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Tough looking guys.
Is this true? How people in Thailand wait?
Foreign legion uniforms of ages past. Links available if interested. Help Google make more money, LOL.
How true. I am telling truth today.
Anyone surprised Clammy is a anti-Semite nutbag.
Buller, Buller, buller…
https://x.com/i/status/1786303460675387652
(just went for a look to see if she twatted anything about being in Darwin)
https://x.com/i/status/1786303460675387652
More clammy clam
https://x.com/i/status/1819525496989946083
The Green-induced economic malaise in Germany really is starting to bite
When your policies start to interfere with the ability to put food on the table, expect some push back.
Would any Liberal senator have dared publish this?
You can recognise Clammie by the portrait of me on her left arm.
Doesn’t do me justice. I’d prefer the Right.
International student numbers “capped” at 270 000 per year.
It’s one of our biggest “export” industries, we’re constantly told whenever questions are raised.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-lost-his-soul-lapid-sees-sacred-cause-in-toppling-netanyahus-government/
“The thing that matters about Netanyahu is that he’s not working for the country.”
Who’d have thought!
Here’s the link to the early hominid thread entitled ‘Fat of the Land’ which wasn’t working up above. Hope this one does:
Two nights ago there was a guest in Sky listing the destructive and treasonous actions of Merkle – the invasion, destruction of corporate initiative through green tape, selling Germany’s energy industry to her boyfriend Putin, destroying free speech, and lawfare, turning the EU into a German rrivh.
He subtly opined on how a person so physically and morally ugly could have gained unchecked power and the support of virtually all governments and media.
Ugly, destruction of industry, insane energy policies, contempt for the people, lawfare – um, um, um, could there be an Australian equivalent.
If for no other reason,Trump must be elected just so that we can watch the Stasi bitch squirm and splutter.
And this…
On the upside…if we do get a Labor, Green, Teal government, it’s unlikely to go full term, as it would collapse under the weight of its own idiocy about 18 months in.
I’m now stuck with a slack jawed beta male who’s friends with the coven of hospital wokery bureaucracy that have been visiting him. Late middle-aged cat ladies who are so sure of everything they say that by the time they leave he is already slipped down the scale of dicklessness. None of the nurses are woke until you get to the karen level, and they appear in need of a good seeing to. Not my payscale thank goodness.
And yet Scholz has been far more disastrous for the German economy than Merkel ever was.
I note the Greens are upping the anti on their death to Australia policies. On one hand I am genuinely concerned about their increased commitment to outright destruction of anything good about Australia, on the other hand I hope they have blown their cover and their intent is now out in the open. How TF anyone could still vote for them when they show a psychopathic contempt to their fellow Australian…beggars belief.
I really shouldn’t laugh, but it’s hard not to.
The Democratic convention’s surprise guest: Covid (27 Aug, via Instapundit)
The debate is on 10 September. What was the incubation period again?
The most sensible policy for the Germans energy wise was to maintain or expand its nuclear generation, hold and improve the efficiency of its coal generation, and expand its gas usage if the economics of doing so made sense. And she should have been faithful to her ‘boyfriend Putin’ rather than rooting around with Obama, Trump, Poroshenko, Zelensky, as well, whenever she was in town because the Germans are being treated like the town bike by everyone. The Poles are ignoring existing arrest warrants issued by German prosecutors for alleged Nord Stream saboteurs.
Someone watching that new approach to hominid evolution talk which I put up has in the comments put up the ChatGPT version. It is really quite good, although it misses some of the importance of the cupped hand shape in human evolution, which allowed holding of a rounded rock to pound open the bone marrow of larger animals, either hunted down or found as carrion, where the meat would have been rotten but where the bone marrow was still sweet and sound.
– Jess Thompson expresses gratitude for the introduction and mentions her affiliation with ASU and IHO.
– She discusses her collaboration with Curtis Marion and her project in Malawi.
– The main focus of her talk is the origins of the human predatory pattern, particularly in Ethiopia.
– She emphasizes the importance of diet in human evolution, linking it to survival and cognitive development.
– Diet is crucial for understanding human evolution, as it influences survival and reproduction.
– Major milestones in human evolution, such as cooperation and weaponry, are linked to diet.
– Unique human traits like large brains, tool use, and bipedalism are connected to diet.
– The traditional narrative of human evolution involving tool making, meat eating, and the emergence of Homo is questioned.
– New evidence suggests that these behaviors did not occur simultaneously but have deeper roots in earlier species like Australopithecus.
– Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis, exhibited flexibility in diet and environment, exploiting new resources.
– The geochemistry of Lucy’s teeth indicates a varied diet, not limited to trees or open spaces.
– The traditional story of sharp tools for meat cutting leading to Homo is challenged.
– The cost of a large brain is high, requiring an energy surplus, which could come from diet changes.
– The importance of fat in the diet is highlighted, as it provides a concentrated source of calories.
– Humans are unique in hunting large prey and using tools, unlike chimpanzees.
– The human predatory pattern involves hunting larger animals and consuming fat, not just meat.
– Early hominins like Lucy may have used simple tools like hammerstones to access bone marrow.
