Much better format – I don’t have the patience any more to sit for 3/4 of an hour listening to people argue arcane points.
A 3 – 7 minute easily digestible single point hammered home does more to engage me than a long winded homily.
Current read. Triggered by Bungonia Bee who mentioned Ben MacIntyre in a recent thread.
Not many books leave me stunned with pretty much an open jaw. There’s some amazing events mixed up with just one KGB officer, & for the reader few cogs slip into place regards events of the 1980s.
On top of that, one of the most interesting accounts of recruiting & running an agent inside an enemy intelligence agency.
Salvatore’s unsolicited opinion: The punishment of Aldrich Ames should have been handled not by a US federal court, but by Vlad the Impaler – even then it would have been too lenient.
Ben’s books are so well researched and so well written.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 21, 2024 12:12 am
Sliante, to all you horrible mob.
There is a group of the old and bold, and the ruthless and toothless, sitting on my back verandah, murdering compous amounts of single malt, and wondering why the Hell we ever othered,,
Saw a notice on a building near me, there are a bunch of these along a little river/canal in the centre of Cavan.
And two pubs opposite me and am old supermarket two doors down, though that was probably killed by Tesco.
It’s a shame in the middle of a housing shortage.
Land banking for future development. Elderly owners without funds for repair? Simply abandoned?
Mystery. https://www.cavancoco.ie/services/planning-building/derelict-sites/
rosie, probably a mix of all three, but I’d suspect the dead hand of the bureaucracy in the rebuild effort – too many regulations making the rebuild “Heritage values” too expensive for the owners to consider.
Bungonia Bee
August 21, 2024 5:55 am
The Demonrats are certainly intent on aborting the American Dream.
For some reason our long climate proxies work for hundreds of years but always seem to stop working just before the man-made catastrophe appears. It seems to me that if a coral-tree-clam-sediment thermometer worked in 1393, it was odd that it doesn’t seem to work in 2020. It’s not like Earth has run out of trees, mud, pollen or corals.
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!”
…and she seemed so calm and logical just a couple of years ago.
What the Hell happened to her?
KevinM
August 21, 2024 6:43 am
They don’t make ’em tough like that any more
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Cassius Clay was an absolute badass. Like, on some surreal John Wick level.
In 1843, Clay was addressing his constituents in Kentucky, standing at an embankment.
An assassin ran up from within the crowd and fired at him, hitting him in the chest. Clay beat the man with his silver-tipped cane, then wrestled him into submission.
Holding him down with one hand, he took his Bowie knife, cutting off the gunman’s nose and ear. Then lifted the man off the ground, throwing him off the embankment…
He did all that with a bullet lodged in his chest. Cassius Clay lived to 92 with that bullet still in him.
One of the world’s greatest fighters was named after him… and then decided “Muhammad Ali” was a more badass name.
I disagree — they don’t make ’em any more hardcore than the original Cassius Clay.
KevinM
August 21, 2024 6:47 am
Hard workers in the gold fields.
BobtheBoozer
August 21, 2024 6:53 am
Didn’t we used to have a Blog Roll in the margins, for people to look up sites deemed newsworthy?
Or was that Ye Olde Catallaxy?
What next? Recommissioning the Chateau d’If for political prisoners?
Ceres
August 21, 2024 7:37 am
Georgia Election Board – good news. Total ballots cast in the election must match the total number of voter IDs recorded in the system.
Pretty basic you would think at ruling out voting fraud. Needless to say the Democrats hate it.
My father once told me that anti-Semitism, or the more accurate description of Jew hatred, sends people stark raving mad.
I have often wondered why we Jews have always been the whipping boys but it’s been like that for three millennia, it even begins as far back as Egypt prior to the exodus.
Some say it’s jealousy, but what are people jealous of? For most of history, throughout those three millennia, particularly after the destruction of the second temple, we Jews have been dirt poor, a marginalised, impoverished and very despised minority, frequently persecuted. Pogroms were the norm, culminating in the Holocaust. Our persecutors could never make up their minds about what exactly they hated about us, it shifted from religious to economic to racial. But despite this we clung and we still cling stubbornly to our faith, to our heritage, a heritage that goes back to Abraham and Sarah.
So, why this unhinged obsession? Jew hatred always united the far-left and the far-right. Both fringes agree on many things but what ties them intimately, like a marriage made in hell, is Jew hatred.
I’m reminded of a story about Frederick the Great, perhaps apocryphal, perhaps not. Frederick the Great was a man who didn’t much care for religion, and he didn’t much care for Prussia’s Jews. When he was a teenager the young precocious Frederick once demanded of his Lutheran pastor proof that God exists, and the pastor is said to have given Frederick a two-word answer…..
‘The Jews’
And therein lies the rub. Fred’s Lutheran pastor was quite correct, it is the Jews who provide the world with the evidence of God’s existence, and that’s why we’re hated. Fred of Prussia never forgave the Jews for this, he grew up to persecute Jews. And the world will never forgive the Jews for it either.
Jew hatred is a direct assault on God, it is an assault on morality, on decency and on truth.
The survival of the Jews IS a miracle of history, it is testament to the existence of God. Mediocrities like Candace Owens, the Iranian mullahs, Senator Penny Pong, forked tongue Albo, the hideous Nazi Greens, and the rest of the far-left and far-right will all one day be confined to the dustbin of history whilst we Jews will survive, but we survive at a cost, a hideous cost. But if one day the Jew haters get their way and we Jews are disappeared, a light that shines on this planet will be gone……forever and the world will sink into permanent darkness.
Cassie, this unhinged hatred of the Jews has always puzzled me. I have always presumed it is because they have such a high IQ! I kid you not. The Ashkenazi Jews are said to have the highest IQ of any group. The astounding success of the state of Israel seems to me to be a tribute to Jewish courage and intellect. This will always promote envy amongst those who are incapable of that level of success.
You know, Cassie, it seems to me to be very tribal. One tribe looks at the achievements of another tribe and simmers in envy. At the end of the day, I reckon we are all tribal.
I think there’s a lot of intellectual envy. Ashkenazi Jews are super bright because they had to enter professions requiring a honed intelligence such as accountancy, banking and medicine. Under Medievalism, they were unable to hold land or achieve in Christian bureaucracies. The selection pressures were set in place to develop exceptionalism in some, with fine minds, and the culture also assisted, stressing scholarly behaviour and familial integrity. A few prospered in the US in banking and hence the myth of the Jewish control of financial matters internationally, while many were occupationally middle class. Easy to cast stones of this sort against a well-off group already demonised, even if not all were as well off as believed. The disraceful ethnic slurring in the faked-up Protocols of Zion played on this situational and historical placement of Jewish people in Western Christian culture..
Cassie, it’s demonic hatred and finds its expression in human action.
It has everything to do with God’s faithfulness, His promise to Abraham and how He has fulfilled it through the ages. The people who are acting out the evil don’t have to believe it, many wouldn’t even know what it’s about. But the force directing them does.
That doesn’t exonerate the perpetrators. Having given themselves over to wickedness, they just can’t stop because they enjoy it.
Cassie, I have never understood this unhinged hatred of the Jews. I agree with what you say although I had supposed jealousy came into it. It is much worse than that though and I agree with Calli that it is actually demonic.
Can anyone explain to me what the $7.70cap on OAP medical prescriptions applies too ..? .. Admittedy, I’d never needed a prescription in over 10 years until my Prostate problems flared last November .. Since then, for various reasons, I’ve filled, maybe, 2 dozen scripts .. Yet never once have I had one that cost only $7.70 .. They’ve all ranged from, at least, $8.80 thru to $30 even tho I produce my OAP card ..
?SO, what is a $7.70 capped prescription the gummint keeps touting ..?
Damn ..! Misunderstood the headline .. clicked and expected pix of sheep, wool looms & jumpers .. instead ……. FFS! As an aside is there any Oz “entrepreneurial” group out there that didn’t contribute to out medal haul … ? I meanz, how would all these athletes have got on if they’d had to rely on their own abilities …… ?” …… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/indigenous-yarning-circle-paris-olympics-highlight/104218162
Bravo Cassie – as I said last night I was once a fan of the feisty Candace Owens but even when she’d joined the Daily Wire I could not listen to her podcasts due to her mode of speaking and pronunciation of words which to me indicated a somewhat shallow intellect – Does she think anti-semitism makes her a better Catholic — ask that great observer of behaviour Bugs Bunny says — What a maroon, what an ignroanamus
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For me the Jews will always be God’s Chosen People and perhaps their very existence bears witness to the miraculous existence of God.
