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Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 10:15 am

Khelif was abruptly disqualified from the 2023 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships. IBA president Umar Kremlev said the DNA test results of Khelif “proved they had XY chromosomes.” Khelif tried to appeal these findings but later withdrew it.

Kelif has male chromosomes.

Testosterone levels can be artificially fiddled with, chromosomes can’t.

However, the International Olympic Committee uses a different rule set and cleared Khelif to compete at the Paris Olympics.

Obviously a rule set that doesn’t take chromosomes, the single most determinative factor, into account.

m0nty
m0nty
August 2, 2024 10:19 am

So it turns out that Khelif might not even have high testosterone levels. That claim and the XY chromosome claim were made by the discredited and disgraced head of the IBA, a Russian stooge who DQed Khalifa after she defeated a Russian fighter, and has called the head of the IOC a “sodomite”. The IOC has decertified the IBA after a string of corruption scandals.

Yet another non-story where you lot are on the side of the worst people.

PARIS — An outcry erupted at the Paris Olympics around the presence of two female boxers who were disqualified by the International Boxing Association at last year’s world championships in New Delhi for what the organization said at the time was a failure “to meet eligibility rules.”

IBA President Umar Kremlev told the Russian news agency Tass last year the disqualifications were because “it was proven they have XY chromosomes.”

The issue, which had been simmering for a few days around the Games, blew up Thursday after one of the two women, Algeria’s Imane Khelif, won her opening bout in Villepinte. Her opponent, Angela Carini, quit less than a minute into the 66-kg (145.5-pound) round-of-16 bout following a powerful punch to her nose.

It remains unclear what standards Khelif and Lin Yu Ting of Taiwan failed last year to lead to the disqualifications.

The IOC, which is overseeing the boxing competition in Paris, does not test for gender, and there never has been evidence that either Khelif or Lin had XY chromosomes or elevated levels of testosterone. They have competed for years, including at the Tokyo Olympics and several world championships.

In his comments to Tass in 2023, Kremlev said two boxers were given DNA tests. In the minutes of the IBA’s board of director’s meeting held two days after the women were disqualified, George A. Yerolimpos, the organization’s CEO and secretary general at the time, told the attendees the women had failed tests conducted by an independent laboratory. He also told the meeting’s attendees that both women had failed a different test, conducted by a different laboratory, at the previous year’s world championships in Istanbul, but that the results had come too late for the fighters to be disqualified.

The meeting’s minutes do not say what kind of test had been administered or the name of the laboratory. Yerolimpos told the meeting that he “closely followed” the women’s testing as soon as they arrived in India.

In a statement this week, the IBA said the women did not “undergo a testosterone examination” but “a separate and recognized test.” The statement added that the test and results are “confidential.”

In a statement issued Thursday evening, the IOC said: “The current aggression against these two athletes is based entirely on this arbitrary decision, which was taken without any proper procedure — especially considering that these athletes had been competing in top-level competition for many years. Such an approach is contrary to good governance.”

Throughout the week, IOC officials have said they had no reason to keep either boxer from the Olympics. Several times, IOC spokesman Mark Adams has cautioned that the controversy involves “real people” and stressed that “this is not a transgender issue” in the face of attacks from critics of transgender athletes.

A person with knowledge of last year’s disqualifications from worlds but not authorized to speak publicly called Khelif and Lin’s banishments “classic IBA disinformation.”

Three people familiar with the details of the women’s case pointed out that the disqualifications came three days after Khelif defeated Russian Azalia Amineva and a day after she won her semifinal bout in the 63-66-kg (139-145.5-pound) category.

Fed up by a history of judging and bribery scandals involving the IBA even before Kremlev was first elected as the organization’s president in 2020, the IOC took control of Olympic boxing at the Tokyo Games. It became suspicious when Kremlev spent heavily on marketing himself, lined up only one sponsor — Russian energy company Gazprom — and battled with Olympic leaders. The IOC took control of the boxing competition at the Paris Games as well, and it left the sport off the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Three months after Lin and Khelif were disqualified, the IOC decertified the IBA. Another organization, World Boxing, supported by the United States, the Netherlands and several other Western countries, has emerged as a potential replacement for the IBA. In the 14 months since, relations between the IOC and IBA have deteriorated further.

On Wednesday, Kremlev posted a video on X, criticizing the Paris Games Opening Ceremonies and calling IOC President Thomas Bach “a chief sodomite.”

Every four years, athletes gather at the Olympics to test the limits of human potential. But those limits might be closer than you think. Host Ava Wallace is joined in Paris by two Post reporters who analyzed the past, present and future of world records.

Despite the suspect credibility of last year’s disqualifications and the fact that neither boxer is transgender, several high-profile critics of transgender athlete issues seized on the results of the fight as well as comments made by Carini, who told reporters: “It could be the match of my life, but in that moment, I had to safeguard my life, too.”

Within an hour of the fight, social media was alive with posts blasting Khelif and Lin as well as the IOC. In comments to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the fight was unfair, baselessly citing Khelif’s testosterone levels.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said on X: “This is all on [the] IOC and those in power who make the rules. It’s a travesty and makes a mockery of all Olympic sports.”

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2024 10:23 am

The Nazi doubles down.

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2024 10:26 am

The Nazi doesn’t mind seeing women pummelled, punched, bludgeoned and assaulted.

I do hope his wife knows.

Makka
Makka
August 2, 2024 10:27 am

Putting money into 1.4 Billion Chinese pockets is gonna make inflation that much harder to tame for CB’s.

Shanghai Macro Strategist

@ShanghaiMacro

Huang Yiping, a member of the PBoC’s monetary policy committee, just made a bold statement. Although this committee is an advisory and not a decision-making body, his comment was still significant:

“If the Chinese economy falls into the trap of low inflation, the consequences will be severe. Therefore, we should set a hard target of 2-3% CPI growth and shift our policy preference from investment to consumption. We should confidently adopt fiscal measures to support consumption, such as allowing migrant workers to settle in cities (get Hukou) and directly sending money to households.”

Despite the growing support in China for bold fiscal measures to boost consumption, those with real decision-making power have clearly remained hesitant to embrace unconventional measures.

cohenite
August 2, 2024 10:31 am

Top Ender
 August 1, 2024 11:10 pm

The suspect in the Southport stabbing attack can been named for the first time. 

And what is starmer’s and the left’s concern after letting these grubs in?

  • PM Sir Keir Starmer denounces the actions of “a gang of thugs” who took part in a riot in Southport and says a new “national capability” will be established to tackle violent disorder
  • Tuesday’s riot followed a vigil for the victims Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cydvr9d0vd3t

These are the same creeps who have terrorised Tommy Robinson and allowed the muzze/palli riots to go unchecked.

