Open Thread – Mon 29 July 2024


The Thames Below London Bridge, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 1800s

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cohenite
July 30, 2024 2:51 pm

An appropriate counterpoint to the the trannie turd fest at the Olympics opening vomit:

16-Year-Old Athlete Defies Olympic Officials, Proclaims Truth About Jesus as She Wins Medal (westernjournal.com)

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 4:03 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Outstanding!!!

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 2:58 pm

I made the observation in a comment on the weekend that not even the Russians, at the height of Communism, mocked and ridiculed the slaughter of the Imperial family in that Ekaterinburg cellar. On that hideous night in July 1918, in that cold cellar, five innocent children were butchered, the young girls bludgeoned to death because the bullets didn’t work, they ricocheted off the girls due to the jewels sown into their undergarments, and so the soldiers used bayonets to hack the girls to death.

Nobody celebrated it, even Lenin was loathe to discuss it. Every country on the planet has historical events they would rather forget, or at least put into a basket of ‘it happened but let’s not discuss’. Most adults know this, celebrating and mocking Marie Antionette’s guillotining is both obscene and adolescent, but we live in adolescent times.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 3:08 pm

I understand the guards were recruited from The Ukraine because no Russian soldiers would do the deed. Certainly explains the hatred still showing today.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 3:20 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

The soldiers who murdered the Imperial family were a mixed bag, comprising not just Ukrainians but also Austrians and Hungarians, the latter being POWs who were recruited into the Red Army. one of the soldiers stationed in the Ipatiev House and who is thought to have participated in the murders was Imre Nagy, later Communist leader of Hungary, who led the Hungarian uprising in 1956, only to be hanged by the Russians.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 5:50 pm

OK, fair enough. I understood that the group who raped, murdered, and tortured the Imperial Family were Ukrainian, but as you say – a mixed bag.

cohenite
July 30, 2024 3:12 pm

Got my latest missive from Eraring concerning their fuking gigantic battery:

Eraring battery powering ahead – Energy Magazine

The useless thing will have a final capacity of 2100MWh and give no change out of $1 billion. Some quick calculations before we start stoning bureaucrats and pollies behind this monstrosity:

2100MWh = 2,100,000 kWh
Average house uses per day ~ 30 kWh
In NSW ~ 3,000,000 houses
They need ~ 90,000,000 kWh per day
Batteries lose ~ 50% of stored electricity in storage and release conversion processes, effective capacity of Eraring super battery is 1,050,000 kWh
To work out how long Eraring would power 3,000,000 homes needing 90,000,000 kWh per day: 90,000,000/1,050,000 = ~ 85. 24/85 = ~ 0.3 hours or 20 minutes.

So $1 billion for 20 minutes; for 24 hours = $1 billion X 3 X 24 = $72 billion

Houses are only 20% of NSW power use so to power the whole state = $72 billion X 5 = $360 billion

BUT, with all reliable fossils gone and no nuclear and wind and solar only working for 30% of the time, how are the batteries going to get power to store.

Jock
Jock
July 30, 2024 9:23 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The batteries are there ONLY to arbitrage volatility caused by renewables and the lack of dispatchable energy.

m0nty
m0nty
July 30, 2024 3:16 pm

It is peculiar that the French can have a sense of humour about Marie Antionette, but you frightbats get your petticoats in a bunch about it.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 3:17 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Nobody cares, Munted.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 3:22 pm
Reply to  m0nty

PISS OFF, NAZI.

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 4:05 pm
Reply to  m0nty

F**K off Gimp.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 30, 2024 3:21 pm

Are you lot still crying over a momentary image from a three-hour-long ceremony? 

Far from it.

I’m not religiously invested myself. For me the image is, fairly simply, children trying very, very hard to be avant-garde and shocking – but actually ending up writing ‘piss bum fart’ on the front door of the Louvre.

The abiding interest is in the gaslighting by the Paris2024 Committee and the subsequent cover up by the leftly-oriented, orchestrated around the Bart Simpson Defence.

Off the blocks, Paris2024 was out and proud, confirming that M. Jolly used Da Vinci’s Last Supper as his inspiration.

Once the screaming started, and the tragic ‘we’re sorry you’re offended’ apology bit the dust, it was instantly into ‘but you misunderstood, you ignorant peasant’ mode.

Which has been uncritically and enthusiastically picked up and magnified beyond any return by those for whom drag queens are the epitome of all that is good and sophisticated in 21stC life.

So no way back now.

And perhaps predictably, Blue Smurf ripples have entered the US Presidential election:

Biden, Harris called out by religiousgroup for staying silent on ‘insulting’Olympics Last Supper drag parody
So, quite a bit more interesting than “a momentary image”.

Iron Law: It’s always the cover up that really gets things going…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 30, 2024 3:22 pm

Dear Monty.
The opening ceremony was crap.
The UK tried to be crappiest with its pean to a health bureaucracy, but the frogs topped it with pedo smurf and the testicle tableau.

It was lame.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 4:47 pm

You flatter it.

calli
calli
July 30, 2024 3:35 pm

Nothing tickles the funny bones as much as the French Terror.

I can hardly wait for a reprise.

Perhaps they’ll do it as street mimes.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 3:54 pm
Reply to  calli

Nah. I want to hear bellowing of the elites “But it’s for your own good!” as they are dragged over the cobblestones to their doom.
The Spanish Inquisition.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 3:58 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Yes, I know the Spanish Inquisition and the Terror were two different events, but I don’t care.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 3:53 pm

Funny how Monty comes here with all the unoriginal social media talking points and thinks we don’t know.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 3:54 pm

Hey Nazi, overnight in Paris, at a game where an Israeli team was playing, Pallie Nazi supporters stood up in the stands and and screamed “Heil Hitler” and performed Nazi salutes whilst the Israeli national anthem was being played.

Any condemnation, Nazi? Oh, and since you’ve long said on these pages how much you ‘want to punch a Nazi’, well then, here’s your opportunity, get to it, go buy a plane ticket and head off to Paris. I wanna see you ‘punch a Nazi’.

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 4:08 pm

Cassie,
the Gimp has been masturbating to the footage since it aired.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 4:49 pm

And while he is in Europe, he could drop in at Malmo.

Or, since he is a gutless worm, perhaps not.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 3:54 pm

I saw the video of Trump addressing (evangelical?) Christians, it was not controversial, unless you are a gaslighting liar.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 4:50 pm
Reply to  Rosie

A good description of mUntyfa, but probably a bit understated.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 3:57 pm

And no mocking the victims of the terror isn’t ‘tres amusant’.
She was murdered, her young son was abused and murdered, as were thousands more innocent victims.

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JC
JC
July 30, 2024 4:07 pm

m0nty

July 30, 2024 3:16 pm

It is peculiar that the French can have a sense of humour about Marie Antionette, but you frightbats get your petticoats in a bunch about it.

It was a long time ago—230 years ago, in fact. But even so, what’s humorous about a woman having her head lopped off, brought on by an angry mob?

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 4:12 pm

Hey Cronkers

There was a dude who once did a docu about the Gerbil warming alarmist nonsense. We once spoke about him. He also wrote articles on the subject. I lost the link. His first name was Martin, but I forgot his last name, which I think sounded like “Ferguson,” but it’s not. Do you recall his correct name?

Bill P
Bill P
July 30, 2024 6:38 pm
Reply to  JC

It certainly wasn’t Marn Ferson

johanna
johanna
July 30, 2024 4:12 pm

Judy, 35, completed a Bachelor of Entertainment Management at the Australian Institute of Music

Having knocked around in the entertainment and hospitality industries in my younger days, they were industries where bright, hard-working people could get ahead irrespective of their formal qualifications. They learned by doing and being there.

I am trying to imagine the tour manager for Cold Chisel being confronted by a woke cat lady with a Bachelor of Entertainment Management. Disbelief would be the most polite reaction imaginable.

BTW, what does the Australian Institute of Music:

https://aim.edu.au/

have to do with real achievement in the music biz?

I’m not seeing a list of distinguished alumni here.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 4:15 pm

REX in trading halt… I have avoided them period since the propeller fell off one of their Saab bug smashers a few years back and a mate who works in aviation mentioned rumours of maintenance issues a la Mac Air back in the day.

They should have stayed to flying regional routes in NSW/Vic that the red roo & now defunct Virgin Regional ignored. Their forays into NQ I know were fruitless where Sunstate (aka Qantaslink) have the place sewn up with a few smaller airlines like Skytrans & Air North and only lasted as long as the Fed subsidies were in payment.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/speculation-mounts-over-future-of-rex-airlines-as-share-trading-halts/news-story/b9db0c6c6c0f4133ead1e55b8c440e22

Lysander
Lysander
July 30, 2024 4:16 pm

An interview in which he confirmed that his reference the other day to his voters not having to vote any more after November was to his explicit plan to abolish democracy and install fascist rule.

And what “mechanism” does a POTUS use to do this Munted?

None.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 4:53 pm
Reply to  Lysander

All a product of feverish leftard dreams of what they would like to do.

Want to see what leftards are planning? Look at what they accuse their opponents of doing.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2024 4:21 pm

Judy, 35, completed a Bachelor of Entertainment Management at the Australian Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales. Now, she works in insurance, and her debt is $115,000.

I haven’t had any contact with the Highah Edukashun sector this century (and I’d like to keep it that way) but the figure of $115k seems high to me.
Even if it has grown with CPI, most of the time since she left Uni has been fairly low inflation, so that doesn’t explain it.
Could it be that she has course-hopped between the ages of 18 and 26 (“pursuing mah passion”) and has racked up a higher than standard debt?
?

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 5:11 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Would also be a function of never having a job that met the repayment threshold. I recall I hit it a couple of years after leaving. ATO repayment rates were quite low I recall and appeared on your payslip and group certificate.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 30, 2024 5:26 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Another failed Econ 101 student. The costs were cheaper when she began as well. No doubt the second bit of paper had a lot of crossover credits.

cohenite
July 30, 2024 4:24 pm

There was a dude who once did a docu about the Gerbil warming alarmist nonsense. We once spoke about him. He also wrote articles on the subject. I lost the link. His first name was Martin, but I forgot his last name, which I think sounded like “Ferguson,” but it’s not. Do you recall his correct name?

Martin Durkin. This is his second movie:

Climate – the Movie (climatethemovie.net)

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 4:55 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Martin Durkin, M’arn Fer’son, easy to confuse.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 30, 2024 5:28 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Erkin Durkin is his brother

Bill P
Bill P
July 30, 2024 6:39 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Oh, snappo BJ

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 4:27 pm

I have no sympathy for the bint who racked up $115K for a mickey mouse degree but smell a rat. What other discipline did she rack up a sizeable debt with before switching?

That said HECS needs a massive overhaul. Needs to return to the one degree only and Postgrad at your expense model that I experienced. Lastly needs to be capped so these idiots can’t jump all over the place avoiding real life without consequence…

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 4:32 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales.

Oh, missed that but still the 2 together shouldn’t rack up $115K.

Barry
Barry
July 30, 2024 4:35 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Nah, just cut it back so only the top 10% get free degrees, then everyone else can pay, with employers permitted to pay for employees degrees, conditional on graduates working for them for 5 years. Just go back to the 60’s. That’s how we got a man on the moon.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 5:15 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Now the banks use it in calculating home loan eligibility the real life consequences are front and centre.

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 4:28 pm

Oh great. Many thanks. It was Martin Durkin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2024 4:31 pm

I got to wondering if a white South Africa hosted the Olympics and decided to do a little parody of Martin Luther King being offed by James Earl Ray during their opening ceremony.
Or perhaps a re-enactment of necklacing a Zulu?
It might not meet with universal acclaim.

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 4:32 pm

Here’s Durkin’s piece on the Nazi Greens in Quadrant. I read it years ago and it’s really good.

NAZI GREENS – An Inconvenient History
Martin Durkin

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Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 4:35 pm

Albo’s Big Housing Build* is c. 50% behind its 23/24 target while new build approvals are at their lowest level in 13 years, down 8.5% since last financial year.

*1.2 million dwellings in 5 years.

Seems the only state where private dwelling approvals went up is QLD.

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Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 5:37 pm
Reply to  Roger

Somehow, I suspect that the population Ponzi will not be cut back to match the already bad housing shortfall.

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 5:40 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Just for starters, we now have thousands of international students denied extended visas under Albanese’s “reforms” applying for asylum. It’ll take years to work through them all & in meantime granted they’re granted bridging visas a possibly Red Cross assistance with accommodation and living expenses courtesy the taxpayer.

