The Hamas released will have trackers under their skin. Israel is not stupid.
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Zulu, problem is the Federal governments keep dabbling around in things which they have no responsibility in- like agriculture, electricity,…
This is the draft proposal. Points match report at AP. Pretty much checks out on the points you’ve queried above,…
There are very few direct flights to South Africa since 2020. The SYD route is very popular and alwasy full…
@MarioNawfal The internet is brutal…
well … it’s impossible to find on Google unless you type the the whole line … A Play For Our Sons, My Brother, My Brother, My Brother
I am discovering that you have to be very specific indeed on Google, or it returns propaganda to you.
As for Chat Bots and Chat GPT – ‘they are programmed to receive’
Boambee John
September 4, 2024 8:16 pm
I heard about a rule, the The 50-50-90 Law.
It states that; Whenever there’s a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability that you’ll get it wrong.
Describes m0nty to a T.
Apparently the take away is that history is written by winners and that is bad because winners only write lies.
And they are correct, not a single German ever wrote a book about the second world war.
Also Candace Owens’ high school teachers let her down by not spending the entire four years of high school covering the entire build up to world war two.
not a single German ever wrote a book about the second world war.
Heinz Knoke – I flew for the Fuhrer.
There are probably more.
I think you missed the /sarc .. LOL!
Guilty as charged. How embarrassment.
I’ve about a dozen in my library. And many of them are real eye openers. Just like our soldiers, they found themselves in horrible situations.
If you want, I can email a list – or even put one up here.
Have I misread Rosie?
Possibly.
True the Vote @TrueTheVote 19h
Put a camera on the boxes? Lol. There shouldn’t be drop boxes at all.
I do hope the other states have done more work on election integrity than this. Otherwise it’s going to be another 4am
Biden BumpHarris Hump.(Yes, PHRASING.)
Neil Oliver: ‘…we’re under attack!’
Keep a reminder for Sept 18, when Trump is found guilty and handed a prison sentence in the NY court.
For something more accessible the YT channel WorldWar2 by a couple of historians is worth a look. A week by week account.
001 -The Polish-German War – WW2 – September 1, 1939 [IMPROVED] (youtube.com)
It is part of their Timeghost series, another channel.
(6) TimeGhost History – YouTube
Katie Hopkins: THIS is the biggest story in Britain right now. (And the media are deaf to it.)
Sadly, the old Dominions are no longer attractive places to retreat to either.
Australia and Canada are going down the same self-desructive track.
We’re still better than little Britain, I guess, if Hairy’s nephew is to be believed, because Australia is warmer and bigger in space with a choice of States to settle down in. He’s one of those Katie mentions, fed up with Britain and its taxes, but hanging in there because his mum and dad might need him.
I listened to a brief portion of the Carlson interview with that Cooper fellow. Cooper briefly mentioned something about a combined Soviet/Romanian series of experiments on Romanian dissenters between 1948 to 1951. I’d never heard about this, and from what I read, it sounded horrific. The horror went on for several years, crossing over from psychological torture to physical torture. The victims were under 24-hour surveillance to make sure they didn’t commit suicide and therefore scupper the experiment.
Witnessing Horrorism: The Pite?ti Experiment
Indolent, question
You post what appear to be sometimes up to a dozen links a day, and most seem to be vids that can go for an hour or so. Do you actually listen to all of them? I’m not judging, and it’s not leading to anything else. I’m just curious, that’s all.
Re: Flying. Leader of the Opposition and I are flying to Europe in a couple of weeks. Degenerative arthritis at the base of my spine makes aircraft travel over a few hours quite excruciating for me, especially “locked in” in Economy.
So, we’re flying PER to SIN in Quaintarse Economy, then switching to Etihad Business SIN to AUH to FCO. Expensive perhaps (though MUCH cheaper than Quaintarse) but if it saves me losing the plot and my sanity, well worth it.
Best wishes for the trip Bruce! I know it will be tough on you.
You won’t regret that choice. Can highly recommend Emirates Premium Economy – it’s Business Class minus the flat bed. The seats have a footrest and recline well, the cabin is their old Business class and the service and food is indistinguishable from the more expensive upgrade.
