‘IT WAS THE JEWS!’ Screams Candace Owens On First Round Of ‘Clue’

U.S. — Candace Owens was eliminated during the first round of the classic “whodunit” board game Clue when she immediately accused the Jews during the first round of play.

“IT WAS THE JEWS!” Owens cried. “The Jews, in the Conservatory, with the Space Laser!”

Mockery is now a crime. I wonder if any of the grooming/rape gangs got anywhere near as long – or even anywhere near a jail.

‘Stirring Up Hatred’ — UK Man Jailed After Mocking Muslims at Non-Violent Anti-Migration Protest

Another pathological liar.

@tomselliott

THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF.

Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”

Boeing grounds entire 777X test fleet after discovering engine defect

600 years of coral at Fiji shows the ocean was just as warm in 1400AD

Lag from the medieval warm period, possibly.

Government officials previously denied one major problem with the unique off-grid charger. But EV owners travelling Australia tell a very different story.

An innovative charging station in the outback of Australia funded by taxpayer dollars continues to frustrate EV owners, months after it gained national notoriety for seemingly relying on a diesel generator to charge cars.

The off-grid site boasts two 75kw chargers powered by a large solar panel array, battery banks, and a backup generator in case the sun doesn’t come out for a few days. However nearly a year after it was switched on, drivers say the system does not work properly, is forced to overwhelmingly rely on the emergency diesel generator and charges at a fraction of the advertised capacity.

Tesla owner and avid EV road tripper Rob Dean visited the site in June and says the charger was only capable of speeds about half the advertised 75kws when first plugging in, before dropping to as little as 16kw/h.

“It’s got all these solar panels on the roof that don’t seem to work,” he told Yahoo News. “It also doesn’t charge at anywhere near the speeds that it is supposed to.”

…government officials, citing the NRMA, said the charger’s diesel backup had not been used to charge any electric vehicles. But that is clearly not the case, Rob says. “That is absolutely false, that is not true. This thing charges cars off a diesel generator,” he told Yahoo.

Yahoo News

So, who’s lying, the government officials or the NRMA?

The NRMA later confessed…

Despite costing hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars, the organisation admits the charger it not working as intended but could not offer a timeline as to when it might be.

But nobody in government seems to care. despite the facility costing taxpayers several hundred thousand dollars to build and maintain.

Chris Bowen did not return Yahoo’s calls.

It’s a sad fact but falling living standards won’t be fixed by what happens in Gaza

Simon Benson, The Australian 20 August, 2024

Peter Dutton is like a greyhound chasing a rabbit. His pursuit of Anthony Albanese in parliament over visas for Gazans is instinctive. Politically primeval. The Liberal leader simply doesn’t know how not to do it. And why would or should he? He can smell blood in the water and his attack plan has so far been devastatingly effective. This is now an issue of the Prime Minister’s character.

And at the moment it is being decimated.

Few would expect the Coalition to let Labor off the hook, considering the bizarre cloak of secrecy and obfuscation Albanese and his new Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke, have thrown over the issue.

This is Dutton’s ecology and he is terraforming the national security space.

At some point, if Dutton is serious about wanting to be prime minister, he will have to return to the top three issues that concern the average soft voter. Cost of living, cost of living and cost of living.

There is more than a sliver of daylight between this and the next issue. It has become a chasm, of the likes that both Labor and Liberal strategists admit is unrivalled outside the pandemic as a single-issue concern.

Yet Dutton appears intent on trying to drag out the politics of Gaza for as long as the parliamentary session allows, which is Thursday.

He may well turn his attention back to the economy at some point, if his advisers allow him to.

But this current brawl, which will end with most voters remembering little of it, defines more than anything the disconnect between the political class and everybody else.

While Dutton sees this issue as part of a broader strategy to undermine confidence in Albanese’s ability to manage anything, Dutton himself has yet to establish a beachhead on economic management.

Not a single question was asked on Tuesday from the Coalition on cost of living.

One thing is certain, the next election will be a contest defined by which side has the better and more believable economic story.