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Rabz
July 30, 2024 5:03 pm

she is 35 and has a HECS debt of $115,000

Hello, Ozzie taxpayers!

pete of perth
pete of perth
July 30, 2024 5:26 pm
Reply to  Rabz

The degree mills should put a warning on some of their courses: The prospect of employment in the subject you have chosen is diddly squat.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 30, 2024 5:08 pm

I got to wondering if a white South Africa hosted the Olympics and decided to do a little parody of Martin Luther King being offed by James Earl Ray during their opening ceremony.

Given the international interest, I’m expecting the Brisbane Games to open with a humorous musical version of the Childers backpackers hostel fire.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 5:22 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Maybe a chorus line of Steve Irwin’s and a few stingrays. This is easy.

Arky
July 30, 2024 5:26 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Actual stingrays?
Are the Steve Irwins real croc hunters or drag versions?
These are the details that count.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 5:31 pm
Reply to  Arky

Smurf Steve Irwins or maybe furries?

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 5:31 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Speaking of which the memorial – the reconstructed Palace Hotel – is quite well done & is part of a main street of mostly heritage listed 19th C. buildings.

Worth a visit if anyone is in the Bundaberg region.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
July 30, 2024 9:29 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Words and music by T. Minchin?

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 30, 2024 5:11 pm

Have just boarded the Glacier Express, out of St Moritz to Zermatt. Eight hours but kills air travel, basically because a) you can move around a lot more, and b) great scenery.

I am coming to the conclusion that Switzerland is the Japan of Europe. Everything is clean, everything works on time and as it should, and the people all seem happy, co-operative and hard-working.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 10:29 am
Reply to  Top Ender

All true. Their banking sector rises above expectations for a small country too. lol

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 5:17 pm

Always keep an eye on the HELP cut off date. Unless you plan on being there at the end be gone before then.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 30, 2024 5:22 pm

m0nty: It is peculiar that the French can have a sense of humour about Marie Antionette, but you frightbats get your petticoats in a bunch about it.

The point being made – quite well I thought – was that wanton evil is to be condemned everywhere.

I was serving in the Coalition forces in Iraq in 2006 when Saddam was handed over the Iraqis for execution. It was accompanied by much derision and they botched it too.

I thought that was savagery at the time and do so now.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 5:28 pm

Or perhaps a re-enactment of necklacing a Zulu?

How about a re-enactment of the Belanglo State Forest murders?

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 5:38 pm

Speaking of Childers, the memorial for the backpackers – the reconstructed Palace Hotel – is quite well done & is part of a main street of mostly heritage listed 19th C. buildings.

Worth a visit if anyone is in the Bundaberg region.

bons
bons
July 30, 2024 6:17 pm
Reply to  Roger

Yes indeed. Childers is a little gem. There can be benefits from time passing towns by.

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 6:24 pm
Reply to  bons

Most definitely!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 6:29 pm
Reply to  Roger

I stayed there on a job I was doing near Paradise Dam. Hosts were very good at that stage.

Restaurant was very nice and I took on the kilo steak on last night there, too bad I didn’t elect to time it otherwise my name would have been on the honour board.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 30, 2024 6:31 pm
Reply to  Roger

Passed through on Sunday, but didn’t stop. Was too frustrated by the fact they closed the Bruce Highway for the annual Childers Festival !

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 6:49 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Next time!

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 5:41 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 6:30 pm
Reply to  Indolent

And the DNC talking points series ends up here, via the idiot mUntyfa.

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Crossie
Crossie
July 30, 2024 7:14 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Not surprised it’s Trey Gowdy, a swamp creature and a RINO.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 5:48 pm

You know, obviously the gays are incapable of behaving themselves within the strictures of decent society, so perhaps we need to bring back the Prevention of Unnatural Acts Legislation that we used to have?
It would be unfortunate if we finally got jack of the sneers, the lies, the treatment of our children, and the general shitty behaviour of this once pilloried group and made them behave themselves again.
Remember that ‘Islam is right about the homosexuals’.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 5:51 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

No

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 30, 2024 6:09 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

and male nurses

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 6:16 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

MiltonFL
Relevance of profession with sexual orientation is….
Rosie:
Yes.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 30, 2024 6:27 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Most male nurses are poofs

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 6:32 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Again, what’s the relevance of profession to sexual orientation?

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 30, 2024 6:16 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

The solution is the Hijra. They form colonies in India, bless weddings, and do all the over the top performance stuff.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 8:03 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Pre 80s position was fine. Largely ignored, didn’t thrust themselves down people’s throats (thanks Rex). Most people knew someone who went a little low in the leapfrog or a friend of Dorothy. Certainly not something to be celebrated.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 5:50 pm

I’m just disappointed they didn’t have The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence re-enacting the murders of the martyrdom of the Carmel of Compiègne, a great opportunity for some musical numbers as the sisters stood by the scaffold.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Compi%C3%A8gne

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 30, 2024 6:00 pm

Reposted for excellence, – Sal, earlier today responding to Arky:

Arky is this site’s clearest thinker;

This:

Paris Olympic opening ceremony 2024: headless singing Marie Antoinette.

I can’t wait for Cambodia or Rwanda to get the Olympics.

Singing pyramids of skulls? Synchronised machete swinging dancers?

Take that Sydney.

 and this:

Moscow 1980 missed the chance to showcase the murders of the Romanov children in musical theatre form.

First class.

Yep. In the words of Billy Birmingham/Richie Benaud – ‘That’s good. That’s pretty good.’

Last edited 5 months ago by Knuckle Dragger
Miltonf
Miltonf
July 30, 2024 6:11 pm

Dutton seems to get it which is good

Tom
Tom
July 30, 2024 6:14 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Milt, it’s a week-to-week proposition with Mr Potato Head. He keeps making mistakes, but then corrects them.

His trip to Israel this week is a political masterstroke

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 30, 2024 6:21 pm
Reply to  Tom

certainly is

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 7:58 pm
Reply to  Tom

Spud on the Voice def wasn’t leading from the front. As Tom notes, got there in the end, which is more than you could ever say for SloMo. Incremental improvement.

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 6:16 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

What Tom said.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 6:13 pm
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 6:18 pm

“Islam is right about gays and women”.
Discuss.

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 6:32 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Which Islam?

Outside the Quran there is no generally accepted authority.

I’ve no problem with that in itself, but it makes judging Islam difficult for outsiders.

Not least for Western liberal politicians overseeing mass immigration programs.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 6:26 pm

Society is capable of swinging from licentiousness to prurient. From one extreme to another.
Is that what we want? Or is a modicum of civil behaviour too much to ask?
Because at the moment, it appears to be so.

Last edited 5 months ago by BobtheBoozer
Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 30, 2024 6:38 pm

Brisbane Games opening ceremony could feature a youth crime gang stealing the torch and setting the stadium alight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 6:46 pm

No need to go that far – a youth gang hooning around the stadium in stolen cars.

Beertruk
July 30, 2024 8:16 pm

With ram raiding bottlos, the cars set on fire followed by indignee cultcha of VB corrobborees with the women being carted off to ER by the Ambos.

cohenite
July 30, 2024 6:38 pm
Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 6:45 pm

I’m just disappointed they didn’t have The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence re-enacting the murders of the martyrdom of the Carmel of Compiègne, a great opportunity for some musical numbers as the sisters stood by the scaffold.

Indeed, or a re-enactment of the massacres in the Vendee during the ‘Reign of Terror’, when over 200,000 men, women and children were massacred by revolutionary forces. The people of the Vendee had risen up to protest the oppression of the Catholic Church.

And it is wrong to think that France is now wholly secular. It isn’t. The Catholic Church is still strong in many parts of France, particularly in Brittany, in the south (such as Provence) and in areas like the Vendee.

In recent history, there has only been two revolutions worth any salt, one was the American Revolution and the other was the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which saw parliament take a supreme role. All other ‘revolutions’ have been demonic, with mass murder being the major feature.

Arky
July 30, 2024 6:50 pm

I’m not sure the idiots understand the forces they are playing with, not the reduction in the probability of their own survival should those forces be unleashed in a modern, technological society.

Roger
Roger
July 30, 2024 7:05 pm

Interesting that you should mention those two examples, Cassie, because there is a hypothesis currently under discussion in academe to the effect that that the American Revolution, contrary to popular conception, was not anti-monarch but anti-parliament because, in the context of colonial America, the parliament was usurping royal powers. Eight of the thirteen colonies were royal colonies and all were established by the king’s authority.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 30, 2024 8:46 pm
Reply to  Roger

The revolutionary massacre in the Vendee ought to count as the first genocide in modern history. But if course it doesn’t because the victims were only Catholics and therefore deserved it.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 30, 2024 6:47 pm

I believe it. If people think otherwise, that is fine.

@hangman1128

Biblical Tree Remains, The stump in the ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtpd5NHeTfA

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 30, 2024 6:47 pm

The headline (the Hun):

Fugutive gunman unarmed during fatal stand-off

Immediately followed by:

A fugitive gunman was holding an unloaded shotgun when he was killed by police following a two-day cross border manhunt, a court has heard.

Ohhh. So he wasn’t ‘armed’ then. Horrific.

Stanley Turvey, 33, took multiple innocent people, including a mother and her six-year-old son, hostage while on the run from police in September 2023.

And:

He was shot dead by the Special Operations Group (SOG) at a property in Ardmona, near Shepparton, on September 20 after coming at tactical officers with a double-barrelled sawn off shotgun.

An inquest into Turvey’s death by the Coroners Court of Victoria revealed his shotgun was not loaded at the time of his death.

Buy the ticket, ride the ride.

The court heard Turvey was then shot twice to the chest and once to the shoulder after he turned his shotgun in the direction of a SOG officer and a woman he knew as ‘Mumsie’, who was following a police order to move toward them.

Little dog takes on big dogs. Predictable.

The court heard Turvey had an extensive criminal history and had been charged 19 times with a total 115 offences for family violence, threats and assaults, robbery, drug, firearm and sexual offences.

His final term of imprisonment ended in Queensland in December 2022 after he was convicted of rape.

Also:

The family said Turvey would be remorseful to his victims if he was alive today.

Yeah righto. No loss.

Zatara
Zatara
July 30, 2024 7:19 pm

The family said Turvey would be remorseful to his victims if he was alive today.

Bet he’d like a do-over on that whole unloaded shotgun bit as well.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 8:07 pm

SOGGIES should be treated with respect.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 6:53 pm

Contemplate this, in the last few days….

In Kent, a British Soldier was stabbed.

In Manchester, two Muslim males attempted to disarm armed Police at Manchester Airport by attacking them.

In Liverpool, two children have been stabbed to death, six children are in a critical condition, and two adults are also in hospital with severe injuries.

Any patterns here?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 7:02 pm

I’m not sure I see a link, Cassie. Can you give us a clue?
(And I’m joking.)

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 7:22 pm

When the Gimp has finished masturbating, he will set up a Power Point display, including Venn diagrams.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
July 30, 2024 11:02 pm

Idiot foul mouthed socialists allowing people from 3 rd world countries do the work they mouth off about but don’t have the physical courage to do

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 6:55 pm

“Islam is right about gays and women”.

Islam isn’t right about anything.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 7:04 pm

It’s an old trope, Cassie – I agree with you.

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JC
JC
July 30, 2024 6:58 pm

Cassie of Sydney

July 30, 2024 6:53 pm

Contemplate this, in the last few days….

In Kent, a British Soldier was stabbed.

In Manchester, two Muslim males attempted to disarm armed Police at Manchester Airport by attacking them.

In Liverpool, two children have been stabbed to death, six children are in a critical condition, and two adults are also in hospital with severe injuries.

Any patterns here?

Has Tommy Robinson been arrested for inciting these atrocities.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 7:40 pm
Reply to  JC

No not for incitement, it’s for his documentary Silenced. Long & short the appearance of another cover up of bad behaviour by a refugee child that was played up as the victim.

Tommy will be in trouble because he recorded interviews without the knowledge of the people being interviewed mainly the teaching staff who were paid by their council hush money. Apparently libellous according to the Brit establishment. Here’s me thinking libel was a civil matter but that’s apparently what they are using to arrest him.

He brought this up in his one hour forty five min interview with Jordan Peterson in Canada that someone posted here and I got round to watching on the weekend.

Lysander
Lysander
July 30, 2024 7:07 pm

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24481092.radical-islamists-raise-3m-buy-scottish-island-new-homeland/

Coming to an island near you.

Oh, wait!?

A RADICAL religious group has raised more than £3 million to buy an entire Scottish island, with the aim to create a closed community which practices sharia law.

On Sunday, the Daily Mail reported that the London-based preacher Sheikh Yasser al-Habib and his followers were in “advanced talks” to purchase the island of Torsa, in Argyll.

