Better late than never. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Timeless Version) … Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Open Thread – Mon 15 July 2024
- Open Thread – Christmas Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 23 Dec 2024
- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Dec 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1HV4b0ccg David Bowie and Tina Turner…”Tonight.”
Bronte Beach was on the news last night. Packed to the hilt with Pommy/Euro backpackers and whatnot. No mueslis.
Don’t shit me.
Nice lady.Would be great as kindergarten president.Opposition leader not to much
After the Bud Light action it must have been very clear to JD management and shareholders who had the power. They would have quickly told Blackrock to shove their ESG measures up their jacksie.
21yo man arrested near RNC in Wisconsin wearing a ski mask and carrying an AK-47.
The copycats have begun.
m0nster went further than that.
According to his reading of the Marquess of Queensberry rules, they can’t fire until the assassin fires off the first shot.
As I said here the other day, some dweeb on Sky suggested that “returning fire was the best protective action”.
Firstly he confuses battlefield tactics with VIP protection protocols.
Secondly, “return fire” refers to a situation where the assailant is concealed and you can only become reactive after they reveal themselves by opening fire. It does not mean that, where the assailant is in plain sight, some sort of sportsmanship rules come into play and the white-hats must hold fire until the President’s brains are all over the podium.
Yes, emphatically so. Non farming types may not be aware of the lightning fightback by American farmers.
Tractor Supply co. (sort of a cross between CRT, Golders, BBQ’s Galore, Mitre 10’s Home & Garden dept & pet food shops) was last month forced by unhappy balance sheets to totally & completely scrap their DEI program & issued an “American Values” type public statement.
Tractor Supply is Fortune 500 company & was a good couple of years into the DEI claptrap.
John Deere recently came under suspicion of being under ponytail influence.
That was enough for America’s farmers, who made it emphatically clear they did not want getting their tractor repaired to be secondary to the JD mechanic’s Qwerty ranking.
John Deere has a very strong brand, that wouldn’t have saved them from seeing their tractor sales going the way of Bud Lite.
110% of John Deere’s customer base are fair dinkum overall wearing farmers.
Screeching pink haired trannys declaring they’ll “boycott John Deere unless it turns LGBTI” will have zero impact.
“they need a reasonable suspicion of threat”
Somehow, I doubt this is in the written (or unwritten) rules.
“I am more convinced now that the SS had the right to do some remodelling on the guys head the moment they saw the gun was pointed at Trump without having to wait.”
If the SS had declared everything within a 500m radius of where the protectee (Trump) was to speak a “federally protected area”, then it is my understanding that they do not even need to wait for him to point the weapon towards anyone, they could take him out as soon as they saw him with a weapon on the roof. It might have been a bit of trouble and a “please explain” moment had they done so, but under those circumstances they probably would have been exonerated.
I mean – honestly. Come on, you climb up on a roof overlooking a place where an SS protected person is speaking, and you are carrying a weapon. What does any normal person expect would happen? That they send you a sternly worded note? That they climb up and say “ullo, ullo, what’s goin’ on ‘ere, then? I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to accompany me the the station my lad”?
I too would stroll around Pennsylvania, climbing onto a semi-concealed rooftop position that has within a radius of a cricket ball toss, dozens of armed Secret Service, countless police marksmen at action stations + tonnes of armed police.
Proceeding to nonchalantly aim a rifle at a Presidential candidate, I’m secure in the knowledge that I’m perfectly safe & there’s nothing anybody can do unless I open fire directly at the Presidential Candidate.
(Seriously, where does this cockheaded flog monty get his stupid talking points?
Does he wank furiously such that his brain is deprived of oxygen & then he types something?)
The ‘Climate Emergency’ is a Myth, Says Nobel Prize Winner John Clauser. Here’s Why He’s Right
No one cares because the government, CSIRO, entertainment celebrities and MSM do not agree.
Really, if it was true, then all of the above would surely agree, wouldn’t they?
(sarcasm)
Yes but screeching pink haired trannies love Mexicans.
‘Devastating’: Retired John Deere employee warns of ‘significant impacts’ of mass layoffs as the company moves manufacturing to Mexico, says the jobs ‘won’t be returning’ (16 Jul)
The Chinese and South Koreans are going to eat their lunch and spit on the soon to be rotting corpse of a once great company methinks.
Open Carry does not mean you can carry a weapon anywhere you want. Every state has restricted ares where weapons are forbidden. Feds also have designated restricted areas.
