Open Thread – Weekend 28 Sept 2024


Lunar night on Capri, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1841

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calli
calli
September 29, 2024 5:12 pm

And we have to be careful we don’t reduce the battle to one between Hezbollah and Israel, effectively this is an attack on Lebanon that is a sovereign country … and people are outraged,” he said.

Bull.

If it was an attack on Lebanon the place would now be dust.

Stop lying and be glad Israel has cleaned house for you.

Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 5:12 pm

I can see why there is an attraction to Islam I don’t like it but I understand why some people are drawn to it. A vacuum has been created and it will be filled.

This is true- I’ve thought about it. Also was interested in Mormonism….

Joseph Smith was dubbed the American Mohamet by newspaper editors at the time. Mormonism is not dissimilar to Islam in its principle teachings.

I don’t mean just polygamy but anti-Trinitarianism and entering paradise through good works/obedience and of course the role of the prophet and the angel Moroni in the original revelation.

As such, any spiritual comfort Islam or Mormonism offer is false & deceptive.

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calli
calli
September 29, 2024 5:20 pm

In addition, by that clown’s logic Lebanon was attacking Israel, another “sovereign country” with over 8,000 rockets in 11 months.

Tough luck that they finally retaliated.

Suffer in your jocks.

Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 5:24 pm

In addition, by that clown’s logic Lebanon was attacking Israel, another “sovereign country” with over 8,000 rockets in 11 months.

Tough luck that they finally retaliated.

Not sure of the context of the original quote there, but in ABC news’s report yesterday on Australians seeking to leave Lebanon there was a quote from one (Australian-Lebanese) chap who said Lebanon has a right to defend itself. His name and location suggested he was Maronite rather than Muslim. Be careful you don’t choose the side of the baddies, mate.

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JC
JC
September 29, 2024 5:28 pm

Again, your take on Afghanistan is off. Massoud’s crew was basically the U.S.’s VIP client over there! I’m sticking to that, while you seem to be in denial about the Soviets being the cause of that clusterfck.

Now, about Syria— it’s a tangled mess, but claiming the U.S. is high-fiving ISIS, which you’ve done in the past? That’s a conspiracy theory so wild it deserves its own special on Info-Wars.
The U.S. is backing rebel groups who are taking a stand against the Ba’ath party, while Russia has their back because, well, they go way back to the old soviet days. And let’s be honest, the Ba’ath party is about as charming as the Soviet union under Stalin.
Discussing Yugoslavia? Nah, not my jam.

It’s funny how you want to chat about Syria and Yugoslavia but dodge the real elephant in the room—The Soviet’s train wreck that is Afghanistan. But hey, focus on those Jihadis, right?

Arky
September 29, 2024 5:30 pm

Magpies chasing off my enemies, the parrots.
I now have guard magpies.
I have named them.
Quardle and Awk.

calli
calli
September 29, 2024 5:32 pm

They want us to imagine two Lebanons, and perhaps there are. There’s the Christian/secular Lebanon and then there’s the Islamic Iranian backed Lebanon. All living together next door to the place most of them hate for one reason or another.

As I said, Israel cleaned house for Lebanon No 1 because not only would they not do it for themselves, but sat by while Lebanon No 2 lobbed bombs into their neighbour’s country.

Why did they sit idle? Fear of the mad mullahs and their henchmen. So don’t mealy mouth when someone does your job for you at great risk to themselves.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 29, 2024 5:35 pm

Roger do you think the muzzie Christians converts are arriving saying they are Christians coz if their muzzie community knew, the headloppers would be around in a flash.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2024 5:44 pm

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has warned he will consider cancelling the visas of anyone who incites “discord” in Australia, as protesters in Sydney and Melbourne waved Hezbollah flags and carried framed pictures of dead terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah

Yeah, sure!

cohenite
September 29, 2024 5:46 pm

CPAC is going to feature a film by Joel Gilbert which critiques the climate bullshit, particularly its modern incarnation via the rogue Al Gore, who Gilbert used to work for. Interestingly Gore was inspired into his climate crap while at divinity college (!) by being made to read a book by Fairfield Osborne called Our Plundered Planet which has as its thesis the idea that Earth was pristine until humans started enjoying the benefits of CO2 and ruined this paradise. In short it was a reworking of the Eden concept, not in pure biblical terms but as a general concept. Gore based his own book Earth in the Balance on Our Plundered Planet.

