Where’s the spew bucket please?
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Aug 2021
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Augusto Zimmerman’s Triggering Thoughts of Tyranny in WA about the WA proposed gun laws (in Quadrant) is frustrating. Firstly, his…
The Rainbow Serpent and climate change will just have to compete for favourable headlines.
Are you referring to Canberra?
Thanks, Johanna. I am a member of a union – the Red Union group, which was the only one to…
Oh boy, the Patriots have given Cam Newton the boot.
The are starting the season with rookie Mac Jones with only a couple of dud back up QB’s behind him.
Bold move from the super coach.
Even Tom Brady had to cool his jets for a season (almost) on the bench.
Serial grub Toby Greene only got three weeks.
Still, that’s the end of the talented but sooky ponce for the rest of the year. Mad Monday awaits.
Yep. I rode the same chopper on a number of occasions (into and out of Oecusse…and West Timor, on occasion).
The loadmaster had to take the cigarette out of his mouth to explain the oil leak issue.
That’s the UN, in a nutshell.
They’ve got a long way to go before they reach the Starship Troopers benchmark.
Apologies. The one I rode in was the Mil Mi-8. Same issue on board.
As for the Mi-26, I watched it deliver a UN food drop to a village in the East Timor highlands. Landed on their football field. Blew the roofs and walls off nearly every house in said village. Too bloody big!
Again, the UN in a nutshell.
Interesting to read the helicopter anecdotes.
Reminded me of the good old days too.
At least Dutton is addressing Australia’s right-wing terrorist shortage. Give the man some credit.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/25/australian-powers-to-spy-on-cybercrime-suspects-given-green-light
Bruce, watched Rio Bravo a couple of days ago, pretty good. There’s heaps of old westerns on youtube .
Helicopters – first ride in the highlands of PNG 1977, tiny little 2 man chopper, bit like the ones at the start of MASH, pilot and I almost touching each other, a small shelf behind the seats and what appeared to be a VW engine for power. everything exposed, just a clear bubble in front. Did a lot of trips in them around the highlands, lots of fun. After that lots of heli skiing in NZ and once in Greece. I was hoping to do a bit more heli skiing over the next few years, looking ever more unlikely.
They’d be better off tapping the phones of some of the Premiers to find out what’s motivating this carry on we are experiencing.
I know what I’d be more concerned about between some garage Nazis’ and the pricks that have their foot on our throats.
is this a reasonable comment that war in Afghanistan is not a winter time occupation?
for resident bird fanciers (not that kind)
Thinking about all the stupid/dangerous things the Beloved and I have done overseas…
Using the lockdown wisely and going through old photos and throwing out piles of junk, and what do I find? A photo of him and me camel riding at Ayers Rock in 2001. Wearing bike helmets. No helmet – no ride.*
We are experiencing the logical outcome of accepting all that rubbish – Bad Nanny. She looked like Mary Poppins but turned out to be Cruella Deville.
* compare and contrast a pre-dawn ride in the wilds of Wadi Rum in 2018.
Taking on the Talidan pig state pigs this morning. Regular chiropractor appointment 20 kms away. My brother told me yesterday friends of his in the small Bellarine peninsula town of Portarlington had been fined $5000 by the pigs because they needed to shop at the supermarket in Ocean Grove as Portarlington doesn’t have one.
Fuck it. If I don’t keep my chiro appointment, my debilitating back problems return.
It is Rosie.
Afghanis generally don’t have access to the same clothing, etc that we do.
They really do hunker down, limit their activities and wait for better weather.
Fighting is a sport to them. We have our Cricket and Football seasons which are based on the weather.
Much of the terrain is really unpleasant and difficult to traverse in winter. We’re not talking an Australian winter here. I used to sleep in two sleeping bags (one inside the other), whilst wearing ski clothing, and it was still too cold to really sleep.
There is still activity, but it’s much reduced.
Rosie, the traditional fighting season in the northern hemisphere is summer, right back to the romans and earlier. Once the rains start everything is too boggy, then the snows and frosts are just too cold, Spring is again usually too wet, especially in the thaw. Before modern armies the crops had to be planted and so most of the fighting took place between planting and harvest as the young fit workers had to be home for each to ensure food for the winter. I guess modern armies don’t have the food problem at home but the wet, muddy terrain and bitterly cold snowy winters are still a factor.
Americans are treading #nopawsleftbehind, might be a beat up
Gore-Tex.saves.lives.
Words to live by.
David Penberthy in the Daily Telegraph today about Four Corners. I agree with most of what Penberthy writes (don’t agree with him about Trump and Jones…but then remember, Penberthy is married to former Labor MP Kate Ellis) but, as with Mavis Bramston’s piece in the Oz yesterday about Nifty Nev Wran and Luna Park, I find it funny how these journalists only get upset when Four Corners’ abysmal journalism touches something close to home…I note that Penberthy and Bramston remained shtum when Four Corners lynched a man named George Pell in broad daylight.
Four Corners has lost the plot with its attacks on Fox News
Gone are the halcyon days of Four Corners reporting – the ABC program now wallows in a nonsensical attack on Fox News, writes David Penberthy.
It added nothing new to the discussion of the US election and its aftermath. It had no news impact in the country where that election occurred. Why then did our national broadcaster devote not one but two episodes of its flagship program Four Corners to the relationship between Fox News and the Trump Administration?
And more’s the point, what, if any, relevance does it have to Australia? I spent a good two to three hours a day watching the American TV coverage of the US election campaign last year and did so dividing that time between Fox News and CNN.
It was an interesting exercise, and an alien one here in Australia, as nowhere can you find such polarised and blinkered news coverage of the same event.
In the exact same way that many Fox presenters made no secret of their affection for Trump and their disdain for the Democrats, the reverse was true on CNN.
Almost every CNN presenter treated Trump as the devil incarnate, sighing and shaking their heads in disgust and anger at everything he said, being both mystified and derisive at the fact that anyone would be so apparently stupid as to vote for him.
If you want a short answer as to why Fox grew so fast to become a news juggernaut, it is because so much mainstream news coverage of American politics has long reflected the small-l liberal orthodoxies outlined above by networks such as CNN.
Fox News pioneer Roger Ailes was a repellent figure — rightly sacked in record time by the Murdoch family when his misconduct became apparent — but he was correct when he deadpanned that Fox had “found a niche market, namely half the country”.
As someone who dislikes Trump and whose biases tend towards the small-l liberal, I was happy when he lost to Biden, stunned by his demented petulance in refusing to acknowledge defeat and disgusted by what happened when his henchmen cut loose at the Capitol this year.
But again, having watched much of Fox News throughout that period, I can also remember the network questioning and debunking his claim that the result had been stolen, even cutting away from press conferences when he repeated that lie.
So for all this, a bigger question still remains. Why do we have a taxpayer-funded Australian news program covering all these events overseas in such exhaustive detail?
The short answer is that the people behind the program want to present the Fox News owners in the worst possible light and then to argue that there is a moral and behavioural link to the operations of News Corporation, the publishers of this newspaper, in Australia.
It feels to me as if Four Corners has stopped broadcasting in keeping with its national charter to represent the interests of Australians and instead approaches its journalism these days on the basis of a loud handful of political obsessives on Twitter.
To that end, this latest news program isn’t really a news program at all, merely the latest yawn-inducing entry in the culture wars.
In a media sense it is worth reflecting on the gap between the world as it is and the world as imagined by Four Corners.