In Pennsylvania they include schools, courthouses, prisons, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, state owned facilities, secure areas of airports, and other specific prohibited places.
Other specific prohibited places would include the secure perimeter around a presidential event.
Unfortunately the secure perimeter around the event Saturday was necessarily shallower than desired due to the lack of USSS personel to man a deeper one.
2 things dickless vomited recently:
1 Trump was asleep at the RNC; no he was praying with his eyes closed during the beginning blessing. Since dickless lefties never pray dickless would not know this.
2 Pennsylvania is an open carry so the assassin mongrel was perfectly entitled to be crawling on a roof with an AR-15 and the Trump snipers could not take him out until the bastard started firing. Trump’s snipers are bound by rules of engagement which allow them to fire on people who constitute threats regardless of any rights these people may have. The Trump snipers did not fire earlier because they had no sight on the bastard until he started firing; that’s according to Bongino.
Anyway FOAD dickless.
Australia’s economy ‘below long-term trends’ in 2025, experts predict
Australia faces the prospect of an economy performing below long-term trends through early 2025 based on leading indicators.
Westpac/Melbourne Institute 17 July 2024
1 in 11 hospitality businesses expected to close as much of Australia begins the transition from a barista economy to a bedpan economy.
Is this your coin?
More examples of the filthy left condoning the assassination:
Progressives in Higher Education React to Trump Assassination Attempt Just as You’d Expect (legalinsurrection.com)
Liars: Dem Rep Says No Place for Violence While Own Staffer Says ‘Don’t Miss Next Time’ (westernjournal.com)
And to prove the world in not yet submerged under left filth, examples of VIPs now coming out in support of Trump:
President Trump receives flood of surprising endorsements after shooting-one group is particularly interesting… – Revolver News
I’m going to a get a t-shirt made up with that iconic photo of Trump waving his fist after being shot
😀
Democratic party ‘stabbed us in the back,’ crime victim’s mother says at RNC
The number of trannys who are John Deere customers wouldn’t fill the short school bus.
‘Our Lives Were Shattered’: Mother Shares Emotional Loss Of Her Son From Fentanyl Poisoning At RNC
I see Nick Fuentes is leading the groyper backlash against Jon Don Vance for having an Indian wife and kids. That didn’t take long.
Heartening to see various state & federal authorities springing into action to distance themselves from the CFMEU.
[sarc]
What do they know and when did they know it?
The federal and VIC governments have reportedly been sitting on damning evidence for two years.
Stevo.
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Steve Inman:
Just another day at this pub
https://rumble.com/v57558t-just-another-day-at-this-pub.html
One more clip from Stevo. So many clips to choose from…
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Steve Inman:
People Cheating Death!
https://rumble.com/v575zfp-people-cheating-death.html
This is the replication of the shooting I mentioned earlier. Just unbelievable.
@CollinRugg
NEW: Dan Bongino says an “unimpeachable source” tells him that someone was supposed to be on the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from but “didn’t show up.”
More Brittany Blob news in Teh Paywallian. There must be a big question mark against the validity of that trust. As I have said previously much more interesting questions of law here than Friday night legovers in Canberra.
She’ll very soon be called to testify before a Congressional inquiry.
And that’s just for starters.
She doesn’t look like the hardboiled character type required to suppress any conspiracy, if that’s what we’re looking at.
From Kiwiblog on a disease that we’ve exported across the ditch:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/07/the_road_cone_plague.html
As for those traffic controllers, some have Darwin’s Awards wishes, yup ladies those stop/slow signs don’t have a forcesheild of invincibility and I don’t have X ray vision through vegetated corners.
Small bridge works on a tight vegetated bend with an intersection into it. Traffic controllers set up on a 2km straight on one side and on the other round a blind corner that even at the long 40km/h zone came into view suddenly. The limit there is normally 80. I was prob at 50 looking for said roadworks but had some fool tailgating me, the sign signalling stop/go was in view at the same time as I spotted the lady with the sign.
Problem wasn’t 2 of the approaches, it was the more travelled third that already had roadworks signs of it’s own on for other works. Lady got defensive when explained she was poorly able to be seen even at the adjusted speed. I gave up and explained to the older bloke on the other end the same which he seemed to understand if she pushed down about 100m she would have better control of the 2 approaches she had and be able to see him.