The fact is the Western elites are intent on destroying Western democracy. If cackles gets in we are fuked.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 2, 2024 10:36 am

Firstly well done to the Italian boxer lady for bringing worldwide attention to the male in women’s sports issue.
I note The Australian and Courier Mail not allowing comments under their articles on this. A clear sign too sensitive and not willing to allow readers a say.
It seems the IOC criteria for being able participate in Olympic women’s boxing is having a passport that says your are female.
Qld recently decided to allow people to identify how they like and even have a new birth certificate issued. No doubt same applies to their passports. So I guess that means eligible to participate in women’s boxing. Oh wait, Brisbane holding Olympics in 8 years. Could be interesting.
This has all come about due to a small vocal minority and pathetically weak and gutless politicians who gave into wokeness.
What a mess.

Chris
Chris
August 2, 2024 10:36 am

I think we are seeing a strong case for banning womens boxing itself.

Rabz
August 2, 2024 10:38 am

“Friends of Tony Burke”

Why does an image of a meeting of the aforementioned being held in a phone booth spring to mind?

It’s a mystery, Cats.

local oaf
August 2, 2024 10:42 am

Fnar

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2024 10:43 am

BTW – I only just saw it this morning but, what is this Catholic Guilt thing about?

Makka
Makka
August 2, 2024 10:46 am

The fact is the Western elites are intent on destroying …

Traditional Western civil values. Undermining and wrecking our communities which will destroy our standard of living.

Through the migrant vote herds, these elitist deviant scum have found a formula to stay in power while fking our lives.

FIFY.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 2, 2024 10:47 am

Just contacted Wesfarmers head office in Perth in relation to the disgraceful attitude of Officeworks to antisemitism and discrimination against fellow citizens of the Jewish faith.

 
Wesfarmers Limited 
Level 14, Brookfield Place Tower 2
123 St Georges Terrace
Perth 6000, Western Australia
 

T (61 8) 9327 4211
F (61 8) 9327 4216
To contact us, please email us at [email protected]

Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 10:48 am

It’s dead simple to clear up the question of Kelif’s sex.
Release the test results.

Privacy concerns? Test results have been released to prove qualifications on many occasions (dopers/sex determination) in the past. He should have worried about that before he walked onto the international stage claiming he was something he quite obviously is not.

But the Olympic Committee hasn’t/won’t release the results.
Why? How about because they will show Y chromosomes?

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 2, 2024 10:49 am

Mrs TE writes:

It is amazing how the geography of Switzerland can change in just two hours.

We went from the rugged, rocky Matterhorn region (29 over 4000ft that you can eyeball there) – pine trees, beautiful tiny wildflowers, scree, waterfalls – to the productive orchard/grape/crop farming valleys which have the most powerful tumultuous rivers I’ve ever seen.

Then onto the lakes (now at Montreux on Lake Lucern again – opposite end to Geneva) with a warm “sub-tropical” climate zone growing small banana palms, hibiscus and I even saw a frangipani.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 2, 2024 10:50 am

I’m amused that Monty appears to subscribe to WaPo.
Democracy dies in darkness is their motto.
Which they’re working on.

Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 11:09 am

In case you were unclear on who really won the Venezuelan election…

Russian Wagner ‘mercenaries’ and members of the Cuban military arrive in Caracas where they will ‘fortify’ the position of the dictator Maduro.

From the MSM – crickets.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 2, 2024 11:27 am

Haha, nice work Miranda!

Rise of Kamala Harris solidifies Dems’ full embrace as the party of ‘preachy females,’ scolding shrews (1 Aug)
New York Post, by Miranda Devine

With the ascension of Saint Kamala, we are now watching the Mean Girl rebranding of the Democratic Party. It has to be the biggest miscalculation in political history. As polls show America’s young men are lurching rightward at a rapid pace, the Democratic brand has finally evolved into the party of scolding shrews, nagging Karens and “preachy females,” as Dem dinosaur James Carville calls them. Its image is tied to a type of unserious, self-involved, neurotic, dogmatic Dem-fem who insists on telling you her pronouns and whose highest goal is abortion on demand right up until the moment of birth.

Am I allowed to say “childless cat ladies”?

Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 11:29 am

“While she (Harris) is slightly favored in the national popular vote, she is not favored in the Electoral College. “Instead … drumroll … she has a 38 percent chance, compared to 61 percent for Trump”.

“I know people don’t like to talk about that [the Electoral College], because there’s nothing that Democrats can do about it. But the election is likely to be close, and it’s a big disadvantage when the ties go to Republicans,” Silver explained.”

Nate Silver

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Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2024 11:32 am

PM Sir Keir Starmer denounces the actions of “a gang of thugs”

One man’s thug is another man’s freedom fighter.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 11:33 am

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/spot-on-from-the-bee.html

“Gold medal in freestyle domestic violence….” Snork, Snork..”

Makka
Makka
August 2, 2024 11:38 am

Deviants and perverts. m0ron’s lot.

America First Legal

@America1stLegal

Our litigation just exposed that Biden’s FDA recommended approving puberty blockers to minors despite noting that these drugs are associated with an “increased risk of depression and suicidality.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GT6fy5rW0AAnwxl?format=jpg&name=large

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 2, 2024 11:38 am

Did mUnturd check inside his/her knickers as a test for femininity? Maybe the evidence was not visible.

mem
mem
August 2, 2024 11:42 am

Tony Woods from the Grattan Institute is quoted on the ABC as saying; “South Australia is getting to the point where on average it’s 100 per cent renewable.”
“But that means sometimes it’s 200 per cent and sometimes it’s almost nothing” he explained.
Is he that dumb or does he just think the public is dumb?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/demand-for-sunlight-storage-surges-amid-transition-to-solar/104170720

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 2, 2024 11:47 am

Deviants and perverts.

Speaking of such things.

Joe Biden blasted over ‘f***ing creepy’ comment to little girl in latest blunder (1 Aug)

He really can’t help himself.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 2, 2024 11:51 am

Has anyone checked the Khelif tackle box?

Had a quick squiz online to see if Khelif was born a biological male, but of course most of the media is so woke it’s almost impossible to find.

MatrixTransform
August 2, 2024 11:57 am

you lot are on the side of the worst people

if you ever find yourself in a clinch with Kelif 

… lift your knee right into ‘her’ balls

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m0nty
m0nty
August 2, 2024 11:57 am

@carolinekwan

Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the greatest male swimmer in history. Meanwhile, female athletes with genetic differences are legally discriminated against and harassed to no end. This is not about “protecting women in sports” – this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.

Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 12:00 pm

After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, I paraphrased an Obama comment and attributed it to Muntsac. I wrote, “if I had a son, he would look like Thomas Crooks”.
Lo and behold, the Gimp bit, he ordered me to never mention his son as, apparently he has one. Poor little boy.

Upthread, Lizzie had mildly chided Muntsac about the treatment of women and girls and stated she hoped, if he had a girl child, that he would treat her better than they way women and girls have been treated collectively in the media, and politically. Treatment which the Gimp whole heartedly subscribes to, I will add.

Now we know the Gimp has two children. Has stated one is male, so one would naturally assume the other is female. He did not answer Lizzie’s plea for understanding and better treatment of the female sex. Not a peep.

This leads one down the path of realising what most of us here have long suspected/believed, the Gimp really does despise female humans. Even his own.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 2, 2024 12:01 pm

Meanwhile, female athletes with genetic differences are legally discriminated against

Genetic differences in this case meaning being equipped with XY chromosomes and a penis.

Cassie of Sydney
August 2, 2024 12:03 pm

I see the pervert apologist and all round Nazi is doubling down.

I have long known this but it is safe to say that the Nazi heartily approves of violence against women.

He really is despicable.

MatrixTransform
August 2, 2024 12:05 pm

What a mess

Sheilas everywhere were entirely ok whilst the Crocodile Feminism was eating everybody else.

now that it’s morphed into an even more retarded post-everything, intersectional monster

… sheilas are apparently not that happy

Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 12:08 pm

“this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.”

Indeed. The specific idea called ‘reality’.

Lack of a Y chromosome physically defines a woman more accurately than any other metric.

Certainly more than metrics which can be fiddled with via chemistry.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 2, 2024 12:09 pm

Obviously a rule set that doesn’t take chromosomes, the single most determinative factor, into account.

There are rare cases of an xxy chromosome. I remember reading of a Spanish athlete who had this and had been disqualified from races post facto. They had to restore her record when she gave birth

bons
bons
August 2, 2024 12:12 pm

Death taxes from the Greens, eh.

That will get the doctors to exercise a degree of scrutiny over their wives’ voting habits.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 2, 2024 12:22 pm

Monty, you’re quoting an actress.
Go outside and kick yourself up the arse for rampant stupidity.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 2, 2024 12:31 pm

I hope not.

Can the Olympics survive the climate crisis? (Phys.org, 1 Aug)

This is what passes for science news these days.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 2, 2024 12:32 pm

It seems quite clear that mUnty doesn’t have any friends. Why else would he come here so frequently, where he is regarded as, at best, stupid, but more generally is held in open contempt.

What a sad life he must have. Obsessed with politics in a country where he can’t vote, and deliberately annoying people who ignore his opinions, which will never change their minds.

Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 12:36 pm

Gimps need not apply.

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Zatara
Zatara
August 2, 2024 12:39 pm

“this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.”

I’d also note that it was the very specific truth which humanity has held for all 200,000 years of its existence.

… until it became politically fashionable to think otherwise about 10 minutes ago.

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2024 12:41 pm

There are rare cases of an xxy chromosome.

I am curious to try XXO – it is a quite recent gradation (14 yrs+ in oak barrels).

Mind you, the best cognacs already beggar the VS->XXO grading thing.

will
will
August 2, 2024 12:50 pm

Someone has done some numbers on weak men creating hard times:

real-per-capita-houshold-incomes-2024
Kneel
Kneel
August 2, 2024 12:56 pm

“m0nty
August 2, 2024 11:57 am

@carolinekwan
Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the greatest male swimmer in history.”

None of which changes the fact that an XY has higher bone density, more muscle mass, more fast-twitch muscle fibre, a higher centre of gravity and higher grip stregth than an XX, to name a few.
These are not just “edge cases” – in statistical terms, the highest grip strength of an XX is about the average grip strength of an XY, for example.
XX an XY have different bodies – one is better at some things, the other is better at others. I am NOT saying one is superior to the other, except in certain specific areas where they have a clear physical advantage. For instance, an XY can jump higher than an XX can because of the physical higher centre of gravity. Of course, the XY is more stable because of the lower centre of gravity.

I find it interesting that at least in terms of sporting competitions, it is the XY imitating the XX that wins more often than not, while the XX that imitates the XY rarely does so. That tells you a lot right there.

I am happy to call you by your preferred pronouns if you ask nicely, but am unlikely to if you should be so crass as to think you can “demand” it. And just because you decide to wear a dress, have surgery and take drugs to change your appearance, it doesn’t mean you are “fairly” competing again those you are trying to imitate.

Vicki
Vicki
August 2, 2024 12:59 pm

Trump must surely be among the most vilified of contemporary political figures. James Allan has written a fair defence of him in this week’s Australian Spectator. Whatever one thinks of Trump, one should ponder the remark of Albert Einstein:

“ Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act”.

I think many of us may perceive the significance of current events, but rarely put those evaluations on the line. Trump has done this in spades.

Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 1:01 pm

Excellent piece from Kurt Shlichter at Town Hall.
His amusing rebuttal to the “White Dudes for Kamala”.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/08/01/white-dudes-for-having-some-personal-dignity-and-self-respect-n2642761

KevinM
KevinM
August 2, 2024 1:04 pm

Pogria
August 2, 2024 12:36 pm

Gimps need not apply.

————–

Endurance, originally named Polaris, was built in 1912 in Norway for Arctic tourist cruises.

It was a wooden three-masted barquentine with a coal-fired steam engine of 350 horsepower, capable of speeds up to 10.2 knots.
The ship was 144 feet long and 25 feet wide, with a tonnage of 300 tons.
The foremast was square-rigged while the mainmast and mizzenmast were fore-and-aft rigged.

Endurance was one of the strongest wooden ships ever built, designed to withstand the harsh conditions of polar regions.
Ernest Shackleton purchased the ship in 1914 for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and renamed it Endurance after his family motto, “By endurance we conquer.” The ship set sail for Antarctica from Plymouth in August 1914.

Endurance became trapped in the Weddell Sea by dense pack ice in January 1915. The ship was beset by ice and drifted for months before the pressure of the ice began to crush it. In October 1915, the crew abandoned the ship, and by November, Endurance had sunk, leaving the crew stranded on the ice.

Shackleton and his men camped on the ice and later made an incredible journey in lifeboats to reach Elephant Island. Shackleton and a small party then sailed over 800 miles in a lifeboat to South Georgia to seek rescue. All members of the expedition were eventually rescued without loss of life.