I have spent my entire working life at News Corp, much of it in Adelaide, where my local paper’s idea of throwing its weight around involves campaigning on things like protecting the Murray, defending the car industry, and devotes more space to covering Aussie Rules, crime, courts and real estate than it does politics. I worked for a long time in Sydney for The Daily Telegraph, which campaigned on things like P-plate reform, better funding for neglected schools, coward-punch violence and which, come state and federal election time during my tenure, ran editorials recommending votes for both the Labor Party and the Liberal Party in equal number.
These papers’ coverage of politics was generally straight, save for occasions where the paper fired up — as papers should — such as when in the dying days of the NSW Carr Labor era the party subjected the state to its fourth premier in less than two terms of office.
I have a raft of colleagues whose views range from Left to Right and who have never been hauled up before some kind of management panel to explain themselves.
I’ve written several columns bagging Andrew Bolt over his Adam Goodes coverage and climate change views, and he has on occasion returned the favour.
I do not like Alan Jones but think that if people want to to watch him on Sky they have every right to do so, in the same way lefties are free to read The Guardian, a Jon Faine column in The Age or to watch Q&A and regard it (hilariously) as indicative of public sentiment.
The Four Corners program is aimed at one thing, presenting News as a dark conservative force staffed by micro-chipped minions whose journalism is read only by bigots and fools.
It is worth reflecting on the credibility of the people who are cheering it on via Twitter, principally the former PM Kevin Rudd, who has latched onto the News Corp issue in a sad attempt to earn him something he was denied in politics — affection.
Rudd didn’t lose the prime ministership because of a News conspiracy. He lost it because his colleagues couldn’t stand him.
I have written before about his fawning attempts to ingratiate himself with our company. If a movie were made about his relationship with Mr Murdoch, Glenn Close would play the role of Rudd. Now, the company faces stalking of a different kind from the man, whose fragile psychology has seen him reimagine his rejection by Caucus first and the voters second not as a reflection on him but a Murdoch-led hit. The key difference between our coverage and the coverage provided by the likes of Four Corners is that a company like ours stands on its own two feet and succeeds because it is in step with its readers and viewers.
Four Corners, far from its golden era when it reported on things like the Rainbow Warrior sinking or Queensland corruption, now looks like a niche vehicle for the ideologically obsessed. And we are all paying for it, whether we like it or not.”
Thanks Mater and sfw.
So arguing Biden could have waited two months isn’t unreasonable.
Though now rhetorical.
Why do people in ‘these countries put so much store in not just killing their vanquished enemies but doing so in the cruellest way they can come up with?
Ahahahaaaa.
Me too, except East Timor in January 1969 where I spend my honeymoon with my first husband was a very backward Portuguese Colony in those days. The Portuguese-run inn at Baucau, where the TAA plane from Darwin landed, had the most beautiful dove cotes, as I recall. Very romantic. And pomegranites growing. Travelled from Baucau to Dili in the back of a Chinese market truck, one of the only means of transport back then. No helicopters anywhere but no matter: I don’t trust them to stay in the air.
Most terrifying thing I have ever done was dune-bashing in the deserts outside Dubai with me, Hairy, the Arab driver and a couple of mad Sauddi Sheiks in full headgear who were exhorting the driver to make more and more dangerous turns without turning over in the ampitheatre of sand (wall of terror) where the ride took place; and then they moved on to the next set of hills, and the one after that. I was bruised from being thrown around again and again against the sedan vehicle’s frame. They let down the tyres to half pressure to do this stunt driving. Never again!
Why indeed?
Maybe a certain religion gives an answer?
Points taken Cassie but lol on Rudd.
I once responded to Thérèse Rein after she twittered some nonsense about a monopoly.
People are entitled to buy what news services they prefer.
If Murdoch has a lion’s share when the abc offers free stuff it’s because people make that free will choice.
We don’t have any choices with paying for the abc though.
Any demands for government intervention to curb what people buy in the information marketplace is totalitarianism on stilts.
Yes, so similar to the depictions of tribal life and warfare in Britain in the days of the Viking incursions as well recounted in the novels of Bernard Cornwell’s ‘The Last Kingdom’ series. They had a definite summer ‘fighting season’ and hunkered down during the rough winters, in the north particularly.
I meant the good old days at the cat.
I’ve never been in a helicopter, it’s never been necessary.
I much prefer travel by train over air, most especially the trains of Europe.
Steve Cates posted a piece on Tom Elliot and his exchange within a caller about vaccine passports.
Elliot says the passports would be useful in an AFL setting insofar as all people at the game would be if equal status and unvaccinated people wouldn’t be made ill by attending if some of the crowd still carried Covid.
“Gill McLachlan wouldn’t want to make people sick” he said.
I wonder at the wisdom of taking responsibility by direct action for the possibility of becoming ill with Covid.
We know that even the fully vaccinated can become quite ill from a reinfection.
If that happened at an AFL passport game, could they sue Gill for a failure to protect their health?
Nice can of worms.
Glenn Greenwald has written a review of Ben Rhodes Obama administration memoirs.
It’s pretty scathing.
Rhodes was the cuck-in-chief of that Whitehouse.
And just like that, Andrews abandons zero covid.
All that pain for zero gain thanks Danocchio
paywalled at the fin review
“Rhodes was the cuck-in-chief of that Whitehouse.”
Yep….Benny Rhodes, who’s like a character out of Peter Pan, epitomised everything that was wrong with the Obama WH….and Rhodes was the architect of the Iran deal.
Tom I thought medical appointments were permissible . Friends in yarragrad travel all over for these visits . Even for something as mundane as the cutting toenails .
It’s weird how it’s not on zerohedge or twitter, but the financial media is blowing up over Amazon selling ivermectin.
‘What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some people you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way they want it… well, they get it. I don’t like it any more than you people.’
Warden Captain Dan
Springtime in Melbourne
Hahaha, Lizzie. After flying from Darwin in an Ansett Fokker F27, I did Bacau-Dili in 1973 (two years before the Indonesian invasion) in a “bus”, which was just a covered truck with seats in the back. Actually, it was about four trucks as we had to change vehicle several times because it was the end of the wet season in March.
I’ll never forget losing my footing in a raging river crossing, only to be grabbed and saved by a little black hand.
Needless to say (as you found), East Timor in the early 1970s was a backward, poor colonial shithole, although it was and remains very pretty and, like most of Asia’s shitholes, was propped up by the local Chinese business community, who are persecuted in each local uprising.
After the 1975 invasion, it was the rag-tag Fretilin independence movement versus the might of the blood-thirsty Indonesian military.
Needless to say, the reason East Timor is still so poor is that Fretilin and its successors in the East Timor government were/are all communists or communist sympathisers.
The 5 km limit doesn’t apply if you don’t have access to a supermarket within the 5 kms.
If they argue that Portarlington has a convenience store, invent a reason why you needed a specific health food from Coles/Woolies/IGA.
Better still, say you were going to the halal butcher in Geelong.
Oops. Looks like there is a Woolies in Portarlington.
They need to find something specific to Coles or IGA which caters for a food intolerance or something.
Oh noes!
Invasive earthworms are remaking our forests, and climate scientists are worried (29 Aug)
I for one welcome our new worm masters, especially the gymnastic ones.
Yeah, Sancho, if memory serves it’s just around the corner from the pub.
Bruce, Bird was right!
Nano-wrigglers!
