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calli January 18, 2025 6:47 pm Reflecting on Granville, 48 years later.My brother in-law was on the train. Zulu Kilo Two…
Week In Pictures.
Off to bed now. Slept in till 2pm so not too late for us yet. Just added a few more…
Bull.
If it was an attack on Lebanon the place would now be dust.
Stop lying and be glad Israel has cleaned house for you.
Joseph Smith was dubbed the American Mohamet by newspaper editors at the time. Mormonism is not dissimilar to Islam in its principle teachings.
I don’t mean just polygamy but anti-Trinitarianism and entering paradise through good works/obedience and of course the role of the prophet and the angel Moroni in the original revelation.
As such, any spiritual comfort Islam or Mormonism offer is false & deceptive.
In addition, by that clown’s logic Lebanon was attacking Israel, another “sovereign country” with over 8,000 rockets in 11 months.
Tough luck that they finally retaliated.
Suffer in your jocks.
Not sure of the context of the original quote there, but in ABC news’s report yesterday on Australians seeking to leave Lebanon there was a quote from one (Australian-Lebanese) chap who said Lebanon has a right to defend itself. His name and location suggested he was Maronite rather than Muslim. Be careful you don’t choose the side of the baddies, mate.
Again, your take on Afghanistan is off. Massoud’s crew was basically the U.S.’s VIP client over there! I’m sticking to that, while you seem to be in denial about the Soviets being the cause of that clusterfck.
Now, about Syria— it’s a tangled mess, but claiming the U.S. is high-fiving ISIS, which you’ve done in the past? That’s a conspiracy theory so wild it deserves its own special on Info-Wars.
The U.S. is backing rebel groups who are taking a stand against the Ba’ath party, while Russia has their back because, well, they go way back to the old soviet days. And let’s be honest, the Ba’ath party is about as charming as the Soviet union under Stalin.
Discussing Yugoslavia? Nah, not my jam.
It’s funny how you want to chat about Syria and Yugoslavia but dodge the real elephant in the room—The Soviet’s train wreck that is Afghanistan. But hey, focus on those Jihadis, right?
Magpies chasing off my enemies, the parrots.
I now have guard magpies.
I have named them.
Quardle and Awk.
Rainbow lorikeets are tough as.
They will dispossess magpies of their mince.
Several times I’ve seen the magpies smite the pesky lorikeets.
They fall over. Then get up and keep coming.
Lorikeets are avian Terminators.
I have put Quardle and Awk through a rigorous indoctrination course.
The can handle anything.
I think they’re rosellas.
Fruit tree destroying rosellas.
They can piss right off.
My darling brother calls them, “The Toodoodle Gang.”
The Currawong female we know as ‘old mum’ because she had her babies nest right next to our verandah a few years ago returns regularly for mince for the grandchildren. She lets her son/daughter get the mince first and then larders the rest for the brood. She knows me well, and we have beady eye talks about life in general and kids in particular. A lovely bird.
They want us to imagine two Lebanons, and perhaps there are. There’s the Christian/secular Lebanon and then there’s the Islamic Iranian backed Lebanon. All living together next door to the place most of them hate for one reason or another.
As I said, Israel cleaned house for Lebanon No 1 because not only would they not do it for themselves, but sat by while Lebanon No 2 lobbed bombs into their neighbour’s country.
Why did they sit idle? Fear of the mad mullahs and their henchmen. So don’t mealy mouth when someone does your job for you at great risk to themselves.
Why did they sit idle?
fear of retribution same as us
Roger do you think the muzzie Christians converts are arriving saying they are Christians coz if their muzzie community knew, the headloppers would be around in a flash.
For many of these folk, particularly Iranians, conversion would have been the motive for seeking asylum.
For others it expresses a desire to assimilate into the culture of their new homeland and find a supportive community of locals who are at least friendly towards them. For these the decision to formally leave Islam is still a major decision with possible negative consequences. The murder of Christian converts by Muslim refugees is not unknown.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has warned he will consider cancelling the visas of anyone who incites “discord” in Australia, as protesters in Sydney and Melbourne waved Hezbollah flags and carried framed pictures of dead terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah
Yeah, sure!
