Open Thread – Mon 30 Sept 2024


Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887

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Rosie
Rosie
September 30, 2024 7:24 pm

Look who couldn’t have admiration for a terrorist leader who orchestrated the deaths of innocents at a Buenos Aires social club?

Roger
Roger
September 30, 2024 7:24 pm

If Deeming wins the case I don’t know how the salami could stay on as leader. What a pos he is.

It would be great if she got rid of the prick.

The problem is there are 18 Vic Lib parliamentarians who backed him in expelling Deeming.

Pogria
Pogria
September 30, 2024 7:32 pm

He was our sworn enemy, of this there is no doubt, but he was an honorable one; in a region infamously parched and bereft of honor.

An honourable man meets his enemy, he does not hide in f**king tunnels.
Samurai and Vikings relished, even dreamed of an “Honourable” death in Battle.
Nasrullah was a Cowards coward.
Prove me wrong!!!

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 7:38 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 7:41 pm
JC
JC
September 30, 2024 7:42 pm

Roger

Those 18 who sided with the salami will be backpedaling so fast they’ll need a reverse speedometer if things start going south for him. Let’s just say they’re not exactly lining up for bravery awards and will die on that hill the support him.

JC
JC
September 30, 2024 7:47 pm

It’s incredible to believe that Deeming was out there protesting against trannies playing in women’s sports and using ladies’ bathrooms. And then the big useless salami kicks her out of the party, throwing around Nazi accusations.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 30, 2024 7:59 pm

It is insane that pollimuppetts like the salami can be blindly obedient directives from the international left.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 30, 2024 8:02 pm

It is insane that pollimuppetts like the salami can be blindly obedient directives from the international left.

Do they get paid for it?

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 30, 2024 8:05 pm

Good question. Even the terminology and talking points are imported from the Nthn Hemisphere.

JC
JC
September 30, 2024 8:12 pm

I don’t blame dad. He should never have gone in the first place.
Sweeney has an amazingly decent rack.

Arky
September 30, 2024 8:13 pm

I’d say it’s 50:50 Trump ends the Ukraine war.
It’s possible Putin takes that off ramp.
It’s also possible that Putin analyses Trumps comments during the campaign and miscalculates that:

  1. Trump is just a blowhard.
  2. That Trump will apply more pressure on Zelenskyy.

If Putin does that it could well be Trump does something significant to wake him the f*** up.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
September 30, 2024 8:22 pm

The end of steel-making at Port Talbot:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zxjldqnxo

And the middle-class woke frauds who lead what passes for a Labour party under Starmer can’t possibly imagine why the workers vote for Farage.

Cassie of Sydney
September 30, 2024 8:23 pm

There was nothing honourable about Nasrallah….nothing. Like Hitler, Nasrallah was an Amalekite. The tribe of Amalek, from ancient times to now, are the historical enemy of the Jewish people.

Pogria
Pogria
September 30, 2024 8:24 pm

Tenuously attaching to myself to JC’s post on Sydney Sweeny, I have a query for the Tom Cats here. I looked at a post on Rhianna’s latest Lingerie spruik.
Before I link, I have to say, I absolutely loathe the colour yellow when it comes to clothing. Green, unless it is British Racing Green, is a close second.
Tom Cats, tell me truly, does the yellow lingerie appeal to you?

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/12545697/rihanna-strips-lacy-lingerie-stockings/

To me, it brings visions of vomit.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
September 30, 2024 8:28 pm

Some good sense from the always sensible Patrick Parkinson: the sexual abuse problem in the churches was due not to traditional Judeo-Christian sexual ethics but to their intellectually and morally dishonest abandonment on favour of an intellectual pigswill of Fraud, the Kinseys, Carl Rogers, and gay self-justification.

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/patrick-parkinson-clergy-sexual-abuse-christian-ethics-newcastle/104386674

Absolutely correct, in the Catholic Church as well as the Anglican. How this hot published on an ABC website is beyond me. Read it before they take it down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 30, 2024 8:30 pm

From the Age biography of Kris Kristofferson.

At the same time, his second marriage, to singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge, was melting down amid what she later characterised as his emotional abuse, his habit of downing two bottles of Jack Daniel’s a day and his chronic infidelity. Steamy nude scenes from a movie he made with actress Sarah Miles were reprinted in Playboy magazine, which Coolidge considered a final indignity.

cohenite
September 30, 2024 8:32 pm

Huge crowd at Sydney mosque to honour slain terror leaderTwo Sydney mosques will host vigils for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah going over three days.

Dailytelegraph.com.au | Subscribe to The Daily Telegraph for exclusive stories

Islam does not come to the West to assimilate, it comes to overthrow. This fat pig gloriously killed by Israel said this:

Lebanon was a Christian country, but we took it and now it’s ours. After we kill all the Jews in Palestine, we will just have begun. We won’t stop until every country on Earth is ruled by the law of Allah and the people of Islam, like our prophet promised.

A seismic moment – Melanie Phillips (substack.com)

The liars and the filth have literally imported the enemy into our country.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 30, 2024 8:38 pm

she later characterised as his emotional abuse, his habit of downing two bottles of Jack Daniel’s a day

I am reluctant to judge.

i have never been big on bourbon’s but that is not because of some inferiority. Just not where my tastes have been exercised.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 30, 2024 9:01 pm

This clip will cause a fuss. U tube will probably ban it.

Inside the Country that KILLS Illegal Immigrants…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 30, 2024 9:04 pm

The headline:

Libs prepare for leadership change as Pesutto urged to face ‘hugely upsetting’ truth
Pesutto will be most upset to find that the hugely upsetting truth is that he’s a dissembling flog, and that all his snivelling has come to nought.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
September 30, 2024 9:07 pm
132andBush
132andBush
September 30, 2024 9:07 pm

Of course, Israel wasn’t acting alone, two AWACS and a Compass Call were operating off the coast of Beirut when the hit came in on Nasrallah.

Yeah, terrible state of affairs.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 30, 2024 9:12 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=men-059FGL0

For anyone who ever woke up Sunday Morning, with the hangover from Hell, not sure whose bed you were in, and trying to remember the name of who else was sharing that bed..

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:17 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:22 pm
JC
JC
September 30, 2024 9:23 pm

CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t realise what he said.

Tapper specifically honed in on Trump calling Harris “mentally impaired” during a campaign rally.

“Kamala is mentally impaired. Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way,” Trump said. “If you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.”

Tapper said that Trump was “insulting” people who had mental impairments.

What an idiot.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 30, 2024 9:24 pm

The sort of anger Starmer is facing – The Spectator:

Rosie Duffield quits Labour over Starmer sleaze
28 September 2024, 6:11pm

Keir Starmer is yet to hit the hundred day mark but he is already one MP down. This evening Rosie Duffield has written to the Prime Minister to inform him that she is resigning the whip ‘with immediate effect’. Duffield, who was known to have strained relations with the party leadership, cites the recent rows over Labour sleaze as a key motivation – along with the decisions to cut the winter fuel payment for most pensioners and retain the two child benefit cap.

‘Why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment?’

Duffield is the fastest MP in modern history to quit their party following a general election victory. In her letter to Starmer (published by the Sunday Times), she attacks him over his response to the recent stories about his penchant for freebies: ‘The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale… I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.’

She goes on: ‘Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives’ two child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of these people can grasp – this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour prime minister.’

‘Forcing a vote to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for – why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment?’

So, how significant is Duffield’s exit? Of course, it’s embarrassing for any leader to lose support particularly this early on into a premiership. However, it’s also the case that Duffield has long been one of Starmer’s most vocal critics in the party. She has repeatedly criticised Starmer and his senior aides over her treatment after she spoke in favour of women’s only spaces. She has already been critical of various pledges like the winter fuel cut. It means in Starmer’s circle they won’t exactly be devastated that she is now outside the tent.

That said, the freebies row is showing no sign of dying down – and this resignation only adds to it. In recent days, Starmer has faced even more questions about his use of freebies from certain donors such as Waheed Alli, the Labour peer. He is having to defend using Alli’s £18 million penthouse during the Covid lockdowns as well as accepting a further £16,000 worth of free clothing from Alli than previously reported.

Duffield is not the only Labour MP to be unhappy with both the freebie stories and the Prime Minister’s reluctance to apologise. In recent interviews, he has angrily defended his choices rather than opting for humility. Duffield writes in her letter that she ‘cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear’. If the feelings of those colleagues start to bubble to the surface then Starmer has a much bigger problem on his hands.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:24 pm

@RNCResearch

Asheville, North Carolina.

East Palestine, Ohio.

Lahaina, Hawaii.

The list is endless.

When disaster strikes, Kamala and Biden are nowhere to be found.

Cassie of Sydney
September 30, 2024 9:27 pm

Whilst I think Pesutto’s a monumental flog and he’s about to be salamied big time, I also think there are other mediocrities in the Victorian Liberals who bear a lot of personal responsibility for this sad and sorry Deeming saga, and that includes Southwick, Guy, Crozier and the biggest flog of them all, King Kong Kennett.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:28 pm

@bennyjohnson

Nightmarish, deadly disaster zones across 5 states. Many millions without power. Thousands missing or presumed dead. Kamala completely paralyzed.

Media silent because chaos is bad optics for the regime.

They spent hundreds of billions in Ukraine – won’t lift a finger for America.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:33 pm

Crisis and control: This is what the EU plans to do

EU politicians love to label every problem as a crisis. Why? In this speech, Dorien Rookmaker suggests that the labelling of a “crisis” serves as a convenient excuse to enact some of the radical policies they have been waiting for a chance to implement. In particular, in response to the current structural problems with the EU economy, they push for more rules and regulations, inching towards a supranational state.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
September 30, 2024 9:39 pm

Cumberland Council election results announced today.
5 wards x 3 councillors per Ward (total of 15). Southwest Sydney.

