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If this is the sentiment that you are reading into my post, then what are you reading into everyone else's commentary on the tragic chain of events? Nope! You brought up 'plausible deniability' and I was just highlighting the convenience of narrative in the scheme of the greater issues that...

It was (and still is!) a terrible chain of events. It must be said though, there is a sort of 'plausible deniability' from accountability in Gaza. Hamas are 'terrorists' and are separate from Gazans / Palestinians when being held responsible for the war crimes October 7 and holding hostages...

Agreed with that. Only Israel allowed aid in. Probably because they had a war to run, disagreed with the warrants and were demonstrably allowing aid in. Compare this with actual genocide and starvation examples like Darfur, Cambodia and Nazi Concentration Camps.

I'm deluding myself into thinking 'Warfare is shit'? I'd have thought it was very clear minded myself! The ICC presumes that all defendants are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. With respect to the warrants, the Israel's have significant grounds to argue against their...

When you're in a war situation with both parties fighting each other and with one of them holding hostages (which is a bargaining tool and a war crime), the ease of movement of vehicles is naturally going to slow to a crawl, as you can't just allow your enemy to be re-upping their supplies with...

Your gif makes some valid points, but what do you disagree with exactly? If Israel's goal was 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' of the area, then the could have been much more vicious militarily and they could have even punched holes in the borders to facilitate displacement. But they didn't...

Trump must have been playing golf during the period that Egypt were heavily fortifying their border, which was done due to them wanting to protect their own security interests after many decades of attacks in their territory from Hamas-backed or affiliated terrorist organisations. Of course...

I really need to know what sort of kickback and/or long lunch resulted in the decision to overlook a provider (Cubic) who had an 'out of the box' product that works seamlessly in Sydney and Singapore, that was significantly cheaper and didn't need to be developed to allow credit card payments...

Fair enough!

Two months on from those comments, they're made to look like idiots. No big deal! They made a call, got on the bandwagon and have face planted. They do plenty of good otherwise. Of course, there is still a chance Israel are intentionally making a power play to shut the hostage protests up at...

I'm not saying they all need to look like Nazi Germany (or Rwanda, Cambodia etc.), but those genocides had killing rates in the hundreds of thousands......per month!! And displacements by the millions. In this instance, we have two combatants fighting each other, goaded on by one of the sides...

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that it’s not a genocide though. The ICJ said that it was "plausible" that there could be a genocide, which I agree could be plausible/possible if Israel were playing a very long and stealthy genocide game. But I always thought that the...

I'm not sure Israel's stated intentions or misguided heavy-handedness ever indicated that they wanted to destroy or ultimately occupy Gaza. If anything, given Hamas' intent of killing and harbouring a large number of people and having a stated destroying the State of Israel is closer to the...

So this deal is more or less the same deal that both Israel and Hamas have rejected at various points? You can't make up the level of stupidity that happens in real life, because nobody would believe it!

Not until late in the campaign and Albo sure as **** didn't push for a billion changes at once like Shorten did, which inexplicably made ScoMo look like a political wizard in 2019! Dutton now could conceivably STFU about his right wing "compulsory citizenship ceremonies" and then dump it on...

I wish I had almost $1,300 per week in disposable income! Most people that I speak to are more in line with the Fin Review graph living pay to pay despite healthy gross incomes. Dutton's current push to reinstate the requirement for councils to hold citizenship ceremonies is very ill-advised...

For a number of reasons, there's a clear difference between early Gen X and the latter Gen X (aka. Xennials), but I love and accept us us all (except for ScoMo apparently, who can **** right off!).

Is there any mechanism where us Gen Xers can trade out ScoMo to the Boomers? Happy to trade down from the first round.

Life has bad shit happen in it within every field of human endeavour, often as a result of horrible decisions by humans and that ain't gonna change anytime soon. Racing Australia have an excellent program of traceability, vetting, drug testing and prosecution of perpetrators. You can't attain...

Yes and it's a chalk and cheese comparison. I'd happily see greyhound racing banned in Australia, but think horse racing is well-regulated and the animals, are on the whole, well-looked after. There of course will be some bad eggs out there looking after the horses, but then there are...

You're assuming that the investors have all jumped because of the new taxes only and not because of everything else with regards to cost of living pressures. Then you're assuming that the volume of transactions in Victoria have gone up in 2024 to 2023. I don't have data on that, but I do know...

Why? And how?

I know you didn’t say that, but you did infer that the "taxes" has somehow "worked". In my view, the threat of the VRLT would have some minor impact for land bankers and people who've bought apartments and can't be bothered leasing them out (happens a lot in the city with overseas purchasers)...

The main "bug" to iron though is that eradicating the appetite for investors in Victoria means that high density developments are unfeasible and can't get off the ground. Plus there ain't 25,000 new homes; just a bit of relief in some rental markets. I'm all for strong vacant property taxes...

Their set up there is so tight, that the war crimes (over a year of holding innocent civilians as hostages) committed and celebrated by the Palestinians and other Arab nations in the streets, that the Greens and other people who whinge about "genocide" and "colonisation", who would mostly be...

You're right, I forgot about the tin foil hatters!

I think referring to 'authority' from a bunch of known 'left' to 'extreme left' wing people, to support an 'extreme left wing nut job' isn't aiding your cause any. The bloke's stance on anything COVID related for example was nothing but undying support for Labor (saints) versus Liberal...

Early New Year’s resolution! 😜

Sofronoff’s report is well worth a read on this topic and the inner workings of the ACT government. I’ve known it for over a quarter of a century. Related to spiritual teachings about us day to day folk who don’t realise that we’re living in what Hindus and Buddhists call Maya. It is more...

What has Soff got to do with a supposed cover up and/or burying of evidence? Obviously, should new info surrounding a strategic cover up arise to the contrary, we should be all ears over said info. But scratching around the periphery of the already published and meticulously legally analysed...