Presumably he has intelligence that some of these are Gazan tourists we’re presently hosting, else why the threat to cancel visas?
At least he’s not saying he’s “proud of them.”
CPAC is going to feature a film by Joel Gilbert which critiques the climate bullshit, particularly its modern incarnation via the rogue Al Gore, who Gilbert used to work for. Interestingly Gore was inspired into his climate crap while at divinity college (!) by being made to read a book by Fairfield Osborne called Our Plundered Planet which has as its thesis the idea that Earth was pristine until humans started enjoying the benefits of CO2 and ruined this paradise. In short it was a reworking of the Eden concept, not in pure biblical terms but as a general concept. Gore based his own book Earth in the Balance on Our Plundered Planet.
The movie about Gore’s lies will be screening around Australia and tickets can be obtained here:
Screenings | The Climate According to AI Al Gore (climatealgore.com)
Yes, yes, JC, the US supported the ‘moderate jihadis’ in Afghanistan and Syria, and anyone that says different is a ‘conspiracy theorist’.
Magpies much prefer macadamia nuts to peanuts.
Experimentation continues.
So do I, I’m with the magpies on this.
Peanuts are disgusting nuts, and boring as well.
I have a job for you.
Running around my back yard waving your arms around chasing the rosellas off.
All the macadamias you can eat.
Small cat biscuits and mixed seed (sterile). Much cheaper and we still get serenaded awake after 10+ years with multiple generations having been introduced to us by the original pair.
Missus now complaining she can’t find the macadamias.
Heh heh heh.
You frequently ask others to make distinctions, yet you seem to ignore them yourself. The Reagan administration’s actions in Afghanistan and Syria are nearly 30 years apart and involve entirely different administrations. Suggesting any loose association is misleading at best.
I’ve shared my views on Afghanistan as well as adding the fact Soviets caused that mess – something you’ve decided to ignore.
As for Syria, it’s a tangled mess, but one fact stands out: Russia backs the Ba’ath party, which rules with a brutality reminiscent of history’s worst regimes. Yet you continue to support these arseholes.
The US does not and has not supported ISIS in Syria.
I think that’s a fair point, dover.
Australian Jewish Association on X: “HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST SUPPORTERS RALLY IN MELBOURNE Holding memorial pictures of vile murderer and terror leader Hassan Nasrallah, and flags of Hezbollah, a Muslim mob marches in Melbourne. This used to be unacceptable in Australia. Why are they here? *** AGAIN we ask why is law https://t.co/P04Havv8i6” / X
Why are they here? Because our immigration policies have imported the scum, that’s why.
And left-wing Jews must bear some responsibility for this. Too many left-wing Jews across the West have bought into the lie that open borders and unfettered Muslim immigration is good for western countries. Here’s a plain basic truth, it isn’t good and it’s particularly disastrous for Jewish communities. I note above the comments about ‘social justice’. Social justice is a plague on religion, it’s a plague on the West. It’s funny because only this morning in my Jewish women’s group we discussed ‘social justice’. The rebbetzin is an observant woman who has no truck or time for this contemporary obsession with ‘social justice’ or as we say in Hebrew….’Tikkun Olam’. Tikkun Olam means to ‘heal the world‘. As she said, nowadays, particularly with Reform Judaism, ‘Tikkun Olan’ has replaced prayer, kashrut, family purity etc. Healing the world by being kind, by giving to the poor and less well off, by caring for the homeless and the elderly and so on is important but it can only come through prayer, by keeping the Sabbath, by keeping Kashrut, by giving tzedakah and so on. And Tikkun Olam is not about providing succour to genocidal Jew haters who want to kill you. That’s insanity.
Apparently a group of these terrorist supporters also marched here in Sydney today. So I ask, where are the police? Were there any arrests made? I recall how, in January of this year, on Australia Day no less, the NSW Plod swooped down on some so called Nazis at North Sydney station. Well, I now wait for the NSWaffen to do their job and arrest the Hamas and Hezbollah supporters marching here in Sydney today.
