I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
How quickly the pose of determined rectitude melted into that of a political streetwalker.
operation ‘Grim Beeper’
Operation ‘Grim Beeper’, brilliant planning and execution.
Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy
Arky
The next sentence after the firearms one:
You can just tell this was a grant hoovering exercise.
Killing ’em all actually worked with the Tamil Tigers.
Manufactured in Europe, possibly, or maybe somewhere else, delivered via Iran.
Looks like Iran’s anti mullah dissidents have far more influence than the ayatollahs could imagine.
Was there handwringing over the 12 Druze children murdered by indiscriminate Hezbollah rockets* (or any Israelis killed by them in the last 11 months) or is condemnation only for the minuscule number of people inadvertently affected by the very, very targeted operation against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah contracted for these pagers, the odds of innocent civilians carrying them are slim to none.
*more likely rueing the fact that Iron Dome prevented a far higher level of casualties.
As for ‘kill one fanatic and another 10 will spring up in their place’.
They’ll run out eventually.
Beirut TAB…phone betting is currently unavailable.
Nasrallah reckons he has 100,000 terrorists in Lebanon.
Perhaps not quite as enthusiastic today as yesterday.
People ought to be congratulating Israel on taking out so many terrorists without significant collateral damage or damage to the infrastructure on which ordinary Lebanese rely.
The Cathars were always destined to die out. They didn’t believe in reproduction.
A bit like the Shakers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883611/#:~:text=The%20Cathar%20vision%20of%20the,initiated%20by%20Pope%20Innocent%20III).
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi blames Israel for ‘sickening’ Lebanon explosions, justifies Melbourne protestsJoseph Olbrycht-PalmerNewsWire
Wed, 18 September 2024 10:35AM
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has blamed Israel for a series of explosions that killed at least nine and injured thousands more across Lebanon, even though details of the attacks are still murky.
In a social media post on Wednesday morning, Senator Faruqi, an outspoken critic of the Israeli government, did not name Israel directly but said the attacks were “exactly the type of sickening warfare” that sparked last week’s violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Melbourne.
“The horrific pagers attack that has killed nine people, including a young child, and left thousands wounded across Lebanon is exactly the type of sickening warfare people in Naarm Melbourne were protesting against,” she said.
“The perpetrators must be held to account.”
one more
As I said above, if it was implanted explosives it’s very likely the manufacturer was involved since we are talking about thousands of units or someone in the supply chain.
It certainly seems to be explosives; so called ‘exploding’ lithium batteries don’t go off with that sort of velocity.
Again, without technicalities that might disturb the ASIO kiddy, the charge would have been way less than 50g.
The external volume of the Apollo pager is ~5x7x3, so ~100cc – and unless built differently to the similar one on my desk, probably doesn’t have the necessary ~30cc of empty internal space to fill with bang.
Plus the market video doesn’t show the fairly hefty explosion one might expect.
Less than 1g of this sort of stuff would take your fingers off; a few grams in close contact would make a horrible mess. So, potentially a ‘custom’ battery slipped in the device (the battery is the biggest single part).
Which still leaves the issue of how someone was able to intercept, open packaging, insert, couple up, and repackage thousands of devices.
You can see why Apollo of Taiwan are currently having a brown trouser moment.
There is also chatter (but unlikely we’ll know until they make a movie about it in forty years) that the devices weren’t meant to be used just yet, but Mossad may have gotten info that Hisbollocks were getting shaky.
Which reminds me:
Interesting:
My latest patent.
A selfie stick for pagers.
Extra long.
Tvor oblast of Russia overnight:
What do you immediately think?
Anyone know the release date for the movie on Reagan???
Google is bloody useless!!!
Michael Smith.
1735099 said…
State terrorism.
“In unrelated news, the American University of Beirut Medical Center replaced the pagers of their doctors and staff 2 weeks ago”.
Doesn’t that make it more likely that they would have been affected than anything else?
Unless you assume that they were previously using Gold Apollo units recently purchased by Hezbollah and then replaced in within a couple of months.
1735099 said…
State terrorism.
Jew haters always side with other Jew haters.
“the blasts came from pagers belonging to “employees in various Hezbollah units and institutions.”
“Hezbollah says it has handed out pagers to members, many of whom stopped using cellphones out of fear that Israel could use them to track and monitor them.”
If Hezbollah says they handed out the affected pagers to members why should we disbelieve them?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hezbollah-pagers-expolsion-lebanon-handheld-devices-rcna171457
Victorian Labor must be loving this Liberal Party circular firing squad. Fancy it: both sides of this bun fight are white-knighting for two groups of constituents, most of whom will never vote for them. But they will seize upon any pretext, no matter how flimsy, to brand them as crypto Nazis.
By the way, in a nested comment above, Numbers has accused me of engaging in ‘perseveration’.
He really is a strange person.
