The repulsive Starmer and the equally repulsive Anal are the inevitable result of formerly working men’s parties being taken over by campus Marxists who haven’t done an honest day’s work in their despicable lives.
mem
January 15, 2025 10:15 am
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BoN, sounds like bullshit to me. Qantas flights Australia to South Africa go way south, sometimes passengers get to see the sea ice.
Starship should not go much south of 32 south on their way to the ocean off NW Australia.
Yes, it’s a wonderful view. Just like Haneda-Helsinki. That one goes very close to the pole.
I had fun with the Beloved. Geography and geometry are not his strong suits, and he couldn’t quite work it out. Had to explain orthodromic distance and then he got it. It’s what happens to kids brought up on Mercator.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim was mentioned yesterday as the source of a ridiculous peace proposal between hamas scum and Israel. Here is one of the bastard’s papers which shows no surprise about his anti-Israel stance:
Good job; as with any biggish purchase, you should always have a first hand look at what you’re planning to buy.
However, the huuuge problem that screams out here is timing. Here we are, in the pre-election ‘phoney war’ stage, with the Coalition strapped to a roughly sketched ‘we’re gunna build some, just watch’ nuclear policy – and the responsible policy person is just now setting off on a “comprehensive international study”.
I’ve visited a couple of nuclear power stations and I’m here to tell you that O’Brien will be blown away by the shiny complexity and (BA, MEcon) glaze over at the operational physics. [And this is not a FIGJAM moment for me. I understand conventional power generation pretty well, but I was humbled by the breadth and depth of the science carried around by the operating teams.]
His key take aways will be:
a) radiologically super-safe, and
b) they need to run flat chat all the time, absolutely all the time, to be economic.
This should have been baked into Coalition policy two years ago.
Taking into account materiel/energy/emissions input for power generation builds (not to mention cost & footprint); only the clinically insane and/or engineering ignorant would choose anything other than HELE coal (with gas as back up). Nuclear is fine and desirable, and 100x in agreement with the implications of Roger’s comment, but in terms of the national interest and the economic well being of our citizenry – HELE coal is it.
In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the process.
And I strongly suspect all those poor milkvetch shrubs have now gone to the great shrubbery in the sky as a result of those environmental looneys.
BON, the afforementioned plant will, according to the saveplants organisation, thrive after soil disturbance including chaparral fire.
This is an ephemeral perennial member of the pea family that reaches a height of 15 dm with dull lilac flowers blooming March-July (Munz 1974). It typically appears following a chaparral fire or other form of mechanical disturbance and persists several years before senescing or becoming crowded out by developing vegetation
Reading the above, one could safely presume that the machinery movements in the powerline corridor would in fact have benefited the plant.
If it wasn’t that it would be something else that they were not really interested in but simply using as an excuse to stop any development and more especially, lock away access to as much countryside as possible.
Same with energy projects. Am I the only one to have noticed that they happily support everything until it shows signs of working, at which point they suddenly become environmental disasters?
Sancho Panzer
January 15, 2025 11:16 am
Eyrie
January 15, 2025 10:20 am
BoN, sounds like bullshit to me. Qantas flights Australia to South Africa go way south, sometimes passengers get to see the sea ice.
I find myself in agreement with Hallward here.
I suspect the route is becoming uneconomic what with Seth Effrica being a shithole and all, or they have had other internal cock-ups causing delays.
Rather than simply say that, some PR douche has come up with the idea of blaming it all on Musk.
Not very smart.
I am some of the way through it now.
Most of it I had read in the AFR, but I had forgotten some of it.
I don’t know who would bother with them. Certainly on international routes they are far too expensive.
I don’t know who bothers to fly with them anymore.
Boomers who still believe it is the safest airline evah?
Corporates and Pubic Serpents who like to accumulate FF points domestically for work then use them to fly internationally privately?
I heard a travel j’ism on 3AW a while back saying “how fantastic it was to board the return flight and hear an Aussie accent”.
Yeah, nah.
If I want to get snarled at by a surly prick, I can wait until Customs at Tulla.
And I certainly wouldn’t be paying $3-$5k overs for the privilege.
It’s amazing how the same people who claim they favour QANTAS for being Australian hate every single other Australian thing that actually forms part of the culture.
There are very few direct flights to South Africa since 2020. The SYD route is very popular and alwasy full with Qantas have recently put the A380 Scarebus on this route in place of the the Dreamings machine. The Scarebus has also had problems on LAX route so Musk may be just an excuse. I don’t racall any update from Qantas on the the turn back after four hours at Christmas. That flight did seem to go much further south. Pilots probably got carried away chasing the wind and lost track of their destination!!
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim was mentioned yesterday as the source of a ridiculous peace proposal between hamas scum and Israel.
Well, I did try to gently warn that he may not be a good sauce.
The whole story didn’t make sense.
A week before the inauguration of a President who tells Hamarse that the hostages better be released by 20th or “all hell will break loose”, Israel basically capitulates with zero conditions placed on Hamarse.
Sure.
I think we are going to see a ceasefire and release of hostages with a scorched earth DMZ between Israel and Gaza.
Build the wall!
Postdoctoral fellow left UCLA following tweeted allegations of sexual harassment
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter.
A postdoctoral fellow left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter.
Starting in early June, several Twitter users accused Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, of sexual harassment, stating that he sent private messages harassing them, invited underage people for drinks and sent minors unsolicited inappropriate photos.
The Nazarian Center’s director Dov Waxman said in an emailed statement that it received a complaint based on the social media posts and informed the UCLA Title IX Office of the incident. The statement added that Ben-Ephraim was no longer affiliated with the Nazarian Center.
He denied it (of course).
But what we have here is an academic who isn’t quite as well off as he used to be desperately craving attention.
Oh, and he is a yuuuge fan of Uncle George.
The late 1920s bubble was unique. First, it didn’t take off until 1928. Second, three innovations — the automobile, airplane, and radio industries — dominated the bubble. All three were transformative on their own. And when the market crashed in 1929, those three industries were hit the hardest. But the 1929 crash didn’t entirely kill the excitement in those industries. Each one experienced a second spike in 1930 before the real meltdown began. It wasn’t until late 1932 that the innovation around airplanes got its second wind.
Looking at the breakdown of industries from 1924 to 1932.
Radio, aircraft, automotive excluding GM, and GM alone, are shown.
Ford didn’t go public until the 1950s, so not included.
The design had a serious flaw in that it lacked any kind of struts or braces for the wings, with Christmas insisting that they should be flexible. Control of the aircraft was meant to be achieved by wing warping to its flying surfaces.[5] Although the Chief Engineer at Continental, Vincent Burnelli, tried to institute changes, the “Christmas Bullet” was completed with the original design features intact. Construction materials were scrounged from available wood and steel stock and were not “aircraft grade”, which was also a concern to Burnelli.
Black Ball
January 15, 2025 11:41 am
In Go Get Em Tiger news:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia will take the “strongest action possible” if Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins is confirmed to have been executed by Russian forces.
Speaking at a press conference in Tasmania’s Devonport, Mr Albanese came down hard after Foreign Minister Penny Wong vowed that “all options are on the table” should Mr Jenkins be dead.
“If there has been any harm caused that is absolutely reprehensible and the Australian government will take the strongest action possible,” Mr Albanese said.
“I spoke with the Ukrainian Ambassador on Monday in my office. We call upon Russia to immediately confirm Oscar Jenkins’ status, we remain gravely concerned. We will await the facts to come out.”
Earlier, a top Ukrainian official in Kyiv warned that Russia has “a deep-seated hatred” of foreign nationals fighting for Ukraine like Mr Jenkins.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the ABC that Russian forces do “not adhere to any conventions, including those regarding the treatment of prisoners of war”, like Mr Jenkins.
The former Melbourne teacher is believed to have been killed after he was captured by Russian forces.
According to 7News, a source said his body has been found.
The Australian Government has said it is making urgent enquiries.
Mr Jenkins, 32, is a former student of Melbourne Grammar, but had moved to the Tianjin region of China to study biology in 2015.
He had been serving with Ukraine’s 66th Mechanised Unit in Kramatorsk, Donetsk, when he was taken prisoner by Russian forces.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong warned “all options are on the table”, saying the Australian government held “grave concerns for Mr Jenkins’ welfare” and was “making urgent inquiries following the reports of his death”.
“We do need to ascertain the facts, and we’re working very hard to do that,” Senator Wong told the ABC.
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman earlier said reports of his death have not been verified, but they continue to have grave concerns for Mr Jenkins’ welfare.
DFAT also confirmed at Penny Wong’s direction, the Russian Ambassador was called into DFAT on January 13 to seek information and reiterate Australia’s expectations that Russia will comply with its obligations under international law.
“The Russian Federation is obligated to treat all prisoners of war in accordance with international humanitarian law,” a spokesperson said.
“DFAT is continuing to provide consular support to Mr Jenkins’ family during this difficult time.
“His family has requested privacy and we ask that media respect their wishes.”
Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Senate, Simon Birmingham, said “if reports are true Russia undertook an extrajudicial execution of a captured Australian citizen, then the Albanese Government should respond in the strongest possible terms.”
“Three years ago the then Labor opposition urged Russian diplomatic expulsions, yet in government Labor have undertaken no such action. If Russia has engaged in such an egregious and illegal action then it must now be a catalyst for action,” he continued.
