Brace yourself! LISTEN REPUBLICANS (WE’RE LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY)
Open Thread – Thurs 19 Sept 2024
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Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Good moaning.
Seems to be all sorts of electronic devices belonging to Hezbollah members, going ka-boom.
This operation is a whole lot more complex than a batch of tampered pagers.
Walkie talkie explosions continue the command chaos for Hezbollah.
If I was a Hez leader I would be ditching my laptop.
Or consider early retirement.
Might be some comms checking going on in Iran.
Can’t be said enough, amazing work by the good guys.
Added benefit is that Greens MPs and Senators will be mourning the loss of their terrorist friends.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
So now that Rex is out of the picture, Qantas jacks up prices. Surprise surprise. How is this not evidence that they are price gouging? They should be forced to offer flights at the old prices. Of course, they are not truly a private company but a government monopoly.
Ouch.
“We know from Hezbollah themselves that these were 5000 devices on a secure network that had explosives hidden inside & bought by Hezbollah for their own operatives, and solely their own operatives.
Not civilians, active members of Hezbollah with pagers for secure communications.”
https://x.com/OzKaterji/status/1836427377338970135?t=uegbCzIlutsBsLSlR21gHg&s=19
“All types of electric devices owned by Hezbollah operatives are now blowing up in Lebanon and the region.
Apart from pagers and walkie-talkies, other devices such as fingerprint devices, solar power systems and radios are now exploding too”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1836423700301685131?t=yoDNaYA12yRX5VpENCu7sg&s=19
“In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.”
Back to bicycle messengers.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836481251374666063?t=IjZ96VW6MkjH-Z0c9uQ6Gg&s=19
“This morning, Hezbollah switched their comms from pagers to walkies and then launched dozens of rockets at Israeli civilians.
Clearly didn’t learn a lesson from yesterday’s massive counter-terrorism action. But it turns out that Israel had already intercepted their shipment of walkies and rigged those too.”
Apparently bought all their comms equipment from an Israeli shell company, all preloaded.
https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1836426738307600882?t=1wNXbdfJ5DQp0HgLnQ9MuA&s=19
“Lebanese here. When will these crazy Europeans stop telling us what is right and what is wrong and how our region should be or look like?
Hezbollah is a tyrant organization that has killed more Lebanese and Syrians than anybody else.”
Also read that Syrian opposition fighters were handing out baklava to celebrate yesterday’s attack.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation.
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836430720962613250?t=IxnGiJxn5aq3c_lntW7vew&s=19
“Residents in Northern Israel are reporting a Significant Movement of Israeli Military Equipment, including Tanks and Artillery, towards the Border with Lebanon”
True?
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836448600278339669?t=fy5rqm4i24SNN8JM9rbFbA&s=19
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/united-states/2024/09/18/us-officials-don-t-believe-israel-is-preparing-to-invade-lebanon
Might be paywalled
A Look at Hezbollah and What a Wider War Would Mean for Lebanon https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war-impact.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Today’s Paywallion (edited to remove links hoping it wont go into moderation) :
Divisiveness and dishonesty will unseat the teals
Peta Credlin
19 Sep 2024
The conventional wisdom, that Peter Dutton can’t win next year’s election in his own right, assumes it’s impossible for the Opposition Leader both to win sufficient aspirational seats off Labor and to regain the seven formerly Liberal seats lost to the teals.
The Coalition’s cost-of-living pitch to win seats off Labor, it is thought, will not go over well in the teal seats, where well-to-do voters can afford to maintain luxury beliefs such as putting emissions reduction ahead of reducing power bills.
But this misunderstands what actually happened in 2022. The Liberals did not lose the teal seats because very large numbers of Liberal voters have permanently abandoned their longstanding preference for the party of freedom and free enterprise in favour of virtual Greens.
What the ANU’s Australian Electoral Study shows, in the most well-respected and in-depth analysis of the 2022 federal election result, is that only one in five people who voted teal had voted Liberal at the previous election; meaning four out of five did not. These weren’t disaffected Liberals – they were never Liberals in the first place. What helped them win was a sophisticated psephological strategy that depended on Labor running dead in seats with strong “independent” candidates, who then harvested Greens and Labor preferences, plus the votes of a much smaller number of discontented Liberals, to get ahead of the sitting Liberal MP.
The question, then, is what factors were at work to depress the Liberal vote back then; and are they likely to be replicated next year?
In 2022, the Coalition had been in office for nine years, had emulated Labor’s political cannibalism with a revolving door prime ministership, had dismayed traditional Liberals by massive spending and unprecedented restrictions on daily life in an over-reaction to the Covid pandemic, and had generally conducted themselves as a Labor-lite government, at least after Tony Abbott was deposed as leader.
As well, the voters who had been prepared to give Scott Morrison the benefit of the doubt in 2019, when Labor was promising extra taxes on investors and retirees, had a very different view after three years of his prime ministership and Labor was pretending to be a safe change.
While it’s true that there has been a long-term tendency, across the Anglosphere, for richer and more educated people to vote more to the left, and for poorer people to vote more to the right, a key factor in the teals’ favour was Morrison’s personal unpopularity and the fact that voting teal was a way to punish a disappointing government without actually voting Labor.
If only half of the 2022 Liberal defectors were long-term political emigrants to the left, as opposed to one-off malcontents who could come back, given that most of the teal seats are held with margins of under 5 per cent, there’s every reason to think that some will indeed return, at least with the right candidates. These are unlikely to be hardline conservatives or factional time-servers, but could be the kind of centre-right high achiever who used to abound in Liberal preselections before the party became so factionalised.
After all, if better-off voters want to register their disapproval of a government that pretended to be in the tradition of Bob Hawke but has governed more in the style of Gough Whitlam – by giving in to unions, breaking promises on tax cuts, weakening national security, and running an out-of-control immigration program, including gifting visas to people from Gaza without any serious security checks – they can’t do so by voting teal. If anything, in the event of a hung parliament, teal candidates will almost certainly line up behind the green-left Albanese government. So, the only way to register a protest against a bad Labor government is to vote Liberal, not teal.
In 2022, the teals’ pitch to previously Liberal voters was that they were the candidates that the Liberals should have had, were it not for the malign influence of vested interests, factions, and politics as usual.
In fairness to the candidates whom Simon Holmes a Court and his Climate 200 cohorts were politically savvy enough to endorse, they all had strong CVs, and looked reasonably representative of the progressive professionals who disproportionately live in up-market seats; without seeming like climate fanatics. But that’s not how they’ve turned out. In fact, based on their voting records, and on their public demands, they’ve been far more left-wing than Labor.
Based on public data produced by the Parliamentary Library, the teals’ closest political collaborators are not the Labor Party (they’ve voted with Labor about 70 per cent of the time on substantive matters before the parliament) but the Greens. On substantive bills before the parliament, they’ve voted with the Greens almost 80 per cent of the time.
What’s more, the teals’ most recent major public statement has been to attack the Albanese government for reneging on its commitment to declare a 2035 emissions-reduction target pre-election; and also to demand that the government commit to a full 75 per cent target in just over a decade. Sure, especially in teal seats, quite a few Liberal voters think that climate change is a key issue. But are they really going to stick with teal MPs who want to go further than Labor, especially given that Dutton is committed to net zero by 2050 and has a credible plan to get there, while keeping the lights on, by using nuclear power?
Now that they’ve been in the public eye for some time, the teals’ real political orientation is much clearer. It’s not just that they want stronger action on climate change than that proposed by the Morrison government; they also want stronger action than that proposed by the Albanese government, as well. Reading their parliamentary maiden speeches, for instance, they weren’t just supporters of the Indigenous voice but enthusiastic and passionate backers of the full Uluru – Voice, Treaty, Truth – agenda; and their enthusiasm for Indigenous separatism and their belief that Australian society is deeply flawed doesn’t seem to have been reconsidered in the light of the voice’s overwhelming defeat.
On this issue, too, they don’t just want stronger action than that proposed by the Morrison government but stronger action than that now proposed by the Albanese one.
Then there’s the shop-soil factor that afflicts all MPs, especially those who enter the parliament claiming to be morally better than everyone else. For someone accustomed to decry bad behaviour in the parliament, Zali Steggall’s recent slur, that Peter Dutton was somehow being “racist”, was especially unworthy. So, too, the continued claims of a “misogynistic” parliament. Sorry, girls, parliament is adversarial and that’s not the same thing. The battle of ideas is fundamental to our democracy, and to try to shame MPs into some sort of forced consensus because you don’t like having to argue your case or defend positions only underscores a lack of values and conviction.
My instinct is that, in the longer run, voters prefer politicians who are honest about where they stand and who are clearly different from their competitors. Labor-lite Liberals generally end up alienating traditional Liberal voters without winning over Labor ones. After all, voters normally prefer the genuine article to pretenders trying to be all things to everyone.
Interviewers with pager victims, vowing to take the fight to Israel.
Unlike Hamas who would parade an endless array of innocent civilians.
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836469406504780046?t=MHdtK0R8EfTzUeAihDOgMQ&s=19
More on TheirTealsGreensALPBC in today’s Tele:
ABC’S PLEASE EXPLAIN
JAMES WILLIS
19 Sep 2024
The ABC has been ordered to provide answers to the federal government over claims the sound of gunshots was added to a story about possible war crimes by Australian soldiers.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland yesterday said she would seek a briefing from the public broadcaster over the allegation, describing it as a “very serious issue that does need to be addressed in a transparent way.”
