What an aspiration! Their Mums will be proud.
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I did read somewhere on X (Israeli military source) that the Israeli strike(s) set back Iran at least 2 years…
Yeah don’t do an Andrew Bolt
And of course, with Marxist identity politics you are identified as a ‘class enemy’ by your race and/or gender. I…
Actually, I think it was about fifteen years ago, not thirty. I was thinking of minding the children when they…
They honour the dead, but that’s as far as it goes.
As it is in Judaism, we recite Kaddish to honour the dead.
We celebrate Halochistster in this house, as signified by the temples of mammon, the 4 months of celebration signified by spending piles of money on tat…
Go Benji!
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Steve Inman:
Dog identifies as human
Normally I’d be all for Catholic bashing.
However, as the woke nonsense has meant we had to retreat our daughter out of the other denomination’s schools, and into a trad catholic one, I’m having to embrace the recusant side of the family history.
Bugger me, next thing I’ll be giving refuge to some bloody catholic monarch’s family after they chop his head off.
(They are still weird to me, but at least they still have some conservative churches and schools, for the time being).
I don’t think they’re responsible for Halloween either.
I blame Welsh druids.
I blame Welsh druids.
The welsh druids met the Romans in Anglesey. The druids threw magical curses at the Romans and the Romans threw javelins at the druids. Javelins won by a considerable margin.
Halloween, the song.
Awesome riffery from the south.
Obviously I have nothing against kids having fun. And, even though I deeply resent the commercial and lefty introduction of Halloween into my country, if that is what the kids want, well, off you go, enjoy.
But not in my patch. Until recently, the Beamer mums used to deliver their sprogs to harass our patch. Now they are Tesla mums. So fugg that.
Of course, it would be easy and probably fun to man the porch in a trench coat with a tray of boiled lollies, but the kelpies would probably violently express a degree of resentment.
So it is back to turning off the door bell, switching off the lights and ignoring the banging on the door.
My annnual dreams about child specific land mines were interrupted this year when God chose to participate in the event with huge hailstones that sent the Teslas scurring back to their ‘room for two cars and one boat’ lairs.
Good one God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fCipql58x0
Ray Parker Jr. – The Other Woman- good song Halloween
Seems to be saying that the machine offers an option to vote for a party’s candidates in all races on the ballot, as opposed to separately ticking a candidate in every race. Well gee how unfortunate this comes to light after early voting has been open for what 2 weeks.
Boggles the mind as to how a glitch like that can ever happen even accidentally.
Classics!
Club Des Belugas – Straight to Memphis
Gold Hits Another Record High On ‘Goldilocks’ Data
I live on a street that backs onto the entrance of one of D-Town’s primary schools.
45 minutes ago (a bit after 7.45 p.m. our time) there was a knock on the front door, accompanied by giggling and the yelling of ‘Trick or Treeeeet!’
Fortuitously I remembered the occasion, and opened the door to find three hopeful ankle-biters of primary school age dressed as Minions from whatever film that is, looking hopefully upwards at me with little sacks clearly made by one of their mums – who was also in attendance, dressed as some sort of (tasty, I might add) witch.
A bag of fun-size KitKats went into each sack. ‘Thaaaaaaaank yooooou.’
Exchanged a smile with the mum. Everyone went on their way.
Just. Let. The. Kids. Be. Happy. For. Christ’s. Sake.
@BreannaMorello
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@JohnStrandUSA
It started earlier than that, with the pack rapes led by Bilal Skaf in 2000. The msm tried to cover it up big time. Margaret Cuneen was a heroine.
Yes, and Cuneen afterwards became a target of the left. Don’t forget the ICAC targeting of Cuneen, a purely political targeting, which she fought and won.
Not for nothing is Cuneen called the ‘boxing butterly‘.
New Hezbollah leader’s 1st speech cut off mid-broadcast
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If people want to put out supernatural symbols on a particular night to entice the neighbourhood children in, presuming that the parents are supervising them, really it’s none of my business, even if I think they are stupid, manipulated by the media and cringe.
But they don’t just rock up to the houses with the decorations.
And they aren’t very well supervised.
It’s basically communism.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/brilliant-photo-suck-it-up-boys.html
Oh, ye mighty warriors of Allah!!
And they aren’t very well supervised.
It’s basically communism.
You’re going weird. It’s small kids dressing up and playing a game.
Alternative scenario.
Primary school-age children who love dressing up are, for one day per year, allowed to dress up and ask neighbours for treats. Supervised by a parent of one or more of said children – who also may or may not dress up as part of the entertainment.
*knock knock* ‘Trick or Treeeeat!’
Front door opens.
‘Waddaya reckon this is all about eh the military industrial complex and stupid Yank shit and communist mutilation and the long march and immigrations and tekkin er jerbs and wake up to yourselves you stupid kids and you too Mum and this stupid country and by the way in my day we didn’t even have lizard people and why aren’t you misery gutsing in your rooms and yer not getting anything at Christmas either now piss off.’
Yeah. I can see that catching on. Crying ten year olds makes a country strong.
Bam.
Indolent
October 31, 2024 10:24 pm
Of all the voting systems the most vulnerable to fraud is the computerised one.
Only needs a few operators or even just the one to cause mischief.
Aaaahahahaa.
That’s the way.
Downtick me harder, daddy!
Culture matters.
What people celebrate matters.
The fact that we grew up without this Halloween stuff, but now we have it, and in spades, is both interesting and worthy of debate.
If you are comfortable with retailers pushing a new day of celebration into the culture and all the dolts going along with it without a minute of thought because “let the children have fun”.
If our culture is so easily manipulated, you might consider what they might next engineer.
Given that Christianity is one degree shy of being déclassé, you might not like the next move to impose a day of celebration on your children.
All Saints Day on the 1st
Al, Souls day on the 2nd
one of their mums – who was also in attendance, dressed as some sort of (tasty, I might add) witch.
Be warned that Satan is attractive.
So I’m old enough to remember Bonfire Night- I don’t ever remember an effigy, but plenty of whizz-bangs, fireworks and sparklers. And grass fires.
But I’m too young to remember how the tradition ever ended in WA- though for a while there were firework-smugglers running in gear from Canberra and NSW.
Was it banned? Was it de-facto banned by wowserish fire regulations? Or was there a natural death of the tradition?
Given that Christianity is one degree shy of being déclassé, you might not like the next move to impose a day of celebration on your children.