Labor reduced to 5, down from 8:
lost 1 in Regents Park to a Lib (who is a Korean, can’t speak much English)
lost 1 in Wentworthville (the previous Labor Mayor, Lisa Lake) to a Greenscum
lost 1 in South Granville to a Muslim Vote candidate (Ahmed Ouf, Auburn Islamic Centre)

Cumberland Council election outcome summary:
Liars Party 5
Stupid F-cking Liberals 4
Our Local Community 3 (includes 2 exiled from & reviled by Labor – Steve Christou & Paul Garrard ex Parramatta mayor)
Greenscum 1
Muslim Vote 1
Independent 1 (ex-OLC)

many of the above Labor candidates ran campaigns which emphasised support for Palestine & Gaza.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2024 9:43 pm

Trump will put pressure on Zelenskiyiy… and Putin.
And NATO, and the UN.
And the slavs and the balts, and Finland and Sweden.
And his own military command.
He’s good like that.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 9:45 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 30, 2024 9:46 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mwkxVfUYp4

This one’s for Rabz…..Chikaboom, chickaboom, don’t you just love it..

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 30, 2024 10:24 pm

She’s a full blown faarkwit. Credit to Kirk for being civil. If i was in the crowd, I would have told the beatch to f-off to Mexico.

Imbecile. She’s had one to many Big Macs. She’ll be a drain on the health system in a few years.

I walk everday to keep to the weight off.. She would’nt get fifty metres before a lactic acid build up. I’ve got no time for these indoctrinated dimwits. Uni’s are spitting them out.

Her point of view is flawed.

Charlie Kirk Triggers Illegal Migrant Descendent

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2024 10:33 pm

Oh, I dunno. Some sort of Trump pressure and/or charm, I suppose.
And just remember, despite Milley and Bolton and Barr, there were unprecedented successes like the Abraham Accords, so he must have a certain knack. Plus, there’s no hint of the corruption and failure which reeks all over Clinton, Obama and Biden’s international debacles.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2024 10:38 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
September 30, 2024 10:44 pm

Rough sleepers in Melbourne’s CBD will be taken off the streets and put up in hotel rooms as part of a bold new election pitch to end homelessness.

Lord mayoral candidate Arron Wood will on Tuesday unveil his Hotels for Homeless program which aims to reduce the number of homeless people across the city.

Under the plan, set to cost $3m each year, hotels will be used as a circuit breaker until more appropriate long-term accommodation can be lined up.

There is no set limit on how long a rough sleeper would have a room secured, but Mr Wood’s team said there would be a strong focus on securing appropriate housing as fast as possible.

It’s not yet clear which hotels would take part in the program.

Daily outreach teams made up of Victoria Police, the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul will engage with Melbourne’s homeless community.

A community hotline will also be created so that members of the public can link homeless people in need with a dedicated support team.

The City of Melbourne has already unveiled its Make Room project, which will house up to 50 people into specialist housing within a council-owned building on Little Bourke St.

Last month, a shocking report from Homelessness Australia found that Melbourne had become the nation’s youth homelessness capital.

Across the city, 15,371 people – aged under 19 – reached out for assistance from homelessness services in the 2023 financial year.

Herald-Sun

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2024 10:53 pm

To add to the tally of disgusting TV ads, there’s a new one- paid for by the taxpayer, because the local drip of the Blob has decided that the proles need to check a website for “consent” every time they might want to throw a leg over.
Usual drivel about OMG what if I have been drinking? If a chick kisses me does it mean she’s up for it?
…but the visuals are the worst. It’s actually the standard roll call of obese and ugly urbanites- but this time, even the dusky-hued are repulsive. Half of the “couples” are of the same sex, or at least are androgynously debatable, there’s a special needs couple- obese, of course- doing hand sign language while already in bed in their undies, and they’re all moving in unsmiling slo-mo which might be meant to be “sexy” but is actually so inhuman that it’s probably the best ad for abstinence since The Grim Reaper Plays Skittles.
But, it’s the opening shot which is the most appalling..
without doubt, it’s a big old man meeting a little young boy in some tunnel next to public open space.
If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what I mean.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 30, 2024 11:15 pm

It is worth noting. So many people from the USA tune into Sky News OZ for reporting over there. Always good to see Alex Stein on the show. Mark Dice put him on the map.

With that said, it would be great to see Dice on Sky. Heads would explode!

Boom … they would. I’ll post a clip ( repeat ) with him and Alex in a minute.

Lefties losing it: Sky News host lashes Billie Eilish for ‘demented’ Trump hysteria

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2024 11:16 pm

Oh brilliant, the local drip has decided that we proles need ejimucating about “coercive control“. First thought, what gives the premier the gravity to choose between right and wrong? Second thought, if it’s wrong, why not make it criminal? Maybe I’m expecting too much of our schoolmarm political class, they’re just there to take our money and give womenfolk endless TV and radio ads about the dangers of menfolk. It’s more expedient to pump up a crisis of low-trust society than, you know, suggest a mode of life which might be high-trust.
Get a load of this jerk, Cook, son of McGowan-
“Coercive control is tracking your partner,
…what, like WA Police tracked us during the Batflu sham?-
it’s isolating them from friends and family
…again, like the bogus pandemic?-
it’s taking control of their finances
…we’ll circle back to that-
and gaslighting,” Cook said.
Gaslighting, eh. Get outta here.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 30, 2024 11:20 pm

Mark Dice and Alex Stein.

Culture Jamming with Mark Dice | Ep 130

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 30, 2024 11:26 pm

In Clear As Mud (and as full of wriggling things) news:

A spokesperson for prime minister Keir Starmer said that Britain’s support for Israel’s right to self-defence was “ironclad” but that only a ceasefire could restore stability and security to the region.

“Clearly we stood with Israel previously. We do repeatedly say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but our focus now is on a ceasefire, and we call on all sides to show restraint, to step back from the brink and avoid any further escalation,” he said.

He was also asked about arms export licences. In response, the spokesperson said: “It’s slightly distinct, the arms export criteria specifically in legislation, but it’s kept under constant review, and the UK is continually obliged to review its position on that, and obviously we’ll continue to do so and provide any updates if anything was to change in that.

Very, very slightly distinct.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 1, 2024 12:17 am

Bugger.

—–

Clay Millican:

We had that sharpshooter Justin Ashley round one ?and he absolutely crushed the Christmas tree. We lost by .001 and it’s my fault

.001 Loss Is My Fault

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 12:21 am

OMG

REPORTER: “Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President!?”

BIDEN (or whatever’s left of him): “I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike.”

Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
October 1, 2024 4:04 am
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 1, 2024 5:20 am

A true sad state of affairs over there. Many places have gone to sh*t.

——

Bald and Bankrupt:

Britain; the world’s sixth biggest economy. But what is life like for the average Brit outside of the capital city? Well, I went to investigate and what I found wasn’t too promising. Join me on a journey into the provinces of this once great country for what might be my most brutal adventure yet…

Offered Business On England’s Worst Street

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Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 5:35 am

BBC has reported that the UK’s last coal fired power station has closed. There was much talk about how everything would become electric, but zero mention of nuclear!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 6:16 am

Today at the kiddies News website:
Halle Berry freaks out fans with armpit hair, and
Famous twins make shock undie confession.

132andBush
132andBush
October 1, 2024 6:21 am

dover0beach

September 30, 2024 11:37 pm

An honourable man meets his enemy, he does not hide in f**king tunnels.

By this definition, Churchill was a coward.

Lobbing long range artillery targeted at civilians only while sheltering among your own civilians is not honourable.

This little fact changes the context somewhat and reveals the ridiculousness of your comment.

Beertruk
October 1, 2024 6:34 am

Today’s Daily Tele:

NO SOUP FOR YOU! LET’S SEND YOU TO JAIL INSTEAD

TIM BLAIR
1 Oct 2024

Australians are always getting yelled at for not displaying sufficiently screamy climate panic.

According to the solar pixies over at the Climate Council, for example, our shameful “pattern of behaviour” has “cemented Australia’s reputation as a global climate pariah”.

“Australia is a bigger carbon pariah than we think,” declared the fancy-sounding Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, who happen to share their suburban Cleveland, US, office block with the far more reputable Flawless Lashes & Spray Tan, Therapeutic Elite Massage and Rozi’s Wine House.

Possibly they all get together at the nearest eatery, Dave’s Hot Chicken, to discuss the latest technological breakthroughs in carbon abatement and eyelash extensions.

And Socialist Alliance agrees, of course, claiming Australia became “even more of a climate pariah at the United Nations Climate Change Conference” in 2021.

Whatever. All of those people should be ignored – except for Dave, obviously, whose chicken gets a sensational 4.5/5 Uber Eats rating. But there is one important area of climate policy where we Australians very much need to pick up our game.

In Australia, climate protesters who block traffic or otherwise impede their cultural, intellectual and genetic superiors are invariably treated with inexplicable kindness.

Numerous such blockers, gluers and doorway slumpers – hey, I’ve just invented a new trade union! – have appeared multiple times before Australian courts and received the softest imaginable treatment.

Inconsequential fines. Suspended sentences. Convictions not recorded. Police keep arresting them and they keep returning to their infantile climate quest.

In Britain, by comparison, they’re jailing the bastards. Talk about setting a positive example. Last week, a no-nonsense UK judge sentenced climate activist Anna Holland, 22, and her perfectly posh-named comrade, 23-year-old Phoebe Plummer, to prison terms of 20 months and two years respectively.

Back in October 2022, the pair had rocked up to van Gogh’s Sunflowers, on display at Britain’s National Gallery, and thrown tomato soup at the masterpiece.

The duo and their supporters claimed no harm was done, due to the painting being protected by a transparent screen. But Judge Christopher Hehir of Southwark Crown Court simply wasn’t having it.

“The action you took was extreme, disproportionate and criminally idiotic given the risks involved,” Judge Hehir ruled in sentencing.

“There is nothing peaceful or nonviolent about throwing soup. Throwing soup in someone’s face is violent.”

Hehir took particular issue with Phoebe Plummer, who according to the Daily Mail “grew up in her family’s £4m Chelsea mansion and went to £45,000-a-year private school in Ascot”.

During her trial, upper class lass Plummer boldly compared herself with several figures of historical note.

“In Parliament Square, the beating heart of democracy in the UK, there are statues of Pankhurst, Gandhi and Mandela,” she told the court. “Why? Because these people fought for our democracy … They broke the law to bring about justice when the society in which they were in was unjust.”

