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Pure UniParty.
Heelllo Chicago!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
It has always shat me that Balsam got caught. I want movies where the bad guys get away with it.
“Two centuries later and you’re still crying over the wicker baskets.”
Amazing what some people find amusing.
No, the point is that progressives think that the French Revolution was a ‘good thing’ on the pathway to a newer better sort of human (yes the sort that the montyesques fancy themselves to be) whereas we see it as mass murder and destruction on the way to greater destruction.
Your I’m the only real conservative is bemusing btw.
Comment on the Trump second assassination X thread:
It’s because statistically speaking more mentally ill people relate to the Democrats than they do Republicans. You would have to be crazy to still be one honestly. This election is truly boiling down to good vs evil and a sink-or-swim moment for. America’s life jacket is Trump.
I think John Pesutto is going to be salami mush at the end of this.
Possibly. No great loss. Not sure anyone could dig Victoriastan out of their mess.
Pessuto is the Gimps’ doppelganger.
You may feel like that Zippy, but that is only because you flirt so sluttily with Nazi solutions to problems in your life. Society is not oppressing you for repeating fascist screeds you have read, it is defending itself from evil operatives who indoctrinate you in such filth. Losers like you are the sort who take potshots at politicians.
Exposure to Nazi ideology is a test of character. You fail.
My wife and I are from the country but have spent our adult lives in the city. We have helped build an urban community to raise our children which includes people of many different races, creeds, identities and backgrounds.
I don’t know what your life experience is like, Zippy, nor do I want to find out because whatever challenges you have faced, you learned the wrong lessons.
The projection is strong with this one.
This is the sort of person Monty would love to have teaching his children.
https://x.com/sappholives83/status/1835492951390142518?t=dBtcqUk9dDizqEC5LP5Dgw&s=19
You can see it in his face. Eeeew.
It’s OK, the milko looks after the kids
My wife and I are from the country but have spent our adult lives in the city. We have helped build an urban community to raise the milko’s children which includes people of many different races, creeds, identities and backgrounds.
Dickless is not only brainless but blind as a bat.
Sudanese and Somali gangs running amuck in melbournistan and the Western Sydney suburbs is islamised. It’s all just a huge, wonderful melting pot; made by dickless and his brainless leftoid mates. At least he got that right.
J D Vance’s repudiation of the DNC lie Monty raced here to repeat.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1835341729202880551?t=7yYayPQKiCXlKMb4S3CWqQ&s=19
Unless we are going to mine it or drill for oil and gas, I vote to just stop spending money on Antarctica.
It’s real estate.
They aren’t making any more.
That’s why the Chinese are building bases on Australian territory.
It’s USELESS real estate. A money sink. Never interrupt the enemy when he’s making a mistake.
It’s Australian Territory? Sez who and who cares?
Are we going to send a military task force to evict the Chinese? Didn’t think so.
Eyrie:
Under UN mandate, it’s Australian territory.
We don’t need to evict them – just send a Tomahawk in to wreck the infrastructure they’ve built on our land. Let them freeze in the winter. There are four bases, so four Tomahawks.
No real estate is useless. Remember the Russians sold Alaska for 14? million dollars to the US.
How valuable was it during the cold war?
Agree, IMO it’s a holiday camp for Govt. Boffins .
It’s been quiet lately.
Too quiet.
I get the feeling the Hildebeast is prowling – looking for victims.
I wonder if it will answer the call to replace the Hapless Harrisbeast?, after she’s had a nasty fall and broken her neck while drinking.
So sad, and in the prime of her life too.
But I’m sure the Hildebeast will answer the call of duty and take over the Presidency when the Biden falls down and breaks his
neckfemur, too.A few heart rending “But I want to enjoy my grandchildren, too!” just for good measure so we all know what she’s giving up for us.
We are blessed to have her looking after the world.
She’s got another book out too.
That’s always a tell.
To find out which is better for the human race, see which side – left or right – piles up the highest mound of skulls.
…and there’s your answer.
I’m quite willing to pile high mounds of leftist skulls, it’s not as if they use them for anything.
Ashtrays, GR. Ashtrays.
Ashtrays on Hells Angels motorbikes is a good use.
As an institutionalist, not to be confused with the institutionalized, the IRS was supposedly established around the time of the Civil War. Gonesky? Well, income tax, on the other hand, was actually formalized in 1913. Also gonesky?
hey mUnty,
is Gibberish your first language?
… or did you just pick it up as you became more and more mental?
Comrade montgomery inferring everyone is a nazi.
And no doubt expects his pseudo intellectual regurgitation of a Cenk Uygur monologue to be treated with some sort of respect.
Cenk Uygur, aka Chunk Yoghurt.
Exposure to Nazi ideology is a test of character. You fail.
Oh, our resident Nazi boy is deflecting again. I wonder, what’s his excuse? He’s failed every particular ‘test of character’ especially when it comes to Nazi ideology. He’s a paid up member.
I note he’s said nothing about the real Nazi violence on Melbourne’s streets last week…..ahhh, but that Nazism is okay, he’s on board with that.
Nazi boy should piss off, quite frankly he’s a disgrace.
Patriarchy = men and women in a natural relationship,
Religious observance = Christianity,
White supremacy = taking justifiable pride in the achievements of western civilisation.
I’m strongly in favour of all of them. The woke replacement of them is hideous and destructive.
Spot on!
Comrade montgomery inferring everyone is a nazi.
Comrade Montgomery doesn’t like it when he’s called a Nazi!
He’s such a hypocrite.
I am an institutionalist
Greylands doesnt count you tard.
Monty seems especially needy at the moment, looks like the milko has invited the rest of the footy team along this week.
This one’s for agricultural type Cats – From the West Australian.
Farmers are reaping the benefits of cost-conscious West Australians looking for affordable holidays as the so-called “agritourism” trend surges, delivering a neat windfall for landowners looking to diversify their income.
Deliberately planting a canola crop near York for tourists to trample through for selfies, PetTeet Park owners Kevin and Pamela Johnson are among many in the Avon Valley embracing the business opportunity.
Surrounded by professional broadacre farmers who were sick of trespassing tourists, Mr Johnson was asked by his local tourist centre if he would consider growing the yellow flowering crop.
Streams of cars now visit the Johnson’s 40ha property each weekend.
Why do people think tourism is going to save us farmers?
You have to talk to people for ffs. We live remotely and we’ve got used to and quite like, NOT talking to people.
Hell yes.
A venomous mediocrity. Reminds me of some of my armchair marxist comsuper relations unfortunately.
I saw the local murdock rag (aka Herald-vomit) pumping up Anal’s tyres this morning- plucky little Anal standing up to the evil Musk.
Poor little bastard (which he undoubtedly was) 14 months old:
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In his opening statement, Mr Ranken detailed the list of injuries noted in an autopsy, including blunt force abdominal trauma, fractured ribs and limbs, fresh blood in his nappy, spleen lacerations, bruises, scratches, as well as a cigarette lighter burn and blisters on his feet.
[snip]
No mention of ethnicity, but there are a few clues:
The court heard that KBS was living with his mother and sister in an area of Wagga Wagga where other relatives also lived.
On one occasion, the siblings had stayed with family while their mother was in Wollongong, and their father was in jail.
Scottish Presbyterians? In Wagga?
It gets worse:
Mr Ranken said KBS’s mother gave several differing accounts of events of who lived at the house and how often she checked on her son through the night.
Other family members also gave statements including accounts they said might explain some of KBS’s injuries, such as falling up steps in the days leading up to his death.
Mr Ranken said that, in a formal statement to police in later years, KBS’s mother conceded that her intimate partner had been living with her at the time, but that she had withheld that information because he was on the run from police over unrelated matters.
Mr Ranken said the formal statement outlined how her partner was “jealous” of KBS, and outlined a new version of events from the night including hearing a bang from a room where her partner and KBS were alone.
and then:
The court heard the children were then put to bed while the couple smoked cannabis, before the mother went to bed at around 6am, leaving her partner to smoke ice in the front room.
But, but – Stolen Generations!
This was in Wagga, not some hellhole outstation.
Poor litle man, RIP.
Heartbreaking. Poor little mite, and there’s a sister?
Well away from these monster brutes I hope.
Where were the much lauded all important ‘kin’ when they were needed?
Comrade Stalin was pretty pallie with Comrade Hitler while it suited him.
the joint was urban before your hick parents were born
and it was urbanised by many ‘different races, creeds, identities and backgrounds’
… try not to be an idiot all the time
Inner urban greenies. They stick together and their ideologies are dead set to ruin the next generation. High percentage of the kids fail, are druggies etc. unless middle class value prevail in the kids’ education (looking at private high schools yet, M0nty?) and then they get jobs at the ABC.
everyday he offers lessons on how to parlay yourself to grace
mUnty’s so noble
ChatGPT?
Reading about Heston Russel and our ‘national‘ broadcaster aka their ABC doctoring footage to fix a narrative, and remember that their ABC has been doing this for years, just ask the late Cardinal Pell, oh wait we can’t ask him because he’s dead, I was reminded again of C.L’s incisive statement on his marvellous blog a few months ago when C.L. said that whilst their ABC might be losing viewers and is slowly fading into irrelevance, the more dangerous the ‘national’ broadcaster is becoming. The ABC is a malevolent, malicious, spiteful, vicious and vindictive organisation, an organisation that openly lies about issues, and is at war with ordinary Australians, the very ordinary Australians that fund it.
The only way to deal with the ABC is to apply the Rabz doctrine.
Yep. As I said above, a haven for the kids of inner city greenies. Jobs for the kids.
I’m going to make an exception tonight at 7pm and watch Blot on Sky News because he has on SAS commando Heston Russell, who was defamed by the ABC, which made a clumsy attempt to fit up Russell with a doctored audio tape falsely alleging he shot an unarmed Afghan civilian to advance the lie that the ADF was responsible for war crimes.
I hope Blot actually gives Russell a chance to speak for himself and doesn’t try – as he usually does – to make the occasion a homage to Blot’s opinions about everything.
I can’t get Sky so would appreciate your summary.
Not SAS.
Agree Cassie, the ABC and SBS are unreformable.
In a properly run organisation this would see several sackings.
What say you, Kim Williams?
I wouldn’t hold your breath. More promising than Ita at this very early stage. She and Anderson were utterly hopeless. Dave’s got the DCM which is a start.
Multibillion-dollar Wright battle comes to an endPaul Garvey
2 hours ago
The legal fight stemming from one of Australia’s highest-stakes family feuds has formally come to an end, with the High Court killing off Julian Wright’s effort to try to claw back a portion of the Wright Prospecting iron ore fortune.
Julian had long argued that his siblings, the late Michael Wright and their sister, Angela Bennett, had defrauded him when he agreed to sell his shares of the family business and father Peter Wright’s estate for a sliver of their current value.
