“That doesn’t explain the other half hour of time where he just shuffled around to the music, grinning like an idiot.”
Bee line from Cenk, who of course timed it at 39 minutes precisely.
It’s Monty from Ballarat everything I write is copied straight from twitter, to the cat.
johanna
October 16, 2024 8:20 am
There are so many lies in this piece of blatant propaganda that I feel like the proverbial mosquito in a nudist colony – I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin:
Mr Bowen said the pilot covering the Thirroul-based postcode of 2515 was designed to generate “meaningful data” for the government on how solar panels and batteries affected the grid.
State and territory energy ministers agreed earlier this year to put more consumers in charge of the energy they generated on their roofs, as well as batteries “that they’ll have available in their driveway,” Mr Bowen said at the launch.
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BoN may be able to correct me, but when I lived in The Shire, Thirroul was somewhere around Wollongong. Has it moved to Newcastle while we weren’t looking?
I simply can’t understand how errors like this are tolerated by an outfit that claims to be a ‘trusted news source.’ This is not a mistake about an obscure province in Khasakistan. Millions of Australians know that Thirroul is not ‘near Newcastle’ – but apparently, none of them work at TheirABC.
After all, neither location is adjacent to inner city Sydney.
And they expect us to believe their ‘reporting’ about other topics?
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Thirroul is a suburb of Newcastle…
thefrollickingmole
October 16, 2024 8:24 am
Bowen, the brick with beady little rat eyes shows the intelligence we all knew he had,.
Karen Middleton
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, did not alert his cabinet colleagues that he intended to buy a $4.3m waterfront property on the NSW Central Coast “and nor should he have”, according to the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen.
Bowen has defended Albanese’s decision to purchase the clifftop home at Copacabana, saying he is entitled to “plan a property portfolio”. He told ABC RN:
Every Australian is entitled to buy and sell property now. Anthony cops it when he sells a property. He cops it when he provides a rent holiday to his tenants. He cops it when he buys a property. I think most average Australians say, ‘Fair enough. This is what aspiration is about.’ Most average Australians say, ‘Well, we all buy and sell properties.’ We should be judged on our policies.
A man who has made a virtue out of growing up in public housing with a single mum has bought a $4.3m beachside property as a holiday house. Bowen can’t see that Albo totally exploded the misnomer that he’s connected to working class issues in one fell swoop. Cretin.
PARIS, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Europe must cancel its plan to ban new fossil fuel-emitting cars from 2035 to reduce reliance on China’s battery supply chain and play to its technological strengths, BMW’s chief executive said on Tuesday.
Oliver Zipse, who has long pushed for regulators to permit various technologies – including alternative fuels like e-fuels or biofuels and hydrogen fuel cell cars – said the mood in Europe was “trending towards one of pessimism” and the region needed a new regulatory framework to remain competitive.
“A correction of the 100% BEV target for 2035 as part of a comprehensive CO2-reduction package would also afford European OEMs less reliance on China for batteries,” Zipse said at the Paris Motor Show, adding: “To maintain the successful course, a strictly technology-agnostic path within the policy framework is essential.”
The wheeze about Chinese batteries is fun. He wants to say that the government is nuts but he dares not incur their wrath, so he’s using the battery thing as a useful squirrel. I wonder if BMW will survive?
There is going to be a tremendous shakeout of the vehicle industry throughout the West as the car manufacturers try to survive the EV disaster. It’s going to take an enormous amount of taxpayer money, and a lot of mergers and bankruptcies.
Who will survive?
And cars will just get uglier and more of the same. Choice is what is under pressure not just in type of engine but the shape and look of the cars. It will be grey Trabants for anyone who can afford a car. Of course, the rich and famous will still have their custom made pretty and fast cars.
If Israel can blow up pagers, what can China do with batteries? Imagine the gridlock if all the Chinese ev batteries blow up or even just stop at the one time?
That article dates from before the case was resolved in favour of Mr. Horne & against the Raisin Control Board. That took another 2 yrs, being decided in 2015.
The case has its own wikipedia page; which includes this jaw-dropping revelation regards the mentality of the “wise” latina:
Chief Justice Roberts rejected Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s contention that the raisin reserve requirement is a mere condition on the privilege of being in the raisin market. Rather, Chief Justice Roberts held that selling produce “is not a special government benefit that the Government may hold hostage.”
That line is a match for Obama’s “You didn’t build that!” about successful businesses.
Farmer Gez
October 16, 2024 8:29 am
And the battery scam begins.
This scheme is the first attempt to get households to invest in significant battery storage that can be commandeered by AEMO.
The ISP modeled this input as providing nearly half the storage needed to backup renewable generation. Private storage put to public use. The model suggests this source of storage would provide the same capacity as our current coal generation. I kid thee not!
Look at the language and trickery that Bowen & Albo use to dress up theft of private investments.
Looks like sending the apprentice to the shop for a metric shifting spanner is not on:
The fallout from a dangerous and callous workplace prank at the hands of a high country plumber has left a family reeling two years later and the government promising change.
Jenson Curtin, 19, was thrown into the back of a toolbox on a utility vehicle and driven 30km down a road outside Mansfield while his boss at the time, James Herz, 31, laughed at his pleas for help.
Mr Curtin said he was still “haunted” by the events of February 2022, which had made it hard for him to trust others and caused him to have trouble sleeping and concentrating on everyday tasks.
But wait! Here’s the Victorian government and they’re here to help:
Traumatic incidents like the one still affecting Mr Curtin have prompted the Victorian government to launch a $9m package to improve safety and mental health support for apprentices and trainees.
The Education Department in South Australia is running intensive family services programs to re-engage kids with school. But why is a RAP necessary for such work, asks Johns. “And why is this a reconciliation activity?”
Probably it is easier to get Commonwealth grants for “reconciliation” than it is for “close the gap”.
This is the central issue in this gluepot of rorts- existing Government departments should be doing the job, including the 1%, without a parallel department running alongside.
Separate services needed because “ culturally sensitive”? – must be why we have all those separate service stations, KFC stores and supermarkets for them.
rugbyskier
October 16, 2024 8:39 am
Peter Stefanovic has been having fun on Sky News this morning with Barry Manilow’s kitsch classic, getting guests to sing Copacabana. That got me thinking that the Cat brains trust could do up a contemporary version.
I’ll get the ball rolling with the first lines of the verse and chorus:
His name was Albo, he was a houso….
At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of Can ber ra…
BTW, here are the original lyrics for the brains trust to work with:
Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor
They worked from eight ’til four
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa …
They fell in love (copa)
(copacabana)
His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair
He saw Lola dancin’ there
And when she finished
He called her over (whistle)
But Rico went a bit too far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew
And chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa (scream)
She lost her love
(copa copacabana)
(copa copacabana)
(copacabana)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh)
(copa copacabana)
(like in Havana)
(have a banana)
(music and passion)
(always the fashion)
Her name is Lola
She was a showgirl
But that was thirty years ago
When they used to have a show
Now it’s the disco
But not for Lola
Still in the dress she used to wear
Faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined and drinks herself half-blind
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
Now she’s lost her mind
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa …
Don’t fall in love (copa)
Don’t fall in love
Great song. Brings back memories of staying last year in Copa Beach looking across from our hotel’s rooftop pool to Brazil’s most famous gangsta rapper’s pad where he was having a party on the rooftop next door. There was a fracas going on over something.
I don’t know how Vance doesn’t punch these smug and ignorant interviewers in the face.
Constantly interrupting and changing the subject.
He’s obviously got more self control than me.
Oh – and interviewers.
🙂
The Albanese government’s new temporary humanitarian visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Gaza is a welcome first step, advocates say, but they warn the three-year option to stay is not good enough for those who have no home to return to. Rasha Abbas, founder of the charity group Palestine Australia Relief and Action, said members of the community had been socially, financially and emotionally supporting the traumatised new arrivals who had been denied access to healthcare, housing or working rights for the past 11 months.
Meanwhile, the Greens senator David Shoebridge said delays in launching the humanitarian pathway in response to Gaza showed Labor had been “dragged into treating people with basic dignity”. The Department of Home Affairs quietly published details about its temporary humanitarian stay visas last Thursday, which offer newly arrived Palestinians the possibility of a three-year visa with access to Medicare, benefit payments and working and studying rights. More than 1,300 Palestinians have arrived in Australia on visitor visas since the conflict began on 7 October 2023.
UK media is reporting that the LIV golf rebel tour board is about to sack its CEO Greg Norman and switch him to a lesser role in the organisation.
The Arabs at the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, who back the LIV tour, have finally figured it is a problem having a lifelong PGA Tour hater leading the organisation.
Before leading LIV, Norman has complained for decades about the America-centricity of the PGA, which has always treated the golf world outside the USA as a poor cousin.
With Norman removed from the LIV leadership, the way is now open for the long-promised reconciliation between the rebel tour and the PGA Tour.
That would mean dropping restrictions on rebel tour players – that is, most of the world’s top golfers lured to LIV with huge contracts in the hundreds of million US dollars – from competing on the PGA Tour.
Oh.. and it’s hardly a black mark on the Shark’s read of the PGA as US-centric if what’s happening (and it is) is they (the PGA) are caving in only because it’s affecting the top US PGA player and want a Yank in charge at LIV.
Most sports strategies are how to maintain their monopolies without falling foul of the various antitrust laws. The PGA tour is no different. It coexists quite nicely alongside the European tour with the Majors providing the joint highlights. The Saudis were one of the few who could upset that apple cart.
Boambee John
October 16, 2024 9:04 am
Response to Gez at 0829, freed from the nest.
Is AEMO a Commonwealth organisation?
If it is, it will run foul of the “on just terms” clause in the Constitution.
The battery capacity theft could, however, be done by the states, which do not have such clauses, as Howard did with the native vegetation destruction of farms.
Winston Smith
October 16, 2024 9:10 am
Sancho:
I would argue that Luigi pushing on with all sorts of Macarena and troof-telling is one of many things pissing off voters.
According to the ABC, Luigi plays golf at a genius level – 38-under-par 34 for the latest game at the Royal Canberra Golf Course. So there.
Janet Albrechtsen article on Reconciliation Action Plans posted earlier is brilliant. Law firm of 100 has RAP but does not employ any Aboriginals, classic.
Actually it is even better, the “firm” with 100 staff yet zero aboriginals is … the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, which
has adopted a RAP because “the majority of Australians are the direct beneficiaries of the removal of land and power from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”
Eighteen years of “Reconciliation Action” – yet none in the office.
The law firm was in the subsequent paragraph: Hives Legal, which claims “sovereignty has never been ceded”, yet never employed an Aboriginal.
alwaysright
October 16, 2024 9:29 am
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
The Kamel will trip on the steps of AF1, fall, break her neck and Weirdo Walz will have a heart attack.
Hillary will enter, stage Left, and save the day.
Of course.
Bollocks. The Dems are so pathetic now they can’t even cheat anymore. They all want Trump to win so they can make money in a rising economy by having the perfect hate figure in the Whitehouse. Look at CNN and MSNBC. They both did so well when they could continually lie about Trump. As soon as he left office they and plenty of other lefty organisations started losing money.
the fact is that the Dems are having a civil war behind the
scenes. Many of them will only give Harris the
minimum of help.
johanna
October 16, 2024 9:29 am
Most average Australians say, ‘Well, we all buy and sell properties.’
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Quoth Bowen, the most tone deaf politician since Billy McMahon told pensioners to save up and move to India, as per the famous Petty cartoon.
The ‘average Australians’ who are couch surfing or living in their cars or are renting and a month away from a rent increase, or who are joining the queue of 20-30 people trying to find a rental – he’s the Marie Antoinette of Australian politics.
No doubt ‘we’ all buy and sell properties. Says it all.
That’s staggering.
$1600 to launch a kilo into space.
I’ll pay the cost of sending The Albonaut into Low Earth Orbit. He can provide the suit and stuff if he wants to.
The Albonaut will make a pretty meteor shower as its orbit decays. I’ll make up my costs by having a Book on it.
(Didn’t we have a bookie here at one stage? Who was it and are they still around?)
When I got to work this morning I asked a couple of my employees what they thought of Albo and his new house. Both are minimum wage dyed in the wool labor voters. They are dumbfounded and disgusted. Neither can believe he could buy a house now when so many can’t even get a roof over their head. One of them has a friend couch surfing at their house right now.
I will be very interested in the next polls. Both the greens and LNP will get a bump and I think Albo goes into Negative on popularity. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a leadership spill in the new year if the RBA keeps doesn’t drop rates.
This is an organisation that is described as endemically racist. What has it got to boast about? Who are the embedded racists?When will the racists be purged?
