Never came back from Pocahontas. Trump destroyed her, among others. A one man wrecking ball. Long may it continue.
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Warren is truly evil and psychopathic. A foul old phony.
Source: YouGov NOV 2024
Success! Thank you, thank you!
And deserves huge applause for plowing that delicious field!
oooh! Bingo!
Had to put more wood on the fire. It’s freezing here.
Stay warm everyone. 😀
Johannes Leak.
Cruel but accurate.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Jerry Seinfeld and the pali heckler
https://x.com/AustralianJA/status/1802309319267852487?t=nRfTcklT1qQtd68rFQrxRw&s=19
Bloody hilarious!!! 😀
And on point.
Heckling Seinfeld? Gutsy play.
Seinfeld was already the top 5 greatest comedies – but they just keep getting better now.
It’s always about Jews for Muslims.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1802377270817911042?t=MIWnnYYJHwD–pE88rjwJA&s=19
Captcha and robots eh?
The Gazan famine, analysis.
https://x.com/AviBittMD/status/1802357663843352780?t=9PCS-mTyQopTCt16Qxyivw&s=19
One suspects that ‘famine’ has been redefined, for this special occasion only.
If a GOP strategist said this, the legacy media would be promoting this non-stop.
Clinton Advisor Rips Female Democrats & Blames Them For Election Losses!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-rZX80qMQ
Absoute banger!
Faithless – God Is a DJ (Live At Alexandra Palace 2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltoAcZrjBw
I left the L out.
Thanks Tom.
Aha from a small Greek island.
Don’t go for a walk; FGS, don’t go for a walk!!
The BBC has a segment called Witness History which deals with events past in a quick ten minute summary. Often interesting. I heard another similar program which raised some discordant notes in my mind. It was about the 1984 shoppies strike in Dublin, where checkout chicks refused to sell South African products in their store, and were suspended. They remained on strike for two years.
They became a cause célèbre, so much so that Desmond Tutu and even Mandela himself attributed them with helping to overturn apartheid. Mention was made of brutal SA police gunning down blacks back in the day.
When will the BBC do a similar program about the torture and murder of white SA farmers and their families in recent times. There is now a minority party in SA that has as one of its catch cries “kill the boer”. The country is falling apart under black rule. The BBC must be so proud of that.
Dilbert
Once worked with a supervisor who timed everybody’s bathroom visits. More than 10 minutes a day and you got a face-to-face “please explain”.
Jerry Seinfeld and the pali heckler
Very nice to see.
One of the best comedy takes on ‘Israel/Palestine’ is Larry David’s take on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the……’Palestinian Chicken’ episode.
Soooo funny.
This is what you can do as an Order of Australia recipient (the Hun):
And:
‘I’ll let somebody else ring the ambos – I need to get my story straight so I’ll ring my copper chief of staff who I will promote if I slide out from under this.’
Getting his story straight and organising the cover-up, that’s what.
You get the feeling this is a slow burn for the Stairman.
Let’s hope justice prevails and we get to see exactly where all the downstream tentacles from this incident travelled. That same high profile lawyer again too.
Justice prevailing? In Viktoristan?
Comedy post of the day!
I spent 2 years doing onsite investigations of fatal accident scenes with Adelaide Uni. Having seen the crash pictures, it is 100% obvious that Dans car struck the cyclist with its front (hence the damage to the windscreen) … the cycle did NOT run into the side of Dans car.
Today’s Paywallion:
Look out! The environment is low on the modern Greens agenda
Nick Cater
17 Jun 2024
We begin with an update on Germany’s transition from an economic powerhouse to a zero-emissions, zero-nuclear, zero-industrial dystopia.
Germany’s emissions last year fell by 10 per cent. Renewable energy enthusiasts may interpret this as vindication, thinking their plan to reduce emissions while phasing out nuclear power is back on track. Context matters, however. Over the past five years, Germany’s emissions fell 8.5 per cent while heavy industrial production fell 8.4 per cent in the same period. Coincidence? Probably not.
The exorbitant cost of electricity and natural gas has led to cuts in industrial production and employment with no net decline in global emissions. Shutting down caprolactam production at BASF’s Ludwigshafen plant last year, for example, transferred emissions and jobs to BASF’s plants in São Paulo and Shanghai.
Last weekend, German voters sought revenge on the politicians responsible for this gross policy incompetence in European parliamentary elections. The Greens’ share of the vote in Germany fell from 20.5 per cent in 2019 to 11.9 per cent. Similar declines in France and other Western European countries reduced the Greens’ contingent in the European parliament from 71 to 52 MEPs.
The declining support for environmentalist parties prompts a beguiling thought: Half a century after peak oil, has Europe reached peak Greens? Their fading electoral fortunes in Germany, in particular, has caused an outbreak of self-doubt, a mental state to which the Greens once seemed immune.
Robert Habeck, a leading German Green who was foolishly assigned Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, told The Guardian his party needed to ditch its alarmist instincts and moral superiority complex. It has to abandon its “claim to have access to some higher form of truth that others don’t”, and transition to something with a broader political appeal.
Anxiety about global warming has been subsumed by a change in the climate of debate. Covid, the war in Ukraine, the ensuing surge in energy prices, the economic slowdown and rising interest rates have shifted the agenda on to jobs and the cost of living, reducing the demand for luxury beliefs.
The European Green Party’s secretary-general, Benedetta De Marte, concedes the 2019 European election was the high-water mark for the Greens. There was a “drive towards climate action in a society that unfortunately we don’t see any more”, she told Euronews.
Some in the movement now regret the decision to become coalition partners in government. It denied them the indulgence of being high-minded critics and forced them to make trade-offs.
A consistent pattern has emerged: the Green vote suffered worst in countries where the Greens have been in power. In an opinion piece in the European Green Journal last month, Filipe Henriques pondered whether being in government was all it was cracked up to be. “Is it wise for Greens to enter government and push for reform, even if it means compromising their values?” he asked. “Or is it better to remain in opposition, at the risk of having no role in crucial political decisions?”
It is not just the loss of votes that worries the Greens but who is walking away. The Greens were at the forefront of the campaign to reduce the voting age to 16 in Germany, Austria and Belgium. The ungrateful teenage voters slapped the left in the face last weekend when a significant proportion opted for conservative nationalist parties such as Alternative for Deutschland.
It would be nice to think the Greens will gradually chin-stroke their way to irrelevancy as the Australian Democrats did in Australia. Yet there is every reason to believe the Green movement will survive the declining interest in climate change and find new vehicles to project their moral virtue.
Indeed, this is already happening. It was noticeable that the German Greens campaigned hardly at all on the climate scare and instead contrived a scary story about the threat of a resurgence of fascism. It has been illegal to display the swastika in public since the mid-1970s, but the Greens did it anyway, hanging posters from lamp posts to raise the spectre of the imminent return of Nazism.
The movement has found a temporary distraction in the Middle East, throwing itself behind the Palestinian cause. Its followers attempt to legitimise the move as part of a more extensive campaign to change social structures that perpetuate the climate crisis. The adoption of the term “climate justice” has granted the movement licence to hitch a ride on transient campaigns from transgender rights and Black Lives Matter to decriminalising drugs and sub-Saharan feminism.
However, none of these causes has the mass appeal needed to keep the movement in the headlines. They are mere skirmishes as the movement prepares to launch an assault on the next big front: constitutional animal rights.
In a portent of the shift in direction last week, Jonathan Yeo’s new portrait of King Charles on display in London was defaced not by Extinction Rebellion but by members of a group called Animals Rising. Its rhetoric goes beyond the conventional calls for humane treatment to grant non-human species full legal rights. Its intellectual foundation is an academic movement known as The Animal Turn, which makes a qualitative leap to view animals as sentient beings whose lived experiences are morally, socially, politically and even legally significant.
Activists are testing the waters for compulsory veganism on campuses with campaigns to restrict the sale of food in university canteens to 100 per cent plant-based products. All of this is evidence the Green franchise is far from exhausted. The sense of entitlement that encourages the anointed to impose their vision on the rest of us remains, together with the linguistic dexterity that enables them to turn eccentric academic arguments into mainstream moral crusades.
Nick Cater is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute.
NICK CATER
COLUMNIST
FFs…the ride against the stupid never ends :
They are mere skirmishes as the movement prepares to launch an assault on the next big front: constitutional animal rights.
Activists are testing the waters for compulsory veganism on campuses with campaigns to restrict the sale of food in university canteens to 100 per cent plant-based products.
The Labor/Green/Teal spokespersons known as The ABC assure us that “experts” say the coalition’s plans to build nuclear power stations are impossible.
Tell that to China. “As of February 2023, China has 55 plants with 57GW in operation, 22 under construction with 24 GW and more than 70 planned with 88GW.”
And via Bloomberg: “The Chinese nuclear project construction record reveals a few interesting insights. Since the start of 2022, China has completed an additional five domestic reactor builds, with their completion times ranging from just under five years to just over 7 years.”
Plus: “China is able to build reactors at a fraction of the cost of places like France and the US, according to BloombergNEF. That’s in part thanks to low lending rates from supportive state-owned banks. It’s also because of smart construction strategies.”
But blackouts Bowen and all the green left (Labor/Greens/Teals) have said we can’t do nuclear. So they’ll continue on their merry way to bankrupting Australia more surely than by NDIS alone. The climate scam has been nurtured for the purpose of sinking the West.
Might as well just refurbish/rebuild the coal plants then.
LGTBC….?
Absolute filth.
Good.
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1802355530586788028?t=EgTBQDzHCuRu9SGn4zA4cA&s=19
From the Nick Cater column.
Do it! Advance the effective end of universities by decades. Then return most training to technical schools and apprenticeships.
How will they stop students bringing in their salami sandwiches? Will there be inspections at entrances to the campus?
The Slime are fascist enough to at least try that on.
Yes.
There will be sniffer dogs. Labradors.
They can detect a single slice of salami in a truck load of vegetables, just by smell.
Former SAS soldier caught in visa confusion
By paul garvey
A decorated SAS veteran and his family are in limbo after the Department of Home Affairs refused to grant his Thai-born wife a visa.
The soldier – who was awarded the nation’s second-highest military honour, the Medal for Gallantry, for his conduct in the Afghanistan War – has been living in Thailand for eight years while he works as a FIFO security contractor in the resources sector.
He has had to return to Australia for treatment for his declining mental health, but Home Affairs refused to give his wife a partner visa because the soldier was unable to secure criminal clearances from some of the countries he had worked in.
While the couple and their two Australian citizen children have been based in Thailand for eight years, his work has taken him around the world and he was unable to source the required paperwork from Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria.
A briefing note prepared by RSL Victoria spells out the family’s frustrations with the conduct of the department, and what appears to be an error in the way the application was assessed. The former soldier has been working to secure the partner visa since September 2021, but has now been told to restart the application process from scratch. It means his wife is unlikely to secure a visa before 2027 at the earliest.
He was formally notified late last year that his wife’s application had been refused due to the lack of police clearances, triggering a 21-day window for an appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. According to the RSL note, the man’s health had worsened during that period and he was unable to lodge a response in time.
The RSL briefing note details how the police clearance certificate request is not mandatory, while it says there are provisions in the regulations for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to exercise ministerial discretion and approve a sponsor if there are compelling circumstances.
“This discretion extends to permit the minister to approve sponsorship of people with significant criminal histories,” the RSL Victoria note says. “It would be outrageous if such a discretion was not exercised to support and assist an Australian war hero with no criminal history.”
Before the application was formally rejected, the soldier had provided Home Affairs with a letter from a psychiatrist specialising in veterans’ healthcare describing how his poor mental health – stemming from his war service – hampered his capacity to negotiate the visa process.
“(The soldier) is a man who has given his country everything he has, at very great personal expense, and now finds himself held at a distance from this country,” the psychiatrist wrote.
“(He) is an exceptional individual in his commitment to our country and in his capacity as an Australian citizen. I would ask that his exceptional situation be considered in the processing of his applications.”
The RSL note argues the department erred in the scope of the police clearance request. While the regulations provide for the minister to seek clearances from countries where the sponsor or spouse has lived for at least 12 months, the department sought the paperwork from nations where the man had worked only temporarily.
Yet we are bringing in hundreds of thousands of who migrants from who knows where and even terrorists from Gaza. Firing everyone in the Immigration Department would certainly improve things.
The Immigration Department is staffed by the people who have negotiated the immigration process and there are now very few Australian born/cultural background employees left.
Welcome to the Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy!
And yet idiot Giles can release illegal immigrant rapists into the community from gaol and yet an Australian citizen and his family are put through the ringer…again.
And they wonder why nobody wants to sign up to serve anymore.
And hundreds, if not by now thousands, of Pally potential terrorists and murderers are coming in on a nod from Benny Wrong and NO clearance certificates.
Digger, if you are reading the Cat this morning, here’s a link you may enjoy/ empathise with/ snort and chuckle.
I love my job, I love my job, I love my job. 😀
https://x.com/Judianna/status/1801374301951545586
hmmm…flash-point baby
methanol 9 °C,
diesel fuels 50 to 100 °C
Bunker No 2 would be higher.
Try Avgas (ordinary petrol similar) flash point Minus 43 deg C yet small aircraft generally do not spontaneously catch fire.