The West Australian Supreme Court found that while Julian had established that there had been “deceit and equitable fraud” in Michael and Angela’s acquisition of his interest in their father’s estate, his compensation claim against them was barred by an earlier settlement he had reached with them in a 2008 agreement that delivered $70m to Julian’s children.
Peter Wright was the business partner of Lang Hancock at the time the pair first identified the enormous iron ore potential of WA’s Pilbara region. They set the groundwork for the hundreds of millions of dollars of royalties that now flow each year into the coffers of Wright Prospecting and Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting.
Angela Bennett’s net worth, built on her share of Wright Prospecting, is now estimated at $4.6bn and Michael Wright’s children, Leonie Baldock and Alexandra Burt, are worth a combined $3.2bn, according to The Australian’s Richest 250 list. Julian Wright sold his share of the family empire in 1987 for $6.8m.
He tried and failed to have the Supreme Court decision overturned in WA’s Court of Appeal and earlier this year applied to have the matter go before the High Court. His application to the High Court was particularly critical of the findings handed down by Court of Appeal president Michael Buss, accusing him of failing to engage with Julian Wright’s submissions and including “many errors” in his reasons.
The application also argued that both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal had failed to identify how and when Julian had learned of the fraud against him.
The timing of that moment was critical in determining whether his claim should be barred under the statute of limitations, with his legal team arguing that he only fully learned of the scale of the fraud after he launched the Supreme Court claim in 2017.
The High Court knocked back Julian Wright’s application, issuing a brief statement of reasons for the decision.
“There is no reason to doubt the correctness of the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Moreover, the proposed appeal does not raise a question of public importance,” the disposition said.
The High Court also ordered Julian Wright to pay costs, adding to what is already expected to be a substantial legal bill for the years-long fight.
While he is the biggest loser from the matter, the High Court’s decision also ends any hope for Angela Bennett to overturn the Supreme Court’s findings against her and her late brother.
That original decision found that Michael and Angela breached the fiduciary duty they owed to Julian as a beneficiary when they were executors of their father’s estate, and that Julian had established his causes of action in deceit and equitable fraud in their acquisition of his interest in Peter’s estate.
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Multibillion-dollar Wright battle comes to an endPaul Garvey
2 hours ago
The legal fight stemming from one of Australia’s highest-stakes family feuds has formally come to an end, with the High Court killing off Julian Wright’s effort to try to claw back a portion of the Wright Prospecting iron ore fortune.
Julian had long argued that his siblings, the late Michael Wright and their sister, Angela Bennett, had defrauded him when he agreed to sell his shares of the family business and father Peter Wright’s estate for a sliver of their current value.
The ABC is beyond reform but so is most of the legacy meja. I’m wondering if Musk is going to be their latest hate figure. Like Gina was some years ago.
The ChatGPT being used by mUntard today seems to have some faulty sub-routines. It is producing gibberish, and mUntard is too stupid to pick up the errors.
Even with AI assistance, mUntard is nowhere nearly as good as Hammy.
I still miss Hammy. Everything the DumbMunt is not.
Comment from Bolta, at the Tele.
The Only Oracle
2 hours ago
So I get welcomed to country very often. But on Aust Day I get accused of being an invader. Confusing.
One reason being that Whitlam abolished the television license and funded the ABC from general revenue, where it has sat fat in the budget and largely unaccountable for 50 years.
If ABC funding had remained tied to a license fee, I suspect Australians would long ago have protested with their wallets, as Brits are now doing, somewhat belatedly, in regard to the once trusted BBC.
The ABC is a malevolent, malicious, spiteful, vicious and vindictive organisation, an organisation that openly lies about issues, and is at war with ordinary Australians, the very ordinary Australians that fund it.
For example, Tingle.
It’s a conceit many, not just ComMon fall into.
Which is to say in their minds their lifetimes are “year zero”, and everything that happens is so important, so unprecedented.
It’s why the climate cult is what it is. There is no sense of history or precedent.
Seriously greg sheridan, the stick insect of the fuking media, unhinged with TDS vomiting that as bad as Trump is the assassination attempts are worse. Bolt agreeing. And these are the best of the media.
Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh donated exclusively to Democrats since 2019
Obviously a Republican plant.
Vindman’s Wife Mocks Trump’s Near-Killing At Hands of Fellow Ukraine Loyalist
Tim Walz: Mao’s Missionary
You built what?
You’re in the inner west which had been a melting pot since forever.
Now, thanks to forever rising property prices, it’s now as gentrified as all get out.
Green left progressives in million dollar homes pretending to be everyman.
Oh yes there’s a few HC tenants around, so you can pat yourselves on the back.
Everyman, meanwhile is slumming it out in Ardeer.
@catturd2
?
Radicalized by The Left, the liberal media, the Democrat party, and the war pigs who are obsessed with Ukraine 24/7.
Yes the wild west
The fat creep was claiming to be a member of the upper middle class at one stage.
But not on his own merits, he said that he had married into the upper middle class.
Indeed. Asset poor I believe. Makes you wonder what he brought to the table?
A wooden leg?
Not a dick.
and a ‘successful businessman’
Kulak.
Report from someone attending Deeming v persecuto
https://x.com/megszzzzzzzz/status/1835465693397209418?t=UMEKhaZJCuT0dqIGd2Rmxg&s=19
Aaaand, rolling with “Routh was a Vulnerable Mental Health person, and himself a victim of the seductive gun culture” in 3, 2, 1….
@robinmonotti
True love!
“Many beings feel love”
Just beautiful.
Heston Russell just on Andrew Bolt talking about the ABC and its doctoring of audio.
He made an excellent point. Defence had the footage of the incident. He has been fighting ABC over this issue for 18 months but at no time has ADF helped him in his case.
ADF happy to investigate/prosecute SF guys over incidents but no interest to support when falsely accused.
Good luck in attracting applicants for SASR and the Commando’s when all this is over!
How did Heston Russel’s helmetcam video ever get into the public sphere anyhow? Seems like the sort of resource that soldiers wouldn’t be at liberty to pass around willy nilly.
He apparently provided it to ABC as part of his defamation case. In the programme it appeared ADF knew about video.
The whole issue of camerad, particularly in the sky is interesting to say the least.
I wonder if David Anderson knew the Heston Russell revelation was coming when he resigned from ABC? He was the Editor-in-Chief, hence where the buck stops on such egregious matters.
Bloody Hell!
That’s a thought!
If Wikpedia is to be believed, David Anderson is NOT a journalism, and the first job he had with the A.B.C. was changing all the dirty tea towels in the office kitchens…
Just as Mark Scott, Vice-Chancellor of Syd Uni, is not an academic with a strong professorial record, which is the usual expectation of someone in that position; someone who is aware of, and knows how to protect, the institution’s integrity.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/video-heston-russell-on-the-abc-disgrace.html
Now that’s what I call a prediction.
@robinmonotti
It’s brain damaged meeja imbeciles like Sheridini and their ramping up of the unhinged hate against Fatty Trump that has now resulted in two assassination attempts in as many months.
sheridini’s most notable statement about Fatty Trump is this:
“Fatty Trump is a despicable individual.”
Not to mention this howler:
“Geriatric joe biden is a fundamentally decent man.”
Insightful objective analysis – who needs it? Not the likes of the rubbish bin dweller.
Biden is, and was, a creepy crim.
Opinion | When Harris Defied Democracy
@MikeBenzCyber
@MaxBlumenthal
Beware of people bearing manifestos.
sheridini’s most notable statement about Fatty Trump is this:
“Fatty Trump is a despicable individual.”
Not to mention this howler:
“Geriatric joe biden is a fundamentally decent man.”
Insightful objective analysis – who needs it? Not the likes of the rubbish bin dweller.
Yep spiteful lies. That’s why I haven’t bought a newspaper for over 10 years. And now they seem to be revving up to make Musk the new Goldstein for a while.
So he’s a common or garden variety dumbocrat, in other words.
Won’t be long before there are revelations he also considers himself a conservative institutionalist, busy helping build multicultural inner urban communities in places such as Springfield, Ohio.
Before the TDS got the better of him.
Eat falafels not cats.
Labor and the Greens deny Australian women the right to single-sex spaces
Well spoken, well said.
Good point and the only thing that makes sense.
Look at his various comments. Most are short, unstructured, and little more than leftard insults like Nazi.
Then he puts up a few, longer and more structured comments, but still largely leftard boiler plate. AI is known to be educated using leftard data, but perhaps mUntard tried to “improve” its work, but being terminally stupid, just mucks it up?
Just a thought, but the contrast between his style of comments is suggestive.
“Thank god the Left can’t aim.”
Although written the day after Trump’s first assassination attempt, I figure this song could do with another run through (in light of recent events).
“You missed” – Tom MacDonald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9apblSQ-s
LOL – Shazza going ballistic about the ALPBC and the Heston Russell stitch up.
Labor’s Misinformation Bill: A Direct Attack on Free Speech – One Nation Will Fight Back
mUnter:
‘My family built Shep’
Aaaaahahahahhaaaaaa.
I don’t want to see the Gimp banned from the hallowed pages of The Cat.
“Memento Mori”.
For, as much as I know I am better than that toenail clipping, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded that, unfortunately, we are all descended from the same primordial swamp.
Also, it bugs the rubber suit wearing one no end. 😀
Absolute comedy, if it wasn’t so stupid news (the Hun):
Brilliant, and about time.
Buy the ticket, ride the ride.
Excellent.
Thank God. It is understood that the bloke/tart wasn’t wearing plus-fours.
Sexist bastards.
Boomers booming. Love it.
There’s Middle East politics and then there’s golf club politics.
so, a bit mental like mUnty then
a kind of right-left, conservo-progressive sort of thing?
mUnty swings both ways? Sounds uncomfortable.
Ha, methinks that the 13th’s “club policies” do not actually exist in any documented form.
Afuera! quisling chairman, and no AO for you neither.
More likely that she would be the one passing out invitations.
“I saw the local murdock rag (aka Herald-vomit) pumping up Anal’s tyres this morning- plucky little Anal standing up to the evil Musk”.
There are two issues involved and PM trying to mix them up. Front page story in Daily Telegraph was mainly hyping the dispute over age limits. Age limits gets you to Digital ID and PM has said that facial recognition could be the answer. There goes anonymity on the net.
However the main game is the Misinformation Bill or as Paul Murray calls it the Censorship Bill. The Bill is incredibly dangerous in what speech it would have control over. Commenting upon preventive medicines and even something that might harm the economy.
Like many here I watch plenty of overseas podcasters. Think Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, Megyn Kelly, John Campbell and the wide variety of guests they get. For example Brett Weinstein, Peter McCullough, Aseem Malhotra and others who might say negative things about vaccines and the companies that make them. Some episodes are probably watched by tens of thousands of Australians.
How does big tech control or monitor such content ? It is impossible. However Esafety Karen would no doubt have people looking for “inappropriate” content and make complaints.
If the Misinformation Bill gets through the country is screwed.