Listened last year to the Socrates in the City podcast by Eric Metaxas – his guest was an observant Jewish fellow by the name of Michael Medved and the topic was God’s Hand on America – fascinating details about the US that were seemingly impossible but for a belief in the hand of God in the miraculous outcomes.
Feelz a lot better, pain is minimal now, but not improving in graphics .. more concerned about it’s, possible, affect on my, planned, major surgery, next week .. I look in the mirror ans see .. rejection .. back on the list …… duuuuuuuuuh!
Cameron Stewart is a far left knee pad clad meeja moron (BIRM). From the Oz:
A bittersweet farewell to America from a stubbornly proud president
The best protection for geriatric Joe’s long term legacy is if (sic) the cackling Kamel defeats Fatty Trump. At least then he will not be blamed for his part in her downfall.
Geriatric Joe will be regarded as the most incapable incompetent and illegitimate president in US history.
That “is if” about all you needed to say Stewart, you stupid sanctimonious j’ismist twat.
He is a competent stenographer for the Media Class Party Line on every topic.
Bourne1879
August 21, 2024 8:30 am
This article at the Oz is at nearly 800 comments in 3 hours.
Australia’s biggest renewables project, SunCable, has won environmental approvals from the Albanese government, with the giant development in the Northern Territory set to produce enough power for three million homes.
The three million homes stuff is hilarious. How you would explain it to sixteen year old girl. Nameplate capacity on a windmill is next to useless for all intents and purposes.
Australia’s biggest renewables project has won environmental approvals from the Albanese government, with the NT development set to produce enough power for three million homes.
The subsidies must be worth a gold mine for Cannon-Brookes.
Bruce of Newcastle
August 21, 2024 8:34 am
Snap Bourne!
calli
August 21, 2024 8:37 am
set to produce enough power for three million homes.
During daylight hours.
After that, it’s candles. And so many panels to clean, and so much water needed to clean them. Perhaps the pixies will pop in overnight when they’re inactive.
Actually the cleaning would be the least of a problem, easily automated to turn on sprinklers at night, provided water was available.
Wouldn’t be needed every day either, output can be recorded and when falling, cleaning started as needed.
With respect Kevin, I think you’re avoiding the perceived value of ‘doin sumfink.’ Practical solutions are not vote winners (and they don’t provide well-paying jerbs for mates).
Meanwhile, Denny Shanahan has penned a piece at the Oz stating out loud what many Cats have already suspected – the Oxford St bathhouse that is NSW gliberals are hell bent on sabotaging Dr Mutton’s election campaign.
A federal takeover of NSW gliberals is inevitable and necessary
This is not about the calamitous nominations bungle, but about the organisational failure that threatens any chance Dr Mutton has at a federal level.
Mass sackings and expulsions from the pardee would seem the only logical course of action.
We live in a time where the words of one tribe (the outsiders) are defined as violence, but the violence of the insiders’ tribe is defined as words (free speech).
Until the (majority) outsiders wake up and stop permitting the (minority) insiders to make up their own rules, nothing will change.
The Acolyte, yet another show in the ever-evolving Star Wars slate, premiered on the streamer in June to fairly lacklustre fanfare, despite the franchise’s diehard following.
Now, Deadline reports production company Lucasfilm has made the decision not to commission a second series, having spent a reported $180 million ($AU267.98 million) to produce the first season. …
While it debuted to decent numbers, with Disney announcing the series pulled 4.8 million views on its first day, Deadline reported it lost momentum swiftly, dropping out of the Top 10 in its third week, only making a return at 10th place for the finale several weeks later.
News.com.au seem mystified why it went so badly. Of course they forget to mention anywhere in this article that it was insanely woke and featured two parthenogenic lesbian space witches.
The federal government has offered political staffers the maximum pay rise allowed under government rules, along with new travel allowances, leave for cultural activities and extra pay for staff who speak multiple languages.
The proposed enterprise agreement, which was put to a vote on Monday and is widely expected to be approved, will give approximately 2,000 political, ministerial and electorate staff a pay rise of 11.2 per cent over three years. Four per cent will come in the first year, with 3.8 per cent and 3.4 per cent in the subsequent two years, respectively.
It is the first agreement negotiated under a federal Labor government in over a decade and includes a flurry of new conditions, many of them mirroring the government’s economy-wide industrial relations priorities including expanded parental leave, new rules for casuals and family and domestic violence leave.
Sources said the agreement had strong support from staff, especially those from the offices of Labor, Greens and independent MPs, but several Liberal staffers told the ABC they believed the deal was “totally ridiculous” in a broader economy in which “people are doing it tough”.
A new allowance of up to $40,000 a year will be available to electorate staff nominated to travel with their parliamentarian, in addition to the usual Canberra travel allowance for advisers.
If we continue to believe that our opponents think the same as us, have the same values as we do, and desire the same outcomes (and what it takes to achieve them), we will never create and execute the effective tactics needed to defeat them.
But then… do we actually want to win this competition for influence? Or are we happy with a participation certificate?
Why do the Revolutionary Communists of America tend to wear identity-hiding masks? Surely they are out and proud now? Kamala’s dad was a revolutionary Marxist. Same difference.
Roger
August 21, 2024 9:01 am
Violent criminal SAVED from deportation PUSHES commuter on tracks as immigration fury RATTLES Labour
If only he’d published a politically incorrect meme…
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.”
Wouldn’t the phone calls be giving some indication of where the victims are, if the callers are taunting them at the same time?
I’d think it’s not very clever of them to do so.
Brought to you by an accountant building aeroplanes.
Tom
August 21, 2024 9:08 am
It was past 11.30pm on America’s east coast when the condemned man walked with that familiar geriatric shuffle to the microphone, and the ratings by then were dismal. One can only assume director Spielberg arranged the timing of the speech, which didn’t end until after midnight, just as the party’s powerbrokers demanded, with the intention of keeping the First Embarrassment’s farewell as little viewed as possible.
Roger Franklin on the final exit of the Democratic Party’s puppet president. RTWT.
You wouldn’t know any of this if you listened to the 8 local and ‘funded’ marine biologists pouring out ‘the Fijian reef is dying’ misinformation on our recent cruise around these islands. They added in our Great Barrier Reef as an added bonus, till my sotto voce interjections may have been noticed.
Those are the far, far, left demonstrators who seek an immediate move to communism.
Shooting of Kulaks like you to follow quickly.
Roger
August 21, 2024 9:17 am
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.
Years ago my workshop built a few gensets for Telstra out in the desert. Derated by 50%. Wonder if they forgot about the temperature factor in the design.
I, for one, would be massively triggered as a leftie if the Queensland LNP achieved a successful takeover of the NSW Libs. Dutton would become the true leader of the country, unassailed by internal division or strife, occupying the natural and righteous centre of political discourse.
May I also say it is wonderful to read Figures and his crater-skulled droolery, to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. We may disagree, but at least we aren’t cookers.
Around 60% were perpetrated by leftists, a bit over 20% by Muslims, and around 15% by the far right.
Indeed.
Know your enemy. They are in order the leftards, Muslims, and trailing behind the “far right”, such as they might be.
I do know who my enemy is. As for the far-right, they’re a percentage problem in the US however they are not a problem here or in the UK. Oh and further to Jew hating Nazis (as if there are any other kind), I see our very own Nazi has vomited up here this morning.
Cassie, the Leftists are still to wake up to the fact the Muslims are playing them the same way they play others.
The Left pretends to support gays, aboriginals, and other assorted causes. Then they ditch them when they’ve got no use for them. The Muslims do the same, except when they have used the communists, they kill them. Just ask the Kurdish people. The first thing that happened after the MEK and the Mullahs overthrew the Shah, was the victory feast/celebrations and the MEK who were stupid enough to turn up were slaughtered.
The Left – being the smartest people in every room they they enter – still haven’t tumbled to the Islamic duplicity.
That’s all really good stuff, but I loved the extra link to the 2024 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest where that particular blogger has just won the Grand Prize. With a truly excellent entry!
Do please RTWT on both, especially the bodice-ripping Bulwer-Lytton efforts.
As for the far-right, they’re a percentage problem in the US however they are not a problem here or in the UK.