The story of Endurance is one of the most remarkable tales of survival and endurance in the history of exploration.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 1:06 pm

Reynolds’ courtroom showdown with Higgins kicks offPaul Garvey

The courtroom showdown between Senator Linda Reynolds and her former staffer Brittany Higgins is finally here, despite the exhortations of multiple Supreme Court justices who repeatedly urged the pair to resolve their issues without a trial.

Courtroom 42 of the David Malcolm Justice Centre in the Perth CBD will be the latest venue for a legal examination stemming from Bruce Lehrmann’s rape of Ms Higgins on a couch in Senator Reynolds’ Parliament House office.

While the previous courtroom battles – the criminal prosecution of Mr Lehrmann, which ended in a mistrial after juror misconduct, and the defamation action by Mr Lehrmann against Network 10, in which Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that on the balance of probabilities Mr Lehrmann did rape Ms Higgins – have focused on whether the rape actually occurred, this trial will focus on the fallout.

In particular, Senator Reynolds is arguing that her former staffer and her now-husband David Shiraz defamed her in a series of social media posts made in the months and years after Ms Higgins’ rape.

Senator Reynolds’ statement of claim argues that the posts were published as part of a plan by Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz to use the allegations that Senator Reynolds had been involved in a political cover-up as a weapon to inflict immediate political damage on her.

Anthony Albanese’s closest confidantes, Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong, were drip-fed false information by Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz as part of a larger plan to destroy Senator Reynolds’ career and take down the Morrison government, the senator alleged.

Mr Sharaz also organised meetings between Ms Higgins and Labor MPs to discuss her rape allegations, the documents say, including then opposition leader Mr Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, as well as former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd.

Ms Higgins in her filed defence “denies the allegations”, and claims in her amended defence that the senator “mishandled the aftermath of the incident” and failed to support her.

Senator Reynolds is also suing Mr Sharaz for defamation, although he has said he will not contest the matter due to a lack of resources.

Mr Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence and is appealing Justice Lee’s decision.

The start of today’s defamation trial comes despite repeated urgings for the parties to avoid having the case go to trial.

Justice Marcus Solomon, who was first assigned to the matter, had repeatedly warned Senator Reynolds, Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz about the human and financial cost of taking the case to trial and personally led a lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful mediation session between the parties earlier this year.

And WA Chief Justice Peter Quinlan last month again called for the parties to avoid going for trial as he handed down a decision ordering Ms Higgins to hand over to Senator Reynolds’ legal team details about the trust set up to administer the $2.4 million settlement she secured from the Commonwealth.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 2, 2024 1:07 pm

Crossie August 2, 2024 8:42 am:

At some point people will have enough and protests like this one will be considered small. What then?

Crossie:
Our rulers have two choices – double down, or accede to the majority wishes.
One leads to peace and the other leads to violence escalating to disorder and attempts at public control.
Which one do you think the Communists want?

Take your time…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 2, 2024 1:08 pm

To be honest women in sport got everything they deserve by putting up with cocks in frocks from day one. I surmise they thought some uncoordinated effeminate nancyboi that they could coo over was going to make a fool themselves coz we’re all really so good though we can’t beat 15yo males at anything. Instead not good enough males charged through. Don’t expect others to stand up for you if you won’t stand up for yourself. Just about every governing body of sport is made up of never any goods, nothing to do with the sport or wannabes. Sport in general would be far better off without them. Especially now as it is another big business with salaries and perks to go with it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 2, 2024 1:13 pm

Should we have special chairs for the Olympics where some drag-queen can declare of candidates “Duas habet et been pendentes”?

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 1:18 pm

m0nty

August 2, 2024 1:13 pm

Reply to  Zatara

Wyoming’s voters enjoy three times the electoral college vote power of Californians, Zatara, If you don’t understand that, that is your fault not mine.

That’s the American system, Fatboy. It was expressly created with the intention of not having the president elected by popular vote.The original intention of the framers was to create a republic, not a democracy. If you don’t like it, then don’t live there. That’s right, you don’t.

Kneel
Kneel
August 2, 2024 1:18 pm

“I think many of us may perceive the significance of current events, but rarely put those evaluations on the line. Trump has done this in spades.”

Indeed. Despite the attempted assassination and the USSS telling him to no longer do outdoor rallies, he has defied them and said he will continue with the outdoor rallies he and his supporters adore. Coming on the heels of refusing to cower in fear minutes after a bullet took a chunk out of his ear, and instead standing fist raised shouting “Fight, fight, fight!”, this shows the mettle of the man. That he lost money both running for and being President, and that he is fighting every single fake “crime” he has been accused of, also says plenty.

He could have simply retired to play golf at Mar-a-Lago, but instead stood up to be counted – and continued standing up for what he believed in through the smears, the impeachments, the lies, and the attempt on his life. This is clearly a man who loves his country and wants to save it. Say what you will of his personality and politics, and even say he is wrong about everything, but his patriotism and courage is not in doubt.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 1:20 pm

Anyone care to imagine the legal dogfight that would ensure, if a biological woman was injured, or killed, at the hands of someone like Khelif?

Salvatore - Iron Publican
August 2, 2024 1:26 pm

Wyoming’s voters enjoy three times the electoral college vote power of Californians, Zatara, If you don’t understand that, that is your fault not mine.

That’s nothing, whoever wrote that oughta see their respective Senate vote power.

Ceres
Ceres
August 2, 2024 1:30 pm

If we could only clone Trump’s spine the world would be a much better place.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 2, 2024 1:34 pm

Bennett and Reynolds haven’t briefed counsel. This should be good.

Kneel
Kneel
August 2, 2024 1:42 pm

“Wyoming’s voters enjoy three times the electoral college vote power of Californians, Zatara, If you don’t understand that, that is your fault not mine.”

Wyoming has 3 electoral college votes. 3.
Cali has 54.
That means Wyoming has 1 house rep, while Cali has 52.

So California voters enjoy 52 times more house vote power than those in Wyoming.

If you don’t understand that, that is your fault not mine.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 2, 2024 1:45 pm

There’s an article in the Oz claiming Khelif was born female.

I call bullshyte on this.

Just as a possibly unrelated aside, confirming birth anomalies, there was a story in the press yesterday about a lass born with two vaginas and the related plumbing for each.

She used one for business and one for personal use.

Would have been popular in the back row of the picture theatre back in the day.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 1:53 pm

Higgins’ settlement based on ‘bare-faced falsity’Paul Garvey
The Commonwealth’s swift $2.475m settlement with Brittany Higgins was based on a “bare-faced falsity,” Senator Linda Reynolds’ lawyer says.