I wanted to send Mark Levin’s evisceration of Kamala Harris to a friend and, surprise, surprise, it had disappeared from YouTube. Here is the Rumble link if anyone is looking for it.
Definitely worth a look, especially if you are feeling downhearted about US politics. Good sense still exists and we hope can still prevail.
Victor Davis Hanson
An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus
Secret Service confirms second assassination attempt on Trump and the Vindmans double down on their ugliness
Five Reasons to Believe Trump’s Would-Be Assassins Are Deep State Assets
How to Beat ‘Unhuman’ Communists At Their Own Game
@catturd2
How does someone who’s from North Carolina and lives in Hawaii know where to be in Florida, at the exact location, at the exact golf course, where Trump made a last minute decision to play golf?
GOOD QUESTION.
Charlie Kirk Tears Apart White, Liberal Racebaiter
@LangmanVince
Ryan Wesley Routh was in a BlackRock commercial, just like Thomas Matthew Crooks.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence
Hate to be a correct-o-bot, but it’s from this not Blackrock.
Random thought- Trump could have made a lot of hay during the debate simply by addressing Harris as “Madam President”.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
The schadenfreude continues…hehehe…
Today’s Daily Tele:
Anything But Credible Dishonour Roll (H/T Zulu):
James Morrow
17 Sep 2024
September
2024
Forced to
remove a war crimes story from online following allegations from Channel 7 that
extra gunshots had been added to the mission footage.
March 2024
The ABC
issued an apology to businessman Dick Smith after incorrectly representing his
views on renewable energy.
October
2023
Several war
crime stories are deleted after former Special Forces Commander Heston Russell
successfully sues the ABC for $400,000.
July 2023
After
initially denying the claim, the ABC forced to admit they had communicated with
protestors who turned up at the Perth home of Woodside Petroleum CEO Meg
O’Neil.
February
2023
The ABC had
to re-edit a radio report after it provided an ‘incomplete picture’ of a town
hall in Alice Springs. The report initially included claims of “white
supremacists” being at the meeting.
October
2023
Journalist
Louse Milligan was forced to delete a number of tweets about former Liberal MP Andrew Laming annd the ABC forked out $200,000 for the deformation settlement.
Continued:
The bollocking continues:
IT’S A MEGAPHONE OF THE LEFT ABC DISHONOUR ROLL
JAMES
MORROW
September
2024
Forced to
remove a war crimes story from online following allegations from Channel 7 that extra gunshots had been added to the mission footage.
MARCH 2024
The ABC
issued an apology to businessman Dick Smith after incorrectly representing his views on renewable energy
October
2023
Several war crime stories are deleted after former Special Forces Commander Heston Russell
(right) successfully sues the ABC for almost $400,000.
A former ABC chairman has accused the national broadcaster of becoming “the shameless megaphone of the left” following claims the sound of five gunshots was added to a story about serious war crimes allegations by Australian soldiers.
An investigation by Channel 7’s Spotlight revealed on Sunday the alarming audio issue from the online video version of a story published on the ABC website in 2022.
The public broadcaster has since removed the online video and launched an investigation into how the “error” occurred.
Independent forensic digital audio expert James Raper told Channel 7 the modified audio made it appear that six shots were fired from a helicopter at an Afghan man on the ground, rather than just a single warning shot.
“It completely misrepresents what those soldiers were going through that day,” Mr Raper said.
Maurice Newman, who chaired the ABC from 2007 to 2012, described the revelation as “shocking”
“What the latest revelation confirms is what many have been saying for a very long time,” Mr Newman said.
“The ABC is a self-serving collective, which doesn’t let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
“(It) has become the shameless megaphone of the Left and operates in defiance of its act, its charter, its editorial policies and the interests of a cohesive society.”
Questions were put to the ABC and its chairman Kim Williams, who yesterday supplied the same statement it gave to Spotlight.
“We have removed the online video where an error has been identified, based on preliminary inspection of the audio. The ABC is seeking more information on how this occurred,” the statement said.
It said journalists Jo Puccini, Mark Willacy and Josh Robertson “had no role in the production and editing of the online video. Any suggestion that they have acted inappropriately or unethically is completely false.”
Stu McCarthy, a former army officer who served in the military for almost 30 years, including deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, called for serious consequences for the mistake. “I watched those stories when they first aired several years ago. I immediately called them out as junk – it was clear they were junk stories back then. Based on what I saw on Channel 7 last night they were worse than junk – they were grotesque fabrications” Mr McCarthy told The Daily Telegraph.
Several other war crimes reports by the ABC had to be pulled down at the end of last year, after it was successfully sued by retired Special Forces Commander Heston Russell, who was defamed in a series of reports and awarded $400,000 in damages.
Mr Russell, who was the subject of Sunday night’s Spotlight program, has now written to Mr Williams.
“I would like to please meet with you to discuss a way forward to resolve these issues and achieve accountability without having to waste more Australian taxpayer dollars in the court,” Mr Russell wrote.
A spokesperson for Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said Australians expect high editorial standards from the ABC, as well as “transparency and accountability.”
“But as with any media organisation, the ABC doesn’t always get it right. The ABC is committed to continuous improvement including through its complaints handling processes,” the spokesperson said.
Shadow Communications Minister David Coleman said the report by Channel 7 was “concerning” and called for the ABC to “provide a clear, public explanation on what has occurred here .”
Sarah Henderson, the Opposition’s spokesperson for Education and a former journalist with the ABC, has been pursuing the public broadcaster for years in Senate estimates over issues of transparency.
“The ABC has very serious questions to answer,” Ms Henderson said.
“There is something very rotten at the ABC which allows such shockingly false allegations to see the light of day. There must be a full investigation into this matter including claims a video was doctored.”
She said the case involving Mr Russell “has cost the taxpayer $3.5 million and it is no wonder so many Australians are losing faith in our national broadcaster.”
The controversy is the latest to embroil the ABC.
In March, the public broadcaster apologised to businessman Dick Smith after incorrectly representing his views on renewable energy and the transition to Net Zero.
Last year, after initially denying the claim, the ABC was forced to admit it had communicated with protesters before turning up at the Perth home of Woodside Petroleum CEO Meg O’Neil.
They also had to re-edit a radio report after it provided an “incomplete picture” of a town hall meeting in Alice Springs, including claims of “white supremacists” at the event.
Taxpayers also forked out legal fees for social media posts made by reporter Louise Milligan about former federal MP Andrew Laming.
The flagship Four Corners program also came under scrutiny in 2021 for linking former Premier Neville Wran to the Luna Park Ghost Train fire, with the episode including a claim that the crime went “right to the top.”
Editorial page 20
Activist “journalism” on our taxpayer money.
They need to be kicked out of the funding nest and learn to fly on their own. The media version of basement dwelling 40-something parasites.
Meanwhile over at the BBC (the ABC’s idea of what they would wish to be) the NewsHour anchor tried on the “bloodbath” hoax again, in an effort to prove that there is nasty language on both sides. He was quickly corrected by the Republican Senator who he was interviewing. At the same time the Beeb is revealed to have a kiddy porn guy as their top news anchor! Legacy media is certainly bankrupt, has no moral code worth crowing about.
Thank you to James Morrow. I always enjoy his US Report on Sky, and his contributions to Outsiders, including his always present sense of humour. I know some here think he is some sort of sell out, but that’s easy to say. He is a journo first and foremost,who is meticulous with collating his facts, keeps various options open and does good work, as above.
I hope that both of these evil liars go to gaol for many years and that he shares a cell wth a lovely Samoan gentleman.
From the Oz. More in the Hun that I can’t access.
Andrews’ car crash review finds police probe was ‘deeply flawed’
Oh, and I forgot to add that some cops should share that same cell.
I notice the brain dead had down thumbed the original comment. Obviously was at the the scene and disagreed with the Assistant Commissioner’s finding. That’s what I like about the left, it doesn’t matter what you do, it’s the side that counts.
YESSS!
That’s what they expect.
What they receive is no more than what one would expect from a hard left sheltered workshop full of activists funded with other people’s money.
There doesn’t seem to be anything there about what she will do when they fail. As they used to say, don’t just talk the talk, you must walk the walk.
Yesterday’s digital opinion and today’s print edition Daily Tele:
THE DONALD PREVAILS YET AGAIN OVER THE DANGER
TIM BLAIR
16 Sep 2024
Following the first attempt on former US President Donald Trump’s life, he immediately rose to his feet and delivered a rousing rallying cry.
“Fight! Fight! Fight!” a wounded, bloodied but literally unbowed Trump yelled as security staff tried to hustle him off stage in Pennsylvania.
That was barely two months ago. Now, following the latest attempt on Trump’s life, the former president again displays similar poise under pressure.
“There were gunshots in my vicinity,” he wrote in a statement after alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh was captured by Florida police.
“But before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!”
Trump may rival Muhammad Ali for his hilariously hyperbolic claims to greatness, but those comments were exactly as factual, calm and informative as they needed to be.
The ex-Prez knows when to dial the volume up and when to turn it down. It’s a pity that his Democrat and leftist opponents don’t share Trump’s moderate, realistic outlook, even as he again was put at risk of murder.
Instead, as we’ve seen practically every day since Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, his enemies keep cranking up the hatred, the extremism and the division.
I’ve never believed that words equal or drive danger, but at this point it’s difficult to ignore the possibility of cause and effect.
The potential causes are never ending. As Miranda Devine reports in the New York Post: “Last week Kamala Harris falsely accused Trump of calling Nazis ‘fine people’, promising a ‘bloodbath’ and being responsible for ‘the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War’.
“She and Biden and surrogates constantly exaggerate the J6 Capitol riot and use it to frame Trump as a ‘threat to democracy’.
“Joe Biden has labeled Trump and ‘MAGA Republicans’ as ‘semi-fascists’ and domestic terrorists.
“(Kamala Harris’s vice presidential running mate) Tim Walz called Trump a ‘fascist’ and ‘threat to democracy’ who will ‘put people’s lives in danger’.”
Walz is one to talk. The Minnesota Flouncer is odds-on to put a rally attendee’s eye out at some stage of this campaign with all of his flamboyant waving, pointing and prancing.
Someone please put that bloke in a safety cage. And let us all put on mute senior Democrats who are again professing distress at an assassination bid against Donald Trump.
Harris briefly interrupted her southern accent practice to express gratitude for Trump’s safety and to solemnly intone that “violence has no place in America”.
President in repose Joe Biden hit an equally insincere note. “As I have said many times,” Sleepy Joe offered, “there is no place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country.”
Sure, Joe. Here’s you referring to Trump in 2018: “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
As anti-Trump threats go, however, Biden’s was definitely on the soft side. For a crew who claim to be on the side of peace and love, leftists sure do carry on a great deal about eliminating one of history’s least warlike US leaders.
When they’re not fantasising about a successful assassination, anti-Trumpers typically revert to their fallback mode: whipping up absurd conspiracy theories.
