Bloke who worked Mincer 2 in our section (meat production) violated his parole. Was on a zero BAC and blew 0.02. Was only a month or so out from being discharged.
Ankle bracelet. It’s wifi. Charger plugged in a socket in the change room. Regular cleaner knew to leave it alone. Blow in contract company cleaner when the regular one was on leave pulled it out to plug in a vacuum cleaner. Cops contacting the bosses etc. Funny as..
No big deal to him really. Reckons only difference to his lifestyle in jail is no poontang. Sick worker, company keeping his job on hold. Good of them.
feelthebern
January 7, 2025 7:03 pm
If you’ve already eaten, best to skip this.
Christopher Pyne was elected under the old superannuation plan for politicians.
Meaning that turd gets a tax payer guaranteed, indexed, whopper of a pension.
JC
January 7, 2025 7:10 pm
Dover, you said you were going to link to the comment you’re responding to after 24 hours.
Let’s trudge through..
No it didn’t. Those weapons were never under the strategic command of the Ukrainians.
You’re saying there were no Ukrainians were capable of operating those nuclear weapons? That’s just nonsense. That’s just crazy talk as Ukraine had the largest nuke stash of any of the Soviet republics.
It’s akin to arguing that federal military hardware stationed in Victoria are Victoria’s if it secedes. You cannot give up what never was yours to begin with.
You’re being silly now and just arguing for argument sake. Ukraine didn’t secede. The Soviet Union disintegrated! It was no more. Ukraine had as much freaking right to those nukes as did Russia, which was also a republic and therefore Ukraine had as much right to the nukes – in fact more because they were on Ukraine land. So, no, your analogy doesn’t wash and obviously you’re argument is DOA.
No it isn’t, its just basic geopolitics. And NATO is more than a pact. The US situates military bases, etc. in strategic locations across Europe that can and have been used offensively and defensively.
NATO operates the way it does and doesn’t need advice from you or anyone else if it wants to move stuff around. If the member states don’t have an issue then it’s a non-issue. As I said before, any member has a right to leave the membership anytime it wants but they won’t because they like the comfort it affords
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Brilliant play by China.
Taiwan should offer the same deal to HK’ers and mainlanders, but it won’t because your guy, Xi would go nuts and try to kill them all. It’s not so brilliant when two can play the same game.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2025 7:15 pm
Rabbi defiant as police charge Sydney man over alleged threats outside synagogueSummer Liu and James Dowling
10 hours ago.
Updated 2 minutes ago
The senior rabbi of the Sydney synagogue allegedly targeted by a 20-year-old man making a threatening “gun gesture” has warned of the dangers an incremental increase in anti-Semitic behaviour but says the Jewish community will not bow to such attacks.
Rabbi Nochum Schapiro, who leads Chabad North Shore Synagogue, said such incidents emboldened his community to be “proud Jews, and display their Judaism in a stronger way, because we’re not going to cower, we’re not going to be intimidated”.
The alleged offender was arrested by police at his North Turramurra home in Sydney’s upper north shore on Monday night and charged with stalk or intimidate with an intent to cause fear of physical harm after the incident in St Ives on Saturday, January 4, along Link Road.
He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Hornsby Local Court on January 29.
Despite the community feeling “appalled” by the incident, Rabbi Schapiro said they would continue to “be proud of who we are” and will not “back down of our pride of who we are as Jews and being able to live in an open and free society as Australia”.
Rabbi Schapiro said the incident was already “disgusting” when viewed in a vacuum but “becomes disturbing” when considering “the context of everything else going on”, coming the day after the defacing of a car in Sydney’s east at Queens Park with anti-Semitic graffiti, and multiple spates of targeted vandalism in nearby Woollahra.
“Every day you put on the news, and you see another act of anti-Semitism, and some people start thinking … how did it all start in Germany?” Rabbi Schapiro said. “People are asking the question … at what point do we say … we don’t know where this is going?”
“It’s unsettling.”
Rabbi Schapiro said anti-Semitism “is becoming acceptable for many in broader society” as hateful sentiments are spreading through “college campuses … the streets … (and) nothing’s been done about it by the state government, federal government”.
“The NSW Premier has said the right words from October 7th, he’s always said the right thing, but I don’t think that enough has been done,” he said.
The most recent incident occurs as Hanukkah only recently ended, during which the community celebrated Jewish pride.
targeted by a 20-year-old man making a threatening “gun gesture” has warned of the dangers an incremental increase in anti-Semitic behaviour but says the Jewish community will not bow to such attacks.
Do we know the bastard’s name yet? Two-tier justice indeed
bons
January 7, 2025 7:27 pm
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
The very limited campaigning focused on the four year proposition which was promoted as an efficiency measure.
The true meaning of fixed terms received hardly any coverage. People had no understanding that a deadbeat government was there for the duration and could not be challenged.
Before quitting my local branch, a number of us attempted to organise a campaign to oppose fixed terms. QLD LNP had just been captured by the Turnbull Moderates so there was no chance organising an effective opposition to the scam.
The ultimate outcome of the Moderates insurgency was the clown Crisafulli.
The beauty of 4year terms is that if incumbents are incompetent or otherwise useless (as in the US), lacking an equivalent of the 25th Amendment, they cannot be removed.
JC
January 7, 2025 7:28 pm
Dover
Just take a moment and think about what this has led you to. in your mind: the US and NATO—the most “evilest evil-doers” in history, right? Pure nonsense. Any member country can leave or demand the US pack up its bases. No problem. Now, try pulling that stunt in the People’s Republic of Pukin or with your other guys and see how fast you’re introduced to “disappearing.” Oh wait, we have examples.
If you’ve gone over the edge with this line of thinking, don’t worry—we’ll send someone with a rope to hoist you back up. Seriously, where are you dangling right now? Hold tight!
Like ‘culture wars’ – which, of course, are only ever pursued by nasty conservativeses.
mem
January 7, 2025 7:36 pm
When confronted with obvious gaslighting, people now feel emboldened to simply say “Hey, that’s bullshit and I don’t give a fat rat’s clacker what ‘phobia label you try to stick on me.”
I’ve noticed in my circle that the level of smugness, parroting of woke cant and group social intimidation by lefty leaning folk has fallen back by more than a notch or two. It’s not over yet, but geez it’s good to be able to talk to your long time friends in a civil manner.
There will come a time—though I can’t say when—when Australia faces its own version of the “rape gang” situation that has gained momentum in the UK.
It’s the same pattern: White populations/police, fearful of upsetting a hostile minority, try to placate them in the hopes that the problem will resolve itself. But it doesn’t. Instead, it worsens as governments refuse to address the issue head-on.
Meanwhile, Australian Jews are essentially being ignored, even as violence against them escalates. Sooner or later, something will trigger an eruption.
We started to have that two decades ago. It was stopped at the time by a brave prosecutor, Margaret Cuneen, a brave journo, Paul Sheehan in the SMH, and some extremely brave victims who ignored harrassment in the court by the accused while they were testifying.
I doubt that such a combination would happen now.
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Roger
January 7, 2025 7:42 pm
The ultimate outcome of the Moderates insurgency was the clown Crisafulli.
Just Stop Oil activists who blocked major road in rush hour spared gaol
err, yeah, no. You deliberately block a “major road” any time of the day or night for no acceptable reason, then you:
Go To Gaol
You do not pass go, you do not collect 200 pounds and you most certainly do not get a pat on the head from a bloated pompous tax hoovering public toilet frequenting waffling legal windbag.
Channel surfing.
Caroline Marcus must have binge watched a season of Dynasty today.
JC
January 7, 2025 8:08 pm
One of Dover’s key follows on Twitter is posting about this interview with some Frog clown, who Arnie Bertrand says is one of greatest minds in France.
Emmanuel Todd – probably the greatest living French intellectual – absolutely spot on as usual: “Elon Musk is an astonishing character. He’s the richest man in the world and so he has no filter. So he says things that seem absurd to us. I mean, he interferes in German politics, he basically craps on the Germans. He interferes in English politics, he craps on the English. He’s just saying it out loud, but the truth is that when you read American geopolitical experts, this is what Americans think of us! Meaning he talks to Europeans the way Americans think. Americans despise us for our servility. And Musk is just the guy who says it. So we’re shocked.”
The greatest living French intellectual ignores the uncomfortable fact that Europeans loudly express their opinions about America and American politics whenever they feel like it. The fact that Musk is the richest man in the world is irrelevant. It’s his opinions and how he conveys them that ultimately matter. He’s just one guy using social media to expose how disgusting the European ruling class has become. The fact that the UK mainstream media essentially ignored the rape fest is a scandal. The fact that the German media allowed the German government to pull the stunts they’ve pulled is deranged. That’s why Musk is hitting home runs.
The EU, including the UK, has a population of 525 million. There’s plenty of scope for Europe to rival the U.S. economically, but they refuse to because Net-Zero is far more important.
Albansleazy’s electoral rhetoric is not gonna go down this time, unlike back in 2022 …
I tells ya: Your electrickericky bills are gonna go down by $275 The cash rate is, oh I don’t know, 2.75%*? The unemployment rate, mate, is, oh I don’t know, 5.75*%? We will deliver the gliberals’ stage three tax cuts
I commit to the ulurululoolo matement in full (which I haven’t read)
We will end the climate wars
We will become a (cue spookeee muzak…) roonable energy superpower!
We will fix the aged care crisis
We will fix with the cost of existence crisis
We will bring Ozzies together!
Yep, a stellar record any idiot politician would be proud to take into a feral erection.
*It wasn’t, in both cases
Pogria
January 7, 2025 8:20 pm
Bern, I like Caroline Marcus. She has mongrel.
I agree with the Lady she has on at the moment.
I am full of red wine. so haven’t caught her name, but, she reckons ANAL should go to Israel and suck dick. Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
Vagabond,
do NOT, under any circumstance, toss your Akubras. I have three. I will NEVER part with them. Akubra is greater than Sleazy.
He can never tarnish the brand. The average aussie is NOT stupid.
Dover, you said you were going to link to the comment you’re responding to after 24 hours.
It’s under 24 hours.
You’re saying there were no Ukrainians were capable of operating those nuclear weapons? That’s just nonsense. That’s just crazy talk as Ukraine had the largest nuke stash of any of the Soviet republics.
No, I said: Those weapons were never under the strategic command of Ukraine. We don’t determine whether a car is someone’s because they can operate it but because it’s registered in their name, and the like.
You’re being silly now and just arguing for argument sake. Ukraine didn’t secede. The Soviet Union disintegrated! It was no more.
It did in fact secede from the Soviet Union. They literaly had a vote and declared their independence.
NATO operates the way it does and doesn’t need advice from you or anyone else if it wants to move stuff around. If the member states don’t have an issue then it’s a non-issue.
It’s only a non-issue in fantasy land. In the real world, when you make moves that are gravely detrimental to another power, you better prepare for a response.
I notice my humble six pack of coopers sparkling now costs 25 per cent more than it did five years ago – and that increase isn’t going to the nice Christians who produce it.
One of Dover’s key follows on Twitter is posting about this interview with some Frog clown, who Arnie Bertrand says is one of greatest minds in France.
Thanks for reminding me. Haven’t seen him on my timeline much lately.
“That consent between adults be almost in contractual form, must be sought for each sexual contact and re-affirmed during each contact;”
This needs some examples made. When Plod catch a pair at it in an alleyway, or better yet, in a car down “Lover’s Lane” (with at least one participant from an affluent or important family) .. .. Plod should prosecute both participants if they’re not able to produce, on the spot, written consent obtained from the other prior to rooting.
Prosecute to the full extent of the law, with no allowance for any mitigation, & demand the maximum criminal penalty.
A few such cases, as soon as possible, are badly needed.
Maybe the plight of the people quoted in this article would be easier to empathize with if there really was an “Islamophobic” backlash after jihad attacks, but there usually isn’t, and shouldn’t be. These folks would also arouse more pity if “Muslims fear Islamophobic backlash” stories were standard establishment media fare after every jihad massacre.
Islamics concerned over ‘Islamophobic’ backlash after tomorrows terrorist attack.
Winston Smith
January 7, 2025 8:52 pm
I finished a novel on my Kindle last night, and this morning got an email asking me if I would like to purchase the next novel in the series.
This is creepy.
Are they watching me scratch my arse in bed these days? Perhaps on the dunny as well. I’m off to have a shower and I’m going to turn the lights off.
More to save them on camera lens replacements than anything else.
I’m amused when I buy a Kindle book when I get recommendations for the earlier novels I already have in dead tree. Never lets up. Oh well, electrons a cheap I guess.
Watched a show called ‘Society of the Snow’ which tells the true story of the plane crash in the Andes in which cannabilism occurred. Went on to Google to check some of the details and just typed in 1972 and the incident came up straight away. Was Siri listening? Creepy too.
JC
January 7, 2025 8:52 pm
No, I said: Those weapons were never under the strategic command of Ukraine. We don’t determine whether a car is someone’s because they can operate it but because it’s registered in their name, and the like.
Dover, in your silly analogy you can’t register the car because central registry has disappeared. It no longer existed. The Soviet union expired and Ukraine was a republic, just like Russia.
It did in fact secede from the Soviet Union. They literaly had a vote and declared their independence.
The Soviet union stopped breathing, vote or no vote ; there was nothing to secede from. LOL
It’s only a non-issue in fantasy land. In the real world, when you make moves that are gravely detrimental to another power, you better prepare for a response.
At one of the peak times of the Cold War, France left and no one gave a rats and they were welcomed back sometime in the first decade of this C,.
Greece withdrew over Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, and so did Turkey. They both left the command structure.
You’re being overly dramatic.
And compared to Soviet plays after WW2? You have to be kidding. The Soviet Union was only kept whole up to when it expired in ER through thuggery and intimidation. They were hated.
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Dunny Brush
January 7, 2025 9:02 pm
Starmer and Albo look alike: nervous little men who can’t fill a suit.
Dover, in your silly analogy you can’t register the car because central registry has disappeared. It no longer existed. The Soviet union expired and Ukraine was a republic, just like Russia.
You simply do not understand analogy. Setting aside that, authority re those weapons not only in Ukraine but also in Belorussia and anywhere else it’s strategic missile forces were located reverted to Russia just as all Soviet debt reverted to Russia.