It isn’t all that difficult to inert the fuel tanks with nitrogen in the ullage space in a large ship.
what evvs … I was only guessing
I dont even know what Bunker No 2 is
… googling
Within a few years China will not need our coal. Where then will Blackout Bowen find the money to shower on the renewables carpetbaggers?
He doesn’t give a shit because he will be retired on a Parliamentary Pension and several windfalls from his Chinese friends.
Activists are testing the waters for compulsory veganism on campuses with campaigns to restrict the sale of food in university canteens to 100 per cent plant-based products.
The Maccas, KFCs and Burger Kings etc around the campuses will do well.
Even student poverty (a relative concept at UWA. If you were genuinely poor you went to Curtin) couldn’t get students to make their lunch. Tofu hotdogs might though.
The March of Dimes Syndrome
Why have activists declared a “national state of emergency” for LGBT people? Why was the election of the first black president followed by the Black Lives Matter movement? Why, as radical prejudice declined, was there a rise in the number of “hate groups”? Why, as sexual violence declined in America, did academics and the #MeToo movement discover an “epidemic of sexual assault”?
The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.
For career activists, success is a threat. They can never declare mission accomplished.
That Blairgowrie disgrace just stinks to high heaven. Despicable.
@RepClayHiggins
The Maccas, KFCs and Burger Kings etc around the campuses will do well.
A licence to print money.
The Maccas, KFCs and Burger Kings etc around the campuses will do well.
A licence to print money.
On further thought, If I owned any of those outlets, I’d donate money anonymously to the vegan campus people
EU Chief Mocks UK Over Mass Immigration
So if GB decides to block all migration routes, and sends them back to wherever they came from – France, Germany, Uganda, Afghanistan etc, who will the EU use to enforce their diktat? French and German troops? IIRC, the last time the Luftwaffe tried to enforce its will on England it didn’t work out so well.
‘…LGBT people?’
I think the ‘T’ in ‘LGBT’ stands for :
Totalitarianism
or
Toilet intruder/s.
Turds
Teals
I will not support one dime of funding for the ATF until constitutional policy is fully restored. Please wake up America, We the People are living in a police state. These Federal agencies DOJ/FBI/ATF are WAY OUT OF CONTROL. This American had a perfect record, he was squared away for his whole life. ATF had warrants for alleged regulatory paperwork violations, easy stuff they could have handled 100% peacefully, instead they hit his home heavy and hard pre-dawn like he was MS13, so the man wakes up and freaks out and in those wild seconds begins to defend his family from the violent home-invasion and he promptly gets shot in the head.
?When you accept that governments and their minions are merely criminal gangs this all makes sense.
The “deep state” is a parasite class
On Sunday, the Zionist Federation of Australia, supported by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, wrote to the government calling for Hizb ut-Tahrir – the international Islamist organisation currently mainstreaming antisemitism in Australia – to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
Not an unreasonable suggestion, then.
So, even if a bit of light antisemitism is OK, HUT is guilty of all the really big ones.
Which achieved a response that Bismarck himself would have been proud of:
It appears that these pesky Jews have completely misinterpreted what “a threat to us all” actually means.
[Unlinkable OZ]
Well there you go, a statement that nobody else will see, certainly not their Muslim voters in vital Labor electorates. Actions are for losers, as in election losers.
What…no mention of motherhood and meat pie?
The other prong to be used (already is) will be banning the use of one chemical after another. Glyphosate, Haloxyfop (canola) etc, alternative chemistries will then come under the banning spotlight. All designed to make food production harder.
It’s all about less humans on the planet, with those remaining living strictly regulated lives.
EMT and Alan Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Peace – How the Arab Israeli conflict can be resolved. ”
Dershowitz devotes a chapter to the University academics in Europe and the United States who consider themselves more Palestinian then the Palestinians…
They are again talking about conscription all over place.
Are Britain and the US at WAR with Russia ALREADY? UK warned ‘EVERYTHING could go wrong!’
The steady drumbeat to war continues.
So many similarities to pre WW1.
This one is not to be missed. David Martin really is the full bottle.
Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson and Dr.David Martin – 9th Circuit Court rules COVID-19 mRNA Injections are not “Vaccines”
Forever War: Zelensky, Western Leaders Reject Putin Ceasefire Proposals at Swiss Peace Summit
@HenMazzig
The biggest accounts “for Palestine” on X: Jake Shields, Suleiman Ahmed, and Lucas Gage met at an event that was due to be attended by the grand wizard of the KKK.
But tell me more about how anti-Zionism has absolutely nothing to do with antisemitism.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Says She Has Heard Biden Will ‘Likely’ Be Replaced as Democrat Nominee
If so it will be interesting to see how they plan to get around the state deadlines for filing.
The last of those deadlines passed on 03/24/24.
Could the Dem elites at the convention try to force one through? Sure. But how is that going to play with the states? The Dem party bribing Bernie to step out of the race is still a fresh scar in the memories of many Dem voters.
Would the section of the constitution dealing with a president being medically unfit come into play?
Short term – Kamala takes over but won’t be running for pres.
Then they shoehorn in another candidate to run.
All they need do is make it look like they’re shutting the border, put a stopper on some of the DEI and transing children BS.
They’ve already managed a gaslighting of enormous proportions wrt the law by getting Bunter convicted, (we’ve all seen it), “see, the law applies evenly to everyone”, thereby legitimising what they did to Trump.
Enough brain dead people will fall for this shit, mark my words.
Why?
Because Trump, that’s why.
Like I’ve said before, I hope the fanboyz have got a plan B. And I hope I’m wrong.
Well, the Dem party isn’t a monolith. In effect we are talking about a coup within the party because Biden and his faction aren’t going to let go of power without a fight. So is the anti-Biden faction large enough and organized enough to pull off a secret campaign to zap him with the 25th amendment (fitness) at the last minute?
Again, just dumping him isn’t enough and they don’t want to be left with the utterly unelectable Kamal in his place so they have to have done a heap of groundwork down to the state party level to shoehorn someone else in. Again all in secret.
Attempting it and failing to unseat Biden would very likely be fatal to the Dems in the election (and long term for that matter). They got away with the Bernie stunt but that left a really bad taste in many of their mouths. Another massively shady deal by the Dem party isn’t going to go unnoticed by the voters.
Here’s hoping they stuff it up.
Like I said the other day, Biden will short circuit in full view of the world, I mean all they have to do is stop the meds, and it’s fait accompli.
Yep – he’s a mean and nasty bastard – it will most likely be a punch up with a reporter who decides he or she (!) wants to press his buttons.
Yep, and there isn’t going to be a whole lot of sympathy for the Dems when Biden finally strips his last gear.
If they can’t keep their zombie juiced up enough to make it to election day too bad. They have been telling the world for years to ignore what we see and hear, he’s fit!
Except of course when the special counsel needed an excuse not to charge him for the classified documents in his garage. Then he is a “sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and thus supposedly couldn’t be convicted, but could still run the country.
Excellent.
Federal Coalition vows to scrap NSW offshore wind farm (Tele, paywalled)
Meanwhile the nuclear policy discussion, far from making Dutton unpopular has done exactly the opposite.
Peter Dutton overtakes Anthony Albanese as Australia’s preferred prime minister while Labor’s primary vote dips, new poll reveals (Sky News, 17 Jun)
The voters seem to be wising up to Labor’s lies. Maybe their electricity bill has something to do with that.
An empty wallet and an empty bank account do concentrate the mind. People are more maths savvy than any Labor, Greens or Teal politicians.
There’s probably nothing that highlights Canbra Bubble Think more than cost of living.
Over the past three years, inflation in the areas that consume most of the average Australian’s income – food staples, energy, cost of accommodation, and clothing – has run double digits.
Quite the issue when you are living off your last pay and any unexpected bill is a drama.
Less of an issue when you are on $225,000 basic, plus committee sweeties, plus expenses, plus subsidised food, drink, and housing.
Enough public padding there for your elected bien pensant to explore luxury issues on your behalf.
Exactly. I’m not sure this Liars to be returned in minority government is a done deal quite yet. Maths does not favour the Lieborals.
Global Migrant Crisis Explained! w/ Neil Oliver
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/ill-bet-johannes-enjoyed-drawing-this-one.html
Snork, snork!
Didn’t we have that picture before, DB?
Or was it just similar?
No, first time, but Joseph Wright has appeared before. Similar to his Iron Forge though.
Of course – now I remember the kiddies in the workshop with no H&WS Officer present.
Peter Dutton overtakes Anthony Albanese as Australia’s preferred prime minister while Labor’s primary vote dips, new poll reveals (Sky News, 17 Jun)
Heaven help us…the Australian electorate has gone “far right”!
I must refurbish the German M35 helmet I used to use as an ashtray, for the new regime.
Although I should cover the SS runes on the side. Someone will object, I think.
I suspect that it is only downhill from here for Albo Bruce.
Make Helicopters Great Again!
Any Cats heard anything about a class action in South Australia – a group of the indigenous are claiming their ancestors served in the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, alongside non – indigenous Australians – the others received cash, houses and land, and all the indigenous received was a return to their status under the “Flora and Fauna Act?”
If so, the evidence presented by the defence, if done at all honestly, will make uncomfortable reading for the plaintiffs.
And the plaintiffs’ legal advisors will be exposed as grasping charlatans.
I’m sorry, I just don’t understand how anyone can bring a lawsuit, claiming the existence of a piece of thoroughly discredited nonsense, such as the “Flora and Fauna Act?”
Perhaps they should read Maters’ excellent series of posts a while back which hit this subject square on the head.
Gonna need a lot more pink paint…
Arts Schools Offered “Plus-Size Inclusivity Training” to Tackle “Fatphobia (16 Jun)
The chairs that life models sit on may need strengthening.
Speaking of which, The Age has today labelled Narendra Modi “far right.”
What, in the context of Indian politics, makes Modi a Hindu Hitler?
Presumably his policies aimed at curbing Muslim immigration, which is about the only domestic policy he shares with Le Pen, Meloni, Wilders, Orban, et. al.
The prog-left establishment cannot abide that sovereign countries should have sovereign borders. Until the problems end up on their doorsteps, that is.
Chandra Bose was in the lefty Congress Party along with Gandhi and Nehru.
I’m getting some big trees over 20m tall, down at the moment. 3 guys, you could call semi skilled but you’d be wrong. These guys all young don’t talk to each other, they know what their job is and can do it without talking to each other. I have camellias, maples, magnolias plus other assorted shrubs underneath. Hardly any of the branches have come anywhere near damaging them and most are winched straight across to the chipper without touching the ground. There are so many trees on the coast, having a tree business is a licence to print money.
Ranga,
I had a dozen huge conifers taken down a year ago. The guys were a joy to watch. No broken fences, no unnecessary mucking about. Same as yours, limbs straight into the chipper.
One of the great joys in life is watching professional tree loppers at work.
Must be an East Coast thing. Next door strata unit had a 20yo Chinese Tallow (planted by me) done where it had been growing without incident. Removed about half a dozen branches including all lower ones that could be reached without a ladder. Horticultural backyarders.
Yep. When we had a oak removed (rotten) the team were brilliant. I videoed a lot of the removal and they requested a copy, one bloke said he wanted to show his young sone what he was learning to do for a living. It is very skilled.
Yes, we’ve had a lot of call to get in tree men at various properties over the years. They are truly magnificent, especially in large trees like the coral one with a rotten truck we had to have removed eight years ago here. People came from everywhere to watch them expertly swinging around in the canopy and finally branch by branch bringing the awful malplanted thing down. True skilled professionals.
The “far right” label is a propaganda device designed discredit political opponents of whoever is using it.
Any journalist using it is declaring that he has — and deserves — zero credibility. He is not a neutral observer of anything.
Correct.
A very well argued piece.
Reinvigorating our culture with Christian themes would be a good thing to start promoting in schools, universities and other cultural institutions.
And moral discussions of Christian themes. Like Scruton, I’ve always placed forgiveness very high on my list of why Christianity works so well. It helps the torgiver and the forgiven and everyone can then sigh with relief and move on. Without that, we could live in the shadow of the eternal blood feud. Some cultures, naming no names, still do.
Knuckle Dragger
June 17, 2024 7:35 am
So many questions.
What is interesting is that, even as Opposition Leader, he had a VikPol fixer on staff.
The other question, which will probably remain unanswered, relates to the unfortunate first choice of lawyers by the kid’s parents.
They went to a Labor-aligned law firm (Slugs and Bugs I think) who, faced with the prospect of suing a Labor Premier, sent them on their way with a “put a claim on TAC. Nothing much we can do.”
I an trying to imagine if the response would have been the same if Tony Abbott was the driver.
VicPlod and other elements of the Victoriastani public service see themselves as a part of the Liar machine. It does and would not occur elsewhere in Australia.
Dr Faustus
June 17, 2024 9:01 am
On Sunday, the Zionist Federation of Australia, supported by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, wrote to the government calling for Hizb ut-Tahrir – the international Islamist organisation currently mainstreaming antisemitism in Australia – to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
This has been happening for a long time:
Jewish leaders demand Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir teacher be sued for anti-Semitic hate speech (smh.com.au)
Muslim extremist Ismail al-Wahwah calls for ‘armies of jihad’ to conquer Europe | Daily Mail Online
Radical Muslims say Australia Day is ‘terror and genocide’ | Daily Mail Online
And so on. No society which tolerates the intolerant survives. This country is fuked.
