News reports indicate that the main suspect in the Dallas shooting had “liked” the Facebook pages of the terrorist organisation the New Black Panther Party, and Nation of Islam. One thing, then, we know for certain – he was yet another lone wolf. He probably has mental health issues.
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The result from an XYZ Viewer Poll held earlier this week has revealed an extremely libertarian streak in Australian voters, with 100% of Australians responding that they do not miss having a federal government. Australia has now gone a week without having a federal government, and (although we will need one to pay off the debt, eventually) clearly Australians could not be happier.
In response to the question, “How much do you miss having a federal government,” one third of Australians responded that they miss it “like a hole in the head.” 20% responded that they miss a federal government like “ham in a halal snack-pack,” 14% miss it like “a fart in an elevator,” and only 4% miss it like a kick in the teeth.
Admirably, 27% responded positively to the answer “Taxation is Theft,” which should encourage free-market-anarchists memeing all over the internet.
The poll was not without controversy, however. An XYZ intern pointed out that no responses in the survey allowed for people who do miss having a federal government to say so, thus the result was skewed. That intern is now working at a McDonalds drive-through, although we understand they still will not let her handle physical cash.
It’s your XYZ.
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By Ghostwtr
When reports filtered to Australia that Daesh murderer Khaled Sharrouf was killed in a drone attack last year, friends and colleagues were left to mourn a man of generosity, humility, and an amazing porn collection.
On a special field investigation I interviewed former colleagues of these fallen Aussie Jihadis to learn of their memory of their fallen comrades of terror.
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Mohamed Elomar; former failed boxer, Daesh recruiter and murderer for Daesh in Syria:
“He was just mellow, very down to earth. Of course he was righteous in the cause and straight-up as a man can be, but he’d give you the dishdash off his back and the kufi off his head, if it came to that. Very observant of the holidays, very clean, kept a strict halal diet and stayed in shape by regular cross-country running dodging drone strikes. I understand he was kind to animals, even married one when he lived in Australia, where they torture them and make them race each other as a form of culture. And what a porn collection he had! One of the best in the Arabian Peninsula, without a doubt.”
Mohamed Baryalei; assistant Halal certifier, Daesh poster-boy:
“Once I tried to get him to pose for a photo shoot showing him at home in his apartment in Syria with a goat. I wanted to capture him modelling his latest wardrobe of vests and dish cloths, mixing up some hummus, and converting brain-dead teenagers on the internet while hanging out with his devoted pre-teen wife and 17 devout kids. But he was far too modest and ascetic to make such a splash. And I admired him for that. It’s too bad, though; an issue like that would have generated more online traffic than the internet versions of Womens Day and Vanity Fair combined.”
Neil Prakash; Melbourne hipster and camel herder trainee:
“He took his success in stride. All that coverage we came to expect on the ABC and SBS News meant little to him—he laughed about it! Of course, when he first came to Syria from Australia he was full of piss and vinegar. His beard wasn’t fully grown yet, and he was kind of wild-eyed. It was, “Kill him, kill them, radicalize everyone,” all the time. I thought, “This guy really needs to get laid!” But it turned out he got a blowjob no one saw coming.”
Sharky Jama; Melbourne male model and popular Daesh bum boy:
“There was no vanity in the man. None of this, “I’m bigger than Osama now,” even though it might have been true. Or, “I’ve got a much bigger TV and laptop than No. 1.” Instead there was great modesty and the earnest desire to kill infidels, in about equal measure. Only once did I ever hear him speak disparagingly of bin Laden. It was after our leader was gunned down by the Americans. He said, ‘You mean he was living next door to an army base where U.S. commandos could easily come and go? That was dumb-ass.’”
Fatima Jama; full-time bimbo and Daesh bitch:
“Sure, he was dedicated to the mission, but he wasn’t all up in your face every minute about the Caliphate or the Great Satan. He had his calmer moments when he preferred to talk about anything besides the Umma, even former Australian Prime Ministers Julia Gillard’s new book, which he admired for its punctuation and font. As important as he became for Islamic State’s international image and message, he didn’t ask any special privileges and didn’t lord it over the rank-and-file suicide bombers. If you were a woman, you didn’t need to be a virgin to approach him. Of course it helped. When I heard the Kurds took him out, I couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘Hey, wait! He’s an Australian citizen! Isn’t that unconstitutional?’”
Yusuf Toprakkaya; candlestick maker and Adidas fan:
“As an Australian, he had an amazing fund of hilarious Yankee jokes, and kept everyone in stitches. And the regional accents he could pull off! He liked to say, “Gudday how they hangin’?” in Arabic, with a Queensland accent. Laugh? I thought I’d die. And the collection of songs on his iPod was most eclectic. It was Yusuf who introduced me to Maroon 5, the coolest of bands.”
