New open fred — great idea!

Warren Brown.

David Rowe.

Morten Morland.

A.F. Branco.

Gary Varvel.

Bob Gorrell.

Lisa Benson.

Thank you Tom

Another cracking Leak today.

Get in your time machine.
Go back to 2004 & tell people that Joe Rogan (who that guy from Fear Factor) & Russell Brand (who that weirdo comedian who looks like he needs a good bath) are speaking up more about your freedoms than most “conservative” politicians.
What a time to be alive.

Cassie of Sydneysays:
August 21, 2021 at 7:44 am
“The endless hypocrisy and inconsistency is a big reason why people aren’t listening to you Gladys. You do know that don’t you?”

Well said BoN and it is why I will never ever vote Liberal again.

They have made their bed, now let them sleep in it.

Dot

Not sure if there is such a process, but is it possible for the Lib Dems to be renamed as the Liberty and Democracy Party? This would keep the LDP initials, but distance them from the stink clinging to the word “Liberal”?

I still cannot get my head around what possible benefit it could be to smash the bottom two thirds of the economy of the whole country.
Sun is shining here, time to sow the first few rows of radish and beetroot, and watch the blue wrens flit about.

The NSW Libtards are already trying the narrative on:
By summer, NSW will be Florida/Texas while Victoria is New York.

Bull shit.
By summer, NSW will be NY 2021 while Victoria will be NY 2020.

And….. best YouTube of the week was Jordan Peterson interview titled The Four Do’s and Dont’s of Divorce – it’s NOT really about divorce, a lot about education, men’s wellness etc, really worthwhile and affirming. Recommended for all young persons planning a life path.

“Bottom line, you can’t put your finger in a dyke when the whole dam has broken.”

Someone should tell Gladys.

Sadly ScoMo is determined to stand behind her to keep wrecking the economy and peoples’ lives in order to prove that she/he can knock the flood back a bit. So many people are so fed up with that approach. He has rocks in his head supporting her in this. Mass disobedience is beginning to show. If he continues beyond September 30 sparks will really fly. Powder-keg stuff.

Looks like New York City is about to be hammered.

Henri is the storm we have feared for decades (20 Aug)

Joe Bastardi has the track hitting west of where Accuweather has it. If he’s right it’ll slam Manhattan just about bang on. ETA is Monday.

The climate activists will be howling like hyenas. Some are already blaming the Afghanistan fiasco on global warming.

“The NSW Libtards are already trying the narrative on:
By summer, NSW will be Florida/Texas while Victoria is New York.”

Conveniently forgetting about Britain.

AZ, used in Britain, seems to have a longer level of immunity than Pfizer/Moderna, the ones mostly used in the USA. Regardless, hospitals can only continue to cope if there is a strong economy left to pay health systems to open up more beds if necessary. This virus is not going to be ‘defeated’ by continual lockdowns but it can recede into a background health issue as herd immunity mounts. People will make their own judgements re self-protection.. New and better vaxxes will take care of new variants.

BoN @ 8:18;

Britain’s Defence Secretary has defended General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, after he claimed that the Taliban are honourable “country boys” who “want an Afghanistan that is inclusive for all”.

Which begs the question, why has the British military been shooting and bombing these fine fellows, instead of reaching out to them to bring peace and harmony to the troubled land?

Invincible stupid.

Shouldn’t Bagram been the place/deterrent that was the last gateway out of the country ?

Bagram, and anywhere around it in SAM range. Had a schoolmate flying with the RAF on exchange shot down after takeoff in Iraq that way some years ago.

Peter Horowitz Caroline Di Russo on stairmandan

Wow, a few tweets further down is this one:

Dave Hughes @DHughesy
There’s a reasonable chance the collective political leadership of Australia has now jumped the Shark.
4:08 PM · Aug 20, 2021

If a lefty of such pure water is saying this then Gladys and Dan are hitting a level rarely seen outside of Norkistan.

