Areff is the owner of Ellie? I thought it was the other way around.
Open Thread – Mon 9 Dec 2024
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Back in the days of Hughes?
Reflecting on Granville, 48 years later. My brother in-law was on the train. He liked the “non smoking” carriage, and…
My paternal grandparents’ electorate, as it happens. 😀 Not that they’re on the roll anymore!
A candidate like Warren Mundine is not going to have any traction in a seat like Bradfield or Mackellar or…
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.
When a problem comes along, you must whip it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEVqFB4WUo
Ernst is a filthy piece of work.
Some fun for Cats.
Top Ender complained
Surely you must know what they mean by welcome to country?
It means the local area where the welcomer is based.
They should have translated it as Welcome To Neighbourhood. Calling it welcome to country leads to misunderstandings.
I don’t think they had a word for what we call the whole country.
So how come it’s announced on landing an interstate flight? Pretentious crap.
Nuanced bullying
I think the country is ready for change, especially when it comes to re-configuring the federal government, cutting costs, and streamlining processes. If he and Vivek even halfway succeed, they will be seen and celebrated as heroes. Musk would then become untouchable. In four years, Tesla could evolve into a robotics powerhouse, potentially also producing autonomous robotaxis. Its valuation might reach $5 trillion or more—I’m not kidding.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg bursts into laughter as she declares ‘f–k Israel’ at rally: video
Evolution of the Doom Pixie. If only the Hitler Youth were still around.
Greata – throw her into the pond
To see if she floats?
spelling suffers after plonk
I agree.
Sliante!
It is highly probable they had other intel on his whereabouts that they don’t want to disclose.
Interesting that he was something of a UnaBomber fan-boi. Like Kascinski, he probably thought he was smarter than the cops as well. Kascinski evaded capture for so long because he genuinely lived off-grid and his movements were largely untraceable, which is almost impossible these days.
Meanwhile, VicPlod still can’t find the culprits in a string of arson attacks on churches going back a decade. (Hint: they were celebrated by the GayBC/Australian Bolshevik Collective and the Fauxfacts media.) So don’t, I regret to say, hold your breath over the Ripponlea synagogue atrocity.
The fabulous eyebrows?
Suspect in Health Care C.E.O.’s Killing Charged With Murder
Sounds like his back surgery was an issue.
Also capitalism despite the benefits that had accrued to him.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-news?smid=nytcore-android-share
Surely you must know what they mean by welcome to country?
They mean “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”.
I dunno Sancho, the local police sent out two police to follow up the tip, one a rookie with only a few months experience.
Reckon they just got lucky.(waggles eyebrows)
I stupidity signed up to 7plus to watch season six of the Rookie.
Getting ads for sex toys.
Perhaps I should just watch it in the early evening.
Install an ad-blocker. Malwarebytes = my antivirus software, turns out it blocks ads.
Watch 7+ so smoothly you’re unaware there were ad breaks.
Bonues, you’re able to watch “The Rookie” & anything else, in about half the time.
Works also for 9now, Youtube & lotsa other sites, however SBS on demand does not like it.
How do they know your size? On second thoughts, don’t bother.
Amazing!
Just watched 1.7 episodes of Black Doves on Netflix.
Amazing how the producers got Keira Knightley, Sarah Lancashire, and several other well paid actors to sign up for this tosh.
Not that amazing. Most actors are idiots looking for paychecks
Some interesting twists and turns. One of my brothers has worked quite successfully in theatre for 30+ years, and does enjoy the company of other gentlemen. He’s calling it, ‘Spy Poofs.’
Sliante, to all you mob.
Looking over some old diary entries, regarding the last time I ever worked for wages. Purchasing manager, in a company that was, quite frankly, rotten to the core.
Got confronted by one of the project managers, in the smoke – oh room, face to face.
“Listen, you think you are doing the right thing, checking all the spending. This is a big project, seventy one million dollars, and there is enough in it for all of us. If you aren’t in with us, you’ll be out.”
Three weeks later, I was out. Back to running a farm.
Bumped into a former work colleague, six months later. He was one of the honest ones.
“Huh, they HAD to get rid of you! You were asking too many questions. Your cards were marked from day one. Oh, and for what it’s worth, the rot went all the way to (senior management.)”
“Your deputy is doing your job. He’s just gotten married and is buying a house. They have him exactly where they went him.”
I got the same treatment for questioning the medical mafia and am thus now also running a farm …. do I regret it?… not a bit
One of the ways to determine whether someone is old enough to use social media is to give them an IQ test.
Trouble is, most of the nominal adults on tik tok would fail it. Still, this might tell them something.
Maybe that’s the future in store.
A generation of Eloi, their eyesight, judgement, socialization and fiscal independence ruined by smartphones, and a generation of Morlocks fated to nurse them unto their senescence.
I saw a student the other day who was bent over his mobile phone as he walked along. At age 20, he already had a posture that looked like the old Harpic bottle and spout. I dread to think what he’ll be like at 60. Plenty of work for physios if your young relatives are interested.
Chinese macro thermite reactors are better for the climate
…what could possibly go wrong
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!
On page 26 of the document you provided, it shows net income of $22 billion and ROE of 27%. What are you looking at?
Landed in Brisbane on Dec 1st. Virgin airlines. Was pleasantly surpised – no WTC. No one on the plane put their hand up to complain.
Sounds totally legit, Dover.
Yep, sounds like bullshit : like the almost daily new cure for cancer
and
The claim that China has reduced iron production time from 6 hours to 6 seconds using a new method is not supported by credible scientific or industrial sources. While China is a major producer of steel and is constantly innovating in its steel production processes, such a dramatic reduction in production time is highly unlikely.
Here are some reasons why this claim is likely false:
It is important to be critical of such claims and to rely on verified information from reputable sources. While China is undoubtedly a leader in steel production and innovation, it is unlikely that they have achieved such a revolutionary breakthrough without wider recognition and scientific validation.
Collingwood appoint Charlie Gardiner as new GM of football operations. LOL. No, ROFL.
Eddie McGuire will be back there soon, odds on.
Haha – I thought you meant “Charlie” Gardiner, the ex WEagle traded to St Kilda. I’m not sure he could manage much these days.
Landed in Brisbane on Dec 1st. Virgin airlines. Was pleasantly surpised – no WTC.
The way the cabin crew rattle if off at speed I wouldn’t be surprised if they hate it and “forget” it when they can.
Typical HR and woke management inflicting idiocy on all.
If they rattle it off at speed, be sure that they hate it,
I have semi-woke relatives who read the Age. They are over it.
Would not surprise me if it was a requirement for being allowed to land and not pushed by the airlines(though obviously QANTAS would be tripping over itself to comply).
Well I was going to hit the sack early and go fox hunting in the early AM, now I’m stuck on the computer shorting my BlueScope and Crucible stock.
The gals are all at someone’s house watching Love Actually, which is a rubbish fillum.
-Kiera has a barely verbal stalker with a huge cache of her digital image
-Hugh bonks the help
-Bill gives it the good ol’ ooh-er innuendo
-Colin bonks the help
-Liam doesn’t even growl down the telephone, let alone throw a punch
-Alan bonks the help
-Young geezer bonks some fantasy Barbie dolls
-Rowan bonks the help (probably)
…I can’t wait for it to be cancelled because of a total lack of gay and/or Windrush-Vindaloorush representation. Only one Afro-Carribean, and he gets low-energy cuckolded when overbitey Knightley pashes the stash douche.
Actually does Bill demean a boy band as being probably gay? Seem to recall…
Could be bullshit, but any chance we could get a link to your quotes?
High purity iron in one mighty bound? Skates around the need for all the tiresome metallurgy stuff that seems to bother other producers?
Almost too good to be true.
I’m same Doc. Basic chemistry in 1st & 2nd year has me smelling rats and metallurgy 1st and half of 2nd year. However I don’t know enough about it.
The fact the same cheerleaders for this seem to be the same ones trying to save the world raises red flags as well.
We’ll find out about the quality when it starts being used in pylons for the “Wiring the Nation” project, and they fall over on low wind days.
Note tone of the article is thoroughly on the side of The Donald:
President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America’s illegal immigration crisis.
In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead planning to settle in Mexico or begin the long trek back home.
‘I’m just going to give up and go back to Venezuela,’ said a woman in one of the squalid encampments, where thousands of migrants have constructed tents with tarps and scrap material.
‘I have children to take care of,’ she added. ‘I’ll just go back because, with Donald Trump, it’s going to be too hard.’
This is a cruel reality for millions of people drawn to Mexico by the Biden administration’s indulgent border policies – only to find that Americans overwhelmingly rejected the misguided approach in the 2024 election.
Daily Mail
Cody’s Lab for insomniacs …
Using Thermite to cast an iron pan
Thermite has other uses 😉
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Past history,
NOW THAT IS AN INCLINE! JOADJA NSW (LATE 19th CENTURY)
Joadja, in the NSW southern highlands was once a thriving town. Between 1870–1911, it was home for up to 1200 people.
The town existed to mine oil shale from which kerosene was extracted by the Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Co. The process was superseded by conventional oil-based kerosene production and by 1911, the town had become deserted.
Situated in a deep valley, initially bullock teams hauled the ore-drays across the valley floor and up a zig-zag to the plateau which extended to Mittagong.
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disputed by a commenter;
“At the other end of the valley there were three more gravity inclines up to the mining shelf in use at various times, only one is left now that can be viewed.
There was no zig zag track used by bullock teams out out of the valley, it was barely wide enough as walking path for miners. The company used the railway from Mittagong and the incline down into the valley right from the start of mining and refining”
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To bypass the zig-zag this 45 degree railway incline was cut into the north side of the valley. Using a double cable, full skips would rise as empty ones descended.
Much of Joadja is still recognisable and the remnants of the township were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999.
(A number of sources, chiefly State Library of NSW)
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There is still life there even if only in spirit (LOL)
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You can also visit.
For motorcycle enthusiasts.
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A 1914 Indian 1000cc 8 valve beast.
This incredible old racer was on show by the HD-Classic crew at the Where is Anna Run in Belgium.
At the time of production, these motorcycles were loaned to factory riders and to the most promising racers of the time. The 8 valve Indian was capable of speeds of over 200kph on the wooden board tracks, and were either pushed into motion or towed up to speed by another motorcycle.
