Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Thurs 1 August 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Sept 2024
- The Unnecessary War?
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Sept 2024
- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok #2.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Wow!
2nd! All the way from Mount Matterhorn!
Tragic rollercoaster victim Shylah Rodden allegedly lashed out angrily at ride operators who warned her not to retrieve her phone moments before she was struck.
Ms Rodden, then aged 26, suffered critical injuries after she was struck by the Rebel Coaster when she walked onto the tracks to retrieve her phone at the Melbourne Royal Show in 2022.
On Monday, after a near two-year investigation, workplace watchdog WorkSafe Victoria decided against charging the ride operator or the Melbourne Royal Show.
The move sparked an angry reaction from Shylah’s mother Kylie Rodden, who embarked on a media campaign the next day to slam the workplace authority.
But Daily Mail Australia can now reveal the disturbing chain of events that ended with Ms Rodden being struck by the rollercoaster.
Well-placed sources closely linked with the investigation have told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Rodden was found to be the key cause of the tragedy.
Ms Rodden had earlier been working at a lolly stand at the show when she and a friend took a ride on the rollercoaster during a break.
Witnesses are understood to have told Worksafe investigators Ms Rodden appeared disorientated when she dropped her phone and attempted to retrieve it from under the tracks.
The source alleges ride operators told Ms Rodden they would stop the ride to allow her to retrieve her phone, but she would need to wait up to 30 minutes before she could access the area.
‘It’s fair to say she had some words to say to the operator when he told her to wait half-an-hour so that was the kind of behaviour the operator was facing,’ the source said.
More at the Daily Mail
Top Ender
August 1, 2024 2:03 am
Tragic as it is, let’s face it, most, but not all industrial accidents happen through human stupidity, likely non industrial as well.
God knows I had my fair share of lucky escapes.
All the lawmakers can do is to introduce more and more regulations, but what if the punters ignore them, who is responsible?
Short of putting people in cages regulations will never prevent stupid actions.
I don’t want us to go back to the last century with no safety precautions on building sites.
Did I miss something here?
Bikes haven’t changed much in a 126 years.
Top Ender writes (apologies if some bits were posted previously):
From Zurich we took a 1928 paddleboat steamer, Stadt Luzern, and then a train trip to Lucerne. Originally built in 1928 as the last steamboat for a Swiss lake, the ship has hosted numerous notable guests during her 90 years. In July 1940 General Henri Guisan and the entire Swiss Army officer corps sailed on the steamer from Lucerne to the Rütli meadow for a military conference following the fall of France.
A few years later in August 1947 Evita Perón, the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, was ceremoniously hosted on Stadt Luzern during an official visit.Another famous guest was Queen Elizabeth II in May 1980 for an Alpine cruise. In honour of the British queen, the ship’s upper deck lounge was later renamed “Queen’s Salon”.
Into the Alps and magnificent scenery of course. Moving around the cities to see the sights – Lindt chocolate factory was one – is easy with an incredibly efficient (and free if you are the right age!) public transport system. We took the Bernina Express to get to St Moritz, twice home to the Winter Olympics; which features in the Peter Sarstedt song “Where do you Go To my Lovely?”:
And when the snow falls you’re found in St. Moritz
With the others of the jet set
And you sip your Napoleon brandy
But you never get your lips wet, no, you don’t
But where do you go to, my lovely
When you’re alone in your bed?
Won’t you tell me the thoughts that surround you?
I want to look inside your head, yes, I do
Apparently Sarstedt was earning £60K a year from it in 1998, even though it was released in 1969.
Here in St Moritz, in the middle of Switzerland, with a warning for you: Do NOT come here and get your bikes serviced – you have been warned! Near our (three-star) hotel is a bike shop. The one on sale out the front was a snip at Aus$8,632, or you can get a minor service for $705. Every second car is a BMW – the others are all Porsches, Ferraris and Lambos. Maserati’s are the only real head turners. Oh, and the pizza shop next door to the bike shop was selling pizza by the slice – for $9 each.
Mrs TE writes:
So how did our day go in the most expensive city of the most expensive country in the world. BTW, our train tour is organised by Inspiring Vacations 12-day independent travel. They handover the paperwork – 3* hotels + breakfast booked, ½ price Swiss travel card, all train travel booked and itinerary. You follow along. Lindt Chocolate Tour and lake cruise included too.
Up the cable car to the Top of the World (Piz Nair) above St Moritz, which was unbelievably free (if you stay overnight in the city). Three sections to go up: the first two by funicular and the last by cable. Twelve degrees at the summit and windy with patches of snow/ice. Not sure why Nicholas Stavros (Greek ship millionaire) built an ibex at top.
At the first stop, I went on the aptly named “Heidi’s Wildflower Walk” – beautiful. Weather fantastic. The Swiss/tourists love getting out into the mountains/countryside. Mountain bikers everywhere from age 4-100! Lots of walkers. We had a picnic organised for lunch. Takeaway pizza for dinner!
Onto the Glacier Express to Zermatt.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Poor old Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
A.F. Branco #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Trump Announces Plan to Eliminate Taxes on Social Security Checks
Wow. That, combined with his ‘no tax on tip income’ will be a yuge vote getter.
The 2024 GOP platform reads like a breath of fresh air but one item I’d have liked to have seen on it is ‘go through government like a dose of salts eliminating useless, duplicative, and wasteful government bureaucracies and programs’.
Ireland report.
The boat trip was actually three and a half hours on Spike Island which was a military base, prison, military base, prison, military base, prison and now a tourist attraction.
Older cats might remember it from a famous 1985 prison riot where juvenile prisoners spend more than 12 hours on the roof (allegedly they came down after one of their mothers had seen her son on the TV and caught the train out from Cork and gave him the rounds of the kitchen from outside the prison wall).
Was used for convicts on their way to Van Diemens Land and also Irish rebels both convicted and interred without trial in the civil war in 1921/22.
There’s also a memorial to Nellie Organ who lived on the island then her father was stationed there around 1910, who I’d heard of, a 4 year old who was given special permission to receive Holy Communion as she was dying from TB.
A lot of the buildings are in very poor repair, most of the staff quarters outside the prison covered in creepers or the slate roofs falling in , one of the blocks burnt by the rioters in 85 and another with the roofs destroyed in 1916 in an accidental fire.
Scant mention of a monastery from long before the barracks were build in the late 18th century. If there is evidence of it, it is buried far below the artificial hill on the island.
Grand views back to Cobh and across Cork harbour on the other side.
On the way back the little boat we were on had to wait for the Brittany ferry on its way out.
Plotting future trips was I.
I don’t watch the Late Debate with James, Liz Storer and Caleb. Last week a friend rang me and said that Liz Storer has seemingly strayed down too many rabbit holes and had become virulently and stridently anti-Israel. Reading the old thread, it appears that’s true. About two weeks ago, I found myself watching another Sky programme where Storer was a guest, I found her wacko, it was embarrassing. Anyway, this ‘switch’ by Liz Storer is odd because last November, in the wake of October 7, Storer was a guest at a synagogue here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. I was in attendance. At that talk Storer spoke of her unwavering support for Israel and the Jewish people, telling us that she had our backs.
Well, clearly this is no longer the case.
Storer is entitled to change her opinion, she’s entitled to delve down all the rabbit holes she wants, it’s still a free country….just. But equally, it remains my free choice to switch her off whenever she appears on Sky.
When Paul Murray gets loud and stroppy it seems like conviction, when Liz Storer does the same, too often, it comes over as a performance.
Further to Storer, who I have always found ‘strident’, perhaps she could yank her head out of one of those conspiracy laden Jew hating rabbit holes and spare a thought for just who started this conflict. If anyone needs reminding, and clearly Storer does, it was Hamas that broke an existing ceasefire on October 7 when it invaded Israel and savagely raped Jews, murdered Jews and took over 200 Jewish men, women and children hostage, of which over 100 remain hostages, including a baby.
I don’t pay my hard-earned money to Sky to hear Hamas or Iranian talking points.
By the way, in the almost ten months since October 7, the IRC is yet to visit any of the hostages or even demand visitation rights. Perhaps Storer the Strident can ponder that fact.