Do you really live your life in fear of social engineers trying to ruin your world by encouraging small children to play dress-ups? It can’t be much fun.
Nobody celebrate Easter any more.
It’s a pagan Druidic knockoff hijacked by Greens and the Animal Welfare Party.
Any child dressing up as the Easter Bunny will be shot.
This is the key.
You don’t let social engineers ruin your world, as much as they would like to.
You make your world, and your children’s world.
Make it fun. The kids will have plenty of time to end up jaded and blame everyone else for what they see as the failings of the world.
Mischaracterising my arguments doesn’t add anything to the discussion, does it?
Like most Protestant blokes my age, I did not grow up with Halloween.
Yes, when the culture shifts under me, I wonder what drives it.
You see children “playing dress up”.
I see a cultural change.
I wonder if it is linked to those weird globalist ceremonies with nude, blue painted blokes on platters that seem to be coming more frequently.
I wonder if maybe things from the past that our forefathers left behind might be coming back in different guises,
I think it’s fair to question it.
But you go ahead and trust our betters to create whatever modes of worship they like. They’ve done so well with the “global village”, “love is love” “right to choose” “diversity is our strength” and etc, etc, etc.
What might be interesting and illuminating is if folks related their own memories of Halloween, Christmas and Guy Fawkes and we got to compare.
My experience and memories might not match others.
It might be different depending on location or denomination.
And age of course,
In general, I’d say rather than just let your children go along with whatever the mass culture presents them, a person might want to look at their own upbringing and see if whatever the dullard hordes are currently engaged with makes any sense or coincides with those traditions and beliefs.
But maybe I’m an elitist kill joy.
I wonder if it is linked to those weird globalist ceremonies with nude, blue painted blokes on platters that seem to be coming more frequently.
Killin’ it, Arky. Bang on target.
“Bob-a-job week” is another perfectly sensible, protestant work ethic, community-minded grass-roots tradition which has dissappeared under a rainbow blaze of diversity, rung out to the chime of self-service autoteller screens and tap-n-go plastic e-money.
Dusty- Spooky.
Yes, when the culture shifts under me, I wonder what drives it.
Culture shifts all the time. It’s what it does. I agree that there are unpleasant idiots trying to push it in insanitary directions, but most people do what KD recommends and pass on the best bits to their children by letting them have fun.
Seeing any change as a threat is what doddery old conservative farts do. You’re turning into one fast. Beware! That way merely makes younger people write you off as fearing change.
It is much healthier to laugh at and scorn the stupid changes and accept the rest as the younger generation experimenting. It’s how they learn.
Life, I have found, consists of doing something stupid, finding out that it’s stupid, stop doing it, and find another stupid thing to do.
Once in a while you find something to do that isn’t stupid. You can treasure those few things and point them out to others.
It changes the culture.
What are your actual recollections of Halloween?
Like you, I have none. Unlike you, it doesn’t worry me. The English Christmas was largely imported from Germany in the nineteenth century. So Australia has imported Halloween. You see this as a harbinger of doom. I don’t.
Parchin produces propellant for ATGMs, Manpads, etc. not their ballistic missiles. And the pics I’ve seen so far indicate limited damage.
Except this point above deserves attention.
The “traditional” but popularised English Christmas had Father Christmas, which was swapped out for Santa Claus, at the time you indicate. During my childhood Father Christmas still got a mention, but not today.
However, we have to distinguish between the religious celebration of Christmas and the popularised version, as well as the traditional from the more modern.
A traditional religious English Christmas isn’t the same as a traditional popularised English Christmas. And neither has much to do with a consumerist “happy holidays” modern popularised version.
What we have with modern Halloween is a modern consumerist celebration like the modern populist form of Christmas, but which doesn’t even have a long local tradition at all.
Everything we know about this day comes from American cinema and retailers. These are poor reasons to do anything, let alone begin indoctrinating a whole generation of children with dubious images of the supernatural, witchcraft and death, and associate those things with treats and meeting the neighbours.
Although there are religious traditions apparently associated with the day, because of the reformation I believe, we have zero associations with those.
Minus a religious connection, all you are left with is the commercial and cultural. You know, like they commercialised transgenderism into the culture.
I believe in addition, but could stand corrected, that the religious versions of Halloween are probably conducted minus the pumpkins, costumes, trick or treating and so forth, so the two have nothing in common, as the trick and treaters are unlikely to also go to mass or whatever as part of the tradition.
In short, both the modern Christmas and Halloween are excuses for retailers to sell a few landfills worth of cheap Chinese shit for idiots to put on their front lawns, but unlike Christmas, Halloween lacks the local religious justification that the popularised Christmas of cartoon f*cking reindeer, gluttony and candy canes has.
Paying kids off in lollies so they don’t pull an “unpleasant trick” on you is the pre-cursor to running protection rackets (or joining the ALP).
Don’t do it.
Ronnie Biggs started with milk money (allegedly).
However, we have to distinguish between the religious celebration of Christmas and the popularised version, as well as the traditional from the more modern.
The puritans under Cromwell banned Christmas. The restoration brought it back. It was popular. I’m afraid people will just make some things popular and ruin traditions. It’s what they do. You’re not going to change that, no matter how deplorable it is. You’re just deploring human nature.
I favour abandoning Christmas trees and going back to oak trees on the grounds that they are sacred to Woden. At least Woden is a European god, not some new fangled foreigner like Jehovah. I’m sure your conservative instincts will make you concur.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
I like Radiohead even more after this.
Moment Radiohead singer Thom Yorke walks out mid-performance after daring pro-Palestine heckler to ‘come up on the f***ing stage and say that’
Another blast from the past.
There was more to Cliff’s story after he won the race that this excerpt does not dwell on, so best leave it alone.
Age against youth, there were a few other examples where endurance beat speed and fitness.
When the younger ones slept Cliff shuffled along, beating them.
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Story of Cliff Young, a 61-year-old Australian farmer who defied expectations and ran his way into history. In 1983, during the grueling 875-kilometer Sydney-to-Melbourne Ultramarathon, seasoned athletes lined up in top-of-the-line gear, all under 30 and fully sponsored.
Then, Cliff showed up — clad in overalls and galoshes over his work boots. Without any professional training, he simply stood at the starting line and prepared to run like he had herded sheep all his life.
Cliff was born in 1922 to a poor farming family in Victoria, Australia.