Don’t hold your breath, Cassie of Sydney.
Oh FFS!
Birthday Cake BANNED In Australia – AUSSIE GONE full WOKETARD
Sydney Town Hall has a Nazi rally where thousands have turned up to mourn Nasrallah and guess who were there? Everybody’s favourite fatso Pakistani slug….
At the protest Greens senator Mahreen Faruqi addressed the crowd at Town Hall.
“My heart has been broken and shattered fir a year, one agonising year of genocide on Palestinians carried out by Israel, funded by the US and cheered on by the Australian Labor government,” she said.
“Now Israel’s killing machine is causing carnage and bloodshed in Lebanon again, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands.
“The war in the Middle East is more than about Palestine, it is more than about Lebanon, it is a fight for justice of all colonised peoples.”
The Greens should be disendorsed. As for the Fatso Paki senator, she wants the world cleaned of people like me. I ask again of the Liberals? Where’s their censure motion against this fat Jew hating slag?
Be PROUD, Greens voters! You OWN this human disaster.
A year ago Israel’s heart was the one that was shattered, Faruki.
Get your timelines straight.
A fight for justice for all colonised people’s?
Indeed it is Senator. Jewish people lived in It steal for thousands of years, and Christians for around seven centuries before Muslim Arab colonists from the Arabian Peninsula moved in and colonised the region in the seventh century AD.
Time for the colonisers to depart.
Because Labor is beholden to the Muslim vote in western Sydney.
Which was minimal until around 25 years ago.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/wholeheartedly-agree-deport-hezbollah-supporters-statement-from-australian-jewish-association.html
Penny Wrong announces that the World Government has arrived.
It’s called (holistically) The International Community.
I’m watching her being interviewed by Andrew Clennell.
The body language says it all. She despises Israel and can barely hide it.
Apparently 11,000 children have been killed in Gaza. She said it twice so it must be true.
For argument’s sake…
Since Mz. Faruqi equates Australian aborigines with Palestinians, as she is a migrant, doesn’t that make her a coloniser?
However, she is a Green.
And that washes all her sins away.
Lidia Thorpe might beg to differ.
Let’s remember there are a different set of rules that apply to Insiders, as against Outsiders. Societal norms, rules, and regulations are secondary to the rules (and objectives) of the Gang. An insider may transgress societal rules and expectations as much as they like, as long as they don’t transgress the rules of the Gang by doing so.
Islam under the empire of the Ottomans colonised the old lands of Israel. Someone should point this out to Faruqi. These people know NO history.
They were screaming ‘death to Jews’ on the streets of Melbourne today. Where are the police?
I feel sick.
Two tiered “justice” is destroying the credibility of the government faster than anything else.
Special people are special, and if you aren’t special you are screwed.
I wouldn’t expect anything else from the corrupt and politically prostituted Stalininst abortion of a police farce in Yarragrad.
It’s more worrying that NSW has gone the same way. Sid Einfeld (his son turned into a prat, but Sid himself was an honourable man) must be turning in his grave.
Cowering because unlike grandmothers and pregnant ladies, muzzos are likely to do a drive by of the Police station like they did a few years ago.
I make a general statement about the US and I’m conflating Reagan’s admin with Obama’s? No, what I’m doing is pointing out that now and then the Blob will support unsavoury characters/ organisations when they think it is in their interests, geopolitically.
Mate, you’d bore an arsehole in a wooden horse.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Take it up with JC, he’s one of the few who bothers to respond.
Les Patterson’s greatest insult about his wife!
I saw a taxpayer funded police vehicle yesterday in western Melb covered in graffiti sooking about not being paid enough. Sickening.
It’s probably not much consolation, Cassie, but this is going to rebound electorally on Labor.
The fear of that explains Burke’s statement.
These fools are in a world of self-inflicted pain.
If I were a Christian (or Muslim) in Lebanon I’d be doing everything to avoid a descent into sectarian violence.