Israel didn’t want this war, Israel didn’t start this war, just like Poland didn’t ask to be invaded by Germany on September 1 1939, just like the USA didn’t ask to be attacked by Japan on December 7 1941, just like the USA didn’t ask to be attacked on September 11 2001.
I could go on, you get the drift.
So, where will this end with Storer, now that she’s chosen to be a Hamas parrot? Perhaps she now believes it was the IDF who were behind the rapes and murders in southern Israel on October 7? Such nonsense happens to be a talking point in some of those conspiracy ridden rabbit holes where both the far-left and far-right meet up……like a shidduch made in heaven, it ties in neatly with Jewish conspiracy theories, all inspired by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Well, here’s my prediction, if that’s the company she keeps, Liz Storer won’t be on Sky for too much longer. They’ve sacked people for far less.
And if anyone from Sky lurks here, and I suspect one or two do, somebody urgently needs to sit down with Storer the Strident and just try to excavate why’s she so suddenly switched. I’m interested myself.
SATP, from last night. Precisely why I don’t trust the media and British “new speak” makers.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/07/29/open-thread-mon-29-july-2024/comment-page-4/#comment-767934
Name released early on fits the appearance of this piece of vomit. Also doesn’t look Rwandan. What else aren’t they telling the public.
As I mentioned on CL’s blog last night, the British Establishment has a history of lies and is untrustworthy.
Of course the snivelling little weasels that occupy the media lap it up like Pavlovs dog but then opine why media trust is in the toilet. They make Pravda look like amateurs.
The Don in the lions den.
I see that the fat fascist fool is still parroting every DemonRat talking point about Trump and JD Vance.
I was going to ask if the moron has ever had an original thought in his life, then I remembered that he failed Economics 1, then became a j’ismist, and realised that he had never had a thought in his life, much less an original one.
Thanks Tom!
I didn’t watch the program, so can only go by what has been said about it here.
We’ve seen this sort of thing before. People lose sight of a basic principle and go off on peculiar tangents. Sometimes it’s because of unknown pressures, other times there seems to be no explanation at all for a descent down the rabbit hole (or plug hole depending on how you view some of the more dire parts of the interwebs).
Liz is big and ugly enough to work it out. Since she has become so strident about the unfortunate Gazans and the doublebad Israelis, perhaps she needs to pop over to Israel and have a look for herself, like Dutton. She has the money to do so. She won’t be able to visit the Golan Hts, scene of the latest beastliness, as I believe access is now limited for safety reasons.
A week in northern Israel might attune her to the incessant, unprovoked rocket attacks from Lebanon.
She might also want to review the grotesque skimming of international aid to Gaza by Hamas leaders, one of whom is now dust. Four billion dollars extorted by just one of the grubs.
As for “starting WWIII” she’s in good company. Everyone disliked by commentators is regularly accused of this, from Trump, Putin, Zelensky, Israel, Iran, Iraq, the Saudis, China, blah…blah…blah…. It’s lazy, hysterical thinking.
I expected better.
Wussia Wussia Wussia.
I don’t mind “strident”. Far better than milquetoast.
Of course “strident” is sooo much better if I happen to agree with the person! 😀
Bolt was being a dill over the mosque riot last night also. Perhaps someone put something in the water cooler.
Here’s a great follow-up to Lotocoti’s post.
Whilst there are Black fellas such as this guy in the US, there is still hope. Our Abos could, and should, learn from this.
https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1816986974391017734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1816986974391017734%7Ctwgr%5Ec422e331fe16296cb82755d249b46104c3904ced%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
On another issue, I love the editing function on this platform.
Typos Be Gone! Electronic Tippex.
My MiL, SiL and BiL have been staying for a while. So nice to see grandson sitting on the couch with Big Nana while he shows her his favorite maintenance programs on YouTube. Yes, he is into how things work, property maintenance and just doing stuff. He loves looking at my worksop with all the tools. MiL off to stay with another daughter now to see new grandchildren. One of the grandsons, aged 30 is building his own house on a large block after selling the previous house he built. He’s also building his mother a house on the same block for her. She doesn’t own it but can live there until she dies as she looked after him and his brothers when useless father decided drugs were more important than his family. He thought it was the least he could do. Then his mother could rent out her existing house to have money to do whatever. GGrandmothe is so happy to see the babies. It’s nice to see that she’s still able to travel at 87, though does have to bring SiL along so she doesn’t get lost. Still got her marbles and keeps up with world politics. A staunch conservative that has become alarmed at all the faux conservatives that are covert lefties. She’s a lot like Stephanie from Sydney on 2GB. Pretty much on the money most of the time.
Burqa’s first test:
Re. editing function.
What sort of witchery* is that?
I can’t do it for the life of me, get a message every time, “Editing not allowed”
*Sorry, not intended if taken the wrong way, make it mystery or sorcery.
Jordan is irritating as usual but worth watching.
Cassie, Liz Storer has either been got at or she’s contrived to make herself listened to then reverted to type. It wouldn’t be the first time. It’s hard to have principles if you can’t remember last week.
BoN
I can’t edit within 30 seconds.
Liz the Foghorn, needs to be reminded that, when Israel fights back, it is not just Israel and Jews who are protected. The ragheads are far less tempted to repeat this sort of evil on others.
“Even as the Biden junta scrambled to protect Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group, from an Israeli response after its rocket targeting a soccer field killed 12 kids, the Islamic terror group has an ugly history of killing Americans.
“The worst part for me is that nobody remembers,” Mark Nevells said last year on the anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle and afterward for five days, Nevells and other Marines had dug through the rubble for the bodies of the men they had served with.
One of the first Marines on the scene heard voices coming from underneath the rubble. “Get us out. Don’t leave us.”
The Marines lost more people that day than at any time since Iwo Jima and the number of Americans murdered that day by a terrorist group was a record that would stand until September 11.
Before the attack, the NSA intercepted a message from Iranian intelligence in Tehran to the Iranian ambassador in Damascus ordering “a spectacular action against the United States Marines.”
. . . Hezbollah captured, tortured and murdered Americans. Colonel William R. Higgins was captured by Hezbollah, the terrorist group acting as Iran’s hand in Lebanon, and tortured for months until his body was dumped near a mosque. An autopsy report found that he had been starved and had suffered multiple lethal injuries that could have caused his death. The skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated. . .
. . . Like Higgins, William Francis Buckley, the CIA station chief, was also captured and tortured for months. On video tapes released by his Hezbollah captors, he was incoherent and his mind had been broken by the horrors inflicted on his ravaged body and his soul.
. . . Robert Stethem, a Navy diver, was brutally murdered when Hezbollah terrorists took over TWA flight 847. The Iranian-backed terrorists, one of whom was Imad Mughniyah, beat and kicked him to death.”
Shove THAT up your date Liz.
Witchcraft? It’s not because of you, Gaborg
@KarluskaP
And you’re gonna tell me the snipers didn’t see this! Video from Trump assassination attempt victim’s POV shows figure moving on roof moments before gunfire
@WarlordDilley
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Kamala was exclusively an Indian American until it was politically advantageous to start calling herself black.
Kamala Harris makes FOUR major policy reversals in one day…
From 2016
California’s Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator
Hiding Kamala: No Press Conferences 10 Days After Announcing Presidential Run
@amuse
A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of Alzheimer’s disease
Joe Rogan warns Kamala Harris will win because people are ‘giving into the bulls—‘ like never before
Keep America Number One; or, Why Republicans Need a New Metanarrative
Liz the Foghorn,
Magnificent.
Oh and perhaps the Foghorn can also ponder this, since she’s now a mouthpiece for the mullahs.
It’s now been thirty years since a car bomb exploded at the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85 men, women adn children, and injuring more than 300, almost all of whom were Jews.
That bombing was planned and carried out by operatives acting for Tehran. You see, Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, have always made it clear that they don’t just want to kill Israelis, they also want to kill any and all Jews across the planet.
But don’t worry Foghorn, I know you don’t have our back.
The fact that Liz Storer is barking mad obviously doesn’t help with her analyses of “complex geopolitical events”.
See also the hot/crazy matrix.
