to seven since the start of the war following the Hamas-led attack on October 7.
Along with Ms Argamani, Israel named Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv as the rescued hostages. Saturday’s operation involved forces from Israel’s military, Shin Bet, and police hostage rescues units, the military said
BTW London coffee has improved greatly over the years so we went to a cafe that had good reviews.
Ordered at the counter, the girl taking the order was looking over my left shoulder with a funny expression. I looked around , no one there-
‘Good morning , how are you?’ she spoke to no one.
‘Fine thanks, could we have 2 cappuccinos please?’
She now looked over my right shoulder, I looked around, no one there again and she repeated
‘Good morning, how are you?’
‘Fine thanks, could we have 2 cappuccinos please?’ I repeated, then- ‘How much is it?’
There was some confusion until another person came over to sort matters out and ask our table number, I chose table 7.
We went over to table 7 but nearby table 8 looked better so we sat down at table 8 and swapped tables 7 and 8 numbers.
At this point I looked around and saw a dwarf waitress carrying a rattling cup and saucer and that the barista, despite seeming to have 2 left hands , was making a valiant attempt to operate the expresso machine. Slowly realisation dawned, it was literally a sheltered workshop, the good reviews must have reflected that.
Good on them for giving people a chance I thought then I had another thought – oh shit, maybe I shouldn’t have swapped the table numbers?
Sure enough the waitress started towards our tables 7/8 then turned around, walked in circles for a while, despite our desperate signalling and ended up putting them on table 15.
At this point one of the helpers brusquely walked over and swapped the numbers back whilst we sheepishly looked the other way as we collected our coffee from table 15.
Not sure if our custom was a positive or negative contribution.
BTW I’d like to say the coffee was good, but it wasn’t.
Still it was better than the crap served in France that they pass off as coffee.
It’s better than Australia where they had the dignity and set social routine of a job every day.
Then the fcuking Unions got in and made the operators of the sheltered workshops pay Union Rates, and the businesses folded.
I looked after one in a major city hospital after multiple attempted suicides – his day which had been structured around putting things in boxes and sealing them (after checking by someone not as mentally handicapped as him) was the highlight of his life, he’d be lost on the weekends without his friends to socialise with, and he couldn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to see his friends anymore. What had he done wrong?
I’ve had a special hatred for the unions and the bastards who now run them ever since.
Wreaking some destruction’: The schism in the Greens driving out Jewish membersActivists rising to power in the Greens are intent on reshaping the party into a hard left force, with overt sympathies for the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
WAToday.
From a piece in the Hun, on the hostage rescue:
From that, one could – and probably should – infer that:
It’s a massive intel win for the IDF. Makes you think how many Hamas ‘diehards’ are really all that keen to die for the green headband.
How you can resist the globalists’ Great Reset
Perhaps a bit of mumbling and finger-pointing at tomorrow morning’s toolbox meeting.
Suspicious minds will be whirring at speed.
Sancho – a little like the stories when we went into Afghanistan – walk into a village and be greeted like long lost friends, but informed next village over was “Taliban’. Then stand back and watch a tribe who they’d been feuding with for 500 years got raided, and all because someone had had sex with a goat and sold it to them so village/family honour had to be satisfied.
Or the Communist Partisan units during WW2 in France and Italy who would only ambush German/Italian Army patrols outside British backed Resistance towns so that the Germans would take hostages from other villages.
The Toolbox meetings will find a couple of innocent victims and they’ll get shot while the ones who talked to the Israelis have a giggle.
The result will be the same as in any dictatorship – “Show manic levels of enthusiasm for the blokes with the guns, or die. And your family as well.”
@toobaffled
A reminder of why Russell Brand was cancelled (about 5 minutes after this one minute clip which really says it all).
@TaraBull808
Russell Brand dropping FACTS. Share this everywhere!!
Apparently there’ll be more than 4 dozen empty seats at that toolbox meeting.
Heh!
An intended side effect.
Exactly.
Meme
@TheThe1776?