The movie about Gore’s lies will be screening around Australia and tickets can be obtained here:

Screenings | The Climate According to AI Al Gore (climatealgore.com)

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Arky
September 29, 2024 5:53 pm

Magpies much prefer macadamia nuts to peanuts.
Experimentation continues.

Arky
September 29, 2024 6:03 pm

Missus now complaining she can’t find the macadamias.
Heh heh heh.

JC
JC
September 29, 2024 6:11 pm

dover0beach

September 29, 2024 5:50 pm

Yes, yes, JC, the US supported the ‘moderate jihadis’ in Afghanistan and Syria, and anyone that says different is a ‘conspiracy theorist’.

You frequently ask others to make distinctions, yet you seem to ignore them yourself. The Reagan administration’s actions in Afghanistan and Syria are nearly 30 years apart and involve entirely different administrations. Suggesting any loose association is misleading at best.
I’ve shared my views on Afghanistan as well as adding the fact Soviets caused that mess – something you’ve decided to ignore.

As for Syria, it’s a tangled mess, but one fact stands out: Russia backs the Ba’ath party, which rules with a brutality reminiscent of history’s worst regimes. Yet you continue to support these arseholes.

The US does not and has not supported ISIS in Syria.

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Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 6:15 pm

You frequently ask others to make distinctions, yet you seem to ignore them yourself. 

I think that’s a fair point, dover.

Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2024 6:17 pm

Australian Jewish Association on X: “HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST SUPPORTERS RALLY IN MELBOURNE Holding memorial pictures of vile murderer and terror leader Hassan Nasrallah, and flags of Hezbollah, a Muslim mob marches in Melbourne. This used to be unacceptable in Australia. Why are they here? *** AGAIN we ask why is law https://t.co/P04Havv8i6” / X

Why are they here? Because our immigration policies have imported the scum, that’s why.

And left-wing Jews must bear some responsibility for this. Too many left-wing Jews across the West have bought into the lie that open borders and unfettered Muslim immigration is good for western countries. Here’s a plain basic truth, it isn’t good and it’s particularly disastrous for Jewish communities. I note above the comments about ‘social justice’. Social justice is a plague on religion, it’s a plague on the West. It’s funny because only this morning in my Jewish women’s group we discussed ‘social justice’. The rebbetzin is an observant woman who has no truck or time for this contemporary obsession with ‘social justice’ or as we say in Hebrew….’Tikkun Olam’. Tikkun Olam means to ‘heal the world‘. As she said, nowadays, particularly with Reform Judaism, ‘Tikkun Olan’ has replaced prayer, kashrut, family purity etc. Healing the world by being kind, by giving to the poor and less well off, by caring for the homeless and the elderly and so on is important but it can only come through prayer, by keeping the Sabbath, by keeping Kashrut, by giving tzedakah and so on. And Tikkun Olam is not about providing succour to genocidal Jew haters who want to kill you. That’s insanity.

Apparently a group of these terrorist supporters also marched here in Sydney today. So I ask, where are the police? Were there any arrests made? I recall how, in January of this year, on Australia Day no less, the NSW Plod swooped down on some so called Nazis at North Sydney station. Well, I now wait for the NSWaffen to do their job and arrest the Hamas and Hezbollah supporters marching here in Sydney today.

Don’t hold your breath, Cassie of Sydney.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 6:19 pm
Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2024 6:34 pm

Sydney Town Hall has a Nazi rally where thousands have turned up to mourn Nasrallah and guess who were there? Everybody’s favourite fatso Pakistani slug….

At the protest Greens senator Mahreen Faruqi addressed the crowd at Town Hall.

“My heart has been broken and shattered fir a year, one agonising year of genocide on Palestinians carried out by Israel, funded by the US and cheered on by the Australian Labor government,” she said.

“Now Israel’s killing machine is causing carnage and bloodshed in Lebanon again, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands.

“The war in the Middle East is more than about Palestine, it is more than about Lebanon, it is a fight for justice of all colonised peoples.”

The Greens should be disendorsed. As for the Fatso Paki senator, she wants the world cleaned of people like me. I ask again of the Liberals? Where’s their censure motion against this fat Jew hating slag?

Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 6:35 pm

Why are they here? Because our immigration policies have imported the scum, that’s why.

Because Labor is beholden to the Muslim vote in western Sydney.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
September 29, 2024 6:37 pm

Penny Wrong announces that the World Government has arrived.
It’s called (holistically) The International Community.

Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 6:40 pm

“The war in the Middle East is more than about Palestine, it is more than about Lebanon, it is a fight for justice of all colonised peoples.”