The Soviet union stopped breathing, vote or no vote ; there was nothing to secede from. LOL
And yet they still had a vote and declared independence. They must be terrible stupid people, those Ukrainians.
At one of the peak times of the Cold War,…
Doesn’t respond to what is quoted.
Bill From the Bush
January 7, 2025 9:38 pm
From the Worst Australian. With the cop minister and the head cop having conniptions about evil bang bangs in every ones hands, one could be excused for thinking this fella should have been locked up for life. Must be something else mitigating the case but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. /sarc off
A man was hunting kangaroos with his two children and a sawn-off rifle when he accidentally found himself inside a Goldfields mine site and discharged the weapon, a Kalgoorlie court was told.
Chief magistrate Steven Heath initially did not seem to buy Justin Luke Marr’s reasoning for having the weapon when his lawyer represented him in Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court on Monday, stating the weapon was more commonly used for burglaries than hunting.
Lawyer Andrew Wadham agreed it seemed “suspicious to say the least”, but his client had advised him they were doing nothing more “sinister” than kangaroo hunting.
Marr pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated burglary and aggravated possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition and drug paraphernalia as well as stealing when he appeared on Monday.
Marr had been driving with a co-accused and his two children on October 21 when they came across what they thought was a decommissioned mine, but was in fact the Burbanks gold mine.
Prosecuting Acting Sgt Amy Southall said the co-accused entered various open structures and stole a set of keys before the firearm was discharged.
A night watchman present onsite had alerted police, who arrested Marr outside the area a short time later.
The modified sawn-off rifle with the serial number ground off was found by police in a bag with 45 rounds of .22 calibre ammunition on the ground some metres behind the car.
Almost a further 100 rounds were located in another bag and a smoking implement with traces of meth was found in the car.
Mr Heath said it was “pretty unusual” for someone to go hunting with a modified sawn-off rifle and it was more generally used for robberies.
Mr Wadham told the court the gun was borrowed from a friend and did not belong to Marr.
Mr Heath said by taking a gun like that in the first place, Marr was getting himself into a “very dangerous position” and that the starting point for an offence like that was often imprisonment.
Mr Wadham told the court Marr had been a victim of threats which resulted in him being held in protective custody whilst in Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison for 45 days before he was ultimately released on home detention.
Due to those circumstances, his pleas of guilty and the fact Marr’s criminal record had become less serious in recent years compared to seven years ago, Mr Heath sentenced Marr to seven months jail, suspended for eight months.
I was thinking- illegally on another’s property with a cut down loaded rifle with the serial no. removed, and has a criminal record, and gets a suspended sentence? I though WA was very strict with respect to firearms.
JC
January 7, 2025 9:38 pm
You simply do not understand analogy.
What I don’t understand is how on earth you came up with that one.
Setting aside that, authority re those weapons not only in Ukraine but also in Belorussia and anywhere else it’s strategic missile forces were located reverted to Russia just as all Soviet debt reverted to Russia.
So what? If those others chose to gift them to Russia, it doesn’t say a thing about what Ukraine had to do.
And yet they still had a vote and declared independence. They must be terrible stupid people, those Ukrainians.
The vote was mute anyway as the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It died.
Doesn’t respond to what is quoted.
Sure it does.
Wally Dalí
January 7, 2025 9:40 pm
There is an L.A. plastic surgeon who is basking in the glory of Demi Moore’s GG win.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s went too far a long time ago… but with the unfakeable joy of winning a statuette, you have to admit she looks simply smashing right now.
So what? If those others chose to gift them to Russia, it doesn’t say a thing about what Ukraine had to do.
The Strategic Missile Forces were under the control of the Soviet Union. They were never the property or under the authority of the various SSRs. When it ceased to exist they came under the authority of the Russian Federation. There was no gift or sale.
The vote was mute anyway as the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It died.
It wasn’t mute. You’ve simply walked into an inconvenient fact.
Sure it does.
No, it doesn’t. I’m talking about moves between rival powers and you’re talk about jockeying within a bloc.
As an aside, Turkey never left NATO over Cyprus and the US operates multiple key bases therein.
Gabor
January 8, 2025 12:06 am
Leftists Rush to Buy Guns Over Ridiculous ‘Concentration Camp’ Fears Under Trump Presidency
I and many others said it before, guns and any other weapons are mere scrapmetal if you are not prepared to use it.
Waste of money for most, in fact 93.7%.
JC
January 8, 2025 12:32 am
The Strategic Missile Forces were under the control of the Soviet Union.
Which on Boxing Day, 1991, it expired. No more. Gonsky.
They were never the property or under the authority of the various SSRs. When it ceased to exist they came under the authority of the Russian Federation. There was no gift or sale.
How convenient. Incidentally, the vote you mentioned in Ukraine occurred 25 days prior to the expiry carried by 90% of the vote, including Crimea.
I’m talking about moves between rival powers and you’re talk about jockeying within a bloc.
As an aside, Turkey never left NATO over Cyprus and the US operates multiple key bases therein.
Oh please, you suggested that if any member tried to leave NATO, they would be in for it. I merely gave you three instances. Turkey, like Greece left the command structure.
If any of the republics had tried the same thing in the Soviet Union’s heyday, they would’ve killed off by starvation. Every last capitalist running dog.
Which on Boxing Day, 1991, it expired. No more. Gonsky.
Yes, with command of the strategic missiles forces passing to its successor, the Russian Federation.
Oh please, you suggested that if any member tried to leave NATO, they would be in for it. I merely gave you three instances. Turkey, like Greece left the command structure.
You can ‘oh please’ all you like but this is the series of comments that precedes the above (my comments in italics):
No it isn’t, its just basic geopolitics. And NATO is more than a pact. The US situates military bases, etc. in strategic locations across Europe that can and have been used offensively and defensively.
NATO operates the way it does and doesn’t need advice from you or anyone else if it wants to move stuff around. If the member states don’t have an issue then it’s a non-issue.
It’s only a non-issue in fantasy land. In the real world, when you make moves that are gravely detrimental to another power, you better prepare for a response.
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Nothing in the above is talking about whether countries are leaving NATO and what the US would do. It’s focused on how each responds to moves by the other that effect them geopolitically.
And, again, Turkey never removed itself from NATO nor left the command structure.
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JC
January 8, 2025 1:55 am
Yes, with command of the strategic missiles forces passing to its successor, the Russian Federation.
Russia, like Ukraine was republic in the Soviet Union. It had no more right to the nukes than Ukraine and nothing you can say can change that. In fact, it wasn’t Russian pressure to hand over the nukes, it was actually western countries.
You can ‘oh please’ all you like but this is the series of comments that precedes the above
It wasn’t just a good response, it was a perfect response and as usual you attempt to confuse readers with pedantic sideshows.
The Attorney-General is embarking on a peacekeeping mission to Israel on behalf of the Australian government, though it is difficult to ascertain who he is aiming to pacify.
The Government’s response to the October 7 atrocities has included pushing for the creation of a Palestinian state, refusing to rule out arresting the Israeli Prime Minister at the behest of an international tribunal, and making it difficult for Israeli tourists to visit Australia by drowning their applications in processing delays and additional paperwork.
At the very least, the visit will afford the Government an opportunity to atone for the hurt caused by the Foreign Minister’s refusal to visit the sites of the October 7 invasion and atrocities.
The Attorney-General will be moved by his visit. It is impossible to stand in places where families were tortured and burned alive and feel nothing.
He will have the opportunity to see the beauty of the Nova Festival site and the idyllic agricultural villages forever defiled by rape, slaughter and innocents dragged off like medieval trophies of war.
He will grasp what Israel is fighting for and what it is fighting against.
In the south, he will meet genuine heroes who singlehandedly fought off the terrorists and saved countless lives doing so.
He should meet wounded soldiers, who are humble, steely, the salt of the earth.
All this will help him understand why the removal of Hamas, once and for all, and the liberation of the hostages it still holds, including babies and ailing seniors, is the moral imperative of our time.
He will also field questions from incredulous Israelis along the lines of “what the hell is going on in Australia? They’re burning synagogues and cars there now?”
The question is whether any of this will lead to a policy reset and meaningful action.
Whether Australia will once again treat Israelis like democratic allies fighting the embodiment of evil rather than, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, an enemy. Whether it will compel the Government to abandon its confrontation with Israel at the United Nations and to say clearly and strongly, as it should have along: “Hamas must let the hostages go and lay down its arms and the war ends tomorrow.”
Or will they continue on their current path which will for the first time in Australian history force Jewish Australians to consider on election day, which party will do more to keep our families safe from violent Jew-hatred and which party will treat Israel like a pariah or like a friend?
Alex Ryvchin is the Co-Chief Executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
I suppose it’s good that Dreyfus is heading over, but what will be actually achieved is anyone’s guess.
Take Albo with him.
I suspect the Israeli government might have threatened to refuse Wong a visa. It’s much harder (although not impossible) for them to refuse a visa for a Jewish person. I hope they treat him with the contempt he deserves.
He has stood silent and abandoned his fellow Jews . He has never been anything but a hypocrite Does not even live in his electorate Carried on to get called a QC haha no longer. You can only feel if you have empathy that tells you what he is Up himself like fellow narcissists
The Attorney-General is embarking on a peacekeeping mission to Israel on behalf of the Australian government, though it is difficult to ascertain who he is aiming to pacify.
You need to have peace before you deploy peacekeepers … otherwise its peacemakers you need…. and the IDF is already onto that
Journalist Chris Tomlinson notes that “among the things defined as Islamaphobic? ‘… to characterize Muslims as being ‘sex groomers’” Yet while there are rapists of all creeds and races, the industrial-level rape gang activity we have seen in Britain is a uniquely Islamic problem
Well, that will solve the Muslim Rape Gangs issue, won’t it Mister Starmer?
How can they make the issue go away without introducing some sort of laws that criminalise free speech …. some sort of ‘misinformation’ bill? …. oh….wait…..
Not only does it hold up quite well as an action-drama movie, but it’s an incredible story of heroism in the face of impossible odds, and of Western discipline and competence triumphing in the face of hordes of valorous native warriors
It surely wouldn’t be made today, unrepentant as it is and positively as it portrays the British, which is a crying shame given the sort of values that are inculcated by the message it delivers
I saw Zulu for the first time when I was a recruit at Kapooka late 1979. Our platoon watched it as leadership training.
Found out later on that the officer cadets got to see 12 O’clock High (Gregory Peck) as their leadership training.
Both fantastic movies.
Might have to have a movie day soonish and watch them back to back.
majority of the defenders of Rorke’s Drift weren’t Welsh
But wow they could sing.
KevinM
January 8, 2025 4:59 am
When, rulers honored and rewarded their veterans instead of prosecuting them for doing their job.
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The Emperor Augustus set aside some land in western Spain to house the victorious veterans of his legions, particularly Legio V and Legio X.
The new town was given the name of Emerita Augusta (today’s Mérida, Spain). The city grew and prospered, eventually becoming the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania.
Roman roads connected Emerita Augusta to all parts of Hispania. During the imperatorship of Trajan, the Romans built a sturdy bridge across the Río Guadiana which still carries pedestrian traffic.
The Puente Romano is 792 meters (2598 feet) long, making it the longest Roman bridge still in existence. http://www.chi-rhogroup.com
In the late Republic it became apparent that this was (pardon the pun) a double edged sword. By that stage it had become necessary for commanders to discharge their veterans with the reward of a parcel of land (mostly designated in the provinces) on which to retire. This needed to be enacted by a law. It created an even greater bond of mutual benefit between ex commander and his army. In the end, the Republic could not withstand the power implications of this arrangement, and the Empire with a princeps (we call him an Emperor) followed.
KevinM
January 8, 2025 5:01 am
Can’t be Collingwood, too many teeth.
KevinM
January 8, 2025 5:06 am
Where is a need, humans respond, well the clever ones anyway.
Before the chuck wagon there must have been hard for the men on the trail.
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In the late 1800s, as cowboys embarked on long cattle drives across the American West, the chuck wagon became a lifeline.
Serving as a mobile kitchen, it was essential for ensuring the crew was well-fed after grueling days of herding cattle.
Invented in 1866 by Charles Goodnight, a Texas rancher, the chuck wagon revolutionized life on the trail.
With its clever design, it provided not only meals but also a sense of stability and routine in the harsh and often unpredictable conditions of the frontier..
Meals prepared at the chuck wagon were simple yet hearty, featuring staples like beans, salted meat, biscuits, and coffee—foods chosen for their ability to endure long journeys and sustain the cowboys’ energy.
The “cookie,” the chuck wagon cook, was far more than just a chef; they were a central figure in camp life, maintaining supplies, setting the mood with their leadership, and often serving as a trusted confidant.
A 19-year-old woman, previously healthy with no notable medical history, experienced rapid breast enlargement just one week after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in September 2022.
Her condition worsened following the second dose, with her breast size increasing dramatically from a B cup to a triple G over six months.
You may ask why I put this up, but someone else may, and I wanted to stop the smart arse comments, and the juvenile sniggering before it started.
This young women doesn’t need to be laughed at, like some of the comments on the GP site.
So there.
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
Bons,
Pretty much. I voted NO!!! on that four year term piece of crap when it came up in the election. Most of my mates who voted ‘yes’ said words to the effect ‘I would rather have to vote every four years than have to go and vote after three years.’ My answer was and still is ‘because you could not be bothered to take ONE DAY out of your life to vote ONCE in every three years, you now have voted and made it so that if what was voted in turns out to be an incompetent government, we are now stuck with it for four years…instead of only three.’
Even back then the state LNP were an opposition in ‘name only.’
Yes the polls were against the idea until the punters rocked up and had to run the gauntlet on polling day. Which had rather perfect weather as I recall.
so many went “I don’t want to do this more than I have to”. And we end up stuck with a crapfest when it eventually happens.
Note the recent explosion in electricity hungry data surveillance centres has coincided with the sudden acceptability of nuclear also?
Rosie
January 8, 2025 6:57 am
I have walked across the Puente Romano in Merida.
The entire city is full of Roman wonders, and a Moorish fort built from plundered Roman and Visigoth architecture with a bit of Roman road inside.
Well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area.
Was the capital of Lusitania iirc.
lotocoti
January 8, 2025 7:07 am
The world’s pre-eminent Italian-Iranian comedian on grooming gangs.