Martin Bennett, opening Senator Reynolds’ defamation case against her former staffer, said the outcome of the confidential mediation between Ms Higgins and the Commonwealth – which was leaked to the media “before the ink was dry” – would have caused the public to believe Ms Higgins’ claims that the senator had harassed her in the wake of her alleged rape.

“Any person in Australia reading this would automatically think the allegations made by Ms Higgins were so true, so damning, so correct in their allegations against Senator Reynolds, that the Commonwealth paid $2.5m on a single instance of mediation,” Mr Bennett said.

“The claims made by Ms Higgins were false, and Senator Reynolds was denied the appropriate venue, the appropriate time, the appropriate funding by the Commonwealth to defend the actions of herself and her staff.”

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 1:57 pm

After 128 years of colour, controversy and bald-faced corruption, will this be the knockout blow for Olympic boxing?

The 46 seconds of mayhem that saw Italian fighter Angela Carini, two time world champion, abandon the bout against controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif may yet be the killer blow to boxing’s future as an Olympic sport.

You know what, I have zero sympathy for the Italian gal. She’s no novice and a twice-world champion, so she knew what she was getting herself into. And then the bawling, because it didn’t work out. She should never have gotten into the ring with a bloke, because she’s fully aware it would be a hiding to nothing.

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 2:06 pm

I have a hunch, Hiden and Kamal Toe did everything they could to get the WSJ reporter out of Russian prison because they feared Trump would trump them before or after the election and make them look bad. I wonder what they gave up?

Zippster
Zippster
August 2, 2024 2:09 pm
Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 2:21 pm

The latest Please Explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNBqU8AFRRg

Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 2:22 pm

Snap! Zippster!

shatterzzz
August 2, 2024 2:27 pm

“The claims made by Ms Higgins were false, and Senator Reynolds was denied the appropriate venue, the appropriate time, the appropriate funding by the Commonwealth to defend the actions of herself and her staff.”

One getz the feelin’ that both sides are gonna, to misquote, “Mandy Rice Davies” this ……. “Well, she would say that wouldn’t she” … LOL!

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 2:38 pm

Higgins’ texts ‘contradict’ claims when securing payoutPaul Garvey
Text messages sent by Brittany Higgins to her then-boyfriend contradicted the claim made by the political staffer when she secured a $2.475m payout from the Commonwealth, Senator Linda Reynolds’ lawyer has said.

Martin Bennett has been reading out messages sent by Ms Higgins to her then-boyfriend Ben Dillaway when she was in Perth working on Senator Reynolds’ re-election campaign, in which Higgins describes having a “fun” and “cool” time in the city.

The messages describe how she spent her time door knocking and attending campaign events, community forums and dinners during her weeks in the WA capital.

“Been out and about doing ground level campaigning. It’s been pretty fun actually,” she wrote in one of several messages to Mr Dillaway read out in court by Mr Bennett.

“My day has been awesome, mostly spent poolside,” read another.

The details contrast, he says, with what Ms Higgins told the Commonwealth when they negotiated her settlement. Mr Bennett said Ms Higgins told the Commonwealth that she had been “working alone in a hotel room for seven days a week, for six weeks” during her time in Perth.

Aaron
Aaron
August 2, 2024 2:38 pm

Points to ponder.

What does this boxer have in its undies? Same as at birth?

If they can give kids puberty blockers, why can’t they give this something to lower testosterone levels?

Presuming it is naturally occurring and not some “transitioning” shite.

I seem to remember a South African runner with similar issues.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 2, 2024 2:47 pm

Caster Semenya

Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:00 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:03 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:11 pm
JC
JC
August 2, 2024 3:13 pm

the German idiot in Belarus

LOL, who’s that Dover?

mem
mem
August 2, 2024 3:13 pm

ASIC’s first greenwashing case leads to $11.3 million fineSo despite saying it was investing in “ethical” shares whatever that means, they were investing across a range including “non ethical” shares. Seems to me that this is madness as super funds should be held to one objective only and that is to maximise returns.
“The corporate watchdog went after Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited over claims it was making about the sustainable nature and characteristics of some of its superannuation investment options.
The Federal Court ultimately found members who took up its Sustainable Plus options had investments in companies involved in industries the website statements said were excluded, such as:

  • 15 companies involved in the extraction or sale of carbon intensive fossil fuels (including AGL Energy Ltd, BHP Group Ltd, Glencore PLC and Whitehaven Coal Ltd),
  • 15 companies involved in the production of alcohol (including Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Ltd, Carlsberg AS, Heineken Holding NV and Treasury Wine Estates Ltd), and
  • 19 companies involved in gambling (including Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Caesar’s Entertainment Inc, Crown Resorts Limited and Tabcorp Holdings Limited).

It’s now been hit with a $11.3 million fine.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/asx-markets-business-live-news/104173690

Zippster
Zippster
August 2, 2024 3:15 pm

The Biden administration has reached a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and two other terrorists, sparking widespread criticism and outrage. Critics argue that the plea deal is a betrayal of the victims and their families, and that it undermines the ongoing war on terror. The administration’s handling of the case, which has lingered for over two decades, has been seen as a sign of weakness and has raised concerns about the administration’s commitment to justice and national security. The White House has stated that it played no role in the plea deal process.

what.the.f*ck!!!!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 2, 2024 3:25 pm

The IOC has self-immolated and taken the Olympics down with it as a consequence of its stupid boxing decision.
Why should we care about the Olympics any more?
Why should media pay for rights to this farce any more?
We won’t be watching.

Pogria
Pogria
August 2, 2024 3:28 pm

Bung,
I have not watched a single second of the Olympics.
I used to stay up into the wee hours to watch all the Equestrian, especially the Three Day Eventing.
Even then, I would watch a little of other sports as I was waiting for the Horses.

Now, couldn’t care less. I feel for the mounted teams, but still can’t bring myself to watch.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 2, 2024 3:28 pm

Let’s face it. The whole transgender imbroglio has been stage managed as another wedge to disintegrate western christian society.
Stop asking why they do stupid stuff.
It’s all about the disintegrating.

Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:41 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:47 pm

The President in question was Trump. This is from 2020.

Why Is No One (Except the President) Calling Out Kamala Harris’ Communist Ties?

shatterzzz
August 2, 2024 3:49 pm

If your into no-hold-barred, nitty gritty blood-letting without remorse the this Italian series (4 seasons) fits the bill .. No sentimentality, whether civilian or foe in the fight for/to control the drug trade in Naples .. also a distinct lack of plod …….! Gomorrah … there is also a 2008 movie, different characters but sets the scene for the 2014 start of the series …… both 10/10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_gomorrah

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929425/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_gomorra

Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 3:53 pm

This you’ve got to see.