Which leads one to wonder whether AUS & UK law enforcement authorities are lazily following a narrative shared with them by their US counterparts at one of those international conferences they attend annually, from which they’ve come back all determined to unearth a problem that barely exists locally.
Which, if it were the case, would be funny, except that it involves a misallocation of resources from monitoring serious threats.
My name is Monty.
I’m a bit like Chauncey.
I can’t stand strong tea.
Please don’t taunt me.
I’m over forty.
My logic is faulty.
Ready for another dumb sortie?
Incoming commie thoughties.
Past errors don’t haunt me.
You lot are naughty.
Wait. There’s another page of rhyming words.
My name is Monty.
Thinking ain’t my forte.
Please don’t form the
idea my brain is scrawny.
I’ll grantee.
I like be haughty.
Making you lot yawny.
I know all about history.
For Marx I’m salty.
Yeah, I remember when you called someone here a ‘nonce’ then you backtracked and claimed you didn’t know the meaning of it.
Given your never ending hypocrisy, and given the fact that you openly advocate violence against those who you disagree with, I don’t think you’re in any position to lecture others about being ‘classy’.
The Democrat Party is no longer pretending to operate within accepted norms.I suspect this pulp fiction blockbuster attack ad will go down like a Disney remake of Star Wars using lesbian leads.
Roger
August 21, 2024 10:24 am
Speaking if which, the government is proving slow to appoint its “Islamophobia Envoy.”
Could it be that “the Muslim community” is itself divided over whether such a position is necessary, and, if so, who should fill the role?
One suggestion – the government would be well advised to avoid QLD blowhard Ali Kadri, who has humbly nominated himself for the position.
I am extremely indebted to my old mum who took a very naive country teenager to see that movie in a small Sydney cinema when it first reached Australia.
Monty Python had a large US fan base, largely amongst college students not surprisingly. Their early stuff was shown on publicly funded TV and they had a large lawsuit with one of the networks over cuts they wanted made to screen it on network TV.
Tintarella di Luna
August 21, 2024 10:28 am
Don’t know how it works and when and why, but it happens.
The secret is no secret — it’s faith – for me Psalm 91 is a guide as is Romans 8:31-32
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.
And that has flow-on effects with housing, jobs, access to health services, cost of living and higher taxes (to pay social security to the new arrivals).
But it’s not just national security. It’s the establishment cramming in yet more people into the country at the expense of normal Australians.
Mass migration is a separate issue that folds into the top three issues of housing affordability, real wage decline (aka declining standards of living) and demand on government services such as health.
It’s a target rich environment yet the Libs are choosing to major on a minor issue according to the polling at present. Yes, it’s yielding dividends, but it’s not an election winner unless the situation in the ME explodes. Mind you, Dutton has stupidly said he’s happy to take more ME refugees.
H B Bear
August 21, 2024 10:49 am
WA Supreme Court cops a whack from Albrechtsen in Teh Paywallian. Certainly their YouTube capabilities are a step down from the Federal Court.
To be fair WA Supreme Courts trials typically lack the celebrity nature of, say, their NSW or even Victorian counterparts. No gangland figures, no Richo on the witness list, no Home and Away stars, no footballers or their WAGs. A few WA Inc trials had a media throng but it’s been pretty quiet since then, except for the Claremont serial killer.
He’s just another Faceless Bureaucrat who has no idea of the effects on the people he’s supposed to be representing.
He thinks gaining power is a Brass Ring that allows him to make the electorate do what he thinks is best.
$340 Million investment pissed away on the say so of one dipshit “minister”
This country is stuffed.
Black Ball
August 21, 2024 11:05 am
FMD.
Valentina Petrillo will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympics and wants to be the “first of many” when the Italian sprinter makes her debut at the Games in Paris.
Petrillo will realise a childhood dream at 50 years old when she walks out onto the Stade de France track to compete in the 400m in the T12 category for visually impaired athletes.
Petrillo said it would be “the most important moment of my sporting career” after just missing out on the Tokyo Paralympics three years ago.
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.
What happened to Santa Monica?
The people voted for the destruction of their city and replaced it with ‘feel very good’ policies.
The political climate in Santa Monica, CA is strongly liberal.
Los Angeles County, CA is very liberal. In Los Angeles County, CA 71.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Los Angeles county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.0% to 26.9%.
Los Angeles county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
Again: They voted for it! Why are they surprised?
Black Ball
August 21, 2024 11:33 am
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.
On the flip side, when they find the cable won’t work (or Singapore won’t buy the power), it’ll provide Darwin and Alice with a huge excess of solar electricity.
Oh, and rediscovery of cave scratchings in 3.. 2.. 1.
Steve trickler
August 21, 2024 11:54 am
Jussie Smollett vibes.
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SC Reviews
WOKE COMEDIAN’S MELTDOWN AFTER SNIFFER DOG IDENTIFIED HIM (MELBOURNE AIRPORT, AUSTRALIA)
Who cares what an entitled ‘comedian’ thinks? These are our rules, if you don’t like them, inflict yourself on some other country.
Roger
August 21, 2024 12:19 pm
But it’s not just national security. It’s the establishment cramming in yet more people into the country at the expense of normal Australians.
Mass migration is really a separate issue from the Gazan visas. It folds into the top three issues of housing affordability, real wage decline (aka declining standards of living) and unsustainable demand on government services such as hospitals and schools.
Labor’s incompetence is providing a target rich environment, yet the Libs are choosing to major on a minor issue in the public’s mind according to the polling at present. Yes, it’s yielding dividends, but it’s not an election winner unless the situation in the ME explodes. Mind you, Dutton has stupidly said he’s happy to take more ME refugees, as he in fact did in the past as Abbott’s immigration minister.
What we’re seeing atm is a leadership contest in the Uniparty, not a serious proposal for an alternative government that will reverse the direction of the country.
The Democrat National Convention:
While inside they euthanise a senile, vicious old man’s political career, outside mobs of communist louts shriek for the end of America. Planned parenthood provide a ceremonial demonic van at which men line up for ritual emasculation and women to sacrifice their children to this unholy, chaotic and miserable vision.
No.
But then, I went back to bed and had a nice little sleep in. Do I get one for that? And what does it entitle me to?
Mother Lode
August 21, 2024 12:52 pm
Valentina Petrillo will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympics and wants to be the “first of many” when the Italian sprinter makes her debut at the Games in Paris.
It will be even funnier (in a way) when some low ranked nobody declares that their gender dysphoria is a disability demanding to be able to compete in the Paralympics. We have seen women pummelled by biological males into forfeiting contests.
Just imagine how stunning and brave it will be at a velodrome. The banked track strewn with blind people and one armed people tangled in their bikes – each lying at the end of along streak in the polish where their faces brought their bodies to a halt – while the ‘winner’ dances about punching the air with his raised fist and whooping in victory.
It will help people forget the opening ceremony where a corpulent tranny going by the name Jesina Christina, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and two stickers reading “IN” and “RI” on its nipples, moaned in ecstasy while another tranny, wearing a Satan mask and a devil’s tail, slid a lubricated crucifix in and out of Jesina’s butthole – and all the predictable griping by Christians that “their beliefs are being mocked”.
Roger
August 21, 2024 12:56 pm
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”.
… and second, there was a more transparent and open pathway to permanent residency for foreign students.
Basically selling citizenship, something you would expect from Vanuatu or some other clapped out island. Which is where Australia sits now.
Pogria
August 21, 2024 1:00 pm
Upthread, the Gimp informed us that Donald Trump, upon being asked why he was in a town associated with White Supremacy, was too scared to reply.
Here is what REALLY happened.
I’d like to remind people here that the scum who did this are lauded and praised by the left, and the scum who did this and who support this are being invited into this country by a government of Jew haters. The world must never forget the evil carried out by the people of Gaza.
IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza The hostages were identified as Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg. The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morningrecovered the bodies of six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, from a tunnel inKhan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
In an operation involving the IDF and Israel Security Agency, the bodies ofAvraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav,Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg were located more than 10 months after the Hamas massacre.
The six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists and who were murdered in Gaza. Their bodies were recovered by the IDF in a tunnel in Khan Younis on Aug. 20, 2024. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of Israel.
The total number of hostages remaining in the hands of Hamas in Gaza nowstands at 109.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that every effort will continue to be made to return all of the abductees, both alive and dead.