Note that there are no brakes on the bike, a safety feature to prevent following motorcycles from ploughing into the one in front with any sudden braking.
These motorcycles were ridden at full throttle and the speed was controlled with the ignition advance and with the kill switch on the handlebars.
be sure to tuck your pantaloons into your stockings to avoid those sprockets
Seven vicious, senseless murders out of tens of thousands committed by Soviet Communism over 70 years. And our kids are still being taught the superiority of that philosophy over Capitalism.
Senseless if you look at it in a humanitarian way, but not politically.
Many blame the British crown for letting it happen, will we ever learn the real reason why they let it be so?
Picture of Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov Tsarevich of Russia with his sisters
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“The Russian Empire was a troubled state, and Romanovs were blamed for all of those troubles. They were the symbols of Russian corruption, degradation, famine, war, poverty, etc. Because Nicholas II was an absolute monarch, he was unable to pass the blame.
Nicholas’s children, of course, were not responsible for anything. But they were part of the system. Monarchy relies on royal families, and even a child can rule (at least, symbolically). There was certain brutal logic in eliminating Romanovs as completely as possible in order to prevent the return of the monarchy even in case of the Soviet fail.”
You’re made of sterner stuff than me.
I made it through about 0.635 of the first episode. When the Kray Brothers mum turned up in the pub with two Irish hench-lesbians …
For a brief moment I thought they were trying to emulate Kingsman.
Hmmm. OK, I’ll say it. Knightley rapidly becoming just the poor man’s Lena Headey.
More anti-semitic sh*t in the Eastern Suburbs last night. Cars set alight, graffiti. Masked suspects seen.
Calli, we woke to this & were appalled. The Minns government MUST stop this. Minns has decried it in a social media post this morning. Not enough. Mount a decisive campaign, you idiot. This is what happens when you allow a year of malicious public displays in weekly, even daily, public rallies against the Jewish community.
It’s just not going to happen. Minns is a party boy and will do what’s good for the party which means he will do nothing to stop this.
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But they told us diversity was strength??
You thought we were a sh%$ stained toilet? Canada is screwed, even the conservatives voted in favour of this.
First Uyghur refugee arrives under Canadian effort to resettle persecuted minority groups from China:
https://archive.md/MnWd6
WTF is it with the left thinking we in the west can absorb all the worlds refugees? Is it because someone else (taxpayer) foots the bill for their moral superiority?
government income must be chocked off, the beast must be starved
This morning news release is that Labor s promising free child care for 3 days a week whether a woman works or not.
What this implies is that there is no value at all of a mother raising a child. It is no longer a case that child care allows a household to survive or buy a house or whatever.
Amazing. I suppose it is a product of this idea of “early education”. This idea is a product of the Piaget concept that early education develops a child’s perception and intellect. This falllacious idea was around when my child was a baby. But while attention to a childs’s development is obviously important there is no proof that this increases intellectual achievement.
A mother’s love and personal attention is a critical factor in a child’s confidence and well being. It is a tragedy that this concept is losing ground.
early indoctrination
Just a vote “catcher” .. Luigi won’t be happy it only made mid page on “our” ABC news page
No such thing as “free childcare.”
The taxpayer pays for it.
Off to the reeducation camp for you if they get their way!
You are, of course, absolutely correct.
Here’s a great funny to start the day. Courtesy of Michael Smith.
“Two Tier”, Policing in the UK. With a touch of Diversity and Inclusion. haw!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/diversity-dividend-in-uk-policing-anti-terrorist-bollard-edition.html
Chris Minns
?”This is not the Sydney we want. These racist attempts to divide our city won’t work.
The only race involved is the race by politicians to run a mile from identifying an aggressive and intolerant religion that has taken hold in our land.
…they brought them in to rub our noses in “Diversity”.
I don’t think it’s working that well.
It didn’t ‘take hold’ like a new plant accidentally brought in on someones shoes … our wise rulers have deliberately favoured the importation of large numbers of unproductive citizens with incompatible beliefs.
The camel has bolted on that one.
I hate what C.L.’s thoughtful, intelligent and witty blog has become.
Everything lefties touch they ruin. They can’t produce anything worthwhile themselves, they just crap all over work others have built.
It’s been three months now. I don’t think he’ll be back.
I have wondered if his mum is ill. CL has looked after his mum for awhile.
C.L.’s mum passed away in his arms several years ago. He occasionally spoke of his bedside vigil as she lay dying. His honesty in speaking about this was a great inspiration to me as I experienced the same privilege with my dad.
C.L., with his muscular, uncompromising faith and boundless humour has always been one of the blogosphere’s ornaments.
Me too.
Ed “Head” Case has recently returned there and shows all the signs of advanced dementia, lashing out unprovokedly with his projection towards others.
He recently made clear he would have preferred Crackhead Hunter Biden to Trump as president, such is his TDS.
The decision to ban him here was a very wise one.
“Martin” is no better.
Don’t think history will be kind to Albo. Watching him flail with non answers to perfectly reasonable questions, his inaction over the last 5 days, plays perfectly well to his student politics. Can’t tell me on campus he wouldn’t have had digs at Israel.
The opprobrium afforded the turd couldn’t happen to a more worthy candidate. Incredible to see how small he’s becoming with every passing day.
Don’t know why people are surprised by his spineless reaction.
A student far left activist who supported Palestine.
Remember Jeremy Corbyn? Albo cosied up to him because they are cut from the same cloth.
Rabid anti Israel to the core and also a coward.
Small in every sense of the word. Look mummy, I’ve snivelled all my life, look where I’ve got. Never built anything only pulled it down. Don’t think he’s ever had a moment of introspection.
Albo is a plodder who is simply the last man standing. Overlooked at every opportunity and fell into government with a 32% primary vote.
underwhelming doesn’t begin to cover it.
Albo is the canonical argument against federal 4 year fixed terms
We should have recall elections. Votation with mandatory referenda. Our politicians have proved they can’t be trusted.
I see President-elect Trump has nominated Harmeet K Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights – IRRC Harmeet was the lady who, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, poured a bucket on the Kacklin’ Kamala about her corruption in elections in various guises in California — well done Mr Trump
She has a solid history of opposing DEI and real racism, including against whites. Not just speaking, but participating in lawsuits and campaigns.
I’ve seen her name regarding these issues for years at Breitbart.
Excellent choice!
Has Jim Chalmers taken credit for the RBA decision to keep interest rates as they are?
Vandalism in the Eastern Suburbs is simply a logical progression from the events of 9/10 at the city centre and Opera House.
They start with their marches and celebrations of murder and terror, and because there’s no pushback, they continue to hold rallies unopposed and “escorted”.
Not satisfied, they drive into Jewish enclaves and intimidate, in suburban streets and at the shopping centres. Schoolchildren are harassed with impunity. Men and women identified as Jews are catcalled and worse. Still no pushback or even condemnation.
Now we get to the pointy end. Property is damaged accompanied by overt sloganeering. Fire is the weapon, along with hammers for the glass. A synagogue is torched.
Finally and with great reluctance, our “betters” wake up, roll over, fart a few platitudes and return to their slumbers.
We have seen this movie before.
Nobody is going to fight for the Jews if they won’t fight for themselves.
How hard do you think the authorities will come down on them if they do? The last few millenia have shown us they can. When is the rest of Australia going to fight back? Remember Cronulla?
I didn’t sleep well last night, perhaps this is why….
Car torched, properties vandalised in second anti-Israel attack in Woollahra in three weeks
The Sydney Jewish community has been shaken by a second attack in the suburb overnight in which a car was set alight and walls spray painted with anti-Israel graffiti
The Oz has a picture up showing a wall in Woollahra that has been daubed with the words…
Kill Israel
Which means one thing….
Kill Jews
Yesterday Putrid Pong compared Israel, a robust liberal democracy, to China and Russia. Over the last few days, we’ve seen Babbling Bowen and Islamist Ed Husic trivialise Jew hatred by bringing up ‘Islamophobia”.
For years, we’ve been told by leftist scum, including the Nazi here (who’s oddly gone missing since the US election) how ‘words matter‘. Well, yep, okay, words do matter and so I hold Tennis Albo, Putrid Pong, Burqu, Husic and all the rest of the current disgraceful federal and state governments personally responsible for this latest act of Jew hatred in Woollahra overnight.
They have empowered the Jew haters, they bear personal responsibility.
I ask…..
How many Muslim suburbs have been subjected to similar acts of vandalism like that in Woollahra? Answer – none.
How many Muslim suburbs have had convoys of car drive through, threatening and intimidating residents? Answer – none
How many mosques have been protested, like what happened again last week in Sydney’s CBD where protesters locked down a synagogue? How many mosques have been locked down? Answer – none.
How many Muslim schools, aged care, communal halls, mosques, kindergartens etc require the massive security? Answer – none
I live in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, I’ve personally seen the anti-Jewish graffiti on bus stops, walls and so on.
The Oz is showing yet another picture of a torched car from last nights rampage in Woollahra. I ask…..
How long before someone dies? It was a miracle last Friday morning that nobody died when the Adass Shul was torched.
On Monday night, 9 October 2023, among the many threats they screamed, screeched and shouted that night, Muslim and leftist Nazi scum screamed…..
‘Where’s the Jews?’.
Well, they know where we are and they’re coming for us.
But don’t worry folks, according to the grub from Grayndler, ‘anti-Semitism has always been around‘. Ya see, that makes it okay.
I’m glad Mum’s not here to see this.
Cassie, I support Israel in nearly everything she does, but I’m fed up with the craven cowardice displayed in Australia.
Cassie, I ask: “Why are there none? And why do the Jews not retaliate against this violence?”
…..and the answer is that they are waiting for the Law to protect them.
Don’t you remember that every Jew who went to the gas chambers during WW2 went there on the orders of a Judge, who applied the legal justification of the German Parliament, and they were taken to their deaths by a Court Official?
The Jews of Australia need to wake up to the fact that the Parliamentarians, the Judges, the Police and the Warders are your enemies and adjust your behaviour.
Perhaps if you fight back instead of pathetic flower and teddy bear displays, you will get more support.
I think the flowers and teddy bears are the work of non-Jewish Australians. The question should be, when are Australians going to fight back, not just our Jewish brothers and sisters? We will be next.
