Deeves needs to explain the Pesutto 50k that according to her clients she did not disclose.
Open Thread – Mon 9 Dec 2024
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- East Jerusalem forever belongs to Israel
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Dec 2024
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Tom Hey JC, I assume you’ll be online early tomorrow morning (Thursday, NY time) monitoring the NYSE. I just heard…
The total bill for Giuseppe Prosciutto could be up to $2million LOL. This just keeps getting better. One of the…
I would suggest that most beef producers will not use it. The economics, particularly for grass fed is just not…
Dr F Yesterday, I also saw a comment from this Syrian dude, that he wants to base the Syrian economy…
Just flew out of Darwin via Virgin, and of course on landing we got the usual.
So I penned a complaint to them and sent it in online. Intend to do that for every airline from now on:
Re: your insult to the veteran community
As someone who has fought for this country, I find it most insulting to have your cabin staff tell all the passengers on landing that we are actually in another country where they are acknowledging the “local elders and leaders past present and emerging.”.
Have you thought of how divisive this is for all Australians?
A question for economists;
Does government debt to GDP really matter?
Here is a list, some of the highest seem to be doing OK in standard of living while some of the lowest are struggling.
The US can even ‘afford’ supporting the Ukraine and other entities conducting wars.
Another question is of course, how long can you stretch the credit card, is it going to come crashing down?
If my tastes continue to change as I age, I may have to revisit my devotion to Betty Rubble over Wilma Flintstone.
Let us not contemplate wrestling with Ginger over Mary Anne.
We have dodged a bullet by leaving the lollypop blog.
an example of their thinking;
“Israel stood down for seven hours on October 7th, allowing Hamas to attack. It’s now clear this was a strategic move to use the chaos as a catalyst for a permanent takeover of Gaza.”
Former teacher and principal no less. Three failed marriages,
Never heard of the 27 club until today.
Very strange.
What’s even more weird is Robert Johnson was the first to die at 27 he was the blues singer who was rumored to have sold his soul at the crossroads, is there a coincidence???
(my excuse is that I’m not interested in pop music)
Some are so stupid that the word is misused when applied to them.
https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8496fca5c81da5c86229aaf4d2130a8a?s=64&d=identicon&r=g
Arky
December 10, 2024 12:23 am
You heathen, how dare you!
Mary Anne all the way.
And Betty Rubble of course.
Too wordy, T.E.
“Before the British, the only people on this continent were violent stone-age nomads”.
Apply that to any Welcome To Country, any Art Exhibition, any deferral to Indigenous Wisdom or invocation of the myth of Living In Perfect Harmony With Mother Earth.
Wrangler. Jane from F Troup for me thanks.
Hopefully Arky is working toward providing an answer to the big question in life:
Betty Cooper or Veronica Lodge?
… and if you were Scooby, which one would you want to get your paws all over in the back of the van, Daphne or Velma?
Arky @ 12:23….
are you referring to the luscious Ginger Lynn? Met her at an establishment at Fyshwick decades ago – a promotion for the new establishment., lovely lass.
If I recall correctly on old movies she gave John Holmes a good work out before he fell off the perch because of bottom germs.
“Danby is too stupid to be a Jew”
Rabz quote from the weekend I am still chuckling at.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
( :
Cats in the Cradle Music Video
Spoiled rich kid.
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1866193800164765939?t=SAzNhWnkoDkB0wl_BnkhPQ&s=19
Looks like deteriorating social cohesion is a world wide phenomena in western democracies.
The Swiss have doubts.
It’s paywalled. The Age and SMH are reporting that there is a travel warning for Jews visiting Australia.
When you think we can’t sink lower, we do.
This is a shameful chapter in our nation’s history. This government must go and go in ignominy. People flirting with independents and minor parties at the ballot box will simply vote Labor back in via the back door.
I get the sentiments, but the strategy is flawed.
They got the assassin from the shooting of Brian Thompson the CEO who was killed in NY:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14174379/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-latest-hunt-pennsylvania.html
Yup, educated left wing nut.
There was a discussion about ‘fossil’ fuels in one of the groups I visit.
BTW someone claimed that the term ‘fossil’ was paid for by an oil baron bribing journous of the day to make it look scarce and keep the price up.
Not sure about that.
BoN and others,
has there ever been a study made of the total mass of animals terrestrial or marine that died and supposedly created the oil and gas reserves we enjoy today?
Also, what sort of a colossal upheaval caused all that to go under the earth’s crust, sometimes to great depths.
(disregard Jed Clampett’s oil well)
To me it seems a bit suss, as we discover both oil and gas in very diverse locations and depths and more and more. I’m not quite up to the mechanics of it.
The full-throated approval from the western media over Assad’s fall has
me becoming very worried. It’s almost reflexive – anything the grubs of Talking Heads World applaud must be flawed.
I see Christians are fleeing, part of a conga line of refugees. They have been barely tolerated, now under even more pressure to convert or die.
I doubt there’ll be humanitarian visas for them. Wrong religion.
Daniel Penny acquitted.
Gabor, have you ever seen photos of the extrusions of gas from the sun taken at the eclipses? Just think how many dead dinosaurs the sun must have had to cause all that fossil fuel!
Gabor, my science teacher, back in prehistoric times, told me that coal was made from dead plants from bogs put under immense pressure. Much the same as peat bogs work to this day.
Oil was produced from the dead denizens of shallow seas (Permian?) which covered the globe, They sank to the bottom, layers of rock over the top, muchos pressure and, hey presto! oil.
Glossopteris and Gangamopteris are plant names I have winkled out of my memory’s recesses. Giant ferns and lichens and other primitive woody plants.
https://www.thefp.com/p/simon-sebag-montefiore-after-assad-syria-putin-trump
Thank goodness. They put him through hell for protecting himself and a carload of passengers.
Veteran Daniel Penny is acquitted in NYC subway chokehold case over Jordan Neely’s death
100%
@catturd2
Sounds more like political “science” than microbiology.
@DanODonnellShow
University of Wisconsin microbiology professor Timothy Paustian tells students during a class lecture that “we have a psychopath who’s going to be the head of Health and Human Services. He’s a moron. That’s not a political thing, that’s a fact.”
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Trump says he will refuse a salary as president for the next four years.
The Syria Deception: The West’s Dirty War That Toppled Assad and Doomed Christians
@SaveUSAKitty
Dan Bongino @dbongino on why the politicians hate Social Media so much:
“They hate Social Media because they’ve been doing this stuff for a 100 years now, screwing over the people who vote them in. But there was almost no way for you to fight back…I mean what were you gonna do? Call into Walter Cronkite? …Now you’ve got me, Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree , Catturd @catturd2 , Sara @saras76 , you got a bunch of people out there with big followings on Twitter that can say LOOK AT THIS SH*T!”
@JunkScience
December 2024 has so far been 4°F cooler than December 1981. Ask a climate hoaxer to explain how 1.5 trillion tons of emissions over the past 43 years caused that.
“Israel has conquered Mt. Hermon, the highest mountain in Syria, its peak reaching 2,814m. Syria’s capital, Damascus, is only 40 km away, now within range of Israel’s artillery shells. Here’s why Israel took this mountain”
https://x.com/nhazony/status/1866140280467939391?t=dzbNx0R509TvxyTrJ_8gKw&s=19
All the carbon and hydrogen in oil comes from the accretion of the Earth from the proto disc. Likely in the form of methane. The only question is if it was cycled through life. It wasn’t on Titan.
Article posted by Rosie at 6:57 – worth reading for a brief historical perspective on Syria, back to the fall of the Ottomans.
Thanks Rosie.
“This is Not the Time for Balance”: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
How suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione was caught at Altoona McDonald’s: Live updates
Today’s Tele:
PM CANNOT OVERCOME HIS FEAR OF THE T WORD
TIM BLAIR
10 Dec 2024
He had a good run. Nearly 30 years of it, in fact, since being elected as the MP for Grayndler in 1996 to his current perch as Prime Minister.
But now the Australian people have got Anthony Albanese sussed.
Even before yesterday’s crushing Newspoll, the electorate beyond devoted Labor luvvies finally pegged the PM as an absolute gossamer-weight second-guesser who freezes in the face of political danger.
Not that they needed much help at this point, but Australians were aided in reaching this conclusion by Albanese’s own inaction and subsequent desperate hairsplitting evasions on anti-Jewish terrorism.
The PM first avoided describing as terrorism last week’s arson attack on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue. Then, making matters worse, Albanese offered on Sunday a qualifier-loaded semicondemnation of last week’s hateful violence.
That semi-condemnation, in response to a journalist’s question about the Labor government’s progress on dealing with anti-Semitism, followed more than 300 words of political procedural recitation from the PM. It was quite the performance.
Finally, Albanese addressed the main issue by stepping delicately around it like a first-time renovator dodging fresh paint.
“Tomorrow, the Victorian Police and the Australian Federal Police will be having a meeting,” he said. “There is a technical process that is agreed in the protocols for designating an event as a terrorist act.”