Zia Abdul Haq; Council worker by day preteen celebrant by night:
“Sharrouf was simply at peace with the world. He knew his place in the universe and was as one with it. Once I drove us out of Falluja, where he stayed for a time, on one of the few passable roads. We parked, and under a blank azure sky we chatted. I asked him why he kept looking upward—was he expecting a winged horse to descend from that blue expanse? “No, Zia,” he replied. “Somewhere up there is an all-seeing drone carrying a Hellfire missile with my name on it, a missile that the citizens of the West paid a million dollars for. But smart as that bomb is—and it’s plenty smart—it won’t find me, not today.” And he was right. That day.”
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It now appears likely that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal-National Coalition will just blunder through with the numbers to form minority government, one week after the 2 July Federal election was held.
Prime Minister Turnbull would be wise not to take the election win (if we can actually call it that) as a vote of confidence in his leadership, but as a firm message that his prime ministership is on notice.
Likewise, it would be sensible for Bill Shorten to tone down his celebration of Labor’s non-victory as some kind of achievement (other than possibly keeping his own job as opposition leader), as this election has seen Labor’s primary vote slump to record lows.
Australians have made it patently clear that they are not happy with either of the major parties, with nearly a quarter of all voters voting for a party or independent, other than Labor or the Liberal National-Coalition.
Turnbull and Shorten, heed the message from the Australian public: You’re leadership is on notice.
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By Eh?Nonymous
As someone who largely identifies with at least a few libertarian values, I can’t think of many better examples of free market thinking than the process of observing, collecting, and analysing scientific data and allowing it to speak for itself without being manipulated, corrupted, or framed in a way that will further a particular political or theological (or atheist) agenda.
I just read a really interesting article on the arrival of the Juno probe at Jupiter by XYZ editor David Hiscox. David approaches this well written piece in a very scientific manner. At no point does he bemoan that NASA is hamstrung by a lack of funding, or indeed that it is flourishing under the Obama administration. Nor does it contain a postscript that ‘this is clearly proof that Christians are mistaken in their belief that heaven lies just above the clouds’ or indeed that ‘the miracle of Juno is clearly proof of intelligent design’. It is factual, unbiased, and doesn’t push any kind of political or theological agenda.
David has written numerous thought provoking pieces of social and political commentary, so it’s not as if he doesn’t think about such things. It’s just that he realises the importance of a scientific article remaining strictly scientific and unadulterated by politics or theology. An article about about the Juno space probe has no place making tenuous links to commentary about refugees, Pauline Hanson, Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump, or anything else that the author might be interested in examining. Sadly not all commentators take as much of a purely scientific approach to science stories as our XYZ editor.
This article, on the other hand will not be taking a purely scientific approach, because the website that it concerns is not taking a purely scientific approach.
My wife is really into science, and is also what I’d describe as an Anglican on hiatus. She has beliefs, but doesn’t attend church. She isn’t political in the slightest, and doesn’t really follow such things too closely. One evening, I noticed her scowling at her tablet and asked her what was wrong.
“Why does this site keep picking fights with Christians?”
The site in question was I F—ing Love Science. It has one of the most popular pages on Facebook. When you have that kind of power, it’s a lot of responsibility. It’s easy to compromise impartiality to push beliefs that it isn’t the time or the place for. And that’s exactly what they do. I can’t remember exactly what the article at the time was. Something about a discovery from an ancient civilisation that apparently debunked the Bible because it was older than the Bible claims that the world is.
The Bible was written by scholars who didn’t have the luxury of having access to things like carbon dating or the fossil record. Even still, these people were hardly idiots. Just being literate in Biblical times was akin to being a chemical engineer like Australian scientist San Thang (more on him later), so it hardly seems fair to judge them by 21st century semantics.
The vast majority of Christians realise this and don’t take everything written in there as gospel, if you’ll pardon the pun. The regressive left don’t understand this of course. As has been noted before, they don’t understand religion full stop. These are the same kind of people who watch a movie from the fifties and chuckle ironically when they see someone in it using a phone book.
“Who would be stupid enough to use a phone book when you can just Google it?” they remark with millennial superiority over the quaintness of a generation who were way better recyclers and infinitely more environmentally friendly than their grandchildren, who demand a new and improved smartphone every five minutes.
The article that irked my wife was not a one off apparently. She told me that the site used to be cool, but every few articles lately they seemed to be throwing in conspicuous commentary about all of the hot button Cultural Marxist topics (my words, not hers. I believe she said ‘annoying hipster topics’ but I got her drift). A quick perusal confirmed this, and reading the comments below the suspect articles, it became clear that at least half of those who had liked the page had noticed a similar aggressive left-wing bent.