As I write, Jews are celebrating on the streets of Caulfield.
Am Yisrael Chai….and a big F*CK YOU to Jew haters across the world.
@RealAlexJones
The last ten mass shooters in the US have been members of the Trans cult.
Most perceptive of George Orwell.
A reminder (if any was necessary) that ‘trans’ is a mental illness.
Gender dysphoria, transexualism, is no longer regarded as a mental illness in the US, England or Australia:
RACGP – Gender dysphoria
Really great news on the hostages rescue and amazing work by the IDF.
Bourne1879
June 8, 2024 10:54 pm
Great news, me ever being the pessimist, I see one problem, the rest of the hostages will be moved or guarded ever more vigilantly.
Still, the effort was well worth it and brilliantly carried out, congratulation to all involved.
Hope to God I am wrong.
His name is Cash!
Sleep well ladies and gents.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Simi Valley Spring Street Fair 2024 (3 of 12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7w7OYFYzLE
Meh
Just dawned on me that I don’t care about Shorten enough to do the homework. It is a bit amusing that he’s being punted off to France to avoid him sniffing around the PM’s sweaty chair, but it’s funny in a “gold-plated luxury overseas sinecure” way, not a “funny-ha-ha” way.
They made them last in those days.
If you want to raise tough kids, you need to feed them properly from infancy.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Strong%20babies.jfif
That’s awful! They’ll be so acclimatized that they will miss out on decades of chili love.
(I’m to the point where it needs to be about 8,000 scoville to be interesting, but I had 5 decades of chili, mustard and wasabi joy to get here. Cutting short those wonderful years of Mexicana pizzas and Thai food would be very sad.)
We know Hollywood has run out of ideas…
Sadly, Rome so far has been a bit of a wash-out. Even though it has been as hot as a furnace.
Started with the Vatican tour which cost an arm and a leg, and sure we missed all the poor plebs lining up but it was still packed.
Remember that thing called covid? And “social distancing”? Nah, they don’t either. Except for the dispenser of holy water in St Peter’s that is now automated. It would be funny, but it isn’t.
The Pieta is behind a shroud (if indeed it’s actually there at all). Apparently the glass is being replaced. The baldaccino is swathed in hessian and scaffolding, and no chance to get anywhere near the Bernini’s sculpture either. Oh well. You’d think they’d get the work done during lockdown when no one was visiting.
Next…off to the Piazza Navona. Again, everything behind scaffolding and plywood. I have visited the place over 23 years and it’s always been in various stages of repair. So…the Pantheon. Same story. Plywood, this time with perspex windows to view the fountain. The actual building was like a zoo. Gone are the days of just walking in and admiring Rome’s ancient cement fu.
By this stage, having lost the will to live, we caught a cab back to the hotel.
My recommendation…do not spend your hard earned visiting Rome until the idiots get their act together. The place looks like a filthy building site from one end to the other. Even the Victor Emmanuel memorial is surrounded by building works (a new Metro). It was beautiful in 2001. It’s now a mess.
Sounds like there are some contractors doing well out of going very slowly.
Financial corruption in The Vatican? Surely not.
What a crying shame. Sounds like Mrs B in WA is going to be sorely disappointed.
On the positive side, Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the Sistine chapel held me spellbound. I spent around 20 minutes in there admiring his swirling Last Judgement. The blue background, fresh and lustrous, the muscular, active figures…and the ever-young Christ, hand raised in an eternal farewell to the lost.
And I have a soft spot for Botticelli’s Moses and the daughters of Jethro. They look like they’re in the Italian countryside.
Calli, what’s with the blokes having a punch up on the right side of he picture? It looks like 3 of them having a go at the goatherd.
Week In Pictures.
One of the great WIP.
Thanks Tom.
’tis indeed. The wheaties got sprayed.
I’ve had the serious sh*ts today, Tom. But many…many LOLs.
Since I’ve been overindulging in religious art, this one.
This was my favourite even if it’s a bit dark:
My recommendation…do not spend your hard earned visiting Rome until the idiots get their act together.