A synagogue was firebombed, but it?seems that Albanese is frightened of?breaking some kind of sacred misinformation rule. And fair enough, too. A bloke might get himself in a terrible spot of bother if he defies the agreed “protocols”.
“That meeting is taking place tomorrow.”
Thanks for the update, scoop.
“If you want my personal view…”
Yes. Yes, we do. As the PM spoke, the people of Australia had been waiting on an expression of that view for two entire days.
“… quite clearly, terrorism is something that is aimed at creating fear in the community, and the atrocities that occurred at the synagogue in Melbourne clearly were?designed to create fear in the community.”
If you thought that last sentence was infuriatingly and insultingly legalistic and dogmatic, here’s Albanese’s concluding comment:
“And therefore, from my personal perspective, certainly fulfil that definition of terrorism.”
Note that Albanese still didn’t directly describe the act of terrorism as an act of terrorism. He merely said that it met his understanding of terrorism’s definition.
Little wonder, given his history of similar statements, that the most recent Newspoll wasn’t exactly a love letter to the Labor leader.
“Voters consider Anthony Albanese the weakest prime minister in decades,” The Australian reported yesterday on a poll largely conducted prior to the synagogue attack.
“His rating as a strong and decisive leader has fallen five points to 44 per cent … the lowest score for a PM on this critical measure since Newspoll first began the series in 2008 after the election of Kevin Rudd.”
Speaking of Labor losers, senior comedy figure Chris Bowen yesterday attempted an Albanese rescue mission. It was the same quality of rescue mission that in 2019 led Bowen to advise: “If you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us.”
Bowen this time tried to sell the concept that his leader’s terrorism equivocation was in fact an honourable bid for national unity.
Like Albanese, Bowen declared that the announcement of an act of terror was the job of police. Remarkably, he also went for an individual responsibility angle.
“The attack on the synagogue is the fault of the person who attacked the synagogue,” Bowen told ABC radio, before smearing Liberal leader Peter Dutton and Senator James Paterson for their moral and logical clarity on?the synagogue torching.
“For the opposition to try and sow discord and make political points is absolutely disgusting,” Bowen seethed, unconvincingly. “One of the?lowest things I’ve seen in my time in politics.”
Oh, please. Bowen’s had a front-row seat for federal politics since 2004. He was a member of the Rudd and Gillard governments, for God’s sake. Bowen’s seen lower things printed on election campaign Tshirts.
All Dutton and Paterson have done is make a relatively straightforward assessment of the terrorism threat directed at Jewish Australians, and present potential remedies.
They also properly used the term terrorism to describe terrorism. And guess what? So did Victoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton, who yesterday afternoon declared Friday’s synagogue arson was a “likely terrorist” attack.
There you go, Albo. You’ve now got official police approval. Proceed at your own pace.
BREAKING: Ex-Ivy League AI Student Luigi Mangione is Person of Interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting.
This would be the best Christmas present ever. He would be in the running for the greatest mass killer and maimer in history.
Calls Grow for Bill Gates’ Arrest After He Admits Using India as a ‘Kind of Laboratory’ to Test Vaccines
Shooter apparently has four screws in his lower back, a personal grudge?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-shooter-monday/index.html
He just stood back and let it happen.
Mitch McConnell Says He’s Not Responsible for America’s Managed Decline
Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is A Hill Trump Should Die On
Book review by Luigi Mangione.
Antifa kind of guy.
https://x.com/1Nand3z/status/1866206001113747729?t=-gOVvG_Mc3_YIb5V5x5Plg&s=19
A May 2024 article about Syria’s latest dictator.
This is islam.
Out with the old warlord, in with the new.
https://www.mei.edu/publications/crossroads-idlib-hts-navigating-internal-divisions-amid-popular-discontent
This is a shameful chapter in our nation’s history. This government must go and go in ignominy. People flirting with independents and minor parties at the ballot box will simply vote Labor back in via the back door.
I get the sentiments, but the strategy is flawed.
Agree 100%
And over at the Paywallion:
‘Divides people unnecessarily’: Peter Dutton would not stand in front of Indigenous flags as prime minister
Sarah Ison
11 hours ago.
Updated 1 hours ago
Peter Dutton has declared he would never address the nation with both the Australian and Indigenous flags behind him at press conferences should he become prime minister, arguing that the practice “divides people unnecessarily”.
The Opposition Leader has been choosing not to have the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flags behind him during public appearances and confirmed on Monday night it was a practice he would seek to continue in top office.
“I’m very strongly of the belief that we are a country united under one flag and if we’re asking people to identify with different flags, no other country does that, and we are dividing our country unnecessarily,” he told Sky News.
“We should have respect for the Indigenous flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag, but they are not our national flags.”
Mr Dutton said Anthony Albanese wanted “to be all things to all people” across a number of issues.
“The fact is that we should stand up for who we are, for our values, what we believe in,” he said. “We are united as a country when we gather under one flag, which is what we should do on Australia Day.”
The Coalition leader controversially called for people to boycott Woolworths this year after the supermarket giant announced it would stop stocking Australia Day merchandise, in a move Labor said was out of touch and not focused on more pressing issues such as cost of living.
The revelation over Mr Dutton’s latest policy comes as opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pushes for the rolling back of Welcome to Country ceremonies.
“There are those right around the country, who basically their only role, their only source of income, is delivering Welcome to Country,” she said on Sky News on Sunday.
“This commercialisation of culture, which is exactly what is going on, I can understand there will be those that will be upset if we try to bring it to an end.”
Mr Dutton and Senator Price were key critics of the Indigenous voice to parliament proposal for its lack of detail and practical outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Labor’s policy of enshrining the voice in the Constitution differed from that of the Coalition, which was leaning towards formally recognising Indigenous Australians in the founding document but only legislating the voice mechanism.
The Prime Minister slammed the opposition for its decision to oppose the voice, with the lack of bipartisanship identified as a key reason for the failure of the referendum last year. However, Mr Albanese said he respected the will of the Australian people.
While funding for a body to oversee truth telling and treaty making – also known as the Makarrata Commission – has not been slashed by Labor, the government is yet to clarify its intentions for the idea, which the Uluru Statement from the Heart called to be implemented following a voice to parliament.
Mr Dutton said Australia needed to look at a better recognition of its migrant history when celebrating “our heritage”.
“Our migrant story, the incredible story of people who came here, particularly in the post Second World War period, with nothing,” he said.
“They … have worked hard as trainees, as farmers and they’ve educated their children. The next generation has done incredibly well, they’ve done well themselves, we’re a great country today because of that. And we don’t talk anything of that part of our history.”
Mr Dutton defended his plans to slash net oversees migration, originally expected to be cut to 160,000 next financial year, and stressed he had not walked away from the pledge. When pushed on the figure on Sunday, Mr Dutton said “we’ll have a look at the economic settings when we come to government”.
He said there was “no change” in the policy, stating the plan was to reduce net overseas migration to 140,000 in year one, 150,000 in year two and 160,000 after that.
Its a start.
There are more than a few other things can fixed up and/or kicked into touch as well.
It’s rarity at its most extreme for Dudzy to get something right with me but on his one flag policy he scores 9/10* ..
*Lost a point for referring to the other two “rags” as flags .. LOL!
Educated?
Sounds like the (self proclaimed) status of Comrade Montgomery.
Big fan of violence too.
The best way to air a building is to open the building windows and doors and let the clean air flow through. Clean air is the best freshener, the best disinfectant. The building that is America is now being aired and cleansed. That airing, that cleansing began on November 5 2024.
Daniel Penny found not guilty of negligent homicide
Daniel Penny should never have been charged. From the beginning it was political, driven by that all round crook and slug, Alvin Bragg. It is Bragg who should be behind bars
By the way, where’s our very own Bragg fanboy? His silence, particularly in the wake of the terrorist attack against Jews on Friday morning, is noted. Imagine if it had been a mosque that had been torched?
Oh, look! The Nazis are back in power in Germany.
Blah, blah, blah. We need skilled workers, not asylum seekers who just want a good life here without respecting our values and culture. Send the ones who are here off to work. We don’t need loafers and freeloaders, and certainly not stabbers and rapists.
LIVE: Syrian Islamists Prepare Invasion Of Israel
Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator. I’ve posted it in full as it’s paywalled.
The trouble with Amnesty International
How perfect was it that Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza landed on the same day that the war in Syria got even bloodier. As Islamist rebels swarmed Hama in the west of Syria, a city of a million souls, days before they seized Damascus itself, the virtuous of Amnesty had only one thing on their minds: Israel. It’s official: nothing, not even the return of carnage to Syria, can dislodge the activist set’s obsession with the Jewish State.
Rarely has the Israel myopia of the campaigning classes been so starkly exposed. Five hundred thousand people have perished in the Syria calamity since it started in 2011. Many millions have been forcibly displaced, fleeing towns turned to rubble by the warring forces of Islamist militants and Assad’s heavies and their Russian backers. Yet look to the pious left and all you’ll hear is: ‘Did you see what the IDF did in Khan Younis this week?!’