I haven’t looked at the page for some time, but in the interest of fairness I had a quick look today. The second article I saw was entitled ‘Six Incredible Scientists Who Had To Flee Their Homeland as Refugees‘.
There was clearly nothing scientific about this article other than the fact that it involved six scientists. It almost read as if it were commissioned by a refugee activist group. And even then the link they made was dubious at best. They spoke of scientists like Gustav Nossal, Johannes Kepler, and Einstein in the same breathe as some North African guy who claims to be Syrian. Here are a few excerpts from the article that pertain to the Australian side of things:
“San Thang’s voyage across the South China Sea at the end of the Vietnam
War looked a lot like what we are seeing in the Mediterranean today. He fled Vietnam among 409 people crammed aboard a tiny boat seeking to avoid repression from the communist forces who had recently taken Saigon.
“Thang’s work providing tools to allow chemical engineers to alter plastics to suit their needs has proven so useful it was at short odds to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014. Funding cutbacks have forced him from the position in which he spent most of his career, but he has continued to work on in an unpaid capacity.
“Today, the boats crossing the Mediterranean include scientists whose expertise make them targets for extremists groups.”
It couldn’t have looked any different to the XYZ Juno article. It shamelessly pushed a pro-refugee agenda, alluded to Liberal cutbacks at the CSIRO, and of course indicated that those who make up the Refugee Regatta we see crossing the Mediterranean today are not of the ilk that helped increase the rate of rape in Sweden by 500% and the violent crime rate rise by 300% in just a few short years, but are in all likelihood highly functional scientists who will be bringing scientific breakthroughs into Europe with them.
The best evidence IFLS can come up with to support their thesis is purely anecdotal (the left loves presenting anecdotal evidence as the norm), and revolves around half a dozen scientists who settled in random places between the early 17th century, and just after the Vietnam War. That’s one scientist seeking asylum every 67 years, a benefit that apparently justifies mass destabilisation of Europe and elsewhere.
Now to quote Donald Trump, I assume that many if not most of these refugees are good people. Just don’t query them too closely on their opinions about feminism, gays, or Jews, and I’m sure you’ll have a lovely conversation over a cuppa without being put off your Tim Tams. But statistically, it’s ridiculous to allude that a refugee is statistically more likely to be a scientist than say, a criminal or a radical jihadist.
Judging from the comments below their Facebook share of the article, at least a good percentage of IFLS page followers seemed to realise they’d been fed an elaborate Cultural Marxist puff piece under the guise of an impartial scientific paper. Here are just a few comments to be found below the article:
Walter Wong: Don’t go there IFLS
Phil Kwiatowski: Einstein compared to terrorists? Dude this site went straight to hell.
Janet Alaska: Potentially six out of 2 million? Well worth it.
Mario Slovansky: This is bad propoganda.
Darren Hocking: I’m sick of IFLS political bulls—. Stick to science. Unsubscribed.
Ryan Kyger: Stop with the political BS already. Science and politics need to stay separate.
Amanda Sime: Give it a rest would you?
Interesting stuff indeed. Seemingly, the fans of the IFLS page are a very analytical bunch and can quickly detect bulls— when they see it.
Clearly, IFLS seems more obsessed with social engineering than structural engineering. More enamoured with Cultural Marxism than Bacterial Culture. More preoccupied with social justice than social science.
For a site that is allegedly scientifically inclined, they seem awfully beholden to relying on anomalous anecdotal evidence. Using Einstein as an example that refugees can be scientists is a little like using a 58 year old woman who has accidentally fallen pregnant as indisputable evidence that women can comfortably wait until their late fifties before having children. Sure, it’s possible. But not probable.
The conspicuous recurring theme of Cultural Marxist doctrine at IFLS is symptomatic of the main problematic issue with regressive left ideology. Like alcoholics, these people don’t seem to realise that they have a problem.
The regressive left don’t even regard their beliefs as political or biased. They think that left-wing is just something you’ll find attached to the side of a plane.
They see their ideology as indisputable fact. They’ll readily question very unscientific claims by creationists that the shape of a banana is proof of intelligent design, but blindly and wholeheartedly accept the junk science on their side of the political spectrum with no questions asked.
Regardless of your political leanings, it’s important to remain vigilant, cynical, and skeptical of sources that present heavily biased opinion as science. Thankfully as you can see from the comments below this and other IFLS articles, most centrist and conservative people who visit the site seem curious by nature and only too willing to question obvious theological and socio-political doctrine that is presented as being scientific. Now, if we can only find a way to convince IFLS to be a little more scientific and a little more politically and theologically impartial.