A spokesperson for Ms Rowland said wanted a briefing “on the outcome of the ABC’s investigation into the circumstances around the editing of the audio.”
Almost a week after discovering the issue, the ABC is yet to explain how the sound of five gunshots was added to the 2022 online story, simply stating that journalists Mark Willacy, Jo Puccini and Josh Robertson “had no role in the production and editing.”
They were also forced to remove two other war crimes stories from the internet last year, after being successfully sued for defamation by retired Special Forces Commander Heston Russell, who was awarded almost $400,000.
It can also be revealed that Willacy, who has published dozens of reports about Australian soldiers attached to Task Force 66, was invited to a meeting with senior war crimes investigators in 2021.
Details of the meeting between Willacy and the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) were tendered last year to the Federal Court.
Willacy briefed the government investigators on his research, including his belief that Russell had been seen in Afghanistan “shooting out of helicopters at civilians.”
“Willacy states they’re (ABC) working on further Russell stories including the one where he’s shooting out of the helicopter” the OSI’s notes read.
“The vision that Willacy has, it’s been told to him it is Russell and you can see a civilian on the ground.
“Willacy claims he has two sources that identify it as him.”
The allegation later became part of the ABC’s truth defence after the former soldier launched legal action.
However, that defence was dropped when Russell provided raw footage of the mission in question, which clearly showed another Australian soldier fired just one warning shot from the helicopter.
It is the same footage which is now the subject of an investigation, following claims by Channel 7 that the sound of five gunshots had been added.
Facebook.
HEZBOLLAH CYBERATTACK: Famed Syrian-Druze journalist, Faisal Al-Qassem, who has millions of followers on social media, including a program on Al-Jazeera, wrote the following about the blow Hezbollah suffered today:
* “What happened to Hezbollah today can be classified as the largest preemptive strike in modern history. It can be compared to Israel’s preemptive strike on the Egyptian Air Force before the Six-Day War. Today, Hezbollah has thousands of paralyzed members among its senior leaders and operatives.”
* “If Hezbollah enters a war now, its wounded will not find a single available bed in Lebanon’s hospitals, as they are currently full of casualties. Worse yet, Hezbollah has lost its most important security and military communication devices. Checkmate.”
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836469406504780046?t=MHdtK0R8EfTzUeAihDOgMQ&s=19
The hezbies might be a tad short-handed to use the Deliver By Safe Hands option.
Bolta in today’s Tele:
ISRAEL DESERVES PRAISE FOR STUNNING HIT ON HEZBOLLAH
Andrew Bolt
19 Sep 2024
What? No applause for these pager-bomb attacks? For Israel launching the cleanest attack you’ve seen on an enemy hiding among civilians?
Some credit, please, for Israel blowing up 4000 Hezbollah terrorists and supporters all at once, with just one civilian supposedly killed.
But, no, the response to this brilliant pager plot tells much about Israel’s critics.
At 3.30pm local time on Tuesday in Lebanon pagers went off in thousands of pockets. And after half a dozen beeps – bang!
Oops, the Taiwanese-licensed pagers that Hezbollah had issued to its men, scared Israel was monitoring its phones, had been rigged, possibly with an explosive charge designed to kill the bearer but not people around them.
CCTV and social media clips show the result. Men of military age out shopping, or on scooters, or in their cars, or apparently standing next to Iran’s ambassador in Lebanon, dead, or maimed – many around their manhood. People around them stunned but apparently uninjured.
A hospital in Beirut was quickly thronged by cars bringing in wounded men, including that ambassador – bloodied proof that Iran is too close, literally, to the Hezbollah terrorists who’ve fired thousands of rockets into Israel, forcing 60,000 Israelis to evacuate the north.
There are claims of 11 dead so far in Lebanon, and several more in neighbouring Syria. Lebanon says of the 4000 wounded, 400 are in a critical condition.
No other country I know has pulled off a kill as perfectly targeted, but no Israeli act of self defence is pure enough for its critics.
Most reports I’ve seen mentioned the one alleged civilian death – an eight-year-old girl, says Hezbollah – before mentioning any of the thousands of terrorists maimed or killed. Is Israel, and only Israel, banned from hurting thousands of its attackers if even a single civilian is hit, too?
Hezbollah meanwhile exploited the western media’s very partial sensibility by playing the deadcivilians card Hamas has also used against Israel, with devastating success.
The United Nations also went into its familiar spiel whenever Israel defends itself. “These developments are extremely concerning,” complained spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. “We, of course, deplore the civilian casualties.”
See how it works? If the UN can’t give Israel a pass even on a strike as surgical at this, then the mask is off. The problem is not how Israel defends itself, but that it defends itself at all.
But make no mistake. This strike is a stunning success. Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists have been put out of action.
Israelis, meanwhile, will gain heart. Their confidence in their army and intelligence agencies seem shattered on October 7, but Israel has since assassinated the top Hamas leader by planting a bomb under his bed in Tehran, blown up Iran’s top military official in Beirut, and sent in a ground unit to destroy an underground Iranian missile factory in Syria.
Israel’s warriors are back in form, and their critics can only howl at a prey that’s escaped again.
Large scale frosting event through NSW on Sunday and Monday.
Our neighbour has a very early barley crop and it’s already turning white. Any damage to canola will manifest next week in the form of dead seed pods with wheat needing close inspection to ascertain how many potential grains per head have been knocked out, we are at mid flowering which is a critical time.
I took a piece of equipment to my Walgett client’s farm on Sunday and Monday morning saw a frost there as well, the only crop affected will be the chickpeas which are mid flowering.
Also much consternation around Griffith regarding the grape vines which are just budding.
We have been told for years that farming would become more difficult because we would be living in a man made global warmed hellscape.
James Allan on fire in The Speccie. Doubtful that the Lieborals are listening though.
This Bill is a disgraceLibs must fight now for free speech. Or lose the election.
James Allan
Look, I realise that this Albanese government is adopting policies that give every impression that it wants to destroy our agricultural sector. And its intentions as regards our mining sector may be even worse, despite Big Mining basically keeping this country afloat. Albo et al. are changing labour relations laws to make way worse what at least half-worked. (There was at least some flexibility, though not nearly as much as you’d find in virtually all other Anglophone countries’ labour relations laws. Canadians like me are staggered when they arrive here and learn that two-bit, pseudo-bureaucrat tribunals overseeing a 120-year-old outdated labour law system abandoned everywhere else – jettisoned even by New Zealand in the 1980s – have a hefty hand in deciding on, and imposing, wages and conditions that result in thousands of pages of rigid rules that even the ABC, the two big grocers, charities and the most left-wing employers you can imagine cannot help but breach on occasion. Good luck trying to design a more productivity-killing labour relations system than Australia’s.)
Meanwhile Team Albo thinks it’s a virtue that government spending is so high it’s the only thing keeping us out of a recession. (Why not then just jack government spending up to 80 per cent of GDP, Mr Chalmers, if this is some good in itself?) And this in the context of six quarters of GDP per person decline – a massive recession at the level that matters: how each individual is doing. The idiocy of the Keynesian outlook that focuses on the fictional unit of ‘the entire economy’ and hence can go up simply by importing per capita world’s highest numbers of immigrants, all while making individuals poorer and poorer, has never been clearer. Throw in lingering and impoverishing inflation. Add in what are virtually the democratic world’s highest electricity prices and highest minimum wage laws. Mix all this with an out-of-control NDIS welfare scheme gone mad. Then remember our woeful labour relations system, more dreadful productivity statistics, and an education system that aims to indoctrinate while delivering results that five years ago had us behind Kazakhstan only for us today to aspire to those outcomes. And finish it all off with the remnant effects of the thuggish, authoritarian lockdowns that have produced citizens who think they are entitled to work from home, who think government can just dole out money for nothing, who have been immunised against the huge costs of ever-increasing government spending, and who (for many) simply do not trust the elites because, as the great Stanford University epidemiologist Professor Jay Bhattacharya has said repeatedly, ‘governments were the biggest source of misinformation and disinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic’. (Remember that for what comes below.)
It’s not a pretty picture. So you can see why some people might be tempted to focus on those pocketbook issues and ignore what is happening on the free speech front. It is imperative, however, that we all must resist that temptation, especially Team Dutton.
Exhibit A is the revamped Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill that Team Albo delayed at the end of last year. Be clear. In terms of free speech this revamped Bill is even worse than the truly awful earlier version. In the guise of ‘keeping Australians safe’ (and tell me the Liberal MPs who showed basically zero concern for free speech all through the Morrison years will not succumb to this Orwellian propaganda) it will bring about a truly chilling effect on free speech. I have never seen anything like it in an advanced Anglosphere country. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) gets huge power over social media platforms. The pretence is that Acma won’t be able to take down content but it will be able to impose huge fines on them – so the Bill basically forces social media platforms to act as government censors or close down in Oz. The definition of ‘serious harm’ is now so wide it envelopes ‘harms’ to the Commonwealth, plausibly covers opinions the boffins just don’t agree with, and certainly includes opinions about public health and the economy. I’d say this Bill would cover basically all of the disagreements about government policy that swirled around during the pandemic – all those many claims that were sceptical of government’s thuggish rules; sceptical of the ‘there are no age differential effects of the virus’; inclined to believe there were far higher Covid vaccine adverse events than exist with established vaccines. You know, all the sceptical claims that were later proved correct – hence Professor Bhattacharya’s ‘governments were the biggest source of mis and disinformation’ assertion. Individuals can be fined too in certain circumstances. Oh, and the information request powers can (and will) be misused. Heck, imagine what Team Albo would have done in the Voice debate with these powers.