Fluffy is back, and today notes that Trump has been busy even before his inauguration. She notes that he has been doing lengthy news conferences and taking questions, and – get this – he has done “almost as much as Joe did this year”!
Never mind the relative qualities.
calli
January 8, 2025 7:36 am
Love the new lamb ad…definitely struck a chord after last night’s little contretemps in the “comments section”.
To make me feel even more humble, had a look at last year’s compilation of images from the Webb telescope.
That should keep me from getting too big for my boots (and Akubra).
Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a staunch firearms advocate, has introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Boebert isn’t the first Republican to suggest doing away with the ATF. In November, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) called for the ATF to be abolished, citing numerous “mistakes” by the agency, including Operation Fast and Furious – and vowed to introduce similar legislation to Boebert.
The ATF has a long history of persecuting righties, and high handed actions. They should be abolished along with the FBI and other deep state alphabet agencies.
JC
January 8, 2025 7:43 am
Just wow. He’s sucking up to Trump like a crazed idiot.
Dana White, owner of UFC and Trump’s pal has been invited on the Meta board.
The Demonrats seem to have mostly complete ratbags in their ranks. It’s hard to decide who is the slimiest of them all. Strong contenders this week are Merrick Garland, who told big, big lies about January 6th, or Chuck Schumer who objected to Trump’s plan to pardon the people that Garland went after with prejudice. Chuck had no issues with Biden pardoning assorted murderers and terrorists, or at least taking them off the capital punishment list. That’s the same Chuck who made personal threats against SCOTUS judges.
The question asked was would he rule out force and economic pressure, and he said no. That second part is always left out of the reporting for some reason.
Switzerland enacted a law at the start of the year that prohibits anyone from wearing burqa coverings in public.
The Swiss people voted in favor of the ban four years ago but were met with backlash from the current government who called the ruling racist.
Yet, Swiss law requires the government to adhere to referendums and the government was overpowered by the people.
The Swiss direct referenda sometimes can throw up bad stuff, but it’s a tell when the government drags its heels for four years to implement a particular referendum. It means the people were right over the target: the WEF elites.
The only reason burqas were banned was the mail kept going missing.
Bungonia Bee
January 8, 2025 7:59 am
Susan Ley pointed out the Labor trick of removing money from an earlier budget (helps make that budget look better) only to put it back in pre-election posing, pretending it’s new and generous.
The question arises why so-called journalists aren’t telling us these things.
Albo tries this morning to pretend he’s not a commentator when it comes to what Trump is doing. He’s certainly a commentator when it comes to making Peter Dutton and the coalition responsible for everything that goes pear shaped while Labor is in government.
Rosie
January 8, 2025 8:16 am
Interesting article, no doubt at all after 50 years of practice the grooming gangs have become very good at passing the baton.
At the very least, the [Dreyfus] visit will afford the Government an opportunity to atone for the hurt caused by the Foreign Minister’s refusal to visit the sites of the October 7 invasion and atrocities.
Er…no, it won’t.
For that, Albanese should have ordered Wong to go – either go to Israel and apologise or just go.
Adam Bandt has solidified the Greens as Australia’s third political party. The electorate is restless – expect the vote for the party and independents to grow this year.
Just watch out whenever you are on the top of a tall building Mr Brown, given your…lifestyle.
Top Ender
January 8, 2025 8:48 am
Bob Brown, now irrelevant, frantically tries to hog the spotlight from his shack in north Tassie:
Don’t label me more moderate, I back Adam Bandt’s Greens BOB BROWN
Adam Bandt has solidified the Greens as Australia’s third political party.
A series of US presidents, from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, warned about corporations taking power from the people by buying political influence. Corporate power now rules the world, and the Greens, who are not beholden to the organised rich, have become the new focus of rage for the extreme right of politics. News that the right’s shadowy offset, Advance Australia, will spend millions attacking the Greens in the run to this year’s election highlights that anger.
Adam Bandt has solidified the Greens as Australia’s third political party. He has the intention to help shape future government direction, but the Greens’ policy of taxing the rich to help the poor (via such things as public education, hospitals and housing) is as attractive to the Gina Rineharts of the world as coalmining is to Vanuatu.
Bandt has my full backing. One angle being peddled is that I was a more moderate leader than Bandt (“Bob Brown’s Greens wouldn’t recognise their own party”, The Australian, 6/1/2025). That’s rubbish. We are different people sharing the same Greens credo of social justice and environmental protection.
No contemporary Greens MP has stood up on a visiting US president as senator Kerry Nettle and I did when George W. Bush addressed parliament during the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Nor have I seen a current mouthpiece of the right, like its iconic Alan Jones, rail against a current Greens MP as he did against me and prime minister Julia Gillard when we were working to tackle climate change in 2012: “Quite frankly they should shove her and Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take them as far out to sea as they can.”
Perhaps remembering that nastiness influences Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to shirk environmental responsibility now. Though some 80 per cent of Labor voters want an end to native forest logging in NSW and Tasmania, not least to protect what’s left of the koala and swift parrot populations, Albanese is so terrified of being seen to appease the Greens that he has given the loggers rousing support.
That will cost Labor votes.
Likewise, he has mollycoddled the foreign companies who have taken over the industrial Atlantic salmon industry that is polluting Tasmania’s once-pristine seas. In this, Albanese is being shepherded by Coalition leader Peter Dutton, who wants to expand the polluting industry as well as abolish “green tape” – that is, federal environment laws.
Adam Bandt’s trips to Tasmania’s threatened forests and seas have drawn much less media attention. As destruction of Earth’s biosphere by the resource-extracting corporations accelerates and the economic and social impacts of global heating grow, environmental coverage has taken a back seat. The ongoing death of the Great Barrier Reef gets far less front-page coverage than the fortunes of corporations or the stock exchange.
No wonder the electorate of Australia is restless. In 2022 the vote went roughly a third each to the two old parties and “others”, with the Greens the largest and most influential party of those others. Expect that vote to grow in 2025 despite a historic effort by the big end of town, already under way, to stop it. More and more voters, especially young Australians, want to see governments tackle the growing gap between rich and poor as well as the threats to life on Earth, which this generation is handing to the next.
The current powerbrokers seem oblivious to predictions that real incomes may be halved within a lifetime by the impacts of runaway heating of the planet. And the rich have rocks in their heads if they think that informed swinging voters are not blaming climate change for the 14 per cent per annum increase in Australian insurance premiums in the last year alone. No effort to attack Bandt and his Greens team, who have policies to address these looming problems early – and so more cheaply and effectively – will drive informed Greens voters back to either Dutton or Albanese.
Expect more teals or conservative lifestyle-defenders to be elected in 2025 too, in the wake of the old parties’ expansion of coalmining, gas fracking and native forest incineration – though the teals split ranks on the Greens’ plan for a “climate trigger” to rein in the most polluting corporations. It will worry some breakaway voters that the more conservative teals may give Dutton the leg-up he may need to form a minority government after the imminent election. The rise of Dutton is fostered by Albanese’s feebleness, but Dutton has handicapped himself by advocating nuclear power stations in the mainland states (Tasmania will forgive him for leaving it off that map). How many voters want to risk their power bills going nuclear?
The Bob Brown Foundation is pulling out all stops to bring an end to native forest logging, as New Zealand’s Labour government did in 2002, and plans rallies for the forests across Australia in March. Like New Zealand, Australia has millions of hectares of plantation forests to supply wood needs, and could redirect some of the massive amount of our timbers currently being exported to China, Malaysia and Taiwan.
The year will begin with new logging in the takayna rainforest in Tasmania and in the forests proposed for the Great Koala National Park in NSW, backed by both Labor and the Coalition in Canberra.
Schoolchildren could tell those holding Labor or Coalition portfolios that ending native forest logging is the cheapest and easiest way to help offset both global warming and the biodiversity crisis (almost three-quarters of Earth’s wildlife has been destroyed in the past 60 years). But Albanese and Dutton aren’t listening.
If the success of the Greens is to be measured by either the billionaires’ resources being deployed to attack them or the number of schoolchildren wanting to vote Green for their future, then Adam Bandt’s team is doing very well.
Bob Brown is the former Australian Greens leader who has set up the Bob Brown Foundation.
Hilarious Bob! The Greens agenda of radical leftism is being rejected around the world, and now that’s beginning in Australia – did you notice the NT and Qld state elections recently?
Your article is the equivalent of the old putting fingers in ears trick while yelling “Nah nah nah!” Then again that’s what living in Tasmania – supported by mainlanders’ taxes – is all about.
Prepare to offer Bandit an office at your place as he’s going to need space to write job applications once the federal election removes him from the political scene.
PS: no mention of Lidia Thorpe? How’s that Green success working out?
Strangely, L’il Bobby has nothing to say about the massive clearing of native forests to make way for solar and wind generators and the wide gaps being cut through them for new transmission lines.
I recall that his shack was built on clear felled land for his “views”. At the time he was interviewed a few people like Bolt pointed it out. But the MSM covered for him. He was after all Green and Gay.
FOX NEWS ALERT: We’re finding out just how much the @FBI and locals officials blew it in the terrorist attack in New Orleans. New video shows Jabbar planting IEDs inside giant coolers around Bourbon Street, which police never noticed. We’re also finding out that New Orleans police had barricades that could’ve stopped the attack, but they didn’t put them up — because the police chief was out to lunch. But the terrorist should never have even made it that far in the first place. He was a walking red flag that the FBI should’ve scooped up a long time ago. He posted crazy things on the internet, ranting about the “end times.” An hour and half before the attack, he posted on Facebook — pledging his allegiance to ISIS. And while Jabbar was radicalizing, Chris Wray was rummaging through Melania’s closet. They also missed the two attempted-assassins who targeted @realDonaldTrump and Brett Kavanaugh. Why are all of these assassins and terrorists slipping through the FBI’s fingers? Because the bureau’s fighting a political war instead of a real one. They’re still focused on January 6th. Today, Merrick Garland called the investigation “one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history.” Andy McCabe called it “a massive piece of the institution’s work”… so massive that it’s distracting them from noticing cooler bombs and assassins.
For the first time, in one document are details of what Linda Reynolds calls ‘the Plan’ – a carefully orchestrated, pre-mediated political hit job ‘to inflict immediate political damage’ on Reynolds and the Morrison government.
Hopefully a beak will now order her to repay Treasury that $2.4 million.
We’re finding out just how much the @FBI and locals officials blew it in the terrorist attack in New Orleans. New video shows Jabbar planting IEDs inside giant coolers around Bourbon Street, which police never noticed.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar packed 2 bombs with nails to kill even more people after his deadly ramming attack in New Orleans, used a compound that had never been used in a terrorist attack in the West before.
Earlier this week, NBC News reported that senior law enforcement officials said that the compound used in the IEDs was R-Salt, a compound that is similar in many ways to RDX.
I don’t even know what R-Salt is, and I’m certainly NOT going to look it up. But RDX is a well known nitrate high explosive. That suggests a level of sophistication well beyond the usual TATP cooking on a kitchen stove.
It sounds to me like he had serious help from somewhere.
I looked up R-Salt. You’ve nothing to worry about.
Of the Eleventy-Eleven matches (many were to a type of fly-fishing attachment) this was possibly the closest to the matter at hand:
R Salt or 2-Hydroxy-3,6-naphthalenedisulfonic acid is an organic compound that belongs to the class of naphthalene sulfonic acids. It is a white crystalline solid that is soluble in water. It is used as a intermediate in the production of dyes, pigments, and other chemicals.
The content of the new House report on the Jan. 6th pipe bomber is shocking.
The FBI tracked phone data & narrowed the suspects down to 186 phone numbers… and then down to 1 phone number… And then the FBI suddenly stopped the case. Just, ended it.
WHY? Who is that one person that they didn’t want to reveal???
The FBI agent in charge (Steven D’Antuano) then told Congress that the phone data from a major telecom company was corrupted. But the telecom company says the data was NOT corrupted. Uhh… The FBI lied? To cover up?
Now the FBI and other agencies are stonewalling Congress over WHY this investigation into what we’re told is the biggest domestic terror attack attempt in recent history just… stopped.
Oh, and the two people who “found” the “pipe bombs” on Jan 6 we’re a “woman carrying a basket of laundry” who is actually a swamp creature who works for an intel-connected org where she works on “disinformation.” LOL. And the other “bomb” was found by a plainclothes fed.
Both “bombs” sat in plain sight undetected for 15+ hours until both were found independently within 15 mins of each other also within 15 mins of the first breach of the Capitol.
And the frame rate of the one video the FBI released of the pipe bomber—which came from the DNC—was 1.2fps which is lower than any security camera on the market by 8x?? Which implies that the video was tampered with? By whom? What’s on the frames that were removed from the publicly released tape??
The implications of this are enormous.
We are closer than we’ve ever been before in totally exposing the totality of what an absolute, evil hoax J6 was.
Don’t lose steam now. Raise your voice. Get this over the finish line. Expose it ALL so everyone can see we aren’t crazy conspiracy theorists, that the Feds actually staged J6 to demonize MAGA after Biden & his ilk rigged the election.
“Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE: Highlights
– $20B tech investment into the USA
– Will work to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
– Does not rule out military/economic coercion to take over Greenland/Panama Canal
– Reiterates ‘all h*ll will break loose’ on Day One if hostages not released by Hamas
– Sticking to pardons of Jan 6ers
– Working with Congressional Republicans on a package that includes key elements of his agenda, such as tax cuts
– Wants states to finish election counting by 10PM on election night
– Supports gas heaters over Biden’s effort to force electric heaters on American homes
– Will “immediately” undo Biden’s new offshore drilling ban”
Very, very good. She’s clued up to the Lefts bullshit agenda and the Rights duplicitous machinations.
I’d put this in the top ten interviews for last year.
yes, smelling a Great Big Fat Hairy Rat from the biolabs.
Roger
January 8, 2025 9:20 am
Polling conducted for popular talk-back radio network ‘London’s Biggest Conversation’ (LBC) reveals 24% of Labour voters have buyer’s remorse.
[The Spectator 6th January 2025]
Perhaps they’re now siding with the “far right” [sarc].
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Crossie
January 8, 2025 9:25 am
JC
January 8, 2025 7:43 am
Just wow. He’s sucking up to Trump like a crazed idiot.