“Chris Minns
?”This is not the Sydney we want. These racist attempts to divide our city won’t work.”
Well Chris maybe take a few swipes with your handbag – NOOOO
Not the white one, the brown one.
Or maybe call it what it is – antisemitism. No Sweetie, it’s just NOT racism.
PS it’s already working – you know – the division thing. Why can’t people add up?
Diversity divides – the clue is in the name
@americasgreat
Now that’s a real Green New Deal.
No wonder Mr Pratt is now focussing on the US – no need to endlessly debate whale song lines, water spirits or imaginary bee cults.
Snap calli.
Google Quantum Computer Solves Septillion-Year Task in Minutes
**Summary:** In a recent episode of “Bloomberg Technology,” Hartmut Neven, founder of Google Quantum AI, discusses the remarkable progress made in quantum computing. Google’s advanced quantum chip has enabled the completion of a benchmark computation in just five minutes, a task that would take a traditional supercomputer approximately ten septillion years to finish. Neven highlights the significance of this development, particularly in terms of error correction and its potential applications across various fields, including healthcare and energy. The discussion also touches on the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, emphasizing their complementary roles in addressing complex problems. **Key Points:** 1. **Breakthrough Achievements:** – Development of a new high-quality quantum chip. – Successful implementation of error correction that reduces error rates exponentially with additional qubits. – Execution of a benchmark random circuit sampling computation in five minutes, compared to ten septillion years for the fastest supercomputers. 2. **Understanding Benchmark Computation:** – The benchmark problem is not a direct practical application for the public but serves as a comparative measure for evaluating quantum processors against classical computers. 3. **Current Progress in Quantum Computing:** – Quantum computing is progressing steadily and is not as far off as previously thought. – The new chip, named Willow, is set to pave the way for solving real-world problems. 4. **Potential Applications:** – Significant applications in drug discovery, nuclear fusion reactor design, and improving battery technology. – Quantum processors are deemed the preferred tool for tackling these engineering challenges. 5. **Quantum Computing and AI:** – While quantum computing is a transformative technology, it shouldn’t be directly compared to generative AI. – There is a synergy between AI and quantum computing, where advancements in one can enhance the other, leading to improved computational tasks in both fields.
My reply is:
GIGO.
Who is programming this thing?
The UN?
The EEC?
Sleepy Joe?
The WHO?
Pfizer?
Who?
I keep repeating, it’s not artificial intelligence it’s just a program. Of course, if you change the definition then every program is artificial intelligence which doesn’t make this generation of programs any different, just worse.
A real clue bat.
@catturd2
Everyone should listen to this.
I have my cranky pants on today so I couldn’t get past the first 3 minutes before I started looking for the ‘delete’ button.
Pretty much.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1866576393510756403?t=tnsubavUHQUMJH409pZrUA&s=19
calli December 11, 2024 6:06 am
So much hate coming from one sector of society, a sector that our politicians were warned about before the deluge.
My question for today is :
“When are the Jews going to fight back instead of waiting for the government to protect them?”
It didn’t work in Europe from the late 30’s to 1945, so why are they waiting for it to work now?
?This government and its organs hate the Jewish people and especially now that it’s showing it will fight back, they hate it even more.
The government isn’t going to help – they created this problem.
Frankly I’m disappointed at the lackadaisical efforts from the descendants of the King David Hotel bombing.
Bibi had the right response take it up to the ruling mob.
True
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1866505688417243164?t=63HFUMRDoacRSo7GqUC-mw&s=19
Two things…
Sky News reports that Albo’s minders had difficulty getting him “safely” to his car after his synagogue visit. As if he was in some sort of physical danger. We’re talking about Mr Bullhorn “Smash ‘er” Albo here, not a wee, feminine shrinking violet.
Personally, I doubt he was in any sort of physical danger. His prestige only has been dealt a death blow.
Second, why does Labor always think throwing money (our money) at a problem is the only solution? They caused this nightmare with their inaction over evil protesters, and fanned the flames via that disgrace of a Foreign Minister. And now they think it will all go away if they spend enough money.
I note that their idea of “security” around synagogues and schools is unarmed patrols. It would be funny if it wasn’t so cloth eared and unaware. Let’s just say that space has already been covered more than effectively by the Jews out of their own pockets.
What they need is for the endless protests to be squished by the police, offenders punished under laws that already exist and the sectarian haters in our universities cleared out.
Modern day “ethics”.
JUST IN: Top Democrat on ‘Ethics’ Committee Outed as Leaker of Gaetz Report – Why Is Still on the Committee?
In addition, the PM, if he was any sort of leader, needs to give people like Husic, Bowen, Burke, Wong, Clare and others a good solid kick up the bum. But he won’t. He needs those votes.
As for Minns, he’s basking in the adulation of the desperate. So lacking in proper leadership from the get-go, he’s now suddenly motivated to “do something”.
So far it’s just “saying something” so I won’t be holding my breath waiting for action.
And now he’s pretending he doesn’t know about what Wong said about Israel and China and Russia. If I know what she said, so does he. He says he has a “full plate” at present and hasn’t read her comments. Bull. I know that smoothfaced look people get when they’re telling porkie pies.
He has been derelict in his duty for a year. And now, when the situation has reached a flashpoint he has suddenly woken up. His federal pals need all the help they can get.
@GuntherEagleman
BOOM
This is why Pete Hegseth is the PERFECT choice for Secretary of Defense!!!
“Return the Pentagon to the warfighters.”
“Get in there and clean out all the social justice, politically correct garbage on top, and get back to lethality, war-fighting, accountability, meritocracy, and readiness.”
“Address the recruiting crisis, address the retention crisis.”
America has always spent the first 6 months of any war kicking out the ‘peace generals’.
Seen our General staff lately?
To coin a military phrase, I wouldn’t follow them out of idle curiosity.
If I were religious (I’m not) I’d be wondering if Satan slipped this Pope in while no-one was looking:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/10/vatican-nativity-scene-features-baby-jesus-on-palestinian-scarf/
Take a look at the photo. Disgusting.
You don’t have to be a Catholic or a Jew to deplore this filth.
Once upon a time, the question,”Is the Pope a Catholic?” meant “Yes!” Not so sure that rings true anymore.
That stench of saltpetre and sulphur isn’t your imagination – this Pope is a ring in from the 10th circle of hell.
Another relic of the 70th. Catholic Youngtrads place their hope in the biological solution.
So how clever is “we’ll import a new voting block” looking now ALP mongs?
There are a couple of reasons the weird beards congregate and take over areas.
1: Islam is a surveillance religion – everyone watches everyone else for backsliding.
2: Thanks to point 1, anything which can be justified as religiously ok can be done, regardless of laws – snitches get stitches.
3: More or less directly controlling electorates instead of diluting the groups vote means pollies must pander.
One cancerous cell is one too many – this thing is metastasising, and that constant nagging pain in the Visitors Gallery isn’t something you should ignore, Anal.
First belly laugh of the day.
Gotta say, the ABC have switched to twelve weeks of stock-article repetition early this year- going hard with racism, inequality, domestic violence crisis, and fat/gay/furry trauma.
But, I don’t eat much! It’s me GLANDS!
This was the common refrain until the nineties.
But I’m big boned!
Hohmann: In Syria, be careful what you wish for: Sharia law and new wave of refugees is more likely than ‘democracy’ following fall of Assad and U.S. meddling
Assad’s Downfall Proves Neocons Have Learned Nothing From Disastrous Middle East Meddling
Federal Judge Stops Biden Agencies from Opening Obamacare to Illegal Aliens
And on the question of Obamacare, this is what the people who passed it really thought.
Here are 341 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves
The Mainstream Media FINALLY Admits Obamacare Is a Failure
JC at 12:20 and Dr F at 1:39 on the matter of 2-Minute Chinese Steel Noodles.
This has the definite flavour of those Chunky promos on Facebook.
You know the sort of thing … “New elevated six lane freeway made entirely from reconstituted rice husks provides perfect environment for pandas”.
“Heretic!”
This is American Thinker referencing an article by Jo Nova.
Climate ‘scientists’ discover they’ve been underestimating a major factor, and all their climate models are in fact wrong
And yes, there could be a squillion other factors they don’t know about but the point is, they don’t care. IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE THEY WANT TO CONTROL – IT’S US.
I look every so often on Amazon for JE MacDonell books. They finally have 25 books for the kindle
About 200 to go then. (IIRC nobody knows exactly how many books he wrote)
Boyz will be boyz .. Diversity at play .. Chifley College, Mt Druitt .. predominantly “islander” .. accurate reporting , as well, college is between Westfields SC & Rooty Hill RSL which ain’t Bidwell ……. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14177229/Chifley-College-Bidwill-attack-knife.html
The absence of an identifier is a good indicator of which one knife boy belongs to.
One I’m thinking of over the road from the rail line?
A lot of Muslims out that way now too,, Mosque in Luxford rd causes all sorts of traffic chaos on Friday arvos. I know someone who is a block over from the Imperial Hotel Rooty Hill but haven’t been down that way for a while.
Could Labor, failing so badly in everything, everywhere be purposefully doing nothing, waiting for people to take action. The media narrative was antisemitism and has now morphed to racist antisemitism or antisemitic racism.
Anger builds and then comes retaliation and a backlash. the narrative then becomes how awful Australians are – we are all just racists. Shame on Australians (not the Labor Governments, or the instigators).
Remember the Cronulla riots?
We are where we are largely because of the Cronulla riot – or more accurately, the failure to respond appropriately to the backlash to the riot/demonstration.
If the convoys of troublemakers were met with overwhelming force and all non citizens carrying weapons were deported within days, things would now be sooo calm.
Under Hawke, the annual immigrant intake was much smaller than now, but no one calls the Hawke government racist. Funny that.
The question was asked…why don’t the Jews fight back?
Any suggestions apart from breaking the law themselves? I’d be most interested in your thoughts.
Calli, if you think I’m stupid enough to suggest – on these pages – just how the Jews should strike back, then you’d be wrong.
Winston, that is why I included “without breaking the law”.
It’s a very fine line when you know all levels of government , the police and sections of the public are covertly hostile. Many of them are “nice” people.
I am not including the protesters. They are overt.
OK, I didn’t read your comment as well as I should.