– Systematic fieldwork and new methodologies are needed to test these hypotheses.
– Main message: The origins of the human predatory pattern and the role of diet, particularly fat, in human evolution are more complex and rooted in earlier species like Australopithecus, challenging traditional narratives.
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Once against, although “new modelling” might make this seem like an unforeseen event, this is no surprise to industry.
The SWQ gas pipeline – which hauls gas from the Queensland CSG to The southern states – has a registered maximum capacity of ~400TJ/day. Changing that fixed capacity requires major engineering work, looping the line and installing new compression.
The gas supply from Moomba and Longford has been in decline for years – which has increased demand on Queensland production from the Surat and Bowen basins – and hence westwards pipeline capacity from the Wallumbilla hub.
On an annual average basis, on Canbra Excel spreadsheets, the pipeline can manage. So no problems.
However the build out of gas turbine generators to prop up unreliable renewables introduces large, transient, daily peak demands – which push the pipeline capacity to its limit. (Multiple open cycle gas turbines, turned on in NSW, Victoria, and SA at 6 minutes notice, almost instantly suck vast amounts of gas out of the system – gas which needs to be quickly replenished at rates that challenge the capacity of the SWQ line.)
This simple engineering reality has all been thoroughly explained (from 2013 onwards) to the Arts/Law energy Mandarins at AMEC, AEMO etc.
But it’s still a surprise that has come bursting out of the closet.
Be comforted. Top Men are working on this problem.
At a profound level I think she really was the face for the socialist future.
I mean, if any face was in dire need, and satisfying at the sight, of a boot stamping on it – forever, hers would have been it.
Did anyone catch ScoMo on Sharri Markson last night?
I found it interesting how last night in his interview with Markson, Morrison as a post-PM had more fight in him that for the whole time he was PM, he called out the vicious personal attacks on him from Labor and the left. However, when he was PM he was mute….but then again, so was Abbott.
I still despise the man though, he gifted us this atrocious far-left government.
I found this interesting snippet just now. France may want to rethink its treatment of Pavel Durov.
“@oksana311231
The UAE unilaterally suspended the contract for the purchase of 80 French fighter jets because of Durov’s arrest.
In addition, the UAE is considering a complete blockade of trade operations with France, including those related to the military-industrial complex.
Posted by: weft cut-loop”
Boeing/NASA…
NASA’s DEI training under fire for linking ‘objectivity’ and ‘individualism’ to white supremacy (27 Aug)
Also Boeing/NASA…
Boeing employees ‘embarrassed’ as Elon Musk’s SpaceX tasked with saving stranded astronauts (Sky, 26 Aug)
You have to think DEI is one of the most toxic ideologies ever invented.
They didn’t learn from Germany, it appears.
Mother Lode I have another just as a standby:
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8e3153cf9afd4a48d3c3a2cf6e174270-lq
Science!
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts (Phys.org, 27 Aug)
Got to watch those Post-It notes, they’re deadly.
The problem with the Europeans is that they can’t see themselves as anything but an American appendage (notable exception, Hungary under Orban); the elites are absolutely stuck in a post-WW2 delirium They should have began a program of disengaging from the US at the security level in the early 90s. NATO should have been dissolved, US bases gradually drawn down, and this all should have been replaced by a European security architecture either under the auspices of the EU or running parallel. This would have been better for both the Europeans and the US.
Damn, Tints. I was not ready for that. Looks like the make up for a nightmare scene in a Hollywood movie.
Anyway…people, take note: When the Harris campaign chants on about ‘Joy’, remember that this is what joy looks like for the left.
Don’t run with scissors either.
Here on this august blog we have all known about the ‘long march through the institutions’. Be it in media, academia, judiciary, education, sporting codes, entertainment, science, medicine, charities, big tech, little tech, churches, childcare, government departments, armed forces, police and so on, the far-left has politicised everything. It goes on and on and on. Even the House of Windsor has fallen for progressivism. Nothing has escaped the acid that is ‘woke’. The analogy of woke to acid is apt, because woke, like acid, destroys everything.
To the left, ‘everything is political’. It’s worth nothing that the left have never hidden their intentions. Those on the left have long been honest about their intent to politicise everything, with the ultimate goal of corrupting, destroying and rebuilding, it’s called ‘revolution’, something at the very core of progressivism. Woke IS revolution. It’s no different to what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al did but in the West they’ve done it slowly over decades, snail like, except now that long slow march has morphed into a gallop of catastrophic proportions.
Meanwhile, where has the right been? Well, most on the right have been asleep at the wheel, injected with a toxic and very fatal cocktail of cowardice, timidness, compassion, kindness, fear, gutlessness, apprehension, nervousness, a desire to be liked by their ideological enemies, and a big dollop of outright stupidity.
I write this because among the litany of woke disasters to befall the West and this country over the last few years, two things over the last few days captured my attention. Firstly, there one is the debacle that is engulfing the MSO, and secondly there is the looming capitulation of the NSW Education Department to permit ‘Palestinian’ children (which means anyone who identifies with the ‘struggle’) to don Palestinian symbols and insignia such as keffiyehs and badges with genocidal words such as “From the river to the sea’ in the classroom. This is despite the NSW Labor Minister for Education saying, only a few months ago, that the classroom was no place for political activism.