Given the context – an interview with the ABC – that didn’t appear to be his motivation.
My comment is related to yours.
If I were a Christian in Lebanon I’d be doing everything to flee to another country, with all my family.
The signs are clear. Get out of Dodge while you can.
Two tiered “justice” is destroying the credibility of the government faster than anything else.
Correct. They don’t take the social contract seriously.
It is an offence to mark graffiti on property that can be seen by the public unless the owner has given you permission. There are very serious penalties for making or intending to make graffiti.
– Victoria legal aid.
Like spoilt brats
Policeman, arrest thy self!
One for the VikStasi graffiti squad.
In order for it to be considered a permanent marking, the graffiti must not be able to be easily removed by a dry clothe.
So if the markings on the police cars are in any other marker than a whiteboard marker, and if the owner hasn’t given permission…
You can buy these chalk marker pens, we use them on drill sites if the client can afford. Less mess and easily wiped off with no residue.
Ones I’ve seem in Melbourne plastered all over Ambulances look like that.
So the jacks are now in the act as well. Would have thought after COVID they would have kept their heads low, seems to be a love/hate relationship these days with Victorians depending on what side of the COVID debate you were on.
I’ve never forgotten how the ambos did the same thing against Denis Napthine either. Not what you’d call ‘professional’.
Was my thoughts too. The Union doesn’t own that property, the taxpayer does and roughly half the population like me would disapprove of using public property to push political points.
I saw a taxpayer funded police vehicle yesterday in western Melb covered in graffiti sooking about not being paid enough. Sickening.
It’s worse than that. My wife had a ride in an ambulance a couple of months ago. Got a call recently saying drivers are not recording billing details as part of protest and they are finding it difficult to recover payments
Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2024 6:41 pm
They were screaming ‘death to Jews’ on the streets of Melbourne today. Where are the police?
I feel sick.
Stay strong Cassie. VicPol are useless. Probably one of the worst forces in the world.
VicPol are just the armed wing of the Labor Party.
That’s what I’ve been telling everyone. Labor’s thugs.
Albo, Burqa and Benny’s wanting to import 3000 Palestinians into Australia is looking even more electorally unappealing than ever, after the vile protests in Melbourne and Sydney today.
The Aussie public has only so much patience.
Live performance from 2007.
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
As the video image shows, it’s a numbers game that Burke is wholly unable to participate in.
The “tiny minority” carrying photos and flags and screaming death to Jews amounted to several hundred lively roadmen. For the cops to act to arrest and gather evidence leading to any sort of legal consequences would require intelligence, policing resources, coordination, and political determination that doesn’t exist.
Surrounding that “tiny minority” was an apparently approving mob of perhaps 500?, 1000?, 2000?. Possibly ‘worried about Lebanese civilians put in danger by Hezbollah’ – but definitely supportive of the photo-wavers. How to deal with them from a public order perspective, while weeding out the outlaws?
And behind the people on the street, how many more in the electorates nursing various degrees of support and hatred. Whatever would they do, how would they vote, if the State started a long and bitterly contested process against a number of individuals. Might they become radicalised? Might there be further and larger unrest?
Might there be blame?
How would the Greens play the situation?
Unfortunately, although nicking and dispersing a dozen or so Gay Grampian Garage Nasties is still feasible, on scale alone, Australia is clearly well past the crossover point of being able to use acceptable methods to control the Servants of the Prophet (and their useful idiot supporters) when the passion is upon them.
Tony Burke is not in control.
I take great delight watching others come a cropper. You just know the bloke who hit the steps would have damaged his coccyx.
Idiot Challenge 2
Yep. I know full well how it is done. Not personally laughing.
Having all that fat saved her. No doubt sore as the next day.
Ouch!
Temu Lizzo Has Seen Better Days
Amazing how many Nazis are hiding in plain sight.
‘This used to be unacceptable in Australia’: Thousands of pro-Palestine protestors march in Sydney, Melbourne following assassination of Hezbollah leader (Sky News, 29 Sep)
They are supporting a frigging terrorist who has the deaths of thousands on his hands. Or did, since he’s now dogmeat.