Put bluntly, this Bill would deliver a tool to be used against opinions that differ from the government line. Elon Musk has lambasted it as the sort of law a fascist government would enact. That’s not much of an exaggeration when the Bill covers information that is factually true but that some fact-checker (directly or indirectly) for Acma happens to label as misleading or deceptive because it lacks context. (Any bets how often that needed context demands alignment with the sceptical, libertarian or conservative outlooks rather than the usual establishment political left? The answer will rhyme with a fiddling Roman emperor.) And, no surprise here, the legacy media, academics and (implicitly) government itself will be exempted from the censoring strictures of this Bill.
Be clear. This Bill has to be stopped or repealed. This shows you what happens when the Libs cave in on earlier inroads on free speech as they did with the Section 18C hate speech laws. The inroads just keep on coming. I want Dutton to win. I think he can. But if he and the Libs don’t come out and unequivocally state: 1) that they will oppose this Bill and 2) that if it gets up anyway they will pledge to repeal it, then I won’t vote for them and neither should you. The ghastly and diabolical state of our economy is no warrant or justification for standing silently by as our free society is attacked in the platitudinous name of ‘keeping us safe’. We don’t need government to keep us safe. It’s far more likely to keep politicians safe but us unsafe. Just ask John Stuart Mill, Winston Churchill and anyone with a functioning brain.
By the way, there are other exhibits showing Team Albanese is the most anti-free speech government in memory. There’s a supposedly ‘watered down’ Hate Speech Bill that will make it easier to prosecute people while adding way more ‘protected’ categories. Think of being charged for misgendering someone, say. This seems to mimic UK-style ‘prison time for expressing your views online’. And remember, even if you’re acquitted, the process is the punishment. Also, there’s a mighty speech-enervating Privacy Bill. And all of the above will come with a hefty helping of selective prosecutions – look out conservatives!
So Messrs Dutton, Taylor, Ley, Paterson, Littleproud, Hastie, et al, we need a spirited attack on this Misinformation Bill and the other speech-gagging Bills. Try to revive those dormant Liberal party first principles. Or if principles mean nothing to you, how about this: fight for free speech or watch your excellent chance to win the next election go down the toilet. And rightfully so.
Hezbollah could see perfectly what happened to Hamas in Gaza as a result of their 7th October attack on Israel. All they had to do is abstain from launching their own attack, doing nothing is what was called for to avoid the same fate. It can only be inferred that none of them have ever heard of the FOFO truism. With all their smart friends in the media and academia you would think somebody would have told them about.
Bad news Bush.
Frost damage on the Ag news here as well.
Big parts of the Mallee took a flogging and that extends back into SA.
Our crops are delayed because of the very late start and most are at flag leaf emergence. Crops of canola that got away early will have been hit. Lentils are probably cooked in the north and down here are showing frost burn but not quite at the flowering stage. They need a big rain badly.
Looking at a neat used telehandler yesterday – you know what we’re thinking.
There is a definite Last Days of Whitlam stench swirling around this government.
Brendan O’Neill is superlative in his column today.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/18/this-wasnt-a-war-crime-it-was-an-audacious-assault-on-anti-semites/
Join with me now, as we celebrate
International Talk Like a Pirate Day:
Talking to myself on the old fred …
Knuckle Dragger at 6:59pm last evening.
The whole shit show of the cover up of Andrews running over the kid on the bike is something to behold.
From the bloke inserting himself into the investigation (after maybe being instructed from on high), through the no breath test (never, ever happens)*, no statements, allowing the Hunchback to drive a clearly unroadworthy car (also evidence) away from the scene to the subsequent “nothing to see here” statements which continue to this day.
The most staggering thing about this corruption is that it was so deep-seated back then, not when Hunchback had been Premier for ten years, but when he was opposition leader and wouldn’t have been identifiable by more than 50% of Plod.
And that it continues long after he has retired.
…
* I sincerely hope this goes to Court and Plod in the box is forced to answer as to how many accidents where someone was hospitalised was the driver (or all possible drivers if they are being cagey about who was driving) not breath tested or blood tested. The answer will be zero.
The exploding cigar/pagers thing is a master-stroke, not for the physical damage caused (it may have killed a few low level operatives).
The psychological warfare implications are yuuuge. In between searching for their nuts, Hez-ball-less warriors will be constantly shitting themselves about every new electronic device they see within five metres. Which doesn’t bode well if you are running a modern terrorist organisation.
It will also be much easier for Mossad to pick them up on normal telephone intercepts now too.
They will be the ones speaking in a mezzo-soprano pitch.
Looks like the main game is about to start.
Israel’s War Cabinet Greenlights Offensive War Against Hezbollah, Sends Elite Brigade North (19 Sep)
I wonder what Iran and Syria will do?
Stiglich and Varvel made me laugh.
Apparently the ABC know nothing about it.
Except they do know that their star reporter and senior producers “have done nuffink wrong”.
But they are kind of screwed.
They either tampered with the tape themselves or they accepted tainted “evidence” without bothering to establish it’s bona fides.
I suspect it is the former and the ABC knows it.
Why aren’t the Feds raiding the ABC and seizing tapes and documents?
There is credible evidence that ABC staff fabricated evidence which could have resulted in a murder conviction.
Definitely not check their pagers.
1st they sent the pagers but I didn’t have one
Then they sent the walkie-talkies but I didn’t have one
Next came the solar panels and I had none
But when they sent the toasters ……. duuuuuuuuuh!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13864883/Lebanon-explosions-Hezbollah-communications-devices-detonate-country-pager-bomb.html
A spokesperson for Ms Rowland said [that she] wanted a briefing “on the outcome of the ABC’s investigation into the circumstances around the editing of the audio.”
Ooooh er, spokesperson, that certainly sounds… strongly worded. Their ABC’s internal obfuscations unit will be totally losing sleep.
Odds on they’ll get as much disclosure as the Andrewses-4WD-v-kid’s-bike case.
calli
September 19, 2024 7:52 am
Reports this morning that the central market in Tehran has sold out of three metre cane poles.
Or “log-on sticks” as they are now known in that part of the world.
How many ALP/Green senators have stopped using their mobile phones (just in case)?
Ahaha! We’re doin’ a whole lot of triggerin’ this morning!
Clearly have a towelhead lurker in the wings.
I think the vocal pitch you’re looking for is counter tenor.
As I say, the psychological warfare angle of this is massive.
Imagine living your life not knowing if the next time you touched the volume button on your phone, or hit the return key on your laptop if you might be blinded or have your hands blown off.
“Why you are not returning my calls, Achmed?”
“Err … just managing my screen-time, Mohammed.”
Should I tell Ganggreens that it may not be safe to talk to Hezbollah and Hamas?
I’m torn.
I suspect it is the former and the ABC knows it.
That’s my hunch too.
There is never any accountability for the ABC.
calli
September 19, 2024 8:00 am
Be careful bro!
I wonder if Mossad have linked the battery bombs to the downtick button.
One more and your nuts will be rolling down the footpath.
The only document needed would be the Edit Decision List, but unless they have a policy of archiving EDLs, it probably would’ve been purged once the story went to air.
Imo, Coory is far too kind in his assessment of Howard:
I wonder if Mossad has exploding goats next on the list.
carnage!
Martin McKenzie-Murray writes about teaching.
He nails it.
There are more than 300,000 full-time school teachers in Australia, although that’s far from enough. It’s a sufficiently large number, however, that reporting on their grievances and satisfactions can invite generalisation – that is, the promotion of an individual frustration to something dubiously representative. Naturally, there is great variability between schools. They occupy multiple socioeconomic pockets, enjoy different budgets, possess their own cultures, philosophies and challenges.
Last year, the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) released its report on the “disciplinary climate” of classrooms across the developed world. Australia was among the most unfavourable, ranking 33rd among the 37 countries surveyed.
The report informed a Senate inquiry into classroom behaviour, which reported late last year. PISA’s unflattering findings have been complemented by other reports and surveys, including Monash University’s frequent survey of Australian teachers. In its 2022 survey of 5000 teachers, it found the volume of teachers who felt unsafe at work had increased from 19 per cent in 2019 to almost 25 per cent in just three years. Last week, the New South Wales Department of Education released data on school suspensions within the public system. It reported that last year almost 34,000 students were suspended – that’s 800 a week, and almost one in 12 high-school students.
“We’ve got a number of data points coming together, all showing a similar picture,” says Dr Greg Ashman, deputy principal of Ballarat Clarendon College in Victoria and a frequent commentator on education. “So to ignore that, I think, would be complacent. But I think the politicians, to be fair to them, they understand that there’s an issue, because they were talking about managing behaviour, and they’ve asked AERO (Australian Education Research Organisation) to develop these behaviour resources. It’s more the department bureaucracies and the academics and the people that train teachers who just don’t want to go near the issue.”
A primary school teacher from Brisbane I spoke to this week, who has been practising for 40 years, tells me she had to drive a teacher aide home recently after the aide was attacked by a young student. “She was injured, and she’d been injured many times before, but this was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” the teacher says. “In the last few years, going to the staffroom and seeing someone in tears – that’s much more common now. Fear is definitely something that I’ve noticed more in the last few years.”
Contained within the reports and statistics about student behaviour and teacher satisfaction are philosophical debates and cultural changes that are reported on much less than the numbers. It’s not just media indifference here: the use and appropriateness of suspensions or expulsions is a significant debate within the profession, but it’s inhibited by several things.
