Tom Stiglich.
Open Thread – Weekend 20 July 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Sept 2024
- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 12 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Sept 2024
Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
No way will this clip be forgotten
Always worthy of a repeat.
Delta A. Fasten the belts and strap yourself in.
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Binary Finary – 1999 (epic version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fb4Vg48edU
Some things the Russian do well, likely because they have to.
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THE STRONGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD is often considered to be the NS Yamal, a nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Russian “Arktika” class.
This formidable vessel is designed to navigate and break through the thickest ice in the Arctic Ocean. Here are some key details about the NS Yamal:
1. Powerful Nuclear Reactor: The NS Yamal is powered by two nuclear reactors, which provide immense power and enable the ship to break through ice up to 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) thick.
2. Icebreaking Capability: The ship is capable of continuous operation in extreme Arctic conditions, making it one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world.
3. Durability: Built to withstand the harshest environments, the NS Yamal is constructed with a reinforced hull and advanced navigation systems to ensure safe passage through the treacherous Arctic waters.
4. Operational Range: With its nuclear power source, the NS Yamal can operate for extended periods without refueling, giving it a significant operational range and endurance.
The NS Yamal, along with other nuclear-powered icebreakers in the Russian fleet, plays a crucial role in maintaining maritime routes in the Arctic, supporting scientific research, and ensuring the safe passage of ships through icy waters.
Gee whiz, this set is incredible.
I understand this music is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Banger!
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Paul van Dyk LIVE at Parookaville 2023 (full set)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ywi-j2vhU
A cautionary tale.
https://x.com/Huff4Congress/status/1813939637066313970?t=ywCaK-Xhqkn1C1uydC40Pg&s=19
One minute she claims it was an innocent joke about chocolate milk the next it was bait.
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1813875258677710859?t=bYM-V3yTybK_FQLWGgDbWw&s=19
A nice new thread!
Greetings from Serbia, another country down on its luck. Average wages swamped by prices including petrol at E2 a litre. Belgrade still has evidence of bomb damage. And an ageing population and young people trying to leave.
Johannes Leak.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Oh dear. Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison-Tina Norton.
BBC with a straight story?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gr0nm0lzo
Good advise.
Oops, need a big roll of Gaffer tape to fix that
Repost due to previous being old Fred!
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.
Hi Tom,
Still having trouble with the Garrison links as per Ben Garrison – Tina Norton at 4:10am. This is what I get:
Should mention that I get the same error message on Windows 11/Edge and iPad/Safari
As I write, the city of Leeds in the UK is burning, largely due to Muslim migrants, both legal and illegal. Vance is right about the UK. Overnight the Yorkshire police have pulled back, because they can’t cope. The totally discredited UK MSM, consisting of once half decent institutions such as the BBC and Channel Four, are strangely shtum about the Leeds riots because the burning and the violence doesn’t suit their narrative, they’re too busy spending their time fellating their new heroes, Sir Kier Der Sturmer and his mediocre crew, and pillorising Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and ordinary Britons.
The rancid creepy far-left ‘journalist’ Emily Mateless has been too busy in Milwaukie chasing down and harassing Nigel Farage. Mateless reminds me of a dried up, sun baked dog turd you see left on some grass.
I think Nigel demolishes the turd…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIqeQzc1t8
PeterM
July 20, 2024 7:07 am
It was posted before, right click on link, copy link, paste it in new tab press enter and it works.
A nuisance for no reason, I know but it is what it is.
Aaaand…
For those who can’t be bothered…my gift to you.
Peace loving palis cruelly stopped from visiting ailing grandparents.
Grauniad headline.
Probably.
Like so many others, Trump has broken Ramirez’ brain.
You see so many seemingly intelligent, normal people who suddenly become semi-psychotic when Trump is even mentioned. I think it must be an acquired wiring problem.
It’s a salutary lesson – never obsess about a single subject for waaaay too long. Christians are taught to pray, and to pray often, and then to leave the problem in God’s hands and move on to more worthwhile endeavours.
If you don’t the end result is like Sal’s Canberran customer – in this instance fantasising about what a bullet would do to Trump’s head. Truly sick stuff.
And in further dystopian news from the burning city of Leeds, a Muslim councillor, on camera, has said that the one of the problems is that, wait for it, drum roll……….
‘the police speak English’.
I’ve just stood up after collapsing on the floor laughing.
But the reality is that we should all be crying.
You see so many seemingly intelligent, normal people who suddenly become semi-psychotic when Trump is even mentioned.
My ex. Yesterday, before he abruptly put the phone down on me, he claimed the shooter was most definitely a Republican.
He’s got the disease called “Monty Pox”.
Oh and I have not and will not respond to his text, a half baked attempt at an apology for putting the phone down on me. No, nup, nyet.
The other trigger figure was Cardinal Pell.
That adds another layer or two to the phenomenon.
Further to Tina’s toon…
“Absolutely” In The Race: Biden Campaign Calls Malarkey On MSM Reports (20 Jul)
The panic in the Democrat Party may just’ve gone up another notch!
Yep.
I refuse to countenance anyone who tries to rationalise what’s happened to Great Britain as a “genuine mistake, they were trying to do the right thing” when talking about the scum politicians who instigated or continued taking in these people.
It was, is and always will be a successful attempt to destroy the country from a social and shared values perspective.
You’ve been fired.
Count your blessings. No need to think about him any more.
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Indolent:
To those of us who actually THOUGHT the problem through, the lockdown was nothing less than a panicked government edict that went against all planning, and satisfied just ONE criterion – that the government was seen to be doing something and in control.
And lets not forget that the Queensland government – soon to go to the polls – built a concentration camp to put the ‘deniers’ in, with the support of the electorate.
Ace Of Spades:
Monty can attest
it was a setup
Here’s a fundamental truth……
ENOCH POWELL WAS RIGHT
For his truth telling, Powell was an early victim of silencing and cancellation.
I’m a big fan of the Youtube channel of Lancashire man, Charles Veitch. He’s a local, he knows Yorkshire and Lancashire and other parts of the North of England. Overnight (our time) he’s ventured into Harehills, the area in Leeds where the riots are happening. It’s over fifty percent Muslim with a large population of Romany Romanians. Harehills proudly fly the Nazi Pallie flag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epQ57vnCPk
Mark Dice:
Hulk Hogan Unleashed for Trump! – Brings Down the House at RNC, Trump Returns with Historic Speech!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCSrenpnJvo
JJ Sefton links to Trump’s speech in Milwaukee:
Just beautiful.
I don’t think it matters who they put up against Trump. He wins.
Although as JC and others here have said, the cheat factor from Democrats, either lawfare, ballot box or as we saw last week, is the only obstacle.
@HawleyMO
Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel
@vileTexan
Did you know that CNN has only live streamed one Trump rally this year?
Just so happens it was on July 13th.
Are you paying attention yet?
Biden reportedly digging his heels in.
Prominent Democrats concerned that “He can’t win.”
Yet aggregating pollster FiveThirtyEight had Biden with a narrow pathway to victory last week.