Some polls suggest this equity remains in the Coalition’s favour, as it has traditionally, but Dutton will have to do more than he has to establish this as an election winning formula. He needs to work out how to turn these equities into votes.

The Coalition cannot descend into complacency or false assumptions about it.

If the minutes from the central bank’s last board meeting prove anything, its this: the inflation problem is unrelenting and more persistent than all but two economists predicted.

Forget about rate cuts. The risk of further interest rate rises has been slapped down on the table. We know the board had its finger hovering over the rate rise button two weeks ago.

A collective pessimism still prevails. This means a more protracted and sharper political contest over the fundamental question that hinges on which side is believed to offer a credible pathway to prosperity.

There is also a redefining of the notion of prosperity.

Labor offers the levers of state as its remedy. The Coalition offers little other than opposition to this.

For Dutton to win the political argument, he must not only establish in voters’ minds that the government is to blame for the dramatic fall in living standards, he must convince them there is more substance to his leadership than national security.

There is no evidence that he has been able to establish this.

Economics is not his comfort zone but retail politics should be. And an opposition leader should be able to retail the hell out of this crisis.

Gold hits all time high.
So naturally the Labor government turns down a new gold mine.
They’re literally that dumb.

Still not as stupid as Victorian Labour,
Sitting on an absolute sea of natural gas.
And deciding to go with windmills, batteries and solar instead.
morons.

Dave Sharma with a piece in the Daily Telegraph:

When Australia’s National Terrorism Threat Level was last at ‘Probable’, the dominant risk was of a home-grown terrorist attack, inspired or directed by the Islamic State movement that was then terrorising the Middle East.

At that time, Israel was a valuable source of intelligence to Australia about potential threats from the Middle East.

Israel provided information, for instance, that helped Australian authorities detect and prevent an Islamic State plot to smuggle an explosive device onto an Etihad Airways flight departing Australia in 2017.

Israel also helped Australia identify and keep track of our ‘foreign fighters’: Australians who had become radicalised and went to join the Islamic State ‘caliphate’, and then tried to inspire other Australians to support their cause.

Australia’s security cooperation with Israel, in short, helped improve our level of protection against domestic security threats. Lives were saved in Australia as a result. I know — I was Australia’s ambassador to Israel at the time.

Announcing the heightened threat level, ASIO’s Director-General Mike Burgess was clear that today’s Gaza conflict was a “significant driver”. He warned that an escalation of conflict in the Middle East would “inflict further strain” on Australia’s security situation.

The risk of the current Israel-Hamas conflict expanding into a broader regional war is now the greatest it has been since the 7 October Hamas terrorist attacks.

Iranian terrorist proxy groups in the region, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, have become bolder and more active in recent weeks in directly targeting Israel. Israel has responded in kind, with missions conducted well beyond its usual theatres of operation.

With the killing of senior Hezbollah and Hamas figures in Beirut and Tehran in the past month, Iran is now threatening severe retaliation against Israel, action that could well tip the region into a much broader conflict, involving outside powers.

One of the most valuable assets we have for dealing with such a scenario is a strong and close relationship of trust with Israel, so we can access real-time intelligence and liaise to protect and if necessary evacuate Australian citizens from the region.

With tensions rising again in the Middle East, and the security environment in Australia degrading, close intelligence cooperation with Israel is more vital than ever to protect Australia and Australian interests.

But instead the Albanese Labor government is bent on intentionally trashing Australia’s relationship with Israel.

Earlier this month we had Foreign Minister Penny Wong misrepresent the conclusions of former Defence Chief Mark Binksin’s report into the tragic death of World Central Kitchen (WCK) worker Zomi Frankcom.

Rather than provide the context and explanations that Binskin’s diligent report revealed, Wong ignored these and repeated her accusation that the strike on the WCK convoy was intentional, rather than the result of explicable factors as revealed by Binskin.

For Israel, who co-operated fully with Binskin’s investigation, it was a gratuitous and inexplicable insult.