Now, we shouldn’t be surprised by a Labor government capitulating to this Greens/hard left activism over “Palestine’. I am not surprised. Unlike many, I’m not enamoured of Chris Minns, or as I prefer to call him, ‘Pretty Boy Minns’. He talks a good talk but he doesn’t walk the talk. He’s a soft face for a typically inept hard-left government, they only won last year because Minns is the pretty face. But where is the NSW opposition on this? Oh, that’s right, they are too busy engaged in factional fighting, torching conservatives in their midst and and running cover for Fatso Don Harwin, the yet to be harpooned whale. Note that Harwin remains in his role, he’s untouchable because the NSW Liberal left reign supreme. So, watch the inevitable happen, where children and adolescents will be able to attend state schools wearing keffiyehs, punching their arms into the air like a Nazi salute (which it is) and screaming genocide of the Jews.
Everything is now political, children are to be politicised in woke causes, even classical music is to be politicised into ‘woke’.
Further to the MSO, well I know a thing or two about the politics of the MSO, its management and the MD who’s now resigned. My best friend is a classical musician, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and over the last week she’s been in tears about what has ensued in Melbourne. From her I know titbits the issues between orchestra and management. However, as with the STC, poor management has led to this, poor management emboldened woke musicians and actors. Robust management should have laid down the law years ago about players and orchestra engaging in fashionable woke gunk.
The vibrancy and intellectual strength of the Australian classical music scene owes a huge debt to the Jewish men and women who fled Europe prior to and after World War II. Those men and women survived a real genocide. Many who arrived after World War II had been in camps. All were Zionists, all came to this country and helped build up institutions like SSO, the MSO, chamber music and such organisations as Musica Viva. Musica Viva was founded in Sydney in 1945 by violinist Richard Goldner, who had fled Nazi Germany in 1939. Goldner witnessed Kristellnacht.
In the meantime, as Johanna wrote yesterday, Melbourne’s Jews, who provide a lot of money to the MSO, should pull the dosh. I know the Gandel family are big donors to the MSO. Only this year they donated a big chunk of dosh to the MSO.
The left will only learn a thing or two when the money stops flowing. The STC got a big fright with cancelled subscriptions and donations and a board exodus. STC funding is now parlous, hence a new STC MD has been installed. Money talks. We on the right don’t have many tools to fight woke with but we still have one……dosh. Read my lips…..
THE DOSH MUST STOP
Quite and Mother Lode, it’s quite ironic how many Demonrat supporting/suppurating creatures of the left have the name Joy – Joy Behar of The View, and Joy Reid from the televised mental institution MSNBC and funny that on The View we also have the obnoxious creature Sunny Hostin
While Boeing and NASA can’t launch two veteran astronauts without it becoming an embarrassing fiasco, Elon is today launching four space tourists. They’re due to do spacewalks too!
UPCOMING LAUNCH – POLARIS DAWN (SpaceX website missions page)
For those who like such things there’s a ‘watch’ button for the coverage. I’m not sure of the timezones but the video page suggests coverage will start in about 2 hours time.
Oops, sadly SpaceX has just now stood the mission down because of bad weather.
Pls ignore my previous comment!
The counterargument to the ‘THE DOSH MUST STOP’ campaign is that it may reverberate more powerfully on the Jewish community than on those it sought to punish. Firstly, if it is actually strongly felt by these institutions, it will only play into existing suspicions about Jewish influence (sure, you might say, they will believe it anyway, but here you have gifted them a concrete example). Secondly, it may simply make them think it prudent over the medium to long term to diversify their sources of private funding and so make them less amenable to this sought of coercion. Moreover, since they are close to Labor governments who are actually in power, they may seek and very well receive emergency funding from those governments, blunting whatever effect may have been hoped.
Just watched this on the development of language in Homo Erectus, an ancestral line to Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens. Quite interesting too. Erectus lasted for a very long time and in its later iterations was a tool-making species, using fire and capable of symbolic representation.
First six minute is just introduction, which shortens the watch if you miss it.
Trouble at mill!
Finacial Review
An hour is a long time in the annals of SpaceX.
They’ve now posted links for the coverage of two Starlink missions launching this evening. Coverage for one goes live at 5pm and the other at 6pm Ncl time (assuming the timezones work out).
So he’s launching two orbital missions in the space of an hour…
“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implied on Monday that he believes blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is “justified and moral” even if it causes two million civilians to die of hunger, but the international community won’t allow that to happen.”
smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us
(17) Ukraine’s F-16s just scored their first intercepts of the war – YouTube
Probably the best way to use the F-16. Out of harm’s way, missile intercept capacity good and saves SAMs for aircraft targets.
Dover.
The counterargument to the ‘THE DOSH MUST STOP’ campaign is that it may reverberate more powerfully on the Jewish community than on those it sought to punish.
There is the other option..
You dont just withdraw funding, you attack and drain all their money.