For the money they pay these guys you’d think they’d hire people with at least some practical nous…
10 years ago, it took 12.8 ounces of gold to buy the Dow Jones Index. It now takes 16.6 ounces to buy the Dow.
2014 16,000/US$1,250 = 12.8
today 41,000/ $2,468 = 16.6
Interview at Heritage Foundation
Tucker Carlson Shares His Blunt Reaction To Trump Assassination Attempt And Ex-President’s Response
It occurs to me that all roofs have a slope. If they didn’t they wouldn’t drain water.
The crazy woman needs to go.
Two years?
That long?
Why, it seems only yesterday that Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon was being torn down as a Liberal hack and ‘McCarthy redux’ for suggesting that such naughtiness was going on.
That’s just the Trump premium.
Priced exquisitely for the Donald.
This is a short Sky News interview with Vivek at the Convention.
‘Miracle’: Vivek Ramaswamy discusses failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life
Meme
Secret Service Misses the Assassin in Plain Sight
I’ve worked with plenty of CFMEU at the lower levels on the bigger mine sites. Most I’ve never even known till it was mentioned or pointed out to me. Never had any problems with the rank and file.
The leadership even down to the lodge level seem to be the problem and oh boy there are some thugs there. I used to know one well but he seemed to like me so we had a good relationship but even then I could see what he was capable of. His whole family were involved too.
Unsure what the solution bar complete razing like BLF or Painters & Dockers but it’s like a mafia and chances are it will regenerate in another form. I think they need to go all out on the bad eggs but that will never happen when one of the parties of Government reliant on their support and the other too timid/blackmailed to do what it knows it needs to do.
This is a 2019 speech by J.D. Vance.
An elegy for the American Dream It’s time conservatives rejected libertarianism and stood up for what matters
Polluting the oceans
Broken Offshore Wind Blade Debris Washes Up in Nantucket
Just received an email offer from my very “benevolent” Power supplier AGL. It’s for 25% off cinema tickets! So our Vic and Fed governments are providing funds to retailers (subsidies compliments of my taxes) to reduce the real cost of my energy bills (pushed up by renewable energy) and these retailers are providing tiddly wink discounted cinema tickets and other marketing guff to make me grateful. And all based on the lie that CO2 warms up the planet and the even bigger lie that wind and solar power will reduce CO2. A circle jerk of grand proportions.
I’ll say it again…
The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front.
Roseanne Barr
@therealroseanne
@MikeBenzCyber
The Origins Of NATO’s Role In Internet Censorship
BREAKING: Record-level data from Czech Republic FOIA proves that the Moderna vaccines increased all-cause mortality by over 50% (and the Pfizer vaccines weren’t safe either)
Strikingly, few Labour MPs have held down ‘working class’ jobs – or, indeed, any job outside of politics. Many have arrived in parliament following a stint as local councillors. Others have had careers in Westminster or the European Parliament. Three were special advisers to former prime minister Gordon Brown. A surprising number are political nepo babies, including Liam Conlon, son of Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray; Hamish Falconer, whose father served in Tony Blair’s government from 2003 to 2007; and Georgia Gould, daughter of the late Baron Gould, who led Labour’s strategy and polling for more than two decades.
As Roger says, it’s a cast.
Labour is no friend of the working classes – spiked (spiked-online.com)
BREAKING NEWSLinda Reynolds’ court win over Brittany Higgins as former political staffer is ordered to reveal secret detail in $2.4million settlement
Daily Mail.
Judge Janine made a great point on The Five. When the Republican POTUS candidate was shot there was not one riot or law broken; when a scumbag, black rapist died of fetanyl overdose while in police custody the demorats rioted for months, killed people and destroyed $billions of property.
And Jan 6 was a demorat event.
This packs an emotional punch.
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms ( war version )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpwKQo5_Z0
Blackout told many lies in his press club vomit today. The best of all was both droughts and floods are increasing. Magic times. The Drought Atlas of Australia and New Zealand shows the worst Australian droughts occurred before the 20thC and the worst drought was from 1500-1522:
Eastern Australia New Zealand Drought Atlas (memphis.edu)
Must have been all those 3rd nations coal plants.
Unherd
Oren Cass: The philosophy of J.D. Vance
You can’t beat the laws of thermodynamics.