Excellent article by “John Carter”
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/draft-our-sons-draft-our-daughters
I wish I’d said that.
The correct verb is ‘lurched’, I believe.
Have the Liberals pounced on this yet?
I think it’s more a wobble at this time.
😀
staggered ?
More of a Spud.. “You rang?”
Not even “veered”?
I suspect the voteherd hasn’t moved too far anywhere. What has been apparent, particularly over the past 25 years, is the movement to the Left by Government, government, structures and organs of government, and the viewpoint of a commentariat firmly intertwined with government.
Looking backwards while speeding Left, the electorate may appear to be heading Right – a sort of political Red Shift.
Radical Muslims say Australia Day is ‘terror and genocide’ | Daily Mail Online
Psychologists call this malignant projection.
They should flee this terror and genocide to another country then. I suggest Somalia.
Gaza?
The history of Islam.
The sooner the better!
Atlantis is a good runner up choice.
From the OOT:
What do you mean?
I made a post on the Old Fred but by the time it made it out of Moderation, the Cat had moved on.
I repost it here hoping some military minded Cats had a view.
Military minded Cats may be interested to hear I was at the War Memorial the other day in Canberra.
A volunteer guide told me that an aboriginal man couldn’t enlist in the AIF in 1914 because of his ‘race’.
I told him that I thought that was unlikely. I noted that aboriginal men (and women) were eligible to vote in 1901 if they had been able to vote in State elections previously. And so I thought as they could vote in Federal Elections, they were likely to be able to enlist.
I was directed to this resource:
“Quandamooka/Noonuccal man Richard Martin enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 17 December 1914. As Aboriginal people were prevented from enlisting, he declared that he was a New Zealander with five years’ service in the Light Horse. In fact, he had been born on Stradbroke Island in Queensland and had no known previous service.
https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/schools/resources/anzac-diversity/aboriginal-anzacs/richard-martin?fbclid=IwAR1JI3BlAlqGHLDuP8OtnZcHiR9y9T1jUvehswSgQmPzA5BkWWnxh3uTlek”
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Roger at 10:45.
He assumes that democracy can only work with a local branch structure and it is not possible for a party leader to understand the will ‘o de people without it.
I would contend that a generally apathetic public and tiny party branch memberships have corrupted democracy by providing leverage to a highly organised few.
There can be no better example than the Liars Pardee in Danistan.
Both sides of the UniParty understand the value of a branch stack. The Liars seem to get caught more often, especially in Victoriastan.
But only the beleaguered and impotent Right faction (e.g. Somyurek) gets held to account for it.
You have succinctly described my branch.
Why do I hang around, especially as I refuse to vote LNP?
To make the pomposities who occupy the front rows at branch meetings as uncomfortable as possible. One might even achieve a collective head shake on a good night.
That would describe the anglosphere if not the entire ‘west’ for the last 4-5 decades.
Much too comfortable, accommodating, and ‘civilized’ to fight back on the little things, which have turned into massive things.
Still, he has a valid point.
A one-man party may be useful for disrupting the status quo, but If a broad-based democracy is to be revived (if that is possible), a “grassroots” movement is, by definition, necessary.
In regard to branch stacking and so on:
Abusus non tollit usum – abuse does not negate proper use.
Physical attacks on Jews have always been preceded by extreme hateful rhetoric. It is only a matter of time before an attack becomes deadly. In the UK, in some parts of the US, in France and other Western European countries, Jews, particularly religious Jews, are daily being targeted for physical assault by leftist and Palestinian scum. How long before an attack is deadly? Well, I know my Jewish history and all I can say is that it’s inevitable. To be honest, I am very concerned by the increasing rhetoric from scum as per below. This is real hate speech. The word “Zionist’ is simply code for “Jews”.
The Oz…
Political, Jewish leaders urge crackdown on activists’ Hamas, Hezbollah symbols
Pro-Palestine activists in Melbourne have been displaying and wearing Hezbollah and Hamas emblems unimpeded, despite criminal legislation outlawing the usage of the two terror groups’ symbols.
Photographs obtained by The Australian from recent Melbourne pro-Palestine rallies stretching back weeks show a cohort of activists wearing Hamas’ distinctive emblem on their clothing – one activist donning the insignia is pictured less than a metre from Victoria Police officers.
In another from early June, two activists hold up a cardboard poster of the Hezbollah flags.
One of those pictured, and a prominent leader of the rallies, is Mohammad Sharab, shown wearing a Hamas badge while leading one of the protests. Sharab was charged in February after an alleged abduction, alongside another prominent activist, Laura Allam, after an incident in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
The entirety of both Hamas and Hezbollah are recognised by the federal government as terrorist organisations, and in certain circumstances the public display of the groups’ insignias is a breach of section 80.2 of the commonwealth criminal code.
The outlawing of the groups’ emblems was introduced into the criminal code in January, alongside the display of Nazi symbols. For someone to be charged with the offence, one further element is that the display of the symbols would also have to incite others to offend, insult or intimidate people of a certain race or religion, or advocate “hatred” of that group.
It is punishable with up to a year imprisonment.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said the prevalence of the terror groups’ symbols was concerning.
“It is alarming so many Australians are openly and proudly displaying the symbols of listed terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah,” the Liberal Senator said.
He urged authorities to “prosecute every single person” found to be breaching the law, saying failure would “embolden the extremists on our streets”.
Hamas’s emblem depicts two crossed swords in front of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem while Hezbollah’s flag is a distinctive green rifle on a yellow backdrop.
In other instances during pro-Palestine Melbourne rallies, Hamas bandannas can be seen worn by activists, T-shirts with the group’s logo and of its spokesman, Abu Oubaida, as well as one protester wearing a shirt with the words “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad soufa ya?oud” in Arabic, which translate to an anti-Israel call that: “Oh, Jews, the army of Mohammed will return.”
Australian Jewish Association chief executive Robert Gregory, the group as been active in finding and highlighting on social media the symbols’ usage, said it was “concerning” to see insignias of terror groups flying in major Australian cities. “There’s little point in having anti-terror laws if they are not enforced,” he said, adding that anti-Israel rhetoric and the display of the symbols had been “steadily escalating”.
“Many people are questioning why the authorities are so timid in the face of Islamist extremism.
“Extremists will likely interpret the failure to act as a green light for further escalation.”
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the force respected the right for peaceful protest but unlawful behaviour would “not be tolerated”.
“Victoria Police provide a visible presence at rallies in Melbourne to keep the peace and ensure the safety of those attending and the broader community,” she said. She also said Victoria Police would investigate any specific alleged incidents brought to the attention of the force.
I note that the NSWaffen Police have been very busy charging those Christian men and women involved in the church riot after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was attacked by a teenage Muslim (the good bishop lost an eye in the attack). Impressive police work from NSWaffen, isn’t it? But remember this, the same NSWaffen Police are yet to charge one person from the night of 9 October 2023.
In the piece above, the name ‘Mohammad Sharab’ is mentioned. Interesting. A few months ago Sharab was charged with a serious crime. He is currently on bail yet even this has not curbed his ‘activities’. About two months ago, after he was charged, I watched an altercation between him and Avi Yemeni outside the Victorian Parliament. Yemeni is not a timid Jew, he stood his ground against Sharab, and it was very revealing seeing Sharab’s reaction. Sharab does not like Jews, particularly tough Jews. Despite being charged by Victorian police, despite being on bail, Sharab is clearly empowered, aggressively so. And yet the Victorian Police stand back and do nothing.
Watch this space. When (not if) a physical attack happens in this country against Jews, I will know who to blame.
Mosca argued an organised minority will always defeat a disorganised majority. The book in the sidebar elaborates this point.
I thought the book recommendations were only there to annoy JC?
Chuckle.
Very droll.
Alan Dershowitz’s book “The Case For Peace” contains the following anecdote.
“Many British academics and scholastic organizations have threatened or imposed boycotts on Israeli educators and academic institutions. Oxford Professor of Pathology Andrew Wilkie (!!!) refused to accept an Israeli student, because of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. As he wrote to Amit Duvshani, a master’s student in molecular biology at Tel Aviv University:
“Thank you for contacting me, but I don’t think this would work. I have a huge problem with the way that the Israelis take the high moral ground for their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights on the Palestinians because they wish to live in their own country. I am sure you are perfectly nice on a personal level, but no way would I take on someone who has served in the Israeli Army.” (Pages 129 – 130.)
I expect the centre of learning to move from Oxford to Jerusalem since the most capable students and teachers will be there instead of Oxford. Oxford will only have the wokesters who know nothing.
For an academic. his writing is rather poor. Is this what he actually said? That Israel is inflicting “gross human rights on the palestinians” ? And all they want is to live in their own country.
There are no palestinians. Only Jews can be Palestinians. And Palestine was Israel as described by the Romans. The Arabs are out of luck.
Yes this professor accepts UK taxpayers money for his salary?
He is discriminating on the basis of ethnicity not for scholarly reasons.
I’d have him up before a tribunal for this. These leftists can be hoist on their own anti-discrimination petard – to say nothing of their serious moral failings. I expressing outright anti-Semitic attitudes he is introducing sheer Nazism into his scholarship and behaviour.
… in expressing etc.
He seems pretty comfortable in saying what he did. Particularly as he did it in writing.
Which unfortunately suggests he isn’t going out on a limb relative to the views of his peers and superiors.
He should be sacked immediately.
This is tragic to anyone with a sense of history. In better days, Oxford was very generous in taking in refugees from Nazism. (And, indeed, in taking in refugees from Jaruselki’s Communist crackdown on Solidarity in 1980; they would now be clerical fascist running dogs of capitalist imperialism.)
Do it and I’ll let you keep your job.
The only animal more useless than a panda is a koala.
China to replace Australia’s popular giant pandas (Phys.org, 16 Jun)
Can we donate them to someone else? Please?
Appropriate for Radelaide.
From what I know of Reform UK- all from the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, highly recommended- their lack of grassroots/branch grit has left them open to leftist lawfare and led to them burning through a number of very savvy candidates because Unnacceptable. Farage is a late lob into leadership. I like him, he seems very much accross the brief, tho I don;t know how much of the manifesto he’s written himself. He”l harvest any amount of protest votes from natural Conservatives who now hate the home of their natural two-party loyalty.
Interestingly, a fairly unbiased BBC analysis of the impact of Farage and Reform on the Conservative Party.
What the commentatrix can’t bring herself to say is that Conservative Party has destroyed itself by pursuing ’me too’ Labour heartland policies that appeal to nobody.
Or to explore who will still be standing at the next opportunity for a conservative government, which will come after 10 or 15 years of Labour misrule and ineffective Conservative Opposition.
My eldest son has been living in the UK for a decade. He said he probably would have considered himself a Labour voter but has since heard Farage explain the issues including immigration and Brexit very clearly and he now says he would vote for the Reform party if he could.
There might be some hope for the young after all. If they get clear and thorough information they can come to the right conclusions.
Poor Lucy, poor Ella. What are they going to do now.
Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work. The next day they were sacked
What is it with young women and Hamas. I thought climate change and cute animals would keep their ‘care’ genes busy.
So sad, too bad.
Indeed it is. Welcome to what is apparently your first lesson in it.
Had they worn a Star of David to work, a Pali mob would have sacked the place?
If they were up here, I’d have worn the Kippah I bought for occasions like this.
See just how they like it.
Fired by that example, I’m buying a Kippah…
More than three quarters of the comments are not on their side. Boo Hoo, you morons.
Revel in your mental illness you dumb bints.
*snork*
These are mostly well-off, bored girls who want some adventure in their pampered lives. You notice they are not volunteering to go and fight in Gaza. Not many are volunteering even for the humanitarian work in the Middle East as lately it has become rather deadly. They are all fakes.
Fuk ’em; and I don’t mean sexually.
Steady on, Cohenite. Some of them are presentable, and if you buy me a slab (of XXXX Bitter) I’ll take one for the team.
oooooh …. you slut 😀
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/proud-history-of-non-achievement.html
While the visit of the Chinese Premier is dominating news, the escalating conflict between Russia and the West is getting bit scary. Harry Richardson posted this update in the last 24 hours.
BIDEN’S BOLSHEVIKS ON PATH FOR WAR IN EUROPE….AND AMERICA
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUB AND WARSHIPS OFF U.S. COAST AS PUTIN STRIKES HEART OF DICTATORSHIP
HARRY RICHARDSON
JUN 16
By Howell Woltz
Without congressional approval, Biden pledges support to Ukraine dictator Zelenskyy for 10 years—to start a war
The stage has been set by the Biden Bolsheviks and NATO collaborators for nuclear war with Russia.
I was nine years old in 1962 when Russian missiles were last sent to Havana, Cuba and a similar stand-off took place, but this time we do not have a sensible president like John F. Kennedy in the White House.
We have a demented old man who had to be led around the G-7 summit like a pet, by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
Sadly, all of the Obama left-overs running the government from Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken (Ukrainian with US/Israeli citizenship) to the real ‘powers’ running the show—Susan Rice (who literally lives with the Obamas) and Hamas supporter, Samantha Powers—former U.N. Ambassador now using the CIA U.S. Aid cover for her activities—are calling every shot moving ahead on multiple war fronts.