Unemployed musicians dont have the time/inclination to support head hackers.
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/182951#google_vignette
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
40% corporate ptofit tax. That is the distraction squirrel that will be ‘reluctantly’ cast aside at the insistence of Labor.
What they really want is death duties. Labor will agree but neither Party will mention it until after the election.
Which explains why their policies are calibrated to increase death: People freezing in their homes in winter, too thinly rationed socialised healthcare, state euthanasia initiatives a la Canada*, and of course the general ineptitude of bureaucracy.
* Feeling bored? Miss the kids? Well, have you considered dying? Dying’s neat. All the coolest wrinklies are doing it! You don’t want to be a buuuuurden, do you?
In replies, Eddystone has suggested a complementary written article to the issues raised in the ‘fat based’ human nutritional evolution video I put up. It is well worth a read, raising issues of the co-dependent evolution of the highly metabolically active human brain with the fat-dietary requirement of a highly metabolically active (and shortened) human gut. In case people here these are interesting side issues not important to today, recall that Robert Kennedy is not in line to be able to change American diets to control the current obesity epidemic. He’ll be up against those who would make us have less or no meat and a plant-based diet. Here’s what Eddystone’s article has to say about that, and welcome to the current infertililty issues plaguing the west absent a good quality fat and meat diet:
Mole, that is never going to happen.
Withdrawing funding from organisations that hate you should be a no-brainer. Why pay danegeld?
The clowns who already think that debbildebbil Jews run the world aren’t going to change their minds.
Give your money to something more worthwhile than strummers and strutters.
“Mole, that is never going to happen.”
It’s called “aversion therapy” and it is well documented to work very well indeed.
The left (and those infected with their mind virus) will only stop when they experience real material losses. Sadly, this means some who perhaps do not deserve it, will also be affected. Sorry, but as the left themselves are fond of putting it, this is existential.
Ha! Just going through some of Dad’s paperwork and found an old newspaper. Daily Mirror, July 1984.
Front page – Mick Young steps down. The Paddington Bear Affair.
Small beer compared to Plibbers and her secret something business billion dollar mine closure.
I had the electric wireless on in the background and listened to Bandt’s address to the National Press Club.
Literally Marxism 101. Delivered with an undergraduate depth of certainty and understanding.
It’s tempting to snigger at the spectacle as the wheels fall off the Albanese Experiment. However, if this dreadful prick and his cuckoo menagerie become kingmakers to a minority Labor Government, Australia is in a terrible position.
I don’t think the MSO hates Jews. It’s first response to Gilham’s on stage comments was to cancel his next performance. This caused a kerfuffle with MSO musicians and then the MSO started to waver but the performance never went ahead for ‘security’ reasons. It’s now instituted a review.
Dover I’m quite sure you won’t fund the “Get rid of doverblog” that I’m starting. Chickens for KFC, come to mind if you do. Jews and muzzies living next to each other can only occur with a major shift in muzzie thinking.
Translated:
Kick, as one would a Sherrin and intending to execute a 70 metre torp;
Nuts.
Repeat, until nuts protrude from earholes.
Has anyone seen this?
Some politician dork in GB has threatened the ‘far right’ with abuse or worse in prison by the Muslim gangs that run them.
Something tells me the conditions here are not the same as those required in aversion therapy.
I can see only three possible outcomes for Britain.
The last is the least likely. So it’s a toss up between 1 and 2.
Florida Mom Left with Catastrophic Head and Brain Injuries After Migrant Amazon Driver Creams Her and Her Little Baby – Judge Then Releases Migrant on Bond
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/horror-florida-mom-left-catastrophic-head-brain-injuries/
Doing what she was let into the country to do – terrorise the locals.
Bob, you enquired after the Page 3 girl from the 1984 Daily Mirror.
Took a screenshot for you.
Wise words from Bettina. Never EVER talk to the police if someone is levelling false allegations againt you.
—–
Avi:
Bettina Arndt is hosting a pivotal conference this weekend, focusing on the alarming trend of false accusations and the erosion of the presumption of innocence in Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARRCp9MZLVo
Larry, you’ve got really bad breath.
This reminder about the cultural influence of Jewish refugees reminded me – I remember declaiming to workmates back in the 1980s that if Australia had been politically and socially ready in the late 1930s to take not just a few “ Dunera Boys” but many Jewish refugees, maybe several hundred thousand, our economy and culture would have benefitted greatly.
They looked at me bemused.
I am still of the view that this was a great nation building opportunity missed.
I knew a Dunera boy. The last time I saw him was at Rosh Hashanah in 2016. He died shortly after. A refugee from Vienna, he arrived in Britain in mid 1939, thinking he would be safe, only to be rounded up, interned, then plonked on a ship called Dunera that set sail for Australia.
On 10 July 1940, 2,542 detainees, all classified as “enemy aliens”, were embarked aboard Dunera at Liverpool. While the detainees included 200 Italian and 251 German POWs, as well as several dozen Nazi sympathisers, the majority were 2,036 Italian and German civilians who were anti-Nazi, most of them were Jewish refugees.
The conditions on the ship was appalling.