The 271-acre Torsa island, which is roughly 20 miles south of Oban, is currently being marketed by Savills, which is inviting offers of over £1,500,000.

Al-Habib is the founder of the Mahdi Servants Union (MSU), which runs military-style training camps and the Fadak Shia Islam TV channel from a private compound in the village of Fulmer, South Buckinghamshire.

READ MORE: Fergus Ewing calls for probe into SNP activist jailed for sexual assault

The MSU has attacked multiple foreign embassies on religious grounds, including the Azerbaijani Embassy in August 2022, and the Saudi Arabian Embassy three months earlier.

Crossie
Crossie
July 30, 2024 7:25 pm
Reply to  Lysander

A RADICAL religious group has raised more than £3 million to buy an entire Scottish island, with the aim to create a closed community which practices sharia law.

Though they will still collect social security.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 10:14 am
Reply to  Lysander

Any island in the UK comes under sovereign territory and subject to sovereign law. They’d better stick to that.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 30, 2024 7:10 pm

You know, obviously the gays are incapable of behaving themselves within the strictures of decent society, so perhaps we need to bring back the Prevention of Unnatural Acts Legislation that we used to have?

My impression is that most homos are quiet and just want to be left alone, but there’s a proportion who are naturally flamboyant and want to flaunt their condition. Tolerating the second group does nothing to keep them quiet, it just encourages them to more extreme behaviour because they desperately want to be noticed. And this goes on until we get the olympics opening ceremony.
Like M0nty, they want attention and to annoy the straight majority. It’s all rather pathetic.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 7:23 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Mme Zulu worked with some not so terribly heterosexual men during her time in the workforce. She confirms what you say – the majority of gay men are in long term relationships, and “just want to be left alone” but there is a militant, younger generation who do want to flaunt their lifestyle.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 8:14 pm

I don’t mind the flaunting – a bit of colour is a good thing, but there’s far too much pushing the boundaries with no thought of the consequences beyond that of angering, and abusing the rest of society. When this behaviour is unrestrained society will clamp down.
So the point is that restraint will be enforced if the perpetrators of the unrestrained actions cannot/will not do it themselves.
And that’s the point I’m trying to get people to think about – do we just tolerate what the homosexual lobby did to the Olympic Games, or do we enforce civil behaviour on them?
The French Olympic Games went beyond good taste or even risqué conduct – it was in fact a Homosexual Hate Fest and tolerance goes both ways.
Sack the entire crew and make sure they stay sacked.

mem
mem
July 30, 2024 9:06 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

It is the managers/directors and Olympic Committee that should wear this enormous stuff up.There would have been an initial event concept, marketing plan and proposed budget. It would/should have been approved at a top level and monitored and reported on regularly.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 10:13 am

It’s when they want to impose this lifestyle, and that of gender changes, by indoctrinating children in schools and libraries that I start to object. Limited flamboyance in known places, no objection, and no objection to those who want to live together quietly. But keep the lifestyle options for adulthood. That there is this option should be news to anyone under sixteen, not pushed at them from all sides.

Zatara
Zatara
July 30, 2024 7:32 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

They are making a statement, and the statement isn’t really about their sexual choices.

Like trannies who get off on the shock value. Did you think they really like wearing high heels?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 30, 2024 8:16 pm
Reply to  Zatara

The statement – like so many that are made today – is about how much they hate us and hold our values in contempt.
Enough.
The sword of vengeance cuts both ways.

calli
calli
July 30, 2024 7:18 pm

Weirdo, blasphemous, fractured opening ceremony which ceremonialised nothing, 60% vegan menu for athletes, no air conditioning in the hot, humid Parisian summer, flag flown upside down, cauldron holding a fake flame, beds in the athletes’ village like rocks.

Just a thought…do they actually want the Olympics done and dusted permanently?

Nothing would surprise me about these nihilists.

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 7:26 pm
Reply to  calli

I don’t mind. The Olympics were finished for me when they allowed professionals to compete.

Crossie
Crossie
July 30, 2024 7:28 pm
Reply to  calli

Simple really, give the Games back to the Greeks and let them hold them from now on. It may be a financial plus for them collecting the funds while re-using the venues and stadia.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 30, 2024 8:27 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Indeed. Return the Olympics to their homeland. Just not building new facilities every four years will lift a huge burden.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 30, 2024 8:53 pm
Reply to  calli

Be a great opportunity for miles to withdraw… Our offer for a games people would want to see. The Paris games have been Heimanscheidted (sp? – the term is the marketing manager of bud lite) and the brand is worth nothing

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
July 30, 2024 11:05 pm
Reply to  calli

Commies hate the olympics- it requires effort and the individual to bring the best out of themselves

calli
calli
July 30, 2024 7:19 pm

Forgot one.

The Seine so chokkas with E-Coli that it’s unfit for training and events.

Zatara
Zatara
July 30, 2024 7:35 pm
Reply to  calli

How about presenting untrammeled opportunities to demonstrate Jew-hatred to an international audience?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 30, 2024 7:25 pm

Here we go!

—-

Clay Millican:

338 MPH !!! Top Fuel Dragster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y33yOS_X_g

Zatara
Zatara
July 30, 2024 7:28 pm

Fake News! WSJ CUTS Last Two Seconds of Trump Speech Video Clip and that Changed Everything

It’s crazy how removing a few seconds of video from a clip can totally make someone look like they plan to be an unhinged dictator. Such is the case with the two seconds removed from the end of this Trump clip from this weekend.

The clip that wasn’t linked to in an earlier post here for some reason…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 30, 2024 7:44 pm

Got told a joke today…

Why is cocaine white??

Because it works…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 30, 2024 7:52 pm

Tell you what:

There are a lot of people here in the Northern Territory who spend their lives carrying on about how the NT should become a State.

Taking aside the more obvious commentary response about relative GST percentages and the continual flow of Federal funding into the place, despite the NT being incredibly resource-rich, the actual retort is:

When you can get a pizza on a Tuesday evening, then you can be a State.

Not before.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 30, 2024 7:54 pm

Place should revert to a Territory run by a few pubic serpents in Canberra. No Senators, no Reps. Like Cantberra.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 8:14 pm

Surely old Boomers in caravans aren’t putting up with that?

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 30, 2024 8:04 pm

Has Tommy Robinson been arrested for inciting these atrocities.

Yep, he was arrested for terrorism. (that’s the official reason)
Real reason for his arrest: He organised a rally of tens of thousands of people, at which there was no violence, no littering, no disorder, no graffitti, no vandalism & no arrests.

Nor were there any Palestinian flags at his rally.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:50 am

Whatever happened to British justice?

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 8:05 pm

I’d like to go off-topic for a bit.
I want to give a shout-out to all good physiotherapists.
I have mentioned here that I have have had both my knees replaced.
Because the ex decided that was an excellent opportunity to replace me, I didn’t receive as much post-op physio as I should have.

A couple of months ago, I decided to go for a course of physio to see if I could improve my balance and flexibility. It has been four and a half years since the op. I fall over easily but, the main problem is getting back up again. I have had to call friends to give me a hoist. This can be a problem when your nearest neighbour is 3 kilometres away.

Anyway, the physiotherapist I visited told me that, she really didn’t believe she could do anything for me as it had been so long since the op.
I said that I would like to give it a go.

Three weeks in and both of us were surprised at how well it was going.

Anyway, long story short, yesterday I was taking the pups out for a walk and, the big boy literally yanked me off my feet. For the first time in almost ten years, I was able to get myself back on my feet in less than two minutes.
No outside help needed. Still rather stunned by it.

It has been eight weeks since I started with the physio and the improvement has been amazing.

I still use a stick when walking in the paddock and for steps or uneven ground, but I can finally see a time when I can go up and down steps again.

So don’t forget to thank your physiotherapist if you are fortunate enough to have a good one. 😀

damon
damon
July 30, 2024 8:39 pm
Reply to  Pogria

RU in Brisbane cos it sounds like we have similar problems, and I’d appreciate a suggestion.

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 9:21 pm
Reply to  damon

Damon,
my physio is in Goulburn, NSW.
Sorry mate.

I can tell you how she has been torturing me if you like. 😀

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 8:52 pm
Reply to  Pogria

The physio in this part of the Wild West has a very good reputation, indeed.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 30, 2024 9:18 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I think physio has improved in leaps and bounds since I was sort of involved in the early 80’s. Hubby had plantar fasciitis and after a year I got him to see a physio. He had his foot strapped, and repeated the strapping himself, and four weeks later was fine and has been ever since. We have a local physio business that has a big reputation (ie sees many sports people including Olympians). Rural southern NSW.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  Pogria

A good physio has kept my fractured coccyx pain at bay for Fiji (that, plus a big injection in the hospital), but sitting on those rubber Zodiac speedboats being bumped over the big waves means I’ll have to see her again soonest. I’m hoping another injection and physio will get us to our December Christmas in England. If necessary, I’ll have a spinal operation next year for it, but it’s too close to our next trip for that now.

Female physios also provide all sorts of emotional support. Mine is a pelvic specialist and she speaks to my whole undercarriage. Very helpful! Not at all embarrassing either.

Glad you have found a good one, Pogria, as there are some duds too.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:43 am

Hairy swears by the ladies who regularly treat his DVT and Cellulitis swollen feet. They put his legs into all sorts of constrictive stockings and gadgets, but it is all working well. Plus I follow their instructions to give the regular foot massage he requires.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:47 am
Reply to  Pogria

Pogria, I hope you always carry your mobile phone or some other contact system when you are on your own especially outdoors. No fun being immobile and unfound out in the paddocks. Confidence is great, but contingency planning is better.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2024 8:05 pm

Dr F earlier …

Given the international interest, I’m expecting the Brisbane Games to open with a humorous musical version of the Childers backpackers hostel fire.

Ewwww!
Poor taste.
How about … and don’t reject it out of hand … a giant Steve Irwin being skewered by a giant stingray?

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 8:16 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

That would be my choice. 😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2024 8:12 pm

Damn!
I see Bear beat me to the Steve Irwin vs Stingray re-enactment.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 30, 2024 8:25 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

You’re welcome to collaborate.

cohenite
July 30, 2024 8:17 pm
Arky
July 30, 2024 8:26 pm

I think if you are old enough to stab a bunch of people you are old enough to have your name in the news.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 30, 2024 8:27 pm

I’m expecting the Brisbane Games to open with a humorous musical version of the Childers backpackers hostel fire

Clive Plamer and his golf course dinosaurs marching in lockstep, flanked by the Big Banana alongside mannequins representing cyclone victims and various Sovereign Citizens playing Jimmy Barnes covers.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 30, 2024 8:44 pm

Could send some of our itinerant residents of Reid Park to bum smokes off the crowd in one instance then do a 180 deg spewing expletives in the other to give it that genuine regional Queensland feel…

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 30, 2024 8:56 pm

If Sydney hosts the games again we could have reenactments of the ‘parties’ at those ‘nightclubs’ in the ‘lifestyle’ precinct of Darlinghurst: Castellos and Porky’s.

For those who don’t know what I am referring to, those establishments were boy brothels serving a large network of poofter pedos who operated with impunity for years. The Wood royal commission in the 90s began to investigate them, but backed off when a witness said he saw prominent lawyers there. Most of those involved have never been charged. And the ABC, Fairfax and the political left couldn’t care less; they would crucify any surviving rent boys who tried to go to the police.

Cassie of Sydney
July 30, 2024 8:33 pm

I don’t want to live in a society where gays are thrown off buildings, where young girls who have relationships with the wrong type of men are murdered by their father and/or brothers for bringing dishonour to their families and their bodies buried in a pit in a backyard somewhere.

But nor do I want to live in a society where sinister creepy empowered minorities such as the LGBTQI+ brigade use government sanctioned platforms to dictate to us ordinary people, who take advantage of our ‘toleration’, where we are seeing children being groomed by ‘queer’ adults, where we are seeing children being medically butchered by Mengelian doctors in the name of the cult of ‘transgenderism’.

I want to live in a Judaic Christian society, where there is respect for civil law, where everyone is equal under the law. I am not a particularly nostalgic person but I can honestly say that I do not like this world I find myself living in today, in 2024.

Today, contemplating the ghastly news from Southport in the UK, I have been thinking long and hard about the disaster that is the ideology of multiculturalism, an ideology imposed on most of the West, nobody was asked. Hear this, whilst I don’t care about a person’s immutable characteristics such as the colour of their skin or the shape of their eyes, I do care about the culture they come from and let me tell you this, most military age males currently invading Western Europe, who come from shitholes like Afghanistan, Syria, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Bangladesh and so on will never assimilate in the West, rather they are in the West to destroy it and us, and in Southport overnight two young children, who’d gone to a Taylor Swift themed party, now lie dead because of this imposed pernicious and sinister ideology called ‘multiculturalism’.