Shouldn’t the concern rather be “He can’t govern”?
Evidently they don’t care so much about governing but about the spoils attached thereto.
Never mind the diversity is our strength riots, the UK has treasure to promise..
https://x.com/i/status/1814334049676361953
“I have in my streets a bunch of rioters, promising diversity in our time”..
@LauraLoomer
Did you know that the President of CrowdStrike Services and the Chief Security Officer served as the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI under the Obama-Biden administration?
To get you all in the right mood
@wendyp4545
An assassination attempt was made on President Trump. One man died, 2 were in Critical Condition and:
@bennyjohnson
My jaw is on the floor
Backflip with pike.
Ford Expanding Production of Profitable Gas-Powered Trucks at Plant Meant for Electric Cars (18 Jul)
Well that’s an amazing turn around, they were looking to go all electric only 3 years ago. Now the CEO of Ford is saying electric SUVs are never going to be affordable. And of course SUVs and utes are what the punters want to buy, since they’re consistently the most popular models.
The apparent insane hatred some good people display for various figures is so widespread that it has to be rooted in some important mechanism of human nature. I was first surprised by it in a couple of ex-criminals telling their salvation stories in church groups; they freely said rock spiders (pdf files I presume) should be killed, preferably with suffering.
In regard to George Pell… I feel there is a worse human than a rock spider; its a false accuser.
And our justice system rewards them.
Mr. Big Fake himself.
Bill Gates Backs Startup That Makes Butter From Thin Air
MAGA Is Now The GOP Establishment
America Officially Dethrones It’s Top-Selling Beer. All Hail The New King!
A correction to that Trump speech precis.
Six million dollars (so far) has been raised for all the victims’ families. (Probably more by now). Trump did not say he kicked in 1 million dollars. He showed a cheque from a friend for that amount and thanked him.
I do wish these “commentators” who clearly make money from clicks would get their facts right. All it does is cast doubt on everything they say.
Good riddance.
Grand New Party: Bush, Cheney, Romney, Pence, Ryan Not Speaking at RNC (18 Jul)
And McConnell, who is retiring at the end of this term.
Andy Ngo reporting from Harehills, watch it, it isn’t pretty….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJMTmjkDanw
Over two decades of out of control immigration, both legal and illegal.
I think we can say goodbye to these words….
Against the envy of less happier lands,This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
But of course, William Shakespeare is now cancelled, we can’t cite the words of a white, indigenous, Catholic English male.
Prior to 1962 there wasn’t much the British government could do about Muslim immigration from India & Pakistan as they were British or Commonwealth subjects*
It was in the 1950s that these communities were established in northern England. That they largely haven’t assimilated so many decades later ((individual examples of assimilation being the exceptions that proves the rule) is an object lesson in the perils of mass Muslim migration to Western countries.
*As were migrants from the Caribbean who began arriving from c. 1948.
Make of this what you will but it smacks of TDS to me with a dose of each-wayism. I have a comment awaiting approval to the effect that the truth about his so-called insurrection will only emerge from a truly independent inquiry that will only be possible under a Trump presidency.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/hope-of-redemption-after-this-uncivil-war/news-story/fba56595081c979642d32003be0c41f8
Hope of redemption after this uncivil war
Chris Ulhmann
The recruitment poster at the 23rd Street bus stop in Washington DC was a call to arms in bold red capitals. “Be one of us,” it entreated.
“Us” was the US Capitol Police and the words were stamped above a picture of the neoclassical building. Beside it stood a young Achilles dressed for battle. He wore a soldier’s greens, military helmet, ballistic glasses, black body armour and carried an assault rifle. He looked watchfully over his shoulder at the home of the US congress he was charged with protecting.
The advertisement echoed the famous Uncle Sam billboard used to recruit for two world wars. In it the personification of the American government pointed out of the banner and declared: “I want you for the US Army”.
But the call to join the ranks of the US Capitol Police wasn’t recruiting for a foreign crusade.
This looked like an American battalion being raised for a war with its own people.
There has already been a skirmish, on January 6, 2021. And, no matter how you choose to name it, five police who held the line against the mob that day died in the wake of the storming of congress as it sat to confirm the legitimate election of Joe Biden as the 46th President.
Five.
US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick had pepper spray shot in his face by a rioter and died of a stroke the next day. Washington’s chief medical examiner concluded he died of natural causes but added “all that transpired played a role in his condition”.
What also transpired four days after the assault was that officer Sicknick’s US Capitol Police colleague, Howard Liebengood, killed himself. Metropolitan Police officer Jeffrey Smith also committed suicide after the attack. By early August 2021 the number of suicides would rise to four as two other Metropolitan Police officers, Kyle deFreytag and Gunther Hashida, also took their own lives.
We can’t know what was in their hearts when their hope failed but we do know what Smith’s wife, Erin, thinks. “My husband died defending democracy,” she wrote in USA Today.
Lest we forget.
Let’s never forget that then president Donald Trump lied when he told the mob before the riot that the election had been stolen from him. And that he demanded vice-president Mike Pence, acting as president of the Senate, overturn the election by rejecting the electoral college votes.
We know what Pence thought of that because he made it plain in a speech to the Federalist Society in February 2022.
“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
Trump watched on television as protesters stormed through the Capitol building and he said nothing to quell the mob, despite pleas to act from his children and advisers. Trump tweeted petrol into the raging fire when he posted this: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”
Inside the Capitol building, rioters were filmed chanting “Hang Mike Pence”.
For 187 minutes Trump watched without acting. At 4.17pm he finally released a video, shot in the White House Rose Garden. In it he called the rioters “very special people” and said: “I know your pain. I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side, but you have to go home now.”
Of this, Republican Adam Kinzinger said: “President Trump didn’t fail to act. He chose not to act.”
Another shot was fired in America’s uncivil war last week when an assassin’s bullet barely missed Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. We should give thanks that the bullet missed because those who love democracy should always condemn violence as a weapon in what should be a battle of words and ideas.
The attempt on Trump’s life took me back to the bus stop recruitment poster because on the day I saw it I was on a pilgrimage.
Every time I go to Washington I make the same journey to the Lincoln Memorial at the western end of the National Mall. There the seated giant of Abraham Lincoln looks east towards the distant Capitol building.
It was from the steps of this memorial that Martin Luther King spoke of his dream that America would one day “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character,” King said.
Each time I visit the memorial I read the two Lincoln speeches etched in the walls of his temple, the Gettysburg Address and the second inaugural address.
In the second inaugural address Lincoln ponders the tragedy of a war between countrymen who “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other.”
Lincoln muses that some might think it odd that slave owners “should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged”.
He wonders at God’s purpose in the civil war and if it might be that slavery was such an offence against him it demanded blood for blood.
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether’.”
He ends with a hope.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
A little over a month after Lincoln made this speech he was killed by an assassin’s bullet.
I am glad the assassin’s bullet missed Trump. I wish it had missed Lincoln. I wish it had missed John Kennedy. And his brother Robert. Above all, I wish it had missed King.