My spinal stenosis was exceedingly grateful on that 13 hour leg to Dubai.
We do similar sorts of cost-saving switches, Bruce, as I mentioned in a reply to someone above thread. My busted unfixable coccyx, done on ice in Finland January 2023 does make longhaul flying more difficult, even Business Class, as I found out during our recent South American travelling sojourn using a mix of Premium Ec and Business. I am concluding nothing will improve until spinal surgery removes it. Too late to have that done now before our upcoming December-January big trip to Africa, Indian Islands, Middle East, England, Scotland and return touring the Indian Maharajah sites, so I am holding the pain with a further cortisone/painkiller injection under anaesthesia. Last one of these was only two months ago, so will have the injection done in late October and hope it holds out till our return and surgery booked for February.
I would have been fine if not for that stupid sloping pathway covered with snow and supposed to have cinders underneath it, but which in one spot didn’t, having ice instead. I went down on my coccyx, and so did the young and strong Canadian bloke following me. Someone then notified the cinder people to fix it. At the time I was more worried by the bash to the back of my head as it smashed against the slope. Saw real stars and looked concussed for days, lol. Walked literally miles around a fascinating Arctic zoo that arvo (which seemed to improve the fracture) and did dog-sledding the next day, which was probably unwise bouncing at speed on a narrow plank over ice rutted tracks.
Wouldn’t have missed any of it though.
Hope you feel the same way and have a really great trip.
@lakemonstercl1
That’s a hell of a good question!
Why indeed?
And it was only 15 seconds long, not an hour.
@KarluskaP
Gutfeld goes scorched earth!
And it was only 6.22 minutes long, not an hour.
The Labor day weekend is over, and the campaigns go into top gear from now until November.
I don’t think it’s true any longer, but pundits suggest this is when the punters begin to focus their minds on the vote.
Rassie says:
“Summer is over” and has Trump at 50 vs KamalToe 44. In my mind, that means Trump is ahead in the national, really, by 1 point as the cheat margin is approximately 5 points.
I still think she takes it out as the cheat margin can move higher if it’s necessary.
You can bet they will try.
Will Election-Riggers Wag the Dog Again?
Don’t Be Fooled: Kamala Is A Zero-Carbon Green Radical
Monty declares history over.
Much the same a all reputable WW2 historians did about mid 1970s, only to learn about enigma and the fact the boxheads had their codes broken through most of the war.
We still don’t know if Hess was a defection, a brilliant bit of spycraft or just a loon.
Who knows what’s left.
Whatever the back story with Hess .. It happened so early in the War that, I doubt, it would/did have any effect on anything ……… I’ve alwayz been surprised that, considering some of the light sentencing for the majority of the high ranks (Speer comes to mind), they held on to him for life ..
Message for Muntard:
Some Cats here know who I am and the heights of what I’ve achieved despite being born from a single parent household in Balga (want actually meant to be born but mum rejoined the RCC when she got preggas). Its called education, hard work and individualism (not unionism as never joined one in my life thanks to my Catholic mother’s advice).
You, who “made it” as editor of some obscure records keeping magazine have nothing to show for it except a bitterness. I can under that.
There are plenty of major infrastructural projects all around WA, films, arts, educational initiatives, schools, and just about every single portfolio you can ever think of (other than Justice, AG portfolios).
To this very day I get people asking me if they can name said initiative/infrastructure the “Lysander (insert real name) Memorial (insert project name).”
My answer has always been:
I’m not dead yet.” ?
Lecture me about politics? Sure. What did you achieve other than a pile of empty Doritos in your basement packs seen from space. Nothing. Period.
Lecture me on WWII books? Well I lectured at university over 20 years on that very subject. Do you seriously think I just make shit up like you google boy? Your “arguments,” (dare I call them that so as to it insult a 4yo having a tanty) are insulting. But you are a Nazi and burning books is “ya thang.” (Cumallah accent intoned).
When we take our four kids out in Perth or regional WA, we don’t have to go far for me to point out: “I did that” (in the positive sense).