Growing up on the family’s eight-square-kilometer farm, he had no access to horses or cars for most of his life. So, he became his own transport. When storms hit, Cliff would head out on foot to round up the farm’s 2,000 sheep, sometimes running after them for days.
At age 57, Cliff discovered long-distance running and decided to pursue it with the same dedication he brought to herding sheep, never once thinking his age was a barrier.
As he lined up for the ultra-marathon, the media and spectators were in shock. Here was an older man with no team, sponsors, or sleep strategy. Most runners aimed to finish in about five days, running 18 hours and sleeping six each day.
But Cliff was unaware of this plan and just ran as he always had, through the night and into the next day without rest. Each day, he lagged behind, but each night, while others slept, Cliff gained ground. By the last stretch, he had pulled ahead, finishing the race in 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes — beating the next runner by ten hours.
Cliff’s victory shocked and inspired the nation, but he remained humble. When offered the $10,000 prize, he chose to split it evenly among the runners, refusing to take a cent. This gesture, along with his endurance and determination, turned him into a national hero.
For years afterward, Cliff continued to run, even attempting a 16,000-kilometer trek to raise money for homeless children. Despite battling cancer later in life, Cliff set a world record in a six-day marathon in 2000 at age 78.
He passed away in 2003, leaving behind a legacy of perseverance and generosity that continues to inspire athletes and dreamers everywhere.
Has this menu changed yet, with all the health consciousness about?
Don’t want to be unkind, but she looks like she is ready to take off and join the Halloween festivities.
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In 1939, a woman in Fentress County, Tennessee, is captured standing on her porch, embodying the hard-working spirit of rural life during the era.
The scene features a wash tub, elevated by a wooden chair turned on its side.
Dressed in a sunbonnet, which offered protection from the sun, and a dark blouse paired with a tattered apron, the woman exudes a sense of resilience despite her modest attire.
In her right hand, she clutches a tall, homemade broom.
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which can also make a fine means of transportation. LOL
Timber was good enough for H Ford, so why not?
At MEL waiting to board.
My 2c worth overhead luggage for backpack and small bags only.
Full flight & they are pleading for people to check in carry on.
How deep is the rot and malfeasance in the US voting system? Very deep. Read about it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/does_georgia_s_algorithm_assisted_massive_documented_election_fraud_rise_to_the_level_of_a_treasonous_coup_d_etat.html
Kamala’s radical third world family closely parallels Obama’s radical third world family. Neither of their experiences are rooted in the black community, but in the Soviet globalism of the sixties.
Terrorism, Genocide and Kamala’s Childhood in Africa – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
Interesting but not in a good way.
I am from alba so I recall going guising when I was very young. Halloween was looked down on by the church of Scotland but the old religion couldn’t be squashed. Samhain had to be celebrated. The supernatural world and ours came close. We had to protect against the sidhe. It’s a shame the old traditions are still being subverted . But now by commercialism.
Warren’s cartoon is wrong, Kamala never wore a skirt in her life. It’s pantsuits all the way down.
The voters think so too.
Rasmussen Poll: 49 Percent Say Election Officials Cheated (31 Oct)
I can’t see how a country can continue democratically when one party knows that the other party is cheating, and the other party doesn’t care about that.
Warren’s cartoon is wrong, Kamala never wore a skirt in her life. It’s pantsuits all the way down.
Remember Hillary and Pantsuit Nation – could be pantsuits are coming apart at the seams I heard some wag say
I don’t know why Sky News persists with getting Michale Ware to comment on US politics.
I think Fluffy might be the wrong adjective for Sky’s hackette Annelise — I think Puffy might be a better one — she looks decidedly puffy in recent reports — perhaps she’s in the family way
Johannes Leak’s cartoon today is magnificent in it’s content and scope-an entire essay on the entitled political class of grifters and ne’er-do-wells soiling the seats in a parliamentary chambers.
The Upgrade Albo scandal has ended where we knew it would.
The great mountain of obvious, egregious corruption has been swept aside on nit picking over domestic unsolicited upgrades and Debbildebbil Gina and the private jet.
Swallowing camels while they choke on gnats.
@EndWokeness
This is what they are “teaching” at our tax-funded universities (NC State):
Taps it 5 times for Trump, nothing happens, and it suddenly lights up for Harris.
@AmericaPapaBear
BREAKING
Voting machines in Kentucky are literally changing the vote from Donald Trump to Kamala Harris.
This is ELECTION INTERFERENCE!
Share this video out so everyone can see!
I’m yet to see an accusation against a conservative seeking Chairman’s Lounge access for a child, especially with a bogus +1 excuse.
Over to you, investigative j’lists.
@GrrrGraphics
The Horror Of Cackula Ben Garrison Cartoon
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN
It’s Halloween 2024 and this time October 31st is particularly scary because we have a horrific Democrat candidate who is not only unqualified, but she’s also actively engaged in a monstrous agenda against our country. Kamala’s pumpkin is filled with garbage, not treats.
Donald Trump is a proven leader who can drive a stake through the heart of the horrific Deep State. He is the hero we need. If you see a kid dressed as Trump at your door, make sure to give him some extra candy!
May your shadow not follow you too closely and all your ghosts be friendly. Happy Halloween! Feel free to share with all MAGA Frens!
@iAnonPatriot
Donald Trump’s name doesn’t appear on the first screen as an option, on voting machines in California.
You have to click ‘more’ options to be able to vote for him.
????
@laralogan
When you first see this you think it’s a joke – then you realize it is possible this person actually believes this?? Then you wonder if somehow their brain was sucked out of their head…
If you are going to go big you may as well go really big…
Russia Fines Google More than Entire GDP of the World for Blocking Propaganda Accounts (31 Oct)
Just a tad more than world GDP too. It would constitute the entire world GDP for about the next hundred million trillion years, by which time the universe would have no remaining stars.
too crazy to see
After Biden calls Trump voters ‘garbage,’ Harris campaign says women around Trump are weak, dumb
Lefty women of America – news flash!
Since you’re so “offended” by Trump promising to protect you regardless of your politics, be prepared for NO ONE to come to your aid when you’re being attacked or threatened. You are on your own.
You go girrrrls! Kamala Energy will be your shield!
If he “accurately predicted” the 2020 election then he knew about the steal, because the result was anything but genuine.