“Nothing less than the recalling of Australia’s ambassador to Russia and expulsion of Russia’s ambassador to Australia would be sufficient in such circumstances.”
In December last year, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko said there was a chance of his release through a prison swap, but any release would be a “lengthy process.
His prisoner of war status meant there was a “kind of light at the end of the tunnel”, after the Australian had enlisted in the Ukrainian defence forces rather than fighting as an independent mercenary.
Australian officials confirmed Mr Jenkins, who was seen with his hands bound being taunted and hit by a Russian soldier in a video that went viral on the social media platform Telegram earlier this week, was covered by the Third Geneva Convention protecting prisoners of war as he was formally enlisted in the Ukrainian military when captured.
Could also file under Shit That Albo Won’t Do
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Some of them were told their passports would be cancelled, they would not be allowed to return to Australia, and they would become “Stateless persons.”
I certainly hope that bloke Wong’s response to the death of the Vegan Mercenary will be proportionate.
Eh Pong? You know, what you told Israel the day after Oct 7?
Come on, drag out the Russian Ambassador and belt him with Elbow’s lettuce.
“If there has been any harm caused that is absolutely reprehensible and the Australian government will take the strongest action possible,” Mr Albanese said.
What are the odds Albosleazy attacked PM Abbott about his shirtfronting Putin?
No, that could not have happened. I listened to 7 news tonight (yeah, I know) and Mark Riley didn’t say a thing about it. And you know how he feels about an Aus PM using a colloquial term about confronting someone else. Surely he would have made a point of addressing it /s
Bruce of Newcastle
January 15, 2025 11:44 am
I hope Bezos’s big rocket goes better than his newspaper.
Over the last four years, web traffic has cratered. According to internal data shared with Semafor in recent weeks, the Post’s regular daily traffic last year sunk to less than a quarter of what it was at its peak in January 2021. That month, the Post briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily active users following the attack. But by the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered around 2.5-3 million daily users.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of lefty journos. It does however illustrate the problem Bezos has: he’s recently been trying to tack WaPo more to the centre. But all that does is piss off lefties who had been subscribing to it. Meanwhile no righty will ever read or subscribe to WaPo. The paper is going to die, I smell it.
Bezos’s rocket is now due to attempt launch on Thursday, I think about 5pm Ncl time, after the first attempt earlier this week had to be scrubbed.
I’m reminded of how, only minutes before Reagan was inaugurated in January 1981, Iran freed the American hostages after 14 months. This was after Reagan had said, in plain English, that the US does not negotiate with terrorists.
On October 7 2023 Nazi scum took Jewish men, women and children hostage and has kept them in Gaza for over 15 months, raping, torturing and starving them.
How many remain alive?
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Knuckle Dragger
January 15, 2025 12:01 pm
Mr Albanese came down hard after Foreign Minister Penny Wong vowed that “all options are on the table” should Mr Jenkins be dead
Yeah righto. ‘All options’, eh?
I can hardly imagine Luigi intoning to the nation:
‘It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of the persistence of Russia in her killing of a scrawny vegan that hasn’t lived in Australia for the past ten years, and that, as a result, Australia is at war.’
More pompous blowhardery that’s not fooling anyone.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim was mentioned yesterday as the source of a ridiculous peace proposal between hamas scum and Israel.
Well, I did try to gently warn that he may not be a good sauce.
It’s amusing that more time was spent talking about Shaiel Ben-Ephraim then about the deal that was being discussed all over Twitter, Israeli media, and elsewhere.
The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, will hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It’s set for takeoff on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 1:11 a.m. (0611 GMT) Wednesday.
Artist Mikael Genberg says he has been wanting to put his typically Swedish-looking miniature house on the moon for 25 years.
It was “a crazy, maybe idiotic, but at the same time, in my mind, really poetic thought to put a red house with white corners on the surface of the moon,” Genberg said in a video posted on Facebook. “And now it’s going to happen.”
“What’s the purpose? It’s art,” he added.
The house is due to be launched at about 5 pm this afternoon Ncl time. I suspect it will be the first ever house in space. There’s live coverage from 4:10 pm.
(And if you think launching a model house into orbit is silly, keep in mind the last gigantic Spaceship launch was of one (1) banana.)
I think it might’ve been a fake banana. I was watching: they had cameras on it throughout and it didn’t explode, just sort of drifted about. They had light lines to it to keep it from going too far and getting into things.
alwaysright
January 15, 2025 12:12 pm
for the Gaza border, rather then a wall, would it be cheaper to have a heap of mines and razor ribbon stretching across a mile or two.
No they didn’t. But yes the Hamas guys did get together a full brigade and a whole bunch of bulldozers and knocked down the wall, so perhaps something more than just automatic machine guns would be indicated. Multiple automatic rocket launchers maybe, with thermobaric warheads, just so the Gazans get the message to stay on their side.
Um, you did look at what the remote weapons were in the linked story?
And what I said the remote weapons should be…?
Always check the detail. Before 7/10 the IDF was careful not to pot goatherders in Palistan oops the West Bank. Which is where the automatics were installed. I doubt they will care much about such sentiments henceforth.
Very good. I had to watch several times just to make sure. That kid has a future.
Eyrie
January 15, 2025 12:27 pm
Search for Fallen astronaut on Wikipedia. The statue and list left at
Eyrie
January 15, 2025 12:31 pm
Oops, on phone.
Left at Hadley Rille by the crew of Apollo 15. IIRC these were the guys who mentioned the blind poet Rhysling who was a Heinlein character.
thefrollickingmole
January 15, 2025 12:33 pm
On their ABCcess this morning the had a uni pervert intoning on the peace deal.
Lots of “far right, far right”, fright being intoned about those eeeevil Yiddish chaps, while the democracy loving freedom fighters of Hamarse were just hapless victims.
I think the term right/far right and far right extremist was used at least 20 times in 5 minute “report”.
It’s amusing that more time was spent talking about Shaiel Ben-Ephraim then about the deal that was being discussed all over Twitter, Israeli media, and elsewhere.
Still many, many moving parts.
One of the more interesting concepts being floated by Blinken (presumably on behalf of the Corpse in Chief) is that UN international forces may be required in Gaza to guarantee peace and security – particularly during rebuilding and the orderly transition to, well, something else.
Hundreds of fresh new hostages – and super powerful human shields.
More to the point, a poison pill for Trump who may not have wanted to send troops.
Sancho Panzer
January 15, 2025 12:44 pm
Black Ball
January 15, 2025 11:41 am
In Go Get Em Tiger news:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia will take the “strongest action possible” if Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins is confirmed to have been executed by Russian forces.
Sure, and even the proposal indicates that there will be issues relevant to phases 2 and 3 that will need to be determined during phase 1. However, I was being roasted yesterday and today for mentioning a deal using a persona non grata.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim was mentioned yesterday as the source of a ridiculous peace proposal between hamas scum and Israel.
Well, I did try to gently warn that he may not be a good sauce.
It’s amusing that more time was spent talking about Shaiel Ben-Ephraim then about the deal that was being discussed all over Twitter, Israeli media, and elsewhere.
Always worth pointing out if the original sauce is a rabid anti-Semite.
Worked at “Israeli Studies Centre at UCLA”.
That should be a five-alarm fire straight off the bat.
Mak SIccar
January 15, 2025 12:51 pm
Deadsh!t Dutton jumping (prematurely) on the bandwagon. ‘I can be just as tough as Airbus Elbow!’ Must be an election imminently.
Readers comments unkind, many of which mention’ lettuce leaf’ strangely enough.
Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have presented a bipartisan threat of the “strongest possible action” against the Kremlin if Australian foreign fighter Oscar Jenkins is confirmed to have been executed by Russian forces, following his capture in eastern Ukraine.
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The opposition leader, speaking at a press conference in Halls Gap, Victoria, urged Mr Albanese to send Mr Pavlovsky packing should diplomats prove Mr Jenkins was executed.
“We should send a clear message to Russia and to other similar minded regimes that Australians are sacrosanct, they deserve to be protected by their government and if they are harmed in this way and brutally executed as seems to be the suggestion in this case … There should be a strong reaction,” Mr Dutton said.
“I would encourage the Prime Minister to be open and honest and transparent in relation to this matter. If it is the case that this Australian has been killed then Australia should respond in the strongest possible terms and that is our bipartisan position I’m sure.”
Duggan’s lawyers launched a legal appeal late Monday in the Federal Court to appeal his decision, his wife Saffrine said in a statement.
“We have been forced to resort to court action because the government has not been transparent about this case, despite Dan being locked up in maximum security prison for the past 26 months with no Australian charges,” she said.
bons
January 15, 2025 1:03 pm
Proposition: The eyes are the windows to the soul. But only to putrifying souls.
Fact check: Correct.
Evidence: Elizabeth Warren, Jack Smith, Adam Schiff, Fani Willis, Ocrazio Cortes, Big Mike, Karen Bass, and for balance, Lindsey Graham. Supporting technical papers are available in realtion to Maxine Waters and Jasmine Crockett.
Adjudication: The proposition is sustained.
Bespoke
January 15, 2025 1:04 pm
It’s amusing that more time was spent talking about Shaiel Ben-Ephraim then about the deal that was being discussed all over Twitter, Israeli media, and elsewhere.
You had the opportunity to use a more credible source without so much baggage.
I think it was by design, lol!