I’ve only been there twice and found it hard to find out what’s being impacted by construction or maintenance, which is dodgy.
These aren’t like weekend roadworks in Sydney or Melb.
These are works that are planned ages in advance.
Imagine if you’re some old eastern European pilgrim who’s trained it in and you’re going to Rome for the one & only time in your life, you show up and half of St Peters is behind scaffolding.
Calli, is that St Peter in chains church on your to-do list?
First time I went, Moses was behind scaffolding which in my youth I squeezed past to have a look up close.
The next time, older, no scaffolding but they had other work going on which roped off a chunk of the church where Moses was.
It’s like they want to piss off the punters.
Or get repeat customers hoping they will see something that is on their bucket list, but has been behind closed doors the last two times they’ve paid good money to see it.
Jees I’m a bloody cynic.
On my trips, you didn’t have to pay.
Not sure what the situation is now.
Tomorrow, I think we’ll go down to Saint Paul’s outside the walls – dedicated to Saint Paul who was martyred there. Not sure what to do after that. So many choices.
Impressive.
CNN had the caption up “hostages released”.
Considering it’s CNN, referring to them as hostages probably caused much angst in the newsroom.
They were not released – they were rescued. CNN has problems with the truth.
After rescuing the hostages, I hope as they exited the IDF & co made Sherman’s march to the sea look like a Sunday stroll.
feelthebern
June 9, 2024 6:10 am
A great moral booster and gives hope for the other captives.
Happy for the hostages being rescued but it wasn’t without cost.
A SF member was killed in the operation.
NY Times has a column up outlining the lies Fauci, the NIH & US government told.
Paywalled on everything apart from mobile.
You can search on NY Times, Zeynapp Tufekci via your mobile to read.
Are you sure it’s the times. ? Facts and truth are not their thing.
How much longer can the disconnect with reality last?
China and the Saudis have just signed a huge deal for gas pipelines. Apparently, the Saudis have found huge gas reserves:
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/06/06/chinas-sinopec-signs-1-1-billion-natural-gas-pipelines-deal-with-saudi-aramco/
The China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced Thursday that its Sinopec Oilfield Service Company has signed an agreement worth about $1.1 billion to construct natural gas pipelines for Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of Saudi Arabia.The Sinopec subsidiary is stepping into the third phase of a massive Saudi Aramco project to develop a natural gas pipeline network. Aramco canceled plans last year to increase oil production. Instead, it plans to increase natural gas production by 60 percent by the end of this decade — an ambitious goal that will require a vast network for moving the gas within Saudi Arabia, and perhaps for exporting it.
and
The Jafurah discovery was big enough to make Aramco a major global LNG player all by itself. Combined with other discoveries, Saudi analysts believe they could become the third-largest gas producer in the world by 2030 — just in time to ride a projected surge of demand for gas over the following decade.
Yet, leftists are still trying to stop gas projects everywhere, including by making up stuff (see the recent example off the NT) and claiming that coal is dying when it is thriving and expanding.
I really hope that Dutton’s announcements will burst the fantasy bubble that has characterised any attempt at realism about energy policy.
I hope so too. It’s never been about the environment. It’s bogans shouldn’t have nice things.
There is an article in the Weekend Paywallian (sorry, can’t recall the author, read hard copy at the coffee shop) which mirrors Peter Smith’s piece here.
It says that clinging to unreal, idealistic fantasies such as those about energy are typical of arrested development. It’s childish.
If it is online, someone please put it up.
Noa Agamarni, , seen dragged away by Hamas, has been rescued by Israeli commandos, along with 3 other Israeli hostages. Currently being reunited with her dying mother. Wonder, wonderful news.
The arrested development thing makes a lot of sense. Pravate skool educated. Bludge degree. Sinecure in union or pollimuppet’s office. Incurious. Everything given to you.
Miltonf – disagree re private schools.
you attend private schools to escape that shit
A bajillion innocent babies were murdered according to the hamarse screechers on X.