As Russell Brand points, out—where is “our” rep?
MEANWHILE, THE G-7 CLUB OF FOOLS ARE IN ITALY
The brilliant posting by recent convert to Conservatism and Christianity, Russell Brand, says it all. The only elected ‘leader’ at this supposed summit in the picture who has any chance of being or remaining in office is Italy’s Giorgia Meloni! The rest are Globalist puppets installed by the Soros/WEF/Rothschild cabal or are so unpopular that recent polls have certain STDs ahead of them.
LET’S TRY FOR A MOMENT TO THINK OBJECTIVELY
For those who have been drinking the media kool-aid too long to think clearly, what we are witnessing is a slew of psychopaths pushing nuclear war with Putin seeming to be the only one wanting to avoid it.
To put this question into context as to how stupid US/NATO aggression has been,here are the numbers from International Peace Research Institute to help make my point:
What would you—or a real leader, if any of us had one—do if a hostile gang of nations put 250,000 armed troops, and ringed your borders with missiles and bioweapons labs? You’d stop them!
Here are the stats:
Russia’s nuclear missiles- 5,889
United States’ nuclear missiles- 5,244
Communist China’s nuclear missiles- 410
Now add in the ‘hypersonic’ capability of Russia, which the U.S. military has been too busy to develop due to much more important things—such as feminising its military and forcing deadly ‘vaccines’ on all its personnel to weaken the troops. There has been no time for preparing for war—yet billions for forcing Critical Race Theory racist training and pushing transgender agendas—from the top.
Meanwhile, the Russians, surrounded by a hostile NATO and U.S. proxies in Ukraine, prepared to take out any real threats to its sovereignty or survival.
Meet Russia’s Mach 9 Tsirkon hypersonic missile faster—by far—than a speeding bullet
HYPERSONIC IS FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND—MACH 9 MEANS YOU’RE DEAD BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
Sound waves travel 761 miles per hour (1,225 kilometres per hour) and even faster at the Tsirkon’s intended flight level of 35,000 feet.
Russia now has the capability of launching hypersonic nuclear missiles from high-altitude jets or even space, meaning that before former Joint Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, could get on his high heels to go wake up Sleepy Joe, Washington, DC would be an ash heap.
The real test case to teach NATO and the gang a lesson, in my opinion, will not be Washington, DC—or nearby Miami, Florida, however—but a much more dramatic exhibition of strength not threatening to civilians.
This morning, as example, Russian missiles and drones hit seven targets across Ukraine—including their capitol city of Kyiv—as a warning at 4 a.m. after US/NATO proxy attacks by Ukraine into the Russian motherland.
Hypersonic cruise missile from sub to a U.S. battleship or a hypersonic glide vehicle is my guess of Putin’s ‘teaching moment’ for US/NATO. The most western of those missiles hit about an hour drive from my office in Rzeszów, Poland, which was a warning to Poland, in my opinion, to quit being NATO’s doormat for ballistic missiles targeting Russia—or pay the price.
And the Polish people are clearly not with their feckless ‘leaders’.
How can I say such a thing? Because Poland’s most anti-war politician, Grzegorz Braun, just clobbered his EU-sycophantic opponent in one of the greatest defeats in Polish political history. To put this in context, Grzegorz Braun is the guy who brought a fire extinguisher into the Polish Parliament last year to put out the Menorah lit by the new EU-centric government at Hanukkah—while the same Marxists were forbidding Christian symbols.
The Left smeared him with the usual anti-semitic slurs and hate, for simply saying that Poland is Christian, not subject to Jewish, Islamic—or EU—tyranny.
There is a wonderful interview on Redacted with Clayton Morris with Grzegorz Braun, after his 115,000 vote victory—even though Mr. Braun was denied any coverage by the state-controlled press now run by the Marxists.
That’s right—zero coverage on any State media—yet he won by a landslide indicating the Polish people are not with the Global Marxists—or their war.
Watch the interview here:
https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_550,c_limit/l_youtube_play_qyqt8q,w_120/-qmXN2s5ds8
SO, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
That depends on the pathetic puppets put in place by Barack Obama and his government stooges now running things in Washington, DC.
Yes. Barack Obama is behind all of it. He and Hillary Clinton laid out their 16 year plan in 2008, which was disrupted by Donald J. Trump in 2016.and they’ve got to finish it before Sleepy Joe takes his final slumber —which is all out nuclear war with Russia to destroy it and allow their masters to steal its assets.
My best guess is that Poland and Finland will continue picking a fight with Putin as proxies for the Brusselites, putting their own people in harm’s way, but the real ‘teaching moment’ for US/NATO will come elsewhere.
Yes. Like the U.S., Russia will use proxies. Unlike the U.S., Russia will use its superior technology to take out U.S. Battleships to end this madness.
The new F-class Russian nuclear sub is sitting within spitting distance of the United States
If that fails, then it’s lights out in the world’s war capitol, Washington, DC.
What’s next is your worst nightmare.
Remember the hypersonic Russian Tsirkon missiles? Sending half of the USS Gerald Ford battle carrier group to the bottom of the mediterranean—by Yemenis or Iranians—might do the trick
Do you want to play a game, NATO? Your move.
Oh, but it is tolerated.
If only they could spare a couple of officers from their crack Grampians Nazi Squad to investigate.
Well, that’s easier said than done.
These are specialist officers, trained to identify (and, if necessary to go undercover, wear convincingly) tight black shorts and bucket hats.
Takes years, with a high failure rate.
I see the media / public not allowed to hear complaints evidence in Lehrman case. See Daily Mail.
No jokes about knickers allowed…
The ‘Woomba is the real star.
Remember the Pell trial. Secret trial + public execution = open justice.
Good on Sky for making the Never Again presentation on anti-semitism and for making it publicly available (not just for subscribers).
Kudos also to Gillard (amongst others) for agreeing to interview, calling out antisemitism.
Albo was on there talking about his support for Israel and using all the right words but he’s a duplicitous little shite and his actions (or lack thereof) speak much louder than his words.
Albo could be ground up to a paste and he would make a fine grease for spacecraft engines seeing as he’s used to working in all sorts of vacuums – moral, intellectual, professional etc.
In the farce that is Lehrmann’s second trial I really want to hear what the totally credible complainant says when she explains how Lehrmann could have “stealthed” her not just once but twice!!!
Ok the first time might be a surprise but a) if she was so traumatised from the first time they had sex without a condom (without her prior knowledge), why did she consent to sex again?; and b) surely the second time around she would have been ultra-diligent in ensuring that Lehrmann remained with the condom on.
Of course, I doubt that this will matter. The laws of physics and logic are now called “rape myths” and aren’t allowed to be utilised in sexual account cases. The judge will just check his/her twitter account for whatever decision will get them the most likes and rule in that way.
You’ll hear her story on a trial (if it gets that far). If it is plastered over the media now, without contradiction by him, that might – probably wouls – prejudice a jury against him.
Busy doing some writing, as I look up over the ruffled water with the wimd buffeting the trees a sea eagle, not a manly one, makes a dive into the water clutches a reasonable sized fish and flies off. Although I’ve seen them out many times this is only the second time I’ve viewed a strike. I look up again too see its mate with its wing feathers apart to fly slowly over the same spot. Nature at its finest.
Grey Ranga, many years ago we had a house on the NSW south coast. The sea eagles regularly patrolled, as we were on a headland. One day my husband saw a sea eagle release a toadfish which he had caught. As husband noted, no good fisherman would keep a “Toadie”, and so the eagle released it. The only trouble was that some rock walkers below had not seen what husband saw & were startled & flummoxed when a toadfish landed at their feet from the heavens!
Pro-tip for Dutton:
Bring back live export.
(Live export of Islamists, born here or abroad, to Yemen).
Correct: Mr Potato Head, you have the opportunity to lead the only party that gives a sh*t about Australian agriculture — and its customers in the Australian outer suburbs.
Labor’s policy is to kill Australian agriculture and make its produce unaffordable in reparations to Gaia.
For shame, doesn’t your true Labor voter believe that food appears by magic on the supermarket shelves, already wrapped?
Surely it would be more efficient to kill them first?
Bryson out of the bunker on 18. Man oh man !!!
Bryson DeChambeau is a cross between Jimmy Cagney, Fred Astaire and Tiger Woods — a tonic for the fractured game of golf.
So many dull US Opens but not this one.
Looking briefly at my local rag paper, The Advertiser, I see this headline:
A headline designed to make Trump look like he’s calling immigrants animals when he was referring specifically to illegal immigrant gang activity. The media are just lying scum.
They’ve done this all before, and even PolitiFact found it was complete lies: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/may/17/context-donald-trumps-comments-about-immigrants-an/
“Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work. The next day they were sacked”
Yippee. Mugged by reality.
Black Star had a strict uniform policy and stated that wearing the keffiyeh was “divisive and inflammatory and was serious enough to bring Black Star pastry into disrepute.”
You bet. I would have avoided the place like the plague.
Now these entitled missies who got on the “current vibe” bandwagon are pursuing a law suit.
Feminists for rape? I’m lost.
Poor Lucy, poor Ella. What are they going to do now.
Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work. The next day they were sacked
What is it with young women and Hamas. I thought climate change and cute animals would keep their ‘care’ genes busy.
How wonderful, a business standing up to apologists for the rape, murder and kidnapping of Jews.
Funnily enough, only this morning I ordered a cake from Black Star. Black Star Bakery has fabulous cakes, their Watermelon Cake is sensational!
70% of young women in the US vote democrat, universal suffrage was a mistake
Labor governments, state and federal, are telling the rest of the voting public who are the favoured people and that even their extremism doesn’t change things. We will see how that affects the vote at the next election. Labor may find that they have only the extremists’ votes.
We can but hope.
Apparently they can control 27 seats with their down to 5% voter base.
If Labor loses more than 5% from other groups then the 5% from Muslims becomes meaningless.
“The left seems oblivious to the reality that one reason Trump leads Biden in the polls is precisely because voters can compare the four-year record of the prior Trump presidency to Biden’s last 40 months.”
Victor Davis Hanson
Cassie, this is not slipping anyone’s notice. The comments I have heard are “Wow, brave cops, not afraid of Christians” and “What a surprise?”. Labor are losing more and more of the Christian votes and have forgotten that muslims may be very visible but Christians are still more numerous.
They might declare that they’re Christian, but the Assyrian youth in this part of the world have a history of bad violence
“Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work. The next day they were sacked”
Serves them right. Airheads.
They claim they got compliments. Wonder how many complaints head office fielded that they wouldn’t have known about.
Actions have consequences especially on polarising political subjects and they just learned a life lesson or the way they are squealing maybe not.
If there is a shortage of racism … invent some.
Texas Democrat Arrested for Sending Himself Bogus Racist Messages
This scumbag even used an innocent Fort Bend resident’s photo as the profile photo for the fake messages.
““Black Star Pastry baristas wore keffiyehs to work. The next day they were sacked”
Serves them right. Airheads.”
Not in any way defending Ham-Arse, but:
1) they were young
2) when told “no”, they removed them (that is, corrected mistake when pointed out to them)
So losing the job seems a little harsh to me – of course, maybe they had already been warned about this sort of thing previously, I can’t say. But if not, a single transgression seems a bit harsh – it was a dress code, not that they were stealing.
They deliberately put their employers business at risk by pursuing a strategy that they would have known would be upsetting to customers.
It is because of ‘no consequences’ that they and their ilk believe that they can do as they wish and damn everyone else. It is not an issue of dress code it is a display of contempt for their employers and customers.
‘ck em!
not at all, real world, real word consequences
“not at all, real world, real word consequences”
Yes, but as I said, seems a little harsh for a “first offense” which they corrected when told. No warning (written or verbal), and not “on the spot” but next day – if it was so serious, why wasn’t it on the spot? If it wasn’t so serious as to be on the spot, and they stopped doing it, why sack them? Something odd going on.
Sounds like it was dealt with initially at middle management level, but overruled by senior management who had a much stricter interpretation of the rules.
Fair enough.
Kneel, I know it seems harsh, but this is something important for these young women to learn. Also, I think there is a strong element of pour encourager les autres in the management’s decision. I am pleased to see a strong position being made against what is effectively anti-Semitism. I hope it also makes these young women think more reflectively on how life can change for you in a flash, to learn more and know that is exactly what happened to certain young women in Israel who went to a rock concert and ended up raped and dead.
WA nurse in Gaza: Smell of blood is unbearable as bodies lie everywhereBy Sarah BrookesJune 17, 2024 — 3.00am
Broome nurse Rebecca Smith is in the red zone in Gaza, dealing with a fresh flood of patients, treating many of them on the floor, in the blood of those who came before them.
Smith is volunteering with Doctors Without Borders at Al-Aqsa hospital, which is crammed with the dead and hundreds of wounded, mostly women and children, after heavy Israeli ground and air strikes on June 8-9.
Rebecca Smith is one of many working around the clock to treat mass casualties in Gaza.
Her team leader Karin Huster said the smell of blood in the emergency room was unbearable.
“The situation is apocalyptic,” she said.