Judge Hehir may have added a few additional months for each mention of Plummer’s heroes. “The suggestion that you and others like you in a democracy are political prisoners is ludicrous, offensive and idiotic,” Hehir concluded. “You have no remorse and you are proud.”

So it’s off to jail with those two, who’ve swapped soup for porridge. But they can count themselves lucky they didn’t encounter Judge Hehir in July, when he was really handing out the harshness.

Dealing with Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam and four others who’d conspired to block motorway traffic two years ago, Judge Hehir sent Hallam down for five whole years and chucked the rest of them inside for four years each.

“You have appointed yourselves as sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change,” Judge Hehir said, also noting: “The plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic.”

And now, thanks to a judge who won’t cop any indulgent climate antics, they’ve crossed the line from civilian life to confinement.

There are probably rules against importing judges to handle our own human traffic bollards, but the Australian judiciary could certainly use some of Judge Hehir’s attitude.

Perhaps some among our legal crowd will take those UK sentences as a challenge and go a few years better. Wishful thinking, I know.

Meanwhile, three further Just Stop Oil protesters last week threw more soup at van Gogh’s works. A certain judge may be waiting for them.

“The plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner low IQ idiot to fanatic low IQ retarded idiot.”

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 7:00 am

“The point remains that Nasrallah had a target on his back the minute he accepted the role as head of Hezbollah”
The price of being a muslim jihadi fanatical terrorist.
It’s hiding under residential buildings that’s at issue.
Nasrallah was furthering the aims of Shiite islam.
He sacrificed his oldest son, aged only 18, on the altar of his death cult long before he met his own demise.

Vicki
Vicki
October 1, 2024 7:03 am

Well, cometh the hour……who is going to stand up in the states and in the commonwealth against this outrageous display of support for terrorism on the streets of our major cities?

Cassie has been rightfully saying for months that these continuing demonstrations are creating fear in our Jewish community. Because of the inaction of our authorities we now have unashamed support for terrorism in our streets with an example of a Jewish man’s phone destroyed as he attempted to get evidence for the police. And, not surprisingly the police refused to assist him. All of this excellently reported on several pages in the Australian this morning.

Last night I attended a meeting at the Sydney Institute where some representatives of Sydney’s Jewish community discussed anti Semitism on Australia’s university campuses. Among them was a young woman university student who was one of the most eloquent and impressive speakers I have heard speak on this issue. She is brave and determined and gives me great hope, But it is going to be one momentous struggle to stop the scourge of anti Semitism.

Incidentally, I believe that our problem is that almost certainly our security experts have advised that intervention at Islamic rallies will create riots & that the state police therefore will not intervene even if laws are broken.This is outrageous. I don’t care if they have to bring in the army. This has to stop.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 1, 2024 7:09 am

Mossad spy genies!

Iranian cleric: ‘Jews have had access to genies since Davidic times’ (30 Sep)

Iranian Shia seminary teacher Mostafa Karami claimed, “Considering the Zionists’ history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army.”

“They [the Jews] have had access to genies and cosmic science since the time of David and Solomon,” he added. “Historically, they have always used genies, their documents and traditions proved that. They have used genies and demons for warfare and intelligence operations throughout history.”

Karami detailed his magical conspiracy theory in response to the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah last week.

I don’t think Warner Bros could do all those excellent Bugs Bunny Arabian Nights-based cartoons in the present day, they’d get fatwas put onto them.

Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 7:14 am

Winston Churchill did not hide in a bunker. He and his cabinet did spend time living in a bunker in central London, chiefly during the Blitz and the Battle of Britain. Churchill, along with senior UK politicians and military men, were targets of German air raids. During the Blitz Churchill walked the streets of London and other UK cities and towns to provide emotional comfort to the British people.

There’s a personal anecdote I read years ago about Churchill and it provides an insight into his mind and his bravery. Winston Churchill was no coward and nor was King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen’s father and mother). Churchill and the King and Queen remained in London for the entirety of the War (the royals sent the two little princesses to Windsor Castle for safety). Buckingham Palace was bombed whilst the King and Queen were in the palace (one of the bombers was a German cousin of the King, a great grandson of Queen Victoria who had first hand knowledge of the palace layout), and both the King and Queen could hear a German plane buzzing over the palace as it dropped the bombs. The late Queen mother, rather than crouching and hiding away in fear, said she was now happy the palace had been bombed as she and the King could now look the East End in the eye.

The person providing the anecdote knew Winston personally, and he said that if the Germans had landed on UK shores, and if German tanks had been rolling up the Mall in London, Churchill himself would have rallied resistance and he would have been on the streets, cigar in his mouth, firing at the tanks and the German army.

I’m so over this adolescent revisionist demonisation of Winston Churchill, a complex man who helped save the West, and who helped save people like me from certain death. What I find appalling is that for decades the left loved to trash Churchill but now some unsavoury parts of the lunatic right are joining in. Anyone with a modicum of history should know basic facts about World War II and about Churchill and other leaders. Speaking of cowardly leaders, there was a leader who did hide away for much of the War, and that leader’s name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a coward, to the point where when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, he hid in his Kremlin bunker, shit scared and consumed with fear. This cowardice was disastrous, whilst 150 German divisions crossed into and traversed vast swathes of Russian land, top Soviet military aides were unable to inform their cowardly leader of the invasion, and they were unable to offer any resistance, too paralysed with fear, not from the initial German invasion but because they were shit scared of their own leader’s response. It was days before Comrade Stalin showed his ugly face, the whole time he’d been drinking and cowering in a Kremlin corner like the rodent he was.

Pogria
Pogria
October 1, 2024 7:30 am
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 1, 2024 7:58 am

Dover, if you’re lurking- any chance of clearing my comment from last night re Coercive Control?
I think I might have called someone a pr*ck…

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 1, 2024 8:37 am

Top Ender

 September 30, 2024 9:24 pm: The sort of anger Starmer is facing – The Spectator

The furore over Starmer and the Winter Wood Relief Fund for the Pensioners is missing a vital link that I have yet to see mentioned in the media and is inexplicalbe:
The Pensioners lost their power funding, and it was given to King Charles.
Look at that piece of disgraceful budgeting and realise neither Starmer, or the King of England have refused the money.
Pensioners and the poor will die from the cold – it is the biggest killer during the winter season.
Is their greed and avarice this all encompassing that they condemn the poor with power prices they have increased, deliberately to combat a non existent problem – a scam – they are profiting from?
This is an obscenity.

cohenite
October 1, 2024 8:40 am

Great; as if the news wasn’t already bad; now Betelgeuse is going to explode:

Elon Musk & Brian Cox: James Webb Telescope Detects SUDDEN 250% Increase In Betelgeuse’s Brightness! (youtube.com)

Pogria
Pogria
October 1, 2024 8:40 am

2500 years ago a slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee (pronounced Get-offa’-me) was attending the first athletic festival in Greece.
This festival had no name at that time.
In those days the athletes performed naked and to prevent unwanted arousal while competing, the men imbibed freely on a drink containing saltpeter.
At the opening ceremonial parade of this first great event, Gedophamee observed the first wave of naked athletic males marching toward her and she exclaimed: “Oh! Limp pricks!”.
Over the next two and a half millennium that expression morphed into the word:”Olympics.”
(H/T AZ deplorable moron)

Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 8:41 am

An open letter to our political leaders cowards

Tristan Reid, The Spectator (Australia), 30 September 2024

I doubt you ever thought you would find yourselves in a culture war that will determine the direction of our civilisation, but you are here. It is real. History has called and our political class has been found woefully lacking. On Sunday, in the Sydney CBD, terrorist supporters paraded with Hezbollah flags and portraits of Hassan Nasrallah ‘The Butcher of Beirut’. A group of keffiyeh-wrapped thugs assaulted my friend, called him a ‘Zionist faggot’, grabbed his phone and threw it across tram tracks. He has filed a police report. He knows (and I know) nothing will ultimately happen. To understand this as the action of an individual is to take a rather dim view of recent events. It is worth restating the facts. A Jihadist terrorist sympathiser, at a public commemoration of a terrorist leader, assaulted a Jewish man in the CBD of our largest city. And nothing will happen because this is expected, permitted, and routine.

The intimidation, the genocidal chants, a pervasive level of unrest, and street violence have had a year of police protection and escort. Police have maintained a cordon of inactivity, passive sentinels, the insulation and protection of these violent protests. This inaction is the product of a craven political calculation. An equation to permit violence in one quarter in the hope to hold or gain votes in another.

Anybody who marches under terrorist banners needs to be arrested and charged for supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation. It is this simple. It is the law. There is no impediment to this process except political will. This is not a plea. It is a simple statement of fact. They must be stopped because they imperil our society. These marches are providing ample fuel for an incendiary reactionary movement. ‘Management’, ‘monitoring’, ‘releasing of steam’ as described by ASIO, is not a passive process, it leaves the Overton window wide open and the pendulum swinging towards extremism.

We can see it reflected in every recent European election and in the recent civil unrest in the UK. I know this because I feel political apathy rising in myself. I now care less about what else might be ushered in with a political movement that promises to answer the challenge of regressive, thuggish street Jihadism.

Discovering these feelings is alarming but not surprising. One too many barbaric slogans, one too many genocidal chants. ‘Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud! Jaish Muhammad soufa ya?oud!’ (Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!’) Ali Amrozi, an architect of the Bali Bombings, chanted ‘Khaybar, Khaybar’ as he met his death by firing squad. Fourteen years later, we can hear the call reverberate across our major cities. Chanting Khaybar is the celebration of the massacre of the Jews of Khaybar in the 7th Century. Muslims cherish the memory whilst declaring their intention to do it again. Its invocation gives lie to the notion that that other slogans, such as ‘from the river to the sea’, are benign.

We are here because a simulacrum of action has been proffered up in the place leadership. Platitudes from an outdated playbook abound. Familiar cries like, ‘calls for restraint’, ‘a return to normality’, ‘calls for tolerance’, are slogans masquerading as solutions. Merely invoking principles is to confuse truly defending them. These efforts will ultimately be marked as the failed and pathetic attempts of a stupefied political class to manifest more comfortable political territory. History hardly shows an example that a stated desire for harmony can be discovered through grovelling dovishness.