The ship was an overcrowded Hell-hole. Hammocks almost touched, many men had to sleep on the floor or on tables. There was only one piece of soap for twenty men, and one towel for ten men, water was rationed, and luggage was stowed away so there was no change of clothing. As a consequence, skin diseases were common. There was a hospital on board but no operating theatre. Toilet facilities were far from adequate, even with makeshift latrines erected on the deck and sewage flooded the decks. Dysentery ran through the ship. Blows with rifle butts and beatings from the soldiers were daily occurrences. One refugee tried to go to the latrines on deck during the night – which was out-of-bounds. He was bayoneted in the stomach by one of the guards and spent the rest of the voyage in the hospital..
Arriving in Sydney, they were then sent to Hay, a place he said was like landing on another planet. The heat and flies were a nightmare. Despite speaking English, they found it difficult understanding the locals. They could not believe what they saw. But they knew it was better than the alternative, being stuck in Hitler’s Europe. When freed from the internment camp, he joined the ADF and fought for this country, a country he grew to love. After the war he married an Australian Jewish woman and they settled here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Here’s a list of some of the Dunera boys this country took in…
Joseph Asher, rabbi
Kurt Baier and Peter Herbst, philosophers
Giovanni Baldelli, Italian anarchist theorist
Felix Behrend, mathematician
Boaz Bischofswerder, rabbi and composer, and his son Felix Werder, composer, critic, educator
Ulrich Boschwitz, author (pen name John Grane)
Hans Buchdahl, theoretical physicist, and his engineer (later philosopher) brother Gerd
F. W. Eirich, research scientist
Paul Eisenklam, engineering professor
Walter Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud
Heinz Henghes, sculptor
Helmut Gernsheim, photographer
Alexander Gordon, born Abrascha Gorbulski
Fred Gruen, economist
Robert Hofmann (1889–1987), Austrian painter, naturalised Australian, moved to Syracuse, New York, in 1956
Walter Kaufmann, writer
Wolf Klaphake, the inventor of synthetic camphor
Ernst Kitzinger, art historian
Johannes Matthaeus Koelz / John Matthew Kelts, artist
Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist
Erich Liffmann, tenor
Martin Löb, mathematician
Fred Lowen (born Fritz Karl Heinz Lowenstein)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, artist
Ray Martin (born Kurt Kohn), composer
Henry Mayer, author and professor of politics at the University of Sydney
Hans Joseph Meyer, teacher at Bunce Court School in Kent
Max-Peter Meyer (1892–1950)
Majer Ivan Pietruschka, Polish-born conductor and violinist, joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Richard Sonnenfeldt, German-born Jew, chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the post-war Nuremberg trials
Peter Stadlen, Austrian-born pianist and musicologist; returned to Britain
Franz Stampfl, later the athletics coach to the four-minute-mile runner Roger Bannister
Bert Stern, the father of economist Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford who travelled to Hay to see the camp
Henry Talbot, fashion photographer
Wilhelm Unger, writer
Count Oswald “Ossie” Veit von Wolfenstein and his brother Christopher
Hugo Wolfsohn
In 1940 this country took in people fleeing Nazism, in 2024 this country takes in real Nazis.
Dover, check your email.
dover0beach
August 28, 2024 2:12 pm
Mole, that is never going to happen.
It the exact approach which has seen the Blubbersack can the mine.
It doesnt matter how “worthy” the mine is, all that matters is bleeding the company time/money/approvals/appeals until it cant fight back.
The longnose tribe lady, it literally doesn’t matter if shes an albino Sweede by descent, shes bled the company some more. Shes just a mentally ill bullet to be fired to stop the mine.
Mining companies should be engaging in the most underhanded crap imaginable.
All to bleed the “green groups” coffers till they dont have the ability to fight anymore.
Tout for sexual harassment claims in green groups.
Harass with individual lawsuits over and over.
Personalise groups, find their most disreputable member and make them the figurehead of the movement.
Until they realise their core business in Australia isnt mining, its destroying those stopping it, they are open to being picked off by activist groups.
Its not the principle that matters anymore, its the end result.
I am going to this very important conference – the fact that feminazis feminism is now leftism and the feminazis have been trying to eliminate the presumption of innocence has to be called out and stopped — the left destroys everything
reminder about the cultural influence of Jewish refugees reminded me – I remember declaiming to workmates back in the 1980s that if Australia had been politically and socially ready in the late 1930s to take not just a few “ Dunera Boys” but many Jewish refugees, maybe several hundred thousand, our economy and culture would have benefitted greatly.
They looked at me bemused.
I am still of the view that this was a great nation building opportunity missed.
I knew a Dunera boy. The last time I saw him was at Rosh Hashanah in 2016. He died shortly after. A refugee from Vienna, he arrived in Britain in mid 1939, thinking he would be safe, only to be rounded up, interned, then plonked on a ship called Dunera that set sail for Australia.
On 10 July 1940, 2,542 detainees, all classified as “enemy aliens”, were embarked aboard Dunera at Liverpool. While the detainees included 200 Italian and 251 German POWs, as well as several dozen Nazi sympathisers, the majority were 2,036 Italian and German civilians who were anti-Nazi, most of them were Jewish refugees.