They did it after Pennsylvania and they’re doing it again following the thwarted attack in Florida. It’s a worldwide clan, united in rage and suspicion.
One of them turned up in The Daily Telegraph’s comments. “Sorry, this has ‘desperate election gimmick’ written all over it,” that particular reader claimed.
You can find nearly identical commentary across every social media platform. Go back two months and the same notions were floated after Trump was shot in the head, two supporters were injured and firefighter and father of two Corey Comperatore was killed.
Trump is routinely derided by his haters as incompetent, but by their own reckoning he’s pulled off two of the most extraordinarily complicated shooting scams of all time.
You’d think even the dimmest leftist would welcome someone with such otherworldly skills back to the White House. After all, if Trump can micromanage sequential fake assassination displays for a domestic audience, imagine what he can do to America’s international adversaries.
In the meantime, consider one of the most telling statistical comparisons from the entire US presidential campaign to this point.
Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts. As many online have mockingly noted, that’s the same number of media interviews given so far by Kamala Harris.
At least the bullets she’s avoiding are merely verbal.
So it’s two for him, and two for her. Well said, Tim.
Also, just gotta love “President in repose Joe Biden”
Yes. I liked that too, Lizzie. Best satirical commentator in the country.
Surely they mean ‘implicating a Labor figure’.
Does anyone seriously believe they would have covered up for a Liberal? Hell, they would have leaked like a sieve and posed as ‘unnamed sources’ and ‘people familiar with’ to spread some falsehoods to boot.
Apparently Routh waited 12 hours in a “hide” just in case Trump rolled by.
The golf game was unplanned.
No. I’m not buying it either.
Seems reasonable to me. Hunters go out for Sambar or other deer that long, get nothing, go out again and again.
Some even do it with primitive longbow, like a friend does. I would use a flintlock given a choice.
Or those with limited finances could opt for a skinflintlock.
First rain since April overnight – almost 50mm of it so far.
A moist, grey morning in D-Town.
Gasp! You said “moist”.
The schadenfreude continues…hehehe…
I like the feeling of schadenfreude but when it comes to the ABC being exposed for its vicious ongoing vendettas against Australians, be it Heston Russell, be it our other soldiers, be it Catholic prelates, be it conservative politicians and so on, I get no schadenfreude from its exposure.
You see, none of this should have ever happened. In the meantime, lives are ruined, reputations are trashed, and in the case of George Pell, an innocent man was sent to prison for over a year and now he’s dead, and without a doubt the huge pile on orchestrated by the ABC and its various activist maggots such as Fatso Louse Nilligan all contributed to his death.
It all confirms what I wrote last night, which is what C.L. originally wrote on his blog a number of months ago, that the more irrelevant the ABC becomes, the fewer people who watch the ABC, the more malevolent, the more vicious, the more vindictive, and the more dangerous the ABC becomes. The ABC never has any remorse about the lives it’s ruined, there was NO apology issued to the late Cardinal Pell. The ABC is woke central, and its targets for elimination are Christianity (in all its guises), Israel, the Coalition, the family, the Australian defence forces, gender critical women and anyone else who refuses to sign up to woke progressive cult ideology.
A future Coalition government with any spine (I know, I know, we can only dream) would slowly squeeze ABC funding, like a noose slowly strangling the last gasps of life out of a dying person. Now that might give me some schadenfreude! Until that happens, their ABC will continue to give the middle finger to ordinary Australians and more lives will be ruined.
Cassie, the ‘schadenfreude’ is from the TheirABC having the blow torch applied to it’s carbuncled festered arse.
Words cannot describe how much I despise it and the ground that their staff walk on.
Sadly over the years it has degenerated into what it is now.
I am sure that there are some good people that work for it but to keep their jobs they say nothing and or do nothing.
The Minnesota Flouncer is odds-on to put a rally attendee’s eye out at some stage of this campaign with all of his flamboyant waving, pointing and prancing.
Someone please put that bloke in a safety cage.
Along with his Missus.
Just realised that blonde lunatic haranguing the audience, flapping her hands and gurning was none other than his wife.
Their household must be Bedlam with those two posturing mental cases in charge. Poor children.
Can’t help but contrast with Melania’s quiet dignity.
Does anyone seriously believe they would have covered up for a Liberal?
Hell no.
Are any of us, Monty excepted, surprised that Andrew’s behaviour after the bicycle incident was self serving?
A man of the people.
A man above the people.
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. [Ambrose Bierce, “Devil’s Dictionary,” 1911]
Groucho Markx summed up the politician thus:
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them …
I have others.
C’mon brave left ladies, call out your own sex for this cruelty.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/life-will-never-be-the-same-parents-distraught-after-daughter-s-tragic-final-act-20240916-p5kawr.html
The poor dear girl.
Having worked within a female dominated profession for 33 years, I can tell you the problems don’t end at school.
Many carry the thuggish, bitchy, nasty and mean aspects into their adult lives and you NEVER cross them.
The problem is identifying them in time to get out of their vicious emotional fallout pattern, but one does become very attuned to the warning signs – hopefully.
The very definition of “incitement”.
@greg_price11
The Trump campaign broke out every single receipt in the world.
Unbelievable.
Suspect at Trump International Golf Course Charged with Firearms Offenses
Direct that rain down to the ancestral seat thanks KD.
If there’s any left, can I get some please?
There’s no point keeping a lawn going over winter in Barcaldine, so I don’t even try. But come spring, I attempt to restart it. Generally successfully, but it getting a bit difficult this year.
@drawandstrike
Trump’s view
@LauraLoomer
How was Ryan Routh, a convicted felon, able to fly from Hawaii to Florida and obtain an AK47 with an obliterated serial number and then get within 300 yards of President Trump?
Meme
@DonaldJTrumpJr
In Wales. How many of these have we seen and how many more are to come.
‘Popular’ boy dies suddenly as school pays tribute
Then, using the Pravda Defence, we must assume it was because of the ‘vaccine’.
Report: Alleged Trump Assassin’s Book Encouraged Iran to Kill Trump
Would-be Trump assassin exploited security hole that Secret Service has known about for years — and the pictures prove it
The number of female execs stagnates and the ABC is seeking answers.
Profits and share prices could provide a few pointers.
The Bee
Kamala Safe And In Stable Condition After Attempted Interview
One of the Bee’s best
Accountant Explains: Kamala’s Most RADICAL Financial Policies
The poor dear girl.
It’s a tragedy. I don’t know what possesses a young boy or a young girl to take their life like she did. Why didn’t her parents pull her out of the school? Did her parents speak to the school? Surely there would have been warning signs. I don’t and I won’t put the blame on the school. It’s already being used, by the SMH and ABC etc as a cudgel to target private single sex education. That’s all they care about, not the fact that a young girl took her life, rather it’s being used to smear Santa Sabina school. I have held off commenting about it because I’d like to know more of the facts, such as her home life. Is it the school’s fault? Dunno, but if there is a bullying problem in the school then the principal should take some action but here’s an inconvenient fact, bullying, bitchiness, nastiness and pettiness are all tools girls and women use and I don’t need to tell any man here that. It’s just a fact. I don’t think there’s a female here who hasn’t experienced bullying at the hands of another female. It’s toxic, it’s hideous. I was bullied at my private girls’ school but I’ve also been bullied by women in the workplace. Bullying is horrible but the reality is that it is part of growing up and it is part of living in a world which isn’t very nice all the time. It’s called ‘resilience’.
I do.
Bullying due to a previous ‘revealed confidential episode in her life’ so the reportage goes. Mental illness seems likely, or perhaps some over-hyped teenage embarassment. It certainly seems the parents were aware and wanted to change her school. Pity they didn’t do that earlier, although I’m not letting the school off the hook too readily in this case. A change of school can work wonders, in my parenting experience with my two older sons.
Some new arrivals nearby to us had their teenage girls booked into one of this areas’ top girls’ school, to accompany their purchase of a prestegious house and their move in from the north-western suburbs after a windfall period earning overseas. The girls hated it and were bullied, as non-locals from ‘unknown families’ can be in such an environment; they weren’t cued into the subtle clues of membership and had their own ideas. The parents realised that, quickly sold up and moved, very much better off financially, to Northern Queensland where the girls are reported to be much happier at school and the parents are well able to retire to spent more time with them.
Sometimes though, resilience is the answer. Be strong enough in your own mind to ‘fit in’ with any socio-cultural changes you encounter, or bullying about what are stupid things that disappear if ignored. Parents are best placed to know what their child is capable of managing .. as long as they are aware of it.
Teachers and principals have been rendered powerless in dealing with bullies.
”How does this make you feel?”
“Do you see how this makes her feel?”
Case closed – dead child.
Restorative sessions only further isolate the victim and empower the shits who then cry victim with the full support of mummy and daddy.
Absolutely. Instead, to the victim – “That is unaccepable behaviour and the girls will be told to apologise online or personally to you (your choice) and stop it” and to the perps – “Don’t you know this is wrong and cruel? After apologies, 16 hours of dentention after school in 2 hour sessons, a term’s removal from your sports teams, and your parents warned that you will be expelled if you do it again. “
Andrews’ car crash review finds police probe was ‘deeply flawed’.
An explosive 36-page report by a former police assistant commissioner, found Victoria Police were involved in “an overt cover-up to avoid implicating a political figure in a life-threatening” incident.
The review, by the state’s former Assistant Commissioner for Traffic and Operations Dr Raymond Shuey, found the Andrews’ family SUV was “travelling at speed” and on the wrong side of the road when it hit teenage cyclist Ryan Meuleman on a Blairgowrie street on January 7, 2013.
SW WA has one last abbatoir processing “custom kills” for small producers and the family tuckerbox- DBC, the Dardanup Butchering Company- and now it’s closing up that service with a few weeks’ notice. To do with the company being now half owned by a pork processor, but to tell the truth we saw it coming. One canny bloke up the road had his ear to the ground, he harvested a fair few gongs and a “producer of the year” from delicious! magazine, banked the cash and quietly shut up shop six months ago.
So that’s it, we’re all up the creek, probably two hundred regular family customers such us, and i’d reckon at a few dozen paddock-to-plate food venues and caterers. The only way to eat a beast of your own now is to string it up yourself… which is, of course, illegal, and will result in fines and a destocking order.
…I’m not saying there’s a dark conspiracy for a multi-front attack on farming designed to abolish private property and starve the proles of red meat, but what I will say is, if the Lizard People wanted to do just that, would their actions look any different?
Always, always talk to your children and listen to them. It’s so easy for a child to hold back and not “tell”. They can be very secretive and ashamed.
I say that as a very imperfect parent who has had their share of troubles and deficiencies. One of those “there but for the grace of God” parents.
Those troubles and deficiencies make you the perfect parent.
Anyone without experience of them is completely at sea when they arise.
Why would anyone wannt to assassinate Biden? He’s been a walking corpse for years.