Donald Trump Now Set for Landslide: Forecaster Who Backed Kamala Harris
This is an excerpt because it’s paywalled. There are many people here now who are exactly like she was then. I’m shocked sometimes talking to people.
I cried when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 – but here’s why I’m now voting for Trump
Trump’s 2016 victory shocked progressives like myself – but after digging deeper than media narratives, I learnt why we were so wrong.
I cried from Canada when Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump in 2016. My boyfriend at the time seemed unable to relate to my visceral reaction, which only made my snotty-nosed despair worse. Oh, the misogyny of it all.
Despite having dual citizenship, I had never lived in America, nor voted in an American election. That year was no exception, but Clinton was a shoo-in, I’d figured. “Who would vote for such a vile buffoon as Trump?” I thought.
Apparently, many millions.
Trump’s win that year shocked legions of progressives and feminists like myself, who trusted the media, their algorithm and their friendship circles, which had painted Trump in near-universal reports as a detestable racist, sexist and bully, whereas Clinton was the deserving, respectable heir.
We were so wrong.
Once I recovered from my anger at the unfairness of democracy in action (and my regret at having not registered to vote in the US), I began to dig deeper in an attempt to understand what I had not prior to the vote. This is, one would think, what any critical or curious thinker would do. There must be a reason so many people voted for Trump.
Living overseas myself, now in Mexico, I realise the easy answer for many Left-wingers looking on from abroad is to write off half the population as racists and misogynists – people who had “lost their moral compass” – resorting to emotionally-driven political choices like a hatred of women, and faced with Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate this year, people of colour too.
By now, though, having witnessed the unprecedented Trump triumph, we should have all learnt that things are never so simple.
It became clear to me that neither social nor mainstream media was offering the full story.
Terrible scenes from Spain. The devastation is indescribable.
Govt Vaccine Compensation Programme Breaks Down as MILLIONS of Vaxx Injured Overwhelm System
Secret Service Brass Interfered in IG Assassination Probe
‘Transparently Political’: Jonathan Turley Says Soros-Backed DA Trying To Pull Elon Musk Off Campaign Trail
Cackula – priceless
Good. I hope they choke on their beer.
US offshore wind execs fret privately over possible Trump election win
@ggreenwald
@elonmusk
The second Trump Presidency will be the most fun America has had in a while.
It’s gonna be awesome!
Another socialist pesthole hits bottom.
Evo Morales Says Venezuela Is Aiding Socialist Blockades Starving Bolivia (30 Oct)
Well worth reading, it’s surreal. Marxism just keeps on producing terrible messes wherever it’s tried.
I see the sinister totalitarian Islamist adulterer Der Sturmer and his cretinous crew have now even gagged MPs from asking questions in parliament about Southport and what Der Sturmer and his fellow Marxist Islamist loving rodents knew.
Oh that’s right, as we’re always being told, it’s only ever the right that imperils democracy, it’s never the left.
LOL, they’re mocking us, they’re ridiculing us and they’re laughing at us.
Closer to home, notice how Simon the Pimp’s whores are strangely, oddly and weirdly silent about Upgrade Albo? So much for ‘transparency’.
Yep, the joke really is on us.
If North Korean forces are now joining in the fight against Ukraine, hopefully western countries will send in troops and much needed air support.
Nigel Farage’s response to the U.K. budget
Bad Penny likes Cuba and betrays the USA:
Every Country Except Israel Voted Against America at the UN (31 Oct)
Really great way to encourage the US to defend us, especially when we’re so helpless.
Joe Rogan Experience #2221 – JD Vance
Fair bit of clear air turbulence over NNSW.
If I were a betting man I’d say this arvo that will be spawing anvil clouds…
It’s an odd line Cakula (LOL, pay that one) is trying to tread over Trump’s “protection” remarks.
We’ve heard, ad infinitum, that women are “victims” of everything, from DV to glass ceilings to so called reproductive rights.
When someone stands up and says he wants to protect them, Cackles goes off like a firecracker on the well worn How Dare You path. Burp.
Augustus the concreter.
https://x.com/aitorehm/status/1851909551445950876?t=CGKR5s3–um19H5mtUCShA&s=19
The Shield Of Joy!
BNE Qantas buisness lounge.
Crap selection to the one food point and massive line.
No hi-vis to be seen. Yet…
Does anyone else think Cakula will get more than 400 million votes?
I hear the rain in Spain is staying mainly on the plain.
…
Yes, yes, I know. Don’t start.
Penny Wong buys $3.4m luxury home weeks after PM’s beach buyForeign Minister Penny Wong has purchased a $3.4 million property in one of Adelaide’s most exclusive suburbs just weeks after her boss Anthony Albanese snapped up a $4.3m luxury pad.
Daily Tele.
Regardless of the election outcome, I wonder what Joe’s pardon list will look like.
Speaking of joy, there appears to be no cost of living crises affecting our elites, who are paid by us. Daily Telegraph:
An impressive property portfolio to be sure.
Like they give a phuck about the people they purport to represent. FMD
Snap Zulu.
Monty, get in here and explain your behaviour.
Grifters, narcissists and psychopaths. They certainly hold the people who pay for their lavish lifestyles in contempt. They actively damage them with their actions re energy, water, taxation and immigration. So much for the social contract.
I was reading about Rachael Reeves- the same old bullshit ‘degrees’ from the LSE. Reeves and her Marxist mates have nothing to offer but misery (not for them of course).
Exposing the Southport Misinformation Trick: WHY Are We Being Kept in the Dark?
The LSE is up there with Macquarie Uni in my list of institutions that I despise.
Sarah O’Hare’s Australian accent is really pronounced. Saw her making a short speech at some Washington DC function for medical research sponsored by Murdochs. I thought having been a supermodel and mixing with the high society she would have acquired a more international accent.
Rightio let’s see how long it lasts. Courier Mail:
Ahaha Queensland blackocracy! I hear Stradbroke Island is kind of nice. Anytime of the year. It continues:
Sucked in flog.
Just scrap any bullshit to do with any renewable projects and use what is abundantly in Queensland soil.
But again let’s see what happens in the blackocracy space.
Expect Labor to lampoon Crisafulli by comparing him to Robert Byrd.
And another thing…
I wondered why the court artist showed the Southport dismemberer of small girls with the lower half of his face concealed by a pullover.
Could it be that it was to conceal a beard?