The conditions on the ship was appalling.
The ship was an overcrowded Hell-hole. Hammocks almost touched, many men had to sleep on the floor or on tables. There was only one piece of soap for twenty men, and one towel for ten men, water was rationed, and luggage was stowed away so there was no change of clothing. As a consequence, skin diseases were common. There was a hospital on board but no operating theatre. Toilet facilities were far from adequate, even with makeshift latrines erected on the deck and sewage flooded the decks. Dysentery ran through the ship. Blows with rifle butts and beatings from the soldiers were daily occurrences. One refugee tried to go to the latrines on deck during the night – which was out-of-bounds. He was bayoneted in the stomach by one of the guards and spent the rest of the voyage in the hospital..
Arriving in Sydney, they were then sent to Hay, a place he said was like landing on another planet. The heat and flies were a nightmare. Despite speaking English, they found it difficult understanding the locals. They could not believe what they saw. But they knew it was better than the alternative, being stuck in Hitler’s Europe. When freed from the internment camp, he joined the ADF and fought for this country, a country he grew to love. After the war he married an Australian Jewish woman and they settled here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Among the Dunera boys were rabbis, priests, scientists, painters, philosophers, musicologists, musicians, mathematicians, composers, psychiatrists, writers, poets, engineers, photographers, economists, nuclear physicists, political theorists, athletes, sculptors, historians and so on.
I wonder how many rabbis, priests, scientists, painters, philosophers, musicologists, musicians, mathematicians, composers, authors, engineers, photographers, economists, nuclear physicists, political theorists, writers, athletes, sculptors and historians will be among the 3000 Gazans this country is now taking in?
I think we know the answer to that. In 1940 this country took in people fleeing Nazis, in 2024 this country takes in actual Nazis.
Paul Kelly has a low quality article about Trump v Harris in the Oz. Seems not allowed to suggest it is not balanced as my comment below was rejected. Kelly can find no fault with Harris which is laughable.
“The lack of balance in this article is noteworthy and not what I would expect”.
Rooster
Some people here don’t have a subscription to the Oz. Copy & Past the piece here or perhaps a link even?
I posted this on the piece, before your commentary, but they won’t publish it.
Speedbox’s Report from Moscow incoming.
Re the situation facing the UK, and – soon – other western countries that have been transformed by inappropriate and unrestrained immigration:
Affluence – post the last 2 world wars – has rendered the West flabby, inattentive, historically illiterate and complacent.
However, this “affluence” has been most enjoyed by the educated “middle class”. While the less well-off have certainly enjoyed greater daily comforts than the pre war generations, they are increasingly left behind in the modern world. They are now competing with massive intakes of foreigners into their countries.
How what could be seen as an “under class” reacts to the loss of their national identity and place in society ….remains to be seen. But the recent uprising in the UK suggests that they will not take it lightly.
Rita Panahi:
Also the resident fat prick here with his Chicken Little proclamations of doom if Trump wins.
thefrollickingmole
August 28, 2024 4:30 pm
100% correct. A thousand thousand ticks. The left are empowered because the right sit back and do sweet f*ck all.
Peter Dutton has shown that abandoning the political playbook and speaking from the heart – however angrily – awakens the electorate. Favourably!
Labour knows this and Chalmers has stupidly responded with a personal diatribe against Dutton which will only further alienate the voters.
Bant is a poisonous little dwarf.
Intellectually and with his concave chest and noodle arms.
https://x.com/i/status/1828656504045764944
“Robin hood reforms”…
“Its targeted at big corporations who are making excessive profits, beyond a normal return to shareholders… TURNOVER of $100million dollars… Taxing excess profits they make.. apply to Aussie and foreign corps.. Raise $296 billion over a decade
“To reduce the cost of living”.
BeauGan,
The most likely outcome at present, I think, is that the UK becomes a divided nation with the various religious minorities – and that includes Hindus & Sikhs as well as Muslims – allowed to operate more or less autonomously under a millet system.
It’s already there in a de facto fashion, hence the importance attached by the authorities to “communities” led by elders who act as intermediaries between government and people. And Britain already has de facto sharia law in its Muslim communities.
Christians – and Jews? – will have to learn to organise themselves under this system if they’re to enjoy religious freedom. The last person to realise this will be the Archbishop of Canterbury, of course.
I should add that Christians and Jews will be at a disadvantage here as they don’t have a militant streak that strikes fear into governments.
This creature teaching anyones kids??
https://x.com/sophfyfe/status/1828257749643468957
But then..
I encouraged my students to leave my class to get a much better education on the streets. Only 1 complied.
The kids are alright.
?
Bandt wants to stiff shareholders, mostly working people with superannuation.
Oh well.
leave my class to get a much better education
She’s got that figured.
I do hope her employer is encouraging her to beat it, too.
Drogheda.
I’m staying on another estate.
This one built in 2000, more upmarket than the one in Sligo with much bigger village greens and bigger houses, , some much bigger though all out of the same packet. Up the back, where I am, near the train line, they are more condos, generous room sizes, quality bathroom kitchens and brand appliances.