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Louis Litt
Louis Litt
July 30, 2024 11:08 pm

Come to Adelaide – we had a premier who swung between both sides and allowed trannies and gay males abduct teenage males , drug them, rape then and murder them

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 8:42 pm

Cassie of Sydney

July 30, 2024 8:33 pm

Last night’s TV news reported an interesting court case. A young Afghani girl was forced by her mother (they were refs, the father was dead) to marry someone she objected to. The marriage didn’t work out, and as you do, he killed the wife.

He received a very long sentence, but interestingly, the mother was convicted (forget the charge) and received 3 years in jail. It happened in Melboiurne.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
July 30, 2024 8:45 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2024 8:47 pm

He received a very long sentence, but interestingly, the mother was convicted (forget the charge) and received 3 years in jail. It happened in Melboiurne.

And, I think, to be deported when the sentence is over.
Good.

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 8:49 pm

Yeah, that too, Sanchez.

I was really surprised by this.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 30, 2024 9:04 pm

And, I think, to be deported when the sentence is over.

Good.

Extremely good.

I read that piece – the mother was adamant she’d done nothing wrong, and another postbox in the court had a ‘medical event’ when the sentence was handed down, and wasted hours of valuable ambulance time as well.

Taking the piss, at every opportunity.

bons
bons
July 30, 2024 9:05 pm

Australian women olympic rowers coming out of camera last in series of events.

Hang on. Aussie rowers were always the teams to beat. What could have changed?

Nah, not Government funding and universities taking over of rowing. That wouldn’t be then problem.

Ancient Cats will recall the annual national excitement over the two great Easter amateur sporting events – Stawell Gift and the Kings Cup rowing.

When those same outstanding athletes competed internationally they won fame with no Government support. Apparently something called merit had some influence in those days. Australian people followed their exploits avidly. Nobody expected or wanted Government involvement in our sport.

A pal down the street was a significant ladies international tennis player in the pre-professional era. I often question her about the requirement for women athletes to fund and drag around a ‘chaperone’ when they competed overseas. She hated it but said that it was nowhere near as objectionable as the arrival of Tennis Australia.

She can now barely walk but remains a terrifying golf player.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 6:23 am
Reply to  bons

Government got involved, demanded control of the purse strings, and stuffed it up.
It happens every time and people still allow it to happen. What do they expect?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 9:12 pm

Courtroom drama as mum jailed for forcing daughter to marry her murdererBy Tara Cosoleto
Listen to this article
3 min
A mother has begged a judge not to jail her as she was sentenced to three years behind bars for forcing her 20-year-old daughter to marry her eventual murderer.
Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, cried and yelled in the Victorian County Court on Monday, telling the judge through an interpreter she hadn’t done anything wrong and could not accept her sentence.

She is the first person in Australia to be sentenced on the charge of causing a person to enter into a forced marriage since it became an offence in 2013.
One of her supporters collapsed in the courtroom as Jan was led out by corrections guards, with the woman later being taken to hospital in an ambulance.
Jan was found guilty of forcing her daughter Ruqia Haidari to marry Mohammad Ali Halimi in August 2019, after the 20-year-old’s first marriage ended in divorce.
Haidari was considered “bewa” by the Hazara community, meaning she had lost her value, so Jan arranged the second marriage to restore her family’s reputation.
Haidari told friends, teachers and driving instructors she did not want to marry the older man, wanting instead to focus on her studies.
The 20-year-old begged her mother to end the engagement but Jan told her, “no matter what, you need to listen to me, to your mother”.

Haidari and Halimi were married in Shepparton on August 201, 2019. The couple moved to Halimi’s home in Perth later that year.

He killed his young bride five months after their wedding and is serving a life prison term for murder.
Judge Fran Dalziel on Monday found while Jan clearly grieved her daughter’s death, she had shown no contrition for her offending.
“You abused your power as a mother – as the person (Ms Haidari) loved and respected,” the judge said.
“While you believed you were acting in her best interests, you were not in fact doing so.”
Jan blamed others for organising the marriage and said she didn’t know her daughter wanted to back out of the engagement, but the judge rejected her claims.
“Ms Haidari told you she did not want to get married. You told her it was not up to her,” she said.
Judge Dalziel accepted Jan had faced cultural expectations from the Hazara community, but said the law prevented her from considering those customs as a mitigating factor.
The judge noted Jan, who fled Afghanistan with her family, would face deportation if she was jailed for 12 months or more.
Judge Dalziel said the punishment needed to reflect the serious offending, regardless of potential deportation.
“It must be made clear to everyone in our country that forced marriage is against the law,” Judge Dalziel said.
Jan was jailed for three years, but will be released from custody on a recognisance order after 12 months.
Jan initially refused to sign the order, maintaining she could not accept it.
Once the judge had left the bench, Jan’s son Taqi Haidari said it was shameful his mother was being sent to prison after losing her daughter.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 6:25 am

Then Taqi needs to be pissed off back home himself.

bons
bons
July 30, 2024 9:20 pm

Ooops, I got the Stawell ‘amateur’ bit wrong.

But you know what I mean. Dontcha!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 9:25 pm

I don’t think I would have ever made a judge – I would have sentenced the mother of the murdered girl to ten years, hanging upside down, in chains, followed by another ten years, to set her back on her feet.

To be served on a diet of bread and water – the bread may be stale, but a gracious and benevolent system will allow you all the water you can drink.

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 9:32 pm

Did you know?

The FBI reports nationwide crime stats, and recently the Demons have been refuting the claim that crime is up during Hiden’s term.

Fun fact.

Reporting is voluntary, and only about half of the country reports to the FBI. The FBI makes an estimate for those municipalities that don’t report.

Fun fact

The Hiden administration has been claiming that illegal entry into the US is actually much lower than during Trump’s term in office. 

Fun fact
Refugee claims are accepted at face value, and therefore, the Hiden Administration doesn’t include refs as part of the illegal cohort.
 
 

Muddy
Muddy
July 30, 2024 9:34 pm

The Inside Story of the Hijacking of the British Parliament and the Manipulation of Muslim Public Opinion.
From the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

This questions – without answering, unfortunately – who or what has been funding the pro-‘Palestinian’ push in U.K. politics.

This is coming soon to Australia. When it does, the public emphasis must be on the intimation of foreign funding and influence; mysterious shadow figures seeking to manipulate Australian Muslims in an effort to foster division.

Rosie
Rosie
July 30, 2024 9:43 pm

Report from Cork.
Airbnb a little awkward. After complete silence since May when I politely mentioned to my host I would like to do a load of washing and have dinner at home there was fussing about her private spaces, even though the listing said there was kitchen and ‘shared spaces’.
I was a little put out and wondering whether I should bail to a nearby university student accommodation.
Anyhow she was in the office then home late so I had my Dunnes Stores microwave meal in peace and have yet to spot her.
I have wandered the streets this morning, mass at St Finbar’s ‘the oldest Catholic Church in Cork’ buildt 1766 just around the corner from the remnant tower of the Red Abbey, and the site of the first school opened by the founder of the Presentation Sisters in the mid 1700s, now handed over to the state as social housing.
I’ll go to the gaol this afternoon and catch the train to Cobh tomorrow, I want to visit the emigration museum. The tourist office lady told me there’s a cruise ship in and Cobh is buzzing but I’d kind of figured that from clumps of tourists in town.
Cork is an old fashioned cbd, department stories, baby wear shops, men’s wear and ladies fashion with 1960s mannequins in blonde wigs wearing shirtwaisters in the windows.
I’m having lunch out but not at the joint advertising Pride and Pints.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:23 am
Reply to  Rosie

Try the university accomm Rosie. We used it for a night once when we were stuck with booked-out hotels during the Edinburgh Tattoo. It was OK. Clean and safe, both benefits in what can be a rough town at that time.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 30, 2024 9:52 pm

Simone Biles is actually amazing.

JC
JC
July 30, 2024 10:03 pm

Have people noticed the Demons have been using the word “weird” when referring to Vance, Trump, and the GOP in general? They’ve particularly used it to describe Vance, though. Someone is saying this is coming from a professional adviser, and in the same way, Hillary was using the word “dark” against Trump. 

Apparently, young women use the word “weird” quite a lot, and it’s an attempt to influence them against Trump and Vance.

duncanm
duncanm
July 31, 2024 10:28 am
Reply to  JC
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2024 10:06 pm

Sliante to all you mob.

Madame Zulu is demanding a holiday to the Netherlands, as part of her bucket list, and I’m set on the whisky through Scotland…

Pogria
Pogria
July 30, 2024 10:14 pm

Excellent!

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 30, 2024 10:21 pm

Single malts beat clogs any day of the week.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 30, 2024 10:30 pm

Easy to do both – what’s the flight time, 1 hour? – and there are some good beers in Holland.

Or do Scotland first and bring along a supply of the wee dram for Flatland.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:19 am
Reply to  Top Ender

We’re currently looking at Hogmanay in Scotland, Zulu.

Maybe raise a glass with you there!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 6:31 am

Let her go to the Netherlands while you go to Scotland.
That was easy, tomorrow I’ll fix World Peace.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:23 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:24 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:17 am
Reply to  Indolent

Weird, JD? Nope. Kamala’s the weird one. That witches’ cackle for a start. Now the shape-shifting. lol.

Keep saying it out loud and on the media. Kamala’s the weird one. It’ll stick to her better than it can ever be said about Vance. Because she truly is weird. Strange. Cackles. Shape-shifts. Won’t look people in the eye.
Drifts into spells (word salads). Weird if you ask me.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 30, 2024 10:24 pm

Apparently, young women use the word “weird” quite a lot, and it’s an attempt to influence them against Trump and Vance.

Because in the recent past “Bitter & clinging” and “Deplorable” worked so well for them.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 7:35 am
Reply to  Indolent

Look her in the eye and y’all turn to stone.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:13 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

The ‘magic’ of Kamala. A witches brew of shape-shifting there.

Interested to hear that possibly Bolt started the shape-shifting meme, which is now being taken up in the US as an ideal descriptor for Kamala’s many policy contradictions, depending on her audience.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:26 pm
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:10 am
Reply to  Indolent

I have printed this off to show to friends.

Who exactly is it who is subverting democracy?
It is certainly not the Trump Republicans.

Arky
July 30, 2024 10:28 pm

Thinking “aloud” here.
Parts of the deep state might be preparing themselves to concede to the Trump agenda.
It has to occur to them that when he wins, especially if he has both houses, they’re out of runway, tried all options and now is time to save whatever might be left of their arses.
After all, most of MAGA is just what was considered normal a decade and a half ago.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 30, 2024 10:29 pm

Classic.

Men At Work • “Who Can It Be Now/Overkill/Down Under” • LIVE 1983 [Reelin’ In The Years Archive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMEzljVtA4

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:31 pm
Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 4:06 am
Reply to  Indolent

Anjem Choudary, the leader of the banned group al-Muhajiroun, has been jailed for life and may never leave prison alive.

Yeah. That’s what “jailed for life” means in English.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 4:12 am
Reply to  Indolent

Putting a bunch of uneducated/untrained thugs into scary costumes doesn’t make them any more dangerous.

Those particular ones would be dead in 10 minutes outside of an air conditioned van on the southern border in the summer.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 9:02 am
Reply to  Zatara

They look deadly enough to me, Zatara. I hope Trump calls in the army to patrol the border. It’s not any sort of civilian or policing job.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 8:58 am
Reply to  Indolent

Has it come to the stage now in the West when, as the Jewish people have had to do in recent times, all of our children’s events and schools must be protected by armed men doing what they do to protect the young innocents?

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:20 am

I’ve noticed that schools – both public and private – in the local metropolis (i.e. regional city) are erecting 2.1m high security fencing around their perimeters and electronic surveillance equipment.

I gather it’s now standard.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:33 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:34 pm
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 6:47 am
Reply to  Indolent

You can vote yourself into Socialism, but you always have to shoot your way out.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:35 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2024 7:09 am
Reply to  Indolent

So, if Kanmel Toe gets in, should there be a special prosecutor to investigate “Iran, Iran, Iran Gate”?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 8:54 am
Reply to  Indolent

A great opportunity missed to offer a brief historical intro to the creation of France, from Vercingetorix the Gaul right up to Clovis the first and very early Christian King, followed in the modern era by the French Revolution against monarchy (without demonising Marie Antoinette), the Free French in WW11 against Hitler, and the rise of Paris as the post-war fashion centre and exemplar of the good life of wine and food. Or elements thereof showing French patriotic pride in Liberty and Freedom.