Texas investigating Dominion voting machines:
REPORT: Texas AG Opens ‘Criminal Investigation’ Into Dominion Voting Systems.
And with the absolutely fraudulent CSIRO/BOM state of the climate report just released Tony Heller does a simple 4 minute explanation as to why the temperature record is a lie:
Poisoning The Climate Soup
The worrying sign Australia is going to be hit by brutal UK-style inheritance tax and what YOU can do to keep Albanese’s hands off your estate
Daily Mail.
Qantas book author loads up again:
[Albo] loves the free concert tickets and sitting at the front row of the Australian Open Tennis.
‘I went to the Australian Open Tennis as a journalist almost every year for 12 years and he was the only Prime Minister (I saw there).
‘Those tickets are worth thousands of dollars to sit in the front row of the International Grand Slam. He’s the first Prime Minister who I’ve ever seen do that.
‘That to me is a sign that he doesn’t quite get what it looks like to others when he’s on the gravy train.
Daily Mail
Yet more appalling reporting from the Oz:
What utter bullsh*t. It shouldn’t take long for this courageous “projection” to be proven completely wrong, which I’ll be keeping an eye on. The NDIS is utterly out of control and will never be reined back in. The only solution would be nuking the f*cking abomination from orbit, which of course will never happen, due to the inevitable “audible in space” squawking.
Two Alien references – yay!
It’s amazing how quickly accusations of freeloading by the PM has deteriorated into the political equivalent of a food fight.
Dutton had to use private contractor flights? That would be because it’s a government benefit to use RAAF VIP flights, not an opposition one.
Ha ha canbra ‘projections’- we know what they’re worth. John Kerin once made a good comment about waste and treasury economists.
Indeedy, tho I’ll re-iterate that the Australian Open is not the Grand Slam.
Howard was derided as a wannabe criggit tragic, but I can’t recall him attending an international test, let alone doing a Gillard-Albanese and glad-handling inside the changerooms.
Cassie of Sydney
November 1, 2024 8:29 am
I seem to recall m0nster assuring us all he was a Christian and more Welsh than Tom Jones.
In Green Shoots news:
[Unlinkable OZ]
Low hanging fruit, but a reasonable start.
There are a couple of obvious corollaries: Path to Treaty, and the whole renewables strategy (including the ridiculous Copperstring project) now don’t work as planned but presumably shuffle along as political zombies.
I came.
I saw.
I concreted.
The Southport Kid Killer- Axel Rudakabana, say his name!- cannot be allowed to reflect badly upon Islam. Hence no beard, no mosque. As the saying goes, look for what they’re not reporting.
That’s also why you can’t say his name, the Blob will not allow his atrocities to reflect badly upon multiculti endless migration.
He looks like an arrogant shameless hypocritical knobheaded parasite, hoovering OPM like there’s no tomorrow.
“But, but, but I grew up in counshel houshing, I tellsh ya”
Again.
Even more Welsh than Tom Jones and Surely Bassey.
It takes just one.
Just one runaway voting machine.
“But, but, but I grew up in counshel houshing, I tellsh ya”
I just don’t think that’s gonna wash anymore.
Speaking of which, a recent survey captures a growing divide between Australia’s elite caste and mainstream voters:
Seems to me our politicians could benefit from mixing with the hoi polloi at airports rather than hiding away in the Chairman’s Lounge.
Et tu Penus
Christmas is coming. The shops are cashing in early, decorations are up already. We are heading to the UK for Christmas with Hairy’s brother’s family in London. We’ve just found out we’ve been selected by ballot to attend the Nine Lessons and Carols Ceremony held at St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge University. ‘In the Deep Midwinter’ – such wonderful memories of attending this ceremony in this elegant medieval building with it’s soaring roof which we the congregation of 2000 amost sang further into the heavens. This was more than thirty years ago, our children minded by Hairy’s brother’s family, and us making the trip to Cambridge in the dark and cold the night before to be able to get up in time to wait for hours in line in the cold for entry while the same choir entertained the waiters with jolly Christmas songs. Lucky to make it in then too. Now it’s all computerised by lots.
This ceremony is not old, it was developed for soldiers during World War 1 in 1918, though some earlier forms were known. Nine biblical lessons from the St. James bible are read, each interspersed with a Christmas carol, ancient or modern. It is justly world famous.
I seem to recall m0nster assuring us all he was a Christian and more Welsh than Tom Jones.
If the Nazi comes on here and writes that something’s black, then I assume, correctly, it’s white.
A classic example being David Crisafulli, who was all for the voice, treaty and truth-telling until the referendum revealed a considerable majority of Queenslanders weren’t.
There’s something you don’t see every day.
Amberly close and a weekdays but a C17 RAAF marrking just landed & taxiing at BNE.
And how is Florence?
At least Crisafooli is doing something vaguely centre-right. Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison would do well to reflect, having achieved nothing as effective in 10 years compared to 3 days.
I wonder if Caucus operates some sort of graduated scale of flaunting: the PM flaunts $4.3m, the FM flaunts $3.4m – backbenchers $2.5m?
Those in favour are inevitably members of the “Let them eat cake” class.
Enabling many, many, “full and frank exchanges of views” with less than gruntled punters.
He’s a cheap touch up our handsome boy.
It only cost Fox two snags at his barbie to have non-corporate competition removed from the Australian transport industry.
Caution: A Very Undemocratic Voting System May Soon Come To Five States, Says Steve Forbes
Roger …
This is, in fact, the root cause of the problems at Qantas.
I note Rockdoctor’s commentary on the appalling service in the Qantas business lounge, something which I have also observed*.
Qaintarse have reached the point where not even business class/high ff point travellers matter.
All that matters is pandering to the political class who can then be relied upon to keep the thumb on the competition scales in favour of Qaintarse.
Which, in turn, enables them to treat a largely captive audience like shit.
…
* This was reciprocal rights access via another airline.
I wasn’t flying Qaintarse.
As if.
Which point gives the lie to anyone taking the view, which I have heard expressed, that the special treatment on offer is a trivial matter because nobody is being disadvantaged.
I love the headline.
I Never Thought I’d Say This, but Garbage and French Fries Could Win This Election (31 Oct, via Lucianne)
Let them eat fries!
The defects in the US voting system are tumbling out; multi voting, dead registrations, irregular migrants being bussed in, and a galaxy of voting machine issues. And there’s no shame or secrecy behind any of this – it’s almost as if the Establishment is proudly demonstrating US Exceptionalism in Turd World electoral fraud.