This one has been made into a three room guest house which is fraught but I paid extra for the original master bedroom (badly stained carpet) with ensuite for a bit more privacy and the only other guest is a young Irish paramedic doing a short course at the local college.
If the hot water worked it would be pretty good.
He was complaining about how expensive the housing market is.
I suggested he go west where there are many bargains to be had for young men who can invest a little sweat.
Much of a muchness re overcrowding in hospitals and failing infrastructure, all down to mass immigration, though he didn’t say that, I did, he just didn’t disagree.
Just like Australia really.
Let alone the biohazards surrounding the roadhouse.
Was just watching the live SpaceX Starlink launch.
99.9% perfect!
One tiny little problem but…
When the booster landed on the recovery ship eee..eke..eee…and over it went into the sea.
I think one of the landing legs mustn’t’ve quite locked in place.
Rare failure for SpaceX.
Heh, 23rd launch? She was a granny. No wonder she wasn’t steady on her legs.
This is the first place in a residential settinf I’ve stayed with gas hot water and a gas stove.
Everywhere else has been instant hot water via a heat pump system with a button operated system installed in the shower and electric cookers. One had a portable induction two ring that plugged into a power point, which was pretty good, especially considering how much my daughter paid to get an induction stove installed.
Here, they have the hot water and the radiators on a timer.
I mentioned the hot water wasn’t working, mañana, but when I pointed out near ten pm the downstairs radiators were going full blast they were around like a shot.
I’ll give them today to get the hot water running, she’s put it back on a timer, possibly set for 2027 otherwise I will complain to the powersthatbe. It’s not an unreasonable thing to expect.
The Voice news (the Hun):
This is the bloke Lidia ‘Small Penis!’ Thorpe was rooting.
I wonder what ‘proof’ Mr Martin stumped up to avoid being deported to NZ, the country of his birth?
Ah. Tasmania, whose indig councils appear to have been recruiting heavily in recent times.
Not fooling anyone. Someone somewhere has a big brown paper bag full of folding cabbage that used to belong to Mr Martin.
As most excellently mentioned here the other day, this sort of shit is one of the primary reasons this Voice caper ended up down the shit chute.
It appears that the person who wants the top job in the Oval Office can’t appear on a CNN interview without her babysitter Walz to assist.
Plenty of Strong Women around. Just not this one.
KevinM
August 28, 2024 3:35 am
Recognised the picture immediately, thanks to Jerry Harrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbVco7T8Z7o&list=PL9rXF11pRvfuKB9J7w0nvXkCNSkNpP-D-&pp=iAQB8AUB
It doesn’t appear to be hurting her. One of her advisors is David Plouffe from the Obama days. He’s a pos with zero ethics, but he’s very, very good at his job and it’s quite concerning.
You seem very down beat these days JC. I know the rats will cheat like no tomorrow but maybe it won’t be enough?
Milt, I really, really hope I’m wrong. I’m really concerned that the cheat margin will be too big, and they have a thousand ways to cheat.
I listened to a podcast in the last few days, and it made me even more downbeat. Georgia. Someone was looking into the voter rolls and demanded non-citizens, dead folks, etc. needed to be scrubbed off the rolls. They were, but about a month later, these names reappeared. They also talked about “NGO’s,” whose entire mission is to fill in postal votes for names not voting.
I think the cheating is insurmountable. All they need to do is get the hyena to around 5 points below Trump in the battleground states; the cheating will take care of the rest.
Look, I don’t know if any of the above is true, but it sounds really plausible.
Milt
Red Texas apparently cleaned their rolls by removing something like a million freaking names of the vote register. This is a red state! One million freaking names that aren;t allowed to vote!!!Can you imagine what’s happening in blue states, or more importantly, marginal states like Pennsylvania , which has a demonrat governor and demonrat legislature?
The radio tells me there is a shortage of hotel accommodation in Dublin. Prices up to €800 for one night for next year’s Oasis concert
I’m very surprised.
Yes it’s rather frightening- the white anting and corruption of the electoral process. Unbelievable that those two vile creeps got up for the Senate in Georgia.
A pro abortion pastor or something- an oxymoron I would have thought
I should add that Christians and Jews will be at a disadvantage here as they don’t have a militant streak that strikes fear into governments
The Brit hero aggressive gene was wiped out in WW1 and 2. There are a few remnants left. Not enough to form a government. At least that what I saw while I lived there.
Mano Yogalingam: Tamil asylum seeker dies after setting himself alight in protest at federal government’s refugee policy
Daily Mail. Sorry, rather indifferent.
The continual complaints about the impotence of the Right. Barren, empty rhetoric. Ironically the right commands welfare recipients to exercise their free will to improve their lot but don’t heed their own advice. If all the right can do is lament their lack of will and impotence nothing will change.
Somewhere in the vicinity of Busselton in Western Australia is the production powerhouse of one of the nation’s lesser known export industries.
In this top secret location, where visitors drive in blindfolded with smartphones turned off, an ASX-listed company is growing marijuana.