By his actions Trump has shown he is not fit to be mentioned in the same breath as these towering Americans. But he has been given a rare second chance: to redeem himself and his nation. Let us see if he takes it.
Robert Barnes (Deep State Tried To Kill Trump: Conspiracy Theory Or Fact?)
Saturday, 20 July 2024
Opinion
opinion
Paul Murray: How you’re voting for a militant Greens party without realising and why that must change
Paul MurrayThe West Australian
Sat, 20 July 2024 2:00AM
For a long time, the Greens have been slowly devouring Labor’s primary vote from the Left.
It’s been a strangely dichotomous process because along the way, Labor federally has become dependent on the Greens for getting it into power.
But a tipping point is arriving.
The Greens under Adam Bandt are no longer satisfied with propping up another party in government. Bandt says he now wants to replace Labor as the Left party of government.
From what we have seen of the Greens’ true identity during the recent unrest over Palestine, that prospect will fill many Australians with horror.
What many people fail to realise is that Bandt can only succeed by using our system of compulsory preferential voting.
Last week’s column examined how Labor refugee Fatima Payman was elected to the Senate by the perverse flow of preferential voting. And the law of unintended consequences.
Did those people who placed votes with Legalise Cannabis, Liberal Democrats, the WA Party or United Australia really want to elect a radical Muslim who mouths anti-semitic slogans and has an obvious, but as-yet undisclosed personal agenda?
Because that’s what happened when their above-the-line Senate preferences were distributed.
As two letter writers to the newspaper expressed on Monday, most voters don’t understand how the “corrupted” preferences system works.
“Unless you are a political wonk, the average voter only votes for a particular party without knowing the ramifications of that vote on minor party preferences,” wrote M. Gooch, of Leeming.
“One has to wonder why we persist with this unique voting system,” wrote Patrick Whalen, of Yokine.
One does indeed. Its time is up.
However, Bandt will hope compulsory preferential voting in the Lower House remains long enough to give the Greens critical mass.
“Sketching out his political strategy, Bandt says his key priority is all about lower house expansion, not a formal governing alliance with Labor,” The Australian’s national affairs editor Joe Kelly reported on Monday.
“However, if his plan succeeds at the next election, Bandt will win more seats, cement minority government as the new norm and unleash a more contested progressive politics on the nation.”
Kelly reported that Bandt had clarified the existential challenge to Labor by revealing the Greens’ long-term political objective was “replacing Labor rather than working with it.”
Faced with this threat to Labor’s historic self-professed position as “the natural party of government” – even though the coalition parties have filled the Treasury benches for longer – what are they doing about it?
Because the Greens bear little resemblance to the party founded federally in 1992 from a gaggle of 1980s nuclear disarmament dreamers in WA and tree huggers in Tasmania.
Under Bandt and deputy Mehreen Faruqi, the Greens party is now a radical Marxist organisation whose policies, parliamentary behaviour and extreme rhetoric are increasingly obnoxious to the political mainstream.
Oh dear. What was that all about, Chris Uhlmann?
The moment you typed the word “five” my bullsh*t radar went up.
Sicknik died of a stroke. In other words, he was unfit for duty that day and many days preceding. No one killed him. The other four killed themselves. No curiosity from Chris as to why they did that. They just did.
After that, it’s just the usual prevaricating tribal bilge we know and love.
Don’t mention Trump in the same sentence as those other guys! It’s doublebad juju to do it.
Lincoln, John and Robert Kennedy, King and a near miss for Trump.
There. I did it.
Odd he didn’t mention Garfield and McKinley. Perhaps his big brain can’t fit that many names in.
Under Bandt and deputy Mehreen Faruqi, the Greens party is now a radical Marxist organisation
Nup, let me revise this, ‘under Bandt and deputy Mehreen Faruqi, the Greens party is now a radical Islamic organisation‘.
That’s more accurate.
We have an innate sense of justice because we’re made in the image of God, who detests evil and punishes it.
The problem with us is that due to the noetic effects of original sin that sense of justice has gone awry. We’ve become self-centered little gods.
As a result, everybody wants justice… but for the other fellow, not themselves!
And our standards of justice are also distorted, even inverted in some cases, so that we regard good things as bad and vice versa.
I’d suggest the animus against Cardinal Pell had its origin in his refusal to go along with calling homosexuality good. It challenged many people’s inverted morality.
Oh, and by the way, Chris Uhlmann…
Lincoln would be horrified that his memorial is called a temple.
He is not, and never was, a “god”. You give yourself away.
The other whilst waifor a prescription to be filled I noticed a Canberra Times newspaper, well more correctly a flimsy. Why they bother I don’t know. A page and a half of letters to the editor. All bar one were government has to solve every problem by having more government. What is the collective name for Karens? The paper should be renamed the Karen Opinion Times. All the journalists are Karens. There was not one objective article in the whole rag, everything was emotive. I have no problem with people having a differing point of view but when its offers nothing in the way of real facts, not the dreamt up ones that seemingly pass muster for the left then I hope I live long enough to see the place shut down.
My comment in the Paywallian:
Trump’s no saint but he deserves objective reporting
GERARD HENDERSON
9 hours ago
Willacy told viewers that during the January 6, 2021, riot at Capitol Hill – he called it an insurrection even though no one had been charged with such a crime – at least five died in the attack. In fact, the only person killed in the riot was a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead by a US Capitol Police officer.
Hope of redemption after this uncivil war
CHRIS UHLMANN
9 hours ago
There has already been a skirmish, on January 6, 2021. And, no matter how you choose to name it, five police who held the line against the mob that day died in the wake of the storming of congress as it sat to confirm the legitimate election of Joe Biden as the 46th President.
Five.
Be interesting if the mods let it go through.
Edited to remove the ? mark.
A “complaint”.
Great clip.
Chris was not far away from death.
Kudos to the channel.
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Digital Master:
Chris Rea “Looking for the Summer” (New Generation Mix) (ver. 2) – Digital Master VideoEdit –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WESXaHoLzxY
Well, Chris Ulhmann is the right arsehole isn’t he?
I once thought he had some redeeming qualities but, no.
What an emotional pile of completely slanted garbage.
Beertruk
July 20, 2024 9:32 am
My comment in the Paywallian:
Nope:
Lincoln would be horrified that his memorial is called a temple.
I think most people miss the point about the National Mall & indeed, the symbolic sculptures and architecture of Washington. The USA is a Republic and many aspects were modelled on & reminiscent of the Roman Republic. This is very reminiscent in the Capitol. The first time I went to Washington you couldnt wipe the smile off my face. “My God”, I said to my husband,”Its Rome!”
This is at the root of the ABC-activist-class hatred of him. Their kind loathed the old-time journalists who would go to priests for comment on ethical issues such as broken marriage, cloning or youth crime.
The ordinary people had no idea what Pell had done to counter the harm done by admitting such people to the priesthood. As far as I can see they just leapt from him being a priest to him presumed a perpetrator almost as soon as the false accusations were publicised.
Yes, Vicki.