One is the effective gagging of public-school teachers by their state’s typically risk-averse education departments; another is the delicacy that’s introduced by the fact Indigenous and disabled students are disproportionately reflected in suspension numbers. To argue for a school to reserve the right to suspend or expel students can invite accusations of discrimination.
A major part of this has been the trend of closing down specialist-needs schools, which some have argued is discriminatory and ghettoising. It’s a contested idea, but generally speaking the argument for equity has triumphed over tailored, specialist education. Last year, in its final report, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability recommended that segregated schooling be phased out by 2051. Notably, however, the six commissioners were themselves split on this: half of them wanted no deadline imposed on the transition.
For Greg Ashman, there’s friction between ideology and practicality. He believes more disabled students can be included in mainstream education, but the subsequent challenges and demands placed on teachers must be commensurately acknowledged and resourced. “I wonder whether we’ve kind of crossed the Rubicon a little bit, particularly the inclusion agenda,” he says. “I think we could include more kids in mainstream education, rather than specialist schools, and I think the way you would do that is by having lots of structure and lots of routines and lots of support in place to do that. But I still think there’s a role for specialist schools. But what we’re having at the moment is activists saying we need to close all the specialist schools down and that we need to get every kid into mainstream education – we just need to support them, and we just need more resources. But more resources aren’t coming, and that is also affecting people’s morale and their perceptions of the feasibility of actually doing the job.”
Here’s the rub, as described almost uniformly by teachers I’ve spoken to: the burden of the job has increased, without commensurate support. The administrative load, as a function of increased accountability, has often become overwhelming. Adding to this has been a shift in parental attitudes: parents are much more anxiously inquiring about their children’s education these days, and there’s a related sense of entitlement to a teacher’s time. Equally, parental trust in schools has decreased. I’ve lost count of the number of teachers who in my conversations have nominated parent–teacher nights as exhaustingly combative. “I spoke to a teacher last week who said she felt suicidal after parent–teacher interviews and that she needs to see her GP,” one teacher told me, “and she said, ‘I just can’t do this any longer.’?”
“Anecdotally, I think morale is not great,” Greg Ashman says. “Certainly, we have a teacher shortage at the moment, and that gives you some indication of what might be going on. And I don’t think that, although all teachers would agree that they need to be paid more, I don’t think that’s the core issue. I think making the job more manageable is the core issue.”
It can be spurious to offer one individual’s quote as being representative of 300,000 people, but this one, I think, probably is: “Ultimately, it does feel like both the best job in the world and one of the hardest.”
Very close …….!
These are the people with seemingly endless power over our lives.
@catturd2
The party who says men can get pregnant wants to ban disinformation.
This is what they’re trying to ban.
@miguelifornia
NOW ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA
The FILM ACTORS GUILD ( F.A.G.)
Expelled one day, up for student president the nextANU student Beatrice Tucker, who said earlier this year that Hamas ‘deserved unconditional support’, is now running to be student association president after the university overturned an expulsion.
From the Oz.
Meme
New slogan for tea towel wearers
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Instagram permanently bans rapper Lil Pump after pro-Trump post
This sounds like a repeat of the de-institutionalisation of the mentally ill, but with broader consequences.
That didn’t work. The new slogan is:
From Johnny B. Good in Aus comments.
30 minutes ago
From the liver to the knee!
@GuntherEagleman
Thousands of Hezbollah’s handheld radios explode in second wave of remote-detonated attacks — killing 14, wounding 450
“but the subsequent challenges and demands placed on teachers must be commensurately acknowledged and resourced”
And what about the challenges and demands on non disabled students who just want to get on with it?
It seems to be an objective in itself for some parents to mainstream their disabled children rather that send them to a school that has a program especially designed for them.
Blow everyone else.
@RWMaloneMD
Translation of the blob-speak: Trump has to stop talking about illegal immigration, because it hurts Harris in the polls.
“This sounds like a repeat of the de-institutionalisation of the mentally ill, but with broader consequences.”
These people are nuts.
As though money can fix everything.
Justin Trudeau Under Pressure as Canada’s Liberals Lose Crucial Montreal Election
Election Interference? Fed Slashes Interest Rates By Biggest Amount In 16 YEARS (50bps) Two Months Prior To Presidential Election
This is, in effect, the only way to defeat this insanity. Total non-compliance.
ARREST ME: I Just Broke Election Law in California With this AI Image
EXCLUSIVEMax Factor heir and convicted rapist Andrew Luster is set to walk free after being granted parole – as victim slams Kamala Harris reform law
Those advocating mainstreaming never seem to consider the impact on other children.
Not a word about them, it’s a bit of a tell.
Interesting how Numbers has popped up here. As I wrote yesterday, about two and a bit years ago I decided to have a peep as his sad and unvisited blog. On it he describes this site, Dover’s site, as a haven for toxic neo-Nazi and far-right opinion, and I’m pretty sure I recall him calling for this site to be shut down.
Genuine question, if you believe that why would you want to be here?
I guess it’s odd, weird and strange. Loneliness and attention deficit syndrome often drives people to do odd, weird and strange things, like comment on a blog he passionately believes is full of neo-Nazi and far-right opinion.
Pathetic or sad? I suspect both are applicable.
Those advocating mainstreaming never seem to consider the impact on other children.
Correct, and last week a school here in Sydney’s east was locked down because of the behaviour of a child who should have been in a special institution.
Calls for age restrictions on free syringes as Kimberley kids as young as eight request needle packsBethany HiattThe West Australian
Thu, 19 September 2024 2:00AM
Kids as young as eight are being handed packs of free needles provided for intravenous drug users in the Kimberley, prompting calls for age restrictions to the scheme.
Hospitals and health services across WA provide “fit packs” containing five sterile needles and syringes to drug users to help prevent transmission of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.
Questions asked in Parliament by Broome-based MLC Neil Thomson have revealed Kimberley health providers’ concerns that children as young as eight are being provided fit packs through the Health Department’s free needle program.
Mr Thomson said health professionals feared the children were using those needles for drug use for themselves or other children or adults.
In response, Labor MP Pierre Yang said “clinical judgment” was used when distributing fit packs, “as well as providing information and referrals to drug services where appropriate”.
It comes after The West last week revealed an eight-year-old girl was pricked by a needle found in the playground of a Broome primary school, amid residents’ complaints of an alarming increase in the number of needles being discarded across the tourist town.
Mr Thomson said it was shocking there was no limitation on children accessing needles.
“Saudi media reports that 19 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives from Iran were killed in Syria during yesterday’s pager attack and another 150 were wounded”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1836387661159788752?t=4q75U-_vDIHat_UMAJ-WQA&s=19
Cruddles has misdiagnosed the problem, so her solution is wrong, wrong, wrong (again).
Yet more church of broads collectivist cretins. Yeah, no. In all teal skank held seats the gliberals should run hardline conservatives pretending to be church of broads greenfilth adjacent cretins – as an act of revenge (and common sense, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here), if nothing else.
But they won’t because they’re spineless numbskulls terrified of their own shadows.
Arabs are also mocking Hezbollah.
https://x.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1836352041888653316?t=8HLi6pDAi3TaBA7OrgR9iw&s=19
We’ll just walk into your home and check your behaviour.
@TuckerCarlson
It can fix a lot of things but somehow it only goes to the favoured causes of the Left.
Indigenous boarding schools request funding lifeline (Paywallian)
I doubt indigenous boarding schools, which are a way to get the kids out of the squalor and dysfunction, are one of those favoured causes.
Meme
Not sure there is that much love for Hezbollah in Lebanon either
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836372338956472653?t=Ks4JaW2wBkuirE_dWxCNNw&s=19
“Like many others, I’ve become convinced that there’s no way this could have happened without substantial aid from the Maronite Christians in Lebanon, who are sick to death of being treated like dhimmis by their Muslim conquerors, who are armed and funded by Iran”.
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1836443015289704594?t=5ZShC-rY2XGHDi-Arv-5Sw&s=19
It’s All Coming Out! “Thousands Left Disabled” After Covid Vaccines
Indolent
September 18, 2024 10:22 pm @newstart_2024
Yet he gives no evidence, no links to evidence, and no further backup.
Indolent, unless he’s willing to do this, I’m going to use my sceptic vote wisely.
From Public Service to Self-Service: David Starkey
Gee, where do you think Dr Mutton and the gliberals might be on this Frankenstein’s monster of a legislative abortion?
They agree with it, of course.
Labor stands shoulder to shoulder with the terrorists.
‘Great disappointment’ as Australia abstains on controversial UN Israel vote (Paywallian)
Fortunately Israel will just ignore it. The UN is irrelevant these days.
Gareth Roberts – fearless and funny. Interesting from a former Dr Who writer.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/18/starmers-smug-self-righteousness-is-coming-home-to-roost/?utm_source=Today+on+spiked&utm_campaign=1778b7c0fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_18_07_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-1778b7c0fe-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
The UN is irrelevant these days.
Speaking of which…
But not a word about Hezbollah’s missiles and rockets fired daily into Israel.
Hezbies looking for replacement comms devices.
I think this exploding pager business blowing off the balls of the muzzie bastards is outstanding. Pain for the rest of this life and no rooting of the 72 virgins in the next. Sooner or later though they’re going to have to nuke iran. Which if Trump survives they should do as soon as he walks down the elevator. However I’m becoming more convinced garland and the rest of the swamp is not going to let him, alive or dead, become POTUS. These attempts are going to get more organised. So far they’ve been typical half arsed leftie stuff ups. I reckon some SS impostors turning up is next on the cards.