I can help educate people but
your ass isn’t even worth being buried upward to park my bike on.
Im done with responding to an intellectual fraud. Even calling you an “intellectual fraud” is a fraud within a fraud.
Ask Dover to send me your details and I’ll pay for your repatriation to your “Palestinian” Nazi mates. Many-a-Cat would prolly chip in.
(Sorry for long comment Catters it’s been 60 hours a week for five weeks now and I don’t always have time to refute the tard.)
This isn’t, btw, a “DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM” post, as frankly, I couldn’t give a shit. Not at all.
Im just proud of the opportunities that Australia (did?) provide to hard workers.
In Muntard’s “equity world,” achievement counts for nothing because all is relative and being a failed, fat perverted basement dwelling slob, who frequents Nazi ideologies, is some sort of achievement.
I beg to differ.
Big strong men with tears in their eyes, they come up to you all the time and beg you to allow major landmarks to carry your name. Yeah right.
“Big strong men with tears in their eyes” Muntard? Oh please, darling.
When did I say that? Is it cos your sphincter tightened up after being lessened today over WWII publications and peer reviewed publications (as per Yale)?
i named over 26 publications that threw new light on WWII. You said “history was done, nothing to see here folks.” That’s cos your a Nazi who rewrites history from “Year Zero.”
So, now, please go get another ChinaFlu Vax or ten and do us all a favour.
The $3,500 ticket to Palestine, via Turkey, stands. I’ll pay it all.
Fvck off fascist.
M0nty, there are good reasons why some people here prefer anonymity but you really can bring them to the edge of wanting to tell all about about an often quite unusual history.
Not worth it, Lysander, as M0nty is such small beer.
Mole
From some of what I heard, the Cooper interview was okay. But, by saying it was okay, doesn’t mean I think he’s right about Churchill and some of the things he said about him.
Cooper suggests that because the Germans took so many prisoners, there was not enough food to feed everyone in camps, and therefore, according to correspondence, it was more humane to annihilate them. Well yeah, really? He totally overlooked the oversized elephant in the room. The holocaust. Cooper didn’t mention it once and surprisingly Carlson didn’t raise it either. Big omission by Carlson.
Israel .. take note ……..!
I thought it was funny.
Bought to you by Big Aloe Vera.
https://x.com/IMAO_/status/1831133160609890359?t=UEMT_iu51lSlrRDUpuYVPw&s=19
A bit disjointed, but yes – funny.
As I’m about to now go back to work for a few more hours after starting at 530AM (AWST) this AM, I just ask for the AEST Cats take care of the Nazi in the AM tomorrow.
Im sorry Dover. I’m all for free speech but having the Nazi Muntard on site might constitute a violation as per ASIO’s rules. You might need to stop his posting.
I’m happy to continue my “fight” here with the wets and Libertards, but you need to be careful that you’re letting a literal Nazi and history denier post here.
Sorry folks, I have a full business case to finalise. I won’t be back till tomorrow, maybe Friyay (will try check in)….
One more point on the Cooper interview.
Cooper reckons that Hitler was shocked France and the UK declared war after the Polish invasion and that he took several measures to ensure peace through diplomatic channels and even to the extent of dropping leaflets over British cities, suggesting strongly he wanted a peaceful coexistence.
There is a counterargument to this though, and events proved Hitler was totally (100%) untrustworthy. Hitler forms a partnership with Stalin and invades and consequently splits Poland. This was towards the end of 1939. Approximately 20 months later, Germany attacks the Soviet Union, Germany’s partner in dissecting Poland.
No mention of this though, and the assumption throughout the interview was that it was Churchill’s fault the war occurred on the western front. Churchill was freaking right not to trust Hitler.
Hitler gambled that the allies wouldn’t honor the alliance with Poland. I sometimes think people don’t realise how critical it was for Britain to hold out. Churchill’s stand prevented a complete Germany victory and he had to beat down our politicians who sought a treaty. It was Dowding who created the first integrated air defense system that was critical to beating the Luftwaffe and it was Dowding who insisted on withdrawing fighter squadrons from France and restricting their use for channel shipping defense. If Britain had fallen no Western front, Germany would then have the most powerful navy in the world, and would have access to all the Middle East oil. The lack of oil supplies was a huge factor in the war. Game over basically, Germany would have beaten the USSR and the USA wouldn’t have entered the war. Churchill and Dowding saved the world from a Nazi rampage across the world.