OOOH! take another little bit of my (insert body part here) now baby!
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
Didn’t Hezbollah promise retribution on a daily basis for years, even without provocation?
Pager memes are exploding as we speak!
Another
It’s still hard to get over the funny of the pager plot. This has to be the most jaw-dropping intel operation we’ve seen in our lifetime.
Hezbollah, worried the Israelis might hack their cell phones, switched to pagers instead. The result? 6,000 testicles blown up. What a perfectly executed operation. But how do you run a terror group when your communication system blows up… literally and you’re worried phones will be hacked?
Curious though. I wonder if getting your nuts blown off would cause the same pain as getting hit in the nuts?
Last one, for now…
Since these units can be swapped, loaned, sold on, handed on, etc. you do it just in case any of them made their way into the system. What the above instance shows is that pagers seem to be in fairly common use in Lebanon if staff use them as a part of their duties.
The Hez genius trust banned the use of phones and ordered the now, ball-less, to use pagers.
Bad decision. Those 3,000 who lost their appendages must now be going nuts. 🙂
Anyone know how the ones blinded happened to have their faces at the groin level of the ones who had the pagers?
Asking for a fiend.
The prophet must have had some advice in the Holy “Karen” for those unfortunates who lost their nuts. I wonder what it was? Can you then get someone else to bone the wives?
I’m talking about this above:
@DC_Draino
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smart phones as smart munitions?
@elonmusk
Unless Trump is elected, America will fall to tyranny.
Trump must win.
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REPORT: Mossad Intercepted Hezbollah Pager Shipment, Loaded Them With Explosives
Anyone with half a brain could see it was rigged.
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The memo at the American hospital specifically said their pagers’ use was restricted to emergency code teams.
And yes sure the 5000 units purchased by Hezbollah for more senior members of their terrorist organisation in February 2024 were going to be sold on to random non Hezbollah persons who needed to be on the Hezbollah channels for reasons.
“Ahmed you didn’t turn up for duty at the rocket launch site this morning. Some bloke called Jihad turned up instead” . “So sorry General, I sold my pager on Facebook market place, the money was just too good”.
It’s perfectly possible though people on the American Hospital emergency code teams could have had both a hospital pager and a Hezbollah pager, as these aren’t mutually exclusive occupations.
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I’m positing that the Hezbollah purchase of 5000 golden apolo units in February had nothing to do with the American university rolling out new pagers for their emergency staff in August.
I’m even willing to bet that a number of other organisations in Lebanon replaced their pager systems in 2024.
Just like Hezbollah did in February.
Pagers are still widely used in hospitals and emergency services around the world, including Australia for obvious reasons, apparently they operate on dedicated frequencies, possibly Hezbollah has a dedicated frequency too.
Could it be that that was how the explosions were triggered?
Candace asking the big brain questions.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1836128840558743752?t=CzFba6fNuWytYb46ZZqJsg&s=19
Can’t those pagers be re-assigned to other channels? I’ve never owned or operated a pager but I’d be surprised if that were the case. Still, the argument made was that they may have replaced their pagers to flush any that might have found their way into their system in the last four of five months.
Candace asking the big brain questions.
She’s a bird brain, but such a comparison is unfair to birds.
FFS the transport infrastructure in this country is stuffed. 2 cancellations and we’re all about to be stuffed on to the last two flights for the evening.
Two thirds flights delayed and the place isn’t even busy. Next week school hols down south, watch for the meltdown of the system.
“Still, the argument made was that they may have replaced their pagers to flush any that might have found their way into their system in the last four of five months.”
I’d prefer some evidence over mere speculation.
In any case if the pagers were detonated by sending out a message on the Hezbollah frequency (which you would have to presume even Hezbollah would turn off their frequency before selling their pagers to potential Mossad agents), no innocent civilian holders of Hezbollah assets would have been killed or injured (excepting of course people who were too close when the pagers held by terrorists were detonated)
Even Hezbollah aren’t saying they allowed their assets to be handed on to innocent civilians, just their ardent supporters in the West are making that claim.
Not to mention it’s big news in Iran, though in the Iran Press it was claimed the old pagers were collected ten days ago for repairs.
https://iranpress.com/10-days-ago–pagers-of-american-hospital-doctors-were-collected
Rockdoctor, the airlines operate their turbofans at the lowest thrust levels they can use safely. Calculate Density altitude, aircraft weight, runway length and you get power setting required. Long runway, they use all of it.
JC – we have marginally disagreed on minor matters on the odd occasion but here I have to totally agree.
It’s still hard to get over the funny of the pager plot. This has to be the most jaw-dropping intel operation we’ve seen in our lifetime.
Little effing terrorists from age 8 to 80 are still standing in their bog markets micturitioning in their knock-off jeans looking at their letter box mummies saying, WTF was that!