Biden Lotto
AKA – When Will Sleepy Joe Go
Carpe 24/9/2021
Calli 10/9/2021
Delta A 1/10/2021
A Reader 27/12/2021
ZK2A 30/10/2021
BBS 25/11/2021
Custard 18/9/2021
Joanna 7/10/2021
Rosie 19/9/2021
Zippy 1/6/2022
Rex Anger 6/6/2022
Fat Tony 11/9/2021
Rick W 1/12/2021
Rohan 1/11/2021
Cohenite 24/12/2021
Leigh Lowe 4/7/2024
Frollicking Mole 24/11/2021
Kaysee 29/12/2021
Brice in WA 8/12/2021
Armadillo 7/9/2021
Matrix Transform 8/10/2022
That’s the UN, in a nutshell.
In my time in East Timor, they had a cruise liner anchored off the main beach at Dili.
That’s where the majority of them were quartered.
Inspired lots of negative comments from our chaps dossing down in the dirt, or seeing the thousands in the refugee camps doing it hard.
I didn’t know.
I only gongled it.
It just occurs to me though.
“Driving to the halal butcher” is a perfect excuse to get them to back off.
Meanwhile, in cloud cuckoo land.
I thought I picked 2022. Doesn’t matter.
Though I really think he’ll either die of natural causes or see his term out.
The Beloved was watching Joe’s eyes on the news bulletin* this morning. Reckons the guy’s on drugs. No blinking, massive pupils, slurring words.
* I have switched off morning and evening tv. He sneaks up to the front room and watches it there.
That’s the UN, in a nutshell.
In my time in East Timor, they had a cruise liner anchored off the main beach at Dili.
Reminds me of Jenny Macklin saying there was no violence in indigenous communities.
And said she’d go say at one for a few days.
And she did, by way of staying on a boat moored well away from the community she was visiting.
You gotta love the Bee
“Scandal As Newsom Campaign Produces Old Yearbook Photo Showing Larry Elder In Blackface”
despite case surge Israel reopens schools
From Reuters.
Biden pressed Afghan president to change ‘perception’ that Taliban was winning, ‘whether true or not’
President Biden stressed the need for changing the “perception” of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan, “whether it is true or not,” during a phone call with former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani less than four weeks before Kabul collapsed, according to a new report.
According to a transcript of the July 23 presidential call reviewed by Reuters, Biden didn’t anticipate the Taliban’s rapid advance across Afghanistan, which ended when they stormed Kabul on Aug. 15 and Ghani fled the presidential palace. Instead, Biden focused much of the 14-minute call on the Afghan government’s “perception” problem, Reuters reported.
“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
At the time of the call, the Taliban controlled about half of Afghanistan’s district centers. Biden urged Ghani to hold a press conference with other prominent Afghan leaders to outline a new military strategy, which he argued would “change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think,” Reuters reported.
“We are going to continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives, but is sustained and grows,” Biden said.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed similar concerns in a follow-up call with Ghani later that day, which did not include Biden, Reuters reported.
“The perception in the United States, in Europe and the media sort of thing is a narrative of Taliban momentum, and a narrative of Taliban victory,” Milley reportedly said. “And we need to collectively demonstrate and try to turn that perception, that narrative around.”
The White House on Tuesday declined to comment on the call when reached by Reuters.
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Better get to Specsavers, Farmer Gez. On the duty of care of the AFL, what if someone catches flu at a match and dies? If the AFL has required vaxxed only for COVID for entry but not for flu, surely that indicates negligence. It would be like requiring seat belts on this vehicle but not on another.
“BoN:I’ve handled a wombat gun but never a possum gun. Must be a wicked thing to fire.”
An elephant gun must be totally awesome.
Carpe, I nabbed 8th January 2022, for just after Christmas, quite a while ago.
Can you please add it to the list? Not that I think I am right, but I’ll stick to my claim now.
The reuters White House reporter will be dreading today.
No doubt, they are in the tank for the administration.
But their news organisation has an absolute scoop.
It would be odd for them not to follow it up with Psaki.
So they have to.
But they don’t want to.
Similar event happened at the Eastern Suburbs private school I worked at as a cleaner.
They had organised an armed forces open day with displays from all 3 branches to be held on the football field next to the classrooms.
Army helicopter arrives, all students and teachers open classroom windows to watch the sight unfold. Dusty field, roaring blades, and hours of overtime for me.
Well we always knew Biden was all puff and no wind. This proves it.
Ah yes, the well-known sneaky husband trick. You find them here, you find them there, you find those husbands everywhere!
What’s the bet Despicable Danochio fulminates about nameless naughty naughty people?
Is he really going to go lockdown at it is currently til 70 percent in a couple of months?
Or will the vaccinated get picnic passes?
All I can think of are rude words.
Victoria ‘s lockdown exit strategy to be revealed
Look at the disgusting abuse of the law against the Aussie Cossack on youtube.
They slapped an FPO on him so they can arbitrarily detain, harass, and raid his house.
pigs. That’s the only word.
There’s a guy with no arms playing table tennis at the Olympics.
What a time to be alive.
It’s high time we followed Denmark and Singapore and ‘downgraded’ Covid.
It will be best done with an official proclamation.
The media can then chime in with ‘battle won’ cries.
I’ve handled a wombat gun but never a possum gun. Must be a wicked thing to fire. An elephant gun must be totally awesome.
HMAS Bass was a Navy reserve training vessel moored in Hobart’s Derwent River for years.
The standard line about her armament was she had “20 mutton guns”.
Dan going to toss a couple of bones.
What is this, boarding school, a prison camp?
Okay it’s the world’s third biggest prison camp.
haircuts for privileged people
Duncanm, what’s an “FPO”?
Carpe, may I add my guess to the Biden lotto?
My first attempt went through to the ‘keeper.
January 20th 2025. The next Presidential inauguration date.
Whoever has their hand up Biden’s arse will do anything, including a “weekend at bernies”, to keep the malleable syphlitic old fool at the front of their operations. A new Democratic candidate will be “elected” at that time.
The Coalition has lost 2 million primary votes in two election cycles.
Is it any wonder the bastards are trying to make harder for minor parties to be registered?
Biden Lotto
AKA – When Will Sleepy Joe Go
Carpe 24/9/2021
Calli 10/9/2021
Delta A 1/10/2021
A Reader 27/12/2021
ZK2A 30/10/2021
BBS 25/11/2021
Custard 18/9/2021
Joanna 7/10/2021
Rosie 19/9/2022
Zippy 1/6/2022
Rex Anger 6/6/2022
Fat Tony 11/9/2021
Rick W 1/12/2021
Rohan 1/11/2021
Cohenite 24/12/2021
Leigh Lowe 4/7/2024
Frollicking Mole 24/11/2021
Kaysee 29/12/2021
Brice in WA 8/12/2021
Armadillo 7/9/2021
Matrix Transform 8/10/2022
Lizzie 8/1/2022
OSC 20/1/2025
Have your own sneak peek from time to time calli.
It helps understand what the enemy are doing.
From MIT Tech Review.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/30/1033941/afghanistan-biometric-databases-us-military-40-data-points/?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=08-31-2021&mc_cid=783f32036e&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
Apologies if paywalled.
Essentially says that the biometric database the Taliban now has means they can take their time scanning every Afghani over the next 5 years & kill every one that worked for the US.
It also means that the DoD & the Biden Administration genuinely thought that the government wouldn’t fall over.
The incompetence is breath taking.
With all their resources, they didn’t think “what if we’re wrong”.