?
Consider Anna Booth. A Uni unionist if ever there was one.
Wonderful news this morning with the rescue of 4 more hostages in Gaza .. but, of course .. the media trying to damp it down with the ususual, but-think-of-the-dead-Gazans with, as usual, Ministry of health figures of 210 Gazan dead & 400+ injured, unverified, but MoH alwayz gets it right sez media .. FFS! ..
None questioning WHY hostages were being held in residential areas ….. After all, it’s only Israel that does as it likes according to the “unbiased” media ……..
It’s unfortunate that the Israeli gummint alwayz responds with diplomacy instead of using plain wording …….
“We is gonna bring ALL the hostages home and if that involves killing every c*** in Gaza to do it then everyone in Gaza will die so f*** ‘em” …………
Also noticed media-wize that only “our” ABC headlined the rescue and other Oz media I looked at) relegated the story several rungs below the disappeared quack event … tho all are prioritizing the MoH figures over the hostages ….
Nasty little Grauniad ponce is outraged the IDF didn’t blast their way in.
Piers Akerman:
As johanna and miltonf discussed up thread, men and women still stuck in their university days trying to govern the country.
A deplorable chorus of floggery hitherto unseen.
Nice to know that, occasionally, plod does their job ..! .. Read the, original, story earlier in the week and altho it said “plod enquiries continuing” it was quite obvious from the pix that the licence plate of the offender’s vehicle was clearly visible (pixilated by the media LOL!) so plod tracking him down would/should be routine …. but most of these sort of stories we never hear the end result ……….. but for this one …… and of course, with no identifying detail of the offender(s), other than the suburb it occurred in, your left to your own devices to guess the “possible” ethnicity of the villains .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13508199/Two-men-charged-terrifying-incident-driver-allegedly-threatened-three-people-way-footy-knife.html
Per Powerline via X: At least one Israeli soldier was killed during the rescues: Arnon Zamora.
That porcine forces of subhuman evil are STILL holding hostages – either barely alive or their remains – seems to be an irrelevance, according to the majority media.
There is now fierce competition on this ball of rock and water for the title of the most depraved Constantinian Orc Legion. For perseverance and breadth of victim, I’m leaning heavily towards the malignant media.
@mirandadevine
Court martial? Or perhaps the Manhattan jury?
Which layer of Dante’s Hell?
Treason, reduction to the ranks, and marched to the firing squad stripped of his uniform wearing nothing but his grundies and wife beater.
This bullshit puts the US one step away from a military dictatorship, and losing a nuclear war with China and Russia, leading to the deaths of tens of millions of US citizens.
We cannot tolerate treason in the armed forces.
@DC_Draino
Look at the reception President Trump is receiving in *California*
Biden could never!
Biden would object to all the American flags.
How many of those police are looking at the cavalcade and not watching the crowd? Crowd control means watching the bloody threat, you dickheads!
“Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up?”
What a load of bollocks.
And it stems from delusions about islam which is a religion of war, looting, pillaging and slave taking.
Rape of female captives is a given, because it is halal.
Rosie
It is commanded – not just expected, precisely because it is a weapon of subjugation.
Islam is about subjugation of the enemy, and if you are not Muslim, you are the enemy.
It’s slowly dawning on the west, but probably far too late except for extreme measures.
@RealJamesWoods
DEI will make it better, because diversity is our strength blah blah blah…
Excellent!
Peter Dutton to ditch 2030 climate target if elected (9 Jun)
It’ll give Bowen another thing to be snarky about and thus more fun from Johannes Leak. I loved his Bowen-the-white-rabbit yesterday.
Awesome. I might start liking the man.
‘Celebrity doctors promoted Covid vaccine without declaring payments’
Breathtaking arrogance and corruption.
Yet, par for the course – it’s become standard fare and no longer raises an eyebrow – just a shrug.
Owen Jones who would be granted a free high jump if he were in gaza goes for perfidy.
Lol.