“Alpha Pager (AL-A28) – GOLD APOLLO
Alpha Pager (AL-A28) features AES encrypted transmission to ensure data security. The device has an”
Looks like the Web site of the manufacturer has closed down but here is some information.
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/ap-900-this-what-we-know-about-one-of-the-pagers-that-exploded-in-lebanon-18209359
Something similar to what I’d read from an “intelligence account” on X. The Israelis didn’t want to use that system just yet but had to due to repairs on some pagers in Lebanon finding strange things inside… But that’s mere speculation…
Rosie, you seem to be focused on an argument I’m not making re innocent civilians.
On Sunday at my Jewish women’s study group, a young woman asked a question. This young woman is in her early 20s, she’s studying at university. She’s joined the study group in order to learn more about Judaism. During the time we meet we discuss many things, the state of the Jewish world, Jewish history, mainly biblical Jewish history, the mitzvot (commandments), particularly those commandments obligatory for women such as family purity, kashrut and so on. Our teacher is a ‘Rebbetzin’, which means she’s the wife of a rabbi, and she is very learned herself. Our group is supposed to last only one hour and a half but we’re still listening and asking question and debating for a long time afterwards.
It’s a difficult time being Jewish, and particularly for young Jewish men and women at universities. I think many of them are profoundly disturbed by what ensued on October 7 and since then.
So, what was this young woman’s question?
The Rebbetzin spoke at length about the ten commandments. She went through them one by one and then she arrived at the sixth commandment, that commandment being….‘thou shalt not murder’. She spoke in Hebrew, and in Hebrew the word is very specific, the commandment reads “thou shalt not murder“. It does not say ‘thou shalt not kill‘, it is quite specific. We are allowed to kill in self-defence, and the actions overnight in Beirut with the exploding Hezbollah bums and balls ARE self-defence, and it is imperative for us to slay our enemies before they slay us. But the young woman was confused by all of this and she asked ‘what about the innocent Palestinians who are dying in Gaza‘?
Whilst many of the women murmured audibly, the very composed Rebbetzin did not. She responded to the young woman’s question by saying to her ‘that’s a great question’, and then the Rebbetzin answered her by saying that the killing of one’s enemies is obligatory so that innocent lives can be saved but sadly sometimes innocents die. The IDF in Gaza does not deliberately target civilians unlike the invaders of October 7 (who went out of their way to target civilians by raping, murdering and kidnapping). The IDF go out of their way to protect civilians but as the Rebbetzin explained to the young woman, the terrorists in Gaza hide in hospitals, in schools, in kindergartens and in homes.
Here’s a fact, any mass invasion by Hezbollah of Israel would make what happened on October 7 look insignificant. Israel is acting in self-defence, it is trying to prevent any future mass slaughter of Jews. There will be no repeat of what happened on October 7.
I shed no tears for those now dead or crippled in Beirut, they want me and every last Jew on the planet dead. Hezbollah, like Hamas, is demonic. However we Jews don’t and won’t celebrate the deaths of our enemies, however much they deserved it. Unlike our enemies, we don’t revel in death, we rejoice in life.
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Veterans up for payout over abuse in the ADFTess IkonomouAAP
Wed, 18 September 2024 1:31AM
A group of defence force personnel and veterans might receive a combined multi-million dollar payout for the abuse they experienced during their service in the Australian Defence Force.
The Defence Force Ombudsman is reviewing past decisions made on recommendations for the abuse reparation scheme after Federal Court action was launched against it.
More than 50 cases out of 169 previous assessments to date have been overturned, with a fresh suggestion to Defence for compensation.
Individuals could be paid up to a maximum of $50,000 under the scheme.
A spokesperson for the ombudsman said the final decision of whether to make a reparation payment lay with Defence.
Army veteran Mindy Mackay said her experience of sexual harassment and assault in Jordan while she was studying with the Australian Defence Force School of Languages in 2008, was downplayed by the military.
She also was harassed by her superiors for supporting a fellow soldier in their sexual assault case which went to trial in a civilian court.
Ms Mackay is part of a group of people who have been recommended for a payment after her previous application was rejected.
“I felt disposable and worthless,” she said.
“I gaslit myself and thought maybe it wasn’t that bad, after all, maybe I was imagining it to be worse than it actually was.”
Ms Mackay said receiving the letter was an acknowledgement of the trauma she had experienced.
“I read it and just felt huge relief, it was the validation I was seeking when I made the complaint,” she said.
“But I’m just worried about all the people who were failed.”
In a letter to Ms Mackay, the ombudsman said it may not have adequately considered the psychological impact of the abuse beforehand.
The Defence Reparation Scheme was open to reports from December 2016 until June 2022, with final lodgement of completed applications accepted until June 2023.
The majority of reports received by the ombudsman are from veterans, with 80 per cent of people coming forward with complaints of abuse no longer serving in the ADF.