Dana White, owner of UFC and Trump’s pal has been invited on the Meta board.
I don’t think Zuckerberg has seen the light and is now on Trump’s side, it’s more likely that Facebook usage stats are in the toilet and he just realised that he and his tactics have turned off users. Still good to know that he is teachable.
‘The Plan’ Brittany Higgins’ lawyers didn’t want us to see Janet Albrechtsen 9:30pmJuly 08, 2024. Updated 9:25amJuly 09, 2024
This is the statement of claim that lawyers for Brittany Higgins didn’t want us at The Australian to see. They didn’t want us to report it, to analyse what Linda Reynolds set out in her defamation claim against Higgins in the West Australian Supreme Court.
Fear not. We’re fighting objections by the Higgins team to us accessing all the documents filed in this litigation. I filed further submissions with the WA Supreme Court on Monday. The wheels of justice move slowly – court orders are currently not due until the end of this month.
In the meantime, my intrepid colleague Ellie Dudley got hold of a copy of the statement of claim current as at June 4.
No wonder the Higgins team tried to block us from seeing it.
It is an extraordinary read. For the first time in one document are allegations of what Reynolds calls “the Plan” – a carefully orchestrated, pre-meditated political hit job where Higgins and Sharaz used allegations of a rape and a political cover-up “as a weapon to inflict immediate political damage” on Reynolds and the then government of the day.
The Plan, says the statement of claim, started long before Lisa Wilkinson’s infamous Project interview in February 2021. Shortly after meeting Sharaz in May 2020 – some 14 months after the alleged rape – Higgins crafted a note about an “anatomy of a political sex scandal”.
According to Reynolds’ claims in the proceeding, the Plan continues to this day, with Higgins refusing to apologise to Reynolds or retract allegedly defamatory and disparaging material.
Key points of Reynolds’ claim
SHE SAYS: Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong’s ‘aggressive questioning’ of Linda Reynolds in the Senate was centred on information provided by David Sharaz and Brittany Higgins
SHE SAYS: David Sharaz teed up meeting for Higgins with Labor members to discuss her allegations, including then opposition leader Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, as well as former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
SHE SAYS: Higgins’ Instagram posts are in breach of a deed the pair entered into in the wake of the ‘lying cow’ settlement, which stated that ‘the parties agree not to make any adverse, critical or disparaging statements, allegations or comments … with respect to the conduct of any other party’
SHE SAYS: Higgins posted on Instagram to ‘taunt’ her and she did so around the time of mediation talks, with the express purpose of the media picking it up
SHE SAYS: Higgins’ social media posts ‘brought (Reynolds) into public hatred, scandal, odium and contempt’. ‘(Higgins) acted maliciously in publishing the publications, as they were published in furtherance of a plan by the defendant and Mr Sharaz to use the defendant’s allegations of a rape, and the political cover-up of the same, as a weapon to inflict immediate political damage’
The overriding impression from Reynolds’ claim is clear: Reynolds believes that Higgins and Sharaz left little to chance in furtherance of their Plan. Higgins would later boast in her draft book outline sent to Penguin Random House, “We had become quite a twosome when it came to game planning. My experience as a media adviser, David’s experience as a producer; together we understood how the gallery media sphere operated.”
That much is true. Curated in remarkable detail, the statement takes 20 pages to set out their game planning of various kinds.
Higgins and Sharaz lined up favoured journalists, priming them, drip-feeding them material. Higgins taped private conversations with people she worked with in parliament, and shared the secret recordings with select journalists and former Labor advisers.
The Plan, says the statement of claim, covered other pre-Project conduct including Higgins and Sharaz meeting ACT Labor Party Operations Manager Sandra Fisk in August 2020 to disclose the allegations and later to discuss implications of going to the media; in January 2021, Higgins creating a timeline or “dossier” to be distributed to the media, Sharaz making arrangements around the same time to meet with Wilkinson and news.com journalist Samantha Maiden; Sharaz providing the dossier to Wilkinson “on behalf of Brit”; Sharaz emailing Wilkinson about Higgins’ allegations under the heading “MeToo Liberal Party Project Pitch”; Sharaz and Higgins settling on a parliamentary sitting week to drop the allegations in the media; Sharaz telling Wilkinson during a five-hour interview that you can only prosecute the Liberal Party “in the court of public opinion”; Sharaz telling Wilkinson that “the reason we’ve chosen the timeline … is because it’s a sitting week when we want the story to come out”; Sharaz telling Wilkinson “I’ve got a friend in Labor, Katy Gallagher on the Labor side, who will probe and continue it going”; Wilkinson telling Higgins and Sharaz that “I’m a great believer in people’s time will come” to which Sharaz responded “Linda’s time, please god, let it be Linda’s time” with Wilkinson adding “Well, I think it might be” before reading out text messages with Reynolds to “ridicule” her.
The statement of claim sets out how the Plan involved Higgins speaking with Emma Webster, a former Labor adviser, to discuss how to manage the media when the Project interview dropped; Sharaz lining up Grace Tame to “do media” the day after The Project interview aired.
The alleged Plan is said to have involved Sharaz co-opting senior Labor figures. Sharaz shared the Project transcript with Gallagher before it aired, providing her with a copy of the dossier timeline. Sharaz told Higgins that “Katy is going to come to me with some questions you need to prepare for … she’s really invested.” All this occurred before the Project aired. Reynolds says that when Sharaz acted it can be inferred from the circumstances that “Mr Sharaz’s conduct … was on the instructions or with the consent of the defendant”.
The statement of claim also alleges the orchestrated gang attacks executed by Gallagher, Penny Wong and others over many days that led to Reynolds being admitted to hospital.
The statement contains details of meetings between Higgins and Labor Party members including Anthony Albanese, Tanya Plibersek and former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd. There are extracts of text messages in March 2021 between Higgins and Sharaz “concerning their Plan”, including Sharaz texting “suck sh** Linda … You awful human” and Higgins to Sharaz: “(Scott Morrison) about to be f..ked over. Just wait. We’ve got him.” And Sharaz to Higgins: “You may as well feed everything we have to Katy.”
The Plan continued, says the statement of claim, with Higgins posting disparaging, taunting social media posts in March this year even after she signed a non-disparagement deed with Reynolds in March 2021, and after Higgins received a concerns notice from Reynolds in July last year, even after mediation talks in Perth in March this year.
Many Australians must be fed up with the Higgins story. I am. But this next instalment strikes at the heart of what Federal Court judge Michael Lee called the “major motif” of the Higgins scandal – her allegation on The Project of a political cover-up. Lee found no evidence to support this serious allegation. He found the allegation “did much collateral damage – including to the fair and orderly progress of the underlying allegation of sexual assault through the criminal justice system”.
Alas, Lee’s comments have no binding legal effect. Higgins hasn’t apologised. Reynolds says she wants Higgins to stop defaming her. Reynolds says she wants Higgins to stop breaching her contract by disparaging her. Reynolds wants to be recompensed for reputational damage, for the hurt and injury she says she suffered by Higgins/Sharaz executing their ‘Plan’.
Late last month, Reynolds added a new pleading that Higgins has conspired with one or more people to injure Reynolds. Tortious conspiracy is serious. If the claim of tortious conspiracy is successful, Reynolds might get an award for aggravated damages.
Still, why should we care anymore? We have been subjected to more than three years of mayhem from this saga. The time wasted, energy expended, careers unfairly and irrevocably damaged, and, of course, the financial costs to the nation are immeasurable.
This litigation matters because we are entitled to know the truth about the alleged Plan so that we can fully assess Gallagher’s involvement in it, the complicity of other Labor figures, and what impact it had on the last election. Persistent questions hover around the morality and legitimacy of Labor’s tactics in prosecuting their attack on Reynolds and her government.
The Statement of Claim provides only Reynolds view of course. If the trial judge agrees with it (which we have yet to find out) things might get awkward quickly for a number of Liars, notably the remaining Mean Girls.
At this stage I don’t think it matters, they have got away with it.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2025 9:46 am
Daily Tele. Incitement to violence’: Jewish leaders, politicians call for ‘Bash Zionist’ tops to be scrappedAn anti-Israel activist is selling a T-shirt which features slogans such as “bash Zionists” and “support armed resistance”, leaving members of Australia’s Jewish community “shocked” and calling for a ban.
Plaintiff Zachary Young is suing CNN in a Florida court for $1 billion in damages, accusing the network and anchor Jake Tapper of falsely portraying him as an “illegal profiteer” during America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Young, a Navy veteran, says CNN damaged his reputation and destroyed his contracting company, Nemex Enterprises, in November 2021 by airing false and defamatory claims about his efforts to get Afghans out of the country as the Taliban took control.
Young’s lead attorney, Devin Freedman, asked prospective jurors during the selection process if they would balk at a $1 billion payout if evidence supports it. Only one expressed hesitation. A potential juror who previously worked for an ABC News affiliate said they “absolutely” would be willing to use a punitive damages judgment to send a message to CNN and other news outlets.
Only one potential juror admitted to “regularly” watching CNN, and only 2 out of roughly 40, or 5 percent, knew who Tapper was. Another said he couldn’t be impartial because he believes “media outlets think they can say whatever they want” and then “pretend to be the victim when they’re called on it.” At least six raised their hands when Freedman asked if they believe CNN creates fake news.
Florida court, and it sounds like Florida Man is not exactly friendly to CNN. Being hit for a billion bucks in damages would be an extinction level event for CNN, which has lost half their watchers since the election and which is now regularly outrated by upstart Newsmax.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2025 10:04 am
Far-right French firebrand politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96Noemie Bisserbe
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French firebrand who rekindled far-right politics in the heart of Europe, has died at the age of 96.
Mr Le Pen’s health deteriorated in recent years, having been hospitalised after a heart attack and suffering a mild stroke during a dinner at home.
Mr Le Pen was the face of the far-right in France for nearly four decades, co-founding the National Front in 1972 and leading the anti-immigration party until he handed it over to his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed it National Rally.
His death was confirmed on Tuesday by Jordan Bardella, the current president of National Rally.
Mr Le Pen’s rhetoric – which ranged from nativist diatribes to anti-Semitic remarks – made him a pariah across Europe’s political establishment and, at times, a source of embarrassment to his own daughter. In 2015, she ejected her father from the party over his repeated characterisation of Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history”.
Mr Le Pen carried the torch for Europe’s far-right during the era that followed the defeat of European fascism in World War II and the expansion of civil rights in the 1960s. He borrowed his party’s logo, the tricolour flame, from the supporters of fallen Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and forged a new political identity for the far-right based on deep anti-immigrant sentiment.
To Mr Le Pen, immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, including former French colonies, represented a demographic time bomb for Europe. His message channelled the frustration of many French who felt marginalised by the forces of globalisation, particularly the forging of the European Union with its open internal borders and its porous external ones. That made the National Front a harbinger for populist parties that sprung up around Europe in the years to come, from Italy’s anti-immigration League to the far-right Alternative for Germany.
Le Pen had actually served, as a paratrooper, in the French Foreign Legion, in Indochina (now Vietnam) and Algeria. His service may have explained his attitudes on immigration…
Russia, like Ukraine was republic in the Soviet Union. It had no more right to the nukes than Ukraine and nothing you can say can change that. In fact, it wasn’t Russian pressure to hand over the nukes, it was actually western countries.
And yet the Soviet regime, preparing for the transition of power, rested its ownership and authority of the Strategic Missile Forces exclusively to the Russian Federation.
It wasn’t just a good response, it was a perfect response and as usual you attempt to confuse readers with pedantic sideshows.
You must be the only person that believes that introducing the preceding comments confuses the reader.
alwaysright
January 8, 2025 10:19 am
Heresy alert.
the Herald-Sun today is headlining that roonables are horrible, evil, nasty things.
“When the CIA wanted to tap Angela Merkel’s phones, Denmark was there.
When Biden decided to blow up the Nord Stream, in whose waters did he do it? Denmark’s.”
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Denmark has been one of the United States’ most steadfast allies for decades. This is how the upcoming administration shows its gratitude x.com/TrumpDailyPost…
The Greenland greenies won the election and stopped the project because mining bad.
Ten trillion dollars just sitting there…
Eyrie
January 8, 2025 10:47 am
Denmark has been one of the United States’ most steadfast allies for decades. This is how the upcoming administration shows its gratitude x.com/TrumpDailyPost…
Once were Vikings… now an arse licking satrapy of the US.
I’ll give a plug to the Oz wine club though. Enjoyed their selections a great deal for many years. Had to stop because I cut back on wine for a few years and couldn’t keep up.
Yes it is. RINO Ryan is still a board member. They still editorially spruik climate rubbish (although the commentators are getting braver at rebelling against the editorial line lately – good on them!)
Rupert tried to move the trust over to Lachlan recently but got stymied by the courts. I do not regard Lachlan as a firm righty, since he is a WEF elitist stratum person, but he’s better than the rest of the kids. Once greenie James gets his chunk of Newscorp is going to be roadkill.
Im pretty relaxed about WW III not starting over Greenland.
True, but Greenland would be strategically valuable to the US. RWA make the case here:
The Americans would obviously love to challenge Russia in the Arctic Circle. Oh, I forgot to mention — the whole area is critical for all WW3 Armageddon planning, because the shortest flight path for ICBM exchanges also crosses the North Pole. The US don’t want Russia to control an important global shipping lane, and they want those natural resources for themselves. They have been trying to invest in Alaskan infrastructure but efforts have been meh.
America is lagging behind when it comes to icebreakers and military capabilities in the area, though they have e.g. the “Arctic Edge” and “Cold Response” exercises.
It’s clear that things like direct control over the Northwest Passage and being able to project naval power from Greenland would be highly desirable for the US in the long term. Allies and puppets are great but for “saving a floundering hegemony” and WW3 purposes direct control is always better.
In any case, the Arctic will be one of the most important strategic regions of the 21st century, and competition will be fierce.
Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a staunch firearms advocate, has introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Get rid of it so it cannot rise again. Do it so any government organisation thinks twice about being politicised and weaponised against the people. We need to create one in Australia so the police no longer have that authority over us – then disband it.
Bungonia Bee
January 8, 2025 11:14 am
Akubralbo still annoying even with sound turned off!
I wondered why they haven’t threatened me with a tossing out on my ear for weeks.