On a lighter note the best of Tom’s toons:
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Walz: “Kamala and I are middle class folks.”
Yeah, sure. The way Joe’s just a middle class millionaire.
HeezHadBollocks
Absolutely! No more water pipes turned into rockets. Over to you Hamas & Hezbollah…
One interesting facet to the entire Israel/Muslim war is the US election.
Israel will have worked out that if the Democrats win, they are stuffed.
So, what I’m waiting for is the Mossad operation that will expose multiple Democrat illegalities and moral failings, as well as the voting scams.
Israel knows it it is an existential brawl here – and I mean existential, not the usual existential crisis that comes from gerbil worming or coal power – I mean existential in terms of Israels existence being on the table.
I hope Mossad can pull another rabbit out of the hat.
I’m hoping for a nasty little October Surprise for the Democrats.
Idiot.
They really are low intellect slobs.
‘Civilian objects should not be weaponised’
Should we remove the Bollards of Peace?
“I can’t put my finger on it, I think there’s something suspicious about our new carrier pigeons, Achmed”
Good stuff…
The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen (18 Sep)
Pretty much nails Greens, Labor harridans and Teals I have to say.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says civilian objects should not be weaponised
Weird, isn’t it? He’s rushed to condemn Israel hours after a masterful takedown of terrorists that largely avoided civilian deaths but this same UN Guttersnipe wasn’t so quick to condemn the weapons of rape, decapitation, murder and kidnapping against civilians on October 7.
Ohhh, that’s right, October 7 was against Jews. They’re legitimate targets.
By the way, Mean Girl Pong and this utterly disgraceful and obscene federal government are ‘abstaining’ from the UN vote to basically delegitimise Israel once and for all. The US has voted against it.
It was jolly watching the Yids revert to some old Testicklement punishment on the mad mullahs minions.
No, you vile incompetent arrogant lesbian slag, Australia did not “want to back the motion” drafted by the PLO to destroy Israel.
Your stinking illegitimate roadkill circus of a so called government wanted to back it, for the most base expedient reasons possible.
To maintain your illegitimate grasp on power and suck some moozley electoral microcock, which is now a figurative pager blowing up in your stupid ugly faces, you foul lying harridan.
Or, perhaps even more of a troubling concern, nothing as deliberate:
We are way too frequently governed by the lowest and most debased forms of parliamentary retail politics. The zinger and 30 second grab.
Exhibit A: the Noalition – an absolute cracker, still on high rotation by the toxic little PM Impersonator…
“civilian objects should not be weaponised”
He means like schools, kindergartens, hospitals, residential housing and clothing.
Right?
Rabz on Penny Ping Pong @10:43am….
you vile incompetent arrogant lesbian slag
Absolutely beautiful
Leaving the endless pager memes momentarily, this marketing video by the Royal Armoury in Leeds is a modern classic.
Hezbollahs responsible for procurement were clearly too focused on bribes, kickbacks etc to consider that their supply chain from outside Lebanon was very simple to compromise.
Now it’s boohoo from the usual suspects because the terrorists got a nasty surprise with minimum loss of civilian life and more importantly no loss of Israeli life.
Now to knock out their rocket sites.
Linky no workee, Megam at 10.55am.
Rabz
September 19, 2024 10:43 am
Rabz wins the comment of the day.
The Oz today has some great recounting of the recent achievements of Israel against their ME enemies. I was actually surprised, and – of course – pleased that the paper was so upfront in their reaction.
Mind you, I was amazed at the at their HUGE front page heading – “NEUTERING A TERRORIST ARMY”.
Maybe the staff had read the naughty comments on Catallaxy yesterday about exploding the genitals of the Hazzies!
I hope Mossad can pull another rabbit out of the hat.
I’m hoping for a nasty little October Surprise for the Democrats.
How about this:
BREAKING: Iran Sent Hacked Trump Documents to Biden, Harris. (thenationalpulse.com)
It doesn’t matter though because the msm sluts won’t report it.
One of the reasons why it is so heartening to watch the fight back of Israel against the enemies that surround them is because, it seems to me, the West has seemingly lost its collective will to fight back against those who are destroying it from within.
I know that it is indeed existential battle for them, but so it is for us in so many ways. Their courage, and genius, is a thing to behold.
The articles about whether Hezbollah will retaliate are disgusting.Its like the rocket barrage doesnt exist and Hezbollah is just sitting around peacefully.
I agree with a lot Coory says but not what he says about the introduction of the GST.
The GST was a major policy accomplishment of the Howard government alongside Howard’s tough border policies. However, after the introduction of the GST the Howard government (and all subsequent Coalition governments) ran a mile from major economic reform, and this country has suffered because of that policy cowardice.
Garland is a vile, little creep; here he is being absolutely eviscerated by Senator Josh Hawley:
Garland Literally Trembles During Sen. Hawley’s Explosive Rant…DOJ’s Disgusting Actions EXPOSED!! (youtube.com)
Hawley is one the (few) reasons I still have hope for the US.
No actually the LNP lost the 2007 election on the back of “Work Choices” in an attempt to deregulate the labour market. The market has since been reregulated back to the 1950’s.
Gateway Pundit is reporting that solar panels in Beirut are exploding.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/developing-home-solar-systems-explode-beirut-lebanon-following/
This is probably hoax stuff. On the other hand, we are still dealing with false energy bills (awe reckon) associated with our “smart meter” which “sends” data back yo the energy provider.
9.41am
‘Not terribly clever’: Frustrated PM lashes out at interviewerBy Olivia IrelandFrustration ran high in a tense 20-minute interview between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and ABC RN Breakfast presenter Patricia Karvelas, in which a grumpy PM accused the host of asking “not terribly clever questions”.
The Greens calling on the government to consider capital gains tax concessions and negative gearing in its housing package was the line of questioning that spurred Albanese and Karvelas to engage in a tense back-and-forth.
Karvelas: “Are you saying negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions are absolutely off the table for you?”
Albanese: “Well they’re tax policies.”
Karvelas: “Are those tax policies completely off the table for you?”
Albanese: “Well Patricia, I don’t answer … those sort of questions.”
Karvelas: “You mean good ones? That’s a good question! Are you going to say no to those things or not?”
Albanese: “They’re not, they’re things that journalists [ask] – the next question is, when will the election be?”
Karvelas: “That’s not my next question.”
Albanese: “Well they’re not terribly clever questions. You ask all of that. We’re interested in the tax policy that we are implementing, not the ones that we’re not.”
As Karvelas went to her next question on whether Albanese would call a double dissolution election, the prime minister interrupted: “See you have got to the next question!” he called out.
Karvelas replied that she was “always going to get to [her] next question”.
“I do delight in our conversations. A double dissolution election would mean Senate quotas are halved, wouldn’t that lead to an even more difficult-to-manage upper house, prime minister?”
Albanese responds with curt frustration: “Journalists raise it with me, Patricia. What I’m interested in is governing … you could ask these hypotheticals, as I said to you, about the last hypothetical that you just [asked].”
Karvelas interrupts, “Couldn’t you just say, ‘Nah, I’m not interested’ though?”
“We’re governing Patricia, we’re governing. The election will be held on a day when I get in the little car with the flag on the front and visit Yarralumla,” Albanese said.
Later in the interview, asked about the US Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates, Albanese again snapped back at the line of questioning.
Karvelas: “The RBA is taking a long time and people are in a protracted period of pain over its decision to hold interest rates.”
Albanese: “That’s correct, and that’s a global phenomenon, Patricia.”
Karvelas: “Well in the US they’re cutting rates, prime minister.”
Albanese: “Because the economy is so slow, that’s why they’re cutting rates, Patricia.”
Karvelas: “Their economic growth is higher than ours.”
Albanese: “Inflation peaked higher in the United States and interest rates peaked higher in the United States than they did here.”
The exploding pagers etc. orchestrated by Mossad (not admitted of course) has all the hallmarks of the research, intelligence and subterfuge of British Intelligence of the 1943 “Operation Mincemeat”.
Mentioned by TE yesterday, I think, as the 1956 Movie “The Man Who Never Was”.
Fooled Hitler about the invasion of Sicily.
Mossad, I dips me lid.
Unfortunately yes.
From what I’m hearing there’s a lot of it about to happen. Next week will tell the tale.
Lentils got hammered here as well but severe damage appears to be the luck of the draw.
Bug spraying them next week.
No actually the LNP lost the 2007 election on the back of “Work Choices” in an attempt to deregulate the labour market. The market has since been reregulated back to the 1950’s.
You are quite correct, I had forgotten Work Choices. But I now remember, and I remember how after Howard’s loss in 2007 the Liberals were very quick to distance themselves from Work Choices, saying that Work Choices was a policy mistake and so they cremated the policy and the ashes were buried in a policy graveyard, where they remain. In other words, since then the Liberals have run a mile from any significant economic and industrial relations reform, with the result that economic growth in this country has stagnated.
I don’t foresee any Dutton government having the balls to undertake any significant economic reform.
I was just sitting in a coffee shop in the middle of Double Bay in Sydney and laughed out loud at the Spooner toon. A woman at the next table asked what was so funny and I showed it to her. She said it wasn’t really funny but sad. I said Isrsel was defending itself the best way it can. She said so you believe Israel is in the right. I said of course, who attacked whom on October 7. She said that was a false flag! End of conversation. What can you say to someone like that.