For over 3 years there has been construction work on an M1 overpass in my suburb. They repeatedly change the pedestrian path through the overpass and every time a change is made construction workers at both ends. They don’t do anything except say hello. Perhaps they fear the pedestrians will climb over the fence. The length of time for the construction, still incomplete, and the presence of those workers, is outrageous. There must be corruption involved.
these un-elected and elected clowns are scheming together to best screw Joe and Joelene Average
here in Aust we have our own version of the USA’s recently blonked Chevron Doctrine and these psychos are doing whatever they feel like doing
the checks and balances are gone
they believe that men can have babies, that we’re all gonna die in a fiery Thermageddon, and that they know best
…it’s for your own good
both sides of politics are captured
academia is captured
the police are captured
the judiciary are captured
the media is retarded
… so basically, you’ve been asking for it
The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front
?
Same for the Libs and Nats, only the ALP are somewhat more *competent* criminals.
Speaking of which, I saw a news report today (which I now can’t find) on some of the country’s largest nursing home providers charging the taxpayer – not the resident, which would be outright theft – for personalised services they aren’t providing, which is mere fraud. Multiplied by the number of residents, the monies falsely claimed must be into the hundreds of millions.
Just don’t expect anyone to go to prison for this.
From Michael Smith.
Lidia Thorpe again–one of the senators for Hamas
Australian Senator Posts Photo Wearing a Mock Hamas Headband, Promptly Deletes Post
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/07/16/australian-senator-posts-photo-wearing-a-mock-hamas-headband-promptly-deletes-post/
serious question:
where does the political will come from to fix it?
There was a windfarm near Nantucket.
With subsidies scammed by the bucket.
But when constructing the same
A blade fell off a crane
And floated away to refrains of “oh fck it!”
Seems Twiggys hydrogen plans not going well.
But at least he got plenty of good selfies with Labor leaders all around the country as they threw money at him.
Oh wait .. .. our money!
Fluffy Annelise does it again.
The RNC convention is gung ho because they “sense they are winning, and winning is the thing here in the USA”.
I watched days 1 and 2 and the messages I got were not any more about simply “winning” as much as “fixing” the cr#p that has been visited on the USA by the left.
So many really good speakers, so many good stories.
Can any commentator resist the urge to say something about Trump like “mean tweets” or something along those lines?
Give me a break.
What we hear from the left media daily is worse.
The Fall Of The Conservatives: How They Became New Labour | Peter Hitchens
John Anderson Media
That’s why it’s important to have JD Vance as VP who can be elected in 2028 to continue with Trump’s trade policies and to keep the corporations straight.
VP Pick Vance: China the Biggest Threat to the US | China in Focus
The RNC convention has been a welcome relief from the Daytime Sky carefully slanted commentary.
He’s very worried about climate change and the rising ocean. It’s why he built an enormous pile maybe 50 metres from it? Maybe less. Anyway, that’s dedication and sacrifice for you. Clearly he wants to be the first to sound the alarm when he notices the sea starting to inch closer to the gates of his mansion.
The Courier Mail moderators are pretty confused about what to approve under the CFMMEU articles.
One trend I am noticing is that they are part of Qld Police PR team as very difficult to comment negatively on them.
Bolta fires back:
?Energy Minister Chris Bowen said something about me at the National Press Club on Wednesday that forces me to conclude he’s really an idiot.
Otherwise I’d be forced to call him a liar.
So this is what this idiot said about me in selling his disastrous plan to force Australia to run its economy totally on unreliable wind and solar power: “Full on, open climate change denial is now less fashionable than it was 10 or 15 years ago in the public debate…
“Andrew Bolt still does it, but most other people don’t bother with it.”
Actually, scepticism about Bowen’s climate fear-mongering and net-zero plans is growing, but let me deal with his most fundamental misunderstanding. I won’t say lie.
I’ve never been in “denial” about climate change. I’ve always said the planet has warmed slightly over the past century.
But why I anger Bowen is that I’ve pointed out we haven’t had many of the predicted consequences of that – Bowen’s “climate catastrophe’’.
Some examples. Former Climate Change Commissioner Tim Flannery predicted nearly two decades ago that global warming could dry our dams, and Sydney could be without water in a few years. Instead, Sydney’s dams are 99 per cent full, and Melbourne’s 87 per cent.
We were told the Great Barrier Reef would die. Instead, hard coral cover is at – or near – record highs.
We were told rising seas would drown atoll islands such as the Maldives and Tuvalu. In fact both nations have grown.