Steve trickler
January 15, 2025 1:04 pm
Tony Heller:
Academics and the press have been attempting to profit from a completely fictional story about Antarctica, which has collapsed.
The first stage of the Hamas-Israel deal does sound almost doable.
Hamas is supposed to release 30 hostages over a period of a 42 days ceasefire. Israel releases captive Palis, who seem mainly to be women and children, although with a fair number of lifers (who will be immediate targets once hostilities resume…ie death sentence instead of having to feed them in jail for the rest of their miserable lives.) Marwan Barghouti won’t be one of those to be released, that was a deal killer on the Israeli side.
The first stage also maintains Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor. Israel will never give up control of it for obvious strategic reasons.
So we’ll see. The IDF could do with a rest for a month and a half. But from what I see of the second stage of the deal it is a non starter. But since that is supposed to be negotiated only after the 1st stage is active it doesn’t really matter if those negotiations are successful or not.
Always worth pointing out if the original sauce is a rabid anti-Semite.
No, it wasn’t because he was merely talking about a deal that was already being discussed all over the net. You would have known this if rather than putting ‘Shaiel Ben-Ephraim’ in Google search you put ‘Gaza ceasefire deal’.
The problem is if someone as rabid as SBE puts something on his twitter feed he is doing so for a reason.
That is why I like to check out these people, to know where they are coming from. Their motivations are more important than what they say, and often what they say is distorted or worse. Like what he claimed about Philadelphi, which was mendacious rubbish.
(Edit: Ok maybe that was from the other one you quoted, who I also looked up and who was just as rabid. I can’t remember which of them claimed that the Israelis would give up Philadelphi, and I can’t be bothered going back to the original comments. I immediately called bullshit. And in the news today I am vindicated. The important thing is to save us all a lot of time please choose sources who aren’t obvious lefty nutters.)
You had the opportunity to use a more credible source without so much baggage.
I think it was by design, lol!
I couldn’t be bothered spending 5 mins finding someone else talking about the ceasefire deal with some detail that would satisfy your delicate sensibilities. Next time I may add a trigger warning though.
Always worth pointing out if the original sauce is a rabid anti-Semite.
No, it wasn’t because he was merely talking about a deal that was already being discussed all over the net.
“All over the net”?
Is that a reliable sauce?
The fact that it was “picked up” by a couple of regular media outlets tells you nothing.
Did they report it as fact?
Tom will tell you this is one of the oldest tricks in the j’ism playbook.
Report that X says Y about Z, hoping for any outcome at all … confirmation, denial, or partial confirmation.
It’s a hook, no more, no less.
Interesting debate occurring on Twitter among the online right about the ‘benefits’ of working at Panda Express. Reminiscent of the H1B visa controversy.
Seems the Qantas delays to South Africa may be because of the entry corridors for F9 second stages after Starlink launches. Discussion at NASA spaceflight.com
Sounds like you’re umming and ahhing now, Sancho. Reports were emerging of a deal, of an abrupt meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s ME envoy on Sat that was reported yesterday, right-wing commentators were addressing it on news programs, and so on. All of this suggested things were moving but as yet not finalized. None of this was ‘a hook’.
A man has died after being pulled from the water at a beach on the state’s Central Coast.
Emergency services were called following reports that a 73-year-old man was pulled from the surf unconscious at Cabbage Tree Bay Beach, Norah
His death marks the 55th drowning in Australia during the 2024-25 summer period since December 1, according to the Royal Life Saving Summer Drowning Toll.
55 dead from drowning. All tragic deaths. All entirely avoidable deaths.
I ask, who swims in the ocean at night time? Those of us who grew up in the Oz of old were always taught never to swim in the ocean at night. I have only ever swum once in the ocean at night time, in 1985, on Rottnest Island, a group of us were drunk and we all stripped off naked and went for a swim. I remember how we laughed and laughed and laughed. I also remember it was f*cking freezing.
A lot of them are new Australians from what I’ve seen, often from the subcontinent. The parents will understandably try to rescue a kid who is in trouble and they drown too. It’s sad.
The swimming lessons we all had in schools were an unsung marvel. We were taught awesome stuff (I got as far as doing some of the surf Bronze Medallion but we moved to an inland town before I could complete it.)
It would be a very good thing if our governments developed, promoted and rolled out a free swimming course for new Australians. Many lives would be saved.
I swim in Merewether Baths every morning at dawn,Bruce, but when we were young we used to skinny dip with a skin full after a big night out at the Beach Hotel.
We all learned to swim there on Saturday mornings; the ladies of the Merewether Ladies Swimming Club conducted free classes.
Nobody would ever go into the surf at night, however one of our friends committed suicide off the back of the baths that way some years ago.
Government-provided lessons? Would be a pointless non-job creating enterprise. No one would be a better swimmer, but guarantee the Karens would find a way to make the useless things compulsory to access some freedom or other.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the proposed agreement, and an Egyptian official and a Hamas official confirmed its authenticity. The plan would need to be submitted to the Israeli Cabinet for final approval.
The three-phase agreement — based on a framework laid out by U.S. President Joe Biden and endorsed by the U.N. Security Council — would begin with the gradual release of 33 hostages over a six-week period, including women, children, older adults and wounded civilians in exchange for potentially hundreds of Palestinian women and children imprisoned by Israel.
Among the 33 would be five female Israeli soldiers, each of whom would be released in exchange for 50 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 convicted terrorists who are serving life sentences. By the end of the first phase, all civilian captives — living or dead — will have been released.
The deal would allow Israel throughout the first phase to remain in control of the Philadelphi Corridor, the band of territory along Gaza’s border with Egypt, which Hamas had initially demanded Israel withdraw from.
In the second phase, Hamas would release the remaining living captives, mainly male soldiers, in exchange for more prisoners and the “complete withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza, according to the draft agreement. But Hamas has said it will not free the remaining hostages without an end to the war and a complete Israeli withdrawal, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the past vowed to resume fighting unless Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are eliminated.
I don’t think a second phase will ever happen, so those poor IDF servicemen are unlikely to ever be freed alive.
five female Israeli soldiers, each of whom would be released in exchange for 50 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 convicted terrorists who are serving life sentences.
Sounds like a fair exchange, given the worth of the garbage being traded.
Sounds like you’re umming and ahhing now, Sancho. Reports were emerging of a deal, of an abrupt meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s ME envoy on Sat that was reported yesterday, right-wing commentators were addressing it on news programs, and so on. All of this suggested things were moving but as yet not finalized. None of this was ‘a hook’.
There was a meeting.
Reports were emerging.
Commentators were addressing it.
Dots were joined.
Give me a break.
That “deal” was almost total fabrication.
Anyone who thinks that they can basically re-set Gaza to 6th October 2023 is dreaming.
It might have a scintilla of credibility if, say, Trump was the outgoing President and was being replaced with Iranian sympathiser Barry Obama.
But in today’s circumstances?
Zero chance.
“Certain categories of personnel from the Air Force, as well as other branches and types of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after preliminary training at training centers, are being deployed to reinforce the Ground Forces, Air Assault Troops, and other units. The situation at the front is difficult, and many sectors are experiencing a shortage of infantry. The decision to strengthen frontline ground brigades with personnel from other branches and types of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a necessary measure by military leadership to bolster our defense.”
Ukrainian nationalist Serhii Sternenko stated the following on his Telegram channel:
“The [Ukrainian] Air Force is indeed facing a critical situation with transfers to the infantry, as a result of which we may lose the aviation component as such.
The same applies to narrow-profile air defense specialists, for example, radar operators, whose training takes a very long time.
According to my sources, the Air Force will have to withdraw dozens of combat aircraft as uncombatable, because there will simply be no one to maintain them.
Due to the forced transfer of air defense specialists, the detection of missiles and drones will deteriorate significantly.
These decisions of the high military command are due to a significant shortage of infantrymen in the LBZ (frontline). But almost half of our losses are a consequence of the crisis of army management, when none of the commanders is responsible for excessive losses, when brigades are broken up, when poorly trained soldiers from new brigades are thrown into battle. And the old brigades are unable to receive reinforcements and pour new recruits into an environment where the military already has combat experience.”
Further confirmation of Ukraine converting whoever they can into infantry, which – by the way – many have denied in the past.
bons
January 15, 2025 3:01 pm
The little turd continues to display his absolute lack of understanding of the Australian people.
Fairy godmothering around the electorates dropping buckets of pollimoney on projects devised by the local member’s office kiddies just makes him look idiotic and confirms the peoples’ belief that he thinks that they are stupid.
Free piss on Friday arvos might have been a killer strategy for the SRC elections Moron, but working families are more concerned about paying for their kids’ school uniforms than they are about a new meeting hall for the Dykes and Blackfellas cultural alliance.
Just go! You know nothing about Australia, families, communities or the private sector.
Oh, and ditch the insulting hat. It is reserved for people who have worked.
This was the point I was making the other day.
Yes, it is important that the families can have a decent funeral.
But that is not as important as the return of live hostages.
In fact, by making no distinction, you would be signing the death warrant of those still alive.
Netanyahu isn’t that stupid.
That is why this touted “deal” was so laughably lacking in any credibility.
Israel is, rightly so, desperate to get those hostages back. The reported deal requires, as it has in deals in the past, large numbers of Palestinian insurgents released from imprisonment. But I doubt if there will be any concessions in relation to future security for Israelis.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 15, 2025 3:44 pm
French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show… and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later
Daily Mail.