However (and without wanting to be a Jeremiah) despite the early focus of commentators and ‘Nerds for Fair Elections’, the exact same set of hurdles that existed in 2020 still stand.
There is next to no chance of the many examples of ‘irregularities’ growing up from ‘anecdotes’ into ‘legal standard of proof’ – at least not in material numbers, and not in the time frame from Electoral College to Ratification. We may all know what’s going on, but it’s hard to imagine the US Supreme Court buying into the biggest constitutional crisis evah on the basis of fragments.
Looking at the whole goat rodeo from a population statistics perspective, the next Presidency depends on whether there is sufficient Trump Turnout to overcome the steal.
Cakula (excellent) is a weapon in that regard, but not an assurance.
Not as much as that Russian court wants from Goolag but still pretty chunky.
Trump sues CBS for $10B over Harris’s ’60 Minutes’ interview (31 Aug)
Well since the Dems keep finding lefty judges in DC or New York to lawfare Trump over ridiculous stuff it is only fair to try a bit of turnabout in Texas.
Qantas is dead to me and I used to be something of a Qantas enthusiast. Gave Virgin a go last time which was very good until they spoilt it with insulting woke BS when we landed at Eagle Farm.
Suddenly our incoming emails have stopped. We suspect it is because we were forced to start a new Optusaccount when our Optus box was zapped by a lightning strike in our street. Got a new box . All good. But suddenly all emails have stopped. Not looking forward to trip to Sydney to Optus shop where English seems like a second language.
BTW the sinews that Wong has also purchased an expensive property confirms my belief that Labor thinks it may be dead meat at the next election. Ages ago I heard from somewhere that Wong had decided to retire after next election if they are turfed out,
Just in from The Oz….
Pauline Hanson racially vilified Mehreen Faruqi, court finds
The One Nation leader racially vilified the Greens Senator when publishing a tweet telling her to ‘piss off back to Pakistan’, a Federal Court judge has found.
Never mind the racial vilification Fatso Faruqi has engaged in.
What an effing joke.
Vicky surely Optus would be able to fix your email problem remotely.
This whole Mohamed Al Fayed thing is a bit on the nose. Easy to accuse the dead and especially so when there’s a multi- billion pound pot at stake. Sure, he might have done it. I don’t know. I do know it seems conveniently late in the day to start pointing fingers. I’m not sure he could have been such a prolific abuser, as alleged, and gone under the radar to the extent he must have done if it were true. He didn’t have the institutional protection of, say, Jimmy Savile (or multiple grooming gangs operating throughout England but that is another story for another day). Plus the demographic of women he is alleged to have abused aren’t typically the type who keep quiet about that sort of thing, ie. posh or posh-adjacent Harrods employees. Some would have, sure. But hundreds? All too terrified to speak out until after he croaks? All of them?
Mmm yeah I’m not buying it.
I’m sure there is anti Semitic tweets in her catalogue. Hun:
Sorry if you vomited in your own mouth when reading this. Justice Stewart reads a lot into the Hanson tweet which is just boilerplate Left crapola.
As for Faruqi, what a turd.
I regard the Jew hating Fatso Faruqi as evil, sinister and disgusting. She is far more dangerous than Lidia Thorpe.
And snap Cassie.
This verdict against Hanson has to be appealed.
“It is a warning for those like Pauline Hanson.”
The Jew hating Fatso Faruqi is threatening you and me.
It also shows how dangerous the courts are. A hangover from feudalism, from 1066.
Hanson’s defence was that it was political speech, which is protected under the constitution.
I think there’s room for appeal here.
He was born in Cardiff to Rwandan migrant parents, so yes he is Welsh. As to his religion, the perp went to a state school and police are not treating the murders as terrorist so one would imagine he is not Muslim. He is reportedly on the autism spectrum, though.
Bruce, I am sorry to hear that you are suffering from long COVID. That sounds like a bugger of a thing to deal with, especially given how little is known about it even at this stage. I hope they discover something to fix the condition.
Oh look, the Nazi has appeared, still trying to insist the Southport slasher of little girls isn’t a Muslim and is Welsh, just like Richard Burton, Tom Jones and Owen Tudor.
Yeah…and pigs fly. I think the Nazi should piss off.
Using that logic we’re all Australian Aborigines, hooray!
Gotta laff at all these reports of troughers needing to check their records to see if they’ve declared upgrades .. “Joe Blow” remember his upgrade cos it’s a bit like winning the lottery BUT pollies need to check cos they, obviously, get sooo many they lose track ……
Shirley, it’d be simpler for them (pollies) to relate to how many times they were up the “back” with the common folk ..?
I mean travelling “cattle” class for an ‘elite” isn’t something they are likely to forget in a hurry …. LOL!
On the move.
September was a record month – 337m. Same speed, or slightly slower than a decent drill and blast team.
WA billionaire Gina Rinehart pays for main table at Liberal Party dinner
WA billionaire Gina Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting bought the main table at a Liberal Party event celebrating its 80-year anniversary, the Australian Financial Review is reporting.
Held at Crown Perth on Thursday evening, and headlined by former Prime Ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard, the event was held as a mixer for party donors with deep pockets.
Hancock Prospecting paid $10,000 for the table, but Rinehart herself did not attend.
However, current WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam, federal leader Peter Dutton and Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas were all present.
9 News Perth reported that many who attended the event were optimistic there would be a swing towards the Liberals in WA during the next election.
The state Liberals hold just three seats in the lower house, but are hopeful of regaining some of the five seats lost in 2022.
Is it the height of Tory behaviour, to present your financial advisor, with a bottle of top shelf single malt for the job they did?
My last memory of Brisbane airport was that the Qantas Club lounge was a loud with more of an eatery feel, while the Business Lounge was less crowded and rather more comfortable. And without Hi-Vis.
Dun it again .. grrrrrrrrh! .. Bought the lollies & choccie & for the 5th year running and no one turned up .. Admittedly, it did start raining but didn’t get serious until past seven thirty & as the few kids around me are, mainly, under 8 I’d guess they’d be finishing up by 7.30pm not starting ..
Oh, well! alwayz next year to try again .. cos you can guarantee if I don’t stock up .. the hordes will appear … LOL!
in the meantime I’ve got lotza, sugary, goodies to go with TV time to get thru ..!
Bribing the base.