The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide which handed down its final report last week, recommended the federal government set up an independent inquiry into sexual violence in the military.
Speaking ahead of its release, chair Nick Kaldas said he was disappointed the ombudsman didn’t get it right the first time.
The ability to send SMS messages to all phones in a given area always seemed like an obvious way to trigger IEDs. It would be a satsifying explanation for the frequent Pally workplace accidents if it’s possible.
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“Many of the affected pagers were from a new shipment that the group received in recent days, people familiar with the matter said. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, adding that some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them before they burst”.
From WSJ.
Makes more sense than pagers that have been floating around since February and the Iranian story about the American University even more fanciful.
Community noted but they’ll go ahead with the Motorola boycott anyhow.
https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1836083424702194070?t=ku0x69JbHDR4psxNtLXTlQ&s=19
Cassie – You might like Naomi Wolf’s intensely personal story which she posted this week, since she’s a Jewish lady also.
The Thing I Feared Most to Write (17 Sep)
She’s been on a long arc from the left to the right. Brave lady.
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Indigenous jury plan an insult to justiceShould a jury be stacked to represent racial groups, women, and the indigent – but not the disabled, the sick or the neurologically diverse? Who chooses? Should some groups not be represented, and if so, why?
Janet Albrechtsen
Columnist
Anyone able to link to this article? My computer is playing stupid games!
I don’t know Dover, you seem to think that innocent civilians may have inadvertently gotten hold of Hezbollah Gold Apollo pagers and that the American Hospital was warned* and decided to replace their pagers to prevent their staff being innocently blown up.
The American Hospital can’t be the only US affiliated institution using pagers in Lebanon and it does sound just a little bit like Iranian disinformation.
*despite the operational risk that would represent and despite the US claiming zero knowledge of the attack.
Where are the Spartans now? Eh?
They dead.
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This shit hole is stuffed. Watching kenny interview some energy expert after that commie scum and leader of the filth was demanding we end all gas and coal energy. The expert, matt rennie of rennie advisory was praised by kenny as not being a denier and knowing the transition to renewables had to be measured and would require some years of backing up by gas. All of this garbage was in the context of the climate crisis.
There is no climate crisis, the climate today is as good as it gets and if humans were causing it we should keep doing what we’re doing. But of course we not causing it. Humans can only cause transexuals, cannibalism, eating of dogs and a few other ephemeral bits of crap.
I know there are grifters making a fortune out of alarmism and commies like the filth using alarmism to push their vile ideology. But I reckon the majority of folks who support alarmism and renewables really believe in it.
We are fuked.
Where are the Phoenicians now?
They dead.
Zulu, courtesy red roo Wi-Fi
Indigenous jury plan an insult to justiceIf you’re waiting for sensible analysis from law societies and bar associations about recent suggestions that Indigenous defendants should be heard by a jury that includes some – and possibly half – Indigenous members, take a seat in a very crowded waiting room.
Or read on, and we’ll do it. In a speech late last month former Queensland Supreme Court judge Roslyn Atkinson echoed findings of a 2023 report by the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration to overhaul who sits on juries.
It’s sensible to encourage more Indigenous people to sit on juries. In fact, we ought to find better ways to encourage all Australians to do so, because currently it’s easier to find someone who has escaped jury duty than someone who has taken on that onerous civic responsibility, often at great cost to themselves.
What’s not sensible is Atkinson’s implied endorsement of AIJA’s suggestion that jury selection be altered to “affirmatively include First Nations jurors”. AIJA researchers focus on a model called “juries de meditate linguae” – where a minority defendant is granted the right to be tried by a jury comprising half of people from that same minority. The report notes that this model originally entitled Jews in medieval England to special mixed juries, made up of half Jews and Gentiles
Part 1
Indigenous Leader Warren Mundine says he feels “sorry” for academics.
While justice in the United Kingdom has progressed from this Middle Ages model of special rights for certain minorities, these legal researchers under the auspices of senior Australian judges want to go backwards.
They draw comparisons with how women were once excluded from juries, so why not advance the jury system some more by including Indigenous people? Hold on a second while I find my trucker’s licence to drive through the hole in this argument.
It was, of course, wrong to deny women – and Indigenous people – the right to be jurors. But we don’t currently exclude Indigenous people from sitting on juries. Moreover, there is a fundamental difference between, on the one hand, encouraging universal participation on juries and, on the other hand, mandating quotas for one group, in this case Indigenous people.
The suggestion that justice won’t be done, or be seen to be done, for an Indigenous defendant unless a jury includes some (unspecified) number of Indigenous jurors is impractical and offensive.
Impractical because it may be hard or even impossible to ensure the right number of people with the right racial characteristics are available for every single trial at every single venue, or even most of them.
Offensive because it suggests that a jury without the correct racial makeup won’t make the right decision. In other words, the real gripe with the current model is with the decisions by current juries.