(In checking backstory I was amused to find Hughesy in Media Watch Dog 21 Aug 2020, exactly one year ago, praising Dan Andrews fulsomely. 🙂 )

New iPhone Update: Protection Or MASS SURVEILLANCE?!!
Russell Brand

WTF is this part of the LDP policy> – Improve the nation’s quarantine capacity. Effective and efficient quarantine facilities should have been established as soon as travel restrictions were imposed (or earlier). Facilities need immediate improvement, both for the benefit of Australians returning from overseas now and in preparation for future pandemics.
They’re pulling cases out of thin air based on a disproven test and are already building “quarantine facilities” which are clearly prisons by any other name and no one who goes into them will be sick in any meaningful way otherwise they’d be in hospital.
Very perceptive comment, Tintarella.
LDP, bunch of bloody amateurs.

Where do these buffoons find the audacity to tell us they’re “angry”, “disgusted” or “disappointed” with the citizens of their state, or country? If you think, premiers, that it’s appropriate to address your paymasters with that kind of supercilious, patronising language you have a profoundly flawed understanding of your relationship to the electorate..

What are you talking about, the bugmen class are born to rule!

Face it, our freedoms will never be returned until we learn to obey
The madness toggles between sinister and comical. Especially hilarious are the comedy stylings of the bullying dolt who is turning Victoria into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. But this is blackmail, not leadership.
By STEVE WATERSON
It’s tedious for the youngsters, I know, but we of more advanced years love to reminisce about the olden days, when nobody was permitted to shirk from home and we had to try a little harder to get ahead. You’d put in the hours and a dab of sycophancy to climb the corporate ladder; even career criminals had to work their way up from petty crime to probation to a spell in prison.
We have it much easier these days: just ask Trong Duc Nguyen, the 31-year-old Cabramatta man who has gone straight to jail for two months after committing the hitherto unknown crime of travelling by train and bus from Sydney to Tenterfield. Small mercies, though; at least he didn’t travel the other way then write a mawkish song about it in New York.
Trong’s punishment this week for breaching a public health order was entirely reasonable, according to police, who said “it indicates the level of seriousness of the matter”. Lucky for Trong he didn’t have the virus. I may be mistaken, but I think that might carry the death penalty up Armidale way.
Enjoy this taste of what awaits us as the police state tightens its grip on our liberties. To drive home the seriousness of “doing the wrong thing”, the NSW Police Commissioner decided on-the-spot fines for health disobedience needed to be bumped up to $5000.
My sense is that $1000 was already enough to put people off going without their masks, but I suppose if you’re on $649,500 a year it does seem like a trifling sum. Doing the wrong thing isn’t a problem for his officers, however: “We have to shape the behaviour of people,” he told them in a recent video. “If you write a ticket and get it wrong,” he added, “I won’t hold you to account for that.”
Two weeks ago I watched people having their behaviour shaped at Bondi, as two mounted police rode their large horses south along the middle of the beach, stopping at the towels of two young mothers and their four toddlers, tiny beside the horses’ hoofs, to order them to pack up buckets and spades and leave the beach. Thanks for keeping us safe.
The madness toggles between sinister and comical. Especially hilarious are the comedy stylings of the bullying dolt who is turning Victoria into a post-apocalyptic wasteland: it’s acceptable to remove your useless mask to drink coffee on the street, he declares, but an offence to do so to drink alcohol. It must be excruciating for black-clad Melburnians, paralysed indecision warming their espresso martinis.
Victoria’s Health Minister, not to be outdone as a stand-up comedian, alerted citizens to a prostitute’s positive test. “If you have employed a sex worker in the St Kilda area,” he said on Wednesday, “you need to come forward and get tested.” Employed? What, to do some gardening? Imagine the negotiation: “I don’t mind mowing, but it’ll be an extra $50 if you want full weeding.”
NSW, once a dim glimmer of common sense, has fully embraced the lunacy, the Premier’s magical crystal ball (remember, the one that promised our two-week confinement would end on July 9) now recalibrating its predictions to say we’ll be freed on September 30. Oh, and let’s throw in an added curfew for the troublesome, recalcitrant westies; and an outdoor mask mandate to make sure everyone in the state, from Broken Hill to Ballina, Bourke to Bega, feels stupid and miserable (and coincidentally can be recognised as a renegade at long range by the fine-happy police).
Evidence worldwide shows the lockdown rules are nonsensical; curfews even more so, despite the Victorian Premier’s insistence that their value is “simply not up for debate”, which is presumably what he considers a more sophisticated version of “because I say so”.
Then he, his interstate counterparts and their bloated public sector cheer squads seek to dignify their incoherent ramblings with words like “strategy” and “policy”, picked up in some Management for Dummies handbook.
Sure, a few more weeks of lockdown is bearable if you have a secure job, a pretty garden, a good library and a well-stocked wine cellar; but it’s a very different experience if you’re on the 10th floor of a grim apartment block with three young kids and have just lost your weekly pay cheque.
Perhaps we could equalise the pain with what we might call “personal lockdown”. When I’m trapped in my house I have no idea what my neighbours across the road are up to, and I’m protected from their disease-ridden lungs because they’re not allowed to enter my home, cough over my food or wipe their runny noses on my handkerchief.
By the same token, it doesn’t affect me if they’re blithely eating from share plates in a restaurant or getting drunk with dodgy new friends in a crowded bar. More fool them if they want to risk infection.
So if you genuinely believe lockdown is the best way to ensure you live to relish another moody Scandinavian crime drama, don’t feel threatened by the idea of the country opening up. You are at perfect liberty to design and pitilessly enforce a bespoke lockdown for yourself and your dependants; set your imagination free and make it the most watertight since Alcatraz. Put the appropriate warning signs on your home – arm yourself if necessary – and your withdrawal from society would be respected, even welcomed. But leave the rest of us out of it.