The POS is more valuable alive as an example of leftist intentions. Won’t make any difference to the leftists of course as the next POS merely takes their place on the merry go round.
So we’re expected to believe they just dumped the script with an Editor and walked away.
That they had a big story on their hands but didn’t sit in on the edit.
That they were either too exalted to trouble themselves with the pre-prod run through, or were too low on the totem pole to have any say in what some schmuck on award wages did to their masterpiece.
Or complete faith in the other members of the hive.
The worst of the worst at the ALPBC are the executive producers, often with decade plus experience at the co-op. Red Kerry, Jon Paine and others are only the public face of the struggle.
*First rain since April overnight – almost 50mm of it so far.
A moist, grey morning in D-Town.*
still pissing down here (approx 100km southwest of Darwin).
Should have saved the link but didn’t seem important at the time …. duuuuuuuh!
?4 dayz ago I read that the Future Housing Scheme had spent $3billion since inception (18 months ago) and not one house had been built ..
?Yesterday another article, from the same media outfit, was whinge-ing cos the FHS had only built 3 500 houses since it started ……….!
?And they wonder why so many folk don’t believe the rubbish the media putz out … FFS!
Apologies
Mak Siccar
September 17, 2024 6:52 am
Posted my copy before scrolling back ………….!
from Jo Nova.
joannenova.com.au
Galactic Deep State Blob
GDSB.
TheirABC headline:
Donald Trump’s love of golf has long been a security issue. An apparent assassination attempt is unlikely to stop himBy North America correspondent Barbara Miller in West Palm Beach, Florida
Not only is it his fault, but he is wilfully continuing to make it even more his fault.
They are scum.
BTW, yesterday I tried to access their farcical ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ page to see what recent howlers they were likely to be sued for. Long buried in the fine print under Editorial Policies, it had disappeared altogether. It was only by searching several different pages that it was located.
Here is the link, for now at least:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/corrections
Scum.
Walter,
When did this happen? Are you still allowed to knock over a sheep?
An uncle and a few of his mates bought a cool room so they had storage to kill their own. Best beef I’ve ever tasted…The old man had a farm down your way and would take a beast down to a butcher in Cowaranup, but by the time it has been transported and stood in strange yards it was not the taste sensation of his brother’s. Long time ago now, back when Cullens still marketed second pressings – as Farm Red.
Great days, I remember them fondly.
Amen, Cassie. See my comment yesterday morning about the excellent City Journal article re how women exert power.
The worst bullying I ever experienced, once at high school and once in the workplace, was inflicted by females. And, I’m not a shrinking violet, nor was I unpopular or otherwise vulnerable. Yet, it made me miserable.
What it must be like for those who are vulnerable doesn’t bear thinking about.
The Heathers are everywhere. 🙁
My daughter was frightened of her so called friends. We never interfered as it would have driven her away. They all turned out to be druggies, prostitutes, mothers to children with several different fathers, Satanists, you name it they tried it. All came from broken homes. We were there for her when she realised she needed us. The background of the friends families made no difference to the scumminess of said friends.
Joanna, bullying and jockeying for position in group dynamics are basic to the female psyche.
It’s been there since the apes jumped out of the trees, and most likely while still in them.
It cannot be eradicated. Attempts to do so just drive the bullying and jockeying further into the background.
There’s a certain type of personality – both male and female – that delights in the subjugation of others, not because they are a threat, but just because they exist.
Agree. Women form bonded groups with hierarchies which are often unstable. A lot of gentle and sometimes no-so-gnetle bitching goes on and larger groups tend to fragment.
Ethologists suggest that male bonded groups are less hierarchical but more stable in their hierarchies and group togetherness. Leaders emerge and get support from an egalitarian base (like a football team?). Relates to hunting imperatives, say these boffins.
My particular tormenters at high school were called Dawn and Julie.
The came from such ‘nice’ homes and didn’t mind letting you know what they thought of yours. Gods Police, I think Anne Summers later called them. Friendly at first, until one of them saw our house, they ‘dumped’ me in second year and then gave me hell when I joined the ‘fast’ crowd from Emu Plains who played spin-the-bottle and had all the fun meeting up at the Blue Pool in Glenbrook on weekends.
That was quite a train trip for me alone aged thirteen on the puffing billy up from Mt. Druit back then. My gang would scare each other with stories of this little frequented natural pool’s ‘unfathomable’ depth, and of the water bunyips in it, and how many unsuspecting boys had died caught under rocks when diving. Didn’t stop our brave heros from diving in though.
Further to the above financial details provided by Mikkelsen, I’ve mentioned here before the ties between Astra Zeneca’s Australian based CEO and the highest level of the Morrison government.
You’d think they’d all be eager to clear their names…
Meanwhile, we now have a whooping cough surge which one paediatrics professor interviewed by the ABC has linked to vaccine hesitancy.
Now, where would people get the idea that vaccines don’t work as advertised and may not be safe?
“I was wary of a rushed new vaccine with limited trials, no long-term studies, and indemnity granted to the manufacturers”
That should have rung alarm bells with any intelligent person.
Trials and hangings.
What exactly is the appropriate action when confronted with such signs?
Take off one’s hat? Duck?
Looks like at least one EXTREMELY low flying aircraft, anyway.
Sure it wasn’t a large and unfortunate backwards flying crow?
On Yassur volcano’s extremely narrow cindered rim on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, with an unthinkable drop to the roiling crater in front of you and an ashen cliff to the bottom of the whole thing behind you, the advice on seeing an incoming lump of molten rock was to ‘step sideways’.
Would apply re this sign too.
State governments operate a number of concesssional type home finance schemes. The WA one is called KeyStart. They are not shared equity schemes but are not bound by the commercial lending requirements eg Lenders Mortgage Insurance below 5% deposit of other finance providers.
Albo’s latest exercise looks like yet another Cth headline grab undermining the Constitution.
September 17th – anniversary of the commencement of Operation Market Garden, and the Battle of Arnhem.
A new account of that battle “Aspects of Arnhem” by Richard Doherty and Davis Truesdale, examine the pivotal role, played in the planning by Lt General Lewis H Brereton, Commander of First Allied Airborne Army. Brereton, described as a “feeble, dismal, little man’ “not the right man to command First Allied Airborne Army” was responsible for the choosing the landing and drop zones, the decision to not to fly two lifts on the first day of the operation, and the requirement to leave half of each lift to secure the landing and drop zones for the next lift – all major factors in the failure of that operation.
Interesting reading, indeed.
Having read several books on Arnhem and the ego boosting fiasco the higher ranking “planners” came up with to emulate/outdo the German paratroopers Crete drop I have to admit I prefer to remember the the heroism of the paratroopers in the movie .. A Bridge Too Far ..
I also read an article the other day (can’t remember where) that in the official enquiry into the landings Browning blamed both Gavin (US airborne) and Sosabowski (Polish airborne) for it’s failure ……… and got away with it .. Browning never got a medal or official promotion but was shipped out to Burma as Chief of Staff to Mountbatten .. Definitely NOT a demotion or wrist slap ……..
Bloody ‘ell – nearly $50 for the Kindle edition?
I’ll have to read it 5 times to get value out of it.
Routh is clearly a fanatic.
Why wouldn’t the news that he had hidden for 12 hours hoping for a Trump appearance be credible?
He might have done it multiple times when Trump didn’t have scheduled appearances elsewhere knowing Trump would be at the course from time to time.
Feasible, but less likely?
Business Council of Australia gets a well deserved rubbishing in Teh Paywallian editorials after a similar AFR story. A look at the BCA Wiki shows it was once home to giants of Australian business like Rod Carnegie and Arvi Parbo.
Lawgs, Cowaramup is a good butcher- I’m passable, mate up the road is a great amateur with a coolroom- but the choke point now is the killing floor. That’s what you’re not allowed to do yourself.
Don’t you love our Bureaucratic State?
Keeping us safe is their pleasure.
Just think if Vic Pol had done its job back in 2013 Andrews would not have been eligible to be premier, a family and young boy would have seen justice and we Victorians would not be in the sorry state that we find ourselves. “Corruption most foul” doesn’t even begin to describe the implications.
So who did Andrews call from the crash site? It had to be someone high up in VicPol or even the then police minister. You have to look after one another. You never know when something like this can happen to you.
This stinks to high heaven!!!
Binningup offshore subsidy farm is go- 17 choppers, 5km out.
Transmission lines come ashore at Preston property owned by…
…any guesses?
…Andrew Forrest.
A disc grinder when no wind will contribute the uselessness of the harvesting OPM.
“Business Council of Australia gets a well deserved rubbishing in Teh Paywallian editorials after a similar AFR story.”
Speaking of which…
While they’re reevaluating their past positions and getting back to basics, the BCA might want to review DEI and CSA as well.
Took only two years to work this out? Wow, are they quick or what!
The BCA and Minerals Council are woke net zero nutters. They’re reaping what they sowed.
New CEO who didn’t want to play happy bedfellows with Albanese.
You suspect that was behind it. Miners getting a bit nervous with the unions making noises about the Pilbara again. Unsurprisingly.
The ALPBC needs to be “corrected” out of existence.
No, no, of course they didn’t. One corrective that could be applied by government (apart, of course, from shutting the crackpot infested kolkhoz down immediately) would be to ensure ALPBC j’ismists were held personally financially liable for their egregious falsehoods.
That taxpayers have had to foot the bill for various defamation actions against these evil incompetent arrogant clowns is unacceptable, to put it mildly.
Those payouts are beginning to look like a bribe to certain people – but done legally.
Not really. For decades, “conservatives” in Western countries have blown out budgets in their efforts to bankrupt the state and enable the dismantling of New Deal welfare. It has taken centre left governments to apply conservative fiscal responsibility.”
So we don’t need to make the distinction, but when we do it is the left that is fiscally conservative for “decades”?
Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Raegan, John Howard – clearly these are full-on nut cases spending lots of cash, right?
Whitlam and Biden – these are clearly spendthrift austerity nut cases, right?
And after the former and latter had their policies in place for a year or 2, of which can we suggest that the economy was in a better place, had stable long term growth and government surplus rather then a deficit?
I’ll grant you that the last 20 years has seen right-wing govs that do NOT follow this path, but to suggest that it is the left that is fiscally conservative is being more than just a little careless with the truth.
Of course, I’ll look forward to you showing a long list of left-wing, fiscally conservative governments from the last century or so.
I wouldn’t put Howard in the same sentence as Thatcher and Reagan.
Don’t hold your breath.
Yes Kneel, Reagan is included. He blew out the annual deficit to 6% of GDP and pushed debt from 26% to 41% of GDP.
Thatcher and Howard enjoyed resources booms and flogged off public utilities, proceeds of which they wasted on maintaining expenditure levels to retain government, instead of investing in a SWF like Norway.
It has taken a Democrat in Biden to start a long-needed reversal of the gutting of manufacturing in Western countries, something Albanese is trying to emulate. Thatcher, Howard and Reagan were the architects of that neoliberal attack on Western independence, leaving us vulnerable to China and Russia and leading to the current situation where the world’s future is beholden to whims of billionaires.