Not the garbage that was served up instead.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 8:56 am

lol. I would have loved to see them do a piece showing Charles Martel fighting off the Islamic invaders. He is so revered by many even today in France.

Arky
July 30, 2024 10:45 pm

The idiots are more right than they know.
Trump is indeed weird.
From the old English wyrd:

In Anglo-Saxon literature, which Tolkien knew, the place of fate (wyrd) is central. Only occasionally is it suggested that efforts of the hero are determinative. Beowulf, most famously, gives himself up to the powers of wyrd before each battle, accepting as fate that the outcome has already been determined. The task of the hero, therefore, was to fight well, to earn a reputation as a great warrior.

Wyrd: fate, to turn into, to have supernatural power. The act of becoming.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 8:44 am
Reply to  Arky

Yep. Se Uhtred’s conflicts in Bernard Cornwell’s excellent books and TV Series “The Last Kingdom”. For Uhtred, ‘Destiny is All’, and his warrior ethos chases it to its finish. This ethos led conflict in Britain until the full Christianisation of Britain, by about the 9th or 10th century, but remnant elements still remained for centuries and still can be found in the traditions and culture. (See my theories published in Quadrant in 2018 on the Arthurian belief system – getting good readership and uptake of ideas still, on Academia.com )

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2024 8:47 am

Under new editorship I don’t think Quadrant has these sorts of interests any more.

Arky
July 31, 2024 12:05 pm

That’s unfortunate.
Their loss.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2024 10:52 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 30, 2024 10:53 pm
Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 30, 2024 11:10 pm

Today’s NYP cover.

Love it. Rig Tech. (You can’t hate these people enough)

MatrixTransform
July 30, 2024 11:16 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 31, 2024 1:58 am

God, I love this dog.

—-

His name is Cash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS3qRBa5wIo

Rosie
Rosie
July 31, 2024 3:55 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 4:04 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 5:01 am

Did the old perv threaten Mike Johnson or something?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2024 6:21 am

Newscorp:

The International Olympic Committee has condemned social media harassment of organisers and participants in the divisive Paris Olympic Games “Last Supper” segment of the opening ceremony.

Divisive?

I remember that for a couple of thousand years, it used to be spelled b-l-a-s-p-h-e-m-o-u-s.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 7:17 am

Knuckle Dragger:

I remember that for a couple of thousand years, it used to be spelled b-l-a-s-p-h-e-m-o-u-s.

And be followed by a quick burning at the stake. At least it stopped the overt Satanists from interfering in the Bible.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 31, 2024 3:59 pm

The GayBC, predictably, is oozing sympathy for the poor maligned ‘artists’.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2024 6:36 am

And in news this morning, a third child has died from stabbing wounds. As I suspected, all the little victims are girls.

The always articulate Mark Steyn has the best analysis of Southport’s massacre of little English girls attending a Taylor Swift themed party during the school holidays.

We all know human evil exists, in individuals and in ideologies. We just expect our various governments, bureaucrats and media to want to and to try to keep us safe. But these people are now so dogmatically twisted that they can’t or won’t even do that, and so three little girls lie dead.

Here is Steyn’s piece

https://www.steynonline.com/14495/the-management-of-murder

I see that PM Der Sturmer, visiting the Southport massacre site, has been heckled and booed. Good. And hear this, in an ideal world we would see not just the perpetrator of Southport’s massacre tried and then swinging from a tree but also those politicians and bureaucrats who’ve enabled this destruction of the West through mass immigration and multiculturalism. You see, I think it’s time we took up the left’s notion of ‘collective responsibility’.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 31, 2024 7:03 am

Steyn is very good as again. The authorities can’t even keep their story straight about the city of residence.

I screenshotted the perps name yesterday as I knew that would be the first thing to go, it certainly isn’t a name you’d expect from a lad in Cardiff or Lancashire.

The fact that there are leaks already doesn’t bode well for the British establishment. Same with Tommy’s doco silenced which tells me that the authorities think they can just cover these things up like Rotherham but those at the coal face have other ideas.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 12:36 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

One trained parent with a concealed carry sidearm and this would have never happened.

Wake up and smell the new world folks.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 7:45 am

If we have Collective Responsibility, then logically we must also have Collective Punishment.
I suggested that and was howled down.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2024 6:53 am

Less than two days ago, most of the media and Sleazy, the slug from Grayndler, the same slug who once shouted ‘smash her, smash her, smash her’ at a female Coalition MP, were sanctimoniously frothing and shouting for the Beetroot’s head.

But Dutton and Littleproud didn’t bite. Notice the difference between Dutton and his predecessors, particularly the unlamented Scumbag, who were always willing to throw their own to the enemy lions?

And now it’s gone quiet, because Dutton and co didn’t bite, they stood firm. The frenzied frothing nonsense has stopped. That’s how you deal with the left, you either stand up to them or you throw the slop back at them. Turning the other cheek or kowtowing to them has never worked and never will work.

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calli
calli
July 31, 2024 7:58 am

They didn’t think anyone would have the hide to unearth the Smash her! tape.

If they keep going, Dutton would have had some fun in Question Time.

I think he should still have a go over the issue. I want to see The Unbelievable’s prestige sails in tatters. He did, in effect, advocate violence against a woman. And not just any woman – a specific woman who sat opposite him.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 31, 2024 7:20 am

I’m so old that Susan Ley and Bridget McKenzie look sexy.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 31, 2024 7:32 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Definitely should go to Spesavers

Vicki
Vicki
July 31, 2024 7:46 am
Reply to  Diogenes

Nonsense. Both are attractive & healthy looking women, unlike some of the dragons on the other side .

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 7:48 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Looking at some photos of my grandsons on my wife’s phone. Wondered who the old bloke was in the pictures. Guess who?

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2024 7:25 am

And now, as I write, there are ‘violent clashes’ in Southport outside a mosque. The MSM are already stepping up, smearing the rioters as ‘far-right’.

How’s that ‘soshul coheshun’ going across the West?

By the way, there’s no soshul coheshun in Muslim countries, there’s simply forced ‘Muslim coheshun’, you submit or else.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 12:38 pm

From the “Independent”: Everything we know about Southport stabbing as three children killed

Subtitle within: Why did a far-right protest break out?

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 7:30 am

Acting Secret Service Director Deflects After He is Confronted About Sniper’s Email Warning Another Assassination Attempt Against Trump Could be Imminent https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/acting-secret-service-director-deflects-after-he-is/
There’s an interesting list of the positions he’s held – he’s a Democrat functionary in charge of security.
President Trump needs to sack the lot of them and have his own security detail. It can’t happen because of the legal issues, but it would at least put the spotlight on the Democrat corruption within.

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Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 12:41 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Cruz ate that poor bastard alive for trying to BS the Committee.

The SS guy was clearly shaking and screeching at one point.

Cruz for Attorney General (or head of DHS).

Beertruk
July 31, 2024 7:44 am

Dover,

The Paywallion:

?Crime-time drama stars ex-detainees
 
Rhiannon Down and Mohammad Alfares
10 hours ago

Waiting for approval.

Cheers
Regards

Beertruk

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 31, 2024 7:48 am

If that originally-from-Cardiff yoot was Organ Morgan, Plod would’ve made a speedy application to the Court to name him for the sake of soshul cohesion.
Right?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 7:58 am
Reply to  lotocoti

There’ll never be soshul cohesion with muzzies. They can’t even get along with themselves.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 7:53 am

After all, most of MAGA is just what was considered normal a decade and a half ago.

Yet Kamala’s supporters are soooo mainstream. Just ask these guys..

https://www.tiktok.com/@lexitmovement1/video/7397127696104312095

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 7:55 am

Hard push back is the only thing muzzies understand and they don’t like it. The muzzies ran riot around Sydney for years. It was only after the so called Cronulla Riots, which was in fact a protest about muzzie scumbaggery, did they pull their heads in. Time for it to happen again.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 9:10 am
Reply to  Indolent

People are getting pissed off. About time the political establishment was hauled over the coals by the people who built Great Britain.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 31, 2024 8:03 am

Breaking, Shock/Horror!!!
Racist comment made at football club.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 8:33 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Neks fing calling the ref a bald flog will be frowned upon.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:04 am
Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:05 am
lotocoti
lotocoti
July 31, 2024 8:07 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 8:36 am
Reply to  lotocoti

You don’t walk towards riot plod, you run at them. They don’t know what to do. Eff em.

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 8:08 am

Notice the media difference in wording when ‘white” folk react to Islamic violence .. Apparently, we “whities” isn’t capable of “mostly peaceful” rioting ..! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13690233/police-clash-southport-huge-crowds-protest-near-mosque-bricks-fireworks-thrown.html

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:08 am

Remember Biden with his half a dozen white rings on the lawn? It didn’t stop them from cheating their way into office. I don’t think Kamala has a prayer in even a halfway honest election but they’re sure to go all out again.

@joma_gc

Another incredibly embarrassing turnout for Kamala in Atlanta. Most sections of the arena are completely empty. Even worse is that most people showed up to see rapper Megan Thee Stallion. The honeymoon period didn’t last long.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 8:15 am
Reply to  Indolent

They might need smaller venues to make it look like a crowd.

Say, a broom cupboard.

Pogria
Pogria
July 31, 2024 8:14 am

Slovakia is leading the way. I hope many other Countries follow.
Slovakia has announced they will boycott the closing ceremonies. Bravo.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/30/slovakia-government-to-boycott-degenerate-olympic-closing-ceremony/

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 31, 2024 8:14 am

Of course only civilians would be hanging out with a Hezbollocks bigwig.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:17 am

@bennyjohnson

SAVAGE SENATOR KENNEDY:

KENNEDY: “Is there any doubt in your mind or in the collective mind of the FBI that President Trump was shot in the ear by a bullet fired by the assassin?”

FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR: “There is absolutely no doubt.”

KENNEDY: “It wasn’t a space laser?”

FBI: “No.”

KENNEDY: “It wasn’t a murder hornet?”

FBI: “Absolutely not.”

KENNEDY: “It wasn’t Sasquatch?”

FBI: “No, Senator.”

KENNEDY: “Glad we cleared that up.”

Pogria
Pogria
July 31, 2024 8:37 am
Reply to  Indolent

hah! I was about to link that. It’s great. I love Senator Kennedy. The southern drawl is an added bonus.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 1:28 pm
Reply to  Pogria

The southern drawl is an added bonus.

I can’t even read his lines in that transcript without hearing his Louisiana drawl in my head! 😀

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:19 am

Duh! We could use a few head knocked together on this subject here.

Head of grid watchdog warns that retiring coal and gas plants driving increased blackout risks

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 9:00 am
Reply to  Indolent

Who woodathort. That woodabean plan bee after plan eh of Unicorn farts and Pixie dust didn’t work even after we doubled down saying they wood. Maybe an Engineer should be running AEMO not an imagineer.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:24 am

Andrew Torba is the head of Gab

Andrew Torba
@BasedTorba

BREAKING: The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified “social media account” in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted “anti-immigrant and anti-semitic” content.

This is not consistent with Gab’s understanding of the shooter’s motives based on an Emergency Disclosure Request (“EDR”) we received from the FBI last week for the Gab account “EpicMicrowave” which, based on the content of that EDR, the FBI appeared to think belonged to Thomas Crooks.

Many, particularly regime media reporters, have doubted Gab’s claims that this request existed. Normally we don’t confirm the existence or content of law enforcement communications. In this instance we had to make an exception due to the overwhelming public interest in disclosure and transparency.

As a courtesy to law enforcement, we are not going to post the entire request. This is the first page of that request.

The story is this: the account for which data was requested was, UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden’s immigration policy.

To the best of Gab’s knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:32 am
Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:35 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2024 8:38 am

Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr killed in IDF strike on Beirut stronghold
Staff writers
47 minutes ago.
Updated 3 minutes ago
AFP
27 comments
The Israel Defence Forces have confirmed that Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the group’s stronghold in Beirut this morning (AEST).

Awaiting approval.
Why does the phrase “Good riddance” spring to mind?

Pogria
Pogria
July 31, 2024 8:48 am

Bloody Great News!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 9:03 am

Yah bloody hoo

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 9:31 am

That’s sad, too bad, nevermind. I’m sure a replacement will rise from the sewer.

Megan
Megan
July 31, 2024 10:32 am

One down. Plenty more to come. Keep it up Israel.

Chris
Chris
July 31, 2024 4:31 pm

Sorted?
Slotted.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2024 8:39 am
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 9:37 am
Reply to  Indolent

The issue is that the people have had enough, and want answers. The Government is refusing to give those answers and is treating the general public as extremists. The general public know damn well they are not extremists, but they have been pushed to violence to get heard.
Describing them as ‘far right’ is equivalent to petrol on a fire and it will get worse until the communist establishment wakes up to their danger.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 8:43 am

It’s turning into a rout now.