Jewish museum offers profound lessons in history
By George Weigel -August 31, 2021
…
from St Paul’s Letter to the Romans: “To the Israelites belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law-giving, the worship, and the promises; theirs were the patriarchs, and from them came the Messiah….”
Biden Lotto.
Thanks Carpe.
Are the arseless chaps still our first prize, or have they disappeared like Q&A’s ratings?
playgrounds to reopen in well behaved lgas because montyesque focus groups are ticked?
Correct. UN Staff really lived it up on other peoples dime.
I’m going to black cat you, TE. I got to meet the “two Jordanian soldiers [who] were evacuated home with injured penises after attempting sexual intercourse with goats”.
Minor celebrities in Australian circles, they were. The stories I could tell…
https://www.theage.com.au/world/un-acts-to-stamp-out-sex-abuse-by-staff-in-east-timor-20060830-ge3114.html
forget the rest the west is best
Firearms Prohibition Order (FBO)
Useful for harassing citizens day and night.
What did they say mater?
We never had this problem at home?
“The patients we are seeing in intensive care with the Delta this time around is about 25-30 per cent, sometimes more, of young people under the age of 40.
“Many of them with absolutely no comorbidities, fit and well but then they get really sick quite quickly.
Sorry, FPO
They reported their treating Doctor (Australian), and got him sent home because…cultural insensitivity, or some such shit.
I’ll admit that I also had trouble keeping a straight face.
A lot hidden in ‘many’.
Dans popularity plumments 12 % in two weeks, now in negative territory.
that’s what it’s all about
Of course.
So they never did have that problem at home. 🙂
did someone mention the constitution?
“Firearms protection order” – stops you buying a gun.
Seems they can arbitrarily slap this on anyone, which then gives them extended powers to arbitrarily stop, search.
Covid fugitive. Just wow.
It’s not the gun it’s the bulletins you use –
When hunting rhinoceros
Uses bulletins made of platinum
Cos if you use the leaden ones
Their hides would surely flatten ’em.
See what I did there, used the word bulletin rather than bullet. That’s to fool those dumbarse spies at ASIO. Hi, ASIO ? (that’s a spook).
Old School Conservative says:
September 1, 2021 at 9:17 am
Biden Lotto.
Thanks Carpe.
Are the arseless chaps still our first prize,
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Absolutely, in a tasteful white patent leather with rhinestone trim
LEAVING AFGHANISTAN
by R. R. Reno
8 . 31 . 21
Cassie above linked to a troy bramston piece above where the prick said this:
As someone who dislikes Trump and whose biases tend towards the small-l liberal, I was happy when he lost to Biden, stunned by his demented petulance in refusing to acknowledge defeat and disgusted by what happened when his henchmen cut loose at the Capitol this year.
Bramston is one of those dickheads who if I saw them in the street I would stand in front of them blocking their way until they reversed. Bastards like these have as much as anyone been responsible for the state the West is in today. Arrogant, un-self-aware bastards; and behind the facile scribbling, a really stupid mind.
The dirty old woman from Baltimore strikes again
Pelosi blocks names of US troops killed in The Biden Catastrophe from being read in The House
That’s a rerun from a couple of months ago, ridiculed at the time and rightly so. It’s CPAP equipment. I see the MSM are now running the NSW ad (with 3 healthy ME types urging us to get jabs) here in Qld. Considering the “patients” have been identified as actors our overlords are just displaying their lack of intellect.
Rant over, I’ll leave you with this lovely pic from space.
feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2021 at 8:40 am
From Reuters.
Biden pressed Afghan president to change ‘perception’ that Taliban was winning, ‘whether true or not’
President Biden stressed the need for changing the “perception” of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan, “whether it is true or not,” during a phone call with former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani less than four weeks before Kabul collapsed, according to a new report.
According to a transcript of the July 23 presidential call reviewed by Reuters, Biden didn’t anticipate the Taliban’s rapid advance across Afghanistan, which ended when they stormed Kabul on Aug. 15 and Ghani fled the presidential palace. Instead, Biden focused much of the 14-minute call on the Afghan government’s “perception” problem, Reuters reported.
“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
And just think Trump was impeached for an impeccable call to the Ukraine president.
The article was by David Penberthy. But you are otherwise correct.
The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021 is a terrible piece of work. Deliberately vaguely worded to allow maximum scope, with the power of interpretation handed over the AAT.
Luckily Peter Dutton has promised us these powers will only be used for good:
So that’s all right, then.
Dan’s lost Jacqui
“Shy Ted says:
September 1, 2021 at 9:11 am
Excellent thread the MSM might not bring to your attention.
https://xyz.net.au/2021/08/thousands-protest-for-freedom-at-councils-all-across-australia/
Quick scroll.”
Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp tears Andrews a new one:
The toll on business owners and their teams of not having any income is quite deep, too.
According to the latest official report, that is actually 22%
In May 2020, it was 21%
In Sep 2020, it was 14%
Given that <40’s represent 53% of the population and 68% of the positive Covid cases, this would seem to be too great of a problem, perhaps it’s even a good news story.
Wouldn’t
I wonder what Dutton has to say about the FPO used on Aussie Cossack for the only purpose of harassing him day and night and the overreach of “police” using emergency powers for violence on citizens. Oh that’s right, nothing.
Ghani’s bio clearly shows a globalist who probably had links to State Department/ CIA early on.
I am annoyed about my time in East Timor, Mater.
They sent me all over the place in helos and 4WDs down some bloody awful roads. Lotsa work and fairly hairy. In and out mission.
Then didn’t get the gong as “only 14 days in country”. Bloody ADF.
It’s incredible. The level of misleading and deceptive reporting right now is off the charts.
President Trump Sits Down for Hour Long Interview,
Real America – Face to Face With 45
August 31, 2021 | Sundance | 111 Comments
President Trump sat down for an extensive hour long interview with Dan Ball the host of ‘Real America’ on OAN. Within the interview, President Trump discusses all of the current issues facing our nation beginning with the Afghanistan mess. The interview is in five segments.
Segment One – Direct Rumble Link
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/31/president-trump-sits-down-for-hour-long-interview-real-america-face-to-face-with-45/
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Some serious distress on twitter that playgrounds are reopening.
#Danthebetrayer #covidcircus
One of the cops was cacking himself behind his mask. I’d say that a lot of them are making the best of shit orders. Dutton should be asked : “Who is ordering the harassment?”
Actually – it is an indictment on the media that these questions are not asked of the Police and responsible Ministers at the daily 11am propaganda / brainwashing session… [rather than the usual: “do you regret not executing the infected in Bondi at the outset to contain the breakout?”]
Has there been a single case of transmission at an open air playground anywhere in the world? These people are nuts.
Like Sleeping Pygmies, I wonder how many there really are. And their motivation.
Another narrative collapses.
Ross Duncan? He doesn’t usually let people escape without a license.
Medals were a shit fight from Timor. Those who went through both INTERFET and into UNTAET (attaining the qualifying time with both), were only allowed the UNTAET, IIRC.
Couldn’t get both from the same tour, and your time with INTERFET apparently doesn’t exist.
Even the FBI said there was no involvement of Trump or his campaign. As for his henchmen, there seemed a fair bit of stirring up by one of those Antifa weasels, while Trump all the while was exhorting people to peacefully make their voices heard.
You might not agree that the election was stolen, but faced with the irregularities, the late-night deliveries, the counts resuming after all the Republican observers were told the count was over for the night and leaving, and the information that has come out of the audits even prior to the final report, you must surely concede that belief in the steal is not without foundation.