“Our hearts grieve over the terrible loss. My wife Sara and I convey our heartfelt condolences to the dear families. I would like to thank the brave IDF and ISA fighters and commanders for their heroism and determined action,” the premier stated.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said, “We must not stop for a moment from working in every way possible to bring back all the hostages, the living to the embrace of their families, and the dead to be laid to rest. This is Israel’s highest moral duty.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called it a “daring and dangerous operation in the Hamas tunnels in Khan Younis.”
“I share in the mourning and the heavy sorrow of the families,” he said, adding, that the operation was “another expression of the determination and courage of the fighters, alongside the operational freedom of action that we have achieved all over the Gaza Strip. We will continue to expand it and realize the goals of the war, the dissolution of Hamas, and the fulfillment of our commitment to return all abductees to Israel.”
Avraham Munder, 79, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife Ruthi,their daughter Keren and 9-year-old grandson Ohad. Ruthi, Keren and Ohad were released in the November hostage deal. Their son, Roi, was murdered during the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7 along with some 1,200 others.
“We will always remember Munder, with his clear voice, his warm smile and his endless love for his family and the kibbutz,” the kibbutz said in a statement.
Yoram Metzger, 80, also a member of Nir Oz, was kidnapped alive and the IDF announced his death about two months ago. His wife, Tamar, who was also kidnapped to Gaza, was released in November.
“He worked at the Nirlat factory and in recent years in a garage. Member of the Kibbutz Winery. Father of three sons and grandfather of seven grandchildren. Yoram will be remembered in all of our hearts as a pleasant and smiling man, who always made everyone feel immediately at home,” the kibbutz said.
Chaim Peri, 80, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, of which he was a member. Chaim was 80 years old, father of five children and grandfather of 13 grandchildren. An entrepreneur, humanist and peace activist. On the day of the massacre at the kibbutz, Chaim managed to save his wife Asanat before being kidnapped himself. He survived in inhumane conditions in the Hamas tunnels for months, until he was brutally murdered in captivity,” the kibbutz said.
Yagev Buchshtav’s death was announced on July 22. He was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nirim, where the 34-year-old resided. His wife, Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav, was abducted with him and then released on Nov. 28 as part of aceasefire agreement.
Alex Dancyg, 76, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz. The IDF announced his death in late July, along with that of Yagev Buchshtav.
“Alex Dancyg was a historian, educator and farmer. Born to Holocaust survivors, he became one of the founders of educational delegations to Poland. Alex worked at Yad Vashem for about 30 years, where he trained thousands of guides in Holocaust education,
“Hostages who were held captive with him reported that Alex spent his time in captivity giving history lectures to fellow captives. Alex was an avid reader with a passion for history and enjoyed various sports. Yesterday would have been his 76th birthday,” the statement continued.
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan paid tribute to Dancyg, saying, “Alex’s essence embodied both in spirit and substance his love for the land and thirst for knowledge. His vast library at his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz reflected his deep connection between his cherished Israeli and Jewish identity and his Polish birthplace.
“Alex successfully integrated these perspectives into his teaching of the events of World War II in general and of the Holocaust in particular. The news of his tragic death strengthens our commitment to ensure that Alex’s legacy and the stories he passionately preserved are never forgotten.”
The forum said of Yagev Buchshtav that he “was a humble and unassuming man who loved life in Kibbutz Nirim. A sound technician by profession, Yagev had a deep passion for music. From a young age, he played guitar and flute, later expanding to other instruments, some of which he built himself. Together with his wife Rimon, Yagev cared for five dogs and five cats, several of which they had rescued and rehabilitated.”
Nadav Popplewell’s death was announced on June 3. The 51-year-old British Israeli was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim by Hamas terrorists. His mother, Channah Peri, 79, was released in November.
May their memory be blessed. May their deaths be avenged by the IDF.
How many hostages remain alive? Most of the men are probably dead, the young women used as sexual slaves and raped every day. This is the scum the left here laud and extol.
Cassie,
not a day goes by that I don’t say a prayer for Kfir and Ariel Bibas, and their mum and dad.
Kfir’s first birthday has come and gone since his capture.
He has no idea of where his food comes from, or where his political appetite will take him. Probably to a Gulag, or the Fabled Vegemite Mines in the Great Sandy Desert.
Miltonf
August 21, 2024 1:25 pm
Re the Kohler article – more evidence that the repulsive Howard has a lot to answer for.
It is now 319 days since October 7 2023. That disgusting and very putrid organisation known as the IRC is yet to visit one hostage held by Hamas in Gaza.
@MikeBenzCyber
On @JesseKellyDC, I went over the strange similarities btwn the 2020 BLM riots in Minneapolis under Governor Tim Walz & the US Special Operations Forces 2021 guide to organizing race riots in Africa. Tim Walz, oddly, had chaired the Special Operations Forces caucus in Congress.
I don’t think many cats need to worry about monkey pox as unlikely to engage in gay orgies.
Printing More Money Doesn’t Fix The Economy | Lord Mervyn King
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Much better format – I don’t have the patience any more to sit for 3/4 of an hour listening to people argue arcane points.
A 3 – 7 minute easily digestible single point hammered home does more to engage me than a long winded homily.
Current read. Triggered by Bungonia Bee who mentioned Ben MacIntyre in a recent thread.
Not many books leave me stunned with pretty much an open jaw. There’s some amazing events mixed up with just one KGB officer, & for the reader few cogs slip into place regards events of the 1980s.
On top of that, one of the most interesting accounts of recruiting & running an agent inside an enemy intelligence agency.
Salvatore’s unsolicited opinion: The punishment of Aldrich Ames should have been handled not by a US federal court, but by Vlad the Impaler – even then it would have been too lenient.
Ben’s books are so well researched and so well written.
Sliante, to all you horrible mob.
There is a group of the old and bold, and the ruthless and toothless, sitting on my back verandah, murdering compous amounts of single malt, and wondering why the Hell we ever othered,,
You forgot ..the rugged and buggered.
Who, where or what were you othering?
Good news from Sweden https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/19/sweden-negative-net-immigration-figure-record-low-asylum-application-global-displacement
The frollicking mole, covid “caused” less deaths than Black Death because the response was (somewhat) less insane.
Ventilators and Remdesevir in 2020 weren’t as widely applied as drinking mercury and arsenic were in the 14th century.
Still completely useless and dangerous, just not as dangerous.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Schrank.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis #2.
Gary Varvel.
Tina Norton.
Saw a notice on a building near me, there are a bunch of these along a little river/canal in the centre of Cavan.
And two pubs opposite me and am old supermarket two doors down, though that was probably killed by Tesco.
It’s a shame in the middle of a housing shortage.
Land banking for future development. Elderly owners without funds for repair? Simply abandoned?
Mystery.
https://www.cavancoco.ie/services/planning-building/derelict-sites/
rosie, probably a mix of all three, but I’d suspect the dead hand of the bureaucracy in the rebuild effort – too many regulations making the rebuild “Heritage values” too expensive for the owners to consider.
The Demonrats are certainly intent on aborting the American Dream.
600 years of coral at Fiji shows the ocean was just as warm in 1400AD
‘IT WAS THE JEWS!’ Screams Candace Owens On First Round Of ‘Clue’
How very timely, Hugh. 😀
That was in reference to comments made last night about Owens. The Bee definitely has the ratbag’s measure.
…and she seemed so calm and logical just a couple of years ago.
What the Hell happened to her?
They don’t make ’em tough like that any more
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Cassius Clay was an absolute badass. Like, on some surreal John Wick level.
In 1843, Clay was addressing his constituents in Kentucky, standing at an embankment.
An assassin ran up from within the crowd and fired at him, hitting him in the chest. Clay beat the man with his silver-tipped cane, then wrestled him into submission.
Holding him down with one hand, he took his Bowie knife, cutting off the gunman’s nose and ear. Then lifted the man off the ground, throwing him off the embankment…
He did all that with a bullet lodged in his chest. Cassius Clay lived to 92 with that bullet still in him.
One of the world’s greatest fighters was named after him… and then decided “Muhammad Ali” was a more badass name.
I disagree — they don’t make ’em any more hardcore than the original Cassius Clay.
Hard workers in the gold fields.
Didn’t we used to have a Blog Roll in the margins, for people to look up sites deemed newsworthy?
Or was that Ye Olde Catallaxy?