Apologies – I’m sick to death of people wailing why don’t you do something about it, while they wait for the ‘authorities’ to act.
The ‘authorities’ ARE acting. Just not in a way that is advantageous to the citizens of Australia.
In the US at least, NOT voting Democrat would be a start?
Remember what happened to the muscular Assyrian Christians.
Surely you must know what they mean by welcome to country?
I don’t think they had a word for what we call the whole country.
I don’t think they had a word for “welcome” either .. LOL!
Gee, who’da thunk it – yet another antisemitic terrorist incident in Sydneystan.
Thanks minns, webb, albansleazey, pong, spusic, burqa, duelling banjos burgess and all the other vile expedient moozley arse tonguing deadshits infesting the politico/meeja/bureaucrat caste in this stupid, stupid excuse for a country.
You are an absolute disgrace.
The ghost of Sir Charles Spry looks on Burgess and cringes in horror.
“Is the pope a communist?” more likely.
The Pope is more like Biden. Others are pulling the strings.
Rabz, is a master of understatement.
He does tend to tiptoe around the subject, I agree.
Could be pretty funny if some of his best work found its way onto the Prime Wimpister’s teleprompter, but.
Andrew Lawrence
The jihadists are coming.
apparently this d!ck wants us to be as one with a mob of backward camel p!ss drinking death cultists.
communists and islamists a mirror image of each other
Another thought…
Last night’s vandalism, car bombing and anti-semitic graffiti comes on the heels of that foul restauranteur (with his swastika superimposed over the Israeli flag) getting a limp lettuce swat from the judge.
This weakness enables and encourages the fiends, it doesn’t deter them.
The creep is now a hero, not a pariah. We may tutt tutt all we like but his co-religionists are cheering. And preparing for the next weekend’s activities plus a bit of mid-week frolicking.
How’s that foul restauranteur going?
In the bankruptcy Courts yet?
Or the Divorce Courts?
1: Islam is a surveillance religion – everyone watches everyone else for backsliding.
Ideal for Australia, a nation of dobbers.
Eyrie, I think that one has taken a bit of a hiding. Who outside of the Working/Middle Class would be seen dead talking to the wallopers on anything these days?
JC at 12:20 and Dr F at 1:39 on the matter of 2-Minute Chinese Steel Noodles.
Under Mao’s science, it was claimed that one grain of rice could be turned into eleven simply by planting crops closer together. And then there followed the magical disappearance of some 40 million people.
US health insurance under Obamacare is a fascist, criminal enterprise. You MUST buy it or face a huge tax penalty. Not at all a free enterprise thing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-12-10/all-fair-love-and-war-notes-unitedhealth-ceo-slaying
There is also that the hospitals collude with the insurance companies.
Walk in off the street for a procedure. Hospital quotes $50,000.
To the insurance company $7,500 for what costs the hospital $2,500. Fair enough, they need to make a profit but quoting $50,000 for the uninsured isn’t. This is against black letter law but nobody has ever been prosecuted for it.
Kel
December 11, 2024 8:35 am
You push against a fence until it breaks and then blame the owner of the fence.
Why the Jews don’t retaliate?
#1 most Jews are peaceful until pushed too far
#2 they obey the law.
Even if those were not true here are the stats:
By religion % of population as of 2021
Islam 3.2
Judaism 0.4
Once you get to that percentage there is no holding back, that’s why the UK is a goner and so are we on the road.
Maybe we should all be proclaiming, “Ich bin Jude”.
The cowards will be less likely to be so bold if every Australian stands behind our Jewish community.
Oh, forgot about the $5000 deductible you get to pay out of pocket.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/10/the-mainstream-media-admits-obamacare-is-a-failure-n4934987
How a small Chinese company tricked the German state | DW Investigation
Shirley not. Who wooda thought. Rhetorical question, are these people stupid. Form a line.
Summary The DW investigation reveals a significant climate fraud involving Chinese carbon credit projects certified by German authorities. The investigation highlights how numerous Chinese projects failed to deliver promised carbon savings, leading to substantial financial fraud exceeding a billion euros. Key findings include a lack of oversight by German authorities, questionable practices by involved auditors, and the questionable nature of various companies involved in carbon credit submissions. ### Key Points #### 1. Intro – Significant climate fraud may have been committed in Germany, involving carbon credits and projects originating from China. #### 2. Investigating projects in China (0:50) – Examination of Shengli oilfield in China, claimed to have installed energy-efficient equipment labeled as an environmental project. – Investigators found no evidence of the promised equipment at the site, revealing inconsistencies in project claims. #### 3. Upstream Emission Reduction (UER): A new scheme in Germany (3:10) – Since 2020, German oil companies can invest in overseas emission reduction projects in exchange for carbon credits. – The Federal Environment Agency approved numerous Chinese projects, which should have been new installations. #### 4. Lack of control by the German authorities (4:05) – Only three agency employees manage a high number of projects; audits are outsourced to private firms. – The lack of onsite inspections and reliance on private auditors created vulnerabilities exploited by fraudsters. #### 5. The Chinese company behind the alleged fraud (7:13) – Investigation traced many projects to the company Beijing Karbon, linked to identity theft claims where projects were submitted without the actual company’s consent. #### 6. The buyers (10:44) – Projects sold to German companies were presented as legitimate, with buyers like Verbio, who expressed confidence in the professionalism of their Chinese partners. – It raises questions about complicity or negligence among German companies. #### 7. Were the auditors complicit? (12:25) – Auditors, responsible for validating projects, may have failed to conduct proper inspections. – Allegations arose of possible collusion between auditing firms and the Chinese company, though direct evidence is lacking. #### 8. The Consequences (14:30) – German authorities are investigating numerous projects and suspicions of fraud, which could implicate multiple auditing firms. – The German Environment Agency has closed the program to new applications and is working to revoke fraudulent credits. – Calls for more stringent monitoring and control systems in climate project auditing have emerged in response to this scandal.
There’s more:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/obamacare-59/
F##king Minns is such a F33king Liar.
Rabbiting on and on about about going after the Jew haters. You can almost see his nose growing as he speaks. Now the Gin Jockey is blathering the same sort of muck.
And who the hell is the beardo in Police uniform? Since when have coppers been allowed to sport bikie beards, or beards of any kind? Sheesh, porr fellow my country.
Pogs, I can’t work out the ## nor the 33. You need to improve your spelling.
country??? it’s a province of the UN
Tim Blair has just uploaded this onto the Daily Telegraph website. He doesn’t mince words.
Tim Blair: Not the Sydney we want, but the Sydney we’ve got
The messages in Woollahra, scrawled under cover of darkness by agents of evil, are a physical manifestation of Jew-loathing that’s been seething in Sydney for years, writes Tim Blair.
“This is not the Sydney we want,” Premier Chris Minns said following the latest anti-Jewish hate attack in our city’s east.
But this is the Sydney we’ve got – and for this we can blame a political and social class that indulges all manner of anti-Jewish hatreds and then seems surprised when people act on those hatreds.
The attack last night in Woollahra, in which a car was set on fire and murderous messages towards Israel were spray-painted on homes, is a physical manifestation of Jew-loathing that has been seething in Sydney for years.
It’s a crude and primitive revulsion that unites pro-terror groups in Sydney’s west with social elites in our universities and media.
The anti-Jewish language from both groups is largely the same. More than ten years ago, I reported on vicious documents being promoted and sold at Lakemba’s Islamic Bookstore, which is still doing business, by the way, on that suburb’s Haldon Street….
“No one can deny the fact that the Jews are the worst kind of barbarian killers the world has ever known!!!” one book, called The History of the Jews, declared.
“The decent great Adolf Hitler of Germany never killed in the manner of the Jews!!! Surely only mad people or those who love killing infants, pregnant women and the infirm will think differently.”
The same title also included an anti-Jewish line from 16th century German theologian Martin Luther that was used in Nazi propaganda: “The sun never did shine on a more bloodthirsty and revengeful people as they.”
Add further layers of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred, expressed perhaps in the more genteel and mannered style of our indoctrinated university populations, and you get to where we are.
You get to a Sydney that both Premier Minns and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park agree is “not the city that we want”.
As it happens, Park’s justifiably distressed comment was made to the ABC, where anti-Semitism is routinely expressed and excused.
“The ABC is not part of the solution,” Jewish community leader and former ABC director Joe Gersh wrote earlier this year, “because it may well be part of the problem.”
Yes indeed. Despicable messages are launched from Lakemba bookshops, the ABC’s Ultimo headquarters and our universities.
Those messages land in Woollahra, scrawled under cover of darkness by agents of evil.
Thank you, Tim.
Paywallian:
PM ‘unequivocally’ condemns ‘outrageous’ second anti-Israel attack in Woollahra in three weeks
Too late, cobber. All your chickens are coming home to roost.
Our intrepid PM has had a lifetime of radical activism inside the Labor machine.
He just had to wait long enough for the machine to reward him with the party leadership and – after the Stupid Frigging Liberal government self-destructed – the prime ministership.
The fact that Albo wasn’t a leader’s bottom didn’t matter to the machine until it became an electoral liability that’s about to cost it government.
Now the machine watches powerlessly as its regime of overgrown student activists crashes and burns.
The pyre is being fuelled by the inflation created by the federal treasurer’s government billions pumped into an economy that needed the opposite of such Keynesian pump-priming — made worse by an out-of-control energy minister whose mad climate jihad is making electricity unaffordable.
The election date will make no difference. Albo won’t be saved by the Reserve Bank which Albo and Chalmers have tried to intimidate. The cost-of-living crisis is built into the program they have created.
The Gin Jockey is yammering about domestic violence now. The attacks on the Jews are domestic violence. Australia is our home, we live here, those who attack us, are committing domestic violence.
Christ, I loathe these cowards.
Anything as long as they don’t have to admit it’s terrorism.
Who is the Gin Jockey?
Karen Webb, gin referring to the 100 bottles she purchased on the public purse to be given out as gifts and she partook a few herself, allegedly.
Rest assured that the bureaucrats here have the same objective. New technology that they can’t control is their worst nightmare.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/10/silicon-valley-titan-marc-andreessen-biden-white-house-planned-to-take-total-control-of-ai/
Every new means of communication ends up more regulated than its predecessors. See above.
That is why print media and fillums are the least regulated media. History.