Albanese government looks to slash HECS debt (Sky News, 1 Nov)
This is transparent vote buying, especially since the progressive uni student class has outed themselves as such a den of antisemitism.
A US artilleryman and Delta Force serviceman were killed in the last week performing sabotage operations in Russia. US provides ISR to Ukraine, US ‘advisors’ operate some their weapons systems, etc.
Church of All Saints, Minsk, Belarus (click to enlarge each section)
It is a significant and striking modern Orthodox Christian church. Officially known as the Church of All Saints and in Memory of the Victims of War, it is one of the largest and most prominent churches in Belarus. Construction of the Church began in 1996 and it was completed in 2008, with its consecration taking place in 2010. It was built to commemorate Belarusians who lost their lives in various wars and conflicts, with a special emphasis on the sacrifices made during World War II. As you can see, the interior of the church is richly adorned with mosaics, frescoes, and iconography of many saints.
Gawd, our left is so insanely unimaginative. Not an original thought between them.
The state Liberals hold just three seats in the lower house, but are hopeful of regaining some of the five seats lost in 2022.
Comedy gold!
This morning a portion of an ABC interview with Joe Aston popped up on my feed ( can’t find it now). He mentions 16 million Aussies are collecting Q FF points (FMD!) – Mr Gilbert’s line from Gondoliers sprang to “when everybody’s somebody, no one’s any body”. It explains why Q can get away with anything.
Interesting.
https://x.com/mountlevnon/status/1852046492657144253?t=Ve4XrY5tyoho-rTcf3qvog&s=19
“Parchin produces propellant for ATGMs, Manpads, etc. not their ballistic missiles. And the pics I’ve seen so far indicate limited damage.”
Because Iran would never ever ever censor anything.
Bruce of Newcastle
November 1, 2024 10:32 am
Someone the other day was talking about that historical misquotes and mistakes, misconceptions eventually will be cleared up and corrected.
Some maybe, not so in this case, poor M Antoinette never said it, and even if she did it had a solid foundation.
By the law of the land and royal decree, if the baker sold out the cheaper bread he was obliged to sell the more expensive ‘cake’ at bread prices.
Of course there were a lot of people who couldn’t afford bread either so it was a mute point, but that’s an other argument, valid as it is.
Sounds like a bit of a realignment of the Lebanese political landscape. They wouldn’t be doing that if they regarded retaliation by the Hezbies as a serious threat.
Hezbollah reportedly agrees to withdraw beyond Litani River, Lebanese reports claim (31 Oct)
Basically Israel has won decisively.
https://youtu.be/Uga94uWb0CU?si=7ywrvFiwODADLg31
An outstanding expose of Starmer’s and the Merseyside Police programmed assault on free speech and anyone who dared protest on behalf of the murdered tots.
The interview with the threatening, ranting chief plodess is Gestapo level surreal. Deeply frightening.
Surely there must be trigger point with these Stalinists.
Sadly ‘establishment’ Farage has failed to challenge the Speaker’s plainly illegal ruling against discussion in the House of the massacre. Perhaps he believes that to do so would suggest that he is associated with the thugish ordinary folks who are brazenly are demanding answers about their safety and freedom.
I’m not a particular fan of Piers Morgan, but he’s a breath of fresh air on The Five compared to Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jnr.
Jessica is such an ardent spinner for the rotten left that she is aversion therapy, while Harold tries to sugar coat his leftist support by sucking up to Judge Jeanine something awful. His tactic is to say he agrees with some minor point before launching into la la land defence of whatever the Dems are doing.
Both Jessica and Harold are defending the indefensible. This means they are complicit in the (likely) destruction of the USA as we knew it.
Piers can have contrary opinions, very fitting in a panel show, but he is more conservative than left, and much better value for the program.
Autism causes people to commit terrorism?
Nice try.
Going out of your to stab multiple little girls at a Taylor Swift workshop.
What kind of ricin making person would even think of doing that?
Germany closes Iranian consulates.
Perhaps they will start expelling all regime supporters.
https://x.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1852062198753009789?t=Jw1V0yE1_Chu31wd1Kz6iw&s=19
The mystery of why US elections are so haphazardly run is explained by the admirable Roger Franklin at Quadrant here.
Like many Australians, I could never understand why it is such a mess.
Briefly, part of the deal for creating the equivalent of our Federation was that each State was in charge of elections held in that State. If that was as far as it went, things would probably be reasonably OK.
What happened was that the States, over time, delegated responsibility for elections to a host of lesser bodies like counties, cities etc, for political reasons. It’s much easier to rig an election in a smaller jurisdiction.
The only check on the delegation is that what they do cannot be incompatible with State and Federal law and their respective Constitutions. As we have seen, implementing those checks is very difficult.
A lot of the corruption and chicanery could be remedied if the States simply took back control of elections. But, that would put a lot of political noses out of joint on both sides. Hence, the absurd situation.
Ten paws to Roger for explaining the mystery. Well worth a read for anyone wanting to understand US elections.
Iran responding the Israeli ‘non event’ immediately after the election.
They prefer a Kamala presidency.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1852080736871866408?t=qclqVXUB2JEUEjLt01fbNQ&s=19
It appears a journo thinks we should pay pollies more perhaps to cure the corruption.jailing is a better option.
Pong it seems has done a sleasy and bought new digs in SA $3.4 million is quoted
They’re not censoring Western satellite photos.
“It is a warning for those like Pauline Hanson.”
I ask, where’s this slag’s warnings for her numerous racist acts and words?
Where’s this slag’s warning for attending numerous celebrations of unadulterated Jew hatred on our city streets since 7 October 2023, where she, time and time again, enthusiastically shouted the genocidal cry ‘from the river to the sea Palestine will be free’? Is that not racist and a call for mass murder? I don’t recall her denouncing the actions on the Sydney Opera House on October 9.
Where’s this slag’s warning for not once condemning the savagery and butchery of 7 October 2023? In fact, as evidenced a few months ago on their ABC, she supports Hamas.
Where’s this slag’s warning for attending the funeral rally of a Hezbollah terrorist and lauding him?
Where’s this slag’s warning for being pictured, with a big cheesy smile on her fat ugly face, in front of a poster that said the world needed to kept clean of people like me? The poster had the words “keep the world clean’ and a picture of a Star of David being tossed into a rubbish bin. A picture the slag proudly uploaded onto her social media, only to take it down later, presumably after wiser counsel advised her to.