Both statements are true. Dover did away with a stack of plug-ins when the blog started to slow down dramatically.
I can’t see that it would slow it down much, but OK.
This will help the day get off to a good start.
People falling over and shit.
How to put the fear of God into an older woman going to her dance class with a very sore coccyx, Bob.
But I did it, and well. Glad I didn’t see your little cheer up first.
What is it that I couldn’t help laughing, even watching it twice?
Factoid- Cassius Clay (v2.0) took the name “Cassius X” for a heady fortnight in 64 before going the full Muhammad.
The Left really really doesn’t like Christians.
The disgraceful French clampdown on a legal protest which no one’s talking about (20 Aug)
RTWT, it’s fairly short. Compare and contrast with certain other protests lately…
What next? Recommissioning the Chateau d’If for political prisoners?
Georgia Election Board – good news. Total ballots cast in the election must match the total number of voter IDs recorded in the system.
Pretty basic you would think at ruling out voting fraud. Needless to say the Democrats hate it.
“IT WAS THE JEWS!” Owens cried
My father once told me that anti-Semitism, or the more accurate description of Jew hatred, sends people stark raving mad.
I have often wondered why we Jews have always been the whipping boys but it’s been like that for three millennia, it even begins as far back as Egypt prior to the exodus.
Some say it’s jealousy, but what are people jealous of? For most of history, throughout those three millennia, particularly after the destruction of the second temple, we Jews have been dirt poor, a marginalised, impoverished and very despised minority, frequently persecuted. Pogroms were the norm, culminating in the Holocaust. Our persecutors could never make up their minds about what exactly they hated about us, it shifted from religious to economic to racial. But despite this we clung and we still cling stubbornly to our faith, to our heritage, a heritage that goes back to Abraham and Sarah.
So, why this unhinged obsession? Jew hatred always united the far-left and the far-right. Both fringes agree on many things but what ties them intimately, like a marriage made in hell, is Jew hatred.
I’m reminded of a story about Frederick the Great, perhaps apocryphal, perhaps not. Frederick the Great was a man who didn’t much care for religion, and he didn’t much care for Prussia’s Jews. When he was a teenager the young precocious Frederick once demanded of his Lutheran pastor proof that God exists, and the pastor is said to have given Frederick a two-word answer…..
‘The Jews’
And therein lies the rub. Fred’s Lutheran pastor was quite correct, it is the Jews who provide the world with the evidence of God’s existence, and that’s why we’re hated. Fred of Prussia never forgave the Jews for this, he grew up to persecute Jews. And the world will never forgive the Jews for it either.
Jew hatred is a direct assault on God, it is an assault on morality, on decency and on truth.
The survival of the Jews IS a miracle of history, it is testament to the existence of God. Mediocrities like Candace Owens, the Iranian mullahs, Senator Penny Pong, forked tongue Albo, the hideous Nazi Greens, and the rest of the far-left and far-right will all one day be confined to the dustbin of history whilst we Jews will survive, but we survive at a cost, a hideous cost. But if one day the Jew haters get their way and we Jews are disappeared, a light that shines on this planet will be gone……forever and the world will sink into permanent darkness.
Cassie
Been travelling, so no link, but a couple of days ago, I saw on Instapundit IIRC, some research on modem anti-Semitic actions quoted.
Around 60% were perpetrated by leftists, a bit over 20% by Muslims, and around 15% by the far right.
Know your enemy. They are in order the leftards, Muslims, and trailing behind the “far right”, such as they might be.
Cassie, this unhinged hatred of the Jews has always puzzled me. I have always presumed it is because they have such a high IQ! I kid you not. The Ashkenazi Jews are said to have the highest IQ of any group. The astounding success of the state of Israel seems to me to be a tribute to Jewish courage and intellect. This will always promote envy amongst those who are incapable of that level of success.
You know, Cassie, it seems to me to be very tribal. One tribe looks at the achievements of another tribe and simmers in envy. At the end of the day, I reckon we are all tribal.
I think there’s a lot of intellectual envy. Ashkenazi Jews are super bright because they had to enter professions requiring a honed intelligence such as accountancy, banking and medicine. Under Medievalism, they were unable to hold land or achieve in Christian bureaucracies. The selection pressures were set in place to develop exceptionalism in some, with fine minds, and the culture also assisted, stressing scholarly behaviour and familial integrity. A few prospered in the US in banking and hence the myth of the Jewish control of financial matters internationally, while many were occupationally middle class. Easy to cast stones of this sort against a well-off group already demonised, even if not all were as well off as believed. The disraceful ethnic slurring in the faked-up Protocols of Zion played on this situational and historical placement of Jewish people in Western Christian culture..
Cassie, it’s demonic hatred and finds its expression in human action.
It has everything to do with God’s faithfulness, His promise to Abraham and how He has fulfilled it through the ages. The people who are acting out the evil don’t have to believe it, many wouldn’t even know what it’s about. But the force directing them does.
That doesn’t exonerate the perpetrators. Having given themselves over to wickedness, they just can’t stop because they enjoy it.
Cassie, I have never understood this unhinged hatred of the Jews. I agree with what you say although I had supposed jealousy came into it. It is much worse than that though and I agree with Calli that it is actually demonic.
Can anyone explain to me what the $7.70cap on OAP medical prescriptions applies too ..? .. Admittedy, I’d never needed a prescription in over 10 years until my Prostate problems flared last November .. Since then, for various reasons, I’ve filled, maybe, 2 dozen scripts .. Yet never once have I had one that cost only $7.70 .. They’ve all ranged from, at least, $8.80 thru to $30 even tho I produce my OAP card ..
?SO, what is a $7.70 capped prescription the gummint keeps touting ..?
Paracetamol and Laxettes. 😀
It appears your doctors are prescribing non-PBS medicines which are not affected by the cap of $7.70
The $7.70 is the $7 GP user-payment spitballed by spineless Abbott, plus GST.
*this comment is only half-baked
Damn ..! Misunderstood the headline .. clicked and expected pix of sheep, wool looms & jumpers .. instead ……. FFS! As an aside is there any Oz “entrepreneurial” group out there that didn’t contribute to out medal haul … ? I meanz, how would all these athletes have got on if they’d had to rely on their own abilities …… ?” …… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/indigenous-yarning-circle-paris-olympics-highlight/104218162
Cassie of Sydney
August 21, 2024 7:39 am
Bravo Cassie – as I said last night I was once a fan of the feisty Candace Owens but even when she’d joined the Daily Wire I could not listen to her podcasts due to her mode of speaking and pronunciation of words which to me indicated a somewhat shallow intellect – Does she think anti-semitism makes her a better Catholic — ask that great observer of behaviour Bugs Bunny says — What a maroon, what an ignroanamus
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For me the Jews will always be God’s Chosen People and perhaps their very existence bears witness to the miraculous existence of God.
Listened last year to the Socrates in the City podcast by Eric Metaxas – his guest was an observant Jewish fellow by the name of Michael Medved and the topic was God’s Hand on America – fascinating details about the US that were seemingly impossible but for a belief in the hand of God in the miraculous outcomes.
I don’t think many cats need to worry about monkey pox as unlikely to engage in gay orgies.
Don’t you believe it and i’D HAVE TO “GOOGLE” orgy.. !
Repeat after me: There is no two tiered justice in Airstrip One.
No better shatterzzz?
Feelz a lot better, pain is minimal now, but not improving in graphics .. more concerned about it’s, possible, affect on my, planned, major surgery, next week .. I look in the mirror ans see .. rejection .. back on the list …… duuuuuuuuuh!
If it’s OK by you I’ll keep you on my prayer list — it’s fairly long at the moment but room for one more.
Cameron Stewart is a far left knee pad clad meeja moron (BIRM). From the Oz:
Geriatric Joe will be regarded as the most incapable incompetent and illegitimate president in US history.
That “is if” about all you needed to say Stewart, you stupid sanctimonious j’ismist twat.
Hes right up there. Best avoided.
He is a competent stenographer for the Media Class Party Line on every topic.
This article at the Oz is at nearly 800 comments in 3 hours.
Australia’s biggest renewables project, SunCable, has won environmental approvals from the Albanese government, with the giant development in the Northern Territory set to produce enough power for three million homes.
I call BS. How many homes does the NT have?
This project will produce power for homes that don’t exist at times when it’s not needed.