The attempt will fail because cowardice, like appeasement, is choosing a managed decline. Ignoring abuse invites further abuses. Without a plan to exercise deterrence and uphold the law we guarantee future sectarian unrest. Weak posturing is an inadequate answer to the evil marching through our streets. We are witnesses the loss of political legitimacy through cowardice, which ultimately weakens the foundation of our democracy.

After almost a year no political leader has found the required courage for the moment. A score of MPs are active participants. Our political class no longer deserve adjacency to power and responsibility. For the sake of the country, they need to find the courage to act against thuggery. If they fail to do so they need be removed from any further claims to power and responsibility.

[Note: the strikethrough in the headline was not in the original.]

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 1, 2024 8:54 am

dover0beach
 September 30, 2024 11:37 pm

An honourable man meets his enemy, he does not hide in f**king tunnels.

By this definition, Churchill was a coward.

By the definition, yes.
But by his combat actions, definitely not.
The definition is flawed in that it takes self protection as cowardice.
Does it mean that it is brave to stand in front of an enemy MG and taunt them?
“Your mother smells of elderberries and your father was a hamster.”?
Of course not. That defines stupidity and waste of human life.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 9:02 am

@RNCResearch

MSNBC: One North Carolina mayor called it “unacceptable and disgusting” that cellular service for the entire region remains blocked. What do you say to people who are desperate to know if their loved ones are still alive?

MAYORKAS: Climate change

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 9:05 am
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 1, 2024 9:08 am

“Incidentally, I believe that our problem is that almost certainly our security experts have advised that intervention at Islamic rallies will create riots & that the state police therefore will not intervene even if laws are broken.This is outrageous. I don’t care if they have to bring in the army. This has to stop”.

I caught a week old interview last night by Erin Molan with a former NSW Assistant Police Commissioner and Minister Carl Scully talking about book they had just authored about Cronulla Riots.

Scully mentioned at one point considered calling in the army as intelligence revealed the outsiders were attempting to purchase grenade and even Uzi. Baseball bats were sold out in Wollongong and Newcastle and people driving to Cronulla and other suburbs. Much of what happened was missed by the media as they had gone home when the 2nd wave took place and suburbs attacked.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 1, 2024 9:09 am

Churchill was a coward? dover being provocative me thinks. Words alone mean very little without context. This is what the left does, makes claims that may appear correct but without context becomes lying by omission.

Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 9:09 am

Worrying signs of weak leaders in protest response after Hezbollah flags flown on Australian streets

Ben Packham, Damon Johnston, Alexi Demetriadi, The Australian, September 30, 2024

Anthony Albanese has branded the waving of Hezbollah flags on Australian streets as “worrying signs”, without mentioning the ­terror group by name, as federal police scramble to enforce laws banning terrorist symbols following rallies where protesters brandished the flags and portraits of the group’s slain leader.

Nearly a year after the Hezbollah flag was flown at last year’s ­infamous Sydney Opera House protest, the Australian Federal Police said at least six people at Sunday’s protests could face ­criminal charges.

It was also revealed police did not have the power to confiscate terrorist symbols carried at public marches.

The move to investigate ­protesters referred by Victoria Police came hours after the AFP cautioned “the mere public display” of hate symbols did not constitute an offence.

The Prime Minister said: “We’ve seen worrying signs over the weekend. We do not want people to bring radical ideologies and conflict here. Our multiculturalism and social cohesion cannot be taken for granted.”

His comments, which did not specifically reference Hezbollah, came as Peter Dutton blasted the government for the AFP’s failure to ­prosecute anyone for displaying terrorist symbols since the law was introduced in January.

“The laws do provide for an ­offence in that regard, and the law should be enforced,” the Opposition Leader said.

He declared it was an “outrage” that terrorist leaders were being glorified in Australian cities.

The latest unrest in Australia came as Israeli forces carried out targeted raids into southern Lebanon ahead of an imminent ground invasion.

On Monday evening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at a government meeting his nation was “in a war for our very existence”.

“We will unite, go hand-in-hand and defeat our enemies,” he said on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday.

“We face major challenges. We will face them together and we will do the work that the people of Israel, and the generations of the people of Israel, expect that we will do.

He commended the commanders and soldiers of the IDF and security services, praising them for “striking our enemies” and “enabling our people to stand tall with pride”.

In the aftermath of the ­anti-Israel rallies, the Albanese government on Monday announced its new special envoy to combat Islamophobia. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who is under pressure from the Muslim Vote pressure group in his southwest Sydney seat, said British American academic Aftab Malik would fill the role. The move came months after lawyer Jillian Segal was announced as the government’s anti-Semitism envoy.

Amid a wave of condemnation over the conduct of anti-Israel protesters in Australia, the AFP vowed to scour television footage from weekend rallies for evidence of criminal conduct, and urged members of the public to report those who incited violence or displayed terrorist symbols to the ­national security hotline.

The AFP crackdown came as fresh footage showed a man at the Melbourne rally on Sunday ­chanting “I am at your service, Hezbollah” on a speakerphone as others chanted “all Zionists are terrorists”.

NSW police were also monitoring Sydney mosques that held memorial services for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday night.

The Australian can reveal that a Jewish man in Sydney has reported protesters to police after alleging he was subjected to anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs by men with Hezbollah paraphernalia, and that one protester threw his phone on nearby tramtracks.

Adam Lippmann, 38, said that when he approached nearby police and said “I’ve got photos, I’ve got audio, I’ve just been assaulted”, they told him they couldn’t help because “we’re here for the protest”. When he questioned them, they said “We’re here to ensure it’s a peaceful protest”.

Mr Lippmann said: “I said to him: I’m a product of that ­failing.”

Just two people have been charged under the hate-­symbols laws introduced in January. Both involved Nazi symbols, rather than those of terrorist ­organisations such as Hamas or Hezbollah.

The AFP said the agency would investigate at least six reports of crime referred by Victoria Police following Sunday’s rally in Melbourne. Protesters at the event waved the terrorist group’s flag and carried framed pictures of its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last week in Israeli air strikes.

Some were filmed chanting “Labayka ya Nasrallah” in Arabic, which translates to ‘At your service, Nasrallah’ or ‘here I am, Nasrallah’. Another chant declared “No more USA, no more Israel, no more Saudi Arabia”.

An AFP spokeswoman said: “The AFP has no tolerance for individuals who break the law and will use its extensive capability and networks to take action.” She said the law did not allow police to remove prohibited symbols from public display, and could only fine those who refused to comply with directions to do so. Investigators would assess whether the protesters’ actions reached the threshold for charges under the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Act, 2023, the spokeswoman said.

Under the law, a reasonable person would have to see an ­accused’s conduct as inciting hatred against a person or likely to offend or intimidate a person of a particular race or religion. Those found guilty of displaying terrorist symbols face jail terms of up to 12 months under the law.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim said “the boneheaded policy” of accommodating those who flouted the law needed to stop. “Enough is enough. What is the point of having tough-sounding laws if those who are charged with enforcing them continually fail to do their duty?” he said.

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network said the focus on Hezbollah flags was a “political distraction” obscuring “Israel’s expansion of violence across the region”.

Mr. Lippmann might get a response from the police if he takes his audio-visuals to A Current Affair.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 1, 2024 9:19 am

Sweeney has an amazingly decent rack
and dead eyes. Cmon, fellas, if you’re going to get all steamy about silicone t*ts on an LCD screen, have some sort of standards.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 9:26 am

It’s a stupid definition.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 9:26 am

The cowardice lies in using civilians as shields.
Churchill didn’t do that.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 9:30 am

I think it is well established that our glorious leaders are terrified of taking action against muslims lest it provoke more terrorism.
Muslims are just itching for excuses.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 9:32 am
calli
calli
October 1, 2024 9:34 am

Worrying signs of weak leaders in protest response after Hezbollah flags flown on Australian streets

Matt Canavan is also worritting about people being arrested for “just a sign”.

What do the “protesters” have to do to get attention? Murder someone on the steps of Parliament House?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2024 9:59 am

Daily Tele.

Good morning,
A senior Hamas official killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday has been revealed to also have been a top educator employed by a controversial UN aid organisation that saw its funding from the Albanese government doubled despite its employees’ links to terrorism.

Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 10:00 am

I think it is well established that our glorious leaders are terrified of taking action against muslims lest it provoke more terrorism.

The message sent then being that terrorism works.

It will gift your “community” with special privileges.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 1, 2024 10:03 am

Message from US Dept of Energy re:
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/nfa/pages/2616/attachments/original/1727695859/LIFTOFF_DOE_AdvNuclear-vX6.pdf?1727695859
It’s a longish PDF – for which I offer no apologies.

This US Department of Energy report has debunked Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese’s anti-nuclear claims.

Analysis from the US shows that electricity costs are ~30% cheaper with nuclear and renewables in the energy mix!

Which is why the US Government is planning to TRIPLE their nuclear energy capacity by 2025.

It also heavily undermines the CSIRO’s anti-nuclear analysis, getting it wrong by orders of magnitude. This US analysis shows nuclear plants last 80 years, not only 30 years as claimed in their GenCost report.

There’s also good news for nuclear jobs: the report shows nuclear jobs are ~50% higher paying than jobs in solar or wind.

These are the facts we’ve claimed from the start.

For anti-nuclear campaigners to now ignore this report would be wilful ignorance.

mem
mem
October 1, 2024 10:26 am

Hi Dover
Check your inbox for new article. Did you receive this?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 1, 2024 10:35 am

From Bernard Gaynors latest email:

The Federal Court of Australia has just finished hearing arguments about the Classification Review Board’s decision to approve the paedophile fantasy comic Gender Queer as an Unrestricted publication.

This book, which depicts its author fantasising about paedophilia, was approved on the basis that the overwhelming public concern in submissions received by the Review Board was ‘anti-LBTQIA+’.

The Federal Court looked closely at these issues today and has now reserved its judgement. I will let you know when the judgement will be handed down as soon as I have any further information.