Amnesty’s report is titled ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza. That it was published on the day Hama fell to a movement that makes al-Qaeda look milquetoast raises tough questions for Amnesty. Primarily this: why is it a ‘genocide’ when Israel fights Hamas but not when various factions in Syria try to slay their way to power? Why is the Gaza war, with its alleged death toll of 44,000, a modern-day holocaust, but the Syria war, in which half a million lives have been extinguished, just a war?
How striking that of all the wars of recent times, including wars whose death toll dwarfs Gaza’s, it is only Israel’s pursuit of the army of anti-Semites that attacked it on 7 October that is so hotly talked up as ‘genocide’. Four hundred thousand died in the war in Yemen, some from bombs, others in famine, yet no G-word for them. Millions perished in the Congo wars of recent decades yet I don’t recall Western influencers hitting the streets to wave swastikas and say ‘They’re just like the Nazis!’.
Yet the minute the Jewish nation pushed back against the militants who raped and murdered more than a thousand of its people, the cry went up: ‘GENOCIDE.’ Sometimes it feels like Jew-taunting. The great Howard Jacobson once asked why activists love to ‘call the Israelis Nazis’ and to ‘liken Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto’ when there’s an untold number of wars from history they could reference instead. It’s because, he said, the very aim is ‘to wound Jews’, to ‘punish them with their own grief’.
This is the inescapable conclusion now: that the words ‘genocide’, ‘Nazis’ and ‘Hitler’ are used against the Jewish State more than any other state precisely because people know those words hurt Jews.
One is reminded that, back in March, activists from Amnesty UK descended on the Israeli Embassy in London and put up street signs saying ‘Genocide Avenue’. Look, I know sympathising with Israelis is very much out of style, but I invite you to wonder how the embassy staff will have felt when they saw that word emblazoned outside their offices. When the word that describes the greatest crime known to man, a crime that devoured so many of their forefathers, was pasted on the street where they work. And only on their street. Not on the street where the Russian Embassy is based, just a stone’s throw away. Only Israel commits genocide.
Amnesty’s report is a moral void. The very first sentence will leave you agog at how far from moral reason Amnesty has drifted. ‘On 7 October 2023, Israel embarked on a military offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip of unprecedented magnitude, scale and duration’, it says. Didn’t something else happen on 7 October 2023? I don’t know – the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust?
Then there’s the report’s handwringing over ‘narrow’ definitions of the word genocide. Sometimes there is an ‘overly cramped interpretation’ of the G-word, Amnesty moans, which can ‘effectively preclude a finding of genocide in a context of armed conflict’. Is it just me or does Amnesty sound nervous? At some level these people know full well Israel is engaged in ‘armed conflict’, not ‘genocide’. It seems they want a looser, broader definition of that crime against humanity so that even something as rational and just as Israel’s pursuit of the racist militants who slaughtered its citizens might be damned as ‘genocidal’.
I’m starting to think Amnesty is a menace to humanity. It bemoans Israel’s war on the neo-fascism of Hamas. It accused Kurds of committing ‘war crimes’ in their valiant war on Isis. It slammed the Ukrainians who have risen up against the neo-imperial aggression of mighty Russia for ‘putting civilians in harm’s way’. Amnesty is the school snitch of global affairs. Brave people rise up against foreign invasion or Islamist supremacy or militant anti-Semitism and there’s Amnesty, every time, with its clipboards, saying: ‘Are you following all the rules?’
They need to back off. Stick to holding candlelit vigils in your local park and let the courageous of Israel, Kurdistan and elsewhere get on with the rather more serious business of fighting the forces of darkness.
This Is The Face Of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh
Depending on where you live, if this fastidiousness is repeated Australia wide, it will result in a minority Labor government being wagged by the Teals and Greens.
It might make right wing voters feel righteous, but the end game is dire.
I’m very unhappy about some of the SFL’s actions and stances, and some of their dishonourable members, but my intention this time is crystal clear – I want Labor out. And well out.
Leftie voters have no such qualms about Labor. Like the Borg, their aim and strategy is clear and well defined – whatever it takes to win.
Your vote is your own. Do with it what you will, down to drawing rude things on the ballot if it pleases you. But when the inevitable happens…try not to whine. It’s unseemly.
Brits Call for Bill Gates’ Arrest as They BOYCOTT ‘Toxic’ Milk Products Containing Anti-Cow-Fart Chemicals
“Mr Dutton said Anthony Albanese wanted “to be all things to all people” across a number of issues.”
This reminds me of one of my favourite Aesop’s Fables.
“Please all, Please none”.
Albo’s donkey has fallen in the river.
Canny tech start-up identifies an easy mark…
The Kalkadoon and Waanyi man has founded an Indigenous-led technology platform, WUNA, to help those who do not have standard identity documentation.
Because going to a postmaster or clerk of court is unheard of. Better yet, just get an “indigenous-led” chip in the back of your neck!
The platform provides a pathway for community-based verification checks which can be performed by elders or certified verifiers.
Community based eh? Any information sharing with bailiffs or APLOs?
Mr Davis said the platform is more than an app that stores documentation; it allows people to own and control their cultural and government identities.
If anyone knows what this identitarian guff actually means, you’re ahead of me. I take it the “platform” will be linked to a ride-share app, or update the user on the status of their HumbugMe fundraiser?
In other news…
We have Lift Off! 😀
I feel like a granny witnessing the first steps!
Seconded ..!
Israel has been busy.
Report: Israel struck more than 250 targets across Syria (10 Dec)
In another report it said that the IAF is methodically destroying the chemical weapons facilities, any large hardware especially rockets and AA systems, and any Syrian air assets they can find. All this is so the new regime can’t grab them. I take this to mean that Israel doesn’t think they’ll be friendly…
Some great toons this morning. I liked the good penny, bad penny one. Thank Christ there were still 12 sensible people ion NY, the jurors, to exonerate the poor bastard. Now Trump has to put the fat fuk bragg in prison. To celebrate here are not one, not 2 but 4 cute owls:
Brendan’s Amnesty article hurts. Like others here no doubt, I was an early and enthusiastic member. They were fearless in going after African monsters and communist repressors.
It took some time to realise that the early targets were actually taking over the organisation and turning it into an anti-West and anti-capitalist sewer. The ABC propped them up in Australia despite their evil intent, and still do. A perfect match.
Generally a slow learner, it took me some time to realise what Amnesty now was. Once the penny dropped I developed the rightous passions of a reformed smoker. Woe betide any backpacker kid rattling Amensty’s begging bowl on our streets when I walked past.
Bruce of Newcastle
December 10, 2024 9:16 am
Israel helped to remove Assad, I hope they made the right decision.
ME politics are far beyond my understanding.
Well even though Tomahawks have been in service for forty years I suppose this better than nothing.
Australia joins exclusive club with long-range missiles (Paywallian)
Now perhaps install some decent AS missile and drone defenses, so we can, like, take on a bunch of camel herders from Yemen.
Spotted some Amnesty people (while in the USA) a while back campaigning to end capital punishment in the USA.
Asked them how many such executions take place in the States every year. They knew that – about 20 to 25.
Asked them how many take place in China every year. They didn’t know that. About 8,000.
So why aren’t they campaigning, preferably outside the Chinese Embassy? Sowing discord in Amnesty, or at least making their members wake up, is a righteous cause!
Australia joins exclusive club with long-range missiles
I notice the article didn’t say Tomahawk can carry nuclear warheads.
Hmmm.
Yesterday it was reported that the jury “couldn’t reach a verdict” on the murder charge and were sent back to consider manslaughter.
Which didn’t look good for him.
It sounds more like the jury had indicated an intent to find him not guilty, so the prosecution and jurdge have had one more spin of the wheel.
Went into Longreach yesterday. Old mate wandered into a fuel station to get some drinks, came back quite shaken.
“Wall to wall Indians.” he said. “Only bought the place a month or so ago. Not a white man to see behind the counter.”
There is no evidence Israel helped to remove Assad. Israeli actions in Lebanon against Iranian and Syrian proxy Hezbollah likely ignited a domino effect on Iran and Syria. I suspect the Assad regime has been weak and teetering on a precipice for a long time, well before Israel moved into southern Lebanon. Russia, Assad’s long time ally, has been embroiled in Ukraine, which probably further weakened Assad’s grip on power.
I’m not sure Israel would be very happy with the rebels who’ve toppled Assad. Most of those ‘rebels’ consist of ISIS and Muslim Brotherhood fighters, in other words they’re unsavoury Islamists who don’t like Israel and Jews at all. That’s why Christians are fleeing. The Assad regime, awful though it was, did protect religious minorities.
‘Shocked’ Israel ambassador visits firebombed synagogue
Brendan Kearns
Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, visited the firebombed Adass Israel Synagogue on Tuesday morning telling the community “Nobody can take our spirit”.
After being shown through the synagogue he said he was “shocked” to see how it had been attacked.