The three million homes stuff is hilarious. How you would explain it to sixteen year old girl. Nameplate capacity on a windmill is next to useless for all intents and purposes.
…and not derailed by a Govt funded buck toothed “ aboriginal” “artist” either.
I suppose Rainbow Serpents can slither underneath solar panels.
Australia’s biggest solar farm gets a green tick from Plibersek (Paywallian)
The subsidies must be worth a gold mine for Cannon-Brookes.
Snap Bourne!
During daylight hours.
After that, it’s candles. And so many panels to clean, and so much water needed to clean them. Perhaps the pixies will pop in overnight when they’re inactive.
One senses the opportunity for a Work-for-tha-doll scheme here?
Actually the cleaning would be the least of a problem, easily automated to turn on sprinklers at night, provided water was available.
Wouldn’t be needed every day either, output can be recorded and when falling, cleaning started as needed.
Quite.
Why would you waste it on crops and cattle?
With respect Kevin, I think you’re avoiding the perceived value of ‘doin sumfink.’ Practical solutions are not vote winners (and they don’t provide well-paying jerbs for mates).
Muddy
That’s “maaaaaates”.
Meanwhile, Denny Shanahan has penned a piece at the Oz stating out loud what many Cats have already suspected – the Oxford St bathhouse that is NSW gliberals are hell bent on sabotaging Dr Mutton’s election campaign.
Mass sackings and expulsions from the pardee would seem the only logical course of action.
That the NSW Lieborals are actually sabotaging themselves is somehow more reassuring.
Just get a load of this smug evil tax hoovering hippie deadsh*t …
Precisely my thoughts first thing this morning.
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
We live in a time where the words of one tribe (the outsiders) are defined as violence, but the violence of the insiders’ tribe is defined as words (free speech).
Until the (majority) outsiders wake up and stop permitting the (minority) insiders to make up their own rules, nothing will change.
Hamas sends threatening calls, messages to hostage relatives from loved ones phones – N12
Yes, and where’s the Red Cross/Crescent in all of this??
Greenslime: Wind turbines dont cause wildlife deaths
also greenslime: Australia could save thousands of bats a year with simple tweak to wind turbines, study saysRaising the wind speed at which turbines start spinning could prevent tens of thousands of bat deaths each year, researchers find
Considering the bats being the vectors of several diseases jumping to humans, we should be wiping the damn things out.
Violent criminal SAVED from deportation PUSHES commuter on tracks as immigration fury RATTLES Labour
Haha, amazing how it works.
Disney+ cancels Star Wars spin-off after one season (News.com.au, 20 Aug)
News.com.au seem mystified why it went so badly. Of course they forget to mention anywhere in this article that it was insanely woke and featured two parthenogenic lesbian space witches.
You Can’t Defend Israel Unless You Talk About Islam
Honestly, at this point, I’m not as outraged as you might expect.
The United States Was Just Called a “Plague” by Mahmoud Abbas. Now what?
Mike Benz: The Four-Letter Agencies Are Killing The Ability To Operate An Independent Website
@catturd2
Why did the Democrat’s “Joy” campaign last night sound like hate, rage, bitterness, and revenge?
@JackPosobiec
Meanwhile, in Chicago
If we continue to believe that our opponents think the same as us, have the same values as we do, and desire the same outcomes (and what it takes to achieve them), we will never create and execute the effective tactics needed to defeat them.
But then… do we actually want to win this competition for influence? Or are we happy with a participation certificate?
Because it was.
Why do the Revolutionary Communists of America tend to wear identity-hiding masks? Surely they are out and proud now? Kamala’s dad was a revolutionary Marxist. Same difference.
If only he’d published a politically incorrect meme…
@Shawn_Farash
‘Joy’ for some people is exercising power over others; making the latter feel miserable as a proxy for the abuser’s own insecurities.
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.”
See the lie, hidden? IVF day, then his wife and kids, but not making an actual connection.
Rather as he implied stolen valor.
As Kamala Harris masks her radicalism, AOC’s speech showed Democrats’ true face
how to fix home affordability in the US
Must be very tempting for the recipients to go all Les Grossman on the hamarse’s house sized backsides.
Wouldn’t the phone calls be giving some indication of where the victims are, if the callers are taunting them at the same time?
I’d think it’s not very clever of them to do so.
Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘FBI Investigation into Trump Shooting Is Jaw-Dropping, Everything They Are Doing Is Wrong’
shatterzzz
Looks like you’ve been “in a spirited policy debate with a factional rival at an ALP conference”.
Remember the battered face in The Baldwin Bashing?
Cheer up, Shatrerzzz. Peter Baldwin recoved and so will you.
Boeing grounds entire 777X test fleet after discovering engine defect
Brought to you by an accountant building aeroplanes.
Roger Franklin on the final exit of the Democratic Party’s puppet president. RTWT.
Hugely good satire and some solid highly informative taking of the piss.
Lag from the medieval warm period, possibly.
You wouldn’t know any of this if you listened to the 8 local and ‘funded’ marine biologists pouring out ‘the Fijian reef is dying’ misinformation on our recent cruise around these islands. They added in our Great Barrier Reef as an added bonus, till my sotto voce interjections may have been noticed.
Dr. John Campbell with Prof. Robert Clancy
Microbiome
Konstantin Kisin vs. NBC Journalist on Elon, UK Riots and Civil War
Man, those crowds at the DNC are really something. AI has come a long way.
Half empty is something I suppose.
It’s DEAD Inside The DNC — Low Energy and Less Than Half Full (19 Aug)
Bruce
The DNC talking points are far more positive, if not necessarily accurate.
Those are the far, far, left demonstrators who seek an immediate move to communism.
Shooting of Kulaks like you to follow quickly.
So, who’s lying, the government officials or the NRMA?
The NRMA later confessed…
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.
Years ago my workshop built a few gensets for Telstra out in the desert. Derated by 50%. Wonder if they forgot about the temperature factor in the design.
You’d think they’d be curious as to why it’s not working; instead “no timeline.”
Which makes one suspicious re the contract terms.
Government departments are becoming notorious for their incompetence in writing up commercial contracts.
Waddya mean “becoming”? Look at Defence contracting even decades ago.
Getting worse then.
Tintarella di Luna
August 21, 2024 8:58 am
Very kind of you Tinta.
While I am of no faith, I think that if you genuinely believe in he power of prayer it comes true.
Don’t know how it works and when and why, but it happens.
I, for one, would be massively triggered as a leftie if the Queensland LNP achieved a successful takeover of the NSW Libs. Dutton would become the true leader of the country, unassailed by internal division or strife, occupying the natural and righteous centre of political discourse.
Well that’s a nice scenario Monty, but it would need the LINOs to be booted: like Photios, Kean and Harwin.
Which is unlikely to happen. The Libs are going right down the toilet like the Conservative Party has.
I will report to the fainting couch. Stop that, JD!
Well you said you’d be massively triggered.
Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children
IVF was the non de plume of the wifes boyfriend?
?
My thought precisely.
We have the same issue here with the Milkmans children.
And, on the topic of JOY,
Here’s a taste of the real thing
May I also say it is wonderful to read Figures and his crater-skulled droolery, to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. We may disagree, but at least we aren’t cookers.
My arguments are completely irrefutable both logically and empirically.
But I suspect the thing that would persuade them the most is that you’re on the side of germ theory,
That’s because he is a germ
You are at least 100 levels below cookers on intelligence alone. Morally probably 1000 levels lower.
Around 60% were perpetrated by leftists, a bit over 20% by Muslims, and around 15% by the far right.
Indeed.
Know your enemy. They are in order the leftards, Muslims, and trailing behind the “far right”, such as they might be.
I do know who my enemy is. As for the far-right, they’re a percentage problem in the US however they are not a problem here or in the UK. Oh and further to Jew hating Nazis (as if there are any other kind), I see our very own Nazi has vomited up here this morning.
Cassie, the Leftists are still to wake up to the fact the Muslims are playing them the same way they play others.
The Left pretends to support gays, aboriginals, and other assorted causes. Then they ditch them when they’ve got no use for them. The Muslims do the same, except when they have used the communists, they kill them. Just ask the Kurdish people. The first thing that happened after the MEK and the Mullahs overthrew the Shah, was the victory feast/celebrations and the MEK who were stupid enough to turn up were slaughtered.