There is something seriously wrong with American women.
The one I posted this morning infantilised to 5 years of age at 24?
The Democrat women in Congress are as bad – what has Uni done to them?
And Australia isn’t out of the woods either – I had a wife who refused to speak to me for 139 days. Refused to acknowledge my existence, slept in a different room, cooked her own meals, all the bullshit.
On day 140 I started divorce proceedings and she carried on like a pork chop.
Frigging mental.
Hate to say it Winnie, you were 139 days too late. Never go to sleep not talking, no matter what. “Fine, I don’t want to talk about it”, is an admission of failure. Look you were only married to her. It’s not as if she’s your best mate. Talking to my best mate yesterday and were discussing the fact we’ve never had cross words ever. If we laugh at what each other said its time to reconsider what you said.
I would give advice, but they are a total mystery, as God designed them to be.
I suspect if we knew what they were really up to it would be horrifying, so best it do remain a mystery.
Probably the only people who understand them are pimps, and they use the knowledge for evil, so best for ordinary man not to know, but to feel relieved we die early and thus our time of being baffled and confounded by them is mercifully cut short.
alwaysright
January 15, 2025 3:50 pm
Marco Rubio saying mostly the right things.
See Breitbart
One European bigwig wants Brussels to go even further. When asked on French television last week how best to respond to Musk’s meddling, former EU commissioner Thierry Breton offered a jaw-dropping ‘solution’: ‘We did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary.’ What Breton was referring to was last month’s outrageous cancellation of the Romanian presidential elections.
‘Leave our boozers ALONE!’ Starmer plots ‘pub banter CRACKDOWN’ with punters to face speech POLICE
From the comments:
“Labour has forgotten its beginnings as the Party of the Working Man.”
Rubbish. Labour has remembered its roots as the party of Social Control. And it’s going to get a bloody sight worse. Anal is from the same mould, and has precisely the same intentions. He won’t do anything before the next election, but you watch the bastard.
The Left is showing exactly how they want to rule us.
The Hamas released will have trackers under their skin. Israel is not stupid.
Bungonia Bee
January 15, 2025 4:42 pm
They want to stop Hegseth because …? He might have screwed someone? Really?
But promising to phone the Chinese if Trump made any moves … that was a previous, woke, appointment to be the top dog in the military. No fuss, no mess in the MSM over that one.
Roger
January 15, 2025 4:42 pm
Starmer plots ‘pub banter CRACKDOWN’ with punters to face speech POLICE
“Discussing controversial topics like trans rights or religion in the pub could be banned under Labour’s new workers’ rights charter.”
If only they could monitor what is said at the dinner table.
Of course, this is all going to do wonders for Starmer’s popularity.
Bungonia Bee
January 15, 2025 4:45 pm
Someone on Gutfeld’s show the other day said that “Karen Bass is giving Karens a bad name”.
Good one!
GreyRanga
January 15, 2025 4:55 pm
12:01 EDST. Ring, ring. Hello Milley speaking. This is your Commander-in-Chief, active duty, report to Leavenworth. There’s some toilets to clean. Click.
Miltonf
January 15, 2025 5:06 pm
Is the foul old woman from San Francisco back in the HoR again? What a total deadshit place San Fran is.
SHEEHY: I know that well, I’m a “she-he (Sheehy).” What is the diameter of a rifle round fired out of an M4A1?
HEGSETH: 5.56.
SHEEHY: How many pushups can you do?
HEGSETH: I did 5 sets of 47 this morning.
SHEEHY: Most important strategic base is in the Pacific?
HEGSETH: Guam.
SHEEHY: How many rounds of 5.56 can you fit into the magazine of an M4 rifle?
HEGSETH: Standard issue is 30.
SHEEHY: What size round is the M9 Beretta standard issue sidearm for the military?
HEGSETH: 9mm.
SHEEHY: What kind of batteries do you put in your night vision goggle?
HEGSETH: Duracell.
SHEEHY: You represent what warfighters deal with every day on the battlefield. You understand them. What happens is – decisions made in rooms like this cause d*ad 17, 18, 19-year-old Americans. Your priority is warfighters. I support you.
I think I like him.
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Sancho Panzer
January 15, 2025 5:40 pm
Kel
January 15, 2025 5:38 pm
Pete for the win
Sen. Tom Cotton: “Do you support Israel’s war in
Gaza?”
Pete Hegseth: “I support Israel destroying every
last member of Hamas.”
Golly.
This really sounds like the incoming regime in DC giving Netanyahu a clip over the ears.
Not.
“All of them or we slaughter every last bastard terrorist we’ve captured and bury them in a swimming pool of pigs blood, then start dropping single shot ‘Liberator Pistols‘ at night over civilian areas”.
Hate to say it Tom. I think you’re analysis is a little skewed. I’m an xx and I’d feel the same way about about Thatcher. (Mind you Hegseth is rather spunky). Just need strong competent, rational leadership. Not back sliders. Nothing to do with gender.
Pete Hegseth: “I support Israel destroying every last member of Hamas.”
Can I marry this man?
You need to be careful, Cassie. That was an answer dripping with ambiguity. Choose well. 🙂
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 15, 2025 6:45 pm
From the Times. Pensioner, 84, fends off launderette mugger with a pair of jeansRon Croker says the masked man who attacked him in Maltby, near Rotherham, ‘picked on the wrong bloke’
Roger
January 15, 2025 6:51 pm
The UK’s anti-corruption minister, Tulip Siddiq, has resigned after being charged with corruption offences by Bangladesh authorities.
Just last week she had Keir Starmer’s full support.
I’m expecting his pledge of full support for Chancellor Rachel Reeves before the end of the week.
Her latest brainstorm to increase government revenue is a motel room tax on tourists, the equivalent of sticking your hand down the back of the sofa desperately seeking small change.
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Sancho Panzer
January 15, 2025 7:23 pm
Someone mentioned that payouts from the “insurer of last resort” in California are capped at $3 meg.
I saw an overhead shot of Pacific Palisades showing maybe 70-80 lots.
A lot of them had values tagged in the graphic (presumably last sale price). Most were over $5 meg, and I can’t recall one under $4 meg.
That’s some big haircuts coming up.
Except none of those reports talk about the total Israeli capitulation postulated by the ex-UCLA Nazi.
He did put it rather strongly but when you compare the substance rather than the style with what is reported elsewhere they reports cohere. The only question, if the deal goes through, is whether we ever get to phases 2 or 3.
feelthebern
January 15, 2025 7:27 pm
Channel surfing and there’s a Game of Thrones marathon on.
I struggle to think of a hotter TV character than Cersei Lannister.
Maybe 7 of 9.
Daylight third.
Ah, Lena Headey. Noice. Not her body in the walk of shame, however; her face digitally supered over a body model. And not quite so … attractive … in “Dredd”. But I sure do like her.
There was a prostitot hanging out (in a brief scene, in more ways than one) with various of Dany’s knight wallies that had the most amazing bod in that entire televisual feast.
As for the main females, most of them did nothing for me, with the possible exception of Ramsay’s mistress, Miranda.
Excellent news ZK2A. Get a good slug of the single malt before hitting the sack.
I’m sure Mme is chuffed.
feelthebern
January 15, 2025 7:44 pm
“Sometimes before we can usher in the new, the old need to be put to rest”.
Cool line from GoT as Grand Maester Pycelle meets his grisly end.
And it’s such a leftest, statist view.
Build a new system.
Let it flourish.
If it’s good enough, it will replace the old system.
Or as it is in many cases, the new system and an old system can co-exist with different users/consumers.
The problem is the leftist, statist view is they won’t let the consumer decide.
They think they know better and they force or coerce usage of the system they think best.
This is the draft proposal. Points match report at AP. Pretty much checks out on the points you’ve queried above, I.e. re your first point, see pt 10.
feelthebern
January 15, 2025 7:53 pm
If others were more accurate and balanced in their assessment, why pick this dickhead to link to?
My current view that this and the million other people tweeting about a deal don’t really know.
They are just taking a punt on a deal being down by Trump and they are guessing everything in between.
So if/when a deal gets down, they can say “see, called it”.
Look at how zero, absolutely zero middle east “experts” saw Turkey’s move on Syria.
For such an important piece of the world, there seems to be a lack of genuine insight making it’s way into any part of the media (legacy media or real).
They are just taking a punt on a deal being down by Trump and they are guessing everything in between.
It may be that some of the wishful thinking is about the “peace deal” being initiated and concluded by the outgoing administration rather than the new.
This is also a prestige thing for the true believers.
Imagine being a full throated supporter of the old corpse who has done half of bugger all and suddenly at all comes together under the person you have styled as the devil incarnate.
The US House of Representatives passed its first bill in the 119th Congress on Tuesday, voting in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act – ensuring only people assigned female at birth can participate in women and girls athletics.
Jenko the vegan moved to the Tianjin-Min Square region of China to study biology in 2015.
Specialising in the mating habits of shrubs, presumably.
Given the recent hollow breastbeating by pong and the albansleazy, the Pute is no doubt quaking in his diamond encrusted (totally legitimately earned) jackboots.
Knuckle Dragger
January 15, 2025 8:16 pm
If you’re going to call yourself an academic, you may as well call yourself an engineer.
Apologies to the small minority of lone wolf actual engineers.
feelthebern
January 15, 2025 8:17 pm
I think one aspect that is not being referenced enough with Israel etc is the current cleanse of Hamas & anyone suspected of being Iranian linked in the West Bank.