The EV Blues: German Car Parts Giant ZF Lays Off Thousands over Lousy Electric Vehicle Sales (30 Jul)

Dismal electric car sales have reportedly forced German car parts giant ZF Friedrichshafen AG to cut jobs. The layoffs are in response to “the changes in the mobility sector, particularly in the field of electromobility.”

“The number of employees in Germany is to be successively reduced by 11,000 to 14,000 from the current level of around 54,000 by 2028,” ZF announced, according to a report by France 24. …

Klein went on to cite strong competition from foreigners, cost pressures, and weak demand for electric vehicles as reasons why the company needed to restructure its electric motors division, France 24 reported. … Klein nonetheless claimed “the future belongs to electromobility,” and vowed to continue investing “heavily in this area.”

Investing “heavily” in products people don’t want seems like a really great way to go bankrupt. I wonder when ZF will go under?

alwaysright
alwaysright
July 31, 2024 8:46 am

joannenova.com.au/2024/07/electric-car-fiasco-on-the-brink-of-collapse/

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2024 8:47 am

Recaro car seats is now in administration.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 12:55 pm

As numbers of new recruits skyrocket….

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 8:57 am

On the Southport murders. Rumours abound about the killer – was he a lad from Cardiff or a Rwandan illegal?

The police statement favours the former. The local people appear to think otherwise.

Here’s a thought. How about the police stop obfuscating on these types of crimes and identify the perpetrators once statements are acquired? There were clearly enough witnesses to identify the man.

The spectre of Rotherham lies heavily on the people of the Midlands, and elsewhere. The police should try to restore public confidence, not suspicion. Otherwise events like the mosque riot will continue, giving even more grounds for accusations of “white supremacy” and the like.

Perhaps that’s how they want it.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:14 am
Reply to  calli

Wasn’t there a similar case recently where the offender was initially portrayed as a lad from a Welsh town but when locals were interviewed they described an anti-social loner from a refugee family who had never worked or assimilated?

Perhaps it’s already been consigned to the forgettery.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 31, 2024 2:04 pm
Reply to  calli

Give you a hint Cali, perps name had Ali & Al in it and I’ll leave it there for Dovers sake. As for me I don’t care, despite some minor English ancestry I no longer have any wish to visit the UK.

BTW Rwanda has a mussie population of 2%. So given that I still don’t think with what is out we are getting anywhere near the full story.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 31, 2024 9:03 am

You can imagine how excited those little girls were to be going to a Taylor Swift dance party. The mums would have been thinking this is such a great thing and revel in the joy of their girls.
The British men are out on the street because they know this creature chose that event to inflict maximum suffering on a community and society.
The Peelers came from the community in order to protect the streets from criminals preying on the average family. The UK police hierarchy are now little more than managers, the protecting role has been relegated to the past and so the protectors are rising back up from the streets.
The UK voted for another lawyer when a warrior is needed.

Pogria
Pogria
July 31, 2024 10:02 am
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Unfortunately, there were no warriors with their hands up.
A decent, honourable man of courage would be torn apart in those Augean Stables.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 9:03 am

Some good news.

Air New Zealand Scraps Promises to Cut Carbon Emissions by 2030 (30 Jul)

Too hard and too costly. That sums up the reason Air New Zealand has abandoned a goal to cut its carbon emissions by 2030, blaming a range of difficulties Tuesday for the decision.

Delivery delays of fuel-efficient aircraft and the affordability of alternative jet fuels were the two key factors in the surprise move.

The move makes it the first major carrier to back away from such a climate target, the BBC reports.

I’d think the recent election has something to do with it also. Air NZ wouldn’t have dared to announce this under a Labour government, but it is politically feasible with the new right-wing one.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:47 am

Likely, but a loose coalition of non-Labour parties does not make a right-wing government.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 9:49 am

NZ PM Christopher Luxon is a former CEO of Air New Zealand.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 9:09 am

Da bruvvas ensuring Tony Burqa is well rewarded for his efforts. Will the Mo Bros be so generous?

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:51 am
Reply to  H B Bear

I would expect that Burke’s security detail has already been revised and increased.

Maybe that will give him pause to ponder the wisdom of importing a ME vote herd.

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Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:09 am

Further to yesterday’s news that the Albanese misgovernment is 50% behind its domestic dwelling build target (1.2 million dwellings in 5 years) and that all states except QLD experienced a decline in new dwelling approvals in 23/24:

New minister has a huge job fixing our housing crisis

Robert Gottliebsen The Australian 30 July, 2024

The new government housing minister, Clare O’Neil, is a Harvard educated, Fulbright scholar with experience at McKinsey.* The housing crisis she faces was, in the main, created by well-meaning but foolish state and federal politicians (both parties) so it can’t be solved by bizarre building quotas that current politicians set themselves without addressing the underlying problems their predecessors helped create.

O’Neil had a bruising experience in Home Affairs, and she will need to apply the lessons learned to at least make a start on sorting out the housing mess.

My commentary will address helping those who in previous years would have been able to buy or rent a dwelling in their current occupations.

Chronic homelessness has always been with us but has been made much greater by political mistakes.

In particular, we allowed our education system to produce much greater numbers of people who could not read or write properly. The worst affected by the bad education policies were males. This now contributes to family violence. There are clear signs from the Australian, NSW and Victorian governments that their education ministers are prepared to accept the political blows required to rectify the past mistakes.

There are two broad aspects to the housing problem – creating an increased supply and enabling ordinary Australians to buy a dwelling or rent if they prefer.

The two biggest factors inhibiting supply are state government policies and skills shortages.

On the government policy front, local communities do not want development and their local councillors reflect this view.

State politicians respond by creating vast bureaucracies and bodies that can be used to delay developments for years, so boosting the cost and restricting the supply.

By far the worst state is NSW and this supply constraint becomes a major contributor to the escalating prices of NSW dwellings which homeowners like.

The best areas are Brisbane and theGold Coastwhere local councillors rarely get involved in approvals and there are clear rules for speedy approvals or rejections.

All the other states are somewhere in between the extremes of greater Sydney and the smoother process in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.

It won’t be easy, but the job of O’Neil in Canberra is to use the carrot and stick to bring NSW, and to a lesser extent the other states, as close to the Queensland system as possible. The first step is to recognise the problem.

The second supply area is, of course, the skills shortages.

Victoria is spraying countless billions at a rail project that will benefit very few people, but absorbs the skills required in housing.

Solving the Victorian skills shortage will require stopping that project, but sadly, O’Neil’s electorate maybe one of the very limited areas that gain benefit.

In the skills area obviously better education is required but so is migration and builders complain that it’s very hard to get building skills through the migration morass.

When it comes to enabling people to buy dwellings (or rent if they prefer) I recently had a conversation with a group of young Brisbane teachers who bemoaned the fact that they had chosen the teaching profession because it now meant they would never be able to buy a house in an area where they chose to live.

Those conversations could be held with many other professions that are important to the community. O’Neill needs to have those conversations directly and not rely on the bureaucratic apparatuses.

The first area of the “buying a dwelling” problem is that banks are not allowed to lend to our teachers unless their parents help. The minister needs to talk with the CEOs of major and smaller banks because they all have ideas as to how to solve that problem. Out of those ideas, the minister can set up a solution matrix.

Part of that solution will be the situation with apartment developments, where banks have required builder/developers to sell apartments off the plan before lending. This is a recipe to send developers broke because the fixed prices at which they sell can be far too low when costs are rising.

Similarly, home loans require a fixed building price, which again sends builders broke.

We know there will be flack from banking regulators, but it requires a strong, Fulbright scholar housing minister to devise a solution from the ideas that are swirling around the banking area.

There is capital available from overseas institutions and perhaps local superannuation funds for rental accommodation. That will help along with government capital.

But Australia had a wonderful system of community members buying houses and renting them. That’s being killed off by state rules that are too generous to tenants and, in the case of Victoria, enormous taxes. And regular threats to end negative gearing don’t help.

There are many aid programs for first home buyers which need to be rationalised and turned into long-term solutions.

Part of the long-term solution will also be to recognise that the best retirement asset is owning a dwelling, and superannuation should be harnessed to help this process.

That is not politically possible for the ALP because of its close links with the unions, who greatly influence the trustees of superannuation funds.

In time, the Coalition will come to government and that must be their first priority in the housing sector.

It is sad that the trustees of superannuation funds have not woken up to the change in the society.

Longer term, O’Neil needs to begin the process of showing the superannuation funds how the game has changed, and their old fashion ideas actually endanger superannuation.

In the meantime, there is plenty for O’Neil to do.

*These qualifications may be bugs, not features – Roger.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 10:01 am
Reply to  Roger

Too right Roger. I have zero confidence in O’Neil. Rubbish gubmint.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 9:09 am

In Priority Enrichment news:

Muslim leaders put ‘fair deal for Palestinian refugees’ onus on new minister Tony Burke
[Unlinkable OZ]

Muslim leaders have urged new Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke to ensure a “fair and consistent process” for refugees, ensuring as many Palestinians can be resettled “as a ­priority” and potential pathways if conditions worsen in southern Lebanon.

Welcoming the appointment were three peak Muslim bodies: the Australian Nat­ional Imams Council, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, and Lebanese Muslim Association. They said Mr Burke had longstanding ties to its leaders and bodies, and knew the community importance of improving the visa process, particularly given the many Muslim residents in his electorate.

Nice electorate you’ve got there…

Fortunately, Mr Burke is made of sterner stuff:

Mr Burke rubbished suggestions from the opposition that he would rubberstamp visas for Palestinians to firm up his western Sydney electorate in the face of The Muslim Vote campaign, adding he would “never hesitate” to reject visas.

Strange that Albanese should appoint such a process-driven hard-arse to this sensitive portfolio.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 9:14 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Tony Burqa, Minister for Muzzie Immigration. 30 minute security check R Us.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 9:31 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Fortunately, Mr Burke is made of sterner stuff:

Ya reckon? Wanna buy a bridge?

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 11:53 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

What about the Israeli refugees?

Going to “ensure as many Palestinians Israelis can be resettled “as a ­priority” and potential pathways if conditions worsen in southern Lebanon northern Israel”?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 9:11 am

Someone must have phone video or pictures of the stabber. Its hard these days not to. Government and plod as well as security services are not to be trusted.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2024 9:12 am

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/telling.html

This bloke goes to a Trump event, wearing a Biden Harris shirt, and a Harris event, wearing a Trump shirt. The difference in the way he is treated, is interesting, to say the least.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 9:21 am

This story complements the UK news.

North African Crime-Rate Explodes In Germany (30 Jul)

..rape up 169% and murder up 110% in 4 years…

Made worse I suspect by police taking a softly-softly approach to the problem since the German government is far-lefty.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 9:33 am

Germans already had a sizeable Turkish underclass before Mutti Merkel opened the floodgates.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2024 9:49 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Turks were encouraged to migrate to Germany, for the same reason Algerians were encouraged to migrate to France – cheap labor for industry.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2024 10:10 am

Turks began arriving in Germany in 1961.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 31, 2024 3:01 pm

I recall leaving a youth hostel very early one morning in 1975 and outside there was a group of women all burka’d up, sweeping the streets. Not sure what city, maybe Munich. Figured they were Turkish.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 11:56 am

Never an Afrika Korps around when the fatherland needs one anymore.

Gabor
Gabor
July 31, 2024 9:31 am

Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 8:43 am

The EV Blues: German Car Parts Giant ZF Lays Off Thousands over Lousy Electric Vehicle Sales (30 Jul)

Investing “heavily” in products people don’t want seems like a really great way to go bankrupt. I wonder when ZF will go under?

Isn’t the market supposed to take care of that?
No sales, no profit, shut it down unless there is money in the kitty and hope for recovery.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 9:49 am
Reply to  Gabor

The German government is literally Green, since the Greens are in coalition with the socialists and a Green is the environment minister. They have passed the usual laws to force uptake of EVs. Unfortunately for them no one much wants them, sales of the things collapsed by 30% since last year. Eventually something is going to break this impasse.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 11:57 am
Reply to  Gabor

Isn’t the market supposed to take care of that?

Yep, but it’s not a functioning market when government is picking the winners.

Rabz
July 31, 2024 9:33 am

Anyone who thinks that staggeringly stupid labore slag shifted into the “housing” portfolio can rectify the nationwide shortage of housing is even an even bigger imbecile than she is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 9:37 am
Reply to  Rabz

Albo isn’t blessed with talent. Something he has struggled with since Uni. Now he’s surrounded by it.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  Rabz

Gottliebsen has helpfully outlined the agenda for her.