“There are people lying everywhere, on the floor, outside … bodies were being brought in plastic bags.
“The situation is overwhelming.
“This man-made catastrophe needs to stop now.”
Smith has worked in Ethiopia and Ukraine and said while all conflicts were awful, Gaza was different because of the huge number of displaced people in one area.
“The number of people crammed into this tiny area with makeshift tents, with overcrowding, poor ventilation, no access to clean drinking water, no effective sanitation facilities, and really high food insecurity is just mind-boggling,” she said.
“In Al-Aqsa hospital, the displaced people have made themselves tents within the hospital, with used IV lines and blankets draped over these, to make themselves a little private area among the crush of humanity.
“The staff are completely overwhelmed and it’s very hard to tell who’s a patient and who’s living there.”
Smith said the Rafah crossing had been closed for a month, with no replenishment of medical supplies since the start of June to treat the influx of patients streaming in with blast injuries, broken legs, burns and shrapnel wounds.
“To deny people access to basic medical equipment like gauze and gloves, things that are needed, it’s unspeakable,” she said.
“There is a shortage of analgesia especially, a shortage of paralysing agents and things you need for intubation.
“We use ketamine for pretty much everything; how long that supply will last, who knows?
“Whether the trauma of the event itself has given you some mental health issues – which it absolutely will – or you’ve got a serious injury that will be with you lifelong, the chances of coming out properly rehabilitated are very, very small.”
Smith said staff were performing magnificently in appalling conditions, with a UN cap on fuel leading to frequent blackouts at the hospital where there was only one working generator.
“Last week a woman on a ventilator died because there was just too many critical patients, the blackout happened and no one ‘bagged’ her, and she died, which is terribly sad – all for a lack of resources and simple things that we take for granted, like power,” she said.
“I’m so tired, every night we don’t sleep for very long, maybe two hours at a stretch because of air strikes and shelling. The drones are relentless and people have been living like this for eight months.”
Smith said the most traumatic injuries involved children.
“It is very hard to say, ‘we can’t fix this person, we have limited resources and there’s just too many, and this one today we cannot help.’ That is very, very difficult, and you think about it often, about the ones that have gone to the black zone. All we’re trying to do is save as many as we can, under extreme duress.”
Smith said the experience had shown her the best and worst of humanity.
She described staff working shifts 24 hours long then going “home” to sleep in a tent on a beach without toilets or showers and beach location, constantly worried by sandflies.
“She said while she had no view one way or the other on a complicated political situation, she believed the killing of women and children who had “no part in any of this political playground of men” was not right.
“This man-made catastrophe needs to stop now.”
yeah…. nah.
How many Hamas script writers were employed to create this fantasy?
Fair question given that it’s from the same stable as the “Sydney Moaning Hemorrhoid”, and “The Age.”
Don’t suppose she thought of volunteering in Israel after the October 7th attacks. Does she not realise all those young men in the attack were nurtured by these innocent, cough, women to hate Jews. Its probably the only thing pali’s can do successfully is hate. Their shiite at everything else.
It’s an emergency room. People bleed there, as in emergency rooms the world around. You are a nurse, you might want to get used to that.
Um, why? Why are they bringing bodies into what you describe as an overcrowded hospital?
Yeah, about that overcrowding thing…
Does that apply to fuel stolen from the UN by Hamas? Or is that excepted? Because their generators, and refrigerators, and microwaves, and TVs… are still running.
Those would be the drones looking for the Israeli hostages that have been held for nine months? Any thoughts on them? No? OK.
Welcome to war. Doesn’t it suck that Hamas started this one? No? OK.
Question. Did you volunteer to help treat the Israeli women and children casualties of 7 Oct? If not why?
Photos, or it didn’t happen.
One sided, stupid Bint.
To fix this issue, all Hamas has to do is hand back the hostages, put down the weapons and stop killing the Jews.
No, they won’t do that – they want someone to step in and stop the fight on their terms, allowing them to keep their gains.
They keep doing this and it works.
“She said while she had no view one way or the other on a complicated political situation
Sure you don’t, Ms Smith
she believed the killing of women and children who had “no part in any of this political playground of men” was not right.
Hmm, here are some inconvenient facts for ‘Ms Smith’, firstly, this war was not started by Israel. Secondly, the murder of Jewish women and children on October 7, and the continued holding of Jewish women and children as hostages ‘was and is not right’.
Oh and Ms Smith, any thoughts on the Bibas children? I’m quite sure that Kfir and Ariel Bibas had no/zero/nada part in this ‘political playground of men’.
They called the terror attack into Israel their Al-Aqsa flood and now a flood of blood is coming back to them at Al-Aqsa hospital. Israel has given civilians the opportunity to remove themselves from combat areas, but they stay, encouraged (sometimes at Hamas gunpoint) with Hamas’ blessing. Hamas have first call on all medicines, energy sources and supplies. These Hamas-supporting people are simply martyrs for the cause, according to senior Hamas leaders just the other day. Their religion treats life lightly and adulates martyr deaths. Western non-Muslim women such as this nurse on this front line of a war have to understand this. Yes, it is hideous to see and the moral affront is huge when it involves injured and dead children, but sheet it home to where it belongs. This is Hamas at work here.
From the nested comments:
Kenneth Pollack, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:
Well, duh.
low IQ and a 7th C death cult will do that
1300+ years of marriage to 1st cousins has contributed to low IQ
https://www.amazon.com.au/Armies-Sand-Present-Military-Effectiveness/dp/0190906960 A very good book on the Arab problems – which accurately mirror their civil problems.
Shorter – the Arab World is shit.
As one does …
James May!
The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host caused offence when he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday alongside a photo of Pride flags in central London: “Pride: while I have observed and admitted what you have achieved over my lifetime, may I respectfully suggest that you are borderline guilty of Too Much Bunting.”
This term caused offence is as incorrectly overworked as sexist and racist.
Give it a rest, media.
Bingo.
1) This type of misconduct doesn’t come from nowhere, they’ve been pushing boundaries for a while.
2) The degree of entitlement required to flagrantly & ostentatiously breach a company policy isn’t going to settle down with a talking-to.
3) Had they been kept on the payroll, small sabotages, minor resistances, subtle slanderings, eg whispered to customers “you oughta know what these bastards are really like… ” etc.
The only option is to sack the little princesses.
I’m wondering how much the regular attendances at “Pro Palestine” rallies had to do with the order of the boot?
Wot the Publican sed.
Not in any way defending Ham-Arse, but:
1) they were young
2) when told “no”, they removed them (that is, corrected mistake when pointed out to them)
The two females knew exactly what they were doing. Each decided to wear the scarf so as to be deliberately provocative. They knew it would initiate a reaction but here’s the rub, they got a reaction they didn’t expect, they were sacked. That’s typical of many of today’s young, a generation of indulged, spoilt, and indoctrinated zombies.
Many Jews shop at Chadstone, but that’s not the point. I have no doubt that anyone seeing two shop attendants wearing keffiyehs would steer clear of the pastry shop, be they Jew or non-Jew.
Business owners can’t be forced to employ people who set out to turn away customers — despite what the terrorist-friendly anti-business Victorian government decrees.
As I said, I don’t know all the details, so perhaps it was justified by prior actions of a similar vein, or a bad attitude when called on it, or them knowing it would offend many regular customers etc etc.
It’s not that I think they shouldn’t have to cop it, just as I said, seems a little harsh to me under the limited circumstances I am aware of – young, and so likely to be a bit on the “duh” side, apparently removed the offending material when asked, not fired on the spot, but only next day. Weird – to me anyway. Not inexplicable, just a bit “odd”.
I am hoping the reasons were good and it wasn’t – as the left would do – just a knee-jerk over-reaction.
The takings of the day would be nice to know – I bet they were down.
I’m far from Jewish (intact!), but I’ll be damned if I’d buy anything from them if I saw that!!
Kenneth Pollack, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:
Which mirrors the < 90 IQ level of the region as well..
But the social factors are important too – Arabs lie. They lie even when they don’t have to, but the lies are so childish. I couldn’t believe some of the bullshit I was told while there. But they accepted it as truth – or appeared to. It certainly affected the way they reacted behaviourally to the lies so they must have believed them.
A foreign invasion involving murder, torture and rape and mutilation by irregulars is not really complicated. The only thing I cannot comprehend is that, in a country with universal military conscription, why aren’t small arms widely owned? Why does Israel citizens not have pistols and AR-15s? I assume that they know how to use them, and it would make a massive difference on October 7 when Hamas murderers were roaming around southern Israel.
they did have, they were outgunned and outnumbered
No, it was difficult for civilians to own guns. This has been changed to some extent I believe. However “woke” goes long way. Can’t have civilians owning those icky guns. Just like John Howard, the gnomelike turd.
To be fair the Israelis may have thought that lots of guns around might lead to Mussies intent on slaughter stealing them.
That was something I found difficult to understand. Were I living in a commune with 2.5 million people with a history of slaughtering people me a few miles away, I’d want at the very least an armoury, and every house to have a turret on its roof with a Quad 50 inside.
But that’s just me.
“Overkill is highly underrated”.
Quantity has a quality all of its own.
Unless you have the weapons and ammo in your homes spread throughout the kibbutz/village/town you have to make it to the central armory where they are stored.
The bad guys know where those armories are as well and would target them first so in a fast flowing surprise attack getting to them becomes problematic.
Give them each a bagel as severance pay and suggest they get a job at a kebab joint.
Handsome boy still taking it up the kyber from the chunks:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been questioned about the moment Sky News host Cheng Lei was blocked from the view of cameras by Chinese officials at an important media event.
Formerly detained journalist Cheng Lei has spoken out after her view of a document signing and press conference with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Canberra was obstructed by Chinese officials on Monday.
‘I didn’t see that’: Albanese questioned after Cheng Lei blocked by Chinese officials (msn.com)
Of course he didn’t see it: taking it up the arse always temporarily blinds you.
I’ll take your word for that, cohenite.
The Mighty Pineapple Wang of X! probably made his eyes pop out, swivel, and bounce up and down like Dolly Parton running for another beer.
No wonder he didn’t see it.
I wouldn’t count on this if I were planning.
“patterns of behavior derived from Arab culture.” Oh come on. They conquered a big chunk of the world back in old 600s. They had the Islam/Arab reward system: Pillage, rape and taking slaves. cf Hamas
Actually I read his book Armies of the Sand and sent a copy to an ex- commander in the IDF. He agreed and just shrugged with “so?”
“What are they gonna do, sack us both? Hyuk hyuk hyuk!“
“They can’t sack us for this! We know our rights!”
it is the endless childhood these adults live in. The paradise of the university has created it. At uni they don’t have to worry about: security, maintenance, no kids, easy food ( it is just there), earning a living.. The only person to hate is their father for having rules.
Whatever they do or say has no real world consequence.
They should thank their lucky stars they didn’t find out their mistake in the same manner as the residents of the Kibbutzim in Southern Israel.
Hearing adjourned after Bruce Lehrmann fronts Toowoomba court over rape charges
theaustralian.com.au00:16
By mackenzie scott
In an alleged rape case in Toowoomba Magistrates Court in Queensland, Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer, Andrew Hoare KC, flagged at a committal hearing on Monday that a submission will be put stating that there is insufficient evidence to proceed to trial.
The woman who alleges she was raped twice by former Liberal staffer Mr Lehrmann was expected to give evidence in closed court this afternoon as a magistrate was due to decide whether the matter should go to trial.
The court briefly resumed at 2pm, and Mr Hoare said a 12-page submission with “some density” would be tendered, and the prosecution would respond in writing within the next two weeks.
“What has been discussed at the bar table, if that will suit the court, is that these proceedings will resume for the purposes of an argument of no case,” Mr Hoare said.
The matter was adjourned to July 4.
Mr Lehrmann will not need to attend in court on the new date, when Magistrate Marc Howden will decide whether the charges will be sent to trial. He will appear next time via video link or telephone.
It’s intensely cultural.
Why Arabs Lose Wars (2000)
This essay fits very well with the performance of the Saudis against the Houthis. There’s an emphasis on the Egyptian Army culture in the essay, which is relevant to the current situation, since on one hand the Egyptians have one of the largest armies on Earth, but on the other hand are rather ineffective, as we saw in their endless Sinai campaign against ISIS.
“Why Arabs Lose Wars (2000)
Egyptian conscripts, deployed to the Sinai Desert, expecting an Israeli attack, and watching their officers cars,as their officers left to spend the weekend in Cairo nightclubs, must have been really motivated to fight!
That’s a very very good article.
The telling part was the section about the Battalion Commander taking the Instruction Manuals from his tank crews. If the person in a unit is the only one who can boresight a gun, he has status – if everyone can do it he has none. So therefore he will sabotage efforts to promulgate knowledge.
The problem is the tribal culture of the Arab States that put everyone outside the tribe as a potential enemy/competitor.
I’d love to hear the author talk about the US armed forces in the same vein now they are being torn apart by Woke Ideology.
There’s a guy who is an outsider to me but an associate of some of my friends and he seemed lovely*… until he started wearing the tea towel after Oct 7.
I used to exchange pleasantries with him (“Good morning, how are you”) but now I do not speak to him, acknowledge him or ever look him in the eye.
It’s not that I think that I’m better than him.
I Am.