Bungonia Bee
January 8, 2025 11:18 am
If Denmark is really a staunch ally of the US, perhaps they could just give Greenland away – after all, it’s a long way from Denmark and quite a bit closer to the US.
And colonies are so last century!
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2025 11:24 am
If Denmark is really a staunch ally of the US, perhaps they could just give Greenland away
Not exactly 1776 all over again though. Ok, yes, the US military is a bit anemic these days but 56,000 Greenlanders are unlikely to present much of a challenge.
Top Ender
January 8, 2025 11:24 am
alwaysright’s front page of the Herald-Sun referred to above:
calli
January 8, 2025 11:37 am
What’s the “cabana drama”? And why does Albo say it’s “not on”?
Albanese’s political instincts are such that he’s come out against (Sydney) Westie families who pack lotsa beach gear into the car & visit Sydney’s beaches for the day.
I expect I have been to Bondi beach more often than many people from Western Sydney. Moving among the people might not be Albo’s strong suit. cf Peanut Head shopping for lettuces.
Bungonia Bee
January 8, 2025 11:45 am
Is it because I’m really old? Adelaide Timbrell, ANZ Senior Economist looks like a high schooler – lovely but so young.
It’s certainly not just policemen looking younger.
People get called senior these days after promotion from graduate. Then principle after a couple of years.
in some think tanks you get to be called “director of mindless shit” when you are the only member of the mindless shit team.
If Denmark is really a staunch ally of the US, perhaps they could just give Greenland away – after all, it’s a long way from Denmark and quite a bit closer to the US.
It really isn’t that much closer at all, surprisingly. The distance is about equal give or take 50ish nmi, and the sea passage is shorter from Denmark than from Maine. But setting all that aside, its amusing to hear the argument that a staunch ally ought to relinquish territories to the US.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2025 12:16 pm
Folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary diesRyan JonesReuters
January 8, 2025 2:59AM
TopicsEntertainment
American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at the age of 86.
Yarrow died in the morning at his New York home surrounded by family following a four-year battle with bladder cancer, publicist Ken Sunshine said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Our fearless dragon is tired and has entered the last chapter of his magnificent life,” Yarrow’s daughter Bethany said in a statement provided by Sunshine.
“The world knows Peter Yarrow the iconic folk activist, but the human being behind the legend is every bit as generous, creative, passionate, playful, and wise as his lyrics suggest.”
Yarrow formed Peter, Paul and Mary with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. The group helped popularise the early work of Bob Dylan and sang hits such as Puff, The Magic Dragon, which Yarrow co-wrote.
The group’s version of Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind helped transform the song into a civil rights anthem and introduced his music to a wider audience. The group also scored big hits with If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, co-written by folk artist Pete Seeger.
Yes, Peter Yarrow was a major figure of the Sixties folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. He also was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter.
This is why people don’t mind going to prison (the Tele):
This mole got 15 months in the bin, where she’ll probably spend her time rooting the guards.
It’s a UK example, but (allegedly) our own prisons are absolutely rife with this sort of shit as well.
It gives ‘three squares a day’ new meaning.
Nobody foresaw this when they decided, in their wisdom, to assign female guards to male prisons?
Same old story.
Prison screws should be ex military, 6 foot, male and with a nightstick and a bad attitude.
LOL. Ken oath.
Bloke who worked Mincer 2 in our section (meat production) violated his parole. Was on a zero BAC and blew 0.02. Was only a month or so out from being discharged.
Ankle bracelet. It’s wifi. Charger plugged in a socket in the change room. Regular cleaner knew to leave it alone. Blow in contract company cleaner when the regular one was on leave pulled it out to plug in a vacuum cleaner. Cops contacting the bosses etc. Funny as..
No big deal to him really. Reckons only difference to his lifestyle in jail is no poontang. Sick worker, company keeping his job on hold. Good of them.
If you’ve already eaten, best to skip this.
Christopher Pyne was elected under the old superannuation plan for politicians.
Meaning that turd gets a tax payer guaranteed, indexed, whopper of a pension.
Dover, you said you were going to link to the comment you’re responding to after 24 hours.
Let’s trudge through..
You’re saying there were no Ukrainians were capable of operating those nuclear weapons? That’s just nonsense. That’s just crazy talk as Ukraine had the largest nuke stash of any of the Soviet republics.
You’re being silly now and just arguing for argument sake. Ukraine didn’t secede. The Soviet Union disintegrated! It was no more. Ukraine had as much freaking right to those nukes as did Russia, which was also a republic and therefore Ukraine had as much right to the nukes – in fact more because they were on Ukraine land. So, no, your analogy doesn’t wash and obviously you’re argument is DOA.
NATO operates the way it does and doesn’t need advice from you or anyone else if it wants to move stuff around. If the member states don’t have an issue then it’s a non-issue. As I said before, any member has a right to leave the membership anytime it wants but they won’t because they like the comfort it affords
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Taiwan should offer the same deal to HK’ers and mainlanders, but it won’t because your guy, Xi would go nuts and try to kill them all. It’s not so brilliant when two can play the same game.
Rabbi defiant as police charge Sydney man over alleged threats outside synagogueSummer Liu and James Dowling
10 hours ago.
Updated 2 minutes ago
The senior rabbi of the Sydney synagogue allegedly targeted by a 20-year-old man making a threatening “gun gesture” has warned of the dangers an incremental increase in anti-Semitic behaviour but says the Jewish community will not bow to such attacks.
Rabbi Nochum Schapiro, who leads Chabad North Shore Synagogue, said such incidents emboldened his community to be “proud Jews, and display their Judaism in a stronger way, because we’re not going to cower, we’re not going to be intimidated”.
The alleged offender was arrested by police at his North Turramurra home in Sydney’s upper north shore on Monday night and charged with stalk or intimidate with an intent to cause fear of physical harm after the incident in St Ives on Saturday, January 4, along Link Road.
He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Hornsby Local Court on January 29.
Despite the community feeling “appalled” by the incident, Rabbi Schapiro said they would continue to “be proud of who we are” and will not “back down of our pride of who we are as Jews and being able to live in an open and free society as Australia”.
Rabbi Schapiro said the incident was already “disgusting” when viewed in a vacuum but “becomes disturbing” when considering “the context of everything else going on”, coming the day after the defacing of a car in Sydney’s east at Queens Park with anti-Semitic graffiti, and multiple spates of targeted vandalism in nearby Woollahra.
“Every day you put on the news, and you see another act of anti-Semitism, and some people start thinking … how did it all start in Germany?” Rabbi Schapiro said. “People are asking the question … at what point do we say … we don’t know where this is going?”
“It’s unsettling.”
Rabbi Schapiro said anti-Semitism “is becoming acceptable for many in broader society” as hateful sentiments are spreading through “college campuses … the streets … (and) nothing’s been done about it by the state government, federal government”.
“The NSW Premier has said the right words from October 7th, he’s always said the right thing, but I don’t think that enough has been done,” he said.
The most recent incident occurs as Hanukkah only recently ended, during which the community celebrated Jewish pride.
Rabbi Schapiro has Minns sussed.
Do we know the bastard’s name yet? Two-tier justice indeed
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
The very limited campaigning focused on the four year proposition which was promoted as an efficiency measure.
The true meaning of fixed terms received hardly any coverage. People had no understanding that a deadbeat government was there for the duration and could not be challenged.
Before quitting my local branch, a number of us attempted to organise a campaign to oppose fixed terms. QLD LNP had just been captured by the Turnbull Moderates so there was no chance organising an effective opposition to the scam.
The ultimate outcome of the Moderates insurgency was the clown Crisafulli.
The beauty of 4year terms is that if incumbents are incompetent or otherwise useless (as in the US), lacking an equivalent of the 25th Amendment, they cannot be removed.
Dover
Just take a moment and think about what this has led you to. in your mind: the US and NATO—the most “evilest evil-doers” in history, right? Pure nonsense. Any member country can leave or demand the US pack up its bases. No problem. Now, try pulling that stunt in the People’s Republic of Pukin or with your other guys and see how fast you’re introduced to “disappearing.” Oh wait, we have examples.
If you’ve gone over the edge with this line of thinking, don’t worry—we’ll send someone with a rope to hoist you back up. Seriously, where are you dangling right now? Hold tight!
https://youtu.be/a1k_RlKGq0Q
A week is a very long time in politics.
Like ‘culture wars’ – which, of course, are only ever pursued by nasty conservativeses.
I’ve noticed in my circle that the level of smugness, parroting of woke cant and group social intimidation by lefty leaning folk has fallen back by more than a notch or two. It’s not over yet, but geez it’s good to be able to talk to your long time friends in a civil manner.
Our middle class correspondent from Victoriastan noticeable by his absence (as usual).
Ahem. That’s our “married into the upper middle class correspondent”.
You got there first.
Upper middleclass by marriage.
There will come a time—though I can’t say when—when Australia faces its own version of the “rape gang” situation that has gained momentum in the UK.
It’s the same pattern: White populations/police, fearful of upsetting a hostile minority, try to placate them in the hopes that the problem will resolve itself. But it doesn’t. Instead, it worsens as governments refuse to address the issue head-on.
Meanwhile, Australian Jews are essentially being ignored, even as violence against them escalates. Sooner or later, something will trigger an eruption.
We started to have that two decades ago. It was stopped at the time by a brave prosecutor, Margaret Cuneen, a brave journo, Paul Sheehan in the SMH, and some extremely brave victims who ignored harrassment in the court by the accused while they were testifying.
I doubt that such a combination would happen now.
Power without principle.
@elonmusk
George Soros spent billions to create the fake asylum-seeker nightmare that is destroying America and Europe
Rabbi Schapiro is a good man.
Agreed. He has “pretty boy minns”, sussed.
I was very glad to read Rabbi Schapiro say that out loud.
err, yeah, no. You deliberately block a “major road” any time of the day or night for no acceptable reason, then you:
Go To Gaol
You do not pass go, you do not collect 200 pounds and you most certainly do not get a pat on the head from a bloated pompous tax hoovering public toilet frequenting waffling legal windbag.
You insufferable barking mad hippie deadshit.
Time for a little mob justice,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efC3qoSFJC8
Starting point: I have a lawful right to go about my lawful business without unlawful impediment.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha January 7, 2025 4:56 pm
You are correct.
More single malts needed.
Channel surfing.
Caroline Marcus must have binge watched a season of Dynasty today.
One of Dover’s key follows on Twitter is posting about this interview with some Frog clown, who Arnie Bertrand says is one of greatest minds in France.
The greatest living French intellectual ignores the uncomfortable fact that Europeans loudly express their opinions about America and American politics whenever they feel like it. The fact that Musk is the richest man in the world is irrelevant. It’s his opinions and how he conveys them that ultimately matter. He’s just one guy using social media to expose how disgusting the European ruling class has become. The fact that the UK mainstream media essentially ignored the rape fest is a scandal. The fact that the German media allowed the German government to pull the stunts they’ve pulled is deranged. That’s why Musk is hitting home runs.
The EU, including the UK, has a population of 525 million. There’s plenty of scope for Europe to rival the U.S. economically, but they refuse to because Net-Zero is far more important.
Why is it of absolutely no surprise to me that I found blatant anti-semitic apologism in the first five tweets I read from someone Dover follows?
If I Were Satan, Here’s How I Would Run Things
I tells ya:
Your electrickericky bills are gonna go down by $275
The cash rate is, oh I don’t know, 2.75%*?
The unemployment rate, mate, is, oh I don’t know, 5.75*%?
We will deliver the gliberals’ stage three tax cuts
I commit to the ulurululoolo matement in full (which I haven’t read)
We will end the climate wars
We will become a (cue spookeee muzak…) roonable energy superpower!
We will fix the aged care crisis
We will fix with the cost of existence crisis
We will bring Ozzies together!
Yep, a stellar record any idiot politician would be proud to take into a feral erection.
*It wasn’t, in both cases
Bern, I like Caroline Marcus. She has mongrel.
I agree with the Lady she has on at the moment.
I am full of red wine. so haven’t caught her name, but, she reckons ANAL should go to Israel and suck dick. Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
Caroline is a gem; used to give book recommendations to Outsiders.
calli
January 7, 2025 6:33 pm
we can’t have enough of comments on Elbow’s presser du jour.
He was wearing the Akubra too! Makes him look more authentic.
I’ve stopped wearing my old Akubra and can’t bear to look at it since Elbow debased the brand. I may have to donate it to an op shop….
See what Leak makes of it.
Howard always preferred the camo.
When not wearing the green and gold trakkies. Or was that the camo?
Vagabond,
do NOT, under any circumstance, toss your Akubras. I have three. I will NEVER part with them. Akubra is greater than Sleazy.
He can never tarnish the brand. The average aussie is NOT stupid.
I have a creased crown Squatter. Ancient, battered and just…perfect.
Makes me feel posh.
I’ve got my battered old slouch hat, somewhere.
It’s under 24 hours.
No, I said: Those weapons were never under the strategic command of Ukraine. We don’t determine whether a car is someone’s because they can operate it but because it’s registered in their name, and the like.
It did in fact secede from the Soviet Union. They literaly had a vote and declared their independence.
It’s only a non-issue in fantasy land. In the real world, when you make moves that are gravely detrimental to another power, you better prepare for a response.
Prince Andrew reported to the POLICE after ‘using fake name’ amid saga around private investments company
Despite that, according to Treasury, income tax as a share of government revenue will rise to 52% in 24/25.
And given it’s Treasury they’re likely underestimating it.
Yet neither Labor nor the Gliberals are interested in tax reform.
We’ve been gifted with a timid political class whom we cannot afford.
Soft men make for hard times.
I notice my humble six pack of coopers sparkling now costs 25 per cent more than it did five years ago – and that increase isn’t going to the nice Christians who produce it.
2024: The year the EV bubble BURST | MGUY EV News 7 January 2025
Thanks for reminding me. Haven’t seen him on my timeline much lately.
This needs some examples made.
When Plod catch a pair at it in an alleyway, or better yet, in a car down “Lover’s Lane” (with at least one participant from an affluent or important family) ..
.. Plod should prosecute both participants if they’re not able to produce, on the spot, written consent obtained from the other prior to rooting.
Prosecute to the full extent of the law, with no allowance for any mitigation, & demand the maximum criminal penalty.