You think she can’t follow it?

It’d be laughable if it weren’t so serious.

Gabor
Gabor
July 31, 2024 9:34 am

Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 9:21 am

This story complements the UK news.

North African Crime-Rate Explodes In Germany (30 Jul)

..rape up 169% and murder up 110% in 4 years…

Made worse I suspect by police taking a softly-softly approach to the problem since the German government is far-lefty.

I think the allies made a terrible mistake after WWII.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 9:44 am
Reply to  Gabor

I think the allies made a terrible mistake after WWII.

Can you expand on that, Gabor?

alwaysright
alwaysright
July 31, 2024 11:40 am
Reply to  Gabor

After the successful Hiroshima bomb:
The Los Alamos people cheered when a speaker said that it was unfortunate that they didn’t finish the bomb quickly enough so that a bomb or two could be dropped on Germany.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 9:43 am

These qualifications may be bugs, not features – Roger.

O’Neal wouldn’t know how to fix a leaking tap.

B-Ark material.

They needed someone with industry nous, not an overedumacated bimbo. Good luck with those targets ma’am!

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2024 11:12 am
Reply to  calli

Modem leftard parties are all credentialed (but not educated) “Bimbos r us”, and that includes the nominally male members.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 9:59 am

They needed someone with industry nous…

Mmm…when was the last time a builder found himself in a Labor ministry?

I say “he” because it must surely predate the advent of the first female Labor minister in 1983.

Be that as it may, you would have to think that if O’Neil stuffs this one up her political career is over.

After all, a bright girl like her wouldn’t be content with the backbench.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 12:13 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger:

Mmm…when was the last time a builder found himself in a Labor ministry?

When there was a leaking tap in the gents.

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 1:36 pm
Reply to  Roger

Why would her career be over ..? Take the ‘turtle” he’s never had a portfolio he hasn’t stuffed yet always getz another …. and then the mediocrity, burqa, ends up wth 5 at once ……. FFS!

Gabor
Gabor
July 31, 2024 10:01 am

BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 9:44 am

I think the allies made a terrible mistake after WWII.

Can you expand on that, Gabor?

I thought it was clear.

Given the Germans’ past history, why spend all that money and political good will to help them not only to rebuild but become a semi superpower.

There was no need for it even taking account of the Soviet threat.
Which as it turned out was mostly bluff anyway.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 10:12 am

Given the Germans’ past history, why spend all that money and political good will to help them not only to rebuild but become a semi superpower.

Germany has been western Europe’s chief geo-political problem since unification.

Better to have them inside the tent…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 11:01 am
Reply to  Roger

Read Marcus Woolfe book Roger. He was head spy for East Germany. I have no reason to believe he was lying in it. When they were trying for reunification he was overruled and Willy Brandt was thrown out after Gunter Guillaume, a close aide, was exposed as a Stasi agent by the East German political head of the Stasi to score points in internal political battles he was having. Guillaume knew Brandt was not a Nazi like so many still were in West German politics.

kneel
kneel
July 31, 2024 10:14 am

M0nty:”Last time he wasn’t a convicted felon…”

It’s sounds like a niggle, but actually he’s STILL NOT a convicted felon. No judgement from the bench as yet, just a jury verdict. He’s not convicted until the sentencing when the judge says “You’ve been found guilty…”. Which may or may not happen – he may declare a mis-trial due to SCOTUS arguments re: evidence in that case. (He should, but will he?)

And you’re VERY wrong – Trump has a great sense of humor. Look how badly he lives in the heads of the establishment gronks. Even when you explain he is using his “art of the deal” processes to get what he wants, it’s always “the end of the world/democracy/freedom/whatever” when he states a starting position.
They have to destroy “democracy” to save it. They have to force Biden to withdraw from re-election and install their own puppet (Kamala) so the plebs don’t get it wrong like they did with Bernie, thereby ignoring 14 million primary votes. But Biden isn’t “bad enough” to get 25th Amendment-ed , just bad enough in the polls they might lose.
Meanwhile, Trump went through the Republican process normally and won, democratically. If Trump wins in November, it won’t be because anyone cheated, but I can guarantee the Democrats will say it was.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  kneel

Slight quibble – Biden wasn’t bad enough that the alternative was palatable had he been 25thed.

Gabor
Gabor
July 31, 2024 10:23 am

Better to have them inside the tent…

Maybe, but some tend to piss inside the tent just the same.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 10:28 am
Reply to  Gabor

Nobody in the late 1940s could foresee the idiocy of multikulti & mass 3rd world immigration to Europe.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 10:25 am

Harvard and McKinsey’s encapsulate Everything that is wrong with the US and the West. McKinsey’s pioneered hiring ‘bright’ graduated with zero real world experience.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 10:31 am
Reply to  Miltonf

And after hiring them they indoctrinate their empty minds with DEI.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 11:09 am
Reply to  Roger

Vile company. I wonder how much wealth has been destroyed by their ‘bright’ graduated.

Marty
Marty
July 31, 2024 10:26 am

Partition of Germany after WW1 back to it’s pre unification state would have saved a lot of grief further down the track.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 10:35 am
Reply to  Marty

I don’t think the state of play at the end of WWI permitted that. The Germans would have had to have been invaded, subjugated & occupied. The Americans certainly didn’t have an appetite for that.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2024 11:19 am
Reply to  Roger

Still, a useful start post -WW II might have been to separate (then mostly Catholic) from the rest, and link it with (then mostly Catholic) Austria as a neutral bloc across southern Europe.

(Pulls pin, throws, shouts “grenade” and takes cover)

PS, until the end of WW I, Bavaria was a largely separate state, nominally part of Germany, but ruled by its own king. The Bavarian army was a separate force from the German army at that time.

duncanm
duncanm
July 31, 2024 10:26 am

Precious little on MSM about Venezuelan post-election unrest.

Why am I not surprised they’re so far behind the 8-ball on this?

DavidH
DavidH
July 31, 2024 3:07 pm
Reply to  duncanm

It was top of the page this morning on the BBC:

Fresh protests in Venezuela as anger grows at disputed election result

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 10:27 am

I sure-as-shit wouldn’t want Buttplug or O’Neil advising me on how to run my business.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 10:35 am

Rape news.

Super funds back canola to fuel ‘sustainable’ aviation (Paywallian)

The country’s biggest industry super funds are betting on Australia’s canola crop to make enough aviation fuel to power a quarter of a million flights from Sydney to Melbourne each year.

Burning food in planes while burning super balances in stupid green boondoggles. And their timing is about as bad as you can get after Air NZ’s announcement that they can’t afford to use biofuel.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2024 11:21 am

As bad as burning food in cars, as ethanol.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 12:17 pm

BoN:
Perhaps if there was a subsidy….
You know… for the good of the planet.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 11:09 am

Thats like biodiesel. It costs more to process it for use than the stuff out of the ground. And can’t be used in late model diesels as it its not fine enough.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 1:02 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

On the plus side, it’s not difficult to make at home when/if the system finally fails.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2024 11:10 am

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Apparently there was five million quid on the head of the Hezbollah bigwig that the Israelis knocked off the other day. Can Israel claim that reward?

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 1:06 pm

Suppose it would depend on who put up the bounty.

On a related topic, there is still a $15 million bounty on Maduro sponsored by the US.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 11:24 am

New minister has a huge job fixing our housing crisis 
Robert Gottliebsen The Australian 30 July, 2024

Gottliebsen covers the field of problems pretty well, but solutions are thin on the ground:

1) Using “sticks and carrots” to make everywhere like Brisbane from an approval perspective.

Yes, the BCC approval process is functional, but the outcome here has not been more supply = lower prices. The median Brisbane dwelling price has increased 56.8% since 2020 – 15.8% yoy in 2023/24.

Like everywhere else, Brisbane suffers from struggling/uncompetitive building contractors, trade and supply shortages, over regulation, and the union mafia.

2) Affordability:

The first area of the “buying a dwelling” problem is that banks are not allowed to lend to our teachers unless their parents help. The minister needs to talk with the CEOs of major and smaller banks because they all have ideas as to how to solve that problem. Out of those ideas, the minister can set up a solution matrix.

A large part of the problem is that over the years the nominal price of housing has increased at a greater rate than wages – particularly at entry level.

When we bought our first house (a modest cottage in Ashgrove), with a 10% deposit the loan amount was slightly less than our combined income as young professionals.

The current median dwelling price is four or five times the average income x 2 – and only slightly better for teachers.

It’s rather sweet that Gottliebsen thinks that “the minister can set up a solution matrix”. It sounds suitably McKinsey; but I suspect that there will be big ALP policy blocks on the matrix that prevent her reaching an efficient solution.

You can’t expect to Build Australia with union power, and import 500,000 new persons, and allow States to run bread and circuses, and have nice things – and affordable housing.

johanna
johanna
July 31, 2024 11:30 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

There was a bizarre statement in that article along the lines that our lousy school education system is contributing to domestic violence.

Huh?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 11:38 am
Reply to  johanna

Yes, it looked like a stray para from another article.

Could be a comment on the general shitfulness of Australian policy-making, but I suspect we are expected to read in that: failed education = low literacy = DV = split living arrangements = increased housing demand.

Sloppy.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 12:56 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

It would need some stats to back it up.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 11:35 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Most people could not afford to currently buy the house they presently occupy. I would struggle, it has increased 4x since the 1990s.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2024 11:42 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Ours is over 5 times.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 12:13 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

We paid $52k for the Ashgrove cottage in 1982.

It sold about two years ago for ~$1.2 million – although presumably the fairly basic 1980’s kitchen and bathroom were renovated in the intervening 40 years.

That’s 23x.

A slab of XXXX was $12 in 1982.
So, $276 at a comparable inflation rate.

Only BobtheBoozer/Winston Smith would pay that.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 12:23 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Depending if it was XXXX Bitter or XXXX Gold.
Yes for Bitter, No for Gold. (I admit to having two slabs of XXXX Gold on the dining room floor, but only as a form of the tradies currency.)
Wink wink nudge nudge.
They ARE covered with an old drape so people don’t notice.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 31, 2024 11:50 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

We were lucky to buy of the first price list for our village 3 years ago. Entry level pricing is now 3 times higher,. When we signed up, the difference between lowest and highest was 30k, now it is 600k. The difference from the price quoted in the first price list for the premium block in the 3rd stage is now 1.4 million, house is being built just now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 11:55 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Unions are only really an issue on multi storey, multi residential construction (affecting Trubigov who is usually in Gottliebsen’s ear over lunch). The front loading of services based on buyer expectations – all at developer expense and capitalised into land prices doesn’t help. When we moved into our childhood home it had no gas, no street kerbing, no deep sewerage and we played in natural bush that became an oval about 10 years later. Home builders did their own site works. Deep sewerage and kerbing was council funded at various points. The land development opposite my current place took 18 months of heavy earthmoving and engineering. The building blocks were tiny, zero lot line terrace types. All perfectly level with not a dollar to be spent for the next 70 years.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 12:20 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Unions are only really an issue on multi storey, multi residential construction…

True.
Which has been the key to growth in Brisbane accomodation over the past 10-15 years.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 12:58 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Unions are only really an issue on multi storey, multi residential construction

Those 1.2 million dwellings Albo promised to deliver?

They aren’t houses on 1/4 acre blocks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 3:16 pm
Reply to  Roger

They’re still a big part of the mix on Melbournibad cow paddocks and the “secondary” capital cites.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 12:48 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

You can’t expect to Build Australia with union power, and import 500,000 new persons, and allow States to run bread and circuses, and have nice things – and affordable housing.

If put to the people in these terms, which do you think they’d rather?

For their children’s and grandchildren’s sake if not for their own.

As I’ve said before in regard to our two-party polity, once a critical mass of the electorate no longer believes they have a stake in society, all bets are off.

The Greens, cynically (because they have no solutions that don’t involve socialising private property), are counting on this.

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Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2024 1:16 pm
Reply to  Roger

Amen to that.