Instead, we’re punished as though we were still in the classroom (unlike our schoolchildren), all in detention because one of the naughty pupils broke the rules; or worse, thanked and praised for “doing the right thing”, as though these idiots are capable of determining the difference between right and wrong. Just because they or their intellectually challenged health bureaucrats say something’s true, or (even less credibly) morally correct, doesn’t make it so.
Where do these buffoons find the audacity to tell us they’re “angry”, “disgusted” or “disappointed” with the citizens of their state, or country? If you think, premiers, that it’s appropriate to address your paymasters with that kind of supercilious, patronising language you have a profoundly flawed understanding of your relationship to the electorate.
There we are, worse off than when all the hysteria began, a risible counterweight to the return to normality spreading all over the world, slumped into a manufactured psychosis. Picture: Mark Stewart
We’re urged to get vaccinated as the only way out of this nightmare, as though the restrictions were imposed by some external enemy, while what’s really happening is that our leaders create this misery, steal our freedoms, then command us to obey their orders in order to regain them. We used to call this blackmail. Let’s get vaccinated if we are satisfied it will protect us from severe disease, but understand that’s the main reason for doing so, not to gratify and exculpate these petty dictators. It appears you will still be able to catch and transmit the virus, so leave the unvaccinated to their own devices.
Set a firm date for opening and make sure everyone who wants one can get the injection.
The amount of mental and physical energy wasted so far on this 18-month exercise is astounding, not to mention the truly astonishing financial cost, $350 billion (that we know of) and counting, and nothing to show for it.
A baby born here today picks up a $30,000 tab as a joining fee. Welcome to Australia, kid!
Many of us are witnessing the mental distress and deterioration of young adults, robbed now of almost two of the best years of their lives. The unalloyed joy of Friday and Saturday nights in your early 20s, the ridiculous, stimulating, fleeting friendships, the parties, adventures and triumphs; the first tentative steps towards a career, learning how to work with and appreciate colleagues; the lessons and mistakes that prepare you for the bigger challenges of the wide world; all are stripped from these fledgling lives in service of a vain, inane quest to master nature and eliminate a “deadly” virus that spares more than 99 per cent of its victims (and that’s making the preposterous assumption that the number of asymptomatic “cases” isn’t far higher than we know).
In China, the man in the street still knows nothing about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, and we haughtily condemn the Communist government for that evil cover-up; but our own governments are consulting the same playbook. We are not trusted to know what health advice or other research informs the decisions (I use the term as loosely as possible) our leaders make; everything is “cabinet in confidence”, even the minutes of the “national cabinet”, which isn’t a cabinet at all.
We have been leaked some of the figures, cynically suppressed by government, that quantify this mental-health disaster; and beside it the loss of a fairly small number of sick, elderly people is sad but insignificant. The increase in children’s depression, the growth of suicidal thoughts and acts, the self-harm, the eating disorders, the retreat into isolation and despair, the loneliness imposed on those who should be operating at maximum gregariousness and engagement, is wicked. There are many youthful rites of passage that you can’t just repeat a couple of years later: miss the school formal, the gap year, the overseas university exchange and they’re gone for ever.
Even more destructive, but less visible, is the impact on those who should have started school, but have missed the first couple of years of learning how to get along with their peers, particularly those not blessed with parents who acknowledge the value of education.
Unsocialised and unlettered, will they be accommodated when school returns, or abandoned? We thought child sacrifices died out with the Aztecs, but apparently not. Let’s hope they bring good rains, if not an end to the pandemic.
Towards the far outpost of life’s journey, we all know old people whose main treasure and delight in life is their family, and the precious contact they have previously taken for granted, as have all the generations before them. They’re not able to distract themselves with an hour’s vigorous exercise, and there’s little consolation when your hand’s on the exit door to be told things will be back to normal in a year or so. Some don’t have that year up their sleeve, and it’s an act of unspeakable cruelty to prevent them from spending their last days exactly as they want.
We have been leaked some of the figures, cynically suppressed by government, that quantify this mental-health disaster; and beside it the loss of a fairly small number of sick, elderly people is sad but insignificant.
It may not be our governments’ intention to cause this damage, but it might as well be; just as it may not be their intention to destroy small business and impoverish one of the most productive sectors of society. It will be interesting to see if desperate protesters resurface this weekend to hurl themselves against the “wave of blue” the NSW Police Minister has smugly promised will meet them; there will surely come a point when people robbed of their livelihoods will have literally nothing left to lose.
So here we are, worse off than when all the hysteria began, a risible counterweight to the return to normality spreading all over the world, slumped into a manufactured psychosis. Australians are being deliberately and methodically terrified, while enforced isolation weakens our resilience.
It renders us more susceptible to the howls of panic, unchallenged by normal debate and conversation, forbidden to meet, discuss or express our disagreement.
We are turning on each other like medieval city states, while our basic human decency dissolves into brawls over toilet paper.
In 1653 Oliver Cromwell dismissed England’s corrupt and incompetent Rump Parliament with the words: “In the name of God, go!” A pity he’s not around today to remove the arses who polish the benches of our own parliaments.
Link.