The Left – being the smartest people in every room they they enter – still haven’t tumbled to the Islamic duplicity.
and his crater-skulled droolery
Projecting again, Nazi.
Via Instapundit:
DNC Riot Season Begins (19 Aug)
That’s all really good stuff, but I loved the extra link to the 2024 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest where that particular blogger has just won the Grand Prize. With a truly excellent entry!
Do please RTWT on both, especially the bodice-ripping Bulwer-Lytton efforts.
That Bulwer-Lytton link is hilarious. Incidentally, I do agree with the writer about the Yukon Golds. 😀
I do enjoy turning a prophet!
Which leads one to wonder whether AUS & UK law enforcement authorities are lazily following a narrative shared with them by their US counterparts at one of those international conferences they attend annually, from which they’ve come back all determined to unearth a problem that barely exists locally.
Which, if it were the case, would be funny, except that it involves a misallocation of resources from monitoring serious threats.
You’re such a faggot, Monty.
My name is Monty.
I’m a bit like Chauncey.
I can’t stand strong tea.
Please don’t taunt me.
I’m over forty.
My logic is faulty.
Ready for another dumb sortie?
Incoming commie thoughties.
Past errors don’t haunt me.
You lot are naughty.
Wait. There’s another page of rhyming words.
My name is Monty.
Thinking ain’t my forte.
Please don’t form the
idea my brain is scrawny.
I’ll grantee.
I like be haughty.
Making you lot yawny.
I know all about history.
For Marx I’m salty.
Stay classy, Frank.
Yeah, I remember when you called someone here a ‘nonce’ then you backtracked and claimed you didn’t know the meaning of it.
Given your never ending hypocrisy, and given the fact that you openly advocate violence against those who you disagree with, I don’t think you’re in any position to lecture others about being ‘classy’.
I did not, in fact, know that meaning of the word.
I don’t think Frank was mistakenly comparing me to a bundle of sticks, Cranky.
Didn’t know the meaning of “nonce”? LOL, the (lack of) benefits of a modern “education”.
Bulldust.
Whiny queen was the comparison. For such an alpha luvvie as yourself this should be a compliment.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/democrat-attack-ad-against-donald-trump.html
The Democrat Party is no longer pretending to operate within accepted norms.I suspect this pulp fiction blockbuster attack ad will go down like a Disney remake of Star Wars using lesbian leads.
Speaking if which, the government is proving slow to appoint its “Islamophobia Envoy.”
Could it be that “the Muslim community” is itself divided over whether such a position is necessary, and, if so, who should fill the role?
One suggestion – the government would be well advised to avoid QLD blowhard Ali Kadri, who has humbly nominated himself for the position.
As you would expect the Bee are Python fans…
‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’ Insists Biden As He’s Loaded Onto Cart Of Corpses (18 Aug, via Instapundit)
I am extremely indebted to my old mum who took a very naive country teenager to see that movie in a small Sydney cinema when it first reached Australia.
Monty Python had a large US fan base, largely amongst college students not surprisingly. Their early stuff was shown on publicly funded TV and they had a large lawsuit with one of the networks over cuts they wanted made to screen it on network TV.
Don’t know how it works and when and why, but it happens.
The secret is no secret — it’s faith – for me Psalm 91 is a guide as is Romans 8:31-32
and Psalm 27
Oh I do like this brutal truth-bomb from Basketball Star Kwame Brown: “Kamal’s skin colour ain’t gonna pay for our groceries”
For what it is worth, I don’t rate Benson. Not quite Prof levels of wrongology but definitely that end of the curve.
I think national security is becoming very important.
I’m sure many would wonder why Labor is smuggling Palis into the country.
I’m afraid Benson is right. The Gaza issue establishes only that Luigi and his rabble are sneaky and dishonest on immigration and national security.
But Gaza is magnitudes lower than cost of living in the issues that will decide the next election.
But it’s not just national security. It’s the establishment cramming in yet more people into the country at the expense of normal Australians.
And that has flow-on effects with housing, jobs, access to health services, cost of living and higher taxes (to pay social security to the new arrivals).
Mass migration is a separate issue that folds into the top three issues of housing affordability, real wage decline (aka declining standards of living) and demand on government services such as health.
It’s a target rich environment yet the Libs are choosing to major on a minor issue according to the polling at present. Yes, it’s yielding dividends, but it’s not an election winner unless the situation in the ME explodes. Mind you, Dutton has stupidly said he’s happy to take more ME refugees.
WA Supreme Court cops a whack from Albrechtsen in Teh Paywallian. Certainly their YouTube capabilities are a step down from the Federal Court.
To be fair WA Supreme Courts trials typically lack the celebrity nature of, say, their NSW or even Victorian counterparts. No gangland figures, no Richo on the witness list, no Home and Away stars, no footballers or their WAGs. A few WA Inc trials had a media throng but it’s been pretty quiet since then, except for the Claremont serial killer.
Would love to discuss over a cup of tea one day.
She’s moved on from dressing like a sofa.
Jill Biden Walks Out on Stage at DNC Convention Wrapped in a Plastic Trash Bag (19 Aug)
You can’t unsee it…
Well, she is taking out the trash.
Gimpwear.
When you take your Nan shopping at one of those stripper boutiques.
https://theworstofperth.com/2008/10/01/stripper-world-blues/
Did they forget the pole?
Fitting for a dreadful old bag.
I can forgive her lack of fashion sense, but isn’t there anyone to advise her?
EVERYTIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, THINGS GET WORSE
He’s just another Faceless Bureaucrat who has no idea of the effects on the people he’s supposed to be representing.
He thinks gaining power is a Brass Ring that allows him to make the electorate do what he thinks is best.
Gold hits all time high.
So naturally the Labor government turns down a new gold mine.
They’re literally that dumb.
Accidental down thumb, please forgive me. If not get fffffff
There should be more down thumbing.
Too much agreement here and not enough debate.
It’s like an old women’s knitting club.
Nit one, pearl …
You can thumbs-up a thumbs-down to cancel it then add the thumbs-up you intended.
$340 Million investment pissed away on the say so of one dipshit “minister”
This country is stuffed.
FMD.
Just wonderful
Mama mia! And they are worried about pineapple on pizza.
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.
Maybe not morons, maybe corrupt traitors.
WTF Happened To Santa Monica, California?!
What happened to Santa Monica?
The people voted for the destruction of their city and replaced it with ‘feel very good’ policies.
Again: They voted for it! Why are they surprised?
Dave Sharma with a piece in the Daily Telegraph:
What % of Hawkey’s Chinese students would still be here?
On second thoughts, I’ll wait for the new OT to be put up.
A summary of the idiotic long-distance undersea solar energy proposal…
Daily Mail
On the flip side, when they find the cable won’t work (or Singapore won’t buy the power), it’ll provide Darwin and Alice with a huge excess of solar electricity.
Oh, and rediscovery of cave scratchings in 3.. 2.. 1.
Jussie Smollett vibes.
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SC Reviews
WOKE COMEDIAN’S MELTDOWN AFTER SNIFFER DOG IDENTIFIED HIM (MELBOURNE AIRPORT, AUSTRALIA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e_ww9pJxAE
Is he any relation to Peter Andre. That would account for lack of talent.
Who cares what an entitled ‘comedian’ thinks? These are our rules, if you don’t like them, inflict yourself on some other country.
Mass migration is really a separate issue from the Gazan visas. It folds into the top three issues of housing affordability, real wage decline (aka declining standards of living) and unsustainable demand on government services such as hospitals and schools.
Labor’s incompetence is providing a target rich environment, yet the Libs are choosing to major on a minor issue in the public’s mind according to the polling at present. Yes, it’s yielding dividends, but it’s not an election winner unless the situation in the ME explodes. Mind you, Dutton has stupidly said he’s happy to take more ME refugees, as he in fact did in the past as Abbott’s immigration minister.
What we’re seeing atm is a leadership contest in the Uniparty, not a serious proposal for an alternative government that will reverse the direction of the country.
C’mon, Liberals…prove me wrong.
The Democrat National Convention:
While inside they euthanise a senile, vicious old man’s political career, outside mobs of communist louts shriek for the end of America. Planned parenthood provide a ceremonial demonic van at which men line up for ritual emasculation and women to sacrifice their children to this unholy, chaotic and miserable vision.
There could be an upside to progs not reproducing, you know.
The sin of Moloch is actual and real today.