@catturd2

JD Vance is weird.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 2, 2024 3:53 pm

Who is representing Higgins? Zwier an onlooker once again. Keep an eye on him at lunch.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 2, 2024 4:04 pm

Two things stand out like dogs balls in the XY Chromosome Imbroglio:

Firstly, the general argument that Khelif does not benefit unfairly from XY-power, but is a plucky 100% free range female, being monstered by unhinged heteronormatives (or something), turns on the IBA being discredited as notoriously corrupt by the notoriously corrupt IOC.

The IBA may well be thoroughly corrupt. But, interestingly, Khelif’s 2023 IBA expulsion on chromosomic grounds has not found its way to the Court for Arbitration in Sport.

Thus, we segue effortlessly, with pike and evidence-free double somersault, from any prospect of reasoned discussion on fair play in sport to the woke agendas.

Secondly, Jessica Fox seems to be XX positive and doesn’t appear to be either a transsexual or a Drag Queen.

All very well from a DEI perspective I suppose, but it’s not immediately clear what sort of role model she’s supposed to be…

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 2, 2024 4:21 pm

The case relates to events in 2001. This alone makes it a nightmare on terms of evidence and prosecution. I have no idea what the actual evidence might be but any admission in a trial by the scumbag would have to be doubtful as no doubt would have been obtained by coercion. No problem for gaining intelligence but not much help if trying to use confession on basis it was voluntary.
Taking the life sentence plea deal avoids a very messy trial.

“plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and two other terrorists, sparking widespread criticism and outrage”

Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 4:23 pm

“Khelif might not even have high testosterone levels. That claim and the XY chromosome claim were made by the discredited and disgraced head of the IBA”.
As usual Monty on team try hard.
In simple terms the money is on Khelif having a condition that although he is male his body failed to produce male genitalia and gives him softer skin, he went through normal male puberty and has the testerone of a male.
Why would the Russians go after him?

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/diseases-conditions/androgen-insensitivity-syndrome#:~:text=Androgen%20insensitivity%20syndrome%20(AIS)%20is,genetic%20makeup%20of%20a%20male.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 2, 2024 4:29 pm

The Oz has a very detailed article about all the dealings behind the US Russia prisoner swap.
Seems Putin was very keen to get the convicted hitman out of German prison and article suggests Putin knows him personally. Might have been one of his bodyguards at one stage.
Article author clearly had access to a lot of the background and obviously designed to make Biden admin look good.

Muddy
Muddy
August 2, 2024 4:31 pm

Have we ever had a more dishonourable, unaccountable, and cowardly political class in this country?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 2, 2024 4:31 pm

A wood duck sitting on the road with four galahs and flies off in formation with them.
The end of days.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 2, 2024 4:38 pm
Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 2, 2024 4:39 pm

The Olympics is toast. Hard luck Nine and anyone else.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 2, 2024 5:17 pm

The wood duck now has five disciples.
Spring is coming, I hope this doesn’t get weird.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 5:22 pm

Albanese spruiking the nonsense about “The oldest continuous culture on Earth..”

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 2, 2024 5:32 pm

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1931106/mum-set-fire-daughters-rapist-taunted-attack?int_source=nba

Maria del Carmen Garcia was handed a 9.5 year prison sentence after she set her daughter’s rapist Antonio Cosme alight at a bus stop near her home in 2005

Set her free.

cohenite
August 2, 2024 6:03 pm

All the news fit to stick up your kyber:

Media Mourns ‘Moderate,’ ‘Pragmatic’ Hamas Leader Who Wanted to Kill All the Jews“We love death like our enemies love life.”
Kamala is Anti-Israel. Her Husband’s Law Firm Repped the PLOThe PLO’s money arm was the largest foreign principal for his law firm.
After Immigrant Stabbed Kids, UK Gov Cracks Down on ProtestersCensorship, violent crackdowns, and political repression by the leftist regime.
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 6:05 pm

Cassie,

Can you respond to this with a decent rant.

@spenderallegra

·

Our ageing coal power stations are increasingly unreliable & outages are putting upward pressure on electricity prices. We need to do more to accelerate the shift to cleaner, cheaper, & reliable renewables. Not wait another decade or more for nuclear.

johanna
johanna
August 2, 2024 6:09 pm

In the category of the brothers who murdered thir parents and then demanded sympathy because they were orphans:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/31/snapchat-refuses-to-reinstate-donald-trumps-account-shamelessly-asks-campaign-to-buy-advertising/

In the email to Trump’s campaign, Snapchat said, “I hope you had a nice weekend. I spoke with our Policy team and to provide a bit more context, they made the difficult decision to terminate President Trump’s Public Profile in 2021 after multiple policy violations.”“Unfortunately, our Terms of Service do not allow for reinstatement or for terminated users to create new accounts,”

Snapchat continued. “Reinstating the profile would involve reassessing and implementing entirely new Terms of Service, and we are unable to give preferential treatment to any creator on the platform.”
The social media platform went on to ask the Trump campaign for money via advertisement on Snapchat.

“I genuinely believe that Snapchatters are a key audience that can be persuaded to turn out for Trump — we reach over 96M users 18+, allow for the upload of first party lists, and have highly competitive CMPs ranging from $3-$6,” Snapchat said.

“I would love to explore alternative paths forward for our partnership, even given the current state of the profile,” the social media platform added. “If the team is skeptical about launching paid media without an organic presence, we highly recommend using the RNC’s profile or creating a new Vance profile.”
“Eager to hear your thoughts. Thank you for your understanding and visibility,” Snapchat concluded in its email
.
AI plus never-Trumpism at work.

What a faceplant for the technology!

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 2, 2024 6:10 pm

It’s just outright lies.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 2, 2024 6:17 pm

I loathe that pair of parasitic lawyers Starmer and Blair. There are many thing to despise about them for example their contempt for ordinary working men. What stands out for me though is their viciousness combined with their soft hands. Lord I hate lawyers.

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JC
JC
August 2, 2024 6:30 pm

@jk_rowling

Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you’re OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn’t sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women. https://x.com/fairplaywomen/

Always the feminist. Such an arsehole blaming men. Men hate this stuff.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2024 6:31 pm

Lord I hate lawyers

You just going to sit back and take this, cohenite?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 2, 2024 6:33 pm

Browsing the commentary in the Oz On-line today it seems that in the Reynolds v Higgins defamation hearing their Britneeee is going to cop a bit.

Linda’s lawyer Bennett seems to have her fitted out with some hobnailed boots so she can go for the “world kicking in the cnut record” (h/t Derek & Clive).