If AIJA has the imprimatur of the nation’s judges, we should be very concerned. The output from this body reads like a Greens manifesto. Last year AIJA proposed juryless trials for sex offences – presumably to increase convictions. Its suggestion that we mandate Indigenous jury members for Indigenous defendants appears to come from a place of wanting fewer convictions
Part 2
Andrew Bolt: Deeply concerning group think in Victoria, the state of law and disorder
With claims of a police cover-up involving Dan Andrews, it’s clear that things are far too clubby in Victoria between Labor, the police and elements of the judiciary — and the group-think under an authoritarian government is deeply concerning.
Something stinks in Victoria, and claims of a police cover-up of a car accident involving former Labor premier Daniel Andrews just adds to the stench.
Yes, it’s been too clubby between Labor, the police and – in my opinion – elements of the judiciary.
This goes beyond the latest evidence – the bombshell report by Ray Shuey, a former police assistant commissioner for traffic, who has cast more doubt on Andrews’ claims about that accident in 2013, when his wife, who he says was driving, hit 15-year-old cyclist Ryan Meuleman and put him in hospital.
But let’s start with that.
Andrews publicly claimed the accident was the boy’s fault, saying his wife had just turned into a small beachside street when Meuleman came down a path from the right “travelling at speed and hit our car at a perfect right angle very heavily”.
To underline it: “I want to make it clear – the cyclist hit our vehicle”.
Police bought it, almost instantly. Within hours they closed the case without even breath-testing Andrews or his wife.
But the evidence, gradually uncovered by the Herald Sun’s Michael Warner, seems to contradict Andrews’ story.
First, pictures of the damage to his car show a smashed windscreen. It seems the cyclist hadn’t T-boned the car, but been T-boned himself.
That now seems the conclusion of the late Ray Shuey, who was asked by the Meuleman family to investigate the accident as they prepared legal action against their son’s former lawyers, a Labor-linked law firm which had advised Ryan not to sue Andrews and his wife but settle for $80,000 from the Transport Accident Commission.
Shuey said other things didn’t add up. Why did Andrews’ wife give her maiden name to police, keeping the Andrews name out of it? Why was the police investigation so hasty?
Shuey suggested the accident was most likely caused by a fast-moving car cutting the corner, smashing into Ryan on the wrong side of street just 27m from the intersection, and not stopping for another 19m.
Shuey’s suspicions of an “overt cover-up to avoid implicating a political figure” have now been backed for former chief commissioner Kel Glare, who said he agreed with “every word”.
Glare said the botched police investigation couldn’t be explained by laziness or incompetence, given “every step that was required by the Victoria Police in their instructions was ignored, not followed”.
He was astonished that a police car racing to the accident was told to stand down by an officer who was actually further away, and who took six-and-a-half minutes before they got into their own car.
“There was a concerted effort to ensure there was no accountability for the collision,” Glare told me.
In response, Andrews dismissed the claims as “appalling conspiracy theories”, and insisted “we did nothing wrong”.
But as I said, this is just one example of what strikes me as an unhealthy Club Victoria.
On Tuesday, the Labor government appointed its latest judge, promoting Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd.
Excuse me?
It was Judd who last year rejected the request of former High Court judge Geoffrey Nettle to prosecute police who’d unlawfully had a lawyer, Nicola Gobbo, snitch on her own clients.
More astonishingly, it was Judd who prosecuted the clearly innocent Cardinal George Pell, even appearing before the High Court to insist it dismiss Pell’s appeal against his conviction for supposedly abusing two teenage boys at once in an open sacristy straight after Mass, even though one of the boys denied any assault.
Pell was so obviously innocent that the High Court judges, after embarrassing Judd, ruled seven to nil to free him. As I’d demonstrated, neither Pell nor his accuser could have been at the scene of the crime at the only time the room wasn’t busy.
Yet Andrews, a vicious and public Pell critic, wouldn’t accept his courts had jailed – and kept jailed – an innocent man for more than 400 days. He tweeted: “To these brave victim-survivors – we see you. We hear you.”
And here is Judd, now a judge herself.
Judd isn’t the only official behind the Pell miscarriage of justice who’s since been promoted by Labor. Shane Patton, who oversaw the police investigation, was later made chief commissioner, even though all 26 charges against Pell failed.
The charges were such nonsense that I wonder about the brains or agenda of police who believed them. Pell was even accused of raping a screaming boy in a crowded cinema, somehow without anyone noticing.
I’m not claiming there’s a conspiracy of the powerful in Victoria. But it seems to me there’s a go-along culture or group-think under an authoritarian Labor government, and that is deeply concerning.
Herald-Sun
Learning who was and wasn’t killed will be interesting.
Where they now?
They dead.
A ray of hope:
‘You are wasting your time’: NT Chief Minister blasts anti-gas protesters (msn.com)
But the rest of the LNP needs, apart from a few exceptions, a collective stick of dynamite up their arses.