“This is not the time for me to speak. I’m also very sad, but I’m encouraged by the strength of the community,” he said.
“The president and the community leadership are strong. They are united. And this synagogue will be open in the very near future.”
Top Ender – doing God’s work this morning on this august journal of record.
Bravo, sir.
I didn’t have great hopes for the new guy in Qld but I wanted Miles gone. It was great to watch and now David C is doing better than I expected.
From the Spectator.
Dear Prime Minister Albanese,
My name is Leo Fineberg and I am an 11-year-old boy who is a proud Zionist Jew. I was inspired to write to you after reading Josh Frydenberg’s letter to you on the weekend and I wanted to give you my perspective as well.
I have always thought that Australia was a safe and peaceful place for Jews until October 7, 2023. After that things changed. I nearly thought things were going to calm down again but a few days ago the Adass Shule was firebombed. This made me think of Germany in the 1930s and ever since that terrorist attack I have felt even more scared and betrayed that my fellow Australians would get to the point of actual genocidal activity.
I am also ashamed that Australia is voting for a terrorist group that burns babies over a peace-loving democratic country like Israel at the United Nations.
Lately, I have been nervous wearing my kippah and tzitzit and also my Jewish school uniform out in public. This is just not right because those things are fundamental in my heart and remind me every day of who I am. If you let the antisemitism continue then you are allowing young Jews like me to feel unsafe and afraid.
Prime Minister, when will you realise that antisemitism is a real, big problem in Australia and that there is basically no Islamophobia happening to Muslim kids? When will you realise that your recent votes in the UN are pushing us further away from peace? And finally, how can you tolerate the fact that kids like me are feeling scared and abandoned by a country that seems to hate them?
I am sending this letter to simply ask for Australia to go back to its old, peaceful self. But with every day that you do nothing, I worry that that will never happen.
I will always be a proud Australian but only if Australia accepts that I am also a proud Jew as well.
Please show our community that you are listening.
With respect,
Leo Fineberg
A truly harrowing experience to find an Indian behind the counter at a servo.
Unheard of.
Tell me, did they steal .02 of a litre of petrol from you by fiddling the pumps?
The Russians were longtime proponents of the (non-life based) abiogenic oil hypothesis.
Indeed Wikipedia makes the bald claim in the first paragraph that
And then proceeds for several more pages to quote work that supports the abiogenic hypothesis.
There’s plenty of methane distributed around the cosmos, and longer chain (ethane+) molecules can be readily synthesised in conditions similar to the upper mantle.
Re. the death penalty, I once had a conversation with a sanctimonious leftist who, when the two ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia, that sanctimonious leftist pontificated to me that they would never ever travel to or holiday in a country with the death penalty. To which I responded, ‘gosh, that will be vewy difficult for you, then you won’t be able to travel to Japan, India, Taiwan, Singapore (where you do lotsa business) and the USA where your beloved child lives and I reminded this person that even the uber progressive state of California has the death penalty.
I shut that person up.
Barry
December 10, 2024 10:45 am
I am quite ambivalent to this, all I was interested in was the amount of biological matter it would take to supply the crude oil and gas we are getting.
Even speaking of millions and billions of years it is a lot.
I thought it was in the realm of estimating it to at least to 60 % accuracy?
The Divine Light of Notre-Dame Cathedral
by Allan Greenberg – Dec 9, 2024 –First Things
Excerpts:
It was a sunny spring day in May 1959 when I entered the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris for the very first time. As I looked up into the seemingly weightless vaults, and then down the colonnade to the distant apse, the sheer beauty of the architecture took my breath away.
Here was formal beauty that grew out of the complex symbolism of the Catholic Church. The structure of vaults and columns, as well as huge stained-glass windows and sculpture, created a reflection of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Naive as I was, confronted by the overwhelming magnificence of this interior, I wondered whether I had died and gone to heaven.
I was a nineteen-year-old, Jewish, South African architectural student, in the third year of a five-and-a-half-year course of study. Nothing in my education had prepared me to confront a space such as this.
Vatican news.
Vatican Nativity Scene has Jesus Lying on Keffiyeh Scarf (7 Dec, via Instapundit)
Hard to tell from this photo, but the resemblance is very close, and there are so many other cloth motifs that could instead’ve been used.
“Wall to wall Indians.” he said. “Only bought the place a month or so ago. Not a white man to see behind the counter.”
A part of the servo industry is selling visa ready businesses for Indians etc.
Theres a few other areas where this is creeping in as well.
Spivs have seen the uni visa for cash model and decided “Ill have some of that”.
United Healthcare guy who got gunned down and resulted in leftists expressing much joy.
The consensus among such types seeming to be that they put “profits before lives” and systemically deny valid claims.
Now it would be interesting if someone (someone) on this blog who has been based in the USA and is good at analysing cash flow statements and balance sheets could tell us if United Healthcare makes undue amounts of profits. Given that people have to invest in such companies in order for them to exist, and they have to operate in the legislative framework of the US healthcare system.
I know at some stage Warren Buffet really liked insurance as a sector.
The system largely operates under the Obama care thing.
I’d be interested in someone’s comments given that insurance balance sheets are quite a bit different than other companies, I think.
The total global live biomass has been estimated at 550 billion tonnes carbon, most of which is found in forests. Shallow aquatic environments, such as wetlands, estuaries and coral reefs, can be as productive as forests, generating similar amounts of new biomass each year on a given area.
Saudi Arabia has approximately 38.9 billion metric tons of conventional crude oil reserves.
haha.
Slugs and Grubs are also being taken to Court over the Ryan Meuleman/ Andrews car bash.
The father of the boy has stated again that, he NEVER engaged Slugs and Grubs, he thought the ex-wife did. The ex-wife said NO, not me. They turned up out of the blue and took charge.
Quelle Surprise.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14175331/Dan-Andrews-teenage-cyclist-crash-mediation-fail.html
I must’ve missed the chapter in Bruce Pascoe’s book about the Aboriginal Space Program.
NT Arnhem Space Centre operator blasts Indigenous land council over stalled negotiations, will relocate to Queensland (Sky News,10 Dec)
Bula doesn’t like space rockets, it’s obvious.
The world’s proven oil reserves total 1,757 billion bbl
A barrel of oil weighs around 130 kg,
0.13 x 1757 = 228 billion tonnes.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biomass-of-earth-in-one-graphic/
Those shallow seas circled the globe and teemed with life. Much…much tonnage.
I have no problem with the dead marine life under heat and pressure hypothesis.
bons
December 10, 2024 9:53 am
Brendan’s Amnesty article hurts. Like others here no doubt, I was an early and enthusiastic member. They were fearless in going after African monsters and communist repressors.
Amnesty International is a perfect example of Robert Conquest’s second law which says:
Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.
You can add anti-semitic to that as well. It’s a prime example of the long march through the institutions. I gave up supporting them many years ago and I’m sure Cats could cite lots of other similar organisations.
I think the point is that you don’t need life to have oil. It’s everywhere, not just under ancient sea beds. It’s inextricably interwoven in this planet we were gifted. To refuse to use it would be the height of rudeness!
On nativity scenes and Christmas decorations…time to get out the hot glue gun.
I saw some gingerbread men decorated as characters from the movie also with a note to Santa. Almost as good as Clarke Griswald’s moose eggnog cups.
Great news that Daniel Penny was acquitted in NYC.
Bother. That photo was Bruce Willis in an aircon duct. Something for the Christmas tree.
Oh dear God noooooooo
Snoopy is an Alien!
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re Amnesty
I was under the impression Amnesty was originally a communist front organisation, set up to agitate for the release of communists imprisoned by Franco.
They were eventually figured out and when public support evaporated, only then did they pretend to support “all” political prisoners.
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Well, that is interesting.
I always thought it was naive in the extreme to engage Slugs and Bugs or Maurice Blackburn in a matter involving a Liars heavy on the other side.
One of the rare exceptions to the Keating rule – “Always back self interest. At least you know it’s trying”.
In this case self interest would result in Slugs and Bugs running dead and fobbing them off with a vanilla flavoured TAC settlement.
Does it come in red or blue?
In case it hasn’t been posted here. See Jo Nova.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/grid-not-fit-for-purpose-on-a-warm-day-crazy-australia-paid-3-5m-to-industry-to-stop-working/
and absolutely nothing to do with the death cult of peace
Labor (and by extension the uniparty) have announced victory of the boomer class over those revolting young people…
This should cost them the next election by itself, its that bad.
The hag/chin monster saying young people should die in a fire, Ive got mine jack.
https://x.com/i/status/1866292411812704728
This seems likely.
I mean everyone has this happen all the time, right?
The chin monster again.
https://openpolitics.au/47/clare-oneil
1/11/2024SelfOn 7 October and 21 October 2024 I was booked to fly Economy from Melbourne to Canberra on Qantas flights and was upgraded to Business. These upgrades were not requested. They occurred while I was boarding the plane, as on both occasions Economy was overbooked.
Just for fun here is the Nuclear Milkman explaining why Albo had to do celebrity tennis with drinkies instead of visiting the fire bombed synagogue.