Trump was often depicted by the MSM as ‘petulant’ and ‘a bully’. They liked their man Obama, a carefully crafted image, with his pitch-perfect rehearsed rhetoric, Tom Ford suits, and carefully choreographed spontaneity. The stuff that came out of the White House was the measure of his character. (Also the humiliations other nations used to heap on him. Remember the Chinese not even wheeling up stairs for him when he visited so he had to exit from the plane’s steps and I believe no red carpet.) America was declining with style.
Trump’s feistiness, depicted as madness or immaturity, was a breath of fresh air. Instead of doing the standard ‘conservative’ thing when accused of something absurd of apologising obsequiously, he hit back – and usually more effectively than the people who provoked him.
Obama one his elections in the midst of jubilant crowds, but from almost the next day they were gone. It was like the election was all his supporters wanted from him – to get in. Trump on the other hand had boisterous support every day. People were actually inspired by what he was doing in office. His rallies overflowed even when not campaigning.
And the most popular President EVAH could not fill a parking lot with people who could sit in their own cars.
A good essay by Flint on the mongrel biden and the consequences flowing to Australia from biden’s treachery; good comments, especially by me:
Time to court-martial Joe Biden
The 46th President is unworthy of the office
David Flint
In a world increasingly dominated by the Chinese communist-led Beijing-Moscow-Tehran Axis, it is timely to ask the political class, much of the commentariat and other elites a series of questions beginning: are you still happy with your preferred candidate in the 2020 election, Joe Biden?
With his ignominious surrender to the Taliban, this question is particularly appropriate for Australians who are even now more dependent for our defence on a United States which, under the Biden presidency, is clearly unreliable. We even had to go to Poland to buy Pfizer vaccine supplies whicen Biden refused to sell us, one of America’s closest allies, some of his surplus ageing stocks.
Biden’s attempt to explain the Afghan disaster was duplicitous, claiming that he inherited this from President Trump. No so, Trump made it clear that the Taliban would face the full force of the US military in a carefully conditioned withdrawal if they caused any harm to Americans or American interests in Afghanistan. Crucially, a small special-operations force would remain to take direct action. The Taliban know, as do all malefactors, never cross Trump, the most effective president since Reagan. Trump would never have been so incompetent and so callous to leave behind civilians, friends, allies and the latest equipment and would have locked in intelligence-gathering and machinery to enforce any agreement before withdrawing US troops.
Afghanistan is the latest of the never-ending Biden disasters. Another is the mounting price of petrol, the inevitable result of Biden making the US once again dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Another is the return of inflation, now 5.4 per cent, with a likely impact across the world’s financial markets. Then there is his destruction of women’s sport, something which has already infected the Olympics.
In direct contrast to Trump who stood up strongly against Beijing, Pyongyang,Tehran and Moscow, Biden has shown himself curiously accommodating towards the Wests’ enemies. By waiving Trump’s sanctions on the Iranian oil trade and allowing Tehran access to frozen funds he only encouraged the mullahs’ excesses, so much so that Britain, France and Germany have just condemned Iran’s acceleration of uranium enrichment, a clear breach of the 2015 Obama-Biden deal with Iran now close to having nuclear weapons.
Then he lifted the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to supply natural gas to Germany, a gift to Russia and a weakening of the Western alliance. Unlike Trump, he has been weak with China, justifying their human rights crimes as ‘cultural differences’, even dismissing the genocidal measures against the Muslim Uighurs and justifying internal controls and the winding down of Hong Kong’s freedoms as methods for unifying the country. Biden fails to display any of Donald Trump’s strength in standing up to the Chinese communists over their abuse of the world trading system and their theft of intellectual property.
In the meantime, he is undermining the security and the health of the nation by illegally throwing open the southern border, allowing criminals, as well as those suffering from the Wuhan virus, (and with the fall of Afghanistan, terrorists) free entry into the United States and then imposing such illegal immigrants on republican states.
Meanwhile education, administration and the armed forces have been made subject to Marxist propaganda in the form of critical race and other ‘theories’, while ensuring little respect is shown to the origins and exceptionalism of the United States.
It was not only that Biden’s failings and Trump’s strengths were obvious, the 2020 election was highly questionable. This was not only from the way the scrutineers were neutralised or expelled, or counting was held in their absence, but also from the case brought by Texas and seventeen states on the way the election victory was centred on constitutional breaches. On this and other cases a judiciary frightened by threats of violence and afraid of consequential disorder hid behind technicalities to avoid hearing many cases on the merits, despite Trump’s attempts to appoint real judges to the courts.
Even before the election, Biden supported the law-breaking Marxist organisations BLM and Antifa to wage a reign of terror and a campaign for police defunding in selected blue states. Already in obvious cognitive decline, Biden had a questionable background, known for lying about his academic record and degrees and never having real life experience outside of politics. In fact, he came to Congress allied strongly to the segregationist wing of the Democratic party.
What is exceptionally worrying is that evidence continues to mount confirming that the Biden family has long been engaged in the sale of access and influence into the heart of Washington. This was to foreign oligarchs, most notably from Russia, the Ukraine and communist China. Those who preferred Biden cannot hide the fact that much of this corruption was known before the election, especially from the research of Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute. It is reasonable to suspect therefore that Biden was in the nature of a Manchurian candidate, and that he was and is severely compromised by the activities of the Biden family. Certainly, the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran- Kabul Axis is very well aware of his weaknesses and will take advantage of them.
If anyone were in any doubt as to Biden’s competence, the recently revealed letter from Osama bin Laden, instructing Al-Qaeda not to kill Biden is relevant. Bin Laden argued that if Biden were to succeed Obama, he would make an incompetent president and would act in the interests of Al-Qaeda.
Biden was never worthy of the great office once held by Washington, Lincoln and Reagan. Rather than impeached, former UK Afghanistan Commander Colonel Richard Kemp says Biden should be court-martialled for betrayal. So my question remains to the elites, should you not now admit that you were terribly wrong?
https://spectator.com.au/2021/08/time-to-court-martial-joe-biden/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020210901%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020210901%20%20GK+CID_a67845762d4c2c19f804d1cf165ef529&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Time%20to%20court-martial%20Joe%20Biden
Bankstown yesterday. How is this acceptable?
But, but, isn’t she supposed to be their next Governor?
Chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young should be tapped on the shoulder and let go now – not in two months – after making the worst decision of her illustrious career.
It is clear her outstanding work in the early days of Covid-19 – keeping Queenslanders safe from the virus – is now in danger of being tarnished by recent poor judgment calls.
Monday’s decision by Dr Young to allow a planeload of NRL wives, girlfriends and NRL officials into Brisbane, direct from Covid-ravaged Sydney, was as poor a public policy judgment as any in recent Queensland political history.
How anybody within government gave it the green light is almost comical. The lack of empathy and compassion to the ordinary person has sparked white-hot anger.
After pouring her heart and soul into the pandemic response for 18 months, our Covid-19 decision-making needs fresh eyes.
Courier-Mail
Kestas @k_valancius · 30 Aug
Replying to @Lukewearechange
Luke this is staged. it was filmed to scare everyone
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Chatter is it’s the same with pregnant PJ Mum and all those of different demographics, treated terribly by terrorising police, designed to ‘send the message’ to all demographics.
‘If they’ll do that to a pregnant mum, old grannies, teenage kids, working class dads, etc., they’ll do it to anyone.’