You mean to say the msm isn’t giving us the full story?
Wouldn’t that be lying by omission?
Or, as they’d call it these days, disinformation by omission.
As opposed to in reverse for 6 quarters and propped up by unsustainable immigration and government spending, like ours.
He’s got a degree in economics, you know.
They’ll tinker cautiously around various edges and solely where their mates are likely to benefit.
Meanwhile they’ll retain in full the re-regulated sclerotic increasingly totalitarian back to the stone age idiocy gifted to us by the current bunch of drooling collectivist cretins.
And yes, the lights will go out when the electrickery grid collapses shortly after they gain government, which they won’t even attempt to rectify.
But yeah, nookular power for everybody in 25 years’ time.
She said so you believe Israel is in the right. I said of course, who attacked whom on October 7. She said that was a false flag! End of conversation. What can you say to someone like that.
She was extremely fortunate she wasn’t sitting next to me.
Bet she’s a Teal voter and Allegra fan. Goes with the territory.
River to the Sea shall be Hisbollocksfree.
With a guaranteed paycheque every fortnight.
Lebanon has very unreliable electricity, in fact it ‘no longer has a functioning public grid’ so losing solar is a big deal.
Hopefully this only occurred in Hezbollah strongholds.
Funny how these scumbags have billions to spend on killing Jews while their own country is falling more and more into abject poverty.
(Enclaves in the Bekaa Valley excepted)
You’ve gotta laugh – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
Adam Creighton in the Oz on the lunacy of Democrats…
an extract…
It’s typically wrong to blame individuals’ violent actions on the political rhetoric of others, but perhaps not in this case: Routh appears to have been thoroughly propagandised by Democratic slogans, which any fair-minded observer must concede are virulently and sometimes violently disparaging of Trump.
Fuk off numbers.
“Twenty people were killed and hundreds were wounded when walkie-talkies owned by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon, the second coordinated attack on the militant group involving booby-trapped devices in two days, according to Lebanese and Hezbollah officials.”
Explosions in Southern Beirut and Tyre, both Hezbollah strongholds.
Looks pretty targeted to me.
Nevertheless al Jazeera are pretending that these walkie-talkies belonged to innocent civilians, for unknown purposes.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/18/world/israel-hezbollah-gaza-hamas?smid=nytcore-android-share
The “Rolling Insurrection” thread at CL’s is becoming increasingly hilarious, with the latest loon to join in the fun being (cue spookee muzak…) Eddles Casevich.
So United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says civilian objects should not be weaponised . So does that mean Australia was doing the wrong thing in WW1 using jam tins to make trench bombs. This guy is a far left anti semite.
Good article by Melanie on the testicle terror unleashed by Israel and the wider ramifications and context of the ongoing threat to Israel and the West:
Hoist with their own devices – Melanie Phillips (substack.com)
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September 19, 2024 12:52 pm
Lets force feed roughly 45,000 third world shtholers into Toowoomba as an experiment to see if you’re still laughing two years down the track you sanctimonious, moralistic elitist.
Speaking of jam tins; there are reports from the Middle East of a sudden spike in demand for them. As well as string.
Israeli Chief of Staff says in press conference that “we will make Hezbollah afraid to go to the toilet”
https://x.com/RealBababanaras/status/1836449539974402177
A reminder of who Hezbollah are.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/william-buckley-cia-beirut-hezbollah
I like Sharri’s work and defence of Israel but does she really need to ask, on air, why the Iranian Envoy to Lebanon had a pager?
Or am I being harsh and she is just catering for the “stupids” who might be watching?
Thanks for posting the piece by Melanie Phillips. Cohenite @ 01:05pm.
Excellent. Special words at the end…
Today, the head of the IDF, General Herzi Halevi, observed:
Let’s hope they really are, and that Israel doesn’t turn the tactical genius of the past two days into strategic failure.
Trump on Gutfield.
Something occurred to me.
The media and democrats had no choice but to go far far far out with the demonisation of Trump and complete hostility.
The bloke is devastatingly good.
If they had gone in half hearted on him he would be an absolute certainty to win.
Media competent, charming, a huge storehouse of anecdotes from a long TV career. Knows absolutely everyone.
It’s the way it is now because that was the way it had to be, nothing else but depriving Trump of oxygen and replacing appearances by him on networks with an entire dumb narrative would have kept him out.
They did what they had to do to win.
From the Oz. Anyone able to post the full article?
My mother survived the Holocaust. I used her words to silence a pro-Palestine activistAfter being offered a bodyguard for an appearance at a local writers’ festival, Rachelle Unreich was reminded that her mother’s lessons are more important and relevant than ever in the face of rising anti-Semitism.
Stupid Frigging Liberals news (AAP):
The Stupid Frigging Liberals are not only leaderless in Victoria, but also bereft of fairness and morality. John Prosciuttio is a contemptible little coward who should never have control over a chook raffle, let alone a political party.
Trump’s response to the media shutdown and open hostility has also been tailored by necessity.
To break through he had to get them to work for him.
To do that he had to craft his opinions in language that they felt compelled to repeat as “gotchas”.
Without saying the things they said he said.
So saying “bloodbath” when talking about something innocuous.
He knows they can’t help themselves if he gives them just a tiny, tiny word or phrase to latch onto.
J.D. Vance may be a more significant figure in this next administration than Trump himself.
The more I see and hear of J.D. the better it gets.
Arky.
His book is a good solid read.
Assuming its mostly factual (and he wasnt famous when he wrote it) hes a chap who understands the value of a good mentor figure, education and probably despises the social gatekeeping crippling some US unis.
He knows they can’t help themselves if he gives them just a tiny, tiny word or phrase to latch onto.
They are getting better at letting stories die though.
Without the ‘eating the cats and dogs” exactly how much cut through would have occurred on the flying in of vote herds to strategic locations?
Breeding season is fun. I just had the two magpie females decide to go after each other right at the bottom of my front stairs. Claw to claw and beak to beak! So I go down and stand inches away from this intense female warfare. Leaned down and planted two large hairy hands between the two of them as they were going hammer and tongs on the grass. Then grabbed each one and pulled them apart That finally got their attention!
They’re totally OK with me but certainly not with each other. Hopefully I’ll have some magpie chicks to make friends with soon.
The more I see and hear of J.D. the better it gets.
And the more the Dems and the MSM ridicule him. Testimony to how good he actually is. I read part of Hillbilly Elergy – he is the real deal.
For ZK2A @01:54pm
I was mired in sorrow for three years after my mother died. I knew this was not how I “should” feel. I ought to have been grateful. My mother had lived until three weeks shy of her 90th birthday.
I had said my goodbyes; she had said hers. Throughout my life, she’d made me feel loved and whole. But her death splintered all that, and I was suddenly adrift. I tunnelled my way out through writing, penning my mother’s story of surviving the Holocaust, and all that she learned from it, in my memoir A Brilliant Life.
Ahead of its publication, I imagined a press tour in which I would tell colourful stories about my vibrant mother, Mira, and the fact that she had lived her life with so much joy, as well as strength. But it hit stores only weeks after October 7, and the landscape had changed completely since the book’s inception. Suddenly I was hiring media training experts to prepare me for antagonistic questions, since I anticipated – correctly – that many journalists would ask me about the war in Israel.
This, despite the fact that my book did not mention it, apart from when my mother visited her brothers there and decided she did not want to live there herself.
I wanted to fully enjoy every book launch and audience talk, but part of me was worrying about my daughter, whose Jewish school advised students not to wear their school uniforms on public transport lest they find themselves a target for hate.
One writers’ festival hired a bodyguard for me, just in case.
During my session at another festival, a protester stood up in the crowd, wearing a keffiyeh and holding a “Free Palestine” sign.
I wanted to fully enjoy every book launch and audience talk, but part of me was worrying about my daughter, whose Jewish school advised students not to wear their school uniforms on public transport lest they find themselves a target for hate.
One writers’ festival hired a bodyguard for me, just in case.
During my session at another festival, a protester stood up in the crowd, wearing a keffiyeh and holding a “Free Palestine” sign.
It was that protester who reminded me of the power of words once more. She stood up when a microphone was thrown to the audience for questions, presumably planning to be disruptive. Just before she did so, I started talking about how my mother survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a death march at the age of 17. How both of her parents and two siblings were killed – her father shot before her eyes – and yet when she gave testimony decades later, she said: “In the Holocaust, I learned about the goodness of people.”
How she focused on the people who helped her and saved her, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, rather than on those who tried to destroy her.
How, if she were alive today, she would have preached the power of connection. How she chose to look at life with love, compassion, and kindness rather than with hate and resent- ment.
While I said these things, the protestor put her sign down and walked away, her bluster defused.
I understood that it was not only my own writing that held force, but also my mother’s words, which I had faithfully recounted. It is not just what she endured that reaches readers’ hearts, but who she was, and how she decided to live, despite everything. Her words and response to horror have given me a path to follow. Now when I go to synagogue, I know it is to remember where I came from, and what attracted me to go there so often after Mira’s death. It is the feeling I could never name, but I now know its source.
I never knew any of my four grandparents; all were brutally murdered in the Holocaust. They were born in the 1800s and had a completely different experience of life than my own. They often felt like historical figures. I would browse through their photos without a real understanding of who they were and how they lived. Yet if there is one aspect of my life that would be similar to theirs, it was going to synagogue. If they time-travelled to the present day, they would not feel out of place within its walls, which replicates the synagogues of Eastern Europe. They would recognise the tunes and know the Hebrew words of prayer.