@iheartmindy
More local intel about Biden’s mysterious “medical emergency” here in Vegas:
• Word is Biden wasn’t sick, but fell (what a surprise) and severely hit his head at Lindo Michocan, a popular local Las Vegas Mexican restaurant.
• From the descriptions people gave, Biden looked real bad….like death’s doorstep bad.
• He was en route to UMC, but diverted to the airport to fly him out of state instead….which you imagine would be the last thing you’d want to do in a medical emergency.
• The notoriously fake local mockingbird media news, immediately started running a cover story that Biden was simply just “ill” (as if he’s been healthy the last 4 years.) Which doesn’t explain why he dropped out of the race immediately after this incident, and after so much propping up that he was “fine.”
• It only churned the rumor mill that something worse had happened, when a seemingly much taller Biden was rolled out in the following days…as were a suspect recording, amongst other things.
• Apparently the Secret Service also refused to allow his walking route to the podium on this trip to involve stairs at Mandalay Bay, and yes….that’s the exact same hotel that was part of the whole Las Vegas shooting cover up that no one in the mainstream media will cover. Watch my documentary on how the FBI poorly covered that whole thing up here, and please spread the word before they try that on us again here: https://rumble.com/v266as0-conspiracy-truths-the-route-91-documentary.html…
• Also worth mentioning is that during Biden’s previous trip, cameras were blocked off and no one from the general public outside a handful of pre-selected people from the union were actually allowed to see him during his own “public” political rally here….in a state he supposedly “won.” Why?
The fact Biden doesn’t match what he looked like before all this, is weirdly enough nothing new with this fake administration. We know he’s not running things…hell, I’d be surprised if he was still wiping his own ass at this point.
But pay attention as they fake things all over again with Kamala….someone so unlikable even by her own party, that they waited until Biden (or one of them) was dead or damn near dead to replace her.
They are already scrubbing the internet of everything bad she ever did, unrolling out their fake fact checker army to help gatekeep, and pulling out every fake news media tactic in the book to cover up how she’s just Biden 2.0 but with cackling and even more destructive, anti-freedom Marxist ideals.
You are watching the longest, dumbest clown show of a charade finally come to a close, America.
Enjoy the show.
Boris Becker’s lookalike daughter Anna Ermakova shows off her toned abs in sparkly blue bikini as she takes a dip in Monaco
Daily Mail. Supposedly conceived in the broom cupboard of a Japanese restaurant, in Mayfair…
I want to see Storer and Pogs in a battle of wits (and pitchforks).
I fear Liz would come unarmed.
😀
Yeah, and the polling games are getting worse.
Another Dem-Oversampled Poll Still Has Trump Beating Harris 48-45 (31 Jul)
That is some heroic oversampling, and yet she was still 3 points behind. Which is probably the margin they were after, both to induce Dems to come out to vote and to make a steal look like a plausible outcome.
Aaand…Happy Birthday to all those horses out there.
Another year, another 365 ways to injure yourselves and impoverish your hapless owners.
meanwhile the local communists try and turn us into venezuela
Who or what is a Liz Storer?
Whoever agreed to let Donald Trump appear in front of the National Association of Black Journalists should be fired.
What a disaster. Inevitably, he is dialling up the racism, and chose the exact worst place to do it.
They pulled him off stage after 35 minutes of a scheduled hour-long interview.
The best thing about watching Cash clips is peoples reactions. Smiles galore. Going back a few years, Cash was jittery with crowds.
Stevo ( owner ) sorted that out.
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Woof Bark Growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance 2024 in Beverly Hills (3 of 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LndExGijKfQ
Morning Nazi.
The ‘black’ question about Kamala needed to be aired.
Her street hood lingo when addressing mostly black audiences is cringeworthy. She was raised almost solely by her Indian mother with little input from her Jamaican father. Her upbringing was very middle class professional and she never was from the block or the projects.
I’ll let you in on a secret Monty, Indians never use the term ‘black’ to describe themselves and would be taking great offence at Kamala dumping her rich Indian heritage to suit her political aspirations.
Mentioned Robert Harris’ novel “V-2 ” on the old thread – rather interesting reading, and I don’t read much fiction these days.
“Daniel Todman, in “Britain’s War” (2020) describes Hitlers program of Vengeance weapons – which cost the German economy more, dollar for dollar, then the U.S spent on the Manhattan Project – as “by a distance, the greatest waste of resources by any combatant country in a supremely wasteful war.”.”
(Page 312.)
“Dark in here”, said mutley to no one there, not realising his head was up his own arse. That echo is the sound created by a very small brain.
Peta Credlin spots a cunning stunt:
[Unlinkable OZ]
A grotesque little man, living up to expectations.
Vivek is in thrall of her . Talks about her in glowing terms all the time. You big fat idiot.
Robert Stethem, a Navy diver, was brutally murdered when Hezbollah terrorists took over TWA flight 847. The Iranian-backed terrorists, one of whom was Imad Mughniyah, beat and kicked him to death.”
Just further to Robert Stethem, not many people realise he was Jewish. After Robert was beaten and kicked to death, his body was then dumped onto the tarmac at Beirut airport.
Stethem was posthumously awarded both the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
I remember it well. Methinks Foghorn Liz needs a history lesson or two (she’s not alone there). I’m quite happy to give her some free lessons.
Democrats love bucketing people into different categories based on race, religion, sexual orientation. When someone raises a question mark on Brown’s self categorization as Black they get very antsy about it. Trump was just questioning what bucket she was in. They want to get it right don’t they?
Happy August, everybody. There I was, stuck reading the auld fred.
M0nty thinks Trump will destroy democracy. But consider this:
Trump took a bullet for democracy. In his first term, he didn’t do undemocratic lawfare against political opponents as the Democrats do when in power, and he didn’t dismantle nor try to subvert, as the Democrats do, the institutions of democracy such as the Supreme Court, where the Democrats undemocratically tried via lawfare to halt legally-made appointments. The so-called Jan 6 insurrections were sheer spin by Democrats, fairly mild protests, with none but one protester killed, and no plan for any ‘takeover’. Jan 6 was nothing like the Democrat-enthused and Kamala supported burning of whole city areas over the misadventure death of an arrested fentanyl addict.
President Trump’s unwillingness to immediately concede the 2020 election has many precedents with previous Presidents in a similar situation waiting on court decisions (hanging chads issue, for example). As for maintaining the rage, we had that for years here over Whitlam, and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election harped on for the whole of the Trump Presidency about ‘Trump’s illegitimacy’ in his win and she also paid for the Russia Hoax trying to demean Trump. It is undeniable that during Trump’s Presidency the Democrats used every illegal trick in the book to try to impeach and ‘get rid’ of him. They failed. I hope Trump wins big, in spite of all the Democrats and Rigged Tech can throw at him. If he doesn’t win I think that American democracy will be finished.
That is the view, by the way, of the Texan business owner (employer of many) and his wife with whom we became friendly on our recent Fiji Island cruise. He is hard-headed about Trump, scornful but scared of the media manipulation ahead re Kamala, and his wife agrees that this time, even though she doesn’t like Trump’s style, she will be voting for him to save America from descent into a third-world kleptocracy. There are many quiet Americans like these two. Keep the flame of hope alive, Cats.
The ABC ‘reporting’ in the impending Higgins v Reynolds case is just a hatchet job on Reynolds:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-01/linda-reynolds-defamation-action-brittany-higgins-david-sharaz-/104134128
Quelle surprise, as Hendo would say.
Kaitlin.
“Drag Queens Are Cool!” -The Olympics Last Supper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXHVr6uqBc
In global wormening news:
This morning I had icicles hanging from the roof gutters, frozen ice blocks in the driveway, icicles hanging from the old optus overhead cables.
None of this has been seen before.
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder after three girls were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on Monday.
The suspect, who cannot be named because he is under 18, has been charged with the murders of six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar.
?The teenager, who is from the nearby village of Banks, Lancashire, but was born in Cardiff, Wales, has also been charged with ten counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article.
He has been remanded in custody and will appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
Daily Mail
Womens Soccer …
Canada docked 6 points and still qualifies for quarter finals .. How much better than Oz are they ..!