From the Oz – comment in moderation.
Megyn Kelly had on historian Victor David Hanson to discuss Trump and RFK Jr. I have known for a long time that Hanson does most of his interviews from his farm in California (been in the family since 1870’s).
However what was interesting was his views on use of chemicals in farming. He lost his daughter at 26 and mother and two other relatives to cancer/leukemia and puts it down to chemicals used in faming which says strongly encouraged to use. He points out relatives in previous generations lived to a much older age.
For the mentally challenged (ie. JC) Megyn Kelly’s episodes can all be seen on Youtube.
Roger @ 5:15: (and earlier)
I’m not keen in getting into a historical or religious argument (particularly not with you) but, as I understand it, the millet system was the Ottoman Empire’s approach to pacifying and controlling the religious reality of its conquests.
I certainly don’t see any prospect of a similar strategic decision by a UK government. Instead I see a series of organic devolutions into internal division – with borders, and local control, and strongman ‘government’ claimed by ‘communities’ – acceded to by Westminster for political and practical convenience.
As I mentioned above at Dr BG’s 3:19 post, my pick is that in +/-10 years, the urban parts of the UK will significantly resemble modern Beirut. Warlords and enforcers and all.
It’s actually well advanced right now – and appears to be consistent with the current narrative of the Establishment.
(Obviously this comment marks me out as a paid-up member of the Far Right. I guess I’ll have to buy some tight black shorts.)
And a black bucket hat.
Obviously.
Rooster
Megyn Kelly has 871 episodes of her show on you tube. Would it really kill you to post the link?
It’s like twitter is reading my comments at the cat.
https://x.com/Sacha_Lord/status/1828525083582963768?t=jzKF4mJCm-eIhqGBMybgRA&s=19
Unfortunately not a solution in Australia.
Interesting that Spike Island was known as Joyriders Jail in the 1980s because a big percentage were incarcerated for stealing cars for non commercial reasons.
no learning from that by governments apparently.
https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1828417880771137883?t=KywUvwZbbMz6sC_h8M_vDw&s=19
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/therapeutic-albanese-on-the-importance-of-thai-massages.html
I’ll have to buy some tight black shorts
Obviously time for a resurrection of the organisation PG Wodehouse created to satirise the Nazis:
“Don’t you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a Fascist organization better known as the Black Shorts. His general idea, if he doesn’t get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which he and his followers indulge, is to make himself a Dictator.”
“Well, I’m blowed!”
I was astounded at my keenness of perception. The moment I had set eyes on Spode, if you remember, I had said to myself “What ho! A Dictator!” and a Dictator he had proved to be.
I couldn’t have made a better shot if I had been one of those detectives who sees a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.
“Well, I’m dashed! I thought he was something of that sort. That chin . . . Those eyes. . . And for the matter of that, that moustache. By the way, when you say “shorts,” you mean “shirts,” of course.”
“No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.”
“Footer bags, you mean?”
“Yes.”
“How perfectly foul.”
“Bare knees?”
“Bare knees.”
“Golly!”
“Yes.”
Zuckerbucks will be missed from this election, so that will impact the vote harvesting in swing States. It really came down to less than 20,000 votes last election, so even with Zuckerbucks they can easily swing counts – Trump needs a big margin to beat this.
Cute owl looking for a masculine man. Cronkers in with a chance here I think..
Looks like the UAE story earlier was an elaborate disinformation operation.
ZK2A- hmmmm. Interestement. I think I may well know someone who knows someone, if you know what I mean.
Can’t access the Oz paywall- does it name the ASX listed co?
…and thereby we can find out the company board names?
…might one of them be…
…Delroy?
…it would explain what happened after the $220M sale of the avocado empire…
…hmmmm…
Righto then.
It’s been a while. Things change. Apparently.
Whats the go with the “Open Forum”?
Do you need a magical password to get through? The “old threads” used to be just “comment”. Now, it’s like “Reply”. But to whom?
It seems that there’s no point sledging someone when no one else can hear. It makes zero sense. Like a tree falling in the forrest.
In essence, “Reply” should be “Comment”. And mOnster should be routinely mocked for his retarded leftist views.
Everyone has seen his “fat version” of playing golf. Pretty sure he was angling at transitioning and winning the Women’s PGA.
How the hell do you get “latest comment first”?
Don’t agree, ‘dillo.
I know the bloke a bit- he’s a doer. I’d be very surprised if medicinal mull is the only product of the venture.
Err….just found the “Do you care, put it on record” button.
I want to make a complaint. An obscure complaint. About as obscure as the button is. It’s a shit button. It should be RED.
*but, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Who knows, really.
There’s another bloke who has been growing and pushing- ahem- hemp seed oil as a topical therapeutic, but he’s a bit of a mug, for instance had his APVMA approval for dog meds retracted after field tests failed.
But, he is a blowhard, and his gig is all about medicinal, which is of course a stalking horse for recreational marijuana. How he thinks he’ll ever compete with the black market is beyond me.
He’ll be spitting chips after this comes out- I have absolutely no doubt that he has no clue about it. I might try to bump into him with the Oz tomorrow…