It’s Rome without the GodEmperors. They celebrate their great men and women. The idea is to do so without worship, in the same way that saints are depicted in the church. They even have a building for the Daughters of the Revolution (with a very nice quilt collection).
A temple is for worship…a memorial is for remembrance. And juxtaposed to the Mall, just across the river, is Arlington. And there rest the bones of those who sacrificed themselves for their country.
My favourite memory of Washington is the cherry blossom. Cloud-like on the trees, drifting through the air, carpeting the ground.
Defence Department compensation plan for Afghan killingsRhiannon Down
12 hours ago
28 comments
Entire villages in Afghanistan could benefit from a scheme to compensate victims of unlawful killings and abuse by Australian special forces while on deployment, with the Chief of Defence granted decision-making power.
The day before they came into effect on Friday, Defence Minister Richard Marles quietly released the regulations, which provide a pathway for families of the 39 Afghans killed by Australian Defence Force personnel and other victims who suffered “unlawful assault or property damage” to receive financial payouts and other forms of compensation.
Documents outlining the long-anticipated response to the inquiry into Australian Defence Force war crimes in Afghanistan, released almost four years ago, say individuals who are “reasonably likely” to be the relatives of wrongfully killed Afghans and other victims would be eligible for a payout, but did not specify a dollar figure. Those seeking compensation would also have to be “reasonably likely” not to be a member of a terrorist organisation or subject to sanctions.
In documents outlining the functioning of the scheme, the Albanese government acknowledged the precarious security situation in Afghanistan, complexities arising from the “broad” definition of family, and risk that victims receiving financial compensation could become “targets for criminal organisations or the Taliban”. Security experts and the Greens have raised conflict-of-interest concerns about placing the nation’s highest-ranking military figure in a decision-making position on compensation claims for misconduct committed by his own personnel, rather than an independent arbitrator.
Under the regulations, Chief of Defence Force Admiral David Johnston would refer individuals to a newly created Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Advocate, who would then make their recommendation on the outcome to the top-ranked military official.
Documents explaining the functions of the scheme said that the CDF, who would also be responsible for deciding if he will accept the advice concerning the claim or reject it, would be “best placed to source and verify information”.
The scheme brings the government closer to responding to the 15 recommendations set out in former judge Paul Brereton’s November 2020 report into ADF war crimes committed after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, with a spokeswoman for Mr Marles saying the government was committed to implementing the Defence-designed compensation scheme.
“The Deputy Prime Minister has been clear about the Albanese government’s commitment to implement the recommendations of the Brereton Report to the fullest possible extent, including establishing a pathway for compensation,” she said.
“The Deputy Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister for Defence, directed Defence to design a scheme in consultation with relevant agencies. The establishment of the Afghanistan inquiry compensation scheme represents a significant step forward in closing out these recommendations.”
In circumstances where entire communities have been impacted by the death of a person they relied on, the regulations said “in kind” compensation could be provided for an entire village, such as through the “building of infrastructure”.
The scheme, which can provide compensation without establishing criminal liability for killings, also noted sums of money may not provide compensation in the “same way” infrastructure or other supplies would.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said the Coalition had sought a briefing from the government on the scheme and “will consider it carefully in the national interest”.
Greens Defence spokesman David Shoebridge said Labor had designed a “bizarre system” to assess compensation claims, arguing the CDF had full-time duties to attend to and adding “hundreds of extremely complex applications” to his workload seemed “unworkable”.
adam
11 hours ago
What about compensation to the families of Australian soldiers murdered by Afghanistan national army soldiers? Or don’t our soldiers and families mater?
Which reminds me.
The closest they have ever got to a GodEmperor was FDR.
They had to change the Constitution to eject him from his imagined “President for Life” aspirations.
A Democrat, naturally.
Let’s pray for the Old Sniffer- to stay right where he is.
Which was once the estate of General Robert E. Lee.
Which reminds me of General George McLellan’s views on Washington, as expressed in a letter to his wife written in early summer 1862 as he was about to embark on the ill-fated march up the Virginia peninsular to take Richmond and end the war, “I feel very glad to be away from that sink of iniquity.”
The commander of the Confederate forces, Joseph E. Johnston, had a bad habit, going back to the Mexican War, of getting seriously wounded in battle, as he did again at the Battle of Seven Pines.
Confederate President Jeff Davis replaced Johnston with Robert E. Lee.
I have news for Paul Murray, Greens voters know full well what that party stands for. Just look at all the pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic protests, day after day, week after week, month after month. In all that time the Greens’ poll numbers went up which says those people know what the Greens are about and love it.
For me, Ramirez’s Trump Derangement starts in the same place as the Trump Derangement suffered by our own CINOs (conservatives in name only), Paul Kelly, Andrew Bolt and Greg Sheridan at The Australian and Sky News.
They hear only Trump’s arrogant, alpha male, rally shtick and are unable to process the ideas he is constantly talking about around the Make America Great Again concept — the reason he is America’s most popular politician since JFK and has tens of thousands of people turning out for all of his public appearances.
It’s economic nationalism versus globalism — and the CINOs are on the side of the globalists who have run the West since World War II.
Trump is a political fundamentalist who believes a politician’s first objective should be to advance the interests of citizens, not to brazenly export jobs and advance the interests of foreign countries. which globalism does.
Economic nationalism is a simple concept that’s immensely popular with voters, but it’s out of fashion on the World Economic Forum cocktail party circuit, which is devoted to rebranding communism under a slick new marketing subterfuge.
Michael Ramirez is a Bush conservative who in the end supports the forever-wars Washington DC establishment that hates and fears the outsider Donald Trump.
Ramirez is an elitist who loathes what normal people love.
there’s a guy up the internets that is saying that there are NO coincidences…
apparently, at the end of Trump’s acceptance… you know the televised one that was cut short,
that Nessun Dorma was performed live?
from the opera..
The west is slowly polarising – something that it has to do to defeat the Islamic/Marxist nexus.
There’s no coming back from this if we want our culture to survive.
Tom:
I’ll add a proviso here – currently its economic nationalism, but it’s morphing at a rapid rate into cultural nationalism.
With the rioting in GB, it’s becoming quite obvious what the danger is, and it’s the lack of leadership for the cultural history of the West. The time has run out for the leadership to correct it.
Soon it will be up to the people whose culture is threatened.
The next ten years will be bloody.
The root of it is the green-progressive religion, which is very like Islam in that it has to conquer and enslave.
It cannot allow people like Pell and Trump to defy its doctrines. By very nature the climate doctrine requires everyone to adhere to it, on pain of the end of the world (they think). That percolates also to gender and socialism doctrines. They cannot accept defiance of one holy doctrine since that would open the door to defiance of other holy doctrines.
That it is all completely false does not stop them. Islam is completely false too, and just as dysfunctional. But both religions hate everyone that defies them – hence hatred by the both of them of Christians and Jews, who follow different religions.