Peter Dutton’s complaints regarding Anthony Albanese a ‘little hollow’ (Sky News, 10 Dec)
Can you play tennis with red underpants on your head? Asking for a former Labor minister.
I have just returned from a vigil in Sydney’s Martin Place. A vigil for the Jewish women and children who are still being held hostage by Nazis in Gaza. It is now 431 days since Naama, Emily, Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir and other Jews, young and old, were kidnapped and taken into the tunnels of hell. How many remain alive? I don’t know, Yarden, the husband of Shiri, the father of Ariel and Kfir, was last seen tied up in a cage. That is what the left now celebrate, rape, murder, kidnapping and putting Jews in cages.
Today we stood silently for 1/2 hour at the Macquarie Street end of Martin Place, holding up pictures of the kidnapped men, women and children, and placards saying that ‘Jewish women’s rights are human rights too’.
At the end of the vigil, I walked away from two friends and approached a NSWaffen Police officer mulling around. He was wearing the NSW blue officer cap. A small man, he faced me and I told him that I have zero faith in the NSW Police to protect me and other Jews. He smirked and I then said that what happened last week outside Sydney’s Great Synagogue was a disgrace and that the NSW Police clearly practice two tier policing. On hearing this, he tried to turn his back on me and I said to him…’how dare you turn your back on me, you work for us’. He then completely turned his back on me and I yelled out ‘the truth hurts”.
I walked off and after walking a few steps I realised that this officer was the same ghastly little pompous officer who strutted across Castlereagh street last Wednesday to take on the one Jew trying to hold up an Israeli flag whilst ignoring the baying Nazi scum on the other side of the road. This little mediocre man clearly doesn’t like being told the truth but today he came face to face with someone who did tell him the truth!
Winston Peters is doing a Mike Baird in Unzud.
Greyhound Racing to be banned.
Desperate Dan headed for court?
A disagreement over a car crash involving a teenage cyclist and Daniel Andrews is headed to court after mediation talks collapsed – with one of the country’s leading law firms entering the dispute.
Ryan Meuleman, 15, was knocked from his bike on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in January 2013 and left with life-threatening injuries after an accident with an SUV containing Mr Andrews, his wife Catherine and their family.
Slater & Gordon represented the family in seeking compensation from Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission. The Meulemans claim they never sought the law firm’s services, but received them nonetheless.
Ryan’s father, Peter Meuleman, said he could not discuss what transpired in mediation, but Slater & Gordon had never explained how they became involved when the accident was still not public knowledge.
‘Why did a Labor-aligned law firm suddenly turn up out of nowhere and want to act for my son?’ Mr Meuleman told the Herald Sun.
‘I didn’t reach out to them and my ex-wife didn’t reach out to them. We both thought the other parent had signed up with them.
‘But the fact is, they just turned up and acted like they were in charge. How did they get my mobile number? How did they get my name?’
Mr Meuleman claims Slater & Gordon did everything they could to keep the crash out of the media and negotiated the deal in secret because they appeared to be more worried about Mr Andrews than Ryan.
Following the accident, Ryan had to have five times the volume of his blood transfused to save his life and lost 90 per cent of his spleen.
Out of the $100,000 compensation settlement, Slater & Gordon took $20,000 in fees.
Slater & Gordon denies the Meuleman family’s claims and said they will will defend the proceedings scheduled for a Supreme Court hearing in May.
More at Daily Mail
It would be fun to survey the other 200 economy ticket holders and ask them how many times they have flown in the last five years and how many upgrades they have been given.
I suspect that, if the tally of total flights was 1,000, the number of upgrades could be counted on one hand.
Yet pollies have a random strike rate for upgrades of 80% – 90%.
Some thoughts from an executive in executive protection
This murder is a cusp event. *If* Luigi Mangione is the killer of Brian Thompson (he hasn’t been charged yet), and *if* the stated backstory holds true, you’re going to see a thing that you’re not mentally prepared for.
Some thoughts:
– The murderer is already seen as a folk hero to people on all sides of the social and political spectrum.
– The shooter made this murder a performance. He wrote and acted in his own revenge movie. It’s the reason why we are so captured by the news. It’s terrible, weird, and captivating. We all feel like we’ve seen this movie before. It’s difficult to separate the wrongness of murder from the fictional story of justice we enjoyed in the theater.
– There’s also a large number of people who will say “yes, the murder is wrong,” but can’t help feel a small sense of justice and/or sympathy. Humans are messy like that.
– Health care companies are disliked by most people. Almost everyone has a personal bad experience, particularly where insurance is the topic.
The most likely outcome here is that the murderer goes to prison for life, as he should, but as a dark underdog or even a hero to many who hold legitimate grudges against certain companies. There are many copycats looking at this story and making plans… writing their script. Do they follow through? Can’t say, but a genre of crime has just been reincarnated – Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde – bad people with favorable folk tales.
I’m very curious to watch how today’s thought leaders field this one.
Last thought: If I’m a high ego, high visibility CEO (or other public figure) in an industry with strong negative sentiment, I’m rethinking my entire pattern of life. A red line has been crossed and it can’t be uncrossed.
@GuntherEagleman
BREAKING: Trump just nominated @pnjaban as Asst. Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Congratulations!!!
Fetterman seems to have a blind spot for Hunter. Yes, his case was politically motivated too, to protect him!
You WON’T BELIEVE What John Fetterman Said About Trump on The View
In good news, Spiked has declared war on the literal illiterates of the Grauniad.
Sort of ironic that Syria is now getting bombed mercilessly after Assad left.
Reports: Israeli tanks are about 20 km from Damascus
EXCLUSIVE: Migrants To Be Given Brand New Homes Meant For The Homeless | Isabel Oakeshott
Tennis news (the Hun):
Heckled? How rude.
Aaaahahahhaaa.
Whap. Right on the sack.
Barry
December 10, 2024 10:45 am
The Russians were longtime proponents of the (non-life based) abiogenic oil hypothesis.
The greatest exponent of abiotic oil was Tommy Gold:
The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels by Thomas Gold | Goodreads
There is significant proof for abiotic oil:
Scientists Prove Abiotic Oil Is Real!
Including the fact that the biggest known source of hydrocarbons is on Titan.
ESA – Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Reports: Israeli tanks are about 20 km from Damascus
Everyone and his dog seems to be in Syria.
The fact that Israel and the US are attacking ISIS camps in Syria makes me hesitant to believe the general response that the deposition of Assad will solve the problems of Syria.
Rather, it suggests that a sizable section of the anti-Assad Syrian population may well be extremist Islamists and/or affiliates of IS.
Kel
December 10, 2024 2:09 pm
I have been expecting/anticipating a return to tradition in the form of the old “anarchist” style murders of the early 1900s late 1800s.
basically an entrenched and easily identifiable group is doing its best to pull up the ladder on opportunity for a large segment of the population.
Uniparty “management” of decline via mass migration and making criticisms illegal helps fuel this.
None of this says the killings are good, just that they can be expected more i think.
At the end of the vigil, I walked away from two friends and approached a NSWaffen Police officer mulling around. He was wearing the NSW blue officer cap. A small man, he faced me and I told him that I have zero faith in the NSW Police to protect me and other Jews.
Well said, Cassie.
We have just returned to Sydney for the “festive” season. Any joy has been sucked out of us by the incredible attack on the Synogogue.
I have just discovered that the NSW government actually altered a section of the Racial Vilification Act to cast its net wider – or so I believe. If so, the Minns government has not had the guts to test it. Or do we have a Police Minister who won’t?
In these dark days, Cassie, I feel we can’t truly know how some people think. In our valley there is a neighbour who has now twice made “borderline” comments about Jews in a general discussion. I have squashed further comments twice now and he has retreated. But I have said to my husband that I no longer want to entertain him in our home.
It always shocks me when I come across this casual anti-semiticism. It mostly emits from limited minds, but that is no excuse. This scourge must be defeated, and we will.
Bill O’Reilly
Breaking Down Trump’s County-Wide Victory in the Election | December 9, 2024
The Biden Crime Family Is Above the Law – David Harsanyi
That was my automatic assumption. Can’t help thinking also that the ousting of Assad is very convenient for the dumbocrats, as it leaves a massive figurative freshly laid dog turd on the White House lawn for Fatty Trump to clean up, along with de-escalating the recently escalated Wussia-Ukraine imbroglio.
One thing is certain – nothing good will result from Assad’s removal, especially in the short term. Remember the destruction arising from the ludicrously named arab spring, for example. Mouth foaming ungovernable imbeciles.
If Channel 10 are looking for some programming ideas what about a 10 part “Where are they now?” series on the guy who spent years pretending to be Mr Julia Gillard.
As if our own beloved Luigi isn’t destructive enough.
Tim Blair …
And, as far as Luigi goes, it really doesn’t matter what happens now.
Even if they collar a couple of skinhead neo-Nasties for the fire-bombing, Luigi had exposed himself as running a pwotection wacket for Western Sydney mueslis.