If so, where are the empirical studies linking correctness of jury decisions with the racial makeup of jury members? That would be important news. Without rigorous evidence in support, AIJA’s attack on the current jury system is misguided, or worse.
There is a significant risk that even proposing these changes will encourage Indigenous defendants, who include violent men who maim and kill Indigenous women, to regard themselves, without any evidence, as victims of an oppressive justice system because the makeup of the jury didn’t match their race.
Uncovering other flaws is child’s play. Does this new jury structure imply some test of racial purity? If so, what percentage of Indigenous blood is enough to be fair to an Indigenous defendant?
At a wider level, the proposal to mandate racially composed juries is an example of the now ubiquitous – and completely bogus – notion that people of one background won’t sufficiently understand or treat fairly people from different backgrounds. This proposal is little more than a form of special pleading for your favourite minority.
Given that nobody can sensibly suggest a jury can reflect all groups in line with their percentage in society, some selection is required. How is that to be done? And for whom? If we ensure that groups A and B are included to reflect their numbers in society, or something close to it, but not groups C, D, E through to Z, is that an admission that only groups A and B will be fairly treated?
Part 3
Oh well, see you online tomorra Cats.
I hope to awake to the news of splody keffiyehs!
Should a jury be stacked to represent racial groups, women, and the indigent – but not the disabled, the sick or the neurologically diverse? Who chooses? Should some groups not be represented, and if so, why?
Indeed, the one attribute ignored by the legal activists behind the “representation theory” is good old-fashioned merit. Otherwise known as good judgment and sound intellect. Perhaps fans of representation theory think people in this group have been so historically overrepresented they need to be culled from juries.
Representation theory is a variant of two modern fads – critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion. Both emanate from the US and while openly contested in that country, we in Australia have been woefully slow to ask even basic questions.
Critical race theory holds that every aspect of society can only be understood through the lens of race, and more particularly racial oppression. Ergo we must reshape society from top to bottom to eliminate that oppression in ways demanded by the victims because who are the oppressors to judge their demands. This theory pollutes modern discourse to the point where so called “colour-blindness” – the notion we treat people according to their inherent merits rather than their race – is regarded as itself opprrssive.
Last part coming.
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CRT wilts under the most cursory analysis because victim and oppressor labels don’t fit neatly to blacks or whites, respectively. Human nature is more nuanced than that, and laws and policies that ignore this glorious complexity do a disservice to all people, regardless of skin colour.
Diversity, equity and inclusion is also in retreat across America – on university campuses and within corporations. The US Supreme Court delivered the official rebuke in a 2023 judgment, informing the DEI-rich university sector that affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina breached the US constitution. The asserted rationales for discrimination by these universities – “training future leaders in the public and private sectors” and “producing new knowledge stemming from diverse outlooks” – sounded lovely. But the court found they were not “sufficiently coherent for purposes of strict scrutiny”.
In other words, bah humbug to a DEI policy that is divisive and easily debunked by common sense. Mandating certain numbers of Indigenous people on a jury falls into the same category.
While most Australians said no at last year’s voice referendum to special legal rights for some groups, some legal elites just won’t give up.
Ends
Sorry bigger than I thought.
Thanks for posting Bolt’s article TE. Show’s the Murdoch press isn’t all bad. The whole thing just stinks and their attitude to the boy is beneath despicable. Most pollimuppetts are spectacularly unlikable but Andrews is a stand out.
Zulu, courtesy red roo Wi-Fi
Thank you, Rockdoctor.
Lol
https://x.com/BongPyro420/status/1836158347017621617?t=N81s4RLDKrqJVg0MOMaSTg&s=19
Indeed.
The lady impresses.
I think he meant Iranian ambassador.
Sheridan – We have to accept that the ABC just made a mistake!!!
It could, in fact, be “unrelated news”.
The only connection might be that someone was awake to the possibility of pagers being tracked and didn’t want to be confused with Hez-Ball-less.
Or maybe they just decided to ditch outmoded pager technology for mobiles.
Meanwhile in the modern UK:
For some 10 million pupils it is back-to-school month. But for a growing minority the lazy days of the summer holidays are set to continue.
In the glass-fronted wellbeing centre at an all-girls state secondary school in a wealthy Midlands suburb, no expense has been spared to create a relaxed, calming atmosphere. The walls are painted in mood-enhancing shades.
Pupils lounge on sofas with plush cushions, snacks and drinks on hand. Nothing as exhausting as school work is going on. The teenagers are listening to music on their headphones or scrolling through mobile phones, chatting and laughing.
They say they are suffering mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
‘A girl has only to mention she’s feeling a little anxious and staff send them to the wellbeing centre,’ Joanna, a middle-aged teacher at the school, explains. ‘I am horrified at the speed with which they pull pupils out of lessons.’