So the always balanced Sunny Hostin (the View) is an ex-prosecutor. That is unsurprising. So many of our political and journo crazies are ex-prosecutors. Kier Starmer is only one of many.
The half life of prosecutors is incredibly long. We are in need of a safe disposal system for prosecutors to ensure that they cannot polute the societal ecosystem after retirement.
It could of course be expensive. You would need very large disposal facilities to accommodate the likes of Bragg, James and Willis.
The Left has prioritized taking over the justice system for the obvious reason. That’s why Soros has been spending big bucks to get his favourites elected as DAs.
I’m putting together a bed that has a couple of features I really like. Taking apart the 6 boxes it came in, I discover that the factory in Sydney isn’t a factory at all.
It’s a holding company storehouse.
Bed is made in China.
We can’t make beds, or bookshelves in this country.*
Why?
*Unless they’re top of the line manufacture and wood, and costing 5 times as much as this one.
Look at the prices of beds made here.
It’s not rocket surgery.
Yes – that’s my point – you can get stuff here, but to get a build of Chinese quality (What am I saying? 🙂 )you must pay x5 their price.
This is how the Japanese took over our car market – build cheap but good in the lines that the locals don’t really want to be bothered with*. They stay with the expensive cars with bigger margins, then the Japanese kept building better and soon enough they were outselling the luxury class stuff.
Look around and suddenly we have no car industry, but more importantly, we don’t have the supporting industry that comes with it.
That’s what will happen in carpentry. We only get to make frames for project homes because all the other stuff is now built in OS factories at a scale we can’t compete with.
*How many people here had a Corolla as a first car?
‘Gov’t knows best’: Biden admin breaks Obama record for filling Federal Register with most regulations
Talal Dakkak fed prisoners to his pet lion, now he’s one of the first Assad enforcers to be publicly executed
From the Oz. Payback always was a bitch, eeenit?
Couldn’t they find a hungry lion?
In And As I Have Always Said news:
PM condemns latest attack, says he stands with Jewish community
[Unlinkable OZ]
And Shitweasel:
And Clare (Who?) O’Neil:
Strangely, Senator Wong hasn’t joined in with the Great Furniture Rescue.
Equivocation schmivocation. A very senior UN position must be preserved at all costs…
But, but, Islamatoadia
Very good.
Thank you good Dr. I notice that Speakman is trying the same shameless virtue bollocks on X, when his job is to out that saying the right words is simply not enough.
These deadshits are responsible with their weak policing and constant anti Israel attacks.
Absolute garbage people.
Blow-in knows the fall of Syria will have serious repercussions in his “safe” seat .. He didn’t waffle on when it was anti Israel outrage but now the Assyrian populace is involved ……. Duuuuuh!
But this is all just a “pressure release,” according to the head of ASIO, Mike Burgess.
Dunno about “the very senior position”. I thought Wong and her partner had bought a significant property recently. I assume it is in Oz.
Report: Syrian Rebels Execute Opponents, Impose Sharia, Threaten Kurds
Someone expected something different?
Who woulda thunk?
Another one smashed
Storm Darragh leaves UK solar farm in pieces
Oh dear.
Never mind.
Can’t be helped.
C/f=0
Don’t you just love how poms have started naming storms? It’s kind of cute.
Lots of executions occuring in Syria. Situation in NE of Syria also looks to be getting complicated as SDF begins to lose some non-Kurdish support now that Assad has gone.
The new regime is in Turkey’s pocket, and Erdogan hates the Kurds.
It’s complex because of the pact between the Syrian Kurds and the US, which is trumped by the Congress-ratified NATO alliance including Turkey and the US.
So the regime will be cautious in directly attacking the Kurds since then the pact can be acted upon.
Sickening moment child thugs ambush and brutally bash disabled man inside laundromat – and you won’t believe how young they are
Daily Mail. These little sh!ts are between twelve and fourteen years old…
From my observations the Chinese are not good inventors in their own country. I reckon due to the controlling overlords throughout the centuries. This applies elsewhere. Take them out of their culture and see what they do, eg. medical research and treatments based in Melbourne. The majority being lead by Chinese. A mate of mine, HoD at a Uni, doing sabatical in Tokyo, the HoD there had 2 Phd students running after him for all his needs including that for those wondering. My mate was bitterly disappointed as nothing was achieved in his time there. Controlling ineptitude reigned supreme. The hierarchical system doesn’t work with creativity. Western Civilisation allows people to be different. Being different gives us a perspective not governed by others as much. I may have mentioned my daughter is a manager of a team that doesn’t have kpi’s apart from getting the job done. Her employer doesn’t know how she does her job. Value added. Everybody happy.
Why would you bother to invent something or build something up when the party will steal it from you
How does the climate science blob fit into this observation?
Well the Chinese climate models are renowned. Oh, wait. They are more focussed on coal and nuclear power station design.
Japan rebuilt itself after WW2 by licensing US patents, such as colour TVs. The Chinese just steal the IP.
Indeed. And, for all I care, they could execute them by forcing them to listen to Senator Wong’s droning.
But – and it’s a big one – summary execution in front of “Thousands of cheering young men gathered to witness the public execution” suggests that the poor bastards of Syria can look forward to a pluralistic, rule-of-law government, with Islamic characteristics.
It looks like the Alawites on the coast are getting massacred.
Islamists CRASH Christmas Markets In Germany
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Did he lose a shoe being escorted to the car.
Noice!
Very good, Sancho. However, few remember the Lying Slapper coming under attack.
Gingerella. History repeats. Time to get knitting.
Ha! I had lunch last week at the nice Japanese restaurant that’s now where the Lobby restaurant used to be, and commented that this was the place where Gingerella lost her shoe.
Where would we be without gormless politicians letting us know how to think
If I were an Alawite, Christian, or Shia in Syria I’d try to get into Lebanon and join the appropriate militia.
Perhaps it’s time to make Lebanon Christian again. Could it be a chance for a realignment?
Some Liars minister:
But will the rozzers be as enthusiastic as they were when chasing those western Sydney Christians who reacted to the attack on their Bishop?
Fun in Iran.
Iran’s Armed Forces in Blame Game Over Fall of Assad (10 Dec)
😀 Sounds like everyone is blaming everyone else.
Now that the Prime Minister, the AFP, state police ministers and commissioner and ASIO have all passed up on their responsibilities it falls to the Housing Minister to tell terrorists that someone is “coming after them”. How comforting.
She’s got that “bovver” boyz head so perceived as more, visually, effective at threats than the rest of the front bench ……….
Chesty Blonde to the rescue.
You suspect a lot of Liars aren’t answering their phone to do backup media for Albo at the moment.
“…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”
US police can put facial images into AI and pull a LOT of information – drivers license, even social media info. They likely had a name and knew where to start looking before any of us saw the photo.
Who’s your daddy?
HTS leader Jolani was directly asked if he plans to intervene against Israel’s attacks on Syria and its occupation of southern Syrian territories.
The He responded: ‘Syria will not enter into a new war [with Israel]. The country is not ready for another war. Our biggest threat was Hezbollah and the Iranian-backed Shia militias in Syria.’
There goes part of the Iranian arc of Shia.
And, of course, Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a ( Jolani, as in from the Golan Heights) would tell the truth with regard to Israel.
Having not attempted to save any of Syria’s military-industrial-technological assets, what could HTS do even if he was lying?
International consulting giant McKinsey & Co believes Australia now faces a “national emergency” given our recession-level business investment, dropping productivity, and declining living standards.
Australia has had zero labour productivity growth since 2016, which flows through the economy to create higher costs for businesses and consumers, weaker real incomes, and declining competitiveness for investment, McKinsey said in its latest report, “Reviving the ‘golden goose’ of Australia Inc.”
At the same time, people are facing the steepest decline in living standards in 50 years, and without urgent reform and a robust private sector, that indicator could deteriorate further, warned McKinsey senior partner Chris Bradley.
And while we’re at it, gold just went to A$4244/oz.
Probably just Syria, but you never know.
Just as well there is no point in opening any new gold mines, eh Minister?
This is one of those “no shite sherlock” moments.
It could be worse if we had paid for these amazing insights.
Who would have thought putting all your eggs into one celestial basket could go wrong?
It’s just not fair.
We did everything right, sucking up to Beijing, signing away our ports, letting our universities and housing get overrun, never complaining or taking any sort of moral stance. We bought billions in solar panels and pre landfill goods, we gave up all our industries.
I throw my hands up at what more we could have done.
What geniuses!
I seem to recall these people – all paid $500 an hour for their astonishing insights – thought the lockdowns were exceptionally good ideas.
How are these places still around? They have no idea about anything and just follow the crowd. Why on Earth would anybody spend $500 an hour to get told what the average person already believes?
Gotta luv this rubbish masquerading as good NRL management .. Do they, seriously, believe fans will fly to PNG (if they ever stage any matches there .. which is doubtful) to watch their team(s) when few fans even bother travelling “away” to Sydney club v Sydney club matches …….?
?As reported by the ABC, NRL bosses Andrew Abdo and Peter V’landys view this as “a potential cash cow”. PNG would see a boost in tourism numbers with spectators flying in for home games,
The closest I’ve been to Port Moresby is flying over at 32,000 feet on the way to Tokyo. And that’s as close as I ever want to go.
A package of other entertainment included could work. Heavy protection by police or army would be necessary. The two armed forces would of course, given their past history of inter-force violence, need to be kept well apart.
Bare-breasted Papuan teen dance performances have no doubt ceased. Today, the girls would be raped on the spot
Wouldn’t go to PNG if you paid me to.
Admittedly this was years ago, but I have heard some very hair-raising stories from friends and relatives (one even lived there for a time) about what has happened to tourists.
Only people I know who fly into Port Moresby are the ones with business there or doing Kokoda.
I’m friendly with a few guys who have worked up that way and even 20 years ago not for the faint hearted, Port Moresby even that gated communities get hit from time to time. A football stadium full of Australians would be like moths to a lightbulb with the rascals.
V’Landys might be talented but even he may biting off more than he can chew with the claims on this one.
Flying in for games won’t be a problem. Might not make the return leg though. That’ll be a drain on memberships.
For visiting teams it would the Australian equivalent of ‘Rorkes Drift’ but with no firearms.
warning the (anti-Semitic thugs) that authorities are “coming after them”.
somehow I don’t expect this sort of plod interaction is anticipated .. LOL!