At the same time as it consciously seeks to downgrade our relationship with Israel, the Labor Government is showing cavalier disregard for Australian security in another way.

By issuing visitor visas to large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, processed with inordinate speed, and with very little in the way of background and security checks, the Labor government is playing loose with Australia’s national security.

When we have brought people to Australia from war zones in the past, be it Afghanistan in 2021 or Iraq and Syria in 2016, we undertook extensive screening and vetting beforehand.

The Coalition government at the time was frequently criticised for how long the process took.

But we made no apology for putting the security interests of Australians first, and taking every precaution possible to ensure we were not unwittingly issuing visas to sympathisers or members of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or Islamic State.

This time around, the Labor government seems to be issuing visas first — frequently within 24 hours — and only asking the critical questions later.

Why is it that many visas have been issued and then subsequently cancelled?

And why are people leaving a conflict zone being issued temporary visitor visas, when most have no likelihood of returning, rather than protection visas, which involve more exhaustive and detailed security checks?

The pattern here is one of the Labor government allowing domestic political considerations to subordinate important decisions that go to national interest.

Labor’s growing hostility towards Israel is harming this valuable security relationship. Labor’s casual approach to resettling people from a conflict zone, with little in the way of the normal security checks, is risking internal security and social cohesion.

On both counts Labor, driven by elements of its electoral base, and not wanting to be politically outflanked by the Greens, is putting its domestic political interests ahead of those of the nation.

When even Alan Kohler gets it…

2001 … a housing odyssey

The foundations…were laid on July 1, 2001, when two changes were quietly made to [immigration] by the Howard government.

Philip Ruddock was Immigration Minister.

Incidentally, that was nine months after the 50 per cent discount was applied to capital gains tax, leading to an immediate surge in investor demand for housing.

The foreign student changes took a few years to get going, but they certainly did get going: Between 2005 and 2008 Australia’s overall migrant intake tripled to more than 300,000 a year.

The two changes on July 1, 2001 were: First, entry from “non-gazetted” countries, including India, Pakistan and China, was opened up and streamlined, having previously been almost impossible – an echo of the White Australia Policy – and second, there was a more transparent and open pathway to permanent residency for foreign students.

An Immigration Department official at the time, Abul Rizvi, writes in his book Population Shock, that the changes were designed to “slow the rate of population ageing and push back the day that deaths would start exceeding births in Australia”.

But he goes on: “The changes were so small that the media barely noticed. They were preoccupied with sexier headline-grabbing topics.

“But those July 1, 2001, changes to the migration regulations changed Australia forever”.

Alan Kohler:
How a broken immigration system caused the housing crisis

“It comes amid reports that Hamas has threatened to kill the hostages unless their families “fight the government,” and has demanded ransoms for their safety.”

My reply: you will kill them anyway, why should I believe you?
Here is my counter offer: return the hostages or die along with every single person in your God-forsaken neighborhood. You may be holding those dear to me hostage, I am now holding your entire city to hostage.

Anthony Albanese cracked a joke at a high-powered black-tie dinner. It went down like a lead balloon: ‘Disgusted to the core’
Daily Mail. Making jokes about the live sheep trade at a rural women’s award dinner would go down really well…

Shirley I wasn’t dreaming, when driving into work this AM, 6PR were reporting rumours of an Elbow policy that mandates houses reach a certain “energy rating” benchmark prior to being sold?

Not seen it anywhere else but they were talking about it this AM on the wireless.

Not one single caller liked the idea. And if Elbow and his bubble actually push this through, they’re done.

Unfortunately this site has M0ntypox.

No cream gonna rid of that one.

No accommodation available for tourists [in Ireland]. Tourists no longer visit.

I wonder why?

The UK is continuing down the same path under Starmer.

This is from December last year but bears repeating. A genuine genocide.

@adhtvaus

“If you’re arguing that we get rid of fossil fuels you’re arguing that we kill off half the world’s population and what you are doing is advocating genocide.”
Geologist Ian Plimer with @profdavidflint
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