A few such cases, as soon as possible, are badly needed.
Spoil sport!
In what manner is this “spoilsport”?
You couldn’t make this up.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/houston-muslims-say-new-orleans-jihad-massacre-has-no-place-in-islam-worry-about-islamophobia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-muslims-say-new-orleans-jihad-massacre-has-no-place-in-islam-worry-about-islamophobia
Islamics concerned over ‘Islamophobic’ backlash after tomorrows terrorist attack.
I finished a novel on my Kindle last night, and this morning got an email asking me if I would like to purchase the next novel in the series.
This is creepy.
Are they watching me scratch my arse in bed these days? Perhaps on the dunny as well. I’m off to have a shower and I’m going to turn the lights off.
More to save them on camera lens replacements than anything else.
It’s Amazon. Just delete them.
I’m amused when I buy a Kindle book when I get recommendations for the earlier novels I already have in dead tree. Never lets up. Oh well, electrons a cheap I guess.
Watched a show called ‘Society of the Snow’ which tells the true story of the plane crash in the Andes in which cannabilism occurred. Went on to Google to check some of the details and just typed in 1972 and the incident came up straight away. Was Siri listening? Creepy too.
Dover, in your silly analogy you can’t register the car because central registry has disappeared. It no longer existed. The Soviet union expired and Ukraine was a republic, just like Russia.
The Soviet union stopped breathing, vote or no vote ; there was nothing to secede from. LOL
At one of the peak times of the Cold War, France left and no one gave a rats and they were welcomed back sometime in the first decade of this C,.
Greece withdrew over Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, and so did Turkey. They both left the command structure.
You’re being overly dramatic.
And compared to Soviet plays after WW2? You have to be kidding. The Soviet Union was only kept whole up to when it expired in ER through thuggery and intimidation. They were hated.
Starmer and Albo look alike: nervous little men who can’t fill a suit.
How can you not watch this a dozen times and get tired of it seeing the tension on her face, including the nervous giggle. Heaven.
Will disappear into well deserved obscurity and be remembered as a footnote to one of the worst Presidents in living memory.
You simply do not understand analogy. Setting aside that, authority re those weapons not only in Ukraine but also in Belorussia and anywhere else it’s strategic missile forces were located reverted to Russia just as all Soviet debt reverted to Russia.
And yet they still had a vote and declared independence. They must be terrible stupid people, those Ukrainians.
Doesn’t respond to what is quoted.
From the Worst Australian. With the cop minister and the head cop having conniptions about evil bang bangs in every ones hands, one could be excused for thinking this fella should have been locked up for life. Must be something else mitigating the case but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. /sarc off
251…two tier “justice”.
Fukking as usual. No sarc.
THAT explains it – obvious really.
I was thinking- illegally on another’s property with a cut down loaded rifle with the serial no. removed, and has a criminal record, and gets a suspended sentence? I though WA was very strict with respect to firearms.
What I don’t understand is how on earth you came up with that one.
So what? If those others chose to gift them to Russia, it doesn’t say a thing about what Ukraine had to do.
The vote was mute anyway as the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It died.
Sure it does.
There is an L.A. plastic surgeon who is basking in the glory of Demi Moore’s GG win.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s went too far a long time ago… but with the unfakeable joy of winning a statuette, you have to admit she looks simply smashing right now.
She really was quite a stunner before she took that one step too far.
Emma Garlett: I am sick of the date debate tooEmma GarlettThe West Australian
Tue, 7 January 2025 2:00AM
My contribution included “Keep picking at the scabs, the wounds will never heal.”
Soon after the site stopped accepting comments.
Paywalled. What was the crux of her article?
Zulu posted the article around 10AM this morning.
Guts of the article is typical of her articles, pain caused by whiteys etc etc
The Strategic Missile Forces were under the control of the Soviet Union. They were never the property or under the authority of the various SSRs. When it ceased to exist they came under the authority of the Russian Federation. There was no gift or sale.
It wasn’t mute. You’ve simply walked into an inconvenient fact.
No, it doesn’t. I’m talking about moves between rival powers and you’re talk about jockeying within a bloc.
As an aside, Turkey never left NATO over Cyprus and the US operates multiple key bases therein.
I and many others said it before, guns and any other weapons are mere scrapmetal if you are not prepared to use it.
Waste of money for most, in fact 93.7%.
Which on Boxing Day, 1991, it expired. No more. Gonsky.
How convenient. Incidentally, the vote you mentioned in Ukraine occurred 25 days prior to the expiry carried by 90% of the vote, including Crimea.
Oh please, you suggested that if any member tried to leave NATO, they would be in for it. I merely gave you three instances. Turkey, like Greece left the command structure.
If any of the republics had tried the same thing in the Soviet Union’s heyday, they would’ve killed off by starvation. Every last capitalist running dog.
Yes, with command of the strategic missiles forces passing to its successor, the Russian Federation.
You can ‘oh please’ all you like but this is the series of comments that precedes the above (my comments in italics):
Nothing in the above is talking about whether countries are leaving NATO and what the US would do. It’s focused on how each responds to moves by the other that effect them geopolitically.
And, again, Turkey never removed itself from NATO nor left the command structure.
Russia, like Ukraine was republic in the Soviet Union. It had no more right to the nukes than Ukraine and nothing you can say can change that. In fact, it wasn’t Russian pressure to hand over the nukes, it was actually western countries.
It wasn’t just a good response, it was a perfect response and as usual you attempt to confuse readers with pedantic sideshows.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Alex Ryvchin in the Daily Telegraph:
I suppose it’s good that Dreyfus is heading over, but what will be actually achieved is anyone’s guess.
Take Albo with him.
Why Dreyfus?
Why not Wong?
The one responsible for the disgusting position of the (not our) government.
I would rather see her squirm.
I suspect the Israeli government might have threatened to refuse Wong a visa. It’s much harder (although not impossible) for them to refuse a visa for a Jewish person. I hope they treat him with the contempt he deserves.
He has stood silent and abandoned his fellow Jews . He has never been anything but a hypocrite Does not even live in his electorate Carried on to get called a QC haha no longer. You can only feel if you have empathy that tells you what he is Up himself like fellow narcissists
Se non ora quando ?
The Attorney-General is embarking on a peacekeeping mission to Israel on behalf of the Australian government, though it is difficult to ascertain who he is aiming to pacify.
You need to have peace before you deploy peacekeepers … otherwise its peacemakers you need…. and the IDF is already onto that
We have our own version of l’affaire Dreyfus.
UK: Labour mulls reviving ‘Islamophobia’ definition that would criminalize telling the truth about Muslim rape gangs
?https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/uk-labour-mulls-reviving-islamophobia-definition-that-would-criminalize-telling-the-truth-about-muslim-rape-gangs
Well, that will solve the Muslim Rape Gangs issue, won’t it Mister Starmer?
How can they make the issue go away without introducing some sort of laws that criminalise free speech …. some sort of ‘misinformation’ bill? …. oh….wait…..
A couple of interesting factoids in the replies…
https://x.com/HookArron1/status/1876548079584751996
I saw Zulu for the first time when I was a recruit at Kapooka late 1979. Our platoon watched it as leadership training.
Found out later on that the officer cadets got to see 12 O’clock High (Gregory Peck) as their leadership training.
Both fantastic movies.
Might have to have a movie day soonish and watch them back to back.
Did you ask the obvious question – why didnt the Zulu wait until night before attacking?
Watched it in 1972 at Puckapunyal.
The Christian pastor gets a pasting however.
You havent lived till you have fired a black powder Martini Henry 577/450
But wow they could sing.
When, rulers honored and rewarded their veterans instead of prosecuting them for doing their job.
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The Emperor Augustus set aside some land in western Spain to house the victorious veterans of his legions, particularly Legio V and Legio X.
The new town was given the name of Emerita Augusta (today’s Mérida, Spain). The city grew and prospered, eventually becoming the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania.
Roman roads connected Emerita Augusta to all parts of Hispania. During the imperatorship of Trajan, the Romans built a sturdy bridge across the Río Guadiana which still carries pedestrian traffic.
The Puente Romano is 792 meters (2598 feet) long, making it the longest Roman bridge still in existence. http://www.chi-rhogroup.com
In the late Republic it became apparent that this was (pardon the pun) a double edged sword. By that stage it had become necessary for commanders to discharge their veterans with the reward of a parcel of land (mostly designated in the provinces) on which to retire. This needed to be enacted by a law. It created an even greater bond of mutual benefit between ex commander and his army. In the end, the Republic could not withstand the power implications of this arrangement, and the Empire with a princeps (we call him an Emperor) followed.
Can’t be Collingwood, too many teeth.
Where is a need, humans respond, well the clever ones anyway.
Before the chuck wagon there must have been hard for the men on the trail.
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In the late 1800s, as cowboys embarked on long cattle drives across the American West, the chuck wagon became a lifeline.
Serving as a mobile kitchen, it was essential for ensuring the crew was well-fed after grueling days of herding cattle.
Invented in 1866 by Charles Goodnight, a Texas rancher, the chuck wagon revolutionized life on the trail.
With its clever design, it provided not only meals but also a sense of stability and routine in the harsh and often unpredictable conditions of the frontier..
Meals prepared at the chuck wagon were simple yet hearty, featuring staples like beans, salted meat, biscuits, and coffee—foods chosen for their ability to endure long journeys and sustain the cowboys’ energy.
The “cookie,” the chuck wagon cook, was far more than just a chef; they were a central figure in camp life, maintaining supplies, setting the mood with their leadership, and often serving as a trusted confidant.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/zlO2WLYGMihRMb_c5h_FFvlXdEMAA-vyD0Zkh8pj1dI/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvY29tbW9ucy9i/L2IxL05hcG9sZW9u/J3NfZmllbGRfYmFr/ZXJ5LmpwZw
A Field Bakery from Napoleons army.
How about some more beans Mr. Taggart?
Another old Adelaide photo.
Thanks Tom
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/19-year-olds-breasts-balloon-b-cup-triple/
Some may snigger, but that poor girl…
You may ask why I put this up, but someone else may, and I wanted to stop the smart arse comments, and the juvenile sniggering before it started.
This young women doesn’t need to be laughed at, like some of the comments on the GP site.
So there.
Im sure its nothing….
The latest Lamb ad has been released. Interesting. Sam has a new set of false teeth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BAUXZyWw0&t=195s
Looks like an episode of a truckie program?????
It is creepy with all it’s be good on soshul meeja becasue we are very, very bad on soshul meeja.
FFS eat a chop!
bons January 7, 2025 7:27 pm
Yes, the four year fixed terms did slide through without a murmer in QLD.
Bons,
Pretty much. I voted NO!!! on that four year term piece of crap when it came up in the election. Most of my mates who voted ‘yes’ said words to the effect ‘I would rather have to vote every four years than have to go and vote after three years.’ My answer was and still is ‘because you could not be bothered to take ONE DAY out of your life to vote ONCE in every three years, you now have voted and made it so that if what was voted in turns out to be an incompetent government, we are now stuck with it for four years…instead of only three.’
Even back then the state LNP were an opposition in ‘name only.’
Useless twats.
Yes the polls were against the idea until the punters rocked up and had to run the gauntlet on polling day. Which had rather perfect weather as I recall.
so many went “I don’t want to do this more than I have to”. And we end up stuck with a crapfest when it eventually happens.
From this story:
We’re Saved! Michigan clearing over 400 acres of a forest to create rows of Chinese-made solar panels – Despite study finding ‘loss of CO2 gobbling forests for solar installations results in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions’ (3 Jan)
Funny how the Greens went all rip-rip-woodchip when it was logging, but say nothing about clear felling for solar panels and windfarms.
Note the recent explosion in electricity hungry
datasurveillance centres has coincided with the sudden acceptability of nuclear also?I have walked across the Puente Romano in Merida.
The entire city is full of Roman wonders, and a Moorish fort built from plundered Roman and Visigoth architecture with a bit of Roman road inside.
Well worth a visit if you happen to be in the area.
Was the capital of Lusitania iirc.
The world’s pre-eminent Italian-Iranian comedian on grooming gangs.
Turns pc on its head.
Hopefully he has protection – from the police.
I like him
Fluffy is back, and today notes that Trump has been busy even before his inauguration. She notes that he has been doing lengthy news conferences and taking questions, and – get this – he has done “almost as much as Joe did this year”!
Never mind the relative qualities.
Love the new lamb ad…definitely struck a chord after last night’s little contretemps in the “comments section”.
To make me feel even more humble, had a look at last year’s compilation of images from the Webb telescope.
That should keep me from getting too big for my boots (and Akubra).
I like learning new words, Cheers.
Problem for me it’s likely turn into contraception.
Lauren Boebert fires a shot over the bow of DOGE.
Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF (8 Jan)
The ATF has a long history of persecuting righties, and high handed actions. They should be abolished along with the FBI and other deep state alphabet agencies.
Just wow. He’s sucking up to Trump like a crazed idiot.
Dana White, owner of UFC and Trump’s pal has been invited on the Meta board.
Gateway Pundit’s resident “babe” Cara Castronuova does a reveal all podcast about January 6th.
Watch TGP Reporter Cara Castronuova’s J6 Podcast Special on the Night of January 6th! WHO REALLY BENEFITED FROM THE “BREACH” ON JANUARY 6TH? Why Are They Still Covering Up the Alleged Murder of Peaceful Protester Rosanne Boyland FOUR YEARS LATER?! MUST WATCH! | The Gateway Pundit | by Cara Castronuova
Tommy Robinson listened to the Sikh community.
https://x.com/AndrewGold_ok/status/1874813008368865586?t=Dk1wl8BLhfePhDgCJRVLjg&s=19
The Demonrats seem to have mostly complete ratbags in their ranks. It’s hard to decide who is the slimiest of them all. Strong contenders this week are Merrick Garland, who told big, big lies about January 6th, or Chuck Schumer who objected to Trump’s plan to pardon the people that Garland went after with prejudice. Chuck had no issues with Biden pardoning assorted murderers and terrorists, or at least taking them off the capital punishment list. That’s the same Chuck who made personal threats against SCOTUS judges.
https://www.academia.edu/38447014/The_Sexual_Exploitation_of_Young_Sikhs_in_the_UK_docx
Sure, the population of Greenland is about 56,000 people. But if commits or threatens force, how does he then argue against China taking over Taiwan?