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Show them they’re the bold gendarmes.
Take that Gran!
Plod will never be forgiven for that act, not in 50 years…. reputation destroyed in a single photograph…
Antisemitic Broadcasting Corporation.
ABC asks: are Woollahra attacks anti-Semitic? (Paywallian)
Um, yes, yes they were. For a bunch of so called news journalists you people are really thick.
These are the same people who squealed over imaginary death threats in their Pyrmont studios.
B Team doing their bit for the co-op.
Don’t go mistaking malevolence for mere incompetence, Bruce.
The Lizard People cannot allow the Jewish people and Israel to stand.
Ray Hadley opines:
Seems like a fair call – almost impossible to separate Trumble and Rude.
Luckily for Handsome Boy, Hadley is retiring from the microphone this week.
Um, yes, yes they were. For a bunch of so called news journalists you people are really thick.
You may be surprised this is the talking points du jior on X among the few of our “betters” who havent fled for leftyland.
That and “what about all the ani muzzo attacks””….
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Hahaha GWGB.
Nissan’s new blow: Luxury brand Infiniti to close US dealerships (Tele, 10 Dec, not paywalled)
I suspected the reason, which isn’t clear in the article, so I looked up the wiki. Sure enough:
Fewer and fewer people are buying overpriced electric Gaia-chariots. I suspect Trump’s election also has a lot to do with them pulling right out of the US. He’s awesome.
Nissan has been circling the plug hole for a while now.
The “apparent arson”, of a mussie school bus in Adelaide, that I mentioned yesterday, has NOT shown up in any news report, or feed.
As a Cat commented in reply to my post yesterday, most likely insurance, or payback from their own kind.
Can you imagine the SCREAMING HEADLINES if this had been true?
According to someone on twitter it was parked away from the school and all it has to identify it’s from that school is IQRA College in small letters. Seems a bit unlikely it was the work of Islamaphobes.
It did make 7 news in Perth a couple of nights ago.
Ozzie sports administrators challenging the (previously unassailable) position of FTA commercial TV executives as the stupidest people to have existed in human history.
Not quite. Dick Ed Case is currently displaying his stupidity and ignorance on the ruins of CL’s blog.
Yes, he is all over the place.
Bagged Republicans the other day for ending slavery because it allegedly put millions of slaves out of work in the 1860s, then on the other hand he accuses others of racism on zero evidence.
Claims Corrupt Crackhead Hunter Biden would be a better president than Trump.
Case is way past professional psychological help.
Groogs has issues.
It’s standard leftist trolling, when you’re losing and the punters have realised that marxism is a veneer of virtue cast over a pack of outright untruths, slander the other side by casting as much shit around as possiible on the off chance some imbecile thinks it’s all true. Then at least said lefty feels like less of a mug because someone else also has been dragged to the bottom. Communism 101
The ALP Communications Advisors have slaughtered the chicken, peered at the entrails, and given advice:
Jason Clare, Burke, and Wong herself today out and proud supporters of the Australian Jewish community.
Always were.
Always.
But not so much Israelis.
Four days to recognise the need to reset the moral compasses is pretty swift for these muppets.
I’m guessin’ the backroom boyz have told her NO UN reference without a bit of Luigi “homefront” help …… LOL!
And still nothing practical being done, just empty words.
How’s the Trump 2.0 cabinet shaping up.
39 days and 12 hours until…
T2: Judgement Day
heh
One of the memorable events in life is sitting in a pub in Moresby on a Saturday afternoon with the radio blaring out coverage of the local rugby league match in Pidgeon. The passion of the coverage is fantastic.
Doors and windows jammed with frizzy heads, and then the pushing and shoving starts.
Time to leave.
Ah yes, remember that incident well. Supposedly made by a certain commenter here (no, not me).
Not mucking around.
Israel wipes out 80 per cent of Syria’s military, including its entire navy (11 Dec)
Israel would be very sensitive about missile armed Syrian ships falling into the jihadis’ hands, since their gas platforms off the coast would be very vulnerable. As it was the Hezbies tried attacking them a few times but all the attacks were intercepted by the navy version of Iron Dome.
There’s a rowboat in the second picture with nary a scratch on the paintwork.
Yes, obviously, but apart from that clanger, a fairly solid performance.
Enough, anyway, for: “The UN special envoy for Syria has called on Israel to halt its military movements and bombardments.”
As some Cats are chatting about Papua New Guinea, I think this may be of interest to you. I meant to link it when I first read it, but, life gets in the way.
It’s interesting and amusing. I hope, if Calli sees it, she can give us some more insight. Ghost who Walks.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/412695.php#412695
Heh. The people from the Wahgi valley are something else! Chimbu or Simbu depending on your translator.
It’s hard to believe that less than a century ago they thought they were the only people on earth. Then the Leahy brothers walked up to the Highlands looking for gold, and the rest is history.
I did not know about the Phantom comics, but it doesn’t surprise me. They adopt the oddest western stuff. My first visit to the Goroka shops and there was a longlong (old guy) is his full bilas (tribal costume) including arsegrass and bird plumes on his head. And stuck through his pierced septum…a rolled up Twisties packet! Probably because he liked the colour.
Thanks Calli.
I like your PNG reflections. 😀
Rick Rolled!
Don’t put the punchline in the subject line.
The Astley paradox: If you ask Rick to loan you his copy of the movie ‘UP’, he will never give you ‘UP’, thereby letting you down.
Altered states.
Colorado Announces Start Date for Psychedelic Business Applications (10 Dec)
I can’t wait for all the lefties in Colorado to regress into monkeys and run around screeching. Oh wait, since the election they already have.
“…the clinical and therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms.”
There is some evidence (not proof, but SOME evidence) that this is particularly effective for PTSD treatment. Anything that might get one of our veterans “back on track” is worth investigating, IMO.
Yes, I saw that report. Several psychedelics are useful in the right dosage, like LSD.
On the other hand magic mushrooms are so cemented in Aussie cultural history that I couldn’t resist putting the story up. And I fairly recently rewatched the Ken Russell fillum. It was excellently mesmerizing!
Rabz:
But it’s not just there, it’s all through the system. Politics, manufacturing, retailing, the judicial system, health, education, media, you name it.
It’s as if our entire governing apparatus has had an IV infusion – or worse – an enema – of Reverse silly putty.
Incapable of movement, thought, or decision making ability, it clogs everything it comes in contact with.
It’s a disaster we can’t bounce from!
Woof, woof, it happens I sometimes get lucky .. LOL!
Woolies for a coupla loaves of bread & got this in my change ..
For the unititiated this is a 2012 red poppy $2 .. The rarest of the coloured coins .. If you can find one on Ebay for under $300 + post you’ve got a bargain ..! The 2023 red poppy @ $200 upwards comes in 2nd .. with the 2016 Queen’s Coronation @ an average $50 a distant 3rd ……….
Only, circulated, coloured $2 I didn’t have in my collection ..
Well done, congratulations. 😀
Well done! Merry Christmas !
Australian Labor Party Policy
https://youtu.be/t_-qAE5-0Ag
A vignette which seeks to demonstrate the brilliance within the Australian Labor Party, on policies related to both Housing and Immigration.
Featuring:
a) Paul Garrard, ex-Mayor of Parramatta Council, now an elected (OLC) Councillor in Cumberland Council (Sydney’s southwest)
b) Kun Huang, an elected (Labor) Councillor in Cumberland Council at the time, also an advisor on immigration to the federal Labor government
c) Matt Barrie, Australian technology entrepreneur CEO of Freelancer.com
A perfect storm in their little world.
Did someone make some remark about blue eyes? That’s my local council.
Yes that was the Labor mayor Lisa Lake (who is no longer mayor or even an elected Councillor, Labor having lost their absolute majority in Cumberland in the recent elections). Nice bit of racist dog whistling by Ms Lake.
Never mind, the current (latest) set of Labor and Liberal Councillors in Cumberland have now formed an alliance, the uniparty in action and out in the open for all to see, forming a majority to squash the independents.
Google/Alphabet’s quantum chip news was mentioned upthread.
Here is CNBC’s article.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/alphabet-shares-jump-5percent-after-google-touts-breakthrough-quantum-chip-.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail
Not to be forgotten, this is the ecosystem that the current federal government & previous QLD state government made a billion $A in commitments with their PsiQuantum bet.
To be clear, these are different things (chips versus the whole computing stack).
But it shows how cavalier Husic & Miles & co were with taxpayer money.
Throwing a $A1bill into a single vc play in a universe where the biggest & best funded companies on the planet are playing.
But Husic is such an accomplished business fellow so he clearly knows better.
I still think Albo will piss his PisQ money away, but I was impressed by the Goolag advance. I’ve been very sceptical of quantum computers, but if they work they work.
In a similar vein, the Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Amazon ecosystems are all throttle no brake on securing nuclear supply to power their AI plans.
But Bowen knows better than those big brains as he only entered politics after a long & storied business career.
“Incapable of movement, thought, or decision making ability, it clogs everything it comes in contact with.”
It’s a misunderstanding I tells ya!
They see “Can you be more stupid?” as a request or a challenge, rather than the rhetorical lamentation that it actually is.
Peter Thiel has said in multiple forums this year that when it comes to AI:
1) China has an innovation problem, not an energy problem;
2) the US has an energy problem, not an innovation problem.
People are underestimating how energy hungry these AI ecosystems are.
Hence what Microsoft, Alphabet & Amazon are doing.
Imagine sitting on 10-15% of the world’s known uranium supply & being happy to ship all offshore.
Even sillier, imagine being on the hook to take delivery of US & UK nuclear waste from 2025-2026 onwards as part of the AUKUS deal (via Rex Patrick’s FOI snooping).
Speaking of Peter Thiel, Trump has appointed Thiel’s closest confidant Jacob Helberg as an under secretary for economic growth, energy & environment.
Vance, Sacks & now Helberg.
Not to shabby.
The Orange Man could hit it out the park!
Bern, this has the potential of being a crazy good administration. Possibly the best ever.
DOGE will be lit.
If you are being over paid by the federal government, look out.
If you are stealing from the federal government, you are so cooked.
It certainly has the potential to send the DemonRats crazy bad.