For argument’s sake…

Since Mz. Faruqi equates Australian aborigines with Palestinians, as she is a migrant, doesn’t that make her a coloniser?

Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2024 6:41 pm

They were screaming ‘death to Jews’ on the streets of Melbourne today. Where are the police?

I feel sick.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 29, 2024 6:49 pm

I saw a taxpayer funded police vehicle yesterday in western Melb covered in graffiti sooking about not being paid enough. Sickening.

Roger
Roger
September 29, 2024 6:50 pm

They were screaming ‘death to Jews’ on the streets of Melbourne today. Where are the police?

It’s probably not much consolation, Cassie, but this is going to rebound electorally on Labor.

The fear of that explains Burke’s statement.

These fools are in a world of self-inflicted pain.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
September 29, 2024 6:51 pm

Two tiered “justice” is destroying the credibility of the government faster than anything else.

Correct. They don’t take the social contract seriously.

Arky
September 29, 2024 6:55 pm

Miltonf

 September 29, 2024 6:49 pm

I saw a taxpayer funded police vehicle yesterday in western Melb covered in graffiti sooking about not being paid enough. Sickening

It is an offence to mark graffiti on property that can be seen by the public unless the owner has given you permission. There are very serious penalties for making or intending to make graffiti.
– Victoria legal aid.

Arky
September 29, 2024 6:59 pm

In order for it to be considered a permanent marking, the graffiti must not be able to be easily removed by a dry clothe.
So if the markings on the police cars are in any other marker than a whiteboard marker, and if the owner hasn’t given permission…

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 29, 2024 7:01 pm

I’ve never forgotten how the ambos did the same thing against Denis Napthine either. Not what you’d call ‘professional’.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 7:14 pm

Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2024 6:41 pm

They were screaming ‘death to Jews’ on the streets of Melbourne today. Where are the police?
I feel sick.

Stay strong Cassie. VicPol are useless. Probably one of the worst forces in the world.

Tom
Tom
September 29, 2024 7:18 pm

Albo, Burqa and Benny’s wanting to import 3000 Palestinians into Australia is looking even more electorally unappealing than ever, after the vile protests in Melbourne and Sydney today.

The Aussie public has only so much patience.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 7:21 pm

Live performance from 2007.

Pet Shop Boys – Go West

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 29, 2024 7:35 pm

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has warned he will consider cancelling the visas of anyone who incites “discord” in Australia, as protesters in Sydney and Melbourne waved Hezbollah flags and carried framed pictures of dead terrorist chief Hassan Nasrallah

As the video image shows, it’s a numbers game that Burke is wholly unable to participate in.

The “tiny minority” carrying photos and flags and screaming death to Jews amounted to several hundred lively roadmen. For the cops to act to arrest and gather evidence leading to any sort of legal consequences would require intelligence, policing resources, coordination, and political determination that doesn’t exist.

Surrounding that “tiny minority” was an apparently approving mob of perhaps 500?, 1000?, 2000?. Possibly ‘worried about Lebanese civilians put in danger by Hezbollah’ – but definitely supportive of the photo-wavers. How to deal with them from a public order perspective, while weeding out the outlaws?

And behind the people on the street, how many more in the electorates nursing various degrees of support and hatred. Whatever would they do, how would they vote, if the State started a long and bitterly contested process against a number of individuals. Might they become radicalised? Might there be further and larger unrest?

Might there be blame?

How would the Greens play the situation?

Unfortunately, although nicking and dispersing a dozen or so Gay Grampian Garage Nasties is still feasible, on scale alone, Australia is clearly well past the crossover point of being able to use acceptable methods to control the Servants of the Prophet (and their useful idiot supporters) when the passion is upon them.

Tony Burke is not in control.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 7:36 pm

I take great delight watching others come a cropper. You just know the bloke who hit the steps would have damaged his coccyx.

Idiot Challenge 2

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 7:45 pm

Having all that fat saved her. No doubt sore as the next day.

Ouch!

Temu Lizzo Has Seen Better Days

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 29, 2024 7:52 pm

Amazing how many Nazis are hiding in plain sight.

‘This used to be unacceptable in Australia’: Thousands of pro-Palestine protestors march in Sydney, Melbourne following assassination of Hezbollah leader (Sky News, 29 Sep)

In Sydney, protesters, including children, carried images of Nasrallah and chanted slogans outside of the Town Hall.

In Melbourne, protesters walked through the CBD and gathered outside the State Library of Victoria as huge crowds chanted, beat drums, waved flags, and set off green-coloured flares.