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Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 10:43 am

This US analysis shows nuclear plants last 80 years, not only 30 years as claimed in [the CSIRO} GenCost report.

I pointed this out here.

And I’m no nuclear scientist.

The CSIRO’s bias is sowing the seeds of its own redundancy.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 10:47 am

“The message sent then being that terrorism works.
It will gift your “community” with special privileges.”
Well yes.
Drew Pavlou pointing out on twitter that he got fined $20k for holding a blank sign outside the Chinese embassy while Hezbollah supporters can run amok.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 10:50 am

No-one dares wave a Hezbollah flag in Paris.
One terrorist with a picture on Nasrallah on the vid. No doubt his card is now marked.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/30/protesters-in-paris-demand-end-to-israeli-air-strikes-on-targets-in-lebanon

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Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 10:55 am

No-one dares wave a Hezbollah flag in Paris.

Or anywhere in the ME outside the Iran-Shia matrix.

When did our politicians become so gormless?

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 10:56 am

“Lebanon’s army is “repositioning and regrouping forces” away from the border with Israel in response to an apparently imminent Israeli ground invasion, a Lebanese military official told AFP”
Exactly what any sovereign nation would do in the event of being invaded.
Still smart move if you want Hezbollah decimated.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240930-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israeli-airstrike-hits-central-beirut-first-time-in-nearly-a-year-of-conflict

dopey
dopey
October 1, 2024 11:41 am

Penny Wong at the UN. Looks like Linda Burney went along for the ride.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 1, 2024 11:52 am

It was also revealed police did not have the power to confiscate terrorist symbols carried at public marches.

Under what power, then, have Australian and Israeli flags been confiscated?

Arky
October 1, 2024 11:55 am

Just watched an interview with that actor who played Gandalf, Ian Mac whatis name.
A homosexual. He said one interesting thing.
Once it was no longer a big deal being homosexual and he was able to come out, and the laws changed, THAT was when he began to feel angry about the past discrimination. Before then he just got on with his homosexuality type lifestyle and didn’t think too much about it.
So, if we take him at his word here, actually, when you think about it, he’d be happier if it was still illegal.
I’m going to put forth a bit of a theory here, go out on a bit of a limb and take a wild guess about what is going on here.
Maybe, just maybe, 90% of the attraction to these alternative lifestyles is the covert and taboo nature of them.
And once stripped of social disapproval and legal jeopardy, what you are left with is a couple of aging individuals with no children, no thrills and a feeling of emptiness.
And that’s why they’re angry.
Plus there is an effect that when you tell people they are being treated unfairly, over and over again, derrrrrr, they start to feel mistreated.
Is the lesson here: if you are treating someone unfairly don’t stop, because they’ll hate you for it?
Or maybe the lesson is: life is going to treat you unfairly, try not to become resentful about it?
Maybe there isn’t any lesson at all.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 12:03 pm

This ‘poetic’ metaphor or whatever just shows how nuts Nasrallah is.
No matter what he said, this alleged lust for death is attractive to only a very small percentage of muslims, who often have to be drugged up to actually go through with it. It is against human nature.
No wonder they send people with intellectual disabilities, even young children on suicide missions.
And the reality is despite the hard sell, even muslims who are primed for suicide missions sometimes baulk at the reality. One bloke on that French video sitting in an Israeli video couldn’t bring himself to murder a baby in its mother’s arms.
It’s also fake news, God doesn’t welcome the massacre of innocents, that’s the devil’s work.
https://x.com/Aldanmarki/status/1840646953807274099?t=O0VES6mJcQl92_mIiEUpeQ&s=19

Lysander
Lysander
October 1, 2024 12:17 pm

Dunno if it’s just me but am kinda hoping for a 1967 type of war where Israel grew in size…. 🙂

Arky
October 1, 2024 12:23 pm

This is the most consequential US election in history.
If Kamalala loses it might be a generation or more before the Democrats have the courage to again put forward a cackling witch for President.
At that point the record will be; mortal men: 2, demonically possessed acolytes of Satan: 0.

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Lysander
Lysander
October 1, 2024 12:29 pm

Good read from the Spectator:

The killing of Hassan Nazrallah is the latest — and most impressive — stage in Israel’s campaign to wipe out Iran’s terrorist proxies on its doorstep. From the Egyptian border to Beirut, the campaign is the most dazzling demonstration of real-time intelligence, high technology and precise military action in the modern era. It will be recounted on screen and studied by military experts for decades to come. James Bond’s gadgets had nothing on the booby-trapped pagers. As the meme put it, “From the liver to the knee.” 

Beertruk
October 1, 2024 12:35 pm

Also in today’s Daily Tele:

TERRORIST LEADER A UN AID WORKER EXCLUSIVE –

JAMES MORROW
1 Oct 2024

A senior Hamas official killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday has been revealed to also have been a top educator employed by a controversial UN aid organisation that had its funding from the Albanese government doubled despite its employees’ links to terrorism.

Fateh Sherif Abu al-Amine, leader of the Hamas terror organisation in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.

According to the Times of Israel, Sherif was also principal of the Deir Yassin Secondary School, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which is charged with providing education and other services to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. The revelations have led to further criticism of the Albanese government’s decision to double Australian taxpayer funding to UNRWA, a move it undertook shortly after taking office.

“It is thoroughly unsurprising to learn yet another Hamas member worked for UNRWA – but this is the most senior one yet,” shadow home affairs minister Senator James Paterson.

“It’s utterly untenable for anyone to continue to deny the connections between the utterly compromised UNRWA and listed terrorist organisation Hamas.

“This makes the Albanese government’s decision to resume funding UNRWA despite being warned, even more scandalous. How can we have any confidence Australian taxpayer funds haven’t found their way into the hands of terrorists?”

Earlier this year UNRWA fired nine Gaza-based staffers for allegedly participating in the October 7 massacres in Israel, while thinktank UN Watch has reported multiple instances of UNRWA employees in Gaza celebrating the atrocities.

One Gaza teacher employed by UNRWA posted online, “Allah is Great, Allah is Great, reality surpasses our wildest dreams” as the massacre was taking place.’’

The revelation comes as Israel last night confirmed it had “eliminated’’ Sherif.

“Overnight … the IAF (air force) struck and eliminated the terrorist Fateh Sherif, head of the Lebanon branch in the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the military said in a statement.

It said he “was responsible for coordinating Hamas’ terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives. He was also responsible for Hamas’ efforts in Lebanon to recruit operatives and acquire weapons.”

Last night, Israeli troops were preparing to march across the Lebanon border as a full-scale attack drew closer.

“If Hezbollah won’t hand over their weapons … the Israeli Defence Force is going to go in there and take the weapons off them,” intelligence expert Anthony Glees told the London Sun.

world page 15

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2024 12:43 pm

I am developing a theory in respect of the Pesutto/Deeming circus.

Pesutto has, on each court day, been accompanied to and from the building by a person who very much appears to be his wife.

Judging by the absolute state of it, there may be scope to conclude that Pesutto was hounded by Mrs Pesutto to kick Moira Deeming out of the party, and thus out of proximity to her hubby, because ‘she’s way prettier than me’.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 12:45 pm

Ouch!
Somewhat conservative radio station 2GB has had a bit of a ratings reversal.
Listenership dying out?

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2024 12:54 pm

listening to the Deeming thing again

Pesutto sounds only little bit mental

but this guy Dr Bach … proper mental

gotta love the way they’ve all constructed a shadow-world full of nazis and bigots to justify their own despicable behavior

they all seem to believe that everybody else is ‘toxic’ … except themselves

Bach is a teacher too

… I’m starting to wonder if having a loose grip on reality is a prerequisite for both teaching and politics

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2024 1:05 pm

Shock images emerge of toddler wearing Hezbollah T-shirt at Sydney protestImages have surfaced of a toddler at a pro-Palestinian protest held in Sydney wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the Hezbollah flag.

Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 1:09 pm

A senior Hamas official killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday has been revealed to also have been a top educator employed by a controversial UN aid organisation that had its funding from the Albanese government doubled despite its employees’ links to terrorism.

When pressed for comment, Mr. Albanese described the development as “worrying.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 1:10 pm

Churchill had to be almost physically restrained from being on a destroyer to observe D-Day. He certainly spent time in Egypt and Italy, and flew back and forth to Britain in unarmed planes. More luxurious were his several trips to USA in large flying boats. Before he became PM he was re-appointed as First Sea Lord. I think they were pleased to have him, although the famously short signal “Winston is back” is in doubt. You can’t have a charismatic and tenacious leader in time of war and at the same time have one who doesn’t ruffle feathers.

Rabz
October 1, 2024 1:12 pm

Shock images emerge of toddler wearing hadbollocks T-shirt at Sydneystan protest

There is absolutely nothing shocking about it. The stinking moozley sh*tbags blighting this city have been pulling stunts like this for decades.

For example, anyone remember the kiddie wearing a “behead those that insult the prophet” sandwich board at a demo in Hyde park about fifteen years ago?

Born yesterday j’ismist numbskulls in the braindead lamestream meeja excepted, of course.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2024 1:13 pm

The letter from George VI to Churchill:

Buckingham Palace

GR- Royal crest/stamp June 2nd 1944

My Dear Winston,

I want to make one more appeal to you not to go to sea on D day. Please consider my own position. I am a younger man than you, I am a sailor, & as king I am the head of all three services. There is nothing I would like better than to go to sea but I have agreed to stay at home; is it fair that you should then do exactly what I should have liked to do myself?

You said yesterday afternoon that it would be a fine thing for the King to lead his troops into battle, as in old days; if the King cannot do this, it does not seem to me right that his Prime Minister should take his place.

Then there is your own position. You will see very little, you will seem a considerable risk, you will be inaccessible at a critical time when vital decisions might have to be taken, & however unobtrusive you may be, your very presence on board is bound to be a very heavy additional responsibility to the Admiral & Captain.

As I said in my previous letter, your being there would add immeasurably to my anxieties, & your going without consulting your colleagues in the Cabinet would put them in a very difficult position which they would justifiably resent.