Until then, they have nothing, nothing, to boast about.
Compare it to the rapturous glee they will have when Alan Jones carks it. Adams, Marr, Carlton, FitzSimons et al will be vomitous in their gloating. He can only hope to outlast them.
They gave a glowing send-off to their pederasty-promoting Richard Neville and resurrected an old interview about his mission of ‘lancing the conservative boil’. That could be the ABC’s motto.
Is he? Burqa is from the right as is Chalmers. I think Blubbers has inside rails, being a wimmens and all but she is from the left and wouldn’t have the numbers unless Albo walks. Chalmers could bring some much needed QLD seats but they would definitely lose Grayndler once Albo is gone.
Everything will change after the election. Albo won’t be round for long whatever happens. Hard to see Plibbers as a generational change leader. More R-G-R deadwood. Not sure Chalmers would get up either. The Liars not bristling with talent.
Farmer Gez
October 16, 2024 10:11 am
AEMO is 60% owned and controlled by Fed & Sate governments – COAG. 40% is energy company sector.
They draw their income from transmission access & distribution fees.
Victoria had already put in place “emergency” powers to access private batteries for public use.
AEMO is 100% owned by Australian governments. As only 40% of voting members are from industry, that makes it owned and controlled by Australian governments.
Roger
October 16, 2024 10:13 am
Victoria had already put in place “emergency” powers to access private batteries for public use.
What’s next…”emergency” powers to access your spare bedroom to ease the government created housing crisis?
There’s been quite a bit of gaslighting on this in the media lately.
Who’s leaking against albansleazy on the modest cottage purchase? If I were a betting man, my money would be on dim chambers
A couple of observations on this kerfuffle. As we know, our beloved politicians are notoriously “in touch” with the concerns of the average voter – two obvious examples of this include all the money, time and gaseous emissions wasted on flogging the screech and the need to import many thousands of violent useless genocidal Jew hating terrorist sex pests into Sydneystan and Mosquebourne.
It’s not so much their deliberately engineered housing crisis, albansleazy’s “unexplained wealth” or even the purchase of the modest coastal cottage itself, it’s the sheer blatant unrepentant hypocrisy that gives me the f*cking proverbials.
Never forget, albansleazy is a torrie fighting communist. Owning several multi-million dollar properties sort of doesn’t really equate with his “passionately” held political views.
As for “the likeable albansleazy” no such creature has ever existed outside of the feverish imagination of imbeciles like “richo”. He’s always been a loathsome deadsh*t for as long as I’ve had the misfortune to be aware of his pointless existence, beginning back when he was my local feral MP and his equally repulsive wife was the local state MP.
Evolution as an explanation for life is crap.
Consider: evolution requires that cells contain a sophisticated editing and transcribing mechanism that is almost miraculously tuned to produce random errors over thousands of generations.
Where did this mechanism come from?
Why it evolved, they say.
How can something evolve BEFORE the mechanism required existed?
How can the mechanism of evolution evolve into existence? By definition it can’t.
Therefore you are left with the basic problem: both the information and cellular mechanisms coming into existence through random molecular interactions: impossible.
This problem is equivalent in complexity to all three of: a plant to produce cars, the cars and the blueprints for the cars and a written account of how to operate the car plant all coming into existence through random molecular interactions.
It isn’t just an information problem: without the mechanisms to process the information, the information is immediately lost.
As we know, our beloved politicians are notoriously “in touch” with the concerns of the average voter – two obvious examples of this include all the money, time and gaseous emissions wasted on flogging the screech and the need to import many thousands of violent useless genocidal Jew hating terrorist sex pests into Sydneystan and Mosquebourne.
Thanks, Rabz. Couldn’t have said it better meself.
Quite the opposite: natural selection, the principal known mechanism of evolution, harnesses non random change by preserving “desirable” (adaptive) features and eliminating “undesirable” (non adaptive) ones.
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As an analogy, consider the 13-letter sequence TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Those hypothetical million monkeys, each pecking out one phrase a second, could take as long as 78,800 years to find it among the 2613 sequences of that length. But in the 1980s Richard Hardison of Glendale College wrote a computer program that generated phrases randomly while preserving the positions of individual letters that happened to be correctly placed (in effect, selecting for phrases more like Hamlet’s). On average, the program re-created the phrase in just 336 iterations, less than 90 seconds. Even more amazing, it could reconstruct Shakespeare’s entire play in just four and a half days.
Just amazing that the self-defeating aspect of this isn’t immediately apparent.
I see what you did: Hamlet is self defeating. They should have used Much Ado About Nothing.
Crossie
October 16, 2024 10:51 am
Bowen has defended Albanese’s decision to purchase the clifftop home at Copacabana, saying he is entitled to “plan a property portfolio”.
Isn’t it nice how our politicians talk about a portfolio of properties while their voters can’t afford a first home or even a place to rent? I hope these voters remember it at the next election. These politicians need to be retired from parliaments so they can spend more time with their property portfolios.
I’m not sure Bowen is worth listening to on anything.
Bungonia Bee
October 16, 2024 10:57 am
Once again the Sky News report (from some chump in Jerusalem) says the IDF gave “no proof” that they had bombed a Hamas command centre. They never ask for proof of anything coming from the Gaza Galoots.
To make matters even worse, they included in the report “imagine having to watch members of your family killed”.
Tell the Israelis about it.
“Isn’t it nice how our politicians talk about a portfolio of properties while their voters can’t afford a first home or even a place to rent?”
Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers:
Here’s the vision: everyone living in high-rise apartments close to railway stations in the middle suburbs. Windows, sunlight, ventilation and carparking all optional. Current minimum size requirements to be scaled back. In a nutshell, this is the solution proposed by the NSW Productivity and Equality Commission to the current housing supply challenges in that state. There is no mention of the need to restrict demand for housing by curtailing the migrant intake…
But just in case you are worried about living in an apartment with no sunlight, the NSW Productivity and Equality Commission tells us there could be a lower incidence of melanoma – I kid you not.
She also hints at the corruption that feeds off this dystopic vision.
Here’s the vision: everyone living in high-rise apartments close to railway stations in the middle suburbs.
First saw that in Vancouver in 2014 where high rise residential buildings were built right over the train stations. This meant no parking either as the residents were expected to travel to work and everywhere else by train.
I noticed that the same sort of thing is being planned for the metro line between St Marys and the Western Sydney Airport.
The labor movement has totally pushed aside heritage listing of buildings and health, safety and liveability measures for residents of the county on the altar of sustaining high levels of immigration. No one has outlined exactly why it’s more important for those people to live here than to solve the issues in their own countries that see them wanting to leave in the first place.
Probably like Barr’s fetish for apartments in Canberra, which sources tell me is payola for the CFMEU. Freestanding houses (which are only for mere breeders anyway) tend to built by small independent builders, but apartments are built by the big, unionised firms.
This mirrors the plan here in Vicco – the Suburban Rail Loop folly is merely the Trojan horse for the State to declare massively relaxed new height and density criteria around the ‘station’ precincts, tax the uplift in land value with their 50% Windfall Gains Tax, reward their CFMEU paymasters with the construction work and industry super investments in Build To Rent flats.
Bruce of Newcastle
October 16, 2024 11:08 am
Once again the Sky News report (from some chump in Jerusalem) says the IDF gave “no proof” that they had bombed a Hamas command centre.
IDF intelligence identified a regional UNRWA clinic that had been taken over by terrorists and turned into a weapons storage facility and a hideout for terrorists in the area. The terrorists who had barricaded themselves in the clinic fired at the troops and were eliminated. Additionally, directed by IAF aircraft, the soldiers eliminated a terrorist cell that fired at them from within the clinic. Following the elimination of the terrorists, numerous secondary explosions were observed, indicating a hidden weapons stockpile.
All those exploding pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments! It’s amazing that health care is so exothermic these days.
Winston Smith
October 16, 2024 11:10 am
So according to the antigen theory, the vaccine should be having it’s greatest impact in terms of side effects, with AB+, then A+, B+. O should have the least side effects.
Is this borne out in the study?
Black Ball
October 16, 2024 11:18 am
Why hasn’t this been thought of before? Gaza could well have been resolved by the Wong Chap long ago had she received advice. Herald Sun:
A move to take a First Nations approach to Australia’s foreign policy has drawn criticism from strategy experts, who fear the move could result in the Albanese Government losing the “hard-edge” analysis needed for global strategy.
Emails obtained by the Herald Sun show a third-party engaged by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade reaching out to Indigenous stakeholders for roundtable meetings, to work “on the development of a strategy to embed First Nations approaches to foreign policy”.
The email was sent by strategy firm Inside Policy on the behalf of First Nations People Ambassador Justin Mohamed, whose role – which pays up to $326,000 and last year had a budget of $350,000 for international travel – Opposition leader Peter Dutton vowed he would abolish if elected next year.
Indigenous activist Warren Mundine and defence experts said the move could hobble Australia on the world stage.
“My concern is are we creating a situation where it can clash with what our foreign interests are,” Mr Mundine said.
“It’s a different field altogether – security, defence, trade and strong relationships on the international stage – you need people sitting there who work in these areas and understand that diplomacy.”
“It’s important we focus on those real international issues that work for our domestic benefit – it’s not something you can walk in the door and start talking about, you actually need a lot of experience in it.”
Strategic Analysis Australia director Michael Shoebridge said: “You never want your foreign policy hijacked by a narrow sector of your community”.
A spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Penny Wong criticised Mr Dutton over his vow to abolish the costly First Nations ambassador role.
“As the Foreign Minister has said, it’s disappointing that Mr Dutton doesn’t see a role for Indigenous Australians in representing Australia. He divides us at home, and he diminishes us in the world,” she said.
Wow. Just wow.
Mr Mohamed can’t even get domestic policy right with the sinking of the Voice referendum, yet wants a seat at the table with the big hitters to do….what exactly?
It would be comical in the extreme if these dickheads weren’t serious.
FMD
More proof we’d be better off without the Canbra shitstain on this wonderful country.
Sancho Panzer
October 16, 2024 11:22 am
alwaysright
October 16, 2024 9:29 am
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
No doubt the cheat is being planned.
Some of the critical states (e.g. Florida) which are conservative might be mounting intel and sting operations to catch them out. Imagine the impact of pulling over a van on election night driven by a Dimocratic operative with boxes full of pre-filled Kamal-toe votes.
Of course, the Dimocrats could easily be setting up similar false-flag street theatre ops to convince the world Donald is cheating.
Of course, most people introduced to evolution won’t on their own question it.
They’ll just accept that all life evolved from single cell ancestors.
This simplistic explanation of the origins of life will inform their values, and make, in their subconscious minds, everything permissible: if we are “just” evolved slime, what is above me? Nothing.
The only way to construct meaning from this is the Petersonian idea of hierarchies and therefore values being somehow intrinsic to the underlying structure of reality.
Good luck getting 99% of the population understanding that evolved slime can be required to have good values because of some incomprehensible patterns detected by a Canadian muppet.
You obviously have no concept of geological time, measured not in years, or centuries, but millenia.
m0nty
October 16, 2024 11:31 am
The simulation theory of cosmology is fine except for it being untestable, not explaining anything at all and functionally indistinguishable from religion.
The self pleasuring of TheirABC over Negus is just another example of their culture of self glorification.
I see even some conservatives issuing a statement of The Sads at George’s passing.
Think about this.
If he was still plying his trade today, he would be earnestly telling us about the “legitimate grievances” of Ham-arse and Hezbollocks.
Let’s start with Arwa’s Little Walk poll. On Monday I counted all the political signs I saw displayed in people’s houses on the 10-minute walk from my house to my child’s preschool. The final tally? Twenty-six Harris/Walz signs, zero Trump signs and one sign for “Giant Meteor 2024”. (That sign did not belong to me, but I share the sentiment.) In short: a giant meteor has a better chance of winning my little stretch of Philadelphia than Trump. What does this mean? Well, it means I live in a liberal bubble. And, also, that I might be on some kind of neighbourhood watch list now because I peered into so many strangers’ windows.
We’ll call the next experiment the Rascal Eats a Treat poll. I put a brown treat in one hand (representing Harris) and a pink treat in another (representing Trump), then I asked my dog Rascal to pick a hand. Much to Rascal’s delight, I conducted this experiment multiple times. And guess what? Every single time he picked the Harris indicator.
Prez is important but House & Senate do the legislating. The 2022 “half term” election was a disappointment, hope the 2024 isn’t.
Pogria
October 16, 2024 12:05 pm
Victoria’s Secret has gone back to using slim, pretty women on the catwalk again.
hahahahahaha The fat, ugly and tranny chicks that were included six years ago almost destroyed the company.