It really depends upon what you thought ‘the problem’ was in Syria. You might also ask why these camps are being attacked now and not prior to Assad’s fall. Although, I have to say, I’m not hearing much about ISIS camps being targeted so much as the defense, military-industrial, and technological infrastructure of the country that is being destroyed.
In the ol’ braindead FTA commercial televisual parlance, “Ratings Gold”.
Speaking of, was he not tracked down several years back existing in a caravan in the wilderness somewhere in Disasterstan?
Possibly seeking to avoid adverse publicity arising from a regrettable incident with a stripper.
There’s two episodes for starters, Bear.
Sorry if already discussed.
This justifies my earlier stated reservation about Chrissyfooli. From the Oz.
The funniest one was assigning him the job as ambassador for men’s elf and letting him speak at a function at The Lodge.
As he launches into a well worn joke about having a preference for Asian lady proctologists with small fingers the look of horror comes over The Altona Droner’s face.
Tim clearly hadn’t been briefed that what might be funny at a private BBQ on Sunday might not be at all funny at a public reception on Monday.
Of course, the world just rolled on as if nothing had happened. Just the same as if Tony Abbott or Peter Dutton had told that joke, really.
Political issues that don’t figure in headline concerns like cost of living rarely change voting intentions, but I reckon Luigi’s weak “leadership” now has such a stench about it that majority government is Dutton’s for the taking next year*.
*Provided Mr Potato Head doesn’t make any more catastrophic errors like supporting the kids ban on social media.
The most accurate barometer of this sort of thing – noting that Elbow isn’t the first and won’t be the last to fall for it – is going to football matches of various codes, and wearing team scarves when it is blindingly apparent that he has no idea about the game, let alone either of the teams.
The ponytail adviser clique will applaud it. ‘Elbow, you will appear as a man of the people’.
Normal people will correctly assess this practice as being the mark of a weathervane-turncoat, willing to (temporarily) adopt any cause or colours if he thinks it will make him popular.
I really loved Albo’s “I’ve been travelling – in the car”. As if mobile phones never existed,
Watching the footage of Albanese at Adass this afternoon is like watching a deer caught in headlights just before the car hits the deer.
It isn’t pretty. He’s a man completely out of his depth but we here knew that a long long time ago. He’s a grub, he should never ever have been PM.
I often grab a coffee in Ripponlea on my way in the morning and the syn is right close to the cafe. The synagogue has been fenced off, and there doesn’t seem to be much visible external damage. Although I’m not usually one for flowers, it was genuinely heartwarming to see people attaching flowers and other tributes to the wire fence, and there were lot’s too. Even more gratifying was the fact that many seemed to be non-Jews or, at least, non-Hasidic individuals showing their respect. This is the Australia I love.
There was absolutely no problem with the Ba’thist regime. Syria under the Assads was the human rights capital of the Mid East. The veritable Switzerland of the Levant.
Yep, right up there with “I grew up in a housing commission flat”* and “Antisemitism is something that has been around for a very long time”.
*See also, “I grew up in a middle class family” and “Corn Pop was a bad dude”.
Last year or so a work mate of mine – a leftie Guardian fanboi – assured me that tennis Albo was super smart. Probably still thinks so now.
JC – Shazza’s guided tour of the interior of the Synagogue (shown last night) was an eye opener. Massive damage.
Isn’t Amazing Grace a proto hymn? Why is it being sung in Notre Dame? Catholics ran out of hymns?
Trolling Albanese should be a cinch.
Just show up in tennis whites and sweatbands. Choc Wedge optional.
Further to Cassie @3:36 and KD further up..
The Sleaze looked frightened. Like a little boy. Which he is.
The Jewish people were very polite outside in front of the press but I bet the slimey cnut got a good kick in his shrunken gonads once inside.
Where was the new slapper? With the Real Estate Agent trying to get cliff tenants! Ha!
“On hearing this, he tried to turn his back on me and I said to him…’how dare you turn your back on me, you work for us’. He then completely turned his back on me and I yelled out ‘the truth hurts”.”
I bet if you had said “I small bacon” he’d have heard you well enough to respond.
Or perhaps “Are you that ashamed of your actions you can’t even face me? What gutless cowards you lot are.”
Tesla Optimus Robot Showcases Advanced Walking on Uneven Terrain
Best place to look for financial results on US companies or those that are listed there and have to report under GAP guidelines is to look for 10Q or 10K (for annual), which is the reporting to the SEC. It’s good because the reporting is very standardized and easy to understand from one firm to another.
Yes, someone earlier mentioned that United Healthcare’s net operating margin was a whole 6% for the year 2023. This is a threadbare result.
The interesting thing about the US healthcare system is that everyone is pissed off. This from the patients on up.
Here’s the 10K
They have $US94 billion equity and the net income for the year was US$2.2 billion. That’s a massive return of 2.5% on equity. Earth shattering. Not!
If budding young Antifarts want to assassinate those responsible for the ridiculous cost of elfcare in the US, they could do worse than starting with “we fight for fair” ambulance chasing lawyers.
Husic brought up Islamophobia again. Desparate to get some deflection from the rampant antisemitism boiling all around him and Labor and the Greens.
islamophobia really means a fear of islam. . Anyone who has seen the world over the last 40 years should have a healthy fear of islam and its adherents. I do not think they are all bad or fully follow mohammads commands. but surely it is best to be careful? then again that would have been better 40 years ago when our christian leb friends were screaming “what are you doing letting in Muslims? There will be trouble”.
In totally unsurprising news administrators shutter the Katies brand. More holes in 2nd tier retail property.
From the Oz…
Nomad restaurant founder Al Yazbek sentenced over Nazi symbol
A local court magistrate has accepted that embattled Nomad restaurant founder Al Yazbek “regrets every minute” of the day he brandished a sign bearing a swastika superimposed on an Israeli flag at a pro-Palestine rally.
Yet the magistrate called his “ignorance” over the significance of the swastika symbol “laughable”, saying everyone knows how offensive it is to the Jewish people.
Mr Yazbek was sentenced to a Community Release Order without conviction at the Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday after he previously pleaded guilty to charges of knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol in public.
The court heard when police approached him at the rally on October 6 and told him it was “offensive and prohibited” to display the Nazi symbol in public, he replied with “What’s the offensive symbol?”. When police informed him that it was the swastika, he said the symbol was an “Israeli swastika” before he became argumentative, but then complied with police and stopped displaying the symbol.
In an apology letter to the court, Mr Yazbek said his “intention in holding the placard at the rally was to provoke thought and public discussion about what I perceive to be the parallels between the abhorrent treatment of Jewish people by Nazi Germany and the current warring actions of the Israeli government against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.
“In doing so, I failed to consider, and am now only beginning to understand, the trauma that the Jewish people carry from the holocaust which is symbolised by the Nazi swastika.”
Speaking outside court, Mr Yazbek said he was “profoundly sorry” but ignored questions about his hospitality empire.
“I just want to make a short statement, I got it horribly wrong,” he said to waiting reporters.
“I’m profoundly sorry, I hope the Jewish community can forgive me over time,” Mr Yazbek said.
In his opening remarks, Mr Yazbek’s lawyer Phillip English said that his client had received a number of abusive emails due to the media attention around his charges.
Magistrate Miranda Moody asked, “I’m not supposed to feel sorry for him, am I?”
Mr English responded: “I’m not asking Your Honour to feel sorry for him. I do ask you to take it into account.”
The Magistrate went off the bench to read a large folder of material handed up to the court, including eight written references, many “from Jewish friends”.
When she returned, she said, “I accept he is no neo-Nazi or right wing extremist” and “in no way anti-Semitic”, referring to some of the abuse she said was “directed at him” where he was called a “Nazi-lover”.
She said Mr Yazbek, who was “passionate about the middle east region”, had paid “a very high price” for the foolish public display, telling the court he “had to stand down as the managing director of his company”.
The restaurateur flaunted a modified flag, claiming ‘resistance is evolving’.
It was previously reported there were mass cancellations at the couple’s up-market restaurants Nomad Sydney, Nomad Melbourne and Reine & La Rue, with major corporations cancelling events and business relationships after Mr Yazbek’s charges were made public.
“He has had it explained to him in no uncertain terms the magnitude of what he did on that day in terms of what he did to people committed to Israeli cause,” she said.
She outlined two references written by Jewish friends, who she chose not to name, and which she submitted to the court.
One said the “display of these symbols is extremely hurtful to me personally” calling it “ignorant and provocative … (and) utter stupidity” but added “one thing I am 100 per cent sure of is that Al is not an anti-Semite in any sense of the word”.
Another Jewish friend said he had “never expressed anti-Semitism” and that his “self-professed ignorance of the significance of the swastika and what it means to Jews is bewildering.”
Magistrate Moody said “everyone knew” the swastika was associated with Nazis and activities in Germany and said his ignorance was “laughable really”.
She took into account the “extra-curial punishment” he had suffered including the numerous threats made to him.