I have been a fan of Liz Storer on The Late Debate and so we were surprised last night to hear she is now promoting an ‘end’ to the Gaza War, as you note your friend had warned you about, Cassie.
Previously we have noted she has some ‘blind spots’ (in our view) about things like fluoride in the water and the sanctity of unadulterated foodstuffs and the horrors of plastics, all rather extreme. She is highly intelligent and amusing though so I’ve been prepared to cut her some slack there – to each their own etc. However, the Israel thing last nite got heated and the producers had to call for an ad break to cool things down. She recovered her equanimity and the show went on as before.
We will still watch and see how her opinions develop and assess where they came from. I enjoy the program and her contributions elsewhere, so won’t turn off yet. Perhaps, like Trump with Ukraine, she just ‘wants the killing to stop’, as Trump put it. Or there may be other influences at work? Certainly her perspective on Israel’s future is pretty feeble if she cannot see that this is an existential battle, taken initially as a response to the attacks on Oct 7th, and to get a return of the hostages. However, Storer continued on in a ‘they’ve killed enough in retaliation’, an argument on ‘proportionality’, which is not what this war, or any war, is about. Storer is concerned about widening the conflict with these assassinations. I’m not. I think they were deserved assassinations and part of the solution.
‘Innovative thinker’: Noel Pearson appointed to Fortescue board
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has appointed lawyer and Indigenous activist Noel Pearson to the company’s board as a non-executive director.
Dr Forrest said he had “known and worked alongside” Mr Pearson for almost 20 years and was a long term admirer of the Cape York Partnership founder.
“I have known and worked alongside Noel for nearly 20 years and admire and respect him greatly. Noel is an innovative thinker and passionate and formidable Australian who will bring enormous benefit and insight to our Board,” Dr Forrest said.
Mr Pearson has a long relationship with Dr Forrest, publicly supporting the Fortescue founder in calls for the establishment of cashless welfare cards to reduce alcohol dependency in remote indigenous communities.
Mr Pearson said in a statement he was honoured to be invited to join the board of the company.
“Fortescue is a proud Australian company that is led by its values from mine site to the boardroom – something I have great respect for,” he said.
The Don in the lions den.
i watched the whole thing — those lions were pussy cats — Donald Trump is a man with great conviction and he has enormous self-confidence that is not deflated by the ‘arrows’ of these germalists — from what I saw (I was doing the ironing at the time) all the questioners were women of colour.
There is exactly zero relevance to anything what “color” the cackling kamel is or might claim to be.
Identification as some third world clown doesn’t alter the fact that it’s a staggeringly ignorant incoherent illiterate innumerate ahistorical anti-scientific imbecile that sucked a whole lot o’ cock to get where it is.
Which is currently the most unmeritorious presidential candidate in US history.
I’m glad my time is coming to a close .. the number of folks and media online rooting for terrorism and Israel’s demise is terrifying ..
?You have to wonder do they think the ‘crocodile” alwayz eats the been- nice-to-me- ones last ..
Dutton’s understated trip to Israel was a stroke of strategic genius beyond what I believed the SFL were capable.
Without fanfare he has recruited the millions of Australians who are enraged, embarrassed, or disturbed by the antisemitic and un-Australian actions of putrid Wong and the union communist thugs.
The people now know that despite not being allowed to publically express their distress, Dutton understands and will no doubt carry their concerns into the election.
Good heavens – I just praised a polli – it’s an age thing.
This morning TV, caught the ABC,s take on the murder of children in Southport. Mostly concentrated on the rise of the “far-right” interviewing some academic about the dangers of such movements. Pricks
The staggering stupidity of public life in this country in a nutshell:
He’s neither innovative nor a “thunker” (rather a tiresome racist imbecile), but hey, when did facts or reality ever matter to our beloved braindead lamestream meeja?
Stop inhaling the “green” hydrogen, you dunderheads.
Good bunch of Tom’s toons this morning.
WTF is going on in DB’s painting?
My word of the day is Far-Righteousness. I found it in a whimsical meditation on childless cat ladies.
Gold 20 years ago: $US406/430 oz. $A548/576 oz
Gold now $US2452 oz. $A3748 oz
Will it hit $A4K oz by Christmas? I doubt it, but I have the feeling she’ll be crowding the $A3.9K oz by then. That’s taking into account a hung election with multiple Democrat cheating claims.
This morning TV, caught the ABC,s take on the murder of children in Southport. Mostly concentrated on the rise of the “far-right” interviewing some academic about the dangers of such movements. Pricks
Not so much publicity for this one at Southend cos offenders more “diverse” …
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/31/beach-rave-becomes-machete-battle-at-english-seaside-resort/
I haven’t paid much attention to the incident in Southport, but is it true that the perp is of Rwandan extraction? Given the high numbers of Catholics from Rwanda, you lot might be disappointed as to the motives.
What the hell is a “median Indian- American”, you obese lesbian?
He was never into tech, you idiot. STFU as you’re an idiot and get off the donuts.
Austere religious scholar news.
Media Mourns “Moderate” and “Pragmatic” Dead Hamas Leader (31 Jul)
Just in case you didn’t yet thoroughly and incandescently detest the MSM.
mUnty,
leftard reasoning is so fundamentally idiotic
people like you seem to believe that answers to your confabulated gibberish gotchas can only take a form that you approve of
got news for you buddy … nobody cares about the noise in your head
and nobody cares what journalists ‘think’ whether they are black, white or ginger
Bear,
You’re traveling good , heath wise these days? I haven’t asked for about a year or so.
I don’t think that mUntyfa has too much to worry about with his MRI. He is far too malignant for any cancer to tolerate.
They don’t even pretend anymore. There’s been talk Musk is going to embed a search function in X to compete with Scroogle.
Bill Maher: I Haven’t Changed, the Left Has
There you have it folks:
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/07/31/report-irans-khamenei-orders-direct-strike-on-israel/
Israel has to nuke the bearded bastards; metaphorically speaking.
A deep stench about Pan Zhanle winning and setting a NR by a long way (over 0.4 second) in 100m Free. China have a bad record wrt doping and being open about doping. I can’t get enthused about this ‘athlete’.
Out-of-control leftist governments in Australia are over-reaching again, invading our private and personal lives with new laws that could lock you up for 14 years if you’re guilty of “Coercive Control”. But what the heck is it? Men’s rights advocate Bettina Arndt joins us to discuss.
Winsome Sears would be so much better. — Winsome Sears is simply magnificent and makes Kobbler look like the “a staggeringly ignorant incoherent illiterate innumerate ahistorical anti-scientific imbecile that sucked a whole lot o’ cock to get where” she is. (thanks to Rabz for the colourful adjectives and nouns)
could mUnty actually be pregnant?
… maybe he just has morning sickness
… maybe should get an ultra-sound just be sure
… if it’s a boy call it Che
… if its a girl call it Kamala
The New York Times
You know, if you take a detached view on things, Iran might be about to experience the great kaboom sooner rather than later, and they most likely deserve it too.
We keep reading that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon. In the meantime, they’re arming Israel’s neighbors with an abundance of drones, rockets, and missiles to launch attacks on Israel. Israel’s ability to respond to these provocations will be greatly hampered if Iran manages to obtain a nuclear weapon.
Is there really anything Israel can do but move sooner? The window may not be open if Iran is nuked up.
Thing of course about popping the Hamas guy in Tehran is that the Israelis could nearly as easily pop the Ayatollah any time they want to.
I haven’t seen any clear information about how the Israelis did it. The Iranians say it was a guided missile fired from a building. I would’ve thought a F-35 would be more likely. But if it was the latter the pilot got in and got out without being detected.
This all probably means the Iranian leadership are having conniptions.
Not previously mentioned is the Israelis also got a third guy – the Iranian general who commanded and launched the big missile attack on Israel. He was in Syria for a visit.
Israel assassinates IRGC Commander Amir Hajizadeh near Damascus (31 Jul)
Who will replace Ismail Haniyeh as Hamas leader?From the Oz.
Anybody want to put their hand up?
Re people we met on our recent cruise, while Australian politics was mostly off the agenda because people wanted to like each other and get on, I did get the feeling that many of the Australians there were mainly ABC watchers and therefore Trump Haters, and possibly also Labor in voting inclinations (especially those who were public sector retirees, the ones who nodded sagely at tales of dying coral etc put out by any of the five Fijian marine biologists obviously there on government funds).