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 1:46 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

For an idea of how high housing prices can rise in the short time .. my son bought 14 months ago at $1.35million last month he was offered $2.4million & this is a Gosford area water suburb ….

johanna
johanna
July 31, 2024 11:26 am

Beertruk
July 31, 2024 7:44 am

Dover,
The Paywallion:
?Crime-time drama stars ex-detainees
 
Rhiannon Down and Mohammad Alfares
10 hours ago
Waiting for approval.
Cheers
Regards
Beertruk
——————————————–
Did the article get posted? I’d like to read it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 31, 2024 11:36 am

Bulk av gas is quoted about $2,100 per tonne and unprocessed canola at 42% oil content would be $1,600 per tonne.
Work it out from there if you can find a bulk canola oil price.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2024 11:45 am
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Plus processing costs. The stuff is shit anyway. I once built a set of fuel tasks to hold Jet A1/Diesel/biodiesel. Used kevlar cloth and vinylester resin. The resin chemist gave me the special stuff that would handle the biodiesel.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2024 11:48 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Wonder what it will do to fuel tank sealant and fuel system seals?
There’s been enough problems with older light aircraft when 100/130 avgas went to 100LL which is actually different stuff (little things like your foam carburetor floats dissolving). Modern sealants and materials are designed to handle it.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 12:33 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Jet A1 is landed here for half that cost. Plus just over 3cents/lt for aviation safety tax, plus gst. In the late 80’s and early 90’s I was paying just under 50 cents a litre if I remember correctly and no sales tax. And they didn’t charge me for the drum.

Morsie
Morsie
July 31, 2024 11:41 am

Nothing in the Oz about the 2 apparently male soccer players I n the Zambian female tem.My comment was of course blocked.
Apparently a couple of dodgy fe n ale boxers as well

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 1:52 pm
Reply to  Morsie

Lotza pix of the trannie boxers around .. both banned by the World body but not the Olympic mob, apparently ! .. hadn’t heard of the Zambian fitba players .. tho having watched the last few minutes of the Oz Zambia game they need all the help they can get .. both teams .. LOL!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/07/29/two-olympic-boxers-to-fight-in-womens-category-despite-fail/

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 11:52 am

Why is it fellow Kittahs and Cats that on a very small site with not that many commenters called Newcatallaxy.blog, can pick apart many political ideas and projects before they’re started yet government has a whole APS to do that and still everything they touch is effed. Not in good way. Sexy fingers they are not. I know there are a wide range of expertise and experience here but even things that not a lot of us know still have warning bells alerting us this is not a good idea. It matters not who’s idea it was, just about everything has that unintended consequences ring about it. Is it due to no life experience in our so called betters but I can tell you one thing, my nearly four grandson understands explanations and unintended consequences. He likes climbing trees and rockfaces just like his mummy. He knows to hold granddads hand crossing the road in case I get runover for not looking. He’s become responsible for me. Makes me wonder if the numpties in parliament can cross the road by themselves.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 12:33 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

GreyRanga:
The reason for our ability to reason out shit is because we live in the real world. Political staff live in a world which has its limits defined by politics.
It’s not a smart arse answer either – it’s reality.
Also, most of us are clever clogs.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 12:38 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

I don’t see myself as a clever clogs, I’m just interested in stuff, but I see a lot SFB’s around.

Arky
July 31, 2024 12:46 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

I think you answered your own question.
You are interested in how stuff works.
You are curious,
My experience of those who push themselves forward as our betters is that they are completely uninterested in even the fields in which they are qualified. They got the qualification to get the position.
See those in our parliament more interested in getting spastically drunk and pulling a root. See those caught out on video vigorously bumming in a US senate conference room.
These people are interested in their salaries, their perks, and getting drunk and laid.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 1:25 pm
Reply to  Arky

Arky,

These people are interested in their salaries, their perks, and getting drunk and laid.

I’ve heard some different life philosophies before, but I’m not that sure I could beat that one. Well, not before I retired, anyway.

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 1:58 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Nowadayz most Oz pollies are more interested in ensuring the paperwork to claim their $310 a night sleep-over allowance is lodged on time than any thoughts of governing Oz ..
Remember ..
Ask not not what a pollie can do for the country but how much the country can give to the pollie ………!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 31, 2024 11:55 am

The Zambian ladies team?
I picked that.
Said to the wife that one of them is carrying a nut.

Crossie
Crossie
July 31, 2024 11:57 am

Air New Zealand Scraps Promises to Cut Carbon Emissions by 2030 (30 Jul

I’d think the recent election has something to do with it also. Air NZ wouldn’t have dared to announce this under a Labour government, but it is politically feasible with the new right-wing one.

Andrew Breitbart used to say that politics is downstream from culture. This proves the opposite, now you must change politics to be able to change culture and business.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 31, 2024 11:58 am

GreyRanga July 31, 2024 9:11 am

Someone must have phone video or pictures of the stabber. Its hard these days not to. Government and plod as well as security services are not to be trusted.

He’s on someone’s CCTV, or summat like that.
He’s wearing & totally encased in, a green hoodie, and the video is at quite a distance. You don’t see much.

What you do see, however, is the limb proportions & torso ratio.
All Cardiff indigenous I’ve encountered have had a build similar to somewhere between that of Anthony Albanese & Peter Dutton.

The chap in the CCTV is built like a praying mantis or daddy long legs.
He looks like what you see when you get to the ‘stretch’ mirror in a fairground ‘hall of joke mirrors’.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 2:23 pm

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Supposedly that’s him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2024 12:07 pm

yet government has a whole APS to do that and still everything they touch is effed

Lefty idiots love recruiting other lefty idiots until the entire APS is a giant useless farce.

Badenoch blasts leftie smears as she’s accused of ‘bullying’ civil servants (30 Jul)

Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch has blasted “lefties” for “smears” designed to topple her campaign to replace Rishi Sunak.

Mrs Badenoch denied and condemned “utterly false” allegations of creating an intimidating atmosphere in the government department she used to run.

Her behaviour was allegedly so bad that three officials felt they had to quit their jobs in the Department for Business and Trade, the Guardian reported. …

Officials have claimed they “dreaded” meetings with Mrs Badenoch as some were left feeling “humiliated” and reduced to tears.

Other ministers in the department are understood to have “checked in” on the wellbeing of staff and employees who felt upset by her were not left alone, it is reported.

The poor dears, how on earth could anyone expect them to be told to do their jobs?

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2024 12:22 pm

the Guardian reported. …

There’s your problem.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 12:36 pm

“Reduced to tears’.
Code for being told to perform at your job or GTFO.

bons
bons
July 31, 2024 12:13 pm

From Minister for CMFEU business development to Minister for Islamic supremacy.

Lysander
Lysander
July 31, 2024 12:20 pm

Why is it fellow Kittahs and Cats that on a very small site with not that many commenters called Newcatallaxy.blog, can pick apart many political ideas and projects before they’re started yet government has a whole APS to do that

Cos we’re smarter.

And sometimes I feel the APS has a vested interest in making sure things don’t work out. NEEDS MORE OPM!!!!

Crossie
Crossie
July 31, 2024 12:31 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Empire building is a big problem in public service, the more staff you have the more power you wield therefore expansion is far more important than actual achievements. Failures can always be explained away to ignorant politicians.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 1:12 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I’d suggest there is much more real life experience here, with various failures and successes, than in a large group of people whose adult life experience consists merely of getting elected and enjoying the perks.

Chris
Chris
July 31, 2024 4:01 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Everything starts with truth. The entire APS have to pretend that many lies are somehow true.
Therefore they fail far harder than necessary.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 31, 2024 12:26 pm

I am not watching 1 second of the Olympics … I do feel for the athletes, except the freaks ….  

—-

SC Reviews:

WOKE OLYMPIC DUMPSTER FIRE KEEPS GETTING WORSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4TW3NjO6i0

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 1:01 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

There are Olympic Games on?
Where?

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2024 12:27 pm

And sometimes I feel the APS has a vested interest in making sure things don’t work out

They don’t care if things work or not as long as their pay keeps rolling in. Just criminals making dishonest livings.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 1:01 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

They don’t care if things work or not…

After all, it’s not as if their jobs are on the line. 

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 12:49 pm

At wifes work 2ic resigned, replaced by a “wouldn’t have a clue”. Wife given a staff member that “wouldn’t have a clue”, entitled and somehow reports to some unkown person. Only one person seems to be responsible but is never there.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 31, 2024 1:17 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

The Canbra way

bons
bons
July 31, 2024 12:53 pm

Sky News UK being accused of inflaming the situation in Southport through their anti-citizen rhetoric.

It was apalling commentary, but some of it was simply quoting the “don t jump to conclusions” police stazi who then immediately concluded and announced that protestors were far right racists.

Contemporary police forces are not compatable with the community’s democratic expectations.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 1:21 pm
Reply to  bons

In Britain, the police are behaving like an occupying police force.
A Muslim police force. Not quite at the level of a religious police, yet.
But at some stage, the men and women in the street patrols will have to realise they live in the community as well.
That has consequences. Unpleasant ones – as we’ve seen in the Communist regimes in the East. One of them being Police Ghettos.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2024 1:02 pm

A riot outside a mosque in Southport UK is bad, shocking, the riot police are there, the MSM are describing the rioters as ‘far-right”.

A riot outside a Synagogue in Melbourne Australia is okay, the Victorian police stand back and do little, the rioters that night were never accurately described as ‘far-left and Muslim Jew haters’.

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 2:05 pm

Look at the difference between the 2 riots this week ..
Harehill .. a preponderance of blue vested constabulary (glorified social workers) cos “diverse” & Southport all yellow vested “real” plod cos “right wing” …..

Last edited 5 months ago by shatterzzz
Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 1:06 pm

Watching a gigantic woke disaster like this unfold is truly excellent entertainment.

Two male boxers now discovered in the women’s comp.

They were both disqualified from world championships due to failing gender tests but the IOC is apparently saying they will not intervene.

This is a farce.

Last edited 5 months ago by Roger
Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2024 2:31 pm
Reply to  Roger

The Olympics has been a farce for a while. Now the farce is out in the open.

May this be the final Olympics, I pray.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2024 3:20 pm
Reply to  Roger

I’m guessing whoever “found” them is in counseling. Just like a big night out in Thailand.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 3:55 pm
Reply to  Roger

They’ll end up seriously injuring or killing one of these girls.

God forbid it happens, but if it does I’d like to see the full weight of the law descend on the perpetrators and the organisers.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 31, 2024 1:12 pm

C’mon, Cats, seriously. “Industry nous” just ain’t gonna cut it.
The choke on production and semi-related price hyperinflation has been created by midwits who thought they had political nous, and they dug deep in to globalization nous, hamstringing supply with high energy prices nous and unionized labour nous, ramming the blood funnel in with every oppurtunity of planning nous, multi-level over-regulatory nous, endangered frog nous, and then cramming the counrty full of immigration nous, before really pouring petrol on the nousfire with lotsa money printing nous. (If you don’t think that the housing market has been parasitised- nay, colonized– by the Lizard People creating massive amounts of money with the stroke of a key and gifting it to their increasingly unproductive minions in the public service, education and NDIS, then wake up and smell the almond latte.)
We don’t need Another Man In A Blue Tie for the portfolio, not matter what side of the uniparty he’s from, no matter how much “industry nous” he proclaims.
We need to get the Fed out of housing, and stop the flood of endless immigration.
We actually need an outsider with no nous at all, like a Milei or Trump or Farage, to get the Lizard People the hell out of housing, and energy, and wealth creation, and every other aspect of our lives where they’re slipping in their tentacles.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 2:25 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

We had a very good consultancy in Perth, paid a stupid amount for doing what others couldn’t and sometimes wouldn’t. Dealt directly with Multinationals and three levels of government. Then the big four accountancy firms got in on the act charging heaps more, then government wouldn’t deal with small business. When the bush fires went through Canberra the premium was 40% on top of what it cost and the small subbies in Canberra still did the work.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 3:57 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

My wish list was simply for someone competent in providing housing to head up the department. And that would mean someone who had a working knowledge of the building industry.

It’s a big ask, even for a lass with a Fulbright Scholarship. 😀

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 1:21 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Assassinating the political leader of Hamas in Tehran?

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Mossad were the assassins?

shatterzzz
July 31, 2024 2:07 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

What wonderful news .. made my day .. LOL!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2024 2:26 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

You know how to make a good day better dover.

calli
calli
July 31, 2024 3:58 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Inshallah.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2024 1:17 pm

Andrew Breitbart used to say that politics is downstream from culture. This proves the opposite, now you must change politics to be able to change culture and business.

This will only last until NZ Labour gets elected again.

You have to make that unthinkable, which means changing the culture.

Zatara
Zatara
July 31, 2024 1:18 pm

Two male boxers now discovered in the women’s comp.

Worse yet, they were “previously disqualified for failing gender eligibility tests”.

Newsflash to Olympics24: It’s not something you can study for to change your results.

The were medically declared male. End of story.

“A WOMAN IS GOING TO DIE!” Woke Paris Olympic Games to Allow Alleged Male Boxers with XY Chromosomes to Fight Women!

Last edited 5 months ago by Zatara
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 31, 2024 3:27 pm
Reply to  Zatara

They don’t care – hasn’t everyone noticed they hate women and femininity?

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