We were told we’d get more cyclones, but Australia has instead had fewer over the past 50 years. And our grain harvests have grown.
Yet to “save” us from this fake climate crisis, Bowen is defacing our countryside with wind farms and destroying our reliable coal-fired power system, claiming wind and solar will give us cheaper power.
As if. Look at your power bills.
And look at the billions Bowen is blowing on green energy schemes, including green hydrogen, a fuel made from water that’s unproven at scale anywhere in the world.
Yet Bowen on Wednesday again told us we can’t have nuclear power stations, a proven technology, because they’d be built too late to save us. He means, to save us from the energy crisis he’s causing.
So, no, I don’t deny climate change. I just deny that Bowen’s mad spending will do anything to change our climate, or save us from his “climate disaster’’.
Prove me wrong, Chris.
Herald-Sun
intense
CFMEU Query
While we’re having a quick look under the covers, could we possibly revisit the cancellation of the Eastern Freeway link to the Tulla freeway?
At the time it was well understood it was all a squabble between the CFMEU (Dan Andrews factional partners) and the AWU (Billy Shortens factional partners) about who got what.
The AWU were “in” and the CFMEU were locked out and instructed Dan, their guy, to close it down regardless of consequences or there would be no more support. It was shut down with massive cost to taxpayers, who else?
Are we to believe there is no evidence behind this?
No emails or text messages, no recordings?
Are we to presume all records ended up like Julia Gillard’s file at her previous employer’s chambers .. missing .. ?
I have mentioned to people on occasion that the Labor Party are the political arm of the union movement and they seem genuinley surprised that could possibly be the case.
I guess if it is not mentioned in school these days, and why would it be, it is a known unknown.
Cultural leader for Hearing Australia Azizah Roe urges ear checks for Indigenous children in Mid West-GascoyneJessica MoroneyMidwest Times
Wed, 17 July 2024 2:00AM
Hearing Australia is encouraging families in the Mid West-Gascoyne to get their children’s ears checked, after an alarming 26 per cent of First Nations children were found to have an undiagnosed ear disease.
More than 120 children received hearing assessments in the Mid West-Gascoyne in 2022-23. Results found more than 25 per cent had undiagnosed hearing loss and about 19 per cent had ear disease.
As NAIDOC Week ends, Hearing Australia is urging parents and primary healthcare providers to ensure young Indigenous children are having regular hearing checks.
Geraldton cultural leader and Hearing Australia representative Azizah Roe has first-hand experience and knows how important children’s hearing checks are. Her two-year-old grandson was diagnosed with glue ear and required grommets to prevent a build-up of fluid.
“Not hearing properly meant it would impact on his learning … a few months after his surgery, my grandson had another hearing check and his hearing had returned to normal,” she said.
“It was a great outcome and really reinforces the importance of getting our kids’ and grandkids’ hearing checked regularly, because if there are any issues, they can then be put on the path to treatment.”
Ms Roe said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experienced some of the highest rates of otitis media (middle ear infection) in the world, with children under two were found to have more ear trouble than older children.
“Ear infections are common in children but for First Nations children they typically occur more often, start very early in life and last longer. This can affect their ability to listen, learn, yarn, and connect with others,” she said.
The ALP is a criminal outfit with a parliamentary front
Yep, and the LNP is a stupidity outfit with a parliamentary front.
And the green slime are a malignant psychotic outfit with a parliamentary front
It’s a very depressing situation
I said ages ago I would post this once a year.
Here we go again.
I showed this to Dad and Brother and both were nonplus. 10 minutes later, and the feeling in the room was palpable. Stone cold silence.
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Al White: The Story of a Marine Grunt in the First Battle of Khe Sanh (April 1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWJ5yxuvTMw
Doubt emerging that crooks was even the shooter:
FULL SCOOP: Everything That’s Been Revealed So Far About Trump Shooter, Thomas Crooks | WLT Report
I think the attempted assassination was not the reason these business people are now backing Trump, but it was a galvanising moment, a last straw. I believe what horrified them more, Jewish and non-Jewish ones, was the Democrats’ and the universities’ reaction to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and rampages after the 7th October 2023 attacks on Israel. The submission to protesters and Biden’s treachery to Israel convinced a lot of them that Democrats cannot be trusted any more.