The only innocents in gaza are the very young.
From James Macpherson overnight….
Noa Argamani has been freed from Hamas terrorists, along with three other hostages.
Noa was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, and held hostage eight months before her rescue last night.
Noa was returned to her father, on his birthday.
And Noa’s mother, who is reportedly battling stage four cancer, got her dying wish. She saw her daughter once again.
Noa is now safe in her own bed.
But who rescued Noa Argamani?
Was it Joe Biden? Did he do it?
Was it the United Nations? Did they play a role?
Was Noa set free by the International Criminal Court? George Clooney’s wife perhaps? Okay, that one was just me teasing.
Was Noa liberated by Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt. Or by he forked tongues of Anthony Albanese, or Penny Wong, or Ed Husic?
Was Noa reunited with her family by students chanting rhymes on the lawns of ANU?
No.
No.
No.
No.
And No.
Noa Argamani was rescued by IDF soldiers who, ignoring Lefty tears, busted into Gaza and took their sister home.
Well done IDF.
Well done.
Don’t forget how our own Senator Pong, she of the forked tonque and weasel words, just like the slug from Grayndler, on the night of October 7, whilst corpses were still warm, whilst Jewish women were still being gang raped, whilst the corpse of Shanni Louk was still be paraded through Gazan streets like Satanic booty, urged Israel to ‘show restraint’. Yes folks, that’s our leadership.
A time to rend, and a time to sew
a time to keep silent, and a time to speak
a time to love, and a time to hate
a time for war, and a time for peace
And yes, there will be a time for ‘restraint’, but only when, ONLY WHEN, the hostages, be they alive or dead, are returned to their families and when Hamas SURRENDERS.
Am Yisrael Chai
Isn’t this news wonderful, Cassie? Noa had been reunited with her dying mum. It is extraordinary news.
Just the best news, indeed. Four families, and their many extended families and friends, rejoicing.
Go, IDF!
Small niggle – it’s not ‘a time to sew’, It’s ‘a time to sow.’
Why would you do hemstitch before reaping? 🙂
The word is ‘sew’, in both the Hebrew and English translations
KOHELET 3:1-8: A Song for the Seasons
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
1. A time to be born, and a time to die;
2. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3. A time to kill, and a time to heal;
4. A time to break down, and a time to build up;
5. A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
6. A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
7. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
8. A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
9. A time to seek, and a time to lose;
10. A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
11. A time to rend, and a time to sew;
12. A time to keep silent, and a time to speak;
13. A time to love, and a time to hate;
14. A time of war, and a time of peace.
Johanna’s next comment should have included “apologies I stand corrected”, but no, let’s move on.
It explains why I’ve had such a downer on the Ambassador Caste who have never been able to solve this unholy mess but have done their damndest to frustrate a military solution. We’ve gone from one unsatisfactory solution to another unsatisfactory solution, each time with great fanfare from the chattering classes, all of whom have made a wonderful career out of fawning at the Shuttle Diplomacy Banquet, waiting like a starved Labrador for crumbs to fall.
No wonder Islam has gone from one lunatic to 1.9 Billion in 1400 years if that’s the caliber of our defence against it.
I’ll kick out any foreigner who commits serious crime, says Peter Dutton
By joe kelly
and dennis shanahan
Peter Dutton says that no non-citizen who commits a dangerous crime in Australia should be allowed to stay in the country as a matter of principle, arguing that they should be deported “immediately”.
The Opposition Leader told The Weekend Australian there was support for a robust migration program but argued confidence had been dented by the arrival of asylum-seekers in boats in northern Australia and accused the government of “bringing in thousands of people who haven’t been properly checked from a war zone”.
Figures provided by officials at the Department of Home Affairs in budget estimates hearings last week revealed that, since October 7 last year, a total of 2686 visitor visas had been granted to people fleeing Gaza. As of May 28, a total of 1044 people fleeing Gaza had arrived in Australia.