After reading a note the other day on this I went down a few rabbit holes on it.
If you google Jenin and a few other key words you’ll see mentions of the Palestinian Authority throwing some stick about.
It looks to be more than that.
Unlike Gaza which is 99% Hamas controlled, there are multiple groups in the West Bank.
Who really knows what’s happening.
Time will tell.
But when I see “experts” touting that Hamas will have a roll to play during the Trump era, I’m down weighting those opinions.
In trading terms I’d be short Hamas, long some newer version of Fatah.
The repulsive Starmer and the equally repulsive Anal are the inevitable result of formerly working men’s parties being taken over by campus Marxists who haven’t done an honest day’s work in their despicable lives.
Hi Dover have sent you email with attachment Mon 9th at contact email listed. Did you receive this? Please advise.
Check your email.
Cool
BoN, sounds like bullshit to me. Qantas flights Australia to South Africa go way south, sometimes passengers get to see the sea ice.
Starship should not go much south of 32 south on their way to the ocean off NW Australia.
Yes, it’s a wonderful view. Just like Haneda-Helsinki. That one goes very close to the pole.
I had fun with the Beloved. Geography and geometry are not his strong suits, and he couldn’t quite work it out. Had to explain orthodromic distance and then he got it. It’s what happens to kids brought up on Mercator.
I think it is more illustrative of Qantas than it is of SpaceX. As much to get a hostile headline about Elon as anything.
Qantas is incoherent, unscientific and woke these days. Like Boeing this is not how to successfully run an aerospace company or an airline.
deregulating barn raising fixes this
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim was mentioned yesterday as the source of a ridiculous peace proposal between hamas scum and Israel. Here is one of the bastard’s papers which shows no surprise about his anti-Israel stance:
(68) ‘Therefore They Shouldn’t Exist’: The Carter Administration, the ‘Israel Lobby’ and the Sinai Settlements
In 2021 Penny Wong stated that Trump was “prepared to trash alliances and partnerships for personal political interest”.
I wonder how that UN job application is coming along?
Pot, Kettle.
What a slag.
Sucking up to the pro-Pali crowd and selling out Israel to keep the Muesli vote isn’t “personal political interest”?
Hypocrite doesn’t begin to describe Benny Pong.
So, Ted O’Brien has toddled off to Korea on a nuclear ‘fact-finding’ mission: “the most comprehensive international study ever undertaken by an opposition to inform Australia’s future energy policy”.
Good job; as with any biggish purchase, you should always have a first hand look at what you’re planning to buy.
However, the huuuge problem that screams out here is timing. Here we are, in the pre-election ‘phoney war’ stage, with the Coalition strapped to a roughly sketched ‘we’re gunna build some, just watch’ nuclear policy – and the responsible policy person is just now setting off on a “comprehensive international study”.
I’ve visited a couple of nuclear power stations and I’m here to tell you that O’Brien will be blown away by the shiny complexity and (BA, MEcon) glaze over at the operational physics. [And this is not a FIGJAM moment for me. I understand conventional power generation pretty well, but I was humbled by the breadth and depth of the science carried around by the operating teams.]
His key take aways will be:
This should have been baked into Coalition policy two years ago.
No wonder that the deformed midget Bowen is gloating.
Nobody ever mentions Howard’s nuclear ban.
It’s all political theatre without a mandate to reverse that.
Taking into account materiel/energy/emissions input for power generation builds (not to mention cost & footprint); only the clinically insane and/or engineering ignorant would choose anything other than HELE coal (with gas as back up). Nuclear is fine and desirable, and 100x in agreement with the implications of Roger’s comment, but in terms of the national interest and the economic well being of our citizenry – HELE coal is it.
To Stop Wildfires, Burn Wokeism
Irony award of the day.
How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project to save an endangered shrub (14 Jan)
And I strongly suspect all those poor milkvetch shrubs have now gone to the great shrubbery in the sky as a result of those environmental looneys.
it’s just a soil sterilization process. Removing all organic material.
BON, the afforementioned plant will, according to the saveplants organisation, thrive after soil disturbance including chaparral fire.
Reading the above, one could safely presume that the machinery movements in the powerline corridor would in fact have benefited the plant.
If it wasn’t that it would be something else that they were not really interested in but simply using as an excuse to stop any development and more especially, lock away access to as much countryside as possible.
Same with energy projects. Am I the only one to have noticed that they happily support everything until it shows signs of working, at which point they suddenly become environmental disasters?
I find myself in agreement with Hallward here.
I suspect the route is becoming uneconomic what with Seth Effrica being a shithole and all, or they have had other internal cock-ups causing delays.
Rather than simply say that, some PR douche has come up with the idea of blaming it all on Musk.
Not very smart.
If you read Joe Aston’s book on Qantas you’d try a lot of other options before booking a seat with these charlatans.
I am some of the way through it now.
Most of it I had read in the AFR, but I had forgotten some of it.
I don’t know who would bother with them. Certainly on international routes they are far too expensive.
I don’t know who bothers to fly with them anymore.
Boomers who still believe it is the safest airline evah?
Corporates and Pubic Serpents who like to accumulate FF points domestically for work then use them to fly internationally privately?
I heard a travel j’ism on 3AW a while back saying “how fantastic it was to board the return flight and hear an Aussie accent”.
Yeah, nah.
If I want to get snarled at by a surly prick, I can wait until Customs at Tulla.
And I certainly wouldn’t be paying $3-$5k overs for the privilege.
It’s amazing how the same people who claim they favour QANTAS for being Australian hate every single other Australian thing that actually forms part of the culture.
There are very few direct flights to South Africa since 2020. The SYD route is very popular and alwasy full with Qantas have recently put the A380 Scarebus on this route in place of the the Dreamings machine. The Scarebus has also had problems on LAX route so Musk may be just an excuse. I don’t racall any update from Qantas on the the turn back after four hours at Christmas. That flight did seem to go much further south. Pilots probably got carried away chasing the wind and lost track of their destination!!
Well, I did try to gently warn that he may not be a good sauce.
The whole story didn’t make sense.
A week before the inauguration of a President who tells Hamarse that the hostages better be released by 20th or “all hell will break loose”, Israel basically capitulates with zero conditions placed on Hamarse.
Sure.
I think we are going to see a ceasefire and release of hostages with a scorched earth DMZ between Israel and Gaza.
Build the wall!
Zombie movie imagery.
And there is this from 2020:-
He denied it (of course).
But what we have here is an academic who isn’t quite as well off as he used to be desperately craving attention.
Oh, and he is a yuuuge fan of Uncle George.
Looking at the breakdown of industries from 1924 to 1932.
Radio, aircraft, automotive excluding GM, and GM alone, are shown.
Ford didn’t go public until the 1950s, so not included.
Aircraft innovation you say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Bullet#:~:text=The%20Christmas%20Bullet%2C%20later%20known,ever%20constructed%20for%20its%20time.
The design had a serious flaw in that it lacked any kind of struts or braces for the wings, with Christmas insisting that they should be flexible. Control of the aircraft was meant to be achieved by wing warping to its flying surfaces.[5] Although the Chief Engineer at Continental, Vincent Burnelli, tried to institute changes, the “Christmas Bullet” was completed with the original design features intact. Construction materials were scrounged from available wood and steel stock and were not “aircraft grade”, which was also a concern to Burnelli.
In Go Get Em Tiger news:
Could also file under Shit That Albo Won’t Do
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Do we give a rat’s?
I thought it was illegal for Australians to fight in foreign wars.
Only foreign wars of which the left disapproves.
Seems it depends on the side but though young I do remember the hoo ha about Viet Vets signing up for Rhodesia.
Some of them were told their passports would be cancelled, they would not be allowed to return to Australia, and they would become “Stateless persons.”
The spouse was tapped for that in London 1970, having served in Vietnam 1966-7. Said “No Thanks” or words to that effect.
Yeah and what’s he going to do about it?
147 mil with nuc’s, an army/air force/even Navy that dwarfs ours vs 25mil and a run down obsolete defence force. LOL.
I fully support Albo and Wong going over to Russia and fighting the good fight. Give them a rusty pistol each. Godspeed.
I certainly hope that bloke Wong’s response to the death of the Vegan Mercenary will be proportionate.
Eh Pong? You know, what you told Israel the day after Oct 7?
Come on, drag out the Russian Ambassador and belt him with Elbow’s lettuce.
I thought our commies liked Russia’s commies? Or is one of them less communist?
Ours are Maoist Commies.
Like Shite and Sunni muslims. If there’s no one else to kill, they kill each other.
This looks like shirt front job for sure.
“Australia will take the strongest possible action.” I’m sure Putin is quaking in his boots.
What are the odds Albosleazy attacked PM Abbott about his shirtfronting Putin?
No, that could not have happened. I listened to 7 news tonight (yeah, I know) and Mark Riley didn’t say a thing about it. And you know how he feels about an Aus PM using a colloquial term about confronting someone else. Surely he would have made a point of addressing it /s
I hope Bezos’s big rocket goes better than his newspaper.
The Washington Post Has Officially Lost 90 Percent of Its Readership (13 Jan)
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of lefty journos. It does however illustrate the problem Bezos has: he’s recently been trying to tack WaPo more to the centre. But all that does is piss off lefties who had been subscribing to it. Meanwhile no righty will ever read or subscribe to WaPo. The paper is going to die, I smell it.