“No doubt he had some serious fears in relation to the protection of his own family given some of the thing I’ve read, which are truly horrifying,” she said.
In handing down her sentence, Magistrate Moody said “I am not going to convict Mr Yazbek today. I accept that he’s utterly remorseful” and that he had “sought to educate” himself.
Mr Yazbek previously told The Australian he would be standing down from the Nomad business, for the sake of his family, staff and customers, to attend an ashram in India. He also apologised “unequivocally” for his conduct.
In late October, Mr Yazbek’s wife sent an email to the restaurant group’s patrons slamming her husband and saying she was “furious with his actions and heartbroken by the harm they caused”.
In the message emailed to Nomad patrons, Ms Yazbek said her husband was no longer involved in the management of the business.
“I fully understand the disappointment and frustration felt by those affected, and I am committed to doing everything possible to restore your trust,” she said.
A few points here….
Firstly, the execrable Yazbek has an unsavoury and very long history of stalking and smearing Jews, he loves using age old tropes and libels. Only two years ago he referred to his Jewish landlord as ‘Shylockian’. I note the judge said….I accept he is no neo-Nazi or right wing extremist” and “in no way anti-Semitic. Really? Well, the judge is wrong, Yazbek is a neo-Nazi. He’s an unapologetic Jew hater, but not of the far-right, he’s a fashionable neo-Nazi of the left. Yazbek (and his equally execrable wife) are repulsive human beings. Yazbek knew what he was doing when he went to Hyde Park in October of this year and held up that utterly offensive banner.
Secondly, as for references from ‘Jewish friends’, I can’t stop laughing, I say ‘bullshit’.
Finally, given the leniency Yazbek’s been given by the court, I do hope the same leniency is given to that elderly woman from Five Dock, the same elderly woman who called a mosque and said ‘go back to where you came from‘, and was tracked down by cunning sleuths in the NSWaffen Police force (those same cunning sleuths are yet to charge one person from Monday night 9 October 2023….but I guess it’s all about priorities, isn’t it?
irrespective of where it comes from I think it interesting that as a species, humans have learned to exploit/unlock an energy resource for their own benefit
not quite the same as thermophile lifeforms scrounging energy from undersea vents
but pretty clever nonetheless
The interesting thing about the US healthcare system is that everyone is pissed off. This from the patients on up.
First we kill all the lawyers…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3015496/
In general, Americans probably spend more per person for litigation costs than people of any other country. This has carried over into the field of medicine with excessive awards in medical litigation. Those of us actually delivering care are very well aware that fear of potential litigation has, in many circumstances, been the determining factor in ordering costly medical tests and interventions. Fear of potential legal liability—not patient history, not physical findings, not experience or diagnostic impression, but fear of being sued—has fostered the practice of “defensive medicine.” This fact is so patently obvious that probably only the trial lawyer’s bar would deny that increases in multimillion-dollar jury awards have contributed to defensive medicine. Every test, every intervention, every procedure has a cost, and someone has to pay that cost.
Australia spent a fair bit of energy slapping the noses of slugs and grubs and similar lawyer groups who were striving manfully to remove caps on liability/damages in the Australian system.
https://lawpartners.com.au/blog/medical-negligence-payouts-guide
Troll level… over 9000….
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1866355904838615194
Trump is just a master.
Time will tell if this is just another example of the victorious capturing territory or not.
‘Israeli ground forces have crossed into Syrian territory for the first time in 50 years to protect residents after Bashar al-Assad’s government fell.’
‘We gave the Israeli army the order to take over these positions to ensure that no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel. This is a temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found,’ Netanyahu said, according to the New York Times.
‘HTS’s offensive, which captured Syria’s three biggest cities in the space of a week, was supported by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, formerly known as the Free Syrian Army.
Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates’ most senior diplomat, insisted he did not know Assad’s whereabouts – but dismissed the detail as ‘a footnote in history’.
Speaking in Bahrain, Mr Gargash said: ‘The collapse of [Assad’s] regime is due to a major political failure. He didn’t use the lifeline that was thrown to him by various Arab countries, including the UAE.
‘There is a real concern about
Syria holding itself as a sovereign country. Where Assad goes is a
footnote in history. The main concern for us is really the territorial integrity of Syria.’
Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Assad had ‘never asked’ for Tehran’s aid against the rebels.’
Israeli ground forces cross into Syrian territory for the first time in 50 YEARS to ‘act as peacekeepers’ as the country falls into chaos after rebel groups forced their dictator to ‘flee to Russia with his family’ | Daily Mail Online
Oil has literally freed man from slavery. The entire global civilisation is built upon the energy and chemistry of oil and coal. No need for slaves anymore. Without carbon energy, it’s back to the cotton fields for you.
on small scale … say … earth
a species of life has neg-entropically cracked the local hydrocarbonses for fun and profit
( which has to be right up there on the A-list along with photosynthesis as a kick-arse exploit )
anyways, they’ve also worked out how to harvest even more energy from the sun via solar and wind conversion to electricity so that they can put it to micro-work for even more fun and profit
unfortunately after the fun and profit bit, all that energy ends up as low grade heat and has to be radiated away as long wave
one day it’ll all be gone
except for the pyramids and the Teslas … and possibly Snowy 2 … they’ll still be here
and future Cybernetic AI Humans will have invent mythic stories about how they originated
if dinosaurs had opposable thumbs … imagine how differently it might have turned out
I disagree.
He is not a neo-Nazi.
He is a traditional Nazi, in the style of Himmler, Hitler and Gobbles.
too right!
not only have we exploited the energy resource
we have done it to better the environment we need to prosper
which is evolutionary nek lebel sneaky
anthropogenic global warming is a total crock of shit
especially on a planetary time-scale
Some more observations from Udine:
This is allegedly the second most expensive city in Italy, after Florence. Reasons for this include a relatively efficient PS, due to the Region’s autonomous nature ie. legally instituted political and bureaucratic disconnection from Rome. One of the consequences of this has been more efficient Council services, relative cleanliness and preserved street-scape (somewhat affected now by the “improving” cultural diversity..) Since the 1976 earthquake, it has also become a university town, with several tertiary institutes within the Universita` di Udine added to the pre-existing technical colleges which arose following WW1. It is also a gateway to tourist resorts in the Northern Adriatic and the truly picturesque Carnic and Julian Alps.
Yet, despite these alleged advantages, when compared to Sydney, real estate prices are only one-third to one-half, for a far better quality build (double-brick or stone, multi-storey, REAL double bedrooms, central heating, glazed windows etc..). Food prices are around 50-75% for similar items, but a much greater variety of cakes, cheese, bread and packed meats. As mentioned, booze is less than 50%. Hotel accomodation prices are clearly seasonal, around 80-100 euros per night for a 3-star hotel in the off-season.
Finally, the locals are polite, but known to be reserved to the point of rudeness. Unlike the classic Italian stereotype, they tend to follow the law, to the extent that they actually stop for pedestrians at zebra crossings, and at red lights. The women seems to have been savaged by the witch wielding the ugly-stick.. maybe it’s their winter look, or maybe it’s just me.
Prometheus was punished by the gods for letting humans get hold of fire
and he’s currently chained to a mountain and on the lookout for liver eating eagles
meanwhile, humans have developed super-cars and hyper-sonic missiles
the Titan Chris Bowen is bent on allowing us mortals to have a renewable future
perhaps the gods can invent an even more interesting punishment for him
He is a traditional Nazi, in the style of Himmler, Hitler and Gobbles.
Yep, and his good wife is no different to Mrs Himmler, Eva and Magda.
I’ve long thought Husic is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s spruiked the ‘moderate’ Islam shtick for quite a few years now, and many Liberals fell for it. But here’s the truth, Husic has a pong of Islamism around him and he should be avoided like the plague.
Good on Dutton for saying that he will only stand in front of the national flag.
Next, he needs to say that we will rebuild the coal power system.
Gollum Greta as envisaged by Disney. 😀
Elbow’s cash splash for the Jews comes with conditions. Of COURSE it does!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/albos-security-cash-to-jews-conditional-unarmed-guards-only.html
I listened to an interesting podcast about the history of military powers and their behavior. The podcaster rhetorically asked if there’s ever been a military power that was timid, generally peaceful, and lasted longer than 100 years. He couldn’t think of one. His argument was that the U.S. acting like arseholes and throwing its weight around is typical behavior for a superpower trying to maintain its position. So if you’re looking for angels in US intel, you’re not going to find them.
From the BBC, the editors of PinkNews accused of sexual harassment of staff:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9q4zvwldvo
Don’t hold your breath waiting for our GayBC to report it.
The Beeb also has a report today on the debate on puberty blockers
For the GayBC, there is no debate and there can be no discussion.
Bolta’s petty little TDS keeps going. With Trump walking on water and with queues of the world’s elites forming just to shake hands with the great man bolta has been reduced to quibbling about Trump’s selections for his government. Tonight he got stuck into Tulsi because in the past she said the skunk assad could only be prosecuted on the evidence; and apparently Tulsi also said something positive about puttie. FMD.