With Labor on Friday releasing Direction 110 to replace the contentious Direction 99 so as to scale back the weight given to the Australian ties of non-citizen criminals facing deportation, Mr Dutton said foreigners who committed dangerous crimes in Australia did not deserve to stay.
“They don’t (deserve to stay) and they should be deported immediately,” he said.
Albanese put Australians ‘second’ with Direction 99: DuttonOpposition Leader Peter Dutton has commended Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson’s… involvement in the rewriting of Direction 99 while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put Australians “second.” Mr Dutton’s comments follow Immigration Minister Andrew Giles announcement the controversial directive which enabled a number of criminals to stay in Australia, More
In an interview to mark two years as Opposition Leader, Mr Dutton said there were “millions of people who want to come to our country – be law abiding, help their neighbours, not rob them; go to work, not turn up to a Centrelink office”
“And we shouldn’t be ashamed of saying that we want the best of the million people who want to come here tomorrow to be part of the migration program instead of compromising and keeping people here who, in many cases, have committed multiple crimes against numerous Australian citizen victims,” he said.
Them California sheriffs look mighty relaxed, indo. Hands on hips, idly watching the vehicle parade, unconcerned about the crowd being all het up or misbehavin’.
Also completely indifferent to the possibility of a threat to the motorcade from the crowd, ie not watching at all. Que sera? Or malicious neglect?
TheirABC may be on to something about lousy maternity are at Redcliffe Hospital:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-09/redcliffe-hospital-allegations-of-flawed-care-after-baby-deaths/103952298
But, they couldn’t resist becoming the story:
On a balmy autumn morning at bayside park near Redcliffe last month, the ABC arranged for Ms Pulleine to meet for the first time with Lacey and her partner Severio Rochford.
The couple peppered the veteran midwife with questions and while they were reassured that the baby’s loss was not their fault, Ms Pulleine’s responses reinforced their concern about the care they received.
One question in particular had been haunting Severio.
“Did he suffer before he died,” he asked about Remy, his stillborn son.
Ms Pulleine answered slowly, confirming the child would have been in distress.
Severio broke down and turned away, covering his face with his hands.
They staged a scenario of grief to report on. Creeps. Deadshits.
And, what’s with this ‘on a balmy autumn morning’ bullshit? They do that more and more, apparently believing that the kiddies are:
(i) Joseph Conrad resurrected;
(ii) in receipt of a comment from the teacher at their creative writing course telling them to add atmosphere; or
(iii) using TheirABC, encouraged by their superiors, tof develop their ‘creative’ writing.
The longform stories are full of this crap, and it is worse than Victorian teenage girls and young women ladling on the adjectives and adverbs.
Because the current crop of graduates from J school know nothing and have not read anything, they produce embarrassing cliches, retreads and even completely misunderstood references as though they are Great Thoughts.
In better news:
The church bells are ringing! Go, Queanbeyan!
The most amusing part of Joe Poopinpants dropping a cable in his daks on world wide TV was “Dr” Jill covering her nose against the smell.
They are a grotesque pair without shame. Very much symbolic of the tired, maliciously incompetent western establishment.
Creepy Joe is too senile to comprehend what is happening. “Dr” Jill is the puppet Meister, addicted to the lifestyle.
Think of the money skill and technology just to fly those two evil disgusting old carcases around the globe. They wrecked a lot of people’s trips to commemorations in Normandy for a photo op. Dirty dirty evil old pair.
Oh well. You’d think they’d get the work done during lockdown when no one was visiting.
Reminds me of the local, Council run, swimming pool out here in the back blox of Fairfield, NSW .. Closed for 18 months cos “lockdown” re-opened for 3 weeks then closed for 6 months for “re-furbishing” …..
There has been another chorus of bleats about “civilian casualties” after the IDF went in and extracted four hostages.
Those would be the civilians engaging the IDF in a fierce gunfight!
In another likely bit of Paliprop the BBC ran an interview with a “14 year old girl” from Gaza. She sounded more like an adult running disinformation to me.