It’s a front for public servants & compliant consultants to give the government of the day tailor made “expert” reports to back up pre-decided policy decisions.
It used to be the NSW Productivity Commission, then Labor added Equality.
It will be. They don’t start with “Equity”. They start with Equality and then rely on illiteracy to change it “organically”.
Steve trickler
October 16, 2024 12:18 pm
That Booster grab still spins me out. You have got to love the emotion of Elon’s staff.
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Valuetainment – PBD:
Elon Musk’s SpaceX achieves a historic rocket booster recovery, sparking a discussion on his cost-cutting innovation and potential role in Trump’s cabinet. The team dives into space travel, politics, and more.
“Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers”.
For some reason, stories like this always make Mussolini’s last moments flash through my mind.
There’s apartment living like central Paris and Spain with magnificent boulevards and parks. And there is apartment living like UK and Victoriastan public housing blocks. Mirvac and Meriton fall somewhere in between.
I think these sound more like the ones in East Germany after WW2.
Sounded so good the French copied them.
They figured the plebs were social creatures and would be happy in massive blocks of grey concrete all together in their own little community. Not prone to dv, depression, suicide and general malaise.
Saw some horrendous examples in the UK 45 years ago.
Come home via the stairs because the lift was too dangerous, lock the door at 5pm and come out the next morning and walk across to some black hole of Calcutta like factory. Single mums, violence, robbery, drugs,graffiti and so on.
Pro-Palestine protesters reportedly heckled Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong off a stage at the University of Tasmania on Tuesday evening. Senator Wong was launching the Australian government’s new humanitarian policy and in a copy of the speech distributed afterwards, intended to renew calls for “clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood” and a “diplomatic solution, de-escalation, and ceasefire in Lebanon”.
She had intended to say Peter Dutton “is at odds with the international community – but he still can’t bring himself to back a ceasefire”.
Senator Wong was heckled by protesters at her delivery of the Sir James Plimsoll Lecture at the University of Tasmania.
Protesters yelled at Senator Wong and interrupted the address on multiple occasions, criticising government policy on the Israel-Hamas war and calling on her to sanction the Jewish state.
Mean girl Pong getting out meaned by pro Hamas and Hezbollah scum.
Gaza: Terrorists who fired on IDF soldiers from UNRWA clinic eliminated.
The video is inconclusive. We do see some fire from a hole in the wall but you don’t see people or tents outside the structure, nor is the structure geolocated as adjacent to the camp. Also, the airstrike misses the building. Surely they have some better drone footage of the alleged firefight then that.
The RINOs might not have, but that Trumpsters surely have.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 16, 2024 12:40 pm
Lufthansa fined $4 million for stopping 128 Jewish passengers from boarding flightJoseph Pisani
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Lufthansa was fined $4 million by U.S. regulators, who accused the German airline of discriminating against 128 Jewish passengers by stopping them from making a connecting flight due to the alleged misbehaviour of a few flyers.
The passengers, who were going from New York City to Budapest in May 2022 for an annual memorial event in honour of an Orthodox rabbi, weren’t allowed to board a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany, the U.S. Transportation Department said.
On the first leg of the flight, some passengers said they were told by the crew to wear face masks and not to stand in the aisles. The passengers said they didn’t see anyone that didn’t comply. Lufthansa at the time required passengers to wear a face mask, while U.S. and German law prohibit passengers from assembling in aisles or galley areas during a flight.
The captain of the flight informed a Lufthansa security manager of misbehaviour by passengers travelling on to Budapest. No specific passengers were identified, according to the Transportation Department. Still, the airline put a hold on more than 100 passengers’ tickets.
In Frankfurt, the gate staff called the names of passengers allowed to board, and left the 128 travellers waiting at the gate “confused and upset” as the plane left, the Transportation Department said.
Most of the 128 passengers were wearing clothing worn by Orthodox Jews, such as black hats, pants and jackets. They told the Transportation Department that they were treated like they were a group of one, even though many didn’t know each other, “because they were openly and visibly Jewish.” Lufthansa tweeted an apology several days after the flight, saying it regretted that “the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests.” The Transportation Department said the $4 million fine is the largest it has issued against an airline for civil-rights violations. Half of the fine must be paid within 30 days. The other $2 million was credited to Lufthansa for paying back the affected passengers.
Penalties for civil-rights violations by airlines are somewhat uncommon, as proving discrimination can be difficult. Airlines are more commonly fined for customer-service violations such as not providing required refunds.
“No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry that we are prepared to investigate and take action whenever passengers’ civil rights are violated,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Agree, but it doesn’t augur well for free speech on university campuses.
I mentioned on Monday the American jurist Robert H. Bork’s first-hand reminiscences and analysis of 1960’s US campus unrest in his book ‘Slouching Towards Gomorrah’.
The “pro-Palestinian” protesters are using the same bullying tactics and the university administrators are making the same cowardly mistakes here.
Very true, but the fact that they are attacking Govt leaders has to be a plus.
Unless, of course Wong see these incidents as public endorsement of even more radical jew hate.
Sancho Panzer
October 16, 2024 12:55 pm
Roger earlier:-
It used to be the NSW Productivity Commission, then Labor added Equality.
Reminds me of that old ’90’s concept of the “triple bottom line”, which referenced social, environmental and economic performance of an entity (or the 3 P’s … People, Planet and Profits). Fantastic opportunity for lazy CEOs to avoid bothering about fiscal responsibility and opened the door for HR Karens to cut loose with “look after our people” spendathons. Surprisingly, shareholders mostly didn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about the first two in the trilogy and were only interested in cash returns. Still are, despite all the posturing about ethical investing.
Hey JC, if you get that Merc G-wagen and want it to have a semblance of off-road cred, get a set of aftermarket Sunraysia wheels and a batwing awning. That shall definitely look the goods.
Paul Higgins, who was a journo and columnist for Wheels magazine back when it was good, reckoned importing Harrod’s spray-on mud was the finishing touch for Toorak-tractor cred but I’m not sure if that’s still available. 😛
Heed them not, Mr JC
Instead chase up one of the 6×6 AMG Mercedes G-Wagons – there is amazing video online of one going through its paces in a desert in Saudi.
Get one of those you won’t need a batwing awning – your tent pole will suffice.
Steve trickler
October 16, 2024 1:17 pm
This clip would be great to play at a Uni Tavern on a Friday night. STEM students would laugh, all those in social ‘sciences‘ would be in fits of rage.
I heard or read a comment the other day saying US colleges are being asked by their prospective students for the kind of courses that will get them jobs with Musk. So some kids are planning forward.
Dad was born exactly 50 years later. He too could tell some ripping yarns, but not so elegantly.
bons
October 16, 2024 1:26 pm
Wong attacking Dutton over Gaza is strategic brilliance of the ‘buy a beachside mansion’ genre.
It used to be believed that they had no understanding of the peoples’ beliefs and concerns.
Now it has been proven that they don’t give a f*jk about what the people think. Their motivation is pure TLS. Place so many landmines that the incoming conservatives will not be able to cope.
The strategic brilliance is their understanding that the conservatives will lack the will and courage to overturn Labor treason. ‘Fair Work’ anyone?
Roger
October 16, 2024 1:33 pm
Reminds me of that old ’90’s concept of the “triple bottom line”, which referenced social, environmental and economic performance of an entity…
When the long march reached & entered the corporate world.
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 16, 2024 2:04 pm
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
Footy player need to get it through their heads that it’s a corporate workplace, the other players aren’t your friends they are colleagues and like the rest of us, work is now bitter and joyless. Take your pay, keep your mouth shut, stay away from the women and do your job until you are able to get the f*ck out.
Take your pay, keep your mouth shut, stay away from the women and do your job until you are able to get the f*ck out.
Great summary of my new approach to work after a bitter lesson. I was still operating on the old ways of open, robust discussion and got Karened. So I changed jobs before it got worse and have adopted that very plan
Went to see the heart surgeon this morning. He’s very pleased with my progress. He told me it was touch a go a few times if I’d make it. I thanked him for saving my life, he looked embarrassed.
I had 3 blockages found before any heart attack, one 15mm stent was all that was needed as the other 2 were either in the end too small for stenting or around 30% so he didn’t bother yet. I’m one of those asymptomatic types so I didn’t feel it, so get extra attention for my bodies failings.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 16, 2024 2:21 pm
Anthony Albanese’s political judgment on a cliff edge after $4.3m property buy
Labor values, as espoused by Anthony Albanese, Juli Gilliard, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke.
“The bruvvas live in waterfront mansions for the good of the working class.
The fact that none of us would know a member of the working class, if we fell over one in the street, is neither here nor there.”
Football clubs are now the most corporate of corporate workplaces.
They ain’t your mates.
They’re at the cutting edge of the culture wars and essentially the biggest trophy that the woke have taken so far.
Let ‘em have it.
Haven’t watched a big sporting event in a decade.
Don’t miss it, couldn’t care less.
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Steve trickler
October 16, 2024 2:29 pm
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 16, 2024 2:04 pm
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
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I’ll never watch AFL again. Only suburban footy.
Cut out this ‘Welcome to Country’ BS, ditch the Indigenous round and any other round like gay pride ( not sure if the the AFL does that ) and I’ll go back to watching it.
The only thing that should remain is Anzac Day commemorations.
I used to love all that.
Bledisloe cup, Kiwis v Kangaroos, NRL, VFL, AFL, one day cricket internationals, Melbourne Cup, MotoGP, Bathurst. State of origin.
What a waste of time and involvement it all was.
Humans always fall for hype.
And an excuse to sit and watch other men exert themselves while we drink beer.
Beer.
I mostly blame beer.
“The group of players that have been suspended are the ones who were allegedly involved in the skits that were disrespectful.
And this is the exact moment the players should call a strike. The negotiating settlement should include the people responsible ramming their heads up dead bears bums and being made to perform an improv comedy routine in front of the assembled players. Those who fail to get a giggle are fed to the dingoats.
Lord mayoral hopeful Arron Wood has taken a big chance in promising $10m of ratepayers’ money to bring ABBA’s virtual concert to Docklands, if elected to the city’s top job.
These cocks seem to fail to understand the role of government.
It’s the role of private businesses to invest in entertainments, and the role of governments to pave the roads, remove the garbage and lock up graffiti “artists” so that the entertainment going public might wish to go to the private venues providing such entertainments.
And the private companies compete for that public.
How would you feel as a rate paying entertainment provider knowing your rates are going to pay for competition?
And the government using your rates for such aren’t on the hook if the venture fails?
And there is still potholes everywhere and graffiti artists walking free and whatever eco lunacy is going on with the waste removal.
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Bourne1879
October 16, 2024 2:46 pm
In the past week there have been multiple articles about protecting kids on social media. Pretty much all blame the social media companies. Today the Courier Mail had an editorial on the subject. Below is my rejected comment.
“Surely it should be the responsibility of the parents to not allow the child to have access to the media where the bullying was taking place. Or the teachers talking to the children and their parents involved in the bullying. I was speaking to a mother the other day of an 8 year old and 10 years old. She mentioned she wanted to get them basic phones that could call and text only. The father ended up buying them an expensive IPhone”
There is nothing controversial about my comment. However we are now dealing with a new “narrative” from mainstream media. That is that social media is entirely to blame and the not so subtle aim is to make life difficult for social media. Naturally this fits in with what the Government wants.
The Courier Mail has been noticeably quiet on Misinformation Bill and the editor must have previously worked at Pravda. Perfect Government stooge.
The MSM are all in with social media as the enemy. A agile competitor, So anything to nobble them and portray them as the bad guy and get government to create competitive barriers.
It’s not all social media, Elon Musk and his X are the main targets of the liberal/leftie establishment who pretend to care about kids while going after their ideological enemy.
Steve trickler
October 16, 2024 2:47 pm
calli
October 16, 2024 2:22 pm
Home a day early. They turfed me out for bad behaviour!
Thank goodness for that. The woman in the room next door had her tv up to ludicrous volume and took all her calls on speaker.
Paying a shedload for private rooms doesn’t guard against bad neighbours. As the cliffside denizens of Copacabana may soon discover.
Worked in a Private Hospital for a year.
Generally patients were quite good, but every now and then you’d get patients like that.
Loud, obnoxious, demanding and wouldn’t carry out the docs regimes of recuperation – and always on the buzzer.
Always threatening to complain to the doc, admin, the Health Fund, the Nurses Registration Board.
Never went back to the Private System after that. I was there to help – not bend the knee to some neurotic’s whims because they were bored.
Rockdoctor
October 16, 2024 3:08 pm
Some parts I ordered out of the Netherlands arrived, 5 maybe into the 6th day tops.