The neocons are just jostling to get their next war in place, for when the Ukes finally fall over
The question asked was would he rule out force and economic pressure, and he said no. That second part is always left out of the reporting for some reason.
No more Swiss letterboxes.
Swiss Burqa Ban Begins (7 Jan)
The Swiss direct referenda sometimes can throw up bad stuff, but it’s a tell when the government drags its heels for four years to implement a particular referendum. It means the people were right over the target: the WEF elites.
The only reason burqas were banned was the mail kept going missing.
Susan Ley pointed out the Labor trick of removing money from an earlier budget (helps make that budget look better) only to put it back in pre-election posing, pretending it’s new and generous.
The question arises why so-called journalists aren’t telling us these things.
Albo tries this morning to pretend he’s not a commentator when it comes to what Trump is doing. He’s certainly a commentator when it comes to making Peter Dutton and the coalition responsible for everything that goes pear shaped while Labor is in government.
Interesting article, no doubt at all after 50 years of practice the grooming gangs have become very good at passing the baton.
Courtesy BarefootPidgeon
https://x.com/easyinlwr/status/1876683991685947500?t=OIkcJ9uhTsqb7y-IHo7QSw
Next step for the UK:
Make it illegal for the victims to give evidence.
That was brilliant Lotocoti
https://youtu.be/Xyts9RWVr5M?si=KC2VatyfpkaEmlkq
Er…no, it won’t.
For that, Albanese should have ordered Wong to go – either go to Israel and apologise or just go.
Bob Brown outs himself as an antisemite.
Don’t label me more moderate, I back Bandt’s Greens (Paywallian) – by BOB BROWN
Just watch out whenever you are on the top of a tall building Mr Brown, given your…lifestyle.
Bob Brown, now irrelevant, frantically tries to hog the spotlight from his shack in north Tassie:
Don’t label me more moderate, I back Adam Bandt’s Greens
BOB BROWN
Adam Bandt has solidified the Greens as Australia’s third political party.
A series of US presidents, from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, warned about corporations taking power from the people by buying political influence. Corporate power now rules the world, and the Greens, who are not beholden to the organised rich, have become the new focus of rage for the extreme right of politics. News that the right’s shadowy offset, Advance Australia, will spend millions attacking the Greens in the run to this year’s election highlights that anger.
Adam Bandt has solidified the Greens as Australia’s third political party. He has the intention to help shape future government direction, but the Greens’ policy of taxing the rich to help the poor (via such things as public education, hospitals and housing) is as attractive to the Gina Rineharts of the world as coalmining is to Vanuatu.
Bandt has my full backing. One angle being peddled is that I was a more moderate leader than Bandt (“Bob Brown’s Greens wouldn’t recognise their own party”, The Australian, 6/1/2025). That’s rubbish. We are different people sharing the same Greens credo of social justice and environmental protection.
No contemporary Greens MP has stood up on a visiting US president as senator Kerry Nettle and I did when George W. Bush addressed parliament during the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Nor have I seen a current mouthpiece of the right, like its iconic Alan Jones, rail against a current Greens MP as he did against me and prime minister Julia Gillard when we were working to tackle climate change in 2012: “Quite frankly they should shove her and Bob Brown in a chaff bag and take them as far out to sea as they can.”
Perhaps remembering that nastiness influences Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to shirk environmental responsibility now. Though some 80 per cent of Labor voters want an end to native forest logging in NSW and Tasmania, not least to protect what’s left of the koala and swift parrot populations, Albanese is so terrified of being seen to appease the Greens that he has given the loggers rousing support.
That will cost Labor votes.
Likewise, he has mollycoddled the foreign companies who have taken over the industrial Atlantic salmon industry that is polluting Tasmania’s once-pristine seas. In this, Albanese is being shepherded by Coalition leader Peter Dutton, who wants to expand the polluting industry as well as abolish “green tape” – that is, federal environment laws.
Adam Bandt’s trips to Tasmania’s threatened forests and seas have drawn much less media attention. As destruction of Earth’s biosphere by the resource-extracting corporations accelerates and the economic and social impacts of global heating grow, environmental coverage has taken a back seat. The ongoing death of the Great Barrier Reef gets far less front-page coverage than the fortunes of corporations or the stock exchange.
No wonder the electorate of Australia is restless. In 2022 the vote went roughly a third each to the two old parties and “others”, with the Greens the largest and most influential party of those others. Expect that vote to grow in 2025 despite a historic effort by the big end of town, already under way, to stop it. More and more voters, especially young Australians, want to see governments tackle the growing gap between rich and poor as well as the threats to life on Earth, which this generation is handing to the next.
The current powerbrokers seem oblivious to predictions that real incomes may be halved within a lifetime by the impacts of runaway heating of the planet. And the rich have rocks in their heads if they think that informed swinging voters are not blaming climate change for the 14 per cent per annum increase in Australian insurance premiums in the last year alone. No effort to attack Bandt and his Greens team, who have policies to address these looming problems early – and so more cheaply and effectively – will drive informed Greens voters back to either Dutton or Albanese.
Expect more teals or conservative lifestyle-defenders to be elected in 2025 too, in the wake of the old parties’ expansion of coalmining, gas fracking and native forest incineration – though the teals split ranks on the Greens’ plan for a “climate trigger” to rein in the most polluting corporations. It will worry some breakaway voters that the more conservative teals may give Dutton the leg-up he may need to form a minority government after the imminent election. The rise of Dutton is fostered by Albanese’s feebleness, but Dutton has handicapped himself by advocating nuclear power stations in the mainland states (Tasmania will forgive him for leaving it off that map). How many voters want to risk their power bills going nuclear?
The Bob Brown Foundation is pulling out all stops to bring an end to native forest logging, as New Zealand’s Labour government did in 2002, and plans rallies for the forests across Australia in March. Like New Zealand, Australia has millions of hectares of plantation forests to supply wood needs, and could redirect some of the massive amount of our timbers currently being exported to China, Malaysia and Taiwan.
The year will begin with new logging in the takayna rainforest in Tasmania and in the forests proposed for the Great Koala National Park in NSW, backed by both Labor and the Coalition in Canberra.
Schoolchildren could tell those holding Labor or Coalition portfolios that ending native forest logging is the cheapest and easiest way to help offset both global warming and the biodiversity crisis (almost three-quarters of Earth’s wildlife has been destroyed in the past 60 years). But Albanese and Dutton aren’t listening.
If the success of the Greens is to be measured by either the billionaires’ resources being deployed to attack them or the number of schoolchildren wanting to vote Green for their future, then Adam Bandt’s team is doing very well.
Bob Brown is the former Australian Greens leader who has set up the Bob Brown Foundation.
Oz
Hilarious Bob! The Greens agenda of radical leftism is being rejected around the world, and now that’s beginning in Australia – did you notice the NT and Qld state elections recently?
Your article is the equivalent of the old putting fingers in ears trick while yelling “Nah nah nah!” Then again that’s what living in Tasmania – supported by mainlanders’ taxes – is all about.
Prepare to offer Bandit an office at your place as he’s going to need space to write job applications once the federal election removes him from the political scene.
PS: no mention of Lidia Thorpe? How’s that Green success working out?
Strangely, L’il Bobby has nothing to say about the massive clearing of native forests to make way for solar and wind generators and the wide gaps being cut through them for new transmission lines.
Hypocrite.
Correction, lying hypocrite.
Not quite sure that he’s completely guilty of that. He did protesteth the windfarm to be built near his Tassie shack in true NIMBY fashion and won.
But yes, has had very little to say on the environmental destruction that ruinables bring.
Could never stand that turd with the wining, sanctimonious voice.
Bob brown is a real cock sucker.
I recall that his shack was built on clear felled land for his “views”. At the time he was interviewed a few people like Bolt pointed it out. But the MSM covered for him. He was after all Green and Gay.
@JesseBWatters
FOX NEWS ALERT: We’re finding out just how much the @FBI and locals officials blew it in the terrorist attack in New Orleans. New video shows Jabbar planting IEDs inside giant coolers around Bourbon Street, which police never noticed. We’re also finding out that New Orleans police had barricades that could’ve stopped the attack, but they didn’t put them up — because the police chief was out to lunch. But the terrorist should never have even made it that far in the first place. He was a walking red flag that the FBI should’ve scooped up a long time ago. He posted crazy things on the internet, ranting about the “end times.” An hour and half before the attack, he posted on Facebook — pledging his allegiance to ISIS. And while Jabbar was radicalizing, Chris Wray was rummaging through Melania’s closet. They also missed the two attempted-assassins who targeted @realDonaldTrump and Brett Kavanaugh. Why are all of these assassins and terrorists slipping through the FBI’s fingers? Because the bureau’s fighting a political war instead of a real one. They’re still focused on January 6th. Today, Merrick Garland called the investigation “one of the most complex, and most resource-intensive investigations in the Justice Department’s history.” Andy McCabe called it “a massive piece of the institution’s work”… so massive that it’s distracting them from noticing cooler bombs and assassins.
People are funny Courtesy One bad Dude: https://x.com/onebaddude_/status/1876680198470639985?t=OIkcJ9uhTsqb7y-IHo7QSw
bwahahahaha. Good one Tinta.
As we knew all along.
‘The Plan’ Brittany Higgins’ lawyers didn’t want us to see (Paywallian) – by Janet Albrechtsen
Hopefully a beak will now order her to repay Treasury that $2.4 million.
Meme
@catturd2
The communist UK should be barred from the Olympic Games until they stop arresting and jailing people for free speech and protecting the gang rapists of tens of thousands of innocent children.
Very interesting twist:
New Years rammer made bombs with rare chemical, nails (7 Jan)
I don’t even know what R-Salt is, and I’m certainly NOT going to look it up. But RDX is a well known nitrate high explosive. That suggests a level of sophistication well beyond the usual TATP cooking on a kitchen stove.
It sounds to me like he had serious help from somewhere.
I looked up R-Salt. You’ve nothing to worry about.
Of the Eleventy-Eleven matches (many were to a type of fly-fishing attachment) this was possibly the closest to the matter at hand:
Not the right chemical.
2-Hydroxy-3,6-naphthalenedisulfonic acid isn’t an explosive, it’s a detergent. No nitrate moieties.
Whatever R-Salt is it will be a multiply nitrated beastie like RDX..
@RadioGenoa
Taxi driver, Andrew McIntyre, jailed for seven and a half years over Southport social media posts. This is Keir Starmer’s England.
Well, that was handy, wasn’t it?
@Liz_Wheeler
The content of the new House report on the Jan. 6th pipe bomber is shocking.
The FBI tracked phone data & narrowed the suspects down to 186 phone numbers… and then down to 1 phone number… And then the FBI suddenly stopped the case. Just, ended it.
WHY? Who is that one person that they didn’t want to reveal???
The FBI agent in charge (Steven D’Antuano) then told Congress that the phone data from a major telecom company was corrupted. But the telecom company says the data was NOT corrupted. Uhh… The FBI lied? To cover up?
Now the FBI and other agencies are stonewalling Congress over WHY this investigation into what we’re told is the biggest domestic terror attack attempt in recent history just… stopped.
Oh, and the two people who “found” the “pipe bombs” on Jan 6 we’re a “woman carrying a basket of laundry” who is actually a swamp creature who works for an intel-connected org where she works on “disinformation.” LOL. And the other “bomb” was found by a plainclothes fed.
Both “bombs” sat in plain sight undetected for 15+ hours until both were found independently within 15 mins of each other also within 15 mins of the first breach of the Capitol.
And the frame rate of the one video the FBI released of the pipe bomber—which came from the DNC—was 1.2fps which is lower than any security camera on the market by 8x?? Which implies that the video was tampered with? By whom? What’s on the frames that were removed from the publicly released tape??
The implications of this are enormous.
We are closer than we’ve ever been before in totally exposing the totality of what an absolute, evil hoax J6 was.
Don’t lose steam now. Raise your voice. Get this over the finish line. Expose it ALL so everyone can see we aren’t crazy conspiracy theorists, that the Feds actually staged J6 to demonize MAGA after Biden & his ilk rigged the election.
You are the media. Make this famous.
TRUMP IS AWARE OF J6 PIPE BOMBER, “THEY KNOW WHO IT IS”
A good start.
“Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE: Highlights
– $20B tech investment into the USA
– Will work to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”
– Does not rule out military/economic coercion to take over Greenland/Panama Canal
– Reiterates ‘all h*ll will break loose’ on Day One if hostages not released by Hamas
– Sticking to pardons of Jan 6ers
– Working with Congressional Republicans on a package that includes key elements of his agenda, such as tax cuts
– Wants states to finish election counting by 10PM on election night
– Supports gas heaters over Biden’s effort to force electric heaters on American homes
– Will “immediately” undo Biden’s new offshore drilling ban”
I’m on board with all of that.
Ditto.
Another One Down: Anti-Globalist Maelstrom Sweeps Away Trudeau as Larger Storm Looms
How Elites Betrayed Working People – Batya Ungar Sargon
Very, very good. She’s clued up to the Lefts bullshit agenda and the Rights duplicitous machinations.
I’d put this in the top ten interviews for last year.
Neil Oliver: Smelling a rat!?!
yes, smelling a Great Big Fat Hairy Rat from the biolabs.
Polling conducted for popular talk-back radio network ‘London’s Biggest Conversation’ (LBC) reveals 24% of Labour voters have buyer’s remorse.
[The Spectator 6th January 2025]
Perhaps they’re now siding with the “far right” [sarc].
I don’t think Zuckerberg has seen the light and is now on Trump’s side, it’s more likely that Facebook usage stats are in the toilet and he just realised that he and his tactics have turned off users. Still good to know that he is teachable.
I don’t think Suckerberg has seen the light. As you say, his usage is in the toilet. We won’t know until the demonrats are back in power.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 8, 2025 8:53 am
As we knew all along.
‘The Plan’ Brittany Higgins’ lawyers didn’t want us to see (Paywallian) – by Janet Albrechtsen
Here you go Bruce:
‘The Plan’ Brittany Higgins’ lawyers didn’t want us to see
Janet Albrechtsen
9:30pmJuly 08, 2024. Updated 9:25amJuly 09, 2024
This is the statement of claim that lawyers for Brittany Higgins didn’t want us at The Australian to see. They didn’t want us to report it, to analyse what Linda Reynolds set out in her defamation claim against Higgins in the West Australian Supreme Court.