Karma & schadenfreude abound with glee.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 2, 2024 6:35 pm

OK that wasn’t really fair- Lord I hate left wing lawyers

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2024 6:37 pm

From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women.

To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn, the dividing line between good and evil does not run between the sexes.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 6:41 pm

“Lying cow’ comment unfortunate but defensible: lawyer
Linda Reynolds’ lawyer has described the moment the senator described her former staffer Brittany Higgins as a “lying cow” as an unfortunate but defensible incident.

Barrister Martin Bennett told the WA Supreme Court was horrified at the falsity of what was being said about her when Ms Higgins appeared on The Project to detail her alleged rape inside Parliament House and her belief that Senator Reynolds had engaged in a political cover-up of the incident.

Mr Bennett has spent the afternoon detailing what he referred to as “bare-faced lies”, “nonsense” and “fabricated fictions” put forth by Ms Higgins when describing Senator Reynolds’ handling of her rape allegation.
The Australian revealed soon after The Project aired that Senator Reynolds had described Ms Higgins as a “lying cow” when watching the interview. Ms Higgins threatened defamation against the senator, who settled the matter through a $10,000 donation to a Canberra rape crisis centre.

Mr Bennett said Senator Reynolds’ use of the word “lying” to describe Ms Higgins was appropriate, while the word “cow” was unfortunate but reflected the senator’s “intense anger” about the claims being made about her by her former staffer.

“When you’re watching someone lie about you, ‘lying cow” is an entirely defensible thing to do,” Mr Bennett said.

He said the senator had swiftly settled the defamation claim and apologised as she did not want to interfere with the police investigation and potential prosecution.

“The reason she did that is because people might have interpreted her comment as casting doubt on the veracity of the rape allegation,” Mr Bennett said.

“Senator Reynolds apologised and entered into a non-disparagement clause that Ms Higgins forgot about immediately.”

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2024 6:41 pm

OK that wasn’t really fair- Lord I hate left wing lawyers

So only about 90% then.

😀

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 2, 2024 6:55 pm

Just unfair on cows to compare them to Higgins. Cows are wonderful, lovely creatures.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 2, 2024 7:01 pm

Cows are wonderful

One only has a certain amount of opportunities to deliver elite-level Dad jokes:

‘Knock knock.’

‘Who’s there?’

‘Interrupting cow.’

‘Interrupting cow w – ‘

‘MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!’

132andBush
132andBush
August 2, 2024 7:07 pm

m0nty

August 2, 2024 9:13 am

Khelif is a cis woman with a high testosterone level. She is not trans or intersex.

That “woman” is more masculine than you’ll ever be.

cohenite
August 2, 2024 7:11 pm

You just going to sit back and take this, cohenite?

Of course not. My hourly rate is $500. Who do I send the account to?

johanna
johanna
August 2, 2024 7:23 pm

As usual, TheirABC is chockers with reports of alleged IGF breaches, but rare and muted reports about the atrocities committed in the initial assualt and subsequently.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/australia-review-idf-world-central-kitchen-death/104175546

‘Serious IDF failures’ – WTF?

They never run that ruler over the other side.

.

Roger
Roger
August 2, 2024 7:26 pm

‘Serious IDF failures’ – WTF?

Quite…it’s a war, for heaven’s sake.

Why were the aid workers in the field of fire in the first place?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 7:32 pm

Senator Linda Reynolds will spend all next week giving evidence in her defamation battle against Brittany Higgins, with former prime minister Scott Morrison set to follow her on the stand.

Senator Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett late on Friday confirmed that the senator’s evidence would be followed by that of her husband Robert Reid, with Mr Morrison, Senator Reynolds’ parents and brother, former Liberal candidate David Goode and former Liberal MP Steve Irons all to follow the following week.

Senator Reynolds’ former chief of staff Fiona Brown is also expected to be called, as is news.com.au journalist Samantha Maiden.

Ms Higgins will then have up to four days on the stand towards the end of August.

Ms Higgins has so far not been in court for the proceedings. She married David Sharaz earlier this year and has since revealed that she is pregnant.

Court has concluded for the day.

This should be funnier then the circus.

custard
custard
August 2, 2024 7:50 pm

If we actually had a government that was doing things for the benefit of the people they would print hundreds of billions of dollars (backed by nothing) and buy bitcoin.

I await the stupid responses

custard
custard
August 2, 2024 7:51 pm

BTW , hello to all it’s been a long time

Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 7:56 pm

Lol stupid Irish talk back on the bus thinks the Algerian was born female but with too many male chromosomes.
‘Way too many’

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custard
custard
August 2, 2024 7:57 pm

Wtf is the green balloon saying 990?

Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 8:01 pm

“Khelif is a cis woman with a high testosterone level”
Unpossible.
Also ‘cis’.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 2, 2024 8:03 pm

A fuming JK Rowling last night slammed an Olympic boxing match as ‘a man beating a women in public for entertainment’ after a female boxer once disqualified for failing a gender test forced out an Italian opponent.

A global backlash, led by Italy’s prime minister and the Harry Potter author, ensued after Angela Carini quit to ‘save my life’ just 46 seconds into her bout against Algerian opponent Imane Khelif, claiming she had been hit so hard that she ‘couldn’t breathe’.

Rowling called Khelif a ‘bullying cheat’ and hit out at Olympic bosses who she branded ‘disgraceful’ for allowing the bout to go ahead. 

More….

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 2, 2024 8:04 pm

Same article:

Do you agree with JK Rowling?

Yes 97%
No 3%

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 8:17 pm

Officeworks staffer had anti-Jewish recordLiam Mendes
7 hours ago.
Updated 34 minutes ago

204 comments
The Officeworks staff member who refused service to a Jewish man because she was “pro-Palestinian” was involved in an anti-Semitic incident just weeks before – and was scheduled to visit the Melbourne Holocaust Museum as a disciplinary measure the next day.
It is understood the first incident involved a Jewish woman who was told on January 28 it was “impossible” to print the pictures in the size she wanted “because the Jews had used all the paper”.
The extraordinary revelations mean the team member was involved in not one, but two anti-Semitic incidents and still been retained as an employee.
On Thursday, The Australian revealed footage of the staff member refusing to laminate a Jewish newspaper on March 4, with the Jewish customer taking Officeworks to an anti-discrimination tribunal over the confrontation and senior Officeworks executives and staff set to undergo an anti-Semitism awareness course run by peak body the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

An anti – Semitism course run by the Israeli Army..

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 8:49 pm

You have to be careful with Rowling. She also had this to say.

@jk_rowling

Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you’re OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn’t sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women. https://x.com/fairplaywomen/

In typical feminist bullshit she’s blaming men. I don’t believe a single man thinks men who pretend they’re women should be involved in female sports. Rowling does though. Fck her.