I can’t even get a letter from Sydney or Melbourne that quick.
Some of my copies of the Speccie haven’t turned up at all; replacement copies finally arrived. Some articles have ceased to be topical; very annoying. Thankyou Auspost in Melbourne. We live only 2 hours away from there. The Speccie is always late anyway but non appearance is not acceptable.
At the same time, we have ordered items from the UK which have arrived in under a week.
thefrollickingmole
October 16, 2024 3:16 pm
Hairy Festeringpenis finaly comes out and supports Hamase unequivocally.
No @SenatorWong Hamas is not responsible for the genocide Israel is a terrorist state
What a piece of shit.
Winston Smith
October 16, 2024 3:18 pm
Leading political journalist calls banning the AfD an “authoritarian measure” that is “overdue,” insists that political repression is perfectly fine when it is exercised by a “constitutional state”
Today, Germany’s largest newsweekly, Die Zeit, has published a long piece by political editor Eva Ricarda Lautsch, in which she explains to 1.95 millions readers exactly why “banning the AfD is overdue.” The views she expresses are absolutely commonplace among elite German urbanites, and for this reason alone the article is sobering.
I know, not all Germans are like that, only the prominent ones. In fact, some are quite nice as I had a chance to find out on my recent visit to Berlin. Had an older German chap taxi driver who took a while to find the address where I needed to be. He simply apologised and said to pay him what I thought was fair seeing as he took so long.
thefrollickingmole
October 16, 2024 3:23 pm
I left a message on her page – block incoming in….
Just went back in time and checked out Hairys Grandmothers twitter feed. No surprises there.
No @”Doc” Evatt The Nazi party is not responsible for the genocide England is a terrorist state
Turnip
October 16, 2024 3:29 pm
Yes, there will be cheating in the US election, but this time they’re not going all out.
A few reasosn…Trump is too far ahead in most of the swing states and the polling is showing this…..and there are not the ballots floating around to be harvested as there were. This time a request had to be made as opposed to the mass mailouts of 2020 and 22.
However, the main reason is that the power players on the D side are not fans of Kamala and would like to see her lose (Biden’s and Clintons) or are positioning themselves for a run in 2028…Whitmer, Newsome, Shapiro so won’t be doing much to assist.
Steve trickler
October 16, 2024 3:49 pm
Avi:
The officer confirms details about how illegal immigrants are coached to exploit the system as residents are forced to deal with the influx of migrants.
1. Six states changed their election laws two months before the 2020 election by executive fiat, instead of going through the proper channels in the legislature. That is a violation of their state constitutions and that in and of itself is enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 election.
2. Mark Zuckerberg, hard left, spent $450 million dollars of private money on our elections. After the 2020 election analysis revealed that most of that money went to benefit Democrats.
3. 6 swing states stopped counting the votes on election night for the first time in American history. At the time that they stopped counting the votes, Donald Trump was ahead of Biden in each of them.
4. The unelected tech oligarchs in conjunction with the FBI in this country censored a very important story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Joe Biden’s corruption. People who worked in the intelligence community, came out and said it was Russian disinformation only to have that laptop be admitted into evidence as part of an FBI investigation and criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden. Polling after the election showed that if people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop story it would’ve changed 17% of the vote.
5. 2,036,041 ballots were touched by anomalies.
6. 923 American citizens filled out affidavits alleging voter fraud, and signed them under penalties of perjury.
7. 50 plus courts blocked evidentiary hearings into the alleged fraud found in 2020.
8. Prior to 2020 there were four other contested elections, one in Florida, one in the 78th district of Missouri, one in the ninth district of North Carolina, and one in the 22nd district of New York. In every single one of those four instances, there was an evidentiary hearing. In the 2020 election, there was no evidentiary hearing. For the first time in American history.
9. No election contest in American history has had 923 fact witnesses sign under penalties of perjury and stake their personal freedom in testimony to attest to the irregularities and legal issues found in various states.
10. 37 states in the United States of America altered their absentee or mail in ballots ballot integrity procedures before the 2020 election.
11. If those 37 states used the same ballot integrity procedures that they used in 2018, swing states would’ve found an upwards of 30,000 more ineligible ballots.
12. In Pennsylvania, counties allowed new ballots to be filled out after the election.
13. Any one of those is enough to say that there was enough fraud in the 2020 election to doubt the outcome. Can I prove Donald Trump would’ve won the election if the Democrats hadn’t cheated? No I can’t prove a counter-narrative, but I can tell you that this amount of fraud leads any reasonable person to the conclusion that Joe Biden didn’t win.
The insurrection therefore was on 11/3/2020.
1/6 was a lawful protest with permits that got out of hand. Unlike Democrats who spent 10 months burning down this country to the tune of $2 billion dollars, and injuring 740 police officers nationwide, the capital riot had a couple million dollars in damages, 140 police officers that were injured and zero deaths. Except the 3 Trump supporters who were unarmed and killed without any investigation by the corrupt government.
Anybody who is clutching their pearls about January 6 without mentioning the fact that there was a large federal presence and many anomalies that have yet to be answered is a liar and a partisan hack.
You sound like an uninformed stage 10 TDS patient who needs to detox from CNN and MSNBC.
You can endorse the cackling communist from California, but don’t you dare pretend like the reason why you’re doing it is because Donald Trump did something wrong.
Figures
October 16, 2024 4:09 pm
Turnip I agree it will be hard for the Dems to cheat this time although they will obviously try and try very hard.
But they absolutely do care.
Trump has learnt an awful lot from his previous time. He now knows that all Democrats are disgusting scum and will be looking to use all available means to destroy them – as he should. What are Dems going to do if Trump simply uses the same lawfare against his opponents as they have done against him? Every AG in every red state probably already has a bunch of indictments against various Democrat heavies ready to go so long as there is a semi-favourable Justice Department.
Not that it matters because being a leftist in and of itself should be a crime, but, unlike Trump, the likes of Pelosi and Schumer and Harris and Biden – and their lickspittles at CNN, NYT etc have no doubt committed many many actual felonies.
Indeed, even if Trump was inclined to forgive and forget, he has a family to think of. If he were to be voted out in 2028 in favour of a piece of shit those pieces will imprison all his family. He has no choice but to issue a pre-emptive strike.
Democracies were never meant to last – and thank God for that.
Top Ender
October 16, 2024 4:17 pm
Shirley not! A fighter jet?
Salim Mehajer to have time piled onto jail sentence
Salim Mehajer is staring down the barrel of having time added onto his already lengthy prison sentence as he waits to learn his fate over a staged car crash.
Mehajer, 38, appeared in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday having pleaded guilty to a string of charges, bringing a long-running saga to its final stages.
Mehajer in July entered guilty pleas to 22 charges, including making a false representation resulting in a police investigation, making a false call for an ambulance, negligent driving and perverting the course of justice.
The charges relate to a staged car accident in Sydney’s west in October in an effort to avoid appearing before a Local Court hearing.
His black Mercedes AMG smashed into another car at the intersection of Nicholas and Delhi streets in Lidcombe, with television crews at the scene capturing Mehajer being stretchered into an ambulance with his neck in a brace.
He also pleaded guilty to dealing with identity information to commit an indictable offence, relating to him nominating other drivers as being involved in traffic and road infringements.
The matter was slated to go to trial in 2020 before at the 11th hour it was vacated and has been the subject of lengthy legal delays.
After pleading guilty earlier this year, Mehajer faced a sentence hearing before Judge Warwick Hunt on Wednesday.
Mehajer has faced several trials over the last several years and the car crash charges represent the final matter for which he is before the courts.
His barrister, Ian McLachlan, told the court that Mehajer had in 2018 been diagnosed with bipolar, there was a causal connection between his condition and his offending, and he was suffering “grandiose thinking” at the time.
He asked Judge Hunt, who will hand down his sentence on Friday, to backdate Mehajer’s sentence.
“He’s obviously had a lot of time to think about his previous actions,” Mr McLachlan said, noting Mehajer had been in custody since November 2020 when he was convicted of two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath.
Mehajer came to the public’s attention in 2015 after his lavish wedding, featuring helicopters, fighter jets and dozens of luxury cars, shut down a street in Lidcombe.
The former Auburn deputy mayor is already in prison after he was found guilty in separate trials for unrelated fraud and domestic violence matters mid last year.
In a decision handed down earlier this year by District Court Judge James Bennett, Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and nine months in jail.
He was found guilty by a jury in May last year – following a trial in which he represented himself – of six charges comprising multiple counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of suffocating.
He was found guilty of assaulting a woman – who cannot be identified – by punching her in the head during an argument in his car, squeezing her hand and crushing her phone, which she was holding, and threatening to kill her mother.
The following month, he was found guilty by a jury of two counts each of making a false document and using a false document.
He was found to have created false documents by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and sister.
The offences related to events after he was declared bankrupt in March 2018. When police searched his home and found $6350 in cash, Mehajer subsequently provided an affidavit claiming the money belonged to his sister.
He was sentenced concurrently for both the fraud and domestic violence offences and will be eligible for parole in July next year after serving 3½ years.
His sentences were under a suppression order until he pleaded guilty to the staged car crash charges.
The court was told he had flagged his intention to appeal both his domestic violence and fraud convictions.
He will also next week appear in the Court of Criminal Appeal, where he will argue to be released on bail ahead of his appeal proceedings.
Poor Saleeem. His family name is derived from Haj and means conversion through migration. i.e. swamp the country with enough muz and everyone will have to convert. But at least he hired a bunch of drummers for his wedding.
Some interesting posts against evolution. The simulated universe idea is not a good one. The more interesting objections are the intelligent design and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The point is, as I said before evolution DOES NOT PRECLUDE a God unless you advocate Creationism and an age of the Earth of between 6000-10000 years. I presume there are no Creationists here?
Bledisloe cup, Kiwis v Kangaroos, NRL, VFL, AFL, one day cricket internationals, Melbourne Cup, MotoGP, Bathurst. State of origin.
What a waste of time and involvement it all was.
I hear you, Arky. But I don’t despair.
As I research materials for future writings, I simply don’t consume 90% of the media.
I am born and bred in Victoria and still love AFL football, which I have followed since birth, but I don’t consume any of the AFL’s regime media, like Fox Footy on Foxtel, because it’s populated by shameless AFL cocksuckers who’ll do whatever they have to to uphold the regime and all its cocksucking.
So the only media I consume during the day is the racing media, owned and controlled by the racing industry — the last holdout of animal husbandry against the ignorant onslaught of Greenfilth haters, who’ve never cared for any animal bigger than a dog.
Outlets like RSN.net.au deliberately avoid politics and produce only six hours of content a day in the mornings.
So-called sports radio outlets like the SEN network have become a green-left swamp who suck whatever amount of AFL cock is required to retain their AFL rights.
For example, SEN’s star sports caller Gerard Whateley is an ex-ABC fascist wedded to the left’s anti-democratic ideals, a fierce opponent of the Trump revolution and a Montyesque parrot for the Democratic Party.
Fox Footy has just fired Whateley’s long-term TV partner Mark Robinson, the Melbourne Herald Sun‘s chief AFL football writer. Pairing Whateley with Robinson 14 years ago was an act of programming genius, creating a TV odd couple that has been very popular.
Over the years, Robinson has become more woke and more like Whateley, but Fox Footy has decided to keep the nerdy, politically correct half of the odd couple and get rid of the bloke that daily deals with footy fans’ concerns at the Herald Sun.
That tells me Fox Footy no,longer cares about viewership and is prepared to flush its ratings down the toilet to keep the AFL happy.
Meantime, I don’t despair. Fascism is currently popular in Australia and the West, but fashions change daily.
“That doesn’t explain the other half hour of time where he just shuffled around to the music, grinning like an idiot.”
Bee line from Cenk, who of course timed it at 39 minutes precisely.
It’s Monty from Ballarat everything I write is copied straight from twitter, to the cat.
There are so many lies in this piece of blatant propaganda that I feel like the proverbial mosquito in a nudist colony – I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin:
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Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Tuesday launched a “community-led electrification trial” for 500 homes near Newcastle, backed by $5.4 million in Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding.
Mr Bowen said the pilot covering the Thirroul-based postcode of 2515 was designed to generate “meaningful data” for the government on how solar panels and batteries affected the grid.
State and territory energy ministers agreed earlier this year to put more consumers in charge of the energy they generated on their roofs, as well as batteries “that they’ll have available in their driveway,” Mr Bowen said at the launch.
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BoN may be able to correct me, but when I lived in The Shire, Thirroul was somewhere around Wollongong. Has it moved to Newcastle while we weren’t looking?