MAGA is run by and for billionaires, making it part of the problem not the solution.
Sky should drop two drop-kicks that crop up too often. One still in Parliament (Thistlethwaite) and one retired – Conroy!
Conroy today tried to say Trump was correctly termed a “dictator” because he said that himself. IIRC Trump said he’d be “a dictator on day one”. To me this meant that, exactly like he did on day one in January 2017, he’d sign a pile of Executive Orders. Presidents can do that in the USA system.
But, like the “bloodbath” hoax, the dictator hoax has become a tool of the leftist tools, be they pollies, ex-pollies, or wanna-be movers and shakers in the legacy media.
Anyone still want to tell us that “the media doesn’t matter”?
So the antidote to Nazism is utter ignorance of what it is? You’re such a fool, Muttley.
And the 768 people who died in hotel quarantine might still be alive.
Change the government and you change the country. Or something like that. It was apparent from the get go Andrews was the most radical leader at a Federal or State level for a long time. A number of Victoriastan institutions, most noticeably VicPlod, have been captured for decades. It was no accident that the Pell prosecution took place where it did.
Wasn’t that in nursing homes. Hotel quarantine sent people crazy but mostly didn’t kill them unless they caught Covid.
Gotta hand it to Chris Minns.
Pressures local councils to stop issuing ticketless parking fines. Shameless revenue raising… “rivers of gold” mentioned.
At the same time, NSW government preparing to activate M1 average speed cameras, designed to regulate trucks, to now fine ordinary motorists. Because the fixed cameras at the danger points – Mt White and Ourimbah – just aren’t generating sufficient revenue.
We see you Minns.
And there are others on perfectly safe sections of the Hume Motorway and out in the central west on the Great Western Highway.
Crikey. And here’s me thinking they already did timings on car speeds. No wonder I didn’t get any fines from the various times I was driving going up to Qld. when my calculations of my average speed were well above the speed limit.
Hard to overtake some traffic without hitting 120 to 130 when the truck supposed to be doing 100 were doing well over that. Once you get to that speed, if sometimes feels kinda nice.
Keep in mind Sowell’s maxim:
Politicians aren’t trying to fix your problems.
They’re trying to fix their problems.
Boorna Wangkiny Mia
Any West Australian Cats heard of this place?
“In Perth”. It’s AusPost’s new sorting facility there.
I only know this because I noticed on the tracking a parcel I’m expecting today came through there and it’s a rather unusual place name. Apparently it means “place of the message stick” in the Noongar language, which sort of makes sense. If you were fluent in Noongar, that is.
Abbout 1990 the Aboriginal centre in Bunbury made a huge media fuss about Noongar language tape course they made.
I bought it.
Vocabulary: 108 words.
All my parcels transit through there on the way to or from Welshpool.
I thought it meant place where mail, aspirations and logic goes to die.
Apparently that is not quite correct according to my daughter who speaks fluent bureaucrat and still maintains a conservative view on life
You’ve gotta hand it to the nookular milkman, he can always be relied upon to crop up on his nightly Sky spots on Blot incoherently defending the indefensible. As he did last night, defending that racist imbecile at the ALPFL finals match on the weekend.
As for his views on Fatty Trump, they’re indistinguishable from Sheridini’s.
Loosely was appalled by cat memes in the Paywallian yesterday. I didn’t bother saying anything about it.
He regularly pops up at Sky News too.
I remarked on this subject yesterday.
Why Were Social Media Companies So Quick to Scrub Ryan Routh’s Accounts? (16 Sep)
I wonder how long before Routh is Epsteined? I certainly wouldn’t be selling him life insurance.
Hairy’s first question was who is holding him. The Sheriff, or someone else.
What were the FBI doing there at the time of the arrest? he asked of me last nite.
Fair enuf .. LOL!
Which of the Andies will turn on the other first?
Or, which of the Andies will the crooked vicplod point the finger at?
Is there potential marital disharmony on the horizon?
“I wonder how long before Routh is Epsteined?”
12 to 48 months?
There’s an old adage…stick to your knitting, and it applies to the discredited BCA and most of the large corporates across this country.
We’ve talked about it here many times over the last few years. How large corporates and businesses went ‘woke’, including industry organisations such as the BCA, and if they didn’t go ‘woke’, they certainly flirted with progressive bulltish and tried to cosy up to progressive voices. The result?
A disaster, and we all knew it. Any one of us here could have given better advice to the BCA but they wouldn’t have listened because we’re conservatives, we’re right-wing, we’re ‘far-right’.
Benson writes
Bran Black inherited an outfit that appeared to have lost its way when he took over as CEO almost a year ago. The BCA’s relevancy, and frankly its credibility, have been questioned since it chummed up to the ACTU over industrial relations in some sort of demented dream of reinventing the accords of the 1980s. When this inevitably failed, and after the sounds of Kumbaya faded into echoes of embarrassment, the BCA was left scarred.
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The BCA came out for SSM, for da Voice, it praised the grub from Grayndler, it cosied up to this shocking government.
You reap what you sow.
The Liberals should focus on small and medium sized businesses. It owes the large corporates nothing.
“And the 768 people who died in hotel quarantine might still be alive”
Isn’t that more accurately 768 mostly elderly people in aged care died as the result of using private security guards who then spread the disease as they went from casual job to casual job?
Correct.
Do we know who hired the security guards yet?
It was just a creeping decision that no one actually made
lol
Yep. I asked the same question in a reply above, but with less detail.
Good to see the real religions are focused on the real issues:
Faith Communities Call For Historic Investment In Clean Energy And Phase Out Of Fossil Fuels – Religions for Peace Australia
Prominent amongst these garbed clowns:
And, Director of Mission at the Diocese of Newcastle Father Rod Bower, along with Mayfield Mosque’s Imam Mohamed A Mohamed, is leading the call for climate justice.
Faith communities send clean energy message to politicians | Newcastle Weekly
Our old friend Rod Bower and a Mr Mohamed Mohamed? Say it ain’t so!
Father McTilty as per Tim Blair.
“Faith Communities.”
Like in the old Ottoman millet system?
Rod Bower, of course. Obviously suffering relevance deprivation syndrome.
Just following on from the religious kooks protesting about fossils today:
Man-made global warming [AGW] was always a reworking of the Eden myth where the paradise of nature was despoiled by the use of fossil fuels. And just like Eden where God banished Adam and Eve to a harsh unnatural world AGW says the backlash from nature to humanity’s abuse of nature will be equally harsh.
In Christianity there has been a dispute about AGW. On one side is the more progressive forms which accept AGW and interpret the role of Christianity as assisting the people who will be affected by AGW. The 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative for instance regarded the IPCC as foundational in developing its position on AGW; sort of like an updated version of the 10 Commandments.
On the other side has been the traditional Christian view as typified by the Cornwall Alliance. This approach took the literal Biblical view that God is sovereign over creation and therefore humans can do no permanent damage to what God has created. This view also advocates that God entrusted the earth to human dominion and we should not be afraid of economic development or other uses of human creativity
Noah fiddles while creation floods – On Line Opinion – 2/4/2014?
hehe
Down to seven now…
That’s still eight more than most of us have. 😀
The best one yet!!!
That’s off to the pool room with all my other choice memes.
Correct.
In bald political terms, small business is the largest voting and employment bloc in Australia’s outer suburbs — which the Stupid Frigging Liberals deserted when they opted for Green political radicalism under Turnbull and his chosen successor Morrison.
Do the corporates really think they will prosper in a green test tube environment? Are CEOs clear thinkers or just sociopaths who claw their way to the top?
Yes. Collectivist policies create a massive barrier to entry and defeat competition before it arises.
Extra costs are absorbed into higher prices for the consumer.
Big companies love collectivism.
Until the donations start rolling in, at least.
Whoever wrote this appears to have only a second-hand acquaintance – if that – with the opening three chapters of Genesis/B’reshith
(memo to self: Word Press can’t handle Hebrew characters).
I’d put forward the myth of the noble savage as foundational to the AGW dogma.
Adam loved his V8.
Eve loved her Nissan Leaf EV?
Much Green dogma is just anti humanist, anti progress which is why is attaches so readily to most Swampy causes from blaks to Marx. I’m not sure there is much value in seeking to disentangle it. The noble savage certainly gives us much of the Aboriginal Industry (unless you are megafauna).
Petrol is lower than usual at 1.59/L here in Sydney.
“Blimmin’ flip, where’d you put the message stick? We’re out of roo jerky and Albert’s off doing Welcome To Country until mid-Biryang, at least!”
“Auntie Mum, i left it in wankiyi nooki miamia, i swear, it was only on 15% charge.”
“Aah sorry Kevin, here it is, my bad.”
“er, Auntie Mum… i’m Jeremy.”
I’d put forward the myth of the noble savage as foundational to the AGW dogma.
Well elaborate your point. Eden is straightforward: the (Genesis) described paradise based on ignorance until destroyed by knowledge. Compared with the natural paradise until fossils destroyed it as espoused by the alarmists. I think it’s a good comparison.
Business wakes up to risk of Labor, minority alliances
And here’s the rub, business should have been wide awake to the risk of Labor, instead it tried to be wide ‘awoke’ to Labor, the Greens and all the rest of the far-left scum.
Bungonia bee
September 17, 2024 6:56 am
Reply to Beertruk
Meanwhile over at the BBC (the ABC’s idea of what they would wish to be) the NewsHour anchor tried on the “bloodbath” hoax again, in an effort to prove that there is nasty language on both sides. He was quickly corrected by the Republican Senator who he was interviewing. At the same time the Beeb is revealed to have a kiddy porn guy as their top news anchor! Legacy media is certainly bankrupt, has no moral code worth crowing about.
Head over to Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog and read this about TheirTealsGreensALPBC:
DOCUMENTATION
AFR COLUMNIST IN DENIAL ABOUT ONE-TIME ABC CHAIR’S CALL FOR PEDERASTS TO BE UNDERSTOOD
I’d understand 25grams at 2000m/s solving the problem.
Even worse the “top news anchor” got off without any gaol time at all.
Ex BBC presenter Huw Edwards spared jail after pleading guilty to making indecent images (16 Sep)
Six month suspended sentence. Special people are special.
Would like to see in relation to other similar cases. Seems a little light on in an Australian context.
Two-tier justice?
During the Jimmy Savile inquiry it emerged that a BBC reporter had pulled back a curtain in a studio and found Savile in flagrante delictu with a girl of no more than thirteen. His response? He said ‘frightfully sorry old chap’ , closed the curtain and said nothing to anybody. If that wasn’t misprision/concealment of a felony, I don’t know what is. Was the journo charged? Of course not.
Firstly, Eden/paradise wasn’t destroyed, man was banished from it, which is quite significant and different to what was claimed, as is what happens to man after that expulsion.