I ask you most earnestly to consider the whole question again, & not let your personal wishes which I very well understand lead you to depart from your own high standard of duty to the State.

Believe me,

Your very sincere friend,

George R. I. (signed by hand)

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 1:14 pm

Churchill had to be almost physically restrained from being on a destroyer to observe D-Day. He certainly spent time in Egypt and Italy, and flew back and forth to Britain in unarmed planes. His CDF (Alan Brooke) tells of him taking a leak into the Rhine well before it was safe to do so. More luxurious were his several trips to USA in large flying boats. Before he became PM he was re-appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty. I think they were pleased to have him, although the famously short signal “Winston is back” is in doubt. You can’t have a charismatic and tenacious leader in time of war and at the same time have one who doesn’t ruffle feathers.
Re-published due to edit embargo.

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Rabz
October 1, 2024 1:18 pm

accompanied to and from the building by a person who very much appears to be his wife

Picture of Prosciutto being accompanied to the court case by aforementioned Beryl Gladyschlocklianesque personage.

Lysander
Lysander
October 1, 2024 1:24 pm

Had a bit of time on my hands this AM and search Hansard for the speeches of all 15 current Greens MPs.

Not a single one of them has mentioned the word “hostage” since October 2023.

There were references to “being held hostage to the far right” and other associated references but none to Israeli hostages; not a single one.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 1:27 pm

Way past time, and finally it’s arrived.

The rise of the $40,000 gym membership.

When it comes to working out, consumers want either luxury or thrift.

And where else?

In May Equinox, a luxury gym, launched a membership that costs $40,000 per year—half the median household income in America, where the chain is based. The plan includes blood tests, a sleep coach and a nutritionist, as well as access to the group’s swanky clubs. Julia Klim of Equinox explains why people pay: “You can buy a Chanel bag every year, but health and looking well is the ultimate luxury symbol.”

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John H.
John H.
October 1, 2024 1:28 pm

The Threat Putin Ignores That Could Bring Russia Down @VisualPolitikEN (youtube.com)

9% GDP to the war effort.
Private investment falling.
Huge govt. spending to maintain the economy.
Very high interest rates and inflation.
Russian Central Bank warns of stagflation risk.

Ukraine is worse.

Gabor
Gabor
October 1, 2024 1:41 pm

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2024 12:54 pm

listening to the Deeming thing again
Pesutto sounds only little bit mental
but this guy Dr Bach … proper mental

Bach is a teacher too

… I’m starting to wonder if having a loose grip on reality is a prerequisite for both teaching and politics

There is no need for the “too”.

Not all teachers are like that but most of the sensible ones are driven
from the profession.

I know a few and they have gone into admin or left, not much influence in admin either but it’s a living and you can blend into the background until something better comes along.

johanna
johanna
October 1, 2024 1:46 pm

Roger
October 1, 2024 1:09 pm

A senior Hamas official killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday has been revealed to also have been a top educator employed by a controversial UN aid organisation that had its funding from the Albanese government doubled despite its employees’ links to terrorism.

When pressed for comment, Mr. Albanese described the development as “worrying.
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Being squeezed between the Greens and the Mad Mullahs is indeed likely to be a source of worry.

You have the choice between losing your seat or dying in an unexplained Thai massage fire/hail of bullets – possibly both.

I have been reading the admirable Robert G Barrett’s Crime Scene Cessnock before slumber. In it, Les Norton has the misfortune to annoy a member of the local Lebanese crime thugocracy near his home in Bondi. Acting on instinct and best advice, he decamps to a health farm near Cessnock to avoid being ventilated.

As readers of the series know, Les is no wimp. But, these people are f-in’ savages. The book was published in 2005.

I heartily concur with the sentiments expressed here about our version of ‘two tier justice.’ The stupid magistrates who imagine that sincerity of belief exempts lawbreakers, the contrast between the pursuit of supporters of a Christian faith leader who was attacked by a Muslim fanatic and blatant demands for Jews to be murdered … unpunished.

The reason leftists are so much more neurotic (at best) than conservatives is because they have to constantly reconcile the irreconcilable. Whether it’s ruinables destroying the environment or the Mad Mullahs destroying every human right (gays, women etc) – it is like trying to turn scrambled eggs into a boiled egg. Can’t be done.

Albanese is a very troubled man, and so he should be.

Lysander
Lysander
October 1, 2024 1:51 pm

A senior Hamas official killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday has been revealed to also have been a top educator employed by a controversial UN aid organisation

Here’s an email I’ve sent to (dirtbag Greens) Senator McKim this AM:

Dear Senator

On Tuesday 6 February 2024, you publicly proclaimed in the Senate:

“The very least we can do is reverse the frankly catastrophic decision made recently by Labor and by the Australian government to suspend funding to the United Nations relief and works agency, the primary provider of humanitarian relief in Gaza. That is a shameful decision made with absolutely no evidence to support the contention that UNRWA did anything wrong, and it was taken, as Minister Wong implicitly admitted today, because we were told to by Israel and the United States.”

Are you aware of this media release from the UN, admitting this itself:

Allegations against UNRWA staff | United Nations

“Of the 12 people implicated, UNRWA immediately identified and terminated the contracts of ten, another two are confirmed dead. Any UN employee involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.”

Or, today’s news:

Top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon was UNRWA employee placed on administrative leave – ABC News (go.com)

So, when will you go into the Senate to correct your shameful record?

“Kind” regards

I CC’d in a few Lib Senators just for their ammunition… I doubt i’ll get a response but felt like the moral thing to do…

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 2:10 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 2:12 pm
duncanm
duncanm
October 1, 2024 2:17 pm

Is Dutton finding his inner mongrel at last?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has confronted an ABC journalist for seemingly equating Israel with Hezbollah and questioning whether the militant group was rightly classified as a terrorist organisation by the Australian government.

duncanm
duncanm
October 1, 2024 2:18 pm

Reporter: With Hezbollah you’re saying being responsible for the deaths of women and children, groups have commented on the hypocrisy of that situation because there are no bans currently on Israeli flags being raised, despite 45,000 people dying at the hands of the Israeli government.
Dutton: Israel is a democracy. It’s not run by a terrorist organisation. Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation, they’re a listed terrorist organisation and if people are in favour of a terrorist organisation they should declare it and authorities can deal with them.
Reporter: And if not the number of deaths, what determines…. What determines the fact that Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation even though-?
Dutton: Where are you from, I’m sorry? Which organisation?
Reporter: Um, ABC.
Dutton: ABC. So what’s the question from the ABC just to be very clear?
Reporter: I just wanted to find out because groups have commented…
Dutton: No, no. But you asked about the listing of the organisation. I just didn’t understand that question I’m sorry.
Reporter: Ah, yep. So, ah.
Dutton: This is a question from Canberra is it? You’re reading it from a phone?
Reporter: Ah, no. So ah. Just wanted to ask in terms of, ah, looking into that for the investigation, you’ve asked the Prime Minister and the minister (Tony Burke) to direct the AFP in its investigation.
Dutton: No. That wasn’t the question you asked. What was the question you asked?
Reporter: I just wanted to understand.
Dutton: No, you asked a question about the listing so just ask that question again.
Reporter: So if you could sort of explain what determines something as a terrorist organisation?
Dutton: Well I had presumed up until this point at least the ABC supported the government’s laws. And the government has passed laws, supported on a bipartisan basis, but not by the ABC it seems, in relation to the prescribing or the listing of a terrorist organisation. Hezbollah under Australian law is a listed terrorist organisation. Now if the ABC doesn’t support that they should be very clear about it because I think that’s quite a departure. 
Reporter: That’s not what I’m …
Dutton: But you asked me why the country has listed Hezbollah. They’re a terrorist organisation. They’re organise terrorist attacks and if that is not clear to the ABC, then I think the ABC is in greater trouble than even I first imagined.
Reporter: That wasn’t my question

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 2:45 pm

The ABC is a terrorist organisation booster.
Quelle surprise.

johanna
johanna
October 1, 2024 2:49 pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-10-01/concerns-over-renewable-energy-clean-up-bill-wind-turbines-rural/104375452
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Worth a read.

Some farmers and pastoralists are asking about the guarantees for decommissioning of the bird and bat munchers. Well, there are none, because the carpetbaggers can sell on, liquidate or just fold their tents and disappear, saddlebags filled with gold.

OK, I’m going for the Mixed Metaphor annual prize. 🙂

Notice that the first thing the gubbmint flunkeys say is how that’s just what debbil debbil miners and gas companies do – leave a mess for taxpayers or landholders to fix up.

Apparently, their past incompetence is meant to reassure everybody that this time it will be different.

Except that, they offer exactly zero concrete evidence that it will be different this time around. Zero.

What a farce.

Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 2:50 pm

Further to Dutton’s exchange with the ABC skank, I’ve watched the exchange in full on the Oz website. It’s a brutal and well deserved smackdown by Dutton.

As I wrote yesterday, whilst Dutton’s not without flaws (nobody’s perfect), I’ll take him any day over the current Jew hating terrorist supporting grub from Grayndler.

This country is in a dire situation, if this government says it doesn’t support Hezbollah and Hamas, then they at least appease them, and that is just as bad as supporting them. No ifs, no buts, this federal government is enabling Jew hatred, and has since October 7. We are in desperate need for leadership. Like Churchill was for Britain during World War II, Dutton is the leader we need in 2025. We must pray for a Dutton victory.

In the meantime, kol hakavod to Peter Dutton.

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JC
JC
October 1, 2024 2:56 pm

duncanm

October 1, 2024 2:17 pm

Is Dutton finding his inner mongrel at last?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has confronted an ABC journalist for seemingly equating Israel with Hezbollah and questioning whether the militant group was rightly classified as a terrorist organisation by the Australian government.

This isn’t directed to Duncam

Dutton has stated that he’s in broad support of the so-called disinformation legislation that the Liars are planning to introduce to parliament. If the law is enacted, wouldn’t Dutton himself be caught by the disinformation laws for putting this forward to the ABC?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2024 2:58 pm

Dutton acted like a ‘thug’ towards ABC reporter: Hanson-YoungStaff writers
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of acting like a “thug” in his remarks about pro-Hezbollah protesters.