The ABC is still the TV news of choice for many of these older well-off cruisers, including a fun-loving and much-travelled married pair of Aussies we enjoyed dining with. Speaking of home, they said that at 7pm nightly they usually settled down ‘to watch the news’, ABC of course, and the assumption was made that being ‘educated, like them’ we did so too. We merely said we mainly stuck to the internet now for information and that we also subscribed to Sky. No-one went any further along that pathway, not wanting to ruin the bonhomie. The passengers were mostly Australian or New Zealanders, with only a sprinkling of French and Americans, including a six foot Texan Goddess travelling alone and keeping mainly to herself; she was there for the diving, so we didn’t bump into her much after a brief exchange of pleasantries on the first day. She looked and in her Texas pride sounded like a Trump girl.
Bear – It’s us. We’re to blame.
China points finger at Aussie meat in doping scandal (Sky News mainpage headline, 1 Aug)
There you go, good Aussie beef will put hair on your chest. Literally if you are a Chinese swimmer.
Iran’s top nuclear scientists would be better targets.
Meanwhile, some discussion in the Israeli press about whether Iran has supplied Hezbollah with a non-nuclear EMP weapon.
The same piece of filth that got down on his knees and prayed in thanks to allah after seeing footage of the Oct 7 attack. (That footage from a Qatar motel room)
Is there an MSM talking head anywhere who will call this scum for what he was?
Bush, in a perverse way, it could actually be true he was a moderate compared to the other satans. 🙂
Since it was mentioned, my CT scans showed another kidney stone, not a gallstone. The early misdiagnosis was because it was in the distal ureter, not the kidney itself. 3.8mm long and made of uric acid, so no surgery required, I will just have to wait for it to dissolve.
I am hoping to play hockey next week, though maybe in defence so I don’t have to run as much. Still walking the dog twice a day, but so far anything more than a walk causes pain.
Prior to WWII, The Times (of London) described Hitler as the moderate face of the Nazi Party.
Commie computers.
Analysis reveals that most major open- and closed-source LLMs tend to lean left when asked politically charged questions (TechXplore, 31 Jul)
The headline and that para are misleading. It isn’t “most” it is “all”. Every single one was progressive-lefty. None were even the slightest bit righty.
Bit of “thugby” trivia for this weekend’s match-ups .. regardles of results none of the 5 teams from positions 13 thru 17, Broncos, Titans, Rabbits, Eels & Tigers, can improve their positions as regards a top 8 finish cos there is a 4 point gap between 10 & 13 …
“Israel has to nuke the bearded bastards; metaphorically speaking.”
They should have done the only thing that has ever worked, even if only for a little while – hit back with overwhelming force as soon as attacked. No warning, just do it. If Iran attacks, then a few MOABs (rather than nukes) on some critical infrastructure (ports, refineries, power plants, presidential palace etc). The message needs to be clear – F around and find out. Same with the Lebo’s.
m0nty
August 1, 2024 12:37 pm
Exactly what they told me.
Tell them to keep looking.
Ask about a Zircon PET scan which can pick up kidney stuff which a regular CT will not.
Bush, in a perverse way, it could actually be true he was a moderate compared to the other satans.
Nah, they’re all germs; it’s like saying bubonic plague is better than tetanus. Ismail Haniyeh wanted palestinian deaths to incentivise other muzzie nations getting involved.
Israel has to go after this scumbag next:
Hamas leader said civilian death toll could benefit militant group in Gaza war, WSJ reports
From OOT:
That’s hardly the point. The point is the lack of loyalty to people who’ve backed him as far back as 2015.
dover0beach
August 1, 2024 12:57 pm
From OOT:
That’s hardly the point. The point is the lack of loyalty to people who’ve backed him as far back as 2015.
Trump is transactional – he doesn’t hold grudges. He’ll can be nasty, but as soon as that particular match is over, he’s happy to have you “on side” for the next battle, if that is where you are.
Elsternwick, apparently a suburb of Melbourne. Anyone know anything about this place? Is it a no-go zone for Jews or something?
Officeworks staff refuse service to a Jew, because he is a Jew.
He kept his cool, I’d have been offering to reenact the Soviet capture of Berlin on her by about halfway through that clip.
It’s just not the point you like.
Trump had no idea about this Project 25 thing and is being painted as a supporter by the left.
If he never read nor knew about the thing, was not consulted before its release to provide input but you’re painting his response as a lack of loyalty? You’re kidding, right? This is some sort of weird joke you’re playing. It’s not working.
Yep, I know it quite well and often go there to pick up office supplies and in fact I was heading that way tomorrow. No kidding.
It’s on the way to the family business and it’s an easy stop. I’m low on ink jet supply, so I had made mental note to go past tomorrow morning.
I will be going, and will ask to speak to the manager if she’s still there.
Maybe he’s pissed off this mob has handed the opposition another bat with which to whack him?
?
The people who created and leaked “Project 2025” to the Dems/MSM very likely did it specifically to screw Trump’s campaign.
They deserved being thrown under the bus at a minimum.
In fact it’s not beyond the Dems to have created it themselves as a false flag.
Muntsac is lying about having kidney stones.
His CT scan discovered his prediliction for alternative bowel blockage therapies.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13693493/Eel-doctors-pull-eel-anus-Vietnam.html
A few people have suggested it was a deliberate act of sabotage.
‘Pro-Palestinian’ Officeworks staffer refuses to laminate Jewish newspaper for kippah-wearing manLiam Mendes
29 minutes ago.
Updated 3 minutes ago
Extraordinary footage of a ‘pro-Palestinian’ Officeworks staff member refusing to laminate a Jewish newspaper has emerged, with the Jewish customer taking Officeworks to an anti-discrimination tribunal over the confrontation.
The footage has landed the Wesfarmers-owned nationwide office supply store in a Victorian tribunal, with the Jewish man – who has asked to remain anonymous due to fears of retribution – saying he is now seriously considering moving his family to Israel because of the ordeal.
The video, filmed in a store on March 4, shows the man at a counter at the Elsternwick store presenting a copy of the Australian Jewish News, requesting for it to be laminated before an Officeworks staff member, who identified herself as a department manager, refuses him service because of her “pro-Palestinian” stance.
“I’m pro-Palestine, and we have the right to deny jobs … it is an Officeworks position, she said.
“[Being pro-Palestine] is my position, but we have the right to deny jobs.
“I am not comfortable proceeding with it,” she said.
The staff member, who was wearing a rainbow Officeworks lanyard, then said she was not comfortable with the article that was being laminated.
“I’ve looked at the photo, I’ve looked at the headline,” she said.
The Jewish man then pointed out the store was “in a Jewish community’’. The staff member then said the customer could wait for another staff member who would feel comfortable.
“For political reasons I’m not comfortable,” she said. When the staff member realised the customer was recording she asked him to leave and said she was calling the police.
The customer, who has since launched legal action in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, told The Australian on Thursday morning he felt he was being discriminated against “in the most crazy way’’.
“I’m just just simply asking to have a photo of us going to Israel in the Jewish News, a mainstream newspaper in our local community, to be laminated, and I’m being told that my business is being refused because I’m Jewish or Zionist or wearing a kippah in public,” he said.
“It’s beyond me, inside I’m trying to keep my calm but inside, I’m shaking because someone’s coming for me,” he said.
He said he was still in shock in the months since the incident.
“It makes you wonder, are Jews safe, are we in an environment where we’ll be protected?” he asked.
“To not even be able to go about your normal business, it makes me feel like all the stories we’ve heard about in the 1940s this is happening to me,” he said.
He said Officeworks had thanked him for the feedback for the experience in their store, and offered a $100 gift card.
According to a statement of claim obtained by The Australian, the man is seeking compensation, that staff undergo anti-Semitism training and a declaration that Officeworks have contravened the Equal Opportunity Act.
The thing about nukes, moabs, hitting countervalue targets, etc. is that the other side gets a say as well. This is a problem both sides confront. The question right now is whether Iran just repeats April or dials up the notch considerably? Juries out.