Bezos’s rocket is now due to attempt launch on Thursday, I think about 5pm Ncl time, after the first attempt earlier this week had to be scrubbed.
Ceasefire deal firming:
Election can’t be too far away since Albo is now announcing chicken feed stuff to generate headlines.
Labor’s $6 million grant will take Devonport to the ‘next level’: Anthony Albanese (Sky News, 15 Jan)
“Take Devonport to the next level” for only $6 million? Oh please. Never has so much hyperbole been generated from something so trivial.
Don’t they need to rebuild a wharf so the new Spirit of Tasmania can dock?
Yep.
The ferry is still in Scotland at $47k p4er month berthing charges until the Devonport dock is completed in 2027-8.
Cost more than that for another floor on reasonable sized shop.
I’m reminded of how, only minutes before Reagan was inaugurated in January 1981, Iran freed the American hostages after 14 months. This was after Reagan had said, in plain English, that the US does not negotiate with terrorists.
On October 7 2023 Nazi scum took Jewish men, women and children hostage and has kept them in Gaza for over 15 months, raping, torturing and starving them.
How many remain alive?
Yeah righto. ‘All options’, eh?
I can hardly imagine Luigi intoning to the nation:
‘It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of the persistence of Russia in her killing of a scrawny vegan that hasn’t lived in Australia for the past ten years, and that, as a result, Australia is at war.’
More pompous blowhardery that’s not fooling anyone.
Probably pissed off the Russians by blathering on about veganism.
Maybe Albo will “shirtfront” them. Like Abbot did with Putin?
LOL
It’s amusing that more time was spent talking about Shaiel Ben-Ephraim then about the deal that was being discussed all over Twitter, Israeli media, and elsewhere.
This is a 24 year old woman?
You’d slap a 5 year old for behaving like this.
https://x.com/i/status/1878824567075942774
WTF? Words fail.
I dont know if they are half bunging it on.
But imagine her going through the glove box like that and producing a 9mm , anythings possible.
First house on the Moon.
A Swedish artist’s model house could soon find a permanent home on the moon (Phys.org, 14 Jan)
The house is due to be launched at about 5 pm this afternoon Ncl time. I suspect it will be the first ever house in space. There’s live coverage from 4:10 pm.
(And if you think launching a model house into orbit is silly, keep in mind the last gigantic Spaceship launch was of one (1) banana.)
Did they get a photo of it exploding in a vacuum?
I think it might’ve been a fake banana. I was watching: they had cameras on it throughout and it didn’t explode, just sort of drifted about. They had light lines to it to keep it from going too far and getting into things.
for the Gaza border, rather then a wall, would it be cheaper to have a heap of mines and razor ribbon stretching across a mile or two.
The IDF has it covered.
Israel deploys remote-controlled robotic guns in West Bank (2022)
One of those on a pole every 200 metres and the problem is solved.
They had that in Gaza.
No they didn’t. But yes the Hamas guys did get together a full brigade and a whole bunch of bulldozers and knocked down the wall, so perhaps something more than just automatic machine guns would be indicated. Multiple automatic rocket launchers maybe, with thermobaric warheads, just so the Gazans get the message to stay on their side.
Yes, they did. They had remote weapons on their guard towers on the Gaza wall.
Um, you did look at what the remote weapons were in the linked story?
And what I said the remote weapons should be…?
Always check the detail. Before 7/10 the IDF was careful not to pot goatherders in Palistan oops the West Bank. Which is where the automatics were installed. I doubt they will care much about such sentiments henceforth.
Nope.
A drone swarm will defeat them. Each one with a can of paint, to spray the cameras when it is shot down.
And automatic windscreen wipers then. 😀
Men, the same no matter their age. 😀
https://x.com/TheFigen_/status/1879288617685729502
Very good. I had to watch several times just to make sure. That kid has a future.
Search for Fallen astronaut on Wikipedia. The statue and list left at
Oops, on phone.
Left at Hadley Rille by the crew of Apollo 15. IIRC these were the guys who mentioned the blind poet Rhysling who was a Heinlein character.
On their ABCcess this morning the had a uni pervert intoning on the peace deal.
Lots of “far right, far right”, fright being intoned about those eeeevil Yiddish chaps, while the democracy loving freedom fighters of Hamarse were just hapless victims.
I think the term right/far right and far right extremist was used at least 20 times in 5 minute “report”.
RABZ the lot of them.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 15, 2025 12:17 pm
Reply to alwaysright
The IDF has it covered.
Israel deploys remote-controlled robotic guns in West Bank (2022)
One of those on a pole every 200 metres and the problem is
——-
Aliens 1986 Turrets
With real live ammo. Nothing of the pretend stuff.
So $6 million bucks to tart up Devonport’s CBD, which consists of one mall containing a couple of cafes and a few op shops.
Tasmania – where your taxes go to die.
Still many, many moving parts.
One of the more interesting concepts being floated by Blinken (presumably on behalf of the Corpse in Chief) is that UN international forces may be required in Gaza to guarantee peace and security – particularly during rebuilding and the orderly transition to, well, something else.
Hundreds of fresh new hostages – and super powerful human shields.
UN forces who, as in Lebanon, will turn a blind eye to breaches of the agreement by Israel’s enemies.
More to the point, a poison pill for Trump who may not have wanted to send troops.
Will he shirtfront Pukin?
Sure, and even the proposal indicates that there will be issues relevant to phases 2 and 3 that will need to be determined during phase 1. However, I was being roasted yesterday and today for mentioning a deal using a persona non grata.
I actually got your point.
Hence my comment.
I know.
dover0beach
January 15, 2025 12:01 pm
Always worth pointing out if the original sauce is a rabid anti-Semite.
Worked at “Israeli Studies Centre at UCLA”.
That should be a five-alarm fire straight off the bat.
Deadsh!t Dutton jumping (prematurely) on the bandwagon. ‘I can be just as tough as Airbus Elbow!’ Must be an election imminently.
Readers comments unkind, many of which mention’ lettuce leaf’ strangely enough.
Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton warn Russia of strongest action possible if Oscar Jenkins has been executed
The disgraceful saga continues …
Ex-US Marine pilot Daniel Duggan fights extradition from Australia to US
Proposition: The eyes are the windows to the soul. But only to putrifying souls.
Fact check: Correct.
Evidence: Elizabeth Warren, Jack Smith, Adam Schiff, Fani Willis, Ocrazio Cortes, Big Mike, Karen Bass, and for balance, Lindsey Graham. Supporting technical papers are available in realtion to Maxine Waters and Jasmine Crockett.
Adjudication: The proposition is sustained.
You had the opportunity to use a more credible source without so much baggage.
I think it was by design, lol!
Tony Heller:
Academics and the press have been attempting to profit from a completely fictional story about Antarctica, which has collapsed.
Collapse Of The Antarctic Sea Ice Scam
NO. NO. Not Elbow with a lettuce leaf at 10 paces!
Say it isn’t so.
No way to dress this up.
The first stage of the Hamas-Israel deal does sound almost doable.
Hamas is supposed to release 30 hostages over a period of a 42 days ceasefire. Israel releases captive Palis, who seem mainly to be women and children, although with a fair number of lifers (who will be immediate targets once hostilities resume…ie death sentence instead of having to feed them in jail for the rest of their miserable lives.) Marwan Barghouti won’t be one of those to be released, that was a deal killer on the Israeli side.
The first stage also maintains Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor. Israel will never give up control of it for obvious strategic reasons.
So we’ll see. The IDF could do with a rest for a month and a half. But from what I see of the second stage of the deal it is a non starter. But since that is supposed to be negotiated only after the 1st stage is active it doesn’t really matter if those negotiations are successful or not.
No, it wasn’t because he was merely talking about a deal that was already being discussed all over the net. You would have known this if rather than putting ‘Shaiel Ben-Ephraim’ in Google search you put ‘Gaza ceasefire deal’.
The problem is if someone as rabid as SBE puts something on his twitter feed he is doing so for a reason.
That is why I like to check out these people, to know where they are coming from. Their motivations are more important than what they say, and often what they say is distorted or worse. Like what he claimed about Philadelphi, which was mendacious rubbish.
(Edit: Ok maybe that was from the other one you quoted, who I also looked up and who was just as rabid. I can’t remember which of them claimed that the Israelis would give up Philadelphi, and I can’t be bothered going back to the original comments. I immediately called bullshit. And in the news today I am vindicated. The important thing is to save us all a lot of time please choose sources who aren’t obvious lefty nutters.)
I couldn’t be bothered spending 5 mins finding someone else talking about the ceasefire deal with some detail that would satisfy your delicate sensibilities. Next time I may add a trigger warning though.
You must be dizzy, surely?
Not at all. Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Australia taking the strongest possible action must have Vlad pissing himself-laughing.
dover0beach
January 15, 2025 1:25 pm
“All over the net”?
Is that a reliable sauce?
The fact that it was “picked up” by a couple of regular media outlets tells you nothing.
Did they report it as fact?
Tom will tell you this is one of the oldest tricks in the j’ism playbook.
Report that X says Y about Z, hoping for any outcome at all … confirmation, denial, or partial confirmation.
It’s a hook, no more, no less.
Interesting debate occurring on Twitter among the online right about the ‘benefits’ of working at Panda Express. Reminiscent of the H1B visa controversy.