Ozzie sports administrators challenging the (previously unassailable) position of FTA commercial TV executives as the stupidest people to have existed in human history.
The NRL is loving this.
The Australian taxpayer is on the hook for a $600mill slush fund.
this has the potential of being a crazy good administration. Possibly the best ever
There is going to be so much righteous sabotage from vested interests/ bureaucrats and deep state types it may be a null admin.
There is no doubt they rather see everything burn than their iron ricebowls broken.
?
Mole, the sabotage is well underway.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/12/10/schumer-forces-a-vote-to-trump-proof-the-nlrb-by-reconfirming-the-pro-union-chairman-n2183037
Schumer is a disgusting piece of filth.
And yet Trump treated him like a gentleman at the Al Smith dinner.
A true Leader.
And 3) AI has a leftiness problem.
Some language reward models exhibit political bias even when trained on factual data (TechXplore, 10 Dec)
Every single LLM is lefty. And since leftyism is bonkers and wrong I don’t like where AI is going to end up.
My BIL who has relatives in the U.S. and Canada (he’s originally from the latter), says Colorado has gone Blue and downhill since many Californians fled that dumpster fire of a state for Colorado.
Typical Democrat supporters – leave the state that their party has wrecked for a Red state then vote for more of the same in their new home.
Its an issue. Real strength of the US is genuine Federal competition.
14 minutes ago .. “our” $billion+ ABC .. alwayz 1st with the “breaking” news .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/daniel-perry-jordan-neely-new-york-subway/104708234
From the article:
“His pulse was weak, according to police testimony later, and he was lying motionless on the ground.
“I just put him out,” Mr Penny can be heard telling officers.
No one attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
When asked why, Sergeant Carl Johnson later testified Mr Neely was “very dirty”.
“I didn’t want my officers to put their lips on his mouth,” he told the court.
“They could get hepatitis or AIDs … I wouldn’t want one of my officers getting sick from this.”
Mr Neely was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterwards.”
So he was alive when police got there – clearly not dead from a carotid “choke”. Police refused to help him, and when he died, they charged the bloke who “choked” him for “negligent homicide”. Projection, much?
Hey Bern, really good to see you.
Yes. Missed.
The Cat who owns Hawke’s old table. If only the woodwork could talk!
Currently sitting at that table right now as I tap away.
Tis a good desk.
The quantum computing news was to enraging not to post.
Huh
Oh, so obviously McKinsey are ran by Rupert Murdoch…
One for Richard Marles…
South Korean president’s office raided, ex-defence minister attempts suicide before arrest (ABC, 11 Dec)
They really do take politics seriously in South Korea.
The juxtaposition is delicious. Daily Telegraph:
So interrupts the gin drinking whore, who is mouthing the usual platitudes about anti Semitism rah phucking rah, police go to speak surfer chick after a plainly audible obscenity, police let her go.
FMD
BB, she was holding a surfboard. No telling what kind of damage she could have inflicted on poor plod. 😀
When are these idiots gonna learn that saying “Free Palestine” is the equivalent of saying “Free Narniar”
Problem is they’ve let so many audible obscenities go in the past, they can hardly start now. Unfortunately.
Did they ask for her phone number?
Don Jr is off to Athens (his wife will be the new ambassador to Greece).
Reminds me of when a certain pub baron sent his least gifted son into federal politics for a bit, to keep him safely away from the family business.
Don Jr’s wife, Vanessa, and their 5 children are still around but not much in the picture for the last 5 or so years.
His ex-girlfriend Kimberly will be the new ambassador in Greece.
He appears to have a new woman in his life, Bettina.
I stand corrected.
Apologies Don Jr
Greece hasn’t had many wins in the last few thousand years.
I dunno – Hosting the 2026 Gay Games seems like a winner.
The cost of baby oil, lubricant, and weirdly shaped condoms isn’t a nation buster.
The Olympics lost me when they stopped being nude.
Isn’t it based on how the aristocracy managed things back in the day?
the oldest son inherited the title.
the second son went into the military
the third son to the clergy
and the dumb one into politics.
Have any cats chatted about these very large drones flying over New Jersey?
It’s all a bit weird…
I thought it might be US with heat seeking cameras guarding security sensitive spots (and that’s why they were over USAF bases and Maralago) but could be Chyna…???
It is such a big deal that….. WATCH LIVE: Mystery drones over New Jersey — House holds hearing.
House Homeland Subcommittee holds hearing on Safeguarding the Homeland from Unmanned Aerial Systems
If the House doesn’t know, who does!!!???
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ooohhhh a Christmas alien invasion. I’ve got my hand up to take them to our leader. I mean how many tennis courts can there be? I hope they give him a though probing…
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/12/canada-trudeau-threatens-that-ottawa-would-retaliate-in-event-of-25-u-s-tariff
So what’s le Weasel going to do?
Give the go ahead for the pipeline then put a 50% tariff on the Keystone Pipeline?
House Judiciary Chair Jordan says FBI, others are weaponized to spy on Americans’ bank accounts
Benny Wong has compared Israel with China and Russia.
Yes, China and Russia, allies of Iran whose proxies attacked Israel, which is still fighting for its existence.
The sight of the Labor left’s Slovenian Hag looking over the shoulder of the PM (Labor left) while he defends Labor’s indefensible pro-Hamas anti-Israel Middle East policy is delicious.
Sorry, sport. Kevin changed the rules and I’m not prepared to sacrifice my leadership ambitions to save yours.
The vultures are circling.
Jim would like a few more ticks in the “Win” column. It won’t make any difference, the Liars aren’t bristling with talent.
The anti-Semitic arsonists are now daring Labor governments knowing full well that Albo and the states don’t dare move on them before the election.
Rand Paul on the Rubin Report
I had need to buy some sandbags recently – my backyard gets a bit of runoff from a property next door.
So I’ve gotten a couple of please let us know how the purchase went from them.
Having donned my cranky pants this morning after being woken at 0200 by a lovelorn cat from two blocks away, I thought a little sarcasm would help:
Some days you just have to go with the flow…
snork!
Are there any two places on earth more low energy and less representative of their nations than Ottawa and Canberra?
It’s probably every capital city where the elite live and sneer at the rest of their country.
London and Berlin?
Following on from Winston’s excellent suggestions Monday.
With a torch in one hand and a tape measure in the other, got around to looking at toppled Hills Hoist aka outdoor bird table #2 (the carport is #1).
The rusted shaft from ground level was 40 cm deep with interesting kinks pushed in on both sides, presumably to keep it from rotational movement. 45 mm internal diameter, but only about 20 mm at the kink.
The remaining shaft of the Hill Hoist was 70 cm long up to the winder thingie. I think hmmm, what if…
Search through junk and there it was, a galvanized star picket, 45 mm wide at the largest side dimension. So I tried it out and it slid in perfectly between the indentations – which held it nicely in place.
Only thing was the star picket was 10 cm too long, so several minutes with my old blunt hacksaw was needed to bring it to length.
Then put star picket up the Hills Hoist shaft, slide the whole thing until the bottom of the star picket was over the hole, then tilt it up and slide it into place.
All of 20 minutes for $0 cost…
I will never be a handyman but it should do for a few years anyway. And the birdies will be happy.
Star pickets do come in handy sometimes.
Oh dear .. LOL! been doing my own home handyman routine for nigh on 50 years and hd to google “star picket” .. snuffles very chaste-ish ……!
SBS educate us all by swapping capital city names for aboriginal ones.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14180119/Major-Australian-TV-networks-weather-map-sparks-major-debate.html
That headlight coming down the tunnel is Anti-Woke Express. Just hope the driver is a Donald.
So… how do Western Australian aboriginal people understand the place names of the Eastern States? And vice versa?
Which of the 500+ aboriginal languages is sbs using??
Here it is. The burning bus story has been picked up by the Mail.
Flat Fatima is OUTRAGED at the double standards. Of course.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14179941/Fatima-Payman-antisemitism-rant-islamophobia.html
Memo to Senator Payman – you can open your mouth to change feet.
From the Comments:
GO AWAY !!!!!!
Very good thread on Syria’s near future:
Interesting that he says the Syrian Kurds may end up getting support from Iran.
The Kurds are the little brother who gets beaten up when the two older boys get on the turps, so he spends his time getting them to fight each other.
And we’re the silly buggers who keep on getting into fight because the little brother is just as good as manipulating us as he does the two older brothers.
When will we wake up to the game the duplicitous bastards all keep playing?
What’s missing is the role of external sponsors. We’re being drowned in propaganda about what’s happening in Syria whilst their country is literally being illegally bombed, annexed and partioned by foreign forces, ensuring that what’s left of the country afterwards remains strategically weak forever.
Martin – the map is not the territory.
Three letters?
Zoe McKenzie on Kenny: smart and a looker; must be a conservative:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/the-prime-minister-announces-an-8-million-redevelopment-package-for-the-sydney-jewish-museum.html
I note the PM of PNG is promising to make Port Moresby safer for tourists. Good luck with that.
I had some job experience in PNG for a large energy project. PNG hasnt been safe for tourists or anyone else for a long time. Im not going to go into what I think are the reasons but I would advise any tourists to arrange sound security if you want to see an NRL match.
Greens staffer reprimanded for suggesting synagogue arson may have been ‘false flag’By Paul SakkalDecember 11, 2024 — 2.00pm
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Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi has reprimanded her chief of staff for suggesting last week’s Melbourne synagogue firebombing could have been perpetrated by supporters of an Israeli state to provoke outrage about antisemitism.
Antoun Issa, a former Guardian Australia journalist who works for the Greens’ antiracism spokeswoman, urged people not to rush to judgment about the motivation for the attack after the Coalition put pressure on Labor to declare it was terrorism.
“It could very well be a white supremacist or someone enraged by the genocide or a Zionist false-flag,” he told his 15,000 Instagram followers on Monday. “They’ve done this before,” Issa added, without elaborating.
After this masthead asked Faruqi’s office about the post, the senator said the remarks were “inadvisable and inappropriate”.
“I do not agree with it, and have counselled my staff member about it,” Faruqi said in a statement. Greens leader Adam Bandt also called the post inappropriate.
Issa said: “In hindsight, I regret this post and it was inappropriate. This post was intended to be an academic exercise about the risks of ascribing blame for a crime before the police have come to their conclusions, especially given the prevalence of white supremacy and far-right extremism.”