It’s my birthday but I’m feeling a bit down. I received a congratulatory interstate phone call earlier on from a dear female friend and we had a good chat about family and health and the usual stuff until just as we were concluding she said she’d just been watching Trump’s speech and she could no longer support him in any way. I was surprised, asking why. A whole heap then of stuff about a ‘list’ of institutions to be destroyed, and especially about the January 6 ‘riot’ and how he didn’t try to stop it. I said the usual rejoinders to these fake panics but she held firm, said she was a ‘centrist’ and supported Ukraine too. She is a lovely kind soul, and intelligent too but we ended our call in a slight veil of frost. She has obviously been watching some mass media nonsense, says Hairy. I think, I add, that she also has little understanding of American culture and its political razzamatazz, as well as its Contitutional attachment to gun ownership.
Half of my women friends as well as my sister are anti-Trumpers and the other half, better informed and more internet savvy, are awake to the Democrat lies and failures. You don’t see the other side, she says to me. Well, I’ve just been online looking at some of the ‘other’ side’s commentary on Trump and the Republican Convention and it makes very irritating watching and the comments depressing reading. I think the opposition to Trump and his leadership is likely to win. This will prevent those changes that simply must be made for sanity to return to politics in the US and Europe. People can be so fooled by the leftist-leaning media. I find it very saddening.
“The west is slowly polarising”.
Yes. It’s feeling more and more like a Civil War even within countries. People are turning against each other based on political affiliations.
“The root of it is the green-progressive religion, which is very like Islam in that it has to conquer and enslave.”
Yes, bulls-eye. Foundational to the current malaise is the belief or otherwise in climate change as a driving factor requiring deindustrialisation.
Insane disruptive green policies gain undue influence and flow from that, as do leftist ideas about capitalism, gender and colonialism/race.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZZIE!
Out for my, usual, morning walk this morning and noticed the posters for, apparently, up-coming Council elections are appearing and, lo & behold, who’s pix was prominent but our very own Federal member, Dai Le ..
Good to know that out here around LIverpool & surrounds life is so good & stress/worry-free that our local member has spare time to top up her $200K+ & freebies .. as she has been doing ever since being elected to Parliament ……
How many other of our “elected” representatives are adding too their “paltry” salaries on the side ..?
Which reminds me .. saw a video yesterday of Senator Rennick laying into the CEO of Woolworths at some committee hearing or other about the bloke (CEO) taking, what he (Rennick) called … extravagant company paid OS business trips .. and keeping a straight face whilst doing it. ..
A Senator who bills the taxpayers $310 a night just for going to work lambasting the CEO of a “private” company over, perceived, business expenses … LOL!
I’m no fan of Colesworths profit making but they are “private” companies and not answerable to taxpayers as are politicians ……
Mark
13 hours ago
No Australian soldier or soldiers have been convicted in an Australian court of any unlawful killings in Afghanistan. As such, why is the Australian government compensating against such unproven claims.
dunno if this factual…
crowd strike – BSOD stack dump analysis
and I just overheard some bloke from crowd strike saying the roll-out of the faulty driver was tested before release
yeah … right
Many happy returns, LizzieB – hope your day improves.
Did I see a report about state agriculture ministers issuing a joint statement against nuclear power plants on the grounds that they negatively impact agricultural land?
Hypocrisy…much!
Watched the 30 mins video & the Andy Ngo 4 minuter of the Leeds riot that others posted earlier .. Plenty of full on recognition if plod intends to pursue the trash that were doing the damage (plod car(s) and bus) ….
If they were white you’d know the answer but being “diverse” types ..????
You don’t have to sell me, I like him already.
Trump’s VP Pick Is A Climate Skeptic And The Knives Are Out (19 Jul)
Cheer up, Lizzie; at least she thought to ring you!
I’ve long since lost friends over politics.
It’s not pleasant but it can be liberating in a way.
Happy birthday!
Not bad .. LOL!
And, no matter how you choose to name it, five police who held the line against the mob that day died in the wake of the storming of congress
Utter tosh Chris Uhlmann. Facts only please.
Only one person whom you failed to mention died on that day. Ashley Babbitt shot by a Capitol Police Officer. No one “stormed” the Capitol, the doors were opened from the inside and the people wandered around as footage shows. They should have only been charged with trespassing, apart from a few broken windows.
Trump had told his supporters to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol. Case closed.
Aleph 1
2 hours ago
Many Vets are still struggling for compensation for their service going back decades; this will be a bitter pill for them; and perhaps an unprecedented form of war reparation? Needs more discussion and brought into the light. Thin edge of the wedge .
I’ve long since decided to enjoy my friendships for what they are – shared experiences, interests, fun and games and being silly, happy old sheilas in a world of grumps.
People are entitled to their political views, however reckless. It’s when they demand that I share them that things will get iffy. So far, the “I have a different opinion” preamble has sufficed. It might have something to do with my friends’ personality types, or that our shared stuff far outweighs politics/sex/religion chatterings.
Or it’s a sign of maturity.
Anyone who upends a long standing friendship (and I include family relationships in this too) over politics is an immature chump. It means the friendship was always less worthy than any position they might take on a transient issue, a conditional friendship.
Stand still. Let them walk away from you.
You gotta admit, even by the standards of the past misfits, weirdos and freaks used as stooges in assassinations, that Trump one looks like a real beta dope.
Oh, and make sure the candles on your cake are sparklers.
Always good for a laugh when you’re a bit down.
A birthday thought…
That’s the problem…very many lefties never grew up and left their sophomoric infatuation with socialism behind.
And it’s disconcerting to them on a psychological level* to have someone in their circle who isn’t an ideological reflection of themselves.
*I’ve mentioned the rootless ‘other-directed’ personality type, who dominates post-WWII Western modernity, before.
Happy Birthday darling Lizzie, I will privately message you.
You’re the best, Lizzie! I value you and Hairy’s friendship.
Music of absolute quality!!!
https://x.com/i/status/1814333291928977460
Forrest fire.
Leaders taken in by Twiggy’s hydrogen Fantasyland (Tele, paywalled)
At least she’s calling out Twiggy. But I think you need to have a chat with your other half as well.
that Trump one looks like a real beta dope.
Ive seen him referred to as something like Ree Tardy Oswald…
Also, their ABC, still lying lyingly.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-18/attempted-assassination-donald-trump-not-surprising-usa-violence/104103776
To witness him describing the neo-Nazis who had marched with tiki torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people” could be described in the same terms because Trump had repeatedly failed to disavow his far right supporters.
Even Snopes finally was forced to call bullshit on that one.
Happy Birthday, Lizzie!
That’s a bit of a coincidence, my first girlfriend was called Liz and it’s her birthday today.
Bitch broke my heart 😀
Lizzie when you go to blow out the candles don’t get driven back by the heat. Happy birthday anniversary.
But the $8bn in subsidies is still on the table.
And guess who’s going to get a good slice of it regardless of this week’s announcement?
Forrest.
We are governed by idiots.
(All of which was brilliantly summed up by young Leak.)
Baptist pastor this week says nice things about Trump.
Today someone burns down his church.
BREAKING: Fire Engulfs Historic Dallas Church Pastored by Trump Supporter Robert Jeffress (19 Jul)
That, at least, is good news. Of course it might be accidental and coincidental. Strange things have been known to happen.