Going to synagogue reminds me on some deep, visceral level who I am, and what my ancestors held dearest.
It is something worth remembering now, more than ever. There’s an irony about A Brilliant Life not lost on me: I’ve been promoting a book about anti-Semitism in a period where there’s never been more anti-Semitism.
I wrote it so that my mother’s legacy would not be lost, but now I realise her lessons are more important and relevant than ever. Not just the lessons of history, and the dangers of it repeating. But my mother’s template for how to live: with hope, resilience, and – perhaps most important – faith.
– Extracted from Being Jewish Now, edited by Zibby Owens, with the group Artists Against Antisemitism. Rachelle Unreich is a journalist and author in Melbourne, whose first book, A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust, was published shortly after the October 7 massacre in Israel.
Prosciutto’s staggering stupidity is entirely to blame for this outrage. Kiddies denouncing their parents as nayzees, despite not knowing what the latter are – straight out of the collectivist playbook.
That Prosciutto is still (allegedly) leader of the Victorian gliberals epitomises everything wrong with them and why they are unelectable, despite Victoria being cursed with the most despicable corrupt incompetent fascist imbeciles in this country’s political history.
The stupid forking gliberals are an inexcusable abomination.
Out of interest:
On morning TV this morning Shadow Attorney-General Michaelia Cash told Ch9 that 30 years ago she lived for a period of time in Northern Israel & recalled the hostility from Lebanon in those years.
Good to have a real friend of Israel in Canberra.
Seen on the Oz…
Laptops, phones, doorbells, mopeds, and walkie-talkies are exploding in Lebanon, creating absolute terror among civilians.
Getting better all the time (h/t Sgt. Pepper)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/mehreen-faruqi-recognised-with-pride-of-pakistan-award.html
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Doesn’t Sect 44 of the Constitution have something to say on the subject?
Is anyone else fed up with TheirABC’s scaremongering about ‘forever chemicals?’
Firstly, there is no such thing as a ‘forever chemical.’ Nothing on this planet is forever. Using this lying language as part of greenie scare tactics is typical of the ethical void that is TheirABC.
Secondly, Steve Milloy at JunkScience has been debunking this theory for years. I haven’t got time to dig it all up just now, but Milloy’s track record at debunking phony scares considerably outweighs that of hysterical greenies.
BTW, any updates on the phony video they used to attack ADF members?
Oh, and hit the jackpot today at elite booshop ‘The Salvos’ .
For $4, Robert G Barrett’s Crime Scene Cessnock.
Can’t wait!
Affirmed.
I just read the Spectator article and it reminded me: has anyone identified the actual neonayzees who staged that show?
If you’re not getting your way with PK,
you must be gay:
Anthony Albanese’s tetchy interview with Patricia Karvelas over housing grows terse (watoday.com.au)
Interesting article in the Mail by a local journo in Beirut describing the aftermath of the bombings. He has managed to stay away from the blame game etc. The comments section is enlightening. Absolutely no love for the Lebs. Almost every comment has a version of FAFO.
Interesting that, not just a huge loss of bollocks, lots of eyeballs also rolling free from the River to the Sea. 😀
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13866291/panic-Beirut-Lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-army-explosions-basmati-rice-bags.html
Just watched the entire “God Emperor” rally from Uniondale, NY ..
?He’s just addictive .. switch on thinking I’ll give it 10 minutes and close to an hour & a half later still watching ……….!
There’s an old song, written in the 1920s, about a distant association with the Prince of Wales….
“I’ve danced with a man, who’s danced with a girl, who’s danced with the Prince of Wales”
I’ve attended a rally, where Nazis, Antifa and Socialist Unity turned up uninvited, and bingo I am now a Nazi, Antifa and Socialist Unity too!
In March last year, I attended the first Let Women Speak rally here in Sydney. The rally passed without incident because the NSW Police, on horseback, did their job and kept Antifa and other hard and far-left protesters at bay. However, using the limited logic of little Johnny Pesutto (and David Southwick and Georgie Crozer), I am now Antifa/Socialist Unity because I’m guilty of ‘association’.
In February last year, I attended (with the wonderful Tinta)Cardinal Pell’s funeral here at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. Antifa and other hard and far-left protesters decided to protest a funeral, walking directly past the cathedral (I actually felt nervous). However, using the limited logic of little Johnny Pesutto (and David Southwick and Georgie Crozer), I am now Antifa/Socialist Unity because I’m guilty of ‘association’.
Ya get the logic, guilt by association, however tenuous, and this is what has been done to Moira Deeming, Ange Jones, Kath Deves and Kellie-Jay Keen. They all attended a rally in Melbourne, some Grampian Nazis turned up uninvited and bingo, they’re now Nazis too!?
You really couldn’t make this sh*t up, could you?
Calling gender critical women such as myself ‘Nazis’ and ‘far-right’ has been the stock in trade of the perverts, autogynephiles and freaks over the last few years, it’s how they silence, often successfully, any rational discussion whatsoever, particularly any discussion around the absurd ‘self ID’ laws. If you have a problem with a cock in a frock, you’re a Nazi. If you believe in biological reality, you’re a Nazi, and if you believe there only two sexes (a common biological reality for all mammals), you’re a Nazi. In fact the ‘Nazi’ and ‘far-right’ smears were used in federal parliament only a day or two ago to silence Pauline Hanson, who tried to table a motion to discuss reviewing Gillard’s absurd gender bill from 2012, a bill which has, as seen in the Sall Grover case, annihilated the very concept of the uniqueness of the female sex.
But further to becoming a ‘Nazi’ or ‘Antifa’ simply by association, as in just attending a meeting/rally/protest where far-left or far-right protesters turn up to protest you, I have to say I liked JK Rowling’s smackdown on X earlier this year. You see, at the pro-Pallie Jew hating rallies in London, almost exclusively the domain of the far-left and Islamists, some protests/marches have attracted, since October 7, some far-right real Nazis! Whadda you know, like attracts like. We shouldn’t be surprised, Jew hatred is a common thread that ties the far-left, far-right and Islamists. It’s akin to an umbilical cord.
Earlier this year, some moron from Vice News posted this on X…..
‘Neo-Nazis are showing up at pro-Palestine protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
And Rowling responded on X……..
‘Hang on, when far-right groups, eager for publicity/violence appear and agitate near women’s rallies, that makes all the women sticking up for their rights ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazis’, however when fascists and Nazis join a protest YOU agree with, they’re opportunists who mustn’t be allowed to besmirch a righteous case.’
A sublime smackdown by Rowling of the hypocrisy from the left.
If Moira Deeming is a Nazi, I’ll personally slaughter a Surry Hills rat and eat it.
Didn’t they all just eventually casually exit stage left after being ushered onto centre stage by the vikpol imbeciles who were at the demo?
Seems there was so much figurative pearl clutching and fainting couch adjourning underway (“Oh look, Shayna, pretend nayzees, reeeeeee!”) that nobody actually bothered to find out who they were, much less try and apprehend them.
So pardon my cynicism for implying that it was all a preposterous staged stitch up.
From the Oz.
Death by pager: How Mossad wreaked havoc on HezbollahThe shell company, the mystery woman and the tiny metal balls … the unorthodox attack on the Lebanese militant group was one of the most audacious in the spy agency’s history
Pogria’s link to the Daily Mail was entertaining, especially this bit:
I watched dozens of people walk into the hospital with missing limbs.
Oh, my sides. 🙂
This was in relation to the totally innocent people who happened to be having very close physical contact with Hezbollah members when things went BOOM!
Then, these totally innocent people walked into conveniently located hospitals with missing limbs!
Obviously written and directed by Mel Brooks. 🙂
Hezbollah flying injured terrorists to Iran for treatment
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1836513414753194388?t=d9ZqhcbkfouTzCUB6ZrySw&s=19
Going to synagogue reminds me on some deep, visceral level who I am, and what my ancestors held dearest.
Yep.
“I was among the crowds at the funeral in Beirut yesterday for three men and a boy who had been killed 24 hours earlier when thousands of Hezbollah pagers had exploded in a coordinated attack.”
That an admission you’re a member of Hezbollah?
I made X better.
Every time I see a Paleswinian propaganda account I block it.
Now my feed is mostly decent people.
URGENT! -Global FREE SPEECH is UNDER THREAT by Australian government!?
Shades of stairman Dan??
Judge dismisses all charges against driver at centre of Daylesford pub crash that left five people deadCourt had heard William Swale had suffered a ‘severe hypoglycaemic attack’ before the November 2023 crash
missed link
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/19/daylesford-pub-crash-driver-william-swale-charges-dismissed-ntwnfb
Daylesford crash charges dropped at commital hearing. Possibly correct at law, seems unsatisfactory somehow.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/another-senator-for-hamas.html
Candace has a moment of clarity?
https://x.com/jconricus/status/1836485041829867970?t=UCwvp_ZsBFpMOToSFEvhTA&s=19
Only situationally so, who can forget that short foray into Jay Wetherills undergarments as precursor to obtaining pre-selection. There is a word for people that do that and it is not a very nice one.
Daylesford crash charges dropped at committal hearing. Possibly correct at law, seems unsatisfactory somehow.
He might have had a ‘severe hypoglycaemic attack’ but the stupid old entitled prick should never be allowed behind a wheel again.
Civil proceedings will clear some assets.
Copied from Currency Lad
Currency Lad
Buccaneer says:
19 September, 2024 at 2:32 pm
Is this the reason Biden dropped out of the race and what role did Harris have?
Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails. There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied. Furthermore, Iranian malicious cyber actors have continued their efforts since June to send stolen, non-public material associated with former President Trump’s campaign to U.S. media Iranian
organizati
The Wussia, Wussia, Wussia fuss was supposedly started by Russia hacking the Shrillary campaign and passing info to the Trump campaign.
Is this a new “IranGate” in the making?
Thanks for that BJ, the link is here:
Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
This is massive!
Boambee John: September 19, 2024 10:11 am
Another aspect is the Special Workshops.
Small factories run by charitable institutions doing Process Work like making welcome packs for Motels, similar packs for airlines, showbags, etc.
They were paid similar to the dole but it gave them social contact, a routine, the feeling of worth.
The Unions demanded they be paid standard wages and of course they couldn’t do it. So they went broke.
And it happened to hundreds of otherwise ‘productive’ and happy Australians.
We had one youngish chappie who was ’employed’ at one of these factories and when it closed he had nothing to do.
He couldn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to see his friends and started self harming.
I don’t remember if he eventually succeeded but several suicide attempts later, I had moved on.
For that outrageous act of bastardry, I hope every Union Official gets a one way chopper ride.
The Mocker in the Paywallion:
It ain’t easy being Green — but a strong dose of idiocy helps
The Mocker
19 Sep 2024
Standing in solidarity with Land Forces Expo protesters in Melbourne last week, Greens senator David Shoebridge masterfully executed an act of Orwellian doublethink while maintaining a straight face. The “core tenets” of his party, he insisted, are “peace and non-violence”.
Could I add a third to that list, David, that being “taking the piss”? The so-called anti-war and pro-Palestinian protesters he defended likewise follow the Greens’ version of peace and non-violence. Rioters spat on police, sprayed acid in their direction, and pelted them with rocks, canned food, and manure. They even attacked police horses.
Twenty-seven officers were injured. So who did Shoebridge condemn? Why, the Victoria Police, of course, accusing them of “extreme violence”. My first thought upon hearing that was to hope he would take the form of a police horse in his next reincarnation. But I immediately dismissed that, given remarks like his prove Shoebridge would not have the requisite intelligence.
Speaking of intelligence, what does it say about those who vote for the Greens? I am not talking about young, impetuous adults. All of us did stupid things in our youth. But what does it say of a middle-aged person who votes for them? Let’s consider a typical case.
You live in the inner-city suburbs of East Melbourne or Sydney’s Inner West. Your partner, Julian, is a high-level public servant, and you are a senior academic responsible for developing new study programs in sociology.
Your vision of an egalitarian society is one in which “the rich pay their fair share”. You purport to speak for “the working class” but the only dealings you have with blue-collar workers is when you need a tradie. You maintain the system is rigged to favour big companies, but you conveniently ignore that Australian businesses have the second-highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.
As with many of your fellow socialists, your financial portfolio is looking a peach. Although you own three investment properties, you write letters to the newspaper demanding the abolition of negative gearing – provided of course that comes with a grandfather clause.
Thanks to your partner’s connections, you have a gun North Sydney accountant. In return for mates rates, he looks after your financial affairs, meaning you have not had to pay net tax for the last few years. And when you retire, you will receive a very tidy pension. That 17 per cent employer superannuation contribution is just one of the many perks of academia.
You went to a private school, but, as you tell your friends, you decided against sending your children to one for their secondary education, because they foster “elitism” and lack “diversity”. You omit telling them you were holding out on that decision until you received confirmation they had been accepted into a state selective school.
You regard with disdain mainstream Australia. September and October feature the worst in plebeian vulgarity, with all those shouty footy fans spoiling your tranquillity. “Bread and circuses,” you tell your circle, thinking your analogy both insightful and original.
You take yourself so seriously you are almost devoid of humour. When you suggested to one of the parents at the local tennis club that it should acknowledge it was on unceded lands, he responded that it had grass courts. You still cannot work out if he was being serious or not.
You try to avoid catch-ups with extended family, for they do not share your tolerant and worldly views, as you repeatedly stress to understanding friends. Your sister Kate is a happy stay-at-home mum, and she rolls her eyes when you explain to her that she lives an “unfulfilled” life. You have not forgiven her husband, Gary, for laughing uproariously last Christmas lunch when Julian proudly spoke of being a “male ally in the roadmap to gender equality”.
That reaction was annoying enough, but what really grates is that Gary is a self-made man. Although you would never admit it, you think it unfair that someone who never went to university has more assets than you do. Also, why would someone wealthy choose to live in the outer suburbs?
As a feminist, you deplore the treatment of women politicians, although you are remarkably selective in your outrage. You claim conservative politics is replete with misogyny. Yet when former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher died, you entertained your colleagues at morning tea the next day by cracking the bubbly and singing ‘The Witch is Dead’.
As an academic, you take pride in your intellectual superiority, but in reality you are incapable of entertaining an opposing view. You become flustered and defensive when you do not control the debate or the setting. At your high school reunion last year, you were shocked to hear women at your table say they would be voting No in the upcoming voice referendum. So distraught were you that you left the event early and had to pop an extra Valium to go to sleep.
Saving the planet, or rather showing others you are saving the planet, is your number one concern. You have just booked your second overseas holiday for this year and are a platinum jetsetter who would never settle for anything less than business class, but that’s okay because you purchase a carbon offset with every trip. You own an electric vehicle and cannot understand why all Australians do not follow suit. Range anxiety is nonsense you say. After all, the furthest you drive is to the airport or to your coastal retreat.
You are vocal about the need to learn from history, otherwise known as disproportionately focusing on the sins of conservative white men. But you would bristle if someone pointed out that the left were the loudest proponents of the White Australia policy, or if one of your students called out Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’ for its farcical conclusions.
Being progressive, you hold that your ideology is one of altruism. You consider the justification for your party’s policies to be self-evident. Accordingly, those who oppose them are either wicked or ignorant. But you have no idea, for example, that progressives were at the forefront of social Darwinism and the eugenics movement during the early twentieth century.
“But the progressives of today have nothing in common with those of that era,” you would reply. Think again. They were convinced of the righteousness of their cause. Their philosophy incorporated the racism of low expectations. And they believed in big government and the intervention of the state to further their ideology.
Your reaction to the October 7 attacks is telling. You acknowledge for the sake of appearances that Hamas murdered Israeli men, women, and children, yet you qualify that by saying “Look, I’m not condoning what happened, but”.
You are not anti-Semitic, you keep telling yourself. In other words, you think the Zionists are fair game. But you have not stopped screeching since learning yesterday Israel had taken out Hezbollah terrorists with exploding pagers.
And finally, you believe you will realise a social utopia in your lifetime. Unlike so many other far-left movements in the last hundred or so years, you are confident yours will not culminate in the mass expropriation of property, a collapse of the economy, and an authoritarian state.
Even if the unthinkable happened and it did, you would be able to prove you have long been on the right side of history, thus meaning they would never come for you. Right?
Retarded Greentards.
Hmm. As mentioned by others, the Daylesford diabetic has been given a reprieve – but I would suggest it’s only temporary (the Hun):
So, only been a diabetic for 30 years then.
Yes it is.
The only decent BingBong! on the market, and he ignored it.
Nine alerts, all ignored by Mr I Am Rich And Know Better.
The magistrate took the view that despite being given nine separate warnings that his blood sugar was dangerously low, his actions in getting behind the wheel for the final time were involuntary.
Well – that was a committal hearing, not a trial. The prosecution still has the option of ignoring the magistrate’s decision and what they (apparently) call ‘direct presentment’, going to trial before a judge and twelve men good and true*.
And as also mentioned earlier, the civil proceedings following the trial – regardless of verdict – will mean Mr Sporty Beemer won’t be able to afford so much as a full-sugar Pepsi after this is done.
*Yes, with chicks as well. Geez.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/high-tech-hezbollah.html
Reposted for excellence, as Knuckle Dragger sez:
Take a bow Rabz. Take a bow.
Media: “Mr Netanyahu, is Israel behind the pager explosions?”
Netanyahu: “So, I was born and raised in a middle-class family…”
FMD: credlin admits to have supported sarah 2 dads and britternee in their previous battles against the patriarchy. Done so she says with a face looking more and more like Black Caviar because no matter the ideological differences all sheilas share the same battle against dicks.
This is the rot at the heart of conservatism: it believes that there exists rules and fairness which must not be subverted. Never does it enter credlin’s unbridled muzzle that the left have no rules and sarah 2 dads and briternee like all lefties would never reciprocate and would in fact kick the naive mare when she was down.
So there was a third attempt on Trump?
*Puts on Progressive clown cap*
You know who else survived multiple assassination attempts?
HITLER!
Ahaaaa.
Yeah! And Richard the Lionheart and the Black Prince and Charles the First!
Are you joiNing the DOTs yet Sheeple?
Well are you?
There are always retrograde elements who would distract themselves with by focussing upon what someone has actually done, and blind themselves to all the tenuous gossip, salacious innuendo, and baseless rumour that their betters have prepared for them.
Trump makes first in-studio ‘Gutfeld!’ appearance
Mmmyes black fellas told to bend the knee. To the absolute filth:
Well get on with it Plibbers. Enough of the shit.
As for the Greens slag, get out of the way. This decision has cost untold millions to not only the local Aboriginal community but Australia as a whole.
That’s your lot monty.
Credlin is evidently a right leaning feminist.
That doesn’t necessarily make her a conservative.
Has she ever articulated her political philosophy?