The Opposition Leader has called for new criminal penalties and visa cancellations against anyone who raised Hezbollah flags and glorified slain terror chief Hassan Nasrallah during the Palestine-Lebanon solidarity protests.

In response, Ms Hanson-Young claimed Mr Dutton was using the heightened political tension “for his own political gain” and was “sounding more like a thug than someone who ought to be prime minister”.

She said: “It is just abhorrent to have someone who wants to be the prime minister actively whipping up fear and division, rather than calling for calm and bringing people together at a time when so many people are hurting.

“Hezbollah is a registered terrorist organisation, we don’t have a concern with that.

“What Peter Dutton is trying to do is use this for his own political gain, rather than uttering a concern about the human life and loss in Lebanon or Gaza or the anguish that Lebanese Australians are feeling right now about their loved ones or their colleagues, their family members who might be caught up in this.”
Jack Newman

?

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 3:02 pm

There’s another option, Cassie. Remove Dutton and replace him with someone at least halfway reliable.
He lost 25% of my support when he dragged his feet on the referendum and only spoke up once he saw the polls shifting in Jacinta’s favor.
He lost another 25% when he fully backed the E-Safety bint.
The final 50% was gone when he supported the disinformation laws.
He’s dead to me now.

Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 3:03 pm

Well, maybe comparing Dutton to Churchill is a stretch and too hyperbolic. Nonetheless, Dutton is showing leadership.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 3:05 pm

Going after their ABC and highlighting its greenslime credentials is 30 years too late for the Libs. They’ve been acting like the salami for 30 fcking years towards the slime.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 3:10 pm

dover0beach

October 1, 2024 3:03 pm

It’s pretty amusing that there are people rushing to defend Churchill’s honour even though I said he wasn’t a coward.

That’s true, you didn’t, but I also believe you made a very flawed comparison.
We know enough about Churchill to reasonably deduce that he didn’t act cowardly.
However, we can’t always make such assumptions because, in many cases, we can’t read someone’s mind or fully understand why they acted a certain way given the circumstances.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 1, 2024 3:14 pm

Aha. Hairy is in our foyer looking at his delivery of ‘specials’ from The Australian’s wine delivery service, when I see him greet a small brown man on our front steps waving a small brown package. Amazon special delivery? Yep. For you, says Hairy, passing me the package. Not already?! Yes. He’d promised to order JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy for me after I’d complained it wasn’t in any airport bookshops. I reminded him last night that he hadn’t done it yet, and here it is this morning. Ordered last night for overnight special delivery today. How good is that? A loving present.

Now the bad part. That delivery had me thinking of the situation of Charleroi and Springfield, small US rust belt towns in the news recently, where the new industry is in fulfillment warehouses staffed by Haitian immigrants on low wages kicked higher by a Federal government wage subsidy. This is the Brave New World for displaced locals now things are no longer made in the USA. I’ve also just watched a video upthread here of Britain’s coastal mining and seaside towns decaying away into disintegrating welfare sinks where out-of-town warehouses provide the only jobs.

Such is fulfillment.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 3:14 pm

And frankly, for a Lib leader, what Dutton said, ought to be a given without any equivocations.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 3:18 pm
Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
October 1, 2024 3:23 pm

” … if you could sort of explain what determines something as a terrorist organisation?”

The ABC is indeed in deep trouble.
They take dodgy casualty figures as promulgated by a terrorist organisation and then query why said organisation should be listed as terrorist. The ardent implication of the complicit ABC reporter is that Israel is a terrorist organisation, or that Hamas and Hezbollah are no worse.

Israel would not have had to kill anyone in any adjacent territory, or elsewhere, if Israel had not been attacked continually for decades.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 1, 2024 3:26 pm

Pesutto’s chaperone has a Stan Grant level of disparity between face and hand colour.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2024 3:26 pm

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of acting like a “thug” in his remarks about pro-Hezbollah protesters

Whiny tears. How dare they?

That Sea-Patrol moment just keeps coming round again and again.

Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 3:32 pm

I agree with all those expressing doubts about Dutton but given the stark and dire choice we face next year, what other option do we have?

There’s no one to replace Dutton.

If you recall, Dutton did backtrack on his support for the E-skank however the fact that he quickly came out to support the skank’s censorship of X was concerning, very concerning however I think he did listen to his party room, that is the people that matter in his party room, not the wets but the dries. Back in late April I attended a talk at a synagogue given by Sharri and Brendan O’Neill. A conservative Liberal was a guest. This was after the Wakeley church stabbing and everyone in the room (and there were quite a few) were furious at the proposed censorship of X and they told the Liberal in no uncertain terms that Dutton et al were not to support the censorship of X.

We have to speak up.

As for Dutton and the Voice, I think that for the first year he was hamstrung by the wets in the party, such as Hume, Bummingham, Bragg and so on. It was only after the Aston by-election loss that Dutton was able to talk into the party room and stamp his authority on the party, it was then that he said that the Liberals were going to say NO to the Voice.

Having said that, the reason why the Voice was defeated was not because of anything the Liberals did, it was thanks to the divine Senator Jacinta Price, to Warren Mundine and to Advance Australia.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 3:39 pm

I didn’t compare the two.

Really, you could’ve fooled me.

I simply applied the principle that was used against Nasrallah to Churchill.

Yes, when people suggested the Terrorist leader was a coward for hiding in the tunnel, you brought up Churchill to compare.

I could have chosen any political leader.

But you didn’t bring up any other leader and presented Churchill , dare I say as a comparison?

The same conclusion I drew would apply.

Really? Why didn’t you bring up Walz? 🙂

Gabor
Gabor
October 1, 2024 3:57 pm

Next election,

Has to be independent or AA for me or maybe One nation but getting cold on that one too, cannot support any politician or party that advocates disinformation legislation.

Many here like Dutton, I do not, too wishy-washy follow the wind and change only when outnumbered, outpolled.
Not a leader.

Nahh, not for me

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2024 3:57 pm

It is incomprehensible that Dutton would not oppose the ‘disinformation’ bill.

Has he ever changed his opinion about the truth of something? Justo doing that much can put him in the ‘disinformation doghouse’. He should point out the times Labor and the Greens have been proven to be wrong. And include the Libs in that – admitting to fallibility humanises you.

Let him rattle off some of the virtuous certainties that turned out to be wrong. Remind people of the times the government and the public have been at odds – how many things about Da Voice were being labelled disinformation? Nuclear energy is another.

If something is controversial enough that they government must worry about disinformation then the undesired opinion must be something already pretty widely held. (No one panics about flat-Earthers and cranks who diseases are a state of mind.)

The importance of open discussion and debate in a society is so fundamental that the sight of a government that thinks we would be better without the public exploring possibilities should fire people up with rage.

So I don’t get why Dutton is so accommodating in this.

Gabor
Gabor
October 1, 2024 4:03 pm

PS;
On the disinformation legislation.

What if you are well intentioned but got the wrong information?
It happens more often than not, with the fast flowing info on the net.

Do we wait in silence until all the facts and figures are proven and well known?

Heck, we don’t know all the facts about events that happened fifty or a 100 years ago, not for 100% sure anyway.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 4:07 pm

Dover

You shoulda gone with Walz. 🙂

cohenite
October 1, 2024 4:11 pm

They’re after Le Pen; consistent with the trend everywhere in the West of leftoids politicising the justice (sic) system to pursue conservatives:

Le Pen goes on trial for alleged misuse of EU funds in case that could derail her career (msn.com)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 1, 2024 4:12 pm

It is incomprehensible that Dutton would not oppose the ‘disinformation’ bill.

The reporting over the last several days from Sky News has been that the Coalition oppose it strongly.

Labor’s misinformation bill could be ‘dead in the water’ (Sky News, 1 Oct)

Which suggests the performance art has been exactly that. I hope so, anyway.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 1, 2024 4:16 pm

Another exciting acronym!

“On behalf of everyone at the ABC, I am sorry for any and all racist behaviour and past harms experienced by our Indigenous and CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) employees, either currently or formerly employed,” Mr Anderson said on Tuesday.

Kneel
Kneel
October 1, 2024 4:17 pm

“It is incomprehensible that Dutton would not oppose the ‘disinformation’ bill.”

Is it?

“New Study Confirms: Critical Thinking Is Mentally Draining and Inherently Unpleasant”

How many have posted that Nazi flags should be banned?
How many that Hezbollah support should be banned?
As repugnant as those are, should we ban them? And if so, where is the line?

Hard question that last one – who decides?
Who watches the watchers?
Who censors the censors?

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 4:18 pm

Wally Dali

October 1, 2024 9:19 am

Sweeney has an amazingly decent rack

and dead eyes. Cmon, fellas, if you’re going to get all steamy about silicone t*ts on an LCD screen, have some sort of standards.

Wally, they’re freaking “real and they’re spectacular”. (Seinfeld)

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Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 1, 2024 4:19 pm

Somebody below has no clue about One Nation view on the Misinformation Bill.

“maybe One nation but getting cold on that one too, cannot support any politician or party that advocates disinformation legislation”.

One Nation very strongly against it.

Roger
Roger
October 1, 2024 4:27 pm

To reprise my comment on Dutton from last week…

As leader he should be able to apply Liberal Party principles to the political issues of the day to develop sound policies to address those issues and then sell them to the public effectively.

He either can’t or is unwilling to. He seems to be willing to trade away those principles for expediency and only hits on the right response to an issue when there’s an electoral benefit to doing so. His condemnation of the Hezbollah supporting rabble desecrating our streets is welcome but he’s only tapping into general community sentiment there.

Yes, he’s preferable to Albanese, but frankly that’s not saying much.

duncanm
duncanm
October 1, 2024 4:28 pm

Let me be clear – I think the libs are lost unless they have a thorough cleanout.

Their behaviour during covid is just confirmed by their current support for the e-safety trojan horse.

.. but I give credit where credit is due, and like to see Dutton spank ABC idiots into next Wednesday.

cohenite
October 1, 2024 4:29 pm

In other news Trump calls out the climate bullshit:

Donald Trump has sparked controversy for declaring that climate change is “one of the great scams” after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction, killing more than 100 people, across the southeast US.