“civilian casualties” – as long as the mighty warriors and fearless soldiers of Hamas use their women and children as shields, there will be civilian casualties. Fight in the open, you cowards!
It seems Hamas made the decision to “embed” the hostages among civilians, in a densely populated block of flats.
While I haven’t seen the interview, you’d have to imagine that no-one, not even a 14 year-old, would dare to express anything other than the acceptable narrative, for fear of family disappearing. Even among the ‘refugee’ population, there would be informants and spies.
Noa was returned to her father on his birthday, and she was immediately taken to the hospital to see her dying mother, who has brain cancer.
You know, I do believe in God but I frequently struggle with God. Judaism insists we struggle with God, and in that way I am a true daughter of Jacob. But last night I thanked God, for he does truly deliver miracles, but those miracles are never without a sacrifice. Commando Arnon Zamora paid the ultimate sacrifice to save Noa, Almog, Andrei and Shlomi. Arnon Zamora, like Yoni Netanyahu at Entebbe, was killed whilst rescuing Jews. I suspect Zamora’s death is weighing heavily on Bibi’s heart this morning.
May Zamora’s memory be a blessing, to Jews, Israel and all righteous people on this planet.
Senator who broke ranks on Palestine to speak at rallyKat WongAAP
Sat, 8 June 2024 1:32AM
A Labor senator, who broke ranks with her party and declared Israel’s violence in Gaza is a “genocide”, will address a pro-Palestine rally as community tensions simmer.
Fatima Payman will address a rally in Perth on Saturday weeks after she made her explosive statement and urged the prime minister to brand Israel’s actions a “genocide”.
The protesters will call on the government to impose an arms embargo on Israel and expel its ambassador, Friends of Palestine WA chairperson Nick Everett said.
“Senator Fatima Payman is the first Labor federal parliamentarian to break ranks with the Albanese government and call for sanctions against Israel,” he said in an emailed statement.
This kunt needs to be sent back to the muslim shithole she came from.
Labor doesn’t tolerate diversity of opinion, if they weren’t hypocrites then she will be resigning or pushed from the party soon; however they need her religion of pieces street cred until next election at least.
This is from Johanna’s clip at 8:54.
The ABC is distressed about a stillbirth but have no problem with even late term abortions where they are not even remotely interested in the baby’s suffering. Wicked people.
Wicked is OK. But Vile is more appropriate.
Steaming trash like milley strike me as nothing more than glorified pubic serpents with their BAs and MAs.
It’s only fair, if the Muslims are commandeering whole streets in downtown Lakemba then Christian churches must be allowed to ring their bells.
I bet Labor people didn’t realise that by advantaging their Muslim voters to broadcast their prayers they would reawaken everyone else
An interesting catfight going on between Senator Lydia and Marion Scrymgeour. Lydia is accusing Marion (former head of the powerful Northern Lands Council) of using COVID money to build a holiday house.
There are also allegations that money was improperly used to buy boats for family members.
Taxpayers’ money sinks into the sands of corruption, once again.
So, this vague wash of Tim Winton has won the Archibald, with accompanying watery prose explanation by a twenty-something grant recipient, explaining how she really felt bad for the Great Barrier Reef when she hopped on the big Boeing to get a smartphone snap of the Great Man, and then, like, did a painting of it when she got home, but, like, it was like a print as well, because, you know, printmaker activist history and Paint Is Wet.
Sorry about the language- it’s just a shitty painting. Eyes busily hacked in, mouth vague, cartoonishly elongated nose for no discernable reason, drag-queen amounts of green blusher on the healthy cheeks. His pose is unbalanced and unnatural, head sideways and foot forward, and the combined with landscape lines sweeping into the lower foreground, obviously and undeniably a smartphone shot. The acres of miasma composing and surrounding the figure make me long for the sweet dominance of AI. A kindergartener would have had infinitely more commitment in fingerpainting the canvas than the give-a-shit fill that this absent Dumb White Chick has phoned in.
FMD. Wally you kissed the blarney stone.