*Didn’t the neighbours of the Manson family say they were great neighbours?
Geoffrey Dahmer was a very quiet, polite neighbour also.
I recall that I mentioned the uselessness of muzzie types a while back. They have this thing about power. If you know something don’t tell subordinates because then they’ll know and your power is diluted. This is the muzzie way.
100% agree. This is the tribal society. The only person they can sort of trust is a close relation. Otherwise everyone is an enemy. Me against my brothers, my brothers and I against our cousins, our family against everyone.
Yep, a fundamentally low trust society. Which is why it only works in basically illiterate sh1tholes.
My immediate thought was “How do they function?” immediately followed with. “They don’t.”
A reminder of the apologist Islamist on Lateline a few years ago who refused to condemn ISIS:
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi
He used the palli friendly lines we see trotted out every day: “We cannot view ISIS without the historical context… for ten minutes”
Only time I ever though Emma Albeerscreechy did a good job.
Geraldton 15-year-old boy with 239 convictions has sentencing delayed in ‘unorthodox’ move by magistrateJessica MoroneyGeraldton Guardian
Mon, 17 June 2024 11:53AM
A Geraldton magistrate has made an “unorthodox” decision to put off sentencing a 15-year-old boy — dubbed one of WA’s most prolific offenders with 239 convictions against his name — to avoid imposing a mandatory jail term.
The magistrate’s move to put off sentencing was “strongly opposed” by police prosecutors.
The Spalding teenager appeared in Geraldton Children’s Court from Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre last week, where he was set to be sentenced for nine offences committed after being released from detention on a supervised release order.
Police prosecutor Sgt Ross Gray told the court that the teenager was one of “WA’s most prolific offenders” with 239 criminal convictions.
The boy has spent more than 500 days in custody since April 2022, with some of that time in Unit 18, a wing established for juveniles at maximum-security adult jail Casuarina Prison.
The lash had its advantages. Didn’t have to jail them after either.
It doesn’t matter which jurisdiction: Australia has an epidemic of radical magistrates and judges who despise the public and the standards they expect from law enforcement.
Mark Howden would be exceedingly brave to not flick pass this to the next court up.
A small Laura Norder ‘win’ for the Miles Government at the moment, particularly with a self-saucing LNP whiff about the accused, would be well received:
A multidirectional media bush fire about ‘the way things are in Queensland with hopeless Yvette D’Ath in charge’ – less so.
https://www.onenation.org.au/?utm_campaign=free_speech_v&utm_medium=email&utm_source=onenation
One Nation is tabling a demand for Free Speech to be written into our Constitution. That’s going to be a hard one for Labor to oppose…, but oppose it they will.
“Not necessary” but it evidently is.
“Too expensive” but a race based referendum elevating aboriginal ‘rights’ isn’t?
I wonder if that thought was in the minds of the cartoon makers? If so, “Well played, Pauline, well played.”
It’s many years ago that the High Court found that a right to political free speech followed from the provision by s 24 and s 7 of a representative form of government. Hanson’s lawyers have said they will rely on this right to defend against Irwin’s defamation suit.
Chadstone is owned by Gandels and lots of Jewish people shop there.
Those two knew exactly what they were doing, and that it would be bad for business.
Dress it up anyway they like, Jews were raped, massacred and taken hostage on 7 October and wearing the insignia of those responsible was a deliberate attempt to inflame.
I see I echoed your comment Cassie re Chadstone.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King
I think the progressive version goes something like:
Nothing in all the world is more sincere than dangerous ignorance.
I now officially declare CIVILISATION OVER. My favourite Chicken Pad Thai takeaway has increased by $3.50! It’s time to turn off the lights and wait for the whale-sized vultures. I’m ready.
Surely Elbow has also realised the cost of Thai has gone up?
No extras
Sunday crossiants, from $3.40 to $6.70. Toast now.
One Nation is tabling a demand for Free Speech to be written into our Constitution.
Good. Now about the right to bear arms….
Hear was me, thinking it was the right to arm bears…..
Koalas with guns? Material for Bumtree.
I shall brush up on pistols in my dreams tonight.
Regardless of what you dream, Include a couple of softball bats, a couple of bullwhips, a very whippy jockey’s whip, and a hammer in your personal arsenal. 😀
And a couple of squirt bottles of Ammonia and Bleach.
OK … had a “Priest” (aka Fish fucker, a wooden mini baseball bat for delivering the last rites to fish) in our walk-in robe upstairs. Told (very nicely) by a copper that if I used it I could be accused of not reacting to a threat, but actually “setting a trap” against it. Which would see me in sheep dip … err, deep ….
They turned into monsters
https://x.com/YaariCohen/status/1802241096820335040?t=5GFTbVwSRC5CEjOTNRMQ-g&s=19
LOL, legal way of saying GFU Irwin:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/pauline-hansons-lawyers-response-to-sook-robert-irwin-who-needs-to-harden-tfu.html
Love it and pretty well backs up last nights informed commentary.
Robert Irwin hasn’t heard of the Streisand Effect.
Chinese officials show clear disregard for our democracy at Parliament house event
I remember reports of similar protests in early 70s when the Yugoslav premier visited, not president Tito. Yugoslavs of various ethnicities were horrified that Whitlam invited him and then lionised him. Whitlam really enjoyed associating with any and all communists to piss off the refugees from communism. I think that may have hardened the anti-Whitlam vote in 1975 from those voters.
Outcome Document Is A Huge Blow AGAINST Ukraine. The “Peace Formula” Is Gone!
Tonight, I’m watching a repeat of the Mary Berry cooking show on Lifestyle Food instead of the second=rate dross being served up by Sky News after dark.
Sky’s top-line political commentators have taken Sky management to the cleaners with contracts that allow them a three-week mid-year break on top of the six weeks they get over Christmas.
Sorry, but I won’t watch Caleb Bond in Peta Credlin’s 6pm slot when she is swanning around elsewhere (in the European summer, I preume).
Carrying on like Andrew Demetriou. But is there any other time to get a villa?
I like Caleb Bond.
He has excellent taste in clothes.
Also, he is quite young, and can only become better.
Tom, can’t you offer a spot of mentoring?
He is on our side after all.
Pretty damn good for someone so young. 😀
I thoroughly agree with you, Pogria. Younger journos on the centre right need encouragement. Caleb has made great strides from his earlier appearances, which were woeful. He has discovered his own particular voice and way of addressing issues. I like him now, I didn’t at first.
Also, I like to put some fun into things sometimes. The Late Debate is great for doing that, quite inter-generation with James Macpherson as piggy in the middle of two younger performers. James Macpherson, filling in for Bolt, has shown that Bolt’s show can be livened up somewhat without loss of seriousness. He is also a better listener and hence interviewer than Bolt.
Waymo CRASHES into telephone pole – MGUY EV News Friday 14 June 2024 | MGUY Australia
The truth about woke – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Universities are evil and deserve to die.
This link provides a very clear account of how the term ‘critical’ is misused in university curricula to suggest that rational critical thought is being encouraged in students. The post-modern term ‘critical’ means nothing of the sort. Either get rid of the Arts faculties in toto, or address what they teach and require a genuine intellectual investigation of issues. Fat chance of the latter though, so the former is a quicker fix. And I say this as one who 20 years ago saw the beginnings of this madness start in the Arts faculties within which I taught some of the last of genuine critical thinking in the social sciences and elsewhere.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJvKNWGsd7A
Latest from Caroline Glick. A tough couple of days for the IDF.
It would appear they have a few Mark Milley types infesting the upper ranks as well.
A lot of co ordination going on with the Biden scum among some levels of the Israeli generals as well as Gantz.
Makes you wonder what they are sniffing in the air for five months down the track?
Power at any cost.
Came across this today, “The Conversation”. I’m not sure where to start but only to say the people contributing to this propaganda show are either unhinged, stupid or corrupt. The one thing is certain is that they are terrified that the “Big Transition” is being exposed for what it is, a big fraud. https://theconversation.com/au
This shithole is the pits; it actively censors sensible comments about alarmism and other woke bullshit.
Fancy that, most kids who are diagnosed with transexualism grow out of it; unless of course they’ve been butchered in the mean time:
German Study: Vast Majority of People Will Grow Out of Transgenderism Within 5 Years (westernjournal.com)
The worm is turning on this transgender fantasy.
At last. But in Australia, although surgeries are now banned for children (pity about those who were mutilated before this) there is still prescription of cross-sex hormones to ‘block’ puberty, which is very damaging to adolescent bodies.
And people drawing attention to this disgraceful state of medical practice in Australia are still being demonised and cancelled by the press and governmental organisations, and politicians on both sides of politics, who still in thrall to this fake ideological belief masquerading as good medical practice.
Was he referring to compulsory voting?
Did he even meet Chris Bowen?
If hell is other people (Sartre)…Bowen would make a fitting room mate.
Universities are evil and deserve to die.
I’d prefer it if they reverted to actually being universities, instead of being sheltered workshops for the intellectuals sans intellect who currently infest them.
Not going to happen.
To clear the Left out of them would require a vigorous use of firearms.
More viable to go back to the old idea of masters with apprentices.
The rot started when theology was dethroned as queen of the sciences.
That’s physics according to Dr Sheldon Cooper.
That can’t be as God, not Mr. Cooper, is the author of physics.
House of the Dragon, series 2, episode 1, solid start to the new series.
It gets pretty dark.
Goodness me twitter is awash with Humpty Dumpties.
All claiming the war in Gaza is a genocide.
Your complaints about antisemitism are trivial because genocide, your complaint about the hostages are trivial because genocide blah blah blah.
If that is the case every war that was ever fought was a genocide.
What is for certain is that muslims are genocide experts, they’ve been committing them for 1400 years.
With over 300kms of tunnels, it is passing strange is it not that not one bomb shelter or tunnel access has been granted to civilians in order to provide them refuge in combat areas where Hamas insists they remain. Not even one civilian has been able to access these tunnels for shelter. Hamas leadership has recently been exposed as using civilians as bomb targets for Israel in order to garner support against the Hamas war. They actually want lots of people to be injured or die, especially the thousands of children they have encouraged Gazans to have in large families for the purpose of canon fodder. They also want more foreign nurses to write heartfelt dispatches about how awful conditions are in Gaza and more drumming up of international opprobrium for Israel’s defensive measures. It’s part of the Hamas war strategy – killing their own as martyrs for the glory of Allah – and people have been conditioned to accept this. Disgusting.
Rich soccer player bemoans the rise of ‘extremists’. Stick to the soccer Mr Mbappe. Akin to Harry Kane at the World Cup with his $500k rainbow Rolex.
The footage of the English football players ordering oat lattes tells you everything.
What would Gazza have done.
European soccer is infringing on players’ free speech by banning them (+ no match fees) for taping over jersey ads they don’t support as a matter of conscience, e.g. promoting the alphabet people.
That’s quite extreme.
On the weekend I watched episode 2 of the Acolyte. Episode 1 was as bad as most reviews made it out to be but I wanted to give it one last chance.
Episode 2 was worse than the first one.
I just don’t get how something that bad can get out of the lab.
Here is Herta Muller’s blistering Open Letter. Mindful of Dover’s rules, I won’t post it in full because you can view it here….
https://truthofthemiddleeast.com/herta-muller/
I urge everyone to read it. It is a crystal clear rebuttal of the lies that are being promulgated by leftist and Muslim scum (including the one who visits here), and that includes those two skanks who were sacked from Black Star Chadstone. Good on Black Star. When in Melbourne, I usually visit Chadstone with family and/or friends. Those two skanks knew what they were doing.
Further to Herta Muller, she knows what ‘real Nazis’ are, she sees real Nazism when it vomits up. Herta’s father was a real Nazi, an SS soldier. Herta was born into a Romanian German family (there have been German communities dotted around Hungarian and Romanian Transylvania for hundreds of years).
The Nazis are Hamas, the Nazis are Hamas’ Palestinian supporters and the Nazis are those who frequent the ‘from the river to the sea’ protests across the West, on our university campuses, on our Sydney, Melbourne and other city’s streets, and the Nazis are even those who work at a pastry shop and try to wear keffiyeh’s to intimidate and threaten. It is no different to donning a SS uniform.. Just further to those two skanks, when you look at the Age photo of the two skanks who wore keffiyeh’s at Black Star, one of the skanks is wearing a badge with the Hamas red triangle on it. That Hamas red triangle denotes someone targeted for execution, it denotes that Jews are to be executed
When in doubt, use the excuse of ignorance.
I am so glad they were sacked without delay.
Imagine the gobbets that would have seasoned the coffee of a customer who kindly educated them on the Palestinian “cause”.
“Palestine” would be the current cause – last year it would have been the “Voice”, next year, anti nuclear power.
“… one of the skanks is wearing a badge with the Hamas red triangle on it. That Hamas red triangle denotes someone targeted for execution, it denotes that Jews are to be executed…”
Ah – they just lost the minimal sympathy they had from me.
Is this a recent discovery?
Sadly no, though there seems to be a lot more of a particular type.
Not going to happen.
To clear the Left out of them would require a vigorous use of firearms.
Closing all arts departments and HR would work, with less loss of life.
STEM is woke now also.
My entire old chemistry dept is working on climate crap.
They send me glossies and begging letters.