BTW, has any of this advice been made publicly available, or is it a skirt the Premier hides behind?

If I may, this is an extremely good point. I too would appreciate the opportunity to see this ‘advice’.

It’s already been established that the goings-on in the National Cabinet are not sacrosant. Why would it be the case for lesser bodies in the Sates and Territories?

Hi Arky

Watching Pauline flap about why she wouldn’t support making the exemptions list public would be quite humorous.

I’m not particularly proud of myself, Cats. I just dobbed in some fellow citizens for what I believe to be a breach of COVID restrictions.

Allow me to explain my actions. I just called into a local shopping centre to get essential supplies (booze and tobacco). Whilst there, I noticed four “Thrifty Rental” type buses. Two out the front, two out the back. On entering the premises, it was full of “Cheese People” buying snacks and slabs of beer.

I have seen this at this particular supermarket before the restrictions came into force. It’s generally the “pick up point” for the local cheese people when heading to a funeral out west. The local ALC pays them a daily allowance whilst they go out there for a few days, and arranges free transportation.

For the life of me, I can’t think of any other reason a heap of cheese people would all be travelling by mini bus. There was about 30 odd people that I saw. What possible reason/exemption could they have to travel?

Here’s the thing. I attended a “virtual funeral” on Wednesday. Limited to 10 people. Her own son couldn’t attend because he is locked down in Canberra.

It made my blood boil, so I became a “dibber dobber”. Am I a bad person?

Finally, if the LDP doesn’t support such a good, transparent policy which would also be political gold for the entire campaign they are going into, the question is why not?
How many of the LDP backers, decision makers also participated in the scams & rorts that went on?

What’s a cheese person?

Are they related to the cheesemakers?

“We have to shape the behaviour of people,”

A true bugmen speaketh!

Every smart phone, every PC will soon be the eyes and ear of Big Brother Bugmen.

Thanks Cohenite- so I was being bullshitted.