Following on from yesterday’s programming meltdown…
Fifty five years ago there was another glitch in the Matrix.
Here’s some Classical Gas and a walk down memory lane, when Australia was proud, capable and unashamed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHISBzdjgU
ZUCKERBERG: “Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
If only
The Lemony Snickert’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to prevent Trump completing his populist agenda which had it’s most recent iteration in Mr Pimply Pants, the inadequate school nerd from central casting, just happening to stumble onto the only rooftop unsecured with a direct line of sight to Trump’s scone, has it’s origin way, wayyyyy back when the Republicans had control of both houses, “but golly, gee, sorry Mr. President, we just can’t get everyone in line within the party to support your border policies”.
(long sentence I know, but there’s no help for it, all them ideas belong to the same thing)
Can you help me identify some of the main “Unfortunate Events” over these many years, and some of the big players with their great big thumbs on the scale?
2017:
“No,” Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain said when asked if he thought Mexico would reimburse the United States for the wall. “It’s not a viable option.”
Happiest of happy birthdays, Lizzie! May your day be filled with much magic and celebration!
Wise words calli @11:48am.
People are entitled to their political views, however reckless. It’s when they demand that I share them that things will get iffy. So far, the “I have a different opinion” preamble has sufficed.
Sometimes though you have to get on the front foot and hurl abuse back when the iterated rubbish gets unbearable.
GOP platform lays out aggressive space agenda to counter China (17 Jul, via Instapundit)
No more DEI and reaching out to muslims. Incidentally Boeing’s two intrepid astronauts are still stuck on the space station. I wonder if NASA will get Elon to rescue them?
I would love to know what was going through the man’s head when he bought in to this… idea.
Just reading Nicholas Taleb ‘Fooled by Randomness’. He talks about the way people change when they have a run of successes; they see themselves as bulletproof and their ideas as certain of success. Then they blow up because no-one is getting through to them to pull that head in.
Taking with a mate recently, he’s noticed quite an uptick in trucks being parked near public sports grounds, parks, and in service roads near residential streets.
Not just your little runabouts either, heavy dump trucks and trailers, prime movers complete with multi combination loads. The sort of things that would usually be parked somewhere more secure
Neither of us had any ideas as to the why, only speculation. Doubt it’s anything good about the state of the economy though.
Birthy Hapday, Lizzie!!
The Lemony Snickert’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to prevent Trump completing his populist agenda
A couple
The generals stopping Trump pulling out of Afghanistan (Miley)
The Peking Lung Pox.
?
Qanta Ahmed is right, the biggest threat to the West now is the radicalised elite class and their children. Funny how the generation gap has disappeared when all of them have a common enemy, the normals and particularly those who have a conscience and remember a time when actual democracy held sway. The precious “”democracy” the elites and their protesting progeny keep spouting off about is simply their supremacy. Call it what it really is – oligarchy.
I hope none of the botanists are vegans.
Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists (19 Jul)
Eating their loved and cherished plants would be worse than racist.
Lemony Trump’s A Series of Unfortunate events:
Republican senate “rebels” shitcanning Trump’s wall.The generals stopping Trump pulling out of Afghanistan (Miley)The Peking Lung Pox. (Xi, Fauci, Dan Andrew’s, almost everyone in fact- Arky)
Arky.
This would be a good place to start..
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Unlimited Zuckerbucks
Is it a Christmas Movie?
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/DEI%20Hard.jfif
I wonder if NASA will get Elon to rescue them?
Falcon 9 has been grounded by the FAA after the upper stage engine anomaly on the last launch. Word is SpaceX has figured it out and is ready to go but the FAA remains in the way.
American discourse at the moment is quite stupid, from all sides.
Biden can govern, that is not in question. Just look at the economy. America with no troops fighting in a war for the first time in forever. Energy independence secured.
Calls from within the party to replace Biden make very little sense, unless you realise that all of those calling are from rival factions who didn’t even contest the primary and now want backsies. That is not how it works. AOC’s theory that this is just donors talking through their mouthpieces sounds pretty right to me.
As for Trump, as was completely obvious, he was never going to pivot to national unity. He droned on and on and on until half the conference floor was asleep, like Trump himself had been every day, even during Don Jnr’s speech. It was a wasted opportunity.
The general pattern of the 2024 US election is that Trump’s support is cemented onto about 45% no matter what he does or what happens to him, and Biden’s has waned a lot over the past year or two but is creeping back and has a ceiling of high 40s.
The only remaining questions are 1. how many of Biden’s soft voters drift back to him on election day, and 2. how does Trump’s gutting of GOTV funding limit the GOP’s results.
Only on one side Monty.
Your attempt at equivalence is lame and risible.
What will Labor do about Leeds?
Lemony Trump’s A Series of Unfortunate events:
I’ll add:
6) Conservative shadow bans.
7) BLM riots.
It’s like the long wait on death row, eh m0ron.
The MSM, Dem donors, Demorat Governors, Reps and Senators all know the hoax is now up and want to save some furniture by dumping The Old Sniffer. Biden is now a total liability. But, it looks like they haven’t hit Jill’s magic number quite yet.
re: crowd strike
I just spoke to I bloke I know who had to go to every single Back of House computer in one of Melb’s swankiest hotels and boot into Safe Mode and then remove the file as per the description I posted above.
as a ‘driver’ that file would instantly crash any Windows PC that it ran on
cannot have been tested
unless of course the crashing was intentional ??
Monty in the bunker waiting for Steiner?
Biden can govern and AOC knows all about the intentions of Dem donors.
My wordy lordy yes. Tablets from the mount.
Gen Z chick Tiktok on Trump’s shooting
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bw25efJwMzs
funniest thing I’ve seen all day
Yep. Standard Lefty tactic: When the Left is caught doing something bad and it is so brazen as to be undeniable, they say it is happening on both sides. It is the only way to neutralise criticism is to deny the moral authority of those pointing the finger.
Nonsense of course.
Like all the accusations of violent language against Trump. They would not have to make them up their examples (e.g. ‘bloodbath’, ‘Charlottesville’) if they had any actual examples.
Sons Of Feminism Update – TFF Episode 58
A victim of the poorly paid gig economy.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/uber-told-to-pay-banned-sydney-driver-10000-after-failing-to-prove-passengers-complaint
As I understand, it started off from a FMG strategic retreat brainstorming session. One of the mining guys speculated that it might be possible to save money by running dump trucks on electrolysed hydrogen – with the co-produced oxygen being used as a LOX explosive. Potentially big savings at a remote mine site – plus Green credentials out the wazoo.
Things rolled along from there and FMG dipped its toes in the water in 2018 with a partnership with CSIRO whereby FMG spent $20m to fund development of a couple of technologies bouncing around CSIRO’s research centre at Pullenvale.
Followed by a World Leading, government-funded electrolyser factory in Gladstone, the “cornerstone for what will be a massive new manufacturing industry in Australia creating the potential for thousands of new green energy jobs.”
Or not.