Where’s this slag’s senate censure motion against her, for her rampant unadulterated Jew hatred?
But you know what? Fatso Faruqi is laughing at us and she’s right to laugh. She’s opportunistic because the Australia of 2024 allows her to be an opportunist. The laws favour her. She’s simply using the myriad of disgraceful federal and state hate speech laws to go after and silence ordinary Australians like us here, and to merrily continue with her rampant Jew hatred, because successive Coalition governments, completely lacking in balls, did F*CK ALL to repeal/rein in these laws, and until that happens, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
I think this latest development shows how right Advance is to go after the greens.
A bit of wishcasting above.
I’m sure every Cat here knows plenty of Christians who hold onto Al-Qaeda military reading materials.
And, more seriously, I have no idea how one would get a hold of such materials; surely an online purchase would be picked up or flagged.
He’s obviously been radicalised by something; and it certainly isn’t the sermon on the mount.
You are dealing seriously nasty people who would ship you off to a concentration camp in two shakes of a lamb’s tail if they decide you’re a ‘class enemy’. Just look at China in the 60s.
Wow, I’m sure sure Fatso Faruqi can book a table at Nomad, to support her fellow Jew hater. From The Oz…..
Nomad owner’s horrifying anti-Semitic slur revealed
High-profile restaurateur Al Yazbek called his Jewish landlords “Shylock & Shylock” during a dispute over the premises of his Nomad restaurant, an age-old anti-Semitic slur that flies in the face of his claims to simply be protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Mr Yazbek, who last week pleaded guilty to charges of knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestine rally, also demeaningly referred to one of the landlord’s employees as “the little bald Jewish guy who works for you”.
The comments were made in emails to prominent Sydney real estate investors Robert and Geula Burke, who own the five-storey Surry Hills building housing Mr Yazbek’s swanky ground floor Nomad restaurant.
Highly regarded members of Sydney’s Jewish community, Mr Burke, 75, and Israeli-born Ms Burke, 73, are understood to have been appalled by the emails but not surprised when Mr Yazbek was revealed to have brandished a sign bearing a swastika superimposed on an Israeli flag.
Mr Yazbek’s long-term lease on Nomad’s Foster St site has at least two years left to run, but mass cancellations have emptied the restaurant and his two Victorian eateries, Nomad Melbourne and Reine & La Rue in the wake of the charges.
Mr Yazbek’s wife Rebecca last week sent an email to the restaurant group’s patrons saying she was “furious with his actions and heartbroken by the harm they caused”.
Ms Yazbek claimed her husband was no longer involved in the management of the business and on Friday announced a restructure of the company, to be renamed Edition Hospitality, in which she would become the sole director.
Celebrity accountant Anthony Bell, founder & CEO of Bell Partners has been appointed as business advisor to the group.
Ms Yazbek said her husband was booked to depart for an Ashram in India and would return for his sentencing on the Nazi flag protest charges on 10 December.
In a separate statement to The Australian over his use of the slur ‘Shylock & Shylock’, Mr Yazbek said: “This is a massive overreaction. People call me names in jest or frustration, and I don’t take offence to terms like ‘mad wog’ or ‘crazy Leb’. It’s Aussie vernacular.
“The term was used after what I felt were multiple unsuccessful interactions with Mr Burke. It was wrong to use the phrase. I have always attempted to stay on good terms with Mr Burke, inviting him into the restaurant to dine, for example.”
Mr Yazbek has explicitly denied being anti-Semitic and has apologised “unequivocally” for his flag protest, but that apology was undermined when The Australian revealed he was once questioned by police after caught acting suspiciously outside a Bondi synagogue in Sydney’s east in 2024, when his car was found loaded with water bomb ballons.
The next day, Mr Yazbek made his way into a rally for Israel in nearby Dover Heights where more than 10,000 members of Sydney’s Jewish community had gathered, before the restaurateur was spotted by security and removed by police.
The “Shylock & Shylock” gibe occurred in the midst of a bitter legal dispute between the Burkes and the Yazbeks, stemming from a fire that started in Nomad’s wood fire oven in September 2019.
The Yazbeks began repairs after the fire but refused to allow the Burkes access to the property. The Burkes then sued Nomad in the NSW Supreme Court, seeking an injunction to allow them to carry out work to comply with a council fire safety order.
Mr Burke, who is also a lawyer, used his own law firm Gilbert Mane, to bring the action against Nomad.
In a 1 June 2021 email Mr Yazbek described correspondence from Gilbert Mane as “more rubbish from the firm of Shylock and Shylock”.
Shylock was a stereotyped greedy Jewish money lender in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice who demands “a pound of flesh” from his Christian rival.
Anti-Semites have used the Shylock trope to support persecution of Jews for more than 400 years, playing off the ‘blood libel’ – the ancient false allegation that Jews coveted the blood of gentiles for sinister purposes.
Mr Burke’s son, Edan, who is employed as Hanave’s property manager, said in an affidavit to the court that the email contained “anti-Semitic undertones”.
Mr Yazbek made other offensive comments about Edan Burke in the email, describing him as “your idiot son” and “a liar”.
The following day, Mr Yazbek sent an email saying he “would be happy to show through the little bald Jewish guy who works for you by way of an update.”
Edan Burke stated in his affidavit that Mr Yazbek had acted aggressively towards him, yelling at Hanave’s fire experts to “get out” and obstructing attempts to comply with the fire order.
In another affidavit, dated 3 August 2023, Edan Burke alleged that Nomad’s solicitors notified them on the eve of Yom Kippur that a fire safety shutdown of the building was to take place the following day, “being less than 24 hours prior notice in circumstances where the holiest day of the Jewish calendar began at sundown on the same day”.
That meant the company didn’t have time to inform other tenants of the building about the impending shutdown, Mr Burke said.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the revelations aboy Mr Yazbek were “entirely in keeping with the conduct of a person who taunts Jewish Australians with swastikas and was questioned by police for acting suspiciously around a synagogue.”
“His gratuitous references to the Jewishness of someone involved in a property dispute and the reference to the moneylender Shylock, shows a fixation with Jews and that his offer of an ‘olive branch of peace and love to the Jewish community’ was purely self-serving and cynical. He can take his olive branch and plant it.”
Don’t anyone tell me Mrs Yazbek doesn’t share her husband’s dislike of Jews.