They are supporting a frigging terrorist who has the deaths of thousands on his hands. Or did, since he’s now dogmeat.

132andBush
132andBush
September 29, 2024 7:54 pm

Roger

September 29, 2024 12:02 pm

Bozo Johnson having second thoughts about lockdowns:

I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some effect.

Yeah you bulbous, narcissistic clown, they had an effect all right.

It screwed the lives of millions of people.

An effect many millions of ordinary people and a lot of experts did foresee.

I mean it wasn’t bloody hard was it?

All one needed was a basic understanding of, and empathy for, ones fellow human beings.

And an understanding of how society works, functions, operates, call it what you will.

And an ability to analyse some basic facts.

And NOT be a first order thinker.

But all this was too hard for you and your ilk and still you can’t apologise, because you are all narcissists and freaks and sociopaths.

FMD

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 29, 2024 8:01 pm

In the UK, pretty much the entire media pack is turning against Gear Starmer – including the left wing stalwarts.

The Sunday Times posting of Rosie Duffield’s brutal resignation letter and the excruciating Team Starmer responses to the sleaze and her move to the crossbench have been picked up and repeated by the Grauniad, the Independent, and the BBC.

At this stage, the only media railing at Duffield are the pink and socialist alternative – outraged by her stand on biological women.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2024 8:14 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/kingsgrove-sydney-arrahman-mosque-and-islamic-college-holds-service-for-the-martyr-nasrallah.html

Can’t we just subcontract dealing with these grubs to the Israeli’s? A Hellfire missile through the window should teach them reverence and respect for their betters.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2024 8:25 pm

Protesters waving Hezbollah flags who gatecrashed a pro-Palestine protest in Melbourne will be referred to the Australian Federal Police.?

Who will speak very, very severely to them, and tell them not to do it again!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 8:42 pm

I have to get over there to visit family. They are getting old. I remember OMA sitting on the couch with mum crying after going back in the 80’s .

Immigration wrecked the joint.

Another account she shared was when the Nazi’s lined everyone up in the street. Two people were shot. All to make an example off.

I was too young to contemplate the gravity of what was said at the time.

Here is the kicker. Oma and mum lived two blocks from Anne Frank’s family.

Anyway. Spanian

3 hours. Will watch over the next few days.

Tracing My Heritage pt2 – Haarlem, Netherlands 

Salvatore - Iron Publican
September 29, 2024 8:43 pm

I saw a taxpayer funded police vehicle yesterday in western Melb covered in graffiti sooking about not being paid enough. Sickening.

These bastards did not miss one payday, not one, all through covid lockdowns.
Simultaneously they were rubber-bulleting people who wanted to go to work in their everyday job.

They oughta STFU while they’re ahead.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 29, 2024 8:56 pm

Yep total deadshits

Makka
Makka
September 29, 2024 9:11 pm

Those protesters were just being rhetorical, according to Burgess. They meant no harm really.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 9:38 pm

Yep. Their bank accounts are still smoking.

They pumped out some of the greatest pop songs in the world.

ABBA – The Winner Takes It All

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 9:57 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 10:07 pm

Clip above.

Perth @ 4:27

Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (Official Music Video)

Indolent
Indolent
September 29, 2024 10:32 pm

John Kerry moaning about loss of control over the narrative.

@SwipeWright

“Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win…the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”

No thanks.

Indolent
Indolent
September 29, 2024 10:33 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 10:55 pm

GreyRanga
 September 29, 2024 5:06 pm

Reply to  Steve trickler
Fanbloodytastic. Seeing the Humpback whale being so interested in them was amazing.

I laughed and got emotional. I have no qualms admitimg that. 1 hour captured on film. People from around the world are going to spin out with this footage.

That whale ways saying hello.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 29, 2024 11:03 pm

admitimg … admitting.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 30, 2024 3:20 pm

Plenty to arrest for incitement, which no doubt will occur:

Two Sydney mosques will host vigils for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah going over three days.

On Sunday the Facebook page of the Al Rahman Mosque in the southwest Sydney suburb of Kingsgrove advertised it would be holding a service over three evenings “for the souls of the righteous martyrs, the master of resistance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah”.

A second Sydney mosque has also commenced three day vigils. The Sayeda Zainab Centre in Banksia posted on Facebook it would be holding mourning councils from Sunday to Tuesday for Nasrallah

Round them up.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
September 30, 2024 8:04 pm

I just noticed that the colours of the official Hezbollah flag are green and gold.
How dare they.

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