Acquisition of hitherto forbidden knowledge is certainly central to the original sin that leads to that expulsion, and it tends to be what people focus on, but behind this is an act of rebellion against the creator which results in a reversal of the created order that the first two chapters set out.
The divine order was: God > Man/Woman > creature.
In the temptation account we see that order reversed: a creature tempts the woman who persuades the man to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree in defiance of God’s command. When later questioned by God the man shifts the blames to the woman who in turn blames the creature.
Man and woman are then expelled from the garden paradise lest they eat of the fruit of the tree of life and live forever in this state of rebellion, knowing (defining/redefining) good and evil (very much a contemporary sin!).
Various curbs are put on man’s life outside the garden, but still God does not abandon him but provides for him, beginning with garments of animal skin (the first animal sacrifice). And the divine order still prevails outside the garden, albeit in a fragile state.
There is also a prophecy/promise given, “he (the woman’s seed or offspring) will crush your head, though you will strike his heel.” Christians see this promise as ultimately fulfilled by Christ.
That’s a brief summary. For the rest you should read the whole of the Hebrew scriptures and note how these themes of rebellion/sin and sacrifice run though it (cf tabernacle and temple where animal sacrifices took place) and progressively lead to the New Testament where the promise of Genesis 3:15 is fulfilled (“It is finished.”).
Interpreting this story in the simplistic the way the author mentioned did is a crime against hermeneutics & the text! Maybe he should plead ignorance.
Excellent summary, Roger.
‘Nuther one.
Europe’s EV troubles bubble up at Brussels Audi factory (TechXplore, 16 Sep)
Yep, they sure did.
It’s not just electrification, and it isn’t just the manufacturing side.
Due to ever increasing emissions and safety legislation, cars have to be so complex that now no bastard wants to work on the things.
Mechanics are now “technicians”.
If you were a 17 year old bloke with an interest in cars, you would think pretty hard before committing yourself to a career working in an industry that is currently held hostage by governments around the world.
No one can be sure what vehicles in 5 or 7 years time will mostly be fuelled by.
Do you commit yourself to a diesel certificate?
Petrol? Electric? Do you commit yourself to the training required to work on hybrids?
And you can’t just be a mechanic anymore. You have to have the certification for the stuff you work on.
And even the most simple jobs are now complex. Working in a tyre shop used to be a basic job. But cars roll in with tyre pressure sensors. With expensive wheels that cost more than the bloke working on them earns in a day.
We have made automotive technology so complex, so difficult and so expensive that no one wants to work on the things.
This will only get worse.
And we haven’t even touched on computers and diagnostics or the cost of the tools required just to work on the average car.
At the same time, the general public’s expectations are much higher today than ever before, while what workshops, insurers and dealers are prepared to pay out is lower for a set job.
The missus just came in saying she’ll never vote for Vik Libs ever again !
Pesutto on tape saying women’s concerns aren’t mainstream
… er … read the room numb-nuts
Rule of thumb.
Mutley’s 101 rule of how to alienate half your potential voter’s and the SFL’S are fine with that.
Karim Chawki?
Call me prejudiced, but looks like they really screwed up when they screwed wages down to Turkish Journeyman levels.
A proper Kraut would never slag off his employer like that, let alone consider a strike.
TheirABC continues to promote victimitude:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/public-housing-suicide-jordie-hume/104353764
Look, I am genuinely sorry that this dude topped himself, his family loved him, it’s a bad result.
But, TheirABC is full-on with blaming the public housing system.
The person missing from this story is the taxpayer. The taxpayer who was no doubt providing income, other benefits, and housing to this guy for many years. The assumption is that this should continue indefinitely, no matter what happens.
He was violent, lit fires, scared his neighbours and didn’t pay his (nominal) rent. Given the shortage of public housing, what were they supposed to do?
The story is all about his ‘concerned’ family, but I notice that none of them wanted him living with them.
A year ago the stories were all about ‘single mothers’ who had made bad choices and were now homeless. Perhaps there was a backlash.
Here’s the thing.
There are plenty of worthy hard luck stories out there. But, TheirABC always picks on one where claims of (institutional) something or other can be thrown into the mix. Invisible but pervasive racism, sexism, whatever.
Scum.
Interesting…Daniel Andrews and the Great Coverup were front and centre in The Australian this morning – now have disappeared!
The Herald-Sun is still covering the story….
As with the ALPBC, what is not in the News is often more important than what is. Grauniad-on-the-Yarra?
Are they concerned that public discussion could prejudice a subsequent trial of some kind? To the extent of precluding the trial? There’s possibly a few Victorian judges who would accept such a submission.
What is a ‘ticketless’ parking fine?
One where you eventually get a fine in the mail, but don’t get a “ticket” on the windscreen.
Sometimes it is quite a shock. Earlier this year we received a parking fine from a Gold Coast Council. Now we havnt ben in the Gold Coast for years. It was a huge deal in getting it investigated. A sympathetic NSW RTA worker obtained a photograph of the vehicle that was booked. The number plate on the vehicle did not correlate with the plates on our car! Nevertheless, it took some considerable effort and a letter and photograph of our number plate to have the fine cancelled.
The bureaucratic state this days………
Oic, thank you. I can see the problems.
To challenge:
No penalty or sanction to them for getting it wrong, except they get a paid day hanging around the courthouse, gossiping, texting, patronizing coffee shops.
Innocent motorist loses a day’s work, has to put in lots of legwork to prove they were elsewhere (or whatever), foots their own bills, & no recompense in the event the Magistrate bothers to pay attention to the details & actually decides to find in your favour.
More on Desperate Dan…
No mention of the story on Sky News.
And of course ABC does not run the Dan story.
But there is this on Geoff Clark, who is now getting into his first week in jail:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/how-operation-omega-brought-down-former-atsic-head-geoff-clark/104352244
Kerrie Judd appointed vic Supreme Court Judge.
Appointment announced by Anne Ferguson, responsible for one of the most incompetent judgements in Australian legal history.
Judd’s performance in the High Court in the Pell case would have to rank as not only one of the most dishonest but as one of the most incompetent displays in the history of Australian law. (I watched some of it to while away the time during the COVID lockdown.) As Frank Brennan pointed out, HC judges do not use words like ‘specious’ lightly when drafting their judgements, get that is what they called one of Judd’s arguments.
And the Pell case is only one of many dubious decisions she has made (Red Shirts, nolle prosequi against Hylton Sedgman of the Ballarat government orphanage, nolle prosequi against Setka, no charges in the Gobbo affair: the list goes on).
Pass the sick bags please!
Kerrie Judd appointed vic Supreme Court Judge.
You are joking?
Light crude oil price in Asia down to ~US$65 a few weeks ago, plus low refinery margins.
Eventually the price gets passed through.
Can someone summarize Judd’s real bio. I’ve never heard of her.
Interpreting this story in the simplistic the way the author mentioned did is a crime against hermeneutics & the text! Maybe he should plead ignorance.
The alarmists did it! Actually, as I mentioned before there is a major dichotomy in religion about alarmism and indeed all the woke issues and I linked to an essay about it which I’ll do again:
Noah fiddles while creation floods – On Line Opinion – 2/4/2014
The correct biblical description of Eden has been lost in the wokeness of religion and that is the main point.
Can someone summarize Judd’s real bio. I’ve never heard of her.
The lynching of George Pell.
The real legal brains on the HC bench dealt with Judd. She was made a fool of, and rightly so.
Thanks Cassie.
What would need to happen for there to be a double dissolution election?By James MassolaWhile the PM may have left open the door to a double dissolution election, the chances of it actually happening are essentially zero given the tight time frames.
To obtain a trigger for a double dissolution, the same piece of unamended legislation has to be voted down in the parliament twice. In practice, that means the housing bill would have to be voted down now and then again on December 18 this year – which would mean recalling the Senate for a special sitting. That’s unlikely to happen.
Then there is a further hurdle – a double dissolution can’t be held within six months of when a regular election is due, and it will be three years since the last poll on May 21, 2025, which is five and a bit months after a theoretical second defeat of the housing bill in the Senate in December.
While it is possible for the parliamentary term to run a bit beyond three years exactly, in practice the window would seem to have closed on a double dissolution.
Pity – the prospect of Albo getting booted out, in a landslide, Gough Whitlam style, appealed to my nasty, cruel little mind.
Clark’s defence tried to paint their client as a community-minded man trying to progress and fight for his people but who was continually shut down and persecuted by a white system of justice.
From Top Ender’s link. Play the race card…
Help me out.
What was the name of the woman who led the Business Council and was spokesperson for decades. Beloved of the ABC, friends with Labor and the ACTU.
It took a long time for a reaction to develop against her dragging business left.
From memory she obtained a trougher position when she retired.
I can’t find her on the web.
Jennifer Westacott.
Woof, woof ..! 1st bike ride (about 15kms) in 8 months following wearing a catheter & Prostate/Cancer surgery 2 weeks ago ……… took a coupla kms to remember my gear sequence(s) .. mainly on local bike tracks & a park that has a 1km walk/ride circuit (5x) ..
?Went well not even puffed ..
?Still “leaking” but have improvised a method to control seepage ( new born baby nappies come in very useful) .. LOL!
For my op (prostatectomy – your too?) I was advised – by physio, surgeon, nurses – to take things easy for a few weeks, walking being the best. Did they suggest that to you? Biking maybe should be left out for a while, especially with the saddle digging into the recently violated parts.
And for those of us who luv our “round ball” fitba .. Mariners play tonight .. 1st game in the new Asia Champions League .. 8.00pm Paramount ..
Smurfs (Sydney Utd) play in the 2nd div pool Thursday night ..
I see WP has been laundering Routh’s pro-Ukrainian past under the term ‘quixotic’.
From the Herald-Sun’s True Crime article – still up on its website – 12 questions for Desperate Dan to answer:
12 UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS1.Who was the driver of the vehicle?
2.What intervention occurred to ensure that no further police action or investigation occurred?
3.Were the Andrews at the sailing club for lunch as advised by Daniel to witness Jane Crittenden or at the beach as later asserted?
4.What phone calls or other communication was sent or received to impact on the legitimate outcome of the investigation?
5.Why did the senior constable jump the call to take over when another unit had already been allocated the call and was en route?
6.Why was the incident written off at 6.21pm that same evening with only 35 minutes in possible examination of the scene?
7.Why was the surname Kesik recorded on the TIS report and the government insurance records?
8.Why were none of the official protocols and policies followed?
9.If the SUV had commenced from a standing start, and only travelled a few metres and the brakes were immediately applied on impact, how come it took 19.2m to stop?
10.Why cross examine the victim, Ryan, at length and not challenge Catherine and Daniel Andrews version of events?
11.Why take a photo of the vehicle later at 29 Ridley Street and not in situ at the scene?
12.Who authorised Daniel Andrews to remove the unroadworthy vehicle to be driven from the scene?