Eh?nonymous was a thoroughly repellent unemployed social justice warrior until a one in a million glitch in his Facebook account affected the algorithms in his news feed, omitting posts from his much loved left leaning Huffington Post and I F**king Love Science, and inexplicably replacing them with centrist and conservative newsfeed items that slowly dragged him kicking and screaming into the light beyond the safe space that Mr. Zuckerberg had so carefully constructed for him. It’s a long road to recovery, but every Mark Steyn share he sees in his newsfeed is like another day clean from social justice addiction.
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About Dallas – why did Obama not ramble on that this had nothing to do with race, or was all about gun control? Different established M.O., seeing as this actually had nothing to do with Islam. Oh well.
And as an aside: have you noticed the terror tactics behind this. Cold blooded attack on the enemy, threat/ use of bombs… almost a suicidal attack from a fanatical semi militant group. #BlacksCanBeRacistC—sToo
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By Maritana
It is quite disturbing to listen to both Turnbull and Shorten respond to the results of last Saturday’s federal election. Neither seem to be able to grasp what is blatantly obvious to the rest of us … neither boy has won the day. In fact both of them are patent losers.
The Labor party achieved its second lowest primary vote ever. The Liberal party lost over 1 million votes.
That’s the sum total of the achievements of the two major parties.
The votes went to conservative minor parties … because that’s where middle Australia wants to be; Conservative.
There wasn’t much of a choice for PM. Either one of these boys.. God help us.
The majority want, and believe in, a conservative government. They also believe that Turnbull probably isn’t that conservative (given his belief in Climate Change propaganda, changing the Marriage Act and firm support for a Republic).
However there wasn’t a choice for the Australian conservative voter, hence the support for the minor conservative parties. Unfortunately, there were so many that the votes were truly widespread. (There is a real opportunity for these like-minded parties to unite if they decide to).
We, the Australian people, have delivered as strong a message as we can without putting a ruinous Labor party in government. Now that we look like having the major Conservative party in government the big issue is, will Turnbull take heed of the lesson that so begs to be analysed? Will he take on board that whilst he didn’t lose, he didn’t win either? He cannot continue running the Liberal party as his personal ego trip. Can Turnbull understand that in order to retain and regain the voters continued support, he must remake himself, and be a true Liberal man?
As a gemini with a virgo rising I need to have two of everything and all the shirts hanging the right way in the wardrobe.
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Where are the families crying in the media? Where are the celebrities condoning the actions?
People are important, irrespective of skin colour. People killing people is wrong. The Alton shooting has become a media play on a terrible situation for ratings, and celebrities pushing their popularity at the expense of others, and in turn creating a greater divide between people.
I condemn both actions: The action of unlawfully taking the life of another; and the bottom-feeders that pollute social media and the mainstream media, optimising a tragic event.
Are the left warming to veiled threats and regressing to violence and autocracy?
Darlings of the left: In the current week, Australian Muslim leaders are issuing threats that if they are held to account, they will “increase” the violence.
When Bolt is threatened, they purr that he is a preacher of hate and has it coming. Special government tsars agree with this assessment.
Black Lives Matter people shoot cops in cold blooded murder – President Obama turns a blind eye, and attacks the cops further.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is abbrogated of her responsibility for a significant felony by the FBI. Lefties do not howl at the blatant perversion of justice to deny justice.
Labor darling Tony Blair is not held to account for his Iraqi war lies.
The elites side with the regressive left in seeking to deny the democratic will of the British to leave the EU. The left do not cry tyranny.
It is like the plot from a bad novel.
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Reports have just come in that eleven police officers have been shot, and four have been killed at a ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest in Dallas, Texas. Officials stated that the officers were shot by snipers.
Following the attack, the police have taken one suspect into custody, and another ‘person of interest’ has turned himself in to authorities.
Earlier today, President Barack Obama criticised police in the wake of two shootings this week. In his usual form, Obama has continued to construe police shootings as a race issue despite a complete lack of evidence.
This time, Obama’s race-baiting has led to the execution style killing of at least four police officers, seven injured, and two in a critical condition.
Race relations in the United States are quite possibly in the worst state since the beginning of the civil rights movement some sixty years ago, much of it due to President Obama’s continued race-baiting and sowing division between races and ethnic groups during his tenure as President.
The election of Obama as US president in 2008 anticipated a new era of unity and positive race relations in the United States, yet his leadership has led to precisely the opposite.
Mr President, the blood of four dead, and seven injured police officers are on your hands.
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