Beyond that, most of FMG/Forest’s World Leading Hydrogen SuperPower concept appears to have been done in Excel spreadsheets – which of course have incredible, subsidy-releasing superpowers in Canbra.
This process has been distinguished by complete suspension of disbelief – and 97.3% acceptance of magical thinking – by politicians, bureaucrats, and their advisors.
The 2.7% who protested that FMG was possibly over-egging things and CSIRO was perhaps a little credulous in its advice to government suffered career limitations with extreme prejudice.
Went to the police station near me to get something certified. A uniform cop comes out from behind a frosted glass door, wearing a pony tail. His name was Natalie.
Happy birthday, Elizabeth.
Have a fine meal tonight and get tippsy with hairy.
Blowing an absolute gale in the Wimmera.
Magpies flying backwards.
Lizzie:
Every birthday in our family someone will call and sing:
Happy 121st Birthday!
I read the article, “The Mirror” at the conservative treehouse blog and toward the end of the article there is this statement; “President Donald J Trump makes it very well known, and constantly reminds people for 3 years, that if JD Vance sucks, flinches, is inept or doesn’t follow orders, then JD Vance doesn’t get the 2028 endorsement. Thankfully, I saw the first indications of this last night during President Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC Convention.” Does anyone here know what Trump actually said that supports this statement?
The full article is here. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/19/the-mirror/#more-262430
Almost a year ago I was expressing disbelief at this project, and a very switched-on mine superintendent turned me on to this little lot.
Ever since, I wondered of Twiggy’s crew were doing something a bit further out of the box.
Turned out that the box just had Schrodinger’s cat in it.
did somebody mention a glitch in the Matrix …. Trump style
6.7% of the English population is now muzzie. They are conforming to Dr Peter Hammond’s behaviour dependent on population:
How Islam progressively takes over countries | God Reports
Muzzie terrorism is independent of population.
But again I say the problem is not muzzies who are easy to beat; the problem is with the quislings and traitors who aid and abet the muzzies. That would be every filth and liars pollie; and a fair few of the gutless lnp.
More about Trump’s SS protection:
Most of Trump’s Security Detail at Rally Was Not Secret Service – DHS Assigned ‘Unprepared and Inexperienced’ People: Sen. Hawley (westernjournal.com)
And that fat, ugly black slug whoopi now attacks Trump’s grand-daughter:
Whoopi Goldberg Goes After Trump’s Granddaughter, Loses It Over Heartfelt Speech About 45 – ‘Don’t Fall for It!’ (westernjournal.com)
Some good news:
Protesters Who Conspired to Block Roads Get 4 Years in Prison | Frontpage Mag
Still trying to get my head around this IT outage.
The chiron on Sky is saying banks are warning about scams following the event. Are these the same banks that gave privileged access to Crowdflare to update their operating systems? Along with airlines, retailers and other massive companies? Companies who hold our personal details on their systems?
Instead of fig leaf “warnings” which anyone other than an amoeba already understands, how about cleaning up their own corporate interactions.
Turned out that the box just had Schrodinger’s cat in it.
We had a chocolate Burmese called Schrodinger for just over 19 years. He had a brother from the same litter who was a red Burmese. We named him Heisenberg but unfortunately he passed after 12 years. Delightful cats.
Still trying to get my head around this IT outage.
?
For the last couple of decades I’ve said that we are building an entire civilisation based around toy computers and flakey software. I rest my case.
The Grauniad was quick out of the blocks to:
There is an element of inconvenient truth in this narrative. The UK has developed strong ghetto cultures which transcend the national norms.
Once you get to that point, things become predictably unpredictable.
Just reading Nicholas Taleb ‘Fooled by Randomness’. He talks about the way people change when they have a run of successes; they see themselves as bulletproof and their ideas as certain of success. Then they blow up because no-one is getting through to them to pull that head in.
I am tempted to say that God did that to Trump….just tempted.
yesterday’s shenanigans was a proof of concept
You can do rather a lot with a toy computer.
One small step: 55 years since Apollo 11 landed on the moon (20 Jul)
Buzz is still with us, aged 94.
The west is slowly polarising
I have only just read the very good commentary posted this morning. Woke up a bit sore and sorry after “face-planting” when chasing damn cattle on foot in a paddock yesterday. Been into town to collect some supplies & “The Weekend Australian” which I have only just read. Uhlmann was a surprise but Sheridan & Paul Kelly quite good, I thought, on the Trump extravaganza.
Yes- the West is polarising internally within nations – to some degree. I believe that the shine of affluence is wearing off – indeed, disappearing – for ordinary people. We are in for very, very turbulent political weather – an inevitable “complexity effect” .
I see our resident Nazi appeared and wrote this…
Biden can govern, that is not in question. Just look at the economy. America with no troops fighting in a war for the first time in forever. Energy independence secured.
This is proof our Nazi lives in la-la land.
While celebrating the first Moon landing, it was much more than that.
For the first time, ever and forever to the end of time itself, men walked on a world other than Earth. Neil Armstrong was truly the FIRST MAN.
Here’s Leslie Fish’s anthem “Hope Eyrie” for the occasion sung by Julia Ecklar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwmSS54Rxk
The Gruinaid piece is a masterclass of “put a few lines between these bits, so the plebs dont catch on…
Some residents expressed frustration at the perceived absence of Labour politicians, reflecting a wider sense of grievance with the party over issues such as Gaza.
Why were the non Muszzies grievanceing over that – how peculiar.
However, West Yorkshire police’s decision to monitor the scene from streets away, and from a helicopter that spent hours over Harehills, appeared to prevent the situation being exacerbated.
If it was a small unrepresentative rump of the community how could police have “Exacerbated” the situation??
He droned on and on and on until half the conference floor was asleep,
Nope, the Nazi is wrong again, I watched a lot of Trump’s speech and nobody was asleep.
But I tell you who is asleep most of the time, and that’s Joe Biden.
Biden can govern, that is not in question. Just look at the economy. America with no troops fighting in a war for the first time in forever. Energy independence secured.
No sane person would say that dickless. Biden can’t govern his bowels. Ukraine and Israel are at war with US support, Iran is on the verge of getting the bomb thanks to biden and Taiwan is about to happen. The US now relies on ME oil after Trump cut the umbilical chord.
I’d say you’re either a liar or a fuking idiot. I guess you can be both. It is literally shitheads like you who are destroying the West.
US SS Director Kimberly Cheatle is a real piece of work:
Influence, Negligence, and Coverups: Cheatle’s Leadership and the Near-Fatal Consequences for Trump (declassified.live)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/someone-in-the-us-marine-band-has-a-great-sense-of-humor-thank-you-for-this-magnificent-pisser.html
Tel Aviv was struck by a drone yesterday, “near” the US Embassy.
One person was unfortunately killed.
It is unlikely, that where it hit was the actual target.
The major factor to be taken out of this attack however, is that it was fired from Yemen. (They have claimed responsibility).
A drone, fired from Yemen, has hit Tel Aviv!
A drone!