…he may have actually swallowed it
I clicked on the link but didn’t get past the “acknowledgement” page. No thank you. I have seen the painting before and actually quite liked it. I prefer impressionist art and it appealed to me. However, the artist most certainly does not.
Yep. My thoughts exactly.
Monty must be feeling flat today with the news of the Israeli hostages freed from his comrades’ murderous grip.
And after Biden crapping himself, just after mUnturd called Trump Von Schitzenpants.
Black Ball, what monty feels about anything is of even less consequence to me than a random hair I pluck from my big fat hairy arse.
I thought you might just like to know that.
🙂
Who could have been saved by one simple act- release all the hostages. Not only are the Pali’s/Hamas animals, they are as dumb as dog shit.
It’s rare but but this is a whole community that qualifies for the Darwin awards.
feelthebern
June 9, 2024 6:06 am
A lie.
They were rescued.
“Released” indicates that Hamas voluntarily let them go.
Dutton openly dropping the 2030 Paris target is more proof that he is deliberately abandoning Liberal heartland to the Teals.
It is a fascinating electoral strategy. He could end up with sub-30% of seats on a 50% 2PP at the next election.
Ah Monty. The People are starting to reject The Party’s fountain of lies.
What you gonna do when they come for you?
Maybe the Labor Party should drop the 2030 target also. After all pushing catastrophic economic policies based on lies is not an election winning strategy. Perhaps Albo should have a gentle word in Blackout Bowen’s ear.
Green lunacy is Liberal heartland? You must have fallen on your head.
I endorse the first paragraph and reject the second.
Contrast winning government with a 32% Primary vote.
doesnt smutley live in sicktoria, land of the cfmeu
They are at least 2 years late and a billion dollars short. Redcliffe Maternity has been a running sore for health ministers since we moved up here 3years, if not before.
Thanks, Monts. That has actually prompted me to dig out my old file of your idiocies for future ref.
You’re so cocooned in your lefty bubblewrap, you not only know nothing about economics, you’re clueless about politics.
Scary, isn’t it m0ron?
This policy change will win back a good number of the disaffected LNP base.The choice being clearer for many :the Hamas moslem loving inept and destructive deviant left of Albo or Dutton who want’s Australia to enjoy much cheaper energy and governance from normal sane reps.
Texas is fed up with the Democrats.
New Texas GOP Platform Calls For Secession Vote, Resistance To Federal Infringements (9 Jun)
Paging a Mr Kelly Turnbull!
The perspective is biologically alarming.
Winton’s head is off-centre with his spine and apparently attached somewhere behind the line of his back – the crudely sketched shoulders and body appear to be about 6” in front of where you would expect them.
The photo this painting was apparently copied from appeared in the Australian.
I thought artists are taught anatomy and how to paint it properly. It’s only when you are at the level of a Picasso that you can take liberties with nature. Is the artist insinuating that she is the equal of Picasso?
Crossie Crossie Crossie. Art is conceptual. Only the in-crowd can conceive how clever it is.
Does anyone have a direct link to the painting? Nearly all of them go through the National Gallery site which demands something about aboriginal sovereignty before you can proceed.
Which, natürlich, I refuse to do.
Israelis are comparing the hostage rescue to the raid on Entebbe..
WWII vet, 100, marries near Normandy’s D-Day beachesStaff WritersAP
Sun, 9 June 2024 1:26AM
Together, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. But World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot inland of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France.
Their respective ages — he’s 100, she’s a youngster of just 96 — made their nuptials an almost double-century celebration.
Terens called it “the best day of my life.”
On her way into the nuptials, the bubbly bride-to-be said: “It’s not just for young people, love, you know? We get butterflies. And we get a little action, also.”
People still want to go to the cinema.
Nolte: Normal People-Movie ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Overperforms at Box Office (8 Jun)
The heroes are Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, who are African-Americans. So it isn’t racism that is the problem. It’s woke that is the killer of movies. One sniff of it turns the punters right off.
To be fair, the Furiosa movie was good fun.