Rowling is a man hater.

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Salvatore - Iron Publican
August 2, 2024 8:54 pm

The extraordinary revelations mean the team member was involved in not one, but two anti-Semitic incidents and still been retained as an employee.

It’s worse than that. Whenever you catch a staff .. er .. (cough).. team member, at something like this, it is never their first time.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 9:01 pm

Next Wesfarmers A.G.M. should be a lively affair – I might go along to see the fun.

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 9:01 pm

custard

August 2, 2024 7:50 pm

If we actually had a government that was doing things for the benefit of the people they would print hundreds of billions of dollars (backed by nothing) and buy bitcoin.

I await the stupid responses

Custard, if the government printed billions of dollars to purchase bitcoin it would increase the money supply cause inflation to rise. It wouldn’t cause inflation to rise a couple of percent. Printing hundreds of billions of dollars would cause hyper inflation. Your suggestion is off the wall stupid.

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Gabor
Gabor
August 2, 2024 9:04 pm

Whatever you think of that boxing match, just look at the arms of Carini and that bloke.

He is not a woman, even cohenite’s cutes are more feminine.

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 9:06 pm

He is not a woman, even cohenite’s cutes are more feminine.

Personally, I wouldn’t go as far as that.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2024 9:14 pm

He is not a woman, even cohenite’s cutes are more feminine.

That’s going too far.

Muddy
Muddy
August 2, 2024 9:14 pm

Distracting myself with music on YouTube (‘Hi, I’m Muddy. I’m a nostalgia addict’).
A comment on a Postmodern Jukebox ft. Puddles Pity Party cover of Blink’s ‘All the small things‘:

I used to be a fan.

But after this masterpiece, I am an air conditioner now.

Noiiiice.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 2, 2024 9:15 pm

Snap, JC.

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 9:17 pm

Distracting myself with music on YouTube

Try this one, Muddster. Love the meaning of this song.

Zippster
Zippster
August 2, 2024 9:29 pm

For years they have been telling men to stop beating up women, now it’s an Olympic sport

that’s so woke

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 9:34 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2rIomh9as

Bob Seger – “Somewhere tonight.”

cohenite
August 2, 2024 9:56 pm

He is not a woman, even cohenite’s cutes are more feminine.

Correct: cute owl.

cute-owl-pulling-up-swimmers
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 2, 2024 9:59 pm

Phone call from a mob of the local grifters – “You’ve got a vacant house on that place of yours, and we are desperate for somewhere to live, if we don’t find somewhere, we’ll be living in a car with our kids…..”

If you hadn’t been evicted from so many rental properties, you might have had a case….

Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 10:04 pm

Rowling is wrong, though it would be fair enough to say many if not most trans men have serious women issues.
Even though the Algerian is not ‘trans’ trans politics are the reason he wasn’t disqualified.
And yes women shouldn’t be boxing, but whichever sport he chose, he’s at an unfair disadvantage.
Doesn’t mean I don’t have sympathy for someone born not as nature intended.

Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 10:13 pm

I’m in the wild west of Ireland, once again rain sleeting down at different angles.
Skibbereenians are all in town, came in to watch a local in the rowing, staying in to celebrate gold gold gold for Ireland.
Bus trip was beautiful, especially as this bus had clear glass windows, unlike the one from Waterford to Cork.
Lots and lots of black and white cows and the occasional flock of black headed sheep

I’ve a nice place to myself for the Bank Holiday weekend and have fish chowder and soda bread from the very nice super value supermarket in the centre ready for my dinner.

Zippster
Zippster
August 2, 2024 10:18 pm
Rosie
Rosie
August 2, 2024 10:24 pm

A reminder that Roger Franklin was in New York on 9/11
https://quadrant.org.au/criminal-justice-required/

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 2, 2024 10:40 pm

Some classics from Stevo.

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Steve Inman:

Jesus at the Olympics
https://rumble.com/v59de0h-jesus-at-the-olympics.html

Indolent
Indolent
August 2, 2024 10:40 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 2, 2024 10:48 pm

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Steve Inman:

Heavyweights Compilation
https://rumble.com/v59ewyd-heavyweights-compilation.html

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 2, 2024 10:53 pm

After Day 1 of Linda v Britneeeee….

Looks like the Algerian bloke bashing an Italian lass.

Or the Matildas playing anyone.

Don’t be surprised if the Cab Sharaz does a runner now the Dreyfus largesse has been drained.

“For richer or poorer…”

Cab Sharaz: “Well, I wasn’t really serious about that last bit”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 2, 2024 10:54 pm

Dr F

Secondly, Jessica Fox seems to be XX positive and doesn’t appear to be either a transsexual or a Drag Queen.

Phwoar!!
Ms Fox is totally XXX plus X.
I cannot figure out why Ms Fox isn’t advertising everything from electric cars to muesli bars.

JC
JC
August 2, 2024 11:36 pm

Recession chatter and the realisation kamal toe could actually win. Labor market looks weak. 10 year bond yield collapsing below 4%.

Market believes the fed has to cut rates to counter recession..

Last edited 4 months ago by JC
H B Bear
H B Bear
August 2, 2024 11:58 pm

The Media Watchdog highlights the Twiggy Boyer Lecture. FMD the whole place has gone to the dogs (no pun intended).

JC
JC
August 3, 2024 12:08 am

Atlassian down 15%. Excellent news.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
August 3, 2024 9:18 am

New ‘fred all….

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 3, 2024 4:18 pm

Re Trump’s persona and debate style, what really gets me is that so often Trump does not throw back at them their extraordinary ‘out of context’ lies that they construct from his speeches.

For instance, at the start of that black stenographer’s interview she reeled off, by way of introduction, a catalogue of lies about what he’d ‘said’ or ‘believed in’. He should have made a blanket statement immediately that all of that was lies, extracted out of context, before he went on the attack about the false pretences which drew him to this interview and and before he was led into detail on Kamala’s ethnicity.

Letting this hostile interviewer blatantly say this in her intro without immediate rebuttal was a great missed opportunity. If he doesn’t rebut their lies when they make them in his hearing, the lies stand.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 3, 2024 5:18 pm

Radical feminism nurtured the toxic weed of transgenderism, allowing the weed to grow and flourish, and like all weeds it is now strangling and destroying its host…..the female.

The fundamental thesis of feminism is that women had been subjugated by the patriarchal society for thousands of years, and nobody noticed until Germaine Greer pointed it out in the seventies.

I actually gave this proposition a few seconds thought when I first met it. Which is much more than it deserves.

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