Naturally the hysterics and grifters are using Helene to prove climate boiling:

On Sunday, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Deanne Criswell told CBS News’s Face The Nation that the severe flooding and subsequent devastation caused by Hurricane Helene is linked to the climate emergency.

Trump sparks controversy for calling climate change a ‘scam’ as Hurricane Helene leaves trail of destruction | The Independent

Then we have this analysis by climate scientist Dr Matthew Wielicki showing that Helene is, while big, not unusual:

Climate Change, Hurricanes, and the Real Costs of Rebuilding in Vulnerable Areas (substack.com)
?
If only we had a decent media! Fuk them all.

Gabor
Gabor
October 1, 2024 4:30 pm

Bourne1879
October 1, 2024 4:19 pm

Somebody below has no clue about One Nation view on the Misinformation Bill.

“maybe One nation but getting cold on that one too, cannot support any politician or party that advocates disinformation legislation”.

One Nation very strongly against it.

Apologies, I should’ve been more precise, I have other problems with One Nation not this particular issue.

It’s hard to be concise and at the same time convey every nuisance of what you mean.

Some here re-write War and Peace and expect to be read, only the most dedicated and nothing much else to do people do that.
Sorry, will do better next time.

Pogria
Pogria
October 1, 2024 4:36 pm
JC
JC
October 1, 2024 4:38 pm

cohenite

October 1, 2024 4:32 pm

That’s saying nothing! Herpes is better than rub and tug.

I think George would disagree with you.

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Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 4:39 pm

Yes, he’s preferable to Albanese, but frankly that’s not saying much.

Well, it’s enough for me, I’m seeing people on the streets screaming, screeching and shouting ‘death to Jews’. And these people aren’t joking.

Cassie of Sydney
October 1, 2024 4:40 pm

I have a lot of time for the Libertarians and I will vote for them locally. I will vote Libertarian and PHON in the senate.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 4:46 pm

Dis-information? Get a load what dis-information looks like.

I google searched ” will the democrats cheat in 2024?”

There’s one, or more like half a piece, in three pages of Google search that isn’t from a leftwing outlet dissing Trump for suggesting the demons cheat. What an abortion.

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Rabz
October 1, 2024 4:50 pm

What’s been happening is appalling.

And it is not going to stop happening any time soon, even if labore are turfed next feral election.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 1, 2024 5:03 pm

The IDF have moved into southern Lebanon.

Vicki
Vicki
October 1, 2024 5:06 pm

Last night we caught a ferry at Cremorne Pt wharf to Circular Quay to walk up to the Sydney Institute. At the Cremorne wharf good souls donate books to a stand in the shelter there. I struck it lucky – picked up J.D’s “Hillbilly Elergy” which I had intended to buy. Look forward to reading it.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 1, 2024 5:21 pm

Awesome- the Cat App tells me that Sky tells it that the Coalition has told it that it- brace yourselves- strongly opposes the blob’s attack on free speech.
Hurrah, consider my faith fully restored!

MatrixTransform
October 1, 2024 5:29 pm

Hard question that last one – who decides?

meanwhile … we have real nazis in Melbourne

seriously, is it not all the way up the Federal Court?

clown world

Vicki
Vicki
October 1, 2024 5:29 pm

Deputy Commissioner of Aust. Federal Police – a woman – Krissy something – delivered a load of verbal public service garbage in response to Chris Kenny’s simple query why none of the people brandishing outlawed terrorist flags etc were arrested on the weekend.

I note that none of the many obstacles she suggested stopped the police from arresting multiple Christian Lebanese after the Archbishop was attacked.

Helen
Helen
October 1, 2024 5:34 pm

JC

Dutton has stated that he’s in broad support of the so-called disinformation legislation that the Liars are planning to introduce to parliament. If the law is enacted, wouldn’t Dutton himself be caught by the disinformation laws for putting this forward to the ABC?

No – pollies and media are exempt. It is just us who go to jail.

JC
JC
October 1, 2024 5:42 pm

As someone said, the UK is a broken country. It’s not a joke.

Under the new legislation, all keepers of poultry in England and Wales, even if you just have two or three pottering around your allotment or garden, must register them with DEFRA before Tuesday 1st October 2024.

Lysander
Lysander
October 1, 2024 5:43 pm

How it started:

Diversity & Beyond – Sony Interactive Entertainment

Some of our efforts include advocating for equal rights and protections for transgender people by supporting the Equality Act in the U.S. and the Trans Rights are Human Rights Campaign in the UK. In 2021, SIE was named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ equality after receiving a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation “Corporate Equality Index.” In Japan, Sony Interactive was awarded Gold for 8 consecutive years in “The PRIDE Index” that was developed by the Japanese general incorporated association work with Pride as an evaluation index for initiatives for LGBTQ+ in the workplace.

How it’s going:

Sony experiences global outage as PlayStation Network forces gamers to turn off | PerthNow

Sony’s PlayStation network has suffered a global outage, with many services affected.

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 1, 2024 5:51 pm

Wow! The Gurner is not only stealing Valour, he is stealing History.

People can be so petty.

There was that time he was in Bosnia with Hillary…

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JC
JC
October 1, 2024 5:52 pm

“Oh sorry, we made a mistake” is the new strategy in the big cheat by the demonrats.

MASSIVE SCANDAL IN ARIZONA! 218,000 voters have been wrongly marked as having provided proof of citizenship due to an “error.” These voters will STILL BE ABLE TO VOTE in the general election even though they didn’t give proof of citizenship. This election fraud is disgraceful!

They’re cheating out in the open and if they’re caught say it’s a error.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 5:56 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 1, 2024 6:02 pm

Just read the first chaper of JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. It’s definitely my type of book, taking a sociological approach to the economic issues of a collapsing job market and cultural disintegration, in his case on the unlevel playing field of a hyped-up globalisation. Hairy got it for me because he thinks it is is my sort of story too, and he’s been together with me long enough to know quite a bit of it, to have met my failed uneducated and difficult parents, to have known the dissolute druggie rellies of the next generation ruining Christmases, and to have admired the alternative rellies, the tradie aspirational achievers of that next generation down from mine (while he was still glad to get away from them after a Christmas lunch). I avoided it myself, but this druggie world, full of leftist influences which I didn’t avoid, was the generation of my two eldest sons adolescence and coming-of-age, soured by the easy divorce and counter-cultural hangovers of the post-hippie Cannabis generation, which is also that which influenced the world of JD Vance. My grief has been dealing with their flounderings. Vance’s grief was dealing with his floundering mum.

My story is one of a similar very stark upward mobility, such a leap that people comment on it, which like his was a mobility not achieved without psychic scars, but a generation or more before JD’s. Such mobility as he and I have experienced – lurched into the upper middle influential classes from a dire and seemingly impossibly low situation for getting there – was even more unlikely in the 50’s and even the 60’s (although class barriers had lightened a little by then). Some may conclude it was easier for me, being female, but it wasn’t. Not in 1956 aged furteen when I left school and took a job, living with my sister in a garage, and then sporadically in a shambles of a car wrecking-yard and its dregs of denizens with the man she shacked up with. As with JD, there were no books in our house when I was growing up, and the best I could hope for was an office job rather than in a factory or a shop; so I learned to type.

But I had it so much easier than my mother ever did. Her story is heartbreaking. It brought an aged-care psychologist to real tears.

Everyone should count their blessings.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 6:10 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 6:12 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 1, 2024 6:13 pm

Diversity & Beyond – Sony Interactive Entertainment

I don’t think anyone has put up this nice bit of schadenfreude yet.

Netflix Cancellations Tripled After CEO Backed Harris (30 Sep)

Every time these wankers go political half their customers leave. You’d think they would’ve worked this out by now.

Indolent
Indolent
October 1, 2024 6:14 pm
Bill P
Bill P
October 1, 2024 6:20 pm

I posted a little verse this morning which has disappeared.
It was based in the send up of German leadership in WW2, sung to the tune of the Col. Bogey march. I was just imagining being arrested if caught singing it.
Anyway, take 2:

Hamas, had only one brass ball
Houthi, had 2 but very small
Nasrallah was just plain yella
And poor old Hezballs had no balls at all.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 1, 2024 6:31 pm

A peaceful, non-violent movement (the Tele):

The state opposition has criticised a planned candlelight vigil for Palestine and Lebanon on October 7 as “incredibly insensitive” and urged organisers to choose another date.

The vigil, organised by the Palestine Action Group Sydney, is intended to mourn “12 months of genocide and terrorism.”

The date marks one year since Hamas’ forces stormed through Israel’s defences leading killing more than 1000 people.

Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.

Rosie
Rosie
October 1, 2024 6:31 pm

Oh wonderful.
Two wankers chatting at the charging stations.
Go away.
Upper middle twats.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 1, 2024 6:39 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 1, 2024 6:50 pm

Utterly sickening’: Dutton call to stop Oct 7 pro-Palestine gatheringAs police consider a Palestinian Action Group request for a candlelight gathering one year after Hamas fighters killed over 1200 people in Israel, Peter Dutton wants a court order to prevent it.

Daily Tele.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 1, 2024 6:51 pm

Oh wonderful.

Two wankers chatting at the charging stations.

Go away.

Upper middle twats.

Hehe, Rosie, perfect lead in to this story today!

EV drivers more likely to be involved in at-fault road traffic crashes than petrol and diesel drivers, study reveals (TechXplore, 30 Sep)

Drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) are more likely to be involved in at-fault road traffic accidents than drivers of petrol and diesel cars, research by Lero, the Research Ireland Center for Software, at University of Limerick and Universitat de Barcelona, reveals.

In the analysis of insurance claims and data from onboard sensors, published in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention, the Lero researchers reveal a number of key findings:

– Electric and hybrid drivers exhibit different behaviors than drivers of traditional vehicles.

– Electric vehicles record more at-fault claims than traditional vehicles.

Entitled holy Gaia-chariot drivers are entitled! I ‘m always amused when I’m following a green smugmobile. Wary, yes, but also amused.

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