Stocks at the markets would provide more ammo, but the media wouldn’t notice, being mostly inner city luvvies.
Open Thread – Mon 9 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 12 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Dec 2024
- East Jerusalem forever belongs to Israel
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 5 Dec 2024
hahahahahhaha “Mr Pesutto was not in court to hear the decision, while Ms Deeming was supported by her husband and…
TE, I have bought some carved bits and pieces, plus pottery, from various markets, but no such things were on…
I think she would make an excellent Vic Premier.
We knew forty years ago that “non-discriminatory immigration” was akin to open borders.
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.
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
Greata – throw her into the pond
spelling suffers after plonk
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
More anti-semitic sh*t in the Eastern Suburbs last night. Cars set alight, graffiti. Masked suspects seen.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Albo is the canonical argument against federal 4 year fixed terms
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
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.
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.
“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?
@americasgreat
Now that’s a real Green New Deal.
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.
A real clue bat.
@catturd2
Everyone should listen to this.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
“Is the pope a communist?” more likely.
Rabz, is a master of understatement.
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.
1: Islam is a surveillance religion – everyone watches everyone else for backsliding.
Ideal for Australia, a nation of dobbers.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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?
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…
Report: Syrian Rebels Execute Opponents, Impose Sharia, Threaten Kurds
Another one smashed
Storm Darragh leaves UK solar farm in pieces
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“…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.’
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.
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,
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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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.
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.
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?
Ozzie sports administrators challenging the (previously unassailable) position of FTA commercial TV executives as the stupidest people to have existed in human history.
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.
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.
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
Rick Rolled!
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.
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 ..
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
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.
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.
Bern, this has the potential of being a crazy good administration. Possibly the best ever.
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.
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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.
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
Hey Bern, really good to see you.
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
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.
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…???
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 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…
Are there any two places on earth more low energy and less representative of their nations than Ottawa and Canberra?
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.
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.
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
Very good thread on Syria’s near future:
Interesting that he says the Syrian Kurds may end up getting support from Iran.
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.”
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.
The real reason I’m back is because I missed the cute owls.
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.
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.
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.
By popular demand a cute owl.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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/
Test ( coming up in brisvegas )
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.
What a farce, say things online that may be political inexpedient 2 years in high security, smear soldiers & rip off legal aid… Your sentence is suspended.
Google Hehir, seems to be all over the shop. Harsh on some but suspended sentences for others…
This his penance for jailing the tomato soup lot and extinction rebellion lot?