And the green slime are a malignant Jew hating psychotic outfit with a parliamentary front
Yep, it’s a very depressing situation.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 17, 2024 9:08 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
I served with a veteran of 25th Division at Khe Sanh – he used to upset the system by wearing his Yankee campaign ribbons and Combat Infantry Badge with Aussie uniform..
He “had the talks” one night. “Out of food, running low on ammo – I’ve never been so fvcking scared in my life.”
Respect.
State of Origin final.
Global Major sporting event: watched around the world. Super-tough gladiators, worshiped by Tina Turner fans, glistening men, who make the SAS and Seals look like receptive poofters.
2:0 at half time.
Not helped by two bizarre, softcock (think of the kiddies watching) send offs for terrifying handbagging.
Far Cough.
thomas matthew crooks may have missed Trump but I think he has scored a bullseye and put a slug right between the eyes of woke.
The little prick shot about 8 times. Ballistics would be able to tell if it came from his gun.
Marjorie Taylor Green destroys a Times reporter.
“You’re from the Times? you’re ridiculous and you’re the problem in our country. You lie about people like me.… we have to put up with an unbelievable amount of bullshit because of little liars like you”
No shit. Since the first week following his election in 2016, they have subjected the man to unimaginable hell. He endured the worst harassment, lawfare, and hoaxes, abuse—absolute hell—and was only inches away from having his head blown off. mostly due to his disagreement with the left.
Even though he’s tough, there must be emotional upheaval in his life right now. To be honest, I have no idea how he manages.
And then his campaign schedule must be a nightmare through all of this.
First paras of article from The Oz.
Well done the Oz who have told her to get lost.
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has threatened to sue The Australian for defamation and demanded an apology over a Johannes Leak cartoon that portrayed her wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ‘October 7’, claiming the depiction was “racist” and would cost her votes at the next election.
The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.
The cartoon, published on Monday last week, shows the Greens deputy leader using a roller to apply white wash to obscure the date of the Hamas terror attack on Israel in which almost 1200 people died, while saying: “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint”
Convicted murderer gets stay of execution just 20 minutes before he was given lethal injection over 1998 killing of 85 year old during home robbery
Daily Mail.
Forget Hamas, glass-jaw Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi declares war on satire: ‘Cartoon will cost me votes’Stephen Rice
48 minutes ago.
Updated 35 minutes ago
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has threatened to sue The Australian for defamation and demanded an apology over a Johannes Leak cartoon that portrayed her wearing a Hamas headband and whitewashing a wall bearing the words ‘October 7’, claiming the depiction was “racist” and would cost her votes at the next election.
The Australian has told Senator Faruqi it will not accede to any of her “grossly hypocritical” demands, and that the cartoon – which it argues is clearly protected by truth and honest opinion defences – will remain online.
The cartoon, published on Monday last week, shows the Greens deputy leader using a roller to apply white wash to obscure the date of the Hamas terror attack on Israel in which almost 1200 people died, while saying: “What’s the big deal? It’s just a bit of paint …” The cartoon followed Senator Faruqi’s repeated refusal on the ABC’s Insiders to call for the terror group to be dismantled, saying that was up to the Palestinian people to decide.
Senator Faruqi said the Greens were not demanding any change to the listing of Hamas as a terrorist organisation but “it’s not up to me to say who should be gone or not”.
The cartoon also references Senator Faruqi’s attempt to play down the defacing of the Australian War Memorial with pro-Palestinian graffiti as nothing more than “some paint on a building”.
In its response to Senator Faruqi’s lawyers, The Australian said it was “surprised and bemused that your client is threatening legal action given her comments can only be understood to mean that the barbaric Hamas regime, a listed terrorist group and the perpetrators of the October 7 atrocity, has some legitimacy if it is supported by the Palestinian people”.
In the circumstances, the cartoon was “somewhat mild”, the paper said, and in any event was part of an important political discussion.
Funny, no comments allowed..
Marjorie Taylor Green destroys a Times reporter.
Sublime, more please. There is simply no point in tolerating and indulging MSM garbage
Back in 2020, at CPAC here in Sydney, walking from the bathroom back to the table where I was sitting with other Cats, I was confronted by an SBS female reporter. She stopped me and asked me if she could ask some questions. I responded bluntly…….
No, I do not talk to garbage media.
I still remember the shocked look on her face.
Some of the most powerful imagery I have seen; victims of biden’s open borders speaking at the RNC of the crimes committed against them and their families by illegals let into the US by biden and cackles.