That’s naughty! Joe of course was bankrolled by the Chinese to the extent of many millions.
Indeed.
Seems the Qantas delays to South Africa may be because of the entry corridors for F9 second stages after Starlink launches. Discussion at NASA spaceflight.com
Maybe Qantas should take it up with the FAA.
If there’s a FAA after 20 Jan.
Given their record I hope Vivek and Elon will fire at least 90% of them.
It doesn’t negate the possibility that Quaintarse would be using it as an excuse whether there was a launch using that corridor or nor.
Sounds like you’re umming and ahhing now, Sancho. Reports were emerging of a deal, of an abrupt meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s ME envoy on Sat that was reported yesterday, right-wing commentators were addressing it on news programs, and so on. All of this suggested things were moving but as yet not finalized. None of this was ‘a hook’.
I’m sensing a pattern here.
https://nitter.poast.org/Suffragent_/status/1878764063519588843#m
The Daily Telegraph is reporting…
A man has died after being pulled from the water at a beach on the state’s Central Coast.
Emergency services were called following reports that a 73-year-old man was pulled from the surf unconscious at Cabbage Tree Bay Beach, Norah
His death marks the 55th drowning in Australia during the 2024-25 summer period since December 1, according to the Royal Life Saving Summer Drowning Toll.
55 dead from drowning. All tragic deaths. All entirely avoidable deaths.
I ask, who swims in the ocean at night time? Those of us who grew up in the Oz of old were always taught never to swim in the ocean at night. I have only ever swum once in the ocean at night time, in 1985, on Rottnest Island, a group of us were drunk and we all stripped off naked and went for a swim. I remember how we laughed and laughed and laughed. I also remember it was f*cking freezing.
A lot of them are new Australians from what I’ve seen, often from the subcontinent. The parents will understandably try to rescue a kid who is in trouble and they drown too. It’s sad.
The swimming lessons we all had in schools were an unsung marvel. We were taught awesome stuff (I got as far as doing some of the surf Bronze Medallion but we moved to an inland town before I could complete it.)
It would be a very good thing if our governments developed, promoted and rolled out a free swimming course for new Australians. Many lives would be saved.
I swim in Merewether Baths every morning at dawn,Bruce, but when we were young we used to skinny dip with a skin full after a big night out at the Beach Hotel.
We all learned to swim there on Saturday mornings; the ladies of the Merewether Ladies Swimming Club conducted free classes.
Nobody would ever go into the surf at night, however one of our friends committed suicide off the back of the baths that way some years ago.
No chance of free classes in these days of regulation and litigation, but.
Government-provided lessons? Would be a pointless non-job creating enterprise. No one would be a better swimmer, but guarantee the Karens would find a way to make the useless things compulsory to access some freedom or other.
release 30 hostages over a period of a 42 days
Are they alive or corpses?
Seemingly alive. I was wrong about 30 the number is apparently 33.
Hamas Accepts Deal to Release Hostages; Israel Now Must Approve (Newsmax, 14 Jan)
I don’t think a second phase will ever happen, so those poor IDF servicemen are unlikely to ever be freed alive.
five female Israeli soldiers, each of whom would be released in exchange for 50 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 convicted terrorists who are serving life sentences.
Sounds like a fair exchange, given the worth of the garbage being traded.
dover0beach
January 15, 2025 2:22 pm
There was a meeting.
Reports were emerging.
Commentators were addressing it.
Dots were joined.
Give me a break.
That “deal” was almost total fabrication.
Anyone who thinks that they can basically re-set Gaza to 6th October 2023 is dreaming.
It might have a scintilla of credibility if, say, Trump was the outgoing President and was being replaced with Iranian sympathiser Barry Obama.
But in today’s circumstances?
Zero chance.
The little turd continues to display his absolute lack of understanding of the Australian people.
Fairy godmothering around the electorates dropping buckets of pollimoney on projects devised by the local member’s office kiddies just makes him look idiotic and confirms the peoples’ belief that he thinks that they are stupid.
Free piss on Friday arvos might have been a killer strategy for the SRC elections Moron, but working families are more concerned about paying for their kids’ school uniforms than they are about a new meeting hall for the Dykes and Blackfellas cultural alliance.
Just go! You know nothing about Australia, families, communities or the private sector.
Oh, and ditch the insulting hat. It is reserved for people who have worked.
Couldn’t have said it better!
Extremely well stated.
Sign the petition here.
Stop the Release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in Queensland: Protect Our Environment
Is there a petition for total support?
Done and a few bob for the fund.
Queensland mosquitoes for Queenslanders.
What are mosquitoes?
This was the point I was making the other day.
Yes, it is important that the families can have a decent funeral.
But that is not as important as the return of live hostages.
In fact, by making no distinction, you would be signing the death warrant of those still alive.
Netanyahu isn’t that stupid.
That is why this touted “deal” was so laughably lacking in any credibility.
Surely Trump won’t endorse this outrage!
Even Newsmax is now reporting it.
Except none of those reports talk about the total Israeli capitulation postulated by the ex-UCLA Nazi.
Don’t be mean, Sancho. He’s still edging.
Israel is, rightly so, desperate to get those hostages back. The reported deal requires, as it has in deals in the past, large numbers of Palestinian insurgents released from imprisonment. But I doubt if there will be any concessions in relation to future security for Israelis.
French leftist theatre faces bankruptcy after opening its doors to 250 African migrants for a free show… and they refused to leave and remain in the building five weeks later
Daily Mail.
Too bad, So sad, Never mind – nothing to be done about it.
Don’t they have baseball bats.
Leftist idiots gotta idiot.
Hard lessons always await.
The Pete memes have begun
drefanzor memes (@drefanzor) on X
drefanzor memes (@drefanzor) on X
Best line of the day: “Easily succeeded Operation Enduring Karen”.
Snork.
There is something seriously wrong with American women.
The one I posted this morning infantilised to 5 years of age at 24?
The Democrat women in Congress are as bad – what has Uni done to them?
And Australia isn’t out of the woods either – I had a wife who refused to speak to me for 139 days. Refused to acknowledge my existence, slept in a different room, cooked her own meals, all the bullshit.
On day 140 I started divorce proceedings and she carried on like a pork chop.
Frigging mental.
Hate to say it Winnie, you were 139 days too late. Never go to sleep not talking, no matter what. “Fine, I don’t want to talk about it”, is an admission of failure. Look you were only married to her. It’s not as if she’s your best mate. Talking to my best mate yesterday and were discussing the fact we’ve never had cross words ever. If we laugh at what each other said its time to reconsider what you said.
I would give advice, but they are a total mystery, as God designed them to be.
I suspect if we knew what they were really up to it would be horrifying, so best it do remain a mystery.
Probably the only people who understand them are pimps, and they use the knowledge for evil, so best for ordinary man not to know, but to feel relieved we die early and thus our time of being baffled and confounded by them is mercifully cut short.
Marco Rubio saying mostly the right things.
See Breitbart
It really is the EUSSR
The EU is a far bigger threat to democracy than Musk – spiked
One European bigwig wants Brussels to go even further. When asked on French television last week how best to respond to Musk’s meddling, former EU commissioner Thierry Breton offered a jaw-dropping ‘solution’: ‘We did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary.’ What Breton was referring to was last month’s outrageous cancellation of the Romanian presidential elections.
Ex USSR puppet States know what is at stake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUoK5kA1F3k
From the comments:
Rubbish. Labo
ur has remembered its roots as the party of Social Control. And it’s going to get a bloody sight worse. Anal is from the same mould, and has precisely the same intentions. He won’t do anything before the next election, but you watch the bastard.The Left is showing exactly how they want to rule us.
Labour is now the party of the woking they/them.
It would appear that a deal is imminent as Israeli hospitals prepare for the return of hostages:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-837554
Grr. Because the moon mission has NASA involvement they have to do the telecast. They’re hopelessly woke, unlike SpaceX who puts on an excellent show.
And they’re late. The feed has gone live but all we’re getting is cheesy NASA music so far.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXrNyMPPxZ
Started late but actually the NASA guy is pretty good, along with the Firefly lady. I retract my woke comment.
NASA was OK in I dream of Genie.
Barbara Eden…sigh. Grew up with those shows.
Amazingly she’s still with us aged 93.
The leftist Zombie Swamp continues to go after Musk over his share dealings before actually buying Twitter. They hates him!
But no fuss, no mess over the Pelosi deals.
Hamas will rebuild with the release of its previously apprehended terrorist mates. how much longer do we have to do nothing about Iran?
The Hamas released will have trackers under their skin. Israel is not stupid.
They want to stop Hegseth because …? He might have screwed someone? Really?
But promising to phone the Chinese if Trump made any moves … that was a previous, woke, appointment to be the top dog in the military. No fuss, no mess in the MSM over that one.
“Discussing controversial topics like trans rights or religion in the pub could be banned under Labour’s new workers’ rights charter.”
If only they could monitor what is said at the dinner table.
Week In Pictures on Sunday had a picture of a UK version of Monopoly.
Saw that!
Of course, this is all going to do wonders for Starmer’s popularity.
Someone on Gutfeld’s show the other day said that “Karen Bass is giving Karens a bad name”.
Good one!
12:01 EDST. Ring, ring. Hello Milley speaking. This is your Commander-in-Chief, active duty, report to Leavenworth. There’s some toilets to clean. Click.
Is the foul old woman from San Francisco back in the HoR again? What a total deadshit place San Fran is.