& Thanks Shy Ted, for your ‘quick scroll’ post.
https://xyz.net.au/2021/08/thousands-protest-for-freedom-at-councils-all-across-australia/
We all know that masks & social distancing does nothing as far as The Bug goes, but it does greatly hinder old fashioned, non-electronic, person to person exchange & spread of information.
When That Woman told us we were not to speak to friends in the supermarket, everyone with half a brain knew it wasn’t to do with the flu. It was to stop people coordinating & rallying in any effective numbers.
BTW, the “Quilt Codes”, “Cloths Line Codes” etc. worked very well pre-electronic communication days. Harder these days of unit living & clothes dryers, but there are countless other way for physically separated people to communicate secretly.
There’s more than one meaning to, “Learn To Code”.
Mother Lodesays:
September 1, 2021 at 10:46 am
+1
People are so stupid and lazy; and those characteristics are what the demorats feed on.
Illustrious career?
He’s having a lend, surely…she’s a bureaucrat, not a brain surgeon.
So all the institutions are on board with the covid mania.
If we really understood how this works, we would understand this means we are in a good position.
We only have to get ONE major institution to fall out of line.
What would the left do?
They would turn their activism against each of these institutions: courts, major political parties, big companies, unions, universities, police forces, hospitals, councils, media companies, their personnel and leaders.
We only have to ONE, just one to fall out of line, and none of this shit will stand.
Organise yourselves people.
Stay within the law, use their rules against them, find the levers which exert power on each institution and go after them.
At least some of them don’t want this any more than we do.
Police union leaders.
Teacher union leaders.
Paramedic union leaders.
University chancellors.
Airline CEOs.
Media owner wankers who miss their foreign live in mistresses and maids.
Get busy, stay within the law.
We can do it.
Instructive that the Palacechook didn’t take the morning Covid Presser – normally her favourite outing.
Polling must be saying something.
When you find the ONE institution that wavers, just a little bit, with some pushback, GO ALL IN. Go fter them even more. If someone in an institution makes some reassuring noises, expresses sympathy wit our views or tries to steer a middle ground, don’t do what we always do and go “Awwww, that’s nice he’s on our side, but is being forced to go along like we are”. NO NO NO. Go after them even harder. The ones that are like stone, like a rock wall, go around them. Find the weak points.
I watched a Jordan Peterson video yesterday where he claimed (among other points) that humans are more strongly moved by bad news than good – that a person feels more strongly about losing five dollars than find five dollars.
Empirically that would seem true. It is why newspapers, even before the current political climate, focused on bad news. “If it bleeds, it leads!” When they want to sway the population they don’t inspire with a good case, they terrorise with a bad one.
Covid has been bad news from end to end. All the dire predictions. Haggard premiers dolefully recounting the day’s tragedy and warning they must impose greater restrictions or else the land will be laid waste.
Now they are getting the terrified portion of the populace to turn on the other with tales about how dangerous they are. (They are only a ‘danger’ to themselves, but this is easily missed among all the teeth-chattering and knee-shaking.)
Rule by fear.
GB Takes Over The World
And stop just pushing back against the Liberal party numpties.
Labour MPs are just as vulnerable to a voter backlash as Liberal ones.
None of them know who you actually vote for.
The Age doesn’t want to lose readers anymore than the Herald Sun does.
“Set the date, not the rate”. I rather like that as a slogan. Read it in a comment on the Oz.
Lib Dems could use it to get the news out about Dec 4th (their date I think).
Didn’t Jeanette Young say (a few weeks ago) that everyone over the age of 16 should get the Pfizer shot?
With her husband having a “financial arrangement” with Pfizer?
An OS epidemiologist interviewed on Nine’s Breakfast show this morning completely floored Karl Stephanovic by telling him that the vaccines won’t prevent breakthroughs of Delta & very likely won’t contain at all coming new variants. He referred to the massive infections by twice vaxxed Israelis. Totally took the wind out Karl’s sails & hopefully will get through to all the hopefuls who think the “miracle” vaxx will soon return life to normal.
Maybe soon we will see concessions expressed that anti-virals are the logical choice to contain the deaths of the infirm & elderly. Doubt if they will admit the error re Ivermectin, but at least it may give credence to the anti-virals, & cause more people to question the sense of risking their health with vaccines, & particularly booster shots.
That bastard who murdered Ashley Babbitt is a real piece of work; from a good article on the mongrel:
“Of all of the lines from Byrd, this one stands out:
“I could not fully see her hands or what was in the backpack or what the intentions are.”
So, Byrd admitted he did not see a weapon or an immediate threat from Babbitt beyond her trying to enter through the window.
Nevertheless, Byrd boasted, “I know that day I saved countless lives.”
He ignored that Babbitt was the one person killed during the riot. (Two protesters died of natural causes and a third from an amphetamine overdose; one police officer died the next day from natural causes, and four officers have committed suicide since then.)
No other officers facing similar threats shot anyone in any other part of the Capitol, even those who were attacked by rioters armed with clubs or other objects.
Legal experts and the media have avoided the obvious implications of the two reviews in the Babbitt shooting.
Under this standard, hundreds of rioters could have been gunned down on Jan. 6 — and officers in cities such as Seattle or Portland, Ore., could have killed hundreds of violent protesters who tried to burn courthouses, took over city halls or occupied police stations during last summer’s widespread rioting. In all of those protests, a small number of activists from both political extremes showed up prepared for violence and pushed others to riot. According to the DOJ’s Byrd review, officers in those cities would not have been required to see a weapon in order to use lethal force in defending buildings.”
Justified Shooting Or Fair Game? Shooter Of Ashli Babbitt Makes Shocking Admission | ZeroHedge
Just another example of the mass psychosis this pandemic has caused.
Still think the jabs are going to do anything good?
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243442
I’m sure that this is being looked at very closely and with anticipation for the criminal suit that is supposedly being brought against Byrd by the husband/family of Babbitt. It would set a massive [and IMHO super dangerous precedent] if allowed to stand as is. This will [well should] end up in the SCOTUS to provide clarity when and under what circumstances can an officer blow away a “protestor” … given that protest – especially one petitioning the Govt to redress grievances – is an explicitly protected activity under the constitution. First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Top Ender at 10:53.
Ah, what this about “recent calls” by Jeanette Young?
She has been at it from day 1.
More than 12 months ago she was copping shit over issuing permits for celebrities and sporting teams, whilst knocking back requests from commoners to visit dying relatives and attend funerals, her answer was, “Well, these are very important contributors to the Queensland economy.
Not one j’ism in the MSM picked her up on making decisions outside her brief (which is supposed to be purely on health grounds).
Bullshit, plus, thanks for not getting your bullshit straight and proving there are cats who have no problem with lying about those they want rid of.
P.S. I didn’t come up with the Cat name, “Lyinhole” for that senator that Cat’s are still using on current cats.
Shows the ignorance of these people. And presumably the poor viewers who rely on such MSM rubbish. On the New Cat we’ve known about this for weeks – and earlier today I linked an article from Israeli news today on exactly that.
So when you have dumb talking heads say ‘do this, do that’ it is no surprise that we who actually keep track of things don’t do this or do that. Yet then we’re accused of being misinformed. Gah, this millennium really sucks.
I can’t see this standing up, they will argue trying to break down a door is not peaceful protest.
Ghani’s bio clearly shows a globalist who probably had links to State Department/ CIA early on.
That’s why he was selected to the president.
Because of those links.