Dover,
Take the abortion Issue. Project 25 advises that there should be more federal intervention on the issue of abortion.
However Trump’s position is now clear, especially after the SCOTUS ruling. Trump has stated numerous times that the Federal government should be out of the abortion business and now it’s left to the states. This is a very clear message.
You can’t square Project 25’s position of federal intervention with Trump’s position. You, personally my not like where Trump stands on the issue, but to suggest Trump is being disloyal is nuts, quite frankly. That’s just one example.
Wesfarmer’s head office in Perth say they’ve had “a number” of telephone calls regarding this incident.
Oh yeah, what say would Iran have if Israel lobs several nukes into Iran and destroys it as a functioning state?
Did Japan have much of a say when it copped two nukes?
You think the Imam living in the well will come out and punish Israel?
Monty.
Your stone would be calcium and 3.8mm is a pup. All the problems with stones occur during the passage from the kidney to the bladder. Watch out for UTI’s. Get the Ural ready and you may need antibiotics if you get the whizz burn.
The thing about nukes, moabs, hitting countervalue targets, etc. is that the other side gets a say as well.
Indeed Dover but if all hope is lost the 90-400 estimated warheads the Israelis have never confirmed/denied will be expended somewhere.
Some of those are 1MT and mounted on ICBM’s being very hard to shoot down.
Tehran may just score an own goal with the death of Israel.
Unbelievable.
They just don’t get it do they? Do they have to be drawn a picture?
Imagine if it was an aborigine who was refused service.
Heh, a meme for Monty.
Call them on 1300 OFFICE and lodge a complaint.
Just had a calcium score test done on the ticker.
Spent trip to the hospital being told by my wife that I shouldn’t have had caffeine in the morning and how I needed to be relaxed to get my heart rate low enough for the scan to work. I suggested that stopping the lecture might just achieve the desired result.
Reflecting on the Officeworks story, filming started very early in the transaction, almost as if the reaction was expected.
I wonder if she’s done it to someone else earlier and they’ve gone in to make sure they weren’t hearing things. It was a well rehearsed refusal.
This is great. Benjamin Netanyahu being told he’s like James Bond.
Watch the second clip, with sound on. He is a very funny bloke. And, as the emoji describes, HOT! 😀
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1818680307974894048
Destroying infrastructure is the way to go and leave residential and built up areas alone. No power and no oil to export will hurt them much more since the mullahs couldn’t care less about their population, they even said that they could afford to lose half of their people in pursuit of their war aims.
Officeworks staff refuse service to a Jew, because he is a Jew.
I am just stunned at this, I am not often speechless but this has left me seething.
On The Oz website they have the whole video of the exchange. I know that Officeworks in Elsternwick. I hope the Jew hating skank has been sacked and quite frankly I hope she never works again, nobody should touch her. She stinks, she is despicable. In the exchange the skank tries to tell a Jew how Judaism and Zionism are different and then she becomes incoherent because she can’t explain the difference. By the way, Zionism is an integral part of Judaism. Zionism IS Judaism. Even Neturei Karta, the fringe so called ‘anti-Zionist’ sect maintains Jews can and should live on the historical land of Israel, there just cannot be a Jewish government over the land until the messiah arrives. Their objection to Israel is theological.
But this exchange has yet again confirmed to me something I have thought long and hard about over many years. And again, the right has been asleep at the wheel for going on two decades, they have allowed the left to run amok. For the left, everything is political, for the left, everything must be political, nothing is exempt from being ‘political’. So they have politicised everything. I remember back in 2008, walking into a JB HI-FI and being confronted by a staff member who was wearing a badge with a picture of Obama on it. I remember thinking…WTF!…why on earth in Australia someone is spruiking Barack Obama. I recall thinking, how inappropriate. But you see, that was now sixteen years ago and in the interim, everything has gotten worse, almost everything has been politicised by the left. So, am I surprised by this incident. No.
Further to Foghorn Liz, I think she is trying to emulate Candace Owens. As with Owens, it will end in tears. Rabbit holes are dangerous places.
Officeworks Twitter feed. Management will just love this comment left by someone
Lithography for small kidney stones.Sound waves smash them
Big ones might require laser treatment.Font ask what they do with the laser
Which is exactly what they decisively did to the Houthis last week…after all the limp responses from the US Navy.
“The thing about nukes, moabs, hitting countervalue targets, etc. is that the other side gets a say as well.”
Gaza is a part of Israel, is it not? On what grounds does a foreign state attack a nation based on its treatment of some zone in that nation, especially a zone that has pretty much been given autonomy over day-to-day operations and then chooses to attack the host nation itself?
What other nation declares war and then sends warnings of imminent attacks to help prevent casualties?
What sort of people deliberately keep civilians in the line of fire to suppress the enemies use of force?
What sort of people mass torture, rape and kill unarmed civilians and then dare to immediately sue for peace and expect – no demand! – no response from those they attacked?
As I said, the ONLY time Israel sees peace (and then only for a limited time) is when they fight back immediately and hard. Lebanon had been out of the business of attacking Israel for years until it recently started up again. To date Israel has basically “tit for tat”ed, but it’s time to pull the pin and flatten some bits of Lebanon so the Lebanese can remember what happens when you play that game. If Iran wants to play that game, Israel has every right to respond the same way – and they should.
I’d much rather there was peace and trade in the Middle East, I really would.
It is NOT Israel that is the bad guy here – it is Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Given monster’s kidney stone travails it is timely to recall this 007 anecdote from Roger Moore:-
I was plagued again by kidney stones during the making of Moonraker. It was tough on my co-star Lois Chiles, who played Dr Holly Goodhead and had her schedule badly messed about by my frequence absences for hospital treatment.
Finally, after I’d treated myself with painkillers, booze and muscle relaxants, then gone to a party (none of which was a good idea), my kidney stone worked its way out.
Our publicist issued an outrageous press statement: ‘The good news is that Roger Moore has passed his kidney stone. The bad news is that Lois Chiles has swallowed it.’
Boom tish.
The world gets crazier by the day.
Maduro challenges Musk to a fight. Musk accepts.
Here’s the vid.
https://x.com/i/status/1818686934556065933
Given that I referred to the Trump campaign and not Trump, what he knew is beside the point. Nevertheless, he should have just stuck to his initial position of saying he doesn’t know about the group. Nothing to be gained by then disavowing it because the media is still going to present the campaign in the worst light whatever he does. Further, why does a Trump campaign manager, Chris LaCivita, who has a very mixed history,
go out there rubbishing the project? Not a good look at all.
I agree. Universe of a difference. 🙂
“Nevertheless, he [Trump] should have just stuck to his initial position of saying he doesn’t know about the group [project 2025].”
The odd thing is, it’s full of “how to drain the swamp” tips. I reckon Trump could and will do some of it anyway, if he wins – even if he never even glances at the entire “project”.
So the idea is a nuclear first strike on Iran that would prevent a return salvo of conventional ballistic missiles being launched. The gamble here is that the window is short enough to get in without being noticed in time, but you need dozens of missiles to nullify a response and that lengthens the window of being exposed. If they pick it up and they recognize it is going to be a catastrophic strike they have nothing to lose by responding fully.
If Chrisifooli manages to pull off a win in Oct he needs to take the axe to or just sell off Government companies.
Just saw a mob I’ve never seen in NQ. Yurika, yup love these edgy vacuous new names/logos seem to sprout everywhere these days but what do they actually do? Google search shows they have their hands in many baskets energy, parasitic solar/wind projects, computers apparently, smart meters among things.
Who’s the owner? Energy Queensland, WTF who are these people? Well turns out they run all the Government electricity companies. So I have a look at the board, 1 engineer and 8 lawyers/medical types including one politician Lucas who was mentioned for electoral malpractice in the Shepherdson Inquiry and in Beatties corrupt government that he neglects to mention the latter in his CV.
Executive committee another 9 members with 1 engineer, rest have their snouts shove so hard in Government troughs you’d need surgery to remove. The 50/50 gender balance is obvious so some of these pick wouldn’t be at the top of the CV pile either.