If one were to apply the CSIRO GenCost methodology to the thirty-odd countries that already use nuclear, how different from their actual costs would the results be?
The CEO killer is a real concern. A wealthy family, private school, Ivy League education, and two engineering degrees—then goes all ANTIFA. How many more have been brainwashed to think profit is evil? The murder, hopefully, is a one off, but the mindset may not be.
All Dutton needs to do is point out that Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Goolag have all announced they are investing in nuclear plants.
Then ask Bowen “why is this so?”
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Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has thrown her support behind two of WA’s best known conservative politicians in the countdown to the state election and a federal poll where the west could hold the key to the outcome.
Mrs Rinehart is hosting a $5000-a-head fundraising dinner for WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam, who late last month slapped down those pushing for Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas to replace her ahead of the WA election due in March.
Australia’s richest person is hosting a separate $3000-a-head fundraising dinner for Mia Davies, the star National Party candidate for the new federal seat of Bullwinkel in WA that covers farms and outer Perth suburbs dotted with fly-in, fly-out mine workers.
Ms Davies was out on the hustings in Bullwinkel with shadow resources minister Susan McDonald over the weekend and appeared alongside National Party leader David Littleproud during farmer protests against government policies in September.
Ms Davies is seeking to make the transition to Canberra after 17 years in WA parliament, including a stint as Opposition leader after Labor’s crushing victory in the 2021 election left the WA Nationals with four lower house seats and the Liberals with just two.
She is eyeing a spot in cabinet if the Coalition wins the federal election and is expected to make her case for louder voice for miners and farmers to business leaders at a breakfast event in Perth on Wednesday.
The Davies fundraiser is scheduled for December 18 in Perth with the Mettam fundraiser the following night.
In various public speeches calling for policy reform to support mining, productivity and economic growth in Australia, Mrs Rinehart often avoids mentioning political parties by name but is a high-profile supporter of US president-elect Donald Trump and Indian leader Narendra Modi.
She has also been linked to fundraising events in Queensland for Liberal leader Peter Dutton and her private company, Hancock Prospecting, has made donations to the Liberal Party.
Mrs Rinehart wants the Coalition to follow Mr Trump’s lead by taking an uncompromising policy agenda to the federal election.
“This is not a time for LINOs (Liberal in Name Only), timidly fiddling around a few edges, careful not to upset the minority noises or rapidly increasing bureaucrats, none of whom will ever vote for the Coalition. We need to make Australia great again,” she said in her National Mining Day speech last month.
Mrs Rinehart, Ms Mettam and Ms Davies all declined to comment on the fundraising support.
I don’t think Trump would be too worried what anyone in the legacy meja thinks of him let alone a pissant like Bolt. A pissant is what he has become. Yesterday’s man.
Sky News have a story about former Administrator Ted Egan, now 94, being broken into over the weekend:
Mr Egan, an icon of the Australian folk music scene and former Administrator of the Northern Territory, said his wife woke at about 4am last Tuesday to find two young offenders in their bedroom.
He woke to her screaming and chased the intruders through their living room, yelling at them in the Indigenous languages of Warlpiri and Pitjantjara
The intruders ran into his yard where there was a third offender waiting.
“They’re yelling at me ‘give us cash and we’ll go away, give us cash’,” Mr Egan said.
The offenders fled in a stolen car that was later found burnt out in a town camp.
and
Mr Egan, who has been actively involved in the advancement of Aboriginal people for most of his life, said he had been in contact with Federal Labor MP Marion Scyrmgour about how to fix the crime issues that were plaguing his home town.
“I’ve got to be careful what I say here because only a couple of months ago now I offered a few, well thought suggestions about possible solutions and I was publicly defamed by an Aboriginal activist so they obviously don’t want to hear the opinions of an old white paternalist,” he said.
Commentator below says:
Australia has the sixth highest burglary rates in the world.
He’s right – see graph. I guess you don’t break into houses where the owners might be armed.
The CEO killer is a real concern. A wealthy family, private school, Ivy League education, and two engineering degrees—then goes all ANTIFA. How many more have been brainwashed to think profit is evil? The murder, hopefully, is a one off, but the mindset may not be.
JC, journalist Andy Ngo, a true hero, has chronicled for years now how many of the young men and women in Antifa are from wealthy families, are privately schooled and have had Ivy League educations.
Ngo has exposed many of these radicalised young men and women. It’s a huge problem across the West, of brainwashed young men and women. Here in Oz, it isn’t young men and women from struggle street in Sydney’s western suburbs that are voting Green, it’s young men and women from the north shore, the eastern suburbs and the inner west. These kids go to university and become radicalised. Whilst the indoctrination begins in school, it’s when they’re at universities that the radicalisation and indoctrination is finished off, fatally, many of these kids become zombies.
Tennis Albo You could see the pain all over the grub from Grayndler.
It’s gonna destroy him.
Cassie
It’s a real serious concern and 4 years of the Trump administration will not cure these ills, at least in the US. This requires at least 20 years of a sharp, hard shift. In any event let’s enjoy these 4 years while we have them.
As for Australia, I think we have to hit a real bottom before anything major changes, and we haven’t even begun.
many of the young men and women in Antifa are from wealthy families, are privately schooled and have had Ivy League educations.
So they are prosecuting class warfare against less well-off people in their own countries. Just look at the aristocratic abominations in the Anal regime- Scotch, Geelong Grammar, Loreto Mandeville Hall alumni.
Luigi lacks a properly formed conscience.
Very wealthy family.
He went to a 40k per annum private school, a secular independent school in Baltimore that prides itself on being ‘diverse and inclusive’.
Sometimes in the last few years, a broken back, possibly unsuccessful back surgery and the consumption of certain kinds of mushrooms. Committing murder with a sense of invincibility.
Flirting with the hostel receptionist put his face everywhere and a sharp eyed McDonald’s employee made him.
Probably thought he could disappear like the Unabomber and keep killing people for decades.
Very disappointing to hear Sharri going on about “poor Chris Minns”. He’s trying sooooooooooo hard…
She got very short shrift from Bronwyn Bishop, rightly so.
Hildebrand had his suck reflex for Elbow on cyclonic.
Consider this creep-
William S. Burroughs – Wikipedia
In any event let’s enjoy these 4 years while we have them.
Oh I’m going to, JC. January 20 can’t come soon enough.
What’s been so so nice is that Trump’s win has completely winded the left.
I’m still incredulous about how they caught him in such a short period of time. I’ve looked at the picture where he shows his face at the hostel and the ones that have been shared since his arrest. For the life of me, I can’t believe the guy at Maccas made the connection.
I think Reagan’s legacy got pretty much trashed by the RINOs- the Bush creep was not a worthy successor. I think American patriots are much more awake to RINOs than they were in 1988.
He’s already indicated he will come after the big Unis if they don’t shape up.
I think quotas, DEI, gender fluidity and critical race theory will be goneski from the curriculum and staff selection policies from kindergarten to university, toot sweet.
Of course, that doesn’t do much about the nut-jobs who have already been churned out.
Maybe the FBI could focus a little more on monitoring said nut-jobs instead of harassing parents who express a concern about the aforementioned curriculum content.
Very disappointing to hear Sharri going on about “poor Chris Minns”. He’s trying sooooooooooo hard…
She got very short shrift from Bronwyn Bishop, rightly so.
Hildebrand had his suck reflex for Elbow on cyclonic.
Yep, have watched it. Good on Bronwyn for politely rebutting Markson.
As for Joe Hilderbeast, my late mother couldn’t stand him.
I struggle to describe Mum as ‘late’. She’s still here with me, she always will be, before I go to bed I hold her nightie to my heart and I can feel her, it hits my heart.
many of the young men and women in Antifa are from wealthy families, are privately schooled and have had Ivy League educations.
essentially spoilt brats that have wanted for nothing
It seems like the French Government had a big say in the events at Notre Dame, they had Pharell Williams perform there too.
The French love African American Gospel singers.
They seem to tour there every year.
As for Amazing Grace, some parishes might sing it. It, along with several other songs was banned at my former parish, and it would never be sung at my current one, I haven’t heard it for years in a Catholic Church and nor would I want to.
Baptism gives Grace, not belief.
https://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1635
I keep seeing “Luigi” and think folks here are talking about the Albanian.
It sounds like a wanker family as I presume they’re generational Italian-American, in which case his name ought to be Louis – not freaking Luigi. Just saying.
Who says they won’t do this in 4 years?
It’s just an assumption that the elections will be cleaned up by then.
Israel taking no chances with the incoming.
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1866394424709656829?t=dhh6P1rUeR2CLLfDx78PdA&s=19
Have you seen what just happened to that would-be traitorous bint from one of the western states—Joni, whatever her name is? The bint had been voting for lots of left-wing appointments and was wandering off the GOP reservation by suggesting she wouldn’t vote for Hegseth. She was informed that, if she tried that, she’d be primaried out of existence in ’26. And now:
The Liz Cheney head lopping was a teaching moment.