I simply can’t understand how errors like this are tolerated by an outfit that claims to be a ‘trusted news source.’ This is not a mistake about an obscure province in Khasakistan. Millions of Australians know that Thirroul is not ‘near Newcastle’ – but apparently, none of them work at TheirABC.
After all, neither location is adjacent to inner city Sydney.
And they expect us to believe their ‘reporting’ about other topics?
FMD.
Nope, Thirroul still appears to be where it has always been.
Thirroul, New South Wales (wiki)
Ignorant abc pricks
Anywhere beyond the goat’s cheese curtains of inner Sydney and Melbourne is just Boganville to the ABC.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Thirroul is a suburb of Newcastle…
Bowen, the brick with beady little rat eyes shows the intelligence we all knew he had,.
Karen Middleton
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, did not alert his cabinet colleagues that he intended to buy a $4.3m waterfront property on the NSW Central Coast “and nor should he have”, according to the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen.
Bowen has defended Albanese’s decision to purchase the clifftop home at Copacabana, saying he is entitled to “plan a property portfolio”. He told ABC RN:
He should be judged on how he made his fortune.
As a parasite on the taxpayer tit.
A rather thick, bespectacled, snaggle toothed hard man in Coward’s castle.
It would seem his fortune didn’t run to getting Mum out of public housing.
Meh. Should be called Anthony Labianese.
Or for short…
A man who has made a virtue out of growing up in public housing with a single mum has bought a $4.3m beachside property as a holiday house. Bowen can’t see that Albo totally exploded the misnomer that he’s connected to working class issues in one fell swoop. Cretin.
Yep. Another massive own goal by the Liars. Regardless of what Turtlehead Bowen says.
I’d be interested to know how he accumulated sufficient assets to purchase a 4 Million dollar ‘holiday home’.
When you hold a lot of gold, you tend to cheer for the accelerationist chaos option.
You shouldn’t admit things like that Monty, especially in lawless Melbournistan. Gold has a habit of growing legs, which is why I never invest in it.
Matthew 6:19-21
The BBC needs a really smart person to explain why hezbo needed all those weapons and tunnels in Southern Lebanon.
https://x.com/CAMERAorg/status/1846132755689603425?t=rjVdZtspsIxQZSSpTf_niA&s=19
Further to story about German EV drivers switching back to ICE cars:
BMW CEO: Europe must cancel petrol engine ban to reduce reliance on China (15 Oct)
The wheeze about Chinese batteries is fun. He wants to say that the government is nuts but he dares not incur their wrath, so he’s using the battery thing as a useful squirrel. I wonder if BMW will survive?
There is going to be a tremendous shakeout of the vehicle industry throughout the West as the car manufacturers try to survive the EV disaster. It’s going to take an enormous amount of taxpayer money, and a lot of mergers and bankruptcies.
Who will survive?
And cars will just get uglier and more of the same. Choice is what is under pressure not just in type of engine but the shape and look of the cars. It will be grey Trabants for anyone who can afford a car. Of course, the rich and famous will still have their custom made pretty and fast cars.
If Israel can blow up pagers, what can China do with batteries? Imagine the gridlock if all the Chinese ev batteries blow up or even just stop at the one time?
Noticeable that all the new affordable EV brands are Chinese – MG, BYD and others. BMW can see their lunch being eaten.
Old story, sounds like WA potato heads.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/09/210490760/the-raisin-outlaw-of-kerman-california
That article dates from before the case was resolved in favour of Mr. Horne & against the Raisin Control Board. That took another 2 yrs, being decided in 2015.
The case has its own wikipedia page; which includes this jaw-dropping revelation regards the mentality of the “wise” latina:
That line is a match for Obama’s “You didn’t build that!” about successful businesses.
And the battery scam begins.
This scheme is the first attempt to get households to invest in significant battery storage that can be commandeered by AEMO.
The ISP modeled this input as providing nearly half the storage needed to backup renewable generation. Private storage put to public use. The model suggests this source of storage would provide the same capacity as our current coal generation. I kid thee not!
Look at the language and trickery that Bowen & Albo use to dress up theft of private investments.
Is AEMO a Commonwealth organisation?
If it is, it will run foul of the “on just terms” clause in the Constitution.
The theft could be done by the states, which do not have such clauses, as Howard did with the native vegetation destruction of farms.
Link please, FG.
Looks like sending the apprentice to the shop for a metric shifting spanner is not on:
The fallout from a dangerous and callous workplace prank at the hands of a high country plumber has left a family reeling two years later and the government promising change.
Jenson Curtin, 19, was thrown into the back of a toolbox on a utility vehicle and driven 30km down a road outside Mansfield while his boss at the time, James Herz, 31, laughed at his pleas for help.
Mr Curtin said he was still “haunted” by the events of February 2022, which had made it hard for him to trust others and caused him to have trouble sleeping and concentrating on everyday tasks.
But wait! Here’s the Victorian government and they’re here to help:
Traumatic incidents like the one still affecting Mr Curtin have prompted the Victorian government to launch a $9m package to improve safety and mental health support for apprentices and trainees.
Herald-Sun
From the Janet A article.
Probably it is easier to get Commonwealth grants for “reconciliation” than it is for “close the gap”.
This is the central issue in this gluepot of rorts- existing Government departments should be doing the job, including the 1%, without a parallel department running alongside.
Separate services needed because “ culturally sensitive”? – must be why we have all those separate service stations, KFC stores and supermarkets for them.
Peter Stefanovic has been having fun on Sky News this morning with Barry Manilow’s kitsch classic, getting guests to sing Copacabana. That got me thinking that the Cat brains trust could do up a contemporary version.
I’ll get the ball rolling with the first lines of the verse and chorus:
His name was Albo, he was a houso….
At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of Can ber ra…
BTW, here are the original lyrics for the brains trust to work with:
Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor
They worked from eight ’til four
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa …
They fell in love (copa)
(copacabana)
His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair
He saw Lola dancin’ there
And when she finished
He called her over (whistle)
But Rico went a bit too far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew
And chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa (scream)
She lost her love
(copa copacabana)
(copa copacabana)
(copacabana)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(a-a-a-h-h-h…)
(aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh)
(copa copacabana)
(like in Havana)
(have a banana)
(music and passion)
(always the fashion)
Her name is Lola
She was a showgirl
But that was thirty years ago
When they used to have a show
Now it’s the disco
But not for Lola
Still in the dress she used to wear
Faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined and drinks herself half-blind
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
Now she’s lost her mind
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
(copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (copa) Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Copa …
Don’t fall in love (copa)
Don’t fall in love
Great song. Brings back memories of staying last year in Copa Beach looking across from our hotel’s rooftop pool to Brazil’s most famous gangsta rapper’s pad where he was having a party on the rooftop next door. There was a fracas going on over something.
But who will be Albo’s nemesis? Who’ll be Rico?
His mother, was on a cruuuuiise
she was porked on the boat by a waiter
It doesn’t really rhyme, Pogria.
But it’ll do.
Yes it does
Something, something
Wog bastard undergraduate old Trot
Doesnt rhyme either but I’m busy.
the american hunger games
I don’t know how Vance doesn’t punch these smug and ignorant interviewers in the face.
Constantly interrupting and changing the subject.
He’s obviously got more self control than me.
Oh – and interviewers.
🙂
Liz Cheney contacted controversial J6 witness on encrypted app behind lawyer’s back, messages show
Hands up everyone who is SHOCKED!!! to see the gaza temp visas being rolled over into more permeant ones??
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/16/temporary-australian-visas-for-palestinians-a-first-step-but-longer-stay-options-needed-advocates-say
The Albanese government’s new temporary humanitarian visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Gaza is a welcome first step, advocates say, but they warn the three-year option to stay is not good enough for those who have no home to return to.
Rasha Abbas, founder of the charity group Palestine Australia Relief and Action, said members of the community had been socially, financially and emotionally supporting the traumatised new arrivals who had been denied access to healthcare, housing or working rights for the past 11 months.
Meanwhile, the Greens senator David Shoebridge said delays in launching the humanitarian pathway in response to Gaza showed Labor had been “dragged into treating people with basic dignity”.
The Department of Home Affairs quietly published details about its temporary humanitarian stay visas last Thursday, which offer newly arrived Palestinians the possibility of a three-year visa with access to Medicare, benefit payments and working and studying rights.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have arrived in Australia on visitor visas since the conflict began on 7 October 2023.
There’s some spare beds in a 4.3 mil beach house for a few.
Never in doubt as pointed out here from the first.
UK media is reporting that the LIV golf rebel tour board is about to sack its CEO Greg Norman and switch him to a lesser role in the organisation.
The Arabs at the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, who back the LIV tour, have finally figured it is a problem having a lifelong PGA Tour hater leading the organisation.
Before leading LIV, Norman has complained for decades about the America-centricity of the PGA, which has always treated the golf world outside the USA as a poor cousin.
With Norman removed from the LIV leadership, the way is now open for the long-promised reconciliation between the rebel tour and the PGA Tour.
That would mean dropping restrictions on rebel tour players – that is, most of the world’s top golfers lured to LIV with huge contracts in the hundreds of million US dollars – from competing on the PGA Tour.
You auditioning for the ABC, Tom?
Such balance.
Oh.. and it’s hardly a black mark on the Shark’s read of the PGA as US-centric if what’s happening (and it is) is they (the PGA) are caving in only because it’s affecting the top US PGA player and want a Yank in charge at LIV.
Most sports strategies are how to maintain their monopolies without falling foul of the various antitrust laws. The PGA tour is no different. It coexists quite nicely alongside the European tour with the Majors providing the joint highlights. The Saudis were one of the few who could upset that apple cart.
Response to Gez at 0829, freed from the nest.
Is AEMO a Commonwealth organisation?
If it is, it will run foul of the “on just terms” clause in the Constitution.
The battery capacity theft could, however, be done by the states, which do not have such clauses, as Howard did with the native vegetation destruction of farms.
Sancho:
According to the ABC, Luigi plays golf at a genius level – 38-under-par 34 for the latest game at the Royal Canberra Golf Course. So there.
Shirley the correct spelling is “Nebulous”?
Jebus
Janet Albrechtsen article on Reconciliation Action Plans posted earlier is brilliant. Law firm of 100 has RAP but does not employ any Aboriginals, classic.
Brought to you by John Howard.
Actually it is even better, the “firm” with 100 staff yet zero aboriginals is … the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, which
Eighteen years of “Reconciliation Action” – yet none in the office.
The law firm was in the subsequent paragraph: Hives Legal, which claims “sovereignty has never been ceded”, yet never employed an Aboriginal.
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
What happens after the election? Who knows?
The Kamel will trip on the steps of AF1, fall, break her neck and Weirdo Walz will have a heart attack.
Hillary will enter, stage Left, and save the day.
Of course.
Texas, for a start, leaving the Union.
Bollocks. The Dems are so pathetic now they can’t even cheat anymore. They all want Trump to win so they can make money in a rising economy by having the perfect hate figure in the Whitehouse. Look at CNN and MSNBC. They both did so well when they could continually lie about Trump. As soon as he left office they and plenty of other lefty organisations started losing money.
the fact is that the Dems are having a civil war behind the
scenes. Many of them will only give Harris the
minimum of help.
Most average Australians say, ‘Well, we all buy and sell properties.’
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Quoth Bowen, the most tone deaf politician since Billy McMahon told pensioners to save up and move to India, as per the famous Petty cartoon.
The ‘average Australians’ who are couch surfing or living in their cars or are renting and a month away from a rent increase, or who are joining the queue of 20-30 people trying to find a rental – he’s the Marie Antoinette of Australian politics.
No doubt ‘we’ all buy and sell properties. Says it all.
Elon on space launch costs (via Instapundit).
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1846001324246319409
Pretty!
That’s staggering.
$1600 to launch a kilo into space.
I’ll pay the cost of sending The Albonaut into Low Earth Orbit. He can provide the suit and stuff if he wants to.
The Albonaut will make a pretty meteor shower as its orbit decays. I’ll make up my costs by having a Book on it.
(Didn’t we have a bookie here at one stage? Who was it and are they still around?)
Armadildo, occasionally.
Ta. I’ll give him a bell.
When I got to work this morning I asked a couple of my employees what they thought of Albo and his new house. Both are minimum wage dyed in the wool labor voters. They are dumbfounded and disgusted. Neither can believe he could buy a house now when so many can’t even get a roof over their head. One of them has a friend couch surfing at their house right now.
I will be very interested in the next polls. Both the greens and LNP will get a bump and I think Albo goes into Negative on popularity. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a leadership spill in the new year if the RBA keeps doesn’t drop rates.