Bit of context. When I first laid eyes on Townsville electricity came from NORQEB that then got swallowed up into Ergon. Now Ergon has been swallowed up with energex into this labyrinth of Government companies that do the work a fraction of their number used to. Also from what I’m aware the only part of Queensland left tied to the Government electricity company is the north, so what do these people actually do?
Queensland’s electricity system in good hands with top men, ooops, & ladies.
WES own grandstanding on the Voice invites the Officeworks incident. Huge own goal. Michael Chaney post MD hasn’t helped. Shame as during the 80s you would held them as an exemplar company. Goyder will be lucky to have phone calls returned.
Cybercrime seems to be within overdrive today.
First: a recorded phone call apparently from a respectable-looking Melbourne ‘landline’ number:
Click. No ANZ account.
Second: a text from ‘Linkt’ warning me about recovery proceedings about to start through SPER for unpaid tolls – and giving me a last chance to pay $37.50 + a $25 administration fee.
Third: a text from the ‘ATO’ advising that they have miscalculated my tax obligation and are awaiting my banking details to refund $570.
The days are long gone of US$100 million in misplaced Nigerian money needing only a friendly overseas bank account to be set free.
Small amounts, aimed at the time poor and careless. Cottage industry stuff: do the plausible small bill thing 10,000 times a day on internet auto dial, get a 1% strike rate, make $5,000.
Or upgrade the phone number database and get paid a few bucks per new bank account by bigger fish.
It’s a naughty world out there.
Kneel, none of what you said above addresses the point I raised. The problem with ‘hitting hard” is that its only as straight forward as you think when your opponents are weaker than you. If you have a near-peer opponent , not so much. If Israel escalates and targets critical infrastructure inside Iran, that green lights, at the very least, the same from Iran or even a escalatory response. In both cases, the escalation is an attempt to restore dominance.
People seem to be confusing the alleged stabber with the alleged man with a knife at a protest a couple of days later.
Great. This is what the world really needs.
A few million slightly radioactive, and extremely pissed off Iranians running away from the smoking wasteland that used to be their country while most of the West is letting it any bastard who just shows up with a sob story, or in fact any story at all.
Don’t do it Israel.
JC
August 1, 2024 2:27 pm
I just dropped a complaint on their website.
Germany 1939 got a mention.
The ATO itself was scammed out of at least half a billion dollars in 2023 (they couldn’t give the ABC, who broke the story, an accurate figure) by fraudsters submitting returns with false identities.
Safe hands.
Project 2025 looks awfully like the Lincoln Project with a new hat.
I became a bit suss when their skilled operatives granted a free range interview to Their ABC and proceeded to brag about how they will be running things next year.
Vance has a mixed history too. Trump doesn’t appear to hold grudges.
Re the escalating situation in the Middle East:
It is about time that the Gulf states took a more proactive role in restoring order in their neck of the woods. They may be nominally Islamic, but they are also very much into “the good life”. Their willingness to become party to the Abraham Accord reminds us that they would like to resume/continue trade with the West. Their disdain in relation to the Palestinians is well known.
They can’t remain “on the fence” for too much longer. It is getting more and more uncomfortable up there.
H B Bear
August 1, 2024 3:12 pm
Yep.
And when they pitched the idea, one of the dot points on the PowerPoint slide would have been “staff attraction and retention of committed and engaged young people”.
Possibly true.
But they now have “committed and engaged young people” who are prepared to attack customers.
She hid behind a policy of the right to refuse printing or laminating jobs on the grounds of “communidy standards”. But I’ll bet if a rag-head showed up with graphic photos of Oct 7 he wanted laminated for his 13 year old son, she wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.
I note also the rainbow lanyard which I don’t think is quite as popular among staff at the Gaza City Officeworks.
Vicki all the populace of the ME are low IQ apart from the Israel. I’d hazard a guess the rulers of any country there are always on the lookout for HOP time. Their own. It takes nothing for muzzies to go postal.
Vance is writing the forward to a book by Project 2025. On LaCivita, has he changed or is he the same person he was through the Trump presidency and the aftermath. You can’t say the same about Vance.
Oh sure, the guys that were lawfared by Dems, hated by NeverTrumpers like the Lincoln Project, are just like the Lincoln Project crew.
Trump is the best judge of that.
My fear is that Iran is about to follow this path with its nuclear strategy.
It has a stockpile of near weapons grade Uranium and has obviously had a trial process run to establish the path to achieve bomb-quantities.
So, fissile material breakout for a 20kt device in weeks. You would expect a crude, but workable gun design is already built somewhere – physical delivery to Tel Aviv by Achmed’s truck.
Threat delivered to Tel Aviv by the IAEA.
At that point, the world becomes a much more complicated place for Israel.
“If Israel escalates and targets critical infrastructure inside Iran,”
Israel is always the one doing the responding. You might, maybe, be able to find one or two out of hundreds or even thousands of times where Israel acted first, but they are few and far between.
Walk softly and carry a big stick, as it were. I can respect that.
You can break the rules because the other side are animals, I don’t respect that.
And we all know which countries follow the former and which the latter.
Please, please, please lodge a complaint to the AHRC.
We want to watch those racist creeps squirm.
It occurs to me that the Iranians have already got the bomb and delivery systems. They went the U235 route which is much easier to fashion into a bomb than is the plutonium route. See Little Boy, Hiroshima.
Now they aren’t stupid enough to declare this to the world but they don’t have to, just by quiet methods, let the Israelis know. Everybody knows the Israelis have the bomb (Pu 239 from the reactor at Dimona, maybe 200 boosted fission weapons) but they don’t openly say so either.
I suspect this may hold down the level of violence to that which is good for propaganda purposes for the Iranians while their proxies do the actual fighting.
The media statement on the Officeworks website about their mini nazi laminator was authorised by the “Head of Corporate Affairs and ESG”. Tells you everything you need to know.
Dunny Brush
August 1, 2024 4:37 pm
Which statement is this and how do you find it?
Australia is the world capital of scams and anti-competitive monopolies. It turns out that is a major reason independent airlines Bonza and Rex have collapsed this year.
The agency that used to control takeoff and landing slots at the nation’s most important airport, Sydney, used to be independent.
But in the past decade, Airport Coordination Australia has been sold to a company controlled by the Australian airline duopoly, Qantas and Virgin Australia.
So independent airlines now require permission from the airline duopoly to get slots at Sydney airport – without which they can’t be viable.
Former ACCC chairman Rod Sims points out the ludicrous situation today (Paywallian):
Slots at Sydney Airport — or the time windows allotted to airlines for flights in and out of Australia’s biggest gateway — continued to be a topic of hot debate in the industry.
Transport Minister Catherine King announced in February the government would adopt reforms recommended in a three-year-old report by former Productivity Commission chief Peter Harris, but as yet no further action had been taken.
Prof Sims said it remained a ridiculous situation that the company responsible for slot allocation was majority owned by Qantas and Virgin Australia.
“It’s just unbelievable. So when Rex or Bonza, when they want those key slots that they must have to be viable, they have to go and ask for them from Qantas and Virgin, and they have to put their business plans before them,” he said.
“So the government sets this system up for failure; it sets this system up for a duopoly, and it sets it up for higher airline prices than Australians should be paying.”
He said the slots were the place to start reform, because that would open the door to competition.
“Rex and Bonza as well, were constantly tapping on my door complaining that they couldn’t get the slots they need,” Prof Sims said.
“They should have anticipated that the system was so rigged against them that they were doomed to fail.
“You cannot have Qantas and Virgin Australia controlling the slots at Sydney Airport. That cements the duopoly and cements higher prices for Australia. We have to fix that.”
Anthony Albanese is a Qantas puppet as he has demonstrated in the past year He is not going to dismantle the Sydney airport slots system, which guarantee the incumbent airlines monopoly control of slots at Australia’s most important airport.
QANTAS Chairmans Lounge for the Handsome Boy’s boy was a good investment then?