I’ve several unit histories of the heavy tank Battalions and they have quite detailed lists of the casualties in men and equipment – Ferdinand and Jagdpanther. Over 60% of losses of this equipment was from crew destroying the vehicles because of suspension damage and lack of fuel in the last two years of the war.
So, as you say, a huge factor.
It’s nuts because out of six million Russian prisoners only 100,000 were sent to concentration camps, and of those I don’t know how many were selected for immediate death.
Three million Russian POWS died, two thirds of starvation and disease, many executed, 1.4 million collaborated with the Nazis.
The deaths camps were for the Jews and a couple of other categories.
Of course if you believe that in fact that the Jewish problem was real and their obliteration was necessary then you can pretend that death camps were created out of a sense of humanity.
Disgraced Indigenous leader Geoff Clark has been found guilty of stealing close to $1m from Aboriginal organisations he once led, the verdict coming after months of secret trials.
The 71-year-old, who was once Australia’s most senior Aboriginal leader, has been convicted of stealing cash from the Aboriginal organisations he led, illegally accepting royalties from eel fishermen and lying to the courts.
His convictions can finally be revealed after a gag order was lifted on Wednesday when his final case over allegations of stealing cash for “Geoff’s deck” — a sprawling merbau timber setup featuring a bar, kitchen and pizza oven — was dropped.
The former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chair has faced three back-to-back County Court trials since October last year where he was convicted by juries of stealing from Indigenous organisations Kirrae Whurrong Community Inc, Maar Land Council and Framlingham Aboriginal Trust over 15 years.
His thefts of more than $920k, beginning from the early 2000s, came at a time the controversial leader faced mounting legal fees in civil court over rape allegations, and criminal court over a pub brawl at Warrnambool’s Criterion Hotel, for which he was convicted of obstructing police.
A civil jury’s finding that he led two pack rapes against a teenage girl in the 1970s was upheld on appeal in 2007.
In addition to cash thefts, Clark was also found guilty of using Framlingham Aboriginal Trust funds to pay for expenses on his properties, lying on affidavits filed with courts and unlawfully taking money from eel fishermen.
Outside the County Court on Wednesday, Clark was asked by the Herald Sun whether he was sorry for what he’d done.
He refused to answer and walked from court, where he has been ordered to return next week for a pre-sentence hearing.
Clark originally faced more than 300 charges over allegations of misappropriating $2m.
But three juries returned verdicts between December 2023 and May this year, finding him guilty of two dozen theft, financial advantage by deception and perjury charges.
Clark’s son Jeremy was also convicted at trial of stealing more than $250k for his father’s legal fees in the early 2000s.
Charges against Clark’s wife Trudy were discontinued.
Clark was due to face a fourth trial, believed to be over allegations of stealing cash from the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs for ‘Geoff’s deck’ at his Framlingham home, outside Warrnambool.
But the Office of Public Prosecutions withdrew those charges on Wednesday, bringing an end to his court cases and leading Judge Michael O’Connell to lift a gag order banning any reporting on the matter.
His Honour said the gag order “should now be revoked and these proceedings will no longer be suppressed because it is no longer necessary to prevent the risk of prejudice of any future jury trials, so I formally revoke that order.”
That final conclusion came after a decade-long Victoria Police probe into Clark and his family, and more than 10 months of secret trials that began in October 2023.
In a statement, Jeremy Clark said he “made an error of judgment and unreservedly apologise”.
Jeremy said he accepted responsibility for a single charge from more than 15 years ago for which “I did not personally benefit”.
“I have never conspired to commit any crimes for my father’s or anyone’s benefit,” he said.
Jeremy Clark was found guilty at trial of seven charges, including for thefts from the Maar Land Council and Kirrae Whurrong Community Inc, and false accounting between 2003 to 2005.