Well, who doesn’t buy a beach shack when you pull a “coastie”.
Let’s hope he doesn’t do a Rudd and walk the beach in RM Williams and a suit.
And just where do you think the Greens politicians live?
The self pleasuring of TheirABC over Negus is just another example of their culture of self glorification.
Just imagine what we will have to endure when Quentin or Adams drop off the twig? A day of national mourning? Flags at half mast?
It doesn’t bear contemplating.
This is an organisation that is described as endemically racist. What has it got to boast about? Who are the embedded racists?When will the racists be purged?
Until then, they have nothing, nothing, to boast about.
Compare it to the rapturous glee they will have when Alan Jones carks it. Adams, Marr, Carlton, FitzSimons et al will be vomitous in their gloating. He can only hope to outlast them.
They gave a glowing send-off to their pederasty-promoting Richard Neville and resurrected an old interview about his mission of ‘lancing the conservative boil’. That could be the ABC’s motto.
Flags at half mast and 24 hours of dead air for the Dumpster.
Feds are getting unlimited overtime.
Kamala Is Going Down Like the Hindenburg? Break Out the Fake Nazis! (14 Oct)
Tiki torches are on special at Bunnings.
Who’s leaking against Albanese on the house purchase?
If I were a betting man, my money would be on Chalmers.
As they say, if you want a friend in politics get a dog.
“Toto…walk time!”
The list has to include BlubberSack and Burqa.
Mmm…Albo is Burqa’s benefactor in terms of portfolios.
Is he? Burqa is from the right as is Chalmers. I think Blubbers has inside rails, being a wimmens and all but she is from the left and wouldn’t have the numbers unless Albo walks. Chalmers could bring some much needed QLD seats but they would definitely lose Grayndler once Albo is gone.
Plibbers looked like the Cheshire Cat last night. Brimming with glee.
Schadenfreude probably.
She hasn’t got the numbers.
Everything will change after the election. Albo won’t be round for long whatever happens. Hard to see Plibbers as a generational change leader. More R-G-R deadwood. Not sure Chalmers would get up either. The Liars not bristling with talent.
AEMO is 60% owned and controlled by Fed & Sate governments – COAG. 40% is energy company sector.
They draw their income from transmission access & distribution fees.
Victoria had already put in place “emergency” powers to access private batteries for public use.
AEMO is 100% owned by Australian governments. As only 40% of voting members are from industry, that makes it owned and controlled by Australian governments.
What’s next…”emergency” powers to access your spare bedroom to ease the government created housing crisis?
There’s been quite a bit of gaslighting on this in the media lately.
Nice house available at Cococabana.
LOL.
There’ll be exemptions, of course.
Covid showed what is possible.
It’s not but I’m not sure what the simulation theory actually achieves in the context of evolution, etc.
I didn’t say it did, but even so why wouldn’t as it entirely depends on what the programmers wanted to be in the simulation.
But what does the theory achieve? Why come up with this theory in the first instance?
Why not?
What question is it answering? What problem is it resolving? None that I can see while it adds further perplexity.
How are we here.
Not everything we do is problem solving. Some of it was simple contemplation.
You don’t have to be at the centre. You can also ride this one out.
A couple of observations on this kerfuffle. As we know, our beloved politicians are notoriously “in touch” with the concerns of the average voter – two obvious examples of this include all the money, time and gaseous emissions wasted on flogging the screech and the need to import many thousands of violent useless genocidal Jew hating terrorist sex pests into Sydneystan and Mosquebourne.
It’s not so much their deliberately engineered housing crisis, albansleazy’s “unexplained wealth” or even the purchase of the modest coastal cottage itself, it’s the sheer blatant unrepentant hypocrisy that gives me the f*cking proverbials.
Never forget, albansleazy is a torrie fighting communist. Owning several multi-million dollar properties sort of doesn’t really equate with his “passionately” held political views.
As for “the likeable albansleazy” no such creature has ever existed outside of the feverish imagination of imbeciles like “richo”. He’s always been a loathsome deadsh*t for as long as I’ve had the misfortune to be aware of his pointless existence, beginning back when he was my local feral MP and his equally repulsive wife was the local state MP.
Hypocrisy, thy name is labore.
“How can we sleep when the beds are burning,
It belongs to them let’s give it back”.
Perhaps Uncle Fester and Labianese can start
with their humble digs.
Albo was never at the front of the queue when the big jobs were handed out. The last man standing. Became PM because “Not SloMo”.
This is where Australian democracy finds itself.
Sicktoria – having rooted its reliable baseload power into the ground moves to salt the earth behind them…
Lily D’Ambrosio MP
@LilyDAmbrosioMP
The Victorian Parliament has just voted to enshrine the SEC in the Constitution.
Privatisation of our energy system hasn’t worked.
While we can’t change the past, we can ensure that our revived SEC will be there for Victorians for decades to come.
One government can change the Victorian Constitution, another government can reverse the change.
But the SFLs won’t.
SFL is correct
Separation of Powers?
Evolution as an explanation for life is crap.
Consider: evolution requires that cells contain a sophisticated editing and transcribing mechanism that is almost miraculously tuned to produce random errors over thousands of generations.
Where did this mechanism come from?
Why it evolved, they say.
How can something evolve BEFORE the mechanism required existed?
How can the mechanism of evolution evolve into existence? By definition it can’t.
Therefore you are left with the basic problem: both the information and cellular mechanisms coming into existence through random molecular interactions: impossible.
This problem is equivalent in complexity to all three of: a plant to produce cars, the cars and the blueprints for the cars and a written account of how to operate the car plant all coming into existence through random molecular interactions.
It isn’t just an information problem: without the mechanisms to process the information, the information is immediately lost.
res ipsit loquitur.
Has to look that up.
Nice.
Thanks, Rabz. Couldn’t have said it better meself.
Just amazing that the self-defeating aspect of this isn’t immediately apparent.
I’m not sure where you got the 2613 permutations thing from but
26^13 = 2,481,152,873,203,736,576.
Ask Cohenite. I’m quoting him there.
I left out the ^. Carry on.
I see what you did: Hamlet is self defeating. They should have used Much Ado About Nothing.
Isn’t it nice how our politicians talk about a portfolio of properties while their voters can’t afford a first home or even a place to rent? I hope these voters remember it at the next election. These politicians need to be retired from parliaments so they can spend more time with their property portfolios.
There used to be ads that ran something like “where did they get the money for that?”
Why bother with a portfolio of properties?
PM pension not enough?
I’m not sure Bowen is worth listening to on anything.
Once again the Sky News report (from some chump in Jerusalem) says the IDF gave “no proof” that they had bombed a Hamas command centre. They never ask for proof of anything coming from the Gaza Galoots.
To make matters even worse, they included in the report “imagine having to watch members of your family killed”.
Tell the Israelis about it.
A BBC report on northern Gaza replayed on the ABC yesterday quoted UNRWA & Gaza Health Ministry accounts & figures with a straight face.
aha, somehow I was back on a thread in Sept, thinking I was here, and wondering re the news repeats! Had I gone through a time fold?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/reminder-jane-caro-has-shit-for-brains.html
I see over at Michael Smith the attention seeking No-Neck Caro is comparing herself to Jesus – what a creature
A truly awful woman.
Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers:
She also hints at the corruption that feeds off this dystopic vision.
First saw that in Vancouver in 2014 where high rise residential buildings were built right over the train stations. This meant no parking either as the residents were expected to travel to work and everywhere else by train.
I noticed that the same sort of thing is being planned for the metro line between St Marys and the Western Sydney Airport.
The labor movement has totally pushed aside heritage listing of buildings and health, safety and liveability measures for residents of the county on the altar of sustaining high levels of immigration. No one has outlined exactly why it’s more important for those people to live here than to solve the issues in their own countries that see them wanting to leave in the first place.
Roger, know a Sydney based concreter.
The corruption is endemic worst at the council level but higher you get the bigger the players, plus a lot of jobs at stake.
The Liberals IMO will not go near it and the population ponzi that underpins it.
Probably like Barr’s fetish for apartments in Canberra, which sources tell me is payola for the CFMEU. Freestanding houses (which are only for mere breeders anyway) tend to built by small independent builders, but apartments are built by the big, unionised firms.
This mirrors the plan here in Vicco – the Suburban Rail Loop folly is merely the Trojan horse for the State to declare massively relaxed new height and density criteria around the ‘station’ precincts, tax the uplift in land value with their 50% Windfall Gains Tax, reward their CFMEU paymasters with the construction work and industry super investments in Build To Rent flats.
Nah, couldn’t happen.
Gaza: Terrorists who fired on IDF soldiers from UNRWA clinic eliminated (15 Oct)
All those exploding pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments! It’s amazing that health care is so exothermic these days.
So according to the antigen theory, the vaccine should be having it’s greatest impact in terms of side effects, with AB+, then A+, B+. O should have the least side effects.
Is this borne out in the study?
Why hasn’t this been thought of before? Gaza could well have been resolved by the Wong Chap long ago had she received advice. Herald Sun:
Wow. Just wow.
Mr Mohamed can’t even get domestic policy right with the sinking of the Voice referendum, yet wants a seat at the table with the big hitters to do….what exactly?
It would be comical in the extreme if these dickheads weren’t serious.
FMD
More proof we’d be better off without the Canbra shitstain on this wonderful country.
alwaysright
October 16, 2024 9:29 am
No doubt the cheat is being planned.
Some of the critical states (e.g. Florida) which are conservative might be mounting intel and sting operations to catch them out. Imagine the impact of pulling over a van on election night driven by a Dimocratic operative with boxes full of pre-filled Kamal-toe votes.
Of course, the Dimocrats could easily be setting up similar false-flag street theatre ops to convince the world Donald is cheating.
Of course, most people introduced to evolution won’t on their own question it.
They’ll just accept that all life evolved from single cell ancestors.
This simplistic explanation of the origins of life will inform their values, and make, in their subconscious minds, everything permissible: if we are “just” evolved slime, what is above me? Nothing.
The only way to construct meaning from this is the Petersonian idea of hierarchies and therefore values being somehow intrinsic to the underlying structure of reality.
Good luck getting 99% of the population understanding that evolved slime can be required to have good values because of some incomprehensible patterns detected by a Canadian muppet.
We are not slime.
It’s a rather nice conceit, spanning time, science and religion.
How do you explain the Lying Liar Labor scum and the Watermelon Greenies?
You obviously have no concept of geological time, measured not in years, or centuries, but millenia.
The simulation theory of cosmology is fine except for it being untestable, not explaining anything at all and functionally indistinguishable from religion.
That is the core of Biblical theology Monty.
Romans 1:17
The simulation theory is fun, I like how they are edging up to a belief in God sort of sideways like this.
Monty has just realised the speculative nature of cosmology as a discipline. How cute.
Sounds like a cosmic word salad to me.
johanna
October 16, 2024 9:41 am
I see even some conservatives issuing a statement of The Sads at George’s passing.
Think about this.
If he was still plying his trade today, he would be earnestly telling us about the “legitimate grievances” of Ham-arse and Hezbollocks.
Correct. And augmenting his opinions from mythical encounters with people at the pub.
Haw! 😀
He was just a garden variety blowhard who was paid to travel a lot.
J’ismist 101.
Packer tipped plenty of money into 60 Minutes back in the day. Doubt the largesse is there these days.
Thatcher fixed him. Unsurprisingly.
Can you believe that people actually pay for this shit from a “journalist:”
Harris and Trump are tied in the polls – so I conducted my own less traditional research | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
Almost as vacuous as Munted.
Almost.
Roger
”Productivity and Equality” what’s this shit?
F*ck.
Jobs for the friends of the politicians?
Too much talk about the Prez election, insufficient about the house & Senate.
What’s the sauce on that?
Prez is important but House & Senate do the legislating. The 2022 “half term” election was a disappointment, hope the 2024 isn’t.
Victoria’s Secret has gone back to using slim, pretty women on the catwalk again.
hahahahahaha The fat, ugly and tranny chicks that were included six years ago almost destroyed the company.
Go Woke…
It’s the Wendy’s ad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpypTXccG2I
hahahahah! I remember that ad! So funny.
The stupid Vic Secret mob even used the vile Rapinoe in the ads.
Soooooo Stupid.
They obviously know who buys it.
It’s a front for public servants & compliant consultants to give the government of the day tailor made “expert” reports to back up pre-decided policy decisions.
It used to be the NSW Productivity Commission, then Labor added Equality.
Thank God that they didn’t add ‘Equity”, Wodger.
Then it would be called PEE.
It will be. They don’t start with “Equity”. They start with Equality and then rely on illiteracy to change it “organically”.