At lunchtime, the staff take trays of food from the canteen to them ‘so they don’t even engage with queuing up and getting lunch’.
Daily Mail
When I was a member of the AJA (Australian Journalists Assoc) before it became part of the Clowns and Jugglers (MEAA, Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance) we had an Ethics Committee. Any member could refer an ethics issue and have it adjudicated.
The Ethics Committee comprised members of high standing and reputation in the profession. If it still existed, the ABC and many of its of its charlatans would be destroyed reputationally.
It was quite fearsome in its power to enforce integrity. I had recourse to it on one occasion.
Sancho – it’s looking like Mossad were in a use-it-or-lose-it equation.
Report: Israel was left with no choice but to activate explosive beepers (18 Sep)
The result: bouncing Hezbie balls all over Lebanon.
On the pager bombs I love it.
Despite hubris from some quarters even news kiddies spouting Hezbie propaganda casualty stats. Not much sympathy in news comments.
Whistleblower news, and following on from a current theme (the Hun):
Apparently and allegedly, this entire thing deviated so far from what should have happened – from start to finish – that it drove straight into the Sun.
So far so good…
Insert phone calls from the car’s occupants to others, who may or may not have been Chiefs of Staff and former jack brass. Also insert other phone calls from that CoS – perhaps – to on-duty jack bosses who told said CoS to piss off, and then almost certainly a call to someone that CoS knows, and who just happens to be on duty at Rye.
Very unusual indeed, apparently, and particularly so given the young bloke on the bike was seriously injured. Most unusual. Almost unheard of, it might be said.
Whoopsie. Current Cheefa Po-Lice Shane Patton, despite being involved in other Andrews-related festivity (notably the Red Shirts thingo), may have to sharpen the axe to save himself.
More importantly, he was the closest to a prang where serious injury was involved.
This would be six and a half minutes of receiving instructions from her betters, via phone. Mr Hanley:
Possibly (apparently and allegedly) the biggest no no ever. Involved in a prang and you get put on the bag, it is said.
This is possibly the most damning thing about the entire shitfest.
It’s not going away, Dan. Spread those cheeks and bend over the bonnet of that ute over there.
The Greens are unphased by Albanese’s dangling double dissolution threat.
Hanson-Young wondering why the PM is so bullish on the housing Bill.
Green in-house polling must be very positive.
The chickens are coming home to roost for Labor, who must face the possibility of never forming a majority government again after abandoning mainstream voters in favour of sectional interests that have little resonance in the seats where elections are won or lost.
Apparently the Iranian ambassador was blinded which is not quite ‘superficial’.
https://x.com/GLNoronha/status/1836213464614007065?t=e5Lppl5exi8g768hLQvchQ&s=19
An assignment to Lebanon for Iranian ‘diplomats’ is more like an obituary than a career posting. Career ending. It’s where careers are buried.
It’s not going away, Dan.
Indeed. Justice Enfield, who is now mere Marcus might have something to say:
Marcus Richard Einfeld (born 22 September 1938) is an Australian former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was the inaugural president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. He was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and served two years in prison.
Geoff Clark has nothing to do in his cell. Give him a call. The ABC enlightens:
How Operation Omega brought down former ATSIC head Geoff Clark
Certain people in Victoria might be pondering how little top cover Desperate Dan now provides, and when is the right time to speak up.
Hat Tip to Michael Smith, a parody of an election ad for Kamaltoe that looks and sounds real. Lol! I hope the Donald uses it.
https://x.com/MrReaganUSA/status/1816826660089733492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1836265669631053838%7Ctwgr%5Ecff523f32323a08a76679fc03f8d64c75d085154%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/sorry-ladies-the-pager-was-in-my-pocket.html
Groan, why the effing hell does SKY drag that bloody awful Gnome, Richardson, onto the show.
How many favours does Sky owe to be blowing so many limp dicks?
Any Cats or Kittehs that have a Netflix account, could you take one for the Team and watch an episode of the Aus version of “The Office”?
It should be launched very soon and it comes equipped with all the bells and whistles of DEI.
The Ricky Gervais character is a female, natch.
I am surprised it isn’t a Tranny but, maybe they were hoping for at least two viewers.
I have never heard of the “comedienne”, Felicity Ward, but scuttlebutt has named her character the “Raygun”, of Aus comedy and, that it is NOT too late to cancel the show.
I know it’s a big ask but, you Cats are tough. :D.
Calli’s Red Pen afficionado is branching out.
I feel like I’ve been granted membership of an exclusive club. 😀
Can’t be exclusive if I’m in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhhTvcLoRw
Simple Minds – Belfast Child- wow
Oh oh!!!
https://x.com/misra_amaresh/status/1836293605280870422
God help us all if she gets in.