Further to commentary from that WA nurse in Al-Aqsa hospital complaining about civilian casualties, Michael Smith has this piece from Spiked, originally on X up online.
This is a point worth making back at this nurse and others concerned about civilian casualties.
Link to Spiked didn’t work, see Michael Smith News.
Hereditary news (the CM):
It wasn’t a ploy. They smacked the Quenthland government right in the nuts.
I have no idea why Robert (Bobby) Irwin is butthurt.
Steve Irwin was a crafty (albeit sponsored) entrepreneur who well understood how his schtick would be received internationally, and made an absolute shit tin of cash in the process.
Bobby is just his kid. Famous for being someone’s son. Couldn’t think of anything worse.
If anything, he should be cracking at Miles because his government’s trying to leverage his late father’s memory for shit political purposes.
I’m not sure I would accept a dinner invitation from James Ashby. Even with a chaperone.
No charges will be laid against the filth of the ATF who murdered the gentleman in the set-up, home raid.
Mr Malinoswki was targeted for execution.
Is there any tactical reason to cover a doorbell camera? No. They covered it so that Mr. Malinowski couldn’t confirm that they were police, and he would be far less willing to be peaceful. They didn’t want him in custody…they wanted him dead.
Here’s a novel idea…knock on his door at 9:00am with a couple of cops, serve the warrant, search his house, and afford him the basic rights for which Americans have fought and died for 250 years.
It’s perfectly clear. They didn’t want Mr. Malinowski to get a lawyer. They didn’t want him to exercise his natural, God-given rights…they wanted him to serve as a message to all of the other gun owners who sell a weapon or two to finance the next purchase. In the eyes of the jack-booted thugs of our government; they are the real criminals. Not the gang-bangers shooting up the ghettos; not the illegal aliens in our midst causing havoc; not the armed carjackers killing innocent Americans.”
They placed TAPE over his doorbell camera so he couldn’t see who it was.
Execution by US government.
If you doubt there is one rule for the ruling class and another for the rest of us, here it is: summary execution awaits you if our betters don’t like your politics.
It isn’t a banana republic. It’s much more lawless than that.
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Curious that they wanted him dead, seeing as he had been a Clinton associate.
Death by Arkanside?
The old perv gave the go ahead to give Trump similar treatment.
Massive abuse of power, or, there’s more to come out re what was going on.
A prime example of what happens when federal agencies are politically weaponized. In this case, by the left putting progressive gun control freaks in charge of the ATF.
Malinowski was a gun collector and the ATF basically decided they didn’t like him selling as many guns as he had, some of which at a profit. None of which is in itself illegal unless the law enforcement authority wants to treat their political views as law, which they did.
Tax cheats get an invitation to sit down with the IRS and sort things out. The ATF wanted to make a point though and raided Malinowski without warning instead of chatting with him and expressing their concerns with his legal gun purchases and sales.
A cousin of mine was a big gun collector in the US. Soon after this farce he lost them all in a boating accident…
He’s hoping to find them again after the election.
In normal circumstances, yes there is. In normal circumstances, this would be done to blind the occupants to how many jacks there were, what they were armed with and where they were going – that is, which point of entry they may be using.
However – and this is a giant however – this may not apply in these circumstances.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Keffiyeh Karma.
Of course, their story is that the stunt was well received by the punters. No consideration that others may have taken one look and kept moving on.
Of course, some half-baked employment tribunal will probably find in their favour, but if they answer “reasons for leaving” honestly in future interviews they will be stuffed.
Given this is their first and only job, they will be hard pressed to bury it on their CVs and not list a referee from Black Star.
Exactly what I thought this arvo, I’d say Jackalope Group who bout Black Star in 2019 received a sizable number of communications or calls. The CEO is a Chinese guy whose family are in Developing in China.
From knowledge of others Chinese can be very ruthless with staff who step out of line, guess we’ll be hearing more about it when the Pali cheer squad gets going BDS style.
A state government department of education and a state school teacher ordered to pay compensation to an abuse victim?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-17/katrina-munting-child-sexual-abuse-survivor-2m-in-damages/103985376
Didn’t Gillard’s poodle McClellan assure us that such a thing was as impossible as a square circle or a round triangle?
Meanwhile, a court has handed the ‘sacred’ Butterfly Cave near Newcastle to a group of indigenous women.
So in our age of post-Christian wokery we do have a religion by law established after all!
Isn’t there a clause in the Constitution banning the establishment of a state religion?
The one covering it is having a bet with themselves that they’re covering the only doorbell camera on the dwelling.
Elbow’s designated Australian TV apologist Joe Hildebrand is an embarrassment to this country.
There is no dick he won’t suck to save Labor from defeat at the next election on behalf of News Corp.
Kneel at 2:45:-
This report was in The Age.
You can bet London to a brick that salient points of this story have been omitted, either by the subjects or the j’ism.
I will bet that this wasn’t a passive protest and, even if it was, it is still grounds for dismissal. It is likely they were spouting River to the Sea shit, spending lots of time chatting to like-minded customers and initially telling the site manager to shove it when queried about the free-range uniform.
Keffiyeh Karma.
Just beautiful
Rockdoctor
June 17, 2024 6:10 pm
Irwin was poorly advised to threaten litigation.
If he is genuinely so thin-skinned he needs to take a tablespoon of cement and harden up.
I do suspect he ran to the Tourism Honcho in the Miles Gummint (who funded the campaign in question) and was told to sue.
So he blows up his personal credibility to attempt to plug a hole below the waterline in SS Miles.
Pauline Hanson visits The Duke of York Hotel in Narrogin in support of live sheep export tradeHannah WhiteheadNarrogin Observer
Mon, 17 June 2024 6:00PM
Pauline Hanson’s tour of Western Australia ended with a gin and tonic at a Wheatbelt pub where excited locals said her presence was “pretty amazing” despite her “outrageous” views.
Leader of the One Nation WA Rod Caddies organised the MP’s regional tour which started with the Muresk parliamentary hearing into Federal Labor’s live sheep export ban and was followed by visits to Merredin, Wagin, and Narrogin.
Ms Hanson and her team arrived at The Duke and York Hotel in Narrogin at 6.15pm on Friday.
The older crowd was initially quiet but after the first person asked Ms Hanson for a selfie the anxious chatter dissolved into friendly introductions.
Pauline is very friendly if asked for a selfie. Very genuinely pleased. Take that as a personal recommendation. I’ve still got mine .. somewhere.
Hanson and Ashby are in fact throwing him a big life line.
“spending lots of time chatting to like-minded customers”
Like those supportive comments from muslim customers?
If one was wearing a hamas symbol she was very well out of order
From Old Lefty’s post about the Tasmanian school teacher.
Pollard was convicted of persistent sexual abuse of a young person in 2020 and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
Sexual assault = three years.
It’s like the judge want the guy to be back out & about his rapey ways before he knows it.
132andBush
June 17, 2024 8:31 pm
Exactly.
He should have laughed it off with a joke about feeding people to the crocodiles.
As I commented above, I suspect his first port of call was his Tourism Queensssland contact who wound him up.
Here’s the thing.
How can anyone who has appeared on “I’m a Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here!” and “Dancing With the Stars” claim that their reputation has been damaged.
Is the Black Star cafe up to 500 zero-star negative reviews for today?
Hamasisis on twitter claiming black star at Chaddy is Jewish owned (which ought to have given any hamas loving employee pause) without any foundation it it has become a hotbed of pure evil Zionism and many people who never went there, even once, are now talking about Streisand effect and are now boycotting the place.
My bet business will be brisk for a few weeks then back to normal.
Fork Orners is very concerned.
Hindus are evil and beat poor Mueslis with sticks in India.
The Indian diaspora in Straya has undue political influence.
Evidence. A sworn opponent of Alex Hawke within the Libs is complaining of branch stacking by Indians … in suburbs with a high Indian population.
No questions so far of the attempt to mobilise Mueslis in seats where they comprise more than 5% of the roll to vote as a bloc.
Did they not get the memo back in ’47?
The Chinese diaspora are attracted to Labor. The Indians have seen this, and being more free market have taken to the libs. I should point out that there is no love lost between Chinese and Indians. If you want to observe real racism……….
Someones hacked the smh.
They have a story about Islamic organisations brainwashing youngsters.
Someone squirted WD40 into the weathervane.
I’ve posted that story – read it if you need a laugh!
From Caliphate to the classroom: How hardline group courts the youngFringe Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is using front groups to spread its message to young people.
By Marta Pascual Juanola and Nick McKenzie
June 17, 2024
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Inside a suburban community centre, more than two dozen teenagers and young men sit on red plastic chairs, their eyes glued to a neatly dressed man addressing the audience from a makeshift stage.
“We should be proud that Islam restricts our interaction with women,” the man tells the crowd in Sydney’s west. “Islam holds men on a certain pedestal. It holds women on a certain pedestal. It gives us this pride. This should be a badge of honour for us.”
Mohammad Alwahwah, a relative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia founder Ismail Alwahwah. He is the administrator of the Stand4Palestine WhatsApp group.
The speaker is Mohammad Alwahwah and the event, headlined Sliding into DMs, is the first talk by a new Islamic youth group operating in Sydney’s suburbs, Muslim Youth Revival, which claims to build brotherhood and faith among young men.
The boys and young men have come to the Busby centre to hear Alwahwah talk about where to draw the line in their interactions with women. On offer are also a group prayer, games, prizes, and free pizza.
In videos of the event posted online, Alwahwah warns the young men against socialising with women and engaging in sex out of wedlock, a practice he claims is disgusting and evil, “something that ruins society, that ruins individuals, and we shouldn’t go anywhere near it”.
Much of Alwahwah’s lecture wouldn’t be out of place in events organised by many fundamentalist religious groups, Muslim or otherwise, but he is not an ordinary teacher.
On Sunday, this masthead revealed he is one of the activists involved with radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, a controversial fringe international political organisation that has spent years lobbying for an Islamic caliphate. The group’s most extreme Australian supporters have been exposed praising the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel as a step towards its caliphate goal.
The role of Alwahwah and his relatives, and fellow Hizb ut-Tahrir activists, Amer and Anas, in the Sydney University camp has prompted renewed calls from the Jewish community for the university to urgently end the protest encampment. Stand for Palestine said there would be a rally at the university on Monday evening after protesters began dismantling the camp following a directive from the university.
The university said it was also concerned about the reported links and would seek further advice from authorities.
Mohammad Alwahwah’s work as a youth group leader, along with other evidence uncovered by this masthead, suggests Hizb ut-Tahrir’s work influencing younger Muslims isn’t confined to university campuses, where the group has long maintained a fringe presence. It is not suggested that Mohammad Alwahwah has publicly supported the Hamas attack.
An investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes has uncovered links between prominent Hizb ut-Tahrir figures and two separate youth groups for young Muslims and mainstream Muslim student organisations.
Hizb ut-Tahrir believes Muslim youth are at the centre of a campaign by the Australian government to erode their faith and subordinate them to “the prevalent secular democratic system”.
During a Hizb ut-Tahrir lecture in Sydney in late November, a member of the group told the audience that children needed to know “what’s happening” and “get them involved in the Ummah’s affairs early on”.
“You don’t really have to show them the disgusting images that we are seeing [in Gaza], but you need to explain to them that … all the prophets went through this,” he said.
“We think that our kids are not smart. They’re young. Just give them the iPad and let them watch their cartoons. This is the wrong thinking. We need to treat them like young adults and give them a big vision for Islam from a very young age.”
In a sensible country (LOL) we would respond meaningfully to this kind of proselytising and not allow the islamists to capture and hold their youth in an increasingly radicalised echo chamber. Rather, their youth need to be given an alternative big vision of the secular world and their Australian birthrights from a very young age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggu0ZqqBq4k
Best version of “I Will Be 500 Miles From You.”
I have stated several times here, at the Cat, I love a man in a kilt!
That was fun Zulu.
I’ve worn a kilt, serving in a Scottish unit of the Australian Army Reserve. Certain young ladies considered it fine sport to insert their hands to find out what was worn under a kilt…
Which was nothing, of course.
All in perfectly good working order.
Been meaning to say, delighted to hear that Mme Zulu is on the mend.
As for Scottish culture, I’ve been bingeing on Billy Connolly for the last few days. One of the reasons I haven’t been here.
Been sitting here LOL- ing at his ability to sense the absurdity of everyday life.
Contemporary ‘comedians’ who just have to say that Trump is a dick to get a cheer are self evidently nothings. Nobody will remember them in the history of comedy, but Billy will be on the podium.
Thank you, johanna.
“Sorry, but I won’t watch Caleb Bond in Peta Credlin’s 6pm slot “
Caleb has certainly improved, looking more comfortable and does well in The Late Debate. Unfortunately that show is unwatchable when Joe Hilderbrand is the fill in. Typical leftie, interrupts and hogs the time, speaking over the top of others although Liz Storer does manage to shut him up a fair bit.
He never ever gets the better of Liz. She’s a street fighter who uses her ferocious intellect and training to never give up. Admirable.
I wonder what her background is – she gives hints of a vague hippie/Pentecostal up-bringing with some home schooling in a rural area with siblings (brothers), and she sometimes waxes lyrical about eco-eating, anti-plastics and similar fringe issues. She’s been on a local council, and she has a (masters?) degree in Human Rights Law, she’s currently doing a doctorate in Law.