UPDATED MEDIA STATEMENT – Officeworks Elsternwick store incident, March 2024 1 August 2024 – “We learned of the incident in March 2024. We were deeply disappointed that it occurred and confirm that the customers job should have been performed by the team member. We confirm that we have taken this matter extremely seriously investigated the matter at the time and took appropriate disciplinary action. The views expressed by the team member are not Officeworks’ views. At Officeworks, we do not discriminate against our customers on the basis of political views, religious beliefs, gender, sexuality or race. We provide ongoing training and education to our team members so that they understand the importance of treating all of our customers with respect and dignity. Arising out of this incident relevant team members received education through the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. We sincerely regret that this incident occurred and for the distress caused to the customer.” – Sarah Hunter, Managing Director, Officeworks.
Oh great, so they didn’t fire the bigoted, tramp stamped, nose ringed bint, Good to know.
Just went on YouTube to watch Trump’s inauguration speech again. That man has aged.
But watching the NABJ interview today, there is a humility and almost softness to him now that is appealing.
Don’t get me wrong. The man is a f**king lion. But it is a scarred and fading lion. I want to see him win and hand over to JD Vance at the right moment.
I love America.
Not its government on whom I spit.
But its people. I believe they will draw inward and the rest of us will be on our own. We really don’t deserve anything else.
And Ismail Haniyeh? Live by the sword, die by the sword. Israel has just told its enemies there is no safety anywhere. Nor should there be.
I wonder if VIC employment law might be a factor in that decision.
If it was a first offence, so to speak, sacking may have exposed the company to unfair dismissal action by the employee.
UPDATED MEDIA STATEMENT – Officeworks Elsternwick store incident, March 2024 1 August 2024 – “We learned of the incident in March 2024. We were deeply disappointed that it occurred and confirm that the customers job should have been performed by the team member. We confirm that we have taken this matter extremely seriously investigated the matter at the time and took appropriate disciplinary action. The views expressed by the team member are not Officeworks’ views. At Officeworks, we do not discriminate against our customers on the basis of political views, religious beliefs, gender, sexuality or race. We provide ongoing training and education to our team members so that they understand the importance of treating all of our customers with respect and dignity. Arising out of this incident relevant team members received education through the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. We sincerely regret that this incident occurred and for the distress caused to the customer.” – Sarah Hunter, Managing Director, Officeworks.
Appropriate disciplinary action would be stapling a burqa to the bitch’s dumb head and sending her to Iran.
I reckon ex Matilda’s coach Gustavsson would be one happy man leaving the nest of pit vipers behind.
They sent her to the Holocaust Museum, did they? So she could enjoy pictures and stories of marginalised, imprisoned, tortured and murdered Jews.
She should have been sacked for bringing the company into disrepute.
No imagined “unfair dismissal” payout will equal the loss of business these idiots are about to endure.
That video was awful.
The request was nothing close to the equivalent of laminate my river to the sea poster, which no doubt she wouldn’t have hesitated to do.
It was an article about the customer’s trip to Israel.
She couldn’t articulate her objections which were in essence just anti Semitic because she obviously believes Israel should not exist, and nor should a publication called Jewish News.
Officeworks needs to do better than a $100 gift card.
Someone up thread asked about Dover’s painting.
A bit hard to hunt down, until I found a description on Sotheby’s website.
So, the chicks are Amazons. Possibly.
Yes…well; we’re talking corporate Australia, where Noel Pearson is regarded as an “innovative thinker.”
But I suspect the initial response was handled by the company’s HR in VIC.
From the Hun
ADC chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich said the incident was “not normal and should be condemned by our elected leaders in the strongest possible terms”.
“Treating Jewish people differently because of who they are is discrimination plain and simple and Officeworks Elsternwick might as well have posted a sign in the store saying, ‘No service for Jews, Zionists or supporters of Israel,’” he said in a statement.
“Imagine the public outrage if a member of the LGBTQI community, or an Indigenous Australian or a disabled person were turned away? It may begin with the Jews being turned away from a public business, but it will not end with the Jews, and red lines are now being crossed that I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.”
Dr Abramovich said he was “shocked by this ugly and dehumanising outburst of exclusion which is un-Australian and tears to shreds our shared values”.
“What’s next? Being refused entry into a restaurant, a club or a medical clinic because you wear a Star of David, or you have a Jewish-sounding name?” he said.
“Who would have thought that in Melbourne 2024, people would be denied a service because of their faith and for Israel? We should have zero tolerance for this kind of profiling and indefensible prejudice. No one should be singled out or denied service because of their ethnic origin, the country they support, gender, creed, faith, or sexual orientation.”
Would be interesting to know of the sort of staff training Officeworks provided.
Presumably there are some sort of things they refuse service on? For example, pictures of certain levels of sexual activity?
They should come clean on exactly what that list consisted of.
Vax status?
How quickly we forget.
You’ll note that there’s not a single word in all of this about who the perpetrator and their motive actually was.
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Pathetic.
It’s all gaslighting. NOTHING IS AUTHENTIC! NOTHING!
It makes you wonder. I had no idea about the massive scale of the tunnels under Odessa in the Ukraine and others places around the world.
A large part of them have been sealed.
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My Lunch Break:
This Clip exposes what is under our feet. Finding that there are 18 levels (AT LEAST) under our feet connecting to 200+ Cities all over the world. Seeing that the mainstream tells us that this would have been done very easily with a shovel. We know here, that something else took place here where we all live. And today, we get even closer to finding this truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_eUOIFulU
I am going to put something out here that is truly contraversial.
I am a fervent believer in the nation state as the best guarantor of its citizens’ rights. As such, I will defend Israel’s right to strike at their enemies.
I am also aware of the efforts of people who believe themselves to be Jewish and who also simultaneously seek to undermine the white majorities in many nations.
If there can be an explicitly Jewish nation in the world, there must also be explicitly Russian, English, German, Afghani, Fijian and Latvian nation also.
I am very much opposed to war. It is senseless and brutal and leads to so much human misery.
But there has to be an understanding of the large number of Jewish people who have been involved in the project to demolish the non-Jewish underpinnings of Western societies.
Cassie and those of Jewish heritage,
Please know that I would never ever see you treated differently because of your ethnic origin or belief. I would be the first to tell someone to “F**k off* for denial of service and if I saw someone being disrespected. I believe Australia really is a place where we shed the ethnic skin and begin again.
But as much as you revere your Jewish heritage, I am aware of my own as a person of Celtic origin who has somehow ended up in Australia. I have ancestry that reaches back to the court of Queen Anne and Winston Churchill. Should I be made to feel fealty to England? No. Nor should you be made to swear fealty to the land that the state of Israel is founded upon.
We are Australians who have come from many places. But we now love this space and these people while also bringing our perspective. We are thankful for having been folded in.
And that is why a Jewish person being treated like that mindless bint did in Officeworks would cop a mouthful from me. And probably a lot of other Australians, too.
Riddle me this one, thrill seekers of the Cat.
Wesfarmers shares – the owners of Officeworks – are trading at a record high – nearly four times what I paid for them. Should I sell those shares in protest, or hang on, and see if they go higher?
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The fact that the skank didn’t lose her job means, as far as I’m concerned, that Officeworks Elsternwick should be driven out of business.
I’m over being nice and forgiving.
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A couple of observations about the Irish famine seeing as there is some dispute about it.
From the first introduction of the potato to Ireland in the secind half of the 18th century the percentage of arable land in Ireland, land held by small holders, tenant farmers and the effectively landless, those with a cabin on an acre devoted to the cultivation of the potato increased exponentially and along with it there was a population explosion (from 4 million in 1780 to over 8 million in 1841) as the potato along with a little access to dairy or meat, a household cow or a pig to fatten meant far more children in poor families survived.
By 1840 close to 40% of the population relied mainly on the potato as a dietary staple.
Larger landholders with 75% or more of the arable land continued to grow wheat, oats and barley for export
Add to that the laissez-faire policies of the Whig government in 1847 and you have a recipe for disaster.
https://www.rte.ie/history/famine-ireland/2020/0921/1166563-hunger-will-break-through-a-wall-food-riots-during-the-famine/#:~:text=Good%20Friday%20Agreement-,’Hunger%20will%20break%20through%20a%20wall’%3A,food%20riots%20during%20the%20Famine&text=Contrary%20to%20the%20often%2Drepeated,food%20protest%20in%20Irish%20history.
Fluffy Annaliese is as anti-Trump as all the others on daytime Sky.