Can someone check.
Isn’t Issa the Muslim name for Jesus, regarded as an Islamic prophet?
If so, what does this say about the staffer’s background?
Islamophobia is an oxymoron. Islam is that bad no level of concern about it can be a phobia. The West importing muslims is like injecting yourself with leprosy.
More like AIDS. Leprosy is treatable.
The real reason I’m back is because I missed the cute owls.
You managed somehow to perfectly insert this comment in between two of Cohenite’s comments.
You know what is going to happen now.
I had some job experience in PNG for a large energy project. PNG hasnt been safe for tourists or anyone else for a long time. Im not going to go into what I think are the reasons
Why not?
I made the comment earlier today, but I’ll repeat it.
The PM thinks anti-semitism can be fixed if he throws money at it. Or bribes the victims. It’s our money, not his. Watching that creepy bum making sad face at the Jewish museum makes my skin crawl.
What is needed is action, not cash. Laws exist in this country that cover bigotry, intimidation and hatred in speech and action. Enforce them.
Minns, with his nice shiny superpollie cape (creases from the packaging still evident) pretending that all this has caught him on the hop but he’ll do something about it now is risible. And the slobbering journos exposing their deliberate amnesia – this protesting, intimidation and now physical attacking has been going on for over a year.
Exactly – use existing law and use it tomorrow.
Simple.
The Labor Green objective, to split Australians into mistrustful tribes, I is disgraceful – as is the Prime Minishter’s
tossing a paltry 8 million taxpayer dollars on the fire he has been fanning.
Hard to say what is more unimpressive – his late pretend policy u-turn here, or the tiny amount he thinks will make it all better.
How can he imagine that he can now buy Jewish support or trust so cheaply?
Or convince the rest of us that he cares about Australian Citizens?
I suspect Party polling is showing that this last couple of weeks have seriously damaged tennis boy.
Albo gets an AUKUS watch.
https://michaelwest.com.au/on-time-delivery-albo-and-the-aukus-watch/
Rex Patrick via Michael West.
I guess she isn’t comparing population size. Population of Israel 9.9 Million. Population Russia 143.8 million, Population China 1.411 billion.
Too technical for Benny.
Poor old Google hasn’t yet realised that the Albanese-Miles Memorial Quantum Compuder, based in a paddock near Brisbane Airport, is going to eat its lunch:
No, really.
PsiQuantum has the Handsome Boy Elephant Stamp of approval and will wipe Google’s clock with our billion.
From the people who brought you the NBN. But not Snowy2.0.
By popular demand a cute owl.
Cronkite, please stop it with this nonsense. These are men.
Nice tuck.
Which way does he tuck.
Always dress to the left.
The troughing in Victoria is consistently at an elite level, and apparently never ends (the Hun):
Sold his soul. Reaping the rewards.
Mr Weimar, who is viewed within Labor as Premier Jacinta Allan’s “Mr Fix-it”, is currently in charge of the government’s housing policy implementation in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
$620,000 dollars. Per year. Each year.
Not to worry, Mr Weimar. They’ve got your back:
Victorian taxpayers, sleep well at night. The cash you could have spent on your family and utilities to keep them warm and fed is going to an insipid, unelected mid-level bureaucrat to repay his loyalty.
The dead, cold hand of Andrews is in this.
Plenty to get on with in the Victoriastan transport sector.
Mr Wiemar is on a good wicket. Never more than a couple of years in one position, change a few things, look busy, leave when they notice you’re not doing much. Classic Gov’t employee.
Gay.
Russia’s 10 year bond rate is 16.35%, In mid 2020 it was 5.9%. The inflation rate is officially 8.5%, so the real rate is massive.
Yep, things are going really well.
Some good news about islam: you’ll be able to root your cousin when it takes over:
MP speaks out AGAINST ban on first cousins being able to marry
That will make a lot of camels very happy.
Baaaaaa
Oh no not Baby Jesus in a Tea towel.
Pope Francis didn’t build the nativity, he didn’t commission the nativity, it was created by Palestinians and, wild guess, they wanted to made it obvious it was theirs.
There are Christian Palestinians, only about a 1000 left in Gaza but 46,000 living in the west bank.
The nativity was made in Bethlehem.
Just because anti Semites wear the tea towel doesn’t mean every instance of its use is meant to be an affront to Jewish People.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/palestinian-artists-nativity-scene-vatican-2583106
“I do not agree with it, and have counselled my staff member about it,” Faruqi said in a statement.
Fatso isn’t a good liar.
Um…
Muslims Applaud As Pope Francis Unveils Pro-Hamas Christmas Nativity Crèche at Vatican (10 Dec)
They certainly seem to know what it means.
From “The Times.”
Phil Shiner sentenced for fraud over bogus Iraq war claims against armyThe disgraced lawyer appeared at Southwark crown court on Tuesday having admitted to fraudulently claiming that British soldiers murdered Iraqi civilians
Jonathan Ames
, Legal Editor
Tuesday December 10 2024, 4.25pm GMT, The Times
A former lawyer who was branded the “scourge of the army” has avoided jail after pleading guilty to fraudulently claiming that British soldiers tortured and murdered Iraqi civilians.
Phil Shiner, an award-winning human rights solicitor who once worked with Sir Keir Starmer, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted wrongly obtaining funds from the Legal Aid Agency to pursue bogus claims against UK service personnel.
The 67-year-old was given a two-year sentence, suspended for two years for fraud at Southwark crown court, having pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud, including admitting that an agent acting on his behalf had been cold-calling potential clients in Iraq.
Sentencing Shiner, Judge Christopher Hehir told the court that he had previously indicated to Shiner’s legal team that he would not hand down an immediate jail sentence.
In suspending the sentence, the judge noted that the funds obtained fraudulently from the legal aid authorities that related to the charges Shiner faced amounted to just £200,000 instead of the £3 million argued by the crown.
And the judge told Shiner that while his actions had been “thoroughly dishonest”, he did not consider that the former lawyer was “primarily motivated by financial gain”.
The judge added that he was “fortified in that conclusion by the character references I have received, some of them from people of considerable distinction in their respective fields. What I think happened is that you allowed your enthusiasm for your clients’ cases to get the better of your professional and personal judgment”.
Judge Hehir went on to note Shiner’s age and that he was “not in the best of health”, adding that the offending had taken place around two decades ago and that the defendant had not reoffended since. “You are, in my judgment, someone who is most unlikely ever to find himself before a criminal court again,” said the judge.
One client of Shiner’s Birmingham law firm, who was also based in Birmingham, was Khuder al-Sweady, an Iraqi who claimed that his nephew was unlawfully killed by British soldiers at Camp Abu Naji. Prosecutors said that Shiner had applied for £200,000 in legal aid funding alone for a judicial review application by al-Sweady.
The claims — which Shiner described as “the UK’s My Lai” in reference to a US Army atrocity during the Vietnam war — triggered a public inquiry that cost £24 million.
But it ultimately concluded in a 2014 report that all the allegations of wrongdoing by British soldiers were “wholly without foundation and entirely the product of deliberate lies”.
Shiner’s fall from grace has been comprehensive. He was declared bankrupt in 2017 — with the court extending the period by five years after Shiner was found to have given nearly £500,000 in assets to family members before making the declaration and claiming to be unable to pay £6.5 million to creditors.
But in 2004 Shiner, who was struck off the solicitors’ roll seven years ago, was named “human rights lawyer of the year” by the campaign groups Liberty and Justice. Three years later, the Law Society, the professional body for solicitors in England and Wales, named him “solicitor of the year”.
Around that time, Shiner’s firm, Public Interest Lawyers, instructed the barrister and now prime minister, Starmer, who had been promoted to Queen’s Counsel in 2002, to seek the freedom of Hilal al-Jedda, an Iraqi living in Britain who returned to his homeland and was interned by the British on suspicion of plotting atrocities against coalition fighters.
But if course a non-custodial sentence. You can’t start sending lawyers to jail: you never know WHERE it might end?
Shiner is one of the most grotesque humans alive. He was so obviously motivated by greed. No human feelings left in that piece of filth, if he indeed ever possessed any. WTF is wrong with British Justice?
I sincerely wish and hope, that Shiner is, one day, thrown into a pit and judged by the whole of the British Military. All four arms.
I wish I had the words, but my usual vocabulary is at a loss.
FIFY
What the hell is going on in South Korea.
Started watching a mini series, DISCLAIMER, and took awhile to figure out why the female star was familiar .. turns out it’s “our” Cate looking like she’s been under the knife and 10 years younger .. a definite improvement the high & hard cheek lines have been softened and the nose straightened .. from a 7 thru to an 8.5/10 … LOL!
Only watched episode 1 so not quite sure what is going on plot-wize, as yet …….. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16294384/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Yeuuuurch.
Sharri’s show tonight features an appalling questionaire being sent to visa applicants from Israel. If the mainstream media featured this and informed the broader population, Labor and Greens/Teals would be finished, you would hope.
But they won’t do it.
At Cohenite’s place, earlier this evening
Cohenite seducing a cute owl…
Linky
(from Ace today)
Love that owl!
Wonderful – a picture where the words make the picture.
Soo excellent! Very well done, LB2.
I left the computer on where I stopped last night.
Looking at it again in the clear light of day, I would put that down for “Caption Of The Year.”
was given a two-year sentence, suspended for two years
So basically rewarded for being a traitor then?
So what Bruce?
Was the Pope supposed to refuse the gift because of a checkered tea towel?
The situation of Palestinian Christians is precarious, they are being driven out of Bethlehem by muslim colonisers, so displease the PLO over a piece of cloth.
It may well be a political statement by the donors, but how does that make the Pope ‘disgusting’?
And though entirely the fault of Hamas the people of Gaza are internally displaced and worthy of a pinch of compassion
Release the hostages!
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/12/06/cardinal-pizzaballa-pope-francis-calls-holy-family-church-in-gaza-every-day/
Yes.
An appropriate drapery would be tessellated Christian crosses.
Or a simple and appropriate Linen swaddling cloth.
Which was used at the time.
There were no keffiyehs two thousand years ago.
Rosie, I am a Catholic, Fancis is no pope to me. He is a Fabian, or worse.
I’m an Agnostic and this Pope sends me away from Christianity.