One thing I know about the LDP is that lyin’hole was a hopeless senator.

er nerh, de prooles ah revalteen

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=916571102266258

Thats right BoN
Never ever hold your nose.
Purity or nothing!

Rosie – Peg on nose I voted PHON for the first time in my life last Federal election, despite their lefty Tobin tax brain fumes. I did so at the last minute because there was no one else, because the guy was a tradie drafted in at the last minute, and because otherwise I’d have to colour in all the boxes like I did in the last state election (which despite exhausting in the LA there was no one at all that I could vote for, not even holding my nose). It turned out well – Joel had a total brain explosion and has been giving the Liars a hard time ever since!

Hopefully the Biden/EU/ALP fiascos (Albo is looking chipper and is squeaking “climate, climate” this week) will cause a reaction from the voters around the world and they will learn that lefty parties lie continually, and should be booted from the polity. But I’m not hopeful.

Thousands dead after Zhengzhou tunnel flood?; Japan increases defenses aimed at China
China in Focus – NTD

Might come here instead.

Some lunatic fringe reader of Kangaroo Court is insisting not only are all Catholics accused of child abuse guilty, but the rate of abuse is possibly orders of magnitude worse than conviction rates because…without evidence…”I bet that police will agree with me” accusations are ten times the number of cases referred to the DPP.

I can’t handle this level of stupidity and bigotry.

Someone is not familiar with the outright legalised perjury allowed in Family Law.

*One thing I know about the LDP is that lyin’hole was a hopeless senator.*

Nope, he was pretty good, he got decent airtime on ABC and FTA & The Australian continually lied about him.

The Australian being the paper supporting the Berejiklian regime.

*The LDP should*

Do nothing you specifically request as a personal favour until you join, donate, turn up to meetings and volunteer for us.

Then MAYBE someone will consider your ideas.

You don’t like the way the footy club is run?

Then nominate for the committee!

Cassie of Sydney says:
The Liberals are missing in action….as always.

If I may quote myself from the Peter Smith ‘Roll up your sleeves…’ thread:
As for placing hope in the Liberals – What are you people mixing your goat’s blood with?

Dot, you’ve got the LDP big wigs on speed dial.
Tell them to have making the travel & quarantine exemptions public part of their platform.
Social media will do the rest.

Agree that it’s a toss up between LDP and PHON. Limbrick sounds ok too.

Also agree we need one or both of those parties that state unequivocally NO LOCKDOWNS.

Nice Steiner rip there Arky. We all know Montessori is the best kind of schooling though, if we are to have schools at all…

Hmm..DL dropped the ball with the TURC.

Was he wrong though? How many indictments came from that?

Sort of correct actually, Arky.

The LDP is a party, not Parliament.

I really think Campbell Newman was a bad idea. I can’t even…

I’m a member of the Vic LDP, not because I’m particularly political but I thought they were trying and a bit more support would help. They’re ok, however they will only take their opposition so far. I pointed out that we can’t comply our way out of this and that there is a huge potential voter base out there for someone brave and strong enough to take a stand against Andrews. That person needs a solid base and resources as well as a public profile, this is an opportunity waiting and if someone decent doesn’t step in then it’s likely some power hungry and possible lunatic may take the chance. I thought that the LDP reps in the Vic upper house should encourage non violent protest, starting with a call for a mass rally on the steps of parliament house. The response I got “we couldn’t do that, it’s against the law”. They are decent men but still think they are dealing with honest brokers, prepared to argue and reason the way out of the mess. They don’t understand that Dan is literally a megalomaniac and there’s no easy way out. I’ll stay a member for the forseeable future but I’m looking for someone with a spine.

Campbell Newman is part of the problem. Political families.

No more than Mark Latham is part of the problem — and now looking for a solution that doesn’t include the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals/Liars.

No more than Mark Latham is part of the problem — and now looking for a solution that doesn’t include the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals/Liars.

Hmmm after Latham retweeted Hawker, I think u might be right

cohenitesays:
August 21, 2021 at 1:59 pm
The best approach is to join the LNP and work against the infiltrators.

The infiltrators you refer to are the rank and file of the LNP. A new member of a large party is just a grunt and that won’t change for years. The LDP is small enough that change and influence is possible. Small parties have had big influences in policy. Sometimes you only need 1-2 votes to swing the house.