No go with black. White shows stains. Don’t ask me how I know this.
Good advice upthread about also politely cajoling Labor members of parliament, especially in Victoria.
I know I occasionally do
Australian corporate journalism: always punching up.
“Old bloke says:
September 1, 2021 at 11:09 am
mh says:
August 31, 2021 at 11:24 pm
Triple jabs for all 12 year olds and up.
Then more boosters to follow.
Why on earth should we follow Israel down this rabbit hole.
_______________________________________
Dr. Zelenko spoke with the Israeli Health Minister and some politicians early last month and told them that his Ivermectin based medications was 100% effective, he’s treated thousands of patients, ALL have recovered.
One of the politicians asked him why governments use the “vaccines”, Zelenko said that either Bibi or Bennett would have been given a choice, a $500 Million secret bank account or death to their family, the “silver or lead” option.
You can watch the Israeli Health Minister’s response to that, he bowed his head and covered his face with his hands.
One of the politicians said that he had contracted Covid and used Zelenko’s treatment and fully recovered, Zelenko said that it’s unfortunate that the Israeli government denies this treatment to others.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WsvhxBD4k1uZ/
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“Bullshit, plus, thanks for not getting your bullshit straight and proving there are cats who have no problem with lying about those they want rid of.
P.S. I didn’t come up with the Cat name, “Lyinhole” for that senator that Cat’s are still using on current cats.”
When it comes to the truth I don’t know what others think but I’ll pick Delta A’s recollection of events any day over Mrs Nong’s “bullshit” memory.
Sinc smited Mrs Nong for a very good reason.
Which bunker have you been living in these last 50 years Arky?
No the lefties aren’t “just as vulnerable”. For two reasons. Firstly they lie endlessly, and with impunity. The Libs still have a relic of Christian ethos and aren’t good at doing this. Secondly the MSM are lockstep defenders of the Left no matter what they say, do or commit. That also extends to most organs of state, like the AFP, Vicplod, ACCC and etc.
So no, we should hammer the Lib numpties because at least they are more vulnerable to a Trump-like conversion. And change to finally being representative of the sane part of society. Or otherwise being booted wetly out into the wilderness, whereupon the Left will have an opportunity to faceplant spectacularly, as they are currently doing in the US. (Which won’t stop them remaining in power until the place resembles Venezuela, but at least some people will have their eyes opened by it.)
I would rather the ALP competently destroy this country than the Libs, since then something might be rebuilt – like in ex-CCCP states.
I can’t see the comments at the Paywallian article, Dover.
What is the general tenor – and bearing in mind that their mods will be sifting through and discarding ones they don’t like.
ML, I’m not a subscriber either, but it appears there are no comments as yet.
Has anyone asked President Trump to confirm if he was treated by Dr Zelenko?
“Gah, this millennium really sucks.”
Millenium? This dsytopian TIMELINE really sucks.
BoN
I don’t think that’s what Arky meant. I took it as vulnerable to losing their seats.
Barragee of criticism from constituents is a heads up.
both Giuliani and Trump were treated with Regeron when they had covid
Sure … but where is the definition of what a peaceful protest is? Remember – all the BLM / Antifa burnathons are “mostly peaceful protest”. Use of that terminology – I suspect – is not by chance.
And this is is why it needs to go to SCOTUS to clarify… if the 6 Jan event was an “insurrection” then what exactly distinguished it from the “Peaceful Protest” BLM [Burn/Loot/Murder] events from 2020?
Coz at the moment you: can blow away (or incarcerate without trial) anyone in an “insurrection” [where case in point the people were asking the government to redress a perceived injustice – i.e. a dodgy election]; and have to abandon police precincts and town halls to have them burn, allow entire suburbs to be looted and have to kneel with the “peaceful protestors” [demanding who the F knows what really in most cases]; simply based on semantics / definition.
So did I. What I said stands.
Or there have been plenty, but none supportive of the article.
This brilliant purveyor of j’ism is arguing, it seems, that the people opposed to mandatory vaccination and the passports are only doing so because the ‘puppet-mistress’ (rather an overwrought description I thought) has them under some kind of spell and they cannot be protesting for their own convictions.
I look forward to a time when this is over, meeting him and having him say “Would you like fries with that?” so I can say “Sorry, I don’t have a fry passport.” and driving straight out of the drive-thru.
Listen to yourself.
Did you ever leave the school yard?
‘Oh, my friend says you can’t be friends with her or my friend won’t be your friend.’
‘What did she do?’
‘I don’t know but it doesn’t matter.’
Pathetic.
“Pathetic.”
Yes you are.
There was a very good reason why Sinclair, who is quite a tolerant man, banned you.
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that
their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American
archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story
published in the New York Times: “American archaeologists, finding traces of
250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an
advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British”.
One week later, Australia’s Northern Territory Times, reported the following:
“After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Tennant Creek, Northern
Territory, aboriginal Billi Bunji, a self-taught archaeologist, reported
that he found absolutely bugger-all.
Billi has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless…”
Makes me feel bloody proud to be Australian and that is how you rewrite history to agree with your own ideology.
Zero evidence.
There were pictures in the media of people hanging around playgrounds drinking “coffee”.
Dan cracked the shits at the show of defiance and decided to shut playgrounds.
A collective “Huh?” all round.
Next day Sutton mumbled something about children getting Kung Flu and “probably playgrounds”.
No further questions, yer ‘onner.
Well, what did you do to earn a banning by Sinc?
Don’t be shy.
Let’s hear your version.
But, you know, the internet is forever, so …
..
Is this really the priority right now?
Real America – Dan W/ President Donald J. Trump (Part 1)
One America News Network Published August 31, 2021
https://rumble.com/embed/vjai7h/?pub=5f67r
Real America – Dan W/ President Donald J. Trump (Part 2)
One America News Network Published August 31, 2021
https://rumble.com/embed/vjaig3/?pub=5f67r
Real America – Dan W/ President Donald J. Trump (Part 3)
One America News Network Published August 31, 2021
https://rumble.com/embed/vjais1/?pub=5f67r
Real America – Dan W/ President Donald J. Trump (Part 4)
One America News Network Published August 31, 2021
https://rumble.com/embed/vjaiut/?pub=5f67r
Real America – Dan W/ President Donald J. Trump (Part 5)
One America News Network Published August 31, 2021
https://rumble.com/embed/vjajfd/?pub=5f67r
Apropos the remark about the current lot ruling by fear , Machiavelli noted that “ fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes” and I am sure Sun Tzu would share similar views . Marshal Law , house detention, plus the other restrictions or you will die of the virus . We can’t even do what the Bocaccio’s storytellers did , escape to the country and tell saucy yarns . Perhaps the Black Death wasn’t so contagious.
Oh. That was me giving you a “thumbs up”, Arky.
A new day, a new blog, a well-defined enemy. If I was to sack everyone who gave me the irrits I’d be here talking to myself.
Hey, self. How about that annoying calli person. Giver her the flick.
*Bzzzzt. Disappears in a puff of ozone and smell of burnt toast*
Vic locked down until 70% first jabs reached and then only minor relaxation of draconian restrictions on civil rights.
Any opposition with their salt would be petitioning the Governor for the removal of Andrews and the setting up of a bi-partisan cabinet to manage the pandemic.
Andrews has closed parliament so he can hardly argue it’s undemocratic.
“We have suspicions…”. There you have it.
..
We need a button for that.
I didn’t realise how much the Victorian screws have been tightened til Tom mentioned he couldn’t use an automatic car wash.