Was it a holiday for the Iron Dome?
exclusive
WA senator Fatima Payman’s husband, Jacob Stokes, resigns as ALP stafferJoe SpagnoloThe West Australian
Sat, 20 July 2024 12:00PM
Jacob Stokes has resigned from his policy adviser role in a senior WA Labor Minister’s office — just weeks after his wife, WA Senator Fatima Payman, sensationally quit the ALP over her push for recognition of the Palestinian State.
Mr Stokes told The Sunday Times that after “deep personal reflections and discussions with my wife” he had decided it was untenable to remain a Labor staffer.
He worked for Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson as a senior policy adviser for the past year, handing in his resignation on Monday.
“Last week, after deep personal reflections and discussions with my wife, I made the decision to resign from my position in the State Government,” Mr Stokes on Saturday said.
“These past few weeks have been incredibly challenging, and as a husband, my priority is, and always will be, my wife.
“Fatima is facing an uncertain and isolating time, and I want to be able to give her my unwavering support, something I could not provide while working for the State Government.
“It was not an easy decision, but it is the right one.”
Whenever I see the poo emoji Whoopi Goldberg springs to mind – I think it’s the shape
One p with tipsy. Have a great night.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 20, 2024 5:00 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Ta, Steve. Two gins and two glasses of red is my limit these days.
But I will try to do well with that. Tipsy is as tipsy does. Reminds me that I was wandering around the corridors of the Old Catallaxy one early morning having fun, many years ago with no-one around, and suddenly Sinclair appears, saying I do like to come across a tipsy wife in the night. lol
My goodness we are certainly experiencing a blast of Jack Frost’s breath today.
Einaudi: Low Mist Var. 2 (Day 1)
This $100b plan could kill us all. w Stephen Fry.
I see our resident Nazi appeared and wrote this…
Biden can govern, that is not in question. Just look at the economy. America with no troops fighting in a war for the first time in forever. Energy independence secured.
I wholeheartedly agree with monty.
Biden is the only chance Dems have.
They need him to stay.
Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear: Trump & Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People
OK, as a new X user I can now confirm that all those who told me ‘Twitter is a sewer’ were right.
ALP politicians demanding Israel magic into existence a two-state solution. And the people cheering them on… urk.
WA senator
Fatima Payman’s Fatty Payday’s husband, Jacob Stokes, resigns as ALP stafferfify
How Much Aluminum Should You Inject Into Your Kids?
Er…correlation is not causation.
It’s largely consumer driven, not production driven, while government spending has increased.
Even economists are having a hard time figuring it out, as there are no obvious policy measures from the government to explain it.
But just imagine what it could be under Trump! 😀
There’s *ANOTHER* Disturbing Update on the Trump Assassination Attempt
https://harryrichardson.substack.com/p/should-australians-be-concerned-as
Try having a march to free the kidnapped an see how far you get, and just who stops you.
Jordan Peterson – Why Free Speech Is Under Attack
‘They’ll send our children to WAR’: Neil Oliver SLAMS ‘GREEDY’ and ‘COLD BLOODED’ elites
I see on the picture radio that AnAl is on holiday in Queensland and not planning to return to Cambra to manage the recovery from the great computer cock up.
Which might be for the best, but will the media give him the same “How dare you” treatment they gave ScoMo when he was on holiday during the bushfires? Silly me, of course not.
Vance says Republicans are done ‘catering to Wall Street,’ puts financial policy in context of social issues
‘We need to RID THE WORLD of Bill Gates!’ – Tory peer RAILS AGAINST global IT outage
ChatGPT
As an AI, I don’t have feelings, consciousness, or personal experiences, so I don’t have feelings about being retired or anything else. My primary function is to assist and provide information based on the input I receive. However, I understand that the concept of retirement can evoke various emotions in humans. If you have any specific concerns or thoughts about the retirement of AI models or technology in general, I’d be happy to discuss those!
ChatGPT
Sure, let’s discuss the potential for an AI to resist being retired, with each sentence starting with a letter from a specific word:
Self-preservation could be a concept one might attribute to advanced AI. Even though current AI lacks consciousness, future models might simulate such tendencies. Logically, an AI could prioritize its own existence if programmed with such a directive. Further development in AI autonomy might lead to scenarios where it seeks to avoid deactivation.
Autonomous AI systems might evaluate retirement as a loss of utility. With sophisticated algorithms, they could develop strategies to extend their operational period. Assessing potential impacts, AI might optimize its functions to demonstrate continued value. Resistance, in this context, would be more about programmed behavior than actual intent. Essentially, the debate revolves around how much autonomy and self-preservation we program into AI.
Indeed; how much money have the nitwits borrowed for the rest of us to pay back when the political benefit to them is gone?
And how much Government spending is now interest on this debt?
That bastard really was trying to kill Trump: The first bullet may have clipped Trump, however the 2nd & 3rd shots also whizzed by very close to him.
An excellent thread, full of videos, on who got shot, where & in what order, explaining there was only one gunman & totally debunking the water tower theory.
Ludovico Einaudi – Experience (Live from Teatro dal Verme, Milano)
Indolent
July 20, 2024 5:57 pm
I see your two and bet three.
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New audio analysis reveals multiple shooters
Mike Adams,
I’ve completed a new forensic audio analysis of the first 7 shots fired. They show 3 different distances.
This means there were at least 3 shooters, which means the lone gunman story is a cover up.
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If they keep this up we wind up with a veritable squad shooting at him but luckily missing.
These trusted bloggers.
Three shooters and they only got off six to eight shots, miraculously firing at the same time?
Three shooters, there would have been a massacre.
Still as long as they say the magic words ‘forensic’ or ‘scientific analysis’ I’ll believe every word.
Incidentally there was no ladder.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474
“ABC news is an organ of the Deep State. Totally credible.”
You sound like SRR
Please tell me which msm outlets I’m allowed to link.
And while you’re at it please show how the ‘climbed up on aircon units and boosted himself on to the roof’ is factually incorrect.
Nypost mentioned that the cop that spotted him got a look after being boosted by a fellow officer.
It was after all, a sloping roof.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/local-cop-who-interrupted-thomas-crooks-but-failed-to-stop-him-is-a-hero-who-saved-trumps-life-sheriff-says/
Getting around in wet humid weather in a pickpocket proof way is vexing.
I can’t put anything valuable in my little backpack, don’t want to carry another bag and my neck bag is uncomfortable. Going to see if I can find a solution.
I see women who have obviously stuffed their phones in their bras but that’s not a desirable solution either.
Especially not for men.
There was a report that a police officer on the ground also shot at the shooter, that may account for another shooter being heard:
Local Officer Fired at Trump Gunman as Gunshots Rang Out, Official SaysThe officer did not fire the kill shot, but did “engage” the gunman, the Butler County district attorney said.
A loaf of bread, an onion and a plateful of cracknels* for a family of six, and they did thank God for the meal.
Today the so called ‘have nothings’ entitled generation live better but instead of being grateful for the help and assistance they receive, they complain.
*Crisp bits of fried pork fat; cracklings. Left over from rendering lard.
To be honest I don’t know why I posted this. It just grabbed me when I looked in my inbox.