Amy Coney Barrett is a kunt:
Trump’s New York Sentencing is an OUTRAGE & Amy Coney Barrett is a TURNCOAT! Viva & Barnes Clip
The bloke is a JET with dogs.
—–
Cesar Millan:
Investigating Why These Saint Bernards Are In Attack Mode | Cesar 911 Season 2, Ep.6 – Part 1
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1427135184911426
Another “just because I can”.
Ice cream tastes better than a toad.
Ok I get that. But it’s a dumb video.
The end bit is.
The expression on the kids face is great as she realises what she’s done.
Pete for the win
Sen. Tom Cotton: “Do you support Israel’s war in
Gaza?”
Pete Hegseth: “I support Israel destroying every
last member of Hamas.”
and so say all of us
More Pete, via Ace:
I think I like him.
Golly.
This really sounds like the incoming regime in DC giving Netanyahu a clip over the ears.
Not.
Being pedantically corrective its “a clip under the ear”:)
That is the real impact of a clip over the ear.
Youse will both get a clip in the aural region if youse keep this up.
No, no, no. All the hostages not just some
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/war-and-conflicts/war-events/hamas-accepts-draft-ceasefire-agreement-and-release-of-some-hostages/ar-AA1xdB0m
what the hell – multitude of swear words $&4*@++++
Yes, there are over one hundred hostages still being held. Dead and alive. NO ceasefire or deals until every last one of them is returned.
“All of them or we slaughter every last bastard terrorist we’ve captured and bury them in a swimming pool of pigs blood, then start dropping single shot ‘Liberator Pistols‘ at night over civilian areas”.
Pete Hegseth: “I support Israel destroying every last member of Hamas.”
Can I marry this man?
I feel your womanly pain, Cassie.
Progressive Western women cry out for feminist “freedom”, but are revolted by men whose old-fashioned instinct is to protect their womenfolk.
So the feminists gravitate to and protect the muslim barbarians who want to dominate, subjugate and violate women.
Weird old world.
Hate to say it Tom. I think you’re analysis is a little skewed. I’m an xx and I’d feel the same way about about Thatcher. (Mind you Hegseth is rather spunky). Just need strong competent, rational leadership. Not back sliders. Nothing to do with gender.
You need to be careful, Cassie. That was an answer dripping with ambiguity. Choose well. 🙂
From the Times.
Pensioner, 84, fends off launderette mugger with a pair of jeansRon Croker says the masked man who attacked him in Maltby, near Rotherham, ‘picked on the wrong bloke’
The UK’s anti-corruption minister, Tulip Siddiq, has resigned after being charged with corruption offences by Bangladesh authorities.
Just last week she had Keir Starmer’s full support.
You just get the feeling that the wheel-nuts on the Keir bandwagon are starting to rattle a bit.
Can’t be long before the band abandons the wagon.
Still, he retains Albo’s full support, which must be comforting at times like this.
Talk about foxes in charge of the hen-house !
Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
But politics has a lot to do with perceptions.
And she hasn’t been looking good for much more than a week.
Starmers ‘full support’ is less than Anals urine stained Y fronts.
I’m expecting his pledge of full support for Chancellor Rachel Reeves before the end of the week.
Her latest brainstorm to increase government revenue is a motel room tax on tourists, the equivalent of sticking your hand down the back of the sofa desperately seeking small change.
Someone mentioned that payouts from the “insurer of last resort” in California are capped at $3 meg.
I saw an overhead shot of Pacific Palisades showing maybe 70-80 lots.
A lot of them had values tagged in the graphic (presumably last sale price). Most were over $5 meg, and I can’t recall one under $4 meg.
That’s some big haircuts coming up.
They still have the land, so that will reduce the rebuild a little. Though why anyone would want to live in that hell-hole is a worry.
Always hold on to freehold land. They want you in strata title, where you actually own nothing, and are subject to an owners’ corporation.
He did put it rather strongly but when you compare the substance rather than the style with what is reported elsewhere they reports cohere. The only question, if the deal goes through, is whether we ever get to phases 2 or 3.
Channel surfing and there’s a Game of Thrones marathon on.
I struggle to think of a hotter TV character than Cersei Lannister.
Maybe 7 of 9.
Daylight third.
Marjorie Tyrell for mine, for hotness.
I doubt if I could put up with the rest of the package for long though.
Ah, Lena Headey. Noice. Not her body in the walk of shame, however; her face digitally supered over a body model. And not quite so … attractive … in “Dredd”. But I sure do like her.
There was a prostitot hanging out (in a brief scene, in more ways than one) with various of Dany’s knight wallies that had the most amazing bod in that entire televisual feast.
As for the main females, most of them did nothing for me, with the possible exception of Ramsay’s mistress, Miranda.
Not so pretty now, however. 😕
Oops – Myranda.
The brunette English Rose factor being in evidence …
This one is much better than the other two. Had to look them up as I’ve never seen GOT.
Amy Coney Barrett is a kunt:
ACB is establishment first.
Which is why she will be the chief justice post Roberts (another establishment first justice).
“Sliante” to all you disgusting mob!
Mme Zulu’s (long awaited) test results are back – all clear!
No more tests for six months, if they are clear, no more for another year!
We are opening the Tattinger – Cats will do me the courtesy of ignoring any further transmissions from this call sign!
Very, very happy for you both!
Thank you. Looking back, it’s been over two years…
Bravo! So wonderful. 😀
Congrats Mrs Zulu!
My compliments, Top Ender, and thank you.
Great news ZK2A.
Thank you, GreyRanga.
Good tidings, Zulu.
Excellent news ZK2A. Get a good slug of the single malt before hitting the sack.
I’m sure Mme is chuffed.
“Sometimes before we can usher in the new, the old need to be put to rest”.
Cool line from GoT as Grand Maester Pycelle meets his grisly end.
And it’s such a leftest, statist view.
Build a new system.
Let it flourish.
If it’s good enough, it will replace the old system.
Or as it is in many cases, the new system and an old system can co-exist with different users/consumers.
The problem is the leftist, statist view is they won’t let the consumer decide.
They think they know better and they force or coerce usage of the system they think best.
It really is a mental illness.
Let’s go to the tape:-
Really. No security zone?
Bzzt.
Have they? Really?
Oh. So he just made that up.
I don’t think so.
Again. Where is he getting “symbolic security measures” from?
(Making it up because it suits his anti-Semitic narrative).
If others were more accurate and balanced in their assessment, why pick this dickhead to link to?
This is the draft proposal. Points match report at AP. Pretty much checks out on the points you’ve queried above, I.e. re your first point, see pt 10.
If others were more accurate and balanced in their assessment, why pick this dickhead to link to?
My current view that this and the million other people tweeting about a deal don’t really know.
They are just taking a punt on a deal being down by Trump and they are guessing everything in between.
So if/when a deal gets down, they can say “see, called it”.
Look at how zero, absolutely zero middle east “experts” saw Turkey’s move on Syria.
For such an important piece of the world, there seems to be a lack of genuine insight making it’s way into any part of the media (legacy media or real).
It may be that some of the wishful thinking is about the “peace deal” being initiated and concluded by the outgoing administration rather than the new.
This is also a prestige thing for the true believers.
Imagine being a full throated supporter of the old corpse who has done half of bugger all and suddenly at all comes together under the person you have styled as the devil incarnate.
A Shazza Exclusive:
Someone (who shall remain nameless) stated this was the most likely eventuality, oh, I don’t know, several months ago …
Riley Gaines eviscerates ‘shameful’ Democrats after only two voted to ban transgender athletes in women’s sport – as she reveals what they do best
Breaking: California abandons diesel truck ban and other clean-air rules before Trump is sworn in
Exclusive — Marco Rubio to Shred Globalists in Confirmation Hearing: ‘Liberal World Order’ Not Just a ‘Fantasy,’ But ‘Dangerous Delusion’
‘Academic’.
Used as both sword and shield for an uncounted multitude of incompetents who could never have paid their own way in real life.
The wonderful Bee
Pete Hegseth Awarded Silver Star For Enduring Roomful Of Hysterical Women
Specialising in the mating habits of shrubs, presumably.
Given the recent hollow breastbeating by pong and the albansleazy, the Pute is no doubt quaking in his diamond encrusted (totally legitimately earned) jackboots.
If you’re going to call yourself an academic, you may as well call yourself an engineer.
Apologies to the small minority of lone wolf actual engineers.
I think one aspect that is not being referenced enough with Israel etc is the current cleanse of Hamas & anyone suspected of being Iranian linked in the West Bank.
After reading a note the other day on this I went down a few rabbit holes on it.
If you google Jenin and a few other key words you’ll see mentions of the Palestinian Authority throwing some stick about.
It looks to be more than that.
Unlike Gaza which is 99% Hamas controlled, there are multiple groups in the West Bank.
Who really knows what’s happening.
Time will tell.
But when I see “experts” touting that Hamas will have a roll to play during the Trump era, I’m down weighting those opinions.
In trading terms I’d be short Hamas, long some newer version of Fatah.
We Were Right About the Managerial State
Uh oh – some wild electrickery storm action underway now in Sydneystan – hopefully, it won’t result in a blackout.
Pretty good blast coming in from the west in a wave. Just had the first effort here, Exciting! More to come based on the BoM rain radar.
Wow! Watching on live webcam. Spectacular.
https://webcamsydney.com/