Great to see someone making it to the political female media ‘beltway’ without the traditional background of wealthy suburbia and private school.
The above is what I’ve gleaned from watching The Late Debate – she also fronted Advance Australia when it was first founded. Anyone know more?
Russell Broadbent
The Truth about Ivermectin
The whole furore about covid and ivermectin is the aim of of the vaccine was its consumption, the reason for the hate program against ivermectin was that it effectively cured the Covid disease taken at the right time, and people didn’t need to take the vaccine.
In Medieval Weapons R Us News:
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/06/why-a-unit-in-israels-idf-purportedly-used-a-medieval-trebuchet-against-hezbollah/
Fredie the Great
Zatara, the quote is about Lancers, and ‘colour’ replaces ‘dignity’.
A useful and today a low-key weapon for starting a fire, for the Romans a means of creating fire panic in a closely built up wooden city, for the Israeli soldiers a way to firestorm through a thorn barrier and open the view of the enemy in any advance. Well done, innovative thinking to draw on the principles old siege weaponry.
Someone has been playing Age Of Empires.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Classics! ( :
I’ve Got You Under my Skin • [HD1080p] • Chris Botti (feat. Kathrine McPhee) in Boston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=600tcs2Ef0E
Today’s Daily Tele:
LET TEARS OF SADNESS FALL AS LEFTISTS LOOK TO LOSE
TIM BLAIR
18 Jun 2024
We were promised rising oceans. The seas would consume our coastlines, they said. Waves would crush our capital cities, they said. Fancy coastal dwellers would be forced inland to Brewarrina or Cobar, we hoped.
Tragically, sea levels seem not to have budged at all despite decades of anguished saline panic. But this year might turn things around.
This year could deliver the ocean-boosting downpours we’ve all been desperately waiting for.
And they’ll likely be thanks not to climate change, which comes up short every single time, but to left-wing election defeats – and the fountains of commie tears that could follow, drenching ABC newsrooms and loading waterways to overflowing.
The distress is already under way in Queensland, although their election isn’t due until October 26.
Labor types are wailing over the latest Pauline Hanson “Please explain” video, which mockingly depicts Robert Irwin and children’s cartoon favourite Bluey attempting to promote the complete shambles that is modern Queensland.
Irwin, son of wildlife television hero Steve, is threatening legal action against Hanson, her One Nation party and video creators Stepmates Studios, but more entertaining still was the hostile response from Queensland Transport Minister Bart “Bit” Mellish.
“The Pauline Hanson video is just a bit mean,” Mellish said on the weekend. “It’s a bit mean-spirited, and using Queensland icons like Robert Irwin and Bluey to try and sell a bit of a mean-spirited and a bit racist political message.”
Bit, bit, bit, bit. Poor Bitsy Mellish.
If he ever becomes even a little bit important, Stepmates Studios will be all over him like a salty on Bluey (one of the best scenes, incidentally, in that 204,000-viewed Hanson video).
“The main point is political satire is supposed to be funny,” Mellish continued, “and that wasn’t funny.”
Nonsense. It’s both funny and satisfying. The line “Bluey’s being bashed!” is something parents have wanted to hear ever since that dog was whelped back in 2018.
The French are similar to Queenslanders, inasmuch as they don’t speak much English and will also be voting this year.
Unfortunately for the incumbent left-inclined French government, led by President Emmanuel Macron, all indications from this month’s European Parliament election results show the French Right is on the rise.
“Marine Le Pen’s Far Right National Rally victory was the big story of the night after its strong performance impelled Macron to dissolve parliament and call a new election,” wimp leftist site Politico reported. “Far Right parties also came first in Austria, tied for first place in the Netherlands and came in second in Germany and Romania.”
A point of clarification for anyone arriving here from an earlier and more rational time: the tag “Far Right” is now applied to any political movement not openly devoted to illegal immigration, pronouns and cheering for Hamas.
Anyway, France holds its elections across two weekends, just as normal countries used to sort out drawn grand finals. This provides double the opportunities for collectivist tears, but be warned – as with several elections mentioned here, the French deal could disappoint.
That’s OK. For all our faults, at least we right-wingers don’t cry.
Shifting to the other side of the English Channel, however, many may anticipate wobbly upper lips as the ruling Conservatives are thrown out next month, possibly even to the extent of falling behind not only Labour but also Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
But nobody on the Right should mourn the defeat of a government that for more than a decade has failed on just about every serious conservative measure.
Britain under the Conservatives has become so ruinously gutless and woke that a spell under Labour may even improve the place. Well, “improve” might be overselling it. Let’s just say that Labour somewhat stands for its own brand, as much as any historic British institution stands for anything. Not much, in other words. And alleged right-wingers oversaw that slide.
Still in Britain, and keeping to our earlier climate theme, the Daily Mirror last week reported: “UK to be blasted by 48-hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest.” Imagine such a thing as a “26C heatwave”. We’d call it autumn.
The big one lands in November, of course, when US President Joe Biden is scheduled for his rematch with previous president Donald Trump. The use of “scheduled” when discussing this election is heavily advised. Recent Biden clips show that he’s even more of a wreck now than he was in 2020, and he was plenty wrecked even then.
Yet he won, and could possibly do so again. Leftists may somehow stall their sadness. At this point, though, you’d put money on the tears.
Far Right: Right so far
Chuckle.
We have our own dialect Tim…eh.
“UK to be blasted by 48-hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest.” Imagine such a thing as a “26C heatwave”. We’d call it autumn.
So sick of a media that sees a discarded tissue on the ground, and immediately starts wailing about a New Black Death and the need for banning tissues, while increasing gaol times for litterers.
Looking out on a frost covered lawn as I take my morning coffee.
For a week now the BOM’s forecasters have consistently overestimated the minima in this neck of the woods by two or three degrees.
Seems the weather needs to get on board with the narrative.
Headline at The Guardian:
Curfews on released detainees are not punitive and less onerous than Covid restrictions, Commonwealth says
Seems an Eritrean present in Australia unlawfully and recently released from detention has been granted a hearing before the HCA because he wants the right to roam freely in the community without a curfew or an ankle bracelet monitor.
“The reality of that risk is readily apparent, the plaintiff having been sentenced to terms of imprisonment on 13 occasions, for offences including malicious wounding, assault with a weapon and assaulting an emergency worker,” said the Commonwealth’s lawyer.
So many comments one could add…
Who’s paying for this fellow’s legal representation?
Why on earth is he still here?
At least the Commonwealth is acknowledging, albeit in a round about way, that citizens were treated worse than criminal miscreants during the covid years.
I’d aver that this chap and the hundreds like him are more dangerous to the community than the virus.
He’s an illegal alien, a multi-conviction violent criminal who obviously doesn’t want to obey the law, and an obvious flight risk.
It is in the interest of the state to keep tabs on his whereabouts to make sure he shows up for his hearing and possible deportation. Thus the ankle monitor.
He is essentially on bond now (unbelievably), which is an alternative to pre-trial incarceration. If he won’t accept the condition of an ankle monitor the solution is simple.
Monty, take note.
Waiting for the LGT&ABC (Labor Greens Teals & ABC) fightback against Dutton and Nuclear Power.
Though I imagine they are activating Getup and every other Caldicott groupie to join the cause.
It must be stunning to the LNP to see such support for Nuclear, they have been so terrified of the left & media (same same) for so long, they forgot to listen to the people who elect them, not the people who criticise them.
Isn’t it interesting how almost all ex-Muslims are pro-Israel.
You see, almost all lapsed, non-believing, ex-Muslims have been cut off from their parents and families, and if that’s not bad enough, almost all live in hiding to escape the punishment of death. Such a peaceful religion, such a tolerant religion.
Makes perfect sense as antisemitism has become a pillar of modern Muslim identity, as several ex-Muslims have written recently (I linked to their articles last year; I think one appeared in Tablet.)
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Once you have found the courage to commit apostasy and sever yourself from Islam you may as well ride the truth wave all the way in.
But, but, but… Islam means ‘Peace!’
It’s all based on having the CSIRO and AEMO tell lies about nuclear power, and then using those lies to brand nuclear supporters as anti-science.
Trump announced yesterday that he will eliminate income taxes on the tip income of service workers. Say what you will about the man but that is absolutely brilliant on many levels.
The progressive left of course is desperately going hypocrite trying to damn him for it.
Trump proposal to exempt tips from taxes could cost $250 billion
Had Biden proposed it they would be putting him in for sainthood.
Meanwhile Trump just scooped up millions more young working voters of all races and sexes and potentially rescued a major portion of the economy.
You’re so right, all it takes is a few complaints and people turn into chicken littles. Listen to the people that vote for you or buy your product.
Gosh, I didn’t realise Robert Irwin is a Queensland icon. That Pauline Hanson sure is a meany. I’m not going to vote for her. So there, that’ll teach her.
I guess the video does show him up as an optimistic idiot.
But the ad he was in to promote Queensland did that anyway.
Media tart…probably.
Qld icon…meh.
Go Kansas, go!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/it-begins-kansas-sues-pfizer-state-alleges-company/
LGT-ABC. Gorgeous, that’s a new standard from here on.
I think these hoity toity tw*ts would have to be feeling the shame, good and hard- after all, they’ve been on a decadal campaign to demonize coal and gas, have knackered our perfectly good state-based power stations, and perversely have arrived too late to the Wind Farm party to fool the masses into believing that these ugly offshored white elephants will do anything other than chew up subsidies. That’s all led the baffled and blacked-out man down the pub into the arms of the cheap, safe, old tech nukular.
All we need is a centre-left LNP government to get cracking. A SMNR would be buzzing before Florence Turnbull sees the light of day again.
Wind and solar are the ultimate in “old tech”. Windmills have been around for centuries, and using the sun to warm homes and dry clothes is as old as homes and clothes.
Florence Turnbull – yummy.
A catchy brilliant bit of satire that would have huge impact if it could be engineered to go viral. Text to Rowen.
Who is Florence Turnbull?
The tunnel boring machine.
Not allowed to be scared of people who want to enslave or kill you.
‘Zero Tolerance’ — Labour Party Leader Starmer Vows Government Crackdown on ‘Islamophobia’ (17 Jun)
Odd how there are endless marches by bloodthirsty antisemites these days but few if any protesting muslims.
It’s all based on having the CSIRO and AEMO tell lies about nuclear power, and then using those lies to brand nuclear supporters as anti-science.”
I would have thought that the CSIRO Board and management might have moved by now to withdraw its flawed and debunked report and have distanced itself from its findings. The CSIRO’s risk management committee would do well to think of the longer term consequences for its scientific reputation, fundraising ability and long term relationships.
Perhaps it’s human nature not to value something for which you’ve never had to struggle or even fight.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
– Thomas Jefferson
Also:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
– Ronald Reagan
I miss the Liberty Quotes.
“Waiting for the LGT&ABC (Labor Greens Teals & ABC) fightback against Dutton and Nuclear Power.”
ABC RN news this morning had a report on a climate coalition preparing to field “independent” candidates in conservative seats at the federal election, with a focus on QLD.
Irwin’s done a Streisand on Pauline’s latest video.
WA’s ‘homeless’ MP Wilson Tucker bought four-bedroom Hamersley home for $830k, leases out to tenantsDylan CapornThe West Australian
Tue, 18 June 2024 2:00
WA’s “homeless” MP Wilson Tucker owns a four-bedroom home in Perth’s northern suburbs, renting it out to tenants on a fixed-term lease of about $700 a week.
Mr Tucker recently revealed to The West he had been evicted from a South Guildford rental property in April, was shacking up in a hotel, and planned to travel to WA’s north over winter while living out of his car.
But the Upper House crossbencher’s homelessness came despite his purchase of a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home on an 873sqm Hamersley block in November for $831,000.
Speaking to The West, Mr Tucker said the house had existing “multi-generational” tenants when he purchased it.
ANOTHER Trump supporter assassinated by federal agents…
Reply to Indolent
What the Hell are these agents thinking? Why are they following instructions that appear to lead to the extrajudicial killings of opponents to the regime?
That old German soldier I worked with years ago I spoke about previously told me the Nazis were always there – they just got permission to act like the thugs they always were.
We’re watching history re-enact itself.
That is extraordinary. A warrant does not warrant (sic) such excessive violent behaviour by the ATF.
The ATF is headed by Biden political appointees who are unsurprisingly progressive anti-gun nuts.
They are making the point that mere laws (or lack thereof) aren’t going to prevent them from enforcing their agenda in the most impactful manner as an example to others.
Call it lawfare with a gun.
IT BEGINS: Kansas Sues Pfizer — State Alleges Company Knew of ‘Serious Adverse Events’ Yet Marketed COVID-19 Vaccine as ‘Safe’
The whole furore about covid and ivermectin is the aim of of the vaccine was its consumption, the reason for the hate program against ivermectin was that it effectively cured the Covid disease taken at the right time, and people didn’t need to take the vaccine.
John Kerry used government email alias as secretary of state, whistleblowers say
Biden Allies Plot to Use Mass Protests, Lawfare to Keep Trump from Firing Deep State Bureaucrats
Sounds like an insurrection being planned.