What Carthage got was in my opinion dealt by the One who sees.
They had a giant IUD in the foyer and people marching dressed as abortion pills. It’s almost like they want humanity to go extinct.
Has anyone else got an 520 error code this morning?
Yes.
Yes, but it was resolved within ten minutes.
No
Did not get an error message, but about an hour ago, when I clicked on the reply link to any posts, nothing happened
For me the New Cat wasn’t accessible for an hour or so around lunchtime. Didn’t wait long enough for an error message though.
No.
But then, I went back to bed and had a nice little sleep in. Do I get one for that? And what does it entitle me to?
It will be even funnier (in a way) when some low ranked nobody declares that their gender dysphoria is a disability demanding to be able to compete in the Paralympics. We have seen women pummelled by biological males into forfeiting contests.
Just imagine how stunning and brave it will be at a velodrome. The banked track strewn with blind people and one armed people tangled in their bikes – each lying at the end of along streak in the polish where their faces brought their bodies to a halt – while the ‘winner’ dances about punching the air with his raised fist and whooping in victory.
It will help people forget the opening ceremony where a corpulent tranny going by the name Jesina Christina, wearing nothing but a crown of thorns and two stickers reading “IN” and “RI” on its nipples, moaned in ecstasy while another tranny, wearing a Satan mask and a devil’s tail, slid a lubricated crucifix in and out of Jesina’s butthole – and all the predictable griping by Christians that “their beliefs are being mocked”.
When even Alan Kohler gets it…
Alan Kohler:
How a broken immigration system caused the housing crisis
Sounds like the 1965 changes to the Immigration Act in the USA which lead to the import of the turd world.
Basically selling citizenship, something you would expect from Vanuatu or some other clapped out island. Which is where Australia sits now.
Upthread, the Gimp informed us that Donald Trump, upon being asked why he was in a town associated with White Supremacy, was too scared to reply.
Here is what REALLY happened.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1825987400822063191
Bet the jismist didn’t understand after Donald John Trump
Replied. Mutley level of jism.
replied
The lying liar lied again, News at 6. He’s a lefturd, what else did you expect?
Kellogs awarded contract for ASIO security vetting .. LOL!
I’d like to remind people here that the scum who did this are lauded and praised by the left, and the scum who did this and who support this are being invited into this country by a government of Jew haters. The world must never forget the evil carried out by the people of Gaza.
IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza
The hostages were identified as Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg.
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morningrecovered the bodies of six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, from a tunnel inKhan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
In an operation involving the IDF and Israel Security Agency, the bodies ofAvraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav,Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg were located more than 10 months after the Hamas massacre.
The six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists and who were murdered in Gaza. Their bodies were recovered by the IDF in a tunnel in Khan Younis on Aug. 20, 2024. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of Israel.
The total number of hostages remaining in the hands of Hamas in Gaza nowstands at 109.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that every effort will continue to be made to return all of the abductees, both alive and dead.
“Our hearts grieve over the terrible loss. My wife Sara and I convey our heartfelt condolences to the dear families. I would like to thank the brave IDF and ISA fighters and commanders for their heroism and determined action,” the premier stated.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said, “We must not stop for a moment from working in every way possible to bring back all the hostages, the living to the embrace of their families, and the dead to be laid to rest. This is Israel’s highest moral duty.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called it a “daring and dangerous operation in the Hamas tunnels in Khan Younis.”
“I share in the mourning and the heavy sorrow of the families,” he said, adding, that the operation was “another expression of the determination and courage of the fighters, alongside the operational freedom of action that we have achieved all over the Gaza Strip. We will continue to expand it and realize the goals of the war, the dissolution of Hamas, and the fulfillment of our commitment to return all abductees to Israel.”
Avraham Munder, 79, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife Ruthi,their daughter Keren and 9-year-old grandson Ohad. Ruthi, Keren and Ohad were released in the November hostage deal. Their son, Roi, was murdered during the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7 along with some 1,200 others.
“We will always remember Munder, with his clear voice, his warm smile and his endless love for his family and the kibbutz,” the kibbutz said in a statement.
Yoram Metzger, 80, also a member of Nir Oz, was kidnapped alive and the IDF announced his death about two months ago. His wife, Tamar, who was also kidnapped to Gaza, was released in November.
“He worked at the Nirlat factory and in recent years in a garage. Member of the Kibbutz Winery. Father of three sons and grandfather of seven grandchildren. Yoram will be remembered in all of our hearts as a pleasant and smiling man, who always made everyone feel immediately at home,” the kibbutz said.
Chaim Peri, 80, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, of which he was a member. Chaim was 80 years old, father of five children and grandfather of 13 grandchildren. An entrepreneur, humanist and peace activist. On the day of the massacre at the kibbutz, Chaim managed to save his wife Asanat before being kidnapped himself. He survived in inhumane conditions in the Hamas tunnels for months, until he was brutally murdered in captivity,” the kibbutz said.
Yagev Buchshtav’s death was announced on July 22. He was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nirim, where the 34-year-old resided. His wife, Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav, was abducted with him and then released on Nov. 28 as part of aceasefire agreement.
Alex Dancyg, 76, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz. The IDF
announced his death in late July, along with that of Yagev Buchshtav.
“Alex Dancyg was a historian, educator and farmer. Born to Holocaust survivors, he became one of the founders of educational delegations to Poland. Alex worked at Yad Vashem for about 30 years, where he trained thousands of guides in Holocaust education,
“Hostages who were held captive with him reported that Alex spent his time in captivity giving history lectures to fellow captives. Alex was an avid reader with a passion for history and enjoyed various sports. Yesterday would have been his 76th birthday,” the statement continued.
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan paid tribute to Dancyg, saying, “Alex’s essence embodied both in spirit and substance his love for the land and thirst for knowledge. His vast library at his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz reflected his deep connection between his cherished Israeli and Jewish identity and his Polish birthplace.
“Alex successfully integrated these perspectives into his teaching of the events of World War II in general and of the Holocaust in particular. The news of his tragic death strengthens our commitment to ensure that Alex’s legacy and the stories he passionately preserved are never forgotten.”
The forum said of Yagev Buchshtav that he “was a humble and unassuming man who loved life in Kibbutz Nirim. A sound technician by profession, Yagev had a deep passion for music. From a young age, he played guitar and flute, later expanding to other instruments, some of which he built himself. Together with his wife Rimon, Yagev cared for five dogs and five cats, several of which they had rescued and rehabilitated.”
Nadav Popplewell’s death was announced on June 3. The 51-year-old British Israeli was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim by Hamas terrorists. His mother, Channah Peri, 79, was released in November.
May their memory be blessed. May their deaths be avenged by the IDF.
How many hostages remain alive? Most of the men are probably dead, the young women used as sexual slaves and raped every day. This is the scum the left here laud and extol.
Cassie,
not a day goes by that I don’t say a prayer for Kfir and Ariel Bibas, and their mum and dad.
Kfir’s first birthday has come and gone since his capture.
Jaysus! Can Luigi read a room or what.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13763479/anthony-albanese-agrifutures-dinner-joke.html
He has no idea of where his food comes from, or where his political appetite will take him. Probably to a Gulag, or the Fabled Vegemite Mines in the Great Sandy Desert.
Re the Kohler article – more evidence that the repulsive Howard has a lot to answer for.
Preaching to the choir here.
Sorry but I wouldn’t believe anything Kohler said. He is a tried and true leftist. Nearly as bad as the kook
It is now 319 days since October 7 2023. That disgusting and very putrid organisation known as the IRC is yet to visit one hostage held by Hamas in Gaza.
Jews don’t count.
Jews don’t matter.
The IRC is a disgrace. We long ago gave up supporting them.
Being a Christian, I’m disgusted and offended that they’re still using a cross as their logo.
Should have changed it to a green crescent years ago.
Silly me, new OT goes up midday tomorrow, not today. Time for spleen venting!
Vent on!
I see that the current ‘first stage’ of the plan is to deliver 4GW of power to Darwin in 2030, or something.
Given that the Darwin-Katherine system is presently supplied by 370MW gas/diesel gensets at Channel Island – with an exciting renewables plan to replace that with 320MW of solar plus 80MW of hydrogen and “specialty batteries” – there must be a pretty big renewable energy hub somewhere in the works.
#notanelectionstuntatall
Woolies had Energiser batteries on special recently.