That Booster grab still spins me out. You have got to love the emotion of Elon’s staff.
——-
Valuetainment – PBD:
Elon Musk’s SpaceX achieves a historic rocket booster recovery, sparking a discussion on his cost-cutting innovation and potential role in Trump’s cabinet. The team dives into space travel, politics, and more.
“Destroyed NASA” – Musk’s SpaceX Did What NASA Couldn’t Do With 20 Times Budget
“Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers”.
For some reason, stories like this always make Mussolini’s last moments flash through my mind.
Is that anything like a spacious $4.3M pad on the central coast?
I wonder how many people you could fit into that house?
Dunno. But it takes a “Coastie” and one arsehole with ease.
There’s apartment living like central Paris and Spain with magnificent boulevards and parks. And there is apartment living like UK and Victoriastan public housing blocks. Mirvac and Meriton fall somewhere in between.
I think these sound more like the ones in East Germany after WW2.
Sounded so good the French copied them.
They figured the plebs were social creatures and would be happy in massive blocks of grey concrete all together in their own little community. Not prone to dv, depression, suicide and general malaise.
Saw some horrendous examples in the UK 45 years ago.
Come home via the stairs because the lift was too dangerous, lock the door at 5pm and come out the next morning and walk across to some black hole of Calcutta like factory. Single mums, violence, robbery, drugs,graffiti and so on.
A shock for a boy from Noosa.
From The Oz….
Pro-Palestine protesters reportedly heckled Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong off a stage at the University of Tasmania on Tuesday evening.
Senator Wong was launching the Australian government’s new humanitarian policy and in a copy of the speech distributed afterwards, intended to renew calls for “clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood” and a “diplomatic solution, de-escalation, and ceasefire in Lebanon”.
She had intended to say Peter Dutton “is at odds with the international community – but he still can’t bring himself to back a ceasefire”.
Senator Wong was heckled by protesters at her delivery of the Sir James Plimsoll Lecture at the University of Tasmania.
Protesters yelled at Senator Wong and interrupted the address on multiple occasions, criticising government policy on the Israel-Hamas war and calling on her to sanction the Jewish state.
Mean girl Pong getting out meaned by pro Hamas and Hezbollah scum.
You reap what you sow. Zero sympathy for Pong.
The video is inconclusive. We do see some fire from a hole in the wall but you don’t see people or tents outside the structure, nor is the structure geolocated as adjacent to the camp. Also, the airstrike misses the building. Surely they have some better drone footage of the alleged firefight then that.
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
I’m prepared for that but at the same time I think the GOP have learnt a lot since 2020.
The RINOs might not have, but that Trumpsters surely have.
Lufthansa fined $4 million for stopping 128 Jewish passengers from boarding flightJoseph Pisani
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Lufthansa was fined $4 million by U.S. regulators, who accused the German airline of discriminating against 128 Jewish passengers by stopping them from making a connecting flight due to the alleged misbehaviour of a few flyers.
The passengers, who were going from New York City to Budapest in May 2022 for an annual memorial event in honour of an Orthodox rabbi, weren’t allowed to board a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany, the U.S. Transportation Department said.
On the first leg of the flight, some passengers said they were told by the crew to wear face masks and not to stand in the aisles. The passengers said they didn’t see anyone that didn’t comply. Lufthansa at the time required passengers to wear a face mask, while U.S. and German law prohibit passengers from assembling in aisles or galley areas during a flight.
The captain of the flight informed a Lufthansa security manager of misbehaviour by passengers travelling on to Budapest. No specific passengers were identified, according to the Transportation Department. Still, the airline put a hold on more than 100 passengers’ tickets.
In Frankfurt, the gate staff called the names of passengers allowed to board, and left the 128 travellers waiting at the gate “confused and upset” as the plane left, the Transportation Department said.
Most of the 128 passengers were wearing clothing worn by Orthodox Jews, such as black hats, pants and jackets. They told the Transportation Department that they were treated like they were a group of one, even though many didn’t know each other, “because they were openly and visibly Jewish.” Lufthansa tweeted an apology several days after the flight, saying it regretted that “the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests.” The Transportation Department said the $4 million fine is the largest it has issued against an airline for civil-rights violations. Half of the fine must be paid within 30 days. The other $2 million was credited to Lufthansa for paying back the affected passengers.
Penalties for civil-rights violations by airlines are somewhat uncommon, as proving discrimination can be difficult. Airlines are more commonly fined for customer-service violations such as not providing required refunds.
“No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry that we are prepared to investigate and take action whenever passengers’ civil rights are violated,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
A $4 million fine won’t stop racist airline corporates preventing Jews from boarding Lufthansa aircraft.
The fine needed to be $400 million, which would seriously affect the next Lufthansa annual profit.
While the rest of Germany is still ashamed of what done in its name in World War II, never again apparently doesn’t apply to woke corporates.
That is disgusting.
Agree, but it doesn’t augur well for free speech on university campuses.
I mentioned on Monday the American jurist Robert H. Bork’s first-hand reminiscences and analysis of 1960’s US campus unrest in his book ‘Slouching Towards Gomorrah’.
The “pro-Palestinian” protesters are using the same bullying tactics and the university administrators are making the same cowardly mistakes here.
Very true, but the fact that they are attacking Govt leaders has to be a plus.
Unless, of course Wong see these incidents as public endorsement of even more radical jew hate.
Roger earlier:-
Reminds me of that old ’90’s concept of the “triple bottom line”, which referenced social, environmental and economic performance of an entity (or the 3 P’s … People, Planet and Profits).
Fantastic opportunity for lazy CEOs to avoid bothering about fiscal responsibility and opened the door for HR Karens to cut loose with “look after our people” spendathons.
Surprisingly, shareholders mostly didn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about the first two in the trilogy and were only interested in cash returns.
Still are, despite all the posturing about ethical investing.
The out of control growth of HR is probably the greatest driver of productivity loss in this country.
Pennsylvania’s electoral honchos have said they won’t be able to count the votes on the same day. I wouldn’t be too certain.
Orange Man now leading by 12.2% in the betting odds.
https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html
Trump is going to work the fryer at a McDonalds this coming weekend. He will be able to tell that the fries are cooked if they match his skin color.
Hey JC, if you get that Merc G-wagen and want it to have a semblance of off-road cred, get a set of aftermarket Sunraysia wheels and a batwing awning. That shall definitely look the goods.
Paul Higgins, who was a journo and columnist for Wheels magazine back when it was good, reckoned importing Harrod’s spray-on mud was the finishing touch for Toorak-tractor cred but I’m not sure if that’s still available. 😛
Heed them not, Mr JC
Instead chase up one of the 6×6 AMG Mercedes G-Wagons – there is amazing video online of one going through its paces in a desert in Saudi.
Get one of those you won’t need a batwing awning – your tent pole will suffice.
This clip would be great to play at a Uni Tavern on a Friday night. STEM students would laugh, all those in social ‘sciences‘ would be in fits of rage.
F8ck em.
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Charlie Kirk:
Students Enraged That I Say College is a SCAM
I heard or read a comment the other day saying US colleges are being asked by their prospective students for the kind of courses that will get them jobs with Musk. So some kids are planning forward.
Cash flow problems
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1846210164329775221?t=ppci73Qu7VPbhBbi7DAT5Q&s=19
Fantastic.
Dad was born exactly 50 years later. He too could tell some ripping yarns, but not so elegantly.
Wong attacking Dutton over Gaza is strategic brilliance of the ‘buy a beachside mansion’ genre.
It used to be believed that they had no understanding of the peoples’ beliefs and concerns.
Now it has been proven that they don’t give a f*jk about what the people think. Their motivation is pure TLS. Place so many landmines that the incoming conservatives will not be able to cope.
The strategic brilliance is their understanding that the conservatives will lack the will and courage to overturn Labor treason. ‘Fair Work’ anyone?
When the long march reached & entered the corporate world.
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
Since it was a players only event it shouldn’t be to hard to find out who was the ‘RAT’ and attend to the appropriately.
From the article, it was the bartender. Most likely delivered some drinks and had a perv through the door. Dobbing turd.
Footy player need to get it through their heads that it’s a corporate workplace, the other players aren’t your friends they are colleagues and like the rest of us, work is now bitter and joyless. Take your pay, keep your mouth shut, stay away from the women and do your job until you are able to get the f*ck out.
Great summary of my new approach to work after a bitter lesson. I was still operating on the old ways of open, robust discussion and got Karened. So I changed jobs before it got worse and have adopted that very plan
Monty gets a mention!
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1846301951941652956?t=1tZDR2G34GZi_tn-KzBIPg&s=19
String bean? That’s a wicked epithet!
Went to see the heart surgeon this morning. He’s very pleased with my progress. He told me it was touch a go a few times if I’d make it. I thanked him for saving my life, he looked embarrassed.
Well done Ranga and RangaDoc! It’s good to be hard to kill but we don’t want to get too cocky!
Too true calli.
Noice, make sure you take it easy.
I had 3 blockages found before any heart attack, one 15mm stent was all that was needed as the other 2 were either in the end too small for stenting or around 30% so he didn’t bother yet. I’m one of those asymptomatic types so I didn’t feel it, so get extra attention for my bodies failings.
Anthony Albanese’s political judgment on a cliff edge after $4.3m property buy
Labor values, as espoused by Anthony Albanese, Juli Gilliard, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke.
“The bruvvas live in waterfront mansions for the good of the working class.
The fact that none of us would know a member of the working class, if we fell over one in the street, is neither here nor there.”
Rudd is appalled.
You forgot to mention him and his Sunshine Beach hovel.
Home a day early. They turfed me out for bad behaviour!
Thank goodness for that. The woman in the room next door had her tv up to ludicrous volume and took all her calls on speaker.
Paying a shedload for private rooms doesn’t guard against bad neighbours. As the cliffside denizens of Copacabana may soon discover.
heh. Did you pull the literal plug on your noisy neighbour?
Geez how many Cats up with ailments atm?
Hope you are better soon Calli.
Football clubs are now the most corporate of corporate workplaces.
They ain’t your mates.
They’re at the cutting edge of the culture wars and essentially the biggest trophy that the woke have taken so far.
Let ‘em have it.
Haven’t watched a big sporting event in a decade.
Don’t miss it, couldn’t care less.
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 16, 2024 2:04 pm
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
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I’ll never watch AFL again. Only suburban footy.
Cut out this ‘Welcome to Country’ BS, ditch the Indigenous round and any other round like gay pride ( not sure if the the AFL does that ) and I’ll go back to watching it.
The only thing that should remain is Anzac Day commemorations.
I Iove the game, but not the AFL.
I used to love all that.
Bledisloe cup, Kiwis v Kangaroos, NRL, VFL, AFL, one day cricket internationals, Melbourne Cup, MotoGP, Bathurst. State of origin.
What a waste of time and involvement it all was.
Humans always fall for hype.
And an excuse to sit and watch other men exert themselves while we drink beer.
Beer.
I mostly blame beer.
Well, that’s a change from blaming women. 🙂
“The group of players that have been suspended are the ones who were allegedly involved in the skits that were disrespectful.
And this is the exact moment the players should call a strike.
The negotiating settlement should include the people responsible ramming their heads up dead bears bums and being made to perform an improv comedy routine in front of the assembled players.
Those who fail to get a giggle are fed to the dingoats.
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These cocks seem to fail to understand the role of government.
It’s the role of private businesses to invest in entertainments, and the role of governments to pave the roads, remove the garbage and lock up graffiti “artists” so that the entertainment going public might wish to go to the private venues providing such entertainments.
And the private companies compete for that public.
How would you feel as a rate paying entertainment provider knowing your rates are going to pay for competition?
And the government using your rates for such aren’t on the hook if the venture fails?
And there is still potholes everywhere and graffiti artists walking free and whatever eco lunacy is going on with the waste removal.
In the past week there have been multiple articles about protecting kids on social media. Pretty much all blame the social media companies. Today the Courier Mail had an editorial on the subject. Below is my rejected comment.
“Surely it should be the responsibility of the parents to not allow the child to have access to the media where the bullying was taking place. Or the teachers talking to the children and their parents involved in the bullying.
I was speaking to a mother the other day of an 8 year old and 10 years old. She mentioned she wanted to get them basic phones that could call and text only. The father ended up buying them an expensive IPhone”
There is nothing controversial about my comment. However we are now dealing with a new “narrative” from mainstream media. That is that social media is entirely to blame and the not so subtle aim is to make life difficult for social media. Naturally this fits in with what the Government wants.
The Courier Mail has been noticeably quiet on Misinformation Bill and the editor must have previously worked at Pravda. Perfect Government stooge.