I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some effect.
Yeah you bulbous, narcissistic clown, they had an effect all right.
It screwed the lives of millions of people.
An effect many millions of ordinary people and a lot of experts did foresee.
I mean it wasn’t bloody hard was it?
All one needed was a basic understanding of, and empathy for, ones fellow human beings.
And an understanding of how society works, functions, operates, call it what you will.
And an ability to analyse some basic facts.
And NOT be a first order thinker.
But all this was too hard for you and your ilk and still you can’t apologise, because you are all narcissists and freaks and sociopaths.
FMD
In the UK, pretty much the entire media pack is turning against Gear Starmer – including the left wing stalwarts.
The Sunday Times posting of Rosie Duffield’s brutal resignation letter and the excruciating Team Starmer responses to the sleaze and her move to the crossbench have been picked up and repeated by the Grauniad, the Independent, and the BBC.
At this stage, the only media railing at Duffield are the pink and socialist alternative – outraged by her stand on biological women.
They can afford this because Two Tier Keir is cemented into No. 10 for the next five years. Thus they can afford a bit of cynical and hypocritical tacking centrewards while they can. Won’t last.
No, it certainly won’t last.
The underlying concern to the centre left seems to be that the populist blunders might drive punters into the Reform camp.
Kier won’t even see Christmas out. He’ll be replaced by someone with the same policies, but a more sympathetic mien.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/kingsgrove-sydney-arrahman-mosque-and-islamic-college-holds-service-for-the-martyr-nasrallah.html
Can’t we just subcontract dealing with these grubs to the Israeli’s? A Hellfire missile through the window should teach them reverence and respect for their betters.
Protesters waving Hezbollah flags who gatecrashed a pro-Palestine protest in Melbourne will be referred to the Australian Federal Police.?
Who will speak very, very severely to them, and tell them not to do it again!
Johannes Leak will have that lettuce leaf out tomorrow…
I have to get over there to visit family. They are getting old. I remember OMA sitting on the couch with mum crying after going back in the 80’s .
Immigration wrecked the joint.
Another account she shared was when the Nazi’s lined everyone up in the street. Two people were shot. All to make an example off.
I was too young to contemplate the gravity of what was said at the time.
Here is the kicker. Oma and mum lived two blocks from Anne Frank’s family.
Anyway. Spanian
3 hours. Will watch over the next few days.
Tracing My Heritage pt2 – Haarlem, Netherlands
Mme Zulu’s mother survived the hunger winter. Her father served with the Resistance. He was betrayed to the Germans by a Dutch collaborator, survived tea and bikkies with the Gestapo and a camp, before being liberated.
You never, ever, but ever, wasted food in the house when she grew up….
These bastards did not miss one payday, not one, all through covid lockdowns.
Simultaneously they were rubber-bulleting people who wanted to go to work in their everyday job.
They oughta STFU while they’re ahead.
Yep total deadshits
Those protesters were just being rhetorical, according to Burgess. They meant no harm really.
Kill the Jew, kill the Jew, kill the Jew!
But we don’t mean any harm, really.
mental is the new normal
Yep. Their bank accounts are still smoking.
They pumped out some of the greatest pop songs in the world.
ABBA – The Winner Takes It All
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (Official Music Video)
Clip above.
Perth @ 4:27
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (Official Music Video)
John Kerry moaning about loss of control over the narrative.
@SwipeWright
A tyrannical war on truth and information
GreyRanga
September 29, 2024 5:06 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Fanbloodytastic. Seeing the Humpback whale being so interested in them was amazing.
I laughed and got emotional. I have no qualms admitimg that. 1 hour captured on film. People from around the world are going to spin out with this footage.
That whale ways saying hello.
admitimg … admitting.
Plenty to arrest for incitement, which no doubt will occur:
Round them up.
I just noticed that the colours of the official Hezbollah flag are green and gold.
How dare they.