Fear not. We’re fighting objections by the Higgins team to us accessing all the documents filed in this litigation. I filed further submissions with the WA Supreme Court on Monday. The wheels of justice move slowly – court orders are currently not due until the end of this month.
In the meantime, my intrepid colleague Ellie Dudley got hold of a copy of the statement of claim current as at June 4.
No wonder the Higgins team tried to block us from seeing it.
It is an extraordinary read. For the first time in one document are allegations of what Reynolds calls “the Plan” – a carefully orchestrated, pre-meditated political hit job where Higgins and Sharaz used allegations of a rape and a political cover-up “as a weapon to inflict immediate political damage” on Reynolds and the then government of the day.
The Plan, says the statement of claim, started long before Lisa Wilkinson’s infamous Project interview in February 2021. Shortly after meeting Sharaz in May 2020 – some 14 months after the alleged rape – Higgins crafted a note about an “anatomy of a political sex scandal”.
According to Reynolds’ claims in the proceeding, the Plan continues to this day, with Higgins refusing to apologise to Reynolds or retract allegedly defamatory and disparaging material.
Key points of Reynolds’ claim
The overriding impression from Reynolds’ claim is clear: Reynolds believes that Higgins and Sharaz left little to chance in furtherance of their Plan. Higgins would later boast in her draft book outline sent to Penguin Random House, “We had become quite a twosome when it came to game planning. My experience as a media adviser, David’s experience as a producer; together we understood how the gallery media sphere operated.”
That much is true. Curated in remarkable detail, the statement takes 20 pages to set out their game planning of various kinds.
Higgins and Sharaz lined up favoured journalists, priming them, drip-feeding them material. Higgins taped private conversations with people she worked with in parliament, and shared the secret recordings with select journalists and former Labor advisers.
The Plan, says the statement of claim, covered other pre-Project conduct including Higgins and Sharaz meeting ACT Labor Party Operations Manager Sandra Fisk in August 2020 to disclose the allegations and later to discuss implications of going to the media; in January 2021, Higgins creating a timeline or “dossier” to be distributed to the media, Sharaz making arrangements around the same time to meet with Wilkinson and news.com journalist Samantha Maiden; Sharaz providing the dossier to Wilkinson “on behalf of Brit”; Sharaz emailing Wilkinson about Higgins’ allegations under the heading “MeToo Liberal Party Project Pitch”; Sharaz and Higgins settling on a parliamentary sitting week to drop the allegations in the media; Sharaz telling Wilkinson during a five-hour interview that you can only prosecute the Liberal Party “in the court of public opinion”; Sharaz telling Wilkinson that “the reason we’ve chosen the timeline … is because it’s a sitting week when we want the story to come out”; Sharaz telling Wilkinson “I’ve got a friend in Labor, Katy Gallagher on the Labor side, who will probe and continue it going”; Wilkinson telling Higgins and Sharaz that “I’m a great believer in people’s time will come” to which Sharaz responded “Linda’s time, please god, let it be Linda’s time” with Wilkinson adding “Well, I think it might be” before reading out text messages with Reynolds to “ridicule” her.
The statement of claim sets out how the Plan involved Higgins speaking with Emma Webster, a former Labor adviser, to discuss how to manage the media when the Project interview dropped; Sharaz lining up Grace Tame to “do media” the day after The Project interview aired.
The alleged Plan is said to have involved Sharaz co-opting senior Labor figures. Sharaz shared the Project transcript with Gallagher before it aired, providing her with a copy of the dossier timeline. Sharaz told Higgins that “Katy is going to come to me with some questions you need to prepare for … she’s really invested.” All this occurred before the Project aired. Reynolds says that when Sharaz acted it can be inferred from the circumstances that “Mr Sharaz’s conduct … was on the instructions or with the consent of the defendant”.
The statement of claim also alleges the orchestrated gang attacks executed by Gallagher, Penny Wong and others over many days that led to Reynolds being admitted to hospital.
The statement contains details of meetings between Higgins and Labor Party members including Anthony Albanese, Tanya Plibersek and former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd. There are extracts of text messages in March 2021 between Higgins and Sharaz “concerning their Plan”, including Sharaz texting “suck sh** Linda … You awful human” and Higgins to Sharaz: “(Scott Morrison) about to be f..ked over. Just wait. We’ve got him.” And Sharaz to Higgins: “You may as well feed everything we have to Katy.”
The Plan continued, says the statement of claim, with Higgins posting disparaging, taunting social media posts in March this year even after she signed a non-disparagement deed with Reynolds in March 2021, and after Higgins received a concerns notice from Reynolds in July last year, even after mediation talks in Perth in March this year.
Many Australians must be fed up with the Higgins story. I am. But this next instalment strikes at the heart of what Federal Court judge Michael Lee called the “major motif” of the Higgins scandal – her allegation on The Project of a political cover-up. Lee found no evidence to support this serious allegation. He found the allegation “did much collateral damage – including to the fair and orderly progress of the underlying allegation of sexual assault through the criminal justice system”.
Alas, Lee’s comments have no binding legal effect. Higgins hasn’t apologised. Reynolds says she wants Higgins to stop defaming her. Reynolds says she wants Higgins to stop breaching her contract by disparaging her. Reynolds wants to be recompensed for reputational damage, for the hurt and injury she says she suffered by Higgins/Sharaz executing their ‘Plan’.
Late last month, Reynolds added a new pleading that Higgins has conspired with one or more people to injure Reynolds. Tortious conspiracy is serious. If the claim of tortious conspiracy is successful, Reynolds might get an award for aggravated damages.
Still, why should we care anymore? We have been subjected to more than three years of mayhem from this saga. The time wasted, energy expended, careers unfairly and irrevocably damaged, and, of course, the financial costs to the nation are immeasurable.
This litigation matters because we are entitled to know the truth about the alleged Plan so that we can fully assess Gallagher’s involvement in it, the complicity of other Labor figures, and what impact it had on the last election. Persistent questions hover around the morality and legitimacy of Labor’s tactics in prosecuting their attack on Reynolds and her government.
The Statement of Claim provides only Reynolds view of course. If the trial judge agrees with it (which we have yet to find out) things might get awkward quickly for a number of Liars, notably the remaining Mean Girls.
It certainly has the Wong Pong about it – and her trademark move – behind the scenes and letting some other be the patsy.
At this stage I don’t think it matters, they have got away with it.
Daily Tele.
Incitement to violence’: Jewish leaders, politicians call for ‘Bash Zionist’ tops to be scrappedAn anti-Israel activist is selling a T-shirt which features slogans such as “bash Zionists” and “support armed resistance”, leaving members of Australia’s Jewish community “shocked” and calling for a ban.
CNN may be about to receive a dinosaur asteroid.
CNN’s High-Profile Defamation Trial Is Underway—and Jurors Appear Open to 10-Figure Payout (6 Jan, via Instapundit)
Florida court, and it sounds like Florida Man is not exactly friendly to CNN. Being hit for a billion bucks in damages would be an extinction level event for CNN, which has lost half their watchers since the election and which is now regularly outrated by upstart Newsmax.
Far-right French firebrand politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies at 96Noemie Bisserbe
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French firebrand who rekindled far-right politics in the heart of Europe, has died at the age of 96.
Mr Le Pen’s health deteriorated in recent years, having been hospitalised after a heart attack and suffering a mild stroke during a dinner at home.
Mr Le Pen was the face of the far-right in France for nearly four decades, co-founding the National Front in 1972 and leading the anti-immigration party until he handed it over to his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed it National Rally.
His death was confirmed on Tuesday by Jordan Bardella, the current president of National Rally.
Mr Le Pen’s rhetoric – which ranged from nativist diatribes to anti-Semitic remarks – made him a pariah across Europe’s political establishment and, at times, a source of embarrassment to his own daughter. In 2015, she ejected her father from the party over his repeated characterisation of Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history”.
Mr Le Pen carried the torch for Europe’s far-right during the era that followed the defeat of European fascism in World War II and the expansion of civil rights in the 1960s. He borrowed his party’s logo, the tricolour flame, from the supporters of fallen Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and forged a new political identity for the far-right based on deep anti-immigrant sentiment.
To Mr Le Pen, immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, including former French colonies, represented a demographic time bomb for Europe. His message channelled the frustration of many French who felt marginalised by the forces of globalisation, particularly the forging of the European Union with its open internal borders and its porous external ones. That made the National Front a harbinger for populist parties that sprung up around Europe in the years to come, from Italy’s anti-immigration League to the far-right Alternative for Germany.
Le Pen had actually served, as a paratrooper, in the French Foreign Legion, in Indochina (now Vietnam) and Algeria. His service may have explained his attitudes on immigration…
Apart from immigration his policies had a decidedly socialist bent.
And yet the Soviet regime, preparing for the transition of power, rested its ownership and authority of the Strategic Missile Forces exclusively to the Russian Federation.
You must be the only person that believes that introducing the preceding comments confuses the reader.
Heresy alert.
the Herald-Sun today is headlining that roonables are horrible, evil, nasty things.
The Kraken wakes.
Lmao.
Then why did they allow the Chinese to get anywhere near Greenland?
Im pretty relaxed about WW III not starting over Greenland.
Fairly sure Trump knows about this.
One billion tonnes @ $10,000 per tonne.
The Greenland greenies won the election and stopped the project because mining bad.
Ten trillion dollars just sitting there…
Denmark has been one of the United States’ most steadfast allies for decades. This is how the upcoming administration shows its gratitude x.com/TrumpDailyPost…
Once were Vikings…
now an arse licking satrapy of the US.
‘The Plan’ Brittany Higgins’ lawyers didn’t want us to see
This is an old Oz story, from July last year.
Maybe so, but it’s in the Oz today. Certainly worth repeating!
Do you now subscribe to the Oz?
No. Still too lefty.
I do however link to them as a courtesy.
Please refrain. And no, it is not ‘too lefty’.
I’ll give a plug to the Oz wine club though. Enjoyed their selections a great deal for many years. Had to stop because I cut back on wine for a few years and couldn’t keep up.
Yes it is. RINO Ryan is still a board member. They still editorially spruik climate rubbish (although the commentators are getting braver at rebelling against the editorial line lately – good on them!)
Rupert tried to move the trust over to Lachlan recently but got stymied by the courts. I do not regard Lachlan as a firm righty, since he is a WEF elitist stratum person, but he’s better than the rest of the kids. Once greenie James gets his chunk of Newscorp is going to be roadkill.
You need to get out more. You have zero idea.
Oh and Lachlan is NOT a WEF elitist stratum person.
Bruce O’Nuke:
That’s because the Greens get a lot of funding from the Chinese.
The poisonous dwarf in charge will do anything his paymasters want.
Is Bandt related to the poisonous dwarf Governor of NY?
No, but he is related to the other Poisonous Dwarf Josef Goebbels by ideology.
True, but Greenland would be strategically valuable to the US. RWA make the case here:
Trump could buy out all 56,000 Greenlanders with $2 million US each. They could live like kings on that money.
And he’d make a 9000% profit just on the one ore deposit I mentioned to H B Bear.
Hell, he could give every man, woman and child US$5 million and still would be up 3700%.
…and if they like the cold so much, give them citizenship of Alaska/US.
Win/Win!
Offer them residence in Hawaii.
BoN:
Get rid of it so it cannot rise again.
Do it so any government organisation thinks twice about being politicised and weaponised against the people.
We need to create one in Australia so the police no longer have that authority over us – then disband it.
Akubralbo still annoying even with sound turned off!
Try turning the TV off at the wall.
I wondered why they haven’t threatened me with a tossing out on my ear for weeks.
If Denmark is really a staunch ally of the US, perhaps they could just give Greenland away – after all, it’s a long way from Denmark and quite a bit closer to the US.
And colonies are so last century!
They don’t even have to do that.
Greenland Prime Minister Calls for Independence from Denmark: ‘Time to Take the Next Step’ (3 Jan)
Not exactly 1776 all over again though. Ok, yes, the US military is a bit anemic these days but 56,000 Greenlanders are unlikely to present much of a challenge.
alwaysright’s front page of the Herald-Sun referred to above:
What’s the “cabana drama”? And why does Albo say it’s “not on”?
Are they having cabana wars at the beaches?
Possibly his new lurrrrve nest at Cococabana?
Albanese’s political instincts are such that he’s come out against (Sydney) Westie families who pack lotsa beach gear into the car & visit Sydney’s beaches for the day.
I expect I have been to Bondi beach more often than many people from Western Sydney. Moving among the people might not be Albo’s strong suit. cf Peanut Head shopping for lettuces.
Is it because I’m really old? Adelaide Timbrell, ANZ Senior Economist looks like a high schooler – lovely but so young.
It’s certainly not just policemen looking younger.
People get called senior these days after promotion from graduate. Then principle after a couple of years.
in some think tanks you get to be called “director of mindless shit” when you are the only member of the mindless shit team.
It really isn’t that much closer at all, surprisingly. The distance is about equal give or take 50ish nmi, and the sea passage is shorter from Denmark than from Maine. But setting all that aside, its amusing to hear the argument that a staunch ally ought to relinquish territories to the US.
Folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary diesRyan JonesReuters
January 8, 2025 2:59AM
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American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at the age of 86.
Yarrow died in the morning at his New York home surrounded by family following a four-year battle with bladder cancer, publicist Ken Sunshine said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Our fearless dragon is tired and has entered the last chapter of his magnificent life,” Yarrow’s daughter Bethany said in a statement provided by Sunshine.
“The world knows Peter Yarrow the iconic folk activist, but the human being behind the legend is every bit as generous, creative, passionate, playful, and wise as his lyrics suggest.”
Yarrow formed Peter, Paul and Mary with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. The group helped popularise the early work of Bob Dylan and sang hits such as Puff, The Magic Dragon, which Yarrow co-wrote.
The group’s version of Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind helped transform the song into a civil rights anthem and introduced his music to a wider audience. The group also scored big hits with If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, co-written by folk artist Pete Seeger.
Yes, Peter Yarrow was a major figure of the Sixties folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. He also was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter.
Certainly didn’t know that, when I posted!