The MSM are all in with social media as the enemy. A agile competitor, So anything to nobble them and portray them as the bad guy and get government to create competitive barriers.
It’s not all social media, Elon Musk and his X are the main targets of the liberal/leftie establishment who pretend to care about kids while going after their ideological enemy.
calli
October 16, 2024 2:22 pm
Home a day early. They turfed me out for bad behaviour!
Thank goodness for that. The woman in the room next door had her tv up to ludicrous volume and took all her calls on speaker.
Paying a shedload for private rooms doesn’t guard against bad neighbours. As the cliffside denizens of Copacabana may soon discover.
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Haha.
Stay strong and healthy, calli.
Worked in a Private Hospital for a year.
Generally patients were quite good, but every now and then you’d get patients like that.
Loud, obnoxious, demanding and wouldn’t carry out the docs regimes of recuperation – and always on the buzzer.
Always threatening to complain to the doc, admin, the Health Fund, the Nurses Registration Board.
Never went back to the Private System after that. I was there to help – not bend the knee to some neurotic’s whims because they were bored.
Some parts I ordered out of the Netherlands arrived, 5 maybe into the 6th day tops.
I can’t even get a letter from Sydney or Melbourne that quick.
Great stuff Auspost…
The important thing is that the former CEO was sacked over a few Rolex watches given to high performing staff. ScoMo has a lot to live down.
Some of my copies of the Speccie haven’t turned up at all; replacement copies finally arrived. Some articles have ceased to be topical; very annoying. Thankyou Auspost in Melbourne. We live only 2 hours away from there. The Speccie is always late anyway but non appearance is not acceptable.
At the same time, we have ordered items from the UK which have arrived in under a week.
Hairy Festeringpenis finaly comes out and supports Hamase unequivocally.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f4a7.svgMary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
No @SenatorWong
Hamas is not responsible for the genocide
Israel is a terrorist state
What a piece of shit.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/leading-political-journalist-calls?utm_source=substack&publication_id=268621&post_id=150257584&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1easrn&triedRedirect=true
Germans gotta German. It’s almost a test, if they are for it then it must be the wrong thing to do.
I know, not all Germans are like that, only the prominent ones. In fact, some are quite nice as I had a chance to find out on my recent visit to Berlin. Had an older German chap taxi driver who took a while to find the address where I needed to be. He simply apologised and said to pay him what I thought was fair seeing as he took so long.
I left a message on her page – block incoming in….
thefrollickingmole
@frollickingmole
Just went back in time and checked out Hairys Grandmothers twitter feed.
No surprises there.
No
@”Doc” Evatt
The Nazi party is not responsible for the genocide England is a terrorist state
Yes, there will be cheating in the US election, but this time they’re not going all out.
A few reasosn…Trump is too far ahead in most of the swing states and the polling is showing this…..and there are not the ballots floating around to be harvested as there were. This time a request had to be made as opposed to the mass mailouts of 2020 and 22.
However, the main reason is that the power players on the D side are not fans of Kamala and would like to see her lose (Biden’s and Clintons) or are positioning themselves for a run in 2028…Whitmer, Newsome, Shapiro so won’t be doing much to assist.
Avi:
The officer confirms details about how illegal immigrants are coached to exploit the system as residents are forced to deal with the influx of migrants.
US Border Agent SPILLS THE BEANS on what’s really going on
@DefiyantlyFree
This is my favorite lane of propaganda to debunk. There is no proof that the 2020 election was stolen except:
1. Six states changed their election laws two months before the 2020 election by executive fiat, instead of going through the proper channels in the legislature. That is a violation of their state constitutions and that in and of itself is enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 election.
2. Mark Zuckerberg, hard left, spent $450 million dollars of private money on our elections. After the 2020 election analysis revealed that most of that money went to benefit Democrats.
3. 6 swing states stopped counting the votes on election night for the first time in American history. At the time that they stopped counting the votes, Donald Trump was ahead of Biden in each of them.
4. The unelected tech oligarchs in conjunction with the FBI in this country censored a very important story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Joe Biden’s corruption. People who worked in the intelligence community, came out and said it was Russian disinformation only to have that laptop be admitted into evidence as part of an FBI investigation and criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden. Polling after the election showed that if people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop story it would’ve changed 17% of the vote.
5. 2,036,041 ballots were touched by anomalies.
6. 923 American citizens filled out affidavits alleging voter fraud, and signed them under penalties of perjury.
7. 50 plus courts blocked evidentiary hearings into the alleged fraud found in 2020.
8. Prior to 2020 there were four other contested elections, one in Florida, one in the 78th district of Missouri, one in the ninth district of North Carolina, and one in the 22nd district of New York. In every single one of those four instances, there was an evidentiary hearing. In the 2020 election, there was no evidentiary hearing. For the first time in American history.
9. No election contest in American history has had 923 fact witnesses sign under penalties of perjury and stake their personal freedom in testimony to attest to the irregularities and legal issues found in various states.
10. 37 states in the United States of America altered their absentee or mail in ballots ballot integrity procedures before the 2020 election.
11. If those 37 states used the same ballot integrity procedures that they used in 2018, swing states would’ve found an upwards of 30,000 more ineligible ballots.
12. In Pennsylvania, counties allowed new ballots to be filled out after the election.
13. Any one of those is enough to say that there was enough fraud in the 2020 election to doubt the outcome. Can I prove Donald Trump would’ve won the election if the Democrats hadn’t cheated? No I can’t prove a counter-narrative, but I can tell you that this amount of fraud leads any reasonable person to the conclusion that Joe Biden didn’t win.
The insurrection therefore was on 11/3/2020.
1/6 was a lawful protest with permits that got out of hand. Unlike Democrats who spent 10 months burning down this country to the tune of $2 billion dollars, and injuring 740 police officers nationwide, the capital riot had a couple million dollars in damages, 140 police officers that were injured and zero deaths. Except the 3 Trump supporters who were unarmed and killed without any investigation by the corrupt government.
Anybody who is clutching their pearls about January 6 without mentioning the fact that there was a large federal presence and many anomalies that have yet to be answered is a liar and a partisan hack.
You sound like an uninformed stage 10 TDS patient who needs to detox from CNN and MSNBC.
You can endorse the cackling communist from California, but don’t you dare pretend like the reason why you’re doing it is because Donald Trump did something wrong.
Turnip I agree it will be hard for the Dems to cheat this time although they will obviously try and try very hard.
But they absolutely do care.
Trump has learnt an awful lot from his previous time. He now knows that all Democrats are disgusting scum and will be looking to use all available means to destroy them – as he should. What are Dems going to do if Trump simply uses the same lawfare against his opponents as they have done against him? Every AG in every red state probably already has a bunch of indictments against various Democrat heavies ready to go so long as there is a semi-favourable Justice Department.
Not that it matters because being a leftist in and of itself should be a crime, but, unlike Trump, the likes of Pelosi and Schumer and Harris and Biden – and their lickspittles at CNN, NYT etc have no doubt committed many many actual felonies.
Indeed, even if Trump was inclined to forgive and forget, he has a family to think of. If he were to be voted out in 2028 in favour of a piece of shit those pieces will imprison all his family. He has no choice but to issue a pre-emptive strike.
Democracies were never meant to last – and thank God for that.
Shirley not! A fighter jet?
Salim Mehajer to have time piled onto jail sentence
Salim Mehajer is staring down the barrel of having time added onto his already lengthy prison sentence as he waits to learn his fate over a staged car crash.
Mehajer, 38, appeared in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday having pleaded guilty to a string of charges, bringing a long-running saga to its final stages.
Mehajer in July entered guilty pleas to 22 charges, including making a false representation resulting in a police investigation, making a false call for an ambulance, negligent driving and perverting the course of justice.
The charges relate to a staged car accident in Sydney’s west in October in an effort to avoid appearing before a Local Court hearing.
His black Mercedes AMG smashed into another car at the intersection of Nicholas and Delhi streets in Lidcombe, with television crews at the scene capturing Mehajer being stretchered into an ambulance with his neck in a brace.
He also pleaded guilty to dealing with identity information to commit an indictable offence, relating to him nominating other drivers as being involved in traffic and road infringements.
The matter was slated to go to trial in 2020 before at the 11th hour it was vacated and has been the subject of lengthy legal delays.
After pleading guilty earlier this year, Mehajer faced a sentence hearing before Judge Warwick Hunt on Wednesday.
Mehajer has faced several trials over the last several years and the car crash charges represent the final matter for which he is before the courts.
His barrister, Ian McLachlan, told the court that Mehajer had in 2018 been diagnosed with bipolar, there was a causal connection between his condition and his offending, and he was suffering “grandiose thinking” at the time.
He asked Judge Hunt, who will hand down his sentence on Friday, to backdate Mehajer’s sentence.
“He’s obviously had a lot of time to think about his previous actions,” Mr McLachlan said, noting Mehajer had been in custody since November 2020 when he was convicted of two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath.
Mehajer came to the public’s attention in 2015 after his lavish wedding, featuring helicopters, fighter jets and dozens of luxury cars, shut down a street in Lidcombe.
The former Auburn deputy mayor is already in prison after he was found guilty in separate trials for unrelated fraud and domestic violence matters mid last year.
In a decision handed down earlier this year by District Court Judge James Bennett, Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and nine months in jail.
He was found guilty by a jury in May last year – following a trial in which he represented himself – of six charges comprising multiple counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of suffocating.
He was found guilty of assaulting a woman – who cannot be identified – by punching her in the head during an argument in his car, squeezing her hand and crushing her phone, which she was holding, and threatening to kill her mother.
The following month, he was found guilty by a jury of two counts each of making a false document and using a false document.
He was found to have created false documents by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and sister.
The offences related to events after he was declared bankrupt in March 2018. When police searched his home and found $6350 in cash, Mehajer subsequently provided an affidavit claiming the money belonged to his sister.
He was sentenced concurrently for both the fraud and domestic violence offences and will be eligible for parole in July next year after serving 3½ years.
His sentences were under a suppression order until he pleaded guilty to the staged car crash charges.
The court was told he had flagged his intention to appeal both his domestic violence and fraud convictions.
He will also next week appear in the Court of Criminal Appeal, where he will argue to be released on bail ahead of his appeal proceedings.
Poor Saleeem. His family name is derived from Haj and means conversion through migration. i.e. swamp the country with enough muz and everyone will have to convert. But at least he hired a bunch of drummers for his wedding.
What a loser!
Put him in prison, Albo imports 100 more.
Some interesting posts against evolution. The simulated universe idea is not a good one. The more interesting objections are the intelligent design and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The point is, as I said before evolution DOES NOT PRECLUDE a God unless you advocate Creationism and an age of the Earth of between 6000-10000 years. I presume there are no Creationists here?
Arky above:
I hear you, Arky. But I don’t despair.
As I research materials for future writings, I simply don’t consume 90% of the media.
I am born and bred in Victoria and still love AFL football, which I have followed since birth, but I don’t consume any of the AFL’s regime media, like Fox Footy on Foxtel, because it’s populated by shameless AFL cocksuckers who’ll do whatever they have to to uphold the regime and all its cocksucking.
So the only media I consume during the day is the racing media, owned and controlled by the racing industry — the last holdout of animal husbandry against the ignorant onslaught of Greenfilth haters, who’ve never cared for any animal bigger than a dog.
Outlets like RSN.net.au deliberately avoid politics and produce only six hours of content a day in the mornings.
So-called sports radio outlets like the SEN network have become a green-left swamp who suck whatever amount of AFL cock is required to retain their AFL rights.
For example, SEN’s star sports caller Gerard Whateley is an ex-ABC fascist wedded to the left’s anti-democratic ideals, a fierce opponent of the Trump revolution and a Montyesque parrot for the Democratic Party.
Fox Footy has just fired Whateley’s long-term TV partner Mark Robinson, the Melbourne Herald Sun‘s chief AFL football writer. Pairing Whateley with Robinson 14 years ago was an act of programming genius, creating a TV odd couple that has been very popular.
Over the years, Robinson has become more woke and more like Whateley, but Fox Footy has decided to keep the nerdy, politically correct half of the odd couple and get rid of the bloke that daily deals with footy fans’ concerns at the Herald Sun.
That tells me Fox Footy no,longer cares about viewership and is prepared to flush its ratings down the toilet to keep the AFL happy.
Meantime, I don’t despair. Fascism is currently popular in Australia and the West, but fashions change daily.
Even amongst the paedo loving ALPBC Sport Whateley was almost unbearable.
Hospitals are like golf clubs. Private is always better.
And schools.
A fine of 20 large for puerile but legal behaviour you say?
I am up for 4.23 guzzillion dollars if all of my exploits come to light.