This is going to be a conspiracist’s dream; the lying hag who is head of the US SS, Kimberly Cheatle (the roof was too steep to put snipers on), is not only thick with the perverted corpse but the cheneys who think Trump is the biggest threat to democracy nada, nada.
Tucker Carlson: ‘Every Bad Person I’ve Ever Met in a Lifetime in Washington Was Aligned Against J.D. Vance’
Is Trump’s Pick Of J.D. Vance A Political Masterstroke? The Answer Is Yes
an alarming 26 per cent of First Nations children were found to have an undiagnosed ear disease.
One- just say Yamatji or whatever, “First Nationses” in this context is pathetic
Two- the fact that young indij kids have undiagnosed- read, unnoticed- hearing loss is surely a damning mark against the piccaninny-mob-auntie-no-responsibility culture of having no parental regard for children.
W000000TT….meanwhile in other news….:
NSW 14 v Queethlanders 4 (two penalty conversions…NO tries…LOL)
Happy…I am so fricken happy!!!…after all these years…
I’m hearing that there was a sniper team inside the building of which the shooter was on the roof. Lmao.
Funny, but not ha-ha funny, DoverLord.
It’s not crazy conjecture to suppose that there may have been plants who acted to ensure Crooke had a clear run up to his position.
So any apology to those of us at the time who said his ideas were ridiculous?
Fortescue restructure announced as Andrew Forrest tells workers 700 jobs will go
Billionaire Andrew Forrest has abandoned ambitious green hydrogen targets in a major business backdown that threatens the Albanese government’s pledge for the energy source to help drive the nation’s transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Dr Forrest launched a sweeping restructure at Fortescue in the face of the company’s failure to deliver on its green-energy promises. Up to 700 jobs will go in the massive cutbacks after the iron ore mogul pulled back from the company’s goal of producing 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2030.
Dr Forrest is understood to have addressed Fortescue staff on Wednesday afternoon, flagging a major round of redundancies – including the departure of more of the company’s senior management.
The concession that Fortescue cannot meet its green-hydrogen targets represents a major retreat by Dr Forrest, who only a few years ago was boasting that the company’s green-energy ambitions would one day make it bigger than Saudi energy giant Aramco.
The move also punches a hole in Labor’s emissions transition plan, with the government providing $8bn in investment and support for hydrogen production as part of a push for Australia to become a key player in global efforts to achieve net zero.
Anthony Albanese has pinned the government’s hopes on green hydrogen, solar and wind as key supply sources that can hand the nation “energy sovereignty”.
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Jerry built?
No.
Why is it Crooked?
The Crooked House wasn’t built crooked; the fairy tale facade you see today is a quirk of history…
In the 14th and 15th centuries, Lavenham was one of the richest places in England – its wealth derived from the wool trade and popular ‘Lavenham Blue’ cloth made in the village.
With many merchants fast making money and building houses, the wood they used wasn’t always given enough time to dry.
As the timber frame of The Crooked House dried, it gradually twisted and contorted.
By the time this had happened, Lavenham’s wool industry was in decline. The merchants left and without the money to rebuild, the house was left crooked and divided up.
The result is a rare survivor – The Crooked House you see today – wonderfully wonky and one of the world’s most photographed homes.
PS, that small town of less than 2000 people at the time, paid more in taxes than the city of York.
Not sure I agree with this, takes a bit more than dexterity.
Congrats anyway, seen it a few times and still beats me doing the same even with the shirt off.
Good times they were, fumbling around, alas a long time ago.
In case you are visiting Germany, instructions how to pee.
LOL Newscorpse kiddies at it again with the climate chicken little and snow/sleet in SEQ elevated regions. I’d say it would be more sleet than snow and shock has happened before:
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/parts-queenslands-scenic-rim-dusted-with-snow-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade/news-story/79ccf1dca9b57a7d32ae9045d779ad32
Quick check of the BOM has snow all the way up the Divide to Qld border between 1100m & 1400m asl. Vic 1100m asl. Qld won’t put an altitude on theirs but snow was seeing falling at Spicers Ck Lodge at 1100m asl. Sorry not unusual for July.
The beeb’s NewsHour show tried a series of race bait questions to that Detroit pastor who had a visit to his church from DJT. The pastor had their measure!
Q. How did your black congregation feel about a visit from this white guy?
A. They crowded around him and asked for selfies and autographs.