“My first priority has always been improving the lives and futures of my community, as well as of Indigenous Australians more broadly, and I condemn any actions taken by others that have compromised this,” Jeremy said.
“With respect to any allegation of wrongdoing at the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust, I maintain my innocence and unequivocally deny those allegations. It is noteworthy that it has never been alleged that I personally benefited from any of these historical matters.”
Both Geoff and Jeremy Clark have been ordered to return to the County Court for a two-day pre-sentencing hearing on September 11.
Herald-Sun with comments open.
Cash and Rowdy … Stevo and Eric are the owners.
Many smiles on show.
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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the LAPD Devonshire Division Pancake Breakfast Event 2024 (6 of 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht5By_kEtW8
Video unavailable to me, using W10 and Firefox.
Pogria:
I’ve only just woken up and fed Elsie, made a coffee and sat down at the computer – so I’m not real sharp yet, but “KC and the Sunshine Band”.
Who are they?
Andrew Bolt:
Everything Labor have touched has turned to shit. Yet most likely get another term, in concert with the Greens, to really turn this country into Venezuela.
Oh and monty, phuck off
I agree – we do not need M0nty’s ‘more socialism’ siren song to accompany this descent into the hell of South American foolishness such as I recently saw Argentina agonisingly attempting to creep out from under. Venezuela is apparently still digging deeper as those who can flee.
What price a ticket out of Australia?
Top Ender:
We will now find out if we have a three tier system of Justice in this country.
We already know that muslims are Tier 1, we suspect that Aboriginals are Tier 2, and we know that us “Effing White C–ts’ are Tier 3.
It will be good to have confirmation.
I like the Unauthorised History of the Pacific War. Because of the family involvement I had always been more interested in the European War, especially the Eastern Front. This is giving me a really good grounding on the Pacific War.
Peanut Head to become VC at the ACT teachers college, a less prestigious role than adjunct professor at the Nambour TAFE which Goose Swansteen did not even have the grace to take up. I guess Gillard’s Fabian monster, the NDIS, joins the ALPBC as beyond the control of government. The parallels with Whitlam are spooky.
Speaking of bedtime reading in a reply up thread, I was also reminded of this. It’s one Hairy ordered for me, he’d read it in the 70’s and wanted to share it: “Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps” by Emmett Grogan.
I’m halfway through this tale of a New York bad boy from the badlands hooked on heroin at 13 and redeemed by a scholarship to an upper class private school that recognised his brilliance. It was a huge hit with the NYT book circuit at the time who adored vicariously enjoying the underbelly of life back then in louche appreciation, and they and their Democrat Party haven’t stopped much since, imho. This dip into the upper middle class certainly taught Grogan how to write, but also how to grift in the big time. He turned bad again in a bigger and more excitng pond. Ringolevio is the tale of his demise in the swinging San Franscisco’s 60’s after a spell of mayhem in Italy and Ireland.
The 50’s and 60’s are your generations and I thought you’d enjoy it, says Hairy. Yes, my generations, but not like this fear-and-loathing egotist and fantasist. I don’t know if I’ll finish it, but gee, the guy can write up a storm and that at least is appealing. He died in 1978 on the end of a needle. Dylan dedicated the 1978 Street Legal album to him.
Don’t know if it has been mentioned here already, but Quadrant Online has gone behind a paywall also sporting a glossy new format. So much for that then, for many Cats. I understand the need to keep subscribers, but it’s still a great loss to Australia’s free internet media landscape. You’ve always had to have a subscription to comment, and recently they’ve been making the magazine content available earlier but paywalled. Now its sub for all content.
Hairy, who subscribes for me by yearly sub not by a continuing authorisation, and who sometimes also drops by for a read, was going demented online, because they require a very complicated 12 word, letter, capital, number and symbol password. Totally unnecessary for this level of risk, deems my computer fraud expert. They also seem to have mucked up the accounting (according to them we are only paid up till 2021) but thankfully the mags keep on arriving and once we’ve figured a suitable password the sub works. We’re up to date with payments, Hairy tells me. That’s just a glitch.