@EndWokeness
This is what Kamala Harris is trained to do if you ask about her economic plan:
Heston Russell made an interesting comment on Sharri Markson’s show.
He said the camera footage was kept in the Defence archives.
Makes you wonder what other footage might be in or missing from the archives.
Meanwhile P Diddy Coombs might be in a spot of bother with the judge rejecting an offer of $50m bail.
Like some of Epstein’s mates some of Diddy’s party friends might be concerned about what might have been recorded.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/what-have-we-become.html
Just 27% of Australians aged 18 to 24 would defend their country….
The one liners keep coming.
Just 27% of Australians aged 18 to 24 would defend their country….
Why would you take a chance of being shot to keep albo in his job?
‘Malicious social media outlets’
Oh dear.
“At a crucial time when AUBMC physicians, nurses, and staff have been fully mobilized to deal with the aftermath of today’s injuries, several malicious social media outlets have started spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about the types of communications systems AUB has in place, attempting to link AUB to this tragic event. The university categorically denies these baseless allegations.
Following are the facts. Our paging system infrastructure was upgraded in April 2024. The Go-Live for switching to the new system took place on August 29, 2024. The scope of this upgrade was to enhance emergency and code communication, as several devices and systems had become obsolete.
The American University of Beirut Medical Center has received over 160 seriously injured individuals over the last three hours, with more to come.
Our full focus must be on saving lives and caring for the wounded to the best of our ability. Rather than waste time spreading baseless rumors, we urge all to rally to support AUBMC and the heroic but overwhelmed medical system in Lebanon.”
https://x.com/AUBMC_Official/status/1836093048801104379?t=rd-9ghSY8aruZALl23MCQw&s=19
As Polar Bear Population Explodes, Animal Loses its Climate Crisis Mascot Status
Queer Ubermenschen
‘We Cannot Let This Go’: House Republicans Rail Against The UN And World Health Organization
@Travis_4_Trump
@ericmmatheny
In California you can steal $950 worth of goods without consequences; use drugs openly in front of police; use the sidewalk as a toilet…
But no political memes.
@newstart_2024
Horrifying…
Dr. William Makis: “We are seeing teenage girls or girls in their 20s presenting with stage 4 breast cancer and they have no family history and they’ve been COVID vaccinated because they needed to take the shots to continue attending university or college…We have never seen so many young women presenting with stage 4 cancers and the only thing that they have in common is there’s no genetic anomalies, there’s no family history, they all were forced to take the COVID-19 vaccines or they took them willingly, but they’ve had the shots. That is the only commonality. Same thing with colon cancer, young people presenting in their 20s and 30s. We have never seen so many stage 4 presentations of colon cancer in young people. Again, the only thing they have in common is that they’ve taken COVID-19 vaccines since the vaccines rolled out in 2021.
So we have a completely different pattern of cancers that are presenting . They grow extremely rapidly, they metastasize very quickly and they’re resistant, in many cases they are completely resistant to conventional chemotherapy or radiation therapy. That is also something that we haven’t seen before.”
@stopvaccinating
@MikeBenzCyber
Anna Kasparian:
It appears that more explosions are occurring the following day in Lebanon. If this were limited to Hez. I’d have expected all operatives to have dumped their pagers yesterday. Some serious ambiguities/ gaps in the pager story now.
Another day, another assassination attempt. At this rate, it will be Vance running against KamalToe.
Speaking of explosives;
Developing story; Cops have just discovered that a car parked near to a Trump rally in New York state has explosives inside.
Snap!
This one may have been targeted at Trump supporters. There’d be nothing like blowing a couple of dozen rally attendees to bits.
It appears how eggsactly?
This? This doesn’t make it ambiguous.
New OT, only just remembered.
Knuckle Dragger at 6:59 last evening.
The whole shit show of the cover up of Andrews running over the kid on the bike is something to behold.
From the bloke inserting himself into the investigation (after maybe being instructed from on high), through the no breath test (never, ever happens)*, no statements, allowing the Hunchback to drive a clearly unroadworthy car (also evidence) away from the scene to the subsequent “nothing to see here” statements which continue to this day.
The most staggering thing about this corruption is that it was so deep-seated back then, not when Hunchback had been Premier for ten years, but when he was opposition leader and wouldn’t have been identifiable by more than 50% of Plod.
And that it continues long after he has retired.
…
* I sincerely hope this goes to Court and Plod in the box is forced to answer as to how many accidents where someone was hospitalised was the driver (or all possible drivers if they are being cagey about who was driving) not breath tested or blood tested. The answer will be zero.
Rosie
September 18, 2024 7:20 pm
Enquiring minds would be wanting to know why the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was in possession of a Hez-ball-less pager.
Imo, Coory is far too kind in his assessment of Howard:
So there was a third attempt on Trump?
*Puts on Progressive clown cap*
You know who else survived multiple assassination attempts?
HITLER!