Over at Quadrant:
Political Compassion Ladies
Tim Blair
According to cinema legend, the most frightening element of the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist wasn’t anything to do with the film’s terrifying visuals.
Sure, viewers were traumatised by the graphic depiction of a little girl possessed by Satan, particularly when actress Linda Blair’s head rotation kicked in. But far scarier for 1970s audiences, apparently, were some peculiar sound effects layered over early, otherwise innocuous scenes.
Director William Friedkin aimed to unsettle viewers by using sounds derived from the buzzing of bees. “You don’t know why you’re uncomfortable,” an analysis of the film by Entertainment Weekly once reported, “but your fight-or-flight instinct tells you something dangerous is near.”
It sure did. Popular opinion at the time held that more people fled cinema showings of The Exorcist during those bee-sound scenes than later on when the full demonic monty was on display.
Perhaps fight-or-flight responses have become dulled over the years, or your correspondent’s hearing is failing, but a recent viewing of Friedkin’s terror epic failed to rouse any apiarian chills. Or perhaps The Exorcist, now more than fifty years post its initial release, simply isn’t hitting the right fright buttons in 2024.
No matter. If it’s primal panic you crave, just tap into my own personal reservoir of dread. Even the most intense and amplified insect attack noises are as nothing compared to the paralysing tones generated by Political Compassion Ladies.
You’ve seen and heard many of them over the years. Former Democrat leader turned Labor failure Cheryl Kernot was a prototypical Political Compassion Lady, but even with all her empathetic smiles and expressions of concern, Kernot’s been blasted aside by the compassion monsters who’ve emerged in her wake.
People ran from cinemas in the 1970s, driven to madness by Friedkin’s uncredited insect performers. Similarly, I fled the living room on July 1 when new Governor-General Samantha Mostyn delivered a genuinely harrowing swearing-in speech.
“These testing times call for an unstinting focus on kindness, on care and on respect,” our national Political Compassion Lady said. Kindness! Care! Respect! Even a few nearby bees, resting on the window sill between pollen excursions, immediately sprinted skywards.
But Mostyn wasn’t done. Soon followed a compassion avalanche in which our nation’s entire history was recast by the Governor-General as 236 years of ceaseless and senseless concern.
“Care has a deep and resonant place in our Australian identity,” she claimed, malevolently. “Care is the gentle thought and the outstretched hand that Australians have always been ready to share when great challenges present themselves.”
This opinion is open to debate. When great challenges have presented themselves, at least in the form of wartime Germans, Japanese and others seeking our destruction, the typical response from normal Australians was to shoot them.
Likewise, gentle thoughts aren’t much use when you’re trapped in a collapsed coal mine or beneath what had become of your home after Cyclone Tracy. And I’m not sure what distant era Ms Mostyn might be living in, but an outstretched hand these days usually ends up with someone copping a MeToo employment departure penalty.
“Care,” Mostyn concluded, “is the quieter, better part of ourselves.” Good. Maybe she’ll take her own advice and stop talking about it.
New Zealand certainly punches above its weight when it comes to not punching anybody and delicate avoidance of weight shaming. The joint was woke before woke was even known. As you’d expect, then, recent times have suited New Zealand well.
If the Covid virus was indeed designed in a Chinese laboratory, those commie scientists seemingly did so with a view to perfectly complementing Covid-era NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s complete compassion skill set.
Of course, she ended up just about crushing the place with love. Non-compliant citizens were effectively corralled within caring and compassionate freedom cages. And then there was Ardern’s skeleton-shattering Kiwi iksent, a sonic version of Guantanamo Bay waterboarding.
Listening to Ardern and her fellow Wellington-based oppressors throughout Covid lockdowns would’ve exceeded even the late director Friedkin’s appetite for torture. Not for nothing is New Zealand’s parliament known as the Beehive.
Kiwis eventually grew tired of being treated as delicate special-needs children by overprotective mother Jacinda, and turned against their formerly adored leader. Revelling in a freedom of decision-making long denied to her countrymen, Ardern quit as PM before she could be thrown out.
At which point it seemed that New Zealand’s pre-eminent Political Compassion Lady ordeal was over. But we soon learned that the country’s gain was the rest of the world’s loss, for Ardern is taking her love and tenderness show on the road.
“Dame Jacinda Ardern has announced a new initiative for global political leaders on leading with kindness and empathy,” a site called Women’s Agenda reported in June, “with the 12-month program designed to ‘rehumanise leadership’ in politics.”
Two points: yes, Ardern is now a dame. She says she felt “conflicted” about the honour, and believe me you do not want to hear exactly how she pronounced that poor word.
Second, why would any prospective politicians want to take instruction from someone who couldn’t properly manage a country the size of Parramatta for even two full terms and then bolted when opinion polls went south?
For what it’s worth, Ardern’s new empathy project is called Field, which in her words “will create a network of like minded political leaders who use pragmatic idealism, speak to people with hope and optimism rather than fear or blame, and want to unite, rather than divide as we look to solve the challenges ahead”.
It’s a mini-United Nations, then, with NZ’s sainted Ivory Mama at the helm.
As this column was written, it appeared that US Vice-President Kamala Harris would take over from Joe Biden as her party’s presidential nominee. Some people—sexists, probably—may assume that merely because Harris is female, she too will exhibit the typical traits of your Political Compassion Lady.
Happily, this is not the case. Harris seems to operate on a different level altogether. Unless “Compassion” is a Californian brand of legal hashish, Harris isn’t on it at all. Judge for yourself, from a prime sample of glorious Kamala-speak: “The significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do … and there is such great significance to the passage of time.”
As something of an expert in the occult—as noted above, I once saw a movie about it—I believe what we have here isn’t a case of excess compassion. Instead, we may have a case of demonic possession.
Call for the priests and holy water if you wish, but first ask yourself this: wouldn’t you really rather an actual tool of Satan be in charge than yet another one of those damned sympathy sheilas?
“It has become clear,” UK Daily Telegraph columnist Matthew Lynn wrote in July, “that the EV industry is on the brink of collapse.
“Hundreds of billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been pumped into this industry by political leaders and the subsidy junkies that surround them—and it is surely time they were held to account for the vast quantities of taxpayer cash that has been wasted.”
I very much agree, if by “held to account” Lynn means “forced to supply cheap domestic labour to their moral and genetic superiors”.
With my bad luck, though, I’d probably end up with someone like Paul Barry, the soon-to-be-former host of the ABC’s Media Watch. He probably wouldn’t be much use cleaning the gutters, but he sure is a helpful little culture warrior when it comes to EVs.
The other week, Barry became upset by geologist Ian Plimer’s claim during a typically entertaining Sky TV appearance that an EV couldn’t easily handle the 600-kilometre run from Adelaide to Broken Hill. “It’s actually 516 kilometres from Adelaide to Broken Hill,” prissy Barry sniffed, “and plenty of EVs can travel 600 kms or more without charge if needed.”
Barry then presented a chart listing EVs and their respective ranges. It’s the strangest thing, but self-proclaimed “investigative journalist” Barry gave his professional scepticism a break during this assignment. The numbers he presented were estimates derived from protocols supported by EV manufacturers. Paul Barry was blindly accepting claims from Big Business. The peak range estimate, as it happens, was 654 kilometres for a Polestar 2 variant worth some $94,000.
But a real-world analysis by tester Tim Eden for the specialist EV website The Driven found that a Polestar 2 has a highway range of just 450 kilometres—crucially short of Broken Hill. If he was sticking around at the ABC, Barry should be compelled to drive one of these devices to that remote and charming mining city.
And to walk any remaining distance. But let’s not force the issue. Maybe Paul would prefer a shot at those gutters anyway.
Timmeh holds the dubious distinction of including the highest number of cliches per piece of any blogger extant. But he knows a turkey when he sees one…..
Tropes not cliches.
You need to know the difference Numbers.
Oi! The numerical one was a teacher, doncha know.
Thanks, TE. Blair is a joy to read — a master of language without the flowery bullshit.
Blair is a national treasure. One of the most gifted columnists going around. The description of Kernot was wonderful.
Could some wag do a reprise of the Dead Parrot Sketch as The Dead President Sketch.
”…you stunned him just as he was wakin’ up, President Bidens stun easily..”
He’s just resting, pining for the holiday beach.
Mate this President wouldn’t VOOM if you put forty thousand volts through him.
Just like the Nazi Party in the 30’s the modern day Nazis in the Party of Demons uses assassination, censorship , state security apparatus and a tyrannical justice system to silence and eliminate their opponents. The citizens are fed 24/7 propaganda by owned and corrupt media outlets.
The Democrats are the enemies of the US people. Let’s all hope that ruthless justice is heaped on them. A Nuremberg style reckoning is only fitting.
…or a helicopter somewhere in their future beckons.
Tim Blair on fire @ 01:47 from Top Ender’s post.
Ardern is now a dame. She says she felt “conflicted” about the honour, and believe me you do not want to hear exactly how she pronounced that poor word.
I hate to hear her neigh that word.
I wonder if Netanyahu will sack Gallant and replace him with Sa’ar? Certainly a lot of talk about this overnight.
Yes, there has been. Gallant though has been going against the flow – he was recently outvoted in the cabinet 8:1 iirc.
Next up is a war with the Hezbies. I take it to mean the IDF are prepared and ready.
Jimmy Savile could not be reached for comment.
Has he used up his telephone calls for the week? The good ship Beeb sails on.
No problem seeing where they’re heading. We’ll be the cattle by that point.
All UK Airports to close by 2029 & Beef and Lamb to be banned for Human Consumption to meet Climate Scam Targets according to UK Gov. Report
Haha – Eddie McGuire gives the AFL a serve about the $20K fine on Ken Hinkley and a good backhander to the Vic justice system on repeated youth crims. From the Hun….
Eddie McGuire has drawn a comparison between the AFL’s punitive measures against Ken Hinkley and Victoria’s youth crime crisis.
McGuire disagreed with the AFL fining Hinkley $20,000 for sledging Jack Ginnivan on Friday night, suggesting Hinkley would’ve escaped with a lighter penalty if he had driven to Melbourne to break into Ginnivan’s home.
“My recommendation is for Ken next time, don’t stand 25-30m away in the middle of a football ground and do this one, don’t do that at all,’’ he said on the Eddie and Jimmy podcast.
“Come to Melbourne, go to Jack Ginnivan’s house, invade it with a machete, do that because you don’t get fined at all for that. Or maybe bring the whole (of) Port Adelaide over and cause $30m worth of attacks on police for no reason and no one cares.
At the risk of agreeing with Eddie, he’s right.
It took him long enough to work out what is going on.
Of course.
Scientists warn of risks of Blood Transfusions from COVID-19 Vaccinated people
“Safe and effective”.
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Look what they’ve unearthed about Biden. Reagan certainly had his measure.
With Gad Saad
Wokeness is a Mind Disease but it Can be Beaten-Full
U.K.
Labour Begins to Reap