My storage facility where I keep some stock is now limited to ‘permitted businesses’ doing ‘permitted activities’.
Doesn’t matter that I’m often the only person there, other than office staff, in the office.
Sorry customer!
The police state & representative democracy (FB LIVE)
Sep 1, 2021
Real Rukshan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmdlfyEWcV4
Oh and calli. I did as requested.
I’d give details but it’s not that sort of blog.
‘Everything’: Gladys Berejiklian makes reopening vow once 70 per cent vaccine target met
Ahhhh. I knew it! You can never have too many.
On smite buttons – self-smiting is easy. Turn off the screen and go out for a walk.
Timcast IRL –
Australia Cyber Spying Bill Allows Device Takeover
w/Sydney Watson And Elijah Schaffer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN3k4By6x1k
Believe the science. It’s worked so far in regards to “climate change”. Billions wasted, more to come.
So now they are doubling down. It’s why you see CHO’s standing with politicians in news conferences.
There’s nothing like “immediacy” when it comes to death. Forget 10 years when the ice sheets melt, you are going to DIE NOW. The science says so.
Hit the panic button.
[insert emoji panic button here].
Well, the class that has bent the knee and had the vaccine the government demands. Those a little more skeptical in the face of her government cannot expect to be treated as citizens.
A question which could have easily been asked about the recent 72 hour stoush.
But, yes, nut-job vigilance is a 24/7 task.
If that is not a priority for others, that is fine.
As suspected.
But we need a health cover for the ban.
Why not just plant a slug?
News is swinging a dead woman about their heads in triumph, telling us that she died of Covid.
What are the symptoms of covid? How do they know it was ‘of’ covid and not ‘with’ covid?
Jamie Newburrie runs through today’s announcements from the gift that keeps on giving.
Parents usually supervise small children at playgrounds.
Of course some are going to use it as an excuse to congregate.
Who that might be is a question for the ages.
I’m back from my self imposed exile.
Oooraahh!
I get the feeling that some people are very reluctant to seek help when their symptoms worsen at home.
Could it be as simple as not wanting to call an ambulance because they don’t have cover?
Are they given clear instructions about what to do if they have concerns?
I’m annoyed that people who are actually sick with covid are isolating at home and family members, apparently, can’t gauge that they are getting sicker and in at least four cases now, dying.
Rosie,
talking to a colleague who has a GP wife, the story seems to be that people are shrugging it off as a bad flu, and think they can just rest through it. Unfortunately, it sometimes accelerates rather quickly from breathlessness to heart attack.
Better advice on what covid-positive people need to look out for is a must.
My daughters housemates father who is a high powered lawyer (aren’t they all) living in Rose Bay has Covid pretty bad. Oh, he is double Pfizer vaxxed.
Makes no difference that the 2 people with Covid died at home rather than seeking hospital treatment for Covid since it was not Covid that led to their death. Curious that the reporting can now grudgingly say with rather than of.
“talking to a colleague who has a GP wife, the story seems to be that people are shrugging it off as a bad flu, and think they can just rest through it.”
That’s normal…I remember doing that for two days back in August 2017, when I fell ill…thought I would just rest it out but after two days was worse and I staggered to my doctor who did tests which came back as Avian Bird Flu. It was the sickest I’ve ever been in my life. It took me almost a year to recover. One’s immune system is shot.
I may have missed it, but any news as to how Monica Smit is faring.
Nothing wrong with that. It’s just police taking a knee. Two police actually.
Bastards.
Strange. 7 news Perth had a story about an islamic guy who drove his car into a Westpac on Monday shouting allan snackbar and death to infidels…two peeps are in hospital…
But it was a quick snip and no sign of it on tv, radio, press, net today at all…
Further from his slamming of Ben Rhodes on his substack today, Glenn Greenwald put this 18min rumble together.
From the 8min mark, he shows what a weasel Rhodes was.
https://rumble.com/vlxkpa-watch-as-obama-national-security-officials-led-by-ben-rhodes-get-caught-lyi.html
If the NSW Libs want to get out of this quagmire they were so idiotically lured into with lockdowns that only delay the spread and therefore extend the psychologically, socially and financially crippling effects, it will be to *figuratively* sidle up behind Gladys and slip a silent blade between her ribs and let her fall limp to the ground where her temperature will start to rise to room temperature.
Then say that she has stepped down to spend time with her family, and that under the new government they are only going to count hospitalisations and deaths – all the people testing positive that are not in hospital should not be filling us with fear. In fact their vastly greater numbers should re-assure us.
“Strange. 7 news Perth had a story about an islamic guy who drove his car into a Westpac on Monday shouting allan snackbar and death to infidels…two peeps are in hospital…
But it was a quick snip and no sign of it on tv, radio, press, net today at all…”
Into the forgettery file……just like what happened in QLD last December…
“A young man who was shot dead by police on the Logan Motorway on Thursday has been “directly linked” to the double murder of an elderly couple, with officers describing the incident as a “terrorism event”, Queensland police say.
The bodies of Maurice and Zoe Antill, both in their mid-80s, were found at a house in the southern Brisbane suburb of Parkinson on Thursday afternoon.
On Thursday morning, Raghe Mohamed Abdi, 22, was fatally shot by police on the Logan Motorway, not far from Parkinson, after allegedly threatening officers with a knife.
His father said Mr Abdi, who had been previously investigated by counter-terrorism police, was experiencing a mental health crisis and was “feeling harassed”.”
Don’t you know….when you’re feeling harassed you go and decapitate an elderly couple in their home.
Note how that terrorist attack was quickly and efficiently filed away in the “forgettery” file.
Meanwhile…as ASIO and others always tell us, it’s those pesky far-right, white supremacist males that we need to live in fear of.
From Zipster’s link:
Ms Berejiklian told the Today show authorities were working on the QR code system so when a person checks into a business, it will signal whether they are vaccinated or not.
So modern. So high tech. No need for physical yellow stars roughly sewn onto outer clothes.
Also, so discriminatory, so fraught with danger.
My worry is that many…..many Australians have been so traumatised by our version of the Two Minute Hate, that they will welcome this totalitarian initiative.
“Rosie says:
September 1, 2021 at 1:50 pm
I didn’t realise how much the Victorian screws have been tightened til Tom mentioned he couldn’t use an automatic car wash…”
Great timing. I drove to two car washes yesterday to give my car a vacuum. the vacs were also switched off, even the eftpos ones. No overstep too far by our chairman Dan. Keep going dickhead Dan and it will make it easier to remove from office in 2022.
There’s a vax joke in here somewhere but can’t be bother looking.
Indeed Cassie; into the forgettory…
Once the lock downs end in Sydney, there will be a huge spike in STI’s.
Forget about QR codes.
Young people should be dipped in Dettol before they are allowed into a pub.
ftb, always good to have my suspicions of Ben Rhodes confirmed. No one connected to the Obama White House left without a strong pong about them.
ftb, I had a brief conversation with a lass acquaintance that said that tindr had been well used this last 18 months and that STIs already through the roof.
With the lapdog American media telling the country it can’t believe its lying eyes, the latest propaganda strategy from the Marxist revolutionary committee running the White House is to insist that the Afghanistan evacuation disaster is a logistical triumph. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Ooopsie.. cats out of the bag.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/doctors-and-nurses-will-be-sitting-ducks-without-booster-shot-plan-20210831-p58nji.html
Biden gaslights.
Then runs away from questions.